The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-25 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manzger, Mr. Buckstone. TO-MORROW EVENING, BROTHER SAM : Messrs. &them, Buckstone, Compton; Mesdames /idly Moore, Snowden, Arc. To be followed by ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARKF.T. Messrs. W. Farren, Fisher, Bartieman, Wealhersby, &c. ; Mesdames Keeley, Snowden, Moore, Lindley, Woolgar, Wright, Coleman, Lovell, Prevot, &c. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. BOXING-NIGHT, Dec. 26, and during the week, a New Drama, entitled TEI E MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Edgar Ravenswood, Mr. Fechter, supported by a powerful company. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TO-MORO/IV EVENING, at 7, a new farce called BE HIND TIME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phillips, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss A. Seamen, &c. After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 96th appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington, F. Bedford, It Phillips, Felix Rogtrs, Ashley, Eburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Billingtor, &c. To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE. Messrs. J. L. Toole, I'. Bedford, Ashley; Miss K. Kelly, &o. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. ' A TO-MORROW EVENING, QUINT LODGINGS. After which, at a quarter to Eight, IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. Characters by Messrs. Vining. T. Mel ville, T. Mead, D. Murray, S. Calhaem, F. Vilders, J. G. Shore, G. Murray, H. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. Cathcart; Miss L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers. ROYAL S 1 RAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. •.wanborou,gh. TO-MORROW. at Seven, NOTIIING VENTURE uT G WIN. Alter which will be produced a new opera Burlesque, L'AFRICAINE; or, The Queen of the Cannib Li Islan is. Messrs. Stoyle, James, Thorne; Mesdames Swanborough, Itaynham, Johnstone, .tc. 'Ca conclude with MRS. GREEN'S SNUG BUSINESS A S TLE Y'S THEATRE-ROYAL Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. 1865 AND 1866. TO-MORROW EVENING (BOXING NIGHT), will be produced an entirely new, original, grand, prochildreni cal, hippo-dramatic, comic Christmas Pantonume, entitled HARLEQUIN TOM, TOM, 'I HE PIPE R's SON, POPE JOAN AN D LITTLE 80-YEEP ; Or, Old Daddy Long legs, and the Pig that went to Market, and the Pig that stayed at Home. The magnificent Scenery and the u,ipre cedented Transformation Effects designed and painted by Mr. C. brew, Mr. W. Brew, and numerous assistants. Reduced prices as usual. GRATIS AND POST FREE. E. MOSES and SONS' FASHIONABLE ALMANAC for IS6d, List 01 Prices, with Fashion-card for the present season. MOSES AND S 0 N • tespectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTIIING. The newest fabrics are combined with the latest and most fashionable designs, and the best workmanship. E. 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There is trouble on the Milwaukee and La Crosse, Wisconsin, Railroad. Th e f arm mor t grig eos are tearing up the track. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY FEVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1865. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. HOUSES. —Messrs. TOPIAS and ROBERTS have numerous furnished and unfurnished TOWN, ftJurban, and Country RESIDENCES to LET or exact SELL. P a rticulars forwarded for three stamp s, upon stating requirements and rental. Offices, 2, Conduit -street, Regent street, and South Kensington, facing the Museum. THIS DAY.—Morning, 6h. 50m.—Afternoon, 7h. 16m. To-Moußow.-Morning, 7h. 44m.--Afternoon, Bh. 15m. . j, oz . . t. 41/I .l t vic:4oo4„ 0 UTII KENSINGTON, HYDE-PARK, 1.3 Queen's, and Rutland G ates. Queen's -gate and Peters ham Terraces, Queen's -gate, Cornwall, and Princes Gardens, Elvaston-place, Cromwell-road, Onslow and Thurloe Squares, Boltons. eic. Messrs TOPLI3 and ROBERTS have RESI DENCES to LET in t and surrouding localities. Offices, SELL 2,and Conduit-street,hese ltegent-street, n and Bouth Kensington, facing the Museum. LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 25, 1865. The arrival of the Scotia from New York, on the 13th, brings us intelligence of some importance. The Mexican question threatens to assume formid able proportions, and the session of the Congress has not long commenced without its being brought forward. In both Houses resolutions have been introduced of very great importance respecting the policy pursued by the Emperor of the FRENCH in supporting MAXIMILIAN, and directed against the very existence of the Mexican Empire. These re solutions have been referred to the Committee for Foreign Affairs, and meanwhile both Houses have asked the PRESIDENT for the production of all correspondence touching the French occupation, and also regarding MAXIMILIAN'S decree ordering Republicans found under arms to be shot without trial. It has long been known that very great ' irritation existed in America respecting the pre sence of Europeans in Mexico, and especially with regard to the assistance afforded to the new Government by the French troops ; and this feeling was expected to find some expression as soon as the popular representatives should assemble. This anticipation has been fully realised, and the terms of the resolutions are imperative. They de clare that in pursuance of the policy expressed by NAPOEEON in July, 1862, an attempt has been made to establish a monarchy in Mexico contrary to the wish of the people, and to support the usurpation of MAXIMILIAN by European soldiers ; and that MAXIMILIAN having practically esta blished slavery, and declared Republicans outlaws, the Senate contemplates the condition of Mexico with profound solicitude. " The attempt to esta blish a monarchy on the American Continent, sus tained solely by European bayonets, is opposed to the declared policy of the Federal Government, offensive to the people, and contrary to the spirit of their institutions. The PRESIDENT iS requested to take such steps concerning this grave matter as will vindicate the recognised policy and pro tect the honour and interest of the Federal Go vernment." What the PRESIDENT will do remains to be seen, but there can be no doubt that there is a very serious imbroglio. The condition of the American finances does not certainly appear to threaten war, but it is not easy to measure the amount of the national energies, especially when the people are just flushed with the excitement of a recent triumph. They are confident in their own resources and in their military skill, and have all the appliances of war ready to their hand. The numerous disbanded regiments, and the numerous officers who have lost all present chance of fame and fortune, would be ready enough to begin another conflict. General GuANT is known to favour active measures against the Mexican Emperor and his European allies, and he would most likely find plenty other soldiers