The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-23 00:00:00

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I.IL ,TE.tli NAVIGATION COMPANY BOOK PASISZN. GESS and receive Cargo►and Parcels for Gibraltar, Malta, Fgypt, ides, ion, by their Madras, Calcutta, the Straits, China, and Japan , steamers leaving Southampton on the 4th i g,kl .2,th .1 eery h ; for Gibraltar, Malta, Egypt, Aden, by those of the 12th and 274.13 of each month ; and hu.z tie .re's Sound, Melbourne, and Sydney, by the steamer asvie4 "ouilmupton on the 20th of every mouth the steamers karc Morreilles on the Mb, 12th, 2041, and nth of the month. Irr.,..ments hove been made for the conveyance of goods, spede. *c., from Singapore to Batavia by the ,;;;:.;r , of the Netherlands India Steam Navigation Company. For further particular apply M the Company's Saes, 12!, lealeuttallatreet, London, LC. ; or tkiental-place, loath -01"L INMAN LINK—The LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILADILPHIA STEAM-SHIP COMPANY istend despatching thetr MI-powered Clyde-built trots screw nialinhips, carrying the United Styr Malls., calling at Queens pen Ireland, on the following day, to take on board passengers .ad desp atches, and with liberty to call at an Intermediate port: Cli • OF LIMERICK, Saturday, December 21. CITY WANIIINOTON, Wednesday, December 25. Asa every Wednesday and essunner . Cabin perm* by the mall steensees sailing every Wedieenday, A 17, and 71 guinea, according to the acconnoodaUon. Forward includes a full supply of cooked provision& Passengers Canada and the United States booked through on very advan %Tterma—For further particulan apply to WILLIAM N, r..,Wateretreet, Liverpool; and to lIVES and MACKY, R. King WUllanietreet, London. METROPOLITAI R ST A Latiri YS. WatiTERN CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. EXTRA TRAINS between the City, King's-croak Onweratreet, r„rits.l.road for Regent-circus). Baker-street, Paddington, tensington for crystal Palace and West London Line;, Ham mersmith, Shepherd's-bush, Notting-AM, and Weat►ourne-park. onnillieses meet the trains at Portland-road for Regent-ctreus. TO- NIGHT, TO-NIGHT, TO-NIGHT. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. MONDAY. December Ilk IBM. All the NEW CHRIST ILAS ENTaRTAINM ENT& vaporing la novelty and splendour MU the rued successful efforts of former years, will be repre sented for the first time TO-NIGHT, Monday, December IS, and every evening Chrlstuissday excepted) during the week. A NEW COMIC BALLET, introducing peculiar eferte, and supported by MM. Dsubsn and Wallin, from I the Theatre de la Porte St. Martin, and Mr. Y. Evans, called X X. X. or GOROIBVSTER and THE HAPPY FISHERS. Dawes by Mum. Scenery by W. Callcott. and music by Riflery. MONDAY, December ES, 1887. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AA NEW GRAND SPECTACULAR BALLET and TRANSFORMATION SCENE, called the GOLDEN pu' SIP'S. The scenery Invented, painted, and constructed by Br. William Calmat, tbliDances by Milano, the Matte by Stiviere, supported by a double company of dancers and Ogarantes. !WEAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, MONDAY, Dee 113, IM7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE, (Managing Director, Mr. P. Strengs.l Three Ballets, 200 Doan. ell Instalment&lista, Bingen, Acrobats, Maks ; Me tres, Latest Telegrams, Saloom, lavatories, Woking - rooms , Evening Paper; 10 86 gre - rtral was ileces Every MOIL Open at Half-past Seven, begin at Bight. Prices le, , and Id. : Reserved Seats, ea. ; Private Buses, from Cl le. 3m.odice open from Eleven to Four. ALL the CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. Poo- !11. 1867. ROYAL PALACE MORNING PERFORMANCE. , - BOXING ROYAL D A A L Y A 2 MIte A kpALAcr, NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High Holborn.—The most spumes and teilltantly.decorated MI loom, and the best Band in Loudon. OPLN Tor CONCURT gad DANCIN.i MIRY 'VINING. Magical Director Mr. W. IL Packer. Opin at hali-pmst 11; dose at 13. .Sdatiegion. !browbeat. Is. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION 1865. This celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN PRIZE MEDAL—It la pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and vsa7 wholesome. sold In bottles, Ss. ed. each, at the retail houses in London ; by the agents In the principal towns In England ; or wholesale ate, Great Wlndmlll-strest, London, W.—Observe the rd seal, pink label, and cork branded •• Kinahsn's LL Whisky. CITISTMAS.—Another Novelty in Candles.— lELDB PATENT PARTI•COLOURED CANDLIM, to Orals or stripes, of Rose, Olsen. Mauve. or Amber. Primes. ed. pr lex box of four candles, as used at the City Reception of the %alien, and at ihe Lord Mayor's Banquet. May be obtained of 11 dealers in teem and country; wholesale of J. C. and J. FIELD, ipper Marsh, Lambeth, London. ALES, GLYCERINE, and 130AP.—A Gold J l it p edal was awarded at the Paris Exhibition to Price's latest Candle Company (limited!, for "Candles, Glycerine, and 'cap "—the only one to any Beal& exhibitor for these three Wogs combined. The chief candles of the company are their BELMON I E" and "PRICES PARAFFINS:" for these who ,n at have the extreme transparency of pure parafilne: their • MEDAL PALMITINE," and "SHERWOOD PALMI IL\ F.," for these who, while desiring candies of great beauty, re pine she steady brilliancy of light and freedom tram smoke and well : their genii old fashioned " Belmont Sperm and Wax," and "Best," " Nu. 2," " No. 3," and "Battersea" composites fur those who require only perfect hurtling without caring for trans parency: and their "Chamber" candles, hard, and of small dia. Deter to avoid the dropping of grease when carried. Their new Wet wan. " Pitleg'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE," contains tall its weight of their distilled glycerine, and should be he one toilet soap in especiall y in winter, because of Its aludrable edicts he prev u e s n e dng chapping of the hands and face. Mere ought also to he in every house one of the sealed bottles d their patent distilled Glycerine, known everywhere as " Price's Glycerine." two or three drops of which, mixed with three or bur times Ns much water, will in a day or two remove chapping and roughness of skin, whether of adults or children and when this is cifected, a single drop of the undiluted Glycerine applied once a day will prevent the recurrence of the chapping and roughness. Insist on having " Price's Glycerine" in the Company', own sealed bottles, quantities of cheap Impure Glyce rine helm' now sold in the shops bemuse of the low rate at which the dealers isn buy It in comparison with Price's. AU the good pence' uutito:itics abroad, as well as at home, order "Price's" as the one only Glycerine to be used. " Price's Nye Patent Night Lights," for burning in the wide Owes ate believed to be the very best night lights made. Price's Child's Night Lights" are known everywhere, and ere excellent for burning without a glass. DANDLES.