The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-17 00:00:00

MUSIC IN PARIS.

The Paris correspondent of the Post writes
The Theatre Italian begun to attract the elan of society
we are accustomed to meet there. Last night the favourite
opera of Don Pasquale was given to perfection ; that is to
say, it would be difficult to get togetoer in our day four
artists more attractive than those who last night so char-
mingly sang sod acted one of Docizetti's moat happy erre-
tiona—Patti, Brignoli, Dells Sedle and Antonucci. Don
Pasquale was written for Oriel, Mario, Taniburini, and
Lablache, and first brought out at the Italian Opera at
Paris. Pattes sprightly ooquetrv, her pretty person, and
fresh voice all coruhiue so make her representetioo of Norias
perfection. Audio last night the andienee appeared to think,
for she was applauded throughout. Our new tenor, Brig.
noli, is rapidly becoming a greet favourite. As he acquires
courage aad confidence his remarkably fine quality of voice
pins wonderfully cc the audience, whilst his singing dis-
covers all the best characteristics of the Ultimo school.
Brignoli shared the applause with Patti ; but when he sang
the popular *eremite, "Com' geutil," the whole house in.
slated on his giving it again, and he was three times celled
from his moonlight retreat to the lamps of the stage.
Dells-Sedie gave his " Balls si come tan Angelo" with
great taste and feeling, which was demonstratively
appreciated. The basso was admirable. Don Pas-
quale, with Marta, promise to be the two pay-
ing operas this year. The Italian Opera at Madrid appears
to be in a state of revolt; at least the impresario, M.
Bagier, who also directs our Paris fleabane, has repaired
there to get all things right again if possible. We are in-
debted to the closing of the Madrid house for the prosaic*
of M. Brignoli, our sew tenor, whom some papers
have unjustly accused of • Amoco at Madrid. The
fact is, the Madrid "gods," who are permitted to
occupy the roof of the theatre at one franc each, lately
would not hear anyone sing, aad hooted all the
artists off the stage, so that the theatre was closed.
You will hear Brigooli in Lomb& Whilst on musical
matters, I may record the fact that Wallace's overture to
Lured was performed and highly applauded at the Concert
Populaire, where we got Heade, Mozart, Beethoven,
Weber, and Mendelsaohu. Wallace's careful and scholarly
writing was thoroughly appreciated by an audience accus-
tomed to classical mum. Wallace is in Paris still, sod
writing a new opera. Rae is also here with the same in-
teatime, and arranging for the further production of his
operas, which are already familiar to the French.

THE CASE OF BISHOP COLENSO.

After our report left yesterday,

Sir Hugh Cairn; was also heard on Behalf cif the import.
&mt. la 18:id it was declared that the Bishop of
Natal should be subject to the Bishop of Capetown,
and that subjected him to the jurisdiction of the
latter without further **street or consent. With
regard to communal jurisdiction, he would ask their
lordships to treat the position of the Anglicise church
in the colony as • society with certain rules and
customs, the mere entrance of any one into which society
AS sufficient to render those rules and customs binding
upon him. The form of the origin of the rules was quite
immateriaL They might originate as orders or commands
from the governing body, as to the case of the Wesleyso
Methodists; but having been laid down, those who joined
the congregation were held to have assented to them. The
rules to which Dr. Coleus° was subject by communal juris-
diction were to be toned in his patent. A suffragan bishop
in England accepted his bishopric subject to the archbishop
on a charge of heresy, and Bishop Colons° was equally bound
to the Bishop of Capetown, who was his metropolitan.
The learned counsel referred to various portions of the
moos law os the subject of the metropolitan's jurisdiction,
and gave amoral iostaucei in which that jurisdiction had
been acted upon. He had DOM' heard • more extraordinary
proposition than that the crown could, ex mere moth, try
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Durham, or any other
bishop for heresy ; a more monstrous statement had never
bees submitted to a judicial tribunal in this country. Upon
the first point he asked the court to declare that the bishop
had the power, coercive sod consensual, to try the Bishop
of Natal for heresy, and to deprive him. He now carnet*
the second point. Had the crown jurisdiction in the
matter at the present stage by way of appeal on the
sentence If the Bishop of Capetown had no juriadiotioe—if
there was no court, so cause, no sentence—what took
place was utterly null and void, and there of course could
be no appeal. In that case it might be suggested that some
harm had still bean does, and it might be asked what was
the remedy. There were two courses open to Dr. Coleneo.
If the proceedings of the Bishop of Capetown did no harm
to him he might disregard them ; on the other hand, if
injury were done either to his temporalities or his status in
the colony as bishop, he might avail himself of the courts Is
the colony. There were two superior courts, one is Natal
and the other is Capetown, both of which administered the
law upon the Dutch Roane system. The learned comma
was upon this point whim their lordships roes.
The arguments will net be resumed until Monday next.

