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

ROYAL DRAMATIO OOLLEGR.

111LIMILIRATION OF THE CENTRAL HALL BY
THE PRINCE OF W Alai .
The valuable institution which, mainly through
the exertions of the actors themselves, has been
established for the retirement of aged members of
the dramatic profession, may be said to have
through its crowning ceremonial yesterday
the inauguration of its central bail bitsbral
Highness the Prince of Wales. The
facade of the college is by this time tolerably
familiar to the passengers on the South Western
hue, and its appearance is not much altered by the
commodious chamber which has just been finished
is the centre. The hall is sufficiently spacious when
sesepared with'the other portions of the college, and
ie also lofty, with an oaken roof, and well propor-
tioned. A good many theatrical portraits and scarce
prints already decorate its walls, and it is intended
that it should by degrees be raade the repository
of everything that can be got together rare and
carious connected with the profession—so:roe
theatrical portraits, manuscripts, copies of old
plays, files of play-bills, and, in short, all sorts of
attractive relics that can be collected either of the
green-room or the s In this way, in time,
and through the liberality of actors and amateurs
is the dramatic art, it is hoped that such an exhi-
bition will be established as will attract the atten-
tion of the curious, and thus form a permanent
imam of revenue to the college. There are already
a fair somber of veteran members of the profes-
sion lodged within the walls, and au election now
approaches which will test its accommodation to
imost. There are six candidates and five
vacancies, so that only one of the interesting
applicants can be disappointed. From the
fact of the institution being thus filled
at so early a date after its foundation, its useful-
ness and necessity to the profession may be fairly
inferred, and it is to be hoped that the liberality of
the public, which is so often bestowed on lees
worthy objects,will enable the council to extend the
sphere of its usefrilnesa.
So beautifully fine wee the day, that a very large
attendance of the hoist ton was expected, but un-
fortunately it was Whit-Monday, and the platform
of the South Western was completely besieged from
an early hour in the morning by the holiday folk
eager to get down to Richmond, Hampton Court,
and other favourite places of reeort. In this way
no doubt many intending patrons and patronesses
el the fits were kept away, but still there was a
fashionable attendance, including many of our most
distinguished actors and actresses, and everthing
went off in the most pleasant and satisfactory man-
ner. The gardens of the college were gaily decorated
with the colours of almost all nations, and threw
bands stationed in different places, and playing at
intervals, kept the visitors entertained until the
arrival of the Prance of Wales. Of these, perhaps,
the young musicians of the Duke of York's School Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess
attracted the moat notice, their very correct and its Paris honoured Lord and Lady Egerton of Tattoo with
spirited playing contrasting very pleasingly with their company at Mauer yesterday evening at the family
their small and juvenile appearance. smog., in Bt. yoomesmomm rho Count end countess
His Royal Highness arrived by special train at di pmis, attended by Captain Machin and Madame Boehm,
four o'clock, accompanied by the usral members of arrived at 8 o'clock. The followlag tamped were invited
his court, and, having been received on the platform to most their royal highness's Epellead the Aus.
by Mr. Webster, the master, Mr. Creswiok, tits tree Ambassador sad the Countess Apponyi, the Prince
deputy-master, the wardens, and other members of Conti, the Earl of Mwmleadeld and Lady L. taker, the
the eolleCil, proceeded at once to the neutral ball. Marquis and marehinemd wenerfori. Lied and Lady
and took his seat in the chair of state which had Welds°, Lord Loughborough, Lady Marisa Alford, Iced
been array ri for him. At this time the hall and Lady geedtahee‘ Lod Eliet, Led Edward Bt. Naar,
was v till, and amongst those present we sir viridian, Truer, Bart., &e.
noticed hdadame Grii, Miss_ Pyni''3e, Mrs. Alfred The Duchess d'Aumale's ball, announced for the
Mellon, Madame Arabella 4114111"''' Mr. Her- 2lst lad., poottposed till Friday. the //rd.
M risen, r. Sothero, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Toole, Mr.
Paul Bedford, and levers' other leading members The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait yesterday
of the theatrical profession. moved from London House, Bt. Janies's-square, to Fulham
The Prince having taken his seat the Master of Paw" for the romalader ot
_the season. His lordship will,
the College, Mr. Benjamin Webster, proceeded to we bear, this week be entirely with the ordination
read the following address : examieatioes.
The Right Hoe. Sir George Grey has gone out
May it please your Royal Higbeem,—Five years ago, on
the tat of Jose, 1860, close to this spot, your Royal High- of i 0" for • fOW days.
alas meowed fathar, the late revered pa., Consort, Yesterday evening the annual regimental dinner
laid the fonedatiort atone of the handbill! which is to-day of the Royal Artillery took place at • Rooms, King.
*putty ineagerated by your Royal Highness. Upon that Week St. James's. As usual at them annual meetings
irressorable occasion the illustrioas Prince said that the then was • seer bole attendanos. Covers wen laid for
Royal Dramatic College would coder • benefit upon the 80, sad it is almost sapodilla= to say the dinner was first
yogi° as well as upon the stem by aiding a pofesdort from Glam. His Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge was
whisk the community at large derived rational entertain- prone.
monk in which popular amuasmsat was combined with There are 40 vacancies at the Royal Military
moral instruction sod intellectual culture. Sir, them A-ladled, Woolwich, to to competed for at the next ma-
golden words are treasured sweet the highest incentives saitsrion is July,
which, from that time to the precast. hart stimulated our The Timis says the conservative party " can find
exertions in .arryiog out the design of the lastitution. We no better occupation then to grabble for the surplus
