The Sun. — London, England, 1869-01-02 00:00:00

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Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20; BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS, Commence at Seven, the A it Wu r!d, n;r OYAI, A IIPHITIIEA'I'RE AND CIRCUS. , —A spectacular bit of Panlomimic Extravagance, entitled TILE M %RVELI OF ELECTRICITY, in which the whole strength of the establishment will take part, besides 250 troops, beautiful ponies, and the most extraordinary electric and lime light effects ever witnessed, will be produced THIS EVENING Doors opan at Seven, commence at half past. For the conve nience of those residing at a distance it has been decided, during the HOLIDAYS, to give Three Morning Performances weekly, viz.. Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Doors open at Two. The Amphitheatre and Circus is easily accessible from all parts, and the Morning Perbrinances afford an excellent opportunity to give the little ones a treat. N.B.—The second grand morning performance on Wednesday, at half-pant Two. Ir MOSES and SON'S POCK ET DIARY _kJ . for 1869, ADAPTED for PERSONS of all CLASSES, AMONG a VARIETY of USEFUL LNFORMA TION, IT MAY BE HAD, GRATIS AND POST FREE, EXCELLENCE WITH CHEAPNESS. PRICES BASED ON _ READY-MONEY SYSTEM UNEQUALLED brocK for 1Y"12 1 Eli in EVERY DEPARTMENT. A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S CLOTHING. OVERCOATS IN EVERY STYLE AND MATERIAL. A LARGE STOCK of BLANKETS, at unusually Low Prices. COMPLETE OUTFITS for ALL CLIMATES. ALL GOODS MARKED in PLAIN FIGURES ARTICLES NOT APPROVED OF EX _ CHANGED or the MONEY RETURNED. AN easy and accurate System of Self-measure, Introduced by E. MOSES and Son, has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom. ORDERS by POST promptly and cftrefully attended to. L IST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. ifp MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS ji_u• are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. 1V MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke ju• Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— SPECIAL NOTICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre sentations, E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their nly Establishments are the above-mentioned. THEATRE ROYAL, D RURY-LANE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattPrton. _ Special Morning PerformanCes of the Grand Pantomime on every Wednesuay and Saturday during the Christmas Holidays. THIS EVENING, will be performed MY WIFE'S OUT. To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime, entitled GRIMALKIN THE GREAT; OR, HARLEQUIN Puss IN BOOTS, ►ND THE MILLER'S SONS, with new and magnificent Scenery by Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire strength Of the company. In the Harlequinade a Double Troupe of Pantomimists; and combining the grandest stage effects of any Pantomime ever produced at this theatre. Doors open at half-past 8, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, A HERO OF ROMANCE. Messrs. Buekstone, Sothern, Compton, Chippendale, &c.; Mesdames Ada Cavendish, Chippendale, Burke, Fitzwilliam, Ic. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. 'M esers. Comp ton, Kendal, Weaihersby, Buckstone, jun., &c. ; Mesdames Wright. Burke, Gwynn, &c. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPH 1. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At a quarter to 8, MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter, Mr. Benja min Webster, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Romer, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leclercq,Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss Nelly Harris. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. After which (at 8 o'clock) Dion Bonciatult's new drama, in four acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life. Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray. C. Harcourt, J.G . Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by Mr, F. Lloyds and assistants. To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. DOYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Clarke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames ButAn and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF ThZ CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, ezz. To conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS. T. GEORGE'S THEATRE (ST. GEORGE'S HALL) —Great Success of SAaDANAPALUS. — The new Drama, SAVED, and the original Ninevitish Burlesque of SAR DANAPALUS (received with roars of laughter and applause), every Evening at 7.—Morning Performance on Tuesday, Jan. 5, at Two p.m. ROYAL AMPHITHEA TRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. The Proprietors of this elegant Establishment, in announcing to their patrons and the public their PROGRAMME for the Christmas and New Year Holidays, desire •to draw attention to the high character and varied nature of the performances, and also to the comfortable accommodation provided throughout the building. The Press has been unanimous in prOnouncing the entertainment the beat, and the Theatre the most comfortable, in London; and the Proprietors, encouraged by the success of their past endeavours, will relax no effort to provide an enter tainment unequalled and unsurpassable, and in which both old and young may participate with pleasure and delight. It mast he remembered that the Proprietors of the Amphitheatre and Circus do not rely on any attempt at outside show, tinselled dis play. or gorgeous procession, having every confidence in the proved talent of the Company,"and the well-known character of - .once, to insure for them the public support. Still, ye seas n additional attraetions are needed, and these :ors have supplied. The Programme embraces every eti it been been possible to obtain. The SCENES in wilt introduce the most TALENTED A ETISTES Li the a STL D of HoftsF.s which are the theme of universal The (LYMPIC REVELS are specially attractive, and oral new and astonishing Feats. ( LOBE THEATRE-ROYAL -At 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, Mr. J. Byron's original Comedy, in five acts, entitled CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlston, ancl,J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Breman, Berend, Hughgs, and Stephens. VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Ordinary Half-Yearly Meeting of Proprietors will be held at the Offices of the Company, No. 7, Westminster Chambers, Victoria-street. Westminster, on MONDAY, the 18th day of January, 1869, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, to receive a Report from the Directors, and for the ordinary business of the Company. The Transfer Books will be closed from Monday, the 11th January, 1869, until after the meeting. By Order, EDWARD BELLAMY, Secretary. Offices, 7, Westminster Cbambers, Victoria-street, Westminster, 2d January, 1869. 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Tins EVENING, at 7, MY WIFE'S OUT. Followed by the Grand F antomime, PUSS IN BOOTS. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARRET. TIM EVENING, A HERO OF ROMANCE. Messrs. Buck stone, Sothern, Compton, Chippendale, ac.; Mesdames Ada Cavendish, Chippendale, Burke, Fitzwilliam, 4 Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR: Messrs. Contpton, Kendal, Buckstone, jun., Weathsrsby, &c.; Mesdames Wright, Burke, Gwynn, &c Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL - - THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMS ERW ELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45 MONIE CRISTO . Messrs. Fechter, B. Webster, G. Belmore, A. Stirling. R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, W H. I , burn, It. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Mansger,Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8, AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. W. Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murray; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston; Miss Emma Barnet and Miss Rose Leelereq Cnncluding with MASTER, JONES'S BIRTHDAY. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tuts EVENING, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David Fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Button. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. MIS EVENING, at 7, THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. Irving, L. Brongh, Stephens, Wyndham, Clayton, and S. Emery Mesdames Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore. And THE GNOME KING. Mr. Toole. With A RACE FOR A DINNER. THEATRE-P.OYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING, at 7, SL A SHER & CRASHER: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan, G. Vincent, &c. ; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. It Ne ille, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and IL Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE.. - limier toe management of Miss 3L Oliver. TIII3 EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Mies M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF 'ITCH ARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar Jr.N Danvers; Miss Collinson. and Miss M. Oliver. To con tlude with THE ULOCKMAKER'S HAT. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. • Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins Eviorm, TAME CATS: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, WHO SPEAKS FIRST Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss C. Addison. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses: also Alfred Bradbury, Id.. Clifton, and THE MARVELS OF ELECTRICITY. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL HAMRA PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls •., on Mcndays, Gd.; Children under twelve, 6d. t. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1869. Peace prospects are in the ascendant with the commencement of the New Year. On the jour de l'An the Emperor NAPOLEON 111. , when receiv ing at the Palace of the Tuileries the Diplomatic Body, headed by the Papal Nuncio in his capacity as the spokesman (by right of precedence) of the assembled ambassadors, is reported to have uttered words calculated for once, we should presume, to tranquilise the solicitude for a considerable time past more or less chronic throughout Europe in re gard to the alternative of War or Peace in the immediate future. "I receive," said his Ma jesty, " with pleasure your congratulations, and I am glad to testify to the conciliatory spirit which animates the different foreign Powers, and which allows difficulties when they arise to be removed." Evidently an allusion, those last words, to the pro spective assembling of the Conference at Paris on the Turko-Greek difficulty—a Conference which it is now anticipated may possibly commence its sit tings at as early a date as either the 7th or Bth inst., if the necessary preliminaries can, with sufficient rapidity, be arranged within so brief an interval as less than a week. " I hope," added the EMPEROR, " that the year 1869, like 1868, will re move alarms and consolidate peace, which is so ne cessary to the civilised world." Hitherto, whatever NAPOLEON 111. has uttered in the way of reassurance to Europe has been tortuously twisted into a mean ing the very opposite of what his words, superficially regarded, would seem by necessity to have implied. Here, however, there would really appear to be no room for misapprehension. There is here, in these two sentences, not one syllable of an ambiguous cha racter. There is nothing sinister in these plain and simple assurances. The words admit of no double meaning. They are as plain— we will not say as a pikestaff, for the mere phrase might scund like one having an inappropriately warlike significance. They are as plain as an open, ungloved hand held out in cordial friendship. And the EMPEROR can afford—whatever may be thought or said to the contrary by his depre ciatory, whatever evil construction may be put upon evidences of smouldering disaffection here and there, as in the instance of M. ROCHEFORT and his Lanterne —the EMPEROR can afford to be the one among all the Sovereigns of Europe, to make these con- TBE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, lt. 69 ciliatory and pacific advances. He can afford to do this, because his so doing admits, by no possibility, of misconstruction in the* sense of its indicating any dread on his part of the consequences of war. He has at this moment at his absolute com mand an army, in its numerical strength, and in its magnificent discipline, and inLits possession (in the chassepot) of an unrivalled and an unerring arm of precision, such as no contemporary monarch in the world possesses. Occasionally as was very manifest once or twice during the course of last year, the more ardent of his war riors, to use the felicitous phrase of SHAKSPERE, like greyhounds in the slip, were straining upon the start. At any moment of that kind the EMPE ROR, like our own HARRY the Fifth, had but to cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. He did not. Hs does not. He holds them in hand; and his other hand, as but just now said, he extends to the world on New Year's Day, with a few but sufficient words, with every reasonable evidence on his part of sincere and cordial friendship. But— while so far so good—is this all that is in:any way desirable, not to say actually requisite on the EM PEROR'S part in the interests of Peace, not only here in Europe, but generally throughout the world ? While these enormous armaments which are now weighing so heavily, so crushingly upon the greatest of the civilised peoples of Christendom, and of which the paragon armament of all, that of France herself, is the most portentous illustration—while these enormous armaments are maintained it would be simply absurd to say or to think for one mo ment that pacific words are alone of themselves suffi cient. In the interests of civilization, in the interests of humanity, in the name of our common Chris tianity, something more than this is demanded, not from the French EMPEROR alone, but from all the Governments of all the Great Powers of the earth now in friendly relations with each other, and yet armed, each of them, or arming to the teeth— keeping their powder dry, as the old Puritan had it—horse, foot, and artillery, so to speak, with foot in stirrup, bayonet fixed, fuse ready for lighting—prepared for any emergency, however sudden and unlooked for— yet all the while echoing the angelic chorus, year after year, about in terra pax hominibus ! Each nation arming like the strong man, in the parable, keeping his house—as though all the rest were robbers, who were only watching their op portunity to break in and steal ! Something more than tranquillizing words are needed in the presence of these stupendous armaments. " THE Right Hon. J oHN BRIGHT also arrived, and had the honour of dining with the QUEEN and the Royal Family." So says the Court Circular. Than this brief announcement nothing is more significant of the vast change which has come over the political aspect of the country during the last three years. Mr. BRIGHT at Osborne means not that Mr. BRIGHT has turned courtier, but that while he has been standing still the nation has been progressing until it has overtaken him. Ten years ago he was a vox clamantis in deserto. No one would listen to him. He warned statesmen that they must alter their ways ; that if the people were to continue loyal they must have some share in making the laws which they were called upon to obey ; that if the country was to continue prosperous some check must be put upon its enormous expenditure, wars of annexation must be absolutely prohibited, and the principle of non-intervention adopted. Men called him an enthusiastic fanatic, when they did not use harsher names, when they did not dencknce him as a traitor who would abolish the Church and the Throne and "Americanise" our time-honoured institutions. Less than three years ago the fact that he was supposed to have assisted in the preparation of a Reform Bill was fatal to the measure and its responsible authors; for when it was impossible to persuade men that a reduction of the franchise from £lO to £7 would revolutionise the country, it was sufficient to mention the " hon. member for Birmingham' order to frighten those who could not be convinced. And now Iv e see household suffrage the law of the land, and the Right Hon. Junrt BRIGHT a guest or Royalty. That is, we see the country loyal and contented, and him, who is the real author of the change which has made them so, honoured by the sovereign, who knows that she has no more faithful servant or loving subject. There is in this royal dinner party a lesson for the Conservatives, if they will only learn it. The lesson is, that they are powerless to prevent the march of the nation towards democracy, if they choose to call it by that name—self-government, as we prefer to call it—and that if they are wise they will seek rather to guide the movement than to impede it. Conser vatism has a proper part to play in the politics of the country, but that part has not been assumed during the last three years. The Conservative party are at the present time in the condition of a buffer whose spring has been broken. They still stand out apparently prepared to break the force of a collision ; but we know, and they know, that their resisting power is for the present gone; that if the nation is bent upon any great organic change there is no force in the Conservative party to impede, much less to prevent it. This being so, it would be wise for them seriously to consider their position with regard to ecclesiastical matters. They know full well that the Irish Church Establishment cannot be maintained, but they may delay disesta blishment by throwing obstacles in the way of the work. The obstacles may even prove beyond the strength of the Government to surmount. In that case we must prepare to see the Conservative party called in and maintaining itself in power by proposing a measure far more sweeping than that which they have rejected. But is this statesmanship ? Is it statesmanship to hold office for two years, to do the work of the Radicals more thoroughly than the Radicals could have done it, to be driven from place by the voice of the nation, and to see the men whom they have always denounced Ministers of . the Crown and guests of the QUEEN ? Do they want to see the Right Hon. EDWARD MIALL dining at Osborne, as they have seen the Right Hon. JOHN BRIGHT ? Do they want the English Church disestablished, as they will shortly see the Irish Church ? A little more, and they will achieve a miracle even greater than that of passing household suffrage by the aid of the Tory squires—they will have' brought about an alliance between the English Church Union and the Liberation Society. A VERY important question has just been argued before the Irish judges. It involved to a high degree the liberty of the press. At the general election, greatly to the surprise of most persons, Belfast, the headquarters of the Orange party, returned a candidate favourable to the disestablishment of the Irish Church. The opposite party subsequently presented a petition against this member. The Liberal journals in Belfast denounced this petition in emphatic language. The petitioners thereupon moved that an attachment 'should be issued against the editors for attempting to prejudge a case pendente lite. The journalists replied that the matter was one of public interest, and therefore they had a right to comment upon it ; and that, more over, no prejudice could arise, because the petition was going to be tried, not by a jury, but by a judge, and that it was absurd to suppose that any of the judges could be influenced by anything that he saw in the newspapers. After taking time to consider these arguments the judges delivered their decision. ks is usual, the youngest spoke first, and Mr. Justice LAWSON, who has just been promoted to the Bench by the present Administration, decided that such a matter as an election petition ought to be freely discussed, that the court ought not to lay down any rule which would fetter that freedom, and that the articles complained of had not transgressed lawful limits. Mr. Justice Monnrs, who was appointed by the late Government, thought that the articles greatly exceeded the limits which the court ought to allow. " Judge KEOGH, -a former Liberal M.P., concurred with Judge LAWSON. Chief Justice WHITESIDE, who owes his post to Lord DERBY, differed from the two Liberal judges, and held that while an action was pending no one should enter upon its merits so as to prejudice a fair trial. He differed as to the right of a journalist, and held that the articles went beyond anything that was justifiable. The court being equally divided, there was no rule, and no costs. This no-decision is much to be regretted. It is the first of importance under the new Bribery Act, and it is greatly to be wished that on every point which may arise there may be a clear and definite judgment. It is unfortunate, to say the least, that in a question involving political issues the two Liberal judges should be upon one side, the two Conservative judges upon the other. No one will presume to accuse them of being biassed by their private political views. Yet it cannot fail to be seen that, while the Liberal judges were for giving the largest possible liberty to the