The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-10 00:00:00

'4./ 6 ai-470-,' st • fe'r G, NEIV9P ‘PER 0 0— re ec-• .A.- - r" - '"" • , lb . - • tr • 4 'l'"t lts t Z ' l-1' 4111 111 1 b'SatidX3 4 • • 4 •• T- rIM eV/ '67 [I'WOPENC: [STAMPED, H. ADDMOIAIb] No. 6,6G0.] LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1867. MIRMA INIL—The LIVERPOOL, NNW JE. YORK, and PHILADELPHIA STEAM-SHIP COMPANY lOW despaclllug their full.puwersd Clyde-bullt Iron Frew i s...skim carrying the United Males calling at Queens. town, Irela.d, vu the following day, to take on board obti despite es, and with liberty to call at la Intareneglat em r gem port: CITY tIF NEW YORE, Saturday, December 7. olf ANTWERP, Wednesday, December tilt OF LoNDoN. Wednesday, December IS. (WV OF LIMERICK, Saturday, December And every Wednesday Ma Saturday. cam passage by the mail steamers nailing CM, Wednesday, 15, If , a i . cuatcas, acmoding fa the accommodation. Forward paw F r i.„ a full supply of cooked provision Passengen /or Canada and the United States booked through on very adverb tarot's tt MIS —For further particulars apply to WILLIAM IN MAN, I. Water-strest t Liverpool : and to LUTES and MACEY, KinggL M thianbetrest Leaden. METROPOLITAN and. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. CATTIJ.: SHOW. AGRIc I LTURAL HILL, Islington, Dee. 9, le. 11, 12, and 13.:-KING'S i mmo Is the nearest .tatter. Frequent 7raial . betwees thicaty, Coo l'ortlmotroad, Ilahatsitregt, inkiniegtron. oteroolth, Sherhunrs-hush, Notting-la, Ana Herrington. oomnome. meet the tram at Fortked-toed tut Regoatrclrcus lad tizlonl-lareet. METROPOLITAN DMITRI& RAILWAY. J 4500,000 PERPETUAL DE,f..:11:913 *TOOK, at MX PIT CENT. Per *NB TIC METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY COMPANY !note TENDERS tor eSOO.OOO DEBICITURE STOCK, to carry Interest in perpetuity at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, pay side half.Yl,li). The Dela n turr Stark will be secured on an undertaking which sill conapiise about seven miles of railway, travelling the richest dietricts of the tuna-opals. in Immediate connection with the Metropolitan line . the works are so far advanced that five of the Seven miles are to be opened by liklstuumer, 1868. The Metropolitan District Railway is to be worked under agreed arrangements by the Metropolitan Railway Company, and upon the same eastern which has enabled that Company to pay 7 per cent. dividends on Its ordinary share capital. Tetaters, in the prep rilied form, will be received at the offices of the Comp:thy I rtseeen S o'clock a m. on Wednesday the 11th, and E 4 lc on I . rialay, the 10th December Instant. Prove lithi forms of tender may be obtained at the faces of the Cuter:my, NO. 6, Westininsteachambere V ictoria. street, laavie.n. S. W , and front all the principal stockbrokers in London noel the country.—By order, Dec. 7, 15.7. GEO. HOPWOOD, Secretary. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. In% rated Assets—Upwards of Fire Millions. Annual Income—Hall a Million. Claims Paid—Seven and a Quarter Millions. Tour-fifths of the profits allotted to the Assured Quinquennially. Bonuses hitherto added to Poildea—Upwardsot Your Millions. Polk s upon the participating scale effected during the cur rent year , 1•4,7 will share in the profits to be distributed at the m2%41,144..0. which will be made up to 31st December, IMO. For Prospectuses, statements of Accounts, do., apply to the Attain at the Dike, Fleet-street, London. WILLIAM SA3ILAL DOWNIS. Actuary. THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE INSURANCE COWYANY. Onleaa:-1, Dale-street, Liverpool; 7, Corn/WI: and Mating _ . . . The Invested funds no. amount tog-3,2.4,334, the fire revenue In Zilees.% and that of the Ufa to 1254497. The Mod Crate rates of premium, ;rith'iigauanteed axed lxitins for the life policies of this company and their value as special securities to third parties, render them particularly advantageous. Whole workl leave la granted on remosable terms, and debasers paid 30 days after adadodon. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary. IPTITED HOTEL, CHARLES-STREET, ST. .TAME•f-SQUARE.—The Manager of the above Hotel begs to announce to his numerous patrons that the BUSINESS lISS NIT BEEN Datil:Et PTED by the FIRE et HER MAJIVSTY'II THEATRE. and that the Hotel, replete with every accommoda tion for families and gentlemen, is open for the reception of visitors. " TILE LONDON," 191, Fleet-street, corner of chsscer74see, Temple bar, RC. FRZDERICK SAW VEIL Sole Proprietor, and of PIKICS, E. 4. and .5, Poultry. 110 and 40, Bucklersbury, Cheap de. LATE PURVEYOR TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The Loudon Dinner, la. Pd.. attendance 3d., for this dap, the 10th last., served bons 4 till a o'clock: Giblet. MAGI& ♦la Dauphine. Cabelland aux liultres. Cotelettc3 de Mouton A Is riuvuncale. POIMIONL Soles Crites sauce Tartars Queue de Deed an Es ricoL JOT. 1111/IChe de Houton. Pudding de C./Amt. --- Compete de Pommes. Ronan,. The London Dinner. L. 9d., attendance 3d., for to-morrow, the 11th lost., served from 4 Ull 8 o'clock: POTAOIL A IA purCe de Pols Verb. De Queue de Bout Clair. Turbot 1 la MartrbaL Poissoss. Malang Mts. Scutt do Volank. lINTIZIII. Petite Patti aux Htdtres. ROT. Sabot of Mutton. riddin g se. cuir. Belgnets d'Oraage. Frontage. Fodoeoll l'fiff of Prices. Lbws from the Joint, incluelagvegetables, bread, sheen, Ike., la. ed. Joint, with soup or fish, b. RI. Fish dinner, Is. Gd. ; attendance, 11. extra ; and Dineen I la Carte are served from 1 until 9 o'clock. The cute for to-day Includes pheasants, partridges, grouse, woodcocks, teal, golden plovers, chickens, and every other kind et poultry and game in season. Misers in private rooms, for large or wean wiles, from 31, ed. to to. per head. The famous London Dinner is served daily from 4 until 8 o'clock, at U. 9d. per head : attendance, 3d. Good dinner bock and claret at 23. per bottle, Is. per pint. !berries, ports, champagnes, Re., of the choicest vintages and breads at Continental prices. This Establishment Opens on Sundays at 4 o'clock. FREDERICK SAW VER. Solo Proprietor, and of PIM WS, 3, 4. and G. Poultry. 30 and 40 Ducklerbary, Cheapside. LATE PUILVILYUR. TO IKE CRYSTAL PALACE KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN KIMIEMON, 186$. Thb celebrated old HUSH WIMKT gained the DUBLIN MEDAL—ItPitlu is pure, mild, meirow, delicious, and very wholesome. Hold in nobles, f a. Ed. each, at the retail houses in laden : by the agents in the prtncipal towns in England ; or wholesale at s. Great Windmill-street, London, W --observe the red seal, pink label, and cork larandod " Klankan's LL Whisky. 'PO HOTEL EEPERS and large CONSUMERS. 