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

• 4 I • .10 VW • • cer . IC' 2157 O lktY k : • r et 0‘• -r7 1:07 ; " 7 "-- 7 ;;;0;",:/:',.; / 0 r • - t • I:xprts;7%, • N 7 -7wS P lAt • • • -I. r , • : ,(1 0..04 A• 11 g 1- s4uud ETWOPENC Fe. 6,662.] LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1867. THE IRISH CHURCH. [STAMPED. Id. ADDITIONAL) MR. BRUCE, MP., ON THE EDUCATION QUESTION. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. J, NJIAIS LINE.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW o J. Wilk. and I.IIII,ADNLPHIA ISTKAM4IIIIII. COMPANY. IstenJ deq:nt,hing their fultpowered Clyde-built iron screw on miblps. k sming the United States Malls, calling at Queens. I 1,0 3 -,,0n the following day, to take on board pawpaws ad &spat , he., and with liberty to caD at an Intermediate port: ,'lll in. 1.4 IS Wednesday, December IS. rl IV in , 1.111E1:WK. Saturday, December dl. 111 1 or %% t,ll l "MN. Wednesday, December °_;.. .awl every Wednesday and tetnrilas. cedu pasta- , ' ly the mall SUMO= sailing every Wednesday 15, , 1 7 .a n.!according to the accommodation. Forward las sie° ink It ~k 1 a full supply of cooked provuloos. Passengers Cannls a. 1.1 the United States booked through on very advan weons tame —tor further particulars apply to WILLIAM INMAN, 92 a ater-street. Liverpool; and to VIM aed ILLCILY, 0 . king It dlmu, strert. Loudon. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—GRAND BA L D'OPERA, MONDAY, Dec 16, 1867. Open till Three e.m. (by permission , . Usual entertainments impended for this night only. Orchestra of 100 performers. Conductor, 31. RIY JERK. 8010 Cornet, Sir. Reynolds. Twelve Masters of Ceremonies, under the direction of lir. larch. Doors open at 9.30; dancing to begin at 10. The whole of the vast building and ante-rooms thrown open to the dancers. Gentlemen's tickets, 134. ; tickets, los. ; balcony tickets to view the " Bat " in, 6.1. To he had at the Alhambra Box-rare, the Alham- (REGTEE'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, DEc. 11, EyEsnrc._ HALIFAX, WIDIMSDAT. the prizes to-night to students at the Working Men's The Right Hon. H. A. Brow, T11.P., delivered College. Mr. Akroyd, M.P., presided, and Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., was also present. Mr. Bruce delivered an address of some length. With regard to national education. he was satisfied that it was utterly impossible ever to meet 11 ' the difficulties of the question without a scheme for giving to e v er y l oca lit y pet :12'86v° system of local rate-paying. it s advocated his own power of rating for the support of exi s ti ng an d future 50....' °18 ! to preference to Mr. Lowe 's compulsory scheme ; and although admitting that the latter was more complete, he thought his scheme would lead up to the other. Before the compulsory system would be acceptable to the country compulsion must be general, and must extend to the higher and the middle as well as to the lower classes, and schools must be supported out of funds cortributed by all claws. He was in favour of the government establish. log large middle-class colleges in the great towns where education of the highest class would bs imparted. He was also in favour of the universities and their endow. meal being thrown open to all classes. Ira Bars, and at all the chief Libraries. Refreslunenis at flied charges. A few private boxes to be had on application. ROYAL ALI:JAMBE/. PALACE, (Managing Meeetg, Mr. Y. Strange.l Three Ballets, 200 Dancers, 50 lnstrumentaHb. Singers, Acrobats, Mimics; Pic tures, Latest Telegrams, Saloons, Supper-rooms, Lavatorks, Smoldngroorns, Evening Paper; 10 Orchestral Pieces Every Night. Open at Half - Past Satan, begin at Eight. Prices-Is, Bs, and ed. ; Reserved Seats, 41 ; Private Boxes, front El la. Box-otSce open from Eleven to Your. METROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN RA I LW.%VS. —CATTLE BROW. AGRICULTURAL 9 ILL I.lington, Bee 9, 10. 11, 13. IandKINCPS- Ws , it the nearest station. Frequent, Trains hetneen be City, .treet. Portiand-nvd, Baker-street, Paddington. Bain r.eronith. ..•shepherd gbugh, Notting hill, and Kensington. me-•t We trains M Portland-road for Regent-dress s „i •if. street. THRESHER and °LENNY, OUTFITTERS. 1 Oaty egabliehmant to Lambs. ant door to Somerset boa" Wend. If .K Lists of wweesary malt for every puryow sad appointment to Lndla, Odds. and We Colonies, wW to for warded on assalleattos. INTER OVERCOATS. 106, STRAND, OPPOSITE EXETER.HALL. Spacial attention is given In this Establishment to WINTER OVERCOATS, and a whet stock Is always kept on hand at HAMILTON and ILIMPTONw, TLIUI $ .od OVI&V iAi=lulXsx. 'LIETItOPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY. I JL ef.eo.ooo PERPETUAL DEBILNTVRE STOCK. at SIX Per CENT. Par ANNUM. METROPOLITAN DISTRICT RAILWAY COMPANY Jaen , TENDERS inc 0500,000 DEBENTURE STUCK, to tiny mterett in perpetuity at the rate of ti per cent. per annum, pay- Oic half .yearly. lin. Debenture mock will be secured on an undertakiag which mil comprise about seven miles of railway. traversing the it, 1,4 districts ..f the metropolis, In Immediate connection with the Metropolitan line . Uie works memo far advanetut that are of the seven miles are to be opeasi i 7 Midsummer, 1808. Ihe Metropolitan District way I. to be worked under Weed arrangements by UM stropolltan Railway Company, nob upon the saute system which has enabled that Company to pa) 7 per cent. dividends on its ordinary share capital. Tenders, in the prereriltea form, will be received at the offices of the Compsuy betweeu s et lock ant. on Wednesday the 11th, and It osehork on 11-hlay, the tvtli December instant Prospectuses and forme of tender may be obtained at the oMeee of the Company. NO, U. Westminster-ehambers, Victoria. street, Lomb's, N. W.. and (p.m all the principal stockbrokers in London and the country.—By order. ' Dec. 7, NH. GEO. HOPWOOD, Secretary. N ORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICE. The full benefit of the reduction of duly to Is. od per cent. L :wen to insurers effecting policies with this l'onipony. by this reduction and the nonnshystem of the Norwich Union, taw cost of insurance is reduced to a minimum amount. The rates 111 premium are in no cue higher than those charged by the other principal Maces wiring no bOOlll to their insurers. The linty paid to tiorernment for the year MS was a.. 11.162 lls 9d.: the amount Insured on farming stock wan C 10.203.372. Vet prospeetuses apply at the kociatra Offices, fits, Vim :I-street, EX.. and murrry.strect, Norwich. THE LONDON," 191, Fleet-street, corner of Cbaneery-lane, Tompio•bsz, EC. FREDERICK SAW VEIL, Sole Proprietor, and of Pllllll, 3, LA t, TE PURVEY O R TO TH EC 39 and 40, Buc RT6TAL ALACE. klersbury, Cbeapside. P Tbt Laudon Dinner, to. 9d., attoodunco 3d., for to-morrow, the PAWS., 'erred from t MI to o'clock: PUTAOIIII. Au Vermicelle. ♦ la puree de (Mier. Calallaad aux lialtres sxtszai. Vellalsola 3 r. %nglaiie. Wt. Manche de Mouton. Pomme an Rte. rornois. erlans trite . Rissoles de Volaille. NiT!. D'Artols. fiedncel T!Lrilf of Prime. Dinner from the Joint, including vegetables, bread, assess, de., In. 9d. Joint. with soup or fish, %. ed. Fish dinner, Is. 6d.: attendance, 3d. extra : end Dinners A IA Carte are served from I until 9 o'clock. The carte for to-day Includes pheasants, partridges, grouse. woodcocks, teal. golden plovers, chickens, sad every other kind of poultry and gene in season. Dinners In private rooms, for large or small parties, from .ia ed. to Is. per bead. The famous London Dinner is served daily from 4 until 8 o'clock, at 2a. 9d. per bead ; attendance, 3d. Good dinner bock and claret at la. per bottle, is. per pink ferries, porta, champagnes, We., of the choicest vintages and breads at Continental prices. This Establishment Opens on Sundays at 4 o'clock. PREDERICK SAW TER, Sole Proprietor, and of PIM WS, LATE E, 4, and P S,URVEYO Poultry. R Ti) THE CRYSTA 39 sod 40, RucklerstetryL, P Cbea ALACpsE.ide. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXKLISITION, 1365. Ibis DU eid Ll IRISH WHISKY pined the MYELIN RIYR lIIRDAL —lt Ls pare, mild, mellow, delicious, and eery whokemne. Sold Is bottles, aa rd. each, at the retail houses In London : by the agent. In the principal towns In Ragland ; or pinkat Great Windmill-street, London, W.—Obeerve ths md seal,label, and cork branded •• Kinahan's LL Whisky. rpo HOTEL KEEPERSand LugeCONSUMERS. J. The House to Loudon for POULTRY, OA)LE, and all kinds of UA R Y PRoDUCE. llflltddre Baron, by alto or laalleolde Good fatally Cheese 7d. to 7 8 11. per lb. Flat Cheshire Cheese, 8 d. p.r lb. Pork, Ponttry, aad Game are sow very chakp. W. asd J. IL TAYWR'S, Bb, Uttl•Pulteneyatreet,Goldos atputro. Eatabtlabod Ralf a Century. CANDLES. —If you do not want your candles exchnively foe show, but with pleasantness of appearance require excellence of burning, buy " PRICE'S GOLD MEDAL PA LIIITINE," or their - Sherwood Palmitin'," or their good ° W'faihh'ned Beßdubt Sperm," or " Belmon t Wax," or their "Best." "No. " No. 3." or " Battersea" Composite, In prefer ence to the finest, and moot transparent Pusan" Candles. But V you must have the extreme transparency of pure Paraffins, Prices Paralline " or their •• Bebauntine" will give It to you in Imfeetion, and at a more moderate price than is usually charged for any other really hi-MA:bun P Candles. The new toilet soap "PRICE ' S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE," containing half its weight of their concentrated distilled Glyee rinr, should be In general use in every house before the winter comes no, because of Its admirableeff vets In preventing chapping of the hands and fare. In every house there ought also to be one of the sealed bottles of their concentrated Distilled Glyce rine, known everywhere as " Price's G ircenne," and prescribed by the awn eminent medical men abroad as well as at home, as the one only Glycerine for medicinal use whether externally or internally. PRICE'S FANCY SOA PS of the different sorts usually made are excellent, and command • constantly increasing aide. The "Solidified Glycerine" spoken of above Is, however, the one Lacy soap to use. " PRICE - 8 NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS," for burning in the wide Masses, are believed to be the very best nisht lights made. Prlee's Childs' Night Lights," Mr horning without Shwa and their different sorts of • Chamber Candles" are so well known. and so generally need and appverdated es not to need any special tiOlice here. LES.—A Hint to Purchasers.—Do not hake sure that you know what price you are paying per pound for your candles until you have stripped them and put tber ha the scale. some candles are right weight without the =Perk some with comierately thick wrappers. some with very mllapets wa tt e w n' ere lu r PRICKS " 04 nd ruts are not 1 11,131 DAL PA LMl with 7LNE," "Sherwood Paimillne." "Belmont Sperm," and " Bel ies( Was," .. Beet," •' Yo. 2." " No. 3." and " Battersea the " Composites. " " MCC'S Pendant,"lielmontlne," and all other candles of Price's Patent Candle Company ;Limited', are lull weight without the wrappers. inHRISTMAS.—Another Novelty in Candles.— PATENT PARTLCOLOURID CARDLYit, to Rinds or wipes, of Roar. omen. Mauve. or Amber. Price 2s. 6d. Penh box of four candles, as used at the City Reception of the Sean. and at the Lord mayor's Riusquet. May be obtained of ql dealers in town soil c , .untry . wholesale of J. C. and J. YIELD, IPPer Marsh. Lambeth. London. PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE (Patented).—hold medal, Paris 1967.—The newest and heit toilet soap, wears well, gives a rkh and fragrant lather, is oftislY tree from cocoa nut ob or mess of alkali, and contains half its Weight of Price's distilled glycerine. listaded by all chemPts, grocers, ttc.. in ed. and 6d. tabbies. 111.10 E'S PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (Utisitedi. Halmos& Works, Batten/a. S.W. WHITE and SOUND TEETH are italiapetts elde to personal attraction, and to health and longevity the proper vonoticatton of food. 10111.ANDT °DONT% or Mitt. DENTIFIIICE, compounded of Oriental Ingredient& t of tnestinial,k value In preserving and beautifying the Teeth ae Itrengthening the pima, and In giving a pleasing frairranee !grill]. It eradicates tartar from the teeth, removes spots Incipient decay, and polisher and preserves the enamel, to ehich It Imparts a peart•llke whiteness Its invaluable proper ties hare obtained the patronage of royalty and the aristocracy 4 r^Pe, and it Is universally In high repute. Peke Ps. 9d. par . 1 mold at at Hatton-lord's, sad by aculat• am! perfumers Ark for itowland's Wouto. LAM BERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an effectual remedy, without waning the bowels or allecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, I, admitted to be the bolt revliclue for Immediately relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cum of asthma, and incipient consumption It We nerlY corm yorwma whom the faculty pronounce incurable emetrably vagya the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. 1 1 11 Mouaching consumption its effects are truly benelic 2 . ..0s till vited of sleep, or even lying down fur fear of sulfa:a non. may tiei,noi on relief Ina few minute,, atter taking it.— ?Meted only and sold by W. LAMBERT, chemist, S, King Wil iam -street tlarnigcr..ss, Londou, and by all druggists, is bottle., I t 4.1. and three • uantities in one, ?A. 9d. Be particular lad ask fur Lambert's Aethsapc Balsam. The same and adder ti enkraveu in the sump. LAlTUE.—'l'be LETTUCE contains an active, Prhselple, the Lt utlne, which peasseem the • , Ys. , lnPisua without Its &adorn—Mr. O. JOTSAo w Pre hl uel. 49 Harnarket, prepares a Syrup and • Pate of Laßue , hnehly recommended by the Medlcul Preleastoefer .7.m. asthma, brtnehltls, and all chest affections. Byrup.tmeth: ! ref ". la- lid. and 26.14. Pa* W Peak le 444 and 11 . ad. lOZEAt'S COPIJIINE.—In chronic or recent (Lames a ewe Is effected fo an aroma of ofo 4 1 1 1 e. Appro,ed by the rails Physlcisof Acedeloy.—!told by all ro• leentehle. chemists. ea. ed. them, Depot , tr. Ha yma rke t , deo at G. Away, the only Trench chemist with the dPwou of the Neill School of Ybartnacy. Now ready, pees ed., THE EXTRA CHRISTMAS N non' 0/ ALL THZ YEAR ROUND, TO ¶HO t u rtr li H * l l ' . A hE, By CHARM; DICKEKS and WILKIE COLLINS. AA Conine. The Overture. I Vendale makes Mischief. VT I. ACT 111. The Curtain Riess. In the Valley. Inter the Housekeeper. On the Mountain. • The Housekeeper speaks. ACT IV. New Characters on the Scene. 'I he Clock.Loek. Exit Wilding. 1 ohenrelser's Victory. ACT 11. The Curtain Falls. Vendale makes Love. In the Number of ALL TIIC YEAR HOUND for January 4, will be commenced TUN SIOONSTin et. Story, bl WlL[ti COLLINS. ILondon : 26, WelUngloo.etreet, Alrand , W.C. , and Chapman and 11aU.1911, Piccadilly, W. IFFAIIOVER-SQUARE.