The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-22 00:00:00

/~ ~~ *7 No. 6,096.] EXPRESS FROM PARISff A MIDNIGHT MEETING. (mom ma owl Last evening a large assembly of fallen women met, at the invitation of the Midnight Meeting Society, at the cafe, 68, Regent-street, to listen to addresses and to partake of refreshments. There were about 150, most of them of a class to whom a gratuitous meal is an object, and such as are seen in the parks and bye-places of London. Mr. Stabb's giving out a hymn was the signal for misbehaviour, and ribald laughter and jests were substituted for singing. Before the last verse several of the more riotous were removed, and at the conclusion of the hymn Mr. "Jos" Poole de livered an energetic address. This man is a con verted fiddler, who is said to have spoken with great success at various gatherings. However effeo tive his oratory may be elsewhere, it was thoroughly unsuocestful last night. The picture he drew of his own shockingly degraded condition prior to conversion, was far from touching the hearts of his hearers—some takings humorous, others a coldly cynical view • and when his eloquence was at its height sever al women loudly expressed their disap probation, and leftthe room. We only saw two girls out of the number present who were visibly affected, and one of these was in tears before Mr. Poole had spoken many minutes. About half-past 1 a small party of respectably-dressed men, who had evidently been drinking, attempted to enter the cafd, but were promptly and quietly refined adEllie &ion by Mr. Stabb. We left the room as Ms. Poole sat down, by which time the women had be come quiet and orderly, and as the meeting was purged of its more unruly spirits, it is probable that succeeding speakers were listened to with better grace. What we saw and describe must not be taken to mee the inutility of these exceptional gathering!, but the painful difficulties against which their benevolent promoters have to contend. At a simi lar meeting in the same cafe a fortnight back, out of 149 of the women present nearly 20 were induced to enter the Homes of the society ? and have now a prospect of being re-absorbed into the ranks of honest labour. Let us hope that the hardened bravado and noisy flippancy so prominent yesterday were not proof against the earnest exhortations delivered ; and that the efforts with which we must all sympathise met with more real success than ex ternals seem to show. PARIS, WEDNESDAY Emma. The Emperor has made a bid for popularity of the very beet kind. Yon will remember the peti tions, the letters, the leading article', protesting against the desecration of the moat delightful public promenade in Paris--for the Luxembourg Gardens are far prettier than the Tuile ries. It was in vain that the government journals published article after article to prove that the proposed diminution of the Luxembourg was not only a capital thing for the neighbour hood and the public at large, but a marvellous instance of the' genius and transcendent practical ability of the administration. Public discontent went on - increasing all the Emperor now publishes in the 3foniteur the letter to the Minister of the Interior which you have seen, stating that he has personally visited the Luxembourg in order to form an opinion on the petitions presented to him, and he has come to the apnclusion that the plan ought not to be carried out in its entirety. It is im- possible to know from the Emperor's letter how mach of the garden be means to save, though it is certain that a very considerable part, " all that to the west," is rescued from the destroyer's head. A plan specifying the parts which the Emperor thinks may without inconveni ence be built upon is annexed to his letter, and this plartils not yet published. I really feel, as one of the po g lish residents who for many years have enioyed the delights of the Luxem bourg audens, so personally benefited by the Emperor% personal interference with a disastrous project of his government, that, I think it almost ungracione to make the observation—which, never theless, my duty as a correspondent compels me to make—that, after all, the country is not bound to accept as sufficient the as yet unknown bounds ,which his Majesty assigns to the LuxembOurg. The contention of the peti tioners against the original plan is that nothing but an net of the legislature could appropriate to other purposes any part of a park dedicated to the public. The gratitude which the grey-headed pro fessors and the beardless students of the Quartier Latin mey feel towards the Emperor for saving at least a part of their ancient groves cannot prevent them from remembering as citizens that after all the Luxembourg is not the Emperor's freehold, and that his judgment on what is expe dient, however wise it may be, is not conclusive in point of right. There is a petition pending in the Senate, the discussion of which may very likely show that his Majesty's impression after a single visit to the Luxembourg Gardens yet falls short' of a just concession to the public rights and interests. At all events the Emperor's letter—most praise worthy in many respects, and I applaud it highly, with the only reserve that I can never approve dea lpotism under any form—is open to the criticism that it affects to settle definitively, like a Sultan or a Czar, a question which is only within the juris diction of the legislature. M. Emile de Girardin, utterly disgusted with the trant of the•government, to which he has vainly, endeavoured as a journalist to give an independent support, retires from the Prase, and his efficient aides-de-camp, MM. Clement Douvernois and Vermorel, retire with him. The Prase will now exist only in name. It must become a go vernment journal or die. All the life is out of it. The government never did anything more unwise than to disgust a man like Girardin, who wanted the "empire with liberty." The Bourse is absolutely without any feature worthy of note, and closes at yesterday's prices within a shade. THE FENL&N CONSPIRACY. DUBLIN, WIDNIMIDAY Mora. A seizure of 140 pikes was made to-day in a lane off Trinity-street, Dublin. Two arrests were made. A few persons were arrested in various parts of the country. Saunders's News of yesterday says About twenty peewee were arrested on Tuesday for their sup