1. The Cheapest House in Loudon for POULTItY„ GAME, and all kinds of i'AIRY iItuDITCY. Wiltshire Bacon, by side or balfuide Good family Cheese 7d. to 71d. per lb. Mae CDs:Jure Chet seC syd. per lb. P.m Poultry, and Game are now very ehesp. W. end J. Z. TAYLOR. S. SS, Little Pulteneyetreet,Goldeesquare. Established Half a Century. •I TRANSPARENT CANDLES.—If you only -a- want something pretty to look at, without minding • little melte mad smell, and • little bending and running over • the room sh..uld happen to be rather warmer than equal, buy any of the very transparent low quality Paraffins Candli.• now sold lively every uhere at one shilling per pouu.i : but if, along with beam of al.pearance, you require steady brilliancy of light, and freedom tror. risk of those little ovcasional mishaps, tell your dealer to wooly yoU With " PRICES GOLD MEDAL PALMITIN). Ck.NDLL74, 4 Which, though charged at a higher price per pound, ate really cheaper when the difference of quality is taken into meant. They are believed to be the very best substitute yet Produced for real wet and spermaceti, now at such an estravagant V. and are being introduced In of them in the West }hid e and ekewher• waste esceWsa of quality is studied as 'GU as economy. WINTER OVERCOATS. 103, ST OPPOSITE EXETER-HALL o=att-ution glean in this Establishment to WINTER AIS, Is and a select stock Is always lao il lbsod at HAMILTON and KIMPTO TAILORS and 01/1111COAT- 17 SHER and GLE/TNY, OUTFITTERS _ ..A nl; establishment In Landon neat door to Somerset. enntiA Strand. N.B. Lists of neasasery outfit for every purpose I na apPo no tetrell rat st to us. lndia. China, and the Ockalles, will be for- nd appa TO - LADIES.-ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, an _AL Oriente! Botanical Preparation for Improving and Beautt. 'Mt lee t • mplexion end Skin. The radiant bloom it imparts to the che, red the suttee's and delicacy which it induces of the hands Awl arms, Its capability of soothing irritation and K unming all redness, tan. pimples, spots, freckles, dieeolorstions, and ether I . :Nkneou3 visitations, render It indispensable to every toilet It . %bites all the effects of climate on the skin. whether with refer..., to cold and inclemency. or intense solar heat. Price is f.n nlBl 8.. 04. per bottle.—Sold at 20, Hatton-garden and by ehrnk:s are! perfumers. Ask tor" !lowlands' Kalydor, end leware of venous and pernicious articles under the name of LLETYUCE contains an active: -0 - 1 nine:pie the Istvan*, which possesses all the soothing =es ot • ;plum wi th ...etas dangen.—Mr. 0. J (MBA C , French , I symarket, prepares a Syrup and • Pate of Latins tettuce , highly recommended by the Medical Protessionfer taw asthma, bronchitis, and all chest affections. Syrup, bi b. ed.: Pere. 1.. Mr end es. ed. Pate. Ise prat. la Mei eed Os. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an ettertual remedy, without confining the bowels or. neerting the head, tru 't a uO3 and plemant, Is admitted to • be the beet medicine f tely relieving coughs, colds, isonfirmed of asthma, and incipient consumption. It ire- • emently curri perrnbe whom the faculty pronounce incurable admirably sours the tickling which provoke. frequent in.,__aPeroarlang consumption lie effects are truly l ' i ' e o = of sleep, or even lying down f. fear of suffoow vim. Mfoes pend ou relief In a tees ostnntes after taking it only and sold by W. LAMBERT, eisenstet, 8, King WO. iias-street , Charing-cross, Loudon, and by all dregs:lets, In , In ntlet. 01 44., and three 'entities In one, ts. ed. Be particular and ask for Lambert's Balsam. The name and address In Imitated ou the gamy. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. no SIXTY-Noni ANNUAL SHOW of FAT STOCK, Sheep, Pigs, Rents, Seeds, and AricaNatal Implements, at the AGSICULTURAL•HALL, London.—AthaNellon One tetthing. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW, AGRICCIATIAL-HALL, Loadon.—THlS DAY.—Admision one MUD& Q MITHF I ELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW, 5.7 AGILICHLTDRALMALL, London, THIS DAT (Tweedy), Wednooday, Thonday, sad /*Msg.—Admission One Shilling. SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. Admission One Shilling. QMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. 13 Doors open at 9 morning, dos, at 9 ovsning.—Ona Miffing. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.--GRAND DAL D'OPULA, MONDAY, Dec. 16, 1867. Open till Three a.m. (by permission). Usual entertainments suspended for this night only. Orchestra of 100 performers. Conductor, RIVIIO.I. Nolo Cornet, Mr. Reynohis. Twelve Masters of Cerensordes, under the direction of Mr. Birch. Doors open at 9 110 ; dancing to begin at 10. The whole of the vast building and antevuoms thrown open to the dancers. Gentlemen's tickets, 16e.: ladles' tickets, 10s. balcony tickets to view the " Bal," !a 6d. To be had at the Alhambra Box-oence, the Alham bra Dais, and at all the chief Libraries. Refreshments at axed sharps. ♦ few private bones to be bad on application. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, (Managing Director. Mr. Y. Strange.) Three Ballets, 000 Dan 60 Instrumentalists, gingen, /korai:Mx Mimics; Pic tures, Latest Tel Saloons, Supper-roo_ms, Lavatories, Sllioklng-rooms, Evening Paper ; 10 ...besOul Pieces Every Night. Open at hall-peat Seven, begin at Eight. Prices-lu, Is., and 6d. ; Itmerved Seats, sa : Private Boxes, from AI la. Bozo es open trots Eleven to Pour. HANOVER-SQUARK—The New Magazine of Made. Edited by Lower Stoma. Price is. The DECEMBER NUMBER Is now to be had of every musicaciler and bookseller, and at every railway station to Great Britain and Ireland. _ . _ London: Ashdown and Pany, Hanover-square. HANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER con tains a new place for the piano. I.y E. SILAY. "A Dolton°, sraoafalli wagon, full of molodles."—Morning Post. AANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER con tains a new song by Miss Vntoinia 011111.111., the words hy . ICLIZMIRTH BARRETT BlLOVinnia—'• Change upon Change." 'An untesually attractive song, not only well written and panty vocal, twit highly melodloasand imparioned." —The yueen. HANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER. con tains a new pie ,e for the piano, by W. Liam entitled " The Gipsies Revel." "The name sufficiently indicates its character. light and pleasing. liar Kuhe's contribution will haven host of admirers." —Sunday Times. H ANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER con tain a new song by M. W. BALM The words by Camp bell Clarke.—" Though Age be like December." ":simple and unpretending la character, but toll of genuine feeling end abounding In artistic touches."--Bunday Timm. HANOVER-SQUARE. —The EXTRA CHRIST MAS I . 