—The New Magazine of Musk. blited by LINDSAY SLOPER. Price la. The BECIIIBLIt NUMB= Is now to be bad of every rousieseller awl bookseller, and at every railway station in Brest Britain and Ireland. Lon 1i011: Ashdown and Patty, Hanover-aqusse. HANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER con- Islas a new piece for the piano. by E. Rua .' A notturno, gracefully written, full of melodlea."—Morning Poet. HANOVER-SQUARE for DECEMBER con tains a new song by MISS VIDOIDIA GABRIZI., the words by is , BETH BAILDICIT BaOwnrao—" Change upon Change." "An unusually attractive song, not only well written and purely vocal, but highly melodious and impaastened."—The Queen. H ANOVER-S Q UARE for DECEMBER con tains a new piece for the piano, by W. Kona. entitled The Glpedes' Revel." •' The MAW) sufficiently indicates Its character. light and pleasing. Herr Rube's contribution will bates host of admirers." --dunday Time. H ANO VE RS Q UARE for DECEMBER con tains a new song by Y. W. BALM The words by Camp bell Clarke—" Though Age be like December." Simple and un tending In character, but fall of genuine feeling and Wounding in artistic tonchee."—Sunday Times. HANOVER-SQUARE. —The EXTRA CHRIST MAS NUMBER, 000distiat entirety of New Dance Music, will be reedy next SATURDAY. CONTENTS : Helloing Vales. knell : Mark Polka Mazurka Ousel ; Vanden Hesse,. on old Preset alrk Henry W. HoWban ; Blush rose Ni Charles Godfrey ; Tlntornarre ()slop, Charles da Marlarea. Price is. Ashdown and Parry. Hanovar-oquare. THE SOLENT in the HURRICANE. The BUILDER of THIS WRBIC, 4d.. or by post contains: —Views of two modern German Churches, by Professor schmlot —Views of German Romanesque Churches on the Rhine—Pro mess of Architecture In UmmaNy—The Value of the Barometer at Sea, with Illuetratlon—The Architectural Photographic SO .:My—Skew Dukes—Donmette Architecture In Ilexice—Vatters Theatrical—Reviews of Boobs—end all the sews, artiattc mid sanitary.-1, Yorketreet, W.C., and all newsmen. CHRISTMAS DINNERS FOR POOR CHILD- REN LI BETHNAL-GREEN. TO TB! 111DFIVII 01 THE ■XPRCBR. SIR,—In the Mission-hall and free day evening and Sunday school in Old Castle-street, we have over 200 children under our care, whose welfare we are seeking to promote. The neighbourhood in which we are labouring is very poor. Last week we gave a free tea to 180 of the parents, and we purpose giving a Christmas dinner to all the children who have been in regular attendance. A schoolmaster and female teacher are engaged for the day school, while the evening classes are conducted by volun tary helpers. We are dependent for all the expenses of the mission on voluntary contributions. Any donations or parcels of left-off clothing will be gratefully received and acknowledged by, yours, &c ., M ILLIAM JARVIS, 2, Derby-road, Victoria ark-road, N.E., DONALD MUNRO, $O, Nicholl-square, Hack ney-road, N.E. (Superintendent). Dec. 12, 1887. Tint LAM Ma. JOHN Aiwa.—We have heard that this gentleman has left I,OOW. to the Bristol Infir mary, and we believe B0(118 other charitable bequests. His wealth is, we hear, estimated at nearer a million than half a million of money. Among other legacies, he has left, it is said, 30 ,0001. each to seven of his nephews. It is also reported that rather a curious and cloiracteristio provision is made in hie will. It appears that Mr. Ames had some few years ago a prolonged and severelycoatosted law suit with the town authorities of Lyme Regis, close to which his domain and residence were situated. The suit was an the subject of • church or public pathway through tho grounds, which Mr. Ames desired to abut up, but the attempt was resisted by the town, and after much litiga tion the latter was successful. Mr. Ames then had two very high walls built, one on either side of the path, so though parties could still peas through they had no view on either side, and, as may be supposed, the once pleasant walk no longer possessed its former charms. In his will, it is stated, klr. Ames has left a certaia sum to keep the walls in repair, and charged the possessor of the estate with the duty of maintaining them In all integrity.— Bristol Times. _ . B ER C HEESE FACTORIES. —Forty yearn ago the State of New York grew a surplus of grain (wheat . ) for exportation, and "Genesee flour' was known and prized in many foreign markets. Canal boats took in wheat at almost every storehouse, from Syracuse west ward, and brought it to Troy, Albany, and this city, for manufacture and sale. Now all is changed. The Genesee valley is no longer mainly devoted to wheat ; even the eountieswest of Cayuga Lake no longer grow their own grain. Sheep husbandry, once popular, is now on the wane. Dairying is rapidly supplanting all other farming in our rural districts, and we judge that the next census will return thrice the number of cows in our State reported in that which preceded it by a decade. And even dairying itself is I undergoing a decided and rapid transformation, through the introduction and multiplication of factories for the systematic and wholesale production of butter and cheese. These factories are located near the centre of each radius of three or four miles wherein grasa and cows abound—usually but one in a township as yet, though they are being rapidly multiplied. A millstream and water power often determine the site, though we believe a small engine and boiler (four to ten horse) are preferred to a water-power. A cold and copious spring is well nigh in- dispensable ; a good stock of ice, well stored and saved, is desirable. A large reservoir (like a cellar) is dug in the ground and tightly walled with planks ; board platforms extend into this, floating on two or thee feet of water, constantly renewed from the spring. In this reservoir, deep pails or cans are set and tilled three-fourths full of milk—they sinking and floating in a like depth of water. The milk remains here twenty-four to thirty-six hours, when the cream is Liken off and churned by steam or water-power—six to twenty four churns being operated at once, with no draft on human muscle. The butter thus made each day, from cream in the very highest condition, is of such uni form and superior quality as to bring from five to ten cents per pound wore than fair farm dairies will command. And the milk, thus skimmed, is then made into cheese, rather mild in flavour, but palatable and of very fair quality. We never wish to eat better than some of this, made wholly of skimmed milk, and sold by the makers at 10 cents per pound to their entire satisfaction. It is cheaper than pork, and may be substituted as a staple article of diet for labouring men, to their great advantage and comfort. The milk is brought in by the farmers of the vicinage, weighed as received, and placed in the cooling vat as aforesaid. The farmers gene rally receive a dividend of the proceeds ; but the better plan is fast gaining ground ofpaying the ash sh for it as , e fast as received, it being s • y turned into butter and cheese, which are ash articles. We estimate that the dairy product of our State will be bummed at least one fourth by the general introduction of these factories, and that the value of our grass lands will thus be enhanced at least 10 dols. per acre.