—A Hilt to Purchasers.—Do not make sure that you know what prim you are paying per Pound for your candles until you have stripped them and put them in the scale. Some candles are right weight without the oraPPers, some with moderately thick wrappen, some with very thick wrappers. and some are not nearly right weight with PPera however thick. PRICE%"GOLD MEDAL PA Lill- E." " Sherwood "Belmont Sperm," and "Bel mont Wax," "No. 2," "No. 3," and " Battersea" (' " Price's Paraffin.," and " Belmontine," and all Pe Aber muniks of Prices Patent Candle Company 'LW:id), arc full weight without the wrappers. PRiCE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE ,Pattoted).—Clold medal, Perla 1867.—The newest aad leg toilet sap, wears well, gives a rich and frant lather, is atirrly free km coma nut 01l or mess of alkali, and violable lalf in weight of Price's distilled glycerine. lrtailed he all chemists, grocers, kc., In 4d. and 6d. tablets. nairs PATENT CANDLE WIIPANY (Limited), Bahasa Works, Esteem& &W. CHRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S CIFT4 for all who court the pay and festive scenes -1" LAN MACASSAR a preserver and beautifier of hair 15)..ml all preetdent. Rowlands' Kalydor, fur impart '4l a rddiaht bloom to the complcdon and a softness and dell • me) to the 1. Ms, arms, and neck. Rowlands' Odonto, or Pearl kutlfrlse. a t giving *pearl like whiteness to the teeth, and fra. Ranee to the breath. The patronage of royalty throughout knot.i general use by rank and fashion, and the waver ally t Mutt yuf these articles, eve them • celebrity on -11,61 —•old by chemists and perfumers—Ask for" Row " art i•. D INNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. Ti e m.diralprufeasion for thirty mil have approved of Pure `sod non of Magnesia as the beet remedy for Acidity of foe s t"sarl , ilvartimun, iltsulache, Goat, and Indigestion: and ■ the hest null aperient for delicate eonetitutimm, eapoM clamed for Law., Chihiren, and Infanta—DlNNEF Mtn and Lo. Chemist, 172, New liond4trest, London, and of ell other diemiste tW lighnist the world. DR. SCOTTS BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, 19 net faith ig remedy, prepared without may mercurial Wiledlent, be hood Invaluable io all who suffer from bilious lid liter n•mplaluts, ludlgestion, wind, eptants, giddiness, Mint lera of tit- ty es, de. Ice habitual costiveness, so a family literient and as a portlier of the blend, they are truly iteslient. nuiJ lu their operation and grateful to the stomach, ...Der create ippe:ite, pr•mote dl nu t and strengthen the ler v, rie irstera.—bold by W. Lainuert, chemist, t, klug ounteletreet, Charing-croak and by most drag bete, in boles ltd• awl three tinted the quantity to or.s, Ss. td. Ds sure to 7 t Dr. tiott's bilious and Liver Mlle. TM genuine us In • .visa Name, with Williams Lambert" engraved es the Maimn A T CHRISTMAS many persona are induced to take more than is wholesome. Two or three of CARR'S Lit r. PILL+ sill clear of ACIDITIES, and remove FEVERISH SEA DACIIL and other unpleasant symptoms, without pain or I ncun•enietwee. PARRS LIFE PILLS may be obtained of any 111, 11, ine Vendor, in boxes, Is. lid., Its. 9d., and in family Ils. each. Directioas with each box. GOUT and RHEUMATISM.—The excruciating Pala .4 gout or rheumatism is quietly relieved end eased le a few dayi by that celebrated medicine, BLAIR'S 01.0 UT and RHEUMATIC PILL& Th e , booths no restraint of dist or ootalinement during their sad are certain to prevent the disease attacking any vital Said kr all medicine vendors MIL led. and 2s. 54. per box M maimed through say chemist. BELDING, KEITH, and Co., American Bank en and Merchants. 80, Lombard-street, London, issue Hills of Exchange, payable In currency or gold In any part of the nited states: make onlecnoeset Drafts or Accounts: purchase American products, and nape Consignments suitable ter American market., an conmalealom NVINTER OVERCOATS. 106, STRAND, OPPOSITE ESETEILHALL. Special attention is given In this Establishment to WINTIIit OVERCOATS, and a adect suck In always kept on hand at HAMILTON and SIMMONS, TAILOIII and OVI&VUAT•MAKERS. RINSIEL'S CHRISTMAS SHOW. —The largest and most elegant imortment of fancy articles for I'RESF—% TS In London.—The Guinea Musical Scent Box, musical album, ste.; the revolving musical Christmas Um the magic rose tree, containing a singing bird, and numerous other novel. ties. Ornaments for Christmas trees from ed. Christmas cards and oehets, &e.-oe, Strand ; US. seret-strest ; as, Canada and Crystal Palace. TELEGRAPHIC INTMLIGIENOI.. (uurza's Imamate.) FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 22, Evernta. The Patric foresees that the declaration made by General Menabrea, that the Italian government would suspend the payment of the interest of the Pontifical debt, will give rise to observations from the Tuileries. The France says that direct negotiations are being carried on between the French and Italian governments with a view to an arrangement de stined to replace the convention of the 15th Sep tember. The other Powers will bo kept informed of the progress of the negotiations, that they may subsequently give in their adhesion. It is stated that a more intimate understanding has been established between Russia and Italy. ITALY. FLORENCE, DEC. 22. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to day Signor Bonfardini proposed an order of the day affirming Rome to be the capital of Italy, de precating the attainment of that object by illegal means, and approving the conduct of the ministry. General Menabrea accepted this order of the day. The result of the vote was-190 in favour of the motion, and 201 against it, defeating the ministry by a majority of 2. THE POPE'S RECENT ALLOCUTION. ROME, Dcc. 21. The text of the short allocution pronounced at the Consistory by the Pope yesterday has just appeared. Hia Holiness depicted the Divine 'insis tence as tempering his sorrows, since he saw all the I I bishops closely united in his defence by word of mouth and pen, and the laity advocating the cause of the temporal power in public assemblies. It had been spendidly and magnificently defended in the Senate and Corps Legislatif at Paris, amidst the plaudits of all honest people. The Pope dwelt upon the demonstration, and offer ings of the faithful, and upon the ardour of catholic writers and speakers, upon the devotion of the Papal volunteers, the fidelity of his subjects, espe cially of the Roman., upon the army, and the most powerful Emperor of that noble and generous France who, taking the danger of Rome into con sideration, had Bent brave soldiers who had fought at Mentana and Monte Rotondo under illustrious chiefs to shed their blood for the cause of the Holy See. His Holiness concluded by recommending his hearers to pray that God would protect him against his enemies, and would convert them from their errors. He then bestowed his blessing upon all present. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 22. The latest news from Crete is unimportant. Small skirmishes had taken place. The Grand Vizier has been to Candie on a tour of inspection. His return to Constantinople has been deferred for another month. General Ignatieff, the Russian minister to the Ottoman Porte, leaves for St. Petersburg on Saturday next, rid Trieste and Vienna. The Ramazan commences next Friday. The weather is very mild. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, Dn. 21. The official Staatscouraut published a royal rescript dated to-day, and addressed to the council of ministers. It announces that the King, not having found reason to withdraw his confidence from the present Cabinet, declines to accept the resignation tendered by the ministry. THE DANISH WEST INDIES. COPENHAGEN, DEC. 21. The St. Thomas Tideede publishes a proclama tion dated " Amalienborg, Nov. 25," in which the Minister President communicates to the inhabitants of the Danish West Indies the sale of the islands, under reserve of the assent of the Rigsdag. The proclamation further states that the inhabi tants are at liberty to remain, or to emigrate and sell their property without impediment or taxation. They will have to choose within two years between remaining Danish or becoming American citizens. As no pressure will be used, the voting may take place upon the broadest possible basis. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Dw. 21. Her Majesty's Indian steam transport Crocodile, with detachments of various regiments, arrived here to-day from Portsmouth. The troops will embark at Suez on board her Majesty's transport Jumna on Monday next. The Italian corvette Ettore Fieramosca has ar rived here, having on board Count della Croce, who comes on a special mission to the Viceroy. JAPANESE PORTS. ST. PETERSBURG, Dzc. 21. The Prussian Consul at Hakodadi announces that, in accordance with the treaties concluded with Japan by England, France, the United States, and the Netherlands, Jeddo and Osaka will be opened for trade with the contracting powers upon the 29th of January, 1868. - - - FOREIGN MAILS BOME.&Y MAIL.—MABSEILLES, DEC. 21. —The Mardis arrived at 1 p.m. to-day. The mail leaves for London at 5 p.m. - _ THE OUTWARD AMERICAN MAHAL—QUEENS TOWN, Dec. 22.—The royal mail steamship Cuba arrived here at noon to-day. She embarked 78 sacks of mails, passengers, and telegr►ms, and proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 3.30 p.m. All well. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23. 1867. AMERICA. (BT LTLAIPPIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Dec. 21., 6 P.N. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out 1,000,000 dots. in specie. The steamer Caledonia has arrived out. Closing Prices :—Gold, 134. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 108} ; Illinois, 1311; Erie, 74k. Cotton : Middling Upland, 15k. PHILADELPHIA, Dac. 21. Petroleum, standard white, 25e. (RIOTER'S 71:LIGILAX.) The Royal Mail etelunahip Persia arrived at Queenstown at 9 pan. yesterday with 43 cabin passengers and 608,030 dole. in specie. She landed 123 sacks of mails and three paseeagers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9.10 p.m., all well. The Persia expetienoed very severe easterly gales upon her passage home. (Per the Persia, via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Die. 11. The resolution to impeach Mr. Johnson was defeated in Congress on Saturday, the Bth inst., 57 yeas voting against 108 nays. Of the latter 66 were republicans and 40 demo , orate. _ _ In the senate ktr. Chandler made a long speech in favour of the rwiolution go:x*4 belligerent right. to Abysiinia during the war with England, and' strongly denounced the course pursued by the British gverement during the late rebellion. He declared hie belief that tf the resolution was passed 10 to 15 Abyssinian privatesis would be afloat within 100 days. Mr. Reverdy Johnson strongly opposed the resolution as calculated to provoke a needless quarrel with Great Britain. . . . . A resolution was introduced, but laid over, proposing thatin the new treaty with Canada, the fisheries should be free to British and American subjects alike. also that Canada should cede British Columbia to the United States, who would pay 6,000,000 dollars for the Hudson's Say territory. M r . Bunigellyeronged a reeolatim_s; *Melt the Renate adopted requesting the President to furnish Congress with ooples of all documents and correspondence relative to the Alab a ma claims. The House of Representatives has pared the bin sns• pending the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to withdraw the United States notes. Both houses have pasaad the bills enabling Degrees to hold officio and sit on juries in the District of Columbia. General Hancock has reinstated the auditor and trea surer of Louisiana, lately removed from their posts by General Mower. _ _ _ _ _ General Ord has appointed January 7th for the assem bly of the Arkansas and Mississippi conventions. General Grant has issued an order, giving the military district commanders a suspensory order over the freed- men's bureaux. General MaoLaarmand hes been nominated by President Johns= as minister of Mexico. Advioss from St. Thomas to the 18th November state that Admiral Palmer and the Danish commissioner, were completing their arrangements far the transfer of the island to the United States. The i;ctaidsiyStbittliSialand of St. Bartholomew has been ahnoet destroyed by a volcano, and that earthquakes are daily occurring at Porto Rico. EXPA IS FROM PARIS. THE SECRET SOCIETY.