The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-06 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the past year 1t64 the boats of theiNational Lifebaat Institution h aye saved 432 persons from different wrecks on our coast 5, The Institution also expended £19,531 11s sd. in the same perivd on lifeboat establishments, in addition to granting, .£1,569 as rewards for saving 69 shipwrecked per :ions by its. lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution earnest'y 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, Berries and Co., Contts and Co., Ind by all the L ondon and country bankers ; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. (Opera Company, Limited.) THIS EVENING, THE BRIDE OF SONG. Renee, nes 'air!wall ; Beatrtx, Madame Fny Huddar ; Adel bert, Mr. Uelary Haigh; and Hannib I, an Mr. A. Laurence. C on d u ctor, Mr Alfred Mellon. To conclude with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled CINDERELLA ; or, Harlequin and the magic Pumpkin, acid the Gre it. Fairy of the Little Glass Slipper, in which the celebrated Donato wid appear. Commen e at Stven. - • A MORICING PERI. 0 itMANCE of CINDERELLA next moNDA y , j am 9, sr, Two o'clock, and every Monday, till further notice. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. 'III'S EVENING, the new Operetta, in one act, en ilLied PUNCHINELLO. Followed by . the new Grand Christmas Pan'omime,:THE ioN AND THE UNICORN FIGHTING FOR THE CROWN. EATR E-R OY AL, DRURY-LANE, Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, and during the week, A YOUNG j...A1l FROM THE COUNTRY. After which, the Grand Christmas Pantomime, HOP O'MY THUMB AND HIS ELEVEN BROTHERS; or, Harlequin and the Ogre of the Seven-League Boots : Messrs. G. Bel znore, Tom Matthews, G. Weston, Master Percy Roselle, &c. 3iisses Lydia Thompson. R. Lcclercq, &c.; Messrs. Boleno, C. Laud, W. A. Barne9, T. Morris, Cormack, Saville ; Mdme. Boleno, the Misses Gunnies, aad Signor Tescano. T II EATR E-R YA L, HAYINLA.RKET. Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Jan. 4, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Chippendale, Sothern, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Coe, Wes thersby, &c. ; Mesdames Moore, Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &C. After which, LORD DUNDREARY IdARRIED AND DOSE FOR Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Braid, Gordon, Clark, White, Coe, Weathersby, &c.; Mesdames Snowdon, 11111, &c With PRINCESS SPRINGTIME. Mr. Compton, Miss L. litetey. And MRS. witzrE. To commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Mr. PECHTER will perform his universally allowed great Impersonation of BUY BLAS EVEttY EVENING until furtaer notice. THIS EVENING, to commence with MY WIFE'S OUT. Wiessrs. Widdicomb, Charles; Miss B. Percy and Miss E. L avenu. After w 7 aich, at 8 o'clock, RUY BLAS. Buy Blas, Mr. Fechter. Messrs. Ryder, k itzpatrick, F. Charles, M`intyre, Garden, Raymond, uollett, C ifford, Moreland; Misses Car lotta Leolercq, B. Percy, and Mrs. Winstanley. To conclude with a Farcical Oriental Extravaganza, en titled BEAILFACED IMPOSTORS. Schahabaham (a pasha of three tails, Mr. Raymond; Mustapha, Lis vizier, Mr. Carden ; Bill Stumps and Jack llama, quondam prop. ietors of. the original uni ed happy family, )iessrs. Moreland and "Viddicomb ; Ali, chief guardian of the ladies of the Harem, Collett ; Osman Khan, chief executioner, Mr. Bunch ; Achmet Aga, an officer of the Sultan, Mr. Kelly; Mirze n e ,jji Baba, chiet keeper of the monkeys, Mr. Regan; Ayesha, formerly Jemima Stumps, but no • first favourite of the pasha, Miss Laveuu; Fatima, second favourite of the gash Miss ee. Percy ; Shekerleb, third favourite of the pasha, Miss 'Travers; Beda, fourth favourite of the pasha, Ms. Watson; lenobia, formerly banou of the harem, chief wife of the pi sha, but now discarded for A yesha, Miss Hate 4. Various e h % .ice speoimens of zoology, guards, slaves, and attendants, by he numerous and talented S,nith family. Divertissement Iles Odalisques Doors open at Half-past Six. The Box-office open daily from Elev.n till Five. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.— ooze anu b. .1 , lit,t4Ler. THIS EVENING, ICI ON FABLE FRANCAIS. Mr. J. L. Toole. Af er which, at 8, LEAH. Miss Bateman, supported by Messrs. George J. rdan, Swinbourne, It. Phillips, Stuart, ,Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Bihington. To conclude with DARK DOINGS IN THE CU BOARD MY TM: KNOT rING'ENi BRO t'iIER,S. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, IL chill ps, Millington; Mrs. A. Mellon. Miss A. Seaman. Commence at 7. InISS BATEMA N.—NEW THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIIL —Mr. Webster begs to announce that the great Tragedienne, 31iss BATIOIAN, having per formed with unparalleled success the character of " Leah" fora period of nine consecutive moi. ths during the last season at this Theatre, and since won the plaudits of thousands in Liverpool, Birmingham, Dublin, Manchester, and tilasgow, she will BE-APPEAR at this Establishment To-night, Jan. a, 1165, in her original character of the Jewish Maiden for a limited number of nights, previously to her appearing in other illustrations of the (,la sic Drama, which are iu prepa ration. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. 2 EIS EVENING, a new Extravaganza, entitled THE MAGIC HORSE AND THE ICE MAIDEN I RINCESS. Atter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11. Forrester. H. Mellon; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma 33arnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough, Tali EVENING, at 7, SHORT AND SWEET. Alter which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, THE GRIN" BU ES ; or, the Mrs. Brown of the Missis-sippi. Messrs. Stoyle, Thorne, James, Fenton, &e.; Mesdames Ada Swauborough, Itaynham, Simpson, Johnstone, dm. To cAaclude with THE WILFUL WARD. Miss Palmer. COALS. —The LILLIESHALL COMPANY'S COALs. Direct from their own Collieries. • Ifarquis' .263. per ton. I Double ..21s. per ton. Top 255• 911 Decp Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pnts, Westbourne Park-road, \V., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke lss. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, dole :.gent. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied, as soon as published every Evening by W. ALEXANDER (late BROOKS), Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish- street, Oxford-street. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIti.EINcit, pall be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, News AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, Bh. 26m.—Afternoon, 9h. 3m. To-lionßow.-Morning, 9h. 40m.