The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-28 00:00:00

;\ :OA S PAPER e 2440 01 • . 11 _ a , ci• - - s a Li dxu I , llj . - 1 _... „ C. - LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28. 1867. No. 6,675.3 [STAMPED, 1L [TWOPENCE ♦NE. —The LIVERPOOL, NEW j. I °KN. kid Pll ILA DELPIIIA STEAM-8111P COMPANY Intend despatchlig their full-powered Clyde-balit bon screw staudships, caning the United Mates Malls, calling at Queens town, Ireland, en the b.lh.ssing day, to take on board pommies aid despatch. h and a ith liberty to call at an thtiamsthate sort. ceidu passace by the anal steamers sidling every Wednesday, : 7 . end 21 guineas, according lathe accommodation. Forward ° sage includes a hill supply of cooked proviatona Passengers for Canada and the Coned Ntates tanked through on very &Sven t,n,s —For further particulars apply to WILLIAM c o/ W tter-.1.t.t.t. Liverpuul ; said to KIVM and =Chic SI, buns is'Onatnetreet. Leaden. ommIARD LINE.—BRITISH sad NORTH VAIERICAN ROYAL MAIL MANI SHIM appointed DY De Admiralty to sail between LIVERPOOL and NEW YORK , atuelay. The tor owing or other vowels Is aminted to sad trOin Liverpool "Mon at Cork to receive the mail: rut.' t. for N EW YORK, Saturday, December 2S. passare.mury. including steward's Yes and provialoas. t without slue. or Uyuori To New York, chief cabth, A. 31 ; second c ol a. a ;23, —Apply to J. IL Yount, Si, Old Broadthreet, London; Bums and Slicker. Ilsuro. and 12, Place de la bonne, Paris; O. and J. Barna. 30. Jamaicaatreet. Glasgow, and Baltic-street. Dun.lee ; D. and C. Mrelver, Queenstown; or a mod C. Masher, WateestreaL Liverpool. METROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. EXTRA TRAINS between the City, Ginaa-eroes, Gower-street, P.rilaud.road ,for Regent .circus Rakeratreet, Paddington, Kensington far Crystal Palace and Weal London line'. Ham merunith, Sh•pberd's-bush. Notting-hill, and Weithourne-park. lantudatxa fl et the trains at Portland-road for Regent-circua. THE GUARDIAN FIRE and LIFE AS4f RANCE COMPANY. ligabllshed lat. No. 11, lumbardetriset. Loudon, R.C. subscribed Capital Two Millions. Total Invested Funds upwards of £2,760,000. Total income upwards of 020,000. NOTICE IS II t. I t EN. that FIRE POLICIES which 'Swim at RISTSI As must be RENEWED within fifteen days at this WM,. or •it is the 'company's Agents throughout the thicdoni, othrrwlse tin.) become void. AU insurances iu , W base the benefit of the Reduced Duty of Is. osi• per rent. For Prospmtus and other Information apply to the Company's Meets, er to T. TALLEMACII, Secretary. TO -NIGHT, TO-NIGHT, TO-NIGHT. OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. sATt !WAY. December tsl,llo7.—An the NRW CHRIST MAS ENTARTAIN SI K.% IS, surpassing In novelty and splendour ern the nawit successful tfforts of former - years, will be repre sented for the fifth time TO-NIGHT (Saturday), Dec. fig, and eve* evening during the week. ANEWCOMIC BALLET, introducing peculiar effects, and supported by MM. annban end Wards. from the 'Theatre de la Porta. St. Martha. and Mr. F. Evans. called X. X. X., or 0011(HBUSTER and TUB HAPPY 111SH1L8. Daiwa by Milano. scenery by W. Calkott, and murk by Sidon.— 1118 BAY, Dec. 28, 11161.—ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. A NEW GRAND SPECTACULAR BALLET 4 11.11. and TRANSVORSIATION SCENE, caned the GOLDEN nous. The scenery invented, painted, and constructed by Wr. William Want, the Dances by Milano, the Music by Riviera, supported by a double company of dancers and tigurantee. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, THIS DAY, Dec. SM, ROYAL ALRAMBRA PALACE. (Managing Director, Mr. Y. Strange.) Three Ballets, MO Noon; 00 Instrumentalists, Singers, Acrobats, Mimics; Pic tures, Latest Telegnuns, Saloom, .-rooms, Lavatories, Stookinprooma, Evening Papers; 10 Orobsetesl Pieces Byer/ Night. Open at Halt.past Seven, begin at Eight. Prime—lL, Ss , and 6d. ; Reserved Beats, 41. ; Private BOLA. from Li Ls. Box-office open from Eleven to Pow. A LL the CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. THIS DAT. Dee. tB, 11167. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACZ. MORNING PERFORMANGL-THIS DAY, at Two o'clock. ROYAL ALIIAMBRA PALACR. Prices:—Area, Promenade, ai d That Balcony, h. ; Stalls, 3s. ; Reserved Beata, o A iew Private Boxes. Scats may be booked at the Box.ottice bctween Eleven and Four. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High notbarn.—The most spacious and brilllantly-decore Ball Room, and the best Rand In London. OPEN for CONCRRT and DANCISti ZVIIItY BrittilNO. Madrid Director, Yr. W. N. Packer. Opts at half -, oat 8; dose as 12. Adslattan. throughout. U. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. This celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN PRIZE SIKDAL —lt Is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, sad very wholesome. bold In conies, 3s. bd. such, at the retail houses in London : by the agents In the princlpel towns In England or wholesale at 8, Great Viindrnilletreet, London, W.—Observe the red seal, pink label, and cork branded "Unahan's LL Whisky.' BARLOW'S PATENT CASK STAND, a new invention, so admirably contrived that a fill butt, as well r railer casts. may be raised or tilted on It without labour or trouble ha action is an Impalpable that the sediment of the most limpid fluid by no pondWity can be disturbed. Price Is. 31,. lia, to suit 41, ii, and II gallon cur. BARLOW'S SELF-ACTING SYPHON TAP. No vent-peg required. No more Rat beer or sour wins. Pito* : ditto, electroplated, Ou —A ly direct to JA.11138 BARLOW, patentee, 14, Kinged. W Manakin-hour. Bee that Ids name sod address are an every article; all others an spurious imitations. Carringe pair istablithed tar npo HOTEL KEEPERS and large CONSUMERS. 