The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1868.
THE-A-DAllirllti77l.l7'loN FIRIRIA

tat ishot i. which rise, iron, e.mfoemisig to
Society's rules, the popularity of the Opera would
se. in to he due as untch to the cb.eadenceof t • Mng-
-1141 11141111.6 as to an unaffected to for music. An
°pent audience save when 1•444110 favourite air is
being sung- is One of the twist inattentive in the
world. It talks, and laughs, and flirts, and ogles
di ring the long passagisi in which the princi;cll
erformers are not on the stage. It likes the /or-
sem/ of its favourites quit.. as .ll as their
It yawns at high art. met dAilierately
refers Gousoir and % Latin to IiEIiEIIOVEN and
MOZART: 1 while the Traei..l./ or the Trorafor •
ate ever popular, works like /.7.idia lay neglected
on the shelf. On the other haud. with all their
trifling and mock dilletantisin, our English audi-
t noes are loyal to adoration to their favourite
singers. In their eyes age does not wither nor
custom stale who have once won their love.
The Frenchman who defined Opera as " a concert in
'• which the drama is only a pretext.- might have
seen in England operas in which the dramatic
talent of the artist has been accepted in condo-
nation of his hided voice, in which the singing hai
been 'solely traditional, and the acting all in all.
There is perhaps no more popular woman in Eag-
land at this time than Mdlle. TITIENS, or ADELINA
PATTI, or eIIRMTINS NILSSON and those who
remember the JENNY Luau fever, and the wand ‘r-
fill way in which grave and heavy men battled in
the Haymarket for hours before the Opera doors
were opentsl, and finally gained its anditorimn
panting. ragglii, and forlorn, will admit that it
vast enthusiasm for public singers is underlying
our English phlegm. But this is happily restrained
and chastened, anti never, in our day, transgresses
the limits of public decency. Our ladies of
quality no longer indite profane sonnets deifying
a first tenor, as they were in the habit of doing to
FARINELLI in 1733, and though ADDISON'S
'ay satire ut the havoc wrought in female
breasts by the melodious tyrants and dulcet
murderers of the operatic stage may not have
entirely lost its force, the popular admiration for
operatic heroes is kept within reasonable bounds.
Mdlle. PArn. and the revival of that Foglia de'
Reggimento, in which JENNY LLYD won all hearts,
has been ono of tho operatic topics of the hour.
It is easy to realise the respectful silence and rapt
attention which were even more significant than
the rapturous plaudits sure to follow the dainty
little lady throughout the opera. Assuming
Covent Garden to have been, as usual, rather
a chatty house, still

Thyrtis, with artful strains, has oft delayed
The babbling brook to hear his madrigal,
and Mdlle. Pawl is equally successful with the
babbling bores who disturb the overture. That
Mille. PAULINE LEMA will sing in Afriraine
to-morrow, that Mdlle. Part" will appear in Son-
rianthirki the next night, and that La Farorita will
bring Signor MARIO again into the foreground on
Saturday, were facts which were probably familiar
to every lover oft I era. But the gay and spark-
ling looking people who frequent the Opera tell
these things to each other with as much vivacity
as if they were startling pieces of news. Th, y
crop up irrelevantly at all times during the per-
formances, and when the ladies and the peers,
plutocrats, senators, and faahionables, are blot ke I
together on the great staircase at the finish,
they seem— while singling out their owe
livery from the noble assortment of footmen
below, and while waiting for their name to co:ue
through the mystic sounding-tube, to act as so
many peripatetic speaking advertisements of the
attractions of their favourite house.
The old theatre itself and its audience have as-
sumed all the true Opera-house characteristics. The
once famous yellow curtains wore saved from the 8; e
at Her Majesty's because they were held to be too
good for a public admitted at low prices, and
common ones were substituted for the cheap
nights. It was after one of the*, that the house
was burnt down and the deputy curtains destroyed.
and thus it was that the originals were preserved
to be transferred to Drury Lane. They help to
heighten the illusion that the theatre from which
the unhappy people who essayed to play Moat.
Christ° were pelted away because they were
foreigners, and when a riot followed this
attempt to perform on the national stage--
that this privileged British spot is a veritable
Italian Opera-house built for the purpose, and
with no other tradition. Its acoustic properties
are excellent, and the portions of the audience
who listen can hear every note with ease. The
effectiveness of Signor Annin's orchestra and
its admirable execution are admitted by moat
habituh, and form a valuable testimony to the capa-
bilities of the old house. When PEPYB visited the
first Drury-lune theatre on the second night after
its opening. he complained bitterly of " the
" distance from the stage to the boxes, which,"
as he went on to say, " I am confident cannot
hear . . . . above all the musique being
" below, and most of it sounding undo •
" the very stage, there is no hearing of the
" bases at all, nor very well of the trebles,
" which surely must be mended." But the
theatre has been twice burnt down since
then, and no one enn complain of basses or trebles
!maiming unheard, or of the music sounding under
the stage now. After Covent-garden Theatre was
eonverted into an Opera, so extravagant were the
arrangements that the first season resulted in a loss
of 34.7361. We have little doubt that Mr. MAPLE-
SON is conducting Drury-lane on its first Italian
opera season upon Hounder et»nmercial prin-
ciples, and it is certain that the item of 0,1051.
expended on the Oment-garilen ballet is not looked
for by the patrons of either house now. The prin-
cipal desiderata for Opera frequenters appear to
be a few bright, particular stars, upon whom they
can lavish their plaudits and hero and heroine
worship, together with good scenery and hand-
some stage dresses and appointments and the
opportunity for gossip, persiflage, and display.
They command all theme advantages at this time ;
and the Opera aeeordingly stands high as ever in
the esteem of the fashionable, the plutocratic, and
the pleestne-taking worlds.

