The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-15 00:00:00

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4k 10 0 21,419 21,43

.610, 60. cent. 1962. .6 $ 1 0 0 78,900 78,300
Metropolitan o p. cent.
glo Prat . - 1 21 210 0 40.000 75,000
Midland 4.6 41. shares. 16 4 14 1 0 0 150,001 150,000
North Romero 41 per
cent. Stook, 1002 1 99 20 0 0 200,000 2.00,000
North 34agonl lure,
Original lO 181 1 6 4 161.507 212,0,21
Ottoman . . .. .
Vale of Meath £29
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17eL711.02 — 1 10 10 0 7,040 14,000

Total k9tlt,9llo
The government of British Columbia are bor-
rowers through the Bank of British Columbia to
the small ezteut of 50,0001. on debentures, to bear
6 per cent. interest. This loan forms the first
cle.rge on the increasing revenues of the colony,
and the terms have been approved by the Secretary
for the Colonies. The adjudication takes place on
Friday next,-at the bank, 80, Lombard-street.
Tenders are invited up to the 27th inst. for an
issue of 15,0001. of British Guiana Six per Cant.
Bonds, having five years to run.
A general meeting of the Brazilian Land and
Mining Company (Limited) is convened for the
24th inst.

The liquidator of the Anglican Smelting Reduc-
tion and Coal Company (Limited) requires the
creditors to furnish at once the particulars of their
claims. _ _

A sitting is to take placeiu the Bankruptcy Court
on Friday next to audit the aeouunte of the
official liquidator of the Loudon and Provincial
biceouut Company (Limited).

SATCrIDAT EVDTING.

CAAasols, which closed yesterday at 92k to I. ex
div. for money, and 91} to # for the Bth January,
opened and closed to-day at the same quotations.
Thu official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 921, 1 ex div. ; ditto
for account, 921, ex div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
92 ; New Three per Cents., 92, ; Bank Stook,
233, 231 ; India rive per Cent. Stock, 107#, ;
ditto Bonds, 235., Ms. prem.
The foreign stock market was dull. The inquiries
being limited, prices in some cases have receded.
The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings were as follows :—Union Bank of England
and France, Ito prem.; London and Northers
Bank, 1 dis. to }prem. ; English and Irish Bank,
du .to par ; Oil Wells of Canada Compasy, to
prem. ; Bank of Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, # to}
prem. ; London and South Western Bank, dia.
to par ; British and South Wales Zinc Smelt-
ing, 1 to 1 prim. ; Soci6tE Finaseikre of Egypt,
to # prem. ; London, Birmingham, and South Staf-
fordshire Bank, to prem.; and Western Au c
traliau Cotton, to prem.
There was a good demand today for South
Australian and Queensland Government Bonds.

MUSIC.

ROYAL ENGLIsR oPRRA.

Miss Anna Hiles, whose successful debut in BaHe's
Bohemian Girl we have already noticed, made • second
dfbut, equally or even more suocedsful, on Saturday even-
ing, in Wallace's Me:Mann. It is long since we ham met
with a debutante of so much premise on the English musical
stage. In judging her as an actress some consideration met
be made for her inexperience on the boards. She betrays
no ungainly awkwardems of manner. On the contrary, her
gifts of nature—ahandsome person and plowing features—are
heightened by a ladylike air and an ingenuous and engaging
simplicity of demeanour. What she has yet to acquire—
greater boldness and freedom of gesture, and greeter force
and energy tin zones of passion—will, with her evident in-
telligence, come as a matter of course. As a singer she
does not stand in need of any allowance for youthful de-
fects. She is already ao excellent artist, able to stand the
test of strict criticism. She has a pure and mellow voice,
delicate:truth of intonation, a musician-like style, and much
expression. So qualified for success, both by nature and art,
she could not fail to obtain it ; and her reception, accor-
dingly, may be truly &scribed m triumphant. During her
whole performance the applause wee incessant, and several
of her most brilliant efforts—especially the beautiful ballad
in the last act, "Scenes that are brightest," and the duet,
"Sainted mother," in the same act—were loudly and vehe-
mently encored. Her singing of the fine melody, "'Tis the
harp in the, air," likewise, was a performance of uncommon
beauty.
We learn that a new opera by Halle, of which report
speaks highly, is now in rehearsal at this theatre.

MADAME GrERRABELLA. This accomplished
lady, who lately left England on her return to her native
country, the United State., is now singing in Italian opera
at the " Academy of Yoe*" New Yak. She has appeared
in La Trariala, It Trooatore, and La Piglia del lieggi•
mento, that vast theatre being crowded to the doors with
applauding audience., while the new York pram is loud in
pmiee of her beauty, her artistic singing, and her refined
and intelligent acting. It is her intention, we believe, to
revisit England in the coarse of the approaching season.

