The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

MUSIC.

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.
The second English opera season at this theatre,
under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and
Mr. Harrison, began lest evening. They have begun
well, and so, we trust, they will continue, for
assuredly they deserve well of the public. By their
management, at once liberal, spirited, and judicious,
ever since " the Pyne and Harrison company" was
formed, they have given our own national opera
that which for many years it had entirely lost—a
local habitation and a name. English now divide,
with Italian opera the occupation of the greatest and
meat magnificent theatre of oar metropolis, and has,
moreover, a full share of public approbation and
patronage. -

It 14-significant of the position which English
opera, thanks to Miss Yyne and Mr. Harrison, now
holds, that the Queen has suinsuneed her intention
of patronising the establishment, and has commanded
the Royal Box to be reserved for her Majesty's use
during the mama p sad the state of the sublanption,
we understand, • sufficient to ensure succor.

Since the leis'r began their labours in their ori-
ginal domicile, their constant prosperity has had the
effect which prosperity ought to have by increasing
their means it has enabled them to extend their
establishment to • scale in every !septet
worthy of a great national theatre, while
success hu quickened inetead of relaxing
their exertions. The company, is larger and
more ethcient than it ever was before ; the orches-
tra its such as no English theatre ever before pos-
sessed ; sod, for the 'production of every piece with
das eamplateness and splendour, they command all
the means and resources of the great theatre where
they are located. Is Mr. Alfred Mellon they have
• musical direotor of the highest order ; and the
appointment of Mr. Edward Murray as acting mane-
ggeerr a guarantee for the manner in which the
besissr of the stage will be conducted. Of the
qualities and attainments of the different performers
we shall have occasion to speak in connexion with
their appearances; but there is one whose n ime
is set on the list of the present company,
sad whose abeenoe we sinocrely regret—Miss Susan
Pyae, who ha. hitherto held the place of seconds
deems to the great satisfaction of the public.
Plesslog and ladylike in appearance and manners, a
sprightly and intelligent acmes, with a good if not
• powerful voice, and the acquirements' of • well-
edoested musician, she has been a valuable member
of the erimpany, and her retirement from it will pro-
bably to felt.

Tie hews has undergone Dome alterations. The
grand tier of boxes has been converted into a " dress
sisals" of open bemire; and the stalls, instead of en-
grossing nearly the whole of the pit, are now limited
to the three front rows adjoining the orchestra.
These changes give the house the look of an English
theatre ; and the dress circle, filled with company,
gives a much more
.gay and lively aspect to the
house than a tier of private boxes.
The opera was Dawrah, the announcement of
which drew one of the fullest house* we have ever
seen. The work is adapted to the English stage
train the original French, the libretto being written
by Mr. Cindery. The dialogue, except in
the airs and concerted pieces, is spoken with-
out recitative, very much to the advantage
of the dramatis effect. The action moved
with much more rapidity and spirit than it did in
the Italian venial pranced on the same boards,
when it was seamanly, in compliance with the con-
ventional exigencies of the Italian stage, to clothe
the whole dialogue is music. Mr. Charley has per-
formed hie task with abitity. His dialogue is nest
and lively, and the difficulties of adapting to the
merle words in a different language from those to
which it was originally composed hays been sur-
mounted with skill and felicity. The opera is now
too well known to the musical public to require any
account of its plot at detailed criticism of its
merits. Its character is fully established by the
voice of all Europe as one of its illustrious author's
happiest efforts, having a greater affinity to the
Etude du Nord than to any of his other productions,
but even excelling that work in originality of style,
in novelty of ideas, in the charm of its melodies, and
the richness and picturesque variety of its harmony
and instrumentation. Though much of this music is
es profound as any that Meyerbeer has written, it is
singularly free from all smell of the lamp. Simpli-
city, indeed, is its most remarkable character-
istic ; it is full of • rural freshness ; and
it flaws as freely as •if it had come into
the composer's mind without the slightest effort
of thought or labour. The drama is faulty in vari-
ous respects, especially in the character of the hero,
who is an unworthy personage, and excites aversion
rather interest; but the heroine, the poor crazy
country girl, is a charming creation, and engages
oar warmest sympathies. And the piece, taken
altogether, though somewhat incoherent and obscure,
has afforded ample scope for the genius of the
musician.