ii/NULAKE'S UN/ME.I.

THE new vohnues of Mr. Kmoi.AKE's —lnvasion
..f the Crimea whieh have hem ju•it issued, cover a
riisl of toomilittais intere4 in the history of the
war, and AN anal in statements. eritieisins, and
:Lewis.% ilestilied to he as hotly disputed as WO et
he political 114/riklll4 of the previous volumes. T e

relation.. liet we. thi• Allies are a ewe:toot then e.
Mr. X it0pre..,..41 with the bolief that
the t. oiler rxiyeueies lif the hood whirh unit.-. 1
t &. toiglity Stat.:: in...0.111y 1'490 tli.•lii the
ii:l u.e4.f their atreityrtl.. A Cu-it cout)lo.l4. IN.-
.paired 1110 their :wt togrtlier in :toy
:.:cut "IA110'1.41: :111111 it chtmeing tuna tinis• to t•
ft. Ili the f..rtin.e of war. that tow Power W:I4 in a
Cu 11.Iitit 11 to to....atilt, and the other WM MIL it
Es hi. n Hat sirri run-cipients3.. that the 14.101m1-
rni:. of the 1/11e riurictl with it the als-

Id. Idiom ..r ludh. •• What benumbed the allies.'
.4. . Ml. K il. . • %up% '• WtUt the 11111118111 AV."
Expel ieui e Taw little we: runt to the &Amy
1 (of thane who had imagined that the con-
void of England and France would enable them

to tin the field with the power of two mighty
nations, and the deuieivencas of one. "In that
'• lame the alliatue ammo ever joined together
" the two armies. It coupled, but did not unite.
" hem.**

