The Express. — London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

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Vera+n, 1 1 1,43 , r, X..arboorn, liurl4one, and J. Clarke, to.; Moadank, Thorne, Hughes. to. Tits frame, at 7. A WIDOW HINT. Kerr& Clarke, Iford. and Jo , e; Button and Ilattland BUILD fir TBZ 01 GOLD.—Yeaart. Thorne. June.. Boba,n, and F. nton ; Wes CiwiLll, to—And UOMICAL OJCSTE.,6 !ME WATER AT LONDON BETDOL —Wonting, al. blll AfterSIXIS. Mk. 4114 To-11.anow —Wareing, 01. tom Afternoon. sib .:: NOTICE!. 10Y10119 01 111111111, Yiauaon , sad Therms. see leCtllllll MN Ili o'er& tar insertion moo ors Moor. Pries t•. M. por LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23. . ONE WORD or IN seconding the nomination of Mr. exitowEtt at Oxford yesterday, Mr. NEATE addressed a somewhat superfluous admonition to the S RE TART of WAIL He warned Mr. CxnewEtt " not to over-rate the expectations of the " country." Surely this is not the besetting sin of Cabinet Ministers, to whatever party they belong. The expectations of the country are not, perhaps, so exalted as Mr. !CRATE would seem to suppose. The country has had too long an experience of a hand- to-mouth statesmanship to be very sanguine in its hopes of what even the most liberal government can accom plish. Blessed are they, said a cynical preacher, who expect nothing, for they shall not be disap pointed. In this respect at least the British people are twice blessed. But it strikes us as a dangerous doctrine to impress upon a government which has just come into power with a mejority of more than a hundred et its back, that it should not over-rate the expectations of the country. Happily the present Secretary of War has learnt statesmanship in too serious and practi cal a school, and is himself too well aware of his responsibilities to accept so singular a piece of advice ; and his colleague in the representation of the city of Oxford, Mr. Vtl:NoN 11.111COVIIT (whose name, by-the-bye. has ls•en too much forgotten in the lamentations of the Liberal press and the taunts of the Tory press at the exclusion from the new Parlia ment of the brilliant " Academic " leaders of the advanced party) expressed his dissent from Mr. News's advice with eq nal force and firmness. " I believe," he said, " there never was " a government of which the country formed such " high and such great expevtations ; there never " was a government which in the confidence of " the Sovereign and in the support of the people • • had such enormous power fur effecting that which " will be for the national advantage, and therefore "if the Government err at all, I hope they " will err in the direction of over-eetima " tine rather than under-estimating the " expectations of the country." The cheers which !entombed to this admirable sentence must have convinced Mr. NEATE that his " one word of " warring „ was misplaced and ill-timed. Perhaps it was only a sarcasm in disguise ; but mixed audiences are imapablet of appreciating such refined in my. Mr. VERNON H ft eveußT struck the true chord when he de clared his belief that "it would be a " profound and fatal mistake to suppose that the " attention of the nation is engrossed entirely "by the question of Ireland, or that the sympathies of the Liberal party are eoe " haunted by the queetion of the Irish Church. " The nation has Ranch larger hopes and lunch " wider expectatiemi, and in the inauguration of a household suffrage parliament, the country es - peels that the Government now in power will " give it a house hold suffrage, looliey; a policy that " shall mainly devote itself to those questions • • which affect the interests of the humbler portion •' of the community." Such is the advice to which the Cabinet Ministers will do well to listen with attention and respent; awl it may be reckoned among the good fortunes of the Liberal party in the roost deletions that Mr. Osinewitr.r. shonlel bays s colleague who osa speak well. In justike to lite 3[Aagrres bound to add that they appear concur with M. Viourox rather thaa with 11 NnATV , country has a right eameeti SicarrkitY of Irasatoi GU cato - ood the moll diacult tl of a statesman sincerely Liberal solved to give the British worth without respect of of pereonages. No office demands greater tact, discretion, all, greater force of character and of purpose than the department which has the Horre-Quards under its control. Somehow or other even in constitutional and parliamentary oountriea, the administration of the Army appears to be regarded as a peculiar perquisite, prerogative, or privilege ; and the control of Parliament is resented by the dispensers of patronage as an impertinence and almost as an act of treason against " the me " narchical principle." Evidently the hour has struck when this state of things must cease, and Mr. CARDWELL will not have over-estimated the expectations of the country, if, in concert with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCITEQUER, and with the WAR LORD of the TREASURY, he snakes his own revonsibility felt throughout his depart mental jurisdiction. His definition of the true principles of administrative economy is calculated to encourage the soundest hopes. Fast quaiionc (he said at Oxford) of the highest na. tional importance unilerl:e the whole 'abject of military expenditure. They are subject, of cardinal importance. requiring careful examination and deliberate ionsidera.