The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-14 00:00:00

THE BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 13.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steam ship Ellora, Captain Joy, with the heavy portion of
the above mails, arrived this del' at 1 p.m. She brings 87
passenger., 4 packages of specie value also 124
packages sundries, and 2,809 hales raw silk, value 250,0001.
sterling.
The Ellen left Alexandria on the Ist ; Malta, 4th ; and
(Mueller, the Bth init. On the let spoke the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon ; fith, the
Delta ; Bth, tho Ilapon • and the French barque Panetta
on the I Ith, which requested to be reported at Lloyd's.
Two French troop ships, a Prusuan gunboat, and the
usual Egyptian fleet were at Alexandria. Her Majesty's
ships London, Ciesar, St. Jean d'Acre, Melpomene, 800trige,
and Mani were at Malta ; sud at Gibraltar her Majesty's
ship Argus, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship
Valetta, cud an American steam frigate.
. . . . .

The —Nespobtais ship Battier, which had arrival at
Gibraltar ivoko, on the 7th September, in let. 8.49 N.,
Ica. 94.43 W., the British ship Anne (of Suoderlaud),
from Glasgow, bound to Rangoon ; sad on the 30th Sql-
teniber, in Ist. 35.29 N., Inc. 9.40 W., the British brig
Maid of the Isles, from Malaga for Baltimore, six days out.
The following British ships bad arrived out at Gibraltar
shwa the 2nd lost.—Steamer Frankfort, 6 days from Liver-
pool ; steamer Danube, 7 ■dogs from Liverpool ; and
steamer Agia Sofia, 7 days from Liverpool.
Gibraltar exchanges, on the 7th inst., wars quoted on
London, 90 days date, 50 5-16 ; Paris, M. 300. ; Manteillos,
51. 31c. ; Genoa, M. 33c. ; Madrid, 8 dope eight, par
Gediz, 1 dis. ; Malaga and Valencia, par; Seville, I din. ;
Alienate, 1 dia. ; Barcelona, 1 prem. ; fipsni.h pillan.d
dollars Ferdinand, 21 per cent. preen., no demand ; Span ,h
ditto, Combos, 18 to 20 ditto, in demand. Frsighti
rimmed without alteration.

Dow:fixo-sratEr, Nov. 10.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint George Tomlin* Gordon, Eaq., to be
treasurer for the Island allrettoouver, and Henry gwanston
Maynard, H•q., to be a amber of the Executive Council of
the Wand of Nevin.—Garder.

Thu Btu& Lr SPAlN.—Captain Lithey, of the
cutter Sarah Ann, now loading in the port of Villitvicioas,
is Spain, with a cargo of fruit for Messrs. Pram and Chas-
troll, of this city, lies been compelled to tly from that
country fur the safety of his life, leaving his vessel to be
brought. to Bristol by any person the BritudiConsul may put
~n burnt. It appears that Captain Tetley has trailed to that
port many years ;and being on friendly terms with the people,
and finding them very willing and anxious to know some-
thing of our Bible, he presented one of his friends with
one and distributed some tracts. This coming to the
knowledge of the priest*, created such a sensation and
disturbance that a guard of four men was put to watch
the vessel for seventeen days, and had the captain gone
on shore be would have been taken prisoner. Finding
the anger against him so great, Captain .key reenlved
upon plumbs( some means of ceonpe. He Accordingly got
over the side of his vessel at night, and laid himself down
in his boat, taking with him one of his crew to bring the
boat hack. He landed at another part of the coma cud
made friends with a Spaniard whom he met, and got him
to conduct him to the mountain+, there to await another
guide to take hint to Gijon. Having passed in ,iliguise the
drat and second wintry at the entreuio of the town wide-
tested, he cants to the pier and fell in with an English
captain, who kindly took him on board his vessel and locked
him in his stateroom for six hours, when taking advantage
at night of crossing the harbour in disguise, bo got un board
a vessel just on the eve of sailing for Liverpool and thus
made his agape. He is now waiting the arrival of his
vessel, daily expected at that port -- Western Dui!, Press.
°RAMA DKr', itrawcsis AT BIILIAST.—The oor-
ondent of the Freeman's Journal, telegraphing from
Belfast on Monday sight, says :—" At the annual meeting
of ' the Hempel atiou Society,' held this evening in
the Maisie-hall, the Orangemen prevented the Bishop of
Down and Connor (Dr. Knox) from taking the chair. Dr.
Miller, the vivo-, was appointed iu his stead, amid the great-
est ooufuaiou end uproar. The mews was disgraceful. Cries
of No Pueayite,' •No Popish bishopp, 'smiled the ear on
ell sides. The muse of this disturbance is alleged to be
tho hostility of the Orangemen to the bishop for inhibiting
the Ilse. . Porter from preaching en °reap sermon in
the parish church on the 12th of August. The meeting
bad to be stopped. The bishop retired amid yells, ruins,
and hums"

MUSIC.

