The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-30 00:00:00

1.. A v 4 l: l / 4 4- 1 . /1 '.7 : 71111111111111h -47- +l- 4 r.). Z-"-" 't - . 4 1 1 9 P , . - ,„ ,- `{ Naval ail{. , lan+ •.• THE NAVY. 4 1 . • • VINO •••• cg` • : d . ', 7 ; • ...C.- • : 47 1 17. AOO l 35" u • tow of sulting ble. n i g, on 11 hold ten by almost THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manar;er, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER. The public is respect f- ully informed that this Theatre, flaying been Re-modelled, Decorated, and Embellished in truly magnificent and costly style, is now open. Notwithstanding the immense expenses incurred in the a rrangements, the Price s of Admission will be as usual, and similar to those of the principal London Theatres, viz. : Private Boxes, 10s, '&l,, 21 5 ., £1 ll s. Gd . , £2 2 5 ., £3 3 5 ., and £4 4s. Sialls, 'Os. Dress circle, 4s. First Circle, 38. 13 °xes, 2s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, Is. Upper Gallery, (3 d- No Half-price. A MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PANTO MIME EVERY 'WEDNESDAY, at Two o'clock. THIS EVENING will be presented Mr. E. Falconer's Comic Drama, autitled A correspondent at Malta, under lateflf tt 24th of December, announces the arrival there o, the Psyche, despatch-boat, Lieut. Commander Sterne, on the 21st just., from Alexandria, whither she had conveyed the Countess of Elgin, who is on her way to India, The Magicienne, 16, Capt. Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, arrived at Malta on the 24th inst. from Naples. The Marl-, borough, 131, Capt. W. H. Stewart, C. 8., returned into port on the 21st inst. from a f ew days' cruise off the island, and relioisted the Commander-in - chief's fl g, which had been temporarily transferred to the Probe, 35, Cipt. T. Forlesque. This vessel, as well as the Chanticleer, 17, Com. C. Stirling, h.:ls been cut of port for gun exereie. The Liff y, Capt. G. Parker, has conveyed the Hon. Elliot,. her Illbjutty's Charge d'AffAirs at Athens, from Marseilles to the Piceirs. The following ships of THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1862. ; ,evince f their ictingi e mind N°, 21,997. PRICE .4d. STAMPED ....sd. Home—time to go home, but before doing so we introduce you to NEW NOVEL BY MR. MAC OONALD. our weakness, but to our strength—not to any conces-ions we have made, but to the couragE we have exhibited in the support of a just, and moderate, Ind wise policy. (Hear.) And what is the result ? Are wr weaker abroad P Are we less popular ? Are we less respected ? Why, at this moment I believe all the world is looking to England in a manner in which the eyes of Europe never were so turned before. Italy, deceived, or at least disappointed in that monarch who went there as the champiOn of emancipation, now turns to England for her sympathy and support, and England, as a strong man armed, t a ki n 'a foremost place amor.gst the nations of Europe, in rcrno dating against the policy of France, thwarted and c h ec k ' 'that policy ; and Italy, with gh the support of England, in a thy when opinions are more powerful than armies, is now ft - arching slowly but surely to the realisation of ber dearest hopes. (Cheers.) Greece, torn by revolution, looking about for comfort and peace, turns to England, and asks for an English prince. She wants a con stitutional monarch, born of a good stock, and nurtured in the principles of freedom. ('::peers.) So again America, notwithstanding the language of the most licentious press , that civilisation has ever known—notwithstanding the con duct of a Government which Ism anxious to separate from the people, and not to take as the represenietive of the peo ple—the population and public of America, suffering them selves from their Government and rebuking their press have sent their munificent contributions to the operatives of England suffering from the war which has torn their own country, telling us they wish us to receive It as a tribute of brotherhood and peace. Such is outtendition abroad, and what is it at home? England will- net soon forget, and Europe will not soon forget, the spectacle. All classes have been tried by a crisis such as we never went through before, and the result has been to unite all classes in bonds of sympathy, makin the poor feel that they have friends in the rich, and the ric eel'that the poor, instead of being, as formerly, dange ' s class, are now the ‘ 4144 i. 6. . ____ _ sirdnmiri. O. Now ready, at all the Lrbrarir s, in 3 vols., printed on toned table funds. IThe business is now conducted in such a way as to inspire confidence in everybody con cerned, both the givers and the receivers. But at first the relief was very scanty, only about Is. ld. a head each week. The reason, Mr. Gladstone tells us, was threefold—there was no adequate machi ne; y ; the poor people were shy and independent ; there was not money enough to justify a sufficient expenditure. The average rate of outdoor relief under the Poor-law is now ls. 6d. a head, and from local rates and national charity together the ave rage weekly relief to each recipient is nearly 2.., amounting to £43,547 in the 27 unions in one week. The Executive Committee is now expending £25,000 a;week, but receiving £35,000. The public and general subscriptions have amounted to £1,200,000, and will probably reach £1,500,000, while the sum actually expended is less than half that actually raised. There is now good reason to hope that we have seen the worst, that the tide has turned, and that in two or three months manufactured will re vive enough to find employment for most of these people. The future, however, is still dark, and, as another appeal might not be so well responded to, there is no reason at present to caution the public against excessive liberality, When we shall see a return of the prosperity lately witnessed in the cot tot districts is beyond the power of conjecture. In comparison with such calamities as we see elsewhere we may be thankful for something less than prospe rity. That doubt bounds our vision, and is the worst cloud head of us at present. feritaxes!gt, two cfrr three months,. Mr. Gladstone has given as clear and satisfactory and succinct a budget as any that the lady secre tary of a Dorcas Society ever presented to her chari• table neighbours. It is our balance-sheet of the American civil war. The surplus of its curses, Mr. Gladstone says, has fallen on us, and here is its pecuniary estimate. By comparison with the Ame rican's own share we may indeed be thankful ours is not more. NEXT OF KIN. NevcPrincipal Characters by Messrs. S. Calhaetn, 11. Sinclair, Warde, Rourke, Fredericks ; Mrs. Edmund Fat. coner, and Miss Portman. After which will be produce-1 the Great Drury-lane Annual in the form of an ent:, re l y lesque, G ro t esque , Poetic ;;1, Pict Novel, Original, Bur orial, Pastoral, Grand Comic Christmas Panto--,rime entitled LITTIT. GOODY TWO SHOES; or/ ITIAILEQUIN and COCK ROBIN I Little Bird with bosom red, NVel'oome to my Humble Shed, Daily near my table steal, "While I pick my scanty meal, Well rewarded if I spy, Pleasure in thy glancing eye."—Old Poem. The nov - el Effects and Extensive Scenery by Messrs. VtiEvE and TELBIN, assisted by Messrs. DAYES, It' N ES, C. FENTON, E. LLOYDS, GRIEVE, Jun., Jun., and D ANSON and SONS. The Ma ".uotery by Mr. TUCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY a ', * ati Mrs. CLARKE, Th e M as k s, D es i gns, an d P ersona l A ppointments by the celebrated DYK-WYN-KYN ; com- Meted under his direct supervision by Messrs. GLINDON, CTIALTON, and numerous Assistants. The Tricks, Pro- Tby erties, Changes, and Transformations of the Harlequinade Mr. BLAMIRE and Assistants. The Gas Appointments 1 7 Mr. HINCKLEY. The Scenes of the Harlequinade by BOLEN°, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The r° uPes j Tableaux, Action, and Grand Ballet, designed and d !rranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. Th e O v erture and composed and arranged by M r . J. BARNARD. Th e A Opening invented and written by E. L. BLANCHARD, Villior of "The House that Jack Built," "Peter Wilkins," Jtobin Hood," &c. 4-11 E VILLAGE SCHOOL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. EARLY MORNING. Little Goody Two Shoes—Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. ," This dear little Girl, whose Teal name was Margery 'ieanwell, once lived," &c.