The Express. — London, England, 1868-12-30 00:00:00

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WEDNESDA Y, DEC. 30. EMBARRASSED OFFICIALS. A nx - rrEK of excitement ran through the Government offices this morning. The men known as insolvents and the men suspected of insol vency, together with those hoping for their places, and those wishing to be promoted over their heads, are so seriously affected by the Treasury minute, dated 30th ult., and published in last night's Gazette, that the entire Civil Service is on the qui rice: for pecuniary difficulty is by no means um( moron in otr Government departm e nts. I'rivJe arrangements with creditors, salaries Itiorigaged fur the payment of old debts, chronic etr::.•"•'ea with the local tradesmen, or, worse still, with the money-le nder, into whose clutches they fell years age, are, it is sal to ray, the conditions under which too many of our publie servants live and work. There are few positions in the world in which the temptations to run into debt are stronger. Appointed at a salary of 901. or 100/. a year, the youth, who perhaps lives with his friends, or who, if ho is put into lodgings, has help in money or material from home, is wcll off. Accustomed to school pocket-money, or to count on " tips " as a source of income, the lad without ties or responsibilities fools 1001. a year to be Golconda. Re enjoys himself, and perhaps exceeds his income by ever so little—but why pursue the hackneyed story ? Has not Mr. 1110AWBYR immortalised the golden rule of life in his counsels to David Copperfield ? And are not the results—happiness or misery —contained in the sixpence below or the sixpence above income which expenditur e reaches? The Government official's salary nes et keeps pace withhis wants; and at thirty years of age there is found no more ciiscontented being than the servant of the Crown with an income which perhaps touches 2001, For the instruments chosen--effpccially since the fine promises held ont to " merit " by the reformers of 1831-3--are too highly educated and of too good social standing for their pay and work. Follow the best of them to their homes and they will be found ituioeitsting w ith the gentilitics of their district, lied mixing en equal terms with professional men meiclesnts whose servants are paid at s higher eto than they are themselves. Herein lies the fru tful ou eof officiel embarrassment. When the vessel of clay and the vessel of metal float down the stream together, we know which gets the worst of the oompenienship; and our civil servants, as a rile, have the habits and tastes of gentlemen with the means and pecuniary prospects of a far lower class. The Treasury minute just issued makes pecuniary embarrassment an official offence. EX Bankruptcy or inesiveasey, unless isooompeuied by ex ceptionally redeeming eirournstanosso is to be followed by dimmissid; and if the hapless wight who has to seek the proteotion bf tbs wart fails to report the circumstance to his superiors, he meets with the samo fate. The resolution is trenchant and sweeping, and will fall hardly upon many creditors, as well as upon many a man struggling to redeem the perhaps venial extra. Inane% of the past. MILITARY DICTATOR/3EITP. Comm-Cow/Amain Pi i/boz o C. 8., seems to unite the functions of the licenser, or censor, of plays with those pertaining to hie military rank. If the news conveyed to ns by Mr. Burry' be collect, the officers and private soldiers stationed at Plymouth have been forbidden to visit the local theatre, because the pantomime produced there contains FOIllO skits at the regimental discipline practised in the port. We sincerely trust there has been some mistake, and that the report in question is unfounded. If, as is alleged, military pickets were stationed at the doors of the theatre to watch whether the ob noxious eider was obeyed the sooner His Royal Highness the COMILLNDRII-IN-Cllllll , expresses his opinion on the subject the better. While would matters stop if the rulers of every section of society took upon themselves the regu lation of the amusements of their subordinates ? How would the fun and humour of the nation End vent: if every one ridiculed turned upon the satitist with the kind of brute force with whioh the CoLorm.-Consustatzer of Plymouth is credited with P Fancy the ministers of the day resenting the hits made at them in Punch, and decreeing that no public servant should buy or read that periodical; fancy the Christmas pieces at Drury-lane or Covent-garden shorn of every allusion which reflects upon the great and mighty ; fancy the appearance of boxes and pit if the writers and players of burlesques were to be punished for striking home. But if this incredible intelligence should turn out to be true, we trust that Colonel Pswaoss will have an opportunity given him of explaining the grounds upon which he acts. The late Lord CAR DIOAN once distinguished himself by de creeing that a certain social discipline should be observed by the officers over whom he pre iled at mega, with the result of having a black bottle associated with his name to the day of his death. What is it that has roused Colonel Pxsaosx'a ire Is he joked at by Clown, is his effigy battered by Pantaloon, or is it merely some of the discipli nary regulations of his regiment which are made fired for laughter ? We have heard of clothing colvnels, and of " old soldiers " who dabble in a great variety of strange callings; but this is the lira instance we have known of officers and gentlemen being hectored out of going to the Play. BRAWLING IN eill'ltell. Ilm - ausu, as we all know, hai one of its strongholds at Brighton, and among priests of the extreme party the Rev. Mr. PURCHAS has made