The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-13 00:00:00

MUSIC.

BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL.
The gangrene of this great musical celebration
has bra paddled widths the list few days. la the Sara
heat thous sr upward' of dine hundred performs, the
rids erahrhe worprising nearly Ars hundred. The Ara
of the heart (Trudy, August 31), is dresed
the et Meedsbers's Oratorio Elyish, err focal
atinsely kr the Birregker Fastive4 sad porkers' ler
the Bret Ise raw kb Misr= ia 1846. Oa the Wednes-
htweedy, Mr. Ceres Ostler lii; Thresiby
ired; end as Fritkry, the esnahrbeg mansing of the
Isobel, Mr. Miry Lealle's Oratorio, Aria, will be
wished *sr the bet dna with lierlehnohn's rater
lauds Zaps ad Bellammeeti &mire is C. The era-
* priarranness will consist, es seal, of selseticas
of edsselleureas as with sas or two stsepliens.
For katisarry a Kr Teen* imam the feat pa is a
sehabssees oaten ; the mead, Heade& earls /as
end Garr es asraged edditiesel roosserrente by
Mr. Ceuta. On Me Wedeseds wlll he era Mks-
isissohn'e artents "T. the Sows of Ara" all Oa=
!ear
unser by Cher added Tho Drew%
he the inairisge of the Priem ReyeL The =
verb& rabbi the sure of Chats liras,
Allier Viers Garcia, NAM. Vblske Belk said Mils
=. WI& these an Mr. Are Reser SO Signors The-
Barer sr Bast* Mr. Weir lir. Mores
Berk Ike. Kr. Cede sends" r usuaL The baba for
ph... Ise Se Tory sad Weradsp's performers takes
pier en Fahey the Tith of Avert ; tea Sees of Thursday
end !Way a Seery the Mk; sad strews have the
pledge elthessetrithetlet as will alai In every car the
his phew whisk the errs* of the Wet snit. Assaf:e-
nter ere =Wrist triers the Lair and North-
Mesh litelliablit Vans,
e"Oxitedhalasid4W tweester stalVelvedesplee, *sr, andd Bork In wary tesbatis the heir
lithe in thee for ther= end bre Bbedegher slier
the esealswiss of the swan prribre. Ilp te re pe-
ers lira as are iefsessad, the ate{- fuss perdue et
Mara within to steed the beral have her ray near

TIII CONSEZVATOI RE DS MouguE.—The first
vocal prise at the annual competition of the
students of the Conservatoire of Paris was won last
week by • young Scotchwoman, Mina Augusta
Tbsomoo, of Glasgow. The jury, which included
Antler, Iffalevy, Ambroise Thomas, and other mi-
nes% meters, were unanimous in awarding to this
lady the sole first prize, a thing which seldom
as, this reward being most frequently shared
by several competitors.

UNIVERSITI OF LONDON.

1858.—Flart M.B. ELuinctros.—T6.
bet 4 • itst at mfr who him peeped du free mode&
Um for the Awes d Deahelar of 1W .f t the prat
yew:

TINST DIVISION.

Atchley, Gulp Frnii;Wiiiiitbollege.
Aiwa, emery Heinen We !seal.
&Won, Theme Rims, .Jesse's College. Birmingham.
Bracey,
J Melo Jen
e ass's College, Birmingham.
Reston, eirs. Lins
Entree Owes Mee* KW. Colic*.
Oeys, Ardor Clisehn University
Genie, Rimy, Themes
Otbses, FundsNew_B.A. Uelveretty
harry, libssenrs, bp* Igesairoksr
Hernias, Athol honk liiihositers Cram Simingims.
Sifts& Chair bp e*
LkedtFigarell =111.00.8 Beigia
ass Pita
Minstes, &. Theissee rats
Nessoes, Jlb. School of
Rafter, Jes, Utiversity
Mdirees:Vidiiens:A.4l4%**llls
St. Thomas o;pital.
Wins/atrary Forbes. King's College.
Wilasebethess, Welkin. Lafayette, Uaivenity College.
Wadies, B4.ard, Se Thimmais HeepitaL
Woodforde, Alfred, Usiversity College.
SECOND DIVISION.
Belcher, Robert Shirley Krag's College.
Beihafanis, Simon, University College.
Butlers, Joke, Extra-Acad. Med. Sch., Edinburgh.
Coates, Matthew, Bristol Medical &Irak
Dale, Williams, Leeds School of Medians.
Dickler, Frederick Viotor, R. Mencheeter Scb. of Med.
Latins, William Voeqr, lrofvenity College.
Laver, Reginald Crab, King's College.
Mayor, Manse Orbs, Adj. Bt. George's Hospilal.
Poet, Freak, Eines Canoe.
Roberta, Owls* Limo* University College.

