The Express. — London, England, 1868-12-07 00:00:00

Inie erfrOs. DRURY-LANK Tuts Immo, RROW= PLUNRK—KENG ROOM age 'we" Mean BO Address. Irvin. Rama ; liewlasses NestkPawkst, Frank Matthews. Am.—AwlA GRAND BALLS? D'ACTION entitled BEDA. HATYAREET. Tits Ifrawnro, EASY SHAVING. Mame. iar Clant. and Gordon . Mimes Burke and Wild.—purr. 4 Nina. HOW. Oil -ndale. Gordon, and ICea• MadamsMadams ßatman and . And RURAL FELIC ITY. Kr. Docketons, Edllers, Ste. ranmers. Toss Iva!" THE bEeRET.—•I7I2 DARIL: A TALI OT LONDON urs. vwbc, Kama W. Lacy, Dominick Ildbaray. Rarmart, Rom Ike.; Wm. R. Barnett mai Rose La dino:l.—And KASTEN JONI/TS INZTEDAT. WWI, =W& LONG- To Ernatute, &t T. TIM LANCASHIRE LASS. Kama H. Inin,, & Rrnaty, L Slovak J. Clayton, C. Wysdluun, and B. 111,. Terrot ; Karla N. Haan and H. Hodana.—To conclude with R. Reece, Eeq.'s Piece of Extraracanoe, entitled, THE FTRANGER. STRANGER THAN EVER. Henan. L. Brongb. Stapbana. and Berton; and Kuria Hada" Reward, and Kate Santley. Tsai Dranro, at 7. A WIDOW MINT. Meson. Clarke. 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To-K. miaow —Maria M m 811. lkin.---Artialloolh 9b. 7.1' roma of Brom, IIIAIZ;oo. amid Dams, lie noshed WS it o'clock for insortics owee omit. Pelee b. 114. SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS 07 781 EXPRESS. coNnaztuto The Latest Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and Gene ral Intelligence, LEE 117BLESEED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, MONDA Y, DEC. 7. TILE NEW FINANCE MINISTER. WHENEVER a new Ministry comes into being the immortal saying of BEAUMARCHAIS (through the mouth of Figaro) on the singularities of official promotion is unavoidably brought to remem brance. " A diplomatist was wanted ; 'twee a " dancer bad the appointment." That was under the old regime, however, when promotion was a matter of privilege, and when a dancer's qualifi cations were more serviceable in State affairs than perhaps they are in these days. In another sense than that of Figaro's remark, however, the choice of statesmen for par ticular offices, even in constitutional countries, under parliamentary governments, and in the present enlightened age, is apt to disappoint the general expectation, and even to bewilder the public mind. It is so easy for irresponsible Cabinet makers out of doors to put every probable, or pos sible, minister into precisely the place best fitted to his capacities and his antecedents. A. is nothing, if not a financier ; he goes of course to the Exchequer. B. knows all about the colonies ; he must go to the Colonial-office. C. has devoted himself to the question of public instruction ; evidently the Vice-presidency of the Council is his proper berth. All this is true enough, so far as it goes ; but the statesman who has to form a Cabinet out of the beet men of three or four sections of a comprehensive party, of the old and the now blood, of Whigs, " Peelitest" Radi cals, repentant Adullamites; and who has to satisfy rival claims and pretensions, and to take into account the proper distribution of debating and administrative powers, and--if we may be pardoned the illustration —to make the team, including, perhaps, a kicker and a bolter, work well together with the old and steady roadsters at the polo ; the statesman, we say, who has to bring so many tastes and tempers into good safe working order, Las other things to think of besides the special aptitudes of this or that colleague. One of the peculiarities of human stature is that every man thinks ho tan do something ~ Ise better than what he does best. but there is another consideration which may well occur to any statesman who is charged with the formation of a Cabinet, and that is the undesir ableoess of confining particular capacities to par ticular departments. A Cabinet, in a constitu tional and parliamentary country, is not a com mittee of chief clerks; it is a select body of Privy Councillors, responsible for the policy and administration of the State ; and while THE EXPRESS, MONDAY E. each has the ruperintendence of a dspartmettt, all together have the superintendenee of the commonwealth. To take a pails fastest's. It has been observed that Mx. Oantownee gnat administrative experience. hie Alibi habits ea manners, his tact, caution, and oiresimspeo lion, might be more advantageously e oployed elsewhere than at the Ministry of War, and that in point of fact be has more than once been offered the Chancellorship of the Exchequer. At the Ministry of War, it is said, " aoertain ferocity " to use an expression of M. Tubas—is required to keep the Horseguards in order, and ferocity is not one of Mr. CARDWELL's attributes. To this objection it may be replied that a minister may bell= without being ferocious, and that Mr. CARDWILL has never been found wanting in that firmness which is indispensable to the due exercise of responsibility, and to make authority respected. It was of a Minister of Finanoo that X. Tunas said that ho ought to be capable of a " certain " ferocity " in resisting inroads upon the public treasury. Now, no man will deny to Mr. Lows, whose designation to the Exchequer has excited some surprise, the possession of a certain " ferocity." He was ferocious at Oxford ; ferocious in Australia ; ferocious at the Education office ; ferocious as an Adullaruite ; and wo have no doubt he will prove