—Old Story. Shy; kind Wife gave little Margery a nice pail of new pi , 4 e4; and she was so pleaF.ed with them, and so fond of l';'"lng them to every one the met, saying, Two Shoes— ;we Shoes,' that she gr;tned the name of Little Goody '° Shoes.' "—Old 01(4.y, The Raven, the Pioon, the Cat, and the White Rabbit (h er s) Masters, 6Uork, Coo, Mew, and Bunny. Pet. Robin—Master Redbreast. Little Boy Blue (her Shepherd Swain) Miss HELEN - ohn tt y Stout HOWARD. (the Good Boy) Mr. J. R W OINS. Green (the Bad Boy) Mr. G. ES TON. ia nay Sch o l ars —Masters Wag, Lag, F ag, B rag , D ag , Nag, It a ik A l ra g' Tr &c and Misses Nimble, Simple, Sample , Niminy, Piminy, &c., &c. S'Ar Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), Mr. TOM MATTHEWS. Graspall (his Steward), Mr. SHAW. b Vi llagers —Messrs. B umkin ,W hackstraw, Oatcake, Chaw ae:)lls Thatcher, &c., &c. hThe room in w hi c h s h e taught her scholars was very ge, so that s h e cou ld h ave h er c hildren stand in front of A e„r While she instructed them.—Old 'lithe p roposal made by Sir Timothy to Goody Two Shoes, and what became of it. InIXTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OF Th e 1 , TIIE FOREST. Fairy Good Nature (assuming the form of Goody Peabody), Miss KATE SAXON. Foot an,, Messrs. Popp and Bang. -vootraan, Mr. Powdernob. Page, Master Buttons. Housekeeper, Mrs. Chickabiddy. I m i lew Little Boy Blue meets with a particular friend, and to w t he Squire dooms the small Birds found on his Estate Reneral destruction, and what ensues thereupon. BRAMBLE BRAKE IN TIIE DEPTHS OF Last Scene.—(Danson and Sons.) ENGLAND'S GLORY AND RICIIES BROUGHT BY IIER OCEAN WAVES I Box-office open from Ten till Six daily. Doors open a Half. past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. paper, DAVID ELGINBR OD. By GEORGE MACDONALD, M.A., Author of " Within and Without," " Phantastes," &c, Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Second Edition, Now Ready, Compete in 3 vols., 31s. ed., L ES AIISERABLES. By VICTOR HUGO. Authorised English Translation. OANTERBURY HALL.- v THE THIRD EDITION of the celebrated Panto mimic Entertainment Tll 14; .ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, including Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and antaloon, sustained solely by Mr. F. Marshall, re-written by W. F. Vandervell, Esq., new characters and new dresses. UNSWORTII, in his renowned Speech upon all the topics of the day; and the following Comic favourites: -Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Georgina Smithson. GRAND SELECTIONS from POPULAR OPERAS, as usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. •` The merits of 'Les Miserables ' do not merely 0 , nsist in the conception of it as a whole. It abounds, page after page, with details of unequalled beauty."—Quarter►y Iteyiew. is cer late °f Hurst and Blackett, publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. L IVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, in FUN, every week. One Penny war were at Alaltl on the 24!1i inst. borough, 131; the Hibernia, rmiving-ship; rate. T HE 0 X F O R D, 6. OXFORD STREET. Now Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 45. Cd.; post free, 55., the 4 „,ZECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with kJ numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanchard, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c., &c. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. Pi cebe, 35; the Chanticleer, 17 ; the Magicietimp„ 16; the Firefly, surveying•vessel; the Psyche, de spatch boot; and the tenders Boxer and Growler. The Meeanee, 60, °Apt. Wodehouse, and the Me vera, steam troopship, Com. Henderson—the former to join the Mediterranean fl , 2et and the latter on her way to Corfu—were shortly expected at Malta from England, Admiralty instructions have been received at Chatham dockyard directing all 51-gun screw frigates of the Liverpool class to be fitted similarly to that vessel. "NAZARETH," A New Christmas Song - , music by GUONOD, words by F Chorley, Esq , supported by the entire Cotopany, gand and Chorus. "La Cireassienne " and " Nabueo " by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, and Miss Oesten ; Messrs. Albert, Greene, Bernardi, and Hui sh —Con duct or, Mr. F, Jonahmans. airr. Drew Dean's Solos on the Flute—the Neapolitan Mins trels Mis 4 Caroline Parkes' Christmas Entertainment, "Little - Bed Riding Flood ---3.lr..(leorge, Ilodson (the re nowned Irish Comedian), Mr. T. Maclagan, Mr. W. Randall, Mr. A. B. II ollingsworth, Eugene (the great burlesque singer and dancer), and Unsworth (the original "Or any other man.") Commence at Six o'clock during the holidays. aIT. )arclii° j a w, ashire Log to 'U the MR. RORSMAN, M.P., ON OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS. r nisg• .ought Life .euPc'ti TURN HAM'S GRAND CONCERT HALL (Sole Proprietor, Mr. JOHN TUR SHAM), EDGWARE ROAD, W. On the 13th September last Mr. Roper, of New Cross, repaired to Portsmouth, by direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, to prepare a sample of his c 4) at-_fo.r,:son plates to prevent oxidation and to keep clean the bottoms of iron ships. An old and decayed boiler plate was selected for the purpose, d coated with Mr. liopez's preparations, and after wards sunk within th e pie rs o f one o f the doeltYitd jetTia.Thri Pliawas yes terday . .raised and - amined by the master shipwright and hi 3 staff, found to be in a very satisfactory condition. Owing to the shortness of the time which the plate has lain under water it was agreed to prolong the fur ther test of the plate to three months, when more definite results will be obtained. A second plate is also to be prepared by Mr. Roper in order to furnish the Admiralty with further proof of the anti-corrosive qualities claimed by him for his patent composition. A plate tested at Sheerness dockyard, andrepor ted upon by Mr. Moody, master shipwright, has, we are informed, been attended with highly favourable results. We have before referred to the numberless inventions of this kind which have been brought under the notice of the Admiralty, and the failure of the greater number. In fact, no one system has yet been found to possess all the required advantages, and it is now being urged by scientific men that the only plan for securing these advantages, is by a system of elec trotyping—by depositing zinc, brass, or any alloy upon the plates with a bright enamel surface. A proposal of this kind is now being brought under the notice of the Admiralty. The failure of other protective compositions is, however, no reason why the Roper system should also fail. EVERY EVENING AT SEVEN. Operatic Selections.—Great success of John Barnett's "Mountain Sylph," with full band and Chorus—Vocal and Instrumental Solos. comto talent—Afartrney_ Sam Collins. Mr. and Mrs_ Bren nan, Harry Wall, West ("Or any other Man"), and Taylor. Arthur Barnes (the Champion Vaulter), Chadwick (the Parisian Grotesque), and Madame Cerito (the Great Trans formation Dancer). Admission, 6d. ancfl!._ 00 :0330' id O t to the 3 ia ng 13 Wheeiii.) -- 47111 ---- e such is thi'strength of iinr Position, such is its responsibility; and I think we have at this moment great reason to feel proud at the spectrcle we have pre sented to the wcrld ; but at the same time our pride, just and proper as it is, has cause to be checked, because we have felt as a nation how suddenly trials have fallen upon us. Musical Director and Manager—Mr. CHAS. GREVILLE. The 13, an d thei r reek• w• or A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. E - Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the above elegant Establishment a Grand Conversation Saloon, Reading Room, and Smoking Lounge. French, German, and English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under the direction of Mons. •Boulcourt. The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro polis. Admission is.