The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-08 00:00:00

THE 110i1AN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF ARDAGH

UN THE Et:a:RIFT FROM ROME.

B. LLYNIANON, JAN. 29, 1848.—111 y dear Lord,—l have the
honour to acknowledge the receipt of your grace's note of the 27th
inst., together with a copy el • letter from his Eminence Cardinal
Fremont, dated the 3rd of this month. On the subject referred to in
that letter your grace desires to bare a line from me, and, In mm.
=se with your request, I beg to say th it I believe poor grace is now
to make known to the Propagurion rile that a moat wicked and
diabolical compiracy is being carried on by almost all the English
and Irish press against the catholic hierarchy, the catholic
priests, and the catholic people of Ireland ; that Lord
hf ioto was sent to Home to deceive the holy ace, and that the
means he and his friends use are °morn.s calumnien against
us all. I think also the cardinal should be informed that, under
the name of legal right, the body of the landlords of Ire-
land are literally naming the poor, and doing so without a single re-
unniktrame from the lord-laeutemmt, or his employer, Lord John
Nowell; and that neither ever published a single word in vindication
of the Archbishop of Team, the Bishop of Uphill, and other I rOb
emeniamies, notwithstanding that they demonntrated the :Magee
made anoint them and their pastors to be the premeditated slandern
of their enemies. Of aurae you will further Mate that whilst the
whole of the English and Irish government press publish witty
every sort of nation Ithela on otarbelvell and our clergy, they
mete pubb.h our defence. I think, too, the Propaganda ought
to be aulicited U send over to Ireland some intelligent, pious,
and independent Italian troclesiamie, with bib actions to go
front diocese to diocese visit our priests and our poor—
see matter. Iri% his own elm, and report to Rome without consult-
ing the helings a any party, religions or political I have myself
publicly suggested that hogland should nod bonost protestants
among us to ancertain the truth ; and if his be done, and that the
Propaganda send the ecclesiastic referred to, Home will be noon en-
lightened, the conspiracy blown up, the red fricrods of order, Justice
and mercy mule known to the world, and the intrigues of the un-
principled exhibited to the execration of every lover of truth. For nip
own part, 1 have for the loot two years constionly gone through the
mad unbend portions of this Moon., preaching patience and mar,.
lion to my persecuted and half-starved people, and my reward is to
be involved in common with toy brethren In the laliillloll,
calumnies§ that are heaped on our hauls. Our viceroy, too, has
oroclamed portions of the diocese as free from agrarian
outrage the street. of London, and yet he call. himself our friend
and protector: The people are dying everywhere from cold sal
hunger, and still he reline. to apply is their his our the laws, or the
other means at his disposal! Were Rome to know (and please God
she shall know) how we are persecuted, wire would look mu cue for-
bearanoe sr illibuOt miraculous. If • e write • line in an honest jour-
nal to repudiate calumny and bring public opinion to bear upon our
wrtleas rulers, we are at once wetted by the infidel mese as the
disturber* of that pesos which we stone are preserving. As to my
priests, they never directly or indirectly denounced any Waked or
other cities from their altars, nor have they up to this been accused ol
doing so. Their flocks are patient and resigned —with deal h staring them
in the lace; and neither they nor myself shall ever leek redeem except
by thine mace ful and constitutional mama to which every subject of
the empire boa ea inalienable sod undoubted right. Finally, I my,
let eaceuve means be taken to enlighten Maine on every detail of the
Infamous anti-national and anti-unwise conspiracy i and the me-
mica or our creed and of our race will be humbled, and some little
justice done to poor calumniated and persecuted Ireland. I have in-
structed lir. Cullen to furnish to the autburities in Rome an authen-
tic wily of my letter to Me. John OConnell.-1 have the honour
to be, my dear lord, your obedient servant, +W. O'lliconsa.—Moat
new. Ire. Crully.

SCOTLAND.

EDINBUROH, FEE. 5.