—Afternoon, 10h. 17m. Cr) jilt LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN.. 6, 1865. - The Conservatives have had a large gathering at Leeds, and in spirit and style it has contrasted not unfavourably with those of their political opponents. The presence of Mr. FERRAND insured an animated and interesting discourse, and the hon. gentlenian did not fall short of expectation on this occasion. He vehemently denounced the course pursued by those members who had departed from their pro mises and proved false to the trust reposed in them at the time of their election. Certainly the name of such is " legion," but they will soon find that, as Mr. FERRAND told them, the day of reckoning draws near. Truly did he observe that " men within the walls of St. Stephen's who betrayed their trust, insulted the electors, and betrayed their interests." It is to be hoped that the prediction here made will be realised, and that many who have compromised themselves will be weighed in the balance and sent to the rightabout. Perhaps there never was a Parliament that contained more who have failed in fulfilling ti4ir avowed intentions at the Period of their election. It is very convenient to push away the consideration of awkward subjects, but such subterfuges should not be suffered to avail, and the electors of England have a duty to perform which it behoves them not to shrink from. It is all very well to descant upon the extension of the suf frage and other desirable changes at Reform meet ings, but it might be suggested to those who talk so glibly that their party has been the one of obstruc tion, and that had Earl. RUSSELL and his coa lition not been so active, by this time we should have had a very different state of thing s . H a d the Reform Bill of Lord DERBY'S Govern. ment been suffered to pass, as it ought and certainly would have done had there been any real desire for improvement on the part of profess ing Liberals, something would have been gained i n the right direction ; but nothing can excuse the con duct of those who professed such indignation at its incompleteness, and then did nothing themselves when they had the chance. Now that its end draws nigh, it is but natural that we should recall the circumstances that attended its opening. Earl RUSSELL has taken care to put himself out of danger, and he will have to render no account of stewardship, but his confederates may find their task not so easy as they imagine. In his amusing manner, Mr. FERRAND criticised the course pursued by the Liberals, who, he said, were going to try again their old adage, and " make great professions and tell great lies upon the hustings;" and he had a foundation for his assertions, which all political critics have not. The hon. member paid a graceful tribute to the Conservative chief, and it was well timed and appropriate. It does not need for a man to be a political partisan to be able to recognise public worth and private merit, and many will accord with Mr. FERRAND who are not of his poli tical tenets when he remarks that " the Earl of DERBY was a man who deserved well of his country; his giant intellect was a tower of strength for his native land ; his chivalrous honour stamped him as a loyal patriot and an honest man." Mr. Fox's remarks were very telling, and his home-thrusts at the manner in which the Whigs monopolise place and power are particularly appropriate at this juncture, when every day brings forward fresh proof of their greed and selfishness. When we reflect upon the peculiar circumstances that have kept them so long in office, it would only be a gracious and a graceful thing if they occasionally departed from their rule, and acknowledged merit in a political opponent, by bestowing one of their countless places upon him, or at least in making the offer. But such an idea never, of course, enters the head of a Whig ; and far from any consideration for others, his motto is, " See all things for my use." Perhaps one of the shabbiest pieces of exclusiveness was the conduct of the Ministers to the late Lord Mayor. It was a dog in the manger policy, because it did not benefit one of their own side ; and it would have been more characteristic of their high position to have gone out of their way to put.a.side precedent, rather than to rake up difficulties and court obstacles to gratify a paltry feeling, alike unworthy of the time and personages connected with it. Mr. Fox very pro perly showed up some of the inconsistent state of things that now obtain at head-quaiters. " What party was it that had all the patronage, from the Archbishop of Canterbury to the crossing-sweeper of the House of Commons? Who gave away every honour, from a Garter to a school of art medal ?" The answer to these queries may not be very agree able to give, if they are put in some places ; but the discerning public will 'recognise their truth, and feel ashamed of such enormous appropriation. Mr. Fox amused his hearers by his quaint sayings, but there was much truth in the entertaining disquisitions he made upon affairs in general, both moral and political. Perhaps if persons oftener took a simpler view of the mutual relations between rich and poor, the several classes of society might be linked together in terms of greater amity than when they go back to first causes and enunciate grand notions of equality, that are sure to offend one side and irritate the other. In this passage we find the actual benefits that the dif ferent classes confer on each other, and though put in a jesting style it contains sober earnest in its meaning. " The people could not possibly exist without the aristocracy, or where were they to get their bread and butter, and the aristocracy could not exist without the working classes, or where were they to get their cloth from ?" When we remember the fuss that some anti-Reformers and pretentious Liberals have made about the wants of the poor and the claims of the people, and contrast it with their marked indifference in the case of the Lanca shire distress, Mr. Fox's remarks are not ill-timed, when he says that it was a landowner who just first stepped forward to relieve them, assisted by Tories. Mr. BEECROFT spoke well concerning the rights and duties of the working-classes, and very truly observed that in constitutional England " there is more real liberty for the working man than in democratic America ;" and also, no one can deny that the hon. member showed very clearly that higher prizes may be obtained in the lottery of life in this country than in some places where more pre tence is made ; but the practice does not always ac cord with the theory. Examples have been seen of the working man obtaining high distinction, and as is here set forth, the merchant prince, the learned professor, the wise legislator, the Lord Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the Lord High Chancellor of Eng land, may all be regarded as goals that ambition may aspire to, and talent command unrestricted by class and unfettered by the conditions. of caste and exclusiveness. Mr. BEECROFT made some very wise reflections upon the necessity that existed for care ful surveillance lest the rights of labour should not be respected. "If states cannot dispense the neces sity of labour they can and ought to modify its severities, and temper with all possible amenities the rigour of its lot." This is very reasonable ad vice, and when we reflect upon the many victims to overwork, and the countless sufferings that are en dured through the over pressure of toil, it is doubly appropriate counsel that we should pause and re flect upon the responsibilities that those share who enjoy the profits of labour, and reap the rich harvest of its wearisome fields of toil. In the re marks here made by Mr. BEECROFT there is surely as much consideration and respect for the nobility of labour as any leveller of classes or enthusiast for the rights of man can desire or set forth. He said that the sober and honest working man might take his place amid the highest of the land "himself alone the exception, in all the varied ele ments that constitute a great people, for of no other class can it be said that its existence and conserva tion is necessary." These are solemn and striking truths, which it is well to consider occasionally. Equally good is the passage in which he descants upon the influence that working men possess, and which, indeed, can not be forgotten by those who see society, and should be borne in mind by them as a sacred trust, for which they must render up an account to the GREAT MASTER, of whom the highest are but servants, while the lowest share the privi lege of performing His behests. Mr. BEECROFT said that the destinies of nations were in the hands of the working-men, and while their physical influence had no bounds in its industry, so their moral influ ence was "equally great and serviceable when good, their intellectual influence when educated, their ec clesiastical influence when religious, and their civil influence when sound politicians." It is refreshing to meet with such lofty sentiments, so ably ex pounded, and such earnest feeling so eloquently expressed. They are the true friends of the people who tell them of their rights, and do not discourse upon their wrongs—who seek to elevate them in the scale of society, mentally and morally—to approach nearer and more near to the standard of perfection, which, if unattainable in this incomplete stage of existence, may still lead on to good and glory, even as the light which shineth bright and brighter to the perfect day. ' • Ile increase in the the p u bli c, and there is a visible The question of Reform continues to k ee p b efore activity of its advocates. BUXTON, who has been among the most prominent of its resuscitators,. addresse d his constituents the other evening on public affairs generally, and more especially on the present prospects of Reform. His own scheme, recently explained in his letter to the Times, he considers to be at present hopeless, and therefore he gives it up. He is not very sanguine as to the aspects of the question, blaming the genuine Liberals for their extreme views, which he thinks have scarcely the shadow of hope of any compromise. But very little reform of any kind has been offered them for several years. The gen. ne Lib era l s _ would not, we should hope, refuse any concession because it has not all that they wanted. They accepted the abolition of the Property Qualification and other useful mea sures, although there were many other reforms of more importance wanted. If the large and compre hensive measure of Reform, which has been so long promised to the people, is too much for the nerves of the Whigs, let them at least begin with such gradual changes as are not likely to disturb the Constitution, or to produce any violent convulsion. It is a standing disgrace to a self-governing country like England, that any speaker should be able to say, as Mr. BUXTON said the other night, that "vast masses of intelligent and industrious men are at present as much shut out from any share whatever of political power as if, instead of being English men, they were serfs in Russia or negroes in Caro lina." Mr. BUXTON added very truly, that Liberals would be false to their first principles if they tole rated such a condition of things, at the same time he is opposed to any rash or headlong measure which would at once transfer the possession of poli tical power and influence to a new class, which from its numbers would have the preponderance. Mr. BUXTON did not forget, apparently, that he was addressing his constituents when he spoke so strongly of the claims of the existing class of elec tors to consideration. But in estimating the influ ence of a fresh class of electors, it must be remem bered that a large proportion of those who at pre sent possess the privilege do not exercise it, and could they be induced by a better state of things to vote, the effect of the change would be sensibly diminished. In fact, very little difference would be perceptible between the opinions of the upper class of those without the pale and the lower class now within it. The opinions of the intelligent masses upon foreign questions are very much the same as those of the trading class, while, as for social questions, such as legislating on the relations be tween master and workmen, &c., it is certainly fair that both sides of the case should be represented. The class of candidates who would present them selves for election would be very much the same as now, and it is the elected who form the Parliament, not the electors. On colonial affairs, Mr. BUXTON does not show the sound judgment which might have been expected from him. He adopts the GOLDWIN SMITH theory of abandoning our colo nies, and quietly says that a separation from Ca nada, which offered so tempting a bait to the cupi dity of the North, would be " an immense relief to this country." If the hon. gentleman wishes to avoid a war with America he chooses a singular method of doing so by strengthening the enemy's hands at the same time he weakens his own. In common with the other supporters of this theory, who are happily but few in number, he appears to forget how much of her present wealth, power, and dignity England owes to her immense and widely distributed possessions, and that the loss of her colonies would at once reduce not only her territory, but her strength and her influence. Happily, as we have said, he will find few Englishmen to share his sentiments, which are as much opposed to the best interests of this country, as they are harsh and unjust towards our dependencies. The news of a terrible catastrophe has saddened our seasonable holidays. Every one knows that in Scotland the New Year is the great festival, and that the pleasure-seekers and holiday-makers then look for their chief amusements. In accordance with this rule, a popular musical entertainment was to be given at Dundee, in a music hall, which, strange to say, is situated underneath a church. It is approached by a stair, consisting of 15 steps, and these steps were on Monday night the scene of an awful tragedy. The street in front of the building was blocked up by an immense crowd some time before the performances were to begin, and the hall-keeper therefore was directed to open the iron gate and admit the people by degrees. According to custom he partially opened one half of the gate ; but the impatient crowd pressed forward to gain admittance with such violence, that the half gate he was hold ing was dashed back, the other half gave way, and the foremost of the crowd poured down the stairs, the young and weak falling in the crush and those behind rolling over them. The throng behind still pressed on, falling over each other, till a hundred writhing bodies lay entangled at the foot, of the stairs. Shrieks, groans, and entreaties to keep back were all mingled in the awful din, and it was long before the crowd outside could be made to understand the case. Still longer was it before the piled up heap could be assisted, the living disen tangled from the dead, the maimed separated from the suffocating. The promised evening of pleasure closed upon nineteen dead bodies, a list of injured as yet unreckoned, and a city full of mourning. The first thought in hearing of a catastrophe of this nature is horror and regret ; the second is a question as to the manner of its occurrence. The managers of the entertainment had probably no greater reason to apprehend an accident than on former occasions ; they expected a full attendance, and thought they provided for it by partially opening the gate. No better provision is made in half the public places in the country. Narrow gates, long close passages, flights of stairs, single entrances, are all so many death-traps when once a panic sets in, or the first victim goes down in a crush. How many more such disasters must we have before we organise a different system ? The entrance to the Bell-street hall appears to be particularly faulty in its character from its downward construction, which not only facilitated the catastrophe, but prevented those be hind from seeing what was going on. There is, however, no doubt that in a