—lficir York Tribune, Nov. 20. The bulletin of the Mmitcur du Suit recalls the declarations made by the Marquis do Moustier and by M. Rouher during the recent debates in the LegishAive Chamber. It adverts to the almost unanimous vote of confidence expressed in favour of the Government, and says that there never was established a more complete understanding and sympathetic harmony between the ministry and the chambers. The article continues thus:— " The testimony of approbation of the past and of absolute confidence in the future brings a new strength to the diplomacy of France. The Government of the Emperor continues to solicit the concurrence of the Powers for the work of conciliation and justice which it has undertaken in the interests of the Papacy and of Italy. In stead of invoking disdain and indifference upon Italian unity, the Government desires that all hatreds and reciprocal mistrust may be forgotten. It Atileire to hasten tbs sassaant wham the unity now constituted would understand that it was its duty to defend the sovereignty of the Pope. The French Government is of opinion that the counsels of Europe might exercise a happy influence in promoting conciliation. The proposed Con ference has lost nothing of its opportitneness. The Government expresses itself in this sense to the different Cabinets. The negotiations which have been opened continue." The Putrie of this evening states that the bill upon military reorganization will be brought into , the chamber to-morrow. The aame paper asserts that despatches from Florence induce the belief that the Italian Cham ber of Deputies will adopt an order of the day waiving the renewal of the vote of 1861, which declared Rome the capital of Italy. Private letters received here give cause to doubt the correctnesa of the Patrie's statement. ITALY. ROME, Dzc. 10, gsrmairo. The Pontifical engineers are actively employed in strengthening the fortifications of the Castle of St. Angelo, of Monte Mario, and of Fort Immacula. Twelve thousand crosses are being struck off for distribution to the troops on the 24th December, in commemoration of the late campaign. Three barracks have been discovered to be partly undermined. THE FOREIGN MAILS. THE HEAVY BOMBAY MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Dee. 11.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Syria, Captain Christian, with the above mails, ar rived this afternoon. She brings 54 paseengers ; specie, 3,4301.; also 1,106 packages cargo, including 481 bales raw silk, value 40,000/. sterling. The Syria experienced across the Bay of Biscay strong N.B. gales and heavy head sea, up the Channel fresh keen= and fine weather. On the Oth she spoke the screw steamer Italian, steering for Gibraltar. On the 30th ult. the Syria, in lat. 35'15 N., long. 17'54 E., pared a wreck floating on starboard bow, but could not discover any clue to name or natio/Wily et vessel. Her Majesty's ship Terrible, Austrian frigate Adria, ►nd French frigate Andromaque, were at Alex andria ; and at Malta the Caledonia, Hibernia, Endymion, Racer, Enterprise, Psyche, and Wizard, and Italian ironclad Messina. GIBRALTAR, Dec. 6. —The Austrian war steamer Novara, Admiral Tegetheff, with the body of the late Emperor Maxi milian, is daily expected to arrive hire. The Ameri can screw frigate Franklin, saluted the governor on the 2nd, which compliment was returned from the saluting battery. The Dutch screw frigate Adolf Duke of Nassau arrived here on the 3rd. Her Majesty's ships Skylark and Redpole are in the h►rbour. The British steamers Rhone and Maeander from Liverpool, Hastings from Cardiff, Cadiz and Europa from London, Marion from North Shields, Napoli and Messina from Glasgow, Murrill& from South ampton, John Bridger from Swansea, schooners Industry, Betsey, and Tullochgoram from Newcastle, brigantines Leo and Pert from Swansea and Newport, brig 'AMA from Swansea, barque Maggie from Swansea, and ship Negotiation from Newport have arrived here. Gibraltar ex. changes are quoted on London, 90 days, 501 ; Paris, sf. 28e. to 29e. ; Marseilles, sf. 29e. ; Madrid, 8 days' eight, t dis. ; Cadiz, jto 1 die ; Seville and Malaga, dis. ; Valencia, par to j ; Five franca, at par. BREM6N, DEC. 11.—The North German Lloyd have sold to the Engliah Royal Mail Company the steamer Rhein, now in course of construction, and have ordered two new steamers of Mews. Laird and Co. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 11.—The Hamburg Ameri can Company's steamer Cimbria, Captain Nautman, having bad a new propeller fitted, will sail for New York at daylight to-morrow morning with the usual mails, a fall complement of cabin and steerage passengers, and a general cargo. THE WEST INDIA MAIL—SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 11.—The passengers who arrived by the last West India Mail steamer Tamar will be released from quarantine to morrow, and the Tamar will be admitted to pratique on Friday. Berm, Dsc. 11.—The Transatlantic Company's steamer St. Laurent, from New York, arrived here this morning. She brings 77 passengers, 335,000 dollars in specie, and 500 packages of merchandise. ADMIRALTY JURISDICTION IN LIVERPOOL.—From a correspondence read yesterday at the meeting of the council of the Chamber of Commerce it appeared that Mr. Hardy had decided not to bring in a bill at present for conferring limited Admiralty jurisdicton, on the ground that it would be premature to do so in the face of the pending inquiry into judicial reform. Mr. Hardy withed to know the precise number of sittings which would be required, and the salary which the Liverpool town council would propose to pay for the Admiralty functions per formed by the judge. He was prepared, if required, to bring in a bill for Liverpool only, but if it was deemed de sirable to bring in any special measure evidence should be given before the special commission on the subject. On the motion of Mr. Campbell, it was resolved that the law committee of the chamber be empowered to collect evi dence on the subject and lay it before the government. ADMIRAL FAILRAGUT AT GIBRALTAR.—We an nounced the other day that Admiral Farragut had landed from his flagship, the Franklin, under a salute from oar batteries, and paid an official visit to his Excellency the Governor at the Convent, which was immediately returned by Sir Richard Airey, attended by his staff, et the Club house Hotel, the temporary residence of the distinguished admiral. On Wednesday he was accompanied by Col. Maberly, commanding the Royal Artillery, to the various sights of interest on the Rock, and yesterday paid a visit to Tangier, returning to the garrison in the course of the evening. Admiral Farragut and staff will dine this evening with the officers of the Royal Artillery, and he was compelled, owing to a previous engagement, to decline en invitation to dine with the officers of the 2nd Battalion lath regiment to-morrow evening. These hospitalities are very pleasant and agree able in themselves, but they have a wider than an in dividual bearing. The personal distinction of a guest, no doubt, as in this instance, enhances them as well as gives the opportunity for their manifestation. But these oour tesies partake also of an international character ; they tend to promote that good feeling between the two countries which is so desirable. Admiral Farragut will leave this very shortly, we are told, for Nice. He will carry with him the beat wishes of this garrison.—Gibeeltsr Chruniele, Nov : 30 : . . Through the influence of the Mercantile Marine Service Association of Liverpool Captain Russell, whose certificate was cancelled in Singapore about twelve months ago, hoe obtained a reconsideration of his ease by the Board of Trade, and his certificate is to be restored to him. THE LATE BIRMINGHAM BANKING COMPANY.