The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-31 00:00:00

AB STR ACT OF THE ACCOUNTS bF Mr. CHARLES PETTITT ALLEN, Treasurer of the County of Middlesex, from Ist October to 31st December, 1864, inclusive, AS TO THE ORDINARIC GENERAL COUNTY BATE. -- - - RECEIPT. B tiance in the Barac of England on let Oot , 1864 £11,219 12 1 . BATES, Arrear on that day of the Rate made on 14th July, 1864 Rate made on 13th tietober, 1864 23,563 3 8 Arrears on 31st December, 1864 .. £!,474 0 0 Amount of Ra`.es received ................ £21,088 NOUSE OF CORRECTION AT COLDBATU FIELDS. For Materials worked up and La bour done by Prisoners Forßread, Officers' Uniforms, and Boots, and Prisoners' Boots and lte;,airs, made and clone tor, and Cocoa supplied to the House of Currectim a t Westm•nster • • 55 3 1 9 For Bread, officers' Uniforms, frisoners' Clot ie.; an d llam mocki made tor, and Cocoa su 293 12 7 p plied to the Hous e of Detention For Bread and Officers' 'Uniforms made for, and Viour and Cocoa su pplied to the County Indus trial School at Feithamlita F or Maintenance of 7Miry soners Ditto of Prisoners no t sentenced to bald labou r • • • 015 0 S um s taken flout Vag, ra nts to be appli?d towards their Main - tenance • • • • • • • - • For Maintenance of Excise Pri soners • • • . .. • • By Sale of Old Stores • • • • Lorapensation for Uniform re tained by officers on their leav ing the Service of the Prison .. For Boots and Shoes made for and supplied to the County Lu natic Asylum at 'Unwell For O ffice's' Uniforms and Cloth ing made for and supplied to the County Lunatic Asylum at Conley liat;h • • For Copies of Commitments .. 321 1 0 4 1 9 0 2 8 ii 20 1 0 2 2 0 14: 12 3 211 17 6 0 4 0 HOUSE OF CORRECTION AT WESTMINSTER. For Materials worked up and La bour done by Prisoners For Straw Hats and Bonnets made and supplied to the County Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell For Boys' Socks made and re- 83 17 LO 10 16 0 paire ; for the County and In dustrial School at Feltham .. 35 13 4 For stockings made and supplied to the House of Detention at Clerkenwell „ For Bones, Fat, and Rags so d.. The Produce of the outer Ground 6 0 0 11 13 0 12 10 0 ---- 165 12 2 HOUSE OP DETENTION. For Maintenance of Deserters .. 23 14 0 By Sale of Wash 0 18 0 24 12 0 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT FELTIIAH. By Sale of Farm Produce.. . • 39 0 0 To a ards the maintenance of juve nile Offenders in the School .. 91 12 0 -- 130 r! 0 WEIGHTS AND TRESS.MEAS Fees received by Inspectors . • lines and Penalties 126 6 2 11.9 11 4 SUNDRIES. Produce of Fale of Registers of '..:.ters and pa is of ditto • • DIU ,f I tate of Justices Expenses of inquiriag into the :Settlement , of Lunatics and removing thorn to the County L una tic Asylum. 6 5 8 31 17 8 f;3 12 0 2 0 0 Total Itcceikt Z31,9'J4 0 9 ExrErtorrt House of C rrection at Coldbath Fields _ General Expenses £9,532 8 3 Tontine Annuities 89- 2 IL tere4 of moneys borrowed.. 257 10 7 i'rincipal repaid .. 333 6 8 210,362 8 o House of Detention at Clerkenwell— General Expenses .. Interest 01 moneys borrowed 1,894 16 14) 20'..) 8 7 2,101 5 5 e of Correction at Westminster • General Expent s 3,117 14 6 Interesto!' moneys borrowed .. 7t7 6 9 Principal repaid .. 1,616 13 4 5,691 11 7 County Industrial Scholl for 133)11 General Expenses .• .. 3,561 15 4 Interest of moneys borrowed .. 573 10 10 1 riucipal repaid 666 13 4 raymeuts for Boys on their 57 15 0 d• charg e Conveyance of male juvenile offen ders to the Industrial School at Feltham • • • • • • 015 10 Reformatory School Ship Corn wall—Maintenance of Boys .. The Philanthropic Society's lie formatory School, ditto.. .• Reformatory School at Wands worth, ditto .• • • Ditto at Brook Green, ditto 33 17 10 12 5 0 4 5 4 32 15 4 Reformatory School, Tamps' cad— Maintenance of Girls .. .. Limpley Stoke Reformatory— Maintenance of Girls .. .. .£l,lBl 10 7 849 8 5 1 06; 13 4 42 1 8 4,E6) 14 6 10) 13 3 3 5 0 Militia Storebouses— Rents, Taxes, Insurance, Fuel, &c. 201 Fi 7 Interest of moneya borrowed .. 353 2 3 Principal repaid .. 0 0 Prosecutors and Witnessei— Central Criminal Court Middlesex Sek SiOni Criminal Justice Act .. Juvenile Offenders Act .. ▪ 6SB 14 2 .. .1,13! 17 6 41 17 2 • 112 9 Coroners' Expenses Salaries. paid. Middlesex— £ s. d. £ s. d. # s. d. West. l4•i 0 0.. 181 13 6..33113 6 Ce,tral 305 0 0.. 6.52 8 3.. 957 8 3 East 375 0 0., 767 13 3 ..!1 2 13 3 Westromsta HO 0 0.. .166 11 6 .. 276 11 6 Duchy of Lancaster. 11 1 9.. 28 12 6.. 30 14 3 Gross total Total. Bridges .. •• .. .. .. Sessions House, Clerkeewell Guildhall, Westminster .. Assistant Judge's additional Salary Clerk of the Peace .. .. .. .. Weights and Measures .. .. .. .. Treasurer of the Coati' y Law Business Expenses of preparing a new basis or standard fora County state Conveyance tolDepots of Offenders sentenced to penal servitude . General Printing and Stationery A dvertisements .- • • . • • • miscellaneous Charges .. .. .. .. Total Expenditure .. Balance in th?, Bank of England .. 2,748 0 9 48 0 0 201 14 6 05 3 8 75 0 0 1.0 011 151 8 6 192 15 5 614 1 7 253 17 2 57 11 7 72 15 3 78 II 5 276 15 6 .. £31,808 16 0 .. 3,095 6 0 £34,901 2 9 AS TO "THE LUNATIC ASYLUMS ACT, 1853," RATE. RECEIPT. Balance In the Bank of England on Ist Oct., 1864 .. •• •• •• .. £2,r,13 2 3 Arrear on that date of the rate made on 14th July, ;864 Rate made on 13th Oct., IE6I .. £357 8 6 .. 11,602 17 7 11,NO G Arrearon3ist Dec.,lPC4 1,431 8 11 Amount of Rates received .. I'ensions payable to and money received for maintenance of Lunatics at Hanwel, and Colney }latch Asylums at the charge of the County IS 2 Total Receipt .. L2O, u 1.7 17 7 EXPENDITUHE Lunatic Asylum at Hanwell— crdinary repairs •• Interest paid .• •• •• Prinei , „al repaid.. • • • Annuities to retired Officers .. 2,843 14 0 Lunatic Asylum at Colney Hatch 1F43 4 0 ordinary repairs • • •• , • Interest paid .. 2 25) 14 8 Principal repaid .. .. 3,3.6 13 4 Annuities to retired officers 47 10 0 7,468 2 0 2,597 2 5 Maintenance of county lunatics .. Total expenditure Balance in the Bank of England .. .. £13,308 18 5 6,6.8 19 2 £20,007 17 7 AS TO MONEYS BORROWED FOR THE ENLARGEMENT or THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM AT RANWELL. Du. Amonnt in the Bank of England in the joint n ames of Henry Pownall, Esq., Henry Morris K— emshead, Esq., and the County Treasurer, on Oct. 1, 1864 • • •• • . £1,137 5 6 Amount in the Bank of' England In the three names mentione 1 per contra on 3 .6t Dec., 1861 Z 1,137 5 6 AS TO MONEY BORROWED FOR ERECTING A FEVER INFIR MARY AT THE COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM AT COLNEY HATCH. DR. Balance in the Bank of England inn th More joint s names of Henr y rownall, gsq., rri Keiushead, Esq., and the County Treasurer, £1,655 0 0 en : st Oct., 18öt CR. Paid Mr. Samuel Walton the third, fourth, filth, and sixth instalmebts tohim under 850 0 0 his contt act for but ding a new Infirmary .. Paid Mr. Fr,derick Hyde Powell, architecr, his sum 41 10 0 Commission on that tu .”11.1a _ li cethe Bank of England in the th-ee "'"nes mentioned p r contra on Dee. 31, 1864 762 10 C £1,655 0 0 A 8 T° li" " R 110 13 , 1101VED FOR PROVIDING COUNTY 1N InsTRIAL SCHOOLS IN MIDDLESEX. Ba'atre I n the tank of En Da. gland in the joint R nanica of Il en ry Pownall,Esq., Henry Morris on let Oct., emehead, Esq., and the County Treasurer' £ISS 1S 6 ••. • • • Paid the Supe r i ntendent CR. J ot wages of workmen emplo the School, for c,ittages yed in cre,ting n e w paid Mr. George 113tver ihe balance due t, him under his Contract for ereeting.Ciasworka rnd Buildings Palau , c in the lank of Fugland on the three na lies mentioned per contra on3lat Lee.. Mt 165 5 £6 5 7 71 7 0 4:85 is 6 AS TO MONEYS TIMMOWED .I,OD.ENLAROING TIIE ROUSE OF TILEADWH COaRECTI ON EELS THERE. AT COLD-DATIL YIELDS, A.ND I•II.OVIDLNG RECEIPT. Balance in the Bank of England in the joint names of Henry Pownall, Esq , Henry Morris Kemshead, Esq., and the County Treasurer, on let 0ct.,1864 . £5,314 15 c) EXPENDITURE. Paid the Clerls of the Works 12 wteks' wages.. £l7 1 . 