—Manager, M. Grenet. After a few further remarks, the right hon. gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud applause. 3rica° 1 th e f fiy B Wall' THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon strosities. Open daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlem' n only). Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han over-square, and BA, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon don, W. _ _ SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. argil° i pev ,thaw Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Seven. Illus trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. VAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COM- A-A PANY.—The Court of Directors of the East and West India Dock Company hereby give notice, that a HALF YEARLY COURT or GENERAL MEItTING of the said Company will be held, pursuant to the directions of the Act Ist and 2d William IV.. cap. 52, at the Dock House, No. 8. Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the 9th day of January, 1863, at which Meeting a DIVIDEND will be declared on the Capital Stock of the Company for the half-year ending the 31st instant. By order of the Court, GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and Westindia Dock House, I vri til A 0" per oats , 3010, 8, Billiter-square, 24th December, 1262. N.B.—The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS, for Orphans and Necessitous Children, Pinner, Mid- TEE iiiiZEWr.:-=siNsET. te n When lent Little Goody Two Shoes had finished her iitusets of ers, she invited a great number of her poor a ti d e C mnpanions to meet together under an old oak tree, Companions she taught them."—Old Story. The Demon Envy, Mr. GLIN Es ON. a'red and Malice (his attendants), Messrs. Scowl and Growl. The Bad B o y' s Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. HAUNT OF THE WOOD NYMPHS IN THE ENCHANTED DELL. May, Miss WENT WORTH. Bluebell, Cowslip, Violet, Wild Tbyme, Golden Broom, Medwell, Daisy Buttercup, Wood Anemone, Primrose, ea se, Traveller's Joy,Celandine, Hearts -1,7_1e) Pox Glove, &c. (her attendant Wild Flowers), by a ' 4 ", B t of Coryphees. -r as de Forget -me. not, Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. Pas de Double Heartsease, The Misses GUNNISS. Ballet des Bouquets, invented and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. WOODY AYENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MEAD. " All hail to thee, thou first of May, Sacred to merry sport and play, To wine and jest and dance and song, And mirth that lasts the whole day long." CELEBRATION OF MAY-DAY AND FESTIVAL OF THE MAY QUEEN. OUTSIDE OF LITTLE GOODY'S COTTAGE, MILL BROOK, AND ANCIENT BELFRY. " Who killed Cock Robin ? I, said the Sparrow, with ,„ my Bow and Arrow."—Old Nursery Legend. The Sparrow, Mr. Take an-Aim. The Fly, Master Buzzy. The The Fish, Mr. Gillbut. The Beetle Mrs. Gam. Linnet, Master Downey. The Owl, Mr. Whit-to-Whoa. T he Lark, Mr. Higbflyer. The Rook, Mr. Blackeoat. The Bull, Mr. Roarer, with a Horn accompaniment. The deed done. Impressive fate of Little Cock Robin, a nd his marvellous restoration by Good Nature, who pro s on her radiated Path of Prisms over the World. c harlequin s , M r . CORMACK and Mr. ST. MAINE. °llthabines, Madame BOLENO (her first appearance here these tw o y ears ) an d the :Misses GUNNISS. p antaloons, Mr. G. TANNER and Mr. DEULIN JOHNSON. 48 ) Mr. HARRY BOLEN 0 (his first appearance here Sc e „„, these two years) and Mr. C. LAURI. 4 .--GRAND HINT 0' NATIONAL (THEATRE) EXHIBITION OF FUN I -"i le Meeti ng o f a ll N a ti ons -G o ld W a shing and Gold ah n g - Arnistrong's Breech-loader-the Exhibition Bells -d Bell es of the Exhibition-Clov n rings one of the Belles tyottaptell: Savage -the Majolica . Fountain -Clown's new er-Cent. per Scent-Striking Two-the Exhibi• ...( 11 t e a lith-a . Medicated Vapour Bath-a Piping Bullfinch 0 , tee Airs)-the Australian Obelisk makes a decided Sn' e s - a Told in the Hole-a Long Nap (2,000 go i p the Coal ' Hole-Froggy would a-Wooing go sud e,ffinax• of Strange Visitors and close of the Exhibition. "'" 2 • -- EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF INTER NATIONAL LODGING-HOUSE. laVented and Produced by Boleno (Registered). '4lterninaists-HARRY BOLENO, Madame BOLENO. CORMACK, and TANNER. 'Tr ip Storm Nalse-Madame BOLENO and Mr. CORMACK. ' $o Mrs. Graball; Page, Master Bellbutton 4 0 -7 b ra ald, not yet engaged ; Visitors, Cabmen, Sweeps, t m ea d "olack Brigade, &c., by Artists too numerous on o Igings Lodgings ! Lodgings I-Hou;e Full-A Fair 41 31 e of a Cabby's Fair-A Foreigner all Abroad-Harry ....e k es return to his Old Quarters -Somebody's Luggage the ( .?„`' l 2 ll Y's Luggage (Oh, Dickens) -My Lodgings amp o are on are ground-A Damp Bed with Sheets of Water (which ... co w ays d ) B tiling Spirits-A Policeman on Duty oelv e w ng down with the Dust-Clown and Pantaloon re the chane their arters-The sew Bedroom Door -1,4 xhibitiogn Early-rising qu Bedstead-Clown makes . an pif i r sei° n - Oh, rest thee my Babe-A Novel Extin• er p Put out the Light! Put out the Light-A . Squally ariol"--Clown gets rid of a Lodger-Both Child and Nurse m eth„ triethaoscl Clown gives them a drop too much -anew alld e°l getting off to sleep-forty winks-Harlequin Box visi ( 11 1))--'Tis when to sleep the World retiFes-t e the i T e l s- an unwelcome Visitor-The Shades of Night and . oh, .ght Shade--Look on this Picture and on this-List, berl, Bb- rta always with you-I'll warm yer-Oh, slum air darling, and sleep while you may-Visions light as ‘4B Nurse-the Child-the Great Sensation Scene and -° °tae t Scene 13 • "'"snELL-FISH SHOP, COBBLER'S STALL, AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE! l 'ant Invented by Mr. D. Johnson. 11T ern A r i V„ats-Misses GUNNISS and Messrs. ST. "as DEULIN JOHNSON, and C. LAURI. Trois Mansilla Spiritu-The Misses GUNNISS and M. ST. MAINE. a tld eat TriP--a Trip less Flat-Flat Fish, Flying Fish, boyh o r°4ll d Bait-taking in the Natives Childish Games, artee of 8 happy days-Arrival of Fun-Sudden appear Vhi ch an old friend-Clown goes a fishing-Gets a ii hite - Rea rte Ptave to be a nibble for him, Garotting with . a _ . en- L uck e the strong Arm of the Law-Clown in a.Fix trio„lscape-Clown gets a Ticket of Leave-the Indus -13048 abler that Lived in a Stall-Clown finds a pair of pi,,,And gets Awl for his ains-a Rally and a p ic - 3 - 1 Nr:" has a taste for Music a p nd Gives a Concert,in which 12 pl ay a Solo on th e sm allest Banjo in the world and `-'low e ri -in on Garden Pot s -Pataloon has Five Bars rest - Ag ain - gets Drummed in and quickly gets Drummed Out t he t; r 7 A- Supply of Natives-a fair Division-the head of S ee , -6 and everybody taken in and done for. 4T 1 4--1 11E ISLINGTON!AGRICULTRAL HALL, G REAT DOG-SHOW, CAT-SHOW, AND (AER-SHOW. Nivalrented and Produced by BOLENO (Registered). ""raimists-HARRY BOLENO, EISIMA BOLENO, 1 10 CORMACK and TANNER. to 80 ,„‘Trs of Loveliness and Flowers of the Forest-going 111 '"e teen Bushes-Heartsease and Tulips-coining ears (pairs) --a clearing Pair -Fruits of Industry- Ch ar i4 ie) the Food of Love-I calculate not-Music Bath ,4tia-not so always-Where's the Police ?