himself notorious. We have no sympathy with the v ►garies of this gentleman, but at the same time we claim for hint, as wo would for any man, the right to act according to his conscience. If his conduct as a clergyman of the Church of England be opposed to her ritual, by all means let legal action be taken against him. We believe that that Church is essentially Protes tant. Mr. ?mesas and his adherents no doubt repudiate the name, and abjure the principles of the Reformation. They have a right to their opinions and a right to their practices, too, so long as those practices are in accordance with the law. If they are deemed illegal, and that some of them are so is evident from the recent decision against Mr. AfacrioNocnte, let the question be examined in the proper plac 3, but we protest in the name of common justice against the rudeness exhibited at St. James's Church on Christmas Eve by a gentleman who evidently went to the service on purpose to denounce it. We are told that, at the commencement of the offertory, he cried out, " It is perfect bosh ; I say, " perfect rubbish ; " and then, when it was at tempted to expel him, he exclaimed, " I expected " this. lam not afraid to repeat my words, It is " all perfect rubbish." And once more he said, "It is perfect rubbish. I came bore to worship " GOD according to the tenets of the Church "of England, not of the Church of Rome." Now, it is, we think, perfectly oloar that the gentleman's object in going to this notoriously High Church celebration was not to worship, but to create a disturbance. He knew, by his own showing, what the service would be, and how he intended to act on the occasion, or he would not have said he expected to be turned out. Clearly such a man ought not to have been present at all, or, if present, should have used another opportunity and taken a different method of ex pressing his aversion to ritualistic extravagancos. Brawling in church is the act of neither a Cluistian nor a gentleman, and such a protest against error is worse than useless. PLYMOUTH, Dge. 29.—Colonel Second Com mandant Penrose, C. 8., commanding the Plymouth division pro few., issued an order on parade to-day, for bidding any officer or private of the division to attendee° lirittmas pantomime at the Plymouth Theatre until further orders. Pickets of Marines were placed to-night at the entrances to the theatre, apparently on duty to see the order was obeyed. A government arsenal policeman was said to have been present. The cause of the order is alleged to be that part of the pantomime is considered to throw ridicule on the corps, particularly on the officers. In addition to the diminution of the audience caused by this order several Marines employed at Vie theatre have been obliged to resign their appointments.—Arlaris Telegram. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dec. 28.—The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade have received information, through her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that the Austrian Reichsrath and the Hungarian Diet having been prorogued without their assent having been obtained to the supplemental commercial conventain with England, signed at Vienna on let July last, the convention wilt not be brought jute force on the let January next, as therein stipulated.— Garrets. TILE PRESS AND THE BELFAST ELECTION Prrrrion.—A matter arising out of the Belfast election has come before the Irish Court of Common Pleas. It was en application on behalf of the petitionersagainst the return of Mr. 'Thomas M`Clure, for en order of attachment against Mr. Francis D. Finley, proprietor and publisher of the Northers Whig, upon the grounds that he printed and published in his journal, on the 18th, 19th, and 21st of December, articles seriously interfering with the pro ceedings in the Court of Common lieu m reference to Mr. M'Cluress return, and that the publication of the seine WWI a contempt of the honourable court in which the cense was pending. It wise comphsinsal that one of the objects of the article was ts create a false iin j ressisn that the petitioners aimed at disturbing the nett of Mr. Johnston, that it was totally untrue that they ha I it in contemplation to present a petition against the re turn of Mr. Johnston, and that they fully believed the said articles were published with the intention of prevent ing the disclosure of the practices resorted to by Mr. Mtlure, by exciting amongst the friends of Mr. John , 'ton a feeling of hostility to the petitioners, and to iirbitse them to make common cause with the friends of Mr. /More. Three other newspapers having considerable circulation in Belfast, the Northers Star, the Northors Ittendoer, and the Beeiser Ulster, published articles on the 19th instant smiler In ton* and tendency to the articles in the Whig, and the publishers hal been served on the earns day (21st) es lfr. Plalay. The court reserved judgment. 