The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

PRINCkZ.S'S.

Last night Mr. Boucicault's two suocesoful
dramas, The Colleen Batcn and The Street. of London,
were withdrawn from the bills of this house, and their
places were supplied by The Octoroon and ArraJt-na-Pogue
—two plays by the same prolific author that are both
familiar to the London public. The house was full, and
the principal performers were warmly received.

MAILS TO INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA.—A
new contract having been concluded with the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, the following
alterations will be made in the arrangements for despatch-
ing mails to India, Chine, and Australia after the doperture of the mails of the 20th and 2tith of February :—The
mails for the East Indies will be forwarded wholly to
Bombay, end will be made up in Loudon on the morning
of every Saturday, commencing with Saturday, the 20th
of February, for tranernissioa, via Southampton, and on
the evening of every Friday, commencing with Friday, the
oth of March. for transmission, viA Marseilles. The mails
for Ceylon, Singapore, Labuan, Java, the Philippine
Islands, Hong Kong, China, and Japan will be made up on
the morning of Saturday, 28th of February, and the even-
ing of Friday. the fith of March ; the next mails will be
made up on the morning of Saturday, the 21st of March,
and the evening of Friday, the 27th of Ranh ; and thence.
forward there +ill be a despatch on the morning of every al-
ternate Saturday, and the evening of every alternate Friday.
The packets will not call at Penang, and the correspon-
dence for that settlement will be forwarded in the mails
for Singapore. A branch packet will leave Shanghai for
Yokohama, calling at :Nagasaki, Immediately after the
arrival of each mail from England. The fiat mails far
Australia under the new arrangement will be made up on
the morning of Saturday, the 21st of March, and the
evening of Friday, the 27th of March, and thenceforward
on every fourth Saturday and Friday throughout the year.
As the packet from Marseilles to Alexandria will not
call at Malta, the correspondence for that island will be
sent wholly by the weekly packet from Southampton. The
first mailsfrom India, Ceylon, China, Japan, and Australia
will be due on the morning ofMonday, the 23rd of Marsh,
via Marseilles. and on the evening of Saturday, the 28th
of March, via Southampton ; and thenceforward—from
India on the to swing of every Monday, viA Manatee,
and on the evening of every Saturday, via Southampton ;
from Ceylon and China, on the morning of every alternate
Monday, and the evening of every alternate Saturday ;
and from Australia. on the morning of every fourth Mon-
day, and the evening2f every fourth Saturday.
A CHCItcH on FIDE AT Mearnra.--Duzing the
evening service at Bt. David's, Merthyr, on Sunday the
clerk saw, with alarm, that the stove pipe had become red
hot at the top near the roof, and that the roof was on fire.
The alarm was instantly given, and a scene ensued of the
most startling character. The people screamed and rushed
to the doors, and in an incredible space of time the church
was cleared of the congregation. Then a rush was made
for the fire plugs, and, by the energetic aid of Mr. Superin-
tendent Wrenn, the fire was soon got under.
A " MARRIAGE 'cit. Fos."—jn the Wayne Cir-
cuit Court yesterday, one of the most novel suits for di-
vorce ever instituted was concluded by the granting of the
prayer of the petitioner. The case is that of a marriage
which was performed in this city in August last, which
was first made public through the columns of the Free
Press. As will be remembered, the young man and young
woman in question, Mr. Wm. W. Bowers and Miss Julia
L. Madison, at an evening party bantered each other to
marry, and in the same spirit of jest that prompted the
bantering proceeded to the residence of a clergyman,
where the ceremony was performed, the minister, how-
ever,
not being let into the secret, but supposing the mar-
riage to be in earnest and the inteetios of the ponies
bona Ode to become husband and wife. To the sorrow of
the maid and the chagrin of her other half, who had
been made unwittingly • husband, the clergyman pro-
ermined his opinion that they were not only "soinewhas
married," as Artemus Ward said of BrlghamYoung, but the
truth also came home to the_parCee that they were a pest
deal too much married. The result was that the yowls
maiden, entirely innocent and unsophisticated in the
ways of married life, was obliged to go before the overt
and have the consequences of her silly frivolity set aide
and annulled by judicial form. Of coarse the young man.
the partner of her sorrows, did not appear to defend
himself against the claim for a divorce, and the decree
asked for by the petitioner was greeted,—Deenit Prot
Prem.