The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-06 00:00:00

MUSIC.

U. YELLON'S PROMENADE CONCERT'S.
Lost isigitt Mr. Alfred Mellon gate
seketion at the Royal Italian Opera, es cm former weirdoes
be pee selection. from Restbovea, Mendel. oho, and other
celebrated comp.. rs. The theatre way very well attended,
being much wore full than us prelims occasions, which is
the c •ult that might he expected, as these coocerts become
bettor koowu to :he public. The orchestra, which ha• been
assembled MAI, ti,.. directing' of Mr. Mellon, is rouilswed
Mot only of ekcelkut performers, hut is well and harm°.
aroaaly arranged so WI to lrring out the best effects.
The selection of last eight included the entire
symphony No. 2 in It minor, which was eve•

euted in apkudil style and captivated the audience.
The air. " in diesels heiligeu Mellen" (In these hol:
from hie Zero.. rflar, was sung by Herr Formes, vim ap.
poured for the first time kg night at these pronicniele
carts. To those who know the force and feeling which
lien Ironer throws into whatever he undertakes, nothing
need be said to qualify the style iu which this celebrated
aria was executed. Tlie audience were highly gratified with
tins perfeeressee, which was encored. and still more so with
the manner in which he sang "Non piu Andrui," from L.
41, F•queo. %inc. Parepii sang the scene "lei
asigui d'iliferno," from If Panto Magi..., in her usual
clear and expressive manner. The Concerto Nu. 6

wan executed with great brilliancy, the solos on the pimp- I "prolog • water connounicatien latween Manchester and
forte being performed by Miss Woolf, • young lady who Liverpool, and at the same time opened out the coal taints
ennui to have received an excellent musical education. of Wortley. Luring the last fifty years upwards of twenty
Her powers of execution are ounsidenible, and at the some billion pounds weight of cotton from all sources have been
tine• temp-red by sensibility and taste. Her performance WAS consumed in Great Britain, and the value would be probably
much applauded. The lint part of the concert condoled not less thou seven bundled and fifty milhom sterling ; and
with the overture to L. ,Vic:e di Piper.. The second part, on a fair computation hasyielder( a profit of not leas than a
though coatitions ofleas classical and more various manic, thousand millions pouods sterling to the people of the
was mulch relished. The duet, " Neils Notte," from Les United Kingdom within that period. The wonder is
Hort, •••4., was sung by Millie. Pa:cps and lbw Formes that so large a supply of cotton could be pro-
with etiect. The new waltz, " The Warblers of the cured from that one source, the United States,
w.: performed for the second time toil with scoot Ihiriug the last year the consumption of cotton in Great
Noccem. The "Laughing Song," frouiAuber's.thomu 1.45. our, Britain was 85 per cent. from the United States, 8 percent.
a solo on the cornet, I.y Mr. Levy, and Mr. Mellou's new from other foreign sources, and 7 per cent. from British ter.
Patti Polka, which is very popular sad very pretty, brought '4°l7. With the grwoth of this industry, five millions of
our population have become directly and indirectly depen-
the entertaiurnest to • rhoe. At a tinm when all London ,
is conveutionally said to lie in the country, the public can- dent upon it for their subsistence. The present position of
not he too thankful to Mr. 31clIon for these concerts "in the trade is most precarious and dangerous. Existiog stuck.
the wilderness," wbidt, however, bring somehow or other and prospective supplies of cotton may enable the mills to
be worked till the spring of next year at moderately full
large mid increasing •ilibeoces, a result which must be attri-
bided to the iutrinsic merit of the music, the talent with time, but afterwards, unless supplies be received from the
which it is interpreted, and the moderate price for which it United States, independent sources can only furnish the
an be beard sad appreciated. UNSAY of keeping the nulls at is ork little more than one day
is the week. That the cotton trade should hare rested chiefly
. upon the one supply of the States of America for its vary
. _