- tion ; but I venture thus early to make this remark, that while there may be an economy that will starve the ser vire—and this would be an economy which, in dealing with the gallant defenders of our country, you would not desire and parliament would not approve—there is 'biotin economy which braces and invigorates, which seeks to expel from the system everything which would interfere with its healthy action, which gives a tone to energy, and which makes its pulses beat with vigour. (Chews.) _ _ The Dail mecum, ily There is nothing in this declaration of principles to which any military man, from the COMMANDER IN-CutEr to the humblest ensign in a marching regiment, can take exception. In justice to Mr. NEAT% it should be noted that (after a fashion of his own) he corrected his • asy-going advice to the SECRETARY of WAR in the most effective manner by two most unexcep tionable intimations, which all Army reformers will heartily approve :—" The country expects '• considerable reductions in the Army estimates, " and hopes that they may in the first iustauc• fall me " the more luxurious aid ornamental portions of the " nervier. More than this, the country expects not " only that the Army will be made more efficient, " hut that, so far as is consistent with its dis " cipline, an allenid will he made to ai,e its ,• , •ur! i " tutu a a snore pfluilar character." amply expressed on Monday. The —_ party la united ; the old intim @Mem animates it ; and it is girding itself up for • great work under leaders worthy of it, and capable themselves of great exploits. This result is due mainly to two =au— to Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright. Mr. Gladttoas in par liament and iu oftios, Mr. Bright ea the platform and in parliament, have re-united the liberal party, and rallied the tuition to it. TILL' parr's, The rote.. rays of Mr. Childers's promise to main tain the efficiency of the navy at a considerably re duced cost, and of his intention to nuke Use mamas thoroughly contented with their po.itiou, that this is pre cisely what the oounta7 wants, what has been said time after time to be perfectly practiosble, bet what, for all that, has never yet been accomplished. The fact that he is to be directly reversible to the crown and the country for carrying out the public wishes, and that those emaciated with him at the Admiralty have recognised and accepted the fact, seems to practically settle the administrative part of the question. The Tines does not regard the task which Mr. Childers has set himself.. an impossible one, although he has bean preceded by naval Women as sanguine to all appearance as himself who, neverthelese, left both the service and the setimates much as they were before. The present, however, is an exceptional opportunity for • zealous and determined minister. fle may rely open his colleagues for cordial co-operation, on a new parliament for ready support, and on the public for sympathy and approval Earl Spencer loft Althorp-ball last evening on hie way to Dublin, to be worn in is Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to-day. The noble earl will return to Althorp to-morrow. whether West. Sleety The Right Eon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. W. IL Gladstone, Dir., Mr. Glyn, M.P., with the pasty who bad aocompanied them to the hus tings, were sotertained after the election by Mr. W. La gerstein at Woodlands, Blackheath. Among the other guests were Lord and Lady Sydney, Bev. Dr. Miller, vicar of Onnawieli, and a select member of those who had worked at the late election. Ile only torts wan that of "Yr. Oladaton.,•• who was not lees happy in his brief reply than be bad been in his speech on the luistiege, end "Mr. and Mrs. Angentein," proposed by Be,. Dr. Miller. The Zen end bounteeeOf Yarborough aro enter isisiag employ id Brookhay. The Earl and Countess et Dudley are receiving a balk , party at Willey Hall. The Earl and Lidi Cloostance Orosvemor arrivpd in town yesterday from Cheshire, in order bhe present at the wedding of the Earl Perry and lady Edith Camp. Dell. The marriage of Vice-Admiral George Auguntits Eliott to Harriett Sophia, eldest daughter of the late Sir John West, 0.C.8., Aral of the Fleet, toot place on the 22rid inst., at St. Ostiriers Church. Warwick-square, Belgravia. The Chaplain-Omens] °Heisted, assisted by the Her. Brymer Belcher, incumbent. The Ladies Mary and Ida Fielding have left England to spend the winter in Rome. The Dub of Aberoorn joined the Duchess at CILIUM* on Thursday. The Dublin Irmo, is happy to be able to state that the health of the Countess of Mount F,dgcumbe has slightly improved since his grace left Dublin, although she is still in a very precarious state. AMERICA. though the NSW YORK, Duo. ra The North German Lloyd steamer America arrived out at 7 p.m on Monday, and the National steamship Queen to-day. Gold closed at 1341--the highest quotation during the day was 1351; the lowest 13 Sterling exchange on London, 1091; 6-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1101 ; ditto, 1886, 1071 ; ditto, 1866, 1091 ; 10-40 Bonds, 1051. Illinois, 143 ; Brie, 381. Cotton, Middling Upland, 251. Petro leum, standard white, 32. Flour, extra State, 6 dole. 9.)c. to 7 dot,. '.'e. Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 10c. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY E' ' IG , DECEMBER •-3 I I •.* 1 : N. . •2; ..„ - - ab ie ly' , *eh so • ....„ .. d str i vz o l ' 1 .• . • a : :liN NEWS. Noe \ g .w..0 f . SIT'S • act 410 ' • . i 4 / q, I 1, I eir : DAY.) ppear ..... .al hi elig folio , the w' of i 4, . • • - ' 4I ' Tie i ... • 2 " , ' oat yesterday r .larff advills Mire Jod 6 i itn. lie cod ' tend* .a • • ; and tree .. , ..- nee, as to what the' wisest °instance ail& 1. e moefilSo staliti Nand &mak Ws likorldhl, .'... led Mama nnorma eeffear.) Aof them. The office of manship for their suppression. Mna t ATHORNI rrkaull Li ma"' Pri . AMR EASTERN QUESTION.