The Sun. — London, England, 1865-12-05 00:00:00

~~_ ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor ARDITI'S CONCERTS, Every Evening. POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK. BUT ONE. TO-NIGHT (Tuesday), December 5. VOCALISTS. Mlle. Laura Harris. Mdlie Sarolta, Edi, and 2ddileb Sinico ; Signor Foli and signor Stagno. VIOLIN. Milne. Emilia Arditi. TEE ORCHESTRA OF TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE* Conductor —Sig-nor ARDITI. Commence at Eight. Promenade, One Shilling. The GRAND AL D'OPERA. will take place Ott TU ESDAY, the 19th B December. ROYAL ENGLIGSH OPERA, COVENT (OperaARDE Company, Limited.) Last Night but Seven of L'Africaine. THIS EVENING will be performed Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, andL'AFRICAIN Mdlie. Ada Gillies adarne Albert Lemo - mens-Sherrington, Mrs. A. Cook ; s, Messrs. Lawrence, lieury Corn, A. Cook, E. Dtksek, J. G. Patty, C. „nd Charles Adams. Conductor, Mr. Mire I Mellon. Acting Manager, Mr. E. Murry. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Commence at a quarter to 8. nriIIEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.— Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with Shakspere's Tragedy of KING JOHN: Messrs. Phelps, James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, Raynor. G. Belmore, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt; Miss Atkinson, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff, Mrs. Hodson, dx. After which, GALWAY - GO - BRAG H ; or, Love, Fun, and Fighting : Messrs. Edmund Falconer, F. BarsbY, C. Harcourt ; Misses Hazlewood, E. Falconer, dose Leclercq. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE OVERLAND ROUTE : Messrs Chas. Mathews, Buckstone , Chipp e ndale, ComptonMaihew . Rog,rs Snow, Clark, Gordon, Braid , Coe, &c. ; Messdames s, den, Hill, Wright, Coleman, Lov IL LED COCK ROBIN? ell, &C. To be followed by WHO K Mr. Chippendale, Mr. C. Mat hews ; Mrs. Charles Mathews , Mrs. Fitzwilliam, &c . Concluding with THE BALL ET. gh Messr Miss s. Adams, and Arthur and Ch ar les Leclercq, Miss Fanny A rit, C. the Corps de Ballet. Commence at Seven. OYAL LYCEUM T REATRE.- JILL Under the sole Management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. Horsman. After which, at 8, a New Drama, entitled THE WATCH C. Mr Fechter. supported by Messrs. H. Widaicombe, s. Emery, C. Horsman, Raymond, Fitzpatrick, Clifford. and Miss Elsworthy. To conclude with the Farce of NURSEY CHICKWEED. 'Messrs. U. Widdicomb, Raymond, Moreland; Mrs. Lee and Kiss Lavenu. Box Office open daily from Eleven till Five. Acting Manager, H. Barnett. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Messrs. Felix Rogers, P. Bedford, dzo. After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 80th appearance), Mr. Jefferson, supported by Messrs. Billington, P. Bedford, It Phillips, Felix Rogers, Ashley, Eburne, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Billingtor, ttc. To conclude, at half-paq 10, with THE WIDOW'S VICTIM. Messrs. Bibington, Felix Rogers, Ashley ; Miss Godsell, Miss Seaman, and Miss Jenny Willmore. R OYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, QUIKT LODGINGS. After whit,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, li. Mellon, C. Seyton, R. Cathcart; Miss L. Moore and Miss Katherine Rodgers. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Bits twanborough. THIS EVENING, at Seven, NOTHING VENTURE NOTHING Alter which will be produced a new Opera Burlesque, L'AFRIOAINE ; or, The Queen of the Cannibal Islan : Messrs. Stoyle, James, Thorne; Mesdames Swanborough, Raynham, Johnstone, &C. To conclude with MRS. GREEN,S SNUG BUSINESS. GRATIS AND POST FREE. E. MOSES and SONS' List of dices, with Fashion Card, for the present Season. MOSES AND SON E. respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. 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That time of distress was the means of bringi ng so many proofs of the generosity and good will of the various classes of the community before us that it cannot readily be obliterated from the memory. Yesterday, in the Lord Mayor's Parlour at the Manchester Town-hall, a meeting was held of the General Committee of the Fund for Relief of Distress in the Manufacturing Districts. It was numerously attended, and the speech of Lord DERBY was most interesting. It has been resolved to pre sent a testimonial to the honorary secretary, Mr. MACIXRE, whose services have done so much to contribute to the success of the undertaking. T he Central Committee have subscribed the sum of £1,096, which is to remain a sum distinct from any other subscription. Lord DERBY, who was requested to make the communication, addressed the meeting at Borne length, and began by offering his earnest Zongratulations upon the satisfactory character of the report which had been read. There is, indeed, good cause to rejoice at the changed aspect of affairs, and those who once desponded must now admit that their fears were unfounded, and that they under rated the vitality and elasticity of the country. _ It appears that the amount of pauperism has been reduced to a figure which exceeds only a little that of 1864, the most flourishing epoch of the cotton manufacture, and a considerable sum is still left over, while, as the noble' earl truly remarked, the most cheering sign of all is to be found in the fact, that " there has been an infinite less amount of demoralisation and deterioration in the independent character of the working men of the country than could have been possibly expected when so large a sum was to be distributed in gratuitous relief." This is a proof of intrinsic worth of character which cannot be gainsaid, and is a bright illustration of the saying that out of evil cometh good. Had we wanted an assurance of the courage and constancy of our working classes, we could never have desired a more significant one than that which has been so abundantly furnished to us in the eventful epoch of the famine. Lord DERBY confessed to sharing the forebodings of many as to the effect which might be produced upon the character of those who re ceived relief to so great an extent, and adverted to the sure test which was afforded by the non increase of demands for parochial relief as a proof that these doubts have been chimerical. With regard to the surplus on hand it appears that the Bridgewater House Committee took the opinion of counsel, and it was decided that in the event of a surplus remaining they had no power to divert it from any purpose other than that for which it was subscribed without the sanction