Mir Louisa Pyne's Diaorah was a perfect per
In her personation of the character,
as well as her execution of the music, she was
certainly equal, if not even superior, either to Cabe;
or Carvalho. She acted with charming simplicity
and pathos, and it seemed as if the music had been
written expreulf for her, such was the ease, grace,
and finish with which she sang the wildest and
most arduous . The famous "shadow-song"
was a blaze of bril iancy ; the audience listened in
wonder and delight, and expressed their feelings by
' repeated peals of applause. Her performance,
indeed, was a triumph from beginning to end. The '
part of Cotentin, the buffo of the piece, being for a
tenor voice, was necessarily performed by Mr.
Harrison, who did it great justice, exhibiting the
grotesque terrors of the clown with considerable
humour, end singing with his usual ability and
effect. The character of Hoel was assigned to Mr.
Bentley. It is an ungrateful part, and afforded no
means of judging of his powers as an actor. But
he sang admirably ; and the pathetic romance in the
third act was one of the gems of the evening. A
remarkable triumph woe achieved by a young dr,-
ietante hitherto unknown to the public even by
tea—Miss Pilling, who performed the little part of
the second goatherd. She sang the cruizonet at the
beginning of the second set with such a lovely
contralto voice, such purity, simplicity, and grace,
that the audience not only encored the air with ao-
clam ations, but, at the end of the opera, when the
performers were called for, there was • loud and
general call for ber, which wee continued till she at
length came forward. This young lady, who is said
to be a pupil of Mrs. Wood, is evidently quite on-
praeti-ed on the stage ; but, with her rare musical
gifts, she cannot fail to achieve success. The other
parts were performed by Miss Thirlwall (another
promising clibutamte), Mr. Corti, and Mr. St.
Albyn ; the whole cut being complete and satis-
factory.
After the opera "Cod save the Queen" was sung
by the whole strength of the company with extra-
ordinary power and effect ; and a short ditertirsement
terminated the entertainments of the evening.

FORCIIIIIITS FOR JAVA.-11 addition to the
sainforeerneste aimed, lest ont Se the Duich E..t India
pemeesioss dories the 4101tfl• of this year. amouni lap to
mere than 1,0011 ems. the King he. been pleased to order
farther deamimeste Moths number of 1,403 sem to be shipped
sseee.dvely vp te dread el tide year ; se that the may In
the Bast ma be retsfeessil by 3,000 fresh troops, a number
mere thee ealliefeet to mime the seaseeke caused by the
esfertunst• 'splines to Bost sad the ravages gumbo is the

Dutch maks b 7 diesese—tevels end chotera7 &s ides thins
mint seemente, many of the Swim 'oldie's hitherto belong-
ing to the awns retriments la the service of the King of
Naples. but mew lately disbanded, have arrived here, and
have volanevered for servios lathe Dutch army in the East
Indies. Abaft. 2.000 of them have been screwed. They
moue for eerie years' rontintoss service, at the rid of
which period, se the innate is decidedly sshsslthy for Us
pease, they will eit►er °basis t►eir discharge with a suitable
prance. or elm be ievaiiiird to &acme. Kerb man ni-
-1 earn bounty of SOL (IW.) sad a higher rate cif pp.—
Cline Digraph.

DRAMA.

STRAND.

