The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-12 00:00:00

gig Court.

It is the intention of the Queen to review the Ar.
tiller, lately returned from the Crimea at Woolwich ee
Monday next, at eleven o'clock.
The Queen held a court at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
at Buckingham Palace.
Prince Oscar of Sweden had an audience of her Majesty,
and took leave. The Prince was introduced by the Earl of
Clarendon, KAI, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Major-General the
Ron. Sr Edward Cast, E.C.H., her Majesty's Muter of
the Ceremonies. . _ .

His Royal Highness wit, attended by Baron de Hoch.
'child, the Swedi.b and Norwegian Minister, Colonel Loren,
and Lieut.-Colonel Cavendish, Oroom in Waiting to her
Majesty.
M. Y , the Turkiiih Ambassador, had an audience
of the Queen. His Esoelleney was introduced by the Semis.
tory of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by the
Muter of the Ceremonies.

Mr. Andrew Buchanan, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary to toe King of Denmark, had an
audience of her blej,sty, and took leave on returning to
Copenhagen. Mr. Buchanan was presented by the Earl of
Clarendon.

The Queen was attended by Lord Camoye, Lord-ia-
Waiting, and General Sir Edward Bowater, Groom-in.
Waiting.
Atter his &utilises of the Queen, Prince Oscar visited the
Prince and Princess of Prussia, in Buckingham Palace, and
took leave of their Royal Highnesses.
The Queen, Prince Albert, the Prince of "'twilit, and the
Princess Alioe rod. on horseback in the forenoon, attended
by Berea d'Alrenalsben, Colonel F. U. Seymour, and
Lieutenant-Colonel d Boyen. The Prince of Wales also
rode on horseback yesterday morning.
The Prices and Princies cf Pros is and the Prinoem
Louise, &Vended by the Counters Oriolla and Count de Boos,
west yesterday morning ti the Gallery, in Pall-mall, of the
New Society of Painters in Water Colours, and aftetwuds
inspected the Net onel Gallery. Their Royal Highnesses
Paid a visit to tee Duchies of GI lice-ter. at Gloucester
House. In the afternoon the Princess of Prussia and the
Princess Louise went to the Exhibition of the Royal
Academy, and the Prince of Prussia visited PrincrOscar of
Sweden at Claridge's hotel.
Her M.jesty and t►e Prince Consent, with the Prince and
Princess of Prussia, took a drive in the afternoon in an open
landau and low. The Equerries in Waiting attended on
horseback. . .

The Queen and Priem. Albert, aecomputied by the
Prince end Princess of Pruett' and the Princess Louie.,
honoured the Priccen's Theatre with their presence lut
musics. The royal suite ccasiated of the Countess von
Fluke, Couotess Orions, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Madame
von Sternberg, Count de Boo.,Baron d'Atvenaleoen, Lord
Camp. Major-General the on. Charles Grey, Colonel F.
H. Seymour, and Lieutenant-Colonel de 13,yen.
Major-G 1 the lion. Charl...Grey has relieved Lord
Chines Fitiroy is dunes u the Equerry in Waiting to
the Queen. _ _ . . .

Prince Oscar of Sweden paid nisi.' yesterday afternoon
to the Duchess of lEmt, at Clarence-louse, St. James's,
and to the other members of the royal famtly at thelr
rw-
'pß.eties retodenees. Ham Royal awn. s., *treaded by the
Swedish Minister, visited the Gallery of M. Claude, and
sat for a stereoscopic portrait.

Matter of the Oaf .rd Calamity Commission was
held at No. 17, Great Queen•etreet, Westminster, on Tues-
day, Wednesday, Thursday, and yesterdcy. Toe cumnie-
sioners present were the Earl of Ellesmere. the Earl of
Harrowby, the BAN, of Ripon, Mr. Justice Coleridge, the
Dean of 'Wells, sad Sir John Awdry.
lhe Juciiciel Commi•ree of the Privy Council rat yester-
day. Too appeal " Van Cient v. D•uglas" (cargo az
Problem), wee concluded. An app-al from Bombay,
"Bodhrao littneetint v. Nitrites Rao," aria beard, and an
appeal from Jamaica, " Simpson v. Reynolds," was pal
heard.

DRAMA,

LYCEUM THEATRE-MADAME RISTORI -LA

LOCANDIERA.

