The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-02 00:00:00

[STAMPED, 14. ADDITIONAL.] Nu. 6,:;6-i.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAVUARY 2, 1867. CIWOPENCII ... . . • ,' .'....: , ' t ,: - ;, ,r ( -...- 1.-e e -s-47 -- I l . . - 1.q,- . o<t‹;./..- - ••-..... - . -,.....-f 1 . 1 , 77( . i..,_..,,,-------:,. , „ , • .--, r,7 , • , . NEWSPAPER, fic.4llo. . :4 . . ‘,1.. 0 ~ . ., ..r . . • • 4 - .'' .: • . ii -- C' .- • :7 C 41) t '• t •_ 11., i C I or ai IT i 4 ; ( j ~ c* - 4...-,- -16. 7- i--... 1 r-•-• f' : . : • I _ . -.1 . 6=:, =- - l- - e. . ..r... ; •• • : ai t ?l - ' 1 ::: , 1 1 ,,,.. b 'Ski tidxa • I .._ . ._ • • . -1 • ? r , • . • ! i tl 1 . I, I : , !, 1 ' k • ! ! ,1 I I 1 I : I I • k i t I 1 i, l i . i ' 1 ' I i ; ; :i►i li: I i i I 1 1. 1 1 [ t ' I 1 1 11-::1:s. MONEY WIGRAM and SONS' (of u.,ll•yurd, Loudon' LINE of STY.A34 and PACKET • -I c.t LI A.— XI ELBA/TEN E Port Phillip) Direct 1)... ..n 111uNI/AY, January 21 calling at Ily• t... elipp4.r ship Nfiltl4lll.l. 1,000 tutu, I \ • coinniander ; lying In the East India Docks. , ,t,...1 6•rall I - bases of passengers are unsur• ,•. I sal ) orry an experienced surgeon. —For freight to A 1.1.11i1;T and uI IRCIA N , with Meows. ). 11 and mThs. 7, Leadeuhall-street. d'IHIIISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Piciadilly, EVERY EVENING, at 8. Wednesdays and Saturda)%. 3 and a. —Great sueciais of the Holiday Progriunme, which w ill Ite raTeated until fa 'her notice. company Increased to purl..rmers. M ro. A.lanis, T. Mudge, Crocker, Ritter, Pedro stilling. Japanese Tommy, and Mr. Richard Darla, the t'bri , ty", Eirht star Comedians, and their powerful Vocal and lustruuleutal land—the talk of Loudon. ROME. —I learned that in consequence of ilia frequent usessination of sentries, chiefly Frenchmen, at that place by the natives, a general order had been issued to the regiment to allow no stranger to ap proach within thirty paces of the sentry boxes after dark, and instructing the sentry to fire if the in• trader should neglect the third challenge. As the penalty of an unconscious infringement of this re gulation, an Italian was recently shot dead on the spot. As this regulation applies also to Rome, it is well to be aware of it, for • fortnight ago on the Pincio, soon after 10 p.m., I was myself rudely challenged by a sentinel, who had, I believe, fallen asleep at his post. Being then unacquainted with his instructions, I was innocently approaching to make further inquiries, when he made a gesture, the look of which I liked so little that I thought it prudent to beat a hasty retreat. From the same Zonave, whose conversation relieved the tedium of awaiting the Papal proces sion, I learnt that, since the arrival of the regi ment in Rome, he had heard of bat one cue of stabbing, the victim of which—a Frenchman—had quarrelled with an Italian in a cafiS, and was lying in hospital in a most dangerous condition. But now the Papal procession is appreaebtng, headed by the Thurifer and cross-bearer, followed by Greek and Latin deacons and sub-deacons, cardinal bishops and cardinal deacons, patriarchs, an Armenian bishop, conspicuous from his oriental appearance and rounded mitre, and a mixed crowd of prelates, canons, monsignores, &c. In the midst of these, preceded and immediately sur rounded by his Guardia. Nobile, is borne aloft, seated on his throne, shaded by a silken canopy, and flanked by huge fans of ostrich feathers, the Holy Father himself, who, with his two fingers uplifted, dispenses as he goes along his blessing to the kneeling crowd. As the procession defiled past me there was an air of such barbaric splen dour about it, that I was irresistibly reminded of Presoott's description of the approach of Monte zuma on the occasion of his going out to meet Cortes. Indeed, I think that most of the unfaith ful spectators present would have found it easier tobelievo that they were witnessing the theatrical re presentation of some Pagan religious spectacle than attending an act of Christian worship. SPAIN. (nom oos ows ROME, Dna 25. CLOSING OF THE CONGRESS AGAINST THE DEPUTIES. MADRID, Dec. 29. The following official communication has been addressed by the Captain-General of New Castile to the civil governor of the province, in reference to a clandestine proclamation which has been recently circulated against the government : Most Excellent Sir,—lt has eome to my knowledge that some persons , enemies of public order, have drawn up and signed • demonist prolaeing against; tbe decrees Mined by the governmeat more than two months ago, and received b the country with she demonstrations of spontaneous o and liberality all have witnessed. They further condemn the non-assembly of Cortes during the present year, and falsely and maliciously pervert the • coamitutional precepts . lam firmly persuaded that dery ties of the nation, mosideriag that they have been responded from their political act., and that this legally is is • state of siege, have not taken part in pr • which I deplore, and am imperatively celled upon to chas tise severely. dine, however, it has ban ascertai ned that the document in question h as been exhibited for clan destine signature in the Chamber of Deputies, thus vials.. ing the laws in the sanctuary in which they are formed, I have determined that a similar scandal shall not be re peated, and your excellency will therefore see that the orders and arrangements I dictated in the Congress last night in your preemie are executed with alh,Lreateut =adages. Them orders prohibit to that Ears* to all persons the conservative members and the 17 officials reef= the building and employed as watchmen and home keepers. Your excellency win be good enough to provide these persona with cards, to be shown to the sentinabi, end I shall give orders to the otiose of the guard which I have posted at the entrance that no person, unless furnished with such a card, 'hall be permitted to enter or leave the building. It only remains for me to recommend your excellency to prevent, by the exercise of your usual vigilance, all meet ings for political purposes of any kind or of any number of penmen If through this watchfulness the clandestine document