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THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF lICHARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar 1 (1r. Danvers; Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con tlude with EVERYBODY'S HUSBAND. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton' Tins EvENINa, SOCIETY: 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. TIRE EVENING, The Great Cane Troupe and magnificent Stud of rk Horses: also Alfred Bradbury, 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 ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET,, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-Park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mendays, Cal.; Children under twelve, 6tl. ip * i #46 1. >lint LONDON, SAT UDAY, JANUARY 9, 1869. NAPOLEON'S saying at St. Helena that fifty years would not elapse without leaving Europe either Cos sock or Republican, has had, since the utterance of the words, every now and then a whimsical illustra tion. Of these illustrations, Spain is just now afford ing the latest, and certainly not by any means the least remarkable. The haughtiest and most monar chical of nations during a long series of centuries, it has now discarded, almost contemptuously, the last of its Bourbon Sovereigns, and appears to be educating itself, with a sort of complacent deliberation, in the dogmas of Dtmocracy. When ISABELLA II withdrew across the frontiers, there was a talk of a Republic being formed as the result of her dethrone ment. The only obstacle to its being so formed was the fact of there being no Republicans anywhere discoverable throughout the Peninsula. 'lime has since then been running on—days, weeks, months have elapsed, and already a tolerably respect able number of advocates of Republicanism has " cropped up" in various directions among the six teen or seventeen millions of the Spanish population. PRlM — SERRANO—ESPARTERO—anysufficietitly popu lar political and military:chieftain, might, with no small hope of success, aspire to assume authority permanently as ruler of the nation in the capacity of President of a new and Republican form of Go vernment. The Spanish nation, since the Queen was got rid of, has, it is true, been coquetting now with one dynasty now with another, to the end that it might, if posssble, find amongst the younger members of one of the reigning Royal houses in Christendom a suitable suceessor to the throne vacated by the QUEEN'S expa triation. All this would really, appear to belittlebetter, however, than the merest make-believe. It has served the purpose of filling up time, and has so far been of use that it has afforded the country at large leisure for a calm and deliberate reconsideration of the whole political position before its final selection shall have been made as to the new form to be allotted to its Government upon its final reconstruction. As yet the Government, such as it is, is simply provisional. PRIM and SERRANO, for the time being, are masters of the situation. But they are so simply until such period has come to the interregnum as shall admit of the nation declaring for itself what its definitive choice is as to its future form of Government. The Prince of the ASTURIAS—the ex-King-Consort of PORTUGAL— 'he Duke of EDINDIHIGII—Prince NAPOLEON—the Duc DE MONTPENSIER—the Duke D'Aosra—these, and others, have all been mentioned, and have had their claims more or less forcibly and seri ously discussed and deliberated upon, as candidates for the crown dropped in the dust the other day at Madrid by Queen ISABELLA—scared at the tidings that her hour had come, and that Gen. PRIM, among others, was advancing at the head of a large body of insurgents. One after another these candidates have been set aside as unsuited for the emergency, or at any rate as distasteful to the mass of the very people it was being proposed that they should be THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1'69 called upon to rule. Monarchical predilections are on the decline among the Spaniards—Republican ideas are in the ascendant. It is clear enough, at the same time, that the establishment of a Republic, pure and simple, so close at hand, would be eminently repugnant to the feelings of the Emperor NAPOLEON. A NAPO LEON, will think seriously, however, we may be quite certain of that, before interfering in any way directly with the dynastic arrangements or the national wishes of the Spanish people. The solution to the problem which has now to be worked out must be arrived at by that people themselves. It will be so arrived at in due course of time, we may rest as sured—now—in this age, which is expressly the age of non-intervention. TO-DAY the first meeting of the Conference on the Eastern Question takes place at Paris. All the Powers who were party to the Treaty of 1856 will be represented by their Paris Ambassadors, under the presidency of the French Foreign Minister. An envoy from Greece will be admitted, but will not be allowed to vote, nor, according to the latest accounts, to make any proposition. His part in the deliberations will be confined to debate—to the defence of his Government and the advocacy of its interests. Thus, with a pretty clear understanding that no very decisive agreement will be arrived at, the representatives of the Powers have at last been brought together. After infinite difficulty they have agreed to meet on the foregone conclusion that nothing very serious be attempted. Each State has entered upon this negotiation more or less as an interested party, each desirous of avoiding certain contingencies, and none wholly devoid of sympathy for one of the two disputants. The preliminaries have