The Express. — London, England, 1865-12-25 00:00:00

( M.WSPAPEII . : , .....rj . '-'". , ,e' Im :..• i - '•'-, '. 1 RR. 95. 1865. ( STA I YlkJ) gt usx.prit4sll. ~, , 4. . 1 ~/ •,. SS mg / CE __.....-..vwrirwret wet - vox!lt MM. Id. ADDITIONAL r TWOPEN FRANCE. DRAMA. the toy celled Pharaoh's serpents. Without the slightest denser from firs, with very little saint sad what slight smell there is of rather • pleamist nature Wm otherwisti, these produce in the drawing room all that can be effected is the garde° by the most beautiful of fireworks, &Moe& on a sods proportionate to the plass when they sr• shown off. Their exhibition forms part of • very entortidning lac. tuts on all the recent discoveries is gun cotton—a lecture which we vesture to prophesy will be the delight of many • young troublesome of that peculiar age whoa gunpowder sad everything be ought not to isdulge in is ths joy of the boy's mind, sad what he thinks most of during the trusty- preedne their hearty approbation of the manner in which the designs of the architect have been carried into effect, the company adjourned to the greenroom, and partook et a handsome collation. Mr. John Oxerrford wan called to the chair, and in proposing the health of Mr. Shepherd congratula ted him on the completion of the theatre and the possession of an edifice in which the (modest scenic displays might be made . Mr. Shepherd. In replying, avowed his intention to spare no pains and rap in bringing out novel effects, and to reader the Surrey one of the moat, if not the most attractive theatre in the metropolis. He expressed the most confident antici pations that with the means now at his dispcml, and the attractions he would be able to offer, he would meet with every encouragement from the public. A Donbas of other toasts, including the health of the architect, the builder, Holonel Temple West, the prom, dramatic authors, pros perity to the dram% and others of a like character were give°, and moray interesting anecdotes were told of Ellistos, Dihdro, and former lessees. The major part of the com paay then adjonreed to the theatre to witness the dress re hearsal of the pantomime, which promises to be one of the very best that has ever been peoduoed. Some of the scenes are very beautiful, bad were highly applauded by the some whet arnica audience present. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. ______-----r- -- --.-- ---- 91MINSLAND. BLACK BALL PA...S at:WEB LINK—New arrangements with H. 11.1 Led Government. Redaction of Moorage rare to Alk poen ttkto MI chasm tOrtilltUN OCEAN. tor BRISBANE, Moreton Bay, Direct. 116 galgolit cent ship, forming one of the Black Ball celebrated o m e of Queensland packet., will be despatched punctually to doe. The accommodation tor all classes et pansengers cannot la Ito JAMES BAINES ant Co, Liverpool; all agents for Beet. it Ball Line ; and T. IL MACKAY and Co., I . Isadenhall- Wein Landon. L.C. (azurzes maawa.) THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN ITALY. FLORENCE, Dzo. 23. The new ministry is not yet constituted. To-day in the Chamber of Deputies a debate took place upon the extension of the term for the application of the exceptional law on brigandage. The opinion of the Committee was opposed to an extension of the law. The Minister of the Interior admitted that the condition of the southern pro vinces had greatly improved, brigandage no longer having a political character. Ile accepted the measure agreed to by the Committee of adopt ing exceptional measures only upon the Pontifical frontier, and stated that he withdrew the law in question. The Chamber subsequently resolved to adjourn until the 15th January next. four hours. " The Royal Magic Tub," which is to bring forth gifts and toys is hundreds, ea presents to all jurealles present oa the mornings end evesinp of the Srd, 10th. 17th, and 24th of January, we did not see, for there bobs( no children present its exhibition was reserved for the proper occasion, but if its promises are as well fulfilled as thole of 'ray *log elms which PrOlOatfle Pepper has brought out this Christmas, few of the young people that visit the institution on these days will go away empty handed. There are many other things to bosun at the Polytechnic which merit praise had we the space to notice them. and notably the sew series of dissolving views imitating the Wed Robinson Crowe. But to see these and various enter• tainments which we ought to but do not mention, the bud thing everybody cut do is to go and judge for themselves. They will not be disappointed wit h what they see, either in quantity or quality. SESRS. MONEY WIORAM and SONS' (of Macawsll-7ard, London) LINK of STEAM and PACKET 1 to Al STRA LIA. —For M ELAM/ENT, Port Phi3ll .s t um direct rgr th e Docks on Saturday. toff at uthl, the splendid clipper ship LINLirIirIiLLILE, 1,100 e East ken EDWARD CHARLETO:4, an : lying in th bat Data Mar oscoso n odatious tor all dames of pasteniwa e anaurpassed, sad she will carry an esperienced surgeon— Tartar of Plossalso apply to ALLPORT and MORGAN, with Arra ON WIORAM and SONS. 7. Lendonhalloirset. EITANI 'sox unmoor.. OR q w IIIII , IITO L WN TO NEW YORK, TWICE A was LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and .a. 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This Auociation makes advances upon approved mercantile end offeror CUrititl, and receives money on deposit at interest for sh long periods. For the couvenknce of depositors for a fixed term of three years, debentures may be obtained under seal or the %iodation With coupons for quarted7 intereet attached, payable at these Wks& w . C. WIIPTERBOTTOII, Secretary. 27, lombard-streett ASTLEY'S THEATRE ROYAL.I I.emee, Mr. E. T. SMITH. 