The Sun. — London, England, 1866-11-19 00:00:00

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Tll 1S EVENING, NEIGHBOURS. 3ressrs. l'arselle, B , ,lfOrd, and G 31array ; Misses Swanborough, Johnstone. and After which, will he pro Mee.' a Grand Burlesque of DEit FREISCH UTZ ; or, A Good Cast for a nece. Mes4rs. Thorne, James, and Robson; Mesdames Swan- Wrough, Raynhatn, Johnstone, and tiu2hes. To conclude wish BOOTS AI'THE SWAN. Commence at Seven. THE "SUN" NEW SPAP ER. — G. It. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught• terrace, Edgware-road, is specially appointed AGEN to deliver the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment alter leaving the press. He Is able to deliver copies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the Country at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by 9 o'clock. lIEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTEIITON. Unequalled Combination of Attraction. THIS EVENING (Monday), Nov. 19, and Wednesday, Nov. 21, the performance will commence with Shakspere's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Rosalind (her first appear ance this season), Miss Helen Faucit ; Orlando, Mr. Walter Montgomery ; Amiens, Mr. W. Hanison ; Jaques, Mr. T. S winbourne ; supported by the entire strength of the Com- pany. On Friday, Nov. 23, Lord Lytton's Play of THE LADY OF LYONS. Pauline Desehappelles (her original charac ter), Miss Helen Faucit ; Claude Melnotte, Mr. Walter Montgomery. On Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, Nov. 20, 22, and 21, the performance will commence with Goethe's ro mantic Play of FAUST, adapted by Bayle Bernard." The orchestra will perform Spolir's Overture to " Faust. Mephistopheles, Mr. Phelps ; Faust, Mr. Edmund Ph el p s ; Valentine, Mr. W. Harriso n ; Margaret, Mrs. 'Hermann Vtzin ; Lisa, Miss Poole. Beverley's mac,-niticent scenery, with increased Orchestra and numerous Cherus. To conclude with, each evening, Shakspere's Comedy of KATHARINE AND PETIWOHIO. Petruchio, Mr. T. Swinbourne ; Katharine, Miss Isabel Adams. Notwithstanding the unparalleled success which has at tended the production of Goethe's Play of " Faust," Mr. Chatterton begs to call the attention of the public to the fact that it can only be performed for twelve nights more previous to the Christmas Holidays—viz., Tuesday, Thurs day, and Saturday of each week up to Saturday, Dec. 13— in consequence of the innnense preparations necessary for th© production of the Grand Christmas Pantomime on Boxing Night, Wednesday, Dec. 26. Doors open at half-past six; performances commence at seven o'clock. TH.EATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manag - er, Mr. Buckstone, THIS EVENING, OUR MARY ANNE. Mr. Howe, Mr Clark, Miss C. 11111. Ater which, A DANGEROUS FRIEND. Messrs. Chas. Ma hews, Howe, Kendal, Gordon, Weathersby, &e. ; Mes datnc.a C. Mathews, lloore, Chippendale, Laws, Hill, &c. Follored by USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Mr. C. Mathews. Concluding with A KISS IN THE DARK. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. — Sole Leso,.. , e and Manager, Mr. irechter. THIS EVENING, BRUTUS AND C.ESAR. Miss Hearade. At a Quarter before 8, the new Drama, in Four Acts, TETE LONG STRIKN, written by Dion Boucicault. The New Scenery by Mr. 'l. Greive and assistants. Messrs. S Emery, 11. Widdicomb, kitzpatrick, Dalton, D. Evans, Anderson, Newbound. Stanley. Lomas, Moreland, Andrews, Reynolds, and J. C. Cowper. To conclude with TWEEDLETON'S TAIL COAT. Toby Tweedleton, Mr. H. Widdicomb; and Miss Gratton. Acting Manager, Mr. H. Barnett. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, VIC ['URINE ; or, I'LL SLEEP ON IT. Miss Neilson (her sth appearance here), and Mr 3. Alfred Mellon ; Messrs. Billington, Paul Bedford, Ashley, Shaw, aid Romer. To conclude with HELEN or. TAKEN FRO II THE GREEK. Mrs. A. Mellott, Miss Furtado. Miss Emily Pitt Messrs. Paul Bedford, R. Phillips, F. A. Shaw, Ashley, Eburne. OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. SEVENTH APPEARANCE OF MRS. JOHN WOOD. THIS EVENING, a Drama, in 4 Acts, founded on the po pular tale by Charles Dickens, Esq., entitled BARNABY UDGE, adapted to the stage, and expressly for this Theatre, by Messrs. Watts Phillius and Vining. Characters by Mrs. John Wood, Miss Augusta Thomson, Mrs. Henry Vining, Mrs. Chas. Borman, and Miss Katherine Rodgers; Messrs. S. Calhaem, F Villiers, J. G. Shore, H. Forrester, Chaes llorsman, E. Shepherd, H. Mellon, C. H. Fenton, Wrl R. Robins Chapman, Ate. A cr. Ist, The Myster; Last. cognivon ; 3d, The Riot.; ; 4th, Caught at Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds, and Mus bMr. Charles Ball. The Drama produced under the stage directon of Mr. Vining. To conclude with a favourite Farce. Commence at Seven. rri HE ATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY'S. 1 Under the Sole Management of Mr. W. 11. C. Nation. ;LAST FIVE NIGHTS of THE GOLDEN DUSTMAN, which must be withdrawn to , make way fur further novelties. TIIIS EVENING Monday, Nov. 19, To-morrow Nov. 20, and during the week, TIIE ORIGINAL Dramatic Adapta tion of Charles Dickens's latest Work, "Our Mutual Friend," as pro . :uc,d by Mr. IV. 11. C. Nation at the Sadier's Wells Theatre, June id, 1E6 , , entitled TELE GOLDEN liUSTMAN, with Ne -v scenery and Striking Situations. Messrs Fer nandez, Atkins, 11. 11. Stephens ; Mesdames F. Gwynne and telly Nisbett. -•-- ' Concluding with Frank Talfourd's sparkling Burlesque of ATALANTA, with additional Rhyme to suit tie Times by W. H. C. Nation Misses Nelly Isiisbett, Polly Marshall. Louise LaidlAw, and Fanny Howard. To prevent d sappointment seats should be secured in ad vance. No charge for bills or booking. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Eole rroprietor and Manager, 3lr. !efton Parry. THIS EVENING, L RKINS' LOVE LETTERS. Mr. Balmore; Miss C. Launders. Af:er which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING 'SCUD. Messrs. Nevale,Belmore, Garden,Vollaire ; Mesdames I'. Josephs, C. Saunders, B. Foote, J. Fiddts. Orders by Post punctually attended to. ___ rrIIIE "SUN" NEWSPAPER._ G. R. GLENIE delivers the LATE EDITION al Chelsea, 7.40 ; 8; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30 Uxbridge, 9.2 U ; Waite! d, 8.0. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN." J. 1101,MES begs to inform his friends, and the pubic e—Luerally. that he supplies the LATEST EDITIoN 4:TIIE SQN " as soon as published—No. 16, Unnipstead r Ad, N. W. ''llE LAST EDITION o f " TILE SUN " s upplied as suon as Y.tbitaled• containing all the rl isl A MPS ATI s_ 01.11/NG I NT I LLIGENCE, try . NeAapaper Agent, 1, Blackiriars-road, L3ndon, S. QPORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS supplies the Cf. 