The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-19 00:00:00

TAE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1858.

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A number of addresses of congratulation, on the marriage
of the Princess Frederick William, were presented to her
Majesty by various borough oorporations.
At the levee Lientensat-Colonel William Topham, the
lieutenant of her Majesty. Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-
Anne, was presented to the Queen by Lord Foley, when her
Majesty was graciously pleated to confer upon him the
honour of knighthood.
Major-General Travel! Phillips, the lieutenant of her Ma-
jesty's Yeomen of the Guard, was presented to the Queen by
the Masnuis of Breadalbane, when her Majesty was gra-
ciouodsly Oeased to confer upon him the honour of knight-
ho.

—Tiro Hon. George Deal (Lord Dias), one of the
iitlr
of the Supreme Courts ut &atlas& had the honour of •
head ronferred upon hint by the Queen.
Mr. Andrew Orr, late Lard Provost of Glasgow, was pre•
stated by Sir G. Gm. ,and received front her Majesty the
bosons of knighthood.
William Montagu Manning, LL.D., from Atetralia,
was prevented to the Queen, by Mr. Secretary Labouchere,
when Inv Majesty was graciously pleased to confer upon him
the honour of knighthood.
The Quern and the Prince Consort, attended by the royal
suite, returned to Budengham Palace after the lava.
In the evening her Maj. sty had a dinner party, which
comprised the Duchess of Kent and the Prince of Wales,
Prince Victor of Hohenlohe. the Maharajah Duleep Singh,
the Prussian Minister and C.,untess Bernstorft, the Marquis
of Abaroorn, the Earl of Sr. Germans, V i,eount and Viscoun.
tests Emlyn, Lady Anna Maria Dawaon, Lord Panmnre, and
Mr. Gibbs.

The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch gave a grand
ball oa Wednesday, at Dalkeith Palace, the family mat, near
Edinburgh, to which all the nobility and gentry of the
county were invited. The family do not intend to come to
London until after Eiger.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and
the ladies Hamilton have left Chastardad House for
Brackett Hell, Harts. The noble marquis came to town
yesterday for her Majesty's levee, but returned in the erra-
ta,/ to BroAett.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady
Clemeatina Villiers are expected to come to town for the
demon, from Midlles= Park, the week after next.

The Earl of Stradbroke has returned to the
Bromwich Hotel, St. James a, from Henham Hall.
Lord Talbot do Malahide has arrived in town for
the mimeo( attending t hie parliamentary duties. Lady
Talbot and her youthful :airily remain at Malahide Castle
till after Easter.

ti

Lord and Lady Dormer are passing the season at
their teat, The Grove, near Warwick.

Sir Joseph and Lady Bailey have arrived in
Belgrave-square, for the sewn, from Glarmak Park, Breck-
nockshire.

Sir Paul and Lady Hunter have left Claridge's
Hotel for Mortimer Hill, noar Reading.
Sir Alan INPNab hu arrived in London from
Omuta. The worthy hermit to Maytag is Bt. ITIBMIS.•-
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MUSIC.

THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY.

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The owe-hundred-and-seventeenth anniversary
festival of the Madrigal Society was held last evening at
Freemasons' Dell. There was a nunasroas company, and
the assemblage was more than usually strong in mood and
of iciest sadrigellan singer,. The chair wee filled by Sir
George Clerk, the president of the society, a gentleman well
known in our 111111.1C4 circles se an accompllahed
amateur, and a zealous and active promoter of
the progress of good mimic in this country. The
were directed by Mr. Cipriani Potter,
sCf=e7 condueer, whose firmness and proclaim;
in &tog the time of the various movements conduced
wetly to the good effect of the murk. The selection com-
prised several fine litres from the works of the great Italian
sad English writers of the 16th and 17th centuries. Thus
was one remarkable novelty . a live-part Madrigal by Paolo
Virchi, dated 13b0. This c....inpoeer has bean hitherto un-
known , but Mr. Oliphant, the society's secretary, lately dis-
covered, in the count of his researches, two books of madri-
gal, by Virchi, who is described on the title-peep as Massaro
di Capella at Femr t. The madrigal snug Let night, with
English words by Mr.o:ll..hant, is &fine cunpoeition,aad makes
na desire to hear other wcrks of the same muter. Its title
is Adieu, my joy and 'Aromas ;" and as it is printed in its
English dress, the amateurs r f Ibis species of music can
obtain it. There were two madrigals of Luca Marenzia, the
greatest of the Italian madrigalist;'Pak May Queen," and
" When April deck'd in roses gay ;" both full of rich har-
mony and delicate expression. The English school did not
"come out" so strong am usual. There was only one
madrigal (Wfibye's "When Chlorin heard"), by • great
English muter, and it was by no means one of Wilbye's
finest. The moidriga's as usual, wen mixed with a few
sacred piseee—Paleserbia's beautiful and pathetic motett,
"By the waters of Babylon ;" Dr. Croft's anthem, "We
will rejoice in thy Salvation," a noble specimen of ths great
English master; end the fine old German chorea which
was sung, with Mr. Oliptuat's words, in the Chapel Royal
a; the marriage of the PMIONS

