The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-12 00:00:00

WEATHER REPORT.

Nolan. JAirlimi

i: N a. 11. W. P. X. 11 IH.R. S.
Aberdeen .33 LW. elO 0.17
0 II 10.711
Leith 29.96 &W. m 3 0.17
Redresses .91 4S S.S.W. 3 0.12
Poruush 29.81 401 a. - -
Galway 19.7844 11. W. 2 0.25
I:gristle - 129.86 44 W. 7 0.66
Queenstown g.llll LW. 5 0.33
1101fRead .92 4 it 3 0.16
lAverpool t..06 36 RAE
Pembroke 44 1111.
Pressato -30.01 a.
Jersey
Beset 130.11 a. 0 6 0.08
L'Orket 30.12 16 as:
Rochefort _30.24 N.& b - 133
Plymouth _10.04 47 8. e 2 0.17
Weymouth -30.10 & e 11 0.47
Portsmouth. 30.16 as
Kew. 30.18 - N.&
Loudon 20.111 ILL 7 - 2 3 0.44
Yarmouth 30.1S 40 1 N.N.W. 7 1 b -
Scarborough 39.011 ' 1 LW. 1 1 b -
Shields 30.08 110, 4 W.N.W. 3 e -
a el4olsetl aus I F.W. 1 b -
Helder - _
Lisbon- -
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PILOBABIL
11/118911.
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MOAT.
S.W. to N.W fresh,
some rein or snow.

N. to w. and
bah to Mr
settled.
W.S.W. to N.N.W., WILL= N.W. to S.W.
strong, some rain. with rain.
S.S.B. to W., moderate W. CSitWIAL. Aa next above.
to strong
S.B. to S.W. and W., N. W.FlAnce. N.N.W. to W.S.W.,
moderate to strong, strong, unsettled.
with rain.
As next above. S.W.ENOLAIID. As next above.
S.S.E. to W.S.W., fresh, &Z. 1:110Lagn. N.W. to &W., mode-
some rain or snow. rate to fresh.
S.W. to N.W., mode- L floa/g N.N.W. to W.S.W.,
rate to fresh. fresh.

Ma. J. A. TURNIN M.P.—With reference to a
=ph which appeared in the Tines of Saturday, we
tester Guardian) are authorised to state that Mr.
Turner has no intention of retiring from parliament, and
that there is nothing whatever in the st►te of his health to
render it desirable that be should.

EAST KENT ELEeTtorr.—The official declaration
of the poll on Saturday gave the following numbers :--
Daring, 2,777 ; Itnatchball, 2,690.
CLERICAL INTOLIBRANCE.—A YORKSHIRE VICAR.
—Lieutenant William Langdale, second eon of the Hon.
Charles Langdale, of Houghton, near Market Weighton,
and • very considerable owner of property, was married on
the Bth in London. Mr. William Langdale is nephew of
Lord Harries, who is a very large proprietor in the pariah.
Mr. W. Langdale is lieutenant sod commanding officer of
I the 9th East York Rifles, whom headquarters are at
Market Weighton. The family are highly respected
'in the town and neighbourhood, and the migen
at the church, in honour of the wedding, tang
the church bells u to the receipt by them oi
the following exteactdieaq notice from the vicar :
" The Vicarage, January 8, 1863.—T0 ;the Leader of the
ringers in Market Weighton Church.—lf I am rightly in-
formed, you ham been ringing the bells of God's house this
morning in honour of • wedding which I presume
has taken place in • Popish mass-house. Now,
every such wedding in England is an open act of
sin against Almighty God ; and I hereby forbid you,
and all other persons, to ring the church bell to-day, or
any other day, for any each purpose. You must stop in.
scantly, or I will have you severely punished. And in
future you most obtain permission, both from me and the
cbarchwaniens, before iingiog for any purpose whatever.
—I am, your faithful pastor, Joanna POLLEY, Vicar."
DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY FROM BURNING. —We
regret to date that a young lady, fifteen years of age,
daughter of Mr. M'Cliashan, Mayfield-terrace, met with •
fatal accident from burning on Wednesday, shortly after the
marriage of her sister, at which she was present. In the
afternoon, while preparations were being made for the wi
ding dinner, the unfortunate young lady was attacked
with toothache, and in order to alleviate the pain, she
sat down at the fireplace of one of the moms, holding her
cheek forward to catch the heat. While in this position
her dress became ignited and was quickly io • blare. Se-
veral members of the family being close at hand, assistance
was at ones obtained, and the flames were extinguished, bat
not before Miss If 'Wuhan had been &wilfully burned.
She suffered great agony from the severe injuries she hr
received, and, notwithstanding every effort to save her
life, she expired yesterday morning about six o'clock.—
EditsburgA Cossivat.
A GENTLEMAN GAROTTED ON THE MANCHESTER
EXCHANGE.--OR Friday evening, about flee, Mr. W. Brooks,
of Talavera-place, Lower Broug Moo , was garotted on the steps
leading to the Exchange. He was ascending the steps from
Bask-street, and when at the sop he was suddenly seize I
from behind, an arm was thrown round his throat, and
he was pulled roughly backwards. The garotter, however,
bad reckoned without his host. Mr. Brooks laid hold of
the adjoining pillar, and resisted the ruffian's attempts to
put his band in the left waistcoat pocket. A violent
struggle ensued, and the fellow took to his heels. An
alarm was raised; a cabman knocked the runaway down;
sad Polies-constable Sutton, who had heard the outcry
from a neighbouring street, walked the offender off to the
police-station. The whole transaction was witnessed by •
newspaper boy. It was stormy at the time, and there wan
but few persons in the street. The prisoner was brought
before the city tnagistrates on Saturday, and was committed
for trial at the sessions. He wore • prison dress, and said
his name was James Psareou. Inquiries will be made as to
who and what he is.

