The Express.
London, England, 1855-06-09 00:00:00

ROSSINI IN PARIS.

A correspondent writes :—" Rossini has arrived in
Paris. This is the happiest and most important musical
event of the week. To this excellent piece of news I eels
add another, which is still better and equally certain—theft
is every hope that the health of the sovereign insestro will
be completely restored.
" Cite eon's gli RUA come senile vole."

" All that science can do to preserve such s valued life
for many long days will of course be done. Ilia ordinary
physician has already had several consultations with some of
. .

the most distinguished members of the faculty in Paris.
It all who owe to the immortal author of Wilda=
Tell, Moms, and the Barber, hours of ineffable bead.
rode, of saquisite enjoyment, were to leave their names

at ffeesinVe door, we should see an immense procession
from sunrise to sunset for days without number. Malty
private friends of the master, however desirous they were
to oor•templats those flue and intelligent butane which age
and suffering have changed but very little. contented them-
*elves with leaving their cards and good wishes at the
threshold of his august abode, and abstained from feelings
of delic icy from any attempt to disturb the privacy of the
first days of his installation in Petit. Others, either less
timid or more intimate, could not resist the desire to press
to their heart this old friend so long absent, and who had
been represented by correspondence as mush more seriously
ill than he really was. Those who succeeded in peoetrat•
leg the sanctuary were delighted when they saw the great
man who had been reported to be to broken down. Alchough
ne has greatly !safety' in various way., they found
his mind as sporkliog, his temper aa good, and his convene-
tion se charming as ever. In answer to questions about his
lualth, he complains of a little weeklies. and an absolute
seat of sleep. His malady wens to be purely nervous.
But, notwithituoing his Mew, he has resumed his fa-
vourite promenades upon the Boulevards, where he may be
seen strolling as of old, with hie bands in the pockets of his
long frock coat, while he curiously observes the many
trasseformatioas that have taken place during his absence.
Whes any one talks to him of music and the recent success

of his Mat /tilde de Shabrus, he looks at his questioner with
so air of astonishment so well assumed as to appear Reif,
and, bowing his head replies with almost imperceptible
irony, ' People are rosily too good to trouble themselves

about my old things. All that music is rococo. It bee
quite gone by.' The other day some one was vaunting the
wonders of magnetism, and proposed that he should consult
• somnambulist. Ah,' said 'toting gaily, 'she would ask
for a lock of my hair; I have but five heirs left, and each of
them has a name. lam bald enough as it is.' He came to
Paris by short journeys. Rossini likes to sire the country he
passes through; to breathe the air at leisure, to sleep at
night, and, in short, to take the longest way about, like the
good La Fontaine. Aa to those modern f communi-
cation which shoot men and luggage, as from a
cannon's mouth, a hundred leagues before a man has
time to inquire the way, without having either that
fear or dislike of it which has been pretended, he does not
see why one who his no occasion to hurry should adopt this
mode of travelling. He says capital things about the incon-
veniences es well as the advantages of progress. Duriag
this long journey, which took more time than Torquato
Ten° and Benvenuto Celliai would hive done to perform
the same distance sword in hand, Madame Rossini watched
over her partner with a pious and maternal solicitude. • e •
"It is mild that the management of the opera will cele-
brate Rossini's return to Paris with all Ike eclat due from •
principal theatre supported by a state subvention. There
is a talk of bringing out Mom on a grand seals ; William
Tell and Count Ory will aka, we believe, be played. This
homage to RAISIDi will be at once an honour to the Opera; a
great j y for the friends of art, and a solemn reparation for
the incenceivable neglect of the great works of the water

of austere, of maids we wars at one time gailty."—Moniftnir

A deputation consisting of Mears. Apaley.Pallatt,l
)L.P., I.eickhart, M P., Cranford, II P., 1. T. Oal►nitb,
and H. Robertson, waited upon Lord Stanley of Alderley at
the B wad of Trad- yesterday, for the purpose of pointing
• some featurre which they believe to be objectionable i*
the new bill brought in fur the purpose of amending the
laws of partnership and limiting the liability of sharehold-
ers in joint-mock undertakings.
On the 29 h nit. than were 210 cues of cholera at.
St. Petersburg.

Mies Edith Iterated, daughter of the veteran lisle-
ratswr, will shoal, appear at the Haymarket i• a new PIO
in flee acts.
A model of the monument proposed to be tweeted,
no Otevesend, to be called "The Alma
Tower," is shown is the tows, and the project hes hen laid
before the Town Conseil.
Mr. Booker, M P., is preoleded byt indispomiticn
from attenoiag to hie parliamentary engagements.
Mr. Layard'e motion on "the state of the nation,"
is sassy* the onus of the day for Monday.