The Express. — London, England, 1868-01-16 00:00:00

It appears, and we are sorry to * ss.ered the fact, that amongst our *on' villa& fowl" the goose is not to be depended on. It is not safe to dine off it without some assurance as to its way of living, and especially the regu larity of its diet. Where these are not properly looked after its fat is apt to become poisonous. Lllte will to like ; and so this silly bird, it seems, is fond of " fool's parsley," among other vege table poisons. There is this, however, to be said for the creature's sense : the weed to which it is partial does not hurt the bird, but only makes its flesh noxious to those who take it for food, and it is supposed that the goose which was fated to coat this poor woman her life had indulged its taste too freely. Another alternative was sug gested by the medical witness. The geese which are sent in such numbers to London during tie week before Christmas arrive in many cases so closely packed that decomposition is brought on, and they poison whoever eats them. Professor Jousx RODGERS, who examined the stomach of the widow CLEMENTS, found no poison, but very evident traces of its action, and the jury found that the poor lady was poisoned accordingly. We hear nothing of the origin of this particular goose ; but it is well known that a great many are sent from Ireland. If it is not too late, Inspector Byer rrr might look a little further into the matter. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) ADDRESSES OP PUBLIC ME . Professor Fawcett 'a arguments on Tuesday even ing in favour of the possersion of land by peasant proprie tors and his description of the state of our agricultural poorform the subject of an article in theDaily/fews. Why, it asks, are there marks of proiless and improvement in all other directions, while the agricultural labourer, in stead of reaping any advantages from our financial prosperity, is in a worse condition now than he was a hundred years ago ? The Daily News has more hope of improving the position of the present generation of agricultural labourers by education and by social reform than by great political changes. To unite gross ignorance to political freedom ia like chain ing a living body to a corpse. The first and chief thing to be done for the labourer is to give him such an education as will enable him to judge rationally of his state. At present so great is his obtuseness that it is less difficult to transplant a giant oak than an agricultural labourer. In another column Mr. Stansfeld's discussion of the measures and conduct of ministers is treated of by the Dad!. News, which remarksthat the honourable member's voice has been heard too rarely of late, both within the walls of parliament and without. There have, it believes, been reasons, for this silence which everyone will deplore, and the cessation of which will be matter for general satis faction. The liberal party cannot afford to lose from the ranks of its active combatants a man of Mr. Stansfeld's intellectual courage, debating power, and administrative capacity. The Standard asks what the ingenuous youth whom the Cambridge University commits to Mr. Fawcett for their instruction in political economy must think of a teacher who shows himself completely indifferent to facts, end treats the whole question of the condition of the agricul tural classes, not with the purpose of removing any mis takes and prejudices which may prevent their harmonious so-operation, and the more profitable use of the land, but with the direct intention of exciting one class against the other, and so obtaining a temporary advantage for one political party? It does not know whether Mr. Fawcett's lecture offends more by its ignorance or its unfairness—by the gross exaggeration of the evils to be cured, or by the utter insufficiency of the renieffies proposed to deal with them, if they were what he represents there. Commenting upon Mr. Stansfeld's remarks on the dis content of Ireland, the Star expresses the belief that the ballot, the abolition of the Irish church, and some such land scheme as Mr. Bright proposes, would lay the ghost of Irish nationalism, which has been walking the earth ever since the days of the Pale. The Queen and Princess Arthur drove out yesterday afternoon, onel Ponsonby upon horseback; and her Majesty dieve in the grounds this morning, asoompasied by Primes Louise. Prince Arthur. Priam Leopold, and Princess Beattie* walked out. The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, the Right Honourable Sir Stafford Northcote, and the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster arrived at Osborne this morning. At one o'clock the Bishop of Lichfield was introduced to the pretence of the Queen by Sir Stafford Northoote, when his lordship did homage to her Majesty as Bishop of Lichfield. Princess Louise and Prince Arthur were present with her Majesty during the ceremony. . 1 The Dean of Westminster was in atteodaase as Deputy 1 Clerk of the closet. Priam and Princess Christian and Prioress Henrietta of Sehleewig•Hohtein left Frogmore on Tuesday, to visit Lord and Lady Aileabury, at Savernake Forest. CABINET COUNCEL.—A Cabinet Council is ap pointed to be held on Tuesday next, at three o'clock, at the Earl of Derby's official residence in Downing•street. Tim QUEEN AND THE LATE VISIT OF PRANCE AND PRINCESA CHEISTIAN AND PEIRCE ARTHUR TO LITER POOL.—PTevioui to the commencement of business at the usual meeting of the Liverpool town council yesterday, the Mayor said he had received letters from Major Elphin stone, on behalf of Prince Arthur, and from Mr. Engle• heart on behalf of Prince and Phnom Christian, express ing in the warmest terms their sense of the loyal and enthusiastic welcome which they received from all classes of the community at Liverpool during their recent visit there, and also thanking them for the magnificent enter. tainment given in their honour. He had also received the following letter from Osborne :—" Osborne, Jan. 11.— Sir,—The Queen cannot hoar from her children of the enthusiastic and magnificent reception they have met with at Liverpool, without wishing to convey to you, and, through you, to the inhabitants of the town gene rally, the direct assurance of her deep personal gratifi cation. Her Majesty has, therefore, commanded me to write to you, unofficially, to assure you of her grateful sense of the kindness which has been shown to Prince and Princess Christian and Prince Arthur. In the cordial welcome they have received the Queen sees the most satisfactory and gratifying proof of the loyal attachment of the people of Liverpool to baud and her family ; and she would be much obliged by your taking tho mode you may think most effectual for letting your fellow•citizens know how much her Majesty has been touched by it —I have the honour to remain, air, your very obedient humble servant, C. OBEY.