The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALLAN OPERA.

Mdlle. Adelina Patti ham appeared in another •
new character—Maria, in the Agnes del Beggissento. Last
night she performed it for the first time with triumphant
MCCOY, and it will henceforth be ear of the most delightful '
pieces in her repertory. Since the furore made by Jenny
Lind in this part nearly twenty years ago several of our
most distinguished prime donne have appeared in it, bat
none have given greater effect to it than ktinle. Patti—if,
indeed, any of them has given so much. She is, in
person, face, and manner, the most complete picture of
the little Irreech viveediers that can be imagined ; refined
and idealised, indeed, but true to nature, as ever► one must
have observed who has seen the damsels of that class who
march in the ranks of the French army. Her exuberant
piety is spontaneous mid unconstrained, and her aohlatesoist
bearing is blended with • native grace that is irresistibly
charming. Her singing is brilliant is the extreme ; richly
embelliehed as the composer evidently intended it to be, vocal
flights and florid graces being suggested by the melodies,
and the appropriate expression of animation and high
spirits. Her great air, the "Song of the Regiment,"
was sung with amazing fire and spirit, and encored with cc.
elemations from all parts of the theatre ; and her other
principal air, " Convien partir," Maria's tearful adieu to her
old companions and her young lover, was a masterpiece of
singing in a different style, full of simplicity, tenderness,
and feeling. The siogingilesson, constantly interrupted by
Maria's ungovernable propensity to broth into her favou.
rite regimental ditty, to the horror of her pompous aunt
(a part admirably meted by the clever Madame
Teigliafico), was • most amusing piece of comedy
combined with the most marvellous testa of vocal
execution. We need hardly add that this admirable
performance kept the audience, from beginning to end, in •
state of pleasurable excitement, expremed by shouts of ap•
plause and every demonstration of pleasure. The part of
Tonio was pleasantly sustained by Neri-Baraldi, who sang
charmingly ; and Ciampi was excellent in the bluff but
genial Sergeant Sulpizio. The opera das got up with • are
and completeness unprecedented in this country, and pro-
bably not equalled anywhere. The finale to the first act
was not only superbly sung by the chorus, but was a briniest
military spectacle ; the "regiment," drawn up and under
arms ou the stage, making a figure worthy of its renown.
In the last finale llonizetti's music was mixed up with some
interpolations evidently introduced for the purpose of dis-
playing the fair prima donna's vocal powers, which was
quitmunnecassary, as they had been eufficiently displayed
before, while the dramatic effect of the ,denouement was
weakened by being protracted.

Woaeixa Max's CLUTIL—On Monday evening a
numerously attended meeting of working men wan held in
Union H. Artillery-lane, Bishopegate-street, for the
purpose of establishing a club for working men in the
vicinity of Bishopagate-street ; Mr. J. Rithanleon, C.E., in
the chair. The Chairman having introduced the object of
the meeting, the Rev. Mr. Sully addressed the meeting, and
said the work they were engaged in deserved the hearty
support of all. He wished it to be understood that the
club to be established was not • benefit or sick society, but
it was a club for the purpose of mutual help, so that work-
ing men might become wiser and better men, both socially
and morally. Having entered into the details of the
proposed club, he concluded by expressing • convic-
tion that the movement would be productive of great
good. Mr. Clarke said the meeting had been con-
vened by the Working Men's Club ar.d Institute Union
established for the purpose of helping men to form club.,
but not to establish clubs for them. The society from its
formation was essentially • practical one seeking to remedy
evil* in • practical manner. They inteoded to go to work in
a very ecooomical manner—to get some large rooms, to fit prisoner.
them up comfortably and well, without introducing too
much of the educational element into the movement, to fill All persona in the South refusing to take up
them with newspapers, books, he., and place chess and arms are to be sent out of the Confederacy.
draughts for healthy recreation in them. After addressee from
Messrs. Thompsoii, Baines, and others, a resolution wee Letters from Charleston of the 12th state that
carried that it was desirable to help the working men of the five iron-dads and fifteen gunboats are od '
locality to establish • club on the principles and objects re-
commended by the Working Men's Club and loatitute Fort !Sumter. Ten gunboats, one 40-gun
Union. frigate, slid the new ironsides were passing the
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—TIie following bar. The Federal batteries on Morris Maud
gentlement examina having undergone the o -
tions for the diploma, were admitted member of the would take part in the bombardment of Fort
college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 28th Sumter.
inst.. vix. : Messrs. William Parsons Knott, Blieworth.
Northamptonshire; James Jonathan Watson, Kilburn; General Morgan has sacked Jackson, Ohio. He
William Hughes, Eglwyswrw, Pembrokeshire ; James is reported to be hemmed in by the Federate.
Folliott, Canonbury ; Stanley Lewis Haynes, Pall-mall; The United States Circuit Court has reversed
Warner Atkinson, B.A.Lond. Harrington-aquae•
Warns Meade, Midletoo, eounty dork ; Charles Jeremiah I the decision of the Lower Court, condemning the
Itenehaw, M.D., St. Andrew's, Ashton Mercy, near Mau. I barque Express, the judge deciding that a ',easel
chaster; Richard Philip Lisle, Cardiff ; Walter Frost, Port-
land ; Norden Wright, leliogton ; John Rodgers, Omagh, I may approach a blockaded port to ascertain the
County Tyrone ; David Hughes, Cilian Aron, Cardigan- I
date of the blockade, provided that ahe does so iu
shire ; Thomas Scott, Omagh, County Tyrone; Henry Al.
faith.
lan Juliano, Cumberland-terms, Regent's Park ; Rowland good
Mlle, Newcastle-on-Tyne ; Thome. Samuel Barrow, M.D., I New York is now nearly perfectly quiet.
St. Andreer's,Chelses ; Edward Webber Warren Meyriok,
Cork ; Thomas Thyne, Edinburgh ; Joshua James, Bristol ; I Archbishop Hughes has addreased a concourse of
Georg* Bishop Cornish, Taunton ; William Reuben Booth, ! s,ooopersons in front of his residence. He told
pe.
Great queen-street, Westminster ; John Whiteley.
Feld; John Kennedy, Edinburgh; and Walter Sir/ipso!, .
Wake- 1 them they were called rioters, but he could not see
Isliogton. At the name meeting of the court, D. Francs famongst them. If they I' h
were rut -
• riotous ace
Hunt Richeadsoe, of her Majesty's ship Majestic, Liver. men, as their enemies said the rioters were,
pool, and Mr. Samuel Grose, of her Majesty's ship Daunt- 1,., was an Irishman, but not a rioter.
less, Southampton. pared their examinations for naval "‘'
Burgeons ; these wedelns, had previously bees admitted He recommended them to keep quiet, though
members of the college, their diploma bearing data reaper a violent assault upon their
tively April 13, 18b7, and April 11, 1869. iin ease of
CRYSTAL PALica—Madlle. Adelina Patti and righta without provocation every man had a right
Signor Mario, with Madame Miolso.Cervalho, Sigees to defend his house or church with his life. The
Tsmbsrlik, Signor Gradani, and Herr Formes, will appestat
y to be given iu the Centre Traosept, I speaker
En
commencing at three o'clock. ,
several times alluded in opprobrious terms
the grand concert this da
Ito gland laying, "He did not envy John Bull

