The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-27 00:00:00

THE LONDON THEATRES.

Drury-lane Theatre will reopen for the season
early next month. In October Coml.,:line will be revived ;
Mies Helen nitwit will meet (mosso, whilst lbws
Phelps and Creowick will respectively fill the parts of Post-
humous and lactimo. Afactont will afterwards be repro.
diked with Locke's made. Mks Fault and Mr. Phelps
will sustain the principal characters. A new romantic play
by Mr. Theodore Martin (husband of Mies Fancit) is also
announced for production.
Mr. F. C. %mend, the popular burlesque writer, and
constant contributor to Pinch, will (mys the London
Review) be the new stage director of the Royalty Theatre.
The season ►t this house will commence early next month.
The St. James's Theatre will re-open on the 12th of
next month with Mr. Sketchley's comedy, How will They
get Out of It I supported by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews
and Mrs. Stirling. Mr. Benjamin Webster's tenancy will
expire at Christmas, and unless he renews it, the house will
either fall into the hands of Miu Herbert and her friends,
Of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan and a joint-stock oompany.
Mr. Wigan has given up his project for converting the mat
Alhainlisa into a comedy theatre.
Mr. Henderson, of the Prince of Wales's Theatre ►t Liver-
pool, who is spoken of as the probable lessee of the DOW
theatre now being built by a limited liability eompany in
that town, has been surveying the premises in Leicester.
square, long known as the home el Mr. Burford's pano-
ramas, with a view of converting them into a vaudeville
theatre.

The Dew scenic drama—The &reds of Loretors—at the
Princess's Theatre, ii e groat financial sumer. The holm
is crowded every night.
Mr. Fechter will re-open the Lyceum on the 15th of
October with a new romantic drama called The Rosary.
There will be many changes in his company.
The Surrey Theatre will open for the winter on the 3rd
of next month.

Music AL Goesir.—Harclly are the echoes of our
own Italian operas out of our saes, before we most
Be
to take sot* of what is to owns to paw elsewhere. M.
is, appereatly, busy enough at Paris, with a view to
makuig bit rear a brilliant one ; bet his list of artier is
not inviting, healed, as it is, by Madame Peace. For
tenors he announces Signori Hardin, Fraschird, sad Negrini.
The Sisters Marchisio, as might have beam predicted, coast
for little in any theatre that wants something beyead the
two dnette is SeseraniSie. They area ' starring' it in
German towns, where unfinished Italian vocalicatice pares
current. Will no manager on this side of the Alps give a
chance to Signora Leonilde Hoschatti, of whom we hear
on every side ? The rumour turns up aia that
good
Uir Verdi (who loves what is unwholesome and ferocious)
is at work on the abominable story of " Salammbo." This
however, is probably destined for the Grand Opera of
Paris. Another rumour mentions the possibility of Mr.
!burley singing during the winter, with Signor Mario, at
Barcelona. Should this prove true, the loss to England is a
great not to be replaced for the present.—Athoscrusi.
HER =TT'S JOVENMT TO BALMORAL—Her
Majesty the Queen, scoompried by the Primmer Helena,
Louisa, and Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and the Duke and
Donbas of Oohing, and attended by Sir Charles Wood,
Secretary of State ; Gerona the Hon. C. Grey, Sir C.
Phipps, General Hood, Dr. Jasper, Lady El Mrs.
Brno., &a., will leave Windsor by the Great Western
Railway at 6.50 on Monday evening next. Travelling by
Br/Atm Juaction, Laporter, and Carlisle, the royal
train—which will an usual be fitted up for
ing during the night—will reach Perth at siZt
on Tuesday morning. Here a stoppage of two hours
will be made for refreshment and to enable tie
ue to attend the inauguration of the Prince
Consort's
statue in that city. Starting from the
Fair City at 10.40, Bridge of Dune will is reached
'at 12.4 and a stay of five miners made ; and
Ferryhill janctioe at 1.16, where a similar stay will take
place. At this station the public will be admitted by ticket.
The journey by Deride willfollow, and be accomplished at
2.37, aod Balmoral by polars two hours afterwards.
busts of her Majesty the Queen end the late Priam ism Wit,
which are to be presented by the Lord Provost to the city,
amid are to be placed in niches in the Council Chambers, have
arrived hi Edinburgh. The bars are executed in white
marble, and will prove a great ornament to the chamber for
which they have been designed. The bust of the Queen has
been executed by Noble, end that of Prier Albert by
Theed, and both have been copied from statues selected by
her Majesty. Brackets for their receptioe have been pre-
pared under the superietendence of Mr. Cousin, and it is
expected that they will soon be put in the places which
the/ are permanently to occupy.
ENCOURAGEMENT OF HIGHLAND SPORTS.—HL
Royal Mishear the Prince of Wales has Ossified his inten-
tion of giving five pounds as a prize to the best dancer of
Ghillie Gillum, the sword dance, et the Brener Highland
games on Thursday next. The Countess of Fife is to give a
like sum to the best strathspey sad reel dancer, sad Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Farquharson, of Invercanld, is to presser 51.
to the best rinser of a helf.mile rens. —Dundee 4docrtiver.