press, the Conservative were for restrict ing that liberty. This coincidence will, we fear, somewhat shake popular confidence in our legal tribunals, which hitherto has always supposed that a judge is a person without parts or passions. The circumstance happens, too, contemporaneously with another event which has not a little discredited the highest tribunal of all. It is now stated that the Privy Council was divided in its judgment on the case MARTIN V. MAcKONOCHIE, and that while there were three for the appellant, two against, and one neutral, one of the first had previously to the trial committed himself to the side which he favoured. However that may be, it is certain, and the matter is one of great importance, that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is always in danger of becoming a political and party tribunal, and that decisions of great importance may depend entirely upon the Prime Minister for the time being. This is not a satisfactory s t a t e o f things, sand it is io s be devotltly ho"' that we, who have hitherto boasted of the impartiality of our tribunals, are not about to see them the vehicles of political partisanship. LATEST INTELL MENU. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 1. The Emperor received the Diplomatic Body and the Ministers of State at the Tuileries to-day, at ten o'clock. His Majesty is stated to have made the follow ing reply to the congratulations of the Diplomatic Body : "I receive with pleasure your congratulations, and I am glad to testify to the conciliatory spirit which animates the different Foreign Powers, and which allows difficulties, when they arise, to be removed. " I hope that the year 1869, like 1868, will re move alarms and consolidate peace, which is so necessary to the civilised world." TURKEY AND GREECE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 1. 'lhe Turkish Government has published their reply to the Greek Note, refusing to comply with the ultimatum. The reply commences by declaring that no State would have accepted so long as the Porte a condition of affairs incompatible with relations of good neighbourhood. It then examines at length the various points mentioned in the Greek Note. In reference to the bands of volunteers the reply says that the answer of the Greek Govern ment to the effect that the Hellenic insti tutions did not permit Greece to prevent their formation, was inadmissible, since in that case there would be no security between neighbouring states in time of peace, and it would be subsersive of the law of nations. Moreover, the Greek laws would allow the Hellenic Government to repress these irregularities had the Government so desire a, since by Article 127 of the Penal Code, the punishment of death is awarded to thn. per sous enrolling troops without the authorisation of the Government. The Greek Government boasts of having pro tected the insurgents and in granting the Cretans permission to return to their country. Now it is known that the departures have only been effected by stealth, and often been prevented by violence. The Note refutes the argument of M. Delyanni complaining of Turkish aggression on the frontier. The aggression is rather on the part of Greece. Finally, referring to the subject of the expulsion of the Greek subjects from Ottoman ports, the Note declares that this course was necessitated by the proceedings of those who, while receiving gener ous hospitality, took advantage of their position to form hostile combinations against the Government. The Note concludes by stating that the Porte only replies to the Greek Government in order to place itself right in the eyes of Europe. Had it only to persuade those who are acquainted with current events, it would have left them to judge between the silence of the Porte and the Greek Note. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. According to Mr. Adam Moffat's report, the week's receipts of cotton at American ports, exclud ing Friday, amount to 80,000 bales. Since the Ist of September, 1,045,000 baler. Shipments to Eng land, 41,000 bales ; to France and the Continent, 3,000 bales. Total export to date, 540,000 bales. Stock, 300,000 bales. Market steady. Middling upland, 10 3-16 cost and freight per steamer. GUARESFONDENCE FROM PARIS. ►FROM eta o`ing CORRESPONDENT;)\ PARIS, FRlDAYt,:.:nary 1. This is All Fools' Day in Paris. The universal practice of distributing etrennes, or New Year's gifts, long ago became a mania, and, finally, ripened into a hard and in flexible custom, which is a nuisance to all and a benefit to none. For many days past the shops on the boulevards have been crowded with customers making purchases for etrepnes, and yesterday Paris, in the neighbourhood of the vertu and bonbon establishments, resembled a fair. The gifts embrace almost every description of object, and the givers and receivers include everybody. Toys are pre sented to children, and sugar-plums, in fancyboxes, to lady friends. Bouquets of flowers, inkstands, writing-desks, velo cipedes, books (not many), lace, silks, velvet, diamonds, and jewellery are all distributed according to the means of the giver and the importance of the recipient. The practice has been attended with its infarible result. The first day of the year is the most dismal of the 365. The custom is a nuisance to the vast majority, but nobody dares to oppose it. The young men of the day might as well attempt to introduce a costume of the tenth century. The practice is universal, and it is gaining ground, so that the New Year's gifts have come to be prized in exact proportion to their money's worth ; a trifling present is treated with contempt. Many a gift which is thrown aside as worthless has cost the donor weeks of privation. The fashion needs changing, but there is nobody to take the first plunge. Franco, unfortunately, is not endowed with a ruler who is inclined to discourage the extravagance of his people ; the Emperor and the Empress follow or lead the general custom, and t'ie flock of Parisian sheep have no alternative but to do the same. The Empress might, I fancy, put a stop to this useless folly ; but her Majesty is not the enemy of extrava gance. The Constitutionnel, stung by the ridicule of the Opposi tion journals, has returned to the charge on the Louvre and Luxembourg picture question. Its argument is merely a repetition of its previous note, and does nothing to justify the fact that many paintings belonging to the Louvre collection are now hanging upon the walls of the Imperial Club and other private establishments of high func tionaries. There is every reason to believe that M. Emile Lenobi, advocate at the Imperial Court, will succeed M. Havin, the late proprietor of the Sdcle, in the Corps Ldgislatif. The first number of the Journal Officiel de rempire Francais has made it appearance. It does not contain anything about the Conference, as was expected, and is altogetheras little remarkable as the Afoniteur. The Budget preparation is ended. Only a few insigni ficant reductions, I hear, have been made M. Haussmann, though the best abused of Government officials, is but a scapegoat, after all. His raids upon the city of Paris, his continual pulling