1565 and 1906. TO-MORROW EVENING tIIOXING mom, willcal pro duced an entirely new , original, grand prochildreni, be hippo dramatic. comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM, TOM THE PIPER'S SON. POPE JOAN AND LITTLE 130 PEEP gg, Old Daddy Lonj , rets, and the Pig that Went t o Market and Pig that Stayed at Home. The Magnificent Scenery and the unprecedented Transforma tion Effects designed and painted by Mr. C. Brew, Mr. W. Brow, and numerous assl Reduced usual. _ _ S ---- TODARE.—EI CRISTISIAS HOLIDAYS.— THEATRE of MYSTERY. 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The Weis , ' announced for Thursday, cornmeocing at Buttes, sad 'pro -1 needing to the several stations, until the whole claim (said tto be from 2,0001. to 3,0001.) be satisted.--Ratterst Morning Ile , ' °BRAT NORTBZRY EFORPITAL, CALIDOWIAN-101.D. .--Number of patients for the week ending d with* 172 were new ow. .ley.equare, aged SO. Jae, Burton old Sent I e 5. Lieutenant. ,ydon, after thius, gburth, Mr. I, of No. Be ter, at the ittetrlaro.-• MADRID, Dic. n (ram ooa owe comizarosmarr.) PARIS, SATURDAY Enariso. The expulsion of the five students which has caused of such a commotion in the Quartier Latin was more directly the act the government than I bad supposed. The academic couucil of the School of Medicine would never have taken any notice of the Libge speeches had it not been set in motion by M. Duruy, the Minister of Public Instruction, whose letters missive ordering a trial were no doubt considered by the peouliar tribuoal as equl valent to a command to punish. The more M. Duruy's demonstration is considered the more the opinion prevails that he has not exercised a mime discretion. A very curious episode in the history of the Restoration shows that French students very soon renounce "subversive doctrines" when they leave college. In 18 22 , thirty or forty young men, almost all belongieg to the Paris schools, went in post-chaises to Belfort to join in a conspiracy, the object of which was to overthrow the government. They were all arrested, and when interrogsted by a judge of instruction as to the cause of their presence in Ahem haughtily refused to answer a single question. Four only were found guilty by a jury ; the rest went back to their studies, and although among them there were some who professed atheism just as the five Liege students are accused of having done, it never occurred to the Minister of Public Instruction of that day, when c atholicism was rampant, and the religion of the State, to prevent these hot-heated youths from completing their academic education. Now, among these students were the following : De Cor celles, amba s sador at Rom e in 1848 ; Cathay, re ceiver of finance ; Salveton, procureur-general ; Vemibre, medical inspector of Mont d'Or ; Jaques Dubochet, a large manufacturer ; Paulin, pub lisher of the " History of the Consulate and the Empire ;" Rouen, a promoter of the first railway made in France ; Ary Scheirer, the great painter ; and Ruches, then an infidel, but who died last year a fervent catholic. With such examples before him, M. Duruy might surely . have safely refrained front a step which for ever ruins the pro fessional prospects of young men who after all did nothing which the law of France can take notice of, and, moreover, were guilty of no breach of any scholastic rules. The result of his having taken a different view of his duty has been to bring an immense amount of odium upon the government, to provoke insubor ' dinatiou from that esprit de corps which always pre -1 veils in the schools, and seriously to interrupt the , course of study at the most important period of the I collegiate year. It appears from the Mouiteur of this morning that the measure of closing the schools will not be at present resorted to, but that cards of admission will be withdrawn from all students known to have acted in a disorderly way. Proudhon's "Gospels with Notes" has been seized to-day at Lacroix's library as containing "attacks upon a religion r eco g nized b y the State." The Courrier Francais was also seized to-day. A play called Idatheur au.c ruinous, by M. Th6o dore Barribre, has been prohibited by the censor. The author, in publicly announcing this fact, says : —" In my play I spoke of fidelity, virtue, and honour. But now-a-days nothing but realities are allowed on the stage." A hard hit this at La Famine &mitt,* and Hetiriette 3furechale ! When the Epoque had a warring, the other day, another was simultaneously served on the Prase, but the editor on ditty said it arrived toolate for insertion that evening. M. Emil e de Girardin (whose friend Prince Napoleon, by the way, is now in town) be stirred himself, and gave explanations which induced the Minister of the Interior to withdraw the il warnin. val uable sSevral of the journals now ba o this as a precedent, and speak f the probability of the establishment of 'a sort of ad ministrative tribunal, before which the editor of a journal may always be beard , to show MAN why a warning should not be made absolute. I think these writers take a mistaken view, that any such innovation, so far front being a privilege, would merely be a mode of making their subordination to the executive power more humiliating than it is. A warning does no harm in itself, and is not neces sarily attended with harmful consequences. The government is not compelled to suspend or suppress a newspaper because it has had twos r more warn it - ings, and if it desires to do a papea mischief can at any time find an excuse for doing so. What the independent press should steadily protest against is the system of warnings altogether. It is mere unnesessary degradation to be admitted to