The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. Zhe erpreo%. TO 0011.1LESPONDINTS. ailvertlaimenta Wended for " The ," London Evening =must be at the Mee, 101.1zrota:eriartreet, by Two OR taw day of publication. RAYMARRIT. Tim Evrhoo. THE BROKEN-HEARS= CLUB.—A WITE WELL WoN. Mows. Pother., Backstone, Howe, Kendal. which AN urns , Braid. Weat n h i ersb s-v y issiok cat THE BR IGAND drc. • and Min Robertson .—After PLINCEIVSS Tats Evtsnta , THZ OOLLI6I I HAWN. Ur. sad Mrs. Non Bottelcault.—After which Till STREETS (IF LOSDii. &c.r; M. Violas, Menem Murray, Shone, Neville. Fomenter. meuon, Inners lgtworthy, E. Bement. azehel Sanger, sod Mrs. Addle. STRAND. Hin which o. OLD SALT. r. Emery T and Miss Nell; Mows. Nor which THE CALIPH Olr BAGDAD. Mew' . Thorne and James ; Mistimes Ada Swanborough, Johnstone, Harland, Bolt, te.—And OUR D4MESIIO.I. HOLBORN. THIS Manna, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Atkins, Pries, Garden, Arthar, IVestland, and Wilmott ; Mesdames ilenrade E , Goodall. Le111:101. and Senadera--Conclude with VALENTIN AND ORSON. )(dile. Montero, Little Rowell, At. Evingnra, DON QUIXOTE ;O, BANCRO PANZA AND HIS WIFE TERM. Mts. Lana, &Misses Edwin& Booth ; Tan anings Mears. Deem Ennis, Madam, W H Octlll ; C. Staphan and Alm KOMI Nathan.—And DID IT I HIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRIDOL MI DAY —Wornlnc Oh. 0m..--Afternoon. Oh. Ist. to-110AloW—Yoesking, Oh. Nm---Attarnoon, Oh. 66e. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21. MIL TIDD Pearr, tho Registrar of Friendly Societies in England, has just issued a brief paper from his office which is deserving of the widest publicity. It relates to a class of societies which has multiplied exceedingly of late, and by which, it is believed, tho frugal among the industrious classes of the community are ex posed to the danger of losing their savings. These are what are commonly known as Burial Societies, although often dignified by other special and imposing names, such as Brotherly, Philanthropic, Loyal, United, Una nimous, Protective, and what nut. Mr. TIDD Prisrr gives the names of twelve of these Burial Societies, consisting of more than a million in surers, with insurances which amount to no less t han three million pounds sterling. Their gross receipts from the insurers in the last year were 247,9351.; the amount paid for benefits assured, 138,1511. the amount of expenses fur management, 94,7631.; and the irludc of ihrir funds, including the value of their property and money in the hands of trea surers, agents, and collectors, ix only 181,166/. —or the amount of about three-quarters of • year's premium. The old-fashioned Friendly Society was a 'kind of club ; its operations were local, its affairs were conducted by its own members ; no agents or collectors were employed, nor was there any thing speculative in its transactions. Ninety-n ire Friendly Societies out of a hundred are still of this class. The leading Burial Societies of the present day are altogether of another origin and type ; they were established by enterprising per sons as insurance Offitxs, they are worked by officers receiving large salaries as treasurers, secre taries, directors, and committee-men, and have agents and collectors, also well paid, in all the principal towns and parishes in Great Britain. Mr. Tioo• TRATT gives the names of ten Burial Societies, with some par ticulars from their last annual reports sent to the Registrar, showing that the number of insurers in these Societies was 486,612 ; the gross receipts for the year, 94,323/. ; the ex penses of management, 36,301/. ; the payments for deaths, 04,3801.—throe two items making together the sum of 100,6871. ; so that the pay ments for deaths and the expenses of management in the year were 6,3641. more than the whole amount of the receipts from the members in that time. The amount of the funds in hand was only 67,2671., or about 2s. 10d. per insurer, whilst the amount insuml must exceed 1,600,000/. The following is an abridgment of one of his tables. We desire especially to direct attention to the two last wlumns. Foe every !en went U. d I •11 for relief Where 1 8 • & .$1 Mem bers the of held. g ig v 44 coat of Society. :,,74 3 g - went vas Liverpool $l. ratrlek's Loyal Phelan thmply Thilauthropie Iturial Potted Legal ---.• 150,000117,796 45.0110; 11,3r4 ; E ti d. E 5. 41) 15 0 016 .35 10 2! 0 14 16 6 0 45 5 9, 52,7561 0,109 33 31 0 Ann's It thu4h Illiginal Lewd to it Moo- Ditto Prwstan 24.000 i SZ.I 22,41J61 37 8 lel 0 17 1S 6. 0 tht;t7; Dftto Victoria Legal.. Ilinulnglim Yamlly Budd .. Cborky • 9,3211 1,917 17 13 9 0 4 4 14,937 t9l 6118 8 30 0 21,098; 17 11 0 3 0 1 -- • 466.011 6:.'267 These, however, aro not the worst cases. In addition to the above list there are two other societies—the Royal Liver, at Liverpool ; and the Victoria Legal, in the same town. The former was established in 1850. The gross receipts for the year, in the last report sent to the Registrar, were 125,1 81 /. ; the management expenses,l 45,8571., or 381. 12s. (hi. per cent. ; the amount paid for deaths and sickness, 60,8801. ; so that for every 20s. paid for relief, kc., of members the cost of management was 15s. Id. The Victoria Legal Society was established in 1843. In the last report sent to the Registrar, the year's receipts wen, stated to be 28,4311., the number of members 127,286 ; the payments for funerals in the last year 12,8851.; the expenses of management 12,0651., or Itearly 20s. fin Crery2os. paid fur benujits. Mr. Tenn Pasrr shows, by a comparison of tho tables Waled by the Post-office authorities for life insurance, that the monthly payments usually required by Burial Societies would give to parties insuring with tho Poet-office a larger sum (with Government security) than such societies promise to pay. For one penny per week, or four shillings and fourpence per year, the following amounts are stated to be payable at death, according to the tables of premiums published by the— Po;tottlhe. Victoria Loyal (Monthly pay- Royal Liver, Legal, rhileolltropie, Age. mental Liverpool. LiverpooL Liverpool. 30 ...i8 6 8 ...15 0 0 ...17 0 0 ... 4 , 0 40 ... 6 3 2 ... 5 0 0 ... 0 0 0 ... 6 0 0 50 .. 4 5 6 .. 3 0 0 ... 4 0 0 .. 4 0 0 60 .. 215 2 ... 17 6 ... 25 0 ... 