The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-28 00:00:00

7 NEWSPAPER l• 4 . 4 • j. 4 4 //1 . tiS • . •• _ - LI • 4-0 tiA4 • • -•••••-- - 7 1 W spFf'•' • • t •t Al. " 4 4, 1 ' \\ 11 . 11 ,4 1 rt LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1867. No. 6,390.] [STAIIPXD, Id. [TWOPENCE MESSRS. MONEY WIGRAM and SONS' (of • O VERCOATS for the present Season.—The Idxkwsll rani , Londoni LINE of STEAM and PACKET ‘...F NEW WINTER OVERCOATS, of bed materials, are kept to A USTRA LIA.—For MELBOURNE 'Port Phillip' Direct on hand and made to order, at ;r ., Dine the Ducks tin M edinsnlay. Feb. 20. ceiling at My- HAJIIILTO7i and EILIPTON'S, m oth , the splendid clipper ship SUFFOLK. 1.000 tons, W. H. Tailors and Overcoat Makers, NIRO VAN. Connimmler : Ding in the Last India Dock' I 106. STRAND, opposite Ezeter-hall. lire w mitoodations for all dames of passengers are IlaltUr p...,l. and .he carry an experienced aulleau.—Fnr 11[OW COLD IT HAS BEEN.—NEGRETTI pastime goy to A LLPORT and 110KDAN, with l kioNLY W [GRAM and SONS. 7, budennauesseet. rectly register the lowest temperature, Prise its. Od. 1, Hatton ' si LAU YKOM LIVKKPOOL OR taIrEIaNSTOWN TO garden : 50, Crirnhlll 122. Regent•street: and 153. Fleet-street. NEW YORK TWICE A WEEK. Dow to use the Magic Lantere, sad obtain the best effects. MEIN LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and Illudrated- A PHILADELPHIA STEAM.SHIP COMPANY Inlaid de. 'patching Unduepowered Clyd•-built Iron Screw Sieent-Shige, tag the States mails, I TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. FROM Ikl:KISIOL for NEW TORE: r-ITY Or 1:.1 rIOIOIIE, Wednesday, Jan. 30. CITY OF M.l \ • II i.srEIL Saturday. Feb. 2. ; 11 OF Si 5 , 111 N,. Wednesday. Feb. O. And mul l Wednesday and aelentay. Cabin passage by the mail steamers sailing every Wednesday. 1 ITALY. 1%. 17. and 21 guineas, according to the accommodatioo. Forward Damage includes a full supply of cooked provisions. I FLORENCE, JAN. 27. Farseurters for Canada and the United States booked throug h .p on I . The bill proposing to grant liberty to the church, advantageousvvewepy terms.—For further particulars to WILLIAM INMAN, 22. Water-street, Uverpool; &silo and to liquidate the ecclesiastical property, do sed MACEY, 61, King William-street, London. clares the catholic church, in its exercise of reli- OVERLAND ROUTE. COMMUNICATION glom worship, to be free from all interference on by STEAM to INDIA, AUSTRALIA, At., vl.l EGYPT. from Southampton soil Alaeilles.—The PENINSULAR and the part of the state. It proposes to abolish the ORIENTAL "TEAM NA %•10ATIoN COMPANY BOOK PASSEN- • • fats and rn-eive car g o and Parcels fur Hiltraltar. mina, FETA nomination of the bishops by the King, and the Aden, awl hornisq 1 0 their steamers leaving southampton on formalities of the oath of allegiance, the placet and the otb, 120 i, nth. .col 2701 of every month.—loss ceylun. Madras,MlA, the (11 and Japan Yokohama .by crequatar, as well as the privileges, the exemp those o tart th e ith I 2.411 .1 ea.l, ninth ; an-I for kiln ; GC/ .rge's tiO nA. immunities, and prerogatives of the church bound, Melbourne, and Sydnry, by the steamer leavin g South- ---. aniptmi the duth of every munth.—rhe steamers leave Mar- in the state. The church will maintain itself with milks on the Atli, 12th, •Alth, and albth Si the month.—Yor canna particulars apply at the Companye Mose. tham9l44L leaden- the free concurrence of the faithful, and by means hall-street, Loudon, LC. ; ur -111 " . • am -- BREMEN. —Direct Route to Hanover, Bruns- quired. wick, and Central Germany —The North German Lined's I All prestation from the state, provinces, or com- AD* gnat-class screw steamer scH WALEK Captain DREY ER, m il he despawhed from lloraelydurrn on THUF.SDAY. Jan. 31 munes is consequently to cease. If the bishops de r‘.4"%rumh'itkren.keian,ll4.3liniugUlaAtll2lol.‘"—A—pptlYareSat t•CliliftAPmen.LlN'S£2l7antiersalli dare themselves willing to undertake the conversion osi,r. or-circus. -• or to ITS. GRAVES, PELL- and liquidation of the ecclesiastical property, such LIM'S and Co., St. Dunstan's-house, St. Dunaten'a-hill, RC. property must be alienated within ten years ; all landed property to be converted into personal property, and the bishops to pay to the state 60( ,000,000 lire in half-yearly instalments of 50,000,000 lire each. The bishops would also have to undertake the payment of the pensions granted to individuals belonging to the suppressed religious corporations. Should the majority of the bishops not be willing to undertake the conversion, the government would proceed to carry out that measure, allowing to the bishops 50,000,000 rente. at would dispose of all the ecclesiastical wealth, and alienate the landed property. The pensions above referred to would have to be paid by the bishops. The Italie of this evening says:—" Notwith standing the note published in the Gimytale di Roma it is believed that the Holy Set is not so entirely opposed to the scheme for the secularisa tion of the church property as would appear. The Giormak di Rums says that the Pope has not approved the convention with M. Langrand Dumonceau, but it does not say that his Holiness has forbidden the bishops to give their adhesion to it. It is stated that the Holy See would agree to the arrangement, if that course were necessary in order to prevent a greater evil." (acorn's szuatAus.) QTE.tM to CoTIIENBURG from London 1i t ilien water. The sa. NEWSKI. Al. 9 years, i. appiiintei t., leave the Thames with Finials and paamengera. Iv& L.: A+ 1:“...14 misdeed at Union Wharf, Wapping —Apry NA II \N'S I 11111 re. W. ; nein PH ILLI PPS, lIRAT 's. 19111.L1 co., St. Dunstan's-home, L'rumaluie, Great Tower Arcet, E D UBLIN TRUNK CONNECTING RAILWAY 4 . olll , A:fir. Wheruu we, the molersigimi thirayseven shareholders in the Dubin. Trunk connecting Railway Company, hooking in the aggregate more than non truth of the capital of the said cow psq. Mot on the :MI day of January instant, by a writing under our hands require the Directors of the mid Company to call an extruonlitoary general meeting of the Compsny, and oich nainisitioati did fully expreas the object of re the meetingrequired la be called, namely, for the pur pose of appointing a coamonitive to hivestisate the affairs of the Company, and b. n.lvii.ler :111.1 decide whether It was advisable to agree to an abandomment of the objects which the company bad in new, and for which it was originally formed, and which ' said nquiaitioon was kit at the onkel; of the Company In Etlarlioury& House, hisloopagatesstrect Within, in the City of Lselon, on the 3rd d ay of January instant, as required by the statute in au. li cam. provided. And whereas the Directors of the said company have for 21 days after such notice as afore said tilled to call lona lo meeting. notice Is therefore hereby given lay and on behalf of us the NMI shareholdels, _blt whom the re quisition and notice wore made and given, Mo e : qualilled as afresaid, that In plls,lla:lase of the provlskau of the statute In that baloalf au EXTitAI aItDINAKY 01.