The Sun. — London, England, 1862-12-29 00:00:00

~. THEATRE ROYAUMRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER. The public i s res p ec tf u ll y i n f orme d t h at this Th eatre, having been Re-modelled, Decorated, and Embellished in a trtoly magnificent and costly style, is now open. Notwithstanding the immense expenses incurred in the nrr angements, the Pt ices of Admission will be as usual, and Similar to those of the principal London Theatres, viz. : Private Boxes, 10s, Gd., 215., £1 lls. Gd., £2 25., £3 35., tnd 44 4s. Stalls, 6s. Dress circle, 4s. First Circle, 35. -tioxes, 2s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, ls. Upper Gallery, 6 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, entitled NEXT OF KIN. Principal Characters by Mes , rs. S. Calhaem, H. Sinclair, Neville, Warde, Rourke, Fredericks; Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, and Miss Portman. After which will be produced the Great Drury-lane i Annual in the form of an entirely Novel, Original, Bur 'esclue, Grotesque, Poeti ca l, Pi c t or i a l , P as t ora l , G ran d Comic Christmas ranter --- lime entitled LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES; or, HARM - 1,0:01N and COCK ROBIN! " Bird with bosom red, gelcome 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 novel Effects and Extensive Scenery by Messrs. VRIEVE and TELBIN, assisted by Messrs. DAYES, ThvONES, C. FENTON, E. LLOYDS, GRIEVE, Jun., 4,,ELLBIN, Jun., and D ANSON and SONS. The Ma eninery by Mr. TUCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY and Mrs. CLARKE. The Masks, Designs, and Personal '4N:ointments by the celebrated DYK-WYN-KYN ; com pleted under his direct supervision by Messrs. GLINDON, CRALTON, and numerous Assistants, The Tricks, Pro- Prties, Changes, and Transformations of the Harlequinade 1' Mr. ELAM IRE an d A ss i stants. The Gas Appointments 1 ....3' Mr. HINCKLEY . Th e Scenes of the Harlequ i na d e b y BOLENO, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The orrou.. es, v Tableaux, Action, and Grand Ballet, designed and rirat?g composed r OSCAR BYRNE. The Overture and awe and arranged by Mr. J. BARNARD. Ahs Openi ng invented wad written by E. L. BLANCHARD, uthor of "Th e Houes that Jack Built," "Peter Wilkins," Robin Hood," &c.. —B VILLAGE SCHOOL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. Little Goody "Cv; o EARLY MORNING. Shoes—Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. 1 ,,." This dear 'Little Girleanwell, whose real name was Margery o'ace lived," &c.—Old Story. Ml' 118 kid Wife gave little Margery a nice pair of new e l: 4 B; rand she was so pleased with them, and so fond of g them to avert' one she met, saying, Two Shoes— W° toes,' that she gained the name of ' Little Goody -"‘„?‘ oes.' "—Old story. 10 . (3 Raven, the Pigeon, the Cat ,e and. 11,4 W hlt ' 64l.l*(it Tozer pots}, ,Liarters-QnrsoloreaSo, l ew, and Bunny. li ttle Bo Pet Robin—Master Redbreast. y Blue (her Shepherd Swain) Miss HELEN HO . Ttlinny Stout (th e Good WARD Boy) Mr. J. ROBINS. ' h °l4 l3ay Green (the Bad Boy) Mr. G. WESTON. Scholars—Masters Wag, Lag, Fag, Brag, Dag, Nag, If ( g) INlag, Tag, &c, and Misses Nimble, Simple Sample, Itteple, Whimper, ' Simper, Niminy, Piminy, &c. , , &c. Sir Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), Mr. TOM MATTHEWS. Graspall (his Steward), Mr. SHAW. V iiiagers—essre. B umkin, Whackstraw, Oatcake, Chaw 4con, Thatcher, &c., &c. I "The room in which she taught her scholars was very a tge, so that she could have her children stand in front of 0 : While she instructed them.—Old Story. 'the proposal mat% by Sir Timothy to Goody Two Shoes, and what became of it. IitNTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OF Th e THE FOREST. - Fairy Good Nature (assuming the form of Goody Peabody), Miss KATE SAXON. 1, Gamekeepers, Messrs. Popp and Bang. •cocitman, Mr. Powdernob. Page, Master Buttons. Housekeeper, Mrs. Chickabiddy. h° a' Little Boy Blu e mee t s w ith a p ar ticular friend, and t the Squire doom s th e sma ll Bi r d s f ou nd on his Estate I(,)Retteral destructi EE on, and what ensues th D ereupon. BRAMBLE BRAKE IN THE EPTHS OF THE FOREST.—SUNSET. te n W hen good Little Goody Two Shoes had finished her littl:etB of letters, she invited a great number of her poor Companions to meet together under an old oak tree, —4,t there she taught them."—Old Storsi. The Demon Envy, Mr. GLIN P ON. a tred and Malice (his attendants), Messrs. Scowl and Growl. The Bad Boy's Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. Ii AUNT OF THE WOOD NYMPHS IN THE E NCHANTED DELL. May, Miss WENT WORTH. _l3hlebell, Cowslip, Violet, Wild Thyme, Golden Broom, t , , ;;'l o o ll o d i w ve ell e , s D ,w ai i s l y d , R ß os u o t , tercup, Wood Anemone, Primrose, Traveller's Joy,Celandine, Hearts ea,' Fox Glove, &c, (her attendant Wild Flowers), by a „! of Coryphees. pas Fo get-me-not, Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. p as de Doule Heartsease, The Misses GUNNISS. Ballet d es Bouquets, invented and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. WOODY AVENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MAD. " Ali hail to thee, tho E u 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 Arrld Nursery Legend. " 0 Sparrow, Mr. Take-an-Aim. The Fly, Master Buzzy, The The Fish, Mr. Gillbut. The Beetle, Mrs. Gamp. Linnet, Master Downey. The Owl, Mr. Vhit-to -Whoa. The Lark, Mr. Higbflyer. The Rook, Mr. Blackcoat. The Bull, Mr. Roarer, with a Horn accompaniment. ' The d ee d done. Impressive fate of Little Cock Robin, e▪ hll his marvellous restoration by Good Nature, who pro ds on her radiated Path of Prisms over the World. arleuins, Mr TACK d r ST. AINE. sulunbinqes, dameM C° B R O A NO LE (her M n first appearance here these two years) and the ' GUNNIS . rantaloons, Mr. G. TANNER Misses and Mr. DEULIN Clo JOHNSON. w , "'as 1.4. HARRY BOLEN 0 (his first appearance here eA these two years) and Mr. C. LAURI. . e t i ..*—GRAND HINT 0' NATIONAL (THEATRE) EXHIBITION OF FUN! i—u Meeting of a ll N a tions—Gold Washing and Gold atta n g — Arrestrong's Breech-loader—the Exhibition Bell s es of the Exhibition—Clown rings one of the Belles IT: • Bell Belle S avage —the Majolica Fountain—Clown's new ti e l°nrizer—Cent per Scent—Striking Two—the Exhibi •-(11"„luh--a Medicated Vapour Bath--a Piping Bullfinch k 0 ., 7 -413 Airs)—th e Australian Obelisk makes a decided Iced era Toad in the Hole—a Long Nap (2,000 years)—a de li ;114 Coal Hole—Froggy would a-Wooing go--_-a_tTd • of Strange Visitors and close of the Exhibition. 2 ' -- EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF INTER NA TIONAL LODGING-HOUSE. il'avented an d P roduced b y B o l eno (Registered). a,,, -. ` clai naists—llAßßY BOLENO, Madame BOLENO. T • CORMACK, and TANNER. r lp Storm Nalse—Madame BOLENO and Mr. CORMACK. ktatidlady, Mrs. Graball ; Pae Master Bellbutton; Shottse,reaid, not yet engaged; Visitors, Cabmen, Sweeps, ken e ti 4lll aek Brigade, &c., by Artists too numerous to on. n a c ,ings I Lodgings Lodgings I—Howe Full—A Fair 1 1e 1 ) .e of a Cabby's Fair—A Forigner all Abroad —Harry ---.1 1 -"'s return to his Old Quarters—omebody's Luggageon the 'be 'ds Luggage (Oh, Dickens) —My Lodgings are 14 , 0 o?ld ground—A Damp Bed with Sheets of Water (which t waYs damp)—Bottling Spirits—A Policeman ta o o n o D n re y . t elv e li t 'tng down with the Dust—Clown and Pan 1 t he e c hange their quarters—The new Bedroom Door— leatiah_ibition Early-rising Bedstead—Clown makes an gut °ger_ —°h, rest thee, my Babe—A Novel Extin. Nigh t ,Put out the Light I Put out the Light—A Squally app Clown gets rid of a Lodger—Both Child and Nurse keto„,` asleep —Clown gives them a drop too much—anew ox ,atid Co of getting off to sleep—forty winks —Harlequin B ( 11 P)—'Tis when to sleep the World retires—the and the qtele,an unwelcome Visitor—The Shades of Night ° ll , %PtShade—Look on this Picture and on this —List, ber m ol always with you—l'll warm yer—Oh, 1 tri t .,, t Y i, darling and sleep while you may—Visions ight as be 4 0, 11 Nnrse— , the Child—the Great Sensation Scene and S ee ‘`wettt. 