The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1850.

altered the Awake In Australia to the 'tiniest cf 60
per coat. (Hear, hear) The awhile* led lot yet
received • farthing from the celaties ; hue es sees
es
they featel what an organisetem was feel, to
Garry oat their Views, sabaselptioes would pear In from sok-
ales is all puts of the world. (Hear, hear.) The fetes ex-
pressed by the minister, that by giving too muds power to
the erol.nies we should allow Saler countries to gat hold of
th•aa, was wholly unfounded and unwarranted bye:mimics
(Cow. hen.) Lard Orly, in a Nene despatch, said, "Then
an no means by which the government may become et
quaked wIA the geeeral temper and tows of the colonies, so
esedily as through the colonial pen: 1 must therefor' ask
you to send me the aewspepees of the eekey"—a testimony
to the Imperialism of the °denial peen. (Haar, bear )
Mr. SCOTT, M.P. said he had no faith in the expressions
of a prime Wainer ; looked to deeds rather than wends.
Hera they were, la the lest month of the session, discuses(
a reassure whisk was promised la the speech from the throne.
(Hem, hear.) Lettish &monist's's 'peek trumpet-tordmed
to the colonies the muse of the conduct of government en-
terained in this eountry, sadist the soloed's. We a sine-
lar expremios. He had recently received Wan ',persona.
tiaras from Hoag Kong, as to the expensive gunner in widish
the gevnereent et the colonies was conducted ; the same
comp:aisle wets made by British Guiana, by Prince Edward's
Island, and by Canada, and in many of these colonies,
woo-
stations similar to the prepare had boon formed. He pro-
posed" The Australian colonies, and the health of Mr.
." ( ea r. )
Mr. LOW, late illeraber of the Spin. y lerdslative
bly, 'mimosa/deed the toast, and expressed his gratitude to
Lord Lyttelton for theelteratioo which badbeen made in the
trenches of the Australian colonies, and to Sir W. Molts•
worth for his general efforts In behalf of colonial self-govern-
ment. The promise of the prime minister, he said,
had been &ladled in evert patient sr ; self-govern•
menu did Sari consist in bevel democratic irotita•
Lions while the whole essence of the government was
reserved to the Colonial-office, but in having good local go
Tenement. (Hear, bets.) He alluded to the system on
wltion the waste lands were diens sed of, and 'endowing' the
MUSS palmed by the government as MOSS iSiSTIOIN earl
was sure to end in the etfudon of blood in Australis, unless
the power of parliament interfered. The veto of the imperial
government was most objectionable, and ought to be done
away witr.

THE WORKING MAN'S TESTIMONIAL TO
TEE MRSORY OF Slit ROBERT PEEL.

TO Tint =OTOS 07 TIM DAILY anon.
Bryaneton.square, July 17, IMO.
Stlt,—Aa it is impossible for me to answer, with
the requisite details, the multitude of applications as
to the mode &proceeding for the subscription to the
testimonial to the late Sir Robert Peel, I request the
favour of your inserting this letter, with the following
suggestions, that they may be se generally and u
speedily known se the press eau make them.
I remain, your obedient Servant,
JOSEPH HUME.
Persons animal dreaming the Penny Subscription for
the trestles " Too Working klan's Testimonial to the late
Sir Robert Peel" ere recommended to form la each parish,
or district of pariah, a local committee, who should appoint
one respectable person to act as chairman and treasurer, and
another as secretary.
The committee should appoint receivers of subectrip hue,
furnishing them with written papers to this effect:
"Penny Subscription for the Working Man's Testimo-
nial to the late Sir Robert Pear' received here."
"By A. B. , Collector.
" (Signed) C. D., Secretary.
"(Time and place of committee meeting.)"
These papers should be contpieuourly placed on their pre-
mires, end no subscriptions I aid, except to persons thus
authorised.
The committee shou'd fix the times at which receivers
ere to pep in subscriptions to the tressurer, and when the
treasurer is to par them in at the Bank of England, to the
account of Lord John Austell. Joseph flame, and other as
trustees of the fund for the working moo's testimonial to
the memory of the lots Sir Robert Peel.
A central committee is being formed In London, of men
well known to the public, whose duty it viii be to aptly the
proceeds of the working mm's subscription, according to
the amouat collected, and the generally expressed wishes of
the contributors.