6 0 Paid Messrs. Haden and Son the fourth and final instalment dne to them under their Contract for providing Warming and Yen.- tilating Apparatus.. • • •• 241 5 0 Paid Messrs. Ol , nsfield and Son the seventh and ei:fhth instalments due to them under their Contract for erecting the new centre buifiling • • • • • • • • • • • • Paid Mr. Freourick Ilyde I.),vrnalt, Architect, his commission on the last-mentioned sum.. Paid ditto ditto on the above-mentioned et na paid to Messrs. Haden and Son.. Paid to Mr. Thomas Pillory, jun . the premium awarded him hy the Vitutliv Justices ter the 1,000 o 0 50 0 0 12 1 3 I'HE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1865. HIGH WATER AT LONDON:BRIDGE. Tins DAT.—Morning, 4h. 50m.—Afternoon, sh. 12m: To-Moßnow.-Morning, sh. 33m.—Afternoon, sh. 55m. tivation in those, countries, but from the energy and public spirit which the authorities have shown. There is a mortifying contrast between the manner in which the cultivation has been encouraged in those half civilised regions and in our Eastern dominions. It might have been supposed that a rich and powerful country like England, so deeply interested in the supply of cotton, and pos sessed of sufficient wealth, energy, and enterprise to make any experiment of the kind not only pos sible but easy, would have been only too eager to avail herself of the opportunity offered by the rich and varied climates and soils of her Indian territories. But whereas in Turkey and Egypt every - effort was made, not only to induce the people to enter into the cultiva tion, but to instruct them in the best means of doing so, and the most profitable means of laying out the money received for their cotton by the pur chase of the proper instruments for the improvement of the soil and the dressing of the cotton, our Indian authorities have acted with their usual supineness and dislike to any striking progression. The golden opportunity has been suffered in a great measure to slip past, and when the fall of price, consequent upon the cessation of the American war, comes, the Indian cultivator will probably be disgusted at the loss of his present high profits, and will abandon the attempt. If more active steps had been taken to en courage the cultivation during the years of the distress, by the time peace was restored to the States the first difficulties and preliminary expenses would be over, the quality of the cotton improved, the frauds of packing, &c., done away with, and the whole trade set on a firm footing, *hen moderate profits would be quite sufficient to repay . the ordinary outlay of cultivation, and to give the ryot a suitable reward for his labour. At the annual meeting of the Manchester Chamber of. Commerce yesterday, Mr. ASHWORTH, the President, made a very sensible speech, commenting on the present aspects of the cotton trade, and we are glad to see that the views of most of the gentlemen who addressed the meeting on the subject were enlarged and enlightened. The change which has come over the trade since 1860 is one of the most startling in commercial history. Its vast extent and flourishing prosperity prior to the transatlantic struggle, its sudden collapse and subsequent gradual rise into a state that gives hope of complete resusci tation even without the aid of its old source of supply, form - a most remarkable and interesting history. In 1860, observed Mr. AsHwoßm, which was the year of our largest con sumption, we consumed an amount of cotton valued at £34,000,000. Last year, for about half the quantity, we paid £80,000,000. It is something, however, to have even reached this level after the almost absolute stagnation of the trade: The fact of its growing indigenously in many dif ferent parts of the world proves what may be done by intelligence and enterprise ; and w 5 hope our commercial men will do all in their power to en courage such enterprise, besides endeavouring, if possible, to rouse an indifferent Government to vigorous and consistent action. The Roial Marriage Act. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUY. Sin,—Some few weeks ago your paper contained some remarks relative to the Royal Marriage Act, and you stated . that it was an error to suppose that the members of the Royal family are compelled to marry foreigners. The law is as follows, "by Act 12th Geo. 111., c. 11, no descendant of the body of King Georgo 11. (other than the isqie, of Princesses married into foreign families), is cipable y r of contracting matrimony without the previous resent of the King, signified and q't the great so.. , and any marriage nontraitted willAw&t. such consent vow_ Provided that such of the said descendants as ti above the age of 25 may, after a twelvemonth's notice wiven to the King's Privy Council, contract and solemnise in trridge without the consent of the Crown ; unless both Hat ses of Parliament shall, before the expiration of the sai year, expressly declare their disapprobation of such intended marriage ; and all persons solemnising, assisting, or being present at any"such prohibited marriage, shall incur the penalties of the statute of prmmunire." Now, as the com mon report is, whether true or false, that the Princess Mary of Cambridge is desirous to marry Lord Hood, there is one important clause in the said :Royal Marriage Act, which belongs solely and exclusively to the House of Cambridge, and which can only be known to membors of the legal profession. It is as follows :—" The exception of the issue of Princesses married into foreign families." Now the word issue (unlike that of child or children, which is wholly and exclusively confined to the first generation, and can never take in grandchild or any more remote genera tion) means any descendant in law, and would apply as, for instance, in the following case :—The present Queen" is the issue of King James 1., albeit, she is his great, great, great, great, great, great granddaughter. Now the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and herbrother, the Duke of Cambridge, as also their sister, the Duchess of Itecklenburgh-Strelitz, formerly Princess Augusta of Cambridge, are, it is true, descendants of the body of King George 11., but they arc also the issue of a Princess married into a foreign family, as the present Duchess of Cambridge was the granddaugh ter of the Landgravine of Hesse Cassel, and she was prior to her marriage Princess Mary of England, ono of the daughters of King George, and therefore the issue of a Princess married into a foreign family. Thinking this may not be much known at this dis tance of time, I have taken the liberty of troubling you with this letter on the subject ; and although in all proba bilityyal Marria ge A c t wou ld ca ll still it is a very nice point, this a t m h e e r u e p q h u o i l b d b e l r e s e o f f thee aßwo, whether the House of Cambridge and all their descendants are not free from the fetters of the aforesaid Royal Mar riage Act, and are able to contract matrimony without the consent of her Majesty, her heirs and successors, signified under the great seal. I don't here pretend to enter upon any discussion of the merits or demerits of the Royal Mar riage Act, but merely and simply to state the law as, Sir, your obedient servant, A. LAWYER. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Miss Bateman as Julia in The Hunchback. Our liveliest hopes in regard to Miss Bateman's success in her new impersonation have been far, far exceeded. Triumph could not have been more com plete or more legitimate than the really bril liant triumph won by her last evening, as Julia, in " The Hunchback." She looked—to begin with— charmingly. She dressed the part with exquisite taste—her costumes being as various as they were picturesque and some of them magnificent. But it was, of course, the emotional genius apparent in her acting of the character throughout, that achieved for her that complete and absolute com mand over her audience which may, now, at length, in our delightful remembrance of last evening, be said to have securely established her reputation as an actress of the highest powers. Her most enthu siastic admirers need no longer fear to be met with the taunt that Miss Bateman is eminent only in one character—that she has gained her extra ordinary popularity, here, by one solitary representa tion. To our own individual thinking, her Julia far surpasses her Leah. Yet, while saying this, let us acknowledge, at once, quite frankly, that, according to our view of it as a dramatic production, the play of " Leah " is just simply detestable. The charac ter of Leah, even, in our eyes, although played by Miss Bateman, and played, too, by her, as all the London world of playgoers knows by this time, with such impassioned intensity—the character of Leah, we say, is, in our eyes, very nearly as odious as the play itself. Only at the close of it—in our own estimation, at least--was the drama of " Leah "in any way really acceptable. Other wise, throughout the first four acts, we should have been disposed to pronounce it, in the words of Dogberry, " very tolerable and not to be endured." The fifth act alone was (according to our judgment), and this thanks , solely to the genius of Miss Bateman, the reclamation of both the drama and the character. We forgot, then, the malignant spite of the mendi cant Jewess, in the earlier scenes, in the pathetic tenderness of her dying prostration. With her Julia, however, it is altogether different. There, at least, we have nothing to for get or to forgive in that alternately charm ing, tender, radiant, agonised impersonation. Besides—the character itself is one so inexpressibly, more agreeable to contemplate. It is no longer a wandering mendicant, the creature of an alien race, whose fortunes we are called upon--to follow sympathetically—for the most part vainly, in our own instance, again let us acknowledge it ! Julia, on the contrary, that spoilt child of fortune, is from first to last what Leah never, even for one single instant, affects to be—a lady ! And a perfect lady, Miss Bateman is, as Julia, throughout. But then, not only the two characters, but the two dramas are so widely contrasted! Listening to the words of " The Hunchback" we are listening to a dramatic production which is, in its way, part and parcel of our national Literature not to the tawdry rubbish of an evanescent melodrama, one that partakes not in the least of the cha racter, one: that participates, not in the smallest degree, in the dignity, of any lite rature under the sun. Occasionally, even, we need not hesitate to assert, that tile text of " The Hunchback," as indeed, not unfreguntly happens in others of the dramas of Sheridan c Kno , 4es, rises to the elevation of true poetry. As a, revival of one of our legitimate modern dramas, Ihis reprosentation of Sheridan Knowles's truly admirable, drama of " The Hunchback,"—particularly as it is now put upon the stage of the Adelphi, ficatrt —is an incident to be hailed, as we for one do certainly hail it, with the very liveliest satisfaction. ' ' was a matter of regret to u., last evening i that ater prising manager was not himself pc3sent—hy the accidental circumstance, as we learlt, of his having been snowed up somewhere in Wad s--that he him self was not there prk• out in the use, go that he might with his owr eyes have wit n =d the brilliant success achieved by this revival of "The I unchback" tender his manage dent. See y, dresses, appoint ments—an were - and of such unmis takeable excelle audience could see at a gla)..( 0. for neinselves, at every - curni --- th ,, t7 1:.;,1 for dic.: -leas in-emu's - 1y been announced by ,td citisement, no ex pense had really been spared under Mr. Webster's ni tltagement , with a view to render this reproduction of ' The Hunchback " worthy of it as a dramatic masterpiece. But what is far more worthy of note, the parts in this new cast of " The Hunchback " proved to have been admirably distributed. There was not a single character in the piece that was not thoroughly well represented. Mr. Swinbourne's Master Walter —from whose dorsal defor mity the play takes its title, a character assumed, it may be remembered, by the dramatist himself upon the occasion of the play's first repre sentation in 1832 upon the boards 'of Covent Gar den—was not simply carefully studied and eminently judicious throughout, but was here and there dis tingUished by singular animation, and once or twice even by a pathetic tenderness that fairly carried his audience with him. Mr. Jordan we do not re member to have ever seen to so much advantage as in Sir Thomas Clifford. He not only looked the character (veryhandsomely!) but played it with real ability throughout. Mr. Toole's Fathom, quite as a matter of course (small though the part is in itself) was another of that inimitable low comedian's triumphs of comic impersonation. The scene be tween Fathom and Thomas, the London footman (grotesquely portrayed, this latter, by Mr. Romer) was one series of explosions of laughter from be ginning to end. Apart, however, from the great scenes of the play—meaning those in which Julia, Master Walter, and Sir Thomas Clifford, are the chief interlocutors—the most brilliant triumph of the night (apart, remember ! from those great scenes) was that riant, sparkling, thoroughly ex hilarating scene—scene the first in the fourth act,—in which Helen schools Master Modus in " The Art of Love," not according • to Ovid ! Mr. Billing ton (always a favourite with the Adelphi audience) was the ultra-modest lackadaisycal Master Modus—Miss Henrietta Simms being the charming, delightful Helen of the occasion ! Miss Simms's performance of Helen last evening, but more par ticularly in that scene, as also in the sequel to it, viz., the first scene in the fifth act, may be set down at once, as, beyond all question, the greatest hit that pretty young actress has yet achieved since the occasion of her first stepping before the London footlights. We not only congratulate her