The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-31 00:00:00

AND • WEST COMPANY. The COURT of DIRECTORS of the East and West India Dock Company H FRE is Y GIVE NOTICE, That a Half-Yeatly Court or General Meeting of the said Compauv will be held — pursuant to the directions of the Oct 1 and 2 William IV., cap. iS2—at the Dock House. No. 8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the 11th day of January, Is7o. at which Meeting a Dividend will be declared on the Capital Stock of the Company for the Half-year tending the 31st day of December, 186:). By order of the Court. GEORGE COLLIN', Eecrets l 7. East and West India Dock HMV!, Billiter-square, 28th Dec., 1869. N.B.—The Chair will be taken at two o'c'ock precisely. INDIA DOCK EAST UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. EstabliFfhed 1821. Subscribed Capital... Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DEPUTY-CIIAIRMAN Frederick IL Janson, Eeq. Henry Ifu!se Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq Hy. Bortham-rarter, Esq J Hubbard, Esq Charles Wm Curtis, Esq G. J Shavr Lefevre, Esq, M.P Charles F. Deve,s, liNsq John Martin, Esq Francis Hart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq Fir W. R. Farquhar, Bart ;shies Morris, Esq I.m.s (1-o is n. Earl bra,ham J. tiobarts, Esq Archibald Hamilton Esq Henry Vigne, Esq Whomson Hankey. Esq SECRETAILY—Thomas Tallemach, Esq, ACTUARY— Saml. Brown, Esq. N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Christmas must 1-e renewed at the Head Office, or with the ageate, on or before the Bth of January. The Government Duty is totally abolished. Prospectus.- a and Forms of Proposal, with gatemen of the asset , and liabilities in the Life Branch, free on application to the Company's Agents,or to the Secretary. " ATETROPOLITAN PUBLIC CARRIAGE ALL ACT, 18G9.' ` The following ORDER has been approved of by the Right Honourable HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, one of her 31a jasty's Principal Secretaries of State, and will be made by him and be in force on and after the Ist day of January, 1870. Orders as to Licensing Hackney and Stage Carriages, as to Licensing Drivers of Hackney and Stage Car riages, and as to certain Regulations relating to Hackney and Stage Carriages, made in pursuance of "The Metropolitan Public t arliage Act, 1869," Z 2 and 33 Vic., cap. 113, sec. 6,8, 9, 10, and 11, by the Right Honourable Henry Austin Bruce," one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. I do order, prescribe, and direct as follows (that is to AS TO LICENSING HACKNEY AND STAGE I CARRIAGES. 1. Licences to be granted for Hackney Carriages under the said Act shall be in the Form A contained in th 3 schedule to this Order, and Licences granted under the said Act for Stage Carriages shall be in Form B contained iu the same Sch - e - dulo. 2. Licences to be granted under the said Act shall be granted by the Commissic•ner of Police of the Metropolis, -who has been appointed by me for that purpose ; but no Licence shall be granted to any person under the age of 21 years, or to any person who shall have been previously convicted of felony. 3. B .fore any such Licence shall be granted, the person applying for the same shall pay to the Receiver of the Me tropolitan Pollee District, or to some pers n appointed by the said Receiver to receive the same, the sum of V, which I hereby prescribe to be the sum and price to be paid in respect thereof. The application for a Hackney carriage Licence shall be made in the form of C, and for a Stage-carriage Licence in the Form of D, in the Schedule hereto. 4. Before any such Licence shall be granted a Certificate is to be signed by an Inspector of Public Carriages stating that the Hackney or Stage Carriage in respect of which the application is made has been examined by him, and that it is fit for use, and specifying the number of persons which the carriage may be licensed to carry, and the num ber so specified shall be stated in the Licence. 5. Any Licence granted on the application of any Cc partnership or Company shall he issued to the senior , part ner, or to the Secretary or Man , get, of the Company, as the case may be; and the senior partner, or the Secretary or Manager, to whom the Licence shall be issued, shall be responsible for the observance of the regulations hereby Blade, and of the conditions under which the Licence is granted, and shall be liable to all penalties for breeches of these regulations and the provisions of this Order as if t hey were the person solely interested in the Carriage and in the Licence. 6. So soon as may be after the signing of the Certificate as to the fitness of any Carriage for I.nblic use, the Carriage shall bo brought to the Police-station of the District, where a metal Plate bearing the distinguishing number of such Carriage will be fixed, in the presence of an Inspector of Public Carriages, in the case of a four-wheeled Hack ney Carriage, on the back panel thereof ; in the case of a Hansom Carriage, on the off-side panel ; and in the case of a Metropolitan Stage Cat riage, on the back thereof. And I hereby prescribe that each Carriage licensed shall bo distinguished by such Plate, and such Plate shall not be removed from the place where it shall have been so fixed without the authority of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. 7. A Licence will afterwards be prepared, bearing the distinguishing number of the Carriage, and vt ill be sent to the Proprietor. 8. Each Licence shall be issued in respect of one Carriage only, and shall distinguish the Carriage licensed by a Number. _ _ 9. Every Licence to be granted in pursuance of the said Act and this Order shall continue in force for one year from the date of such Licence, unless suspended or revoked, and the Licence shall be subject to revision, or suspension for any period, in any events in which any Hackney or Stage-carriage Licence might -have Fen sus pended or revoked at the thee of the passing of the sal Metr,)politan Public Carriage Act, ; and in Ihe event of any breach of the provisions of the said Act, or of this Ord r, or of any regniati. ns made thereby, which provi sions and regulations relate to Hacktiey or State Car riages and the Proprietors thereof ; and also in the event of the Proprietor being convicted of any felony :or mis demeanour. And I hereby order and prescribe it to be an express condition of the granting of anyllackney or Stage carriage Licence under this Order, that any such Licence shall be stet joct to revision and suspmsi,ei forany peikd by the Secretary of State for the Pismo Departnient. if at any time any Proprietor shall be convicted of any offence against the provisions of this Order, or of any Act for the time being in force relating to Hackney or Stage Car riages, or of any felony or misdemeanour. 10. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall, within three days after a notice shall have been deli vered to him, either personally or left at the address mentioned in his Licence, or on the expiration of the period for which his Licence shall have been granted, within three days from such expiration, deliver up his Licenaa to the Inspector of Public Carriages at the Police-station of the District within which the place of his address, as described in the 15th Clause hereof, shall be situate, and within the said periods shall bring the Carriage to such Police-station named, in order that the Plato may be unfixed, and he shall then and there de liver up the Plate to the Inspector of Public Carriages. 11. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage E hall at any time, when required by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, produce and show the Licence which shall have been granted to him in respect of such Carriage. 12. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall not conceal the Plate, nor shall he obliterate or deface any number or mark thereon. 13. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall not knowingly permit the same to be used for any illegal purpose. 14. Any Licence erased or defaced shall be void and of none effect. 15. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage who shall, during the currency of the Licence, change his abode or place of residence, shall within seven days of such change, give notice thereof to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and until such notice the address men tioned in the Licence, and after such notice the address mentioned in the notice, shall be deemed to be the address. of the Propri e t or o f the Licensed Carriage for all pur poses, whether of service of notices or otherwise. 16. During the currency of any Licence, and until it shall have been returned to the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, the Proprietor of any Carriage shall, at all reasonable times, allow to all persons appointed by the Secretary of State, or by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, for the purpose of inspecting Horses or Carriages, free access to their premises where such Horses and Carriages are kept, for the purpose of such in spection, on the production of a special order of the said Commissioner for that purpose. 17. In case of the death of any Proprietor during the continuance of his Licence, the Licence shall be brought to the Office of the Commissioner of Police of the Metro polis, who will by endorsement thereon transfer the Licence to the person entitled thereto by Will, or to the person entitled to administer to the deceased Proprietor, or to the widow or surviving husband, or eldest male child (being of age) of the deceased Proprietor. N.B.—The above provisions apply both to Hackney Carriages and Metropolitan Stage Carriages, and the word Carriage when used above (unless where otherwise specified) applies equally to both of these classes. The following provisions apply to Hack ney Carriages only :- 18. Every person desirous of applying for a Licence in respect of any Hackney Carriage, under the said Act and this Order, shall make and sign his application in the Form C contained in the Schedule hereto. 19. At any time during the currency of the Licence the Proprietor of the licensed Carriage may alter the Fares mentioned in the Form of Application, but fourteen days' notice shall, previously to any such alteration, be given to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. And with respect to "Regulations relating to Hack ney and Stage Carriages," I do by this my Order make the following Regulations : AS T 9 HACKNEY CARRIAGES ONLY. 1. The number of persons to be carried in any Hackney Carriage shall be the number mentioned in the Licence granted in respect of such Carriage. 2. Previous to the granting of any Licence for any Hackney Carriage, the Proprietor thereof shall cause to be distinctly painted, and shall thereafter keep distinctly painted, on the outside, at the back of each Carriage, the Number of persons to be carried, and no greater number of persons shall be carried than anth , rised by the Licetice'• 3. Every child shall he reckoned as a person within !he meaning of the f, , regoing Regnlat ions. 4. The Table of Distances signed by the Commissiene, of Police of the Metropolis in pursuance of the' 6th sect7oe of statute 16 and 17 Vic, e. 33, see. 17, and now in force. shell until further order be evidence for the purpose of anv Fare to be charred Icy distenee within the ineanine of the Oth section of the Metropolitan Public C.rringe Act. 18139. 5. T 1 Proptiotor of rvery Licenged TTaclin ,, y Carria;.:i• t-ba'l provide and affix to the top of t',o Carriage, in s wkot, or by a hinge, as the Colonissiimer of Police of th, lkli_itropo 7 k shall direct. a mobil fla;..r. on which stall bc distinctly paii,ted in black hitters on a white ground, or white letters on a Wack gronna. the Fares licensed to be charg'd both for distance and time. _ _ 6. Fa to le clinrßed shall be the Fares mentioned it the n•r't:en al plication for a Licance until tbev sbaa have been altered and notice of such alteration shall have beer given, as abovo mentioned, ar.d after the expiration of such notice, then the Fares mentioned in the notice, and such alteration of Fares are to he repainted on the 7. Tt shall not be lawful for any Licensed Hackney Car riage to ply for hire except on an authorised public stand ing; and while the Carriage shall be there plying for hire. tlie flag shall he raised on the hinge or fixed in the socket so ro be nlainly exhibited on the top of the Carriage. 8. Immediately on the Carriage being hirod, the flag shall be lowered on the hinge or taken from the socket, and shall not be again raised on the hinge or placed in the socket or otherwise exhibited, until the Carriage shall be again plying for hire on an authorised public standing. 9. No Hackney Carriage shall be let to hire elsewhere than on an authorised public standing, nor shall any Fare be recoverable in respect of any hiring unless at the time of the hiring the Carriage hired shall have been plying on an authorised public standing, with the flag raised and exhibited in pursuance of the Regulation 7, as above pre scribed. -10. When the Carriage shall have been hired by dis tance and the carriage shall be stopped at the request of the hirer during the journey, for any time or times amount ing-In the whole to fifteen minutes, the driver shall bo en titled,. at the end of the journey, to demand and receive a further sum, in addition to the Fare to which be shall be entitled for the journey calculated by distance, equal to one fourth part of the Fare exhibited on the metal flag as the Fare per hour, and to an additional sum equal to one such fourth part for every further fifteen minutes completed for which the Carriage shall Lave been stopped at the request of the hirer during the journey. 11. When the Carriage shall have been hired by the hour the driver shall be entitled to demand, for every fifteen minutes or any part of fifteen minutes not com pleted above one hour, one fourth of the Fare per hour exhibited on the metal plate. 12. And for the better publication of 'the Fares which the driver may demand from the hirer of any Hackney Carriage, the Proprietor of every Hackney Carriage shall provide for the driver, and the driver shall deliver to every person hiring the same on entering the same a ticket of the followieg form,- on which shall be printed the owner's Name and Address, the Number o the Carriage, and the Rates of Fares by tine and distance, which the driver, according to these Regulations, is entitled to de mand from the hirer of the Carriage. OBVERSE SIDE. FARES. 8. d. Per Mile Per Hour I No Fare under a Shilling. WAITING. If hired by DISTANCE— For every 15 minutes completed-1 One-fourth Part If hired by TIME— of the Rate For every 15 minutes or part of 15 r Per Hour. minutes not completed above One Hour LUGGAGE Twopence for each Package carried OUTSIDE. CHILDREN. All Children to count as Passengers. EXTRA PERSONS. For each Person aLcve Two, for the whole journey, the sum of ---. Licensed to carry -- Persons inside and outside. BEVEUSE SIDE. HACKNEY CARRIAGE, No Owner's Name Address Reference in case of Complaints, or Property left in the Carriage. 