—To the Mayor of Liverpool." The Duke of Northumberland has gone to Hat field House on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury. The duchess is staying at Albury. The Earl and Countess of Dunmore arrived in town a few days ago from Holcombe Hall, the Earl of Leicester's seat in Norfolk, and have since proceeded to Elavernake Forest, Wilts. It is stated that Mr. H. C. E. Childers, M.P. for Pontefract, will succeed Mr. Mussy as Financial Secretary for laths. _ _ _ -- It ia officially notified that the Right Hon. Theobald Fitzwalter, Lord Danboyne, has been chosen by a. majority of votes to be the peer to sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, in the room of the night 1 Hon. William, Earl of Roue, deemed. WINTER SPORTS IN THE SCOTTISH HIGH LANDS. On Friday the 3rd, a picked body of dwellers on the banks of Lochfyne met to play once wore the game which Cuchullin and Oscar Diermaid and Fionn used to play in the olden time. It was to be a peaceful battle be tween dwellers on the opposite side of the beautiful loch, and the men were beaded, as of yore, by the gentry of the old country which they love so well. The Cowal men were headed by George Callender of Ardkinglas, and his guest, Mr. Maitland ; the Inverary men by Lord Archibald Campbell and his brother, Lord Walter ; and :i9 picked men on each side made a total of 82. The ground chosen has seen many • sturdy fight. For untold time the old grey stone, which stands in the green turf, among the old trees, beneath the castle walla, has been the gathering place of the district in peace and in war. For hundreds of years a shinty match had been played beside the old pillar at the New Year ; but this was something more important than usual, and the excitement was in proportion. Lords and Labourers, volunteers and their officers, farmers and burgesses, fishermen, shepherds, tradesmen, all armed with sinntirs, clustered about the old stone, and stripped to their work, while spectators clustered under the trees and hung in clumps on the turf elopes wherever a view of the coming battle couldbest be obtained. In that bright, clear, frosty morning it was something to stir the blood of old and young to see men who hang together as these do, gathering for a mimic fray, where their fathers had gathered time out of mind, and the fight brought out many an old memory carefully preserved by the old race. There was Macarthur, a tenant whose ancestors have held the same farm for 500 years, who was proud to say that one of his people bad preserved the Aagyll titledeeds when the Athole men made • stable for horses of the castle of fdacalain, his chief. There was Munro, whose forbears bed held the farm which he now bolds for the same time ; and many of their stamp leaned on their sticks and told their old-world histories to all who cared to hear. But the players had other work in hand. At half-past 11 the ball —a block of birch root ant out with a knife, according to immemorial custom—was thrown up by the umpire, between the two leaders, with the old battle cry of " Cotlirom na Feinne "—Fenian/ . opportunity—which stands for fair play—and at it they went, as if they were fighting for dear life, instead of barren honour. The goals were two pairs of flags, 12 yards apart, and the distance from goal to goal was about 450 yards. Fur more than an hour 82 men ran after the birch NW, and smote it and each other, and shouted and cheered, and worked for fun and fame as no man overworked for pay. Hugh Brodie, a farmer on Ardkinglu, about 80 years of age, acted general on one side, and Willie Mackenzie, ground officer, who is nearly 70, marshalled the Inverary men. With white hair streaming in the wind, and clear bright eyes glittering in the sunshine, they rushed throush the melee, shouting their orders, and praised those who did well ; while the young leaders plunged into the thick of the light, and did all they could to win. The judges and the umpire did all they could to follow and see fair play, and they, too, had to keep moving. Many a hard blow was given ' an d i well taken ; many • man rolled prostrate and rose again, with honourable scars ; but at the end of the first hour the whole party were still fit for work, and Inverary had gained one goal. Now cams a pause, and the heaving I of deep chests showed how hard the work had been. Inverary now struck off from between the goals which they bad won, and the game went on very keenly for another hour with varying success and many casualties. Lord Archibald was partially stunned by a blow on the head. Lord Walter had his upper lip split by the wooden ball. George Fergruagon, clerk an the Chamberlain's Office, lamed in a previous game, was forced to give in. Dupla! Mackenzie, eon of the Inveraray general, got two very bad blows oaths month from shinties, and, being asked if he meant to retire, declined with strong language. Two Ardkinglas MOO, names unknown, were considerably damaged ; and many o th ers had hard knocks, of which they took small heed. At last an Ardkinglas man caught the ball in his hand at the first hop, threw in through the goals, and so the gams was made even at the end of the second hour. Ardkinglas now struck off, and by good luck and right good play the Inveraray men won the third goal in about five minutes, and gained the day. And so this mimic war ended in perfect good humour ; the players were entertained at the inn, and drunk many toast', after which the piper struck up, and many reels were danced on the road . The two leaders danced with their aged generals, who showed that years bad not extinguished their youthful ire. The judges danced with the umpire, the rival players with each other, maids and matrons of mature age joined in and ri Y arZ with boys or old grandfathers with equal joy ; and so the fun went on till the bell of the little steamer warned the Cows] men to depart, and away they went, cheering and happy, to tell their friends at home of the glorious shinty snatch at Inverary. And as they went the setting sun lit up the grand old hills and woods with glorious colour, at orange and purple and green and gold, and the smooth loch mirrored a scene of beauty that many will remember as long as they bro.—Correspondent of the Olavor Herald. Cirearte AT Pte.