The Sun. — London, England, 1865-01-30 00:00:00

` . f .:~ 4 °. oin , I 1, fl„s been shara .-- 0. ern Au strtu tea ,een aPP°I33 has b een ar f S ew ' ,ster o ofS° ted s ster u a 0 ft ° prow°te it, of cl erk te d class Pro w° been g w the PL" • lited en APP °I os .c _ Qvva .. g ol u e r: , o to ' n ' cio o. a clerk in t Ti e D er ;ffery Loild °°. to '- In fltec" en ap poi- tiro Tomas l3 ' l3 y. fr. Williaingv hareptoo, qtr, Aber d°el3 , oo . t h e long - l o g 3rkln the. ird-classl ll oo e f tho sec t of rni and, c le f sa nno ten t ° g ' o r gr. o ted been pro P• LOnd °ll. WO' tcll. --31r ' ge P e, a5510•„4,2. •„4,2. gr - f r. , oared. ierYl Oraittee C• sof" office', des, 1 apP u ciiu te sow, 12tit er , n.. 0 d rO P T r gli , ion, E al ,,, xj dis facer ;rpoo o 6w r dropped en ar y has v° e tioo• cone i f rision , 4 ; th disl i 3gOV6 / do pe bhorpe , couoo o ,teft risioni r iae, se cond Tella) n ler ona c el te 4 been blio, Board tor tasferred tba ll " t leritY+ fact, i° ofi ° in _ fea t ot . ,en so b' t biii 1 300 Y 0 1 4 and of al to tint. 4 Os r e 36$ to r w ipe I g er tir •20 2s Per tb a Y. fro', ,he a offe r of w f concl iti°° ft ,ll ,:e I a Il ta lof peart e set il i ti" e b .n ev eA .' froal tes 'of t , i n ci g the 11 gr 39e 410; 36 stone• os to , griu ding' to old, 26 s 00* — r stone. ae. m arket t f; ffer - rid o■ ess ac t v ' anc o 0 4 1 °l ; t tlf lu3 • t. ' 4w 45 Vitiai Ds hg. 0S 3is • * ofol beefi,s,',2o/ 2t;s • -- to flour, 2u 449 ti p/ arloy, 97 38s to 42E3; 81 o ' . 36 stone' ~or 28s to 1 4 r s too ° ' 270 Pe r • 38 stolle' OG m0 1,3115 ' G$ b a rlek. 6 6 , 1; Gs 4d to v f 11 0 ~..., lei ; o a t,s 0 , sa l e s 0 lt d, übn' r ecttle' woo Zod ato Nys'e'd a c % 2s to 130 6; gcl; AO4 bl 4 I ig• .Feb.w' 12. o.•• . 3, ''''' yet). 0 , ...... ...... Fe• t, ella• •• • yel) ig aptoll y e ! ) , . 1 . ..... X ......... re p ' 2. . .... e`" h '• F r ton• • • cep, 0. .re l3 ' ...... yet). 0, ..... fe l) " ..... . . yeti . 0, •• • • . yet). 1, fe l). •• Bri" ...... rthaniP* • • ..... 1, derry.. l ".,. fe, ... .. Few 5 Cubs, 9,r. ........... ........ is, ........ 1 " . ...... ." tent ape d de- `, ro le tone n,t, s tit i ` hese u." 3 0. 1 ;10, rna l ~o s si, ot cure be T rti; p ci The r sn a P e oi ccessiux ea use, PI;p1ova„, de° of t Y 1 au so I's org Terl tC) aes b esl- , 0 , ungs, o t o , Tea Lodge , nyt e fiAte 460 i scit' s sO louse' t — c 6 oo - stop,, of t, 11 ' 0); S f 0 , Esq. , 0 i ,.. h te,. 0 ,A , eldest clittgof v ton 118 ' 111 c 4 rot ,ct hSot.ixats O s l' ydoil• r v, Sta g° AO c jd 26- 1.-P? ou logro -5 :30' t voi de 69. ,naid, ag e ' Ber2r,,; Tvri f°r bet i ' er O at° 0 0 0 1° ' r iolP 1 4 ° R e etoAd , oft, W e Drci, . .9 clot 4 4.1 .4 otrotou TPMEMI3ER! WE WAI T SUPPER Ilk , 11, Poll I 'UU, after the Pantomime, at EVANS'. Fail. trirttlli7l otAleilbrakvs LL WHISKY \ . tt ; BRANDY. S old i'C i ri 131"t'''4r1)H1 °l4 IRIthLI Y, WHISKY rivals the finest tire, Mild, 'Mellow, Delicious. and very Wholesome. th e 4 4 BOttles, %t entB ill the principal towns in England ;or wholesale 38 . Bd., at the Retail Houdes in London; by 0:: Q.REAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. ed "gli i „"e the 1 . 