The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-05 00:00:00

TSB PRINCSI6B OF WALES.

A supplement to the London Gazette waszt
fished on Saturday, giving the following o
notification of the safe delivery of her Royal High-
ness the Primes* of Wales of a son, on Saturday

morning :
ILaRLBOB.OUGEI HOUSE. J oin 3, 1863.
This morning, at 18 minutes past one o'clock,
her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales was
haffi Royal
delaviered
Highness the
aPcePrinoe of Wales, the
Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household,
and the Lady of her Royal Highness's Bedchamber,
were in attendance. The Secretary of State for the
Home Department arrived at Marlborough-house
immediately after.
Her Royal Higbneas and the infant Prince, God
be praised, are doing perfectly well.
his happy event was made known by the firing
of the and Tower guns.
The latest bulletin is as follows :
MARLHOROUGH.HOUSB, Jun 4, 9.90 A.ll.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has
another good night, and is progressing
roeudrably.
The infant Prince is well.
Annum Pena; M.D.
E. H. SINVILINO Pit D.
. G. T. Galax, M.D.

The acconehement, it is understood, was not an-
ticipated till the end of the present month, and
although the event, at in the case of Prince Albert
Victor, occurred somewhat prematurely, the health
of the young prince is as satisfactory as could be
desired. On Friday afternoon the Princess of
Wales was sufficiently well to attend a co ce
ut
nrt
at St. James's-hall given by M. Halls, b
on returning to Marlborough House her royal
highness did not join the dinner party
given by the Prince and Princess to a dis-
tinguished circle. Later in the evening thea
medif
-
cal attendants were summoned, and after brie
period her royal highness became the mother of a
second prince. Early in the morning telegrams
were sent to Balmoral apprising the Queen and
royal family of the happy event, and information
was also transmitted ty similar means to the Danish
Court as Copenhagen. Congratulatory replies
were received soon afterwards.
In the course of Saturday a great number of
ladies and gentlemen of high rank called at Marl-
borough Rouse to inquire after the health of the
Princess of Wales and the prince, and the visitors'
book received a large accession of names. Through-
out London the intelligence was received with de-
monstrations of pleasure.

Tar theatrical monopolists have made soother
attempt to uphold the dignity of the drama in
their own peculiar way, by dragging Mr. STRANG'
once more before Mr. Tvalturrr for performing
spectacular ballets at the Alhambra. If such pro-
ceedings did not help to advertise an entertainment
which we believe is now one of the most successful
in London, they might be regarded in the light of
persecutions. By flattering the natural vanity of
the police-magistrate, and telling him that he knows
more of • subject which he was never called upon
to investigate before, and probably will never be
called upon to investigate nein, than the whole
Bench of Quarter Sessions Justices with the
Assistant-Judge at their head, the prosecutors--
--Mews. LIORACR WIGAN and Co.—have
given him something more than a mere
judicial interest in the question at lune. By
taking the case again before him on Friday last,
after his decision of January the 10th was reversed
on the Bth of May on appeal to the Middlesex
Justices, they have made him • partisan, though
they have got nothing from him but the bare liberty
to go to a superior court, if they think proper to
incur the expense and trouble.
The form in which Mr. STRANGE was summoned
on Friday lest is worthy of observation. His house
was described as " • place of public resort, kept for
" the performance of stage plays without a license
" from the LORD Ca AmsaßLas." If his Lordship, or
his deputy, the Hon. SPZICCRI. PONSONBT, bad
been put in the witness-box instead of that anti-
quated functionary, the Licenser of Plays, Mr.
POLAND, the barrister who conducted the defence,
might have elicited some important facts in refer-
ence to this license. From a correspondence
lying before us, we find that Mr. STRANGE applied
to the Loan Cassissexais for s dramatic license
on the 25th of February, 1865 ; that he was ad-
vised by the Hon. Srxxcxii PONEONBY on the 28th
of February to withdraw this application ; that he
declined to withdraw it on the 2nd of
March ; and that a license was refused him,
without any reason being assigned (the
usual practice of the LORD CEA/di:sant/ma's office),
on the 4th of March. We know from other sources
that this is not the first time such a license has
been refused to this building by the Loan Ciasit-
BERLAIN, and we also know that the St. James's
Hall—a building devoted to entertainments of
a totally different character—has twice been
repulsed on its managers making similar ap-
plications. The practice of the LORD Cilamens-
LAIN'S office has been to limit the number of
West-end theatres, and no new one has been
built in London for more than a quarter
of a century. Such a system has played
into the hands of a few landlords, like Mr. ARNOLD
and others—men who have done nothing for the
drama, but for whom the drama has done every-
thing. The fact that many theatres are only half His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge
filled on the nights of performance has been brimmed the Marquis owl mushrooms
in of Donegal wit
ollow.h
brought forward as • proof that the market Lai Mt rontpany at disuse on Saturday eveng. rile f
amply supplied with houses, bnt not a word has inn wry in to meet his royal highness ;_Their Serene
been said about the wretched management which Highnesses the PALOS sad Princess of Saxi Weimar, the
condition. A half-filled Dike sad Dwl"'" of lieeelteeter• the Earl d St. Gerthees'
brings • theatre to this
the
Earl and Countess Clarendeo, the Earl aad Coaster
an
theatre, however, of average London size may
of Westmoetssd, Lady of
ma..... 0. ii,..
..d Lady Augusta
be making • net profit of twelve thousand a year, I sturi, Sir Rub E....
and Dr. Quin Colossi Tyrwhitt
while • full theatre may be making a net was
\ in „%isi„, „„ his royal high...
.
profit of thirty thousand. No other metropolitan His High ness Mustaplua Pacha, attendedfrom by
enterprises, representing an equal capital, and a smite=n. has su, arrived at mirage, How,
managed with an equally small amount of intelli- Paris.
genes, can show equal profits ; and this exceptional The Countess Bernstorff will have a juven;le
prosperity, which is bad for the public though good , party at Wal% Hour an Saturday shammy the 10th inst.
for a few individuals, is largely owing to the en- On Saturday Miss Burdett Contts gave her
joyment of protective privileges. asseed afternoon party at Holly Lodge, Highgate. wham,
notwithstanding the unfavourable writhsr, • vary was-
h is natural that a few privileged theatricalroes pa.,
assembled. •
managers should fight for their monopoly--and they I Lord Brougham arrived at his residence in
will have to fight very hard to maintain it during Graftonstreet on Friday evening from Paris, is whisk
the next few months—but • certain decency ought @vital the noble lord reads • brief stay es his way home
to be preserved if they wish to be from Canon. He is in good health.
thought the champions of the high, pure, I Mr. Charles Bevan Duffy and Mrs. Daffy sr-
and unacted drama. They ought not to rived at Dahlia ea Friday evening, par the mall ,Maurer
enter into unseemly contests with the proprietor irlautm. CaptainTriiama. from HollYbalid, es rotas from
of a music hall like the Alhambra for the nor ' Bixirlmob•ad-b liflo.D*Jobilfr. D0,—.47.7.c....tir JCarlisle Peer.
session of a spectacular ballet. While they th - would T. 0., Mr. .poser rissieges, P. LC.. Mr. Jolts L. frallan,
be shocked if a sour critic stigmatised their °stab- Mr. Jahn T. Boats, Mr. Werthy. T.C. ; Bev. Mr.
(runty. P.P., Elogrourt ; Mr. A. M. Sullivan, T.C.,.
lishmenta as mere "leg-shops," they ought not to
covet their neighbour's ballet-girl, nor to fight for her sad Mr. Jobs lesseell.