The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-07 00:00:00

THE STRAND THEATRE.

A new piece, in one act, of anonymous paternity,
justly described as " a bagatelle," was produced at this
little theatre yesterday evening. It is entitled "The
Alderman's Gown; or, a Trip to Paris ; " deriving its
origin, as well as its 1131112 e, from the continental visit of
the City corporation in cunnexion with the Exhibition.
Alderuuoi Bury, of Candlewick-ward (Mr. Tilbury), dis-
embarks at Boulogne with his daughter Mary Burg (Miss
Maskell). After sundry objurgation of the discomforts of
the voyage, and wonderiogs how the City will get on during
his absence, the alderman, when about to prepare for a ball at
the hotel do Ville, given by the local authurities, is terri-
fied by discovering that his luggage has been exchanged at
the Custom-house, and that he has become the possessor of
an old lady's dress instead of his own civic robes. The
alderman's gown is found in the portinanteau of Mr.
Augustus Fitz/coward (Mr. Alfred Davis), a gentleman
who, it turns out, has fled from England before
his creditors, but who had previously become a
clandestine suitor of Miss Bury. Harry hlardup (Mr.
Morton) a vegetating rote:, is introduced, for no particular
purpose except that of listening to Fitzhoward's story and
borrowing his last sovereign. The alderman is mightily cha-
grined at the discovery of his loss, especially as it precludes
his attendance at the ball; but the case is met by the inven-
tiveness of his daughter, who suggests that he should
assume the anile habiliments substituted for his robes of
office and present himself in them at the festivity. This
suggestion is acted upon, and the whole merit of the piece,
as put on the stage, consists in the farcical grimacing and
positions of Mr. Tilbury. At the bull the old lady is
danced by the prefect of police (Mr. Moreland) out of her
senses, and the assumed airs of the supposed dame are as
comical as such things can be. In the end an actual
lady in the room, Mr.. Alderman Tinakins, recog-
nises her own garments on the person of the
disguised alderman, and loudly claims them as her
property--a state of things which leads to the wearer's im-
mediate arrest. Pending all this, Mr. Augustus Fitz/award
has been plotting a secret union with the alderman's
daughter, and in the furtherance of this object assumes the
alderman's gown. lie appears in the ball-room, rescues
his intended father-in-law, and, by a process known only in
farces of the broader kind, becomes the accepted of both
the alderman and his daughter, the principal condition
being that he is never to say a word about the assumption
of feminine attire.

The dialogue is by no means sprightly, and Mr. Tilbury's
physiognomy was apparently the only saving characteristic.
When the curtain tell the hisses certainly prepouderated
over the applause. The house was well filled.

THE HUNGARIANS IN LONDON yesterday attended
mass in commemoration of the events of the 6th of October,
or as the handbill explained, in memory of the defenders of
constitutional liberty in Hungary, who, after the surrender I
of the Hungarian army to the Russians, were put to death
by Austrian executioners. Their honoured names are dear
to the lovers of liberty founded on law :—Count Louis
Batthyanyi, Prime Minister; Count Ladislaus Csanyi,
Minister of Commerce • Baron Sigismond l'erenyi, Presi-
dent of the House of Peers • Baron Jeszenak, Lord Lieute-
nant of the county of Nzitni; Baron Szatavay, Member and
Secretary of the diet ; Prince Woronyieczky, Prince Czernns,
Councillor of State; Major Muroran, Major Abancourt. Pri-
soner. of war, given up by Russia to the Austrian execu-
tioners, and hanged or shot at And on the 6th October,
1819 :—General Aulieh, Minister of War • Lieut.-General
Ernest Kiss, General Damianich, General Nagy Sandor,
General Dessewffy, General Count Leiningen, cousin of her
sty Queen Victoria; General Count Vecsey, General
Torok, General Lahr,,r, General Baron Poltenberg, Gene-
ral Kncsicb, General Schveidl, General Count Lazar,
Colonel lissincry.
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ilitlE GREAT EXHIBITION.

THIS DAY.

