The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

'4< v'' -' 7' /, -t - 7 - -- e • • -4 • RISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, EVERY EVENING, at ti Wednesdays and Saturdays, 3 and S.—Great success of the Holiday Programme, which will he repeated until further notice. Company increased to 27 performers. Moore. Adam; T. Mudge, cracker, Ritter, Pedro Stirling, Japanese Tommy, and Mr. Richard Davis, the Christy' Eight Star Comedians, and their powerful Vocal and instrumental Band—the talk of London. Fauteuils. Ss. ; stalls, 3a.: area, Is gallery, is, : juveniles under If, half price to stalls and area. Tickets and places at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street: Messrs. Keith and Promo, Cheapaide and at Mr. Austin's Ticket Office, IS. Piccadilly. Sir. FREDERICK 131'1U11018, Manager. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (utona's Tx 'sown.) FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 2. The Moniteur du Suir publishes in its bulletin a review of the events of 1866, which concludes as follows :—" The relations of the Emperor's govern ment with all powers could not be more satisfac tory or more friendly. The year 1867 commences therefore under favourable auspices." The same journal declares that the evacuation of Mexico will have been carried out by the Ist of March, whatever may be the course resolved upon by the Emperor Maximilian. The Opinion Rationale announces that the per sonages recently arrested in Madrid will be tran sported to Fernando Po. AUSTRIA. An imperial patent has been issued to-day. It announces that the government has opened nego tiations with the representatives of the countries belonging to the Hungarian crown, and that in consideration of the point which those negotia tions have reached, and with the view of attaining as speedily as possible a thorough settlement of this all-important task, which shall at the same time do justice to all parties, his Majesty has resolved to convoke and ask the co operation of the representatives of the other kingdoms and countries. The Emperor declares that he considers it to be his first and holiest duty to hold firmly and unshakably to the safe con tinuance of the monarchy as the object to be kept in view. The necessities of the times and the state of the empire require that the negotiations on the constitutional question should be concluded in as short a time as possible, and consequently that the rights and claims of the non-Hungarian crown lands should be discussed in a common Assembly. The Emperor, therefore, feels himself impelled to convoke representatives of the non- Hungarian crown lands to an extraordinary Heicharath-Assembly. The Upper House is also called together. The patent further decrees the dissolution of the non-Hungarian provincial Diets, the period of six years for which the members composing them were elected being about to expire. It also orders new elections for those Diets, and convokes the newly-elected members for the 11th of February. The election of deputies to the extraordinary Reichsrath will be the sole object of the meeting of the provincial Diets. The extraordinary Reichsrath is convoked for the 25th February, and it will only be occupied with deliberating upon the question of a constitution. PRLTSBIA. BERLIN, JAN. 2. The Crown Prince presented to-day to the King, in the name of the army, the testimonial in honour of his Majesty's military jubilee. His Royal High ness concluded the speech delivered by him on the occasion as follows :—" May God, who led your Majesty victoriously out of the arduous campaign of last year, grant you yet many long years of peaceful government." The semi-official Provincial Correspondence of this evening says :—" The celebration of the military jubilee of the King is a guarantee that the great national work will be as vigorously pro secuted in the future as it has been gloriously carried on in the past." THE NORTH GERMAN CONSTITUTION. BERLIN, JAN. 2. _ _ _ The draft of the constitution for the North Ger man Confederation makes the distribution of votes in the plenum of the old Frankfort Diet the basis of the system of voting in the Federal Council which is to be attached to the North German par liament. It is proposed to exclude government func tionaries not from the future Diet of the Confede ration (Reichstag), but only from the parliament which is about to assemble. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 2. Marshal Serrano has been arrested. GREECE. ATHENS, Dec. 31. The resignation of the Bulgaria Ministry is understood to have been caused by the election of Deputy Crestenites, a member of the opposition, to the presidency of the Chamber. The programme of the new Ministry declares that they intend to pursue a policy of moderation on the ground that Greece requires the preserve_ tion of public order for the development of her re sources. The Ministry is not a party to the rising in Crete, and does not wish to see disturbances in Turkey. The occurrence of such disturbances is in no way caused by the Greek Government. Greece, notwithstanding her sympathy with the Candiotes, will respect the principle of neutrality towards Turkey. THE BANK OF HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, J►w. 2 The Bank of Holland has reduced its rate of discount from 4i to 4 per cent. INDIA. (Vitt Trieste.) BOMBAY, Dec. 13. The Viceroy has returned to Calcutta. Mr. Marley is expected to produce the Indian budget in February. The Birmah rebellion is reported to be extin guished. The rice crops now being reaped in some of the famine-stricken districts in Bengal are reported to be abundant. Trade is beginning to revive. The committee appointed to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of the Bishop of Calcutta have reported to the government. The blame is mainly thrown on the commander of the steamer Koel, who has been relieved of his com mand. Sir Bartle Frere has not quite recovered from the accident which happened to him at Kandallah, by his horse falling upon him. His journey to Scinde is postponed in consequence. He leaves for England in February. VIENNA, JAN. 2. - - ..., • - No. 6,369.] DE — VITT and DIOOILE'S AUSTRALIAN LDIE of I'tCKET For SYDNEY Direct (to sail punc the loth Jenthin, last .hipping day tat January the i 1 ._ate- built ship DUNBAR CASTLE, A 1 13 yearn. t.a,s, J. R ANSON, Commander; lying to the ot In tin, looks. This line ship, built In 1504 by Mr. James Luny., .4 Sunderland. is a very last saner. she has a his poop. anh unusually lame cabins for the accommodation of Ont-class p.c.,encers. and wdl carry an experienced surgeon.