The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-28 00:00:00

TRE NEW Sonzryor remiss Di WATER-

oozomts.

Th. pr.- ent is the beet exhibition hitherto
submitted to the puldic. The average merit seems
to he generally raised. Nearly .11 the better knows
of the usual contrtbuton are represented, and the
te1k44121 artiste are I. fora, via, Meese. E. and H. Warren,
Werner, tether, Mole, Louis Beets, Tie*. Absoloen
Wymper,Weltnert, Bennet, Read, Talley, and Mrs. Murray.
Mr. Leitch. • mister whose reputatioa bee keg bees as-
sured, takes the place vacated by Mr. Carboald. Amoug
the vl•itoe. on Sattudxy were the Bishops of Exeter sod
Wisahester ; the Eals and Countess's of Harrioston,
Maw" Dudley. Egerton., aad Strafford ; Lonl and
Lady Cheimetoed, Lord and Lady Westbury, the President
sad matey members of tie Royal Academy, the Foreign Am-
bassador; Be.

MUSIC.

HER IL&JICITY'S THEATRE.

The old house in the Haymarket opened on
listurday night. It is now, as our magical readers are
aware, ander the management of Mr. Maplesoo, who has
already shows himself well qualified to usidertake the
diseetio• of a great operatic eitablehmeat. A abort time
ago we noticed his prospectus of the moo, from which it
appeared that be had provided • oompaoy of extramdinary
Moog* and had made 'very arrangement emmeary for the
cosanesnesessat of hie ardsonsaunpaign. The music director
and chef orendienert, Signor Arsliti, is • man who has no su-
perior ia time opacities ; the orchestra is by far the best
that has boo beard Is that bonne since the most palm
days of Mr. Lumley ; sad the chorus is of corresponding
excellence. The theatre looks olefin, bright, mid comfort-
able, with thst air of elegem* for which it has been
always dutiogui.lied ; sad all the old habitue,' of Her
Yajest)'• Theatre will be glad to find that the administra.
tams of the box.ofilos remains in the hands of the carol al,
attestor, sad courteous Mr. Nu.;ent.

The theatre opened with Venli's last opera, Un
is. Ma.n-tirro, which, it wall be remembered,
was produced last season, at the Royal Italian Open,
and also at the Lyceum, when that house wee occupied by
an Italian company wider Mr. Meplesun's management.
111101 Pal Wail Dot brilliant, Li of that moderate kind
which, we think, was due to ita merits. Aa a drama it is
simply an Italian versiJu of .'saber's celebrated (Alston's
the Third; while Verdi has le•en unable to reach the arab
lame of the Yresch composer's music. Some of the choral
and i °warted music is admirable. We know few thing. of
this teed that an finer than the Armlet* the third act ; the
mere in which, alter the fatal recognition by
Renato (Ankerstreem) of his seemingly guilty wife,
Car col,piivtora bunt into a chorus of jetting
Leighton ; or than the "hat acme ol all," where Riccardo
(the King) expire amid the tears sad Isesest•tions of ell
around. But there is not iu this opera a single air which,
like the melodies in the Trorahose, the Tearer°, or Rigo-
lerto, will he sung by ms .ical ladies in every drawimproom,
sad ground upon barrel-organs in every street. Aid hence
it follow, that, in this opera. great performers will &Min-
guish themselves rather by powerful acting and impassioned
utterance than by mere vocal execution. Nothing on the
musical stage could be finer than the performance of Titian',
nor il,eper than the impreeeion nisch, by her
on the audience in the principal scenes ; yet
there 13 0.4 00 her !sift one melody which
dwells on the ear and lives in the memory ; and the same
thing is the ease with the music in the part of the King
(except, larrhapii. the air "AM quel soave brivido "), though
it was sting by I:niglini with great power and beauty. It
is ie the part of Remit° ( Aukerstrosee) that the two bestairs
are to tar found • " vita cite t'arride," and "E sei to
else chiss i "---in 1,4 h of which Signor throtamo, •
riehutaut iu Ibis couutrs, showed himself worthy of his
high continent.' reputation. This gentleman, moreover, Ig
possessed of great personal advantages, and is an excellent
actor. The little part Oscar, the court page, was acted
with torch beeline:shy Heide. Dario (also new to the Louisa
stage), who rang, too, very prettily. The part of Uhice,
the wit. h, is a din/agreeable one, and Madame Lemaire, with
all her undoubted ta:ent, 1029 tumble to maks it otherwise.
The chief conspirators, TOOOO2lO and Samusle, were well
represented by Messrs. Oehler and Bose. The whole seise
re seine was TiCh aid uaipilicant.

THY. MUSIC TOR THE INTIRNATIONAL EXBIBI-
-- The great rehearsal of the intrumeritsl music for
ths °prong will lake pion under the direction of Mr. Costa
in the bap) hall, Exeter-WI, to-morrow (Tuesday) learn-
ing. at half-past 11 for 12 o'dock. At 12 o'clock the doom
of the Lall will be closed. sad so members of the alchemies
will be admitted after that time. With the coneurrease of
the Ito) al Comiaireitmen, a limited gumbo' of invitation to
wanes this wibearsal Lave bees addressed to the priseipal
'ability sad official personages
_The Doke of Cambridge
sod many others bare already accepted the levita-
tion. The whole of the floor of the large hall will
be filled by the instrumentalism engaged foe the occasion.
Is addition to the eotire land of the Italian Opera, the
fiscred Hansel& Society, and other leading profess in from
Leedom sod elsewhere, nun, amateurs will assist os the
oceanic. Lard Onald ritiferald, lb Archibald Macdosald,
the Err. lir. Kowden. with many others, whose SWIM
are known in select minim! circles, will take pot in the
eetheetnt.