The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-17 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.

This is a week of festivals. The great Handel
demonstration at the Crystal Palace, In the afternoon, has
eciarcely terminated, when the hour approaches for another
musical entertainment of a different kind, though of high
pretensions, on the same side of the water, and mull nester
et band.

The ten days' festival, instituted by M. Jullien at the
Surrey Gardena, which began on Friday with a Pee
performance ef Ilaydn's &mama—the mem of which mit
manded et the tims—bas gone on papering. On Setstel,
a Beethoven night," iseladieg, among other adiad,
the symphonies in A tailor epsd C minor, entire sad the
planetaria conoteto in 0 wham (manned by Miss drew&
Goaded), was equally lucky ; and on Monday a third pen
formula, of Mendel:robs'. Bffirik brought one of the ktgald
audiseem that haveemenabled in the Muria Hail dace the
isornmencemant either cement Meson.
!

--Litight the ehisipare of the programme was
tolienart, lion -whom vial' eat buernmentit .I=4l
.o.4ig pteghmme we*. eminifted. The balt . wed
crowded in every part, lug by an audience both
and ebla to appreciate. *hem eras • eelecb'on frotl
?gag Magic°, mod a eduction born Dog Gignmi, Warn
glut things of geed bidden
The operatic mitedsovi vier wtriirotwl by two plikeiot,
antes—ahe most importme alike. evening. The, pleader*
catonto in C minor, ma of ..komeres meet originalead rese-
lady prodnotion• Oran which' stb .compamee—end ems.
deity Beethoven, to his earlier periodhave &wen largdyyi
was played to .perhclices by Mies Arabella Goddard. The:
other grand piece was ihe-ao-celled /*flaw aspaggp
(in C), which was mooted withett etweafimust, eel wide
megnideent effect by the adintridds basil vliii IL Ulla
&reels. The second part ad the allent • VIP. "Wir.4l;
laneess." •

The Mozart selection, in conacqaenee of its lieatnieiit
income. is to be repested-Fin Thursday night, wilt dilljtip
yeturiairob. This' beset* the first pats' ile mime 1.
didicated to Yeadolisoba,wad die cams at the. tesitosk
Itaydn's &sofas and Handers Newish will be preesniot 4

