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

1 IIT Itl rtT i41:1:V I l'Eri. I %wing tho Storiu4 • , , in.. N.t4.4lat unsen.t Itotttntloa oontri. twirl, • • th•• of lit. from t.srono. I.lopti ro.loi. candle torso:- it tn .lotruction The I oint.tiitimi oLa rtoonilol ell 617 in the tan roil on to Littost Iglatobilahateuto, m moldititat to seant•l • tg. for 111VAIrkl.. •M.. -.matt. 01 ttt.• in. t,tntum oarneotly appoint to Ow public f, r r !• ,to to rout ••• t. owe to meet it.. °oat-lamed batty der mural- .• Omar IN Lit boat TotAbtialtattitta. ttnottlttulhotta ho tattalaully rono.rwil by the loatott sal cototte Mankato. agral by Ilto Iterrotary Ithritaid Ler.% Kg., at the le.-i.tut.os. Jobn•otewt. Adriphi . 11,11111111.. - NI:I:RETTI mut' ZAMBRA . B EIPECIACLICS ,TllER.lloStritl • tel• A now tarootiml. v 11 1 ,41 0 ,7 eOll- Sand I% Iv "unmoral to woartvo el aprtaoloo aa atiponor ia arm repot tto all at trout in a.. It.oription root fr.. . k.,,it I and AA-liiiitA'S FI'fZILOYSIVILI FARourrEtts... .upoted to tho Noon% ot Trodo, NNational I.tfrNNat Institution. h,0,, nt uo r. M Hos to ront..ll fho Wo,thor,” 111 p. 04 free. NEGHEITI smut ZAMBRA . B WATCH BARO— iirrER. f„ ; t. "resin er and ft , r nearetais asnearda• ;went., teed by M•.)• • inn , ernment and leading araintille Atrietly seenrate 1,1. Hatinsegardrn ; M. Contain ; Its, Rears, atzr,t ; and Ikeeriptdan pot Iran - NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S MAGIC LAN TFRNA. INmeolvine Vlevre of every dereriptieo. phore. orrt„stphr. met I la lurireAr.l eatalovuer I. Plus 1,101.14 n-.....mmended for worrellow. _ . NEGRETFI and ZAMBRA'I4 OPRRA and nArt: - 0 1$$C 4 . In leather room orte. two. and three wetwiet.. Worn.nted beet roonntorture.-103. Hation.garlen ; retain ; Its. It.geotorreet; sad M. liin.troted twe 11" W et, LI) I f HAS BENN.—ssuatart and ZAN/MA'S rel,brated THERMOMETER: 4 . to ',pram th• at , at enaL rm. do. rd. Many mutation.. an. odarad. Nose on mune unit.** blainnd same and addrap.-111.dt.n.ininten; l'onnhill; nrarat-atavet ; sad Da.. Flentadrant. Aponte bbersny mt. 'nth. ALLEN'S PORTMANTEAUS. 37. Strand. ALLEYS DRESSING RAGS.-37. Stnutd. ALT OVERLAND TRITT - IC - 5.L37, Strand. ALLEN'S DESPATCH BOXEB.-37. Solna ALLEN'S PRIZE MEDAL, awarded for general :Zi t Vale& nimobw B est eatakaaw et we sonnies lur 601111- JOHN BROODER'S CT AR JEWELRY. riAßlfi illBT-CLASS SILVER MEDAL, 1867. JOHN BROODEN'S 18-meat GOLD =Ana. JOHN BROGDEN'S BRACELETS. JOHN BIIOODEN'a BROOCHRS. TOHN BEOGDEN'S &EX sad WEDDING JOHN BILOODEN'B NEAMELLOSS. JOHN BROGDENI EARRING& ORIGINAL (TOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. N O. 16, HENRIETTA-STREET, Covent- Garden. SAN GSTER S' UMBRELLAS (Four Prize Modals awarded , . on Fox's Paragon Frames—All frames of Fos and Co 'o orArbratord male bear their trade ace. To prevent roartatee the public are reepeetfulli informant that Baagstonf 17robnilas ha. e thou name attaoht and that their only eats. tallahmento are HO Itement-aneet; leet•otreot • ennapaddn; 10, Royal lemahangi—N.B. Obaarra mama anteaddriams. TTENTION IS INVITED to the Iteport of tbe Sixth Septennial Inventleation of the SOO/TlSil MU (ARM LIFE ASSURA N E S 4 11 I ETV. and to the Sparta' Pam axplaming its econouu,sl ant popular system of ." Malan= Presaiuma." Cork* tree on uppheation. LONIX)S OFFICES. No. I. THISEA DNICIDLE•ST/LEET. E C D •ILY -- NEW& PIIICZ ONE PANNE. KALIL OF CHAR 101 £DVIi - Itir Line.. us 4. L 4 _ raceme:mum if PiliW COOZPAN _ lEB, awe. =PORTO ot 117X11.16.46 sod =ROI 7 Una 10 • . 1 6 T1ON• LISIAL NOTICIS lO do. 10 I do. 1 0 PUBLIC COMPANIES (Idaldlaisll. 66 i 0 du 4 5 60 - 1 0 Loollor zaii V i 4 do. 4 0 do. 1 4 LEMONS, TittL i D u ls Ax t; BOOM. caLarrike ILISUALLL- } S do. 1 4 do. • • 11/001. • Dino. dino,_ Loads , Pses I ao. s so. 1 • PAR•tiII.L.P7I ADorrISISEILIMITS I do. 7 5 do. 1 BIRTH&a 11411111.1.6918. and MATH I do. I 6 do. 0 6 DO CIUSISVA2TIB wos5sue11•••• 4 do. 1 0 do. 0 S (Ti. wordiaolro • lbw; • mile 144406 of ligalil count. •• • WWI. NOTICZ TO OTNIZAL LDTZIITD1111& The "Dow I tom" me an soknowledged authority span Om isaraiod sal Norestary querelosa. enjoys • Wok pooltioa. and Pie arteriare and rapidly hinreadag YrmLtion Kase he reduction la prise to °Dermal raiders as Invaluable medium to all Nada of ftdrartiorev. reet-okaa Orders for Ldrertlameate ahead to made payahlii to Jamul Lomita:ow. Postoaglee. Floototrest. Tinton Stomps rootertd for somata op to Ilta (Naas, 11, Bourorloctroot. Plostotreet. London. ale (Fromm DRI:RY-T.Alf& 711“ ETTIMin, 71011Fitii 0' SCOTS. Nr. Phelps, Mows. Addwan, Irving, Rome. ke • • M.W6n1.41 1141410, !Mart. Frank Mattlitos, Irc.—And A (*RAND BALLET D'ACTION istatlaal Bt uA. _FIr.ISMARICET : Ennrnra, EAST SI:LAVING. Wren,. Rom", Clark. and (iordon Mimeo Burke awl Wright. —PILTBA. Howe. Clapp, n.l ale, Gorden. and K..wlikl; Weida:rata Bat. , :mma and Fitzwilliam. Aud BUItAL ILLLCITY M Buck.tast, Borer., k,. Ti'. limns*, THE 74.4 ik.T.-41 - 1 1 TER DAM: A TALE OF DUNDON L IFE. Mr. V sews. W. L.ry, Deemed* lawny, Harcourt, Ether', he. ; E. Barnett. and it..me Ca elensi.—And MASTER JONEEFB BLIFTHDAY. Q nun THIATEB, LONG-ACE 1. TZ33 Hymn% at f, THB LLHCALUILIti LASS. Kam. H. Irvin, B. Heassy, L. Keough. J. Clayton, C. Wyndham, and H. H. 1..m4; Mire N. Knave and H. Yindsna.