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On Saturday last the working classes of Edin burgh had a holiday, in order to carry out a grand demonstration of a Reform. It cannot be said that anything particular tookplace one way or the other, but at any rate there was the satisfaction of wit nessing great order prevailing, and the various speakers who spoke at the evening meeting, which followed the day affair, seemed to be very quiet in their tone, compared to the effusions of intemperate eloquence which have lately startled many cities and hainletS from their propriety. Of coursethere was the usual absurd it y dis p la y ed in the mottoes and banners, all denoting extravagance and exag geration, more than any decided exposition o f thought and sentiment ; but so long as the pro ceedings of such affairs are carried on quietly and orderly there is no reason to find fault with them. Councillor FvFE, who occupied the chair at the meet ing in the Corn Exchange, very truly congratulated the meeting on the orderly character of the display, and "unlike the demonstration which took place before the Reform Act of 1832, marked by threats of violence, but imbued with the conviction that right would triumph overmight." This was in point of fact the best feature of the meetings both by day and night; but in this very respect they formed a striking contrast to the tone lately adopted by Mr. BRIGHT, and no doubt had he been there we should have heard a great deal of the usual unseemly talk about the power that would put down oppression, and such like phrases, that can be ingeniously twisted to mean anything, but which every one knows on such occasions are always understood to r-present pioneering to violence unless the imme diate object in question is conceded. Several letters of apology were read from members of Parliament, and Mr. MoNcnEIFF made some very sensible ob servations in his letter, when he said that while he was unwilling to refuse the request of his fellow citizens, he thought it desirable, in tho present in stance, to follow the example of other members of the late Government in abstaining from tak ing part in any general agitation on the question of Reform. He was, he stated, a consistent Reformer, but he disagreed with the proposal on the subject of the Reform League, and which he understood to be embodied in the reso lutions. We suspect that this represents the opinions of many other members of Parliament, and of many public men who are sincere in the cause of Reform in principle, but object to the practice, now so pre valent, of dragging it forward in this manner, and mixing up other matters of an extraneous char acter. Perhaps there is no greater enemy to the cause of Reform than Mr. BRIGIIT himself, and nothing makes mode rate men more sceptical of the good results of introducing another measure of Reform into Parlia ment than this demand that is raised about man hood suffrage and such like absurdities. After Mr. BRIGHT and his immediate followers, those who injured the cause of Reform the most are the old Whigs and their devoted adherents ; and we do not begrudge them the carcasms levelled at them by Mr. APLAREN, ALP., who moved the resolution. IL; said that the aristocratic Whigs of Edinburgh, who had crowded Reform platforms in 1832, had now deserted the cause, and become practically Tories—" Tories in all but this, that they desired that the Tories should come out of office in order that they should go in." To them he applied the lines in which BYRON expressed the comparison be tween ancient and modern Greeks : " So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there." We think this designation is appropriate for the Whigs of the United Kingdom, and the hon. member might have added that when the Tories brought in a measure of Reform they refused it a hearing, and when they had forced themselves into office on false pretences, they did nothing, or worse than nothing. Such insincerity is a disgrace to any politician, and re dounds to the lasting discredit of the Whigs, but going to the other extreme and advocating very great and sudden changes in the representation will not answer either. Between these exaggerated views of the question of doing too much and too little lies the great medium which will the best suit the notions of the majority of the community, and the most readily accord with the principles upon which our Constitution is based. The great advantage of a regular issue of duly qualified official statistics has been abundantly proved in times of exceptional mortality from epi demic disease. In this country we rely, not without reason, on the most complete publicity for the best means of encountering any difficulty or danger. In this our conduct is very different from that of most continental nations, where it is usually thought politic on the part of the Government to keep back disagreeable intelligence, arid where flourishing statements of public salubrity, commercial pros perity, and popular content usually imply there had been good reason for believing the contrary. The consequence of such a system naturally is that such statements entirely fail to restore confidence or lull apprehension, and a panic invariably increases the evil it dreads by exaggerating popular fears. In England on the contrary, though we are by no means insensible to the influence of sudden and unreasonable fear, it is a good deal allayed by the wise method adopted by our authorities of communicating the simple truth to the public. Perfect reliance is placed upon the official information, because it is known to be strictly accurate, and when wild tales of pestilence and disaster are circulated by the idle and mischiev ous they are speedily contradicted by a reference to the official record. A striking instance of this truth was given a short time back, when, on the decrease of cholera in London, the Registrar-General dis continued the plan which on its first outbreak he had wisely adopted of publishing daily returns of the mortality from both forms of the epidemic. No sooner was this regular information stopped than uneasiness and anxiety began to prevail, which were only allayed by the re-issue of the regular re turns. In compliance with the general wish, the Registrar has kindly continued this issue, notwith standing the additional trouble involved ; but we may suppose that he will soon abandon it, for we are happy to find that f or t h e fi rst t i me s i nce the outbreak of cholera fourmon a th s s ing ag le o d w ea e t h h a f v r e om a blank day—a return without the dreaded epidemic. This is good news indeed, and will give general relief. We had reason, it is true, to hope for the disappearance of the enemy before the advancing cold, b u t of late it has seemed disposed to linger among us, and there were not wanting prophets who foretold that it would make itself felt more or less during the winter months, to break out with full virulence on the approach of warm weather. It is impossible for any human prudence or exertion to guarantee our immunity next sum mer ; but there is very much that may be done durin g the winter months to diminish the danger to the smallest poss ible degree. It is to be hoped the sharp lesson we have bad will not be lost upon our local authorities, but that they will make the most of the time before. Now is the season for various sanitary reforms which would be dangerous in hot weather or in presence of a visitation of cholera, Long-standing nuisances, such as dust-heaps, offen sive drains, and other accumulations, which will not bear disturbance at other seasons of the year. The worst of it is, that no sooner does the imme diate danger pass by, and the public alarm subside, than the authorities fall back into their old dolce far neinte, and the ratepayers, though they grumble a little, are too much afraid of increased rates to be very energetic reformers. What is everybody's busi ness is nobody's business, more especially in those poor and populous quarters, where the chief danger lies. It is quite time that a better spirit was infused into this matter of sanitary reform. If half the energy vere displayed about it that is shown in political agitation our tables of mortality would show a very different list of preventible deaths. 