10 0 It will be seen how cruelly these societies strike the working classes—at the best portion of them—while engaged in their best acts. Mr. Tim) Pasrr deserves the thanks of the whole , public for this most needful exposure. He states that he is almost every day receiving com plaints from persons who cannot obtain payment of their claims from Burial Societies. and he calls upon the public press, clergymen, and others to en deavour to prevent the working classes from join ing Burial Societies established under the Friendly Societies Acts without first ascertaining that they are joining solvent institutions. There is reason to believe that considerable misapprehension exists among a large section of the public as to the pur- port of Mr. TIDD PRATT'S certificate, Ohicii it ■ me common to see quoted as if it were 'a guarantee of the soundness of a society. It should, there fore, be undeistood that he is bound to certify the rules of a society if they are not illegal, and that his certificate u to the sufficiency of the contribu tions does not in any way vouch for the solvency of the society, or the respectability of the trustees, treasurer, or officers, or that the money will be paid on the death of the party insured. TII4 lxJSltetgf4 ,r - t gi .."••••' OSBORNE, JAN. 10. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked in the grounds this morning. Prime Arthur, Primo Leopold. sad Princes ZeeMoe alio went out. Deepatebes were seseived yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor-General of Canada, and from the Governors of Malta, British Columbia, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales yes terday wee present at the ceremony of distributing prima to pupils in the parish school at Sandringham, in which she and the Prince have taken considerable interest. A Dublin paper announces that the Prince of Wales is to visit Ireland in April next, to be present at the Punchestown races. We regret to learn that Lord Derby is again suffering from an attack of the gout. The Earl of Mayo will arrive in town to-day from Dublin, to be present at the Cabinet Council. The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon have left Higholere Castle, near Newbury, for Paris, on their way to the south of France, where, we understand, the earl and countess purpose to stay for some weeks. Viscount and Lady Mary Bandon left South ampton yesterday for Egypt ; and, after visiting he nst mids and historical parts of that country, the nobl lord and lady intend to visit the Holy Land. Lady Victoria Lambton gave birth to a son yes terday morning, and her ladyship and infant are going on favourably. Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Herbert are entertaining a large shooting party at their beautiful seat, Macrons Abbey, Killarney. Amongst their numerous guests and relatives may be mentioned Lord and Lady Keane, the Hon. Mrs. White Hedges and the Misses White, Miss Herbert and Miss Blanche Herbert, the Marquis of Bow- moot, the Hon. Richard Dawson, Captain Forteseue, Captain Hathorne (Coldstream Guards), ke. The sport, in spite of the badness of the year, has exceeded 400 wood cocks, besides numerous other game. Loan JCSTICE ROLT.—From recent inquiries we are glad to learn that the health of this homed judge is progressing favourably. EV44.146. LAT] ARY [GENCE. THE MORTUARY EROR HONOURS MAX TO THE LATE EMP IMIti The New Pre* Prue of Jan. 18 contains the fol , lowing : The body of the late Emperor Maximilian wax borne in silence at 7 o'clock in the morning from the chapel where it was first laid to the chapel of the Castle. The coffin was placed on a catafalque covered with black cloth. The place where the coffin Is laid is covered with cloth of gold, end over the coffin there is a black canopy. By the aide of the coffin are crowns which have been offered to the lifeless hero, and amongst them the imperial crown of Mexico, the crown of the Austrian princes, and the cap of an archduke. At the foot of the coffin and around it the insignia of the orders conferred on the deemed—those of the Golden Fleeoe, of Bt. Stephen of Hungary, of the Eagle of Mexico—are placed on velvet cushions. The cata falque, which is very imposing, is surrounded by 100 wax candles in silver candelabra. Offioers of the navy and of the body guards keep guard at the four carper, of the catafalque as a post of honour. The chapel Itself is hung with bleak, the seats and the prie-Dieu and the altar are all covered with black cloth, and along the walls pre the armorial bearinp of the Emperor. Priests are continually saying mass, both at the principal and at the two side alters, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 12 at noon. The crowd in the castle court is immense, and the military are employed in keeping order, and in admitting them to the chapel only by degrees. At 10 o'clock the " Miaerere" was chanted by the choir, and at half-past 1 all the church bells of the city were rung. The people give evidence of deep feeling. Everybody is anxious to see the coffin which contains the Emperor,for the body itself is not exposed to view. The refectory of the church of the Capuchins in which the members of the imperial family are to assem ble hu been draped in mourning. At 2 o'clock the admission of the people was stopped. The burial will take place at 3. (The fact of the burial hu been announced by telegram.) THE ROMAN CATHOLIC POWERS. The Nide says ; Rome, which has so long led the world, may give it trouble yet. The eternal city, in which dwell the heed and chief ministers of a religion, which is per excellence, called pacific, displays much warlike preparation. The Unita Cautnlica says that General Kander has bad long interviews with General de Failly ; that they visited to- gether the fortifications of Civita Veochia, the French camp, and the positions round the town. "It seems certain," it adds, " that the French garrison of Corneto will be doubled, and that even artillery will be sent there. In the meantime the old and new fortifications are being strengthened. There is an unusual stir amongst the French officers, who speak of war as an event that is near and certain." The Independance Beige says : We have been informed from Madrid that the Court of Spain has been seeking for an occasion to break off diplomatic relations with Italy. Its representative in Florence, the Duke of Rivas, has been directed to demand explanations from the Italian government respecting the attacks of the Italian press upon Spain and its sovereign, and if the explanations given were not satisfactory be was to quit Florence and leave • rhargi d'affairu to conduct the business of the Spanish legation. This was to be