therefore been so surrounded by safeguards, that the Conference, at the utmost, can only avert immediate war ; it can neither settle the difficulty which has become so threatening, nor avert the danger of an appeal to arms. Such a per manently pacific issue could have been secured only by enlarging the province of the Conference, so as to open questions which none of the parties was willing to dis cuss. The root of the present quarrel could be reached only by involving all those conflicting interests which make up the Eastern Question. The rupture between Turkey and Greece has been brought about by an attempt on the part of the latter to extend its domi nions at the expense of the former, and it is only by a definite arrangement of the boundaries of two States that the Powers can finally avoid a con flict. The destinies of Crete must be disposed of, and the territory on the mainland finally appor tioned. The insurrection in Crete, which has been so long fostered by Greek aid, is but the first of a series of attacks upon the integrity of the Porte. Greece wishes to expand into an Hellenic Empire, and unfortunately some of the larger European States are interested in repressing, others in encou raging this ambition. An attempt to settle such a question, which is, besides, but one phase of the Eastern difficulties, would have turned the Con ference into an abortive debate between hostile Powers. Hence the deliberations are to be restricted to the immediate cause of the present rupture, The latest acts of Greece, not the principles involved, are to be brought before the European tribunal. It will consider whether Greece ought to disperse the bands of volun teers now organised for the further invasion of Crete, whether the blockade-runners should be disarmed, or at least forbidden to enter a Greek port, and whether the unhappy Cretans who have emigrated to Greece should be allowed to return in peace. The more important points at issue between Turkey and her troublesome neighbour will be wholly left out of the discussion. So careful have been the Powers of avoiding anything likely to give trouble, that they have refused to consider whether Greece ought to give a pledge not to violate international law for the future. Such is the mission of the Conference, which, according to Prince NAPOLEON, is sure to be successful, because it will be so useless. From the nature of the preliminaries, it is clear that the meet - nig is but a makeshift. It is true that a discussion on the Eastern Question in general would have involved all Europe in angry dispute, if not in war ; but it is not less true that the meeting which is arranged can have no lasting result. It is to decide what has already been decided. The points submitted merely amount to a consideration whether Greece for the present shall be forbidden a threatened breach of interna tional law; the future is left wholly open. Public opinion has already pronounced on the present policy of Greece, and the ambassadors who meet to-day will only officially register a foregone conclusion. There can be no doubt that neither of the two parties believes in the efficacy of this arbitration. Both have given unequivocal signs of a desire to settle the dispute by the sword, and each evidently concludes that the present is the best time for action—Turkey because delay may cause the interference of Russia, Greece because the risk in case of failure is nil, whilst the chances of a long and desultory war are considerable. It is not a reassuring sign that throughout these negotiations Turkey has been by far the most intractable party. Its consent has been gained at the last moment after an obstinate re jection of various unpalatable proposals. The Porte is now seeking to negotiate a large loan on almost any terms, and is rapidly mobilising her troops. Greece, on her part, is not inactive. It is by no means certain that the Conference will be successful in preventing the collision. It is quite certain that its greatest success will be to temporarily avert it. But it is satis factory to find that the general disposition of the Powers is against war. Should the reconciliation be impossible, the conflict will not be more than a duel between Turkey and Greece. AMONG the social questions which have been dis cussed during the present off season co-operation has come up. It might have been thought that such a history as that which we describe in another column, the history of the realisation of what was sarcastically called " the weavers' dream," would have effectually settled the question as to whether co-operative societies can be made successful commercially. Yet this is by no means universally admitted. Mr. DIXON, one of the members for Birmingham, mentions that where one society has succeeded ten have failed. The cause of the failures which he assigns shews that there is no necessity for them. That cause is simply the want of proper management. Men have formed an association to supply themselves with certain articles, but having no knowledge as to the best means of purchasing these articles, have bungled, and the result is that the members of the association are worse off than they would have been if they had still continued to pay the grocer the high prices he demanded. Yet the difficulty was susceptible of an easy remedy. It was necessary only to obtain the services of some competent man as a manager, and all would have gone well. It may be argued that in that case the co-operators might just as well have kept to the grocer, since he was nothing more than a com petent manager, doing for them the very work which they wanted done. But this is not so. The grocer who has a large shop expects something more than