3 * --- SHELL-FISH SHOP, COBBLER'S STALL, AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE! 114 4t0w . Invented by Mr. D. Johnson. k A GUNNISS and Messrs. ST. pas E DEULIN JOHNSON, and C. LAURI. ' 3lB Alansilla Spiritu—The Misses GUNNISS and M. ST. MAINE. 1 114 (1 G i‘i r eat Trip.. a Trip less Flat—Flat Fish, Flying Fish, zoyh e rd Bait—t a ki ng i n th e N a ti ves Childish Games, 4 ' 1 4 e f° a happy days—Ar r i va l of Fun—Sudden appear- lel l i eb an old friend—Clown goes a fishing—Gets a tantegaane - Ptove to be a nibble for him, Garotting with a 'ye_ ;44ei c % — the strong Ares of the Law—Clown in a_Fix 'jots rr sc aPe--Clown gets a Ticket of Leave—the Indus t oots .-obbler that Lived in a Stall—Clown finds a pair of Plee,,,a,hd gets Awl for his pains—a Rally and a_Jumpi-e— -ee eas a taste for Music and Gives a Concert, in which 1 2 _ill to 'l4r„,,_•ay a Solo th smallest Banjo in the world and , — u -ton Garden Pots—Pataloon has Five Bars rest— et Ag aii i. gets Drummed in and quickly gets Drummed 0 th e f S upply of Natives—a fair Division—the head of Scen e and everybody taken in and done for. A/;h4"-TIIE ISLINGTON!AGRICULTRAL HALL, PL6 - 1-D G REAT DOG-SHOW, CAT-SHOW, AND Invented"HOW. pett and Produced by BOLENO (Registered). ctainaiets—llAßßY BOLENO, EMMA BOLENO, B 1 0 %,„ CORMACK, and TANNER. is `o Be e t ea of Loveliness and Flowers of the Forest—going pears u Green Bushes—Heartsease and Tulips—coming *, - ;l‘ln k (Paira)—a clearingsnot of Industry -I°l the Food of Love—l calculate —Music hath N gee —not so always —Where's the Police ?—Opening of liepleea t National D og Sh ow —P ort Whi ne and B ar k— an Olow l' 'ag tl. P aPPy—Carrots and a Turn-up—Clown gets ti ?" -- -a Dog-MA—Dog cheap and dear Hound — to t'Ba r keeps L the Dog Watch, which he enters—the Way , e , e,,ic. 411 g---Clow n and Pantaloon gone to the Dogs— Qound s—Caleulation, Multiplication, and Vexation Cue t iv h's Cat Show—Cats-up and Cats down, and a Cat M eat ° Gar otters —Descend ye nine—Dogs' Meat—Cats' Dog-- a Pair of Tabbies—the Kill-Kenny for a ‘-` O, Seat of War—How it will all end—a Prize Fight 14jell prize Cop—Catal e s s i s —Catacresis—a Catastrophe ee d leads t o a Cataract of the Feline R ace , an d th us e tae Catalogue,ene P s ii ---(C°I7I iO—EX'TERIOR. of MARINE STORES, -BLIC-HOUSE, AND SAILOR'S HOME. C. L AURInve by Mr. J. Cormack. D. JOHN SON, ST. MAINE, and tho Nautical Misses GUNNISS. " a ' Hornpipe, by M. ST. MAINE and the Misses Set • GUNNISS. 1. a thief to catch a thief—and he will go the " whole .„_44L io :„N,,cine"A Sailor, half Seas over, mistakes all he tia nd Aunt Sally proves herself, rayther— Shell Cie Lt dg anted—and secured by Hook or by Crook—An (aot and Modern Warriors—Hearts of Oak—Our Ironsides Quest 9mtnw elra) Al good metal—the great Drainage y ea ,, 101:1—Pretty Poll of Wapping—she was such a nice s iti r o ti, Gal I with Old Ballad, " the Lass that loved a "--" Home, home, Sweet Home"— The Sailors' N°. 21,996. Home—time to go home, but before doing so we introduce you to Last Scene.—(Danson and Sons.) ENGLAND'S GLORY AND RICHES BROUGHT BY TIER 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. CIANTERBURY HALL.- TIIE THIRD EDITION of the celebrated Panto mimic Entertainment THE 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. UNSWORT if, in his renowned Speech upon all the tonics 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. T H EOX F O R D, 6. OXFORD STREET. "NAZARETH," A New Christmas Song, music by GUONOD, words by F Chorley, Beg., supported by the entire Company, Band and Chorus. "La Cireassienne " and "Nabueo " by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, and Miss Oesten ; Messrs. Albert, Greene, Bernardi, and Huish —Con duct or, Mr. F. J onv, !mans. -- --- Drew Dean's So'os on the Flute—the Neapolitan Mins trels bliss Caroline Parkes' Christmas Entertainment, " Little Red Riding Hood "—Mr. George Hodson (the re nowned Irish Comedian), Mr. T. Maclagan, Mr. W. Randall, Mr. A. B. Hollingsworth, Eugene (the great. burlesque singer and dancer), and Unaworth (the original "Or any other man.") Commence at Six o'clock during the holidays. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the above elegant Eitablishment 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 ls.—Manager, M. Grenet. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, Illustrating cyffy Dart of the li t unal.--10..="4.-ffeettruutt - rnseitailartogettim 'irfth a varktr of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Monstrosities. Open daily, from 11 to to (for Gentlem , n only). Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Hanover-square, and 41A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, London, W. Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Seven. Illus trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK COM PANY.—The Court of Directors of the East and West India Dock Company hereby give notice, that a HALF YEARLY COURT or GENERAL MELTING 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. Blither-square, en 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 West India Dock House, 8, Billiter- , quare, 24th December, 1t.62. N.B.—The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisel G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURAE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WIL LIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairm n. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., jG. Shaw Lefevre, Esq. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. 1 homson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. James Tulloch, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. Henry Irigne, Esq. 'ORS. Alf D: Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. I Cornelius Paine, Jun., Esq. Noel Whiting, Esq. T hos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS or AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In p urers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, • ndependent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Extra Premium is required for service therein. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their valuca, if such value be not less than £5O. . . _ _ ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re ceived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge or Policy Stamps. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies which expire at Christmas must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's— street, corner of Pall-Mall ; or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. A. D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Thomas Dent, Esq. Alexander Bruce, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. is , EF Wm. Tetlow Ilibbert,'Esq I William Wallace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.