posed °enemies with the Fenian movement, and among them is a man named P. J. ll'Donnell, who, it ie &Bard, in the vice ' head centre' for Dublin, and the trusted um& dant of the areh-000spirabor, James Stephens. It is said that I the meals in Dublin would have been more aninereas bat that just at present there is not sitfileimat loco/ prison se sommodation. It is intended to send the prisoners to i t lin ke Island, and, when room has been made in the gaols by their removal, arrests will probably tab place as a Leger seals than that of the last two days. In various parte of the ocuurtry respected persons have been taken into ended . The greatest number of arrests hem been made in Limerick city, where 14 persons, elitul i n s ! a man, employed as alerts in respectable eetab • have been oonaigned to the county poi. The arrests caused much excitement, and on their may to the pal the prisoners were &send by the crowds who had gathered in the streets, 11 whose sympathies were elearly not on the side of law and order. Nine arrests have been made in Athlone. font in the town of . Leashed. one in Trace, and one in Belfast. The Northern What; says that more arrests risarallibleeksit place in Bel feet, but as no information could be bad from the angled ties nothing oould be definitely stated an the subject. With one or two exeeptions, the more recent arrests have not iecloded any strangers. In Treks the ' simper* ' de clared himself to be a captain in a cavalry regiment of the United States army." MARRLAGIS 801.1[IINIBILD BY A FEKALI PARRON. —Wherever Progress may have been born aad cradled, there can be no question of the hot that its permanent place of residence is the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and its favourite domicil the yellow-domed Slat-house on Beacon-rtreat-hill. Now that the status and prospects of the negro are partially settled, the lawevaes of the Bay State are paying their attention to the ladies. Feminine doctors sod lecturers have long flourished there, and now we hear of the settlement of • lady preacher over • church at Weymouth. The Reverend Miss Olympia Brown having been regularly ordained se • preacher of the Gospel, a dispenser of the Word, has recently taken it upon herself to solem nise marriages. Certain conservatives objected, and quoted the statutes, which provide that "be" may do this and that " his " acts are legal, but say nothing about " she "or " her." Instantly a storm of radical progression was aroused, and streighlway the House of Rep reeeutativss was appealed to in banal( of "lovely woman. The Com mittee on Judiciary gravely pondered and carefully °Duni doted the question, and at an early day reported lima mond, that a " woman regularly ordained can, under the statutes, legally solemnise marriage." No wonder that the female population of the old Bay State is largely in excess—ladies are human, and like the " rest of mankind" are apt to go where they will be well treated.—Pew York Times, Feb. 4. CHURCH RATE DITRAT.—At the Great Berk hemp/Aced petty sessions on Tuesday last Mr. A. Healey was summoned before the bench of magistrates fur non payment of church rates. The ease excited great interest in the neighbourhood. and the court was crowded. Mr. Pridenx, of London, appeared to support the rate, and Mr. Bennett, also from London, advocated the clue of the defeedsat. The rate was made Dearly twelve months ago. At the time it was strongly opposed, and was only carried, after a very sharp contest, by small majority of votes, the majority of ratepayers being against the rate. I'be church wardens are, Mr. W. Longman, the London pub lisher, whose country seat is in the neighbourhood, tied Mr. Cook, • miller, of Berk.hampstead. The defendant, who is • large brewer in the town, and the owner of much pro perty in the parish, had unwillingly been paying rake for property not in his own occupation. Although a church man, he is an opposer of compulsory payment in support of religion. In looking into the rate bought to be recovered, he discovered its illegality on the grounds we have mentioned, and on the feet that in making the rate the vestry clerk had omitted the names of some three 'er four hundred cottage tenants, merely mentioning the situation of the cottages and the amount at which they were rated. The magistrates decided that a primer facie case ba4 bean proved by the defendant, and therefore all power to enforce the rate was taken out of their hands. The decision was received with loud applause. Rerustmo ro PAY CHURCH Rms.—At the Shire Hal, Nottingham. yesterday, Mrs. Jane Monk and John Campion, both of Sneinton, near Nottingham, were charged with the non-payment of church rates, the amount due from Mrs. Monk being 2s. 2d., and Oempioo is. 6d. Is the first case, the rate not having been applied for within six months of ita being levied, the summons was dismissed. In Campion's case, however, the bench ordered the amount sod coots to be paid forthwith, in failure of which his goods to be distrained, and if there were no goods, that he be imprisoned three days. Campion paid the money, and was discharged. A Crt7 Cormago.artom.—At the church of St. Mildred's, Poultry, last Stucky morning, there was only one person to form a congregation, and there was conm quently no service. According to Crockford's Clewed Directory, the rector's income is 1701. • year, the patronage being vested in the Lord Chaacellor and the Mercers' Ociropsay alternately. It is in contemplation to makearrangements for uniting this parish with oae adjacent, under the hop of London's Union Benefice Act of 1963. Soucrrons' BarrEvourrr Ageocurfote. —The Lord Chief Justice of England has sonsented to preside at the anneal dinner of this assoeiatioe on Friday, the 22ad of June next, at the New Inns of Oeurt Hotel. ROYAL. GBOGRAPHICAL Sourarr.—At the meet ing on Monday next, et 84 p.m., at Berlingtee-bouse, Hr Roderick L Murchison, Bart., in the *hair, a paper will he read oa Exploration of the River Puna, by Mr. W. Chandkes. -, •_.„...,..