The Express. — London, England, 1868-12-14 00:00:00

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"DAILT Nowa." so ott tokootriodsed &other*, loos Om looroltd and Moostary doottloos. okiara • bleb pad Mas sad so islimite sod miens isormalai idlott Esse Es rodostioa =Lao Puss man It an in vetoed& mak= to ill Matto of MlllOnlow Ise Advertisements &oda le las 4• made to 2 1 Posiodlia. Firatatraer. 11•Mwrsartrall tar torriaata IL Erawariaawass. lbootatteot. loodoo. - IC. TA... ad. L 4. EU •xlreos. DRURY-LAM TNIS Femme, SORROWED PLUMML—IONG 0' SOOTS. Phelps, Mews. Addison, Irvin, Some, ; Mesdames math, stuset, Frank Matthews, te.—•sd • UPAND SALLIT D'ACIION (added REDA. HAYMAEKIIT. Tins Svirwriro, EASY SHAVING. MOM. Boren. park sad 00rd442 Wawa Burka and Wright.-IPIETRA. Kamm Ewe, linopendak, Gordon, and Kmdal Ucedamen Bateman and ntrvlthani. And RURAL FELICITY. ILr. &Widow, Tins lersornm_ BECIrEMZETIR DARE: • TALK Of LONDON LIFT. Xi. VM, Warm W. Lacy, Dominick klimay. Mummy Sham /se. ; Wawaa Barnett and acre Lori• elarcsi.—And JONZIt /113111 DAY. ware TIMM. LONG-ACIIK. Tits Evairnin. f. JLANCABILIR3 LAB& Kamm K. Irving. 8. awry, L. Hamel, J. Clayton. C. Wyndham. and H. K. T, rrot ; Mimes N. Kama end H. Kodisom—To t,tylude with It Hare. Eett.'• Piece of Extravagance. entitled. THE PTRANOLR, STRANGER MAN EVER. Won& L. Brongli, iltachano. and &Tice; and Maim Hodson, Everard, and late &Miry. Tan Enures, at 7 A — *l Do* . MINT. Mews. Clarke. Bellorl. awl .I"rer ; Yew% Bolton and Maitbutd. —Tall MILD OF TBE OLOTM OP TOLD.—Mesere. Thorne. Jame*, &arm. aad ohm ; Mao Goodall. &e.—And A COMICAL Wl.liTE,4, OLOBE THEATRE ROYAL. TBlO , E.rorivn. at 7,000 U FOR NOZUINO.—At • j top, E. J. Bryn'. uriginal Comely. in Fire Leta, CYRIL'S RUC CEeIB. -am E. kinnihall. *um .t. Vernon, Fisher. Newbours, 3nl J. Clarke, Ice.; Nl::ftlames Thome. Hocks, &e.. BRZTANNU" Too Warms, LION LIMN, KING OF THU SOLTH SEA ISLANIs Yrwn Rryaold, rstt, B'U. ?.nd Dior lnd ; Madam.- COV: 'lrv. M. Booth, and liftrerourt.—Miw 1.. Bhrgrintr toa and Mr. F. Iii*IIMEr.—TLIE StAItLET MARK. Mrs. d. Lan.. 11101LWATEE AT_LONDOr DRIDGP._ To- A T —_ litar .- 1707 (AM. otaing, I is. - To-M• know —Moralag, 41ra......,41t0ran05. 3k. OM Porters of Bmrits, 114aii;iza, -- asil Thum, us nestle mitt t 2 o'clock for fakrartion saw evaohor. Pan IL ild. LoNDOY, MONDAY, DEC. 14. THE POPULAR PRE3fIER. Mn. Ct. cnsTosn once more appeals to a popu lar constituency for n renewal of the trust already reposed in him. There can be little doubt or anxiety as to the response which the generous electors of Greenwich will return to the appeal thus made to them. It seems to ns that there is something almost pathetic in the popularity of a Prime Minister. To be sure the people are always apt to be more gene rous than discriminating in the choice of their favourites But, in spite of the proverbial tickkness of the popular breath, the buoyant hope and eager expectation with which the advent of a Prime Minister who has hap pened to reach the public heart and to touch the public imagination, is saluted as with something of a personal and private joy, is a far more serious, and to a thoughtful and dis enchanted observer perhaps a fur more mournful subject of reflection. The instinctive impulses of crowds are almost always wholesome and true as nature itself. The pit awl gallery applaud every noble sentiment and revolt at every base action, though the " gods " and the " groundlings " probably contain a considerable admixture of the viler elements of mankind. The enthusiastic sen timent of the great masses of the English people— the dumb, the inarticulate, and the articulate mamas—towards Mr. GLADbTONE t has been abun dantly ridiculed by that agreeable cynicism which thinks all enthusiasm contemptible. Assuredly, if the gratitude with which the popular instinct repays by anticipation the services of a Statesman were nothing more or Letter than a lively sense of favours to come, it would be liable to bitter and clangorous disap pointment. The truth is that the trustful and affectionate devotedness with which the imagi nation of the " masses" of his fellow countrymen (and as he was not ashamed to call them his •• fellow-creatures") has long contemplated Mr. Gemperrorte's political fortunes, and made them, so to speak, their own, is in a great measure due to those qualities of character, which dis tinguish the PRZYIZR from almost all con temporary Statesmen. We mean the warmth of sentiment, the breadth of sympathy, the sensitiveness of conscience, the earnestness, the intensity of heart and mind. Add to thew qualities the insatiable passion for work. awl there is more than enough in Mr. GLLIerrOICZ'a character and career to explatin the entbusiam i of the people for Lis mono, the reverent belief of the people in his (*peaty for good, the idea that in placing him in power the people have secured the hest use of power in their own behalf. It