8, WEDNESDAY E' 001.11101t011041. • (THD3 . DAY.) nu maim! Oomailipa The •xolasicia of theme from the cesiseilles wal, me doubt, asp the TelerrepA, prov.ds• as outcry from the 'asinine advocates of Pas-Zellesdere ; but the premed ing is most adore' sad reameable. The Ida ;don of George I. Meads at this mamma is • peCtion of a ealprit at the bar of Envy, ; it hes broke& the poses as I vio lated the amity of the Nat West. sad has me Ws to be present as as equal in the assembly of its Judges. With England, France, sad Russia to the ocatformion however, the people ham no cruse for fear that their intends will suffer wrong ; but the protecting powers are answerable to Europe for the good behaviour of their warl, and they might have seemed to cesedome her recent dieredard of their COVIO4II, sad of the priacipies that govern the rela tions of mature and eslf-eastaining Staten if they had gi stiffed her pride by admitting her to their oenclave. Whet Turkey demands of Greece in the Post remarks, that the shall fulfil the obligations which are imposed on her sea neutral by international law. She must prevent her dominions being made • bads for hostile operations against a neighbouring date ; she must nes her authority to suppress bands of volunteers, organised and • 'nipped for the purpose of Joining in ihbeestering expeditions either to Crete or acmes the Turkish frontier, and meet equally prohsbit armed vends taking her ports as their point of departure and harassing the Turkish government, and enibanassing it is its endeavours to restore or =de tain order in Crete. Os these points it is impossible to craceive any difference of opiaioa between the repress.- %Jives of the protecting peewees. Tzue PORTZ'S Dirrnry. The Doily News remarks that the beet thing the Turk could do, if he only knew it, would be to go on quietly as long as he can, borrowing our money, strengthening his dominion with Use appliances of Western civilisation, and conniving at a reasonable amount of piracy, blookade running, and breech of treatise. He has friends, ►ow ever, who tell him that be must be up and doing, that he must show himself energetic, and show that he has a will of his own. Wiser friends are endeavouring to keep him quiet, weU knowing that a "spirited policy" would soon spirit him out of tilitillooll. The Ottoman government may said for some time yet as a tolerated State under European tutelage, but it is only so that it oan Wit at aIL The Thew says that in Australia there is an opening far any people who want to do a good work of a special and also of an enduring character. At present we are feeding hundreds of thousand@ of people for doing nothing at all, and them cannot be the least doubt that commercially London pauperism is a better @peculation than agricultural labour. The cost of a pauper is enor mous, and it is not too much to say that evory indus- trious working man in England carries a pauper on his back. But the proems is interminable, and always becoming worse. Every week thousands of rat} Flyers are changed into rate-devourers, and taken from the strength of the country to be added to its burden. The evil is greatly aggravated by the precarious and temporary alai atter of much employment in this c )untry. It always is ro in a rich and luxurious condition of society. For the petiole themselves, however, it is b •tier that many of them i.hould be transplanted to some region where troy can work mote for themselvee, and depend for employment mote on the regular course of nature, than on the ospriace of wealth or the vicissitudes of trade. THI SATURDAY HALT-IT =OLT. The Herald says that there is a moral intlu-nce attml ing the compulsory adoption of the Saturday half-hol day in cases which come within the mope of the Regulation nut of 1167, which will be seen in the in 1111 general adoption of the Saturday half-holiday where itiub serrence is purely optonal, as in the case of our retail establishments. It handicrafts are to hare liberty why not those occupations which oomist in the selling of the articles which are made P The leisure is good for all, and air and mercies are as needful for health as pure water and efficient drainage. The Workshop Regulation Act is • sanitary measure, if mates else, but the Monad believes it to be a good deal more. Ds. rya= ON TEM tr. Ammer as The Sta► asp it must not be supposed that Ds. Pusey finds himself tumble to cordons to the law as hid down by the legal seaters of the spiritual timbers. Sappily for his peace of mind, while ecatianing to hold the status end perform the duties of hi 'ailing, he has discovered that the late judgment does not turn on any matter of faith, and therefore does not in itself effect the consciences of churchmen. It would be d.filcult indeed to find any thing which would affect the cossoisaces of many of the clerical churchmen except their emoluments and status. Touch them in that quarter and they will Ind an article of faith in every acre of their benefice and every shilling of their eanual income. the Cann. OSBORNA Dsa 29. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Beat:los, and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, acconrianied by Prince. Louisa. Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, end Princess Beatrice also walked out. The Flirt and Countess Spencer arrived at Osborne yea terday, on a visa to ber Majesty. A Cabinet Council was hold yesterday at the Foreign-office. Tho ministers present wore the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Earl de Grey tnd Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Claren don, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, iLe Duke of Argyll, the Chancellor of the Ea c•hequer, the Right Hun. Hugh Childers, the Right Hon. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Gowihen. the Marquis of Hat tington, and the Right HJII. C. Fortescue. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-ofllee from the GOVeirolll of the Austishan colonies New Zeeland, the Straits Settlements, Malta, Gibraltar, He. Breland, the West India 1-lend., Bermuda, Newfound land, and the Governor-general of Canada.. His Royal Highness the Duko of Cambridge left town yesterday for Hampstead Park, near Newbury, on a visit to the Marquis of Don gall, who is enterhining • numerous circle of friends. Arrangements have been made for several days' shooting, and, d•npits the drench ing rain of yesterday,lhe party commenced their sport. There was an abundance of game, and the weather being more favourable in the afternoon the sport war much enjoyed. The Countess Dowager Somers has returned to her residence, No. 46, Groevenor-plane, from Bourne mouth, where she has been peeling the last are* months. Viscountess Castlerosee, accompanied by Lord and Lady Charles Thynne, left town yesterday for the south of France. Her ladyship has somewhat improved in health. The Earl and Countess of Hinnoul hays left town for Dupplin Camille. N.B. The Right Hon. H. A. Brune has left town for YorkFhire. Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone and Mr. W. IL Gladstone, M.P., left town yesterday evening on • visit to Lord Lyttelton at Hagley-park. Woreettenibirr. After staying there .t few days they will go to Bawarden Castle, Flintshire. HER MAJESTY'S NEW YEAR'S OIFTS.—Early on Friday winning her Majesty's New Year's gifts to the poor of the parishes of St. John, Windsor, Holy Trinity, and Chewer will be distributed, in the premium of the mayor and clergy, to the numerous recipients. Those gilts, amounting in value to neatly 2004, sonnet of prime pit ces of bed, the weight being in proportion to the num hor of c u rb family, and coals. The - meat will be Ciotti hetet] to the holders of tickota in the Butchers'-marinit. at the rear of the T•wn-hall, while the coals will be de heated at the homes of the recipients. ELECTION OF A TEMPORAL PEER OF IBILAND.— The London Gazette of last night republish.. fres the *Jelin Gazette the Glacial announeessent that the Bight Hue. Lawrence Earl of Roam hall been cheese by a majority of votes to be the peer to sit be **House of Lords of the United Efegdos, in the rem of the Bight lion. Henry Baron Farnbase, YO' DECEMB N N ErW DAY.) CIMIONIa astismil aNsiNe.) • TURKEY AND GRIMM Arm/. DMZ/. It is officially ammaaced hers that the Porte bas granted an extension of three weeks from this date for the Greek subjects to leave Turkey. SPAIN. MADRID, Dio. X A commission of six magaben of the Ilicsarchical Committee has been appointed to sot with the Government to re-setablish amid rapport liberty and moral integrity at the elections. The Republican leaders have resolved to main tain the programme of their party. INDIA.. (FM Briadini). BOMBAY, DIP. 11. Extensive preparations are being made to give the new Viceroy a brilliant public reesption on his arrival here, and it is expected that the Governor of Madras and the Commissioners of &bide will visit Bombay to meet the Earl of Mayo. It is authoritatively stated that no battle had occurred in Afghanistan before the evening of the 26th of last month, but the Ameer of Maimana had made a diversion in favour of Shere Ali by advancing towards Balhand and seizing Siri Pool. The Bombay Gaze*, however, pub lishes news in confirmation of its previous announcement that a battle had been fought. CALCUTTA. Das. 11. The Friend of India contains an article in which it anticipates a small (leach in the next budget, end considers a loan inevitable. The same paper says, the Vioeroy proposes, at the instance of the Maharajah of Cashmere, to withdraw Dr. Cayley from Ladaokh. The Friend of India regards this step ea one threatening ruin to the trade with Cashmere, which promised well upon the appointment of a British agent in that country. With reference to an intended extension of tele graphic communication as far as Singapore, a re commendation has been put forward by Colonel Robinson in favour of a plan for laying a subma rine cable from the Bengal coast to the Rangoon. OUR PARIS LETTER. (MOM OUR OWN 0011/115POWDIDIT.) I'ARIS. TOIODAT li'vssfuro. The very confident tone in which the Considu -11,1,14 announces that the conference will meet shortly in Paris, and the absence of any positive news to the contrary, produced on the Bourse a fecovery of 20c. from yesterday's fall of 371 c. in the Berate. The France itself, which three days ago spoke of the basis of the conference as an obstacle not likely soon to be overcome, now says there is every hope of its meeting before lung and probably between the 7th and 10th of January. The Patrie, however, says that all the current information beyond the two facts that the conference is accepted in principle and with the Turkish ultimatum for its basis, is " premature." The publio takes it for granted that before the Corps Legislatif meets on January 18 the conference will have met and concluded its work satisfactorily. The Petrie, assuming that the fall at yester day's Bourse was in some measure caused by a rumour that a law was about to be passed enabling Baden subject. to take service in the Prussian army, observes that the project in question has been before the Federal Council of the North for a long while, but that the Berlin Cabinet seems to desire its adjournment sins die. " The situation, therefore, is just what it was, and nothing in our relations with the States beyond the Rhine justifies rumours propagated evidently for speculative purposes." Prince Napoleon is so much better that no further bulletins are issued. The Marquis de Moustier improves slowly, but it is hoped he may be removed on Thursday from the Foreign-office to his private residence in tha Rue Casimir Perier. The reiterated challenges of the opposition press during the last week have at length goaded the government to take some notice, although in a lame and indirect way, of the startling allegation that the great National Museum of the Louvre is habitually pillaged by its appointed curators, and that art treasures which connoisseurs and students miss from the collection are lent by favouritism to hangers-on of the Court, officials, and even Bona partist Clubs. M. Rouher's paper, the Public, made a very unlucky shot two days ago. It said in two lines that there