The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-05 00:00:00

. ~I J' v' ~~ 1 ~~r ~i L r r --- 0 t C t v preg. IR t c •• r •!. ,• • ' REC,v ' .1 ( - 0 .- -..' 46 NJ !1:367 • , ._ ._ . :E':. iJ.:.~_~ .~ .. ate.._ No. 6,371.] slot t Is. due. and noel YIW Raf anti Cheri 6. to new ,4;s. le. t.; was more eek. .cam/ light, corn rrade :Arley 7 'l. week. :rage. :rage. erage. stage. th good ere ]crate . holt Beef. n• lb. ; .apply 'thee ; Jul for very • there per l'urket 1 were per lb. - - - • ; kl FROM LIVERPOOL OR QVIEENSTOWN TO NEW YORK TWICE 1 1 WEEK. LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and 1 ,, I! 1)1 , 11111A ST EA M.s HI P COMPANY Intend de. loud %;•`.• th. Ir fullpowered i'lydr.hullt Iron Sawa Stouni.nlnpa. .rry.L.: tl.s I nit...l:UW.lnm* FRI PM LI V Eltrt it. for NEW YORK: I . I 1 I .1 , NEW 101:h, ‘tedn,..day, Jun. ft. 1.111Irt:Ich. suttu.l.l, Jan U. r I 1 lII' j3S , TON Wednesday, Jan. .1104 every We.ll , .•elay and rsdarday. Cabin f..1•141Ce by the mail steamers sailing every Wednesday. IL .id rl Olin.u, acc..reing to the accommodation. tucluues a full supply et cooked rrovicone. C.tuadd and the l - nittu 'dates t00k..) throuel , on .1,0.:..ue0us terms.—For turther urr:y to A..!.!.! \ tY , 21, Water street. Liverpool; and to RIVES oil 1I aCr.Y. 61. Kinn WlElanl - street. London. _ . f 11'N NI;D LINE.--BRITISH and NORTH , ' KOVAL 11111. 7 4 14,111 v.1111' , . appointed by • JR' to htsweet, LIS Iltl4loL and ?,LW YORK. • • 1.11 Pittllll l l. mot lae.TitN. the Boston strips calling • I.slal rrecire vitsckgrri and mails. The lut• t o Ung.ll to sail Isom Liverpool, ....I _ to reeilt, thi s, • .!..r,lsv. • I 1.1. IT 1.:1V -Atonlity, Jan V. , r nassait anti llovannah. to • • t: to .1 At 'sew 1.1 • - t to the wend...too ol the . .1 ..nthorstic‘ 1 the 11.M.5.5. CorStUL 11.1:11 1, for I:ir.l - 40,. Jall. 19. y, inellotha; stovArd s lee and provisions. hut olthoLt liquors , —Y•. 11.0.1tAs anti ltost.qt, chief rahin. T. , N., York. rblet rein, f. , :1 Ile ,- .41.1 taltin. 1:•, , —Apply hid Is. Foonl. At. Ohl !WNW-street. London: .1. St Havre, :slut debt lk.urse. Pans: G. and J. atrrrt. . U. and C. MAelver. Queue . w D. :Will: lativcr, J, Watemtrest, Liverpool. To IMPORTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping ..olpsidoe, and t uosignecs f Foreign Goods, by Steanta.ll r . r ..th.ru roe into the tort of Lo don.—The proprietors of 1., 1! , N P.m, batclift, and I pp, r Free Thule II hart, Dow lii.r 1 immes.strert. IiFFER FACILITIES to the te. niloruuttion may be obtained on application, by lett, r o. rum. to IL CLAY and Co., wherangen and were. bnia e . -Maces, 83, Upper Thasoeretteet. , 01 "Es, Furnished or i'nfurnisbed, LAND, ANFIs.SES V. ANTED. Al BAY MK nml en.. pent- A, Pm...lt-street, Grosvenor.evuare, W.— , svir according to ....runty. I • r K 1 N A lIAN' 8 . L fi DUBLI N xx 1 a ITI o l a x , ro., relehrated old Minn W Mull , / gained the DUBLIN mia; 7.11.-DA L —lt is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very ob. le.cice. sold In bottles, U. Sit each, at the retail houses In bte.1.41 I.y the agents In the principal towns In ...gland ; or wholesale at 0, Great Windutill.strvet, London, W. °foams the nd seal, pink label. end cork branded .. Linehan's LL Whisky.' ... rpE.tii CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 25., ~.! per pound arc the prices at which PRILLIPS and t.' i, r. hints. 7. King Wllthtmaiideet, t'ity, London. E.C. ae..c•linz u•—.l and line BLACK TEA. A price current post tree. Be. th c.irringe free to any railway elation or market town in the 1 ni4il Kingdom. (Ibsen r. —PHILLIPS and Co. hare no wits. to d' any connection with any house in Worcester or swan arc immiled at market privet. AVALUABLE NEW YEAR'S GIFT. - A CHIN Est. CADDY, containing Wilta of really good BLACK nt. arrisgt free to any railway station or nutrket town to kneLuol. Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, on receipt of 401, Dy 11111111'S and Co., tea merchants, 8, King Witham.etreet, City LONDON CARPET WAREHOUSE.—WAUGH 1.4 3and 4. Goodge4treet, Totteuham-courteruad, W. BROWN BROTHERS.—PATENT CRIME luid COI CHI 49, Barrack lundtare, Tninks, Pertimar Isms, at-, at y81e1 . 13 colttn).!ffamsty ItIDUCZD. 164 PIO ADII.LY. CaWspsfua FIELD'S PRIZE MEDAL PARAFFINS CANDLES (the Original la ad. pes lb. ElLLh's I'ATKNT sur-riTrING CANDLES, lu all area from la per lb. upwards. To be bad of all dealers. ASPGALTE ROOFING MT. .0 NKJ. EN Y per Syssre loot. CROGO 0 r snd Co., Manufactures. 4 63, New Earl-street, t , 134, Bread street • ^ • -• AO, George-square, Glasgow. i. Gareillams. LlvsepooL MI" D I E'S SELECT LIBRARY.—NOTICE.— The NEW YEAR'S tins of the Principal Books hi circa lath.. RIO at bindle's Select Lltriary are NOW READY, vol will I.e forsardial postage free on appllcation.-1111 - DIVS SLLI. 1.111R.11:1 1.1init.0.1,, New Oxford-greet 414,1 wake. 4. Clie.ipside. UDIES SELECT LIBRARY.—First-dale sulroriptlnn fora constant suet:eaten of thrown& Books Guinea p, r annum. Prospectuses poetowe tree on applica tion —MI I)I SY.LECT LIBRARY (Limited), Sew Word- Street : City entre. 4, King-street, l'hespelele. HYAM and Co.'s ATTIRE. H YAM and Co., 641 and 67, OXFORD-STREET. HYA.Id and Co.'s WINTER OVERCOATS. HYA NI and Co.'s SILK-FACED OVERCOATS. HYAM and Co.'s REEFERS. HYI3I and Co.'s SUITS. II YAM and Co.'s MORNING COATS. 's I H IAM and Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE. 17U. mora ls day vf last ILu i - ty r rested, as last 0, 84. Ei Lid ro do., HYAM and Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. HYAM and Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. Hl' 4M and Co.'s LIVERIES. HVAM and Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. 11 . 1-.l_'N and Co.'. ATTIRE for GENTLEMEN, ,Wilmer 7 Oxford-street, London. ihrtt and eit Tweed overcosts fa to 30a. 11)-in snit ro ', Winter Overcoats Hymn an-I I 4..:11M inter Reeler 2ss. to Ms. Ilystn ii .l I 'CA Winter 6UitS as. to 70.. Hymn snit I"..'s ts niter Jackets 2le. to Its. ~) on awl l'ii.'s Winter Frock Coats . ... .. H em sn.i N inter rests... Hymn an.l Winter Trousers to 14s. to 255. lIYAM and Cm's BOYS' WINTER CLOTHING, Gr. and CI., r hf.r.l.street, London. Thn krit ii.dablidinirnt in Cu kingdom for Juvenile Clothing. Kir.' 'ism:von:Lan lemmas I. Ivan. ii Altri.l Evefer lss. Od. to 30e. (Id. 1L.,: tot, r outs (..r Little (toys loe. (Id_ to son Oti. i:iii .li 1.. b.. rimali.l ' , nits 1...., . lv tniinster and usi,isne knits iLs. Od. to 3U. Od. It.il ..' 1.1... 1 !15m..., and !Noy ! , nits Itots' .10, kid. lot ii.inini and liorne Ps. lid, to Ma Od. _ I ,„ . y.‘maii.l Co.'s SELECT DEP .kRTNfEN'I'S. . I. ~,rdlerr.en's Clothq.g for immediae wear. 5,.13 .. 