The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

B REAKF AST.-EPPS'S COCOA. Ehe entreoo. TO CORRTSPONDENTIL dlierelsamante Wooded for •• Express," London Wombs TaW most be at the Office, 10, Boayarlo-atreet, by Two dock on the day of publication. DRURY-LANE Tats ZvilioNo, THEMA:Ii OY VENICL Mr. Fixtekllosies. J. C. Cowper. H. Sloelnlr, E. Phelps, Barrett, Temple. lc.: Mrs. "'ermine Tema. ills Orattan.ate.—And THE LAM M' CLUB. Madames Decals Shirley. Hate Hareem', H. randenhoff, dr. RAYMAILIT. qr 779 Emma, THE WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton.— BRoTHIR sAn. mom Sothern, Ruckstons, Compton, John son, Sc. ; Man lames Chippendale, Robertson, Lewin, etc.—And MY Warn MOTHER. Messrs. Chippondale end Rowe. PRINCESS. TAT!, ETT/MlB, A LITTLE YLIETATION.—After which THE COLLICZV HAWN. Mews. Honcieault, D. Murray, E. Atkins, O. NeviDa, J. 0. Shore. H. Mellon, &c. ; Mrs. Baud=lt,& Musses Barnett MI kaarrortlty.—Aad NO. ONE ROUND THE CORNER. LYCEUM. THIS Evanso, rmarscrtuff. Mks Wand Shelley.—And ROMEO A•in JULIET. Messrs. W. Ley and Ryder ; Min Vestrall, Mrs. Marston, and Miss lUlly Palmer. INTRAND. Tine BYleirnia, NOTHTEO TO NUM& Mr. Thorne and Mum Ns+ , ton. —K IND TO A FAULT. Mears. l'arselle, Belford, and Juno;: !Indium. Johnstone, Gwynn', and Hughes.—And WILLIAM TELL WITH A VISOILANCIL O BORN. Tina Evanniti, FOR L O V E Memrs. H. J. Montague, Price, Garden. Westland, and H. Widdicomb; Mesdames StephenA Ilenrade, C. launders, &A.—And MARY TURN/JR ; OR, THE WICIOUB WILLI/1. Miss Joespha. DRITANNTA. TIM MEM, VII KING'S DEATH-TRAP. Mews. Rey nolds, Bell, Ac.; Mrs. 8. lass.-11r. B. Itraser ; Mr. Mark Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Lagoa sad Mr. J. MMIceat—CAPTAIN /JERALD. Mews Howe, Capita/4 de ; Mesdames Courteaay, Booth, Ac. NM WATZIL AT LONDON BR/DGE. IWO DAY —Monde& GIL 7m.. —Afternoon. 611. TAn. TO- 11 0RIOW—Morning. 6b. 64m— __Afternoon. Th. 2004 LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3. LONDON is threatened with a serious nuisance in the temporary loss of its cabs. It is well known that for weeks past the owners and drivers of these vehicles have held frequert consultations respecting the new rules which the police authorities have framed under the Metro politan Streets Act. Now that the time has come for enforcing those regulations, the parties whom they immediately affect are meeting them with a determined resistance. A committee of proprie tors is organizing the opposition, and has sum moned a meeting for this evening at Exeter-hall, with the intimation that " all drivers are " requested to be at home by four o'clock," so that after that hour for all but pedestrians the choice will practically lie between au omnibus and a brougham hired from a yard. It is intimated that should the police authorities not give way the cabs are to be withdrawn every day at four o'clock until the end of the year. It may be soon enough to look this inconvenience in the face when it be comes a reality, and by that time it may not prove so great as it seems. In such a case the theatres, which it is understood are not just now doing very well, would, no doubt, have a few more boxes empty, and travellers arriving in town by rail would be put to their shifts unless the companies should come to their aid. Residents in London, however, would be able with a little foresight and manage ment to provide for their more urgent wants by special hirings, and beyond this, the loss would not be greater than we could bear for a while. There is nothing very inviting in this December weather, and our matrons and daughters may find that they are happier and safer at home on these dark, cold nights, than in traversing the long, draughty passages, or waiting in the lobbies of places of public entertainment. It appears that the final resolutions of the cab proprietors are not taken, and it may happen that after all some means will be found of adjusting the dis pute without deranging the machinery of locomo tion for sixteen hours out of the twenty four. If not, the public, which has hitherto remained a neutral spectator of Sir RICHARD MAYNE'S controversy with the cabmen, will in quire for itself why they in particular should be disgusted with their occupation. If we shored lose the accommodation of our cabs, such as it is, for a while, it will be as well to remember that although, for the sake of convenience, we may speak of their withdrawal as a " strike," it has little or no resemblance to the movements we have been accustomed to associate with that name. Neither owners nor drivers have shown themselves indisposed to continue to serve the public on the old terms. It is Sir RICHARD MAYNE who innovates, by requiring them to give more than they have hitherto done in return for the fares, the rates of which are fixed by Act of Parliament. The most obnoxious of the new police requirements is that of a lamp, which is to be provided, properly trimmed and lighted, during such time between sunset and sunrise as the Commissioners of Police may appoint. This does not seem much to ask—at any rate not suf ficient justification for a strike. Nor if the cab trade were really healthy and prosperous would it be likely to cause one. Under such circumstances a factitious agitation, followed bye susp ens i on _— of service, would soon bring into the field a number of competitors for the profits of trade, and the evil would find easy and natural redress. The case, however, is otherwise : the cab trade, carried on under the restrictions of the FITZROY Act, is notoriously not profitable. Men of enterprise and capital shun it, and the conaequenoe is what we all see and know. Sir RICHARD MATHS is a very able and zealous public officer, with an unbounded faith in the power of regulation. Be has been at his present work many years, and we frankly admit that if any amount of super vision and restriction could have effected the objec. we should all have had by this time the opportu nity of riding in the prettiest and easiest of broughams for sixpence a mile. But, as sure as water finds its level, the quality of an article in this City will adjust itself to the price ready to be paid for it. No police authority has hitherto discovered a way of making men carry on busi ness without profit. We know what ten years of legislation have brought us to—a cab service the worst of any city in the world. Perhaps before the present dispute is ended we may be brought to see the wisdom of letting skill and capital try what they can do for us in a state of freedom. THE Drnr-sv Or Less CONVISSIOL—The Com missioners now propose, with the authosityof her Majesty's government, to proceed with the preparation of specimen digests of certain portions of the law. The