The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

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SACRED HARRONIC SOCIETY.
We have heard many fine perfaemanees of
Ifendelesohn's ZiticsA by this society, bet never one
000 splendid than that which was given last night at the
third concert of the season. In the engagement of solo
Augers, some change was made from tbe first announce-
ments, Mr. Sims Reeves being replaced, in consequence of
big octane& illness, by Ms. T. Mohler, nd Madame Sain-
to-DAY (from the same alleged cause) by Miss Julia Elton:
llama Lemmena-Sherrington and Mr. Santley being, as
pre,gmialy advertised, the principal soprano and bass.
vas was the first occasion of Mr. Holder's appearance at
Exaterhall, and the music assigned him is of so different a
ales from that in which he has hitherto been heard on the
opera stage that some interest was felt as to the result.
yas printed announcement issued in the hall stated that
Mr. Mohler had undertaken the task at very short notice,
although suffering from cold. He gave his two airs with oon-
siderable effect, but with apparent signs of having studied
more in the secular style of modern Italian opera than in
the sublime school of sacred music. His phrasing will bear
improvement, and he should avoid those occasional sudden
sperandi, which may be effective in an Italian canzonet,
but are blotches in music of calm religious sentiment. He
&mid also not depart from the text (musical) of the re-
citatives u he did in one or two cases (as, for instance, in
tat beginning " Man of God ") the short passage,
however (andante sostenuto, " The Lord thy God "), in this
movement was very chastely sung—perhaps the best and
purest specimen of vocalization that we had from Mr.
Baler during the evening. This gentleman, as already
said, possesses a voice of beautiful quality, with sufficient
power for ordinary requirements ; and, with a little more
elevation of style and rhythmical feeling in his phrasing, he
should prove valuable as an oratorio singer. Of Mr. Bentley's
admirable singing in Ettialt, both in the expression of
pathos and in declamatory grandeur, we lave so often
spoken that repetition would be neridless. Madame Lem-
mens-Sherrington has now taken a high position as an in.
terpreter of sacred music ; the bright and pure quality of
per voice, her relined style and perfect intonation render
her one of the very few of our solo sopranos who are satis-
factory in music of the highest class. Miss Julia Elton
(who replaced Madame Sainton-Dolby at the previous con-
cert as well as at that of last night) is winning a good
position by the ready preparation which she evinces in
such emergencies. She has a contralto voioe of pure
quality, and sings with unaffected expression—her air,
" 0 rest in the Lord," was so well given, and
pleased so much, as to be re-demanded. The
other principal vocalists were Miss Robertine Henderson
sad Miss Julia Derby ; the larger concerted pieces being
sided by the steady singing of Messrs. F. Walker, Carter,
Newry, and Smythson. The hall was completely filled ;
yet (owing to the excellence of the arrangements) without
crowding or confusion. On December 21 the Al noted., is
to be given.

Miss Glyn continues the series of her dramatic
yeadinge at the St. James's Hall to audiences that in-
crease alike in numbers and enthusiasm. Last night the
play she selected was Shakespeare's tragedy of King John,
and it would be difficult perhaps to find a work in which
her powers could be more severely tested.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS TOR THE
&SLOW WEER.—Monday—Actuaries, at 7, " Mortality
Experience Data," Mr. Meikle ; " Limitations of Risks,
Part 2," Mr. Sprague ; Royal Academy, at 8, " Anatomy,"
Mr. Partridge ; Architects, at 8. Tuesday—En&neers, at
8, Annual general meeting ; Statistical, at 8, " Combina-
tions, Strikes, and Wages," Mr. Waley ; Ethnological, at 8.
Wednesday—Society
Mr. Fergueson ; Geological, at 8, " New Telerpeton
Elgi-
Dense." Professor Huxley ; " Section at Litcham, Glacia-
tion," Mr. Wood ; " Third Boulden Clay, Norfolk," Mr.
