The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-05 00:00:00

EGYPTIAN HALL.

Mr. Arthur Sketchley kindly lent his room on
Saturday eight to Mr. Grattan Cooke, who appears de-
sirous of joining the ranks of entertains's, and who tried to
reed himself in with a musical and anecdotal lecture, celled
" A Feature." The feature alluded to is the human nose,
and two hours' discourse upow this organ proved eves more
tiresome than some of the old lectures upon heeds deli-
vered by Stevens and the early entertainers. Mr. Cooke
has musical ability and training, and • self•possemed deli-
very, but he most get something • little lam antiquated and
more lively than " A Feature," if he wishes to messed is
these days of oompetitioe.

ADYMPIiI THEATRE.--Mr. J. L. Toole announces
that his ensue' benefit will take place on Wednesday, the
14th of September, on which oceesion he will produce a new
two act domestic drama of serious interest, called Stephen
Digger, which has been adapted for him by Mr. John Oxen-
I ford. Mr. Toole will lasve the Adelphi at the sad of the
month for a long pros anti' tour, and will probably not re-
turn until Christmas. His greatest triumphs have bees in
character and pathetic parts, end Stephen Diggs may prove
soother of his summers.

THE FLWIVAL 07 THE THREE CHOlR.S.—thaz-
TORD, HAITSDAT.—The one hundred sod forty-feet testier,
of the three chain of Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester,
was brought to • close last night by a chamber concert at
the College-hall. The programme was almost altogether of
a chancel character, and the audience was therefore
more select Una numerous. The ball at the Shire-
hall was attended by an unusually large number of
fashionable"' of Herefordshire and visitors. The finan-
cial remits of the meeting. u far u they cam be
.sined et the present moment, are vely satisfactory.
Nearly 1,0001. has been raised for the charity, that is to
say sane additional donations expected will, it is hoped,
ests/1 the total alrealy received to that amount The
following shows at a glues the daily receipts for the charity
at the present meeting and at last year's meeting of the
three choirs at Worcester. :—Tuesdav—Worcester. 1863,
250/. ; Hereford, 1864, 2881. 3a. 7d. Wednesday—Worces-
ter. 1863, 3331. lls. Bd. ; Hereford, 1864, 2441. la. 6d.
Thor day, Worcester, 1883, 2401.85. Bd. ; Hereford, 1864,
1471. 17a. ld. Friday—Worcester, 1863, 2104 10a. 4d. ;
Hereford, 1864, 2681. ss. sd. 'Total—Worcester, 1863,
1,0641.105. Bd. ; Hereford, 1864, 9601. 7a 7d. _

151111IINGIUM MUSICAL. ENTIVAL—The Birming-
ham Daily Poet 1111100[1110811 that "Madame Goldschmidt
Lind ha. minified her inteetion of attending the festival in
the somewhat Dowel capacity to her. of • private indivi-
dual." The ballot for Wednesday morning's performance
(Noonan) took place on Friday. The number of plates
balloted for was 919, against 561 on the same morning at
last festival. For the .31Esseah the ballot on Saturday was the
largest err known.

hit SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL AT STRATFORD-ON-
APO/1.-The accounts of the committee of the Stratford
festival are now finally made up. and the result is a defi-
ciency of over 3,000/., which the committee will have to
make good. It appears from their accounts that the toted
subscriptions were 2.2981. 18a. 7d., of which 1,5671.12 e. was
for the festival, 2591. 15a. for the school, and 4711. 11s. 7d.
for the monument. After payment of preliminary ex.
peens and expenees of management (1,839!. 18e. 7d.) there
wee left towards the festival 313/. fie. sd. ; the school,
51!. 15a. ; and the monomer, 93/. 19e. 7d. The re-
ceipts for the festival (including the 313/. ss. 5d.) for
tickets of admission, i.e., and proceeds d cab
aunties of materials of pavilion, Sze., amounted to 6.3664
2s. 3d. The sale by auction only realised 375/. 15s. 10d.
The contract for the pavilion was 1,300!., but there wan
2,0521. 19s. 11d. for extras. The dramatie and musical eer-
formalises and scenery cost nearly 2,005!.; fireworks, .61.
195.; balloon. 301.; hire of bands of music. 65/. 19a.;
police, 152/4 refrehtnente for performers, 747/. 6s. 5d.;
the total payments being 8,6641. 10a. 7d., leaving a defi-
ciency of 3,3061. Ba. 3d. Thu deficieocy Is attributed to
the inexperience of the committee of management in the
conducting of public festivities and too sanguine reliance
upon distant help. The proceeds of the sale of ticker for
the various performances end ball were 4,345/. lls. 7d.
Tan POLYTECHNIC.-This institution, which is
closed for necessity repairs, will reopen on Monday, the
19th instant.

THE REPRESENTATION OF FROME. —SOEDe time
since Sir Henry Creswicke Rew K.C. 8., &c.,
invited by some of the leadiog liberal electors of From. to
stand for the repreeentatioo of the borough at the next
election. In ancordance with thtt invitation Sir Henry
attended a meeting of the electors, and after explain-
ing his political principles espreesed his *Magness
to come forward io the event of a fair proportion of the
electors inviting him to do so. A requisition was at once
circulated, and it received the signatures of toady 150
of the electors. In replying to this requisition, Sir
Henry says—" I beg to state, that I appreciate moat
highly the honour you have done me in thus selecting ono ss
a candidate ; and that relyior with full confidence on your
promisee of support, I hereby formally accept the can-
didature, and undertake to tight the battle of the liberal
party at Broome whenever a vacancy may take place in the re-
presentatioe of your borough." A very clone contest may
be anticipated. At the last eleatius Lord Edward Thyme%
the conservative candidate, was retuned by a majority of
47 over Mr. Donald kindle

MMUS PALACR—HALP-CIOWN DAT.-BATI:TE-
DAT. S. 3.—Adetissioes OD menet, 1.063; ditto by
season tickets, 2,231; keel, 3,294.