1 lle•poke or ord er Deparment. ~ ttla and Youth! Diedinet Depart men t. 5.032 „ 4 11.4:6, COS, 11. awry, and Outfit Department. H YA C o . 'e And Co EST kIiLISHM ENTS. Ai 1.0 Id, s —.A and 0;7, OX tY FRDSTREET. Li F. I I NGHA M-41, 22. and NRW-81111:17. F BRIGGATE : and rife •f itV—WESTO ATE. „......._ d, the .11-11 ti OW I AD IT II k 3 BEEN —NEGEETTI ai.d . ‘NII;CA's celebra. ted IllEfalfilll. - TElt.i will Coe rife of cud fet tly r..;111, : the lowest temreratore, Price 3e . ltd. 1, Hatton ,. .••• , Inhill , 122 1 . 1, -nnt.street . and IS3, Fleet-street. D wife L i lo-trate+ If . to 00. :lie Matte .LARtern, and obtai n t h e heat effects. I 4 ite by the , to r ß em rtt f thr IA tier ,f the C 111:1S1 Ni AS PRES ENTS and NEW YEAR ' S it,,u I f..r all who court t h e gay and festive scenes.— Ike hair I s s. s. 0. M all At'ApiciA rece dkt L, ent OI R a presery ds er Kalydor and nakutityer of .powlan' . tor imPart he a toban• bloom t o th e comp l ex i on , and a softness and dri ft.) the ',hal. anus, and neck. Rowlands' odoeiL., or pear ince. t"r ...bleu a pearl-like whitener to the teeth and t• t.. hrtals The patronage of royalty throughout • • ilo .• use by rank and fashion, and the unlver - i•ea, y of these articles, glee them a eelebrity un -1,4 'e•l Id by chemists and perfumers.—Ask for Kow- Mad. art' , DR. SC. aTT'S BILIOU S and LIVER PILLS , a fa, • • I.illnit remedy, prepared without any mercurial weredient, s• I found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious kW hoer e Aunts. indigestion, wind, sperm, Idildlnews, 'ft Of dfaai th•• %, a, etc. Yor habitual costiveness, as a family inntent m. • . int and u a purifier of the blood, they are truly meellent • it, Ito their operation and grateful te the stomach, OUT cre.tu sppetitei. Promote d and 'inseam the th'is r..ra. systent-Bold by W. Lam thwart.% gJag illiti.st, • tarring-roes, and by moat d rug tins, bozo" h 114. .am cave times the quantity In one Id. Be sure to tin for br. s• • tit Harm and Liver Pith. The genuine are in a l '"dv greei seksige, with "Witham Lusbert" engraved on the • - -- LL t'v HO SUFFER from INDIGESTION A. should use NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILL& Sold t• NORTON'S Bottka, 21 . 101 L. and II& 11, of Marl ,Mrs c. T. Apo. o. 8. t the HRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James Hall, C Piccadilly, EVERY EVENING, at 8; Wednesdays and Saturdays, 3 and S.—Great success of the Holiday Programme, which will le repeated until further notice. Company inewased to 3: performers, Novae, Adams, T. Mudge, Crocker, Ritter, Pedro Stirling, Japanese Tommy, and Hr. Richard Davis, the Christy's Eight star Comedians, and their powerful Vocal and InStruuteltal Ltand 7 the talk of London. . „ FaUtentl., as. • stalls, as. ; arcs, the. : gallery, le : Juveniles under 1. , . hall price to stalls and area. Tickets and plates at Mr llatellelts Library. an, Ohl Lond•street . Mown. Prowse, Cheapaide : and at Mr. Austin's Ticket Unice, Mr. FREDERICK MI:WM% Manager. QTODA RE'S (Madame, Widow of the late Colonel THEATRE et NINTERY. EUMIAN-HALL, Piccadilly. Illusion, '• WHERE Is sIIE t" will shortly be produced. QTODA R E (Madame). Great success of ilirS IIE:" the funniest Ventriloquist in the World. t W JestiT and Madame st.slarv'a CHRISTMAS DISTRIBU TION of IltlisliNTS. Magic. by 11r. Firbank Burman, pupil of I olonel nn.lare. "sphinx." Marvel of Mecca," and 'lltasket Trick." EVERY EVENING at s, Wednesday and Saturday M.•ruin¢r at 3—Admission, Is. and 25.: stall., Ss.: schools and children at half-price .Meats secured at the lUils;Moe, from 11 till and at Mitchell's, 34 Old Road &tract. —Mr. JA.M.113 Wray ER, )1 an ager. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High Hollsons.—This very elegant and spacious establishment haring linen entirely redecorated, OVEN E% ER V' EVEN I NO. The grand Nth& conducted by Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform nigh try a choke selection of operatic and dams music. Open at Mid point e . close at It Admission. Is. HAVANA SEGAR AGENCY, 2, Canute-road Docks, Southampton, and 77, REOENT-STREET,LONDON two doors from St. James's Hall'.—The proprietors draw attem Hon to the success which has attended the establiahment of this agency, and which has resulted in the supply of their imports- tams to many of the most Imp o rtant clubs hotels, and private I cousunicrs in the kingdom. The stock offered to the attention at connoisveurs comprises nearly SOO kinds of the choicest productions of the most celebrated Havana manufactories, and Is the finest selection of Havana wars at present existing in Europe, the whole teing the exclusive importation of this esta blishment from its agents and resident buyers in Havana, who, from bung experience, exercise the greatest cure in selecting only the finest brand. and sorts, and who ship the same direct to the warehouses In the Southampton Docks. Than advantages enable the proprietors to supply (JUAE.ANTEED HAVANA SOUS ss, wholesale and retail, at prices lower for the respective kinds thou it is possible for other houses to quote, Terns, cash, or an undoubted Introduction. Prospectuses on application to the proprietors WoLLT, PHILLIPS, and Co. Havens Semir and Counnisdon Agency, Southampton, mid 77, VAlentstreek Loudon- THE SUNDAY GAZETTE, THREEPENCE. THE SUNDAY GAZETTE, TURZUENCS THE SUNDAY GAZETTE, TUREEPKNCE THE SUNDAY GAZETTE of TO-MORROW wM contaln'apealal Intellialince ot pest public Interest and Importance. PRICE THREEPENCE. 1111 HE SUNDAY GAZETTE can be bad ot all Nene Agents to the vicinity of London by 9 o'clock, and at the Mee, 18, Welllngton-street, Strand, THE WORKING MER'S COLLEGE. The Christmas converaazione of the Working Men's College wee held last evening in the rooms of the institution, Great Ormond-street. This college was founded in the year 1854. The greet majority of the students are working men, and the teachers are, as a rule, either metubers of the universities , and of different liberal professions, or men who have themselves been students in the college. The purpose of the institution is to unite these classes together by associating them in the common work of teaching and learning. It provides instruction at the smallest possible cost (by mean. of unpaid teachers) in the subjects with which it is most desirable that English men should be acquainted, and thus endeavours to place a liberal education within the reach of working men. Nor has the attempt been hitherto unattended by success. Since the close of the first terra the number of students has in creased from 145 to 509. This increase of numben has rendered necessary a corresponding increase of accommodation ; and at the present