The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-08 00:00:00

THE GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

GLOITOZSI'EIt, Tatra=Ay.

The attendance up to the present time has even
exceeded the expectations of the suet quoins, althea&
the donations to the charity have hardly been op to the
mark, look* to the ewer in attendance. Gloucester,
however, has geoerally bees lees liberal is its gilts to the
charity, s kind of commercial spirit appearing to premdl
amoegat the local petroos vain them la their peccsier,

ezpi;diture to aspect a quid pro quo.
The attendance at the concert last night was ono of the
largest ever collated at a festival concert at Gloucester.
The tickets were all sold some time before the smart
canineoced. and numerous late appease had to be tuned
away disappoiated. The peat caret of the series is
pearally that held to -eight, vis., the lest of the sisombi
prerfortuancos, bat the attraction of the Seasons and tie
Wolper's., liigitt appears to have had a great deal to do with
lest night's overdowtog =diens It is a= of tea that so
much Paella is intend at ewes festival ceooseta as was
comprised to last eight's programme. The erattert Ina =e-
duced by Dr. Wesley.
Early risers this morning found a fog envelopieg
_the city
and obscuring the beautiful cathedral tower, bat Ware the
general body of visitors were up end sliming the fog had
cleared off, sad the sun abate cut again bright hot.
Carriages began to nil into the city hlO o'clock, sad the
railway brought lap additions to the permanent pepti-
latioo. The astracitos this morning was Mendelmiolta's
oratorio of Elijah.
Yr. !Motley takes the whole of the Prophet solos, Mr.
Damming' sad Herr Guns dividing the toter hetwase the.
sad Miss Wilkinson the contralto abs, via Madame Beia•
tou•Dolby. Mille. Tide= and Madame Ruderederff took
the wpm= solos, the principal soap ol course felling to
the sham of the fair Amines.
It may be lately said that sever were so many people
aseemblied st oat time wither the sand walls of the oaths-
drat. The prisoipal seats is the nave were all occupied ;
the aides were crowded, may hundreds being out of sight
of the orchestra ; lad not only was this the came, bat the
man loft had its occupants, pad the choir. which is shut
off from the nave by a scram, wee damn ; sad ena
the tranesp4 were sozapied. Thin remerkable malt, from
whatever cause aristag—sad everybody has his own method
of accounting for it—may fairly be accepted by Dr. Watley
and the alma& as a practical ratification of their seta. At
all snots it is very gratifying, and it is hoped that the
charity will derive a carrapoedlag benefit from it.
As to the execution of the oratorios which brought so
many people together, it was certainly inferior to many
preceding performances. But there was one good (satire in
it—tbere were ao typists. It has beee too rites
the practice for the president (the bishop of the
diooese) to call for the repeal= of such gems u the quartet
" Cast thy lardem," by which the cootianity of the per-
formance was broken • but whether it was owing to the
absence of the above dignitary, to the &anew d the we-
&Wm, or to the feet that the quartet was executed in a
very inferior style, there was so repeat this morning.
The collection for the charity to-day is said to have been
a very good one, but the amount bad not bete cornea,
seeertaised when this parcel was despatched.]

ROYAL NATIONAL LITINDAT brerriVrlON.—Yes-
%today • meeting of this institution wee held at its bowie,
Johs.sknot, Adel*, Captain Sir Edward Parrott, Bert.
V.P., is the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting
her* beau read, s reward of W. 10s. wee voted to the
crew of the Lowestoft lifeboat is ccenexion with the is-
, stitutace, fee putting off is reply to signals of dnaremt sod
assisting, is eonjusesios with • steam tug, to save from
destruction the brigestiee Light of the Harem and her erew
of four men. The vessel had struck on Onion Spit daring
a atroag gale of wind end thick weather es the 15th ult.
A reward of 41. 10s. was also granted to the crew of the
lifeboat of the iestitutioe st Rollers, Coast, Wexford,
foe going off and remaining alongside the barque Prowl-
decor, of Losdoc, which wee drowsed iv a very
position near the north end of the Etsckwater Beltsir.rCirg
• strew S.E. wind cre the 24th ult. It was reported Shea
some of the earlier bootee the iestitstios were, from, va-
rious canoes, requiring to be replaced. Is es large • fleet
as 150 lifeboats such must useemerily be *Rested. Reports
were read from the inspector and the sisesimat isrepostog
of lifeboat* on their react visit to various; Motions of the
isotitetion on the meets of Kent, Bose; and floodaud.
It wee decided to oleos • New lifeboat st Boa/ see, sod to
appropriate thereto the eostribtstiroe, eisonntleg to 3001..
gives by • benevolent down seder the sews of " liffsernis,"
sans( the beet, at hie request the Saint Petri*. The
Sem Neel Company had ordered from 1 esers.tiorrestl and
Boa, the leaden of the institution, • lifeboat as its plan,
to be stegkosed et Poet Said. it wee reported tbeg the
Dues and Cornwall Lifeboat Bazaar, bald it Itsigimouth
last month, hid realised to the institution upwards of IEOI.,
sod that to lb. G. P. Rowell, of that Sewn, woe chiefly
due the await of earrying it out to so sesesedel • tai d 7
Pelmets, amounting to wetly 1,0001, were
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dend to be made on vedette lifeboat estalgielonests. end
the proceedings terminated.
An IneozeinA Draws.—War like the Laetalevel
Herald." stlearibes. There is gemethlog in straggly-001W
Neural adopts that Amine resonsment. "Br,'
old physician to • shallow yoath, who lied be"en
him with s Wog of foolish inceleiteneee. 1 wises
earn week yew for I see you_ have es toesrehle dimes,"
A* inemeWililessest dead heemene, dealer, what is it r
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