The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-30 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 80, 1861.

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9 On Relatives find Connexions.
9. Fur Better fur Worse. Chapters VIII and IS.
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MUSIC.

ST. JAMES'S HALL-THE HULLAH FUND.

A concert was given last evening, in aid of the 1.
above fund, under the direction of Mr. Benedict. It was
on a large scale. The following eminent solo performer.,
volunteered their services :—Mademoiselle Parepa (who was
unfortunately prevented by severe cold and sore throat
from appearing), Miss Banks, Miss Palmer, Mr. and Madame
Weiss, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and M. Vieuxtempe. The chorus
consisted of the rnenibers of the Vocal Association, and
there was a complete instrumental band ; the whole num-
bering above 210 performers.
The first part of the concert was miscellaneous. It in-
cluded Weber's overture, " The Ruler of the Spirits," a
fine part song of Hullah's, the aria, " Madamina," from
Dun Gioranni, sung by Mr. Weiss, and a performance on
the violin by M. Vieuxtemps. This was &fantasia amts.
'donne°, with orchestral accompaniments, composed by
himself ; • work which well deserved its title, for it was
both fantastic and impassioned, and was, moreover, a mar-
vellous display of powerful and finished execution. It was
received with enthusiasm, and the last movement, a rapid
saliarello, was loudly encored.

The second part emulated of Benedict's Cantata (or
Lyrical Legend, as it is called) Untlinc, which, it will be
remenibered, was first produced at the last Norwich
Fenival,sad repeated in London at the farewell concert of
Madame Clem Novelle. Taken altogether, this charming
work never was better performed than it was last night.
The principal soprano part—that of Undine, the heroine of
the poem—on.ginally sung by Madame Novell°, was now
sustained by Mae Beaks in a manner which left little reason
to regret the absence of the great prime donna whom we
hare lost. Miss Banks sang delightfully—her principal
air, "Mark Use waves with rippling play," was
as graceful as it was brilliant, and was encored
with acclimation' from all parte of the hall. The other
parte were admirably sung by Miss Palmer, Mr. Wilbye
ooper, and Mr. Weiss ; and choruses so full of dramatic
and descriptive effect received justice from the members of
the Vocal Association, by whom the music had evidently
been carefully rehearsed under the composer's direction.
The third part of the °contort (like the tint) was misoel-
bu and comprised several of Mr. Mullah's best vocal
compositions, ism tions' sung by MISS Banks, Miss Palmer, and Mr.
and Madame Weiss. The whole perfonmusce was; worthy of
the ounsioo, and highly satisfactory to the audience.

THE PRINCE OP WALES AND THE HULLAH
FUND.

CAMBRIDGE, TVL9DAY.
Royal Highness last evening honoured the
concert of the Fitzwilliam Musical Society with his pre-
sence. The Fitawilliam is an amateur (university) musical
society, but the present concert 118,11 on behalf of the
Hullah Fund, and m violation of the rules, admission was
allowed by payment. The performance was patronised by
the loriblieutenant of the county, the members for the uni-
versity, county, and borough, and a number of the university
" dons," but with all this the hall of Sidney Sussex College
(where it was held) was not crowded. The price of admis-
sion was half -a-guinea, and had this been less, and the room
larger, a larger contribution to the Hullah Fund would
have resulted, but the concert had been fixed fur Sidney
Hall, which too is usually made use of by the society, both
on account of its favourable acoustic properties and the in-
terest taken by the reverend the master (Dr. Phelps) and
family in the progress of the society, before it mu;
known that any adventitious aid was likely to be'
reudered by the presence of the Prince of Wales. '
Eventually there were about 140 persons present, and
twenty more might hare been convenieutly accommodated.
The performance was the Meatus& with Professor Sterndale
Bennett as conductor. The principsl parts were sustained
by members of the society, aids in the choruses being drawn
from the college choirs. A criticism of an amateur per-
formance would be unfair, but we must be excused for hint-
ing that the performance of two at least of the lady seem-
tants would throw into the shade that of many of our first-
class professionals. A subscription in behalf of the Hullah
Fund is proceeding in the town under the auspices of the
members of the above-named society, and is howled with
101. by the Master of Trinity (the Rev. Dr. Whewell).
Contributions towards the hitter should be addressed to the
Rev. Arthur Beard, lei, Fitsvrillainpetrest.