—EXTRAORDINARY PROCLAMATIONS. (nox OUR owx comusponoxn.) PARIS, S►TURDAT Enarno. The affair of the Secret Society came before President Delesvaux, at the Correctional Tribunal, yesterday. Twelve prisoners appeared at the bar. The following are their names and descriptions Acoolas, a professor of law ; Naquet, aged 33, a professor of chemistry at the Ecole de Medecine ; Hayot, aged 24, a commercial traveller ; Las, aged 48, a passeetentisr ; Verliere, aged 2G, a literary man ; Choutean, aged 33, painter ; Gode cher, aged 28, professor of Latin ; Adel, aged 3b, alias Manuel, a copper-founder ; Merli, aged 25, a cabinet maker ; and three others, Gorand, and Hermann. The indictment charged these young men with the misdemeanour of belong ing to a secret society, with having been guilty of " manoeuvres," with a view to trouble the public peace, and with having excited to lobed and contempt of the government. At the commencement of the proceedings Hayot, one of the prisoners, said he intended to "make default"—that is, not to be tried then. The court said it was his right so to do, but wanted to know the reason. The public prosecutor in sinuated that Hayot had been accepted as evidence for the crown, and wanted to postpone the trial. The prisoners' counsel, among whom were M.M. Cremieux, Jules Favre, Yersignn 11 : 1 "uati and da Fieubler s Urged that the case should go on, and the court ultimately ruled that it should. Accolas, who was first interrogated, ad mitted that the police seized at his house three proclamations, beginning respectively with these words :—" France no longer belongs to her self, " " The republic sixteen years ago," and " The reign of Bonaparte was founded in crime." He said, however, that these papers were brought to his house without his knowing what they were or where they came from, and that Hayot alone (the suspected spy) had taken some of them away and distributed them. PARIS, SUNDAY EVEITING. The Imperial Advocate Lepelletier commenced his speech for the prosecution in the Secret Society case by reading the following three proclamations which had been seized at the house of the prisoner Acoolsa, and some of which he admitted had been taken away by Hayot : THE CAPE MAIL The steamer Norseman, with the Cape mail, arrived at Plymouth yesterday. Her dates are Table Bay, 20th November ; St. Helena, 28th ; ' and Ascension, the 2nd inst. She brings 66 pas sengers and 32 time-expired soldiers, with women and children, four packages of specie, and a cargo of wool, skins, oil, copper, hides, wine, itc. The Norseman experienced strong northerly winds along the coasts of Portugal, and north-west winds to Plymouth. The fever at Cape Town was considered to be decreasing in the number of patients, but the type of the disease had increased in virulence, and a class of persons had wen attacked who had previously been compara tively free from the malady. The government and the municipal authorities were unremitting in their exertions to meet the emergency. The town had been divided into 12 districts, to each of which a medical man was appointed, to provide the poorer classes with medicines and food gratis. Drs. Graf and Brown, two of the moat active medical men, had fallen victims to their exertions to arrest the epidemic. Medical reports had been sent in which disclosed that a large part of the poor in the I town were living in very filthy and generally un sanitary homes. The municipal authorities were endeavouring to remedy this. It is believed that the fever was introduced into the colony from the Mauritius. It was rumoured that the governor, Sir P. E. Wodehouse, had bean confirmed in his present appointment for a few years more, instead of re turning to England by this mail, as was expected. The rumour that had prevailed, that there was danger from large parties of armed Kaffirs patrol ling Uitenhage, had been proved groundless by Sir Walter Currie, who had visited the district with an armed force. The Orange Free State and Basuto war still existed, but there had been no further advances on either side. Both parties seemed satisfied to keep beyond gunshot of each other. Trade in the colony was brisker, and the pro spects of harvest most favourable. The cereal crops were abundant, the vineyards freer from oichum than for years past, and the wool clip was satisfactory. The silk culture was progressing most favourably. At the annual meeting of the Church Defence Association, in connection with the Dutch Reformed church, resolutions were passed, condemning the adjournment policy of the synod • alleging that the Privy Council had made a mist ake, and advo cating the right of private judgment, and free, fearless, and unfettered inquiry. At Natal, the leading topic was the confirmation of the discovery of large beds of good coal in that colony, and the government was being urged to assist in utilising the discovery. The Colenso dispute was continued, and rival congregations were being established by church members who had left the two clergymen who had recognised Dr. Colenso as bishop. The actions for the ejection of Dean Green and the Rev. J. Walthom from the ecclesiastical buildings they use as belonging to the church of England had come off, but judgment was not expected to be given before the end of November. The Rev. Mr. Crompton has forwarded to the Colonial Secretary a voluminous despatch referring to his ca-icelled commission as justice of the peace for his inter ' ference in the Colenso dispute. THE BISHOPRIC OF GIERALTAR.