The Express. — London, England, 1868-12-29 00:00:00

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A BIORNDUI contemporary ventured yesterday to prophecy that on Monday, the 28th of De cember, 1868, " ordinary observation would pro " bably discern in the aspect of the day nothing " inconsistent with the usual ' work-a-day ' ap " pearance of Monday." This was a natural pro phecy, but facts have contradicted it. The holiday spirit had not yet exhausted itself, and streets, which at fuur o'clock in the afternoon at this time of year usually present one unbroken line of gas lit /Shop-front., presented yesterday a very dif ferent spectacle indeed. The odd part of the sight was that while stationers' shops and drapers' shops were ssi n open as usual, those of butchers and grocers were in large numbers closely shut. Old Londoners cannot remember anything like such a prolonged Christmas holiday. Trade dull, little confidence in the City, starvation at the East-end, burglary and garotting almost everywhere London has found time, spirit, and money enough to give itself up to the blandishments of three holidays, with a holy day interposed to boot. Two things were so obvious and yet so interest ing in the history of these three days that they should be noted in passing. One is, that there was lies drunkenness proper, with more half-seas overishnces than usual ; the other is that tho cur rent talk about the universal influence of the spirit of the season is not humbug, whoever chooses to ridi cule it. The unbending and the kindly cheerful ness which tradition assigns to Christmas manners were very generally visible, were evidently sincere, and were quite refreshing to see. The turn the holiday question is taking in this country is curious. A considerable portion of the respectable working-men, and, with them, of clerks and ebopmen, are now not so very far from hav ing realised that secular holiday and sacred holiday which some people think the week should contain. The lower portions of the working-claims (in very great numbers, it must be admitted) still stick to 14aint Monday ; even if they also take a sneaking slice out of the Saturday half-holiday. One thing we have not yet learnt—the art of leaking the sacred holiday, the holy day, at tractive to the vast multitudes who are still Chris thus in name. Our Puritan forefathers made Saturday afternoon tho " preparation for the Sabbath," and after sun-down, a truce was pro claimed, not only with labour, bat with amuse ment. Not satisfied with reversing this, and il lustrating our dead walls with pictures of Satur day afternoon cricketers, Crystal Palace-goers, and volunteers on the march, we have threatened to carve a slice out of Sunday for scientific lectures, and Mr. IT...ENItY WAND Bigzenza appears already to have taken the idea tinier his patronage in his own chapel by ad mitting some physiological lectures. We have no doubt that Mr. Barium imbed the physiology in n service; but, ono then, not turn in his grave (as has been , an innovation ; but there are serious neither Judaism; nor Puritaia. ' nor Surday martinets, who will some alarm at the public appropriation part of Sunday to any work but that of cultivat ing the religious motive powers of conduct. These good folks will not be appeased by your telling them that Science is "holy," for they will im mediately profess that they know that as well as you do ; but they will maintain that the institution of a Holy Day, in which, without gloom or aseeti clam, every man shall be at liberty, up to the farthest verge of what is practicable, to lay his whole nature open, through religious and social influence, to the free spiritual currents which wait for those who seek them, is an institution so unspeakably beautiful and useful that it is scarcely possible to be too jealous over it. In whatever direction the current may finally set it is impossible to help respecting the scruples of those who, while they rejoice that the Sunday " ream of Hon " (to employ a modiievalism) has been robbed of its terrors, would grieve and tremble to see it stripped of its ono shred of gentle amenities and unspeakably soothing immunities. But, how ever our readers may incline to lean in regard to this topic, in one thing they will rejoice along with us—namely, in the vigour which the holiday spirit has evidently developed in England. MR. GLADSTONE'S RETRENGIIMENTS. Tax abolition of the ip of InLind Revenue, made vacant by the death of Mr. JA1169 DisneEli, indicates the line in Civil Service reform about to be taken by the government. These commissionerships are among the few good things left. A salary of twelve hundred pounds a year, together with duties which are not excessive, and the power of doing practically what you like, is no bad reward for political or personal service. Ac cordingly few appointments have been more coveted, and though it has been long rumoured that sweeping changes have been in contem plation in connection with tho revenue departments, the news published this