-NY.ItAL EBTINO of the said Dublin Trunk Connecting Itallway Company will he held at the London Tavern, Bishopunteastren Within, In the illy of London, on TI'EsDA the igth day of rchnlary. 12187, at 2 of the clock in the alterllo.ll 1.71.,.i5c1y, for the purpose of appointing a committee to investigate the attain of the Company, and to consider and deride whether It be advisable to agree t o an ahandomatcnt of the objects which the Company bas now h. riew, and for which It was originally formed. Dated this nth day of January, 1887. A. \ As, ill ,LOY. ALLXANDIER WRIGHT. BIeHARI. B. 14,-N. ILLIAM GALLIMAY. 11111121ToPillill SLACK. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, JAN. 27. The Doile Beige of to-day says :—" It is not probable that the foreign engineers will be able to commence their examination of the proposed bar ring of the Scheldt by the end of the month, as expected. It is asserted that France has raised difficulties." EI'nTACE. 111014 M•RTIM SklUltT. ELM Alth Won . C Eo. SMITII. JAM/:~ liLLLH~~I'~E. Jon!' nrl:74. Hzsgy Werre.th. niv UEN MT LOWItt,TA. TIIoMII4 WILLIAM ROB:moN. THOMAS CA EVIL lCIC11•N4 SEEK INGS. GM, SPENCER. ELEAN4.II M•RT WALLIS. % . 11. SUMNER. JOHN limaKr. TALL SI NA K. iti:ErßoN. J 2 :IINV..tLk LG R. ALLEN, iVIL - L . lll - 4 - 17ALI;WEIL 11.111. T. RICHARD HOWARD MUM= WILLI•3I BARREI: VI.WARD GRIM. W. C. SH7H. KUJY. JOHN JoHN*.N, R..I4ERT JACK S 4 Tito+. MaiNtLLE ii - ;E - 6:74irr" a. T. V. 11110151:1$0N. U\►LA - MRS, HACK WOOD, and ADDISON, Solicitors, 7, Wallnunk, Loudon. PALL MALL GAzErrig TESTIMONIAL FIND. " NTER V. SHARPS." G. W. CALLECDKII sec , J. C. PARKINSON, I SPIP•CRI PTIONA received byO. D. Pollock, E5q..27, Grosvenor street, and T. 11. MD. Pau., SS, Queen Anneutruet, Treasurers : the I. oleo bank, Argall.ploce : atul !lessen Dimsdule, 50, Corn kW. rpo IMPORTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping cosaki., and Consignee e of foreign Goods, by steamers or otherwise into the Port of London.—The proprietors of Pros Trade Whorl, Itatcliff, and Upper Free Trade Wharf, Dow sate Dock, Upper Thaincs-street, 011 , 111 t TACILITIff9 to the abase.—Further information may be obtained on application, by Neer or in ',moo, to it. CLAY and Co., wbartingers and ware house keepers.-0111ces, 83, Upper Thames-sliest. KIN•HAN'S LL WHISKY. Dusux aximwrioN, pin' Thu celebrated dd HUSH WHISKY pined the DUBLIN PRIZE MEDAL—It is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very wholesome. Sold In bottles, 11a 84. each, at the retail houses in lend n by the agents in the principal town. in England , or wholesale at a, Great Windmill-street, London, W. Observe the aid seal, pink label, end cork trended °Weaken's LL WLLb ITHE GUINEA CIGAR. A hoz of 100 really good 'LAVAL:NAB CIGARS seat ear- Live free to all ports of the failed Kingdom on receipt of Putt 0111‘c order or stamps for tic or sample boo of 50 for lie. W. G. It(mIER, Importer of Cigar% t. Ttehborne-street, liceadllly. W. OSBORNE'S STILTON is THE Cheese. TEA i, CHEAPER THA.N EVER.-Is. 6d., 24., tn 6d. per pound are the prices at which PHILLIPS and Co , tea rnorchants, 8, K ing Willtunetreet, City, London, IN *Wog good 01.1 line BLACK TKA. A price current post free. 4O worth carriage tree to any railway station or market town In the United Kingdom. (Swerve.—PHILLIPS and Co. have no *gem& nor any connection with any house Ia Worcester or Swan sin Sugars are supplied at market prime. A VALUABLE NEW YEAR'S GIFT. A CHIN I.IIE CADDY. containing 16lbs. ot reallygood BLACK TEA. scat carriage Imo to any railway station or market town Its Leland, Ireland, Scothuol, or Wales, on receipt ot 40.. by rune LIPS and Co.. tea merchants. 8, !Ling William-West. City, LC. HOUSE FURNISHING.-W. WAINE'S GE ?ERAL FURNISHING WARFUOUSES, 133 to 139, Newington-butts. The largest stocks in Loudon to wind from. All goods warranted and delivered free. Illustrated price-lista (gratis of ealinei (Immure : carpets: bedsteads. In lwalri, iron. and wood: be . upholstery table linens, sheeting.. Wan get {. We Carpets vonranteed go per cent. less than City prisms. Lloolleura, Lest quality, 2.. ad. per square yard. DELICATE and CLEAR COMPLEXIONS, with a delightful and hating irarrancet by mind the celebrated I'NITEI. SERVICE SOAP TABLETS. ed. and dd. eacb.—Manufactured by J. C. and .1. YIELD. Upper Monk Lambeth. Order of your chemist, grocer, or chandler. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, an effectual remedy, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for Immediately relieving coughs, colds, midlrreeil cases of astiuna, and incipient consumption. It fro (Mel o') cures persons shorn the faculty pronoun,* incurable admirably allays the lidding which provokes frequent coughing ln . approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial. !coon deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca te*, may depend on relief in a few irimutes after takins It.— l'f"Pare.l only and sub' by W. LAMBERT, chemist, 8, lihig Wit hant lliaringuinesa, London. and by all druggists, in laid., and threw quantities in nue, L. Pd. lie {articular sad ask fur iambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are toe:Lent on the stamp. DINNEFOItIYB FLUID MAGNESIA. The nie.lic.ll profession for thirty years have approved of Nu Pure odution of magnesia as the best Tersely for acidity of the .tonoo.li, p,srtioun, headache, gout. and Indigestion; and u hcyt mild aperient for delicate constitutions, especially b. ' , Lied for ladles, children. and Infante.—DINNEYORD and I erniate. 17t, New lion.letrest, London, sad of all other tlkaies throughout the world. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: COUGHS. k- EITIN G'S COUGH LOZENGES: ASTHMA. I'' KE AT I N (I'S COUGH LOZENGES : INUPIENT CONSUbIPTION. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES: BRONCHIAL AFFECTION& KE AT I N G'S COUGH LOZENGES: vridch are daily recommended by the faculty. Teat!. horn the most eminent of whom may be seen. tl In to. aid.. and tins. M ad. and ea ad. each, by =LATINO, Chemist, 79, fit. Paul's-churchyard, London. Sold retail by all Druggists, /.e. R.tNCE. TOULON, JAR. 27. The advice boat Saltinelle sailed from this port last night. She precedes the French iron-clad naval division which has received orders to pro ceed to Beyronth. AUSTRIA AND SWITZERLAND. BERNE, JAN. 24. The Austrian representative in this city has informed the Federal government that Austria is prepared to conclude a treaty of commerce with Switzerland. HtTNGARY. PESTH, JAN. 26. In to•day's sitting of the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet, it was resolved that no notice should be taken of votes passed by constituencies expressing want of confidence in their representa tives. Count Msjlath is expected here to-morrow. The municipality of Fiume have sent an address to the Emperor, remonstrating against the impe rial patent on the re-organization of the army. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BIICILLREST, JAS. 26. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber the com mittee's motion referring to the Oppenheim loan was rejected, and it was resolved to include the loan, as having been legally contracted, in this year's budget. AMERICA. ATLLIITIC TZLIZORAPIL) NSW YORK, Jas. 23, Emma. The House of Representatives has Passed s bill prohibiting any person who took part in the re bellion from practising at law. Gold, 13:4. Sterling exchange on London, 109. 5-20 United States Bonds, 101. Illinois, 116. Erie, 66. Cotton : Middling Upland, 341. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Cuba arrived out yesterday. NEW YORK, JAN. 25, Enatnta. Gold, 1351. Sterling exchange on London, 109. 5-20 United States Bonds, 107 ; Illinois, 116 ; Erie, 68. Cotton : Middling Upland, 35. There is a tendency to panic in the share market, and several failures are reported. The Inman steamship Kangaroo arrived out to-day. On Saturday afternoon, at the request of the miners of Mid•Lothian, Lord Elcho, M.P., delivered an address of considerable length on the law of master and servant and other topics relating to the social welfare of the mining population, to a crowded meeting of miners in the large Corn Exchange of Dalkeith. It is stated that an address to the Rev. Daniel Wilson, Vicar of Islington, lies for signature in the various ecclesiastical districts comprised in his rural deanery, ' praying him to give the memorialist' the advantages of daily services, weekly and early communions, with the dis tribution of the elements to each severally, to publish the holydays after the Nicene Creed, as ordered by the Rubric, and to leave off the use of unauthorised prayers. Bova Dal: N K.-- Loot night, a young lad, aged about 12 years, and named John Kelly. was picked up in Stanley-street completely unconscious from the effects of intoxication. The are is a melancholy one, but the number of similar cases that continually come to the notice of the police, although not so glaring aa this one, • should awaken the benevolent to some course of action that would redeem the children raised in this locality from the career of crime in which they are nurtured from infancy. A private meeting of a few citizens was held yesterday, for the purpose of taking the condition of these unfortunates into constderation, but no course has as yet been sufficiently defined to warrant its announcement. It is to be hoped that a work begun under such auspices, will meet with success, and remove from our streets the little army of youthful beggars of both sexes, who are similar in character, training, and disposition, to the young delin quent abovamentioned.—Toronto Globe, Jan. 6. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SUNDAE Evairoc. I find by a short notice in two of the evening papers that the Gladstone banquet given by the Society of Political Economy came off last night at the Grand Hotel. I reproach myself for having relied too implicitly upon a volunteered promise to send me an invitation, which turned out de lusive, and, therefore taking no steps either to be present (if possible) or to obtain a report of the speeches on the interesting occasion. Perhaps, although the entertainment took place in the great room at the Grand Hotel, and no less than one hundred and twelve persona sat down to it, the promoters of the feast desired to consider it as a club dinner and not as a public banquet. The only French journals which contain a few words about it among their "accidents and offences" had evidently no reporter there. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Card well, who was his fellow guest, can well afford to be wanting for this once in vat sacra, but the public will be sorry not to know what they said Ito their sympathising French friends. All I can col lect is that their healths were proposed by M. Hippolyte Poesy, the chairman, and that they both returned thanks in English ; that Mr. Gladstone's speech was " full of elevated ideas and oratorical movements, the magic of which it is impossible to de scribe ;" and that Mr. Cardwell was applauded when ho associated the names of Bastiat and Cobden. The new Minister of Agriculture and Commerce (M. Forced& de la Roquette) attended the dinner as a member of the Socifti d&eoeomie Politique. The only other names mentioned are those of M. de Parieu, M. Wolowski, M. Michel Chevalier, and an eminent Russian politico-economist, named Tourgueneff. Mr. Gladstone had a private audience of the Emperor yesterday. _ . . . . Letters from Rome mention a rumour which certainly must be taken with extra reserve, that the Popo is about to promulgate reforms in ac cordance with the programme of the famous letter to Edgar Ney, and that he is doing this in deference to a requisition made by the leaders of the Roman aristocracy with Prince Mark Anthony Borghese at their head. The Pharr de la Loire publishes the following letter (which it is difficult to believe genuine under the end circumstances) from M. Michelet : Hyeres, Jan. 20,1867. Cher Monsieur,—l read in the Phan de /a Loire your notice of Cousin, and I regret that this charming artist, who was mistaken for a philosopher, should have made • sad end, throwing otf the cloak of philosophy in which he had been wont to wisp himself so adroitly. Ile was of Italian origin, knew admirably well how to wear a mask, and had deep beauti ful eyes. How many delighted to hear his early lectures, when he talked of duty, Kant, and philosophy. I was never taken in by him, but I loved him. I have a weak. neas for these eminent artists, empty at bottom, but shedding torrents of glowing sparks. On paper he was timid, but he was nevertheless a good and luminous writer. Even with his pen he deceived • little, and endeavoured to make it believed that he knew the language of the grand century. He was