The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-09 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the stones ut the present year the National Lifeboat Institution has contributed to the saving of 1,027 lives from various shipwrecks MU a vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended £210.6.15 In the mania period on its Lifeboat Eatablishmentn In addition to granting C 2,444 for rewards The Committee of the Institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued h e m y demands on their 180 Lifeboat Establishments. Contributions will bethanidully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Leiria Eau., at the institution, 14, John-etre* Adeiphi, London. PARIS EXHIBITION FIRST-CLAaS SILVER MEDAL, ISM JOHN BROODEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, 16. RILNRIETTA-STRILT, 001/11241.41ARDIEN. JOHN BROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDRYS GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDKN'B GOLD ALBERT CHAI JOHN BP.OGDM3 GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. OVERCOATS for the PRESENT SEASON. 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As the year 1867 draws to a close there appear but few symptoms of that revival of public confi dence which has been so anxiously awaited during the last eighteen months. Trade remains inert. Certainly the totals of our foreign exports appear fairly good, but against this must be set the fact the:, our internal commerce—a far greater ques tion—is even more inactive than could be ex pected from the financial and political circum stances of the day. People seem afraid to buy or sell, merchants to traffic, manufacturers to pro duce. Yet there is no reason to believe that the intrinsic wealth of the country has experienced any diminution. Some individuals mat have directly suffered severely, or perhaps been utterly ruined, by the great joint-stock failures of the past and present year ; but, nevertheless, the un fortunate losers form but a small minority of the nation. The indirect effect of these scandals still remains. Distrust appears, for the moment, nearly inerasable. As a rule, capital is every where kept hack. Probably on no previous occa sion have the deposits in the banks been on so large a scale as now. The effect on the money market is seen by the low rates of discount which sail prevail, notwithstanding the withdrawals of gold from the Bank of England. A year and a half ago similar operations caused the Bank rate to be maintained at 10 per cent., with its consequent pressure on commerce. Now it is somewhat languidly debated whether the same movement will end ins rise from 2 to 2} per cent. When money is cheap it seems to follow that investments will be in demand. Primd facie it is demonstrable that 31 per cent. in Consols is worth more than 1/ per cent, in discounting com mercial bills, or what is rather to the purpose, in leaving money on deposit at 1 per cent. Another point also deserves recording— the almost entire absence of prospectuses. One or two insignificant companies have appeared, the shares of which were quoted at no premium at all, and one or two small loans, whose stock commanded a premium by no means ex travagant, and in one case at least rather doubt ful. Leaving these experiments, however, out of the question, it is at first sight strange that the public care little to buy in the Government funds. The great majority of such money pur chases as take place are chiefly on banking ac count. Small investors, who really constitute the strength of the market, are comparatively scarce. In the course of the last few years they have been habituated to something more than the 31 per cent. given by Consols. Some prefer to buy foreign bonds, which are tempting enough, since at present prices two or three Governments which have never defaulted give nearly 10 per cent. interest and a bonus besides, through the operation of the sinking fund. A middle and safer course has been selected by others. They have bought Indian Government and guaranteed railway stocks, yielding about 5 per cent., and practically secured, no matter how it may be con tested, by our own Government. The majority purchase nothing, but wait for that indefinable period when something is to turn up, and make all securities safer and better. In referring, however, to new investments,. one imnortant exception should be made. However much the public may disregard other securities they, at least, show a strong inclination to pur chase the debentures inued by our Colonial Govern ments. Scarcely a week passes without some fresh proposal, and it is rare, indeed, to record a failure in obtaining the necessary subscriptions. The money, indeed, is invariably required for roads, railways, harbour improvements, or other works of public utility. No more legitimate in vestment of capital could be pointed out. The wealthy men of the mother country are not called upon to aid the colony in providing expensive armaments, but to advance its peaceful and material prosperity. It is one of those instances where, as in sound commerce, both aides are equal gainers. Admitted that the security would have been equally good if the money had been squandered on inside& and a stand ing army, there is something more to consider. Political economists of the rigid financiering school would advise, " never mind THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9,186 t. " how the funds are spent so long as you are aura "of your dividends." Political moralists would have something to say on the other ride. Our colonies, however, should beware of the bane of too fatal a facility in borrowing. As yet there is no harm done, but it is bat to be wise in time. When it is found that loans can be easily contracted, it is astonishing how readily a legisla ture can be induced to tide over the difficulty of a deficit by a temporary advance. The habit quickly grows. To take a foreign instance. Turkey contracted her first European loan in 1854. In 1858 she borrowed again, then in 1860, then 1862, next 1863-4, next in 1865 (two loans), and would probably go on if Western capitalists only gave the opportunity. The ex penses of the Crimean war, redemption of the various currencies, consolidation of the home debt, &c., were the reasons, all perhaps legitimate in themselves. Egypt, again, commenced borrow ing in 1862, and has proceeded pretty regularly ever since. Here again there wore the same tangible pretexts : railway purposes, purchase or redemption of real property, and so forth. The financier who could prove that in both these coun tries the sums borrowed were fully applied to their specific objects would deserve no small praise. No doubt the engagement at first was regularly carried out, but the temptation to a lapse is often nearly irresistible. For this reason we would counsel our colonies to avoid borrowing too much. As it is, their debt can be easily borne. No greater mistake could be made than to increase the obligation unneces sarily or hastily. Already their applications on our market have been lately so frequer I that it may be advisable for all reasons to pause. A borrower who appears every year must count upon getting a decreasing value for his securities. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE AUTUMNAL SESSION. Two or three of our contemporaries enter this morning upon a brief review of the session whieh closed on Saturday. The Times observes that the absence of any real fighting has rendered Mr. Dia raeh's presence less necessary to the government than it would be under ordinary circumstances. Lord Stanley, upon whom the burden fell, failed to reconcile the active preparations for the Abyssinian ex pedition which were made contemporaneously with his celebrated speech of July with the tone of the speech itself ; but the house felt that any errors the government had committed did not affect the merits of their policy, and willingly sanctioned what had been done. Lord Stanley's conduct in regard to the conference has gone far to strengthen the position of the ministri, and hu been completely justified by the recent declarations of M. Rouher, Indeed if we were boned to accept hf. Rouher's statement that France would under no circumstances permit the ex isting Papal dominion to be curtailed or modified as • trustworthy representation of the Imperial policy, we should find it difficult to exprem in fitting words our sense of the delusive character of an invitation to a conference on the question. The debates in parliament on other sub jects than the Abyssinian expedition have been, adds the Times, of no value except to prove the worthlessness of the suggestion occasionally made that an autumnal session should be held every year. U a short, the autumn session, says the Daily News, has been • very cosy end agreeable one. Never was there such unanimity, Mr. Disraeli's method of managing by n interfering with the pleasures of its members—such as the &Amber shootings—having conspired with the necessity of the Abyssinian expedition and its connexion with successive administrations to bring about this blessed concord. The principle involved in the re solution condemning India to a portion of the costs in our suit with King Theodore may be fraught with serious consequence. If England m►y wage Persian, Chinese, Abyssinian, and other wars at the expense of the population of India, we shall always be at hostility with some miserable potentate. The session has offered minis ters, in the use of the ocetermosigors and the cabmen, the opportunity of correcting soma of their many blunders of the previous one. The attempts to engage the houses of parliament in higher questions have failed. An ad interim ministry which does not possess the con fidence of the House of Commons, and a dying parlia ment which does not possess the confidence of the country, do well to avoid these themes. The Layard- Cameron-Beke-Rassam-Stern controversy is of a character more congenial to it. meld auxiliary in the management of the criminal alms. Our contemporary further suggests that the appointment of a Boma& cathode raiest uneke given aironmetanoes should be rendered oompulsmy, and it should no longer be left to the option of a prisoner whether he sees a Picket of his own persuasion. Eire Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dn. 7. Tho Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by the Princess of Teak. Her Majesty walked in the grounds and drove this morning, accompanied by Primo Leopold. Her Serene Highness Princess Henriette of Schleswig Holstein, the Earl and Countess of Bradford, Major-Ge neral Sir T. H. and the ROD. Lady Biddulph, dined with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. After dinner her Majesty's private band played in the drawing-room before Princess Louise, the Prince and Princes' of Teck, Princess Hemiette of Schleswig-Holstein, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting. The following ladies and gentlemen had the honour of being present :—The Hon. Mrs. Grey, the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, Colonel H. and the Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby, Lieutenant-Colonel George and Mrs. Gordon. The hand plryed the following selection of music under the direction of Mr. G. F. Anderson : Overture, " Der Frelichutz" Weber. Oran Seen; "Chi mai dell Erebo," "Odes" Gluck. Overture, 'Don Giovanni" kiln Acte and Bridal Chorus "Lohengrln" Overture, " Jeasooda" Spahr. Grand March, "Tannhaume" The Prince and Princess of Teak and the infant princess left the Castle this morning. The Earl and Countess of Bradford have also left the Castle. DEC. 8. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attend id by the Hon. Flora Macdonald, and honoured Major-General Hon. A. N. end Lady Mary Hood with a visit at Cumberland Lodge. The Equerry in Waiting was also in attendance. Prince Arthur, attended by M%jor Elphinetone, arrived at the Castle yesterday. Prince and Princess Christian visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon on their return from Sandringham. The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leo pold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Christian, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended divine ser vice this morning in the Private Chapel. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Oxford preached the sermon. Prince and Princess Christian and Pi;ncesa Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein risked her Majesty to-day, and re mained to luncheon. The Earl and Countess of Derby and the Bishop of Ox ford arrived at the Cutle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Hrs. Wellesley were also invited. Major-General Ormsby, Royal Artillery, has arliv , d at the Castle. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Swan Melville, arrived at Frogmore on Saturday from visiting the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the Mauritius, the North American Provinces, British Honduras, and the Falkland Islands. A deputation from the Skating Club, consisting of the Hon. F. Byng (President), the Rev. J. Antrobus, the Rev. Cyril Page, and Mr. H. T. Steward (Hon. Secretary and Treasurer), had an interview with Lord John Manners, at the Office of Works, on Saturday. The Lords present at the sitting of the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council on Saturday were Lord Cairns, Sir J. W. Colvile, Sir E. V. Williams, and Sir R. T. Kindaraley. The Queen, with the junior members of the royal family, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the suite, will, it is understood, leave Windsor Castle about the 20th or 21st inst. for Osborne, where her Majesty will sp•nd Chi:strum His Royal Highness the Prince of Walea has sent the town-clerk of Southampton 100 guineas tow►rds the West India hurricane fund. The Duke of Cambridge returned to town on Saturday from visiting the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. His Serene Highness and her Royal Highness the Prince and Prinoeu of Took will shortly honour the Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford with a visit at Belton, near Grantham. The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope have left townforChevening, their seat in Kent, for the Christmas. Lord Stanley of Alderley has left Dover-street for Alderley Park, Cheshire, where a family circles assembled. An extract from a private letter, written on the 11th nit. by Paymaster Bullon, at Bombay, to his sister here, relative to Dr. Livingstone's fate, has been sent for publication to tho Irish Tines. The information it refers to was obtained from Captein Parr, of her Majesty'. ship Lynx. The letter says :—" You, I am sure, will be glad that Dr. Livingstone is alive and well. One of our ships has arrived from Zanzibar, the captain of which is a friend of mine. He brought the news. The natives des.xted Livingstone, but he survived. I wish I knew his daughter, that I could make the announcement to her." THE BISHOP OF LONDON 'S FUND.—We are informed that the conference of clergy and churchwardens in connection with the Bishop of London's Fund will be held next year in February, and that the annual service of the fund will be held in Westminster Abbey, on 'Tuesday, the 16th June, when the Archbishop o f Canterbury will lreach. The Bishop of London has issu e d th e f o ll ow i ng etter to his clergy :—" London Home, December 7th.— Rev. and dear Brother,—l take this early opportunity of annourcing to you that Ihave fixed Sunday, the 10th May, 1868, as the day on which I hope to in v it e you to re..d a pastoral on the great &ocean& work in which the Bi s h o p o f con's Fund is engaged. On the Sunday following (Rogation Sunday) I hope collections will be made on behalf of the fund in all the churches in my diocese ; and I must ask you to be good enough to collect on that day for the genera d fund, and not for any special district or object, as some difficulty hat resulted in the few instances in which the latter course has hitherto been adopted. The collections this year have produced about 7,0001., which is a;,wf at advance on 186.1, when a sum of only 3,4.63/. was returned to the office of the fund from this source. lam sorry to say, however, that there are some 200 churches in which collec tions have not as ye; ly an given this se .r, and some of them in wealthy wishes. I will only express my earnest desire that collections may be ma lein 1858 in all districts, whether rich or poor, as the impoi lance of having the work known, even where but small oolitetions can be hoped for, is much felt by all who are interested in the fend. 1 • .11 says word here on a kindred subject. A large number of the clergy in theearly part of this year kindly undertooktoform church associations in aid of the fund ; some hare alre--dy sent contributions to the office from their associations, and as the year draws to a close, I doubt not that many more will do the same. I trust that those of the clergy who hate not established associations will take that step, or at least devise some plan of so bringing the matter before their people as to increase the number of our annual subscribers. We must all feel more and more, in these days of change, the necessity of vigorous efforts to make up for the sadarrears of the past. The work which has to be accomplished, b 7 God's blueing, for the good of toe souls of the vast population of this diocese cm afinly needs one great general effort, arranged on one sustained plan, aiding and not superseding the various private efforts which I know are being made in our separate parishes.— Yours very truly, A. C. LONDON. P.S.—lf you will hays the goodness to communicate with the clerical secretary of the fund, the Rev, J. O. Pilkington, 46a, Pall-mall, he will be able to supply you with papers for distribution, or any of the appliances you may require for forming or working on emanation." ST. AIDAN'S COLLEGE, BIRILENHEAD.—Acoord ing to a statement in Saturday's Birkenhead Garede, the Council of St. Aidan'a College, acting upon a suggestion of the Earl of Harrowby. have appointed the Bishop and Dean of Chester, and Meson. P. M. Dove, Chris. Bushell, and John Torr, as a Committee of Investigation, for the purposes of inquiring into the charges prefeired by the students (in memorials) against the rev. principal and other officers of the song". THE Win INDIA HURRICANE RILISF FUND.— Subsariptioas still continue to flow into the Mansion.house in aid of this fund, but the total amount received up to Saturday afternoon, instead of reaching to 10,0001., as was anticipated, did not exceed 7,2001. THE GREEK WAR STEADIER BUIDYLINA.—This vessel which blew up several days ago in the Mersey still continues submerged. The divers have been at work, and one 1001 b. Armstrong gun has been recovered, but In con sequence of the heavy sea in the river the operations have been seriously impeded. None of the bodies of the drowned men have yet been recovered. OILTETAL PALACE. HALF-A-CROWN DAT.— SATURDAY, Der. 7.—Admission, on• payment, 1,645 ; ditto by semen tickets, 3,848 ; total visitors, 5,393. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ire Ly. During the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on Thursday last, General Menabrea, in the course of his statement said, in regard to the subscrip tion of 50,000 lire for the wounded Garibaldiana : We gave this subscription from a sentiment of humanity, in order to assuage the sufferings of those who shed their blood for a noble object, and whom the government can distinguish from those who conspired to destroy the pre sent order of things. (Cries of " Who are thews! Name, name.") A MENRCR—The chamber is not to be insulted. Another MEMBER—Tie minister who insults the chamber should not be allowed to address it. (Noise.) The PRESIDENT (Restelli)—You can speak in your turn. At present the President of the Council is in the possession of the house. A Marne on the left—But not to insult. (" Silence, silence," on the right.) GZNZILAL 11113ABIZA—I am too wall acquainted with parliamentary life to be led astray by any insinuations. I have said that which I can, and which I ought to say, and now lam content to declare that the government has re solved to give an amnesty for the political offences which were committed in the Roman territory. With regard to the Roman question, the pontifical territory being in the centre of Italy, is a great obstacle to commercial intercourse. Rome is the natural capital of Italy, and it is strange that any person should be surprised at Italians wishing for and demanding Rome as their capital. Frenchmen would feel the lame if Paris w in the hands of the English. (" Good, good.") Therefore our aspiration is logical and indis putable. The minister proe^eded to remark that Rome was also the centre of catholicity, and though weak in itself was strong by foreign support. Consequently Italy must get to Rome by moral means, and in accord with France. Nwormia said that there was only one standard raised in the Roman territory. (Loud applause in the tribunes, and arise of " Erwin" Garibaldi ! ") The PRIMIDINT threatened to have the Whams cleared. The Ga=etta di Milano mentions that there is a project on foot for erecting a national monument in Pavia,lto the Cairoli family. "The monument," says this journal, "would represent the five brothers encircling their heroic mother." The Gazzetta di Parma says that republican placards were posted on the walls of the town, and that some arrests were effected. Domiciliary visits were also made at Ancona. THE AMERICAN PRESS AND THE MANCHESTER EXECUTIONS. The American press appears very generally to conason the execution of the three Fenian. at Man- The New York Times, which is the least hostile of all to the policy, says:—" Putting aside both the moral and political justice of the execution, it seems clear that, even if strict legal justice has been done, it has been done in a way and under circumstances which have discredited it in the eyes of the public, and which rendered subsequent leniency, to say the least, the more expedient cernme. A jury chosen from a population which it was necessary to restrain by the presence of soldiers from violence toward the Irish in the city, found Allen, Larkin, and Gould guilty in the same breath that they found a similar verdict in the case of Maguire, a man so manifestly and indubitably innocent that his full pardon was but a question of a few days. Before the execution, the failure and abandonment of the prosecution against Others alleged to have been implicated in the same affair, had still further brought the entire proceedings into dis repute. As far as the conduct of the can goes, the character of both judges and counsel concerned stand out without presenting an occasion for complaint or re flection. But, both in holding the trial in a panic-stricken town and in carrying out so hastily the extreme sentence of the law, we repeat our belief that the British govern ment have made a grievous blunder. The capacity of the Fenian for mischief will not be lessened by the loss of three of their number, nor will the remainder be one whit awed." The New York Tribune remarks :—" The execution of Allen, and Larkin, and Gould is the most important re inforcement that Fenianism has yet received. The cause wanted nothing so much as a martyr ; now it has three. The people had very nearly lost confidence in their Indere ; they had ceased in a measure to give their earn ings for prepoeterouscampaignsand abortive insurrections; their rebellion was dwindling down into a sort of guerilla warfare, sustained only by the most headstrong and de sperate of their number. Now it is ten chances to one if the flame is not kindled again. Confidence may not re vive, but enthusiasm will ; and enthusiasm with the Irish is the most powerful of impulses. The Manchester pri soners will inspire their countrymen with • bitterer hos tility towards England by their deaths than they ever could have inspired by their lives. " The death of these men," says the New York Herald, " will create • profound sensation throughout the civilised world, whilst the reckless and hopeless attempts of the Fenian to excite • rebellion against the British govern ment are to be deplored as only tending to destroy human life and to Increase the sufferings of the oppressed Irish -.maple. England will meet with little sympathy from other nations in her domestic troubles. When the posi tion she took during our own rebellion is remembered, the United States might well be justified in condemning her severity towards her own political offenders as barbarous and brutal. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been sacrificed by the rota of the traitors with whom England sympathised on this side of the Atlantic, and not one has suffered an ignominious death, except for the crime of wilful murder or revolting inhumanity to prisoners of war. But the rescue of two prisoners and the shooting of one officer during a riot on British soil has cost three of the participants their lives upon the scaffold." The Chicago Tribune has the following :—" The 'earned appeal' of the English press at the close of our civil war that the Great Republic, should once more show her magnanimity and not taint her fair fame by the blood of guilty traitors is another indication of the hostility of the English people to political executions. But what do we now see ? Two years have paned since the termination of four years of terrible rebellion, and not • single rebel has been hung, while a few months of agitation of impo tent Irishmen appear to have shaken the foundations of the British monarchy, and, as an example, four men have been hung for a political crime. It would be easy to make a pungent comparison between British and American clemency, to show that the religious sen timentality and merciful good nature of the English people is only skin deep ; and that when • violation of their own rights or privileges Is concerned no race shows a more dogged obstinacy or manifests a more vindictive per sistence in the assertion of its rights, at whatever cost of misery or suffering, than the Anglo-Saxon race of Great Britain. The Irish were told long ago that if English people knew nothing else they knew how to put down revoke, and cruel confirmation enough was at hand in the examples of India and Jamaica. Unlimited enthusiasm could be excited by the deeds of Mouravieff, but now in a Queen's decree that been date 1867 may be found the sentiments of 1798. Queen Victoria appears to be imitating the ex ample of infamous Isabellal. Order may be restored in the British islands; but the mournful quiet of the charnel house is not a permanent peace. We see no possible good to England, and nothing but evil to Ireland, in this cruel and impolitic justice. The image of those four Irishmen— criminals, but fanatical patriots—dangling from the wooden beam in Manchester, will be impressed upon the Irish mind for generations. The mothers at the cradle will have another sad tale to tell of what they call ' Irish wrongs.' This execution will be another addition to the heritage of malignant passion between the two races." On the evening of the 2Gth ult. a meeting was held at Cooper's Institute, New York, in reference to the con duct of the British government "interesting and confining American citizens suspected of violating English laws, and denying to them the rights of aliens as guaranteed by statutes which have never been repealed, but have in re cent instances been fully enforced." The room was draped with the national colours, and over the stage was displayed in large letters the words, " American citizenship, the panoply of freedom—it must protect oar people the world over" One of the resolutions adopted was as follows :—" Re solved, that, should the government of Great Britain refuse to make plenary reparation to the United States for the manifold insults offered to this republic in the per sons of its citizens, and should that power persist in ignoring the citizenship of those of who have been naturalised by American law, and still continue to claim jurisdiction over them as British sub jects, the President and Congress should remember that in 1812, their fathers fought to vindicate the right of their country to receive forzign-born immigrants into the great American family, and that from the issue which the infant republic did not hesitate to face the full-grown nation of to-day should not shrink, when justice and the interests of 10,000,000 of her citizens demand the immediate and de finite settlement of a matter on which the faith of the United States is already pledged." The following gentlemen were unanimously chosen as a committee to visit Washington, and lay the case before Congress :—The Hon. Chas. P. Daly, Horace Greeley, the Hon. A. Oskey Hall, the Hon. John McKeon, the Hon. John Cochrane, the Hon. F. B. Conklin, the Hon. Chas. Hunter. M. Rounea.—The Liberti, under the heading of "An Unfounded Accusation," says :—" The Bonapartista are furious with M. Rouher. They accuse him of having deserted and betrayed an eminently Napoleonic idea—the unity of Italy, and having gone into the ranks of the Fusionists. But M. Rouher has not changed: he is in December, 1867, what be was in December, 1851, when he wee indignant before the Coup d'Etat was an undoubted success—that his name should be found amongst those who had given their adhesion to it and denied that be had done so. From 1849 to December 2,1851, where was M. Rouher found? By the side of MM. Berryer, Buffet, and Thiers. Where is be found in December, 1867 T By the aide of MM. Berryer, Buffet, and Thiers. He b still, and always was, with Berryer, Buffet, and 'Thiers—those three ardent promoters of the law of May 31, 1850, which struck 4,000,000 of electors from the electoral roll of France. M. Rouher is in 1867 what he was in 1849, 1850, anti 1851. He has not changed them, and the accusations of the Bonapartist' is groundless." The Dublin Weekly News has a cartoon depicting what may be called the sequel of the seeno that formed the subject of its woodcut last week. Then it portrayed Britannia, a fury in aspect, after " assassinating "—Ho help out the idea which it was intended to convey, she had a dripping dagger in her hand)—the three Fenians who are now designated " martyrs." This week Britannia, armed in the same way, but with abject terror depicted in her face, is seen flying from the " angel of Justice," who Is descending from Heaven with a naked sword in one hand and an hour glass—the latter symbolising that the time baa come for the punishment of England'. sins against Ireland. To the right of the picture is a gibbet, with three ropes hanging from it, and shove each is sus pended in the air a crown of glory. &in, standing at the foot of the gallows, gazes upwards at these sym bols of " martyrdom" with ecstatic look. ADELPHI. So little encouragement is given to farce 'niters under our present systems of theatrical management, that it is wonderful to find our theatres supplied with this slight but amusing form of drama. On Saturday night a new apropos farce was produced at the Adelphi, under the title of Up for the Cottle Show, the author of which, Mr. Harry Lemon, is entitled to every encouragement. Some of the beet farces of the last quarter of a century have been written by his father, Mr. Mark Lemon, for the Adelphl and other theatres, and the present production the first public effort, we believe, of the author, is no disgrace to the family. The dialogue shows a true sense of the Judi. crous, the " business "a knowledge of stage requirements, and the principal character--a country bumpkin, most humorously played by Mr. G. Belmore—is the work of a man who knows how to bring out the beet points of a good low comedian. The farce, though produced at a late hour at the close of the week, was very well received. HER SIAJESTY'.I THEATRE. The catastrophe in the Haymarket leads the Times