(now Law wares mann)

WHITEHALL, JAN. 26.—The Queen has been
plemed to appoint Donald Mackenzie, Faq., advocate, to be
sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Fife, in the room of
Alexander Earle Monteith, deceased.
DownNu-sTaerr, JAN. 27.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint Felix Biding('ld, Fay., to be colonial
secretary for tbs Islaad of Mauritius.
FoamoN-orneze JAN. 20.—The Queen his been
graciouely pleased to appoint Frederic Bernal, Esq. now
her Majesty's consul at Oarthagroa, in the Republic of
Granada, to be her Majesty's .smsul at lialtinaire.
FoaatoN-ornes, JAN. 22.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Bentinck Welber. Doyle, Dig.,
DOW British vice-consul at Santa Martha, to be her Ma-
jest's consul at Carthagens, in the Republic of New
Granada.
FORZION-01FEICE, JAN. 2G.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve at Don Ramon San Juan as consul-
general, and of Dee Pio de Empires= as vire-consul, at
Sierra Leone, for leer Majesty the Queen ci Spain.
Fonzux-ornes, JAN. 17.—The Queen bee been
graciously lewd to appoint Gecege Bourchier Ward, E.g.,
now her Majesty's 11100-0000.11 OlDCOilidr, or registrar, at
Constantinople, to be her Majesty's consul at Gallas.

AN UNITORTIINA'IR EMIGRANT VIDISR4-011 the
22nd of November the ship Prince Consort left the Mersey
for Melbourne with a full freight of merchandise and about
100 pasiengers. After leaving Liverpool she encountered very
severe weather down the Channel, as well as in the Atlantic
On the 26th of November she encountered a terrine her.
rime* in the Bay of Nasty, is which she lost all her
topmasts, sails, and all the gear attached—the am sweeping
from the deck all her live stock, fowla, sheep, pigs, &c. At
the mime time one of her saloon passengers, a gentleman
named Adams, was washed overboard and drowned. In this
disabled condition her commander, Captain Macbeth, en-
deavoured unsuccessfully to make the port of Lisbon, and,
the winds having driven him beck to the English coast, be
put into Portsmouth, from which port he was towed to
Ilouthamptoo,wiler• the vessel was discharged, repsired and
her cargo restowed, and on the 16th inst. she sailed for
Melbourne from Southampton, with passengers and cargo.
Yesterday (Tuesda)) the Liverpool Underwriters' ABSO.
elation received a telepumi from their agent at Queenstown,
aiding that the Prince Consort had put into that harbour,
with loin of all her topmasts, and had sustained other
damage. The peasengers have therefore been 68 days since
they originally shipped, and 13 days since repairing, toning
Moat is the Channel. The Prince Consort was fully
massed, having an ellialsat British crew, numbering 45
mess.

MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY EVENI:IO.

A great meeting was held in the Town-hall this
evening, at which the members for the borough, Mr.
ticholefield and Mr. Bright, addressed their constituents.
The MAYOR (Mr. Arthur Ryland) presided. The hon.
gentlemen met with an enthusiastic rtreption.
Mr. SCHoLEFIELD, as senior member, spoke first. He
referred to the great increase which bad taken plain in
public taxation during the fourteen years he had been is
parliament, and particularly to the enormous expeaditwe
on the army and navy. He believed that a considerable
saving might be made on both those services without im-
pairing their eliciency. The state of Europe was alarm-
ing, but be hoped that tho policy of non-intervention
would be maintained. As to a reform bill, he said unless
the government introduced a measure of that kind in the
ensuing session they would neglect a great opportunity, and
the time might oome when it would be too late. No reform
bill could be satisfactory which did not give a huge weenies
to the number of voters, which did not make a material
alteration in the distribution of seats, and secure a full pro-
tection to the enter in the shape of the ballot. (Cheers.)
Mr. BRIGHT then rose, and was received with loud and
protracted applause. He said he looked to that assembly
with more than ordinary interest and apprehen-
sion. The House of Commons of late years
had presented itself to them as a body caring little
for the great internal interest of the country,
and reeking and profligate in its expenditure. If that were
so, and if he could jndge of what was passing in the public
mind, he was forced to the conclusion that the question of
taxation and expenditure was that to which men were
looking at the present moment with the greatest interest
The past year had been oneof unusual prosperity, and heavy
burdens had beendcktrne without much complaint ; but
there
were clog particularly in the West, which pro-
mised a great change of circumstances, and the question
was passing from mouth to month—How long will the
Chancellor of the Exchequer be able to raise seventy mil-
Hoes in taxes on the people of this country? He was about to
make a complaint against the governing clan, which wasthat
it was guilty of a wasteful expenditure of the public resources.
He was as anxious as his hon. friend that no body of men
should effect • hostile landing in this country, but there
were foes in their own household as well as those who were
such in a political and national point of view, and he would
point out sane of the moat prominent. In 1830 the ex-
penditure, including the cost of collecting the revenue,
amounted to 53 millions, 28 millions being set aside for the
debt incurred in those vile intermeddlings which our fore-
fathers undertook in the affairs of Continental Europe. In
1834 the expenditure fell to 49 millions. At that moment
there had been an enormous cry of peace, re-
trenchment, and reform. They got a partial reform
and some retrenchment. So long as the popular
voice was so raised, the expenditure was reduced to
something like • moderate amount, but as political
feeling subsided and the tory party came into oak* the ex-
penses began to creep up ; whenever the people took their
eyes off it the expenditure began to rise. In 1836 to 1841
the expenditure rose again to rd millions, and in 1844 to
55 millions, owl remained at that amount or thereabouts
until 1853, with the exception of the years 1848 and 1849,
when there were revolutionists all over the Continent, and
our goveminsat always took the opportunity when any-
thing was gong on upon the Continent to ask the people for
more taxes. (Cheers.) He now came to the year 1854,
when the Russian war broke out. Some people had a
habit of fancying that war was so inevitable, so
natural, that they spoke of it just as they do
of scarlatina or small-pox. (Laughter.) The cholera
broke out—the Henna war broke out. (laughter.) In
1854 the expenditure went up to 6.5 i millions; in 1855 to
88 millions and a half ; and in 1856, the year the war
closed, it fell to 75 millions and • half. Look at that enor-
mous expenditure. It was like a man taking a big house,
and setting up his carriage and servants, when he had not
the wherewithal to continue it honestly, but lacked the
firmness to bring himself to his original and due proportion.
In 1857 and 1858 the expenditure was 65 millions ; in 1859,
64 million.; and in the pest year ie would be something like
71 millions. Thus, in the 26 years which had elapsed since
1834, the expenditure had risen 22 millions. But that did
not give an adequate idea of the case. In 1834 the govern.
ment spent 21 millions in keeping the peace, in dispensing
justice—in preparing what was necessary for the defence of
the country. In 1860 it spent 43 millions for the very same
purposes, being more than double the sum spent in 1834 ;
and if they returned to the expenditure of that year they
might abolish the income tax and the duties on tea and
sugar, and at the same time a vast aum might be saved
as a sustentation fund, out of which hundreds and thou-
sands might obtain more steady employment and a higher

