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COTTISH SONGS. —Mr. HIGHGATE gives his ANNUAL EN TF.RTAIN3IE T on MONDAY EVENING, iSth December, at Albion Dalaton. Doors oell at 7 p.m.—Tickets at the doors. ROYAL EN GLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) Last night before Christmas. L as t Appearance of Mi ss Louisa ryne, M a dams Lemmens- Sherr i ng ton, Mr. A. Laurence, and Mr. C. Adams. TII IS EVENING (last time this season), Meyerbser's Grand Opera, L'AFRICAINE. Miss Louisa Pyne, ,‘ladame Lem mens-Sharrington, Mrs. A. Cool. -, Messrs. APerto Lauren , e, A. Cook, Ellis, E. Dussek, C. Lyall, J. G. Patty, and Charles Adams. Conductor, bir. Alfre I Mellon. Commence at a quarter to 8. XER MAJESIY'S THEATRE. t.ignor ARD vrrs CONCERTS, Every Evening. THE LAST NIGH(' BUT ONE. These Concerts will positively terminate cn Mon 'ay next, Decembe-- 18. Imm , n st, Succesß of the New Grand Selection from "Tannhause:." Full Orchestra and t ho, us. Conductor, Signor ARDFII. TO-NIGHT (Eaturday), December 16. VOCALISTS. Mdlle. Laura iTart!s. Mdlle. Emilie Georgie, Mdle. Edi, Aldlle. Sinico; ,Signor Ferranti, Signor 1011, and signor Stagno. Violin, Mdlle. Emilia Arditi. Pianoforte, Signor Mattel. Commence at Eight. Promenade, One Shilling. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY - L ANE.- 31anagers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVE the performances will commence with Shalc,;!,ere's Tragedy of KILN G JO FIN: Messrs. Phelps, James Anderson, T. Swinbourne, Raynor G. Belmore, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt; Miss Atkinso n, Mrs. IL Vandenhoft Mrs. Hodson, &c. After which, GALWAY - GO - BR A GII ; or, Love, Fun , and Fighting Messrs. Edmund Falconer, F. Barsby, Harcourt ; Misses ll az lewood, E. Falconer, L ose Leclercq. C. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Mans ger, Mr. Buckstone. TMS EVENING, THE OVERLAND ROUTE : Mesrs Chas. Mathews, Buekstone, Chippendale, Compton. Messrs, Clark, Gordon, Braid, Coe, dui ; Alessdames Mathews, Snow den, Hill. Wright, Coleman, Lovell, Am To be followed by WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN'? Mr. Chippendale, Mr. C. Mathews ; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. dsc To concludc with MY HUSBAND'S GIIOST. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM T REATRE.- Under the sole Management et Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, THE DAY AFTER TIIJ WEDDING. Mr. and Mrs. Horsman. After whi3l3, RUY BLAS. Mr Pechter ; 'fessrs. Emery, FitzpatricK, Evans, Westland, Clifford, IL Butler, Raymond ; Mesdames Lavenu and Horsman. To conclude with THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Raymond, Westland, Evaue, More land; Ilesdames Boyce and 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, 303 After which, at 8, RIP VAN WINKLE. Rip (his 90th appearance), Mr. Jefferson. supported by Messrs. tiillington, Y. 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The arrival of the China brings us important news from the United States, including the PRESI DENT'S Message and the meeting of the Congress. The Speech and the Assembly have alike been looked for with interest and expectation in this country as well as in America itself, and both have realised the conjectures formed respecting them, the Message of the PRESIDENT being as quiet and conciliatory as the opening of the ne w session was animated and exciting. Th e previous career of the PRESIDENT SiIICO his sudden accession to the highest office of the State has given encouragement to moderate politicians to believe that the policy indi cated in the Message would be that best adapted to restore the fortunes of America, and to preserve the peace of both hemispheres. There were diffi culties enough to deal with to alarm any statesman but President JOHNSON is not a man who lacks courage. The reduction of the war establishment, both past and Prospective, gives good earnest that lie has no anxiety to Plunge the country into another war, for which indeed its finances are Tay ill pre. am.* pared. Since the beginni ng of the year the navy I has been reduced from 53 0 vessels, armed with 3,000 guns, to 117 vessels - with 830 guns. So much has been already accompli shed, but more is in tended, and the Presiden t tells us that he pro poses to reduce the arn ty to a peace footing, comprehending 50,000 tro ops, organised to admit of an increase to 82,000 i& necessary, while the war estimate has been reduced . ' from $516,000,000 to $33,000,000. This is cert&inly an arrangemeut, no less prudent than necessary. It has long been the boast of America that the people were not taxed to support a standing army like the old European na tions, and unless she wishes to impose burdens which the people are quite incapable of sustaining in the present condition of affairs some very prompt measures are necessary. She has proved her mili tary capabilities most conclusively, and to preserve a large force in time of peace would serve only as a defiance to other countries and a standing ground of suspicion and irritation which could only re-act most unfavourably on American affairs. Coming to the financial situation, the PRESIDENT recom mends the adoption of measures to reduce the cur rency and to discharge the national debt within 30 years. The reduction he aims at can, he thinks, be almost imperceptibly accomplished by funding the currency. The relations of the States with Foreign Powers occupied a good part of the Message, and English men will naturally turn with interest to learn what the PRESIDENT says of the vexed question of the Alabama claims. On this subject be must, of course, adopt some of the injured innocence and virtuous indignation tone so popular among his countrymen on all matters concerning the Britisher; but there is good reason to believe, from the PRE SIDENT'S language, that he means to follow the dis creet course of letting the matter drop. The accord ance of belligerent rights to the insurgents was, he said, unprecedented, and had not been justified by the issue. Certainly, if there is any country in the world in which success is the test of virtue, it is the United States, but we in England are not in the habit of considering it an infallible one. England, in a great measure, furnished the war material to the insurgents, and British ships, manned by British subjects, and prepared for receiving armaments, left British ports to prey on American commerce, and increased the