Mario, whose brutal reception at the Grand Opera.
excited so much surprise and disgust throughout the musical
world, has had his revenge at the Italians, where be has
been welcomed in a manner worthy of his character and rank
as an artist. It seems not a little surprising that the sum
public should act so differently at different theatres—that
the same performer, hooted at one place, should only cruse
the river to be applauded to the echo at another. But it is
said, in excuse for the Parisians, that it was not the public
that maltreated Mario in the Rue Lepelletier, but ► hostile
theatrical embed, whose noise and clamour prevailed over the
better judgment and feeling of the audience. This may be
true, but it was not creditable to the audience that they
suffered themselves to be "put down" by a handful of hired
individuals, not a twentieth part of their number. Such a
thing could not have happened in Loudon.
Mdlle. Patti is the Parisian favourite of the day.
Her career is even more brilliant than it has.been in Lou.
don. At first her reception wee worse than cold—it was
Positively unfriendly, for the Parisians find it difficult' to
forgive a aucoaria—eapseially in England—to which they

have not contributed. But the young 'pen at once proved
Irresistible, and, before the first evening was over, the
temperature of the house rose from zero to fever heat, at
which degree it continues to stand. Her admirers are
called "lea Pattisiers."

NORWICH MUSICAL FsefrivaL.—Mr. Benedict,
the conductor of this festival, has had a conference with
the committee, and will produce an original cantata for one
of the evenings. Effort. are also being made to secure the
production of an oratorio or some other original work from
another eminent composer. The performances will include
selections from the works of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Cbs-
rubini, Mendelssohn, &c. The guarantee list is being satis-
factorily filled up.
HERR ERNENT PATER.—To-morrow (Tuesday)
this accomplished artiste will give a grand performance of
chancel pianoforte musits'at Willies-rooms, at 2 o'clock, in
aid of the funds for the Lanmehire redid fund. A full at-
tendance maybe expected.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL
The anal Christmas performance of Handers Messiah
take; place on Friday evening next the 19th inst.
SONIA OF SOOTLAND.—MT. Kennedy, the talented
vocalist and expoasat of Scottish lore and Scottish song.
who recently obtained ao great a swam at the Hanover-
square Rooms, is shoat to give a short series of his enter-
tainment m the Melodies of Scotland at the Dudley
Gallery, Egyptian Hall, under the monies' of Mr. Mitchell.
Yr. Land, the coadjutor of the late celebrated Mr. Wiliam,
will be also Mr. Kennedy's accompanyiat

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION BCILDING.
A report was current on Saturday morning that the Exhi-
bition building was on fire. A telegram was tent from the
building to some of the nearest stations of the fire brigade,
requesting the engines to be immediately brought up, but,
before any of the horsed had been put to, another telegram
was received that the engines were not wanted—that there
was no ore. In the western annexe a steam travelling
crane is used to eaglet in moving heavy weights. The boiler
and furnace are placed upon a frame fitted with wheels,
which run along the metal tramways. By some means the
crane, with boiler and furnace attached, fell off the travel-
ling stage. The engineer who was in charge hastened to the
engine and turned off the steam, which escaping in im-
mense quantities into the annexe, and the red glare of the
furnace being seen throng), the steam, led to the very
natural opinion that if not the building at least some of its
contents were on fire, or that some explosion, which might
lead to such a casualty, had taken place. Fortunately no
damage occurred beyond the breaking of the crane and its
working parts ; the escape of the steam prevented any ex-
plosion of the boiler, and the small amount of coke in the
stoke-hole was very easily withdrawn. No injury was sus-
tained by any of the workmen, nor was the slightest por-
tion of the building burned ; indeed, at the spot, where the
accident occurred, there was no woodwork within a consi-
derable distance. The crane capsized on the spot where
the monster ingots and castings of steel, from the
inaoufactory of Mr-. Krupp, of Berlin, were exhibited.
The clearance of the building proceeds very rapidly-
Hundreds of packages are sent away every ,lay, and in the
machinery annexe parts of two or three foreign locomotives,
Peon's large marine engines, the screw engines exhi-
bi►ed by France, and some few heavy portions of the heavy
machinery alone remain. The eastern annexe is nearly
cleared.