the remuneration which would be given to a manager. Not only would he need a higher payment for his time, but he would expect a profit son his capital, and it is just this which, under the co-•operative system, goes into the pockets of the purthaser instead of into that of the seller. Another objection to co-operrition hp g more force. It is urged that co-operation selects the safest articles, destroys all profit on them, and so makes it impossible for a retail dealer to live; except by the sale of articles for which there is no t an established demand. This objection applies pal 'titularly to the drapery business. Here we find thaw` certain goods are indispensable, and a sure profit is n;ade on them ; but a large number of articles involve such great risk, that were it not for the first the draper could not venture to invest in the second. Moreover, co-operation avows that one of its objects is to abolish competition. But competition stimulates invention, and if the first is de stroyed the second will follow. Yet it is upon invention that the wages of a large number of our working class depend. Therefore the inference is, by encouraging co-operation working men are really doing a suicidal act, for they are stopping the wages fund at its source. This seems logical enough as a piece of reasoning, but then we believe that the premise is wrong. We disbelieve the statement that the " risky " articles cannot be sold except in con junction with those on which there is a certain profit. In all large towns there are shops in which only what we may term fancy goods are sold—muslins, silks, lace, and the like—shops in which it would be im possible to purchase long-cloths and sheetings. One chief result of co-operation can be obtained without co-operative stores. The present system of shopkeeping is essentially objectionable because the shopkeeper makes the honest purchasers pay for the dishonest. He reckons that he will have so many pounds of bad debts during the year, and, in order that he may get a fair return for his capital, he claps the amount due from the defaulters upon the bills of those who pay, not of course directly, but indirectly in the shape of high charges. This is manifestly unfair and unsound. In the first place, credit is essentially bad, and should be restricted as much as possible. In the next place, so long as the honest have to pay for the dishonest, the trader will be careless in looking after the latter class. Thirdly, a trader who gets his money imme diately can afford to charge less than when he has ' to wait for it. There is therefore no reason why there should be a feud between shopkeepers and co-operation. If they will, as is now so largely done in London, agree to allow substantial discount to all members of a co-operative society dealing with them (of course on the inexorable condition of cash payments), both parties will gain—the seller by getting more purchasers, the buyer by getting his , fair discount in addition to the better attendance which is offered to him at the shop than at the store, where he has often to make a sacrifice of time that fully counterbalances the gain in money. LATEST INTELL EGENCE. (REITTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, Jan. 9. Further disturbances took place yesterday in the provinces of Ferrara and Bologna. to the spirit of the world. By the latter class the characters of holy men are systematically blackened. Christ prepared His followers for this. "Shall the disciple,' he said, 'be greater than His Master.' If he be called Beelzebub, shall ye not be also ?' Gregory VII., Boniface VIII., St. Thomas of Canterbury, are all instances of this. Worldly historians portray them as violent, ava ricious, or overbearing. Those of the Church re present them as, what in truth they were, inde pendent and fearless servants of God. St. Thomas is held up to odium as arrogant and seditious, as resisting the lawful authority of the king, and a traitor to his country. The truth, as recorded by the Catholic historian, is that he did his duty to God and the Church as a simple servant of Christ." The right rev. prelate then proceeded at some length to argue that the'strength of the (Catholic) Church lies in her Sacraments, and not in any human agency. After which he proceeded to say— " No better example of the withering influence of undue exercise of human authority in ecclesiastical matters can be given than the present state of Constantinople, as contrasted with Rome. The first Christian Emperor, as the ancient writers assert, by the special inspiration of God, and, moved by a sense of Christian fitness, which prevented his exercising supreme authority in the same city as the Vicar of Christ, withdrew his Court and Go vernment to the shores of the Bosphorus, and raised Byzantium, then an insignificant marine village, to the dignity of the imperial capital. Rome, abandoned by her rulers, became the prey of the barbarian hordes, but still held fast by the faith. Constantinople became the seat of empire, and little by little the Imperial power paralysed the action of the Church. The Empire put itself into contention with the Holy See, and the Patriarchate of Constantinople fell under its influence—fell, first into heresy, then se,hism, and, lastly, into the worst of Erastian bondage ; its synods and its office reduced to slavery, as we see to-day in the Greek Church, than which no more terrible in stance of internal corruption exists. Let us turn to Rome for the contrast. Rome, having ceased to be the Church of the martyrs, continued to be the Church of the confessors. She was troubled by the rulers of the world, by feuds of rebellious nobles, and by the divisions of the anti-Popes. She