13. Every Licensed Carriage and all its furniture and appointments, and the harness used for the horse or horses drawing the same, shall be always kept in per fect order and repair. And for securing the safe custody and re-delivery of any property a..cidentally left in Hackney and Me tropolitan Stage Carriages, and fixing the Charges to be paid in respect thereof, and with reference to the sale of such property, and as to giving it to the finder in the event of its not being claimed within a certain time, I make the following regulations :- 1. Immediately after the termination of any hiring, the driver of any Hackney Carriage, and immediately after the completion of any journey, the conductor of any ?detro politan Stage Carriage, shall carefully search the Carriage for any property which may have been accidentally left therein, and any such article found on such search, or at any other time, by, or delivered to, any driver or conduc tor, or which may be found at any time by any other per son shall, if not sooner claimed by the owner thereof, within twenty-four hours after such finding, be deposited in the state in which it shall be found at a Police-station within the Metropolitan Police-District, but nothing in this Regulation is to be deemed or taken to repeal the 11th section of the statute 16 and 17 Vic., cap. 33. 2. All property found in Hackney or Stage Carriages, and deposited with the Police as aforesaid, and all pro perty brought to any Police-station by any driver or con ductor, under the statute of 16 and 17 Vic., cap. 33, sec. 11, if not claimed and approved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to belong to the claimant, for three months after the property is so brought to or deposited at the Police-station, will, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, be either delivered to the person who shall have deposited the found property, or be sold. 3. If the property found shall not be delivered to the depositor, but shall be sold as aforesaid, a sum of money shall be awarded by the said Commissioner and paid to the person who shall have deposited the found property, on the following scale : If the article deposited be of less value than £lO, for gold and silver money, bank notes, jewellery, and watches, a sum equal to three shillings in the pound on the value of the article. For:all other articles, two shillings and sixpence inthe pound. But in no case shall any less sum be awarded than one shilling. If the article deposited he of £lO value or upwards, then in every case such a sum shall be paid as the said Commissioner may iu his discretion specially award. 4. If the property which shall have been so deposited shall be claimed before the expiration of the said period of three months, the same shall be re-delivered to the, claimant, if h. , shall prove to the satisfaction of the Com missioner of Police of the Metropolis that ho has a right to the re-delivery thereof, on p,3-merit by the e'aimant of all expenses incurred, and of such a reasonable sum to the driver, conductor, or other depositor, as the Commissioner shall award. And with reference to Metropolitan Stage Carriages, 1 make the following P.egulation.:: 1. No printed or written bill shall be affixed on any part of the outside of any. Licensed Metropolitan Stage Car riage, except to designate the destinat•on of such Carri riage, bur shall any printed or written bill l e fastened or placed against the inside of the windows of any such Carriage. 2. Every Licensed Metropolitan Stage Carriage and all its furniture and -appointments, and the harness of the horses drawing the same, shall always be kept in perfect order and repair. And with regard to Licensing Drivers of Hackney Carriages, and the Drivers and Conductors of Stage Carriages, I do by this my Order, direct, and pre scribe as follows :- 1. All Licences which a Secretary of State may grant to drivers of Hackney Carriages, and to the drivers and conductors of Metropolitan Stage Carriages, shall be granted by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, who has been appointed by me for that purpose. 2. All Licences so granted to the drivers of Hackney Carriages, and to the drivers and conductors of Metropo litan Stare Carriages, shall be respectively in the forms marked E, F, G, in the Schedule to this Order, and all the provisions of the Acts relating to Hackney Car riages, and Metropolitan Stage Carriages, and Police. R egulations now in force with respect to the application for the granting of and generally as to Licences granted under these Acts, or any of them, shall, save as the sam e are varied by thisl Order, or are inconsistent therewith, or with the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, apply to Li cences granted under the baid last-mentioned Act, and this my order. 3. Licences granted under the said Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, and this my Order, shall be granted on and after the Ist day of January, 1870, and if not revoked or suspended, be in force for one year from the date there of; and there shall be paid in respect thereof to the Re ceiver for the Metropolitan Police District, or to such per son as he shall appoint, before any licence shall be granted, the sum of Three Shillings for every licence granted before the Ist day of February, 1870, and Five Shillings 'for every Licence granted on and after that day, and I hereby prescribe the said sums of Three Shillings and Five Shillings to be the sums respectively payable for every Licence. 4. Any Licence granted under this Order to any driver or conductor shall be subject to revocation or suspension for any period of time by any Justice of the Peace in any of the events in which any Licence granted to any driver or conductor in pursuance of any Act of Parliament might, at the passing of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, be revoked or suspended; and also in the event of any breach of this Order or the provisions thereof, or the Regulations thereby made, or of the provisions of the said Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869. And further, I do Order and hereby prescribe it to be an express condi tion of the granting of any Licence under this Order to any driver or conductor, that the Secretary of State for the Home Department shall have power to revoke or for any period suspend any Licence granted under this Order, if at any time any driver or conductor shall be convicted of any offence against or breach of the said Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, or this Order, or the pro visions thereof, or of any regulations thereby mado, or of any offence upon conviction whereof before any Justice or Justices of the Peace, the said Justice or Justices had power at the time of the passing of the said Metropoli tan Public Carriage Act, 1869, to suspend or revoke any Licence held by any driver or conductor. And, lastly. I do hereby annex a penalty, not exceeding Forty Shillings, for the breach of this Order, or of any Provision thereof, or of any Regulation hereby directed, save only in those cases where a penalty may lawfully be imposed for any offence under the provisions of any other Act of Parliament now in force. Here follow the Schedules, copies of which may be seen at the Office of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Public Carriage Branch, Great Scotland yard. T EVER PUBLISHED. .RY FOR 187 0, Edition, tg useful information:— Corporation of London Postal Information List of Bankers Army and Navy Agents Cab Fares Ready Reckoner Also • THE CHEAPEST DIAR' )OCKET DIA Second containing the followin Almanack Transfer Days of Public Funds Weights and Measures Stamp Duties Foreign Mo ^ eys Ministers of State DIA.IZY, a ratie.:l oa then.lTit approve I plan, and neatly priwed on g..od wrainu parer. Price One Penny, or no4t-'reo for Twopence. I SInqES and SON, 7,1 fic , " , lll T:S and A t.DCIA.TE, y r ,:wr RD:=TREET, LONDON, TOTTEN [TAIT-COTT T- • nm - ). nd BRADFORD, Y, ;LKSHIE. :Os, at tho Moirripolilan Lai:way and other cF4.rA. Willing and Co. 1 , 1,1 BOO! , S:tt 1 13 0 G E NTS IV AN - 1'E1) EV ERYW 1-1 ERE • to introfl erErnmodi ies vrthial,le TO every hoosehoMer ami low. This oiTers a highly remaneratiyeCommi.sion •o Tradesmen, Trivollors. Centlemen's :servants, &e. Apply with pro stamps to C. MARIZI:SON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. 