who would be glad enough to beat their pruning hooks into swords again. The General is reported to have said on a late occasion that he believes this was the favour able moment for the expulsion of MAXIMILIAN, and if the opportunity were lost it might not recur. The words adopted by the Senate cannot therefore be looked upon as only empty threats, for, however re luctant the PRESIDENT might be to plunge into another war with so many internal complications yet unsettled, it is quite within the limits of possi bility that his people may drive him to it. Peace is indeed what America wants just now, but the MONROE doctrine has always been a favourite with transatlantic statesmen, and there is no knowing how far the irritation experienced at the presence of the foreigner may carry the people. France her self may be reluctant to engage in a war which would at the best be costly and unprofitable to her. The Mexican contest has always been unpopular with the French people, and France would be greatly at a disadvantage in economy and promptitude from her distance from the scene of action. It is between France and America that the real issue lies, for MAXIMILIAN'S throne, unsupported by French bayonets, would be worth little enough. Curiously enough, neither of the belligerents would have a direct personal interest in the matter, but similar relations have before now led to long and desperate struggles. It is possible that the French EM PEROR, not caring to push the matter further, may quietly withdraw his troops, and leave the Republicans and Imperialists to settle the dispute as they please, in which case the new ruler of Mexico would probably make a speedy exit from his kingdom. Such a termination would be the best adapted to the interests of France and America, both of which have more to gain by peace than by war, even though the past of Mexico does not give us much hope for its future, even under Republican guidance. TII EATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.— Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. NOTICE.—FOUR SPECIAL MORNING PERFORM ANCES of the PANTOMIME, on WEDNESDAY, December 27th, Thursday, 28th, Friday, 29th, and Saturday, 30th, and every Monday, Wednesday, and Sa turday during the month of January. On BOXING NIGHT, and each Evening during the Week, the Per formances will commence with the Farce, by Edmund Fal coner, entitled HUSBANDS BEWARE. Principal charac ters by Messrs. G. Belmore, C. Harcourt, F. Barsby, C. Warner; Misses Hazlewood, R. Leclercq., and Miss E. Falconer. Concluding with the Drury Lane Annual Grand Christmas Pantomime, written by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., entitled LITTLE KING PIPPIN; or, Harlequin Fortu natus and the Magic Purse and Wishing-cap! The gor geously beautiful character of the decorations, inclusive of more than the usual amount of scenic surprises and transformation wonders, are insured by the fact of their being entirely designed and for the most part executed by the celebrated artist William Beverley, whose eminent services have been retained this Christmas exclusively for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. The general action of the pantomime arranged by and the whole produced under the direction of Mr. Robert Roxby. Characters in the opening : Miss Hazlewood, Miss Augusta Thomson, Miss E. Leclercq, Miss E. Falconer, Miss Clara Morgan ; Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Barshy, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. G. Weston Mr. Henri Drayton, and Master Percy Roselle. The Harlequinade' includes the ser vices of those popular pantomimists (forming a double company), Harry Boleno and Mr. C. Laure, Clowns ; Mr. W. A. Barnes and Mr. J. Morris, Pantaloons ; Mr. Cor mack and Mr. S. Saville, Harlequins; Mdme. Boleno and Miss Laura Morgan, Columbines. The masks, devices, and dresses, from designs by the humorously renowned Dykwyn kyn. The Music selected and arranged by Mr. J. Barnard. Machinery by Mr. J. Tucker and assistants. Gas Illu minations by Mr. J. Hinkley. Properties by Mr. Need ham, R. Glindon, and Assistants. Dresses by Mr. S. May and Mrs. Lawler. The Dances and action of the Ballet arranged by Mr. Cormack. Comic Scenes, Tricks, &c., invented by Messers. H. Boleno and Cormack.—The performances to co mmence ever y evening at seven o'clock prec i se ly and terminate by eleven o'clock. Box office open from ten till five daily. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. 3. Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and E. B. Chatterton. SPECIAL MORNING PERFORMANCES. In answer to numerous applications from parties residing in the environs, and in order to allow country visitors to London during the holiday week an opportunity to witness the Drury-lane Annual Grand Christmas Pantomime, en titled (this year) LITTLE KING PIPPIN ; or, Harlequin Fortunatus and the Magic Purse and Wishing Cap, Messrs. Falconer and Chatterton have decided on giving FOUR MORNING PERFORMANCES, on WEDNESDAY, Dec. 27th ; THURSDAY, 28th ; FRIDAY, 29th ; and SATUR DAY, 30th; and every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday in the month of January. Doors open at half-past Ono. Commence at Two o'clock each day. Children and Schools at reduced prices to the following parts of the Theatre : First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Meanwhile the internal affairs of the States are much more satisfactory. The Radicals who began the session with such a flourish of trumpets, and carried all before them, have already disgusted the public, and, happily, their ingenious schemes for driving the South into anarchy and desperation, and sacrificing the future of the whole country to their present political ambition, have been frustrated. The Senate has, it is true, passed the obnoxious resolutions referring the claims of the Southern members to the decision of a committee, but it has passed it with an amend ment completely neutralising its effects. The amendment makes the resolution concurrent, per mits debate on the subject, and provides for the admission of one or more State delegations, with out waiting for the cases of all to be decided. The credentials of the Tennessee members have been roceived by the House, and referred to the joint committee, and pendi ng its decision the members have been granted the privilege of the floor, but the other Southern members are excluded. It is believed, however, that the opposition to their ad mission is diminishing. Out of doors the feeling towards the South is daily becoming mo re i n f avour of a conciliation policy. Men are anxious to renew the old commercial relationships, and to see pros perity return to the now desolated p rov i nces. There is, they feel, no chance for the material resurrection of the South until confidence and security are restored, and this can only be done by a wise and temperate policy. A small fraction from New England cannot be allowed to dominate over the representative assembly of a country like America, possessing such