-opening of 13:vtaretiaot National Dog Show-Port Whine and Bark-an 13._PrMent Puppy -Carrots and a Turn-up- ClO Clown gets as -a Doc , -MA-Dog cheap and dear Hound k to Bar keeps the Dog Watch, which he enters-the Way Sw ee r R Clown and Pantaloon gone to the Dogs -°Thads-Calculation, Multiplication, and Vex.ttion fo r ra's Cat Showts-up and Cats down, and a Cat Meat-Cats' Cates G je r i l) y tters-Descend ye nine-Dogs' l 'beat e a Do g - a Pair of Tabbies-the Kill-Kenny fc,r n '"e Scat of W ar -H ow it w ill a ll end-a Prize Fight Mild, P r ize Cup-Catalessis-Catacresis-a Catastrophe SoSods l eads to a C a t arac t o f th e F e li ne Race, and thus th e • - e Catalogue. 13° „„ 5- (Comic)-EXTERIOR of MARINE STORES, PUB LIC -HOUSE, AND SAILOR'S HOME. C , Invented by Mr. J. Cormack. ' D. JOHNSON. ST. MAINE, and the Misses GUNNISS. Nautical hornpipe, by M. ST. MAINE and the Misses Seta thief GUNNISS. llo,'"ief to catch a thief-and ho will go the " whole S 4 ' 4 clae”-A Sailor, half Seas over, mistakes all he 1.168--Old Aunt Sally proves herself, rayther- Shell et ands wanted -and secured by Hook or by Crook-An aud Modern Warriors-Hearts of Oak-Our Ironsides (not Cromwell 'a) Al good metal-the great Drainage youBti°ll.----Pretty P o ll o f W app i ng - s h e was suc h a n i ce ,tiit9l".. g Gal! with Old Ball a d, " the Lass that loved a " Home, home, Sweet HOMO"— The Sailors' o 4' 0 3 54 0 284 dlesex. A GENERAL HALF-YEARLY COURT was held at the London Tavern, THIS DAY, December 29, 1862, ROBERT WILCOXON, Esq., in the Chair, When an election of Fourteen Children (seven Boys and seven Girls) took place. The following is the result of the poll : SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES. BOYS. Pratt, Walter Thos 9,979 Chaplain, Charles 8,662 Atkinson, Charles 8,087 Pattie, Henry 6,437 Beauchamp, Lucy Isabel 8,929 Walker, Edith II 5,523 Winter, Fanny Maria 4,492 Turner, Louisa UNSUCCESSFU Waters, Thos. Henry 2,803 Porter, Clement 2,2.'6 Collier George Henry 1,518 Mansell, Louisa E. 2,712 Thorp, L. M 2,381 Massingham, Ada F 1,452 ALEXANDER FREDE Offices, 76, Cheapside, Dec. 2. Douglas, Henry 6,290 Carpenter, Hy. Ewing: Littlewood, John North 4.810 Sharland, Sophia W 4,342 Williams, Harriet I 1,2i6 Howlden, Fanny CANDIDATES. YS. Marshall, William 1,305 Cooper, Howard M. 694 Powell, Francis W B7 a.s. Goodchild, Louisa E 1,182 Ryder, Emily E 10063 Walker, Eliza C 1,002 RICK FOSTER, Secretary. !,1862. ; ENGLISH AND SCOT FISH LAW LIFE ASSURA.NCE ASSOCIATION. 12, Waterloo-place, London, 31 th December, 1,162. 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LAMBERT, Chemist, S, Bins William-street, Charina— cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 134 d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert'a Asthmatic Balsam, The name and ad dress is engraved cm the stamp, On Saturday evening, the annual dinner of the Stroud Volunteer Rifle Corps took place in the Subscription-rooms in that town, the principal guest being the Right Hon. E. Horsman, M.P., one of the members for the borough, who had that afternoon given a Whitworth Rifle for competition _ID. _DassowlDdisiDg the teatste4i 1 44 4.4 aL le llee---. 7 - Mr. Honsmale, after some remarks upon the rise ana p' gress of the volunteer movement, said, now that the move ment had attained its present dimensions, and that out of their own pockets the volunteers have expended between one and two millions sterling, and that the commission had stated that they are a powerful auxiliary force to the British army, constituting a body of nearly 170,000 men, he thought we should be disappointed if one of the very first steps taken in the ensuing session was not to give some assistance to the force upon those points upon which they can give assistance without destroying the character of volunteers. The volun teers have given that time which is of money value, that zeal which no money can buy, and if the occasion should come they were ready to give those lives which no money could purchase or restore. It was not right, therefore, that a magnanimous or generous nation should treat the volunteers as if the defence of the nation was their sole con• cern, and as if the rest of the nation were to reap the ad vantage and not to bear any part of the burden. Every sensible man is a friend of economy. We know that eco nomy is in reality only synonymous with efficiency, as par simony is the sure mother of waste. But this feeling has been so prevalent, and has been given such effect to, that we have in this country at least two comforts with regard to our expenditure. First, there is no country in the world of which the taxation, in proportion to its requirements, is so small as it is in England ; and next, that there is no coun try in which taxpayers get money's worth for their money —that is to say, in which so large a proportion of the revenue is devoted to public purposes, or so little diverted. While we are all desirous to promote economy to the utmost, and reduce our expenditure to the utmost, no one who looks at the state of the world at present could say that we ought to impair our efficiency or relax our exertions. As long as Italy is unsettled (continued the hon. gentleman) there can be no security for the peace of the world. The French army is at Rome, where it has no business to be ; and the French Emperor cannot retain it there without public scandal, and does not know how to remove it. Many people foresee that storms which may in the end destroy his dynasty may arise from the state of Italy,lwith which he is trifling too long. French writers already see this. One of the many French writers who are supposed to derive their inspira tion from the Emperor has stated, within the last few days, ' that Italy ought to be dismembered in the interests of the peace of Europe ; and the public journals have been assert ing that if there should come public troubles in France, the best diversion of them would be a foreign war. Then look at Greece, where there has been a revolution. An offer of the crown of Greece was made to an English prince, and European powers expected we should grasp at the prize ; but we have rejected it. The lonian Islands have always been a reproach to us as seeking our own aggrandise ment, and we have offered to cede them to Greece, but the other European nations will not have it so. The Eastern question is still a question of intrigue' and difficulty, and England is to be compelled to maintain this protectorate because if she gave it to Greece it would forward some of these combinations and intrigues in which the lonian Islands are supposed to be a peril to the peace of Europe. Then look across the Atlant o. Within the last few days you have had published despatches by the United States Foreign Minister. He tells Lord Russell that a war with America would instantly unite both North and South, and some of the newspapers recommend Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet to send an army to India and to invade Canada, in order to punish England, the perfidious aristo crat, and to restore the Union. There is no man knows what the Foreign Minister, in his present position, may not resort to ; but with such menaces sown broadcast, I for one think that the course of economy still is on the side of safety, and I would rather have large armaments unemployed, because other States know we are in a defen sible condition, than small armaments and in danger of going to war, because our weakness may promote attack. (Hear, hear.) The present moment, above all others, would convert a man to the principle and practice of economy, even if he were not so disposed, because the circumstances of England at this moment are such as must indispose any man to add one feather to the burdens which the Northern population have voluntarily taken to themselves. We have a spectacle new going on which is without a parallel in the history of the world. (Hear, hear.) You have had sud denly cut off the supply of the raw material by which nearly four millions of our population were sustained in their em