— A further instalment of 3s. in the pound to the creditors of this bank is announced. This will make 16e. paid. A conference under the auspices of the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control was held last evening at the City Terminus Hotel. Cannon-street. The object of the meeting was thus set forth in a circular issued by the society : " As the subject of the Irish church will demand the serious attention of the constituencies at the next general election, and, sub sequently, of the new parliament, the executive committee of this society are anxious to secure general agreement as to the measures to be adopted by those who—whatever may be their opinions on the abstract question of church establishments—consider the abolition of the establishment in Ireland to be essential for the welfare of that country, and also believe that the impartial disendowment of epic copalhine, Roman catholic', and presbyterians is the only just and practical policy." Letters of sympathy with the conference were read from the (Mourn Don, M.P., Sir F. Crossley, M.P., Mr. Gilpin, M.P., Mr. Raines, M.P., Sir J. Gray, M.P., Mr. Maguire, M.P., Alderman Lusk, M.P., Mr. Candlish, M.P., Mr. P. A. Taylor, M.P., Mr. J. W. Ludlow, Mr. Hepworth Dixon, Professor Newman, Mr. Thornton Hunt, he. Mr. E. Pilau., the chairman, said no one taking part in the conference was expected to commit himself to any views he (the chairman) might be supposed to represent, respecting the abstract questionof Church Establishments. It mien be taken for granted that there wags difference of opinion amongst those present upon such a subject. The business of the meeting related exclusively to the estab lishment of the Church of England in Ireland, to which undoubtedly many objections both historical and circum stantial might be urged which did not apply to the church %this country. It would be perfectly out of taste to take up time in declaiming against the Irish church, which was the most singularly unreasonable, unrighteous, and an-Christian ecclesiastical policy in the world. (Cheers.) Upon that point they were an sigma. It was quite possible to hold the strongest views upon that ques tion, to express them in the most unmeasured terms, and to use all legitimate means in giving effect to them, with out in the slightest degree bringing into dispute the per sonal character of the starry, or even their motives. It was the policy of the system, and not the personal instm mentality by which it was carried out, that the meeting wished to protest against—for the sake of Ireland, because it was working out • great mischief there, and for our own sake, because so long as we were conniving at that policy we were participating in its guilt. (Hear, bear.) The primary object before the conference was to sound out clearly, audibly, and ringingly a key-note that would bring into unison wish it the general voice of the public. There was a vast variety and even confusion of opinions amongst the public upon some portions of the Irish church question, and what was required was a defi nite view as to the policy to be adopted in plate of the present, and so to bring into agreement a vast properties of the liberal party in this country. What that key-mseis should be it was for the conference to determine. It was of the utmost importance that they should let the public know that upon this subject there could be no useful or practical compromise, and that if the Irish church were to be dealt with in such a way as to satisfy the desires and reasonable wants of the Irish population, it must be wholly abolished. (Cheers.) Any attempt to recognise it upon its present basis, or so to improve its machinery as to make it better fitted to carry out the object for which it was designed, would be utterly futile as a part of that liberal policy which in the future ought to be pursued with regard to Ireland. Indeed, the more the machinery was improved the more insulting became the policy which that machinery was intended to support. That policy being wrong, all the improvements that could be made in the methods by which it was sought to perpetuate that wrong would but inflict a fresh injury upon the Irish people. Another point upon which they ought to be explicit was that having abolished the Irish church, having abolished the state ecclesiastical system, as it now existed, it should not be re-introduced in any other shape. (Cheers.) No meet division of the revenuer should be recommended amongst the different ecclesiastical parties in Ireland as had been recommended by some conspicuous Whig noble men. (Cheers.) He (the chairman) could not conceive of any policy more likely to increase the present discord or render more acrimonious those feelings of intolerance which seemed to prevail so largely in the aister isle than the adoption of this plan —a plan which could have only been proposed in order to save the principle of an esta blished church. If they could agree further that the reve nues of the Irish church should in future be appropriated to the uses of all Irishmen quite irrespectively of the reit gious faith they professed, then they would be giving to the public a decisive utterance of opinion. He felt con vinced that the public were perfectly ready to support them in trying to attain this object. It would only then remain to determine the particular steps to be adopted to enforce the general views upon parliament. (Cheers.) The Rev. A. HANNAY, of Croydon, moved the first resolution, which declared the necessity of abolishing the Irish church, and pronounced an opinion as to the redistribution of revenues. The mover of the resolu tion said it was a standing reproach to our governments that the Irish church had never been dealt with on its own merits. It was not only a reproach to our legislature, but to the middle-classes of this country, which the legis lature had hitherto represented. An institution like the Irish church, involving so Armes an injustice to the Irish people, ought to have weighed so upon the conscience of the nation that it should have been abolished long ago. He was strongly of opinion that in any question of apply ing the revenues, education should be foremost but we should not curse Ireland with a denominational education, but allow it to be purely secular. At any rate, the re venues should be devoted to the secular interests of the nation. _ _ _ The resolution was seconded, and a lengthy discussion took place, some wishing the motion to be confined to a simple declaration that it was desirable to abolish the Irish church, others proposing to add en expression of opinion that the endowments of all state religions in Ire land should be abolished, and one or two gentlemen strongly deprecating any reference to the abstract prin ciple of church establishments. Ultimately the resolu tion, having been several times altered, was passed as fol lows:—" That, in the present condition of Ireland, it is incumbent on the legislature to abolish the Irish church establishment, and that no improvement of its machinery can redress the grievance of a state church opposed to the religious feelings of the great majority of the Irish peo ple." Mr. MASON JONES moved the second resolution :— "That the conference is further of opinion that all proposals for dividing between the episcopalians and other religious bodies in Ireland the property now held by the establish. ment are unsound, and would prove to be pernicious ; •and inasmuch as the Roman catholic prelates of Ireland have emphatically protested against any endowment of their church by the state, it