The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-18 00:00:00

THE FRPRESS, MONDAY EVENING; MARCH 18, 1860.

Minim )lAncm 16.
Aa agitation mach more earnest than sty on. an-
ticipated against the contemplated abliiiaa of the
Lord Lieutenancy seems already to have set in, sod
we shallprobably have • aeries of meetiags in other
parts of Ireland.. well as in Dublin to express the
popular feelings on the 'object. A commencement
was made yesterday by the Dublin Trades' Protective
Society, which was presided over on the occasion by
Alderman Kinahan. Several respectable merchants
and tredeemen taking part in the proceedings. The
following resolution was adopted :
That understands/ it to be the hatentlon of her Mairstv's
goveroment to handless a bill kw the abolition of the nines
of Lxd Llintessat I. 'reload, this moiety, having for im
sole *Wet to testa over sad guard the oemen•reial isterers
of the trichn of Dublin, and therefore declining to Moot`
nay opiates as to ate political bearing of the subjecit,eateitlen
it to be not ashy be legitimate eines, but its incumbent duty,
to protest is the strongest winter against say measure
having for its pupae the removal of the viceregal court
from Dublin is calculated to inflict serious injury o• the
alrvady greatly depressed trade of this city.
The co-operation of the Chamber of Commerce was
also solicited by the meeting, and a strong re ling was
express, d that, apart from political coniiderations,
the trade of Dublin would be materially injured by
the withdrawal of the Irish court. It is only right
to mention that these opinions seem to have sprung
up within the last few days, and that the general im-
prvseion previously appeared to be that the commerce
of Dublin derived but very insignificant aid from the
presence of the vicertgel court. At the present mo-
ment, however, even • small loss will be gravely felt,
and there is no cionfidence that any equivalent will be
substituted.

The weather continues to be of the most cheering
and seasonable description, and the spring work is
plied with the most indefatigable industry. Never
has there been so much accomplished in Ireland in
the same @paw of time as the last month.
Detachments of coorabulary are still moving to-
wards the north from the interior of the conotry, as
well as from the depdt in Dublin; although these
precautions are taken, any apprehension of party
collisions to-morrow have entirely ceased.

FINR ARTS.

THE EXPOSITION OF FRENCH INDUSTRY,
HANOVER SQUARE.

This foreign bazaar—for this it is to all intents and
purposes—vu re-opened a few evenings since, after
being closed a short time for the purpose of making
additions and replacing the wares previously disposed
of. As the sober daylight is more to be trusted in
examining works of this nature than the lustre of
gas, this notice was postponed ; and the result of a
daylight examination induose the opinion that on the
whole the exhibition is feeble, and can by no means
afford • criterion by which the present state of
ornamental art or the skill or its handicraftsmen
may be fairly judged. The chief ingenuity the
exhibitors cats lay claim to is that of having so laid
out their wares u to tempt the pert:haw rather
than please the amateur. While the Gebelins
tapestry and the Aubusson carpets are old and
faded, the sham knick-knackery, for which the
continent is so famous, is of the worst descrip-
tion. Tali partial sucoess of "imitation" works
is a melancholy feature of the times; and if
anything can be worse than the late invention,
or rather perfection, of gilding and silvering
bronze, it is the combination of the two.
The bad colour and worse ornamentation show
the vitiated principle, and it is no palliation
to argue cheapness. What is intrinsically warthless
is dear at any price. The talented bronzes of Barye
also show what can be done, when remaining true to
the metal. But if so much stress is laid on this want
of integrity in art ns..nufacture, it is because there
seems to be a lamentable tendency to adopt
it in this country. The clumsy chiselling of the
biscuit porcelain has been incomprehensibly
sought after under the cognomen of Parian :
their machine wood-carving has been applied
to the House of Lords. The spirit of ma-
chinery hu crept over the handicraftsmen, and
the most that can ba said of their work
is that it is that of skilful automata. If
instead of going back to the days of Bernard de
Palyssy and Leonard of Limoges, those genii of French
pottery, we only look back to 60 or 70 years since,
the falling off of the French taste is lamentable : if
only, as an example, the &nes specimens of china
and enamel may be instanced. This will at once be
felt by comparing the naughty little file-d-014 tea
service of the past with the elaborate picturing of
late cup-adornment. Not only is the form inferior,
but the harmony is gone. The secret of acquiring the
beautiful turquoise blue is !or; and this, as well as the
adoption of pictorial embellishment, has been sufficient
to render them as useless as they are unornamentsl.
Still much pleasure may be derived at this exhibi-
tion, by examining that which seems unobtrusive :
John Bull ought not to be plied with the gaudy.
Those little objects of luxury, for which M. Susie is
so famed deserve notice; beautiful Lyons silks,
merinos, cashmeres, blonde, and jewellery, make up
the catalogue.

atilt
seised Weber's *wit that the
nese of unity ard coogruity is saw &lambed for a
moment and the predasa of these recitatives is
one of the boldest sad most successful musical efforts
that we know of. The original dialogue is necessa-
rily much abridged, but this matters little, as it is not
remarkable for force or spirit, and its condensation is
sufficient for dramatic effect.