NEW YORK, JOLT 18, Moammo.
The riots in this city have materially subsided.
The government will enforce the draft.
The capture of Port Hudson has been officially
confirmed.
The reported capture of Charleston is untrue.
General Lee'a army was yesterday at Front Royal.
Lee is said to be marching to Richmond.
The Richmond Enquirer says the captureof Vicks-
burg, Bragg's retreat, Lee's repulse, and the attack
on Charleston are the most serious disasters that
have attended the Confederate arms since the COM-
m6noement of the war.
General Neal Dow has arrived at Richmond as a

[TWOPENCE

in replacing a noble population by a race of fat
bullocks. Ireland," he said, "was the mother of
heroes and poets, but perhaps they might think
his remarks were blarney." One of the spectators
observed that history proved what he said, to which
the bishop replied, "Of course."
It is a subject of much remark that the bishop
did not utter one word of reproach or exhortation
against the wanton atrocities committed against
the inoffensive coloured population by the mob.
Archbishop Hughes has addressed a letter to the
New York Herald, stigmatising the remarks of the
New York Tribune and the Evening Post concerning
himself as lies, and declaring that the editors of
those papers have contributed to bring about the
present national and municipal difficulties.
The republican press argue that the riots in New
York are really part and parcel of the Southern
rebellion, while the democratic press assert the
obnoxious conditions of the draft to be the sole
MUM

MEXICO.
(Per the city of Waahington.)
NEW YORK, JULY 17, Evrxmo.

The New York papers publish the following
intelligence from Vera Cruz, dated the 6th inst. :
" General Forey has established press regulations
similar to those existing in France.
" A proclamation has been issued that the
Superior Committee has chosen General Almonte,
the Archbishop of Mexico. and General Batas as the
temporary executive power. The executive has
been inaugurated with impressive ceremonies.
" General Forey has announced that all who do
not lay down tbeir arms will be pursued.
_ _

"President Juarez has announced that all who
join General Forey will be declareittraiters."

THE POLISH QUESTION.
PARIS, Jon' 28.

La France of this evening believes itself able to
state that the Cabinet of Berlin has proposed the
discussion of the six points by the live great
Powers.

The same paper publishes an article signed by
M. Bouniu, advocating the isolation of Russia, the
CODISINVOIIete of which ho cousiders are more fatal
to that power than war itself.

VIENNA, JULY 28.

The evening edition of the official Wiener Zeitung
denies the report that the draft for an identical
note to be sent by the three Powers to Russia has
been received here.

Intelligence has arrived from St. Petersburg that
Russia, recognising the serious suture of the
danger, is inclined to yield.

THE POSITION OF PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JOLT V.

The Neue Prettasische (Kreetz) Zeitung of this even-
ing publishes& leader considering it urgently impor-
tant, for the policy of Prussia, to seek a better
understanding with Austria, and especially with
England. Russia alone is neither an entirely suffi-
cient nor a reliable ally. The writer inquires
whether the present representative of Prussia in
London is adequate to the emergency

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
BERLIN, Jou' 2S.

