The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-24 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

DRAMA.

DRURY-LANE.
The long-promised historical spectacle of Bootie POLAND.
Dwuk, was wagged at this haasehat welt with &degree of The Prase has the subjoined summary of affairs
spirit mid liberality on the part of the management which in Poland :
is worthy of all praise. It is note sensation drama, like the On oomparing the intelligence received from different
Peep of Day, but rather a series of pictures in which the sources, it is easy to form a distinct idea of the situation,
author, scene painter, dressmaker, and stage manager and to estimate the extent of the insurrectional movement.
combine to give the public some idea of • bygone period. The Poles are divided into numerous bands, each of which
To dramatise • ballad which was never very popular on this has its centre of operations. The government of Rolm is
side of the border, to bring before us in the flesh &shadowy inclosed between two insurrectional bodies, comman4ed by
hero who is little known andadmired out of the Highlands, to Knrowski. The tirst of them occupies the south-eastern
tack on to this an historical event which a leading poetical district ; the south is guarded by flying detachments,
dramatist (Judge Talfoard) failed to make endurable on the which connect the east with the west, and keep open
stage, was a task of no common difficulty. If the song of communications with the second corps, strongly posted
" Bonnie Dundee," end • mange in the life of John Graham in the west and protected by extensive tweets. Here
of Claverhouse, and that massacre of Glencoe which has appeared the first detachments of the oorps under
furnished so mach matter for controversial historians, fail to Laogiswicz, encamped on the frontier of the department,
mix well as • good acting play, we have still the spectacle to watching the isolated movements of the Russians and pre-
fall back upon. The whole vast area of the Drury-lane venting their coooentration. In this government the &on-
stage is thrown open, is fitted up with solid hills, sod is sian troops occupy the towns of Miechow, Rieke, Kau**
peopled with hundreds of vigorous Highlanders in every Czanstochawa, Radom, sod Sandomir. The centre of
variety of clan costume. This is • scene worth looking at, i Kurowski's corps is at Dombrows. %Momenta, which
and Mr. T. Grieve never painted a better picture as a back- I we consider exaggerated, represent this corps to be 6,000
pound for such a display. Another scene, representing etrong. Its lines extend to Olkuss and Oicow, and
Glencoe by moonlight after a snowstorm (painted by Mews. ' threaten the railway from Cracow to Warsaw. As for
W. and H. Telbin) is even more effective, though the me Langiewicz, be threatens the high road from Cracow to
clinical waterfall in it would bear a little improvement. I Warsaw rid Radom. In the government of Lublin the
The story contrived by Mr. Edmund Falconer to connect i high road from Lublin to Lemberg is threatened by the
these and other scenes is slight and fragmentary, and di- 1 oorps of Frankowski, some of whose detachments are in corn-
vided amongst many characters. It deals principally with munication with other bands extending into Volhynia.
Dundee's solitary journey from Edinburgh to Lochabsr, I Lastly, in Volhynla itself there is a band, under the com-
harassed by the Lowland covenanters ; with his reception mend of Neczej, a Cossack by birth. To this general sketch
by the Highland chiefs and the gathering of the clans, leaving we may add that Lithuania and the government of Augustow
his death to be imagined by the audience. This part of the are overrun with bands whose number and movements are
fable occupies the first two acts, and the third act deals with altogether unknown. Forests, lakes, rivers, marshes,
the massacre of Glencoe, which is not shown on the stage, the render repression impossible. These bands extend to the
supposed borron being relieved by the rescue of Helen and very gates of Warsaw, in the forests lying between &eine.
Master M'Donald—the two lovers of the piece. The crowded wine and Psolimon. Bowe German journals speak of name-
action of the spectacle here, which takes place in a very narrow runs desertions from the Basilian army in Lithuania.
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mountain pathway, and on a very narrow mountain bridge,
with one or two speeches, by way of tag, which may be

cut out with advantage, brought the play to a rather weak
conclusion. The pruning-knife will doubtless be °remised
here and in save& other parte of the drama before the

THE GREEK REVOLUTION.

next representation.

We (Times, Second Edition) have received the
following telegram from our special correspondent
at Athens:

The ;ding promoted nothing which calls for very detailed
notion Mr. Edmund Phelps wanted muscle and earnest-
ness as Bonnie Dundee ; Mr. Henry Loraine spoke a short
prologue carefully, and bounced heroically through the part
of Alastor M'Donald ; Mr. Graham played forcibly as Alec
Campbell ; the chief oovenaritem preached ; some of the
actors, who tried Scotch, talked in the unknown tongue,
and Mr. Haigh threw very little dramatic spirit into the
ballad which gives the piece its name. Mrs. Bowers was
interesting but not powerful as Helen It'Donald, and the

"ATHENS, 111. 22.

" The Provisional Government., recently esta-
blished, has fallen, through a demonstration got up
yesterday with the assistance of part of the garrison.
" The Assembly has invested President Morai-
tini with the executive powers, until it should order
otherwise.

character which stood out most strongly wee Deft Dairy—
played by Mr. J. A. Shaw. The supernumeraries were all
excellently drilled sod marshalled, and their shouting wee
loud enough to drown the shouting of the audience.
The house was crowded, and Mr. Falconer was called
after the first and second acts At the close of the piece
Mr. Laraine led on Mrs. Bowers, and Mr. Fsloonar came on
with Yr. W. Whin.

" To-day all is quiet.
" The troops which were disbanded are returning.
"The Assembly are discuasing • new form of
government. _ . .

_
" A ministry elected directly by the Assembly
will hare the greatest chance of success."

Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for a
dancing party oa Wednesday, the 4th of March. .
..

Thebowl tow of Derby will hold aeeembliea on
Wednesdays, the 11th and 18th proximo, at the family
IlltatiOn in St. Jame's-square._ . . . .

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company :

The Earl and Countess Stanhope entertained at
dinner, last evening, at their reridenoe in Grosvenor-plies,
his Excellency the Italian Minister, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness de Cadore, the Earl and Counter Grey, Viscount
and Viscounts's Castleman, Lord and Lady Echo, Lord
Stanley, M.P., sad Mr. Caleratt.

Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner,
bet sepsis`, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury,
Lord and Lady Chelmsford sad the Hon. Miss Thouger,
Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, Colonel and the Baroness
North, Hon. Edward Stanhope, Sir Ralph Howard, Hoe.
Milo Harding., Mr. and Mrs. Henry Law, Yr. Peal, Mr.
Clive, ke.
The Earl and Countess of Mount Edgcnmbe have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Meant Fdgcurobe.
Viscount and Viscountess Clifden arrived in
town last evening, from Althorp Hall, where they had been
staying during the visit of his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales to the Earl and Countess Spencer. .

The Karl and Countess Grey returned to their
residence on Carlton House-terrace yesterday from passing
a few days with the Dachas Dowager of Sutherland at
Cliefden Park, near Maidenhead. _ .

The Earl and Countess of Besaborough came to
town yesterday, from visiting the Earl and Countess
Spencer, at Althorp Hall.
lady Emily Peel is prolonging her residence at
Nice, and is not expected to return home until noon after
Boater.

The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., is ex-
pected to mice in town towards the end of the etumiag
mouth, from Nice. _ _ _

Lady Westbury, the wife of the Lord Chancellor,
is seriously ill, her ladyship having ruptured a blood renal
a few days linos. The injury was caused by a fall. . .

The Marquis of Lansdowne, since his arrival in
town after the funeral of his father, has been confined by
indispositioa at Innadowne House. The noble marquis was
able to leave his room yesterday.
His Grace the Duke of Rutland still remains at
the George Hotel, Grantham, under the treatment of his
five physicians, his injuries preventing his being removed
to Belvoir Castle for the present .

We (Nottingham Omar(lien) regret to learn that
W. H. Barrow, Esq., M.P. for South Nottinghamshire, is
dangerously ill.

The Bishop of Oxford is gradually recovering
from his serious illoeu, and we hope shortly to announce his
lordship's return to convaleseence. _ .

"Tuesday.
"The Massilia, with the above mails, arrived at
Marseilles at 8 a.m. this day.
"The mails were to leave for London at 11.30
a.m."

Ou Monday last the Rev. Demetrios Panaghis
Calliphrooss, M.A., was instituted to Use vicarage of Wal-
pole St. Andrew, in Norfolk, on the :Annotation of the
Rev. Chancy Hare Townaheed, of Norfolk-street, Park-
ins*, in the county of Middlesex, clerk.
The Channel fleet, under the command of Rear-
Admiral IL Smart, RR., lying at Spithead, Is under
orders for the Nore, in order to welcome the arrival of the
Princess Alexandra of Denmark to the coasts of England.
Each ship is now laying in coal, and filling op its comple-
ment of ,token, in readiness for leaving Spithead.
The report to be presented by the Islington Agri-
cultural Hall Company on the 3rd of March recommends •
dividend of 10 per cent., and propane the issue of 5 per
oast. del:lantana to the amount of 11,0001. to improve the
fittings of the building.
LORD PALMERSTON'S VINCE TO GLASGOW. —We
(North British Mail) understand that the Lord Provost has
received intimation of Lord Palmerston's arrangements on
his approaching visit to Glasgow. His lordship, &Ceara •
ponied by the Hon. W. F. Cowper, President of the
Board of Works, is to arrive on the forenoon of Monday,
30th March, and both will take up their residence
with the Lord Provost. It is understood that the
noble Rector of our University will deliver his instal-
lation address to the student& in the forenoon, and will at-
tend the banquet given by the citizens i• the City-hall on
the evening of the day of his arrival in Glasgow. His lord.
ship has consented to receive an address from the working
chases, which is to be presented at a soiree or reception, to
take place on Tuesday evening in the City-ball. It is ex-
pected that Lord Palmenton will employ the forenoon of
the same day in paying • visit to, and inspecting the works
and improvements of, the Clyde.
GVIRRAL BURNSIDE ON THE FEDERAL ARMY.—
At a recent meeting in New York of the United States
Christian Commission, General Burnside, after some remarks
eulogistic of that swim/dice, thus desaibed the Mate of the
Federal army :—" A wrong impression, I think, is existing
in the community with reference to that army. Many per-
sons I meet have the impression that the army is in • demo-
. reused state. That is not the case. The soldiers are as
brave sa they ever were. Tbey are well clad, well fad, well
armed, and as long as they are well they are able to take
one of themselves in the field. Our officers are becoming
more experienced every day, and there isnot the demoralisa-
tion in the field which general conversation on the
streets and in private circles would indicate. There is not
that adhesion to soy general principles, or say special set of
men, or any special line of policy, that many remarks would
iodinate. They remember, and appreciate. cad feel, that
while it is noble and grand to entertain personal friendship
and love for their commeoders, they at the same time realise
that it is ignominious and low to give a blind adherence to
any man, or any men, or to any specific line of policy, either
political or military. They are in the field to give their
whole strength and energies in support of the government."