The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-27 00:00:00

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EDWAED THORNTON, rEFIONIA.S BODLEY, Secretary. No. 40A, Fall-mall, Jan. 24, Ih6B, HE PALL-MALL GAZETTE An Evcning Newspaper and Review. Office, 14, Salisbury-street, Strand, W.C. LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the past year 1864 the boats of the National Lifeboat Institution. have saved . 4l2 persons from different wrecks on o urt coas t s, coasts, The Institution also expended £19,531 14s. sd. In the same periud on lifeboat establishments, in addition to granting £1,569 as rewards for saving 69 . 3 shipwrecked per ions by its lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A PPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 110 lifeboat establishments. Contributions are received by Messrs. Willis and Co , l l er ries and Co., Coutts and Co., and by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq. at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sole Manager and birector, Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENINU, FAUST. Mesdames Anna Hiles, _Barrington, Cotterell ; Messrs. Swift, Forbes, H. Corri, and MaroLesi. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Followed by the Grand Christmas rall , ollllMe, THE LION AND THE UNICORN. bIORNING FE EIFOR3IANCE on SATURDAY, at Two. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA; COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) CONTINUED SUCCESS OF CINDERELLA AND THE WONDERFUL DONATO. THIS EVENING, (Friday), a new Opera. the music by F. Clay the words by T. W. Robertson, entitled CODs STAN CE. Mdlle. Martorelle, Miss 'Thirlwall, Messrs. H. Corr', A. Cook, C. Lyall, and henry Haigh. Conduator, Mr. A. MELLON. Alter which, at a quarter-past 8, the Grand and highly successful Pantomime, CINDERELLA; with magnificent Scenery and gorgeous accessories. In the Harlequinad Senor Donato will perform his celebrated and astonishing Dan se avec gaateau. Commen:e at Seven. THEATR E-R OY AL, DRURY-LANE, Managers, 3tlessre. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, and during the week, A YOUNG LAD FROM THE COUNTRY. Alter which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, HOP O'MY THUMB AND HIS ELEVEN BROT ERS ; or, Harlequin and the Ogre of the Seven-League Boots : Messrs. G. tsel more, Torn statthews, G. Weston, Master Percy Roselle, Misses Lydia Thompson. R. Lecler cq, &c. ; Messrs. Bolen°, C. Lauri, W. A. 13arnes, T. Morris, Cormack, Saville ; Buleno, the Misses Gunnies, and Signor Tescano. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Jan. 27, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Chippendale, Sothern, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Coe, Wea thersby, &c. ; Mesdames Moore, Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &c. After which, LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE FOR. Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Braid, Gordon, Clark, White, Coe, Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames Snowdon, 11111, &c. With PRINCESS SPRINGTIME. Mr. Compton, Miss L. Keeley. And A KISS IN THE DARK. To commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. Messrs. Emery, C HorFman, Collett, Garden, Moreland, Clifford : Mesdames Hamilton, Henrade, C. Hor_man. After which, at halt-past 8, a New Drama, entitled THE 40ADS1DE INN. It,bert Ma sire, Mr. Pechter. Messrs. Widdieomb, C. llorsman, Fitzpatrick, Garden, Moreland, Raymond, Uollett; Mesdames Eisworthy and B. Percy. To conclude with BEA.RFACED IMPOSTORS. Mr. Wiudieomb. Doors open at Hall-past Six. The Box-office open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- &ale trupriht.ir anu Manager, mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAI3. Mr. J. L. Toole. At er which, at 8, LEAH. Mies Bateman, supported by Messrs. George J,rdan, Swinbourne, It. Phillips, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Bthing,ton. To conclude with DARK DOINGS IN THE CU,'- BOARD BY THE KNOTTINU'E ‘l. BRO t lIERS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedtord, It. Yhill ps, Billington; Mrs. A. Mellon. Miss A. Seaman. Commence at 7. III`YAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, mr. Geo. Vining. lIIIS EVENING, a new Extravaganza, entitled THE MAGIC HORSE AND THE ICE MAIDEN .1 RINCESS. Atter which, THE bTitEETs Ole LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Walston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. 'I'HI4 EVENING, at 7, LAWRENCE'S LOVE SUIT. Mr. Parselle; Mesdames Palmer, Carson, and Hughes. Al ter which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, THE " GRIN" BUSH ES ; or, the Mrs. Brown of the Missis-sippi. Messrs. Stoyle, Thorne, James, Fenton, acs; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, itaynham, Simpson, Johnstone, dm To conclude with m RS. GREEN'S SNUG LITTLE BUSINESs. Mr. Belford. COALS. The LILLTESTIALL COMPANY'S COAL Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'.......26s. per ton. I D ou bl e 218. per ton. T o p 255. „ Deep ....225. „ We 11 screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne t'ark-road, W., and 11, South Wharf, Yaddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke Ws. per ohaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Lgent. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendisu- itreet, Oxford-street. 111 HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' 11 Containing the I.ateat J 1 OltVIM* IN'tELLatiEzitu. tau be had Every Evening of R. GL [Lig IE, NEWS AGEzvr, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN ' supplied as Coon as Published containing all the LA VEST _NEWS Ne an R d SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by H. W. HARRIS , spaper Agent, 4, Blacktriars-roau, London, S. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, lh. 54m.—.Afternoon, 2h. 18m. To-Mowtow.-Morning, 2h. 40m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m. • *"•" Ham!' I t_ - *At LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 27, 1865. Meetings and speeches are now the order of the c lay, and, strange as it may seem to the uninitiated, the members are rushing about in all directions to ma ke their views known to their constituents prior to the assembling of Parliament. Mr. LEATHAM has lately done his part in contributing to the goodly store of orations ; but it cannot be said that, ysis of his spe ech, much can be after a critical an al gathered in the way of instruction or imparted as to any new line of policy. His discourse would seem to possess the prejudices and narrowness of the speeches of Messrs. COBDEN and BRIGHT, without being adorned by the logic of the one, or the elo quence of the other. When he falls short in his ar g ura ents Mr. LEATHAM has recourse to abuse, and appears to think that such a device is very cute indeed. we find the same superficialities indulged in, the usual amount of excitement as to Reform, the common outcry of the war in America, and the ordinary meanness concerning Denmark, which cha racterise all th e speeches of would the ultra school of poli ticians. With th em i t seem as if the new doctrine they had inaug ted was, be as