A little one-act piece, called The Great Russian
Bear; or, Another Retreat fres llaseato, by Ms. Thema,
Morton, wee produced at this theatre with moderate smais.
The story torus upon the adventures of the Prisons Chris-
tine (Miro M. Simpson), • daughter of the home of Brune.
whit, who, unable to bear the gew-atiptial cruelties other be-
trothed, Duke Alexia' sone, the Remise Cam, has dephited
death and escaped indieguies to Brakebrickcood, • village en
the melees of Poland, where she is hospitably received by
her late mak% Minks (NW M. Wawa), who hes merrkd, ot
rather promfeed borealf in merelege, to ea lankeepr nemed
Potemkin (Mr. J. Clarke). At the commencement el the
seeks of the piece the Prison see rum km been diecevered,
and an imperial tame her mitred to the chief megkereee of
the village, Antony filsperits (Mr. H. J. Tuner), bidding
him emit all simpiolone peneine. Simultaneously with this
document comes Gawp Trevillaut (Mr. Pareelle), aa
Ensile:imam, and late a caplets fn the Reed= service, who
bee been deeply in love with the Prinoses, but whom
temerity in saving her life has been reweaded by
alas from her memos and dismissal from the
array. Immediately on seeing his haughty beauty
Captain Teevillian determines upon denouncing her; bet
hie love retenue, and so he is half way through his speech
conclude, ft by pointing out the maid Minks Si the teethe
Prisms—he h uaderstood with that Itusetaa A*4l'o fell
leers red Meuse. &overlie inusedianty has Mtoka ermined .
but Shen arrives before the seem • Dumb corporal (111.:
Bleed) in the Russian service,_ who denounce* the reel
Christine. Confused between the two the magistrate hits
apes • scheme : he leads up • notes hem • friend, end with
it a dawdle to be put on by the Prinoses, but the quick wit
of Minks ohnumvente him ; she drawee herself is the die.
gels% aid Christine escapee with Trevilltan to love and
liberty.

The little Ores was smartly played by all'coueerned, but it
he. not sufficient standar for any lengthened run. We
would strongly recommend a revision of some portions of the
dialogue, the allasioma la which wire so equivocal as to evoke
some smart hires.

SURREY.

The winter /01111011 Of the Burry commenced on
Saturday night, when war produced a new play, founded cm
the German poet Leming's tragedy of Helot*"
and called The Bridal of Beatri:. The action in Leering's
tragedy takes place in a modern Italian state, in the English
melon it is transferred to Spain; but both are tamely mo-
dernised ranks' of the greed old story of Virginias, ear
bellishei (?) to unit the tone el • Surrey audience.
Bate: Novena (Mies Thorne), a lovely Spaniard, lop n-
amed to be married to Cast Pedro Zelaya (Mr. Webster
Verne.), but has beau emu by sad hie exalted the wont
Pilleiollll of the Duke Hallam de Cardona (Mr. Basil Potter).
The libertine employe the reences of his chambsrials,Marquio
Tartars (Mr. Voltaire), to waylay the bridal pert, on their
way acmes the mountains. The plot is carried Leto effect,
the girl is carried off, mod the lover shot deed. Beelrls I.
carried to the duke's castle, and there dishonoured. This
loot is told to her father, Seteven Nouns (Mr. Crsewich),
by adi merded mistress of the duke's, cos Counters Omuta
(Mies Edith Maraud), who is mad for renege on her know
lover. The father is distracted at the tale of his daughter's
*haw, and seeks an Interview with her seduce, bet is
captured and dragged to the duke's oink. There he &coven
his daughter, learns from her own lips her wretched story,
sad is implored by her to end her life. He oreesets, end
stabs her to the heart, then meets tho dub: they fight, sad
tech kills the other.

The plea, though well acted, wee but moderately 1111C0111••
fel. Mr. Cowlick is strong end imptealoned, his lest somas
being really artistically modern; and Mtn Hosed, posted
a little awkwardness °lpsw and slight nervations, played
with judgment and feeling. But the tone of the play seemed
unsuited to the audience, and though they applauded oaths-
initially at first, their interest saluted to wax fafater and
Laster as the piece proonded.
" Campbell's American Minstrele," with an entertainment

oldie medal Ethiopian chaisetat, followed the play, and
seemed touch more seeeptelble to the trampontine taste.

