The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-26 00:00:00

Vat the medal Improvement of the working climes gas materially
retarded ty the sprit of luscontoa prevalent amongst them, which
resulted from a settled convietkm of boatioe dune b them ; and hi
order to counteract this and other 'vas, &ad to exhibit a ruler aTfm
pathy between the middle and lower dregs, on association !mould be
formed upon the basis of the first resolution, for promoting a thorough
reform In parliament, end the utmost peewit*, economy In the public
expenditure.
Mr. J. FLETCHER, bookseller, ernonded the retolutien,
which, after a good deal of opposition on the part of the
chartists, WAS carried.
given for the Queen and the people,
Cheers having been g
for Fearful O'Connor and the chartists, the mooting
separated.

IRELAND.
Dr PLIW, MAT 24.
The report of the arrest of Mr. I)uffy and hie col-
leagues has received no confirmation. All I could
learn was that no warrants have been issued, but the
authority en whom 1 relied yesterday, leaves no doubt
that foundation for the rumour exists. Perhaps the
issue of to-morrow may develop the warrants.
Mr. Holmes, as counsel for Mr. Mitchel, applied
to-day to the judges in commission, that the trial
should be postponed, on the ground of absence of a
material witness fur the defence. It having been
Mr. Mitchel's intention to move to quash the array,
in consequence of information that the panel was
partially constituted, it would be necesstry, in support
of the application, to examine, among other witnesses,
the brother of the Attorney-(leneral, whose evidence
was most important and indispensable. The court
ordered the motion to stand until to-morow, when the
Attorney-General would be present.
'rho Limerick Reporter, far away on the Shannon
banks, announces "on the authority of a conservative
gentlemie—conservative authority being
march much iu
repute at present—that ta),000 men are marching
over the Boyne to Dublin to insure a fair trial
to-morrow to Mr. Mitchel. We have heard nothing
of this .4nobos;s—of the 0,000, who are thinking of
something else than an invasion of the capital. F,lforts,
however, have been made to get up a demonstration,
as the following circular, emanating from Kildare,
will testify:
Anti" oelelile.—nnlt ye, line ye, NOW oa NVVI.II. Men o.f
I retnnd, the come of lcietel thriven. and of mar country Is to be tried
MW Fettled on Weilnernlay, 94th May, in the pernon of Jhn Mdchil.
March lo' therefore, to trubllo, you whose life or death hangs 011 his
trial. lour enemies are packing army to insiuminute him. March,
end ace that he gets a fair trial, or, if be to foully condemned, avonge
him, and mire yourselvea slow this to all your neighbours, and eve
it all publicity.
Mr. Stitchers friends are busy to-day in providing
materials of defence fur to-morrow. Newspaper tiles
arc in active requisition ; and among the documents
which will enter into Mr. }felines 's defence, and of
which he will make use, run unsure, is the C taneellor's
letter restoi ing the late Mr. O'Connell to the magis-
tracy after his release front prison. Mr. Holmes re-
ceives fifty guineas for his advocacy.

SCOTLAND.
Tar Citenct4 AS*Valiii.ll:.. MAY 21.—Last night the
General Assembly &Toad the Rev. A. M:lntyre, minister
01 Kinloch Rannoch, for drunkenne n: the o:her case
of of an alleged carnpulsory resignation) was referred to the
I.resbytery of the bounds. In the Free Church Assembly
the report of the sustentatnm find was given in. The
amount collected to May, ISIS, was 55,97 it. ; to Mat, ;
1847, 83,1171. Each minister is to receive a dividend of 1281.
for theyear. As 31 churches give lea than 154., 158 less than
501., and 4.10 less than 1001 , the burden of the tund must fall on
• few wealthy churches. To-day, the forenoon diet of the
General Assembly was occupied with the reading and
consideration of the report of the committee on colonial
missions. In the Free Church Assembly the report of
the committee on public accounts wu presented from which
it appeared that the total amount raised by toe body for the
past year amounts to 276,4981., of which, for sustentation
fund for the clergy, 89,051/. ; for building churches, 31,3021.;
for congregational purposes, 71,686/. ; for missions and edu-
cation, 53,5681. ; miscellaneous, 27,7371. A aIOCUIAIOII of
some length anal animation followed, uto whether there
should be ono grand central college far theological cducarion
in Edinburgh, or whether th. re should be two institutims,
one in Edinburgh and another in Aberdeen. This question
has for some time been agitated in the interior courts, and
was looked forward to as the principal topic to brought
before the assembly. The debate was adjourned till ant
evening. The established estimably has coo its moat im
portent case coming on this evening, that of Mr. Conan, the
government presentee to Oirven, who is objec dtthe ed to by
turning
the
congredation as au unedifying preacher, an
point is, whether the essibl.shinent will give effect to toe
nun-intension principle involved in the objection.