ployment, and which also enters largely into the arrange ments, commercial and financial, of every class of the com munity, and upon which even the stability and solvency of our revenue are dependent. You have had the supply cut off in a moment, and a crisis brought upon England such as no man six months ago could have contemplated without alarm. England, the most powerful maritime nation in the world, had only to say the word, and the blockade would have ceased. It was a blockade, on the testimony of our highest legal authorities, so ineffective as to be illegal, and was not entitled to the respect of foreign powers. We had therefore nothing to do but to take the course so constantly advocated, and break the blockade, which we could have done without illegality. But from one end of England to the other there was one unanimous and instinctive feeling that the fact of our interest being involved, and our supply of cotton being shut in by the blockade, should make us more scrupulously determine to construe the law against ourselves, and not to take the Northern States at a disad vantage when their hands were already full, though we could have raised the blockade with safety. That has been the course the Government has pursued with the consent of the nation. Has there been any complaint on the part of our operatives ? Has there been any approach to a murmur ? Quite the contrary. There has been among the whole operative class of this country one unanimous feeling of complete acquiescence in the course of our Go vernment adopted, although that course has, in appearance, been so fatal to ourselves. And amongst all classes of the community it has been the same. There have been in no quarters any of those complaints which in former times would have been so rife from one mu of the country to the other. Well, now, foreigners are inquiring from what causes does this proceed. We have been accustomed to say that our operative classes were composed of the dan gerous classes, and that the moment there was anything like suffering amongst them the Government would have difficulty. It proceeds, to a great degree, from the extent to which education has advanced amongst them, and which enables them now more accurately and more truly to esti mate the causes of any such occurrences as arise. For merly they would have complained of their masters and of Government, and looked in every quarter for some solution of what was to them an insoluble problem. Now they have intelligence enough to investigate and judge of the conduct of their masters. There has been no complaint against them, and the men have been intelligent enough to examine the policy of the Government, and so far from engaging, as they would a few years ago, in tumultuous proceedings and riots, we now find that all classes have been united. Vir tue has been exhibited by the sufferers, and there has been a display of zeal, sympathy, and every Christian effort on the part of the classes above them; and England in this way has presented such an example and spectacle as has never been before exhibited to the world. (Cheers.) Then if I am asked how long is this to continue ?—how long is this wicked war in America to be permitted ?—when are you to recognise the Southern States ?—when is European intervention of some kind to take place ?—all I can say is that when that is to be done, and how it is to be done, is the most difficult question that any government can have to deal with. I for cne am not anxious to precipitate their move ment inany direction. This I am most anxious for, that what ever the Government may d ) they may do it at a time when the nation will exhibit the same unanimity that it has hitherto exhibited in support of all the policy that the Go vernment has pursued ; and that whatever is done shall come with all the power and all the responsibility of a Go vernment that has hitherto been mcderate, and in its mode ratio I supported by the national sentiment. lam one of those who feel that the position we occupy at the present moment, while it increases our power, also increases our responsibility. We are at this moment happily at peace with all the world ; but I believe we owe that peace, not to TIMES.—We have strangely changed sides with America. Twice within 10 years she has been the quiet and self-complacent spectator of struggles which she believed to be the death-throes of our European influence and our Indian Empire. On these occasions she thanked Heaven that she was not as other nations, oven as England. She grew corn and Cotton ; she pushed her way into the wil derness ; she covered the sea with ships and a con tinent with railways; by the end of the century she would be a hundred million strong, and in a condition to lay down the law to her neighbours. Her enormous resources, her ever-doubling crops, her overwhelming exports, her diminishing debt, almost taxed the power of arithmetic. All this was the reward of high principle, a generous independence, a just regard for natural rights, and a righteous abhorrence of tyranny and monopoly in all their hateful forms. Of course, we looked very small in the contrast ; indeed, what State of the Old World did not look small as it was invited to creep under the legs of the American Colossus P All our figures went the other way deep into the abyss of unprofitable expenditure. It took a very long plummet-line to fathom the deep sea of our Crimean or our Indian expenditure. When the waves became calm enough for financial sounding, and it appeared that we had thrown the nice round sum of a hundred millions into the Black Sea, and scattered not much less on the sands of India, then America returned with renewed zest to her more agreeable though not less monstrous calculations. A new style of eloquence was invented for the due display of American greatness, and the British reader, wearied with the feats of enu meration necessary for sums of ten or a dozen figures, began to long for the harmless platitudes of his own country, generally constructed on a plan to save mental toil. All this was but the other day. The calculations of corn,--toe , and tobacco, of acr e s, railways, and ships, of human beings, pigs, cattle, and what not, still encumber our table. It really was some satisfaction to think that if our own stupid jealousy or ambition should ruin us past hope there was a land of plenty not far off only too glad to receive us. The tables are turned, England has season enough to be humble, and therefore it is needless to dwell on the fact that in her own little way her revenue, and even her trade, is improving. There is a most cheering Revenue return to come out for the quarter to-morrow night. But that is not the point we select for our contrast. The two opposites that present themselves to us just now are the stupendous, indefinite, conjectural, untrustwor thy estimates of the actual debt and future expen diture in the Federal Budget on the one side, and on the other the quiet, exact, nicely calculated little tale of destitution and relief given by our own Mr. Chase to a set of holyday folks in a concert-room at Chester. Mr. Gladstone has applied himself with his wonted diligence to get up all the figures of the Lancashire and Cheshire distress. As for the veri table Mr. Chase, who is pouring a Niagara of paper money over the Northern States, we are happily relieved from the necessity of exactness in that side of the contrast. There are people who undertake to tell us how many gallons of water fall over Nia gara in a year, a day, or a minute ; and we can conceive some difference of estimate between them. There is quite as much difference between all the estimates of Federal expenditure. Whether it be already £250,000,000, of British money, or £400,000,000 ; how much has be en borrowed, how much issued in paper, ho w much is owing to con tractors, and what prospect there is of eventual re payment, in any possible