The Express. — London, England, 1868-12-31 00:00:00

NEORETTI anti ZAMBRA'S SPECTACLES ITUER MOSOOI.IO. • Dew tawastisa. vatellthay (ma taw Sanatly nagmasattad to aware at sasstatata aa awake la away tamer( to all at proem mats. Desartiplitaa past tam NEoRt-rn and ZAMBRA'S FITZROYSTORM RAROLIFI EBs. as itOed b Ilse Board of Trade% and Takes. lAbro Instantost. nips Watson. Fitsrore manna. now to For te oP•I t I tbs Weather." pnst her. N EOREI7I and ZAMBRA'S WATCII BAR O- DIETER, for tos m teitl i want sr sad tat assabila mismsze• swab, wad by lirr • GOT MIENS% ✓w MA beam saisatlto arras*.— O. IN. nalimeman ONNNU I is; Regatta/rest t sad Flogatrell Domlualas post tow _ . ISTEOREITI and ZANIER/kV XAGIO LAN TIMNS. Dlranlyanot Views et wiry eleasiptioa. pinto = e snd hand -rya mted shams. Ilbrinkbed OS hwy. Pb plenary otidea. Twoommuslied ter asertnlloY faiges. JEOBEVfI and ZAMBRA'S OPERA and SAM OLIEWI63, ta leather rear, owe, two, and throe Warranted bred ineaaraetare.—lnt, Hattoavarden; ; m, liquatotreet; and IU. Pleeteltwet, Illastratod list tem I-10W COLD IT HAS BEEN.—NEGRETTI sed 7.ADIBILAVS oeletestad rmatmoxwrzatt, to tho motost lyold. Prior :N. ed. Ilarky faattatimas are r r) .3 gtl: None gamine ante** bearing same aad adirara—Haitaatrardart: at raisin: Baritiaarart; .ad I. Yisaiatzesa Airati liarcalb treated inth. "FtORWICK'S PURE MONO POWDER is the BEST. —Ark for and have only ORWICRT PORE BAKING POWDER. Rr.l4 everywihnrs. CANADIAN N E Ws. Yhrn TIWRSDAT. TITS LATRINE NEWS from the NSW ItU LN lON. Prtso ed.. post free W. 011iour-11. l'Sreorat's-toor. Lon.berd.t . Se. TUE AILYN E W S. l'Elt E ONE TENNI% SCALE OF CIIARtia4 FOR ADVERTISEXWTA. Por _ 1110 t DECITSES of NEW COMPANIES, NEI GETS of MEETINGS end ELEV.) 7 tines 100 ~.d . a fter' 1 6 TIONS LEGAL NOTICES lO do, 10 0 do. 1 PUBLICOCMPAREES ,E.Atablisbud', Ike i do. 4 0 do. 1 Ditto. ditto Londe( W ye: do. 6 0 de. 141 At aTIONS.TRAnts. mare= soffits. casarrum susuzur-i do. I do. I 6 NEOVS Ditto. ditto Undo', Pare_ sdm 6 0 at 1 0 PARAGRAPH ADVERTISEMENT' . 5 do. 7 6 do. 1 6 'BIRTH& MARRIAGES, and HEATHS 5 do. 2 0 do. 0 6 DOILEsTIC 2.1.1114.75 16 Wanting fleas t do. 1 u do. 0 3 • Tat words make • line: • single biter or figure connt• w • wad. NOTICE TO OENEMAL ADTESTLeERS. The " DAILY Num, as an aoknowle.Med authonty upon Oom garret& and Monetary anemone. enjoys . 11 Met Poeition. and its .ataamewe end rapidly inesemian etroummea mane its reduction In re., to One Penny renders it an laminable !medium to all bode of Adeertaxers. Pou-othce Orders for Adrertiseatents should be made payable to bir Jamas Haesomeow. Post-oMee, Fleet twee. r stamps received for amounts uP to Itla OlDceee, 21, Bouterie-etreet. Fleebetreet. ge. London. ght Q'yortisli. HATMAJLIDIT. Trot Ircron, A HERO OF ROMANCE. Maw. Enekstene, Bottum, &r.; Mesdames Ada Cavendish, Chippendale, dm.— And THE FRIOHTFUL HAIM Mame. Compton, Kendal, Yucludime, inn, de. ; Manse. tiwynne, Burke. Fatkll7 Wnght, de. rßnicEsrs. Tsui E•awiso, TIIE St:CEET.—AFTER DARK : A TALE OF LONDON LIFE. Mr. Vining, Mcoo. W. Lacy, Dominick Murray. Harcourt, Shore, to ; hikers E. Barnett and Rose lookac.4.—And 3LA ST Ea JONES'S BIRTHDAY. QUEEN'S THEATRE. LONG-ACRE. EVIINISIi at 7. THE LANCASHIRE LASS. Maws. P. Ilnery, H. Ir. l ime, 1.. i'mugh, J. Clayton. and C. Wyndham; Wan Rudman and Slontague.—After which THE GNOME Xll4o.—Yeants. J. L. Toole. Brough and Stephens; Minn. H. Bodoni K. Carson. e•antlre. Adam., and Evenad.—Concluding pith A RACE FUR A DINNER. Hz. Clayton. GAIETT THEATRILSTRAND. Leime;;;;dMaztaire - r, Mr. John Hollingshead. Tens Ewalt's°, at 7. THE TWO HARLECIULNS. Mr. C. T.yall ; Was Constance Loseby. —At La, ON THE CARDS. Mr. Alfred Wigan, M. Stuart Mims Madge Robertson. ROBERT LE DLUSLE. Mews. Barker, Eldred, and Robins; Madames E. Fasten, Loseby, Hastings, and Fowler.—And TWO MALLETS. Principal dancer, Mdlle. GLOBE THEATRE ROYAL.. Tins Emm.o,;i - 1, -- ixiiiiTiiii - nifrfrzio.—At to 8, S. J. Byron's original Comely, t¢ Piss Arta, CYRIL'd BCC (.1218. Meows. E. Marshall, Warner, Vernon, Esher, Newbourn Dialstoos, and J. Clarke, Ere.; Madame Thorne, Hughes, b.: STRA-ND. Tau Evvernao, d T, A - IVIDIA ; HUNT. Yams. Clarke. Belford. and .107 o ; Mow Bottom and Madland.—TlLll PIELU OF THE CLOTH OP GOLD—Kowa Thom, Janes, Robson. sad Pagan; Mr Goodall. !a—And A COMICAL COCNTISIS. BRITANNIA. Tess Brum,. TOILIT2WEVEHAIfBHOTHRLII OE, THE DWARF OF THE DIAMOND DELL. Mrs. & Lane, ManY. Booth; Iderary. S. Dean, J. Loa* and W. Erkwban..-- -.ton THE HARBOL:11-11ASTEES SECRET. MGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDAL To-D.r ----if,nons. 3h. 27a . Afternoon. M. Wm. NUTICE., rli of Rim% Mizar•....iia - WriDnerso are romfreti sole It Vela& for thaortion None evening. Prior fia. 00. SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS OF THI EXPRESS, The Latest Tolegrams ; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and Gene ral Intelligence, EVERT EVENING. LONDON, THURSDAY, DEC. 31. HANNAH SAUNDERS. A suourixo story is told in this morning's papers under the heading " Death in a Police " Hasawr Sat :roam, aged 55, whose husband is a cab proprietor, so took to heart the baring to leave a house in which she had lived happily as wife and mother for sixteen years that her mind became affected, and she threw herself into the Regent's Canal between 8 and 9 o'clock on Saturday evening. The splash made by her body falling in the water was heard by a police man, who procured drags, and brought her out some seven minutes after immersion. This is the only act of mercy the poor creature met with. From the time of her rescue to that of her death circumstances seem to have been so piled up against her that she went out of the world as much a victim as if she had been deliberately sacrificed to the demons of Inhumanity and Routine. Carried to a tavern and stripped to her chemise, the doctor sent for seems according to the evidence to have limited his attentions to the remark, " She's all right now for removal ;" then, " with her chemise quite wet she was " placed on a stretcher," and tarried to the police station. " The people at the tavern did not find • her any clothes, but a fruiterer, seeing her " lying on the stretcher in her wet chemise, " covered her with a sack, which ho lent for the " purpoee." The policeman giving evidence