— Me usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire on 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured — Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. OS TE O EID ON! What is it? See Patent, March 1, 1862, No. 560. QABRIEL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEETH and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, springs, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a lifetime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and ARTICULATION. Purest materials only, at hall the usual cost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Del lists, 27, HARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON ; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, CLAss 17. One visit only required from country patients, Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. Consultations free. TEETH. -By MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION (Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and fitted in a few hours by means of his patented soft elastic and imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensing with springs or unsightly fastenings, and defying detection by tne closest observer. The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any change of the month (even by the wearer); and as they act independently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth of ordinary construction, they are guaranteed tt, last a life time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr. ESKELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains his invention, post free for seven s tamp s.—lnspection of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate.—S, Grosvenor street, Bond-street, London; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mitn4ham. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, 4 n d Dining-room, consisting of anew and elegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, t , eautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, Rm., in Italian, A labas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand. W.C., Lonaon. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly f ac ilitate he interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, •nd GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 1008 uineas eaoh. PRAC TICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANr, at 10 G , Strand, W.C. COUGHS, ASTRMA,A IN CIPIENT CTjREDCROYNSUMPTION ARE FF AND ECTUALL Y VEATING'S COUGH I.LOrreZstniEiNo from Gnif!.daily recommended by the the Faculty the most effectual, safe, most of wh om May be inspecte d a s speedy, and convenient remedy f or C of the Lungs, ch es t , and Throat. So :d ough . a n n ß d o a x l e l s D l is s o . Disorders of 1; Tins 2s. pd.. 4s. 6d. and lle. each.—TimmAs HEATING, London. Copy Chemist. 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, Copy of a letter from the late Colonel Hawker (the well known Author on " Guns and shooting.") Long - Parish House, near Whitchurch, Hants. Sir,— I cannot resist informing you of the extraordinary effect I have experienced by takin g onl a few of your Lozenges. I had a cough for several y l weeks that defied all that had been prescribed for me ; and yet I go , comple t e ly rid of it by taking about half a small box of your Lozenges, which I find are the only ones that relieve the cough without deranging the stomach or digestive organs... 4 am , sir, your humble servant, P. HAWKER. To Mr. lieating, 79, St. l'aul'a Churchyard. -- ---- j> C.,- ----;_..------- - -.or . - ----. L--- , --- - fi~-~ - . ,p- 1 r ((• y 1 1 11 0 , , . VET • k ft • tcr • .-„s - , • - * - 1 - 1 e 0 fi t • 4 4 6. t a . • '• • 64 , 44 4 60111.4 \,";;4 , 4 °S o , VI •- 4 1 4,0 • - • s t I • --4-* 11 • ' st .... 'ME SUN, LONDoN, IVIOADAY EVENiNi) DECEMBER 29, 1862. L IVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, in PUN, every week. One Penny Lions ?" What can Mr. Seward mean ? Is it that, like the famous.'coon, who, when he saw the gun pointed at him, said, " Don't fire, captain, l'll come down," we ought to give up Canada at once ? What did Lord Russell answer? For ourselves we rushed in this perplexed position to the inspired pages of Zadkiel the sage. There was in the hieroglyphic for 1862 a picture of a black man preaching from a book, with a dove hovering over his head. In the Almanack for 1863 we find • I he following expl, nation :—"The dove over the negro indicated the peaceful condition► of the slaves, notwithstanding the raging of the civil war around them." Really this is very poor. We believe, for our part, that the preacher is Mr. Adams, painted black to represent his abolition ten dencies. The dove is Mr. Seward prompting him. The book from which he reads is a copy of Mr. Seward's voluminous despatches, and Britannia with a drooping head in the next compartment of the hieroglyphic is Lord Russell dozing under the in fliction. Zadkiel Tao Sze really does not do himself justice. Naval and Military Intelligence. Now Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. Cd.; post free, 55., the ECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with Li 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. Blanch ird, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeinan, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. 11. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c., &c. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. THE NAVY. The screw steam sloop Gannet, 11, Commander the Hon. it. M. N e l son, from the Mediterranean station, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning. She left Malta Nov. 26, and Gibraltar Dec. 9, and experienced fine weather until midway between Cape Finisterre and Ushant, where strong gales from north-west and north-east prevailed, and continued from the 20th to the 23d inst. Since then she had high winds from the north-west, and very thick weather. She spoke, Dec. 15, let 41 45 N, long 12 19 W, the ship Agricola, of Shields, Capt. Parrott, with grain, from Alexandria, and the Busy Bee, of Falmouth, Capt. Juniper, from Palermo, both for Falmouth. The Gannet left at Malta the screw steamship Marlborough, 121, flag of Sir VSTm. Fanshawe Martin, K.C.8.; the screw steam frigate Liffey, 39, Capt. George Parker ; the screw steam sloop Chanticleer, 17, Commander Charles Stirling ; and the paddlewheel steam frigate Firebrand, 6, Commander S. B. Piers ; and at Gibraltar the gun boat Procris. She brings as passengers from Malta Assist. Surg. Torrens, of the screw steam corvette Malacca, and a few supernumeraries from the Medi terranean fleet. The Gannet was commissioned on Jan. 27, 1859, and has been employed principally in the Levant, on the coast of Syria, and in Greece and Turkey. The ship is in good condition. The crew will be paid off at Plymouth. In the afternoon she was inspected by Capt. George Wodehouse, of the Meeanee, 60, also in the Sound. After her am munition is discharged she will proceed into Ha moaze to be dismantled and placed in the third divi sion of the steam reserve. LONDON RETlEW.