the presence of an official to beg pardon and promise ' never to do so any more." The suggested tribu nal would be no judicial court at all. What the press wants is a clear law to go by, and a jury, or I at least a judge, to administer it. Madame Augustine Brohan, the actress of the Franqais, gained a prize of 50,000 f. at the last draw ing of City of Paris bonds. An extraordinary murder case has just been tried in the Gironde. In September last a young man of 18, named Villele, a waiter in an eating-house at Bordeaux, told his master that he wished to leave, without assigning any reason. Hie wages were paid, and he went away with his trunk. The someday he engaged himself in another eating-house. In the afternoon he made an excuse to go out, went to his former master's bouae, and walking straight into the kitchen, plunged a long knife into the thebeck of the cook, a man nam ed Dome; who died of wound in the course of a few minutes. Villele did n ot attempt to escape, and when arrested he said that he was tired of life, that his religious prin ciples prevented him from committing suicide, and so he resolved to do an act which would ensure his execution and at the same time give him time to prepare for death. He at first intended to kill a young girl of 15, who served iu a shop, but after waiting for some time in vain in a street through , which she was in the habit of pass t ing, he thought he would go and stab the cook a the restaurant. 0 1 There being no evidence that he had any grudge of against Domec the prosecution inclined to credit his let story, but attributed his act to a strange and wicked " perversity of mind which deserved puuishment. The "7 in counsel set up the p lea of insanity, and De- r the in support of it mentioned that he had devised a so, is very absurd project for the construction of a u bal vPre- loon on anew principle. The verdict was, gilt, titian with extenuating circumstances, and the sentence a " d twenty years' imprisonment with hard labour. h ere two of The Bourse closed hea vil y , with a fall in rentof • hour- 24 for cash and sc. for account, the la st prices being Hilo is 68.20 and 68.324. Mobilier fell 11.25. Notwith stand he gal- standing that hopes of a rise are built here upou as M. dilly Fould's forthcoming financial report, tw an indisposition to buy on the eve of two successive d, onee p ia are holydays. The subscription to the Turkish loan a pincer closed to-day. ersinses) LYCEUM. This house re-opened on Saturday evening with a dramatic version, In nine tableaux, of Scott's powerful end gloomy tale, "The Bride of Lammermoor." Of all the Weeds, novels, this, perhaps, is the one lest calculated for a moment ul thunder to the stage. Its atmosphere is dark with crimes and misfortunes, omens, and fulfilment'. Its catastrophe is dramatically intractable yet upon that CDWI"PitO, and the incidents leading to it, the interest of the seeder almost exclusively ham; for little or none can be Fated by the characters themselves. The Master of v on Raenswood belongs to a class of heroes made very popular by Lord Byr shortly before the "Bide of Lammermoor" wee written. He he points of reeemblanos to Conrad. LAM Manfred, and two or three other scowling portraits in the Break gallery. Lacy Ashton is gentle, but not sufficiently individualised to arose much smppethy. Caleb Balderston. dodders about the story like a serious puttelooa ; and the minor characters have so little to do that it hardly matters whether they are lila-like or sot. In the operatic arrange. IDODi of the novel—made bearable by the music of Demi. Mali—there are wholesale variation s from the original ; and a pod many liberties have also been taker' with Sett upon Ake present ocosaion by the adapter of The Mager of BIOODOWPOOd, Mr. Palpate Simpson. In the first place, an attempt upon ffit of * W iUiam Aebtoit is made in the Lessen readmin by Booklet and his followers, when Laity and her tether take shelter from the tempest in the castle 1 1 of Wolf's Crag. This innovation has probably ben made with a view of giving an effective climax to an sot other ' was wanting in movement and spirit ; but we think that • the result of the experiment scarcely judifise ita The curtain should have come down at the mo ment when Ravenswood shakes hands with Lacy, end a prolonged peal of thunder °eve's.s the neighbourhood. The second deviation, in point of importance, ovens at the conclusion of the tale. Mr. Feigns. Simp so n brings Edgar, through the medium of a dream, to the door of the chapel where Luoy's marriage with Bucklaw is in course of solemnisation. He rushes frantically in, eases the Wilting bride in his arms, aad c arries herl off after the manner of young Lachine:. Pursued by wedding guests a nd retainers, he makes his way to the Relpie's Flow, and the play does upon the engulf meat of Lacy Ashton and the Mester of Ravenswood in the quickest's. The vague, poetic beauty of the novel's eliding is thus to a certain extent sacrificed in the play to melodramatic effect, but it is difficult to conceive bow the adapter—forced to depart from, or at lest to modify, the repulsive termination of his origiosl—could have provided any catastrophe not open to objection. The diatom of the piece is ideated, as far as the stage exigencies would allow, with that of Sir Welter Scott. The acting of the drama wee quite up to the high standard of Mr. Feller's theatre. The manager was a little too and pleasing in the character of Edgar, who in reality seems to have ben a very uncouth sad Mama ditioned person. Mr. Feebler has made him resemble ono el 1 those chivalrous and ardent heroes common on the French stage, and particularly is the plays of Victor Hugo. This, I however, was