After the battle of the Alma there were, accord.
ing to Mr. KINGLAXP.. four "lost. oceaaiona," which
a ould have given Selmetopol to the allies. After the
victory of the Alma Lord RAULAN urged Marshal
Mr. AHNArio to pn.ei on and at once attack the
northern fort. without giving the enemy time to
reeover from the blow which had felled him. The
French General replied that his troops were tired
amid it could not be done, and afterwards that the
Itits..ians had thrown up strong earthworks. If
the Marshal had followed the counsel of Lord
Itaonsi and Sir Restrx-n LYONA, the Allies
Mr. KIritiSLAKE insists, would have occupied the
north side of Sebastopol without encountering
resistanee, and, having done this, they could have
pun ersLsl ut once to execute the main pur-
pose of the inva. , by destroying the
Black Sea fleet, and the naval establishmenta.
Nor wa, even this all : there is reason to
believe. the author says, that by adding to their
perations the mere occupation of a point on tine
road to Baktchi-Serai,the Allies would have secured
the surrender of the eouth of Sebastopol, and have
brought the campaign to an end. The theory
which hest explains the counsels of Use French
laud-quarters at this time seems to Mr. KISOLUCE
to he one which traces them to the bodily con-
dition of Marshal St. Anxatu. The avoidance of
the Star Fort—the second of the four lost occa-
sion.: - is attributed by General DR TODLBEN to
the same cause. The third occasion was
at the close of September, when a proposal to
assault Sebastopol was submitted by Lord RAGLAN
to General CANROBERT. The French General re-
fuard to concur, and hie lordship, Mr. Kisataxe
allows, was overborne by a great weight of legiti-
mate authority. Sir JOHN Bruno's-NE and the allied
ngineers generally not only adhered to the same
conclusion as the French General, but went so far
as to think that the opposite counsel was of too
wild a sort to be even for ono moment tenable. On
the third day from that when the French
definitively rejected the proposal, General
AIREY wrote to Lord HARDLNCIZ, giving what Le
judged to be the probable consequences of the
decision just taken. "My own opinion," he
wrote. "is that we are here for the winter,
" maintaining only a strong position until we
" can be reinforced." General TODLEBIIN,
who directed the labours of the garrison,
has declared that the place at this timo could
not have been held against such an attack as the
Allies had the power to make. The omission
of the Allies to push on their advantage, after
the great explosion of the &elan, consti-
tutes the fourth of the " lost occasions." The
failure of the French at the same period at
the Flag-staff Bastion led General CANROBERT to
decide that the assault must wait until his troops,
with spirit restored and with batteries multi-
plied, should be able to reduce the Bastion to the
same condition as the Roden. If the whole allied
army, Mr. KucoLaxe argues, had been one
people obeying one chief, the confidence and war-
like impulse engendered by disabling the Roden
would have been carried by swift contagion to the
men on tho crest of mound Rodolph, and the
opportunity for the assault would not have been
missed.

A return was published this morning containing
a elites of pipers relating to the administration of Beset.
In September last Sir Stafford Northeote proposed the ap-
pointment of a special committee to eonsider in what
manner the system of government in that province could
be improved ; and their inquiry was to be of sufficient
scope to include other parts of India also if the committee
dermied such an investigation desirable. The essen-
tial points to he considered were briefly stated by
Sir Stafford Northeote, and on the lith November the
committee made their report. Considering find the ques-
tion whether Cakiifta should he retained as the capital of
India, the committee came to the conclusion that, although
objections of considerable weight could be urged against
rush an arrangement, still the fact remained that it has
become the metropolis by forte of circumstances alone,
mid the importance of its position cannot be exaggerated.
Then, again. its defects are gradually disappearing.
and the evils arising from the climate use yielding to the
influence of well-devised sanitary arrangements. While
deciding in favour of Calcutta the committee are of
opinion that the periodical transfer of the seat of govern-
ment to Simla is injurious to the public interests. Having
ratiified thenwelvem on thisquestion, the committee arrived
at the conclusion (Sir B. Frere and Mr. Arbuthnot
being the only dissentients), that the administra-
tion of Bengal should remain, ass at premed., under
a lieutenant-governor without a council. They are satis-
fied that the existence of a separate government of Bengal
with an executive and legislative council, on the system
of Madras smut Bonileiy, is incompatible with the
presence of the supreme government in Calcutta.
Various suggestions are made for the improvement
of the government of Bengal, and for strengthening
the bond which ought to exist between the government
and the people. This latter desideratum the com-
mittee think is to be found in the large and
more systematic employment of adopted natives,
and they recommend that the suPlmine govern-
ment should be called upon to consider a scheme
by which the services of natives may be made available
n appointments to which larger emoluments are attached
than those to which they are at present generally ad-
mitted. The report is signed by F. Currie, E. Perry, Ross
I). Mangles, and H. G. Montgomery.

Cite Court.

BALMORA.L CASTLE, Jtrws 7.

The Queen and Prineees Louise attended Divine
eervsee at the parish church, Crathie. The Duchess of
Athole, the Hon. Miss Cathcart, and Colonel PonJonby
were in attendance.

The Rev. Norman Macleod, of Blair Athale, officiatad.