moment the operations of the institu tion are greatly ,cramped for want of larger and more suitable buildings. In the year 1857 the hired house in which the college was first established was found too small, and the large freehold house flaw occupied was purchased, with its garden, for 1.5001., of which 1,0001. was raised by loan, and 5091. was generously presented by the princil, the Rev. F. D. Maurice. The debt which was so created has since, by savings from the current Mame and unso licited donations, been reamed to 4001. Now that serious hindrance is again experienced from the want of space, the committee have determined to erect upon the ground be hind the existing house a suitable building, containing a room or rooms for the art department, to super sede the rooms now occupied by the drawing claws, which are entirely unfit for the special purposes of an art school ; • moderate sired hall for general meetings, lectures, and social gatherings ; a room or rooms for the adult school, which has been found to be a valnable ac cessory to the college ; a room for a museum, which should also serve as a natural history clam room ; and a few small rooms for classes and general purposes. The site being already secured, the committee have been ad vised that such a building as this can be erected in a plain, but good style for between 3,0001. and 3,5001. ; end to raise that amount they have determined to appeal for the first time in the history of the undertaking to the general public. About 1,0001. has already been raised, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales costributing 25 guinea,, and Professor Maurice, the principal, 100/. ; but about 2,5001. more will be needed to complete the work. Although the weather last evening was by no means favourable to such a gathering, there was a good muster of students and their friends of both sexes, ancl many of the gentlemen engaged in the work of teaching were present during the whole or part of the proceedings. Almost all the rooms of the college were devoted to the reception and entertainment of the guests. Tea was served in the library ; the rooms usually occupied by the drawing classes were hung with a collection of sketches executed by students in the art school ; and the principal class rooms were devoted to the general entertainments of the evening. These rooms, which in old times were the drawing or receiving rooms of the mansion, had been tastefully and effectively decorated for the occasion by two of the stu• dents. In this work a liberal use bad of course been made of the evergreens, without which at this time of year no chamber decoration is complete; but in addition to this the walls were hung round with coloured shields, bearing the names of celebrated poets, historians, artists, philso pliers, &c., the thinkers and the workers of all times and of all countries. The drawings which were exhibited in the upper rooms included pencil, chalk, and water colour sketches, as well as some finished pictures (in water colours), which showed great merit, and bore marks of being the result of really earnest and painstaking labour. Among the coloured sketches were a small series executed by two young men while on an excursion in North Devon. All these were very good, and particular attention was attracted by • humorous drawing which represented the arrival of the tourists at Lynton in a heavy shower, or rather a storm of wind and rain. After tea the guests mustered in the principal class rooms, where the members of the vocal musks class enter tained them with a selection of glees and part wings, and some short readings were given by students of the college. In the intervals between these performances the visitors amused themselves by inspecting the wonders of insect life through microscopes, or turning over the prints or photographs with which two or three small tables were covered. Upon one of the walls were hung photographic copies of Deri's illustrations to " Elaine," executed by Mr. Jeffrey, one of the drawing masters, and these did not fail to attract a large amount of notice and admira tion. Professor Maurice, the Principelof the college, arrived early in the evening, accompanied by Professor Brewer and other friends, and remained some time. He was very cordially received by the assembled guests, and ap peared to enter heartily into the amusements of the even ing. The next term of the college commences on the ith inst. THE Vicrosua CROSS.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to o'nfer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on Private Samuel Hodge, 4th West India Regiment, for his bravery at the storming and capture of the stockaded town of Tubabecolong, in the kingdom of Barra, River Gambia, on the evening of the 30th of June last. Colonel D'Arcy, of the Gambia Volunteers, states that this man and another, who was afterwards killed (pioneers in the 4th West India Real.), answered hie call for volunteers, with axes in hand, to hew down the stockade. Colonel D'Arcy having effected an entrance, Private Hodge followed him through the town, opening with his axe two gates from the inside which were barricaded, so allowing the supports to enter, who carried the place from east to west at the point of the bayonet. On bitting to the (lards through the west gate, Private Hodge was presented by Colonel D'Arcy to his comrades as the bravest soldier in their regiment, a fact which they acknowledged with loud acclamatiotui.—Gazette. A man named Thomas Cox has given himself up to the polio. of Cork as the man who fired at and wounded, though not mortally, Mr. Worland, a gentleman of pro- perty in the county of Clare, four years ego. Since then Cox has been working in Liverpool as a quay l►bourer. _ . . ltTah Campton, who was tried, found guilty, and sentenced, at the recent Warwick anises, for the wil ful murder of her infant child at Foleshill, but who was afterwards respited, has been ordered to be kept in penal servitude for We. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1867. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (num'. Tv:Leasure.) EARTHQUAKE U ALGERIA. PARIS, JAS. 4. Intelligence received here announces that an earthquake was felt in Algeria on the morning of the 2nd inst. The villages of Chiffa, El Affrnn, El AM Ben Rasmi, and Mongaiaville were almost completely destroyed, and the town of Blidah was greatly damaged. In Mongaiaville thirty-seven persona were killed and one hundred injured. The earthquake was not felt in the provinces of Oran and Constantine. THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BERLIN, JAN. 4. Several governments belonging to the North German Confederation have notified their adhesion to the decision of Prussia, to assemble the Parlia ment on the 15th of February. The Prussian government has taken steps to ac celerate the preliminary arrangements for the elec tions. Military persons, otherwise entitled to a vote, will be allowed to take part in these elections. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JAN. 4. Count Belcredi, the Minister of State, has sub mitted to the Emperor a proposal for extending an amnesty to all persons convicted of offences against the press laws, and deprived for that cause of their rights as electors. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. PESTH, JAL 4. The royal rescript, in reply to tho address of the Hungarian Diet, is expected to arrive here to morrow. It is believed that it urges the Diet to hasten the discnsaion of common affairs. In consequence of a speech delivered, on the 15th December last, by M. Milities, a member of the Hungarian Diet, a vote of censure has been passed upon him by his electors of the town of O'Becse. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 4. An imperial ukase, issued to-day, authorises the commanders of the different army corps to grant temporary furloughs after the completion of the recruitment, to the number of men found to exceed the required effective strength. This measure is exclusive of the general furlough ordered by a former imperial decree. THE EASTERN QUESTION. BERLIN, JAN. 4. The New Prussian (Cross) Gazette and the Zeidler Correspondence of this evening express their opinion that, according to all present indications, the Eastern question is beginning to assume greater dimensions. THE DANTJBLAN PRINCIPALITIES. MINISTERIAL CRISIS. BUCHARIET, JAN. 4. The entire ministry have resigned. Prince Charles is said to have accepted their resignation with great reluctance. The new cabinet has not yet been formed. THE PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, JAN. 4, 3.30 r.e. The Bourse has been very firm. Reales closed at 69.95, or 20c. higher than yesterday. INDIA. (By direct Overland Telegraph.) BOMBAY, Die. 21, 4.13 P.M. 71b. shirtings, 6r. 12a. ; 811 b. ditto, Br. 40's mule twist, 154 d. Cotton quiet. Dhollerah, 260 r. Shipments of the week, 15,700. Exchange on London, Is. Hid. Government securities : Four per Cents., 88 ; ditto, Five per Cents., 105 ; ditto, Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 110 k. Freights to Liverpool, 20e. CALCUTTA, Dee. 20. 811 b. shirting', Br. 6a. 40'. mule twist, Ba. Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Freights to Eng land, 50s. THE ARRESTS IN SPAIN. Referring to the reoent arrests of deputies in Spain, the Independence Beige says : It would be unjust to charge the cabinet alone with all the responsibility of this deplorably violent measure. Tho members of the dissolved Cortes who voted the suspension of the constitutional guarantees ought to bear their share of it. That Marshal Marne: puffed out by hie mission as the pretended saviour of Spain and annihilator of disorder should wage war upon what he calls the revolution by all the means at his disposal, in virtue of the extraordinary powers he has succeeded La obtaining from Congress ; that he should execute with the utmost rigour not only the preventive sad repressive laws but the terrorist regulations and prescriptions that he has thought fit to add to them for the greater advantage of authority ; that he should prevent the voice of the country from making itself heard through the medium of the press, and from bringing the complaints of the nation to the ears of the Queen ; that he should prevent the protects and the ad vice of the most enlightened, the most eminent, even the most moderate citizens from reaching the foot of the throne, is natural enough, and none of those who assisted in arming him in order that he might crush and destroy liberty have a right to wonder at it or complain. If the arms they have forged with their own hands turn against them they only bear the penalty of their culpable weakness or blindness. But we, as the invariable friends and defenders of liberty everywhere have a right to complain and protest fur them. May ibis harsh experience not be thrown away, and may it revive in the breasts of the victims of to-day the liberal sentiments of which many, in other days, were the elo quent and brilliant interpreters. As to Kanner, in strik ing down the men whose devotion to the dynasty equals their moderation, he ban exceeded the measure of violence, and the event will not fail to prove to him, we are con vinced, that there are limits even to despotism, which are not transgressed with impunity. The Madrid correspondent of the same paper, writing on the let inst., says :—" The royal family was present on Sunday at the performance at the Theatre Royal, and everybody remarked that her Majesty was more communicative and satisfied than usual." • EARL ittre,szu, iii ITALY.—The Glasgow Herald publishes the following letter, dated San Remo, Sunday hat:—" Earl Russell arrived here last Wednesday from Florence, and intends staying till to morrow (Monday). On Friday be was waited upon by a deputation of the Ban Remise, when the syndic presented him with an address expressive of their gratitude for the sympathy he bail taken in Italian aff airs, to which his lordship read a reply couched in the fallowing terms :—' Gentleme n ,—l th an k ou with all my heart for the honour you have done me. y I rejoice with you in seeing Italy free and independent, with a monarchical government, and under a patriotic King. The Italian nation has all the elements of a pros perous political life, which had been wanting for many centuries. In the evening he was serenaded by the band of the town. After they had played 'God save the Queen,' Lord Russell and his family appeared at the window and thanked them. Ho requested them to play Garibaldi's Hymn,' after which they dispersed, amid shouts of Viva Lord Russell !" Viva l'amico !' ' Viva l'lngbilterra !" Viva la Popolazieste San Remise!' Viva " CARNIVAL TIME IN PARIS. (PROM A 00117M9P0117)121T. ) How streets can continue to be so full without every house in Paris being empty, is a problem I have yet to solve. The sages who argued as to the number of angels who could dance concurrently on a needle's point might tell ns how the gay crowds on the Boulevards, in the caf4s, theatres, and bon bon shops ever get there at one time, and being there how they accomplish their return . ; but modern observers must be content with recording that Paris seems steeped in gaiety, and that all the world and his wife appear to be out of doors. Yet the shopkeepers of the most frequented quarters and their assistants