The performance, taken as a whole, much tram-
emended our expectations. The noble orchestra—
nobler than ever—bad full scope for ite powers in the
music of Weber. The overture, often and often as it
has been heard, seemed something quite new and sur-
In regard to the performed., of the various cha-
racters, it was on the whole satisfactory, and did not
derogate from, if it did not enhance, the effect of
the ananabla. The charaster of Mar (called Giulio)
was sustain, dby Signor /*Jerald, a debutant in this
country. His tenor voice has little power, bet its
quality is good, and his acting and singing, though
not striking, were marked by judgment and pro-
priety. is execution of the great arena, containing
the tine air, " Dumb die Wilder" (" Per i baechi"),
was exceedingly good, and mach epplroded. Ma-
dame Cistellan was as graceful and beautiful an
Agatha as can be imagined, and her performance of it
was pleasing; but she was not at home in the style
of the mum, and its difficulties sometimes exceeded
her powers. She introduced ornaments which Weber's
melodies do not bear; and, being frequently obliged
to force her voice beyond its proper compass, she pang
sharp as a necessary consequence. Mademoiselle
Vero from whom less was expected, achieved a tri-
umph in the eseoadare but very pretty part of
Annetta (Amami). acted with activate and
spirit, sad sang the principal airs with a
voice of delightful freshness and homey, and
great simplicity. In the 'aloft', .,t mint
en schlanker Bunch" (" Visa an giovin di
bel thee" she was enthusiastically applauded.
Herr Formes was the Cave-. The part is well
suited to him, and he played it with a rude energy
that was very effective. But his singing had the
coarseness which always characterises it. It was
often mere bellowing rather than singing, offensively
loud men in that immerse theatre. Maisel played
the little part of Kilian, a part beneath his position
mid his powers; but he are it imp stance by his ad-
mirable performance, and mainly contributed to the
spirit with which the beginning of the piece went
off. Mdlle. Cotti (from Mr. Mitchell's Opera Comique),
ea the leader of the troop of bridemaideos, gave great
effeet to the chorus by the pretty way in which she
sang the solos; and the other subordinate parts were
well filled.
There being no ballet after the opera, the entertain-
ment was over by the reasonable hour of eleven
o'clock.

AND CLERICAL.

JIMMIE 16.— LINCOLN COLLZOB.—ThIs after.
noon the followinc gentlemen were elected scholars of Lin-
coin College: ace. Mr. William Stibbing. from King's
College, Londtat ; Mr. William Yates, commoner of Oriel
College; Mr. Walter George Wilkinson, commoner of Wor.
cuter College ; Mr. Jonas Davidson, from Islington School ;
Mr. George Robert Green, from Christ's Hospital. And a t
the same time Mr. William King, from Durham school,
was elected an ezhibitioer of the same society.
Tata= CoLutoa.—Died this morning, at hie residence
in Holywell•strett, the Rev. John William Hughes, M.A.
of ;this college, proctor in the Vice-Chancellor's court,
chaplain of AU Souls College, and rector of St. Clement's,
Ozford.
In a special congregation holden yesterday, the degree of '
doror of civil law was conferred, by dispensation, on the
Rev. Edward ' Goulburn head master of Rugby
School, and formerly fellow of Merton College.
CHANT CROOCIL—TOtt &T. F. Balaton, M.A., formerly
student of Christ Church, perpetual curate of Benson, Ozon,
has resigned his benefice. It is said that the rev. gentle-
man left home suddenly, together with his curate Mr.
Stratton, about a month since, acid then wrote to his
parishioners, saying that he should return in about three
weeks to take a final farewell. This he has done. The
cause of this step, which has produced equal surprise and
dismay at Benson, is said to be 't dissatisfention with the
future prospects of the Church of Rafloild."
CAMBRIDOIL, )(MICH 16.—B111.1:11 SCHOIAIIIIRIPS —The

unduntenti;n7d gentlemen have been declared to be the
saccesslul candidates for the vacancies in thee. scholarships:
Edward Kemble White, Trinity Coll.; Enema Craven,
Trinity Coll.
ORDIKATION.—On Sunday, 10th inst., the Lord Bishop
of Carlisle held an ordination in the parish church of Da-
wn, when the following were admitted lets the order of
deacons: George Mush Gurley, of St. Bate, licensed to
the curacy of Crosecaunouby ; John Mordaunt Lowther, of
St. Bees, licensed to the curacy of Bolton.