to insist on the necessity of causing our theatres and all our public buildings to be made entirely fire-proof. Where • boarded floor is necessary it can be laid over iron and con crete, and in that situation it will only burn very slowly, and can soon be extinguished. Walls, roofs, staircases, passages can be wade of uninflammable materials. Clearly the dependence for the future will be on the plan, con struction, and material of the edifice, rather than on any scheme for drowning ► fire if ever it gets hold of a building. The Daily News has little doubt that another building will presently take the dismantled place, and demands that any such building should not only be fire-proof, but give the utmost facility of exit. No building incapable of being emptied of its occupants in a few minutes ought to be licensed as a place of public amusement. The vomi tories, to use the expressive Latin term, should be nume rous, direct, and spacious. Over our theatres and concert• rooms might, in certain contingencies, be inscribed the line of Dante, " All hope abandon, ye who enter here." They seem to be constructed so as to make escape im possible. Obligation rests on the authorities, to whom the publics safety I. entrusted where the power of self protection necessarily fails, to regulate these matters. The Post and the Star appeal to the benevolence of the public on behalf of the subscription which has been opened for the unfortunate people who have been thrown out of employment by the fire. The Telegraph deplores the fact, as eminently prejudicial to the cause of music, that the destruction of her Majesty's Theatre may for a time restrict musical performances of the highest slams to one house, and hopes that the very necessity will call forth the requisite activity and inven tion to supply the suddenly created demand. Every opera goer, whichever theatre he specially patronises, has a direct and personal interest in promoting the rivalry that is the soul of art as it is i f trade—the moat powerful coy ' rector of injustice and the strongest possible incentive to exertian. ;8 TOPICS. The evidence in the Alton murder cave is summarised in some of the papers, and tbe pleas advanced by the counsel considered. Despitetheextracrslinary circumstance that a man should commit such • murderjandl such a butchery and yet return to his employment and betray no trace of the crime except by an entry in his own diary, the Times thinks few readers will be disposed to contest the justice of the verdict which excludes tbe pre sumption that the prisoner was in ommisible for his actions. The Herald says if linker had been acquitted, the jury would have lent their unction to the doctrine, which, however plausible in theory, is misobievous and inapplioa. Me in practios, that moral depravity when it becomes suf ficiently aggravated is to be denominated insanity, and dealt with as inch. The Standard deprecates the um of strong language, or puerile manifestations of hatred, on the part of Italy towards France, whose sympathy is of more importance than that of the rest of the world. In the meantime it must be acknowledged that a conference could have no other purpose after these late deelaratione of the French minister than to impose upon Italy, in the name of Europe, the prohibition France has pot upon her, and that is a work in which the other great powers, whatever their opinions on the Roman question, will take no part. A letter from " A Catholic Magistrate" appears in the rime*, complaining that the visiting *nose in so many instances will give no facilities for the communication of religions instruction to Roman eatholic prisoners. The Times says such conduct is a violation of the inteniiiism of the legislature, and the public are deprived by it of a most THE AUSTRIAN CONCORDAT. A letter. from Vienna in La Liberte states that a deputation, headed by the Prince de Salm and Count Belcredi, had an audience of the Emperor Francis Joseph on Monday last, and placed in his hands an address signed by 200,000 persons in favour of the maintenance of the Concordat. (axons's TELZGLUIB.) ITALY. PARIS, Dr,c. 9. The Monitevr: of this morning publishes the fol lowing as the expressions used by General Mena brea, in his reply to Signor Torrearsa, in the Italian Senate on Saturday : " I consider it as absolutely necessary to display as much reserve as moderation in seeking a solu tion of the Roman question, the difficulties of which the government, whose intentions and line of conduct have been repeatedly clearly expressed, has asked the Chamber of Deputies not to com plicate by inopportune discussions." The Green-book will be distributed to-day. It contains 27 documents relating to the A ntibe Legion, and 66 on the Roman question. SHIPWRECKS AND LIFEBOAT SERVICES. RUNSTANTON, NORFOLK, BrXDAT. We heard yesterday afternoon that a Hamburg steamer was a gro und upon a sandbank near Branoaster (states C. W. Preedy, Esq.). The Licensed Victualler lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was promptly got out and taken along the coast on her transporting car riage ; but as the distance before she could be launched was about ten miles, and the roads were bad, and the sands very heavy, it wan nearly four hours before she reached the steamer. It was then blowing very bard indeed, and the surf-boat from Burnham and the Erancaster coastguard boat both failed to get off to the wreck. The passengers had previously been taken off the vessel by means of her own boats, but these could not get back to rescue the sailors, who must have been lost but for the timely aid of the Licensed Victuallers lifeboat. I may add that her crew behaved admirably. The steamer broke up soon after the men had been taken off by the lifeboat. The name of the vessel is not yet known. This valuable lifeboat, which was contributed to the National Lifeboat Institution by the licensed victuallers of England, has only been on her station about fi ve months, and has already been the means of rescuing thirty-one persona front a watery grave. - - NEW BRIGHTON, near LIVERPOOL, Dw. 7. The Willie and Arthur lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, went out along with the two lifeboats belonging to the Mersey Dock Board (says the Rev. It. D. Fowell). They proceeded to the West Middle Sands where a ship was seen ashore but on arriving there it was discovered that the crew of the vessel had left