The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-23 00:00:00

balance of 1,9831. in band. There was a further sum of
1,2991. due from the Blackwell Company, but 2,0001. had
beta borrowed on the security of the boats. A dividend of
5 per cent. was declared.

.iflustt.
MUSICAL PERFORMANCES AT CASIIIOBURT PARR.—
The growing taste in the fashionable world for the classical
works of the greatest composers was apparent in the concerts
given by the Queen Dowager on Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, during the visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert.
The selection, on both evenings, was entirely from the in-
strumental works of Beethoven, Haydn, and Mendelasohn.
Oa the first evening, the concert consisted of one of Bee-
thoven's quartets, performed by Sainton, Blagrove, Hill, and
Lucas ; and the same composer's celebrated septet, for violin,
viola, violoncello, conuabasso, oboe, bassoon, and horn, per-
formed by Illagrove, Hill, Lucas, Howell, Keating, Boon,
and Harper. These pieces gave so much pleasure to the
illustrious auditors, that the same performers were com-
manded to attend on the following evening, when two of the
greatest instrumental works of Mlndelsiohn were performed,
an consequence of the espresS desire of Prince Albert. These
were, one of his quartets, and his Nato for four violins,
two violas, violoncello, and contnihasso; and the concert
concluded with the slow movement of Haydn's quartet which
contains the beautiful variations on the Austrian hymn,
" Cod Save the Emperor." A concert like this, composed
entirely of music of the highest order, which demands for its
appreciation and enjoyment a refined and cultivated taste,
and wholly unmingled with the vocal frivolities of the day,
.sa novelty in the realms of fashion which we are glad to
near of, and hope to hear of mere frequently.
lebt Drama-

LYCEUNL—After the performance of that very
amusing piece, " To Parents and Guardians," there was
produced at this theatre last niglit a farce entitled Mrs.
Harris." The bills announced this to be the first appearance
of the old lady with whom we are all so familiar, notwith-
standing that her esistencehas teen so pertinaciously denied.
The evidence offeted at this theatre by no means shakes our
reliance on the soundness of the popular belief. We were
introduced toour old acquaintance S trey Gimp, as glutton-
ous, drouthy, snuffy, and brutal as e7er, but in no way so
pleasant or so original ; to Sairey Gamp, after Mr. Dickens
had long turned her oat of d ors; and she had been consort-
ing with Messrs. Peacock-plume, Grubling, Bluefire, Alum-
paste, Porte St. Martin, and other the gentry of whose recent
gathering our friend I'unch gives an account. In fact,
the writer has not an imagination vigorous enough
for a new conception, trx sufficiently active for
connecting an old one with novel scenes and fresh person-
a3es. Mrs. Harris is a nurse in attendance on a young man
who feigns catalepsy that he may not be sent into the
country by an uncle, who was about to take him into
partnership, but that a false friend, with a view to obtaining
the partnership for himself, has given information of his fol-
lies and dissipation. The reluctance to go into the country
is founded, according to the strict rules of dramatic causa-
tion, in love for a young lady who resides in town. In this
object, too, the same false friend iv a rival. The success of a
plot for enabling the young lady to watch at the bedside of
the lover, whom she supposes sick, by sending Mrs. Harris
to sup with Sairey Gamp, and taking her place, is so far de-
feated, that the lover also is sent out of the way, and his
place occupied by the treacherous friend. The tables, how-
ever, are soon turned; the traitor is first punished, by being
pitilessly electrified, and then unmasked ; and the lovers
are made happy at the moment in which Mrs. Harris returns
in a state of declamatory intoxication to resume the duties of
nurse.
Recollections of the Sairey Gamp, Ind of that:whimsical
Eidolon, Mrs. Harris, had predisposed the audience to receive
this farce with favour, and to laugh heartily whenever the
opportunity was afforded them. There was, however, little
cause for merriment actually presented to them. The appli-
cation of the electrical apparatus Sold well, though it was
not a feature altogether new. .1` sketch of a medical practi-
tioner, who talks in polysyllables, and gets out of diffi-
culties by exclaiming " It's devilish cold!" was rather
happy, and so embodied by Meadows as to be highly relished
by the house. The part of Mrs. Harris was played by Mr.
Keeley, and thereby somewhat relieved of its intrinsic dul-
ness; indeed, the drollery with which he distributed his
cards at the conclusion of the piece contributed greatly
towards rescuing it from any unequivocal marks of tandem-
natien, and preventing any opposition to the applause which
the friends of the author or the house thought proper to
bestow on it.