in question, or any other of a similar nature, should fall into your excellency's hands, you will imme diately proceed to arrest the persons whose signatures it may bear, and convey them to the =Weary prison!, ( thereto await their trial by the court-martial ap pointed or purpose. Should your excellency ascer tain that meetings of the above character are held at the residence of any person of the military profession you will be good enough to communicate with me, is order that I may take the proper steps against him, which I shall immediately do, however elevated in rank or estimable from personal qualities he may be. Nothing is se great as justice, nothing so estimable as peace and order. God preserve your Excellency many years. Madrid, Dec. 28, 1866. Count Da CHEST& On receipt of the above, Senor Marion, the civil governor, forwarded • notification to the conserve ' tive members of Congress, communicating the ordersof the Captain General that they alone, besides the of f icials employed in the building, would be permitted to enter the Congress. Senor Marfori subsequently issued the following general order to M.adrid police : Referring to my general order of yesterday, I again all the officials in my department to use every diligence in order to obtain possession of a clandestine document protesting against certain acts of the govern ment, which appears to have been pined by some persons enemies of public order. I also again request my subor dinates to be particularly watchful with regard to any meeting of a political character in which the said Eiroteet may be discussed, and to arrest all the persons present at any such meeting, regardless of any consideration, what ever may be their number or their place of meeting, con ducting them at once to the military prisons, there to await the decision of his Excellency the Captain-General. Finally, I request those dependent upon my authority to give me immediate information should they ascertain that rich meetings are held in the house of any military per sonage. Madrid, Dec. 28, 1866. Fauteuils : stalls. ds : area, 2s : gallery, Is., juveniles under half price to stalls and area. 'rickets and places at Mr. Nlitchell's 14iyal ldloary, Sr, slid Bondatreet ; Messrs. Keith and l•r.nrse, theap-ide ; and at Mr. Austin's Ticket Office, 22, Mr. FREDERICK 131.11.02265, Manager. Having just returned from attending high mass at St. Peter's, where the Pope officiated in person, I will at once, without attempting anything like a formal description of the ceremony, which would be quite beyond me, endeavour to give your readers some amount of what I saw and heard there, pre mising that at this moment (2.15 p.m.), being blessed with a lodging looking to the south, I am writing in a fireless room, with the sun streaming in at my open windows. The sunshine, however, Which is cheering the heart of your correspondent, has also brought to life a swarm of flies, which are buzzing about me in a most unseasonable manner, and which, settling with the usual persistency of Italian flies, seem bent upon enjoying a very merry Christmas at my expense. To complete the pictureof Roman Christmas weather, it is, however, neoemsary to add that it is mid-winter at the back of the house, towards the north, where it is still freezing, and the ground white with hoar-frost, as is Vss case wherever the rays of the sun do not penetrate. Were it not for the salvo of artillery which is tired at midnight from the Castle of St. Angelo, announcing the fact authoritatively, it would not be e4sy to fix the precise hour at which Christmas day may be said to begin at Rome. For, from the hour of Ave Maria on the evening of December 24 onwards commences a succession of anticipated matins(eaid over night for the sake of convenience), followed by a series of pre and post-midnight mamas, running into Primes, Tierces, and other weird services, or, more correctly, offices, quite un intelligible to good protestant!' ; so that but for the echoes of the cannon—that most audible and effective of thunders from the Vatican—you would suppose that Christmas-day in Rome, like the Jewish Sabbath, began at sunset on the previous evening. N.IRI) LI NE. —BRITISH and NORTH Vs• \ %I %11. NI EA M SHIPS ' appointed by :•: t•• ..11 I.l%veii LIVERPOOL and NEW VOIIK, „ 1.1 % I..t.etsiL and Int:TON. the Roston ships canna/ ty I yoi thd t ctn., paasengers and wails. The tot . ,•-• are appointed to sail from Liverpool. -IA 1..1.. t t , the mails: I sattirday, Jan. 5. I:\. 14.1:k, hAtunlay, Jan 12. ••. • and g. ..I for Nassau and Itivannah. to rt sy•o , % yrk •tilijeet to the pet-ma...ow of the a••• .01t!., r the R.ll hs I:yenta. STODARE'S (Madame) THEATRE of 111 st KEY. ECI I'IIAN-11 %LG. PICCADILLY. WHERE IS SIIEr u new Illusion, will shortly be produced. c a l TO DA RE (Madame), Widow of the late 1177 to.lollel stodsze --Great success of WHYS HEY' and Madan., suAlAr,'s CIIRBI'M A$ 111,1RIBUT1OlV of PRESENTs. magic. •' Marvel of Mecca," and "Basket Trlelc," an usual. EVERY EVEN I at a; Wednesday and naturday !ilorninzs at lb by Mr. halsuilt Burman. pupil of Colonel:B.1ms. Adittisvion, H. and 2s. ; stale , St. ; schools and children, half prov seats secured at the Boa-office, from 11 till 6; and at Mitehell's,33, Old Bond street. —llr. 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Is. • . :-x II I , i:OM LI V EliPteoL OH QUEENSTOWN TO lEW vi dtli TWICE A WEEK. pill LI VE R i , ot )1,, NEW YORK, and. 1 , 1111.A11r I.IIIIA STEAM SHIP COMPANY tattled dte. , atchlug th :r bi.l rk,e,r‘.l olydabuilt Iron/lava daeata-Ohlos e 111Tuea the I !a:..1 Ntale• Mall& Ei:.,..1 LI VLItI4IOI, for NEW YOBS: i 11l m • DI BUN, Saturday, Jan. 6. ~ 1 j t .., s Lw )1 mit., Weduesday. Jan. 9. I :II I.' It'd FI: WI.: Saturday, JAI, 12. Anu etrry Wednesday and naturuay. V...) paa,s4a by the mad steamers sailing every Wednesday, 7, ..ud Al rulutaa, aeconlina to the acoommodation. , rd P.kniktgt L.,ludre a lull supply or cooked provisious. .e ,es for C.a., .1s end the United States honked thoughoa ~,,,, tiLicrous terms.