}:,, •: 1 3 -P ro r ; - . LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1868. [STAMPED, id. ADDITIONAL.] [TWOPENCE h 1 1 It 1 1 , 1 1 i THE COLLEGES IN IRELAND. DEPOTATIOI TO LEL IWOULL. Yesterday Earl Russell received *deputation at his official rasidano• in Downing-41mi, ocialicting of a. number of pntlemen lotereeted la the !maintenance of the present system of edwoation in Ireland. They included the Rev. Dr. Wilma, Moderator of the General Assembly Of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland ; the Rev. Yr. leNaughtoc, e:-Moderator ; the Rev. Mr. Denham. the Rev. Mr. Pettigrew, and the Rev. Mr. Robinson. The de putation represented the north and south of Ireland, sod several of the more important bowie, especially thane in width, Queen's Colleges have been established. The members of the deputation who addressed hie lordship stated that the presbyterians of Ireland, who had lawg !maintained their loyalty to the crown, and who bad endeavoured by their infillOOOS to impress dl their fellow-subjects with feeliap of attaahmeot to its iw stitutions, looked upon the proposed alterations as being at the most alarming character, end it wee their cosseted= _ _ that they would, if oarriedont, destroy that foaling ot amity and honourable rivalry among the students which now on- Med. and which, it allowed to aostlowo, would bowt the happiest effort. is alloying long4taadiag sources et irritation and animosity in the onntry. Bari Menu, said—l have listened with peat &Mathis to the retaarks whkh have bike hem the weshers of the deputation, and I rare them that I missuld be very glad all larder oval& be eantared with the *rem whisk an in contacaplation or which may be iateaded. It smear to no, I emirs, that the duty of the gonniroant is to ad with perfect bnpardality towards the rations nligions pr olusions in Ireland, and in eonforcaity with that 'jaw ea system of natioeal education was estabilahad by means of the Natioaal Board. (Motion ware then made by the peethyberians in the north of Inland, and (as you your !selves state ins paper which I hold in my band) an agree rent was cone to by which the prsabyterians wire to re cane aid from the National Board of Education. Ths government al Ireland previously to that time hd ear milted with the reepreeentatives of the pembitorian baby and Audio' some of the emememlooe 'blob they deamolol reamemials, screed to make those concessions, and the terms upon which the presbyterians of Inkad consented W motive aid wets is my mind perfectly fair sad reasonable. That, however, did not imply any change In the windlass of the National Beard. Well, we now imam to the gnaw Sion of academical eduoatioe. It has been observed very truly by the Moderator of the General Amenably that Archbishop Cullen objected to the Queer's Colleges roes after their formation. I beg row to ray that be was not the only person who made an objection to them, nor was be the tint to object, for I well remember that when the plan we laid before the Howe of Commons Rix Reny Inglis, one of the members for the University of Oxford, desonoced it as • gigantic seisms of Godless oda (Annan. That phrase was misapplied, and I did not apes with him. The Queen's Colleges were babied on • sound principle, and I am glad to hear of the seems which has attended them. At the same time are cannot, or ought not, to be surprised that Boman catholic* should intender it wrong that they should have an scadendcal education is which their own religioa was not made &promises% feature, and in which the youths of their own deeomination could not receive that elementary instractioe which it is desirable they should receive with regard to the doctrines of their religion. I believe that if we were to se le the heads of the houses of the Universities of Oxford and (semiarid., and ask them to consent to do what is done at B Vast, and call upon them to take so acanthi of the teaching of the doctrines of the church of Reglad in soy of tb* colleges, they would at once redoes to make any sash eamession. That beiag the ems in Ragland, I l imn I cannot wonder that the great majority of the Roman catholic 'body in Ireland, espeotally the bishops al the Roman catholic church, have opposed sad diseonnte waded the plan of the Queen's Colleges. The question is, whether there should be any allowance made for these parents and those sons who feel coneneatious scruples on those points. In England we heat yielded to the hitherto wt NM Ram catholic body I. that ergesh, sad peas mom who may be simients at Osoott, Stoneylmrst, or elsewhere may come to London, and if they show that they have the pew attainments they can acquire the same Academical homers and distinctions as may be obtained by such solace seem up from any protestant or other institution in the kingdom. Some members of parlierneet representing Roman catholic constituencies, and the Roman cathode community, have eked that the same privatise, may he allowed to Irishmen in their own country as we allow le Englishmen in theirs at the London University, and I con fess that it appears to me the preposition is a very reasons hie one. It is sot, I think. a sufficient answer to them to say, " We cannot recognise your complaint, for you have oily to moss the Anita which divide England from 'rased, and you an have in London all the sdventiges which you claim.* That is not a sufficient answer to what I think are natural scruples, sad I think an attempt ought to be made to some to Roman anholice in belied the same academics/ advantages whiohthey would receive if they were here in England. Beth has been the foundation of the inquiries which have been made by the governmest. Of the measures which are in contemplation 1,7 the go vernment I cannot give you the details, because they are not yet settled ; sad although I fancy Arehbi , hep Oslies will not be satisfied with the proposed changes, still if we propose nothing but what is fair end impartial, !Nerd being hod to the large number of the Irish people rho ale Na me esthetics, we cannot, I think, be blame] if we ea deevonr to give them in consideration of their 4 , tainments the same honour and marks of pre-eminence which they deserve, and which they would obtain if they were eau. Gated la Esglaad. The chases in oontom plation are satirely with that view ; and I trust ti-it neither the system of primary education under the Na tional Board, nor the Queen's Colleges will stiffer from the changes which we propose. With regard to those who have no conscientious scruples to attend the Queered Colleges, they will of course centime to avail themselves of them; while on the other