—To frmytude with It. ltrtce, Eaq.'s licce of Extravagance, entitled, Till faB.A.M.IIII, STRANGLE THAN EVEII. Ilttena. L. Brougla. Stephens. and Belton; and Mena Hodson, Everard, and Kate /motley. Ton Entine, at 7, A — li'lbuq Er NT. Clarke, Belford, and Joyce ; Holton and Maitland.-711.1 FIELD OF TEIII (MOTEL OF GOLD.—m....r.. an d ; Mimi§ Goodall, la —And PLAPAIAOI AT ANIt FRICK GLOBE THEATRE ROTA'. Evrv3,., lit 7, OCH iU FOB NOTH6(I.—At a I to D. J. Brno'. orerinal Com , ly, In Five Aet.l, CYRIL'S CC ('Y!». bleKern. E:Man.hnll, Warner, Verona, neer, Newboura, Rartatnne. and J. Clarke, ke.; Maidanien Thorne, Muskeg, &c. Ti &min, DAVID 111:\T, THE BACICWOODMIAN. Mr. J. neysinirLi and Mi. Ifurrourt.—Ximi L Shs..rrisortas and Kr. P. H•Haffir.—TllE t.!'AIII.IT MARK. Mn. N. Last.— And THE BALLII4,OSIA/E BOY. War IL Booth. ETON WAITE AT LONDON 1111DBIL To-DAT -Yoram Oh. 26a......Afiamese. (a. We. To-4Gasiow.—Momaistr. lb. lisui.......Afbaboah 1L 1711. NOTION. imam; of Barn, 11•1111UMMI. sad DRAT'S, ars realssi ma IS Vase fat assweaa mass maim Pass IL Ili. LONDON. SATURDAY. DEC. 12. THE (111.7:CH A _TILE WORK/Na CLASSES. Tits Church of England, as a national esta blishment, has in one respect failed conspicuously. h is the church of the aristocracy and the church of the middle claws, but it does not attract the poor to its i.:mime, and working men are rarely to be found within its walls. They :nay be bap tised in the National Church, they are almost always married in it, end when they die the bubliwe words of the burial service are road over their graven. But this in all. Clergymen eon feint and deplore the fact that the men who belong to the clans of artisans and mach:mica do not, and will not, listen to their instructions, that they keep aloof from the Church and fight shy of the minister, even when he in known to bo liberal in disposition and cha ritable to those who differ from him. And this • feeling iv' the part of working men is not confined to the Church of England; but is acknowledged also by tlip.ecidcre. There is a portion of the - ptiorer tradininten and flomo.stic se2ftnts for exitropl , . —who like chapel better than church; but flo groat bulk of what aro nom manly smiled working mon oars nothing about either. Why then, it may he asked, is the church of the nation in this respect so unnational ? EX Woiking men are shrewd observslie ; they Sr. fond of argument ; they are not at all disposed to acquiesce in the belief that whatever is, is best; they have no reverenee for an institution boosuse it is established, and they are singularly free from anything like sentiment. When they look at the Church they are more struck by its divisions than by its essential unity ; they hear the painful wrangling@ of the High Churchmen, the how Churchmen, and tho Broad Churchmen, they see much that is childish, unmanly, and uncharitable ; they detest superstition, and are irritated by the mummeries of the extreme ritual st ; they detest intolerance, and are disgusted with the bigotry of the extreme Evangelical. There is another reason why our working men avoid the church which cannot be too strongly stated. Most of them when boys wore sent to the Sunday School, a noble institution against which in itself we have no word to utter. But the arrangetuents of the school taken in connection with the Church services are terribly wearisome to children. Think of an hour and a half in school and the additional constraint of two hours in church, at a service which, for the young, has little interest or meaning, and we need scarcely wonder that, when the period of bondage is past, and children are free to choose for themselves, they elect to stay away from church altogether. We grown up men and women find sometimes that a long service and a long sermon are tolerably so ere discipline; but this is nothing to what Sun day scholars undergo, and that upon com pulsion. Fur men as well as for children, a long service is a great mistake; and we believe that working men would be attracted by the simplicity and beauty of the Liturgy, if what ought to be a pleasure were not so unnecessarily converted into a toil. Men who work hard all the week shrink from being wearied also upon Sunday. Then, again, working men are wont to herd together, and do not care to mingle with those who are above them in society. They abominate, as well they may, being placed on hard free seats, when their " betters" are in cushioned pews ; end even when churches are free and pewlese, as all churches, we believe, will be before many years are past, they shrink from contact with the fine gentleman and the fashionably-dressed lady. In New York every Episcopal church has a chapel attached to it for the exclusive use of the poorer classes, but there is something revolting in such a caste distinction, and we should not care to see the example followed in England. What we do want is a greater union of classes upon week days, more knowledge, which will produce mere sympathy, and then there will be no neces sity for a hateful and unchristian separation on the day of public worship. There arc other reasons which account in some measure for this general defection of the work ing classes from the servioes of the Church. They do not think it a righteous thing, that livings should be bought and sold. they are democratic enough to wonder how it comes to pass that great poverty and great wealth are the distinguishing marks of Christian teachers ; they are not sure that the influence the elergynian possesses is always legitimately exer cised : they are afraid of priesteraft, and they are extremely fund of independence. Happily the ministers of religion are fully alive to the strange fact that Christianity as taught in our churches and chapels is a gospel ter the rich and the well-to do, and not a gospel for the poor. It is something to be aware of the anomaly, since until it is thoroughly perceived there is no chance of a remedy being applied. When clergymen find that they have failed where most of all they must have wished for success, they will be earnest in discovering the secret of their failure ; and the working man, too, us he gains wider knowledge and escapes from his class prejudices will be less disposed to isolate himself from a body of men who, whatever may be their theoretical differentia, are always ready to promote t h e benefit of their parishioners and neigh bours by acts of practical charity. There are faults on both sides, and these will best he over come by appreciating the virtues which are happily still snore conspicuous, both of the clergy and of working men. RETRENCI7ME.VT. NOTWITHSTANDING the CHANCF.I.I.Or. of the Ex- ClIZOI:Eleli laughing speech at the Fislituozwers' Banquet we shall be very much surprised if we do not find in the right hon. gentleman and the Cabinet of which he is u member a trenchant economist. Of course nobody expects impossibili ties from Mr. LOWE. We must have an army, a navy, a civil establishment, and we have a huge debt, the interest on which must be provided for. The House of Commons must vote money for these purposes, and the people must provide it. So far Mr. Lows cannot help being borne along by the rapids of Necessity, and ho can no more resist providing the ways and means than if he were the weakest of financial ministers. But we ex pect of him, and the country expects from him, a lirm resistance to every demand for an increase of expenditure, whatever the prittxt on which it may be put forward. No boon more substantial and solid can be con ferred by a Government on a people than to leave in their own hands the utmost amount of the pro duce which they create. There it is sure to fruc tify far more than when it is taken from them for governmental purposes and distributed through Government departments. With Mr. GLADSTONE at the head of the Treasury, Mr. Lows at the Exchequer, Mr. Mawr at the Board of Trade, and Mr. CHILDERS at the Admi ralty, it will be a severe blow and great dis couragement if the people of this country do not reap the substantial benefits of a Liberal administration. Mr. BRIGHT cannot but recol lect the letter of his deceased friend, Mr. COBDEN, in which he urged is reduction of expenditure to the extent of 10,000,0001. It certainly is an economical anomaly that we could get on, oven under a system of Protection, with a national out lay of some 50,000,0001., and that under a system of Free Trade we should have to raise something like 70,000,0001. fierely there is overgrown mate rial here for the pruning knife of the Reformer. PLBLIC READINGS BY AUTHORS. TN ncticing en announcement to the effect that Mr. Roma . Buctu-N.Ax in about to give public readinge of passagea from Lis own poems, some of our contemporaries refer to the example sot by Mr. Cluu►.ES DICKKNS. That is a very p►culiar case, for not one writer out of many thou iands Las Mr. DICKENS'S elocutionary and mimetic power. But there is really something to bo said for public readings of poetic writings of all kinds by the authors of the w►itiags. A Look ou the calculus would not impress us any the more for being read aloud to us by the author of it, but there in an obvious difference in tho literature of persuasion and the literature that appeals to the emotions. Professional public readers have their PRESS, AllITRI),/kir merit', but they ►re rarelj quite aillifacisky, andof some of the most popular it is not too wish to affirm that they cannot read poetry at all, although they make a show of doing it, and they too of tea vulgarise Eno passages by the broad renderings which " bring " down the house." If Mr. BROWNING could do it, it would be flno to bear him read his now perm. Even if the author of a poetic book cannot read as Mr. Dictums can ho may, if quito un affected and not awkward, give us glimpses of unsuspected meanings in his writings. That in doing this he should be supposed to lore in dignity is one envious effect of the change the printing press has made in the relations of the poet and tho people sung to by him. THE NEW MINISTRY. EV The following now appointments woro made yeaterday. Lord Dufferin to be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; Mr. Snllivan, Attorney- General, and Mr. Barry. Solicitor-General for Ire land ; Mr. Lawson becoming a rtli/1110 Judge. The most important places still remaining to ho filh d up are the Secretaryship of the Admiralty and the Under-Secretaryship of War. The latbw appointment goes to the Lords. THE CABINET. First Lord of tho Tres y The Lord Chancellor Lord Matherley (late Sir W. Page Wood). Lord President of the Council Bari de Grey and Ripon. Lord Privy Seal Secretary for tho Home Department Mr. Bruce. Secretary for Foreign Affairs Secretary for the Co- Tito Earl of Clarendon. lollies Secretary fur War . Secretary for India Chancellor of the