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

(Frogs Mows. Longman and Co.'s "Nobs on Books.")
A copyright English edition of Captain "trial-
moat's " Life of the Duke of Wellington," translated with
the author's sanotket and co-operation, and edited by the
Rea. G. R. Oleig, M.A., Chaplain-General to bar Majesty's
forces, and Prebendary of St. Paul's, is preparing for publi-
cation in 3 vols. Bro.

The fourth Berke of Mrs. Jameson's "Sacred and Legend-
ary Art," completing the work, is preparing for pub/lest/on.
It Is entitled "The History of Our Lord and of his Precursor
St. John the Baptist ; with the Personages and Typical
Subjects of the Old Testament, as represented in Christian
Art," and will be illustrated, uniformly with the other three
series, with many etchings and engravings on wood.
The third volume of the English edition of the Abbd
Hues work on " Christianity in China, Tartary, sad
Thlbet," is nearly reedy. This volume continues the history
of the remarkable missions to remote Asia and China, taking
it up from the period of the triumphant establishment of the
Mentchoo Tartan In Pekin. The narrative is interwoven
with striking events and persons of Chinese history, hitherto
almost unknown even to cultivated European readers.
" The Resources of Estates . being a Treatise cm the Agri-
cultural Improvement and General Management of Laded
Property," is the title of • new work now in the mesa, by
Mr. John Lockhart Morton, Civil and Agricultural En-
gineer; anther of Thirteen Highland and Apienitnnd
Society Prize Essays.
The fourth and filth volumes of the new edition of the
works of Lord Bacon, oollected and edited by Robert Leslie
Ellis, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; James
Spedding, M.A. of Trinity College, Came; sad
Doughe Denon Heath, Esq., Banister-at-Law, end hale
of Trinity College, Cambridge, are in the press
This edition, beside' being revised and elucidated with notes,
is enlarged by the addition of many pions not printed before.
Vols. IV. and V., which are edited try Mr. Spedding, com-
plete the division of Bacon's "Philosophical Weeks," and
will be furnished with an index to the fin volumes brazing
that division.

The fourth and fifth volumes of Dr. Barth's Travels and
Discoveries in North and Central Africa • being the Journal
of an Expedition undertaken under the auspices of bet
Britannic Ysjesty's !government, in the years 1849-66, with
maps, wood =vamp, and illustrations in tinted litho-
graphy—are in the prow These volumes comprise a toll
account of the author's reeidance in Timbnctoo.