down and rebuilding, his obliteration of all that is ancient in Paris, and the sub stitution of a capital which reminds one of nothing but the Second Empire are, after all, not his own work. He is merely the agent who acts for the Emperor. Not only does the head of the Government inspire the rebuilding of Paris, but he arranges all the details. The present trans formation of Paris is merely the execution of a plan which was drawn up by the Emperor so long ago as 1852. M. Victorien Sardou has brought out a new piece at the Gymnase. It is entitled " Sdraphine," and deals very roughly with hypocrisy and sham religion, of which the heroine is the impersonification. This piece has given great offence to the religious societies. It was very suc cessful the first night, but on the second a great uproar was made by some of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. The performance was, however, carried through. The interruptions, it is said, are to be renewed. The inhabitants of Bordeaux have signed a petition praying for the expulsion of the Jesuits from France. The Memorial de la Loire tells a story of a dog with a wooden leg. A short time ago, a shepherd's dog was assailed by a large wolf, and before he could be rescued by his master sustained such injuries that amputation was found necessary. Of course it was deemed impossible that the animal could recover, but his master so greatly valued his canine friend that the experiment of a wooden leg— which is not altogether new—was tried, and the clog is still alive and active. THE WEATHER TABLE-THIS DAY, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Saturday Review is not disposed to join in the sanguine anticipations of the future which most people indulge in at this season. Perhaps there is more cause for being sanguine now than we could find usually at the beginning of a year. But the long experience of English history, and the sad ness in contemplating human life which Christianity has taught to the modern world, forbid us to find much pleasure at the beginning of any new period in cheering ourselves and making merry and shouting out what a fine, prosperous, noble people we are. There are times for such things, as, for example, when Yankees or Frenchmen seem not to understand our superiority to them ; but the beginning of a new year is not one of them. And if there are no imminent dangers now pressing on England, there are dangers of a somewhat remote kind which must fill us with anxiety when we think of them. Patience and fore sight and good humour will, we trust, carry us safely through them ; but at least we may be sure that they will afford us ample room for exercising these qualities to as full a degree as we are capable of exercising them. Many special causes of apprehension might probably be found to exist at present if we went below the surface of English politics, but it will be enough to men tion two or three of the most striking. There are, for example, the present position of the House of Lords and the present position of Prussia in Europe. If we begin to reflect on any one of these subjects, we soon find that it is full of thorny and complicated questions, and that it is only by resolutely spewing patience, foresight, and good humour that England can hope to arrive at a proper solution of them. What are we to do with our good poor, with our half-good poor, with our bad poor, with our criminal poor ? These are not questions of a remote and speculative interest, Londoners find that they are crushed by rates, the burden of which increases every month, and the payment of which only seems to intensify the misery it is destined to relieve, and they walk about in a city where life and property are not much safer than in Mexico or Bologna. How is it possible for anyone, except ing for the sort of people who believe, on the faith of burlesques and Christmas extra-numbers, that they are bound to be jolly at this season, to exalt much or whoop over the new year, when we know that starvation is going on all around us, and that if we try to diminish the evil by giving money we only aggravate it, and that almost the only people who can walk about London with perfect com fort and impunity are the fortunate beings who have been twice convicted of a felenious offence ? The Spectator thinks that in Sir Richard Mayne the State has lost a servant of very unusual merit, and that the mistake of holding office a little too long must not blind us to the fact that forty years ago he organised the London police on a system which for more than a gene ration has worked well, and that for the whole period ho has maintained external order among a population greater than that of many sovereign States with a force of only 7,000 men, and at an expenditure of only half a million a year. Latterly, no doubt, owing to the disuse of transportation and to the unexampled spread of London, and, to a certain extent, failure of reverence for law as distinguished from force, Sir Richard Mayne's task grew too heavy for him ; the tendency to militarism, which is the first sign of an overtaxed Government, grew stronger within the police, and the old security of London, which impressed foreigners as an inexplicable wonder, became seriously diminished. The task of selecting his successor is all the harder because the public wants something new very vehemently, and does not quite know what. We trust that whoever may be selected, the opportunity will be taken to make a thorough overhaul of the condi tion of the force and a careful inquiry into its needful strength. The public insists a little too strongly upon the first only of these recommendations. No doubt, with more care and higher pay, and a few better posts as prizes, we may get a better class of policemen —more especially if we give up regulations about size, under which Torn Sayers would have been rejected for want of physique— but after all, there is one defect which no amount of efficiency will remove, and that is the want of sufficient men. Vidocq cannot be in two places at once, any more than the merest country lout, nor will any extent of energy enable John Smith to patrol the street and the mews at one and the same time. The best six detectives in the service could not really watch a square mile of London all night ; and that, as " Custos " has explained in a pamphlet intended apparently to make the police a reserve army, is the highest number that can be allotted to the duty, a number only attained by overworking the men, and neglecting watchfulness during the daylight and dusk. More men, we know perfectly well, can only be secured by more money ; but inquiry may reveal new modes of economy ; eer if not, Londoners must either pay more, or affirm deliberately that they prefer the partial insecurity now felt in almost all the great cities which, under the name of suburbs, are now left pretty much to take care of themselves. We may murmur as much as we like, but it is in the incidence of our London taxation, and not in its total weight, that we must seek relief. Deduct the poor rate, which is peculiar to England, and there is scarcely a capital city in the world, unless it be Calcutta, which is