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noTELS, AP LIN'S IiOTEL. AND SPREAD EAGLE TAVERN,; 81, GRACECTIURCII-STREET,:. LONDON. ow 'fort, combined with moderate charges, will be found at this Establishment. PRIVATE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sitting Room, Is. per Day. Led Rooms, Is. 6d. and ..'s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. No INCREASE OF CHARGES. INDIA AND THE COLONIES. 'PASSENGERS Embarking or Disembarking wid find fluperlor accommodation and moderate 2:c "1a at (111APLIN'S CLARENDON ITOTEL, GRAVESEND, Adjoining the Terrace Pier. A -.Lawn in front, extending to the River. AMUSEMEN TS. C I ANTF,RBURY HALT,. RAND SELECTIONS from VERDI'S " SIMON n " A 6 P ANEGRA," MACEARREN'S CANTATA " MAY }I4,NFTT Y , " LOCKE'S MUSIC of " NtArBETH," and Mr. and Y GII,RI4',RT'S NEW OPERETTA, " A NIGHT ull a LAND. Chorus " Conducted by Mr. JONGHMANS. nd . PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Sin Miss RUSSELL, Miss TOWNLEY. Tivoli, Mr. Green, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover. n Thy Comic by UNSWORTH (the Original Stump Orator, r,x e t ANY and Litt OTHER MAN"), in conjunction with Eugene, Y. le Bob, forming the greatest Comic Quartet L ondon. A , 1 , 9 ,0, the following. Comic Favourites : —Miss Georgina k 1 1 1 1 "n 8 011, Messrs. E. Marshall, Hollingsworth. and Arthur ;Id, and the surprising Performance of " THE ETOILE T E O X F ORD, 6. OXFORD STREET. Tie-a Tha ppearance of Unsworth (the original of "Or any other p rl ;„ — The Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parkes.— .11 1 : 1 - irn - ,, e, the mat Burlesque Prima Donna.—Arena and li,„~,res, the Neapolitan Minstrels.—W. Randall and A. B. a"'" l, ggworth,—Mr T . M clarran' Entertainment.—Drew ssn's Soks on the . Fl te a C inic Pas Seul, by Ilenri.—ln dition to varied high-c u Musical attractions. consisting of from Verdi's "Nabuco" and "Il Corsaro," .7nizetti's " Don Sebastien," Auber's "La Circassienne," 14 C horuses, Glees, D ue t s , &c., &c., by Miss Russell. MISS With w pieY ; Mes srs. B ernardi, Greene, Ll u i s h , an d Alb e rt, Full Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmana. JOR. Rd Achnission, Rd. ; B a l c ony and Stalls. le. ; Private Boxes. I:nri. TT • ) RNHAM'S GRAND CONCERT HALL, Edgware-road, W., WILL OPEN, DECEMBER 23. T riE GRAND INAUGHRAL CONCERT , to commemo roate the ()rentn of this new and splendid Ha ll, tak e s p la c e next,TUESDAY December 23, at Seven o'clock. GREAT and SPECIAL7ATTRACTIONS. Prices on Opening Night — Bo d y of the hall, Is. ; balcon y , 2s Ad. This Hall will be found one of the lamest, most com niodious, and most gorgeougly-decorated in London ; and the engagements comprise the first Sentimental, Comic, and In strumental Talent of the day. - Musical Director and Manager—Mr. CHAS. GREVILLE. Permanent prices—Body of the hall, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is. OPENING NIGHT, Dee 23. A RGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street, ITayrnarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.— t'llen every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the firtslebrated Band of 50 p_erformers. Conductor and Principal - otnet-a-Piston, M. BouLcorwr.—The new Imperial Qllit. False Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'DayValse will c Played nightly. 1.~4t new Conversation Salon has been added to the above ta!)lishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments. — '44lllBBl°n ls.—Manager, M. Grenet. ft OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT .. G ARDEN. nder the Mang , ement of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. TP T TT L S EVENING Wallace's new Opera of LOV E ' S : Miss Louisa I'yne, and Mdme. Laura Baxter ; a ns` l. . Geonxe Perren, W. 11. Weiss, H. Corri, A. Cooke, s' W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. ` Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8. 1 1 HRAT RE-RO VA 1 • HAY MARKET. FBI, Lessee at 7. I.essee Mr. Puelrstors. NT Messrs. W. lat Ten. Howe, Compton, Mrs. Wilkins, Miss C. Hill. .'.,l„,ter which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed *(3o7th time) ot v, c 5 AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck ne Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. w.-trowed by A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. anc e ) . ar ten, Mr. Rogers, and Miss Harfleur (her sth appear- To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. N THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHL— • Sole Pronriator and Manazer. Mr. B. Webster. TAIS EVENING, THE GREEN BUSHES. Messrs. J.' Toole, P. Bedford, on, Sefton, Stephenson, Eburne, Bitehenson, Aldridge Miss Avonia Jones. Miss oolgar Mrs. Sillington, Mrs. H. Lewis, and Mrs. Stoker. To conc.ude with A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stephenson, and Mrs. Billington. Commence at 7. ()OVAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 340th Night of the "ontinuous run of "Peep o'Day." Ills P VENING, the new Comedietta. IT MUST BE T RUE. 'TWA S TN THE PAPERS. Walter Lqcy, J. Robins ; Mrs. Weston, Miss Weston, and Miss L. Thompson. ,Followed by PEEP O'DAY • or, Savourneen Deelish. easrs. Waiter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, I,d Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. cor he elude Ballet. with the Last View of KILLARNEY, intro 'win.' t THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; inhume containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by p,„rable superbly executed Models, illustrating every with of the Human Frame, in Health and Disease, together 'Ra formations of Monstrosities.g Natural Preparations, (f and Open daily, from 11 to 8 2g , l4 rntlem, n'only). Admission One Shilling-. 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It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—VlZ , that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas rerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool ; and at the HospitaL STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Inoorporated by Royal Charter). PATnotcEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has incurred expenses amount ng to £27,260 on various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution have teen instrumental in rescuing toe Crews of the follow ing Vessels:— Barque Vermont, of Halifax, U.S. .. 16 Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. 2 Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis 3 Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. 9 Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. 6 Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. .. 5 Schooner Rose, of Lynn Brig Prodroma, of Stockton .. 11 Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. 6 Brigantine Diana, of Frearikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. 7 Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. .. 5 Schooner Prospect, of Berwick . .. 6 Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose 1 Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields .. 