The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-01 00:00:00

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.

The ages Diamonds was produced last night, for
the hod time this wens. The mot was not greatly altered
tram that of lest lowa, the chid dirge bi•g in the part
of Diem de Oaisee Mayer, which has sow beta meigoed to
Miss Thiriered, • yam; lady who, every time she spews,
makes pogrom 'la yobbo favour. Bise k becoming • most
valuable Neurb dram, • pukka for which she has
over, selelsks. Ilhe is pretty sad egreeable, is •
lively and latelligeat actress, has • good though
not • yeerggisl van sad is evidently • well
educatetnewdoWN„. rite 'mei/ties% under the disdain
of Uterine, is cos 4 Mks Lou* rya" wry boat parts.
It suits her is wrap way. Asher's sureidtely light, Inge
bent, sad greeshal musk seems tolls'e bora written expressly
for her ; she looks the character admirably ; and she is moot
happy in bleeding the arch gaiety of Catarina with the dig-
nity of the Q•esa. Indeed, we doubt whether Amber him-
self ever hosed his murk more besutlf•By wag, or saw his
awn coaception of the part mare completely redid,
Harrison, too, i exceedingly steromeful in the
charade of Dos Heorique. His soling lest night was
mob and spirited, sad his idagkig eaceliemt. Amos the
other perthrosers, great praise is dos to Mr. Hew for his
melees, and sauteing kontoar,as the foolish old minister
Coast Campo Mayor, and to Mr. Cords tor hi performance
el the rough bandit litababrio, • part cd raided at well as
drama* impartmen foe it I. the prised* bast port, sad its
briag well snag is emeedal to the edhot of the memorted
pieces, of which Weed the mask of this open mainly emr
shit. As is ismerelly the are in the best comb opersa, there
ere way few make airs; but the concerted pimps,
in whisk the diskette is clothed in the basket WOW, are so
nesiodiam, so charming in their combinations, so animated
end dramatic, that we feel that every yoke ie amply em-
ployed, wed desire nothing more. On this account we regret
the laterpolatioits which the performers sometimes maks
en& as the long seatimental air introduced by Mr. Bank=
at the beginning of the third act, sad Mks Lades Pyre's
" Bode's Air with Variations," which she legs in by way of
flask. They are very good is themselves, sad eery well
sw—Rodea air especially, whisk is a molt marveibms
display of brilliant execution. But they are iskongroous,
dew upon the action of the lane, and altogether at radios
with diverge propriety. But custom permite such things
oa ties open stage, and there I. no nee Is protesting egoism

Tekbat this prat sad aprlghtfloot of condo operas se a
whole, the meant is whir& It Is got up sad perlbrawl at
this Masan n worthy of the warmest rens. The eon/Iy,
the oselasess, the desesalless, the sal:oaten groups on the
Mar, the strength sad guilty of the obeent, ad the ds•
Infoue playing of ohs arebseno—all anticlines to glee a cow
*teases sad Gillet to lb. repreesstatka of the opera which
Mos well* saw talon beta equalled fa Loads& Bo
repteseatal, She tows Diostorio la used the soot dialighl-
fel eaterisiaarnts that ca be lateghted.

DRURY-LANZ PROMENADE CONCERTS.
This letertainsist mono to flourish. Loot

eight Ur hoses Ira fall, sad the radium were neat airs-
feak ailla.arly doll/Wed WM, a ars earihmt fir.

It was a "Weber MOW that is, the ihst pet et the
concert consisted of Weber's mimic. Two of the compass's
finest overtures, the Yreireltiitz and Oberon, begets sad henni-
sated the selection. The (*zoom " Invitation i le Valet," se
arranged ter the full orchestra by Berlioz, woe played with
gnat Whet. The " Coneert-Beilick," the damn and meet
meter al Weber's pianoforte works, wee performed by Herr
Pow ha the sexes to be expected from that moat aeseet-
plished artist. In thorough apprehension of the wader's
design fa all the varieties of ezpeemise and elect which this
very dramatic piece contains—ln drainer of Mes, betWaat
ezecutioe, fire, sad vigour—this performatives of the Concert-
Stuck equals aay that we remember to have ever heard.
The epplaues of the anthem showed bow tally they appre-
ciated it. Miss Dolby ung the air, " A lonely Arab maid."
one of the gents of Oberon, the opera written for this country
and so strangely neglected in It. This Utile meeremel weenow
moored with enthusiasm. The second part of the concert,
as before, was a miscellaneous election of light and brilliant
deuce music.