wide and varied interests and animated by so many opposite principles and feelings ; neither can the Northern people consent to see half the Union laid waste, and themselves thrust into the execrable position of unscrupulous tyrants, to please a party of fanatics, who would solve the most difficult and deli cate problems of Government by a rigid ap plication of their own party rules. There remains much to be done, and there will no doubt be a strong opposition to the admission of the Southern members, which the South has a right to demand at ' the hands of a people whose entire political consti tution is based upon the principle of national repre sentation. Nevertheless something is gained already by the action of the Senate, and as the known wishes of the PRESIDENT and the general feeling of the public must necessarily influence Congress, there is good reason to hope that the side of right and justice will eventually come off victorious. The Fenian pride in its New York offices has preceded a complete and somewhat ludicrous down fall. There are now two Fenian Presidents and two Fenian organisations, likely to be much more for midable to each other than they are to the Sasse nach. The Fenian Senate has impeached O'MAIIONY, the first President, for misappropriation of funds, and have elected a Mr. ROBERTS. O'MAHONY'S supporters pay no heed, and have called Congress to assemble in New York in January. Meetings of the supporters of both parties have been held throughout the country, and the attention of Hiber nian patriots has no doubt been fully engaged in deciding on their respective merits. STEPIIENS, the Irish hero, is expected in New York, and it is thought he will be an arbiter between the belligerents. Per haps when he finds the state of affairs he may set up as President No. 3. Why not add a fourth, and have one for each province? If they could keep up a constant fight for supremacy, the constitution would be the most popular that Ireland ever had. Christmas is a season that is always welcomed in this country, and whatever changes may be intro duced in the course of time, it is to be trusted that no alteration will ever take place in the manner in which this anniversary of our LORD'S nativity is celebrated. It is true that nowadays people have become more practical, and there is not that abun dance of mirth and that prolongation of festivities that once marked the period, but there is no reason why the really bright and beneficial celebration of Christmas should be altered. It is not only for pleasure that the time should be regarded, many other important and interesting associations sur round it, and those who from misfortune or through adverse circumstances are precluded from mixing in the festive throng, or giving themselves up to the enjoyments of the time, can yet partake in the highest and loftiest sense of the privileges of the season. Christmas has many associations, and they who rightly regard the sacred season in an impres sive manner, will find something of solemnity in its gayest attributes, something of consolation in its most trying reminiscences, and something of hope in the darkest prospects that life may afford. No season which greets us on our earthly pilgrimage is so rife with cheering auspices or so rich in grace and glory. It contains in an eminent degree the promise of this world and of that which is to come. It is the herald of our salvation, and the messenger of love and peace; it imparts new zest to this life, and lends reality and substance to the vision of that better state to come which prophets fore told and sages spoke of, but of which the centuries that have passed since the Christian era contain the full assurance and the bright reality. It is not then out of place at a time like this for the busy world to pause, the gay world to be serious, and the wicked world to arrest its progress, in order to think how far we have deviated from those duties which essentially appertain to the scene now be fore us. Perhaps in nothing is our community more to blame than for the treatment of the poor. Laws are made and rules and regulations framed for the preservation of order and the maintenance of regu larity in those gloomy abodes where want has to seek a shelter and misery reaches its last acme of desolation, but who cares to make our workhouses conducive to the comfort, and calculated to provide for the wants of their unhappy inmates. If one subject more than another is appropriate to con sider at this season, it is surely the well-being of that class of our fellow-creatures among whom He, whose birthday we now celebrate, was born. We know that although He now sits at the right hand of the Throne of the Majesty in the Heavens, when he took upon Him the form of man, he was cradled in a manger and brought up in poverty and simplicity. Those who celebrate the birth of CHRIST in the true spirit and with the right feeling will remember that the poor are His brethren, and not be above considering them their own. Even after the immediate period of rejoicing is over there will be plenty of opportunities afforded to those rich in this world's goods to bestow of their abundance on those that need it. Many institu tions of the most deserving kind, and that provide the most desirable assistance to the sick, the be reaved, and the afflicted, are in great want of sup port, and a better opportunity cannot be taken than the season of Christmas to enrich the store houses and increase the means of these resources for those so greatly in need of succour. Surely they will be offerings as precious and gifts of as great value as the myrrh and precious incense which were brought to the manger in Bethlehem. Too much importance cannot be attached to a season like this, that calls the community to cease for a moment from toil and pleasure, from money getting and bargain-driving, and rejoice in the glad tidings of great joy, which, eighteen centuries ago, were told to the shepherds beneath the starry skies of Galilee, and above those starry skies were re-echoed through the vaults of heaven by the angel hosts, who sang of peace on earth and good-will to man. Life has something better to attract our interest 'and awaken our desires than the sordid views which too much engross our thoughts, and seem at times to monopolise our being ; and, if one custom more than another can break the bonds of worldliness, and penetrate the Cimmerian gloom of selfish life, it must be an oczasion like the present. Friends meet, families assemble, and households are filled with gay and glittering groups ; and not only do those near at hand engage attention at this crisis, but old associations and long-past usages recall the faces of those who may be dwelling in distant lands with rolling oceans between them and the old familiar place where their Christmases were once passed. Yet more : this anniversary will recall many who will never again cross the threshold of an earthly home, whose feet, We regret to state that a telegram received from Pisa yesterday announces the death of Sir Charles East lake, President of the Royal Academy. We understand that a reform meeting will be held at Rochdale on the 3d of January, 1866, and that Mr. Bright, M.P., will bo present and will address the meeting. A NEW BARONET.