—For terms !night or pasmato apply to DAVVDT and MOORS, 9, Witter- Duet. I)Evirr and MIRE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE ~t PACKET a Dlr.—Yoe ADELAIDE Direct (Just lUlutg up.. the new cupppupr ship ORNATE, A I 10 )paws. ns tons rta r. t.. It. unimander ; lying in the London Doer". 'Vol flue ship has a full poop, and every comfort for the Navin fo..latlon ut e l In paaaengers, aml being a fag miler IS COO• ntly recommendol to shippers of fine (mode—For terms of freltht or purge apply to DEVITT and AIUDITE, e, BMWS blsyst. DEN - irr and MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE I'At'ki r sii litiltAßT TOWN Direct ‘ bss • tr.at pot of her e.trur• eomiged, out will hare fink* despatch). he Soddrloilt dipper ONYX, A 1, register 2el tons, PHILIP CELL. is.duntemter. . Oleg In the London Docks. This favourite trader k noted I , r her fast sailing qualities and sound delivery of canto —Tor terms of freight or passage apply to LEVITY and SOMME, 9, BlUlterderegt. DEVITT and 3I(X)RE'S AUSTRALIAN LINE of PACKET AMP —For BRISBANE WHARF Direct (sill hare quick d,steiteh'. the fast-sailing clipper barque FERO% I A A l, :iiit toils register, T. 51'1.1.1 VAN, Commander; Dung in the East Indio lawks. This ship, built under suns)". I. ward for her fast sailing qualities and sound det e st; .4 ,44.,:.. —4, freight or passage apply to DEVITT and MOO 'J. lidllteretreet. STEAM PROM LIVERPOOL OR oureNtrowN TO NEW YORK TWICE A WEEK. LIVERPOOL, NEW T YORK_ , al E P E RILADLLPHIA STEAM-SHIP COMPANY Meal de maieldng their MI-powered Thoth boo Saw fileam-Mdps„ carrying the United States mai PRAM LIVERPOO for NEW YORK: CITY OP LI 1:LIN, Saturday, Jan. 6. CITY of' EW YORE, Wedneaday, Jan. 9. (ATV OF LIM Saturday, Jan. 1?.. And every Wednesday sad catazday. Clabln proems by the mall steamers selling every Wednesday, a, 17, and tl tenses, accenting to the accommodation. Award passers includes a full supply of cooked provisions. era+7rs lee Canada and the United States booked through on A vantageous terms.— For further particulars apply to W MA N, 22, Waterotrost, Liverpool: and to IiVES and /LACEY, 61, Ring Williatetreek London. CITEAM to GOTHENBURG from London direct. Regular Communleation.—The unrivalled twin MARY, fantail LEIGH, 1,000 tom MO home power. fern City Canal Rutty, and the GUSTA.Y WASA, Captain sTIEIII, 601 t in . 100-home power, from Horselydown, ere &notched alternately every week weather permlttim Pans. as 3a. ts.; 11.—Yor freight or . apth„, timplin's I nivel ml l H flee, W.: or to PIH LLIPIi, GRAYER, 1•11ILLICIN and Cu., St. Dunetan'a-houlle, Croeslano, Great 'foweratreet. LC. THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE 'sauna/SCE 1.1061. PAN Y. 0171=1: —l, Dalentreet s Liverpool, 20 and 11, Paeans,: 7, toruhill . and Charing-cress, London. Invested Valois Fire Premiums received la 1826 730,332 Life Preiniunis rcselved in 1866 220,1011 The following are a few of the ADVANTAGE attaching to the LIFE POLICIES of this company: Moderate rates of premium fur all descriptions of insurance. Fixed bonuses guaranteed 17 the numerous proprietary of an unlimited compatiy. Whole world leave granted on reasonable terms. Policies held as securities are not considered void by this Mike, although the assured should leave the prescribed limits, unaided the holder intorin the "lace all soon as It comes to his knowledge. and pays the adequate extra premium. Claims are payable 30 days after admission. JOHN ATI: INS, Resident Searetary. Fire Premiums falling due at Christmas must be renewed ow or before January U. /I 10 IMPORTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping 1 Companies, and Consignees of Foreign Goods, by steamers or otherwise into the Port of London.—TM proprietors of Free Trade %Turf, Baton, and Upper Free Trade W bort Low pte Duck, I pper Thames-street, GEE= FACILITIIB to the above.—Further information may be obtained on sppitcallon, by letter or to person, to B. CLAY and Co., whafingera sad mara bout* knePers.—Offime, 83, Upper Thsmeadtreet lIOUSES, Furnished or Unfurnished, LAND, and BI 'al N DINE:4 WANTED, by BAYNE and Co.. gene ral estate swab, t. , s, Brook-street, Orosessorayaare, W.— Advances nude accenting to mccurity. K INAHA N'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EX HIBMON, 1866. This celebrated old IRISH WHIM( Y trained the DUBLIN PRUE IIIiDAL —lt !s pure, mild, mellow, deliciouk and very wholesome. Sold In bottles, 3s. bd each, at the retail houses in London. by the agents in the principal towns In Lugland ; or wholesale et a, Great Windmilletreet, London, W. Observe :be mid seal, pink label, and cork branded ' I lnehan's LL Whisky.' GUINEA CIGAR. 1 A lhox of 100 really good HAVANNAH C10,U19 sent car riage free to all parts of the United Kingdom on receipt of Peet agioe order or stamps for tie. ; or sample box of 00 for lie W. O. ROMER, Importer of 2. Tichborne atreet, Piccadilly?r. /PEA is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 25., (l. per pound are the prices at whkh PHILLIPS an d Co., tea merchants, S , Khig William-street, City, London, LC. Sr. selling good and fine BLACK TKA. A price current post [rest sa worth carriage trite to any railway station or market town In the United Kingdom. Obacree.—PHILLIPS and Co. have no agents, nor any connection with any louse in Worcester or Swan sea. Sugars are supplied at market prices. AVALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.—A CHINESE CADDY, containing 161 be. of realty good BLACK TEA, sent carriage frce to any railway Station or market town In la gland, irehuid, &Wand, or Wake, on receipt of 405., by ?BLEW %and Co., tca ruerchanta, It, King William-Week City LC. MUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY.-NOTICE.- The NEW YEAR'S LISTS of the Principal Books in circu lation sod on Sale at Select Library are NOW READY, and will ht forwanlod potage tree on application.—MUDlSB tIELEtT LIBRARY Llndted,, New Oxford-street; Clty oboe, Ring-street, ErDun SELECT LIBRARY.