DRAMA.

PRINCESB'I3.

M. Emile Augier's five-act play in blank vine,
entitled Gabrielle, and produced some ten years since, with
M. Regular in the principal character, did good stroke Ike •
time by stemming the tide of vicious and depraved writing
then deluging the French stage, and Indluning French people
to believe that the matrimonial mate I. not nammerily in to
be ridiculed; that a husband is occasionally a match for a
seducer ; and that adultery sad be. of tract have mos-
nasally their drawbacks. This was quite a novel idea to the
Parisians; end, though its effect has sines been nullilled by
the production of inch pieces as the Daaw MIX Orwillas and
the Devi-Nottele, and by the publication of such books se
" Fanny " and " Endues Bovary," the author is to be
complimented not only for the aantimania but the language of
his play.
Lam night an English version of Gabrielle, called Howe
7 mai, wee produced at the Princess's with great and well
merited menet.

MADAME TOSSADD'S.—The proprietor of this
interesting museum has during the last three or four weeks
been incessantly employed in getting his gallery ready for
the expected visits of the throaspi of people who attend the
cattle-chow, held in the part of the haaa.r in Baker-atreet
adjoining that In which kis collection is exhibited. There
are mug novel additions and several of them are at this
time of peculiar Interest, being very faithful npresentations
of the eminent men who an now performing prominent parts
on the great political eaglet Europe. The whole of the dresses
of the figures have been renovated, the amour and orna-
mental thoornicias yeatored to their original brilliancy, and
no expense, apparently, spend to render the place worthy of 1
pablie support.
UNITED PRATER FOR REVIVAL.—A circularl
letter, signed by forty-five ministers of various Christian
communities in England, has just been issued, Writing Chris-
dans throughout the world to obeetys the second week in the
new year es a asses of united prayer. The impales was 1
ghee at the 23rd sannal meeting of the Lodiana minima in
Ladle, whisk resolved, " That we appoint the sonad week in 1
Jemmy, HMO, beginning with Monday, the Sth, as a domed
spend prayer that God would now poor out his Spirit upon '
all flesh, so that all the ends of the earth might me his salva-
tion; that on the first day, that is, on Monday the Bth, be a
holy convocation for solemn tinting, humiliation, sad prayer,
and that on the last day, that is, Sabbath the Ink, be • holy
convocation for thaangiving sad pram; that the later-
veiling time be spent In private end social @lender of prayer
and praise, as the circumstances of each eoatatualty may
dictate; that all God's people of lively name sad
satins, of every cowhand and island, be cordially and
earnestly invited to units with us in a similar observance
of that time' Among the ministers In England who
have adopted this twenties, sad ate 'adenosine( Weise it
sled *these Wands, are the nasals of the Bev. William
Arthur (Wesnyea); Rev. Edward Henry Bickerideth, in-
cumbent of Christ Church, lisadateed ; Rev, William
Brook (Baptist); Rev. Alfred M. W. Christopher, Reface of
St. Aidatas, Oxford; Rev. Ildward Gartiett, St. Bartholo-
mew's, St. Pansy's; Rev. T. Gamier, Deals of Ripon ; Rev.
JUDOS Hamilton, Minister of Noland Scotch Church,
Regent-square; Rev. Peter La Trent (Moravian); Rev. H.
MtNalle, D D., Liverpool; Rev. Wm. Marsh, D.D., Hon.
Canon of Worcester; Rev. Samuel Martin (Independent);
Rev. Th. Menials, 8.D., Pastor of French Church, St.
Martin'eile•Gesad ; Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel. M.A.
1 (Befelell i Right Rev. the Bishop of Ripon; Rev. J. W.
Have, Parana Chapel; Rev. Canon Stowell, D.D., Mar
cheater ; Rev, Manny W. Thorold, Rooter ►of St. Giles-
io-ihe-Fiside ; Rev. J. Yens, Herefold ; Rev. Samuel D.
Wady, Praline of the Weelsysa Confersam; end the
Bra. D. Win% Thee of Waite&