governed anything like so cheaply as this vast metropolis. The London Review makes some remarks upon the state of affairs at the Foreign Office, and the apparent dissimi larity cf the v.ewa entertained by the Premier and the former under-secretary in that department. Some perplexity exists as to the policy about to be pursued, and it is said that anyone accustomed to the House of Commons must often have been tickled by the absurdity of Mr. Gladstone's position since Lord Palmerston's death in reference to that of Mr. Layard. In the latter was recognised a politician of no mark or character, but he was also recognised as the sole remaining depository of the preposterous pro-Turkish traditions of our Foreign Office. Mr. Gladstone sat and listened to Mr. Layard with a sort of half-smile on his face, and led everyone to think that all this nonsense would be banished to the moles and the bats if he came into power. He has come into power, and Mr. Layard has come into place. He has not come into the Foreign Office, and this impressed many people with the conviction that Mr. Gladstone was about to give play to his own ideas. But this is now very doubtful. Mr. Layard was the only member of the' Government who spoke about foreign affairs on the hustings. When he had bemoaned his exclusion from the Cabinet he proceeded to lament the pro- Christian tone of Lord Stanley's speech at Lynn, but he denied he was the friend of the Porte, and declared he was for non-intervention in the East, so long as no other Power intervened. Is Mr. Gladstone then, with Mr. Bright and the Duke of Argyll by his side, about to adopt a less satis factory Eastern policy than even Mr. Layard would pro mpt ? Have we really lost by Mr. Layard's not being at the Foreign Office? We do not suppose so, because Mr. Layard is as much of a Jesuit as a hot-headed man can be, and even when advocating non-intervention does so in support of a most mischievous organisation of inter ference. But we ask these questions because, whatever Mr• Layard's practice may have been, and whatever Mr. Hammond's routine may be (which is more to the pur pose), the course which our Government is alleged to have chosen is wrong, judged even by the standard which Mr. Layard set up in the railway arch at Southwark. England is seemingly about to intervene with the rest of the Great Powers ; and she does so at a moment when no one Government has provoked intervention by shewing the smallest intention of meddling. The John bull criticises the new Cabinet Minister, and seeks to shew that the right hon. gentleman is more zealous than wise in his Utopian theories concerning the working man. Mr. Bright, it is said, is the hero of the hour, and therefore it is allowable to put him on the right track when he wanders in a wrong direction. Now that Mr. Bright is Right Honourable, and his educa tion has been taken in hand, not only by peers, but by the Royal Family, it may be as well to point out the fallacy of that recent declaration, that if the • tea, sugar, and other duties were removed, the workman would be materially bet, efited, while his wages would remain undiminished. He may as well say if raw cotton became cheaper, the manufacturer would be a gainer, and calico retain its price. Mr. Bright above all men, professes to he a political economist, and, we believe, once recommended that Adam Smith should be learnt by heart, as some clergymen know the Bible. But workmen cannot be so stupid as Mr. Bright sup poses. If common sense does not belie Mr. Bright, all political economists do. Nothing is more clear than that, other things being equal, the price of labour is regulated by the price of food ; and it makes no difference whether food is cheapened by the removal of duties or by any other cause. If bread were a sovereign the four-pound loaf, no labourer would work for a sove reign a week ; and 'similarly, if it were no more than twopence, cheaper means of living, reacting on compe tion, would lower the rates for labour in that ratio. The same remark applies to every commodity which the workman thinks it necessary to consume. Mr. Bright pretends that a tax on consumable commodities is a tax on labour; Labour only pays the tax by deputy, as a farmer does who pays. tithes. 11 there were no tithes, his rent would be higher, and the landlord the gainer. If there were no taxes on consumable commoditif s, wages would be lower, and the community the gainer. The workman, by the removal of tea and sugar taxes, could only gain indirectly, and to a small degree, like any other member of the community. An illustra tration of what we mean is afforded by the position of labour in the Channel Islands, where Mr. Blight's terrestrial paradise of untaxed commodities is realised. Except an inappreciable tax - on spirits, neither customs nor excise exist. What is the result to the workman ? His wages are lower there than in any part of the United Kingdom. That commodities are untaxed is the reason alleged fors paying less wages than elsewhere. Mr. Bright has a smooth tongue for the working man, and may be often sincere ; but in this case we think his sincerity questionable. As a student of political economy, he must have known that a reduction in the price of the workman's food will, in its general effect, reduce the price of his labour in the same degree. None know better I<iv i 4ll,9 that it 41 4) 2 1- 1 084ble j 4 ckktiq 4akukiallaye it. I SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 2. Further accounts of the fighting at Malaga state that yesterday morning General Caballero de Rodas, supported by the ships of war now stationed at Malaga, attacked the insurgents, who had in trenched themselves in the qnarter of St. Trinity, while General Pavia, the Military Governor, made an attack on their stronghold from another quarter. The insurgents were completely beaten, and the troops of the line took possession of all the districts held by them. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed in the ranks of the army. In General Pavia's corps four men were killed, but, on the whole, the troops of the line did not suffer much. The losses iu the insurgent force were considerable. BURNING OF A SHIP. PORTSMOUTH, Saturday. The English ship Ocean Home, Captain Spence, from Antwerp, bound to Liverpool, laden with compressed bales of hay, caught fire, at Spithead, about one o'clock this morning; the fire soon ob tained the•mastery of the ship, when the captain slipped the cables, got sail upon the vessel, and ran her ashore upon the beach under Haslar Hos pital, at high water mark, with the intention of scuttling her. Nothing could arrest the progress of the fire, and about 6 a.m. the masts went over the vessel's side. Previous to daylight the burning ship presented almost as striking a spectacle as did the Eastern Monarch, which was destroyed by fire in nearly the same position at Spithead some years ago. AIR. CHARLES DICKENS.