—Fir turther particulars apply to Il.' 1 111 IN M.I N. ...S. Weter-street, Liverpool; and to El VMS ljd ti scEY, .41. E inn WLlllaat-etreet. London. ARRIS'S CRYSTAL SPECTACLES of well known excellence can only he had at 61, Oreat Raisaelb street, cupcake the British Museum Oates. The vety best steel trams Crystal Svcs:tub's, las and UM —THOILAS HAI* A and DUN C. 11.1121011 as panne aminst persons elan Own ems Established 17a0. Nu travellers or agents. At an early hour this morning, or at any rate at an earlier hour than your correspondent was there to see, the two conspicuous banners, on one of which are blazoned the triple crown and cross-keys, emblematic of the papacy in general ; on the other, the particular arms of Pio Nono—the lions rampant (well may they be rampant now), on a light blue field and the red and white bars—were hoisted on stout flag-staffs on the lower portion of the Castle of St. Angelo, a long way beneath the giddy height at which the ordinary papal banner floats by the side of the archangel, who lords it over Hadrian's colossal tomb. Only on the very highest days and festivals are these banners displayed in public. These gaudy insignia, and the papal dragoons on duty at the bridge. gave me, as I approached St. Peter's, the first indication of the great holiday which Rome and all the Christian world is keeping to-day. In the Piazza of St. Peter's, which dwarfs almost to nothing every thing admitted within its huge embrace, reducing even the great fountains to ap parently insignificant jets of water, the crowd of cumbrous ecclesiastical coaches, ambassadorial, princely, and royal equipages—for is not the ma jesty of, Naples within the building i—looked at a little distance like a collection of Tom Thumb's carriages ; and the throng of human beings buz zing about the entrance of the cathedral like a swarm of ants, at which you must look closely before you perceive that the tiny things are in motion at all. THE OPENINO OF PIALIAIIENT.-111( THE QUEEN, • PROCLANATION.—Victoria, R.—Whereas our larliament stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 15th day o January next, we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, that the said parliament shall be fur ther prorogued, on the said 15th dry of January next, to Tueaday, the stli day of February next; and we have given order to our Chanosllorof thatpart of our I 'tilted Kingdom called Great Britain to prepare a commission for proroug ing the same acconlingly ; and we do to roll further, with the advice aforesaid, declare our royal will and pleasure that the said parliament shall, on the said Tuesday, the sth day of I. ebruary next, assemble and be holden for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs; and the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens, and burge see, and the couunimioners for shires and burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby ',mired and com manded to give their attendance amonhowly, at West minster. on the said Tuesday, the sth day of February next.--Given at our Court at Osborne-house, Isle of ' Wight, this 28th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1866, and in the 30th year of our reign. —Gazette. Sin J•wim B•ooKE.—Sir James Brooke, some time Rajah of Sarawak, is dangerously ill, having been seized with a serious attack of paralyais. Ile lies at pre sent in a critical state. He who would contemplate flunkeydom in its most grotesque forms and phases should come to Rome and study it at the Vatican, St. Peter's, or any other of the Roman churches, where the Pope may happen to be officiating in state. Outside the building are to be seen, basking like old hounds in the sunshine, while their masters are at their devotions within, lank and lean veterans in every stage of decay, whose plush breeches and motley liveries—a world too big for their shrunken forms —proclaim them to be still serving men, but who look mostly quite incapable of rendering any human being a service. Still broken down as they appear, they are exactly in keeping with the seedy antiquated coaches, behind each of which two or three of them cling, and which. as they go rumbling through the streets, look as if they would crumble away or go to pieces beneath the weight of a single Belgravian flunkey with an ordinary development of calves. Yonder go two of them, whose costume, consisting of hats with broad gold-bands extending half way up the black and surmounted with nodding plumes, red cloaks, with ample folds thrown toga-like over the shoulders, and bright yellow stockings, distin guishes them remarkably from the herd, and pleases 17110 particularly. While the Piazza outside, and the approaches to St. Peter's are thronged with these shrivelled, but unmistakable flunkeys, within the cathedral itself you come upon doubtful-looking individuals in every variety of mediaeval costume, as to whose proper classification and position in society you are hopelessly puzzled. For instance, take those picturesque-looking attendants dressed in suits of solemn black, lace ruffles, velvet tunics and hosen, black silk-stockings, shoes and buckles, who glide about silently, like so many Hamlets. Are they gentlemen, are they flunkeys, or are they Roman senators, as the other day I was gravely assured that they were I Then those others, in lace neck-ties, and suits of maroon-coloured silk, are they Monsignores, are they door-keepers, are they male housemaids employed to dust the tombs of the Popes in St. Peter's, or what are they 1 One thing at any rate is evident, that to-day motley is the only wear. Those black-helmed and booted giants, standing some eight feet high in their bearskins, and, like tall cypresses overshadowing the bright parterre of uniforms, which throng the nave of St. Peter's, belong to the force of Gendarmeria-a-cavallo. When I entered St. Peter's the service was already half over, but I arrived in time for the most impressive episode of the ceremony, when the troops on duty ground arms in the midst of the creeping silence which is maintained during the elevation of the host, and which is at last broken by the liquid notes of the silver trumpets, which are only sounded at that particular moment. The duty of keeping the nave of St. Peter's clear for the Papal procession, which for the last seventeen years has been performed by the French troops, was on the present occasion discharged by the Palatine Guard—a kind of Roman National Guard —it having been judged more prudent to employ native Romans in the service than the Z01111%116, to whom, I understand, it should have fallen by rights. From one of these Zouaves standing by my side—an Englishman, lately arrived from Velletri SIR R. PALMER ox Cnriu it HYMNODY. —The lecture on church hymnody which Sir Rom.dell Palmer read at the Church Congress has been published in a separate form by Macmillan,. Ito extent, Ile well as the interest of the subject, and the knowledge and ability with which it wan treated, made this re-publication desirable. The same publishers announce a " Hymnal," chiefly from Sir Roundell Palmer's " Book of Praise." NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEM:VE.