e„.—ni.Agriegblisehanssatipurpaoseg was held is Birmingham
MONUMENT OP TIE LOTS ROBERT PEEL IN
Burst
of considering the best
al Tuesday
means of recostribing tie eminent services of the late Sir
Robert Peel. The Hes. and Rev. Grantham 'Yorke (bro-
ther of the Borl of If ordwicke) presided. This movement
originated with the artisans. who enatempland siding by •
penny nubecription the national no moral. A report wag
read from their c trentittee, setting forth the cordial eo.opers•
tin which this proposal lad met with on the part of the
working men, but :Droning also the gem tel feeling of the
public that Birmingham should itself possess a monument of
the late Sir Hobert Peel, of whose last greet measure the
hese final recul•• have been nowhere so completely felt as in
Bieusinglem—a town in which its multiforious trades have
for a long time past sus almost unprecedented prosperity.—
Mr. Alderman (hash, the bon. chairman, Mr. Alderman
Lowden, and Mr. Councillor 11)dson troth p.rt in the pro-
ceedings at this meeting. The two former [Remounted elo-
quent eulogitons in tribute of the public worth of the greet
ustosman, mid the result was the appointment of an itfito
conuntre, together with a number of artisans, to
decide on the best means of carrying out the wishes of the
meeting—that a public memorial should be raised in Bir-
mingham to the memory of the late Sir Robert Peel.
MIIB. GLOVER.—Mre. Glover (Julia Pottrrton) teas
the daughter of an actor named lietterton. who was de-
scended from the great scow of that name. She was born
on the Bth of January, 1791. Her father held a good pia-
tion U an actor on the London stage, as the play-bills of the
period sufficiently unity, ani the chill was brought up (as
mot of our great ectors and actresses have been) "at the
wings." She was even in infancy seut on the stage in such
pone as children are used to fill. At a very early age her
lather's position obtained for her an entagenuet. She be-
came attached to the company of Tate Wilkicson, for whom
she played, at York, the part of the Page in " The Orphan,"
and she alto eme rased her juvenile talents in the part of lona
Thumb, for the benefit of George Frederick Cooke, who on
the occasion de fLd his tragic garb and appeared in
the cherscon of Glunarialear. Another character which
she played successfully with Cooke was that of
the little Duda of lurk, in "Richard the Third," into
which, it is recorded, she threw • degree of spirit and
childish roguishness that acted as a spur on the great
tragedian himself, who never performed better than when
sectroled by hie childish associate. As the young lady ad-
vanced a little in Jean she undertook puts suited to het
sex; but her earlier successes were in purely tragic parts—a
hut which may be surpuang to the superficial observer, but
which is not eo extraordinary, if we remember how much
the succers of her best characters In later life depended
on the touches of pathos she threw into them. At the
time to which we refer the provincial theatres were •
school of acting. To have secured a high por-
tion in one of the dramatic "circuits" was a
passport to the London t-eatres. In the year 1796
Min Betterton had reached such • point of eminence
that rho was employed to fill the fiat parts both in
tragedy and comedy at Bath, then one of the chief
preparatory schools. Her success led to an offer of
101. a week from Covent- garden, the engagement to be for
three years, with an increase of 11. each year. Chi
meetly she was ear ged for Goa years, commencing at 151. a
week, and rising to 101. • week. In these days, when actors
of the first class ask and receive twiner thrice as much per
bight as Miss B ton then received per week, it may not
be utinstructive to real the fact that the above terms were
then Wondered as somethino extraor :lofty, and even ex-
orbhent. Mrs. Oliver, still Miss Beeterton, first appeared
in Landon en the 12 b of October, 1797, 53 years ago, as
Elam, in Hannah More's tragedy of "Percy." She was
decioeily successful. Her next character was that of Char-
-1-.1 te, in "Toe Weat Indian ;" and on tee 23rd of Nov. she
played the part ot • heroine in • new ph ce by the same author,
Cu nberland, called" First Impreassions." She was again most
successful; and she bad so advanced in publics favour that
when, shortly after, Mrs. Abington returned for a brief
period to the stage, she was able to hold her ground against
that counter attraction ; it being further recorded that Mrs.
Abington herself was among her admirers. Miss Betterton
then marled Mr. Glover, and continued on the stage of
Covent-Auden until the year ltol. Two years afterwards
Mrs. Glover transferred her services to Drury-lane, and at
•he close of the season she was engaged by Bannister, the
then manager, for Pates years. Its death prevented the
ompletion of the contract, and Mrs. Glover returned to
Covent-garden. In 1813 she again appeared at Drury-brie,
afterwards at Coven'.-garden, ant subsequently she
made an engagement at the Haymarket, of which
theatre, she continued, we need scarcely remind our readers,
the moot distinguished ornament for many years. We u• ed
not enter into the causes which led to her secession from Mr.