always, h0w .11.7.C4 an eminent actor, and far superior to those who now remain on the stage. J. Micur.Lar. PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. The Correctional Court of Appeal yesterday heard the appeal of seven of the twenty-one persons lately convicted of belonging to a secret society. The affair is known as that of the Cafd de la Renaissance, on the Boulevard Saint Michel. Al though proof was given that a list seized by the police as containing the names of the "affiliated" was in reality only a list of subscribers to the (now sup pressed) journal the Candide, the court confirmed the verdict of guilty against all the appellants, and in only two cases made a slight diminution in the term of imprisonment. The appellants are all young men in a respectable position of life. M. Tridon, an advocate, whose family is now ho noured and wealthy, though it was once, as he says, " poor and despised," is sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment. He strenuously denies that he belonged to any secret society whatever, and maintains that his greatest crime was his habit of shaking hands with working men, from which class he was proud to say he came himself. Two others, named Levrand, sons of M. Levrand, a barrister, who in 1848 was French minister pleni potentiary in Naples, are finally condemned to 15 and 6 months' imprisonment. In the case of the younger Levrand the sentence of the court below was one year. He is a medical student 'who had just passed his examination, and was about to be admitted an M.D. M. enton, a sculptor, is sentenced to a year's imprisonment, and I M. Callavaz, a law student, to a year. If the pro loused law to regulate the right of public meeting shall be conceived in anything like a liberal spirit, frivolous prosecutions against men who meet toge ther to talk politics will no longer be necessary. In the appeal case decided yesterday, none of the accused were defended by counsel. In a protest addressed to the French papers, but which none of them have dared insert, against the refusal of the court to allow M. Janson, of the Brussels bar, to plead for them, they say they have no confidence in the French bar in political cases. They aver that the habit of French barristers in such cases is to seek some pettydistinction in favour of the parti cular client they defend, and to admit in general the theory of the prosecution ; so that in the long run, when, say, twenty political prisoners are brought up for trial, every one has against them not only the public prosecutor, but the nineteen advocates of all the rest. The protestants say they well know that their real crime in the eyes of government consists not in their being members of a secret society, which exists only in the imagination of the prosecution, but in their having attended the Li4e Congress, and in the doctrines which they openly profess both by word of mouth and writing. There was somewhat more animation at the Bourse, but the highest quotations of the day were not sustained. Rente, after touching 69, closed at 68.90 for cash, and 68.85 for account, with a rise of 15c. and 10c. Credit Fonder rose 6.25. Mo bilier and Italian were without change. The Figaro was seized yesterday, and is to be prosecuted for having insinuated that other reasons than the assigned one of ill health led to the resig nation by M. de Maupas of the prefecture of Marseilles. THE RELATIONS BETITEEN ITALY AND AUSTRIA.— The visit which Prince Humbert, the heir to the Italian crown, is to pay to the court of Vienna will take place, it is stated, towards the end of next month. The Italie says that this visit is to be one of mere courtesy, and is in no way connected with any matrimonial projects. " The re-establishment of good relations between the two countries," it adds, " is complete and definitive ; doubt is impossible upon that point. This new position of things may be consecrated by reciprocal visits, by acts of polite ness between prince and prince, but we doubt whether the political reconciliation of the two governments will extend further." LIFEBOATS iv FRANCE.—We are requested to state by the French Shipwreck and Lifeboat Central Society of Paris, that they have no lifeboats at Calais, Boulogne, Havre, or at Dunkirk. All the society's life• boats, which are 32 in number, are on the self-righting plan of the National Lifeboat Institution of England. One of these boat., stationed at C,ravelines, was happily the means, during a recent gale, of saving a shipwrecked crew. LONDON DISTRESS. Local knowledge has been brought to bear upon East-end distress, and the benevolent may rest assured that their donations to the Central Com mittee are properly applied. The poverty to be dealt with is gigantic, and the funds required pro portionate, but it is satisfactory to know that sub scriptions are administered on fixed principles, and that the misery of even the most distressed districts is receiving regular and steady relief. The populous localities of Bromley, Bow, Limehouse, Poplar, and Wapping come within the scope of the East London Central Relief Committee, and Lime house and Poplar may be taken as fair types of the rest. Each of these parishes is subdivided into small districts, to which a responsible almoner of the public bounty is accredited. Every street and court has its visitor, to whom all complaints are referred each morning, so that the dwellers in every house have the certainty of not being over looked. These visitors are provided with a book of relief tickets, of which the following is a spe cimen : 2101.—ALL SAINTS, POPLAR, CZ/478u. ARLIE, COMM , TEL —(Date), 1867. —Mr. (Tradesman's name).—flew give the Bearer One Shilli 'a worth of (articks specified T. W. NOWILL, Rector, rer. —Visitor ( signature ) ) .— Tradesmen are particularly requested to send in t heir bills, with the vouchers, every Meaday morning, to the Treasurer. The above represents the number issued to the ; Visitors during Saturday last, and a study of the maps of Poplar and Limehouse, together with a list of their streets and courts, shows that every one of the latter is in the direct charge of a respon- ' Bible person; and that the two thousand one hundred shillings for which the vouchers stand will go straight to the sufferers they are designed to help. The guardians and the workhouse are sorely taxed ; and the stone yard and the offices I for distributing the parochial dole are crowded with applicants who are paid for their labour in money ' and in kind. This done, charity steps in, and by house to house visiting supplements the legal award ; and as an organisation for dealing with a sudden and terrible emergency, it would be difficult to speak too highly of the system we saw at work at Poplar on Saturday last. Dozens of letters from residents in the district recommending cases for charitable relief are received daily by the rector of the pariah, who is treasurer of the local committee. 