—The second great Christmas party of this ateociation (which differs from the Alliance in that it does not seek to invoke legis lative aid in the interests of teetotalism, but depends en tirely upon moral suasion) was held last night at Exeter ball. About 1,:.130 persons sat down to tea, but the doors being afterwards opened to the general public, the number of the audience was largely increased befo.e the speaking began. The chair was taken by Mr. Mallet Gilpin, M.P., who expressed the most fervent attaclicient to the prin ciple of total abstinence. It was 32 ye, re *lace he had taken the pledge, and every year bad increased his zeal for the cause. Its was, however, never more convinced of its truth than by what be had seen while lately keep ing Christmas. He was staying at a how, in a country town, and two letters were placed upon the table, in one of which it was stated that the abkA medical luau in the neighbourhood had completely lust the coufideuce of the public owing to his addiction to the vier of drunkenness. The other letter was a touching appeal trim a member of a distinguished family, who uske.l for advice as to how be might get beyond the reach of ter...ptati .n, for be found that be was ruining his family and bieeelf by his fondness for drink. On the whole he (Mr. (;ilpin) rejoiced to think that the cause of temperance was Sint y, if not ra pidly, progressing. The Rev. A. Hannay, rep'ying to the argument that fermentation was a natural pieces% ob served that eggs would also undergo " a natural proems," if they were kept long enough ; end he stig.:ested that wine should be called " addled grape juice." (laughter.) Moreover, it was generally uudendool that there warn very little of " a natural process" about the itaek in which the wine sold in England was made. (Renewed laughter.) Reviewing the calamities of the past year, .labez In wards declared that the wars, the chulr:u, the dap wrecks, and the colliery expludous which had occurred since but January, were as nothing to t:,e r.asages of the demon alcohol (Cheers.) A considerable tiun.her of other addresses were delivered during the ececiue, and the pro ceedings appeared to afford ghat delight to the vast as sembly. A Vigw IN Gazzen.—lt had been Inv good for tune to stand on the tops of Mout Blanc, Itionte Rosa, and the Finsteraarhorn, and to wander among scene of the golden-hoed mountains of Brazil. Truly. these are grand things to think of, but though Tentelicus is only about 3,500 feet above the sea, yet I ..,. tcr felt so in tensely interested, I may say so profentedly affected, as when I looked upon old Greece from el spatula. The sacred region of art, poetry, and philosoehy, ;he land of heroes, the abodes of the immortals, wen. a l spread out in one enchanting view. Almost at our feet, on the north, lay the plains of Marathon, all corn-flobie down to the edges of the fatal swamps ; we could see the tumulus raised by the Athenians over the bodies of mighty dead ; and neer us must have pused Phidippitles when be ran to Athens from the battle-tield and died as soon as be could give utterance to Pie glorious tidings that the Persians bad tern driven into the sea. There lay the blue channel of the &tripes, and beyond it Eubea. That long ietetel whir., so puzzled us in our map-making youthful days with its odd points, and corners, and bays, was now glori fi ed into a chain of exquisitely beautiful mountains, rejoicing in a sea which covered them with purple and gold. More to the west rose Cithwron and Parnes ' towards which Arlatopbanes made his Clouds fly when disgusted with their reception in the city. Then came the shining plain of Athens, and the dark olive groves of the Academy where Plato walked and taught, the bright hills of Corinth, and far away the snowy summits of the Peloponeettus ; Arlene Melt, where Sophocles and Raab lug triumphed, where Demos thenes thundered against Philip, and Paul preached on Mars' Hill ; beyond it the island of Egine and the blue bay of Salamis, once covered with the Persiau wrecks.— reeer's Metmense far January. . .. . • 1 .f ' .1 . i . 1 r ' ! 1 ' l ' I . , . ! . 1 ' 1 I i ' .1 1 I •7 I i ,'. 1 . ' • f I i 1 ) 1 til i I I . 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Several persons were arrested this morning who arrived by the Iron Duke staaruer from LiverpooL They are detained pending inquiry. Nine arrests were made on Monday night in Hamill-street, Belfast. The prisoners were engaged at the time in preparing ammunition and casting bullets, and subsequently the police seized in the house of Michael 0 Hanlon, one of the prisoners, three casks of gunpowder, several rifles, bayonets, swords, and souse bottles of Greek fire. LITE.OI to (:( ITHENBURG from London al.-L-11111y i'omniwileatlort—The unrivalled • mu steamers 11A I:V. Captain LEIGH, VOA tonk 250- lon , poker, from vny canal Ituoy, and the GUSTAF WASA, sTIEHL t.° pop, po.horsa power, from Ilowielydown, • .apaiLln‘l rimmly every week, weather permitting. fv •. as C. '2 , . —Fur freight or passim, de, apply I.lharliii I no, ,o 1 I ini,.e. W. ; or to PHILLIPS. GRAVY:S. .1111.1.11 T, ro Dunstan's-house, emsa-lane, Great r sir...t. )I:THEI:N ASSAM TEA COMPANY f.I %I: I WEFT, 111 VII)V.ND, A SHARE 4, %..1 NT F 1!1:1:. lilV EN. that the HA LF-YEARR gi ‘1;1 %1I .Itl DI% II Ws; D ,m the A SHARES, at the rate ef pep. r r tit r.toloon. don Ist January.lB67, la PAYABLE at the ',int) 1:411k, Loouard.atitet, EC., on ProoeilLit t not at r r thisday. 