The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-11 00:00:00

ILICTIOr INTILLIGICITOZ.

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7/011RWORAM.
At four o'clock the following was the state of the poll :
Osborne `4 1,
' '4,532
Amber* 1512
Jikaiiissos 2 428
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HER MAJBETY'S THEATRE.

The Huguenots was performed last might, sad
Signor Mongini mad% his Ant appearance in the character
of Raoul. -His &but was entirely successful. He has
shown in this shaman, perhaps more thin in any other,
that he le able to fill the blank made in the company of
this theatre by the lees of poor Oinglini. The part of
Raoul is an arduous one, but Mongini, both se an actor and
a singer, bas powers auffitient to conquer its difficulties. The
manner in which he sang the fine air, " Pin Mance del vela.,"
in the opening scene, where Raoul describes the unknown
beauty by whose charms he has been captivated, made en
instant impression on the audience, which his subsequent
efforts confirmed and strengthened. The transcendent
beauty of his exquisite tenor voice, the grace and finish of
his style, and the impassioned tenderness of his expression,
' all concurred to render his performance of this part one of
the finest we have ever witnessed ; and its reception
showed how fully its excellence was appreciated.
Altogether Meyerbeer's chef crcruvre has seldom been more
superbly represented. Titian., in the character of the
hapless heroine, was grander, more beautiful, more
pathetic than ever. Bentley, by his acting and singing in
the fine part of the Count de Never., gave it all the interest
and importance contemplated by the dramatist and the
composer. Madlle. Sinico as the Queen of Navarre did all
she bad to do—sang the florid music of the part with great
brilliancy; the same may be said of Madlle. Bettelheim's
performance of the page Urbano ; and last, but not least,
Rokitansl7, with his fine basso profondo, and rugged but
energetic action, gave vast effect to the striking character
of Marcel, the veteran Huguenot soldier.
The theatre was crowded in every part. The Prince and
Princess of Wales, with a numerous suite, were present ;
the boxes were filled with persons of distinction ; and the
house seemed the most brilliant and fashionable of the
semen.

Cosaham
reamer
Mr. 06101111111 addressed his supporters in the middle of
the Market-place. He said this was a great triumph of
the " Independent " Society, and he wished to enforce
upon theta that order and sobriety were the rules of that
society. This contest had been won by the working men.
He wished to learn humility in the time of triumph. He
was too sensible of his own shortcomings to take an unfair
'avant'', of an opponent. Although he was placed at
the head of the poll he knew it was through no merit of
his own, but it was owing to the peojile of the town who
would not see a man persecuted for his politisal opinions.
Sir Robert Clifton, Lord Amberlqi, and Mr. Coasham
also addressed the electors. The day passed off without
any violence. The Sheriff will make an official return
to-day.

NOSTEIALLERTOA.
The polling for this borough took place yester-
day. The conservative candidate took the lead, which he
maintained up till late in the day. At 9 o'clock Mr. Las-
cellos was Bin advance of Mr. Wrightson ; at 10 o'clock,
22 ; at 11 o'clock, 28 ; at 12 o'clock, 33; at 1 o'clock, 28.
At half-pest 2 the numbers stood—Las 221 ; Wright-
son, 199. There wee formerly a alight majority of liberal
votes, by which Mr. Wrightson was returned for such a
number of years. The conservatives have added to their
numbers by new freeholds and other means, and now com-
mand, it is generally considered, an undoubted majority.
We learn by electric telegraph that at the close of the
poll the numbers were—Lismlles, 224 ; Wrightson, 201.
Considerable fighting took place, and there were several
broken heads. Mr. Locales and his supporters were
driven from the hustings with rotten eggs. He afterwards
spoke from the hotel.

MR. KINNSDY'S SONGS OF SCOTLAND. —Last
night, at the Hanover-square Rooms, Mr. Kennedy gave
his last Entertainment of Scottish Songs previous to his
departure for America. These entertainments have sur.
passed in popularity all performances of a similar kind
since those of the late John Wilson. Mr. Kennedy, in-
deed, is Wilson's sole successor. He is equal, in all
respects, to his celebrated predecessor, and in some parti-
culars even surpasses him. His fine tenor voice resembles
Wilson's, both in beauty and power; he has the same
purity of taste, and sings the melodies of his country with a
simplicity which adorns them more than all the richness
of vocal embellishment. He enters, like Wilson, into the
true spirit of his national songs ; and is equally happy in
expressing the tenderness and passion of some, as in
seizing the characteristic humour of others. In this res-

pect, indeed, Kennedy has even the advantage of his pro-
totype. His power of expression is still greater and more
varied. He can pass from the heroic grandeur of " Scots
wha bee wi' Wallace bled" to the sly humour of "The
Laird of Cock-pen," with equal truth and felicity. Before
Wilson's time Scottish music and song were strange
to us " Southrons ;" now they are becoming
ea familiar among us as among the Scotch
themselves ; and this change, begun by Wilson, is
still in progress through the labours of his successor. Mr.
Kennedy cannot fail to succeed in America. It was there
that Wilson passed the latest and most brilliant period of
his career. There his memory still is green ; and the fresh
remembrance of him will naturally add to the warmth of
the reception given to his successor.