would, of course, be a great injustioe to the present hero of the people's choice to forget that he has earned it by many years' labari ou ,, pu b l i c services, in lightening taxation, in liberating :n -41 ustry, in cheapening necessaries and comforts, and in enabling the cause of the poor to be pleaded by unshackled press. Yet the mournful side of this more than ephemeral or superficial PogoloritY must readily occur to such a mind as Mr. OLanfrrowe's. Bow little can the best of winiaters really do to alleviate the lot of the great majority of his " fellow creatures " How many drops of comfort can the best and greatest of Prime Ministers, with all his political and admi miArolive genius and goodwill, pour Into the vast 14nd lonely saa of human misery that bests and THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVE, moans for ever around the steePand narroe island of the blest, inhabited by the Slak, forta- . nate, and the few, which the world cam" Sodsty," and " Society" calls " All the world?" Deem puhlb man—we think it was Mr. Asses= posing the other day to make the lot of the Irish peasant as happy and contented as that of his English brother. Surely that is not an exaggerated ambition for the boldest statesman—to make the lot of an English agricultural la bourer attainable by the high peasant ! Ministries come and go, Cabinets are changed, and no one can pretend that in these days public liberty and the national honour are loss cared for by a Government which calls itself Conservative than by a Government which calls itself Liberal. It is not that the distinction between the two is insignificant ; for the one seta trade free, and establishes religious equality ; while the other maintains every privilege, and clings to every prejudice of the past until it must choose between its principles and its hopes of office. But what, it may be asked, is free trade, religious equality, or the diaestablishment of tLe Irish Church to tho dumb, dim millions of our " tellow-ereatures " who are born to misery or to crime, who are hu Idled by their landlords together with less regard to decency and health than the mdivals in their stables or their styes; and who starve slowly all the year on a pittance barely enough (with the aid of country air) to ket p bodies and souls together, while the beeves, and pigs, and sheep, are fattening for Smithfield It is little, very little, th the most popular and powerful of Prime Ministers can do to justify the imaginative enthusiasm of the poor who are always on the land. But man's life is short ; the life of a people is long; and what an earnest, con scientious, and beneficent statesman can do is to co-operate, so far as in him lies, with all the moral and social forces which tend towards a happier future for the multitude, and, so far as legislation and administration are concerned, to let no privi lege, or prejudice, or disability, stand in the way of right, and justice, and humanity. compares in completeness with that which sustains her. it:4,l44lWhofw. t. t hat Matselloal es ad tends Mai by degree, her an adlaille, her vitality and abandon an 4 mslliflages cadences of her bin!-like vein is Ist sear. eeh rioted the bewitching mail, and cosepeited a mama at once brilliant and lasting.—Twrf, Field, an Pens. They will find Lydia Thompson to be a truly astonish ing incarnation of all that is fair and bright. lihe glitters like a sunbeam ; she dances like a summer wave ; she mugs like a morning bird; she is, if we may borrow an tlpo/4/V0 line from Tennyson, " bright as light, and clear as wind." The sight of a creature so Joyous, with a chierfulnem that somehow bespeaks a good heart and • happy temperament, is a pally, luxury.— Weekly Serino. The main attraction was LYDIA Titomrseit, " THoursow with the golden hair." All the theatrical reporters an- now at work inventing nice names for LYDIA. The Saturday paper man is going to call her " a dramatic sunrise," while the Sunday critic is debating whether " the " Aurora Borealis of Burlesque " or " Little Chain " Lightning" is the most appropriate. now little do we know the real value of a thing until it is lost to us ! THE NIWITMARE OF PETITIONS. Tun Ina orals quart (neon. of RABELAIS ; the " to-morrow morning " of the toper ; the Nemesis of the old mythology ; the doctrine of re wards and punishments—are all brought to mind by the experience now being enjoyed by a not in considerable number of M.P's. There has been brave fun at the elections. Success for yourself, failure for your opponent. The blissful words, " head of the poll." have been placarded after your name on the hoardings of your borough or county, and you have already tasted some of the responsibilities as well as the sweets of power in the accession to your daily correspondence, and in the requests preferred to you from men, women. and children whose very names you do not know. Tour first signature to your