ferocious enough in that department in which of all others ferocity is daily and hourly required, and becomes indeed a positive duty of self defence. When it has boon said that Mr. LOwE is deficient in the art of manag ing men it could only be meant that he was wanting in the lessor arts of a parliamentary statesman ; the art of dispensing the small change of official courtesy and condescension to waiters on Providenoe and hangers-on in Downing-street, without giving anything away more substantial than a shake of the bands—the art of conciliation without concession—and of bowing out without snubbing. It may be that some other candidates for office are more emollient than Mr. Lows. We doubt whether in the whole country or on either side of the House of Commons there is to be found a harder worker, a more vigorous administrator, a more stedfast and implacable foe to jobbery and extravagance, a public servant more resolved that the nation shall not throw its treasure away on pri vileged incompetence, and that the taxpayer shall have his money's worth. It might be too much to say that the step from Mr. WARD MUST to Mr. Lows was from the ludicrous to the sublime ; but from Mr. Lows to Mr. WARD Hricr would certainly be a remarkable application of the proverb. Nor will it bo inconvenient to the FIRST MINISTER that Mr. Lows should be in a place where, if we way be pardoned for recurring to a former illustration, ho will have so much work to do that be can neither jib nor shy, and where his native " ferocity," his love of work, and his great administrative and debating energies will have the finest field of usefulness without any risk of up setting the coach. We may begin to look for some thing like economy and efficiency combined from such a formula as thausTottE plus Lows—the one First Lord of the Treasury, and the other Chan cellor of the Exchequer. IllgFMIRIBIRIT„, th e aseeiriog is a eriot Itt h otAt mute es have actually been proved by Mia Queen : . ' ••-• Pint Load of the Trea sury The Lord High Chan cellor Lord Justice Page Wood. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ... The Earl of Clarendon. Secretary of State for the Colonies Chancellor of the Fa chequer Secretary of State for War First Lord of the Ad miralty President of the Board of Trade Secretary of State for India Chief Secretory for Ire land It is understood that Mr. Gosohon will have a seat in the Cabinet, although at present no office has born assigned to him. The absence from town of gentlemen with whom it is desirable to com municate delays the completion of the list, which, however, may be expected by to-morrow. Sir Robert Collier is Attorney-General, and Mr. Moucroiff Lord Advocate. Earl Oraarilla. Mr. Lowe. Kr. Cardwell. Mr. Childers. Mr. Bright. The Duke of Argyll. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (TRES DAT.) WS NW 1111111111111 T. I n. Tunes remarks that Mr. Gladstone has failed to secure say slew strength for his administration is the House of Lords. With regard, however, to the character of the cabinet, it is determined when the first belt damn men have come together and ooamated to serve In it. Judged by this teat, Mr. Meadow, has, with one signsl exception, brought within his semidry an the ability and power that lay at his ocanmaad. He has reinforced his cabinet with a large admixture of sew men; and be and his associstes start together with the immense advantage of having an engroaing task to accomplish upon the prin ciples of which they are all agreed. The Daily News observes that with the exception of Mr. Bright we politician is named for the cabinet who repro- Beets not merely' advanced liberal opinions, but those po pular sympathise which have placed Ur. Gladstone in power. The same of Mr. Font.: or Mr. Btanateld, one or other or both, ought not to be wanting from a liberal cabinet which is to command trust out of doors. The manner in which the vacancies that remain may be filled up to-day will go far to determine the character of the government. me Telegraph also thinks that Mr. Gladstone cannot fail to observe that the cabinet already contains an maple measure of the " aristocratic' . element ; and says the country will not be satisfied links, the ministry be further reinforced by the addition of more than one distinguished commoner. If that be done there wiU be, in the beet sense of the word,a strong cabinet. . . The Post says that in forming • cabinet Mr. Glaibitime has endeavoured to lay the foundation of unity iu the liberal party by an amalgamation of it. , elements. The Star is of minion that the new administration, judging from the amioiutments already made, will give satisfaction. The Slaw le admits that the new cabinet includes some able men, and that it represents nearly every section of the Liberal party ; but its elements are singularly in congruous, and the different offices, with two or three exceptions, seem to have been distributed, not from any consideration of the fitness of the man for the ministry but by a lottery. A better illustration of the time honoured British custom of putting the round men in the square boles ind the square men in the round holes has never been furnished. The Herald comment+ upon the individual appoint ment., but offers no opinion upon the general character of the atiniiiii‘tration. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE. Die. .. The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday after noon, and her Majesty walked and drove this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, also west out. Prince Leopold drove out. The Crown Prince of Prussia honoured the performance at the Princess's Theatre last evening with his presence. His Royal Highness afterwards returned to Windsor Castle, attended by Captain Von Flebleinitz. Prince Arthur has arrived at the Castle from Woolwich, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Elphinstoue and Lieu tenant Pickard. Prince Chriatian went out shooting to-day. Count Furstenitein and Viscount Torrington had the honour of accompanying his royal highness. Prince Christian dined with the Queen last evening. His Excellency M. and Madame Van de Weyer and Mr. Theodore Martin had the honour of being invited.. Her Majesty's private band played the following selec tion of music in the Red Drawing-mom after dinner be fore the Royal Family, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting : Overtt;re, "The Wee of Finesll" Mende'rub Ale eon brio and Funeral Mara fee= the 2:nem" Eirinkhoor Beethoeee. Grand Selection, • Romeo and Juliet. The Right Hon. W. E. Ohnistons had as audience of the Queen this afternoon. DEC. 6. The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Prince and Princess of Prus.,ia and Prince Arthur, drove out yester day afternoon in a carriage and four. The - Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia diced with Prince and Prineelle Christian, at Progmor•-house, last evening.: The Queen, the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Prince's Royal), Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Prince's Beatrice, and Prince Christian, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Lord Bishop of Peterborough preached the sermon. The Bishop of Peterborough arrived at the Cagle yesterday. Despatches were sent on Setuplay from the Colonial office to the Governors of the North American Provinces, British Columbia, British Honduras, and Malta. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO 08BORNE.—Hor Majesty the Queen, with their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Primes, Princeling Louise and Beatrice and Prince Leopold, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court, will, according to the most resent arrange ments, leave Windsor Castle on the 16th inst., en route for Osborne. Her Majesty, it is expected, will proceed southwards by special train on the Great Western and London and South Western Railways ; and the arrange ments for the royal trip in that case will be under the control of Mr. J. Grimm, general manager of the Great Western, and Mr. W. M. Williams, of the London and South Western line. Mrs. W. E. GlatistAwe and Mr. W. H. Gladstone arrived in town on liaturday,frosiHawardan-oaatha_ . The Duchess of Huainan (nee Princess Marie of Baden) and Lady Mazy Hamilton arrived in Paris on Thursday last trout the duchess's chateau at Baden. Baden. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have been entertaining company mime Friday last M Hattieid House, Herts. . . The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury left town on Friday for Bevernake.park, Wilts. The Earl and Countess of Derby are expected to arrive at their residence in Bt. James's-square on Wed. nesday or Thursday next, frc Knowsley, near Liverpool. The Earl ...a Countess Cawdor and Lady Muriel Campbell are expected to arrive to-day from their seat in Weiss, in order to be present at the marriage of the Earl of Ellesmere and Lady Catherine Phipps. The Earl and Countess Spencer are staying at Altborp Hall. The Earl of Ellesmere, socompanied by tho countess, his mother, has arrived at Bridgwater House, from Hawley Hail, lawashire. The Earl of Kimberley hie arrived in town from Ihshasisp Park e Modsik. • THE CABINET. Tile appointments to be made to-day will in clude the names mentioned in Saturday's Express, whose precise place in the Government is not yet fixed. Mr. VILLIERS, Mr. FORSTER, and Mr. STANSFELD are the text of much inquiry out of doors ; and Mr. 13RIMIT'S acceptance of office has whetted a curiosity, already sufficiently keen, as to which of the representatives of advanced opi nion,' will sit with him in the Cabinet. The Times remarks this morning, "It was said that Mr. " CHARLY.B VILLIERS would enter the Cabinet as " Chancellor of the Duchy. The report is not con " firmed, but we may hope that it is premature only. • ` It is scarcely possible that the earliest parliamen " tary advocate for the repeal of the Coru Laws, re " hinting his liberalism unabated, should not be •' found in the ministry." The latter half of this opinion will be cordially endorsed by the general public. But the Poor-law Board is Mr. VlLLrEns's natural place, not the Duchy of Lancaster. No shade of opinion among those anxious for poor law reform but will feel disappointed if the author of the Public Works Act and the Union Charge ability Bill does not return to his old place. Much widely different people as Miss FLORENCE Motu- INGALE, Archbishop MANNINO, and Sir JAMES KAY Sfirmiwoarn, each representing a school of poor-law reform alike earnest and distinct— would hail Mr. VILLIERS'S renewed presidency with satisfaction, and would augur from it favourably for the poor. There are many strong reasons