a necessity, since to audience could have I, sympathised with a close copy of Booth's creation. Mr. Hannan Vele gave • careful representation of the hot , blooded Mr. Hayston of Buckley. Mr. Widdicombsu ite i d his beet for Captain Craigengelt , a character very un to him ; and Mr. Emery was quaint, but • little too dry, as Caleb Belderstee. The part of Lucy Ashton was made interesting by the tendernese thrown into it by Mies Car. lotta Leclercq ; her acting throughout the latter scenes of the play was admirable. Miss Tense, as Aloe—the old servant of the hone of Ravenswood —was most im pressive, and fully jastified the management in having selected her expressly to play that character. Miss Els• worthy was duly dignified and overbearing as Lady Ashton, The new scenery, by Mr. T. Grieve, is maguificent, the scene of the Kelpie's Flow, with the light of the sinking moon upon it, beisg particularly effective. The theatre was well filled, and the audience comprised, as is usual on Lyceum first nights, a great many literary artistic celebrities. The reception of The Master of Ravenswood was enthusiastic, and Mr. Feeler was three or four times called on to bow his acknowledgment.. No doubt when the earlier acts of the new drama have been cut down, and thereby improved, the piece will deserve and enjoy • long career. THE NEW ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. After an almost incredible amount of pains, labour, and anxiety on the p art of the architect, builders, and levee, the great work of recorstruoting the new Surrey Theatre in time for the Christmas pantomime has been succesafully moomplished, and the inhabitants of the southern portion of the metropolis can now boast of a s theatre which has bee n j ustl y styled, by the lessee in Li opening announcement one of the most magnificent and c ommodious in London. The progress made during the past few days has been marvellous. When we visited the establishment early last week the whole of the interior of the ; t b u ilding presented a scene of the utmost apparent con! l not a particle of the decoration was comm enced, nor was there a single seat erected in the pit or boxes, the whole of the auditorium being handed over to an army of car penters, painters g ilder', and artificers of ever y descrip tion, who appeared to be working amidst a Babel of sound and confusion. There was hardly a single person at that time bold enough to predicate that the theatre would be in anything like a state of completeness by Boxing-night, yet by working in relays night and day, sod by the combined energy of the builders and the management, the work ad. yawed with such rapid strides, that the building has been comp l e t e ly finished in all its parts, and banded over to Mr. Shepherd, the lessee. On Saturday last a large number of gentlemen, chiefly eosnec t e d with literature and the prom, were invited by Mr. Shepherd, and Mr. John Ellis, the architect` to inspect the theatre previous to its opening to-morrow. The company. who arrived about half-put three o'cloc k i t, tbe a fternoon, were received by the lessee, the archi the builders, and the beads of the various departments, in the grese.roorn, and were afterwards taken round the building by Mr. Ellis. Everytbiog was found to be in a complete state of propustiou. Thegeneral appearance of the theatre is very striking and elegant, while the comfort of the visitors will be greatly optimised by the extraordinary facilities which have Mies given for seeing and hearing everything produced on the stage from the remotest parts of the house. What seemed to strike the visitors on Saturday with the greatest astonishment was the vast WAS of machinethery, both above and belo w the stags, which will enable management to produce effects of great splendour. Some idea of the magnitude of the stage may be obtained when we state that it is within • few feet of the length of C ov ent-garden stage, and f ourteen feet wider. In point of fact the stage and its appliances form by far the larger portion of the house. The decoration is of a light very and graceful character, the roof and sunlight being beautiful. The contractor entrusted f witWhhite thef burs ildinglor whom was Mr.the C. N. Foster, of New W harf, ria, iron roofs, girders, and columns were made by Messrs. Rankin and Co., of Liverpool ; the iron staircase. by Mr. Pountney, of Blackfriareroad ; the gas fittings by Messrs. Jones, of Bow-street, Covent.gardan ; the furnishing by Messrs. Green, of Idortirnerstrest ; the modidliog and decorations conjointly by Mr. E. W. Bred. NORMANDY GEFSE.-011 Thursday last we saw well, of Great Portland.street, and Mr. Parlby, of Ratt ail the shop of Messrs. Broome, poultry salesmen. of bone-place. from special denim by the architect ; the sun- Newgate-market, a consignment of geese imported from Normandy by Mons. Rehire , goose and butter merchant, which in weight and quality far exceed the finest English light by Marrs. Strode, of St. Martin'sde-Graod ; the statuary by Mews. Squires and Owen, of Oak Wharf, City. =brought to market this mason. Yet the French road. Mr. John Hurley superintended for the builder, Mr. s have • custom which effectuslly checks the Bilborougb acted as foreman for the montations sod twick. favourable reception of these birds by English dealers work, Mr. Joseph Derry as foreman of cupsnteis, Mr. and, slight as it may appear,. the objection is deep-rooted arid a great hindrance to fair c ompetition. The alleged fault—strange to say—lies in the tails of the birds, which Meshes as foreman for Mesas. ilsokin ; the whole of the stage was entrusted to the care of Mr. William Rather, aod the French killers persist in leaving attached. sod which Mil_tkirtico to Messrs. Reitman and Ivey ; and all have done lowers the gems in the estimation of English buyers. CM' work thoroughly and efficiently, • and without any It Is surprising that this unfounded prejudice is not at once dispensed with, when we have proof that our neighbours across the Chanoel can set as an excellent maniple in the beeeding and feeding of poultry. various accidset to life or limb. The whole of the &swings and designs were supplied by Mr. John Ellis, I n th e architect, of Anstiofriare, and carried out under his cop to which we allude ore the birds were well covered with personal supsrinteodence, on behalf of Lieut.... Colonel solid doh, and weighed trout ten to thirteen Pounds each. Temple West, to whose taste and liberality, both Twenty thousand of them changed hands on Thureday last in Leadeitall and Rewrote markete.