—The members of the medical profession will be glad to hear that her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to confer the title of a baronet of the United Kingdom on William Fergusson, Esq., F.R.S., the accomplished Professor of Surgery to King's College. Sir William Fergusson is not only well known as the most deservedly popular surgeon of the day, but also from his valuable contributions to the advancement of that science of which he is so bright an ornament. TILE DERBY DAY.—Mr. Frith's picture of the Derby Day has at last been placed on the walls at the South Kensington Museum, among the pictures of the British school, in charge of the Trustees of the National Gallery, and will be exhibited during the Christmas week, when the Museum is open daily till 10 p.m., on and from Tuesday, the 26th inst., to the 2d of January, 1866. RUN OVER IN THE STREETS. —An inquest was held by Dr. Lankester on Saturday afternoon at the Queen's Arms, Queen's-road, Hornsey-road, relative to the death of Elizabeth Mary Tinbull, who died from injuries sustained by being knocked down by a cart near the residence of her parents, Ashburnham-grove, Hornsey-road. The deceased was returning from school in company with some other children, when, in endeavouring to cross the road to avoid a lot of roughs who are in the habit of congregating in the locality, she came in contact with a butcher's cart, the wheels of which passed over her body, causing injuries which resulted in her death. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. " by GOD'S good will years since green still ;" and the places of whose resort shall know them no more. Even under this aspect no period like Christmas can better afford such vistas. The great Guest whom in spirit, if not in presence, we welcome at our feasts to-day, is He who took the sting from death and the victory from the grave; and we may trust that they who are no longer celebrating the rejoicings vision oicings of those ofmanki joysn d,hl have can never knowenedtheireyesto the change or decay. such The hardest nature must be im pressed by a re-union as those which generally take place to-day, and the most gloomy must in some degree shake off their depression. Much have we to be thankful for in our old-established national forms, but for none more than the time honoured custom of celebrating Christmas as a holiday throughout the length and breadth of the land. Such a habit tends to connect us with the time gone by, and elevates us from the beaten track of the work-a-day world that so consumes our thoughts and wearies our minds. " A glimpse of the days that are o'er " is always re freshing and delightful, and we may look from the sober doings of our generation to _ the grand old times, when in baronial halls TIIE MAIL SERVICE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE.—The annual report of the Post master-General of the United States, which accompanies the President's Message, contains some important state ments with reference to the foreign mail service. The aggregate postage—sea, inland, and foreign —upon the correspondence exchanged with foreign countries amounted to $1,819,928 56c., of which $1,449,530 76c. accrued on the mails exchanged with Great Britain and the Continent. The amount of the United States' postage on correspondence with Great Britain and the Continent was $570,156 84c. The cost of the United States' trans- Atlantic mail service performed by steamers was $405,479 56c. Of this amount there was earned— By the New York and Liverpool (Inman) line 5213,330 23c. By the Canadian line 71,106 70c. By the New York, Southampton, and Hamburg line By the Now York, Southampton, and Bremen line In the collections for the mail service with Great Britain and the Continent there is a balance against the United States of $411,582 32c. The United States' Clovernment now gives no subsidies to any steamship lines for carrying mails between America and Europe. The Postmaster- General is not in favor of subsidising steamship lines for carrying the mails, and in this connection says:—" During the rebellion American steamers engaged in the carrying trade between this country and Europe wore withdrawn from the service, resulting to the advantage of foreign lines, which continued their regular voyages ; and while the subsidies granted by Great Britain to the Cunard line, and by France to the line recently established between Havre and New York, materially aided these lines, it does not follow that they would not have been self-supporting and even remunerative without such aid ; neither has this department information warranting the conclusion that American lines would not have been sustained during the same period, under the provisions of the existing law, allowing the United States' postage as compensation for the service." 47,769 52c, A STORY FROM THE FAR WEST.—The Salt Lake Telegraph, of the 11th of November, has the following : " The biggest thing yet in the gold mining line, sur passing the Mont Cenis story, is reported discovered at Dry Gulch, four miles from Helena, Montana. The Post talks of millions lying around loose,' andthe vast amount of gold discovered 'affecting the standard of gold valuation throughout the commercial world.' It is stated that Mr. Brown, a German or Norwegian, has discovered a gold deposit which, in richness and extent, has perhaps no parallel in the history of gold mining. The lodge has been traced fully 75ft. We give the following glowing de scription of the Post: Gold, in almost solid masses, glittered before his bewildered vision. For two weeks longer, unknown to others, ho tunnelled in the golden wall. Secreted about him he had accumulated several gunny sacks, literally filled with the precious metal; when longer secrecy became impracticable, from the very ex tent of his unexpected wealth, Mr. Brown proceeded to record and secure his property, when the public wero in formed of the great discovery. It is said that he now keeps a strong guard night and day over his seemingly incomputable wealth, while he himself, unassisted, delves into the golden wall around him, and continues multi plying his sacks of precious ore. One person who was admitted into Mr. Brown's drift states that it presented a scene of wealth more akin to a picture of imagination than actuality. Gold ! gold ! gold ! met the view on every side - above, below, and all around—and reflected back its rich hues in the glare of the candle, as if this subterranean vault had been hewn out of a solid ledge of the yellow metal. This gold is found in a well-defined ledge, fully 50ft. in width. The gold vein is three feet wide-three-fourths of the entire substance therein being pure gold ; the remainder merely bismuth. On each side of this vein there is a casing of one foot of quartz, which will assay