The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-30 00:00:00

frighten me ; I thould expect uo crop at all." But I I
reasoned with him, and his mind was open to conviction, and
so he went lama, end followed my exiunple and directions ;
and I have now • handsome letter from him to say that his
crop, through' seas, was nearly seventeen °combs per
ass, and the #i lot add It for 141. a load. He, too, las
=
NMI kid Nola with wheat, and has again dinti-
his gnaw* eland. In this manner I would improve
i do omsal* of dy
_tonstrymen, and am sure it would
Sens be sainat.--Oxottos WitatNe.
BIIIMEX.
Bovril-no:Am.—Ms. R. Smith, of Burley, in his
Caliss7 on &sob thos *biome at the South Downs
mined whit Wiier has *my was food to produce
moan Sobs add ewe moan moped to thaw ; but they pro-
duce Ism value of wool and asisam Ilan food, which is
shown by the following 111 .• On the lit of Nov.,
1890, 100 Down ewes ware as the seaside of a turnip
field of maven urea, sad 100 ors an the other side.
They were sate allowed all thug Asia to eat. On their
meeting the dead was saissal an Wei aids, when the
Down ow= won Mad to ham sin trills awe than four
acres out of do ones, do an] eels faa eon asa, and the
ewes penned mom the lands. Other osperiamaati, made by
some excellent Warwickshire farms., serve to illustrate the
same very important inquiry.

TUE FRENCH " OPERA NATIONAL."--The Parisian
opera-house recently established under the above title has
what the French all a apacialiti of its own, distinct from the
Academie Royale or the Opira Comique. Its purpose is to
furnish the public with a class of pieces of a more national
and generally popular character than those which are pro-
duced at the two other musical theatres ; and it has begun its
course apparently with judgment and success. It professes
to give not only new works by the native composers of the
day, but to revive the beet pieces of the " ancien repertoire."
We find in the Gaulle Musicale a full account of the pro-
duction, a few days ago, of Monsigny's comic opera, " Felix,
ou l'Ecfant Trouvi," one of the favourites of the public
three-quarters of a century ago. Monsigny was the contem-
porary of Oretry, to whom he was scarcely inferior, the
beauty, simplicity, and national character of his music.
"Le Diserteur" became popular all over Europe, this
country included ; and " L'Enfant Trouve," though
from some unaccountable circumstance it was coldly re-
ceived at fleet, kept constant posaessioa of the stage for
more than forty years. It is remarkable that
though Mocsigny produced this opera in the flower of his
age, and lived nearly half is century afterwards, it was his
list work, its cold reception having made an impression on
his mind which nothing, not even its subsequent success,
was able to efface. The author of the drama was the cele-
brated Sedaine, who also wrote most of the principal operas
of Cinitry. This piece, now revived at the " Opera Na•
tional," under the direction of Adolphe Adam, appears to
have been got up with all the care due to a new work, to
have been excellently performed, and moat cordially re-
ceived by the public. What a pleasant thing it would be if
we, in London, had a musical theatre precisely correspond-
ing to this new " Opera National "in Paris—a theatre in
which we could find the gem, of our own ancien re-
pertoire, the operas of our Arnes, Arnold", Shields, and
Stances—the pieces in which our Banton', Brahams, and
Stephanie' gained their laurels—not got up in a slovenly way
as occasional afterpieces at minor theatres, but represented
ea they seed to be when they were the delight of every lover
of English melody! But the French, notwithstanding the
levity imputed to them, are (in matters of taste, at least)
much leas fickle and inconstant than we are.
MADAME CATALANI.—Mr. Gardiner, of Leicester, in
his work, "Sights in Italy," just published, gives an
account of a visit paid by him to this celebrated lady a
few months ago, at Florence. "We called," he says,
" upon Madame Catalani, who leaves her palauo on the side
of the mountains in the winter months to reside with her
son Volabreque, in Thiene.. She presently made her ap-
pearance with that vivacity and captivating manner which so
much delighted us is England. She retains her English,
and was pleased to talk to me in my own language. 1 ob-
served, that it was forty years since I first heard her at the
opera in London. She instantly replied ' thirty-nine. I
was in Portugal in 1807; and, though the war was
raging, I ventured to make my way to England
through France. When at Paris I was denied a
passport. However, I got introduced to Talleprand, and
by the aid of a handful of gold I was put into a government
boat, and ordered to lie down to avoid being shot, and, won-
derful to relate, I got over in safety, with my little boy,
seven months old.' I was surprised at the vigour of Ma-
dame Catalani, and how little she was altered since I saw
her at Derby in 1828. I paid her a compliment upon her
good looks. ' Ala !' said she, ' I'm grown old and ugly.'
I would not allow it. ' Why, man,' she said, ' I'm sixty-
six!' She has lost none ef that commanding exprenien
which gave her such dignity on the stage. She is without a
wrinkle, and appears to be no more than forty. Her breadth
of chest is still remarkable ; it was this which endowed her
with the finest voice that ever sang. Her speaking voice and
dramatic air are still charming, and not in the least im-
paired."

CLERICAL
Psgsehra C. H. Dale to St. Matthew, Ips-
wich,/L, do. Norw. •, 3301., with residence ; pat. Died Chancellor.
VACLIMT.—St. Thomas V., Ashton-inalackerfield, Lano,,
pat. Rector of Ashton ; recent by the death of the Rev. P. Mein.
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