adds, with apparent emphasis, that, " the reason why " he bad sent for a stretcher was that she was " naked for a time Wore it arrived." The shivering wretch was taken in this plight to the station, where she was duly entered as a " charge," and was put into a cell twenty-five minutes later. Dry clothes were sent for to the workhouse, and a female searcher requested her to take off her dripping garments and put on those provided. This Ilasieari MAUNDER.) would have probably been glad to do, but that she se( rued quite stupid," as it was assumed, " from drink and from going into the water." It dots not scam to have occurred to these kindly officials that a half-drowned woman required something more than formal offers of dry garments, or a half-scolding request that she would, like poor Mrs. Dombey, " make "an effort " not to die. She had neither nourish ment nor stimulants given her, and though she murex' herself sufficiently at 4.30 a.m. to give her husband's address, he does not sewn to have been informed of Ler situation and whereabouts until after midday on Sunday. He then offered bail in vain. A female friend, who was allowed to TH see her in the cell, found her bitterly of the cold, and with her shoeless feet resting on its damp Rem ♦ oafs was brought to the door, anal the polies entreated to allow the them dying woman to be put into a warm bed. This was against regulations, and was refused, and though the poor wretch herself declared that " she had not been " sensible until she woke in the dark cell," and the wife of a boot-closer who was confined with her for drunkenness deposed to begging for an old coat with which to cover the dying woman, nothing was done until she fell off the bard bench with a groan—dead. The jury censure the police for not calling in a divisional surgeon, a husband and a child have lost their dearest earthly ft tend, newspaper readers experience a disagreeable .hock as they read the narrative, H•NNLEII3AI7NDERa is buried, and so the matter ends. We sincerely ti ust not quite. Appeals and memorials have often been made to the Home-ofilee on far more trivial matters than this : and in the interests of human ity, and for the sake of example, we trust a rigid official inquiry will be instituted into the conduct of the pollee. ITOFESSIONAL FIGHTING MEN. PUGILISM is looking up. " A fracas between " two physicians" is a great advance upon " a " mill between two light-weights," and Dr. THOMAS SNOW BECK and in a lesser degree Dr. JAMES EDMUNDS are to be congratulated as mon in advance of their profession. The " Bell on the " Hand" they study is evidently Bella Life ;" and Dr. BECK is to be congratulated upon the extra professional reputation he has acquired. A fine of flvepounds and the finding of recognisance@ is a wonderfully small price to pay, moreover, for the luxury of leaving an opponent fainting on the floor ; and we should be glad to have the opinion of the recently incarcerated Messrs. Macs and Goss upon what must seem to them magisterial favouritism of the worst kind. The doctors pos sessed other advantages which better known heroes are denied. They had not to rise at unearthly hours, to hurry in disguise to railway station or steamboat, and to select with difficulty a happy hunting ground on which to belabour each other's bodies. The board room of the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell street, Long-acre, was the place in which they de livered themselves appropriately of stout " sloggers " from the elbow," neat " cross-buttockers," and " claret-tappers from the right." It was alleged that some dispute as to the appointment of physi_ ciun to the Lo-pital was at the bottom of the fray, but we prefer to attribute it to a pure love of phy_ sical science. There were certain irregularities in the mode of commencing as well as in the carry ing on of the combat which will be doubtless emitted in the future; and frequenters of the ring-side know how much can be forgiven when the necessary " bottom" and bloodthirstiness is there. But for the undoubted earnestness displayed, we might, for example, regret to observe that these gentlemen did not comply with the rules of the ring by shaking hands before their set-to. The ni arest approach to this essential preliminary seems to have been Dr. Beex's shaking his fist in Dr. EDMUNDS'S face, with, it is said, ulterior de signs upon his nose. This waswrong. Thenext hos pital fight must be better arranged ; and the facili ties at the command of the fighters be made more thoroughly available. The operating theatre would mak* a capital " ring," the stu dents would be greatly edified, and could bite the ears or lance the eyes of the first man stunned, in the way practised by those eminent operators, Mr. Boa TYLER and Mr. JisnT Moos. The secretary of the hospital should act as referee, while the inner ring tickets should be confined to the governors of the hospital and their friends. As it is, however, Messrs. 8101 and EDICIDB have improved on " Pickwick.'' When Porr and Strait fought out their old jealousies in the inn kitchen, those skilled prao titioners, Mr. 808 fiswrin and Mr. BI /MILT Jam, danced round them, lancet and basin in hand, ready for blood-letting directly the first man was stunned. But their interest was merely vicarious and professional ; the Lying-in Hospital physicians proudly prove, in their own persons, their belief that muscle is King. A NEGLECTED ACCOMPLISHMENT. Wa are glad to see that Miss GLYN has announced her intention of giving a course of lessons to young ladies in the art of reading aloud. There is no accomplishment more ser viceable and pleasing than this, and there is none so universally neglected by women as well as men. It is hard to say why this should be, since it may be, to some extent, acquired by almost every well-educated person, and is appreciated everywhere. Ho far as we know there is but one obstacle to success. A good voice is an excellent foundation, but it is not indispensable, for a bad voice may be cultivated and indefinitely improved; but it is essential to good reading that there should be an interest in the subject read. No ono can read impressively a fine poem who does not love poetry ; no one can read well a magnificent piece of ora tory if he is unable to enter into the spirit of the orator. It does not follow that appreciation will of necessity produce good elocution, since some of our poets have been unable to read their own poems intelligibly, but it is certain that without appreciation there can never be good reading. It is evident, therefore, that the acquisition of this accomplishment is largely dependent on literary culture, and that the boy or girl who can read well aloud has received something beyond the ordinary routine of school instruction. It is possible to dance gracefully or to sing sweetly, and to be grossly ignorant notwithstanding, but ignorance and good reading are wholly incom patible. The art of reading aloud is one which should be especially cultivated by women, since it is best exercised at home and is most valued in the sphere where the influence of woman is supreme. COMOSMATION op MB MIGUOP op HONSAV.