from $5OO to $2,000 to the ton. The very wall-wok is rich.' "—Toronto Globe. high days and holidays were kept in state, and LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. when feasting and murmurings alternately divided the attention. One who done good service to those who would snatch the doings of their forefathers from the shadow of time has devoted some space in his valuable contributions to the description of this period, and no one who wishes to attain a good notion of them can do better than peruse the pages in which Sir WALTER Scum tells of the yule time in the brave days of old— " And well our Christian sires of old Loved when the year its course had rolled, And brought blithe Christmas back again, With all its hospitable train. England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again ; 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale, A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year." It is true, whether people think it matters or not, that we of the present day are not so merry as those who preceded us were. Why it should be it is needless now to inquire, but the joviality that was so prominent a feature in the past times, of which we made mention, does not now distinguish us, and we are far more prosaic and practical. We have then more reason than ever to hail the approach of a season set apart for rejoicing, and a time when the stiffest must, in some measure, unbend, and the most serene relax a little from their austerity. Christmas may be none the worse celebrated in the widest sense if those who assist at its festivities are in some degree overcast. 'We meet to hail the birth of Him who was sent to save our fallen nature ; but He, at whose altars we kneel, once wore the crown of thorns, and no sorrows were like to His. Misanthropical ideas have, then, no place at this juncture, and none can, with propriety, ex cuse themselves from mingling in the rejoicings that bring earth nearer to heaven, show man his best hope of comfort, and lend to this well-known daily path a light and a lustre that transform and ir radiate. The most cheering and hopeful attributes of this life surround the season of Christmas ; it is pre-eminently the feast for children to revel and de light in, and the careworn man and jaded pilgrim on the road of life may renew his youth as he wit nesses their sports. In all and every aspect there must this day be a happy one, and England may rejoice that her great day of high festival is one which bears such hopes to man and renews such glad associations. It is a period which connects us with the ages of antiquity, and bears us on down the current of time to the ultimate and lasting des tiny of the spirit which we feel was made for better things than the trivial objects which now engross it. Christmas is, then, a landmark on the road of life, a period when we are called upon to rejoice, some times a harder thing to do than to toil, to suffer, or to despond. But He who gave the command is our Friend, and if we would hear with joy the trumpet that announces the second advent we must celebrate His first coming in the right spirit, and follow in His footsteps who had nob where to lay his head, but went about to succour and to save. Many changes have taken place in our world since He visited it ; but one thing remains unchanged, the opportunity of serving those who are in trouble and lightening the burdens of the heavy-laden. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) CHINA AND JAPAN. HONG-KONG, Nov. 15 (via Alexandria). Sir Rutherford Alcock has set out for the Taku Ports, en route for Pekin, and has hitherto met with no opposition. At Shanghae and in this city his excellency was met by deputations, by whom he was entrusted with several matters to be laid before the Imperial Cabinet. The English consul at Swatow has gone to Choo sbow, in order, it is presumed, to open that place to Europeans under the Tien-tsin treaty. The maritime customs are working well. Some gunboats have attacked a fleet of piratical vessels, destroying 10 craft, and capturing a lorcha. A registration office for Chinese servants has been opened at Shnnghae. A great advance has taken place in piece goods. The Albeona and Shakspere have been lost. Advices from Japan state that the British, French, and Dutch Ministers had started for the residence of the Mikado, with the object, it was supposed, of obtaining his consent to the Tycoon's treaties, and of opening Ossaca and Hiogo to foreign trade. Another of the murderers of Major Baldwin and Lieut. Bird had been captured at Yeddo. He con fessed his crime, and was executed. The crop of raw silk was short. Piece goods had advanced to unprecedented rates. (By Overland Telegraph from Galle.) SHANGIIA.E, Nov. 25. The anti-foreign party are actively intriguing at Pekin. Intelligence received from Japan announces that the Mikado had refused to open the ports. The foreign Ministers had referred the question to their respective Governments. The fleets had returned to Yokohama. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 23.—Two o'clock.—The market shows symptoms of heaviness, especially on Credit Mobilier and foreign Railway Shares ; Rente, how ever, remains stationary at 68f. 371 c., whilst Italian Fives have an adance of 15c.—at 65f. 65c. Credit Mobilier Shares have declined 7f. 50c. ; Portuguese Railway Shares, llf. 25c. ; Saragossa, 7f. 50c. ; North of Spain, Bf. 75c.; and Lyons and Lombard, If. 25c. each. The obligations of the New Otto man Loan continue to be offered at If. 50c. dis count Three o'clock.—The market has continued heavy, and closed at the following lower quota tions : , 1?-, per Cents — Do. end month — 3 per Cents. GB 20 Do. end month 6B 34 Credit Mobilier 867 Do. end month 870 Bank Shares — Credit Foncier — Italian Loan 65 50 Do. end month 65 GO i RAIL' Roman — Ottoman Fives — Mexican Loan 49 Do. Bonds — Russian - Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred WAYS. Cash. Acct. 840 - - ... 1132 50 „. 852 50 . 572 50 Orleans Northern. Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian , Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Romau - - ... 215 - - - ... 433 75 - - ... 433 75 - - ... 163 75 - - ... 212 50 - - ... 