desolation of the rebel States by prolonging the contest. But the PRESIDENT found it convenient to forget, though some, at least of his auditors could hardly have failed to remember the share which British subjects, British arms, and British ammunition had in the suppression of the rebellion. Certaintly the war was prolonged indi rectly by British aid, for the Federal Government would not have found it very easy to recruit their exhausted armies from their own countrymen, even the New Englanders finding it pleasanter to de nounce the rebels than to fight them. The real truth respecting the assistance derived from this country during the war is pretty well known, and the accu sations brought against this country are worth about as much as the charge of purposely encouraging the fitting out of the Southern privateers in order that English vessels might profit by carrying American goods. This charge, directly made and gravely substantiated, in the face of the losses inflicted on this country by the cotton famine, is little more than ridiculous ; but its perpetual repetition is not calculated to encourage an entente cordiale between the two countries. President JOHNSON, after re ferring to the proposed arbitration, said that the proposed commission to settle mutual claims, ex cluding the Alabama business, had, " in that very un satisfactory state," been declined. The United States, he added, did not present the subject as an impeach ment of the good faith of a Power professing the most friendly dispositions, but in the interests of peace and justice to establish important principles of in ternational law. At the same time he did not advise any attempt to redress the matter by negotiation, which was a hint to the Congress that they had better leave so delicate and dangerous a subject alone. The fact, no doubt, is that the PRESIDENT knows enough of the English temper, and has received sufficient information as to the public feelings in this country, with respect to the privateer claims, to be fully aware that he would be following a most rash and reckless course were he to press the com pensation question. He is unprepared for support ing his arguments by force of arms, even were it not suicidal folly to provoke a European contest, and therefore if he began to threaten he would very soon find himself in an undignified dilemma. With regard to Mexico the PRESIDENT'S language was also temperate. He declared it would be a great calamity to all parties if any European Power should challenge the American people to defend the cause of Republicanism against foreign interference, and while they were unwilling to consider what might drive them to such a course they relied upon the justice and wisdom of Foreign Powers to respect the system of non-interference. In the earlier part of the Message, the PRESIDENT spoke at length on his reconstruction policy ; and, alluding to treason, said that all persons charged with it should have a fair trial before a civil tribunal ; desiring, no doubt, that the long-deferred trial of JEFFERSON DAVIS should be decided upon, after which we may reasonably hope the PRESIDENT will exercise the privilege of mercy, and spare his country the disgrace of punishing one of her most eminent citizens. Mr. JOHNSON plainly intimates that the Southern members should be admitted to Congress, and this will be the great question of the Session. Already it has been brought forward, and considerable excitement has been manifested on the matter. The course taken by the Congress will be watched with great interest, and we can only hope that the principles of their Constitution will be respected, and that moderation and magnanimity will win the day. One thing is very certain, that whatever other social and domestic questions are neglected by Government this next Session, the important matters of the working of the poor law system and the management of our workhouses must come under consideration. A paper,* which was read at the meeting of the National Association for the Promo tion of Social Science at Sheffield last October, i s well worthy of attention just now. It has been repro aced in the form of a pamphlet, and one we would here confidently recommend to the study of those who are desirous of improving their knowledge on the subject, one alike so interesting and important as the welfare and comfort of our houseless and suffering poor. Many circumstances have of late come under the notice of the public which prove that much is wanting to perfect the system now in vogue, and also that much is taking place which never reaches the public ear, but yet which is most culpable in every respect. It is truly stated, here, that " the in sufficient and miserable provision for the casual poor in many places in London is but too well known, and becomes, as are all aware, the ground of constant appeals to private benevolence, the refusal of parochial relief leading in some instances to actual death by star- Even th e a tt empted i mprovement o f t h e r v e a c t e io n i t - L l ' e ' legislative interference has in a great measure * c‘ Tho Administration of the English Poor Law." By Frederic: 11111, Barrister -at-Law. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi Chambers of the Social Science Associat:. n. SU.N, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, lEEE. turned out to be a failure, in consequence of the ex cuse so constantly made that the casual wards are full. And the inquiry just made into the state of the houseless poor in Bermondsey has proved that 142 applicants for admission to the work house had recently been turned away. No one can say that a system is successful which can sanction such anomalies as the pre sent poor law does. When we reflect upon the inconsistency of the order by the authorities at workhouses, counteracting the effect of the measure which has received legislative sanction, we must deplore and denounce the existing state of things. Mr. HILL declares, with perfect justice, that those are mistaken in their notions who consider it eco nomical thus to cut down the number of the work house inmates, for " no being is so expensive to the State as a criminal at large, " the effect of the arbitrary restrictions now in vogue being to drive many to the commission of crime. _ _ _ LA TEST INTEL LICENCE, (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 15. The Correspondencia de Espano says that the Queen's health continues to improve. It is therefore