—PROPOSED l others the most deli- HARDY has taught us how • smatterer may Elie- Aru l t ewini viditid Priape tin ... 111 11 vioisr a l s " ,_,...., 1 Pn " .6 44 11 ", _Pri:le to e . CONFERENCE. that can fall to the lot lead the House of Commons, and how judgment dsy, and d wear rs nem — Z i l id asainot = throusit t r ~ 7 2 iki. VIENNA. Deo. 23. *rat and sincerely re- and discretion may be lost in • voluble waste of jog by m a j or .o enen dwub ri b m , 0.8., sa d t i,, pr t nc i pit It is stated that in oonsequenoe of a proposal taxpayer his money's words. We know enough to be frightened, but medical officers. made by Rossi& and supported by Prussia, a con- )f persons, or even not enough to provide remedies, and it is earnestly Their Royal lit ihneetel messed over in her Majesty's femme will probably be hold for the purpose of ) under the Crown to he hoped that forethought and anxious de- tat Albrellaesod were attended by Opuhtars arlhenthal, preventing a conflict between Turkey and Greece, liecretion, and, above liberation will be employed before any modifies- Count Flintmateia , Csisald Nom* sad Colossi ilPhis , Astoria is inclined to agree to the proposal, and it &meter and tenacity tion of the law is parsed. is not unlikely that Italy will also consent, though rtmont which has the A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the whether the same views will be held by the xontrol. Somehow or OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Foreign-office. The Ministers present were the Western Powers end the Porte is not yet posi- id and Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancel- ti ve ly k nown . parliamentary 'bon of the Army (THIS DAY.) tor, the Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Bart of Kim- tariff, the Right lion. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of AMERICA. a peculiar perquisite, ,—__ Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. 0 ; and the control TEE LIBERAL PARTE. Cardwell, the Duke of Aran, the Chancellor of NEW YORK, Deo. n. The North German Lloyd steamer America ed by the dispensers The Daily News observes that although detail, are the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, arr i v e d out at 7 p.m on Monday, and the National , r ti nen oe a nd a l mos t neceassiily reserved, the spirit of the new government is the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. ~,,,.;„.„,f r .. the mo . amply mewed in the speeches delivered yesterday and Gorchen , the Marquis of Hartington , and the stel mobil) Queen to-day. „7,7=;: „„ 1 ,,,„. 1 ,„„ on Monday. The liberal party le united ; the ad awn,. Right Hon. C. Fortescue. Gold closed at l34l—the highest quotation THE NORAL OF THE NIGHT HOUSES. A TRIAL held yesterday at the Guildhall gives an insight into the inner life of the Haymarket night-houses, and furnishes a useful corollary to the remarks we recently made. The plaintiff was SARAH Immo, the keeper of a cigar-shop and restaurant in the Haymarket, and of whom her own counsel remarked "the less said about her " respectability the better." The defendant was a man of 60, of good means, who according to the evidence spent his days and nights in Haymarket society, and who had as it was alleged borrowed money and a seal-skin cloak of Miss LYONS. It was for the injury said to have boon done to this cloak while in his possession, as 14..11 as for the sums advanced, that the action was brought, and the deliberations of the special jury resulted in a verdict of nominal damages on the first count, and for the money claimed in fall. The life led by Mr. Isa•rose, the defendant, seems to have been as miserably pro fligate as could be well conceived. He took the woman LiroNs and another person to Greveseud, where be squandered money among porters and waiters. He accompanied the same pair to Margate, to theCantta bury Ilall,toWoolwieh, and elsewhere, in all caws spending money lavishly, and in some borrowing of his female companion fur the waste ful purposes of the hour. He had spent thousands in debauchery and riot, and the seal-skin cloak had Is en lent him as a covering when his clothes hail been torn off hie beck in a Haymarket row. JANE Wool), who " had not beau a servant to the night " house-keeper, but had made herself very useful •' to her," deposed that she " had frequently put " this same cloak on gentlemen who were not able " to go to their homes in consequence of being " worse for liquor," a significant testimony as to the habits of Miss LYoNs's customers, and the character of her home•. The defendant maundered so pitiably while giving his evidence, that the jury recommended be should be put under some supervision ; but Mr. Justice iIANXXN ex plained that this could not be legally done ; and it is quite possible that the poor sot may be found drinking and squandering in his old haunts to-night. Such are the deeds and such the victims by whom night-house keepers thrive. Is it too numb to ask that their dens shall be put effectually, as they are theoretically, under the police Fools, drunkards, and prolli gates there will always be ; but society can at least avoid giving tacit encouragement to those who pander to, foster, and batten on the, lowest vices and most deplorable weaknesses of thoir kind. PA UPERISM. DR. STALLARD'S paper on Pauperism is well timed, and Mr. Sam r. MoRLRY'S remarks, during the discussion that followed it, that more " heart' is wanted in the administration of the poor-laws express the convictions of most inquirers who have made the subject their earnest study. But the mean between the kindness which pouperipos, and the hard and fast official line which treats men and women as machines, is