—First-clan satecription fora constant succession Wale newest Boots One Guinea per Connie. Prospectuses postage free on applies- Oat —MUD' CS ...ELECT LIBRARY (Ltusited), New Oxford street ; City nmrc, 4, King-street, ebeapslde. THRESHER and GLENNY, OUTFITTERS . Only establishment to London, next door to Somerset hossa, Want N. h. Lists of necessary Mat for every pn and appointment to India, Chink and the Celt:lotto, will be on application. application. irpgRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S MYT• fur all who court the gay and festive sernee.— RAJWLAN WS' MACAtoAR oIL, a preserver and beantifyer of the hair beyond all preeedent. Rowlands' Kalydor, for impart ing a radiant bloom t the complexion, and a softness and d e g. cacy to the banns. ernes, and neck. Rowlands' Otionto, or Pearl Dentifrice, for 'Song a pearl-like whiteness to the teeth. and fra me to the brecth. The patron age o f royalty thronithoat pe, their general tor by rank and fashion, and the univer sally known ethotey of these ankles, give them a celebrity un piralieled. Sold by thottiots and ppiuniers.—Ask for " Row- Isiolt — articles, DELICATE, and CLEAR COMPLEXIONS, with a denchtlul sod I t 7 Wag lb. an•bratad 11:N11 Ur BrISNICS 8 1" 021.1117 Q. ari ed. roll—Msoulattured by J. C. and J. FIELD, pper Yank Lansbeth. Order of your amidst, poor, or chandler. DRSCOTTS BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS , I; never falling remedy, prepared without any mercurial ingredient, will be found invaluable to all who ender from bilious sod liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dimi ties of the eyes, de. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and m a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and stren g th en th e whole nervous system—gold by W. Lambert, chemist, 8, King William -street, Charing-cross, and by most druggists, in boxes, lid and three times the quantit In oce, ed. Be sure to aid for Dr. Scott' s Bilious and Liver y Mk The genuine are In e square green package, with 8 . William Lambert^ engraved on the Memo. KEATING'S COCO H LOZENGES. —What Diseases are more fatal In their consequences than nes luso' youths, Colds, sore Throats, or Ltumular Affections I The trtt ami best remedy is Keating 's Cough Lozenges Sold in Lacs. Is. lid., and tins, 21. Utl. each, by THOMAS KEATING, thcmist, &t.. 7 9, at. Paul's-churchyard, London. Retail b y an dnu—Jbts. &c. TOZEAUS COPAIIINIC MEGE, the only rrettch preparation adopted by the Paris Academy and Lssd.so colleg e o f au suns uu the report of Messrs. Callerier, Lkerd, Lb. ) d, Poland and Layne (.lark ("Lancet." No , . 4.1. 6d. M O. JOZILAU'B, Frisch abed* 49.1 f aymarket. Pm; fres on receipt of M. bd. THE CLOUD and the BEAM. By ALFItsD 1 4 :annals. liven Svo, with Frontispiece and Vignette. THY. NEW DOUBLE ACROSTICS. By A. A. T. Prhited on fined PaPer, ineno , cloth, gilt edges. Pries is. 6d. Lothnui and Co., Ames-corner, Paternoster-row. YAOIC LANTICSN AND DISSOLVING VIZW& N EGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S NEW ILLIIB- , TR AnD BOOK, deetrlblns the OXY-HYDROCHLY and NI LIGHZ wand m atYfl eff Mal Mole. one . —l, Hatton ; 60, Corn 1,01: 'knead -street ; and 105, eet-street. isialiguss of lanterns, walk to.. post . - _ _. __ .........,. ILI r ' f-. 5E rifts4_s:, \ ~ 4----- • • • (.: EWs• 5 ) . . ,1 / 4 1 , !,. vt i' •' ' ' • k..,.:-: -,• ( . • i $ . 7e . 11 . 4 11;t6 a a d ka 1" [STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONATA] [TWOPENCE impossible to doubt, from the evidence we already possess, that the . tea grown in the north of India will soon enter into competition with that of China. It has shown that we may obtain from our own island of Trinidad tobacco fit to be compared with the moat renowned of the Havannah, and that we may not only make better cigars at home than any made on the conti nent of Europe, but very much better than many which come from America itself. The Great Exhi bition has, in short, demonstrated, that although new kind: of food are not to be expected (and it seems hopeless to look for them), yet that means exist of materially improving both the quality of what we have and the mode of its preparation ; and, moreover, that we need not despair of dis covering still other sources from which some of the articles we now use may be more abundantly and economically obtained than is the case at present." That which was demonstrated in 1851 remains a demonstration still, unapplied now. The French have advanced on our original plan. Next year we shall have opportunities of eating strange bread, prepared meats, new dishes, and bring the experi ments of the philosopher to the judgment of the palate. Should the Exhibition of 1867 farther de monstrate that new kinds of food are not to be expected, it will discover new sources of food and economical processes of propitiation. Our neigh bours, the Spaniards, and the Americans will all teach us something in this department. Surely, then, we should brace ourselves up to do our beat in it, and not be content with setting up an Eng lish eating-house by the banks of the Seine. The Emperor and Empress have been paying a minute visit of inspection to this Exhibition works, and have gone away very much satisfied on the whole with what they saw. The progress is now in every department admirable. This Exhibition is certainly more advanced than any of former years. M. Le Play, and those who are working under him, appear determined to have the entire building in complete order—its brilliancy undimmed by a single packing-case--on the lit of April. einibtrittp *tatMature. CAMBRIDGE, JAS. 2. THE BURNZY PRIZE. —The late Mr. Richard Burney, ILA., of Christ's College, having signified his in tention of founding an annual prize, not exceeding 1051., for the L et English eau, "on some moral or metaphy goal subject, on the existence, nature, and attributes of God, or on the truth and evidence of the Christian reli gion," and his intention having been carried into effect by his sister and executrix, Miss Jane Caroline Burney, the subjectfor the present year is—" T o cons id er the Object and Significance of Ceremonies in Beligionz Worship." Any graduate of the university may be a candidate for the prize who is not of more than three years standing from admission to his first degree when the essays are sent in; and the essays are to be sent in to the Vice-Chen milks on or before the 12th of November, 1867, with the I games of the respective authors sealed up. The author of the essay best approved is to print it at his own expense, and to deliver, or cause to be delivered, a copy of it to the UniversitiLibrary, to the Library