1f cholera does not often visit us, if other plagues threaten us and pass by, there are yet forms of pestilence always busy amongst us, mowing down strong and weak, aye and youth, together. That increasing prevalence of fever in all its forms in the metropolis is a well attested fact, and the public improvements, unfor tunately, as yet only tend to iner;: - ..se the evil of THE SUN, LONI ON, MON hA Y EVE_NING, NOVEMBER 19, 1866. ova_ crowding in wretched dwellings to which it is :rat duly due. We may well join heartily in the iorm of Thanksgiving yesterday read in all places of public worship ; but " HEAVEN helps those who help themselves," and the best way of showing our grati tude to the PROVIDENCE who has stayed the plague among us will be to do all in our power to ame liorate that miserable condition of our lower classes • has had so much to do with the severity of laic recent outbreak of cholera. Mr. BEACH, M.P., has made a few interesting of servations upon public affairs at the Agricultural SI tow, on Saturday, of the Berks and North Hants di-vision. He began by expressing an earnest hope thra the representative institutions of England, -which have so often elicited the encomiums and eilogies of other nations, might not be thought devoid of credit amongst our own countrymen." There is good reason for the enunciation of such a wish when we see the manner in which those time honoured institutions are decried by certain arrogant and presumptuous speakers of note and celebrity. As Mr. BEAC H truly said,events of importance had so very rapidly succeeded each other of late that it was impossible to keep up an idea as to what they might lead to. A frightful pestilence has raged among men and cattle in this country, and a desolating war has been ruining the Continent. As the hon. mem ber said, very justly, we have had in the matter of Prussian success a striking instance of the difference which success or failure makes in the public estima tion. " Look, for instance, at Count BISMARCK; he drove, rather than led, his country into war, and had disasters attended the Prussian arms he would have been execrated even by his own countrymen, as a reckless, unprincipled schemer ; but as success gilded his enterprises, he is now extolled as a great statesman, a man:of extended views, and of great wisdom." This is an admirable definition of the state of things, but it speaks very badly for the public morality of those who take such views of national events. Good and bad cannot alter to suit the ways of fickle fortune, and it is contrary alike to the principles which formed great countries and keeps them flourishing thus to make heroes and demigods of such empty schemers and tricksty statesmen. It is a great error in judg ment on the part of many people of the present day who should know better, and we are always glad to see it treated with just reprobation and scorn. Referring to the great improvements that had been make in rapidity of communication, Mr. BEACH said that great benefit ensued thereby to all the nations concerned through the rapid interchange of ideas. "It overrides all those prejudices which the re moteness of distant lands in former ages served to engender, and it will in future times aid all nations in extending the benefits of commerce, and make them contented with the advantages of trade rather than seek external aggrandisement." Such is very true, and if Prussia represents the glories of war, we may claim the triumphs of peace for this genera tion, and we are not afraid of the comparison that posterity will make. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening. Thy Moniteur of last evening, under the head of latest news, says :—" We are authorised to contra dict the report which has been current to-day of an accident said to have caused the death of the Prince of Wales." The official part of the Moniteur states (rather tardily), that the " Emperor has received the letters by which his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse notifies the birth of a princess, daughter of his Highness the Prince Louis de Hesse and of her Royal Highness Madame the Princess Alice, born Princess of Great Britain and Ireland." Also that his Majesty has received the letters which put an end to the mission with which 11L Rosales was charged at the French Court, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Chili. The following news is also from the Moniteur:— " King Victor Emmanuel arrived on the evening of the 15th instant at Padua. His Majesty was everywhere the object of hearty demonstration." According to the last news from Athens there is a conviction in Greece that the insurrection of which the island of Candia was the theatre is com pletely terminated. The Imperial Commission is occupied in making arrangements for grand instrumental concerts and grand Orpheonic festivals on the occasion of the Great Exhibition. The election of Grand Rabbi of France took place on Friday. M. Isidor, Grand Rabbi of Paris, ob tained the majority of votes-22 out of 25. M. Klein, Grand Rabbi of Colmar, had two. One bulletin was illegible. The chief topic of consideration with the Paris papers to-day is the approaching expiration of the treaty of the 15th of September. They seem all of opinion that it will be strictly and faithfully carried out, but some of them conjectured that there may be something ominous connected with the mission of General Fleury to Italy. The IndTenclance Beige, a Brussels paper, is of opinion that a conci liatory arrangement will be effected between the Pope and the Italian Government, and asserts that the mission of General Fleury has for object to bring about such a consummation. THE DEPARTURE OF TIIE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN FROM MEXICO.—Ihe following is the despatch given by New York papers relative to the Emperor Maximilian's departure from Mexico:—" Washington, Nov. s.—Minis ter Romero to-day received the following letter by way of New Orleans, dated Vera Cruz, Oct. 26, 1866 :—‘ Maximi lian left the City of Mexico on the 23d inst., resigning ver bally in favour of General Bazaine. General Bazaine en deavoured to persuade him to delay his departure until General Castolnau's arrival two days later; but he de clined, and escorted by 800 Austrians proceeded to Ori zaba by cross roads, to avoid meeting with General Castel wtu. He reached Orizaba yesterday, and is expected here to-morrow. The captain of the Austrian frigate Daduota states that as soon as Maximilian arrives he will at once leave for Europe. It is said that Maximilian will publish to-day a manifesto at Orizaba. General Castelnau reached the city of Mexico soon after Maximilian left, and took pos session of the palace, and assumed the reins of government. The French soldiers who had entered under Maximilian's colours will be ret urne d t o F ranca under Genera l Caste l - , s influence. General Porfirio Diaz has captured the city of Oaxaca, taking all the artillery, ammunition, men, and supplies.' "d THE ACCIDENT TO MR. RICHARD HODGSON.— The absence of Mr. Richard Hodgson, chairman of the North British Railway Company, from the special meeting held at Edinburgh on Wednesday last, was caused by an accident which befel him at Retford. Mr. Hodgson, although suffering from illness, had left London en route for Edinburgh on Tuesday. When at Retford, however, he met with an accident which rendered it impossible for him to proceed further. While he was entering the railway carriage a portmanteau accidentally fell upon his head, and so aggravated his illness as to oblige him to abandon all thoughts of going to Edinburgh. Cartisle Journal. FATAL ACCIDENT.