0,-, 3%. tin E By order, Jr! 1.1•x:7 C. H. FIELDER, Secretary. kUNITED STATES 5-20 COUPONS BOUGHT. Anturi..ol 4:overionent and Railway /Securities of all v..criptions porcliasoti awl for sale, by GLENN and Co., 32, .sr 'Jowl .turf AL.10.00u,000 Debt of the ' , lilted states paid rf moot. V.t .13nary. moo GLENS and Co.'s American Fluor/. A lireolsr, ivito,l o - rry Friday, forwarded on application. 110 1311 . 01ITERS, Shippers, Stearn Shipping Chmpadies, a n d consigneraof Foreign Goods, by steamers r otherwise Into the hat of Loadon.—The praptieters of Yre'l'rele Wharf, humid!. and Upper Mies Trade Wharf, Do-- ale Dock pper Thamuestreet, OFFER YACILITIIO to the lane.—Further information may be obtained on application, by titer or in m. to It. I I.A Y and CO.. whit/taws and wane ACISe iteept - tal, Upper Thames-street 11,,, - s Es. Fon,isliefl or Unfurnished, LAND, *1,4 10 W I,NTED, by BAYNE and Cu.. Repe nt 1,1., 214 A. Er,,,,k•.trect, GnAlyenor-Nuare, W.— Adv..n.s I .1t to ....urn). KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, UK 'Dm relehrithd old TRIM I WHISKY gained the DUBLIN L e RILE MEAL—It Is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very holesoine. -old in bottles, 3e. Bd. each, at the retail houses in el.° by the volts in the principal towns In Itughind ; or hoirale at h, Great WhidmiU-street, London, W. Observe ;he seal, pink Lith:l, and cork branded "lLinahan'a LL Whisky.' HAVANA SEGAR AGENCY, 2, Canute-Mad Docks. •• , utlialopton, and 77, REOENT.STREELLONDON doors !I, in St liones's stall..—The proprietors draw alien o the io. ~se which has attended the establishment of this Fu ai y. and ti :Ail. has tt,lliteli ill the supply of their Imports. the to mon) o m club. f the ost important clu. hotels, and private .u. timers in lie kingdom. The stock offered to the attention Of cnnindos,ies compel... nearly SOO kinds of the choicest Imiticiiim. of the t celebrated Havana manufactories, and the finest •. I, etiim of Havana organs at present existing in orope, tin• o hob being the exclusive importation of this esta• tobinent fr..an il. agoitc mini resident buyers in Havana, who, grin long , ; , ..ricnc.., exercise the greatest care In selecting only the Imost lir:l'3llu out sorts, and who ship the same direct to the lis.in houses ti the soithiuiipton Diocka These advantages en. 0,!.• the to , •prii.tom to supply 411 1 AltANTEED HAVANA II. , ; Ills, oli. , ..b :oat retail, at prices lower for th e res p ec ti ve kind; than it • i —Ode for other houses to quote. Terms, cash, tr as unit in' led introducti•in. Prospectuses nn application to Lt. I.ropnrl..l -. WOLFF, PHILLIPS, and Co. Havana scv.zir 0101 romniission Agency, Southampton, owl 77, ltegelit.grert, London. 11EA is CHEAPER THAN EVE.R.-Is, 6d., 3., ts. Oil. per pound are the Weep at which PHILLIP sued tea wen - lento, 0, King William-algort, city, Landon, B.C. ne4•illl line• BLACK TEA. A price cwrent post tree. worth c.a. - Lg.: her to any railway station or market town to 11, I tilted iiheerse.—PHlLLlPS and Co. have no sts, nor anv connection with say boast Is Wormater or Bwaa ei Supra aro supplied at market prises. I VALI tBLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.-A CHIN Es E CADDY, contalnh* ItAbe. of reallynond BLACK lA. sent est r age tree to any railway station or market town In ~ .I.md. Ireland. Scotland. or Wales, on receipt of 40e.„ by 111 Ll.ll's tool Co., tea merchants, ti, Kinl William-greet, City DSBORN E'S STILTON is THE Cheese. C I n 1 E.DST EA DS, TiEDDING, and BEDROOM Ft I:NlIl LE—An ILLUSTRATED CATAIAKIUE, with I. lo of Loo• artirlt 14 of It Elitti 111111 FURNITURE. nen' bee by ..4 , 'III ! ..:n.l. t.. FILM ER and RON, uphnleterers, 11, 3P., , I.n, 1 . •^3 W . . , oil", , O. blilliOn. W. and 34 and 31. tilatlew eel. 111 n i . .. !, ...et. W. I'IELD'S PATENT SELF-FITTING r t fr.m Is per lb. u In all dam PIELLEs 1111.:DAL PAkAPYINZ CANDLE Cie or:elnal la &I. per lb. T.. be 1.3.14 all dealers In town and country. ).ITS for the _present Season.—The NEW W TER OVERCOATS, of best materials, are kept kand sad m::-Ir t.. order, at 11 A %II LtelN and UM PTONI, 'l:t.l-.ra and Oreroost Makers, NtI:AND, opposite Ineter•ball. ?. 11 A :%! 1: T'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, A , o 1.. - I A reuiely, without coolinhtg the bowels or .t.c..u.• u . , . 1... . •,.iy efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to the b. 4 ti0.4,..1,, for imiueliately relieving coughs, colds, ' , .rruit. I ..i..r3 of .1•01111 a. uri incipient consumption. It Ire . Lly .4.,. 1, i _ , r-+ whom the faculty pronounce Incurable t^ ,4i.::. :di,. the tiddillgllhkh provokes frequent coughing. 4 *.r. her ctn.:l'4ol.n its ,Recta are truly beneficial. ..f . even lying dninTicforTeir of eußoce. rns ,11 rrli t In a ten minutes after taking it.— :...1 I. W. LAMBERT. chemist, 8, King Wil ~+,i•tr.,t. .1 ta.. London, and by all druggists, la g:l' . thy,^ quantities in one, b. gd. Be partirular J•lt b.r .tsthutatic Balsam The Dame sad address the attunp. I` , c , 4.1 FEMSTR.—One of Dr. LOCOCKTS 1. , f.m..‘ti. W A 1 , F.1:3 taken two or three times a day i ctects .'- •t,.. ~..- vi.,k-94.1 ”uell. and weak lungs from • ; ; .... •,1 kn. nod frost& have a pleasant taste. . • :•I , and l Is !KT box. Mold by all dnehrlste INDIGESTION. NULISiN'S CAMOMILE FILM ...._ A , ;I nth Aperient and a Powerful Toole. 