The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-28 00:00:00

THE ORPHEONISTS.-THEIR RECEPTION.

The following is a translation of a letter which
appears in the Times of this morning :
" Monsieur le Directeur,—The Orpheonists are enraptured
with the reception which has been given them from the
day of their landing until the present time. The English
nation. tumidly so impassive, has feeed us. Thanks! a thousand
times thanks! It pains us to learn that a rumour is
abroad that we are paid. This is false. Our Orpheonisfi
societies, which include all classes of society, rich and poor,
will never consent to sing for money. The Orpheon is an
admirable fusion of society ; it has no distinction of caste,
we are only singers ; such men are not paid.
"We have sung especially to prove to the English nation
our sympathy and our ardent desire to see our two countries,
already united by commercial relations, united also by mu-
sical fraternity. Let England also organise its Orpheona.
Observe the example which we have set ; 150 societies, of
whom much more than three-fourths are strangers to each
other, have come at a fixed day and hour, have quitted
agricultural operations and city business, to show England
the fine organisation of the Orpheons. We hare
had much to complain of in the reception we have
met with from the hotel-keepers. Their ignoble
rapacity has been painful to us. We have been deeply
wounded by it. Arriving at 8 o'clock on Sunday night by
the South Eastern, those who, happily, were undeeirous of
sleeping at the suburb of Islington, traversed the City, re-
pulsed on all sides. The hotels—Queen's Hotel, Clarence's
Hotel, De l'Europe, Leicester-square— had room and we
were refused, because we wore oar Orpheoeist badge..
After walking about for two hours, threatened by an official
with being left on the pavement, we found a wretched
lodging, which we had to quit very promptly on Monday
morning. Having left St. Etienne on Friday night, we
reached London on Sunday evening, harassed and fatigued,
and yet we were unable to get supper at any price.
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" Receive, &c.,
"J. Snots, Directeur de la Loire."

Yesterday morning, as the Parana was about to
sail from Galway, with the mails transferred from the Con.
naught, a countermand was received from the Post-offics,
directing the mails to be forwarded to Londonderry for
shipment in the Palestine, which will sail this evening,
However, a telegram has since been received, authorising
the mails to be put in charge of Lieutenant Cashman, R.N.,
and they thus have more than a full day's start of the
Palestine.

RCOBY SPEECH®.—The Rugby Speeches were
delivered on Tuesday last in the Big SchooL There was
a large and fashionable attendance. Dr. Temple (the heed
master) read the list of old Rugbeians who had obtained
honours during the last 12 mouths at both universities.
The Queen's gold medal, for the best English Essay on an
historical subject, was won by Ormsby. The Latin Essay
prize was divided and won by Pirie and Hammond. This
subject of the English verse was "The Fall of Venice,*
and the prize was obtained by Rhoades, M.A. The 'cholera
for 1860 are Barrett and Babitigion.

GRELT ROBBERY OP JEWELS FROM RES ROYAL
HIGH2IIBB THE DUCHESB 1W MECKLENBURG-STHELITZ.—
Yesterday afternoon information wax received at the chief
Police-station, Scotland-yard, that her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits, who had just arrived from
Germany on a visit to her Majesty, had been plundered of
a case of costly jewels, set with diamonds of the most
valuable description. Her royal highness travelled in 4
Hanover, Berlin, and Paris, oink, having landed at Dover,
came up to the metropolis by railway ; and on reaching
Buckingham Palace the jewel cue was discovered to be
missing and notwithstanding that several of the most expo-
rienotd'detectives were at once set to investigate the m►t.
ter, up to last evening they had failed to throw any light on
the lose of the missing jewela. The articles abstracted, inde-
pendent of their intrinsic worth, said to exceed 3,000/., are
invaluable as family relics and presents from dear friends,
and the duchess is consequently in great trouble at their
lose. A large reward is offered for the recovery of the
jewels. The officers who have been engaged in the inquiry
are, however, of opinion that the case was stolen before the
duchess niched this country.

TEE LIVERPOOL Pore°Nitro CARE.—The coroner's
investigation into this case wra proceeded with yes.
terday. Thomas Winslow, the person charged with
having administered the poison, was not present, the
local magistrates having declined to release hint
for that purpose from 4mol. Before the proceeding,
commenced, Mr. Cobb, solicitor, who appeared on behalf
of the prismier, stated that he hail received no instructions
from Winslow, and applied for an adjournment The
coroner mid that as the evidence of the scientific witnesses,
Dr. Cameron and Dr. Edwards (the analytical chemist),
was not quite ready, it would be better to adjourn the case
until next morning, particularly as Dr. Cameron's evidence
was essential to give a key to the other information which
would be adduced. The coroner commeuted with some
severity upon the anomalous state of the law, which, while
recognising the coroner's court as au institutiou, prevented
the prisoner from being brought thither, and thus subject.
ing him to committal and it might be to execution, without
his having Lad an opportunity of henries the evidence
against him. The inquiry was then adjourned.
MAN KILLED IN A PUGILISTIC ENCOUNTER.-012
Monday morning a pugilistic encounter took place near
Erskine Ferry, on the Clyde. The combatants were Irish-
men, and came from the Salt-market of Glasgow. Every
thing was carried on acconling to the most inviolate
rules of the prize ring. Round followed after round,
the combatants being cheered on by their reaper-
tive supporters, until a full hour paned on, at the end
of which time Reid. mutilated and disfigured by the blows
of his opponent, fell to the ground completely exhausted,
and gave in. His friends carried him (for he was totally
unable to walk) to the inn at the ferry, where, from the
mortal injuries he sustained during the fight, he died in
the course of a few hours. M`Lachlau is a young matt of
about twenty-two years of age, and Reid was somewhat
younger. Death was occasioned by a blow received by de-
ceased oo the temples. The body was conveyed to Glasgow
on Tuesday. The police are still on the look-out for
M'Lachhur, who bas absconded. Deceased, who was a
powerful man, fought successfully a well-known pugilist
named Mooney, near Glasgow, about two months ago.
Edinburgh Cut:rant
A FURTHER FAIIXRE AT BILSTON.—Mr. T.
Johnson, a brother-in-law of Mr. Foster, of the suspended
bank, called a meeting of his creditor. on Monday last.
Mr. Johnson is an Iron, steel, and tin-plate merchant, car.
Irving ou business near to the bank, and himself living on
the bank premises. The firm has gone by the name of
T. Johnson anal Co., and an account Inc. been kept at the
hank, and overdriwn. but not to a very large extent. The
meeting, however, which was to be held at the office of
Mears. Willis and Hall, solicitors, did not take *op
owing to a want of a sufficient nember of creditors assem-
bling to constitute a meeting. Had the meeting been held,
we are informed that the statement which Messrs. Willis
and Hall were prepared to make on Mr. Johuson's behalf,
would have shown that the creditors would not, if they
acceded to Lis proposal, eventually sustain much loss. Mr.
Johnson's suspension is not likely to he productive d much
inconvenience to others, as his creditors are not more than
six in number, and such is their business position that the
event would not to them assume tut aspect of great gravity.
—Waver/tampion Chronicle.

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