band, those who do entertain conscientious scruples, will have other fad& ties afforded them of acquiring se/Aoudad distinctious. The MODIUTOIL thanked the noble earl for the ceurtevy with which they had been received, and added th.t the depu tation were there in the interest of educated 'Lewin °abatis themselves. He held in his hand a pamphlet written by as Irish Roman catholic baronet (Sir Dominick Corrigan, M.D.) on the Freedom of Education, in which a hope woe expressed that the government would in the interest of the Ronan catholies of Ireland uphold the present system. The deputation then withdrew. I Yesterday evening, the Society of Arts held one of the most crowded and important meetings of the risme, to hear Mr. Thos. Gray, of the Board of Trade. reed • paper "On Modern Legislation in regard to tb, Lion and Equipment of Steamships." Amongst those pre sent ware :—Mr. Ferrer, Board of Mayo, Regis trar-General Merchant Seamen; T i Mr. H. Maudslay, Mr. Mocey Wigram, &winds, Mr. E. Chadekli, Captain Selwyn, R.N., and an immense number of shil ”liners and Wien interested in steam shipping and tb.: passenger Wade. In the absence of Mr. Lowe, M.P., 'le chair wan by Professor Homor, F.R.S., mapported by Mr. ' Wog Hawes, president of the society, and several other members of the council. PILLSEITATION Or BIBLES TO CHANG WOO COM AND Peorr.—Yesterday the tall Celestial sad his Chinese friends attended the Pastor-hall Hotel, for the porta:so of reeeivieg presentation of the Scriptures prietel in their own language. The Rev. Mr. Summers, l'.,aessor of Meese it King's College, presided, and and an address which, Pose with much freedom, and evidently with peat command mer the Mandarin dialect on his pert, seemed to considerably astonish and impress the stongto. Chang Woo Oow voided with much earnestness, reeding from a paper, which be promoted to the rev. professor at the ter 'ideation of his address, with a translation by E. wan Toon. MUTH or ME. SPOTTISWOODE, urn M.P. FOR Ofilowninsa.—The death is asnminced of Mr. Andrew Spettiswoode, lately the head of the house of Eyre and Spottisweede, Queen's pristers. Mr. Spottiswocde wag lately nomedth by his son, Mr. William Spott'sweode, of Italia Came, Oxford, 1 7 .11.8.. the distiagenbed meths matician. Mr, Wtiswoode died on Monday, aged 79. He was Y.P. for k.bester for a abort time in 1831, as a tary, but one unmated, as holding agovernesest onstrast. He theeseded his uncle, Mr. Andrew Strahan, as Queen's printer in the same year. LOWDON Giarmuz, Ovirrsiis 001/wAnw (LnaviD). —*Valk remises for We week ending Retinal, les 10,5961. I.od. I ~,' / QUBENSLAND.-BLACK BALL! ?AMMO= LIMB.—New arransemenhi with &Ws • 0 0 : gial Goverment. letnetiou steerage fare to Alt Land a ges LS to ell dupes. STAR OF ENGLAND, for BRIEBANE, es pm By, direct. packet for 118th Minim receiving goods im g Oh, unless previously full. The accommodation tar claws of passengers by this magniflcent ably, beinther ogled Made to the colony, will be found on inspection to be w orpassid by any vessel to the Australian trade. Will sell =tlllto date, and be immedisiely followed by the 7 /ANIFILL, as packet for 10th /Lareh.—ApOy to J r = LAINEd sad Oci., Liverpool; all agents for the BWIL Bali Ilse : s ad T. IL ILICKAY and Co., I. Leadsohellstreet, London, E.C. STALK MOM Lrvigarow. os ITIMNSIO'WY TO T W42IX. 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Concessions have bean obtained from the Fres& and Wien govertunnts for conaldecting and world= a locomotive railway over the Mont Conn from SA Michael. in Savoy. to Soak in piedmont, dlidenca of 48 adios. sioanacting the railings of Prance with Gans of Italy, whereby an Improved rode will be ended from Prance and England 70 Italy, Wpk and the Zed and e saving of two days effected In the termed at the Toem me. lbs Dliestirl have satisged themselves thee the sod at the line will not anon A 574,400, including rolling dock. 4 1 of Intend at T per cent. during construction, and mom Ille gross revenue produced by the existing trade on the road, with the same annual increase se that of the pad ram will be 'sufficient, after paying working expenses and 7 want. Wand on bonds and stares, to reimburse the ',OK and leave a Fort of 033,000 at the end of seven years. But a further annual increase of 10 per meth, due to UN facili ties a ff orded by the railway, may reasonably be named ; and the revenue thus accruing would give the abareholdera a profit of le per cent. per annum on the capital employed, in addition to the 7 conk received as interest on the shares until rola . oopiss of the prospect= and forms of applisetke for lbws way be had of dean .thurence, Sen. and Pearce, 7. Angel-wart, eninveit, and also of the Secretory. T. L Cutbith is h o r 4.ll l l,l t lrenam-street, SC. MONT CENIS RAILWAY COMPANY Igor= IS RIMY Or at VIN I" , tat NO APPLICATIONS for SHARPE In thts Company will be lINCIIVID ATMS &MB, DAY next, the lath led—BP order. Mt la. VIOL A SIATIO BANKING CORPORATION. - C). NOTICIIIB HEREBY GIVES, thM an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL mums° of the Corporation will be held at thk silos on Wednesday, the Ith day of March. at two o'clock precisely, for the purporie of considering, and if necessary, deter taking. in favour of an increase in the number of the Directors el the Corporation. and if so determined, of proceeding then and there to an election of each Meknes, and for passing all such resetatkes anagerged tbwewith as Ma be decided each meeting with a view to =cot to the d n then come to.—By order of the Y. W. LAWRENCE, Acting General Manager. 4. Lombare-street, Landon, Elk February. NOG i IV ES IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDI T I AMCIATION (Limited). Capital subscsibed, ,—JOHNaid up, L 600.000. Rest, tfl,ooo. CHAPMAN, Esq. lltniciana—lienry J. Barker, Seq., and T. Pram ilandernan, laci. s Association makes advances upon approved mercantile I Thi and other securities, and receives money on deposit at latest i for short or long periods. ess yea Detors foe periods of not than hree I on may procure, a p plication at the offices, l ntur debe t e, et the Ateociatien. bearing Interest at 8 per cent. per annum, payable quarterly by ✓ WWII " to Dearer' attached. • W. C. WINTILBOITOX. Barrelary. I 27, Leastardstreek London. B.C. TICE LIVERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE PIES and Lai INAITRANCX COMPANY. OAkeo-1,, Dale-droet. Liverpool ; Ye and 21, Poultry; 7, CleratM. and Cllnruig-erose, London. PROGRESO OP TUB 00NPAB7 11/NOl Year. Premiums. I Ufa Promltuali. 