first order of admis sion to the btrangers' Gallery of the House of Commons—applied for by a constituent's fourth cousin—has a magical digLity in your eyes which it never possessed before, while your presence at dinners and balls and public meetings is intrigued for and sought after with a vivacious eagerness highly calculated to augment your good opinion of yourself. Basking in the successful man's paradise your merits and virtues have conjured up, andhalf regretting—things have ended so satis factorily and the new life and associations suit you so well—you did not come into Parliament earlier in life, you are suddenly startled and shocked. A serpent has entered your Eden. Its form a lawyer's letter ; your downfall the object of its wily plot. Your return is to be petitioned against on the ground of treating, or bribing, or intimidation, or perhaps all three— and, presto, your happiness has flown. Being attacked, you must attack in return. Counter-alle gations, to gevjura of a transparently personal kind, are uttered. What is treating, you ask ' You are of a pleasantly convivial turn, and enjoy a crack with your fellows—aye, and upon occasion, with your inferiors when they have a proper veneration for the native nobility of your character and find intellectual solace in listening to platitudes they dare not contradict. It has been your habit— not merely in this election, but ever since your material success gave you confidence in yourself by showing you with hew little wisdom the world is governed—to be hospitable and free-banded. Ton like to see merry pleasant faces about you and to feel that both the mirth and the pleasure are due to your having graciously touched the springs making each to flow. Is a seat in Parlia ment to be lost because you have indulged yourself as usual in being the hospitable monarch of the hour, the dictator of the dessert, the con versational autocrat of a handsomely spread and generously ministered board' Is an obedience to the scriptural injunction " to be given to hospita " pity " to be suddenly turned against you ; are you to be " hoist from your own petard," and be cause you have a good cellar as well as a pretty knack of talking to be convicted of " treat " ing" for the reason that you are po pular ? One thing is certain, that the rival you have worsted shall not profit by the shabby maneeuvre brought to bear against you now. A fair fight has, you insist, been won fairly; and as the beaten ones have the incon ceivable meanness to strike below the belt, you will take care that no superstitious reverence for the rules of the ring shall prevent your bringing them to grief in their turn. Such, we may fancy, are the reflections of each of the gentlemen whose names appear under the head of " Election Petitions" in this morning's papers. Those county members as are not yet petitioned against, but con cerning whom disastrous rumours and omi nous forebodings are afloat, must pray fervently for the expiration of the twenty-one days, after which no petition can be presented. This morning's list has whetted their appetite for security. It is well enough to have counter-petitions ready prepared, so that, even at the eleventh hour of the last day, the em barrassing paper is duly signed and deposited, you can fire off your shot in return. But you have bad enough of conflict, and you now want to enjoy. To suddenly cull upon a newly-elected member to unfold the tactics and practices which have landed him in Parliament, is at the very best to ensure hint some troubled days and anxious nights. An election petition is a not pleasant foretaste of a time when all secrets will be dis closed. " AD LYDIAN." - - No own is s prophet in hie own country. Second and third-rate foreign actors have achieved a su tras w►th us in the inverse ratio of their merits, and we recommend to our actresses the following notices of Miss LYDIA TrioicrsoN in the New York papers : - /ler beauty alone im victory, but her beauty is inten sified by bar glittering vitality, and the rick, bright, inn*. mad, winning heartiness th►t she throws into he We have seen nothing like her on the stage, and bare seen no burlesque organisation in this country that at all THE PREMIER AND THE ELECTORS OF GREENWICH. The following address, seeking re-election, has been issued by the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone to the electors of the borough of Greenwich: 11, Carlton• Doo. 10, 1868. GENTLEMEN,--Sincto the time when you wore phased to elect me as one of your representa tives, the Government which was then in power has resigned, and 1 have been called upon by her Most Gracious Majesty to meet the public news sity thus created, by the formation of an Ad ministration to conduct affairs, and to prepare for parliament the proposals which the condition of the country demands. After the share I have taken in recommending the measures which have been principally under