degenerate as possible their foreign they can if they only fire up about social policy, grievances and do mestic wrongs. By this convenient manoeuvring they can gratify all their cherished d es i res at once —vent their spite against their political opponents_ do a good turn to their friends in America —p roclaim their everlasting peace policy—and make a g reat show of their devotion to the cause of freedom and justice on behalf of their oppressed and per_ secuted fellow-countrymen. It is, however, unfortunate for the success of all this skilful planning and most ingenious scheming, that the country is getting rather tired of it, and begin ning to recognise that there is a vast amount of clap-trap in all the fine sounding words, and much mannerism in the glow of patriotism, and the reflec- tions of wisdom abounding in the discourses of the Manchester school. It is not the way to make any cause honourable, to hurl abuse and fling ridicule continually upon all who do not make themselves equally conspicuous by their vehemence and vio- lence in its support. It is a question if more may not be done by cautious and careful working than by the sudden and startling changes which the poli- ticians of Mr. LEATHAM'S schools persist in advo- eating. Whether they are quite sincere in their desire to see their plans brought to a consummation is another question, perhaps more easy to ask than to answer. Some ungracious individual might go so far as to say that OTHELLO'S occupation would be gone, and that these fiery politicians would really regret the day when they could no longer go about the country on the stalking-horse of Reform. It is a capital theme, as it now stands, for haranguing the many, while-it is easy, during the Session, to shirk it and throw the blame on the Op position. What is to be complained of in all these speeches referred to is the very un-English spirit that pervades them. Bad as our present foreign policy is, it would be ten times worse had they more nfluenee than they at present unhappily possess in the councils of the nation. The name of England would, indeed, be a byword and a reproach among the communities of the earth, and we should be renowned through the world for our pusillanimity and base ness of action. Mr. LEATHAM is about as ridicu lous as he can be in his remarks concerning America ; and really it lowers one's opinion of this set of politicians, as men of sense and judgment, to find that they wilfully persist, in the face of evidence, and in spite of the most irrefragable proofs, in their assertions about the issue of the American war. It looks as if, instead of admiring the constitution of the United States on principle, because they thought it worked for the welfare of the people, they had taken up a hobby which, through good and bad report, amid success or failure, they would alike swear by and adhere to. It is insulting the judgment of men of experience, and injuring the validity of their own opinions most incalculably, thus to state such deliberate fallacies as this passage contains :—" I have always main- tained that there could be but one issue to this war, if the North were prepared to make the necessary sacrifice ; and that is the extinction of slavery, and the subjugation of the South." Can anything be more absurd than this ? But, further on, the hon. member becomes nearly profane when he affirms that the " religious mind of America can believe that its solemn decision has received its ratification from on High, and that the LORD of HOSTS himself is going forth with their arms." If ever there was a war whose conduct and style was likely to call down the direct condemnation of Heaven, it has been that which the Federals so persistently and ruthlessly wage, in defiance of all the claims of humanity and the feelings of honour, truth, and jus tice. The men who spare neither sex nor age in their cruel course, who destroy the supplies of human food with savage recklessness, and torture their prisoners by neglect—who indulge in every barbarity they can think of, and respect no rules that guide the marches of civilised armies—should be the last to boast of their cause receiving sanction from Above. It would seem as if, in excitement of his zeal con cerning his friends, Mr. LEATHAM was forgetting the tenets of his creed. How is it that he thus en courages war, and makes demigods of such san guinary militants as those who swell the ranks of the Federal armies ? In his enumeration of the many events which had crowned their troops with victory and their cause with glory, he ingeniously forgot one that did neither. We hear of the march of SHERMAN, the capture of Savannah, and the defeat of HOOD, but a silence total and supreme —may we not add ominous and significant—reigns concerning " Wilmington." In the hurry of his discourse, his hearers doubtless did not consider the full import of all his flowery sentences, for, had they done so, and then cheered his address, they would have been unworthy to represent the cha racter of Englishmen at a public assembly. Such language is quite preposterous as to argument, and most unseemly as to taste and style. As Madame ROLAND exclaimed, " Oh, freedom, what crimes are committed in thy name !" so it may well be said of this American war, that it is a mockery and a delu sion to call it a crusade against slavery and a struggle for the righteous cause, while it is a selfish attempt for gain, and an unworthy desire for monopoly of power. It is not the way to win over men of discernment to their views, for Mr. LEATHAM and his friends to go about the country proclaiming such a mean and paltry policy as one that should actuate the feelings of England. They talk in the same breath of the necessity for a thorough reform, and then go on to magnify the virtues of those who are scandalising all Christendom by their want of decency and de corum in the prosecution of the war. The intelli gence of the country will be arrayed against such an inconsistent course, and rise in refutation against those who advocate doctrines that trample under foot all that honour and honesty have made sacred through the world, and respected by those who have been the noblest and highest of mankind. It is the best proof of the instability and unsoundness of a cause when it leads its supporters into such violent extremes as Mr. LEATHAM has resorted to in his vindication of Federal rights and English wrongs. It would be better and safer for the com munity to go back to the most bigoted days of the last generation of statesmen than to be under the sway of those who would disseminate the prejudices of such a school through the land. If the passing of events and the warning of actions are not to be recognised, but all to follow one predetermined plan, and act in one preconceived conclusion, it will, indeed, speak ill for the intellect of the age, and do little credit to its progress and enlightenment. Those misguided individuals, who persist in their mischievous course, had better reconsider their de cision, or they will rank among those who cry peace where there is no peace, and mar, instead of realis ing any good effects in the works they undertake. The periodical examination of our sanitary statis tics