—The second series of "farewell readings" will commence on Tuesday next, the sth of January, and will be continued on alternate Tues days till the 2d of March. The first reading of the series will comprise the episode of Nancy's murder from " Oliver Twist," experimentally read before a select assembly some weeks ago with extraordinary applause. METEOROLOGICAL RErORTS. Extreme Sea Saturday, F. Jan. 2, B. T, o ^ W . Ito P. D. WR. to 8 a.m, 12 9 Nairn 29 62r. 35 34 W. 1 5 S.S.E. j c.ob o'o2 1 Aberdeen Leith Shields ScarborougL 2910 f. 39 39 W. 2 6 S . W . c.ro 0'42 3 Yarmouth 29716. 43 41 W.N.W. 6 7 S. r.o. 0•30 5 Helder Cuxhaven Skudesnaes Ardrossan 29'7 - 2r. 44 42 W. 3 7 S. r.b. 0'29 2 Green castle 2912 r. 36 35 S.W. 2 5 S. r.c. 013 Holyhead Liverpool 29'805. 44 42 W.S.W. 2 3 . S.E. c. 6'05 1 Valentin 2976r. 47 45 S.W. 6 8 S.W. r.o. 0'34 7 Cape Clear 29 83r. 47 45 SW. 6 9 S.W. o.c. O'39i 5 Roches Pt. 29'92r. 44 43 W.S.W. 2 9 S.W. r.c. 0'62 4 Penzance Plymouth Weymouth 29'975. 47 44 W.N.W. 1 5 E.S.E. o.c. 0'251 2 Portsmouth 29 96f. 44 43 W.N.W. 4 8 S.S.W. ac.,0'29 4 London 29'886. 41 41 W. 3 10 S. Lr b; o'oB Cepa Gris ez 29•876. 46 144 W. 8 5 W.N.W. c. 10'05 5 West .. • . po oar . la it W.N.W. 2 Q r r 1:11.3 3 L'Orient 30'15r. 46 44 W. 4 8 S.W. r.c.'014 3 Roch e fort Biarritz Cor un na — Brussels..., Paris Strasbourg — Toulon 30'41r. 43 W. 4 8 N.W. b . — 4 Heart's Con tent (2 a.m. local time) XXPLA NATION IXPLA NA Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter r, rising ; f. falling ; s, steady—indicates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f.— fog; h.—hail ; I.—lightning ; hazy ; •o.—overcast, doll ; r.— rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. The decrease in barometrical pressure noticed on our X. and W. coasts yesterday extended to all coasts during the evening, but this morning a recovery has taken place. Readings are still lowest in the N., but are pretty uniform there, and are half an inch less than at L'Orient. On the W. coast of Ireland considerable inequality of pressure is noticeable. Temperature has increased mere than 10 deg. in the S.E., and to a less extent in the N. ; but in Ireland a slight diminution is shewn. During the past twenty-four hours a brisk S.W. gale, of short duration, has passed over our S. coast, and strong breezes from the same quarter were felt at almost all our stations. The wind subsequently veered to the westward, and moderated ; but in the S. of Ireland it has again backed, and is increasing in force. Rain has fallen at all stations, and has been locally heavy. The sky is generally heavy. Warnings were issued yesterday morning to the W. coasts, and to the other coasts in the evening. The Athen mum learns by advices from Berlin that .he Prussians have decided on the adoption of prismatic gunpowder for cannon of a specific gravity of about 1.66. A silver tea service with 100 guineas has been pre sented to the Rev. Henry Allon, editor of the British Quar terly Review, to commemorate his 25 years' pastorate at Islington. The Paris correspondent of the Standard says the uonforence on the Eastern question will meet on the 7th or Bth of January. Thanks to Russia, Greece will be repre sented. It is officially stated that the total number of pas sengers using the Metropolitan, Metropolitan District, St. John's-wood, and Hammersmith and City railways, on Box ing-day, was no less than 153,281. Mr. George Peabody has sent a cheque for £lOO to the Mayor of Brighton for distribution amongst tho poor of Brighton, " in such a way as he considers will be most beneficial to them." The Westminster Gazette of this date announces without reserve that the Marquis of Bute has been formally received into the Catholic Church by Monsignor Capel, at Nice.M The quantity of rain collected in Birmingham by Mr. Plant last month was 6-81 inches, or 700 tons of water per acre. This enormous depth of rain is equal to the usual supply in Birmingham for a quarter of a year, and is equiva lent to the atverage fall for four Decembers. A serious landslip has occurred at Dartmouth. Several tons of earth and rock have fallen at the Castle, filling up the cove and destroying the footpath leading to that romantic place. It is feared that a further slip will take plaice. The Memorial Diplomatique announces that King Victor Emmanuel has positively declared that ho should not permit a prince of his family to accept the Crown of Spain, even should it be formally offered to him. The veto of his Italian Mojosty is said also to extend to Prince do Carignan, as the latter is also a member of the House of Savoy. A curious case of homicidal monomania comes from Wolverhampton. A man named Thomas Morris, an artisan, was impelled by delirium tremens to murder his Wife, but, with just enough reason left to prevent the fearful crime, ho gave himself up at a police station on the charge of intend ing to murder. It is said that Mr. Kinnaird, M.P., has addressed a letter to an eminent Dissenting minister in the north of Ireland, expressing anxiety that steps should be taken to rcuse the Nonconformists against a probable attempt by tho party in power to appropriate the funds of the Irish Church to Romish secular education.—The Rock. The violent personal attack upon Mr. Gladstone recently made at Bridgnorth by Mr. Whitmore, ex-Lord of the Treasury, having been brought under the notice of the Premier, the latter has written expressing sorrow that Mr. Whitmore had been betrayed into usiug language which he will ig Steer moments regret. ,--TMteat,j,,AfirttATl t - 6 Cmnt HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 1. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. GALLANT AND l'Ek5E FERING RESCUE. The following letter has been addressed to the National Lifeboat Institution by a member of its Bideford branch, on the brave and determined services rendered by the crew of the lifeboat Hope, stationed at Appledore, North Devon, on the 28th ult., in saving eight of the crew of the Austrian barque Pace, of Fuime " BIDEFORD, Dec. 31, 1868. "At about one p.m. on the 28th ult., Joseph Cox, the coxswain of the Hope lifeboat stationed at Appledore, was informed by the Coastguard that two vessels were embayed, and would probably go • on shore. He instantly assembled his crew, got • horses, and dragged out the lifeboat on her car riage, ready for action. The vessel most in danger, an Austrian barque, was soon discovered ; and as she tried to work out of the bay the lifeboat and her crew kept directly under her lee, moving along with her. At length she grounded, away flew the lifeboat over the Pebble Ridee, and dashed into a terrific surf. The crew behaved most nobly ; the boat at times was as upright "as a ladder against a wall," and seas swept through her from stem to stern, but they stuck to it, reached the barque after anchoring ahead with the drogue, and managed to make fast to her. The crew were all assembled under shelter of the cuddy, and not one would give a stern rope to the boat or move from his position excepting one boy, who ran to the side and dropped into the boat all safe. More than five minutes elapsed without a soul stirring on board. At length eight of them made a rush toge ther for the lifeboat, jumped helter-skelter over the side, missed the boat, and fell into the water, but were all but one picked up. A tremendous sea now struck the boat, and drove her under the coun ter, where the rudder was carried away, and