The Scottish Patriotic Society is fast accumulating
high patronage. Her Majesty and Prince Albert
have consented to be joint patrons of the society, and
have forwarded DAV. as a donation. The Duke of
Sutherland has accepted the office of president, a hile
Lord John Russell, Jheriff Alison, J. Matheson, Esq.,
M.P., have allowed themselves to be named vice
presidents. Meanwhile the society is prosecuting its
plans.
The Edinburgh Patriotic Society have resolved to
let out small gardens to the working classes in
suburban districts in the city at low rent&

ACCIDENT TO THE CUSTOM-HOUSE QUAY, GLABOOW.—In
consequence of the rapid thaw which set in on Tue.day
evening, and which has ever since continued, the ice which
had accumulated on the Clyde above Glasgow was suddenly
broken up, and came floating down with the stream in count
less fragments of various sizes, and some of them about a foot
thick. The massy arches of the Jamaica-street Bridge (the
great central crossing fur the city traffic) to a great extent
obstructed :he passage of these fragments downwards to the
sea, thus keeping the lower harbour comparatively clear,
whilst the ice was all the while accumulating in the ex-
tensive space occupied by the fine sheet of water which
extends Pram the brioge last mentioned up to the Stock-
well-street Bridge. The result was, that this large epee,
embracing a number of acres of superficial area, became,
in the course of Wednesday and Thursday, almost Wifely
tilled up with the ice. The pressure of the ice and the
water together was thrown upon the Custom-house quay
with so much force, that ►bout six o'clock on the evening o
Thursday fissures began to appear in the causeway a few
yards inwards from the breastwork; and iu the course of
the night nearly tee whol. front of the quay, from the li-h-
-market stairs at Jamaica-street-bridge (opposite the Custom
house) up to about the foot of Maxwell-street, being a strip
of between 200 and 300 yards in length, and three or four
yards in breadth, sunk downwards and became to • greater
er leas extent submerged, leaving a dreadful gap in the em-
bankment. The damage will require an expenditure of
several thousand pounds to repair it.
Moan Sairwamers.—There seems to be no end of Shet-
land shipwrecks. The Lerwick correspondent of the Joh*
o' Groot JOlOl6Ol, in a communication dated 19th 03., nar-
rates the loose( sin easels, most of the crews having perished.
Fiery THOUSAND POUNDS DST been left to the town of
Dundee. for educational purposes.

PROVINCIAL.
_DULOIAM.

THE FOCNDATIO.N STONE Or THE DOCKS AT SUN-
DERLAND was laid on Friday, by O. Hudson, Esq., M.P.
The event, so important in the commercial history of Bun.
derland, was celebrated with great rejoicings. fhe whole
of the shops were closed, and business suspended. The bells
of the parish churches rang during the morning. The
vessels in the harbour were decorated with tiar, and ban-
ners ware displayed at all the principal works and public
establi,timents in the town. The parties taking an
active part is the ceremonies of the occasion met at the
Exchange-buildings in the High-street, at half-past
twelve o'clock, and thence walked in procession to the
docks. On arriving at the site of the stone Mr. Murray, the
engineer of tke company, who is the projector of the under-
taking, delivered to Mr. Hudson the tools to be employed by
him on the occasion, and the articles to be placed in a cavity
which had been prepared in the stone.—Mr. Hudson, on re-
ceiving the bottle, which was hermetically sealed, plated it
in the cavity of the stone, the remaining space of which was
filled up with gotta perch; which was poured into it in a
semi-lioid state. It was than covered with • zinc plate,
bearing an appropriate inscription. Ti e stone, which had
been suspended by means of a crane during these proceed
lags, was then lowered into its intended site; and Mr.
Hudson delivered an " inaugural oration." The directors of
the company and a large party of individuals afterwards
dined together; and the proceedings of the day were closed
by a ball in the Atheneum, which was attended by upwards
of a thousand visitors.