Haw OAIRDENS.—The statements relative to the
clods* of the Kew pleasure-grounds on the last day of Sep-
tember have been construed into a cicalae of the entire era-
blishment, whkih has never been contemplated. The &teak
Garden constitutes one portion of the royal grounds of Kew.
It comprises 75 acre, includes all the plant. houses, and is
separated by a light wire fence from the pleaeare-ground.
It is terrible to the public every day (Good Friday
alone excepted) from 1 o'clock (2 o'clock on Sundays) till
mart throughout the year. "The pleasure- groluida,"
writes Sir W. J. Hooker, the director, "is an adjacent pert of
the dememe—a richly-wooded park, bordered on one side by
the Thames, emulating of nearly 250 acne, and now, by re-
cent pleating, ocnatituting a noble arboretum of all tress and
shrubs that will bear our favoured climate, and intersected
with extensive and well •kept walks. A lake of fir acres with
blends, is forming, and anew cceservatory, or winter garden
of unprecedented sir, for tender tress and shrubs (rhododen-
dron., camellia., So.) is sanctioned and provided for by the
the crown. This banding will be erected by Mr. Darius
Burr, the architect of the palm-hors, and is to be com-
menced forthwith. This fine piece of ground, roweembeg no
;articular attraction in winter, nor much deltas in bad
weather, has not hitherto warranted the cost of gate-keepers,
to., nemiseary for the admission of visitors at that season.
Des expressed wish of the public has, however, been or -
rhea by the First Commissions of Works, and I am
inswectsd by that gentleman to keep open the pleasure
grounds during the present month of October. There are
three entracte to the pleasure grounds from the public
red .—first by the Brentford gate; second and third by the
Lion and Unicorn gates on the Richmond road. The entrance
to the Botanic Garden I. open daily, and during the period
when the public have access to the pleasure grounds there
are communication by four gates between these grounds and
the }Manic Gordon."

THE VISIT TO BALMORAL. Some of OW
south country contemporaries are making a great
noires about the united ill treatment of Mut members
of the British Asionanoe who went, on le vitatios,
to Balmoral on Thursday week. In our last, we
owed that If there were anything wrong, It we. pro-
bably dos to a miraudsrstandiag, and the more we Inquire
ioto the @abject, even without seeking authoritative odor-
the more we are coavincvd that if there we, any.
thing mobs, it was dm entirely to • mi.understanding—
and • mieunderstanding for which the guests were

quite as much to blame as the royal hosts, or anybody
who represented them. Her Majesty and the Prince
Consort, we are secured, did go to the reception-
room within the hours named, and kindly recognised
all who wen present; and if a majority of the guests
had arrived too early, and had scattered thenirelvea bore and
there in search of comfort after a cold and hungry ride (the
letter condition their own fault), it could not well be helped.
So far re we can yet see the oaly thing awaiting at Balmoral
wee some peeron to point out exactly what was to be the
programme of the proceed.ngs. Hat ieg got something like
• tangible ground of complaint, our southern contem-
poraries seem disported to make the most of the affair, and
add to the horror. of the "middlo pump " from Aberdeen
to Balmoral. The keerr of the refrethmeat rooms at
Benchory comes in Lon• thereof their indignation, sad
he is Ithuired in paragraphs or having been most eztertionete
I in his demands on the untietenato members of the rape-
' diaper. His care, which is a very simple ono, may, perhaps,
be further explicate]. In the meantime it ts encash tomes
that he neither said nor acted en the principle that it wee
Ism every day that he had the BritiabAmouclatlanwith him ;"
that, according to order, he hod prepared • breakfast for 200,
I which was not partaken of; that, when the party came beck.
they wore timbered into • well-supplied mom; that most or all
partook of what wee provided, end that the whole money be
realised from the party, in threepences, eixpeucee sad
was eloctly 3d. or about 40. • heed. We say
nothing more at jpreerat, because we feel that the principal
members of the British Association would te ashamed to ha
mixed up in this paltry squabble. But if we have to rocurto
it, we .hall out forget the " (+mob bottoms" of the two
pommel members.—Adsrditew Berta.
CONVICT LABotia.—We are informed that the ad.
Womble condition of the gunboats at Chatham dockyard,
Which It is proposed te mad se a part of the fleet to Cetus.
is entirely oiviag to owlet labour. They have been
thoroughly eletn, swiped, sad painted bye party of we-
enie. under the asperinthademe of a prima officer, end their
condition has salted the prates of all competent judge', as
they are now immediately available and In as serviceable a
condition as when they IMMO OM raised ea the slipway after
the }Weill.* woe.—cwa &ea* a.m..

LONDON RIFLE BIIOADE.—Hu drape the Dote
of Amen, X.T., bee promoted IGL to this brigade, sad as
Pa& Zia do /id d Arbon& 104

TILE ATRANABIAN CREED.