old Cox all but killed, as he was jammed up against the counter, but his lifebelt saved him, it being crushed to pieces, however, by the collision. In vain did the lifeboat crew appeal to the remainder of the men on board the barque to come to the boat, they would not stir ; so the lifeboat, seriously da maged, and with the loss of her rudder, was obliged to return to the shore, where she landed safely the crew (more dead than alive) with their exertions ; one of her crew is so seriously injured that it is feared he will not recover. Old Cox was much in jured, but he would not give in ; nearly all his late crew were too exhausted to go off again, and so he appealled to the bystanders to man the boat. In an instant she was more than manned, he and his son and one other of the old crew going in her, and, in deed, the boat was launched with one too many on board; young Cox steering with an oar in place of the rudder—the stern of the boat being much damaged. In this, state they had nearly again reached the ship when a wave broke over the bow, swept over the crew, and carried young Cox (who was standing up steering with the oar) right over the stern. The loss of the steering oar made the boat broach to, and the next wave found her broadside on, and rolled her over, throwing all the crew into the surf. As she righted the younger Cox managed to get into her again, and one by one the brave fellows all got on board, excepting old Cox. He had drifted some distance, and they had only three oars left; with these, however, they managed to turn the boat's head round, and at last the brave old cox swain was enabled to clutch the blade of an oar, when all but done for, and was got into the boat. In the meanwhile the remainder of the crew of the bark had climbed up to the mizen-top, and three were afterwards drowned from not being able to hold on in their exhausted state. The lifeboat again reached the shore, and was dragged up on the pebble ridge. Perhaps some will say that this is sufficient to disprove all charges of want of pluck ; but there is still more to come. Old Cox, more dead than alive, called out for another crew, and another crew were at his command in a moment ; but -a difficulty now arose. The oars (save these three) were all lost. Instantly a lot of horsemen galloped off, with Mr. Yew at their head, for spare oars, and in due time each horseman returned bear ing an oar. And now preparations were made to launch the boat, but it was discovered that the tide had turned, and had already dropped two feet, the danger was rapidly passing away, and, moreover, the third crew was not entirely composed of sailors. Those on the spot (including Mr Yew) most wisely interfered, and would not allow old Cox to launch. Their wisdom was soon proved by the survivors • from the wreck walking on shore. But I must further add, that long before this happy finale had taken place, the crew of the Raunton lifeboat, which also belongs to the Lifeboat Society, not having been able, after a most determined - and gallant at tempt, to get their boat to the wreck, had come overland, and were clamorous to launch the Appledore lifeboat, so that there were four distinct crews of volunteers, two of which went off, and the third and fourth were forcibly and wisely stopped. It appears that the Austrian captain would not al low his crew to go to the lifeboat when she got alongside, until at last in utter terror they disobeyed him in a mass and rushed to the boat. Excuse this hurried scrawl ; 1 am writing to save pest. I dis tinctly assert I have never known a more brave affair with lifeboats than in this instance. " The local committee further report that they consider a more gallant service has never been seen on the North Devon coast, or one attended with greater danger to those engaged in it ; that the launching and the landing again of the lifeboat over the large stones of the pebble beach was a work of much risk to all who assisted, and in doing which , several persons narrowly escaped serious injury. "Surely England may well be proud o f her coast boatmen, when such proofs from time to time are afforded of their indomitable courage and sclf devotion in the sacred cause of saving human life." Miss Bateman, at the termination of her brilliant engagement at theHaymarket Theatre, presented M r . Jolt her agent, with a central fire gun of most exquisite finish , executed to order by those eminent makers Messrs. Lang and Sons, 22, Cockspur-street. There can be no doubt nf the shooting powers of the gun equal the style and wor/c -manship it will prove a most efficient weapon in the field. The stock has an inlaid plate of gold, with the following inscription :—" Presented to John Joy as a slight token of esteem and regard, and in grateful recognition of bib kindness during the past five years. From his sincer e friend, K. J. Bateman (Crowe). Christmas, 1868." ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY'S ALMANAC, 186 9 ; —lt again becom es our d uty to bring before the notice c " the public the annual brochure of the Royal Insuran ce Company. Apart from the ordinary almanac informati° ° the elegantly decorated pages of this little annual 8 11° ' / much artistic ability. The title page exhibits a delicaci of taste, and chasteness of design, rarely equalled, and th e twelve coloured representations of the company's builk ings, in various parts of the world, are beautifully el e cuted. We have pleasure. in commending thi s p u blic 3 i tion to our readers, and we are satisfied that the perusal 00 its pages, more especially that porti on w hi c h treats of tli principles of life insuranze, will prov e very interesting to them. Those who have n o t we ll considered the weiglit,J, subject of life assura nce , wou ld do well to procure tillo almanac, which may be had by application at the c ° ': 1 1 ; pany's offices, and s h ou ld th ey have made up their mill to insure (but we are doubtful as to which office WI should adopt) we have hero a company with an ann u : income of £BOO,OOO , an d a capital of two millions, wil°e - stability is beyond dispute. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the larg 0 holders of Whisky i n th e wor l d. Their Old Irish Whisky ftt commended by the medi ca l profession in preference to Free" Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exp ort tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville acKI Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-bvildings, Strand, London vertisictuout.] CO ITT terch inclu meta in lit they Th cc E meat the L specti Vene: that t for t. arran t With the G tlemei for its —I an ThE tional meetir the 27 the 81 being annual such pi in tile meat c The holderl held at the 14 and a ( a per 0 Ditto S per 0( Now 3 Now Ei De. a Do. fo Do (E Exchoqi De. Bank of Do. nc Can a d a litter -Co !Nu India Do. 0 1 Do. 5 j Do. 4 I Do. Oe Do. Ex Do. 5 I Do. 5f D 3 51 DE Dc IL. Di Do, Bo Do. tuTI Argentin, Do, Sc Au Arian Brazilian On. 41 Do. Do. Do. 5 p Do Ace B .epos A Do 2 p e Cuha, 6 p( o...dian 6 DQ. no. 4i r $ pc De. ts D 9. 7 pe Ne' of I mit mat a re thei dire helc r i i ( f il v L uc i e t j tion Mat ling on t inch COM] anni cent. ried Tt cioul