RATHER CONTITAID.—A notice of a recent steam-
boat szplasios io so Amairkiso paper sods as follows
captain swam ashore. So did t►e chambermaid ; she
was inured for 15,000 dole, sad loaded wit► nes."

[TWOPENCE

ALARMING AND FATAL ACCIDIINT ON THE
NORTH KENT RAILWAY.

Last evening an accident, similar in character
to that which occurred in the Clayton tunnel some
four years aim*, took place in the Blackheath tunnel
of the North Kent Railway, and has resulted in the loss of
five lives, and serious injuries to several other persons. A
heavily laden ballast train entered the tunnel upon its
up journey • few minutes after five o'clock, and having
proceeded some distance, either from the great weight of
the trucks or some defect in the coupling irons, the train
became detached. The driver of the engine proceeded on
the journey with the attached portion to the Blackheath
station, where the trucks were shunted whilst be returned to
bring on those which bad been left behind. At this time the
5.10 ewer up-train was due, and the accident to the
ballast trail not being known sufficiently early, the signal
had been telegraphed "all clear." The consequence of this
was th►t the express train was allowed to enter the tunnel,
travelling at a speed, of some 20 or 30 miles an hour,
andspeedily auneintocollision with the ballast trucks, which
were thrown against the walla of the tunnel and across the
lines of metals, being completely doubled up. Passengers
were thrown from their seats and against each other.
With as little delay as possible, medical and other aid was
obtained, ➢lr. Chapman, the station master at Blackheath,
and other officials, being indefatigable in their exertiotie to
give succour to the wounded and frightened inmates of the
carri►ges. Several were extricated in • wounded state,
and their wants having been attended to they were
either conveyed to places in the neighbourhood or
to their own residences. The exertions of the
workmen were then directed to the debris occa-
sioned from the breaking-up of the ballast trucks, and
between 7 and 8 o'clock the bodies of four men, life being
extinct, were recovered, and conveyed to the Blackheath
station, to await the coroner's inquiry, followed shortly after
by that of another lifeless body of a man. The deceased
were identified as workmen in the employ of the company,
one being • ganger of platelayers, and the other four men
workmen under him. As late as 10 o'clock Let night gimp
of men were engaged in clearing the obstruction, the whole
of the traffic between Blackheath and Woolwich, and rice
wild, being wholly stopped, and there being little proba-
bility of • clearance being effected for some hours. Not-
withstanding the nature of the accident must have been
known to the officials in London soon after its occurrence,
passengers booked to Gravesend and other distant stations
were brought down to Blackheath two hours afterwards,
and had either to return to London or to seek other eon-
veyances to their destinations.
Another account says :

The excitement which prevailed in the tutted, eadescribed
by one of the passengers, was " awful in the extreme."
The smoke, steam, and cinders blown about by the current
of air through the tunnel, the shrieks of the injured end
frightened, and the cracking up of the timbers of the car-
riages, fully justified that remark. The dire results of the
collision might naturally be expected to be great. Imme-
diately upon hearing the shrieks proceed from the Charlton
end of the tunnel, the telegraph was put in requisition, and
it being feared that something fearful had happened, the
traffic was stopped from Blackheath station on the one
aide and Charlton on the other. As soon as possible a
number of workmen and officials of the company entered
the tunnel at either end, sod upoe Yr. Chapman,
the Blackheath station master, arriving about a milt
down the tunnel he came upon • most horrible scene. The
ballast trucks and their contents had been thrown into
violent confusion, and amongst the d6ris were found the
mangled remains of the unfortunate men who had been
engaged upon the trucks. Five of thew, all platelayers in
the service of the company's contractor, were quite deed,
and their mangled corpses were placed on pieces of the
broken trucks and conveyed in mournful procession through
the dreary tunnel to as outbuilding at Blackheatbetation,
Mr. Chapatti bad now snouted • large number of medical
men, including one of the company's surgeons, Mr. J. Adams,
of the London Hospital, and he then drove over to Charlton.
when it was found that a large body of policemen bad beset
ordered to take charge of that side of the tunnel, as persons
of all descriptions hearing the shrieks were rushing in.
Upon entering the tunnel from Charlton, and after
proceeding nearly a quarter of a mile up, a most beartrend-
I ing scene was witnessed by the glim rays of the few lamps
about. The engine, as before dated, was lying across the
tunnel, and the carriages forming the front part of the train
were all pell-mell on each other, the first two being broken
almost to pieces. From this wreck no lees than eight male
and six female persona were removed very much injured.
A large number of passengers, who were only shaken and
contused, were rescued from all descriptions of perilous
positions. Is the first carriage were four ladies, • young
gentleman, and • child. Three 0 the ladies were
very much injured. Two of them were removed
to the Antigallicen Tavern, at Charlton, where every ac-
commodation had been provided for the injured by Mr.
Chapman, from Blackheath, and were promptly attended
to by the medical gentlemen present. The third case was
a young lady from Lapdog, named Gillingham, who war
found to have sustained • fracture of the left leg. The
limb was set by Dr. Adams, and she was conveyed to Guy's
Hospital, together with the young gentleman who was in
the same carriage and had sustained a severe injury to the
right jaw and leg. The whole of the other injured passen-
gers were taken to the Autigallican Tavern, and remain there
under the care of the medical gentlemen, with
the exception of the case of Dr. W. A. Browse, piths War-
office, who was travelling with several other gentlemen con-
nected with that department, and who, being severely
shaken and internally injured, was brought up to town, and
removed to the Golds. Cross Hotel, at Charing-cross-
Messrs. Harris, Chads and Stevens, We friends of Dr.
Browne, were much shaken, but not seriously injured. The
unfortunate driver of the train, Hunt, was toned, with his
fireman, Hallom, nude, part of the upset engine. They
were both frightfully scalded and burnt and were conveyed
to the Moline Hospital at Woolwich. The head guard,
John Squires, had a very narrow escape. as his break
was all but smashed. He is, however, much injured,
although it is not tiered dangerously so. He lies at Charl-
ton. Sparks, the under-guard, was also severely shaken
and contused. During the evening the greatest excitement
was manifested by parties anxious to learn the fate of their
friends and relations, and it was necesarry to employ • large
body of the It division of police, under Inspectors Kent.
Lionel', and Brown, to keep the crowds off the various ap-
proaches to the wane and the stations, and enable the gaups
of workmen who ware put ort to remove the w. waded, and
the broken carriages, and repair the telegraphic wires, to
perform their dutaes. Up to midnight the engine had not
been removed from across the lines, so that the traffic will
not be resumed at all events until late to-day.