probable that her Majesty will open the Cortes in person. '1 he same journal states that the Ministers have not yet prepared the speech from the throne. MARSEILLES, DEC. 15 (Evening). The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluso, with the Mauritius and Reunion mails, arrived here to day at 4.30 p.m. BELGIUM. INAUGURATION OF THE NEW KING OF THE BELGIANS. It is worthy of attention that a heavy tax is levied on the benevolent portion of the community, in consequence of their having in a great measure to supply the deficiencies created by the imperfect condition of our workhouse management ; and another evil accruing from this must be mentioned, that many persons trade upon the ignorance and mistaken generosity of others. It is seldom those who are really the most in want'who obtrude them selves on the attention of alms-givers, and yet im mense sums are squandered on worthless individuals, while the deserving poor are sinking into decrepi tude and pining away through lack of that care which the State should exercise for the protection of its helpless subjects. What can be truer than the passage here met with concerning the chief objects which for the most part reign paramount in the minds of those who select the authorities at a workhouse—" the immediate saving of the parish funds, and the bringing down to the lowest possible farthing, of the next half-year's assessment !" Such ends are considered more worthy of attainment than the many important things which rightly belong to the responsible positions of master, matron, and medi cal attendant, who, as stated here, "did the subject admit of mirth, might often be supposed to be called from jocoseness, the relieving officer, a namo to which he has about as good a title as those who appoint him have to that of Guardians of the Poor." The Lancet, which has recently appointed a Commissioner to inquire into the medical condi tion of workhouses, gives it as its opinion that no amelioration can take place while the Board of Guardians are so badly constituted. An inferior and uneducated class of small tradesmen compose the majority of these bodies. Such are described as " inconceivably petty, ignorant, and unfit to govern institutions of so much magnitude." Certainly the recent collision between the Board of Guardians at a Workhouse and the Poor-law Board, on the sub ject of admission of the vagrant poor to the casual wards, bears out the statement of the Lancet as to the faulty construction of these Boards of Guar dians, and leads us to inquire what steps should be taken to improve the position of affairs. In this pamphlet it is stated that too much power is vested in those who are not likely to know much of the matter, in appointing Boards of Guardians, and Mr. HILL proposes that the power of voting should be brought into " closer accordance with the amount of assessment," in order that a clearer knowledge may prevail among the majority of those who have the power of voting. It could do no harm to try this plan if it did no good ; and we question if any particular argument can be brought forward against it. It is an acknowledged fact that the poor do not meet with equal consideration from those a few degrees above them, as from those quite out of their sphere, but who have finer perceptions of the making of systems and a more accurate knowledge of the details which are so necessary to be ac quainted with. Some of the facts here mentioned are condensed into a summary, which is very well worthy of attention from the powers that be, as well as from the influential classes who study such sub jects. One of the conclusions cannot be gainsaid, and that is the one which affirms that the inhabi tants of a country which, like our own, " un grudgingly pays more than six millions a year in support of the poor, ought not, and, under a good administration of the poor-law and police would not, be harassed by beggars, and have their feelings outraged by authentic accounts of deaths from cold and hunger, and their lives and property endangered by the temptations to crime which ex posure to great misery creates." All this is strictly true, and it is a great scandal to society at large that the state of our poor-laws should be so defective, the management of our workhouses so extremely faulty, and the condition of our poor in many instances so deplorable. The aspect of affairs is, indeed, bad ; when it is no matter of surprise to any general reader of public news to take up a paper and find that another death has occurred in our streets from sheer starvation. It is high time for us to awake from our lethargy in this important re spect, and to pay that heed to the subject of the administration of the Poor Laws, which justice demands from us, and which humanity should long ago have led us to do in an efficient and effectual manner. BRUSSELS, Dm. 15 (Evening). It has been officially announced that King Leo pold 11. will take the oath to the Constitution before both Chambers at 12.30, on Sunday, the 17th inst. At 8 a.m. the ringing of bells and a salvo of 101 guns will notify the solemnity. At 10.30 the general staffs of the civic guard and army will form upon the Boulevard d'Anvers. The Ki ng will be escorted from the palace of Laeken by mounted civic guards and a body of regular cavalry. At the entrance to the capital his Majesty will be received and complimented by the Burgomeister at the head of the Communal council. The King's entrance into Brussels will be announced by a salvo of 101 guns. His Majesty will follow the route taken by the King on the 21st July, 1831. The civic guards and the troops of the garrison will be under arms in the streets through which his Majesty passes. The entrance to the Chambers will be occupied by the battalion of Chasseurs-Eclaireurs, a battery of artillery of the Brussels civic guard, and the wounded and decorated of September. After the oath has teen taken their Majesties will return to the palace under a salute of 101 guns. Native Literature in India. (From Galignani's Messenger.) We find several curious facts concerning the intellectual state of India at the present moment in M. Garcin de Tassy'S inaugural lecture, which is now printed. After stating that the dialect more particularly called Hindoostanee or oordoo, which is composed of Hindee, Persian, and Arabic, is likely to become the reigning dialect of India, owing chiefly to the influence of railways, the dis tinguished professor informs us that no less than seventeen new periodicals printed in Hindoostanee have this year been added to the already existing ones, and that most of these new journals have appeared in provinces where none existed before, such as, for instance, the Punjaub, Oude, and even Afghanistan. Most of them are in oordoo, but a few are in Hindee, which is the old dialect of the country. The Agra Law Journal is pub lished both in English and in oordoo ; and the students of medicine at Lahore have got up a scien tific periodical, called the Panjabi. There has also been a vast number of new publications : among them Bagavat Malwa, being a detailed account of the insurrection of 1857, in the province of Maiwa, by Nizam Uddin ; then the Jauhar-i'acl, an allego ricalmopraolentiocavl works elliket chiefly he'Pi of an eroticlgrim'sProgr ess,'' and various stamp. Our author further notices the singular fact that the English geld piece called a " sovereign" is cur rent in India under its own name, owing to the strange coincidence that soo-ba ran, the original meaning of which is " fine colour," also signifies gold ; and as the conversion of a b into a v is very frequent, as well as that of a French ou into an English short one, the Indian has adopted the Eng lish word.with the greatest ease ; it moreover ina ifurates the decimal system, the value of the sove reign being exactly 10 rupees. THE NATIONAL GALLERY. —The National Gal lery has just secured, at the price of £3,400, a picture by Vittore Carpaccio, representing the Virgin and Child with the Doge Giovanni Mocenigo kneeling before them, and holding in his right hand the banner of the Venetian Re public. On the right hand side, looking towards the pic ture, is St. John, and on the left St. Christopher, carrying the Saviour. The figures are life size, and the picture conies to us direct from the gallery of Count Alvide nig°, of Venice,-.—The Reader. blunder to allure a small country on by promises questions, that what we ought all to labour for and which we did not intend to perform. (Hear, hear.) ought all to desire is a settlement,, and the removal No one wanted to go to war for Denmark, but if we of these questions as soon as we possibly can from did not intend to support her we should never have the arena of agitation. We should settle them, if promised her any assistance at all. (Cheers.) They not at once and for all, at least for a sufficient period could not but regard the present state of affairs in to last out the life of any single man I now address. the country as eminently prosperous. The revenue (Cheers.) But the fault, as it seems to me, and that was increasing, and while the exports of the country which is the great obstacle in the mind of every had amounted to £200,000,000 ster., the savings of thinking man, is the difficulty, in any change of our the people had amounted to nearly £100,000,000. representative system, of finding some spot where In such a state of prosperity it was for the Govern- we can stop, and where we can say, "Here we stand ment of the country to show what they would do in on principle. Here is a fair ground of settlement the forthcoming Parliament—whether great organic beyond which we will not go; but to this, as a matter changes were, in their opinion, necessary, or whether of principle, we are willing to advance." If you say the more even tenor of our way was to be continued you will lower the franchise to £8 and do so, there —ameliorating our institutions where necessity re- is an immediate demand that you should admit £7. quired, but not making those radical changes which From £7 you would be called on to go down to £6 ; at the same time that they might shake the consti- from £6 to £5 ; from £5 to £4 ; and, if we come tution would not do for those who brought them the to a test of that kind, we shall soon find that there good they expected. He felt certain that the pre- is no resting-point. We cannot hit upon any sent Government would receive that fair and just mode which would enable us to settle for a length treatment from all parties which any Government ened period that question, upon the solution of was entitled to receive so long as they did that which I believe the greatness and happiness of this which the country required. At the same time he country for many years are at stake. (Hear, felt equally sure that if, for party purposes or for and cheers.) One point which has struck us in retaining power, they did that which the country reference to the late speeches of Mr. Bright is that did not think necessary, Parliament would at once he affects a moderation which I am afraid he does reject them, and the country would ratify the rejec- not feel—a moderation very different from that which tion. (Cheers.) With regard to recent affairs inJa- he has expressed in former times. He tells us there maica, he asked them asEnglishmen and honourable are 5,000,000 heads of families unrepresented, and men never to judge of men until they had the whole he only asks that 1,000,000 of them shall be admitted. facts of the case before them. In this case they had If all the 5,000,000 are entitled to be admitted, he is men sent out from the country to uphold the certainly making a moderate demand in asking that honour and dignity of the Crown and the country, only one in five should be admitted ; but there lies and if those men were not to be supported all the question. The constituencies now number till they were found guilty where could they ex- 1,500,000, and if you introduce 1,000,000 men all of pect to find men who would undertake such respon- one class, of one feeling, and with one general in- Bible positions? To say that such men were to terest, you at once introduce into your Constitution be written or talked down, or that the Government a disturbing element. (Cheers.) You do not do were to give in to a cry, was to say that no man that which will settle or that which will conciliate, who might be traduced by others was to be safe at but that which will derange and disturb. You will home, where of all places he ought to be supported. introduce a class that will almost counterbalance all (Cheers.) He, for one, earnestly hoped that Go- the other interests put together, and it would be per vernor Eyre and those who were accused with him fectly certain to have a monopoly of power unless would come well out of the matter. A searching those who shared in the representation were of one inquiry was about to be instituted. That ought to thought and