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. 9 Smack John Bulgi, of Yarmouth .. .. 5 Schooner Catherine, of Newry Barque Niagara, of Shields .. 11 A Barge of Teignmouth Brig George and James, of London. 8 Brig Zephyr, of Whitby Coble Honour, of Cullercoats .. 3 Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. .. 7 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth a Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland . .. 6 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. 5 Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. 5 Brig Ann, of Blyth 8 Spanish Barque Primers de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. .. 1 Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. 5 Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) •• •• •• •• .• •• •• 6 Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved yes and crew) .. .. 3 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew 4 Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Fishing-boats of Whitburn • .. .. 16 Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoo Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. 2 Schooner William, of Morecambe 5 Smack Gipsy, of Newry . .. 4 Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. 4 Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven .. 8 Schooner William, of Liverpool .. 5 Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields .. •• .. 8 Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood • • .. 4 Barque Guyana, of Glasgow .. • • .. 19 Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. 10 Brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide •• .. 2 Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna .. •• • French Brig La Jenne Marie Therese .. •• Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. • • Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater .. 4 Ship Danube, of Belfast Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover • • 4 , Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven • • • • •• •• •• Brig St. Michel, of Marans Barqueoo Schooner D e ofru ße i l d fon a , Sunderland 1 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam 5 • • •• • Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon . • • • 1 Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich ... •• • • 5 Brig Minerva, of Workington Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6 Brig Sisters, of Id hitby • • 9 Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm .. 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields .. .. 10 Brig Trial, of Poole .. •• Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. •. • .. 3 Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) Barque Frederick, of Dublin Barge Peace, of London Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. 11 Smack Adventure. of Harwich.. „. 10 Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. .. 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen .. 11 Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank., on. the Irish coast .. 1 Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. .. 6 Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. 5 Schooner Rook, of Liverpool •• •• •• 3 Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. 5 Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. .. 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. .. 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland • • • • 5 Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan 3 Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda.. l34 Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. 2 Sloop William, of Liverpool .. • • .. .. 5 Sloop Elizabeth, of TelemmOuth 3 Portuguese Barque Cruz V. • • .. .• •• 14 Ship Annie E. Hooper. of Baltimore, U. 5... .. 18 Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. 4 Total .. 762 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has voted £2,458 as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. It has also granted rewards amounting to £572 for saving 562 shipwrecked persons, by shore-boats and other means. mak ;ng a total of 1,302 persons saved from a watery grave during the last two years and a half. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,690; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 71t Silver Medals, and. £lB,OO in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £64,300 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-care cages, and Boat-houses. The public cannot but sympathise with the vigorous efforts now being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at Ihe present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions 'he Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Twenty-three Life-boats under its man agement, for the maintenance of which, in a state of thorough efficiency, a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions:— 4 s. d Her Majesty the Queen .. .. • • annual 50 0 0 A Lady at Leith, per W. G. Slater, Esq.. don. 100 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • • • • • • • annual 11 0 Cotton, Sir St. Vincent, Bart.. . • .. don. 25 0 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0 Erle, Lord Chief Justice .. .. don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Harvey. Rev. G. G. and Mrs. • • • • don. 30 0 Lambton, Messrs. W. H. & CO., Bankers .. don. 21 0 0 Lanesborough, the Earl of .. .. annual 5 0 0 Legacy of the late Wm. Lupton, Esq., of Salford.. 100 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. .. don. 15 15 0 Robartes, T. J. Agar, Esq., M.P. annual 5 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0 Trench, Lady Helena .. don. 30 0 0 Donations and Annual Ste , scriptions will be thankfully re ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Bankers in the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, Lon don, W.C. NOTICE. The Genuine and Original BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK. for marking► on linen, silk, or cotton, bears the address on the label.-28, Long-lane, West Smithfield, City. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIFE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This lite-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to arry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by he medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst. Dr. Rioord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions, for use, at 110., or four quantities In one for 339 ., end will be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt of remittance or post-office order payable to Front asnd ( 0., Patent Medicine Warehouse, 229, Strand London. ~' _ r -e- --e--C' • , . • , ,- I . l lllllllk *rre _ • \'9ll‘ . o r e : t i It - . \ z . - #0,44 • 4pk \ ‘. ltlll9lllW . t v ( c.) ' . Y. - '-x" , . . . R. . I f 44 , . , , 0„k ~( , In v t 4 ; .1 Ron . ; - 03 J - - _ Ag o k ••- -THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENIN-Z, DECEMBER 16, 1862. CONVIC7 LIFE AND LIVING A 7 POB7- , punishment should, after their spoil of liberty in the slums of great cities, show such an unaccountable desire to return to it again. To compare this high feeding with the mise rable dole which keeps life in our paupers would be absurd, and equally so would be a comparison with the poor diet for which the honest labourer toils so hard. Their case, as a comparative one, is quite out of the question, but will tho rations given cut to our soldiers and sailors show as varied or as nutritive a diet as is hero given to our convicts at Portland and elsewhere? It is of no use asking questions of the directors of prisons as to this high feeding. All inquiries are answered by its being part of the system. This meets the objector everywhere, and is considered a complete answer to everything. It is part of the system to believe that the men really work hard, another part being to feed them high lest they should lose muscle. Perhaps, as the muscle among the convicts is pretty well concealed by flesh, it may require looking after. But we have not done with the routine of life at Portland. After dinner the men who have put down their names to see the Governor see him in turn. They mostly come to ask permission to write special letters, a convict being supposed to write and receive letters once in three months ; but the rule is Purely nominal and not enforced, though they have to ask permission for extra correspondence. Some come to ask to be changed to the gardeners' class, some to the rig gers and platelayers', some to have their cells changed for better, and others to be allowed to work in gangs where their "cousins" are at work. All here and in other pri sons seem to think they are entitled to make any request which will tend to their greater convenience; in which they are right, for in 19 cases out of 20 their little whims are granted, it being another and most important part of "the system" to keep the men as comfortable as possible. The men then parade in the courtyard at I, while the Go vernor hears complaints against the mild discipline of the prison, such as fighting or not working. He then visits the " separate cells," where the hardened or disorderly, who have refused to come up to the lowest of low standards of motion which pass on the works as " labour," are confined on " 11b. of bread and a sufficiency of water" a day. These inveterate idlers are seldom sentenced more than three or four days of " separation," which they bear very well, lying on their backs all day, though they dislike the diet to an extent that makes even them not sorry when their time for work is due. All confinement in separate cells takes off from 14 to 28 days of the time at which they can claim tickets of leave. The Governor has also the power of sen tencing to half diet for 10 days, or even the dark cell for a short time if necessary, but it is not often done. At one o'clock the men are again paraded and roughly examined to see that they have not concealed their food to barter it for tobacco, &c., with the free labourers, which in spite of all search it is impossible to prevent their doing daily, and this over they again march out to the quarries. Here, in sight of the free labourers who have dined on bread and cheese, and have perhaps done what would for a convict be half a day's work while the latter were at dinner or washing, the prisoners begin quarrying again, neither ashamed nor encouraged by what they have seen the others do and doing. It is almost a farce to call their labour "hard labour." It seems little more than an excuse for keeping the men out of doors for a certain time and giving them just enough exercise to keep them in good health, without which, with their good living, they would be extemely liable to sicken. Almost the best proof of its being no toil is that the men themselves like the "outing." They work in gangs, talk, laugh, and jest, and arrange among themselves their little "plants" for getting tobacco and other little luxuries forbidden by the prison rule from the free labourers, which, as we shall see, they are generally successful. In this manner they while away the time easily and lightly enough—in winter till four o'clock, in summer till half-past five, when they are again marched back to prison, and, having attended evening prayers in chapel, go to supper in the cells. For supper one pint of gruel and 9 oz. of bread to the recent corners, but those in the third and fourth stage have the privilege of changing their gruel for the same quantity of tea, "if preferred." These latter have also the further indulgence of being allowed to sit up and read in their cells till 9, the others going to bed and having their lights out by eight o'clock. All the men rise at five in summer, and half-past five in winter, and, after washing and sweeping out their cells, get their break fasts served to them like their dinner. Their breakfast on Sunday and three days a week is a pint of tea and 12 ounces of bread; on the other three days, a pint of cocoa and the same quantity of bread; and in this meal only is there no difference made, men in all stages of their captivity faring alike. After breakfast there is chapel, and at 7in summer and half-past 7 in winter there is the usual muster and walk to the quarries, when there is the usual hard labour we have described till half-past ii, when they return to wait for dinner as before. When we add that every pri • Boner has half a day's schooling every week, and that on this half day ho takes a bath and has his hair cut ; that on Saturday afternoon all work ends at 4.30 ; that on Sundays after service the prisoners may walk about the yard, or sit in their cells and read, we have told all the terrors 'of penal servitude and hard labour on the public works. When this is the system what right have the public to be surprised at its natural results in the indifference of ticket of leave men to recommitment? It is said here, and on good authority, though we cannot ourselves vouch for its truth, that men let out on tickets of leave have been known, after a short period of absence, to return to the prison and ask for re admission on their old comfortable footing. This, as we have said, may or may not be true, but it is beyond all question, and admitted on all sides, that the light work, good feeding, and careful treatment of convicts under the system of penal servitude, make short sentences almost the 1 reverse of a terror to criminals, and that the treatment of these gentlemen workmen, as the free labourers call them, has a most mischievous and demoralising effect on the po pulation in the neighbourhood of these prisons. It is im possible for the free labourer, working very hard for very little, not to draw bitter contrasts between his own condi tion and the convict's, when he finds the latter can come 1 to him and barter meat for tobacco. As we have said, the convicts somehow or other manage to get money from their friends, and this in spite of every check which the really admirable vigilance of the Portland officials can devise to stop it. The money comes, either in coins or notes or stamps, in covers of bibles, in the backs of photographic miniatures, under the wax of appa rently clumsily sealed