very cor dially upon this, but we feel that we ought, in simple justice to her to mention the fact that she was, during the evening, twice recalled ty acclamation—hand in hand, of course, with her companion, Master Modus. Even an insignificant character like that of Lord Tinsel was, in the cast of last night, so very happily touched off—with an air of such deliciously absurd nonchalance—by Mr. Ashley, that it seems here to claim, at least, one word of honourable mention. The heroine of the night and of the play, the observed of all observers, the one bright particular star of the occasion—among all that moving group of Her Majesty's Servants, as they were wont to be called in the old-fashioned language of the playbill— was, naturally and inevitably, by right of her genius, by right of her many rare qualifieations as an actress, not excepting even from among these her classic profile and her chiselled features—Miss Bate man, as the • Julia in this really admirable cast of "The Hunchback." Her triumph, in the represen ' tation of that character, i n all its grace and tenderness, in all its espie'glerie in the garden scene when she is toying with the feather, in all its pathetic anguish in the draw ing -room scene, now alone, now with Mas ter Walter, now with Sir Thomas Clifford, was—we would here emphatically repeat what we have already said—a triumph complete and legiti mate. It was a triumph so unmistakeable of its kind from first to last, that it at once securely consolidates her reputation. At the fall of the curtain she was recalled again and again—re ce.iving a thunder of applause from all parts of the house, as well as a plentiful shower of bouquets from the stage boxes on either hand. The theatre itself was filled from floor to ceiling, and the audience never flagged in the evi dence of its appreciation of a performance that (speaking for ourselves) was thoroughly enjoyable from the rise to the fall of the curtain—not a single momentary hitch of any kind marring the effect of the first night of this revival of " The Hunch back." It was an evening that was really a treat to old b10,9‘ playgoers. - .Ali • QJ fit ' al ti 4.47 -4= LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 31, 1865. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sole Manager and Director, Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING . By:" performance will commence with the new Opera, L ARA (first time in Eland). Principal characters by !essrs. Swift , G. Honey, ng Terrott, and Renwick his first ap, earance); M sees Lonsa Yyne, Cottrell, Burrington, and Romer (her first appear.n.e). Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Alter the Opera will be given the Burlesque, entitled THE I ioN AND THE UNICORN. Principal characters, Messrs. Rouse, Anderson, &c. ; Misses E. Button, Cottrell, Furtado. To conclude w.th the GRAND TRANSFORMATION SCENE. Doors open at Halt-past Six. Commence at Seven. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) CONTINUED SUCC N ESS OF CIN ER DELLA AND THE WONDERFUL DONATO. THIS EVENING, (Tuesday\ a new Opera, the music by F. Clay, the words by T. W. Robertson, entitled CON STAN CE. Principal characters by Mdile. Martorelle and h iss Thirlwall ; Messrs. H. Corri, A. Cook, C. Lyall. and Henry Haigh. Conductor, Mr. A. MELLON. Alter which, at a quarter-past 8, the Grand and highly successful Pantomime, CINDERELLA, in which Donato will reappear, Magnificent Scenery and gorgeous accessories. Commence at Seven. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY-LANE, Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, Shakespere's Play of HENRY THE EIGHTH, te. minating with the fall of Wolsey. Mcssrs. ['helps, Walter Lacey,' E: Marston, E. Phelps, Barrett, Sin clair ; miss Atkinson, Mrs. Vandenoff, tte. Alter which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, HOP O'MY THUMB AND HIS ELEVEN BROTHERS; or, Harlequin and the Ogre of the Seven-League Boots : Messrs. G. Bel more, Tom Matthews, G. Weston, Master Percy Roselle, etc. Misses Lydia Thompson. IL Lcclercq, SR ; Messrs. Boleno, U. Lauri, W. A. Rune., T. Morris, cormack, Saville ; Mdme. Bolen°, the Misses Gunnies, and Signor Tescano. T HEATRE -11 OYA L, HAYMAR KET. Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. • THIS EVENING, Jan. 31, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Chippendale; Sothern, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Coe, Wes thereby, ac. ; Mesdames Moore, Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &O. After which, LORD DUNDREA.RY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Braid, Gordon, Clark, White, Coe, Weathereby , &c. ; Mesdames Snowdoa, 13111, &c. With PRINCESS SPRINGTIME. Mr. Compton, Miss L. Keeley. Aua THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. To commence at 7. ROYAL YPINCESS'S THEATRE, Sole Lessee and /tanager, Mr. Geo. Vining. . rims EVENING, a new iatravaganzi, entitled THE MAGIC 1101ISE AND THE 1C MAIDEN I IZINCES. Atter which, THE STRELTS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Einnia klarnett, and Miss F.auuy Gwynne. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. 1 , echter. TIII3 EVENING. MY WIPE'S OUT. Messrs. 11. Widdicombe, F. Charles; Misses B. Percy and E. Lavenu. After which, at half-past 8, a New Drama, entitled THE ROADSIDE INN. Raert Ma sire, Mr. techter. Messrs. WidUicomb, C. Ilorsman, Fitzpatrick, Garden, Moreland, Raymond,llett; Mesdames Eisworthy and B. Percy. To conclude with BEARFACED IMPOSTORS. M- Widdleomb. Doors open at Halt-past Six. The Box-office open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.— Joie rropoinor and Manager, mr. 15. Wesr,tee. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGEF. Messrs. Stephenson, Eburne; Miss K. Kelley. At er which, at 8, THE HUNCHBACK. Miss Bateman, suppor:ed by 'Reser, George J.rdan. vioboarne, Bil.ington, staart, Ashley, Eburne, homer, J. : Foote ; and Hiss 11. Simms. To conclude with DARK DOINGS IN TILE CM'. BOARD BY THE KNOT mtortiEl:s. lleserL. J. L. Toole, l'aul Bedtord ; Mrd. A. Mellon. COMMeIIOO at 7. g . _ROYAL STRAND THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swalborough. TIII3 EVENING, at 7, LAWRENCE'S T.OVE SUIT, Mr. Parselle; Mesdames Palmer, Carson, and i.ughts After which, the Grand Christmas Burl.' ;u*', " GRIN" BEMIIES ; or, the Mrs. Brown of the Mistis- Messrs. Stoyle, Thorne, James, Fenton, &c.; 3lesdanie Swanborough, liaynham, Simpson, Johnstone, eze. To ainclude with MRS. GREEN'S SNUG - LITT BUSINESS. Mr. Belford. GRATIS AND POST FREE E. 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J O lll , l GOSN PILL and CO., 3, Icing-court, cttullY oar 3treet, London, Pertumors to her Majet4Y, re - eu gradually to the public this truly marvellous fluid. WhiCii atter at restcres the human hair to its pristine hue—no m tieS Of what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the proper nd rives ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, .