A new edition of " Mom's National idelodith" se which
will be appended a few she sadiellefalses which the author is
known to have regarded with favour, and was him-
self accustomed to slag ss sage,—the music of the
whole printed with the words„—le truly ready hr publics-
non, in imperial Bvo. (small music sine), a ierm with the
new edition (music and words) of " Meads phis Melodies,"
with the symphonies and secentheniesals by 86. John
Stevenson and Sir Henry Bishop. Ths sins sad-glees given
in this volume, in addition to the esacerted Ism la which
they have been hitherto published, will alp, end hr the first
time,be wronged for one voice se swag by Mr. Moore.
The Life of 81r John Falstaff," with a series of twisty
large steel etchings, illustrating the life, character and
career of Felted; from incidents either represented or alluded
to in the plays of Sheletheareaolgil George Crinimhank ; ac-
companied by an imaginary phy of the Knight, from
suthentic sources, by R. B. Brough. The °occluding
number of this work sad the work itself complete in one
volume, royal five., are peer 4. reedy.
A new edition of Goldsmith's " Deserted V' with
with
Analytical Notes, Rules, Re., by W. M'L.od, FR. .0.8.,
Royal Military Asylum, Melees, will alscetly be published in a
small 12roo. volume, to the new examination
ocheme of the UniveityA of O ed, all junior eendidates,
desirous of obtaining the tide of Armlets in Arts, will be
examined In the analysis and parsing of • pemege from
Goldsmith's "Deserted Ville's. An edition of the poem
has, therefore, been prepared to moet the requirements speci-
fied in the "Regulations for carrying into effect the statute
concerning the examination of those who are not members of
the I:nitereity."
The author of " Amy Herbert" has completed another
story, entitled " Crush," which will shortly be published fa
2 vols. foolscap Bvo.
The completion of the English edition of Baron Bunsen's
work on " Egypt's Place in Universal History" is
for publication, translated with the author's seactiPreoPnati
co-operation by C. H. Cottrell, ~ M.A. The concluding
volumes comprise ell the l and historical synchro-
nisms connected with this country, as well as those of Phce-
nicht, Aseyria, Babylon, end Judea, with an elaborate treatise
on the historicalepothe and dates of H lade° chronology. There
will be in addition to the translation of the Gamma text, an
English version of a portion of the Book of the Deed, by
Mr. Birch and a critical edition of the flanconiathonle
amounts of l'hilo upon the cosmogony of the l'hceni-
clans. A very copious supplement to the hieroglyphical
glossary and Egyptian vo..bulsry, by Mr. Birch, with
hieroglyphical texts not contained in the Garman edition,
will be appended, as wallas • comparative etymological
glossary, Chamitic, Semitic, and Arian. The meet novel
and interesting portions of the work, however, will be
the detailed analysis of all the ancient theogocies, myths,
and traditions, as bearing upon the genealogies in the
Book of Genesis. The result of these varied inquiries le,
that the history, mythology, and language of Egypt
are so interwoven with those of all the most ancient na-
tions of the world, and we are so brought into contact
with them all, that what was primarily • study of Egyptian
history, becomes that of the world at large. As the
chronology of the one is extended, the duration of the other
la necessarily materially lengthened beyond the ordinary
estimate of the received Biblical data. The landmarks by
which the ante-historto period is distinguished, though re-
quiring deep study and • vast variety of research, are in
Baron Bunsen's opinion, clearly demonstrable. Though they
cannot be so accurately defined as those of more modern
time., he believes they can be approximatively determined so
as to establish the existence of the human race in the High-
lands of Asia many thousand yours before the date usually
assigned to the creation—and that the evidence adduced will
show the great probability of man having existed in the dis-
trict bordered by the Caucasus and Mount Ararat, 20,000
years before our era.
The fourth volume of Humboldt's " Cosmos," completing
the work, is divided into two parts, of which the first is
finished, and is preparing for publication in English, trans-
, lated with Baron Humboldee sanction end co-operatioe,
under the sunintendence of Major-General Edward Sabine,
H.A., D.C.L.
i V.P. and Treas. R.B. The fourth velum*
of " Coemos"s au examinee and a more careful elaboration
of the general representation of nature contained in the first
volume. It purposes to describe more particularly those
special results of obeervation on which the meant state of
our knowledge in regard to the phenomena of the globe is
based. The first part of the volume which is now published
in Germany, and of which the English translation is far ed-
vanced, comprehends the various subjects treated of in the
first volume under the different heads of magnitude, figure,
and density of the earth; its internal heat, and the distribu-
tion of heat at its surface ; terrestrial magnetism and weal,
earthquakes, thermal springs, springs of vapours and pm,
awkvolcanoes.

Mr. Eyre Evans Crowe, author of the " History of France'
in the " Cabinet Cyclopedia," is preparing for publication
an entirely new work on the same subject. It is expected
to form five volumes, octa►o. The first volume is in the
prase.
The sixth volume of the Ra►. C. Merivales " History of
the Romans" under the empire ie now in the prase. This
volume contain an account of the conquest of Britain, the
reign of Nero, and first preaching of Christianity at Rome,
the extinction of the Jahn family, and ware for the SUCOM-
Mon with the establishment of the Flavien amity, ending
with chapters on the greet mutiny of the German atuilliaries,
and the fall of Jerusalem. This point, at which the narra-
tive of Tacitua is finally interrupted, forms in many respects
the most important epoch la the hiatory of the Empire.