of Christ's Colley, to the University Libraries of Oxford, Dublin, and Edin burgh, and to each of the aljudicaton of the prize, who are the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of Christ's College, and the Norriatin Professor of Divinity. Tee HULBIAN Pisa—The late Rev. John Hulse hav ing bequeathed to the University of Cambridge certain estates for the advancement of religious learning and haring directed in his will, that out of the rent s an d pro fits, so soon se annuities and other incumbrances westd admit, an annual premium should be given " for the best dissertation in the nglish hwguage on the evidences in general er en the p o pleetss or tskudee in particular, ar on any other particular argument, whether the same be direct or collateral proofs of the Christian religion, in order to evince its truth and ezellence," to be written by a member of this university under the degree or standing of Master of Arts, a premium of about 801. will this year be given for the beet dis sertation on the following subject :—" The Charm teristio features of the Ancient African Church together with the causes of its rise, influence, and decline. 4. The adjudicators are the Vice-Chancellor, the Masters of Trinity and St. John's Colleges and the Regius, the Lady Margaret's, the Nathan, and the Hulse= Professors iff Divinity. The dissertations are to be sent to the Vice- Chancellor on or before the 21st of October, 1867, with some motto prefixed, and to be accompanied by a papti sealed up, with the same motto outside and having the . candidate's mane and college written w ithin. The author of the essay best approved is to print it at his own expense, and is not to be a second time a candidate for the pre mium. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1867. Sir Robert Napier proceeds to Scinde to-day on an inspection. Four Europeans—Greeks and Italians—are in custody on a charge of murdering three native money lenders and wounding a fourth. The municipal engineer has promulgated a scheme for wet docks in Bombay, which has been laid before the government, and is approved of by the merchants of Bombay. Cotton and piece goods markets are quiet. Money is easy, but dis trust prevails. The public health continues good. THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1867. (ram( OUR sexclAL CORRZSPORDIRT.) There is turmoil in the Exhibition contract world again. There are to be no posters in the Exhibi tion building, and therefore nobody can or should have a contract for them. The Imperial Commis sioners are wrath over the statement that has appeared in English advertising columns to the effect that a certain firm has the monopoly of paste ' and paper for the English department within the building. The truth is that posters are to appear only on the park boundary palings, and in a long gallery that stretches by the western line of the grounds. The COMIIIiIIII3OII9OI will be delighted to be rid of contractors and contracts. The schemes and plots for the pettiest monopolies may make an amusing chapter some day in Exhibition history. Again, there appear to be mysterious complications about the plan for admitting the public to the building immediately. Tickets are to be sold to see the progress of the " installation " the great discomfort of exhibitors and foreign commissioners. Already the journalists whose duty is to chronicle the shifting aspects of the works are put to an inconvenience. Their passes are no longer available. Some arrangement will no doubt be made for their admission; but they, together with the exhibitors, will be sorely plagued by the pre mature appearance of the public. Moreover, the charm of the opening day will be lost. Who cares about the performance if he has attended all the rehearsals, and seen the costumes cut out and stitched together, and helped the boys into the legs of the basket elephant t Of Exhibition theatrical matters, by the way, I will make a note. The theatre in the park will not be the great enterprise that was conceived many months ago. The thea trical managers who were concerned in it have " pondered well." It is certain that the manager who has a theatre well within the fortifications is not a very cunning fellow when he sets up a rival establishment to his own on the Champ de Mars. The Exhibition theatre, then, will not be a serious competitor to the Paris theatres. It will just afford miscellaneous theatrical enter tainment to the visitors who may choose to spend their evening in the park. These will reach for midable numbers. Th e provincials will be carried direct from their homes within the Exhibition boundary. They can pass a long day in the gal leries, and a fresh, amusing evening in the park, and return home without having passed the Exhi bition gates, except in the railway station. To this large class of visitors the local theatre will be a treat. In the Rue de la Paix a dense crowd is gathered morning, noon, and night, before the dazzling show of that most artistic and fanciful of confectioners, M. Reinhard Siraudin. He has been wont, now for some years past, to astonish the Parisians at Christmas with a new bonbon, and with a show of dolls of extraordinary price. Last year—for M. Siraudin has always a happy idea when he goes to work—the two presiding you*es of his fairy realms of sugar—were two gorgeous dames habited respec tively in the costumes of the First Empire and of the Second. These painted ladies (I have seen as much paint on faces outside the window as there is on the wax-doll within) are not to be put off with stage jewellery. Paste, forsooth They carry about their waxen necks diamonds of the first water. This year the presiding ladies of wax, at whom all Paris is getting a peep, are representative ladies. They are works of art, and of a leading milliner's taste. They have been modelled by Talrich, and dressed by Mademoiselle J. Baron. The lady in the long white satin jape, covered with a short skirt, half white, half red, and studded with golden bees and silver ships, represents the City of Paris. The crown on her head, which dis plays a vessel in brilliants, proclaims her mission. She is receiving with due dignity and fitting splen dour the lady in the opposite window. This lady is dressed in a white satin robe, emblazoned with the arms and colours of all nations. The brilliant crown upon her head is that of the genius of Industry. Her waxen' ladyship represents the Universal