161 25 The Cattle Plague. A second Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday last, published on Saturday evening, contains the following : By the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council. Present—Lord President, Duke of Somerset, Sir Geo. Grey, Bart., and Mr. Milner Gibson. Whereas, by an act passed in the session of the 11th and 12th years of her present Majesty's reign, intituled "An act to prevent until the Ist day of September, 1850, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament, the spreading of contagious or infectious disorders among sheep, cattle, and other animals," which act has since been from time to time continued by divers subsequent acts, and lastly by an act passed in the session of the 28th and 29th years of her present Majesty, it is (amongst other things) enacted that it shall be lawful for the Lords and others of her Majesty's Privy Council, or any two or more of them, from time to time to make such orders and regulations as to them may seem necessary for the purpose of prohibiting or regulat ing the removal to or from such parts or places as they may designate in such order or orders, of sheep, cattle, horses, swine, or other animals, or of meat, skins, hides, horns, hoofs, or other parts of any animals, and to make any other orders or regulations for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of the said act, and again to revoke, alter, or vary any such orders or regulations ; and that all provisions for any of the purposes aforesaid in any such order or orders contained, shall have the like force and effect as if the same had been inserted in the said act ; and that all persons offending against the same shall for each and every offence forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, or such smaller sum as the said lords or others of her Majesty's Privy Council may in any case by such order direct. And whereas a contagious or infectious disorder now prevails among cattle within part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, which disorder is generally designated as the " cattle plague." And whereas with a view to check the spreading of the said disorder, an order dated the 23d of N ovem ber, 1865, has been made under the authority of the said acts by the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Coun cil, consolidating and amending certain orders pro viously made for that purpose. And whereas it is expedient to alter and amend the said order of the 23d of November, 1865. Now, therefore, the Lords of her Majesty's Privy Council do hereby, in exercise of the powers given by the said act, so continued as aforesaid, order as follows : 1. So much of the said order, dated the 23d of November, 1865, as defines the local authority in Great Britain, is hereby revoked. 2. Subject to the powers reserved by the order of the 23d of November to the Clerk of her Majesty's Privy Council, the local authority within the city of London, and the liberties thereof, shall be the Lord Mayor; in every borough in England or Wales which is within the provisions of the Municipal Cor poration Act, the mayor ; in every county, riding, or division of a county, or liberty, having a separate court of quarter sessions of the peace in England or Wales, the justices of the peace for the said county, riding, or division of a county, or liberty, in general or quarter sessions assembled : provided that no county of a city, or county of a town, or borough, which is 'within the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act, shall be deemed for the purposes of this order part of a county, riding, division, or liberty. The local authority in every burgh or town in Scotland having a town council shall be the pro vost or other principal magistrate ; and in any other place in Scotland, the justices of the county in ses sions assembled. 3. All appointments made, notices given, and other acts done by any local authority under and by virtue of the said order of the 23d of November, 1865, or the orders thereby revoked, shall be valid and effectual until altered, varied, or revoked by the local authority hereby constituted, and such local authority shall have and exercise all the powers given by the said order of the 23d of November, 1865, to the local authority therein described. 4. Whenever any local authority declares, by notice published in any newspaper circulating within its jurisdiction, that it is expedient for a time to be specified in such notice, that no cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or calf shall, except under such condi tions as such local authority shall think fit to im pose with a view to prevent the spreading of the said disorder, be removed from any particular part of the jurisdiction of such local authority to any other part of such jurisdiction, or from any place or places within such jurisdiction, to be specified in' such notice, to any other place or places so specified, or from place to place generally within such juris diction, or within any specified part thereof ; then it shall not be lawful for any person to remove any such animal in contravention of such notice : pro vided always, that nothing contained in this clause of this order shall make it unlawful for any person to send or carry any such animal by railway through or out of such jurisdiction, or to send or carry any such animal if brought by sea from any place out of Great Britain into such jurisdiction, to the nearest convenient railway station, for the purpose of carrying it through or out of such jurisdiction. 5. Any local authority may from time to time re new, revoke, alter, or vary, all or any part of any notice published or to be published by him or them, or any previous local authority within his or their jurisdiction, under the powers given under this or any former orders, either absolutely or under such conditions as to such local authority may seem proper, by a further notice to be published in the same manner as such notice is required to be pub lished. 6. The notice required by section 8 of the order of the 23d of November, 1865, to be given in Eng land to the clerk of the justices acting in and for a petty sessional division of a county, shall hereafter be given to the clerk of the peace of such county. 7. This order shall be in force from the 3d day of January next until the Ist day of March next, and no longer, unless continued by some further order. 8. Every person offending against this order shall, in pursuance of the said act, for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, which the justices before whom he or she shall be convicted of such offence may think fit to impose. ARTHUR HELPS. TEUNTTNGDONSHIRE. In the neigbourhood of Kimbolton the disease is considered less virulent, although it still continues. A first death from the malady occurred at Earith on the 26th ult. Up to Dec. 20, 31 animals had died in the parish, in which there were 183 beasts pre vious to the outbreak of the disease. CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ISLE OF ELY. At Sutton there have been 26 deaths during the week, and there are now more cases under treat ment than at any previous time. But few fresh cases are reported in the Wisbeach district, and some of the beasts attacked at Walpole are recover ing. Mr. Medloe, of Toft, has had canvas bags filled with camphor suspended from the necks of his cattle. Although the disease has, been raging on the next farm, none of Mr. Medloe's beasts had been attacked Other persons in the neighbourhood have adopted the plan, which can of course be car ried out at a trifling expense. At - Willingham the total number of cattle lost since the outbreak of the disease has now been increased to no less than 420. ,~ N i tig6o * Carl . t ‘ 7 M /1" - Qi n ! far 1,. / ' • HER MAJESTY• OSBORNE, Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at Osborne to-day from Greenwich-park. Sunday• Her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Prin cess Selena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, and her Serene Highness Princess Hohen lobe, attended Divine service at Osborne this morn ing, which was performed by the Rev. Geo. Prothero. The Prince and Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge visited the Prince of 'Wales at Marlborough - b ous° on Saturday. The Prince of 'Wales, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, left Marlborough-house on Saturday after noon for Sandringham. The Duke Duke and Duchess of Somerset have left the Admiralty, Whitehall, for Byram Hall, Yorkshire, to spend the Christmas with Sir John and Lady Gwondoline Ramsden. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family left Bowhill on Friday last for Dalkeith Palace, near Edin burgh, to spend the Christmas. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington's party at Strathfieldsaye, Hants, separated on Friday last. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn and Ladies Hamilton arrived at Chesterfield House on Satur day, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Goodwood. The Earl and Countess of Dalkeith arrived at their residence in Hamilton-place on Friday, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury at Severneke Lodge, Wilts, and on Saturday left town for Dalkeith Pa . lace, N.B. The Earl of Dunmore has left Thomas's Hotel Berkeley-square, for Holkham, Norfolk. The Earl St. Maur has left town to visit Sir John and Lady Gwendoline Ramsden at Byram Yorkshire. Viscount Canterbury has left Thomas's HOW, Berkeley-square, for Longleat, Warminster. Viscountess Palmerston, Viscountess Jocelyn , and Hon. Miss Jocelyn have gone to stay a short tim e with the Earl and Countess of Shafte s bu r y an d family a t St. Giles's, Dorsetshire. OFFICIAL GOSSI P.—Earl Cowley is to have the vacant Garter. The Hon. Julian Fane, now Secretary at Vienna, will succeed the Hon. W. Grey as Secretary ° f Embassy at Paris. Mr. George Brackenbury, her Majesty s Consul at Manilla, is appointed to the Consulate at Lisbon . Mr. Pennell, of the Colonial-office, is appointed to act a 5 private secretary to Mr. Forster, Under-Secretary of State. —Observer. Hampshire Memorial to the late-Premier. - - ROMSEY, Saturday. This afternoon a meeting of the Palmerston Memofial Committee was held at the Town-hall, under the presidency of the Mayor, Mr. Lordan• At the request of the committee Lord Eversley attended, and there were also present Mr. G. E. Eyre, the Rev. E. L. Berthon (vicar of RomseY) , the Hon. R. H. Dutton,- M.P., Captain Powell, Dr. Sainsbury, Mr. C. J. Tylee (hon. secretary), Mes°rs• Potter, Purchase, Dyett, &c. The Hon. SECRETARY having read the minutes of the proceedings at the last meeting, The CIIAIRIAN said Lord Eversley had done them the honour of attending that day, and as his lord ship's time was limited their discussion must neces sarily be very brief. They might remember that at the last committee meeting he (the chairman) was deputed to acquaint Lord Eversley with the resolu tions arrived at on that occasion ; and from the letter his lordship had sent him he had been induced to call this meeting that day. The chairman that requested Lord Eversley to give the meeting his opinion as regarded the proposed meeting at IVin chester. Lord EVERSLEY said he had had the honour of receiving a communication from the mayor, stating that the committee had expressed a wish that be should preside at a public meeting to be held at Winchester, and also that Mr. Eyre had suggested that the meeting should take place on the Ist of January, when the Epiphany Sessions would com mence in that city. Now, as the magistracy on the first day of the New Year would assemble at Win chester, the day proposed would be a very conve nient one, but there was a good reason why be (Lord Eversley) would not be able to preside 0 0 that occasion—namely, that he would be too busily engaged in sessions business, as chairman, to per mit of his attending the meeting until a late hour ; although, of course, he should be very happy to for ward the views of the Romsey committee in the matter as much as possible. (Cheers.) Therefore, it would be quite impossible for him to take the chair on the day named. It appeared to his lord ship, however, that it was quite a question for the committee to reconsider whether a meeting at Win chester was desirable under the circumstances . (Hear, hear.) The noble lord understood that at the last meeting of the committee it was decided --first, that there should be some addition made to the Abbey Church of Romsey, an d also that there should be a statue to the Die" mory of the late lamented statesman. The nobl e lord went on to say that he considered it desirable to give up all thoughts of a meeting at Wincheste r / and suggested that subscriptions for placing a m e " morial to the late Premier in Romsey should be forthwith invited. _ . The Rev. E. L. BERTHON remarked that it Nva° extremely gratifying to have the honour of Lord Eversley's attendance that day, and also to bal e been favoured with his lordship's opinion respecting the proposed county meeting. Mr. Berthon moved a resolution to the effect that, on further considers.- tion, the committee were of opinion that a public meeting for receiving the report of the committee should be held at Romsey instead of at Winchester / that public notice be given of the intention to hold i the same at the Town-hall on some day to be na me' hereafter ; and that Viscount Eversley preside, If his lordship could attend on the occasion. Lord EVERSLEY said he should be very happy t° attend the proposed meeting at Romsey ; but, anh e , was engaged every day up to the end of the th ird week in January, he would like to know the date on which the meeting would be held. Mr. BERTHON inquired if Jan. 23 would suit hi e lordship, to which Lord Eversley replied afErnin: tively ; the resolution being seconded, it was uriel °- mously agreed to. Capt. POWELL agreed with Lord Eversley's re mark as to at once inviting support from the count generally, and urged, as an additional argument 111 favour of this proceeding, the early meeting of Fa r liament. Lord EVERSLEY said it would be advisable not to make the amounts in the subscription list too 14 in order to give everybody a chance of con tributl e . The MAYOR said he was only expressing t el thanks of the meeting, and of the town of Rorasezle generally, when he thanked his lordship for great kindness he had shown them by coming d° ll . that day. (Cheers.) The services of his lordsll' especially in connection with the county of kW. were too well known to require further rner ltl(3 at his (the mayor's) hands, and he could only .4. that they were all exceedingly grateful to the 01) lord for attending their meeting. (Applause.) t, Lord EVERSLEY replied briefly to the compl iniell after which, of The Hon. R. H. DUTTON, M.P., said he w - ee the same opinion as Lord