— The Very Bev. Dr. Hughes, late Dean of Cape Town, who was nominated to the Bishopric of Bombay by Sir Stafford Northeote jug before leaving aloe, will be consecrated on Sunday next in the Chapel 'loyal, Whitehall, by the Archbishop of Canterbury who will be assisted by the Bishops of Rochester and ' Oxford. The new bishop will leave for India on the following Wedneeday. MEETING OF RITITALIBTB.—Yeebmday afternoon a very large meeting of clergy and laity who symse with the ritualist movement in the Church of d was held at Freemasons' Ta vern , for the purpose o con sidering what measures should be adopted in consequence of the recent judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the me of Martin v. Mackonochie. There is said to have been mach difference of opinion amongst those who took part is the proceedings. Nothing authoritative however, bee transpired, as the meeting was held to be private, and representatives of the press were excluded. It was stated at a meeting held at Acton a few ev eninp ago in aid of the fund for erecting a yaw eon gregations Ica chapel they., that Yr. SWIMS' Morley had generously offered 291 g. to each of 24 metropolitan and suburban congregationalist &undue which, having bees or being in emu* of erection, rel a ui;e s t pecuniary mils tense; and that the new Aetna would be one of the recipients of Mr. Korlers Lounty. 'RESS, THURSDAY 01 • .-•—•=o4-- di The Times esys the year which endi4.day will be remarkable is the domains history of Meilen& Ice the close of one political period end the quiet hessltion to another. The question which chiefly occupied the last series bag bees practically settled by the result of the general election, and by the ocrameement change of govern ment; but • decision which had been plainly foreseen, causes little excitement, and the country awaits the proceedings of the new parliament without any unusual anxiety. The Deily News describes it as having been • year of surprises. Earthquakes in England, primroses in Decem ber, Mr. Diana in the °Moe of Prime Minister (thanks to Lord Derby's gout), and other freaks of nature, have marked its course. These transitory phenomena have, however, passed, or are passing away, and things are ones more usurping their ordinary course. The parliamentary year has been little more than • continuation of 1887. But politically, 1888 will be more remarkable as an introduc tion to 1869, than as • sequel to 1887. Pew great achievements have marked the year. The Abyssinian expedition adds not only to the military lustre of England, but will take its place among there healthy traditions of chivalry and self-nertraint which are • sacred national inheritance. But it the year has been one of small gains, there are few losses to count up. The appointment of Dr. Tait to the see of Canterbury, and the judgment given against ritualistic practices in the Mackonochie came, foreshadow the uprising of • great church quertion, which, however, like the Irish land ques tion and the English pauper question, is less for the com ing year than for the coming generation. But it will be wire to take account of these things in time, and to begin early what mast be • long and diMeult work. In the opinion of the Tehyrejet the moribund year has not only been remarkable for the virtual settlement of the reform controversy, but for the opening up of another momentous question—the diseetablishment of the Irish Church. Throughout our colonies and dependencies peace bss been the order of the day ; and the new year opens with fair promise of continued tranquillity. So fez as regards the commercial and Anemia history of 1808 the year ham been calm, almost to monotony. The Herald is not disposed to part with it on friendly terms. It has given us a constant and calamitous snows sion of earthquakes and other terrestrial commotion., vol canic eruptions, inundations, dorms, shipwrecks, accidents upon the surface, and accidents in the bowels of the earth, Indian famine, a plague of rabbits in Australia, accumu lating diets., unvarying depression of trade, incessant rumours of war, an utter oollapes of public confidence, and to crown these offences it is going out in a disgraceful humour, soaked and sullen, with not a sparkle of snow upon the hedgerows or the ring of an honest winter in tho _ _ _ The Put can only hope that, on the whole, it has been a year of progress in the way of improvement for this coun try. The event,' which mark the advance, if few in num ber, are oonspacuous, and in a manner isolated for identi fication, by tho circumstance that they are 'coons- The Btar mays it has in paving borne prompt fruit in popular excitement ; and the world, especially the Eng lish world, will be much disappointed if, after many days, the bread cast upon troubled waters in 1868 be not found in a gnat barred of progres‘, amelioration, and content. gbt court. OSBORNE, Dam 30. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Countess Spencer and Visoountess Clifden. Colonel Maude was in attendance upon hone beck ea Equerry-in-Waiting; and her Majesty, accom panied by Princess Louise, drove in the grounds this morning. Prince Arthur, attended by Colonel Elphinstone, shot in the preserves at Sweinston to-day, with Sir John Simeon. Hie royal Whore afterwards honoured Sir John and Lady Simeon with his presence at luncheon. Lord Alfred Paget and General the Hon. C. Grey bad the honour of moompsnying hie royal highness. The Earl and Countess Spenser left Osborne this morning. Mews. ElEngton have had the honour of submitting to the inspection of her Majesty a centre ornament intended for presentation to the Mem of the 17th Lances% by officers formerly belonging to the regiment, the subserip- Son Mat being heeded by the Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highness Lieutenant Prince Arthur, who has been granted have of absence from his military duties from the 19th inst., to enable him to spend Chriat. mem with her Majesty at Osborne, will rejoin the corps of Royal Artillery at Woolwich on Saturday asst. _ _ Their Serene Highnesses Prinoe and Prinoess Edward of Sas♦Weimar have arrived at Italcomb, Suns; from visiting ths Duks and Dualism of Manolmstur at itimbolton Castle. The marriage of the Marquis of Hamilton, M.P., sad Lady Mary Carson, daughter of the Earl and Coun tess Howe, is lad to take place on the 7th of the ensuing month. The Earl and Countess Beauehamp arrived at their residence in Belgrass-square yesterday from Meares field Court, Worcestershire, for the season. Viaoount CaatJerome has loft town fur his seat, Killarney, Ireland. Lord Bingham ie staying on a vita to tho Duke and Duchess of Richmond of Ooodwood-park, Susie:. Tho marriage of Lord Archibald Campbell, the ion, and Miss Callander, the ward of the Duke of Argyll, will take place early iu January, at ArgyU Lodge. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Tait have been oommanded to attend her Majesty at Osborne, on Tuesday next, when Me grace will do homage to the sovereign. The Hight Hon. H. A. Bruen Lug loft town for York'lire. It is rumoured that Sir George Grey, M.P. for Morpeth, is likely to retire. The Marquis of Harlington and Mr. Milner Gibson have both Duca mentioned as can didates.—Northers Daily Expreas. DEATII 01 , CAPTAIN SPEIII9, M.P. FOR RENFREW emus.—A telegram from Glasgow states that Captain Spain, M.P., died yesterday morning, at a quarter to ten, at of gastrio fever, from which he had been suffering for a fortnight. Captain Spoke was born in 1840, and four years thereafter succeeded to the erten sive family estates in Benfrewshire, on the death of his father, Alexander Spears, req., of Eldership, a leading and consistent whig, who was at once the lord lieutenant and member for the county. The lamented deceased was educated at Eton ; in 1858 be entered the army, and obtained in 1882 the rank of captain in the Scots Franke Guards, from which, however, in 1866 he retired, on being elected, by a large majority, re presentative of Beatrewshire in the liberal interest, after a keen ponied wit► Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart., the emesevative eaadidele and Ilannee member. Iced yeas Captain Spain married the Hog Anne Pleydel-Beavirie, eldest daughter of Viscount Folkestone and grand daughter of the Earl of Radnor. In the event of no ism readting from the marriage, his only eider, married to Lieut.-Colonel Claud Alexander. of Balloehmybs, will succeed to the estates, the rental of which amounts, we understand, to fully 26,0001. a yeas. We (Brighton - Pont) regret to hear of the dan gerous iless of the Hon. and Rev. Canon Tortuous. On Tuesday it was stated that the rev. gentleman was dead, but that was incorrect. The rumour probably had its origin in the death of Yrs. Fortaseue, the rev. gentle men's wife, who died on Tuesday at the Deanery, where both she and bar husband had been staying. Canon Foe testae is is entesie wertia, and has been given up by his medical attendants. AECTIBISITOP CANTERBURY'S PATINNAOI.—The new Archbishop of Canterbury_ will have in his gift two canonries in his cathedral, which are connected with the archdeaconriee of Maidstone awl Canterbury, six preachsrahips in the cathedral, and nearly 200 livings. Amongst these are the rectory of Lambeth and several in the city of London, mom of %im alternately with the Crown and the dean and chapter of Fria CIIUIOII ix AUBTEALTA.—The Anti- Ritualist port] in Australia bare formed Wad they sate a "Free Church of and hare Dr. W. F. Dailey to be its iirst Ha meat thro a t form of mmescretiom took the of supremacy, a• tLe following deader held a gull ordination. TURKEY AND GREECE. The (kelvin containa the following alarmist article : Our private information enables as to predict the proxi mate commencement of banalities betwasa Turkey man Cresco. The news received at the Ottoman Essbainy Is bad. Omer Pasha, commanding the army of Themaly, has received ceders to bold himself in readiness to mom the Greek frontier. All the Turkish vessels which yet re- mained at Constantinople have lately left for the Archi pelago. Austria must by this time have emit her Beet from Trieste to the Pinney there to wait for orders which will be osrtainly con formable to those given by nano* and England. Prussia is displeased at the little importunes attached to bet proposal for • conference, and holds Austria respon sible for the present complications. A Busts& general well known io Par* an ea-governor of the Bossism primipeli ties on the Lower Danube, and who wee for a long while ambassador to the Court of the Tuileries, has been beard to say:—"Everything tends to a collision; the Greco- Turk conflict cannot be localised, and we must expect a general war. The Danubian Principalities, under the pretest of provocation from Austria and Hungary, no longer conceal their preparations for war. In a few days —to-morrow, perhape— cannon may tell its tale." The Liberie says its private correspondence is also excessively warlike, but, unlike the Gaulois, it nevertheless believes that the great powers want peace, and will prevent an explosion at present. THE NORTH GERMAN CONFEDERATION AND BADEN. The Deutoate Allgemeine Zeitutog publistio6 the following recent letter from Count Bismarck, on a subject which has produced some emotion in Paris. The grand ducal government of Baden hae expressed a desire to conclude a treaty with the North German Confederation, by which the eubjeite of the Con federation rending in the Duchy, end Mom of _ _ Baden rending in the territory of theCinfederanon would for the future be subject to recruitment, and to the fulfil l:DM t of their military obligations in the country in which they may be. The cancluaion of such a convention being desirable for common international interests, as well as for the interest of the Confederation, the undersigned, chan cellor of the Confederation, bas the honour to ask to be empowered to cowhide on this bads a convention with the grand ducal government of Baden. (Signed) Banuaci. This letter, which is addressed to the Council of the Confederation, effectually disposes of the assertion of the Patric that the report of the treaty was spread for the purpose of speculation. (THZOIIOII iunnws AGINCT.