had been no fire at Madame Troplong's, thereby meaning to deny the specifics allegation that two of the Louvre paintings had been burned in her home, but at the same tune leaving uncon tredieted the more serious statement that 4) pie tines, the property of the nation, were appro rriated to tbe decoration of -:.ig-rorra. Thu COn.tautiennel now admits the fire at Madame Troplong'., and also the destruction of two pictures which were the property of the " state." But it sa3 a these pictures formed no part of the Louvre collectioa, and that they had hung on tho very nails where the fire found them ever since the Restoration. Bo far the defence is a plausible one. But the Consfinsfionnel speaks only of the two paintings destroyed, and says nothing of their 38 companions. Coming next to the 37 national pic tures which adorn the walls of the petit erra club in the Chimps Elyges, called the Civet. Imperial, it confesses the fact that those belong to the Louvre collection, and that they have been in the club over since 1880. Then follows the excuse, namely, that in 1867 (the year of the Exhibition) " foreigners of distinction, princes, and even sovereigns were guests of the Carole Im perial, and had there an opportunity of admiring clicf•-dceuttro which they could not have seen otherwise because the repairs going on at the Louvre necessitated the temporary taking downtof the pictures from their ordinary pleoce in the galleries. Warming with its argument, the Constilutierinel says that these precious works of art were in much better condition for their safe pre servation in the drawing-rooms of the club than in the store rooms of the Louvre, whore they would have been out of sight. Simultaneously—and this is a very amusing oontradictiOn—the equally semi-official Public describes the " MO-d'euvre" of the Louvre, which the Cercle Imperial was good enough to take oars of and show to " distinguished foreigners, princes, and sovereigns" as rubbish not worth hanging anywhere and not worth talking shout. It having come out that the two instances to whisk public attention has been particularly oallaban not the only owe in which a flagrant bomb of trust has bean committed by the guardians of the national museum, the nossfflediegissi onadodes its article bell the ER 9 •• -. , th. • • •• t that the direltor • Oillinot • • • reply to " hefts!- . L iu • • • attacks," and that he • • 'to Ile "good faith end good armee of the pa • " The Ossiois, which wee the ant to " bell the sea," says it shell not reply upon the semi-official . rt. artatie of the Casantsiliasiesi. bat shall wait for the Porto coweetwaird which it challenges. NITRAORDINAfir OUTRAGES. James A. Keith, formerly a colonel in the con federate anny. now ia pal eh Raleigh, N. 0., has been amused, and does not deny the oessalsion of one of the greatest outrages ever perpetrated upon this cootinent. In URI theloyal people hying in laurel Valley coausivel that the Confederate authorities did net give them their fair Aare al salt. Uniting with the confederate element, they proceeded to organism a raid upon the Kanawha Valley Salt Weals, which proved eseesestal, under the had el Captain Kirk, of East Tennessee. Captain Kirk's men were fired with liquor f unsishal Ursa by the people living near the weeks, who were seined with terror upon the approach of the raider.. They earn pitted • number of outrages. Disappointed ia nit obtaining a soaking quantity of salt, they metal the lowa and retired. Gel. Keith organised a party and in his turn proceeded to Laurel Valley, cur wooded a portion of the valley when he knew hi. game was safe, and, without being over particular as t 3 whether those be captured were concerned in the salt raid or not, proceeded to whet his revenge. Capturing 13 persons who were assembled at the house of a man earn id Chandier, he deliberately took them to a se3ludod spot, and in spite of the appeals and implor ing cries of old and young, shot them to death. Women, old men, and boys were murdered w.th out giving them permission to say a prayer. Standing his victims in line, this monster of the nineteenth century ordered his command to tire upon them. Nine fell dead at the ant discharge, but the four little boys were not killed outright. They were shot a mooed time while trying to clasp the knees of their murderers. Keith ordered the dead bodies to be covered with stoma, and thus they were left. Nothing was known of the horrible occeneseefor some time, bat the facts finally teethed Governor Van's ear, w►o immediately demanded of the then Confederate Secretary of War, Seddon, the arrest, trial, and death of Keith. The trial was a farce. Keith was free after • time, and immediately placing himself at the head of a band of outlaws terrorized over the country. Visiting the house of a Mrs. Franklin, he shot her eldest son, dragged her boy of 15 from under the bed where he took refuge, killed him also, then pursued and killed her third son, who had in the meantime run out of the house. For this and similar atrocities, Keith has been formally indicted, and now that be is securely caged, the authorities experience consider able trouble in protecting his life until the day of his trial, which will soon take place. Mr. Seely and Mr. Hinde Palmer, the represen tatives of Lincoln, have met their constituents at a work ing reen'edemonstratioe in that city. The senior member, in expressing his belief that the present House of Com mon' was very far from being a revolutionary assembly, remarked that it contained 210 members connected with the aristocracy, 100 military men, 100 members of the bar, 134/manufacturers. and 81 editors, doctors, '• and such-like gentlemen." He regretted that not a singe working-men, eho lad come forward as such, had found his way into ai figment, and while upon this point, Mr. Seely urged the working classes to bani-h the jealo.ey of their follow wee king men which in too many instances existed. DEATH OF SIR WY. MACKENZIE, Ettitr.