why what Mr. Dimas= termed, in his life of Lord Ozoaoz Bizernscx, " the vivid perception and " terse eloquence of CHARLES VILLIERS," should be associated with Mr. Baton. in the Cabinet, and the whole of these point to the Poor-law Board as their possessor's most fitting place. Lord GRANVILLE'S preference for the Colonial-office instead of the less arduous duties pertaining to the President of the Council, will probably not be without its effect upon the posi tions of Mr. FORSTER and Mr. STANSFELD. It is after all scarcely to be expected that the latter would accept the position of Secre tary to the Admiralty, now that it is settled that the First Lord is a member of the House of Commons. Had the Duke of HouzasEr gone to the head of Admiralty affairs, and so left the real parliamentary business of the department to its Secretary, the post would have been worthier of Mr. STANSFELD'S powers. But he has laboured for a Liberal Government before in a subordinate position and has won his spurs. Whatever posi tion be occupies next should at least give him op portunity of speaking to the work he has in hand. Mr. PousTER is eligible for almost any of the posts still unappropriated ; and will probably have a seat in the Cabinet. The rumour which gave the Postmaster-Generalship to Lord DE GREY was to say the least premature, and as the holder of that useful office may now be a member of the House of Commons, it may perhaps be offered to one of the active debaters of that assembly. It is generally understood that the Home-office is to be kept for Mr. Amur Balm; whose unmerited defeat at Merthyr has aroused so much sympathy and regret ; and for whom, as it is said, a seat is ready. That Earl RUSSELL, after refusing with all expressions, of good will a scat in the Cabinet without a portfolio should accept the position assigned to him by a Sunday contemporary was unlikely; and it may be fairly hoped that some other post will be found for Mr. Goscum than President of the Poor-law Board. All will look with anxious interest for the names yet to be announced, for upon their selec tion and distribution much of the usefulness of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Government will depend. Boaouun op WAtutuaac—The Morning Star is informed that Mr. George Moffatt, late member tor Southampton, sad w'he w debated at the last election, bee bees invited by Ihs limb et Wanioat to ()wispy the oat vacant by the ilia& ige Captain Oakedt, M.P. DECEMBER G N N W p W §)i HIS DAYJ • soma's £G UT.) :: KADSID. Duo. O. A airenlar of Senor River°, the mayor of Madrid, mien the daily wages of the working men em ployed by the municipality to be reduoed one real. 'This *lteration is to cominenos to-morrow. It is also therein stated that working men who are not domiciled chinas of Madrid, shall hemoeforth be excluded from snob employment. lILDRID, Dao. T. It has been definitively settled that the elections are to take place on the 16th January, and that the Cortes are to meet on the 11th February. The volunteers of Valladolid have signed a pro test against the violent dispersion of the late monarchical manifestation. SEIZTJBE OF AN?O , I7p..TIONy3T FROCLAMA. TIONB IN lIITNOLBY. lENBNIANNBTADT, Dna. 8. The authorities have seized a large number of Roumanian proclamations demanding the annexa tion of Transylvania to Roumania. These prods mationsi were conveyed under the cover of prayer books. OUR PARIS LETTER. THE MARSEILLES HUSBAND POISONERS. Mat ova owl oomerowszine.) PAM& Iniereav Encase. A private political meeting on a large scale, which was to have been held on Thursday at Agen, on the occasion of M. Jules Favre's profes sional visit to that town, did not take place in consequence of the person who had offered the use of his house taking fright and changing his mind at the last moment. A M. Felix. a cabinet maker, who lately made a speech at the Balk Hollins, is prosecuted for an insult to the Emperor. He disclaims the inten tion attributed to him, and indeed the words he used do not support the charge; but the public prosecutor contends that he is responsible for an exclamation by one of the audienoe which put dots upon the I.'s. Thirty inhabitants of hfasseube, near Attch, have signed a requisition to the Procurcur Im perial, praying him to institute a prosecution against M. °rattier de Caasagnac, for having on November 26 held • public meeting in a building with open doors, without having observed any of the formalities proscribed by law ; and, moreover, with having at the said meeting made a speech calculated to excite citizens to hatred and con tempt of each other. This is an amusing p-trty move; but it will produce no result, because long experience has shown that there is one law for the Cassagnacs and another for other classes of the Emperor's subjects. An Austrian organ, the Correspowlaive du Yord Est, takes a very gloomy view► of the recent change of ministry in the Danubian Principalities, which was represented at first as a concession to France and Austria. It says: If we judge only by appearances a guarantee for peace might be found in the fact that on r hint from Berlin the automatons of the Danube, have, for the moment, gone behind the scenes. But there are those who think that Prussia, without in any way abandoning her policy, has done a clever thing by putting out the velvet paw. In checking, temporarily, the adventurous course of It. Bra tiano, she has looked to higher and more Miro:UM aims, The law.r.:k shown to Hungarians at Berlin, and the Bat tering ►dvances made to Hungary by the Prussian journals, are not without a deep design. The policy set forth in 11. d'Usedonis famous note is still entertained at Berlin. These views, token in connection with the dis closure recently made by the Austrian Red Book, that General Menabrea taxed the Austrian Minis ter with hankering after the Danubian Principa lities, goes very near to constitute a " black point.