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THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. `THIS EVENING, THE HUNCHBACK. Mr. T. Swinbourne, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. H. Webb, Mr. C. Harcourt, Mr. F. Barsby, and Mr. W. M'lntyre ; Miss Helen Faucit and Mrs. Hermann Vezin. To conclude with the Comedy of KATHARINE AND PETRUCHIO. Petruchio, Mr. T. Swinbourne ; Katha rine, Miss Isabel Adams. Doors open at half-past six; performances commence at seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYAIARKET, Sole Leesee and Mana , rer, Mr. Buckstone, THIS EVENINti, A GAM E t•E PCULATION. 3lelsrs. C. M a hews, Chippendale, Kendal, Rogers, Clark, Braid, &Li.; Mesdames Fitzwitlii,m, Laws, Wright, Sidney. Followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATItA. Mr. Chas. Manlove, Mr. Com,,ton, Mr. ho ,, ers, Air Clark, &c. ; Nes' (lames C. Mathews, Wright, Colman. Sidney. &C. To conclude with SLIOCKINJ EVENTS. Mr. Comrton. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. TEM EVENING, at Seven precisely, THE BARONET ABROAD. Miss Roden. Aster which. at Eight, A SISTER'S PENANCE. Miss Rate Terry, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt; Mr. Herman Vezin ; Messrs. Billingtou, Ashley, J. A. Shaw, Stephenson, A , ..burne, add It. Romer. To conclude with A PAS DE FASCINATION. Miss Furtado. Miss Emily Pitt. Messrs. Eburne, Ashly, Romer, C. J. Smith. oyAL. LYCEUM THEATRE.— iv Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Feehter. Trris EVENING, BRUTUS AND C-ESAR. Henrade. At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Acts, THE LONG STRIKE, written by Dion Boucicault. The New Scenery by Mr. 'l'. Greive and assistants. Messrs. S. Emery, 11. Widlicomb, Fitzpatrick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson, Newbound. Stanley, Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds, and J. C. Cowper. To conclude with TWEEDLETON'S TAIL COAT. Acting Manager, Mr. U. Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. Miss ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, NEIGHBOURS. Messrs. Porsche, Belford, and G Murray ; Misses Swanborough, Johnstone, and Hughes. After which, will be produced the Grand Burlesque cf KE.NILWORTH : Messrs. Thorne, Janice, and Fenton; Mesdames Swanborough, Johnstone, and Raynham. To conclude with BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Commence at Seven. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vininft. •• • THIS EVENING, at 8, a Drama, in I Acts, founded on the popular tale by Charles Dickens, Esq., entitled BARNABY URGE, adapted to the stage, and expressly for this Theatre, by Messrs. Watts Phillips and Vining. Characters by Mrs. John Wood, Miss Augusta Thomson, Mrs. Henry Vining, Mrs. Chas. Horsman, and Miss Katherine Rodgers; Messrs. S. Calhaem, F. Villiers, J. G. Shore, H. Forrester, Charles Horsman, E. Shepherd, H. Mellon, C. H. Fenton, W. It. Robins Chapman, &c. Act, Ist, The Mystery ; 2d, The Re cognition ; 3d, The Riots ; 4th, Caught at Last. Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, and Music by Mr. Charles Hall. The Drama produced under the stage direction of Mr. Preceded by THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. Commence at Seven ITOLBORN TIIEATRE ROYAI Sole rroprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, FAMILY JARS. Mr. :Sefton Parry ; Miss C. Saunders. After which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Belmore, Blake, Garden,Vollaire; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. Saunders, B. Foote, Baym THEATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY'S. Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. H. C. Nation. LAST SEVEN NIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS. LAST SIX NIGHTS of THE GOLDEN DUSTALAI! and ATALANTA. NOTICE.—Mr. W. H. C. NATION respectfully announces that this Theatre must be Closed on and after the 17th December, in consequence of the extensive preparations necessary for the production of one of the Grand Christmas Pantomimes for which tuis Theatre has such an enviable re putation. THIS EVENING, the ORIGINAL Dramatic Adaptation ct Charles Dickens's latest Work, "Our Mutual Friend," as produced by Mr. W. H. C. Nation at the Sadler's Wells 'Theatre, June 16, 186 G, entitled T a E GOLDEN IJUSTMAN, with Ne a' Scenery and Striking Situations. Concluding with Frank Talfourd's sparkling Burlesque of ATALANTA, with additional Rhyme to suit the Times by . 11. C. Nation ; and the celebrated Childr,n Dansiuses, Niss FANNY HIGGS and Misses FLORENCE and ANNIE WRIGHT, in their fascinating dance " THE POWER OF LOVE." Box-office open daily from eleven till four. To prevent disappointment seats should be secured in ad vance. No charge tor bills or booking. riIHE "SUN" NEWSPAPER . — A. G. R. GLENIIiI, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught terrace, Edgware-road, is specially appointed AGEN L' to deliver the LATE EDITION of "Tar: SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. 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Weather prophets have long lost much of their authority, and even meteorological science itself gets into difficulties occasionally, if we arc to judge by a recent intimation to the effect that the storm sig nals are to be abandoned, not being reliable. The advance of intelligence has made us more sceptical, if not more wise, and, accordingly, old MooRE and his associates find their circles of dis ciples narrower than of old. Men do not find it difficult to explain the occasional fortunate fore casts that they find by long experience in watch ing ev ents, and by great sagacity on the part of the prophet,. We get sometimes, however, the fulfilment of a particular almanac, but of some old general say the least o f it saying, which i s , t o , singular. Such is the almost literal fulfilment of an old rhyme in the llarleian MSS. which the curiou s in such matters have re cently brought to light. It refers to a Monday Christmas, which it tells us will be sneeeeded by " a great winter." This was really the ease last year if we regard the severity of the temperature; but the anc i en t rhymester appears to have intended the word in another sense. It is to be, he says__ " Full of winds both loud and shrill ; But in summer, truth to tell, High winds shall there be and strong, Frill of tempests lasting long," which prophecy was certainly realised in the furi ous exceptional tempests of 1866. Among the re maining anticipations are two which time has proved singularly correct. He says : "Battles they shall multiply, And great plenty of beasts small die." The "battles" were more important than numerous, and the beasts died from plague immediately before as well as alter the Monday Christmas. Still th This year, which has taxed heavily the resources of many benevolent associations, has not spared the National Lifeboat Institution. We find that at Thursday's meeting £1,500 of the funded capital was ordered to be sold out to assist in defraying the very heavy payments neeessary on the various estab lishments. During this year the society has expended £29,650 on its stations, which now number 172, and during this eventful year it has assisted in saving more than 800 lives. Such work as it undertakes cannot be efficiently done without great and con- stant outlay, but there are few associations which can show more definite results than the National Lifeboat Institution. In most charitable or bene- volent enterprises the subscribers or friends of the undertaking have to be satisfied with doing their best without realising the ultimate good resulting from their efforts. The National Lifeboat Insti- tution, however, can actually point to so many lives saved, to so much property preserved, to so many catastrophes averted. Now that the storms of winter are making themselves felt with so much severity, it is to be hoped that they will remind liberal hearts of the heavy claims on this useful as- sociation, for though the " Monday Christmas" will not recur for some years to come, there is little prospect of a diminution of the wrecks and disas- ters at sea. Prussia seems likely to engross all our attention just now, all that we can spare for Continental affairs at any rate. Those who have all along per sisted in believing that, notwithstanding the con fusions incident on the war, better results would speedily follow, will find themselves greatly mis taken before long, if they are not already undeceived. In point of fact, there was no reason why some of their operations should not have been realised, be cause the very power Prussia had acquired might well have made her magnanimous. It is, however, sad to reflect that the very reverse is the truth, and that all the use which the Berlin Government has made of its enormous resources has been to trample upon the rights of every one and to interfere with all the privileges of the places which they have seized. The last news from Hanover is very startling to peruse; it tells us that Count KIELMANSEGGE, Commander of the Cambridge Regiment of Dragoons, has been sent to the Fortress of Minden for having urged some subordinate officers not to enter the Prussian service. Herr BEICIIE, of the Civil Service, has been suspended from his functions. The Governor of Hanover has also instructed the Finance Depart ment to fix, by the Ist January next, the amounts of the pensions which may be claimed by the officers of the late Hanoverian army, because from that date they will cease to receive their pay. These fragments of information may well be re garded as the beginning of the end, and types of that certain and comprehensive change which Prussia will shortly work out in the affairs of Hano ver and all other States she can meddle with. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that there might have been more reason for harsh proceedings if the Count KIELMANSEGGE had been exciting the officers and soldiers against their new mas ters, there cannot be the shadow of ex cuse for the course just adopted under the actual circumstances of the case. It has come to something indeed if people are to be forced to enter the Prussian service bon gre mauvais gre, as the case may be. Another piece of downright equivocation is the reply of Count BISMARCK to the deputation which waited upon him from Hader sleben on the subject of North Schleswig. He stated that the popular vote would be taken as to wh ether those di s t r i cts were to belong to Prussia or Denmark, but that it must be deferred until after the " consolidation of the state of affairs gene rally in th e E lbe Duchies. " What absurdity this is, when every one knows perfectly well that there is no occasion for s uc h a d e l ay to ta k e place. We should not be a t a l l surprised if the ma tter were to drop altogether when this said con solidation is over, and if th e inhabitants of North Schleswigeciding were never all owed the opportunity their own affairs, and being instruments: in the determination of their fate. Who can wonder that such repeated instances of oppression, and such constant causes of irritation, should arouse the scorn and indignation of all observers, and call down many a censure upon the course of Prussian statesmen. The manifesto of KARL BLIND, which has been extensively circulated in Germany, and reprinted by a number of Democratic and Liberal papers in the South, is very significant in its tone and temper. It is sharp and cutting in its comments on recent affairs, and we can fancy the rage with which Count BISMARCK and his friends will peruse it. We can not see that there is anything to gainsay in its strictures, however, and they contain a great deal worthy of notice—a great deal that may be scanned with profit by those who are essentially waverers, and not easily led in a straightforward direc- tion. Of these KARL BLIND is the stern critic and the relentless judge, and we consider with good reason, for they arc the great enemies of social progress and the insidious foes of liberty in its direct and indirect forms. We are not surprised that the writer of this exclaims regarding these inarplots— " take position, friend or foe;" he is maddened at the sight of their inconsistency, and rendered wrathful when he hears their insincere remarks. " Yesterday democratic,dly inclined, to-day the admirers of the victory of Konigsgratz," as he truly styles them, they now pretend to see in the success of their enemies the working out of their schemes and the fulfilment of their desires. KARL BLIND is elo quent in his denunciation of such trickery, and shows forth the folly of these pseudo-Liberals in glaring colours. " Never," says he, " shall we allow royal crime to be represented to us as the cloud's silver lining, which indicates a better future ; never shall the authors of the misfortunes that have be fallen the nation be acknowledged by us as the chosen chieftains that are to lead the people into the field of fertile freedom. Were We to yield to such general faithfulness of the forecast is not a little singular. The gales of wind appear to have not yet ex hausted their strength. Beginning with the tem pest which sunk the unfortuate London, and did such mischief on our coasts, they have continued at intervals throughout the year. Last week the gales were violent, and did much damage in several ports. We hear of narrow escapes and gallant rescues from Llandudno, Holyhead, Fleetwood, Cornwall, and Durham. In all these cases the lifeboats of the National Institution played a conspicuous part, and, as on every occasion, boats and crews alike keep up the reputation of the association. Last Thursday a meeting was held at the Society's Rooms in the Adelphi, when liberal sums were voted to men who had been fortunate enough to save life under circumstances of danger and difficulty. The silver medal Of the institution was voted to Mr. Wm. ROWLANDS, coxswain of the I liolyhead lifeboat, for his long and gallant services. Mr. RowLANDs, however, is not inclined to rest upon his laurels, for we find the Holyhead Lifeboat specially mentioned in the records of the gale of Friday. The society is never at a loss for brave and efficientservants, the very danger and difficulty of the task commending itself to our stout-hearted sailors and fishermen. THE SUN, LONIiON I MONDA Y EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1866. phantasmagorian views we should only be lured further into the dreary desert of despotism." In commenting upon those mistaken politicians he shadows forth a great deal of the causes which have accorded to Prussia such success in the present year. IVaverers have been caught, and doubtful men have been seduced from their allegiance by the spacious sophistries of Berlin ; that majority of the world which always goes over to the winning side has declared loudly for the supremacy of Prussia, and here many doubts and misrepresenta tions have arisen. We cannot see the good that can arise from this misrepresentation of evil, and those who persist in putting white for black, and sweet for bitter, in the case of Prussia, are doing great injury to the sacred cause of truth, and insulting the supreme majesty of justice. It seems almost impossible to understand why such perversity should have seized upon so many minds, and nothing that any one can do or say appears likely to disabuse them. There is great force in this passage about truckling to triumphs which deserve no need of encouragement or applause. " What demoralisation would corrupt national and party life if this inclination of having before men success became general." We com mend the arguments of this writer to the notice of all who have been mystified by the plausible argu ments of BISMARCK about German unity and such like clap-trap. As he very properly remarks, the " loftiest political phraseology of the needle-gun enthusiasts shall not make us forget that we are still in the midst of the struggle." This is an exact definition of the state of things in Germany. It is a struggle, neither more nor less, and it will soon be seen whether the German nation is to advance or to retrograde. If the policy of BISMARCK is carried out in its entirety, there will be a great wrong done to pro gress ; but if, as may be the case, that wilful states man be checked in his career, the States of Germany will have an opportunity of retrieving themselves. At any rate, while in this transition state, let not men's minds be deceived, but let them realise thei r true position, and comprehend in its full force the nature and tendency of Prussian policy. It is one of aggression from first to last, and it is redeemed in no one particular by any generous conduct, or any trait of a higher tendency than that of rapacity, and a determination to gain its ends no matter how such ambition may militate against the rights and destroy the interests of others. the Court of Assize for the Deux Sevres at Niort for the murder of his first and second wife, and of his son by the latter, naturally excites great attention. I sent you some particulars about the case, but it may be well to recapitulate the facts. They are brief, although no less than 1.60 witnesses were sum moned on the part of the prosecution. The two women were evidently poisoned, the first wife in 1856, and the second in 1865, trace 3 of poison having been found in the intestines. Abel Reau, the son, no doubt died fron the same poison, corro sive sublimate. The prisoner, in addition to his other occupation, dealt in horses, and was a veteri nary surgeon. He was in the habit of using poisons in small doses for the cure of horses and mules. It was proved that he obtained a fortune of no less than about £6,000 sterling from insurances on the lives of his wives and property which would have reverted to his son if he had lived, but which came into the possession of the prisoner at the death of his son. Many medical books were found at his house, and marks and notes were made upon those portions which treated of the most deadly poisons. On one occasion he asked a witness if he could tell him the best and quickest mode of poisoning, for his cousin had threatened to shoot him, and he wanted to get rid of him. His idea of marriage, as expressed to another witness, was, " the more wives a man has the richer he grows." Another heinous incident in his case is, that the poisoner offered I,ooof. to an Italian refugee named Bertadatto to assist him in endeavouring to prove that his second wife and son were poisoned by two relatives named Bontemps and Bichon. LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 9. The election of Baltazzi as Prince of Sumos has been confirmed by the Porte. The United States have resolved to appoint Con sul-Generals in the Roumanian Principalities and Servia. It is asserted that Mustapha Pacha is to be re• called from Candia. Clean bills of health are now granted to outward vessels from Constantinople. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA, Dec. 9. The Ceylon left here at four p.m. yesterday, and the Massilia sails at noon to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the morning of the 11th, and the latter at South ampton about the 18th inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Delta, from Southampton, Nov. 27, reached Malta, Dec 6, at 7 a.m., and left at midnight for Alexandria. The Poonah, from Marseilles, sth inst., arrived on the Bth, at 3 a.m., and left at 10 a.m , for Alexandria. TIIE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 10. The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer China, with the heavy portion of the above mails has arrived here. She brings 43 passengers, £1,617 in specie, and 3,380 packages of cargo, including raw silk, value £145,000 sterling. The China experienced fine weather throughout the voyage. Gibraltar, Dec. 6.—Exchange on London, 49 to I ; Paris, 5.14 ; Madrid, dis. Her Majesty's ships Redpol3 and Skylark were in the harbour. LITERATURE. Social Life in Former Days. Second Series. Illus trated by Letters and Family Papers. By E. Dunbar Dunbar (late) Captain 21st Fusiliers. 1 vol., pp. 199. Edmonston and Douglas. Some time back we noticed the very interesting contents of the first volume of this very curious and original work. We are not surprised 'to find that the success of that first adventure has induced Captain Dunbar to bring out this second in stalment. The old family documents from which these incidents have been collected, many of them having been exceedingly difficult to decipher, some delay has necessarily taken place in the publication of this second volume. Its contents are fujly as interesting as those of its predecessor, but the curious spelling and old fashioned words render many of the letters difficult reading even at present. To the student of history and to the future historian they will have, of course, a particular value and interest. Among the subjects referred to in the present volume are—" Feuds between Powerful Families," in 1577 ; " The Plan tation of Nova Scotia and knights bannerets thereof, 1625 ;" " Letters from the Courts of James VI. and Charles 1.," " Scolastical and Bibliothecal," " Noble and Exemplary Wives," " An Order for Dress, an Offer of Marriage, and a Marriage, 1657," " Invita tion to the Funeral of a Countess ; Obsequies of a Laird, 1663; and of a Knight, 1666." Many of the details of the domestic and social life of a bygone age are here revealed to us in the most simple and accurate manner, the writers being wholly uncon scious that they were inditing epistles for the interest or information of a future generation. Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence. By Heron Von Borcke, lately Chief of Staff to General J. E. R. Stuart. Two vols., with a map. Blackwood and Sons. Thesevery interesting memoirs of the Confederate war have already appeared in the pages of Black wood's Magazine, but they are well worthy of a separate publication. The writer expresses a hope that, although a new war, in which he himself had " the proud satisfaction of fighting in the great battle of Konigsgratz," may have effaced the recol lection of "the splendid army of Virginia, many will still read with some interest the simple narrative of a soldier who is proud to have shared the suffer ings and the glory of the late Confederacy." To the gallant lleros Von Borcke himself, late chief of Staff to General Stuart, and now one of the 3d Prussian Dragoons, the feelings of the politician are evidently subservient to those of the soldier, and a war of independence on one side of the Atlantic or of conquest on the other are equally welcome and satisfactory. The Book of Birthdays; or, Anniversary Poet) y of Hunzan Life. Darton and CO. A pretty little volume, containing some hundreds of little poems collected from various writers, all more or less relating to the great anniversary of human life. The author justly claims for his little book the merit of containing a variety of poems on similar subjects never before collected. Among those authors whose works have furnished materials for this volume are Pope, and Dryden, and Byron, and Scott, and Campbell, and Tennyson, and Bulwer Lytton, and Wordsworth, and Burns, and Johnson —in fact, every poet worth recalling. The Texan Ranger; or, Real Life in the Backwoods, By Captain Flack. Darton and Co. The author tells us that he has endeavoured to give in this volume some idea of the life led on the Southern plantations some few years ago, and as suredly a most adventurous life it must have been. Alligator shooting, and adventures with cougars and wild bears and opossums are varied with ac counts of wild bull fighting, and the pursuit of the mustang or wild horse, to say nothing of snakes, and wild cats, and wild turkeys, and stags, and bisons, which afford continual subjects of pastime or peril. Lucy West; or, The Orphans of high ay. By Mrs. H. B. Bank. One vol., pp. 208. Frederick Warne. This is a very interesting little story, which may afford profitable amusement to young readers. Lucy West is one of those who marry in haste and repent at leisure, and her various trials are related with considerable feeling and fidelity to truthfulness. Smart Sayings of Great Personages. One yol., pp. 200. Darton and Co. This little book professes to be a repertory of wit, anecdote, apothegm, and repartee of states men, courtiers, divines, lawyers, actors, poets, painters, and philosophers, collected together on the strength of Dr. Channing's remark, " that one anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography." If this be so, then must this little repertory of two hundred pages be equivalent to an entire library The earth weighs 1,256,195,070,000,000,000,000 tons. BATH AND WEST or ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. --This society, which is second in import ance only to the Agricultural Society, has, at. a meeting of the council just, held, fixed to hold its meeting in 1867 in the city of Salisbury on Monday, the 10th of June, and following days, the entries for stock and implements to close on 18th of April, and for poultry on the 10th of May. £l,OOO will be offered by Che society in prizes for stock, besides £5O given by the local committee at Salisbury, and £lOO toward the expenses of a dog;show, should it be con sidered desirable to hold one. In the competition for prizes, Devons, Herefordshire, and short-horn cattle aro to be placed on the same footing, and in the sheep classes several additions have been made to those of the Hereford show, it having been decided to offer prizes now for Leicester, Cotswold, other long-wool, Southdown, Hampshire Down, Shropshire, Oxford Down, Somerset and Dorset born, and mountain sheep. The prizes offered by the Salisbury committee are £lO and £5 for five four-teeth Hampshire Down sheep to be shown in their wool; and £lO and £5 for five six-teeth or full-mouth ewes; also £2O, in sums varying from £5 to £2 10s., for Berkshire pigs, and £3 les. for sheep sheering. In the horse classes prizes of £3O and £l5 will be given for agricultural stallions foaled before 1865, £2O and £lO for agricultural stallions foaled in 1865 £l5 and £5 for mares and foals or in foal, .£2O and £lO for pairs of agricultural horses foaled before 1862, and £2O and £lO for do. foaled after Jan. 1, 1862. In the hunter classes £25 and £lO will be given in prizes for mares or geldings foaled before January, 1863 ; £25 and £lO for do. foaled in 1863 ; and £l5 and £5 for fillies or geldings foaledin 1864. In the hack class £lO and £5 will bo given for mares or geldings to carry not less than 15 stone, and £lO and £5 for do. to carry not less than 12 stone ; and £lO for the best mare or gelding pony not exceeding 13 hands high. A very liberal prize -sheet in the poultry department has also been decided on, and arrangements aro to be made for a horticultural show similar to last year. There will also be an exhibition of art manufactures and pictures. A Winter with the Swallows. By Matilda Betham Edwards. 1 vol., pp. 286. Hurst and Blackett. Often in her childhood, the fair authoress of this delightful volume tells us, she had wished that the Arabian Nights were all true, little dreaming, she adds, how she would one day discover nothing to be truer than poetic fiction. On her recent visit to Algeria she seemed to hear story after story added to the Thousand and One, all new, as true and almost as wonderful. " The city of Algiers rises like a vision from the sea, and' one wants a pencil dipped in colour to give any adequate conception of it. Imagine terrace after terrace of pure white marble piled upon a sunny height with a broad blue bay below; bright green hills stretching towards a vast velvety plain on either side, beyond all a line of snow-tipped mountains, dim and distant as clouds ; and you have some shadowy idea of as fair a picture as the world can show." This picture gives not only the idea of the appear ance of Algiers, it may also serve to illustrate the lively powers of observation and description which render the authoress of this book a most delightful cicerone through the enchanted regions of the East. Christmas-day in Africa, " warm as an old-fashioned May-day,"—Algerian Streets by Moonlight—A trip into Kabylia, with legends and history of the Kabyles—A Journey to the Cedar Forests—Sleep ing in a Caravansary—Breakfast with the Trappists —A Moorish Palace—Housekeeping in Algiers— such are a few among the almost innumerable mat ters of interest and information that pass before our notice, and live in our recollection as depicted by the skilful hand of this fellow-wanderer with the swallows. - CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. The illoniteur states that the Emperor has received the letter by which his Excellency Don Joaquin Perez notifies to his Majesty his election to the Pre sidency of the Republic of Chili. The Italie contains the exact details in reference to the journey to Rome of M. Tonello, to fulfil the mission which was previously intrusted to M. Vegezzi, which he is not able to execute in con sequence of ill health. M. Vegezzi having declared that the state of his health rendered it impossible for him to go to Rome, Commander Tonello has been appointed to execute the task instead of him. M. Tonello, now a Councillor of State, was professor of canon law. His special knowledge, his moderate opinions, and his conciliatory character, naturally pointed him out to the choice of the Government. He was to leave for Rome on the 7th or Bth, ac companied by M. Maurizio, who has been connected with the preceding mission. As to the instructions given to M. Tonello, the Government is not dis posed to insist upon the oath of the bishops and upon the exequatur should those formalities inter pcse any obstacle in the way of an arrangement. It appears from the statement of some of the other Italian papers that the journey of the Pope to Civita Vecchia, which was to have taken place on the sth of this mouth, was countermanded at the latest hour. M. Bertherny, formerly Minister Plenipotentiary of France in China, and recently appointed to the same post at Washington, embarked yesterday at Havre on board the General Transatlantic Com pany's packet Pereire for his distination. M. Ber themy accomplished almost the whole of his diplo matic career in the United States, where he will no doubt be received with affectionate recollection. The Vienna Gazette announces that the Italian Government intends to construct vast maritime establishments in Venetia, and that the commission appointed with this object has already commenced its labours, and has carefully inspected the arsenal of Chioggia and the dependent localities. According to the last news received in Paris several districts which had been in insurrection had submitted, and the insurgents had returned to their homes. The Caimakan of Candia, who had made an official tour of inspection, had been cordially re: ceived by the various populations. Quantities of arms had been surrendered. The account concludes by stating that there was perfect tranquillity throughout the Empire. The Archbishop of Paris, M. Darboy, has issued a niandement respecting the affairs of Rome and the position of the Pope. It is a calm, dignified, and conciliatory document, expressing full confidence that the rights, privileges, and power of his Holiness will be protected. The Archbishop seems to be of opinion that if there should be any attack upon the spiritual or temporal power of his Holiness, France would again interfere to support him. The Archbishop says :—" Should there be any attempt by popular revolution to abolish the temporal power of the Pope, would not this be for France the signal to return, and for the great Powers of Europe to regulate by a Congress the fate of the Roman States, upon the basis accepted by them all, of the maintenance of the temporal power of the Holy See ?" The Archbishop then discusses at some length the hypothesis of perfect and entire reconciliation between Italy and the Pope, and intimates that the church in its maternal condescension would make any sacrifice to establish concord, if the sacrifice should be compatible with the principles of honour and good government. A th i a e lt e i v e e o the railnof the Paris pap ers agree i n t h e statement E E m ur p o e p r o or ah A o l u a t xi t i h n o ilia 2 n oth w o ill f t a h rr is ive mo f n r t o h m . A letter from Vienna states that Count de Bom belanlreya the the shad left that capit a l f or Gib ra l tar to accom- EAmnpsetrrciar;i w fr h ig o a i t s e e D xp an ec d t o e i d o. at G T i h b o ra Fra ltar n o c n e says :—We lear n f rom a certain source that the I pb a oa s t despatch received in Europe from the Emperor Maximilian via New York was dated Nov. 23. It was sent from Vera Cruz or Orizaba to New Or leans by steamer on the 16th or 18th November. In this despatch the Emperor mentions the wish of the medical advisers of the Empress Charlotte that he should come and meet her in the latter half of December, at some port of the Mediterranean, where the packet will touch which will briar , him to Europe. At the date mentioned, therefore, the Emperor Maximilian had quite made up his mind to depart. It was also mentioned to be the wish of the Emperor that no more letters or despatches should be sent to him to Mexico after that time. Preparations are in progress which remind the Parisians of the season. Fashionable parties are numerow, and the first carnival opera ball is an nounced for Sunday next. There have of late been many accidents from fire arms. On Friday last a newly-married young lady at Jouy-au-Josas (Seine et Oise) took a fancy to clean a revolver pistol belonging to hex husband. Unfortunately it was loaded with ball. The move ment affected the trigger, and the pistol went off, the ball entering the brain. The lady, who be- Longs to one of the chief families of tho town, died almost instantly. Balague, the man who, it will be recollected, was convicted at the Court of Assize of the Ariege for murdering his sister, was executed on Friday at Foix, in pursuance of his sentence. Thor e was an enormous crowd. The trial of a rich farmer, Martin Rep,v, before FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. B.—With the exception of Rail ways, which are stationary, although the Rotnans have a considerable advance, other Securities have declined, and the close is as follows :- 41 per Cents 93 10 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 69 65 Do. end month 69 55 Credit Mobilier 578 75 Do. end month 580 Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1380 Bank Shares 3630 . Italian Loan 56 10 Do. end month,,,,, 56 15 Me±icau Loa Do. 80nd5......, Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred WAYS. For Account. Orleans Northern llB7 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 9Ol 25 Southern 583 75 Westers — -- Eastern 533 75 Sardinian — Austrian Lombard 392 50 North of Spain ll7 50 Saragossa — Ditto to Barcelona — Roman. THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION. ATuus, Nov. 29. Intelligence received yesterday from Candia brings details of the affair at Arcadion, telegraphed upon the 25th. Arcadion is a convent situated in a strong posi tion in the department of Rethymnos. It was occupied altogether by 540 persons, 343 of whom were women and children, leaving 197 men capable of bearing arms. Coroneos does not appear to have been in the place, as was incorrectly reported. Upon the 20th Mustapha Pasha left his head quarters at Episcopi with 12,000 men, and ad vanced upon the convent, demanding the surrender of the garrison. The Cretans refused, and the Turkish artillery immediately opened a tremendous fire upon the place, keeping up the bombardment two days and nights. A breach being at last effected in the walls, the Turks, who had suffered heavy losses, poured into the convent court. This was surrounded with small cells, in which the Christians had barricaded themselves, and kept up their fire for six hours. Finding all resistance ineffec tual, the defenders of the convent formed the des perate resolution of setting fire to the powder ma gazine. A monk applied the match. The explo sion was tremendous, hurling Turks and Christians into the air, strewing the neighbourhood with corpses. Two thousand Turkish soldiers were killed on the spot, and large numbers wounded. Thirty-nine men and 60 women and children of the garrison were all that escaped. These were taken prisoners, and carried off to Rethymnos. The wounded Turks are being daily brought into hos pital. Canea and Souda have received upwards of a thousand, many being officers, among them being Murtapha's brother-in-law. CRUELTY BY A COACHMAN.—At the Brentford Petty Sessions on Saturday John Taylor, late coach man in the service of Lord John Chichester, residing at Twickenham, was charged by the Secretary to the Royal Society fcr the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with cruelly over-driving and ill-treating, on the ith ult., a horse belonging to Lord Chichester. It appeared that on the day in question the prisoner, without permission of his master, rode a grey horse from Richmond-bridge to a trot ting match, which was to have taken place at Sunbury, but which, owing to the intervention of the police, was held near Maidenhead. Theprisoner followed to that place, and rode the horse as a spectator. Upon arrival at Maiden head his horse had thrown two shoes, and a farrier put two new shoes on, and cautioned the prisoner against riding the horse any further, as it was so distressed. lie did not, however, act on this advice, but rode the animal home wards. When h o reac h ed Longford the ostler at the well known "Peggy B e df or d' s " advised him to put the horse up and go hom e b y ra il way. The prisoner, in reply, said he was afraid ho sh ou ld not reach home, but still he went on, and upon reachi ng H ounslow the horse full down from ex haustion, and aft er a good deal of whipping, as the an i mal could not'move, it was carried into a stable, where it died on the 9th. The Chairman (Mr. Glossop) observed that the Bench had carefully considered this case, and were of opinion that nothing less than a severe sentence could bo pronounced. The full penalty of three months' imprison ment would not be inflicted, owing to the good character prisoner had received from his lordship, but a pecuniary penalty would probably be paid by prisoner's friends, and so virtually be no punishment at all ; the Bench had, therefore, decided on sending the accused to prison for ono month, with hard labour. RISK ALLAH BEY. To Monsieur de Bavay, Procureur-Gendral at Brussels. I am Grandmaster of the Orders of my family ; and whatever may be the objections you have raised, I confer them, and shall continue to confer them, whenever and on whomsoever I think fit. It is my legitimate right, notwithstanding your having arrogated to yourself the power of denying it. You may calumniate me, but I shall not the less do-that which I consider best, and if you act as an Attor ney-General who understands his profession that will not in any way prevent my conducting myself as a Prince who respects himself. In conclusion, I Protest, sir, conscientiously and solemnly, before God and before Europe, against your unworthy expressions, as also against the falsity of your accusations with respect to me per sonally. The complete inaccuracy of your allega tions can be proved by all those who are willing to read the accompanying letter, which was trans . mitted in the month of December, 1853, by his Excellency Lord Cowley, the English Ambassador, to his Majesty Napoleon 111., Emperor of the French. I have the honour, Monsieur le Procureur-Gene ral, to present my respects. PRINCE ALEXANDRE ANDRE DE GONZAGA, Duke of Mantua. To his Majesty Napoleon 111., Emperor' of the French Sire,--The undersigned Prince Alexander of GOnzaga of Mantua has the honour to submit to your Majesty the following facts. In 1812 he entered as a volunteer the 9th Regi ment of Infantry of the Vistula under the name of Prince Alexander Andre of Gonzaga Mantua, Count of Murzinowski, and Prince of the Roman Empire. In the course of the same year he was promoted to the grades of non-commissioned officer, afterwards of lieutenant. On his return from the Russian campaign he was met at Wilna by Marshal Ney, who placed him on his staff, where he remained until the battle of Leipsic. After that campaign he entered the regiment of Lancers formed by General Count Pac, in which regiment he served as a lieutenant until 1814. In 1816 the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia appointed him first-class lieutenant in the 2d Regi ment of Chassurs ; but from that time to 1821 he was detached from the regiment, and specially served on the staff of the Grand Duke Constantine. After wards the Grand Duke sent him to Gen. Rozniecki, Chief Instructor of all the Cavalry of Poland and that of Lithuania, where he was promoted to the rank of captain of cavalry in 1824. In order to abbreviate this exposé, the undersigned Prince Gonzaga, has the honour to make known to your Majesty that in 1828 he was serving with the rank of colonel in the Russian war with Turkey. Finally, in 1833, the undersigned was naturalised a citizen of Wurtemberg, after his identity and ante cedents had been verified by Baron Mayendorff, the Russian Minister at the Court of Wurtemberg, act ing under orders received from the Emperor Nicho las 1., and later, after having distinguished himsel in the army of Don Carlos, in Spain, as colonel o the . Lancers of Tortosa,. in 1837 and 1838, he en tered private life. The undersigned, in order to complete this brief and incomplete sketch of his services, must add that the French Government offered him, in 1840, the appointment of colonel in the Foreign Legion. From the year 1812 the undersigned Prince Alexander Gonzaga Mantua has been received at all the Courts, with marked distinction and treated by all Sovereigns with the greatest kindness. No one has ever thought of disputing his names and titles ; and the protests which he has several times renewed during the last 15 years establish the fact that he has no intention of renouncing his rights which he considers imprescripible. Did not the undersigned fear to occupy too much of your Ma jesty's time, he would cite some passages from his voluminous and important correspondence, in which would be seen the sympathy and regard which Princes, and the most illustrious statesmen of France, England, Italy, Germany, and Prussia have expressed towards him. The under signed could also give the names of many French peers, diplomatists, generals, and admirals who have never doubted his identity, and have always written most flattering letters. Lately, again, while in Rome, at the time of the French occupation, the undersigned Prince Gonzaga, thinks it right to mention that he was of sonic service to your Majesty's army. Sire, letters emanating from the commanders of that army show how great was the esteem in which he was held. Before the time of the painful trial to which the undersignel will presently call your Majesty's at tention, the prince did not wish to publish any memoir, quote any letters, or even make use of any name, as it was his particular wish to avoid scandal, although scandal was being accumulated around him. Thus, Sire, time passed on for many years, during which the undersigned bad been all over Europe, and had resided in France for more than six years, without any person having dreamt of denying his identity. However, in 1852, on his way through Paris, pro vided with an English passport in due order, he re ceived from the police authorities (April 16, 1852) an order to depart and quit France. it caused him deep sorrow to be the object of such an order, and perhaps he acted unwisely in resisting that order, but he did it in the interest of his dignity and honour, which you, sire, will easily comprehend. On the 23d July, 1852, he was arrested under the triple charge of swindling, unauthorised stay in France, and of illegally wearing the order of the Legion of Honour. This latter charge was at once withdrawn, as the undersigned Prince had in reality We have been requested to publish the following correspondence : 20, Edward-street, Portman-square, London, Nov. 17, 1866. Srn,--My attention was attracted a few days since to the tenour of your speech, which appeared , in the Daily Telegraph of October the 30th, a dis course composed on the occasion of the trial of Risk Allah Bey. In that speech you mentioned my name, and made certain remarks referring to my order of " The Redemption," instituted by my ancestor Vincent I. of Gonzaga, Sovereign Duke of Mantua and Montferrat, and of which noble order I am, as will be seen by the enclosed statutes, Hereditary Grand Master. Having no intention to occupy the public with the question of the success with which the jury gratified the efforts of your eloquence, I will only remark that there was something very ignoble in those attacks, launched as they were at an absent and consequently defenceless person ; and believe me, sir, there is not all the importance you desire attached to those verbose accusations, delivered as they were by a man having a certain object to attain. Arbitrary measures may have wrested from my family their'hereditary possessions, yet two things remain to me as their actual chief and last descen dant : these two things are the name of Gonzaga, and my right to the possessions of my ancestors. The weaker must of necessity yield to the stronger, but none can deny either his existence or his name ; and his rights, although set aside, are imperishable and must descend to his heirs. During 38 years I followed a military career, and retired with the rank of General. I have frequently brought before the notice of the public the spoliations of which I am the victim, and the newspapers of many periods, and of almost all the nations of Europe (notwithstand ing the shameful persecutions to which I have been subjected), have published my protestati ons, and my identity has been proved by Governmeds, as also by the titles and documents in my possession. The Sovereigns of Austria, and not the Princes of Gonzaga, have been the despoilers (for it is impos sible for me, sir, to repeat the base expressions of which you made use), and if they have left me no thing but the name I bear, and the titles apper taining to it, it doer not follow that I am the dis honest man you desire to represent me ; and there was little - delicacy on your part in attacking me with vituperation, because it might serve the cause in which you were engaged. received, in 1814, the " lettre d'avis," letter of ad vice, of his nomination as an officer of the Legion of Honour by the Emperor Napoleon I. at the fight which took place at Berry au Bac (March 10, 1814), and, as his travelling pass (for the purpose of joining the depot at Callers, in 1838, as colonel and general and prisoner of war by the French authorities) de scribed him, as " Officer of the Legion of Honour." A preparatory investigation (instruction) took place. It lasted twelve months, during which time the undersigned Prince remained a prisoner, par prevention, iu solitary confinement at the prison of Mazas. During that time Mr. Brault, the Juge d'lnstruction, wrote to all the Courts of Europe, in order to establish proofs that the undersigned was not Prince Alexander of Gonzaga Mantua. That minute inquiry, without a precedent, entirely failed. On the day the trial took place, although the un dersigned Prince produced all the deeds and docu ments relating to his family and genealogy, although he produced certificates of his birth and baptism, authenticated statements of his military services, an attestation from the Minister of Wurtemberg residing in Paris of his naturalisation at Stuttgart in 1833, as likewise attestations from Generals Trezel and De Lamarre, Colonel Chapuis, &c., he was condemned. He was condemned for infraction of the laws re lative to foreigners, and a thousand times more heartrending, and still more astonishing, for swind ling ; and, as the sentence says, in the fact that he caused several persons (five or six) to remit to him sums of .money for the orders he distributed. But, Sire, the undersigned Prince, in his capacity of Chief and Hereditary Grand Master of the Orders of Redemption, Conception, and of Alexander or Merit (or Devotion) belonging to his own house, has distributed, it cannot be denied, more than 500 crosses in different countries. All the expenses have been borne by him without his having ever dreamt of having them refunded ; and because, out of that number of 500, five or six to whom he granted di plomas (while he was residing in Italy) did, of their own accord, think proper to pay to his . Secretary the expenses of the crosses and diplomas, it has been construed into swindling ; and he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment and to a fine of 3,000 f. The sentence of the Tribune of Police Correction elle purported to be, that the undersigned Prince was a soi-disant Prince of Gonzaga Mantua, but without being able to say who he was, and they have never been able to invent any other name for him, although they have used every endeavour so to do. The undersigned Prince appealed to the Court of Paris. He demanded through his Advocate Monsieur Avond the grounds of accusation moyens de droit, maintaining that it was a question of civil right, that the civil jurisdiction, according to the 326 and 327 articles of the civil code (Code Civil),was alone competent to divide the regulations of his civil state and to examine his rignts, declaring upon the pro ceeding in what he had transgressed the law. The Court of Paris (Police Correctionelle), after two days' discussion, rejected that demand, refused an adjournment to go through the case, and refused to give the grounds of accusation upon which the jurists had founded his acquittal, and sentenced the undersigned Prince Alexander Gonzaga not to three years and 3,000 francs, but to five years and 5,000 francs fine ! ! And this, Sire, although the under signed had not been allowed to defend himself upon any defined transgression of the law, nor been allowed to say a word in his defence. The undersigned had recourse to the Court of Cassation. There Monsieur Mathieu Bodet, the most illustrious jurist attached to that highest of French courts, brought out a remarkable " Memoire Ampliatif," in which he clearly demonstrated vio lation of the law, by the Court of Paris, false ap plication of the articles of the same law, abuse of power, and consequently the necessity of reversing the sentence of the Court of Paris, which had con demned him by default. But the Court of Cassa tion, presided over by Monsieur Laplage-Barris, after four hours' secret deliberation, rejected his ap plication. Victim of a judicial error, the unfortunate Prince of Gonzaga Mantua appeals now to you, sire, that your Majesty may not allow an incarceration that has already broken his health. The undersigned, sire, addresses your Majesty iu full confidence that your Majesty will have justice done to him. He begs of your Majesty his imme diate release. Should your Majesty wish him to quit the country he will do so, complying in this in- stance, as in every other, with the orders of your Imperial Majesty, for whom he will fo r e ver pre . serve an imperishable gratitude. _... _ The undersigned Prince of Gonzaga Mantua takes the liberty to subscribe himself of your Majesty — Sire, the most obedient devoted, (Signed) Prince ALEXANDER, of Gonzaga Mantua. Conciergerie, Dec. 12, 1853. The above petition was placed (Dec. 1853) in the hands of his Majesty Napoleon 111., Emperor of the French, by Lord Cowley, English Ambassador to the Court of France, and his Majesty graciously ordered the immediate release of the undersigned Prince Alexander of Gonzaga Mantua, which took place on the Ist of January, 1854, at 7 a.m., re leased of all expenses. After five days stay in Paris the Prince started for London, where he now re sides under the protection of the English laws. (Signed) Prince ALEXANDER OF GONZAGA MANTUA. London, Jan. 10, 1854. MISS GLYN'S READINGS. " Cleopatra" has always been one of Miss Glyn's favourite parts ; and the story of the brave warrior and beautiful woman who " kissed away kingdoms" certainly forms the subject of one of the most varied, and in may respects one of the most attrac tive, of the great Shaksperian dramas. It would be impossible just now to see this work properly performed on the stage, and it was most astonishing that so many persons were present on Friday even ing at St. James's Hall to hear Miss Glyn read it. Since this lady herself appeared as Cleopatra at Sadler's Wells, now some dozen years ago, neither stage representation nor public reading of the play has been given. Yet although "Antony and Cleopatra" contains no dramatic situations so strong as the principal ones in " Macbeth," " Othello," and a few other Shaksperian works which appeal to all tastes, it is full of beauty and variety, and ex hibits the many-sided genius of the great dramatic poet as completely as any work that he has left. _ _ Miss Glyn's chief success, if we are to judge by the effect of her reading upon the audience, was achieved in the two last acts. But her great dra matic power and her remarkable versatility of ex pression were equally shown in the three first, which abound in lyrical and descriptive passages and ex emplifications of character, which Miss Glyn brings out with admirable effect. Nevertheless, it was in the two death scenes—of Antony and of Cleopatra —that she appealed most vividly to the feelings Of the audience, and here the triumph was not that of a reader gifted with high appreciation and with the most delicate perception only, but of a great tragic actress. Those dramatic readings are a severe test of power, and they afford Miss Glyn an opportunity of demonstrating the strength and comprehensive ness of her talent. She fills her imaginary theatre with living personages, and, strange as it may all' pear, represents the part of Antony as finely and faithfully as that of Cleopatra. Miss Glyn is announced to read " King John" on the 23d inst. ; and she will give readings of other plays, not yet named, in the course of January and February. It is reported in Paris that six bull-fights Will Ake place during the Exhibition next year. _ _ MARYLEBONE CRICKET CLUB.—The hon. secre tary of this club, Mr. R. A. Fitzgerald, has issued the fol lowing circular:—" A general meeting of tho Marylebone Club will be held at the Pavilion, Lord's Ground, on. Wednesday next, Dec. 12, at two o'clock, for the purpose of confirming the appointment of Mr. T. Burgoyne as trea surer to the club, and of electing- an auditor; also for the purpose of considering a proposal of the hon. secretary to erect a permanent grand stand on Lord's Ground, for tho accommodation of visitors on match days, and to dissent from or assent to such proposal on such terms as at the said meeting shall be agreed upon." XO AZ the ho t , with Well met i til°ll 6 ve The E t this morn, 44 on -St( : 14 ctie n • (4 th e t egraph e l Prof, c 0„ Genet 11 '4, an ' 7 4 e be en tir 4 tlaati c Bo :toady have t 1, ales,ic,4 ll1 11e 21115, acti ve. , Ct ii b S ti vertou '. 1 -„aziate, V t , -kit L o , et l .,„ 811, ' 4,0 , li 4 i. --- ,. -- of l; North 515 5 1 28 1 45 . h ea l the; lvil Crel ea l 8 etot k 001