—The death of Sir Win. Mackenzie, Bait, which oceirred a few days ago at Coul House, ins seat in Ross-shire, is an. nounced. Sir William was the second son of S.r George Steuart Mackenzie, F.R.E., vice-preei tent of the Itiyal Society of Edinburgh, and was born at Cool House on the 20th May, 11906 ; had been a deputy-lieutenant of Ross since 1857. He succeeded his brother, Sir Alexander, as ninth baronet in January, 1866, and married, 16th August, 18,8, Agnes, second daughter of Mr. Ross Thompson Smyth, of Ardmore, county Londonderry. The late Sir William is succeeded by his brother, Robert Ramsay Mackenzie, born 21st July, 1811, and married in 1846 to Louisa Alexandrine, daughter of Mr. Richard Jones, of Sydney, New South Wales. Tim Lose or TEE CaLrarrr.—The official in quiry instituted by the Hoard of Trade, relative to the loss of the ship Calumet, was resumed yesterday at the Liverpo4ipolice.court. The filet witness—Willia, an able asam:'posed that the Calumet was not seaworthy when she left Liverpool ; that the captain was intoxicated at the time; that the vessel was overloaded, and over strained with mils ; that while oa board the ship Santa Rosa the second mate, in his hearing, accused the captain of trying to sink the Calumet The witness also insisted that there was no amenity to abandon her, if proper care had been exercised. Another able seaman, named Mathias, deposed that the diet mate ordered him to assist the carpenter in drawing the spear and boxes of thefotarboard pump, which they tom threw overboard. Subsequently the carpenter knocked off the after hatch, and weed a wooden stanchion down. This was done while the cap tain was on the poop. As they were leaving the Calumet in boats one of the - crew noticed that water was running out of her through some holes on the starboard quarter. They counted at least three holes through which the water was running. The holes were all below the water line, but above the copper. Witness questioned the car penter as to all this, and as to what he bad been doing, but the carpenter said the ass bad started the planks. He (witness) was present when the prated was read. The inquiry is still proceeding . Tax DIFFERENT Foams OF Frrini rr Ero- Laao.—We learn from the Registrar-Generare weekly re turn that a committee appointed by the Royal College of Physicians of London have prepared a nomenclature of discuss suitable to England, and to all countries when the English is in common use. This nomencla ture recognises the ollowing forma of common fever (1) typhus fever, (2) enteric) fever, (3) relapsing fever, and (4) simple continued fever. Neither oerebro-spinal fever nor plague need be referred to, as they do not prevail here; nor febrieule, as it is never fatal. The majority of the fatal fever cams in England may mo- Daley be deeignated either as typhus or as enteric fever. The two forms are thus defined by the committee: Typhus fever : A continued fever, characterised by great proidi Mien, and a general dusky mottled rash , without specific 'mien of the bowels. Enteric fever: Synonym, typhoid fever (or typhia). A continued fever, charac terised by the presence of rose-coloured spots, chiefly on the abdomen, and a tendency to diarrhom , with specific lesion of the bowels. Enteric fever occurring in the child is often named infantile remittent fever. Medical mac tit:oners are requested to use these names, to enable the Registrar-General to distinguish the several forms of fever with precision in the returns of the ensuing year. Tilt AUSTRALIAN MEAT QUESTION. —Yoder day an inteiesting meeting was held, under the presidency of the Hen. F. U. Vernon, C. 8., agent-general for Vic toria, at Norton Folgate, for the purpose of introlucing to notice th 3 steps which have been taken to give the F.ugli,.h public the benefits to be derived from a supply of animal food from our Australian c.ilonies. A great =my gentlemen connected with the colonies were present, and among others Mr. F. S. Dutton. the agent-general for South Antralia ; Mr. W. E. Mayne, agent-general for New South Wales; as well as many of the metropolitan medical officers of health. The chairman pointed out that the overcoming of the difficulties in the way of obtaining s constant supply of meat from Australia was important in two ways ; in the first plain, is supply of good meat would be given to this country at a considerably less cost than wee now given for meet ; end, in the next place, the vast supplies of mutton and beef now melted down in Australia for fat would then be utilized, to the profit alike of the mother country and the colonies. He went on to describe the many difficulties whack had hithedonisted to prevent supplies of the meet reaching this coonny from Australia, and he stated that the Moneta coon y so alive So the ensesity of ending a me shot fee their pt.Wal stock that the mon esergetio IS11•1111218 had Ism adored to furnish supplies to Europe. The company leanest were invited to partake of various dishes and to impost the meat in its raw and mann°. tared state, the latter conditon referring to wages and meets. It is fair to my that the meat tsd to Cir e itipection of the visitors was nee and site boiled preserved best and pie of reserved mutton were all that could be desired, but it was evident that in one or two dishes of mottos the MOM had not received the attention it requires before cooking. The meats are packed in large iron cases-bolding about n tons. Sheep