• . ' • The great oyer of poisoning now going on at the assize court of Aix, known as the case of the Empoixinfleusea de Marseille, discloses a most wonderful jumble of crime, ignorance, and superstitious piety. Three women in the condition of thriving shopkeepers, one of whom is young, handsome, and wealthy, confess to having got rid of their husbands by means of drugs and potions, supplied for the purpose by a cunning man and woman—fortune-tellers and vendors of charms. Some of the prisoners say— and the state of their mental development renders the statement credible enough—they did not think they were poisoning their husbands; but only understood that they were to be bewitched in such a way that death would be the result. The prisoner Joye, a herbalist, who supplied the poisons, arsenic and belladonna, gave direc tions to one of the women that after the powder had been administered she should buy a black ribbon, put it round her neck, and recite a pater floater, and when she came to the words, " in earth as it is in heaven," her husband would diel as if by enchantment. One of the wives had scruples, not of conscience, but of prudence, and expressed fears to her mother that she would cer tainly be found out. The mother comforted and encouraged her by the assurance that if she would buy a wax candle, and burn it before the altar of the famous chapel of Notre Dame do la Garde at Marseilles, the Virgin would protect her from discovery. The fortune-telling woman, Madame Lambert, tireuse des cartes, who intro duced the three murderous wives, all unknown to each other, to the seller of simples, was in the habit of visiting sick children, making the sign of the cross on their foreheads, and muttering prayers. Aix is crowded with visitors and re porters from all parts of France and Belgium. The trial is expected to last over Monday. The Aix law students made a political demon stration on December 3, leaving the schools in a body and publicly expressing their determination to keep the anniversary of Baudin's death as a holiday. Conjectures as to the fortune of Baron James de Rothschild, founded upon the statement that ten millions of francs duty on his estate had been paid to the state, are all erroneous. The amount of the succession dues cannot be made known till the inventory is made out, and for this work a year is allowed ; the money will not be payable till six months after the completion of the inven tory. Tho " Black Doctor," M. Vries, who was killed by all the papers last vrer.k, has come to life again. The fame of his young rival Dr. Van Schmitt has perhaps contributed to his resuscitation, which he announces himself in a letter dated Paris, De cember 4. Tull (UPI MAlL.—Prmuorts, Die. 6.—Thy Union Camp= O. steamer Oeit, hem the Oar ot Good arrived here taday with the *Wald a sail (48 mob ) ;l and 86 peoesegera. The wit dale are—Natal. pea. ea • Apiez ei =l7. 1 ; Nag. ilk ; Bt. H a im , ; sad MIL The wide were iaawaalled the 7.10 lids twilight.— Ildtgrawi. Pon OP LONDON. has Oldr°eee tho following letter London, Dee. b. 19(13. " My Lord urn Otledleemea,—l beg to signaled you, le have so Waal , eadortakoa the raiiiiagenkeet of the Zvet sport soder my mood deed of gift of the 19th of 1906, foe the lomat of the poor of Loadoa sad its *ill& 64 la parsuento al aa iattsitios whisk I have enteetained doom the creation of that fund, I am desirous now el adding to it a hither OM of 100,00 W. _ _ - Mr. 1 his I "In ocateent=l bu tharrehmed about Ihreeyears ego a haat of bud et about IS awe" fa turisniet Debates. sour the Clap el Leaden fishael, easily assemibie, and IsakermissBst walked frequeut trains M and horn Craton. Tits laud hes Mermaid in value, aad can Row be let on building loam. of 80 years at nuts m ahout 8 per IMO* Pler annum on the ore, which is f l it i a. 17s. 3d. 'Ms land I props., to seamy to you with Iheassur power. as ere ecaferred by the deed over the other property of this trust, and with discretion to you either to deal with it as a source of Weems by letting it or any portion a it on leas", or, should ford ic ings edie to /Maio it in your own hand. as eit ell to be erected by the truiL " Pursuant to my letter on the 29th of January, 1808, I bandanad to you, subject to • contingency therein ex plained, 6.000 shares in the Hudson's Bay Company, which accordingly stead in y nuees,together with 642 addi tional shares purchasui b e y the us-investment of the accru ing income of the previous 6,000. These 6.842 shares I have since redeemed, conformably to the deed of the 19thof April, 11166, by the payment of 100.00 W. on the let of Feb ruary last. I have now to acquaint you that it is my inten tion, meson as the necessary deeds can be prepared, to hand the shares over to you, to be retained or dealt with accord- Mg to your bast judgment and discretion. The price of theme shares shall be Axed on the 17th inst. by the Stook- Exchange sales on that day, when I will hand to you • check for the balance, to make the gift • cash value of 100,0001. "Thin amount will increase my former donation of the Second Trust to N 0,0061., and, including m gift under the IPlnt Trot in March, 1862, of 160,00 W., a total of 366,0001. . _ a I trust you will see manifested in this further dona tion as ezpremien of my entire satisfaction with the manses in which yea have conducted the affairs of the aunts.