not easily reached, and few domestic subjects will come before Mr. GLADSTONE'S Government which will require more delicate ti( atment than the present working of our poor-lawn. The metropolis alone furnishes material for comprehensive legislation. The ratepayers are naturally indignant and alarmed at the operation of that famous juggle Mr. HARDY'S Metropolitan /fill ; and we venture to say that a sterner and more serious spirit of dissatisfaction is abroa 1 than has been the case since the Poor-law Amend au et Act was passel more than thirty years ago. For the parishes have boon capriciously treats (I, the poor-law department has notoriously fallen short of its duty, and in spite of the well meaning efforts of individuals it is felt that matters are going back rather than progressing. Dr. STALTARD'S last contribution on the subject is useful for the discussion it has evoked and will evoke ; and though exception has been taken to some of its inforeneee it may yet be soon that its author is as capable of defending an as ailed posi tion as of establishing a new one. We are, how ever, inclined to donbt whether anything short of Tins 111.100110:1 erseniss. Looking at all the election speeches of Monday the ell rariser is inclined, on the whole, to form • cheerful anti cipation. The main work of ministers lies just in front, and must be disposed of before any other work is touched. When, however. the questions relating to disendowment and disestablisbment have been derided, the question as to the disposition of the revenues will still remain to be determined. The Adrertivr cannot submit to bo told. "We will talk of that 1.01110 other day." The appropria tion of those revenues is • foremost point in the contro vi ray. The money may be put to a better use than it has been; but it may also be put to a worse use. Renee our iitemporary wants to know what the use is t•i be. before it can decide whether to go forward or to stand still. TIM POLITICAL ISTELIJOIIIICK OP OREAT TOWNS. The Timis examines Mr. Bright's theory respecting lb.) political intelligence of great towns. propounded in the statement that in the most important contests of o 1r national bistoty the great towns have ever been on the bide of progress, and that their representatives hare been ranged in support of liberty in opposition to injustice and exclusive prix gee. The TOMS disputes the propnvition end refers., in support of its ricw, to the great towns of the United States to which the liberal politician does not look with the greatest reliance. It will, indeed, not b 3 denied t , y any one who knows America that in the United States the great towns do not land the way in political progress; it is not in them that majorities are first won in support of beneficent legislation ; but the leaven of new opinion deposited with the territorial democracy of the agricultural communities spreads among them first, and subsequently leavens the commercial and manufacturing towns.. On the other hand, however, the Tunes admits that in Franco as in England the great towns have boon the nursing mothers of freedom, and that it is by their eneny and their judgment the victories of emancipation from tyrannies) privileges have been win and secured. TILE MIIIII cnt-atm. If the Liar were asked how the minority which pro tects the Irish establishment is to be conquered, it would reply, by good general administratiou. Such a mini.try as Mr. Gladstone has formed, constructed upon such prin ciples as 1w has after three years' deliberation adopted, may easily make itself indispensable to the felicity and 'Tog rem of the nation. INNOICINO DI RAILWAY CARR( %OM The Doily News point• out that the oval of mom smoking improperly, and of improper accommodation being pro vided for smokers, is that it places an already opyremed class at additional disadvantage. The man who cannot smoke deserves more sympathy than is popularly accorded to him. A remedy for the present evils would be found in a friendly coalition wrong the smokers themselves to pot down smoking elsewhere on the line than in the car riages set apart for for it. An association to report to the company all cases in which non-smoking carriages had been profaned might embrace both smokers and non smokers in its ranks ; and if curtain conviction wore to follow all offences we may be sure they would speedily eerie. Till 7111100-01FICIAN =AIM- The l'bat mays the true question at issue between Turkey and Greece is whether the llellenic government hone,tly observel the obligations imposed on them by neutrality . ; and novo can have any hesitation in declaring that they have not. The Porte has nothing to do with the consti tution or the municipal lawn of Greece. If it is attacked persistently by Greek subjects, it is fully entitled by the law of nations to make Greece responsible. The Telegraph has reason to believe that Prussia has proposed a conferenoe of the great powers for the settle ment of this quarrel. Whether or not the proposition be practical in the present juncture, it certainly deserves most serious consideration. The only way in which the ultimate certainty of a European war tan be avoided soma to be the attainment of some definite understanding between the great powers ; and such an understanding might possibly be the result of an international magma Yet the Telegraph can hardly behave that the present time is favourable for the convocation of a general con gram. The relations between the several members of the European commonwealth are so oomph= and delicate that it would be difficult to treat separately any of the so-called questions of the day. The Reread remarks that the Turkish goverment need not have recourse to