morning is the first earnest of what will surely come. The absence of definite responsibility which almost in variably attaches to corporate forms of govern ment is just the evil to press strongly upon the minds of practical statesmen. The Board of Inland Revenue, shorn as it is of one member, yet consists of a chairman, a deputy-chairman, and three other commissioners. The Board of Customs has also commissioners and head commissioners, who are similarly paid, and the outlying spheres of those two departments are, it is clearly proved, so dif fused as to ensure a double service for work which might and ought to be performed singly. All ovcr the country there are officers of customs and officers of Inland Revenue performing their work side by side ; and with two sets of chiefs, or col lectors, two sets of offices, and two sets of clerks, and two boards with whom to correspond, it is not difficult to see how labour and expense are unnecessarily and inordinately increased. But the Revenue department itself is said to employ officials all over the country, who are performing the duties of collection without reference to each other, keeping separate books, haying distinct establishments, and making independent returns to Somerset House. Worse than all, there are a considerable number of these officials who are not directly amenable to control, and who from the circumstance' of their appointment and the nature of their post are in4iscipline3 and irregular. The distributors of stamps, the collec tors and surveyors of taxes, the collectors and officers of excise, represent three divisions of Revenue servants. The duties of the former have in cer tain instances been transferred to the other offices, and it would be interesting to know with what re eult. For it has been notorious that these dis tributorships were slices of political patronage, some almost valueless, others extremely profitable, but all out of the regular order of official preferment or appointment. The amalgamation of the several Boards of Excise, Stamps, and Taxes which took place when Mr. Joint WOOD was Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue was so far incomplete that many anomalies in the three servises remained unredresood. It seems clear that when what are broadly the same duties, i.e., gathering in the taxes of the country and bringing them to account, are performed under the same headship, uniformity of system should be in sisted on. The Board of Inland Revenue has made several efforts to bring the distributor ships of stamps more immediately under their control, and when Mr. GLADSTONE intro duced a measure to secure this it was only defeated through the parliamentary pressure brought to bear by the attornies throughout the country, who trembled for their emoluments as clerks to the local commissioners. But matters will run differently with the present liberal majority in the House of Commons. The Revenue Department, its consolidation and efficiency, will be one of Mr. GrAnsToNE's first cares, and it is far from unlikely that the abolition of Mr. JAMES DISRAELI'S oommissionersbip may foreshadow a single chiefship in place of the present board. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY OUR OONTEMPORARIN3. (THIS DAY.) MI LATI Of POLIOIL TUB EUCATIOY OF wo=l. min, Mends wndoU things ; but they are worth saying at a time when anything is publicly made known which tends to emphsaize the policy of breaking a morbid tra dition in the individual consciousness, not by ham mering away at it, but by cutting clean athwart it with sonic now antagonistic force. The Tiffin thinks that by the death of Sir Richard Mayne the public have lost a valuable and nand meritorious servant. The present aeration knows little of the circumstances under which he entered upon his post, or of the difficulties be encountered end overcame. When appointed one of the two chief com mireicners of police in 1829 he had before him the task of orgsnuing • totally new force, and of subjecting the in habibuts of London to the control of • novel power, of which they felt not a little suspicious. The present gemination happily has no idea of what London was in thus days, and nothing but great ability, industry, and patience could have =cumin''y encountered the difacul ties with which he had to contend. The truth is that Sir Richard Mayne bad rendered the police at once so useful and so inoffensive • force that we accepted them as part of the natural order of things, sod never thought of asking to whom we were indebted for their efflcteney. The Timms dose not say that his administration wu free from fault ; but it ought to be recognised that the defects for which he was most severely criticised were chiefly due to the system he had to ad minister. The Daily Nero remarks upon the efforts which are being made to raise the ideas of the sphere and duties of woman, and to elevate the character of her education in accordance with those new ideas. Every day (it says) brings fresh evidence of the genuine ness and