—There was good deal more than mere speculation in the rumour which we published • fortnight since that the Rev. T. G. Hatchard, M.A. rector of St. Nicholas, Guildford, and rural dean, waslikely to be appointed to the see of Gibral tar. We intimated, however, that the office would be in many respects no gain to the rev. gentleman ; whilst his removal from Guildford, where he and his family are the centre of • large social and Christian circle, would have been • sharp wrench on many accounts. We are now in a position to announce that Mr. Hatchard is likely to labour amongst us for some time longer at all events, the Hon. and Vem Archdeacon Harris having succeeded to the bishopric. The Hon. and Ven. Charles Aniyand Harris, son of the second, and brother of the present Earl of Malmesbury, was born in 1813, and educated at Eton and Oriel College, Oxford. He was B.A. in 1835, M.A. in 1837, and was Fellow of All Souls. In 1837 he married the Hon. Katherine Lucia O'Brien, sister of the thirteenth Baron Incbiquin, since dead. He has been Vicar of Brom hill and Archdeacon of Wiltshire since 1863. treat Surrey • THIS EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE BUBIILINA„ The divers who have for several days been at work at the Ilubulina, the Greek mar•steamer which recently ex ploded in the Mersey, are of opinion that they will be able to float the forepart of the ship to-day. CRYSTAL PALACI. HALF-A-CROWN DAY.— SATURDAY, Dec. 21.—Admissions on payment, 563 ; ditto by mason tickets, 3,989 ; total visitors, 4,532. Rear your infante with Du BARRY'S RIIVALINTA CuoCOLATIS Pownzi, in tins of 1! cups, ; tt caps, Ss. ed. ; cups, 6s. ; 268 cups, 305. 676 cups, 655., or one penny per cup. It is more delicious, digestible, and nowialung than the best concentrated beet. Also adapted to strengthen invalids and dedicate children.—Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-quadrant w n London, and all grooms and cheinista.—(AdvertlsmossAl No. 1. Frenchmen,—The reign of Bonaparte was founded in crime ; it Is now finishing In crime after having for six teen years dragged France through the slough of shame. The unpunished usurper of your rights, Bonaparte the man of crime, now again seeks to make you the oppressor of other peoples. Frenchmen, shall we suffer this I Yesterday the opprobrium of Mexico; to-day that of Rome i—tliat imbecile policy which allows itself to be duped by a Bismarck, and transforms our glorious soldiers into Papal sbirri. Is not the cup of Agate full! Shall we give up to this inept adventurer and his band our con sciences, our honour, and our existence ? France is going to ruin ; her industry is affected ; the tutorial are shutting up ; mote and more men are daily thrown out of work ; misery is at our doors ; the choice is before us—either dis honotir assidirolution under the yoke of this man, or the resumption of our destinies into our own hands. Citizens, let us rise. No. 2. France has not belonged to herself for the last fifteen years. She has lost all her liberties. Her wealth has been squandered ; the savings of half • century are gone. France, which was the hope of peoples, has now become their terror. Her government is the laughingstock of the governments of all nations. The honour of France is in peril; the glory of her army has been twice compromised. The empire is falling to pieces. Shall we allow ourselves to be buried in the ruins? Arise citizens ! The impure h►nds which hold our destinies will not shrink from fomenting the worst passions in order to crush theee citizens who would restore to France her security, dignity, and liberty. Let us rely confidently on one another, and march reso lutely in the great national path of honour and liberty ; the salvation of France is at stake. No. 3. People of Paris,—lt is now sixteen yeah since the re public was murdered in the night. A man stole the liber ties of all ; he seized France to share her with his personal companions. Ever since, his crime against the people has been clothed in the robes of justice ; his caprice is toe sole law ; his hesitation., his reticence., his meannesses, his follies, are peace or war. Well, people, what have we gained by this loss of ourselves? We were promised riches in exchange for liberty ! Workmen who want bread, say whether the empire has enriched you ? How many fortunes have been engulphed in patronised specu lations? We were promised glory in exchange for dignity. Soldiers, was it to slaughter Chinese and Cochin-Chinese, to enslave the Mexican repub lic, to become soldiers of the Pope, and to shoot down Gari baldi, th►t you donned your uniform ? We were promised pre-eminence among nations, and we are now their laugh ing stock. We have come back from Mexico, driven out by a simple menace of the United States. A Gortehrikoff snubs us, a Bismarck mocks at us. This is what the Em pire has cost us. Is it not time to get out of the mire ? He showed by the evidence of secret police agents that during the months of September and October the prisoners, with the exception of Accolas, had frequently met together either at each other's lodg ings or in cafiis. He dwelt upon the leading part which Accolas had taken in getting up the Geneva congress, which he said was merely an excuse for bringing together people who wanted to proclaim a universal republic, and to do away with all exist ing monarchies and all existing religions. Accolas, he observed, sat in a place of honour in the con gress, on the left hand of the president, Barni, while Garibaldi was on his right. Naquet, one of the ringleaders among the prisoners, was also on the platform. Accolas, he said, was the soul of the congress, and also of the conspiracy formed in Paris to put in practice the doctrines broached at the congress. On Juno 29 Accolas wrote to Victor Hugo, to ask him to come to the congress, in these words :—" The man of December is tottering ; he will soon be ripe for his fall ; we have written to Ledru Rollin, SchLekher, and Barbbs." After the congress, Aocolas, who had little reason to be satis fied with the result of it, was not disposed to come back to Paris. But his friend wrote to him that the time was at hand, " and that he who was a leader of the movement must be at the centre of operations." One friend wrote to him—" The go vernment is weary, beaten, disgusted, and uneasy. It lets people now talk and write as they like. See what the Liiperti is doing." Yielding to the arguments of these letters, Accolas came to ' Paris, and forthwith put himself at the head of the conspiracy. He was a learned man, a doctor of laws, and be did no doubt entertain his friends with many projects for radical reforms in legislation. There was no harm in this, but ho did more. He preached the practical realisation of his theories. At the same time there was no evidence that Accolas belonged to the secret society of which the other prisoners were