—The Grocer. In the erection aod in the additional expertise iocurred, we blzraoror.rrair Pans HOSPITAL, DIVONIBILSII. " gegel y trn " the building ' mu um P leted may remain as rieRAN34 Ornr. _4lb, myn a. number c i * A m t. n li eved substantial monument of the judicious investment el a during the week eoding Deo. 23 was—Medinal, 841 ; i large amount of capital. untold, 615; total, 1,456; of which 637 win Dew mesa. I After inspecting every pert of the building and ex. SPAIN. It is semi-officially announced that since the re cognition of Italy by Spain, the Pope has sent an affectionate letter to Queen Isabella, rendering justice to her Majesty's religious sentiments. The Epoca states that the Queen received Father Claret yesterday. The Madrid journals approve the circular of the Director of Public Instruction published yesterday. The report that the ministry intended to propose a tax upon incomes derived from stock in the public funds is unfounded. The 2nd of March has been appointed for the payment of the interest on the coupons of the public debt. The Epoca of to-day, in confirming the intelli gence that the Pope had written a letter to Queen Isabella, says that no reply was given to the same. The government has taken precautions against depredations by Chilian privateers upon Spanish • commerce. _-- CHINA. AND JAPAN. (Via Alexandria.) 1 HONG KONG, Nov. 15. Sir Rutherford Aleock has set out for th Taku forte, en route for Pekin, and out hitherto met with no opposition. At Shanghae and in this city bin Excellency was met by deputations, by whom be was entrusted with several matters to be laid before the Imperial cabinet. The English consul at Swatao has gone to Cheochow, in order it is presumed to open that place to Europeans under the Tientsin treaty. The maritime customs are working well. Some gunboats have attacked a fleet of piratical vessels, destroying 10 craft and capturing a lorcha. A registration office for Chinese servants has been opened at Shangbae. A great advance has taken place in piece goods. The Albeona and Shakespeare have been lost. Advices from Japan state that the British, French, and Dutch mini sters had started for the residence of the Mikado, wi th the object, it was supposed, of obtaining his consent to the Tycoon's treaties, and of opening Ossaca and Hiogo to foreign trade. Another of the murderers of Major Baldwin and Lieutenant Bird had been captured at Yeddo. He confessed his crime and was executed. The crop of raw silk was short. Piece goods had advanced to unprecedented rates. (By Overland Telegraph f rem Gas.) BLIANGBAN, Nov. 25. The anti-foreign party are actively intriguing at Pekin. Intelligence received from Japan announces that the Mikado had refused to open the ports. The foreign ministers bad referred the question to their r espective governments. The fleets had returned to Yokohama. 'writ:. I TROOPS DOH JAWAICA.—A draft of the second battalion 6th Regiment, consisting of Lieutenant C. Whyte, one sergeant, and 30 rank and file, left the camp at C toolches ter on Friday afternoon for Liverpool, and embark join the service COID pinks of the regiment at Jamaica. A LETTsa FROM DR. Bets.—Tbe following letter from Dr. Beke has bees received by Renter's Tele gram Company (Limi ted) :—" Suez, Dec. 6, 1865.—We rived here yesterday, and are looking for the means of con veyance to Mamowali. There is no news from e ill Coon' Ca meron and his companio ns in captivity, though ther intelligence from Maasowah down to the middle of Novem ber. At that date the rebel chief Direen Gobasye occupied the whole country between the capital Gondar and the river Takkszys Globaxie. the Waaphum or hereditary prime of the province of Wee& was in Tier* wi th an army, and • pitched battle between him and to was imminent. The Emperor Theodore was gone to Shoe in pursuit of Meailek, toe crown prim, of that country, who had escaped from Arabs Magdala in the beginning of July Wt. Since Mr. Itassam's departure from Masowah on October 15 with forty loaded camels, nothing has been heard of him. His road lay through the frontier districts of Bogie, Beres, Teka, Kedsref, and Kaleba', at the chief place of which last-named district he ought by this time to bare arrived. His progress thence to Gondar rosy probably be impeded by the presence of the troop; of lk rem Cotes's. Padre Giovanni Stella, the head of the Roman catholic mission at Kern. the capital of Bogire- e, is re ported to have gone to Paris for the purpose of rep senting to the Emperor Napoleon the deplorable condition of the inhabitants of that country from t Take. he A aggS ish pro two of ressions and c ruelty of the Egyptian troops in wed testant mission is about to be established in 80004, the members of which have arrived at Cairo. The iDI ileDlT.is r ection in the Egyptian poisonous on the Upper N said to be quelled." EXHIBITION OF NATIONAL PORTP.AITS.