1161 1886 1861 1868 IMAM 212Ve 10Mb NUM /111.11.7 711,711 116,974 1111,141 it/101.1124 891,06 t 1,511,9011 1,112,300 10111 f ATI:INS, Reddest Secretary, Loads.. the claim are payable in thirty days after they are admitted. WH. 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SPECTACLES are NECESSARY WHEN the Eyes water, are misty, or fatigued altar readln WHEN the print blends, and the letters appear to be doable WHEN more light than formerly is requisite— per example : WHEN the candle is placed between the eyes and the book WHEN objects i must be held further off to be seen more early : WHEN much difficulty is found in threading a needle. The above are premouitorytds of decayingsight, and Indicate o that an opttslan should be consulted without delay. From long sad extensive practice Mears. Thomas Harris and Sea see fully sonmeteat to advise on all masters pertaining to the remedying detective sight. They skilfully adapt lenses, perfectly tree, of the requisite power, and likewise they Judiciously select 'pen tacle frame of the form meat becoming to the Mos. THOMAS HARRIS and dON, opticians to the Royal Family, opposite the British Museum gates. London (their only house), meal( shed 175 i. Cautloa —No travellers or agents. we TEETH and PAINLESS DENTISTRY.—The fear of pain and dread of operation Inherent to all deter many to whom ARTIFICIAL TEETH are of vital Impor tance from availing themselves of the services of a dentist. Is • thefounded In 1830, and now extending over greeter part of the kingdom, an experience unequalled has been obtained, en ahlins us to offer even the most *endive sufferer • system of thatkil7 perfect In its absolute freedom from pals, • specialist pertaining only to our practice. and for which her Majesty has rutedher royal letters patent. This system embraces thenon inkeference with all stumps, however decayed, the supporting instead of extraction of loose teeth until they become firm and useful in mastication, and the utter absence of all and every ope ration, so that the most nervous person san be supplied without fear of pain or inconvenience. These Meth are cheaper, more durable, natural, and comfortable than any yet produeed. Con mltation free. Teeth from 6• frets from five to 16 guineas, warranted. For the efficacy. utility, and sums* of this system vide '• lancet." Messrs. LEWIN and BDIRMI WISELY and BON 3 , 30, Berne's-street, Osford-street, and 448, Strand, eftollis Chaxiaxeroes Railway nation. Daily attendance at 16. wane tnaltete. Hull ; 10, NorfoliDAtreet. Sheffield ; 4, East-parade, Lids ; 14, at. In t i m ges.sa, ffesrlire, and 86, Coney.st, Yea. listablished IWO. Ho connexion with any one of the Nunn nano. 6 1 0 Pr • lei OA , Bli• tar 4 hail l , THE BEST REMEDY for Indigestion, Bilious and Liver Complaints, YEAIPTONII PILL of HIALTH. Sold bY all Medicine Volition, at to lid. and In ed. par box ; or obtained through any Chantal. DA. SCOTT'S BILIOUS sad LIVER PILLS, a sever tailing 'Most an y inerenrial Ingredient, Irons the re r c e iTel . Dr P = a t, wilt be found invaluable t_. 411 who wafer from Wens and Bair complaints, indigestioa. slawn, gtddlness, dizziness a the eyes, We. For habitual ecetivectes, as a family aperient asedlobie, and ma a wilier ot the blood, they are *sly excellent ; mild in their operation and gealand to the stomach, they create appetite. preote dAlsa lai r had strengthen the whole nervous fiw.—Bold by W. law wrs.,_ chemist, 8 , in William-street, Lagaross, sad by mod .. .Wittily IN bone. ta. lid. and s . Is. WI. Be sore to ask kr Dr. boa's Billow and Liver hue. The poisig; are In a square grain 'lobar with " William Lambert" engraved as the M. ROPOLIT AN HAIL, Edgw are-rad. LTA Open et 2.-11“ 111OAITHY et 0.110 le the sew Oasis Ballet, protocumed to be ow of the greeted mooltice of the dm. lam sad Marne Wattle. the mated euelocui couple, Annie Adana, Lade mals. Barr Wlll/0, end the Zetereoptloon. The greet Ballet of AURORA at 11.20. Maoeier,l. J. POO VV '‘IrRLSH HARP, ESSEX-STRERT. 140uvgaurranuirr.—The NEW PROPRINTOIt imp to invite the attention of gentlemen In the Temp le t a l a s t=e l *rimed to Ma annerior noccesmodation he Orem— Dinners from if till 4 ; on gandaya at i A large elub-room, matimirla for aocitiker meeting, de.—auorsenuw. Progrietor. MUDIB'B Tif T SELEC LIBRARY. * NOTICZ. the BUT 100 ot the IZAWN sad of the psA twenty years ere la cireislation aS IMP SELECT MILLET. MST CLASS 8171111CMITiON, OHM GUINEA PEE ANNUM Oanisieuedai at say data Beck Clots supplied is liberal term. War= MVO " Li zoisr M e etailted), NSW fifty 00" 4. LING-BTltiltt calculatr. parLuPs and T sad COMPANY'S TEAS are MI CIIMAPIEST. STROKE to EINE BLACK TEA. Lt. id., b.. la. ed., la., ta. ad Most dreams Black Tr IN wow rip Is. 6d. per poaad. Pere, <Asko OitEr led la. MUM sad CA, Tea a liforraata ., . Lb s Wffliawidnetv lirdwa. KO. • rho mart tree. Ewan at market prices. POILL/P6 seal Co. mad all goods carriage tree witkia rues et Ne. E King winiam-strest 40a worth earrhiga tree to say railway Matra or market tows lo Eagrad.—Phillipe sad Co. have me soar nor asp ornaarlior with asp here Wor order at dinner. A ItOWLANDS' MACASSAR OLL. —This elegant, fragrant, and pellucid oil is midden, in high repute tar soprano:Seated deeds dab( the lad ably yaws pressoi. lag the growth, restoring sad br ,ag g the bawds hair. It wands hair from falling oil or turning grey. desellikami week hair, cleanses IS from scurf and ffandriff, and maid it bead& e ful o = oldie, and glossy. Per ehildren It te especially ro ot, as forming the bade of a beautiful heed of Cdr while Its introduction into the wareery of royalty, and the high estates in which it is tuairereally held, with mune:ow testing). nista cos tautly received of Us died% afford the bastard surest proob of its media. Friar ii. ed., la, 10a. Id., equal to four ehead.taand 212. per bottle.--eold at 20, Hattondatton. and by end perfumers.—Aak for Rowlands' Macassar Oil. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most astral Invention of the day, AQUA a MARCIA.