mind. In support of his views, Mr. be sufficient for us, and if the Government did not .Bright, to my extreme surprise, in his last speech do its duty in the matter it was to them we had to quoted the opinion of the great Lord Somers. There look without taking upon ourselves the task of try- is no name in the wide history of England or in the ing individuals. (Cheers.) annals of all our constitutional history, which is en " The Health of Mr. Fitzgerald" was then pro- titled to be regarded with more admiration and re posed by Colonel BsarrrELoT, who expressed a hope spect than the name of Lord Somers ; but any one that it would not be long before he again found his who knows the writings and opinions of that dis way within the walls of the House of Commons. tinguished man will be astonished to find that if the Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD, in responding, said he words quoted by Mr. Bright are to be taken lite had long occupied the double position of president rally, Lord Somers is quoted as an advocate of uni of that association and member for Horsham. He versal suffrage. The result of Mr. Bright's modera regretted that he was unable to appear before them tion is that he either asks too little or he proves too in that double capacity on the present occasion ; much. If five millions are entitled to a vote, why but, in all good humour, he could assure his hon. does Mr. Bright stop and say that he will only ask friend who now represented the borough that he in- for one million to be admitted ? He does so because tended to take the earliest opportunity of occupying he knows that if he expressed an intention, nakedly that double position again. (Laughter and cheers.) and broadly, of going for this enormous addition to The hon. gentleman referred to the cattle plague. the franchise, his proposition would be at once and He said—l differ very much from the opinions which definitively rejected. (Loud cheers.) But there is have been expressed that nothing more could have a greater, I will almost say, crime in the course been done by the Government. My opinion is that which has been taken by Mr. Bright at this time. they did not appreciate the gravity of the position He says, in the very last speech which he delivered, and the heavy responsibilities which devolved on " I shall be told that I am advocating communal them. We had first an Order in Council giving opinions. I am doing nothing of the sort." But certain directions ; that was soon after supplemented when he makes this disclaimer, what is the tenour by an order altering the first order ; that in its turn and the course of his observations ? He is address was succeeded by another adding to the first order ; ing thousands, perhaps 10,000, of the working men next came an order explaining the former orders ; of Birminingham, and he says, " I ask you to look and so it has been going on until Ido not know how at those who are the governing class of this coun many orders in Council there are existing, and I try. Look at their wealth, look at their luxury, defy any man, unless he has an acute legal train- look at their ostentation, and look at their weari ing, to say what is or is not the effect of the various ness of satiety." He says they are called on to orders on which the magistrates are called upon to move from place to place in order to escape from act. I think, also, that a great mistake was made the position of wealth and luxury which they in the first instance in the course taken with regard occupy. Now, does he mean those who are really to the local authorities. I have always been averse the governing classes of this country ? I think not. to see the powers of Government centralised. It is The governing classes are the middle classes of the contrary to the spirit of our institutions. I think country. (Hear, hear.) It is not with the peers and the great safeguard we have is that every man the rich, with those who have this wealth and oaten should take part in the local administration of local tation, that the great power of the country rests. affairs. lam not one of those, therefore, who like (Cheers.) When Mr. Bright points to the govern to see the local authorities excluded from the ad- ing classes and says, " Look at their ostentation ministration in affairs of this kind, and I think that and their wealth," what does he mean ? He means Government ought to have adopted a much more to separate and single out a particular class—to comprehensive system at first than they did, and separate the wealthy and the noble, and to hold that they ought to have instructed the local them up to a great assemblage of working men as authorities with the duty of carrying the system having interests different from their own, and de out. The disease ought to have been met in the priving them of what he tells them is their birth first instance by the most vigorous measures of re- right—namely, a participation in the representation pression ; but, at the same time, I have always of the country. Now, in making such a statement been of opinion that where private property is sacri- he does that which is a disgrace to any public man ficed for the public good the loss ought to be met —he does that which is calculated to raise up bitter by the public Exchequer. (Cheers.) lam told that and angry feelings between class and class ; he there are great difficulties in the way, and that it singles out those whom Providence has placed in would open the door to fraud as well as throw a great and distinguished positions, and 'he holds heavy burden upon the State. But it would not them up to the working men of the country as be half as heavy a burden as the risk of having those who are their greatest enemies and oppo this dangerous malady spread over the whole nents. (Hear, hear.) If he means that the go country. If the Government found their powers verning classes are those who exclude the working insufficient, they ought to have called Parliament men from a share in the representation, it is not the together. It is one of the most vital and important rich, the wealthy, and the noble, but it is the great questions that has been brought before a British middle class, and those who support the middle public of late years, and it was a subject wellworthy class, because they believe, having much to lose, of the consideration and meeting of Parliament. As having a great stake in the country, that their opi to the measures that may be necessary, I am very