—l am, with street respect, your humble servant, "OEOBLIE PEABODY. "To the Bight Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P. (chairman), his Excellency Beverdy Johann (United States' Minister), Sir Curtis M. Ininms . m . , Dart., Sir James Emerson Ten wet, Bart J. 8. Mr. Peabody's den7ll= to the poor of London now amount to 350,0004 Tnz lizzruto OF PaauANarrr.—The House of Commons will meet on the 10th inst.—Thursday next—to elect a Speaker. hininrrisuaL Movattitrrs.—The Right Hon. W. R. Gladstone was engaged several boars on Saturday at his private house on Carlton House-terrace in receiving elate from his political friends. The Duke of Argyll. Earl Rummel/, Mr. Bright, Earl Granville, and the Earl of Clarendon bad interviews with the right hon. gentleman. Mr. Childers, M.P., and Mr. Coleridge, M.P., were also among the visitors, Mr. Gladstone dined in the evening with Mr. Glyn, M.P. During yesterday afternoon Mr. Gladstone received Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Goeehen. Mr. Monsell, and Sir R. Collier. In the evening Earl Granville entertained Mr. Gladstone and a select party at dinner at his residence in Bruton-street. Earl de Grey has arrived at kin residence in Carlton gardens, from his scat in Yorkshire. The Right lion. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., with Frances Countess Wal degrave, arrived in Carlton-ganlens on Saturday. frier Chewton Priory. The Earl of Kimberley arrived in town on Saturday. The Duke of Somerset is expected to arrive in town to-day. We understand that Mr. Gordon has been appointed secretary to the new Prime Minister. MIL GLADSTONE AT WINDSOR.—On Saturday afternoon Mr. W. E. Gladstone left London in order to have an audience with her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle. Mr. Gladstone left town by the 3.45 p.m. down train from Waterloo on the London and South Western Railway, which passes along the loop line rid Kew and Feltham to Windsor, where it arrives at p.m. as a rule. The fact becoming known a large number of the liberal inhabitants assemble! at the Windsor terminus of the South Western line to give him a welcome, and the band of the Slough cone of the Bucks volunteers, which had pre viously played Mr. Roger Eykyn, the newly-elected member for Windsor, and his laide. home to the .;Willows," was despatched to the terminus to play upon the arrival of Mr. Gladstone. The spsctatoni.lined the arrival platform, and near them was stationed the trumpeter of the South Bucks Yeomanry Lancers to give the signal when it was ascertained that Mr. Glad stone was really in the train. Shortly before 5 o'clock a royal carriage was sent from the Castle mews to the F.'::::th•Wratetn station. !!.. 1 .:7,1'.; tc encicoled round iu front of her Sfajesty's private waiting-room, which had been thrown open so that Mr. Gladstone might reach the carriage without inconvenience. The bawl was stationed outside opposite the entrance, and a number of people thronged the road. The train arrived at Wind sor about p.m., and it gradually paused by the plat form amid a loud cheer from the yeople. Mr. Gladstone seemed anxious to avoid the crowd who surrounded him and cheered lustily as he made his way to the royal wait ing room, and 'heave to the Queen's carriage, which was immediately surrounded by the throng, many of the people rushing to the carriage window and attempting to shake him by the hand. One or two succeeded in their object, and another did so. at the same time ezeMimiuq: '• Mr. Gladstone, you're the working man's Mewl Mr. Gladstone cordial aeknowlpdged the cireering, and amid this ovation, veil.'thc hard paying and the crowd shouting, the royal carriage drove rapidly up Thames street to the Castle, which was reached about half-past five o'clock. Shortly afterwards Mr. Gladstone had an audience with the Queen• which lasted some time, and ieft the Castle in the course of the evening.—Obserrer. TEE NEW ARCIIBISHOP.—At a n't . eeting of the Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral. on Friday last, the dean presiding, her hlajy's us &airs nominating a suc cessor to the late Dr. Lougley in the archiepiscopal chair, was read and acted upon in the unanimous election of Dr. A. C. Tait, late Bishop of London. The bells of the cathedral were rung during the day in celebration of the event. _ THE Naw PraLte Orricze.—By order of the Commissioner of her Majesty's Works and Public Build ings, application is about to be made to parliament for additional land in Westminster for the extension of the new public offices. The land which it is to take lies between Charles-sheet and I'pper Charles-street on the north, Great George-street to Bridge-street on the south, Parliament-street on the east, and St. dames's park on the west. It is also proposed, for the purposes of the extension, to take Dover House, on the west side of Whitehall. THE NEW MEMBER FOR WINDAOR.