The Sun. — London, England, 1866-12-28 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.--- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. Special Morning Performance of the Grand Pantomime THIS DAY and TO-MORROW (Saturday), Dec. 28 and 29, 1866, and on every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday during the month of January. Children and schools at reduced prices to the following parts of the Theatre : First circle, dress circle, and stalls. TO-NIGHT (Friday), Dec. 28, her Majesty's servants will perform the Comedietta, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING : Messrs. Sinclair, Harcourt, J. Johnstone ; Miss Isabel Adams and Mrs. Hodson. After which, the Grand Drury-lane Comic Christmas Annual, entitled NUMBER NIP; or, Harlequin and the Gnome-Bing of the. Giant Mountain, written by E. L. Blanchard, with gorgeous and fairy-like scenery, designed and painted by Mr. William Beverley. Gro tesque masks and costumes, invented and illustrated by Dykwynkyu. F anc if u l Ballets (Procession of the Jewel Guards, and general business of the Children, 150 in number), arranged by Mr. John Cormack, with popular and characteristic music, selected and composed by Mr. J. H. Tully. Characters in the opening by Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss E. Bodenham, Miss Hudspeth, Miss Cardonni, Miss Sey mour, Miss L. Wilmot, Miss E. Brougham, Madlle. Ferina Stussey, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff, ; Mr. Tom Matthews, Mr. C. Seyton, Mr. F. Barsby, Mr. Fitzjamos, Mr. J. Ro bins; Mr. E. Clifton, and Master Percy Roselle. _ The har lequinade includes the services of thos e popular pantc mists, Harry Boleno and Mr. C. Lauri, clowns ;_ Mr. W. A. Barnes and Mr. J. Morris, pantaloons ; Mr. J. Cormack and Mr. S. Saville, h ar l eq uins; Madame Boleno and Madll e . Adele Marion, columbines. The Infant Drummer, Master Vokius— An Irish Jig by the Smallest Irishman ever seen, Misther Paddy'Son. The Devil's Chapeau, by Majilton the Grotesque. A new Troupe of French Dancers, 16 in number. Tim whole produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. .Prices : Private boxes, 1,2, 3,4, and 5 guineas ; stalls, 7s. ; dress circle, ss. ; first circle, 4s. • balcony seats, 3s. ; pit, 2s. ; lower gallery, I s. ; upper gallery, 6d. Box-office open from ten till five daily. Doors open at half-past six, commence at seven. The Boys of the Royal Military Asylum, with their Band, will attend the Morning Performance of the Grand Christmas Pantomime on Monday, Dec. 31. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Pechter. : THIS EVENING, ROUGE ET NOIR. Maurice D'Arbel (a Gambler), Mr. Fecbter ; Messrs. Emery, Evans, Moreland, Fitzpatrick, Dalton. Reynolds, Lom ,s, Newbound, Andrews. Anderson, Vivian, Bennett. and Edward Price; Miss Hen rade, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss Grattan, and Miss Carlotta Leclercq. Preceded by THE TWO POLTS. Mr. H. Widdicomb. n OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manager, Nlr. Geo. Vininz. THIS EVENING, BARNABY RUDGE. Miss A Thom son. Mrs. Henry Vining, Mrs. Charles Horsman, and Miss Katharine Rogers; Messrs. S. Calhaem, F. Villiers. J. G. Shore, C. Horsman, and Mr. George Honey, To conclude with the INVISIBLE PRINCE. MR. SOTHERN.-THIS EVENING in a New Comedy, " A LESSON FOR LIFE," by Tom Taylor, Haymarket Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone, _ . THIS EVENING, A MERE CHILD, Messrs. Howe, Gordon, White, Ize. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Powell, &c. After which, A LESSON FOR LIFE. Messrs. Eothern, Chippendale, Compton, Howe, Kendal, Gordon, Rogers, Braid, Vincent, &a. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, Wright, Followed by JENNY LIND AT LAST. Miss lone Burke; !dr. W. Farren, Scc. To conclude with a GRAND BALLET DIVER'TISSE• IdENT. lid!le. Sophia. Commence at Seven. rjIIIEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, Dec. 28, - at Seven, A SISTER'S PENANCE. Miss Kate Terry, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. H. Vezin, Billington, Ashley, Eburne, Romer, and Stephenson. To conclude with the New Grand Burlesque of THE MOUNTAIN DHU; or, THE KNIGHT, THE LADY, AND THE LAKE. Messrs. J. L.I Toole (his zi,d appear ance since his provincial tour), Paul liedtord, Ashley, R. Romer, and O. J. Smith ; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, New Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. 11. Wigan. THIS EVENING, LONDON ASsUI:ANCE. Messrs. Iloraco Wigan, 11. Neville, G. Vincent, Addison, 1). Murray, and Mr. Charles Mathews ; Miss Milly Palmer, Miss E. Farren, and Mrs. Charles Olathe a. After which, the successful Burlesque of FAUST AND MARGUERI IE. Mesdames E. Fairen, Sheridan, and Ac Stephens ; Messrs. G. Vincent, W. 11. Eburne, D. Murray, c. Doors open at half-past Six ; commence at Seven. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, NEIGHBOURS. Messrs. Porsche, Belford, and G Murray ; Misses Swanborough, Johnstone, and Hughes. Alter which, will be produced a Grand Burlesque, entitled GUY FAWKES : Messrs. Thorne, James, Robson, and Fenton ; Mesdames Swanborough, t, ynt tm, Johnstone, Hughes, Newton, &c. To conclude with BOOTS AT THE SWAN. Commence at Seven. lIOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL Sole r'roprietor and Ma.nager, Mr. ton P>trry. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, MY TURN NEXT. Mr. Bellmore, Miss Foote, Miss Leunoic. Atter which, liouoicault's drama of FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, liehnore, tiarden,Vollaite; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. Saunders, B. Enure, Kaym nd. nil HEATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY' S. Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. 11. C. Nation. TIIIS EVENING, and durir,g the we, k, the pertormances will commence at seven o'clock with a Comic Drama, en titled DELICATE GROUND Concluding with, IA a quarter to 8, the Great NATION-AL Pantomime, written by Charles Miliward, and entitled HUSH-A- BYE, BABY, UPON THE TREE TOP. In the Grand Burlebque Openin,i,- Misses Caroline Parkes, Nelly Nisbett, Polly Marshall,r'annyGwynne, Nelly Burton, Fanny Howard, Lizzie Kelsey, Mrs. CAulfield ; Messrs. Atkins, W. H. Stevens, Arthur Milano, Miss tiersie Sim- mends, Premier I; anseuse ; and the favourite Children Danseuses, Misses Fanny Higgs, Florence and Annie Wright, will appear. The ilarlequinade will include—Clown, the Original Little Rowella; Pant a l oon, Mr. Beckingriam ; Harlequin, Mr. Honeywood ; Harlequin Ca la Whatteau), Miss Ester Austin lirom Paris); Columbines, Misses Gros venor and Simmonds. The truly mag n ifi vent Scenery painted by Messrs. Julian 11.1cks, ii. r. Ball, and numerous assis tants. The Dances, including an entirely novel and charac teristic Ballet of Ladybirds, arranged by Mr. Milano. N. a —Mr. W. IL C. 