Exhibition of 1867. These two gorgeous dolls, designed to please the thousands of children of a larger growth who dwell by the banks of the Seine, share with the " Bonbon Mignon" (Sirnu din's sweet invention to welcome in the year 1867) the attention of the holiday-makers. M. Dentu's action against the publishers who have dared to design a new literary guide to Paris for 1867, is trailing its slow length along, filling many columns of Le bruit. The plaintiff's extra ordinary pretensions do not appear, however, to have crushed all the spirit of enterprise in his brother publishers. M. Louis Ulbach is still an nounced as the editor of a literary, scientific, and social book on Paris. Among his contributors are J. Michelet, Edgar Quinet, Ernest Henan, George Sand, Thiiophile Gautier, Jules Janin, H. Rochefort, Dr. Heaton, H. Monier, A. Dumas file, J. Cbirdtie, Aug. Villemot, and Champfleury. Victor Hugo has written the introduction. Among the artists are Ingres, Barye, Daumier, Gerdme, Etex, Cabanel, Clesinger, Bertall, Bracquemond, &c. Ingres' drawing is to be the Apotheosis of Homer. Apropos of this work, M. Gustave Dord is said to be the only artist who has refused to appear in the company of his contempo rary artistic celebrities. The book on Paris to which the illustrator of Dante and Tenny son has declined to contribute, is not destroyed by the unwilling artist, or by the pretentious pub lisher. The literary men and publishers of Paris will not believe that the trial which is pending will end in handing our literary Paris to 31. Dentu for the year 1867. Why did not the official catalogue publisher attack MM. Hachette, many months ago, when they published a guide to the Universal Exhibition of 1867, compiled from "official docu ments" 1 This guide pretends to reserve the right of translation. It consists almost exclusively of official information. It opens with a letter from M. Le Play, dated from the offices of the Imperial Commission, addressed to the publishers. What says the spokesman for the Imperial Commission to MM. Hachette 1—" You have sent me the proofs of a work you propose to publish on the Universal Exhibition of 1867, the pre paration of which you have entrusted to M. Henri de Parville. This work appears to me to give a faithful account of the scope of the enterprise ; and 1 think it will afford useful information to exhibitors and to visitors." This letter is dated January 3, 1866. In December of the same year we are watching a trial, the object of which is to prohibit the publication of a work, in which Paris, rather than the Exhibition, is to be described. The defendant's advocate has already made good use of official documents, especially of one in which the rigime under which the Exhibition of 1862 is condemned as a mercenary one, that sacrificed the legitimate ends of an international show of in dustry to a dominant idea of a good balance-sheet. I think all candid men who were admitted to a knowledge of the government of the Exhibition of 1862, will agree that much was sacrificed to a money gain ; that we were not liberal enough in our regulations, nor generous in our official hospi talities. But can it be said that the Imperial Commission is carefully avoiding our blunders 1 Is it not true that already, three months be fore the opening day, the Paris publishers and authors, and the French photographers are smarting under a sense of wrong ? Have not thousands of photographs of the exterior of the Exhibition building been seized in the in tercets of M. Pierre Petit 1 Is it not ru moured that the leading French photographers lime determined to petition the Council of State against the monopoly which consigns every artist and art-manufacturer to the care of M. Petit ? There are artists who have no faith in the abilities of M. Petit as a photographer, and would decline under any circumstances to have their works rendered by him. For instance , Meisson nier, Cabanel, and other artists of high repute, invariably intrust their works for photographic reproduction to Mr. Bingham, whose fame as a photographer, and especially as a photographer of pictures, is spread throughout Europe. Conceive the predicament in which this famous art-photo grapher is placed by a concession or sale of a monopoly which prevents his usual clients from availing themselves of his lens, at the moment when the reproduction of their works by him is most likely to prove remunerative. Not only is he harmed, when he had every right to expect to reap a rich harvest from his well-earned fame ; but the interests of true art are harmed also. People get mediocre works because mediocrity hay ottglit the exclusive privilege of serving the public! Here is another case. Each departmental com mission has been instructed by the Imperial Com mission to form committees of men of special knowledge who are to draw up accounts of their observations in the Exhibition on the trades which concern them. Overseers and workmen, again, are to have an opportunity of recording their opinions on their trades in print. M. de Parville tellsi the French public that these labours I will constitute veritable archives, to which future manufacturers and operatives will refer. They will be, in short, the most learned and satisfactory records of the condition of human industry in 1867. Has M. Dentu absolute power over the issue of these documents 7 If so, they will lose half their value. They will have authority in future days only in proportion to the liberty which their authors enjoyed in composing them. Every day it is becoming more evident that the food departments will be the most original, if not the most striking feature of the Exhibition. To this department the attention of our neighbours is keenly fixed. In them, the cooks of foreign nations will find severe critics. An obscure paper published here in English has been attacking the English Royal Commission for its clumsy ar rangements in this important food department, and, at any rate, without any substantial reason. The uses of this food department should be borne in mind. The end in view is not the spread of la rtrinandise, nor the delectation of the Baron Bruises of all nations. It has a higher and more useful end. The primary object is to add to our food stock by studying the food of other peoples. We want to find where the best and cheapest food is to be had. In the Exhibition of 1851, the wheat from Adelaide was described by Dr. Lindley