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Dic. SO. According to the report of Messrs. Neill Brotliers the receipts of cotton at all ports for the past four days have been 46,000 bales, against 50,000 same time last week. Exports to Great Britain 25,000 bales, against 11,000 same time last week. Ex ports to other foreign ports 16,000 bales, against 6,000 Ramo time last week. Total exports for four days to all European ports 46,000 bales, against 29,000 bales same time last week. Midland Up land, 11d., laid down in Liverpool per steamer. NEW ORLEANS, Dac. 29. Middling, bid., laid down by sailing vowel. EV 5 ► • DECEMBEU * N NTlllr 1 • , opis DAY.) _ _ OUR PARIS LETTER. (PINY ocnit owi PARIS, WSDNISDAY Swings All the semi-official journals continue to speak not only of the conference as certain to meet speedily, but as a thing which will certainly be suocessful, because, as in the Luxembourg affair, every point of difficulty will be resolved before hand. The Petri* says the only point yet under discussion is the extent to which Greece will be allowed a voice in the conference. The Bourse was again buoyant, and a further rise of 16e. in the Route entirely effeoed the heavy fall of Monday. Nevertheless there are discord ant notes in the Pronoh press. La Prow says : _ _ The negotiations for the conference are not so advanesd as is pretended. It is the principle of • eongrees only which is agreed upon, but hors that to an understanding as to the basis of deliberations the distance is enormous, and if we are well informed this abyss is wider than ever. If the conference shall ever meek it is to be hared it will deliberate upon a volcano, and that must be • painful situation for diplomatists aosustomed to calm discussion. The Duchess do Best* has not played her cards luckily. Whilst the widow of another of the Ens pore?. associates of 1851 receives a large fortune, besides a lucrative sinecure, for handing over dupli cates of her husband's papers which she had sent to a place of safety before death knocked at the door, tho lady who, as Duchess de Morny, en joyed a world-wide reputation for the regal luxury of her establishment, is reduced to sad extremi ties. Three weeks ago she canvassed all her old acquaintances to give friendly bids for her jewels at the auction mart. But last Monday her shawls, laces, and even her under-clothing, were brought to the hammer. Tho Litert4 is the only journal which takes any notice of this last extraordinary event. It states that there were few bidders but the Jew brokers who usually attend sales, that everything went dirt cheap, and that each lot was the subject of mimetic remarks which might have furnished a philosopher with food for reflection on the instability of wealth and power. The Duke do Morny was de facto Emperor of Franco for more than ten years. No Englishman not familiar with the private history of tho Second Empire can form any idea of the position of this great political and financial promoter, and the part he played in shuffling the wealth of France through the hands of a few speculators. But. albeit ingratitude to old servants is not a subject of frequent reproach to the imperial court, the Duke and Niche's de Sesta were only asked to Compiegne this year at the last moment, and as a stop-gap in the place of somebody else who could not oome. When there respect to her poverty was shown by the Empress ordering all the ladies to wear no jewels —the Duchess of State having just sold hers. During her stay a new style of dress, called the Toilette bosequd, was in vogue. The fashion will perhaps be followed during the short carnival season of 1869. Last year, it is said, the fair sex thought it necessary to show in full feather, but now matrons and demoiselles will be privileged to appear in full bloom. MIMIC 1W HEART AFFICTIONS. —Dr. Papillaud thua speaks of the effect of &Mak in heart affeoffons and other disown in the isernil Ite Omartrierrans Meilierska : " The bed remedy for the cure et paNWos of a disease of the boort newt merely be that eoncene an elective and zeirelernhig scam en the assailer apnoea which will albs/elate its tunetiens. %mese in mom and power of redelerene, prevents its being fungoid, and he,.... lie nutrition. Now all then I :=l==noesdbyeeeenie to t he degree. It in dont named kWh, whisk ia oenelneive widow d *power of regelaNies ibe drakes of tbe heart. Amis. aseeidine to the Nina aibisidis a the diners se lie Mart reed toes and meek Is die meek= fee that let it be ever in It I: ll :Vkiiewn that In the gape of Peeler's drop, ie • sovereign me for wen and it haa reels* hem dawn that It easy be wed as a prephylmile eying sloPloar." ,ERAMERICAN Captain Carnaigan, November with • rrIC ( amid 12 Cabin), excliinve of Use Passea crew, erase 63 elretsge s to have aariewly escaped foundering, from • cause similar to that which lad to so disestrous • remit in the case of the Hibernia. When seven days at sea, the pro peller of the steamer became useless. owing to the pin starting out. The captain, on being made se waisted with the mishap, directed the crew to try and raise the propeller, and not to inform the alarm there. The crew worked inosseantly for • day and • night, but their efforts were unsuomedek sad the water in the after part of the ship ress to the depth of sixteen feet. The captain seeing that the steamer was in a disabled condition, had the most valuable parts of the cargo put into small boats, and had determined on directing the passengers to prepare to abandon the vowel, when, as a last resort, a number of chains were procured, and passengers and crew worked together in lifting the propeller, and tying it in its original position. The sails were then set, and the steamer was worked at the rate of two or three knots an hour. Signals of dirtress were unceasingly made, and sailors took the watch on the top of the masts on the look-out for passinT vessels, but up to the twelfth day of the voyage no venal answered the signals. The passengers stated that the City of Antwerp passed them by, but refused to give any am,istance. The provisions, which were only suffi cient for an ordinary fortnight's voyage, began to get scarce, but the passenger showed the utmost fortitude, and were content with half the usual allowance. The pro peller fortunately kept in its position, and the captain was enabled by the favourable nature of the wind, to steer his vessel into Queenstown. !. 