The tido of visitors which set in yesterday con-
tinues to flaw „.liminished, if not at a greater rate. Not-
withstanding a driz.le in the morning, by ten o'clock there
more persons than usual, and by
were several thousann.
noon the unexampled nut: ber of 74,302, being 10,14,5 more
mber at the same hour was
than yesterday, when the
64,1.17. The consequence of this gam' of persons has been
that the police, at their wits'-end, set in action at twelve
o'clock the system of driving the public in a circle rOund
the galleries, to the general annoyance. The visitors, being I
driven iu each part of the galleries in one direction,
that is to say, westward in the south gallery,
and eastward in the north gallery, have not the
means of getting up or down, or going to any part
of the building except by going round, iu some cases, a dis-
tance of 600 us 700 yards, or three furlongs. This must be
done even to see the other side of a case; and those engaged
in the examination of a particular department in which
there are two rows of eases, have to walk idly a mile
and a half round the rest of the building. This is the sys-
tem which was tried two months ago, and given up on the
remonstrances of the Daily Sews. There is no necessity
for it, as a current up one side of the eases and down the
other, would equally effect the object. Even in parts of the
building unobstracted the police impeded persons from
examining the cases.
At 1 o'clock the storm continued unabated, though
sharper rain had come on, but towards 2 o'clock it
brightened up.

The great fact in yesterday's history of the Great
Exhibition, is, that the number of visitor; far exceeded the

problematical 100,000 upon which so much speculation has
been raised, and so many bets have been laid since the open-
ing. The rush commenced at the earliest possible hour,
and the attack was made simultaneously onall the entranees.
At the eastern gate, the police had to warn away a portion
of the crowd; and at the wester°, the numbers entering far
exceeded anything seen by the officials since the opening.
The south transept was comparatively the freest, but at all
and every one the click of the money-takers' cheek-tables
was incessant throughout the day. The progress and
growth of this mighty crowd will not be deemed uninterest-
ing. The numbers were, up to

Eleven o'clock....
Twelve „ 61,157
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Two „
Three „
Five „

Being an increase of nearly 40,000 on the highest pre
sinus number of the season, and probably the greatest num-
ber of human beings ever congregated under one roof.
Hundreds paid their money and went in, but, deterred by
the enormous pressure within, retired almost immediately.
Others, more determined, pushed through the dense
masses in the transept, to find comparatively free circulation
in the side passages and the lower ends of the naves. We
ourselves struggled to the lower end of the foreign nave and
found that then, at three o'clock, there was ample room for
promenading and inspection. The excitement at Hyde-
park was reciprocated on the Stock Exchange, where bet-
ting ran high as the numbers increased, and the telegraph
was kept incessantly in motion for the purpose of trans-
mitting the numbers. A great many persons of distinction
were seen to mingle with the crowd, among others the Duke
of Wellington, who arrived about 4 o'clock, and was much
cheered and followed by the visitors. The police numbers
were 107,815, and the receipts were 5,1731. 16s.
The following shows the temperature yesterday, as re-
corded by Mr. Bennett's thermonuters, being the MUM
result of 100 readings :-10 o'clock, 5.5 ; 12 o'clock, 61; 2
o'clock, 68 ; 4 o'clock, 67 ; 6 o'clock, 64. Mean tempera-
ture, 63.6. Barometer 29.7 at 1 o'clock.

The following statistics of the Great Exhibition
will, we doubt not, be found interesting :—The income of
the establishment has been as follows up to the present date
Public subscriptions, 61,314/. ; privilege of printing, 3,2001.;
privilege of supplying refreshments. .5,5001.; amount re-
ceived for season tickets up to Ist May, 40,0001.; royalty of
2d. per copy on catalogues. Total funds in hand on the I,t
of May, 113,041/. Amount received at the doors up to
August 30, 252,141/. 91. 6:1.; ditto up to the end of
ISeptember, 62,0071. 12s. ; ditto up to Saturday, Oc-
tober 4, 12,1284 Os. 6.1. Grand total, 439,3211. 2s.
The liabilities incurred, so far as they have been
at present ascertained, are as follows :—To Messrs.
Fox and Henderson, for the building, 79,8001. ; to
1 Messrs. Munday tor rescinding of contract, 5,0001. ; extra
galleries, counters, and fittings, 35,0001. ; management, in-
cluding printing, &c., up to May 1, 20,9131. ; police force,
10,000 l.; prize fund, 20,0001. Total, 170,7131. It is
understood that the royalty to be paid by the Messrs.
Spicer and Clowea will not be enforced, in consequence of
the sale of the catalogues not having been as profitable as
was anticipated. The expenses of management, gas, water,
&c., will probably amount to 50,0001., and the sum likely
to be received this week for admission will be at least
20,0001. This would bring the total income up to 460,0001.,
and the total liabilities to about 220,0001., leaving the very
handsome balance in hand of 240,0001., or nearly a quarter
of a million sterling. The total number of visitors up to
Saturday was 5,517,238.