1 These are filed, the names and addresses of the poor people noted, and a direct query put to the visitors in whose district they reside. It too fre- I quently happens that the letter writer has been im -1 posed upon, and that the supposed starving people have had relief given them a few hours before ; but if neither the vouchers nor the explana tions of the visitor show cause for further help , being withheld, it is promptly given. In any case the matter is sifted without delay, and those en gaged in the good work declare that at this time there is fair ground for believing that starvation is impossible among the thousands of distressed. Grave difficulties arise from the perfect respect ability of many of those needing help. The very poor, the dwellers in small hovels or in overcrowded tenements, are certain to be cared for. The district visitors, who are volunteers drawn from all classes and different religious sects, and who are heart and soul in their work, persistently inspect such homes as these, make inquiries as to sickness, and distri bute their tickets for food or clothing with generous discrimination. But when, as in some of the cases which came before us on Saturday, it is the dweller in a good house in a leading thoroughfare who has pawned and sold, bit by bit, every article upon which money could be obtained, it is only upon his own confession that his need of relief can be knifwn. To knock at the private door of a prosperous looking shop and inquire whether any one in the house is suffering from poverty, would be an imper ' tinence in Oxford-street or the Strand, yet we saw houses which neither in their appointments nor appearance would disgrace either of those thorough ! fares, and which held some of the most distressing cases of destitution wherewith the committee have had to deal. It is only when at the last gasp that such people as these are induced to apply ; and the writer conversed with the members of one household on Saturday who, though known to be at the lowest ebb, to have p arted with their furniture and clothes, and to have lived almost literally upon bread and water, could not be brought to accept a ticket for relief. "My master's been out of work before this," said one decent, well-spoken woman, "and we've borrowed and then paid it back again when work came. We're badly off, sir, verybadly off ; but ' still I don't think we're badly off enough to take a ticket, thank you, sir ; and we'll hope work will come again before long. It was very kind to I think of sending us the soup, and we enjoyed it ! very much indeed, but we shouldn't any of us like , I to go to the shops with tickets, sir, not yet at least, and we must just bear it all, and hope for better times." This was said in what had been a com fortably furnished, and was still a cleanly little house, and the speaker was a well-mannered, de cent woman, whose six children attend or , have attended the district schools, and , whose husband is a careful, prudent man in the receipt of good wages until the present crisis came. But thousands, again, are eagerly clamourous whenever the district visitor or a clergyman is seen. Hunger and distress have done their deadly work, and pauperised them out of all feeling save a fierce craving for aid ; and not the least painful result of such a crisis as the present one is its demoralising effect upon people who become accustomed, for the first time, to eat the bread of charity. Impostors, too, profit by the distress of honest men, and traders upon the benevolent have baited their trap with the usual effect. If it be remembered that any two or three people may style themselves a local committee for the relief of distress, and write sensation letters' to the papers for subscriptions, it will be seen what a tempting field the present crisis presents to the unprincipled. Already, ugly stories are afloat in one parish as to funds received from the public concerning which it is difficult to get a statement of accounts, and by which the poor people have not yet benefited. The remedy for all this lies with the benevolent donors themselves. There is now a properly constituted body for the receipt and distribution of money, and by remitting to the Mansion-house, or the East-end CentralCom mitten, all chance of misfeasance and indiscretion is avoided. Grants are made from this to the authorised local committees, and are disposed of upon system as we have seen. There is the sorest need for money ; not so much to increase the help given, as to ensure its continuance upon the same scale. The whole machiney for dis tribution is so arranged that the exact condi tion of the inmates of the poorer houses is known ; and at any moment relief can be enlarged or modified without danger. Upon the strike question, and its share in bringing on and prolonging these disasters, there are so many discrepancies, that it is perhaps wiser to defer its consideration until existing difficulties have been tided over. Mr. Nowell, the rector of Poplar, has a strong conviction that the misery he and hi s staff of visitors are contending with is di rectly due to the stoppage of large works in the neighbourhood, as well as to other causes origi nating with the commercial panic of last year. The weather of the last few weeks has, of course, in tensified this, while the north-east winds have prevented ships coming into port, and so robbed the poor labourer of the precarious earnings he gains by their arrival. There is unhappily but little chance of the urgent need for help ceasing for some time to come. The poor law is of course I utterly inadequate for its purpose, and thousands upon thousands would have starved ere this but for the donations of the benevolent. - CILYIITAL PALACZ. HALF-A-CROW 2f DAY. SATURDAY, Jaw. 26.