hostilities to punish Greece foe her outrageous conduct. A month or two of nos-intereoures win starry the Weeks into a recognition of their dotal, and a vigilant guard of the Cretan coast far the mains time will extinguish the last embers of the revolt. Maki), therefore doss not want to go to war with Grws, and will not do so unless limas should attack her. In that sass all the disasters (lame may sustain will be of her own rocking, and her ruin and humiliation will give her no title to sympathy. ROYAL ACADMIT OF Mown—The oomppeetition for the Potter Exhibition and Westmorland Babolarship took plus on Saturday la s t, a t the institution in Tenter demetreet, Hasiour-squaro, the examiners being _lbe Principal (Professor liternehde Densett), Mr. G. Mao tenon, Mr. W. A. Coldrus, Mr. F. E. Co:, and Mr. H. 0. Lunn. The residtswere as follows ;—Potter Exhibitioa. Miss Mary E. Christian, elected; Mies Pooktiegton, own. mended. Westmorland Moholarship.--kfin itubooon Jewell. elected ; Mira Fanny Lanham, highly ooanneudeil; aoode and OW, commended. SOCIAT. AIONXIATION.—On Monday a nierting of this aesuciation took pJa ne at the Vi'ltittioa Club, Arandel.street, Mimed, w Dr. Stallard rata him paper " Pauperism, Cllmity, Mid time Poor Imre." The chair wee taken br lifortay, lf.P., and then, was a good aquiline at smelkee. On the motion of Mr. Mill, eseandeill by eke alistmontt, the Mar we. referred to a esesdalltee, and thireseltell was requested to take such saser m =sy sa Weses bed to obtain Inform to the poor lawn An ani mated Memeslon talioweil, width we. suatually ad journed to Monday, Jan. 4, at omen o'clock. YR. JODY STVART KILL AND WO.V6NS SUFFRAGE. Mr. Mill hue writtten the following lotto- in reply to one from M. Priscilla IPI-eren, the President resident die Edinburgh Branch of the National Society lo Women's Suffrage: " Avignon. Dec. 12, IsM. '• Dear Madam,—Few things could be more gratifying to me than 1t... letter with which I have been honoured by you and y. ur committee, and I beg you to accept and to convey to the committee my warmest acknowlolge merits. Of all my rceol!ections connected with the House of Commons. than of my having had the honour of being tie f.,:t to make the claim of women to the suffrage a parliamentary question is the most gratifying, as I believe it to have been the most important public acre sire that dresimstanees made it in my power to render. lhia is now a thing accomplished• and the ranee has a suftieient number of supporters among the hest me in the Home of Commons to sorry on as much of the contest as can be conducted there. It rennin.; for the intelligent women of the country to give their moral support to the men who are engaged in urging their claims. and to open the minds of the less intelligent to the fact that political freedom is the only effectual re medy foe the evils which most women are conscious aAt women suffer. Whatever power I may have to promote this cause outside the House of Commons I shall not fail to exert to the utmost. Your mpreseion of sympathy with my feelings, and approbation of my conduct on the subject of the Jamaica atrocities. are pculiarly grateful to me, for it has been with rape .111 sorrow that I Lave seen ro many women cold and unmoved at the recital of suffering. which at might have been supposed would at least have aroused some womanly pity and generous indig nation against the perpetrators. ft i, peculiarly among women, who are not aware that it is their duty to use their intelligence on matters of politics, that the severest condemnation of Mr. Eyre and hie Instruments should have been found; for if such women had premised the warmth of heart which all women ought to have, their feelings would have revolted at the torturer indicted, and they would have considered the ' by which these were attempted to be palliated as bey their pro vince. As it is, the conduct of so many among them has afforded one more evidence that the renunetation of mass cuhno intelligemeo gives no sociality for womanly kinduess. I am, dear madam, very sincerely yours, . • . '•I. S. Mitt. "Mn. ll'Laren, Newington House, Ediuburgd Till FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART.—The drawings of the students belonging to the Female School of Art for the year 1887-8 were exhibited at their gall ea 7 in Oueen-square. Bloomsbury, yesterday. Some idea of the undulates of the institution may be gathered from the circumstance that 80 Andante sent up works for inspec tion to the annual exhibition at South Kensington this year, of whom 14 obtained prizes, while the drawings of eight were selected for the national exhibition. Of the latter two obtained national Queen's prises, and one a national bronze medal. The Queen's gold medal was awarded, specially in the department of applied design, to Sarah MMiregor, fur designs in lace and church decora tions. The drawings by due student were submitted to the Quee n's inspection, who purchased a study of flowers as a mark of approbation. Alice Militia Manly, late pupil teacher iu the school, who last year cerried off the Quer y medal, has been admitted • student of the llopilAcedinny. There ate now four free students in the school, two of whom are also pupil teachers receiving allowanoes. These fne studentships are nut limited in number. bid are ob tainable by all who have paid the full school fees for two consecutive Fours*, and taken a certificate of the third grade. Amongst the works conspicuous for their merit were studies from life by Julia Pooock (who obtained the first and second vacation prize), and similar subjects by Alice E. Manly and Jane Sabine. In flower painting comaiderehle proficiency is displayed by Emma