the pretext for breaking oil relations which are already very unsatisfactory. If what the Opinione says be correct—that the Italian minis ter has sent a despatch to the Spanish government, pro- testing against the language used in the speech of the Queen of Spain in reference to Italy—it cannot fail to pre cipitate the rupture between both governments. (axcisn's ruins/as.) THE ITALIAN FINANCES. FLORENCE, J. 21. Signor Cambray Digny concluded his financial statement yesterday as follows : " The total accumulated deficit at the end of 1868 should be 630 million lire, instead of 820 millions in 1867. To cover these 630 millions there are three resources—the current account at the bank, which, however, is not 308 millions, as had been stated ; and issue of Treasury Bonds to the amount of 250 millions ; and an advance of IC' millions from the bank upon the security of eccle siastical property. The state is also entitled to a loan of 30 millions from the bank. These re sources are, however, partly exhausted, so that there will remain a deficit of 162 millions, and this can only be removed by a fresh issue of bonds upon the ecclesiastical property, which the govern ment cannot undertake, according to law, at a lower rate than 80, until after June next. To remove the forced currency would require 540 millions in gold. At present it is necessary to find the means of paying 378 millions due to the bank ; the removal of the false currency would follow. The minister proposes a gradual removal of the de ficit, 78 millions of which would be covered in 11869, and the remainder in a total period of twelve years. The entire expense to the state occasioned lby the Garibaldian movement in October is esti mated at 18,000,000 lire. The ecclesiastical pro- perty at present sold has realised 40,349,000 lire. The Treasury has at present available the sum of 294 millions, of which about 118 mil lions are to be drawn from the Bank, and 66 mil lions in Treasury Bonds to be placed in circulation. The receipts of the Treasury on the Ist January were 1,177,570,064, and the expenditure 988,354,537 ; cash and bonds in ha nd, 189,215,527 lire." Signor de Filippo, the Minister of Justice, has been re-elected deputy for Longa. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) DR. LIVINGSTON'. The Daily News assumes that Dr. Livingstone ie safe, and thinks he will possibly return to England by the Mediterrenean, having worked his way from one end of the African continent to another—from the Cape to Alex andria. The report of the Search Expedition which has just returned to England bee established beyond all question that he was not slain at Lake Byars, but had pressed on into the interior. Mousse and the Johanna men returned to the coast under the belie f that Livingstone was marching to certain death, and, anticipat. lug the fact, gave oat that he had been already Dr. Livingstone's researches in the regions between the two Nyanza Lakes and Lake Tanganyika will bridge over the chasm between the explorations of Speke, Burton, and Petherick, and leave no break in the continuity of our knowledge of Eastern Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to the Delta of the Nile. Central Africa has at length been laid open to Europe by the individual courage and skill of three or four Englishmen, amongst whom the name of Livingstone will occupy the first place. One desire alone survives with the Telegraph, and that is " that Moou and his crew should have about as sound a rope'rending as ever was laid on a rascal's hide, and then be clapped into prison till Livingstone comes safe to hand, and asks to have the knaves released." THE BIFINOPILIC OF NATAL. If anything can induce the Bishop of Capetown to pause in his precipitate course, the Times thinks it will be the considerations adduced in the temperate letter of the Bishop of London, which we give elsewhere, together with the fact of such a letter having been deliberately made public by so high an authority. The Bishop of London not only informs us that many of the English bishops hold that the see of Natal is not vacant, but that members of the same body, whose authority is very great on such matters, believe that (quite independently of questions of English law) the deposition is uncanonicaL Simulta neously with the consecration of a new bishop, these statements of the Bishop of London will go out to the colony. Bishop Colenso and his supporters, therefore, will he able to proclaim that the episcopal invasion is con demned by some of the leading members of the English bench, and that in the opinion of these authorities the acts of the Bishop of Capetown and his subordinate are equally uncanonical and illegal. tinder such circumstances has the new bishop any reasonable prospect of success? If Mr. Blacrorie is still ready to go how is he to be conse crated ? The fact that the proposed consecration in Scot land was abandoned is a practical acknowledgment that it is at least doubtful whether the consecration is permissible by English law, and the Bishop of London points out that the royal mandate is legally required before a bishop can be consecrated in England. Those who place a church at his disposal, or who join with him in the ceremony, will equally reside: themselves liable to penalties. This whole sonic restriction of English law must be maintained. We cannot allow our churches to be converted into manufac tories for antagonistic bishops. It appears that Dr. Gray actually proposes to take the unprecedented step of conse crating the second bishop next Saturday. It is to be hoped that, for the sake of common propriety, he will at least wait until the chief authorities in church and state have been distinctly and publicly consulted. The Slandard cordially approves of the Bishop of Cape town's conduct, and is persuaded that Dr. Macrorie will enter upon his mission with the sympathy not only of churchmen but of all who value religious liberty. If Dr. Colenso founds 1115 claim to be a bishop upon the spiritual element, it is obvious that the power which conferred that element can hold it in abeyance, and the spiritual sentence of the Bishop of Capetown's court has that effect, and i n t e rpreted by the Anglican episcopate in that sense. If he relies, as he says he does, upon his letters patent, the proof that they are mere waste paper is supplied by the source whence they were issued. Church and state alike have thrown him overboard, and the solitary evidence that he is " Bishop of Natal" °waists in the payment of his salary. TAE ABTS.STNIAN ZINEMTION. The Times observes that whilst most of the Abyssinian difficulties anticipated seem to be either disappearing or diminishing as we advance, the money difficulty looks worse and worse. What we hare actually found is • , country which, compared with some of the regions of .04 North-Eastern and North-Western India, is perfectly Ala practicable, • population whose services as well as goodwill lem the can be bought for money, and an enemy in such straits 4 . 