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Mr. DUNBAR DUNBAR.— The review shall be hunted up if possible, and copies sent as requested, • t.O =', -,. ? .;i. t i pE' ‘jt - PrA I :Z -,Ult , *,.....:_tb‘-,-.,.e-.- -- LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 28, 1866. Among the social problems which can hardly fail to come under full discussion during the approach ing session of Parliament, is the very important and extensive one of the administration of the Poor law. The whole subject is undoubtedly beset with difficulties, which culminate in the endeavour to reconcile the desire to relieve suffering on the one hand and to repress mendicancy on the other. The attempt to fulfil these very opposite objects has produced all the inaccuracies and inconsistencies of the old and new Poor-law ; and according as men incline to the one or the other aim in particular, so do their recommendations and suggestions vary in their character. The Rev. LLEwELYN DAVIES has recently discussed the whole question of the relief of the poor,both national and voluntary,* in a compre hensive spirit, though we very much doubt whether the remedies which he proposes for the anomalies at present existing would be found effectual. Mr. DAVIES is not inclined to soften:the admitted harsh ness of the Poor-law, because he fears that worse evils would result from laxity in the system. " Ought we," he asks, "to strive that our ac commodation for the aged may be as good as that in average almshouses, that our schools may be put on a level with charitable orphanages, and that our sick wards may be like those of our best hospitals ?" And he answers the query thus : "There are strong reasons, I think, why we shoulddissociate these aims and en deavours from our Poor-law system." These rea sons he gives under different heads. 1. Poor-law relief must open its doors to the very dregs of the population. 2. Poor-law relief may be claimed as a matter of right. 3. A perpetual siege is constantly kept up by importunity and fraud. 4. Moral clas sification is impossible. 5. The regulations found necessary i❑ a workhouse are so degrading that we should discourage our poor from entering it if pos sible. But there are several points in these argu ments that may be questioned. No doubt lkr. DAVIE s speaks truly when he says that " Pauperism is not necessarily a crime ; but paupers are sure to consist in no trifling proportion of the worthless and vicious, if not of actual criminals." That is to say, the able-bodied paupers, for we must never lose sight of a fact to which Mr. DAVIES fails to give due prominence, that a very large proportion of the inmates of our metropolitan unions are physically incapable of earning their own living. The high pressure of these days demands full energies to keep up in the struggle, and what with old age, chronic infirmity, blindness, epilepsy, imbecility, lameness, and other bodily defects, the inmates of our work houses would for the most part have little chance in the race. The working population of the house bear a relatively small proportion to the incapaci tated, and there are times such as in the height of summer, when the managers find it difficult to get heads and hands enough to carry on the house without additional aid. Any one who has gone over a large London workhouse, and passed ward after ward with the long rows of beds, each with its occupant, may well feel that something more than merely repressive severity is required to deal with such a mass of human suffering. The ques tion may not unreasonably be asked why a man suffering,say from consumption or paralysis, should, while the inmate of a voluntary hospital, be treated with every attention and kindness, but if dismissed incurable and compelled to resort to the parish infirmary, he should be neglected and despised, relying for his only chance of relief on the honesty and kindness of an ignorant pauper nurse, who has thirty or forty other sufferers to attend to, and the occasional passing glance of a doctor, who has to supervise perhaps three hundred patients in the house, and attend to private practice as well to get his living. This inconsistency is so glaring, so unjust, that it demands immediate atten- tion. Industry, sobriety, and every other practical virtue are powerless to ward off the attacks of dis ease in every case, though, no doubt, a man's health is always affected by his habits. But there are dozens of trades now going on in this metropolis which are most injurious to the workman, whose very industry thus tells against him. The trades which require the use of poisons, such as the mer cury necessary in the manufacture of looking glasses, are fruitful sources of disease. Paralysis is a common complaint among the glass silverers and painters ; while the vitiated air breathed in other employment tells almost inevitably on the lungs. If a working man thus breaks down in the prime of life, and is doomed to linger out years of sickness, it is preposterous to treat him like the worthless vagrant who, finding vicious courses fail him at last, comes upon the parish for relief. The injustice is so glaring and so cruel that it is imperative it should be rectified. The writer of the article before us seems to fear that if the infirmaries are made too com fortable the sick poor will be too ready to ente r them, but this is not likely. Human nature is the same everywhere, and we do not find the lower middle ranks leaving their homes to enter the' hos pitals in times of illness. The natural wish is for friends and relatives at such seasons, and few would prefer to be surrounded by strangers in sickness and death. Mr. DAVIE S sa y s th a t as it i s the poor d o not complain of the infirmaries, but they are often veryreluctant to go to them from the dislike of leaving home, just as they are averse to entering the hospital where there is much better treatment. As for the duty of those who are able to do so to support their sick and age d re l a ti ves it is indisputable; only we Ellin consider how far it is likely that many will be able to do so. Allow ing a man's wages to be even 255. or 28s, a wee k, (and the thousands of dock labourers, bricklayers, and " navvies" do not approach thi s ), if we take out his rent and the food and clothing of his f am i ly at the present London rates, we shall not find v ery much over for the support of a sick relative, wh o would be unable to share the hardships and scanty fare endurable to the rest of the family. Something, no doubt, might be paid in such cases towards the maintenance of the in- valid, a plan which has been adopted with great success y in Miss TWINING'S Ormond-street Home for Incurable and Infirm Women. Moral classifi- cation, says Mr. DAVIES (himself a guardian) can not be safely attempted. But physical classification in a great measure includes moral. A man, what ever his past career, who does not come upon the parish to support him until he is absolutely unable to support himself deserves to be treated very differently from the man who, in full vigour of health and strength, declares he can find nothing to do, but must live at other people's expense. In the same way children of tender years deserve better care than the adult pauper. It must never be forgotten that they are the future men and women of the State, and if we degrade them we are grievously mistaking our duty. We should give them every chance we can, certain that the stigma of pauperism will always be a sufficient drawback to them, and that English men and women must be very different to what they are now if they wish to put their children into work- house schools while they are able to keep them out. Any day, says Mr. DAVIES, a workhouse school is liable to be infected by a dozen children steeped in all the premature wickedness of London life, but this is a matter which might well be looked to, and a little preliminary training might be gone through * The Poor Law and Charity. By the Rev. J. L. Davies. Macmillan's Magazine for December. before the new corners were freely associated with the older scholars. The hardships of the adminis trations of public relief are in some degree inevitable, and the sacrifice of personal independence is so galling to middle-aged men and women that a resi dence in the House would never be popular among the really working classes. It entails a thorough breaking up of the home, the separating of the family, and a thousand discomforts, great and small, so that while our object in dealing with the able-bodied must be to discourage pauperism, we must do so . with the view of keeping out idlers and vagrants, not with the anticipation that at the first rumour of hard times artisans and their families will come rushing to the gates. One of the first great steps towards a general reform of our Poor-Law system must undoubtedly be the equalisation of the poor rate throughout the metropolis. The anomalies of the existing system are so great that they are almost universally com plained of ; and when Mr. DAviEs maintains that the rates are nowhere too heavy, and that there is no lack of house room in London for the poor, he will not find many to agree with him. The parochial authorities in the East-end parishes are forced to restrict their expenditure in every possible way, because they know that a good many of their rate payers can only just keep off the rates themselves. Yet the necessities of the parish are tenfold greater than those of the West-end districts, where a rate of treble the amount would be paid without being thought of if it were once in existence. An equal isation of the rates would lighten the burden im mensely, without pressing on the wealthier classes unreasonably. If a man can pay three or four hundred a year for his house, it can hardly be a matter of much moment to him whether he pays ten or fifteen pounds for the poor rate ; but to the householder, who with difficulty scrapes up his twenty or thirty pounds, the difference of ten shil lings is serious. It is obvious that if we set this right we shall know much better how we stand. When we have fairly decided what amount of relief should be given by the State collectively, we may allow voluntary charity to come in and supplemen the public alms in cases of unavoidable and incur. able infirmity. The arrival of the mails from India, China, and Japan brings us no very startling intelligence. The Viceroy was still at Agra, where he had been dispensing honours with a lavish hand. For this liberality he has been censured by the Bengal Hurkant, which declares that the privileged distinctions will lose their importance if shared among so many. The grand Durbar at Agra is, however, exceptional in its character, and Sir JOHN LAWRENCE might well think it a fitting opportunity for bestowing marks of honours upon the native princes. All accounts agree respecting the splendour and impbrtance of the gathering, which has beefi long un paralleled in that part of India. The home authorities, we are glad to find, are determined that accurate information shall be obtained respecting the late famine. The Secretary of State has re quested the Viceroy to issue instructions for the preparation of a full report on the causes and re sults of the famine. It is said that the Lieutenant- Governor of Beyrout appointed a civilian, the Com missioner of Huddea, to be Famine Commissioner, an appointment which excited much dissatisfaction, as the public were anxious the whole matter should be thoroughly sifted, and many of the points at issue demanded scientific knowledge. However the Go vernor-General decided upon forming a commission, and added the Hon. G. CAMPBELL, Judge of the High Court, and colonel MORTON, of the Engineers, to the list. This decision has given general satisfaction, and we hope the result will be full and accurate information respecting the terrible calamity. There is every reason to hope that when we are in posses sion of such statistics, skill and science may devise some means of diminishing the risk of the recurrence of famine, and of mitigating its severity should prevention be impossible. From China we learn that negotiations are being set on foot for erection of telegraphic wires between Canton and Hong Kong, so that science is making rapid progress in the Celestial Empire. The treaty between Belgium and China has been ratified, and a French line of steamers is to run from Panama to Hong Kong to effect a junction with the Messageries Imperiales, so that very soon commerce will put a girdle round the world without let or hindrance. The licences to engage coolies for Surinam seem to have been oepn to abuse, as has frequently proved the case before. The French expedition to Corea to obtain satisfaction for the murder of missionaries has penetrated to the city of Kanghao, which was found nearly deserted. The KING has invited the Admiral to proceed to the capital to negotiate, which the Admiral refuses to do. Matters are as yet uncertain. The KING of Corea has determined on resistance against the advice of Chinese officials, who counselled submission and apology, being no doubt better informed as to the strength of the ad versary. The Corean KING is apparently determined to bring destruction on himself, for we find the burning of the American schooner, General Sher man, by his orders, is confirmed. The passengers and crew were tied in their berths and burned with the ship. It is not very likely the Americans will allow this enormity to pass unpunished, and his MAJESTY of