great many other places of the kind a similar accident might have occurred. Not many years since a dreadful occurrence of something of the same kind took place at a Metro politan theatre, where the crowd rushing for exit fell one on the other, and the door opening inwards escape was impossible. Surely a want of due pre caution lies at the bottom of all these accidents. Every place of public assembly is liable to a sudden pressure from an unusual crowd, a fire, a panic, or other causes. Why, then, is no sort of provision made for an emergency which will certainly not wait for preparation ? Surely it is not too much to demand from the owners and managers of such places a little trouble and outlay for the protection of the lives and limbs of their visitors. The erection o o f f wooden strong e bodyar barriers r and of f divisions, policemen, and w outhewould gr attendance eatly dimi nish if they did not altogether prevent the risk of such catastrophes. Had such arrangements been made at the Dundee Music-hall how many lives would have been saved, and how much sorrow and suffering spared. It is no light thing that an evening's pleasure should make fathers and mothers childless, and leave widows and orphans mourning. It is not to be accepted as one of the ordinary risks of life that persons seeking a few hours' recreation should run the chance of a sudden and violent death. Accidents may, it is true, befal us at any moment of life, but it is too much that such catastrophes should, as it were, be pre pared beforehand. Very many of our London places of amusement might by a moment's panic become the scene of a similar disaster. It would be well to have an official inspector appointed to survey all entrances and exits of public places, and THE SUII, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1865, to report upon their efficiency. Some of the new buildings are by no means perfect in their arrange ments, while the old are often very defective. An authorised censor might do much to secure the safety of the public, and to prevent an hour of harmless amusement being turned into a life-long tragedy. LITERATURE The Book of Perfumes. By Eugene Rimmel, One Vol. Pp. 266. Chapman and Hall. A delicious book—radiant to the eye, fragrant to the nostrils—emblazoned, gilt-edged, illustrated, odoriferous ! As Xavier de Maistre, in his quaint little narrative of a Journey Round his Room, ob serves, that in the mere cutting of a lemon we have a pleasant foretaste of acid—so might we say that the mere look in print of the name of Eugene Rimmel has long since become suggestive to us of a perfumed breeze, or of the tinkling of an aromatic fountain. Insomuch, in truth, that when we come to take up, as we do in this handsome volume, " A Book of Perfume, by Eugene Rimmel," we expect to find that it is a Book of Perfume. And accordingly, in this expectation we have been in no way disappointed ! A Book of Perfume this is, not merely in name but in reality. As we turn the leaves, our senses are greeted by a breath as from a flower garden ! The work is what it affects to be—A Book, eh ? Why, yes—and more than that—A Bouquet ? Mr. Rim nel justifies, by his present literary performance, his reputation as a Perfumer, nay, it should be said rather as the Perfumer, as the popular and Fashion able Perfumer of Nowadays, at once among Pari sians and among Londoners. He proves himself to be, in truth, a perfect Master of his Art. He shows that he understands it theoretically as well as he carries it out practically. He lifts the curtain—and conducts us into his wonderful laboratory ! He reveals to us many of the secrets of his exquisite distillations ! He explains to us some at least among the countless mysteries of his subtle and refined combinations. By the time the exhilarated and refreshed reader of this really lovely volume has got to the end of it— exhilarated with anecdote and refreshed by a perpe tual sense of fragrance—he (the reader, that is) knows, if not All About It—at any rate vastly more than when he first opened the volume ! A pane gyric, by the way, that cannot be fairly pro nounced, we fear, over one volume in a thousand, almost we had said, over one volume in a hundred thousand ! He feels, on closing this delectable Book of Perfumery, as if he had been actually handling the delicious materials of the perfumer's craft of which it treats ! Carrying about with him afterwards, for a while, so to speak, a suspicion of having fingered the reddish-brown musk-pod of the deer of Tonquin—of having toyed with a lump of ambergris washed up upon the coast of Green land—of having been sprinkled by successive douches of liquid perfumes distilled from all the daintiest flowers that blow, the jessamine, the rose, the crocus, the violet, the jonquil, the tuberose, the narcissus ! Spices, one might say, seem showering about us in the mere retrospect of the perusal of the Book of Perfumes—clove, mace, nutmeg, pimento, cinnamon ! We appear to have come fresh, as it were, from a walk through a field of the Tonquin Bean ! And, even if we imagine ourselves to be reposing for a while afterwards, it must needs be in a bower trellissed and festooned by some odorous creeper like the Vanilla ! The atmosphere we breathe all through the book is an atmosphere of fragrance—and of a fragrance that is ever fresh and ever new—a frag rance that never palls, or cloys, or faints away exhausted by the mere process of evaporation. " Ah, what can language do ?" exclaims our author with the Poet of "The Seasons"—on first dipping his pen (the quill of a ringdove surely ?) into his aro matic ink before inditing the very first sentence of his very first chapter— " Ah, what can language do ? Ah, where find words, Tinged with so many colours ; and whose powers, To life approaching, may perfume my lays, With that fine oil, those aromatic galeb, That inexhaustible flow continual round ?" Yet—James Thomson did this, nevertheless, in his poetry, and Eugene Rimmel has now done it again, quite as unmistakeably, in his congenial prose. The language almost despaired of being found by each —by the Poet writing the ejaculation, and the Per fumer quoting it—has been found by both : by Thomson in his " Summer," by Rimmel in his " Book of Perfumes." The fine oil, the aromatic gale, the fragrance, the aroma, flow here con tinually, inexhaustibly, through the whole current of the narrative—there of the Poet, here of the Per fumer ! Non cuique• datum est habere nasuni is the quaintly chosen motto emblazoned upon the cover of this Book of Perfumes, by Eugene Rimmel. Happy the reader, however, to whom that gift is l m ea ee d kl hira y, , co d m el p ig la h e t e e n d t i l y y: on foll thr ow oug h h is an n osthe e ! fr l a t gr given! For once, he can do no bette r th an j us t s i mp l y , will leaves of this really delectable Book of Perfumes— as though the leaves were not so much, in truth, the leaves of a book that he was pursuing, as of garden that he was traversing. THE WILD GARLAND. Collected by Isaac Reeve. Part I. F. Pitman.—ln the unpretending form of a little sixpenny serial, there is here commenced one of the most curious and delightful collections of miscellaneous poetry that could be well desired, even by students delighting most in the curiosities of literature. We shall watch the continuation of the work with lively interest. Small, cheap, unpre tentious as it is, the serial under notice is one really worth buying for present perusal, and worth binding up afterwards for future consultation. Setting forth with the Rev. B. Poulter , a a d m irably-clever a lph a b e ti ca l ac count of " The Siege of Belgrade," written by him in 1828, when he was Prebendary of Win chester, and beginning— " An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade ; Cossack commanders cannonading come, Dealing destruction's desolating doom" . — the Wild Garland gives us already, in its first number, a 'wonderful gathering together of Poetical curiosities, Alliterations, Tautologies, Enigmas, Acrostics, Macaronies, Chronograms, Lipograms, Logograms, and Anagrams. The last of the ana grams here given—the final blossom on this first sprig for the weaving 'of"The Wild Garland—being, as the collector truly says, the very finest Latin anagram that was ever made : namely—the answer to Pilate's question, What is Truth ? Quid est Velitas 7—" Est vir qui adest !" meaning The man who stands before thee, or who is Present ! Success to Mr. Isaac Reeve, say we, and his very curious poetical collection ! PEARCE'S WEATHER ALMANACK FOR 1865. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.—A weather almanack by the author of the " Weather Guide Book" is welcome to us, and, we doubt not, will prove wel come io many others besides ourselves. It contains Predictions of the Weather for Every Day in the Year, and marks out unhesitatingly beforehand the Probable Storm Periods. Making his calculations, as Mr. Pearce does, upon purely scientific principles, his Almanack comes before the public with a trifle more authority than any discoverable in the old world Weather Almanacks of the mere lucky guessers—now of a sharp frost, now of some ter rible thunderstorm., THE GARDEN ORACLE-1865. Groombridge and Sons.—Shirley Hibberd's Garden Oracle again comes forth most seasonable. The present issue makes the seventh - annual appearance of this un rivalled Floricultural Year Book : and—so far as the merit of completeness goes—the present imprint of The Garden Oracle of Shirley Hibberd is beyond the best of its half-dozen predecessors. A young man named Requille was arrested a few days since at Chambon, near Blois, for the murder of his own mother. It appears that Requille was given to drinking, and that his mother, on the day of the crime, re proached him for having spent all his earnings at the wine shop. Irritated by this, he knocked her down with a heavy stick, and beat her about the head till she was dead. Early in the morning he threw the body into the river Cisse, where it was soon afterwards found by some women who went to fetch water. The son was at once suspected, to be the murderer, and when charged with the crime confessed his guilt. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6. The Inman steamer City of Limerick, from New York on the 24th ult., passed Point Lynas at 8 o'clock this morning. Her news has been anticipated. ITALY. TURIN, JAN. 6. The military quay in the port of Naples will be ceded to the mercantile navy. The Committee, of which General Valfue is president, have set out for Naples, to select a site for another military arsenal. M. de Malaret, the French Ambassador to the Italian Court, has arrived here. SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 6. The Correspondencia of to-day says :—" If it is true that Peru demands that we should give up the Chincha Islands before granting us satisfaction, a conflict is unavoidable. We shall not leave in that case without proving that Spain is not to be offended with impunity, nor without reimbursing ourselves for the expenses of the war. FRANCE, THE POPE'S ENCYCLICAL. PARIS, JAN. 6. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The last portion of the Pope's encyclical letter will be pub lished throughout the Empire in the ordinary form. This portion is received without any approbation in consequence of the clauses, formulas, and expres sions it contains, and which are or might be con trary to the law pf the Empire, as well as to the liberties, franchise, and maxims of the Gallic Church." BOURSE, Jan. s.—The market has been more buoyant, and a good amount of business done at an improvement. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f. 15c. Mobilier shows a slight advance, being last quoted at 991 f. 25c. Railway Market quiet, but in general firm. The market closed as follows : 41 . per Cents 94 60 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 66 75 Do. end month 66 85 Credit Mobilier Do. end montk r Bank Shares...,..tz 0440 Credit Foncier . 1280 Roman — RAIL Italian Loan 67 20 Do. end month 67 15 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes 45 75 Home Debt Deferred WAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern lOl2 50 1015 Lyons and Mediterranean 906 25 ... 908 75 Southern 6Ol 25 ... 602 50 Western 530 ... 535 Eastern Sardinian Austrian 317 50 ... 318 75 450 - ... 450 - Lombard 526 25 ... 527 50 North of Spain 3Bl 25 ... 375 Saragossa 435 ... 435 Ditto to Barcelona — ... BANK OF FRANCE: PARIS, JAN. 5. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Jan. 5. fr. c. Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 Profits in addition to Dec. 29 182,500,000 - capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857 Reserve of the Bank - "and its branches Reserve in landed pro pertY 4,000,000 Notes in circulation . Banknotes to order and receipts payable at sight Treasury account cur rent creditor - 122,312,552-55 Current accounts, Paris 159,787,156 64 146,645,897 83 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 16,163,965 75 14,222,805 75 Discounts and sundry iicterests Rediscounted the last six months 2,789,444 05 2,789,444 58 Sundries 25,818,238 42 9,703,947 87 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 1 4,000,000 - 726,212,275 - 5,486,412 53 7,427,596 04 Total CREDITOR. Jan. 5. Dec. 29. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. branch banks Commercial bills over- due Commercial bills dis counted, not yet due 859,616,362 85 303,839,895 53 Do. branch banks 330,512,897 293,317,935 Advances on deposit of bullion 15,541,431 55 15,675,431 55 Do. branch banks 4,846,984 4,955,184 Do. on French Public Securities 15,390,300 _— 15,079,800 Do. by branch banks 8,473,150 7,931,350 Do. on railway shares and debentures D. branch banks 17,852,800 17,250,550 Do. on Credit Fonder Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, Jurie 10, 1863) 60,000,000 60,000,000 Government Stock re serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disporable Rentes Immobalis6es (Law, June 2, 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches Expenses of manage ment 6,697 75 2,756 Sundries Total 1,331,572,487 18 1,270,310,135 86 (Signed) The Senator Governor of the Bank of France, ROULAND. THE NEW DRAFT. PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S PROCLAMATION. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Whereas, by the act approved July '4, 1864, entitled, " An Act further to regulate and provide for enrolling and calling out of the national forces and for other purposes," it is provided that the President of the United States may at his discretion at any time hereafter call for any number of men as volunteers, for the respective terms of one, two, or three years, for military service, and that in case the quota, or any part thereof, of any town, township, ward of a city, precinct,• or elective district, or/of a county and not subdivided, shall not be filled within the space of fifty days after such call, then the President shall immediately order a draft for one year, to fill such quota or any part thereof which may be unfilled ; and, Whereas, by the credits allowed in accordance with the act of. Congress on the call for 500,000 men, made July 18, 1864, the number of men to be obtained under that call was reduced to 280,000 men, and Whereas, the operations of the enemy in certain States have rendered it impracticable to procure from them their full quota of troops under the said call, and Whereas, from the foregoing causes but 250,000 men have been put into the army, navy, and marine corps under the said call of July 18, 1864, leaving a deficiency on that call of 260,000 men; Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, in order to supply the aforesaid deficiency, and to provide for the casualties in the military and naval service of the United States, do issue this my call for 300,000 volunteers, to serve for one, two, or three years. The quotas of the States, districts and sub-districts under this call will be assigned by the War Department through the bureau of the Provost-Marshal-General of the United States, and in case the quota or any part thereof, of any town, township, ward of a city, precinct, or election ward, or of a county not so subdivided, shall not be filled before the 15th day of February, 1865, then a draft shall be made to fill such quota or any part thereof, on said 15th day of February, 1865. In testimony whereof I lave hitherto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 19th day of Decent. ber, 1864, and of the independence of the ',Tufted States o America the 89th. (.S.) ABRAHAM LINCOLN By the President : W. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. A SINGULAR STORY.—A report comes from New York that the Mexican Emperor Maximilian has issued a proclamation, formally uniting Yucatan and Honduras to his dominions. This includes the British settlements in Honduras, and we cannot believe that Maximilian has been mad enough to take such a liberty with the old lion. The whole story sounds apocryphal. Max, one would think, had more territory than he is able to manage so early in hie American career.—Toronto Globe. Mr. Baines, M.P., at Bramley. On Wednesday night a meeting was held in the Baptist School-room, Bramley, to inaugurate the establishment of a Working Men's Reform Association in that township. Mr. Councillor Addyman was in the chair, and Mr. Baines, M.P., was among the gentlemen present. Mr. BAINES, in introducing one of the resolutions, ex pressed his satisfaction at the inauguration of the associa tion, and defended the extension of the suffrage to the working classes, taking advantage of the eulogiums passed on these classes at the recent Conservative meeting at Leeds to form an argumentum ad hominess against the Conservatives. There was one thing Mr. Beecroft said which was very remarkable. He said, "In all the varied elements that go to constitute a great people, himself (that is, the working man) is alone the essential,' that was to say, the working classes were the only essen tial, indispensable element in society. (Laughter.) That was a very strong mode of expression, but how singular that the only essential element in a great people should be the only element which had no share in the representa tion of the people. (Cheers.) Could this be just ? Could it be wise ? Was it ever wise in a community like ours to practise injustice ? Could injustice be prac tised for any length of time with impunity and with safety? He fully believed that it could not; that it would react and recoil upon those who practised it. Mr. Baines then denied that the introduction of the working classes by any measure proposed would swamp all others. Lord Russell proposed, and Mr. L. King and he followed with the same propositions—that those who occupied premises in counties of the value of 101. a year should have a vote, and that those who occupied premises in boroughs of the value of 61. should have the franchise. What would this great "revolutionary measure" have amounted to? Why, it would have added about one-fifth to the whole number of the constituency. It would have added about one-third in the boroughs ; but, if they added the counties, the whole addition would probably only have been about one-fifth. His calculation, as near as he could make it, was that the proportion working men would bear to the upper classes would be something like a fourth. And this was a revolu tionary measure—this was the way in which the upper and middle classes were to be swamped by the introduc tion of this comparatively small number of additional voters. He should like to know which class would be swamped by such an arrangement as that ; the danger was much more that the working class minority would be swamped than that the upper and middle classes would be. (Hear, hear.) This objection was an absurd and puerile imputation, which showed what men would do whose prejudices were assailed, in conjuring up phantoms "to alarm the country. In 1869, when Lord Russell proposed his bill, Earl Grey obtained a committee of the House of Lords to inquire into the probable operation of- that bill, his object being to find out whether that bill would have the effect of introducing this vast and swamping majority of the working classes into the new constituencies. Earl Grey had recently pub lished a book upon the subject of reform. Did he say in that book that he was convinced by the result of the in quiry over which he presided that it was proved that if such a measure were adopted the upper and middle classes would be swamped ? No, he said no such thing. He showed no fear whatever upon that subject, and what he said would lead to the inference that he considered the idea with which he went into the committee was satisfactorily disproved by the evi dence. Facts had since been obtained from official sources which confirmed the calculation made by Lord Russell, and subsequently by himself, showing that the notion was alto gether fallacious. After some further argument to show that the extension of the franchise would tend to the im provement of those who received it, as well as to the in creased stability of our institutions, Mr. Baines said that a resolution had been put into his hands, which was as fol lows :—"T hat further delay in remedying the injustice, after ithas been repeatedly acknowledged by leaders of both par- ies in the state, would be derogatory to the character oi Parliament, and destructive to political morality." He believed they all knew the facts upon which this resolution was founded] The last Parliament was distinctly returned by the constituencies of England to carry Lord Russell's Reform Bill. There were two bills before the country— the one Lord Derby's, the other Lord Russell's. Lord Derby dissolved Parliament and appealed to the country, and before the dissolution Lord Russell gave an outline of what he intended his bill to be. He knew perfectly well that he went back to Parliament pledged in favour of the more liberal and extended plan—(hear, hear)—and he con sidered it his duty to do everything in his power to carry it out. For that reason, when others turned their back on the cause, or at least suspended action for a time, it seemed to him that it was his duty to take it up and to make the propositions he had done. (Hear and cheers.) He thought it was an outrage upon all good faith and upon morality not to carry out pledges which men had given. They had Scriptural authority for saying that if a man sweareth, even to his own hurt, and changeth not, he is to be blest. It would have had a great effect upon the country if they had abso lutely brought forward and perseirered with their measure, and if they had done so, the Reform Bill would have been carried by this time. He believed that now, in the last hour, in the last session of Parliament, just before the members had to meet the country, the best policy of the Government would be to bring forward such a measure and stand_ox fall by it. If they went to the country - in what ivay would they be received if they had not met their pledges ? It was infinitely better to be beaten, and then to go the coun try and ask for the opinion of their constituents, than to go to the country without having made any serious effort to fulfil their pledges. (Hear, hear.) His opinion was that the wisest policy would be to introduce such a measure ; he did not say it would be carried, possibly it would be beaten in the house—but let them go to the country, and then upon the country would rest the responsibility. His belief was that, having faithfully done their duty to the country, such a Parliament would be returned as to render the carry ing of the measure certain. (liear, and cheers.) He had some considerable hopes that if the Government would stake their existence upon it—especially if that singularly able and eloquent man, Mr. Gladstone—(loud cheers) — would take it up—that the cause would be carried. (Hear, . . and cheers.) His friend Col. Edwards said at the dinner given to Mr. Beecroft that the Whigs would never carry a Reform Bill. He could tell that hon. gentleman the most important and the main reason why they could not do so, it was because immediately opposite to them there sat such a large number of Tories who were determined to shelve the bill. (Laughter and cheers.) Col. Edwards said that he (Mr. Baines) was to ride this reform horse, and added that the horse would kick so much that he would be glad to dismount him. Certainly he must say he should ride the reform horse. (Laughter and cheers.) He believed that a better horse was never mounted. (Cheers.) He be- lieved him to be sound, of good wind and limb, and of great power and endurance, and they might rely upon it that he would never get down until the battle was won. (Cheers.) But then he did not want to ride the fore horse. He wanted some man of standing before the country as a leading states man and as a minister to come and take that position. His appeal was to Mr. Gladstone to take it. (Cheers.) There was no man better fitted for the position, and he should be prouder to be his follower in the measure than if he himself had led where he had not much hope of success. His own duty was quite clear. He should certainly adhere to this cause until the end, or to the end of his life—(cheers) —and if he could be the means of calling out a man like Mr. Gladstone —and they could second him in this—he would have great and sanguine hopes of success (hear, hear, and cheers.) The first thing to be done was to form associations such as the present. (Hear, hear.) He was glad to see this promising organisation, and he had felt great satisfaction in witnessing the countenances of those before him, betokening as it did an intelligence and appreciation of all the proceedings. He was convinced that all he saw before him were entitled to the franchise which was enjoyed by their fellow -country men, and should not be treated as the subjects of despotism were treated. He rejoiced that they were doing their duty. He hoped that they would influence their neighbours to do theirs, and if the country did its._ duty he believed ulti mately, and before very long, that they would see a measure passed which would redound to the credit, to the harmony, audio the prosperity of the land. (Loud cheers.) The Loss of Her Majesty's Ship Racehorse, The following account of the loss of her Majesty's ship Racehorse is from the North China Daily News "W e regret to have to report the total loss of her Bri tannic Majesty's despatch boat Racehorse, which occurred on the evening of the 4th of November, in the Bay of Lung-mun, about twelve miles to the east of Chefoo. At eight o'clock on the above evening the weather being at the time extremely thick and hazy, it, was thought that the vessel was entering Chefoo harbour, to which Lung-mun bay bears a great resemblance. Similar accidents have occurred on previous occasions, as, for instance, in the case of the British barque Homer, which was totally wrecked there during last winter, and the steamer Swatow which, under exactly the similar circumstances, was indebted to a mere accident for preservation from destruction. As soon as the Racehorse went ashore the masts were cut away and every attempt made to lighten her and get her off. These efforts were, however, unsuccessful, as a gale, which had been threatening for some time before, set in with ter rific violence, and prevented the men from either working at the ship or launching the boats. Nothing remained, then, for the crew to do but to fasten themselves down as best they could. Enormous seas continued to sweep over the deck so that next morning, out of a total strength of one hundred and eight officers and men only nine survivors were found, the rest having perished of cold and exhaustion, or having been swept off the (leeks. The survivors are the commander, the paymaster, boatswain, and six sailors who saved themselves by taking to the last remaining boat, and drifting about for 36 hours, when they were picked up by a - junk. On the morning after the wreck her Majesty's gunboat Insolent, accompanied by a French despatch vessel, cruised for a considerable time in the neighbourhood, but did not succeed in picking up any others'of the crew." STEEL PEN MANUFACTURE. — In one of the pro cesses of steel-pen making by females at Birming ham, a quick worker will cut out in one day of 10 work ing hours 250 gross, or 36,000 pens, which involves 72,000 distinct motions of the arm, two in every second.—Repot of Children's Employmmt Commission. rrA4O iv* - 40 t i ffnrt, Amw-, - Ortular HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 5. The Queen and Princess Helena, attended by the Dowager Countess of Mount-Edgcumbe and Col. Ponsonby, drove out yesterday. Princess Louise also went out driving. Earl de Grey and Ripon arrived at Osborne, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty. The Prince and Princess of Wales at lkLam. HOLKHAM, Jan. 5. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Earl of Leicester, with the noble earl's guests at Holkham, have been out shooting to-day in Teb bett's Wood, and have met with abundant sport. The head of game bagged on Tuesday amounted to 2,190, of which number 1,020 were pheasants. The weather since. Tuesday has been favourable, a rapid thaw setting in on that day, since which it has been comparatively speaking mild ; and her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales with the Countess of Leicester and other ladies have been able to enjoy several drives in the extensive park. Yesterday his Royal Highness and party were out wild-fowl shooting over the extensive marshes, which have been reclaimed from the sea by the present earl and his predecessor, and enjoyed a capital day's, sport. The Princess Mary of Cambridge and the Royal Marriage Act. A writer in a contemporary says :—Paragraphs have appeared about a very, improbable story (now, I see, con tradicted by authority), that Princess Mary of Cambridge has been privately married to Lord Hood, in defiance of the Royal Marriage Act. As I have found nine persons out of ten to have quite a mistaken idea of this Royal Marriage Act, and to suppose that it is an act forbidding the marriage of the Royal Family with members of other than royal or reigning houses, I will venture to inform your readers what its provisions are. The act is 12 George 111. c. 11, and its provisions are briefly as follows :—First, that no descendant of George 11. (other than the issue of princesses married into foreign