Ex chequer.... Mr. Lowe. First Lord of the Ad miralty President of the Board of Trade ... Mr. Bright. POStlltaattyr-General Lord Martineau. Poor-law Board Mr. Ooschen. Chief Seccetary for Ire land Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . .. Lord Dufferin. First Coinniiszioner of Works.. . Mr. Layard. Attorney-Gemmel Solicitor-Gener:d Lord Advocate for Scot land Mr. Moncreiff. Vice-l'reaident of the Council . . Under Secretaries— Home Department Mr.Knatchlirll-rtages men. Foreign Affairs.. . . Mr. A. J. Otway. Colonies . . Mr. 310,nseU. India Third Lord of the Trea sury . . .... Mr. Stansfeld. Joint Secretaries of the j Mr. Cloorgo Glyn. Treasury . ) Mr. Ayrtun. IRELAND. Lord-Lieutenant . . . Earl Speneor. Lord Chancellor . Mr. Justice O'llug;in. Attorney-General Mr. Sullivan. Solicitor-Otneral Mr. Barry. THE ROYAL HOIIBIHOLD. Lord Steward Lord Chamberlain Master of the Horse The Marquis of Allet bury. Mitre of the Robes Duchess of Argyll. Master of the Buck hounds . . The Earl of Cork. It is understood that Lord Northbrook will occupy in the Lords the same position which he held in the Commons as Mr. T. G. Baring, namely, Under Secretary fur War. Mr. Werra will be the Secretary to the Board of Trade. Mr. Whitbread will probably be the Secretary to the Admiralty. Thu Lord Chancellor (Lord Hatherley) has made the following appointments:—Principal Secretary, Gordon Whitbread, Esq. ; Secretary of Presentations, Hon. E. P. Thesiger ; Secretary of Commissions, Hon. 11. 0. Camp b ell ; Gentleman of Chamber, Samuel Smith, Esq. ; Purse-bearer, Wm. Goodbody, Esq. ; Train-bearer, Mr. Elsey. We are requested to contradict the statement that Mr. Cadogan bas given up his scut at Cricklade. The Right non. W. E. Gladstone, M.P.. and Mr.. Gladstone, and Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P., left their residence ou Carlton House-terrace yesterday even ing for Hatfield House, Herta, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury. The Premier wilt have to leave Hatfield to-day, as be has received a command from her Majesty to dine at Windsor this evening. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Lowe entertained a select party at dinner yesterday evening, at their residence in Lowndes-square. The Eight lion. Chichester Forteeoue, M.P., and Frances Countess Waldegrave entertained the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl and Counter de Grey, the Right Hon. J. Lawson, Mr. Bernal Osborne, and a select party at dinner on Thursday evening, at their residence in Carl ton-gardens. The new Lord Chancellor is gazettod as Baron 'latherley, of Down Untherley, in the county of Wen center. The Bishop-designate of Lincoln (Dr. Words worth) will preach in the Chapel Royal, Savoy, to morrow. Mr. Disraeli has nominated the Rev. Reginald Henry Barnes to the vicarage of Hughenden, Bucks. Mr. Barnes, who is M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, ap pears to We taken deacon's orders in 1854, and priest's orders In 1866. Ile has been • prebendary of Exeter sines 1886, and vicar of Bt. Marys Church, Torquay, since 1860. There were great rejoicings at Leigh on Thurs day night, on the accession of Mr. Gladstone to power u ime Minister. Them was a brilliant display of Ilieworks, and the streets, thronged with visitors fro® the surround ing villages, were crowded for several hours. _ _ The (bu tte of last night officially announces the appointments of the °Shiba Ministers and Privy Councillors. WIII7IIIIALL, DEC. 10.—The Queen has been pleated by letter* patent under the Great Seal to grant the dignity of a 'baron of the United Kingdom of (treat Britain and Iroland unto the Right Honourable Sir William Pegg Wood, Knight, Chaamllor of that part of the mid United Kingilmn called Great Britain, and to the hews male othis body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Hatherley, of Down Hetherley, In the county of fihaawster.-60:elle. CoLotrIAL Juvo9Bltira.—Wo understand that Sir William Einagg, Chief Justice of Antigua, has been appointed to moored Chief Justice Beaumont in British Gann* ; that Mr. Arthur Peel, of the Midland Circuit, has been appointsd Chief Justice of Aatiguaj and that Mr. Charism Thomas 4ailh, of the Mee Cheuithoe been appointed a maw Jake at the Cape of Good Hops rice Mr. 8. 8. Bell promoted to be Chief Judos In tW plea of the late Bir W. Hodge.—Law isetrissl. Reim Clou.zon.—The wheel will close next Friday, the 18th inst., for the Christiana vacatioa. Which will last till the 90th of January, when the lower boys ro tors, the fifth and sloth toms wiring on the 91s1 and Und January. 