UNIVERSITY INTELLIOBNCE.
OXFORD JuNc

MATHEMATICAL itOnfttlfts.---MEOOND POSLII!
READINATTON.—The examiners "In &MC Silent. Moth.
et Phya" (the Rev.. Edward Hill, Christ Church; the Rim
Bartholomew Price, Pembroke; sad the Rev. Thomas Regan,
token, Queen's), have this afternoon issued the !Mince
class trot:—Cleo 1. Jaime Henrud Harrison (ocean
Magdalen College; Henry Smith (commoner), Queen's
alema. Wiokhami (exhibt,timer),
n.reit College. Clue jftl. Clam 4. EMEEd or,
Cornish* (commoner), Lincoln College ;11mry Colville Mao
rindin• (commoner), Balliol College ; lisobert Mooeir6
(schol•
Bowenase College; John Charles Yong• (cash,
menet), Quceit's'College.
• •7lencees7 fourths.
Tim KEN EX/MI:A*110N STATIITE NITRATED,—
oongngation was holden this ellernoon, when the
statute on the entijett *at the pablii muninationa, w •kW
limn promulgated Muse times previously, was admitted soi
the house in sixteen distinct votes, fourteen of which were
lost by coneldeisliM majorities. Vote 6, altering the thus of
• the examlnattou in tbe Xadm Tenn, and Vote 13,
the metrictione which mewling examiners from the law
hellbelief any osadkiste M ewe *hp nosy ham been
the last two yam the pleats tutor of any candidate,
sanctioned by the hearty cab oil. will w
lie brought before is October in
ameoded form. •
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• GintrlC THEATRE.—The date of Mr. Wigan*
trowel' benefit la not yet decided, bat will, we Morse*
shortly be announced. Mr. Wigan will not take any lief it& I
the dramatic performance' et the evening, immured& as deg
painful nature of his Moses precludes has *cm whir hie
right ern, which be wean inueratly in • sling; but he w*
in all probability address s few words of leavedieldng le thil
audience. One of the first productions of the joint renege"
great of Mists. Robson and Emden will b Mr. Wiki•
Collins' excellent little Beare of the Light/tow, which we
played with such success the winter before last by the sow
taus of Taviatock Hoene, but which has never been seh•
mine& to s public millet. The chamfer of Aaron Garecielfs
which was so admirably rendered by Mr. Charles Melts%
will be played by Mr. Robson. A new extrema:lm by Mr.
Robert /trough, founded on the operatic story of Moseesisfiss
is also to preparation.
BOLITII KENSINGTON MUSEUX.—After the Qarett
sad members of the legislature here peal peseta vista te
thin museum, it will be opened to the public, both in drupe
time and the evening, on and after Wednesday, the 24th aids,
Besides the yeriona collections of architecture, sculptures
patented inventions, &c., the Sheepshanks' pictures will he
exhibited in the new gallery erected expressly to receive than.
The admiaion of the public to the mueetun, lighted up in the
evening, is the find experiment of the kind with a piddle
institution, and it is hoped will be acceptable to those whit
work in the deptiens.
/LOYAL BRITISH BANE.—II Will be in the rem&
lesion of the public, that Mr. Apeley I'eUatt, late M.P. Or
the borough of Southwark, was one of the original dreamt
of the Royal British Bank. It appeared frees his eximifiene
lion in the Bankruptcy Court that he wee sporty to Knee
improper praceedings in connexion with the formation 4
the bank ; bet ho left it in the year 1850,'• without 4
anything from It, and without sharing in the r..111:1
underelsod Mr. PellatCs case has been mn741•.6
law deterred the Crown ; and that, after a full eO.
timid all the clrettmetatices, it has been determined not to
make any charge waist that gentleman.—Timos.
BALLOON ASCENT.—PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY EWEN.
nano.—The beams which left North Woolwich_atbalf-pall
11 eneversed a did of about me miles, and &atm, did id
Tavietock at half-poet 4 tide morning. It did not wend be
any great height, end was distinctly seen between Exeter
and Newton by the guard- sad preengers of the mail train
which left Exeter at 3.50 a.m., by the driver of the
train which lame et 157, end by the railway porters of*,
Newton ration. The three aeronauts breakfasted at Tart*
rock. Mr. Yournim reached Plymouth ar time to leave by
the express ruin at 10.40, striving at Paddington at 6 in the
afternoon. Mr. Coxwell and his friend left at 5.10 pla.,eal
would arrive at 4.50 on Wednesday morning. The hams
her goer on by luggage than et 7 this evening.
SOC/ETT FOB THE PROPAGATION OP THE GOSPEL
tx FORRION PAlLll..—Yeisterday afternoon the 155th =do
vereary of thie onciety wee celebratal by divine serous with •
a full choir at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Biohop of Win- •
theater tepee...AM the Archbishop of Canterbury, the pre-
sident of the society, who had to attend et Buckingham Pea
lace to baptise the young Princes+ Beatrice Mary Victories
Feodore. The Bishop of Winchester was accompanied by
the Bishops of Manchester, St. Asaph, and Sodor end Man*
the Dean of St. Paul's, end a large number of the
There was a vest conrtemition, many of whom wen,
The Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs, Yews. Medd and Keats.
arrived at the cathrthal in state. Alter anthems had beer
sung by the full choir, and prayers and lesson. had beer
red •
the Bishop of Salisbury preached a sermon from the
6th woes of Om 22nd chapter of Joshua—"So dahlia
biased them and sent there sway."
SUPPOSED SUICIDE.—Last Wednesday a reopen.
tablpdremed neon woe found dead in a plantation near dr
Jolly Former Inn. Bagehr. He had beers riot through Ilee
kssd, and it is *unposed that the set was committed
himielf, and that he had been robbed after drab 4 Ms
money. At au arguer, held before Mr. King,
comma, It was Mated that the dearard had been meessaX.
in the neighbourhood on the rufous 114 der
mad woe shout sixty. Is • pede&beitilme• eporßien
lees vekies, • John Illribes, Wasdralst." MEM
various other articles is hie who* bar wsfl is dime
wile he really wan. His dear. and bias wee new.
verdict of the jury was " Found dead."
FATAL E:CPLOSION.—Art explosion took
yeaterdev morning at the gunpowder mills of
Curtis and Hervey, on Itounslow-lreath, near the vtLegeel •
Bedfont, whereby the lite of one men (Grooves) ores semi-
fired end two Others (Walker and East) are in isnalmed
jeopardy. This accident was rather singular in ite OM*
meter. The machinery was et rest, and was underidni
the proerm of cleaning and adjuming, when Waif, NM •
Ire raised by the implement in the bend of East. As en'
tools except copper or braes ere allowed within *re
building*, it ie uripwwible to account fur the cense elide s
accident. 'the machinery, though daplaced, ia little inlaid,
Rom the small ,piantity of pow der which happened is In
within the home. The building itself is, of course, after
destroyed.
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND. WoLvEettearmli
Ran.wey.—The terra to of this company, including the
Stourbridge Extetuion Canal, for the fortnight endimgJelle
7. have been 9,16171. 19.. 911., and the expenditure, she in.
eluding that of the Stourbridge Exteneion Curie
4,1431. 17e. 4d., being at the rate of 44.14 pct OWL. If
with the amount steamily irecortainod to May 24, a toted M.
Mdpt from January Ito June 7, of 82,479 f. fa. 4d., mod •
total expendittue of 43,6631. 10s. 91, or at the rate of 411.79
par set.