The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-08 00:00:00

ADELPHI.

Last night witnessed the appearance at this I
theatre of Mr. T. P. Cooke in Jerrold'a drama of Bleck •Eyed
Sewn, and it is scarcely efteuary to say that be received •
hearty welaitie. There is something so thoroughly conge-
nial to English testes in the line vein of nautical allegory and
manly sentiment which run through the piece, to say nettling
of Ito practical Jokes and the strong dramatic " Mtuatiou
in 11 it abouuds, that its popularity may be looked upon
em perennial. To many persons present the figure of Mr.
T. P. Cooke, as became skipping on the siege with en agility
mucely less than that which he displayed when he
first introduced the woes of the hero to • British
publie, must have recalled • hundred reminimences of
days long since past ; and this, no doubt, contrilmted some-
thing to the delight with which the house Tenho' the deve-
lopment of the plot. He wu, moreover, exceedingly well
supported. The Susan of the evening was Mies Arden, who
was wanting in no requiaito for the due impersonation of the
part; Mies Mary Keeley, In her love affair with the aenten-
tams (Matinee (Mr. Wright), we. as pert and petulant as
the sweetheart of the first comic "party' ts always expected
to show herself; and Mr. Paul Bedford sang the legend,
"All in the p.n.," with a feeling that no one meld Lave
credited who Ind only wen him in the parts which he com-
monly SLlMaini. As weal, the great acene—namely, that
which the balls would call " the hem trending inter-
view between the unfortunate criminal and his wife," dia.
solved the pit into tears; and when Mr. T. P. Cooke expe-
rienced for the limey thousandth time his marvellous temps
from the foreyard-arm the Louse went into an erstuy of de-
light. The maul compliment was paid to the veteran actor
and the other leading performers.

NATIONAL 4850CL4TI0N FOR THE PROMO-
TION OP SOCIAL SCIENCE, 1817.

This association, of which Lord Brougham is presi-
dent, end tLe Aleyor and Recorder of Birmingham vice-
rsaidents, will hold its first meeting at Birmingham; on
October 12, and the four tillosieg days.
The object of the aosorietion is to aid the development of the
eon ui wieners, and to guide the public mind to the beet prac-
tical means of promoting the amendment of the law, the
advancement of education, the romance and repreeelon of
crime, the reforniation or criniinale, the establishment of due
airsn regulations, and the recognition of round principles
le all questions of social economy.
The proposed mode of action is, once in every year, to
bring together the various societies and individuals who me
engaged or interested in furthering any of the above objects,
and, without trenching upon their independent exertions, to
elicit by discussion the real elements of truth, to clear up
doubt., to bartnonlee dinordast opinions, and to afford a
i•onimon ground for the mutual excluusge of reliable informa-
tion on the great .0. ha problems of the day.
I The better to curry out this plan, the committee have di-
vided the misociatioe, for the present, into five departments.
via, jurisprudence and amendment of the law, education,
t and reformation, public health, and mocha eco-
nomy; but, at the time of each wetting. any department
will, if necessary. be subdivided into sections, for the more
' convenient transaction of it. business. A committee hes been
appointed for each section.
• Full particular. of the business le be transected in each
department will be published previous to the meeting, but,
in the meantime, end in order more fully to erplain the range
of topics on which piper. end discussion will be received, a
short stetement is subjoined under the head of each reties.
The Departineat of Jorkeprudenco end Amendment of the
Law le under the preeidiney of the Right Hon. Lord John
Russell, M.P., and mill be occupied In dimming the science
of civil jruisprudence ; it, bearing on the solid condition
of the people, the edvanteges derivable from a wide diffusion
of it. principles ; the practical defects in our laws ; the
evils miring from such defects ; and the fitting remedies.
The Department of Education is under the presidency of
the Hight Hon. Sir John 8. Pekington, Bart., M.P., and
will deal with the various question, relating to education,
both industrial and intellectual. whether of the upper, middle,
or lower dames of society; tho foundation sehnols of the
country ; the connection of sit and literature with national
education, Ac