1 that it is a chance if we ever meet with him at all. It is m probable that, if we had but known originally as much as we know now, we might have saved half our preparations and a vast proportion of our expenditure. The result is so far unpleasant, no doubt, but it might be much worse. I° The " Abyssinian penny," the Times fears, will have to be I, multiplied, but the Abyssinian expo lition, as far as it can o yet discern, will cost us neither lives nor credit. to The Hero/d expects that Theodore will fight when fairly at bay, but the chances are that he will make but a feeble 19 stand, and as yet there is no probability of the cam paign being marked by either complicated or sustained operations. The P o et bids us prepare for a heavier taxation than we have been accustomed to for some time past. It is extremely doubtful whether the war can be concluded in much less than two years. The Star thinks the Cabinet must now be of opinion that it would have been better to send up to Theodore the presents we bought for him in exchange for the sum of 3,000 t. lie presented to Mr. Ramon, as is the custom of the country. That piece of obstinate unwisilom has landed us in frightful expense, and placed the nation in • posi tion from which it can only by soave lucky accident escape without disaster. lIISCILLANEOCS TOPICS. Thankful for small mercies, the Daily A ewe is inclined to seek a momentary respite from the apprehensions of wee which prevail in France, in observing that as yet Chassepois are wanting for more than eighty or ninety thousand men ; that the Emperor of the French is sixty years of age, and well aware that his military genius is fitter for the closet than the command in the field ; that among all hie marshals there is not even a Marmont, much lees a Moltke ; that the peace movement is advancing ; and that, without coalition, or secret treaties of alliance, all Europe will be found allied, by the forms of the common interests, against the first disturber of the general pesos. The Time places before its readers the broad issue in volved in the controversy which has been carried on in it. columns between Lord Hobart, who defecds the attitude of the American government in the case of the Alabama claims, and " Historicus," who defends the position taken by Lord Stanley, concluding by counselling the utmost patience and forbearance on the part of our government, but adding that at the same time it is not prepared to conned submission where submission, instead of promoting reconciliation, could only lower us in the eyes of the American nation. Assuredly, the Standard says, England will not lower her tone in reference to any threats that may be uttered. It thinks the Americans have little reason to be grateful to an advocate like Lord Hobart, who states, as a reason why we siarahl concede what they demand, that they are capable at permitting privet* war to be levied within their jurisdiction agmiest a nation with whom they remain at peace, by mat wits have no other home, no other foothold. *as they rd linen' American protection. Such a crime levities! gweesdowt in the history of nations. Diewatiag the welt of Mr. Train, the Telegraph enters Into a seakaanet of what it believes to hi the undoubted law of the ease. If, it says, an American in New York aide end mists la way way to get up a private war for the overthrow of the goverment of a foreign owastry,he coca mite en Mime balk agabot tie satuddipal law of that country and the law at MOM PATB3I7-011105 1101131711, SOUTH Kusnoffrox.— Millibar of whiten for the week sedan Jim. 18, 3,012„ Total number time theAsaing of the Mumma free daily (12th May, 1858),1M9 THE BISHOPRIC OF NATAL. The following letter has been addressed by the Bishop of London to the Bishop of Capetown : " Fulham Palace, Jan. 20. "My dear Lord,—l feel myself constrained b) a sense of duty, much against my inclination, to address your lord- Oily publicly on the subject of a letter which you sent to the newspapers last week. You announce. as I under stand you, that it is your intention forthwith to conse crate a new Bishop for NataL Had parliament or convoca tion been sitting ,I should have asked in my place for an answer to the following : " 1. Whether, considering the words of the 2Gth of George 111., cap. 84, and otber statutes, the law officers of I the crown, having been consulted by the government, have declared such consecration to be lawful? 2. If you are not • on the authority of the law officers of the crown, has a opinion been taken justify ing the step you propose, by whom has it been given, and what are its express terms? " 3. When and where is it proposed that the consecra tion is to take place, and who are to be the officiating bishops! " But neither parliament nor convocation is in session, and, as it seems there Is no time to lose, I take the only means open to me for asking you, before you proceed fur ther in this matter, to give a public answer to these ques tions. It was only last week that I learnt accidentally, but from the most undoubted authority, that you pro posed to hold the consecration on the 25th inst. and in Scotland. A vigorous protest against this prOceed ing has been made by persons who are among the moot a ttached members of the Scottish Episcopal Church. The Scottish plan is, I now learn, abandoned, and it is silted that on Saturday next you propoee to conseerate in England. Meanwhile, your brother bishops in England may well be thrown into great perplexity. We know not in which of our dioceses an act, which, to my the least, is of most doubtful legality, is to take place. We may read in the newspapers any morning that the thing has been already done, and we may be left in the disagreeable position of being called upon by others, as well as moved by our sense of public duty, to visit some of our clergy for taking part in proceedings contrary to the law of the church and realm ; when, had we been properly