The Express. — London, England, 1868-12-11 00:00:00

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Sherrington and Mr. F. WHathe.—THE SCARLET MARE. Wm b. Lane. — And THE BALIINesLtiE BOY. Min M. Booth. EWE WATER AT LONDON BRIDOL To-LAT --Morning, 111. foni AftWneaa. Oh. OM To-Nomow,—Koeulng, 01 2Ssa .Altiemoos. aY.6Os. NOTICE. Idoincn ot Them, rt ion and Deem. _ teethed until 11 o'clock tor inaertion mine evening• Price b. dd. SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS 01 11121 EXPRESS, CO NTALNLVO The Latest Telegram. ; the Latest City; Railway, Mining, and other Shares; Sporting, and Gene ral Intelligence, AU PSHIMMED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 11. THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. Psort.s have been so long accustomed to speak and think of Mr. Lows by his own proper name, that the speech delivered last night by " the Chancellor of the Exchequer" would not recall its author at first sight. All doubt, however, must have been at an end when the first w lines had been perused. It is the pre sent good fortune of the Liberal party to lave the wittiest and most humorous Chancellor of the Exchequer the world has seen ; and the worshipful Fishmongers are to be congratulated on having secured the first official utterances both of the Finance Minister and the Keeper of the Great Seal. Mr. LowE was never in better force than last night. His mock panegyric on the Government as having so far perpetrated no jobs, shown no furious party spirit, and imposed no unpopular taxes, was perfect, as was his fancy picture of all the good things certain to follow upon the administration of himself and his col leagues. There is something very characteristic in the almost boyish love of fun which Mr. Lows unites with mental faculties of the highest and most brilliant order. He thoroughly enjoys his own wit, and, indeed, frequently leads the laughter it inspires. The fact of a Chancellor of the Exchequer promising in public " all you can • possibly wish" • " an enormous surplus, a " striking reduction in taxation, a financial niillen •• nium, which will go on increasing from year to • year, until, weary of the task doing good, I • refile amid the ble,sings of you all "—is in itself an excellent joke. But when it is Mr. LowE who is thus crying, " Bless ye, ny people," like a stage monarch, the jest is intensified; and though the two most brilliant statesmen of the day have had frequently to return thanks us Chancellor of the Exchequer, we ques tion if either of them reached the present holder of the post in the breadth and heartiness of his last night's fun. It is a good augury for a Govern ment when its strong men are as happy in play as at work, and the Fishmongers' banquet proves that this is pre-eminently the case with Mr. - - "MINISTRIES" AND "GOVBRNMENTS.' A FRENCH journal, La Franey, which manages to combine devotion to Imperialism with decency and even a curtain liberty of language, and is usually described as the organ of the semi liberal Senators, bestows some comments upon the change of Ministry in England, which in themselves are just and sensible enough, but on the part of a confidant and ad mirer of Imperialism strike us as singularly in cautious and imprudent. The ease and quietness with which a redistribution of power takes place in tLiii country on the resignation of one Ministry and the accession of another, excites the admira tion of our senatorial contemporary. " Look at the " opposition in England," it exclaims ; they " turn out a Ministry but they do not overthrow " the Government." The fallacy employed in the equivocal use of the word "Government" by the France is transparent. In a constitutional and parliamentary country the " Government " which changes hands is simply a responsible Cabinet ; the Crown " can do no wrong" be cause it bolds en equal balance between con tending political parties and consecrates the choice of the majority. Ent under a personal government, whose individual responsibility is only noiniskal, and as only be seasbed by • swelvhisa t .11Ni whims Maim ere wither jointly nor severally responsible to a trite ture consisting almost wholly of noes the Government, and " freely elected " in a few large towns where ootnpulsi impracticable, how can the opposition &OW, Ministry without changing the " Goeterniasiel" also, the Government being the solitary will of a single man P It is not the French opposition that creates this dilemma ; it is the author and founder of the constitution of the Empire. We should recommend the France to be a little more circum spect in the choice of its examples. Its attempt to make political capital for its patrons out of English institutions is as if, not T.terrus, but some ebecure flatterer of the CASSAM, had proposed to illustrate the superiority of Imperialism by an essay on the manners and customs of the Germans. THE BAB OF FRANCE AND OF ENGLAND. Tite presence of a deputation front the English Bar at the funeral of M. BRISYIR had a more than merely professional significance. The generous and graceful invitation to our Inns of Court to be represented on so solemn and affecting an occasion was intended as something more than an acknowledg ment of the honours paid to the greatest of French advocates during his last visit to England. It was an act of sympathy with the brethren of a great Order, which in all countries embodies the sacred principle,' of law and justice as opposed to force and arbitrary power. It was