4IIILBEIL, oeselsting entirely of New Dance Moak, will be ready next SATURDAY. CONTZITS : Kellogg Valise. Ardhl ; 14;11eioici Mazurka Cane ; L'anclen rtglrse, quathille on old French airs, Henry W. Ooodhan Blush rose Walla, Charles Godfrey ; Thatanlarre Ualop, Charles de Maslen& Price la. Ashdown and Parry, llanorerequare. THE BURNING OF HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Up to a late hour last night the fire had not been entirely extinguished, and there was unmistakable evidence that there must be a good deal still smouldering beneath the surface of the debris which water does not reach. It is stated that there are jewels and other valuables worth some 10,0001. under the part of the rains near the wardrobe and dressing-rooms. A search for these would be fraught with great danger, for the lofty walla which overhang this portion of the property are in a totter ing condition, and Mr. Flaxmore, one of the officers of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, who has been left in charge, prevents any one who h as lost property in the fire from disturbing the debris, lest these these walls should topple and fall. The large water tank still remains attached to the top of the southern wall, but the wall itself near the foundation is rent in several places. During the day coils of rope ware passed over the top of tholes walls for the purpose of pulling them inside the ruins, the fear being that if a sharp north-easterly wind sprang up, they might fall upon the houses in the Piazza in Pall•mall. During yesterday the Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Sutherland were among those who visited the ruins. Great distress is likely to follow amongst the subordinates of the theatre, the choristers, the stage carpenter,, supernumeraries, and others, engaged at small salaries, and it is understood that a public meeting will be held to devise means for their temporary relief. Mr. Jennings, secretary to the theatre, gives the following account of the calamity : He was, as usual, all day in the theatre, and was the only person in the house with the three firemen, Drown, Easton, and Maynard, and the hallkeeper, and general c ustodian of the building, Mr. Sprules, and his wife, when the fire broke out. Mr. Jennings was forced from the theatre by the building being filled with smoke and the roof flaming with fire at exactly a quarter past eleven, as he had an instant before made reference to his watch. Noticing the intensely red illumination of his room, which unnatural and fearful light totally overcame the white brightness of 1 two gas globes and the fire which was burning in the grate, Mr. Jennings looked out into the Haymarket and saw the facade of buildings, and, at the end of Suffolk. place, all the large windows of the Union Club, blazing with strong, flickering light, exactly like the effect of a splendid golden sunset, deepening into red, on a clear summer evening. A passage of some length, opening at right angles to another long passage, which is the usual thoroughfare between the hall and the staircase leading up to the stags, was, when he opened his doer and entered it, full of smoke. From the absence of the usual gas-burners, which for the sake of economy on a day of i non-performance, as Fridivas, were not lit—Mr. Jen nings ni gm had difficulty in m aking his way through this long, dark passage ; but from his intimate knowledge of the ramifications of the theatre he succeeded, by feeling his way along the wall, until he discovered the ball to the right and the egress into the Opera Colonnade. The hall he could with difficulty see across, from its being filled with black, rolling smoke, which was at that moment pouring before the force of the raging flames at the north-western and western sides of the theatre, which were confined, without windows , by brick walls and buildings. At this time the hall was vacant. Not a soul was to be seen or heard, and on forcing the street door back, and emerging into the street, Mr. Jennings en countered the first policeman, who was giving the alarm right and left, and forcibly opposed Mr. Jennings' desire and intention to return into the theatre and rescue his books and papers and property. At this time scattered policemen and a miscellaneous group of people were run ning towards the building, and the audience then quitting the Haymarket Theatre were congregating in the vacant roadway in front of the burning building, where the cloud of smoke was rolling. At this time not an engine was to be seen, and only policemen and scattered vehicles, end the usual crowd which ovittpies the Haymarket ; even fewer persons were about than usual. Idiulante Titiens alone has, it is said, lost jewellery worth from 1,000/. to 1,2001., in addition to all her magnificent stage dresses. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. TO THE LETTOR OT THE EXPREAS, Sts.,—Will you be so good as to let it be known that the Haymarket Theatre has escaped without the slightest injury from the lament►ble destruction of Her Majesty's, and that the " Little Theatre " is open nightly. —I am, Lc., JNO. B. BUCKBTONL Dec. 9. POLYTECIINIC INSTITUTION. —A lecture on Abys sinia and the Abyssinian Expedition has been added to the entertainments at this place of amusement. The lecturer is Mr. T. Baines, F.H.G.S., artist to the North Australian and Zambesi expeditions, and his lecture is illustrated by dioramic paintings of his own, representing some choice portions of Abyssinian and South African scenery. The lecturer dwells upon the past history and present physical and social features of the country in which we are all now so much interested, and describes the antecedents and character of Theodore, over whose forces he thinks we shall obtain an easy victory. A PUBLIC DANCER.—A correspondent, in tho habit of constantly attending our public places of enter tainment, writes —" One of my terrors is at an end—Her Majesty's Theatre, fortunately Bred on Friday night in stead of on Saturday, when I should have taken my place there. This trap was admirably adapted for rapid and complete ignition and obstruction to egress, and the con sequences would have been awful twenty-four hours later. There are a few other such tripe into which people ought not to be enticed. I speak feelingly, having to pass so many evenings in danger. Exeter-ball, although pretty safe from lire, is a must dangerous place fur any panic, real or .feigned, to occur in. But these things are allowed to go nn, while a chimney-pot a little awry is dealt with sa a risk to public safety. No thanks to any human fore sight that hundreds of lives were not unrifled at Her Ma jesty's Theatre, as had it been a night of performance there must have bees. I hops the press will aotise this." TICLEGRAPHIO INTELLIGENCE. (azurza's TII=RAIIS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Drx 7 9, Evnri No. In the sitting of the Legislative