GERMAN CHORALE'S.—It was the Lutheran
chorale which first embodied the expression of sublime and
devotional feeling in congregational music. Whereas, in
the Romish church, the musical service was chiefly a per-
formance to which the worshipper listened inactively, the
early protestants largely advocated and encouraged congre-
gational singing. They seem to have thought, Luther espe-
cially, with • quaint old writer, that " when Christians
sing all together in some easy tune, accommodated to the
words of their praise, and not likely to take off their atten-
tion from sense to sound, then experience shows they sing
most lustily (as the Psalmist expresses it), and with the best
good courage. The symphony of voice and the sympathy of
heart may flow through the whole congregation, which is the
finest music to truly serious persons and the most acceptable
to God of any in the world." This opinion will be shared by
all who have heard in the vast churches of Germany the
grand old chorales sung in unison by the whole congrega-
tion to the accompaniment of a large organ—it is the
highest and purest expression of the combined religious
feeling of • multitude of worshippers. Those who have not
heard them in the churches of Germany can scarcely fail to
have noticed in Meedelasohn's oratorio, St. Paul, the sublime
effect of "Sleepers, wake," which is, in fact, the Lutheran
chorale, " Wachet auf." The symphony of brass instru-
ments at the end of each strain represents the little inter-
lude (Zwischen-Spiel), which the German organists are so-
custorned to play at the close of each musical phrase; the
object of such interpolations being to give breathing time to
the singers after the exhaustion of the long-sustained notes
of the tune. Again Meyerbeer, an his opera, Les Huguenots,
has made frequent use of the chorale, • Fin' hates Burg ist
unser Gott," • tune which was for so many years the watch-
word of religious freedom in Germany. The Lutheran
chorales, collected (and in some instances composed) by
Luther himself, formed the medals on which many of our
early English church melodies were framed ; and in propor-
tion as this high and pure standard has been departed from,
the sublimity and propriety of English psalmody have been
lost sight of. Lon don Review.
EXPORTS of WINE.—The statistics of the exporta-
tion of wine from Spain and Portugal during the past year
have been received Of sherry the sbipmeota from Xeres de
Froatera were 32,616 butte, sad front Port St. Mary's,
20,066. From the former place the largest shippers were
Gonzalez, Dubose, and Co. (in liquidation), 5,427 butts ;
Peter Domain (Raskin and Co., London), 3,392;
Mist. 3 082 ; Patrick Garvey, 2,874; Pemartin and Co.,
2,702; F. W. Coming, 2 350 ; J. Ramie, Nephew, 1,593.
From the bitter the largest were Duff, Gordon, and Co.,
2.281 butts; widow de Portilla. 2,142; K. Morena de M
1,982 ; V. de X. Harmony and Co., 1765 ; B. Vergers,
1,224 ; M. and F. Tow, 1,220. AU others were under
LOW butts. Of port wines the total was 2.1,724 pipes
(24.843 to Great Britain), and the shippers above 1,000
were, Sandemen sod Co., 2,332 ; Cockburn. Smiths, and
Co., 2,083 ; Martinez, Gassiot. and Co.. 1,747 Clod* and
Raker, 1.393; Ofiley and Cramp, 1,347; Rust, Hoops,
Teoge, and Co., 1,210 ; W. and J. Graham and Co., 1,047 ;
W. 0. Roudtois, 1,010.
GREAT )(ASTERN company is
about to place tea additional passenger and thirty addi-
tional goods engines upon its system at a cost of about
100,0001. The acceleration of the train service, recently an-
sonoced in this journal as likely to take place, has beat
postponed till the winter has further advanced.
P 1101.0611) AMALGAMATION or THE CHAII NG-
CEO6II AND SOME EUITLIIN RAILWATS.—II is proposed to
•malgsmate the Charing-cross and South Eutaw° railways
on such terms and conditions as the two companies may
think fit, subject to its being sanctioned by three fifths of
the votes of the shareholders in each company ; the agree-
ment to take effect either before or after the completion ci
the works of the Charing-cross line.
" COTTON FROM TUE CAPE."—Under the above
heeding • Liverpool paper, on Friday last, anoonneed that
1,705 bales of cotton had arrived in the Mersey from the
Cape of Good Hope. As might he expected, this announce-
ment caused much surprise, as on person ever dreamt of so
much cotton coming in one ship from the Cape. It now turns
out that the cotton came from Bombay, and was transhipped
from the Dingo, condemned at the Cape. The same paper
announced • large arrival of cotton from Oporto, Portugal.
The latter cotton is Brazil cotton, originally sent to Por-
tugal, but forwarded to Liverpool because it offered a
better market.

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TRIAL o A STEEL STEAMER. —Me‘ArS. J 01169,
QUinin. and Co., of Diremool, bare just built • splendid
new steamer—the msterial used for the hull being their
patent steel plates—which was sent out on • trial trip on
Saturday last. The steamer in question (not yet named) is
expected to attain • *need of 17 knots no hour, but on
Saturday. owing to the heating of the machinery, usual in
trial trips, the speed attained did not exceed 14 knots. The
destination of the steamer is said to be Nassau.