period, at any percentage, are all points on which a man has only to make a statement, and he is sure of an immediate contradic tion. If the telegraph says one thing the letters say another ; if Mr. Chase commits himself, the American papers tell him ho has made a mistake, and he confesses to an oversight. It is, however, all but certain that long before the quarrel is made up the debts of the two belligerents will amount to our own national debt. That is a burden which has become light to us, for under it we have more than doubled our tax-bearing power. The expe rience of half a century shows that we can increase, and multiply, and thrive, and acquire power and empire under what once was thought a crushing weight. But England is peculiarly adapted for taxa tion. No financier could imagine a country more within the gripe of almost any financial system, whether bearing chiefly on consumption, on expen diture, on home produce, or on imports. There is no escaping the tax-gatherer here. But the United States, for the very reason that it is the most open, the most undeveloped, more expansive, and by na ture the freest country in the world, so it can most easily evade the tax gatherer. However the war may be settled, another thunder-cloud hangs over the country, in the arrangement of the debt and the extraction of taxes from a race taught to regard taxes as a badge of Old World slavery. And now for our own share of this great misery and perplexity—the Budget of Charity, as epito mised by Mr. Gladstone. The figures are not small, but they don't run into the infinite and impossib:e. The story is limited to a space, a populaticn, and a time, and a small margin comprises what is less known or less certain. The number of the persons employed in cotton manufacture is about 400,000 half are unemployed, an eighth are fully employed, three-eighths on half time, The loss of weekly wages is put at £150,000 a week, or nearly £8,000,000 a year. The 27 Unions charged by law with the miti gation of this calamity contain rather more than two millions of people and property estimated for the rates at above £5,500,000 a year. On the face of the figures, therefore, the property itself is not un equal to the burden, supposing it not to last so long as to render the property unproductive and worth less. However, England has not left the matter to the relieving officer and the rate collector. While about 250,000 persons are receiving relief from the rates, about 190,000 are relieved only from chari- DAILY NEWS.—The spirit of liberty and national independence which has triumphantly withstood the fiery ordeal of near a century in Poland appears unconquerable. Yet it does not follow that the Poles may not, if properly treated, be loyal subjects of their King, even though Emperor of Russia. For many ages Hungary was in that predicament, and yet devoted to Austria. Experience proves that it is absurd to attempt to convert the Poles into Russians. And yet not only have the Poles been converted into Russians by ukase in the greatest part of ancient Poland under Russian :sway, but they are also made liable to the penalties of treason every time that they presume to express, though in a legal form and to their Sovereign, a respectful wish to resume their ancient name and their ancient laws. In October last, the nobility of Podolia, at a meeting which they held in accordance with annual custom, and with the sanction of the Crown, for the discussion of the local interests of the province, expressed by the organ of their marshals a wish to that effect, in a most humble and respectful petition addressed to their Sovereign, whom they might, though they did not, remind of the fact that they were only soliciting what, in nearly the same terms, had been repeatedly and solemnly pro. mised to them by Alexander I. The policy of granting or refusing the request is a question quite distinct from its legality, and, even in assuming that point as doubtful, a great distance separates an illegal from a treasonable act. All those who signed the petition have, nevertheless, been ar rested and conveyed to the damp and pestilential dungeons of the fortress of St. Petersburg, where they will have time to rot before they are brought to a mysterious trial for treason before the Senate —a tribunal before which they will have no coun sel, where they will be obliged to criminate them selves by answering captious interrogatories, and to which the public are not admitted. But, the trial over, some grossly garbled account of it will appear in print, which nobody will believe to be a full and fair and honest narrative, except perhaps the Em peror himself, who is the most grossly deceived man in his dominions. Incidents like this explain, though they by no means justify, the sanguinary attempts which the youth of Warsaw in their des peration are every now and then making, to their own ultimate punishment, but we regret to add also, to the no trifling damage of the cause of their country. MORNING HERALD.—It would be interesting to know when Lord Russell informed the French Mi nister that the time had not yet come to offer a joint mediation in American affairs, which was the probable conjuncture of events that shaped them selves to his mind as those that would render me diation warrantable. If he had formed any definite idea of such a time—if the phrase were not a mere verbal evasion of the disagreeable duty then pressed home upon him to make up his mind—he must re cognise, in the present position of the American war, the advent of that very.period when he admitted it might be the duty of the Great Powers of Europe to interfere and assuage the deluge of blood. The hopelessness of Federal victory, which has been long apparent en this side of the Atlantic, must now have forced itself upon the dullest politician in the Northern States. We will say nothing now of the dreams of conquest in which the Republicans in dulged; their wild anticipations of a triumphant march over the prostrate South—their wicked re vellings in the prospect of parcelling out the Con federate lands among the licentious Federal soldiery. We will not ask what has become now of the arro gant proclamation of President Lincoln, who unde took, by a stroke of his pen, to annihilate the pro perty and free the slaves of men who, whatever their other faults may be, have manhood enough to beat back the would-be emancipators in tnsh shdo every encounter. We confine ourselves now to the more e mmhreeaansvdtt fnictw m rho ot l o ana mrd d tt e e et r anthi ahttedt the North es ni p t thaohianl integral have c t of heee y egbirmest aeh lmoral appearsrlpart the four a R cure artff e p p e otdeueufi effects easy teyo i hcr Richmond eeao thatin u i hap partyc, na a c r toot t nmey platformi n ad , pw victory,a Cap turef t tßocapturet took Richmond at te Richmond,! results. lt i s easy ansdi toec each t s hh a y e h, beginning a a s n s d i , l n o a o l k l oy e f d a t nh a de t e disastrously failed_ The North has made the at tempt in every possible manner and from every quarter of the compass. By land and by sea, from the north, the south, the east, and the west, the assail ants have been met,and fought and beaten,and thrown back in disorder, or chased in shameful rout under the guns of their capital; and Washington has again and again been placed in more imminent danger than Richmond was ever threatened with. The last of this series of disasters, though the most creditable to the Federal arms, is perhaps the most calamitous of them all. With a courage which they had not before shown, the Federals charged up to the very muzzles of the Confederate guns, and fell in heaps in front of the impregnable lines; with a skill which contrasts strangely with the blundering rashness that led him to fight in such a situation at all, General Burnside is said to have performed the perilous feat of recrossing a broad river, under the very guns