The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-09 00:00:00

MUSIC.

SACRED EARMONIO SOCIETY.
The performance of The Owaiiew drew as im-
mense centeuree to Master Hall lui night. Mr. Sims
Herr* who (in comellmesses, we bars, of the maitiplicity
of his provincial engagements) has not been head in Lon-
don for a camdderable time, wee announced to sing the tenor
part; bat the andieer wen informed, by a notion distributed
la the hall, that the committee bad received a medical arti-
Iris (of whiles mow au given) stating that Mr. Reeves
war 1/Siikein from a serious attack of Diner, by which he
wee ceder to hie room, and utterly unable to
appear fa pedalo. The committee at the isms time
sekeewiedged the roarer with which Mr. Lockey
had =drakes the mute allotted to Mr. Reeves. Mr.
Reeves mune to town only two days ago, in order to assist at
this performers; and we are very sorry to learn that the
Wane with which he hes been suddenly stroked is of a
violent and even alarming kind. Hie absence, however,
could not be felt u a great disappointment when his place
was filled by such a stager as Mr. Lackey, who, we seed
scarcely say, sustained his pert la a manner which left
nothing to be desired. Hi great air, "In native worth
sad honour clad," was a performance of exquiaite beauty.
The soprano part was sung by Mir Louisa Visaing, this
being, we believe, her first appearance at the (lamed
concerts. She acquitted herself admirably; sad, from this
time, taunt take a high rank among our Oratorio singers.
With a clear brilliant soprano voice, which is able to sustain
the C in alt without effort, she proems perfect truth of into-
astir, facile execution and great energy and holing. The
cooly thing smooching to a fault which we could observe
wee the °customs' introduction of embellishment where the
composer's owu passages were sufficiently florid already.
This was the case in the bravura sir, " With verdure ciadthe
fields appeared," in which she gratuitously changed a purge
very much for the worse, and also made a clumsy
ceder where the plain cotes would have been much better.
Her other great air, " On mighty wings," was an admirable
performance in every reaper* ; and she rag the sweet and
tender music in the far part, belonging to the character of
Eve, with great upraise sat beauty. The bass part was sung
by Mr. Sudsy, who also appeared for the first time at these
' concerto, bat whose highly successful dreg at Mr. Hullah's
caners at Bt. Martin's Hall we have already had occasion
to record. He was again entirely suootasfkil, and is well en-
titled to a pins. among our singers of the highest clue. His
education, we nadereland, has been chicly Italian, and for
the stage; bat he evidently knows how to turn it to
good scoonat in applying it to mar of aMe net kind.
His voice, though completely bass la its tram is free from
heavier', sad hie " phrasing" has the grace and earth-
sees of a tenor. Hu Italian tuition, too, has taught him to
speak. We have seldom heard a singer whose elocution was
nave clear, emphatic, and judicious.

The pirkemanos, in its naseetthir (we are obliged toast this
Lori weed, for it has no English equivalent), wu noel-
lent; ami the audience evidently enjoyed with the utmost
relish the delicious fireman of an oratorio which, if not the
gr Dart in ukases, is oertainiy the most charming.

Those who should know tell us (Athatkrum) that
among the novelties of the Jso► season at bar Majesty's
Theatre is to be an opera by Signor Compute—oleo, that
French plays ant to be given there, by a part of the com-
post, of the Thiltre Francais, about or attar Whitsuntide.

Mr. Ella's four winter evenings of chamber music
in announced to oommence on the 9th of next month.

Miss Arabella Goddard is announcing soirées of
Aram musk.

Madame Novello will shortly be in London for the
mem

The entertainment of Mn. and Mr. German Reed
will re-open ►n Regent•street towards the end of the month.

Baron Joseph von Auffenberg, formerly Muter of
the CifINKS/111 et the court of the Grand Hake of Baden,
end one of the wet fertile modem dramatists of Germany,
died the othw day at the age of sixty, at his birthplace,
Freiberg, In Erelapa. He hes lea the greeteet pert of his
property to a monastery In Velma* when be had been
charitably rewired sad named whew, as a' Journey to Span,
in 1831, he had been attacked sad wounded by robbers.

Mr. Kingsley's new volume of poetry, now in the
preen, is entitled " Andromeda, end other Poems."
The first volume of M. Guisot's Memoirs, an-
nounced for the 16th of this month, will include the period
which intervened between the retirement of Louis XVIII. to
Ghee, on the return of Napoleon from Elba, and the
ministry of M. Deeases.

Proiewor Roger,, the well-known author of the
" Eclipse of Faith," hoe become principal of Lancashire
Independent College, a pod vacant by the resignation of Dr.
Vaughan.
The University of fit. Andrew has conferred its
degree of LL.D. on Mr. James 800tt Bowerbenk.

A little printing-press him been sent from Paris
to Constantinople. It to to find its place (says the dthe•
'wow) in the harem of Ribardy Effendi, end will be seed
exchairely for the benefit of the Turkish ladies. Tits wife
of Ribstly Effendi is said to be well versed in French and
English belles•lsttree, end intends to publish a collection
of the beet occidental novels in a Turkish translation.
The entarpriaing lady is busy turbening Mr. Tluickeniy's
"Newtown."

Paris has issued a Rerue GermaniTue, of which
M. Maser is the editor. Among the contributors are named
MM. Denote, Moritz Hartmann (the Austrian poet sad
refuges), LabouJaye, Littre, L Bathhouse, Henan, de Rouge,
C. de Bank, and Daniel Stern,—the last two names, as is
well known, the amiss dephosse of two lady authors.