informed beforehand and the matter formally investigated, we might have pre vented them from committing themselves. I am sure you will see, my dear lord, that the church of England is entitled to a plain and immediate answer to the ons I have asked. You remember, from your recent questions presence I at the Lambeth conference, " 1. That the assembled bishops, under the direction of I the Archbishop of Canterbury, delllaerately abstained from affirming that Bishop Colenso's deposition was valid, either spiritually or in any other way. " 2. That at the adjourned meeting of the conference the report of the committee recommending the consecration of a new bishop was, by the wish of the Archbishop of Canterbury, as well as of the Bishops of Lincoln, Ely, Chester, and myself, with others, deliberately, not ap proved, but only received. " 3. That many of the English bishops, feeling strongly, like myself, how dangerous is the teaching of Bishop Colenso, still hold that his see is not vacant, since his de• position has been pronounced null and void in law by the • best courts of the realm. ' 4. That some also of our body, whose authority is very great in such matters, believe that (quite independently of questions of English law) the deposition is unoanonicaL " You will remember also, " 5. That, whereas the words of 26 George 111., cap. 84, declare that by the laws of this realm no person can be consecrated to the office of bishop without the royal autho rity—if any doubt exists as to the applicability of the words to your case—that consecration service which alone can be lawfully used within the church of England pre scribes that the royal mandate shall be produced before the consecration is proceeded with ; and, moreover, the bishop elect is called upon to declare in the face of the congrega tion that he is persuaded be is truly called to his ministra tion in the office of a bishop, not only according to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, but also according to the order of this ream.' To many it seems inconceivable that any man will be found to make this solemn declaration, in the midst et all these doubts, before the legality of hie consecration ' has been publicly established by some competent authority. Under these circumstances I venture to call upon you, my dear lord, not to go further without the most pe rfect openness and the most complete examination by the autho rities of church and state as to the legality and propriety of what you are doing. You surely will allow that you ought not otherwise to proceed to a step which must be fraught with the gravest consequences for the church, both at home and in the colonies, and for which certainly there is no precedent since the schism of the non-jurors. Let me remind you that what I ask implies no long delay as to the authoritative settlement of whether or no you are right in your view of your duty. Parliament and convo cation both meet early next month, and it surely would be unbecoming, in the face of statutes and of ecclesiastical precedent, to hurry on this step . before either authority has had an opportunity of expressing its opinion. " Believe me to be, my dear lord. " Yours very faithfully, " The Lord Bishop of Capetown." "A. C. LONDON. Mr. John Francis Barnett announces that he will give a grand orchestral and choral concert, at St. James's hall, on Tuesday evening, the 11th proximo, when will be performed, for the Ant time in London , cantata if " The Ancient Mariner," composed expressly for and pro duced at the Birmingham Musical Festival, 1867. There will be a band and chorus of upwards of 310 performers, conducted by the composer. The of Doria (from the Sen Carlo, of Naples) will make their first appearance in England at this concert, and the solo pianist will he Ma dame Arabella Goddard. Tax BorLs Lscrrour.stur The Rev. Stanley Loathes, M.A., of Jesus Coll ge, Cambridge, Professor of Hebrew in Xing's College, .04 who has been appointed by the Duke of Devonshire. on the recommendation of the Bishop of London. Boyle Lecturer for the ensuing year, will 00111DADC• a scores of lectures in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, is Um mou th of May. The lecturer has to " preach eight sensoss in the year for proving the Christian religion agaiast notorious vh., atheists, theists, pagans, Jews, aied Mehometana, not descending buret to any costroversies that are amongst Christians themselves." Rirrinsuiorr or PAZLIAMMITARY Con trasa.— TWO of the ladies sienbsn st Or bar have retired from eery practice—via., Mr. Berjeuit Ballads, and )ftnwoue Dzsarrsausrici.—Ro further trace has distsverod al the Bev. B. Spate, of Dudish, tits late °speak *paha, the Aldan implorer. He loft limissesr stades for Lenden en Wedissed= As Sibs psalms it alstadissi es the middies et • As bs uresrpse la au 1 Wilgiaalb lbw els 12 was called Mr reseimiliss. sad ergebially lb* tiNesikell were set to work. They med WM sliest fakes she Widessdaystistses ea se pusiband • be la Werwiskaarse, bet with hi. silt frees Or batter's lisp WI 041, al the =Wag spatissia is but Advert. limessais la tbs Landis glacier 1011. rewariLhave ety~dere resposiso. • is about 35E= age, et ~is bail& sad ell segistbrisd with bed mell•Mis w. ..= the Logos, 11 is yet bops* may be saessisful.—Xxster Game. DISTRESS IN EASTERS PRUSSIA. A letter from Dantxic says :—" The most horrible distress prevails in the towns and rand districts of this country, and if the state does not come to the aid of the populations, who are suffering from hunger, the greatest I calamities are to be feared. At Conite. Btu:kens, and Boehm the want is also terrible. Several manufacturers have increased the wages of their workmen and given em ployment to se many of the poor as they can occupy. But private charity is quite huralisient. Worlothope are being opened everywhere for women and children, who are fed and sheltered gratis. Every possible means of relieving the distress is being adopted." The Cologne Omen* mentions that the number of families in Eastern Prussia which require relief is 3,500, spread over 35 districts. Of this number of territorial divisions, 15 demand aid for six months, and 20 for half that period. The sanitary oommiesion of one of those communes has published a letter denying asesrtions made by the sonni-oliciel press to the effect that the distress ' was much exaggerated. " The misery," adds that wen t manieation, "is indescribable ; men, women, and chil i dna are huddled