of the Court of Chancery. The noble earl declared that any scheme which was reasonable would most pro. bably receive the consent of the Court, but, at the same time, he wisely added, that any such scheme would require careful consideration. His lordship advised, and his advice has been worthy of his posi- Lion as Chairman of the Central Executive Com mittee, that the surplus should be kept in hand until they have certain and positive proof that there is no chance of a recurrence to the distress. As yet the cotton trade is so fluctuating and uncertain that it cannot be said the period of security has arrived. So soon as it has, it will be most expe dient for the surplus to be disposed of, because it would form an undesirable precedent for such a sum to be in reserve to meet the losses of trade. All who have devoted much attention to the cir cumstances connected rith the cotton famine will concur in the observation of Lord DERBY, that looking back to the period of " intense distress" through which we have passed in the last three years there is one gratifying thing to allude to, and that is " the manner in which throughout the whole of the country all classes and all ranks have each in their several localities exerted them selves towards the diminution of distress, not only by their pecuniary contributions, but by their personal labours and their per sonal superintendence." It is a happy thing for any State when the different divisions of its community thus unite to meet a danger and support the pres sure of a sudden emergency. Money is not every thing in such cases ; much may be done by the efforts of those who devote themselves to the pre vention of distress, and the encouragement of those who are sinking under the pressure of misfortunes. The Local Committees have all rendered most signal services, and they are eminently deserving of recognition. Lord DERBY rendered his tribute of praise to the very comprehensive manner in which they bad each and all performed their part. They have had most arduous duties to discharge and many obstacles to overcome in the complicated matters that came before them. The Report speaks of the " judgment, discretion, ability, and zeal" with which they have discharged their duties, and in so doing only affords a due appreciation of their services. Respecting the object before them, the noble earl declared that there " had been no person whose ser vices had been so unflagging, so valuable, and so unceasing as those of the honorzry secretary, Mr. MACLURE." It was the unanimous opinion of the Central Executive Committee that at the present period some recognition of his services was due to him for his great exertions. For some weeks, even months, at a time Mr. MACLURE devoted twelve hours a day to the vast amount of business which his voluntary work forced upon him, and how faith fully that work was performed those who know most of the matter can best testify. Mr. MACLURE refused to accept any portion of the money which had been subscribed by the public for the purpose of relief. The Central Committee therefore re solved to subscribe among themselves a sum of money sufficient to present a testimonial to that gentle man, and accompany that offering with a substantial testimony in the shape of a sum of money. Dr. WATTS submitted a resolution, to the effect that the hearty thanks of the committee were due to the Earl of DERBY', who, "by his high position, and great influence, and personal attendance had done much to secure the confidence of the public in the com mittee ; to the vice-chairman, Sir J. K. SHUTTLE WORTH ; and to Mr. MACLURE and the other mem bers of the Central Executive." The resolution was seconded and unanimously carried. Lord DERBY appropriately acknowledged the compliment, as the Chairman of the Committee whose labours are now, it is to be expected, nearly terminated, but which have been performed in a manner which the country , will not speedily forget. Just at the present crisis, when so much excite ment prevails in the public mind respecting the out break in Jamaica, and the measures taken for its repression, any light which can be thrown on the character and previous conduct of Governor EYRE by those who knew him well in quieter times is very valuable. We have had a good deal of such 1 evidence from one quarter and another, and it is a remarkable fact that all these trustworthy witnesses coincide, what ever thei r differences of opinion, in describi ng Governor EYRE as a man of the most stedfast courage and of large humanity, especially towards uncivilised and aboriginal races. Such statements are fully confirmed, to any impartial observer, by what is publicly known of Mr. EYRE'S c areer in South Australia. No one w h o remem b ers the terrible ordeal through which he passed in his exploration, when alone and friendless, he pushed resolutely on through an unknown country, where he had good reason to suppose that water was scarce, can suppose that he is the sort of man to be startled into a panic, or lose head and heart at the first rumour of a great danger. Neither is it fair nor reasonable to suppose that a man who has for so many years been constantly associated with the black races, and who was absolutely ap pointed Protector of the Aborigines in a certain locality, would be animated under any circumstances with the hatred and contempt for a black man's life which some gentlemen are so ready to attribute to any person who does not be lieve the negro to be almost incapable of evil. In England we generally pride ourselves on what we icall " fair play," and we are generally ready to hear both sides of a question before we pass a public verdict of condemnation or approval. " Let us hear what he has to say for himself " is the common phrase when any one is under suspicion or accusation ; and our very laws, rigid enough in FILE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, lEEE., some respects, always give the accused the benefit of LA TEST INTELLIGENCE. the doubt, and require that a man should be proved (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) guilty before he is condemned. Under these cir cumstances Governor EYRE, and the other gentle men who have succeeded in restoring tranquillity in Jamaica, have good reason to complain of the manner in which they have been treated in this country. Starting from no other ground than the supposed virtues and sufferings of the black race, a body of public men have industriously set them selves to work to denounce the Governor of Jamaica and his associates as wholesale and remorseless murderers. They judge, say