The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-11 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVAiNING, OCTOBER 11, 1860.

MUSIC.

HER MAJESTY'S TREAT=
We are going, this year, to have • winter opera
season ; act so fashionable, of enures, as the 11161011, but to
all appearance equally active, better suited to the means of
the greet body of the public, and therefore probably equally
profitable to the managers of our musical theatres. The
two great houses are now both open ; Covent Garden in the
bends of MUD Pyre, and Mr. Harrison, for English opera ;
and her Majesty's Theatre in the hands of Mr. Smith, sot
only far English, but Italian opera likewise. Mr, god* is
the moat enterprising of managers. In his hands at
present her Majesty's Theatre may almost, be regarded es
two houses. He has formed two distinct companies, the
one English, the other Italian. moth are strong and com-
plete, and each includes some of oar meet distinguished
performers. Of course the orchestra and chorus are com-
mon to both, but under different conductors. For the
Italian opera. Mr. Benedict and Signor Azditi, as before,
divide this office between thou ; while for the English
sperm it is committed to the very competent hands of
IL Charles Halle.
The theatre was to have opened with English opera. On
Monday last, AA. Hood. a new work of Mr. G. A. Mac-
farren's, was to have been performed for the first time, but
(as the lessee has slated) in ceuiequenoe of the east
preparatioas requisite for its production, it has been
molgoeed tin this (Thursday) ~sirs ; and the theatre
opened last night with an Italian opera, It Trovatore,—•
piece which, of all the operas of the day, is the most •
thoroughly hackneyed. We do nut say this by way of °li-
keable to Its being chosen for the opening of the house.
The very circumstance of its being hackneyed is a proof of
its omit ; for, let critics my what they will, no piece could
have attracted and delighted the public fur so many years
✓I
the Trots/wet has done, without pommel* qualities
both attractive and delightful ; and that its powers of
pkarieg do not depend upon the manner in which it is.
performed is shown by the fact that though few operas
have been represented in • pester variety of ways, yet it
very MAWS fails to drew applauding audiences.
Last night it had the advantage of • very satisfactory,
and consequently a very successful performance. Thiene
and Giuglini, as Leonora and Mantic*, were a host in them-
selves. We do sot know any two parts which, as reOpi-
noted by them, go (to use a musical phrase) more delight-
fully together. There seems • sympathy between theta ;
each acting And singing the better for acting sad aleging
along with the other. The beautiful lees scene la the
second act, "AD si, bee mio," was the very whaling of
tender and passionate my/anion. It is almost niterßue to
add that these most accomplished artists were remised
with all the wonted eathusimin. There was • new Count
di Luna --Signor /Inset, • performer of merit, who will
he • valuable member of the company. He 01111104=
a comparison with Ungiani, who pitted his greatest
in this character. Signor Briani failed to give the effect
whisk Or &Bray • gave to the famous candes, MH
Wee del ono merino." HMI voice had not the safe end
astllow richness of Wariest's ; lie sang moreover with /110
Inn& effort sad lacked smoothness. But *Bowan* meat
be made for the agitation of a tint appearance. la ether
respects he was highly successful. He is a Wisdoms's/ea,
an ultelligent and spirited actor, end evidently • good am&
aim. Madame Lomas was the Aguosna, • character
which that lady sommed last year. She is not • Viordot
or an Album, but her performance nevertheless
was mosedhgly good, her singing being better than her
acting. the sang the famous air " Stride la vamps' ad-
numbly, but destroyed its dramatic effect by adhering thel •
terrible narrative to the Mt and stalls instead of the per-
sons on the stage. This, indeed, is a fault of which almost
every opera performer is more or lees guilty, to the great
detriment of dramatic illusion.

DRAMA.

ELtYIIttILKIZT.