—A fatal accident occurred on Thursday night at the Junior United Service Club, Charles-street, St. James's-square. to Colonel John Hen derson, late of her Majesty's 16th Regiment of Foot. It appears that after dining at the club with two friends they all wont up to the billiard room, whichis at the upper part of the building. They played there till about 12 o'cloclt, when the colonel left them, as supposed to go to the closet, and he was found shortly afterwards lying at the bottom of the stairs in an insensible condition. He was attended at once by Mr. Tuthill, who tried all restorative means without effect, and by his advice the unfortunate gentle man was removed to Charing-cross Hospital about seven o'clock in the morning of Friday, but only lingered three hours, when he died. The International Exposition of Fisheries and Agriculture, held at Arcachon, have awarded the silver medal for works on fish culture, &c., to Mr. Francis Francis. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE HECLA. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 19. The Cunard extra steamer Hecla from New York arrived here at 8.30, and with $150,500 in specie and 113 passengers. She landed 44 passengers and the despatches, and proceeded immediately for Liverpool ; all well. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, NOY. 17. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of Denmark will return here to-day from Moscow. FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 17.—Two o'clock.—The weakness displayed yesterday continues to-day, and all Stocks and Shares are dealt in at lower quotations. French Threes opened at 69f. 37kc., or the same as last close, to recede to 69f. 25c., a fall of 12ic. Credit Mobilier Shares, after opening at 621 f. 25c., are now only doing at 611 f. 25c,, losing 11f. 25c. Spanish Mobilier lose 12f. 50c., at 327 f. 50c., and Credit Foncier and Comptoir d'Escompte 2f. 50c. each, at 1,382 f. 50c. and 895 f. An exception should be made for Italian Fives, which show an advance of 15c., this Stook attaining 55 f. 45c., after opening at 55f. 30c. Railway Shares are dealt in at lower quotations. On the London market Consols are better, having reached 89, with au advance of *. Three o'Clock.—A. change has taken place which has improved for the doe. The last prices are as follows :- 4} per Cents 97 50 end month 3 per Cents. 69 35 Do. end month 69 37} Credit Mobilier Do. end month Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1385 Bank Shares 3615 Italian Loan 55 50 Do. end month 55 50 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred Orleans Northern .. - AYO. For Account. 880 1180 _ _ _ Lyons and Mediterranean 912 50 Southern 583 75 Western Eastern — Sardinian — Austrian Lombard North of Spain l2O Saragosra 145 Ditto to Barcelona ROMIIII. 61 25 Italian Ministerial Circular. FLORENCE, Nov. 15, Evening. Baron Ricasoli has addressed a circular to the Italian prefects on the development of order in the interior of the kingdom. Speaking of Rome, he says : —• The Roman question still remains to be solved; but after the fulfilment of the September Convention that question can not, and must not, be the motive for agitation. The sovereignty of the Pope is placed by the September Con vention in the position of all other sovereignties. Italy has promised France and Europe to remain neutral between the Pope and the Itomans, and to allow this last experiment to be tried of the vitality of an ecclesiastical principality without parallel in the civilised world. Italy must keep her promise, and await the certain triumph of her rights through the efficacy of the principle of nationality. All agitation having for pretext the Roman question must therefore be discouraged, prevented, and repressed. The double capacity of the Sovereign Pontiff furnishes some persons with a motive for confounding the political with the religious question, and disturbing with doubts the con sciences of the timid. The Italian Government does not desire to lessen the independence of the spiritual chief of Catholicism. The King's Government, in all its acts, has shown that it recognises no other rules than those of liberty and legality, and that it desires the ministers of religion to be neither privileged persons nor martyrs. To the chief of Catholicism are due, no doubt, guarantees for the free and independent exercise of his spiritual ministry. The King's Government, more than any other, is disposed to afford every guarantee for the maintenance of this liberty and independence, being convinced that this may be done without any injury to the rights of the nation. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Saturday Evening. ._.. The Fenian convict, Denis Dowling Mulcahy, who was sent to Ireland from Pentonville on Wed nesdayc oortof e v g e naionegn,,s Bench, yesterday b roug ht b e f ore th e o oh for the pu r p ose o f assign ing error on the record of his conviction. He was dressed in the usual convict clothes, and his face was no longer recognised by those who knew him, owing to the large beard and moustache which he formerly wore haying been shaved away and his hair being closely cut. The court was crowded to inconvenience by persons anxious to see the con vict. Amongst others present was his sister, who was anxious to converse with him, but was prevented by the officers in charge ; but before he was removed she succeeded in shaking hands with him—a scene which caused some excitement in court. The pro ceedings commenced by Mr. O'Loghlen, junior counsel in the case, formally applying that the pri soner might have " oyer of the record," and that he might be at liberty to assign error, and that counsel might be assigned to him, naming Mr. Butt, Q.C., Mr. Dowse, Q.C., and Mr. O'Loghlen. After some purely formal proceedings the Chief Justice asked Mr. Butt whether it was his desire that the case should be argued during the present term. Mr. Butt answered that he was most anxious, and that as a matter of fact the prisoner had a right to have the case decided as speedily as possible. It was further stated that the Attorney-General had been furnished with a copy of the assignment of error. The Crown, however, was not represented, and Mr. Longfield, Q.C., the law adviser to the Castle, alleged that the Attorney and Solicitor-General had not yet had time to consider the matter. was granted, an d th e p r i soner w aAs remanded ay ru tos l a e fe custody until further orders. In the court-yard a large body of persons had congregated to see the convict off, and who, as he emerged from the judge's entrance door, pressed forward to get a good view of him. They were, however, kept back by the cavalry police, who sur rounded the van. As the convict ascended the step of the van he turned round and saluted some persons whom he recognised in the crowd. As soon as he entered the van the cavalry police were ordered to draw sabres and escort it. The cortege then proceeded along Ormond quay, up Capel-street, Dorset-street, and the North Circular-road to Mountjoy Convict Prison, where the convict was delivered to the charge of the governor, Air. Spread. The rule calling upon the Crown to join in error will expire on the 21st inst., but it is competent for