together completely destitute, In the ' forest, on litters of straw. Many are attacked with ; typhus fever, and the greater part are dying of hunger.' The Akhbar of Algiers says :—" In consequence of the &handset rain which has Wady fallen in Algeria, sensation around the capital has made =manse programa Beds and flowers are bursting forth with incredible rapi dity ; at bfastaphsgiunriour the greater port of the fruit tress ars in blown and ce others the fruit itself is =- ginning to be formed, and we lure eaten plans if • socemd growth perfectly ripe; and this in the month et &weary! But we East not boon too soon; the season Is en yet tensinnted, and sone =foremen soda= any near to destroy ter hopes of • ins steep." The Augsburg Gazette says :—" Count Chorinaki, wit* was arrested at Manias in cesesquese of the =den death of kis kas jest oedema thet his =stun, the BeISINNI illorryboalt, wee tie perpetrator et the oh= Tb' lager, however, who Is to prises at Theme, heater ileamily deeded all portielpaties in the ansedni, bet es the disehesiesa et her pseemoer laving bele shows le hos. ohs nehmen her gellt. 'The Midst iegsky is 'BB eon Itisubg, and the bun.= and his mistrese will shortly be knight to Vial at Meta sal Viso& reopeetively.• 101,000: I "I."' 10,270 13,125 .r . r+ ~ ` ~ ~, 1 C 48.. /I ,I24IiESS kliOk tram ova owx PARIS. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. Letters from Rome say that a court-martial has' assembled to try six non-commissioned officers of ' the Pontifical artillery, accused of a conspiracy against the Papal government and high treason against the person of Pius IX. It is stated that the armaments at Toulon, An tibes, and Villefranche are completely terminated. Count de Goltz is better ; he has been out twice in his carriage. The symptoms which occasioned some uneasiness immediately after the severe operation he underwent have entirely disappeared. Count de %entry is about to publish at Brus sels a sequel to his articles on Mexico, too highly seasoned for the Revue Contemporaine, or, indeed, any Paris printer. The title will be " Sons of i Machiavel in the Nineteenth Century," and we are 1 promised correspondence from no less than four ' sovereigns on the subject of Mexico. A pamphlet on Maximilian is about to appear at Vienna from the pen of M. Leffivre, formerly a diplomatic agent of Juarez in London. The writer combats Count de Keratry's attempt to whitewash Maximilian's memory from the personal responsibility of having ordered the summary execution of all Juarist prisoners of war. It is also announced to contain an unpub lished letter from Maximilian to General Miramun, dated Feb. 5, 1867, anticipating the case of Juarez and four of his ministers being taken, and ordering them to be shot. . _ . It is said—but as the news must evidently come • • from the masters A cannot be implicitly relied upon —that all but a very few pupils of Saint Barbs, having made the required apology for their insub ordination, have returned to their studies. It is very positively stated that M. Carvalho, the manager of the Thßitre Lyrique on the Place du ChAtelet, finding that the rent paid to the city of Paris absorbs most of his profits, has made an arrangement with M. Bagier, of the Italian Opera, to transport the Lyrique company there and play on the off nights. A pamphlet, entitled " An election in the Grand Duchy of Gerolatein," has just been seized at Dentu's. The author's name is Reynold. It gives a narrative of a supposed election in the fabulous German principality whose history was illustrated at the Tlniattre des Varidttis by Kunio. Schneider, to the great delectation of many foreign sovereigns last summer, and the picture too greatly resembles an election worked by a French army of func tionaries to be tolerated by M. Pinard. M. de Itemusat, the opposition candidate for the council-general in a canton of Toulouse, has been defeated after a sharp contest. I hear that the new opposition deputy, M. Houssard, will be allowed to take his seat with out opposition, but that the committee on M. d'Estourmers election will propose to quash it on the ground of " treating." It is threatened that some old generals who intend to take technical objections to the Army Bill in the Senate will retard the sanction of the measure by that illustrious body for some days later than was expected. At the Bourse the Route, after some fluctua tions, closed a shade lower than on Saturday. Most other securities were higher. Italian rose 40c. ; Mobile and Credit Foncior, sfr. each ; and Comptoir d'Escompte, 3fr. 75c. There is still great uncertainty about the amount of the forthcoming loan and the period of its issue. Speculators for the riso cherish the hope that prolonged debates in the Senate on the Army Bill may put it off till after the next settlement day. 1001 THE SEARCH FOE DR. LIVINGSTONE. Captain Faulkner, who proceeded with Captain Young as a volunteer on the Livingstone slushing cape didec, has furnished the following interesting particulars of the successful search afterthe traces of the distinguished explorer. The expedition left Simon's Town in the middle of July. In Dr. Kirk's amount of the circumstances con. seeded with the reported death of Dr. Livingstone it was said that the latter, having crossed the north end of Lake Nyassie passed through villages named Makarta, and subsequently Matarka, llaponda, Marengo, and Maksowa. The searching party having reached Lake Nyaasa were driven by • gale into • small bay, where they found • native who reported to them that a white man, about eight or ten months previously, bad been there. Captain Faulkner and the rest of the ex pedition feared at first that the news war too good to be true, and it was resolved to endeavour to reach a point higher up, at which there was an Arab messing-place, near Mont Mombo, a point about twenty miles from the spot at which the boat was anchored. In carrying this intention into effect, they fell in with a large party of native fishermen, and on communicating with them re ceived • similar account to that which had been previously given them. These people described the dress and appearance of the " white man," which tallied pretty closely with those of Dr. Livingstone. These mum having been shown some surveying instruments, appeared to recognise and to understand the use of them. One of them produced a spoon, and a second a knife, which they had received as presents from Dr. Livingstone. As a further