7'l EgISG, DECEMIIE OUR CONTEMPORARUCti. Mitt DAY.) The Times finds cause for deep regret, almost fur despondency, in the intelligence from Spain. From various parts of the peninsula comes news of threatened disorder, and three who are sanguine as to the liens Wiles the prerent danger to be most serious. The lint error of the provisional government wea the arming of a large unease of people who, under the pretext of volunteering, demanded and received almost ell the arms in the government animate. A still greater mistake was the adoption of the miserable expedient' reported to by the French government of 1814, particularly in the establishment of national workshops for the poor or the idle. The Timm also regards it as • serious error that a regular government has not been re. tabliahod before this by the summoning of the Constituent An nobly, and thinks the only remedy for the present state of things is to keep a firm hand over the people for the moment and to push on the settlement of the national in stitutions with all possible speed. The Telegraph says the intelligence received from Spain maims the foresight of those who hold that it is an open question whether bloodless revolutions be not more mis chievous to a state than revolution-4 achieved by hard lighting. Referring to the threatened rapture between Turkey and ()recce the Pail) , News contends that it is the duty of every wise end foreseeing statesman to restrain the little Week kim,dons from mischief, and to compel it to conform to the obligations of a civilised state towards its neigh bours, but also to take care that the Sultan's government shall not be driven by desperation, or persuaded by evil counsellors, to waste the powder and shot which foreign bondholders have paid for, in lighting up the 1011gibibiyell CollfilliClStiOn and giving too suddenly to the "grind idea" the form and pressure of • mud unmans:444olu fact. The Pea describes Ormee as the enfant pile of Europe, and says that nation may be as little expected to listen to reason as Use meet wilful of spoiled children. She must, however, be made to understand that she cannot set in ternational law at defiance, nor presume upon the protec tion of those powers which have guaranteed her ialepens demos. In adverting to the case of the Tangchow missionaries, the Star assumes that the English government will promptly interfere to prevent the mischief going further, and that it will also reconsider the principles upon which oar Chinese policy is based, and the method on which it ought to be carried oat. The 64eridersi dote not think that the new cabinet has any claim whatever to the credit of containing more de bating or administrative power than the two or three cabinets which have preceded it. On the other hand, nothing can be more ridiculous than the disgust professed by newspapers which promised, three days ago, that it would make the whole kingdom healthy, happy, wealthy, and wise, because two pet members of the radical party have net been provided with places. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Leedom Review observes that the new ministry 6 a good ace, and there is no whig Mentor in it. It starts with the best prospects of realising its high thoughts in high deeds, and our contemporary regards the dangers of division with which idle tongues threaten it as chimerical in the last degree. It is not likely such a ministry could have been brought together at all had there been any pro beble point& of difference in sight. There are people, says the Saturday Serowe, who are bound to be disappointed with everything, and this class of persons are disappointed at finding so many peers in the cabin, t. It is painful, they say. in these democratic days to think that out of fifteen members of the cabinet there are six peers and the Marquis of Uartingion. Lord Russell could not have been more exclusive, more whig, and more aristocratic than Mr. Gladstone has shown him self, or more contemptuous of the leaders of the people. The charge is in a way true, and it a cabinet was to he composed exehnisely of the fifteen ablest men of the party, the cabinet would not have been rightly formed. Hut in the light of practical sense and worldly wisdom, the choice of Mr. Gladstone may perhaps be justified. Criticising the oonstitution of the new cabinet, the Spec tato► remarks that, odd as the ilistribution of offices may have born, and it is nearly unintelligible, the collective force of the cabinet will be very great, and it is that which, after all, drives the machine. It is not a cabinet which, when once decided, will fiat to use its majority, or allow its measures to be "compromised" out of existence. or submit for one second to the dictation of the permanent bureaucracy. It has strewth for any purply°, foreign negotiation excepted, and the will to make that strength felt in the actual business of life. The Itzintaimer says with respect tothe renetisnary muve oust in Spain, that until the Constituent Aeunnbly shall have mot and determined what the form of the now govern ment is Jobs, there is no excuse for disorder or menace ; and the republican party is bound, above all others, to maintain and uphold the liberty of law, pending the national deci sion. If by numbers, by reason, or by eloquence, it can win its way, there is no reason why it should not prevail ; if not, it would 1* only to retard the eventual triumph of its principles to seek prematurely the abolition of rept ity. be Cow. WINDSOR CASTLE, Duo. 11. The Queen, scoomptnied by the Crown Princess of Prussia and Princess Beatrice. drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Countess of Gaiuslxirough ; and her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, went to Claremont to-day. The Duchess of Boxburglie and the Equerry in Waiting were in attendance. The Crown Prince of Prussia. attended by Captain Von Schleinitz, went to Aldershott this morning, where his Itoyal Highness was received by Licut-General Sir James Yorke Barlett, K.C.8., and staff, and was present at a review of the troops. His Royal Highness afterwards honoured Sir James Yorke Scarlett