Prince and Princess Tack, and Lieutenant-General the
Right Hon. Jonathan Peel, arrived at Frogmore on Mon-
day on a rink to Prince and Prince,el Christian. In the
evening their Royal Highnevaea had a dinner party, to
which the following had the honour of being invited:—
Lieutenant-Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Cecil Peel, Captain
and Mrs. Keith Fraser, Lady Burin Melville, Lord George
Hamilton, Captain the Hon. Frederick Wellelley, and
Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. George Gordon.
Despatches were received yestenlay at the Colonial-
once from the governors of Malta and Newfoundland.
Despatches were sent to the governors of the Cape of Good
Hope, Natal, St. Helena, Sierra Leone, and Lagos.
A deputation from the representatives of the Smyrna,
and Aiden, Varna and Danube, and Kustendjie Railway
Companies, had an interview with Lord Stanley at the
Foreign-office yesterday, in reference to a memorial ad-
dreseed by them to the Ottoman government on the aub-
ject of certain guarantees and other claims in arrear of
payment.

- A deputation, introduced by Mr. T. A. Smith, M.P.,
had an interview with the Duke of Richmond and tho Right
Hon. Stephen CS Ye, at the °film of tho Board of Trade,
yesterday, with respoct to tho amalgamation of the South
Eastern and London, Brighton, and South Coaat Railway
Compudes.

Prince and Princess Teck and Lieut.-General the
Right Hon. Jonathan Peel arrived at Froamore on Mon-
day on a visit to Prince au.l Princess Christian. In the
evening their royal hightievios had a dinner party, to
which the following had thu honour of being invited :
LieuL-Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Cecil Peel, Captain and
Mre. Keith Fraser, Lady Swan Melville, Lord George
Hamilton, Captain the Hon. Frederick Wellesley, and
Lieut.-Colonel and Mn.s George Gordon.

Last night the Countess of Durtrey had an even-
ing party at her residence in Curzon-street, Mayfair.
Previously to the reception, the earl and countess enter-
tained the following company at dinner :—Tho Earl and
Countess Stanhope, the Countess of Newburgh, Lord
Stanley, M.P., Lonl Hyde, Lord and Lady Egerton of
Tatton and Hon. Miss Egerton, Sir Edward and Lady
Caroline Kerrison, Admiral and Mn,. Eden, Mr. W.
Beaumont, M.P., and Lady Margaret Beaumont, Mr. E.
Stanley, Mr. Chartcris, Ac.

Lady Cairns will have an assembly to-night at
the Lord Chancellor's residence in Cromwell Houma.

Among the list of distinguished foreigners now
present in Paria are the Comte and Coattail de glanders,
who are staying at the Grand Hotel, and the Mareheee
d'Ameglio, late Italian Minister at the Court of St. Am.'s's.

Among the general visitors during the week at
ral is have been the Marquis of Hastings, Lords Clonmel,
Miter, and Albert Clinton, Sir Charles Lenard, Sir
George Armytage, Mean George Payne, Henry Saville,
Fit rireurice, Sumner, Craven, Stanley, dc.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel aro on a visit to the
island of Jersey.

Mr. Hubbard, next Monday, will ask the Secre-
tary of State for the Home Department whether his att %-
bon has been directed to the lamentable amount of juve-
nile criminality, hugely aUributable to the spread of chew
publications and theatrical repremntations of an exciting
and immoral character, which corrupt the children of tre
lower clime*, and stimulate them into courses of dishonesty
and vista : And whether the government will proi.o.o any
remedy for these growing and most serious evils.
The foundation atone of a new church was laid
last week by the Earl of Shaftesbury at Bournemouth, in
Hants, to counteract the influence of the ritualistic church
in that town.

The limits Advertiser states that the church
bells were rung last week in Southampton to celebrate ex-
Uotemor Eyre's triumph.