in the steam tag Lion, and the lifeboat therefore re turned. Shortly afterwards a ship wax reported to be in danger on the West Hoyle Bank, and the Willie and Arthur lifeboat again went out but before she reached the spot the vessel had been towed off the sands. While on the way hack it was ob served that the services of the boat ware required at the ship on the West Middle, and the boat accordingly proceeded there, and succeeded in rescuing 13 men w h o bad gone on bo ard from Liverpool after the crew had left, but from the gale and heavy sea the steam tugs were not able afterwards to go alongside the wreck. The ship, which was the Thornton, bound to Liverpool from New York with a general cargo, has since become a total wreck. BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY, Dec. 7. Dr. Wynne Jones reports that an American ship of 1,200 tons, the T. G. Sou bend, Oaptain Bishop, laden with grain from New kork to Liverpool, struck yesterday on the Dinmoro Bank, about half • mile from the shore, became unmanageable, and in endeavouring to make the entrance of the Menai Straite, near the lighthouse, was carried by the tremendous wind and sea s t ern foremost on to the rocks. The local crew of the Penmen lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution, four other men whom I had sent from this place in a car, and other volunteers, anteceded in effecting a communication with the ship, and by means of a hawser from the lighthouse, which was attached to the shrouds of the vessel, they success fully and safely landed all who were on board, numbering twenty-two persons. Thi s was accomp li s h e d by sliding an improvised chair (a boatswain's chair) up sod down the hawser connecting the ship with the rooks. At the time the wind and sea were terrific, with occasional hail showers, and the cold was very greet, so that the service was not only one of skill, but attended with con siderable risk and labour to the brave volunteers. • BALLYWALTER, IRELAND, DEC. 7. A full-rigged !ship named the Annie G ra y, laden with coal and p • ig iron, and bound from Troon to New Bruns. wick, struck on Wallace's Rocks. near this place (rays the Rev. H. Wilson). The lifeboat, the Admiral Henry Meynell, which belongs to the Nation a l Institution, was launched as soon as possible in a very rough sea, and re mained alongside for about three hours in company with another boat to be ready to rescue the crew in ease of need, but as two steam tugs afterward, arrived, she was not wanted, and accordingly returned to her station. RAMSGATE, Dec. 7. Three Broadstairs boatmen came over here yesterday evening and reported that a large Baring light wee burning elute on shore under the North Foreland (says Capt. Shaw). A telegram to the same effect was received at the same time. The lifeboat Bradford and steam-tug Aid at once proceeded out and searched along the shore as far as Kings gate, but finding nothing except what appeared to be the lights of a steamer towing another vessel, they returned to the harbour after being absent about two boon in • very strong gale accompanied by • heavy c o nf use d sea with snow and sleek Some afterwards it was reported that • large schooner, the Via, of Brixham, was on shore at Stone stairs, to the eastward of Broadstairs, with only the master on board, the rest of the crew having left in their own boat. The Italian papers contain a telegraphic account of the Roman catholic meeting in " St. James's Hall." Amongst those present they give the names "II Conte Benbip" (Denbigh), " Lord Almaden," and" Sir Gem& Bonen" Sixty kegs of French brandy were found by the Isle of Wight mast-guard concealed between Colwell•bay end CliMend, on the south-west oast of the island, a few days ago. The dhows of the eoastigniud have for a long time had a sinecure. PEOPLE'S MARKETS. Just at this moment, when every one is com plaining of the high price of meat and other provisions, and public attention has recently been called to the want of good retail markets in many7parts of the metrepolis, unusual interest attaches to an experiment which is being tried at the east end of the town. At 272, Whitechapel. road there was opened on Saturday afternoon what is called a People's Market for the sale by retail at moderate prices of meat, vegetables, and other provisions. The market is the property of a mall limited liability com pany, but its real originator is Mr. John M'Call, manufao. turer of preserved provisions, 137, Houndsditch. About a year ago Mr. M'Call had Ms attention forcibly directed to the loss which was occasioned to the poor people in the district of Whitechapel by their being compelled to rely solely upon the retail shopkeepers in the neighbourhood for the supply of provisions, and the oonsideration which be has since given to the subject has resulted in the erection in the Whitechapel-road, at a cost of 2,5001., of • simple but commodious building, 80 feet long by 60 feet wide, which is intended to be used on every day of the week as a retail market. The structure is of the plainest character. The walls are of brick, and the:roof of deal, strengthened with iron ties ; but the market is lighted at night by two large sun lights, which serve the purposes at owed illumination and ventilation, and on either side of the building is a row of louvre windows, which may be opened in warm weather. The fittings are all of deal, but the floor is paved with coloured tiles. The stalls or shops ran round the building, one row upon the ground floor and the other in • gallery above. The arrangements are hardly yet entirely coin. pleted, and some alteration may possibly be made in the appropriation of these stalls. When business was nom. menced, about two o'clock on Saturday, two sides of the ground area ware allotted to the sale of beef, pork, and mutton, while the third (the fourth being occupied by the entrance) was appropriated to the distribution of potatoes and other vegetables. Nearly the whole of one side of the gallery was occupied by a grocery store ; the opposite ewe was divided between a butter shop and a poulterer's, and at the end there was a stall for the sale of boots and shoes, and a preserved meat stall. All these stalls were supplied with the arti cles which were sold at them direct from the wholemle market, and the prices charged were somewhat lower than those demanded at the retail shops in the neigh. boatload. The price