1 The House In Loudon for POULTRY, GAME, lad all binds of D Y PR9DUCE. Wiltshire Bacon, by Me or haltelde Good family Cheese 7d. to per lb. Nee (helium Cheese, par lb. Port, Poultry, aad Game are Dow very cheep. w. sad J. I TAYLOR'S. aS, Little Pulteeseystreet,Gadden square. Established Halt a Century. BROWN BROTHERS.-PATENT CHAIRS sad COUCHES, Barrack Foraßark Trunks, IVESIMP idea; &a., at PRICES CONSIDERABLY REDUCED. ISA PICCADILLY. Catalogues tree. CNDLES.—If you do not want your candles exclusively for show, but with pleasantness of appearance require excellence of burning, buy " PRICES GOLD MEDAL PALSIITINE," or their " "Sherwood Palmitin'," or their good oldtashioned " liehnout perm," or "Belmont Wax," or their "Best," "No. 2,* "No. 3," or "Battens*" Composite, in prefer ence to the finest, and moat tranaparent Paraffine Candles Bat If you must have the extreme transparency of pure Panama.. " Prices Paradise" or their " BolmonUne" will give it to you in perfection and at a more moderate price than is usually charged for any other really first.class Paraffin" Candles. The new toilet wan PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE," eontaining half its weight of their concentrated distilled Glyce rine, should be In general use In every house before the winter *owes on, because of Its admirable effects In preventing chapping of the hands and face. lu every house there ought also to be one of the sealed bottles of their concentrated instilled Cibco rine lames everywhere as " Prices Glycerine," and prescribed *the most eminent medical men abroad as well as at home, sense one only Glycerine for medicinal lass whether externally or internally. PRICE'S FANCY SOAPS of the different sorts usually made are excellent, mid cotnniand a constantly Increasing sale. The "Solidified Glycerine" spoken of shoes le, however, the one fi!ctsoap to use RICES NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS," for burning in the wide glasses, are Inhered to be the very best night lights made. "Prices Childs* Night Lights," for burning without glasses, and their eifferet t sorts of Chamber Candles" are so Waist here. irdithelns. mid so generally used and appeociatod as not to need off notice CArLF.S.—A Hint to Purchaser,.—Do not ake sure that you know what price you are paying per =ld for your candles until you have stripped them and put hi the scale. Sonic can d les are right weight without the w i L e tsPers, some with moderately thick wrappers, some with very and tome are not nearly _riSht weight with WI thick. raters "GOLD MEDAL PALMI TIN "Sherwood Paindtine," "Belmont Sperm," and " Bel mont Wax," "et, " No. 1,," " No. A" aud " Batten's" Composins, " Pt e' s ParaMso," and " Belmontine," and all the other eandln of Price's Patent Candle Company ;Limited), me full weight without tile wrapper LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an effectual remedy, without confining the bowels or alf"ing the head. truly efficacious and pleasant. Is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, conarmed cases of &Abuse, and incipient consumption. it Ire- Intently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent co La approaching oonsumptiou its effects are truly ben= Tenons del riled of sleep, or even lying down for fear of =flocs. 1100 . mar depend on relief in a few minute. after taking it.— ` spared only and *old by W. LAMBERT, ebonite; 8, King WO ffinafftreet, Clinutt-croes, London, and by all druggists, in 1.30 „ and thn,e mantillas in one, 9d. Be particular Sad mk for Land out's Asthmeils Belem. The save end addrem an ORMIMIMI oo the stamp. VOD LIVER OIL. 7 . ! MB CuN31.1117 lON, BRONCHLILL 11179CTIONB, C 0 D LIVICR FOR DEBILITY. O I L COD LIVEN 0I L. PAL:: NEWFOUNDLAND. Testissosisis ss to its purity sad geaIIiDOOSIS biers beta re Weld trus s ttw following eminent physicians .—Protessor Taylor, Nr.b , dc. de , Dr. srotl, M.D., LEA P., P. Lit, Re., Dr. Edwin Payne, !I U., L k.O de., Re. Just Imported by . NEATING sad ro., St. Paul's Churchysri, In Imperial halt iblts la ad. plots A , Ai., quarts s., flys pints ALL WHO SUFFER from INDIGESTION should nas NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILL& Sold tprywhero . Bottles, Is. led., ts. ad., sad lbs. IPtILIOU- $ and Liver Complaints, Indigo:dont Sick Ifeadaate, We of Appetite. Drowsiness, °Mangan, and all Menders of the Stomach and Bowels. ar•Whick l 7 ...wet by that well-known remedy, YRAIIPTON'S PILL OF 111ALTR. Most cute TheY Waite the recouguentLitleu of a mild opandke wltit tie essful effect : and where as •aPeribut "Vdred ton be b k tt er adapted. sold by medicine wooden. M s = OW 2 1 ed. pat ho; or Waited thavegh Raj &Ink& CHRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S GIFTS for all who court the gay and festive scenes.— RoWLAN DS' MACASSAR OIL, a preserver and basattifyee of the hair beyond all precedent. Rowlands' Kalydor, tor impart ing a radiant bloom to the complexion and a softness and deli cacy to the hands, arms, and neck. Rowlands' fhlonto, or Pearl Dentifrice, for giving a pearl like whiteness to the teeth, and fra grance to the breath. The patronage of royalty throughout Europe, their general use by rank and fashion, and the univer sally known efikacy of these articles, give them a celebrity un paralleled.—Sold by ehendats and perfumers.—Aak fur"Row lands' articles. 11_11 - ANOVEHSQUARE. The CHRISTMAS i:CTRA NUNIBEFt, containing 60 pages of entirely new Dance Monk, is NOW READY, and to be bad of every Music seller and Bookseller, and at every Railway Station in Great Britain and Ireland. CONTT. . K allow Valais ArdltL Maria, Polka Bawls' Gould. B L'Aticie n lush lime W alt z Quadrille mold Preach airs, I leu G ryW.Goodban. Che ? .TitTY' zintamlz?* Oa~oy .. Chas. do Yarßrea Pries One Minting. Loadon : Ashdown and Parry, lisnoveraquare. HANOVER-SQUARE: The New Magazine of Sleek_ untied by LINDSAY SLOPS& Price Owe Shilling. The JAN UA/tY NUMBER la new ready. It contains a new pianoforte piece, by &nee* Pacer. HANOVER-SQUARE for JANUARY is now ready. It contains a new song, by I. L Hatton. HANOVER-SQUARE for JANUARY contains • new briltlane yaw, by Belnlay Ilebards. H ANOVER-S Q UARE for JANUARY contains a mew song, by Alexander Reichardt. London : Ashdown and Parry, Hanover-square. THE FOREIGN MAIL& THE HEAVY BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 27.