the view of the constituencies during the recent elections, it was impossible for me, oon sistently with loyalty or honour, to decline the commission thus entrusted to me by her Majesty. I have accordingly accepted the office of First Lord of the Treasury ; and I have been and still am actively engaged in the endeavour to form an Administration which may, I trust, deserve the confidence of the country, and will certainly use every effort in office to give; effect to the grist nicasurvs which, out of offic.a, its members generally have agreed in recommending to the country. It is umler these circumstances that I solicit rinewal of my trust. I mu aware that I must rel) wholly OH your indulgentv, for my time and thoughts are absorbed by imperious demands, which do not leave to me the usual opportunities of appearing among you before the day of elec tion, and which suggest that others might be more capable of doing full justice to your local interests. But I lave felt it my duty to place the question before you in a broader view ; and grateful, as I have just reason to be, for the past, all that it has taught me of your public spirit now renders me not less confident of the coming issue, which I very respectfully leave in your bands. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your most obedient and faithful gervant, W. E. GLADSTONE. I DECEMBER ITEMPOIL 18 DAY.) I. j ,..tok, • • TUN 1801 1 / 1 1tIr AND ITS NVIDNIA. The Tame surveys some of the more important of the queetione which will campy the attention of do new ministers, end points out the magnitude of the tea beton them. Mid mow& these are rotamehment in nationsl expenditure sad the dimistablishment and diem downient of the Irish church. The Times anticipates that the administration will succeed in both. It ia strong in the elements composing it, and if its members prepare in time to consider the omens they will have to follow, and the mutual co-operation which will be necessary, it will prove itself strong as a combination. The labour they have undertaken as a party is that upon the performance of which their unity and existence depend, and to it they must give their undivided attention. The promptitude with which kr. Gladstone has dis charged the task committed to him by her Majesty is, says the Daily Neu's, proof of his own energy and of the cordial union subsisting between the leading members and various sections of the party. From beginning to end, though there may have been now and then hesitation and demur, there has been no hitch or misunderstanding. Claims to high office, which might without impropriety have been premed, have been generously waived in order to secure to the government the greatest possible amount of administrative and parliamentary strength. The selec tions which have been made for the subordinate places in the government also afford a promise of efficiency in the conduct of the details of administration with which the country may be well satisfied. The Stow sees in the way in which the parliamentary offices in the Treasury bars been filled up, and in the ge neral aspects of the financial department of the govern ment, pledges on the part of Mr. Gladstone that he has re- Aolved to carry out a wise and discriminating policy of re trenchment. JON NEWS. CrMB DAYJ ' (ZEDIDCOI alarm's Aorsrat.) THE SPANISH INSURRECTION. /ENDER OF THE CADIZ INIMJECIENTE. PARIS, Dac. 14. The Mettitenr of to-day publishes in its bulletin a telegram from San Sebastian, stating that the energetic pnichimation issued by Senor Caballero de Roda bad induced the insurgents at Cadiz yes terday morning to surrender ut discretion. The Correspend6riek adds that the sentence of exile pronounced upon the Duke de Montpensier by the Provisional Cloven.= nt could only be tem porary. MADRID, Di e. General Cabs Hera de Rods, at the head of the Army of Andalusia, entered Cadiz yesterday after noon at 2 o'clock. The people were giving up their arms. The Cerrellw,lobtvio explains the step taken by the Duke of Montpensier by stating that the Duke believed the insurrection at Cadiz to bo fomented by tho reactionists. Listen ing to his own promptings of sympathy for the cause of the revolution he believed the latter to be in peril, and offered his services accordingly. If the true eharaeter of the rising had been known to him he would not have come forward, being averse to meddling with the private disagreements of the great liberal party. ROUMANIA. GREAT lICRRICAI 4 .4'E.