—Without allowing ourselves to indulge in over-sanguine speculation, it is impos sible that England should not interest herself in an event at once so strange, and so flattering to this nation as the election of Prince Alfred by the Greek people. We cannot help asking, what does it mean ? France with her profound belief in gene rous ideas and noble sympathies, exclaims at once, "Oh ! they only want the lonian Islands." We shouid like to know what France would have said if the Greelaigtf4piten,od,to elect a French cm &date. -= gilt:add/1e not have ffird from every voice of the press, official, semi-official, and unofficial, how the nations of the earth rallied to la grande nation, and attached themselves to the car of the leader of civilisation ? If we do not brag quite in such a high-flown style, it is because boasting is not the national habit with us to the same degree as it is with our neighbours across the Channel. Never theless, in a quiet way, we can enjoy an internal chuckle at a popularity which has all the zest of a surprise. After all, peace, liberty, commerce, good government, and respectability, are qualities which have value quite as much as despotism draped out in swagger ; and the Greeks, who with all their faults, are a remarkably sh ar p peop l e, h ave no t failed to discern what they think will best conduce to their own interest. There is something striking and almost imposing about the simplicity and de termination with which the Greeks have set to work to carry out the object on which they have so unexpectedly set their affections. They are like the woman in the parable, and their faith is such as should enable them to remove mountains of obstacles out of their way. They have been in formed, with as much explicitness as is permissible in declining an offer not already made, that Eng land cannot bestow upon them Prince Alfred. Con li - tinental writers are pleased to impute to the English Government a deep-laid scheme of intrigue, in which they are supposed to have put up one horse by which they did not intend to win, but only to cut out the running for the animal intended to supplant the Russian favourite. We believe that this profound and Machiavellian plot is a pure creation of the brain of foreign journalists. As England did not originate, and has never encouraged, the election of Prince Alfred, it is superfluous to inquire what were her motives in doing what she has never done. The fact is, that newspapers Writers, especially abroad, are never satisfied unless they are either denouncing or extolling some wonderful eyeteme. According to their ideas, politics are carried on much after the fashion of the plot of the well-known " Woman in White." Lord Palmerston, as he rides to cover in the New Forest, or Lord Russell, as he saunters about the grass-plot at Pembroke Lodge, is for ever hatching some desperate scheme of unfathomable policy. The truth is, that the action of the Foreign Office as little resembles iu reality the ideal of these ingenious gentlemen as the proceedings in Sir Per cival Glyade's establishment represent the normal stateE e young xito fml E s o ci e ty in English country-houses. —ln one of Foote's am us i ng f arces some en who have determined to make a row are asked the simple question, What is the cause of their displeasure ? upon which the ring leader says to his followers, " Aye, by the by, what is it we are so angry about ?" to which there is no reply. America is in the predicament of these youths. She is resolved on a quarrel with us, but is at a loss to explain what she is so angry about. She is like a fractio us c hi ld t h at w ill so b an d bel low, and cannot fo r i ts l i fe te ll w h a t it wan t s or what makes it so cross. She cannot beat her way ward little sister in the South, and so she must vent her vexation on some one, and on England it falls inarticulately. It is a roar of rage denoting a feeling of animosity, not a cause. America makes faces at us, shakes h er fi st at us, vows vengeance promises to pay US off the first opportunity, but will not, cannot tell us what we have done to pro voke all this fury. Like the witch in Macbeth she yells, " I'll do, I'll do, I'll do." The New I ork 7snzes has some perception of the absurdity of this resentment without an ostensible cause, and ap plies itself to the question, What are we angry about P Going methodically to work, it ob serves : His Netherlands Majesty's screw steamvessel De Appeldoorn, 4, Capt. Van Hugenholtz, which left Dieppe on Dec. 23 for the East India station, put into Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning short of fuel. The crew of the screw steam corvette Doris, 32, Captain Sir F. M'Clintock, were paid off at Devon port on Saturday. The Meeanee, 74, Captain Wodehouse, having embarked supernumeraries for the fleet in the Medi terranean, was under orders to leave Plymouth Sound yesterday morning for her destination. The Alfred, target frigate, has been brought down Porchester Creek and berthed alongside Portsmouth Dockyard on the conclusion of the firing at the sample and experimental armour plates on her sides, under the direction of Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., commanding H.M.S. Excellent, the gunnery ship at that port. No very important results were ob tained. Messrs. Brown and Co., of Sheffield, aHd the Thames Iron Works Company stood first and second in the comparative list. The Powerful, sail ing liner, has been also brought alongside the yard to receive a number of other armour plates for fur ther experimental practice. His Netherlands Majesty's screw corvette Djambi, Capt. Van Rees, which arrived at Spithead on the 24th inst. from Holland, bound to Rio, Australia, and Batavia, with severe damage, suffered from the effects of a heavy gale of wind in crossing the North Sea on her passage to Spithead, is ordered to be placed in the large double dock at Portsmouth to repair damages. The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy, under repair at Portsmouth, will be out of the hands of the engineering department by the 31st inst. She has received a new stern tubing, part of screw shaft, and other extensive repairs, and refit in her machinery, &c. The Egmont, old sailing line-of-battle ship, con verted by Messrs. I. White, of the Medina dock and building yard at Cowes, to a Government depot ship, has been commissioned at Portsmouth by Captain F. A. B. Cranford for service at Rio de Janeiro, to supersede her Majesty's sailing frigate Madagascar. The Pylades, 21, screw steam corvette, 1,278 tons, 350 horse power, Capt. Arthur W. A. Hood, recently commissioned at Chatham, has had her compasses adjusted at moorings in Sheerness har bour, and has also been inspected by theCommander in-Chief, Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., and staff. The Pylades will proceed to the measured mile off Maplin Sands to-day for the final trial of her machinery. Should the trial prove satisfactory she will proceed without delay to her destination, the West Indies station. The Scylla, 21, screw steam corvette, 400-horse power, Capt. Rowley Lambert, which has recently , returned from the Mediterranean, has been dis mantled in Sheerness Dockyard, preparatory to being paid off, when she will be placed on the 3d division of the Steam Reserve at Sheerness. On Friday last the Lily, 4, screw steam gun veseel, Commander Henry Harvey, having had her boiler bars replaced at Sheerness, was, in accordance with Admiralty orders, taken from her moorings in the harbour for a 12-miles run at full speed to test her fitness to proceed to her destination. The trial having proved satisfactory, the Lily left Sheerness on Saturday direct for the West Indies, to which station she is appointed. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—John T. Hugo and John M'Dougall, clerks, to the Egmont ; Alfred T. D. Nettleton, clerk, to the Shearwater ; Algernon Yockney, clerk, to the Sutlej, as supernumerary; John B_ Creagh, assist.-clerk, to the Russell ; Frank D. Aubin, assist.-clerk, to the Colossus ; Charles H. Crane, assist.-clerk, to the Hawke; F. D. Tongue, assist.-clerk, to the Dauntless ; Nevinson J. Beale, aciaiet.-olerk, to the Indus; John H. Wal lace, assist.-olerk, to the Ajax ; George H. Bradley, assist.