The annual dinner given by the Society of Poli-
tical Economy of France took place on Sunday at the
Grand Hotel, under the presidency of M. Hippolyte Palsy.
M. Emile 011ivier waii on the president's right hand, it
Special invitation having been sent to him in acknowledg-
ment of Ins vetch in favour of counnereial liberty. M.
Uvular drank his health. Among the guests were MM.
Michael Chevalier, Horn, Wolswsky, Levasneur,
A letter from Rome says : --" While Prince
Humbert and Pi Moms Margaret are the lions of Italy, thl
Count of Girgenti and his bride, Dolma Maria Isabella,
Infanta of Spain, are equal objects of attraction in Row a
with this difference, however, that in Italy the people of
all ranks, the entire nation, take jute, est ill the leraons
and welfeue of their future King and Queen, whereas
in Rome it is only in ecclesiastical and legitimist
eirekm that the Count and Countess of Girgenti excite
a similar sentiment. The piety and simplicity of the late r
are lauded in contrast to the pomp and splendour of the
former lady, although the diamonds of the Infanta
worth twice the duel), of Princess Margaret, and the
devotion e f Deana !rebel/a to the. Holy See is demon-
strated by her habitual garb of a white dross and yellow
shawl. It would be invidious, or rather odious, :teem ding
to the old proverb, to push comparisons into so delimit
province an that of perwinal beauty, but these, perbals,
the Italian priueims would not fear the teat Of eritiun...

The Berlin journals give the following tousslote
of the King of Prussia : His Majesty, walking iii tl •
grden of Rabel4wrg, spoke to a young gardener, and
asked sotne illfa I Wittiell as t., ,nnu• walks. The latter
La oceedul to chow them to hi. Majesty, hut after some time
betaine uncoil, and, !coking frequently at his watch, at
lanoth asked his hfuj.,ty to excuse him. as he ought to be
nn paid at Potaitam at such an hour. The King Itnitin4
that to there on foot was not poaibl• in the time,
oidered a ran iie,4e, acennipanitst the young nun,
ncommeneing the officer nn duty to be indulgent *tumid
a few minute• have teen lost.••

A letter fr.int Magenta statel that the der*• o
that place and of tho ileighlioniaig *Muffs off, nd
lingers for the French and Italian *4 lien Will, fell in
IMO. Nest year. the writer says, the booes of the d ta.l
will be brought together in the vaults of a dumb which
is to be erected in commetaoratioa of the battle.

FOREIGN NEWS.

(THIS DAY.)

THE LEAGUE OP PEACE.

The first annual general meeting of the League
of Peace was held on Monday in the Herz hail,
Paris, under the presidency of M. Jean DoMs, who
delivered the opening address. M. F. Pussy, the
general secretary, read the report which explained
the origin. object, and progress of the leagsur.
The Queens of England and of Prussia an• both
members, as are also the reverend Father
Grafi, , the Grund Rabbi Isidor, and Pastor
Martin Paschond. The meeting was addressed by
M. Vischers, the President of the Brussels Con-
gress of Peace, and by the Rev. Mr. Richard, who
spoke in English, and told the audience that then,
was not a town or hamlet in England in which
war was nut made upon war in speeches, books,
pamphlets, and hand-bills. The Grand Rabbi con-
jured the clergy of every persuasion to urge on the
most essential work of religion, peace. M. Isidor
declared it was a calumny to say that the God of
the Bible was a God of Armies. The God of the
Bible was a God of justice and never the God of
battles. M. Martin Paschoud said that all
ministers of religion were bound to make common
mase against war, which he characterivsl as
" glorified homicide." He nimbi an apology for
the absence of Le Pere Gratry.

FRENCH OPINION OF THE ENGLISH
PRESS.

The Arenir National, referring to the News-
paper Press Fund, whose jpnual dinner, on Satur-
day last, was presided over by the Duke of Cam-
bridge, says :
One of the membere of the Royal Family, the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Army, the Duke of Cambridge,
presided at the annual banquet given in London by
the Newspaper Press Fund. The Duke of Cam-
bridge spoke in respectful and friendly terms of that
press of which every Englishman knows the value. Lord
Houghton, the President of the Fund, bore his testimony
to the indept Eidetic* and honesty of the press. limbers
of both houses drank to the Freed without the affectation
of coluleecension or the simulation of sentiment. Parlia-
ment knows that in the press it has a vigilant,
amass, constant, and devoted, though—it may be now
and again—an inconvenient friend. The press
kr own that in the hour of danger parliament
would forget its little personal pique. to assert the prin-
ciple of freedom. The rights of free discussion would have
no more ardent defenders than those legislators in whose
eyes the law-making power could not be exercised with
honour and utility if an independent control did not exist
somewhere. Unlike what takes place in other countries
the preen and parliament of England sustain each other,
and so far are they from hating and combating each other
that they carefully witch over the maintenance of their
respective rights which are those of the nation and of
liberty.