test, Captain Faulkner exhibited a cue of photograpbs, and without any hesita te= that of Dr. Livingstone was recognised as the picture f the white man. This gave the searching party increased confidence, and they proceeded on to the crossing.plece. On arriving there the same story was repeated, with the addition that the white man hail endeavoured to cress 'the lake, but finding all the boats were on the opposite side he went towards the south, and passed through the villages already named. The searching party then sailed across the lake, but obtaining no information, made for the south. They shortly afterwards came ecru* a large village, and here the same story was repeated. It is known that Marone, the chief of the village of that name, was extremely civil to Livingstone, and so he was found to be by those in search of him. It appears he had ferried Dr. Livingstone across a lake forming an indents. Lion in the banks of Nyasse, which he might have circled on foot at the cost of a detour. Marengo gave the search. tug party every information in his possession, and pre. tented them with • very acceptable supply of fresh pro. visions. It will be remembered that it was at this point that the Johanna men abandoned Livingstone. While Livingstone went across the marsh, the natives skirted the margin, and on returning to the village repotted they were being led into a hostile country, and at once made their way for the seaboard. The last pleas named by Dr. Kirk, Maksowa, was two days' journey from Marengo.. The chief of this vilLege had been driven away, but a number of his men were col• jested who had been employed to °muff the baggage of Dr. Livingstone twenty utiles further in a 110Ith• westerly direction. Both Captain Faulkner and Mr. Young regarded the information as conclusive, but, with a view of discovering the position of Nepenthes settle mene, they proceeded on a little further. The village was found about a mile from the mouth of the Shire. Ma. panda was away from the village on a trading expedition, but his mother, who was at home, informed the party that Dr. Livingstone hail passed through there, and that some of his party snbsequeutly returned. Th' mother of the chief further produced a l'rej er book containing the name of one of the Doctor's followers, who had been left behind on account of lameness. The Johanna men hail represented this boy, who was named Waikatanee, as having deserted. It appears that at this time the boy was absent with the chief, so that the exploring party had no opportunity of a personal interview with him. The evidence which hail been obtained at so many different points, and from such a number of witnesses, satisfied Mr. Young that the object they had in view had been obtained, and, acting upon the instructions issued to them, they resolved to return. There appeared not the slightest reason to doubt the substantial correctness of the information they had obtained, that Livingstone had passed safely through the meet dangerous portion of his journey, and had made good his advance into the interior, with an apparent inten tion of descending the Nile into Egypt. They accord ingly descended the Shire, and in due time met with Use Peters!, and returned to Simons Town. Another account says : l'p to a point on the Ruvuma River, at about 11 degrees south, seems to have been the latest previous reliable account of the movements of the greet traveller. From there, according to the statements of Dr. Kirk, grounded on the report of the Johanna men, it was understood that Dr. Livingstone hail made • track across the country vii Mataka, klakata, Marenga to Maumee, in about 10. X. S. along the north side of Lake Nyszza from about deg. to 34 nun. east, with the view of testing the extent north ward of that vast sheet of water. On arriving at the point on the Ruvuma River from which Dr. Livingstone started, the expedition discovered that for someat present unknown reason he abandoned entirely this presumed route, end proceeded in • southerly direction round the south end of Lake Nyasa, reaching on this route se far as Mamma, 14.101 degas south. Then turning and proceeding apps , rently in a north-west direction, either with the object of ' examining the west side of Lake Nyazza, and thus learn , ing its extent northward, and then proceeding to Lake Tanganyika or proceeding direct to Tanguyika, and thus does, the Nile to Egypt. The Mateka, Mekats, Marengo, and Mnicsura of the Johanna men were found to be along this southerly route. The expedition traced Dr. Livingstone to Maksura, near which spot it was alleged that he was murdered. This Maksura weelfound to be in 14.18 deg. south, and one of the first stations through which Dr. Livingstone had passed on his turning north ward after palming along the south side of Nyazza. The Johanna men reported that the doctor had been ferried acmes • marshy lake at M.arengs by the chief, and that at a short distance beyond the next station, Nakuru he was murdered. The expedition found the filet part of this story correct, but that it ter minated with a very dif ferent result. The doctor and his " boys," the native lads educated at Bombay, were ferried across this lake by the chief Marine, but that the Johanna men were sent a detour round the shores of the lake, to join the doctor and his party on the other side. Next day the Johanna men, with Moose at their head, returned to Marenga, and on their being questioued why they did so they told the chief that they had made up their minds to desert Dr. Livingstone and return to the coast, because be was bringing them into a country where they were sure to be murdered by the Mavite. The expedition then, by i n t e rviews with natives who had acted as porters for the doctor, assured themselves of his having proaseded five days' j ou rney further, or between fifty and s ixty miks beyond the spot where the murder was re ported to have taken place. From the utter ignorance of the natives in deseribing the bearing of any route that involves more than one immediate direction the members of the expedition were unable to ascertain the exact bearing of the route the doctor had gone, and the question was thus left open as to whether be was gone along parallel with the western shore of ertainNyeual or gone direct to TILO6IIIyikIL Having aeced thus much the expedition returned to the coast. The object of the expedition having been ascertained, Captain Fullmer left it at the Parnalombe Lake, and walked down