Corea will probably be:brought to strict account for his malpractices. From Japan there is little news, excepting the details of the death of the late Tycoon and the ap pointment of his successor. The war in the south has lulled, and it is thought may be soon brought to a conclusion. ' Mr. THOMAS HUGHES does himself no credit by the course he has pursued in the Jamaica affair, t a hh n ao d it is, have eeainctee d indeed, mbienr s much so w unfair t pro fa e o be and dsillr illiberal Liberal e r r e al t oa e p d that isnp iior some ni spirit. Yes terday of shoulds terday morning in the Committee-room of the Bir mingham Town-hall, a meeting was held for the purpose of hearing a statement from Mr. HUGHES 'on the subject of the proposed prosecution of Mr. EYRE, for his share in quelling the recent disturb ances in Jamaica. Care was taken that there should be no dissentients present, because n o one was admitted without the presentation of a circular, which was withheld from those not " friendly to the object." This is a very curious mode of procedure, to say the least of it, and it certainly shows that the promoters of the movement did not feel at all secure of general ap proval ; but, as for calling a packed assembly like this, an expression of public sentiment it is quit e absurd to do so. A letter was read from Mr. THOMAS LLorn, who had signed the ,invitation to Mr. HUGHES to be present, in which he did not approve of the proposed prosecution of Governor EYRE. In his opinion he acted not from malice, " but from ignorance and gross lack of judgment." It is really extraordinary to witness the assurance displayed by those who know nothing of the particular circumstances of the case, and wha presume to put their comments upon acts and occur rences which took place so far ()ff. The real danger was over before these critics ever heard of its existing, and yet they can see and hear by . intuition all that should and all that should not have been done. Mr. HuGnEs commenced by saying that he could not refuse the invitation to be present among them, although it was not a fitting season to discuss a ques tion which had so shaken the political mind of England. In explaining the object of the Jamaica Committee, Mr. HUGHES said that the Committee was formed in order to obtain a searching inquiry into the Jamaica business, and when the report of the " Royal Commission was made known the members thought the probable result' would be that they should bring the late Governor EYP.E to trial for having illegally taken away life, which, in the language of the law of England, was murder." It is not surprising to hear that when this extreme view of the question was taken, many who had be before acted with the Committee fell away from it because they could not go so far. An appeal was made to Government, but as they refused to take up the matter the committee re solved that it was their "duty to prosecute Governor EYRE." In some respects Mr. HUGHES showed himself more discerning than Mr. BRIGHT and some others who have taken up this question with so much activity and excitement. He said that he himself was prepossessed in favour of Governor EYRE, " because he knew he had made in Australia expeditions which showed great endurance and courage, and that he was a friend of Mr. HENRY KINGSLEY, who had lived in Australia." After the many uncalled-for remarks that have been made in various quarters by those who should have known better, it is a relief to find so sensible and straightforward a statement made by Mr. lIIIGnEs. We have no doubt that he is correct in his im pression that no member of the Committee is actuated by motives of personal hostility to ex- Governor EYRE; but they can be very prejudiced and unfair for all that. In a matter of so much consequence as this, no one can form a correct judgment who allows himself to take a one-sided view of the case; and we regret to say that the extreme Liberals and Radicals have done their political reputation great injury by the manner in which they have taken up the Jamaica affair, and the language they have used towards Governor EYRE. Mr. HUGHES completed his observations by some most inconsequent remarks about law and prerogative, declaring that the subject races east and west looked to the English people for freedom and for law, and not prerogative or slavery. "It was the same question that was agitating our brethren on the other side of the Atlantic ; and he hoped England would not be found more reluctant than America to extend the bless ings of freedom to all people, whatever their complexion." It is really surprising to find how people can mislead themselves when they keep to theories instead of studying the effect of those theories in practice. One point entirely overlooked is the cruelty that was exercised against the white people who were killed in Jamaica. The Com mittee is silent as to their fate, they are indeed " nameless martyrs ;" but this inconsistency shows how much the Jamaica Committee and their friends have allowed themselves to be confused in the way they have taken up the matter. many centenaries. The Senate lost nine membes including the eccentric Marquis de Boissy, Marquis Turgot, ambassador at Berne ; M. Thouvenal, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs. Among the diplomatists who died was Count Serriner, who was sent to Spain to negotiate a treaty defining the limits of the territory of that country and that of France. Five members of the Legisla tive body died. The number of those who were formerly Deputies was much gre at er The navy lost many officers c,f various ranks, in cluding two vice -admirals, Lugeol and Le Predour. The latter was a senator. The list of officers of the army deceased includes many generals and thirteen colonels or lieutenant-colonels. One of the generals who died was Count d'Hondetot, General of Divi sion, formerly aide-de-camp of Louis Philippe. The French Academy recently lost one of its eminent members, Baron de Barante, formerly Peer of France. The members of the Institute who died during the year were Messrs. de Gisors, Camille Montagne, of the Academy of Sciences ; Berenger de la Drome, honorary president of the Court of Cassation ; Jaley, sculptor ; and Louis Clapisson, musical composer. The clergy had to deplore the loss of Cardinal Gousset, bishop of Rheims, whose death:was recently mentioned ; Monsigneurs Patric, Marie, O'Cruice, ex-bishop of the diocese of Mar seilles ; Parisis, bishop of Arras ; Coquereau, chief almoner of the navy ; and Pavy, second bishop of Algiers. The French magistracy has lost seven eminent members. The Franche Comte gives a few particulars re specting the frightful railway accident at Franois. Of the fourteen persons killed, one only is a woman. The line, encumbered with articles of