of legs and loins of mutton was 51d. ; of shoulder", sd. ; and of breasts and necks, aid. per lb. Beef ranged from sd. for briskets to 73. for best roasting pieces ; and pork from sd. to 6d. per lb. As noon as the building was opened buyers flocked in, and the butchers were soon especially busy. The gropers also did a thriving trade during the afternoon, and the butter man's bands were seldom idle. All the shopkeepers are in the employment of the company by whom the market has been erected, and the whole of the business is carried lon upon its account. Three coppers, each of which will contain 400 gallons, are being erected in • building out side the market, and as soon as they are fixed they will be set to work to make soup, which will be retailed from 12 to 2 o'clock every day, at a charge of about 2d. • quart. The sale of cooked ham, beef, fLo.. will also shortly be added to the branches of business which are already car ried on, and there is some idea of establishing • boiling of oatmeal porridge in the morning. This market, or mis cellaneous store, is in a great measure, of course, an ex periment. Should it prove succesful, the company will probably open similar establishments in other parts of the metropolis. MOSE KULKITS POE LONDON.—The food com mittee of the Society of Arts have this subject under their consideration. At their meeting on Saturday last it was de termined to collect information on this head, with a view to promote the establishment of additional facilities for the supply of food to the metropolis. ENGLISH ROMAN CATHOLICS AT OXFORD. DR. NEWMAN'S MISSION. The Clironicle—s weekly Roman catholic journal of high standing—gives, in its current number, a remark able account of the causes which induced Dr. Newman to contemplate the foundation of • Roman Catholic College at Oxford, and of the reasons which led him to abandon the efforts he had commenced in this direction. In ISZ,S the University rules were altered so as to allow Roman catholic' to " share the advantages of that national tug versity." From that date " there has been • constant succession of [Roman) catholic undergraduates in Al colleges." The bishops naturally took this new condition of things into consideration, but up to August. ind, " their deliberations had never resulted in any authorita tive interference with the course events were taking." On the contrary, at the period just mentioned, Bishop Ullathorne " offered the [Roman] catholic mission at Oxford to Dr. Newman." Accepting the charge, Dr. Newman set about giving effect to it--" he bought mound, and was about to issue an appeal for con tributions to build • church," when an appeal was " sud denly" made to Rome, and the scheme was suspended. The idea of • Roman catholic college at Oxford "had nevir been more then a vag ue ! suggestion," and when' dip epproaed" by the bishops, it passed out of discussion." But notwithstanding this disapproval, Roman catholic parents continued to send their sous to Oxford, and, con sequently, " after the lapse of some months, which afforded time for the most mature deliberation," Bishop Ullathorne "once more charged Dr. Newman with the Oxford mission." The scheme appears to have besa warmly received by the Roman Catholic laity, and the subscription list " soon showed a total of between 5,0001. and e,0001." Then, to the great surprise of thole interested in it, the project was for the second time abandoned. The Chronicle explains why: "It would be scarcely credible, if the fact were not placed beyond the possibility of contradiction, that while Dr. Newman was thus avowedly employed to collect sub scriptions for building • church at Oxford. because be could elicit support which ' another might fail to obtain —that is, because many persons would give money to enable him to go there which they would not give except on that understanding—there existed a secret condition unknown to the contributors, and unknown to Dr. Newman, that after he had bat his church and esta blished his oratory, he should not be allowed to reside there and give the work his personal euperintendence. Three months passed by after the issue of his appeal before he learned the treachery that bad been pr.tx:is,d against him. It is said that when he at code inquired into the reason of the secret prohibition laid on him, he was told that the attraction of his presenos, more availing, it *lf feared, than the discussion of Propaganda and the bishope i would inevitably draw catholic' to the university : and he learned that there was certainly no present dive @Rion to remove or relax the restrictions. A sentiment of honour far less keen and prompt than that of Dr. ::ewroan would have sufficed to determine his withili..wal from the position into which be had been thus cruelly betrayed. He at once declined to be ostensibly respontrible for an undertaking which be was not really to direct, and a decoy for money which was to be received on one understanding and applied on another. The scheme, therefore, for the building of a church and the establishieg of ..n oratory at Oxford has been again suspended. It may be that, es events pursue their inevitable course, the ideas and in fluences to which this intrigue is due will lose their power over authority. But at present, so far as the oratory is concerned, the question of sending catholic student:to Oxford reverts to its original simplicity, and is to be coo sidered on ita own merits. " OXFORD, DEC. 7.—Erscriox TO JUNIOE STr . DENT$xi TA AT CHRIST CflUlM7ll.—The following gentlemen here this day been elected to junior stodentships in its college :—J. S. Lewis, commoner of Christ Church, IsW of Shrewsbury School ; T. Agar, Grammar s,hool, Man chester ; Proxiae A magi:, B. IW. Macon, Chartists's* , London. CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 7.—Cnossr, (17SIVERSIT 1 ') fkIiCILARAHIP.—The Lately vacant scholarship his peen adjudged to George Edmond Phillip', 8.A., of Comm Christi. The Crosse scholarships, of which there .Lri three, are theological scholarships, and were founded W the Rev. John Crosse, formerly vicar of Bradford, Yeti shire, "for promoting the cause of true religion." THE ROYAL HOSPITAL YOlt DISEASES or r 0 CHEST, CITY-EGAD.—The number of patients under trot' meat at this hospital during the past week amounted so 56, of which 62 were new came i t b !Ce a her lOU over of ti slop ten, Sun tLor and AI *eon, I, 4Cei Ite4 I