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DEATH OP COUNSELLOR FINN AND MRS. FINN,
SISTER or (YCoffirett...—Two remarkable deaths, and under
very remarkable cheamstnimes. have just occurred in this
locality. Counsellor Finn. the brother-in-low of O'Connell,
one of the founders of the Catholic Aiwociation and for-
merly representative for the county of Kilkenny, died at his
residence at Tullarme, on Tuesday night, at the advanced
age of seventy-eight years ; and on the sane evening, a few
hours previously, Mrs. Finn, the beloved sister of the illus-
trious Liberator, breathed her lout in an adjoining room, the
one surviving the other but a few hours.. For the but few
years Mrs. Flea's health was completely shattered, and her
demise almostdaily expected, but Mr. Finn held out bravely
to the last. The immediate muse of death wits bronchitis.
which his medical attendants, Dr. Greene, of Urlingford, and
Dr. Ryan, of Talisman, at once pronounced would prove
fatal. At five o'clock Mrs. Finn breathed her last, and at.
twelve o'clock Mr. Finn, not being informed of what had
happened, about ten minutes before bas death inquired bow
the old lady was, and the attendant replying that „she was
better," he remarked, You always had the good story,'
and shortly after expired.—Kithasay Journal.
FIRE ON BOARD A SHIP, AND LOSS OF LIFE.—
Yesterday between 3 and 4 o'clock, some confusion
was cause il off 1-wharf. Lower Shadwell owing to the
sudden outbreak of a nre on beard the ship Adelphi, of
South &jobb". The fire appears to have commenced is the
aft cabin, in which the mate, a man named Thomas Thomp-
eon. bad gone to rest, and at the time of the discovery was
fast asleep. The persons on board the vessels lying near at
once raised an alarm, and after some time they aucceeiled in
making the captain of the Adelph sensible of his danger, but
the mate was sleeping so soundly that he could not be
awekeue.l. The cress of the surrounding ships having
waled the bulwarks, they succeeded in cutting awry the
deck, and by pouring copious streams of water, by means of
the steam floating engine, upon the blazing cabin, the flames
were extinguished, but not until considerable damage had
been contained. As soon as the ship was sufficiently coded
the firemen went on board, and found the body of the mate
Thompson, burned is a frightful manner. The ship was
insured in the Blyth Club.
. . .

HILAVY GA Li AT PLYMOUTH.—A heavy gale from
the S.W. prevailed at Plymouth daring Friday night. On
Saturday morning, about three a.m., the Norwegian brig
Emanuel. 274 toes, Captain Wallom lying iu the Sound,
went ashore on the Batten Shoal. She filled with water,
and her cargo. 1,500 quarters of wheat, coasigued to Meagre.•
Bowden and Ca, from New York, was much damaged.
The weather has shine abated, end hope, are entertained of
raving about two-thirds of the cargo. When the accident
happened she wee lying at a mingle anchor. and drifted, her
dangeroun condition being only discovered by the crew by
her bumping on the shoal, her watch, it is said. being
asleep. 'fhe captain and his wife and crew,•nine is number
with their clothes and bedding, chronometer, &c.. were safely
landed in their own boat sad a boat beloogiug to the
Pho:be, Brixham trawler. The lifeboat at this station wen
launched, hat the crew had left the vessel before the life.
boo arrived out.

CKYRTAL PALACZ.—HALF-CROWN DAY, SAME-
DAY. IW.C. 13. - Admissions no payment, 1,626 ; ditto by
semen° tickets, 2,174; total, 3,8110.

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EQUITY 001IRT8.—Dia 13.
(Before the Lord Chuteßor.)

This was an appeal from the Mas Tar of the Rolls. The
suit wu instituted by Mr. Peter Bolt, the father-in-kw of
Mr. Charles John Mare, the shipbuilder, against Captain
White, a gentleman interested in hone racing and sporting.
The facts of the cans, as alleged, were as follows :—By an
t dated the 15th of September, 1855, Captain
in
to purchsee of Mr. Mare the latter's stud of
horses, then at Newmarket, for the sum of 5,0051., payable
by instalments, and subject to certain deductions for entries,
toilette, &a, in respect to the races for which the hones
comprised in such stud were engaged to run at the forth-
coming races at Newcastle. It was also further covenanted
between the parties under this agreement !that Captain
White and Mr. Mare should go halves in any sums that might
be won at the races upon or by the hones comprising the
stud so sold sod bought. Shortly after the execution of this
agreement Mr. Mare became bankrupt, when the plaintiff
proved under his estate for debts end money advanced to the
extent of 133,0001. Subsequently Mr. Mare', bankruptcy was
annulled, and a compromiseeffected with hisgeneralereditors,
under which they agreed to accept 4s. in the pound, and to
be paid such 4e. before the plaintiff received any portion
whatever of his debt of 133,0001., on the understanding that
after the payment of such 4s. in the pound the whole of the
remaining estate of Mr. Mare was to be assigned over to the
plaintiff. Among other securities comprised in this assign-
ment was the agreement above referred to between Captain
White and Mr. Mare, and under this agreement Captain
White bad already paid to the plaintiff or to Mr. Mare the
whole of the sum stipulated for, with the exceptioe of about
1,0001. Upon the plaintiff requesting the payment of this
1,0001., Captain White eventually insisted upon • set-off of a
rum of 1,2001. under the bead of " entries and forfeits" in con-
nexion with the horses be had purchased of Mr. Mare, which
set-off he contended was agreeable to the understanding or
agreement existing and made between Mr. Mare and himself
at the time the purchase took place. The plaintiff, denying
that any such understanding or agreement existed as alleged,
brought an action at law against Captain White to recover
the 1,000!. in dispute, and to this action Captain White
pleaded the set-off as alleged. The plaintiff thereupon filed
the present bill in equity to have his rights declared under
the agreement of the 15th of September, 1855, irrespective
of the set-off claimed. The Master of the Rolls held that
the plaintiff, as assignee of a chose it. action, took his secu-
rity with all its equities, sod that for the trial of such an
issue as that which was raised in the present case between
the plaintiff and Captain White a court of law was the
proper tribunal before which the rights of the parties could
be thoroughly sifted and disposed of. The ball was there-
fore dismissed with costa. Hence the present appeal.
Mr. Beggallay, Mr. Waller, and Mr. Vernal Harcourt, of
the common law bar, were for the appeal ; Mr. Selwyn and
Mr. Oaldeoott were in support of the decree.
The Lord Chancellor, without hearing the respondent's
counsel, concurred in the decision of the court below, and
affirmed the decree and dismissed the appeal with eats.