the fraternal salu tation of Liberal France to free England. The lead ers of the French bar stood by the tomb of BEE RYER. But the French magistracy, with a solitary exception, was conspicuously absent. Only one French judge had.the courage to pay his last re spects and to bid the last farewell to the noble champion of every suffering and friendless cause, and the implacable adversary of enemata wrong. In one of his last great speeches in the Legislative Body, . BZRAYIR had denounced the corruption of the Imperial tribunals ; that worst sort of corruption, which is not counted in coin, but which renders services instead of judgments. The French bar has wel comed in its English brethren representatives at once of an independent order of advocates, and of an incorruptible magistracy. It is well for the two nations that the great traditions of right and liberty should constitute a common heritage, and the common ground of a moral alliance more in dissoluble than that of Crowns or Cabinets. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1868. CHRISTIAN CO3IPASSION. A (LERICAL gentleman has been publicly ()Un saying the QUEEN because she has got into the company of Mr. GLAD:4TONE and Mr. BRIOUT t and be considers her in danger. And "I have such an " affection for them." be added, " that I ant quite '• ready to say, Goo save Joas MUCUS and " • WILLI AM EAVATIT GLADSTONE,' " to which the reporter appends the word "cheers." Such an t x.tinple of brotherly love from a Christian teacher should not soon perish from the memory of men ; only it just a little reminds one of an Old Bailey report :—" The learned judge, seemingly much •• affected, put on the black cap and addressed the " prisoner. . . . The sentence of the law is " that . . . And may GOD have mercy on your guilty soul :" OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAT.) .SIR I/10111. The Laity Nnee sketches oat for Kr. Cardwell a series of reforms which might be made in the constitution and administration of the army. There is, first, the proposal to abolish the purchase system, but the right bon. gently man will, no doubt, perceive that that is an end to be reached by many and careful steps, and that, although several modifications might be advantageously introduced into the present system at once, the country would not comment to undertake the enormous expense which would be entailed by ita immediate and total aboli tion. The Ditty News, however, recommends Mr. Card well to remove the militia and volunteers from the control of the lords-lieutenant of counties, and place them directly under the same military authorities as the regular army. Steps might be taken to make the whole three act in har mony together. At the present moment the army of Great Britain, exclusive of troops in India, musters over 137,000 men, yet it is well-known that in cue of a European war we could not pleas a corps of 40,000 men in the field on the Continent. This failing is due to want of system and organisation. Mr. Cardwell's position will give him the power to relieve the country of its burdens, and at the same time render the army some thing more than a machine for spending 14,000,000/. a year. If be exert that power he will not only earn the gratitude of the present generation, but also that of pos terity. TEE TOICO-ORECIAN 4II•11n.. The notes remarks that the conduct of the Het government during the Cretan insurrection is the immediate cause of the present action of the Porte, and that the actual state of things in the east has worked dis astrously by encouraging intrigue and conspiracy. Never theless, of the Forte assumes an aggremive attitude against its adversary, the Creeks may rush to the protect ing powers with a loud cry that the sacred independence which was guaranteed to their fathers by dvilized Europe is threatened by Numb= ambition. It is for the powers, and particularly for England and Prance, to con sider whether the acceptance of a protectorate does not impose the corresponding obligation of controlling the protected. Undoubtedly, it is • thing not to be thought of that Greece should be overrun by Turkish troops, but, on the other hand, we are bound to demand, and our position gives us the right to demand, that the machina tions of the last two years shall come to an end. *Norm POInn3LB " Lrrna was" Is CHIHA. Referring to the announcement that her Majesty's Con sul in China was about to proceed to Nankin with three slips of war to demand atonement for certain outrages committed oa the Mime= station at Yangekow, the Ibst observes that the necessity for thus resorting to a dis play of overawing power indicates at once the unsatis factory nature of our political relations wit► Chins, and the fact that the Mesons of past years have been equally thrown away upon onmeivesaad upon the Chinese. The British government may have been too eillignat in making the treaty of Tientsin, but it would be worse than folly in dealing with such a people to abate our pretensions now. At the seine time it should have been our policy, and should be now, to avoid creating situations of possible difieulty or danger, and to restrain missionary noel within the bounds of discretion. 