was driven into exile, but she fought and won the battle of her liberties, for faith gives freedom, ' and the freedom of the Church is the best safeguard of the purity of faith. Another I example, my brethren—and a sadder one—exists, and nearer home. It is one I scarcely like to allude to on a day of joy and peace and festival such as this, lest I should sadden the hearts of my hearers. It is the contrast of England and Ire land. England, in her imperial might, gifted with all the powers which earth can give, but separated for three hundred years from the centre of unity, presents, as regards her religious aspect, a spectacle so profoundly sad, I will not dwell on it. Who can calmly look at the state of religion among our se parated brethren, endowed as so many of them are with the noblest gifts of heart and mind, but de prived of the truth and unity of Christ ? Not by their own fault. Three hundred years have passed since the dLed was done. It was not theirs to create or choose their position, and they know not what they do.' But what is the state of the Anglican Church ? Trammelled by statutes, fettered in its doctrinal decisions, internal coherence does not and cannot exist for it. All is confusion and internal contention. Ireland, on the other hand—poor, per secuted, and proscribed ; her sanctuaries deso late, her priests offering the Adorable Sacrifice in the hill-side chapel open to the winds of heaven, where the mud pravement is the only flour on which the worshippers may kneel—through all her poverty, her desolation, her proscription, has held fast to the faith pure and inviolate she derived from Rome—the cause for which St. Thomas died. When our own forefathers first received the faith the Saxon Church was free. With the childlike simplicity which distinguished their race they fell t at the feet of the messengers of the Gospel and adored Christ and the Holy Trinity, and framed their laws in exact conformity with the spirit and letter of the canons of the Church, to which they submittted heart and soul. St. Thomas was well versed in the laws of England. Bred up in their study and traditions, none knew better than he what were the limits of the kingly power in matters appertaining to the Church. When the Norman Conquest brought a new dynasty to reign over England, the ancient laws remained still in vigour, and the Norman kings, when they wished to infringe them, only pleaded ' Norman customs,' not law, as the excuse for their excesses. Henry 11. himself never ventured to appeal to the laws, but to the Norman usages, thereby con fessing the injustice of the claims he was attempt ing to enforce., and by which he forbade the Church to excommunicate without his consent, to elect her own bishops, or to appeal to Rome. The Crown claimed, too, the control of Church property and patronage, so that at one time the king held in his hands four bishoprics, and nine abbeys, and many other benefices and canonries, keeping them vacant, to the spiritual destitution of the people. Then came the great and terrible change by which henry VIII. swept away the laws and liberties of the Church, and with them those of the people ; but the cause of St. Thomas lives on. Then it was a far-off frontier of the Church, now it is the heart of Christendom itself. Then it was the liberty of a single see that was menaced, now it is the inde pendence of the Sovereign Pontiff himself—the supremacy of the Holy See and its freedom, or or what we aow call the temporal power. Let us profit, my brethren, by the lesson which is taught us by the life and death of St. Thomas—in the first place, that of fidelity or loyalty to the letter and spirit of the Church. Let us learn from him that spirit of generosity which scorns subterfuge, .or barter, or compromise, and without which we are cowards. Let us learn from him the spirit of fearlessness — that spirit of Christian courage which casts out the fear of the world and the desire of favour, which cannot be bought, bribed, or intimidated.' Having urged upon his hearers the important duty I laid upon them of restori ng th e "d eso l a t e sanctuary' I of St. Thomas at Rome, the Archbishop concluded as follows The present time is one of great auxiet. Great as was the triumph the Church achieved last year, everything indicates that the struggle is only suspended. The enemy was, in deed beaten back from the very gates of Rome, but clouds are again ga th er i ng b e neath the horizon, and the tempest may break again upon the Holy City at no distant period. Let us, then, prepare for the conflict ; let us be confident of victory, and let us putin practice the lessons which St. Thomas's example has taught us—the lessons of loyalty, of fearlessness, and reliance on God, and on the prayers which he offers before Christ crucified for the Church and the Vicar of Christ, and , for the land, and for th e people he loved so well. THE EXCELSIOR MUSICAL SOCIETY.