-clerk, to the Pembroke ; and Henry Foster, assist-clerk, to the Formidable. Mr. George Wil son has been nominated to a naval cadetship. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Lieutenants, Charles Rawle and William Ladds ; to be Sub- Lieutenants, Chas. Dimsdale and James Tidmarsh. It is not, as Englishman generally assume, against the official action of the British Government, With that action thus far we have no very great fault to find. It has been confined to four procedures— First, the acknowledg ment of belligerent rights ; second, the proclamation of neutrality; third, the demand for the surrender of Mason and Slidell; and fourth, the refusal to join France in in tervention. The New York times discusses these counts fairly enough, and acquits our Government upon all of them except the acknowledgment of belligerent rights, but upon this point it blames only the pre cipitancy, confessing th e conven i ence o f th e pro ceeding even for it s own Government an d cause . What, then, is our offence ? What is it that has so maddened America ? Is it that "the great body of the upper and middle classes have,throngh almost every organ of opinion, defamed, maligned, and damaged the sacred cause" of the North. A des patch of Napoleon is now before us, in which he writes to his Minister:—" I pay no attention to general complaints, for they mean nothing." To say that we defame, malign, and damage, means simply that we express wbat is disagreeable, and the New York Times shows as much wh en it comes to exemplification. Earl Russell, Foreign Secre tary, took the earliest opportunity of stigmatising the conflict as a struggle for empire on the one side and independence on the other. And this, forsooth, is defaming, maligning, and d amag i ng ! Why, if there was stigma it was upon the South as well as on the North, but stigma there was none. A fairer and truer description of the struggle could not pos sibly be given in any number of words than is con densed in this brief compass. What is the argu ment for the preservation of the Union, but an ar gument. for empire ? What is it that makes the idea of separation alarming to American pride, but di minished greatness, that is, diminished territory, and with it diminished empire. And not only was Lord Russell's definition most strictly true, but it conveyed no reproach, implied no blame. Did not England struggle for seven years to preserve the colonies that constituted a part of her then great ness? It was for the preservation of empire that she then contended, exerted all her powers and exhausted her resources in vain. No nation will willingly submit to a loss of territory. And we blame not Federal America for its struggle for em pire any more than we blame the Confederates for their struggle for independence. What we blame is the persistence in the conflict when it seems certain that the object is un attainable, or that the South cannot be subdued without an amount of destruction and desolation such as the world has never yet seen, and humanity cannot contemplate without horror. The love of empire is natural, but it has bounds beyond which it becomes a lust capable of every wicked excess, and regardless of the price at which it compasses its bad enjoyment. - 11LACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for JANUARY, 1863. No. DLXVII. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. A Month's Visit to the Confederate Headquarters. By an English Officer. Caxtoniana.—Part XII. No. 19. —Motive Power. Progress in China. Chronicles of Carling - ford : Salem Chapel.—Conclusion. Mr. Thomas Trollope's Italian Novels. A Sketch from Babylon. A Belligerent Rights at Sea, and the Changes proposed in them. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The JANUARY NUMBER contains CARDINAL POLE; OR, THE DAYS OF PHILIP AND MARY. An Historical Romance. By WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH. Book I.—Chaps. IV., V., and VI. 11. Mr. Grimshaw's Christ- VI. Modern Marriages ala mas Dinner. By Dud- Mode. Part V. ley Costello. VII. A Visit to Russia in 111. German Almanacks for the Autumn of 1562. 1863. Chaps. IV., V., VI., IV. A Summer in America. and VII. By Henry By Captain Brook J. Moor. Knight. Chapter IX. VIII. John Dyden and Samuel A Canadian Settler's Pepys. By Monks- Home. hood. V. Mynhc,..r on his Travels. , IX. H orses and Studs In - Hall, 193, Piccadilly. F RASER'S MAGAZ 2s. CONT. The Sale of Waste Lands and Redemption of Land-Tax I considered. A First Friendship. A Tale. Chapters XX. and XXIII. Heloise. On the Treatment of Female Convicts. By Mary Car penter. The North Wind. By Astley H. Baldwin. Maurice de Guerin. By Mat thew A rnold. FOR JANUARY, Edward Irving. Lawrence Bloomfield in Ire land. P,+rt lII.—A Dinner at Lisnamoy House. Adrian.—A Tale. Conclusion. Naval Architecture. London: Parker, Son, ani The late Sir Benjamin Brodie. By an Old Apprentice of the Law. The Decypher of Ancient In scriptions. Bourn, West Strand, W.C. MONEY. —£330,000 to be advanced upon MORTGAGE in varicus sums. Freeholds averaging from 3 to 4 per cent., according to the amount required ; Leaseholds 4f to 5 per cent. Also some smaller sums to be lent upon personal or any other tangible securities. —Apply, by letter only in the first instance, to Reginald Adolphus, Esq., 4, St. George's-square, Regent's-park, London. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. SATURDAY REVIEW.—We are willing to hope that the Royal Commission just appointed to inquire into the operation of the Penal Servitude Acts may be meant to be something better than an excuse for wasting time and shirking responsibility. It may be presumed that a prominent subject of the Com missioners' inquiries will be the expediency of re curring to transportation as our principal secondary punishment. This is a question on which it is of the first importance that people should come as soon as possible to a clear, definite, and well-considered conclusion. There is an immense floating mass of conflicting opinion and authority on this matter which it is exceedingly desirable to fix and disen tangle. Though there is a very general agreement, among those best entitled to be heard, in favour of returning to transportation, and though it may be suspected that its loudest opponents really object to it as interfering with their pet projects of prison philanthropy, it has other opponents whose argu ments claim the fullest consideration. When, in one and the same week, we have heard two such Judges as Baron Bramwell and Justice Byles pro pound from the Bench diametrically opposite views of the value of transportation as a punishment, it must be well worth while to ascertain which of them is in the right. It is persistently asserted, by one set of authorities, that there is nothing (next to hanging) which criminals dread half so much as being sent out of the country ; and it is also asserted, by another set of authorities, that they do not mind it the least in the world, but merely look on a com pulsory trip to the Antipodes as a sort of " assisted emigration" to the diggings. One would much like to know which of these views is the nearest to the troth. And then, if transportation is ruled to be a good punishment, for what class of criminals is it good ? Are we to get rid of the worst and most hardened of our convicts by shipping them off where they will never vex honest men's eyes again? Or, as some suggest, are we merely to look to trans portation as a means of giving a fresh start in life to offenders who are still young in crime, and who may possibly, under altered circumstances, become decent members of society ? The two objects, though not perhaps necessarily incompatible, are perfectly distinct, and would have to be worked out under totally different conditions and by totally different instrumentalities. Again,if transportation, in one or both of these forms, is desirable, the ques tion remaine, Is it feasible P Have we any colonies, other than Western Australia, that are willing to l i take our convicts P and, if so, with what restric tions and limitations ? Or is it practicable to found new penal settlements in the remoter corners of our Empire without the risk of reviving the horrors and abominations of Norfolk Island ? What are we to think of the Falkland Islands, for instance, as the seat of a new and model convict colony ? Or what of the singular project of setting up a British Siberia in the wilds of Labrador P On these and a score of such questions, which may be debated for ever in a desultory way by newspaper corre spondents without any rational result, it would be satisfactory to have the responsible and well weighed judgment of a Royal Commission. SPECTATOR.