—" Public beneficence in Parts," says the Droit, " loops pass with the wants of the destitute. The twenty esorplems of the Primes liu =distribute daily trees 40,000 to 50,000 to the all gives by Ile ona unt. swa l = 1 ...h0d u a N.,dr, EM S, soap, sodteestsblas, or as Z 5 essileses. The Mast et M. Ones, idler* Abe Asrelebedaess yrevalls, Sr la the limperees itemsairrall,ooo M B ko se ly is see ceibeed *sibs sea eses of tbs Ind — "....' vEit sober ; lie bes wiled the the et y et Per* yid& has oedema tbe I et ailkilliabillbsas is tbe Mb, WIL LA.. li ve . r=o s .. .. rt . The Ay. voloos ellWg amity, aOs graft se bread amid le wile ass amilsil bee bow imissaid." on the 11th, says :—" Nothing can exceed the ill humour and discontent of the French troops in garrison at Civita Vecchia. The officers are espe cially enraged at the false position they occupy, both morally and materially, and complain of suffering all the disadvantages of war without the excitement and rapid promotion which usually counterbalance them in the estimation of military men. The division consists of about 8,000 men, of whom only half can find crowded accommodation in the town, while 4,000 are encamped on the heights around the Capuchin Convent, a mile out on the Corneto road, where torrents of rain from the upper ground keep the camp in a continual state of swamp, and the stormy libeecio wind blows away the faggots from beneath the shivering soldiers' pot-au-feu. Under such circumstances, with living very dear and very bad, the officers are anxiously awaiting the result of General de Failly's application at Paris for an amelioration in the position of the troops under I his command ; but the intelligence given by the 10 / A /t ient. that a portion of them had already marched to reoccupy Viterbo is premature. The sick, of whom there are a great many—too many to be received in the military hospital at Civita Vecchia—are brought up to the Hospital of San Spirit°, in Rome. What ever change the French troops may anticipate in their favour, it will hardly be that of a return to France at present, for the intention of the French government seems to be rather to ren der their position at Civita Vecchia impregnable cm the land as well as sea side, by the completion of its fortifications and their armament with heavy artillery. The Orinoque came into the harbour two days ago with guns, mortars, and ammunition for this purpose, and the works are being actively carried on which will render Civita Vecchia a safe pied-d-terre on the Italian peninsula, and a per manent thorn in the side of Victor Emmanuel's wernment." 484a'.! --- 7" - mir FROM PARIS. (mow KS ceasizseennissr.) • PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVIDYING. The Army Bill was at length painfully and reluctantly voted yesterday by the relatively small majority of 200 to 60. In the list of the minority are not to be found the names of several deputies, such u MM. Segris, Millet, and La Guistihre, who made eloquent speeches against many clauses of the bill. It must be borne in mind that the bill as passed, unpopular as it is confessed to be, has been materially altered by the pressure of public opinion acting upon the deputies during the course of the long debate. The annual vote of the contingent, the lowering of the standard height, marriage permitted during the last three years' service in the reserve, and the interdiction (as a rule) of substitutes in the Mobile National Guard — are all points which, though they will not prac tically affect the Emperor's power to raise an im mense army whenever he pleases, were insisted upon by the majority as mitigations of the oppres siveness of the original measure. Some of these amendments the government adhered to with manifest pleasure. Lowering the standard, though meant to distribute the burden of military service more equally, was eagerly caught at by a govern ment which looks to the means of carrying on a tremendous war because it will make it easier to get a large number of men. A similar reason may be suggested by the readiness with which M. Rouher agreedto sacrifice the original principle that tho pur chase of substitutes should be allowed in the Mobile National Guard, and the fluency with which, after consultation with the Emperor, he said the very contrary of what Marshal Niel had said in an earlier stage of the debate. M. Vuitry, the minister presiding the Council of State, was the last government orator who spoke on the question, and he yesterday repeated empha tically what M. Ronher had said before, that the bill was a pacific, and not a warlike measure. Their assurances command no confidence. Even the France, a strong imperialist paper, says to-night, with curious inconsistency, in the course of an article praising M. Vuitry's speech, that the bill is not an " organic law " but one " provoked by the battle of Sadowa," and that it is useless to deny that it is " profoundly unpopular in the country." The latest news of Count do Colts is said to be " better than could be expected" after the very severe operation which he suffered. Dr. Nelston expresses himself quite satisfied with the patient's state and confidently predicts that he will be able to resume his ordinary occupations within a week. The break up of the ice on the Seine [delAcle], which on account of the considerable fear of its doing mischief was regarded with great anxiety, occurred at about half-past 1 this afternoon. An agglomeration of ice about thirty yards square was carried by the force of the current against the arches of the Pont-au-Change with a tremendous shock and a great noise, which excited the curiosity of numerous spectators assembled to witness the picturesque spectacle. The boats on the river—thanks to the precautions taken several days ago to break up the ice all around them—have not been injured. No accident of any k;nd is yet reported. The weather is now that of a fine spring day, and the Centigrade ther mometer 11 legs. above zero. The following fragment of a letter from Garibaldi to M. Quinet is published: Caprera, Jan. 7, lB6t. . . . . Mentana was for me a new Asprotnonte. I was not wounded in the heel but in the heart, having lost so many of my brave brothers in arms. I confess that I did not reckon that day on having a second time to fight against a French army, and that error led to my defeat. The Pope's soldiers, whom we bad already beaten, were flying ; but our ammunition being exhausted, and a new French line replacing that of the mercenaries, the firmness of our poor volunteers gave way, and we retired upon Monte Rotando Let our friends in France and the world be easy, we will begin again. G. GARIBALDI. M. Bellazzi, a member of the Italian parliament, committed suicide on Saturday by firing three bar rels of a revolver in the region of the heart. The last shot killed him instantaneously. Arranged in front of him while he committed the fatal act were three portraits of a young Milanese lady to whom he was engaged to bo married, but whose parents had lately broken off the match, on the ground that as General Menabrea had dismissed him from a prefecture, to which he had been appointed by M. Rattazzi (his intimate friend), hislworldly posi tion was too uncertain. At the Bourse the Rente, after recovering to the extent of 10c. from the fall of the last two days, again became depressed, and closed with a further fall of 15c., both for cash and account, at 68fr. 70c. and GBfr. 60c. The latter quotation is 25c. lower than the highest of the day. Italian rose 10c. In other securities there was very little change. WEATHER REPORT.