the joinder to be put in without delay, so that the convict may again be brought up at any moment. The next step will be to apply that the Crown join in a concilium, so as to have the case set down for argument, which cannot take place for four days afterwards, when the last day of term will have been reached. If the Court should decide in accordance with the arguments made in favour of MulcahylmanY, if not all, the convictions of the Fenian prisoners will be vitiated. A meeting of the Roman Catholic priests of Waterford, under the presidency of Bishop O'Brien, has been held, and a determination arrived at to support Mr. De La Poer, the Whig Ultramontane candidate. But clerical opposition cannot effect as much here as in Tipperary, and the success of Cap tain Talbot is regarded as certain. The vagaries of Mr. M'Meehan have caused great amusement in Belfast, and some little excitement. All that his candidature can effect is to create a dis turbance at the nomination ou Monday next, but he can scarcely entertain any serious intention of going to the poll. There have been great floods in Belfast, attended with serious damage to property. FREE TRADE has, in truth, done wonders for us. Under it, our total imports have risen from .£152,000,000 in 1851—this year in which the real value of our commerce, as distinguished from the official, began to be ascertained—to £271,000,000 in 1865 ; while our ex ports batween the same dates rose from £115,006,000 to £218,000,000. And, again, while our aggregate revenue has risen from £57,763,000 in 1845 to £67,812,000 in 1865, the aggrograte amount of taxation repealed over that im posed has been X21:000,000. JUVENILE BOOKS. 'We have already noticed some among the many claimants for juvenile favour this Christmas, but many yet remain to add to the list. First upon the list of Story Books comes Johnny Jordan and his Dog (George Routledge and Sons), by Mrs. Eiloart, the delightful authoress of "Ernie Elton," who last year proved such a pleasant addition to many a Christmas party. There is an old familiar saying, " Let me make the peoples' ballads, and I care not who makes their laws," uttered by one who was well acquainted with the mysteries of human nature. In like manner, it may be said, the successful author of a really favourite story-book exerts more powerful influence for good or evil than school or schoolmaster: Mrs. Eiloart has rapidly earned for herself a happy and enviable reputation as the Boys' delightful Story-Teller. The love of adventure, ay, and the love of mischief too, so inseparable from the "regular boy," here find safe and ample room for exercise. Ernie Elton, " the lazy boy," was a perfect pil-garlic in his way ; but his troubles, being always occasioned by his unblushing idleness, came to be regarded with extra satisfaction in the light of deserved re tribution. His mishaps, however, were all most ludicrous and laughter-provoking. A good laugh is, in fact, the constant applause which greets the perusal of Mrs. Eiloart's books among a crowd of juveniles. Of a different character is the present hero, Johnny Jordan. We are told that "in all the town there was no such boy for work. He was always at the top in his class. No matter how hard a lesson, Johnny always con quered it. Nothing could tempt him away from his books till he had thoroughly prepared his tasks, but when those tasks were over"—then comes the reverse of the picture. Having put away his books and put on his cap, Master Johnny would exclaim, " Now I'm off for a spree I I must do some mis chief ; can't keep quiet any longer. Here goes for whatever comes in the way !" Such is Johnny Jordan. Need we say more to insure him a cordial invitation to the play-room and fireside this Christ mas ? Of a different character is the more ambi tious Tom and the Crocodiles (George Routledge and Sons), by Anne Bowman, the author of " The Young Yachtsman," and other similar tales of peril and adventure. The present story is fully as inte resting as any of its predecessors. It relates the perils and wanderings of an English family in one of the Nest India Islands, the eldest boy Tom proving himself a perfect hero, especially in regard to his adventures with the crocodiles. While enu merating boys' books we must not omit Routledge's Every Boy's Annual, which appears in its usual gor geous array, with a colour picture of the meeting of Sir Colin Campbell and General Havelock. Among the stories is one entitled " Barford Bridge, or Schoolboy Trials," by that indefatigable writer for the juveniles, the Rev. H. C. Adams. Among the practical chapters is one on "The Lathe, and How to Use It." For younger readers there is provided a rich treat by Aunt Louisa, who proves a very fairy Godmother of picture books. Aunt Louisa's Sunday Picture Books and Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books (Frederick Warne). The colouring of some of these picture-books is marvellously effective. One of the toy-books, en titled "Edith and Milly's Housekeeping," represents two little girls at play, with a doll's house. Every alternate page is a picture, beautifully finished in every detail, and coloured in the most brilliant manner possible. A companion volume, " The Life of a Doll," recounts (with alternate picture-pages) the adventures of a doll who could walk by machi nery ! and who, after accompanying her little mis tress across the seas to India, on returning, visits Paris, and is, "by express desire," pre sented to the Empress. Very stately and dignified is the figure of the doll, as she stands before the illustrious lady, who gracefully re ceives her most unusual guest. With such books for their entertainment as these and TVarne's Large Picture Toy Books, containing the veritable histories of " Little Red Riding Hood" and " Cock P►obin," and "The Children in the Wood," and "Jack in the Box," and fur their instruction " The Object Alphabet'," and " Edith's Alphabet," the little folks on a Sunday may find amusement and instruction combined in the beautiful Sunday Pic ture Books above mentioned (" Aunt Louisa's Sunday Picture Books"), containing the story of King David and Joseph and his Brethren, and the Proverbs of Solomon and others. Of a similarly attractive character are Routledge's New Toy Books, containing for Sunday reading the History of Moses, and the History of Joseph, and the Scrip ture Alphabet ; while the " Nursery Rhymes," and " The Three Kittens," and " Cinderella," and " The Alphabet of Trades," with many others, leave one would imagine, uo juvenile taste ungratified, no juvenile appetite (for Picture Books) unprovided for! THE EMPRESS OF MEXICO.—The Memorial Diplomatique has the following :—" We learns from Mira mar that St. Charles's day, being thefts of the Empress of Mexico, was observed there by a mass celebrated in the chapel of the chateau by Mgr. Raichich, principal chaplain to the Austrian navy, and who formerly held a similar office to the Archduke Maximilian. After the religious ceremony, at which the Empress was present, her suite and all the persons attached to the service of the chateau were admitted to offer their congratulations to her Majesty. The august Princess talked with the different people without any trace of the mental disturbance she has been suffering under being discernible. The same day her Majesty was agree ably surprised by receiving a telegram from the Em peror Maximilian by the Atlantic cable, congratulating her on her fete in the most affectionate terms. The Emperor and Empress of Austria, as well as the other members of the Imperial family, had also forwarded their compliments by telegraph." WORKING THE TELEGRAPH.