The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, .TUNE 25, 1857.

of Lords,—it may be as well to me how
the mew Court wadi. When even the Bishop
of 01701 D is satisfied that the change of law
has left the morality of the country as it found
it, when it has been proved beyond the shadow
of a doubt that England may safely be entrusted
with that limited liberty of Divorce which in Soot'.
land and the United States is proved to be perfectly
ernapatible with a high state of public morality and
family virtue, no objection will probably be raised
to the facilitation'and cheapening of a mode of relief
which is discovered to be not only harmless, but
eaktney. For the present, our advice to the friends
',progress in the Howe of Commons would be to
let well alone. The Bill as it stands is a great in-
stalment of justice, a great measure demist reform-
atkm : let us not lose what we have gained by at-
tempting too much; let as not jeopardise the final
moms of the Bill by urging amendments which,
however just in themselves, have no chance ofim.
mediate success.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

THE VICTORIA CROSS.

The subjoined memorandum for the parade at the
distribution of the Victoria Cress (the Order of
Valour) by her Majesty, in Hyde Park, to-morrow,
was issued yesterday :

DRAMA.

LYCEUM.

Dr. Milman's five-tut tragedy of Fazio, originally
played at Covent Garden la the. year 18I8,with Miss O'Neill
as the heroin, was produced lei night in an Italian garb,
with the view of affording a new ovoortunity for the display
of Madame Rieterfs tragic powers. Tho play is ementially
dull, the story not particularly interesting, and the dialogue
scarcely ever rising above the level of the merest common-
place and turgid tuition. So much for the original and it
can be eaaily imagined that the labour. of Signor On-
gaze, the Italian translator, have not tends! to enliven the
play; nevertheless the wonderful acting of the meet
wonderful tragedietwoe in the world (" tar none,"
as eporting men would say) enchains the attention
of the uudicnce from first to but, rouses the syzer:thies of
the gentlemen to a pitch of euthanasia, and driva the belies
Into violent sobbing. and hysteria. As the plot is now unfa-
miliar to meet ranee, we give it briefly. Fazio is a poor
and enthueinatic dreamer, whose life is divided between ad-
miration of his wife Steers and researches for the phaeton
pher's stone. Ono night while engaged at his laboratory a
cry
for help is heard, and on the door being owedan ad
rent in the neighbourhood, Bartoldo by name,
naggers in, narrates the bintory of his attack by robbers and
analy dies at Fade's feet. The temptation is too st;ong.
Fazio buries the 'old man's body in his garden, takes his
keys, and possesses himself of his treasures. na become
great lord, his passion revive. for a certain Marche..
a itklabella, whom he bad courted previous to his
but who had slighted him on account of his preve:Dtym.T%
now, however, is too ready to receive him. Bunn is for-
gotten, and the love of Palo and Aldabelle is renewed. Mad
with jealousy, Bianca hastens to the ducal council, then
sitting in deliberation as to Barteldo's mysterion
panne and denounce' Fazio as his murderer. Fain is
✓aned,' condemned to die, and, notwithstanding the
.trenneua exertion of him bitterly repenting wife, finally
'acute& Aldebelhes guilty intercourse with Fazio is
Dented to to the Duke, and she is condemned to a tan's Me,
while Bianca dies of grief end theme.
From thia slight sketch it will be seen that the port of
Bianca offers full scope for the delicate light and shads of
Madame Risteri's acting ; and but soat have we
seen her to greater advantage. Al herLreslest pants we
would instance her wild buret of rev age whoa the
thought dawns scram' her that by yieg !dm is the
council she can wren Fazio Qom Abitheik's arms, We
wakening to resson to find her husband had been led
out to death, and her fable, impotent attempts to support
her tottering frame, and her assumption of prophet-like de-
nunciation what the Duke pronounces sentence upon her
rival Aldabella. AU then phone were admirably Named,
and vociferously applauded. There were, however, a thou-
nad minor touched, soft and scarcely perceptible cadences
of yoke, end perfect bits of pantomime and by-play, which
were rewarded by these deep chest notes, then Mused
"Ala," which in an anthem*, and specially a sani-fereign
audience, are frequently the beet teats of popular appreciation.
Madame Raton win called before the curtain several times
during the piece, and twice at its termination. She was ably
!supported by the Italian company, and the stage arrange-
manta were liberal and effective.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

PARTS, WEDNUDLY ETININO.

The result of the elections throughout France is
now known. Only six opposition candidates have
been definitively elected :—MM. Carnot and Gond-
eltaux, in Paris ; Dr. Henon, at Lyons ; M. Cure, at
Bordeaux ; M. Brame, at Lille ; and M. Javal, in the
Yonne. Out of the 267 elections throughout France,
only six will have to be repeated—three in Paris (as
already announced), and three in the provinces—
namely, one in the Maine-et-Loire, one in the
Mayenne, and one in the Somme. The struggle
in these three departments, however, lies between
government candidates and Bonapartists whose real
is not sufficiently appreciated, and not between
the government and the opposition, properly so
called. All the legitimist or Orleanist deputies who
constituted a nucleus of opposition in the last legis-
lative assembly, namely, Count de Montalembert,
Duke d'Unls, and M.M. de Civrac, Mailer, and
des Molles, have been thrown out. The Patris
boasts that out of 115 opposition candidates in 58
departments only four have been elected, but the
calculation assumes that MM. Brame and Javal,
who are returned respectively for Lille and the
Yonne, arc not to be classed with the opposition.
Ido not know how far this calculation may be
correct with regard to M. Jr who is
stylOd in some journals as an

!avid,

candidate, but I believe it to be clear that
M. Brame mast be classed as hostile. He is the
brother-in-law of M. Ternaux, and is understood to
be an Orleanist. His election is regardedas a small
triumph by the Orleanist party. The Patric, how-
ever, says that the main result of the elections is
that the opposition, which in the defunct Chamber
consisted of five members only is now reduced to
four! Without cavilling about one or two names it
must be admitted that the prefects in the depart-
ments have most faithfully performed the services
expected from them. They do appear to have
shown practically that with proper organisation the
government which commands the army and pos-
sesses the public parse, may reckon to a certainty
upon the almost unanimous support of the ballot-
boxes.

In Paris tho democratic candidates who had the
least number of votes in the fourth and seventh

circumaeriptiona have withdrawn, ea I expected they
would do. M. Gamier Pages has written the fol-
lowing letter to the Press*: