The Sun. — London, England, 1866-01-16 00:00:00

.......... - LIFEBOAT SERITI C ES. --D uring the storms of the past year the National lifeboat Institution, by its and other means, contributed to the o 707 persons Lifeboats from afferent wre cks on our coas ts. The savin%f Insti f tution also expended £21,374 in the same peri,,d on its Me boat establishments, in addition to 1z -ranting £4,950 for le wards for saving life and exercising the lifeboats. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A 'OPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the Continued heavy demands on the In 150 lifeboat stations. the London and country Contribut i on s are rece ived by bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA , COVENT AILD. (Opera Company, Limited.) THIS EVENING (TUESDAY). Mr. Charles De&lll's new opera, in one act, CHRISTMAS Loo and Mame D, 1 0 . Lancia, Madame E. Heywood ; Mr. A. , Mr. Mirinda. Conductor, Mr. Mire I Mellon. After which. rit 8, the grand comic, spectacular, and opt mile Chris: mas rawomime, entitled A i..A.DuIN ANI , THE WO VDERFLSI. LAMP ; or, harlequin and the Fly Palace. ee other advertisements). Commence at 7 o'clock. THE AT RE ROYAL, DR URY-LANE.- managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. Tills EVENING, the Farce of HUSBANDS, BEWAILE. Mr. U. Delmore, Miss Ilazlewood. &c. Atter which, the Pantomime, LITTLE KING PIPPIN ; or, Harlequ in Fortunatus and the Magic Purse and IVishing Cap. _Messrs. G. Belmore, 11. Drayton, G. Weston. Master P er cy ktoselli ; Misses Dazlewood, A. Thomson, E. Falcone - Pantomimists, Messrs. H. Boleno, C. Lauri, Cormaclt, Saville, Miss Morgan, and Madame Boleno. Commence at 7. THEAiRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.— Sole Lessee and Mansger, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, BROTHER. SAM Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton; Mesdames belly Moore. Snowden, &c. To be followed by ORPHEUS IN THE HAYMARKET. Messrs. W. Farren, Fisher, Bartleman, Weathersby, ate. ; 3,lesdames Keeley, Snowden, Moore, Lindley, Woolgar, Howard, Wright, Coleman, Lovell, Prevot, &c. To conclude with MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM TREATRE.- Under the sole Management of Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Inn Widdicomb. After which. TILE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mr. Fcchtcr; Messrs. Jordan, Emery, Widdicomb, Vezir, J. 11. leitzpatric , , D. Evans; NesdamesTernan, E•sworthy, Lavenu, and C. Leelercq. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. IEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. , Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. 'Webster. THIS EVENING, at Seven, a new farce called LEHIND TIME. Messrs. J. L. Toole, H. Yhillipe, Eburne, C. J. Smith: Miss A. Seaman, Sze. After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 115th appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington, Y. Bedford, It Phillips, Felix Rogers, Ashley, hburne, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Billingtcr, To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE. Messrs J. L. Toole, P. Beaford, Ashley; Miss K. Kelly, &e. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, QUIET LODGINGS. Atter whi.h, 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. Villiers, J. G. Shore, G. Murray, 11. Mellon, C. Seyton, H. Cathcart; 3lisi L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs ;:wanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7 (3rl time), NELLIE'S TRIALS. Messrs. Parselle, Belford, Ilisse, Swanborougli aid R:►noe. After which will be produced a new Opera. Burlesque, L'AFRIUAINE ; or, The Queen of the CannibAl Isiah is. Messrs. Stoyle, Janice, Thorne; Mesdames Swanburough, Kaynham, Johnstone, &e. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. GRATIS AND POST FREE. E. MOSES and SONS' FASHIONABLE ALMANAC for 1865, List of Prices, with Fashion-card for the present season. 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LONDON, TUESDAY, JAIV. 16, 1866. ---~►-- The Conservatives of North Devon have been making an active display, and mustering their forces preparatory to the grand campaign. Last Thurs day evening a company of 300 gentlemen sat down to celebrate the annual meeting of two local Conservative associations by the good old fashion 'of a dinner. The speeches were long and the speakers numerous, but the audience were fortunate in /laving, for the most part, to listen to addresses -very well wort h hearin g ; tinged, of co urse , through out w i t h par ty politics; b u t sens ibl e, straightfor to the purpose neve r th e l ess. It ward, and is significant of the times that, in spite of the reiterated disclaimer of any gene ral desire for Reform, the leading Conserva tives at such meetings invariably assert that their principles are by no means opposed to wise, pru dent, and constitutional changes. The fact is that men of ability and enlightenment are no longer likely to be so completely blinded by prejudice and custom as in the olden days, and they cannot help admitting the right and reason of gradual and pro reasive change. If there is no longer• the eager excitement, the popular convulsion, the disturbances which at last wrested the •Bill of 1832 from a reluctant Parliament, it. is by no means sur prising. In the first place,• that bill, how ever partial or defeletive, effected so' much good that there are fewer abuses to complain of, while there is no longer th e same opposition to en counter. The indifference charged against the friends of Reform should really be rather charged against their opponents, but it is a gratifying proof how much party feeling and prejudice is becoming secondary to the real interests of the country. We may learn, too, from the attitude assumed by the Conservative party of to-day respecting the proposed reform how much the present condition of political knowledge and the opportunities of observation and travel afforded in these days to all men of education and position have a tendency to promote united and harmonious action. While, of course, having no power to make all think exactly alike, a consum mation never it is to be hoped likely to be reached in this country, these influences tend at least to make them all start from similar points and all aim at the same goal. The Earl of DEVON, who on the other evening represented the Upper House, expressed the feeling alike of the peerage and the populace in his brief and pertinent address. In returning thanks for the cordial expression of approval which, as might have been looked for in a Conservative assembly, the mention of the House of Lords had called forth. Lord DEVON said that he accepted it as a proof tha the Peers were not looked upon as an obstructive + body, " not as a body that would blindly adhere to old institutions because they were old—but as a body which is not disposed after taking such mea sures, and they think fit to secure careful and deli berate