letters, and with shilling postage stamps, under the common penny ones, which are carefully fastened over them, so that the latter, which are of course worth money, remain unobliterated. By these and ten thousand other stratagems, which no acutene s s can detect, the convicts manage t o rec e ive money, and when once they have got it all the vigilance in the world ca nnot p r event their getting what they want in return for it. They arrange with the free labourer with whom they have covertly made friends to leave mon e y, a note, or s t a mps under such a stone, which he takes in d ue ti me , k ee ping half the money or what money the sta m p s may f etc h f or himself and returning the rest in tobacco or writing materials. Once a means of getting letters to and from the prison is arranged, there is always a means of getting money, and when money comes into the field the hard -worked warders have been found neither more nor less immaculate than other men similarly needy and similarly tempted. Their failures of duty have, however, been few, and it is said, no doubt with truth, that the free labourers, as risking nothing by detection, are the main go-betweens of the convicts. It is difficult, how ever, for mere outsiders to understand the keen zest which these contraband ventures give to prison life. What with " plants" of letters and " plants" of tobacco, prison news of who's in " separate" or who's suspected of " rounding" on such a gang, there is no ennui or want of interesting subjects to talk about while at "hard labour." When Mr. Baron Bramwell was the other day sentencing the garotters at the Central Criminal Court he said, "Yon may find captivity irksome, and you will certainly be deprived of tobacco and stimulants." Some who heard it were almost inclined to smile at such a curious remark in a sentence of penal servitude ; but there was a hidden bitterness in the words which showed that the learned Baron knew well the truth of what he was saying, and that his sentence meant little more than compulsory residence in one place and ab stinence from spirits and tobacco. Can any one who sees what the life of the convicts is at Portland honestly say that if it does not mean more than this, the system is really a determent to evil doers? Of all the officials engaged in administering our convict discipline, not one, if proper in quiry is made, will be found to say it does—except, perhaps, Sir Joshua Jebb. What its effects are upon the poor people in the neighbourhood of the prisons we have already said. They may dislike the crime, but they are candid enough in envying the lot of the criminals ; and when they simply state what their own hard work and poor fare is, who can blame them ?—Times. LAND. PORTLAND, DEC. 13. Transportation versus Ticket-of-leave, or, in plain terms, What are we to do with our convicts ? is a question which is almost as forcibly impressed upon the visitors to the stu pendous works at Portland as upon any of the suburban dwellers in London who creep timidly home after dark for fear of garotters. We are not now about to enter upon the old and much-vexed question of the value of convict labour as compared with free, though it is one which at Portland is, and ala ays must be, acrimoniously debated by the parti sans on either side. Both, as generally happens in these cases, are a little in the wrong. Sir Joshua Jebb, who finds his intractable proteges kept out of mischief by the nearest approach to hard work they can be got to do, na turally supports it and over-estimates its money value in consideration of its use in can-) ing out his " system;" con tractors, on the other hand, who have erected a plant equal to the consumption of double the materials the convicts can be got to supply, and who find themselves entirely idle on wet days when the carefully nursed convicts are not al lowed to work at all, are apt to ignore its value alto gether. The truth lies between the two extremes. The whole dispute, however, is entirely beside the real question at issue. It is not what is the kind of labour which con victs have to do, but how much real labour is exacted from them. It is, has our present system of penal servitude any real terrors for the lawless and despe rate ? Or, on the other hand, is it such in its care ful treatment, high feeding, and light work as almost to induce ticket-of-leave men, like sailors from a ship after a long cruise, to return with perfect indifference to its discipline when they have had their run of liberty ashore ? At no place in the kingdom can these questions be better or more practically answered than by a visit ,to Portland. From the lax discipline which it is rumoured among prison authorities prevails in some of our great convict establishments in this kingdom, it would not be fair to take them as samples. At Portland, however, the discipline is really perfect, compared with others ; there is a large establishment of convicts, there are the public works in which they are supposed to labour hard; and whether the whole system is good or bad, there, at least it is in its best working order. There are always from 1,400 to 1,600 convicts at Port land, mostly working in gangs by themselves, but now and then in close proximity to groups of free labourers. You know at once when you are coming upon the ground mostly worked by the former; on all the steep headlands and high commanding bluffs which are being scarped into perpendi cular walls for the fort of this Channel Gibraltar stalk the tall figures of the warders all around. There is nothing of the listless routine of sentry duty about these men. They carry their rifles ready, and seem all eyes and ears as they scan the ground beneath them, like eager sportsmen look ing for a shot. Passing through two or three lines of such vigilant "look-outs" is rather impressing, and prepares the visitor to expect such scenes of labour and enforced toil among the convicts as would induce them to run some risk to escape. Nothing of the sort is, however, to be seen as you turn into the Old St. Paul's quarries, where some of the blocks rejected by Sir Christopher Wren are still upon the ground. Here, amid a number of old and rust 3 cranes, on the hills overlooking the sea, a large body of the convicts are at work in gangs of 24 or 30, each gang having its own warder, who, by the way, has 15 hours' work to the convicts' 9 or 10. The prisoners require no pointing out, their dress, their closely shaven aspect, their hard, firm, ruddy, healthy look, like pugilists in con dition for a fight, and, above all, their slow, lazy style of working, or rather moving, which contrasts so strangely with the busy energy and speed of the free workmen near at hand, all show them at a glance to be "penal servitudes" at "hard labour." Here are men of every grade of infamy and crime, men who were once clerks, merchants, and even commissioned officers, down to poachers, burglars, mur derers, and that worst and most inveterate of all ruffians, who has been inured to every form of punishment known to the law short of hanging—the true London criminal. Some few are employed