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, with the above mail, arrived this evening. She brings 47 passengers, speeie 10,71 W., and a general cargo, including 2,270 sacks wheat. DESPATCH OF BOMBAY MAILS. —SOUTHAMPTON, Dcc. 27.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Tanjore, Captain Brooks, sailed this afternoon with niails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, Bombay, &c. She took out 49 passengers, and on freight a general cargo, including watches, gold thread, Sic. 3271. 125., and gold medals 2101. SPECIAL PREACHIBE AT ST. PAITL'IL --Jan. 5, the Right Rev. the Bishop of Tennessee; Jan. 12, the Rev. James Dloorhouse, M.A., incumbent of the parish church, Paddington; Jan. 19, Very Rev. Dr. Boyd, dean of Exeter; Jan. 26, Rev. William M. Falloon, M.A., incumbent of St. Bride's, Liverpool. WELCOME TO TEE REV. NEWMAN HALL, LL.B. —A public meeting was held last night in Surrey Chapel, to give • welcome to the Rev. Newman Hall LLB., on his return from America. Mr. J. Moreland occu pied the chair. The chapel was crowded. Several of the leading members of the congregation delivered speeches, and an address of welcome was read by Mr. Webb. The chairman then presented Mr. Hall with • 590/. Bank of England note, as a Christmas-box from the attendants at the chapel. In responee Mr. Hall gave a sketch of his recent tour in the United States. Three universities had conferred the title of Dr. upon him, but in England be preferred remaining plain Newman Hall. At private interviews with the President, Mr. Seward, and other statesmen, he spoke of the good feeling which was entertained towards America by the middle and working classes in England. One object of his visit was to collect funds towards the erection of • new church. Towards this there was • aim of 500/. already in the hands of some gen tlemen at New York, and that would go towards the erec tion of a Lincoln memorial tower to the building. In Canada he had also been presented with a sum of 501. 12s. towards a memorial window. The proceedings terminated with the singing of the national anthem. CHRISTY; 8 DINNER TO HOMELESS AND DEB - erring Cnitraimm—Yeeterday about 500 homeless and destitute children were provided with a substantial dinner at the refuge in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, which has nog been known in connexion with the move ment set on foot by the Earl of Shaftesbury, with the view of rescuing poor friendless children from street contamina tion and rendering them law-abiding and useful members of society. Several friends and supporter of this charity were present, and contributed to the happiness and com fort of the little ones by the cheerfulness with which they undertook and performed the task of distributing the edibles. A large number of the children were ordinary inmates of the institution, but by far the greater portion consisted of uncared-for orphans and boys and girl* who had been removed from the squalid misery of the wretched courts and alleys of the metropolis to enjoy a treat, to which they would other wise have been total strangers. Mr. Williams, the secretary, the Reverend W. Brock, the Reverend Mr. M'Cree, and others were most active in attending to the arrange ments. The society, to use Mr. Williams's words, pro poses to " clear the 'trees' of London of poor homeless and deserted children," and afterwards to teach them trades in the refuges, and to make them acquainted with agricul tural pursuits at the farm recently purchased by the society, and train them up as sailors in the Chichester. During the put year 230 boys have been received, and within the past month alone 60 boys have been taken in. There are 150 inmates in the refuge at Great Queen-street at present, and it is stated that unless provision is afforded for the removal of 50 of them to the farm, the society will be obliged to shut the doors against future comers. Upwards of 4,0001. has been expended in the purchaae of the farm, and 5,0001. more is requited to complete the arrangements. It is intended to give dinners, similar to that provided for the children yesterday, twice a week until the end of February, should funds for the purpose be forthcoming. SOUTH LONDON WORKING MIN'S COLLEGE.— A college under the above title, on the model of the Working Men's College. Great Ormond-street, has just been established in the Blackfriars-raid. Professor Hux ley is the principal ; and among the members of the coun cil are Mr. T. S. Cobbold, M.D. F.R . B. ; Mr. Edward Easton, ; Professor Favramit, M.A., M.P. ' • Rev.W. T. Jones, M . A. ; Rev. J. F. Lingham, )I A. ; Sir John Lubbock, Ran., F.R.S. ; Mr. W. Rosaiter, secretary ; Professor Tyndall, LLD., F.R.S. ; Mr. John Westlake, M.A.. treasurer. The college is intended to offer to working men in South London an education of a sound and efficient character by means of clause in languages, 'mathematics, physical science, moral and social science, together with Jeanne on history, politics, he. There will be also, in connexion with the college, a night school (for men only), a dsyschool for boys and girls, and afternoon claws fur women. The college will consist of five classes of mem bers :-1. Ordinary students. 2. Certificated students : those who have gained at least one certifi cate in some subject, as Algebra, Latin, In. 3. Scholar@ : thane who have passed a satisfactory examination in one branch of study, as mathematics, physic. , dry. 4. Associates: those who have gained two certificates, and also passed a satisfactory examination in Bible history, English history, arithmetic, and English grammar. 