MONDAY POPULAR CONCERTS.

These concerts, which have been carried on at St.
Jameerhall for two seasons with extraordinary success,
have now been rammed ; and we have no doubt that the
favour with which they have been deservedly receive/Or by
the public will be continued. When they were first sit on
foot, we could scarcely have anticipated a success so coin-
, piste; for it seemed that performances of chamber music
of the most severe and classical character—such as Wheels
regarded as adapted only to the comprehension and taste of
the artist, or the musically educated amateur—wonlil fail
to interest and attract a popular audience. Experience,
however, bas proved the reverse. The concerts have drawn
crowded rooms, and the pieces which have been received
with the loudest and most general applause have been the
most artificial and complicated— the instrumental quartets
and sonatas of the greatest masters. The concerts, cer
tainly, have done much towards refining and educating the
taste of those who have frequented them ; but it is equally
certain that there must have been among the audiences a
considerable amount of taste and intelligence to begin with.
The concert of Monday evening was of the same character
with those of the last two seasons. The music wax selected
from the works of Spahr, Duseek, and Weber. The per.
formanos opened with Spohr's Quartet in t 3 minor, one of
hi earliest and (perhaps on that account) one of hie most
pleasing works. It is evidently modelled upon Mmart, and
is free from that smell of the lamp which is too perceptible
in Spoheei later productions, admirable as they are.
This quartet was played as well as possible by Mears.
Becker, Ries, Schrears, and Piatti. Two of Spohr's
prettiest vocal pieces—the air, " Rose, softly blooming,"
from Zemire and Azar, and the song, " Restore those
visions bright, " were charmingly sung by Miss Augusta
Thomson. Du sesk was represented by his fine sonata in
B flat, for the piano and violin, played by M. Charles
Hale and M. Becker ; and by one of his calumets, " Name
the glad day," a lovely composition, sung most exquisitely
by Madame Lemmens Sherrington, and applauded so enthu-
siastically that the fair vocalist returaed, after she had
left the orchestra ; but it was only to bow her acknowledg-
meets. She did well ; and we hope the encore nuisance is
in the way of being got rid of.
Weber's music consisted of his magnificent sonata in C,
op. 24, played by M. Balk ; his air from Euryanthe.
" Glacklein tin Thale," sung by Madame Sherrington ;
and his quartet in B flat, for the piano, violin, voila, and
violoncello (a work in great favour among our amateurs),
which formed the conclusion of a most excellent concert.

DRAMA.

LYCEUM.

Madame Celesta has at last produoed an original
melodrama, which ought to do her theatre much good,
peenniarily and in point of reputation. Adrienne ; or, air
Secret of a Life, is the title of a new piece played on Monday
night with a encases widely different from that which can
be easily distinguished se the mere first night's triumph,
resulting from the partiality of friends. Indeed, had the
promise of the first act been carried out, Mr. Leslie, who has
thus made his first eery in the dramatic world, might have
at the outset of his career taken very high rank among the
stage authors of the day ; and, even as it is, he bas shown
a power of construction which, when a little mellowed, will
enable him to hold his own with the beat of our original
dramatists. This, perhaps, is not saying much; but we
mean no 'neer on Mr. Leslie's capabilities ; to understand
the :ircaua of dramatic requirements is simply arrived at
by long study. The dramatist, unlike the poet, is not born
ready gifted, bat acquires his aptitude by study and prac-
tice. Mr. Leslie has made a very successful Wend, and with
experience and are will work up to ahigh position.
The first act of Adrienne opens in Rome, where Adrienne
de Beaupre (Madame Celeste) is the beauty, the toast of the
young men of the city. Foremost among her admirers is
one M. Victor Savigne (Mr. Neville), who proposes to her
and whom she loves, but he has a rival in the person of
M. Eugene de Grams (Mr. George Vining), who, using
for his influence some mysterious secret affecting the moral
statue of Adrienne, compels her to engage herself to him.
De Grasses has spoken slightingly of Adrienne, and is chal-
lenged by Victor. In • duel which takes place in a mist the
former is severely wounded, but Las his consolation in the
avowal wrung from the young lady that she willingly
betrotbes herself to him. Three mouths Lave ela.eied, and
we find Lie Grasnac in a louu chateau, still suffering from
his wound, and attended upon by Adrienne sod Bertrand
(Mr. Villiers), her mulatto steward. The wound dose not
progress ; on the contrary, it increases iu virulence and suf-
fering ; and the patient writes to a celebrated Parisian
doctor a full account of his ca.) and his feelings. To the
audience it is plain that the protracted agony is caused by
the machinations of the steward, who play. tricks with the
bandages which he prepares, sad which Adrienne binds on
the wounded arm. Eventually arrives the letter from the
Paris physician, in which it is plainly declared that the
symptoms described are those of an irritant piton. De
Grasso dies, denouncing Adrienne—his principal nurse—as
his murderess