Thu new comedy, &malice and Reality, produced
at the Haymarket Theatre for the &lea of Mr. Atha
Brougham. on Monday night, is scarcely worthy the title'
to which it lays @kiln. his a series of fareleolepieedeu of
exaggerated and impossible Dater% sad is only to be mai-
Mad for the cikarneter-parte which it affords to the Hay-
market company. Mr. Chippendale sad Mr. Rogers, the
one as an inacable, the other as • genial old gentleman ;
Mr. W. t anon as • modern " swell," Mr. Howe as • dealt.
lag lover, and Mr. Brougham himself as an eccentric busy-
body and meddler, are all excellently suited with parts, sad
hence the success of the piece.
Mr. Brougham, who was an actor of Irish ehansetses with
Madame Vestrie at eoventgarden, shows Mimed • very
good actor, steady and reliable, with good knowledge of
stage business. if Woe pea fa rose, male ii a nice ersecollt
he a not Mr. Charles Mathews, but he has seen him act
and " improved the occasion." We do not look upon him
as a " star ;" but ma a good, sound, legitimate actor he will
be heartily welcome oe the London boards, only we should
like to see him in a better piece.

TIM MIR4CIIEOII2 CABINET.

Under the above taking title, M. Nadolaky, an
ingenious Pole, mtroducea to the Loudon public an unpre-
tending sort of box, bye feet high, three wide, and
eighteen inches in depth, out of which in the coursed the
evening hu contrives to tram the platform of the Dudley
Gallery, Egyptian-hall, wham the exhibition takes place,
with very nandsome full sized drawing-room, boudoir,
and • little bed-room furniture. This truly " Miraculous
Cabinet," and its contents ere • perfect miracle
of ingenuity and patient industry. M. Nadoliky,
• political exile, one of • clam whith is un-
happily too numerous on the continent, cast about
him for some object which should abeorb his attention, and
if possible make him forget the sorrows of expatriation.
He had seen a casket which was exhibited as • wonder,
containing uuly twenty-four articles, and it OCCUITVIi to
hint that the idea might be expanded and improved so u to
produce • real, tangible, worthy object for the public curi-
osity. He determined that he should have • cabinet con-
taining one hundred and fifty articles, and in three years he,
with tue hell, of one assistint, completed his work. Hat mg
exhibited it with great approbation before the Emperor of
Husain nod other oeutineutal sovereign/4 he his now brought
it li:fere • Loudon audience, the mud test of merit, and
there is every just ground for thieking that his exhibitive
will prove geuarally attractive. it took him an hour and
• had yesterday evening to unpack and arrauge all his
wor,:cri, but so ingenious was the cimatruction of every-
thing, and readily was each article made to assume its
intended sh..pe, that the select sodium of the private view
exhibited au signs of weariness, but eagerly watched and
loudly applauded the progress of the work. The 1111/110t1-
lOW cabinet seemed to be in fact tbeolutely inexhaustible,
tames, bedu.da, rich inlaid cabinets, madder/ eau-
debit-re, reading chatty, and socking chairs, mirrors,
candlesticks, dower-pots, plates, dishes, knives and forks,
drinking cups, camp 5t001.,, with hundreds of other ti
too neater... to ineetioo, were tutu,, out cad setelt
endless suet:vision sad with magic celerity, until the whole
of the large platform was fully furnished, and " Persons
about to merry" ought find everything they could possibly
require in an average teu-roomed house. And what was
more remarkable still, they were all sound, used articles,
the chairs fairly tip to 16 stone equable prewar, Ilse
houteads of fall avenge du/tensions, and the plates, dishes,
knives awl forks, wily requiring the dinner or supper, to
I piece their practical utility entirely kayoed the reach of
cavil

