The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-24 00:00:00

"avant ZuricalUltn, AND 'annulus orrnE woaas DrlitNo
rein rain 1850.
" In our report foe the year 1849, we stated that up to
the 31st December of that year the total sum applied for
amounted to 3,401,7701., while the gross amount of loans
vented, deducting those relinquished, was 1,617,5291 i
leaving a balance on hand up to that date, exclusive of
67,7301. allocated, of 124,7411. out of the sum of 1,800,0001.
previously voted by parliounent.
"During the last se mica of parliinnellt the Land Improve-
ment Fund having been further incressed by an additionsl
vote of 200,000/. (Act 13 and 14 Viet., cap. 31, sec. 1), agreat
number of applications which had been postponed, or of
which only a portion of the sum applied for had been sane-
limed, were entertained, and loans perfected to the amounts
requisite to complete the works preciously approved of by
us. In cossequence • number of new loans have been
made donut the period which has intervened between the
31st Ilea tuber, 1849, and 31st December, 1850, to which our
present statement refer'.
Up to the 31st December, IMO, the total sum applied
for amounted to 3,835,7341., and the amount of loans sane-
tioned, deducting those relinquished, amounted at that
time to 1,777,9i1,., leering an apparent balance on hand of
222,0161. out of the 2,0u0,0001. allocated by parliament;
but at that period investigations bad been completed, and
allocations made relative to new loans not then recom-
mended for tour lonbillips' 'auction, hut which either have
been or will be immediately submitted for your lordships'
approval, amounting to 91,2661., leasing only an unappro-
priated balance of 130,760 i.
"The grin, amount of instalments on loans which have
been Maned from the COMM OCCIIICUI up to the 31st Decem-
ber, 1/4,50, is 1,1112,0171, of which 250,6091. has been issued
between 314 Deeember, 1819, aod the 31st December,
1100.
According to the several reports if our inspector, it
appears that the sum of 719,452/. has been expended in
thumugh draining, subsoiling, making farm roads, up
to the 31st December, 1810, and the sum of 323,1641., being
the amount of the instalments which have becu last issued
to the several proprietors, may be said to be in progress of
expenditure.
" In mar last report we expressed our regret that a few
proprietors who had obtained loans, either in the autumn
of 1%17 or early its Ibla, and to whom an instalment had
bran issued, bad not then expended the money we have
now the pleasure to seem, that in COIIII.4ITICIICC of the press-
ing expostulations which have been made to such default-
ing proprietors, the greater number commenced operations,
and having exploded the money advanced in a satisfactory
manner, heave Mace received additional instalments. On the
whole, then, when we consider the pecuniary difficulties
which press- upon a large portion of the landed proprietors
of Ireland, and that 2,2'41 distinct loans have been made, on
which 1,012,0171. has been issue 1, we ore happy to say that
the amount of instalmeut& which have not yet been brought
to account is insignificant, when compared with the total
amount which has been Mimed.
" The number of acres that have bean thorough drained
under the Land Improvement Acts, from the commence-
ment up to the date of this report, amounts to 107,660,
Riving an sot rage cost of 41. 10, per acre, of which 30,000
erres hare loan drained during the year 18.50, and a con-
siderable portion of the land drained has been subsequently
subsoiled."

DRAMA.
ADELPIII
Mr. Sithbcc, an .tincrican actor, made his ePbut
last night at this theatre, in a piece called " The Forest
)laic and the Yankee l'loughbey," a production, like the
perforoser, of American growth, and made to
show off his peculiar vein of humour u • comedian. The
plot is of the slightest kind. The acene is laid in an Ame-
rican farm ; the characters are its rural inhabitants,
with the addition of • couple of town gentlemen,
the ono au ordinary stage lover, and the other
• New York dandy, who sports monstachios, and
gives Wrest if the usual aim of a theatrical coxcomb.
A young linty hues accidentally a locket given to her by her
lover, and it falls into the hands of his friend the coxcomb.
This produces a little confusion and distress between the
haven, which, of course, is speedily dissipated by the disco-
very,. of the truth. The only other thing that can be called
an aucbleut is the punishment of the fop, who, thinking
that he has carried off a young lady whom he attempts to
seduce, finds to his nsortitication that he has lieen tricked
into the abduction of a negro girl. The greatest pert of
the piece consists of farcical scene., the whole soot
of which lies in the Yankee hunt of Mr.
Silsbev. Ile personates a rustic—a strange eesagnad
of etoli.lity and shrewdness, the coolest impudence and the
meet inaiierturbable raft-possession ; who n constantly on
the magi:, and thrusts himself into everything that is going
on. Seine idea of the character and its performance ma
be' got by incensing one of Power's Irishmen, with hiarich
brogue awl Marini turned int., Yankee clang every
_whit
as racy. We cannot judge of tile fidelity of Mr. Sdabee's
imitation of the manners he depicts, except by its internal
evidence of truthfulness, which is uninistakeabk. Ile is a
tall, trout, per enable man, with good features, and a
merry twinkle in his eye; and there is something unite&
Justly genial in the heartiness with which be
wems to revel in the fun of his own erealig.
lie sometimes pays little tegard to the part he is mein,
but addresses himself directly to the audience . • as mikes
he gave them a description, a quarter of an hour 1u& of •
Yankee courtship, every sentence of which threw the bens
into tours of laughter. The audience, indeed, wne fa •
constant state of hilarity during the whole perfonisima
and at its conclusion he was loudly called fur, ea& mobs hie
presence amid peals of applause. When it malefiei be
said a few words, expressing, with modesty and good teen,
his gratitude fur the kindness of his reception.
The piece was extremely well acted; Miss Wellikaf.
Miss Ellen Chaplin, Miss Young, Mr. Caulfield, and Mr.
Worrell, Acing (besides Mr. Silsbee) the principal per-
formers. But it is too long • its alight incidents being spun
out by a great deal of " bald, disjointed chat " which might
well lie abridged. Indeed all the parts, excepting only that
of Mr. Silsbee himself, would be much improved by con-
densetion.