5. The council, or governing body of the college. It is hoped that every alternate vacancy in the council may be filled by the election of an associate. The library will be open to members from 7 till 10, and the coffee room from 6 till 10, every evening, Sundays excepted. Members must be above 16 years of age, and must be able to read and write. Reading and writing are taught in the adult school attached to the college. The inaugural address will be given by Professor Huxley on Setu rda the 4th January, and on succeeding Saturdays there wilebe lectures by Pro fam J e Loathes, M.A., Mr. J. W. Hades, Mr..te .i .; Oswald, Mr. F. I'. Palgrave, Mr. T. Spencer F.R S., Rev. G. W. Druoe, M. A., and Mr. W. H. Flower, F. R.B. MR. BASS, M.P. AND THB LOCK-OUTS IN SOUTH Dennvantits.—A; our readers are aware, the hon. member for Derby, a short time since, endeavoured to bring to a close the struggle which has existed here since the let of March last, by trying to induce the masters to meet the lock-outs, or receive a deputation from them. The hon. member, however, failed in hie object, Mr. Faulkner, agent to the Earl of Chesterfield, refusing, on the part of the masters, to entertain the matter. The hon. gentleman then resolved to provide each person out of employment in the Church Greeley district with an allow ance of beef for Christmas. Three splendid beasts were purchased and slaughtered at Swadlincote, and on Tuesday these were distributed in the Market-hall, in quantities from Ilb. to Mb., to the lock-outs, according to the number of the family of each. From an eat ly hour in the morning until eight at night, six butchers were busily employed cutting it up. The distribution took place under the personal supervision of Major Lass, who remained until the last applicant bad been supplied. What remained after the lock-outs had been served was distributed on Christmas morning amongst the widows and aged poor of Newhall, Strad lincote, and Church Greeley. The total amount given away wee 2,3801ba To the lock-outs this was a great boon, many of whom, with their families, have not tasted flesh meat for months, and who, had it not been for Mr. Bass's kindness, would have been without at Christmas. The coals purchased in South Yorkshire for distribution amongst the lock-outs will also be a very seasonable gift ; many of the men have been suffering severely for want of fuel during the last few weeks. The lock.outa appear as determined as ever to oontinue the struggle. It is, we understand, the intention of the unionists, if they I triumph, to attempt to establish a union in the Leioarter shire oral dieities.—Siterield independent. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (RISERS'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. TT, Evmmia. In to-day's sitting of the Corps Legi slatif, M. ' Rouher spoke against the amendment of M. Lonvet, which, ho said, if adopted, would deprive the naval I reserve of 24,000 men, and the army of 60,000' men, in consequence of the clause permitting the marriage of men during the last two years of their belonging to the reserve. If the restrictions of the amendment were adopted, the effective strength of the army would notexceed that of the present moment, namely, 639,000 men ; but France wanted 800,000 men. The experience of the Crimean and of the Italian wars has sufficiently proved that the present effective strength of the army was not sufficient. A comparison (said M. Rouher) of the respective strength of the armies of Italy, of Austria, of Russia, and of the North German Confederation with that of France would demonstrate the im perious necessity of reorganising the military re-' sources of France. Entering into the details of M. Louvet's amendment, K Rouher said that one year's more service in the reserve would be less onerous to the population than an additional con tingent of 10,000 men, which would be the consequence of the adoption of the amendment. K Rouher concluded by asking the Chamber to reject the amendment. K Buffet spoke next, and supported the amendment. He said that France was not willing to be implicated in a war contrary to her inclinations. M. Calvet Roginat withdrew his amendment. On being put to the vote K Louvet's amendment was rejected by 177 votes against 81. The France of this evening says that according to the latest news from Flo rence General Menabrea will shortly succeed in forming a cabinet. Many members of the tiers parti are said not to be disinclined to rescind their vote which upset the ministry. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Dsc. 27. The Provincial Correspondenz of to-day, in an article reviewing the present position of the mo narchy, says that the year 1866 left behind it a great success, and a solution of a great and difficult question. The first care of the government was to remove internal disagreement. The restoration of confidence between the government and the Chamber had proved lasting, sincelit had not pro ceeded from the intoxication of victory, but from a recognition of, and devotion to, the interests 9f the country. No political or other difficulty now exists in the administration of the new provinces, and the new and enlarged Prussia is in every re spect firmly united and fully developed. ITALY. IFLORKNCE, Dac. 27, Bviernia. The new ministry is not yet constituted, but there is every probability that General Menabrea will shortly succeed in forming a cabinet. The portfolio of Finance has been offered to Signor Scialoja, and the Ministers of War, Public Instruc tion, and Marine will probably remain unchanged. The King will return to Florence before the end of the month. NAPLES, Esc. 27. The party of the extreme left propose making a great demonstration in honour of Signor Rattazzi this evening at the Theatre Fiorentini. Other political demonstrations in favour of Signor Rat tazzi have also been arranged, and the government have given strict orders for the maintenance of public