all kinds, " presented a lugubrious spectacle." Parcels, watches, and purses were picked up in all directions. The bodies had a frightful appearance. Among the persons who received serious injuries were two women. Some of the corpses were so mutilated that it had hitherto been impossible to identify them. The frost departed last night and there was rain. This has been a bright, sunshiny day, but with a violent wind and fleecy cloncls, betokening storm. In the afternoon there were some April showers. Monseigneur Rossat, Bishop of Verdun, has suc cumbed to the effects of a long illness. He was born in 1789 at Lyons, and was consequently 77. He was appointed Bishop of Gap in 1841, and translated to Verdun in 1844. The Emperor and Empress drive about Paris almost every day. This week they have minutely inspected the works at the Great Exhibition. Ten soldiers have recently been decorated with the order of the Legion of Honour. They have seen some service. One of them, Cremieux, is 90 ; Dand, 88 ; Vaillant, 87 ; Dominique, 85 ; Gallere, 83 ; Fleuricourt and Vaast, 82 ; Paveul and Witt mer, 79. They are all in good health. The oldest soldier at the Invalides is 96. Ile had his left leg amputated in 1802. The Return of Sir Henry Storks to Malta MALTA, Dec. 22. After an absence of upwards of twelve months, his Excellency the Governor has at last returned to island, and public anxiety for his speedy return s therefore calmed. Sir Henry Storks, accompanied by his aides-de-camp, Lieut. Baring and Lieut. Strahan, arrived in Malta at 3 o'clock this morning from Marseilles, in her Majesty's ship Psyche, and landed at about 10 o'clock at the Custom-house mole, under a salute of 15 guns from the Victoria, flagship of Vice-Admiral Lord C. Paget, and a guard of honour of the 60th Rifles. The reception of the governor, whose return was so ardently looked for, was most hearty and enthusiastic, and such as to reflect the highest credit on this loyal population. A vast crowd of people assembled to welcome his excellency, who, on disembarking on the mole from his barge, was received by the officer administering the government, the chief secretary, the judicial authorities, the Lord Bishop of Gibraltar, the Crown Advocate, the members of the Legislative Council, the members of the Chambers of Commerce, the heads of departments, the principal military officers, barristers, doctors, priests, and civil emp:oyes, who saluted the governor, and congratulated him on his happy return to Malta. Sir henry Storks then walked to the palace, through the Marina, accom panied by Gen. Ridley and the Right Rev. Dr. Trower, and followed by the distinguish" person ages who had received him on his landiriY! Crowds of people lined the road along which Sir Henry passed, and they saluted and greeted his excellency, who constantly bowed and acknowledged the con gratulations of the people. Another guard of honour of the 84th Regiment was in attendance opposite the palace, and on the approach of Sir Henry saluted, the band playing " God save the Queen." At noon his excellency held a levee, which was attended by all the notabilities of the island. Sir Henry was evidently moved by this spontaneous demonstration of esteem and affection, which is the best proof of the high regard in which he is held by the good and loyal people over whom he has been deputed to rule. A proclamation just issued announces the return of his excellency to these possessions, and his resumption of the Go vernment thereof. Great preparations are being made for illuminating the city to-night, to do honour to the event. I believe that on Wednesday next Sir Henry Storks will receive the addresses of congratulation voted by the council, the nobility, the Chamber of Commerce, and other corporate bodies of Malta. Vice-Admiral the Right Hon. Lord C. Paget, C. 8., waited on Sir Henry Storks at the palace to pay his respects, and offer his congra tulations to his excellency. Rear-Admiral H. Kel lett, C. 8., returned to Malta in the Psyche, and resumed the duties of his office of superintendent of her Majesty's dockyard at this dockyard. Her Majesty's screw steamboat Cockatrice, 4 Commander Bogle, arrived in Malta yesterday after noon from Syra. The surveying ship Hydra, 5, Capt. Shortland, returned to Malta this morning, from the southern coast of Sicily, where she had been lately engaged on surveying duties. The screw steam gunboat Assurance, Commander Pym, entered the grand harbour of Malta this morning, coming from Candia. She brings no news of great importance from that island. Desperate and severe fighting was still going on between the Turks and the Cretan insurgents. The Turks have been com mitting great ravages in the country, and setting several villages on fire. About 400 or 500 Cretans have been rendered houseless by this Turkish work of destruction. The Assurance embarked at Candia about 300 women and children, and took them to the Piraeus. Tranquillity prevailed in the Greek islands of the Archipelago, though some excitement had been caused in Syra and Patras by the intelli gence received from Candia. Mr. C. Morton, the Government Inspector of Mines for Yorkshire, has resigned his office. For some time Mr. Morton has not been in good health, and it is stated that the anxiety and excitement of the last week or two, caused by the dreadful calamity at :Barnsley, have so far affected him, that under the advice of his medical atten dant he has retired from the responsible post which he has occupied for many years. EXTRAORDINAH Y RUN WITH A FO.X.—The Wens leydale hounds had on the 13th inst. one of the most extraordinary runs on record. The moot was at the village of Ilardraw, whore a goodly number of gentlemen had assembled to meet the much respected and gallant master, ho was aocompanied by his sous and a few others of the right sort. The fox, as ho crossed the valley, appeared to be an immense one, and a real " varmint" ho turned out. After crossing the river Yore and going along the valley of Widdall, over Widdall Fell, down Mossdalo into the West Riding, then returning by Meorcock, Thwaite, and Cotterfell, he took a sudden turn for Bridge, Shuunerfell, on the borders of Westmoreland, where, after a slight check, the hounds turned him, and ran him to Stoney Gill, at the head of Swaledale, where they were called off in the moonlight. The run from start to finish occupied six hours and a quarter, with only two slight checks, and the dis tance must have been 40 miles at least. Several horsemen rode with the hounds the greatest part of the run, but near the end were, in consequence of the boggy nature of the soil, compelled to leave their horses and finish on foot. Only a quarter of a mile from a well-known earth in Stoney Gill, where the hounds were -called away, Roynard was seen in a distressed condition, and the hounds only 200 yards behind him in hot pursuit, but it is supposed by the footmen, who got to the place a few minutes after, and found the hounds at a loss, that this game fox had gone to ground, and thus evaded It ursuers, who richly deserved his brush after sosi.ll44t c. a.