nions are stable, firm, and sound. (Hear, hear.) much afraid that what would have been effective a It is to them that Mr. Bright's remarks must apply, few weeks ago will not now be sufficient, and that and they are not to be addressed only to the wealthy we shall find we are shutting the door after the steed and rich and noble of the laud. (Cheers.) Let Mr. is stolen. As soon as Parliament meets I have no Bright ask himself a question. He speaks of the doubt that measures will be adopted of the most great success of liberal and democratic institutions, vigorous kind, with a total disregard of private and he says that if there was this wide extension of profit or advantage. (Hear, hear.) Passing from that the suffrage in this country it would be accompanied topic there have been other questions of public in- by an extension of education over the whole surface terest adverted to this evening, and I think it has of the country such as has never yet been seen. always been permitted at this table, so long as we He is certainly referring to the agricultural districts did not trespass upon the domain of politics, and as being districts where there is a total want of offend the wishes of those present, to speak can- education, where the peasants are brutalized and didly on public affairs. It would be ridiculous to debased, and are like the serfs upon a Russian estate. suppose, in this free-thinking and outspoken Now, I would ask him to refer to the report which eountry, that 150 men could be brought together and has recently been made by a Royal Commission as induced to shut their eyes and mouths in regard to to the condition of the children in some of the great the great public questions. I think, therefore, that departments of industry in the North. (Hear.) I I may be allowed to venture a few observations on ask him if he has ever been able to read, without that which is the great public question of the day. his cheeks blushing with shame, that account of the We are told that we are to have a change in the condition of the children employed in the large works system of representation, and a great deal has been in the North. We are told that there are children said by a distinguished public speaker as to the de even of the advanced age of 9 or 10 who do not merits, the failings, and almost the crimes of one know the name of the Sovereign, the days of the great party in the state in reference to that measure. week ; who never heard of a Saviour, and who do We are told that what Mr. Bright calls the Tory not know even the meaning of a God. (Hear.) If party have always been averse to all those great he wishes to seek for a class of children where there questions which for some years past have been car is a total failure of education, where there is an rued, and which have advanced the prosperity and ignorance such as scarcely can be paralleled on the welfare of the country. In his speeches he is con face of the whole globe, it is not to the agricultural stantly quoting to us the example of America. I districts that he must turn. (Cheers.) It is not where am one of those who regard with the greatest ad- he says the labourers are paid a poor pittance, such miration the system which has been pursued in as almost to justify robbery, but he must go to those America, the efforts they have made in the direc- districts where fortunes are heaped up and obtained tion of self-government, the enormous extension of in a very short time. (Hear.) I admit that some education, and the position which that republic of the manufacturers, like Sir Franeis Crossley, ex, has been enabled to take in the councils of the pend their fortunes with a most princely munifi world. (Cheers.) There is no man more willing cence ; but, as a general rule, you will find that to tender a weed of admiration to the course pur where fortunes have been rapidly made by means of sued by the American nation than I am—Tory as I the labour of the practical class, the interests of the am, and as Mr. Bright chooses to call me. But practical class have never been rightly or justly con what will suit a new country with new institutions, sidered. (Hear, hear.) Let me remind Mr. Bright which they began to build up from the foundation, of this—for he read his recantation in the House of will not suit a country where the interests are so Commons—let me remind him that he was the most complicated, where the institutions that exist are persistent opponent of those laws by which the so interwoven in the heart and feeling of the nation, labour of women and children was proposed to be as in this country. (Cheers.) What suits the one limited, simply with the intention of enabling those will not suit the other, and it is impossible to reason women and children to obtain education. (Cheers.) by any method of analogy whatever, from the sue- He has been the persistent opponent of those laws, cess of the institutions of America that the same and yet, in spite of all the opposition brought to success would attend similar institutions here. bear against them by the manufacturing interest, (Cheers.) Now, as regards the abuse which has they were passed, mainly through the instrumenta been thrown on one great party in the State by the lity and by the assistance of the country gentlemen distinguished speaker I have alluded to, we have of England. (Cheers.) There is one other point on this great consolation, that although he now which I wish to say a word. Mr. Bright addressed abuses us, it is only a few months since he abused himself very strongly in his last speech to some ob our opponents just as much. (Laughter and cheers.) servations made by a right hon. friend of mine, the There is not one single word of reproach, of con member for Droitwich, who showed how moderate timely, and of condemnation which he now throws might upon us which only a few months ago he did not as men of different shades of opinion be got so unsparingly and emphatically l av i s h on those whom to combine as to form an Administration possessing the confidence and respect of the country. (Hear.) he now calls his friends. (Laughter,) What do I My right hon. friend also said, quoting an old sen argue from that ? Why, that he thinks it is desir tence of one of the leaders of our party, that " Eng able in the present instance to give his full support land dislikes coalitions." That is very true, but I to a Government that will bring in a reform bill, be understand by that expression the conjunction of it wide or not, because he is determined to take men in office differing.in opinion, but who will yet whatever he can get, with a view, upon the very first occasion, of ge tti ng more . (Hear, hear.) I be- consent to waive the opinion they entertain in order lieve there is not one man I n o w address who does to enable them to act together. (Hear.) Ido not not feel that with reg ar d to these great constitutional understand by a .coalition a number of men who FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 15.