—Admisaiaua on payment, 735; ditto by lellk•OR tickets, 4,620 ; total visitors, 6,355. THE STATE OF 2 . H8 LABoUR MARKET IN AUSTRALIA. The following has been received from the Trades Unions of Sydney by the Amalgamated Society of Car pouters and Joiners : " Sydney, New South Waler, Nov. 12, latiG. " Resolution passed at the Carpenters and Joiners' Society That we form a committee to inquire into the pre- I sent depression in trade, and call delegates from other trades with the view of ascertaining the amount of distress existing among each trade or calling in the colony of New South Wales.' "To Tux Solemnity AND MIME= OF TliE MIALGA MATILD Socurry OP Tilt UNITED KINGDOM. " Gentlemen and Fellow-Workmen,—We, the under signed, as delegates of the various trades of Sydney, hereby forward you a correct amount of the great de ex isting among all dame of skilled and unskilled labour in the colony. It is with extreme regret that we feel it our duty, and a very painful duty, to make you . acquainted with our present depressed condition. Owing to the great want of employment experienced by all trades and callings, more especially among the building and iron trades, labourers in the building trades also, we wish particularly to warn you against the glowing but false accounts that often find their way to the United Kingdom by almost every mail. We can assure you that the labour offices are daily besieged by willing and anxious hard-working men, offering their set , vices for any kind of employment or wages ; but the de. mend for labour is as scam as the applications for employ ment are numerous. . . _ _ " We do not wish you to understand that we never had Nib South Wales in • distressed state before now, for we sae assure you that theoolony has not been worth a man in the United Kingdom who was doing moderately well, or getting a moderate amount of employment, to leave to come here for these last six or seven years; in fact, employ ment is always hard to obtain, and where obtained is mostly of short duration. " We will now give you a truthful statement of the wages paid and received by the best workmen in the colony and city of Sydney, and that is the very highest received by any trade or calling. Stonemasons, 10s. per day of eight hours, but not in a shop or under a shed, as in the old country, but under the scorching can of Australis—no protection either from hot winds or drenching rains, but knock off and go bottle lose the time, and consequently the money, from the borne, too small amount of wages. Carpenters and joiners, He. per day, not in shops such es you have at home, es we call it but most of our work is done in sheds that are neither wind nor water-tight, or else inthe buildings, and subject to all the annoyances of the plas terers and all other trades when the work is prepared in the building. Bricklayers, 10s. per day, or 2/. lOs. to 3/. per rod of piece work. Plasterers, 9s. per day, or from Gd. to 10iL per yard of piece work ; and, if at day work, there are no hawk-boys, but the mortar is pitched on the bawd, and in nine cases out of ten you must dispense with the labourer when the floating is done. Painters, tie. per day. Iron trades ranging from us. to 10s. per day of ten home. Staten, all by the square, from Gs. to Ss. Gd. Plumbers, 10s. per day. Bricklayers' labourers, fle. per day. Brick makers deliver bricks within four miles of the kiln for 21. Is. per 1,000; the fuel coats them for burning about from 10e. to 15s. per 1000. Quarrymen from Bs. to 10e. per day of 10 hours. We cannot give you a correct account of cabinetmakers, upholsterers, French-polishers, tailors, shoemakers, &c., but we can assure you that they are in most deplorable condition, as the most of their branches of trade are imported from England and other countries. "In the above we did not tell you how many of each trade, on the average, were employed, but we will do so to the best of our knowledge. Masons, about two-thirds only employed ; carpenters and joiners about the mine, if anything a little less ; painters, we are sorry to my, only about one-third ; bricklayers and plasterers, about two. thirds employed ; bricklayers and plasterers' labourers, we are sorry to say, only about half : and the iron trades only about two out of every ten in employment—they are in a most deplorable condition. " Now we dare say you will think that wages in New South Wales are very high, or, at any rate, very good. and wonder what we are complaining about, but when we show you the expenditure side of the account, we think if in tending emigrants are not quite Australian mad, they will at once see that there is no balance in favour of the Aus tralian wages, saying nothing shout the unsteadiness of employment. Ica the first place, if you wish to live in or near the city, for a house of four small rooms you will have to pay from 14s. to 20e. per week rent ; if in a court or alley, from 10e. to 15e. per week ; if in the suburbs, for a four-roomed house, from 10s. to 15s. per week, an d the smaller the house the more rent you have to pay in proportion. Firing and lights will cost about 4s. per week all the year round. Vegetables cost about 250 per cent. more than in England only fancy giving dd. fee a small cabbage—that is the price now . Bread averages about Id. the 21b. load ; beef - and mutton average about 3.1. per lb., pork about Id., veal about 7c1., bacon and cheese about Is. Gl. ; milk, 1. per quart ; groceries about the same as in England, only very inferior, generally speaking; boots and clothes about the same (slops), but there is much less wear in those things here, on account of the greater amount of perspiration, as in all hot countries you may often see people es wet as if they had been dipped into • pond—we might easily say 120 per cent. more here than in England. " Now, there is another cause of complaint of a very serious nature. There is not the slightest inclination en the part of employers to talcs es apprentices any of the thousands of young Arabs, as they are colonially called, and the consequences are that they are entirely dependent on their parents; and also, there is no sort of industry that young girls can engage in except millinery and dressmaking, which are already overdone, and their pay is down almost to starving point. What we are going to do with the rising generation is an everyday question, but no one appears to be able to answer the question. We are sorry to say that our streets are thronged with unfortunate girls as a con sequence of non-employment. The government are build ing and enlarging gaols all over the country, and our benevolent institutions ere all full, and one or two are getting additional wings built to accommodate the nume rous applications for relief. There is one institution in Sydney that gives out once a week the large number of 1,800 21b. lop yes. It is nothing uncommon to see a re spectable mechanic call in where other men are work ' ing to seek employment, or such other assistance as we may be able to give him ; these are principally new mi ivals, and most of them have travelled overland from Queensland, a distance of 100 or 600 miles. The distress there, no doubt, you have heard of before now. The colony of New South Wales has been getting gra dually worse these last seven years, chieflyowing to the , great amount of emigration, and the fa llingoff of our , goldfields ; and more so through the great amount of portstion of almost every article we left our homes to come here to manufacture. " We are, gentlemen, yours respectfully, • 6 HENRI JAMES HOLLAND, Chairman, " JOSEPH Cool'Eß, " EDWARD HEINoLDS, Secretary, " Delegates from Joiners' Society. " NOMA% GOsTRIA,W, ('hainnan, " EDWARD COTTRELL, Treasurer, " JOSXPH Secretary. " Delegates front Painters' Society. " THOSIAS NORTH, "JOHN WILKINS, " Delegates from Bricklayers. " Triou.ul HARRELL, "DENNIS HARKIS, " Delegates from Labourers. THE MANSION-HOLISE METROPOLITAN DISTRESS FUND.