they, by their own words, but they refuse to believe those words when they speak of barbarous murders, unprovoked rebellion, and an extended and dangerous conspiracy. Surely if these critics accept the Governor's account as a proof of the severe measures employed in the repression of the outbreak, it is only just and reasonable to accept also his positive and unhesitating statement of the greatness and imminence of the danger? Governor EYRE has been spoken of in terms which every honest man will deeply regret should he be shown, as we have no doubt he will be shown, to have mea sured strict justice to the rebels in mercy to the whole of the rest of the population, black as well as white. In any case, it can only be common justice to suspend our judgment until much fuller and more authentic accounts are re ceived from different parts, and before, at public dinners, and from the pulpit of the people, we condemn a man of known courage and proved humanity as a coward and a murderer ? We have to put against this not only the outline of the story given by the Governor himself, but the ad dress presented to him by the two branches of the Jamaica Legislature. Are we to believe that a large and mixed body, men of various ranks and various opinions, would have passed an address expressing, in the strongest terms, their approval of the Governor's conduct, and their sense of the danger from which his promptitude and firmness had delivered them, if he had been guilty of whole sale, illegal, and unwarrantable slaughter ? The cruel and unprovoked murder of Baron von KETEL IIOLDT and the other gentlemen at the Court-house are entirely disregarded by these critics. We hear a great deal of the so-called murder of Mr. GOR DON, but nothing about the undisputed massacre at the Court-house. The public feelings are worked upon by quotations from the last utterances of the condemned, and pictures of the grief of their fami lies, but we do not hear so much eloquence about the father clasping his little child amid the scene of fire and destruction, while his grief and the boy's alarm drew tears from the brave men who would not weep for themselves. We get no eloquent delineations of the feelings of the poor wife crouching under the flooring and hearing the negroes laughing overhead, and boasting that they had chopped her husband up into pieces so small that his wife wouldn't know him 1 Yet orator and preacher might, if they chose, take their text from such pictures as these. The severity of the measures adopted for repression may indeed be painful to our feelings, but so are the details of an ordinary execution, and every exercise of the power of law creates a domestic tragedy. Neither can we condemn the judges for the number of the culprits who suffered being greater than the number of victims on the mere ground of discrepancy of num bers alone, since, if half a dozen men unite in mur dering one or two men among ourselves, they do not escape condemnation because they are more numerous to punish. Colonel GAWLER addressed a calm remonstrance to those whom he describes as singularly eager to ride roughshod over Governor EYRE before the essential details of the Jamaica outbreak are exhibited fully and fairly to the nation. He says that Governor EYRE has done all that he could do during the trying and absorbing events in sending home an outline of the story in a clear and straightforward manner. " The details of proof, he adds, are yet to come. Why should we not with responsive, manly forbearance, wait for them?" Colonel GAWLER asserts that during his intimate acquaintance with Mr. EYRE, in his capa city as Governor of South Australia, he found him a man of stedfast integrity and earnest but judicious humanity towards all men, and espe cially towards uncivilised men. " With this opinion of him, it appears to me that his severity towards a small number of persons will soon be proved to have sprung from motives of high and far-seeing humanity towards the whole population, white, half-caste, and black, of the island for which he is responsible." Colonel GAWLER says very justly further on that extreme cases not only justify extreme preventive measures, but they render half way proceedings criminal, and he refers to the Bristol riots some thirty years ago as an instance of that mistaken humanity which occasions even tually so much loss of life and terrible suffering. It deserves to be remembered amid the tumult that a certain party has succeeded in raising re specting Governor EYRE that the first impression created on hearing the news was that the autho rities had been too remiss at the first alarm in adopting repressive measures. It may not be in opportune at this moment to remember the outcry which was raised about the burning of Kogosima a year or two since, and the very different light in which it appeared when the full details were sent home. Whatever may be the differences of private or individual opinion, it can certainly be no more than an act of common fair ness to suspend judgment until we have the com plete and authentic account, while it is manifestly unjust in the extreme to denounce an English gen tleman of tried character and responsibility as a reckless murderer, while the parties who are best qualified to judge are thanking him for the preser vation of their lives and property. BELGIUM. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. BRUSSELS, DEC. 5. The Moniteur Beige publishes a bulletin, dated Laeken, 9 o'clock last night, stating that no change has taken place since yesterday in His Majesty's condition. The bulletin is signed by Dr. Wimmer and Dr. de Roubuix. CROTIA. AGRAM, DEC. 4. The deputation from the Croatian Diet, which went to Vienna to present an address to the Em peror, complaining of the manner in which the Banns fulfils the office of President of the Diet, will return to this city to-day. A grand torchlight procession has been organised ,o receive them. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 4 (Evening.) In the House of Nobles to-day the debate com menced on the Government Bill for the reform of the Constitution. Thirteen members spoke in favour of and eight against the Bill. The discussion was subsequently adjourned until to-morrow. At the conclusion of to-day's debate there were still 30 members on the list who had claimed the right of speaking. In the Chamber of the Clergy it was resolved to postpone the debate on the Bill until a resolution had been taken by the House of Nobles. The reform of the Constitution was adopted in the Chamber of Peasants by acclamation, and in the Chamber of Citizens by 60 against 5 votes. The streets are crowded by the populace, and some arrests have been made. CARINTHIA. KLAGENFURT, DEC. 5. In to-day's sitting of the Carinthian Diet, the Constitutional Committee will propose an address to the Emperor against the suspension of the Con stitution, and requesting his Majesty to re-establish the February patent. VIENNA, DEC. 5. The Diet of Lower Austria have commenced the debate on the address to the Emperor, in reference to the September patent, with great animation. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAILS. GIBRALTAR, DEC. 2. The Mongolia, from Southampt9n, Nov. 27, arrived here to-day at 8 a.m., and left at noon for Alexandria. She experienced bad weather in the Channel. All well. FRANCE. PARIS, DEC. 5. The Constitutionnel of this morning says : " Some journals have alluded to the arrival of General Schofield, said to be charged with a mis sion from the President of the United States to the French Court. We are in a position to state that the French Government has not received any com munication on this subject, and that we believe the news to be a pure invention." BOURSE, Dec. 4.—Two o'Clock.—The Bourse opened on an excellent market, and notwithstand ing a further fall of per cent. on English Con sols, announced by the first telegram, most Securi ties show a significant advance. Inunobiliere and Transatlantic Shares are in great request, the former at 550 f., with an advance of 15f., and the latter at 560 f., an advance of 12f. 50c. Three per Cents. are firm at 68f. 80c.—an improvement of 74c. Italian Fives show a rise of 20c., and Credit Mo bilier Shares of sf. Railway Shares are not equally favoured, Northern having retrograded 3f. 75c., Southern lf. 25c., Saragossa 6f. 25c. North of Spain unvaried, but Lombards continue to advance, having attained 533 f. 75f., an augmentation of 7f. 50c. These indications are made without taking into consideration the prices paid for report or de port. Three o'clock.—The market became still more buoyant for the close, which has taken place at the following much higher quotations : 41 per Cents 97 30 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 95 Do. end month e9 10 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3800 Credit Fonder 1330 Italian Loan 65 15 Do. end month 65 40 Roman Ottoman Fives 44 15 Mexican Loan 5O Do. Bonds 335 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt — Deferred -- Acct. ... 830 - - ... 1105 - 840 - - ... 573 75 HOW TO MAKE A GOOD SOLDIER.—The question is, How are soldiers to be made to take a pleasure in their work ? " A little leaven leaveneth the whole MISS : is a small proportion of men in any regiment, squadron troop, or company, could be made up of men who, by study and application at the regimental school, were qualifying themselves for commissions, they would become influential for good over all their companions. For these, proper schools should be established, as in France, and a certain number of non-commissioned officers in each regi ment should, if they wished, be allowed to go to the Military College, and there prepare themselves for the higher ranks of tho service. Those who were wanting either in the primary education or the will to go through this ordeal should be taught trades and handicrafts which could put money into their pockets while serving, and give them the means of earning their bread honestly when their period of soldiering was at an end, besides making them useful both to themselves and to the army on a campaign. Let a service,im a c n o n w d l ai i tn o i od l u v a a n s e sensibleoerneda uponndo it that ho had not the qualifications for hs a no:, xunmissioned officer feel that he was bettering e thereth e longer would h n e o remained be such t of deserters sent up by every country post to Scotland yard as there is at the present day.—Dickens's " All the Year Round." FALL OF A RAILWAY VIADUCT.—The viaduct on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway between Brockholes and Thongsbridge, near nolmfirth, fell on Sunday morning. It consisted of 13 arches , and was 20 U yards long. The traf f ic is, of course, entirely suspended. The loss to the company will be great. The cause of the disaster has not been ascertained, but it is supposed the foundations bad been weakened by a rivulet which runs through the middle of tho arches.—Leeds Mercury. It is stated, upon official authority, that Winder is to be put on trial for alleged atrocities upon Union ice soners of war at Andersouvillo. The case will probably be tried in the course of a month. the property of the late Mr. G. W. Gordon, has been arrested and hanged. Mr. Samuel Clark has also been executed." It was expected that the rebel Haytian general, Salnave, would arrange matters amicably with the British authorities at Cape Hayti. Dinner to Mr. Thomas Hughes, M,P. A public dinner was given to Mr. Hughes last evening at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge; the chair was filled by Mr. Charles Buxton, ➢I.P., and among the other gentlemen seated at the prin cipal table were :—Sir Fowell Buxton, M.P., Mr. C. Neate, M.P., Mr. Doulton, M.P., Mr. E. F. Wilson, F.R.S., Mr. A. Macmillan, &c. Over 200 of the constituency of Lambeth assembled on the occasion, and passed an agreeable evening. The dinner was an excellent one, and the more serious proceedings were enlivened by a selection of vocal music very creditably performed, under the direction of Mr. W. H. Hook. When the loyal toasts and " The Army, Navy, and Volunteers" had been duly honoured, the chairman proposed " The health of Mr. llughes, the guest of the evening." In doing so he complimented the electors of Lambeth on their having returned that hon. gentleman as their representati ve. He had known Mr. Hughes a long time, and he could assure them that the longer his constituents knew him the better they would like him. Mr. Buxton next ad dressed himself to the affairs of Jamaica. The ques tion was, had the outbreak been suppressed with needless and shocking cruelty, or, on the contrary, was it the fact that the tremendous severity which, by Governor Eyre's own admission, had been exer cised, was justified by what had been spoken of as the " extreme peril of the hour ?" That was a mere question of facts and dates, and we need turn to nothing whatever except the official despatches of Governor Eyre and his colleagues. He affirmed, and leaning himself on Governor Eyre's despatches, he ut terly defied contradiction, that when their severities, or, as he called them, their atrocious cruelties, were