subjects they have selected for this purpose are the following: -1. Bills of excbrn;e. including promissory notea, beak notes, and checks; 2. Mortgage, including lien; 3 Rights of way, water, and light, and other easements and servitudes. The commissioners are desirous to obtain for this undertaking the co-operation of the bar, and they accordingly propose to intrust the preparation of a specimen Digest of the Law under each of these beads to a gentleman of the bar, to be selected by them, with liberty to him to associate with himself another member of the bar to be nominated by him and approved by the commissioners. The gentlemen selected will be required to execute the several specimens in conformity with the views expressed In the commissioner,' first report, and their work will be subject to the general superintendence of the commissioners. The specimens when completed, and approved by the com missioners. will be reported to her Majesty, with the names of the gentlemen by whom they here been ezeanted. OUR CONTEMPORARIES& (THIS DAY.) TUE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 3, 1867. ,• - q-- the irourt. WINDSOR CASTLI, DEC. 2. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princeußeatrice. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Flphinstone, has left the Castle for Greenwich-park. Her Majesty held a council to-day at 1 o'clock, at which were present the Duke of - Marilierough, the Earl of Tankerville, Earl Cadogan, and the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole. The Duke of Marlborough had an audience of the Qaeen. Mr. Edmund Harrison was Clerk of the Council. Lord Skelmersdele and Colonel Cavendish, the Lord and Groom in Waiting, were in attendance. The Duke and Duchess of ltoxburghe, the Lord Bishop of New Zealand, the Dean of Windsor, and the Hon. Mrs. IV...Healey had the honour of dining with the Qaeen and the Royal Family yesterday. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe have left the Castle. Lord Charles Fitzroy and Colonel Du Plat have suc ceeded Major-General F. H. Seymour and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardline as Equerries in Waiting to her Majesty. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Susan Melville, left Fro more yesterday, on a visit to the Prince' and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. Deputations from the Greenwich Union, the pariah of Charlton, Kent, and the Woolwich local Board of Health, bad interviews with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. The lords present at yesterday's sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were Sir J. Colvile, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir R. T. Kinderaley, Lord Justice Bolt, and Sir Lawrence Peel. VIEIT OE THE QUEEN TO TOWN.--(THIS DAY.) —At 11.35 a.m. to-day her Majesty, with Princess Louise and suite, left Windsor by special train for Paddington, where she arrived at 12.10. The Queen leaves London at 1 o'clock. The Queen has sent a donation to Mrs. Elizabeth Watson, of Armathwaite, • widow who has attained the remarkable age of 92 years, and has lived to see the fifth generation in her own family. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Teck and suite honoured the performances at the Royal Amphitheatre and Circus, High Holborn, with their pre sence last evening. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Susan Melville, left Frogmore yesterday on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wale@ at Sandringham. Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess de (Menthe and suite have returned to the Clarendon Hotel from visiting their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. The Duke of Leinster arrived at his residence on Carlton-house-terrace yesterday, from Carlton House, Maynooth. EDUCATION IN THE HOUSE OF LORD'. Though Lord Russell has many qualifications by descent and career for dealing with the subject of edu cation, the Times thinks he comes too late to be the originator of a national policy: Nothing was more pain fully evident last night than the want of support he received, and everyone saw probably that he had not mastered the present position of the question. But the Timm does not apprehend that this premature attempt has done injury to the cause, or that, with so many com plaints against our educational system, the matter will be shelved. The House of Lords, the Daily News observes, appears increasingly inaccessible to the vital and energetic ideas of the age which give an impulse to legislation in the House of Commons ; and a consciousness of this state of things appears to have weighed in solos degree upon Earl Russell. The effectiveness of his speech no doubt suffered from the extent of surface which it covered, and perhaps it had hardly the firmness and elevation of his resolutions ; but he must h►ve felt from the first the dispiriting influence of an audience disposed neither to support nor oppose him, and not containing so much as one member ready to speak to the great question of the day for its own sake. Certainly it would be unfair to ministers who have given notice of an education bill to assume that they agree with the Duke of Marlborough that we are already in posses sion of a system which promises to overtake the wants of the people, and make the country "great, glorious, and happy." The demand for [time is a fair one ; but at the proper period the government will be expected to produce a plan recognising and satisfying much larger necessities than the Duke of Marlborough dreams of. The Herald criticises Earl Russell's speech on the whole in a friendly manner, though it considers his resolutions ' of a somewhat intangible kind, and his statistics Hot so conclusive as ho himself seems to have supposed. His lordship must be content at present with having venti. lated his opinions. The Standard is much less complimentary. The latter says that when the Duke of Marlborough declared he would never do anything to disturb the denominational system he struck a chord which will be responded to by public opinion. In the present condition of England the denominational system is the only one that can secure religious education. Lord Russell's most intimate associ ates did not even pay him the compliment of coming to listen to his speech. Lord Granville was not there to lead the cheering, and the ex-premier could boast of no more illustrious supporters than two ex-whig ministers, "pitch forked " into the upper house. The Te/rproplt insists that the noble earl's resolutions are the trumpet-note to the liberal party. They will be main tained in their integrity till every principle shall have begotten practice and result; and the alternative for "the party of the previous question" is this—again to attend Mr. Disraeli's school, and learn what must be done, or to introduce a ridiculously petty bill next year, and be incon sequence summarily dismissed from power. The Star believes Earl Russell's speech, though it merely resumes the progress of intelligent opinion, will do much towards fixing and advancing the general con viction, on this great subject. )US TOPICS. If 2,000,000/. is wanted to start an expedition which is necessary to avenge ourselves and our countrymen, it must be had ; but the Times asks why honour should be the only motive to prompt to enormous expenditure and sacrifiees ? This 2,000,0001. so jauntily thrown into the interior of Africa, what could we not have done with it? We could have wholly or partially rebuilt most of our in firmaries and workhouses ; or have placed ourselves on • par with Paris by providing receptacles for treasures of art and science multiplying on our hands ; or have aided the 5,000 parishes in which the schools for the poor struggle on without recognition ; or have done something to carry off into the surrounding seas the mass of water that drowns half the soil of Ireland. If we can do so much to maintain our honour, may we not do ea much for the good of our fellow-creatures, the improvement of our country, and the mutual reconciliation of religions and races at home? Commenting upon the clumsiness with which the Reform Act was framed, the Daily News illustrates it by the bill introduced last night by the Attorney-General to complete the disfranchisement of the four corrupt borough. and by the disappearance of the sacred principle of the personal payment of rates. The measure once bristling with securities, of which the Wks discarded one half and the liberals refused the other, is left as naked as the bead of the bigamist from which one wife plucked all the black and the other all the white hairs. Household suffrage, pare and simple, is the unin tentional gift of a tory cabinet to the boroughs of England. The question of compounding cannot but be re-opened, for the abolition is one of the elements of the existing distreas in London and in other large towns. Everywhere those who are most directlyconcerned protest spinet the late change, and the political pretext advanced for it having been aban doned further persistence in the prohibition will only show that the conourpropre of the ministry is stronger than their regard to the well-being of the poor, and to local rights and convenience. The Tekgraph advises the Home-office to strike out for the time the clause in the Metropolitan Traffic Bill which decrees that cabs shall carry lamps, and at once refer the whole question of London conveyances to a parliamentary committee, with the view of legislating es soon as possible on a matter which so intimately concerns the comfort and convenience of the public. Mr. Hardy's attention may be at present engrossed by subjects of weightier import, but the government has in Sir James Ferguseon, the under secretary for the department, an official fully capable of handling this business with tact and discretion. It is now pretty well undentooti, the Stawdarti says, that the conference will not come off ; nor Is it very 'easy to perceive the pressing reuons for its convocation by the Emperor of the French, or for the persistence with which he still clings to a project which all the world has set its foes against. The ease of the railway engine -driver in England, com pelled to perform his duties h►lf-frozen by the searching storm, with only a piece of glue before his face, is taken up by the Times, which observes that there is no pretext whatever for this inexcusable abuse of good working power. The Americans enclose the driver and stoker in a little glass house, through the windows of which they may see perfectly all that lies before and around them, and at the same time be sheltered from a storm. There has not been found a single disadvantage from this device. The win dows slide back at the aides, so that the driver may sully look out, but u a rule there ie no necessity for this. The same principle, with some alterations, ban been adopted on our railways in India, and the British North American Colonies. TH3 Naw BISHOP OF LtCHTIELD.—WO have great pleasure in announcing that the Bishop of New Zee land, George Augustus Selwyn, has accepted the bishopric of Llcbfield. It had been offered to him as soon as it became vacant, but he at first thought the claims of his distant see required him to decline the more comfortable position of an English bishop. Upon more mature con sideration, the prospects of increased usefulness prevailed, and we may congratulate "the Black Country " on having obtained a missionary bishop who, though a brilliant scho lar and the ideal of a British gentleman, has proved his ability to deal with men and to command their sympathies in one of the most difficult fields of Christian enterpries.— Thou.—The Rev. Dr. G. A. Selwyn is a son of the late Mr. William Selwyn, of Richmond, Surrey, and is • brother of Sir C. J. Selwyn, M.P., the Solicitor-General, and of the Rev. Dr. W. Selwyn, the Margaret Professor of Divinity at Cambridge. He sou born in 1809, and was educated at Eton, whence he proceeded to St. John's College, Cambridge, where be took his B.A. degree when he was second in the first-o'ses in classics, and twenty-first junior optima in the mathematical tripes. He became pastor of Eton and curate of the parish church of Windsor, and in 1841 was created fist Bishop of New Zealand. At that time the diocese embraced the whole of ?few Zealand, I but it has since been subdivided, and there are now Bishops of Wellington, Nelson, Christchurch, Otago, Warapa, and the Missionary Bishop of the Milanesi•a or South Pacific Islet. WIIITYINSTIR PLAY. —The AdelpAi of Terence will be performed in the Dormitory on the evenings of Thursday, the 12th, Tuesday, the 17th, and Thursday, the 19th inst., with proloiee and epilogue as in firmer years. On Thursday evening the Earl of Derby is to move that the House of Lords concur in the resolution respecting the charge for the Abyssinian expedition, which has been communicated to it by the Hours of Commas& THE HEAVY G4LE. HOLYHEAD, lifo2mAr Mont We have been visited with a moat terrific gale from the north hero (writes Admiral Schoenberg, Queen's harbour master), and but for the indefatigable and courageous conduct of the crew of the lifeboat Princess of Wales, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, we should have been is much distress. We have had three wreaks, one • French barque, the Bayard. She rrheand came on the rooks near the lighthouse. The oa d t was launched at 9 p.m. in the face