is a matter of no slight interest and importance. The condition of the public health concerns every one of us, and as physiological science makes more and more progress, the details which are given by the registrar's report grow more and more valuable. They furnish the data upon which to found our sanitary laws ; they teach us the governing prin ciples of health and disease, and point out the dangers to which a City life is more especially liable. It is true that the prevailing fashion of late years has drawn men much away from their places of business, and fixed their residence, if not in the absolute country, at least out of reach of London smoke and fog. But even this change is not with out its dangers. In the first place, there are other considerations than those which are immediately aPP the increased l a o s n e g d day exertion, the hurry and excitement of catc ar h e in n g t 7 t a ra n i d ns, it may be fairly questioned whet her af e te in r diminish th e b eneficial the fatigue of even a short journey It is a notice a bl e fact 's work, does not in some degree a City lif e i s i ncreas i ng in stead a o c f c a o s r u d n b u r g b t a o n t r h e e s i odffie n c a e statistics, the str a i n on stead of diminishing. This is most conspicuously shown between the ages of 55 an 75, an d Dr. LETHEBY considers it to be one of the most striking facts in his table of deaths. In his annual report LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) on the sanitary condition of the City, submitted a day or two since to the Commissioners, he observes that in the preceding ten years the number of deaths among persons at from 55 to 65 years of age was 28 9, and from 65 to 75 28 2 ; SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 26. In the Senate, to-day, Marshal O'Donnell said— The annexation of St. Domingo was no more a scheme, it was already an accomplished fact ; and added that if he had commanded the troops in the island he would guarantee with his head to have put down the rebellion in three months. He was still ready to take the command should the Queen desire it. in the last twelvemonths the numbers have risen respectively to 315 and 292. Formerly the rate of mortality at those ages was 48 and 99 per 1,000 ; last year it was 57 and 110. In all England tis 32 and 66 per 1,000, and in France only 29 and 65, though, in other respects, our mortality is Lower. It is true that the past year has been most exceptionally unhealthy, and that persons who have passed middle life are naturally the chief sufferers ; THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. 27 but it is remarkable that the death-rate among :emales at a corresponding age was not excessive, The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Massilia, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. After passing the Needles at 2.30 a.m. to-day, the Massilia was detained in the West Channel by thick weather. She brings 52 passengers, £7OO in specie, a general cargo, in cluding 919 bales of raw silk, value £30,000, and jewellery, value 12,000 rupees. _ _ being only respectively 37 and 80 per 1,000 be tween the ages of 55-65 and 65-75, the averages for England and France being about the same. These facts would seem to indicate that from some cause or other the strain on a City life is on the in- crease, and Dr. LETHEBY'S explanation that it is due to the increased mental labour demanded by ~ ~ • She experienced very heavy weather and head seas from Malta to Gibraltar, across the Bay of Biscay, and up the Channel strong easterly winds, rain, and thick weather. On the 20th she spoke the steamer Syria off Cape Spartel, and on the 22d the British bark Offspring, standing north-west. the growing activity of commerce is not altogether satisfactory, since the cause should affect the death rate throughout England, which includes Liver pool, Birmingham, Manchester, and other commer cial cities in the same proportion. Neither is the increase of commercial activity confined to English- men alone, and we do not hear that France has been similarly affected. Should the same high death-rate continue in the City especially, it will be worth in quiry how far the present conditions of a City life are an improvement on former days. It would not be fair, as we have said, to accept the statistics of last year in evidence, were it not for the corresponding circumstances, since the tables altogether show a most unsatisfactory state of the public health. For the first time since Dr. LETHEBY commenced these records, a period of 16 years, the deaths exceeded the births in the City. This is to be attributed not only to a diminution of the birth-rate, but to a singular in crease in the mortality, which was not restricted to the City alone, but extended throughout the country generally. The average of the preceding ten years shows a death-rate of 22.1 per 1,000 for all England, 24.3'f0r the chief towns, and 24.2 for the City. In last year the corresponding figures were, 28.5 per 1,000 for all England, and 25.3 for the City. The returns of the winter quarter show the epoch of the most formidable increase, the death-rate rising to nearly 28 per 1,000 for all Eng land, 29.7 for the chief towns, and 30.9 for the City. " Seldom," says the Registrar-General, "has the winter been more fatal," and these figures cer tainly confirm his words. The unusual dryness of the year is supposed to have been the cause of this remarkable mortality, the average degree of atmo spheric humidity having been 74 instead of 80, and the number of wet days showing the extraordinary diminution of 47 from 169. The temperature of the air was also fully a degree below the average, and the mean proportion of moisture in the atmosphere during the summer months was scarcely four grains of aqueous vapour in a cubic foot of air. So dry was the atmosphere that a difference was perceptible between the quantity of rain in the rain guages on the roof of Guildhall and in those on the ground, owing to the evaporation of the rain in falling that short distance. We may thank the low degree of temperature, unusual in so dry a season, for preservation from a serious and dan gerous nuisance. Had the temperature risen to the height of some late summers the river would have again become offensive, since it was considerably affected by the almost total absence of rain. It has been proved by regular examination of the river water that during many months of the year the flow of the river is not downwards but upwards, owing to . the evaporation of the water and the small supply from above, and consequently .the sewage, even when discharged at the new outfalls, flows upwards far above the City bridges. The effect produced by a dry season is strongly evidenced this year by the increase in the solid matter, saline and otherwise, in the river water. The normal proportion is 24 grains per gallon, but at the end of May this year it was 124 grains, and at the end of August 386. This is of course an extreme case, but it serves to point the moral more forcibly than usual, and the principle of the increased rate is the same every summer. Our sanitary reformers, therefore, must not rest satisfied with what they have