1113111DIXT JOUNSOVO MOUS& The Herald says that Yr. Johnson's Mamie, which the Renate, wishing to insult him, would not allow to be read to them, will still addreee itself to the heart and the conscience of ovary citizen of the United Stales who loves his country—will still commend itself to the earnest at tention of those in Europe who take an Won* la the present and future welfare of this great people. The Star thinks that U President Johnsen had wisely abstained from interference with the Amu* Ohio et the American people, he would hare semi frifillfeeP , Intim and gratitude, instead of an opposhigis 11114 , which he cannot escape. Jllifil•OX DAVIS. According to the 21,17gTvph, the — —" Aat;ekee governsawd keg age reported at having awed s reward kw the capture of lb. Ideate Davis, bet It las ad bitiewee ventured to tat public opinion b 7 cedieleg bit Reim& 2, To iniken severs pundebnceat apso..bila dew bigglik gbh, ; end Osamu Gerd Fetal podemsetwelesto Yt cosalrposa by bast; is. maps of Wed • * • • 3 • Ti; ts Nsw Knrurrwr. se it thetas ‘ 2113 - 0 A 'lfni: .1( • e • sue, '...*•'11.010 Tbei4rl Monodies . .. Lord W. desetWood lord President of the • • rc Council Earl do Grey sad Lord Privy Seal Berl of Kimberley. Chancellor of the Kr chequer Mr. Lowe. Secretary for tho Home Department Mr. Bruce. Secretary for Foreign Affairs Secretary for the Co lonies Secretary for War Secretary for India . The Duke of Argyll. Chief Secretary for Ire land First Lord of tho Ad miralty President of the Board of Trade Postmaster-General Poor-law Board . Lord Steward Lord Chamberlain . . Viscount Sydney. Master of the Horse . The Marquis of Ades- bury. Mistress of the &Axe . Duchess of Argyll. Master of tho Buck- _ _ hounds Commissioner of Works and Buildings Joint Secretaries of the j Mr. George Glyn. Treasury Mr. Ayrten. Third Lord of the Trea sury Lord of the Treasury . Under Secretaries— Home Department . lidr.lrnatchbull-Huges- sell. India Foreign Affairs Mr. Otway. Attorney-General Sir Eobt. Collier. Solicitor-General Mr. Coleridge. Lord Advocate for Scot land Mr. Moncreiff. IRELAND. Lord-Lieutenant Lord-Cbancellor Attorney-General Mr. Lawson. Solicitor-General Mr. Serjeant Barry. TUE RE-ELECTIONS. The following is a complete list of offices the acts ptance of which will involve the issue of new writs :—First Lord of the Treasury, Secretary of State for War, Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Lord of the Admiralty, President of the Bo ard of Trude, President of the Poor-law Board, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Attorney and Solicitor- General for England, Attorney and Solicitor-Ge neral for Ireland, Solicitor-General for Scotland, Vice-President of the Council for Education, the English, Scotch, and Irish Lords of the Treasury, the Chief Commissioner of Works, the Treasurer, the Controller. and the Vice-Chamberlain of the Bo) al Household, the Lords of the Admiralty, the Judge-Advocate-General, and the Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The whole of those offices have not yet been appropriated, but, as a consequence of those which have been filled, the following constitu encies will be called upon to ratify the appoint ments :—Greenwich, which returned Mr. Glad stone; Oxford City, Mr. Cardwell; London University, Mr. Lowe ; Pontefract, Mr. Childers ; Birmingham, Mr. Bright ; City of Lon don, Mr. Goschen ; Louth County, Mr. Chiches ter Fortescue; Plymouth, Sir Robert Collier ; Exeter, Mr. Coleridge ; Bradford, Mr. W. E. Forster; Halifax, Mr. Stansfeld ; Southwark, Mr. Layard. Had the Home Secretary and the Postmaster-General possessed seats in the House of Commons, they must have vacated them on being appointed to office; but seats for Mr. Bruce and Lord Hartington have yet to be found. Under ordinary circumstances, the Lord Advocate of Scotland would also have been obliged to seek re election on his appointment; but in the present case there is no necessity for doing so, inasmuch as Mr. Moncreiff was nominated to his post before ho bad been declared elected for the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen. None of the parliamentary under-secretaries have to be re-elected. The secretaries to the various departments—Treasury, Admiralty, Board of Trade, and Poor-law Board—enjoy a similar immunity. girt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Duo. 10. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at tended by the Counties of Gamsborough, and her Majesty went out this morning. TIM Crown Prince and Princess of Pnusia walked in the grounds of the Castle. ,Princes Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Lord Alfred Paget, went to London. Prises Leopold drove out, attended by Mr. Babl. The Crown Prince of Prussia arrived at the Nitta last evening from Witley Court, attended by Captain Von &Malaita. The French Ambemador had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. General the Hon. C. and Mts. Grey had the honour of being invited. MOVEMENTS OF ROYALTY.--(TRIS.D.AT.) WINDSOR, FRIDAY. The Crown Princess of Prussia left Windsor about 10 o'clock this morning, attended by Lord Paget and Generals Grey and Seymour to inspect the Albert Memorial in Hydrpark. Her ro yal highness is expected to be present at the concert of the Sacred Harmonic Society, in Exeter Hall, this evening. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe have arrived at the Clarinda' Hotel. The Duchess (Dowager) of Richmond has re turned to town from her miaow@ now Chridolnualt, Hants. Le Duo de Medinaceli and suite arrived at the Glareader Kota en Monday last. The Earl and Countess Granville received the Earl and Countess Brom, the Bight Hoe. H. A. Brno*, the Bight Hon. W. E. and Hrs. Gladstone, Has. F. Lessees-Gower, and a select pests', last nisi* at their residence in Bruton-street. The Earl and Countess of Hinnonll have arrived in Wilton-creseent from Dupplin Castle, N.B. Lord and Lady Headley and family have arrived in Prinee's-gardons from their seat, Aghadoe Howe, Bil ks/ley. Lord Moho, SLP., returned to town on Wednee day from visiting the Earl and Countess of Dudley at Witley Court, Woreednehire. The Hon. Henry Cowper, 31. P.. comes to town today, /* order to take hie nit is the Howie of Coin- MOM The lAsat..l:kamasor of Class liar-Fiel.d now . , Rogi b ia, yesterday ~. • . ~,. , wan a t fulaulon• 0 .... . beer :R . • add , . jai was the adapt Dior " Iterd .. asisapaataa 14watmatia. • • at Aim *xi imaihs sae is Om • • irking by go 'ad ileld-Wassial lig Wald - Thania itildor a celebrated disesst faddy, mai al as womb a ar wft_ 410 sz i l ilm a li d o la =ow Cib i l tim Gimp Olarimagto ROM LIMN dirilift reeds die 4 Maids; 11. k, ILP., W.H. Smith. M.P.,. General Lynam Mr. W. B. Twee, the Bev. Dr. Mee, and melees side flignitedes. In the absence of Kr. George Moore, the prime warden the chair was taken by Mr. Intrirson, wardem The Hon. Beverdy Johnson bad promised to be pined. and was sapeeted up to the led moment, bat did net arrive. General Bt. Patrick Lawmarn replied for the army, Admiral Stafford for the navy, and Major Wialtwell, WP., foe the volunteers. The toast of "The United Bides of America" was given by the Onernman who regretted the Oman of his Excellency the American Minister. The Czainsen nest proposed "Her Majesty's Minis- ten," the toad being received with peoloaged theories. He said—The voice of the people as jest expressed by the elections had clearly pointed out who the head of the minion y should be, and we mild not but ocragratalate Mr. Gladstone and her Majesty's ministers that the Queen had interpreted the voice of the people as she always had done. (Loud cheers.) The Fielimengere Company felt the highest honour that a member of thuds- own livem and the an and brother of old friends of the onapaay, should have attained the high petition of Lord High Chancellor of Berthed. (Cheese.) The Los) COANOII.I.OII (Lord Hatherley), who was received with loud applause, returned *sake. He said be felt deeply grateful for the mode in which the mummy had received the observations that had hem made of him personally, and be felt far more gratefal for that kindness and feeling of earnest and Saone approbation with which they had received the toast of her Majesty's ministers. As regarded himself, to be well known amongst the com pany prevent, and to be respected when known was as gratifying a teutianoay as a man could desire. They had known bin fee nese than 40 years as a member of their company, and he hoped he bad rows swerved from Use liari penned by these nuabses of his fatally who had preceded him. (Obsess.) Belem thanklag the eon piny. foe the semplinisnt as it elected the pollens! pod hes in which her Majesty! goverement was plaos4 he would add one word to teshily his deep regret that this toed was not being res to by a gentleman whose distiguidisil talents m is advocate, whose 'cs ndied . wise eloquence lathe Mean el Oommens, sad whose integZu d f kasacter during a keg pub* saner had dearly oat for the "Mee of Load Cheasoellar, but who bad been pat aside thsiew In ewe ad. end hem the highest pos sible motiv motives. Obeen.) that essallemaa her Majedy's saiaidem would hand abler nedstanoe and gardener' than through kin (Lord Bethany). (Cheers.) At this momma of the revival of some of his . political and aspirations, whin making his first addrees after being liberated from 16 . yeare . of silence which was imposed upon him when rehabiting what seemed to be • calmer sphere than that of polities, he was able to tell his hearers that he bad never abated one jot of heart and hop is respect to matters which recent events had just.. In the first year of his occupation of a seat in the House of Commons, now exactly twenty years ago, be spoke and voted for that measure of hoase hold suffrage which last year became the law of the land. (thee's.) He spoke and voted in favour of Mr. Hume's motion, in company with eighty others. They were then called " destructive., ' and he was once asked, not by • tory, but by • member of Ms liberal party why he was such a republican. (Laughter.) 'I here had now been established a principle of government which he believed would never tail us in this country. It was a pi inciple of trust and hope, and we had banished for ever those settled feelings of distrust and despair which were afraid to confide in • certain bode of our fellow citirens, who now were admitted within the pale of the constitution. He assured his hearers he bad the peatest confidence in that trust which had been reposed by the people of England in Mr. Gladstone as their leader, and he believed that trust would be fully responded to—that he would advance—that his progress would rest on a basis of order—that it would be guided by justice that it would be strengthened and forwarded in firm faith and hope—and above all, he believed the end would be perfect success. (Loud cheers.) Baron YASTIN, who rose without being announced by the toast-master, said—Le. me toll you au anecdote. had once the honour of being a reembn of the House of Commons, and the Lord Chancellor held a situation there. Upon a particular occasion there arose a debate upon the Lull church, and the Lord Chancellor expressed his views pretty much in the way that has been popular of late. Mr. Bright did the same. I was