-(TBD3 DAY.) TIRMIIMAT,JAXUAIT 16, B T. dales - -71 r 48 Abwissa •••r "WM 41 Lorili ..... 1636 r 46 Ardrow46.. 79.114 r 611 ..-'-'.....'-t="l6"/"5peaci.....i1:17.67:69 186264 Wehi5Pt..114. 34 7 4 1,4•40441 64. 0 6r 44 4 Holyirrol 126.96 46 reaseao• Doi& 61 lanw.t 36. 46 IL 363 .1114 B. 7 - • Itrenweib , I SO. 461 6.17. Lasalle I NAS* di B.W. Terwooli 10 44 &W. Orokrlterwas&we6 ,441 aw. geld ~ 19.1•0 B.W. 710/64r l— I , Beassis 66.36 1 ►&W. Paris 111.46 7 IL strambova 1 a W. Lyme . - 110.43 11., &L Bewt's•Con 20.964 11' N.B. B.w. aw. B.W. B.N. LW. W. 8.8. W. LLW. s.ii. Ir.S. 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The lint preeases es as :In dli we Odd it Wes Si nerdy as loci Tomperalime los elm errWaisiar is as art sir le man anent la en nee& At the waft Idi = meat, ler WWII a WAN* Os Wow : glob lave aims beaked at ell gals la Wok Mon ea paw Weerdsp al Vakatta. Wasatr alla r 4 4pielltied. bss On earth and sp=mis. Vaintlit the ass le nid isldnint ts re . MN Nen% Wiesimentnnedilds dradddi The Zthperor Napoleon learning that the ware booms al the Yept.drPlete af Perim are crowded with articles, gtherally el illet swesesity, puthaderly bedding, yawned by working people sad smell Ira Mace the topsoils( al winter, to apply their raft wants, lately esthed isoridrise to be ramie ea the wabjeth fl. result is that lie Majesty bee tweed erase to the else. that time poor people eta 7011000 their sternly %et without say mutest, and the polies have Wen them aides to that efeek ,- , , , t00k, : ,..„ . li p ir : :- i - y,' ,A1TA. 1 41431A JAICIJAIX 4 , ;- - . i ____ _ LATIIIT ItTELLIGENCE. e . M . - • I ...; 1 .- . , I. ..,......---- maps ':' • ''. Cle:BC.it9l. Jar. 15 . DISCONIIO4O THE FRENCH L and Princess Louise awl Prince AT CINTTA VECCHLL KA ywairday afternoon, attended by Col- The oorreapondent , of the Post at Rome, writing MR. GLADSTONE AND THE TRADER UNIONISTS. -. The Tone+ looks for useful consequences from the interview which is to take place between Mr. Gladstone l and some of the ablest advocates of trades unionism. Although employers, non-union men, and the late com mission have made the public know a good deal of the nature of trn , les unions, it will be interesting to hear some thing on the subject from real working men of the type who most sway the councils of the unions. The question will turn not on the legality or utility of an abstract trades union, but whether such practices as Mr. Gladstone rebuked at Oldham are justifiable—whether men, as Mr. Potter contends, may justly combine to prevent anyone working by the piece, or working for more hours than the majority think fit, because they consider that he will degenerate under his additional labour, and will make an erroneous use of any surplus of money which be may obtain above the average earnings of his fellows, l'utting aside the saw-grinders of Sheffield and their doings, will the deputation still maintain the doctrine that a master may be justly compelled to turn away a boy whom he has taken as an apprentice because those who belong to a trade think that there are enough hands in it ? Will it be argued that, in this period of international free-trade no bricks ought to be taken into Manchester from beyond the limits of the Manchester Brickmakers' Union, or that workmen may justly avenge themselves on • master who Wei a machine to make his bricks' It is against these and other kindred tyrannies th►t the publics voice has pro tested, and the anxiety they create in the minds of think ing men is deeper even than that caused by the crimes of "troadhead. Earl Russell will publish in the course of next month " A Letter to the Right Hon. Chicheate- Fortescue, M.P., on the State of Ireland." The report of a weekly contemporary that Dr. Butler is about to resign the Head-Mastership of Harrow is unfounded. BRADFORD LIBERAL ELZCTORAL ASSOCIATION.-- A conference of representatives of the liberal party in the •11.1i01 , 11 words of the borough of Bradford was bald on Tuesday evening in the Temperance-hall, at Bradford, to confer as to the organisation of a new association to promote the extension of liberal principles under the new Reform Act, when, as is estimated, the constituency will be increased from 5,000 to 20,000. There were no fewer than 200 delegates present, representing every known political organis.ition in the borough. Sir. Robert Kell occupied the chair, and stated that it had been the desire of the promoters f the meeting, who had prepared reso lutions for the consideration of the meeting, to present snob • programme as would conciliate every motion and shade of liberal opinion, and promote parfait unity amongst the liberal party. A resolution embodying the principles of the proposed society was then proposed, and its various clauses were afterwards discussed seriatim, and ultimately, after some amendments and alterations, was adopted, with • declaration of the principles and objects of the society. A RUPTURE BETwEEN ROYAL COMMIERIONIRS.