—The gal lerim in which Lord Derby's great schema, so historically suggestive, is won to find its realisation ere in rapid pro gifts of completion at South Kensington. The galleries are perfectly dry. The arrangements to maintain a proper uniform temperature (excluding al ly fire from the premises) and for constant watch b y the po give every security that an be provided. They have • quiet look of fitees s, both in their simple arrangement ad decorative colouring, sod are calculated to contain about 800 pictures, about Nis number of British oil paintiop exhibited in 1862. We understand that they will not fail to he adequately filled. On all hands there has been a hearty reopens, and many family immures which have Dever before lett walla where they have hung for generations have been placed at the dis posal of the committee. It has been proposed that the first yeses exhibition, which it to open inApril next, should extend to the revolution of 1688 ; bet we learn that the number of fine portraits offered may perhaps compel the committee to terminate the first year's exhibition with the portraits of the Commonweelth. DE. DE J LIGHT-BROWN COD Liviat On. OFVIIO3I 01 TEI LANtwr."—A p.enricloss falser, much too paystent. Is the impression that Cod Liver 011. et for medical can easily be precared. The -lancet - observe,— " T X"eilipewitten of palette cod we? etl is red so simple as might be supped- len carats that oils. which are anything but the oil of the liver of the cod, ere onen sold as much. We End Dr. de Jnoutesahl to be genuine, and rich In iodine and the elements of the bile." Sold age csesillwilwrial beE-pints, U. nth ; pints. is. 9d. quarts . SA : by Dr de eagles sole consignees, enter, iiarford, and Co., 77, Strand, londen; and chemists. — [Advertisement) oalusviss AMUSEMENTS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The neater of the Sydenham revels hid, on Saturday, • grand rehearsal of his Christmas programme and everything went off to the satisfaction of • very numerous audience. Had there been nothing else to see but the Palace itself, the attraction would any have been grate them amid, perhaps, be produced in other part of the w orld. It ill an established " thing of beauty," and if it be also " a joy for ever," its joyounens is never more con. venous than at Christina time, when everything else looks so dull and sombre. The idea of the➢spectator on Saturday lees was that all the leaves and greenery which had disap peared from the face of the land outside had taken shelter under the crystal roof, there to flourish until summer time comes round again. There ere flowers, too, everywhere, and golden fish and trickling fountains --everything, in fact, to eradicate the impression that we are in the middle of an English winter. But the master of the revels is not satis fied with all this ; be ransacks the world of rarity sad monstrosity, and his reward is that the whole world of metropolitan cariaity consider it a moral dut shish him • Christmas visit. He his never been MOT* la his search after novelty than this present Name. To bate, there is Signor Ethardo, whose complete SWAM on Samm day fully justified the commendation we ventured to give him in a former notes. His audience was ten times more numerous than on the ocossios of his debel, and the en thusiasm fifty times greater. There was but one opinion, and that wee that • more elegant, dare& sod novel gym nastic feat than his was never exhibited to the public. Next there is, " The Bologna family," who with ladders make " impossibilities " the meet things in the world, after which cornea Mx. Stead, and when he has mak fied the most incredulous spectator of the existence of • perpetual motion, the duologiste Duriah sad Davies take the stage, and treadle s the elegant Mandarin Chinese el Chang and Chow into exceedingly comic "pigeon" English. We have seldom seen • better managed joke than the won derful performance of the Woodenheed Fancily, which should certainly entitle Signor Bevani to the gold medal of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Acrobats, and sa for Herr Preskow, the Danish gymnast, we defy Pre facer Owen himself to prove him • vertebrate animal. The I comic pantomime is by Nelson Lee, an announcement 1 1 which we conceive supersedes crism, and if any one be dubious as to the way is whith it went off at the dress rehearsal, we refer hint to the 2,000 little boys and girls who made the crystal roof ring again with their merry laughter from the begionisg to the end of the performance. If there leas • point at which the juvenile enthusiasm culminated, it was when the bull-dog beat the policeman, another proof of the wideepread popu larity of Sir Richard Mayne's interesting family. Finally, the was the great organ with its sacred, and the Palace band with its well-selected sealer music, and the pork pies and the barons of beef, sad the liquid nourishment of the refreshment department, the resource of which have all been called out in tremendous force this year to meet the appetites of the quarter of • million or so of holiday visitors who are confidently expected to pay at the Palace turnstiles during the present week. ARCIITS SKATING-DULL AND GYMNASIUM.