fillitsk.
HER MAJEsTY's TitEATßE.—Nlademoiselle Lind's
performance last evening in" Lucia di
ha Lammermoorhas
made
" was
the grandest dieplay of dramatic power that she yet
in this country, the greatest triumph she has yet achieved,
When we say dramatic power we do not mean that her vocal
power was not proportionally great; but Jenny Lind, above
all moeimil a.m..v we have ever seen, makes us most com-
pletely forget that she is • singer, even when she is singing
most exquisitt ly. With her, above all othere, mivic is
itlan-
guage ; and while carried away by the emotions she exces,
es than we think
we think no more of her vocal passag
of the accents and inflexions of the grunt actress who melts
us with the sorrows of Iterclemona or Juliet. When Jenny
Lind brings to our mind the idea of other performers it is
'Adorn to other vocalists that we think of comparing her,
but to the great female tragediaos or comedians of our own
stage. The theatre was crowded to excess, the utmost ex-
pectation having been excited by her announcement in a
character so entirely suited to her powers. When the cur-
tain rose some persorm in the gallery attempted to
interrupt the performance by vociferous Is for
Reeves ; and a still more violent attempt was
male when fiartloni came upon the stage in the
character of Edgartio. Ti,ey succeeded in stepping for a
few minutes the progress of the fine scene
between the
I lovers, and threw poor (Jarduni into a state of great distress
and agitation ; but the disturbance was ..peedily put down,
and the performance prime sled to the end with great end un-
interrupted applause. Jenny Lind's representation was new
and original in all its features. She bad read the part M the
pages of Walter Scott, nut of the Italian libretto ;
she was
his Lucy Ashton, the Scottish maiden, not the convention
he
al
Luria of the opera step ; _ and so deeply was s
hebued with the a: kit of the character, that its
traits, often exquisitely fine and delicate, were appa-
e
'
rent in her every look, tone, and gesture. In th
scene in which Lucy is convinced, by the tabricated letter,
1 of her lover's infidelity, her heartbroiten cry, " Ah use in-
-1 &lice!" seemed to thrill the audience ; and the convulsive
1 eagerness with which she opened and read the letter a secon
el
d
time, as if she could not opened
her calamity, was one
those touches of nature which mark the highest genius.
1 The scene of the marriage contract was full of indescribable
i beauties ; but the crowning effort was the final scene of
I Luty's distraction and death. Compared to Mdlle. Lind's
acting in this scene, that of every other
e. performrer
nce
we
have seen was a pa and feeble ouiSi
Mrs. Siddone's picture of the distraction of lielridern
(a picture never to be forgotten by those who saw it) nothing
on the tragic stage has keen soli:ruble and so mournful as
Jenny Lied's representation of the madness of Lucy Ashton.
We repe it that we cinnot make particular remarks on her
musical performance in this part ; in power and beauty of
voice, brilliancy, artistic hoist), and impassioned expression,
it was perfection itself. We n ed scarcely add that the en-
thusiasm of the audience went on increasing during the
opera, and at its termination sought vent in rapturous
shouts and acclamations. Gardor.i's Edgard° was an
excellent and highly successful performance. lie
acted the character with great intelligence and feeling; and
his physical strength was equal to the exigencies of the part,
even in the most trying passages. The malediction was
given with great energy; and, in the death-scene, lie sang
with great beauty and pathos. lie was called for at the
close of the piece, and received with thunders of applause.
The part of Ashton was excellently supported by Coletti, and
Bouche did full justice to that of the aged priest. In its en-
semble the opera was carefully and well got up.