— Marra JOHN G06N711, and Co., Three King-ooart, Lombard s/week London, perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully o ff er to the =tide Mgr merrelloas Uatd . wble i gradually restores the heir to Its pree hn•—no matter at what ars. l'be Ages answella hes sone ttn of the properties of dyes; oo ass =, beassilcial to the system. end when the hair is once ens appal:Woe per month will keep it In perfect colour, Pdoe Al U. per bottle, or in half bottles, 10e. ad. Jots 0011Dea and Co. havelosen appointed pectinate to MILK. the Primes of Weles.--JORN 0011141112, cud Oo's. CBILRY TOOT' PAST' to =superior to any tooth powder.—To be bad of all w eber/data, end at the isanalsosary, led Ban Wharf, 03, Upper Thamesetrese. Loudon. A Trios Threepence, LETTER to the Big ht Hon. the EARL NUIIBILL on an hiendon of the Frenchlee to the Intel lectual end Wastelons Clause, In a Constitutional and Pfau- Ural anniter. Sy An Lam& London : PaMshed by Alfred Oadaby, 10, nesne.epart, Fleet, street, LC. May be had of an publielitun and booktellits. Pike M. blMt Mime, TSOIENCE of ;or What to Eat, THE Drink, and Avoid. A praelloal snide for self-preeerva ton, and for imparting health, strength, and efildency to the poet bnportant functkas of life. Supplemented by an Missy on the Tretrannt of Gamesome, Lowness of Spirit; lemiltuds, Debility, and Indigestion: addressed especially to profeesional men, men of badness, the studious, the sedentary. and all who are labouring under the debilitating effect. of over-taxed cough", either of body or mind. B 7 a PRINCIAII Of to years' practice. The work forms an excellent manual for all who would learn how S. use life, and not dame it. On the control of ths pardons and the regulation of the functions, the advice thronghoot Is most valsabiL"—Charrh and Stale Gazette. Mann, th, Nice la. DR. CULVERWELL on y.YyMagtIARRRIAGE : Ifs Coen awl Mans. Cotr:; trte Work,n. Man'. fivik balls Sulam. ST. LOKI'S HosPITAL FOR LIINATIOL—The an. noel general court of governors of Bt. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics was held yesterday at the hospital, in Old-street, the treasurer, Mr. Henry Francis Shaw Lefevre, in the chair. Mr. Owtbwaite, the secretary read some vole mieons reports from the general committee, auditors, and medical officers for the past year, from which it appeared that from the Ist January. 1865, to the 31st December last, 107 patients deemed suable bad been received into the hospital, of whom 48 have been discharged cured, 31 up land, 6 were found to be unfit for the benefits of she hos =, 7 were removed at the request of friends , and 10 had From the opesiog of the hospital in July, 1751, to the 31st of Deeember but inclusive, there bad been ad mitted into the hospital 20,360 patients who were deemed candle sad 839 who were thought incurable, although a large number of the latter class were subsequently dis charged cured. The average weekly number of patients in the hospital during the past year has been 147, and the total number remaining on the books at the end of the year was 142, via., 64 deemed curable and 78 boarders. The bene factions during the year amounted to 3931. 10e. against 3331. 3s. 9d. in 1864, and the subscriptions were the same in both years. Legacies had been received of 2,0001. from the late Mr. Richard Thornton, 9001. from Mr. H. Sikes, and 3791. 10s. from Mr. William Cole. On the motion of the chairman, who congratulated the governors upon the satisfactory state of the hospital, the report was adopted. Lord Oversteps was then re-elected president, and Mr. Laken treasurer, and the vice-presidents, general COM mittee, committee of audit, and other officers, having been re-elected, and thanks voted to them for past services, a formal vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the court adjourned. Rrrriaustt arm CoNvoosnon.—The following are the gentlemen somioated, is accordance with the Archbishop of Canterbury's message, by the Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation, as a committee to inquire into and report upon the alleged practice of ex cessive ritualism in the chnrchof England :—The Dean of Canterbury (Alford), the Dean of Westminster (Stanley), the Dean of Ely (Goodwin), the Archdeacon of West minter (Wordsworth), the Archdeacon of St. Alban's (Grant), the Archdeacon of Taunton (Denison), the Arch- deacon of Berkshire (Randall), the Archdesoon of Exeter (Freeman), Obsocellor Xassiegbeird, the Rev. A. °rendes, M.A., rector of Plockley ; the Rev. Dr. Jebb, rector of Peterston ; the Rev. Dr. Leightott. Warden of All Souls' College; the Bev. C. Pilkington, 8.C.L., Canon of Chi chester; the Rev. H. A. 'it oodeate, 8.D., 0111100 of Worcester • the Rev. J. R. Woodford, M.A.. rector of Kempriori; the Rev. J. W. Joyce, M.A., rector of Bu ford ; and the Rey. It. Seymour, Canon of Worcester. REFUSING THE Rums or BORILL.—The vicar of Geinsborough refused to read the burial service over the body of a men who died in that town last week, or to allow the corpse to be taken into thechnrch. The ninnies bad therefore to be buried without any service being performed over them. The ground of the vicar's refusal was, not that the man bad died unbaptised, or excommunicate, or bad laid violent hoods on himself, but that be had cootiooed living with a woman who was not his wife after being re peatedly admonished on the matter. The vicar is aware, we hear, that in refusing the Christian rites of burial under such gir ded th e he was acting somewhat illegally, but he regarded the step he bad taken as a wholesome act of ehurch FIVER IN NZWCANTLE-02•TYNE.—Typlom fever, which has been fatal is some of the more neglected puts of 'the east end of Newcastle-on-Tyne during the winter, seems to be travelling into the more wealthy quarters of that town. Last week Dr. Watson, a highly respectable medical Practitioner, was carried off by it, end on Monday Dr. Hawthorn, a gentleman io large practice, fell a victim to the same disease. On Monday also Mr. John Benson, a town councillor, and a gentleman taking a very prominent part in the public movements of the town, died of typhus fever, after a very few days' illness. Trim Loss or TEI EICRISIOR.