present in the tilriof the house, and a person of very high position in e amembly said in my presence, " We shin live to see the day when Mr. Wood will be Lord Chancellor, and Mr. Bright a minister of the crown.' That has been ful filled, and lam proud to see it. (Loud cheers.) The toast of The House of Lords" was responded to by Lord Houghton. Chief Justice Bovril. responded for "the Bench." In doing so he spoke in the highest terms of Sir Roundel' Palmer for abstaining from accepting an office to which every lawyer a:ond on account of the purest and most honourable convictions. (Cheers.) It was a matter of gratification in the profeolion that there were two such man in high positions as Lord Hatberley and the Solicitor- General. His right hon. and learned friend the Lied Chancellor bad spoken of the gloomy vatichistions which were once associated with household suffrage, and he (the Chief Justice) would leave that sab Mt to be dealt with by hie right hon. friend the Cb of the Exchequer. (Laughter.) The fimierrot-Gernmer. (Mr. Coleridge), in a brief speech, in which th ere was no political reference, responded to the toast of "T he Bar,' which had been associat ed with "The Bench.' The Mull/LW proposed " The House of Commona," and stated that belied prevailed upon the Chancellor of the Mehequer to respond. The Clieseirros of the Mesterei, who was re. ceived with loud cheering, said—Them are two ens to every subject. the negative and positive. As far as the negative goes nothing can be sexier than the task I have to discharge to-night, because I have the honour to be a member of the government which has just sprung into existence, and of a House of Commons, or rather hope to be • member of that home, which has its first fault to commit. (A laugh) Nothing can be easier than the panegyric I have to pronounce upon both of them. This govern ment h a a l a n grpetrated no jobbery , yet ; it has shown no furious spirit ; it has sustained no damage in de feats; ' has brought in no abortive measures ; it has im posed no unpopular taxation ; it has got us into no foolish wan' it has presented no unseemly spectacles of violence and differences amongst its members; it has not done a single one of those things which • government ought not to do, which is no small credit, although it is a little by the fact that it is not yet quite formed, and that it has been only a week in exustance. (Loud laughter.) If 1 turn from the government to the House of masons, I eau say_the nine things. Who can soy any harm cieineirent HOMO of Commons F What evil hath it done Nobody can charg e it with any bad 12100.31.1111, foolish speech, with forget fulness to the crown, to the House olLords, to its constituents, or itself. It is a body that stands before you absolutely pure and blameless. (Laughter) It has done nothing whatever that the most cynical mind could find fault with; as my learned friend would say, "Its record is choir." (Laughter.) Perhaps, having raid so much, I had better sit down. ( 'No, no," and "Go on.) As for myself, of course I shall do everything you can possibly wish. You have only a little time to wait, and you will find of noun how far you will have a striking reduction in taxation, an enormous mrOirs, in fact, a kind of financial millennium which will names year by year, until weary of the task of doing good, I retire amidst the blessings of you all, widths gratitude of a con tented people. (Loud laughter.) For this aousumreation we have sometimes to wait, and the feelings are sometimes not in very agreeable forms to gentlemen Nr =sock aloes as I have the honour now to hold. I noun you I will endeavour to do the bad I can to remove from the country all the burden@ of taxation. and by-and-bye you may be able to enjoy the best institutions in the world without paying anything he them. gr a = Perhr ea l t r ia lir a li a r - leen without*, expeaos of and na without sash anemeheinses as sailors to man them; while we any get • means of defense without seek a along as the army. (Loud laughter.) Then we shall eat ems MOM tO avoid going to LW at all, and prevent geruining tbeeneelme—Opad laughtee)7ead edam to other subjects whisk we are interested we mutually embrace other each, whim; and Weise, sarat ri lßrothm, brother, we are all In the wrong.' laughter.) I haps yen do not think I have coloured the Ocher* too math; I hope yes will mouse me if I speak with some apparent levity upon this sub ect, because the hosed link is when a era has to say, then is softies foe It but to ZI mein the penlights, of the ewe; and we may poMbly did that wi th er the genmenat nor the House of PaAment will greedy OMNI Ns leek I have sketched foe them (Load laughter mei doses.) The remaining touts indeded "The Church," re speeded to by the Dean of Weibieseer ; sad "The Con !cheerios of the United node= of Noeih responded to in an able and earned speech by t i lr eg ir. l . Cartier, Bert. The vocalists mai inimmeadipie ware Mr. G. Beck. Lad, Miss J. Elton, MIN Prang Mr. Beed, Mr, Ilea teas Smith, Mr. Theodore MAU', and Mr. VioM COMM Mr. Harker was teastasastse. Ilia dilutor, width was most wetly, was supplied by Messes. Bing wad :imam ROYAL 011001A2EICAL 8001311T.