to the mouth of the Zambezi, the other members of the expedition going down in their boat. Along his route Captain Faulkner undertook several exploratory excursions along the Rivi Rivi river, across to the Lesungive river, down to the Shire again, by the Makuruinadzi, down the Shire to 31.rue:hells, and finally down to the Kongoni mouth of the Zam bezi, these excursions being taken for the purpose of visiting the generally unexplored country Along these tracks, and for sporting. In the latter object the captain was unoommouly successful, the district abounding with fine elephant, buffalo, and antelope shooting, besides swarming with lesser game. The members of the expedi tion were brought down from the Zambezi by MILS. BACON), that arrived in Simon ' s Bay only the day before the Celt sailed for England. The SU:de says that when the officers of tho Guards Nobile of the Pope went lattly to offer their homage to Pius IX., his Holiness said :—" I thank you, gentlemen, for the fidelity and zeal which you have testified towards me during recent events, with the exception of one among you who in that time of trial remained away from us, in person and in mind." The only member of the Ouargla Nobile who was absent during recent events, and who had passed the months of October and November at Florence, was the Marquis Bourbon del Monte. This , nobleman, immediately after the audience, forwarded to the Pope his commission as °Mom and his epaulettes. Herr Ullmann is about to start on a tour through out the South of From*, with his band of wandering minstrels. In addition to Carlotta Patti, Vieuxtemps, and Godefroy, be has engaged the services of Seligman, the Parisian violoncellist. The Paris papers give the news of Sivori's return to Paris after his long ramblings through foreign parts. The Epoque states that M. Louis Blanc will be brought forward by a number of liberals as a candidate for Marseilles at the next general election. Galignani says: " The ' Chanteuse Masqude: sang at the IXjazet Theatre as promised last week. Her claims upon public favour repose mainly upon the poignard in her girdle end the mask upon her face. Other attractions may perhaps lurk beneath this highwayman-artist attire, bat she sings no better, though perhaps not quite so well, as many unprofessional and unmasked, undaggered ladies who warble in our salons." The Cologne Gazette thus concludes an article on the press prosecution in Dublin Happy country ! where there has been only one press trial for many years, and that only in • place in which, if Prussia bad ruled, a state of siege would have been declared long ago, and all journals preaching insurrection would have been sup pressed. We need hardly say that confiscations by the piles of newspapers and books are as much unknown in the Vatted Kingdom as wolves and bears, and it is indeed evident to the meanest understanding that real freedom et tbs pies, or anything that bears the meet distant like ness to that noble boon, can nowhere exist side by side wish the unrestricted right of confiscation. When shall we learn the truth in this matter from the country of hewnitary political wisdom ?" The civil list of the Sing of Italy has just been nedneed by four millions of francs for the present year. A charter for a new kind of insurance company has been obtained from the New York legislature. It is to be a " Horomopathie Mutual Life Insurance Company," and its peculiarity is that the lives of tholes who adopt the Itensmopathie treatment of diseases are to be insured at " Indieiously reduced rates" in comparison with those who adhere to the allopathic system. The capital stock is to he 100 , 000 dole ., and subscribers are guaranteed 7 per ant. annually in gold. The old school of medicine will garishly get up a rival concern. A letter from Calcutta says :—" The Christmas holidays ere at heed, end Cab:tate was never so gay. A really respectable Italian opera and ballet company delight the demos in a pretty little theatre is Lindsay-street. iceroy has maenad Lewis's Theatre on the plain, w The her V e an Australian company sat farces well and murder I At Orenburg, on the borders of Turkistan, a faithless:mare. A band of • Repo' minetrels entertain the Russian military school has been established for 200 pupils, coloured pert of the Christian midgets. Bags an d 120 of whom are to be selected from the sons of Tartar and drawing-rams animate at Govarenicatdioeso and the Kirgbls chiefs lasatenant.Oommor's, and the lee new Bailees' Home is An unbroken railway communication is now open shoat to be opened with •• ball." from the Atlantic seaboard to the Rocky Mountains, • Abbe Cambalot has discovered a ready means of distance of more than 2,000 miss. The line passes over gettfag rid of Fenianism, and thus reveals it to K. Louis she Mississippi and Missouri rivers on bridges—at Rock Violist :--" TM Queen aad the parliament af 'lnland, Island on the former, sad at Omaha on the latter—in that, in imam reecana, like Obademagee, to impiraMests if umewarr. the entire journey can h• performed in the of thy Heft fightt," writes the alls 6, "wadi gad es ha same carriages. soolssidesisolagiselsahm, sad el meesrvhig The famous spectacular play of the Black Crook, ,Ikihogess at the see• • sail the posessiba el India fhb which has had such great access at the Winter memo mei lee dhle 11. to wawa ever sad Garden Theatre, New York, err performed far the Are listless. la IL Pia% d! Lanka. sad le maid= lest time as January 4. It has been run to • oon. HMO. toloriledi• HMI likwhisk the &dative alitatioa af slant maiession of crowded booms far the last 14 months. t4a. work al Hoary ;te restore en the ruins and during that period, fens 475 perfarmanow. tb• eLieglielahn phe letalhed satinwity that supreme zasnagemset rewired 760.0e0 dela, upon whisk they 'away, eveggheblhllliergelkedir POWS ow paid 15,000 dila. tor to the goverment Another seer feels, ogled the White Pawn, is to moose& it January 13. sessor." LSI meted* \'• 14-E• r „ i d al . stSr a , , e romp was salt t h is .14,1"tiPt , ow wh man wh. iieeret the rtirem , LOP 11 in t ben 0 day wb' and 0, .iation e some no his n at PETRIE , 4 suppli Seer, e dial e defe ' plain • re, efend ltnra P e e h u s l i Its wit . dant, olier, At then Pec an • esrtait bands • they for th Ititnat ant cl questi such j, tor it teil 1 ditZ o platni ,cont will lii anotl betW he at • tile r b olil • I etc SDI . I • .00 z,li non Lis ting, men lr. he r ~.. I t I ege , ow oi