ITALIAN EXHIBITION IN FLORENi'L-The public m'ausof existeuce every good and wise man Las deplored,
prow having already sionounced that at the /taiga taloa. bet that, to produces that supply, the portion of the human
,
family which is moat defenceless should be held in the de.
ties iu Florence, agricultural machines sal implements will gradation of @Leery is abhorrent to the feelings ef the
be received as models, and kept in deposit for rte ; the un-
righteous, the humane, and the benevolent. In the suppree-
denigned gives notice herewith, by order of the Royal Coin. .
mission, that from the let of September to the Ist October, .iuu of uluvurlu greet moral triumph lea been achieved by
try, but from that benevolent act au evil hasarisen in
the objects above raid will be received, as stated, within the this country,
the attempts to extinguish We slave trade. Moat extensively
building of the labia's Eiloibition of Florence, no coalition,
to suppressslaverywill be to supersede the necessity for
however, of their being cleliverol to the Royal Commission
the labour of the slave. The cost of Great Britain's fleet
free of expense, and that, after the exhibition, they he re- •
to suppress slavery, besides the loss of many lives, amounts.
moved also at the expense of the owners. Them inachinee
to little lees than one million pounds sterling per annum
and implements cautiot compete fo'r prize., the exhibition Prolicbly half that sum would offer as effectual a barrier to
being eselusively Italian. The Royal Commission will limit slavery as the whole of it, and if the other bad been or could
itaelf to receive them in a special department of the be devoted in aid of agricultural products by negro labour,
tem, and tudeavour to dispose of them to the best admit- thet vile system of slavery might lee epeedily terminated. Of
tam of the nianufacturere, without charges of any kid; hem.ty commercialboo sep:licy ofhlthlel."l,l.t.t:ilheSrntatLs censures
rims
glad thee to otter for iespectime to the Italian agriculturists Les prevailed, and the people of the South have Vaal coon
in•
and manufacturer, excellent models worthy of imitation.- polled to pry extravagant and monopolist prices for the
Ervin the residence of the Royal Commissions, norms', manufacture@ produced by their own agricultural labour,
Almost 20, 1861. -Feteexato CAND:A, the secm.ry and which, le the form of cotton, has been relieved in this
, country from every tax. The North has robbed the South
(Memel of the Royal Commission. ; by unjust exactions, and the South has robbed the negro of
Prillatertinorte Soetere, RED-HILL-The Anse- life and liberty. Partial and unjust government has at
Seely court of (nemeses was held yesterday, at the London Istigth reaped the fruit of convulsion, and for which unjust
Tavern, Mr. R. Ricanlo in the chair. The andttor'e report policy had sown the seed. In addition to these grave rm.
anteounced the recoipte during the paid three mouths soiling eons, which mainly affect the morality of the States, this
.turpost 31, to be 2,110C4. lle. Ado and the expeueliture, • counts,- Ica been paying a tnbute of five million pounds
2,312/. Its., leaving a cash loulance of 4911. Is. Md. The sterling per annum to those States in excess of the price at
report of the chaplain stated the number .4 boys admitted which notton could be remuneratively produced awl
during the quarter had been 29, and 2i4 lad lc ft during rte sold. With the convulsion which exists in Anse-
muse period, as follows :-ti had emigrated to (':male, 2to • risen with the adverse' cmrmcrial puhey dominant
.telelaele. 2to New Zerilmi.l, it or. the time of their detail. there, and with the iuhumen system of slavery which pre-
lim initial; expired, 5 heeased out to employment. 1 sent • wails in the cottomprodming district., what are the duties
he friends, 2 met to prison, 1 dented, and 1 deal. The • which devolve upon our governing and mercantile GLUM
kW somber I. the who.' on list August last was tea, ; With the East and West Indies, with tracts in math-east
The health of the inmates was generally good, and the and west Africa, and with land is Australia as extensive as
data of the institution generally satisfactory. A purtioe Europe, cepside of growing cotton hum the lowest to the
of the lop pod beee occupied during the mouth of August highest qualities, it is national reproach to us that we have
In horsed operations. The reports were received awl permitted our own fields to Le uncultivated, and that our
spinners sal manufacturers have been driven by 'Jocosity
ad=talt. 011entoMenic I.l.ortratahalf-yearly Ito consume the produce of slavery. Lacking the moms of
mere ef the SCUMOTS snot subecribeesof this institution WU communication and of irrigation, the nuources of the East
held yeeterday at the hospital, in Oxfonlatreet ; Mr, ; Indies remain in much the same dormant condition in which
QUOIN/ Hants in the chair. The statistical report mad they have been for two thousand years. But higher
hp the secretary showed a colosiderable extension of the prospects are opening in that great dependency- railways
Mesita of the chanty, 1,105 petients having been admitted ; are being constructed, canals funned, river navigation
Maim the half.vear, making the Vaal admitted since Um - improved, sad works of irrigation proceeded with. Gee great
epsaiug of the hospital 27,512. There ere 44 intienin in detect is, however, retained with perverse tenacity. The
the mods, sad sheet I,l' )1 eot.maimita, rho greport • tenure of laud is obstructivealike to the rights of saheb
stated that she hospital tscrieej the deformed par of all ownership, and to its effective cultivation. Without
ages, and from all parte of the couutry. Adults had been t '1.'64 the slightest "'of to the holders of any land, its