„ grmeAafßCESti, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect coiour. Prise one guinea per bottle. or in half bottles, les. 61 Testimonials from arlistes of the highest order, and iron) individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Garnett and Co. have been appotnt%-lrertnraefe to he r Royal Highness the Priam 3 of Wales, There are few things more to be regretted in their way than strikes. No matter how or where they occur, they contain elements of a deplorable charac ter, and give rise to so many sufferings and losses that they rank among our great social grievances. Whether the harm be Considered that is done to the community through the waste of time in carrying on the trade and business of the country, or whether we look at the wretched homes or blighted hearths of the innocent victims of the obstinacy of one side or the tyranny of the other who pay the penalty and reap the fruits of the sowing of strife alike, we must consider that some stop should be put to the con stant recurrence of this calamity, and the spread of the angry and discontented feelings which give rise to it. Both sides are often unquestionably to blame ; the employers exact too much, the employed will yield too little, and hence all suffer loss, annoyance, and public reproach. The lookers on from afar cannot or will not, perhaps, comprehend all the technical details of the said grievances, and the ins and outs of the so-called difficulties, but unwarped by prejudice and uninfluenced by self-interest, their judgment may be clearer and their opinion of more value than those more initiated in detail t and more cognisant of circumstances. They see that the acquisition of wealth and the jealousy of property often make the masters unmindful of their duties; they appreciate their claims, without acknowledging their responsibilities, and in their over haste to get rich, they are apt to look upon their men too much as machines who are necessary for the carrying on of the needful tasks, rather than as human beings who share the like feelings- as themselves, and have not had the same advantages to enlarge their views, or the same inducements to restrain their indignation and modify their temper. The men are also often found to be prejudiced against their employers, as a class, without much right and reason ; and wherever or whenever did a large body of the working classes stop to analyse their sentiments or take note of the cause of this or that effect ? Sufficient unto them is the idea that they are wronged ; and let that notion once obtain among them, then it will spread like wildfire until no consideration of prudence and propriety will stay its course or check its ravages. Philosophers and philanthropists have wearied themselves in preaching moderation to one side and fair play to the other, and a mutual endeavour to adjust difficulties to both. It has seemed hitherto unavailing for any foreign influence or third party to do any good or effect any material benefit in the complex character of the affair ; therefore, it is the more satisfactory to notice that, in one particular, the differences that have existed are likely to be put an end to. At a meeting of the masters and opera tives at Coventry some conciliatory measures were undertaken, and we may gladly hail the welcome intelligence that a period is likely to be put to the vexatious differences and ruinous altercations that have prevailed for some time past. The masters appear to have acted with unusual wisdom, and to have made more efforts in framing overtures for peace than are un h*` Anly often witnessed in similar cases. There is no pubt that they will reap the fruits of their praise worthy , -Lideavour, but meanwhile the thanks 'of hthe coniniunit3r are their due, ftnil the ree , scrn 4 ;o-A fof all qualified to judge will be their meed of ap ,,proval and their token of goodwill. There is more difficult than to be the first in settling Tif Eyts •rs of this sort ; however false or faulty a kind sippJ.c 8 Ada ,41 pr'de prevails, to the exclusion often of the higher motives, and the extinction of the really genuine sentiments of some of the parties at Coventry. It is fortunate for the interests of many that these deleterious influences did not triumph, but that a happier and kindlier feeling prevailed, which has re sulted in a meeting of delegates from both sides to consider the state of things, and determine upon the course most feasible to pursue in the dilemma in which all are placed. Mr. MAULT, the Secretary to the Manufacturers' Association, very truly ob served that that clay inaugurated a new system, and might appropriately be regarded as " one of the most important meetings in the building-trade," as hitherto there had been . no settled principles, and matters of dispute were constantly arising. There are good grounds for supposing that, if the wise and comprehensive resolutions agreed upon are adhered to, a better day may dawn upon the trade and all concerned in it ; vexatious doubts and over whelming differences may be superseded by mutual understanding and comparative con fidence in each other, and in the principles that ought to guide and govern them. Much skill and caution have been used in the drawing up of the plans proposed as the means of extrication from the complex situation now so greatly to be deplored and deprecated. Delegates from both sides are to frame the new rules, subject to the supervision of an arbitrator from each side, and these arbitrators again are to appoint an umpire. The casting vote of this latter is to be considered as final, and both masters and men have promised to abide by and be satisfied with such decisions as the collective wisdom and judgment of those engaged in the settlement shall deem requisite. If matters are thus arranged and adhered to, it may surely be trusted that a better fate and brighter future is in store for the distracted and - bewildered operatives and their dissatisfied employers. The masters have done quite right in giving up the " discharge-note ;" and whatever errors they have previously committed, they have done their best to remedy by the frank spirit in which they have made their advances and proposed the remedy.. The flag of truce now waved be tween the contending parties is a welcome sight, and will be hailed with satisfaction by all who have the foresight to see the evils attendant on such alter cations ; and if the promise now held out is at all realised, the prospect for the future must certainly be better, more honourable to all engaged in the un dertaking, and the connection that unites masters and men may be looked back upon without shame on one side and remorse on the other, if they humbly and heartily strive to do their best, sensible that their countrymen look to them for preserving the unanimity so necessary to the welfare of the com munity, and knowing that, for all their opportuni ties, the strength to work, and the power to employ workers, they will one day be called upon to render an account. It has often been said that there is no evil with out some corresponding good, and this has been forcibly exemplified in the recent and still continu ing cotton distress. Though originally springing from the desolating war in America, and creating much prolonged suffering in our manufacturing districts, it has yet been the means of conferring great, and, we may hope, lasting benefits on other countries. Its effects in Turkey and Egypt have been most remarkable, not only from the success Which has attended the cotton cut. Drury-lane Theatre, After a few weeks' holiday, Mr. Phelps returned to this house last night, and appeared in the cha racter of Cardinal Wolsey, in Shakspere's play of " Henry the Eighth." This revival is not distin guished