committed, there was not the least shadow of justi fication for them, upon the ground that at the time there was any apprehension whatever for the safety of the colony for any further outbreak en the part of the negroes. Having recapitulated the occur rences in Jamaica as they have been stated in the official documents, the hon. gentleman, amid cries of " Question," " Chair," " No," " Hear," and manifestations of impatience, brought his remarks on the subject to a close by expressing his opinion that what had been done by the whites in Jamaica was au atrocious as any of the acts for which we execrated the memory of such men as the Duke of Cumberland in days gone by. He thought the Li beral party ought to clear the fame of the country from the stain which rested upon it, as far as could be now done, by demanding a most rigid inquiry into what had taken place in Jamaica. The hon. gentleman concluded by stating that he heartily re joiced to see men like Earl Russell and Mr. Glad stone at the head of the Government. Mr. Hughes, in returning thanks, said that, however grateful he might be, and he was very grateful for their kind reception, he must feel himself in some little diffi culty on such an occasion ; for he could not forget that his constituency were taking him entirely on trust, as far as his power to represent them properly in Parliament was concerned—that all their hearty greeting was given him in respect of services which had yet to be performed. However, he trusted that when he should come back to them, to give an account of the manner in which he had performed the trust they had reposed in him, they might then be able to receive him as enthusiastically, and to feel that they had not been mistaken altogether in their choice. The hon. member expressed his belief that the present was a critical time, but one pecu liarly favourable for progression by the Liberal party. They had now a veteran reformer at the head of the Government, and the manner in which the war in America had been brought to a close showed how admirably representative institutions worked when tried on the broadest and most com prehensive scale. Ile did not believe that the present Government meant to play false with Reform ; for when put upon their choice as to which section of the Liberal party they would recruit from, they had chosen from the most advanced and vigorous section of that party. He had known Mr. W. E. Forster for many years, and he believed that hon. gentle man would not have joined the Government unless they had resolved that the dreadful story of Jamaica should be sifted to the bottom. As regarded Reform Mr. Hughes said it was not likely the Government would go anything like so far as he should like to advance in that direction ; but he was ready to ac cept a half loaf, and he believed they would bring in a really genuine Reform Bill, such as all the most determined reformers would be justified in accepting. Referring to the late Premier, the hon. member observed that Lord Palmerston was a tho roughly representative Englishman. Mr. Hughes's speech appeared to give great satisfaction to the company. Mr. Neate returned thanks for the House of Commons, and in doing co expressed his belief that the confidence of the working classes was to be gained by worthy acts. In Mr. Hughes they saw a man who had succeeded in securing the affec tion and confidence of the working classes without ever having pandered to their delusions. Mr. Hughes and he were members of the same College at Oxford, and he believed they would be found side by side in the advocacy for extension of Uni versity education. Mr. Neate, to the evident gratification of the company, observed that on such an occasion he should avoid touch ing on questions upon which there was likely to be a difference of opinion even in a party com posed of Liberal politicians. The hon. gentleman closed his speech amid general cheering, by express ing his belief that the people of England would give a generous support to the new House of Commons. Mr. Doulton and other gentlemen proposed or re sponded to other toasts before the company sepa rated. Mr. Toole acted as toastmaster at the dinner. The Insurrection in Jamaica. Sir Roderick I. Murchison, in a letter to the Times, says :—As an old friend of Governor Eyrc, I beg to offer you my hearty thanks for the efficient manner in which you have commented upon the unfairness of those persons who have condemned the Governor of Jamaica for his conduct in sup pressing the recent rebellion before they have been made acquainted with the facts. The career of Mr. Eyre has been one which ought to satisfy every one who is acquainted with it that he cannot have been either rash or cruel. As President of the Royal Geographical Society it has been my pleasing duty to advert to and ad mire his memorable and fearless expedition in Australia, on which you have dwelt—a feat which obtained for him one of the Royal medals, the highest honour which geographers could confer. Surely, after the record of his kind protection of the aborigines of that country, as narrated by Mr. It Kingsley, the fair inference is that he is the last person who would shed the blood of a negro popu lation intrusted to his charge if he had not been con vinced that he was thereby saving the lives of the colonists, and preventing a great possession of the British Crown from merging into a black Republic like that of Hayti. But I write these few lines especially to call the attention of the public to the good deeds of Governor Eyre since he has been a responsible officer in the West Indies. As administering the Governments of St. Vincent's and Antigua during seven years, and afterwardS of Jamaica, where he fulfilled ad interim the duties of Governor, he won the respect of all classes; and it was for these good services that the late Duke of Newcastle, duly estimating his sagacity and judg ment, most justly appointed him to the office which he now holds. Placing, as I do, the fullest reliance on the truth fulness of the statements made by Governor Eyre in his address to the House of Assembly in Jamaica, I entertain a confident belief that he will entirely justify the proceedings which he has taken in promptly suppressing a rebellion which had been long hatching, and the first outbreak of which was signalised by the most cruel and atrocious murders of the colonists. William Johnson, the only brother of the Presi dent, died a few days ago at Velasco, Tex., in consequence of an accidental gunshot wound. 'AYS. Cash. Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman • "- -- ••• 518 75 - - ... 