— The inquiry at present being conducted by • royal omit ) mission relative to the pollution of the rivers Mersey and I Ribble was brought to an unexpected termination yeetter , day, at St. George's Hall, Liverpool. At the first inquiry on Tuesday Mr. Harrison, one of the Commissioners, ex amined Dr. Trench, end other Liverpool officials, relative to the local system of sewage and its sanitary results in connection with the public health. This subject is of ape- I Mal interest in Liverpool where during the last few years the waternlceet system has superseded salipita. At yester- I day's session Dr. Trench complained that he bad been at • disadvantage by the peculiar line of ease mined= pursued by Mr. Harrison. On this Mr. • Rawlieeon, the chairman said that Mr. Hani ' son was not warranted in asking many of the questions he bad done, and that the tendency of his line of examination was to manifest ignorance. Kr. Harrison I replied that the sewage question had an important bearing upon the itsalth of the popubition, and that the I coMpos he had asked, were, i n his opinion, colts within swipe of the commissioners , inquiry. At the dose of `the day's inquiry, )Ir. Rawlinson said that the nomads. slam would sot sit at Birkeshead as anenged, on EXTREMES are meeting in our 11101 L curious and , Th urs d a y en d prisisy, fee be was deteneined net :NOW complicated civilization. Last Thursday an o ld another town with Mr. Harrison. He elesell **vetoer worn-out gardener named PAGZ dropped down and ' e l e W ts , 7 46 s r: I ,tid "Piala r eds, , s a ir ms6 ll, 2 6 l. 6, 13 / 64 ::: died of starvation in the roadway near Kenning- . mission again. Mr. Hardee. wailed to the sear ton Church. On Tuesday last Dr. Lalreaurrea held comm. Mr. Hawliassa's mesas* crested a mese palatal an inquest on the body of an elderly widow named ~.sais"ltirmaiiinibibmiA east sad the eali b a y, expine d gebsial dam all CLEMENTS, who, according to the evidence of the bad done to Mr. Hankie is Latvia.. toxicologist and the verdict of the jury, died from CzYnsl PAIA°L., —Oats 811111 . 1 " DAY.— the JAN. 10.--Aareuesses ee lament, 3,838 • the effects of eating a goose on Christmas-day. di tto by moon ticket.; 2,001 ; total d a i ta „ ; 5.827. There is one drop of comfort for those who still feel some slight interest in the British stage. We have, like our neighbours, a dramatic censor ship ; and there can be no doubt that our " reader of plays " takes his function seriously. , We are far from pretending to understand how far his discretion operates ; but we freely condole with any functionary who has to regale himself with the prose of our contemporary dramatists. But we have, at least, the satisfaction of knowing that our dramatic censor would not feel it his duty, in the interest of the public morals and the natural in telligence, to permit Jack Sheppard and proscribe Buy Bus, to barely tolerate the performance of Emma and to license the high moral lessons of the Voyages de Gullirer, as they are represented at the ChLtelet. Another superiority of the English theatre is to be found in the absence of hired ap plauders, and the right of hissing without being strangled by a police agent. BREAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. Eke erpreoo. TO ooisIBTOSDINTS.. Modifies/min teasadttag"Zhe= eiswa n isc r i v c , MoWo u ribrda lu i ecTabibidos• HATAARKIT. Trts EVLIINO, THE BROKEN-HEARTED CLUB—A WIFE WELL WON. awn Sabana, Radiates% Hone, Kends', Boge% Maid. Wea th eraby, ; and VW Robertion.—Atter which AN UTTER PILLVIIRSION 01 THE BRIGAND. I.IIH4CIONS. Tao Emma, THE COLLIE% B SWN. Mr. sad lira Dion Bow•icasit —Atter which THE SMEETS OF LONDON. Mr. Vising, littera Murray, Mom Neville, Forrester, Mellon, Re. ; Misses F.lororthy. Y Ilsrasta, Heckel Sanger, and Mrs. Addle. Tens Es=um. OLD SALT. M ITHAND. r. Emery and Miss Kelly More . —Alice which THE CALIPH OP BAODAD. Messrs. Thorne and James: Mesdames Ma Bwanhorough, Johnstone, Harland, Molt, dte.—And DUE D4MEStICB. HOSSIORN. TIM ETTNTII4I, THE FLYING SCUD. Mania Atkins, Prise, Garden, Arthur, Wedland, end Wihnott Mswismal Umvaae, Goodall, Lennox, and Saunders—Coneinde with VALENTINE AND (WON. Wile. Montero, Little Rowan, Ac. 11111TANIILL Tins Erne, DON QUIXOTE ; OR, SANCHO TANZA AND HIS WITE TEBEZA. Mrs. Lane, *Misses F.d.rht Cooth ; Tsn tomnolsts Messrs. Rifouis, Newham, and Vietorelll; Mdlle. C. Staphan and Miss nn A nd WHO DID IT I MON WATIA AT LONDON BRIDOL TUE DAT —Morning. 6h. 41m.......Atiern005. 7h. sm. Wo-lieilifir—Mornlag, 76 SOni..--AftArnoon, 76 68mi. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16. ' Is looking over the list of the performances at the Paris theatres daily published in the news papers, and comparing it with those of the London houses, we are certainly not tempted to indulge in comparisons. But no ono who has had opportu nities of making comparisons can fail to be struck with the constant superiority of French play writers and dramatic critics, French actors, and French audiences, to their English contemporaries, even during the present period of moral and in tellectual decadence among our neighbours. " Decadence," indeed, is a word which, in con templating the actual state and prospects of the British drama, wo would rather not pronounce ; because it is a decadence unexplained by any tem porary or transient circumstances, and only a gentler expression for a long, an absolute, a hopeless decline. It may have been accelerated, perhaps, by the same causes which have operated in France. But it did not, like the French decadence, begin with the Second Empire, and it will not end when the contagion of Impe rialism is cleared away. _ _ . In France a repressive and demoralizing system of government has infected the dramatic and every other form of the national literature ; it has en couraged every sensual and debasing pleasure, and set the seal of suspicion upon great minds and noble hearts. It has proscribed high thought and generous aspiration as dangerous to the public tranquillity. It has sentenced the stage to degra dation in the name of the public safety. It has deliberately vitiated the public taste, debauched the public manners, and driven genius and high thinking into exile or obscurity. But these causes of decadence aro transient ; we cannot doubt that purer French dramatic literature is destined to shine out again after the eclipse. Who can foresee a revival of the glories of the English stage ? Where are the dramatists, the players, or the audiences, or the critics? Even in the worst of times there is a certain literary finish and grace of form in the most trivial French pieces, a certain refinement and intelligence in the acting, a certain intellectual perception and sympathy in the public, a certain elevation of judgment in the critics, which may be sought in vain on this side of the Channel. We move in • vicious circle. Criticism has, for the most part, degenerated into more " reporting," garnished with the slang of the green-room and the " wings," because there are no plays produced which deserve serious criticism. There are no plays that de serve the name of literature, and few actors that deserve the name of artists, because there is no serious or discriminating criticism. One common excuse for the disappearance of literature and art from the English stage might be assigned with equal reason for the de cadence of the French stage. We moan the daily influx into the capital of crowds of worthy but most unintelloctual people