MESSRS. BROADWOOD, the pianoforte manufac-
turers, have presented to the Royal Society of Musicians,
the splendid grand pianoforte, in ebony case, which has
attracted so much notice at the Exhibition. The sale of
this instrument will doubtless realise several hundred
pounds, and the funds of the society will thus again benefit,
as they have on many former occasions, by the Messrs
Broadwoods' liberality.

A PUBLIC MEETING OF MERCHANTS, &C., ON THE
EGYPTIAN QUESTION Will be held in the course of a few
days, and will be very numerously and respectably at-
tended, as a number of merchants of the first standing in
the City, members of parliament, retired officers, and others
connected with India, are taking an active interest in the
matter ; the announcement of the day fixed upon will pro-
bably appear in the course of to-morrow.

THE FREEHOLD LAND MOVEMENT.—On Friday
evening a numerous meeting was held, in the Temperance-
hall, Bolton, for the purpose of forming a local Freehold
Land Society, of which Robert Heywood, Esq., one of the
magistrates for the county, has consented to be president.
The rules arc closely copied from those of the National
Society, and several hundred shares were taken before the
business concluded. Mr. Town Councillor Stockdale took
the chair, in the absence of Mr. Heywood, who was in Lon-
don, and after a few excellent observations called upon Sir
Joshua Walmsley, M.P. for the borough, to address the
meeting. Sir Joshua on rising was received with great en-
thusiasm. He pointed out the great advantages that such
institutions afforded to working men and others as a safe
means of inswing their earnings, so that they at once
acquired a handsome interest for their capital, and raised
their own social position. lie characterised the movement
as eminently conservative, and calculated to generate habits
of prudence, industry and forethought, and especially urged
upon shareholders the necessity of looking closely to the
business of the society, for upon that its prosperity would
depend. No class was more interested in the success of the
movement than great landowners, manufacturers, and
others, who bad a large stake in the country, for the man
who had been induced to save his money to pur-
chase a 40s. freehold might be relied on as a strenu-
ous supporter of law, order, and the rights of property.
lie detailed many instances of the admirable purchases
made by the National and other societies, and concluded by
urging their claims upon public support, stating his firm be-
lief that, notwithstanding the large purchases already made,
the movement was yet only in infancy, and was destined to
grow in magnitude and importance, and effect a large
amount of national good. The Chairman then called upon
Mr. James Taylor, of Birmingham, the founder of the
movement, who spoke for more than an hour, explaining
, the whole mechanism of such associations, and keeping his
I audience in continued laughter by his clever descriptions of
the sensations of a freeholder on giving his first vote, and
feeling for the first time in his life that ho belonged to the
proud and influential class of "landed proprietors."—Mr.
, Slack, of London, then gave several illustrations of the
monstrous electoral condition of the counties, as left
by the Reform Bill, and said that the ridiculously
unequal apportionment of members to electors was not
,
the result of accident, but of calculation, the objects
having been to place the political power of the counties en-
, tirely in the hands of the great families of the wing and
to ry factions. He said it had been hinted that there was a
desire to snake residence in the county a condition of the
40s. freehold franchise, but he believed that the people
would not submit to such • measure unless it was more
than compensated for by giving a vote to every lodger, as
proposed by Mr. Hussies motion, and under such circum-
stances there could be no objection to the change. Mr.
Slack concluded by adverting to the social advantages of
the movement, which would remain long after its tem-
porary political expediency had passed avray. The meeting
was then addressed by Messrs. Cunliffe, Ray, Richardson,
and Donderdale, and separated after votes of thanks to Sir
Joshua Walmsley, Mr. James Taylor, and the chairman.

TUE LIBERATION OF KOSSUTII.—Among the re-
cently printed parliamentary papers was one showing that
42 memorials were presents 4 to her Majesty's go%ernment
respecting the liberation of Kossuth and four petitions to
the Horse of Commons.