charged with being members. The specific charge against 1 Aooolas was that he "practised manoeuvres" for (STAMPED, ADDITIOLIALO bringing the government into hatred and contempt by distributing the three inseudiary procla mations with a guilty knowleige. One of the prisoners, Chouleau a professor of chemistry receiving a salary from the state, had at one of the secret meetings given lessons on the manufacture of gun cotton, and during one of his experiments an explosion oc curred which alarmed the neighbourhood, and pro duoed an assemblage of eislity.parsons before the house. M. Lepelletier concluded by calling for the conviction of all the prisoners. M. Jules Fevre, counsel for Awoke, said his client was a man whose time was wholly absorbed in scientific studies. The story of the congress of Geneva which was pressed. against him had nothing to do with the present charge. Accolas made a handsome income by his pupils, and had never the Jesd idea of staying away from Paris longer than the end of the vacation. The sole feet on which the prosecution relied was that on the 11th No , vember somebody sent the • three proclamations to , his house, and that on the 11th or 12thHayot took some of them away. Accolas denied that he , authorised Hayot to take them, or that he attached , any importance to them. No doubt when the go , vernment violated the secrecy of letters it was very likely to find things not pleasant to itself. But Accolaa was not to be condemned on this charge , from presumptions as to his opinions drawn from letters. The trial will be resumed to-morrow. 15101211EZ OP CANTIRBIIRY.--01DINALTION NY Ajiminno p PARISH CRUNCH 01 ADDINGTON, SORBET, YESTREDAT.--.Y.N104 Peek , R.L , Trinity C 01 1464 Cambridge ; James Vaii: Ik - ilkiitenn• Dr . A- t Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Matthew Her Wilson, M.A., Brasenose College, Oxford ; William Charles Lockwood Wingate, 8.A., St. Peter's College, Cambridge. The following licenses on the Ordination.— The Rev. E. Peek, to the curs of St. James, Tonbridge Walls • the Rev. J. W. Wilkinson, St. James, Dover ; the Rev. M. H. Wilson, Rusthail ; the Rev. W. C. L. Wingate, Newcharch, all in the county of Kent. MALVERN COLLEGE.—The examination and dis tributive of prime took place on Friday lug, when the awards were made as follows :—Classical blll.—J. Haworth, H. S. Barnes, C. Charlatan, he. Mathematics fith.—G. White, A. C. Greatra. Upper 4th.—S. Curtis, he. Gully prises for Modem Languages.—French.—l. H. Walker ; 2. C. Scholfield ; 3. J. Jackson. German.—J. Smith. Music.—G. H. Thornton, A. Robinson. Singing. —W. Stock. Drawing.-1. J. Haworth i 2. J. Hatchett ;3. A. Robin son. A concert was given in the evening by the glee club, oonsisting of pupils, assisted by the Masters' Cral Society, the first of its kind since the school began. 137 boys were present. LIVERPOOL GYMNASIUM.—Upwards of 1,000 ladies, together with about 90 of the leading medial men of Liverpool, assembled at the gymnasium on Saturday evening last for t h e purpose of witnesung • series of exer cises gone through by • large number of the members of the ladies' classes, and illustrative of the class practice. Dr. Grimedale presided, and at the termination of the exercises delivered an address on the importance of physical education for women. Addresses were also de livered by Dr. Nevins, Dr. Hakes, and Dr. Denton, Sic. At the close of the prooeedinp • vote of thanks was pro and passed unanimously to Mr. Halley, the able pro posed of the institution. ----- ----- FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.—A distressing accident occurred at Penn Fields, neer Wolverhampton, on Satur day afternoon. Two mina of the curate of St. Phillip's Church there—the Rev. W. Gay—were in a meadow near their father's grounds, one of them, 13 or 14 years of age, named Herbert, having with him a small fowling-piece, with which he and an elder brother, accompanied by the third, who is aged about 10, and named Henry, were bring at small birds. The piece was loaded with a full charge of small shot, and the cap was upon the nipple, when they desired, es go throegh a hedge. Haeism been;latight to be careful under such circumstances, Herbert, before com mencing to cross the hedge, lifted the hammer to take off the cap. Whilst he was in the act of drawing the hammer' back it slipped and fell upon the cap with sufficient force to explode it and fire the gun. At this moment the youngest boy, Henry, happened to be in front of the piece, and the whole of the charge entered his body at the right groin. The blood flowed copiously from the wound, and the poor little fellow was dead before he could be got into the house. BABY FARMING IN BERKSHIRE.—On Friday evening a lengthened inquiry took place at the Manaion hence, Newbury, before Mr. Joseph Bunny, coroner for that town, and the facts elicited showed that the system of baby farming, now exciting much public attention, is adopted not only in the metropolis and other large centres of population, but also in the rural districts of this country. The inquest was held on the body of :an illegitimate male child, aged seven months, who died suddenly a few days ago, at the house of a Mrs. Hamblin, living in Newbury, where illegitimate children have been received for sonic years past. Owing to the nature of the case the coroner determined upon instituting a searching inquiry, and accordingly every person who could give information as to the treatment the child had received was summoned to give evidence. Sarah Ann Fryers, • fashionably attired young woman, who formerly lived in Newbury, but now resides with her friends in Gloucestershire, admitted that she gave birth to the child, and on recovering from her confinement left it in the charge of • Mrs. Box, at Speen, near Newbury. This woman, who has now three nurse children under her care, kept the child until November, when Miss Fryers gave authority for the removal of the child to the house of Mrs. Hunibliu, where it died. It transpired that during the past year this woman had received four illegitimate children to nurse, and three of them bad died; the parish doctor attended one of the infants, and all the children were buried in the Newbury Cemetery. The coroner said it appeared to him to be a very improper state of things that the ratepayers of the borough should be called upon to bear the cost of medical attendance