as "probably the most beautiful specimen of corn that has ever been brought to market in any coun try." This fact was generally made known by the Exhibition, and at the same time we were informed that Adelaide was capable of yielding vast quanti ties of corn of this description. The effect of hybridizing wheats so as to increase the size of the grain was brought prominently forward by the Exhibition of 1851. The hybrids exhibited showed that the quality of cereal crops may be affected, I like animals and other crops. Here was surely an important addition to human knowledge with re- lard M food, which it was as well to spread as rapidly and broadly as possible. Another food subject was put forth in the shape of cakes of typha bead from Scinde and New Zealand, prepared from the pollen of the Icommon reed-mace or bulrush of those countries. This article of food contains an azotized matter, according to Dr. Lindley, which, mixed with the starch existing in pollen in great quantities, and with other matters, will give a real nutritive value to this curious substance. The dry plantains, which are an important part of the food of the mining population of Mexico, were recommended as cheap, easy to prepare, and exceedingly agree able to the palate. This highly nutritive food, it was shown, which will keep sweet and good for years, can be prepared in Mexico and sold in Europe for 3d. a pound. Another important food question arose, namely—whether the blood of the animals killed in a great city can be utilised or not. M. Brocchieri's cakes, and other articles made of blood, which were e xhibited, were unfortunately named. These blood cakes did not obtain public favour. There was a prejudice against them, as there has been for any time past against many varie ties of excellent food. At any rate the utilization of blood was learnedly discussed. Dr. Lindley concludes, "It is proved that, supposing un manured and will Yield threefold then land manured with bullock's blood will yield fourteenf old ; there fore we have direct evidence that the blood of animals has a very powerful action as manure ; and it may be more profitable to obtain our food from it in that indirect manner than to use blood cakes prepared after M. Brocchieri's method." Many will remember the sensation which Mr. Gail Borden's meat biscuits created in the American department. It is alleged that ten pounds of this biscuit would be sufficient for the subsistence of an active man for thirty days. Dr. Playfair reported it to con tain 32 per cent. of flesh-forming principles. The jury reported it to be excellent in all respects. By . Borden's process the over-crowded populations of Europe were promised cheap condensed meat from Texas and Buenos Ayres. Dr. Lindley was enthusiastic about it. "It seems as if a new means of subsistence was actually offered to us," he says. " Take the Argentine Republio—take Australia, and consider what they do with their meat there ; in times of drought, when they can not get rid of it whilst it is fresh, they may boil it down and mix the essence with flour, (and we know they have the finest in the world), and so prepare a substance that can be preserved for times when food is not so plentiful, or sent to countries where it is always more difficult to pro cure food. Is not this a very great gain ?" It might be now, had popular prejudice not been against it. Preserved meats of all kinds were un popular about 1851, because some contractors had failed in their duty. Indeed, the suggestions for new foods were many. Dr. Gardiner prop coffee leaves instead of tea leaves, and showed that they contained exactly the theine which gives value to tea ass diet. Let us quote the few words in which Dr. Lindley summed up the effects of the Exhibition of 1851 on substances used as food : " The facts thus brought under your notice seem to show that so far as the subject of food is con cerned, the late Exhibition has brought into view many points of considerable importance. It has I shown that our Australian colonies furnish the best wheat in the world, Spain not excepted. It has shown that the quality of wheat may I be improved to an unknown extent by those I processes which have been applied to other parts of the animated world with the best results, but which have not been applied to cereal crops. It has shown that there are means by which vege table and animal provisions may be preserved with certainty, and without risk of deterioration, for a greater length of time than any kind of ser vice can require. It has shown that if we are con demned to bad cocoa and bad chocolate, if our chocolate makers cannot compete with France and Spain, and other countries, it is less because of our differential duties than on account of the supine ness of English colonists, who look to differential duties as a cloak for their' own slovenly culture. It has shown that the tea of the Himalaya is be coming an important article of trade, rendering it THE WEST AFRICAN mAir-s ARRIVAL OF THE CALABAR.-ARREST OF KING AGERY. The Royal Mail steamship Calabar, Captain A. J. M. Croft, arrived in the Mersey yesterday morning, afters detention outside the bar for several hours, in con. sequence of waiting for a pilot. The Calabar is the first of the steamers connected with the bi-monthly trade between Liverpool and the West Coast of Africa. The Calabar brings dates from Benin to December 3 ; Fernando Po, Nov. 29 ; Cameroon', 29th ; Old Calabar, 27th ; Brass River, Dec. 2 ; New Calabar, 2nd ; Bonny, 2nd ; Lagos, sth ; Jellah Coffee, 6th ; Accra, 7th ; Cape Palmas, sth ; Sierra Leone, 15th ; Bathurst, 19th ; Tencriffe, 24th ; and Madeira, 26th. The Sunshine and Phrenologist were at Benin. The Eromango, Terrier, and her Majesty's ship Torch were at Fernando Po. The Burns, Harriet M'Beth, and Elizabeth Emily were staimeroons. The Britannia,Huddenlield,and Troapail were at Old Calabar. The Retriever (es.) was at Brass River. The Clara Hargreaves, Illumini, and Royal Arch were at New Calabar. The Charles Montan, Star of Hope, St. George, Benledi, Star of the Sea, and the steamer William Taylor were at Bonny. The Astarte was at Accra. The Lord Duncan was at Cape Palmu. The Alligator *as at Cape Coast Castle. The Pioneer (ss.), Africa, Virginia, John Mayall, and Lagos (R. 51.6.) were at Sierra Leone. The Lagoa sailed again on December 11 for leeward. The Kelpie and Arabistan were at Bathunt. The United States steamer