The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

umAmanaN 1& ADMEMOMASO

excuse for remaining In the open thorough-
fare. Something of the kind has been suo-
osesfully attempted at Bolton, .in Lancashire,
where, a few years since, considerable com-
plaint was made respecting the obstructions
occasioned by the presence of the street-traders
in the leading thoroughfares, the result being the
erection of the present market in that town. It is
a plain structure, enclosing a spacious ares, covered
in, and lighted at night with gas. The ground
floor is devoted to the sale of vegetables, fruit, and
perishable articles in general, the gallery, which
runs round the interior of the building, being
occupied by the dealers in hardware, toys, haber-
dashery, second-hand clothes, and so forth. The
fish market is held in a separate building. This is
the kind of market most required in London, but
in establishing them much consideration is requi-
site in determining their extent and the sites to
be occupied by them. Unluckily, suitable sites are
extremely rare.

FENIAN NOCE FUNERAL AT MANCHESTER.

MANCH:BBTM, SUNDAY Arressoovr.

Large green placards on the walls of the city
yesterday announced the intention of the Fenian grape-
thiamin to have • public peocomion or meek fanseal.tAday
in bosom of the three mee mosatly MlSlNtiled boar. Them
was an attempt to get up • similar procession last Sunday,
but it was held to have been a failure. The placard re-
ferred to says " The precession in honour of the Irish
martyrs, Allen, O'Brien (Gould), and 'Arkin, will take 1
place on Sunday, December 1, at two o'clock. Persons in-
tending to join it must be in Stevenson-square at half-past
one punctually. The route will be by Lever-street, Lon-
don-road, Grosvenor-street, Stretford New-road, Great
Jackson-street, Deausgate, Bridge-street, New Bailey-
street (past the pleas of execution), Chapel-street, and
ShudehiLl to New-Cross, where it will disperse. The
utmost order is requested on the pert of the proms-
lion. Remember ! Every improper act gives strength to
the enemy." The procession did not start till • quarter to
three o'slock. It was preceded by a straggling crowd of
some thousands of persons of both sexes and all ages.
First came a band of meek playing the Dead March in
Saul. The first part of the: procession marched su
abreast, but the greater portion of it was composed of
persons walking four abreast. The rein had fallen
heavily all last night and during the earlier part of to-day.
It had moderated very much when the procession started,
but the greater part of the people in the procession carried
umbrellas. Many of the men were well dressed, and
appeared to belong to the better claw of artisans. Some
of them wore green crosses on the right arm, with crape,
and some had favours composed of shamrocks. A lane
portion of the persons in the procession were women and
girls, and there were • good many boys. Most
of the women were well dressed for working-clam
women, and most of them wore a ribbon or some
other part of their attire of green. It bad been rumoured
that three coffins were to be borne in the procession, and
that there were to be banners displayed, but there was
nothing of the kind. Opposite to the Chorlton Town-
hall a noteworthy incident occurred. A man in the
crowd had his watch stolen by • thief whom be detected
in the act. He called out for the polies, and two officers
in plain clothes went to his assistance. The thief at-
tempted to escape, whereupon the man whom he had
robbed drew • pocket knife and cut off the skirt of the
thief's coat, in the pocket of which he had seen him
place his watch, end where he found his lost property.
A man came out from the promotion, assisted to
seize the thief, and a road was made immediately
by the proccesionists through which the police
conducted their prisoner to the lock-up. The route was
then resumed ; and nothing more occurred calling for
special notice until the band approached New Bailey-
street, the scene of the execution. At that place •
demonstration of a singular character was made. Two
cabs, which had been moving up and down the 'beet,
took up positions immediately beneath the place
of execution. It was then seen that the cabs con-
tained the mother of the convict Allen and two younger
women, one of whom was said to be the convict's sweet-
heart. In the other cab were the members of Larkin's
family. As soon as the procession reached the cabs the
ranks were broken, and scores of men rushed up to shake
bands with the women. A few words which were shouted
by one of the foremost men were followed by a yell
from the crowd, who removed their hats as they
the place were the murderers were hanged. they
given vent to their feelings in this manner, and being
warned by the rein, the crowd resumed the march.
The clergymen at the Roman catholic churches urged
their hearers yesterday morning to refrain from taking
any part in the procession, but their counsel was to a large
extent disregarded. The address at St. Wilfrid s,
Huhn., was as follows :—" We have heard with
regret and anxiety that it is intended to have
some kind of funeral procession through the city to-
day, as a commemoration of the death of the three men
who suffered, nine days ago, at the New Bailey. We
advise you, and beg most earnestly, that every person
who has any influence in the matter will make use of it to
prevent the procession ; and if it should go on, we entreat
of all who have any love for their religion, or for
Ireland, or for those from Ireland who are in this country,
that they will keep away from it. The procession can do
no good either to the living or the dead. It may do
great harm to the living. It may disturb the peace
of the town, because it might afford your mischievous
or ill-disposed enemies to break the peace, end then you
would be blamed, and would suffer for it. We shall leave
the church open all the afternoon, and we entreat of those
who have a respect for the memory of the dead, which
they wish to show, or who mourn for them, to come to the
church and pray fur them, instead of joining in any pro-
cession. The piety of the people in this respect has hitherto
been most edifying. We treat and believe that on this occa-
sion it will be the same."

THE MANSIOHHOUSEWEST INDIA HURRICANE
RELIEF FUND.