—The market, though present ing inferior quotations than at the opening, is never theless firm, with a slight advance on yesterday's prices. Three o'clock.—Towards the end the mar ket became very animated, and closed on the follow ing improved quotations :- 44 per Cents 97 30 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. Do. end month 69 171 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3780 Credit Foncier 1330 Italian Loan 65 70 Do. end month 65 80 BAIL Roman — Ottoman Fives 43 40 Mexican Loan 49 Do. Bomis 333 75 Russian - Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern Western Eastern Sardinian . Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Roman VAYS. Cash. Acct. ••• ... 838 75 - - ... 1151 25 - - ... 850 - - - ... 572 50 - - ... 520 - - - ... 215 - - - ... 427 50 - - ... 428 75 - - ... 177 50 160 - Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald on Parliamentary Reform. IIonSIIAM, Friday. The annual exhibition of stock, roots, and poultry was held in this town yesterday, and was well attended by the farmers of the district. Although the show of fat stock, owing to the cattle plague, was numerically smaller than it had been for some years, the quality of the animals exhibited was considered unusually good. In the afternoon the farmers at the Black Horse Hotel, under the presidency of Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, the late member for the borough, who was supported by Colonel Barttelot, M.P., Mr. Hurst, M.P., Sir Percy Burrell, M.P., &c. _ . The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the' Army, Navy, and Volunteers," referred to the recent occurrences in Jamaica. He said that there had been in late events in connection with Jamaica, in regard to which he thought a portion of the public and of the press had not behaved with that justice and forbearance which the absent at all times were en titled to claim, and which we, taking a pride in the honour of our army, were bound on their behalf to demand. He did not think that any tling could be more pitiable, or could call more for their regret than the spectacle which had lately been held out to us as regarded the position of the colony of Jamaica. We saw there race set against race, religious sect set against religious sect, and from the highest to the lowest, ' society in discord and divided against itself. In such a society, at a time of the greatest difficulty, the army had been called upon to perform great, diffi cult, and important services. There was about to be an investigation into all the circumstances of the disturbances in Jamaica, and he thought we might ask this at least of the most bigoted of our coun trymen—that they should not pass a judgment until they had heard the whole case. (Cheers.) And if in a moment of difficulty and danger, such as those resident in Jamaica had passed through, there had been in some instances errors of judg ment, let us at least abstain from that which he was sorry to see had been too common among public speakers of late years—namely, the passing of a general condemnation upon all those who had been engaged in such difficult circumstances in the ser vice of their country. Let us believe this—that what British soldiers have hitherto been, not more remarkable for their valour than their mercy, would be found to be their characteristic now, and that it would be shown that in Jamaica, as well as in every other part of the world, their conduct had been a credit and an honour to the British name. (Cheers.) Major ALDRIDGE, in responding, strongly censured the strictures which had been passed upon Governor Eyre and the authorities in Jamaica. He believed that when we had the whole of the case before us it would be found that Governor Eyre, whose sym pathy for the black was well known, had acted throughout for the best. Mr:Lirrorr. gave the " Health of the Members for West Sussex," which was received with great cordiality. Colonel BARRTELOT, M.P., on responding, said it was a most responsible and arduous duty for a member of Parliament to discharge in a straight forward manner the duty of representing a consti tuency in Parliament. He had endeavoured to the best of his ability to discharge his, and he wanted no ;further reward than the kindness with which they had hitherto received him. They had now a new Parliament. 'The late Parliament, with all its good, and with all its shortcomings, had now passed away, but he thought he might venture to say of it that although it might not occupy a very high position in the annals of the country, yet that that Parliament had done as far as it knew how ex actly what the nation wished, and that was not to do too much, but only to pass those measures which were absolutely necessary for the welfare and well being of the country. That Parliament was presided over and guided] by a man now gone who would ever be remembered as an Englishman, who never swerved from doing all he thought necessary for the advantage and honour of his country. (Cheers.) At no period of our existence had there been a man so well suited to all parties in this country as the late Lord Palmerston. He and many others had differed from the noble lord, but still, taking Lord Palmer ston on the whole, he was the true type of an Eng lish gentleman, and as such would be for ever hon oured and respected. (Cheers.) At the same time, there was one passage in the history of the late Par liament which he regarded as a dark spot—namely, the way in which Denmark was treated by this country. He regarded it as a mistake and a fatal have hitherto sat on different sides of the House, but of men who, although they may differ on cer tain questions, yet upon great public questions have found their opinions the same. My right hon. friend simply suggested that that is more probable than many men imagine from the eagerness with which Mr. Bright deprecates any such course, and seeks to place an impossible chasm between that party