of a victorious enemy, without the loss of a man. But not the less the right arm of his force is broken. It is in no condition to deliver another stroke. Greatly reduced in numbers and still more shaken in prestige, shattered and demoralised, it is now admitted it must retire into winter quarters and recruit its strength, and recover its confidence in itself and in its leaders, without which an army is a mere mob of cravens. But where are the re cruits to come from ? To every former defeat Pre sident Lincoln was wont to reply by calling for a fresh supply of volunteers. Will he have recourse to his old expedient now ? It is as needful as it ever was ; for we suspect the numbers of the killed and wounded, startling as they are, bear but a small proportion to the deserters. But where are hi s volunteers ? It is plain that volunteering has reached its limits, The drafting so often, threatened, so partially applied as a supplement to the last call, must now become a stern reality if the army is to be recruited at all. But how is any future draft to be carried out' The leading states of the Union, the great centres of population throughout the North, are now in the hands of the Democrats, the sworn foes of all compulsory enlistment. Is it likely that they will now permit 50,000 or 100,000 citizens to be torn from their homes and their fami lies against their will, to perish in a war which they dislike, and to support the authority of men whom they despised? No; the army which Ger. Burnside led up the hills of Fredericksburg to their destructio n cons tit u t e d th e last reserves of the lie publicans. P res id en t Li nco ln has played his last card. M a dd ened by so many prev i ous l osses , th e Preside n t an d h i s advisers staked their fate on vic tory or r u i n , an d they may well stand aghast now that the card s h ave turned up against them. If th i s war were like any o th er we might be content to let it run its natural course w i thout the interference of foreign powers. Th e d e f eat of one party would is mean not the fvictorythough of thethe Confederatesoth er But h in av A e m o e v r e i r ca an i d t over again obtained decisive victories they have never been able to follow them up or other% ise to turn them to practical account. When Pope was driven in headlong rout under the guns of Wash ington, the Southern leaders profited by the occa sion to make a dash into Maryland. But no sooner had they assumed the offensive than fortune deserted them; and though ever victorious in the field, they were obliged to relax their grasp on their con --qttesta tiad recross the - POtomam---,A.nd now. Ahie, one of the greatest battles of the war, though the Federals were soundly beaten, yet they were able to carry away from under the very presence of the enemy their wounded, sick, provisions, and guns, without the loss of a single man. The two parties seem to be so equally matched, numbers and valour on the one side against valour and skill on the other, that it is impossible to predict when the conflict will end. We see well enough that the se parate independence of the South is assured—that behind their stubborn courage, more strong by a thousandfold than if their land were bristling with fortifications, their national freedom sits confi dently secure; but we see too that they are un equal to more than the defence of their own land, and that they are as powerless as their adver saries when they in their turn become the as sailants. The two parties resemble two equally matched and infuriated combatants who get locked in deadly embrace, and spend their last strength in tearing at each other's throats. And of how much misery is all this the index. Think of that pretty town of Fredericksburg shelled by both armies as they are s waged on the one side of it or the other in the eddies of war. Multiply the work of devastation so graphically set before us by a hundred such bombardments all over the South and West. Add to this the misery of this war carried to every household on the continent, in the loss of relatives, the stagnation of trade, the unnaturally high prices, the threatened invasion of the tax-gatherer, the actual discomfort attending a paper currency, and the complete disappearance of the great standard of value. All this might be borne by either North or South if victory were in prospect. But to bear it without hope, to know no prospect of success, to go on in the dreary con sciousness that neither can subdue the other, but each must hold its ground and tighten its grasp till both drop from utter exhaustion, this is misery in tensified. We ask again, are the nations of Europe to look calmly on and witness it ? Lord Russell might with some degree of plausibility shelter his own infirmity of will under the plea of waiting to see the issue of an expedition in course of prepara tion ; but when that expedition retires baffhd, beaten, broken, decimated in numbers, and bank rupt in spirit, what plea can be urged for further delay ? The North can send out no more armies. The remains of those in existence may be made, by being kept at a judicious distance from the enemy, to maintain the show of resistance, and in this way the war may linger on for years to come, a running ulcer, draining the health and energy,:the very life blood of both North and South, but incapable of accomplishing one decisive stroke for the accom plishment of the purpose for which it is kept in the field. Now, if ever, surely is the time when the voice of friendly mediation would have a salutary effect. The pride of both parties will probably prevent them from being the first to pronounce the words of peace; it is for Europe, and above all it is for England, to interfere. We do not expect that service at the hands of Lord Russell. The great feature of his policy is to let events drift as they will and to call it non-intervention ; but in this, as in so many other cases, the nation is wiser than its rulers, knows its own mind more clearly, and will shape them to its designs, or, if they prove like Lord Russell, worthlessly brittle, will replace them by better men. MORNING POST.—M. Fould states that the ave rage increase of taxation in France, upon the same scale of pressure, during the last ten years has been 38,000,000 fr. annually. This is about £1,500,000 of our money; and, estimating the French revenue at about £75,000,000, it is at the rate of 2 per cent. of annual increase. Such figures as these speak volumes for the growing prosperity of France under the empire. In the year 1863 M. Fould reduces his estimate of increase on this head to 30,000,000 fr., in deference to the distress prevailing in the French manufacturing districts. At present, indeed, it appears difficult to compute what this distress will amount to for the coming year, even assuming the American war to continue ; and the same difficulty holds with regard to our own country also. But population laptoisosnibtleo on that the x the coia aggregatesebe le capacity myoafy bethe very much reduced ; and it would not surprise us to find the v hole of this usually anticipated 38,000,0001 r. of increase disappear from the actual receipts for the year when they shall be announced twelve months hence. What is con ceivable of our own revenue is conceivable also of the French under the influence of a similar pressure. But we are glad to perceive that, however unex ppeucttaetdinenvaeonft s lu m . redits without the power of opening extraordinary c ay Fould, hay et disturbedhe princi principle th e of or i g i nalr stri c c 7i n g " basedthe ia sanctiona appointment p o o f i n t t h m e e uCthaaami‘bleiru,i Minister which rof Fi Finance, eFouldhas been in the main preserved. It is true that the Mexican war has exceeded the vote of the Chamber by 24,000,000 fr. ; but it is a necessity that wars shall not be starved; and it does not appear that the condition which M. Fould held sacred on his accession to office has been invaded in any domestic transactions. We trust that he will persevere in a principle which is absolutely essential to affording the Corps Legislatif the slightest control over the public expenditure, or even the Minister of Finance himself the means of learning the pecuniary position of the Government, for the credit and solvency of which he is immediately responsible to the Emperor and the nation. GLASGOW, Dec. 27.