Goldoni himself said, that if La Lacanciiera—
literally, "the mistress of an hotel"—were translated into
French, the title ought to be rendered by some such words as
La femme adroite," The eleeer woman." The position Of
a landlady in Italy wee so different, p►rticularly in
Goldoni'. time, and is even also in our own days, from
that which the landlady of an ien in England or Franco
would occupy, that the pwitioa dots not sufficiently delis,
the character. Let as take Goldoni's word, without enter-
ing into any elaborate discussion as to the difference between
the characteristics of the landladies of France, England, or

Italy. No groat

after all the author of 14

Locarictiarawas, in a certain lens., a

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as Goldoni. From biter idle shaost, he studied characteriatlee
as they appeared to him in theatrical representations. His
son, moo, and Mars were chandeliers, woe condles, and foot
lights. His grandfather was rich, luxurious, expensive.
and so passionately devoted to the stage that he built a
large theatre of his own, where he had dramas represented
with costly magnificence, for the amusement of himself
and friends. Even his father fitted up a Marionette Theatre,
in his own house, which formed the delight of Goldoni's
childhood. "Amidst riot sad luxury I entered into the
weed." raid Goldoni. " Could I possibly c indecnn theatri-
cal amusement, or not be a lover of gaiety 1" It would he
difficult to suppose that be could. So be write' cornettist
at eight years of age. playa in them himself, and is OM
whitened with applause. He rune away from his studies to
join a company of strolling vowelises—sows wild oats, in
short, with a desperate Fonts:ewe, which fiourobed won-
derfully in the fruitful audio which they were thrown. It can
scarcely he wend. red at, therefore, that Goldoni, although
by the 'civics of his (shreds adopting the profession of wive.
cote, is which, we may r. mark, he made a ewer distin-
guiebed deina--gtaviteed down to the profession which was
the ohject of his earliest aspirations. Still leas can we
wonder that his plays betray rather more of the life of the
beards than of the life of scud meth. lie has not much
tree sectiment, no profound knowledge of the world,
although he is swivelled in his acquaintance with its our•
face; but be is • firefrate muter of incident. He is Iwo
passed by no one in the vivacity of his dialogue, in the ex-
ceeding nesters. of his expel-ea:me, in the admirable con-
struction of his plots. His characters were thoroughly full
of thLt girt of life which was viable in the Italy of his dayt
we can marctly expect that he st ouhl have thought
of going deeper than thin. As it is, he has dose
wonders in his hundred and fifty plays. Among the
crimes of the tyrants of Italy for the last three cen-
turies, let Italians
national life bees developed in the eighteenth centem
Alfieri sad Goldoni might have been the two greatest dra-
matiets of their age. As it was, they were like Hamlet in
Goethe.' exelanation—tc mos compelled to be developed is
flower-pots.
The first mew of the Locanditra reresents 'he aristcer
warns Marquis of Forlipopf It and the pure.. proud Count
Albatiorita in hot dispute as to their own nicrits end thole
pretensions to the rarities of the fascinating landlady (La
modiste) of the hotel where they are staying. The scene
hen is rather grotesque then comic The two inter:acetone
are 'viewer's rather than &sneers. Shortly alter we
are introduced to a third inhabit.nt of tbr : he, for-
sooth, is a woman-hater, and despises the marqui. and the
emit for their infatuation with ',sleet to Mir...doling'
(Madame Hatnri). La Locandiera. Ito frost. her brutally
enough at her first al pearsace. Mirondoiina cares nothisg
at all for the atteciioes of the irritated marquis nr the purse-
wood count. Tutta it into piece re consists in redeem(
servita, rashest/iota, adorats. Qoesta e la min de b.fli ese,
e quiets e' la debate's; di quasi tette le donne."--
whale pleasure consists in being served, flattered, adored.
This I. my little weakness, and is the little weakness of
almost all woman."
It wee riiftiorsit to conceive that the actress who personated
the tempest in the mind of Medea, the rapt holiness white
was the great feat.» in Maria &wird., the wising,
medieval esectity in Pis dei Talocoti, Abe rapid vitolityin the
eharacrer of Rmounds, could personate in all .heir fullness
the traits of • mere landlady of a hostelrie. 'bet this did
Madame Ristort, and a crowded house testified, lay the
abondatios of their •pplause. that this wos sot the least
triumph that she achieved. Neverthel, es, ?deism Hester&
showed is her performance that she wee abler to reach iles
summit of theatrical representation, She was called before
She nest* several lines.