from the provinces, whose sympathies can only be reached through their sensations, and whose tastes demand the strongest, the coarsest, and the hottest condiments. Those people, who constitute the paying audiences, make good plays and good actors impossible. But the theatres of Paris, like those of London, are filled with provincial audiences ; and the railways have not caused, though they may have precipi tated, the fall of the British theatre to the rank of a music hall, without the liberty of eating, drink ing, and smoking for the audience, and with the liberty of bad acting in bad pieces for the per formers. What is so remarkable in all that con cerns the English theatre is the prevailing stupidity on both sides of the curtain, the uuintelligence of the players and the unintelligence of the public. In the French theatre it is not intelligence that is wanting, and where intelligence is not wanting decadence is not decay. In some respects, how ever, them is not much to choose between the French and the English theatre. In all that concerns the comfort of the audience we are not at all sure that the Br;tish theatre has much to learn in Paris. In all theatres in all countries it seems to be understood that the public are to bo made as uncomfortable as possible, and this rule obtains in England. But in lighting, in ventilation, in the seating of the audience, there is nothing for us to envy in the theatres of Paris. Indeed the new theatres built by M. HAUSSNIANN are models of ill-con struction and discomfort. MILITARY PREPARATIONS. " While," says the Arenir National, " the Ambassadors of Russia and Prussia are perform ing their mysterious journeys, and while diplomacy is busy beyond what is usual in the cold season, military preparations are going on with unex ampled activity through the whole of Europe. The /nape/sciatica Beige gives insertion to a rumour very generally spread that the trains of the French Artillery had been doubled. The Journal du Havre believes that Marshal Niel has given orders for organising the material of the army for active service. According to the same journal such activity is displayed in the manufacture of Chasse pot rifles that eleven hundred are received each day into the arsenals." The North Eastern Correspondence says : The publication of the Russian despatches has produced general enthusiasm. There 11 a shower of poems and ad dresses, and patriotic manifestations. The ultra-Muscovite party make the most of the documents thus brought to light, and are openly urging the government to war. They would not be sorry to see the prudent chancellor replaced by the enterprising General 'gustier, who is attached to their views. This event is still probable. The Debate observes that in the midst of these alarming symptoms there is a visible change in the language of the officious press both of Vienna and Berlin, and that the two governments are evi dently on more friendly terms than before. " What," it asks, " will become of the bellicose plans and hopes of the war party in St. Petersburg under such circumstances, and by what new alliance will the Prussian one be replaced 1" (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. 'FLORENCE, J.t%. 15, The Corriere Italian of to-day says that the general committee for the examination of the budget have approved the budget of the ministers of the Interior, Foreign Affairs, and Commerce. The sale of the ecclesiastical property continues to proceed most satisfactorily. The sales effected up to the 31st ult. had pro duced an increase of 43 per cent. on the valuations. GREECE. TRIESTE, 3.4,2 c. N. Advice' received here from Athens state that the last modification of the Greek cabinet had taken place at a time when it possessed a large majority in the chamber. The reason has not transpired. ' It is said, however, that the King disliked some of the ministers. The chief of the opposition declined to construct a cabinet, as the King was unwilling to dissolve the Chamber. The present ministry does not belong to parliament, none of its members being,deputies. It is thought certain it will not last two months. The public is discontented. The steamer Union continues to make trips be tween Greece and Crete with cargoes of provisions and munition of war. Russian vessels still receive and carry away Cretan refugees. Sharp engage ments frequently occur between the Christians and the Turks in the island, and the insurrection is still kept up. THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS. PARIS, JAS. 16. The Monitesr of this morning says in its bulletin that no serious engagement had taken place in Ls Plata since the attack by the Paraguayans on the camp at Tuyuti. The Paraguayans had, neverthe less, succeeded in sinking various vessels of the Brazilian squadron. But on the other hand the Brazilians seem to have completely invested Hu malts. It was even asserted that President Lopez would abandon Humaita. BUENOS AYRES, Ditc. 12. Xxchange on London, 49. Dry hides, 40 for 21; wool, 42 to 78 ; lumber, 37 to 40 ; sugar, 18. WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, lAN. 16. The Athenian, from the West Coast of Africa, has arrived here. Her dates are : Benin, Dec. 19; Fernando Po, 15; Cameroon, 16; Bonny, 18 ; Lagoa, 21; Accra, 23 ; Cape Palmas, 26 ; Sierra Leone, 31; Teneriffe, 7 ; and Madeira, 9. At Cameroon@ and Fernando Po, trade was healthy. At Accra trade was dull. A terrific hurricane swept over Tenerife on the 2nd January. All the vessels were driven out to ma, houses unroofed, and the general appearance of the island was indicative of an earthquake. The cochineal plants were torn up byes roots. o lives were reported lost. In masa to try the results of the French inter- Wiese' Ussetsay(kmessiedie, whisk mot et the Maim*, of Toroly. Mbbs, for Mho purpose of smoorisiabig If e =UM Gould be admgbol by sli the dvlkimmi sa gs= of the mils. • geld Oise has NA loess sloe* es • swoosh etesilesi of messy is lasso, limilessi, sot the ll.iMiphhet. Os the obverse is the sew el the Bo pessrll4lll,4 crowned with Iserels, 'without say Is essietlia se the sevens the folkyrimir :-5 dollars -25 frees , isdissesth—" Or : semi eassitehos." This lime is else of the vase dam English eavenige. THE NEW BISHOP IN NATAL. The following letter appeared in yesterday's Guardian 'Mr. — There are many who will rejoice to hear that one has at length been elected to the office of Bishop of the Church in Natal : " The appointment has been made by the Metropolitan and the Bishop of Grahamstown, in concurrence with the Archbishop of Canterbury, in accordance with the follow. ing resolution, adopted sew. con. by