Rev. W. R. Anti, toWest Batternick P.C., Linoolnehire ;
dio. Lin.; value, 801. ; pat., V. of Owston.
Rev. C B Bayles, V. of Woking, to North East Stoke
Delmer, Rural; din Winchester.
Rev. A. L. Coartesay, to bs Chaplain to the Earl of
lierdwieks.

Rev. T H. Dimon, to the Mastership of the Grammar
School, Guisborough (not Ostinsborough, as previously
'vetoed), Yorkshire.
Rev. A. Julius, to Mile end (or My-land) 8... Essex,
dio. Rochester ;value 6211., with residene: ; patron, Earl De
Grey.
Hon. and Rev. W. W. B. Ponsosby, V. of Canford-Mag-
na. Dorset, to he chaplain to thesheriff of that county.
Rev. J. W. Schwalm, to the epirituol chugs of the emi-
grant ship Sultana, for Adelaide.
Rev. T. B. LI. Browne, to the B. ofßodfary-ffinta, dio. of
St. Amph ; value 2961 , with residence ; patron, Bishop of
tk. Awls; vacant by the death of the Rev. E. Hughes.
Rev F. Johneem, to Laddington R., Northampton ; dio.
Peterhotrosgh ; value 1601. ; patron, Lmd Montague.

VACANCIES.

Flint, P.C., Flintshire;l;:.7eit. Asapi ; void by the
promotion of the Rev. T. B. LI. Browne; patron, Bishop of
St Ataph ; vele. 2251.
Hale, P C., Farnham, Sunny ; did Wieelseeter ; patron,
Tioar of Farnham ; Rev. L. M. Rumbtrt, promoted.

MEDICAL.

ROYAL COLLIOi or flunozotte.—The following gentle-
men, haring undergone the necessary examinations for the
diploma, were admitted members of the college at the meet.
mg of the Court of Examiners en the 16th inst. :—ldestra.
Thomas Watkins Hooper, New Peckham ; Henry Anthony,
Dangarros, co. Waterford; Edwin Henry Bolton, Ken.
nington • Joeepb Edmund Kooystra Malin, Manchester;
Daniel gowiter.Frome, SaTerset ; William hinge, Colford,
near Frome, Somerset ; George Pain, Army ; Thomas
Renew Pierpoint, Lindfield, NIT CackAeld, fluppez Tho-
mas Roberts, Pwllheli, North Wales; and Thomas James
Dathoit, lik.ston equate.

ATHocrOus OUMOZ.— On Thursday a man
named Abraham Hicks, a carter to Mr. Weston, who resides
at Batty-hill. near Swindon, was brought before the magic
Crates—the Earl of Radnor, James Clowdy, J. E. Prower,
and 8. C. Saddler, &qrs., on a charge of attempting to violate
sad warder a married female named Elisabeth Daley. It
appeared that the proeeeterix (who is at present so injured as
to be unable to leave her hod) was a dealer in bane, and
frequently visited Cirencester. On the preceding Friday
she was proceeding along the high road leading from Ashton
Keys s, when she met the prisoner, who was driving a
hone and wt. Having frequently seen the prisoner before,
sad knowing that he was going her way, she asked him to
give her a lift is his vehicle. He immediately animeated ;
but, as the sort was proceeding animals Iliddingtoe, loud
cries of murder were heard is the cart. A man named
Smith intently went up to the cart, and tried to stop the
hone, for the purpose of learning what was the mater.
The prisoner thetenpm threatened if be interfered that he
would murder him. Feeling apprehensive for his own
safety, he allowed the fellow to proceed, who, on getting
SINN distance further, threw the female ant and left her for
dead. She was found at 7 aer'ock by Mr. Broad, a baker,
quite insensible, in the turnpike-road. Her face wee literally
smashed; he eyse, nose, and mouth were frightfully muti-
laud, her lower jaw broken, and her teeth, with part of the
jawbone, were plated up in the public road. The wounds
appear to have been inflicted by kicks, acre the handle of the
whip ; the latter was covered with blood, and there was a
great deal of blood is the bottom of the cart. From the dorsi
Lions taken at the woman's bed side, it seems that be-
cause she declined to comply with overtures made by the
prisoner he tried to murder her. He was fully commuted
to take his trial at the next amines
ALLEGED MURDER BY COLLIERS ON STRIKE.—
The coroner's inquest co the body of John Thome., whom
death was caustd by the burns and injeti a he sustained
from as explosion a combustibles thrust into his balroom,
where his wits and family were sleeping, was brought to a
conclusion on Wednesday last, at Aberdare. The chief witness
sambaed was the wife, who, after stating the facts relative to
the death of her husband,attributed the fatal oecureenee to her
late husband working in the colliery at a time when there was
a strike amongst he colliers. A verdict of " Wilisl murder
against soma person or persons unknown," was returned. On
Mooday lest the colliers on strike to the number of about
400, marched from the Cardiff )irms, Aberanam, to the
- loam d leassion teak