families) may marry with out consent of the reigning Sovereign ; but, secondly, if any such person, being above the age of 25 years, shall persist in his or her determination to marry, notwithstand ing such consent shall be withheld, then he or she shall, after giving a year's due notice, be at liberty to marry, unless both Houses of Parliament shall expressly declare their disapprobation of such marriage. A third clause enacts the penalties of a pramunire on all solemnising or assisting at a marriage prohibited by the act. The act has no reference whatever to any distinction between mar riages with members of royal or reigning houses and others. Now, as the Princess Mary is about 25 years old, and it is perfectly certain that the two Houses of Parliament would not concur in declaring their disapprobation of a marriage between her and an English nobleman of high character and position, it would have been a most unne cessary step (had she been bent on the marriage) to con tract it in a way which would make it void, and her children illegitimate, and would further expose all con cerned in it to severe penalties, when, by a year's notice, it might be effected legally, and, doubtless, with the ap probation and hearty good wishes of the bulk of the nation. I think that when the provisions of this act (so much found fault with) are stated, it will be allowed that it in flicts no severe hardship on members of the Royal Family. When they are under 25, it does, indeed, provide that the reigning Sovereign shall have an absolute veto on their marriages, thus, in a manner, lengthening their minorities for this purpose by four years ; but after that age, unless Queen, Lords, and Commons all concur in forbidding the banns, which would certainly never be done unless the pro posed marriage were so objectionable that all society would cry out against it, they are, subject to the year's notice, aS free to marry as any other porson. His Excellency the Spanish Minister and Madame Comyn s have left town for Strawberry Hill, Twiekenhav, on a visit to Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Eight Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio left the Italian Legatiou yesterday to join the party visiting Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Eight Hon. Chichester Far tescue, M.P., at Strawberry Hill. The Earl of Derby has quite regained his strength after his:recent severe attack of gout. The noble earl and countoes will receive u large,pArty of friends at Knowsley next week. The Earl de Grey returned to town yesterday from a visit to her Majesty at Osborne. The Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P./ will arrive in town this afternon from Theberton House , his seat in Suffolk. The Right Hon. Sir William and Lady Hayter have left South-hill Park for Rome and Naples. It is stated in naval circles that Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, is about to relinquish his present appointment, in order to succeed Rear-Admiral Sir Lewis T. Jones; K.C.8., as the flag-officer in command at Cork. THE LATE PRINCESS ANN CZARTORYSIKA.—YeS terday a solemn funeral service for the repose of the soul of the Princess Ann Czartoryska (widow of the late Prince Adam Czartoryski), who died on the 24th nit' at Montpelier in France, was performed at St. Peter's Italian :Church, Saffron-hill, Hatton-garden, by the Rev' L. Tezdzewski, and attended by a considerable number of the Polish refugees. The deceased, born Princess Sapieha , was 64 years of age, and no less distinguished than her illustrious husband for many private and pttblic virtues , which were exhibited most conspicuously during the long period of her exile, entirely devoted to the alleviation of the sufferings of her distressed countrymen, and the edtl cation of their children. Her loss is deeply felt both in the emigration and throughout the whole of Poland. A DERBY MAN GAROTTED IN LONDON.-00 Wednesday week Mr George Womersley, of Abbey` street, Derby, formerly a hatter in the Market-place, wa s on a visit to his daughter in London, and about six o'cloel' on Wednesday evening was going along Holford-stree t, Globe-road, Mile-end, when a man ran with his head against Mr Woraersley's stomach and knocked him down' The man twice begged his pardon, and said he was sorri for what he had done, but instead of helping him up he held him down, and directly afterwards four or five other men rushed up, knelt upon him, and commenced rifling his pockets, taking from him a Geneva watch, two knives► and a bunch,of keys. The pocket containing his mora they missed. Mr Womersley, who was very much injuredt. was afterwards brought to Derby, and we regret to state lies in a very precarious state, Dr. Taylor, his medica l adviser, being of opinion yesterday (Thursday) that h e would sink under the brutal treatment he had received,' Mr. Hilton, head-constable of Derby, has forwarded all particulars of the case to the police authorities in London' OPERATIVE COACHMAKERS' EXHIBITION.—Th e artisans of the above trade have met with the most hearty response from the . employers and others who tak e an interest in the improvement of carriages. AlreadY large sum has been contributed for the purpose of no exhibition, which will take place in the month of Februail' The Society of Arts will, with the Worshipful Company of Coachmakers, gave special medals for objects 01 improvement ; and the Marquis of Lansdowne has offered a special prize for an improved step. There is no doubt of e' complete success, as the artisans readily come forward with many improvements to encourage the movement; and the Space Committee are now energetically engaged to mak e the most of the limited space in the hall, so generousli placed at their disposal by the Worshipful Company o f the City of London. FATAL ACCIDENT AT A THEATRE.—An accidCl at the Standard Theatre on Dec. 29 formed tl lO subject of a coroner's inquest last night. A Mrs. Haniutlx Harris, aged 47, had been to the theatre, and was leaving , about a quarter-past 11 o'clock, by the box entrance, when she slipped in descending the steps, but her dress cauglA in the rails, and she was thrown backwards with grey violence. The blow to the head caused fracture of the skull and other injuries, from the effect of which she died' It was stated that the staircase in question was admirably adapted for its purpose, and that the affair was purely acci dental. The jury, therefore, found a verdict in accordanc e ' THE LATE MURDER ON SAFFRON-HILL.—Th e report of the condition of Alfred Rebbeck, the pot' man at the Golden Anchor, Saffron-hill, who was so bra" tally stabbed by the Italian on.the night of Monday, Dee' 26, is to the effect that he is progressing favourably u ndef i the care of Mr. de Meric, one of the surgeons to the Ro g Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, under whose care Rebbec 4 has been since the melancholy occurrence. It is Mr. d e Merle's opinion that the unfortunate sufferer will ulti mately do-well, notwithstanding that severe injury o f tlac/ right lung,.with inflammation of its covering, were resul ts of the wound. Mr. de Meric has been unremitting in 1 0 attention on Rebbeck since his admission to the hospital. CRYSTAL PALACE.—Notwithstanding the o3l' favourable state of the afternoon yesterday upwar d° of 4,500 persons were present to witness the holiday amus e ; ments. The interior of the palace warmed and fight e presented a marked contrast to the weather outside. irb amusements will be continued this day as usual. D l l , morrow (Saturday) they will be specially arranged for afterndon's amusements,' and promenade for juve o visitors.