of all difficul ties, heavy see and lee shore, and brought all on board the vessel safely to land, about fourteen in number. The life boat then went out three separate times to an English ship that had sunk near Salt Lland, and brought thirty of the crew is all on shore. At 5 am. she was again manned and sent to act near the breakwater to save • schooner's crew. The men were ultimately got on to the breakwater. Nothing that I can express can be too strong for my ad miration of the men, for a worse light I never saw; it was just such a night as the Royal Charter gals. I was in that sea and tan therefore estimate the two. Five separate times the boat was manned, and did good service with her veteran coxswain, Rowland, over seventy years old. I hope youwill excuse this hasty line, as I am in wit clothes and have been on my feet twenty-four hours with no small anxiety. . . _ Another correspondent, probably writing later, says that the boat had been out six times, and had saved altogether 52 lives daring the gale. RAMSGATE, MO/MAY NIGHT. The Bradford lifeboat and steam tug Aid have again been out on service, in reply to signals; from the Gull and Goodwin light-ships, about 6 o'clock this morning (states Captain Shaw). On reaching the Gull light-ship, they were informed that • large light, bearing about 8.N.8.. was being burnt as • signal of distress. It was at this time blowing • perfect hurricane, and there was • tre mendously heavy sea on. A sunken schooner was shortly afterwards seen in the Gull stream with her masts out of water ; but no one was found c li nging t o th e r i gg i ng. Afterwards • d ie masted schooner was seen with a steam tug alongside her, and the lifeboat remained by in ease any further assistance should be needed ; but the schooner was enabled to slip her cable, and proceeded to • safer anchorage in the Downs. Before leaving, the lifeboat around the North Sand Head and shoals in its vicinity ; but nothing was semi requiring her services, and the boat and steamer then returned to harbour. NORTH DEAL, Mo /max. At 6 a.m. this morning (says Mr. J. Netbenole) intelli mge was brought here that the Gull light-ship e was guns and rockets. The crew were immediately assembled, and at onoe launched the Van Kook lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat In s tit u ti on , and pro ceeded towards the light ousel. The lifeboat men were then informed that they were firing for a ship which was near the Goodwin Knoll in a dangerous position, but not aground. The Ramsgate lifeboat Bradford had also gone oft to the same vessel and found that their services were not required. Tho two lifeboats then returned to the shore, but the wind was blowing so heavy and the tide against them that the Van Kook was obliged to land at Widmer. There is not the slightest foundation for the report that has appeared in some of the newspapers that our lifeboat had capsized and drowned one man. WALMER, MONDAY. On Saturday night last (reports Captain William Dicey) the light vessel on the South Sand Head of the Goodwin Sands fired guns and sent up rockets as • signal that a veinal was on the sands. The lifeboat at this place, be longing to the National Weboat Institution, was launched immediately, and proceeded in the direction of • flaring light, which was kept in sight until the boat reached within • quarter of • mile of it, when the light suddenly disappeared. The lifeboat then proceeded over the spot, through the broken water, but could not find any trace of • vessel or wreak. The lifeboat then stood back towards Deal, but there being a strong flood tide, and the wind blowing • g a l e from the south-west, she could only reach Pegwell Bay, where she anchored until daylight. The lifeboat was then got under weigh, and while working down to her station against the gale that was blowing at the time • sharp gnat of w i n d t oo k h er when off the pier at Deal, and, before the fore-sheet could be let go, it being foul at the time, she capsized. Nine of the crew clung to the boat, and were afterwards picked up by a Deal boat which happened to be near the lifeboat at the time of the accident. All the crew were saved, one man only being seriously ill, he having lost his presence of mind. We have since learnt that the vessel was the brig Lena, of Liverpool, bound from Galata to Hull with • cargo of wheat. WHITBURN, DURHAM, Dec. 1. The brig Jenny, of Whitby, bound from Dunkirk to Shields, in ballast, no on the rocks between flouter Point and Whitburn Steel late on Saturday night (reports Capt. Duff, R.N.). She soon knocked a hole in her bottom, filled, and went to pieces, but the erew of six men were happily rescued by tho Thomas Wilson lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution at this plus. LOOP., CORNWALL, MONDAY NIOAT I have to report (says Mr, R. Thomas) that information was brought yesterdayduringcbuch time that • bri gan ti ne was ashore on the rocks between Looe Island and the main land. The lifeboat Oxfordshire, which belongs to the Na tional Lifeboat Institution, promptly proceeded out to her assistance ; it was blowing • gala from the W. at the time, and the weather was very thick. Fortunately the vessel, which was the brigantine St. Brannicb, from Havre forßuit oorn, with flints, held on till the flood tide, when after throwing off about fifty tons of her cargo, she floated off, and was got safely into our harbour, in a very leaky and damaged state. The crew of the lifeboat and the ooast raardmen rendered considerable assistance, and remained by the vessel until she was in safety. After the lifeboat bad returned to the shore it was reported that a schooner was at anchor close in shore on Whitsand Bay. The life boat was despatched to her assistance, but as the wind shifted to the north the schooner w as able to get under weigh and sailed, it is supposed, for Plymouth. The lifeboats at Mullion (Cornwall), Palling (Norfolk), Rye and Winchelsea (Sussex), were also got out with the view of rendering assistance to the crews of distressed vessels, but their services fortunately were not ultimately requirid, We (Di)lin Evening Mail) regret to announce the death of the Rev. William Magee, rector of Dungen.- town, county of Wicklow, which took pace somewhat sudder.ly on Saturday last. The deceased clergyman was son of Dr. Magee, Arehbishop of Dublin, and noels of the present Dean of Cork. He was S l yly fort) ran rector of Dunganstown, and by his demise an important and valuable benefice falls to the disposal of Archbishop Trench. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TERRIBLE CYCLONE IN BENGAL 1,000 LIVES LOST AT CALCUTTA AND 30,000 RUTS DESTROYED. (RLUTZ:OI sitzaams.) CALCUTTA, Nov. 9. (Via Trieste.) On the night of Friday, the Ist inst., a cyclone raged in Bengal, extending according to present information from the Bay northward to Serazguni, westward to Midnopore and Burdwan, eastward to Burnaanl and Dacca. The rice crops throughout the track visited by the cyclone are greatly injured. In many places it is estimated that not one-fourth will be saved. Many buildings have been destroyed, as also boats on the inland rivers laden with jute and grain. Large quantities of the growing jute have also been destroyed. Great damage has been done at Port Canning. A storm-wave nearly six feet high carried away a portion of the river bank jetties ; the railway is much injured and the station destroyed. At Calcutta the cyclone lasted nearly eight hours. It is estimated that it has done more damage to the city than the great cyclone of Octo ber, 1864. In the city suburbs more than 1,000 lives have been ascertained to have been lost, and 30,000 native huts destroyed. Tugs and other vessels have been wrecked at Saugor. Several vessels are missing and numerous ships are return ing disabled; more than 600 native boats have been destroyed. The steam transport Euphrates has put in at Calcutta to refit, greatly injured. At Burdwan much distress has been occasioned among the native population. The telegraph line along the Ganges has been thrown down. In Bengal great distress is reported. The Bengal government is actively engaged in taking measures for the relief of the sufferers ; the Board of Revenue is co-operating with it. The Famine Relief committee are collecting funds. The Lieutenant• Governor has announced that the government will double the amount of the sub scriptions raised. The Chamber of Commerce has issued an appeal for subscriptions. The Bengal government has recommended to the supreme government that an agent of the Eastern Bengal Railway should be authorised to make an engineering survey, with a view to the extension of the railway from All= to Darjeeling. The Vice roy has submitted the question to the home government. The Viceroy holds a Council at Calcutta on the 21st inst. Advices from Orissa represent the famine there as nearly over. The stores of government rice are sold at reduced prices. A telegram from Burnish states that Colonel Lythe has returned to Mandalay with the treaty signed. ROME. The Osservatore Romano of the 26th contains another article on the subject of the conference and the attitude of the English government. The writer accuses England of encouraging the revolu tion first, and then abandoning it. He speaks of Mr. Gladstone as one who, "to second the wicked projects of the revolution, has lied as much as any body ever did, disguising the truth, and inventing what had not even the appearance of truth." According to the official journal the Garibaldians are still on the watch for an opportunity to renew their attack on the territory of the Pope : _ _ In various places in Tiiscany near our frontier many Garibaldians with red shirts are gathering together, and in Orvieto enlisting-oftlces are publicly opened for volunteers, to whom is given • premium of 43 lire, and a pay of two lire a day. Giove, Attigliano, and other places be yond the Tiber, are peopled by Garibaldians. Some of them were seen armed, and headed by a certain Mimi, on the hill of ChM. At Voltoncino • band of 60 Garibaldians has united with the intention of surprising by sighs the neighbouring frontier villages. In the environs of Sore there are, although disbanded, about 3,000 °anted diens, of whom a column of 800 has been formed, des- tined to set out for Rieti. To these facts is to be added the not less serious incident which took platy when the 621 Garibaldians, who were kept at Civita Vecchia, were sent back to their homes, according to the sovereign disposition of the Holy Father, who chose to respond to their wicked attempt with such generous clemency. When they were asked to declare upon their honour that they would not take up arms any more against the govern ment of tho Holy See, they openly and with malice prepense refused, so that it became necessary to intimate to them that if they returned they world be treated according to the rigour of the law. From these facts, and those alluded to in our number of the 21st, it appears evident that a new blow is being organised against the territory now left to the Holy See, nor is it therefore to be wondered at if tranquillity cannot yet be consolidated among our peaceable population, especially those near the frontier. The Osserratore reports that Six hundred musket; have been found in a cove outside the Porta San Paolo 10 cases of double axes, with contri vances for fitting in daggers ; 49 Orsini bombs, all ch►rged, were found last Saturday, and a box containing upwards of 1001 b. of gunpowder, in one of the cellars of the Capitol. Cardinal Antonelli has complied with the British consul's request for a search to be made for the corpse of the Deputy Cairoli, who was killed at the head of his band on the Parioli hills on the 2fith October, just a mile out of the Porta del Popolo. The search has been successful, and the corpse, having been verified by a sister of the de funct, has been placed M a leaden coffin, to be restored to his relations. (6111777./e8 Tnzaaars.) ITALY. ROME, Drc. 3. • General de Failly and his staff left this city yesterday for Civita Vecchia. FRANCE. BR T, Du. 3. The Europe arrived here on Monday with 103 passengers. HUNGARY. PEEITH, Die. 2, Evsztnea. At the sitting of the Lower House of the Hun garian Diet w-day, the bill settling the proportion to be contributed by Hungary to the revenue for the present year was passed almost unanimously. An Hungarian consulate is to be established at Bucharest. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, Use. 3. The Stoats Courant of to-day says that the Sing of Holland will come to no decision as to the re signation of the ministry until after the Chambers have discussed the budget. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. KURRACHEE, Nov. 25. The Beloochees have sailed for Abyssinia. Bat tery G, of the 14th Brigade Royal Artillery, under the command of Captain Murray, follows to morrow. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE DV The North German Lloyd's steamer Deutschland, Captain Weasels, from New York on the 21st ult., has arrived at Southampton. She brings the usual mails, 83 passengers, 101,415 dollars for England, 118,400 dollars for Rance, 8,750 dollars for Bremen, aagi 1,700 tons of cargo, consisting chiefly of tobacco and option. Throughout the entire passage the Deutschland experienced stormy easterly winds, rain, heav squalls, and high sea. NEW YORK, Nov. 21. Congress meets to-day, but is expected to adjourn until Monday. General Mower hu issued an order removing numerous judicial officials at New Orleana. The Georgia Reconstruction Convention hu been ordered to meet at Atlanta on the 9th December. The Convention elections in North and South Ceti ma commenced on Tuesday. The negroes unanimously rited the radical ticket. The Alabama Convention hu "track out the clause dis franchising all persons refusing to vote on the ratification of the new constitution of the State. The Tribune says that Mr. McCulloch will in his report strongly denounce currency payment of the principal of the bonds. Senor Garcia, the new Peruvian minister, presented his credential, to the President yesterday. The Herald alleges that annexation to the United States was openly and generally advocated in British Columbia. Mr. Dickens has been cordially received at Baton. ' Advims from Mexico state that President Juarez ten- dered Admiral Tegethoff an escort to Vora Crux while transporting the remains of the late Emperor Maximilian, but forbade any public demonstration. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. QTTEENSTOWN, Dec. 3. The Inman steamer City of Baltimore, from New York on the 23rd ult., arrived at Queenstown this morning (Dec. 3) with 31 passengers and 1,0001. in specie. She landed mails and passengers and pro ceeded for Liverpool. (Via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Congress met on Thursday and adjourned until Monday, when the judiciary committee will report upon the im peachment. A resolution to pay the public debt in coin has been introduced in the Senate and tabled. Senator Sumner has introduced a bill providing for the political equality of citizens in the district of Columbia irrespective of colour. It is generally expected that Congress will repeal the cotton tax. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens occupied his seat in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The elections in North and South Carolina have resulted in favourof the Convention, the conservatives offering little opposition. The delegates elected are nearly all radicals. - - General Mowen has removed the Lieutenant-Governor, the Treasurer, the Auditor, and several other state officials in Louisiana. The Nee York Timm says that General Grant's report estimates the military appropriation necessary for thefiscal year ending June 30,1869, at 77,000,000 dole. At a convention of conservative negroes, held at Rich mond on Thursday, the cultivation of friendly relations with the whites was advocated. Mr. Davis arrived at Richmond rid New York yesterday. There was no demonstration. His council deny the report that they bad protested against t►e trial taking place before Judge Underwood. THB RECEPTION OP MR. CHARLES DICKENS IN AMERICA. A letter from Boston of the 19th says : "The great event in Boston to-day has been the arrival of Charles Dickens from Europe par the steamer Cuba. Through the agency of the telegraph minouneements were made which gave currency to the belief that the Cuba and the distinguished novelist would arrive in the middle of the afternoon, and although there was no public ovation or demonstration contemplated, • crowd of several thousand persona assembled around the wharf where the steamer was expected, and, in spite of the inclement weather, re mained until the failure of their desire was assured. If she had made her time the Cuba and Mr. Dickens would hive been in Boston at three o'clock, and inasmuch as 'them was the unusual interruption of half{-dozen hours from Halifax, the fears of a disaster were not without some shadow of foundation. At about half-past *even o'clock, however, it was announced from the Old State House news room that the Cuba was approaching Hull, on her Donne to Beaton, and that elm had been boarded by the United States tugboat Hannibal Hamlin and Mr. 'Dicke= taken on board. The tugboat proceeded imme diately to Barton, and arrived at Long Wharf in about an hour, and full half an hour in advance of the Cuba. Among those who were on board the tugboat were Mr. Dolby, the agent of Mr. Dickens, Collector Russell, of the port of Boston ; Oliver Wendell Holmes, General Sherwin, Hon. Josiah Quincy, James Fields, of the publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields, and several other literary celebrities. After the customary greetings and congratulations • repast was served on board the Hamlin, and when it was finished she had arrived at her dock in I Boston. The party then took earriages and proceeded immediately to the Parker house, where Mr. Dickens will remain until his departure for New York. " The first aeries of his readings will begin in Tremont Temple on the evening of December 2, and his first in New York will be given on the evening of the 9th. Mr. Dicken's voyage from Liverpool to Boston was one of uninterrupted pleasure, and while declining for the present all public ovations, he nevertheless feels pro foundly gratified for the many manifestations of welcome which the American people have already showed towards him. Mr. Dolby, him advance agent, has already disposed of some 8,000 tickets to his first series of Boston readings, and there is no apparent diminution in the number of applicants. A considerable number of them have probably been bought up by speculators." The Net° York Herald comments upon the Anita in its characteristic Atli,. We read :—" Charles Dickens arrived at Boston on Tuesday, the 19th of November, by the steamer Cuba. Seven thousand of the philosophers of ' the Hub, in breeches and in petticoats, awaited his arrival on the dock • but they lost the opportunity of wel. coming him with the usual demonstrations of toadyism, inasmuch as he left the steamer on a tug, and directly he landed hastened to his hotel in School-street. To make amends for the lose of • chance to take the horses from his carriage and to haul him up to Parker's, the Bostonians all met before sunrise on the first day of the sale of the tickets for his readings in the tri.mountain city, and, be sieging the book store of his publishers, created • furore unequalled since that excited by his arrival in the same city 25 years ago. The police force had to be summoned in order to preserve peace and order among the eager purchasers of tickets. Nothing like this furore has been occasioned since his first visit, unless we except that which marked the reception of Jenny Lind on her arrival in this country. Mr. Dolby, the agent of Mr. Dickens, appears to be a sort of refined Barnum, with all the enterprise and none of the vulgarity of the notorious showman. The Boston journals inform us that Mr. Dolby has already disposed of more than eight thousand tickets for Mr. Dickens' first course of