Natiolsky commenced by arranging in the centre of
the platform • Newnan court of justice There was the
judge's Wee headed by the judge's sham, the vase in which
the verdict is placed, and the chairs foe the lawyers sod
witness.. A step lower down be spread out his dinner
tilde, capable of siocommodating four and twenty penons,
and Ingo a small but no bigger than • family bible, he
bruaglit out the whole service, plates, tureens, knives,
forks, spuous, tumblers, everything. This was, perhaps, the
most isocdmiul part of the whole exhibition. IL Nadolsky
told the audieuce that he thought en, and the audience
showed that they agreed with him, by cheering it with
extraonhunry enthumasm. list the Ragman court and the
diunor Mole, although they alight be called the pierce de
resistance, foruied by no mesas the entire display. AU the
time that N. Nadolsky was arranging them, his assistant
was equally busy setting up boudoir tebles, toilettes,
tambour framm, Chinese cabinets, sod ebony =meant
chaste is every available corner. Flower-pota arm pro-
duced he wens, and urn. tilled with lowers were used to
decorate all these pretty knielumelm, and in order that
nothing requisite in elegant domestic economy might be
mined, a perfect miracle of • cradle was efts-
to the inmates wieder and amusement
of the ladles, iiaallr, and when people were completely
tired out, asking. with Mr. Cobden, " What next'." A sort
of decorative background was net up, draped with crimson
velvet, and exhibiting I. its centre • litmus portrait of the
Quesu. This brought the exhibition to • most triumphant
termination, and mut everyone away fully Mimed with
their entertainment. There an Ile no doubt but
that X. Neduleky's "Dlirsculous Celduet" is exceediney
well worth a visit, merely as • wonderful toy, bet it is also
eery possible that the oentrivm of amp furniture and of
other mature which must go into • very mall space may
get twiny valmolils hint* from WI muunienshle lagenitma
amtnvenses

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

PORTSMOUTH, Om. 10. '
A court-martial was held on board the Victory
pagoldp) to-day to try OlorcrEallard, a marine
no her Majesty's ahip Traf , for having on thbele ;Dtoll
=her mimed to obey t e orders of his commanding
to attend drill. The court was uouiposed of Rear-
Admiral J. E. Erskine, and Captains Conlon, O'Callaghan,
Harris, Hewlett, Wilson, Coots, Hayes, and Katon, assisted
by W. J. Bayer, Fag., the Deputy-Judge Advocate. The
bad, it appeared, ou two or three ...melons during
same day refined to obey the orders of his officer, and
was therefore placed under arrest. His defence was that
having had the morning watch on gaud, the forenoon at
gel quarters, an extra iu the afternoon, and being re-
togo on guard again at 4 o'clock, he was desirous of
a little rest. The court found him guilty, and
Ids to be reduced to the mooed clam, to mane
illy
baW za m, and
to be imprisoned for three months with
lard ar.
TRAINING aRIP POI SOrTILOITTOW.•-• Our readers
may remember that some tone before the close of the late
swoon the Searanary of tho Admire/4y ennounced that it
ins ooateraphiled to setablish a training ship at South-
ampton, and that the lag's had been eelect,l for that par-
trTkis intention is about to be realised. owing, we be-
.„ very mach to the exertions of Mr. Digby Seymour,
who some time alba drew the attention of the Admiralty
to the neesmity fern Raising ship at Southampton, and who-
* mesa made bnigieskpmeseal apphostioes to tbe 'ovens.
meat en the sweet. We true* that the Admiralty are at
kegth alive to the impaction, of the training system, and
UM% the grant of the Conway sad NM Emir to the
dMersey
atee ?names' will shortly ha followed by smiler eMa.
is at the peunpal outputs.—Shippieg Gautier.

THIS VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

GREAT WILE CONTINZ IN DEVONEHINN.