—An interesting letter has been received in Bull by the parents of the cap tain's wife from that lady. She describes with simple pathos the distressing scenes which occurred on board the wreck previous to the arrival of the lifeboat. R a in fell on the Thursday and Friday, and was eagerly caught by the men in their sou'westers, and in a silver thimble beloogiag to Mrs Newton (the captain's wife). The only food the whale of the survivors had for six days and nights wee a small piece of a raisin cake, which was distributed so far as possible. Mrs. Newton was not rescued from the cabin until it was nearly full of water, and when she was about being carried on deck a heavy sea struck the vessel, &adobe and the Bret engineer, who had gone to her assistance, were swept back into the cabin. Delirium seems to have seised hold of many of three who perished, and the captain, who was rescued from the wreak, pa pa ed pat in the belief that if he let go his hold and went below be should find his way to a favourite promenade in 801 l called Spring-back. At the time the letter was written Lloyd's agent bad just ar rived, and was ministering to the wants of the 'offerers, most el whom wers soofined to their bed., but with every preopeet al opeedy recovery. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. NIMITZIeS TZLIG ITALY. FLORENCE, Fn. 21- In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, I Signor Minghetti made a speech in which he ex pressed his approval of the policy , and financial proposals of the ministry. He eulogised General La Marmora's note to the Spanish government, and ascribed to that power s wish to change the nature of the September Convention. ' Alluding to the Roman question Signor MingiLetti said : "The cabinet to which I belonged constantly refused to discuss the eventualities which might arise after the departure of the French troops from Rome. Italy has only honestly to fulfil the obligations imposed upon her by the September I Convention." Respecting the future composition of the Ponti fical army, Signor Mingbetti said :—" After the declaration recently made by the Imperial govern ment to the French Senate, I think the Italian cabinet should demand to be reassured against any intervention on the part of France in Rome. France should also be required to declare that the presence, in the States of the Church, of individual French subjects does not imply the presence of the French a,g . f I ROME. ROSE, Fin. 20. Cardinal Autonelli has addressed a despatch to the Papal representatives abroad, wherein he oom muniestes the views of the Roman government upon the manner in which the political, military, and financial position of the Holy See will. be affected by the execution of the Septemberia-i -ventiou. AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Fn. 2t. By an imperial decree, issued to-day, the pro visions of the amnesty lately accorded to Venetia are extended to all persons who have illegally emi grated from the Tyrol. The Diet for Lower Austria was closed to-day. -- —_ A telegram from Lemberg states that Count Golunhowsky is to be appointed minister without portfolio. RUSSIA. BT. PETISMIBURG, FIB. 21. The Journal de St. eienbourg of today pub lishes an article upon the imperial decree ordering the partial suppression of the military rule in Poland. The article says :—" It depends upon the Poles themselves to hasten the complete restora tion of a normal state of affairs, and to destroy the last traces of a painful past." PORTUGAL AND SPAIN. LISBON, FIB. 20. The government has ordered General Prim to leave PortugaL A motion deprecating this deci sion is now under discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. The Idinkter of War is unwell. THE OUTBREAK IN THE LEBANON. PARIS, FM 21. The journals of this city publish intelligence from Constantinople, dated the 14th instant, announcing that Dervish Pacha left on that day with troops for Tripoli. He was invested with the rank and powers of Extraordinary Commissioner for the pacification of the Lebanon. It was stated that the Turkish government intended to institute proceedings against the builders of the ironclad frigates recently con structed in England. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Pa 20. The Sultan has telegraphed his approval of the convention concluded between the Viceroy and the Suez Canal Company. The terms of the convention will be given in ezfenso in the imperial firman, which will be issued as soon as the report of the commissioners reaches Constantinople. CHINA AND JAPAN. (By Overland Telegraph from Galls.) HONG HONG, Pzit. I. It it reported that a large rebel foroe is within thirty miles of Nunkan (1 Nankoo.) Intelligence from Japan states that Belgium is endeavouring to conclude a treaty witif the Jap►neee government. NEW ZEALAND. (By Overland Telegraph from Galle.) ILELBOUR'SE, JAN. 25. Intelligence from New Zealand announces that General Chute had attacked and captured a large rebel pah. ' The war was virtually over, and the troops were leaving for England. THE C♦BMEN's STRIKE ♦T N♦rraB.—Letters from Naples explain the cause of the cabmen's strike , there. The men are, for the meet part, owners of , the vehicles they drive, yet an very poor, and are accus tomed to dram in a manner that is perhaps picturesque, but searady decent. With a view to improve their appear ance, the municipality decided that each cabman should be provided with a uniform suit, the east of which be was to repay by instalments of a ducat a month. To this the see demurred on the ground of their poverty. They were already saddled with m many burdens ►s they could bear, they said, and bad the greatest difficulty in making two ends meet. The municipality would not yield, however, and the cabmen accordingly struck. When this became known, it war thought necessary to place the omnibuses under the protection of the pollee, lest these vehicles should be interfered with. This pre caution had at first the desired effect, but disorders have since taken place. An omnibus arriving from Faris has been attacked, the police who accompanied it, and those who went to their assist►nce, were smiled ; flee or six of them were stabbed, and now lie in a dangerous state at the harpiteL Several persons too were wounded in the crowd. It was not until some soldiers and National Guards arrived on the scene and fired over the heads of the people that the disorders ceased. The latest letters from Naples are to the 15th, and at that date the strike still continued. A number of the cabmen had been arrested ; others were assembling in numerous groups, and appeared in a state of exasperation. The municipality were being urged to keep , firm to the conditions they h►d laid down, so that there I wee no prospect of the immediate termination of the M♦a3r♦oa or ♦ Ntnr TN IT♦LY.