1011 N GOSNELL nni CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is , -rently superior to any tooth owder: gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the -unreel from decty, and imparts a plenitant fraaranco to 'he breath. Price Is. ed.—Rod..Bull Wharf, Ct 3, Upper Thanv!+s-street. London. QPORTING.—.IOIIN ROBERTS supplies the kJ LATEST EDITION of "THE SIIN " as soon as pub ished.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. ft-1E AI_JN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING , DECEMBER 31, 1839. " TUE APPAREL OFT PROCLAIMS THE • • MAN." NSTBEMS; St. James's F en RISTY MI Wednesdays an ~very Night, at S id Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. • BEST MATERIALS, BEST STYLES BEST WORKMANSHIP, and LOWEST PRICES, at E. MOSES and SON'S. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-peak, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children undstr twelve, Gd. Every description of Clothing ready-made or made to measure, f ages, all occa sions, and all classes, at E. MOSES and SON'S. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office o pen from 11 to 4. ly " ' An immense assortment of WINTER CLOTHING ' in all the newest designs and materials, at E. MOSES and SON'S. OVERCOATS from IDs. to £5. BOY'S OVERCOATS from 10.9. 6d. to 455. LOIVDOS, FRIDAY, DEC. 31, 1839. For the convenience of Ladies accom panying their Sons there is a separate de partment for Boys' Clothing, and it is fur nished with a splendid assortment of Snits, Overcoats, and Clothing for all occasions, including all the favourite designs and the most fashionable materials. 1869. 1869 will hereafter le memorable for three silents the disestablishment of the Irish Church, the c9m-i pletion of the Suez Canal, and the opening of the (Ecumenical Council at Rome. None of these events can be said to be concluded. The Irish Pro testant Church has indeed been disestablished, but the new body which is to govern it hereafter has not yet been formed, and serious difficulties have arisen in constructing it. The Suez Canal is available for vessels of comparatively small tonnage, but a good deal of dredging has to be done before the overland Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guarantee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be 3heerfully 'exchanged, or, if desired, the money will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. route is made wholly by water, The year opened with an incident of great social and commercial importance. The country was still as it is even now, suffering from the financial col lapse of 1866. The irritation was still great because the suffering was still severe. No event of that collapse had been so ruinous as 'the failure of the great joint stock company of OVEREND, GURNEY and Co., and the feeling which prevailed almost universally a year ago was that it was a scandal that the directors of this Company should go unpunished. The Crown refused to prosecute, and the proceedings were, therefore, set on foot by a private gentleman who had sustained loss at the bands of the directors. On New Year's Day they were brOught before the Lord Mayor charged with conspiracy and fraud. After two or three adjournments they were committed for trial, and on leaving the Mansion House were greeted with shouts of execration. The trial did not take place until a few days The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. A vary large assortment of BLANKETS, fro.m ss. 4d. the pair. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-men inre, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishment. , are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday ewming at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, 'Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Ou tfi ite I for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDOY. CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATF.. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER OF TOTTF.NHA3I-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. ago, and although it lasted for more than a week the jury took but ten minutes to decide that the prisoners were not guilty. No sooner was the verdict given than a scene of joy, extravagant and unreasonable, took place, and the execrated monsters of January found themselves the triumphant martyrs of December. The other prosecutions against directors of companies charged with fraud have been equally unsuccessful with this the most celebrated cause of the year. Mr. STUART LANE and his fellow directors of the Merchants' Company were discharged, though not without a strong censure upon the first prisoner. The directors of BARNED'S Banking Com pany, who at first seemed greater offenders than any of the others, were discharged without any qualify ing remarks. These trials, though unsuccessful, have duibtless had a considerable effect. They have warned enterprising gentlemen given to getting up companies, that a directorship has its duties as well as its rights, and that handsome fees will not compensate for the anxiety endured by criminal pro ceedings. At the same time, these proceedings have in;luced a result not altogether satisfactory. They have almost paralysed commercial enterprise requir ing the co-operation of many persons. The formation of joint-stock companies has almost ceased. Telegraph companies have been well nigh the only associations which have been able to maintain their position. The consequences of this suspicion—as excessive as was the confidence of four years ago—have been seen in a glut of unemployed money, the Bank rate Country Branch: BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGER AMARELLA restores the Human H air to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing tLis wonaJrful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Rod Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames 4treet London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. F.D. Chattprton. THIS EVES :NG, at I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: or, OLD MOTHER RENO II : Misses Jessie Vokes. Victoria Vokes, Rosins Vokes, Kate Santley, Hudspeth, and H9rriet CoTeney ; Messrs. Fred. Vokes, 13rittainWright, W. F. Vokes, F. Mot eland, Rowella, and Harry Boleno. rtIEATRE ROYAL, 'IA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. BOO:stone. THIS EVENING, A. CO-OPERATIVE MOVEMENT. Followed by, at 20 to 8, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mrßuckstone, jim.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, .tc. After which, THE F tIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN ..,OCKS: Mr A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynne, Miss Francis, Miss Murray. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. rTHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock. THE LONG STRIKE: Mr Benjamin Webster: Messrs A. Stirling, George Belmore, Atkins, W. itignold, Sll3B Furtado, ctc. 'I I conclude with LOST AT SEA: Mr G. 13elmore, Mr A. Stirling, Mr A tkins, Mr W. Rignold, Mr C. H. Stephenson. Miss Furtado, Miss Eliza. Johnstone, Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss Lennox trey. Box-office open daily, from 10 till ii. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. - - - of discount having for some weeks been as low as 21 per cent. ; and in the investment of the more ven turesome in such insecure "securities" as the new Turkish Loan. It is to be hoped that the very clear summing up of the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE in the OVEREND and GURNEY trial may do some- _ thing to restore the confidence of those persons who are now deterred from devoting their energies to legitimate enterprise. The distinction betweenthis and reckless and dishonest speculation is no* sufficiently clear to she* that ; while the second may lead to severe punishment, the first involves no HOLBORN TTTEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Lessee antl ManagPr, BARRY Suf.r.ivAN THIS F,VF.NI NO. at Seven o'clock, the laughable Farc6 of THE , A,ATII 1V AD. At Loroll'a nitiebrate , l Play (in five arts), of LOVE S AACRIFInE: Mr Barry Sullivan ; Messrs. rfeorge Honey. J. C Compct. Chafes IT nrsman. I.in Payne, Lnnt, Dyas. Arthur. e.: Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss J. Rignoltl, Miss Amy Fawsitt, Mrs. C. I I orsman. &e. To conclude with STAT SECRETS. Principal Scenic Artist—Mr Julian Hicks. Acting Manager—AMOßY St7LLIVAN" such risk. There have been other memorable trials through out the year. The first week of it saw the SAURIN case. It has been called the "great" SAURIN case, yet it was greatonly in length, and miserably mean and petty in all else. For a whole weary month revelations of female jealousies and infinitely small grievances went on. There was nothing new in them, for they take place in too many an English house hold, in too many an English school, and (changing only the sex) in too many an English regiment. But the public was all agape for scandal, and the utmost malignity having failed to prove or even suggest any, the public, which had wanted stories about pro fligate priests and unchaste nuns, was fain to be con tent with details about old shoes and dirty dusters. The verdict was a thoroughly "Protestant" one, in the bad, bigoted sense of the word; but the trial has done good to those whom it was meant to injure, and has shewn that the inmates of a convent may be as pure as the inmates of a boarding-school. Thoroughly scandalous were the proceedings in the GRENVILLE MURRAY case. This person, who had been dis charged from the diplomatic service for irregularities, being a man of considerable literary ability, as well as utterly unprincipled, published a weekly journal, called the Queen's Messenger, which attacked one public man after another with the most flagrant shamelessness. The son of one of the persons assailed, inflicted personal chastisement upon Mr. MURRAY, who thereupon summoned the noble man in question to answer the charge of assault. A disgraceful row took place in the police court, where the case was heard, and even tually Mr. MURRAY was indicted for perjury. He was admitted to bail, forfeited it, and is now absent from the country, and not very likely to return. The action brought by a member of Parliament against the proprietor of the North Wilts Herald resulted in the legal victory of the plaintiff; but the verdict of the jury met with little commendation from the public. The " EDMUNDS' scandal," after being on hand for nearly five years, has just been settled by arbitration, and Mr. EDMUNDS, who claimed a large sum of money, finds that he has to pay to the Crown about £l,OOO. Arbitration has been adopted with regard to the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and the two late rivals for the Conservative leadership in the House of Lords, Lord CAIRNS and Lord SALISBURY, have, it is announced, nearly completed their labours. Arbitration has been successfully adopted in more than one case of dispute between masters and work men, and it is to be hoped that courts of concilia tion may ere long be regularly established, and the strikes and lock-outs, which have been so disastrously frequent hitherto, may be unknown. The changes in the personnel of the Bpfscopate have been extraordinarily numerous. This is duo not only to death, but also to the passing of an Act of Parliament facilitating the retirement of disabled bishops. It is to be regretted that this Act was not originated by the prelates themselves. It was forced upon Parliament by the popular indig nation, which had justly been excited at the sight of half a dozen chief pastors receiving the revenues, while totally unable to perform the functions of their °film From the western limits of Canterbury to the Land's End, there was, a few months ago, not ono bishop competent to fulfil his duties. The Bishop of Salisbury, indeed, was too self-denying to lay him self open to the charge of avarice, and the man who gave away the whole of his episcopal income could not be suspected of a love of money. his death, in August, gave Mr. GLADSTONE his first appointment. Slice then they have been made at the rate of about one in three weeks. Bishop SUMNER of - Winchester was the first to take advantage of the Act, and having been for seine time paralysed, he resigned his see to a worthy successor, Bishop \VILBEIL FORCE. The see which the latter prelate had filled for a quarter of a century was allotted to Prebendary Ma cxanNEss, who probably owes his nomination in part to the'fact that he is a brother-in law of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, but he has also ri LOBE- THEATRE-ROYAL. 'LT Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. T IIIS EVF.VING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY :Miss Lydia. Foote, Mr I lenry Neville. At 7.30. 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The who was also paralysed, followed the example of act, too, that Ministers have thought i t necessary to Bishop SUMNER, and he has received a successor in send large reinforcements of troops to Ireland during the person of Lord ARTHUR HERVEY, one of the the present month shews that there is some reason to ablest members of the moderate Low Church party. fear a repetition of the insane risings which have The death of Bishop WALDEGRAVE left the mitre of taken place in former years. At the same time it Carlisle at the disposal of the PREMIER, and it was must be remembered that Government is no longer conferred by him upon Dr. HARVEY GOODWIN, Dean ruling Ireland under a Habeas Corpus Suspension of Ely, whom it would be difficult to assign to any Act, nor has it yet announced its policy upon the land party. In the 7ast week of the year the see of question, which is far more important in the eyes of Manchester became vacant by the death of Bishop the Irish peasantry than the Church question. While LEE, the prelate whom, better than any other, the therefore there is much room for regret in the pre episcopal bench could spare. His successor sent condition of Ireland, there is no room for despair. has not yet been named. But the appoint- The last year of the seventh decade of the nineteenth ment which more than all the rest put together century may witness a nearer approach to reconcilia has most agitated the Church is that to the see of tion than has been made during the centuries that Exeter. The late Bishop, a nonagenarian, blind and have elapsed since Pope ADRIAN IV. gave Ireland to bedridden, and for many years past work, for a long his fellow-countryman, King HENRY of England, on time steadfastly refused to listen to the strong repre- a false pretence, just 700 years ago. sentations which were made to him that he ought to If Commons and Lords have been busy, Royalty resign. At last, however, he yielded, wrote to the has not been idle. The QUEEN has actually spent PREMIER to announce his resignation, and expired a half a week in her capital, in periods of a day at a few days afterwards, before he had completed the time, and about two months ago opened the Holborn formalities necessary to complete his resignation. Viaduct. The Prince and the Princess of WALES After a short delay, the appointment of Dr. TEMPLE, have made a tour of Egypt, Greece, Turkey, and' 1 of Rugby (who had previously refused the Deanery Central Europe. The Duke of EDINBURGH has been of Durham) was announced, and straightway there to our Australasian colonies (where he made a lucky arose such a clamour as had not been seen for more speculation, which brought him in £200,000, and will, than twenty years. Dr. PUSEY, the leader it is to be hoped, spare the nation the payment of his of the