can have but little holiday or rest. Night after night a crowd of well-dressed . .ple have pressed eagerly in to Giraudin's for ... -bons from early afternoon until past midnight, without intermission or apparent diminution. Here the two costly dolls decorated with real jewels, me valued at more thousands of francs than I dare to write, stand in the window and woo the passer-by. One represents the Exhibition of 1867, the other the City of Paris ; both are beautiful, and elicit childish admiration from the grown up babies looking on. A stroll through the most frequented streets shows the same crowding, the same never ending ejaculation, the same present ! purchasing for the season. Russia leather travelling 1 bags, the fittings of which in c lude a warm i ng p an , coffee service, spirit lamp, wash-hand jug and ' basin, and massively framed swing mirror, all in solid silver, elaborately chased—jewelled knick knacks representing everything about a horse, from its tooth set with diamonds as a locket, to its hoof, golden capped, and with turquoise-headed nails—stationery so gorgeously hid in case and box that ono wonders whether the upshot of it all can be merely plain pen and ink—ladies' boots of proper size, and with the tassels, rosettes, and high heels we see in use in every fashionable street, are here containing bon-bons, handkerchiefs, and I gloves—vulgar domesticappliancesmadeup insplen- I dourand designed to fill widely different purposes to their ostensible one, are among the snares set by the clever Parisian radesmen for stranger and re sident alike. Useful things made useless by a pro digal waste of material ; useless things made neces sary through fashion and extravagance, form the uniform story the brilliant shop-fronts tell. Even the temporary stalls which line the Boulevards at regular intervals from the Madeleine to the Bastille, looking like rabbit-hutches or old track ing-eases, and the whole stock in trade of each of i which represents, perhaps, a couple of napoleons, • follow in the same direction. A decanter and set I of liqueur glasses for twenty-two sous, chignons at 1 a frAne and a half, mock jewellery, sham silks, tawdry pictures, pinchbeck finery, make up their gorgeous total. Round these the people flock in such shoals that walking above a snail's pace on the Boulevards is, after three on a tine afternoon, a sheer impossibility. We have had recently in our shop windows at home " leg-rests" for railway travellers, by aid of which the purchaser is supposed to rest as com fortably as in bed. An enterprising inventor here has hit upon a head-rest which professes to secure I sleep, but which is highly suggestive of sus p er co ll. A padded halter passes under the chin, and is fastened by a strap and hook to the stick and umbrella rack above, two other straps secure the victim's arms, and thus trussed and seated, he swings gently with each motion of the carriage, and i t so sleeps. Portraits of apparently moribund first, second, and third class passengers thus strapped up are shown, and these repulsive-looking affairs are said to sell by hundreds. Apropos of the extent to which wants are created to meet manufactures, one elegant and popular New Year's gift is entitled " Toilet for the nails." It consists of a handsomely carved box, of the size of an ordinary dresaing meet-containing brushes , scrapers, knives, scissors, and'lnondescript instruments , all devoted to the paring and cleaning of finger nails. 1 counted fourteen ornate articles in steel, ivory, and gold, in one of these cases, all designed for the one purpose, and the modest sum asked for them collectively was 450 francs. The Grand Opera Bal Masque, which takes place every week during the Carnival, was full to suffo cation last Saturday, and some of the dresses and their wearers were wild and mad enough to satisfy the most earnest searcher after the grotesque. A female mask, representing a sheaf of ripe corn, with the full ears nodding in the dance, and a male, whose monstrous moveable head-dress represented the Tower of Babel with the men at work upon it, were among the most singular. The dancing and general conduct in the ball room was neither more nor less indecorous than may be seen any night in the ordinary gardens or casinos here ; but the scenes in the lobbies and refreshment rooms fully realised all that has been written of Parisian license. Dominoes and debardeurs, men in evening dress and women in little dress to speak of, make believe Turks and Circassian , and Jews who were unmistakeably real, were struggling, proms ing, hugging, whispering, laughing, f rom lobby-end to lobby-end, with the opera attendants looking placidly on, and only bent on preventing people standing long in one place, and so avoiding any serious crush. At four on Sunday morning these revels seemed at their height ; but 1 there was little elegance and much vulgarity ; and though the carefully disguised figures in dominoes are innocently supposed by young men from the country to be women of position, the females in costume were unmistakeably of one class. Many of i the theatres bring out new pieces in honour of the season, or interpolate whole scenes relating to it, and all are full nightly. On Saturday the only chance of seeing Le Diable Boileur at the Chatelet was to pay five francs for the privilege of sitting in one of the passages leading to the second tier of boxes. A series of tableaux or short acts show the principal events of 1866, and foreshadow some of those of 1867. The Atlantic cable comes promi nently out. The bottom of the ocean, with mer mon, mermaids, seals, sharks, and " talking fish" in 1 conference, is seen. Then the coil is lowered at the hack, and the scaly crew rush forward to exa mine it. Finally they seat themselves on the cable, and are swinging to and fro, when an elee laic shock comes with a noise like thunder, and mermaids and the rest fall dismayed as the scene ends. This is a curiously exact repetition, though, of course, on an infinitely larger scale, of the Great Eastern amateur theatricals as represented in the ; Illustrated London News the cable being lowered and the mermaids dispo rting themselves in both cases in precisely similar fashion. The New Year's Palace of Toys, in which our old friends from the , toy shop appear endowed with life ; the fold-yard, the little village, the box of soldiers all coming on the stage in turns, and all made up in what looks like painted wood with stiff moveable joints, and ' only moving as if dragged by a rope or on springs, made a fair representation of big toys animate. A pretty ballet, in which the dancers are dressed as children, with skipping ropes, hoops, and