The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-31 00:00:00

LONDJN, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1882.

DRAMA.

SADLER'S WELLS.

On Saturday evening there was a dramatic and
musical performance at this theatre for the benefit of Mr.
Love, the well-known " polyphonist," an old and industrl•
one servant of the public, who daring the last two yams
has been suffering from attacks of paralysis, and is conse-
quently is di tressed circumstances. Acommittee, including

atenford, Yr. gala, Mr. Stirling Coyne, Mr. Marston,
and other literary gentlemen connected with the stage,
undertook the management of this benefit ; Mr. Phelps
punted thirst:slime nee of the theatre, and several of our
mese dillegelehed emetic end vocal performers gener-
ously pee their swim The benevolent intentions of the
puttee ecooseeed wire fully accomplished, for the theatre

was crowded to the doors, and the amount realised must
have been very considerable. The entertainments of the
eventing began with Suckstone's clever little piece, Good
for Nothing, in which Miss Charlotte Saunders played the
character of Nan, the poor untaught servant girl, with •
nand/ and spirit that delighted the audience. Mrs. Stirling
then spoke, with her usual groin and feeling, an appro•
prig* address, written for the occasion by Captain
Maavegest. A concert followed, consisting el English vocal
mate, wog by Miss Yampa, Miss Constance Roden, Mien
Poole, Mr. Weiss, Mr. Henry Eonsll, Mr. Carpenter, and
the Itkeetillteemell. Naboaellelples-DdlpriFiCalliNOlN

la the bill, bat an apology was made foe her absence,
gassed by indlepritilon. The above performers are all well
known to the pstilie, mompting Mies Roden, whose appearance
was an intimating novelty. This young lady, we remora-
ber, made a very successful di' it a few years ago, and,
from the powers she displayed and the reception she met
with, promised to be a valuable acquisition to the opera
stage. Bat Miss Roden did not follow her succor, and
has allowed herself to be almost forgotten by the public.
Os this ocarina she Nang the quaint, pretty Scotch ballad,
" We're a' noddin' at our house at hams ;" and, on its
being most vehemently encored, sang another Scotch ballad
in a different style, the very popular "Annie Laurie."
She sang these piece* charmingly, with a sweet and mellow
voice, with comic sprightliness in the one, and passionate
expression In the other, and with perfect simplicity in both.
From this re-appearance after a long interval we presume
we shall meet her again, and shall be glad to do so. After
the calmest a some from Boren seed Juliet was given by
the eminent tragdias Miss Edith Maraud. Then followed
The Spitalltekle Wearer, with Kr. Tools in the character of
Simmons ; sad A Wesel Wonsan execluded the plessini
entetisismente of the evening.

THE ITIERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The following official document gives an outline
of the approaching ceremony :
"The (been, being anxious to mark her interest
in the snores of an undertaking, in promoting which
the Prinoe Consort had taken a most active part,
has notified her wish that the opening of the Exhi-
bition should bear as much as possible the character
of a nations' ceremony. Her Majesty has, there-
fore, been pleased, under the present impossibility
of herself performing that ceremony, to appoint his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., his
Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord
High Chascellor, the Earl of Derby, K.G., and
Viscount Palmerston, KG., G.C.8., to be her
representatives to conduct it in her name.

a"
1. Her Majesty's ministers and the Royal Com-
miesionees for the Exhibition of 1861 will attend in
the procession, and her Majesty's Commissioners
for the Ethibition will invite the Royal and distin-
guished proms . at the head of the respective
foreign emansiseima, and the foreign ambassadors