in platelaying, some in blacksmiths' shops, some at masons' or bricklayers' work upon the great forti • fications of the Verne, but the main bulk are kept in the quarries. To nearly all, however, no matter how employed, the same remark applies as to light and slothful labours, and nearly all are alike in their vicious and forbidding as pects—their low, narrow, retreating foreheads, keen, rest less eyes, and vindictive animal features. This is not the mere effect of prejudice en seeing them as convicts. The type of the criminal head and face is well known in Portland and its neighbourhood. They may be recognised as a negro would be recognised in Boston. Of all the convicts in Port land now there are not 5 per cent. whom anyman judging by their looks alone would ever think of trusting in a position requiring the exertion of sense or the forbearance of honesty. Some few among the number in these quarries work in heavy chains, in most quaint dresses of gray and yellow, and gray and black. The former are those who have tried to break away, the latter are ruffians who have used, or from their threats are known to intend, violence to the warders. Both, however, clank about with a defiant swag ger, as if their chains were honourable distinctions of their strength and courage, in which light there is but too much reason to believe they are also regarded by many of their fellow-prisoners. In these quarries the men work at quarrying and dressing blocks of stone in winter about eight and a half hours a day, in summer nine hours, and sometimes a little over. The work, indeed, would be hard labour if fairly done, and there are some few, but very few, who really do work well and as if labour was a relief to them. But the great majority take matters very easily indeed, as may be judged when five convicts kept at their work only quarry about as much stone in a day as two free labourers working for their hire. It is not suggestive of hard work to see a fellow put down a heavy hammer that he ought to be wielding lustily and stop to swing his arms and clap his hands to keep himself warm. When this is the " hard labour" we can see at once why convicts do not dread it. When we come to know how they are nurtured and lodged in the prison in order that their strength may be kept up to the required standard for this imaginary hard labour which they are supposed to perform, we get a real light thrown upon the indifference with which penal servitude in this country is regarded, and gain a clue to the reason why it is that so large a proportion of ticket-of leave men are, to say the least, not unwilling to return to the so-called "penal servitude." Perhaps, while the visitor is regarding this mockery of work it may begin to rain; at once the mimic toil ceases and the con victs are marched off in gangs to sheds erected for the pur pose, where they are carefully sheltered from the weather and can look out with complacency upon the free labourer, who, having himself and his family to keep, must stay and bear whatever weather Heaven sends, wet or dry, hot or cold. The - contrast between the condition of the two, how ever, by no means ends here. The comforts that are denied to misery, though proferred to crime, have been an old theme of invective ever since the new convict " system " came into operation. At no part of England, however, is the superior condition of the convict, as compared with that of the honest labourer, brought side by side into such startling contrasts as at Portland. When 12 o'clock comes in the works at the Verne, the free labourer, who has done more quarrying than any two convicts that day, may be seen sitting down to his meal of bread and cheese, some times with a bit of dried fish or a tin pot of coffee, the latter generally unsweetened. The convict leaves' off work at pas f h a al et f- niak t e l a l ample dinner. The prison is wide and lofty in all the li an ttl d e g to o i e le s t th , be hi f s or c e eli h t e o w sit a s sh ao c w om n b to his h h is ai v r ery in chambers and avenues, well lighted and well ventilated, yet kept comfortably warm, and, above all, so scrupulously clean that it is a comfort to look at it. While the " hard labour " men are making their toilets their dinners are carefully got ready, weighed out, and served smoking hot in bright clean tins, and at 12 o'clock each man comes for ward with his gang, and receives every one his separate allowance. Their dinner three days a week is as follows : One pint of soup properly seasoned, thickened with barley, rice, carrots, and onions, and equal in nutriment to any ever placed on a gentleman's table ; 5f ounces of cooked meat, free of bone; 11b. of potatoes, and 10 ounces of rich suet pudding. On three days a week the pudding is re placed with 6 ounces of bread, and on Sundays the meat is increased to 6 ounces. With this little dinner in his tin every man retires to his comfortable cell, where he is allowed an hour to consume it at his leisure,—not that the time is always so spent; many have, or affect to have, suspicion as to the weights or quantities they have got, and these fellows, some of whom make a point of doing it for the sake of giving trouble, have to be accompanied to the kitchen by the warders, where according to the rules of the prison, they are entitled to have everything reweighed and measured before their eyes. All, however, do not dine in their cells— some are portioned out in larger rooms in cosy little messes of eight or ten. These are mostly men in the third or fourth stage—that is, men who have completed two-thirds or three-fourths of the time —not of the sentence—nobody completes that—but the time at which they are entitled to claim their ticket of leave. They have extra comforts and privileges beyond dining in messes. In addition to the dinner we have mentioned the men in the third stage re ceive on Sundays 2 oz. cheese, 3 oz. bread, and half a pint of beer after it ; while the men in the fourth stage receive the same as to bread and cheese and beer as the third, with the addition of a treacle pudding after dinner on Thursdays, baked mutton, in lieu of beef, on Thurs days and Fri days, and baked beef instead of boiled on Sun. days and Mondays I Here, then, we begin by giving our convicts a daily dinner such as for nutriment, quality, and quantity few labouring men can afford on Sun days, and we gradually raise the scale of luxuries till they dine at last oa RollP balwd beef, lereed and cheese and beer, and pudding. Yet the public, who don't know these things, wonder why penal servitude is not dreaded, and why, above all others, ticket-of-leave men who have undergone this Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents. FEARRFUL OCCURRENCE AT A SUGAR REFINERY. —Yesterday morning, a shocking and fatal accident oc curred to a man named Robt. Woodey, aged 54 years, a blacksmith, who lost his life by falling into a cistern of boiling liquor. It appears that the deceased was engaged in making some repairs in the refinery of Messrs. Martineau and Co., of Christian-terrace, St. George's-in -the-East, and while walking