The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-08 00:00:00

Overbuy Wm lasrl Datios.
sh sasramdlisa " asUpps
Colsaa asaddaf.
Cowart solo—dor clararl sad srobssiss—

as—tiTagr- .--I•73:3E.Tit•- 2-;1 • L Bum
fast perfannase
Sees .d Ala—"l Masao ver," Maass
Pares. ant Use of performance fa
Imened lebemetels.
Or (A Illdeniamer Napa's Dream) lfestelseetus.

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C Maar Illagievaa.
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&mein=la t = i
Bolo— Calaise la .1, Ma Agar
flashonastra ahead it Hama
lake—'lllllltato argisai" Madam Pampa
and Mr. Peaty Yawl.
Ovelare Mamma Mandator.

The omen was spindklly got up, sad new pine was
admirably palmed The oreheekra was ere complete sad
powerful as ever, sad Mr. Mellon exhibited his well-news
shWty as the coadooter. The programme (es will be mesa)
penman s begs: proportion thee renal of aevslty ; bat the
novelties wen not always happily chosen. It would be me-
gments, however, to complain of • oonoart which ...bind
rook tinge as Beethoven's symphony Ia 0 minor, dm
illustrious composer's chef enema is anneal writing,
Meerisimohab onsiare to the Midwinter Night's
Drama, sad litsradole Bomb's tented planchet° sobs ;
pints safileisat of themselves to meditate a festeate
ecamst. Bedios's overture to Map Lest is regarded by his
admires as OM CI hie best &amino prelates ; and this
opiates is probably Piet, thole' it involves so very exalted
estimate of his power. La doseribing it sad many limner
predestine, we —y borrow the barmy employed by
Weber is speaking et the shereetaristis features of the
ultra-modern style of orelmateal camposiliss. " Abend,"
be says, "to the matariab of the f Newest symphony
whisk I have waived from Views. Timi, •
slow movement full of short, broken idles, so one
of bridal has the slightest anneal°. with another ;
even ten minutes or so • few strildng shone ; thee •
mooed rumbling on the kettledrums and • mmilisions
pangs or two he the violas, and worked ep with • dee
proportion of wisps sad pause. Them swiss • raging
amovenasat, in managing which the prised* aciasideralba
is to avoid following up any particular idea—thus lambi
the more for the Ulmer to she out for himmlL The
greet point is to avoid everything that inks like mats&
amity to rule. Rolm are made for every day mom* sneak
cramp the freedom of genius." In drawing this pines% I
Weber might really have had overture to Zia,
Leer before him.
Snaltines air from adippe a °dome (very well wag by
Mr. Patsy) is • fair specimen of the Italian noel style of
the eighteenth century ; but that style is now &etiquette&
every pump the• is von* having been repeated by later
imposer, till they are worn threadbare. liabinstein's air—
from some opera sot iadieeted—is long, laboured, sad loud.
It kept Pampa's powerful voice at its almost stretch,
without producing any earrespooding effect. This woom-
, planed lady was unfortunate, too, in the other air allotted
to her. It was from an dawn opera of Aube, end me-
tidally did not display the captivating qualities if that con
poser's music.

Pmbass the moat stmossaful of the *oval pima was
flilaa's clever solo for the clariaet, played by Yr. Lamas
with unaurpaarabla brilliasoy sad beauty.

IMPEOVEMENTS ar MILAN.