rate of wages than they can attain at present. Somebody
—he did not know who—made a remark in the autumn that
he was not in the house when they were discussing matters
of a few hundred pounds. Now, he had spent week after
week backing Mr. Hume in an endeavour to diminish the
. .

estimates, but he hail never seen in the House of Commons
any stand made, approaching succors, against any of those
enormous estimates for the military services ; and it was not
very inviting, when he saw million running away and
nobody caring for it, that he should spend evening after
evening in discussing a question of a hundred pounds. But
this 70 millions was something, though the House of Com-
moos did not believe it. He would give two illus-
trations of what it was. Probably there were about
a million agricultural labourers in England and Wales,
whose aferago income did not amount to more per bead
than 25/. per annum, so that the wages of the whole body
were not more than twenty-five millions per annum, being
about three times less than the parliamentary votes for the
year, and if they added Scotland and Ireland it was not
more than half the taxes which their rulers had the con-
science to ask, and they bad the incredible patience to pay.
(Loud cheers.) Take another illustration. In Lancashire
there was the most stupendous manufacturing industry
which the world had ever seen, which produced at this
moment, at the period of its greatest and most astonishing
expansion, 70 millions worth of yarn and manufactured cloth.
Well then ourgoverning dames, our rulers, with the most
docile, the most industrious, and probably the most church
and chapel going people in the world, devoured every year,
this year and last year certainly more than the whole pro-
duce of the meet gigantic industry the world had ever
seen. (Applause.) How was it done? He would tell
them, and also who did it ; and more, he would tell them
how it happened that up to the present moment it
had been done with apparent impunity. Parliament
was composed of two houses, one of them
wail separate from and had no responsibility to
the people. The House of Com:lions was more
especially intended to take care of the people, and especially
of their pockets, though last year it ventured to tax their
pockets with the greatest audacity. He had never heard
the feeblest protest raised in the House of lords against
the extravagance of the government. It was worth their
while to know that with very few exceptions the members
of the present peerage owed their peerage to creation within
the last hundred years. The origin of many of them arose
from the rotten borough system ; any max who could get
four, five, or six sesta in the House of Commons at his com-
mand to serve the government of his day could, by ways
known to such gentlemen—(laughter)—procure himself,
in all probability, to be made a peer. He told
them this to show that when they were asked to

examine into the conduct of the House of Peers they were
not to look at it en anything as old as the monarchy of
England. They might single out a few families who had

con; down from remote times, the majority of whom bad
generally shown themselves considerate and just to the
people of this country ; but all the modern peerage was bred
in the slime and corruption of tho rotten-borough system,
and they need not look to • house so constituted for any
great anxiety to save the pockets of the nation. Coming to
what was called the people's house, he believed
that no assembly ever existed that was less cacti-
hied to govern economically than the house which
calls itself • popular and representative body,
though three-fourths of its members owed no alle-
giance to any popular constituency. John Milton, in
describing the condition of the church and the nation in his
day, made ue of • metaphor which was applicable to our
own time. He &scribed a man who had the mister-
tune to have a woe on his bead, and the wen grew so large
that it bad the audacity to state that it was the head, and
that the heed was the wen. (Laughter.) He asked them