litutlitts tt anD 'Woo.
OXFORD, Ocr. 22.—A congregation was holden this morning,
when the following degrees were conforred, viz. :--Mrictsr 11 Arts—
Rev. W. G. Gibsni, Worcester Coll.; J. lUgand. dewy of Magdake
Coll, ; Rev. G. Jenkins, Lincoln R Gandell, Michel Fellow of
Queen's Coll. ;J. C. W. Edwards, Brasennee Coll. Borlsoior of
,4rls-0. M. Ridley, Christ Church, Grand Compounder; .1. R.
Rogers, Magdalen-hall ;T. B. Macnatuara, Magtialen.hall ;S. If. N.
Griffith, Exeter Cull.
The Regius Professor of Modern history (Antony Cramer, D.D.,
Principal of New Inn Hall) will deliver, during the present term, •
course of lecture" on the Principal Treaties of Peace and Alliance
ratified by European Powers from the Reformation to the French
Revolution.
She Clinical Professor of Medicine (James Ailey Ogle, M.D., Trinity
Coll.) proposes to commence his next course at the Radcliffe In-
firmary, on Tuesday, November the 3rd.
The Lord Bishop of Oxford will hold a General Ordination on
Sunday, the 20th December next.

Pagruairewra—The /try. C. F. R. Bayley, M.A., to the Rectory of
Rirkby.on.Bain, liorneastle—patron, the Lord Chancellor : Rev. J.
W. Ilarriron, incumbent of Mickley, to be Minister of the New
Church of St. James, Grewelthorpe, in the diocese of Ripon; the Rev.
W. Wilkinson, B.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of Trinity Church,
Hinckley, Leicestershire; the Rev. T. James, 8.A., to the incum-
bency of Netherthong, Yorkshire the Rev. William Diadem, late
• Curate of Perranzabuloe, to the vicarage of St. Stilthians, Cornwall;
the Rev. J. Crewkerne, MA., to the Vicarage of Leominster; the Rev.
William Selwyn, ALA., of St. John', College, Cambridge, to the
Vicarage of Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, on the nomination of the
Dean and Chapter of Fly; Rev. If. Downing, M Kingswinford R.,
Staffordshire, 9001.; Rev. T. Milner, to be Mayor of Appleby ; Rev. J.
Richards, to be one of the chaplains of Trinity College, Qimbridge ;
Rev..l. W. Sanders, to Thwaitee P.C., Million, Cumberland, 991., with
residence.
Vacmer.-11rockley R., Suffolk, die. Ely ; 3301. Patrons, the repre-
sentatives of the Rev. J. D. Sprigge, by whose death the benefice is
now vacant.
We understand that I.ord Ward has presented the Rev. It. Down-
ing to the Rectory of King Swinford, Staffordshire, value 9001., vacant
by the death of the Rev. Dr. Penfold.
CoxsuctiArms. —A new church in the hamlet of Seer Green, in
the parish of Farnham Royal, Buekii, was consecrated yesterday by
the Lord Bishop of Oxford, in the presence of a numerous airem.
binge, including the vice-provost and several of the fellows and clergy
of Eton, and also a great number of the clergy from the neighbour.
hoods of Beaconsfield, DedgerlY, Burnham, and Fulmer, and their