—It having been known that Mr. Roger Eykyn would return to Windsor with his bride on Saturday afternoon, after their wedding trip . his constituents determined to give them a joyous reception. Consequently, they assembled in large numbers at the Great Western terminus awaiting the arrival of the 2.45 train. On proceeding to their carriage in the station yard, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Eykyn were received with great cheering and a band of music of the sth Bucks. The horses were taken from the carriage, which was drawn be the populace through High-street, reascod-street, W illiam-street, and Oxford-road to the hon. number's residence, The Willows, at Clewer, about one mile distant from Windsor, where, with many ags, the band and the ringing of the bells of St. Andrew 's parish church, and the tiring of a royal salute of 21 guns by the royal bombardier in the Long Walk, they entered their residence amidst the hearty congratulations of all around them. Mr. Eykyn, in a short and appropriate speech, ac knowledged his appreciation and a l so that of the Hun. Mrs. Eykyn of the kind and flattering reception afforded them by his constituents. The expenses of the day's proceedings were defrayed by voluntary contributions. The ladies of Windsor, Ikon, and Clewer have already subscribed between 20W. and 300 i. to present the Hon. Mrs. Eykyn with a service of silver as a wedding gift. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the names of the gentlemen who parsed their examination in the mimics and practice of medicine, and received certilkates to prelates, on Thursday Dec.mber 3:— Richard Edwin Brown, 23, Holborn-bol l3 ot the Middlesex Hospital ; Joseph Foster, L.F.P. and . Glasgow, Son ning, Berka, of ITniversity C i gr ad. Lendon ; William Henry Hubert, Markyate-street, Herter of St. George ' s Hospi ; Patrick James Simon Fraser Nicolson, Cheltenham, of the University of Edin burg ; Frederick Pollard, Taunton, of St. Thomas's Hos pital . The following gentlemen also on the same day oared their first manunation :—Samuel Weekes Pitt, of College, London ; Alfred Armitar Kidger, of King's College, London ; Naughtan, of Charing anis Hospital ; Richard Henry pritchig ie :f L thLy's _Hos- Ostrier Sheard, of King 's London ; Harry Turner. of St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Frederic Michael Wallis, of Guy's Hospital. Tedurday morning the Bev. William Kenneth Maarede A ALA., vicar of Accrington, who has been ap inted Biel of Maritabum b a c iad wbo is about toxemia' to Rata to do battle with Cobra*, preached a fare well semen at St. Lawrence, , a church which has become ao well known in with the services which acoompanied, and followed ftt late A of Canterbury's Pan- of last year. He selected for his texi — Ne — thidaii:pter of St. Pawl's awed Epistle to the Thessalonians, verse 1, "Brethren pray for us, that the worit ni o l i the Lord may have free mune and be glorified, even as ft is with you." la the afternoon the bishop nominate preached o ft St. Matthew's, City-road. and In the at AU aints. Nottiag-hill. Hs will leave Enemies edmisday next, and will he consecrated at tip Trios Cathedral as soon as poodble after his arrival in !ogle Alsise. 02Yer PAiroz.—HALv-A-Caowit DAL 8.4.11711 D" Dia 6. Adiaisiors by Nan a tidos* 4.1164 ; es psynsat, Adios 4477. LONDON AMUSEM EN Tti. (TRW EVICNING.) Dorm Laas.—" ,ti 1 I debit amnsallum—' 11111101 C" "Pletra. * " It.Artl —I Vim& . » da,. Asearst.- 0 1A1 yips ewer noil your Your Olisto."—, Ociink. Possumls--" Tim " Misr " AG., 1.,. Nizedig."—T Mukluk. OlMlPlo.—"lllasbar sad Onidinr." "TIN Yellow: , —/ yds*. Quases.—" 11* iireauldr• Lea" " Ifs litranwr. e k, thaw iber."—O Wink. War partioalara amCadrt. , e rr irsairo.- 0 Me Widow Hat" "The Maid el th, p 4 4, Odd" "Marriage at Aug Prim— ", *Wed, m ar W mara.—" Speaks Pint 1" "B,r-err..., Wow Tar " Lucretia Damn. :4 Ovando Decarems."-11 edspek. Soyaurs.-" TL. aockmakees Nat." " A "TL. SYe and lall at Sinkaall ILL"- T. 38 flusasT.-" A New Way W Pay Old Debt." " Lan Waltz lista.' -4 o'clock. Otasus.-" Good tor Nottieur." "Cyrlra fluvran." @ATLI AMPRITIMaTIi. Heves, - Ana,. Arena. lke.-4.10 *Weak. B/UT4IIIIIA.-" n• Iladc-Woodarnas." " T:o " Tbs SallUassice Iloy."-41.4b o'clock. Saunas's Wau.a.--" Two Owyonea." 0;.,••••,. (]nice." lisloslioes from various Playa. " '‘ ... a . -7 o'clock. Brass& so.-" The Oraad thaoksis." " The AI. 4 -T o'clock. sh, • Hr. Jaarsa's HALL.— Popular ----; Coorde to. &eadev.tdr. Y, . did.-8 o'clock. EarmAlye•u., PICCADILLY.-14. fiegodeg Nodose. meet.--8 °Week. Camiry lIISTIRSZL. Or. Issas's Mu. —fled**. ROYAL P•VIITMOVIIIO.—The Nu m" organ. Ile. Kasais Tossextes. FOUNDBRINO OF A BTE4MBI,• WICK, MONDAY M ewe' The steamship Hibernia hat grow darn ~ff Irish coast. The captain has landed her,. w.th boob, containing 81 passenger& A Me., ict, 33 person' on board, was seen to go down. —I Edition. THE LATE SEVERE ';ALP.., The heavy rain of Friday night wan on Saturday by a gale which blew for ~, utr the metropolis, and generally throughcp.t the c le:ry various periods during the day the vra d was with heavy showers of rain, and it, fore. a.