consideration, to put a veto on all or any measures of safe and rational progress." It is only by taking up such a position, added the noble Earl, that the House of Lords can be useful. For himself, he boldly said that he thought it a wise, safe, and expedient thing that as wealth extended and education spread a judicious and moderate extension of the franchise should take place, happily illustrating his case by the remark that the foundation of a pyramid was strengthened as you widened its base. Sir STAF FORD N o RT FI C 0 TE, the principal speaker o f the evening, addressed himself rather to the position of the House to which he himself belongs, observing that he was dealing with an unknown quantity since not only had the present House of Com mons never met, but its members were by no means the same who sat in the last Parliament. No less than 200 gentlemen who sat in the last House find no place in the new one, and thus actually one-third of the popular assembly is changed. Many of the 200 new members have previously been M.P.s, but a great proportion, of them are absolute strangers to St. Stephen's. Some of the changes are losses to the Conservative party, prominent among whom Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE naturally placed the names of Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD and Sir JOHN HAY, though there is reason to hope that even yet the latter may present himself at the opening of Parliament. Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE ad mitted that his party had lost ground by the general election, but he bade them remember that their efforts had not been in vain, since the vigorous action of the minorities might naturally be sup posed to temper in some degree the course of the representatives of the majorities. Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE is kind enough to foretell two serious drawbacks to the new Govern ment. The first is the difficulty of harmonious action between Mr. GLADSTONE, the new leader of the llouse, and the indolent and apathetic division of his own party, which, under the easy dolce far ?dente of Lord PALMERSTON has long held pre eminence, and the second being the deficient repre sentation of the Ministry in the Lower House. " We know," said Sir STAFFORD, " that the great offices to which the administration of money is chiefly committed, the Admiralty, the War-office, are represented not in the House of Commons but in the house of Lords. We know that the Foreign office is now represented wholly in the House of Lords. These things were complained of in the last Parliament, even when the Prime Minister was in the House of Commons and able to answer ques tions and conduct the debates on great questions if his subordinates were not present, and defend the Under-Secretaries when they got into any diffi culties. But when we find the difficulties increased tenfold, I venture to say it is impossible that Government can be carried on satisfactorily with out those departments being more adequately repre sented in the House of Commons than they are at present." Lord DEVON hinted at another and more formidable element of weakness in the Cabi net—its tendency to yield its better judgment to the clamour of a party or a faction, a tendency of which we have already had painful evidence in their conduct to Governor EYRE. But we must not prejudge. They have a right to the cld Eng lish grant of " a fair field and no favour," and, while we must hope they will fulfil the confident anticipations of their supporters, we must certainly admit that they are likely to do none the worse for the vigilant scrutiny of their adversaries. An able letter on the subject of Governor EYRIE and Jamaica appears in the Herald of to-day, andtmhead"e unjust and malicious a tt ac k s " w hi c h h ave been upon the character and conduct of that zealous officer are shown in their true colours. The writer truly declares that those who are in haste to prejudge his conduct should first of all consider the position in which he was placed in all its peculiarities and significance. Very likely many well-disposed persons have been led away by the violent language and excited statements made upon this subject, and become really so confused that they have judged matters and measured the standard of conduct according to the rules of every-day life more than they regarded them in the light of extraordinary circumstances. Governor EYRE'S position was in deed a most perilous one, and he had, besides, the responsibility of providing for the safety of the population. " His military resources were small, his position isolated from all assistance ; his foes numerous, reckless, and abandoned, and daily and hourly likely to increase, augmenting just in pro: Portion as success attended the first stages of opposition." Thi s is a very true delineation of the state of affairs at the period of the outbreak, and those who are so ready to declaim against the severity which was employed forget, or do not know, that the only chance of safety that existed under such circumstances lay in the adoption of bold and decisiTe measures. To those wise and ener getic schemes we owe the safety of the island, and the English public are indebted to the Governor, while the white population of the island must certainly be said to owe to him their preservation from an imminent peril ; yet, as the writer of this letter says, the man who rendered these inestimable services has been suspended, and the " mutinous faction" in Jamaica will rejoice in the re call of him who proved himself equal to the emergency, and was able to put I down the insurgents with a steady hand and a de termined will. Very true also are the remarks here made upon the course pursued by the same Members of Parlia ment; in following the dictates of the, faction and joining those who condemn a' man unheard. " How," it is asked, " can Mr. BRIGHT or Mr. BAZTER, compromised as they are by their declared judgments against Governor EYRE, bring unbiassed and impartial minds to investigate his case when presented to the House for their decision ?" Another instance of glaring inconsistency and misstatements has been the pertinacity with which some have declared that the volunteers fired at an unarmedmob. The statements of several persons well qualified to judge have contradicted this before, and the account given by one who was left on the spot for dead, Mr. BROOKS COOK, completely falsifies the absurd report that gained such favour at Exeter Hall. The rioters continued their approach until they were within ten or twelve yards of the volunteers, " when they showered in stones, bottles, and brickbats upon the magistrates and volunteers, until it became necessary to fire upon the mob." It is really quite intolerable that a particular party should take up a thing in this manner, and for their own ends and purposes distort truths and alter facts until the second reading differs in all essential points from the first. It was quite out of character that before private letters could reach us from the island, and more detailed accounts could be given, that this intolerant clique should take upon them selves to lay down the law and to present a history of their own to their hearers. They seem to have taken upon themselves the office of " clairvoyants," and to have pretended to know by intuition what was and what was not taking place—what had and what had not occurred in Jamaica. Those who take an interest in the politics of Germany will be curious to notice the effect pro duced by the opening of the Prussian Chambers. Count BISMARCK read the Speech from the Throne, and certainly he must have done so con amore, for it appears to have been in conformity with his own views, and to have expressed those opinions which ho has so long advocated with all his might and main. It would really seem as if the KING and his chief Minister had set themselves to work to study the wishes of the members, and then had framed their plans diametrically opposite to them. At any rate their conduct is virtually the same, and through the whole of the speech that is here presented to us there breathes a spirit of con tradiction and an arbitrary tone that prove how little intention there is to profit by experience or take heed to warnings. The burden of the song is " supplies, supplies ;" they are the beginning and end of the affair, and seem required for all imagi nable and unimaginable purposes. Bills are to be brought in settling the Budget, and supplies are re quested for the " unchanged maintenance of the military organisation and the increase of the navy. Money will be also required for the execution of the Nox th Sea and Baltic Canal. The finances of the kingdom are in a favourable state,' and the Chambers are furthermore informed that " the relations of Prussia with foreign powers are friendly and satisfactory." Contrary to the usual practice the framers of this Speech have put the most unfavourable and un promising topics first, and then resort to the expe dient of bringing forward those matters which are more likely to win regard. Thus we find the union of Lauenburg to the Prussian Crowu trium phantly attended to, and the everlasting topic of Schleswig Holstein also figures as an auxiliary agent. Its definitive decision has not yet been made, but the Chambers are informed that the Gastein Convention has reserved it for their negotiation. Then, in summing up the advantages gained, the Speech declares that, by "t he occupation of Schleswig and by her position in holstein, Prussia has acquired a sufficient guarantee that the decision can only be in a sense corresponding to the interests of Ger many and the claims of Prussia." This means, of course, that whoever join to divide the spoil, Prussia will take the lion's share. In the present advanced state of nations, it is a disgrace that a Royal Speech should contain such a passage as that which asserts the inten tion of the KING to pursue the course of spoliation in an unflinching manner and with unabated zeal. It is insulting common sense and violating the rules of justice to fall back upon the monstrous declaration of the Crown lawyers for support ; but where there is a will there is a way, and if King WILLIAM'S way is not very outlanded, at all events, his will cannot be questioned. It is strong enough and firm enough for anything. " I am determined to hold fast this pledge under all circumstances, until the desired end is attained," is the emphatic declaration made ; and, of course, this grandiloquent assertion means that the Crown of Prussia will rob and plun der as much as possible, and that no remonstrances will prove effectual in stopping its path of ruin and of wrong. The Chambers have certainly no easy task before them in stemming the tide of oppression. MR. COBDEN AND THE PROJECTORS OF COM PANIES.—During his stay in Paris he was beset with applications for his name and influence in the promotion of joint-stock companies of various kind.. Hardly a day passed without letters from sanguine projectors, offering him directorships in their promiseful undertakings, with the usual guarantee against loss, and upon any terms as to shares he chose to name. His sense of what was due to himself, to his character as the representative of his coun try, and to the cause he had in hand, rendered it impossible that he should entertain any of these proposals. He re ferred them all to his friend Mr. Ellison, with whom an intimacy of many years had begotten confidence the most complete and unreserved; and by him they were generally answered. Ordinary speculators were thus easily got rid of, andiwere heard of by him no more, his friend's position as a banker in Paris enabling him to discriminate in what terms each of the various applications ought most fitly to be declined. There were some whose imposing air and provoking tone of bienfaisance disturbed for the moment the negotiator's equanimity. One day he received a cour teous but somewhat condescending intimation that one of the greatest financial adventurers of the day intended to call on him on the morrow, with tho view of laying before him a forthcoming scheme of more than ordinary magnifi cence, and which, in the slang of the Bourse, would be found to present features of peculiar importance to thosa who might be fortunate enough to be connected with it. Mr. Cobden requested his confidential adviser to be present at the interview, which the latter declined, upon the ground that his doing so would probably prove a restraint, and would consequently lead only to a second visit or a correspondence, both of which it was desirable to avoid. But he consented to be within reach should anything occur rendering reference to him necessary. At the hour appointed the subtle weaver of golden dreams appeared, bowed benignantly to tho un-worldly wise diplomatist, whose single-heartedness he probably pitied, while he thought it might be turned to account as a cutwater for the gorgeous and heavily-laden barge he was about to launch ; and, having seated himself and thrown open his furred pelisse, he began his revelations in the customary strain. His host listened with ill-concealed impatience, and eventually cut short the interview by unconditionally refusing to take the matter into consideration, stating hi s opinion that if any public man in France or England lent his sanction to the speculation, ho would be guilty of com plicity in something little short of swindling. The scheme, however, was too splendid to bo abandoned. It did not fail ; but not very long afterwards its, author did, under circumstances that gave rise to litigation in many ways remarkable. When informed of the catastrophe, Mr. Cobden only remarked that he had sometimes regretted not having b desc r i kept ed his for he tem d have po s r h little o a ul ger likedat the toknow interview above the price at which the fellow had " valued his honesty."— British Quarterly Review, January number. GENERAL 11E1 TRICAL FUND.—The Lord Mayor 1' has consented to preside at the forthcoming annual dinner of the General Theatrical Fund. It is expected that the right hon. gentleman will be supported by the most dis tinguished literary and artistic friends of the association. A GENERAL'S SON CONVICTED OF FELONY. — At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday morning William Henry Oakes Warren, the son of a general in the army, was put on his trial, charged with having stolen a coat at the Westminster Palace Hotel. The case was one of an interesting kind, the question for the jury being whether the coat was taken by mistake or design. The jury found the prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Monday Evening. The Moniteur has very little about Spain to-day, but it expresses a sort of confidence that the insur rection will very shortly be suppressed. No reasons, however, are given for this belief or hope. As to the telegrams, and indeed some of the private letters, their information is so contradictory that little reliance can be placed on it. Generals Zabala and Echague, according to the former, continue to follow the rebels, but even yet they do not seem to have reached them. The other day the Royal troops had cut off their retreat from the mountains ; but yet the information I gave yesterday, that General Prim had been able to gain the frontier of Portugal, is repeated to -day. Batty, the American beast tamer, has very nearly fallen a victim to his audacity in performing the foolish trick of putting his head into the lion's mouth. This feat has drawn immense crowds to the Cirque Napoleon. On Saturday evening, as usual, Batty put his head into the mou th o f a savage lioness with a confident air, keeping hi s h an d s be hind his back. All of a sudden the lioness closed her jaws, and Batty made a convulsive movement. He, however, contrived to open the animal's jaws, and succeeded in withdrawing his head, which was bleeding. One of the lioness's teeth had inflicted rather a serious wound on the temple. A cry of horror arose from the audience. Batty, standing still, with perfect composure, looked sternly, with his eye fixed on the lioness, which seemed fascinated and slowly retired. Ile wiped the blood from his fore head and bowed to the audience. Batty never lost his presence of mind, but itis to be hoped that this occurrence will prevent a repetition of this danger ous and foolish manoeuvre. Immense sums are lost in the omnibuses of Paris, but what is most astonishing is that the property is almost always restored to the owner. During the year 1865 the servants of the General Omnibus Company deposited at the offices of the company 17,432 articles which had been left in the vehicles, of the estimated value of 115,000 f. Of these ar ticles 928 were purses which contained 63,306 f. The other articles were trifling—umbrellas, sticks, &c. Of this sum of 63,306 f. the owners, within three days, reclaimed the sum of 52,556 f. 3,800 miscellaneous articles were also reclaimed. The amount given in rewards to the agents by the owners was 4,158 f. Tho number of persons who travelled by omnibus in 1865 exceeded 100 millions ; and, from calculation, it appears that on the average out of 100 persons 17 lost articles the average value of 115 f. The trial of Poncet for the murder of M. Lavergne, in the wood near Argenteuil, did not conclude till nearly ten o'clock on Saturday night. The jury deliberated an hour and a half, and then returned with a verdict of guilty. As the jury did not find that there were " extenuating circumstances," which is too often the case with French juries, there is little doubt that Poncet will be executed. The Pre sident, however, informed him that he had throe days to appeal against the sentence. The prisoner said, " I thank you. I know that I am innocent, and, that is all I have to say." Although the trial lasted a long time, the material facts to prove the prisoner's guilt were few. It was proved that he was at a dancing-room at Cour bevoie the night after the murder, and that he had at least 1,000 f., most of it in English gold, and that he spent money lavishly amongst some girls there. A gold repeater, which belonged to M. Lavergne, was found in his possession. It was also proved that he had employed a dyer and scourer to take out the stains of blood from his trousers. A knife belonging to the prisoner had some stains on it, which were believed to be caused by human blood. According to the fashionable gossip of Paris, the title of Highness has been conferred by the Emperor upon Prince Lucien Bona parte, who will take rank after Prince Murat at Court. The. Prince is brother of Prince Charles Napoleon Bonaparte, and of the Princesses Julie, Charlotte, and Augusta Bonaparte. Prince Lucien is doubly a Bonaparte. Ms father was the son of Lucien, Prince of Canino, brother of the first Napoleon, and his mother,:the Princess Zenardo, was the daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, whom Napoleon the First made King of Spain. The fashionable world at Paris is getting busy. The first ball at the Tuileries will take place on Wed nesday, and balls are about to be given by the ladies of the foreign ambassadors. A splendid dress ball at the Tuileries is talked of, and a ball on a magnificent scale by Madame Drouyn de L'Huys, wife of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.' A watchman named Polyte has been found guilty by the Court of Assize of Paris, of causing the death of his wife by throwing her out of the win dow of the fourth floor ; but as there were " ex tenuating circumstances," he has escaped the capital punishment and is sentenced to 20 years hard labour. The prisoner and his wife fr e quentlyquarrelled, and the crime was committed during one of these quarrels when they were both in a violent passion. Another extraordinary change has taken place in the weather. The sun has shone all day with little interruption, and the temperature has been really warm, if not hot. The Moniteur du Soir publishes a telegram, ac cording to which General Prim was near Guadiana, and that he still was enabled to keep in advance of the troops sent to pursue him. A column had been despatched from Badajoz to prevent him from reaching the frontiers of Portugal, from which he was now only at a short distance. Yesterday King Leopold the Second gave an a letter of con gratulation throne. King the audience to Monseigneur Ledochowski, charged by the Pop Pope to on his presentaect accession s h i Majestyi o s nto Victor Emmanuel also received yesterday, in a solemn audience, the Belgian Envoys charged with a similar mission. During the terrible storm 22 vessels were driven on shore at Cherbourg, and 12 others were more or less seriously damaged. The Moniteur mentions the receipt by the Minis ter of War of despatches from Mexico, dated Dee. 10, and Vera Cruz to the 13th Dec. They state that the condition of the provinces was satisfactory, and that there had not been any serious interrup tion of tranquillity upon any point. There had not been any military operations of importance. Gen. Mejia had not been inquieted by any fresh attack at Matamoras. The reinforcement of Mexican troops sent by the Marshal commanding-in-chief sufficed for the security of that place. After his repulse at Matamoras, Escobedo had made an attempt to retake Monterey, and after three day s' resistance the small garrison retired within the citadel, leaving the town in his possession. Gen. Jeanningros, however, was sent against him, and Escobedo was soon compelled to retreat, with the loss of 110 men. The French columns had one man killed and two officers wounded. Colonel d'Ornano continued his operations in the Tamau lipas. The only fact of importance contained in the correspondence of the Moniteur from Spain is that General Prim has succeeded in crossing the Tagus, and was marching towards Portugal. Measures, however, had been taken by the Portuguese Govern ment to capture any Spanish refugees who might present themselves at the frontier. One of the Madrid letters contains a copy of pr3clamations which had been furtiv e l y c i rcu l a ted at Madrid. One of the proclamations, in the name of au Insur rectional Committee, calls apon the soldiers to unite with the Liberals to save the country and liberty. The second emanates from General Prim himself, who puts forth as his rallying sign the last mani festo of the Central Progressiste Committee—. " Honest citizens," says the General, " aid me in bringing to a successful conclusion a political revo lution which will render unnecessary the terrible social revolution with which ive are threat ened." It will be remarked that the insurrec tion is no longer styled a military but a political revolution. Such was th e c h ara cter which I gave it from the first. The Siecle to-day says " there is no truth in the various accounts published by the Spanish Government to show the insignificance of the insurrectipn." The whole of Spain is in gre4t agitation. There are few Generals better known, I not only in Spain but in foreign countries, than Gen. Prim. He has been at the head of many pro nunciamientos. He was born in 1814, and while very young was an officer in the civil war, and colonel at 26 in the brilliant staff of the Queen Christina. He was one of the first to declare himself against Espartero, and was exiled in 1842. But the fol lowing year he was chosen Deputy for Barcelona. He returned to Spain and ranged himself under the banner of Narvaez. His pronunciamiento at Rens obtained for him the title of Count. Although Go vernor of Madrida nd overpowered with honours, he soon quarrelled with Narvaez and became one of the chiefs of the Progressive party. He was accused of complicity in the attempt to assassinate that Minis ter, but although acquitted was again exiled under the accusation of conspiracy. He afterwards tra versed France and Italy, and fought in Turkey against the Russians. The great pronounciamento of 1854, and a second election as a deputy for Bar celona, again obtained for him permission to return to Spain, and more honours. O'Donnell conciliated him and gave him the command of an expedition to Morocco. He was afterwards appointed to the command of the expeditionary corps destined to co operate with England and France in Mexico. Every one knows how he separated himself from France, and nearly caused a rupture between France and Spain. Since then he has held himself aloof from political movements, and finding that there was dissatisfaction with the Spanish Government he was determined to change it. He has for a long period been preparing to take up arms, and meditating upon the means of obtaining a change of system, if not of dynasty, in Spain. This move ment would have been more successful if his friends had not precipitated the insurrection, and taken up arms before the time appointed for so doing. The weather has become much more calm and mild at Paris, but the provincial journals contain long and rather disastrous accounts of casualties by sea and land. The storm is stated to have been more violent at Cherbourg than has been known within the memory of man. The town is described to be "in consternation." The streets are encum bered with fragments of chimneys, walls, and roofs of houses. There has not, however, been any loss of life. From the observations taken by the Obser vatory of. Paris there have not been such sudden and extensive variations in the barometer since 1768 as there were on Friday night. I gave you some particulars of the charge against a man named Poncet, for the murder and robbery of M. Lavergne in the wood of Orgemont near Argenteuil. The trial commenced before the Court of Assize, at Versailles, on Friday. Evidence was given to show that the deceased was in the posses sion of large sums of money. M. Barrat, the pro prietor of the Hotel Buckingham, Rue de la Madeleine, deposed that M. Lavergne wrote to him from England in October requesting him to reserve three rooms for him, and that he arrived on the sth of that month. The prisoner accompanied him, and said he was engaged as M. Lavergne's cook. They went out together, and he never saw M. Lavergne afterwards. His body was found in the wood of Orgemont the next day. There was a mortal wound in the neck extending to the vertebral column. No money was found in the pockets of the deceased, although he was in the habit of carrying large sums in notes and gold about him. The deceased was seen with the prisoner on the afternoon of the murder. The death is announced of the son of M. Ferdi nand de Lesseps, the projector of the Suez Canal. It took place at Ismaila, after a short illness of two days. The murderer of the girl in the Rue de la Ville l'Eveque, of which I gave you an account, has been arrested. He is a man named Joseph Philippe, and has confessed his guilt, and from certain articles found in his room he is supposed to have been concerned in the recent attempted murder of the wife of an artist, and to have com mitted other crimes. He is watched very carefully, as he has twice attempted to commit suicide. The Patrie states that the Court of the Vatican has decided upon an entire change of policy as re gards the defence of the Pontifical territory by its own forces. Independently of a thc energetic repres sion of brigandage, there is great activity in the war department with a view to the reconstruction of the Roman arm y. These changes have the complete sanct ion of the Pope. The most eminent and reliable authority on Finance, M. Forcade, in his weekly review of the position of affairs in the Sentaine Financiere of yes terday says .—" There has been an excess of credit, and to diminish the difficulties which this state of things has created in England in France, and upon the great financial markets, the only efficacious influence would be a restriction on the part of the Government upon their wants and their demands for money. The situation of the banks ought to serve as a warning. The position of the Bank of England, as is seen by the return, does not improve. The rate of discount ha reached 8 per cent. In France the amount at the Bank has diminished 20 millions, whilst the circula tion has increased six millions. " These symptoms," adds M. Forcade, " sbould not create alarm, but it would be imprudent to disregard them." CHANG AT COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. —On Fri day evening last, after their usual levies at the Egyptian Hall, Chang-Woo-Gow and his Celestial com panions went to see the pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden. No one suspecting his presence, from his private box ho was enabled to quietly enjoy, doubtless with wonderment, the pictures of Chinese life as given in the Eastern and certainly gorgeous spectacle of "Aladdin. , Yet Chang's admiration must have been, as usual, hidden beneath his philosopher's cloak of profound coldness, from which the splendid pictures of " The Streets of Canton," Th e Moving Palace," " The Light of Day," and the mazy whirl of 100 ballet girls failed to awaken him, until the towering caricature of himself strode on to the stage. Then, suddenly thrown off his guard, Chang rushed from his hidden corner, and, leaning over the front of the box, exclaimed in a loud voice, " Ah Yah !" a kind of Chinese " Goodpess gracious." The scene was at once a most amusing one, and the giant, finding that a multitude of eyes were in a moment averted from the false to the real Chang, beat a hasty retreat into his corner. ORIGIN OF UNIFORMS.—At the Restoration, when forces were established in England an d Scot land, each country having its separate guards, line, and artillery, scarlet was the colour almost uniformly adopted, save in ono instance, when the king clothed in blue, faced with red, the Royal Regiment of English Horse Guards which was embodied on the 26th of August, 1661, under Aubrey, Earl of Oxford. These colours it still retains ; but a corps of marines raised about the same time, oddly enough, wore yellow coats—the old Dutch uniform. On the 2d of April in the same year, 1661, the Scot tish Life Guards rode through the city of Edinburgh "in gallant order," says Nicol the Diarist, "their carbines upon their saddles, and swords drawn in their hands. It pleased his Majesty to clothe their trumpeters and the mas ter of the kettledrum in very rich apparel." Colours were presented, and soon after the king gave to each gentleman a buff coat. In February, 1683, General Sir. Thomas Dal zell obtained from the Privy Council at Edinburgh a li cence permitting the manufacturers at Newmills "to im port 2,536 ells of stone-grey cloth from England" for his dragoon regiment, the Scots Greys, which had been raised two years before —hence their costume, as well as their grey horses, may have led to their present well-known ap pellation. This grey cloth cost ss. an ell.— United Service Magazine. ASSAULT ON A DOMESTIC SERVANT.—At the latter end of last week Mrs. Bellamy, sister to Miss Theresa Longworth, appeared at the Abergavenny County Court to defend an action which had been brought against her for assaulting her servant girl by throwing water over her; she was further charged with non-payment of wages by the same complainant. Mrs. Bellamy resides at Abergavenny Castle, and it seems that on the Wednesday following Christmas-day her girl retired to bed at an unusual hour in consequence of being unwell. She was requested to get up again by Mrs. Bellamy, but refused, stating that she was too unwell to do so. Mrs. Bellamy then threw some water over her, and this constituted the assault complained of The committal of the assault was confirmed by the evidence of a man-servant, and in cross-examination Mrs. Bellamy said, "The complainant is aware that I suspected her of having stolen a shawl value £17." The damages for the assault were laid at £l, for which judgment was given, his honour remarking that the assault had been proved. Judgment was given for the amount of wages due. CHAIR OF GEOLOGY IN THE EDINBURGH UNI VERSITT.—It has transpired within the last day or two that the Senatus Academicus have resolved to petition Government to erect a chair of geology, as a complement to the chair of natural history, so ably filled by Professor Allman.—Daily Review. RESPITE OF SENTENCE.—John Jamieson, who was condemned to be executed on the 17th instant, for the murder of Isabella 3PKinnon or GalloCher, in a spirit shop in Glasgow, on the 30th September last, has been respited LA TEST INTELLIGENOE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY AND PRUSSIA. FLORENCE, JAN. 16. The King of Prussia has conferred upon King Victor Emmanuel the insignia of the Order of the Black Eagle. ITALY. TURIN, Jan. 15. The Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio died this morn ing at five o'clock. The election at Soretina has resulted in the return of Count Arrivabene to the Italian Parlia ment. THE MILITARY REVOLT IN SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 15, 3 p.m. The insurgents under General Prim are officially announced to be still retreating precipitately to wards Portugal. Order prevails throughout Spain. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Jan. 15. The session of the Prussian Chambers was opened in the White Saloon of the Royal Palace to-day by Count von Bismarck, who read the speech from the throne. The King announces that bills will be brought in settling the budget, and asking for the supplies requisite for the unchanged maintenance of the military reorganisation, and the increase of the navy. Supplies will also be asked for the execution of the North Sea and Baltic canal, and various other measures affecting home administration will be laid before the Chambers. His Majesty ex presses a confident hope that the commercial treaty with Italy will be ratified by all the States of the Zollverein. The finances of the kingdom are in a favourable condition. The relations of Prussia with foreign Powers are satisfactory and friendly. The royal speech continues :—" By the. Gastein Convention Lauenburg has been united to the Prussian Crown. It is my desire, while treating with consideration the peculiar state of things in the Duchy, to allow its inhabitants to enjoy all the ad vantages of the union with Prussia. The definitive decision of the future of Schleswig-Holstein has been reserved by the Gastein Convention for further negotiation. By the occupation of Schleswig and by her position in Holstein, Prussia has acquired a suffi cient guarantee that the decision can only be in a sense corresponding to the interests of Germany and the claims of Prussia. Resting upon my own conviction, strengthened by the opinion of the legal advisers of the Crown, I am determined to hold fast this pledge, under all circumstances, until the desired end is attained. Conscious of being sus tained by the assent of the people, I hope that the object striven for and gained will prove a point of union for all parties." FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 15.