9 W E ANOTIL 87 NIL ' 'lb* stearliskip Cambia. Cap Ake Ist' Now York ea Us ileth of bags sad vsloabb osrgo sad 76 pesos THE RECENT HEAVY GALL CAISTOR, assns OIIKAT YARMOUTH, Dec. 29. While the wind wee blowing very bard yester day evening, signal lights and rockets were men in the direction of t e West Scroby Sand by the beachmen (writes the Rev. Cl. W. Steward). The ►arge lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution at the station went off, and found the brig Bilboa, of &sham, bound from Lon don to the North, in ballast, striking very heavily, in a most dangerous way, so that if the wind and weather con tinued bad she must soon go to pieces. The sea was ter rible, and the vessel could not be approached vory closely. The crew, however, six in number, were fortunately saved by means of ropes from the lifeboat. After rescuing the, men, and while the boat was on its way to the shore, "oak were seen from a vessel on the South Scroby Sands and the lifeboat proceeded in that direction. A Gorleston boat, however, was seen approaching the wreck, and the Caietor lifeboat therefore re turn ed to the station. THE RITUALISTIC JUDGMENT. The Bishop of London has sent tho following letter for publication : " Fulham Palace, S. W., Dec. 29. "My dear Mr. Mackonochie, —I have received from the Privy Council-offitai a copy of the judgment which has now with authority explained the law on the vari ous points of ritual observance in the service at St. Alban's Holborn, re-pact:og which there has been so much con tention. I expert that this will be the last day of my tenure of the Es. of London, otherwi,e I should have invited you. at a personal interview, to arrange with me what is the best mode of giving effect to such changes in your service 114 will at once bring it into conformity with the simplicity enjoined by the Rubric, and at the same time be tt a lent distai.teful to a congregation like yours, which has be come accustomed to a form of worship more ornate than it is now ascertained the law of the church has sanctioned. "Probably before you receive formal notification of what is now required of you through the proper ofli':ers of the Bishop's or Archbishop's Court, I shall have ceased to he your diocesan. But I will take upon myself, as my last act in that capacity, to advise yoll and all others of the London clergy who may now feel themselves placed in • difficulty by their having conscientiously, though I be lieve unwisely, thought it their duty hitherto to act against the advice and judgment, I believe I may say, of all the bishops, in introducing novelties of worship, to do now whatl am sure all true church principles must suggest— via., to take counsel with those directly set over them in the Lord as to the mode in which their services are hence forward to be conducted, in conformity with the ascer tained law of the church. " Some weeks elapse before my RIOODIMOT has en tered fully on the duties of his office. but I can have no doubt he will be ready to give you Ms best advice at once, and to approach the subject of your present difficultim with that same appreciation of your devotedness and seal which I have ever myself entertained. " You are quite at liberty to make any um you please of this letter, which I shall myself make public. " Believe me to remain yours faithfully, " Rev. A. B. Mackonochie." "A. C. LONDON." The King of Prussia is suffering from s contu sion on the leg, occasioned by a fall from having mimed his footing. No danger is apprehended. The Council of the Order of Advocates took into consideration the application made by M. Pinard, late Minister of the Interior, to to admitted to practise at the Paris bar. The demand was acceded to, and the name of that gentleman ordered to be placed on the roth Count de Fallout is said to be on the point of leering for Ramo on • visit to his brother, Mgr. d• Pallonx, chamberlain to the Pops. Count de Nieuwerkerke ie lying in a rather dan gerous state from an attack of paralysis. The Emperor of the French, on the occasion of the New Year, has granted full pardon to 38 seamen or marines of the imperil nary undergoing different punish ments inflicted by the maritime tribunals, and bee accorded commutations of sentence to 57 others. BISHOP SZLIFYW AND Trin 111A0103.—Maori ad dresses were presented to the bishop on his recent farewell visit to New Zealand. Their nature will be seen from the following, presented bymembers of Waikato tribes :—" To Bishop Selwyn, greefing,—'This is a word of farewell to you from us. your Maori people, who reside in this island of New Zealand. You leave here, on our Wand, these two peoples, the Maoris and the Europeans. Though you leave us here, God will protect both peoples, Europeans and Maoris, and Queen Victoria and the governor will protect the persons of these two . •plea, so that the grace of Pro vidence may rest on them 0, father, greetings. Go to your own country ; go. the grace of God accompany you. Go, on the face of the deep. Father, take hence with you the comniandments of God, leaving the peoples here be wildered. Who can tell that after your departure things will be as well with us as during your stay in this island Our love for you and our remembrance of you will never cease. For you will be separated from us in your bodily presence. and your countenance will be hidden from our eyes. Sufficient. This concludes our words of farewell to 19u. From your children." MILITARY INSCIIORDINATION IN LIMERICK.