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

TER DRAMATIC COLLEOL

(From the Era.)

It will be satisfactory to the friends of the drama
to know that two distinct offers of land have been made to
the provisional committee. One plot consists of five scree,
situate near the Woking-station of the Loudon and South-
Western Railway, and is presented as a free gift. The other
combas of from fire to seven acres, termite at Garrard's-
croon. This is oopyhold, but the owners of the manorial
rights are reedy to render all the assirtanoe in their power
to make it se available as if it were freehold. In these cats
the committee are dealing with partial whose promisee ars
to be relied upon.

The benefit which took plow at the Royal Surrey Theatre,
on Wednesday, the 22nd ult., produced about 1001.

Through Mr. Heavy H&Wei , of Stratfonion• Avon, the
csotamittes hays received 6U. 16.1., the result of an amatew
performence, and soma eubscriptions, particulars of which
are given in one of this Warwick newspapers.

. .
Si; William Don, who has started to fulfil some provincial
engagement., has undertaken to seed once a week, during
period of three months, half the receipts of each Friday
swain(' performance, to which he and Lay Don will be
entitled, under engagement., which @etude Friday nights foe
their benefit, and secure to them a clear moiety of the re-
ceipts. Other generous off.re have also been acknowledged.
A general meeting of the rubscribers is to be held at the
New Royal Adeiphi Theatre, on Wednesday, the 12th
inst., to authorise the committee to accept one of the other
gifts of land, now proposed to them, and, at the aame time,
to approve other proceedings the advaiteed state of the in.
etitution jurtifies. We believe one of the objects is to pro-
cure a Royal Charter.

The Senates Academic= of the University of
Edinburgh, at their neasdag of Saturday, eoeferred tfu
degree of LL.D. on Charles 'Leedomll, Esq., Professor of
Greek in QlNlelell College, Wiest.

THE BRIGHTON ill estimated that
the half-year's dividend will be 31. 10e. per cent, making,
with the previous MN year's dividend, 6 (iii) per Oat. for
the year 1868, the same es for the previous year, 1157. Thu
the high dividend of this company keeps up, and the company
substantially improves every year.—Berepath.

ECIPSTIPIC MEETINcS OF TILE WEElL—Tuesday,
Jan. 4 1869 • Royal Institution, 3 p.m.. Professor Faraday
on " Metalline Properties—Strength, Welding, Mageetime,
do. •" London and biliddlewx Arcbrcologioal Society, 4 pam..
council toesdng. Wednesday, Jest. 6 Royal Society el
Literature, 8.30 p.m. • Oeological Society, 8 p.m. Threw
day, Jan. 6 : The Royal Satiety, 8.30 p m., Mr. Coyle', "A
Sixth blear* on Quentin." Rev. S. Rernsbaw, on " The
Mathematical Theory of Sound;" Dr. Hofmaan,
eserchee on the Phosphorus Bases, Part Pb
reined Urea; and contaibutione towards the Hietoryrt:
Menantinse;" Royal Institutlem, 3 p.m., Profane:le Faraday
I on "Metalline Properties—Three States, Alloys,
Zoologioel Society, 3 p.m. • general business. Friday, Jas.
7 : Archaeological Institute of Great Britain end Deified, 4
p.m. Saturday, Jan. 8 : Royal Institution, 8 p.m., pro.
lessor Faraday on Metalline Properties—Voltaic Babory.
Royal &Made Society, 2_ p.m.
Tin EXHIBITION OP 1881.—The exhibition of
1861 in a feat l It will take place, and be admirably well
carried out. The lit-trate COWthiAlliollo,ll will, with the
products of the people's freely-bestowed shillings, mote, as
the 26th but., all-efficiently to the aid of the Bi:4cm corn-
miesionirs. The site is settled—not at distant Sydenbere—
not at agowcovered Batta resa—but on the very ground
imeit.by the commiseioners of Fifty-one through the
of the people. Who that ever saw has iT
th=tryde-park Pa of 1851? Nor will the
of 1861 be forgotten in 1871. The site of Sixty-tee is bean
than the site of Fifty-one. It I. only over the way, the other
aide of the great thoroughfare bending to kingly Kensington,
the Star and Garter et Richmond, end %Vohs'', time
honoured Palm" at Hampton Court. A railway is alto
in formation for the purport of pouring in the well-
hec
but denesly-crowded, inhabitants of the manufacturing die
tricts of Regland.—/liestreted Loudon News.

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WILLB.—The will and two codicils of Major.
Genaml Bir Wra. Raid, G.C., lets of
Malta. formerly of the Royal Engorge, who did on the
Slit of October, at his renames, Glouorster-terrace, Hyde-
park, wee proved in London on the 4th of December, by the
Rev. Chrig,Gore Gambler Gambier, the sim-in. law, one:of the
eiginters. Power reserved to the Lord Bishop of Lichfield
and Coventry, the brother.ln.law, and the Rev. Aar 0.
Lawsialw his son. The personalty was sworn under 40,000‘.
He has bequeathed his property chiefly to his four Jarvis*
daughters, who are the residuary legatees. There area In
lignite sad inanities. The will was made in Decree*.
1849 ; the flog codicil in 1856 ; and the lag on the 26th ol
October, 1858—three days previous to his deresis.—Rhs.
tread London News.