—Two o'clock.—There is very little business doing to-day, and quotations gene rally show a decline. Threes, for the Account, have receded 71c.--to 68f. 50c. Credit laobilier Shares are if. 25c. lower—at 785 f. Italian Fives show some degree of firmness, and have recovered 7ic., the price now being 62f. 60c. In the Railway De partment Lombards show a decline of 3f. 50c. Comptoir d'Escompte Shares have improved 2f. 50c. Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows . :- 41 per Cents 97 50 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 6B 50 Do. end month 6B 57; Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3640 Credit Fonder 1312 50 Italian Loan 62 30 Do. end month 62 50 RAIIN Roman — Ottoman Fives 4O Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred WAYS. Orleans ... 850 Northern ... 1115 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern — ... 853 75 Western — ... 55t 25 ... 560 Eastern — -- ... 530 Sardinian. ... Austrian ... 411 25 Lombard ... 420 North of Spain ... 183 75 Saragossa — ... 218 75 Ditto to Barcelona — ... 105 Roman THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS, -- The Delhi, from Calcutta, December 23, reached Suez on the 15th instant., at 11 a.m. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Jan. 15. I n a congregation held this day the following degrees were conferred : M.A.--Andrew Hannam, Merton ; Charles L. Shadwell, Oriel ; Rev. George Augustus M. How, Rev. Fitzherbort Astley Cave-Browne-Cave, Brasenose College. B.C.L.—Rev. Edgar D. Whitmarsh, Worcester. B.A.—Richard Robinson (Fellow), Queen's; Edmund M. Sneyd Kynnereley (Fellow), St. John's ; John A. Creed, Corpus ; John Jones and William James Price, Jesus ; Henry Edward Hodson, Worcester. MARKETS —This Day. HAY SMITIMELD.—Moadow hay, £4 4s to £5 8s; clover. £5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1.16s to £2 2s per load. A slow trade. CumßEßLAxn.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £slos Od; clover, £5 5s to £6 15s Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load. Trade heavy. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay £4 4s to £5 8s ; clover, £5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £ 1 16s to £2 2s per load. Demand inactive. • COLONIAL, COLONIAL. TEA.—Business has remained very inactive, the trade having deferred their operations until to-day when the public sales of China commence ; about 17,000 packages will be offered, all of which are without reserve. SUGAR.—The market has been very quiet ; superior descriptions of West India, however, fully maintain pre vious rates. In the refined market there is little change of importance. COFFEE.—OnIy moderate quantities have been brought forward; full rates, however, are current for superior qualities of both Plantation and Native Ceylon. RICE.—The market is very dull, and the operations have been of quite a retail character, at barely previous quo tations. TALLOW.— Business has continued inactivo, and prices for both present and forward delivery have ruled in favour of buyers. The directors of the Alliance Bank have issued their report for the past half-year. It shows an available total of £27,466, including a previous balance of £4,485, and recommends a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, - which will ab sorb £24,144. The sum of £1,483 is to be applied to preliminary expenses and buildiNg accounts, and £1,839 will remain to be carried forward. The directors of the Bank of London, at the half yearly meeting of shareholders tobe held to-morrow, will propose a resolution for the purpose of dividing the present £lOO shares in the capital of the bank into five shares of £2O each, and for providing that for all purposes of limiting the number of shares, which may be held by any proprietor, and for all purposes of calls and giving votes and qualification, five £2O shares shall be equivalent to one £lOO share, and for making such other alterations in the deed of settlement as are requisite for carrying into effect the proposed subdivision of shares. REPORTED SUICIDE OF ADMIRAL PAREJA.—AC cording to letters received in Paris from Madrid, intelli gence had reached that city assorting that Admiral Pareja, commander of the Spanish squadron off the Milian coast, had committed suicide. RESUMPTION OF BUILDING OPERATIONS.—The works which were suspended in consequence of the severity of the weather, and by which some thousands of mechanics and labourers were thrown out of employment, were resumed yesterday morning. Theso large works in clude those of the Thames Embankment, Blackfriars New Bridge, the new Government Offices, and several private buildings in the City and the West-end. Some hundreds of workmen are engaged in repairing the wires of the tele graph comiSanies which were damaged by the recent storm. ILLUSTRATED GIFT BOOKS. (THIRD NOTICE.) The World before the Deluge. Translated from the French of Louis Figuier. Illustrated by Rion. (Chapman and Hall.)—Never was there a more astoundingly conclusive illustration of the accuracy of the poetic dictum that " Truth is strange, stranger than fiction," than that afforded by this most impressive, wildly imaginative, and yet strictly philosophical publication. In it the most fantastic fables of ancient mythology are sur passed. It carries us far beyond the comparatively tranquil astonishment awakened by the figments of Fairyland. Black Magic never conjured up among its most daring illusions, spectacles in any way comparable to those here presented to view, or at any rate submitted to contemplation, either. for their stupendous horror, for their appalling scope, or for their preternatural magnificence. Yet everything here conjured up before the reader's imagination is based upon the hardest fact, upon the most solid, substantial reality. The " ser mons" preached (never tediously) by this poetic man-of-science have been found by him lite rally in stones ! The leaves of this goodly " book" he has thus contrived to write (equally for our en tertainment and our instruction) have been carried down from remote epochs, for his githering, not merely upon the surface of " running brooks," but upon the current of the giant rivers of the world, upon the rolling waves of the mighty deep itself ! And the moral he has drawn from it all, is akin to that born from the philosophy of Jacques--that there is " Good in Everything." Whoever the translator of this noble and impressive volume is (and he modestly conceals his identity under the initials appended to L'Envoi, -" W. S. 0.," Kensington), he has entered fully into the idea inspiring the whole scheme of this remark able work by M. Louis Figuier. His labour, as a translator, has evidently been a labour of love throughout. Upon its completion he inscribes it respectfully to the author of " Siluria"—the work, as he tells us, that first attracted his