On Tuesday the largest and most important
mere of Riflemen that has been held in the West ef
took place at Newton Abbot, Devonshire. At 11
o' the Newton station presented a scene of excitement
sash as bee not lately been witnessed in Lieveneh. From
T= mine the [cahoot company of rifles who stand pre.
hem the fact of its dating its existence from Feb.
rimy, 1853. There was a considerable muster of the men,
who were under the command of CMS. IL B. Rodway,
List W. H. Kitson, and Ensign W.H.Rod way. From the
setae srighbeurbood mme the 4th Artillery Corps, which has
been recently teemed into two companies, the 4th and 12th,
under the commend of Major (late Captain) V iv ian and Lieut.
Reaper. Them was the Ashburton Rifles, which arrived
seriy—Leapt T. 1 Rogers, Lieut. R. C. Rogers, Lieut. R.
0. Tooker, end lhoolso W. R. Coeltoe ; the Teams Rifles
--Capt. W. Roston, Lieut. R. H. Watson, and Ensign F.
Keklock • the Chudleigh Rifles---Lieut. G. A. Ferreira
and Eausin C. A. Langley; and several representatives of
the Plymouth, Devonport, fitonchouse,Buckcrell, Hampton,
and ?metes corps. The Exeter corps wan under the
command of the veteran Lieutenant Colonel Com-
mandant Sir L. S. Prideanx, Dart, Major A. C.
Chicheater, and the various captains and lieutenants.
The different corps of coast artillery showed in strung
ieee, end without eximption the men looked extremely
well 7'hs Teigamouth carps was present commanded by
Commeadaat Sir V, . H. Tonkiu ; the Dartmouth, 1
(14.11. Sayers and Limas. J. It. Davy and T. Lidstone ;
ant
tiee Hrixitera, First Lieutenant C. H. Brooking.
Oaplatform was his Imperial Highness the Grand
Duke Mabel, of Russia, who is at present staying in Tor-
quay. A member of presentations were made to his Impe-
rial Woes" who watched every movement with wpm
really the igrentest interest and pleasure.
AR Wilmer having arrived upon the ground, formed
mar the amiss, agleam The South Devoe Yeomanry,
emerimodiel by Lind Devon, occupied the extreme right ;
nest same the Teignmouth, Torquay, and Bri.41:11
Anahry Oreepmes, followed by the Exeter Rat-
tails at Mr" including the Tommy and
41COtepe, These were succeeded by the Modbury, or
Deves, the Tialin Vale, the Ashburton, the Newton
A the 141 h or Theme corps, the steel Chudlingh
Wm, the Totems, Col. Aelend's Ist Mmiuted Rifles, and
the extreme left was occupied by Lord Seymour's 11th
Mounted Bateman, both of which corps were splendidly
mounted. Before the arrival of the Lord-Lieutenant,
N.I.H. the Grand Duke Michel of Rusin, attended by
priscuialli members of his suite and a number of
slag tie w
mai wawa* impested the
weer
7knehLiwahmsrat, on annteg upon the ground, wee re-
ceived with • general salute. He was attended by a large
sad brilliant staff, amongst whom were the following deputy
Illeuteumthe :—Lord Duraet, Fag.. .1. Nile
fent, Esq., Sir Walter Carew, Bart., A Pitman, Esq., C. IL
Mom, -Esq., Sir John Rennaway, Sir Massey Lopes,
Oelooel James Wentworth Buller, Sir John Duckworth,
and Sir GeorgeStec*. The imperial visiton alluded
to above likewise accompanied hie lordship, who
walked up and down the line. After hie inspection
the volunteers, headed by the splendid Marino band,
and playing the spirited music of " Rifletneu Form,"
moved a from the right through the park, Moog the south
side of St. Paul's Church, near the Devon Estate Office,
along Courtensystreet, and Eastetreet, to the pavilion
field. The entire route wan thronged by several tLousenila
of spectators.