growth of this demand for a higher culture than can be met by the traditional and conventional arrangements for female education in England and America ; and that something similar has manifested itself even in catholic Europe may be gathered from various facts, not the least significant among them being the necemity the Pope has twice within the last few years felt himself under to utter vehement anathemas against innovations upon the old drill—it cannot be called education—which had so long trained women to be passive devotees of the church of Rome and victims of supersti tion. Thus far it is • healthy sign that the demand has shown • tendency to create and shape its own channels of supply wig, in some wow sinned the unpardonable min, Mends oondole diet ooly religiose end quote texts T2 . i . scl • only WM kis father - gad* in 1110 f s predielei) at such a would be elertb 17 aeTe ito • • •to none people, who are very great Osnrifloes• unia is, not pesseontoes. purpose et Averting. by some- inernimep, will yet look with ushappy ereature's mind. It is from on °sterna- ppropriation of any tion of wisdom after the event that we say these RELIGIOUS SUICIDE. HORRIBLY incongruous as the words are, it has often been necessary to conjoin them, and it is necessary once more. We are told by the reporters that somewhere in the provinces (it is not pleasant to be too precise about anything so very painful) a married woman, with a goodly family, has strangled herself because she could not live under the pressure of the idea which had taken possession of her, that she had com mitted the sin against the HOLY 01108 Tor, or, as the reporters phrase it, "offended " the HOLY °non." The first misfortune is, that religious teaching should be in such a state in this country that now-a-days any human being can possibly get the idea of such a sin into his head. But that is a gigantic mischief which we must have. There is another, and a more vul nerable evil, namely, the extreme ignorance, the dulness of observation, and the weakness of imagination which fails to find the right prescrip tion for the commencement of all such cases of " fixed idea." The great point, as in so many cases of chronic illness, is to break the tradition before it becomes too strong; in other words, to divert the mind by as near an approach to a coun tershock as the case admits. How much have the young suffered, and how much do they still suffer at the hands of parents and guardians who do not know that, very often indeed, all the lec turing and admonishing and praying and thrash ing expended upon a fault which the poor child appears unaccountably inclined to go on repeating is just the very process to make him repeat it ; to turn a half-hysteric impulse, or something put into his head over and again by a playmate or a servant, into a Axed idea. In the same way, when a person has got into his head that he has THU CIVIL SICIIVICL. The Telegraph points out, amongst the anomalies of the civil service system, that, although it is impossible for a minister to thrust into power an incompetent clerk, he can Will nominate an utterly incompetent commis sioner—and he does it every month. Many a junior clerk at 1501. a year has learnt much more about the general business of the oflioe then tie commissioner at 1.0001. or 1,2004 a year knows, or may nosecood in knowing through out his °facial life. Tlil fIOPOIID The Starr says the Turk, by his obstinacy in tits roans, of the congress may have prevented the western powers from committing themselves to an intervention the end of which might have been very different from the beginning. lite Star hope. there may he no un seemly efforts to compel the Porte to wept of the Wen volition, nor, on the other hand, any equally impolitic pressure upon the Greek goers:sad to perform an sot of buena' and humiliation. The duty ad Illagland slowly is to abstain from all interforenon PSEUDS!? 1011310!. The President of the United Stator has, observes the /3 weld, nobly atoned for his late terrible and damaging snielaka Be alums with a Isms pupation of his countrymen absurd and unjust ideas In regard to the treatment of the public weditor. He le alum* alone in combining a proved and perfect loyalty to the Union with an anions desire to deal justly and generamly by the conquered Status of the South. And Maury will do him justice; history will hardly remember the anemia errors in which be but erpreased the common ignorance and perversity of him country, while it will record the high minded and patriotic spirit in which he dealt with the victims of an ansuccemfal war. Wu Court. OSBORN* D.& The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Crown Prince and Primmer of Prussia (Princess Royal), with their children. Prinoem Charlotte, Priam§ Victoria, and Prince Waldemar, took leave of her Ma jesty this morning, on their return to the Continent. Priam Arthur, attended by CeonelElphinstons, accom panied their Royal Highways, to Portsmouth, is bar Majesty's yacht Alberta, whence they proceeded by special train to Dover, intending to embark there, if the weather permitted, at noon to-day. The suits in attendance consisted of Countess Ilohen- Gal, Countess figmentlow, Count Furstionstein, and Cap tain Von Schleinitz. Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty, attended their Royal Highnesses to Dover. Despatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial office, from the Governors of the Australian colonies, New Zealand, the West India Wands, Bermuda, and from the overnor-General of Canada. Ilia Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the Countees Spencer passed through town yesterday from Althorp•hall, oa their way to visit her Majesty at Osborne. The Marchioness of Anglesey and tho Mar chioness of Hastiap have arrived at Thomas's Hotel from Beaudesert, Staffordshire. The Earl and Countess Stanhope will kayo Chevening early in the ensuing month for town for the OCIMOII. The oounteas Harley Toloki has arrived at Mau ria's Hotel Loin Rendord. The Countess Fitswilliarn and Lady Mary Fits willima arrived is town oa Saturday from Woodworth house, Yorkshire. Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton passed through town at the aloes of the past week bons their wet, Tatton Park, Cheshire, for Brighton, where they purpose spending several weeks. - Lord - Stafford has arrived 4 Maurigy'a Hotel from Comm Hall. Norwich. Lord and Lady Cairns have lett town for Rome, where they parpose rwesining till shortly before the meeting of prirliement. Lord ai;cl Lady Suffield hays loft Thonutet Hotel for the Ink of Wight. Viscount Milton. /if .P., and tho Ron. Henry Fitswilliers left tows yesterday for Wentworth House, Yorkshire. Sir Edwin FL Stanhope, Bart.. has arrived at Maeda's Ilotel from liereford. Sir John Ramaden, Bart., M.P., and Lady Gweadolin Ramadan arrived in town lad evening from Byrom-hall, near Nonunion ! Ifnrkahire. _ _ Lady Mary, 'Wier of the present. Duke of Hatelitos, is shortly, the Assn states, going to be mar• tied to Prises liehassolioni, brother ad Priam Charles of Rossesais. ROYAL SPORT LW WINDSOR FORlST.—lrostords his Royal R Prince Christian again is the royal preserves of Windom Great Park, rola *hese bolsi at by lia t Osesral Y. Owte ritood as a ills e elZkip h iste e " :::heres,=rabbles, is rut daps @hosting In ties preserve; sines ti r ran i n h i! wary ot Uis death .1 Ms Cease& IG, DECEMBER N • DAY.) • (SOME asoma's minrat.) TUMMY. CONSTANTINOPLII. Duo. U. ammo. The &mien mid Premien Ambassadors here have received notice of the meeting of the conference on the 2nd proximo. The other representatives of foreign powers me still without of intimation from their governments. There to no foundation for the rumour that M. de Bourfe, tho French Ambeeeador.: has boon recalled. FRANCA PARK Dec. 29. The Constiletanmel amnia that perfect harmony prevails between the Ministers Bouher and Pomade de la Roquette. SPAIN. MADRID, Dia 28. no city of Madrid has contraotod a loan with the banking firm of MM. Erlanger. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Deo. U. The Anchor steamships Europa and United Kingdom, and tbo North German Lloyd steam ship Weser, arrived out to-day, the latter at, 1 p.m. Closing Prices.— Clold closed at 133 ; the highest quotation during the day was 133 k ; the lowest, 1341. Sterling exchange on London, 1014 ; 6-20 United BMWs Bonds, 1882, 111 k ; ditto, 1886, 1081; ditto, 1883, II 1 ; 10-40 Bonds, 1031. Illinois, 142 ; Eris, 40. Cotton, Middling Upland, 231. Petroleum, standard white, 311. Flour, extra State, 6 dol.. 930. to 7 dole. 63e. Corn, old mixed, 1 doL 100. OUR PARIS LETTER. (YR= 01711 OW PARIS. MONDAT ZVIMEINKL The doubts I have expressed about the meeting of the conference are confirmed by the current of public opinion to-day. At the Bourse, Rents fell 37c. on the rumour (quite in accordance with the recent semi-official article of the Constitutionmel) that Turkey would only come into the conference on the basis of her own attimaterse--a condition which is equivalent to a refusal. Never theless the Patric writes thus hopefully:— "According to information which we have every reason to think accurate, the conference project has gained an important step." This important step, however. is only what I have maid before, that the Turkish ultimatum is to be the basis of the deliberations. The Patric, however, goes on to say that the conference is to meet in Paris, that it will be composed exclusively of resident diplo matists accredited to the French government, and that as everything essential will have been settled before it meets, the business, as in the Luxembourg affair of 1567, will be got over in a very short time. Two powers, the l'atrie says, have not yet officially adhered to these arrangements, but from " confidential communications " received their adhesion may be considered as certain. While the Petrie indulges in those optimist views the clerks in the War-office are unusually buoy and speak of war as certain. _ . Marshal MacMahon arrived in