along a plank, he slipped and fell into the man named Slates, a fell ow -workman, on hearing boiling liquid. The screams of the p oor f e l low were fearful, and his cries, ran to his assistance, and dragged him out of the wholeaecaccident i e f t ward of th e L on don Hospital, cistern, when it was ascertained th a t h e was extensively scalded htf immediately called, but the i n j uries were of such a the w b y deemedasodand limbs. A surgeon necessary to remove the g sufferer ul where he expired shortly after his admission. The deceased, who has left a wife and family, resided a Lambeth, wasr over characterto the the that dut AMERICA. RE-OPENING OF CONGRESS. SPEECTI OF THE PRESIDENT. NEW YORK, DEC. 2, yesterday.o N M ' (per Persia.) NG. Congress assembled at Washington The Message delivered by President Lincoln is moderate in tone towards the South, but firm for the maintenance of the Union. On foreign rela tions he says : " If the condition of foreign relations is lees gratifying than at former periods, it is certainly more satisfactory than a nation so unhappily dis tracted might have apprehended. In June last there were some grounds to expect that the maritime powers which, at the commencement of American difficulties so unwisely and unnecessarily recognised the insurgents as belligerents, would soon recede from that position which has proved only less in jurious to themselves than to America. " But temporary reverses, which afterwards befel the Federal arms, and which were exaggerated by disloyal citizens abroad, have hitherto delayed that act of simple justice. " Civil war has disturbed the social conditions and deeply affected the prosperity of the nations with which America has carried on an increasing com merce during half a century. "It has at the same time excited political ambi tions and apprehensions, which have produced pro found agitation throughout the civilised world. " In this unusual agitation America has forborne from taking part in any controversy between foreign states and between parties or factions in such states. " America has attempted no propagandism and acknowledged no revolution, bat has left to every nation the exclusive cogduct and management of its own affairs. Foreign nations have, of course, con templated the American struggle less with refer ence to its own merits than to its supposed and often exaggerated effects, and the consequences re sulting to those nations themselves. Nevertheless, complaint on the part of the Federal Governhient, even if it were just, would certainly be unwise." President Lincoln acknowledges with special plea sure that the execution of the slave-trade treaty by the British Government has been marked with a jealous respect for the authority of the United States, and the right of their moral and loyal citi zens. The blockade of 3,000 miles of sea coast could not, he says, be established and vigorously enforced in a season of great commercial activity like the present without committing occasional mistakes, and inflicting unintentional injuries upon foreign nations and their subjects. " Civil war in a country where foreigners reside and carry on trade under treaty stipulations is necessarily fruitful of complaints of violation of neutral rights. " All such collisions tend to excite misapprehen sion, and possibly to produce mutual recrimination between nations which have a common interest in preserving peace and friendship. " In clear cases of these kinds I have so far as possible heard and redressed the complaints pre sented by friendly powers. There are, however, a large and augmenting number of doubtful cases upon which the Federal Government is unable to agree with the governments whose protection is demanded by the claimants. There are, moreover, many cases in which the United States or their citizens suffer wrongs from the naval or military authorities of foreign nations, which the Govern ments of these States are not at once prepared to redress. I have proposed to some foreign states thus interested mutual conventions, to examine and adjust such complaints. This proposition has been made specially to England, France, Spain, and Prussia. In each case it has been kindly received, bat not yet formally adopted." President Lincoln recommends an appropriation for the owners of the Norwegian barque Admiral Riola. He says that commercial and consular treaties have been negotiated with Turkey, Liberia, and Hayti, and continues : " Our relatio n s with European States remain undisturbed. Our relations with the independent States of the American continent remain un changed, but more friendly sentiments than have hitherto existed are believed to be entertained by these neighbours, whose safety and progress is so intimately connected with that of America. This statement specially applies to Mexico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, and Chili." I have favoured the project of an Atlantic cable, and a similar project to extend the telegraph from San Francisco to connect by a Pacific telegraph with the wire which is being extended across the Russian Empire. The message recommends extraordinary measures to promote the development of the mineral regions of the United States territories, and continues : Public expenditure for the suppression of the re bellion have been met with promptness, and public credit ,is fully maintained. The suspension of specie payments by the banks made a large issue of United States notes unavoidable. The judicious legislation of Congress making these notes a legal tender has made them the universal currency, and satisfied partially for the time the long-felt want of a uniform circulating medium. A return to specie payments, however, at the earliest period compa tible with due regard to all interests should ever be kept in view. The best means to reduce the fluctuations in the value of the currency, and insure its prompt con vertibility into coin, is to organise banking asso ciations under a general act of Congress. To such associations Government might furnish circulating notes on the security of United States Bonds depo sited in the Treasury. These notes, being uniform in appearance and security and convertible always into coin, would protect labour against the evils of a vicious currency, and facilitate commerce by cheap and safe exchanges. Public credit would be im proved, and the negotiation of new loans greatly facilitated by a steady market demand for Govern ment Bonds which the adoption of the proposed system would create. It would reconcild a 1 existing interests by the opportunity offered to existing institutions to reor ganise under the Ae,t, substituting a secured uni form national currency for the various circulations now issued. The receipts from all sources for the fiscal year ending June, 1862, were 584,000,000 dole. ; being 49,000,000 dols. from Customs, 1,800,000 dols. from direct taxes, and from loans 530,000,000 dole. The remainder was the balance from last year. The aggregate disbursements during the same period were 570,000,000 dole. The 96,000,000 dole. expended for the reimbursement and redemption of the public debt being included in the loans made, 2/{e--z_ 1~~ ! ~ L- Lancashire. sailed, ~~ c~ - ~-r z NE, IV S PAPE li /1/ - •": 1 : 4 :117 7 L- -L k i !I\ \N r k eii , 42 tirrisp 41 - Icto tor tatatrlidlrnug watcric -AC 4. 