—The high scale of charges which has been fixed for messages through the sub-Atlantic cables has led to the establishment of a system of " working the telegraph" by no means advan tageous to the Anglo-American or Atlantic Telegraph Com panies. The plan adopted is similar to that of "parcel pack ing" by carriers, which has been the source of so much litigation on our railways. The charge of £2O for a message of as many words—or £lO as the price is now reduced to including the names and address of the sender and receiver, and the date of the message ; thus practically limiting the number of words in the shortest message that can be sent to some 14 or 15. For instance "Brown and Co., Broad way, New York, to Robinson, Leadenhall-street, London," takes off a very large proportion of the message, each word representing a charge, at the present reduced scale; of 10s. Now, the combination of packers in London or New York were not slow to perceive that in these names and addreises on each message there existed a very profitable field for en terprise. On either side of the Atlantic the " packers" have a number of clients for whom they transmit or receive the messages at a price considerably below the tariff of tho company. Each of these customers or clients has a corre sponding figure or letter by which he is known, so that in stead of sending some eight or top words giving the names and addresses, the message is simply " A. 8," or any other two letters that may be agreed upon, the first representing the sender, the second the receiver, and thus a saving of some 20 per cent. is at once effected. Beyend this, how ever, a very complete code is arranged between the "packers," by whice the number of words in the messages is very greatly abridged. Half-a-dozen messages, for in stance, directing different correspondents to buy or to sell, may be "packed" in one message, and thus the repetition of many words be avoided. A variety of plans are adopted by which several messages are thus sent or " packed " in one, and a very handsome profit is realised by the operators at the expense of the companies.—Railway News. Shire-lane, now more commonly known as Serle's place, adjoining Temple-bar, is about to come down in order to make room for the new law courts. Readers of the Tatler may remember that not only was this place the abode of "Isaac Bickerstaffe," but that it contained (and still contains) the "Trumpet" Tavern, which was the scene of the evening potations of himself and his literary brethren. Another relic of the Addi onian era and of the early part of last century is about to be removed—Sir Richard Steele's cottage, opposite the Load of Hay, on Haverstock-hill. We observe that the (now rather noted) female doctor, Mary E. Walker, will give a lecture at St. James's Hall, on Tuesday evening next. The sub ject of the lecture is " The Experiences of a Female Physician in College, Private Practice, and in the Federal Army." The lecture will doubtless be of an interesting and highly instructive character. The skill, experience, and repute enjoyed by this scien tific lady will justify the hope of an eminently successful gathering of ladies and gentlemen in terested in the cause of female improvement and employment in a field especiolly adapted to female genius. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco before Lord Chief Justico Cockburn and Justices Mellor and Shoe.) THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE. The Right Hon. the Earl of Derby and the Right Hon. Lord Stanley took the usual oath of allegiance this morning. CHT:RCHWARDEN V. THE QUEEN. It will be remembered that this case involved the ques tion of a . petition of right on the part of the plaintiff, a GovernMent contractor, and that a judgment was given in favour of the Crown. The Solicitor-General now made a formal application to the Court for the striking out of the traverse of certain issues before the ease was taken before the court of error, for the purpose of reversing the judgment, but allowing the Crown to restore traverse if necessary. Tho rule was granted and made absolute. WYLDE AND ANOTHER V. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY (TOWER HILL EXTENSION) COMPANY. Mr. Keane, Q.C., on the part of the defendants, showed against a rule which had been obtained, calling on them to show why they should not issue a mandamus calling on the sheriff to treat for certain property of the plaintiffs, required for the purp3ses of the railway. By the com pany's act they were required to give six months' notice of their requiring to take any land or other property. That notice had been given, and the object of the rule was to compel the company to treat at once, with a view to the settling of the compensation, to the plaintiffs for their property. The learned counsel contended that under the Metropolitan Railway Act the plaintiffs could not compel the defendants to take the course they desired. Mr. Justice Shea said that if the learned counsel's argu ment were correct then the company would not be bound to take the land for three or four years to the injury of the plaintiffs. The Lord Chief Justice said this was a serious question, and the Court ordered that a mandamus should issue. BAIL COURT. (Beforo Mr. Justice Blackburn and a Common Jury.) MILLER V. MELVILLE AND OTHERS. Mr. Crooms was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Brown for the defendants. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mrs. Eliza beth Ann Miller, to try the validity of a claim set up by the defendants to remove certain goods and chattels upon which they had leviad an execution for debts due by Mr. William Robinson. It appeared that the plaintiff was niece of a gentleman named Grey, and she acted as his housekeeper. They lived at first at South Lodge, Clap ham-common, and while there Mr. Grey became insane, and the plaintiff was appointed his committee. He had previously made her sole executrix and legatee. They removed to Oxford-lodge, Lower Tooting, where Mr. Grey resides. It appeared that before his decease the plaintiff had married Mr. Robinson, her own brother-in-law, and against whose supposed property the execution was taken. It was alleged that she never gave up the possession of the furniture which had been removed from Clapham, and which constituted the, subject of the present action, and that as the marriage was illegal he was not liable for the debts of Robinson. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the whole amount claimed, as the value of the goods and chattels which had been seized. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. AN ACTOR CIIARGED WITH ASSAULTING A CONSTABLE.— James Mead, of No. 22, Davies-street, Berkeley-square, described as an actor, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting Francis Allwood, 186 C, and be having in a disorderly manner. Allwood said that a little before one o'clock on Sunday morning he heard a disturbance in Castle-street, Leicester square, and on going up found the prisoner and others making a great disturbance. On his (the constable) telling him to go away he refused, :and kicked him violently on the knee. [The constable showed his knee to the magis trate, and there was a bad wound on it.] He then took him into custody. Mr. Tyrwhitt said that being on the cap of the knee it was a dangerous wound. The constable ought to be off duty, as the wound would get worse. _ _ Police-constable Gordon, 33 C, proved seeing the pri soner deliberately turn round and kick Allwood on the knee, the prisoner being drunk. Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner would be committed for 14 days. Ho had kicked the constable on a very awkward and bad place. CRUEL ROBBERIES.—Two lads, named Thomas Connell and John Hogan, were charged with loitering in Walkers court, a market place, near Berwick-street, Soho. Sergeant Charles Colo said that about 10 o'clock he saw the prisoners in Ber wick-street, and followed them into Walker's- , :ourt. Knowing them as thieves he watched them, and saw Connell go up to a female and put his left hand into her pocket, and directly afterwards Hogan put his hand into a man's coat pocket. He thou took the pri soners into custody. On a previous Saturday five women who had just received their husbands' wages were cruelly robbed in the same place and in a similar manner. Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoners fur three months each with hard labour. WESTMINSTER. INCITING CHILDREN TO BEG.—Mary Connor, 13, Cathe rine Connor, 9, and Jeremiah Connor, 6, were charged with begging, and their mother was charged with inciting them to beg. A. Matthews, 60 B, said at 11 o'clock yesterday morning he was on duty outside the Brompton,Oratory, and saw the three children begging. He watched them for half an hour, and saw them receive alms, which they took to the mother. When a constable in uniform approached she hurried away, but ho followed her and took her into custody. In answer to the charge the woman said she did not send them to beg ; she certainly took the halfpence from the children when they brought them-to her to buy bread with. Mr. Self sent the children to the workhouse, and sen tenced the woman to 14 days' hard labour. MARYLEBONE. DEATH OF Mn. YARDLEY.—Last evening, at six o'clock, Edward Yardley, Esq one of the magistrates at this court, expired at his residence, No. 8, Blandford-square, Maryle bone. Mr. Yardley was called to the bar on the 24th of November, 1834, and for the past 20 years has filled the post of stipendiary magistrate within the metropolitan district. THAMES. INGENIOUS SMUGGLING. - Edward Challingworth, or Chilliogworth, of Kate's-hall, Dudley, Worcestershire, gas fitter, aged 29, was charged with smuggling 51bs. 12oz. of cigars and 11b. of tobacco. The prisoner was a passenger on board the General Steam Navigation Company's steam sloop Waterloo, from Rotterdam, and his box was searched by a Custom-house officer, named Harris, who asked him if he had got any thing about him or in his box liable to duty, and the reply was, about 40 or 50 cigars among my clothes. There were 40 cigars found in his clothes. The officer then measured his box, a large one, and the depth inside did not correspond with the depth outside. There was a false bottom to the chest, and on its being removed, five pounds and twelve ounces of cigars and one pound of tobacco were discovered very closely compressed. They had been in geniously packed between the false and the real bottom of the chest. The value of the duty amounted to £2 ss. Gd. Mr. Partridge said there was no defence, and the case was a very bad one. He fined the prisoner the treble value and duty, £6 16s. Gd. or seven days' imprisonment. The fine was paid. MORE SMUOGLISO.— Lumbutus Feldhausen, the cook of the Batavia steamship, trading between London and Rotterdam was charged with smuggling five and a half pounds of foreign manufactured tobacco found in the pantry of the ship, and which ho admitted to be his He was found guilty on this charge, and was sentenced to pay a fine of £2 Os. 9d., or be imprisoned for seven days. Ho was then charged on a Custom-house information with smuggling 281bs. of tobacco, by which he had incurred a penalty of £lOO. A man named John Coombs, on whom 281bs. of tobacco was found, was convicted by Mr. Part ridge on Fri6.y last, and sentenced to be pay £lOO or be imprisoned for six months. The prisoner Feldhausen was apprehended on Saturday, and he admitted that all the tobacco belonged to him, including that found on Coombs. Feldhausen was on shore when Coombs was arrested. Mr. Partridge held there was no evidence to commit Feldhausen with unshipping or being concerned in the carrying and conveying the tobacco taken from Coombs, and strongly condemned the system of Custom-house officers extracting admissions from pri soners. Police-constables had no right to do it, and it was equally objectionable on the part of revenue officers. It was the duty of Custom-house officers to ask passengers or the crews of foreign steamers or English steamers if they had any goods about them liable to duty, but not to inter rogate them. He hoped the practice would not be re peated. Ile dismissed the second information, and con victed only on the first. BARNUM'S NEW AMERICAN MUSEUM.—This well known and celebrated caterer to the public taste is exhi biting at his now Museum, New York, a dwarf elephant, double-humped Bactrian camel, Royal Bengal tiger, white Himalaya Mountain bear, lions, leopards, wolves, tapir, &c. A Mammoth fat man, weighing 615 lbs., giant and giantess, each over eight foot high, three dwarfs, and a Circassian girl; besides, as his advertisement concludes, cosmoramas, learned seal, happy family, grand aquaria, wax figures, and 200,000 other curiosities. HABIT.—It establishes in us little by little, and with stealth, the place of its authority ; but by its sweet, yet humble commencement, having raised and planted itself in us with the aid of time, it soon displays to us a furious and tyrannical visage against whose frowns we have not the power even to raise our €7oo,.....montaigne„ Gra Citinlar. HER MAJESTY, &c. WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday. The Queen, with the Princess of Wales, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accom panied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, and attended by Lady Susan Melville, drove out this morning. Their Royal llighnesses the Princess of Wales and Princess Christian also went out driving. Princess Beatrice walked in the grounds, and Prince Leopold went out walking, attended by Mr. Legge. The Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Christian went out shooting, attended by Lieutenant-General C. Grey and Lieutenant Ilaig. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel H. and the Hon. Mrs. Ponsonby, went to London last evening and honoured the perform ances at the Lyceum Theatre with her presence, and afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. • Sir James Clerk arrived at the Castle, and Mr. G. D. Engleheart left. S UNDAY. The Queen, with her Royal Highness the Princeso Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon. Princess Beatrice drove out also. Their Royal highnesses Princess Louise and Princess Christian went out riding, attended by the lion. Mary Lascelles and Major-General F. Sey mour, C.B. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle yesterdaY from Greenwich-park. The Hon. Mrs. Bence, Viscount Cranborne, th e Right Hon. Lieutenant-General Peel, and Lieut.- General H. Sandham, R,E., have also arrived. The Hon. Mrs. Stonor, Viscount Cranborne, and Lieut.