-FIFTY 110USE.4 BLOWN DOWN. lIIICHAREI3I‘, Dec. 10. The draft of the address of the Senate, in reply to the speech from the throne, expresses the thanks of the house for the preservation of peace and order, for the energy shown in furthering the construction of railways, and for the con tinuance of good relations with foreign Powers. The attention Lestowed upon the task 4; ;;;::il7th ening the credit of the country is cheerfully ac knowledged, as also the general improvement of finances. M. Varnas is appointed diplomatic agent at Paris provisionally to replace Emanuel Crit zulcaoo. BUCHAREST, Dec. 11. M. Golesto luvi returned from Constantinople and has takcii office as Minister of Finance. A fearful hurricane mused great destruction of property at Fuksebany yc,tuday. Fifty houses are in ruing. M. CogMln Lschiano gave an explanation of the future policy of the govennueed iu a long speech addressed to the Chamber, which was enthubias tically riceivtd. Tie government lets a safe majority in the house. In the sitting of the Chatubcr of Deputies M. Bratianu declared that 'the transport of Prussian anus to the Roumanian Principalities had been effected with the previous knowledge of the Em peror Napoleon. Refi•rring to the Austrian Wel Book, and the 'statements of Count Beast and Count Andrassy, who accused Roumania of aiming at the annexation of Transylvania ho replied that Roumania could nut be indifferent to the sight of the oppression of the Roumanian inhabitants of Transylvania, and that if the Dun garian army was to be materially increased the R o umanians WIT(' justified in adopting a similar measure. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. sEVERE GALES IN THE ATLANTIC. PLY3LOCTII, Dr.c. Is. ing is a summary of the Shannon THE NEW MINISTRY. The following new appointments have been made him* our but issue :—Lord Northbrook, Under Secretary of War ; Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Judge-Advocate ; Mr. 0. Young, Solicitor-Oeneral for Scotland ; Mr. 0. Lefevre, Secretary to the Board of Trade ; Mr. Arthur Peel, Secretary to the Poor Law Board; Lord John Hay, Lord of the Admiralty: Viscount eastlerosse, Vice-Chamber luiu Lord Otho Fitzgerald, Comptroller. THE CABINET. First Lord of the Trea sury The Lord Chancellor. Lord Hatherley (late Sir W. Page Wood;. Lord President of the Council Lord Privy Seal Secretary for the Home Earl de Grey and Ripon. Earl of Kimberley. Department Mr. Bruce. Secretary for Foreign Affairs Secretary for the Co lonies Earl Granville. Mr. Cardwell. The Duke of ArgylL Secretary for War Secretary for India Chancellor of the Ex chequer First Lord of the Ad miralty President of the Board of Trade Postmaster-General Poor-law Board . Chief Secretary for Ire land . Mr. Lowe. Mr. Childers. Mr. Chichester Forteecoe. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster First Commissioner of Works Mr. Layard. Attorney-General Sir Robt. Solicitor-General Mr. Coleridge. Lord Advocate for Scot land Mr. Moncreift'. Solicitor-General for Scotland Mr. G. Young. rice-President of the Council Third Lord of the Tres - sury Joint Secretaries of the ) Mr. George Glyn. Treasury ) Mr. Lydon. Under Secretaries— Home Department Mr.Kristehbull-Ruires sen. Foreign Affairs Mr. A. J. Otway. Colonies Mr. Monsen. War Lord Northbrook. India Secretary to the Board of Trade Secretary to the Poor law Board Mr. A. Peel. Lord of the Admiralty Lord John Ray. Judge-Advocate Lord-Lieutenant Lord Chancellor Attorney-General Mr. Sullivan. Solicitor-General Mr. Barry. THE ROYAL HOUBEITOLD. Lord Steward Lord Chamberlain .. Viscount Sydney. Master of the Horeo Mistress of the Robes Duchess of Argyll. Mester of the Buck hounds .. The Berl of Cork. Comptroller Vioe-Cheatbarleia TIM LORD LUMTENANOT OP 11161.10111. The Post remarks that Mr. Gladstone is to be congratu lated on having secured the services of Lord Spencer. Personally affable, a keen sportsman—no mean qualifica tion in the eyee of our Hibernian friends—and possessed of an ample private fortune, he can hardly fail to make a favourable impression upon a high-spirited and impulsive nation. This sa by no means an unimportant result to strive for in Ireland. TIM LIII AND NAM Of the =Will a@ who lately received the seals of aloe, the hfq►aph thinks that none have a greater field for beneficial action than Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Childers. They are to be the directors of the two great spending de partments in the State, and both are pledged to a reduc tion of the national outlay. The country demands naval and military reform, however, not so much because the two service, cost a vast sum, as because there is a wide spread feeling that both are inefficient. TNT SPANISH The Ern"ld observes that the members of the Prorigional (lovernment have committed a grave and irreparable error in postponing so long a time the assembly of the consti tuent Cortes, but assuredly the best hopes for the regene ration of Spain lie in the maintenance in power of Prim and Serrano until the nation has elect. d it. representa tives. Another revolution would not bring better mon to the helm ; it might launch Spain Into errors and estrava• games which would throw her back 30 years behind so-called period of shame and slavery, the lag years of the reign of Queen Isabella 11. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 12. The Quetn, seeompunied by Prineesi drove in the Great Park this moruing. The lion. Emily Cathcart tram in attendance. The Crown Princess of Prussia, attended by Countess Reventlow, visited the Convalescent Ilotpital at Clewer. The Hon. Mrs. Pontonby had the honour of accompanying her royal highness. Princess Louise and Prince Leopold also went out. Prince Arthur. attended by Lient-Colonel Elphinctone and Lieutenant Pickard, has arrival at the Castle from Woolwich. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holdein and the Prince and Princess of Teck dined with the Queen yestenky. `Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Duckworth, was preprint last evening at the Etou College theatricals. Her Majesty held a Council this afternoon, at a quarter before 3 o'clock, at which were present :—The Earl de Grey and Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E. tiladstone, Earl Granville, Viecount Sydney, and the Right Hon. 11. A. Bruce. Previous to the Council the Earl of Tanker's le, Lord Steward; the Earl of Bradford, Lord Chamberlain ; the Right Hon. F. E. Herbert, C. 8., Treasurer of the House hold ; Lord Claud Hamilton, Vice-Chamberlain , Earl Cadogan, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ; and the Marquis of Exeter, Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; who arrived at the Castle this after noon, had audiences of her Majesty and resigned their wands and badges of office. The Earl of Beasborough, Lord Steward ; Viscount Sydney, Lord Cluunberlaiu ; the Earl of Cork, Mader of the Buckbounds; and Lord Foley. Captain of the Honour able Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, were sworn in at the Council, and kissed bands on appointment. The Marquis of Ailesbnry was also sworn in, and kissed hands on his appointment as Master of the Horse. Earl Spencer was then introduced and sworn in at the Council. and kissed hands on his appointment as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The Right Hon. T. E. Taylor was introduced, and re signed the seals of office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Dufferin and Clandcboye was then introduced at the Council and sworn in a member of her Majesty'■ Moat Honourable Privy Council and Chancellor of tLo Duchy of Lancaster, and kissed hands on appointment, receiving the Nab' of his office from her Majesty. Sir Colman O'Loghlen, Dart., was then introduced and sworn in a member of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and kissed hands on appointment as Judge- Advocate-General. The Hight Hon. W. E. Gladstone stud Earl Granville had audiences of the Queen. Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council. Kr. John ake Coleridge, Solicitor-Lien/mil, arrived at the Castle this afternoon, and was introduced to has Majesty's presence by the Bight Hon. H. A. Bruce, Secre tary of State for the Horns Department, and reeoirod the honour of knighthood. Viscount Torrington, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, and Lord Alfred Paget, the Lord, Groom, and Equerry in Waiting, were in attendance. The bake of Argyll had as audience of her Majesty yesterday afternoon• Dn. 13. The Queen, the Crown Mos and Princess of Prussia (Princess Bops% PAWNS Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, end Princess Beetwiee, and the Ladies and Gentleame be Waiting, attended Divine servios this morn. ing in the private chapel. TM Bat. T. J. lowa. konotoz7 &Viols to the Queen, preso!bo.l Priam Cluistian dined with the Qom yesterday. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial aloe from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governor-Goncral of 01110111 and to the Governor of British Columbia. CABINEI 00131K11.—A meeting of the members of the cabinet will take place tomorrow at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residents in Dowsung-stroet Tux FORZION-OFFICI.—The Earl of Clarendon, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, bad a diplomatic levee on Saturday, at the Foreign-office, is Downing. street, when their Excellencies the Russian, Austrian, French, and Prussian Ambassadors, the Danish, United States, Greek, Hayti, Bavarian, Belgian, Honduras, Hi eautipas, Chinese, Portuguese, Salvador, sad Swedish Ministers Plenipotentiary attended ; also the Turkish, Italian, and Nettie/lends Mani d'Affaires. The diplo matic representatives appeared in fun uniform Tllll HAALTE OF TIM Panful ROYAL or BEL 01011.