done, but devote their energies to further progress. There are many points to which Dr. LETHEBY'S report will especially direct their attention, such as the excessive infant mor tality in the city, the effect upon public health of the present over-crowding, the necessity which exists of providing some better accommodation even for the worst classes, and if possible of inducing them to put the sanitary appliances provided to a better use. There is nothing more degrading than dirty, unhealthy, and squalid homes, thronged with a multitude of persons of both sexes and all ages, and so long as these are tolerated the decent soil will sink to the level of the lower, and the lower grow worse and worse. Many interesting parti culars of the special diseases which attack different ages, and the supposed reasons for such liability, are given in the report which Dr. LETHEBY has framed in his usual pains-taking and intelligent manner. Her Majesty's ships Victoria, Royal Oak, Re sistance, Meeanee, Orlando, Magicienne, Hibernia, Firefly, and Wizard were at Malta ; and the Cos sack, Gibraltar, Redpole, and Procris, at Gibraltar. A grand ball was given by the merchants of Gibraltar to Governor and Lady Codrington on the 17th inst. It was very numerously and brilliantly attended. The latest quotation at Gibraltar of Exchange on London, 90 days, was 49 13-16ths to 498 ; on Marseilles, 8 days, sf. 16c. ; on Madrid, 1i to 11 dis. 41 per Cents 96 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 Do. end month 67 Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3510 Credit Foncier 1275 Roman 74 THE brnsl, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1865.1, to Italy on the way to Rome. What will the bishops say to that order of the day, which denies their assertions in such a striking manner ? That Italy, that unfortunate Italy, who is represented to us as abandoned to the worst inspirations ; that Italy excommunicated and insulted openly practices the pardon of injuries ; she gives to the world a noble example by inviting all her children to live in con- cord." A Paris letter in the Independance Beige says : " The serious idea of a separation between the Church and State is daily gaining ground here. You are aware we have in France an infallible thermo meter of the tendencies of the Government in the theses put forward and supported by the ministerial journals in the provinces. The articles of those organs of the press arrive daily by the lithographic sheets from Paris, the writers of which derive their inspirations from the Minister of the Interior, and it is unusual for an idea to pass to the state of a fact with out the journals of the departments, the real influence of which is known by the Government, having beforehand prepared the public mind to adopt it. The provincial press now reverts to the discussion of such a separation with a persistence which appears to be at least a serious indication. Sometimes such a proceeding is only a pilot balloon to ascertain the opinion of the country. As to the Paris press, you know to what point it has reached on this question. I do not believe that anything else will come of this discussion, to which the Monde appears to accord such importance, than a profound conviction in all minds, whether in the Napoleonian or the Demo cratic world, that the serious solution of the inex tricable religious question must be a definite and intelligent separation—one which shall consult both religious and social interests." " Ambassadors from Madagascar," says the Norcr " are said to have left Tamatava on the 23d De cember for New York, Paris, and London, and are believed to be provided with the necessary powers for negotiating and signing treaties with the three countries. Their stay in the United States will pro bably extend over two months, as they have to make purchases on account of the Government ; consequently they will not arrive in Europe until about the end of April." BOURSE, Jan. 26.—The market presents a more favourable aspect to-day, and more business has been transacted. For the Account, Threes opened at 66f. 95c., and are now at 66f. 971 c. Mobilier have been firm ; they opened at 956 f. 25c., and are now 958 f. 75c. The market closed as follows : Italian Loan 64 90 Do. end month 65 05 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred - RAILWAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern 998 75 ... 1000 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 935 Southern 578 25 ... 577 50 Western 535 ... 535 Eastern Sardinian 307 50 ....307 50 Austrian Lombard 542 50 ... 543 75 North of Spain 337 50 ... 337 50 Saragossa 4OO ... 400 Ditto to Barcelona lB3 75 ... THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. FALMOUTIJ, Jan. 25 The Diamond Company's steamer Caffraria, Cummings, master, arrived here this evening from the Cape of Good Hope, &c., having left Port Natal December 7 ; Algoa Bay, the 19th ; and Cape Town, the 23d ; St. Helena, January 1; and Madeira, the 20th. She brings a large mail, which is landed here, and the following passengers :—Messrs. Langford, Collyer, and Farmer, from Natal ; Lord and Lady Brown, Major Plunkett, Master Bisset, Mr. and Mrs Every and three children, Misses Hyman and Gould, Mrs. Marks, and Messrs. Hinds, Reiche; Brown, and Colquhoun, from Algoa Bay ; Captain Andrea, Captain Elmstone, Rev. Mr. Alington, Mr. R. Stanford, and 21 time-expired men, from Cape Town ; and Captain Biccard and Mr. Dillin, from St. Helena ; also the following cargo :-1,232 bales of wool, 50 bales of hides, 467 bags of sugar, 37 cases of sundries, and 47 packages. Her Majesty's ship Valorous was at Algoa Bay on the 17th of December. The Cape Argus of December 23 summarises the news as follows :—" His Excellency the Governor returned to Cape Town on the 23d of last month. Affairs on the frontier are peaceable, and it is be lieved that no trouble need be anticipated from the neighbourhood of the free State. Moshesh has an nounced his intention of abiding by the decision of the Government in respect to the boundary of his territory. The railway from Cape Town to Wyn berg was thrown open to the public on Monday last, and the trains have since conveyed large numbers of passengers every trip. By the present mail instructions will be forwarded to the agents-general for the Crown colonies for the issue of advertisements, inviting ten ders for the construction of a railway from Port Elizabeth to Commando Kraalin, in the direction of Graham's Town. Mr. Justice Connor, of Natal, and Mr. Advocate Denyssen, of the Cape Bar, have been appointed judges of the New Eastern District Court; Mr. J. C. Davidson has been appointed Treasurer-General, vice Mr. R. Southey, promoted; Mr. A. W. Cole has been appointed law lecturer to the South African College, in the room of the late Mr. F. S. Watermeyer." The official returns of the revenue and expendi ture for the quarter ending with the 30th of Septem ber last have been published. They show a great improvement upon previous returns of a similar character. Commercial matters are, on the whole, satisfac tory. Trade amounts to a fair average at this late season of the year, with a tone of • confidence in business transactions. Money