At a book sale, which took place a few days ago,
a (ivy of the Psalter, printed by Guttenberg, at Menlo, in
1461, was sold for 14,6008. It was badly bound, and not In
very good condition. Only three ether copies are known to
exist , one is at Tram, the seem' at Paris, sad the third at
Mentz. The purchaser was s ganalansa el small butane,
named Maruel, of the Boulevard Bsannseehais. M. de
Rothschild bid for it up to 14,000/r.
The writer of " Table Talk " in the Illustrated
Looks, News states that Mr. Dame Is about to endeavour
to recover by law, from the sommitta• et immagsmant of
the late Art Trimming Exhibitlom, a mars mossy in acknow-
ledgment of his services than has bum paid to him.

The following gentlemen have been unanimously
chosen to fill the vacancies in the Council of the fioelet, of
Arta.—Thom.. Dike Arland, Dr. Thomas King Chambers,
Thomas flopwitb, P.R 8., sad 111,Thomas

Some of the results of the Niger expedition, under
Dr. BAIA bars—lt is bums—beta lost in the Dapping
scrow-steemer, which, in her pansy up, struck while at-
tempting to get !Hugh a has of rode in the river, sad soon ,
mat dews lesaisleanoet, having bar Morn out of the water.
It is dm& that a podeUretemmar would hare got through.
It is ustiebakey to stare (eve the Gardener: CAroniele)
that as NV4I/ win lost, sad that lbs energy of Dr. Wide and
hie tavelwAle semisaat, her. Darter, botanist to the expedi-
tion, is revved br a renewal et the exertions which heal
tine* etas ism ea much litemr.—The dtbioanme sir:
rWe have mew km Dr. Dead, op to Oct. 31. Re one then
at ea estwapetat sear Tibet, la Central Africa, making
oheervalias sad faboatiag epaimmas of bleb, plant., and
weir& Gam of tide tram% espookily his books and
men unknown AA, had lees lest in • wreck. The books
ma be sapplial trom borer sad the lost specimens of na-
tural Wary bey be misted. Dr. Debi@ seems to enjoy
good bank sad speolis lespohlly If Ida enterprise."
Dr. Charles Mackay observes, in the course of a
letter from Daubs :-0 Let me meadow as so iskireitin tart
Ae thaw whe .alp nenessi hiessei, that the dm in Boston
plealod by the Berth& mad , ban slip. or red brought
hem Dglesd, Niels their haves mete later than the satire
Amorists lbw. At this alvenasi period of the year I
astieed, odd the Wan or Ow ism and pillow (MN
flat pees the aronsa, moss oboe of meet lizarbrat green
Mimi% Add asumed aft to bare lost • leaf, or to posers •
leaf Is the allgbleet dome dbooloared. There owe the

Leek oleo, ;hardy Defer, lloorloblog In a vigorous old
WI, VW@ Omar Toles Intben, Deady, espies% and wai-
lers% basil se ealliwer es if they, too, like their human
exingstOrkas, molted hnomoderate/y, chewed tobacco, *pat,
livid is heed sooss, and, in the over burry to get rich, did
Weida Is Asir piped saturo."
Some ingenious toy-makers of London have pre-
pared, se a Christer. toy, a little box of segnetio play-
Wings, showing the various osmosis of attracting and re-
pelling force. The sale of theso scientific toys bee become
an imporeat part of the toy-trade.
The coursing meetings ea the list for next week
aro Brodesrdiss, os Towle), ; Spathorso Clots llosalerserk
mei lleissis" (ape), on Tesoday zed Wodsuolsy ; Noels'-

Anima (.pa), on Thursday, ie.; 11.11assnere, on Thom.
ew; sad Chili sad Diener (UMW. OS Maly sad
Isarkgr.

THE

INTELLIGENCE.

MARSHAL RiDETZKY.

The amigo 4 Views., of the 6th, publishes the
following order of the day, addressed by the Em-
peror to the army :
" It has pleased the Almighty to remove from
this life the oldest veteran of my army; its chief,
crowned with laurels, my most faithful servant Field.
Marshal Radetzky. His immortal reputation belongs
to history. In order that the name of this hero may
be preserved for ever in my army, my 6th
Regiment of Hassan will have the honour from
this day forth to bear it. Wishing to give expres-
sion to the profound grief which I share with my
army, I order that at every military station • solemn
service be celebrated for the deceased, and that my
army and navy wear mourning for fifteen days.
The flap and standards will be veiled with crape
during that period. •

(Signed)

" FRANCIS JOSEPH.

" Vienna, Jal. -5, 18-58."

To the son of the deceased Marshal Major-General
Count Theodore Radetzky, the Emperor has ad-
dressed the following letter in autograph :
" Dear Count Radetzky,—The death of your
father, my glorious Field-Marshal, Count Radetzky,
has plunged me into profound grief. Receive
the expression of my acknowledgments of my share
in the loss which all deplore. May you find
some consolation in the thought that the immortal
hero is mourned by me, by the country, and by the
army which he led to victory, se well as by you,
who have lost a dear parent. I shall take care to
honour worthily the memory of the great man, and
to transmit to posterity, by a durable monument,
the remembrance of the services which he rendered
to my house and to the country.
(Signed) " FIAnCIB Josent.

" Vienna, Jan. 6, 1868."
The Archdukes Albert, Charles, and William were
to leave Vienna on Wednesday, by express train, for
Milan, in order to assist, by the Emperor's orders,
at the obsequies of the late Field-Marshal.