-- The introduction of railways into the heart of the metro polis having created a considerable extent of subway in some of the great centres of population, the ever e spirit of sate:pries at once began to speculate in what way the vacant sperms thus formed could be utilised. Shops, stone, and " shades ' have been fashioned out of the vaulted region thus artificially created, but peehaps no application of the railway arches has been so happy se that to which Mr. Goodman has converted some of those under the Charing-cross terminus. At the river end of Villiers-street may be seen a well-lighted room 200 feet in length, 36 feet wide, and 25 feet high, in which the h ea lthful exercise of skating is practised by hundreds of young men under the new system of skating Withollt ice. The advantages of pieces of this kid, where reoreation and healthy excitement are combined, ars so obvious that they only require to be known in order to iodine young persons to avail themeless of them. The necessity of providing some means for the exercise of the body in our large and populous towns is forcing itself on the coesideration of even public bodies, and the application of railway arches to this purpose deserves every enco ura g ement and support. As y Mr. Goodman has only erected& pleasant skating hall, but • gymnasium is in course of construction, and will soon be completed. Skating on a smooth floor is not so egreethle an amusement, doubtless, as that of sliding on the gluey surface of the ice in the keen crisp; air of winter, but it is still a graceful and exhilarating exercise, sad will, no doubt , when better known, be fully appreciated by thousands who at present have no opportunity of spieling anything like physical recreation, except by an outlay of time and means which comparatively a few only can afford. Mr. Frith'e picture of t he Derb y Day hen at last been placed on the walls at the South Kensington Museum. among the pictures of the British school in charge of the t ru stees of th e National Gallery, and will be exhibited during the Christmas week, when the Museum will be open daily 0110 p.m. on and from Tuesda y , the 26th inst., to January 2, 1868. NAVAL AND MILITARY. -- --e--- OUTRAN, Mc. 24. An additional force of Royal Artillery has been d e spatched by the authorities to Jamaica, • detachment of 43 ono-rommiasiototd officers and men from the Ist divisioa of the depot brigade having proceeded yesterday, in sword. snot with orders to that elect, to Liverpool. where they embarked on board the chartered troopship California, far Jamaica. An order has been received at this prrison from the Horse Guards directing reinforoemeota fcw the lot battalion 4th (Riog's Own) Regiment. let battalion 154 ..tegiment, sod the 29th Regiment, to be held in readiness to proceed to Gravesend, there to embark for the Mediterra nean to augment the service companies of the regiments narn«l at GiWaltar sad Malta. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. OPENING or THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY Visitors to to th is popular p lace of amusement will . siOrt TO FinenUnT.—On Saturday morning, at an early have little reason to complain of the entertainments pro. hour, the new extension of the Metropolitan Railway to vided for their amusernent:cluriog the present season. On Finsbury was th r own open for public passenger a s The Saturdsy evening there was • private dress rehearsal of the first trains which passed over the new line were two con various lectures, dissolving views, fairy tales, optical We vain; 1,143 workmen to their employment. lit. Fenton sions, and other matters of t he kind too numerous to men. , wee at his post at the beginning of t he rush of tra ffi c, and h lion, which proved • great success ; sad althoug, of course then at intervaL al only a few minutes t r ain after train was a rehearsal is never quite so perfect as when the public is despatched from the new Moorgatostseet station at Fins• present ea mum, those who were at the Polytechnic the bury, and the Paddington and other stations on the line. night before last were fully able to j ud g e of the merits of Au city long the flow o f tra ffi c lasted, the carriages in most whet Proforma Pepper and his abl e staff have, at much intense being crowded, and many of the passengers only expense and more trouble, been able to put into their getting standing room. The platforms of the Moorpte, Christmas bill of fare. Aldersgase, Farringdon, and Gower street stations were the The standing dishes of the Polytechnic we are all eir. Tainted with, and like the national dishes which figure on scenes of considerable excitement. At the new Farriogdon , street station—the old terminus being partly closed, and our tables et this time, they certainly sat none the worse i' used only for the Great Western and Great Northern trains reverted to year after year. The great geological model ef —there was a constant stream of passompre. Osly in • few the earth's crust, the diving bell, the glass working, the steam engine, and Mr. Davis's china and glass mending, we instances were the passengers detained. sod that but slightly, and owing to the excellent code of signals and the arrange. have all known MOM or leas since we were boys, and now mints, the traffic was carried on throughout the day nous. take our own boys to visit them again and again, with u ingly, about 100,000 mongers having been conveyed over much pleasure as when we were first taken there. But there the line by the close of the time fixed for running. No are now, and more particularly this year, many additions accident whatever occurre d. Yesterday t h e tra m, was to the programme which in our yoathful days would also large. The junction between Farringdou-stent have been dreamt of, and which must be seen to be believed and Ludgate has yet to las inspected. Should it, First, and perhaps as well worth peeing and hearing as any" however, be soon passed by the government inspector it will thing in London,is a lecture (the word has no business in the b. emceed , it is hope d . by New y es e s day. The arrange' Christmas holidays, but the fault is Professor Pepper's, not ments for the passage of the London, Chatham, and ours), entitled " Half Hours with Sir David Breweter," Dore, wed Great Northern tr a m over t h e m etropo lit a n in the course of which are introduced. fiat , • Railway wen completed on Saturday, and when traffic is kaleiedoscope (which must be seen toed, be under- communed these compasses will nor thirty-two trains each stood, for its wonders end beauties would take way daily. too much space to describe), and secondly. what is called THE Intan LK - CATION QCESTION.