battledores, completes the scene. The Exhibition has its full share of notice, the lady announcing the encourage inent it will give to industry and virtue in one of the most gorgeous dreams ever seen upon any stage, and being followed by an electric light to dazzle the more. The Rue Rivoli and other approaches to the Tuileries have been almost impassable for the last day or two, as the army and nation have been paying their respects to Louis Napoleon, who, with the Empress and the Prince Imperial, acknow ledged them, on Monday, from the palace balcony. Soon after this the rain began, and the whole of that afternoon was as miserable as the worst hater of his species could desire. From the window at which I write some mile and a half of boulevard can be seen, and this was, on each side, so thick [STAMPED, ld. ADDITIONAL.] with umbrellas and a moving mass of dripping people that no portion of the pavement could be discerned. Nothing, however, seems to check the spirit of the hour. The sales of toys and trifles goes on with increasing rapidity, the cries of the stall-keepers augment with the rain , most of the theatres have let every available place, tke bureau for the sale of tickets is full of eager applicants, and the bon-bon warehouses put out new forms of temptation for the passer-by. One thing is strik ing to an English visitor—he meets comparatively few of his country people, but comes across Americans at every turn. That admirable " philosopher of the breakfast table " who wrote, " when good Americans die they go to Paris," would be gratified were he here now, for from the Grand Hotel down to the smallest of the better caf4s you meet thew pioneers of transatlantic civilisation. An amateur gambling exchange, where these excitement-loving strangers meet before dinner, is one of the amusing features of the place. After trying several theatres in vain, I succeeded in obtaining a seat at the Palais Royal on New Year's-eve. Here there has been no change of performance nor interpolation in compliment to the new year. Le Maisom Neure, in which a charming married lady invites a would-be lover to her bed chamber, and because his demeanour is not suffi ciently tender tries to stupify him with an opiate, of which he takes an overdose and dies on the floor, upon which the unconscious husband comes in and seats himself on a sofa which the wife has wheeled over the dead body, was held to be suffi ciently seasonable even for the new year. Admirable acting, exquisite toilets, furniture, trappings, and scenery in perfect taste, and an unconcealed current of gross immorality, make up this play, which has been severely handled by Parisian critics. The evening was fine, but cold and raw, and the Boulevard cafes, open all night, did a roaring busi ness. Outside races between the ladies and gen tlemen who had supped, and bon-bon flinging from the open windows to the passers-by, cries for Ga ribaldi's Hymn from the itinerant musicians' boisterous patrons went on until the small hours became large again. The streets never regained their ordinary quiet throughout the night, and it was not until New Year's morning had broken sharp and clear that the waiters, whose term of duty had commenced at midnight, felt their labours to be at an end. The license of carnival time, to which this unusual sanction to late hours was due, took a fresh and more painful form on New Year's-day. In addition to the merry crowds who jostled, laughed, and struggled before the shops and stalls, were the beggars, who availing themselves of the privilege accorded by the State, plied their wretched calling with dismal vigour. Every half-dozen yards along the gayest thorough fares were ragged children, or deformed or crippled men and women, who whined vociferously, or sung horrible chants, or played on dreadful instruments. What these people do throughout the year, how those unable to work are helped, and on what principle mendicancy is encouraged at certain fes tivals and sternly suppressed at other times, are questions bearing on the great problem of pau perism, and how it can be dealt with best, and are well worthy of close and patient study. The garcons offering at the cafes, each customer receiving an orange en papillotte, or a choice of cigars decorated with ribbons, like a raw recruit, is another of the compliments of the season. Pour le lour de I' u,,, smiles the active fellow who brings you coffee or changes your dish at dinner, and in few cases, indeed, does ho fail to reap a practical reward. Present-giving and compliment paying, compliment-paying and present-giving form the grave business of the hour, to which all yields place save pleasure. It becomes more and more difficult to realise that one is only a few hours from a prosaic, hardworking race, who leave toys and playthings to their children, and to whom another new year is rather a hard, stubborn fact than otherwise. In the evening of New Year's-day came a slight fall of snow, which increased in the night, and it is now ankle-deep in mud and half thawed snow, with the largo moist flakes still falling. THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND THE ARMY. BERLIN, Jae. 2. Upon presentation to King William, at Potsdam, qray, of the testimonial offered to his Majesty . Prussian army, his Royal Highness the Crown Prince delivered the following speech : Most illustrious and most gracious King and Lord of War,—Your Majesty's faithful army greets you to-day as the anniversary of that upon which King Frederick Wil limn 'IL, of blessed memory, received you sixty years ago into the ranks of the Prussian army, clothing you in the soldier's garb. The fateful time of our fatherland's need soon gave more serious meaning to that uni form, then conferred upon the boy in accordance with an ancient custom of our royal house. For it was a difficult and hard time in which your Majesty commenced your military career, and di ffi cult and hard was the training the army of our fatherland was destined to undergo. But our strength grew with the greatness of our adversary. Prussia's people became Prussia's army, and when your Majesty, in the beginning of your youth, went forth with God for kin.. and fatherland into that great contest, you learned to k now and appreciate the high value of our new military institutions, and the full strength of a faithful, enthusiastic people in arms. Your Majesty was enabled to gain that honourable distinction of the soldier, unfortunately constantly growing rarer, and upon which the generation of the present day looks with admiring reverence and respeetfullove. In the period of peace which followed that gnat war, your Majesty la boured untiringly at the soldierly