Webster's cempony, because we aro inclined to believe that
it arose from misunderstanding on both sides. She was mo-
ulted by Mr. Anderson, when that genii- men commenced
his brief and inauspicious management of Drury-lane
Theatre; but she left the company under circumstances in
nowise discreditable to herself, and enlisted under the ban-
' au of Mr. W. Ferree, at the Strand Theatre, whither she
attracted choice audiences when it was ketosis diet she was
about to play for the last time in all her great characters.
Here she took, • short time siuce, her professional farewell,
followed soon alter by her pawnsl farewell and benefit at
Drury-lane Theatre.
ROYAL CALEDONIAN AnYLum.—Yeaterday the
anniversary festival of this institution took place at the Free-
mmone Teeter. Great Open-street, Lincoln's-in. -fields.
The Eal of Holliston in the chair. Upwards of • hundred
gentlemen sat down to dinner, and amongst the guests at
the principal table was one of the brothers of the Nepaulese
Ambassador attended by Captain Cavanagh, political agent
to the embaiey. In proposing the tout of the evening,
" Success to the Royal Caledonian Asylum", the chairman
stated tbst he grieved to say that while the great majority
of the charitable institutions of this great city were in a pros-
Penns cmdition this valuable society had not received the
support which it deserved. The objects of the institution
were to afford education to the children of soldiers and
sailors who had lost their lives in the service of
their country, and also to the offspring of those
indigent Bootahrnsa In Loudon who were not
entitled to parochial relief. In his (the chairman's)
opinion it was impossible to find • more excellent charity
than that of the !Loyal Caledonian Society ; and he thought
it deserved the animate's net only of those who were Mime.
diately connected with Scotland, but of everybody who felt
..ny interest is the Macs et of the coaritab:e institutions of
Great Britain. He was afraid that the institution had suf-
fered much from the unfortunate disruption Is the church of
Scotland; and he would put it to the meeting whether any
religions scruples ought to be allowed to interfere with
objects of a charitable nature? This was the first
puffin dinner he had ever attended in this city,
and he was proud of so excellent an opportunity
of making some endeavour to promote the object for which
they were now assembled. He hoped that the subscriptie ns
would be such as to i*eclude the necessity of reducing the
number of children in the asylum, and that the inatitutios
would not be allowed to decrease in prosperity. The toast
having been received with every demonstration of enthusiasm,
the Rev. Dr. Cumming returned thanks, and made an ap.
peal to the company in behalf of the institution, which he
stated was conducted upon the most jut and honourable
principles. Amongst the various toasts proposed aid re-
spaded to in the course of the evening was the health of the
Nepalese Ambassador; and his excellency's brother (whose
speech was interpreted by Captain Cavanagh), in re-
turning thanks, said that it gave him much pleasure
to meet a body of gentlemen, whom he looked upon as
men of the mountains like himself. He regretted that his
brother had been prevented by indisposition from being
present on this occasion, and he trusted that under the dr-
eon:Stances the company would ecusider'hien • fitting repre-
sentative of his brother the ambassador. Before the °lose of
the evening, the boys and girls of the Caledonian Asylum
walked round the roam in procession, and the sight was one
which excited much lot, rest and attention, from the health
appearance of the childree, and from the manner in which
they seemed to preserve their national characteristics. The
bagpipes were played at intervals during the entertainment,
and at the clone of the evening subscriptions were announced
amounting to nearly 7031., exclusive of a donation of 1,0001.
from Catitain Matheson.
PROPOSED EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OP IN
DVairtir or ALL NaTioNa.—A numerous meeting Of ope-
ratives delegated by the different large manufacturers in tel
neighbourhood was held at the Tailor's hall, Bristol, on
Tuesday night, for the purpose of devising means to form a
fund so as to enable the working men to visit the Great
Exhibition of 1851. A society was formed, and • code 01
rates adopted, and it was agreed to divide the oily Into tea
districts, with receivers for each, whose duty it will be to
receive the weekly contributions of the working men to-
wards the proposed fund. The mayor of Bristol and Messrs.
W. H. 0. langton, and J. Bates were appointed assume,
and the Wnt of Jitiglaad sad South Wales phallist Hank
bankers.