The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-13 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.

The first concert of the ten days' festival announced by M.
Jullien under the title of "Grand Musical Congress," took
place last night in the Music-hall of the Surrey Gardens,
where thousands of persons assembled to listen to the ora-
torio of The Creation. Such a sight could not be other-
wise than gratifying to all who hold music in esteem as a
means of civilization and refinement. The strict attention
paid to the performance--the applause, bestowed enthusi-
astically, and yet with discrimination—the steady adherence
of nearly the whole of the audience to their seats until the
last note of Haydn's great sacred composition had been
heard—these and other incidents of the evening tended to
show how rapidly the love of music, and of healthy music,
is growing among us, with all classes, from the highest to
the lowest.

The execution waa immensely creditahle to. M. Jullien
and the vast company of vocal and instrumental artists
under his control.
The second night of the festival (to-night) will cgnipi ise
a grand selection from the works of Beethoven. The
weather is happily favourable to the undertaking, and
everything augurs a prosperous result.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO MANCHESTER.—The Earl
and Countes of Ellesmere leave Bridgewater House on
Tuesday next, for Woraley Hall, near Manchester, to
make the necessary preparations for the reception of
her Majesty and Friona Albert, and the elder members
of the Royal family, on the 29th inst.
The Duke of Leeds has arrived at the Clarendon from
Hornby Castle, Catterick, orkabire.
The Countess of Derby will have her first evening
party en Saturday, the 20th of June.
The Earl and Countess of Jersey entertained H.S.H.
the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, their Sereee
Highnesses Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar,
the Duchess of Richmond and Lady Cecilia Gordon
Lennox, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady
Mary Cecil, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Earl of
Malmesbury, the Earl Cowper, the Earl of Euston, the
Earl and Countess of Scarborough, Lord Loughborougn,
Lord Ashley, Col. Tyrwhitt, &c., at dinner last [even-
ing at their mansion in Berkeley-square. A small
circle asten3bled after dinner.

His Excellency the Earl Cowley has arrived in Cleve-
land•square, from visiting her Majesty at Windsor
Castle. The noble earl returns to Paris next week.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston returned to
London yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle.

Lord Blantyre has left Stafford House for Carlsbad,
Her ladyship remains with the Duchess of Sutherland ai
Stafford House.

THE NAVY CLEW—The members of this long estab-
li,hed club gave their annual entertainment to the
First Lord of the Admiralty (Sir Charles Wood), on
Thursday .the 25th inst., at the Thatched House, St.
James's-street •
APoTHEca s' HALL.--The following are the names
BIE
Of the gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and gractioe of medicine, and received certifi-
cates to practise, on Thursday, June 11 :—Geo. Ed war is
Jeaffreson, Frarnlingham, Suffolk ; Hugh Rees, Carnal.-
von ; Joseph John Pope, Liverpool ; Joseph Hethring-
ton, Larnpleigh-ball, Cumberland ; James Hindmarsh
Barnes, Bath ; John Vinrace, Ashby-de-la-Zouch ; John
Webb, Watkins ; Win. Bird, Stroad, Gloncesterenire ;
Wm, Curran, Youghali, Ireland ; A. NV. Marshall,
Birkenhead.

FIRE AT KENSINGTON.—Yesterday morning the pre-
mises belonging to Mr. Silas Martin, known as the
King's Arms Tavern, High-street, were totally destroyed
by fire.
DESTRUCTIO' OF POTTER'S COACH FACTORY AT CllEL-
SEA.—Yemterday morning at an early hour the extensive
premises belonging to Mr. Potter,
_coach and carriage-
builder to the royal family, situate in Westbourne-place,
Sloane-square, Chelsea, were destroyed by fire.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Commercial Dock
Company, held yesterday, the accounts were submitted
for the six months ending December l►st, and a dividend-
was diclared at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free
of income tax.
THE QUEEN V. CAPTAIN ERLAM.—The trial of Cap-
tain Erlam for the abduction of Miss Rose Goodman,
has been specially appointed to take place in the Court
of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, before Lord Campbell.
RAILROAD DEPRECIATION IN THE UNITED STATES.—
We see it. stated that a railroad in the western part of
the State—which road cost 4,000,000 dole.—has been
sold for 500,000 dole, or at the rate of about 12ic. on

the dollar. Railways are of the greatest benefit to the
country they pass through, but as an investment railway
stock is about the worst property one can have.—lfew
York Herald.
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—Such a sight as that
which was yesterday seen in Lambeth Palace was, we
venture to say, never witnessed before. It would not
he easy to imagine anything more beautiful, more touch•
jog, we had almost said, more sublime. In that Palace
were amsembled together, under the presidency of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, men of all the leading Die-
stinting denominations—lndependents, Baptists, Wes-
leyan Methodists, Presbyterians, Ste. The object of the
gathering—got up under the auspices of Sir Culling
Eardley—was " to receive from the deputation, lately
sent to Berlin, a report of the proceedings in prepa-
ration for the Christian assembly in that city, next
September." In other words, the great purpose of
the meeting was to promote the views of the Evan.
gel'eal Alliance, which aims at bringing together, in bro.
therly harmony, good men of all rel gious bodies. Who
would ever hive expected to see such a meeting,
for such a purpose, in the Palace of Lambeth, with the
Archbishop of Canterbury in the chair, and next but
one to his Grace, the Rev. Dr. Steane, Baptist minister ;
while in juxtaposition to other Dissenting ministers of
various denominations, were to be -seen the Bishop of
London, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of St. David'r,
and other Right Rev. Prelates Such a spectacle was
a great fact. What yesterday took place in Lambeth
Palace will doubtless prove the precursor of the speedy
breaking dosin of all those barriers which have hitherto
separated Churchmen from Dissenters. Not tbat we
mean that either body Is necessarily to relinquish its
denominational principles, but that, all who hold the
same great Gospel verities, will, ere l'mq, cordially unite
in spirit, and co-operate in the promotion of those im-
portant views of Divine truth, which they hold in com-
mon.