Paris this morn ing from Vienna. He was accompanied by M. de Grammont, the French Ambassador. I suppose nobody now will have the rusiveti to maintain that the Duke of Magenta mado a forood march to Vienna and back for no other purpose than to shoot with the Duke de Castries. We have not yet seen tho list of the killed at the toque. I believe that is to oome. The Christmas " getting up-stein" of the Prince Imperial took place yesterday instead of to-day. Among his guests round the Christmas tree were the Prince of the Asturias and his little brother, the two eons of General Fleury, the two eons of Doctor Corvisard, and the boys Repines's, Bourgoing, and Conneau. At a signal given by the youthful host the tree was taken by assault, and everyone carried off the proportion of bon bons and toys conquered by his agility and coup (Ara. There were doubtless enough for all, and any shocking inequality in the distribution was probably rectified by judicious advioe to show magnanimity. A dinner at 7 was followed by • dance, which only lasted till 9, when the fatal word " Dodo " was pronounced by the pru dent M. Bachon, the Prince's tutor. The ball must have been a to Spurgeon, for no little girls are spoken of. The Emperor and Empress thought the young people would be happier by them selves, and did not put in an appearance during the frte. _ _ . tineem Isabella showed that her nerves d. not shrink from the spectacle of fallen royalty by going last night to see Theodora at the Thelitre Clitelet. Don Henry do Bourbon writes to the Liberti that ho goes in without any reserve for a Republic in Spun, and desires fur his country a Washington rather than a Ciesar. This is an unexpected adhe sion to the Republican cause which will make some sensation. The following bulletin es to Prince Napoleon's health has been issued to-day : " His imperial highness had no fever last even ing. He passed a good night. The Prince is going on very well this morning. Da. RICORD." " Dec. 28." The Marquis de Moustier is better. Yesterday ho got up for two or three hours and walked about a little in his room. His appetite is returning. Nzera bump !—The telegraphic correspon d/wee from London in the Nord of to-day contain. the foUowing item of new.:—" Tie steamer Tummies, from the West Indira, has brought the following intelli gens. :—' Ifir Richard Mayas has died at &Mime.' " Rots.—Among the recent arrivals him (says the Raman oorrespondent of the rug am the Countess Dowager of Norton and Lady Agar Douglas. The Earl and Countess of Narthesk and Indy Margaret OMNI& arrived on Friday, his lordship lookbig acne the worse for the very dangerous accident he anmountand recently on the Mont Cents. Lord Naha:ley has arrived also, as has likewise Mr. Longfellow, probably to spend the wrier in Boom The celebrated composer Glounod, author of !bore, is now ken, and ear opera seams, which is expected to be • may ger eise, although short, begins on the Mr The Roma area, are opening their great salami at last, and sever social events are announced, among which the bells at Alamo Borgheas will be coarieuom The French ambassador is disappointing society in general, and his eountrymen is particular, by maiataining a perfect repose in the Colima& Palace, which, however, is ex. *hied by hie lady's not having yet arrived. A else has been obtained to the authors of the great robbery he the apartments of the Prisms Witgeostein, of which I smut you an amour some weeks ago, by the arrest of • Neapolitan gentleman with a poetics of the stolen jewellery is his parser" as he wee trine his likes by sail ler Naples. Re was generally well received la seelety hire, sad frequented the rinser Mum bet rogiolans win matted by his having lately ladolged ta eigoorss whisk ble reser did not allow ef. 18 ono* said Dr. Johnson, " Fleet try animated appearance, but I la of human existence is et Char t bis words are even more strictly accurate now than in his time. Other metropo litan thoroughfares are busy and full, but at Charing-cross you get the loading features of City and West-end, and to stand in its midst is to recognise and to wonder at the endless variety of the stream. Bracketing Trafalgar-square with it for convenience sake, end booms° the stroller about Charing-cross finds him self within the limits of the former place almost unconsciously, the approaching removal of the Royal Academy at once suggests a loss. No more will that long line of broughams, cha riots, and suburban flies block the roadway throughout May and Juno ; no more will the oddly-matched groups emerge, catalogue in hand, frcm the palisaded gateways ; no more will the street boys assemble here on the " Academy dinner day," to cheer royalty and the ministers, and to point out public favourites to each other. The lighting up of the windows beneath the funny little pepper-castor domes will men come to mean other things than life-schools; the well known figures of the academicians who are told off to teach will be seen here no more ; and the periodical block of