L_ RD _ ALMIESTOTr" __RD S IRISE ESTATE.—In his
speech at 'Tiverton Lord Palmerston mentioned incidentally
an interesting fact concerning hie Irish estate. He had, he
maid. 1,000 aerie of blowing mad there, " where no bled* of
gram grew." and " now, in oonsequeses of having amide.
toady plastid that sand with bent, which diem away after it
has come to a ordain growth, and WI followed by gram. I
have suomeded is Gomm% the whole of that barren spot
with gnus." Lord Palmerston may well, like Tennyson's
Nertbers Fanner of the Old Style, claim a rivalry in bona.
some even with the clergy themselves. " A rends worm
gamin a monk ; aa' I 'a stubb'd Thornaby waiste."—
Spectator.
MR. COLERIDGE, Q.C. AND THE ELECTORS or
Elem.—The bee. and learned reatheasa spent Woodsy
and Tuesday in visiting his supporters in the higher part of
the city. He was mast cordially received. Os Wednesday
important business in London called him away,
bat on Monday and Tuesday next the honourable gentle-
man intends to return and mutinous his visite to those
numerous friends who rallied round him so ardently
daring the late contest. His reception has been most hearty
h
sod cordial • the expression of regret at the split has been
universal, and he left fully assured that in the met contest,
with the Iselin Dow manifested, he must be the winning ma-
didate.—Wedera Tuna.

ELscrioX IrrrEtaloinvos.—The conservatives, it
a mid, hive resolved to coolest the county of Middlesex at
the next general election. Lord Bingham, a eon of Lord
Lucas, is spoken of as a caodidate in that interest Liberal
voters should carefully watch the lists at the aosoing regis-
tration. A church inetituti ,00 of which Mr. Hoare and
Lord Shaftesbury ere the Isadore, has resolved to (=tint
almost every liberal constitasoey. A now oandid•to is W-
ing his way for Finsbury in the person of Lord Edward St.
Maar, a son of the Duke of Somerset. a yeast gentlemen 27
years of age, mid who has been copied in diplomatic
donee. Meanwhile. Aldermen Laak, Mr. Tomas, and Mr.
Phillips are actively Eroescutiof their cenverms.
THE LATE MlBB SOUTHEY 8 BOOKS AND MSS.
On Tuesday sod Wednesday the property of the late Mies
Kate Soathey was sold by maim on the lawn at Lairbeck
Cottage, by Mr. John Minato. From this picturesque
auction-martin Underskiddaw might be seen the lakes of
Derwoot water sad BassoolDwafte, and numerous mountain
tope. Collectors and visitors from all parts were attracted
oo the cession. The first day's mho was carfiesd to furni-
ture, but it wee noticeable that whomever any &Me.* win
stated to ham come from Greta Hall, the poet's random,
the price 'uvula' bly went up. On the second day the books
and manuscripts were sold. T 0,.. were not many lots of
books, and them which oxitaieed no antopaph scarcely
elicited • mooed biddies.

PITNOI7TH TO LONDON AND Back IN ONS
DAT.—The GM of the proved AVM lip *VMS *RIM will
start from Plymouth at 8. in the morniag sad will reach
Loedoo at 3. One of the three duwo express train" will
leave Leedom at 4.50 sad arrive at Plymouth at 11.55 at
bight Thus is orie day, by this admintble travelling, •
pence will be 'cabled to go from Plymouth to London at
beck, but we should my, smooth though the broad E.
travelling is, be would be not a little fatigued to
biomass a journey. From Plymouth to Leedom I. t
250 miles—up sod dams 500 miles, which does in a day,
with time for liusinein W... ML la without doubt a
great feat.—Nerepath.
MUNDIAL 01 • NON-00111MIKIONICD OTTICIOI
MALTA. ACOMIT 17.—The perigee et Naha was horrified
to bear, yesterday afternooe, that another dreadful murder
1 of a cos-oommistioned officer by a private soldier had
jest taken place in the barman of the lot battalion ?god
Regiment. The victim in this instance was a remarkably
fine young man, of only two yean' earvioe, but whose good
eoedoet and intelligent* daring that time had comma him
to be raised to the reek of sergeant. The tragedy took
place to the barrack-room at Floriaea in the afternoon,
when all the men in the room were asleep, except the
murderer sod two other soldiers, who were at welt a die-
taries that they wore curly just in time to mine him after
the commission of the crime. The sergeant wee Iris( ash's,
and the shot took effect in his seek, wain through that
part of his body, sod also through his right arm, which was
under him at the time. He never awoke is this world.
Naturally the greatest indigeatico is felt by the whole of
this eznalleat regiment at the &tractions deed, the only
motley for which is found in the fact that the doomed was
one of the witnesses in the orderly ream as the previous
day against the prisoner for a trifling breech of discipline,
for which be was awarded two days' ociefleetnent to banrooke
by the oommanding officer. The prisoner, oo belay appre-
hended, gloried in his crime, and, as seeing another ser-
geant, smarmed his regret at sot having his able " to do
for him also."