The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-11 00:00:00

OLYMPIC.

One by one our leading London theatre% have .1
sought to break the meaotony of their importations from
the French stags by prodecing mere or less skilfully adapted
versions of Mies 'Madames popular novels. The Princess's,
if we remember rightly, was the brit house to set this new
fashion ; the Adelphi and the Bt. James'. followed ; and
on Saturday night the Olympia copied its neighbours by
presenting, in a dramatic form, and in four sots, Mir
Braddoe's London Journal story; of The °lamas, under
its reprinted Mudie title of Henry Dunbar. The adapter,
in this case, is Mr. Tom Taylor, who has done his best to
compress all the salient features of a somewhat ounpliobted
story within the limits of en ordinary drama. Mr. Taylor
bee done more thin this ; he has taken a character which is
very itghtly sketched
it with sway d the stage attributes of &k$
Heroin, and Jeremy Di (Idler, and giving it great proininesee,
he has introduced a wink element, which does meth to
secure the sums= of the play with mu average bedtimes.
The pima, though somewhat lug, wee well received, bet
the story would be made much dears: to that Loge number
of the sodium who have not read the novel if the playbills
• were a little more explicit with regard to the aliases of the
chid characters.

'NEW YORK. Nov. 99, Xolllllso.
Money tbandant. Gold, 1481. Exchange on
London, 161 ; on Paris, 3.511. Stocks steady :
New York Central, 96f ; Illinois, 134 ; Brie, 92 ;
Five-Twenties, 1011. Cotton dull : Middling Up-
land, 51 to 52. Flour steady ; wheat good inquiry.
Corn advancing. Provisions heavy. Coffee steady.
Sugar very firm. Molasses and petroleum steady :
crude petroleum, 40 ; refined ditto, 661.
NEW OB.LBANI3, Nov. 25.
Cotton depressed : Middling Upland, 52 to 53.
Sales of the day, 3,000 bales.
cassuaroN, Nov. 25.
Cotton, 44 to 47.

THE MEXICAN FRONTIER.
Matamoros papers of the 10th inst. state that the
imperial gunboat Antonio, while forcing her way
up the river under the fire of the republicans,
grounded seven miles below the city, when &furious
fire was opened upon her from the American bank,
wounding two marines. The French commander
refrained from returning the fire received from the
bank. The republicans on the American bank were
dressed in the Federal uniform.
The same papers say that it seems a settled pur-
pose of these men to cause a war between the United
Sates and Mexico. These outlaws are on the
American side of the river in force, and their
officers are enlisting recruits.
According to Matamoros papers of the 15th, a
night attack was to have been made upon the gun-
boat Antonio by two small boate from the American
shore, which were discovered and fired upon by the
Antonio and sunk, all oa board, it was supposed,
being drowned.
The Emperor Maximilian is reported to have
received an autograph letter from the Emperor
Napoleon, urging the adoption of more energetic
-wares for the establishment of the empire.

THE SWEDISH REFORM BILL.
PUBLIC REJOICINGS AT STOCKHOLM.
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 9, ammo.
In consequence of the passing of the bill for the
reform of the constitution by the legislature large
crowds of people assembled to-day before the
ministerial residences. Enthnaiaatic cheers were
given for Baron de Geer, Count Manderstrem, and
Baron Gripenstedt, the Ministers of Justice
Foreign Affairs, and Finance.
The illumination of the city takes place to-night.
During the performance in the King's Theatre,
this evening. the national anthem was called for,
and sung in chorus by the performers and the
whole audience, after which loud and continued
cheers were given for the King.