by any of that spectacular show which marked Mr. Charles Dean's performance of the same play at the Princess's, .and it is merely pro duced, we presume, :to give Mr. Phelps an oppor tunity of representing a character which he made popular at Sadler's Wells Theatre during his long lesseeship. Nearly all his great histrionic successes have been in old men. His Justice Shallow is without a rival, and though Wolsey wants that ele ment of dry humour which is found in Richelieu, and which brings out Mr. Phelps' genius as an actor, he makes a very striking portrait of the Cardinal. His careful elocution in the third act which ends the Drury-lane version—and Mr.W. Lacy's forcible re presentation of Henry the Eighth, give a value to a play which is certainly not one of Shakspere's greatest productions. The quaint minuet which is danced at the Cardinal's banquet appeared to amuse the audience even more than the fopperies of Lord Sand, which were amusingly rendered by Mr. Fitz-James. The Duke of Buckingham was excel lently played by Mr. Henry Marston, and Queen Catherine by Miss Atkinson. LETTER OF THE CONVICT MULLER'S FATHER. — The Coburger Zeitung of Jan. 28 says :—" Although we think it were better to let the dead rest in peace, we at+ nevertheless induced to publish the following letter from the father of Franz Muller to a German lady in London : Noble Lady,—We have received your kind letter, and are astonished that you, noble lady, should trouble yourself in order to bring to light the innocence of the guiltless martyr. But this you will find very difficult. The false judges will venture everything to suppress the truth, for they must feel ashamed of having condemned to death an innocent man. May God forgive their great sin ! Although many persons say that my son asked my forgiveness, he did so indeed, not on account of the murder, but because he went to that place without my consent, and for that reason he asked our pardon. But I will stake life and death upon the fact of his innocence. Herewith I send you his letter. God Almighty will reward you for what you have done for us. —I remain, with the greatest respect, your most devoted Rl d uiiuctt gVL.LER,' "—Reuttr's Erpros. --- Imost approved &signior a newset of Tread wLe3ls .. • • • .• • • .. 23 0 t Balance in the 'Bank of Enland. in the three names mentioned per contra, on 31st Des , 1864 3,95 8 12 9i £5,324 15 0 AS TO MONEY BORROWED FOR ALTERING THE B AND C. SECTIONS OF THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION AT 'WEST MINSTER. RECEIPT. Balance in the Bank of England in the joint names of Henry Pownall, Esq Henry Morris emslacad, Esq., ana the County Treasurer, on Ist Oct., 1864 • • • • • • . 43,370 0 0 EXPENDITURE. • Paid the Clerk of the Works 13 weeks' wages to this day .. • • •• • • • • •• Paid Messrs. Tracey and Cc., BL.ilders, on ac count of their Contract .. .„ • • •• Paid to Messrs. Machu and Son on account of their Contract for providing Warming and £32 10 0 960 b o 50) 0 0 Ventilating, Appanitus .. • • • • Balance in the Bank of Eng* and in the three names mentioned per contra, 3:st Dee., 1864.• 1,887 10 0 £3,370 0 0 The acecunt3, of which the above is an abstract, were p e scnted to the Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Middlesex cn 2d Jan„ 1563, on the oath of mr. Charles I'ettitt Aden, the Tie,t,urer of the said county, and wire audited on the same day by the following, justices of the peace for the said county, viz : liernshead (Chai man), Francis Brock man Morley; Jvhn vv illiam , Jeakts, 1 homas Jervis, William Peter Bodkin, - Francis Healey, and William Griffiths, Esquires, on r l were audited and allowed by the same Quarter Sessions on th January, 1E6 7 . C HLES P. ALLEN, Treasurer of Middlesex. T HE PALL-MALL GAZETTE, An Evening Newspaper and Review, Will appear on TUESDAY, February 7. Price T wopence. 467 12 11 9 9 0 2,13 7 10 63 3 6 112 18 3 1,1E4 8 10 2,167 1 7 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) AMERICA. GREENCASTLE, JAN. 31. The overdue Canadian steamer North American, from Portland on the 14th inst., arrived here at .eight o'clock this morning. She called at St. John's for troops, but brings no later news via that place. She was detained off there 26 hours by fog. ITALY. TURLN, JAN. 31. Yesterday evening, on the occasion of a Court ball, a popular demonstration took place before the Royal Palace. The crowds were dispersed with the aid of the National Guard, and several arrests were made. FRANCE, BOURSE, Jan. 30.—The market has been heavy to-day For the Account, Threes opened at 67f. 15c„ and gradually declined to 57f. 5c., at which they now stand. Mobiiier are also lower. Railway Shares have been firm, w quotations. The market 41- per Cents 95 70 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 Do. end month 67 05 Credit Mobilier 965 Do. end month 967 50 Bank Shares 3560 Credit Foncier 1275 Roman 73 ith scarcely any change in closed as follows: Italian Loan 64 95 Do. end month 65 10 Ditto Threes 65 75 New Mexican Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes 43 ... Rome Debt Deferred RAILWAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern lOO7 50 ... 1007 50 Lyons and Mediterranean:, 940 ... 940 Southern 5Bl 25 ... 580 Western 537 50 ... 540 Eastern Sardinian 307 50 ... 306 25 Austrian Lombard 543 75 ... 543 75 North of Spain 345 347 50 Saragossa 4OB 75 ... 407 50 Ditto to Barcelona 177 50 Gallant Lifeboat Services• PENZANCE, Monday Night. A rather exciting scene occurred here yesterday It blew very heavily from the S.E. The brig Willie Ridley, of Plymouth, bound from. Plymouth to Newport, in ballast, at anchor in Guaras Lake, drove from her anchorage during the night to within half-a-mile of the shore opposite the Western Es planade, and in a most dangerous position. The Penzance lifeboat of the National Institution was thereupon at once manned by Captain Fellowes, R.N., the Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard, and a voltinteer crew, and launched. She was buried by the tremendous surf, and it was thought she would have been lost on the rocks, several of her oars being broken. Subsequent attempts, how ever, were more successful, and after great exertions the brig was reached in safety, and the crew of eight men taken into the lifeboat and brought on shore through the breakers. The poor men were very glad to take advantage of the boat. Captain Fellowes, and the lifeboat crew, behaved most nobly, and they were loudly cheered by the thousands of spectators on shore. The ves sel ultimately held to her anchors, and is now safe. An important service was also performed by the Southend lifeboat, belonging to the National Insti tution, a few days since. Observing the brig Elizabeth, of Lowestoft, in distress, the lifeboat immediately put off to her help. After great exer- tions the lifeboat's crew succeeded in bringing the vessel and her crew of seven men into a place of safety at Harwich. The crew of the boat exerted themselves to the utmost extent, and, indeed, had they not done so, the vessel must inevitably have gone down with her crew. The Bank Returns. The Banker's Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the private and joint-stock banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending the 7th of January. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish banks for the same period, and the average cir culation of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 4th of January (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom when compared with the previous month : Dec. 10, , Jan. 7, 1861. I 1863. Increase. Decrease. Bank of England 19,8( 6,1Z.8 19,571,118 £235,021, Private Banks 3,058,541 2,939,367 09,174 Joint-stock Banks 2,751,113 2,737,440 16,7,.3 Total in England 25,61 z 2 , 1322 25,267,925 £350,897 Scotland 4,626,7931 4,325,591 301,2 5 Ireland 5,872,705 5,661,026 - 211,67 United Kingdom.. 16,11-,323 /______ 1 35,254,512 £863,781 United Kingdom And as compared with the month ending the 9th of January, 1864, the above returns show a decrease of £702,149 in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of £731,103 in the circulation of the United Kingdom. On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks the following is the state of the circulation:— The English private banks are below their fixed issue £1,253,419 The English joint-stock banks are below their fixed issue 488,917 Total below fixed issue in England £1,742,336 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue... 1,576,320 The Irish banks are below their fixed issue ... 693,468 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng: land in both departments during the month ending the 4th of January was £14,116,259, being an increase of £162,742 as compared with the previous month, and an increase of £3,284 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month : Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks ... £2,378,119 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks ... 2,216,413 £4,594,532 Being a decrease of £99,451 as compared with the pre vious return, and an ncrease of £236,655 when compared with the corresponding period last year. --- RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT ARDWICK.—On Satur day afternoon a collision occurred on the railway near the Ardwick station. The train arriving in Manchester at 4 30 p.m. from Sheffield, ran through a goods train that was crossing the line, near Ardwick, overturning and breaking ome of the trucks, and strewing the goods on the line. The engine and tender of the passenger train wore also se riously injured. The passengers were shaken, but none of them sustained serious harm. MANSLAUGHTER NEAR SCARBOROUGH. -011 Satur day, a man, named Thomas Lidster, was brought before the Malton Magistrates on a charge of having etrused the death of John Pickering, at Staxton, near Scarborough, on Thursday night. No evidence was offered, and pending the Coroner's inquiry the prisoner was remanded for a week. Soon afterwards Mr. J. M. Jennings, the East Riding co roner, opened an inquest on th e bod y of Pickerin g at Sex ton. It was shown after leaving work on Friday the prisoner and the deceased went to the Ganton public-house, and there quarreled and fought. After a round or two the de ceased's wife fetched the deceased home, whence they were accompanied by the landlord's son. Lidster, how ever, had followed unobserved, and called the deceased out of his house, saying that he (deceased) had chal lenged him to fight and he would fight. Deceased replied he did not wish to fight, and thereupon Lidster put one foot behind deceased's heel and then pushed him over on his back. The deceased fell heavily with his head on the ground, fracturing his skull. Death resulted shortly afterwards. The jury unanimously returned II: verdict of manslaughter, and the coroner made out his warrant for the prisoner's committal for trial at the sessions. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT OLDHAM. —On Saturday morning a machine joiner, named Joseph Whitehead, living in Albert-street, Oldham, at tempted to murder his wife, and afterwards succeeded in committing suicide. The man was some time ago employed by Messrs. Platt and by Mr. Leos, machinists ; but he has for some time been out of work, and has latterly been in a low desponding state of mind. His wife was confined of her second child on Saturday week, and from the time of her confinement up to Friday night the husband slept at his mother's house. His wife was in bed on Saturday forenoon, and during the temporary absence of the nurse the husband made a deliberate attempt to murder the poor woman. He inflicted a cut under her eye with a table knife, and another in the centre of the upper lip, but she struggled so effectually as to prevent him carrying his de sign into effect. Her screams brought the nurse upstairs, and, on observing her enter the bedroom, Whitehead drew the knife across his throat, inflicting a fearful wound. He fell backwards upon the floor, and died before medical as sistance could be procured. Though the attack was made on the woman very suddenly, she was enabled to catch hold of the knife, and her hand was severely cut by the force with which the husband drew it out of her grasp. The deceased is said to be about 05 years of age. - I.4" KAY 'ant P lt_4o ortribr, erDlll.4 ),41, HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 30. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales and Princess Beatrice attended Pivule Service at Whippingham Church yesterday maw ing. Her Majesty the Queen, with their Royal gigh; nesses Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended the afternoon service. The Rev. G. Prothero officiated. His Serene Highness Prince Leiningen arrive d at Osborne yesterday. The Prince of Wales went out shooting to - d 92:: accompanied by Prince Leiningen, and attended by Captain Grey. - The Prince and Princess of Wales and Lifeboat. The following gratifying communication has been received by the Royal National Lifeboat Institati°ll from General Knollys, relative to an important s e er vice performed a few days ago by the Albert 'Oc lifeboat, stationed at Berwick-on-Tweed „ " Marlborough House, Jan. 30, 18"'',e Sir, —Having had the honour of communicati n g to the ,„ n t. Prince of Wales the contents of your letter of the 26t. :. 5 with the information of the Albert Victor lifeboat haw been recently instrumental in rescuing six fishermen f,, drowning, I am desired by his Royal Highness to con th e to the Committee of the National Lifeboat Institution, ed extreme satisfaction the Prince and Princess have rocsilto from such a happy occurrence, being associated with t' to name which they authorised at the request of t he Pe°P of Manchester. " I am further desired by their Royal Highnesses to thank you for the communication, and have the 11013°11 .to be, &c., 44 W . T. K N oLloc s * " To Richard Lewis, Esq." Health of of Cardinal Wiseman. The opinion pronounced by Mr. T eg art th i o s f (Tuesday) morning as to the state of the healt il his Eminence is, that the Cardinal has no t 11 , , quite quite so good a night, but that, at the same ~,1 he is not worse this morning. The bulletin issued last evening ran as follows'o " The Cardinal has passed a good night . other respects, he continues much the same. " W. MUNK, M.P. " CHARLES HAW 5° , 5 " EDWARD TEGAIII: By an error of the press the second nam e scribed to the bulletin, as published yester in The Sun, was erroneously given impression of last evening as `` Hawkins," whereas it should have been " Hawkins." We give this erratum in simple jth s alike to each of those eminent practitioners.