1 &.Id F.t.n.) ~here, In Bottles Is. lid., 3. W., and 11.. LAITUE. —The LETTUCE contains an active Pribeiph, the Lautine, which pssatases an tee soothing ~, ,Prrties •pi um without Its daogara—Mr. O..IOZZA tr Preach Ilannarkst, prepares a limp add a Pate or Ulnas ;•:I.lv r,,,n un ond e d by We medical Preteniee ice ta. asthma , bronchitis , and all chest affections. Syrup h. ad.; la ltd. and 2 3d. rats. by peek la. S 4 mod Ss. IA- VICTOR HUGO'S CHRISTMAS FRT.:. On Thursday last, the 27th December, the annual Christmas fête took place at Hauteville•house,in Guernsey. There were assembled some forty-two poor children varying in age from three to twelve years ; all looked happy and joyous, and seemed perfectly at home in the house, and in the presence of their host. The fete was divided into three parts, an excellent lunch, a distribution of clothing, and a Christmas-tree. Previous to the distri bution Victor Hugo addressed his guests and visitors in the following words : Lathes and Gentlemen,—Yon are aware of the object of this little meeting. It is what, for want of a better term I call the festival of poor little children. I desire to *peak of it in the humblest terms, and with this feeling I would borrow the simplicity of one of those little ones who now hear me. To do good to poor children, as far as lam able, is the object that I have in view. Believe we there is no merit in the act, and what I say I sincerely mean. There is no merit in doing for the poor what we can, for what we can do it is a duty to do. Do you know anything more sad then the sufferings of . children ? When we suffer—we who are met—we suffer justly, we endure nothing but what we deserve, but children are innocent, and suffering innocence—is it not the saddest thing in nature? Here Providence entrusts us with a portion of its own functions. God says to man—l confide to thee the child. And he does not confide to us our own children alone—for it is simply natural that we should have care for them—and the brute obeys this law of nature, better sometimes than man himself. God entrusts us with all the children that suffer. To be the father—the mother of poor children—this is our highest mission. To have towards them the parental feeling is to have a fraternal feeling towards humanity. M. Hugo then explained the ides which first led him to establish this fortnightly dinner, an idea, he said, which had its origin in a report upon the diet of poor children made eighteen yaws ago by the Medical Academy of Paris. " hut," continued M. Hugo, "engrossed, when in France by the business of public life, I had no time for establish: lug dinners for poor children. Profiting, however, by the leisure which exile has given me in Guernsey, I have car. tied the idea into execution. Believing that if a good din. ner once a month could do so much good, a good dinner once a fortnight would do still more, I have fed forty-two children, twenty-one of whom come to me every week. More over, when the end of the year arrival wish to give them the little pleasure which the children of the rich find in their own homes ; I wish that they also may have their Christ mas. This little fete is composed of three pares —a luncheon, a distribution of clothing, and a distribution of • toys, for—joy is an element of children's health. Therefore it is that I dedicate to them annually a Christmas tree, This is the fifth celebration of the Pte. And now why do I say all this? The only merit in a good action (if there be a good action) is to say nothing about it. I should, in fact, be silent if I thougut only of myself. But my object is not merely to do good to forty children. My object above all is to set a ustful example. This is my sole excuse." In support of the beneficial effects attending the adop tion of this system in other countries, M. Hugo read extracts from two newspapers—the Petit Journal and the rillieL The treasurer of the Rugged Children's Dinner Fund, writing to the last-named paper, bad stated that during the l►te epidemic in London not one death from cholera had taken place among two hundred poor children who had thus been nourished. Upon this fact the speaker laid great importance, and, after expressing a hope that the " mournful and deplorable word ' ragged' " would soon disappear from the noble English language, he thus concluded : This, ladies and gentlemen, this is my excuse for de scribing to you what takes place here. This is what Matt ' fies the publicity given to the dinner to the forty children. It is that from this humble origin there arises a conside. sable amelioration in the condition of suffering innocence. To relieve children—to train them into men—such is our duty. I will add but one word more. There are two ways ef building churches. They may be built of stones—they may be built of flesh and bone. The poor whom you have succoured are a church that you have built from whence prayer and gratitude ascend to God. Many know the marvels of Victor Hugo's pen ; few are acquainted with the magic of his voice, and only those wbo have heard him speak in public can realise to its full extent an utterance which vibrates in singular unison with every thought which it expresses. In Haute•ille-house, on Thursday last, all stood upon the same level of equality, no invitations were issued, the doors were open to who. ever thought fit to enter, and the only reserved places were fur the poor. It seemed a place where class diatino tions were for a time at least forgotten, and all met together, without surprise or embarrassment, on the neutral ground of a great man's humanity. THE VICTORIA CROSS. —W AR-OPTICL, JAS. Her Majesty has been pleased to signify bar intention to confer this high distinction on the undermentioned private soldier, whose claim to the same has been submitted for her Majesty's approval, for his courageous conduct in Canada, as recorded against his name, vin. Private Timothy O'Hea, let Battalion, The Prince Consort's Own Rifle Brigade. For his courageous conduct on the occasion of • fire which occurred in a railway car, con taining ►mmunition, between Quebec and Montreal, on 9th of June last. The sergeant in charge of the escort states that, when at Danville Station, on the Grand Trunk Railway, the alarm was given that the car was on fire ; it was immediately dieoonneoted, and, whilst considering what was best to be done, Private O'Hes took the keys from his hand, rushed to the car, opened it, and called out for water and • ladder. It is stated that it was due to his 'sample that the fire was suppremeal.-04:ette. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (arum's rzczatAme.) THE NEW YEAR'S RECEPTION AT THE TUILERLES. SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. PARIS, JAN. 1. At the reception held to-day at the Tuileries the Emperor addressed the following speech to the diplomatic body :—" The opening of the new year furnishes me an opportunity of expressing my wishes for the stability of thrones and the pros perity of nations. I hope that we are entering upon a new era of peace and conciliation, and that the Universal Exhibition will contribute towards calming passions and drawing closer the general interests." His Mijesty thanked the diplomatic body for their congratuktions, and begged them to convey to their respective governments the expres sion of his sentiments of friendship. The Emperor, addressing the Archbishop of Paris, said :—." When I see at the head of the Paris clergy a prelate so deeply devoted to the interests of religion as well as to those of the state—one who everywhere supports by hia words sad actiosok the great principles of faith, charity, and conciliation, I say to myself, ' Heaven will hear his prayers.' Those prayers are for France a blessing, and for me a new source of consolation and hope." SPEECH OF KING VICTOR EMMANUEL. FLORENCE, JAN. 1. At a reception given to-day by King Victor Emmanuel to a deputation from the Italian parlia ment, his Majesty thanked the senators and depu ties for the sentiments of perfect devotedness which they expressed in their own name and in the name of the country. " The new year," said the King, " reminds Italians that they have now secured the independence of their country, and with it an improvement in the civil administration and increased public prosperity. During the period of peace upon which we are entering we shall not cease to devote our attention to the army. The army is not only necessary for the preservation of that independence which it so greatly contributed to acquire, but is in itself a solid guarantee for internal security, and an element of moral unity, and of that civil training which renders disciplined nations strong and capable of accomplishing great deeds." AUSTRIA. VIENNA. JAN. 1. According to reliable information an imperial patent will be published the day after to-morrow, proclaiming the termination of the period of six years for which the provincial Diets and the Reicharath were elected, and ordering new elec tions in all the non-Hungarian provinces of the empire. The Diets are to assemble on the 15th February, and an extraordinary meeting of the Reicharath will be convoked for the 25th of that month. The object of the Reicharath's being called together is to effect a compromise with Hungary, and to deliberate upon a constitution for the whole monarchy. The Hungarian Diet will not be ad journed. HUNGARY. I'ESTII, JAN. 1. The electors of this city have sent an address of confidence to M. Desk. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Nov. V.• The shipments of gold during the month amount to 112,000 oza. for England, and 87,875 oza. for Galle. SYDNEY, Nov. 22. A bill for the reduction of the duties on goods has passed the legislature. • 'Those telegrams have occupied 1G days in trllll2llthei.oll from Galle. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, Jas. 1. This being New Year's Day, no business has been done on the Bourse. AMERICA. (DT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Dec. 31. It is announced that Marshal Bazaine will co operate with the Emperor Maximilian so long as the French troops remain in Mexico. THE LATE TRADES' REFORM DEMONSTRATION.— Last evening a special meeting of the executive council of the Working Men's Association was held at the offices in Bolt-court, Fleet-street, Mr. G. Potter in the chair, to consider the propriety of taking legal proceedings against the lessee of the Aaliburnham Grounds for breach of con tract and special damages consequent upon his refuel to allow the reform meeting to be held in the above ground on the 3rd of December last. A report was read by the secretary which estimated the extra expenses incurred by the committee through the refusal, in posting fresh bills, issuing new advertisements, and in providing another place, combined with the stoppage of the sale of tickets for nearly a week, at upwards of 250(. The letter of Mr. Adams, the agent of the lessee, letting the grounds to the committee, together with the correspondence forbidding the meeting, had been submitted to a legal opinion, which was in favour of an action at law laying against the lessee, and after some discussion it was unanimously resolved that the solicitor of the association be instructed et once to commence such action. A resolution was also adopted to be submitted to the next trades' delegate meeting for keeping the present trades organisation intact pending the coming session of parliament. The committee then ad journed. EMIGRATION PRAM LIVERPOOL.—The statistics compiled by the government emigration o ffi cers at Liverpool show that during the year 1866 there exiled to the United States, 92,224 emigrants. Divided into quarters the result is as follows : Quarter ending March, 72 ships under the act, carrying 5,800 English, 510 Scotch, 7,910 Irish, and 4,394 foreigners. Quarter ending June. 96 ships, with 10,375 English, 931 Scotch, 21,084 Irish, and 7,352 foreigners. Quarter ending Sept., 66 ships, with 8,443 Engliah, 557 Scotch, 7,170 Irish, and 3,361 foreigners. Quarter ending Dec., 63 ships, with 5,507 English, 007 Scotch, 5,119 Irish, and 2, 895 foreigners. To Canada the total number of emigrants was 6,068. Quarter ending March, none ; June, 10 ships, with 1,170 English, 585 Irish, and 1,661 foreigners; September, 10 ships, 810 English, 12 Scotch, 152 Irish, and 467 foreigners; December, 5 ships, 421 English, 55 Scotch, 207 Irish, and 318 foreigners. To Nova Sonia the total was 631 ; June quarter, 2 shim, 463 English, 100 Scotch, 70 Irish, and one foreigner. To New South Wales one ship railed in the March quarter with 66 English, 23 Scotch, and 269 Irish ; total 358. To Queensland the emigrants numbered 1,826; quarter ending March three ships, 9413 English, 74 Scotch, 386 Irish, and 2 foreigners ; September, one ship, 142 English, 13 Scotch, 69 Irish, and 2 foreigners ; December, one ship, 94 English, 23 Scotch, 65 Irish, and 2 foreigners. To Victoria the number of emigrants was 5,587 ; March quarter, five ships, 434 English, 44 Scotch, 608 Irish, and 213 foreigners ; September, tire ships, 491 English, 64 Scotch, 1,151 Irish, and 32 forei‘ners ; June, six ships, 542 English, 78 Scotch, 1,000 Irish, and 