have sedulously endeavoured to establish the Royal “„.„ which the policy of a liberal gerwmteet his
Dramatic College on seek • basis es would have justified dead. The tones would like to appropriate what the
the approval of the iffthtrtoos Primes your father* whip have eased, and to please their own supporters by
We have the satisfaction, sir, of being able to say that the the removal of the meictex...
design which your royal lather approved has not bees in THE mortised) PENSION Yon Max. COBDIN.—It
the eligkiest particular deported from, sad that by steady bra been understood for some time past that the government
perseverance we have already succeeded is effecting the were disposed to grant a passion to Mrs. oandaa aa a
Tao:4Di.
main Purim" el the leititati°°' Three objeete were thou of the emieent services of Mr. Cobden In amp:ion with
mediated in the erection of this college : • retreat for aged the negotiation of the Commercial Treaty with France. We
and infirm members of the,dramatic pcofeesices ; school, for
are enabled to elate that the offer has bows made In •
the educatios of the children of actors aid writers for the letter tram Lord palinaaaaaa, sad that the amount d the
stage ; and a central hall, which should embrace • library proposed pension was 1,8001. per annum during the life of
and gallery for the collection of works of art and literature Mrs. Cobden. We may further state that Mrs. Cobden
illustrative of the English drama. The first of these ob" has declined the offered pension, at the same time express-
Jetts is accomplished ; for the second, fends are in comas lag her grateful sense of the ;Licitness manifested towards
of accumulation ; the third, which crowns the edifice, your her by the crown and the administmtioo. The public will
Royal Highness is now about to dedicate to the um for
be glad to know that the family of the lamented states-
which it was designed. Amongst the numemme man are left is aironmstances that make any provision on
benevolent institutions which abound in this cons- the part d the grwararaast
try, there is none more deserving of pnerous support
Tax LORD VHAMBIELAIN AND ries THEATRES.—
than the Royal Dramatic College. The actor, who laths The teeth is that the function et the Lord Chamberlain in
interpreter of the poet in his gayest and in hie invest respect of theatres is highly samtaloar, and ought to be
moods, and who imparts to the drams that vital grim and obsolete. There is no oossiteirable reason why in these days
expression which brings out its usurious and emotions into the drama should be dependant on the ear, or why the
Lord Chamberlaio should exercise is the neighbourhood of
palpable life, gasses*" peculiar claims epee the sympathies royal idenoes • jurisdiction which elsewhere belongs to
of the public. His rewards are precarious ; his fame is the magistrates.r There is something to be said for the French
ephemeral ; tad whim his faculties fail he Wore from the system of subsidising the stage out of public funds, for a
bright footlights into oblivion. Here we hope to afford standard of excellence is thereby sustained which in this
him rest and comfort in old age, where, no longer fretted oou. ntry is
th t seldom. reached.. thimisbofficialed topatronage
by the outer battle of life, be may securely look "through leguardsmiflorar eTtYletrere'l7noY liable alternative!
the loopholes of retreat,"
stir to ses There is no hardship in exacting securities for public
the
Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd." safety and rod order, and even the stipervisson of plays by
Hera too, we hope to preserve the records and personal • respoosible officer may be highly desirable ; but the su-
pervision of plays does not involve say !imitated in the
relics of his profession, so that whim the actor is Hon no number of theatres, and if these be multiplied we have
more, the memorials of his art shall survive him. This only to multiply Mr. Donna in like proportion. It is not,
I stage of this country owes your Royal Highness a large however,
. with play. thatl
ttr.ttLyriatrhtt hadtto deal, but
debt of gratitude for the coos/Ant interest you have taken 'treir ballets,t eeeernee.hee latelye
been issued from surprise
tZ
in U. Vein" ; and, by extending your favour to the Chamberlain's office is »fames to this clue of perform-
Royal Dramatic College, your Royal Highness has not only antes. If the interests of public decency and morality
bestowed an Repartee, boas on the wholedramatioprofeesion, be the chief object of so peculiar • censorship,
but materially elevated its title to public reepsotand Bopp.; billet certainly ought sot to be exempt from it.
it little strange that the idea et ems.
Upon your 11°,91 Higiuma. properly &eel"es the task if themrns asliould not h struck the Lard
' bringing to a suenessful conclusion the *obis work whose chantherwe until after wee priZeediop were takes.
feesdatires were laid by your illustrious father, and whose This looks rather as it there were • desire ie high quarters
I objects her 'reclean Majesty, your royal mother, has thought to etzeotthon the ram spinet Mr. Strauss. Beck a desire
llleeway of her patinesin Ws thank you for it from our l meet with
into sympathy fittrordo
atthe publics. Their
hearts. May the Work chi* you have this day %mogul-Mod obvious ete, re well ...mated rooms, with ',efficient peevieten
VVV; and may your Royal Highness live keg to wades for *ems, should either be preyed to be already legal, or
happy fruits. should be made so for the future by • through rev ice of
To which his Royal Highness replied as follows :lee seas ssieagh to ace why • select body se
mat" igoeisld imagine that the dignity of the d is
It is truly gratifying I* soy haws be fled myself this moue= is keeping dews the rivalry of upstart timbres,
day called oa is take part is the anal completion of • build- cad peebiblNit within atoole-hell. Poleileaset", whisk
leg, the fintedatios of whisk was the work of my lernented talwa:i'ai°l7:l:ll The drumatri istr rei.Pact chlret
Wigan dwelt
fiat", and it was slag ° ark the Mum ag which he Imid prose to have been well-advised is law, be .m 7 tea AM
very math at Us& My ostirfsctgoo inoressod by ending hit be bun been very ill•adsised Lappealing to the 'swat 'lL—
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111. ON
COP TIES BIRTH OP GEORGE
111. AT ETOLLEGE—(THIS DAY.)