Thelieir;troent of Punishment and Reformation le
presided over by the iliehop of London, and in this, sec-
tion will be diet-nowt the variant, quentionn relating to
the prevention and repression of crime: the retonnallan of
the criminal; the beat mode of eerondary poniehment ; pri-
eon diloiptine; the management of reformatory schoola and
inatitntiona, te. _ _ _

The Department of Public. Ilealtb, of which Lord Stanley,
M.l'., is president, will be occupied with the consideration of
the various questions relating to the public health and the
prevention of divine.; it will collect Mat lethal evidence of the
relative hes thine.' of different lototitiee, of difkrent indus-
trial occupations, and generally of Out influence of exterior
rircumstances in the prishe tem of health or diecase ; it
will disclaim improvements in house construction (more expc
eially as to the dwellings of the labouring dames), In dnutt-
age' warming, v entilation, public baths and weabboitaes;
adulteration of food and its effect!, the functions of go-
vernment in rvldien to public health, the legislative and ad-
ministrative machinery expedicot fur Its preservation • sani-
tary palm. quarantine &.e. •' poverty In relation to difseue,
and the effect of unhealthhsese In the prosperity of placea
and nations.

The Department of Social Economy le preeided over by
Lord Lyttelton, end in this section will be conaidered the
various iteration/1 relating to social economies; the condi-
tions of industrial POCCORS, whether of notion. or Mai-
videmlo ; savings banks and insurance; the relation be-
tween employers and employed; !mikes and combinations;
Irgielatieeinterference with the hour. and wagon
111 labour; legislative regulation of profeseione, trades,
and employment generally, and of price and mean, of wipply;
emigration, its effect, and true oonditione; exerriot of pub
and private charity; relief of the poor; industrial em-
ployment of women • industrial and economicel Warned=
of the labouring classes; economics in relation to
adulation, Sc. . _ _

g—gmmAelral and tamotennications are to be addressed to
eaeretegy,Hastings, Req., 3, Waterleo-glecths
London, S.W., end must be sent in at least one week before
the 12th of October, The general committee of the essocia-
lion, as well as the committee of each department, reserve
the right of rejecting any papers which they may consider
inappropriate.
It is particularly requested that no paper may occupy in
reading more than 20 minutes at the most.
The following are the smengementa for the meetings
Monday, October 12.—Opening meeting in the Town-hall
at half-past 7in the smiting. Lord Brougham will deliver
an inaugural address.
Tuesday, October several departments will meet
in the Queen's College at 11 o'clock, a.m. for papers and
discussions. In the evening • converiatistral meeting
(dams) at the Town-ball, under the presidency of the Mayor
of Birmingham.
Wednesday, Oet. 14.—Departtoents at Queen's College, at
11 a.m. A dinner In the evening at Deda Hotel, to Lord
Brougham and other members of the usociation, by the
Mayor of Thrsnioghani.
Thursday, October lb.—Departments at Queen's College,
at elevens re. In the evenings public meeting in support
of the Reformatory and Industrial Schools movement, at the
Town-hall.

Friday, O^sober 16th.—Concluding meeting, to receive •
report from the general committee. at twelve.
A reception room will be open diming the days of the meet-
ing, where letters may be addreeeed, tickets tiurchased, lists
of lodgings obtained. and every informati4ll given.
Tickets to admit to all the mmeings, ten shillings each.
Members of the emaciation (subscription one guinea an-
nually) admitted free.
By the permission of the lion. and Rev. Grantham Yorks,
a speck! service for the occasion will take place at Bt.
= church, on the afternoon of Monday, the 12th of

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(raom ora owx

)VT.)

PARIS. MONDAY Xvisture.