7 , .4r- • , .4 41 , .-.-. p.--t other waters to the Lakes. - ste- -1 -- i x -- - - -.,-r t .. . ?4 , i. 7 1 General Burnside has vis „, . . - ---,---7- ic= ..,R,,f had an interview with the P re `l '. ' saLitaatey turned to the army. kI a s Nothing important has occurred at FredPricks burg. The Confederate Cavalry have crossed the Rappahannock and captured two entire companies of Federal cavalry. Five Federal gunboats are reported to have pro. ceeded by the Rappahannock, and anchored oppo site King Geor ge's Court-house. A successful cavalry reconnaissanc e has been made from General Sigers army, in which 40 Con federate cavalry were en), fired. The Legislature of Alabama has placed 1,000,000 dols. at the disposal of the Governor, and has authorised him to impress one-tenth of the negroes in Alabama to erect the defences. The negroes will at once commence to obstruct the channels leading into Mobile Bay, and in the rivers above the city. The Southern journals assert that the Federals in West Tennessee have forbidden the farmers to plant anything but cotton. A meeting of the New York Chamber of Com merce has been convened for the 4th instant, to consider measures for the relief of the distress in A portion of General Banks's expedition has The Federal army of the South-West has coin menced a general advance from Memphis and dif ferent parts of the Mississippi. Preparations are being made at New Orleans fur an advance by land and water up the Mississippi. 0 s T e i r i lee° the h r e e s p tp r o o n c d e e e n d i s n g o s f a t s he en N t e h A Uni on meeting has been held in New Orleans. w usi Y as o t r ic k , General B u tl er i s appointing journals de overseers for the plantations which he has confiscated. General Butler, in a letter permitting the Na tional Advocate to resume publication, says all per sons expressing a desire for foreign intervention will be treated as traitors. Nearly all the Democratic candidates have been elected at New York city election. A resolution has been offered in Congress to hold a convention of delegates from all the States at Louisville in April next, to consider the state of the country, and the proper means to be pursued for restoring the Union. General Halleck's report contains a letter from General M'Clellan, in which he strenuously opposes the removal of the army from the Peninsula to Acquia Creek, declaring that the same would be fatal to the Union cause. The British frigate Ariadne has arrived jilt New York. The Hibernian has arrived out. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, DEC, 2, Evening. Money easy. Gold 30i premium. Exchange on London, Banker's Bills 1441. Stocks steady, New York Central 1024, Illinois 784, Erie 64. Cotton advancing, middling upland 68c. Flour improving, 10c. higher. Coffee and molasses quiet. Wheat and corn a good inquiry, at an advance of 2c. Sugar quiet and unchanged. Provisions dull. NEW YORK, DEC. 5, Evening. Gold tighter. Money, 311 p.m. Exchange on London, banker's bill, 145 k to 146. Stocks heavy. New York Centrals, 1021; Illinois Centrals, 784- ; Erie, 611. Cotton steady. Middling Upland, 68. Bread stuffs heavy. Provisions quiet. Coffee very firm. Sugar advancing. Molasses dull. NEW YORK, DEc. 3. Advises received here from Vera Cruz state that the French had occupied Jalapa. A fight had occurred at National Bridge. The Mexicans were routed, and the French captured their commanding officer. 8,000 French troops were to occupy Sonora. General Forcy had issued another proclamation, declaring that he had not come to fight the Mexican people but only the Mexican Government, whose incapacity had placed Mexico in a deplorable posi tion PRICE .4d. STAMPED ....sd. may be properly deducted both from receipts and expenditure. A convention has been proposed to foreign Go. vernrnents to simplify the rates of foreign post• age and expedite foreign mails. President Lincoln urges the early completion of the Pacific railroad, and recommends the favour able action of Congress on projects for enlarging the great canals in New York and Illinois. The military and commercial importance of enlarging the Illinois and Michigan canals is presented in a report to the Secretary of War. In accordance with the purpose expressed in the second paragr a ph o f th e emanc i pa ti on proclama tions of S ep t em b er last, President Lincoln call the attention of Congress to what may be called com pensated emancipation. He then argues upon the impracticability of disunion, and says : There is no line straight or crooked suitable for a national boundary upon which to divide. Our strife pertains to ourselves, to the passing generations of men, and it cannot without con vulsion be hushed for ever with the passing of one generation. In this view the President recommends the adoption of the following resolutions and articles amendatory to the Federal Constitution:— Resolved by the Federal Congress, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures or Conventions of the several States as amendments to the Federal Constitution, all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of these Legislatures or Conventions, to be valid as part or parts of the Constitution:— First,—Every State wherein slavery now exists which shall abolish slavery at any time before January of the year 1900 shall receive the fol lowing compensation from the United States. Presidents of the United States shall deliver to every such State United States Bonds bearing a certain interest for each slave known to have been therein by the eighth United States Census; these bonds to be delivered to such State by instalments, or in one parcel at completion of abolishment, ac cording as abolishment shall have been gradual or at one time. Any State introducing or tolerating slavery after having received these bonds shall re fund the bonds and interest to the United States. Second,—All slaves who have acquired freedom by the chances of war at any time before the end of the rebellion shall be for ever free. Loyal owners will, however, receive compensation. Congress may appropriate money and provide for colonising free negroes, with their consent, at places outside the United States. President Lincoln then enters into a long and earnest argument to prove that the adoption of these amendments to the Constitution are politic, on the grounds of justice, economy, and interest, and as t, means which cannot fail to restore the Union. He, however, says that the plan is recom mended, not but that a restoration of the national authority would be accepted without its adoption nor would the war nor the emancipation proclama tion be stayed because of the recommendation of this plan ; but its timely adoption would no doubt bring restoration, and thereby stay these pro ceedings. This plan would secure peace more speedily and cost less than if force alone is relied upon. Many objections