--The mem bers of this excellent society assembled last evening at the George Hotel, Aldermanbury—the president, Mr. J. Gil lard, Occupying the chair. The programme contained one or two novelties, the chief and meet praiseworthy being a new ballad by the veteran Horncastle, the pianist to the society, entitled, " The Bridal Morn of May." It was entrusted to Mr. Henry Gillard, who sang it with so much taste and expression that ho not only succeeded in eliciting loud applause for himself, but a general con gratulation for the composer, who accompanied him. Mr. Haynes was not quite equal to Arditi's "Stirrup Cup ;" neither did Mr. Johnson quite do justice to Wallaeo's "Bell Ringer," and had each gentleman been less ambiti ous a better result would have been obtained. Mr. Whit field gave a very sweet old song by Arne, and Mr. Pratt sang " Her bright smile haunts me still" very nicely, but he would have improved it very much had ho infused a little more warmth and feeling into it. Mr. Cantle gave Dr. Leslie's song, "Four Jolly Smiths," in such capital style that it became one of the features of the evening . . There were, of course, some recitations, but, with the single exception of "The Charge of the Light Brigade," they were dull and pointless. Mr. C. Lynes attempted some thing about " Poor Pheaton," but as far as c.mld be beard it was poor, weak, and ridiculous twaddle. If variety in the entertainment is required in the programme, why not organise an instrumental quartette party ; that would be far preferable to bad writing and worAo reading, and a step in an onward direction. However, improvement is developing itself slowly but surely amongst the members, and when vulgarity and absurdity have found their level, as in the natural order of things, they both must, the Excelsior, thanks to the persevering efforts of the com mittee and Mr. Hatch, their active secretary, will be one of the bast musical societies in London. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, FRIDAY, January 8. Mdlle. Marie de Gentelles has won the favour of the Pope by a book, in which the luxury of the present gene ration of women and the practice of spending extrava gant sums in adorning the person are denounced in strong terms. His Holiness does not believe in too much educa tion for women, but he decidedly disapproves of the ex treme recklessness in expense which seems generally to be the result of ignorance. He has written a letter to Mdlle. de Gentelles, highly applauding her work, and bestowing upon her his paternal blessing. Some eighty sat down to a grand dinner at the Tuileries last evening. The company was composed chiefly of Ministers, Ambassadors, and Generals. The Marquis de Moustier remains, I am sorry to say, in a most alarming state. The last account says that he passed a quiet night, but it is not able to affirm that he is any better. Prince Napoleon also is still very ill. Of another invalid I can give an exceptionally gooa report. The long-suffering Duke of Brabant is decidedly better, so much so as to greatly strengthen the hope which has been entertained for some time of a permanent cure. The Memorial Diplontatique confirms my intelligence on this point. It says that the hopes of the doctors are founded principally on the circumstance that the young patient has passed through the most critical period of the disease. " The doctors had feared the effects of the winter, which would have obliged the Prince to remain shut up in heated rooms, without being able to breathe the pure external air, and that thus the oppression under which he labours would be intensified ; but the mildness of the present season, which permits the frequent ventilation of his apartment, has dissipated that dread, and the nearer we approach the spring the more progress the amelioration promises to make." The same paper, I may add, comes out with one of those extensive budgets of news which every now and then astonishes the world. It says that the Cabinet of Florence sounded the French Government respecting the occupation of Rome, the accession to power of the Marquis de Lavalette being thought a convenient opportunity for so doing. The Chevalier Nigro, is said to have replied that the Imperial Government felt itself at present, as previously, bound by the formal engagements taken by the Minister of State to the Chamber on the sth December, 1867, and which acquired a double importance from the vote of the Legislative Body ratifying them. The Memorial Diplontatique, however, asserts that the question will again be brought before the Corps L6gislatif—though what good that will do I cannot divine. The Corps Ljgislatif, on a matter of polity of this kind, will only register the decision of the EmNror, whatever it may be. Further, the übiquitous journal casts a doubt on the prospects of a marriage between the King of Bavaria and the Czar's daughter. It says the negotiations are at present suspended because the orthodox party is opposed to the Princess embracing the Catholic religion. It is hardly necessary to remind your readers that the announcement of the Princess's in tention to change her religion has already been made, and has not been contradicted. Finally, the Memorial Diplomattque goes at length into the arrangements for the Conference which is to meet here to-morrow. It says that all frivolous and irritating discussion will be eliminated from the debates, and whilst the diplomatists will strictly confine themselves to the programme based on the demands of the Porte, they will try to exhaust it in one sitting, at the end of which a committee will be appointed to draw up a protocol destined to give satisfaction to Turkey. At the second sitting the representatives will be invited to sign this document, which will lay down V - e line of conduct to which Greece must conform. " Therefore, the fifth point of the ultimatum, which Greece rejects as too vague and without practical signification, will be replaced by a bi lateral engagement under the control of the protecting States, and one of the principal difficulties that could impede the progress of the deliberation, will be speedily smoothed down." This is an important bulletin of intel ligence, truly. One can hardly refrai❑ from the query, where did the Memorial Diplomatique get it all from? On the eve of New Year's Day the number of letters passing through the Paris post office was ten times t' average quantity. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAL AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 9. The Press of this morning denies that the Porte has withdrawn the fifth point of her ultimatum sent to Greece, and states that Djemil Pasha has on the contrary been instructed to insist on the whole ultimatum. The Tagblatt states that large purchases of arms have been made in Austria by the Roumanian Go vernment. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 8. The Imparcial of to-day states that at a banquet held at Seville, at which all the civil authorities were present, it was resolved to send a telegram to General Espartero expressing the desire that, what ever form of government may be established by the Cortes, he himself should be proclaimed head of the State. A fall has taken place in the Internal Stock, which is attributed by the Correspondencia to the rumour of quantities of arms having been sent by the Carlists into the northern provinces. The same paper stigmatises these rumours as the manoeuvres of speculators. OUTP,TARD BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Jan. 8. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Bangalore, from Southampton 2d instant, ar rived here to-day at 9 a.m., and leaves at noon for Alexandria. Experienced bad weather. All well. BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, Jan. 9. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Columbian, from Bombay 26th December, arrived at 5.30 p.m. yesterday. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Jan. 8. According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the week's receipts of cotton at American ports amount to 76,000 bales ; since the Ist of September, 1,140,000 bales. Shipments to England, 30,000 ; to France, 10,000 ; and the Continent 8,000. The total exports to date since September are 580,000. Stock, 300,000. Middling Upland, 11d. cost and freight per steamer. Market excited. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 9. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Australasian, from New York, arrived here at 9 a.m. to-day. She landed 112 sacks of mails, passengers, &c., and proceeded immediately for Liverpool. All well. ARCIIBISHOP MANNING ON THE CATHOLIC C.HUI?CII. The Rev. Dr. Manning, Roman Catholic Arch bishop of Westminster, who is at present in Rome, preached on St. Thomas of Canterbury's Day at the English College. The correspondent of the Weekly Register, in his letter this week, gives a report of the sermon, from which we make some extracts : Vespers having been sung his Grace mounted the steps of the altar, and thence addressed the congre gation, taking for his text lat Galatians iv. 26, " But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is our mother." The Archbishop said,--" Two things, my breth ren, never die—the loveliness of nature and the Church of God. Go by the road that winds along the shore of Thrasymene, and you trace alone in the pages of history the outlines of the mor tal agony of the Roman legions, snared in that fatal pass, and dying in thousands in the deadly conflict. Go there now, and where the battle raged you see nought save corn, and wines, and olives; where the legions fought and fell the viuedresser prunes his stock and the peasant drives his oxen, and only the sunshine of heaven is re flected in the silver lake. Not a stain or rift re mains on the earth to tell the tale of blood and strife and mortal anguish. The undying fructivity of the earth has swept away every trace of the past. So, of the combats the Church has waged ; no stain, no mark remains save piety towards her com batants and defenders. The cause for which St. Thomas fought, and the principle for which he shed his blood, are fresh and undying. He died fur the liberty of the Church of God, for her pre rogatives, and the heart of the Church retains a vivid remembrance of her faithful soldier. To-day, my brethren, we are met to honour his feast. Becket's crown is desolate. There is no festival chant in Can terbury, and it i 3 sad to think that in the place of Lis martyrdom no memory is made of it. But here afar, in Rome—Rome which he so loved, and for which he died—amid the glories of the Holy City, and under the guardianship of the Vicar of Jesus Christ, we are met to celebrate his memory. The theme is so wide and so varied a one that I dis spair of treating it save in bare outline. Two lines • of historians record the actions of men—the histo rian who writes iji the spirit of the Church, and he whose hired pen deals with human acts according METEOROLOGICAL RETORTS. Extreme Sea Saturday, F. f 0 Jan. 9, B. T. W. 1 to' F. D. W R. to 8 a.m. 12 9 Nairn Aberdeen Leith Shields ..._ 3012r. 45 44 W.N.W. 2 2 W. 0.1. — 2 Scarborough 30'43r. 45 45 W. 2 3 W. c.f. 2 Yarmouth 3o's2r. 44 44 W.S.W. 2 3 W. c.m 2 Fielder Cuxhaven _ _ _ Sku desnres _ Ardrossan Greencastle 30'Kr. 49 47 W. 1 3 S.W. c.o.' o'ol Ilolyhead Liverpool Valentin 3B'3sf. 49 j4B S. 4 5 S. W. o'o4 3 Cape Clear 3036r. 49 i4B S.S.E. 2 3 S.W. c.m'o'o3l 2 Roche s Pt. 30'38r. 48 1 48 S. 3 3 IV.S.W, mic 3 Fenzel) cc Plymouth Weymouth , 30•56 r. 52 50 E.S.E. 1 1 S.W. f 0.'0'05 2 Portsmouth 30'55r. 49 48 S.W. 1 2 W, m. o ; o'o2 1 London I 30•53 r. 48 47 IV.S.W. 1 3 W. brae. C'peGrisN ez. 30'53r. 48 48 S.W. 4 5 N.N.W. m. ,o'o4 2 Brest L'Orie nt 3o'46f. 48 46 E. 4 3 W. 0. 1 Roch efort 30'44f. 45 43 E. 3 1 S.E. b. 1 Biarritz Corunna — Brussels — Paris Strasbourg — Toulon 30'47r. 45 E.N.E. 4 4 E.S.E. f.b. 3 Heart's Con tent (9 a.m, local time) MXPLANATION' Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The EXPLANATION' 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 ; m.—misty, hazy ; o.—overcast, dull ; r.— rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. Since yesterday an increase in barometrical pressure has occurred in these islands; it amounts to more than two tenths of an inch in the north, whilst it is only O'Olin. at Penzance. On the W. coast of France readings are about a tenth lower. Pressures are more uni form to-day : the largest is between Nairn and Weymouth, amount ing to o'3in. Temperature has remained nearly steady, but is slightly lower in the south. The prevailing winds yesterday were moderate from W. to S.W. This morning they have backed on our S. coasts, and are south-westerly. On the W. coast of France the wind is fresh from the E. Fog and mist continued yesterday on our S. and E. coasts, and are still reported at places. The sky is clear in the N. of Scotland, but on the other coasts it is generally overcast. A. very little rain has fallen at our southern stations. SOLDIERS GOING ON A JOURNEY. A correspondent sends to us a description of a scene at Euston Station, the metropolitan terminus of the London and North - Western Railway, which he says should make every lover of his country " blush from head to foot." A detachment of soldiers who had served in India, and were on their way to their headquarters in Manchester, were brought into the station to be forwarded by that train ; but the process of getting them safely seated and sent off was almost more than a match for the patience and energy of the officers in command. Nearly every second man was under the influence of drink ; and as every soldier in such a predicament was sunk in the sot, the exhibition was painful in the extreme. Caps were mis. s'ng, coats were torn, and every sign of military smartness and discipline was ' conspicuous by its absence.' Some of the more boisterously inclined, when locked in the carriages, climbed out at the windows ; one man had to be bound hand and foot and thrust under a seat, and another man attempted suicide while in the train. Yet (our correspondent continues) these men bad spent years in India; many had undergone great hardships and perils ; and all were on their way to get more money, which would be wasted in similar excesses. " Surely," exclaims our informant, " these gallant but weak-minded fellows could have been kept, during their transit through London, from thus degrading themselves and the service they represent ; and surely the new Secretary of War has a splendid field of reform open to him in devising, if he can, some plan by which the British soldier c be protected against his most seductive but bitterest enemy —intoxicating drink." The Tipperary magistrates are holding private in vestigations respecting Mr. Baker's murder. A farmer named Keatinge has been arrested. At the Northallerton Sessions the girl Scales, who poisoned the family with whom she lived as servant, at Pickering, was put upon her trial. She is only 13 yoars of age, and it v. - as evident—though the fact may afford little satisfaction to the sufferers—that she mixed the poison with the sugar rot with a felen'ons intent, but merely to punish two members of the family who had annoyed her. This was the view the jury took of the case, and she was therefore merely sentenced to one day's imprisonment, and then to be ent home to her mother. Mr. Birley is at present the " minority" member for Manchester. Mr. Ernest Jones was the candidate in the Liberal interests defeated. Mr. Birley's elect:on is z,upposed to be void, inasmuch as lie belongs to a firm which is execut• ing Government contracts. Mr. Milner Gibson is proposed ls the Liberal candidate in case Mr. Birley goes to the wall. Int Mr. Jones thinks ho has a prior claim. From some nvouncements made in the local papers yesterday, it ap ::rs that they are going to have a ballot before the eloctior • cc who is best liked amongst the Liberals of the con• Nem, — _ t g 11 - 11 y 11 1 1 11 (,}1 r -- , • HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 8. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty walked and drove in the grounds this morning, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. The Archbishop of Canterbury 'and Mrs. Tait, the Right Hon. henry Bruce, and the Dean of Westminster, left Osborne yesterday. A NE TV ENTERTAINER. On Monday next Mr. P. Phillips, a son of the late talented reviewer and contributor to the 7 imes, will make his first appearance at the Victoria Hall, Bayswater, as a public reader and entertainer. Mr. Phillips has been very successful both in Australia and America, but, like those who have gone before him, he is anxious to take the opinion of a London audience upon his merits. His programme is well selected, it contains some of the choicest composi tions in the English language, and from what we have heard of the ability of the new reader, a most enjoyable evening may be fully anticipated. THE IVRECK OF THE HIBERNIA. THIRTY-NINE OTHER PASSENGERS SAVED. (CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAM.) The brig Hannibal, just arrived in the Mersey, reports having spoken, on Christmas-day, the barque Ocean Spray, for New York, which signalled that she had on board thirty-nine passengers and crew of the ill-fated Hibernia. She would pro bably run to Madeira to land them. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. INGENIOUS FRAUD ON PAWNRRoKERS.