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Ardlaa, lilidawlal Wed, Alfred Woodward, Biatater, Wow;
Dead eahlk, Botltlrosa, Ofwasow.

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the above locality, hese W , sad ull
the elitrasce to the Weeheketee &bes has beds g=
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the km userste et thdr Mew severeny. I setryis est
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weft behig the M of Weekikehr, the Duke of
sad wesabere el this hinny, kat. The kseekest
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was ens brid, teesopt Ode. Lord Kam bedew elk
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seboli•sessa IFsaotelo-oeurt,,Mbledes, tsr tbs shoolso of I
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THE FRENCH REVIEWB.

The political interest which was mom years ago
diffused in the French Newspapers is now, to a
certain degree, conosatrated in- the Reviews. I do
not mean that they enjoy a greater extant of liberty
than the rest of the prem--thecoppreseioc of the
.144niee de Paris, after Orsiai's attempt against the
life of the Emperor, would show that this le set
the case; but their literary and plulosephieal
character deserves to attract the attention of the
thinking people is Europe, wider present circum-
stances.

There are now two principal Reviews in France :
as. ancient and well known, which has been since
1830 supported by the first literary men of various
liberal parties, MM. Onisot, Thiele, de Re-
mutat, Villeassin, Saint Mare de Gniuttin,
Leon Faucher, Edgar Quinet, dc.—that is the
Reeve des deux ifottdee : the other new and
nearly unknown, except by its recent blustering
about the alliance of France and England after the
acquittal of Doctor Bernard, and the eager support
afforded by it, in every case, to the imperial govern-
ment—the Reeve Contemporaine.
This hat periodical was founded six or seven years
ago by the Legitimist patty in Franee, in order to
maw
thsintended omisin bdtween the two exiled
hems of Bourbon—the family of Orleans and *
Oast of Chambord, celled by anticipation Henri
V. The projected fusion proved to be quite a
failure, the reunion of the two royal branches being
opposed, they say, by the late Duchess° d'Orleans
and the fusionist Review was consequently sinking
every day deeper and deeper into profound oblivion.
It was nearly extinct, when its writers, allured by
pecuniary advantages, resolved to revive it, enrolling
themselves under the imperial standard. A very
obscure writer in the low newspapers during the
republican government, having been appointed direc-
tor of this newly changed Review, hoisted boldly a
flag of • different colour, and embraced the inte-
rests of Napoleonism with the most fervid spirit of a
neophyte.
From that period a system of treacherous and
dishonourable vexation, commenced against the
well-established publication the Revue des deux
Mondee, which was by its success the greatest
obstacle to the diffusion of the Revue Contempt).
nine, and to the designs of the Government in
laying its foundation on a new basis. The (Nein-
contributors for theßseus des deux Monde,
Elitted mostly attached to the Imperial University
as protestors, were privately threatened with loss of
their offices and appointments if they continued
writing for a Review suspected to oppose, at least by
its silence, the present order of things. One of
them—l am ashamed to may--retreated • but the
others generally stood firm, and the Government'
Review was recruited only by the dross of French
literature. Discontented with their unsuccessful 1
tactics the masters of the Revue Contemporaine
changed their batteries. M.Paulin Limayrac—lately
a writer in the Freese, now a renegade from liberal
doctrines—was commanded some timeago to publish
an article in the Constitutions'', denouncing the
Revue des deux Monde* as guilty of inserting the '1
literary works of some exiled statesmen, amongst
whom were the Dec d'Aumale, the son of
the late King Louis Philippe, and some
members of the late Assensloth Nationale. All
the honest-thinking people in France were shocked
by this proceeding, as the same journalist, M. Paulin
Immune, before being a hired detractor of the
Revue des deux Minder, was a contributor to that '
Review, and proved himself, at different times,