upon illegitimate children whose mothers lived in other parts of the country. Miss Fryers took her departure from Newbury about • month ago, and since that time hail not seen the child, or heard from Mrs. Hamblin respecting it. The coroner said one would suppose that a mother would be anxious about her offspring, whether illegitimate or legitimate. Dr. Ligertwood made • post-mortem examination, and Mrs. Hamblin's daughter gave evidence that she fed the de ceased five times during the day and night, using arrow root or oatmeal for its food. The coroner observed that the system of receiving illegitimate children in this way was • most vicious one, and the mortality among the in. tants at Mrs. Hamblin 's had been very great. The jury returned a verdict that the death of the child was occa sioned by convulaions through teething, and they also ex pressed their opinion that the food given to the child was improper. MORE BABY FARMING. —At the Staffordahire Assizes on Friday, before Mr. Justice Keating, Ann Craddock, a woman of respectable appearance, apparently over 50 years of age, and described as of no occupation, was indicted for having, in conjunction with her daugh ter, obtained certain goods by false pretences from the guardians of Burton-on-Trent. The prisoner was charged under the 24th and '2sth Victoria, chap. Ifli, sec. 80. The prisoner was the wife of the sexton of Westharn, in Essex, and her daughter lived with her at Ilford-road. The daugh ter, being pregnant, consulted with Dr. Foster, surgeon. accoucheur, Bromley-by-Bow. The result was that the daughter, who pissed by the name of Mrs. Clarke, went to the house of Dr. Foster, where she was delivered of • female child on the 15th of April. A nurse wrs provided—a Mrs. Spencer, of Upper Charles-street. Bromley—who took the child away, there being an arrangement that she should be paid is. Gd. a week at first, and ss. afterwards. The prisonor took some clothes to the house of the nurse. On the 15th August Mrs. Spencer saw Mrs. Clarke at Dr. Foster's. In consequence of what was said Mrs. Spencer took the child to 'King's-eross station, where she saw Mrs. Clarke, to whom she handed the baby, which was taken by Mrs. Clarke into the train that left at 4 o'clock. The train by which Mrs. Clarke arrived would reach Burton-upon-Trent about half-past 9, awl within a quarter of an hour of its arrival at Burton the prisoner was found in the streets of Burton with the baby, stating that she had found it against spamp post. She was .lirected to the union workhouse ; but being too late, she went the following morning, repeated her statement, and left the child, which hail since been supported by the Burton Union until its death on the 14th of the present month, when it was buried at the expense of the guardian.. This constituted the fraud complained of. The learned judge, at ti a conclusion of an able address by Mr. Brindley on behalf of the prisoner, held that there bad been no fraudu lent obtaining within the meaning of the section of the act under which the prosecution was instituted, and the prisoner was discharged. FIRE AT THE MIDLAND RAILWAY STATION, DERBY. —At an early hour on Saturday morning last • destruc tive fi re broke out ix the midst of the workshops at the Midland Railway Station, and which, before it was subdued, destroyed property to the amount of several thousand po_unds. GRILSE NORTHERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-ROAD, N. Number of patients for the week ending Dec. 21, 1 1,003, of which 324 were new teases. [TWOPENCE CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERTS. The last concert of the year, and of the present mason, took plate on Saturday afternoon; the occasion having been rendered special by a fine performance of Beethoven's choral symphony. The programme of the ommort was as follows : Overture, " Le Siege de Corinth" Cavattoa, "0, come rapids" ;" II Croddon Meyerbeer. . Song , with Omen; benunth" Ocunod. Air, "0, Red in th e Lord " (" Elijah") Mendelasohn. Air, •'I ( with eli your Heats" ("Mali") Mendel's:dm " New sly 'taw" Meidehaotut. re n t,ltoral Symphony Beethoven. This selection, it will be seen, offered the greatest pos sible diversity of style ; the exuberent vi testy of Romani's brilliant overture, and Meyerbeer's volatile imi tation of the same composer's florid vocal music, being followed by the seminerious song of Gonnod, and the really sublime sacred pieces of Mendelsohn ; gradually leading up to the grandest of possible climaxes, the highest development of symphonic art, Beethoven's ninth and last work of that elms. These interesting concerts are to be resumed on Januar, 18, and the next series will comprise some festers ci high laud special interest. PRINCE OF WALES'S. • • Without waiting for the noisy verdict of Boxing night, aad without violating the sanctity of Christine eve, Mr. Boucicault produced a new fire-aet comedy at this house on Saturday night, entitled How SAc Lore. Him, which warn first played a few years ago by the author and his wife at Liverpool in a form somewhat different from the tee in which it is now given to the London public. Like ArraA-Na-Pogue (first produced in Dublin), it has been carefully re-edited ; bat, unlike ArraA-na-Posrtic tt k is sot yet one of the brilliant swam* of lie tiftg, 1444. 1 Wall, and Prolific !Unbar. But when out down I. three este, Z.treiieti of firs• out of the four doctor's, de prived of the electrical machine and much of the sick chamber business, and with the relations softened between the old invalid and the Irish servant, How Slic Lora hat may yet piste very attractive. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. The directors of the Polytechnic Institution have as usual made great preparations for the entertain. ment and instruction of their youthful friends and patrons who are home for the Christmas holidays. Among the novelties which are about to be produced the most impor tant is a scientific entertainment and lecture by Professor Pepper, entitled " Faraday's Discoveries and their Re salts; being Real Science as contrasted with Unreal Science, called Spiritual Manifestations." In this lecture Professor Pepper explains and illustrates the moat inter esting and important of the discoveries of Faraday in the sciences of chemistry and electricity, and at he ekes exhibits some of the most striking of the phenomena which are usually included in the category of " spiritual manifestations." An ordinary sized young gentleman of full weight is sus pended in the air without any mechanical support, and while in that petition attracts towards him from the ground a tolerably solid table. Professor Pepper assures his auditors that these effects are not produced by any spiritual agency, but !seen it to their own ingenuity to dim:over by what instrumentality it is that they are brought about. This lecture was delivered for the first time at a conversazione which was held on Saturday even ing, and was warmly applauded by a crowded audience, which included many eminent men of science. Before the eouversazione an elegant banquet was served in the small picture gallery. The chair was occupied by the Rev. J. B. Owen, the president of the instituticm, and among the guests were the Maharajah DhuleepSingh, K.S.I, the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Strangford, Lord R. Bruce, Mr, A. Kinnard, M.P., Captain the Hon. F. Maude, the Rev. Prebendary Mackenzie, Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., Mr. S. Morley, Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S., Professor Abel, Professor Graham, Mr. James Glaisher, Dr. Letbeby, Professor J. H. Pepper, ke. During the evening the Polytechnic Institution was placed in telegraphic commu nication with America, Newfoundland, France, Belgium, and other countries, and frequent:ltemises were exchanged between Regent-street and telegraphic stations abroad. Before dinner was served a message of compliment was addressed by the directors to the President of the United States, and before the cloth was withdrawn as answer was received from Mr. Johnson, thanking them for their good wishes, and expressing his concurrence in their expressed opinion that telegraphic communication was calculated to ensure peace, to promote the union of nations, and to advance the interests of civi lisation. While Mr. Pepper was lecturing a message was seat to Hearts Content informing the telegraphic super intendent there that the conversazione was going on, and inquiring as to the weather in Newfoundland. The reply was received in about twenty minutes, and was as follows: "Temperature 19 degrees Fahrenheit; wind, N.E. ; snow drifts in some places are 20 feet deep." In addition to the lecture of Professor Pepper, all the ordinary attract tions of the institution were displayed on Saturday even ing for the amusement of the visitors, and several new entertainments were opened, with a success which pro mises well for the winter campaign of this popular institution. ME. GRANT-Dope, M.P., ON OLE FOREIGN RELATIONS.—Mr. Grant-Duff, M.P., delivered an address at Peterhead, on Thursday, under the title of " A t;lance over Europe." After referring to the condition of the various continental nations, the hon. member proceeded to speak of English foreign policy. He remarked that though Lord Stanley had not long been at the head of the Poreign-utfioe, he could hardly fail to succeed reasonably well in anything, however new to him, to which he seriously devoted his clear, powerful, and patient intel lect. He Las succeeded reasonably well ander very diffi cult circumstances. At the peace of 1814 England was much further in advance of several European nations than she is now. We have advanced in many ways 'does then, end advanced rapidly ; but Germany, for example, has advanced madi more rapidly, and position, sooner or later, follows real power. Then, again, we have lost much M ilne:me by the absurd line which we have taken on many foreign questions. We lost something by th.• Austrian nnquithes of a large section of London society in 11i60. We lost much more by the frantic way in which so many influential people took part with the South in CAD American quarrel. We made flatten still worse by the silly anti-Gertaan ebullitions of 18';1; and it is well known that it was more " good luck than good guiding" that patented some of our public men commit ting themselves to the Austrian side in Lest year's con flict. In order that this country should take the place which she ought to have in the councils of Eorope, she wants three things—increased strength, iuere::tm•t insight, and an impend system of communication with foreign nations. increased strength we can only obtain in 000 way—by carrying out reform in every direction ; by using the recent electoral change to help us to writ out other and greater changes. Our people must open their minds to the idea that in many respects they are laggiag behind others, and, above all, that the most sweepiug reforms in our higher and secondary education are urgently required. The subject of official intercourse with other u Atone is too long to enter upon at the end of a speech ; but few will maintain that the preseet arrangements of our Foreign office, our consular a:nice, and our diplomatic sere ice, ere thoroughly satisfactory. Happily the increasing diffusion of wise principles of government on the coutment, and the settlement or many long outstanding quarrels, make it u-ore and more improbable that any foreign question will arise which will so affect the passions of our imuntrynien as to lead them to wish to engage in any war which is not waged either in fulfilment of some imperative treaty or in defence of the undoubted moral or legal tight. of this country. We cannot, however, foresee the future, and depend upon it the non-intervention that 011111.11 of full knowledge is better than the non-intervention that comes of ignorance ; nor must we forget that n u-intervention is, after all, only the first half of a lesson which we have to learn, and that the greatest preacher of .on•iatsrvess tion whom England has seen will be longest and beet to. membered as her first " international man." STEAMSHIP COLLISION Orr THE MEILSPN.—EarIy on Saturday a collision of a very serious nature occurred off the entrance to the Mersey. The screw-steamer Swansea, bound from the Mersey to Swansea, while out ward hound, mime into collision with the Relfut steam. ship Magtxtio. The latter vessel cut the former down to the water's edge, and the Swansea went down in a few minutes after. There were no lives lost, and the Magnetic went into dock with only her bow-ports damaged. UNITED STATES 5-20 and 10-40 BONDS at proem{ prices pay over 8 per cent. 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