The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-11 00:00:00

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

Lest night this magnificent house, which had
bees Madly hat by Mr. Cly• ea the cocaaioa of the asnual
tem& M aid of do Royal Dranaile Collage, was crammed
by a faelikaohle sad appreciative maliesee. Erwybos., stall,
sad mat, was occupied, and we understand that the net
receipts were somewhere between live and six hundred
pounds.

The following is the bill of performance, with the names
of the principal characters :—Scenes from As You Luce It.
The Duke, Mr. Stuart ; Jaques, Mr. Crsswick ; Orlando,
Mr. Henry Manton ; Touchstone, Mr. Keeley ; kosalind, M ins
Woolgar (Mrs. A. Mallon); Andry, Mn. Keeley. The second
act of Rootlet. Hamlet, Mr. Fodder. Theis Peones from
Like the Laborer: or, the Sailor's Return. Philip (his
original character), Mr. T. P. Cooks. The last act of The
Rivals. Sir Anthony Absolute, lir. Frank Matthews;
Acres, Mr. Bnc.kstone ; Sir Lucius °Trigger, Mr. David
Fiaher ; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Freak Matthews ; Lydia
Lanai* Mrs. Charles Young ; Jails, Mrs. Magian.
The fourth act of the sowed part of Henry IV. Hoary
IT., Kiog of England, Mr. Phelps ; Henry, Priam of
Wales, Mr. Edmund Phelps. A soon from The Tirol Night.
Achille Telma Dufard, Mr. Alfred Wigan. Four mats
from The Walcott Cope. Luke Fielding, Mr. Beajamin
Webster; Augustus de Rasharville, Mr. J. L. Toole ; Stag.
gen, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Meg, Min Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred
Mellon).
All the popular favourites were received with thunders
of applause : Mr. and Mn. Keeley, Mr. Fechter, and Mr.
T. P. Cooks coming in for special ovations. The last named
evergreen was as hearty as ever, and skipped about with all
his wonted nimbleness.

Is addition to the programme above set forth, there was
a selection by the Vocal Association and a special scene by
Mr. Tom Taylor, a dialogue between the Ghost of Anne
Braoegirdle (Mrs. Stirling) and the Thalia of 1861 (Miss F.
Stirling), from which we extract the following pungent bit :
" Mn. ft Don't you act Shukspere, then ?
Miss T. Oh, the old swell's
Stirs to be sees, Yee heard, at Sadler's Wells.
10 Oxfonl•atrwet, too, they say Hamlet dm"—
But that dear Frenchman Yachter is the cause !
Mn. B. A Frenchman acting Hamlet ! " Woe is me—
To have seen what I kart seen—see what I sec!"
Miss T. We play to aid the New Dramatic College--
Ms. B. Like that Ned Allen, founded once at Dulwich ?
Be warned by that—let thebees taste the hooey
flse actors get what's nixed with actors' money."
The delivery of this dialogue both by mother and daughter
was a perfect treat.

Only one hitch occurred in the evening, a long wait before
the commencement, but the good humour of the audience
was speedily restored by as apolop from Mr. Webster.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, MAT 10.—APPOINTNANTm.—Lieu.
tenants E. G. Maddock to the Omega ; A. C. Wootton, to
the Excellent; and Z. Berkley, to the Southampton, fur
service of the ordinary.
Muter J. C. Hutchin to the Formidable.
First-clue Assistant Engineer R. Madge, to the Fiagard,
for charge of the machinery of the Antelope.
Acting Third-claas Amaistant Engineer R. Jones, to the
Trident.

PORTSMOUTH, Mar 10.
The Mermey, 40, screw frigate, Captain Henry
Caldwell, C. 8., proceeded out of harbour this morning. and
anchored at Shithead. She is appointed to leave
her anchorage very shortly, and it is reported that
she will sail for North America to reinforce the British
squadron on that station.
.. . .

'The Avon, steam vowel, which grounded oaths shingles,
near the Needles, on Saturday last, still remains immo•
.ably fixed on the shoal, notwithstanding great efforts
have, during the week, been made to get her off.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, MAT 10.
In a Congregation holden this morning the fol-
lowing degrees were conferred :
MASTIAII or Aare.—William W. Ravenhill, University
College ; George Follett, Balhol College ; Rev. James W.
Miller, Enter College ; Rev. Robert 0. Carter, Oriel Col-
lege ; Rev. Frederic K. Wanes, Oriel College ; Walter G.
Littlehalea New College; Owen P. Withered, Christ
Church ; Rev. Emma A. Waller, Trinity College ; Rev.
Richard White Atkins, St. John's College ; Rev. Edmund
Smiley, St. Mazy HelL
BnemELORS or A Kra.—Drummond Smith, Itilliol College ;
Benjamin Temple Cotton, Merton College ; 'Edward Gay,
Magdalen Hall; Roe. Edmund Sisley, St. Mary Hall.

CONVOCATION. —At the last meeting of the Con-
vocation of the Province of Canterbury an arrangement was
made that another meeting should be held on Tuesday, the
14th of May, for the purpose of receiving and discussing the
report of • committee of the lower house, appointed at the
request of the archbishop and bishops, and of which the
Venerable Archdeacon Damen was nominated cluiirman,fon
the subject of " Frays and Reviews." In consequence of
circumstances which have occurred, we understand that the
assembly of convocation appointed for Tuesday next will be
simply formal, and that it will be on that day further pro-
rogued by Dr. Traver@ Tories, the vicar-general, until Tues.
dot, the 18th of June, when the report of the lower house
will probably he ready for consideration.
B•CIULD HARMONIC SOClETY.—Handers Israel in
Egypt will be repeated on Friday week, the 94th lost.
A meeting called for the purpose of trying to
Procure the closing of public:o)onm on Soodays was held
in the Manchester Royal Exchange Rooms, on Thursday
night. The meeting was called seder the auspices of the
Manchester and Salford Temperance Association ; but one
of the speakers contended that it was not to he regarded
as a teetotaller's question. A petition to parliament was
adopted, founded on the resolutions peened at the meeting.