2 A . --e ' °Cal, Pink Label, and Cork brand ' l laa'S LL Whisky" ---___ PURNITUR t he kiI::,...I4ORCLOETII', CCAARIIRPIA7S4M!FRBEEEDtoDaINnyGnOusaenind 4004 8 % 4 u oln, regardless of amount or distance. First. class (::lero, Beeond-elass prises, Terms peculiarly liberal to iforn;rn and Gentlemen. An immense stock to se n t tv ( ,,... _Bl3jayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of grou cl '7., yflele warranted. 1 1 qiGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR % AT:re reBpectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and etni Alled Dubli 'llincr an entirely New Edition of their lib alim „It, HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated b teq%teituT eng.ravinvs of every description ot Furniture Y a_ni poß,trosfa••with prices attached. A copy sent gl limi t : l l g e'lalplei! a Pplication. This costly work also con is I Ate :,.:' estimate s for tarnishing on the following rev ed A. 81x-roomed Parsonage An ditto " Ten -roomed ditto ......... -.• • • 259 16 6 Ton,e,. ATwelve-roomed d:tto 394 It oOf ,;Vner with a Price List of purified Bedding, and a_ma r sa efirpeil.nslLinforinationto all requiring househ3ld furßi e tu ray e, ~1 11, un a ud - ,,,` ueddln.r.,,. References kindly permitted to (31 erg - ,aich cellfltmen in or near Great !dalvern. Southampton, W eN effter, B ury. my Preston, Grimsby, RYde, Plymol" r nl Scrtin,t,„°,(ford. Brighon, Gainsborouarh, Margate. Kidne ere,% Wellington Croydon , Cambridge, Staines, Dorking,_ Tall'a. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David s, lirit%lll, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great , C08n,..,,,, arid 'T and co General House Furnishers. Ze, t o d , .. _-......1 on, B,l,.Deptford- COGNAC °y 41 - 4 NAVAL, MILITARY, and blia hed7 s A ar L LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (Esta- Plapn A nci /0 0 1, 0 ' • 1837. under Royal l'atronage), 17, Waterloo- ARTHUR R. HAMILTON, Secretary. gents wanted in towns not yet represented. FLUID, 248, High Holborn, 1 4di ev -ondo 11.—A.LEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls at 31 1 . 6,,°1' Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold le. , Relit free •for 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, cap ituntos. GREY Aup„,.'lAl.-248, High Holborn, London.— T h - e tik- L. - ad l e •jto n s a s ir 's i charcres for Dyeing the hair perma rora '7s. 6d. • Gentlemen's from ss. 111 ,_ 01 4. —_, , ,, y e l or a 8 01 d :. at 35. 6d, or sent free for 54 stamps. It 1 a e. lI AIR ; D ESTROYER, 248, High Holborn, ' o, 2don.—ALEX.'ltOsS'S DEPILATORY removes, eek, fleet to the ;sent pro hair from the face, '4.51 t Ms. 3s ed. the same day as ordered by post S. Ppp A PLY is the acting ingredient in et ucea r 'OSS'S CA NTILikRIDES OIL, which speedily -....kers and thickens hair. 35. 6d ; sent free fors4 A AL EX. ROSS, High Holborn, London. Essay , 248 , • LE REmovEß.—All diseases of the skin Ak ik ar e„, roved b y o ne dose of ;ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE ot,. „ I'ol 2B N PILL. They remove redness, sa ll owness boi„:"C on b3: ci tost for 40 st.imps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High ALE - s( oh , '41.