Chamber to-day the announced interpellations on the affairs of Ger- , many were brought forward. M. Gamier Pages dwelt upon the contradictions which existed between the pacific declarations of the government and its disquieting acts, which had caused perturbation in commerce and anxiety in Europe. The interview at Salzburg had paralysed public business and alarmed Germany. He said— " The government which proclaimed the principle of nationalities has arrayed against it the nationali ties of America, of Russia, of Germany, and of Italy. France ought to seek a point dappui not in Austria, but in Germany. It was above all things necessary to guard against an alliance between Prussian Germany and Italy." M. Olivier maintained that the convention of the 15th September was a French acceptance of the Italian vote which proclaimed Rome the capital of Italy. If Italian unity could resist all attacks it was because unity was the wish of the nation. The partisans of the fallen Princes alone desired the overthrow of Italy, but France could not lend her hand to such machinations. M. Thiers rose and interrupted the speaker. "To maintain such a policy we must cancel our history. We are here one time as Germans, another time as Italians, never as Frenchmen." M. Olivier resumed his speech. He appealed to history i favour of his view of the question. As regarded the German question, he said that the anger of Prussia against France, instead of being generous and disinterested, was represented es jealous and menacing. M. Thiers, in reply to hi. Olivier, maintained that the political object of Henry IV. in supporting the small states was to op pose the House of Austria, which wished to form a German unity as Prussia is doing at the present moment. He again protested against the policy of great agglomerations which resulted in authorising conquests around France to her detriment, and might change the face of the world by introducing into Europe the establish ment of two great powers —one, Germany with 66 millions of inhabitants, and the other Russia, with 120 millions. M. Rouher replied that doubtless the first principle acted upon by a government ought to be to promote the national interests, but it ought not to look with a jealous eye upon events abroad, always thinking of intervening to prevent them. Nor ought it to allow itself to be taken in tow by events which were being accomplished in the name of the principle of nationality, nor forget that patriotism which ought always to be its guid ing star. The policy of the French government might be defined as an energetic feeling in favour of the maintenance of right everywhere and the reviudication of that of France, without alarms, and with confidence in the strength of the country—applying these ideas to accomplished facts in Italy and Germany. Al. Rouher repelled the reproach of inconsistency which had been cast upon the policy of the govern ment. He denied that Italian unity had been made by the medium of France. Nevertheless, France did not entertain any idea of dismembering it. He disowned in the most absolute manner such an idea, but affirmed anew the determination of the government to see the autonomy of the States of the Pope admitted in accordance with the convention of the 15th September. Relative to Germany, the policy of France had consisted in political appeasement and quiet. The French government frankly accepted accomplished facts as long as its interests and its dignity were not com promised. The trial of the persons implicated in the secret societies will come on next Friday. Nine indi viduals accused are under arrest; three are still at large. The Etendard says that there is no intention of deferring the discussion on the organisation of the army, which commences as soon as the commission appointed to consider it has terminated its labours The Patrie, alluding to the reports of discus sions in the government and of a change of minis try, believes it may confidently affirm that there is not the slightest foundation for them. The agree ment between the different members of the govern ment has not been for one moment disturbed. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Dm 9, Evrcurc. It is dated that at the military conference re cently held here, the representatives of the South German States announced the firm determination of their governments to take unanimously the part of Prussia in the eventuality of a war between that country and France. SPAIN. MADRID, Ds°. 9, Evil= NG. A telegram has been received from the Governor of Cuba announcing that the cholera has decreased in that Wand. The Governor of Porto Rico announces that shocks of earthquake were experienced at Havannah on the 29th November. THE ELBE. HAMBURG, Dec. 9. The Elbe, as far as Glilckstadt, is full of loose Boating ice. The navigation of sailing vessels is com pletely stopped, and steamers meet with great ob stacles. TEE FOREIGN MAILS. SouTHAmrrox, Dsc. 9.—The Royal Mail Com pany's steamship Oneida, Captain Reeks, sailed this after noon with mails for Lisbon, St. Vincent, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Sc. She took out 1.18 passengers and a general cargo on freight, including gold coin, 61,3181. 10s.: bar silver, 8,0001. ; jewellery, 2851. ; and French jewellery, 6,766/. CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—MALTA, DEC. 9. The Pere left at 8 a.m. to-day, and the Delta leaves at midnight (experienced bad weather). The fqrstier may be expected at Marseilles about the evening of the 11th, and the latter at Southampton about the 18th inst. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—GIBRAL TAR, Dsc. 9.—The Nyanza, from Southampton 4th inst., arrived to-day, at 7 a.m., and left at 11 a.m. for Alexan dria. All well AN ILL-PAID Paoesaston. —lt is stated in the usbreloe Times that two medical gentlemen have recently been appointed to the Uxbridge Union —one, Mr. Vipen, to the flillington district, at • salary of 30/. • year, or Is. 70. • day ; the other, Mr. King, to the Uxbndge and Ickenham district at • salary of 35/. a year, or le. 111. a day, both gentlemen having to find their own medicines. The pay of the Millington and Ickenham postman is 2s. • day, and he has nothing to find. PATH:TT-OFFICE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINOTON.— Number of viaitors for the week ending Dec. 6, 2340. Total somber since the opening of the Mums tree daily (12th May, 1868), 1,206,337. ITALY. irßox 01311 SPECIAL 'ONDIMT.) ROME, DEC. 3. Among the wounded prisoners in Rome there has been great mortality, partly owing to the nature of the injuries received, and partly, I sus pect, to the want of well-arranged, well-ventilated hospitals in which to lodge them. It sounded very shocking last year in Prussia to hear of so many thousand beds prepared for the wounded in the same report which might tell of how such and such a corps was on its march to the front. But the Prussians were right when they looked disagreeable truths in the face, and got ready to meet the conseauenooe of glOrintie ',utiles. Now with the newly-developed organisation of the Papal army it was natural that all thought of beds, of ambulances, and of hospitals should come far behind the paramount anxiety to keep Garibaldi at a sufficient distance ; and when Mentana had produced its harvest of human suf ferers, there was not such preparation as would have given the poor fellows their best chance. Perhaps no amount of comfort in hospital would have saved our gallant young countryman, Mr. Sholby, whose sad end is one of the most touching incidents of the late struggle. He was severely wounded, and his condition made several of the ladies who visited him uneasy as to the result. But with wonderful calmness and fortitude he bore up against his sufferings, saying that he should get better after awhile, and be able to use the arm which remained to him. Mr. Sholby was an uncom promising Garibaldian, firm to the last in his belief that he had fallen for a just cause. And he con tinued to sink in bodily strength day by day, with his dogged British pluck unabated. Not a regret for what some would call his rashness, not a sign of anxiety about himself. If there were moments of depression, it was when he spoke of his mother, I I and all this time she was travelling towards him— ! travelling towards her wounded son, whom she was destined never to see alive. The sorrow-stricken lady arrived only a few hour after the hero had passed away—fora hero he was in his courage and firmness. That picture of young Sholby dying in the Roman hospital whilst his mother is at the very gates of the city, deserves to be retained upon canvass, and hung in the proudest gallery of Italian liberators. I must not conclude my letter without speaking of another wounded Englishman who is among the prisoners. Mr. A. W. Benny, though much injured in the right hand, so much as to endanger its loss, is considered to be progressing favourably. He has been removed to • better ventilated lodging, and even succeeds in writing for amusement very cleverly with the left hand. Thanks to the kind offices of Mr. Wayne, the English assistant chap lain in Rome, and to some ladies, English and American, who have taken the case under their especial care, Mr. Benny wants for no comfort which can be afforded him in his present state. I under stand that when sufficiently recovered he will go free, as a matter of comae, the other non-Roman prisoners having been freed. Up to the time of the post going out Rome re mains perfectly quiet. How should it do anything else with such a watcher close round the corner at Civita Vecchia l THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. FIAMEICE. Dre. 9, Evionago. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the new President, Signor Lanza, assumed office. The PIUMIDINT announced.thet Signals Miceli, Laporte, and Sella had presented an interpellation relative to the conduct of the government in the late political crisis. Signor StLLA proposed that the following motion should be voted by the Chamber before discussing the interpel letion above-mentioned :—" That the Chamber, firmly determined to maintain inviolate the national pro- gramme, declaring Rome the capital of Italy, passes to the discussion of the interpellation." This motion was signed by several members of the Right and Left. Signor Sella, in his speech, urged the paramount necessity of restoring the Italian finances, and pointed out that to go to Rome, and above all to remain there, it would be neoes- Nary to have serious guarantees for Europe that the Italian government would follow a loyal and pacific policy. i• Signor CORTESE opposed the motion of Signor Sella, because receiving mixed support from the Right and Left, which involved ambiguity. It was necessary thoroughly to establish the difference between the means by which the different parties would obtain the object desired by all. Signor Quart concurred in the views of Signor Cortese, and the necessity for avoiding ambiguity. It was now necessary to discuss the means of going to Rome, after ' wards, if requisite, again to proclain Rome as the capital. General MrsaBREA concurred with Signor Criapi in the necessity of discussing the means. The question at issue wee one of practical results, not of aspirations ; and Signor Sella's motion would only prejudice the discussion of the interpellation. Neither could he approve of • motion thus supported; such coalition of parties could only produce ambiguity. He oontinued, "Let us not discuss or even affirm the principle all have at heart. Discuss the means, and clearly establish what path you intend following on this point. The government frankly declares Itself, and will firmly maintain its slows. The country is weary of ambiguity, and wishes to know where and with whom we are going. If the Roman question has not been earlier solved do not accuse the Right, but rather three who have impelled the country to the brink of an abyss." In conclusion the Minister .aid that a motion only vaguely affirming • principle was unworthy of discus sion by the parliament. After a speech from Signor Laporte, opposing the motion, but censuring the policy of the government, the motion for the interpellation to be preceded by Signor Sella's order of the day was rejected by 201 against 106 votes. The Chamber then proceeded to the discussion of the interpellation. Signors Miceli and Laporte Tote in terms of severe cen sure of the policy of the government in the Roman ques tion, and dwelt forcibly upon the French intervention and the recent declarations of al. Rouher. The sitting then closed, and the discussion will be resumed to4norrow. MIXED MARRIAGES IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.—The following announcement was made at St. Aloysins and other catholic churees, in Washington, on Sunday last :—" A catholic man was lately married to a protestant lady in this church, with the necessary dis pensation of the most reverend archbishop. The intention of these parties to appear afterward before a protestant minister, there to be married again, not being knowu either to us, when they were married here, or to the archbishop when he gave the dispensation to the man to marry a protestant, by the order of the moat reverend archbishop, regret is hereby publicly expressed for what occurred at that late marriage. The archbishop has disapproved of the lame, and required this public announcement, lest it should pass into a precedent, and that all eatitolies may understand that such marriages are contrary to the disci pline of the church. Thus far, the order of the most reverend archbishop, we may only add, reminds the people that according to the laws of the church, any of the faithful who presume to get married out of the church, by the very act incur excommunication." The above is un derstood to refer to the recent marriage of the Belgian Secretary of Legation, Baron Von Harm, to a protestant lady.