-General Peel had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Queen, her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. J• $- Woodford preached the sermon. The hymns and psalms sung were taken from the Oxford edition of the Rev. W. Mercer's Hymn and Psalter Book, which has been adopted in the Royal Chapel by her Majesty's command. ---a Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales will leave Windsor Castle on Wednesday or Thursday next., on her return to Sandringham. The Prince of Wales is expected to return from Russia on or about the 28th inst. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester will en tertain a succession of distinguished visitors at Kimbolton Castle, Hunts, during the week. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, the Due de Richelieu, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Walker Heneago have loft the St. George's Hotel. _ . _ The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke intend to receive a large party of friends next week at Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire. The company will assemble on the instant. The Earl of March will attain his majority on the 27th of next month, and preparations are already being" made to celebrate the event with great rejoicing Ca the family estates. It is understood that Mr. Miller, the Conserva tive member for Colchester, is about to resign his seat, and in that event Sergeant Ballantine will probably be a Can' didate, with a proportionate gain to the representation of the borough, since he must unquestionably be classed among the ablest as well as the soundest and most consis tent Liberals of the day. REPRESENTATION OF PEMBROKESHIRE.—The writ for the election of a representative for Pembrokeshire, vice Mr. G. Lort Phillips, has been received, and the nomination is fixed for Monday, the 26th inst. Up to the present time Mr. J. B. Bowen, of Llwyngawair, a Conservative, i s the only candidate. CHARLES LAMB'S T030.---A proposal has been made to erect a handsome monument over the grave of Charles Lamb, in Edmonton churchyard. Subscription s will be received by Messrs. Moxon and Co. M. GUST AVE DORE has been engaged to illus - 0 trate Edgar Allan Poe's celebrated poem, " The Raven. The subject is precisely in his wild and fantastic vein. MR. FRITH'S NEXT GREAT PICTURE.—Mr. Frith is far advanced with that which will be his most important work, a picture which is about eight feet long, and con tains many figures. The subject is " The Last Sunday at Whitehall before the Death of Charles the Second," as de scribed by the Diarist. The persons represented are the king and his duchesses, musicians, and courtiers ; th e diarist himself is placed behind them. This work wil l appear at the next Academy gathering. MR. G. H. LEWES, we regret to learn, is en lw polled to retire from the editorship of the Fortnightly Re view, owing to ill-health. MR. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK will preside at the dis tribution of prizes, and deliver an address, to the students of the Government School of Art in connexion with the Liverpool Institute, on Wednesday, the 28th. PROFESSOR DE MORGAN has resigned his chair in University College, London, is consequence of the recen t decision arrived at by the council of that body to rej ect Professor Martineau's candidature for the chair of Intel lectual Philosophy and Logic on the ground of his deno minational reputation. MR, A. COOPER has tendered his resignation as full R.A., and retires to the Honorary A ca d e raicians hi P; This act creates another vacancy. In the next election of R.A.s and A.R.A.s, the new laws will be carried into effe ct, and the Associates vote with the full members. THE LATE LORD DUDLEY STUART.—Satur ciall being the 12th anniversary of the death of Lord Dudley a Stuart, meeting of the Polish Historical Society w as he ld at Sussex-chamber, Duke-street, St. James's, in commem o ration of the sad event. Major Szulczowski, who occlll3''‘ the chair, and several other gentlemen, paid a tribute to the self-sacrifice and devotion to the departed noblem an to the cause of Poland. INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER JOURNAL.- - O n e of the beneficial results of the late visit of our volunteers to Belgium is the announcement of a new international jour nal, which is to be called the Rifleman, and which is tended to give information in French and English, on 3 events concerning volunteering, sport, aquatics, hunt ill ' shooting matches, fishings, and all matters which n17:0 interest British and Belgian riflemen and sportsmen. prospectus says the Rifleman must thus b eco me an °th t e o bond of union between the two nations. The journal is be published weekly at Brussels, and is to bo un der th. tb management of an officer of the Chasseurs EclaireurS, division of the volunteer Army of Belgium.'-South Lona° Chronicle. DR. CUNNING'S PREDICTIONS.—Last evening P r ; Cumming took for his text Jonah i., 6 :' " What Inee la ! t _ thou, 0 sleeper? arise, call upon thy God." In constnna ing upon the story of Jonah he went over much of his e r ground, and repeated most of his usual illustrations re ground, lation to the approaching end of the world. lie sai d o . 20 years ago he had fixed upon the year 1866 as the h a d bablo period when time should come to an end, and he ; ilt then and since been much ridiculed for his belief . where were the scoffers now ? Did not the present portend some dreadful catastrophe? The minds ef .. were much troubled, and the councils of nations perriesys, by the dread of some great and terrible calamity was its presently to come upon the earth. The Papa g e9 ."'as in last throe, and all the Pope's lambs were ready to tun; an d their shepherd and tear him asunder. The 10,00 0 nu i s wore the 10,000 priests dispossessed by Victor Emmanuel fight coming over to help Dr. Manning and the Puseyites thaffetlio their last great battle in England. He believed t o r th e true interpretation of prophecy pointed to this yel" . .._ : „, s ; next., or probably 1868, as the consummation of all but if any Jonah were to go to-morrow, at " 12 o e cl o y: o ' f to the Royal Exchange, "the centre of the cornin_ro be this great nation, and proclaimed this belief he w°l laughed at." 9 A gao l- WHAT IS A Hop ? —What is 3 hop he burg correspondent, in the last Brewers' Journal, has put a very literal construct' fo r so _ this query, which appeared in the Brewers',Jow ver that tember. The question wo put related to the d had was absolutely picked for the use of the brewer. 11 . 7 .t we no idea that it would have led to any controversy, ho p may say at once both botanically and' practico yota.u. we meant is a flower. The hop heads to will ring by cumber of cor respondent alluded are sometimes eaten in thE . ) o e ' 7 010 the labourers' families in Kent, being cooked tier way as aspal agus. When the bine is tied the Li , b" and, as we havethsaoy there aro no more than three bines to shoots being pulled up, are left 10 some extent; and when this is not the case hootS t° ding these s rot on the ground. Any idea of Sen entirelY Pre the London markets as a spring vegetable i v s illior ; other _ eluded by the fact that they soon dry andi our table, ae wise they would be a welcome addition toho they aro, wo aro informed by a person lir_ it. has Lou don times eaten them, extremely palatable, and table would be looked upon as a delicacy. a 13° id,tiel:trttlio th ou E gy , e h h u Al ex 21 1 ri aeu J 5 h OM Th rate 1 ti ons at 3i lowe, Indic Met ampl fagot credi Mess iss ue( 41;ssi D b Nit 4: r oll br an, and atti c , O f th to aL AI this