ANOTHER Orraaoe IN A RAILWAY CARILI•I3I.—e
On Tuesday evening • man was arrafted at the Rislimed
Station, o• the South Western Railway, while actually per.
petrating an outrage on • young lady who was • fellow.
pawner with him in the train from Reading. Whoa the
train came into tne station a gedtletnan was observed
clinging to one of the carriages, as he stood on the step, sad
hying out "Murder!" " Polio, ! " The door of the car-
riage wes open. A constable in the employ of the company
rushed to the carriage, which was a second-class one, and
saw a man struggling with a young lady, and in a position
which was in itself an indecent and henna outrage. The
lady warn in ► fainting condition. The offender was mad
drunk. His name is said to be James Skin, a barge-builder,
of Blake's-yard, Reading. The neat morning he was taken
before the magistrates I. petty sessions, and remanded to
Wednesday nest He was admitted to bull, on his own
part in 1001., and with two sureties for 50L each.
SHOCKING ATTAIN. IN MR IfILI Or MA N. few
evenings ago, • young woman, the daughter of respectable
people residing in the north of the island, went out to •
singing party, and as she did not come home very airily the
parents went to bed, telling the servant (a young woman)
to remain up until their daughter returned. Whiu she re-
turned the young woman found the *errant lying weep
before the fire, and conceived the horrible idea of setting
her ou fire. Stealthily procuring a piece of an old news-
paper, site lit it at the grate, and lifting up the slumbering
woman's clothes she set fire to her between the legs. Find-
ing this was not sufficiently effective, she steeped another
piece of newspaper in paraffin oil, and with that she set the
poor girl in lames, and she was so severely bunit that her
life was at fiat despaired et, but on Tuesday night she was
somewhat better. It is expected that this horrible affair
will be made the subject of • judicial investigation.—
Liverpool Mercury.
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Is price, and wholesome team. These advantages have amused
forth!, Sea a geseral preference. It Is iota Im packets by %ma
agents.--indmellssmant-I

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LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the st,orma
of the past year, the boats of the National Weber% loath.
tution saved It? persons from different wrecks on our coasts
The Institution has also expended C 13,310 3a, 2.1. In the same
peelo,l, on its Lifehutt estxtillehmeuts, in addition to granting
66. as rewards for saving 716 shipwrecked persons by its
litchi d• and ther nice.. The Committee of the Institution
runt Atly APPE.ti. to the public for ASA. rA Nee., to enable
them to me.l the continued hoary demands on the Institution's
c.tablishments.

Contributions are received by Messrs, Willie and Co.. Berries
lust Co„ CoIIILA and Co.. and by all the Loudon and country
bankers. and by the $ cretary, Richard Lewis, nat., at the In-
stitution. 11. John-street, Adelphl.

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