with his presence at luncheon, and went to London in the afternoon. The Crown Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal) at tended by Counter Ilohenthal, Count Furstenstein, and General the Hon. C. Grey, left Windsor by the ten minutes past 10 a.m. train on the Groat Western Rail way for London. Her Royal Highness visited the Prince Consort's memorial in Hyde-park. The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia honoured the performance of the Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter ball, with their presence in the evening, and afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. Countess Hohenthal, Count Furstenstein, and Captain you Sehlelnits were in atten dance. Princess Charlotte of Prussia, atteutkil by the Coulees of Rarestlow, drove oat yesterday afternoon, and honoured M. and Madame Van de Weyer with a visit at New Lodge. The Duchess of Roxburghe arrived at the Castle yester day on a visit to the Queen. The Duke of Argyll arrived at the Castle this afternoon. Tbs Queen will bold a Council to•dy (Saturday) at Windsor Castle. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta. Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lamas, end the Straits Settlements. His Excollency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorif returned to the Prussian Embassy to-day front visiting Viscount and Viscountess Holmsedals at Linton-park, near Maidstone. The Duke of Marlborough left St. James's-square yesterday foe Blenheim Palace, Oxen. The Duke of Cleveland arrived at his residenoo in St. James's-square yesterday from Raby Castle. The Marquis of Ailesbury has arrived at hie residence in Pall-mall, from Bosom*. Lodge, near Marl borough, Wilts. Tim Earl and Countess of filbaltosbory anti Indio' Ashley have arrivod in torn from Bt. ttilei'e, Dortet. The Countess of Albemarle and Lady Augusta Koppel have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square. Lord and Lady Deere have left Thomas's Hotel for thence. near Welwyn._ _ _ _ Baron d' Daintier,. Admiral la ()spell. Le Baron de Pena% inspector of telegraphs hi Frame, and the suit* of geotlwarn eonneeted with the French and Atlantic Telegraph, have left Matuirre Hotel for Paris. The Law Times says that Mr. Justice Mellor is so ill Met it IN faired be will be sizable to resume his duties la the °sort of Qlllllllll . ll Beach. FOREIGN NEWS. (TBlB DAY.) COUNT BISMARCK AND TfIR DEPOSED GERMAN PRINCES. The committee for the sequestration of the pro perty of the ex-Elector of Mese held a sitting on Thursday. Count de Bismarck declared that the deposed Prince bad calculated on the imminence of a contingency of war and paid no attention to the reiterated warnings which he received. The apprehensions of hostilities which had pre vailed in the jiroeeding summer were not without foundation, and had only been re moved by an unexpected circumstance. A committee of agitation, hostile to Prussia, is in triguing at Hier-inc, and among its members are Guelphs, Hessians, Danes, and Republicans. The count incidentally remarked that ho had no know ledge of the famous note to M. d'lTtselom except through the journals, seeing that it had lawn sent after the went and had been lost on the thoatni of war in INGO. After these declarations the prokositiou of the government was adopted by 13 votes to I, given by M. Virehow, with an amendment to the effect that the seluestration can only be removed by a law. In the Chamber of Deputies the Minister of Justice presented a regulation on mortgages. The budget of foreign affairs was voted. Count de Bismarck declared that he accepted the principle of the proposal con cerning the transfer of the above-named depart merit to the northern confederation from 1870; and ho promised to bring forward a measure, in that sense. He added that, so far as the confede ration was concerned, the question was de Moil by the vutusg of the budget of 1870. eramouaz sztrmes Loam.) THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. EXPECTED ATTACK UPON THE INSUR GENTS THIS DAY. MADRID, bac. 11, EVENING. Ilostilitics have not yet been resumed et Cadiz, but a vigorous attack is expected to-morrow should the insurgents not submit to the authori ties. Meanwhile great exertions are being mule to induce the latter to lay down their arms. The insurrection bears an essentially republican cha racter, as was solemnly asserted both by the !h'+- cession and the lynablad, two republican papers that appear in this city, and this declaration has caused much indignation among the public. THE THREATENED RUPTURE IN THE EAST.