are packed whole, without bona, and cured ; and when the in am is filled with the meat, boiling fat is run into the ease, which is then borminailly " sealed " for oxportation. The manner of exporting the beef I. this same, and it conies to this country in good eondition. That inhibited yeeterday was pro nounced to be vary Sae meet indeed, and 'bomb it is without boss it is sold at s Isle price thin meat in the London market is sold, ma Omagh the latter is weighed to the purchaser with the hones whiz= the mat to whet. Mr. Moreno guedsmas with Australia, MINI that experiments were nag made in order to brig how nab meat bum Australia to Europe, and it was Wined snow would Mead the effort. Mr. Itlieneen an behalf of the oblE of the OSA ltelod 4Nee bad been erne& the Mail Bel l illhe melt is Meilen Feigns ; WOE to dear awe dilleglffies, venire ler propels end i=e food " win pea Iheirlehnnie. se else that the of beef sad mien bed rises my taw owe of the rem sled such su m ries UM coned man null be supplied et enessighlk the seat dinged is nodes. The *Wm el the meet me ineeled emely Dards Welliffiele egg efrAem. LONDON AMUSED (THIS DAY.) ~NTtI. TRIATIMIL Ceesiv Oa assit.- 0 The Damdies II ikeeL" " Rola' tee —I WON*. Ter partiodses ase d* Dam Lana—" acp WWI, out." " Pus ia Beets." p pedississe me advt. •sasasi.—" lad yes wie wed Mr eif‹.l.9 "Ilisate Vdedi. Oixwie.—"llleekw and Orasker.". "The Tedrow Pospo a ta Vdralt. lameridis Loa." "The Gnosis trl4 " • AIM liie Diver."-1 eels*. fee partisaboo aim LIM levaaara—" Tee Widow Hies." " The Field at tas ctata of OsIL" "A Cemisil Osestemp."—, eels*. Pusan es Waiaes.—" dacistr." "Who deka. Speaks Prod"-7Y4."-7 flevacrv.—• A Lola, esp." "The Mai aid Ps, et It ITV " The Olsalmakers Nat."— ?As Vito* Ocues.—" Clout for Nothing." " Cyriro Sucore."—f o'clexk. OMII17.—" Thermo Harlequins" "Os the Carle." " le " Two toilets. For particular. sa e we. Havaisiev.—" • Here of liossiace." " A Vrightitd ilcr • " As Alarialsi ilicatese." —7 dela& LTOEUN.—" POW Mowbray's." " llar:eltan 11nrapty 1) Jaix 7 —I Vika. Paiiiciss's.—" Me Reeist." " After Dot." " /Imo? Jo t ltirtbday." —7 o'clock. dr. JAlll44'll.—" The beast Panel" " Glitter." " The fibs; &slaty is the Wood." Itcmasaia.—" ft. Marys Eve." " Turco the Tetribit." Cliarlatte's Maid." Bace.meo Wau.i.— " The Spectre Bridegroom" Natio:um% "Coca lorielcos."-7 o'clock. floaawr.—" Mae Tries All." "Jack sad Jill sad the ftnepior Bumity."--1 o'clock. Bora& warrmiaras i Ifohimmo.—Carre's Reforming LI m lko—TAa Wake& Breeriemi.—" Tell Tale Tit." "The Old floldi , r."-4 eiebek. barrmono.—" lithluta - 11orrhaahliothrusa."—" The Berme. Master's Berset." Pasitiow.—" Bluff Leg Hal."—" The Ikersent's W..... —7 o'clock. ROTA,. ALTILaIo.--'. Whittington and His Cot" "The 3.00 ot." —T o'clock. BT. Geoseo's TIIMATTS (ST. Oaciaos'a Hsu.) Is .d gentaaegmlos " " Tangly Jan.'. —7 o'clock. roc pancolsci see advt. Exersa-osth.—"The Messiah," by the Ititiond Chxu Society. amoral. racaca.—" Harlequin Little Boy BI•o," eel other en - tertainaleata.-11.30 o'clock. CIALLART or ILLUITILATIOI.—Kr. OM WI. Gomm Reeel'e ewer. trauma, "Inquire Within," and " Tbr Let —3 and 8 o'clock. RoyaL A4211. - I;LTVIAL Ha I.l.—Baiwed Great Cirrus. —3 eel 1.100 o'clock. Foe particulars see advt. Tun A A sow Chrialaoao " The Poky .I^ort Tree," kit For portinularo see adet C AAAAAA HALL. —Teo ballets, " " The pair; Haunt of the Batterfties," ke. NOTrI7•I•RALL, I•IOOA.DII.I.T.—Mr. Amin( Norton's iktattata• anent--e o'clock. Canto' Miarriaza. Sr. ;Lao's Harr.-8 o'clock. Por part. rulers see advt. 110TAL POLTTICI77O. A Ghost Btoty. and Mr and lira Coote's Entertainment, " The Maid of 9:i.442,,•' For ticulara see adet. Kura TOINI6OWS. THE CHRISTY MINSTRELS. During the Christmas holidays, that is to air, until the end of the present week. the Carky M give two performances each di, iu St. J. I They lave provided a special entertainm rut. win 2,0(.'0 persons whom the eh, ap 4 seats w 1: a • .9za As: will prove ens of the bet sh:Ling's worth or th r ko I be LW in London, and wh:ci will stren4tbea t .e .• fruity the troupe hare enjoyed for Everal yeah. A - . mg to custom the first half of the programme is dev:t• • • ballad musk, of tbet kind which hes given to C.,i • minstrelsy a character of its own. and mater.ully a •s. towards keeping the love for sentimental ba.114.14 any keeping was neces.sary) alive in the public mud. 0A th portion of the concert but little need be sai :. Of fourteen songs, two are comic, one ,se::,. comic, and the renimaider includes many new b.:. lads similar to others that, first produced -, quickly passed into the repertoire of the barrel organ:.._ The „ Anvil Chorus," the substance of which is from 1: 21 &retort, is made striking in more senses than one by s clever accompaniment on • ringing anvil by Mr. G. W Moors and Mr. I. P. Crocker, the two proprietors, lei.) sustain the prominent place they have held from thy dr•: in all the performances. Perhaps the prettiest of the nee songs is a joint composition of Mr. Nelson Lee, jun.. sal Mr. BLunphin, entitled "Little Daisy." It was sung by Mr. J. Bawlinson, the premier tenor of the company. .t song by Mr. Frank Leslie, in imitation of a lady's singinz. was a wonderful bit of delusion. Mr. Frank Pierb dunn.: the second part, twice represented female characters w.th marvellous success. Ills make-up was so perfect as :) suggest horrid thoughts respecting many beautiful dg it we have hitherto gazed upon without suspicion. • gave a semi-burlesque rendering of Reichart's I know an eye," hitting off the extravagant snit:ids, of the platform lady singer of the period, yet preeerra.; the sweet melody of the song from the mirthf.:l the burlesque