has become practically impossible to adopt any other policy than one of impartial disendow ment of all religious bodies ; the ecclesiastical re venues of the country being applied to pur grcalculated to promote its secular interests." .t g hought the Regium Donum and the grant to May nuoth were but parts of the same question, and if the resolution could he made to express this the presbyterians, catholic*, and episcopalism& would be placed upon the same footing. This was all the more necessary because of the recent expression of opinion on the part of Earl Russell, an opinion which many other statesmen were ready to endorse. They must tight against any alteration which would leave the evil in Ireland in another form. There were In Ireland millions of acres of land which if reclaimed would be the richestand most profitable in the world. The revenues of the Irish church if put up in the market would be worth, at 20 years' purchase, en immense sum of money, and he would propose that the House of Commons should appoint a commission to expend the Irish church property as it fell in from vested interests in reclaiming these lands and letting them out to tenants, who would bold direct from the crown. By this means we should malts a peasant pro prietary in the country, and should form in every tenant a tie of loyalty to this country that would be fatal to sedi tion. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Gnat , ' seconded the motion, warmly supporting Mr. Mason Jones's suggestion as to the reclamation of hinds. Mr. CONGREVE thought no practical determination could be arrived at as to the distribution of the revenues of the Irish church. The houses of parliament as at present constituted would not be likely to accept any scheme for secular or educational purposes. There were three methods by which these revenues might be distributed. The first was one that had already been mentioned, and one which rested no doubt upon very strong grounds, via., purely secular purposes in some shape or other. Such • plan would not be free from opposition, and probably every religionist would object it. A cry would be imme- diately got up, and by none more than Mr. Gladden., that we must not take from Clod to give to man. The second method which might be adopted was education, and he was against any large system of national education either in England or Ireland, as raising only in another form the very difficulty the conference was attempting to put down. The suggestion be would offer was • very simple oar, and it had its political advantages. The property of the Irish church was derived from two sources, via., from tithes and landed property in the hands of eertai• erieleehortical commissioners. With regard to tithes, he would let those keep them who paid for them, thus bribing the landlords to assist in the removal of the evil by putting the money in their own pockets. A church in all its forms should have no property. The landed property would require a diffe rent treatment. He would do as they did in the days of the French revolution—sell out the land in small quanti ties, so that the peasant might get hold of it, and let the money go into the imperial exchequer. The Bev. C. Minus said that, although brought up u • minister of the established church, he was led by the sheer force of internal conviction to the opinion that the con ; notion of the church with the stab was the greatest pee ' Bible hindrance to the salvation of souls, which should be the aim of all religions. His personal experience of Ire- I had led him to believe that the Irish church was the ' greatest hindrance to the bringing back of the Roman catholics to protestantiam. No system like this, founded , upon wrong and injustice, could prosper. For Mmself, he I did not care what became of the money ; it might be thrown into the sea ; only, do away with the establish ' meat. (Laughter and cheers.) The Rev. Mr. Dorm' thought very highly of the propo sition made by Mr. Mason Jones, and believed it would be a most practical suggestion to be taken up by the House of ICommons. The proposition had the advantage also that it would help to undermine, if not to settle the land ques tion, while dealing with the Irish church. (Hear, bear.) Dr. UNDZIMILL objected to the meeting pledging itself to any educational scheme, and asked whether it was not possible to join the Roman catholic hierarchy in their pro ' penal to devote any available funds to the maintenance of I the poor. He himself would give grants to various pur -1 poses, and amongst others, to the admirable made by Hr. Mason Jones as to the redamation gli ol g rant What, however, was to be done with the rents of the land ? Mr. iiAROIII Joe said when the land was reclaimed, and let to tenants for whatever rents the commission de cided upon, the proceeds should be employed for the crea tion of an additional peasant proprietary. A lengthy discussion followed. Sir P. O'Biumr, M.P., said he wished to say a word or two as one of the few Irish members left in town. Was it worth while to suggest difficulties, which would arise quickly enoufh by and by? Let them decide Snri how the admitted evil was to be remedied, and details would follow naturally. He, as a Roman catholic, could say that the great mass of his fellow countrymen did not view this question in a monetary point of view at all. They scarcely troubled themselves with the tithes, or the property iZ the heed/ 9f the Ecclesiastical commis sioners; but they regarded the existence or the Met church in a purely political and racial point of view. The mere idea of being connected with an establishment which had been for years the inin of conquest in the country, led them to regard its maintenance as giving a status to persons connected with it above other people. There fore any Englishman or &Ma'am= who looked to Ireland as a portion of the British empire must regard the church as a means of creating a disunion amongst all classes of Irish society, without the removal of which other reforms would be robbed of half their power. There must be a union of races and peoples in Ireland, and it was because the Irish church tended to create a religious inequality, leading to other social inequalities, that the question must be agitated quite apart from its religious or monetary aspects. It was idle to discuss the application of revenues to educational purposes at present, because a national edu cation was being provided by the imperial government. The chief thing was to consider the i emoval of the great national grievance, and it was only by the assistance of English men and Sootehmen that the people of Ireland could get it removed. Mr. A. BurcoN suggested that the land of the Irish church, as it fell in, and the tithes might be sold, and the proceeds be applied as • permaaeat fund towards that portion of taxation which the Irish people would otherwise have to provide towards the imporlal treunry. The property of the Irish church should be the property of the Irish people. The resolution was carried unanimously. The next resolution was :—" That the conference ex presses its hope that at the next general election the most earnest efforts will be made to secure the return of *par liament favourable to the abolition of the Irish ertabrish meat. Meanwhile it recommends the general adoption of petitions to the existing parliament, and the wide diffu sion of information on the subject among the electoral bodies.,• The Bev. Mr. ASPLAND, in proposing the motion, TO tossed to the reoomniendation as to petitions and said that he had nevertheless very little hope of being able to influence a parliament so dishonest and insincere as the present. He warned the meeting that there was much bard work to be done before they would be in a position to discuss the distribution of revenues, and urged them not to forget that the Irish church bad not yen fallen. The resolution baring been seconded was canied unani mously. The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the vote of thanks moved to him for presiding, said the chief thing to do was to get the !dab church abolished, and there would be then no difficulty as to the revenues. Those who refused to take part in this agitation because they did not see how to dispose of the money were not very sincere in their desire to see the Irish church abolished. (Hear, hear.) The meeting then separated. LIBERALISM IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE.—A "Liberal Association" is forming for the county of Cambridge sad the Isle of Ely ; its main objects being strict attention ter the registration, a thorough organization of the party, sad the raising funds for all legitimate election purposes. The appeal of the promoters has been most enthusiastically responded to. THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. —The Guardian understands that in the event of a vacancyoocurring in the representation of the University of Cambridge by the promotion of one of the present members, it is the inten tion of Mr. Beresford Hope's friends to invite him to stand, and there is reason to believethat he will accept the invitation. It will be recollected that at the last vacancy, in 1859, Mr. Beresford Hope, though influentially sup ported, retired in favour of the present Solicitor-General rather than put the University to the trouble of • contest. SUPPLEMENTARY CLERKSHIPS IN THE IhFICE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISNIONERS.—A competition for • supplementary clerkship in the above office will be held in London on the 2tith and 27th inst. The salary of a supplementary clerk commences at 801. per annum. Augmen tations of salary, at the rate of id. per annum, may be given as the rewards of ma it and good conduct, upon re ports made to the commissioners by the secretary or registrar, until a maximum of 2001. has been reached ; beyond which there is no prospect of advance, nor is there any chance of promotion to the superior class of clerkships in the office. The amount of usual daily attendance is not to be less than for the seven hours between 10 a.m. and 5 p ni. • but earlier or later attendance will be required whenever the state of business shall make it de sirable. Vacation is allowed each year (under pre sent arrangernm ta) to the extent of II working Mays; from which, however, is deducted the time consumed by late atteadance, or other absence during official hours, and by absence on account of illness without medical cer tificate. Vacancies in the class of supplementary clerks are filled up by competition of candidates in the following subjects:-1. Exercises designed to test handwriting and I orthography. 2. Copying and indexing. 3. Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions. 4. English com position ; and no competitor can be successful who falls to show an adequate proficiency in each of theme subjects. No candidate (whether previously in the public service or not) can be admitted who is under 16 or above 20 years of age. Persons wishing to compete for the situation now vacant should at once apply for the requisite form, which must be filled up and returned, together with evidence of the date of birth (the date of baptism not being sufficient), and a specimen of handwriting, to the office of the Civil Service Commission, Dean's-yard on or before the 21st inst. If these documents are deemed satisfactory an order of examination will be sent for each time and place as may be arranged. Strict inquiries will hereafter be made as to the character of the successful candidate, and he will be required to undergo • medical examination by a practitioner appointed by the cominhe skean. These situations are expressly designed for it dif ferent class of persons from those who till the ordinary clerkships RI the civil service, and it must be distinctly understood that no prospect of promotion in this o ffi ce or of increased remuneration is held out to applicants. The successful candidate will be expected to enter into an agreement to remain in the service of the oomrnimioners for not lea than two years, should they be disposed to retain him so long. SALE OF MODERN PIrITRES.—At Messrs. Foater's gallery in Pall-mall, yesterday, the following pictures were disposed of by public auction. (Charles Lucy) "Scene at Hampton-oars during the Commonwealth—Oliver Cromwell and his daughters ;" the engraved picture, 95 guineas. (J. Phillip, R.A.) "Fair in the Isle of Skye ;" the finished sketch for the large picture, 40 guineas. (Janes Webb) " Greed View of enioe." 65 guineas. (R. Anadell, A.R.A.) "Eagles and Dead Stag," 75 guineas. (J. Sant, A.R.A., and David Roberts, R.A.) "The Journey to Emmaus ;" the whole of the background painted by David Roberts, the celebrated engrav ed work, 175 guineas. (John Burr) " The Toy Merchant , ' 50 guineas. IJ. Coo. stable, R.A.) "The Leaping Horse—Dedham Lock ;" from the collection of Mr. Charles Pemberton, 190 guineas. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. —The usual weekly meet ing of the Society of Arta was held at the House, John street, Adelphi, yesterday evening ; Mr. W. Hawes in the chair. After the transaction of the usual routine busi ness, Mr. Ellis A. Davidson read • paper "On industrial and scientific education ; with notes on the systems pur sued and the works pruduoed in continental schools, as exemplified in the Paris Exhibition, and suggestions for the establishment of trade schools in England. " • . -- The Ferndale inquest was adjourned on Tues day until this (Thurnlay) morning. During the day Dlr. Lionel Brough and Mr. T. S Foster arrived. POLITICS AT GUILDFORD, The annual dinner of tho Guildford A gri cultural Amociation took place on Tuesday at the White Hart Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Rangy CritßlZ. Amongst the *nests were Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., and Mr. G. Onelow, M.P. Mr. ON•tou in returning thanks for the borough mem hers, after ali ght reference to local matters, mid that he had always been a strong advocate for the abolition of the malt duty, and be believed the time would come when it would be repealed. There was, however, but one states man to whom they could look for this boon, and that was to Mr. Gladstone. (Cheers.) In the exhibition which had been held that day they had seen fat and lean animals, Ind is he walked through the show he was forcibly re minded of the men who were looking . out for a nibble at the government cake, while the imm inent members of the poultry tribsOncelled many public men who were strutting about in other people's clothes. (Laughter.) The liberal beast had fattened upon the government cake, and till very recently the conservatives had got lean on the oppo- Utica pastures. The liberal harvest bad been gathered in, but he was sorry that the ingatheriug had been effeeted by tory reapers. (Laughter.) Referring to the Abyssinian war, Mr. Ouslow said that he could see no cause for that war. The ruler of Abyssinia wee little better than • nigger chief, and if proper means had been exerted our countrymen would not have been held in captivity. There wail not an Reglishman who would not spend his last shilling in defence of his country, but these was no neces sity for carrying our anus into the haunts of the savage to maintain a prestige which was already sufficiently este- Wished. (Cheers.) . . . . . Mr. Berms, M.P., who was heartily cheered on rising, responded to the toast of "The County Members." He said—lt is more than one can expect nowr-days for any one to say a good word for the House of Com mons, for of late (as servants say), "we don't seem to have given satisfaction," so we are soon to be sent about our business, with not, I fear, at all • first-rate character. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) The part y to which I belong is said to have been in a very moody, discontented state this autumn. We are told that we have got what we were always crying for, and now we have not • word of thanks for those who gave it us, and do nothing but grumble and groan. (Hear, hear.) That, no doubt, is very wrong of us ; but I think there is a little excuse. We are in the OLIO of • dog who has been gnaw ing a very sweet marrow bone, and means to have many • good gnaw at it in future, and then suddenly finds it whipped out of his mouth and swallowed whole by the mastiff over the way. And than we are told to bear this • like Christians ! We shall do nothing of the kind. (Cheers and laughter.) Dishing other people may be ave nice pastime, but being dished one's self would put Job out of patience. Seriously, however, raw that this great question of reform, which bad so long stuck in the mud and blocked the lane up, has been fairly pulled out of the way, I hope and believe that we shall get forward into some of that beneficent social legislation which men of all parties long to see carried out. Where) We have that fact, of all our social facts the most astonishing and the most appalling, that despite all our trade, our huge wealth, our ceaseless progress, our ever-crescent prospe rity, more than a million of our fellow-countrymen and countrywomen are day by day claiming aid as paupers. That is indeed • fact to make statesmen pause, and to force men of all parties to lay aside their strife and join hand in hand to see whether by any means the causes of such a portentous food of misery cannot be removed. (Cheer) Then there is the cognate fact that, notwith standing all our efforts in the cause of education, such vast mares of children are still growing up in ignorance—almost in barbarism. Here again, men of all parties may combine their efforts to extend the blessings of • sound and good education more widely. (Hear, hear.) This is no party question ; and.nothing should I regret or disapprove more entirely than any attempt of the leaders of either side to make political capital out of it. I will not, of course, ex patiate on this attractive topic beyond just adding how sorry I am to see that some, in the heat of their zeal, want to dash to prom the system that has grown up by degrees during the last thirty years, and which atIL forth voluntary effort, supplemented only by external aid and stimulus, to set in its place a more despotic, drastic, and seemingly, therefore, mar potent system. (Cheers.) I should say, carry it out more boldly ; spread it more widely ; modify and enlarge it where it is found wanting ; but here, as elsewhere, we want reform, not revolution. (Hear, hear.) Then again, there is another great ques tion on which men of all parties may well combine, and as to which in fact we look with the most hops to the conservative statesman, Lord Cairns—the ques tion of law reform. It is discreditable, it is not less than disgraceful, to the government and parlia ment of the realm, that our laws should be left in this tremendous state of higgledy-piggledy confusion. The goverument that shall mould this welts.. ing chaos into order, that shall flash light into this abyss of darkness, will indeed deserve well of their oountry. (Cheers.) I must not detain you further ; but with these, and • boat of kindred questions—questions of social policy, belonging to no party—rising one behind the other in our ..iew, we may well rejoice that or great source of hostility, one prat topic ef dissension, has been taken away and that tortes, whip, and radicals will be better able to 1.u% shoulder to shoulder, and give • long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, in making Old England • still wiser, better and happier land. (Loud and protracted applause.) The proceedings were not concluded till midnight. Sr. MAnTlN'it SCHOOb or ART.—Last night the prizes awarded for drawings executed in this school during the year IWO were delivered to the successful students by Mr. A. J. B. Hope, M.P., in the school room of St. Martin's College, Castle-street, Longacre. The Rev. B. G. Maul, the hoe. secretary, in the course of some in troductory remarks stated that the success of the school during the put year bad exceeded the results of the pre vious period, which was the more remarkable frost the difficulty which now lay in the way of getting prises given to the various art schools throughout the tufted Kingdom. At present there were but ten gold medals, 20 silver medals, and 50 bronze medals for all schools in the kingdom similar to theirs, sad as the ditticulty to which he bad referred was thus obvious, the fact that one of their students had obtained a gold medal for the antique was one deserving of the most sincere dongratula tien. The younggentleman who had gained that honour, and one of his brother students, had also this writ received silver medals at the Royal Academy. After some obser vation,. from Mr. Boulder, who was present as an emissary from South Kensington, the chairman, who was received very warmly, administered some consolatory advice to the unsuccessful students. He admonished them against the danger of being solely guided iu their studies by a desire to obtain prizes such as existed in those who competed for horse and boat races. In this age of ours—in this grinding, steani.puffing, tele graphing, express-train-travelling age of ours—in this age of smoky towns, minnow streets, of much distress. and hard political debate, hr wanted to have some forms and ideas of beauty, some wide training beyond and above the material interests of the day, that may win the affection, and thoughts and studies of the people. With some per sons the idea of education to human beings was what amanita were to • turkey, whereas to the wise luau education meant training of which knowleili,e was only • part. If they crammed the stomach of a turkey with potatoes and chiming., without leaving any room for dis semination and sham idles, the hind would die. and they would have nothing hut the great, heavy, distorted corpse of • useless turkey. The hon, gentleman then distributed the prizes. The giving of the gold medal to Mr. Hei hen Johnsen, and the remarks of the how gentleman which accompanied it, evoked hearty applause. The recipient is a young gentleman not yet out of his teens- After the delivery of an address by Mr. H. O'Neill, A.H.A., and some remarks by Mr. C. Landseer, the ploperdinp were brought to a close with • vote of thanks to the chairman. Sr. ALBANS STREPLECHASIS. —These races ore postponed until Thursday and Friday, the 19th and 2Uth instant. CRYSTAL PALACH. ONH SHILLING DAY.—. WBGNBSDAT,DEc.ll.—Admisoions on payment, sgl; ditto by season tickets, 1,048; total visitors, 1,6:17.