Sacramento and the French steamer ForfaM were at Temeriffs. Her Majesty's ship Zealous was at Madeira. Old Calabar, Cameroon, Fernando Po, and Bonny were quite healthy, but trade was exceedingly dull. The ship Elizabeth Emily was to sail from the Cameroona for Bris tol on the 2nd Dec. ; the Eromenga, from Fernando Po for Glasgow, on Dec. 3. The Manners Sutton sailed from Bonny for Liverpool on the 2Gth Nov. The trade at Lagos was very brisk. Twelve merchant vessels were in port, and all were engaged for homeward cargoes. His Excellency Governor Glover was sworn in on the 20th Nov. He met with a very warm reception, both from European and natives. His Excellency Ad miral Patey left by the Calabar for Bathurst, at which port he relieves his Excellency Colonel D'Arcy, who returns shortly to England. Owing to some misunderstanding at Cape Coast Castle between his Excellency Colonel Conran and King Agery, the latter was arrested and sent on board the Calabar to Sierra Leone. Trade was very dull at Sierra Leone, but the colony was quite healthy. The Royal Mail steamer Lagos sailed, Dec. 11, for leeward ports. Sickness had entirely disappeared from Bathurst, and a fair trade had been done during the month. The Calabar was again placed in quarantine at Teneriffe, the authorities at that place refusing to assign any reason for doing so, although the ship was quite clear of dis ease. The French steamer Forfait sailed for China on Dec. Si. Her Majesty's ship Zealous was ►t Madeira, and would sail on the 28th Dee. for Rio Janeiro and the l'acifie. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 2.—The North German Lloyd'. steamer Bremen was prevented from sailing to-day for New York in consequence of the heavy snow storm. She will sail to-morrow morning, weather permitting, with 87 cabin passengers, including Captain Dayton, who com manded the yacht Vesta, and several officers of the Fleet wing. The mails for the Atrato due here at midday did not arrive till late this evening. It is not expected that the Atrato will proceed to sea till to-morrow morning. The Shannon's passengers were admitted to pratiquo this afternoon.—healer's Tele:groat. Quaerorrovrtr, JAR. 2.—The Inman steamship City of New York, from New York on the 22nd ult., arrived here at one p.m. to-day with 18 cabin and 104 steerage passengers, and 11,600 dole. in specie. After landing two cabin, andl4 steerage passengers, and ten sacks of mails, she proceeded at 1.20 p.m. for LiverpooL—Rester's 2Wegrose. THE New ZEALAND CENSUS.—The census enu meration, it is to be premised, was taken on the night of the lit D ecember,i 1864, on • plan substantially the same as that adopted in the previous census in December, 1861, by which the information was obtained, not only for each province of the colony, but for electoral districts returning members to the General Assembly. The numerical results are carefully put in a tabular form, from which we now proceed to make • few notes. The popu lation of European descent in December, 1864 (ex clusive of the military and their families), was, from these returns, 172,138, of whom 106,560 were males and 65,578 females. The distribution of the entire popula tion throughout the several provinces was as follows : Auckland, 42,13'2 ; Taranaki, 4,374 ; Wellington, 14,967 ; Hawkes Bay, 3,770; Nelson 11,910; Marlborougli, 5,519; Canterbury, 32,276 ; Otago, 49,019; Southland, 8,08 3 •. to which, to complete the aggregate given above, is to be added (86) the population of the Chatham Islan ds. Con trasting the entire European population of the Northern Islands with that of the Middle Island, it is per ceived that the Northern Island contained 65,263, or 37.93 per cent. of the population ; and the Middle Island 106,809, or 62.07 per cent. The military and their families, who are not included in the above enumeration, were calculated at 11,973.—Nrw :Leaked Examintr. Ilabal ants Military. AMIMALTY, JAN. 2. APPOINTMENTS.—Lien tenants F. de V. Sanders, to the Irresistible, for ser►ice in tenders ; F. A. D. Raddcliffe, to the Bellerophon. Masters W. W. Riddle, to the Asia, for the Royal Alfred ; 0. Patterson. to the Bristol. Paymaster( J. N. Robinson, additional, to the Britannia: A. F. Gain, assistant to the Fiagard, as supernumerary. Naval Cadet (nominated), N. Maclean. First Class Assistant Engineer A. S. Tout, to the bra sietible. THE WORKING Male OF CHELMS?ORD and MR. Beionr.—An address to Mr. Bright, 51. P., was forwarded to that gentleman a few days ago from the working men of Chelmsford, having been signed by nearly 250 of their number. Having reviewed hhi past great services to the nation, the address went on to express the confidence of them who bad signed it in Mr. Bright's leadership in the agita tion for political reform. Mr. Bright, in acknowledging the receipt of the address, says : " I have re ceived the address, and I write to express my thanks to the working men who have signed it. I value their good opinion very highly ; and were it not that they are so far off, and that I have so much to occupy me here, I should be glad to have an opportunity of meeting them to discuss the question of reform with them. The question of a wide extension of the suffrage is making way. The address says that ' nearly 100 millions in the United States and in Germany are in possession of the franchise,' and they argue from this that the cause cannot be withstood here. I believe they are right in this, and that we shall oome up with the nations moat advanced in the theory and practice of representative government. The working men throu . ghout the United Kingdom are becoming interested in this great question, and their organisation is becoming more complete. Their I power, added to the power of the liberal middle-class, will be too great for those who now monopolise the influence of government, and a great change cannot be far off. In every town and village the question of working class emancipation should be discussed. Societies should be formed, information should be spread, and thus opinion will be created and combined so as to bear down all opposition. Do not imagine because you cannot bring together a vast multitude as has been done in Birmingham, in Manchester, in Leeds, and in Gizmo., that ii e have no part in the great work. Every town and ' may do its part, and the e ff orts of all will be needed , ut the cause is great and good, and the result is certain. Thank ing you and your