—Tbe paper be be read at the ember ea blealle ms =trai be *ll. hemp la Weston le Ike fieffeCarep la ta." Dr. FO N EWS. rr - -1 -cr ilk ;i1 9 MS Clagw4 y f iemer.l Snit. I, MORE FIGHTING IN CADIZ. HEAVY LOSSES OF THE ARTILLERY. THE POBRION OONSULE DETAINED. KAMA Dia. 10, Drama. The debar remised here of the late engage ments at Oohs ere of a very distressing character, the fighting, which was oommenoed by the people, having peen of a most desperate and sanguinary description. Fourteen artillerymen, who were charged with the distribution of a proclamation issued by the Governor, were killed by the populaoe. The Artillery corps have suffered heavy losses. The armistice does not end until to-night. The insurgents have opposed the departure of the foreign Consuls and their families, hoping thereby to prevent the bombardment of tho town. Tho Consuls are detained as hostages in tho 1:1,;te1 do Tale. TURKEY. CONS raiNTINOPLE, bac. Y. The Greek Patriarchate has refused the Bul garian dernand for a self-governed Bulgarian chinch as contrary to eoclesiastical laws. unless sanctioned by a special orthodox council, to be convened for the discussion of that question. AMERICA. NEW TORS, Esc. 10. Closing Prices.—Gold closed at 136 ; the highest quotation during the day was 1361 ; the lowest 1351. Sterling exchange on London, 1091; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 111 ; ditto, 1885, 1071; ditto, 1886, 1101 ; 10-40 Bonds, 104. Illinois, 1441; Erie, 38. Cotton, Middling Upland, 25. Petroleum, standard white, 33. Flour, extra State, 6 dole. 70c. to 7 doll. 30c. Corn, old mixed. 1 dol. 15c. "MHO ' c ia . XOl9lllB HALL. iklek • • . 1 4 711serso , was K ati. last he V . sassa4 ; Lows. Ow at Ow _ 1 Mad* DAR by. ante ar O. 0 ,FO DistiArd Ow ft.. Modal JO J. Tlnnilbw, Adsgral Masterel, Mr. Traaribyl, Mr. Plstrier, M.P., Mr. R. Magid& War, M.P., Mr. Brews, ILP., Mr. Abitwell, ILP., Kr. W. K OUR PARIS LETTER. °ISOM OUR Owr PARIS. THURSDAY EVICTING. The Pays contains a contradiction of a conver sation alleged by the Gaeta(' to have taken place between the Emperor and M. Oranier de Caasagnac. In the first place, the deputy fur the Oers in said to have reported that the Emperor had no inten tion to leave the future of his dynasty to chance. This particular phrase, repeated by the Pays, is not specifically denied, and I incline to believe it authentic, and as meaning that the Em peror, commanding the army, and being in posioaicn of the treasury, which pays the army, will stand no such nonsense as a gen rat election which should return any ..on side ruble number of deputies opposed to him. But what the l'ays distinctly repudiates is the allega tion that the Emperor told M. de Cassagnac he meant to abdicate in favour of his son on condi tion that be should during his son's minority bold the reins of power as mgetit. Such an arrange ment would, indeed, as the Pays says, be the acme of folly, and I entirely believe its denial that anything of the kind has been thought of. The Emperor regent for his son would only be some thing a little Worse than the empire, and the dynasty would more than ever be exposed to ad verse chances. The candidate unanimously adopted by the De mocratic Committee of Marseilles to succeed M. Berryer in the Corps Legialatif is no other than— dread nanie—M. Gainbetta ! In Paris his election would be certain, and I have very little doubt of his sut•cess in the South. The Temps speaks, as news of the day, of minis terial changes on the tapir ; and revives a rumour several days old that M. Rouher, who thinks him self a far superior manipulator to M. Pined, is to resign the higher but empty dignity of Minister of State to become Minister of the Interior and " direct " the coming elections. The president of the Court of Aix, in summing up the case of the female poisoners of Marseilles, said : You have before you five women who seem to have been good and honest persons for a long while, and who have been brought to commit the worst of crimes. Two others, their tempters, still more wicked. who worked upon their ignorance and credulity, practised almost publicly the trade of murderers. Their infernal treaty made three vic tims that we know of, and threatened two more, who nar rowly escaped. Who shall say that there are not many more of whom we know nothing i_ _ _ Al. Errata, a wealthy Mexican resident in Paris, is dead. Fur several years his daughters have been prominent guests in the most fashionable ',ain't., and balls. He was the proprietor of a claret vineyard scarcely second to that of the Chateau Laffite—tbe Clos d'Estournel. lie leaves a fortune estimated at 10 millions of francs (400,0000. Queen Isabella has purchased for 1,800,000 fr. Count Basilewski's splendid mansion on the Boule vard du Roi de Rome, near the residence of M. Emile de Girardin. Her Majesty has paid a forfeit of 60,000 fr. to get rid of the two houses which were taken fur her in the Champs Elysiles. Although nobody supposes that between this and Dec. 17, the day fixed for the Greek an swer to the Turkish ultimatum, the Eastern ques tion will set the world in dames, the Bourse was very weak, and the closing prices of Rente were as low as those produced by the first panic when the news came that Turkey had sent, not an ultimatum dictated by higher powers with a peaceable intent, but a hostile fleet with instruc tions to make reprisals. Rente closed at 71ir. 23c., both for cash and account, with a fall of se. and 7c. Queen Isabella and her family, the morning before last, visited the Expiatory Chapel to Louis XVI. and Marie-Antoinette, and remained there for Divine ser vice. ' The Emperor of the French, attended by General Lebceuf, Violist-Leduc, and several °facers of hie household, two days back visited the Gallo-Roman ceme tery, recently