order. ROME, Die. 27, Evisnma. To-day was the fête of the Pope. His Holiness, after attending mass in the Sistine Chapel, re ceived at the Vatican the congratulations of the sacred college, of the high court dignitaries, of the diplomatic corps, of the municipal authorities, and of the staff of the Pontifical army. His Holiness made a short allocution in reply. SPAIN. MADRID. Dix. 27. The Cortes was opened to-day by the Queen. In the speech from the throne her Majesty said that the Spanish government hadoffered to France both moral and malarial co-operation, in case it should be necessary to defend the lawful rights of the Pope. The government had received an invi tation to take part in the European conference to be held for the purpose of guaranteeing the Papal temporal power in a firm and legal manner, and without doubt Spain would accept the proposition of France. The financial question had been arranged. PORTUGAL. LISBON, DEC. 27. Some disturbances have taken place in the pro vinces in consequence of the recent administrative reforms. GREECE. MARSEILLES, Du. 27. Letters received here from Athens, December 18th, assert that the ministry have sent in their resignations. Despite the large majority of the opposition the King has charged M. Bulgaria to form a cabinet in which the different parties will be represented. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 19. Colonel Kennedy, C. 8., Assistant-Commissary General on service in Egypt in connection with the Abyssinian expedition, died here last night. CHINA. HONG KONG, Dec. 1. Continued stagnation prevails in the piece goods market, and trade in East Indian cotton is com pletely stopped. Total export of tea to date 80,000,0001b5. SHANGHAI, Nov. 25. Grey shirting', 6} catty 235 taela. Tea— Green well maintained. Silk unchanged. Settle ments in fortnight 2,600 bales. Export to date 35,750 bales. Exchange on London, 6s. old. Freights, 31. MULES Fos ABYMINIA.—The following is an extract from a letter just reoeived from Alexandria : " The detachment of the military train which has been stationed ►t Alexandria for the purpose of taking charge of the mules intended for Abyssinia, have sent forward 8,000 mules purchased in Spain, Syria, sad other countries bor dering on the Mediterranean. The finest animals were procured at Cyprus. The cost of conveyance from Alex andria to Suez alone amounts to 10,0001. The required number being complete, the °Mews and men return to Eng land. The offioers of the Commissariat Department remain Den for some time longer." AMERICA. (ET ATLANTIC TELZOIIAPH.) NEW YORK, Dec. 26. The Cunard steamers which left for Liverpool yesterday took out 1,000,000 dole. in specie, and the North German Lloyd steamer leaving :0-day for Southampton takes out likewise 1,000,000 dole. i RE1377215 TILEGILIM.) The Royal Mail steamship China, from Boston and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 12.15 p.m. yesterday, with 60 cabin passengers, 220,000 dols. in specie, and 2,5001. She landed 90 sacks mails and 9 passengers, and proceeded for Liver pool at 12.30 p.m.—all well. The China took on the Liverpool and Scotch mails. (Per Chinn, vit. Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Dec. 17, EVILNING. _ The House of Representatives has refused, by 83 to 55, to suspend the rules in order to receive a resolution offered by Mr. Ruler for payment of the public debt in currency except when specified to be slue in gold. A similar resolution is still beim) the Committee of Ways and Mesas. By a strict party vote of 111 to 32, the house has passed a resolution declaring that Congress will adhere to the Reconstruction Act, and censuring President Johnson for recommending its repeal. The full returns show a majority for,the Conven , Ulm in South Carolina. Governor Humphreys, of Mississippi, has issued a proclamation, announcing the general appre hension that the negroes in portions of Mississippi were forming conspiracies to seize forcibly upon lands unless they were distributed among them by Congress by the Ist January. The governor warns the negroes that no such distribution is possible, and that any conspiracy upon their part to seize lands will be discovered and frustrated. He urges upon the negroes to work and obey the laws, and calls upon the whites to accord the negroes all their rights. General OH has endorsed the proclamation. He has instructed General Gillem promptly to arrest any white men instigating the negroes to violence, and to aid the civil authorities to protect property and maintain order. A fight hna occurred between the whites and negroes at Albertson, Georgia, in which the sheriff was killed. I Great destitution prevails in Louisiana. It is reported that thousands are in danger of starvation. The negroes at Richmond are organising a grand reception for General Butler. It is reported that a fusion between the rival Fenian factions in America is being effected. Advices from Hayti state that the revolt is in creasing against President Salnave, who is accused of counterfeiting Haytian notes. I General Cabral, with a San Domingo force, is marching upon Hayti. It is reported that Basseterre and Guadeloupe have been burned. (FROM OUR SPECIAL COSSESPONDEET.) NNW YORK, Dsc. 14. Apart from politics, Mr. Dickens has thus far !proved the great sensation of the winter. In NeW York, where I have heard him, he has had crowded houses. Persons begin to assemble before the office where the tickets are sold as early as midnight, and stand through the winter's night, waiting, in order to be sure ' of getting places. The day broke yesterday on one • hundred and fifty persons standing in line, of whom a large proportion had been at their posts since the previous evening. Of course, here too large numbers of the tickets find their wayinto the hands of speculators, and are sold by them at ex tortionatc rates, and there is no conceivable way of preventing it. Even places in the line