The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, A VOMIT 13.
The council of the Tenant League have copilot need
daily meetings in committee, and the provincial
members have for the most part taken their
departure for the purpose of working the move-
ment throughout the country. Quarterly gene-
ral meetings of the league are to be held,
but these are not to take place in Dublin, it
being the intention to select the principal provincial
town for the purp3se, and the first of the meetings
will most probably be held at Belfast. In this re-
spect, aa well as in many others, the present agitation
differs very materially from any preceding one, as
centralisation of such popular movements in Dublin
has been hitherto their characteristic. Local asso-
ciations will be established, but these will of course be
entirely unconnected with the league, except in 90
far se they may be supposed to work upon the
same principles and with the same otjecia. There is
the utmost desire on the part of the Council of the
League to avoid everything in their constitution, and
in their operations, which could be construed into
illegality, nor is it likely that they will take any im-
portant step without having previously sounded the
way before them by good legal advice. btill there
can b 3 no doubt that a formidable—a most formidable
organisation is on foot, and that it has now become
highly probable that it will be productive of result.
most important to the social state of this country. The
organ. of the landlords have begun to Blond the
alarm, but instead of wisely and honestly urging
their friends to a coarse of moderation and mutual
justice and conciliation, they are madly driving them
to hostilities which they must find fatel. The Mai/
of last night says :
We msy well suggest to the Iriih landlords a clmbina,ion
for mutual defence and protection, and • nirror, nt e..by-
meat of those partial means of ridrem which tae resent
imperfect state of the law still affords.

Th e defeat of Lord Locus's bill for the centiscstion
of the growing crops has been a most fortunate cir-
cumstance. The Cork E.ramtner, echoing the satis-
faction of the whole liberal press, says :
Thanks to the energy and perseverance of a few mothers,
among whom Messrs. Bright end M'Cullach hove distin•
gnashed themselves, the unjust and lending to II of Lord
Lunen is abandoned. The government coquetted as !ong as
they °cold; but when the opposition to it was pernver.d in,
and they were forced to assume a decided position, they re-
ceded from the qualified approval which they hod originally
expressed of its provisions. With great 'abstention we re-
word this vict,:ry won to justice and right, and especially by
the exertions of our own representatives, and with the aid of
the manly friend of Ireland above earned.
The festivities by which the royal visit of lest year
to Belfak was celebrated there on Saturday, came off
with great eclat. There were boat races, and all the
entertainment of • public ball on Queen's Inland,
amidst brilliant decorations, and in the evening the
public were amused with fireworks.

THE CI:PPE-STREET SAVINGS BANK CASE.—Yee-
tetchy the City Grand Jury found true bills against John
Emanuel Enplane, for embizzlentent, se cashier of the Cuffe-
s'reet Savings Bank.

MUSIC.
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

A new star has appeared on our operatic horizon—
' a star, too, which promises to be of the first mega:-
tude. Madame Fiorentini, who appeared last night
in "Norma," produced a sensation such as we have
not often witnessed in her Majesty's Theatre. She is,
it seems, a Spaniard by birth, but the wife of an
English officer. Her musical education has been
received here, her instructor baying been Critelli.
She went last year to Berlin, where she made
her first public appearance, and performed
the principal characters on the Italian stage
during the season with very great success.
Her career, however, though brilliant, had been so
very short that her name had been scarcely heard
of here, and her splendid appearance last eveting
took the audience completely by surprise. Her per-
formance has shown that though very young, she is
already, as a singer, a consummate artist, and that
she is so highly gifted, both in person and mind, that
she cannot fail, with a little more experience of the
stage, to be a great actress. She is beautiful in face
and figure, with fine Spanish features, illumined by
eyes of singular brightness and power of expression.
Her action is full of impulse and feeling, and
yet it has still to gain that graceful ease
which practice or ly can bestow. Like all
young performers, she has fallen into habits of which
she must get rid, especially a way of swaying her
body backwards and forwards, and of alternately
stooping and drawing herself up as if her stature were
constantly changing. She has two or three habitual
gestures, such as clasping her hands together before
her breast ; very expressive as an attitude of {suppli-
cation, and beautiful when she was singing " Casts
diva," but not to be used except on such occasions.
With her personal advantages, however, these faults
of inexperieece will easily be removed. As a singer
she is already of the highest class. A more charming
voice is not to be heard anywhere. It hag
every quality—power, sweetness, flexibility, and
equality of tone throughout an immense compass,
rising, without the slightest crudity or harshness, to
the very highest region of the soprano. Her articule.
Lion is perfect, her intonation as true as the finest in-
strument, and the beautiful roundness and finish of
her phrases is in the highest style of art. Though
not a native Italian, her elocution is pure, and her de.
clamation remarkably fine. Her noble and impres-
sive delivery of Norma's opening address to the tar-
bulent multitude, " Sediziose voci," at once settled her
position with the audience. Her whole conception of
the character was admirable, though she was more
successful in painting its soft than its terrible features.
There was, however, one grand burst of passion
scarcely surpassed by Grisi herself ; when -Verna:, in
her phrenzy of outraged feeling tells her betrayer to
tremble—