an admirer of the works of the exiled writers, hav-
ing published some very flattering comments about
their capabilities, and especially with respect to the
last volume of M. Louis Blanc's " klistoire de Is Re-
volution Franeaise."
This secret conspiracy of an official Review
against an independent one, and of obscure against
celebrated writers who do not oppose the actual
government of France bat have, I suppcoe, their
rumens for not exalting it, is one of the most
sad, disgraceful, and gloomy pages in the
history of the French press. The present state
of literature among our neighbours is miserable
' is the extreme. Since the installation of the Empire,
Lameaaais, Beringer, Alfred de Mussel, Gustave
Plinths are no more ; Eugene Sue has perished
in exile; Alexandre Dumas travels through Russia;
Lamartine, labouring under bad circumstances and
compelled to solicit a money subscription, survives
his own glory, writing, although nearly exhausted,
with steam-engine rapidity. The new generation
proves itself fruitless ; *Hence, a dead silence, follows,
stifling every gene of genius in tlits. hitherto eel&
braced country ; the well-known indigence of the
first Empire in literary matters is only equalled by
the mental penury of the second. I. it a good policy
to increase artificially this scareity. of talents by
vexatious measures ? Is it the real unmet of any
government in the world to extend around it an in-
tellectual gloom upon a disturbed country ? Is it
not a perfidious counsel given by selfish
and interested agents, more Imperialist than
the Empire itself, to silence the exiled authors,
to banish the mind, after having banished
the body, to intercept at the frontier the harm-
less non-political writings of men who have
honoured their country by their talent, or to inti-
midate the few independent members of the French
University who had obtained a high position by
their merits ? I own that the Government itself has
resisted until now the.. base and perfidious counsels,
and I hope that it will continue to do so for the
future; lout if this system of mean provocation is
not entirely directed by the French government, it
is nevertheless the consequence of its situation,
urged as it is by mercenary writers, and ruled by
jealous and aneiropaboiss men, whose device is,
" Let there be night."
This question is not an uninteresting 004 ; every
attack against • publication devoted to philosophical
and scientific purposes is a declaration of war, not
only against a Liberal party, but against human
thought itself. I donotioquirewhether the freedomof
the press is compatible with the present government
in France. I think that ft is not, having reduced
itself to the frightful necessity of suppressing again
and again the right of dimension. Let them, there-
fore, muzzle and silence every opposition at home,
bridle as they like the political newspapers, but let
us at least demand Judie* for the only French
Review which deserves notice. Philosophy, lite-
rature, science, are above the control of any
human power; on this ground all nations are
friends, it is therefore a duty for all of them to pro-
test against a violence which threatens the common-
wealth of humanity.

SOCIETY OP Ails ES•raintrartoss.—Meetre.
noon Bow Homed, of the Crosby Hall Evening Cana
and Gawp Edward Mauer, of the Lanier= Literary Is-
abelita who datlannished theaseires at tat Society diets
lizaainsaken is Hay lain balm, area& the
of Loa Darby, been eneWasied by the tounali of stVoay°.
141 Nalifellb he aheireklps let the Crane, have boa enewee-
id In obtain's( tba appeintamata. There were fier varnaelin
and twelve rioted eentretitore.
Puma Offturap iv =it 80Wirrr or rteritat•
The liarla*, of Arte ben latientel then lateen's of 41fr
• pram et IL and • wooed pram of H. at their asendealee
tor INC be Orb et the Abeam cenessir —l. Atelhattis;
2. ; S. Algebra; i OSNSITY ad Itmouno
tie; S. T S. Nan entices; 1. N
Ind Naal Asetesain I. Wenn, Dr tad*. trat ti t
ainike, Hydration ad Pesaselice ; 9. Pnetied ashy Se;
10. Electricity. llaveline, end Him; 11. Attreesonyi
Pliceimq
12. Chemistry; 13. Anima ; 14. &any L li.
Agrkaltare ; 16. PeWi sad • 17. Om-
MbY• 18. 1WI& Monty ; W Usn'enue; W.
ad Roma Inctory; 111. IF ; 22. German ; W.
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