-- Manchester Examiner. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Dec. 28. The directors of the Credit-Anstalt have an. nounced an interim dividend of seven florins Pei share for 1866, payable on and after the 2d o. January next. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. The Indian and China mail, received at Paris by way of Suez, has brought some particulars respect ing the expedition under Admiral Rose, with the view of obtaining satisfaction from the King of Corea for the murder of several French missionaries. It was reported in Paris a day or two ago that orders had been despatched by the Government to post pone his mission, but that these orders had not reached him until after the squadron had sailed. Be this as it may, at all events Admiral hose had arrived at the mouth of the river which leads to the capital. The King offered to negotiate upon the matter in the capital itself. This request was re fused by Admiral Rose, who, it is believed, had reason to suspect some treachery was intended. The Illoniteur, in its official part, states that the Emperor has received the reply of the Federal Coun cil to the letters of his Majesty accrediting the Marquis de Banneville as ambassador to the Swiss Confederation. The evening Moniteur, in its weekly review of latest political incidents, says :--" Baron de Beust, Minister of Foreign Affairs of th e E m p eror o f Austria, Francis Joseph, has passed a few days at Pesth, where he had numerous conferences with the principal members of the Hungarian Diet. He ex- pressed the most conciliatory views, and gave the assurance that if an agreement should be effected in regard to the local and general limits of the empire the city of Pesth would shortly have a special Minister for Hungary." Some disturbances took place a few days ago at Trieste, on the occasion of the funeral of a young man of that city, a Garibaldian volunteer, who was killed during the last war against Austria. A few arrests were made, and tranquillity was soon re stored. The Indicateur d'llazebrouck records an extra ordinary fact which it attributes to the rage preva lent among ladies for ornamenting the back of the head with a chignon, or mass of hair manufactured so as to resemble a tolerably -sized cabbage. It says that a child has been born at Morbarque with a natural excrescence suspended from the back ex actly resembling the chignon, both in shape, size, and appearance, only that it is of " too, too solid flesh," instead of being fabricated from the human hair. A Paris paper which notices this strange phenomenon hints that the mother of the child had perhaps longed for a chignon, and that her husband would not let her wear one. The steamer Dix-Decembre has returned to Toulon after the successful immersion of the sub marine cable between the island of lAreins (gulf of Jouan) and the island of Hyeres, thus considerably facilitating the communication between the south of France and ports of the Mediterranean. At the recommendation of the Minister of the Fine Arts, M. Hebert, historical painter, has been appointed Director of the Imperial Academy of France at Rome, in the room of M. Robert Fleury, who resigned that post in consequence of ill-health. An artfully arranged plan of robbery has been successfully carried into effect. The victim is a gentleman, M. G--, who resides on the Boule vard Magenta. He received an anonymous letter, signed " A Friend," intimating that his wife was unfaithful, and advising him that he had important business at Rouen, and that if he went and re turned home suddenly he would surprise his guilty wife with her lover. M. did not believe the im putation, but he took the "friend's" advice. Two days afterwards the lady also received an anony mous letter telling her that her husband had no business to transact at Rouen, but that he was only gone there to enjoy himself with his mistress. As the letter mentioned the hotel where her husband was stopping at Rouen, the lady immediately pro ceeded thither, and was agreeably surprised to find that there was no " lady in the case." Au explana- tion ensued and each produced the anonymous letter which was written by the same hand. They thought they had only been subjected to a malicious hoax and returned back to Paris together. On entering his apartment, however, he found that his secre tary had been broken open, ,and that the valuables It had contained had been stolen. Madame G— fotind that she had been robbed of her jewelry. The value of the articles stolen is estimated at 40,000 f. The skilful thief and accomplished letter writer is as yet undiscovered by the police. Death has been rather active among eminent per sonages in France during the year 1866. Among those who died were members of the Senate, of the Council of State, military and naval officers, bishops, magistrates, public functionaries, bar risters, doctors, literary and scientific men and SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 27. It is stated in well-informed political circles thal the Queen has signed a decree dissolving the Cortes ITALY AND THE PORTE. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 28 The Italian Government claims an indemnity of 52,000 f. for the damage done to the Italian steamer Il Principe Somasso, which was fired upon in Can dian waters by a Turkish man-of-war. It also de mands the dismissal of the captain of the Turkish vessel and a salute to the Italian colours from the Ottoman fleet. The official journals deny the rumour of a Greek invasion of Thessaly, and state that some bands of brigands only have appeared in that province. AMERICA. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (Evening). Gold, 133 f. Sterling exchange on London, lopi. Illinois, Il7i ; Erie, 67i ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1061. Cotton—Middling Upland, 34. FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 28. An official despatch has been received from Ad miral Roze, dated 22d October, announcing the capture of Ranghoa, an important town in the Corea, by the French forces on the 16th October. On the 19th of the same month the Admiral re ceived a letter from the King of Corea, in reply to which he stated the satisfaction demanded by the French Government. The Admiral was still at Kanghoa on the 22d October, awaiting the arrival of interpreters from Shanghai. BOURSE, Dec. 27, Two o'clock. The market opened at higher quotations, encouraged by a rise telegraphed in English Consols of no less than but prices are weaker now than at the commence ment. French Threes, after touching 69f. 85c., are at 69f. 70c., or a fraction lower than yesterday's close. Italian Fives have advanced 10c., at 56f. 65c. Credit Mobilier shares lose lf. 25c., at 508 f. 75c. Comptoir d'Escompte are quoted sf. lower, at 852 f. 50c., whilst Credit Foncier gain 2f. 50c., at 1,395 f. Railway Shares are firm, with a fractional advance in some cases. Three o'clock. The market has closed as follows : 41 per Cents 9B 20 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 69 65 Do. end month 69 75 Credit Mobilier Do. end month .._ Credit Foncier -- --- Do. end month 1392 50 Bank Shares — Italian Loan 56 70 Do. end month 56 75 Mexican Loan — Do. 80nd5...,,,,, Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferrod 'AYE,. For Account. Orleans Northern l2OO Lyons and Mediterranean 9OO Southern 582 50 Western — Eastern — Sardinian - Austrian Lombard 3BB 75 North of Spain 1321 Saragosfa Ditto to Barcelona Roman, BANK OF FRANCE. 76 25 PARIS, Dec. 27. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Dec. 20. Dec. 27. fr. c. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 G 2 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank 182,500,000 - 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 and its branches Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 - Notes in circulation - Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight 15,618,609 42 15,812,492 37 Treasury account cur rent creditor Current accounts, Paris 259,593,558 98 251,083,023 67 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 14,556,434 75 715,331 75 Discounts and sundry interests Rediscounted the last 449,601 76 13,134,104 93 1,574,256 34 2,372,304 91 six months Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries - 7,515,187 9G 11,279,035 95 Total 1,715,795,587 95 1,708,505,441 47 CREDITOR. Cash in hand and in Dec. 27. fr. Dec. 20. fr. Branch banks 714,524,692 56 710,380,185 73 Commercial bills over- due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 309,704,120 00 304,184,653 03 Do. branch banks 335,137,718 330,774,456 Advances on deposit of bullion 32,614,600 33,081,500 Do. branch banks 9,006,900 9,361,900 Do. on French Public Securities Do. by branch banks Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 25,873,000 Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes Immobalis6es (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 otel and furniture of the Bank and landed 234,536 01 171,029 18 14,029,100 - 7,689,800 - 14,055,500 - 7,862,800 - 37,438,300 - 727,000 - 606,550 - 25;53000 - 706,300 - 631,650 - property branches Expenses of manage ment sundries 8,306,692 - 60,000,000 -- 8,316,991 - - 2,860,870 62 11,002,691 33 14,097,314 86 Total 1,715,795,587 95 1,708,505,441 47 Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of Prance. (Signed) ROULAND. No one who is unacquainted with the Australian Alps can form any idea of their peculiar grandeur and beauty ; and, indeed, it is only within the last five years that, owing to the indefatigable energy of our gold miners, they have become known to the general Australian popu lation, having been previously only inhabited on their ex treme verge by scattered and secluded cattle stations. Thriving towns and mining communities are now planted in the mountains in places four and five thousand feet above the sea, enjoying an almost perfect climate the clear unclouded Australian weather. with the cool bracing atmosphere of Europe. So cold it is in win ter that the mountain torrents are locked in ice for weeks, snow-mon are made in the tuwns of Grant and Woods Point, and the English amusement of snowballing tho roughly enjoyed. At these times the long wooden aque ducts by which streams of water are conducted for mining purposes become wonderful edifices of ice, supported by huge columns, and hung with gigantic icicles. The hills are covered with snow, and tke secluded and shady glens look like some part of the arctic regions - the trees and bushes being pendant with ice-drops that rattle and sparkle in the wind.— Once a Week. THE OCCUPATION OF EMPRESSES AND QUEENS.- II omer has given us some notion of the employment of Princesses of his day, one of the most interesting epiSodes in his immortal epic being a descriptive account of the daughters of Ulysses engaged with their, needles. It is curious to observe how that domestic occupation survives, although its mode has greatly changed, and is still occa sionally indulged in by living empresses and queens, to relieve their minds from the cares of State and the weari ness of Courts. Thus, the Empress of the French, the Empress of Russia, and the Queens of Spain and Bavaria, we are told by Court newsmen, beguile their hours with the Grover and Baker sewing machines. The needle,. as used in the old-fashioned way, is fast departing from our domiciles, but we have a far better substitute in these invaluable and elegant machines ; indeed, as the Times says :—" To possess a sewing machine, and to know how to use it, is to possess a little mine of wealth."--Pall 11Ial1 Gazette. ' r36 ( / 411 • • tart 'l * 04 0 K fs , itlf Min HER MAJESTY, ch. OSBORNE, Dec. 27. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked iu the grounds yesterday afternoon ; a nd her Majesty went out this morning, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Princess Christian drove out this morning with Lady Caroline Barrington. Prince Christian went out shooting to-day in Parkhurst Forest, attended by Major-General F. H. Seymour. Colonel Jeffreys, C. 8., and Captain von Schro etter had the honour of accompanying his royal highness. " Griffith Gaunt," and its Detractors. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have to thank you for some kind words relative to a statement lately put forth, that my story, " Griffith Gaunt," is compounded from two independent and original tales in Household Words. Will you oblige me by stating, as the truth is, that I never saw either of those tales, nor read one line of them. By the extracts lam convinced they are simply short stories founded on the cause celebre " Pivardiere." The bare outline of that true narrative is made use of in the second and third volumes of " Griffith Gaunt," and hence, no doubt, has arisen a partial resemblance between three tales of very different calibre, based, however, upon one great fact. In the parallel that has been drawn, all the points of difference between " Griffith Gaunt" and his predecessors appear to be fraudulently sup pressed. Of course by this artifice, and by one criticaster wording in his own language the three English plots, a slight similarity may be made to appear a great one. Where two short tales and one three-volume novel are all based on an outline, that would