readings in Boston. But Mr. Dolby seems to have failed to profit by our recent suggestion—that the price of tickets for Mr. Dickens' readings might safely be put at • higher figure than he has set upon them. The consequence of this mistake is that the specalators have got possession of no inconsiderable number of tickets and are selling them at twenty dol lars a-piece. By the time that Mr. Dickens reaches New York it seems not unlikely that the price of tickets will advance to .hundred dollars or more. At his first visit Boston fell into ecstacies over him. The excite ment occasioned by his arrival was in the beginning like a cloud no bigger than • man's hand ; but it soon swelled to • hurricane of adulation, which afterwards reached its height at the Dickens ball in New York, and then subsi ded. It will be easy for the New Yorkers to beat the Bostonians if the former think fit to enter into competition with the latter. If the Bostonians can as semble seven thousand people to welcome Dickens, we can assemble, at equally short notice, seventy thousand. We can afford to pay higher prices for tickets than even those demanded by the Boston speculators. We can have an auction, at which some rival of the batter who made his fortune by bidding two hundred and twelve dollars for • referred seat, may double, if need be, that sum. We do not know what has become of Geniis. who became famous for the highest bid at Jenny Lind's first concert, but here is certainly a chance for Knox to become equally famous. Dickens might have spared himself the trouble of bringing over any London clothes, for the tailors and hatters and boot makers of Boston and New York must be ready and eager to take his measure and supply him with a complete outfit, replenish ice it as often as circumstances may require. Neither Bostonians nor New Yorkers seem disposed to listen to our advice,so far to moderate their enthu siasm in behalf of ickens as to abstain from making themselves ridiculous. We think they might do this, and still manifest their hearty appreciation of his genius. But it appears to be useless to try to check any of those storms of popular excitement which periodically agitate the American mind, whether caused by Jenny Lind, Japanese Tommy, the Prince of Wales, or Mr. Dickens. We can only advise the public to keep as cool as possible, and Mr. Dolby to tanks the moat of 'the latest sensation' as long as it Inotii" THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. (THIS DAY.) The fifteenth annual meeting of the members took pleas this day, at the °Moss, Norfolk-street, Strand, Viscount RMIELAGH in the chair. Mr. GRUNENEN, the secretary, having reed the Myer. tisement convening the meeting the anbjoined report of the executive committee wee rea d: " It is the iileasing duty of the executive comm , ttee submitting their fifteenth annual report, to present , for the approval of the shareholders a highly satisfactory statement of amounts and balance sheet, duly audited, for the financial year which closed on the 30th Septembe r , 1567 :—Tbe annexed returns show the total cash receipts for the respective quarters of ISt i-7, and the grand tot, s since the formation of the Conservative Laid Society in September, 1852 : Quarters end Les Dec. 25,1866 March 25,1867 June 24, 1867 September 30, 1867 1.723 Totals to Michaelmas] Ido6 Grand totals to /1:11a81- mu, 1867 10,60 szses Shares I rum- i Total I Rom lsaa plehal. Shares. 6.011 1,109 B t !1,706 6 I 36,941 11 9 !8,59118 2 ?2,944 4 116,963 011 SAW 125,674 963,11C0 610 r,Tss 'T,Too,ess T II The total withdrawal' since the formation of the society (1852), to Michaelmas, 1867, are 306,7491. o e. 2d. ; the total sale of land for the same period is 537,0501.19 x. Gd. ; the reserve fund to Michaehnas, 1367, is 13,348 i. 3s. Th e register of rights, fixing the rotation for the selection of r s o hare rmite n hh.e am e I be ria : 0 7 1 : 8 1 6 ; plots on the society's estates, when offered for allotment, stands as follows :—Completed, 6,738 ; drawn, 3,46; ,783. rhts thThe tzledsenierrinetylinipat seniority, 1,80t1; total, 11,90'2 ; deduct rights exervisedu e e estates, &e., 9,193 ; tinexeroised rights, 2,709. The last re w g y a:g in ter No. w o 2 ers i f membership is No. 18,968. The last share number issued the formation of the society. The increased receipts en deposit have been to the extent of 15,6071. whilst the de crease in withdrawl" on the two accounts daring the year has been 9,0731. The repayments on land show en in crease of 7,0881.; and the anent income from interest has also increased 1,4551. The amount added to the reserve fund has been 1,6791. 16s. ld. The increased balances on share and deposit accounts are 18,5001. for the former and 16,531/. for the latter. The increase of assets has kept pace with the general progress; the admen.' to the allotting on lard are 7,7491. in excess of the previous year, whilst the increase in the advances for building is 2,:1071. The shareholders will learn with gratification that the cot of the extensive alterations in the offices, and the outlay connected therewith, have not been left as • liability to be paid off year by year, but the entire amount expended has peonat once written off. The reserve fund, amounting to 13,00 W. in 1865-6, having been increased this year to 15,0891. 13a. Id., the executive committee have been enabled, after deduction of the expenditure on the pre mises, to leave the reserve fund at 12,0001. The directen can also indicate with satisfaction to the members the insignificant item shown in the balance sheet, as • lou on the building advance account. Another matter which, although not referred to in the ammo* is one which must afford much gratification to the holders of lands on the society's estates, is the earlier tion of premiums on ?lots which have been sold during the ;sat year. On the sales which have come under the ire mediate mittee, without reference to the disposal of of the office by &Bottum the profits have been e instenoes very large. The estates which have thus particularly found favour with the generalpublic are St. M are Twick en ham, and Isle worth, the Brighton Round Hill Estate, the Wanstead, the Wood-green, Nos. 1 and 2, the Putney and Fulham properties, Old Ford and Kentish-town, Seven Sisters, Finchley, Ramsgate, ho. The four auditors appointed at the quarterly meeting, on the 15th of October last, namely, Mr. Clemow and Mr. Goad, elected by the shareholder", and Mr. Push fines and Mr. Winstanley, nominated by the board, met on the 29th of October and subsequent days, and verified the vouchers, books, end securitie,s, and signed the balance-sheet. The executive committee are enabled, after leaving the reserve fund at 12,00 W., to