Shareholders in the City of Milan Improvements
Company (Limited) will read with interest the fol-
lowing translation of an article which has appeared
in the journal Ii Sole, of Milan, of the 4th inst.
The writer confirms, from personal inspection, the
extremely satisfactory accounts which have from
time to time reached England respecting the re-
markable progress and solidity of the company's
works. The article is further interesting as fur-
nishing an independent local corroboration of the
estimates of rentals arrived at, after the most
careful examination, by the officers of the company :

We have lately visited the works ci the Victor Ema-
nuel Clattery, new in course of construction under the direc-
tion ci the diatinguished architect of Italy, Big. Magma
The Milanese jouroals have always looked with special fa.
vour on them works, and the geseral public, being now evi-
dently meek interested in them, we were most anxious to
me for ourselves' the progress which had been made and the
manner in which they had been carried out by the Otty et
Miles Improvements Compaay. We were not roily always
convinced of ON utility of this project, bat also believed in
the absolute necessity which existed for a caliphate and ra-
dical changed the old streets sad badly-built booms. which
timid advisers had allowed to remain standing in the centre
of Milan. But Dow when there streets of tottering houses
have be demolished, et:peeler to view the
squalid, adunhealthy buildings, ia which were=
together the mass of the commercial sad Industrial
population of our city, we beame more than over caesium.",
that we had peat cause to biome the day the m
undertook them loag wished for improvernent:nia.tin elei je
narrow, tortuous, and dark streets, or rather loses, of
damp, insalubrious, and inconvenisat houses grad:gni!
giving place to large, regular, and airy streets of s
ticent, well-veotilated buildings must gm pleasure to those
visiting the works, and make a highly favourable impression
as regards the prospects of the nedertaking. It is impos-
sible to speak too highly of the =saber in which the works
are being carried ea. The weeks °miaowed in March,
1865—t0 which we have already favourably alluded in
former numbers—Were MOW is before the winter, and the
completion of the internal works is now being pushed on
with great activity. Although in October the inhabitants
were still in the houses where the works were about being
commenced, yet to the middle of November all the bowies
required were demolished. In December and January the
pilling sad excavation for the fonadatioss were completed,
while in February, to the general surprise of the public, the
whole of the foundations and vaults were seen level with
the ground, and now the new buildings seem to rise up
with such wooderful rapidity that we are
pennaded the
Victor Emanuel Gallery will be open to the publics in Oc-
tober of this year. Turning from the works lately coin-
mewled, and looking at the two blocks of building which,
contrary to the opiatese of the incredulous, were roofed in
before the end of last yam, we are glad to note that at
last it appears to be understood that the most prottabis
and safest speculations are those which provide for the
wants and eoneenierse of the public, who will find in those
buildings numerous underground warehouese, large shops on
the ground dome, spacious and well lighted and ventilated
rooms cm the upper stories, affording accommodation suited
to all Gleam, and at rests which inmost be thought high,
considering the advantages they will afford. In the execu-
tion of these works the severest critic would have a dim
culty in finding fault. The materials and workmanship
are of the best quality. An extensive, but still prudent
application of the mat recent improvements in the art of
building have bean employed, optima these buildings are a
model deserving of examination and study. In July last
we drew attention to the probable rentals likely to be re-
ceived from the building in course of construction by the
City of Milan Improvements Company, and now comparing
those estimates with present circumstances, and bearing to
mind the numerous demaads which are being made by the
commercial chime of Milan, and to the still growing want
of babitatioas in the centre of the city, we have every rea-
son to believe that fcr the greater part of those build-
ing the estimated rental will be largely exceeded.
Buildings (situated in the centre of a populous commerical
sad industrial city like Milan) combining every comfort and
eonveniencle which modern civilization requires must no
doubt be m great demand, and ere certain to Dries in •
large and constant return for the capital mop eyed in their
, construction. We believe this to be • very great and pro-
, fit•ble industrial enterprise, directed to satisfy the real and
general wants of a large population, and certain, as all
similar undertakings must be, to afford large and remiss-
' reties retains to the shareholders.

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In coneequence of the high price of meat • co-operative
movement was oommeoced a few weeks sines by the work-
men employed at the Royal Arsenal sad dockyard, Wool-
wich, which has bad the desired malt. Two moieties
have been formed which comprise upwards of 2,000 main-
hers. Three stores have bean opened, aed the meet i.
,applied by one of the most extensive contraetors in Lon-
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doo at • redaction of about 20 per cent, as compared to
the high prices which previously prevailed.
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