of appli ; cants are made the subject of speculation. Men occupied them in many cases long before day-break, merely for the purpose of " selling out" to later comers. Nevertheless, 1 have no doubt that for every dozen who obtain admission, a thousand are eager to hear him but cannot procure tickets in this way. The audiences are attentive, I think delighted, and mean to be cordial, but they are not warm in their manner. They give no sign of enthusiasm. A few rounds of applause when Mr. Dickens comes on the platform, a few in the course of the reading, but always measured and somewhat decorous ap plause, are all that are heard, not,l am sure, because there is not deep feeling, but because it is not the habit in this country of the kind of audiences whom Mr. Dickens draws together to express deep feeling. One sees the same coldness at the theatre and at the opera. The actor or singer is very lucky indeed if, no matter how great a favourite, or i how long absent, he is greeted on his re-appear ' &nee with more than a little decorous clapping. In fact, the only way in which I have ever seen New York audiences express strong approbation was by " encoring," which they do to ridiculous excess ; but of course it was not possible to apply this to Mr. Dickens's case. Then it must be confessed that all those whom I have seen have been more or less disappointed, not so much in the degree of their entertainment, but in the kind. People go with expectations based on their experience of the stage. They look, in short, for acting, and expect, I think, Mr. Dickens himself in his turn to display more abandon. They forget, until the entertain ment has begun, that " reading" is not acting at all, and that what Mr. Dickens offers is not complete impersonation, but simply first-class story-telling. Then a great many people go to " see Dickens " literally to feast their eyes upon him. They do not much care how he reads ; they want simply to watch him and hear him repeat passages from his own books aloud, rather as a " spectacle " than as an intellectual entertainment. And yet there are some of his characters which are so familiar to the community that the mere mention of their name rouses in the audience all the enthusiasm of which it is capable. When I heard him, the other night, reading the trial from "Pickwick," and Sam Weller was called—l think two-thirds of the audience had a flash of expectation of seeing that well-known serving-man present himself on the stage in bodily presence—so thoroughly have readers " realised " his existence, and even though he came not, his name was greeted with plaudits that were certainly, I think, the highest compli ment a living author has ever received. At the rate charged for admission, each even ing's reading must bring Mr. Dickens4,ooo dols. net, or about 5001., the currency being reduced to gold. His eight readings here and in Boston would con sequently bring him 4,0001. ; and I certainly see no reason why he should not give eight times eight in the same places with exactly the same result. The same thing may be said of Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, and perhapirsix other towns. In fact it would be hard to put a limit to the sum which is within his reach, if money be his main object, for there is no part of the country in which he might not fill any room to be had, nearly as often as he chose, with people who simply want to see him, even if he did not read at all. There are but few foreign authors whose appearance would draw the farmers from their firesides on winter nights, and yet I think Dickens would do it. Let him offer to read, or make a speech in any country town in this State, however small, and I will warrant that the roads on the appointed evening will swarm with old waggons bearing weather-beaten yeomen to the scene, with their wives and daughters packed in behind them, their heads full of Little Dombey, and David Copper field, and Mr. Peggotty, and their hearts full of warmth towards the man who had told them all about them. Such are the marvellous triumphs which the spread of the Englishj tongue, and the spread with it of the common schools, have pre pared for English genius. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. We have received the following official despatch from the India-office : " Sir Stafford Northcote has received intelli gence from Colonel Merewether, at Sande, up to 13th December, up to which date all was going on well. He had heard from the captives at Magdala, who were well on the 11th of November, and had had news of the expedition being on its way. Menelek, acting with the Gallas, was moving to attack Meg dala. The King had not been able to advance more than thirty miles from Debra Tabor, being encumbered with baggage, and having great oppo sition to encounter. " Accounts up to October 11th had been re ceived from Mr. Flad. The King had carried off with him from Debra Tabor all Europeans, some in chains, others free. Among the latter was Mr. Flad, who says also that the women and children were all well, and that the prisoners had been of late better treated by the king." (11011 OCR SPECIAL ANNEBLICY BAY, Dec. 11. The advanced force, which has reached Senafe, has found there a most agreeable climate, the thermometer at night registering 3 degrees below freezing point, and the temperature being after dark too cold rather than too warm. The last march but one—namely, from Upper Sooroo to Rarey-Gudiy—was very trying. The distance be tween the two points is 28 miles, no water being found in the interval, but to the troops, who had in addition to the length thousands of feet of an ascent to surmount, it seemed 40. At Senafe there is plenty of water : as to grass, reports differ, one declaring that although every thing looks green and smiling, there is nothing on which to feed horses ; the other, and that to which I attach most weight, declares that there is a fair amount of