The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-04 00:00:00

TAINMENTS.

The entertainments on the occasion of the ap-
proaching nuptials of the Primer Royal are to consist of
four dramatic performances at Her Majesty's Theatre pre-
vious to the day of her Royal Highness's marriage, and •
grand choral concert at Buckingham Palace cm the evening
of that day. The arrangements for the dramatic performances
are under the direction of Mr. Mitchell, in 00-operation with
Mr. Lumley, and with the assistance of the following ma-
nagers of the principal theatres : Mr. Buckstone, of the Hay-
nerirket ; Mr. Webster, of the Adel* ; Mr. Harrison and
Mias Fyne of the Lyceum; Mews. Robson and Emden, of
the Olympic ; and Mr. Phelps, of Pedlar's Wells. The first
performance is to be Macbeth, under the direction of Mr.
Phelps; the parts of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth by him and
Kies Helen Permit; with Ounford's fsroe, Twice Eilkd,
in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. The second
performance will be Balfe's new opera The Rote of Castillo,
as it has been given at the Lyceum, with • oomedietta
by Mr. Robson and members of the Olympic company.
The third is to be an Italian opera, with Piooolomini,
Giuglini, and other stare of Her Majesty's Theatre, and fol-
lowed by a ballet divertissement. And the fourth will con-
sist of an English comedy by Mr. Buckstone and the Hay-
market company, with an afterpiece in which Mr. Wright
and members of the Adelphi company will perform. The
Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Court, and her
Majesty's royal and illustrious visitors, are to honour these
performances with their presence; a great portion of the
grand tier of boxes being set apart and magnificently fitted
up for their reception; and the whole theatre, moreover,
being splendidly decorated.
The Colleen at Buckingham Palace Is to be oa a large and
magnificent scale, embracing the services of our greatest
vocal and instrumental performers. Madame Clara Novelle,
we learn, will come to London expressly for this occasion,
and will return to Italy till the commencement of our regular
musical season.

The Prince and Princess de tdcekowa are expected
to arrive this evening at the Brunswick Hotel (Bt. James's),
where a suite of apartments ham been engaged for their
reception.

The Duke of Newcastle will receive a distinguished
anccesaion of visibly, at Clamber Park, during the regent
week. On Thursday the Earl of Scarborough's fox-hounds
are to meet at Clamber, when his graze, it is said, will give
a breakfast to a large party. The noble duke and Lady
Susan Pelham Clinton are expected to arrive in town to-
wards the claw of the ensuing week, in order to be present at
the celebration of the nuptials of the Princess Reyal.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are ex-
pected in town about the 15th instant, from Trentham
Hall, where they have been entertaining a numerous circle
of friends.

The Marquis of Exeter, accompanied by Lords
Edward and Henry Cecil and Ladies Cecil, :ham left town
ix Burghley. The marchioness is in too delioete a state to
be removed from London at present.

The Earl and Countess of Sandwich have, during
the Feet week, entertained a succession of guests at Hin-
altiabroke, near Huntingdon. On New-year's eve the
countess gave a ball to a brilliant circle, including the
Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Countess Craven and
Ladies Elizabeth and Evelyn Craven, Viscountess Enfield
and Hon. Miss Brig, Viscount Orey de Wilton, Lord and
Lady Oeorge Paget, Hon. Mrs. Heneage and Miss Henesge,
Hon. Mr. Montagu, Mr. Fellow's, M.P., and Hon. Mrs.
Fellows', Mr. Rush, M.P., and Mrs. Rush, and a ntuntrons
assemblage of the gentry of the county. Lord Hinchin-
broke, who hue just joined the Grenadier Guards, will enter
upon his military duties in a few days.

The Earl and Countess of Yarborough come to
town on Wedneaday neat, from Brighton, where the noble
earl and counter have been staying for some weeks put,
The Earl and Countess Grey are expected in
town the latter end of the week, from visiting Sir Charles
and Lady Mary Wood at Hiekleton Hall, Yorkshire.

The Earl of Lonsdale arrived in town on Satur-
day afternoon, from Folkestone.

The Earl of Eglinton and the Misses Cockerell
ere expected in town on Thursday, from liglisten Cutle.

Viscount and Viscountess Goderich are expected
'stows the WO" end of the week, from Brighton.
Viscount Canterbury has returned to town from
a tour of visite.

Mr. Cardwell, M.P., addressing a meeting of the
members of the Druidic Order, at Oxford, on Friday evening,
said he had lately bad the privilege of visiting a country
which in the late war wu our cordial ally—he referred to
Bardinia, where institutions similar to our own were working
with success, where our commercial policy bad been adopted,
sad where, although truinded by France on the one side and
by Austria on the other, t hat commercial policy vas firmly main.
raised. When he visited that country ten yegr► s!r, las was
as permitted to worship, except by ebahl, in a protestant
plea of worship ; but he bw.l lately had an opportunity of
attending the church at Turin, which wu a striking proof
of the pervert of religious freedom u well as of commercial
beam which was taking place in the countries of Europe.
He was told that it was by no mama an nufrequent Wag la
that country for the people to speak of themselves as Anglo-
Italians, becatue they adopted our forms of government, and
were desirous of imitating our example.