plentiful, and Bank rates of discount 6 per cent. per annum. Not more than 6 per cent. can be obtained on first mortgages of landed pro perty in the neighbourhood of Cape Town. The crops of oats and barley will be below an average yield, and contracts for the supply of oats in large quantities are being secured at nearly double last year's price. being immediately attended upon a volaPtl icitt Bacchante andby that old, soddened, re d-nosed tor, Silenus. Around and below, in clusters, oaring; other ad i dancing, fighting, killing themselves or simpering, laughing, raving, sipping, swigg il t r : of committing every imaginable extravaganc e, s ' °- t he crimes that defy delineation, are the Mob, wh are tox i- Votaries of the God, (meaning of the Demon) °f cation—the God not of Wine only , but of Beer, (11.11' s Whisky, Brandy, Rum, Hollands, P un ch, n e g he Nose, Purl, Sherry-Cobbler, Gin -Sling, and an t ed other intoxicating beverages here unenumsra t s : o from the Bang of the East to what ti may call the bang-up liquors of the W est t , drinks with the oddest. names, an d the 111(!A delicately enticing and exhilarating qualities be description of the picture in its entirety, Nouldd almost as hopeless a task to adventure upon, delineation of a forest tree in every fibre of ev er ; root, in every twig of every branch, in eveq of every leaf. A picture such as this m ust 0' 1 ; be seen, not described. The elaboration of use an expressive idiom, just beggars descreiss' il ton. It is a marvel of industry, of imagillativello of minute observation. It is a pictur e of lin. life worthy of the genius of George Cruilow-r,• It is an etching worthy of his needle. It is a Dia sre o piece worthy of crowning and of completing finest reputation. It is, moreover, in its every ci touch, in its most delicate and subtle shades 31110.. outlines, laden with a moral, as here enforced, e_.t, quent with all the eloquence of the mind, the Upo n the very conscience of George Cruikshank. 011 the completion of this, the most considerable e ' Ivo his works, both as an Artist and as a Morali st ' ll to would now offer him, as we have surely ress° offer him, our most earnest congratulations. , Nt.4 VIAI • Court Orte. DENMARK. A Copenhagen letter of the 22d, in the Moniteur, has the following :—" The First Chamber of the Rigsraad yesterday terminated the discussion on the second reading of the new Constitution, after intro ducing only one amendment of any importance. This amendment bore on the concluding paragraph of Art. 47, which prescribes that the King is em powered to refute his sanction to the augmentations made by the Rigsdag in the law on the finances without the Budget being invalidated by such re fusal. In other words, the Rigsdag may diminish the credits demanded by the Government, but cannot increase them, the Sovereign having the prerogative to accept or annul them. To avoid the embarrassing situation between the Crown and the national representation to which this provision might give rise, M. Krieger moved an amendment, which the Landsthing adopted, to the effect that augmentations of credits could not be put to the vote when the Government opposed them. This wording, which changes the form rather than the substance, is a victory for the Cabinet, and at the same time obviates the chances of conflict. The Landsthing, moreover, rejected, by 40 votes to 15, an amendment proposed by M. Lehman for prevent ing the King, in future, from conferring titles of nobility, or of attaching any rank to such titles. If the draught of the Constitution passes the third reading in the Landsthing in the state it has just gone through in the second, it will then be sub mitted to the Folksthing." FRANCE. The Moniteur publishes a letter from Marlette- Bey, a savant in the service of the Viceroy of Egypt, which contains the following statement :—" At Abydes I have discovered a magnificent counterpart of the tablet of Sakharah. Seti 1., accompanied by his son, subsequently Rhamses 11. (Sesostris), pre sents an offering to 76 kings drawn up in line before him ; Menes (the first king of the first dynasty on Manetho's list) is at their head. From Menes to Seti 1., this formidable list passes through nearly all the dynasties. The six first are represented therein ; we are next introduced to sovereigns still unknown to us, belonging to the obscure period which extends from the end of the sixth dynasty to the beginning of the eleventh. From the 11th to the 18th, the new table follows the beaten track, which it does not quit again during the reigns of Thoutmes, Amenophis, and the first Rhamses. If in this new list everything is not absolutely new, we at least find in it a valuable confirmation of Manetho's list, and in the present state of science we can hardly expect more. Whatever confirms Manetho, gives us confidence in our own efforts, even as whatever contradicts it weakens the results we obtain. The new tablet of Abydos is, moreover, the completest and best preserved monument we possess in this respect. Its style is splendid, and there is not a single cartouche or escutcheon wanting. It has been found engraved on one of the walls of a small cham- ber in the large temple of Abydos, which we are still engaged in extricating from the rubbish which covers it. Opposite the same Seti is perceived on another tablet, making an offering to 130 other per sonages who, this time, personify the nomes and districts, or geographical divisions and subdivisions of Egypt. Thus on one side of the valuable cham ber we have just discovered we see the representa tion of the history, on that of the other the geo graphy of Egypt." The decision arrived at by the Italian Chambtr of Deputies to terminate as rapidly as possible the discussion on the disturbances at Turin is highly applauded by several of the Paris journals, such a course being considered by them as prudent, conci liatory, and patriotic. The conduct of Baron Rica soli, in coming forward with his amendment to promote that most desirable result, likewise receives very general encomium. The observations of our contemporaries are, however, necessarily marked, from the nature of the subject, by a certain mono tony, and to give an extract from one article is very nearly the same as to select passages from another. We consequently content ourselves with laying be fore our readers a portion of the observations made by the Sacle, running thus : " The excitement caused at Turin by the an nouncement of the Convention of the 15th Septem ber is well known. All the friends of the Italian cause were saddened by the deplorable disorders and sanguinary conflicts which took place—a misunder standing and erroneous interpretations had irritated that Turinese population which has given many proofs of patriotism and disinterestedness. The authors of those turbulent manifestations were sought out, and an inquiry ordered. But what re sult could be obtained by that investigation, in which the city of Turin and the former Cabinet were equally interested ? Was it not much better to throw a veil over those lamentable events ? The Italian Parliament has not hesitated for a moment in the matter. It has understood that the first necessity of Italy was