sweresefally treated is the hamlet after having been de- equitable Mayon' might be sanctioned, and a Modest Pro-
penal of the as. of their limb fur missy porn, ad is the pnetaey as istluential as in .ur own country might be este-
ems of bleats it hi often the mime of preveuting, as well Wished. Let our fee-simple sjetem be atop there, and
ar swig deformities. le younger paginate the cures in oath- a woialth-proluciog revolution will be the result. Small
tmry mem have been 1111. a/ complete, is proof of which at is , aeliiiheo of etttoe as good as_ ,tha) obt:diued from
enis• to mention that some lin mitered the wsnis of the New "aro' or, now ""iv"' 'rm."
India, ad
hospital a few mare since, erippled pauper boys, now the cutlet' of this met depeudeecy is certainly improving.
011 et." as ...AM. sad solder.. - The interior al i.,og,moute • But whilst from a curnioluation of eircumstances, theryot of
of the hospital have during the lame few mouth. been ' India is 'sly paid 12e. per acre for his crop of cotton, and
meetly unmoved ,• hot water has been fail too v. eveiy the Araterieee cultivator c-an obtain 121., the energy and
/sot thnmelmut the Witcher. and new boilers sal cistern, capability of the former caneet be developed. Supposing
ematructed to etbod a Leninism' supply, with baths and efforts to be made commensurate with increased dialed- I
lathing appliance.; the drainage and ventilation has been ties, all the common cotton*, or seventy-five per cent. cof
imprevol, and everything dome that could cootribute to , the consumption of Great Briteie, might be obtained from
the comfort of the petieets. The report cascluded by . India in a couple of years. Protection to sugar destroyed
Aston.; th..t though the funds of the charity are ion:easing, I the cultivation of Colital ie the West Indies; and the
thei Lir (ion. adequate to the demands nydu upon • spiritless and apathetic, eunihietuf the °weer. ol • e
thew. Seeeril liberal donations bed been received by part of the property of these Weeds has prevented there-the committer :a fuitherance of their efforta to Fey og e newal of exertions which could scarcely fail !Mug very pro-
perties' 4.4 their mortgage debt, is which they bop. to Stable. 51 iegled free and slave lelaur supplies of cotton
bemagessfeL On the motion of the chairman the reams, come from South America, but the Brazilian government
lily sepses to Insincere in its desire to etnanc:pate the negro.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HI esriTAL„-A gift of 100 f., iFrom Egypt the supply of cotton may increase,
the eighth of that amount from the a 5,,,, benefactor, was but there the withenng influence of the despot
yesterday received from Mr. Joha Hibbert. It is under- retards its extended cultivation, though the spirited,
stood that the rum, like all the previous donation. of Mr. energetic, and successful enterprise or Mehemet All is an
'emelt elms the first, is intended for iavestineut.
Reels example deserving the attention of better men. He iatro-
, deco' agricultural industry into his viceeroyalty, arid
FINE Tom KEEPING A Lorrgnair.,v,.—brfA....t tylior.EnlEatrardl f ousi a fountain of wealth, whence Sow millinns of
Intermediate &aims, a few days
(drew, the chairman, and other magistrates , James - annualinns. to the aarautle f f'.4•ll't* For all the
finer, higher, and better classes of outton from New (deans,
font was indicted for unlawfully keeping a lottery and nazi', and Egypt, to the most beautiful Sea Island,
"little go," at Ashteseualer.Lym. From the evidence it Queensland is Australia might quickly afford all the re.
rol that, besides selling ticketa for others, he had kept • quente supplies. That territory alone, besides sustaining the
as
tonere for more than two years-at first under the pepulation Europe, could easily lo made to produce all
name of the " Cniveresl Weekly elallot," and afterwards
change
encoettou now consumed. iu the world ; hut so awes ping
wider that of tbe " Universal Meeting lestributioe of Arta." and enlarged production need not be dilated
The last name wee eeideetil liven "de* tome notion that • upon, the facts being only referred to as illustrating the
the bete*, keepers and Tender. a ticket' weld be Pre. ' powersof the colony. To prove the possibility of immense
Meted by certain previsions in the Art Union Act. This, • and immediate supplies of cotton bc• ggro in Queensland
however, was ("load at tam trial to be no Protection in with comparatively little &In In-
-wnrecollect that
Breileford. Witnesses proved the purehasi of tickets and the tY• we must
le present yearly consumption of cotton is the United
the distribution of lista of prises, by ma of which it , Kingdom at 2.500,000 bag.
No the labour to •
that the sobncribem varied in number from 3,000 to this quantity cotton
would e negro rats!
/700711,1 and the pipe iu anioutot from gOl. to 10s. The hot for omooe• ham • would,"
glow man for every 10 hags;
defeedset IMINIONUI to three mouths' imprisonment, or molaVbl,l7 of
1. Zalproonaiggs ai6ll.
amend to pone
the learned chairman remarking that it was clear that the and harvest time for weedin , tlmtuig,is • and 'enl 8P97
defendant knew perfectly '6ll that his prfteedings were women and children might !don their help. Foearntli)ii
illegal. On the same der, Jobs Chadwick was coorieted of prodocajoo „mos
4.7 Out men only would be required ;
a similar armee, committed et Bury._ Soar circurealtDcus mid 'supposing the women, the young and the children to be
mitigated his offence, and a bee of 20L we infie4L I 710,000 more, the total would thus be one million of human
LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS IiOXTANY (LIMITED). beings to ensure the whole supply of the cotton
-Vedic receipt...lor week ending Sept. 1, 11J51L 19a.11d. auw cousumed by us. Such a population could be