We learn from the Daily PO3l that an idea pre-
vails that the committee of the next Birmingham Festival
will bring out a new oratorio entitled The Baiting of
Lazarus, the work of Mr. J. F. Barnett.

Mdlle. Übrich, cantatrice, and Herr Labor,
picniat to the Kmg of Hanover, will give their concert to-
morrow at the Marchioneaa of Downahire's residence in
Belgrave-square.

A deputation from the Thames Conservancy, con-
sisting of Mr. T. Thorp, Admiral Sir F. Nicolson, Mr. T. H.
Fry, Captain Arrow (Deputy Master of Trinity House),
Mr. A. F. Elmslie, and Captain Bonilla, R.N. (Secretary),
had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson,
at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 8. —The Queen has been
pletoled to approve of M. Michel Spartalis as Consul-
General in London for his Majesty the King of the
Hellenes.—Garene.

Meetings of the Schools Inquiry Commission
were held at 2, Victoria-street, on the Bth instant,
when there were present Lord Taunton (the chairman),
Lord Lyttelton, the Dean of Chichester, Mr. Acland,
M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Erle,
Q.C., and Dr. Storm. And on the 10th inst., present,
Lord Taunton, Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Acland, M.P., Mr.
Baines, M.P. Mr. Erie, Q.C., and Dr. Storrar. The secre-
tary attended on each occasion. The following witnesses
were examined—viz. (on the Bth inst.), the Rev. J. M.
Brackenbury, Master of the Wimbledon School Sir J. P.
Kay Shuttleworth, Bart. ; and (on the 10th inst.), the
Rev. J. S. Hodgson, Rector of Aikton, near Wigton, Cum-
berland; Dr. Karl Thunman, of King Edward Vl.'s
School, Birmingham •, and the Rev. Mark Pattison, Rector
of Lincoln College, Oxford.

SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOTRAGEMENT OF ME FINE
Arrs.—Last evening Mr. George Cooper, of Newcastle,
delivered a lecture on the Harmony of Colour as applied
to Decoration, a subject which be rendered of practical in-
terest by a number of illustrations both by means of dia-
grams arid the juxtaposition and admixture of the pig-
ments themselves. A discussion followed.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOClETY.—Yesterday morn-
ing a meeting of this society was held at Exeter Hall ; the
Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. The
society bas 180 missionaries employed in all parts of the
world, besides 800 native teachers. The income for the
year, which is 83,1421., is about the average ; but the ex-
penditure of 108,4521. is larger than usual from special
causes. Various funds belonging to the institution have
been drawn upon to meet the deficiency. The Rev. E.
Mellor, Mr. T. Chambers, M.P. the Rev. Aubrey Price,
the Rev. W. Ellis, the Rev. C. Vince, Mr. T. Barnes,
M.P., and Mr. G. Leeman, M.P., addressed the meeting ;
also the Rev. Dr. Mullen, who has just returned from
visiting the missions in China and Southern India. A
second meeting of the society was held last night in the
Poultry Chapel.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONB.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the college, at a
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 9th inst., viz.—
Messrs. Charles Edward Walker, Staniland, Yorkshire ;
Nathaniel Edward Davies, LS.A., Llanrwst, Denbigh-
shire ; Ezra John Hardwicke, Bury St. Edmunds ; Thomas
Cole, Bath ; and Josiah Paull, Carnborne Cornwall, stu-
dents of St. Bartholomew's Hospital ; John Coyte Bailey,
LS.A. Plymouth ; William Draper, Grantham ; Janes
Wickham, Bideford, Devon ; and William Augustus
Bonny, Brompton, of the Middlesex Hospital ; George
Sampson Elliston, Ipswich ; Herbert William Fagg*,
Hythe, Kent ; and William Grimes Palmer, Loughborough,
of Guy's Hospital ; Thomas Joseph Quicke, Brixton ; and
Walter Moore, Myton, Warwickshire, of the Westminster
Hospital ; William Henry Firebrace Smith. London ; and
Frederick Boldero, Rattlesden, Suffolk, of King's College
Charles George Edmonds, LS.A., Peckham, of St. Tho-
mas' Hospital ; Frederick William Strange, Beenham, near
Reading 'of the Liverpool School • and Frederick Dale,
YarmY•
orkshire, of the Edinburgh SchooL