18 foreigners ; December, 4 ships, 440 English, 56 Scotch, 572 Irish, and 29 foreigners. To South America one ship with 1 English and 71 Irish ; total 72. These show • grand total of steerage emigrants for the year of 36,145 English, 3,047 Scotch, 46,697 Irish, and 20,870 foreigners ; total 106,757. There were also 5,922 cabin passengers whose nationalities were not known, and 9,712 emigrants by " short shim," which swell the grand total of emigrants from Liverpool during the year to 122,393, an increase of 1,337 over the previous year. The returns for 1866 show that the Irish are emigrating in large numbers to South America (West Coast) and the Southern States of North America. RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN SPAIN. We read in the Arena,. National of yesterday : " Great protestant nations, such as England and Prussia, having been constituted account must be taken of them. The English, the greatest travel lers in the world, when refused the right of public worship in Spain, lust patience and would no longer consent to be buried there like dogs ; they asked for a plot of ground for the burial of their fellow-worshippers, liable to be flung into a ditch if their families were not rich enough to pay for a distant and onerous removal ; they claimed, they insisted, they obtained a cemetery at Madrid. The Jews, who are only individuals with neither fleet nor army at their disposal, have been compelled to wait longer for the same satisfaction ; in these days of rifle cannons and needle guns, a right, which is merely a right, runs the risk of kicking its heels awhile at the door of governments. This time, however, thanks to the kindly intervention of France, only thirty-five years have elapsed between the favour accorded to the protestants and that which we announce to-day. The text of the despatch in which the decision of the Spanish government is notified to M. Mercier de Lostende, ambassador of France at the Spanish court, will be read with interest : Palace of Madrid, Oct. 16. Sir,—The Minister of the Interior, whom, as your excellency knows, I have made acquainted with the note of this embassy of the 2nd of last August, and of the request accompanying it of the Cen tral Assembly of the Israelites of France. respecting the grant of burial for their fellow-worshippers who may die in Spain, has just apprised me that, although the cemetery regulations to which your excellency refers in the note above-mentioned are not yet settled, yet if the French Israelites residing in this kingdom, nevertheless wish to possess or acquire ground for burials, and to sur , round it with walls, without building • chapel or any kind of temple, without public or private worship, there is no objection to authorise such oonstructions, provided that the aforesaid Israelites do so at an appropriate time, in conformity with the royal ordinance of Nov. 13, I`t3l, in virtue of which a similar authorisation has been accorded to the English protestant., and in con formity with the law of the 29th of August, 1855, which allows the establishment of cemeteries; for receiving the bodies of those who die out of the catholic religion. Such are the facts I have the honour to bring to the knowledge of your excellency for the purposes you may deem suitable, and I am, (Signed) K ng Catoom, Yelinister of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs. ".The abundance of precautions and formalities with which a concession so natural and so elemen tary is accompanied, will be obvious of itself (adds the A rensr), and yet the monastic regime has pressed so long upon Spain that we must be grateful for the smallest onward step. .In regard to religious liberty, we ought to be modest, and content our selves with but little. Let us rejoice, and con gratulate the Spanish people, a brave and generous people, that a modest enclosure will henceforth preserve in peace the remains of persons who are born, and who die, outside of Roman orthodoxy." ROME. It is not only Mazzini who preaches action to the Roman people. The Italian papers publish the fol• lowing manifesto, copies of which, printed by the repub lican clandestine prep, covered the walls of Rome on December 16 : " Romans,—The French banner is furled ; the French army has quitted Italy. The shield that for 17 years has protected our ferocious and ir.capable government, is with- drawn. A few Papal bravos and a rabble rout of foreigners cannot hold in check the people which repulsed the army of Oudinot from their walls on the 30th of April, 1849. All true liberals feel the necessity of rallying our forces for the purpose of uniting in one supreme unanimous effort. We are on the watch for the opportune moment for insurrection, and preparing the elements of victory. ULU' that moment arrives, be upon your guard against all unknown agitators, and avoid all tumult or disorder, which might be a snare Lad for you by your enemies. In the mean time prepare calmly and resolutely for battle ; when the hour of deliverance sounds, we will call you to arms. " Long live free Rome, the capital of Italy. Dee. 16, 1866." " THE COMMITTEE or ACTION. FOILOERY OF POST-OFFICI ORDIREI.-011 Monday a man named Thomas Bairatow was examined before the Leeds magistrates on two charges of having defrauded tradesmen in that town by passing off as orders upon the post-office two of the usual forms which had been altered so that, instead of representing ls. each, they appeared to have been drawn for U. Its. and 18a. respectively. In this way, from Messrs. Smithson Brothers, Boar-lane, Leeds, he had obtained 121 b. of "your good tea." at as. Messrs. Stnithson's assistant accepted in payment what appeared to be a genuine post-office order for If. 16a, but in a few days after, when they paid it, along with some cash, to their bankers, the forgery and fraud were de tected. It was proved before the magistrates that the prisoner had got an order for Is. at a suburban post-office before going to Messrs. Smithson's ; and by similar means he defrauded Mr. W. Gress, taadealer, Briggate, Leeds. When he was apprehended he said " done is ; I was bard up." He was committed for trial at the assists. ins oth Lry, Ala xnd rpf 'vi. KU- Jul tho eta.