The third act is weak. Adrienne, and her faithful atten-
dant, Gianetta Soarotta (Mrs. Keeley), frightened at the
dreadful accusation, have tied into the mountains,
where Victor devisee (now become an officer) is quartered
with his regiment, in pursuit of banditti. A prifet claims
the soldier's aid to arrest a murderess, and Adrienne is cap.
tared by Victor's men, but fortunately Bertrand, themulatto,
in a dying Mate, confesses his guilt. and the mysterious
secret, threatened by the deceased Eugene de Gramme, is so
nissterious that not even the audience can understand it,
but it is apparently cleared up to the satisfaction of every.
body, and the curtain falls on the presumptive marriage of
Adrienne and Victor.

Ai we have before said, the piece was very nearly being
very good—as it is it is well worth seeing. Madame Celeste
plays with bee usual force and spirit ; Mrs. Keeley brings
a subordinate portion, from sheer artistic talent, into ► most
conspicuous position; Mr. G. Vining concentrates a life of
energetic villany into two acts ; and Mr. Needle renders the
rather insipid walking gentleman interesting and effective.

Tel PRINCE OF WALEri' Cot yen. CILAYEZZ,
BUCKINGHAM-OAM Nov. 10.—The MANS Of thaw who
have been nomineted by the council of his Royal R
the Prince of Wales to serve the office of sheriffrtrat
, county of Cornwall:--John Francis Bassett, Esq.,of Tehidy;
Thomas 'l'ristrum Spry Carlvuu. hot., of Tregreban ; John
Michael Williams, Esq., of t.....terhayes Castle.—Gazette.
MSFXASTILS MORALITY.—Oue John Omani was •
behind a Newcastle counter, on Saturday evening, when a
country girl *eked to be shown some belts. He produced
them ; she purchased ono and stowed soother away is her I
pocket. :scent bottles were shown her, sod one of them
followed the belt. She then Purchased a paw of stockier •
and " lifted" another pair to keep them commas% The
watchful Coward saw all these robberies committed wed
when the girl had paid her bill he accused her of the theft.
Being asked at the police cond., yesterday, to give his
retwoua for encoutugiug the commission of crime in this .
manner, he proudly replied that if he had charged the .
WOlll4ll with stealing the belt "she would not have par.
chasol anything afterwards ;" and he, of course, was Anl/OIN
to olitaiu as much of her cash es possible before he de.
nautical her as a thief. The magistrates, we grieve to learn,
did not appreciate Mr. Coward's sharpness, for we are told
that they reprimanded him, and inflicted only a lenient
• punishment upon the prisouer.--Yeicorstfe ChroPieit.
TUN NOTTINIIHAM STK! KE. —Tho statement made
by the secretary of the Lace Trade Society that all the sons
society men had been discharged from the factories wherein
the Mechlin dispute hail been for so 'mg a time peoding,
has been denied by thoprincipils of the %rms,whe.atatethat
some only were discharged, and some nre left nu the pre.
milieu The masters never =tend iuto au agreement to
discharge the tionAtociety men, hut what then have done
lea been entirely at then own disuretion. The lockouts
commenced work on Monday
MUKUER IN SCOTLAN LP. —At a late hour last
(Monday) night we received intelligence of a shocking
murder, perpetrated ou Monday eight iu the usually quiet
village of Alexandria, Vale of Leven, Dumbartonshire.
The details which have reached us are comparatively
meagre, but (rum whet we have been able to learn it
appears that the fated deed WIA the result of a quarrel be-
tween two men, stihooe namea have not been ascertained,
the one a shoemaker, and the other a mason's labourer.
The men, who are stated' to have been human Ca-
Umbels and fellowdtpdhoirs were on Sunday night
conversing together on the merits of Gorilsiddi, when
a violent altercation arose hetet en the two, termi-
nating in a fight, which their Luollottl thought
better should be finished otitskle the house. Theo acmes
dingly proceeded to the street, and there renewed the am-
filet, which, however, was won brought to a fatal conclu-
sion by the labourer stabbing his uutagouist iu the abdomen
with a knife. Returning iitt, the house the labourer inti-
mated that he had put an en,: to Al opissitine in the future
from his companion, when the Istullonl ruaheil out and dis-
covered the body of the unfortuiuste shoemaker stretched
'Helios upon the street. The intirdt-rsr was arental, and
has liens lodged in the prison at 1 Muilerton. It is AuDoceii•
eery to add that the wean-unto bus created a 111414 painful
sensation throughout the Vale. -11'..4 Britiale Mai/.
CRYSTAL PALACT. —ON f: SHILLINO DAY.—Trri-
DAY, Nov, 1:t-Admissions on torment, 6.35 ; ditto to,
steam tickets, 104 ; total visitors, 1,1;44

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