vans and picture-carts from which duly gilded frames and pictures are taken in at the back-doors will be crowded tlgother elsewhere. The copyists and sight-seers of the National Gallery will have so many extra rooms thrown open to them, and the umbrellas and stieks which are permitted to wander at will through the Vernon and Sheepshanks' galleries at Month Kensington will be confiscated as usual, but by a National instead of an Academic porter. Charing-cross will lose one fruitful source of traffic when the Academy goes, but will never miss it. Take this trian gular opening, as it is called in the guide-books, at what hour you will, when the London day has fairly begun, its clatter of wheels and footsteps exceeds that of any other place we know. Govern ment clerks pouring down to Whitehall, or passing through to Pall-mall—smart dressers the younger men, and with a general air of being out too early in their fashionable attire ; ministers and politicians wending their way to St. Stephen's when the House is sitting, and looking more commonplace and prosaic, not to say shabby, than one likes to think the rulers of this great country ought to be ; family coaches from Clapham, or the leading squares and terraces of the Si est, drawn up by the great linen drapers' , and lingering long as if their fair owners' purchases were heavy; warm, comfortable-looking men, bankers, country gentlemen, and lawyers in good practice, going to the club at the corner, and rejoicing or regretting that its regulations prevent their asking friends to dinner; admirers of Sir Edwin's lions, who look up at them with open mouths, and tell wondrous stories of their meaning; people in waiting for the omnibuses, who upset the time-keeper's calculations and make him saturnine by asking if the Waterloos go to shepherds-bush, or whether an Atlas can be found to carry them to Battersea; cabs laden with luggage flitting to the station hard by, and suggesting continental journey and blusterous trips across the Channel, when the narrator and two others are the only men who vs:ituro in the mail boat, and where the adventures generally are of the order recorded by the tourist Munchausen worn and thoughtful but kindly looking men whose very smiles ere grave, and who have an indescribable air, partly mercantile, partly tutorial, partly sea-captainish, and who have crossed the Atlantic to stay at Morley's Hotel ; engineers and contractors full of schemes for carrying railways through fresh districts, and for tunnelling under and bntiging over every obstacle to locomotion, about to deposit or dispute plans at Groat Goorgo-street, Westminster, and to lunch at the W h itehall Club later in the day ; single policemen with letter-bags strapped to their sides, hurrying down to Scotland-yard with the day's reports from the different metropolitan stations ; birds of passage of all kinds hasting through it to the City—of such materials is the Charing-cross crowd composed. Dr. Magian wrote what he called an exoellent new ballad on the removal of the Golden Cross, and the " Down falls of • -cross" is one of the best known of the Percy Reliquea But neither is missed. That the execution of the regicides, and the pil lorying of the notorious Curl took place on the spot on which old Charing-cross stood, troubles few people who glance at the gracefully tapering structure in front of the great railway station ; and the wonders of Northumberland-house, the Titian, and Vandycks, are known only to a few art stu dents, and are caviare to the crowd of passers-by. This becomes morere e te r !geneous as the day advances. The types we have instanced are there, but they form only a small majority. This week the holiday-makers have mingled with and augmented the crowd ; but on ordinary days the marvel is in its unconnected diverse cha racter. In other . parts of London the passers-by may be, in a measure, sorted and labelled. In Cheapside the Manchester ware houseman, fresh from Milk-street or Bread-street, and with a knowing look as if a taste fur horse flesh were combined with his knowledge of goods and bales, may air his well-cut clothes, bright hat, and nutty boots with the certainty that his calling can be ticked off by an averagely-shrewd observer. In Regent-street in early afternoon the strollers on the eastern side can be estimate: with fair accuracy ; the men who walk arm-in-arm, the men who lounge at the photograph shop windows, the men who affect hurry, and who race up the street in order to race down again, have each cha racteristics which distinguish them from the rest. As for such places as Chancery-lane or Pall-mall. they tell the story of their constituents so clearly that it is only the stupid or oblivious who cannot read it. The initiated know the salaried clerk from the articled, and the articled from the managing, at a glance. Common law, Chancery practice, and conveyancing need a little further insight, but it is not difficult to pick out the fol lowers of each of these branches of the profession when