The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-01 00:00:00

MUSIC.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

All that we have Wt 11-44 about last night's
id the IkopesSeelegy
the house wee creamed
Wrhe onioslis dells to alibi whit so =Amos, •
loge pollee of whine ow ler the Int thee the
goo Mors of the sod Gimbal, sad
were asesteagly most la aka doseastretloos of
mithithun. Hod we been teethed le meet ing of our for-
me elleopts to describe the hasiudeas of the hU s praise
dome, we sloald have been elbeimially delored tunientiZ
some of the 'dragons of Teatcsio orgialso la the
Rusberit gapers, with which wq of the Lusby ellon_pie of
/Libel Journalism cannot sear late toogolielto. We are
WEI ptad to gine our reed= the following ambles parse
from the pen of Herr Relit* of llortin,the great Arbiter:his
of the Gomm tonsioffil preen It le, we think, a literary
corimity, giring en idea of the height to which a writer of
that nation will suer, when in his latitudes, into the sublime
mks' of Mosinee. Speaking of Picooloroini in the 21.arioto,
Barr Itillstab bents out thus :

-7. Pr it is she witob;r7tlM piece, not upon her shoulders,
bite a clumsy Atlas, bat lightly, like an Amorino upon her
fluttering wings. 1 must endelirtir, bower, to ;sr more
seriouil , end in • carers degree more implicitly, although,
a Bower or two of speech in my remarks, I
think as col ove • —lt is grace to which the composer and the
=semi& and female, dedicate their ger Your skill
me to tragedy—here it delights me. In this in-
stance year outward sot, under the laughing sunshine of joy,
bream rear omil arse. You miles me, by mains of it, as
I said before, aferwrio. Minors Piocolotutni pours out an
earseraawyera of grams and charms. Her admirable
teoal catZ.sorpeari reng itself. She does not
teeny erg the ak ebe it, she laughs it, she revels in
It =aft*,
had
insolence, and yet the dowry
remade head d erreotivenems binds upsvasy detail into
Ike meet arming whole. Most deadedly she has
hemmed the girdle of Venus for this bright blend-
ing al Weisel happiness and pert delight. I might
mention a kreind tabard triumphs ; I might speak of the
moat derpocas Wrslr cores, during which, in the case of
this lady, the auditor amain/ in the most tin-
diaturrol ineddree ell uyoymeati al roulades, striving. to
outer, ear ether fa very wealemeej of ea overflowing
beam el firitare. I meld relate hew IdthetEt airy en-
titles Sew up, weeny, jamsrwite, r boeh. on
te tie
ni:ldeigi. But whet do hitthest regions (I west with all
thlawhite is a natter et area in the
ere et a leo sbaimbri:/r di reek I' Aleag meek paths, m-
inded with druperewe &Wows many,
_die pease& se if
oreimely taking a Tim see se aghast to ber to
the
eh le birds. SWIM ONO Ilea dew ss is the abysm to the
mere. The het warbler out Its wag et the greatest height,
where it dirappeare in the blue sky from our gar, am oare-
drieribelow in the dewy cornfield."
Alter this, who will ratan to eulogise Piccolomini ? But
rainy we hope that the ligis wel take tree repturea,
Bra whatever garter try erg pr reed, for what they are
worth, sad not err Itmerf Whe persuaded by them that
she is a wagon of padadles.

ROYAL INC

r. -PR 0 FESS 0 R PARA-

DAPS LECTUR e.