—The Italian papers mention that a marriage in accordance with the new civil law, and without the intervention of the church, has I just been celebrated at Such, in Sicily, between a barrister, Ongtielmo Caruso, and a non of the order of St. Theresa, named Maria Pisani, known as Sister Maria Annunciate. The parents of the bride not only gave her their coosent bat a dowry shso. All the principal families of the neigh bourhood, together with the load authorities, were pretest at the ceremony. Cwmm♦L P♦Lao& Otn BRISLING DAY... WEDNISDAY, PTE. 2L—Admineloes cm payment, 1,544; ditto, by soma tisk" 1,406; lAA AO" 2,960. THE ASYLUM FOR FATHERLESS CHILDRRN. Last evening the anniversary festival of this (nett tation was celebrated at the London Tavern, Bisbopegate. street, under the presidency of the Loan MATOB, who was supported by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Gibbons, Mr. Sheriff Figgie's, Major Snell, fro. This asylum, it should be stated, wee instituted in the year 1844, for the purpoee of relieving fatherless children without respect to place, sex, or religious distinction, the only qualification being that the child must be destitute and above the condition of a pauper. The children are received at any age (from the birth, if nines vary), sad are all retained and cared for—the boys until they reach the age of 14, and the girls that of 15. In the space of 21 years 570 children have been received, sod there are now 22 1 on the foundation. A building fund wee opened in 1850, and a most desirable mints at Reed ham, about three miles from Croydon, was pur chased as a suitable asylum, and was opened in July, 1858, by the late Earl of Carlisle. The Lord Mayor, in proposing prosperity to the instltutiou, referred very earnestly to the - fundsmental law by which it la oonducted—vu., "that it being the design of this charity to receive and bless the fatherless infant witboet distinction of sex, plum, or religious connection, it shall be a rule absolute, beyond the control of say future general meeting, or any act of inoorporatioo, that, while the edam, tion of the infant family shall be strictly religions and ecriptural, no denominational catechism whatever shall be introduowd, and that no particular forms shall be imp osed on any child contrary to the religious convictions of the surviving parent or guardian of such child. An institu tion so guided and regulated, wan an imperishable monu ment to its pions founder (Dr. Andrew Heed): sad he need hardly my that it required no oratory to plead the mass of a charity so nobly and so gracefully an down to us. Of the 570 children who been received into the institution linos its foundation, 350 had been placed in situations, and were now moving as honoured sad honourable members of this great community. At the begisoing of last year the institution was 9,70D1. in debt, but 7,0001. of that money bad already bees sub scribed ; sod he now appealed to the benevolent public to make good the remaining deficiency, and to enable the governors and managers not only to rest satisfied with the present number of its inmates. but to fill every department, in order that every blessing contemplated by its founder might be carried out to the letter. He concluded by draw ing attention, in the mcet effectivelangusge, to the children of the institutioa, who were then ranged along the centre of the room, and whose position, he said, spoke far more than words could do in favou r of the truly demerving cause he was humbly endeavour in g to plead. The toast was most warmly responded to, and was followed by " The Health of the Lord Mayor," ocied in very eulogistic terms by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Gibbons,who congratulated the citineas of London upon hiving elected him to the high and responsible office of their chief maps- . trate. A subscription list wa s then read by the Nev. T.W. amounting in all to 2,2401., which left, it was laid, about 400 1 . still desired to free the charity from debt. The musical rart of the entertainment was most ably conducted by Miss Rose Hanes, Miss Ellen Lyon and Miss Palmer ; Mr. T. Young, Mr. Chaplin Henry, Mr. Edwin Gray, and Mr. J. L. flattop, the last-mentioned gentleman pr e siding with his accus tomed efficiency at the pianoforte. EDUCATION 07 NEGLECTED AND DESTITUTE CSILDRZIA—A meeting of the Mutation Departmest of the Social Science Assoratioa was held last evening at their rooms in the Adelphi, Mr. G. W. Hastings in the chair, at which a paper was read by the Rev. W. L. Clay on the " Edocetion of Destitute Children." He urged among other points that the poor-law paddiese should have die- cretioaary power to make the education of the children the oonditioe of out-door relief, but be pointed out that unless they were relieved from the payment of school fees they would not use their powers. He argued that the poorer schools should hays government grants without bolos re quired to employ certificated teachers • and he sketched • plan for dealing with the street childen of London . G. and other great towns. The meeting was addressed by Mr Horst, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. T. Hew,Godwin, F.S., Mr. Heidgazian, Mr. GrifilthOlr. R. White, Mr. Charles, Mies Mary Garroter, the ahairmen, and the Rev. Mr. Clay in reply, after which a vote of thanks was parsed to Mr. Clay for the piper, which was ordered to be printed and Cliftralated. PHAEXACNOTICAL SOCIETY OF GMT Harranv.— The following candidates meted the major examination as phazutaceatioal &swims yesterday :—Thealle Fit Dulater, P 701405 Gehornohubb. Taunton ; Thomas= Cruse, Warminster ; Walter Duna, Pendlabos ; Arthur Thomas Horton, Scarborough ; Edward Jr.., Hyde ; An drew Mariposa, Ardranan ; James Stewart, Kirkcaldy. Sew Edna" prim is.„ IHE RENEWING of LIFE, addressed more arpsehdly to men of badness, the studious, the sedentary, all 'showing under 'he debOltating diode ot over-taxed ialrtither o a t body or wind. By Jona Muffin, M.D., Leadon. Dean and 800 Ludgate-hill, IC. g d