discovered in the forest of CompPgue, near Lacroix-Saint-Ones. Three ancient sepulchre were opened in his Majesty's presence, and uumwrogig umed, ases of different forms and colours in clay and Om one of which, chalice-shaped, particularly attracted the imperial attention. This burial-place, implored under the direction of M. de Rouoy, ham already given nearly three hundred earthen vases and thirty in glass to the museum of the pekoe. The Emperor remained on the spot about au hour and a half, and warmly congratulated the intelligent archeologist who directs the researches. TEO theatrical perfceniance flied for the evening, In the theatre of the Chiteau, Mabee& postponed till to-morrow, when the artists of the Vaudeville will play Nisi AGIN» and the !wit Voyage. His Majesty will pen in review. on Sunday, the garrison and National Guard of Cow *Pm Mao. Patti's hoarseness continues, and her **died attendee,' still forbid any resumption of her pro. hatiosal duties. The New York Titus says that tie Facile Roll and wen be emoisted by seat July, sad Mei there will Ikea be ewe esedeeeee railway fries New York to Men Irraeetwo—lle line la the wag. Travellers will be able I. leave >TwwMa or Limped eat leech Yoke hew A rds limagbal at toast kis oodles lima by say ether . LONDON AMUSEbiI (THIS IMINING.) Diem Lagra.-. 0 Derreiwai Ptvas;•." " Slag Oleela" " &sic' - f V. Earmaimpr.--"Ikor &Wog." "Pletre." "Easel Moir. -4 Ode& Ira sear reel your wile le Camberwshr. "Ilawae % 0145."—t Visa. Parisershi.--" The fecese." " Alfrr Dark." "Kamer Jease's 11/alNaa."—lshisek. Otourso.—"/riser reed Crasher." "The Tam Peseengs,.. —t dank. tea—" lastaseke laas." “ The eltsaagas, St n ." thas:User."—f cfslack. Ten setisalsas sss __ Praasa.—" The Wake" amt.. "The /Wet st the Cloth of Gilt" "Murky ►t Any Priss."—t o'clock. Placa Watas's.—" Who Speaks Push " Veto*. Hocaosx.—" Blow fig Blow." "Lanett Dargis. M.D.. / 4 °nada Doetraos."-4 o'clock. llorctrr.—" The Clock:rookie's Het." "A Loving Cup... "TM Rise sad Poll ei Richard M."— 7.30 o'clock. Sosorv.—"The Sued." "Lead Begs aad Wider Rate —7 o'clock. Otaes.--" Good for Nothing." " Cyril' • Swore." —7 o'oloA, Baru, Aociuniacute, Hoinosai. Avolo. &ors ta th Aram. Ite.-7.30 o'clock. BILITANNIA.—" The Back-Woodeman." "The Scarlet MIA' " The Ballinagoe Boy."—Alb o'clock. BTANDARb.—" The Woad Dacha." " Tbo Aare:Win kW:a." —7 o'ckaSk. Earns Tho ILosinb ," tho gamed Aftravrai. : —ll6 oielodc. LeTrriap-sau., PIOCADILLY.—]It. Amnia( Norton's Estortsin• essat.-41 redo& Caasimr Untersaus, be. JAars's HALL —8 o'clock. t' a park Ware see art ROYAL Pocrescartc NiDigi Tossautes. -The Electric Organ, *e. THE IRISH RAILWAY QUESTION. Yesterday the Lord Mayor of Dublin c.,n - vened a meeting at the Mansion House of thst city*: noblemen, gentlemen, end others, to consider the pr e . priety of urging on her Majesty's government the policrif purchasing, without delay, the railways of Ireland apse the terms submitted to them during the last ses,iou o' parliament by a joint committee of peen and comotonAr, and of having the Irish railway systems worked in finer, for the public benefit, and at the lowest rate of char:. for goods and passengers, sow fully to develop the tad, and resources of Irelsiod. The Lord Mayor pres:,l.l. Ilesolntions in furtherance of the objects of the mettle; were agreed to. Ii the Court of Queen's bench, Dublin, Ju 1; • O'Brien granted a writ of habeas corpus to 'mug op o • two soldiers detained in custo►y at Drogheda is cease:• non with the election riot. TUB CLAMBT.ii 7 WOYEN.—Last night Emily Faithfull addressed an audience at.the Rammer square Rooms on this subject. The lady claimed for he 7 tea a fairer chance than they now possessed of earning a litehbood ; proper legal rights; greater educations, al. vantages ; and the suffrage. It was no: her wish the: women should perform men's work. but that they shoal I be (moo/sued to do that for which they were paysi.idiy and mentally capable. At pre.ent they had not that fair opt oitunity which wax their undoubted right. Out u.e Ina millions of women in thu country, two and a halt millions were unmarried; and it was absolutely essential to the of society that. where the di.propsrtioa bstse( u the ,ease was solsirge. the weakest should ha►a the widest possible teld to obtain the mean, of euppsring thentsele,.. CII.VRTERIIOI:SE.—For the last four years the • of l'haitsrhotge have preferred a play to the con test ab.,L uscil to he g.ven before toe scw,ol brae for the t hristmas Le. day:, and on 11'04111-.4 Ley evsaiu ; the first of three chatuatic representatrons was givAri in the gnat Lad once ocsupied by the ill-fated Moo , / Norto!k. The pieces selected this year were Tom Tiv...d's ((mt.:, of fabolk un, .I.At.ow,d. and Charles LATIN:, is • of Iyer. in slate of the smalluess or ta stage the performance, went briskly. the boys .1 .•..; considerable aptitude for comedy, and at the curtain they were warmly greeted by their schoolrelloi.. TUE I'otdcg.—Yestcrdisy, tit the 31aryl-' , Vestry. Mr. Israel Abrahams gave notice that at . meeting ho would bring forward the following m 4t: •:. " That this vestry considers that u: the police have p:i• .1 themselves incapable oi properly protecting the by .a property of the public while the rates for their •.:. • -: Lave largely inervesed. no policeman should be evil . :=.