The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-03 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS.

The concert of Saturday hat included a novelty
of high and special interest, 114 will be wen from the fol-
lowing programme :

Overtureia;l4ll:premario"
Trio, .4 kr but while,"
Benedict.
?art to", Bleep, gentle
•"' lady."
Power

BYOrradPha::7o" -61X78411114.
Arts, with Monis of Melo "Possentl
Hurd" Mato Megloo) Mc4a.ri•

Solo and Seep an and Biwa
dips and the het) ''(Yeas--
New Song, "Mary ms
.
The Sole 800 d H.H. Innately
Oekeley.
Overture, . ' Leonore, No. 2 "

The performances were listened to throughout with •
calm and sustained interest, in curious contrast to the
howlings of the terrific gale which was raging around the
palaos.
On Saturday next Mendelasohn's " Reformation Sym-
phony" is to be repeated, and the game composer's " Corne-
lius" March, already referred to, will be given for the firrt
time here, the programme further including Madame
Sehumann's performance of her ist• husband's pianoforte
concerto. /Sear

Omuta.

DRURY-LANE.

The first sign of the opening of the legitimate
season was made at this house on Saturday night, by the
production of Isaac Bickerstaffe's oomedyof The Hypocrite,
in which Mr. Phelps sustained the part of Dr. Cantwell
for the AM time at this theatre. It is not so
striking a performance u hia Sir Pertinax, but it helps
to prove his excellence as a comedian. Mrs. Hermann
Vetin is full of life, archness, and spirit as Charlotte, and
the rest of the characters are fairly sustained. The panto-
mime still maintains its popularity.

NEW ROYALTY.

Mr. Andrew Halliday, whose Great City at
Drury Lane Theatre was, we believe, the first drama
written by him without the assistance of a fellow-labourer,
like Kr. William Brough, produced a new three-act play
at this house on Saturday night under the title of Daddy
Only.

IMddy Gray is a simple domestic drama with a clear
story, a progressive interest, considerable strength of
character, andwell written, natural dialogue, swooned with
much common sense and not disagreesMe cynicism.

...
Tbe scenery by Kr. H. Coatiart is very effective and
pre-Raffaelite. Mr. Halliday was called on more than
onoe during the progress of the drains.

ADMIRALTY, FEB. 1. APPOINTMENTS. Pay-
muter—Charles Leigh, additional to the Cumberland, for
the Bristol Engineers—Andrew Watt, to the Fisgard, for
the Boxer,. William 11. IL9befte, to the Fisgszd, for the
Thistle; James Dalton, to the Asia, for the Pandora;
Thomas Brindley, to the Asia, for the Elk ; John Dunlop,
to the Money, foe the Lark. 2nd Clams Assistant
Engineer—Joseph 11. Real, to rho Mersey for the Lark ;
and Acting 2nd Class Assistant Engineer, John L. Steven-
son, to the Waterwitch.
Dspswrtraz or TROOPS roe CALcurri.—Yeater-
day afternoon the splendid new screw steamer Aus-
tralian, Captain Hoare, left the Mersey for Calcutta with
severed detachments of troops to reinforce those now in
India. The detachments consisted of one officer, 40 men,
10 women, and seven children of the 41st Foot ; one
officer, 33 men, three women, and six children of the
:ifith Foot ; three officers, 166 men, 13 women, and seven
children of the 107th Foot; one woman in connexion with
15th Lancers ; three staff officers, 12S men, and 11 women of
the 16th ; and 64 men and two women of the 25th 8.R.M.;
and 152 men, eight women, and four children of the 102nd
Foot. The officers in charge of the troops on board the
Australian ere Colonel Patton, Lieut. Williams, Lieut.
Strike ; Captain J. Laroort • Lieut. Meredith, Ensign
Soots, Lieut. McDonnell, Eisign Gordon, Ensign For-
lington, Captain Morsam, Captain Chambers, and Stir-
Koons Leak and Beath. The Australian belongs to the
East India and Pacific Steam Ship Company, and is the
fourth vessel now employed by government for transport
service belonging to the same company.
A GENTLEMAN FOUND DEAD AT WESSON-SUPER-
MAIL—On Friday evening, as a young gentleman named
Roche, residing at Oriel-terrace, Weston-super Mare, was
passing through thewooda near the new reservoir, be sew
some person lying underneath a tree, and, thinking he was
asleep, went to arouse him, when he discovered that he was
dead. He at once gave information to the Weston police,
who went to the spot indicated, and conveyed the body to
the Market House inn. The body was there identified by
Mr. Hauser, of the Plough Hotel, who sterol that the de-
ceased gentleman had bean lodging with him for the pest
two or three days, had gone out at one o'clock on Friday,
and had ordered his dinner at three, ss usual, but had
never returned. On searching the body, which bore no
marks of external violence, only llld. was found, and
there is not the slightest clue u to the name of deceased
or where he came from. The body was found not many
yards from where that of John Hooper was found three
years since.
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT CLARKE.-011 Satur-
day night, at the Lambeth-bathe newspaper readings and
soirée there was an immense audience • the Rev. 0. IL
Murphy, as usual, presiding._ On the chairman reading the
account of the " Lambeth Murder," as it is called, and
the condemnation and sentence of death passed upon
Clark*, it was suggested that a petition to the Secretary of
State, praying for the commutation of the capital sentence,
should be prepared. The chairman said he could hardly
suppose that the extreme penalty would be exacted in this
unfortunate case, but the matter was quite in the hands of
the meeting. It was then proposed by Mr. Booker, and
a/medal by Mr. Lee, "That a respectful memorial to the
Right Hon. the Home Secretary be prepared and pre-
sented, making that the life of Thomas Clarke be
mercifully spared, and that she memorial lie at the
Lambeth Baths and elsewhere for signature." A second
proposition named the mover and seconder of the first
I resolution and the chairman as a committee to draw up
, the memorial. The usual business of the evening then