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111121.-TT'S TIM/TIM—TO Tll, 1:1,1T1.11 go? Tot, 1/11LT
muIe'NYWY.—F
Mr. Italfe's " repty- to toy " statematit. Is singular, in Whig it•
14,12,511.11C0 before any " Moment" of ohm 1.1 been puldislaal i•eo
notkv to corrom.ondents In tilt Am) a Moroimi .at 4111 not ea•Py
Is; erudite.% by the pubitc that
thehd con•eut b. sing at Iler Maje•ty
or any other theatre without fulle..4 a...isranco that the put of
E9artlo, Lo 2, certain exten Identified nap any dmmattes,:pot.ti„,, I
any I...sse-i, both at home an.l iii Italy, •Imuld not lie taken fLtllll 1110,
5,111 0,0,2,04 to one who. though 1.0 Isl2q Ire, IN doubt, justly styled,
that gnat pohli:: fav0ur1t04„,,'..ih,,...; never
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itthe r jti,..atig.,l,w6.
11-',,rhrNrittitet niill:c tor.l''',.,%ln wha..ll,chr' In
iaide.ilt amtnim the aspect
1.1 a (ordain mild aantlmt an Etutlish artist shall or shall not hoe sum..
ful. lam unwilling to credit the general retorts that lertlonsY. In a di-
rection wham It could toast he einectel, We succeeded to enectlng
this most untooked tor catastrophe. It would certainly appwr
bard that an artiat should oo driven from tho public
serdce, not bemuse ho
than been unsuceswful, but because he has the
good toy to Itkiiet übic " too well," In thneluslun, I hare to
reiterate toy statement that the clear unilesitanillug at the period of my
engagement saykliat I should perform In the eharneter of 1,1;mM,,
I never should Mc .urn nt all ends, any minor understanding, and that
I can only attribute We management's appareot change of purpose to the
publk's grist klndnire on Saturday gsenlng, mud Wu small envies sod
palms'o this may hare exelteal. NMI. the renewal of awntrancm of my
deep rsagret that any :deo u my part should for an instant anima
Jourto the eights of files ulomiberti or the puldlc,—l reloalti, sir,
our tory obedient, servant, J. Simi lIST.TIL+, 14.0.1,13rtat Itiotindbitrout,
)Sigurd squale.—May 2;.1844.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
LINO:Milli( Rcetoou.—The following is a copy of the
memorial to the Premier or the subject of university reform. It has
already received 289 signatures •
To use Went for. Lone Joint R)11.3.1., MX., lint Lord of the
Treasury, Ste. &c.—The memorial of the undenagsed graduates and
former members of the Universitiee of Oxford and Cambridge with
some of the Yellows of the Rapti Society sheweth, that the present
system of the ancient Englieh univeratim has net advanced, and is
not maculated to &dream the interest* of religioue and useful learn-
ing to an extent
bodies.cmensurate with the gre:it resources and high
position of those eli That the eenetitution of the Universities of
Oxford and Cambridge and of the colleges (new inwparably con-
nected with their academies' system) Is euch 30 ie n great immure to
preclude them from introducing tome changes which are neeessiu7
for increasing their usefulness and efficacy. That under these dr-
eummancev, believing that the aid of the crown is the ally available
remedy for the above-mentioned defects, your memortalbte pray that
your lordship will advise bee !Nod}, to issue her royal commiesion of
inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the
Ilnlyordites of Oxford and Cambridge.
OXFORD MAT 25.—1 C a oongregation holden this morn-
ing the lottairtng degrees were sonferred, via—Wake of Dielnity :