certain leading clues are furnished. The sin of the bundles they carry, the speed at which they walk, the air with which they meet your eye or seek the pavement, all help to label the pro fessional men walking or driving in strictly legal neighbourhoods; while their clients seem pro claiming by gesture and expression the anxious business which has brought them there, and their own estimate as to suttee's. So in club-land : the " awe l " lounger, the old man who sleeps in the library, the curmudgeon who keeps the paper maliciously when others are waiting for it, the gourmand who hocks his dinner-bill on the slightest occasion and la a blister to the committee, the member who is in chronic opposition and who Rata up querulous general meetings to prove the club-world to be wrong—all these people have their idiosyncrasies written plainly on their front. But the difficulty, of estimating character et Charing-cross lies in its overwhehning diversity. The insurance offices and bank-like buildings which have put on new red brick and stony faces ; the bookseller who astutely exhibits portraits of the leaffing engineers of the day in his shop window, imowbg that each original passes his shop daily to reach the engineering colony in Westminster, and will remember him as a man of discrimination; the hoeke who has come west ward, and who assumes a severer dignity in his shop-window display than at his establishment in the narrow Strand ; the great fishmonger whose glory it is to purvey the finest produce of eft and loch and river for his customers at the most distant parts of the three kingdoms as regularly as when they Belgrave-equare ; the once famous 's where houris used to dispense cherry =cfyTuill smiles from behind a pastry covered counter, but which is now shut up and for sale—ell these are distinctive in their way, but the never ending, still beginning crowd ?f passers-by is the real marvel, for the of Cherinsreceues is as the s ands tt p e l ;e l . ll - 41211 Daily New. w hy. tl apha LONDON AM USEMENTIII. --- (mut DAY.) TRIATIMIL °wow, edruk. Oa woo. —"TM Dra ft " &Auntie 0 0, 0.. —I w Tor partioakuo rs advt. Dewar Leoa.—" Up Wills's " hue is Bente To, pertiredare ass advt. Assuin.—. DM you ewer wad your wife to Cone tivriod (kleis."--1 o'olock. OLTlgnil4.—" Melba mai Oroolmir.“ . "This Yellow Pu nmit , —I credo& fissmes.— • Tb. Lareasin tam" " The threes K " • Iles for Dlnger."—e Oda*. Pee pstg.:War s Ornorns..--" The Warm FluaL" "The Fi e ld of the Cold. " • CAW Countess."—T o'clock. Parson or Wausts.—" Society." "Who lipskic Fat .. - t'l Velma. lor Amer.—. • Larbte Cup." "The Sim e n d r gi " 4,44,4 " The C/orknsekor's /ht."— LW O'Cl'Wk. 01404111.-•-" Good for Nothing." "Cyrirs Suereve."—y Oscirre.--" The Two Harlequine." "On the C U le Made." Two Weld'. For perticulero es. acts t. HATI1•111,111T.—" A Hero of Homoo,-." " A l' , 4%tfut 14. " As Alrevarag amstAce."-7 o'rlnck. LTC110111:" Four llowbreye." " Ilarequal 11.1,..pt 7 —7 o'clock. Fourceos'e.—" The fircret." " After Dark .'• r Sirthday."—e (Mort. Jew's.—" 71e Beast Noel." " °Liter:. r h ... : lkauty ia the Wood." Notaoux.—" St. Nary's Eve." " Tam tb , , T.rr .! florletten Maid." 8,4D1.111'11 WEI u.—" The Spectre Briderown." 1' • . "Quiet lescidora.•'•-r o'clock. Scsizr.—" Time 'Fries All." "Jack owl Jdl en 1 Beauty."-7 o'clock. Royal ANTIITEL&SIM, 110L11011S.C1111V. 1;. &e.-7.1111 (clods. STA SIPARD.—"TeII Tale Tit." "Throe to On, '' biITANWIA.—" • ILLlThlilabhalllUDl."—" Master's 8..0 t." I.•riucco.—" Bluff King Hal." —" The Svlgulijr: i 111 . f Bore,. ALreau...-" WLittington Lad lli. (1'4." "P. —7 ..'dock. fkr. Geosoa's 'rearms Mc. Ilsoona's HALL " flanbusspolue."-- 7 o'clock. For partkulars er.TPTAL PALA , R.—"lhriequitt Little B; 81u..," An.l AI, ttrtainments -3.30 o'clock. OALLZKT or IILeSTIATIO‘.—Nr. ml YIN. rotTIO.lll RIVA ., I"I , taintoest, "Inquire Within," and The Lest of the Palsd.. —3 and 8 o'clock. 3IoTAt Atar.JCI;LTC4I. nALL.—s.g..rs coca Circa. r. 7.30 o'Llorli. For particulars lee advt. Tma A .—A may Christmas Last, Tb, Fs.ry Tree," te. For particulars see adrt, BALL.—Two ballets, •• r. , . Haunt of the Butterflies," kr. FATPTIAI-11ALL, PIOCADILLT.-11r. Fleming Norton's assat.-11 o'clock. Caitlin Muumuu, Br. June's HALL. —9 o'clock. rar., milan see advt. Ural. POLYTIORNIC. A (Punt Stnrt. and Mr a. Coote's Entertainment, "'Fee Maid of ik • : s• ;„. ticulara nee advt. Maui Mauves. TURKEY AND GREECE. TUE PA.SBAGE_OE ARMS BETWT.FN I.i IZZEDIN AND THE EN .I'. The Lunn! Herald, of the Isth in , t s7l', the following peaticulars of this affair:—" la !,•. • ing of the 14th of December the En.lssis wl4 /...r. the bredin into the waters of Aspronis.i. • from Syra. The Irzedin fired, it is ear I. a . c..: cartridge, to which the Enoxsis r:•p:.