Newsom, Alice Htawebe Ellis, Alice Lucke, and Maria Jacobs, all of whose have contributed favourable speed. mess et their blest in this peculiar branch of art. In the elesmastary seelien t _Hrelli Austin, Mary Ann Holdback, Elbahsth Loma, Illeashe M'Arthur, and Kate Mosby exhibit &whip of mush samik brimages shading from the cost sad the flat. The inhibition was visited throngs. out the an, by a peat . amber et peresos. who appeared to Mho muds Melrose la the perms nimble the_parpils. LORD MALMEII3I7Rff ON THE WOIRTWO At a banquet Peen at Christchurch, es Monday evening, to Sir R. D. W the dedsalsil emmerative candidab, the Teri of the toast ot the work ing men of Magland. csbe bag bow a party, as am of WA Mik w isae rissessed, L li ti a Vt sad it wa it Pri artz at t re y last eleel aid l relt ire lra rasa of Christchurch exercised that privilege. His end Woman 'Doddered the great and - important relorm whoa 11/M4, Lord Darby brouAt a WO for the reads of the ropraerataties of cZiiThat bill failed, _se l padid three or four others in by other isa rties, could bemuse they sot agree as to the precise amount at which the fram able *odd be given. It soon awned to him to be fast appsegeiiag a perfect fares when there was so much qu se to a W., 81., 7!., 61., 81., and even a 4/. metal er realm. (Hear, hear.) The Haan. Bill of 1033 fixed a positive lbe--101.--and by this mesas the middle dams% The WOO Mae of thepf i vi g elelthe ldriP fraalhise. eamisd ihe quibbling, =tom W. dews to M. In later times booms so becievenleit that It was felt no such test should be bid down, and that the humble" should be at owes given to all who paid the rates, and therefore had some interest fn the taxation and in the conduct of the affairs of this mushy. Thum It was that the conservative . goveroksoct for the brat time proposed and carried household suffrage. When he . 4 The Working Men of litoglard," and he maw of them were in that room, he congratulated fhb as If he were their godfather,and had given them what aid not poems before ; tad it was with the greatest lion that he sew them before hlm, sot as men bilks! oleo the dames above them, Doi cat to the laws et the uty, but showing by their ronduet that they were ready to support those laws, and would meddle will them oily] to improve them. (Clasen.) WAREHAM R41107T0N.-43LORN OF TII3 Dralt (C), 871 ; Cabral (L), 303. Tint HRIIICOUITATION • off NOITINGUAIL— Colonel Wright, _ eopervitho member for Nolelneham, hewen to Do local moire dada, that it Is his loten to tulip his wet abbey secoust of 111-heeith. . OUR PARIS LETTER. (WWI OUR 01111 PAIiI S, TVICIDAT Emu:tn. The Pigh/k, which, under the direction of M. Dreolle (late editor of the Petrie), now passes as the principal organ of 3d. Rouher, says, while echoing the ified d'ordre given to the semi-official press to-day, that there are no despatches of im portance about the Tureo-Greek conflict, and that the matter has entered upon a diplomatic stage, "It is affirmed, however, that the Ottoman Cabinet has required the Egyptian Government in the identical terms used towards Servia and Rou mania, to expel the Greek inhabitants of its territory." This grave news, contradicting by implication an assertion that no such measure as that alluded to had been taken in regard to Sorvia and Roumania, i 8 qualified by several telegrams asserting that on the suggestion of England, Turkey has consented to suspend the expulsion for three weeks. The Public also says that the Marquis de la Valette's circular on foreign affairs WAS settled yesterday, at a very long conference with the Emperor, following an unusually short sitting of a council of ministers, and that it will Probably be issued to-day or to-morrow. This intelligence is exciting to read, but I find the Temps and the Joarnut dr Paris coinciding in the information, that the circular instead of giving any key to the policy of the French government. will confine itself to notifying the change of ministry. This reticence, pays the (Gazette de Fran , e, will show M. de In Valette's wisdom. Ho probably knows no mere than anybody else what is going to happen. In France the Emperor proposes and chance disposer'. The tint act of the litigation occasional by the severance of the government conuection from and after January 14 next with the existing Mnsitrer, and the creation of a new Moniker in it's place, came off yesterday in the Tribunal of Commerce, The plaintiffs, MM. Panekoule and Co. are, it is not disputed, the proprietors of the Arena , ler U,. ear/ft/which has existed with that title ever since 1759. It is also an adulated fact that, notwith standing the determination of the government to withhold official documents and communica tions from that paper. it will still have a property in its title the Mouiltur Under that title it proposes to go on as it private journal. The government, without contesting this right. has made a contract with the defendants Wittersheint and others for the publication of u new paper to be called the Moni eur 0_4,44. The plaintiffs claim a property in the word " Moniteur," and say the word propoeed to be appended, " offieiel," will not sufficiently dis tinguish the forthcoming publication from their Moniker reiterel. Counsel for MM. Penckouke and Co. observed that the public knows of but one Moniker. and asked the puzzling question t which of the two rival olli.cs letters ad dressed after January 1 sinq.ly to the editor of the .Voo deur will be deliver*. I That the N. *deur has been almost time out of min 1 the official organ of the French government had, be contended, nothing to do with the question. All the time the government merely hired the use of a certain quantity