The Lord•Lientenant arrived upon the ground about 12
o'clock ins carriage and pair. He war accompanied by
Lard E Countess Fortes, um and Lady }Airington.
A large and 0113116UN1 marquee hail been erected for his
=en in the centre a( the ground, and which com-
a cartel view of,the targets, dc. In the marquee
was a mind dais with an nematode for Ida lordship. There
wise also a =mbar of other sesta for the ladies. On either
side of the estrum were the Deputy-Lieutenants, Lord
Encinitas, Sir Walter Carew, J. hid Er., R. Durant,
Esq.,A. Pitman, Foq., C. 11. Mon:o Eq., bor. Amongst
the generalcompany ware the Hon. Ind Rev. Fortcecue,
Aar John Hen away, Mr Moony Lopes, Addington,
Esq., J. Wooloombe, Fr., Lient.-Colonel Buller Sir John
Disekworth. His Imperial Highness the Grind Duke
Michel, of Raisin, with his suite, arrived upon the ground
shortly afterwards. tipou the elitism's, of his Imperial
Highness into the marquee the whale compluiy rose. The
lord lieutenant advanced towards and begird his Imperial
Highness, who wee dressed in private cloths, and wore a
military cloak, to accept a seat on hie immocliate left. The
Counter Fortner, lAdy Ebrington, Lady AgueeCourtenay,
together with a number of other ilistingtushed visitor,, were
introduced to the Grand Duke, after which he enteral into
aohnertedixerreation with the Loot-Lieutenant. His Im-
perial Highness was understood to express his admiration of
the volunteer movement. The troop marched upon the
ground about half-peat 12 o'clock.
Some delay took place before the arrival of General
Hutchinson, commanding the western district, with his
staff. When he rode upon the ground he wro received with
a general salute, which was executed in i plendial style.
i A short coasultition took place as to whether the ?Orin-
' teen should march per the general before or after the pre-
sentation of the address. It Ism; been cl.a ided that the
Pronatation of the address should take pro. adore, Lord
Dern, chairman of the council, approached the Lord-
Lieutenant, and said—
My Lord,—As chairman of the Devon County Volun-
teer Association, I am commissioned by thorn to express
to your lordship their very sincere thanks for your kind-
ness is consenting to be present upon this occasion—at
thus inaugurating our proceedings by repressing your
sanction and approval of the parpostaCfor which we ere
sesembled. In your wino. this do), they recognise en
isiditiossl proof—lf any were wanting--of the energy and
ability, and public spirit, with which your lordship hes
trem the antimenonnent of the present volunteer move-
melt identified yourself with it, by working cordially
under circumstances even of great Ismer] Mar
Vl.llllOll, and of great trouble to yoursel!. uniting I say
with the greatest cordiality in the promotioa of our ocn-
Ma Gidllet. They well know that your Irm..i.ip ham looked
at this movement not as originating hi this ~entry in any
feelings of 4411,111., but simply se having sprung from •
conviction that in the present state of the world a
permanent defensive orgaeintion in of reential im-
portance to thie—ea it may bo raid to be of every
other country. We know well, too, tb it one of the
primary objects of your lordship I. to give permanence to
that volunteer morment with which you have so much
identified yourself. (Applause.) We ~i.ow that you
deem Oda i 4 the highest moment. Tao rejoice to
me from your lordidop`a pros nee I- n this day that an
anociation for the establishment of a resular system of
dietributing prise; whether in a Merin,: such as this
who the competitors come from a large :nee, or merely
in the meeting of each separate company—that the
periodical distribution of priors for shoot:4 is animas the
, mar important and must ciEcient modes of giving per-
' enamor and stability to this system. Wo feel assured
' that the emaciation may rely upon the experieooe they
' lore had of the energy and public spirit which his been
thews during the pest twelve months. It leads them
with confidence to believe that any well considered
measure which they may thick it their duty to recom-
mend in connexion wills this 'novae, . end which
to likely to prove of great brief t, et.i receive your
sups co-operative emotion at.d apprm :ii. My lord,
movement, as I mid, is not taken u;, for the par-
of " defiant*." nor with any esti:eerier maul-
tions of the forces of this cow dry. But I
are bound to say that we all feel that no man
who looks at the present . side . f Europe but
must feel that the interests of every couiri r dernrud that
its whole waive aims* lee the pint..sus of defame
should be matured and Uflpaill.d. (Cheers.) It la in
that view that this movement Illi been taken up in this
country. It is under that aspect that it is I. •itound by your
lordship and by a is, -;ii portnii .4 the Tsai, :..., and thinking
people of the community. (Appian's) I 'hove only to
thank your lordship for the soppont reared from you, and