" a 'miff eohiraitsieness will seek tht
eo-operallioll of the guarantors of' the Exhibition,
jurors, efambers of both Houma of Parliament,
heads of the church, universities, law, army, navy,
and volsoteers, the municipalities, scientific and
artistic instituttees, the local and other committees
aiding the Exhibftioh, Ac., in giving to the state
opening 'a national character. For such persons
there amp be a number of reserved seats, but the
number is necessarily limited. Whilst desiring to meet
the widened allaleases, her MajestyitOomasiminners
must reserve to themselves full power of dealing
with the exrangernenta according to their discretion.
Her Majesty's ffiernmissioners request that gentle-
men occupying olio ially reserved seats will appear
in uniform, allele], qr court dross.
"& Elsaprissipalsweraoneiawill take place under
the two:domes and along the whole length a the
nave. The official reception of her Majesty's re-
presentatives and of distinguished visitors taking
part in *the aweneonial will be held in the teem'
south court The procession will start, frobi this
point odd precool to the west dome., Here will be
a chair el Mite, and, late a verse of the National
Anth 'Been sung, an address will be rectived;
.4=
The " will then move down the nave ti
the where the musical, porter:nem:4m
will tolls plane after which the 'procession will re-
turn loges throne at the west donee, a prayer will
be °Alma bt 'the Bishop d' Landon, and the
Hallelejaleirapias 'and the Natiofial Anthem will
totitua,i,opesifing of tbk '• vhpAtion: *Vie
• v 4i. ReFBl HillikoMi .the Duke ,00
, Military bands ettilL bet stationedia
thetke central court —By order of her Majesty%
! " F. R. BANISFORD, Secretary. ' •
"Initenatinal Inhibition, Mirch 28,'1862."
1 Urinal • Nam this notice that no second
Royal intsimien has bedn appointed to take the
• ceremonial out of the hands of
Oemeillasioaers. All rayed and die-
.
elites" invited on that mammon will be
' the dlive noblenreet 4nd . gentleman,
who, Sag "hat Winked so bard to get
the display ready by the Ist of May. The duties
of heats could hardly be in better hands, and no
one but a fine old crusted Tory (if such a being can
be found), with a superstitious belief in ancient
family canons which enjoined a sour contempt for
trade, would object to be present at such au indus-
trial banquet. The advertising spirit—the keen
energy of the market-place, of course animates
all such displays, but there ought to be
nothing very repulsive in that. Without such
a spirit half the world would still have been a
clouded fable ; the natives of every little island
would still have looked upon themselves as the sole
proprietors of the sun and moon ; the stranger in
the streets would still have been regarded as a man-
eating monster, with his head between his shoul-
ders ; and the original landowner—the painted
savage—would still have been skulking up the
country, instead of coming down to the sea totrade.
Our faith in the commercial instincts of the
British manufacturer has not been misplaced, for
during the last few days be has shown what he can
do, and what he means to do. On Thursday hist,
on the British side, three thousand pieces of fit-
tiny were delivered, and three hundred cases. The
same activity reigns on the foreign aide, and, speak-
ing in round numbers, about six thousand eases
had been delivered up to Saturday last. If the
fitting up of many of the courts cannot be insised
from a fine art point of view, there is no denying
the fact that the work is being rapidly done. Some
of the cases are already filled with goods, and
many of the trophies begin to take a solid shape.
Every man knows that his chance of profit lies in
being ready by the Ist of May, and this great
moving power urges him on without any official or
newspaper spurrings.
The Americans have at last succeeded in getting
a court, which is nothing but a shoe out of the
carriage department under the Picture Gallery, at
the south-east tower. Their space will not be very
well lighted, but their agents and commissioner
seem to be satisfied with it, and perhaps it is as
Good a position for real business as could possibly
have been selected. The collection placed here will
be the first to meet the eye of the largest London
stream of visitors that will come from the east,

west, and south of the metropolis. At present the
doorway leading to this gallery forms the "exhibi-
tors' entrance, and right in front the tower, at the
corner of Captain Irowke's garden on the Kensington
1114••.••• onauylu a • twAir Omit we
ever get an opportunity of seeing in this country.
It forms a right-angled piece of pathway, about 20
or 30 yards in length, and is avoided by all foot
ers, male and female, who are not afraid of
Cilisi7ilun over in the road. The land originally
belonged to the Commissioners of 1861, until they
sold it to the government for the Department of
Science and Art : and one or both of these august
bodies ought to pave it for the public. Mr. Cole,
C. 8., the director of the South Kensington
Museum, doubtless knows nothing of this bog, as
he goes in and out of his building by a clean, dry
private entrance nearly opposite the eastern dome.
It has now had a triumphant existence of three
weeks ; and we shall be curious to me if it will live
three weeks longer.
The broad pavement round the building is now
being rapidly fixed, especially on the eastern side ;
and lnsid3, the work of the contractors is evidently
drawing to an end. The scaffolding under the east-
ern dome is now completely down ; and the flooring
presents the appearance of POWs large timber
structure which has fallen into a heap of ruins.
The scaffolding at the other end, under the western
dome, hal been torn to pieces with wonderful ra-
pidity, and from some cause will be cleared off in
about a turd of the time taken to pull down that of
the eastern dome. In a few days this curious struc-
ture will oily exist in photogrr.phs and engravings.
One exception to this happy state of progress is
still to be found in the great refreshment rooms.
These pboes may be called the arcades, but they
certainly ire not Arcadia, particularly to the food
contracton. They are Leaky and unfinished, still
Sled Wig) painters, carpenters, an even brick-
layers, lmg after they ought to have been opened,
warm an! dry, for the refreshment of visitors.
The building is now often as full of exhibitors