WAR

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RtILWAY ACCIDENTS.---On Saturday a frightful
accident occurred at the Midland Railway station, Binning-
ham, by which one of the guards came by Lis death. It ap-
pears that the sufferer (named Jacksoe) was to have mom-
panied the four o'clock train to Derby, and had made the
necessary preparations for that purpose, but unfortunately
he delayed a short time in taking his place upon the train.
The usual signal Navin` been given the train moved, and
just as it was set in motion Jackson attempted to get on the
carriage step. His foot, however, unfortunately slipped, and
he fell under the wheels and was crushed. The train wee
stopped, and the guard taken up and conveyed to the Gene-
ral Hospital, whine it was smertained that both his lags
were all but severed from his body. He expired in shoat ea
hour after. He wee twenty-six years of age, and lived at
Derby.—Almost at the same hour another accident, which
had nearly been attended with similar fatal results, hap-
pened at tha Camp-hill station, belonging to the Hinaing
' and Wawa, Railway Calapaay. • am. aimed

Evans, was tussled with two other porter. moving souse
carriages, when e unfortunately got betw,ca the buffers,
and was dreadfully bruised. He was takrn to the huspital,
where he still lies.

M. BERLIOZ'S CONCEST.—Hector Berlioz, though.
hitherto known in this coutitronly by name, has for a good
many years been regarded in Femme this retire country) as
one of the master-spirits of the age. Like ail artiste of a
bold and original genius, who reject established gu,des and
model.. cut away conventional forme, and strike into new sad
untrodden paths, Berlios has had to encounter (especially is
the outset of his career) much opposition, though it wait
observed that his music, even in its novelty, never fa:led in its
effect upon great popular assemblages. In Hoglund, Bee-
,l line's mum cannot be raid till now ever to have come before
the public at all. The great sensation produced in Paris by
one of his early symphonies ieduced our Pei:harmonic Se-
Mel to give it a trial, when they took it upon
' themselves to pronounce it a failure—a judgment
the less entitled to weight when it was remembered that the
same body, but a few jeers before, were oniv prevented, by
the remonstrances of Salomon, from throwing aside
Beethoven's symphony in C minor before they had got
through the first movement. It was Mien Berlioz wag
struggling with professional and ciiticel hostility that a
! memorable tribute was paid to his merit by a man whom
judgment was decisive. When he preduced his " Harold"
Symphony, at a cmcert given by himself, Paganini wag
among the audience, and next morning Berlioz, to his sue-
, prii,e, received from the great violinist, to whom he wag
pereonal:y unknown, the following letter, which appeared is
the Feria journal of the day : My des friend, Beet-
hoven being dead, there remains only &zilch, who can re-
place him ; and I, who have heard with delight your divine
compositions, worthy of a gerius s •eh as yours, think it my
duty to beg you to accept, as a proof of my profou.
respect, twenty thousand francs, which will be handed to
)ou by Baron Rothschild on your presenting the inclosed.
Ever your friend, Niemen PAUANINI. I'aris, Dec. 18,
1838." Since that time Betties has produced a scone-
aims of cob-seal works the lyrical dramas of es Romeo
need Juliet," and " Faust;' the Solemn MAYS composed by
order of the French government for the obsequies of General
Damrc moot, who fell in the Alitericc war ; the triumphal
symphony, also composed by orde r of the government for
the inauguration of tae columa of the Bastile ; and several
overtures end other orchestral firma Tee public nthu-
[ sia.m excited by some of these productions, and the applause
I bestowed on all of them, have gradually silenced hostility in
France, witere musts and critics, almost without exception,
join the general voice of praise and admiration ; and, re-
ceutly, the suffrages of the composer's countrymen have bees
confirmed by the public of Vienna, Berlin, and most of this
principal cities of Germany, where his music has been per-
formed under hid own direction. Fee eel:wives, though we
had perused the scores of some of the alma c works, and have
perceived their vastness of design, variety of combinations,
and entire novelty of style and phraseology, yet these very
qualities have rendered us unable to form anytWee mom
than vague and faint conceptions of their eflicf. Musical
uotation is at beet an imperfect vehicle of ideas;
and the written language of music, when it is
of a new and original cast, can scarcely be
interpreted with .ut the immediate guidance of the Luther,
till the executants, by the performance of his previous
works, have gained some knowledge of the pecubar.ties of
his style. The concert of lest evening bee tended to remove
these obstacles to the comprehension of Berlioz s titanic, It
took place under his own direction; the orchestra, both to
magnituie am quality, wax equal to the expression of hie
grentlebt ideas, and c ten etness was insured by a ',oriel of
careful rehesrsal.. The iustrumentel orchestra and chorus
were comp. tad of two hundred and filly performers ; and
the solo parts were sung by Madame Dorus Gras, Miss
Minn, Mr. Reeves, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Grcgg. The con-
cert was in three parts. The first part consisted of the
" Overture to the Carnival of R-me :" u romance, "The
Young Sheph.rd," sung by Mien &limn ; and the sym-
phony entitled " Harold in Italy." The second part con-
sisted of the first and second acts of " Faust ;" and the third
part contained a c...vatina from the opera of " Beuvenuto
Cellini," sung by Madame Dorus Gras; a chorus of souls
in purgatory, taken from his " Requiem ;" anl the finale
of the triumphal symphony. composed ter the inauguration
of the column of the Bastfte. It quite imp:nib's
immediately after the first hearing of so large a
qu intity of amide, of so original a character, and
marked with so many peculiarities, either to forgo a
decided judgment of its character, or to attempt any
analysis or description of its style. The gem rat impression
left upon our mind is that of grandeur and power. mingled
with obscurity which we were invade to penetrate. But no
truly great musician was ever understood at once ; and, in
regard to such musicians as Bee thnven, fur .sample. the
most sagacious critics have found thenatelvew Redly committed
by opis ions hastily expressed. It cannot be doubted, how-
ev. r, that Berlioz is a most ISSISS6IIIII,in compete, r; that his
mind is richly stored with new and striking ideas ; that he is
a consummate master of all the resumes of his art, and has
carried its descriptive powers further, pp:l:stale, than they
np„arilni railer by
have ever been carried before ; and the; the elf. etc which he
protium
ploybinehnist ocorfcthheelsr ral cionmstbruinraartinmtss,,a ranged
ps-
retitled in grandeur and beauty. The music. in" Facet,"' stllnugh
frequently wild and fantastic in the extreme, is, on the
whole, wonderfully dramatic. Nothing e.:n be I • ore joyous
than the dance and chorus of peenr ts, or more spiriteetir-
ring than the " Hungarian March ;" and the chorus of aerial
spirits, inspiring the sleeping Feudal with dreams of his Moe-
garet, exhibits a Sbaksperian richness and delicacy of ima-
gination. The vocal solos were comparatively feeble ; they
struck us as defective in flowing and Thjthenical melody, and
the singers were unable to contend with the ineheetral ae-
eompaninients, which, though not over loud, were over-
powering, from their fulness and complication. We cannot
pass the " Faust," without notieit g the excellence of the
libretto, which gave ua a singular 'tont version of the
original retry. We sincerely hope M. Berlioz will be In-
' deiced to give another c exert; for his music, like eU music
of a really higt class, will gain infinitely by repetition,