education of our youth at the development of our forces. When, after long repose, war, for the nrst time, broke out near us, you, in person, led the troops our royal brother sent out to restore tot tering order in ' countries. With rapid and decisive strokes yourpersonal guidance succeeded in accomplishing the desired object in the rho' test possible time. It is true that in the great contests at the commencement of our century your Majesty . had seen the conquering strength of our army institutions coins brilliantly forth from trial. Yet it could not escape your atten tive care and uninterrupted occupation with the army that those institutions, like all human things, required development and extension. Thus we are indebted first of all to your Majesty that our army, while faith fully adhering to tried tradition in the Prussian school and strict discipline, yet absorbed into its armament, deve lopment, and organisation, everything new, as soon as its e ffi ciency was made clear. When your Majesty then ascended the throne of your ancestors, the fall benefit of your royal power was bestowed upon the army, and in it upon the entire fatherland. All sons of the country capable of bearing arms were again introduced into the army ; your Majesty placed in their hands the best weapons in Europe, and thus allowed the soldier trained and exercised in farms to develops by excellent guidance into an independent man—a man who was able, three years ago, to give brilliant proofs of his efficiency in contest with the climate and a brave and well-fortified enemy, but who could not have more successfully, more enthusiastically, more devotedly offered his lord and master the reward of his exertions and labours than in the great and memorable war of the year that has just elapsed. After a scarcely interrupted fifty years' peace, your Majesty led the army against a valiant enemy, accustomed to war and com manded by tried generals, and gained victory after victory in rapid and never anticipated succession. It was this war in which, with the army and through the army, your entire people gave you its thanks for the timely develop ment of our warlike institutions, superintended by your Majesty. For that is the fine trait distinguishing us Prussian, above other nations that with us there is no distinction between people and army, but that both are one. Thus your faithful people thanked you, as the army understood how to fight valiantly under the rye and the command of its sovereign, to bleed manfully, to die resigned, and, wherever it fought, to conquer. Where such thanks have been paid, we may fairly hesitate to point to a humble work of human hands, which is to serve as a symbol of the gratitude of the army to its leader. But as a symbol we beg your Majesty in dulgently to accept our offering, for we need indulgence I. venturing, as soldiers, to lay • gift at the feet of our king. We do so, however, adding one heartfelt wish that cannot be misinterpreted, uttered by an army glad with victory to its sovereign. Our wish is that, after bringing you back from a difficult contest crowned with triumph, Ood will grant your Majesty many, many years of peaceful I mien. • Pure salt in abundance has been found in south westeru Kansas. One report says it completely coven the ground, tor:inns a crust, and can be shovelled up by cart- [TWOPENCE THE METROPOLITAN BOARD or WORNS. The ordinary weekly meeting of this board was held yesterday at the of 8, Spring-gardens; Sir JOHN THWAITEY in the chair. A report was brought up from the Finance Committee reporting " that they have directed the sum of 100,0001., now receivable from the Bank of England on account of the loan of 616,0001., to be placed to the credit of the following accounts, viz., Holborn Improvement. 26,0001.; Main Sewers (covering over, 10,000/. ; Whitechapel im provement, 14,0001. ; and recommending that the mortgages for securing the repayment of such advances be approved and sealed by the board." The following report was presented by Captain Shaw, Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade :—" I have the honour to present the following report of the London fires of 1866 : The total number of calls received during the year has been 1,643. Of these 103 were false alarms, 102 proved to be only chimney alarms, and 1338 were fires ) of which 328 resulted in serious damage, and 1,012 in slight damage. The fires of 1866 compared with those of 1865, show a decrease of 164, but compared with the ave rage of the last 33 yes years there is an increase of 457. I append several classified tables with particulars of trades, causes, These lists do not include trilling damages by fires, which were not sufficiently important to require the attendance of firemen, neither do they include the ordinary calls for chimneys on fire, the proportion of serious to slight damage in 1866-326 to I,ol2—hears a most favourable comparison to that of the previous year, 512 to 990, and there can be very little doubt that as the krigade becomes developed the flainsge done by fires in London may be still further reduced. Mess propositions will be better understood) calculated in percentages as follows, viz.:-1565 , 34 serious, 66 slight ; 1866, 23 serious, 75 slight. Our list of casualties for the year (36) is as usual large, but so lug as the work is done u at present no di minution of accidents can be expected. Them have been 2 deaths, 157 cum of ordinary illness, and 36 wounds, making a total of 196 cases during the year. The board has made an addition during the year of 4 large land steam engines, 8 small land lire-engines, 4 seven-inch manual engines, 27 six inch manual engines, 6 manual engines under au inches, 22 stations, and 101 emen. The changes which have taken place during the past year, in consequence of the increase of the establishment, have involved heavy labour in addition to the ordinary duties, but all ranks have done their utmost to assist in carrying out the orders of the board. The condition of the brigade with regard to discipline and general efficiency is perfectly satisfactory." Mr. RICHARD-iON said it was stated in the public papa's that the fire at the Crystal Palace broke out at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and it was further stated that none of the fire brigade engines arrived there until half-past 4, two hours and a halt after the fire had broken out. There was no doubt that as the Crystal Palace stood on the boundary of their southern district, it was difficult to reach, but as a representative of one of those southern districts, he wished to call attention to the subject, to ascertain if there had been any undue delay in their engines getting