provide for the interest of 5 per cent per annum on shares (completed or paid • year ia advance), and for the interest of 4 per cent. per annum en deposit investments. The committee are also enabled to add to the accounts of members holding uncompleted in vested shares, not in arrear (in respect of which no interest hu been paid), • bonus equivalent to 6 per cent. per annum ; and on shares paid • year in advance and up wards, a bonus of 1 per cent. will be added to the accounts in the pass-book. As regards the additional interest of 1 per cent., to which the holders of completed shares will be entitled by the present dogmatises of bonne, the amount will be included in the half-yearly Lady-day interest war rants, issued and payable on and after the Ist of May next. Thus every payment on the shares on the register at the present annual meeting, not being in arrear, will realise 6 per cent. per annum for the financial year ending the 30th September, 1867. The rate of interest on shares (com pleted) and shares in progress (paid a year in advance) will remain for the present as 5 per cent per annum. The half-yearly warrants up to Lady-day and Michael mas will be eeued at the customary periods—namely, the Ist of May and the let of November. The rate of interest for the deposit department, that is, for investors who are not members of the society, will re. main unchanged at 4 per cent. per annum, payable bail yearly, at the same period as the interest warrants on shares. The ordinary quarterly meetings were duly held on the 9th of April, the 2od of July, and the 15th of Octo ber. The following members of the executive committee retire by rotation, viz.:—Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart, M.P.,the Hon. Robert iourke, Colonel A. Meyrick, Newuham Winstanley, Esq., and being eligible, offer themselves fee re-elootioo. The new estates allotted this year have been: East London &tate, Forest-gate, Ist portion, Dec. 13,1866; North London Estate. Finobley, Ist portion, March 22,1810; Malvern Link (West Woroestetshire), May 8, 1867 ; South London Estate (Putney, No. 5), East Surrey, June 28, 1867 ; East London (Forest-gate, No. 2), August 2, 1867. The Malvern Link Estate was allotted after • public men Mg at which Viscount Ranelagh and Colonel Ileyrick were present as a deputation from the board. This inctureeque property is within a few minutes' walk of a first-clam station on the Worcester and Hereford branch of the Great Western Railwa_y_. The society's land has an extensive frontage to the Worcester and Malvern turnpike road, and is free from the heavy rates of Great Ifelvere, being with out the boundaries, in the parish of Leigh. Buddha operations have commenced, and the contract for the ' roads and works has bean completed. The South London Estate (Putney No. 5) is situated opposite the Cedes, Putney No. 1, on the banks of the Thames, and adjoins the society's other estates at Putney. The land com municates with the Upper Richmond-road, through the new road on the fourth Putney Estate, called Disraeli- road, and is within • few minutes' walk of the High-street of Putney, the railway station, and the bridge. As the fourth Putney estate has been disposed of, the adjoining property (Putney No. 5) has been in de mand, and there hair been a good sale thereon. The allot manta of the first and second portions of the Forestuate estate (East London) have been very successful. In the acquisition of this property, which, from its proximity to the station, and to Wannead estate, presents every induce. went for the continuanceof the building operations already commenced, with houses in occupation, the committee were much influenced by the conside ration of the Iw' portant question of the house accommodation for the working classes. The diminution of houses from vs. rims causes within the metropolis is yearly on the increase, and the opening up of new dis tricts within an easy distance from town is becoming im peratively necessary. The executive committee in recent purchases have endeavoured to rind estates which, when allotted, would meet the requirements of working inn, and the experience of the society has proved that the roily industrial classes prefer to buy • plot, and build a house thereon, out of savings from the exercise of their skill and labour, rather than be dependent on any aid which assumes the as pect of public patronage and of private charity. Land and building societies afford freedom of action and perfect independence to the workmen desirous of power ing his own freehold dwelling-house, and the commercial interest in such purchase is keenly appreciated by him in preference to any philanthropical support. The extra ordinary progress of building operations near the Roca hill estate, Brighton. the construction of the new line, d rail into Kemp Town, and the proximity of a new statna close to the society's property, have induced the committee to allot the unsold portion on Thursday, the 12th of December, the plan of which has been drawn, in accord ance with the requirements of the locality. The directed have the pleasure to announce to the shareholders that no time will be lost in offering for allotment the firs* portion of the Clapham Junction e.:ate. The fine frontages of thin property (known as Bolingbroke-park: with mansion and grounds) to Wandsworth-common aod to Battersea-rise, the 'proximity of the estate to two stationer and the increasing demand for house Accommodation in the southern district of the metropolis, afford every ealweit tion that the Clapham Junction will prove a most eligible acquisition for the society's purpose. The executive com mittee having, during 15 years, provided the various classes of the community with the opportunity of weal" tog land to admit of the erection of first-class mansions, la wales of cottage property, have commenced their sixteenth year with as promising prospects as have heretofore sr tended their now loinecontinued labours to promote the prosperity of the Conservative Land Society. Advancer* will be taken of every legitimate opportunity to extend operations, which, however, will be dependent on the ex' ercise of caution and vigilance in the watching of ramme' cial changes, and financial transitions. Assisted by the friendly feeling so uniformly displayed by the shales holders, the directors can look forward with confidence 0 2 secure futurencous t. _ ISagusd) " RAXILLACR, Chairman. (Countersigned) " CliaaLra La - wia Gautimimis t Sacratary." We read in a letter from Rome of the 27th »H• —" I regret to say that Mr. J. Soholey's wound is Dell to prove fatal to him, although hopes for a favourable issue were entertained for several days after the 'input** tion of his arm."