With more plausibility a zeal for primitive '
doctrine may be pretended in defence of the Creed
called Athanuian. But although this formula ad-
mits, to scholastic ears, of en orthodox explanation,
its most obvious sense, and the one in which the ma-
jority of its hearers understand it, is neither ortho-
dox nor Athananan, and is as little consistent with
the doctrine of the great father whose name it falsely
buns as it is with common charity. The doctrine
of St. Athenaeum asserted, in the mysterious unity
of the Divine Mind, a triple but inexplicable
dis-
tinction, which may be faintly illustrated, though
not paralleled, by the Will, the Resew, and the
Life, in man's mind. Thus his three hypostatic
agencies were neither three paring phase., nor
three personalities involving distinct minds, but
metaphysicsl and spiritual to each a degree that no
untradiction to reason was involved in them. But
when our common people hear of three " Persons,"
they are tempted to profane conceptions, as if of
Abraham, Isaac, end Jacob.
If the Creed wen 'modem, it would be not the
less spurious. Even Waterland confessed it written
about a century after the Nicene Council ; and the
authorities which ought to have guided Waterland
make it at lout two centuries later still To the Greek
Church Rum king unknown, and then hateful. Au
Archbiebop efOsentaatisople wee us blind to its
merits-ost be pronoenced ljjhs work of a drunken
man. Only in the teak* century, in the darkest
night of Popery, was it adopted by the Church of
Rome. Its general us in England is later still,
though it was known earlier. If we try it by the
old test of Catholicity (" what has been always and
everywhere believed by every one "), we find the
years through which it was unknown to the church
and those in which her soundest divines have pro-
tested against it outnumber the dark ages of its
reign. Archbishop Tillotson wished us " well rid
of it." Bishop Jeremy Taylor, who's name is in
itself a phalanx, wrote elaborately against it. The
most revered of our English sovereigns have discou-
raged its use in their private chapel.. The Episcopal
Church in America made the rejection of this forgery
one of the first signs of her freedom. Its defenders
amongst ourselves do but apologise for it. Dr.
Arnold wrote that he accepted the damnstory
clauses in no sense but in one which took away
their sting. Baron Bunsen, whose liturgical learning
is to that of our Palmer. and Procter* like
pure gold to tinsel,declares the whale document to be
the climax of confusion and uncatholic blundering.
An orthodox friend of mine, reading prayers
in a church where a bishop (now alive) had
ministered for years, was perplexed to find no re-
sponse, as he read this Creed; and still more startled,
when the clerk asked, tt Lor, sir, where be you got
to ? We han'na heard that this many years !"
If it were otherwise expedient to read a Creed
which nine-tenths of its hearers misunderstand, so
that it leads them into false doctrine, there would
remain the damnatory clause to be considered. These
would be harsh, even if they accompanied the saving
truths of the Incantation and Atonement. How
much more so when they enforce a scholastic and
disputable comment upon them, and are capable in
practice of being separated from them. We might
remember here our Lord's positive command: Judge
not, that ye be not judged. St. Paul might remind
us that all judgment is reserved for the day of light,
and for the God of light. Above all, our Bishops
may be asked, does any one of them believe that Sir
Isaac Newton, Milton, Watts, and Chinning have
"without doubt perished everlastingly"? This
Creed condemns them all. Yet we might travel from
London by Oxford to Exeter without finding a
Bishop so lost to charity that he does not cherish
in some owner of his keen a gleam of hops
for those worthies of two kindred nations. This
is the demo/sliming feature of the case, that our con-
gregations nnderstand this Creed in one sense, and
both high and low amongst the clergy mean it in an-
other. This is true without reserve of the Damns-
tory Clauses ; and for the metaphysical minds among
us it has a qualified bearing upon the forme' concep-
tion of the doctrine. Simplieiores aunt (sure* plebe,
guam cords Stwerdutum, said St. Jerome, on a
kindred point.
The compromise of abbreviation, which some have
proposed, is here of no avail. It would equally pro-
voke mediaevalists; and it would not satiety the true
followers of Primitive Antiquity. Our remedy here
is a simple option of omission. Three line' in an Act
of Parliament, exempting the clergy from penalties
for omitting at discretion the Athanasian Creed,
would procure its exclusion in a few years from three
parts of oar churches. Yet the faith of the Church
would not be changed. The Incarnation, in its
genuine Nicene form, would continue to be taught ;
the Atonement would still be preached as a ground of
reconciliation ; and those who love a literary forgery,
whose doubtful metaphysics and manifest unchari-
tableness are most unnecessary consequences from
, those doctrines, might continue to recite it.—" The
Vicar of Broedchurch" in the Daily News.

