The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-20 00:00:00

DRUBY-LANE.

Notwithstanding the success achieved by Faust
at this theatre, the engagement of Miss Helen Faucit for •
skies of representations has compelled the macaws to
break He run, and last night Shakespeare's pastoral woody
As You Like It was revived, with Miss Faucet in the
character of Rosalind. It is nearly two years knee this
delicate and refined warm eppeared iu this part at this
theatre, and the embodiment has lad none °Mose artistk
touches and feminine grams which we then felt bound to
praise so highly. Miss Fancit's Rosalind deserves to rank
next to her Imogen, and is fell of the most delightful
humour. It is shook needless to say that the actress was
received with gratifying warmth, not only on her eutranee
but during the progiu of her performanoe. Her °viand°
was Mr. Walter Montgomery, who has never appeared to
greater advantage before • London public then in this ohs-
rioter ; and the Touchstone wee Mr. Henry Webb, one of
our best Shakespearian clowns. The house was very full.
Miss Faucit will perform Pauline in the Lady of Lyons
on Friday next.

THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.—The Madrid 0017e-
spondent of the Indepenegance Beige, writing on the 13th,
says that the Duchess de Montpensier has just had an in.
tertian with the Queen of Spain, for the purpose of warn-
ing her of the dangers to the dynasty which meat result
from the present system of government. " Her royal
highness," continues the correspondent, "urged her
Majesty, with much earnestness, to make concessions sad
rally round her the liberal element, adding that if she did
not do so, the day of the catastrophe would not be far
distant, andthat it would drageverything down with it ; the
person of the Queen, her dynasty, and all the royal family.
By making concessions in time calculated to load to sincere
reconciliation with the liberal party, her enemies would

become leas numerous, and if some few took up a threaten-
ing attitude, she would see devoted defenden range them-
selves around her; the Infanta added that her husband, the
Duke de Montpensier, would be the first to mount his horse
to defend the constitutional throne of the Queen. Her
Majesty replied to the duchess that her royal highness
could not possibly have a correct idea of the state of
Spain ; that she had adopted • policy which gave
excellent results ; that that policy was the only
one that would save her crown, her dynasty,
and the interests and rights of all her family ;
that she was resolved on no account to modify in any way
that policy. The Queen added The revolution has
declared war against me to the death. Well, I, on my
side, declare war against the revolution ; we shall see
which of the two will conquer. To abandon at the
moment of the struggle the policy of resistance upon
which I have entered, and make concessions, would be my
ruin, and I have before my eyes the example of my cousin,
the King of Naples, who, after having given way to the
revolution and granted all the concessions asked of him.
was nevertheless compelled to descend from his throne and
go into exile. I am thoroughly determined not to follow
his example ; I will resist, therefore, and I am firmly re-
solved to vanquish or die.'"
A DUTCH FINANCE MINISTER FOR AURTRIA.—
The InalOperulance Ltdge of Sunday evening says—" Some
time ago we announced that M. Van Ikiso, ex-minister of
the King of Holland, had been asked to accept the port-
folio of Finance at Vienna, but that he had declined the
proposal. This news, which was contradicted hi Holland
for electoral purposes by the conservatives, the opponents
BL Van Bosse, was strictly accurate, and the confirmation
of it will not long be awaited if it be true that
the negotiations, interrupted by the absence of the
Emperor Francis Joseph, and the candidature of
M. Van Hoses for the national representation of
his country, are on the point of being resumed.
M. Van Bosse, it will be recollected, has not been elected
for Amsterdam. The Austrian govennuent, which is in
want of fresh loans, hopes to open the money bags ontei
circumstance') :day lead to an understanding
their confidence. These
between the
more of the Dutch capitalists if it entrusf7 conauei
the operation to a man efijoyin:
two ass uses. It is nevertheless affirmed that M. Van
base, in conformity with the conclusions of the report
he sent in to the Emperor, would only accept
the succession of M. de Larisch on the double condition
that the Austrian army should be subjected to consi-
derable reduction, and that wide liberties should be
accorded to the nation."
THE FLOODS IN THE NORTH.—The Ler,b, ilfereltry
of yesterday says Unhappily, the extraordinary and
almost unprecedented floods which the Leavy rains of the
past few days caused in Yorkshire and Lancashire have
not only been destructive of a large amount of property,
but have been attended also with great loss of life.
In Leeds a very melancholy cats trophe occurred on
Saturday morning. Between twenty and thirty per-
sons were standing on a landing near Leeds-bridge,
watching the wreck in the river at that point, when it
suddenly gave way, piecipitating the whole of them
into the stream. Assntance was promptly at hand,
and many were rescued, but others unfortunately
were drowned. It was at first believed that
ten or twelve had thus been deprierd of life,
but, melancholy as the calamity is, we are glad to say That
the loss of life is not so great as was supposed. One body
has been recovered, and five girls are reportad missing.
Having male most careful inquiry, the cohee believe
there are no other persons missing. At Dewsbury seven
lives were also sacrificed by the flood ; at Itipponden,
near Halifax, four persons were drowned by the washing
away of a bridge ; and other fatal acrideOs are re-
ported at Manchester, where there are three lives lost;
at Preston, two ; at Otley, one ; and at Wakefield, two.
All the accounts we publish to-r Lay concur in stating
that the flood is one of the most disagrees that has
visited this and the Lister country within living memory.
Our reporters have visited the three great valleys of the
West Riding, those of the Aire, the Calder, and the
Wharfe, and their statements of the damage done by the
flood will be found elsewhere. In ell eases the lore of pros
petty was enormous. The condition of a large reservoir at
the head of the Black Brook Valley, in 'alder-vale. excited
great alarm on Friday, as the water wan actually breaking
over the top of the dam, and the hacking of Coe embank-
ment cracked in several places. Happily, owing to the
subsiding of the storm, the'denger was removed."
THE GRAND TRUNY. RAILWAY " CutIEINATION."
—The North Itritiah Mail states that at a me, ting of the
committee of the Glasgow Stock Excheage, on Friday lest,
• resolution was pass to the effect that the committee
were nrannnously of opinion that two of the members had
been guilty of a very grave indiscretion, and of highly
culpable conduct in taking any, end especially so promi-
nent, a part in such an unwarrantable combination as that
recently exposed in connection with the Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada. According to the rules of the Stock
disproportionate our contemporary) a small fine, utterly
to the gravity of the offence, might
have been inflicted, or the matter might have been referred
to the decision of the room ; but the conimitteg, in consi-
deration of "the humiliating position in which the two
members in question were plaid, and the painful feel-
ings under which they confessedly laboured,' considered
that the character of the association would he sufficiently
vindicated, and the circumstances of the case fully met,
" by • vote of censure, which is now passed in the
strongest terms." This resolution, on being intimated to
the members of the Exchange in the afternoon, was
unanimously approved of. According to the rules of the
association, any stockbroker who may act as a jobber sub-
cts himself to • penalty of 5/., while any one who " vio-
ltes the commission,' that is, divides it or charges leas
than the feed rates, may be fined 501. The gentlemen
censured, acting as they did in conjunction with Mr.
M'Ewen, en outsider, might have been fined the 501. ; but
the committee thought that the infliction of any such
penalty would be a mere farm.

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