The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-24 00:00:00

DRAMA.

Sr. J AMIN& jr
On Monday night was produced at this theatre
a drama dial A Scrap of Paper, very neatly and happily
translated by Mr. Harare Mango° from a French original,
Les Prates de Roadie, which was played by the French
company who were here last season, when the principal
obarriaten were sustained by Mdlle. Daphnis Fix and M.
Paul Derain. As we then fully detailed the plot it will
suffice to recall to our readers that the anion eoneiste of a
prolonged moral duel between a mao and a woman—one de-
teriniaed to guard a love letter which bad been addressed to
him bye former flame who is now married ; the other the
lady's moat intimate friend, determined top herself of
it. It h needless to say that in the end the lady is the
conqueror.

These characters, which are drawn with much subtlety
and require to be acted with much finesse, tlod excellent
representatives is Mr. end Mn. Wigan. Good artists and
used to good society, their personatione in these comedies of
the day have the charm of making es forget that we are
looking at acting—a charm which is rarely met with ou the
English stage.
As the incautious wife Miss Herbert played with great
spirit end good taste, and by her rendering gave force and
colouring to a somewhat insipid chancier. The piece was
completely successful.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, AMU. Kt.—PROMOTIONS AND AP-
rourTmmern.—Engineer W. Lewis, promoted to acting chief
wirer in charge of the machinery of the Intrepid.
yometer A. C. Pool, to the Aboukir.
Clerk U. A. Michell, to the Evan!.
Actiog third clam Assistant Engineer J. M'Cregor, to
the iodine, for air rioe in the Pike.

CHATHAM, APRIL 23%
ARRIVAL OP TROOPS PROM Irrnta.—The char-
!mod East lodise troop ship Holum:Gaels, 1,257 tons, Cap-
tail W. T. Ferris, whose arrival at Gravessed with a large
pupil= of sick and disabled troops on board from Calcutta
too place yesterday, disembarked her invalids at Canon.
homeltray this morning under the superintendence of the
°Sam belonging to the staff at this garrison. The Holmes.
dale brings home upwards of 200 sick troops and men whose
Mt:of service has expired, belonging to most of the in-
regiments now serving in the Bengal presidency, in.
dlinog the Royal Artillery, 13th Prince Albert's Light
rdkoti7 3dtb 54th. 70th. 75th, 80th, 89th, and 97th
Reginmas, and the following officers, viz :—Captain G. B.
Daft, 20th Regiment; Lieutenant F. A. MACIUMASS,
93rd Highlanders • Lieutenant E. Forteacue, Rifle
Brigade; Assistant-Surgeon W. Benetton, M. 8.,
Roal Artillery ; sod Assistant-Surgeon T. Ramsay,
20th
Regiment. The vessel sailed from Cabmen
on the sth January, and touched at St. Helena,
which war the only stoppage made, on the sth of
March, the voyage to the Thames occupying just 107 days.
The number of deaths on board during I,M passage was
'even, asmely, six soldiers sod one sailor. Oa the arrival
of the Holmcedele at Gravesend, the troop. were medically
impacted by Dv. Hume, principal medical officer at this
garrison, when 50 men were selected to proceed to the eon.
vehement establishment at Yarmouth, and the remainder
sent to this garrison. Sri men were admitted into hospital
at Fort litt,lfor treatment. The Newcastle and the
Capatrick have also arrived at Gravesend, from Calcutta,
with troops.

The coloneley of the 41st Regiment has become
sweat by the death of General Begington, C.B.
ROYAL ENOINNIR9.-111 conseynenee of the death
of Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Pasley, the following
promotions will Mks place, via. :—MajorGeneral W. EL
Ord, to be coloneleonimaadant ; Colonel Alexander Gordon,
to be major-general ; Lieutenant-Colouel F. Lloyd, to be
colonel ; Captain George Bent, to be lieutenant-oulussi.
PAYMEYT or SLANIN.—The following order has
base issued by Vim-Admiral H. W. Bruce to the ships in
commission at Portsmouth :—" With reference to the .16th
and 37th clauses of the Admiralty Circular, No. 4:58, their
lordships have acquainted me that men serving in the ships
at this port, desirous of remitting money to themselves, or
of receiving in person the money they have requested to
remit, may be rad is cash, reserving at least one month's
ware in hand.
DISTRIBUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE ldONßT.—Notico
is given in yesterday's Gazette that preps:stimuli are now
being made for the intended distribution of the amount
awarded for the destruction of pirates in the China Sees, on
the 4th Aargust, 1868, by her Milicy's gunboat Staunch ;
on the 28th end 29th September, 1 by her Majesty's ships
Magicienne and Algeritie ; on the 16t October, 1868, by her
Majesty's ships Magicienne and Fury ; and on the 13th May,
1859, by her Majesty's ship Clown. Due °otitis will be given,
by further advestisements in the London Ga rzetle, of the date
proposed for the commencement of distribution ; and, at
the same time, the amount of an individual's share in the
respective classes MB be announced.

The new monster steamer, Mooltan, built by the
Peninsular and Oriental Company, will, it is expected, be
ready to take out the Australian mail on the 20th proximo.
She is built with all the improvements in shipbuilding and
*teem machinery. Eke has also machinery on boont foe
abridging every kind of heavy labour, and all the inventions
for contributing to the comfort of the large number of pu-
gilism' who travel by the Alexsodrien mail atom-packets.
The Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Com-
pany's steamer Adriatic riled yesterday at 1.10p.m. from
Chlway. for St. John's, Newfound/and, and NOW York, with
her Majesty', mail a, bbpasseogers, and a full cargo.
Copious showers of rain fell yesterday at South-
ampton and hopes were entertained that the long drought
and easterly wiade were over. Towards the latter part of
the day, however,- the wind shifted round to its old
quarter.
HEALTH or Lownow.—The return of births and
deaths in London issued by the Registrar-General states
that the total number of deaths registered in London in the
week that ended last Saturday was 1,210, and was almost
the seam as that of the preceding week. The uniformity of
the rate of mortality during the last eight weeks is worthy
of remark. In the week, corresponding with last week of
the ten yean 1851.60 the average number of deaths was
1,114, which, with a correction for tontine of population,
bosoms 1,225. The actual mortality is, therefore, below the
estimated amount, but only to a small extent. Though it
has been below the average during the last two months, the
difference is now much less than it was immediately after
the high mortality of the early part of the year had
subsided. Eighty-three deaths from whoopingeough, and
14 from croup. were recorded last week. The corrected
average for whooping-cough is 62. It seems to prevail
in Patients and Islin o, Limehouse, and in the Kent and
Borough-road sub-districts. Eightesa children died of
measles, and nearly a third part of these ie Kentish Town.
There were 22 deaths from reariatina, and 12 from diph-
theria ; 6 from syphilis, all of which last occurred to in-
fants. Seven nonagenarians died is the week, the oldest of
whom was a female, aged 94 years. A girl, aged 11 mouths,
died from ealeagement al the spleen. Towards the end of
last year eke had lived for some time in the Ewer marshes.
A man was poisosed by chloride of zinc taken by mistake
for gin. A boy, aged 14 years, was suffocated by the fumes
of sulphur in a room for dyeing wool ie which he was
sleeping. Lest week the birth, of 1,007 boys and 934 girls,
in all 1,961 children, were registered in Loodom In the
ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851-00 the avenge
number was 1,713.
CILTINTAL PALACE. OHS SHILLING HAY. •••••
TVILADAT, Aram 23.—Admivaione eo payload, 1,449:
&Me by season tickets, MSC Total Milan. 2.002.