The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Lest night there was a very heavy southerly gale on one mink.
em coasts; this niornhig the wind hav veered to the west+ iml
and generally moderated. hut at Valentin. where it has Iwo..
N.W., it has again Increased in strewth. On our northern coots
high easterly winds prevail. Millimeters In the British isle• sre
everywhere below 2y Inches, but are rising in the west issl
mouth. Rain has again fallen on all our coasts.

The church of England clergymen of the parish
of Manchester have resolved upon a protest against ex.
trains ritualism. This resolution was made at a privue
meeting in the mayor's parlour yesterday, at which it a
said sixty gentlemen were present. The protest will take
the form of a memorial to the bishop of the diocese.

Henry Keep, who has just been elected presi-
dent of the New York Central Railroad, is, as his prede-
cessor was, a man raised by his own exertions from poverty
to great wealth. When Mr. Keep was an apprentice DO
master had occasion to "advertise " hits as a runaway.
He preserves with great care an old newspaper containing
the following notice : [Cut—Boy with bundle on his
arm.]—" Run away from the subscriber, Henry Keep, an
indentured apprentice. All persons are forbid truetin;
him on my amount, as I shall pay no debts of his con
tractiing.—J. Oiteireoens."—Mr. Keep is now the owner
of property worth 2,000,000 dots.
A Berlin letter says :—"The Berlin Opera ha
been in some danger of losing its principal ornament.
through the threatened resignation of Madame Lin,
For some time past there has been an intrigue again
her, and her enemies have given vent to their feelings
loud Meats and other signs of disapprobation on 0..-1
instant of her appearance on the stage. On Thurs.l..!
last, when she sang in the II tqmencte, the annoyance 54
so great that she has since intimated her intention
throwing up her engagement. The intendantur of IL.
royal theatres, however, has protested against thee cal'
seemly demonstrations, and I believe she has consentol ro
remain for the present. The reason alleged for hvr un•
popularity among a certain set is the fact that she on.
fined her invitations to a recent Deltic to the aristocrat!,
and, with the single exception of Fraulin von Edelslerg.
none of her fellow-artists were present."
Nine first-class theatres have been burned in the
United States within the past ten months. Pike's
House, Cincinnati, March 22 ; New York Acad,..n.y .f
Music, May 22; Metropolitan Theatre, St. Louis, May
31 ; Cincinnati Academy of Music, July 12 ; Lou's"
Theatre, October 12 ; Varieties Theatre, Nieliville. N,
vember 4 ; Phoenix Theatre, Petersburg, Virginia, No,, • •
her 18 ; Orleans Theatre, New Orleans, December 7 : No'
Bowery, December 18.
Tux ABYSSINIAN PRISONER-S.—Further int,".i•
genoe has, we learn, been received respecting the
mission to Abyssinia. Private letters (von Magdala,
th th of November, state that Mr. )taseam, Liwten
Pri , and Dr. Blanc, though still in chains, woe
that tuue in perfect health. His Savage Higlines-
King seems to have been treating the captives pretty s.l
Each had a room to himself, each was attended by I's
own servants, and all were provided with rations. NI
did King Theodore's acts of politeness stop at those Is,
vileges. He was constantly sending messages to asl, he
the prisoners were, and how they were getting on. Wst
great courtesy he told them to keep up their spirits.
he was their friend. But he does not seem to have she*,
any sign of willingness to set them free. A reply front
him to Mr. Ftad's letter, however, was expected at 31a"
sowa about the 211th of Deoamber.— Telegraph.