Tug Ihocr.er or Durallam.—Petitiona to parlia-
ment are being numerously signed in North Shields and
other parts of the 'anthem division of Northumberland,
pnming that any 'theme btousht forward by the Eocleake-
deal Commissioners for the alienation of a portion of the
revenues of the diorme of Durham to other (Hommel should
not be /sanctioned until proper proviaicn is made for the
spiritual wants of the dens, populations in the manufao-
taring, maritime, end mining dietricta of South Northumber-
land. The population of South Northumberland is very
much on the incresee, more especially in the Great Hartley
steam eoal-field and on the shorts of the Tyco; sad a vory
inadequate provision is made from the revenue of the
church for the maintenance of religion in those parts.

FALL or THE Root or AHouse AT 80LT0N...-
On Saturday morning, a little after ten o'clock, • madder-
able portion of the roof of a bona occupied by Mr. Atherton,
Priareenetrea, Bolton, fill in with a load crab.
lire. Atherton and ate of her younger daughters had •
very narrow *arms, but fortunately no personal injury was
sustained. At the time of the occurrence, lire. Atherton
sad child were mending within a few inches of where a con-
adorable portion of the roof fall, and only a short lame before,
feeling unwell, they had berm in bed, haring only just risen
and stepped outside the bedroom when the roof fell on
the place they had just left. The aperture caused by this
0111CUTIWIC• la about eight yards by la, and although for
some time put the roof had berm perceived to be in a
rather dilapMated state no danger wee anticipated.

STRATOItTENINO A CROOKED CHIMNEY. -as Thei
operations for rotating the colossal chimney at Port Demise
to a perpendicular and safe position are now successfully com-
pleted. This was accomplished by sawing several of nee
mortar beds between the courses on the side from which the
chimney leaned, thereby all .wing it to coins bask by Its own
weight. without the application of any external force. Oaf
one draft was cut at a time, to guard Sf•inat any shock which
might bass endangered the stability of the building, and by
keeping the law, wet a bed of mortar was prepared fat the
suprrinoumbent weight to Rattle down upon. Twelve cute
were made in this manner on different parts of the structure,
which generally set before the saws had passed through half
of the areumferenee, particularly in those mods merest the
ground, where the weight we. newest. We have to congra-
tulate the proprietor and Mr. Dusan Macfarlane, architect,
by whom advice this method was adopted, on the moms of
their undertaking. The principal dimension' of the chimney
w:—Total height, 468 feet; from surface to top of cope,
464 test ; outside diameter at foundation, 60 feet; at surface,
64 feet ; at mug, 14 lest. Aceordiag to calculations made by
Prefer°, Rookies, the building, independent of the adhesion
of mortar, is capable at sustaining with safety a lateral pree-
mie of 6416. per superficial foot at its weakest point, being
I.llb. more than the force of the rreatest storm registered in
this country.—NeriA Brifith Daily hail. _ _

- - - -
COLLIIRS' STIIIICZ Ilt SCOTLAND.—Daring the
last few weeks, as our readers are already aware, the miners
le the employment of the Messrs. Doak, of the Clyde lime
Works, to the number of between throe and four hundred,
have been as strike for so advance of warm' to the extent of
sixpence par day. Other employees, it was alleged, had
greeted the tacreme, which was resisted by the company
alluded to, in coneequeoce of *bleb the men, to the somber
above•mentioned, left off work. The parties, we understand,
however, hays this week entered Into an arrangement—the
employers conceding, in the meantime, the demands of the
workmen, who have consequently rammed their labours.—
Glasgow Montag Amara.
THE DUTCH BLOT INDlns.—The government sad
adial°°°Tatio, of Jays, Nei ether posseasioes of the Dutch
in th• Eset Indies, for the year 1867. coot 66,866,123 florins.
at 6.726.6191. steeliest; sad far 1868.82,818,666 Aortae, at
7,161,6224 sterling.—Chins 2Wqmple•

SPORTING.

THE LATE MEETING AT NEWMARKET,
WITH HINTS ANENT BEDFORD, RICHMOND,
AND THE CALEDONIAN HUNT.