concord, and through M. Ricasoli it has openly proclaimed the necessity of forgetting the past. If there were really guilty parties, instigators and promoters of disturbances, it is not for a tribunal, but for the public conscience to judge them, and brand them with infamy. The noble city which has given so many pledges to the cause of independence cannot be held responsible for the violence committed in its streets. M. Ricasoli developed those generous ideas and patriotic feelings, and the Assembly was deeply moved when he read the order of the day which we announced yesterday the adoption. The Go vernment and the Parliament have merited the gratitude of Italy. Is that nation, born but yester day, in want of disorders and irritating discussions ? No ! Before all, it must complete its internal organisation, and carefully exclude from its de bates everything which might trouble that pacific work. The Italian Parliament has understood that, and has adopted the order of the day, to the great vexation of the men who wish to render those in testine divisions eternal, in order to place a barrier Calls to the Bar. INNER TEMPLE.—The undermentioned gentlemen were yesterday called to the bar by the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple :—David Lyell (holder of the studentship awarded in Trinity Term, 1864), M.A., St. Andrews, and LL.D., London ; Charles Evan Thomas, M.A., Cambridge ; Henry James William Wheeler, 8.A., Oxford ; Charles Lanyon, 8.A., Oxford; William Edward Murray Tomlinson, M.A., Oxford ; Thomas Whittenbury Wheeler, 8.A., Cambridge ; William Cecil Smyley, LL.B., Cambridge ; George Leigh Cochrane ; James Ernest Brudenell Bruce ; Edward Pen nefather O'Brien, 8.A., Dublin ; James Albert Clement Tabor, Cambridge ; Maurice Powell, 8.A., Cambridge ; William Frederick Traill, 8.C.L., Oxford ; E. Wynne Powell ; and Henry Warren Jones, 8.A., Oxford. MIDDLE TEMPLE.—The undermentioned gentlemen were yesterday called to the degree of the Utter Bar by the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple :—Hans Morri son, Esq., 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ; Wesley Tom, Esq., 8.A., Sydney University ; Robert Dennison Clarke, Esq., 8.A., Caius College, Cambridge ; Thomas Marriott Dodington, Esq., 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; Ed mund Lumley, lig., 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge ; David Nasmith, Esq., of the University of London ; Ed mund Thomas, Esq. ; Edward Amand Esnouf, Esq. ; Alex ander Muirhead Aitken, Esq., of the University of Edin burgh; Henry Tindal Atkinson, Esq., holder of the Com mon Law Exhibition award by the Council of Legal Education ; Antonio Lourenco Fernandes, Esq. ; Henry Abbott Robert Alexander, Esq. LEccoLN's-ixx.—The undermentioned gentlemen were yesterday called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's-inn, viz. :—Robert Neile, Cam bridge University ; Arthur Talbot Smith, 8.A., Cambridge; Herbert Hatfield Harter, M.A., and LL.B., Cambridge ; Henry Alexander Gifford, M.A., Oxford ; Walter Barnard Byles, M.A., Oxford ; Frederick Townsend Proctor ; James Thomas Hammick ; George Ashley Dodd, 8.A., Oxford; Kenelm Edward Digby, M.A., Oxford ; Henry Denis Le Marchant, M.A., Oxford ; Frederic La Tour Mason, 8.A., Oxford ; and Zachary Edwards, 8.A., Oxford. GRAY'S-INN.—At a pension of the Hon. Society of Gray's inn, holden yesterday, William Lowes Rushton, youngest son of Mr. Edward Rushton, late of Liverpool, and a barrister of the Inner Temple, deceased, was called to the degree of Barrister-at-Law. The Address in the House of Commons in reply to the Speech from the Thorne will be moved by Sir Hed worth Williamson, M.P. for North Durham, and seconded by Mr. Banbury Tracy, 11.1). for the Nohtgewery boroughs. HER MAJESTY. 74v• OSBORNE, Ja n ' „ o i'e The Queen, attended by Lady Churchill, out yesterday afternoon. The Princess of Wales also drove. a Ide a The Prince of Wales went out shooting, by Lieut.-General the Hon. C. Grey, Colonel llon. Sir C. B. Phipps, and Captain Grey. Railway Accidents --Letter of the ati - At the meeting at Manchester on Wednesdaisoy the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire l ia '; her the Chairman (Mr. Watkin, M.P. said that 4, Majesty the Queen had written to some of the ways centred in London, as follows : ll " Sir Charles Phipps has received t he conn of of her Majesty the Queen to call the attentl° be r the directors of the to the increasing 111113}clif of accidents which have lately occurred 1 1 P °11 ,ty . $ ferent lines of railroad, and to express her 310-will warmest hope that the directors of the ---' i t carefully consider every meaks of guarding a g;gl these misfortunes, which are not at all th e nee° accompaniments of railway travelling. po ha g " It is not for her own safety that th e Que- f wished to provide in thus calling the attention the company to the late disasters. Her dial co. aware that when she travels extraordinary P? 0 j11' tions are taken, but it is on account of her of of those travelling upon her service, and ° t hat people generally, that she expresses the hope the same security may be insured for ail as carefully provided for herself. her to " The Queen hopes it is unnecessary o r 0 tile recall to the recollection of the railway dire e _, ° s ioce heavy responsibility which they have assinnu'i, they have succeeded in securing th e inonoPe,'Div the means of travelling of almost the entire lation of the country. " Osborne, 27th December, 1864." Health of Cardinal Wiseman. TO-DAY'S BULLETIN. - The Cardinal has passed a bad night, ail worse to-day. The following bulletin was issued last evenil l ?:ict " The Cardinal has passed a rather ulle night. " W. MuNg, 3 1 . 9 * " CHARLES 11 ,01 ' - " EDWARD 1 1 0° T. 4 4 Thursday,'Jan. 26, 1865." ma de THE COURT.—Preparations are beingll3 je stl Windsor Castle for the reception of b er ' O - 1)0 11 ',„ ° and the royal family, who are expected to leave "te:aro on or about the 11th or 12th of next month' an d 13 Windsor Castle. During the absence of the Queen 6°' ber of workmen have been engaged in repairing Tol (e of the stone coping at the lower part of King John' ' and around the base of aportion of the exterior narts po State apartments abutting on the Grand Q u adralig le ' a 0 14 of the ancient castle buildings near the Corfew T°w: overhanging Thames-street, are also being re store' 00 0 His Highness the Prince of Oudh left 1,,,,°,0( yesterday on a visit to Lieut.-Colonel Palmer, at park, Essex. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle p et ted to return to town to-morrow from Brigl it°l3 ' then to go to Clumber-park, for a short visit. La th The Earl of Powis and the Countess an d - s pilc°,' Herbert have left (Powis Castle, Welslapool, fo,to r Hall, Salop, where they will remain til l they re' town for the season. iu tol: The Earl and Countess Delawarr arriv e ' vi Oc t " yesterday from visiting Mr. Hastings and Lay Va Russel at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. Viscount and Viscountess Grey de NV town to-morrow, on his return to Melton Mowbral. DEATH OF LADY WILLOUGHBY DE Enq l , dd After a few days' illness Lady Willougli'raillP Eresby died at the family house on the Terrace, Ple a yesterday morning at an early hour. The deceaSe'wg Clementina Sarah, who was the only daughter an d L f tr i the late Lord Perth, was born in May, 1786, and WlJv October, 1807, the Hon. Peter Robert Willougbbit'itille; afterwards assumed the name of Drummond in tion with that of Willoughby. The late Lady W' n -t i l o b ° ll l leaves surviving issue, a son, the Hon. Alberic pr i e n - a Willoughby, and two daughters, the Lady AlreL6- Lady- Carington. Wreck of a Mail Steamer. 