Professor Faraday delivered the second course of
Intern on electricity to • juvenile audience, yesterday
afternoon, at the Royal Institution. The breech of the
'abject to which he directed attention was the consideration
of the characters of the electric force. Ile emeamold by
showing experimentally that electricity repels ea well as
atimeta, and that when • light substance has had a charge
el electricity imparted to it by contact with an excited glass
rod, it la afterwards recoiled by the glass instead of being
attracted, and that it continues to fly from the glass until
It has touched some other body, and thus been deprived of
its electricity. He then showed that a rthatance repelled
by an excited glue rod is attracted by sealing wax, gulls
percher, or sulphur, when excited. Them different sakes
of electric force were illustrated by • variety of ethsthasats,
in which Protestor Faraday mods use of several toys ss parts
of his apparatus. The experiment that gave mod pleasure
to the younger part of the seance was me with the dims
of a Samoa= with a basket containing • number of paper
SA man bus bud, which dew away In all directions whim
abs was placed on an Insulated steed and electrified. The
Vactions of the force produced b the friction of =
( that exerted by the friction of sealing wax, p
that thereon two ldnds of electricity, each of which attracts
Os ether, bet repel. itself ; and Professor Faraday showed
OM they bass the power of apparently annihilating each
other. Than for example, two large metallic balls were sus •
pedal espeetely by silk Maims to insulate them, and one
was electrified emotively by touching ft with the coating of
a Lryden_lar, sad the other was charged positively from the
hags. either ball was brought separately near the
slsetressekr the gold leaves diverged, indicating that both
were slestricel; but, after the bells had been brought into
confect, as trees of electricity was perceptible. Another ex -
=still more striking, was the following :—A small
up was doted on to the top of a rod of shell-lac, and
the rod wee tailed round in it, whilst held tight. By this
action a immtity of simericity was generated, but so keg as
the cep rensanad me the rod there was no indication of its
memo • the Inearat, however, that the cup arm withdrawn,
, both the kennel sled ths shell-lac acted strongly on the gold
Levan Oa being placed together again their combined
AIM comisisly sientraltrad each other, and the gold leaves
rem iced mellemsel. Profeasor Faraday said there could be
no
doubt, him this, opposite manifestations of force, that
the sischichiss In the flannel and in the shell-lac were dif-
head, and he sheald call them the two electric:thee. At one
Yea ha was of opinion there might be an intermediate oleo-
, trio andition, but his investigauons had needed to show that
threw only two. Notwithstanding the different character
tea electricity generated by glees from that generated
by -lac, yet the same substance say, tads
conditions, produce the opposite electrkitles.
This fact was illustrated by • remarkable experiment, the
rationale of which is not yet understood. The gold haves
ei the electrometer having been meth to diverge with posi-
tive electricity by the friction of a glees rod, the owe rod
ma heated in the dame of spirits, and when again rubbed
three or four time.. its approach to the electrometer made
the gold leaves collapse, proving that it had become nega-
tively electrified ; bat, after having been briskly rubbed, its
original povitive position was restored, and the gold leaves
dived still farther as it wth brought near them. Professor
Ihniy said that it might be thought strange that he should
thus bring before the notioe of his juvenile audience an ex-
periment which he could not himself understand, but he
thought it desirable that Wtheayy should know there are pheno-
mena in electricity the eluMsem of which is yet to be ao-
omplished, and that they were all philosophers working
I for the discovery of truth.—/ber.
Tl?e'elriall was crowded nearly as soon as the doors were
opmed. His Royal Highness tars Prime of Wales was ags,
present, and took the (their ; ha was attended by Mr. Gibbs,
Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, and Dr. Bicker.
Among tie company present wars MM. le Comte de Paris
and le Due de Chartres (who sat immediately behind the
youthful chairman, sad with whom the Prince of Wales,
be&re taking by mat, cordially shook bands), lady Augusta
Seymour, and some of the venerable Marquis of Bristol's
grandchildren, Graced Sir George and Lady Pollock, Sir
Henry Holland, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., Dr. Tyndall, F.R.S.,
and several foreigners.

THE EXPRESS. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1858.

Elliott said that the office was closed, and the money was
received only to oblige the people,who left it without having
a receipt. Thai might call for that in the regular office
hours. No money was paid out at that time.
Mr. Combs said It was evident to him that there was some-
thing like a conspiracy between the two in can on this
loan society ; and when Mr. Firth went to mats inquiries
about the poor widow's they assaulted him. He
should commit them both for trial at the sewing sessions.

Bed WsatelidTiei --
Mr. Combo requested our reporter to eclosewledge the re-
ceipt of two guineas from " ft. M. 8.," for the poor-box of
this court.

Mr. John Waller, the at the Anchor
Brewery, Russell-street, Chelsea, appeared before Mr. Payn-
ter to answer a summons charging him with triaging to pay
s cab fare.

Wiliam Chandler, a cab-driver, badge No. 8,934, deposed
that about a quarter to six o'clock on the evening of the 23.1
ult., the defendant hired his cab from the rank at the Bell
and Horns, Brompton. He drove him and a friend
first to the Anchor Brewery thence to the Biz
Bells, in the King's-road, Chelsea, to Queen-street,
Chelsea, next to the Orove-road, Pimlico thence
to Royal-street, Stannic, afterwards to Orchard-street,
Oxford-street, thence to Battersea-bridge, and lastly to
the Anchor Brewery, in Russell-street ,Witness set them
down at nine end be charged 10e. The defendant
was distributing geese at the different places for Christmas
boxes, and he waited altogether one hour and fifty minute..
He considered the distance was either twelve or thirteen
miles.

TIM defendant, in answer' stated that they were eat down
at the brewery at eight o'clock, and therefore when the cab-
man demanded 10e. he thought It wee a age sum for the
time. He contended that the dietaries was not more than
ten miles, and the cabman only waited three-quarters of an
hour.

!dr. Payntm wished to know how the cabman proved it
was nine o'clock when he set down his peesengers P
The witness laid directly he left the brewery he went to
the that public-home and looked at the clock. lie asked the
defendant to look at his watch, but he refused, and ordered
him oat of the aloe.

Thedeiendarit declared that there were two watches looked
at, and the time was only eight o'clock. He then called
Mr. George Moon, the collector at the Anchor Brewery,
who stated that he accompanied Mr. Waller, and could prove
that it was only eight o'clock when they were set down. He
also stated that the cabman did not wait more than an hour
at the extreme.

Mr. icyntir then rid the driver maw have travelled the
whole dietanoe In a little more than an hour. He thought
It was impossible that he could have driven ten miles an
hour.

-16 defendant said he did travel at the rate of ten miles
an how, and his worship would see that, according to the
evidence of the cabman, he only allowed himself one hour
and twenty minutes for the twelve miles. He (the defendant)
would, however, like to settle the case that day, and had no
objection to give the man fie.
Mr. Poynter was about to suggest that sum, as it was a
very difficult question to decide, and was only Berry he could
not 'mettle it more satisfactorily.
The defendant then paid the 84., and 6e. costs.