—The copulates did not sit on Saturday, it being understood that they would not do so ; but it is satisfac tory to be able to state that the subscriptions from the public in aid of the fund continuo to flow in most liberally. More than 1,000/. was received on Saturday, making the total amount at the disposal of the committee to carryout their benevolent object nearly 6,000/. MR. GEORGE EIVDSON.—By a decision of the Lord Chancellor, yesterday, King Hudson, so long a dis crowned potentate, will have part of his own again. He re coven ocatiderable estates, subject, no doubt, to consi derable charges ; but, as we understand the matter, him ma jesty obtains once more the command of a decent revenue and, although the triumphs of Albert-gate may never be renewed, nor the monarch of a few months ascend the throne again, yet he may emerge once more into daylight with the fruit of his persevering struggle for his rights.— Sunday Gazette. THE FRESIA/ES IN THE HOUSES or PARLIAMENT.— The damp, we are told, is playing havoc with the eight frescoes in the upper waiting halls of the houses of par liament. They cost the country some socv. each, but are now literally crumbling away from the wall. Sir W. Hay. ter's picture of the House of Commons on its meeting after the passing of the first Reform Bill, which cost the nation a large sum of money, hangs in au obscure committee. room, where the damp rising from the river daily impairs its colouring. There are plenty of vacant spaces in the building where it could be placed with advantage, and where the colouring would, at the same time, be pre served. Two new frescoes are ready for placing in the peers' lobby, but it has been decided to defer fixing them until the Essterireeout —Sunday Gaulle. DESIONATIDN OF HEAD-CENTRE STEPHENs.— The telegraph tells us further about the famous C.0.1.R. He has resigned his position because the 12,000 dols. he has collected in America is not thought sufficient to support a war for the liberation of Ireland. Another candidate for fame, in the person of Brig.-Gen. Cleeson, has assumed the position Stephens has deserted, and will depose of the small balance of the 12,000 dole. which remains in the treasury, and any other sums that the faithful may sub scribe for patriotic purposes. It is possible that the new head-centre will effect as much as his illustrious prede cessor—and no more.—Toronto Globe, Jan. 8. THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERY EXPLOSION. The deposition of evidenoe in the came of the North Staffordshire Colliery Explosion having been virtu ally completed, we are enabled to arrive at • tolerably cor rect judgmeut as to the origin of the calamity—the existence of a dangerous accumulation of gsa and the igni tion of the deadly compound. It appears, then, that the explosion took place in what is known as the " Seven-feet Banbury," a seam of notoriously fiery properties. The mine in question dips due east and west at an inclination of about one in four, and the tippet and downcast shafts are situated low down on the south edge of the workings. It is estimated by competent persons, though disputed by others, that at the time of the accident 2.5,000 cubicle., of air passed into the mine, through the downcast shaft every minute, and this was carried in one current along the whole of the rise workings and back through the deep workings to the upcast shaft. Thus we have the first element in the catestrophe-a fiery mine ventilated by a single current of air carrying into and, under certain conditions, through the deep levels, the pa given off by twenty working faces of coal. But, in the opinion of Mr. Wynne, the official inspector for the district, this amount of ventilation "Was sufficient to dilute and render harmless the noxious pays " (the obligation imposed upon the proprietors and managers by the mint special rule) ; but the gravamen of the com plaint made by both the government inspectors concerned in the cue is, that the air sent into the mine was not skit. fully directed. They allege that, to meet the demand for coal, the lower levels were pushed forward before proper air galleries had been constructed for their ventilation ; and that the entire ventilation of that part of the pit de ponied upon the action of a single door on the main jig brow, or tramway, by which the coals were carried from the rise levels to the bottom of the shaft. To nay nothing of the leakage caused by the passage through this doorway of thirteen or fourteen trains of waggons every hour, any accident which pros vented its being closed for fifteen or twenty minute was sufficient to divert the air current, and convert the lower workings into • slumbering volcano. Such a contingency actually befell. On the morning of the explo sions train of waggons ran off the rails in this very doorway. It was impossible to close it for a quarter of an hour, the gas laden return current was detained in the lower workings, and hence the accumulation of firedamp which, as we have said, was the first thing to be accounted for. It is not disputed that the explosion took place in ►hem loser workings, and ,the fearful laxity of discipline in the pit explains the rest. Given, • fiery mine subject to the con tingencies mentioned, where the men were in the constant practice of removing from their lamps the protective gauze covering, of awaiting, sod of firing charge:lo( gunpowder at their own discretion,' although the use of gunpowder at all in such a mine is strongly cenden.ned by the most experienced colliery managers ; where the overmen them. selves carried naked lights in the return air, and allowed the colliers to go to work in plaints known to contain pui, on the vague understanding that they were to brush it out for themselves—given all this, and many more breaches: of discipline which it is not necessary to rezapitulate, and the wonder is, not that an