— A singular outbreak of military insubordination took place on Christmas Eve at Limerick, where two troops of Carbiniers are quartered. Contrary to custom in mili tary life at C'hristuas, says &woks., when the men of all ranks of the service are allowed to celebrate the festival with joyousness, and to decorate the barrack apartments for the occasion, the soldiers of the Carbiniers were marched by their :commanding °elixirs a distance of nine miles into the country, in heavy fatigue order, and back again to their respective quarters. At this proceeding they were quite dissatisfied, become it upset their intended ents for Miaow' Day, and they resolved to re sent Act:rill as soon as they put their lionise is the stables they ves in a body to the canteen, where they cammenced to drink of-head. The bugle to stables was mended, but one and all refused to obey or esakenirtbidr kenos. TM eMsereweth forsrardanil ordered them from the mates& Theymemmksdy rejected their =Aand th en an armed *W was seed to form hem the make& The Mew& was melees, became of the maim= of the geokst pasty, so that an order wee u r saira hosed M Me colonel of Ms 72nd Itighlandere for a strew gaud, and a company of 160 armed men wee instantly turned oat and marched to the some of mutiny, but before they resoled the plain the men in charge of the canteen bad ezereissil wash promise indium, over the malcontents as to Mdse. Shim. Imbed by Mosel!, te betake themselves to the stables, and me to making ay their horses. The major of the Garbbisre, however, bad them all placed under arrest, and on Oariennes Day they wore marched to church as prisrems. It ie said some have escaped from barrack ociehismend and the whole tram action, which will doubtless lead to a general court mar tial, has been placed before the heads of the military authorities. It has caused quits • sensation in this garriso itsn. T ROILS or HONOI7II AND BILSITLTS OF Was.—The rolls of honour published by the Quarter master-General of the United States' Army describe 166,000 graves of soldiers; 66,000 of them have the names • unknown. It is conjectured that the records of about 160,000 more graves of deceased soldiers and primness of war are yet to be prMted, making 306,000 graves of soldiers who lost the& lives during the rebellion, and of these about 1001000 will remain nameless. The whole umber of soldiers who fell in the ousted is estimated at abb.oo o . having 60,000 seacieriented for. Tbbrillear•- is eipleined as fellows in bath. and never 16.000• drowned. &OM; graves in roads huh = sot yei found. J 14010; gram amend by 4 wltaAte ofs i el by flooda bea tic is ; graves corded away s to: 0. im el river &OM The number of who at bogie after Aug bona tanthered out, bees wounds er dieser* eembemith In the sorties, is not em braced Y any of the eels er milmabse. LONDON AMUBE3 (THIS DAY.) THIATIIII. f TSB. 'r Damn Oannw. -"The Bearding 117hool ." " Hoboes* ch &dock. Dewar Lana-. M 7 Wife's mt." " ram la Beets' -I cede*. bar particulars era advt. Aimpui.-“Dig Fos ace end par We la CataborwallP. "Illaata Orto."--IF °NAG*. Ouraaaa.-"Wee sad Crasher." "Tha Tee. plimp o w. dais*. gouda.-" TM lAmeeddre Loa" " The Onomi •'A Race for Dinar."- •' lot pertioalam see WK. WPSARD.-"Ile Withow Heat" "The held a the Uoth of Odd." "A comaca Oonntees."-4 edOCIL MUMS as Inuaes.-" gaiety." "Who %mg s pi g .t . e._,." deist*. Rovaurr.-" A Liebe Cup." "The Rim sal Fell et &Merl M." " The Claakakaicaes Nat."- fAO o'otock. Otaia.-" Good to Nothing." "Gripe &Mew" -7 01111TV.-" The I'mo Harlequins." "Oa the Ocr it,,b 4rt le Diable." Tire halide. For parhealara nee ILITIIIMISZT.—" A lien at liomancr." " A Fright/al liar." " An Alarming gacrifiee." -7 o'clock. Litnni.-" Pour Igewbeige." " Ilarlevue Ilumpty Ouaptp •• -Y thank. Ammar's. -" The Rearai." " After Dark." " Yager Birtalay."-f o'clock. _ _ Br. JeseiO4.—" The Bead Penel." " Glitter." " beauty is the Woad." Betwas.—' rt. m.reil En." Turco the Terrible." " Clterktte's BAIMAR . III WILY.—"TM Fpcctre Bridegroom." PeJlt,lnll.ll.. "Qom Locidora."—f o'clock. Faun.—" Time Irks AU." "Jack NO Jall an 1 Ike 9:4 Seanty."-7 W. lock. Row. imranasorra. KoLsoan.—Corrts Pleoraunif n te.-7.38 o'clock. 8. Tell Tale Tit." " The Old Eloldiex "—1 (0,1 . Barreirma.—" Blaluts Herrhaabhothaue."—" The 11•u > „ l . Mantels fileertt." P&auoo.—•• Wet King nal."—" The Sergeant's led .—r o'cloak. Batt'. Whittington and Hie Cat." "lin u'enrit. Or. Gamma'. T (RT. Oa*ma's HALL) —" 3aml ^ _ flardapapaluc" " Family Jam" —7 Weltgic. Fir parte%lar mss Met C&TOTAL PAL4rl.—" Harlequin Little Boy 11lu.," ass oat, ft . ttrtainnieata.-3.30 o'clock. GALLS,' Or laLuersavlos. —Kr. and NR. ckvialn Reed's utter. twaroesit, " Inquire Within," and " The Lart of Übe Paladins... —3 sad 8 o'clock. NATAL AGIIMIGTIMIL Hi u..—fiansfees 1.30 .'cook. Fur particulars see adn. Tay A.LaaNsae.—A new Claistaxas ballet," Th. Fors A - ura Tres," &e. For particulars sae olvt. C HALL—Tvo ballets, " MaeanAle." Th. T.ar Haunt of the Buttardhs," Bormax-nata, PIOOMULLY.—Mr. Fleming Nutmeg hatintaini atent.-8 o'clock. Caturrr koreruas. er. Junes Thu.. - --(1 o'clock. For fur:L oam see advt. Norm. Pot.rracairts.— A %net Story. and V-. and Mn. Coots's Entertanunent, " The Maul of Udeant. - p ir titulars se. advt. Kasai= Taratos's. MB EXTLAORDINART CHARGE OP LIBEL 41241A5T A LADY. ne extraordinary libel Live against Mr.. Finny Lindsay was continued at the Guildhall, Tuesday. The charge against the detentant WA , havitg written anonymous letters, in which 31... E Lydia Hewett, Osborne House, Esplanade. Eyze as stated to hare gone abroad to have a chi; I her brother, Thomas John Hewett, was the father • • The court was crowded. Mr. J. Beer. Deroaport. p- . cuted, and produced evidence to prove the auther.., p the letters. Mr. G. Netherclift, of London, said his exper.sn • as an expert had been derived from his being ew e : y I as a lithograper in tracing the handwritings of pep. Several letters. some and to be genuine and some an ,ny. moue, were lately submitted to him for his opinion whether the person who wrote the one wrote the He examined them thoroughly. Hours and hours • spent over them, and he came to the conclusion that th were written by one and the amo person. He. had moral doubt that the anonymous letters were written 14 Mrs. Lindsay. Miss Ella Hewett, recalled, said the following letter addressed to her was in the handwriting of the d•fteulsl. - My dear Ella.—Will you at the first opportunity a..ic Roberto, with my compliments, if he will translate the enclosed for me. and will let von have it at your conveniences Tell him I will also return in time for t a Easter ball.