ETON, TIOISDAT.
The proceedings of the "Fourth of June," which
love been traado red to to-day through the annivenary
falling o. Whit tthaday,have taken the plane at Ease tom mss
copied by the extinct and singular oedema styled the
"Moetem."
Lett night and this mailing a large number ed
amtio visitors arrived at Eton sad Windsor, the incursion of
yeatarday produrdog • scarcity, it is sat& ef steeping
accommodation in the collegiate town, width, eat-
nerdy quiet sod still, Is to is • state of encase-
thle exiitement. The two competing linse—the
M totems and Greet Western Railways—rae additional
tramps for the accommodation of the parents cat the boys,
and contributed their quota to the numerous visitors who
thronged Etoa sod Windsor this morning. Old Emotion
awl their families strolled through the fthe "plying
Gelds," the venlast turf end beautifully green foliage el the
tress, now in the freshness of their saramer beauty, reviving
fa not a few the memory of those pleasest schooldays when
they ranked am " prose: and see as " pest * Eureka's.
The upper school was, however, the great metre of Mthaw
Mon, and here the crowds of raek,weelth, and Witco made
their way to hear the scholars deliver their speeches,
in the promote of the vice-peomot, fellows, sod maaters of
the college, the room being filled with • large audience. le
the afternoon, at 4 o'clock, an entertainment was to be
given by the provost and fellows to the solidity mid friends
of the scholars in the hall of the college, when covers
would be laid for above 900 geeste, the banquet belay pm-
mired by Mr. Holdermes, the college butler. The Prince of
Wales will be here before this account is In type.
About 7 o'clock in the evening the regatta will take
place on the Mamas, whin the mews of the boats will row
to Barley-hail.
Ow madden darlev-hall the crews will dins le Coe open
air, they wilt then return to Modem, the regatta closing
with a greed display of fireworks from the sit in the river.