2 6 'a DUBLIN, 0 01r The Armenian mail steamer, from L iverP° Africa, is sunk on Arklow Bank. +4liP The passengers and crew got to the lig bey the morning of the 25th, and were thence ta [ o lliP, 4 'r Wexford by the Montagu steamer. The boat, with ' four men, capsized. The drowned. PROPOSED EXHIBITION OF GEMS.—The .asian states that it is proposed to have an f o f colonial gems at Melbourne. Within the laS t ( 11 " / our years in various parts of the colony of A rieW s : monds and precious stones of several kinds 13,111:11v found, some of them very pure and of considerv- fodio A diamond weighing above three carats ill Cli o ° t which was found in the Beechworth district, Amsterdam to be cut, and was valued after be l t fol lw‘ i £35 or £4O. In various parts sapphires have he; 'e j e°l o topazes, beryls, garnets, jaspers, and agat • at the the exhibition, and of lectures to be deliveredes• oc l . !( 1 time, is to spread among the mining po o lAr public generally information relatingto-thPe e°.ev;t'llp° the value of precious stones, and to excite all lu t e, the search for them. INTERNATIONAL CURLING MATCH. feS match between Canada and the United St 3; played . at Buffalo on the sth inst. At the close 0.0t4t10133 the 6sB s . core was found to be :—Americans, 47 8 ; , ,,, C h a t ; Cle 4- 0 showing a majority of 180 for Canada. 0 .0 afterwards ards dined together in the America° tt tog pecial order of Mr. Seward passports were from the Canadians at the frontier on this oe cs6' : ll. "' I THE MILLIONAIRE AND THE DOG-'I I C - ti 'f. ac e e ; talie of Turin relates the following burl e t, et 9 e. a which ocourred a few days ago at a railway-slet'lll;t-°4ll bitter cold day a millionaire applied at the tl i , e a. o oc i , for a third-class ticket. What !' exclaimed t % Se e , o co o knew him, you, Sir, take a third close day as this ?" Why, I must,' was the cool I ' o loo 0 1 4 ° i 0 there is no fourth-class.' I beg your Par cl°l3 { 13 :51 1 to the official, handing him a ticket, 'bu t there iiri, one: The man of wealth hastily pa id for s Leo forward to take his place. On thedoor-keePel:at's f d k t s a ee his ticket the traveller produced it, b ut I /° en aback on being told that the ticket wog .01, for him. 'And why not ?' he exclaimed• because it is a dogiticket GREAT TE THE Loss OF THE BLOCKADE RUNNER LELIA.— LIVERPOOL, Thursday.—The melancholy loss of the block ade runner Lelia, off this port on Saturday evening, 14th inst., has been made the subject of a Board of Trade in quiry, and to-day Captain Harris, R.N., and Captain Baker, R.N., nautical assessors, together with Mr. Raffles, inquiry stipen diary magistrate, commenced an into the matter. Mr. Hamill,who appeared on behalf of the Board of Trade, stated that the Lelia was a paddle steamer, clinker-built, with a steel frame and one deck. Her gross tonnage was 640 tons, and her registered tonnage 431 tons. She had two engines of 300-horse power. She left Liverpool at 930 a.m. on the 14th instant, in charge of Captain Thomas B. Skinner. Her crew consisted of 49 hands, all told, and she had on board a Cork -and a Liverpool pilot, together with eight passengers. She had on board 85 tons dead weight, and 460 tons cargo. The barometer was very low and fall ing, and a strong gale blew from the north-west, and when she passed the Crosby Lightship the sea was breaking over her. After passing the North-west Lightship she shipped a great deal of water which caused her to settle by the head, and the captain considered it desirable to turn back for Liverpool. She soon lost her steerage way, but by the assistance of a sail her head was brought round towards Liverpool. After proceeding for a few miles she sank deeper in the water, and her hatches burst open. The en gines were (then stopped and the boats ordered out, of which only two got safely away, the others being capsized. The other two when they reached the North-west Light ship also capsized, and only 12 persons were rescued-37 of the crew, 8 passengers, and 2 pilots being amongst the drowned. Mr. Hartnup, of the Liverpool Observatory, stated that at midnight on the 13th the barometer stood at 28 55, and next morning at half-past Bit was 28 34. The case was adjourned until to-morrow. • REYNARD IN A FIK.—On Monday evening a fox strolled into the farm-yard of Mr. James Meagher, near Killenaule, and seeing the door of the fowl house open, made towards it, and safely ensconced himself inside. The fowls, of course, were driven in there at nightfall, and fell an easy prey to Master Reynard, who enjoyed himself for the night at their expense. Mr. Meagher's daughter opened the fowl house door next morning, and, discovering the un welcome visitor, closed it again on him, and gave the alarm to her father, who went in and found the remains of the fowls strewn about, and Master Reynard looking com placently on from the corner. He is held in custody, await ing an opportunity of delivering him up to the tender mereiee of the Tipperary gunt.—Tipperary Free Prem " The Worship of Bacchus," Painted and Etched by George Cruikshank. Published by William Tweedie, 337, Strand. George Cruikshank has, long since, risen, by the natural development of his genius, from the Carica turist to the Moralist. As a Caricaturist he was for years—nay, he is still to tliis hour, when we come to look back upon his countless grotesque productions— j ust simply incomparable. Beyond all the coarse vulgar Rowlandsons, beyond the gaudy Gilrays, the fantas tic Bunburys, and the evanescently humorous H. B.'s that ever, with pencil-point, tickled past genera tions into laughter ! A portfolio of comical cuts by George Cruikshank will settle that point any day— by its inevitable appeal to the risibility of those who venture gravely to examine it, by way of testing the potency of this Lord Paramount in the realms of the Ridiculous. But the rarer, and later, and greater, and far loftier powers of the same extraordinary artist in his capacity as a pictorial Moralist—powers often incidentally indicated, whenever an opportu nity may be said to have offered itself to this end even in his earlier productions—we have , to their fullest extent at least, seen manifested, com paratively speaking, only of late years ! To be plain, let us say at once—since the date when George Cruikshank became, heart and soul, hand and brain, with all the force of his gehius and all the energy of his ambition, one of the most devoted, and certainly also one of the very foremost advocates of Total Abstinence, one of the most prominent and gifted among all the champions of the cause of Tempe rance. After the Great Apostle of Temperance, Father Theobald Mathew, we know of no man who has given