go into a page, the short tales must, by the nature of things, be more indebted to the historical record than the voluminous fiction can be. Yet the editor of the " Round Table " picks one out of the three story-tellers as the one Plagiarist trivoluminous I think the circumstance, apparently irrelevant, that I am sueing this editor for :defamation, has something to do with this droll selection. He has a mind to show one there are such things as impe nitent liars as well as impenitent thieves. My Attorney shall give him a pinch for stale news. Let me add that to plagiarize is to borrow from a homogeneous, not from a heterogeneous, source. When an artist of fiction clothes with flesh and vitality the dry bones of a State Trial, this is not to plagiarize. Dramas and Tales that are, and will long remain, the delight and wonder of the world, have been so based on histories, biographies, chronicles, and other records, indeed the more we scrutinize the origin of lasting works, the more we shall incline to say with the naturalists, omne vivant ex ovo. —I am, sir, your faithful servant, CHARLES READE. The Mildness of the Season. We are accustomed throughout every winter to receive verbal or written assurances, and occasion ally ocular demonstration of the extreme mildness of the weather, although even at the time it m ay be necessary to walk at a brisk pace and be well muffled up to secure a comfortable degree of heat out of doors. In point of fact these illustrations of the so-called " mildness of the season" are in nine cases out of ten mere indications that at this or that par ticular spot there is an abnormal growth of fruit or flowers arising from the shelter which the confor mation of the ground or some other circumstance affords to vegetable life. This season, however, ap pears to be an exceptional one. Octogenarians assure us that never within their experience have they known the months of October, November, and December to be free from frost, and though the weather, as a rule, has been far from agreeable or clement, and although the average temperature has perhaps been low, in every direction there seems to be a profusion of blossoms, flowers, or fruit, which is quite ,out of keeping with the old notions of Christmas weather. Most striking among the many illustrations of this which have lately come before us is a package of ripe strawberries, black berries, and full-blown flowers which we received yesterday, and which were picked on the previous day, not on the sunny southern coast of Devon, but on the northern side of Dartmoor, and at a high level. Large red, wild strawberries have of late been frequently picked in the open air at Crediton, but at North Tawton, whence comes the " baske t of summer fruit" to which we have referred, it Is indeed astonishing to find such a profusion of vege table growth, six or seven species of which generally bloom at the earliest in May. We have also re ceived some fine and thoroughly ripe grapes, grown in the open air at Crediton, and picked on Monday last to grace the dessert of a gentleman of that town, and in the Crediton churchyard is a summer rose in full bloom ; a second crop of blackberries is to be observed in many adjacent hedges. Coming nearer home, we learn that a pear tree has lately blossomed in a garden attached to the Plymouth workhouse. If these be the results of such disagree able and apparently cold weather as has been ex perienced this year, who can wonder that the people of Mexico get three crops of blackberries a season ? —Western Morning News. The Right Hon. Earl Grosvenor, M.P., bits kindly consented to take the chair at the anniversary dinner of the Great Northern Hospital, Caledonian-road , N., to be held in .the spring. The committee intend trebling the number of beds, and are liable for £7,000 to complete the purchase and furnishing of the new hospital. Additional wards will be opened as soon as the funds War" rant the committee in doing so. ANOTHER PROTEST AGAINST TRADES' UNIONS.--" The protest of the Staveley colliers against the despotic regulations of tho Trades' Unions has been followed by 3 similar demonstration of feeling on the part of the non" unionists in the employ of the colliery company at Huck nall-Torkard, near Nottingham. At a meeting, which wag well attended by the colliers, including many who had seceded from the Union and have now returned t° their employment, Mr. Walker, one of the proprietors of the colliery, presided, and delivered a good practical speech on the differences which had existed between masters and men, pointing out the mischievous consequences resulting from the principles upon which the Union is conducted, and promising every necessary protection to those no' unionists who were willing to resume work, but who were deterred by the intimidation of the members of the Trades Unions. After other speeches to the same effect by Mr. J. E. Ellis, Mr. Buckby, and Mr. Ward, it was unanimously resolved—" That this meeting is firmly convinced that the Union agitation is opposed to the real interests o f the workmen, and, as an assembly of non-unionists, pledge s itself to support its employers, satisfied that, their interest s being identical, the only sound state of things is wher° ,, perfect confidence and good feeling exist between their' The meeting was also addressed in sensible speeches hi several of the older hands of the colliery in support of th e above views. A society for the relief of the workmen t° cases of sickness was established, and tho most satisfacto r y feeling prevailed throughout the proceedings, which We l.° very unanimous. A stained glass window has been erected in Kingsworthy Church, Hampshire, to the memory of the late Lord Northbrook. The following is the inscription This window is dedicated by the people of Kingsworthy to the memory of the Right Hon. Francis Thornhill, 11 ' 4 Lord Northbrook, of Stratton, in grateful acknowledgme nt of his generous benefactions in the parish, and in the 11 0 P e of perpetu a ti ng th e i n fl uence o f hi s p i ous and beneficen t, example. He was born April 20, 1796, and died Sept. 6 7 1866." LARGE CATCH OF HERRINGS AT PLYMOUTH•'" Within the last few days a very large quantity of herrings have been taken on the Plymouth fishing grounds. 1111° fish are in fine condition, and have, in addition to the re tail sale in the locality, mot with a rapid disposal f 6 ' . r transport to the neighbouring towns, and to the metropolls and midland districts. During the last three days 250 toile of the herrings have left Plymouth per railway. Along the west coast of Cornwall the catch of herrings has be o3 very limited ; so much so that large consignments of the fish have been forwarded from Plymouth to Penzance for curing. 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