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AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BOSTON•
The following are the heads of the news brought
by the City of Boston :
NEW YORK. XAT 27, If Nowa
Davis and Breckenridge have been indicted for
treason by the grand jury of the district of Colum-
bia. The former will be taken to Washington for

trial.
An unconfirmed report is current that Davis is
manacled.
It is asserted that Lee will be arrested and in-
dicted for treason.
The Juanita withdrew from before Metronome
on the 4th inst.
Gold, l 3&

NEW YORE, NAT tl, Moinzia.
The grand jury of the district of Columbia have
found true bills of indictment against Jerson
Davis and Breckenridge for treason. They
are indicted separately, the overt act being
theraid in July last within the district of Columbia,
Breckenridge having been present in person, and
Davis oonstructively. The district attorney has
asked for a warrant to arrest Breckenridge, and
to summon Davis before the court martial for trial.
According to the Philadelphia inquirer Davis is
manacled on both endue, the connecting chain
being three feet long. He resisted manacling, and
it became neormstry to throw him down and bold
him until the irons were clinched. The Herald
denies this statement, and says that Davis is con-
tined in a casemate comprising two rooms. A
guard is with him constantly, but heis not manacled,
nor are hie movements within the casemate re-
stricted.
Colonel Pritchard has presented to the War
Department the waterproof cloak and shawl in
which his men informed him Davis was disguised
when captured. The cloak was worn as a shirt,
and the shawl drawn hood fashion over his head.
Pritchard asserts that Mrs. Davis acknowledged burl
husband was thus disguised. The cloak and shawl
have been sent to the soldiers' fair at Chicago for
exhibition.
Governor Letcher, of Virginia, James A. Seddon,
and Judge Campbell have been arrested. It is
asserted that General Lee will also be arrested and
indicted for treason.
The defence of the prisoners at the conspiracy
trial was continued yesterday.
Kirby Smith is said to have received reinforce-
ments from the east side of the Mississippi.
Hood and his staff have escaped across that river.
Advices from New Orleans state that Kirby
Smith was disposed to surrender to Colonel'
Sprague, but Generals Parsons and Shelby de- I
mended an amnesty for themselves, declaring that
if not amnestied they woul d join Maximilian.
Colonel Sprague has returned to Washington to
confer with the government.
A fight occurred in Texas on the 12th between
the Federals under Barrett and the Confederates
under Slaughter. Barrett retreated to Bragee,
with the loss of 70 men.
The Confederate government cotton surrendered
to General Canby amounts to 36,000 bales.
President Johnson is said to have declared that
he will leave the question of negro suffrage to the
decision of the loyal people of the States which are

interested.
It is semi-officially announced that the Federal
government approve the conduct of the Cuban
authorities in reference to the Stonewall.
The subscriptions to the 7-30 Loan on Thursday
and Friday exceeded 1,000,000 dollars.
The Herald has proposed a scheme to liquidate
the national debt by the voluntary subscrip-
tion of 300,000 persons at 10,000 dols. each.
Upwards of a million has been subscribed
in two days, in furtherance of this proposition.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAT 27, Moans%
Money abundant. Gold, 136. Exchange on
London, 160. Stocks dulL New York Central, 1391
(query 1891) ; Illinois, 116} ; Erie, 721 ; 6-20
Bonds, 104. Cotton quiet ; middling upland,
50c. Flour heals, ; wheat firmer ; corn, good in-
quiry. Provisions heavy. Coffee buoyant. Sugar
dull. Molasses rather firmer. Petroleum quiet ;
refined, 49 ; crude, 351.

THE EMPEROR'S JOURNEY IN ALGERIA.

ALGIERS, Juni S.
The Emperor, when at Constantine, invited St
Arab chiefs to dine with bim, on which occesio

his Majesty said he desired to see the Arabs become li
by labour and education fitted for all offices now
filled by French subjects. It was his wish that
every individual in toe army, by services and
intelligence, should be able to rise to the highest
grades.
During his journey to &dna and Baskars the
Emperor accepted an Arab horse, offered to him
by four tribes. The tribes from the Sahara also
came to meet his Majesty.
The Emperor's reception has been everywhere
enthusiastic.