explosion happened, but that it did not happen long ago. With regard to the question of responsibility, • differ once of opinion exists amongst the scientific witnesses* but neither of them goes to the length of imputing crimi nal negligence. The official inspectors consider that the arrangement of the ventilation was unskilful, and that the managers of the pit committed very grave errors of judg ment, and that with respect to the absence of discipline they are not to be excused for ignorance of the daily and hourly defiance by the men of the rules framed to secure their safety. On the other hand, excepting the govern ' ment inspectors, the whole of the scientific witnesses con ' eider the ventilation of the pit was creditable to the ma nagement, and there is evidence that, in their fatuity, the poor fellows who perished took infitute pains to prevent infractions of the rules coming to the knowledge of their superior. THE SPECIAL SERI'ICES AT ST. PAUL'S. Yesterday evening the fourth of the special ser vices was held in the large open space under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral, and there was nu overwhelming con gregation—by far the largest of the present year. Prayers were intoned by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, ILA. of Queen's College, Cambridge, Rector of St. Matthew's, Friday-street ; the lessons being read by the Rev. Canon B.D. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. J. C. Miller, Vicar of Greenwich and Rural Dean. who selected for his text the 7th charter of St. Matthew's gospel, verse 12, " Therefore all things, whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the law and the prophets." He said that this was the royal law, the golden rule of Christianity, all whose precepts were of a practical character and eminently appli le to the details of private life. He adverted to the phases presented by the commercial life of the present day, and remarked that the worship of Mammon, intel lect, and sensual pleasure formed the Trinity of these times. He denounced in unsparing terms the conduct of those men whom he designated rogues awl scoundrels, who by concocting bubble prospectuses and issuing fraudulent debentures plunged thousands of their fellow-creatures into misery, and the conduct of those smaller traders who by false weights, scanty measures, and adulterations defrauded the poor. In conrexion with this matter he highly commended the courage of a member et the House of Commons who, in the face of his constituents, stood forward and condemned such frauds. Referring to the distress which prevailed in various eicuters of London, he remarked that no English clergyman could now from his pulpit declare that Dives was sitting in luxury while Lazarus was lying at his gate. Let them look at the columns of any newspaper of any single day and they would find the meet gratifying iustances f the munifi cence not only of the aristocracy but of all classes of the people. There stood before the congregation that night the clergyman of a suburban parish who had received, in less than a week, in answer to an appcil iu one tenet newspaper, nearly 2,000 i. Now that 'CU a Igiartll4 and most gratifying proof of the munificence of the people of this land, and if there was a fault amongst the Urge hearted givers, it was an impulsiveness that led them into indiscretion, inducing them, while helping the poor, to forget that organisation was necessary, and that while it was a blessed thing to help the poor they should not destroy the self-reliance of the people, or pauperise a population which should rather be elevated to independence. In connection with spiritual destitution he expressed his regret that while hundreds of persons would g ive munificently for hospitals, refugees, and reformatoes, they bed not an equal pathy for spiritual wants. There were at present in sym London 150,000 children who stood in need of Christian instruction, and notwitlist.dling the exertions of the Bishop of London in extending esistingorganieations, and setting new ones on foot, there was a frightful amount of work yet unaccomplished. He trusted that this great movement would soon receive a more mighty impulse by the munificence of the wealthy and the united miettihu tions of all classes of the people. The discourse which was delivered with extraordinary animation, and which was heard with distinctness over the vast space covered by the congregation, was listened to with marked attention. The sermon at the special service next Sunday evening will be preached by the Rev. Daniel Fox Sandfonl, Assistant Minister of St. John's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. THE RITrAL QCESTION. —A Berk:ll;re squire, Mr. Henry Tucker, of Bourton, who is a magistrate for the county, has been lecturing his tenants and neighbour co Ritualism. The report in the .N..rilt IVins Hrrehl says that Mr. Tucker began by reading the 2wl chapter of Colossians, after which he prayed fur the Divine bliosing. He said he considered the importance of the subject a sufficient apology for the step he haul t .k. n ; for he and many who were then present were directly or indirectly supporters of the church of England and he thought it was a concern of theirs what was the teaching in, and practices of, that church. He dwelt upon the gorgeous attire ammo of the clergy, comparing their liniment; ap pearance with the humble garb and lowly mien of the early Christians. He contrasted it with the camel hair and leathern girdle of John the Baptist, and with that of Peter in his fisher's coat. As most of the lecturer's hearers had probably never seen a clergyman in ritualistic vest ments, the photograph which "S. t 0." has celebrated of the Bishop of Oxford, in his episcopal robes, was exhibited for their instruction. On Saturday morning Lord John Manners put a stop to the draining of the Regent's.park lake, and nothing further will be done, we are told, until parliament sanc tions the expenditure of a sufficient sum of money to level and concrete the bottom. - Dv BATLEY'S DELIQIOI7/1 RETALENTA A BASICA FOOD curia dyspepsia, indigestion, conch, &Wind , . oansiuliPthia. debility, constipation, diaerbina, in.rsoot. Whale, liver, end sterancicomplaluts. Cure No. he. 413.—•• Rpm., July 19N .—Tie health of the Holy ratter fa °sentient, especinily Inc., abandoning all other rewrite., he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Food, and to. Holiness cannot prate this meffont food too w e b fy . .....4;,,Attt..d0 HO lin /tarry nod On., No. 77, Itinieut-street, London. W. In tins. at Is. led.: 11b., la. ed. 121ba.. .-411.dvatiameut I, i . : I