Harmer; Literature, at Bi, Italian Miracle-Play, 16th
Century," Dr. Ingleby. Thursday—Zoological, at 4,
general business ; Linnean, at 8, " Morphology of Mal-
vscem," Dr. Masters ; " Introduced Plants, Sydney," Mr.
Woolls ; Chemical, at 8, "Basicity of Tartaric Acid," Mr.
Perkin ; "Absorption of Vapours by Charcoal," Mr. Hun-
ter; " Reactions of Hydronidic Acid," Mr. Chapman ;
Royal, at 13i ; Antiquaries, at Bj.--Athenmum.
ROBERT COOMBES'S MONUMENT.—On Thursday
the monument to this well-known oarsman, who was cham-
pion of the Thames from 1846 to 1832, was formally un-
covered in Brampton Cemetery. It is made of Portland
stone, and is aft. high, Gf t. Gin. long, and 3ft. 6in wide.
On the top slab is the representation of a wherry bottom
upwards, over which is thrown a coat and badge, and by
the side are broken sculls. On the edge of the ledge are
Dibdin's lines—
rare thee well, my trim-built wherry,
Oars, and coat. and badge, farewell.
This slab is supported by four figures cut out of the solid
stonework, one at each corner. The figures represent four
champions of the Thames : first, Robert Coombes, in his
rowing costume, holding a broken scull ; second, Tom
Cole, of Chelsea, wearing Doggett's Coat and Badge, with
the peculiar pineapple button ; third, James Messenger, of
Kingston, with the coat and badge of the Thames Na-
tional Regatta; fourth, Henry Kelley, of Putney, an
athlete in rowing costume. Each figure stands on an
octagon dwarf pedestal. There is an appropriate inscrip-
tion. An address was delivered to those who took part in
the ceremony by the Rev. W. G. Martin, chaplain to the
Licensed Victuallers' School.
FOOTBALL.—ETON COLLEGE V. GENTLEMEN OF
THE CIVIL SERVlCE.—Yeeterday this great match, in
which a considerable amount of interest has lately been
manifested, came off on the Civil Service ground in Batter-
sea-park, in the presence of a vast concourse of spectators,
many of whom hail come from Eon and Oxford to witness
the exciting game. The Civil Service also mustered
strongly, and there was a fair sprinkling of ladies, who
braved the sloppy ground for a couple hours in watching
the progress of the game. The ball was kicked shortly
after 2 o'clock, anal from that time till the close of the
match, at 4 o'clock, the game was most spiritedly con-
tested by the respective sides, the members of which were
evidently pretty equally matched. The goal was, however,
reached by the Civil Service gentlemen, who on being de-
clared the winners, were cheered by their friends. The
following are the sides :—Eton College : J. It. Sturgis, W.
D. Benson, W. C. Calvert, C. R. Alexander, F. M. C.
Banbury, E. Warburton, C. Tait, H. C. llonser, B. J.
Thornton, E. Lubbock. Civil Service: A Fairfield, T.
Wearne, J. Kirkpatrick, It. Babington, E. Freeth, F.
Deacon, J. Hogg, B. N. Thome, 0. N. Fuller, A. E. Bate-
man, C. J. \Vaudby.
Erox CoLLEox.—Yesterdny, previous to the de-
parture of the scholars for the Christmas vacation, the
results of the examination for the Oppiden prizes were
made known at the college. The following is the list:
Prizernen —l. James; 1. Hoare; 3. Arbuthnot; 4. Un-
thank ; 5. Thompson. In order of merit:—Young,
Alexander, Farrer, Lord Elgin. and Mowbray. The ex-
aminers were the Rev. R. Duckworth and Sir George
Young.