(Before the Lords Jtudiose of Appall)
LORD V. COLVLY.

This was an appeal irOM iiCleCisien of Vice-Chancellor
Kiedereley. The suit in the court below arose on • petition
presented by Captain and Mrs. Moorbonse praying for leave
to file ► bill of review. Mrs. Moorhouse was the daughter
of the late Dr. Peter Cochrane, of the Indian medical ser-
vice, by ► native Indian, named Raheem Beebe., to whom
it wu alleged he had been married according to the Ma-
hommedan rites. It was proposed by the bill of review to let
in the evidence of native witnesses, who were alleged to have
been present at the celebration of the marriage. The pro-
perty, the title to which was involved in the suit, amounted
to over 270,0001., and was lodged in court. The Vice-Chan-
cellor dismissed the petition on the ground that the fresh
evidence to be adduced was of the same contradictory and
unsatisfactory character which was brought forward ten
yearn ego. Against this decision the appeal was brought.
Mr. Glasse and Mr. Welford supported the appeal;
the BolicitorGeneral, lir. Anderson, and Mr. E. T.
Smith, appeared for the respondent ; Mr. W. Morris and
Mr. Jackson, for the executors ; and Mr. Bally and Mr.
Roxburgh, for the Scotch next of kin of Dr. Cochrane.
Their Lordships having heard the case several days this
week gave judgment to-day, dismissing with crate the sp.
peal, as contrary to principle and the practice of the court.
(Before the Aflutter of the Rolls.)
THE CONSOLS ASSURANCE COMPANY.

An application wee made on behalf of the official mana-
ger of the above company that various sums of caah and
•took to a large amount, now standing in the names of
the general local trustees, might be paid to the official
manager.
His Honour ordered that such moneys and stock should
be brought into court to the credit of the company to an ac-
count showing the various sums arising from each local trust,
with liberty to any of the parties interested to apply.
Mr. Selwyn, Q.C., and Mr. Roxburgh, were for the offi-
cial manager ; and Mr. F. Webb, Mr. Lewis, and Mr. T.
Roberta for local trustees.

(Before VicirChancellor Sir R. T. Bindersley.)
DUNN r. MNOWDEN.

This case came on on an adjourned summons, the question
being whether it was to be presumed that William Snowden,
who took a beneficial interest under the will of the testa-
tor in the cause, was dead, and whether he died before or
after the testator. The testator died in May, 1851, and
William Snowden, who was a joiner working on the railway
at Dorer at the latter part of 1847, had not been heard of
since Ist January, 1848, audit appeared that after the de►th
of the testator advertisements for him were inserted in a
number of newspapers, but he did not turn up. The
chief clerk had certified that it was to be presumed that
William Snowden was dead, but not that he died in the
lifetime of the testator.

Mr. Gleam, Mr. Hislop Clark, and Mr. Bacon appeared
for the several parties interested.
His Honour held that the conclusion the chief clerk bad
arrived at was the right one. The rule was that if a person
bad not been heard of for seven yaws, he was, for the
purpose of disposing of his property, to be presumed to be
dead; but that rule was no guide as to when he died.
The advertisements were inserted some moutha after the
testator's death, and he could not infer, from the fact of
there being no answer to the advertisements, that William
Soowdea died in the lifetime of the testator. He might
have died afterwards. It must be presumed that William
Snowden was dead, and that he outlived the testator.