to the fire. He should therefore move that Captain Shaw be instructed to report to the Fire Brigade Committee how soon the engines arrived at the fire, whether there was any undue delay in doing so, and whether there was any defect in the means of communicating with them, so that they might be able to provide for such defects in future._ The CHAIRMAN said that Captain Shaw was present, and was prepared to make a statement upon the subject. Captain SHAW said that the statement of Mr. Richard. son was quite correct, and he found that the fire broke out at 2 o'clock. At 3.20 a mounted messenger came to the Waterloo-station, and from there to the Watling- street, much about the same tins) another messenger a rrived at the Horseferry-road-station, and was there placed in the hands of the engineer, the latter intelligence having come to Mr. Forbes, the general manager of the London. Chatham, and Dover Railway, who had sent it by hand. At about 25 minutes past 3 seven steam engines, with 72 men, were got ready and sent off, but in consequence of the distance and some delay that occurred in their pro gress, he thought that they did not get e ffi ciently to work until half-past 4. When ho arrived there about 220 feet of the north end near the ground was destroyed, and at the end it was burning on both sides. There were some engines belonging to the Crystal Palace Company of both the low and high pressure, and although they were in excellent working, they were not equal in power to the engines of the brigade. Mr. RICHARDSON said from the answer of Captain Shaw be found that there had been no neglect on the part of the Fire Brigade, but still it seemed to him that there was something wrong when it required one hour and twenty minutes to get s communication from the Crystal Palace to Watling-street, when that fire could be seen at a long distance. He should therefore move that the sub ject be referred to the Fire Brigade Committee for consi deration and report. Mr. BRUSH FIELD seconded the motion, which was carried. In answer to a question by Mr. Shaw, Captain SHAW said that during the seven years he had been connected with the fire brigade no amateur fireman had ever had control over the fire brigade engines, and there was not the slightest ground for such a statement. Mr. J. W. Batmarrre (the chief engineer) presented a long report upon the suhject of the progress of the Themes Embankment. Alter the usual routine business the board adjourned. EVICTED TENANTS . AID ASSOCIATION.—Lord Derby has consented to receive a deputation on the subject of metropolitan overcrowding from the Evicted Tenants' Aid Association, in the course of next week, and the fol lowing are expected to take part in the proceedings : Right Hon. G. J. Cowbell, M.P. ; Hon. Captain Gros venor, M.P. ; W. T. M. Torrens, M.P. ; Mr. Aldermaa Lusk, M.P. ; F. A. Taylor, M.P.; Wm. Hardwick., M.D., deputy coroner; George Cruikshank, General Mason, Rev. James Jackson, ILA., St. Sepulchre's; Rev. G. S. Drew, LA., incumbent St. Barnabas, Kensington ; Rev. J. G. Cromwell, M.A., principal St. Mark's College. Chelsea ; Rev. R. Long, incumbent Sc. Simon's, Chelsea ; Rev. C. G. Scott, R. N. Fowler, Henry Huth, S. C. Hall, F.S.A. ; Rev. Th. Menials, rector French Protestant Church, W. ; Professor Henry Letheby, F.L.S. Josias Alexander, Jabez Hogg, F.L.B. ; J. S. S. Hopwood, chairman St. Andrew's Board of Guardians ; J. H.Stallard, M.B. : Robert Bruce, N.D. ; John Oxenford, W. G.Wille„ R. T. Humphreys, John A. Herand, Sc. A preliminary conference to consider the question and settle the form of proceedings will take place at the Inns of Court Hotel, Holborn, at 2 o'clock on Monday, and is open to any noble man or gentleman who will previously send in his card to the honorary secretary, Mr. Linnans Banks. THE QUEKLTT CLUB.—This is a society of amateur microscopists, who hold periodical meetings for the purpose of mutual instruction ; and it would appear really to meet a felt want, for it already numbers 200 members. Last night the president and committee gave a public conversazione ; and notwithstanding the piercing cold it was attended by a crowd of ladies and gentlemen. Tbe tables were covered with microscopes, and a very large number of beautiful objects were exhibited. The well-known firma of Powell and Lealand, Rosa, and Smith sad Beck showed some of the choicest of their intim. ments. Messrs. Powell and Lealand, who are famous for their high powers, brought • 16th-inch lens, which magni fies about 1,000 diameters; but they were not able to exhibit their chef &macre, the focal distance of which is only the fiftieth of an inch, and the power 2,500 dia meters—an absolute freedom from vibration being a necessary condition to its successful use. Amongst the many diagrams which adorned the walls, a set lent by Inland Revenue department deserved some attention. They consisted of intensely magnified drawings of various articles of commerce, which the commissioners have had executed presumably with an eye to the adulterators. A group of exquisitely painted botanical drawings, by natives of India, also attracted much notice. Sr. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. I.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Stopford Augustus Brooke to be one of the honorary chaplains in ordinary to her Majeety.—Gotatc. The death is announced of the Rev. Henry Clis sold, M.A. who was for many years one of the leaders of the evangelical party in the chunk. lis was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree in 1818. In 1830 he was presented by Lord Lyndhurst, who was then Lord Chancellor, tothe rectory of Chelmondistoet„ Suffolk, and held the benefit.* for 25 years. He was for • period of 33 years minister of Stockwell Episcopal Chapel, Lambeth, holding it during a portion of the time with hie Suffolk rectory. He was the author of several religious works. The Rev. Charles Walker Mnlony has been licensed to the curacy of St. George with St. Mary Mag dalen, Canterbury ; the Rev. Henry Lloyd Russell, to the cure of St. Andrew, Deal. The Rev. Charles John Ken• ward Shaw, M.A. ha been instituted to the vicarage of Newington, near Hythe ; and the Rev. W. John Brewer, M.A., has been co lla ted to the vicarage of Farninghatu, all in the county of Kent and diocese of Canterbury. Some hundreds of persons were blocking up Rt. Paul's-churchyard yesterday afternoon, attracted by the of the cross and ball that crown the cathedral. re im seemed u if they were red hot, and gleamed out through the fog in the clearestoutlines. This supernatural effect was DO doubt produced by the sun shining upon the frozen snow and hoar with which the ball and WOW were covered.