220 -- - - ... 435 - - - ... 431 25 - - ... 167 50 - - ... 197 50 -- - ... 156 25 SPAIN AND CHILI. REFUSAL OF EUROPEAN MEDIATION. The semi-official Correspondenc ra M ADRID, de Espana. cO . n - tains the following : " To the periodicals who ask if the Government is disposed to accept European mediation in Chili, we are enabled to reply that the Government will not accept mediation. All that we believe the Government is inclined to accept are the good offices which friendly Powers have offered, in order that, without in any way injuring the dignity of our nation, means may be found to avoid a rupture which Spain has not sought, and cannot desire for her own interest or the general interests of Europe." According to the Epoca, Spain could, in a few months, assemble 25 vessels in the Pacific, almost all new and powerful, and with picked crews. This fleet would include 3 ironclad and 6 screw frigates, independent of the squadron now stationed in the Chilian waters. The decision of the Central Madrid Committee in favour of continued abstention has been gene rally obeyed by the Progressist Committees through out the country, even including those in Catalonia, which had hitherto manifested great opposition to this policy. The Reforma draws attention to the persistent rumours lately current upon the Madrid Exchange of the approaching retirement of Senor Alonso Martinez, Minister of Finance, from the Cabinet. The Reforma considers these rumours to be well founded, and has reason to believe that the resig nation of Senor Martinez will take place as soon as the elections to the Cortes are terminated. THE WEST INDIES. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 5. The West India and Pacific Company's steamer Cuban arrived in the Mersey last night. The Kingston (Jamaica) Colonial Standard, in an extra issue, says :—" It is with extreme satisfaction that we announce that the rebellion is now at an end. The terrible examples made of the insurgents of St. Thomas-in-the-East have struck terror into the hearts of the evilly disposed in the island, and taught them the folly of the hopes in which they indulged. As far as can be ascertained every per son concerned as a leader in the rebellion has been apprehended and shot or hanged, or otherwise pre vented from doing further mischief. " The negroes have resumed work on the estates in the disturbed di s t r i c t s , an d a general disposition is evinced to p r ofit b y th e Q u een's amnesty pro clamation. Mr. L aurence , overseer of the Rhine, LITERATURE The Valley of Tears. By John Croker Barrow. One Vol. pp. 154. Longman and Company. Inscribing upon his title-page as upon a banner the exquisite device In hac lachrymarum valle, Mr. Barrow has in this little volume--his maiden work we presume—accomplished, as it appears to us, very successfully, two noble designs, each of them worthy of having been selected as the theme for a Poem far more ambitious than " The Valley of Tears" in its general character. To begin with he has here given us, through the medium of a pathetic reverie the epitome of a Human Life ! And, beyond that and far above that, he has through that same medium of a poetic and pathetic reverie, essayed, quite as distinctly as ever Milton did through the medium of his sublime epic, "to vin dicate the ways of God to man." A more compre hensive scheme a poet could hardly kave sketched out for himself than the one here unfolded to our contemplation. It almost, one might say, em braces within its compass the double scheme of Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Its retro spective range is cast back—beyond the Creation, beyond the fall of Lucifer and the rebel angels— back into the bygone eternities. Its anticipative glance extends onward—beyond the Millenium, beyond the Day of Judgment—onward into the eternities to come. And—inter mediately between the two eternities, between the Past Eternity and the Future Eternity—it sur veys the whole range of the sacred annals of the human race. It comprises within it thus the scheme of Pollok's " Course of Time" in a compacter form. It is the resume of the salient epochs and events of Holy Writ. It is not so much Biblical, however, as it is intensely Christian in its character throughout. It breathes all through it, in a manner, the very aroma of religion. It glows at moments with a very rap ture of faith, of hope, of tender and overflowing charity. As a literary performance it is marred not infrequently with errors of judgment, with errors of taste, with errors of rhetoric, even, be it said, here and there, with errors of prosody. It is flawed, now with a solecism, now with a paradox, now with a platitude. Grant all this grant even more than this—and yet there is apparent throughout the whole rhythmical passion and fer vour of the poem, from the first stanza of it to the last, in spite of the blemishes that are therein easily enough to be detected a heart-beating soul-born devotion that is absolutely refreshing in these days of cynical unbelief and cold-blooded soi-disant philosophies. The author writes through out his poem, in the fullest sense of the word, unaffectedly. So unaffectedly that he stumbles, time and again, into the very blemishes 'we have enumerated. Hence platitude, solecism, and para dox—hence errors of judgment, of taste, of rhe toric, even of prosody. His emotions, his thoughts, his doubts and dreamings--he enumerates them all just as they chance to recur to his remem brance—and he jots them down precisely as they do recur to his remembrance, no matter how vagae, half-formed, or fugitive their outlines. And it is simply because of its being thus with him, because of his indulging in no reticence whatever, that, all through the book, there runs like a refrain, " I know not why" —" I know not where"—" I know not what"—with various other phrases of kindred vagueness or uncer tainty. By reason, again, simply of that same voluble outspeaking, as it may be termed, of all the various thoughts and fancies that flow out to his own recognition upon the rapid current of his reverie—Mr. Barrow allows himself, time and again, to be carried away by some metaphor that ought at once, from its very nature, to have been disdainfully rejected; and yet that so far from disdaining or rejecting, he carefully elaborates and sustains by every conceivable application of it to the thought he is enforcing. A single instance of this will suffice : as, for example, where at page 126 Mr. Barrow thus writes : 1 saw new pilgrims on their way Towards the terminus of truth Some drawn along the rails of youth, And