caused. A lecture on anatomy by Mr. We;:a.. was as fine • touch of broad comedy as one often sees. The "Own Original" Joe Brown's prize jig is well known to be more than mentioned. A sh - " "Italian Operio" concluded the programme. If might take the children's merry laughter sin which rh....r parents, and big brothers and sisters. affectionately ts::: them company) as • criterion, the radical fsiCt ••f tie "skit" 111111111 it. brevity. As an situ:wags:Lis. it en inimitable. It was • medley founded up•u the to....:h:az history of Manrico and Leonora. as given in Verl.'s famous opera, only the characters had lees Ishitc to wit, Don Pedro de Bisinarko, II Conti de N. , r5. , 015. Marquis de Chelsi, &e. While the music was subliti. the libretto was superbly ridiculous. and showed h. 4 strange •thing conversation in domestic life would he conducted on the principles of strict oper► In ths Ilium, scene, an ingenious chorus of A merry Chris:- mu" and " Happy New Tear" alternated with C heroine's wailing notes ; while the sad •• A c!:: foiled, of course, to draw • tear when C. merited by the music hall ditty whose hurd: about the mihtw. The charm of this wi position was that it was capitally acted and without exception good. We may add that ... decorated for the cu.•x+iun. Of course the is thickly studded with the dances, c•Ai Pukes of which the Christy ItiustroLs a ru Ea ct:tr. GIOANTW CIIRISTIIA?1 TREE.- -Notwi the sterns on Monday uight the Borough-Tea tional ("burst wasciorded with voung Ina the distribuaco of UV rims from a glgat tree to u away poor children of the ncti were members of the Band of Hope in coutt; church. Each child subscribes a halipenu this furnishes them. dui lug the year. with a treat, a country eicturstou. ands tea festival SALE OF THE MAltial'ltt OF HASTISO —Yesterday this library of the late Mental was put up for sale by auction at Nottaigt leadwg book-dealers in the county y were It also observed several members of parliann Mr. Mandrils and Mr. F. Smith. The u; Mr. Fhilipe, of London. The library contsi of 20,000 books, many of them being extreme pm of yesterday's sale, " Wield. the Four in the handwriting of John Wiclif, rector of 1360, was bought for 2161. by Mr. Boone t Museum. Another rare work, "Missals in l' fetched KJ. ; " Henry VIII. Prymer t " in 1639, 68L ; " A Greek Manuscript of 401. ; "°Menem Beate Marais Virgir • " Bor. Heats, Virginia," 1620; "Vitw". 1400 ; " Clint totius Romania Feels.. s 1104 ;and " The Hoke of COMInOI3 Pray , of England," 1362, 27/. The sae b the week. TIII KENSINGTON AND RIMIIIGNI special train, conveying a large number gentlemen, went over the new line been inspected and certified by Colon Board of Trade, and will be opened on The stations are West Kensington, 1 Turnhani-green, Breutford-road, Richmond. The Mations, although inesi tures, were much admired, and the pe also was pmnounocd of a superior character, politan will book passengers from its tat Richmond, or any of the stations on the new company will not for the present °ionise power., and their passengers will change Hammersmith. A covered way cmunuie station and the other. A Monstrr BOLMElL—Ooneral Thy' dist as be is brava, ha! iasktod that the •• ieliesTaii et eitoago . hj the M led to so much glory, in faiour of amoong those that are to surround the I. Lined& monument at Washington. from the records. In this, as in so la. ia • mood for oar saidisra.—Nrar rsrk Oneras Paws. —On TIMM% DM WA—Moidalas lON MO ea leiasalle 4.116 P" Dr; tor bee Le at a ord •bo lay thet h them 41 I } fUIT 8 Tear - alternated with tl. le the sad •• A r cl:: 11 a , 7tt‘ ' thee De b i tear when C.,.,-,•:y ...:P,: , . 11. e y whose burd:u , - •.:: • : 7.; ecm MIA of this whim.... it 7 - 2mi flee. ally acted and .nn-:•• 7 , , . • ai.d. • may add that t!:a 7.. : • *out M course the eu: ..:.1....:. • ; dances. ecnandta i.:. i Das AliastroLi are ill.:. i . t: t ail D it ------' m it el at l'ilEr.- -Notwitll-7 t* ; the mar he Borough-T0.% I i .. . ith vounir and .•.. 7 . t• a. , • ery a from A glirltltt.' I'.: •: :..• Be en of the neigh , . ~..! . ;•• t Hope in coutiel .au. • . / i tat 1:(111 es a halfpenny a N. • • . i.. pe year. wit h a `ry....., .-- I a tea festival at Ct.: ,:- .i.• to g tee i OF 111 ISTISiIS. 1.11;1: % ~.*. 1 ut he late Marquis of 11. i.: ..:, sine nn at Nott.ughain. .1 'se aha iuntry were present. ......1 .... toss rs of parliament. ta,:: .;.--..: then Smith. The auctio:i..er el' his 1 e library contain , ' upw.ods a being extremely rare. I`:+ I: •Urr Oil. the Four Evatt,„-ol , ;-. richt, rector of Lutterao: th. on • 111 r. Boone for the ltii::-S to Direr " Missal' in tram Swart. the Prytaer t - in Engitsh 5:...! Ilanneeript of the tlasrols. rat 101 l its Vuliata." Anti-. his.'. 0; '' Vitae 'Mew 1 Itsvket. ' a n es Ecelwise Subjeott. - I'''. N a elitti amen Prayer of tho Chur.:7l to i ais will be continued &Irma' Dam man D RICIIIIOND T.INr. -1 hal nil number of proi , o4 .7 ,1 W line yetterdsv. It Ile •' w Dy Colonel Teliiiii, of ths own e opened on Ent' it a Pi.. . A Kalman/ton, itstitra Isis :1. reed. Kow.garlona, a:: dtv tbe I !though inettionsive ..41:.: :. tn. and the germ ciont M 1! Ard s prior character. Th. Mo atop from its stations t , 1:4• On i ma on the now lino. trut , tO sl resent esereisc it. r a.1,111. Vela s will change eser ass. 61 and r emununieates beteroono:t e Pale tar 1 Imeral Thomas. Ps , r"• elm 1 il that the nisolation i st.. 4 tics representatives .'i tto s nipe the larour of placing his ` sil l ram and the Dago of the prop Pe tine, neon. should tit, o,6! , llV: r ' i Bea) in so many other thin :7•.' . tem lees Y..* ?Wear, De.. • • to c hrs Banaare DWG . ' are 6111. W Isla masa nig* I a Mil Jibe, 42.4. Pet I