may present themselves, but the ques tion is, can any thing better be imagined or done ? The Message concludes by saying that other means may succeed—this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, and just—a way which, if followed, the world will for ever applaud and God must for ever bless. QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 15. The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New York on the 3d inst., arrived here at 1.15 p.m. She brings 105 passengers and 550,267 dols. in specie. She landed all mails and 35 passengers. Since the 6fh inst. she has been working with one engine only, the other being disabled. NEW YORK, DEC. 2 (Evening). The New York Herald of to-day thinks that the Radical party in Congress will not listen to Pre sident Lincoln's proposed amendment to the Con stitution. The New l'ork, World supports the President's plan. The Commercial Advertiser is surprised that Pre sident Lincoln's Message totally ignores all mili tary and naval sacrifices, and observes that it con tains not one word of sympathy for the past or cheer for the future. The New York Times says that the President's proposal will not receive universal assent, and thinks it doubtful whether Congress will pass the amend- ment. NEW YORK, DEC. 3, MORNING. The report of the Federal Secretary of IVar has been published. It states that the Federal army at present numbers 800,000 fully armed and equipped men. When the quotas are filled the army will number 1,000,000 men. The report of the Secretary of the Navy says that the Federal naval force consists of 323 steamers and 104 sailing vessels, carrying in all 3,268 guns. The Secretary of the Navy refers to the depredations of the steamer Alabama, and says : " The Alabama went forth from England to de stroy American shipping, and how far and to what results this abuse may be carried with impunity to the Government which tolerates it is a matter of grave consideration. "This lawless rover, though built in and sailing from England, has no acknowledged flag or recog nised nationality. Before the Alabama left Eng. land, the British authorities were informed by the recognised official agents of the Federal Govern ment of her character and purposes. The British Government, thus evoked, came too late to prevent her sailing. To what extent, under these circum stances, the British Government is bound in honour an d justice to make indemnification for the destruc tion of private property, is a question which may present itself for disposal. It is alluded to now from a sense of duty towards American commercial interests, and from the fact that recent intelligence indicates that other vessels of similar character arc fitting out in England." The report of the Secretary of the Treasury has not yet appeared. It is suppc sad in leading finan cial circles that although the Secretary of the Treasury may recommend a new banking system, yet the necessities of the Government will compel it to make a further issue of legal tender currency. Several resolutions proposed in Congress by the Opposition members to inquire into unconstitu tional arrests, have been voted down. Congress has adopted a resolution directing the Committee on Naval Affairs to report on the cheap est and most expeditious mode of placing vessels of-war on Lake Ontario when the exigency may ALARMING FIRE IN THE STRAND, At a quarter-past 8 lsst evening a fire broke out on the premises of Mrs. Page, shell-fish warehouse, in the Strand, next door but one to the entrance of the Adelphi Theatre, causing the greatest excite ment throughout the neighbourhood. The report quickly spread that the theatre itself was on fire, causing an immense assemblage of people, earn. pletely blocking up not only the Strand itself, but all the thoroughfares in the locality. It being a benefit night at the Adelphi for the band fund of the London and Westminster Rifle Corps, and the performance of the " Messiah" taking place at Exeter-hall, the Strand was at the time of the out break thronged with carriages, and the coufusion and uproar that took place were almost indescrib able. The reserve of the F division of police from Bow-street, and all the available constables in the neighbourhood, were brought into request, but it was some time before anything like order could be restored. On the arrival of the engines it was found that the flames had got firm hold of the upper and back portions of Mrs. Page's premises, occupied. as supper and bedrooms, and were rapidly extending to the theatre, which stands immediately in the rear. The danger to the latter building now became so imminent that the management deemed it prudent to close the performances. Mr. Webster informed the audience from the stage that there was a fire raging close to the theatre, which rendered it necessary that the house should close at once, and he requested them to retire as orderly as possible. Some alarm was excited, but the house, which was much crowded, was speedily cleared, without any accident. The same course was pur sued with the company at the Cider Cellars, which are immediately in the rear of Mrs Page's premises, In the meantime, the firemen exerted themselves to the utmost to prevent the spreading of the flames, and after an hour's labour they were fortunately successful. The whole of the upper and back por tions of the premises of Mrs. P age Were destroyed, together with the billiard - rooms of M r . B eekinghana adjoining, on the west side, and the back part of the house occupied by Messrs. Batt and Co., florists, on the east, and the whole of whose premises were much damaged by water. The theatre was not in jured. The fire broke out in the second floor front bedroom, but from What cause cannot be ascertained. A 7 URKISH EXHIBITION. ----- The following announcement has been forwarded to us from the Tui kish Embassy A National Exhibition is to be opened at Constantinople on the Ist ltatnazan (Feb. 20, 1863), for three months. Although reserved exclusively for the products of the soil and industry of the country, nevertheless agricultural and industrial machines and implements, for practical use, from foreign manufactories will be admitted. Manufacturers wirhing to exhibit such articles will enjoy the benefit of a remission of the customs' duties. It is well understood that the admission of foreign products will be limited to this solo category, and that a manufac turer cannot send more than one article of the same kind. Exhibitors must in the first place send to the Imperial Ottoman Embassy, or to a Consulate of the Sublime Porte, a duplicate list of the articles they wish t o exhibit, stating the quality, q uantity, and necess ary dimensions, so that be reserved for th em. In ar a ricles above m en ti oned which, places may after having bees exhibited, shall not have been sold pn the exhibitor's ac yatnythoatnhetrhaedveaxnetmagpetioonn t fr h o e m part c o t o f m th s c: I c m ov ri w al i 11 Government enjoy v t e e rn m duties, 0 1 4 ' 00 14 '; 0 8111.1 O t J Jai° Jos h ' 69% bie, sgtstabier 31 0( . 1 : f. jai l..? 301.4 g a jor lei 1 12, o f ntY