The articles of the Paris journals are not distin-
guished by any great interest. The Debuts remarks
on the declaration of the council-general of the
Reranit in favour of a revision of the French cus-
toms' tariffs, and expresses its satisfaction at the
persistence with which that body each year pub-
lishes its arguments in favour of free trade. It is
only by such perseverance, adds the Dads, that
the free-trade system can eventually prevail in
France, where nothing affords a greater support to
the protectionist party than the ignorance which
exists respecting the real situation of most of tke
great questions of political economy.
A private letter from Vienna mentions that a tele-
graphic despatch had been received in that city
bringing news from Moldavia to the 3rd of Septem-
ber. tip to that date the period fixed for the elections
was not known, but it is supposed they would take
place in the month of October next. The instruc-
tions for the formation of the new electoral lists
were expected to arrive from Constantinople on the
6th. The members of the European Commission
were expected at Jassy in a few days. The Caimacan
was after visiting the chief districts of the province.
The greatest tranquillity prevailed, and all were
quietly awaiting the day of election, when the will
of the country would be made known.
The Unirers is the only journal that contains a
leading article on a political subject. It again re-
verts to India—a subject on which it expatiates with
much gratification—and once more unhesitatingly
expresses a hope that the English may prove unsuc-
cessful in their efforts to put down the insurrection.
Its reason for so charitable a wish is that the Eng-
lish, being protestants and heretics, aro just as
great barbarians as the Hindoos themselves. The
plan suggested by the Viewers for changing the face
of India would in any other journal seem mere
mockery—being to send out a number of Roman
catholic missionaries—but in the columns of our
respected contemporary we have no doubt that it is
meant quite seriously.
Private letters from America state that the pro-

ject of arrangement between New Granada and the
United States has been adopted at Bogota, and that
the blockade of the coasts of the Isthmus has been
raised in consequence—the frigate Independance of
52 guns having left Panama on the 6th of August
last.

The Monifear dm Senegal of June 2 contains the
recital of an eight days' pursuit by a squadron of
French Sipahis of a band of Moors who had devas-
tated Chardon. The rear guard of the band, con-
sisting almost entirely of the princes and chiefs of
the family of the King of the Trans, was at length
overtaken and cut to pieces. Thirty women and
children, whom the Moors had carried off from Gar-
den, were recovered.
At the Bourse, Rente has been maintained, with
a very limited amount of business. Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. quoted ex div. at 90fr. 8.5 c. Mobilier
and railway shares continued to be offered. Threes
have been done at from 66fr. 95c. to 67fr. ;
Mobilier, 867 fr. 50c. to 860 fr. ; Austrian, 64.7 fr.
to 650 fr. ; Orleans, 1,407 fr. 50e. to 1,400 fr. ; Lyons,
877 fr. Me. to 875 fr. ; Northern, 867 fr. 50e. to 865 fr. ;
and Southern, 635 fr. to 632 fr. We. The market
continued the same to the close, when the following
were the last quotations:-Four-and-a-Halfper Cents.,
ex div., 90fr. 8.5 e. ; Three per Cents., 66fr. 80e, ;
ditto, end of month, 66fr. Wm. ; Bank shares, 2,775 fr.;
Credit Mobilier, 860 fr. ; ditto, account, 855 fr.;
Credit Fowler, 565 fr.; Belgian Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 990.; Piedmontese Five per Cents., 90fr. ;
Roman, 861 fr. ; Austrian, 891; Home Debt, 371 ;
Orleans Railway, 1,3820 k. for cash, 1,3821 fr. for
account ; Northern, 86711 r. for cash, 8.50 fr. for ac-
count ; Lyons and Mediterranean, 8871 fr. for cash.
8601 r. for account; New din), 8,7,5 fr.. for cash, 855 fr.
for account; Geneva, 670 fr. for cash, 665 fr. for ac-
count; Midi, 635 fr. for cash, 63.5 f. for account;
Western, 722}fe. for cash, 717jfr. for account;
Strasburg, 6771 fr. for cash, 675 fr. for account; New
ditto, 665 fr. for cash, 660 fr. for account ; Grand
Central, 613;fr. for cash, 6131 fr. account ; Sardinian,
495 fr. for cash; Austrian, 6511 fr. for cash, 645 fr. for
account.