The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-04 00:00:00

ING, APRIL 4, 1866.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY

RITISH 'ORPHAN ASYLUM. ' Atissic.
A its deice*. Ake of 120YL/1. KM, Ike., has Madly •
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AM at thi Landon Tavern, fikkopiguteetiest, on TUESDAY, _., ,arden opened last night for the ineacm,
...ROYAL ITALIAN OPIKAA.
Artit "
on table at 6 o'clock Precisely. Ti.keta can he obtained •
Gwent G
try titre er tram • billailintly than we could bay. wished. We cannot
c'hsepeiss ALFRED 11•ACIANZ14 Bec"""' account for it, but the fast was that the house was by
Olken 73, London.
'heaped& myna. an is an =endowed charity, Med means full, and the ZaW .and ehillsainicephere seemed
'e muck in need of support.
...... have a depressing influence, for we have seldom seen a
lder audience. Anitlyipikii faltio jaz Saschera, though
si. unequal work, is in many respect. one
of Ake_ finest prqductions of its author. The
agbiat: Is tragic and affecting, and the music
is nut toady inspirea with imagination and feeling,
: beat ressierly in construction and finial'. The perfor-
nunse, too, deserved a warmer reception. Mario's im-
pinge:nation of the Duke was of unrivalled excellence, both
is noting and singing ; and yet this greet performer,
defter the cordial meeting which he reasoned •on his
first appearance, was unable to rouse the audience
1M- any pitch of excitement. Fried, too, though
Agaetia ,is one of her beet and- most moons-
ftel eleszarders, and though she displayed her usual
Innen of dramatic power, failed entirely to make
usual
ionanee usua impression ; nor wee Orssiani move fortunate in
Ise and deeply tragic part of Renato. In short, the
was altogether unsatisfanory : nobody seemed
' titlmplated, and yet nobody, we beam, could tell
tin reason why. We hope that next opera night the
house will appear under its nail bright and cheering
talaaat•

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.naty be in advance at the Box-oillat,
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THE RESTOR ofeidifEßVOUE POWER.
By :am sAkvor,ll.B.
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TEQiAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

(artrizz's Twaiwts.)
AIISTWA AND PRIIEWA.

VUINIII, ATM 3.

THE INSTALLATION OF MR. CARLYLE.