—Cotton.—There was a good .demand for cotton in the fore part of the week at an advance of id. per lb. Goods and yarns.—There has been little doing in our market for goods and yarns this week. Producers in every department are firm in holding out for advanced prices. Iron.—ln pig iron there has been cora paratively little doing during this week, as usual towards the close of the year. Prices inclined slightly downward for the first two days, but yesterday and to-day the tone has been firmer, probably on account of the American news. To-day there has been few parcels on sale, and 545. lid. and 545. 3d. cash have been realised for warrants, the latter rate obtainable at the close. The annual circular will show again a considerable increase of stock, which may tell against prices; but, on the other hand, there is great ac tivitycrodist. For ss, shipping 67s parcels the quotations are: — ;Calder, 655, 3d. ; Glengarnock, in the foundries, malleable ironworks, and ship bailding ya G.m b., No. 1 , 54 5.; No. 3, 525. 3d ; Gartsherrie, No. 1, ; ne 545. ad.; k'orth, Us. ; siuneil, 645. THE ARMY. The following circular letter, signed by Earl De Grey and Ripon, Under-Secretary of State for War, addressed to general officers of Artillery Volunteer Corps, has been received at Chatham garrison from the War-office : "I am directed by Secretary Sir G. C. Lewis to inform you that he has approved the following regulations re specting the guns, gun ammunition, and artillery stores supplied by Government for the instruction of Volun teers :-1. All guns, gun ammunition, and artillery stores issued for the use of the artillery Volunteers, will, as hereto fore, be included in the store accounts rendered to the Field- Marshal Commander-in- Chief and the Secretary of Stato for 'War by the officers commanding the Royal Artillery in the several districts of Grelt Britain; but these articles will henceforward be committed to the charge of the officers commanding corps of Artillery Volunteers, under whose orders the non-commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery attached to corps as instructors will act in the capacity of custodians. 2. Officers commanding corps of Artillery Volunteers are to communicate on all subjects con nected with the supply and disposal of guns, gun ammu nition, and artillery stores with the officer commanding the Royal Artillery in the district in which their respective head quarters are situated, and must be prepared to afford him. every information which he may require from time to time to enable him to account properly fcr the stores included in his return. 3, In the case of corps belonging to an ad ministrative brigade the correspondence is to pass through the officer commanding the brigade," The large block of buildings being erected in Chatham dockyard for the residence of the married members of the metropolitan police force doing duty at that establishment are so far advanced towards completion that they will shortly be ready to be handed over to the Admiralty by Messrs. Foord and Sons, the builders. The building is three stories in height, exclusive of the basement, and is divided into three separate blocks. Each family is provided with a commodious sitting-room, 16 feet by 15 feet, and three large bedrooms, together with a waah house and watercloset on a level with the floors but detached from the main building. Water is laid on to every part of the building, which will also, be lighted with gas. The interior of the building has been arranged according to the plan introduced by the late Prince Consort in the model cottages erected according to his designs in 1851. Tho build ing, which is built of white Aylesford bricks, has an imposing and very substantial appearance, the effect of the exterior being improved by the line of the centre block of building receding some slight dis tance, which gives character to the whole. The entire structure has been erected from the designs of Mr. W. Rivers, the principal director of works at Chatham dockyard, under the immediate Elec. tion of Col. G. T. Greene, the Admiralty superin tendent of public works. It is intended to charge the police who occupy the building a nominal rent, sufficient to pay a moderate percentage on the outlay. GUNS VERSUS IRON Snips—Mr. W. Fairbairn, in tho course of an address delivered to the Liverp oo l Social Science Asscciation on Friday evening said :—I may venture to say a revolution is now pending over the desti nies of this and all other countries pending for security on maritime constructions. It is obvious to every reflect ing t conditions experimentso fthe future now navy i n progress of Eat n g us i n the forms rm see sand r from con the d person that the days of the wooden w a ll s — on w hi ch we f for so many years we rested for s ecur it y — are numbered; and w Shoeburyness, that an enti re l y new era is bursting upon Eng land. It is interesting to observe the fluctuations which almost monthly take place between the vessels of attack and defence. It is a contest in which 1 am personally engaged, and, in connection with clearer heads than my own have to draw conclusions and deductions which may seriously affect the security and prosperity of the kingdom. In this contest the Iron-plate Committee are sometimes the winners and sometimes the losers; but it must be admitted that our opponents, the Arm stronga and Whitworths, have recently had the advan tage; and the Iron-plate Committee being limited to the weight that a ship can carry without destroying its effici ency, are rather at a discount in regard to the powers of resistance. We are, however, in no way discouraged, as the experiments disclose from time to time means by which we may reasonably hope to best our antagonists. It may be true that the construction of ordnance has not yet at tained its maximum force; neither has the construction of ships, nor the powers by which they may be propor tioned to set the largest guns at defiance. That thy will receive damage is evident, but I am persuade d that the loss of life and the security of the ship will not be increased (under certain conditions) to what it was in former tiii. cs under the command of such men as Rodney, Duncan, :aid Nelson. It is not for me, in this place, to state how this should be done; suffice it to observe that our naval archi tects have to contend against shot of 3001 b. weight, that may strike a ship with a velocity of 15,000 feet per second ; and as this weight multiplied into the square of the velocity gives the work done, or the damage done to the ship, it therefore follows, according to the foimula deduced from the experiments, that we have a force equivalent to raising a weight of 467,192 tons one foot high in the, air. Viewing the subject in this light, it will be seen that a great deal has yet to be done before we can declare the iron clad ship invulnerable, and before this new system renders the British navy, as of yore, the terror of its enemies, and the precursor of liberty and civilisation in every part of the globe. Importing tea without colour on the leaf prevents the Chinese passing off inferior brown leaves as in the usual. kinds. H orn i man ' s tea i s unco l oure d, th ere f ore a l ways good alike. Sold in packets 2,280 agents. 2gs 3 21 2a to c litioll quic A e' 'bleu' 1 6 5 °' Oat ° it 34° a wl , old sale, to 2 45 :o 4 6 : ;0 • 4O ivi 4 1 de• a rid other ba c/ .11 114 %alit g t° 1100 1 ;tie . 01 0 ' the ;bl O ion erlt for