—New York Times, Nov. 2L - CRY.TAL Purr►.. ONE SHILLING DAY.— MONDAY, DEC. 9.— Admissions on payment, 322 ; ditto by season tickets, 751; total visitors, 1,073. FRANCE. (PlOll 0171 OWN PARIS, BLINDLY Surnro. The journals which continue to maintain the position which 1 dissented from yesterday, namely, that M. Thiers' speech forced the Emperor to reverse his policy, quote, as applicable to the pre sent situation, a smart antithesis of Royer Collard : —" The government had a majority ; now the I majority has the government." The tiers party is now called the Thiers psrty It is not wonderful, after the efface position in which M. Rouher's peach left the rquiti de Moustier, that there should be k talk of the resignation of the l a tt er. Al t h ough th e ;;L:nister 9f Kureign Affairs is no orator, and is said to !MIT " mumbled his two speeches from manuscript slips," he is man of business enough to have said neither more nor less than he was told, and it must be galling to him to find the Senate complaining that their dignity is lowered by his amphibious declaration having been thought good enough for them, while it was reserved for M. Rouher to make a clean breast before the Corps LoSgislatif, and even there to " wipe the eye" of the Marquis de Moustier, who spoke first. Ths contrast between the amount of confidence vouchsafed to the two ministers respectively is illustrated by an allusion to M. do Moustier's deprecating expression that the Senate ought not to ask him for more than "daily bread" (pain quotidien). Thereupon, it is said that M. de Moustier is the minister of pain quotidien, but M. Rouher, who on Dec. 5 triumphed in the applause of the clerical deputies and the Bishop of Orleans, is the minister of pain hini (that blessed bread which is distributed after mass to all who desire to be partakers). Another of the mots flying about the Corps Ligialatif is worth noting. The Emperor has often been re proached with his pulitique de bascule (see saw policy). Starting from this postulate the new situation created by the debate of Dec. 5 is thus illustrated : Take a long pole, the centre of which shall be the convention of Sep t. 15. Seat M. de Moustier at one end of the pole and M. Rouher at the other. So far all goes well ; the equilibrium is perfect. But, lo ! suddenly MM. Thiess and Berryer jump upon M. Rouher's shoulders, and then the equilibrium is broken. M. Nicolet, counsel for the Princess Metternich in the recent prosecution of the Courrier Francais,' was placed in a situation of considerable embar rassment a few days before the trial by a message from Prince Metternich, requesting him to call at the Austrian embassy to talk over the affair. The etiquette of the French as of the English bar is that a counsel does not wait upon his client, but that the client must wait upon him. M. Nioolet convoked a special meeting of the council of the order of advocates, of which he is a member, to advise hint whether, in the case of such a high personage as the Austrian Ambassador, he could make an ex ception to the rule. The council was unanimously of opinion that there was no reason to depart from established usage. Prince Metternich being in formed of the difficulty, sent a card with the corner turned down to M. Nicolet, assuming, I suppose, that the barrister could not fail to return his personal visit. I do not know the sequel of the story ; but it occurs to me that if M. Nicolet sent the prince a card also turned down he would have done all that politeness required. THE RECENT GALES. Accounts still continue to reach Liverpool of the disastrous effects of the as of last week. The Dutch ship Catherine Johanna be. been abandoned at sea, but the crew are reported to have been aimed. The barque Ploatingeloud, bound from the Mersey to Pernambuco, has been compelled to put into Queenstown, considerably damaged, having been in collision with a steamer off Tuekar. The ship Thornton, which struck on , the bar at the entrance to the Mersey, was, up to the last accounts, settling down in the sand. Part of her cargo, cotton, had been saved, and landed at Liverpool. The J. T. Southard, which ran into the rocks west of the Menai Lighthouse, is likely to become a total wreck, and the sea continued so rough that the ship could not be boarded. Arrangements are being made with respect to recovering some of the cargo. The Staffordshire, which left the Mersey for Bombay, has put into Liverpool,having been on the bar at the entrance to the Queen's Channel. The ship,however, was towed off and taken into the Allred Dock. The screw steamer Balmoral, bound to Ghent from Liverpool, struck on a bank close to the Tranmere Ferry yesterday,snd sustained considerable injury to her bottom. It is expected, with the assistance of the underwriters' steam pump, that the steamer will be enabled to be taken into dock for repairs. Yesterday morning one of the war vessels lying in the Mersey was run into by a schooner, which sank shortly afterwards. The war vessel received no damage, nor were any lives lost. The Cremorno has put into Gibraltar damaged, but will I proceed. The ship Alfred, bound from the Mersey to Calcutta, was in tow of the steamer Malta (arrived at ' Liverpool on Sunday, from Smyrna) on the sth and 6th inst. At 7 p.m. on the 6th the hawser parted. and at day light on the 7th the ship could not be seen. There was a heavy pie blowing at the time; the Lizard bore 15miles north-east. The Alfred was disabled at the time she parted with the Malta, and bad two feet of water in her hold. The ship Bosphorus, which left Shields for Aden on the 30th Nov., put into Plymouth on Sunday, with decks swept, longboat gone, one man killed, and one washed overboard. There are seven men disabled, and nearly all the sails cut or blown away. The liammonist (s.s.), Captain Sault., from Hamburg for Hull, got on shore yesterday morning on Brancaster Beach. Part of the crew and passengers were saved by the Lynn lifeboat ; and the latest accounts state the host had spin started to rescue the remainder of those on board the steamer. THE WEATHER AND THE PARES.