THE LATE TRADES' PROCESSION. —A meeting of
the delegates from the London trades was held last evening
at Sussex Hotel, Bouverie-street, to receive a report
from the demonstration committee ; Mr. George Potter in
the chair. The secretary read the report, which commenced
by congratulating the delegates on the great success at-
tending the proceedings of the 3rd inst. Having given a
general summary of the proceedings on that day and the
toes lag at St. James's Hall on the evening of the 4th, it
went on to notice the remarkable absence of the metro-
politan members from the latter meeting, declaring such
absence to be an insult to the working men of London,
and calling upon those members to give a satisfactory
explanation of their absence, failing which, steps would
be taken to oppose their re-election upon the next dis-
solution of parliament. The report then repudiated the
language made use of by several of the speakers, uncon-
nected with the trades, at the Beaufort-house grounds, and
recommended that the present organisation of the trades
and friendly societies should be kept intact, in the
event of another demonstration being found necessary.
It concluded by announcing that a claim for special
damages had been sent in by the committee to the
lessee and freeholder of the Ashburaham grounds for
refusing the use of those grounds for the purpoSes of
the meeting, and with a strong censure on the l'olice
Commissioner for withholding the promised aid of the
police at the entrance of the Beaufort-house grounds. The
chairman impressed upon the meeting the necessity of
keening up the present organisation until a satisfactory
measure of reform had plated through parliament, and
suggested that arrangements should be made with the
provincial trades for holding a general conference of dele-
ptei from all the trades in the kingdom at an early period
is the ensuing year, and that arrangements should also be
made, if necessary, for the trades' unionists in the manu-
facturing districts to march up to London on a given day
to boll a national mass meeting. The suggestion of the
chairman was received with loud cheers, and upon the
motion of the delegate from the hatters, seconded by a
delegate from the plasterers, the secretary was ordered to
write to the various trades and trades' councils in the
United Kingdemjnviting them to send delegates to London
to organise a national demonstration early in the ensuing
year, and that the meeting should stand adjourned to that
night three weeks to receive the replica. The meeting then
adjourned.
TEE NATIONAL REFORM UNION.—The third of a
series of public meetings, by the Glossop branch of this
Innon, was held on Wednesday, at Hadfield; Mr. G.
Woffeuden in the chair.
D'ART) OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dw. 11.—The
Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, the balance-sheet of the re-
ceipts and expenditure of the European commission of the
Danube, for the year 1865, which they publish in last
night's aftzette, in accordance with article 16 of the
Danube Navigation Act of the 2nd November, 1863.

Symons.
Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., Mr. Southgate, Q.C., Mr. Brooks-
bank, Mr. Swanaton, and Mr. Cutler, appeared for the
different parties.
Lord Romilly made an order upon both petitions for
winding-up subject to the supervision of this court. One
of the petitions had been orivially presented to the Lord
Chancellor, and transferred to this court ; it was there-
fore necessary that it should be presented again.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Mains.)
RE OVEREND, GURNEY, AND Co. (LIMITED).
Mr. Locock Webb, who appears for Mr. Oppenheitn and
other creditors, asked that the adjourned summons from
chambers, which appeared on the paper, might be post-
poned for a few days, as another summons had been taken
out, which might )ender it unnecessary to go on with the
first. There was 1,500,0001. in hand uninvested, and a
summons had been taken out by creditors pressing the
declaration of a dividend ; but it was understood that the
liquidators were about to declare a dividend of 2s. lid. in
the pound.
The Vice-Chancellor said be had been told that there
was an examination of the directors going on which was
likely to last six months, and he had told the chief clerk
to take steps to have the matter brought before the court
at the earliest possible moment. He would not in a case
of such importance permit dilatory proceedings by useless
examinations in chambers, or before a special examiner.
Mr. Swanston said he appeared for Mr. Oakes who took
out the summons upon which the special examiner was
appointed, and did not object to the matter standing over.
Mr. Edward James had been appointed examiner, and the
cross-examination had been going on for eleven days,
during which two witnesses had been partially e:-.lkinincsl.