—The notion of a war with England is founded, in Mr. Seward's mind, on the possibility that a country so proverbially perfidious may wish to take advantage of any serious reverses to the Northern cause. "None such, however," says the Secretary of State, writing on the 2d of last August, " have as yet occurred." Oh, Mr. Seward, what a bounee ! The expression is alto gether undiplomatic and undignified, but it is really extorted from one. Bull's Run nothing— the campaign before Richmond nothing ? But as e are often told that everything in America is on a larger scale than in Europe—rivers, trees, plains, and—bounces—so, it is to be presumed, aro mili tary reverses too. To be serious, defeats must be on a scale quite unusual here. One is curious to know whether an Austerlitz or a Leipzig would be up to the mark in America. Ridiculous in reality that sanguinary struggle can never be, on whose issue it depends whether millions of men are to be regarded as of reasonable soul, or as the beasts which perish; but whatever can be done to make it so, Mr. Seward may congratuiate himself on having done. But after all he is a great pacificator. If he con templates war, it is under protest as it were, and "for ninety days" only. The prospect is soon too much for him, and h e " w illi ng ly turns from the spectacle of servile w ar an d war abroad—of mili tary devastation on land, and of a carnival of public and private cupidity on the seas—to set down with calmness some reflections." However, as a matter of fact, he proceeds to ask a great many questions. What Lord Russell said to them is not yet known, but most people wilt find them terrible puzzlers. The Civil Service Commissioners on spelling are nothing to Mr. Seward. He wants to know for what America was " brought up, as it were, from the depths of what before had been known as the dark and stormy ocean ?" Have the European States ever understood or accepted its real destiny and purposes? After near four hundred years of disappointments and disasters, " is the way of Providence with regard to America still so myste- rious that it cannot be understood and confessed ?" France has lost her transatlantic possessions ; so has Spain. The larger part even of England's colonies have revolted from her: "To whom have these vast dominions been resigned . but to American na- 6d., 'AIMS THE ARMY. On Wednesday the Aldershott division turned out in pursuance of orders previously issued for route marching, and proceeded to Cove-common, forming up on the high ground opposite the Queen's Hotel, in line of contiguous column at quarter-distance, as follows: —The A battery, Royal Artillery, on the right of the Ist Infantry Brigade, consisting of the Ist Royals, sth Fusiliers, 37th and 61st R eg i ments ; B battery , on the right ' of the 2d brigade, consisting of • the Ist battalion 24th Regiment, 26th Cameronians, and 76th Regi ment; C battery Royal Horse Artillery, on the right of the 3d brigade, consisting of the Ist bat talion 2d Queen's, Ist battalion 60th Rifles, and the 64th Regiment; G battery Royal Horse Artillery, on the right of the Cavalry Brigade, consisting of the 6th Dragoons, 12th Lancers, and 13th Hus sars ; the whole facing west, Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Pennefather inspected the Division, and the whole then changed front to the rear on the centre regi ment of brigades, and marched pist, cavalry and artillery in open column of batteries and squadrons at a walk, and the infantry in open column of grand divisions in quick time. . After marching past, the troops filed off to the left, forming in their original order, and the movements incidental to a field-day took place, the object being to repel the attack of an imaginary enemy approaching from the westward. A strong front was formed, and this appeared to have the effect of deterring the enemy. After re maining in position for a short time the troops re turned to their quarters. The appearance of the troops was admirable, and the marching past of some of the regiments excellent. Through the libe rality of their commanding officers the troops sta. tioned at Aldershott were bountifully supplied with good cheer ou Christmas-day. A portion of the permanent barracks at Alder shott have just been lighted with gas from exten- 1 sive works erected by the Government on the banks of the Basingstoke Canal. The west infantry and ~~Q~ ,~~ i~i!" G~!~liG-l-~'-i-~T~ -~ a-~ PRICE..... —.4d. STAMPED ....sd. cavalry blocks will be lighted to-eight, and the lighting throughout will then be complete. The gas supplied is pure and good, and its introduction is regarded with much satisfaction by all ranks and branches of the service. The gasworks, it is stated, was erected at a cost of £22,000. The Ist battalion 60th Rifles which has been sta tioned on the Camp since August, 1861, is under orders to hold itself in readiness to move early in the ensuing month—headquarters and seven com panies to the Tower, and three companies to Wool wich. The Ist battalion, 60th It;flus will be re placed at Aldershott by the Ist battalion 3d Buffs from the above-mentioned stations. A new permanent bridge, connecting the North and South Camps at Aldershott, has just been opened, rep l ac i ng the pontoon br i dge over t h e Basingstok e canal, which has been a source of many melancholy accidents. The bridge has been con structed by the 10th and 24th companies of the Royal Engineers, stationed in camp. It is situated parallel to E, F, G, and H Lines, North Camp, by which it is connected by a splendid road across the heath, the work of the convicts at the military pri son. The bridge is constructed of iron girders, sup porting a wooden framework, with a rkiP-a,.:,iaam,,, Tv. T on each side, leaving a roadway of 18 - feet Tor car riages. By its means access to either camp will be more direct. The examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, before the Vice-President and members of 1',1.