the clergy and laity of the church in Natal assembled at Pietermaritzburg on October 25, 1866 : " ' That if the person now elected be hindered from se. (opting the holy office, the Bishop of Capetown and tho Bishop of Grahamstown be requested to choose, with the concurrence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, a tit and proper person, whom, when canonically consecrated, we bind hereby ourselves to receive as our bishop.'" The person chosen for this difficult post is the Rev. W, R. Blacrorie, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, formerly a master of Radley College, afterwards incumbent of Wapping, and sincepreeented to the living of St. James's, Accrington, by the Huline Trustees. The place and time for the consecration have not yet been definitely fixed. I avail myself of this opportunity to state what has been done towards making a provision for the new bishop until the endowment shall revert to the church. A committee has been formed for the purpose of raising the required in come. The Hon. and Rev. H. Douglas, Banbury, Brom& grove, the Rev. Canon Seymour, Kinwarton, Alcester, have kindly consented to act as secretaries. It has, how. ever, almost of necessity fallen upon me to guarantee au income. I have promised that 6001. a year shall be forth coming so long as it may be needed, which may very jos. sibly be for 10 or lo years, and that the espemes of the passage, &c., shall be paid. The com mittee has received promises of subscriptions an amount. ing to about 700/. a year for five years, d nearly 1,000/. has been given in donations. The subscriptions, owing to deaths, removals, and other accidental creme. stances, can hardly be estimated as producing 0001. a year for five years. At the expiration of that term we may therefore be placed in very difficult circumstances if a better provision be not made. I am sure that churchmen would not wish this responsibility to remain with me. What we most seed at this time ts a guarantee fund in case of its being required. Some have suggested that an annuity shotdd, be purchased for the period of Dr. Colenao's life. I should be thankful if this could be done, as it would relieve all parties from anxiety. "It. CAPETOWN. " 21, 'Norfolk•square, Hyde-park, Jan. 13." THE REP. NEW MAN HALL ON AMERICA. Last night the Rev. Mr. Newman Hall delivered a lecture on America, after his recent visit to that country, to • large assemblage in the Metropolitan Tabernacle. for 3lA p N re... HA tu LL , , g lt h la h o u.e m i e4 w th, it uik h a e, m , o i s h t t enthusiastic r;.tNoo„ the kindness of the greeting which welcomed him on his return from America. He took it as an eArt.it of their goodwill to America. He hoped he might also take it as an earnest of their good. will towards the pecuniary object connected with the meeting, namely, the collection of a fund for to erection of a lecture-ball and school-room in connexion with that new church which they must build in place of the Surrey Chapel, the lease of which would soon expire. I Having opened his lecture with a humorous description '. of the voyage out, he said that his friend Mr. Cyrus }IA CAM on board at Halifax. Mr. Field told butt that no angry message had ever been sent between the two co ai tries by the Atlantic cable. (Applause.) An AnerLan from Dorchester came on board—Dorchester in .tape. rica. Ho told them that he had been in INT chester in England, and he pointed out thr...3 things in which the Dorchester of America die fered from the Dorchester of England. Dorcheste in America had public schools winch all the children of the teen were educated—this was not the case in the Dorchester of England ; in the Durcheeter of Ainencs there was no house where • man could get drunk—there were 37 such places in the English Dorchester; the po house in Dorchester had only twelve poor people in it— it was far different in the English town. He was much pleased with Boston when he arrived there. lie regretted that on the way be saw some la r• sons who were intoxicated. Tide was not incon-ie tent with something else which he had said. Ile had stated that he saw more drunken persons in a late walk in London than he bad seen during the whole time ho was in America, and he repeated the statement. But this did not mean that there was no drunkenness is America. He regretted there was too much of it. At Boston he was charged, two sovereigns for two breakfast:— one for himself and one for his friend—and for kettle; his luggage, and when he remonstrated, he was toll that he might, if he liked, have all his meals for two for the .:ay —64 dollars for each. That was the rule of the hotel. The voyage from Roston to New York, by Newport, was amusinely described, accompanied with anecdotes illustrative of American life and manners. Ile visited the house of Washington Irving, and was kindly received by his nieces. lie also visited West Point where there was a military college. He had given them his experience of the Boston hotels ; but at the Kidskin Mountain Hotel the proprietor would accept Dothiug either for hireself or his friend, rind be ex perienced the none hospitality at limey other pieces. Thu river boats and railway ouriages lied often been described, but no description could du justice to the comfort and even the luxury of their snangements. Persons could travel for 1,300 miles continuously, sleeping and living in the train during the whole journey. There was a agre eable practice of chewing tolitioco, and its necessary consequence, in America, which he hoped would never be adopted in this country. (Hear, hear.) The American system of dealing with passengers' luggage was deicribel, and was recommended for adoption iu this country. Ha took the liberty of doing what everybody did to Lint—lie talked to everybody, and us this way pie obtained a good deal of information, so that nobody could say that he was " proviug" him or " putting bin through." He found from Wiet.ry amongst the laimuring claims that workmen in England, if they were only wrier, might be as well off as they were in Antoine. Rut tho homestead system, by which a man a nd his wife will obtain 80 acres of land on ordain conditions, gave the Ametican working classes an advartage over the working classes in England. Ha passed through Saratoga, Pura, to Rochester. At the last-named place he asked to we the waterfall of which he bad heard. He asked where it was. The person be a.sked said " the stores were not yet opened." He said he did not want stores—he wanted to see the waterfall. "Oh yes, we call ladies' hair water falls hero," was the reply he received. He passed on to Niagara, of which