himself up more thoroughly or more con scientiously to the furtherance of that good cause than George Cruikshank. He has given himself up to it so thoroughly and so conscientiously, that he has long ago lived down the derision with whichhis devo tion to it was first of all greeted, so very plentifully and pertinaciously. Even those who cannot for the life of them recognise to this day (any more than we can ourselves, for example) the necessity insisted upon by all the more advanced Teetotallers, men like Gough or like Cruikshank—that itis the duty of everyone, alike, old and young, male and female, to pledge themselves, for once and for ever, to a life of total abstinence from the consumption of fermented liquor —even those who look upon the advocacy ofTee totalism as common sense surely ought to look upon the advocacy of that or of any other pretended panacea, as a sort of craze, cannot by possibility do otherwise than regard with respect the persistent advocacy of the principles of Total Abstinence (as a means for the prevention, or at any rate for the diminution, of crime) by a champion of that philan thropic cause, such as George Cruikshank ! But, of philanthropic champions, " such as George Cruik shank," there are but few indeed ! They come but once in a century, but once in an age, rara nantes in gurgite vasto ! Meaning by this—that when they do come, they go on " swimmingly." As, for instance—in his capacity as a pictorial Moralist, as a practical Philanthropist, as an advocate of Tee totalism, as a champion of Temperance—George Cruikshank has done, of late years, and not a doubt about it. Whether with advantage to himself as a mere mercantile enterprise maybe very possibly questioned. But, beyond any question at all, with the happiest results in the way of developing his rare and in some respects matchless powers as an artist of excep tional and extraordinary genius. Instance this, his two wonderful series—among the very finest things that have ever come from his hand—his two really wonderful series of pictUres entitled " The Bottle" and " The Drunkard's Children." Pictures that, as mere artistic creations, but, still more, as visible:en forcements of a moral coming home to vast multi tudes of the artist's fellow-creatures, are as im pressive, in their homely yet wonderfully pathetic and tragic way, as some of the finest of the renowned series of that true brother in Art and in Heart of George Cruikshank—William Hogarth—as, let us say, " The Rake's Progress," and " The Harlot's Progress," as the famous " Marriage b. la Mode," or us " The Indnstrious and Idle Appren tices." Enforcing a moral admitting of yet wider application than any of those, or than all of them together, " The Bottle" and " The Drunkard's Children," as drawn upon wood by George Cruik shank, command by the power of the genius that is in them the fullness of our admiration. We stint no words of praise when we look at them. Costly enamels they are not—com mon prints they may even be called, slightingly, by the collector, at fabulous prices, of gravures de luxe—yet are they wonderful ! Wonderful by reason of that tragic and pathetic power already alluded to as in either series so marvellously manifested. The hero of one is, if you will, a mere artisan or handi craftsman, in his fustian jacket. The locality depicted is no better than a kitchen-like house-room or a bare-walled prison cell. The heroine is in a draggled Paisley shawl, her worn boots are unlaced, her battered bonnet is askew. The instrument of destruction is no jewelled dagger or gem-encrusted chalice, but, instead of either, a common twopenny glass gin - bottle. Yet, out of these and other similarly sordid, squallid details, a story of human miseries shines forth as pathetic and as tragic in its appalling truth fulness as the history of Orestes or of Clytemestra. Crowning the labours of his life, however, with a yet more ambitious undertaking, with a single master piece yet worthier of his reputation than any one of the affecting drawings in either of those two remarkable series of " The Bottle" or " The Drunkard's Children"—George Cruikshank has here, in this astonishingly eleborate etching (far more, to our thinking, than in the ori ginal oil painting from which it has now been copied upon metal by his own hand) produced what must henceforth be regarded as, in truth, among all his works his opus magnum, his chef d'ceuvres, his masterpiece. " The Worship of Bacchus" —or—as the artist calls it by a matter-Of-fact sub-title— " The Drinking Customs of Society"—is a veritable microcosm. It is the world-in-little, this modern world of ours in all its phases—revealed to us at a single glance in one marvellous engraving. It is not a picture—it is, so to express it, a very congeries of pictures. It is a sort of ganglionic representation of the social nervous-system—very little of that nervous system in a naturalor healthy condition— almost all of it in a frightful state of disease—a study of morbid anatomy, admitting almost of exa mination under the microscope. The Human Race, as it is familiarly known to us, at these times, in this country, amongst ourselves, we have here displayed before us - , under all its aspects —from infancy to senility—from the cradle to the coffin—from the swaddling-clothes to the winding sheet—from the nursery to the cemetery ! The opu lent and the poverty-stricken—victims of atrophy and of elephantiasis—Lamberts and Living Skele tons--the handsomest and the ugliest of both sexes —divines and blasphemers—prattling innocents and red-handed murderers —the profound philosopher and the drivelling idiot—soldiers and sailors, lawyers and doctors, pagan gods and potboys, raving maniacs and whispering lovers ! Here they all are, in hundreds upon hundreds of figures—apparently at the first glance jumbled together in inextricable confusion, but w hen they come to be looked at in their general • arrangement and disposition in groups, with a readily traceable clue running, by a series of wonderful involutions, all through the seemingly inextricable labyrinth. *Upon the canvass of the original oil-painting, George Cruikshank was, with all his accustomed industry, labouring (as upon a la bour of love) for a whole twelvemonth—but for no more than a twelvemonth. Altogether—starting with his first sketch of his conception (the whole picture presenting itself to his imagination, according to his own account of it, at once, instanter) —altogether, we say, the whole work, from the jotting down of the first rough sketch until the completion of the noble engraving of it now happily completed, has occupied the Artist-Moralist during a period of from two to three years in its produc tion. With the etching needle in his hand George Cruikshank is always at his best. He is so, here, in this strangely; almost bewilderingly elabo rated limning of Bacchus and his Worshippers. Bacchus is here at the very centre, at the very sum mit of this comprehensive grouping of almost incal culable groups of his Worshippers ! Bacchus himself PICTURE, Th e be en. v 14 of 4i Per trautia r the past fa vour Joiti ed Active ~( Bullio n het l'ilhli e Othe r ] t e „,, G overt O ther' lipt cs 1 11 % , 14,11 E I g l