A special meeting of the committee took place on
Saturday, in the Venetian parlour of the Mansion-house.
I There were present the Lord Mayor, end the following
members of the committee :—Captain Engledue, Alderman
Finnis, Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. B. H. Hartley, Mr. C. Op.
penheim, and Alderman Sir William Rose.
Mr. Glees, the secretary to the fund, read a report of
the minutes of the last meeting, and stated that the total
amount received up to the previous evening was about
3,70 W.
Mr. fireentwo, the mayor of Southampton, accompanied
by two other gentlemen, attended as a deputation from
the Southampton Relief Fund Committee, and stated that
they had received about 2,70 W., awl were anxious to
confer with the Mansion-house Committee with the view
of ascertaining whether they could not agree upon some
joint action as to the distribution of the funds, the object
of the Southampton fund being more particularly for the
relief of sufferers belonging to the United Kingdom, while
the Mansion-house fund contemplated • general relief of
the distress at Tortola and the other places which had suf-
fered from the hurricane.
After some discussion, the committee arranged that they
should to • certain extent act together and communicate
with each other in reference to the matter.

In the course of the proceedings the Loan MA 'I in-
formed the meeting that he bad been in commu..ication
with the government, and that at present there seemed to
be some little doubt as to the actual extent of the mis-
chief, but directions had been given to the British consul
at Havannah to forward a sum of 2501., and a ship of war
had already gone to the island of Tortola with a supply of
necessaries. This vessel would be followed by soother,
and it was expected that in a short time the full extent of
the calamity would be known.
It appeared that the government were unwilling to un-
dertake the administration of the funds through the Colo-
nial-office. as it might be afterwards said that the distri-
bution had been affected by local influences ; and it was
suggested that some independent gentleman should be
sent out to administer the funds. In accordance with this
arrangement it was agreed that Mr. John Simpson, a mem-
ber of the her, who bad very kindly volunteered his ser-
vices in the matter, should proceed to Tortola with the
West India mail packet which sails on Monday, taking
with him a sum of 2,00.0., and it was stated that the com-
pany, having regard to the circumstances, had very kindly
consented to give this gentleman a free passage out and
home.
The committee adjourned, after coming to the necessary
resolutions.
The total sum received at the Mansion-house up to
Saturday afternoon amounted to a little over 4,0001.
Captain Woolley, of the Fame, was a native of Sutton-
in-Ashfield, in Nottinghamshire, and was one of a family
of 20 children. His mother, upwards of $0 years of age,
is still living. He often expressed a wish that if be ever
lost his ship he might go down in her.

Lieutenant-Colonel John William Collman
Royal Marine Artillery, was on Saturday appointed
assistant adjutant-general on the staff of the Royal Marine
forces, in the place of Lieutenant-Colonel George Brydges
Rodney.

[TWOPENCE

CRYSTAL PALAOLCIIIICIRM
MENDELSSOHNH REPORRATION STAPHOICT.
This work, one of the many oompelliltiona left by
the oompooor la manoareipt at bin im A
hibilei by his areouten from publiatioa unit MOW, veer •
publicly performed for the &Ulla' in Berland on Saar.
day afternoon. The " Reformable Hympheiy," although
an early work u compared with Illembeleeohn's peateet.
ounpeeltious (It wu «unposed is his tweetreseoad year);
was written after Nome published proluetioes that haw*
long beak &emptied as masterpiesse. His greatly deer
loped Otetto for stringed inserumeate (worthy of say am.
pour) dates five years earlier, his Wallet is A, four
years, his Quartet in E flat, and that glorious pieta of to.
mantic imagination, the overture to the aiMONIGir
Ififhls Dream two yule before the Symphooy now re-
ferred to, which beloap to the same period aa the
Isles of Fingal (Hebrides) *vertu, ; a ameisal
picture of gloomy grandeur marcely surpassed in
the whole range of orchestral music. These and
many other noble compositions having preceded the
"Reformation Symphony," it cannot be caned an ion-
, mature, although it is a comparatively early work. All
doubt on the subject, however, was cat at rest by its per-
formance os Hateeeday, aid to I mailiadeallotoeseplien lop
the audience that crowded the large coneert-room of the
Crystal Palace, comprising many distinguished musical
professors and amateurs.

The second public performance, by Madame Arabella
Goddard, of klendelasohn's new " Sony without
Words," just published by Mears. Novell°, Ewer, and
Co., was as successful as the first occasion at the
Monday Popular Concert of November 18. Each
number was received with loud expressions of delight,
that in A major being encored, and that in C (Presto)
being evidently wished for again. These piece' were given
with that admirable finish and refinement which are well.
known characteristics of Madame Goddard's piano-
forte playing the light rapidity and crimp dis-
tinctness of execution in the " Presto " being
a rare display of executive excellence. The overtures
were Cherubini's " Anacreon" and Weber's " Euryanthe"
The vocalists were MacUle. Itauermaistar, Miss Katharine
Poynto, and Signor Touched. Mils Porde, who is from
Liverpool, and made her first appearance here on Slant-
day, has a light and flexible soprano voice, of agreeable
quality and evidently well-trained. Her intonation and
execution are true and facile ; and with a little more ex.
perienoe this young lady should take a high position as a
concert singer. She gave, on this occasion, Rassinre
brilliant "Di placer," and Bishop's twaddling and anti.
quated " Lo, here the gentle lark," the latter with the ad-
vantage of Herr Svendsen's refined and finished perform-
anoe of the flute obbligato.
_ _

The "Reformation Symphony" is to be repeated on
December 12, at the Concert of Mr. Barnby's Choir, to be
given at St. James's-hail. The English copyright has
been secured by Mesas. Novell*, Ewer, and Co., by
whose permission it received its first performance at the
Crystal Palace, and by whom it will shortly be published
in score, and in various forms of arrangement.