—A deputation "The Modern Delphic Oracle," or, in other words, •mo from the graduates of the Quee ntn's li Diversi th ty in iceregal Ireland c hanical bead, which is made to move, open and that its waited on Friday es the Lord•Lieenant, at e V eyes, open its mouth, and speak exactly like • living human Lodge, to submit to: :f hirealazacelleriiiacylvfiate,enieantrasidoptad a t being. If an illusion (and the illusion was so complete that a.r we have by no means made up our mind whether it was an ttre runatoinureeltin!loonteutplated changes in the principle of public eduesAioe in Ireland. Mr. Chichester Fortuna, illusion, or whether • living man was really present) is ch i e f v eoe e ar y f o e Ireland, was present during the inter ment to deceive the spectators, this is by very many de- e ms,. Mr. R o es, c h a irmen o f the Belfast meo w*, m a ted gnu the mat wonderful exhibition of the kind ever seen the views of the deputation which were NW forth in au cobyof which was presented to his excellency. in London, and of itself is well worth the price of admission ealsbaratel 'Wotan" adopted at the meeting ia question. to the Polytechnic. As we sit looking at it, wondering \ In this document a sketch is given of public whether it really is or really is not what it seems educatios in Ireland from the you 1791, wish to be, it is impossible not to conjecture what in the view of showig that the opinions of en eem an mitt= savage or half civilised lands the people would oa rtier f the Iloa r z_ o f m a m a fin! and o f „ tor , ea d Dave think of such an invention. If Professor Pepper. ,____ co.°Y_____hl'esto t o f. t or m of u5u ...., ed..tio : is tsd eivd. for instance, were to Mks himself east and by south is Dew ;,7,:j. to prove that no " .° erwe has been made for Europe, and visit the shores of the Bosphorus with this the substitution of sectarian for united education. Figures wonderful invention, what might he not bring back with are quoted to &magnesia that the mo s iozi ai ll iaa the °me a t him in the way of wealth! Why ,from the Sultan low wards to the purest beggar in Stamboul, them is not a• wee reeisatligiareoacuatory......:67aataa than is is tli gu e ons in ..a represel b ta y ina tiou ny o . f Ro A m e zr ipa cs aiaaa tholics ia of the prophet in all Stamboul that would not crowd to see instituted between t h e Que en' u n i me ity sett the London this extraordinary wonder, and pay • year'` income to hear University, the remind which. it is contended, justifies the the oracle speak. Proposition that theQuen's Unimanty, cob hee d, and without But we must not forget to mention the fairy tale called :sty .rtwinirw:alltotabautlnprewean'etbeCorguatigibtgemsb." to a d r idad ea d ere gUe i; The Dragon and hi 4 Grandmother, which is toll and acted the matter, but they say they are compelled to declare at the same time, in • way which will delight many • their opinion, foe " they cannot effeetly allow the sdoptio . o ynthful mind during the present season, and will be ro is ociensinaWith DiSleNwa,i!m",l .ti r, a r i e venity ol aay the Queen ils tailed °Ts ' . again in many • "Mini bedroom, when Henry :7,r,..t..: ..ft.7,'2 l differe bic n b c. ....p t t those who ou g ht w (who spends the holidays in Loudon and is taken to the to be the Indere is what would promote friendship and Polytechnic) goes back to Latin Grammar and the Rule of me w postal; They insist that it is the duty of the State Three, and meets again his schoolfellow Alfred, sot to recognise or encourage sectarianism i a r ii i be e p e d and whose lot is cast in Yorkshire, de li g ht. o f t h e wetropo li e we wirdeonn.to whom u nieg h i the the api ' L a gs s cf na il aamb oo ti r: ' if ah sa aa ate nyadaballuniibeversi.ratienaa.ed hationaaaaadmista. DDDearaDCe and disappearance of the dragon halt • g° l2° ante with the revisions of the recent charter, to times during the performance, the way in which Columbia* she convocation of the Queen's University for their is seep, dances and vanishes, not through trap doors or opiates, before final approval ; but that if any such mod!. Ertion sha t l a l appear imarzibialieweriouthidonsatLestroaa trog iia t a be sa e l tr a behind tenea, but at once, as by • miracle, and by means only known to Professor Pepper and those who are adopts °' duty of those estrasted with the government of the in magic art, are things to be remembered and thought of country with firmness to Telesis from change. and to in many • juvenile mind for many a long day to mute. maintain and developaataastem which las bees already Another novelty provided for this season are what fruitful M good te 1 His excelleney remised to SU t the viewed the graduates to the government ; and Professes Paggam has now introduced for nim eat be expressed • desire that it should be uodentood that time in Ragland, namely, Drawiarroorn fin works. wha tev er might he ihroo with respect to the questa ,. lag These ate 'Pita a "alai' invention by Colonel before him, be and th e chief secretary co nsidered the Schultz, of the Prussian arti ll ery', end WM. no doubt, united syst em of education in itself the best.—Saunders' when known, become as popular in this country as News. ,r `• • •••• t i • •