• Council of Mili tary Education, which commented ou the 17th inst., at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, terminated on Tuesday last. There were about 130 candidates to fill the 60 vacancies at the College. The next exa mination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich is appointed to commence on Monday next, the sth proximo, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, before Major-General Hamilton, the Vice-President, and other members of the Council of Military Education. The exami nation will extend over 15 days, terminating on Wednesday, the 21st. The next examination of candidates for direct commissions will take place on the 26th proximo at the Royal Hospital, Chel sea, before the Council of Military Education. The examinations will occupy the whole of the week. Capt. Baldwin, of the 31st Regiment, has been appointed brigade-major at the Camp at Colchester, in the room of Major Cooch,whose term of service has expired. Staff Assist. Surg. Kearns has been in structed to prepare for service with the troops in China. On Christmas-day the troops in camp were provided with dinner at the expense of the officers. Mr. Gladstone on the Lancashire Distress. Mr. Gladstone presided on Saturday evening at one of the weekly entertainments at the Music Hall, Chester, on which occasion he availed himself of the opportunity to refer to the distress in Lan cashire. He said that the bulk of the cotton manu facture was carried on in a region comprised within 27 unions, their population being somewhat beyond two millions, and the rated value of that portion of their property which was subject to rates was above five million and a half. Certain portions of the manu facture were, however, carried on beyond the limits of this area, the most considerable probably being in Glasgow; but the distress generally would be less severe in proportion as the district was less exclu sive ly dependent on the cotton industry. Yet even in these places much had been suffered and much had been done, and as an instance of the liberality of some of the millowners, he might mention that in Glasgow a single firm had been supporting its own workpeople at a charge representing £12,000 a year. Upon the whole he might probably not be wrong in adding to the great Lancashire and Che shire districts one-tenth of the outlying districts so far as contraction and loss of wages were concerned, and from 1-10th to 1-20th so far as regarded actual want and necessity for special aid. The number of persons employed in cotton manufacture in the whole county appeared to be little, if at all, short of 400,000. Of these one-half were wholly unem ployed, 3.Bths, or thereabouts, were on short time, and less than I.Bth were fully employed, The loss of weekly wages of this population was about £150,000, or at the rate of nearly £8,000,000 a year—and with the loss of wages in trades directly subsidiary to the cotton manufacture, and depend ing upon its extent, it was impossible to be esti mated at less than £12,000,000 a year—probably a good deal more. Such a loss told in a sensible de gree upon the revenue of the State, for it might be roughly estimated that each man in this country contributed one-eight of his income towards the public revenue. Upon the whole, he thought the present annual rate of loss to the revenue in conse quence of the cotton famine was 11 million or thereabouts, and that the actual loss for the current financial quarter, during which the distress had been growing to what, as he fondly trusted, was the maximum, would be more than one million. He had spoken of the numbers out of employment, but of course the numbers in want of aid were consider ably greater. Some of the workers were members of families where some other members or members of the family had other sources of support; but against any deduction on this account a much larger deduction has to be made on account of those portions belonging to the families of the working people themselves by whom no wages were earned —the very young, the old, and those engaged in the cares of the household. Accordingly he found that in the 27 unions the number receiving poor law relief was about 250,000, and the number who, without receiving any poor law relief, received relief from charitable funds, was 190,000, making together 440,000. To this number additions were to be made of workpeople supported by their employers them selves, and , of outlying districts, and taking these additions into account, he thought they might place the total of persons thrown into destitu tion by the cotton famine at half a million per sons. So much for the numbers of the dis tressed. Now let them consider what had been and what was being done for them. When in the summer and early autumn every week added rapidly to the number of mills in part or entirely closed,and want came to be extensively and severely felt, there were two, or indeed three, temporary obtacles which might have unduly kept down the measure of relief. One was the difficulty of organ ising at short notice a machinery equal to the task, of regularly supplying the sudden demands of thou sands and tens of thousands, without at the same time incurring enormous waste, and giving encou ragement to fraud. The second was the noble in dependence of the people themselves—(applause)— and the third was an excusable timidity which seemed here and there to have affected the adminis trators of relief, boards of guardians not always learning in a moment that an extraordinary cala mity required an unusual freedom in the measures for relieving it, and some managers of charitable funds being alarmed at comparing the amount of the voluntary subscriptions as it then stood with the demands of the coming winter, and not having faith enough in the will and ability of the nation to administer by spontaneous bounty to this great distress. And this was to be expected, and could not be blamed. But from such causes the pressure of sufferin g was i t m i g ht b e feared in some cases sharpened for a time; and a lady, blessed with large means, and more largely blessed in disposition— he meant Mi ss Burdett Coutts — having forwarded a munificent con t r ibution, wisely expressed h er wish that the whole of it might be laid out at once. They must all, at all times, meet the real and essen• tial wants of the present before reserving anything for the future. At that time, in one of the most distressed unions, the rate of weekly relief was not in all more than is. Id. per head for man, woman, and child. Intelligent benevolence had, however, supplied both the machinery and the means, and the average rate of out-door poor relief, which be was now fore the distress was 1 8 . 20. per week, r E c 1Y S PAPER ._., -- z, , -..- , • . \ . 7 iti t c 3 'i a '• nearly Is. 6d. The funds of the po kg _ lz - -i,- , ~...- pended in the Lancashire and Chesh • a - .) + • weekly rate equal to more than a m "'';: '' ' . num, or at %rate of ss. per pound on rategle per- , Q perty, aft e r Zeducting that portion of it from which at present rates could not be collected. The tetel weekly expenditure by guardians and by commit tees of charity in the 27 unions was £43,547, yield ing to each recipient within a ...fraction of 2s. per head. In addition to this the executive committee ' had distributed 4,734 bales of clothing; nor were they to forget that, besides this great river of bounty, many little streams were flowing through private channels, each and all of them bearing con solation with them as they flowed. Thoagh for the sake of their noble-minded fellow -countrymen, they might all wish that the relief afforded was much more ; yet, looking to the nature of the case, and the necessity ofpreselving a relation between the state of the independent labourer and that of the rc cciver of ri , lief, the present rate ought to be re garded se sufficient and satisfac'ery ; end they h-,l had the ple.tsure of heating from the report of M. Farnall that "neither himself nor the executive committee had received any complaints from the poor of insufficiency of relies of charit able aid." So