and their opponents. He says that if mode rate men of both parties can be brought to act to gether the game of those who seek extreme mea sures is gone. (Hear.) He talks of a coalition, but what can be such a coalition as an union be tween himself and those whom he calls Whigs, whom he has been for years systematically abusing? (llear, hear.) He does this because he fears that moderate men would forget party ties, and, looking only to the interest of their country and the settle ment of those great questions, will say we have been long separate, but for common interests and for the attainment of one common object let us for get what is past, and unite over an effort jointly to support the throne, to improve the Constitution, and to extend the representation as far as we can, so as to admit the working classes to the benefit we ourselves enjoy. (Cheers.) Let us unite for these purposes, and I believe that if honest men do so combine the member for Birmingham will not long enjoy the authority which he now possesses. Mr. Fitzgerald resumed his seat amid loud and general cheering. Several other toasts were given, and the proceed ings were not brought to a close until a late hour. ko sp ain't The Prince of Wales. WINDSOR CASTLE, Friday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur, attended by Lord Alfred Hervey, Lieut.-Colonel Keppel, and Major Elphinstone, left London this morning for Brussels, to attend the funeral of his Majesty the King of the Belgians. Viscount Sydney (Lord Chamberlain to the Queen) and Lieut. General the Hon. C. Grey have also left London for Brussels for the same purpose, by com mand of her Majesty. Departui e of the King and Queen of Portugal Yesterday morning their Majesties the King and Queen of Portugal and suite left Claridge's Hotel shortly before 6 o'clock, in order to proceed by the early tidal train of the South-Eastern Railway to Folkestone, whence they embark for Boulogne, on their way to Paris. -The King and Queen, on their arrival at the Charing-cross Station, were received by Mr. J. P. Knight, the traffic superintendent of the railway, and Mr. Wm. Cockburn, superintendent of the ter minus, who accompanied the train to Folkestone, which was reached at 8.30 after one stoppage (at Ash ford), and on alighting their Majesties were received by Mr. Doridant (the mayor of Folkestone and pro prietor of the Pavilion Hotel), who courteously presented the Queeu with a beautiful bouquet of winter flowers, which her Majesty graciously re ceived. The King and Queen, having partaken of some slight refreshment, at once proceeded to the place of embarkation. Their Majesties and suite embarked on board the Albert Edward steamer (commanded by Captain Mortleman), which was followed by the tidal boat (the Lord Warden), with the baggage on board. A telegram announced that their Majesties reached Boulogne safely at 10.15 a.m. It was announced that his Majesty would leave Paris by special train early yesterday evening for Brussels, where he is expected to be met by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and several of the members of the ex-royal family of France. Chevalier dos Santos, the Portuguese Charge ' d'Affaires, accompanied their Majesties to Folke stone. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left London last evening by the mail train for Brussels, in order to be present at the funeral of the King of the Belgians. Colonel Tyrwhitt attended as aide-de-camp in waiting. His royal highness is expected in town again on Monday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary will arrive at Dover this morning, and will proceed at once to Cambridge Cottage, Kew. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke d'Aumale and the Prince de J oinville, who slept at the Charing-cross Hotel on Thursday night, left for Brussels yesterday morning by the train in which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales travelled, namely, that leaving the Charing-cross Station at 7.25. His Royal Highness the Duke de Nemoura left town for Brussels on Thursday evening. The members of the ex-royal family of France embarked yesterday morning at Dover, on their way to Brussels, to attend the funeral of the King of the Belgians. His Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, left the Belgian Legation, in Arlington-street, on Thursday evening to attend the funeral of his Sovereign at Brussels. The Earl and Countess Howe have been enter taining a large party at Gopsall Hall, Leicestershire. On Thursday the noble earl and countess received a distin guished party of 30 at dinner, and at a late hour in the evening gave a grand ball, which was attended by above 400 of the principal residents in Leicestershire and the sur rounding counties. The Earl Russell is quite recovered from his indisposition. The noble lord will attend the Cabinet Council to be held to-day. The Earl and Countess Granville arrived in town last. evening from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Man chester at Kimbolton, Hunts. The Earl and Countess of Dudley visited the town from which they derive their title on Thursday, and were received in a very gratifying manner by the inhabi tants. An address was presented from the Dudley squadron of Worcestershire Cavalry. Lord Brougham has delayed his departure from London for a few days. Lady Granville Somerset and Mr. R. Somerset have arrived at Farrance's Hotel from St. Leonards-on- Sea. MARBLE BUST OF VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.—A white marble bust of the late Premier arrived at Tiverton. on Tuesday, when it was presented to the town by Mr. Row, as a memento of his two years' mayoralty. It has been placed in the space in the centre window of the Town-hall temporarily until a niche can be prepared for it. THE LATE MAGISTERIAL SCANDAL AT LEAMING TON.—It is stated that the Lord Chancellor has directed Lord Leigh to make an inquiry into the circum stances attending the late magisterial " scenes" between Mr. 0. Pell and the other justices. On Monday last Lord Leigh attended at the Town-hall and officially opened the inquiry, but as the reporters were not permitted to be pre sent it has not transpired what took place. Mr. Pell ex pressly wished the proceedings to be open to the press, in order that the public might be put in possession of the true facts which have led to the recent disturbances. This, however, was not permitted. 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