—Bsommaa, Dam It—The weekly When of the health of the Prince Royal has been lend trelL im a :a d states that the improvement which Ime daring the past •tx weeks continues, althinelt bigh. oases la din pessaries & At Guatemala the crops wore highly satisfactory. ant the steps taken to prevent the asithipatua famine pro• ads' the most favourable results. At Salvador the indigo crop Lad proved 1,10: serons in excess of that of ISO:. The rainy lea4oll was expected to terminate during November. Thu prewidontial elections were coming on, and it was believed that the present Pre sident would be re-elected. A revolution took place at Costa Rica on 6t November, and the President, lie Castro, wu superseded by the Vice- Pr vident Don Zinicner. There was no disturbance of public order, and ex-President do Castro was left at perfect liberty in his own house. In Chili the impeachment trial of the judges of the the supreme court was going on, and was causing con siderable excitement. The President wished to stop the proceedings, but his cabinet refused to support him. A large number of vessels, recently arrived on the coast from the Atlantic, reported having suffered very severely from bad weather and ice off Cape Horn. Among others the Miner, the Flecher, the steamer Zeta, and batlike Bertha, Ellen Radford, Coldstream, and Venerderna from England, the barque Neptune from Hamburg. and the rchooner Idaho from Boston, all suffered :acre or leNs. A tire broke out in Aucud, on the 20th October. destroying nearly the whole town. Almost all the Bolivian cities have protested against the boundary treaty with Brasil. In Peru the Senate had authorised the government to make the preliimmury tracings for a railway from Tacna to Bolivia. At Barbadoes exchange on London was quoted-90 days, 487) GO days, 490: 30 days. 492). There was a great want of rain, and the crops were suffering in consequence. At Demerara the weather was showery, and the long drought had Cealloll. A large number of Yawls were load ing with produce for New York. Freights for sugar to London and the Clyde, Is. 9d. ; for rum, 21d. Exchange, 80 days, 482 ; GO days, 485 ; 30 days, 4811. At Jamaica rain was plentiful in some parishes, but others were suffering for the want of it. Two landslips had taken place at Annatto Bay. A soap factory had been established at Tweedside, in the perish of St. Mary's. INDIA. THE CASE OF PAYMASTER LAWM The finding of tho oonrt-martial appointed to try Paymaster William Lewes, of the 90th Regiment, was promulgated last month. Thaw were four charges pre ferred against him, the chief of which was the fraudulent appropriation of more than 7,000 rupees, publics money belonging to her Majesty's army, and received by him in his official capacity. The other charges wee* corollary to the first, and implied falsification of the isociounta fur the purpose of di/guiding the fraud. The sentence of the court was that the prisoner be re quired to refund the amount appropriated, and that he be imprisoned for two years. An Indian paper states that the prisoner was taken under escort of an officer to the 90th men at Lubathoo, where all the officers had as sembled (by order) to hear the sentence read out. Capt. Lams was in a shocking state of intoxication, and be haved in a most disgraceful manner, calling out like a madman. lie had to be removed to his quarters in a dean ; 'Len Dr. Boyd was obliged to attend him. As the sentence had not been read out in the morning a woad meeting of all the officers took place about when, Captain Lewes being then sobor, the sentence was read ot.t, and shortly afterwards ho was scut off a prisoner under a guard from lrussowloe, and was at once to proceed to England. We learn by telegraph from Cork that Train sailed for New York, in the Austrabuien. yeeterdey. At Queenstown he addressed a small mob, depoinicting Cardinal Calm and Bishop Moriarty. We learn by telegraph from Belfast that the Rev. Henry Cooke, D.D., LLD., tie !MOM divine of the priebyterlea church in Lateal. expired oa Sunday erasing, at kb reideace. Omuta-road, Belfast, is hL flOth year. news OUR PARIS LETTER. THE OREOO-THREIgH DIFFICULTY Ora= ors own cionsalrormon.) PAHA Bternar T.vrios The telegrams from Turkey and Greee ,, 1 14 , , very serious character. Nevertheless this evoui n :,,, Tafrie thinks itself warranted in •p..tkin z hopefully: Although the demitasse from Athens orovy premien that the °reek government has dee,h4 t „ re - the Turkish demands we cannot but perskt in tleni, that the advice tendered by the Great K Georges cabinet will allay thu conflict. W•• think that the deepatchee of to-slay relleet th.• c• •• menta of paercion, and that Greene will ri , ,t ulti•eai '4; to undcretand her true situation in p ,f •Le • determination of Europe to restmaa her tree 1,, .