EDINBURGH, Arm 2.
I must beg you to be content with a very sum.
many report of what I have seen and heard to-day.
it 1 o'clock there was a crowd of students and
others at the doors of the Music-hall, and as soon
to the doors were opened the stairs on either side
of the entrance hall were stormed in splendid style.
One felt quite a public schoolboy again. To what
m•der—perhaps rima "say to what disorder, of
architecture does the hall belong 1 It would puzzle
Mr. Gilbert Scott or Mr. Owen Jones to say. Let
me simply describe it as a combination of all
the deformities. What are its qualities as an
auditory ? This also is more than I can undertake
to answer after a single experience. Mr. Carlyle
was distinctly inaudible fifteen yards from the place
in which be stood ; but then he talked as he might
talk to a friend at his own hearth. If you had shut
your eyes you might have fancied it was a voice
from a very Scotch pulpit, preaching or praying
with much humour and deep sincerity.
The students who completely filled the hall and
the seats at the back of the platform were singu-
larly composed and orderly during the half hour of
waiting for the actors of the hour. There was just
a little whistling for a few minutes, and just a little
beating time with the feet here and there, the
whistling beginning, of course, with Burns, and
ending, 1 was sorry to observe, with " Slap Bang."
Bat them was no shouting at the ladies in the
gallery, and none of the very meagre wit and worn-
out &aff of the Sheldonian gallery. On the en-
trance of the procession, headed by the venerable
Sir David Brewster, alking with an aged step,
but bright of eye, it was received with a hearty
burst of cheering, which grew louder and heartier
as the Lord Rector's characteristic features were
recognised. Mr. Carlyle certainly wore an sir of
grim patience and curious resignation, as if he
were dressed for an anto da fe, or at any rate as if
' the table with the bottle and glasses were an ope-
rator's table, and Professor Syme were going to
" demonstrate " ktni:- I doubt whether he found
himself at home in those " old clothes"—a fearful
and wonderful dress of learning. The proceedings
began with a short sensible prayer, delivered by
Dr. Lee • then came the presentation of the
candidates for the degree of Doctor of Laws,
and most unexceptionally worthy candidate;
they were. Mr. Muirbead, the public orator,
as we should say at Oxford or Cambridge,
prefaced the presentation in a few words
in English, well composed and to the purpose, and
delivered in a clear voice and with perfect ease and
propriety. All the candidates were very warmly
welcomed by the audience, but it was particularly
refreshing to find the fame of Huxley, Tyndall
and Rae so enthusiastically acknowledged. Scot-
land has long been illustrious in science, and in a
Scottish university those eminent men who have
sought out the secrets of nature and enlarged the
boundaries of human knowledge are sure of being
judged by their peers.
Now what shall I say of the Lord Rector's ad-
dress 1 The first thing that occurred to me, and I
daresay to many more present, was the striking
contrast between Mr. Carlyle and his predecessor
in that chair, Mr. Gladstone, and his rival at the
last election, Mr. Disraeli. Without the slightest
disrespect to the happy versatility and audacity of
the parliamentary leader of the Tory party, the
thought of putting the author of " Coningsby" and
" Vivian Grey" or even of " Contarini Fleming"
in the Lord Rector's chair was a boyish freak. in
Mr. Gladstone any university in the world might
be glad to do honour to one of the ripest scholars,
one of the finest orators of any age or country.
In Mr. Carlyle the University of Edinburgh did
itself the signal honour of welcoming back to its
precincts and placing on her highest seat of dignity,
one who fifty-four years ago was a student within
its walls, and whose genius and labours during the
best part of half a century have enriched the litera-
ture of his country and the thoughts of men where-
ever the English is known. Scotland has
ange
enshrined by her welcome to-day one of the noblest
and greatest of her long line of souls who have
filled the world with light, and borne faithful wit-
ness to the truth. There may be much to
(Via Alexandria.) criticise in Mr. Carlyle's historical doe-
BOMBAY, MANCH 13. I trines and in the matter and the manner
Muscat is in a state of anarchy, and disorder of his works. But no one can doubt that
prevails along the shores of the Persian Gulf.
he has taken rank among the immortals. But what
1 a contrast between this grim, quaint, earnest
The British Resident has taken refuge with other . figure of a man, with something of the covenanter,
Christians on board the steamer Berenice. i something of the reformer, something of the poet,
Her Majesty's ships Octavia and Highfiyer have . in his deep-set eye and overhanging brow, and
gone to Muscat, to protect British interests. 1 so much of the humourist and the sceptio—(the
The north-western frontier of India continues in
,sceptic whose piety is deeper than any orthodoxy)
in his flashes and his moods ! If there were
a very unsettled state. ' any to-day who expected a set ornate, elaborate
1 Sir Robert Napier has recovered from the attack oration in good round Ciceronian periods, they
of fever from which he was lately suffering. i must have been ludicrously disappointed. Mr.
Mr. Stewart Gordon, a Bombay member of the Carlyle's address was an hour-and-a-hail's chat—
Legislative Council of India, died of cholera at nothing more, nothing less—a monologue indeed,
as his friendly chat is said to be by those
Calcutta on the Bth inst.
The Indian government has sanctioned the de- •' who know hun at his owe fireside—with-
; out ambition, or effort, or pretenaion, or
apatch of a special train from Bombay on the ar- affectation of any sort—full of good sound, kil
rival of the overland mails. This will place Calcutta fatherly advice to the young men as to the use an
within four days poet of Bombay. i enjoyment of the precious seed time of their lives
—as to their choice of books—and the value of
The Great Indian Peninsular Railway is now
open to within 40 miles of Nagpore. The line is to book learning ; and all these admirable counsels I
irradiated from time to time with flashes of
be doubled to Chosawal.
' piercing and pathetic humour ; such as you may
Bhootan affairs am now considered to be de- find in the lectures on "Hero Worship," or in "Nat
finitively settled. ' and Present." In short, it was pure Carlyle. I
Baron Deohen and half his expedition have been caught the name of Oliver Cromwell and of John
Knox once or twice ; and it was evident that the
murdered 350 miles up the Jub river, only four- speaker had struck home to the hearts of those
teen Europeans escaped. ' who heard him. For it was the veritable'
A native has been detected mixing poison in the biographer of Oliver Cromwell thstthey saw before
bread made in the government bakery at Lucknow, them—in the flesh, and in the spirit, and that I
and has been sentenced to transportation for 12 take it was the Recast of the rare charm and power
years. of this simple talk which entranced even those
The cotton and piece goods markets at Bombay who coedd only catch a word or two of his discourse.
are firm, and a fair demand prevails. Money is But lam warned to stop. Ton will, lam assured,
unchanged, and nothing is doing in shares. I find a perfect report of this address in the
(By direct Overland Telegraph.) 1 Seaman of to-raozeow' a report vouched. if I am
BODY, Mismm 31, 12.38 p.m. ' not mistaken, by the hand of the Lord Reeler
Manchester goods unchanged. Cotton quiet, himself.
Dhollersh, 46k. Shipments of the week,
_26,000
bales. Kashange on London, 2s. ljd. Ymilk4l4
475. &L

The rumour current here, that the Duke of
Coburg, who baa arrived here, desires to mediate
between the Austrian and Prussian sovereigns ia.
not credited.

PION OM OWN

The official Wiener Zeitting publishes the text of
Count Karolyi's note to Herr ',on Bismarck, deny-
ing that Austria is preparing to attack Prussia.
According to the Wanderer, Field-Marshal Bene-
dek has arrived here, and has been named cora-
mander-in-chief of the army of the north. The
chief command of the forces in Italy will, it is said,
be entrusted to the Archduke Albrecht.

The rumours of Russian armaments are still
current.

VIENNA, Arm. 3.

The Presse of to-day publishes a telegram from
Florence announcing the formation of a camp of
70,000 men near Bologna, under the command of
, General Cialdini.

Despatches from Munich state that it is pro-
posed to concentrate a corps d'armee between
Wurzburg and Aschaffenburg.
It is stated that fortifications are being throin
up around the fortress of Neisae, in Silesia.
According to the Vienna papers the fact that
Prussia is arming is undeniable. The Prussian
government have already forbidden the export of
horses. _ _ .

The Oat Deutsche Post states that at a Cabinet
Council held here it was resolvd to issue a prohi-
bition against horses being exported from any part
of the Austrian dominions. This decision is be-
lieved to have been caused by the presence of
numerous agents in Moravia buying horses for the
Prussian government.

BERLIN, APRIL 3.

It is believed that, in reply to the despatch of
Count Barolyi, Prussia will state that she has
taken note of the declaration therein contained ;
that she also has no intention of following an
aggressive line of policy, but would desire explana-
tions respecting the armaments of Austria.

PARIS, AratL 3.

TRIESTE, APIIIL 3.

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