—The continued heavy fall of snow and sleet of Sunday last was succeeded at midnight-by a severe frost. The thermometer yester- day morning had registered 12 degrees below freezing point ; after 12 o'clock on Sunday night, and daring the whole of yesterday, it stood at from 3 to 4 degrees below that point. At ten o'clock last night it stood at 8 degrees below, with every symptom of falling lower as the night advanced. This morning, however, there has been a rapid thaw. THE. BISHOPRIC OT GIBRALTAR AND THE REV, GOODWIN 115TCH.1614—We are informed that the highly esteeuied rector of one of our best endowed parishes has been offered the bishopric of Gibraltar, vacant by the re signation of the Right Rev. Dr. Trower ; but are not yet in a position to say whether it has been accepted. Although the offer is a tribute to the piety, zeal, ability, and many estimable qualities of the rev. gentleman alluded to, we doubt whether the see is worth his accep tance. It is one of those colonial bishoprica which were founded in 1842, and embrace■ an immense diocese, so far as spans is concerned, extending to Malta and Constanti nople ; and there is a story extant that the rope once mid good-humouredly to the late bishop, " I suppose you re gard me as within your diocese .^ The salary is only I,:tki. a year (with residences at Gibraltar end Malta), paid from the Colonial Ilishopries' Fund, with whom— and not with the government—the appointment rest/A.- 14'rd Surrey Times. THE AMENDED NEW STREETS AM—Yesterday the new act to amend the Metropolitan Streets Act, which received the royal assent on Saturday, was Mimed . The sixth section, as to costermongers, is now amended in respect to the deposit of goods in the streets. his not to aply tocostermongere, street hawkers, or itinerant traders, so tong as they carry ou their Inutile.* in acconlance with ' the regulations from time to time made by the commis sioners of police : and so much of the sixth motion in the recent act as refers to the surface of any space that inter venes iu say street between the footway and the carriage way is now repealed. The cab question is disposed of by a clause stating that no regulation is to be undo in respect of the carriage of lamps by hackney carriages in respect of the seventeenth section except with the approval of the Secretary of State. The only other section is that the statute is to be construed as one with the other. THE NEW INI'OME-TAX ACT.—Yesterday the new act on the income•tax was printed. From the 6th April lest the additional duty on property, gains, and profits is one penny in the pound ; one halfpenny on lands and in Schedule B, and three-eighths of a penny on Lind in Soot land and Ireland. On half•yearly and quarterly accounts on property, gains, ,kc., becoming pay ab le the duty is to be ' twopence "in the pound. Rear your infanta with Dc BARRY'S REYALENTA CROCOLATZ TOWIWM, in tins of 12 cups, ts.; 24 cups, as. Cd. ; es cups. ; 245 cups, 306.; 576 nips, 655., or one penny per cup. It is more delicious, digestible, and nourishing than the beat concentrated beef. Also adapted to strengthen Invalids and delicate children.—Du Barry and Co., TT. Reseut.quagrys London. and all grocers and e.hatnisuA—LAAlvertletuisessij EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT ALPRISTON, AND CAPTURE BY THE POLICE. East Sussex has fcr some time past been the scene of the operations of • gang of burglars, who, not wit the exertions of the police officers, have managed to Tceep at large and perms their predate, y occu pation in thin division of the county. Many dazing and extensive burglaries and robberies committed during the put few months have been chronicled in these oolun.ns, but, with one or two exceptions, the thieved have Dul -1 formly succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the polio.. Another of these offences was committed on Friday last at Alfriston, but fortunately in that case much of the stolen property bas been recovered and an important capture hu been lus49 by tale polies. It sent: rs that late a Vrictsy night, te early on Saturday todraper. The mimes of Mr. Ebenezer Cotiiort, grocer .. - of I l ir a;,A—lfiegristsothn,eiadthiett i une .e ni v s ee 4i scaled proximi the ty wel t : o th f ece abutters were not timed, and a small triangulei glass having been extraeteci from one of the windoir the fastening, by some ingenious process , was undone, e a bye- - k stree ze t . an esay entrance was thus effected, no further obstacles to • tour of the lower rooms of the house presenting themselves. Here the industi ions felons pcooseded on their work without interruption, and having removed property, consisting prin cipally of articles of drapery, to the value of about 100/. they quietly decamped. On makin g th e di scovery o f hi s loss, Mr. Comfort communicated the facts to the pollee, who,with commendable romplitude instituted an elabor ate system of inquiry, •g, and wi:tching, which resulted in the capture of the supposed thief, and which reflects great wadi, on Mr. Superintendent Jenner and the other officers who directed and executed the sucesedul operations. Two guano bags, containing the stolen goods, were found concealed in seine straw on the preies of Mr. Cane, of Berwick Court, Berwick. This place was watched; and when night was considerably advanced • man approached and was preparing to remove the plunder, when be made the unpleasant discovery that the officers of the law were close upon his heels. He took to flight, but was soon overtaken sod captured by Sergeant Thomas Holden and Police-constable Richardson ; indeed had he escaped them, other officers would probably have been more successful, as policemen were stationed in almost every direction. Oa being apprehended an open knife was found near him, on the ground, which be is supposed to have dropped, but whether he bad it with the ides of defending himself or for cutting the guano bags of mune, mere matter of speculation. The prisoner, who gives the name of Barnet Samuels, was taken before • magistrate at HaiLibam yesterday (Monday) and remanded, but it is doubtful whether the examination will be eon eluded in time for the prisoner to be committed to the assizes to be held this week. The inhabitants of the county may be congratulated on this speedy apprehension of one of the midnight marauders whose late doings have been • source of considerable alszm and the police deserve credit for affecting such se im portant arrest. —Suarez Advertiser. THS IRISH CHURCH QUSSSIO74.-A conference on thia subject, convened by the Liberation Society, is to take place to-morrow evening at the City Terminus Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Edward Hull. TROPHIES OP THE RUSSIAN WAR.