- GREEK MINISTERIAL STATE MENT. ATHENS, Dm 9. iu reply to a question put to him on the pre ent state of affairs, the Minister for Foreign Affairs &- dared in the Chamber to-day, that the Porte con templated breaking off diplomatic relations with the government onaccount of the generoussuecour which Greek subjects bad given to Candia in her struggles. He stated that the Ambassadors of the Great Powers in Constantinople had intervened to prevent the contemplated rupture from taking place, and declares] that the Government acted in conformity with the requirements of national dignity, and with the desires of the nation. Next week he would lay all diplomatic documents re ferring to the present momentous position of affairs before the floirie. TURKEY AND GREECE. ATIIENS, D FX. & The Turkish Minister has applied to the Greek govcn •nt for the punishment of the Greek subjects at Ogina who illtreated the Turkish agent on that island and forcibly prevented bun from recouve)ing certain Camliote families to Crete. The TurkiNh Minister also demanded that Greoce should prevent any despatch of further munitions or assistance to the insurgents. It is asserted that the gove Het will not ac cede to the demands of the Turkish minister. The ultimatum of Turkey has not yet been delivered to the Greek cabinet. AMERICA. NEW YORK. Dec. 12. According to Mr. ►dam Moffatt's report the week's receipts of cotton at the United States ports amount to 90,000 bales. Shipments to Eng land, 35,000 bales. To the Continent, 22,000. Stoik at ull ports, 265,010. The market is quiet and steady. Middling Upland, 10d., cost and freight per steamer. OUR PARIS LETTER. (FBO3l OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.; PARIS, Finnvir The Sa,/e says that every precaution has been token to ensure the election of M. Gambetta as the successor of M. IkTryer. The Marseilles committee, which unanimously agreed to support M. Gambetta, consisted of 37 persons, of all shades of democracy, in the district, and who represented upwards of 2,000 electors. The Slick exhorts M. Ganibetta to go at once to the Douches du Rhone and canvass for himself. Ile is a southern man and knows how to speak t.• men of the south. lie is eloquent without effort. and by the mere play of his superabundant natural forces can we the fervent, picturesque, and yet familiar language which will win all hearts. When he talks of progress, liberty. and justice. everybody in llianailles will be on his ride. The latest news is that 31. Gtuubetts, the grmit tribune, developed by the Baudin ease, has gun.. to Marseilles. Every day brings fresh revelations of the great battle of Clichy gained by the government on December 3 against no anuses. Not only, as I stated positively at the time, were the garrisons of l'aris and Versailles under arms, but depots in many distant towns were warned to be in readiness to march on Paris. The Onire of Arras now says that five companies of engineers in that town were among the reinforcements in waiting. Yon, in London, who were led by a telegram to believe that an insurrection was imminent in Paris, can scarcely realise how ridiculone all this seems to us hero, who knew that there never wae, from the first, the least fear of so much as the slightest and that the whole comedy was got up by the authorities for inscrutable purpe4es. Of all the people arrested, only 10 remain now in prison, awaiting their trial for a most trivial policy misdemeanour. Rome journals report that in emisequence of repairs at the Tuileries the court will remain at Compiilgne till Christmas. This news is itworrect. The Emperor and Empress may stay at Comp Pgne a day or two longer than was contemplated, but they will certainly remove to St. Cloud shortly after Dec. 13. According to a Vienna letter eirculated in tho French journals, tho listen% titian of Fnumo, England, and Austria (nothing is hero said of Russia), will not prevent a rupture between Turkey and Greer°. M. Delyanys, the Greek repre sentative at Constantinople, is reported to have said that Greece is ready enough to promise not directly to support the () To b in insurgents, and moreover donios that abe has heretofore done so, but that she cannot prevent the Greek nation from shoes. sympathy for its Cretan brethren. fore, will not do e►erything ropiinti th. T ur ki s h ultimatum, but it is nevertheleaa a,n6, dentlymaposted here that Turkey will be re itru t ,, l from doing all the terrible tLiug4 whith A ha, threatened in that contingency. The Minister of War had ibfunuod commanding divisions and subdivisions erg. Mobile National Guard will he milled out f,r „. erase in February, and that their twins served out from the 20th to the 3Lnli comber. A letter from Rome says that Fran , Nsl.lea Las boon bud up for the last fertniz..,... a violent fever, which occasions serious in the Familia Palace, nobody but th.,.). the King's physician, and an old sprvala admitted to the sick chamber. The (.44 of the malady is not known, but there al.! r for supposing that it is of a typhoid 11.4 r. r.. The scaffolding in the interior of th Etats of the Louvre came down this a crash, and a workman, upon w'uuei had his leg broken. Iliad tho !... a few minute rower a hundred men, , gone away to breakfast, might have maimed. Thin afters, ou a fire broke out iu T.: in the basement floor of the alwrtm,•ut• by the minister of the household, M , hint. It was fully an hour before the 114., got under. There is no external app 4'. much damage, but a quantity of charts, extracted from the cellars has been tie , the Plane du Carrousel. Yesterday a well-dressed man, who w , the many daily prisoners in the pr.:. police, waiting to be interrogated a, t of his arrest, threw himself out of 4 t window, broke his skull, and die I minutes. , • THE 1 - ,ICANT LORD JUSTPE.wit; The appointment of Vice-Chancell•,r as sucets.or to the pr-sent Lie!, _. appclum to have been accepted AS .t elusion. That he would be a fitting .ql.. 1.. • Lord Justice SELWYN may readily Is• . Indeed, among the legal al.pointiur.lits ••f t:, Government, the elevation of Sir GIFFARO to the Vice-Cluuicellorvliip wt honourable to them and acceptable• t•, .2. and the public. His claims have a 1 lesssened by his admirable conduct ,- V Chaim:nor. but it may be doubted v;.. - 7. it would be judicious to remove him from he adorns, to which he has but recently be-sn vatted, and to transfer him to another which, ui existing circumstances, very few are t. qualified to till. Lord CAIRNi and Sir P %%obi' have give n prestige t•i the vacant I. I listiceship which ought t.. h.. tamed. Hence there wout•l h•• ',- appropriateness in offering it LaIbLUY. Ali one of the r..r he would contribut•c u..t revise with advantage the dceisious ..a below, but also to stop nettle., toot titan. Many would accept as hail j the Appellate Court ~t h.