gross. Whatever may be the forage found, the political reasons for this rapid advance—viz., to decide the chiefs to pronounce in our favour—seem to have been so far crowned with success. Kassa, chief of Tigre, has sent us most friendly messages ; so also has Wasgra, Prince of Limb', who has been for months in correspondence with us : these two being respectively the second and the third most impor tant men in Abyssinia. It is reported, also, that Menelek, Prince of Shoe, has surrounded Magdala. Menelek is supposed to be friendly to us ; he is the son-in-law of Theodore, but has been for some time inimical to the King. General Stavely is now in command at Annesley Bay. Brigadier-General Collings has also arrived. The Belochee battalion, which is now encamped close to the sea, presents a fine specimen of our native infantry. They are armed with the Enfield rifle—a distinction conferred, I believe, on only ono other battalion of the whole of the native in fantry in India. The 33rd are on the point of disembarking. They have muzzle-loading rifles, and, malice whispers, only breech-loading ammuni tion—a report which, though it cannot be literally true, is not altogether without foundation. The arrival of oxen with carts, of camel saddles, and 2,500 Otago saddles, in the Great Victoria, has greatly eased the minds of our transport train ; steps, too, are being taken to render the watering of all the animals more easy and better organised. Of all the beasts the oxen look the quaintest. , They are grey, large tractable animals, with im mense horns, and with a considerable hump on their backs. When used in draught a wooden bar fastened to the pole is placed in front of the hump, and with scarcely any other harness two animals drag over this sandy plain four camel or eight mule loads. The labour market is in &much healthier condition. 500 dholy bearers—men who carry the wounded off the field, but also work at anything else when not thus employed—have been added to our strength, and large numbers of native sappers have landed, so that our oommisaariat was the other day enabled to inform the Sheba', who were clamouring for more pay, that their services could be dispensed with. Great was the woe of these gentry on find ing that there was a prospect of the supply of Maria Theresa dollars being cut short, and they begged to be taken on at any price. The health and spirits of the men are excellent. I wish I could say the same for the mules; but still many fires show that the sanitary officer is engaged in destroying the bodies of those that have died, and many smells show that still more fires are required. The regulations with respect to baggage have been published in case of rapid movements. They are simple—a lieutenant-general has two mules ; all the rest, from major-general to ensign, one ; a private, 461bs. There are extra mules allowed for mess tents and officers, but on the most minimised scale. This reduction in the amount of officers' baggage will put at the disposal of the transport corps at least 2,000 tulditional animals, and though officers sigh at the thought of sacrificing their bed or their gun, the movements of the force will be much expedited, and no one can venture to grumble at a reduction of baggage which cuts down the comforts of general officers to the same standard as those of the junior ensign. The useful but stern edict is not to come into force until post No. 2 is reached, whether post No. 2 means Komayle or Senate being not yet quite determined. This order is evidently an effort to bring the baggage of an Indian force to within something like the limits usually assigned to a European army. Indian officers speak of the allowance of tents, baggage, animals, d:c., as being something infinitely below what it has been the custom ie sanction in Eastern campaigns, and yet here nearly every officer has two native servants, many three ; the men are supplied with bheesties (men who carry water), native cooks, dx.. and are each allowed to have 461 be. carried for them, while in a home campaign every ounce except tho camp kettles must be borne by the fighting man himself, and he also must perform the domestic duties of the camp. There is one luxury which we are rapidly accus toming ourselves to do without, namely, washing. A sea bath certainly forms an efficient' substitute for a tub, but sea-water ruins the clothes that may be washed in it. As the local supply of water is limited, servants have hitherto been sent out with the dirty linen 16 or 20 miles, but two of them were lately attacked by natives, beaten, one of them severely, and their master's property was taken from them. This is not an isolated case of outrage ; in more than one instance camel or mule drivers, when in twos or threes, have been summoned by armed men to surrender their money, and in some cases their goods, and have always complied. This ought to excite no surprise. Since our landing we have been extremely tolerant of petty depredations, and probably the inhabitants have assumed that we will take with equal good nature petty outrages. The habit, too, of certain classes of the country is to go armed. Yesterday I saw a man driving three calves, followed by another with about as many goats in charge; the first bore a sword and a club, the second had a spear on his shoulder, and a tulwah or short sword girt to his side. At present we are taking steps to make the chiefs of the districts in which offences are committed responsible, pretty much as King Alfred made each man of a hundred responsible for his neighbours; but here there is a difficulty to be encountered—namely, that the worst plunderers are a description of pro fessional, or rather hereditary, highwaymen, who live in almost inaccessible positions, and who do not acknowledge the sway of the ordinary chiefs of the country. Of course they are most contemptible hounds, fifty of whom would not attack two well-armed Europeans, but