—At the last meeting of the trustees of Harper's Charity, at Bedford, Mr. James Howard, on rising to move, pursuant to notice, that the Russian inn in front of the schools be removed, said it was not his intention to make any lengthened ob servations on the subject, and expressed regret for his unavoidable absence ou the occasion of the last meeting. He believed that he was mainly instrumental in placing the gun is its present position, but since that period be had changed his opinion with respect to this as well as some other subjects. Now, taking • calm, dispassionate view of the natter, he thought that a warlike emblem was • very inappropriate decoration for • scholastic institution. (Hear, hear.) It was a trophy of • war of which the country had no reason to be proud, and., moreover, he believed that the people of Russia had a ldndlier feeling to England than to any of the other nations. (Hear, near) So.ue time ago a distinguished Russian gentleman was passing by with him (Mr. Howard), and recognising it as • Crimean gun, asked him if he had reason to be proud of such a trophy, or if it was calculated to promote good feelings between the two nations. From the kind feelings ex pressed by this gentleman on the part of Russians towards Englishmen, he (Mr. Howard) confessed that he felt ashamed of the trophy, and therefore he moved that the gun be removed.—A Trustee : What is to be done with it'—Mr. James Howard: That is another question.—Alder man Howard seconded the motion, without comment.— Mr. Jones : My impression is that it ought to be broken up and sold for old metal. (longhter.) Mr. Kilpin : The best plan would be to send it to the barracks, on the Coldington-road.—Mr. James Howard : I beg to propose that the disposal of it be left to the Estate Committee. (Laughter.)—Mr. Wyatt : Without presuming to interfere with the prerogatives of the committee, I would respect fully suggest that the original idea entertained by another board should not be carried out by them, viz., to place the gun on St. Peter's-green. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) —Mr. Jones : If you adopt Mr. Kilpin's suggestion there will he an end of the matter. Other parts of the town will object to have the gun.—Ultimately Mr. Howard's suggestion, that the disposal of the gun be left to the Estate Committee, was unanimously acceded to. ATTEMPT TO MURDER • POLICEMAN AT MAN CHEsTILIL—A young Irishwoman, named Mary Quirk, was brought before Mr. H. L Trafford, at the Salford Town. ball, yesterday, charged with attempting to shoot • police man who is alleged to have seduced her. Polieeconstable Sowerby said he was on duty last (Sunday) night, and about eight o'clock was going along the Crescent, in the direction of the Pendleton police-office, when the prisoner overtook him, and walked alongside of him until he get to the office. He endeavoured to persuade her to go home, because he was on duty, but she refused to do so. After calling at the Pendleton police-office, at about • quarter to nine, he got upon an omnibus going from Pendleton to Manchester, and the prisoner got inside. He got off the omnibus at the corner of Oldfield-road and walked in the direction of the Salford police-office. At the corner of Bexley-square he saw the prisoner, and again asked her to go home. She replied that she would if she liked. He then left her and went to the police-oflde, where he remained from halt-past nine until 20 minutes to two. He then left the office to go home, and was turning from Kirkley-street into Brunswick-s treet. when he seam saw the prisoner. She rid to him :—" It is the last time I shall come. You have two cartes de rude of mine ; will you give them to me!" He replied that he would bring them to her. He then saw her raise her arm and at the mime instant heard the report of a pistol ; and felt a smarting sensation in his right arm and in his eyes from the effects of the flash. He did not see the prisoner again. She had repeatedly told him she would shoot him. He ceased to keep company with her about two months ago. She had frequently told him she was in the family way by him. The witness was erou-examined at consider able length by the prisoner, and it appeared that shortly before the attempt was made to shoot him he was walking with another young woman, and seen thus by the prisoner. She was committed for trial—bail being refused. SHOOTING AT A RAILWAY TRAIN. —The other evening ' S. a train was passing along the Severn Junction line of railway, near Holloway-lane, Dawloy, the driver observed a man standing on the side of the Ime holding a gun. When the train reached the spot where he stood, the fellow raised the gun and fired at the engine. Some of the shots struck the stoker on the hand, Lut happily he was not hurt. The man then ran away, and no trace of him has been ascertained. His motive for firing the gun cannot even be guessed at—Biratinoham Post. MR. STOCKLEY'S AUFAIRB.—At the Liverpool Bankruptcy Court yesterday the affairs of Mr. Stockier', the solkitor, who recently absconded owing about 40,000/. —principally trust moneys fraudulently appropriated— came before the commissioner on the question of the ap pointment of assignees. Proofs were tendered to the amount of about 25,000/., many of the debts being proved by widows. After some oppnaition on tic part of Mr. W. K. Tyree, solicitor ; Mr. W. Moon, merchant, of Li verpool ; and Mr. J. Haworth, colliery proprietor, of Rock ferry, were appointed assign/fa The case will again come before the cow t on the Ilth January. Tiia ROYAL BANK, LIVERPOOL.—The liquidators have, it appears, determined to make a call of 100/. per share upon the preference shereholdera This measure &or excited so strong a feeling of dissatisfaction @mount that body, that an association to resist the course being carried out is b- bog organised. The call upon the ordinary shareholders does not exceed BY. . . . RZIR7ATR FAIR. —1 esterday this annual fair was held on Heigate-heath, permission having been obtained from her Majesty's Privy CounoiL There was a moderate show of stock, and fat cattle realised 4s. to d. to as. per stone ; store stock, W. to 141. • bead ; and witch cows, with o calf by their shk, 21)/. to 241. ; inferior coal and ditto to calve down, 141. to IN. per ditto. There were bet few horses on wale, and the trade was inactive. Foua Cmiuts•N AT • Blare.—On the evening of Friday last the wife of John Noble, :4, St. Michael. street, Domfrina, gave birth to four male children, all living. Mrs Noble wee steratted by Dr. Thomson, and she was not much worse than on previous occasions of being confined. Nothing could exceed Dr. Thomson's kindness. attention, and skill in such an unusual ease. The ',Miami: are not much under the ordinary size of in. tants at birth, and are healthy-looking, and seem as likely to live as other infants. When we saw them this forenoon they presented a very interesting sight—fonr babies la one cradle. Tue mother is progresstogizf l avourably. Mrs. Noble was born at Dmoklands, of Kirkpatrick, Durham, stewartry of Kirkendbrig t, and her husband is a native r f Yorkshire ; be is employed m a weaver of tweeds in the factory of Messrs. Milligan. Henderson. and Co., lioviery and tweed manufacturers, Dumfries.—Dam• fries Azondard.