--9). Earl Granville (Lord President of the Cow' ,t will give the usual dinner to the members of the D bil e t, and the great officers of State, at his house in BrutcS il on Thursday next, to settle the roll of sheriffs. The Earl and Countess Delawarr left tovin terday for Buckhurst Park, Sussex. th ° The Earl of Lonsdale, since his return fo' l " Isle of Wight, has been suffering from a cold. Tile rid. Earl was better yesterday, and no danger is c onte - :0 The Earl De Grey left town yesterday t° the shooting partly at Grantley Park, in Surrey'. 0 0 The Marquis of Ailesbury is expected in t°l',l-011' Monday, from his seat in Wiltshire, to dine at Lord vale's Parliamentary dinner that evening. The funeral of the Dowager Countess of vale took place yesterday at the cemetery, ICenol-: fol' It was of the most private character, the hearse beilj'oos lowed by only two mourning coaches. The chief na°'*l)-.11, were the Earl of Tankerville and the Earl of lAttliilesi The christening of the infant daughter 01 pi Watkin and Lady Williams Wynn took place on AP iqs so at St. James Church, Piccadilly, in the presence ° f %Pon; party of the relations of the Wynnstay family. r -r l/ %;iite ll sors were her Majesty the Queen of . Denmark, rel' re : A tb ° by Mrs. Studholm Brownrigg ; her Royal if ig llll ,, e- ci° Princess of Wales, represented by the Hon. Mrs' ljek Stonor, one of her Royal Highness's Ladies of t he , 0. 4 chamber, and Sir Hugh Williams, Bart. The cerenloll/ performed by the lion. and Rev. Henryholtuondefet The infant received the names of * Louise y AleNan drft ' 1 her two godmothers. MR. 11. A. BURCE, M.P., AND lIIS JONSTITII4: th°7,, —The electors of Merthyr were addresse d representative, Mr. 11. Bruce, Vice-President of the 00 of Education, on Thursday evening. He defended tiler t io which had been pursued by the Government resPeetilaDle war between Germany and Denmark, and the lainev-iiied struggle in America. The present Parliamen t had e.o{,fp a deep and sincere interest in the welfare of the c ° „ a rti and in saying this he spoke more particularly a ill e .e r o e to which he belonged. It might have been r etrog l t oa on questions connected with religious reforms, bettni other subjects. Mr. Gladstone's Government itnatv;ie:tiell was a most important measure, as was also the altciil"° of the Factory Act system to the trades which had n et been included. Six weeks ago he was represented todiafli sa id that education had fallen off, but he had ParicsirO, guarded himself against making any such statement' je he did say was, that the progress of education alSyri necessarily not so rapid as a few years ago. education l e t I°4 had objected very much to the conscience clause. to to been stated that the Privy Council had refused grailtyi, the Church schools of the National Society u ules a 0 took the conscience clause, but he had given sec) o rc ol grants under such circumstances, where it would be ., -11 11 ° ' there were a sufficient number of members of the Cilw. f e 01° England in the parish to justify such a grant, e l. i f 11 0 parish consisted entirely, as some did, of membe rs ° e l 3 o/ 1 ' Church of England. But where there was only ell e t. s , - 0 1,4 ' and a divided population, they always asked Wl l3l ' (Pl ° sions had been made for the children of Dissenter s * Council acted with impa rtialit y , and was practicallY "046 religion, but gave ass istance to Churchmen, DO ° Jews, and Roman Cat holics. „O f ROBBERY AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—On SOP el l a t noon; William W ilson, the p rinci p al uphols°,,l.ol: an d George Hammond, the head porter at the Lord ejj ;t 9 berlain's stores, Windsor Castle, were brought up 1 1,V wand before Captain Johnson and Mr. T. J. li erel o i sl' s itting county magistrates, at the council chamb er - o ica" Town-hall, Windsor, on the charge of stealing ';yie°l articles, the property of the Queen. Mr. Geo. Cla rl " e ' c ol i o tive sergeant of the metropolitan police, said that ia c o v quenco of information which he had received 1101Viiil Messrs. Oxenham, 353, Oxford-street, auctioneers, a-iiice`: ceiVed there from a Mr. Fraser the things noW in a canvas wrapper—viz., crimson silk bed fa rnl f pair of embroidered silk curtains, and three pieces.: o'''t4 lance for windows. On Saturday, the 21st ina.,; ; ; - ,o%'` e be Windsor again with the things. The prisoner Iv sent for, and said, "Itis no use denying th at t 6 1 ; tte ii things, but I should not have done it if I had not got stigated by Hammond, the head porter. We /I „ ° Tila y. ,.o out of the store-room through a window. lianira °- 1 ( ,, , Y it and sewed on the card, but I directed it as nIY ( 10 g y handy. Hammond carried it out of the. Castielp Nl station." Hammond was sent for and cone' i Jll9, mitted that he took a parcel to the station, but 53- ,0 0 , not know anything was wrong or what the parcel C° ;,9 t " e l I and that Wilson told him to take it. The witl3;cotj' told Wilson he must take him into custody, an d V I ! a 1c to search him, but as he was doing so Wilson t e :tlie; e : 4 out of his pocket, and attempted to throw it la w " 0 4 It was sealed and addressed to a Mr. Butcher. 1:11 , ° told him he must open it to see what it containe"iiiego as follows :—" Windsor, Jan. 21, 1865.-Ir . Yos t 'e,;#o‘ shall feel obliged if Mr. Phillips will forward a la v d order for 'the amount due for sale of f c) .l lr mats. I called on Thursday and received . 4 , A ; " o f: request you to forward the balance.—W. O A : i ( 7 ,r ) ii of dress, Mr. Hilton, George IV., Church-streets: tieoftho(l John Fraser, a clerk to Messrs. Oxenham, allevPfJoitss' 353, Oxford-street, London, said that on the I.Bthe , fd, he received a letter to the following effect j"), 'at pl a ce, Windsor, 17th January. Gentlemen, Oi warded to you this evening a package, containiagrOwill of curtains embroidered, two side tails and ahrzi ' •cat one sot tent-bed curtains, crimson silk, wiL leA ,;olll, ' O ll please dispose of at your earliest sales. Gentleg;ro. o 01' 1/ main yours respectfully, William Wilson. g e tte riirt v 0 3 ham." The letter came by post, and so on if'' carrier's parcel was delived at their auction-r ° o oo r is; Thursday he informed Mr. Oxenham, and ilife r° ,l ol79 o 4 l6 given to Mr. Clarke. Mr. Henry Seymour, oter", the Lord Chamberlain's Department, illas°or)V identified the articles as the property of her gail t he v t Strattun, goods porter at the Windsor station ° Et a " t iol ; Western Railway, said Hamniond was veil c ' t be slo io station with parcels. The last time h e came to_ pa was on the 18th, when he saw a bundle wralireilVii, canvass wrapper in the goods room. Mr. Will'a h ili v ili er ; inspector of Windsor Castle, in the Lord an cle AZ partial," 10 o r- o p. Department, said that Hammond was orders. It was not his duty to carry a large P re : Sel:ri tUa by Wilson, except under pecular circurasiallee'*decl t'frii Clarke asked that Hammond might be rel: e isn all ,,ted ° e 'cor i . next examination, and ho was accordinglY t r ial a 9 ,4 same bail (£3O). Wilson was again c harge T o rti OP , offence—namely, stealing four quilts, t he p Majesty, from the stores at Windsor Castle. also a remand was granted. E MOSES AND SON'S RATS AND CAPS, for all c asses and all ages. E. MOSES AND SON'S BOOTS and SHOES, for all classes and all ages. ......, It p., t