+: from the public service at any time for private • theatres, or music-halls." WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of 'L.,: Sommers Gard, of Rougemont, Exeter, Esq.. derma:- i. > . • died on the 16th December last, at Court Hall, Devon, has just been proved, by Edward Gard, the of deceased, and Leslie Alexander Outhwaite and Snow, the executors. The personal property is scs under PO,OOOl. The widow of the testator has a !sr provision made for her, end liberal legacies are gives • • many of deceased's relatives and serried.. The ex-. are directed to pay to the trustees of each of the following charities at Exeter 600!.: viz., the 1.. .: and Dumb Institution, the Blind Institution. the : School, and the Eye Infirmary. The testator was •!•• [Duly for many years M.P. for Exeter. The 11.`• . probate of the will of the Rev. Sir Nicholas Chian late of Flintiield, in the county of Cork, and of No. Hyde-park-square, clerk, baronet, deceased. who ws• one of the sufferers by the Abergele disaster. was neat:-! at the London Itegietr,y, on the 7th inst. The Irish r'• bate is dated the 22nd of October last, and it is gran:, to deceased's daughter, Anna Elizabeth Frances Mar retta Haldane Chinnery (the wife of the Rev. J. R. A. R.:- dane Cbinnery). The personal in England sal Ireland—but nearlthe whole is in land—is swom under 120,000/. Alll the testator's real and prron.tl pr petty is left to his said daughter for life, with a pole.: of appointment among her children. If his daughter -:. • : 1 .1 not leave any ohlld who should live to take a .1/. terest in his said property, the testator leave: all is p personalty to be equally divided between the Missionary Society . for Africa and the East. the Lon I , a Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, sal the Society for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge on the Continent. FATHER loNAnts.—(To the Editor of the Ex press.) Sir,—Will you kindly inform your readers that Father Ignatius has discontinued preaching at St. Edmund's Church, Lombard-street, and will finish his course n: Advent sermons at Store-street Hall, Bedford-ssivarc. W.C. Subject, Sunday evening, Dee. 13, "The door was shut" (Matt. xst. 10).—I am, kc.,X EDWARD 0. S. B. Sot:IEEE OF PAINTERS LN WATER COLOUR:. — Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, attended t , y Lord Alfred Paget and Lady Barrington, yesterday riv.:e I the Winter Exhibition et Sketches and Studies at Gallery of the Society of Fainters in Water Colsi.:c East. TUE TOBACCO CONTROVERSY.—It is clearly ir no want of ventilation that this subject has not I.c 1 definitely settled. There are, moreover, a suiticicut a .sa ber of smokers in the world to afford moors for observe tion. Since the controversy was opened by 1111 moms s er• Wo,q it has been many times revived, and Hr. ( Henry Lewes's recent article has set it agoin e t again. Too E•press of the Ist inst. appears to have takena coital sense and correct view of the subject. The ahsar.:.! exaggerated statements of the Anti-Tobacco So .:::, and other enemies of the weed lose all form by proving a good deal too much. Ws must set aside cases of excessive smoking. su I those exceptional cases in which tobacco MI, a. in any quantity. No doubt tobacco has a greet dell tJ answer for, bemuse smoking, like other taste -s. an,i nora than most, so readily runs into excess. Its worst et!....:s are observed in persons below puberty, iu whom dues a peculiar kind of sallowness, functional bon, diminished appetite, and inaptitude for physo . s. mental energy: to say nothing of the expense s:teed.:.; it. It is Sable to induce a similar train , tome in those who contract a habit of s ino;1•4; a little, and but a little, in excess. We told that among young soldiers, palpitation sai deranged action of the heart are common enough out :14 use. A medical officer, noticing the frequent rt oular tremors and unsteadiness of hand among sinol, , rs kept some statistics in order to determine whether was any great difference between these and too amt• smokers as regards rile practice. He wa ,, , hsurevs 7 : unable to prove, statistically,. that the latter enj,•ye,l snn. superiority of accurate shooting power. Tcc obao anvil :: the poorer and labouring chases certainly appears to "" r ` considerable laminae in restraining the appetite., A lasi can apparently also bear a larger amount of fatigue ,: . ‘ t ; given nine with • small amount of food and a pips than theta/I/amount "without his booty." Of course he :0 hewever, only maintain this within certain hnuts. -tsar all, the physiological effect of very moderate )n1 .L.le: has not yet denial, and the mental ,tats, favour of the weed itself, is inOspaßio of bow!. eeterow . In wools. We have lately been told by a Fo.lich u" Deist. M. Made de °lranian, in • vein of sober mess, that the acts and polic7 of the Emperor 4re the o,l* coineof hishabit of smio. " To smoke is to artists trio awake," it is assorted . There is a tendency Among u-' l. " French critics to seek in • muses an esp:ans; lion of some of the mess slslrass moral sad problems of past aid yreseat tiles. The theory. °a doubt, contains • certain automat a troth ; hut it coming every day more Waldo and detpotio in I" I" h; eation. The reason b, so deals. that St Five , deur. , ° play of a writer;:p le me* meta mons: Pe euheeitiee with aboun e and is a ff o rds su _ 01 "nr , emethligsals=dous syeettlotten ash t i r character. Babas tb• d e "" " of human mature sad Mama ectislll. te-Bemmi t Deohanel. and ethers hare solPIT: S e. precom tate a ftemy, mast or s :•;;," pail may, or be_=tad by MOM Ran/ lad hilmeslis. r 1 1 1 I 4 SOO •