an interesting description was given, and many anecdotes were related. He went out to see the falls at night. He observed • man watching him. He In quired why he did so. " Oh," said he, " I did wit know what you were about. You might have jumped into the stream. I saw two gents do it," One of them was a com mercial traveller who was in the habit of drinking. Let as a general rule the maxim in America was that you must look out for yourself. lie was not long in the country when he was told he must tee his intellect, and he took the hint. The journey from Niagara to Lake Ontario, and the passage of the rapids of the St. Lawrence, was next detcribed. In Cana& he found that there was no state church. All churches were free. The system of educa tion was d escr ibed. There were primary, central, and eneral gra mmar schools, and these were su pported by a geral to tax. The system in the United States D A S somewhat &f -ie ferent, end the schools ware classified into primary, grammar, and high schools. Every child in America could be instructed in any of these schools, and there WO4 no position in the state which was not open to the child I 4 - 1 of the poorest person in America, if that child had the - intellect to attain to it. These were not charity schools. 8 They ware indispensable because education was indispeue able to the nation. He went to the West—to Chicago. lie must say he found everywhere the negro waiters throughout 2 America to he perfect gentlemen. Those who DOO&O•iii 6 esserted their independence were generally snobs. Here ho visited a negro church, and was much pleased with what he saw ; also the Christian Young blen's Associa " lion. In Chicago he met it house which was being moved 4 from one part of the town to another, with all the people in it—women sad children. He visited Robert Lincoln, the son of the President, and invited him to break. 2 fast He remarked that if he had been in a England he would be P rince Rob,rt. His reply was, 2 'MOW wake no difference to me, that his profession that be hr' asked " we I been I Pagel my mot publish heart" place w.l g bk 0. re 0. rc 0 r 0.34 cro Pciol 10.L1 cat — la. co - 10.44 O. -- 41 can In 1 bra 10.01 sermon. 1 reoeived • been mei, the clergy: ministers. with r a obt VIM lector*, his The °L ow, LAW I : 0 at then less. — After he he was prep 'in back. On his e a maniac, and hoax. He forge re long that coha suited everybody y would have 11 its that no 11 al respondent w; room in cense in, and compel li his presence. d wanton cr d uttered t "hen he found e placed her with th them. He t oro, but her fries offered him hued, however, ey bad been a nt then said o had been so r nullifying the through the ndent Derups recovered set deal that he ha ; that he had it 'th the petitioner d acquiesced in [The case W.lB atl THE Henry Hlull, of ribed :to n pan ngliani, and .1/,,, ith absconding ft our Mr. Richut side' in White I It appeared thv lay SCOOIOI.O it , • tway, ail . i took er, missed short is telegraph the d Police•sergeatt the loving coup ern seen to aligh ly, being charip aler residing at lug takett to MI 101Igilt various 0 On being brow; val of both pri fully h. MA All The priv.ov•l:,, Cu remove. I. THE sT. COl - 12T (11 The argnmento Mr. Prideaux I def;ze onlydant ant elevate ?led that It rely an eleva he Dean of ) with elevati . p. but we cht ne in other pl ey cannot chi u have done n was the obja Pridcaux th at all, it • Ater which a d the biahop Dochie had n the first Pr: the .objet oetowhatl omitted Puritan pal ke of the to hear a a . Stephen' Kr. hfactom people, an seeration p 1 r. Pridest vation that the second the commtir chnrch. [The can PRINCE A t) SZAHAW Prince eats of Ea deriand, is a ilea south of onderry (Fat Stengel) oolli re for tingles Obtains about these seat, tk `se the reside l o yron was me nude of a favouri sting of ie i icheie COURT 4 hfr. Price, ( 'timer ; the This is 6 _ no the e" , Vowed for demertten , o 1856 Circ h uit) , er he d t reten ce of orreePonde d tenee for t tuned cob , ' stopPed dent, vet dulterl will isekburn ; Mr. Yeatm rly of the n e had neve 864, and ho t means of :ered de trb al to he had' then, who :traction, 111 ho, she rep mes beaten • 'th their ce rank off the er to Scotb very eat? e reached yee. With Edinburs l L and that ei 1 r weeping ter some b ; learned ft t's brothel but I 'th her thei, ttalion of . Ingisna ne wean. ... ..-__ ..... • I knew my father's position would - wake no difference 'a ------ • y were La o me, that I most work for my living ;" and so he did in . r Wynyard iis profession of a solicitor, except for the short tints es were tre hat he had been fighting order General Grant. He Vane, eked him about the Queen's letter. " Yes," said he, Tel of the "we have been asked often about that letter, we lasts been asked to publish it. But it is a long letter of three pages ; the outgushing of a generous wonsan's heart, awl • lonely form my soother and myself thought it would not be right to sli p s Womb publish a letter written in the effusion of a woolens • rosvenor, I , place of President Lincoln, and preached an antislavery , • Princs. heart." (Applause.) Be visited Springfield, the native . h_.erls. Aft sermon. He had not time to describe the hospitality he olunteer b received at Breton and the kindness with which he ha Ar Prince . 'imagers s been received by Lo ngfellow, Lowell, an d Whittier, m • ill mes Tec the clergymen of America , no t excluding even the Unitarian d ministers. There was • universal sentiment in America ' Tee e '. with regard to the church, and it was this, that to endow , a church was to mip& it. (Applause.) The rev. gentle- esters:lay man concluded a lonthy, but by no Walla trediOa . pyre of t lecture, as he had begun, amidst the universal applause of ' , ter, the his numerous sodium , . in tl . ought des _.........•-• . • ire, at I The Rev. W. Arnett, of Edinburgh , formerly of attentio Glasgow, has been chosen to snowed the late Bev. Dr. . doubt cal yin d ec i James Hamilton, of the Scottish Presbyterian aurae nominal Regent-square. ends w Mrs. Thorneyoroft, the sculptor, has presented •.ht to to the Liverpool Corporation • bust o f the Priam hich he Christian. • emo • tive, Teeterdßl evening the trade smen who ho ld formed tl Macau from the Prinoe a nd PTIM tiny of ON it • North Zaltepsise7ed a testimonial , reaseeeliall of • ' , audio. • siimr emirs piece and other systoles of vertu by Mr. J.ll. WY I Bensaa, he Mr. Henry Mellott, for his exertions as besot Immoot to I r ieamotery in initiating aud urn if the an o teeMvais in commemoration of the ys of tht= ef higluaesses. • Mai IM 4 . ~ • . . • . .. , fl \ lir 1