much for the amount of the relief. The prospect was certainly no worse as to its duration. The charitable committees in the different neighbour hoods were expending £25,000 a week, but the exe cutive committee was receiving from the 6th to the 20th of this month above £7,000 a day. The pub lic and general subscriptions, it would appear, amounted to more than £1,200,000, and they might safely assume that the machinery in operation 7.,....:a-taise this to £1,500,000, whereas the slam hitherto expended must fall short of half the amount actually raised, so that they might look forward with cheerfulness, in the absence of - any new - anel - great calamity, to the remainder of the hinter. Should the dreadful and sanguinary war which de solated America anti thrum) the .:. - Irplueof its curse upon Europe be brought to a "Close, a great and early relief might be expected, but in any case the administrators of the public bounty would, it might be trusted, meet the spring with some considerable funds in hand. After passing an encomium upon the suffering operatives for the manner in which they had borne their afflictions, he said that as they had begun and continued he hoped they would so persevere to the en& They had passed from the condition of highly paid labourers to that of re ceivers of relief, and this they had done with no diminution but with an increase of respect and honour. They would, he hoped, soon pass back again from the condition of receivers of relief to that of highly paid labourers. But this they could not do at once. A state of things was pretty cer tain to arrive is which the range of prices, on which wages must depend, would be such as to enable their employers, or such of them as only bent but did not break before the storm, to offer low wages, but not such as to enable them to offer high ones. To accept these low wages—to commence again the workman's career on a reduced and contracted footing—would be a new form of trial. Might they meet it as duty, and not as pride, would prompt them, and might it be their last. (Cheers.) JAPAN. We have received the following from our corre spondent at Hong Kong. A letter from Yokohama of the 21st October, says :-- "The Government of his Majesty the Tycoon of Japan issued a notification at Jeddo on the 19th October to the effect that all Daimios or Princes (excepting only those of the blood Royal, and also those intrusted with the direction of affairs) should respectively withdraw to their Principalities. " Henceforth the Gooernment made it no longer compulsory on them to reside at Jeddo; they will be called up once in three years to the metropolis for the space of 100 days. " The Princes of Awarri, Mito, and Kishni, being of the blood Royal, they will reside at .Teddo by turns of one year each, ono remaining while the other two are permitted to withdraw to their an cestral territories. "A further notification has been issued imposing sumptuary restrictions, and recommending economy both in clothing and living to the people of japan, high and low. "A brother of the late Tycoon has been appointed Prince Regent since the demise of the late Emperor up to the present crisis. He belonged to the priest hood, but owing to his high consanguinity, coupled with his great talents, he has been summoned to this important post. " N.B.—lt is impossible to assign the true mo tives for such sudden and radical changes, but it does not appear as though the Government of the Tycoon was much stronger than has hitherto been conceded. It is thought possible that greater libe rality to foreigners may follow these events, and that a variety of restrictions hitherto imposed upon native traders may be gradually removed." (No. 3.) INCH . 2 . FULCRUM OF' ARCHIMEDE,S. ACKERLEY V. DALTON, TURNER, & OTHERS. Marlbro'-street, late Coal-hole, Dog-set'ng grievance, with. its `120.1r a ka Gladiatorial Toga'rry defence. The Telegraph of Thursday states that Capt. Ackerley claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur ner, and wife, servants of George Harrow), on their being bound over to keep the peace six months, under £lO penalty, for misdemeanour, with wilful dog offence against the person, with intent to do injury by "canine agency," on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis crepancy in Police reports, induces us to refer to this ap parent case of persecution against the plaintiff—(the sup porter of the Anglo-American ' Income tax' Chief, Peter Basquet, 11 years)—for holding under his Coal Hole County court Final judgment on 1842-B's double-rent lease, now a 20-yrs title, which checkmates the Woods and Forests' 1586 Chiliarcher * of St. Mic. Cowper's Corn hill gold-key lessees' wish, by Ouster le main to regain a Primer Seisin by getting the Captain to recognize an in verted tenantcy by their lessee Batchelor building-in his Coal -hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam-- engine boiler HEAT—to effect cold-draft ejection.—so Tomb. )- 'Think I—every1—every day to be thy last, <Chandos. For when night-sleep comes—Life is past.' The papal li'29 Metropolis Police Act, 3 Wm. 4, cap. 19, 15, 39, 44—gives £6 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on " Offences against th e p erson , &c., 24-25 Vict., cap. 100, sec. 4, 42, 67, 77—Garotters and Chloroformists," on mis demeanour conviction, with £5 fine, recoverable against the Stipendiary-justice—therefore in homsge to our readers we refer to this Clapham Atkins case, (of City beam and scale Sydney-like title, 13 Hen. 8, in 1835 standard act), wherein the Captain (& brother Chamberlayne, by reason of the papal P. boy Edw. 6th in-valid City grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by '35 act, c. 1, he being sworn trustee of Brandon and Southwark's Bethlcia Hospital Estates, now on St. James's Hall, and Elia. Park lodge, Ormond-yard, and 5, Swallow -street, as the people's land, under no Queen's Church head assumption. t *Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Troy-weight meter from the Exchequer for Pope's mitre-and-key mint in 1838 ? whence, by his City charter, 26 Ed. 3 ? the Mayor Rose, M.P., was mock presented in November to Indian Peter, as Constable of the Tower—Angl 9 Micmac flag unionist. t On the Luther 3ty of 21st July, 1521, by Leo X and Emp. Charles V, for Paduan intermediate supremacy in the land—Sydney was appointed the Archer A standard inch bearer. In like manner, by 1831 's Co-partner Act, No. 54, for 2-3 Will. 4, caput-81, 92, 1832, f or R uss i an Dutch Loan guarantee—on Submission of the . Clergy and restraint of appeals to Rome , on lack of justice —names 25 Hen. 8, c 19 and 8 Eliz. c 5, for marine causes—whence, Alliance of lii.ngs, abolition—the Greek rota-crown Protector' Lieu -tenant Ackerley, as o p n eru l r 26 ta H King B John's kin trust, was s worn -i n as supreme St a te pivot, at Worcester's Mausoleum-Crt. in January, 1837 by Gold stick Archer-Wm. 4—whose daughter married the Captain's nephew, by the 2nd branch of Dartmouth's Slaney le Fleming Chamberlayne, in Leicester Coke, and Hungate Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fitzclarence bar'd in heraldry, like Eaton -hall Grey Egerton, by Somerset' half-cast. The same malicious isolating influence appears to have closed against him the doors of Junior United Service Club, on his X 4,000 Co-burn discovery, and United Service Mu • seurn membership, for holding to his official duties, and cause of his cruel imprisonment at Bath, Tothill, imo.l Merthyr Tydvil, without crime. December 29, 1862. 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