friends for both letter and kind address, I am very truly yours, JOHN BRIGHT." THE FENIAN ARNY.STS AND BEIZIIRES AT BELFAST. —Yesterday evening the police authorities made cer tainly the most important arrests and seizures which have as yet been made in Belfast in connexion with Fenisnism. About ten o'clock last evening, Head-constable Jacques, in company with a number of the local constabulary force, Proceeded to the house of Charles Carroll, a tailor, 34, Hamillotreet. and having surrounded the house, kncked at the door, and were refused admission. Constables Adams, Haverty, and others, proceeded simultaneously to the back door of the house, which was opened, but imme diately shut on the inmates seeing that the back of the home was also surrounded by the police. The front door was then broken in, and one of the inmates, named Donaghy, rushed at the police with a pair of tongs, and 'truck Constable Adana on the head. The police, not withstanding the opposition which they received, forced their way in, and found a pan of boiling lead at the fire, a bullet mould close by, and a tin can pturtly filled with almost red-hot bullets. There were over six dozen bullets in the can. One of the policemen stayed in the kitchen while the remainder made a search in the rooms above, and there Constable Enright and the others engaged with him in the search found another bullet mould and a nail bag containing large pieces of lead—about a hundred weight altogether—all of which were seized. Seven misoners were also taken in the house, some of whom, we are informed, were engaged in the manufacture of bullets when the police arrived. The most im portant arrest is said to be that of Michael Hanlon, holding the rank of " colonel" in the Fenian Brotherhood. The following is a list of the names of those arrested : Michael Hanlon, Skigoneil, gardener to Captain Thomson, Castleton ; James O'Leary, 6, liamill-street, weaver ; Michael Donaghy, 36, Hamill-stmt, labourer ; Patrick Reilly, 17, Hanilll-street, sweep ; John Levison, 18, Winetavermstreet, labourer; Daniel Higgins, Springtiew street, heckler ; James Reilly, 8, Hamill.strect, labourer. • In consequence of information received during their visit to the above house, detective officers Thomsen, Cluigan, Canty, and M ' Mabon proceeded to the house. 22, English-street, off Milford-street, occupied by John Letson, and there found in a room upstairs 16 cart ridges in the course of preparation, as used for the Eng lish rifles, one set of mandrils, 200 cartridge papers, cut according to military pattern ; one haversack, and 100 other cartridge papers of different patterns. The follow. Mg arrests were made in this house:—John Letion. English-street, blacksmith ; and James Laverty, 22, Eng. Dab-street, labourer. The authorities consider these arrests to be by far the most important yet made in Belfast, and others, it is expected, will immediately follow in consequence of information gained through the seizures of last night.—NorrAern WAio of Wednesday. EMIGRATION or PAUPSIII. —Among the inmates of our workhouses there is a numerous body classified as "able-bodied paupers," each of whom does not cost the pariah less than 2.. V. a year in board, lodging, clothing, and management. The " work "he does from one year's end to another may either be called trifling or absolutely useless. What he does he does grudgingly, because he does not receive the reward of his labour, but is in much the same position as the beasts that perish. If, therefore, these men were offered " labour and freedom," Is it not likely that many would ac cept it? The colonies can absorb every hard working, healthy pauper, and at the antipodes they would become part and parcel of three rising communiti e s, and a blessing to themselves. The cost of passage and outfit would amount to little more than one year's keep in the workhouse. We do not advocate indiscriminate emigration of paupers, we would rather bold it out as a reward to the - .ell-behaved sine- the Nor would we allow the doing .Again litt . le e else wou t i h a an no re t vi w ri ai ng t TAX Tir PLATS WORKERS AND JAPANNERS AND we ll -belayed ft -1°1 'g• p oor • - -- -----. we allow s- TAX QUEEN.—Some weeks ego we reported the proceed- Vard!tiiiii n i t to th : ship "_ a man off because he is " trouble roocultiteeieblmeans lugs of a meeting of the tin plate workers and japanners wine . • -nemwtonamtheeh a gain st which w " hic be h before of Wolverhampton, at which an address was adopted to ‘''''"C the queen on the ooeusion of her Majesty's visit to this portati s on (under a town. The address was forwarded by Captain Loveridge, into careless manner that too often distinguishes our of the Merridale Works, to the Eight Hon. C. I'. Villiers , De of reaching a land M.P., the senior member for this borough, with a request were no t such establishment exists, but before he sinks te:Fig himself . At all events, we cannot go far astray in t. il: t oe w :i & s .,n j an u off t e ly re t t pro tes ted . that he would take the necessary steps for having it pre m m akin g th e experiment. We urge the emigration move poor, w e would give him the opportunity of at once bet tentnentedittrattnepliyier.. Mr. .fe y w a li on clays , n afo w C ht a th ptain the Lov fall e n ri ning dge men upon our guardians on the score of economy ; we civilisation ; we urge i t upo n the public on the score of humanity and is • copy :—' 39, Sloane-street, Z2nd Dec.,lB66.—My dear urge it upon Mr. Hardy as one of the Sir,—r beg to enclose the letter of the Secretary of State who submitted the memorial of the tin plate workers sad j nen (that you forwarded to me) to her Majesty . The memorial was vet, aneroriviaW and wail ways of solving the problem he has before him, and as • berasl l drawn, and so her Majesty was pleased to consider it. —I step that will not only benefit England. but help the colonies, and prove a permanent bleating to poor humanity. remain, my dear sir, very faithfully yours, C. P. vmumus. Henry Loveridge, E'en.' The Secretary of State's letter is I —New Zealand Examiner. in the usual form, stating that he had had the honour of ! CRYSTAL PALACI. OHS SHILLING DAY.— laying the.ddras won)the Qom ,. w h o was pleased to re. WEDNESDAY, N. 2.—Admissions on payment, 248 ; ditto cave it very gractioualy.— Weiveraelapton Chronicle. Iby season tickets, 265. Total visitors, 513. Tradlo almost entirely suspended owing to snow storm.