It was the desire of the shareholders that the question
should be brought to a judicial determination at the earliest
possible date, and they had never attempted to delay
the declaration of a dividend.
Tho Vice-Chancellor, from what he had heard, was de-
termined that there should be no unnecessary delay, and
that these questions should not be left to the chief clerk
or to the special examiner. but should come into court.
pone
After some further conversation, it was agreed to post-
the matter till later in the day for the attendance of
Mr. Roxburgh, who represents the official liquidator.
When the matter was again called on, a discussion took
place, in the course of which it was stated that the interest
to creditors amounted to 7001. a week, some of the debts
bearing 10 per cent.
Thu Vice-Chancellor fully recognised the importance of
determining those questions as early as possible and was
surprised at the delay which had taken place. He
should now stop the cross-et:smination before the
special examiner, which could be productive of
no good result, and direct that the three summonses
should appear on the paper for uesday next, when it
would be determined what courseT should, be pursued.
NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL.
Dr. Spinks, Mr. J. T. Schomber,t, Mr. H. Prendergast,
Mr. G. M. Dowileswell, Mr. C. J. Prideaux, Mr. D. Hardy,
Mr. G. Little, Mr. 11. T. Cole, Mr. J. Pearson, Mr. P.
Roxburgh, Mr. T. J. Clark, Mr. 11. Cotton, Mr. K K.
ICarslake, Mr. G. Druce, Mr. E. E. Kay, and Mr. T. K.
Kingston, the newly appointed Queen's counsel, took their
seats within the bar.
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COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.)
Tociau r. DENDY (PAGE. AND OTHERS CITED TO SEE
P Rot:Ey-a:4as).
Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey for the plaintiff ; Mr.
M. Chambers, Q.C., Dr. Witinhey, and Mr. Guest for the
defendant Denily ; tho Queen's Advocate, Mr. Edward
James, Q.C., Dr. Tristram, and Mr. Turner for the parties
cited.
This case, which relates to the will of Mies Anne Alicia
l Julia newly, late of Feltham, Middlesex, was only just
opened when we went to press.
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THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

CLERKENWELL.
EXTRAORDINARY comwer ur A ID:SHAND A DAT AFTER
MARRIAGE.
A respectably-dressed young woman applied to Mr.
Cooke for advice and assistance under the following
remarkable circumstances :
The applicant stated that a fortnight since she was
married by license and the day after she was married
her husband refused to live with her, and told her that ahe
must support herself. Since then he had given her nothing
towards her maintenance, awl had even taken her clothes
and all the money she had saved. She wished to know if
he was not compelled to support her and to live with her.
Mr. Cooke asked her how it was that she had not found
out the character of her husband before she had married

him.
The applicant stated that her husband produced to her I
written testimonials as to his character, and among them I
one from the rector of the parish of Islington. Since her I
husband had deserted her she bad been to the clergyman 1
and had ascertained that her husband had lived with that
gentleman about ten years since. She thought it very
hard that she should be deserted by her husband a day I
after she was married, but what made the matter worse
was that he had taken the whole of her money, amount-
ing to about led., and he now intended to go off into
the country. She did not know what the law might be,
but surely she was entitled to her own money and her
clothes ; and if she was not, she should like to know the
reason wh It was hard to be married only one day,
I and then, whether you liked it or not, to be separated
from your husband.
Mr. Cooke told the applicant that when she married the
whole of her property, without it was vested in trustees
for her separate use, went to her husband. She had better
go to the parish, and the authorities would take steps to
bring her husband to justice and that without delay.
The applicant said that she considered it very hard to
become a pauper as soon as she was married, and then left
the court.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
• SOLICITOR CHARGILD WITH DISORDERLY cownucr.
Mr. Alfred Guppy, solicitor, was chargedbefore Mr.
ICnoi with being drunk and behaving in a disorderly
manner,
1 Police.eoastable Joha Fraser, 322 A, sad that about 12