• between 7 and 11 o'clock at ni4ht, after swb: • '. y ally subsided. Yesterday there were several lie.syy of rein, and toward, evening a very strior {t4l and non increased to a hurricane tome. the -* which will too probably be v , ry disastr... day several collisions which took pla . , below London-briuge were attributab: one care, below Greenwich, a steno.. : . with some bargee which, through t'... had broken from their mooring. ‘. Bejaia, in endeavouring to learn ti was seriously injured. .... ~: 1.1 -al.'. II r : t••••f (at razostarn. PEN7ANCI:. . . It hay been blowing a fearfu: L . (pays Mr. N. B. Downing, the honorary - - :• .. Penzance Branch of the National I..:teb : . • . The lifeboat of the society, Ric Lard • thank God, a noble service in rescuing u:n ; • from a wreck in Mount's Bay. Th: - • . dous on the lint attempt, that the not . . sized. Happily, however, no bees wen, • .• second crew of thirteen men instantly junr e . liftboat, and Faced the Mae poor fellow,:. . parently certain death. PENZANCE. Moxr.ur M Mr. Downing again reports that the dir, • . Devon is ashore ou the Long Rock. and that • • • crew have unhappily been drowned in attenipm. • . the land in their own boat. The lifeboat Media: . • which had gone off to the aid of the vessel's c upset after s tenific struggle. Carbii, the brave being disabled, and one man Laing washed a.' happily been kept afloat by his cork lifebel7 t men are still very ill. The lifeboat was • • • easeful on the second attempt. and re, but in doing so one of the lifeboat men h.. 11 .• • Tho ship is ,mashed to atoms. This will of the terrible character of this great hicb PORTYADOC, NORTH wAt.r, 'The ship Castilian. of London, .• with timber. from Quebec to Liverpool. the south side of Portmadoc liar last • o'clock (reports Mr. D. Hoenfray). There W . .{l .•: • • running, and it was 1•1,;,-.41.4 •-•••1 from the •„; she was seen this mornin: • r.oectiy Richards got the lifeboat John Ashb ..•• : National Lifeboat Institution. launchol. . gave orders for the tug to run down • to tow her up as the wind had to the southward. There was a great des: • side but with great care they managed t.• : people safely on board the steamer. whi• :.-• .• •: at Portmadoc at noon. Three poor fellows w...: while attempting to get ashore in the night :• • boat. A ma struck the boat, directly ;Les .•: •.• with such force that the rape dragged the -•• . • of her, and though life-buoys were th:;w:: they sank. The lifeboat behaved s;:.e s. very stiff under her cargo of eight . .:: and she has been housed in as good o: launched. The sou of the owner wi- • This valuable lifeboat was recently boat Society by James Ashbury. ••••e celebrated yacht Cambria. the boot request, after his late father. CAMPBELTOWN. N . Mr. Robert Hicks. the collector of - that, during a strong gale irons S.S.E And • weather yesterdai, the steamer Flying formation from Carraidale, thirteen mile. beltown, that the barque William till:: that shore dragging her anchors. a . • go on the rocks. that the crew :• in the he.av sea then runniu,... • were in danger of losing their . • boat Lord Murray, belonging to . • Lifeboat Institution, immediately pnweoted . • tow of the tug, and arrived there at *W.:: t . • crew of 15 men were at once rescued from •- • put aboard the tug. which then returned w •.. tow, and landed all hands safely to C.v::7•" . e.• p.m. The vessel was bound from Lond•i: t • t, .7 ballast. She was iu a very dangeroi:. 1••••• • shore. The behaviour of the lifeboit gi• en the greatest satisfaction to every ono. • • • . We learn by telegram from Union Company's steamer Celt, *Welt terilay, would remain in the Sound all I sequence of the heavy southerly gale *h:.!, THE / X WV:LITE OF SX-11;1. Pr. J. Fetyrer. Professor of •ur • s College of Bengal. hre riblirat d:` certain experiments made to ascertain the •rt • : ' poison on large animals. The horses expert... 3 had been condemned to be destroyed for the tial paraplegia gone in the loins), which, t!.•: pacitating them from work, wee not A t vrould reduce the strength of the mum: , !' • au extent as to &psis; the experimeu:• value. The animals were a studbred turn. `', 14'3 high, and aged 27 years, suffering from plegia, and An Australian hone, 131. t' roan ' powerful animal and in good condition. though Illogic. The mare succumbed in an hour V I teK minutes from the affects of the bite of 3 I, *t' , whits the stronger and younger hone survlvea of • powerful. fresh, and full-grvwu Pstv,s twelve hours. The difference in the effc. l ' poison of the Daboia and Cobra in tlime ty , is eery remarkable, not on ly la t the of life in the animal, bitten. but " pathological conditions before end after death. bitten by the Cobra was rapidly affoeted strurz,3", came exhausted, and died in lees than as hour suA The horse bitten by the lhtheia, on the other h 5,11.0 affected very slowly, and seemed to do so until just at the last, when • few lineon-e"' I",w • terminated his existence. It is to be noted. the Cobra bit more rigorously, forced hip and lad to deal with a more feeble a nimal 0 01 0! Delo* who bit • more powerful and healthy for' . ; did not hunt his teeth with such rigour w The makes were both fresh and hill-irrown Mk pewee was etrildngly iihistrated by the two harem. WO thi 0 a Ira cam Its Qui to I has Prii ror 144 Sew hi Mimi will cam war iasi Ike 3m F ir for Fou tpl Prim )Id • ma - ireii on, id CA Pi% th. ria. e' r tt e l fu de, 1,(