agitation, attempted to persuade Dr. presents hereafter), and to Japan and China, and M'NEILE, as the leader of the Low Church has been spending his Christmas in India. Prince party, to join him. But the Regius Pro- ARTHUR has been winning, if not like his fessor of Hebrew having incautionsly let fall some brother, gold, vet golden opinions, in Canada. words about the separation of Church and State the England has been visited by the Khedive of EGYPT, DEAN of RIPON declined, and having told Dr. PUSEY who was not on this occasion sent to a hotel, though that while Dr. TEMPLE was a leper .he (Dr. PUSEY) the Prince of WALES contrived to be too late to was a leper also, held aloof from the 'proceedings` - receive him at the railway station. King LEOPOLD which followed. These are so recent that we need of the Belgians (who lost his only son early in the not detail them. They were most signally abortive, year) has been feted by the volunteers in London and a protest from all parts of England which contains after a somewhat feeble fashion. The army of only 1,500 names, and some hundreds of those' the German princelets and dukelings do not seem to have\ names of labourers, blacksmiths, sextons, and school- invaded us in such large numbers as they usually do, girls, shows how utterly unreal was all this agitation ) or else their movements have failed to interest people and verifies the old proverb that the most empty as much as they did before Sadowa. Altogether, vessels make the most noise. the nation has not been very gay. The Prince There was undoubtedly more reality in the clamour against the disestablishment of the Irish Church. A large number of persons sincerely believed that this step was disastrous. As they also deemed it sacrilegious they may be pardoned some exaggeration of language, even though it took the form of personal abuse, in which Mr. GLADSTONE was likened to JUDAS, and the Irish Church to our Loran in His passion. There is no need to repeat the arguments for and against the measure in question. The progress of it is too remarkable to pass without comment. Before the session began (on February 16) it was confidently predicted that Mr. GLADSTONE'S large majority would split up as Lord PALMERSTON'S had in 1866, for, to use the cheerful language of the Conservative journals, the robbers would quarrel over the spoils of the Irish Church. Mr. GLADSTONE introduced his bill on March 1, and on May 31 it was read a third time. In those three months there had been innumerable 'divisions, and the Conservatives found mtsce to complain that, so far from the Liberals being divided, they were too homogeneous. The "leader who could not lead, and the followers who would not follow," were now become " the brutal and tyrannical majority who did blindly whatever Mr. GLADSTONE told them to do? So persistently large were the PREMIER'S majorities that when in one division he counted one of something under 80, the Opposition shouted as though they had gained a great victory. Backed by such majorities, generally of more than 100, the bill was introduced to the Upper Houv. In that assembly the Ministers were greatly in a minority. The peers had the power to reject the bill. Would they use it ? was the one absorbing question of the day. Popular feeling became heated to a dangerous degree when Lord DERBY, the Duke of AI3ERCORN, and other well known peers insisted - upon a policy of " No Surrender." Lord SALISBURY, who aspired to lead his party in the Upper House, .and who saw that the rejection of the bill would bring about a revolution in that House formed a "cave," and at the head of thirty secessionists.voted for the second reading of the bill which was thus agreed to on Juno 18 by 170 to 140 votes. Several peers, including the two English Archbishops, did not vote. June 18 had been a memorable day fifty-four years before in English history, it has now acquired fresh celebrity as having delivered one of the estates of the realm from a most serious peril. This victory was not without its sadness, as all great battles must be. The most bitter opponent of Lord DERBY could not read without emotion the speech whi,di the old Tory leader made upon this occasion, a speech delivered with faltering accents instead of with the old fire of former dayi; with the consciousness of defeat instead of with the light of victory gleaming in his eye; with the tokens of desertion all around him, instead of with the compact phalanx that used to follow him even in his most dangerous leap in the dark. " My Lords," he said, "I am now an old man, and, like many of your lordships,' have already passed threescore years and ten. My official life is entirely closed, my political life is nearly so, and in course of nature my mortal life cannot now be long." These were his closing words, and the anticipation which they contained was soon fulfilled. He did not speak again in public, and a few weeks later all England stood at his bedside watching with painful:lnterest the last struggles of this brave and gallant old man with the invincible wrestler, death. The principle of the Irish Church Bill and of the House of Lords having been saved, Lord SALISBURY made the mistake of supposing that the details of the first might be altered at the pleasure of the second. The bill was sent back to the Commons so changed that it was scarcely recognisable. Mr. GLADSTONE, in a few terse, dry sentences, moved that the House Should disagree with the Lords' amendments. They were struck out ; the Lords remained obstinate ; and once more that body seemed in danger of going down, as Hyde-park rail ings had gone, before the breath of popular indigna tion three years before. Fortunately, Lord CAIRNS, who had been outwitted by Lord SALISBURY in the previous month, determined to have his revenge, and so, in an interview with Lord GRANVILLE, the details of a compromise were settled, and being accepted by Mr. GLADSTONE, the Act c. 42 Vict. 32nd and 33rd received the royal assent on July 26. This was by far the most Impor:. tent measure of the 117 public Acts passed during the session. Yet there were others which would have signalised a less eventful year. Chief of these were the Bankruptcy Bill and the Education Bill. The first comes into operation with the new year. ana by reason or Its aanuranie stringency has cast its shadow before in the long list of bankrupts during the present month. The other measure is but the beginning of a great educational reform, which, it is to be hoped, will be further developed if not completed during 1870. There remains to be noticed here one other matter of home politics, which will doubtless lead to an important change, the terrible disclosures of electoral corruption in many of the boroughs, and notably in Brickcwat-r, Beverley, and Norwich. The two first towns are unquestion ably destined to parliamentary extinction ; but experience has shewn that such punishment does not deter other offenders. • This being so there is likely to be little opposition from either political party to the Ballot, although many persons who will vote for it have but a partial faith in its operation. It is greatly to be regretted that the state of Ire land is still most unsatisfactory. Although there is little general crime, assassination and outrages and violence are frequent, and nearly all of them spring from one cause, the hostility felt towards the owners of land by the tenants. It would be too much to say that the disestablishment of the Irish Church has produced /I) effect upon the Irish people, and tog much to expect that it would in six months reconcile them after seven centuries of animosity. Yet when men like The O'DoxoolluE tell their countrymen that they now can always get fair play in the House of Commons it is clear that something has been rained. Nevertheless, wh en we find a Mayor of Cork praising the assassin