if not kept in check, they may oblige us to send an armed guard with every batch of mules and camels. A company of engineers has just been despatched to render the last eight miles of the road to Senate practicable to camels. Our chief object just now is to establish a large depUt there, and it is of great importance that we should work the camels as far as possible, as these animals not only carry more than the mules, but It is un necessary to carry food for them, as they browse on the bushes of the country ; while a mule would eat half his load before he had gone to and re turned from the highlands. One of the last reports is that the Prince of Tigre, while making every profession of friendship, keeps his men encamped not very far from ours at Senate, and wants us to promise him money and increase of territory in exchange for his assistance or neu trality. ON ABYSSINIAN GROUND. -.4 1 • The special correspondent of the Times in Abyssinia bad, on December 8, reached Senate, on Abyssinian ground. A great deal of his letter is taken up with an account of the pus of the Hoomaylee, the existence of which is • wonderful piece of good fortune for our faros. There is, it I. said by professional men, no other pass known in the world by which so great • height is attained at so gradual an ascent. Senate, at the summit of the pass, is as nearly as possible 7,0.10 feet, and the ascent is, on an average, about 1 in 41. The natural ob stacles are, moreover. very few and far between. Here is • sketch :—" The vegetation grew richer and more plentiful. To the trees which we had before observed, and which be came far more numerous, were now added the aloe, the kolqual, about which Bruce—who took, however, the Haddas Pus, not the .Koomaylee—a rites so much, and some splendid sycamores and other fine specimens of the fig tribe ; and as we approached Rayray Gaddy, through narrow, tortuous defiles, with windings so incessant as to more than double the distance, and reached the clear stream which for a mile and • half flows through the pus, the scenery became still more beautiful and full of charms for every sense. Sweet-scentr I shrubs, resembling the English jasmine, filled the air with fragrance ; and juniper trees, mimosa, and dense groups of evergreens completely bid the foot of the mountain, affording a tempting covert for the birds whose gorgeous, tropical plumage glittered among the boughs ; and overhead the rocks, rising almost perpendicularly to the height of many hundred feet, admitted into the pass just enough of the sun's rays to make the air deliciously warm. We all agreed, nem. are., then and there, that if Abyssinia, which was now only some ten miles off, at all resembled this charming spot, Abyssinia had been most cruelly maligned, or, at the best, ' damned with faint praise.' Senate, though rather disappointing to those who came ex pecting to see an Abyssinian town, is satisfactory enough from • strategic point of view. There is enough good camping-ground for a large army, and plenty of water. Our camp is pitched in an open, irregular valley, crowned at intervals with masses of mountain and rock, which would look lofty anywhere else, but are mere excrescences on the table-land of Abyssinia. Ac either end the valley winds round and swells into • plain, equally convenient for • camp and well adapted for the manceuvres of cavalry. More table-land, specious, but frequently interrupted by low ranges of hills, stretches away to the east, but on the south-west the plateau abruptly breaks, and looking down from it one sees as far as the eye can reach nothing but one wild series of mountain-chains rising and falling in every variety of angle and elevation, until at last the horizon is bounded by a giant range, which towers high above all the rest. Among them are several of those extraordinary fastnesses said to be • peculiar fea ture of this coantry—a square mar of rock, flat at the top but with sides bare and steep as the walls of a fortress, and having seemingly as little natural relation as a fortress to the green mountain top on which they stand." --•- - - OPENING OF THE Now 111FIRMART.—Testerday the New Infirmary just erected on the Thornhill Hetet* was formally opened, the inauguration ceremony being performed by the Right Honourable the Earl Vane, in the presence of a large number of gentlemen and ladies, who bad assembled to witness the interesting pro ceedings. Among the noblemen and gentlemen present were the following, who were eutertaised istluncheon by Mr. James Hartley, M.P.: —Earl Vane, Lord &ahem, Hon. Henry Vane Tempest, Lord Ernest Tine Tetnpest,Colonel Appelby, Dr. Chadwick, Roman Catholic Bishop of Hex. ham and Newcastle, the Rev. W. Cockin, the Bev. J. 'Limber, Mr. C. M. Webster, Mr. William Stobart, Mr. H. T. Morton, Mr. E. H. Holing, Mr. Victor Williamson, the Mayor, Dv. Pyle, Mr. T. Harrison, Mr. Candlish, Mr. Kayll, Mr. E. A. Baling, Mr. Vint, Mr. Snowball, and Mr. Morgan.— Sunderland Herald. THZ CATTLE PLAGUE IN 13ELO11'M.—The hii peadanot of Brussels has the following :—" In the an nouncement that the cattle. disease had broken out simul taneously at Bercbem and at Kiel, below Antwerp, it was stated that five cow-houses at the latter place were menaced by the new irruption. The delay of a fort. night since the appearance of the malady gave reason to hope that the measures taken to preserve the stalls adjoining the points f infection would have satisfactory results. These previsions, unfortunately, have not been realised. Cases of contagious typhus were observed at Kiel on the 22nd, in two stalls situated ate few yards from those in which the disease first appeared. One of them contained five oxen, the other three. The sanitary cordon which had been set up more than '2OO yards from the infected places has been re-intoned, and several of the animals have been slaughtered. at; 1,11 f 47 V-9 103 too r 10: 014 rcb. roe. 4I• rch. Inn - 42.