Train per me, fellone,
Per too figlio, per to'

The pathos of some of the softer passages has rover
we are convinced, been exceeded by any one ; at least
we can say, for ourselves, that the heart-touching up.
peal in the closing scene:" Qual cor tradisti !" moved
11 us more deeply than it ever moved as before.
The whole opera was beautifully performed. A
better Pollione and a better "fridges(' than Gardani
and Madame Giuliani are not to be found on the
stage. They both outdid themselves on this occasion,
and were rewarded by warm applause. As to La-
blache, his °rotes°, like many others of his parts,
stands alone and unrivalled.

Madame Florentines reception was enthusiastic in
the highest degree. Several of the most striking
scenes closed amid thunders of applause, which lasted
till she reappeared to make her acknowledgements;
and at the end of the opera she had to come three times
before the curtain in compliance with the acclama-
tions which resounded from every part of the house.
She can only appear once again, as the theatre is
lon the eve of closing, but we must surely have her
next season.

ROYAL COLLEGE OP SURGEONB.—At the lent meet-
ing of the council, Mr. C. J. Philbrith, of Kidderminster,
was admitted a fellow of the college. The court of exami-
ners met for the last time this session on the 12th instant,
when the following gentlemen were admitted members of
the college : Messrs G. H. Watts, Newburio,al43erkshire ; H.
Behrend, Canning-street, Liverpool ;M. an, Tuam ;W.
H. Clarke, Hennetty, King's County; G. *dsdall, Hull ;
and W. T. King, Thurlow•place, Hackney-road.
SAYINGS IN COUNTY EXI'ENDITURS. A long
called for reform has been effected by Mr. Justice Wight-
man, at the present usizes for Lancashire, holding in Liver-
pool, having for its object the reduction of expenditure in
criminal proucutions by a saving of the tint. and expenses
of witnesses. At previous courts of assize it has been cm-
ternary for the whole of the witnesses in all cases of crown
prosecutions, from all parts of the county within the hun-
dreds of Salford and West Derby, to be summoned to
Liverpool on the first day of the is, there to be kept
till the prisoners in such eases were convicted or dis-
charged. The waste of money for keeping witnesses to-
gether in cases which were not likely to be brought be-
fore the grand jury for several days, was thus very con-
siderable. The business of the psrssat Noises commenced
on Monday. From Manche stir (says cur correspond-
ent), supposing the grand jury to be kept toge-
ther till Thursday evening, which is generally the
case, out of 300 witnesses, it is probable that 225 would
not be wanted till altar Monday, that 150 will not be wanted
till after Tuesday, and that 75 will not be wanted till after
Wednesday ; and the saving that would be effected by keep-
ing these witnesses back at an allowance of fa each per day
—which is the smallest sum paid—is 1124 10s. But the
saving will be much greater than that ; the witnesses are
elasailled, and &irks are paid 7s. 6d. per day expenees, and
tradesmen 15s. But in addition to the mere money saving,
the relief to witnesses who can ill be spared from their ordi-
nary business, will be very considerable, and the Worst
thus affected is one therefore of very great importance. The
clerk of the crown, on this occasion, acting by the order of
Mr. Justice Wightman, appears to have adopted some such
calculation, for the witnesses in 16 yroseaulions only are
subporaned for Monday, in It) for Tuesday, in 20 for Wed-
nesday, and in the remaining cases for Thursday. _

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