of space in a newspaper which was just as much a private concern as any other. If the government now chose to patronise another paper, it had no right to trespass upon the goodwill of an old property. All the legiti mate circulation which must necessarily be at tained by the paper containing the earliest infor mation which the government desired to publish would be attained quite as well under a new title. The plaintiffs' paper was not to suffer on account of the vulgar error that the word AVM ittur exclusively belonged to the French government. The advocate cited as precedents injunctions granted against the "Constitutionnel of 1830," as beings piracy of the title:of the then ex isting Conefihdion net; against the Journal (1011 Pr titre AAA(' Diurues et Noetariaes, as interfering with the Journal des Petite. ,Apiehes, and against the Proyn , :e de Paris, which was adjudged to bo a title infringing the acquired right of the Progris I de Lyon. On the other side it was contended that the addi tion of the word " officiel" was quite sufficient to distinguish the new, and henceforth only official ifeeikeir from the Monikur Caivereel. Such a pretence was entirely norel. There ex isted a great many Moniteurs, all founded subsequently to the Moniteur Ushers!. There was the Mouiteur d. r ArtnAe, the Monitetor de la Rolle, the Musiteur dee Clinisiniers. do., &0., and the idea of contesting the right to these titles had never occurred to the plaintiffs. Judgment in this curious case, which will go farther, is postponed till Monday next. The Bourse was much firmer to-day. Relate rose 17io. for cash, and 270. for amount, closing at 69fr. 85c. and Oh% 92&e. Mdme. Patti left Paris on Monday for Brussels, where she will appear to-morrow night in Lorin, oa the 26th in the Airtime", and on the 26th Ia Ara. She is to sing this last is French. Oa New Year's Day she is sa laaming! fee • :orientation at Leiria at Li4ge. Tax EYPXROII NAPOLION AID Ma. COWIN.— We are requested to state that ram the depuhmtioa trom the at. Passes Cobden Mentarial Committee whisk walled= tie FrepareAshoreedler to present, through him, hm the &apses at the Fransh a swiss et resolatise and el the 4 lbe Insegmaelien el Os slata• at ' la reosseillea of_his Ille's &wogs of I, 2m t were lie Mew W. C. uros, D.D., ag=6. orth Looks Odligiate &heal, who was wed bo l o ea the commiew, wed Kr. the bosomy secre=threegh whose manythe slats has been - yr! IIUr" ~~ LONDON 7k. plus WIINUFG.) TIELATIMIL A is Um> Hark." " LAAA.'• maid ply me seed your wife to Coolkr*,ll.• Oarstrso.- 0 11kidart rd Cesehee." "The Yellow py ar „," —f Veldt Qoann's.—" T e Lannitair• Lem" " The Stew., st. n ., e , Van anst."-1 dome. 100 piartieulais sr« advt. evaaso.—" The Widow Hunt." "The Fluid nl tkr• 0. 444 Odd." "A Quaked Countass."—l Pining ow Wauttes.--.Talie Oats." "Who 80,4„ TJe Vdoeic. ROTALTi.—" A Loofas Cop.' " 7b aad Poll of 1t.,L, 1 III." " 11.• Cleansing's MC"— TAO o'doek. Owes.—"Oead for Tieekdeg." "Cyril', dnowan." -I k OA iterr.—" The Two R alloraquina." "On tlx • Carlo " le Liable." Two beta. ROTAS. •11.11111472/1. HOIJOIM. AVOID. Argos. etc.—Lie 0.4:04k. Ifocrnoo-.*u, PlooooluTv.-11;:Plecolog irmaL-11 o'clock. Castor, Itsawriaia, Dr. Jaaw•t o'v:nek. I tabus me Mn. Royal Putrrscama lawman' Toastau'a. gledzic Organ. be. COUNT BISMARCK AT BOMB. A letter from Stettin gives tr• following • „ of Count Bismarck and his estate at Pomerania "No one thought anything about that co the chancillor in 1887 bought his property then. tent the melancholy steppes which border the list. well frequented, and Yertzin is now spoken sf •• Bond was formerly. The railway from thii tots tr: Kaolin ought certainly to burn tapers iu hore,:a. : •et de Bismarck. Ilia rasidence is simply a grand -- I mansion, Puri and comfortable but without any a. m bald style, tie ideal of the dwelling of one ve •,• countryman :Ludt:mit I,osramsan. lu front bi a '., s out with great regularity; and further ou is a ! t-„ i.t which is well stocked with game. The count fr. , invitee the neigtibours to hunting riartbis, at on , oi; sr‘. he bad that fall last autumn which might hays pr... fatal to Prussia. The sea is about fifteen mile, mt. during winter the north wind mud be particularly k there. You will be astonished to learn that the propriet • of this domain is engaged in numerout oommerciai pm. suits. The minister of his Prussian Itsied.y edts manufactures tiles and brick-, and distil. ti.snil). 11 sheep-walks are renowned, and the proceed, •if the sL Mg are sought for far and near. One of these day, will hear that he is making paper, as he has entered • partnership with one of the principal men of n. Bolirend, to establish a factory where this arti.l- tit ; produced by • new process. I believe th.it tr.: , Bismarck and Behrend. is going to make their 1.. . • . from bark. The vast wood+ of Vartzin, Wu —ow, !... mite, and Charlottenthal, will furnish the raw in in abundance. Formerly, the first-name' plc a manufacturing reputation, as lure ries+ w 4 1 s , *is established there, but they are now alendi n. 1. . rount is without d6ulit a country squirt.. !, RLo icAse-ws pain.. In him do re is z t• pea-aut wish ki rude cu:Lninz hi' :V. ,, hi+ in ! energy. There is in hire somohn.4 ..1 the whiels is the antipodes of the Brenta whom hitherto known, almost a contr.tdutinn. M. 1 B I.a,.tnirly transfers. d lc a the pr.. na, and vice.ll , -, whicft aol P•111.'231, y matters of domotic and rural c. on it. It. t:. ust , iguse and Ceruistis tt• t.t way ..c• . • ae BAN 111.)T.IG J. , • • • •, 3Tr. Ease initiatttl the k.l •wm.: r. : minister, who has s.oaccially ! • extrroictliiswil.m,:ttess to pr0:,1 , . • (' between the Unitctl States au.l ing aware of the • ••:. • heen derived iu the Cud. d .: . Ireland bythe cheap rites of post . • •• tries, we take the liberty of askint y • aids ration of the adsaLtages wii.o .0 acerue Ly the e4abhaLrinut of a p. between the United States and the l•••• Allow us, therefore, to ask the favour eating with your government up n this 5..