gbt aramz.
LiCEUM.—" Astounding Phenomena" is the title
of a dramatic trifie prodneed hero last evening. Th..ugh
described in the bills so " a new and oririr.al nie,ineric
sketch," there is very little of novelty in a lan* bead as
this is entirely on the practical roguery of • cast off servant,
even when aided by the assumption of mesmeric powers end
clairvoyance, for it is scarcely a elf.t. The incident, though of
the slightest character, is etlieuvely hani.led, aud forms an
amasirtg vehicle for the peculiar talent of Mr. C. Mathews,
whose presence, after a comptiratively long absence,
was heartily welcomed by the auaianee. Dr. Spi.fily Cater,
formerly a servant to Captain Crash, while on his way to
deliver a lecture on Meimeri.ua at a country tows, finds him.
self davit ed at the refreshment ream of the railway nation
for the price of a dinner, had the day before: failing t. work
on the credulity of the waiter, he succeeds with Air. Swat-
fasciae, a magistrate and a believer in the so-called wienee,
whom for a bribe of ten poundshe manages to keep at the sta-
tion, while the Captain runs away with sued marries his
niece. Of course the whole burden of the piece is on the
shoulders of Charles Mathews, who pissed the pert of the
Professor, and he sustained it with his utusl ability. The
otht r characters were tilled by Messrs. Frank Matthews,
Meadows, Kerridge, and iise Herbert. The
piece was successful.