Private letters from Warsaw, dated 26th inst.,
state that a proclamation of the national govern-
ment was published there on the preceding day
announcing the appointment of Citizen Ladislaus
Czartorislii as its general diplomatic agent at
London and Paris. The proclamation states that
the national government had received sufficient
guarantees that his negotiations would be con-
ducted on the basis of the unimpaired rights of
a nation fighting for liberty, equality, and inde-
pendence.
CRACOW, JoLT 23.

Numerous detachments of insurgents are scouring
the palatinate of Lublin. They have seized several
Russian couriers, bearers of official despatches, iu
one of which General Kozisnikoff requests rein-
forcements from the Counander-iu-Chief in Vol-
hynia. The latter, in reply, Matt* that it is im-
' posaib!e for him to comply with the request, as the
insurrection iu Volhynia, especially in the districts
of Kowel, Luck, and Rowno, is rapidly increasing.
Two Russian columns were entirely defeated by
Zielinski on the 19th inst., near Jauow, in Pod-
Ischia. 200 Russians and 70 Poles were killed.
The arrest of Count Stephen Zawoyski in Lem-
berg is confirmed.

NAVAL AND MILITABI.

CHATILLIC JOLT 28.

RsutroßcsuNm FOR INDIA. —Thu tullowing re-
inforcementa of car ah 7
_and infantry troops have been
ordered to embark for India during the present week, for
the presidencies named:—For Bengal-2 officers and 66 men
of the let battalion 26th Regiment ; 2 officers and 13 men
of the 77th Regiment, and 1 officer and 10 men of the 91st
Regiment, from this garrison ; 12 officers stud 371 noncom-
missioned officers and moo of the Roysl Artillery, front
Woolwich ; 1 Whoa and 61 men of the 2nd (the queen's)
Dragoon Guards, from Canterbury ; 1 officer and 56 men at
the 19th Hussars, from Maidstone ; officers and 28 men et
the 34th Regiment, 1 officer and 11/ men of the 38th Regi-
ment, 1 officer and 12 men of the 54th Regiment, 3
officers and 15 men of the 88th Connaught Raogers,
2 officers anal 53 men of the 90th Light In-
faotrys and 1 officer std 1 man of the 97th Regiment,
from Colchester; 3 officers mid 61 men a the 42nit Loyal
Highlaoders, and 5 men of the 92ud Highlanders, hum
Starling ; 0 Wen of the Sail battalion Rifle Brigade, and 3
officers and 34 men of the 3rd baitalionuf the Rifle Brigade,
from Winchester ; 2 officers and 74 men of the 27th lambs.
killjoy, from Cork ; 49 men of the 46th Regiment, and 1
officer and 41 men of the 80th Regiment, from Buttevaat ;
1 officer and 38 mon of the 89th Regiment, and 10 men of
the 107th Regiment, from Portnoy ; total, 39 officers, and
1,027 noinoubsmisinuned officers and men. For Madras :-
14 of cersand 149gunuers of the Royal Artillery, from Wool-
wich ; 1 officer and 29 man of the 6ii4h Regiment, from Col-
chester, 38 men of the 105th Regiment, from Pembroke,
and 1 officer and 24 men of the lu battalion 60th Rides,
from Winchester; total, 16 officer; and 240 Ines.
For Bombay-70 men of the 102m1 Regiment,
Regiment ; end three officers sad 33 mum of the let bats
taboo or the 4th King's Own, frem this garrison ; 13 officers
and 55 men of the Royal Artillery, front Woolwieli • 39
men of the let battalion of the Royal Irish, from Stitt..
rant; 1 officer rod 13 ones of the 33rd (Duke of Welling-
km's) Regiment ; 3 officers and 34 men of the 95th Rem-
meat ; awl 29 men of the 108th Regiment, from Fermon,
1 officer end 14 men of the 44th Regiment ; 2 officers end
70 moo of the 56th Regiment ; 3 officers and 39 men of the
Ist battalion of the lst Royals, and 72 men of the 103rd
Regiment, from Colchester ' • 7 men of the 106th Regiment,
from Birr ; and 2 officers and 39 men of the 72nd Highlanders,
from Abenleen ; total, 26 officers and 517 men of all
mak& For Kaneohe. :-3 rain of the 7th Dragoon Guards,
from Canterbury ; 3 officers sod 60 oxen of all grades of the
let battalion of tne 10th Regiment ; 1 officer and 40 men
of the 51st Kiug's own Light Intantry, and 2 officers and
109 non-commissioned officers and oxen of the 04th Regi-
ment from Chatham ; 3 officer. and 20 men of the 70th
(Cameron) Highlanders, from Stirling ; 1 officer and 38 men
of the 93rd (Sutherlandabire) Highlanders, from Aberdeen ;
3 officers and 43 men of the 98th Regiment, from Colchester;
and al men of the 109th Regiment, from Cork ; total, 13
officers, and 431 rion-commissioned odious end men. The
total number of reinforcements to be despatches' to India
95 officers end' ,213 men of all nuke.

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