of the Duke of R —DIN- Bu. Rog as a hero. ,and a Fenian convict elected of WALES, however, has made some splendid bags at Studley Royal and in other noble preserves, and has just munificently presented fifteen brace of pheasants to Charing-cross Hospital. Pigeon-shooting has attained very large proportions, and our jeunesse doree have hit upon the novel idea of being paid for amusing themselves. It is satisfactory to see that Oxonian oarsmen still find sufficient satisfaction in beating Cambridge and Harvard without being paid in cash. There has been no war throughout the year in Europe, but there has been a good deal of fighting in Spain. It is fifteen months since ISABELLA left her throne, and it is still undecided who shall fill it, or if there shall be any throne at all. General PRIM, who is virtually Dictator, wishes very much to have a young boy of 16 for King, but the motive i 3 so transparent, and the Duke of GENOA, whom Pram wishes to honour by making his too], has co little inclination to become a puppet that neither Le nor his friends are likely to accept the bait which con ceals the hook so clumsily. If there was ever any chance of a different result, the splendid speech just delivered by Senor CASTELAR Las destroyed that chance. Meanwhile Spanish politics are diversified by local revolutions, and there is scarcely one of the great towns in the Peninsula which has not undergone the diversion of a bombard ment. Greece has had the somewhat milder excite ment of a quarrel with Turkey. The weaker Power, as so often happens, relied upon its weakness, and thought that all Europe would come to its assistance, though it was manifestly in the wrong. It was mistaken. Neither England nor France, nor even Russia, was prepared to light the flames of war which, once lit, might spread over half the Continent; and so a Conference was held, in which moral suasion was exercised with satisfac tory effect upon a State too weak to trust to its own physical force, and the breach between King GEORGE and ABDUL Aziz was healed. This was early in the year. At the close of it another quarrel between the last-named Sovereign and ISMAIL PagnA, the Khedive of Egypt, was made up through the same good offices. It is still a part of English diplomatic traditions to sustain the totter ing throne at Constantinople, and to sacrifice to that object even the opportunity of establishing our influ ence in a country which concerns us far more. So the KHEDIVE was induced to say that hence forth he would not raise loans without the con sent of the SULTAN, and as this arrangement means a douceur to make things sweet, all round at the Sweet Waters, the VICE-KING of EGYPT will soon be vieing with the KING of TURKEY in the largeness of the interest which he will be offer ing to persons who are confiding enough to lend him money. Another quarrel at one time threatened to be serious. King LEOPOLD of the Belgians having lost his heir, his neighbour thought it a good oppor tunity to bully him, in the hope of thereby getting up an agitation which should lead to the annexation of Belgium to France. The matter went so far that Lord CLARENDON had to interfere, and NAPOLEON, finding that he had more than enough work upon his hands, retreated from the affair. German politics have presented few incidents of interest to English readers. Prussia has, wonderful to relate, spent more than her income. Austria has had trouble with her Bohemian and Dalmatian subjects. Russia has been excited by the extraordinary dissenting movement now going on in that country. Italy, as usual, is in a state of Ministerial crisis ; and but a few weeks ago seemed destined to lose her first sovereign, whose faults were all forgotten when the hand of death appeared to have seized him. The rejoicings at his recovery were increased by the simultaneous birth of a grandson, who is heir to the throne. Since then there has been another change of Ministry. and VICTOR. EMMANUEL stands in danger of losing his recent popularity by the opposition which he is offering to' a reduction' of 'expenditure. But the country which, above all others, has witnessed important events is France. In the spring the Corps Legis latif expired by efflux of time, after six years' existence. The elections, although doctored in the moat barefaced and unlawful manner by the EM PEROR and his servants, resulted in the return of a body so largely opposed to him that it became abso lutely necessary to make great concessions. M. BOUHER, whose power for three or four years had been so great that he was styled "the Vice- Emperor," was compelled to resign, and was " kicked up stairs " by being made President of the Senate. Serious riots took place in Paris during some of the elections, but they were sup pressed without bloodshed, and the EMPEROR rode through his capital immediately afterwards unattended, and amid much applause. There were those who said that the riot had been the doing of his own myrmidons, in order to chew their powerless ness and the popularity which he still enjoyed. A little later he became seriously ill, and it was then found how very unsubstantial that popularity was. There was something brutally cruel in the manner in which Parisian journalists noted down with merry sarcasm the changes in the condition of the patient. During his illness his cousin made a memorable speech, in which he said that "You can do anything with bayonets, but sit upon them," and this epigram was held to mark the downfall of personal govern m - .?,nt. Nevertheless, the EMPEROR postponed the opening of the Corps Lsgislatif for some weeks beyond the time that it should have been opened. Mean while the Senate had been discussing the changes which the EMPEROR proposed to make, and the EMPRESS was representing her husband at the opening of the Suez Canal. On her return it was rumoured that reactionary principles had again prevailed, and so loud were the complaints that it was announced that she would not attend any more meetings of the Council. On opening the Chambers NAPOLEON asked them to help him to secure liberty, and pro mised that he would be answerable for order. The remark was interpreted unfavourably, and the continuance in office of M. DE FORCADE LA RoQUETTE, the successor of M. ROUHER, was sypppsed t9:deppte that the Egvntolt had no inten- tion of making .any real concessions. It ifas not until the present week that the official journals announced the resignation of that Minister, and pub- lished a letter in which the EMPEROR called upon M. OLLIVIER to form a responsible Ministry. Thus fell personal government, after eighteen years' exist ence. It remains to be seen if the EMPEROR'S attempt to combine Imperial with responsible Minis terial Government will prove successful. It-must be c)nfessed that the list of new Ministers announced to day does not give rise to very sanguine expecta tions. Turning to the other continents, we find few events calling for notice. In India there has been a serious revenue deficit, although a surplus had been announced. Investigation is still going on in that country with respect to the cost of the Abyssinian war. A new treaty has been signed between our Government and that of China. In Africa the chief occurrences have been the opening of the Suez Canal, already mentioned, the supposed discovery of the source of the Nile by Dr. LIVINGSTONE, and certain unhappy incidents in the African Church which do not need to be detailed. Our colonies are, on the whole, thriving, and even the one exception, New Zealand, is emerging by degrees from the distress which it has long suffered. In America there has been a happy absence of striking events. The national debt of the United States has been reduced in a marvellous manner, and there are fresh miracles of the kind in store. Presi dent r GRANT, though one of the foremost soldiers of the time, is a man of peace, and is busy in completing the work of reconstruction. It is to be hoped that he will have the satisfaction of bringing about the settlement of the dispute between his country and ours. It is no fault of ours that it was not _settled at the beginning of the year. The failure of the CLARENDON-JOIINSON • treaty is still too fresh in our recollection to need more than this passing notice. In South America -the war, that has for more than four years been waging hetween Paraguay and the allied forces of Brazil, Upiguay, and the Argentine Confederation appears to be at an end, for President LOPEZ has fled. Cuba is still in a state of insurrection'; and if it were not that the politicians of the United States are very anxious to make us acknowledge ourselves wrong in recognising the belligerency of the Southern Confederacy, the Washington Government would long ago hive recognised that of the Cubans, and probably something more. It remains only to mention the chief persons who have died during the year. The most noticeable was Lord DERBY, who, however, as we have seen, died a few weeks too late to save himself from a melancholy ending to his long 4 career. Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, Lord BROUGHTON, Lord DELAWARR, Sir WILLIAM CLAY, Mr. ERNEST JONES, and Gene ral PERRONET THOMPSON were English politicians of a less prominent type. Literature, science, and art in this country have" lost Viscount STRANGFORD, Sir H. ELLIS, WILLIAM CARLETON, WILLIAM JERDAN„ Sir EMERSON TENNENT, Sir C. DILKE, PETER CUNNINGHAM, Dean WADDINGTON, ALEX ANDER DYCE, Lady DUFF GORDON, Professor CON- , NINGTON, Professor GRAHAM, and Mr. CRESIVICK. A gallant old general, Lord GOUGII, has died at the age of 90. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER deserves mention as the wealthiest of peers, Mr. PEABODY as the most munificent of Commoners, and Lady PALMERSTON as the most gracious of hostesses. The removals from the Episcopal Bench we have already men tioned. The Judges' Bench has lost ex-Chief Justice LEFROY, Mr. WALSH, Sir GEORGE HAYES, and Mr. PATTON, the last under very distressing circumstances. Among eminent foreigners who have died during the year we find the names of LAMARTINE, Marshal NIEL, the Marquis DE MOUSTIER. M. TROPLONG, Baron JoMINI, Count GOLTZ, BERGENROTH, the explorer of the Simanca archives; Baron LEYS; SAINTE BEUVE, Prince of Critics ; FORCADE, Mr. FESSENDEN, General PIERCE, Mr. STANTON, HECTOR BERLIOZ, and Madame Gnisr. Happily, it is not a very long list, and it contains remarkably few names of the foremost rank. In this respect, at all events, may 1870 resemble 1869. MR. GLADSTOIVE ON DISARMAMENT. In answer to a proposition for general disarmament made by the Peace Society to the Premier, the right hon. gentleman has returned the following answer through his secretary --" I am directed to request that you will return Mr. Gladstone's thanks to the committee, and assure them that their views in favour of peaceful relations and arrangements will at all times command the respectful consideration of her Majesty's Ministers." CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST. The English Independent, under the heading " The Dawning in the East," observes that Madagascar is not the only quarter of the missionary field from which unex pected news of encouragement has come. The two Kings of Siam, who were crowned at the end of 1868, have recently given an audience to the American missionaries, to whom they pro mised both countenance and help ; and public proclamation has been made that all their subjects, of whatever grade, are free to embrace Christianity if they choose to do so, " without any manner of molesta tion in person or property." From the sacred city of Be nares, the stronghold of idolatry in Bengal, upon which the preaching of European missionaries for many years seems to have produced literally no impression, the Rev. M. A. Sherring reports that a pundit has suddenly begun pub licly to attack the teaching of the Brahmins. Great crowds gather to listen as he explaing that the Vedas give no countenance to idolatry, and that the Puranas which do are worthless. One rich Hindoo is said to have been so impressed by the addresses of the reformer that he has destroyed the temples upon his lands. At the same time comes news of several native Christians who have been engaged in evangelising itineraries with remarkable results. The general tenour of the news from China also is satis factory, but 'of missions in that country we shall have more to say another week. The Pall-Mall Gazette understands that the ques ion of throwing open the Civil Service to public competi tion is at the present tittle under "serious consideration." The Bishop Winchester has been appointed chair man of the Ritual Commission, in the absence of the Arch bishop of Canterbury through illness. It is rumoured that the Treasury authorities eon' template taking the Welsh fasting girl's case into their hands, and instructing counsel to conduct the prosecution. The Election Commissioners' Reports, says the Globe, are said to be in favour of the disfranchkement of Bridgewater and Beverley, but not of Norwich. Sir Stafford Northcote, M.P., and Earl Fortescue attended the demonstration at Exeter, on Wednesday, is honour to Rishop Temple. Dean Stanley sent a letter, stating that he was prevented by a severe cold from bei" present. A statement has appeared in the Manchester Guardian, and copied by other papers, that th e Government, acting on the advice of Mr. Goschen, declined' to render any aid in furtherance of emigration. The Pa l l Mall Gazette is asked to say that this statement is incorrect. The death is announced of Edward Lord Crofton, at Mote Park, County of Roscommon, on Monday. Lord Crofton had been indisposed, but his state of health did 1 4 create much apprehension. He was, however, rather ill about mid-day on Monday, and expired the same night• Lord Crofton was 63 years of age. The Northern Daily apress reports a boiler ex: plosion, resulting in the loss of two lives, which occue a ,. about. half-past seve n o ' c l oc k on Wednesday morn ing " Bewick Main Colliery, near Lamesley. Besides the fatalitieo mentioned, a man, employed at the colliery in the capa city' of wayman, was very severely scalded, and doubts ar e oil tertained as to his ultimate recovery. The new Suffragan of the Archbishop of Canter' bury will in all probability take the title of Bishop of Maid stone or Bishop of Croydon. Amongst the names promi nently mentioned as those from whom his Grace will elect his two aro Archdeacon Parry, the Rev. C. F. Tarver, Vicar of St. Peter's, Umet; the Rev. W. F. Erskine ICnowleiii Rector of Saltwood ; the Rev. J. Hodgson, Vicar of Cr o y don ; and the Rev. Josiah Bateman, Vicar of Margate. nf The Globe announces th a t C o l one l Tottenham , - Pl 5. Berwin, Llangollen, the chairman of the County Coo" servative Association for Merionethshire has been by the , Conservative party unanimou s ly i nv it e d to stand for. the county, which he has cons e nt e d t o d o . C o lo n el Tottentaro ° high position and pop u l ar ity i u th e coun ty leads us to ex pect; that the county will b e rescue d f rom the hands o f th Liberal party. M 0 COMM Busines active, bui gree. Co prices ; au firmness I successful Consols ditto, for duced, 9f Exchequer par to 5 pr prem. ; 41 per Ce India S ditto 5 p( Cent., 0 4 per Cen The sol new Turk withstand incidental of the am , been paid on two de in full cal the instal in that cc larger ext About the Bank In the] Brazilian, Viceroy's per Cents to 13r; F (1867), 2 Turkish I per Cents Amerie and the 'I and Thin In Rai Great No 761 ; Me 781 to 7 Chatham, 38i to 3 Great WI Shire, 127 47k; Lon North Ea . Lc mba. Great Lu Telegra 331 to 33 Cable, 16 2k to 21. 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