some along the lines of age, And some along the narrow gauge Where youth and ago unite, Till multitudes of souls were brought From doubt's condensity of mist Through tunnels, tunnel'd out by thought Into the centre of the light Illumining the Church of Christ. Here, too, at the close of this very excerpt, we are reminded of the inadequate melody of rhyme occasionally noticeable, as in the faulty echo there of " mist" and " Christ." Another discord of a very different kind, but also of frequent occurrence in the poem, arises out of the author's apparent notion that " loyal" and " royal" are mono syllables, instead of being, as they are, of course, distinctly dissyllables. Utterly insignificant, how ever, are the blemishes of the book, as compared with the beauties of it. Besides which, those beauties are not only fresh and radiant in themselves, but are as abundant as they are spontaneous. They flow from the writer's heart rather than from his imagination—from his soul rather than from his intellect. His search—the quest of his life—is after truth. His instinct is adoration. Yearn ing with the intensity of his whole na ture for the selection among all the meandering and intricately interwoven paths that cross and re-cross each other like the network of a very labyrinth of roads—yearning, we say, with the intensity of his whole nature, for the discovery amongst them all of what he can himself recognise in his own conscience to be the right one, he sings here a very paean of exultation at its discovery. It is hardly possible, we should imagine, for even the most cynical or the least demonstrative, to be other wise than affected by so rapt and pro found an enthusiasm. The author's heart seems glowing within him with the words he here utters, or rather indites. And—appropriately in a poem so entitled, in a poem bearing upon its front the device already intimated—he sings emotionally throughout—he sings, as the tender phrase has it, with the tears in his voice ! In his wanderings about Christendom he passes through Jerusalem— " Once red with Deicidal Blood! "• he passes through Rome, crowned with the great Cathedral Dome— " That Dome so like a Papal Crown ! " Ile returns homewards, to his own village, to his own familiar haunts, within the shadow of his own church ! He marries—loses the partner of his life, the mother of his children—dies, himself, at last and enters upo n another existence ! It is the strangest close to a fictitious autobiographic poem that can well be conceived—haunting in the pathetic tenderness of it, haunting the reader's imagination thus, almost as affectingly and profoundly in its way as that saddest song of dying love, of dead and all but buried love ever penned, those lovely lines by poor Edgar Poe, entitled simply "To Annie." Only—that, better far, immeasurably better, than the love thus agonizingly expressed by the American poet—the love, here commemorated is sublimated, is merged from its earthly aspect into the diviner love of heaven ! Altogether, this poem of " The Valley of Tears" is singularly beautiful, and one that it has been impossible for us to read consecu tively from cover to cover without our having expe rienced a sense of refined and exquisite grati fication. PARISII OF ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN. — Some weeks since the rectory of the metropolitan parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, became vacant by the death of the Rev. Charles Edward Oakley, M.A., 8.C.L., who con tracted what turned out to be a fatal fever, in the discharge of his clerical duties among his poorer parishioners. The living fell to the gift of the Duke of Bedford, who is the patron, and his grace has presented to the rectory the Rev. Bcrdmore Compton, M.A., rector of Barford, Warwickshire. Mr. Compton was educated at Merton Collego, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degreo in 1841, being first class in mathematics and third class in classics. In the same year he was elected to a fellowship at Merton College. In 1851 ho was appointed to a mastership in Rugby School, and in 1853 was admitted into holy orders by Dr. Henry Pepys, the then Bishop of Worcester. In 1857 ho resigned his Rugby mastership, on being presented by Mr. John Mills to the rectory of Barford, which he has held up to the pre sent time. Tho living he resigns is worth £l,OOO a-year, with a house, 'and a population of 754. That upon which he is about entering is worth only £5OO a-year, with a house close upon Covent-garden-market, and a population of 5,150. The new rector of St. Paul's belongs to the Evangelical party in the Church. (rfurL. Cady HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Monday. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps, drove out this morning in a carriage and four. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena also went out driving. his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left the Castle for Greenwich park. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein went to London and returned in the afternoon, attended by Count de Rantzau. The Prince and Princess of Wales. EAST DEREIIAM, Monday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales passed through this town this afternoon, on their way to Gunton Hall, where they intend to pass the remainder of the week with Lord and Lady Suffield. The weather was very unfavourable early in the day, but improved as the hours wore on. The inhabitants of Dereham were from an early period in the morning actively engaged in making preparations for the reception of their royal visitors, of whom they appeared determined—Dereham never having been favoured with the presence of royalty —to make the most. Three triumphal arches were erected—one on the Norwich-road, another (a cas- tellated one) near the entrance to the market-place, and the third at the other end of the market. The last was decorated with the prince's plume and some tastefully grouped flags, and a somewhat similar or namentation was employed in the other cases. Evergreens formed, as usual, the staple feature in each arch, and the general effect was very good. The principal tradesmen of the town also made loyal demonstrations. Mr. Greenacre, on the Nor wich-road, erected a balcony, with a crown, and the letters "A. A." beneath. M. Elvin, coachmaker, in the same road, displayed the Order of the Danne brog, with the motto "Og Gud Kon Gen." Mr. Elvin, who exhibited quite an elaborate knowledge of heraldry, added to this device the badges of the Princes of Wales from the reign of Henry VII. to the present