• assured of our services in sumsting to .• • meat the propriety of entering into all the . nsrisite tor wring practical eefeet to tlii• need not add that the results of cheaper is -7.... say not exceeding one penny. would :II • counnersial, and racrful largt . ly secured to both nations. We hare t.:.• be, sir. your faithful and ..be.lient -es sots. i.Signed Dr the members for Edinburgh. P now, Manchester. Leeds, Sheffield. Northumberland. Sus- x. Stoke, Wa:rin Hudder•field, Bradford. Halifax. Knared.:r I - ton, Bath, Taunton. Launorstoo. New..n.ti••• •:J•17• Suudelland, Northampton. From, Stafford, Paishi. Dundee. Oreenevk. eArtuartheu,!:::-.% A n King's County, r.iigo, Rexford. Wiekh.s. Longt e lrd, Ennis, Limerick, Band,u, and 1'........ ;• . If these hail been time to apply to every memler Bowe of C.. lumen,. there the etrouge-t nawu t.: tiering that not 3 signature woutl have Let:: held. HEALTII OF r..01:D BEL /LIVEN.—We reirer! t lean that Lord Belhaven is fast sinking. and uo ear,: thou of his recovery - is now entertained. hr. Wats, Edinburgh. and Dr. Phillips, of I.ondon• wore in Arcs. :• ance on Sunday; and in the prayers on that dav ann.. was made to has loriehip's state. His relativesbad telegraphed for, and are now at Wishnw-hou-e. 5C01..51110. ESTENstFIL Fe.f dna.— -For sumo time past the detective form at Scotland-yard, under Cie ilirection of IliArytt. Williamrm, resistAl by Sergeant Vahan., have ken busily occupied in tracing out a very earonsivo for gery %iron the Payola ter-General It A• • lwASs that a person of the name of 31'NIA. Lin. who situation as clerk in the Papuaster-fiencrafs offi.e. w charged wine months sinee.andortuthavepos-wised of ,1 , Uit • ..t the fords toed for aloes' pennon orlree;t.. •• one of them was presented in the early part of 0 ••• • last for the sum of Sir./. lSs. 3.!. in favour of . • Amin e, and duly paid by cheque on the thud' in i:n.; e i That elms quo was changed. and the notes -0 been distill-int= about at Birmingham. Bristol. i• and other pier.. where goods to a =di AM , •• been punts:4,l. Resides the man SPNl.,oion. • brother-in-law. Joireph Sullivan. is eea.. T : the transaction, and two others who Ate • in custody in London, viz.. Wa!ter itA . l. accountant living iu King-street. Birminglinm is• " liam Butler, his clerk. who lived in Court Sont • •• Birmingham. These men have ust been taken toil) by Sergeant Palmer ; an d it would appcor: • • the lath October all the four men mentioned wet- • Shades public-bonze, between eraven-stmt sill ll:: ford-budge when Ball handed Butler a red-lettered : anatoldinitogotothePaymaster-Oenerarsotliceiti - hall, and be would get a cheque from thereon tb. I;. of Fuglan.l in return. Sullifan and Ball had pro , been out of the room for a short time. Butler toqy form as he was airfeted, and it was pa , -od the hands of the various officials, who foun,l e s thing apparently correct, and a Cheque as above ,t.: was accordingly given. Ball and Butler went the Bank of England, and obtain. d note. , a 3.1 • ehanv for the cheque. They retuned to a emfee-ho near Liaceiftr-squars, and divided the proceeds. the pt.• Donor Butler being subesqsently rent so alreek narrated to various ,c parts of the country to disko of ihe sines. On the ptaoaee Butler's house being seareliol A note fee 201. and Tour for 61. were found, also a CAI watch Pur; chimed with another 201. note ; while to 1;•:11 w , re purchases of show, boots, shawls, arut ~ t her bought in Birmingham and paid for us s c. the wh of of whisk have boon tr aced to Proce"l' the cheque so feloniously obtained it has • to already mentioned that Ball and I:Aler ate custody, and will be forthwith brought before the po , • rnruse, but Sullivan and 11.31achin are trill at LIN.% iri a s understood, ars on the Continent. now to be but slight doubt that 11Plfacein has been the run: mover to the transaction, and from his knowledge official routine, and opportunity of proeuring the rvea':::' form, the instigator ; but bow far, if at all. their 11 + 41 "' any neglect or mismanagement to enable such s forgery to be so easily perpetrated on Ono O f the pos••". —indeed, the principal-- monetary department.. 4 the service will doubtless be elicited at the ins;L r e investigation. BVIROLLNY AT TB EY ATOX CASTLX.—A bard i • which is causing a large amount of excitement in and the neighbourhood. was conunitted late on Sot . , night or early on Sunday morning at Tnimatou ' nest Baltseh, the seat of Admiral Tucker. no slut ,a• - father and the admiral himself have been .. eolleet , " coins and Othif antiquities, which wee plead why' known as this "square tower" a building nuns' huts,' 1 yank distant from th e mar ., * part of the eddies. family and ssswants retired to bed late on Saturdar n A and on Sunday morning it was dimmest= that the of the "square tower ' bad been broken opsu vt.th ' crowbar. and a large number of the coins and artide. virtu slam No= of the pleb was emobed. the n"" * " for whist!s • mythic,. as Elba articles stoles wee* th e : lOWip be estai pseud. At the tires of the beia a aai lie wife, and am daeglitle• • at cerlb. . . • TM" M. It:. ''irecto ittil •Lot o ti. a t t u i a , to mod Its oil betirri WI Kr. that t 11"44. tun Alp o a tall bd ths ~id Mr. cam, !aim 4 say whoa. nythi Whin ost this "ealika Bri 1 4 14) :fat u rn , it ge m ! l e had •r