THE MANCHESTER ART TREASURES EERIE.
TlON.—ne report of the executive committee has jut op-
peered, in an octavo volume of 103 pages. It states that the
receipts from all waned amounted to no,sau, and Hid ths
balancs to the credit of the committee is 3041. 14a. It, est
of which they have yet to pay one or two trilling claims.
A HOUND WEDGED IN A RABBIT BURROW.—
, A short Wu ago, after a days bunting in a cover in this
neighbourhood, a favourite and valuable bound was mints&
On the day following a strict search was made for him:tiara*
and it was supposed he must have been accidentally Out or
had got entangled in a bungle. On the Monday followings
one of the party heard the moan, of some animal in distrewa
the noise proceeding from underground. This being nide
known to the keeper, the earth-stopper 'nu troon In atter
, dance with his spade, and after a little labour, the poor animal
ers found tightly wedged m• rabbit burrow. He was
speedily extriourd„ apparently but little, it tiny, the 110101
for his five days incarceration, lunch :o the joy of all, ha
being a regular "good un."—/Isaatrx Erpras.
THE SULTAN AND HIS CREDITORS,—A Constan-
tinople latter of the 111th December, in the Nouvelliett of
Marseilles, says :—" A demoutration took place • few dm
ago, on the part of the person. who supply the palace, sod
whose accounts still remain unpaid. The Sultan was oo his
way from Top Hand, where he had breakfasted, to the p-
lace of Dolma Biktcht% when he was met by an assemblage
of nearly three hundred of these crediters, who crowded
round the imperial cartire calling for justice. The
first movement of the Sultan, at finding himself sur-
rounded by this crowd, who were uttering loud cries, wee
to lay hold of the hilt of his sabre, but, soon, discovering
the pacific character of the darnel:nitration, he ordered that
three of the creditors should be delegated to call on Had
Bey, who should that very evening rec.ive the necessary
orders on the subject of the claims. The following day
three of the principal creditors waited on Haki Bey. who
sent them to Riau Pubs, the president of ths commission
formed for the settlement of the account. of the civil limy
but which ha. only held one or two sittings, for Intone sakes
Rix= assured them that all their accquota should be page
but that at present funds were wanting. Meantime, many
of these unfortunate men, who are pressed by their own
creditors, have been obliged to suspend payment. and revival
of them have bairn completely ruined. A similar demon•
etnation was made two days after by the workmen of the
imperial buildings."
SYDNEY &Mit RETITED ON THE. BANKS OF THE
M sssss re t.—An article on Edgar A. Poe, in the EdiabrrgA
Review for April of the treseet year, calls forth the ludigne-
don of the IVashrilk Gazette. which, after deacributt the
reviewer's remarks es refined Billingagate," reproves Syd-
ney Smith, whom it conceives to be the author, in the follow-
ing terms:—" If the Rev. Sydney Smith, the editor of the
Edinburgh Review, had more of the scholar and lees of na-
tional prejudice, be would bare devoted the time expended in
the before-mentioned paragraph to a much batter purpose by
• more critical analysis of the writing. of Poe. In fact. we
think that the author of the " Raver." sod " Annabelle" id
above and beyond the critical acumen of the reverend gentle-
man." _

AN OPERA COMPANY ON ITS TRAVELS.—A
correepoudeut of the Nem Task Post, who wee a follow-
traveller with Ullman's opera company, in the steamer
Connecticut, • few night" versa tivroo in 5 rivet. letter, floe
hollowing intelligencei—" The opera company, numbering
something (Ivor • hundred. kept too a prodogieux jabbering
an theta:ad—French, Engli.b, Italian, German. and what
not Formes took two of the ballet or chorus women under
hie special charge, and saved them and others all night
with storied and Imitations of age and doge. Others gang—
and very finely, teo—in the hold, having first obtained hi-
eDirsrioo various bottles of wine, brandy, &or
Tomato. state-room seemed to be the besdocittarters for
liquor, but although many of the Italians and Germane
were exhiliratoul, none were' dloorderly. The prime dooms
kept apart moody. and Ghioni derived comfort from • ler
dog. On the land journey from Stonington to Boston the
chorus people took possemion of the boat car, and filled It
with tobacco smoke. It was altogether a funny company."
MEDICINE. OR No MEDICINE.—Dr. Jacob Btgelow
boo just published a work, In Amick% on the " Rationale
of bledieine," in which he says I gnome!, believe that
the unbiassed opinion of moot medical men of found judg-
ment and long expsairnom is made up that the amount of
death and disaster in the world would ho loge, if all dismal
were left to itself than it now is tinder the multiform, tack-
le/re, end contradictory mode* of protean.. good aud bad. with
whirl" practitioner" of adverse denomination' carry on their
differences at the ezpenee of their vetivers."
Gus ACCIDENT.—A lamentable accident occurred
at the holm* of Mr. M. Mitchell, farmer, at Oreystonee.
Monday

Wheatley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on
evening last. Mr. Mitchell's son bed been out shooting.
and, on returning borne, he left the gem, loaded but without
• cap, on a rat above the fire. Some time
when the family were 'rated round the fire, M:.fteli=
took down the gun. Not knowing that it was chargsd, h.
put a cap upon the nipple, and tried to blow oat the candle
by way of eroue•ment. Tbs eldest daughter of Mr. Mitch
who wee seated nearly opposite her father. at • dietanoe ol
hut fur or five yards, wsa severely wounded on the loft
side, end the other mashers of the fatoily was thrown lab)
• peat* of great onatenfialon. Mr. Jebb, purger's, Halifax.
was early in attendance, On examining Mire Mitchell he
found thirty shot wounde. neerly all n the left side; ad
prioceed in catenating eight shots. Hopes are panatelas&
of her recovery. Had it not hewn for the thkknass of bat
clothing where the shots penetrated, she would pobtaill
have been Wed an the apt.