LAENCH OF AN AUSTRALIAN CLIPPER SHIP:—
The content for supremacy in the art elbuilding dipper chips
Is still an rife as ever. On Wednesday last there was launched
from the yard of Messrs. Money Wignwe and Sons, of Pop-
lar, one of the finest models of a see-going craft ever built on
the banks of the Thames. She has been constructed from
the lines of Mr. Charles Wigrain, eldest son of the principal
member of the firm, and combine', with motesding elegance
of form,; all the recent improvements in naval arehltecture.
With a length over all of 200 feet, she hes 33 bet beam and
198 feet keel, and her Internaleasels will provide ad-
minLls for nearly 100 first-dare passengers.
Dirs. Charles Wigram named the new ship the " Lincoln-
shire;' and her command has been entrusted to Captain Ro-
bert Roe. It Is predicted that she will make therm between
the two ports of London and Melbourne in less than seventy
data.
THE METROPOLITAN TRAMWAY BlLL.—Yegen,
day afternoon a deputation of the London Omnibus Tramway
Company waited on Sir Benjamin Hall In reference to their
bill now before parliament for constructing tramways through
certain thoroughfares of the metropolis. After the objects of
the bill had been explained, Sir B. Hall said that " of all the
monstrous propositions which Lai ever been made to_ mails-
meet, ibis was the worst,' awl be should give it his moat
deteneinel opposit len ; it would be impossible to prevent con-
stant accidents and great interference withthe rectal traffic ;
every parish through which the line was intatdel to pus
had petitinted against it, and he should advise the promoters
to drop It at once.
FIRE AT ISLINOTON.—A fire happened yesterday
morning In the prembrea belonging to Mr. J. Hawes, a
milliner end bonnet manufacturer, at No. 13 Perripout-row,
lalington. The discovery wait:Ade by nook; being perceive.
imbuing from the premises. The engines were soon in attendd
ince, but they were not able to get the flames entirely sub-
dued until the premises were totally destroyed and the con-
tents reduced to ashes. No. 14 is sin eMonsly burnt, the
fire having penetrated the side walls and roof and greet
damage has been done to the stork-in-trade nod furniture be-
longing to Mr. Hodgett by removal, kr. The origin of the
disaster could not be keened. The iOl.ll, which is heavy, will
fall on the Sun and Lancashire Fire-offiees.

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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-113. 18.
(Bare Mr. Cannakehoer Evans.)
IN 11 BARD= AND 1091NAUIR.

This was the examination meeting in the OWN of John
Barber and Frederick liosenauer, trading as merchants,
under the firm of Barber, Rosenauer, and Co., in Hammond-
court, Mincing-lane. Their accounts, prepared by Mr.
Chatteris, extend from the beginning of 1866 to the date of
the petition 24th December last. Their capital, at the be-
&fug of 1g56, is thus stated —Barber, 3,0871. ; Romnauer,
11,1231. The principal items of the balance-sheet aro as
ollow :

Dr.—To unsecured creditors, 26,3811. ; ditto holding secu-
rity, 2,0581. ; liabilides on bills payable, which should be
provided for by the firms on whose account they are ac-
cepted, 2,6111.; ditto on bills receivable, 36,2611. ; capital,
4,2101.; profits, 2,8881.
Cr.—By good debts, 1,2131. ; doubtful ditto, 1,7661.; die-
putod ditto, 1,2471.; bad ditto, 3,868/. ; , 3291.;
ditto held as security, 1,0661. ; losses, 18,ranarges on
merchandise, 3,1291. ; interest and discount, 2,9231.; trade
expenses, 2,6071. ; drawings of Barber, 1,3631.; ditto of
Reeenaner, 1,688/.; liabilities (as per contra).
The bulk of the creditors are resident in Rotterdam and
Amsterdam. Of the lassos of 18,3331., 14,3921. is on mer-
chapatis, and 3,8681. by bad debts.
Mr. Bell, the official sesignee, stated that the only assets
yet realised consisted of 240/. in cult, and 3121. in good bills.
Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, asked for an adjourn-
ment of a month, further accounts being required. The only
=on to come before the oourt was that of allowance.
did nut ask for any allowance ; Rosenauer, who was
a single man, did ; but the assignees were not disposed to
secede to the application, seeing that the general features of
the balance-aheet were exceedingly unfavourable. The debts
and liabilities were upwards of 40,0001. ; and the assets pro-
bably would not, under the most favourable circumstances,
exceed 1,000/. or 1,6001. Rosenatter had drawn out—in
1866, 6001. ; in 1856, 6551. ; and in 1857 9334 ; the
hankruptcy taking place in the latter pert of 1867. The
assignees should object to hie receiving more than 11. a week.
His Honour said he should not give more than the as-
signees sanctioned.
The order was made accordingly, and the examination was
adjourned for a mouth.