• w., Nile the offer of this post would • acknowledgment of legal attaibm• those who unperson:a grouniis are WEsibl'ltY readily admit to suhd, the acceptance cf it would status on his part. If lawyers a- • • to justify an unusual step, tl:e LYNDHURsI can be cited mu its • he had been Lord Chancellor. .. it no derogation to his dignity to occupied by Sir FITZROY KELLY. t. Baron of the Exchequer. Certainly. ex-Chant ellor did with approval. is I Chancellor may do without questi en. I that if asked to serve as Lord Just..-. T BURY will accede to a request made in t of the nation.—Daily Svcs. ,_. The death at the Chemin de S.in: dean:, of M. de Morney, at the age He was in the perfe c t enjoyment of : 1.. the lest. — The San Benedetti Theatro at Vont come the Romani. in honour of the grui. ouoipoerd for it the ' , dhow: IN At / I CFI Ailllo. BERLIN. DM-. ll.—Herr Anne ha- -.• :. • pointed consul at Shanghai. THE HORSE DOCToR ANO a rtr.'. - N" A highly interesting experiment wi•ti v nitrogen was performed a few d ,ys horse, at 31. Alexandre's veterinary by 11r. George and Dr. Purl-Mental/1,. .s• of several scientific men. The animal to b„ was about 14 hands high, 20 years old, a% winded. which rendered it unfit tor service. M. had brought with him 13U hares of gas in a lsrg tubber bag, rloYided at One end with a the same material and a metal stop-cock with two lateral openings for tha from the lungs. The extremity of the t into another ending in a large wilt...hot::: The horse having had its legs ft-enrol, was la. avid the operation begun. At this moment at the carotid artery, was st 44, and the ant:a at the rate of lj inspirations per minute. was drawn over the nostrils and mouth— . gas was absorbed in the course of sev, the insensibility was proved to be cum: andre's thrusting au inch and more of :.. bistoury into the patient's flesh. • slightest indication of pain. The rite,. :: a con7eurence of the dryness causes! I . toxide, had begun to be hea:i minute ; at the end of the sivet.:::. had 'torpid. but breathing was still rate ut three strokes per minute. Tito motionless, and the pupil dilated ; reeve rtleri..., 'ability of the cornea did not last more thou • Mr. Deorge then endeavoured to draw a it broke off after violent wrenching; as rt.- I• • although a key of enormous sire was tved. v 7. every effort, the animal being all the . 7 seious of what was going ou as it it had after the third minute when it was •.• ' push away the instrument with its t. ti; sensibility, more or less complete, lotel the pulse gradually yeeppeared, and • much higher than it was before the •• a ' the case with respiration, which attained .;" t: patient still appears-1 stupefied 22 menu:.- ti •s- • wencerneut of the expenewtit ; at the u - obeyed the whip, and got upon its legs .10: it • lug a little, but soon got the better et C.c. r.• .. vend completely, the pulse and brolthit.,.: • they were before. lu this expo:nnen& carried much further than it ever is m the hint. , i• as It was the intention of the operators • To effect this object, 130 litres, or lit) perh::-. for some beg, proved insufficient a olcurc:!:. tinning more than ever the tact that this gm.! -•-: may be administered with perfect security • subject. Mr. tievrge never sibuitiiiters litres at the utmost, which produces lawn.- about two minutes.—tiaiiyisiosi. , Tux Rratmut Lrau A; AND Ma. RI" r . i• ti w t r t g hr n lief o o f rtu Es U gla Zne k ha ." : 2ll‘ their every hospitable feeling. It a werkiu,: . •:' friend to thinner, he would have a diunci the good wife at home were hostile he u. , spired at a public-house. But the liefona 1- • ' invited the American minister to dinner in u. • the working men of England. and Br. •• • cordially accepted the invitation, they - aunt that they have cliangid their Into . desire hie company. Such au net is not ••••:••, • manners, but a blunder in policy. T.• NI • Johnson himself it is 50 bruit. whale ,t s leevivril with an witi,f4et.t.o even •••• orponents. LITERARY ANTI SCIENTIFIC 31ESIIN • - • FIIbVINO WI I r.-1104kday : 6,14 A' 37 ' • .• Anatomy," Mr. l'artridge ; Aniiitects. i• ralsbical. at BT. "Journey to Westent Diane. 'tuesday Horticulture' i s:veers! Ie Statistieal, at 8, '• Statistics id NAIL!. Anthropological. at 8, •• The Voice in .Wan". '\ &c. " Sir Duncan tiibb : French and fb:•- • &Inners," Dr. Wake, Enneers, at S. • Breaking Down Coal," Mr. }Utter, jun. Litemtur!, at 81 ; Society of Arts at Fressing. ' Dr. l'aul. Thursday: Lin 4 7' Rovsi. • "Coleopterans Faunas" Mr. MUMMY; Antiquaries, at " Musical o e aRe r. 1%4 ,, " Bunk Qom," Rev..l. T. I g e X ull "Iraq • 11 ,, r a " Dentheria Scottish Dialect." Jis• et ~i ~ ,B, „ay