Eversicy with refer° optn.s. to the amounts of the subscription, namely, tha t tbes should not exceed £lO 10s. Concerning the q tl A e it tion of a site for the proposed memorial,.shetil;to take the form of a statue the hon. menl ber ; ,,,a afraid they would have some difficulty in fiou,iqbe suitable place, as a proof of which he instanceddi late Lord Pahnerston's inability to procure O bi jig gible site upon which to erect even a W ei g machine. (Laughter.) da a On the motion of Mr. G. E. EYRE, s econ- e the Hon. R. 11. DUTTON, M.P., Mr. W. A. l '°°tl3 was asked to act as treasurer to the fund. io A conversation then ensued, which was l oin o f by Mr. Dutton, Mr. Eyre, &c., at the conch's' which a circular asking for support to the u'll'ooriai etiag was drawn up and approved of, and the Inc broke up. NORFOLK. The weekly meeting of the Norfolk Cattle Plague Association was held on Saturday, ➢lr. C. S. Read, M.P., in the chair. It was stated that the amount ordered to be paid in compensations during the past week was £1,784, as compared with £1,119 in the preceding week. Since the society commenced ope rations in September the whole amount . voted in compensations has been £9,449, and the balance remaining in hand is £4,717. Donations were re ceived during the past week to the amount of £75. After considerable discussion, it was resolved to levy another rate of 2d. in the pound ; but an opinion was expressed that the time was coming when petitions would have to be presented to the Government praying for compensation out of the national exchequer. Mr. FORRESTER presented a supplementary re port on the homoeopathic treatment of cattle. It ap peared that out of 39 animals taken in hand by the homoeopathists only seven were now alive. Lord BURY stated that the homoeopathists would persevere with experiments in other parts of the country. Lord and Lady Henry Scott arrived at the Dowager Lady Wharncliffe's residence in Stratton street on Friday : from Bieuliou, Southampton. The Right Hon. B. Disrali and Mrs. Disraeli have left Hughendon Manor for Hatfield, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury. The Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and Mrs. owper left town on Saturday to pass a few days at St. Giles's, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury. BRIGANDAGE IN ITALY.—The Earl of Clarendon, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received the following information from her Majesty's Consul at Rome, dated November 28, 1865 :—" Various bands of brigands have now descended from the Neapo litan territory into the Papal States in such numbers that the small amount of Papal troops, in the absence of the French, is evidently unable to contend successfully with them. These organised bands now extend from Viterbo to Frosinone, so that most of the frontier towns are with out protection, and three individuals are prisoners until they can be ransomed." THE QUARANTINE AT ROME.—The following letter just received by His Excellency Mr. Bigelow, American Minister at Paris, from the United States Consul at Flo rence, will be found to be of great importance to Americans who are en route for Rome : —My dear Sir, —As some misapprehension exists on the part of many American travellers arriving here from Paris, en route to Rome, respecting the quarantine regulations in force in the Papal States, I write to your Excellency, for the information of our countrymen, that, in order to avoid quarantine, a sojourn of seven days is required by the Roman Government in some one place immediately before crossing its frontier. Practically, the seven days must be passed either here or at Leghorn, as the certificates of sojourn must be furnished, in case of foreigners, by their respective representatives, and countersigned by the re presentatives of Spain —who now have charge of Roman affairs in Italy residing in one or other of the above cities. In the case of American citizens this certificate is fur ished, with the passport visa, either at this office or at the United States Consulate at Leghorn, both the certificate of sojourn and passport then requiring the Spanish visa. The visa of the United States Consul and of the Papal Nuncio at Paris, is therefore entirely necessary in case of travellers proceeding to Rome via this kingdom, since all passports are now required to be vised as above, at the place of sojourn in Italy. In order to verify the time of sojourn it is desirable that all Americans proceeding to Rome via Florence should report their names at this office as early as practicable after reaching this city. At the present time both Northern Italy and the Roman States are entirely free from cholera.—l remain, &c., T. BIGELOW LAWRENCE. Our readers will no doubt be glad to have the opportunity of perusing the following list of novelties which Mr. Chappuis, of 69, Fleet-street, has prepared for Christmas presents, among which will be found scientific toys and amusements for all ages, namely : —New pocket magnesium lamp.) with wire, 6s. 6d. ; pris matic humming-top, 4s. Gd. ; magic lanterns and 12 slides, guaranteed, 75., 10s., 155., or 255. ; a box of novelties in harmless fireworks, for drawing-rooms and gardens, viz., Japanese pleiades, feu follet, surprise-matches, Bengal fires, Pharaoh's serpents, magnesium wire and garden drops, for 6s. 6d. ; the novel patent bulliere, or bubble-amusement, scientifically applied, complete, with geometric frames, &c., Bs. 6d. ; polyoramas, with six artistic views and novel effects, 95., 125., or 21s. ; an open stereoscope, with 12 excellent slides assorted, 10s. 6d. ; ditto, superior, with reflector and 12 slides, 19s. ; artistic sets-20 scraps, photographic gems, from album size to 6 by 8 inches, 125.; 12 charming cartes for album, scenery, celebrated paint ings, for ss. 6d. ; 12 album celebrities, at choice, from life, free 12s. 2d. ; useful articles for 6s.—one pair registered whist-markers, one stampholder, and ono reading magni fying glass ; the leather whistmarker, 3s. Bd. ; 3 pretty ar ticles with scent; saucy China girl, a Pekin puzzle, and a Sezame-purse, 65.; a pair of capital puzzles, with surprise, ss. 6d. ; for 6s. 6d.—a basket of fragrant grapes, a savings' bank, with scent and perfumery, also a surprise deviced puzzle ; the tell-tale mirror, to see within apartments passers-by in streets, complete, 21s. ; the reader's reflector, for the bedridden in daytime, 325. ; the Dreadnought illu minator, for reading in bed at night without danger, 355.; also a variety of useful articles connected with the reflec tion of light, and for amusing, scientific, and domestic purposes. These prices include packing ready for rail, &c. Early orders are solicited to insure execution before Christmas. N-B. Remittances in stamps, &c., to accom pany order. The Louisville Journal says :—" There is in our city a rumour to which we confess that we attach some importance, though it does not come to us from any source authorised to give information. 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