The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-30 00:00:00

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TURTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE.
Clear, Thick. awl Invalid TURTLE SOUPS always ready.
ST. JAMIGTS HALL. RFARNTSTRELT, PICCADILLY.
WM. DONALD, Proprietor.

rpo WEST-END DINERS.—The WELLING-
1. TON, St. James's-street. Piccadilly. Ladies' Saloon
Dining-room on the 11r4 anon The subscription rooms are now
open. Terms, twelve months, £1 lla. del, six mouths, £1
Apply to D. Cameron, 41.1, St Jamasetroet.

LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC
ROOM for Gentlemen.—Remember, we wait for you at
•' EVANS'," attar the Covent Garden Opera and the Theatre*.

Vie Orintoo.

Tms Evingrni, A ROMANTIC ATTACIIME\T. Mr. W.
Farren, Miss Ada Cavendish, As—THE FAVORITE OF FOR•
TUN]: Messrs. Buckst,ne, Chippendale, and Sothern: ‘irs
Chippendale, &c.—And TURNING THE TA BEEFS. Mr. Compton.

THIS EVENING, A LUCKY Ha —After which lIENRY VIII.
Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Charles Kean ; Queen Katherine, Mn.
Charles Kean.

Tnig EVENING, SIMPSON AND CO. Mr. Emery and Miss
Elsworthy—And TILE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Messrs. leech-
ter, J"nlan. Llnery, Vern), IVlddleornb, !doreland. d I.ltzpatrlck;
Iletklames Laren, Duverney, Henrade, and Ternan.

BRITANNIA.
Tnxs ETENTsO, RICH AND POOR.- Dancing by Millie. C. Ste-
phan and Mies Morton. The Hungarian Dancers.—To
conclude with THE CORPORAL'S DAUGHTER. Mews. Rey-
nolds, Cranford, & Blgwood ; IllseClaraSt. Cassealirs, S. Late.

HIGII-WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE
THIS DAY —Morning, n. 32m Afternoon, 211. 50m.
TO-Momitow—Morning, U. Int Afternoon, 3h. 25m.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30.

To the ingenuous student of public affairs nothing
can be more refreshing than the rage for electoral
purity, a rage almost ascetic in its bitterness, which
has suddenly seized our legislators, hereditary and
representative. Last evening, for example, in both
Houses the gross and growing evil of bribery at
elections was denounced with all the fervour and
freshness of an awakened conscience, and in both
Houses means of prevention and measures of
punishment were proposed and discussed with an
air of outraged innocence, of alarmed virtue, of
resolved indignation, which probably in no
other political assembly under the sun could
be assumed with half the humour of our
well-trained actors in that line of business.
No prize-fighter turned preacher ever discoursed
upon the wiles of Satan with a larger utterance
than these proprietors of pocket boroughs and re-
presentatives of close counties declaim against the
abuse of wealth in corrupting the sources of po-
litical power. One hears a great deal of the decline
of the British stage, but we venture to challenge
any stage in Europe for such a performance of
serious comedy as that which is just now having a
run at Westminster. The artless art, the perfect
suppression of self-consciousness in the actors,
their complete abandonment to the irony of the
scene and the situation, are not to be matched by
Europe. Englishmen are bad
and in private theatricals despe-
but on the political boards
the race for cant comes
;tible effect. It is the
_ in Morasses masterpiece.
transparent fiche which shocks the

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