•ri 'Lot which damaged the peddle Gf I . ,teamer. The latter then a. ke3 frier, the admiral's frigate which was in ritw. H.bart I'c:A thin approached and opened tire on ti.l En which replied with shell. smashing the frig lb; t• : doing other injury. This done, she entered thr Syra. Hobart pasha followed with his fn;,: c. : Isiedin. As soon as he anchored, he diniaa . : tribunal, of wLich the foreign commis shoul•1 f • should pronounce as to whether the Eno-sis ha 1 milted an act of piracy in tiring on a ship of war. she and the Crete should not be given over to the T authorities. The Nomareh answered that he had • rtructions ; he then went on board the Turki+h tr zi.• accompanied by two consuls, and examined the , 1*ILI:t done by the shell of the Enoesis. At the same tizi sent off the Panhellinion to the Pirsous, and on i'• rival the Greek government at once despatched the H with 1,300 troops oa board. On the arrival of the ifi!*: frigate her commander summoned Hobart racks to out, and the latter being also ' without indr..4. obeyed and went to sea." DA. MAT AXD TED ST. 4LBAY'S Dr. Ducey, writing on the recent julw• ct the Supreme Court of Appeal against Mr. 11, L. says : " I need not say what effect it will produce of English churchmen if the Supreme Court of A: at one time stringent in its construction of WOrdi. a: 42 I. the: lax. and both alike in criminal maim. F, r. h. wrrl the accuser's costs, which are thus laid upon Yr. Ila .o nochie, may be paid by others, the law Maws of this. It has not only condemned huu cf delng lawful tact in the most solemn part of public p (which is the most sensible wound it colld n any clergyman), but has laid a considemble him. TM world would call this ' playing fast and 13kNe.. --• loose,' whenever it is the question of al ..wing any matter of faith to be disbelieved: fast' when it is -.hi question of not allowing any thing to be damned whici popular prejudice disbelieves. If the uni.sn .hutch and state involves this ultimate laxity .todni.'te t:Att riinantos in the construction of our formular.ea involving the of true doctrine and the prohibition of practve which presents doctrine, it certainly will la the crrneit and prayer of churchmen that tho preu dent set as to the Irish establishment may be speed'') : as to the English.' Mr. Gladstone attains the s,)th year of to-day. Mr. Disraeli, his pitslecessor in the ,-. • completes his tlard year on Thursday. A letter from St. Petersburg mentions ' • Prince Sergius, third son of the °rand Mi•he•••• M 7 •-• and who is but just nineteen years of a•,:o. follow the example of his elder brother., by marriage of inclination. The lady is the betskoi, a lady of honour at the Russitu :out% -• to the Duchess de St.sto. The Emperor rEesinie: already given his consent. Tux " COUNTES.S OV DranvENTwArt: , " Countess of Derwantwater •' is now preranu; i 5.:.4 trial at Loudon, to set aside the decision et the at Hexham as to '• her ladyship being an ott,tm.:::: l the highway." We understand that ?dr. t. • • has been retained to watch the CAM ou behalf of her :1 ship. The illness of her ladyship caused by the and wet, whilst encamped at Pilston. is quite cone._ occupies her time in arranging the •• faintly paper 4 :• fresh start for the recovery of her est/tab.-4i- Oeserive. TIM ANGLO-FM[II(M ILitt.woT Henry Stead. honorary secretary e t ow umtemakoie• writes with reference to our reecitt arti..; ,, eolorlu'' rams with Prance :—IL Boat& hue not siendoncl of Project, which has oat with the WO MTP7 aI tt n o d goperor of the Fritsch. In iidd:tion to lue Miles l l prosounma aPlaulal. the resided t,i Witte hat beet and ward& for the purpose totemic!. andb7s.t_ of dr .englomorang authorities in Per... it re somewhat signior.; that, out of the mamba those proem who have saterribsd and paid 4.060:. for [iv err** of a large model (now in protOem Cala" ) th '7,l are as ler than enty-6r esiguieri. The " bulliesses " used a your article might barb' '".; •""°°7, —white Probably would meet the fate dee d but it aessa be form fa mind that the pier• on e rht.:h ara"ll° t° altearted beret/ton frame., otur..l of cylinders of iron braced together in s suitable atier. and offering ar so resistamos to the setion • wind and sea. In addition to this, calculations have made, and each pier will be of rob weicht and aim as to render the stricaue capable of rousting 36 time ec, force of the heaviest gales ; and an ides may l' forme , ' ." the are of die pier by the rough statement, that the tion when completed will have dimensions winietlititg those of St. Peel's Cathedral. Plans are being 0. 7, preOl by the request and at the 'of the Emperor. f, hndge of 30 spans in lieu of as was originally den.: ol , a proof that the project is still rewiring Mikre! . cordial support. Several ',green of eminesee is lio" land, whose mares will be published at the= ° ° l have also ex posers'prs& essed their approval of the sea ant in of doormen - is WS& show that the Atie ?lie& Railway Bridge is far from being • dram ` 5 . Put- Elorrn iCzNetwaTox MxT•strw.—Visitoes the week widish; Dee. 33, 1608 : — On Kooky, Tu„...*ll* and Saturday, tree, from 10 mu. to 10 st. 24,0ri •• ednesdey and Th '64.). to, 10 am. WI 4 p.a., Mr= 43116. 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