(ftErrzes orazazums.)
HUNGARY.
PESTII. JrNE 10.

General Slaplca, in one of the Hungarian news-
papers, bails the arrival of Prince Napoleon
as the harbinger of an alliance between Frans.,
Prussia, Austria, and Hungary against Muncovitt.
tendencies.

Apartments have been prepared for the Prince
at the Hotel de l'Europe.

PORTUGAL.
LISBON, Jrvr 9, EVENING.

Count d'Avila stated in the Chiunber of Peers
to-daythat he would be responsible for all the acts
of Count Tmvradio respecting the contract with the
South Eastern Railway of Portugal.
The Chamber of Deputies are discussing the
measures recently introduced by the Minister of
Finance.

(BY ATLANTIC TALL:IRANI TilB01:011 YL BELTIOI.IIACULYI77.)
AMERICA.
KEW YORK, JuNE 9.

The Hamburg and American steurnship Gm--
mania arrived out at 11 a.m. to-day. The Allan
steamship Hibernian also arrived to-day.
Closing prices :--Gold, 139 i ; Sterling Exchange
on London, 1101: 3-20 United States Bonds, 1882,
1121 ; ditto, 1895,11(*, ; 10-40 ditto, 106 ; Illi-
nois, 136 ; Erie, 691 ; Cotton, Midland Upland,
30 ; Flour, extra State, 9 dole, ; Corn, old mixed,
1 dol. Inc.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

(mow ova oww ooamesromarr.)
PARR 'AMWAY EVENISO.

M. Gustave Flonrens, son of the well-known
philologist of the Academy of Sciences, went out
to Clete some time ago as a volunteer. He ob-
tained such favour among the insurgents that he
was sent by them on squeal-diplomatic mission to
the King of Greece. When he arrived in Athens
in a Cretan costume the officers of the royal palace
refused to receive him unless he were presented by
the French Minister, M. de Gobineau. An
altercation ensued, the result of which was
that M. Gustave Flourens was arrested and
shipped off to Marseilles so precipitately that
he arrii o•i there the other day without having
ad time to change his Cretan clothes. At Mar-
seilles he was still retained as a prisoner ; but a
telex a u trout Paris very soon arrived, directing
the Prefect of the Benches du Rhone to act him at
liberty. AU this news has occasioned considerable
sensation, but the still more sensational intelli-
gence of this evening is that the young Philhelle-
nist, instead of coming back to Paris, and thanking
his stars for getting out of trouble has embarked
at Marseilles, on the Messugeries Imperiales
packet Anierique, for the Filmes. Has he gone
to make the French Ambassador apologise for not
protei ting him' Hitherto France has shown
herstlf quite hostile to the Cretan insurrection,
and hence the mystery.
The Eteudurd yesterday annoulausl that General
Prim is at Vichy. This news is contradicted.
TEe general is in London ; it is added that his
h•sslth requires the Vichy waters, but he is not
likely to go to take them ; which menus, I sup-
pose, that the French Government would not
I llow such a declared enemy of the Queen of Slain
to sojourn on French soil.
Here is a newspaper paragraph which will set
minty reade►s agog :
The EmproPi ha. erased from her ri,ithig li4t the
American fromilie, It and A -, who had been intro-
it, ced during the cleaner of the Duke de Itiisano. Hor
Majetit%, it ie mid, thought the young duties too
ealentric.

M. (3. de Soubeyrati, x deputy of the Corps
egislatif, writes to the papers a letter. dated
this day. to state that he has instituted a
prosecution against the lidirriatiowil. of June a.
for an article implicating 1 in MI • re' ,stt
notorious Boum, transact' .
Thin Bourne was deCidedly weak. Route fell
174 e. for cash. and 13e. fur ttetsnuet. closing at
701 r. and 70fr. 45e. Italian fell ; and
Credit Fonder, tifr. :Mc.; Mohilier rose
If r. 25. .

Five French Sister's of Merry left Stintharuptost
y..tro'sy in the Cape of Good Rope until packet. They
a s troauithig to Natal, from which place they will go
ego mites intrithe country to act as nurses in na homital.
lbey were escorted on boanl the oirket by the Rev.
lather Mount, the catholic priest of Southampton.