attention to this class of subjects—Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, Presi dent of the Royal Geological Society, that learned Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, who, besides being K.C.8., a D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., and so forth, has become, since the Dedicatory Page was written, a Baronet of the United Kingdom. The outline of the work that has thus been penned by M. Figuier, and translated into English by W. S. 0., is, to say the least of it, sufficiently com prehensive. As the very title-page indicates, it is descriptive of the history of the globe prior to the epoch of its submergence under the waters of the Deluge. The World Before the Flood This Globe —as geological data demonstrates it to have been—under several widely different aspects I Conceiving, not unwisely, that the youthful imagination may be awakened more beneficially to admiration by the revelations of science than by nursery fictions about " Puss in Boots " and " Jack the Giant-Killer," M. Figuier —and, through this English version, his translator into our own vernacular—here undertakes to unfold to view a narrative more enthralling in its interest, more captivating to the thoughtful student's imagi nation, than any romance that was ever written—the Miracle of the Creation I—the marvel of this Planet's series of Transformations I! Five Epochs are here described—the Primary, the Tran sitional, the Secondary, the Tertiary, and the Quaternary ! " General Considerations" lead off the whole complexity of the disquisition— the significance of which, in its suggestiveness, is pointed by a brief but wonderfully striking and oven, it might be said, startling " Epilogue." Reminding us that in the Primitive Epoch of the World's History there was, first, the Mineral Kingdom—in the Secondary, the Vegetable King dom—in the Tertiary, the Animal Kingdom—in the Quaternary, the Human Kingdom—the Philo sophic Dreamer of Dreams who has penned this Book here strikingly asks his reader at its close—ls it in the future destinies of our planet to receive yet another habitant ? In other words—" After the four kingdoms which now occupy it, is there to be a New Kingdom created, but which will differ from man in as great a degree as man differs from animals, and plants from rocks ?" A mighty Problem—the solution of which lies in the depths of the Eternities, in the inscrutable womb of Futurity, in the ineffable silentness of Infinitude. Majestically in keeping with the " high argument,' thus descanted upon by the eloquence of M. Louis Figuier, are the embellishments scattered through the volume from the designs of Riou. Several among these are of Miltonic or Martinesque subli mity —more particularly the very last of all, the engraving delineative of the Asiatic Deluge, a pie--_ ture presenting to view a spectacle of appalling magnificence. Warne's Picture Book—with upwards of Five Hundred Illustrations (Frederick Warne and Co.) —is a very El Dorado or Tom Tiddler's ground of amusement for childhood A glorious treasury of pictorial fun, frolic, grace, and grotesquerie ! whole library of illustrations in a single volume the opening of which, at any moment, anywhere, haphazard, is for the little-ones like the sitting cross legged upon the famous Turkish carpet. For, Hey I, Presto !—they are away—upon the wings of the wind —into the true realms of fairy-land, the fields of the imagination ! As the title-page of this handsome five shilling volume says quite accurately—there are here collected together between cover and cover upwards of FIVE HUNDRED Illustrations by every Artist of Eminence within the Last Twenty Years ! Enough, that surely in all conscience, for the most insatiable of juveniles hungering and thirsting after the pleasures of the eye in the shape of comical and capital illustrations of every imaginable kind. Another delightful addition to the Nursery Library is provided by Routledge's New Toy Books, printed in colours. Old friends, such as Cinderella, and the Five Little Pigs, and the Three Kittens, and Nursery Rhymes, and new ones such as the Cats' Tea Party, and Tom Thumb's Alphabet, and the Alphabet of Trades, are here presented to us, all of them glowing and gorgeous in colour ing, and some of them singularly grotesque in character. Some of the illustrations to Tom Thumb's Alphabet, by M'Connell, are exqui sitely humorous and ridiculous. Of a kindred spirit is the amazing collection of Great Fun, pub lished by Sampson Low, which gives us the veracious history of Hop-Skip-and-Jump, Phemie and the Fern Fairy, Dolly Dowsey, and the Live Rock ing-horse, the Cherry-Coloured Cat, and 'Abell equally marvellous in conception, and all of them most brilliant in colouring. THE SURGEON CHARGED WITH FRAUD ON INSUR'" ANCE COMPANIES.--Mr. T. Walley, the surgeon who was found guilty at the Leeds Assizes on Tuesday of ob taining an insurance policy by false pretences, was indicted on Saturday at the same assizes for a similar fraud on the British Prudential Assurance Company, the person whose life was insured in this case being a young woman named Hepworth. The deceased was suffering at the time of the insurance from an incurable cancer, and the prisoner, who professionally knew her state, represented her life to be e good one to the insurance company, managing at the same time to secure for himself the prospective benefit in the ca.so of death. Tho papers relative to the insurance acci dentally fell from his pocket in the public road, and being shown to the friends of the young woman—who were en tirely ignorant of the proceedings of the prisoner—led to the discovery of the fraud. The prisoner pleaded Guilty, and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment—to com mence on the termination of his previous sentence of months. We cordially recommend all who are in any rrag interested in the subject of insurance to procure a copy Of the Royal Assurance Company's Book-Almanac for 1866, which can be obtained on application at the head offices or from any of the company's agents. Besides explaining candidly the principles upon which the vast business of the "Royal " is so successfully conducted, and giving the rules which must be observed to insure stability in insur" anco transactions, the pamphlet contains other matter of interest to the general reader, independently of the prinef" pal topics to which it is devoted. It appears from the latest statistics that the "Royal" is now very nearly the largest insurance office in the world, a distinction of en hanced value when considered as the result of 20 year s' operations only. In the fire branch the premiums during 1864 alone amounted to over £406,000 ; and in the salr i s year the new life assurances completed exceeded one in" - lion sterling, notwithstanding the largo number of pr o posals rejected on the score of ineligibility, ti., . ~''< 1) Bank 1 Atistrif kazili i Lo. 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