date. Mr. Warren of the Market-place, erected a balcony draped with red cloth, and bear ing the motto, " God bless the Prince and Princess of Wales, England's hope," with portraits of the royal pair. Mr. Gidney, of the - Market-place, erected a transparency, which was illuminated at night, in dicating the royal arms. Mr. Gidney also displayed a large blue standard and a number of bannerets. Mr. Smith, of the Market-place, provided a bal cony and a star, which was illuminated in the evening. The King's Arms Hotel had a gas de vice representing the prince's plume, with the motto " Ich Dien." Other establishments also made more or less similar displays appropriate to the occasion, and the streets were thronged with visi tors from the surrounding country, the trains from Norwich, Wymondham, &c., also pouring in con siderable contingents. Order was maintained by about 30 of the Norfolk police ou foot and five mounted constables ; Colonel Black, chief con stable, and Mr. Otthill, deputy chief constable, being also present. The royal visitors travelled from Sandringham via Lynn and Swaffham, leaving Lynn by the ordi nary train starting from that place at 12.2 p.m., and due at Dereham at 1.10 p.m. The platform at the Dereham Station was covered with scarlet cloth and new ballast was laid down ; no further decorations were, however, attempted. The 15th Norfolk Volunteer Corps, a neatly equipped body about 50 strong, and under the command of Capt. Bulwer, served as a guard of honour. Punctual to the minute the train arrived, Lord Suffield having come down to the station shortly before in a drag drawn by four horses. Two other handsome open carriages, drawn by four horses, were also in attendance. Lord Suffield, who was accompanied by the Hon. Harbord Harbord, Viscount Hamilton, Lord Sondes, &c., passed at once to the platform. The Prince and Princess (who had come by a spe cial train from Wolferton to Lynn) occupied an elegant saloon carriage, in which were also the Mar chioness of Carmarthen, the Earl of Dunmore, Vis count and Viscountess Royston, and Col. Keppel. Lord Suffield, on stepping forward, was warmly greeted by the Prince and Princess, who also shook hands with some of the ladies on the platform-- among others with Lady Sondes, the Countess of Kinnoul and the Misses Moncreiffe, the Hon. Misses lles, &c. The royal visitors then passed through the station to one of the open carriages (drawn by four greys) and drove off, the Hon. Harbord Har bord accompanying them. Lord Suffield soon fol lowed his visitors in the drag, and the cortege, which was closed by the other open car riage, passed at once into the town, amidst the cheers of the crowd. Their Royal High nesses repeatedly acknowledged the cordial recep tion which they experienced. They passed up the Norwich-road, through the Market-place, and then down the Swanton-road. Their route lay through Swanton, Bylaugh, Bawdeswell, Reepham, Aylsham, &c., to Gunton. The entire distance from Dere ham to Gunton is about 18 miles, and was expected to be traversed by 3 p.m. The visit of the Prince and Princess to Gunton is strictly of a private character, and there will be no public demonstration of any kind in connection with it. To-morrow evening, however, a ball takes place, to which a number of the local elite have been invited. The Prince will also shoot each day in the well-stocked covers of the estate. On Thursday or Friday the Prince and Princess will pay a flying visit to Lord and Lady Sondes at Elmham. It has been observed that the weather was very unfavourable during the morning, but when the Prince and Princess passed through the town the rain clouds had dispersed, and the scene was one of much animation and brilliancy. The train by which the royal visitors travelled from Lynn to Dereham was under the charge of Mr Sproul, district superintendent at Cambridge, who was met at Dereham by Mr. Stevenson, district superintendent at Norwich. Mr. Kent and a num ber of the company's police were also in attendance. The journey from Wolferton to Dercham passed off without any noteworthy incident. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff leave the Prussian Embassy to-day on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield House. The Princes Mina Syed Hussun Ali, Mirza Syed Hoosein AU, and Mirza Syed Mahomed Ali, with their friends, Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. Herbert, have arrive" at the Pavilion Hotel, Folkestone. A FEMALE SAILO R.—Captain Lane, of the E% - pedient, now lying in the Victoria Dock, Hartle pool, furnishes the following facts relative to the eccentri cities and waywardness of a woman who had abandoned her home for the roving life of a sailor. Her statement, made at Palermo, is as follows :—" My name is Charlotte Petrie , born at Aberdeen in 1846. After the death of my grand" father I went to reside at Newcastle with my uncle, but shortly afterwards returned to Aberdeen, where I reside d as servant in two or three places. The mate of the ship Mary Gardiner, of Cape Town (named David Roberts), took me from a factcry where I was working, and placed me aboard a vessel which sailed for Newcastle, dressed in boy's apparel, and shipped me as cook's mate. On arriving at Newcastle I left the vessel and worked as a boy is Haggie and Co.'s establishment under the name of Bruce. After this I lived for three weeks in a shoe (o' 3; blishment with Mr. Pilburn, late Collinson. I thou sh i PP e , aboard the Mary Ann, of Berwick, bonnd for Dun dee and back to Newcastle. I then shipped aboard the Expedient, of Poole, Captain Lane, as ordinary seaman, at 408. per month, and cashed my advance note at Mr. J. Kettle's, °l i t; fitter, 20, Quayside, Newcastle. The Expedient in' Shields July 6, 1864, and arrived at Palermo on the 17111 of August. During the passage I performed my d u ties nO an ordinary seaman, not the least suspicion having ari6e! among my mates' during the whole voyage ; but 101°1 ' , in the harbour my sex was discovered, and the c a p tain kindly took me to the British Consul. I expressed urgent wish to perform the voyage according to the sh i p articles, which was sanctioned by the British Consul then proceeded to Alicante (?) to load sulp hur, thenc°. London, where I was paid off." Such is the episode of life of Charlotte Petrie. Captain Lane h as been recettlY_ informed that " Bruce" is at present working in lead factory near Newcastle,—Northern Daily Express, St( mi thl lax StE COI the COI cet 63- ino eac No eac D txe ls Ilidi Ctin lD r , k , olc Cub utt,, Dr, „J ai) , a E qu Li D, Ore( trUtt Di ltali IJ hex ND PD