• treaties. I n th e Ete,,,/fird M. Vitu writes sorte-.0,, , , confidently: Although Greece refuse's to yield to the 1,, minds, and the Turkish governs= ut does n .t rood to content itself with rain thresh,. ‘,. `despair" of a successful issue of the . the mediating powers. Everybody is int , r.. , . maintenance of the stains ?rte. Neither T Russia herself can desire a conflagration whs , :. ssence of the intimate union between Franee sof I could not be profitable to any legitimate atulet. , es seems to understand this, for both at Con , ' 4. , , Athens the has frankly co-operated w,•ls • powers. We yet hope that neither tle- Turks nor the ob-tinacy of the Csr:eks tremble the peace of the world, The Frubeo, a special authority on is questions since its political director, Vi la Oueronniere, has become a minilt.r. l tentiary, says : The momentary difficulties disclosed by May perhaps delay the settlement of the T.: difference for some days. This is one diplomatic episodes which almost inc, , ; cur in the conduct of a negotinbon : the honour of two governments i, Turkey, stung to the quick by Lord Stanley's p of her decadence, wishes to show the world a pr vitality and energy, and therefore takes a tins Preece would not be accused of abandoning all WO of s *eats the Cretan cause, which the t, to give up ter the last year, although masse L. representations. Herein is the mere: of tie, assumed by the two parties. But ch.! fear whatever of their persisting Ion?, to rink a rupture. Their own inter—' deter them from this, even if the mediation ,e!! was not certain to avert the danger. . . . is the very certainty of a peaceable couragts the cabinet of Athens to prolong s The France, contradicting the shit, another government print, the Marquis de Moustier was '• seriously ill," he has been slightly indisposed, and is no, well. There are rumours that the marquis , to be turned out of office as well as M. Pip M. Emilia, a very old member of the Academy, whose death was prematurely ant a few days ago. died on December 11. II dramatic author of some reputation in The most suevessful works in which he ha. were the 3L'' a' written jointly Picard, and .IPre tt la Fi11.% in 1: position of which he war aid, dby 31. During a short istioil he was uwu Thi•atre Irsineais. Yesterday a destructive tire oceurr• i • of Madame Berthe de %quoit:sure. N.,. Luxembourg. The lady was ill e. servant, who came to show her home by a tradesman, accident t . :.• to• the curtains. In a few • bi•rofc,ir, which was considered destroyed. Madame du Roquemait: . barely strength to get out of bed, th in her nightdress to the head i l l •• National Guard behind her house. to accept the covering of a soldier . - fire brigade was quickly on thi• flames were got under in less than • out spreading to the neighbouriug u. . the loss to Madame do noquilaaur mated at 130,001 fr. M. Cri•suieux,the mewberof the Pr vestment of 1848, and who has; Ntoo.l politics since the coa l . 4 - •Ttt of D. has been induced by his frietub., after nr: tation, to stand for the Unna• at t elections. His Royal Highness the Duke of accompanied by Colonel Macdonald. returner, Saturday from visiting the Earl and Counteae ford at Packiugton Hall, Warwick hire. The Duke and Duchess of Northuwberh arrived at Northumberland Mute from Aluvricit The Duchess of Argyll, accompanied Marquis of Lorne, Lady Edith Campbell, an have arrived at Argyll Lodge, CamplenAill, K. from inverary Castle. Tbe.Marquis Conyngham has arrived from Ilifrona, his seat near Canterbury. The Marquis of Bute has arrived tieorge's Hotel. The Marchioness (Maria) of Ailestatty tamed to town trona visiting Mr. and Lady at Critchill. The Earl and Countess of LiCWield Lir, at their new residence in l'ortman-apure. Lte lk•verley's. from Shugborough Park. St.sffeid-a. The Earl and Countess d o they et „t select party at dinner on Saturday, at the:: Carlton-gardens. Tho bail Ferry, M.P.. arrived is Friday from Alnwiek Castle. The Right Hon. Sir Seafront North: left town on Saturday for The l'yue4, hie it 4: chine. The Right Hon. Edward CAniwell. M. Mn. Cardwell. the Right Hon. Rob.•rt Lowe, Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, M.l'.. have joine d visiting the Marquis and Mananoness of Vii. Hatfield House, Herts. • On Saturday the marriage of the non. Ashley, third eon of the Earl of Shaftestiry. Frances Danbury Leigh, was solemnised at pc.. Hanover-square, in the presence of a largo 41', relatives and friends. The ceremony was Pei the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Llandstf. conclusion the party proceeded to Mrs. Itaubut residence in Park-lane to breakfast. Thebride r. groom left soon after 2 o'clock for St. 4; tht. 4 , the Fart of Shaftesbury, to pass the houere, , The iustallistion of the new Dean of I (Canon Champneys) is fixed far to-nsenve. 1. morning service. MK Fox CLeß.—Tho sixth meeting .4 Club this season was held at Brooks's on Satiu.l.i! were present the Marquis of Nonninby. Mr Pesuniont, M.P., Hon. Gem= C. Valium. 1.%. Hon. William Edward**. M.l'., Colonel CUL , A. K. Stephenson. Lord Sudley, Mr. Mieniel I M.P.. Colonel Adair, Earl of Charlentoot. Buller, Bart., M.P., Hon. E. S. Muss...M. Mom r Mon. Hon. 11. H. Duncan, Mr. H. A. 11. ebonite: , Viosount Milton, M.P., Lord Abererosibv. lie. I ton, Lord Says and Selo. Lord Mostyn, Mr. T. Earl of Albemarle, Sir 11. William-on. Hitt- Sir M. Chohneley. Bart., M.P., Lord Fol,l. Ind Hussey Vivian, Y.Y. 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