(2/ SS' FACE POWDER, ls. ; sent for Ire Produces Eye Colour, 3s. ,!d., or 54 stain s. Skin o p , u lt , of b :A a transcendent complexion,or 60 stamps. Ilef*Co‘ rti us . e t o l i ß :l4: 6l . , or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS. 248, e i T SR 0 W It(-)0MS T A ND D 13,-,A•gg AN -C 117, 1101INDSDITC11HIN A, I)EFRIES ----- and SONS bEFRIES ' TABLE GLASS, Cut and Engrraved, of the choicest designs. and SON—S' DThTNER, DESSERT, V a nd Tea W are, of the newest patterns. F RIES and ON E r T- LUSTRES, TAZZAS, baud Flower ' Vases for th e p resen t season. ----- /RIES an d SONS' CHANDELTRRS, or th e D t .„,_ "'Law room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and 6ilver. and -- gois , CHANDELIERS' Cr nal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles. CHANDELIERS, .I.‘"dis . CrYstal and SONS' and Grecian designs, ler EPRIE S and SONS' SPECIAL DESIGNS in Lamps for India. 1 : 0 , 11 , lES and rs? WALL LIGHT b ''tkandelier s , inCryst S al ° , for N India (Registered). El k l e t l lES ate, s, aad aenuderal(FSip; o, om ptly execute CLUB Orders of China, Glass, tpDy 11) '"" E S and SONS supply MERCHANTS I. 'With Pattern Books and special Designs. ol btpp-r, Th 4 jsZev s , ',, -1- LS and SONS have just added Five '4Vt rt-4•ROonis to their extensive Manufactory, ab ove n c ycr on show the largest assortment in the world illi,A . 7 l !'"a Or their own m anu f ac t ure. lIPACTORY AND SILO W-ROOMS, 14 7, Houndsditch. _ A RI:So ih a h trE SOCIETY wishes to a year no fewer 1 % ,,: 455 Auto Ihe 12 now in operation. Last rom beta tor lAOr, friendless young females were re) tea who have ot , 1 , B ect LNIDS and rooni niakbie• a total of 3 , 08 K. w a few add another 1 108"C r g t in t five years. Here are brief details of k A; P e a 16, fa7l':in Other dead, deserted by her father L *' l ,.. ‘ ' 1 ' ea, both parfuts dead. A 0. a -4 15, fallen, mother dead. ‘x h' , Zed is C 4 4 ,„, . faNttther dead, deserted by her mother. „ ~ ft,.„ , falln, mother dead, i: S., arm ed 16, fallen, both parents dead. 6: ~.I I „ , i', e 4 a 14. herneless, deserted by her parents A rt., ak"4(l`?7, fallen, both parents dead. I t . ir q., a zed 17, fallen, both parents dead. ii i "' ag'eci 4 3 ' f allen, father dead. At ~ 4 4 . ed 17 , fallen, both parents dead, S. ij. NV , a ' f lien both par nts dead. ,p,_ ~ a, e , fed 17, fallen, both parents dead. k4qotlolle 4; iilolo, fallen both parents dead. 3 kirl , ,;; I le the tkunrnittee wish to form to 10, who iwt•tl4l,l 14 Zt('rsztt cpildren, from the age of 8 ,r. h_putio,,, ...,y, ,rom the path of virtue, ~ e ~.e c b retail', liaroa°4oell,oopewrm De received gratefully Dy r Messrs would be for Y and . eo. , RS, Queen street, Cheapside, or by • Lo , bad -street. 0 N. 11 ,A.,,,thefo, Li Kingdom, TTLE BOYS, Tottenham, h of /NI Net and 1) eeePtio, frOln all parts of t erlo years eeptitute Boys, and those verg President 4-191‘..e. nv Esq., 31•P' N . 01111R,I, 1-IANBII-,-, M.P. ti-411-11 eave , -RR v I 9-PREsIDENs. NI Peto, Bart ,_ •....Eilti, i i F,, unt,e1,%,31.P. 1 Sir S. M. sing on crim e, Smith, Esq., }LI% Trearsur!erltork,L v,,,c18,1• , Abel t E.C. /V. ' -ti• Willan,,, 10 1 1 hall-stree • c,•,„. 'sq., 78, Bas ng Air m e fi r 1 X. Andepse,„, ---04rr'rEE• _ H m.Sorley.„ •J• IT tr...., "*. i.... +,- 'men. , r. A. b e t '," ' u e. Mr. W. J. Di. illiirr Bu. 1,..tie101. att. 1 Mr. Alfred s hort. kr. eorgelloo-c• Ito .rsecis - Mr. E. J. Turnbull.Tabr 11(31ArY Secr el ' a.rq ).eett ' I Mr. R. T. l ; ,_ Suffolk - street, Suffo tlnktre,,Atessr ctiNall.RCla.s t hr4s, 20, I, Lombard i Mr. Robert Sin i c i l m al . r. t lilt, 1 .