MR. BRIGHT ON THE REFORM QVESTION. —At a
meeting of the Birmingham Reform League held on Wed-
nesday evening the following letter from Mr. Bright,
addressee to the Secretary, was read :—" Rochdale,
May 5, 1866.—Dear sir,—On many grounds it would give
me pleasure to come to Birmingham; but just now I cannot
come. My voice is much out of order. and I was very hoarse
when speaking in the house last week. I could not under-
take to speak to a town-hall meeting until I have re-
covered from this hoarseness. I will bear your invita-
tion in mind, and possibly before the bill is finally passed
or rejected I may be able to come. What the fate of the
bill will be it is impossible to say. The tories will pro-
bably try to force the government to give up the only
valuable points in the bill and to consent to carry what
really would be a tory bill. The government will not, I
trust, yield to them in any way ; to do so would be fatal to
the government, as it would lessen or destroy public con-
fidence
in them, and the bill so damaged would not. even
for a time, settle the reform question. The bill as it is is
but • compromise, in which the reformers have made
great concessions, and to compromise further, and to yield
more, would be to yield everything. I hope if the occa-
sion should unfortunately arise the working men of Bir-
mingham will be ready to do their part in showing what
is the opinion of the country on the bill, in giving a firm
support to the government so long as the government is
disposed firmly to adhere to the measure now before
parliament. I am sorry that I cannot now comply with
your request. We shall see very soon what is likely to
happen in the house, and may then decide an to what
course we should pursue with regard to the meeting you
are anxious to hold. I am much obliged for your expres-
sions of sympathy and confidence, which I value very
highly.—I am, hc., JOHN BRIGHT."
OVEREND, GCRNET, AND CO. (LIMITED.}—The
cloeing of this great establishment yesterday caused a de-
gree of consternation in the City such Si has seldom been
witnessed. Crowds assembled outside the building and
remained until a late hour, looking almost stupefied at the
doors and shutters. The old servants of the house were in
the greatest grief for the calamity which Lad befalisa their
master, the loved ►nd respected Gurney.

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*pirstista Inteittgraut.

TATMUIULL'S.—THrennaT.
It wee gonerally resamkeed tine a more aMidereslthg " Thum'
day before the Derby" was never knovis before. 10Dm would
dow neither fsmOnrflas, middle-dare, nor opleiden. len
omit oßew of •1,4•0 tele% and eves OM to 600 on Use field failed
to tempt backers, while at 6 to 2 Rustic was equally blonde*.
12 to 1 was offered bar treAt.oladaiesMeot,wirs. absent, and
although 100 to 7 mot about Blue 71 A he, too, bad
no supporters la the boom' to Ito "pools'," "fifties," and
"hundreds," wee offered agehnt Vespedan without a response,
and the only animals—ned to rotation—on witch any
investment' were made were ff..t et the Crescent and
Monarch of the Glee, 600 to 15 being accepted about each.
There was a hirldah desire to hack the Bribery colt, "at a price,"
but the only outlay to suit the fancy of hie adherents was to a
posy at 40 to 1, after which 1,000 to 30 was uttered. There were
several inquiries after Strath.:onus (who was backed for a place
at the Victoria Club in the forenoon at 10 to 1), but the layers of
odds were chary about launching
BTout Into long prices.
g to 4 apt Mr, R. Sutton's lord Lyon (off)
6to 2 Duke of Beaufort's Rustic (off)
12 to 1 Lord St. Vincent's Redan (off)
14 to 1 Marquis of Meetings' Blue Bthand (cif)
fle to 1 Mr. Manila's V trilaan.t(off
26 to 1 Marquis of Iliet&s bt of the Crescent (off
to take 30 to 1)
Uto 1 Mr. R. C. Nalor's Monarch of the Glen (t)
SS to 1 Marquis of ailesburts colt by Stockwell
Bri)
50 to 1 Mr. Weenie Btrathconan (off)
1000 to 10 Mr. W. Robtoson's Maori Chief (t)
1000 to 10 Mr. Simile's Lucifer
40 to 1 Lord Glasgow's lot (0
06 to 40 on Lord Lyon and Moak (off)
600 even that Medan beats Blue Elband (of)