—Thomas Little, a gilder, of No. 1, Upper Rathbone-place, and Charles Redgrave, of No. 9, Porter-street, Soho, chaser, were brought before Mr. Knox, on a warrant, charged with obtaining two sums of 455. each by false pretences from Wm. Morgan, as sistant to Mr. Thomas A. Robinson, pawnbroker, of No. 1, Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square. Several pawnbrokers were in attendance. Mr. Albert Neate, solicitor to the Pawnbroker's Protection Society, said he appeared on the part of the Pawnbroker's Protection Society to prosecute the prisoners on the charge of obtaining money by false pretences, having been carrying on one of the most ingenious systems, if robbery he might call it, but at all events of fraud, that had been brought forward for some time. The prisoners had possessed themselves of a number of tankards —mere white metal—and had inserted the Hall mark taken from some genuine article on the rim of the base metal article, and then pledged them at different pawnbrokers. lie should go into one case that day, and then ask for a remand. Mr. Morgan, assistant to Mr. Thos. A. Robin son, pawnbroker, No. 1, Mortimer-street, said that ou the 28th November Redgrave came to his em ployer's shop and offered in pledge the tan kard produced, and asked 455. on it. He re marked to Redgrave that it was not silver, and Redgrave then pointed to the Hall mark, say ing, " Oh yes, it is," and that it weighed Boz.---- 455. would be ss. 6d. per oz. He advanced the money, but had since accertained that it was base metal, the Hall mark, which had been let in, being the only part of it which was silver. On the 4th December Little came to the shop with another tankard, produced, and asked him to lend 455. on it. He asked him whether it was silver, and he said it was. Not seeing the Hall mark at first, Little pointed it out to him, and said it weighed 90z I and he then lent 455. on it. He told Little he had taken one of the tankards in before, and he said, " Oh, yes ; it's all right, it was my partner Redgrave," and went on to sly that his name was Little ; and, in reply to a question, said it cost Bs. 6d. an ounce to make the tankards. lie had since found that that tankard was also of spurious metal. lie went with the police to the prisoners workshop in Great Titchfield-street, and had then taken into custody. Police-constable George, 91 C, proved taking Little into custody, when he said he was surprised, but expected it. He found a card on him, as fol lows :—" T. Little and Co., French and English mercurial gliders, electro-gilders, and platers, &e., 13, Great Titchfield-street. Silver work whitened and burnished." Police-constable Beetlestone, 88 G-, said that oil taking Redgrave into custody he said it was n° more than he expected, and that the mugs w ere given to him by a man who came from Birmingham• Mr. Neate said that was all the evidence he in• tended to produce that day, and Mr. Knox re" manded the prisoners. There is every reason to believe that the Bystena pursued by the prisoners has been going on to 3 very large extent. Several box articles, including a handsome claret jug, were produced by pawn' brokers to-day, and it was stated that about 40 cases were then brought against the prisoners at the present time. THAMES. IMPORTANT CONVICTION OF THREE NOTORIOO S THIEVES. —Michael Macarthy, aged 17 years, Thos. Riley, 18, and John Mahoney, 17, were brought before Mr. Paget charged with being suspected persons, found loitering in Cable-street and Rose" wary-lane, Whitechapel, for the purpose of corn' witting felony. There was another charge against Mahoney for highway robbery, with violence, 00 Boxing-pay, in Christian-street, St. George' in-the-East, and that case was first heard. The prosecutor, Henry Hessen, could not possibly swear that Mahoney was the person who knocked him down and robbed him of bl g watch. He was very much like the thief. There was no evidence in addition to Hassell's statement , and Mr. Paget said it would be useless to coiniulb him for trial on such a deposition, and discharged him on the charge of highway robbery. It Wa s then proved by Childs, Cowley, and Foster, de' tectives of the H division of police, that the three prisoners belonged to a daring gang 01 ' ruffians, who had committed many daring robberies in the streets. Some of them ba d been convicted and sentenced to penal servitude , and a prominent member of this hord of despera" does was Richard Keating, who was committed fo r trial on Friday by Mr. Paget for assaulting Alr ° ' Page in North-East Passage, Wellclose-square , and robbing her of a gold watch. Macarthy had been twice convicted of felony, and on one occasio n was sentenced to si x mon th s ' i mpr i sonment 5 0" hard labour. All the prisoners were watched 13 1 the three police officers on Friday night. Tbef followed and bustled f our or fi ve sailors, and wo uld have robbed one if Child s and Cowley had Pei pounced upon th em an d secured two. The thlro was caught by F os t er, a smart li tt l e fellow, 'OO tripped him up and kept him down until assistane arrived. Mr. Paget expressed his satisfaction with the conduct of the police on this occasion, and said the streets were unsafe for respectable persons, saile r , and others, owing to the dari n g a nd l aw l es s co l 3, duct of powerful bands of ruffian s and thi ev es. convicted the prisoners as rogues and vagabond ° ; and sentenced them to be i m p r i s o ne d f o r thre e months with hard labour. FIRE NEAR BOLTON.—A very destructive fire O . curreil yesterday morning on the premises of _Nes' t ' s ; Picksley, Sims, and Co. (Limited), agricultural implowe' i e makers, near Bolton. The upper portion of the baildivg was gutted, and much working material was destroY° The loss is roughly estimated at £20,000. DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the larg' - e holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky 19 cu commended by the medical profession in preference to Fre Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or expo, r '' tion. Quotations ou applicati on t o M essrs. 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