—Trusting you are well, believe me," or.c. Another letter produced was in Mrs. Lindsay's han I writing. It was addressed to her sister Mary and here.:. and must have been written on the 19th March last: ..My dear girle,—l write to say I regret extremely no; paying a visit before I loft. Yesterday, Ella, after receiv• ing your kind letter—thank you very much for it—l lel:, intended to call on you this morning to say good-bye, b owing to a shock I have had I am unable. Poor Ennr. Viaymouth came ringing to my door this morning befo:s daylight. imploring me to come to her, se her pa war dying. She is the only one at home except the dear .t.I wife, and Dor fright was dreadful to witness, ohs on.; knew he was seriously ill last night, and the doctors air he cannot last out a day. llv half-past 7 o'clock id:. morning I was in Plymouth, telegraphing for Albert a:. Mary ; so, altogether, you can understand how untlt I 1:11 to come to you now, and under existing eirenunstan vs I would not visit you to-morrow (Friday , on any oinsidort ton. Therefore, my dear girls. good-bye. and may wish you be yours, and if my wishes are of any *sal am sure you will be happy. l'.B.—Remember me vszy kindly to Alberto, and ask him why waltzing is Lis modern proverb I will tell you the answer, but tell him—Because one good turn deserves (Laughter.) Mr. Netherelift, recalled. said the foregoing lows were sent to him with others, and he fount the .same ..as racteristics in them 64 in the anonymous letters. Miss Ella Hewett afterwards recognised the f.tnowit•l• letter as being in the handwriting of the defendaut st.l raid it was one that had been referred to sv having beet received by Mise Mary Hewett *. Mrs. Lindsay ben to Miss Hewett's decision. Miss Hewett has seen Mrs. Lindsay's letters to her brother . thsegire she know' one side of an awful fact. After Mr-. Litti-av has seen Mr. and Mrs. Row. Miss Hewett said her sister sLall know the other side." Charles Chabot, of 23, Southampton-row. Russell square, also gave it as his °pintoes that the al: e.d tlt letters were written by one person. The wawa- t gore hie reasons for forming that judgment. wards he said: In giving opinions on anonymous lc:: • • there must elvers be some degree of doubt. Yost cet speak with aletolute certainty. I can only say they is-. • so far to my mind in two ways. There are two di species of writing in one. and two different spe• icf tit • other, and they so agree that I believe them to be :h' -•• duce of the same hind. I cannot say that lam e• I only express my opinion, founded ou my enteric:. • . is imi o,eil.ie to speak with certainty. Mr. Peer read the following letter, which h.td • • written by defendant to Mr. Rundle My tlcar Your gentlemanly, merciful treatment of me wit' .te : to my letters has moved me deeply. I have eolleira of the letters that were sent to me as aeon as the . e.• ••• of me great trial reached the writers, and I ttup.,•:•• • • • to read them, in the hope that you will glean v.', • kindness expressed for me by thesse who have know: • • in the world, in my home, and some few from my ct• :• hood, that lam out wholly worthless. I don t to be read iu court. 1 only want by their means t• ta myself if I can in your thoughts.' They saw to whet that letter referred, and they had also seen the other 1 , .. • Mr. Edmonds had put iu, which was said to Lase bts.. written to Mr. Rundle. It being nearly S o'clock. the court adjourned. EMLIMASTIC•L ArrOINTME_ITS.—nto reetort. of Keith Bramwell. near Doncaster. has falleu to the zd• of Lord Dufferin. the new Chancellor of the of Lancaster, in consequence of the death of the It, t: F. Maynard, M.A. It is worth about S'2o!. a y EXTRAOIMIN•ItT BrletDll.—Yeeterd:ty AAA' noon Dr. Diploel held ea inquest at Notting-hi:l towhita the death of - Harriet Elisabeth Wright, aged .41. who OW mated suicide under very painful and pocull*" 1 " 12 ' Manna. Ma James Henry Inner, a clerk in the Ad miralty, deposed that the dimmed bad been Asyut.: wah her friends at 33, Dembndire-villee, ,h' 11 . 0 witneee's sisters-law. Her husband was at proellt Malta Mn . Durrett said she was • name. and h heels employed with another sane to attend upon the dee: sad- She had been very unwell for some time pad, and lab •iited under delusions On Thursday evening witnae wont down stairs, leaving the deceased with Use other nur4. z`ls had only been downetain a few minutes when 'h e muss called up. She found the door bolted, but could see dim'" in the room. The door was directly towed open. wh , "% they found the dem si el ised lying on the bed. She esc lu Oa' thsra was nothing the matter with hor, and that •!1. 0 was quite well. Her, chest was uncovered, and 11 " dreadfully burnt ; her night gown was burnt complea'!l from of her. She died on Friday morning perfo'll conscious. She was left in bed, and was sum."'" to be asleep. She must have put her night gown " the fire, basing first takes off a dressing gown. ma la" must have locked the door, afterwards getting bed. Anne Elisabeth Broderick, • nun*, ,leposed thc she left the deceased, whom she thought asleep. fair a f . " minutes. The deceased, before the witness was fairly of the room, rushed and slammed the door and loam She begged the deceased to open the door, but retook the witnem called for help, as she could see the niun of flames. When as entry was effected they found ceme i d gi ls on the bed. Sbessid that it was not grilses* fault. ury returned • verdict of temporary immure. and the nurse Broderick for leering the deone•t 4 alone, ea it had hem shown that she had • suicidal tss' deny. The coroner called her is and severely adsmaisa w her, sad the proceedings terminated. ••••=.• ... LA dale stst Flat Tier torio not 1 rot I bei rbov ,re:• Old i jfe, 72 ens is us Alf Woo few Saw TM Ti star Rai Folic Mi MEM into: appo gyred NJ vests until and , MI the env da all thei City rota cam] ream COIN to gi" from the the c - i 6 i shar VI lis upoz osazij 110$ I It POI way. crew 1867 lasis Het In then n of or Mr roseO there liot g Th Ut been Llaair 141 ■Dd dsJ (s.), DR. China per. Not W Or; (natl.' Jt let, f, hop I. York Fdriku 1 Akz alias - 'AI ,skii - aka i sty . LA , witla sago lb. I hail; bfv . ip tor L Sa turd pool 11/ Bbial lute tattle ban t IA lOW *km Di wool but 7ti Cott At kW Ili At awn Play, At