„ 8' Stalth,tPayn:, and Smiths, I ed to 'tillee ''' iihnerlT4aB openecl4irneeliirile, IEIB4. Itajdes Izt,,,tteleiii•r(tilie little orotze v 6 ho i s i e au chr s af u t m r and circumstances au _ w dwhose e t e r il l d u a s r e pihos,elrs e;tillee:.?r, achnistocii tont I h tie ß r . o fn al e lo . r S t i l l i c o h • t 2 c Lo u r e s h a s n r . Pat4°, bseehota)Zeheeallreedeswseerte•,bY theirnaturaarel p rote those h whose ef• tntjtieWtholll43:lllave l a d t i one Such llllrnderols'other receivedrePttrinss ~;stti._,lll.4 ,_ oew friendleaS orphans. Sueh e whose i heirolli_rers i of the law, or are_ n l e e. Pr S n are those who and 41141'titionsill In thlersag'vell'aPiheir painful e ff ect, ZQe 0; 1 :4 eift4ttl't to ea lifeeofecariine and m ' _a-ison, and who that in London e a'Zet,iTni t4leilre an tlnstitutionhficl t s h h is : e s rY w e little ones is evi „ll4lcelteYear, h:feawti:riZ't'awn 9 of whorn ellkts;eofiviet",," oPProhended for various offen ces • 232 were ['Le i, 44 bv e 4 u, and punished, while the ba lk. as . ein.... , too 31?1 under ;0 y -4 ' to I,' "e Inastrates with a rebuke, D ho but eti' = Ol l4 thou h not too min.. to learn thebeginnings must a oy such an Institution, ~. ftletrii,ttitilleeito?eOlythhe oteherhan_cl, There' are numbers who . kit'Z'll'e ci t e4),Meemp au a p r e o r rd s, e and losing all ideas of aseelf-ren been established , 11 ( N, pie 19rf Little Boys has, therefore, ui the t O r ‘'lte'' --"elPbe permanent burdensetotheSt t prison on the 10 in h and ~e tle ones, to save the 1 of society. riliare th;Ztilhe Workhouse onthenlother, and to endeavour sitlrestelailZ 1.45:tll:el members eeianslitution presents allitpeeofneaes 4;',tar4 li,c4ne. a School, and a workshop ; their The regn regular meals, Itl(rt;lll4,t,ab,°lte clostleiliinnoc•ir, tellieirtkoerirshaovfeplay and amus.emeveenryt, '''3rilirti L't 4ing class'. They are treated as scholar a d SWriting, 14d cipherino.eV:ted to school work— f3 t they are also tral, i °l 4 'll orjecit? ~l,iptural i ntlruC r t e io a s d , in u W . 1 Deriod lo°llletk AR tLother subjectsa , that at a brow,very early they are here' eartl th°lrt ;:alli rb a y li th s e n sweat of their ___ pied with various industrial thnoccasional I,oons are re e e at once taught habits of industry. So the,..,sll,!seL *llO Will bu IP aking browneu the door npasurTags -or tr adesra, Paper bags for b ankers, and whiter a s P f or any the e eth y m; o c, Picking the coil for the mats Mats and servants' kneeler garden, ‘llZRing, e h a i 4 So assist the master in the frth. By z'tlegrees tireb,anting, 'watering, weeding", and so ° scrubbing itt'ecilli sweepe oz a , rewhiiling made useful in the hon s 7, it the boots, Nyst.ktB, ezc. In this Lt_ile elder ones cleat:t mending them for an active 1,11,,h_g life. way it i 3 Sought to fit years of ,IyOukl4e tto%a.re now 50 little inmates frota about foujo,nittte lq i 0,,,,, I;!nere is room for nearly 10,, n th an the __l- watt '°;tet.,;l4Yee the Biome filled at once ; e "" j tFu l ' (orliniitt Y subscriptions. those w ho net th,. ee feel strained to plead for to the dr ellunit,e,,•o4 plead for themselves ; and, referring they Zl,l'is it 1°;;R erne who have been already a dmitted, ilpaurers for vviifibrausre z ine t toot tAalie a widow and her ftplytam. y) rduto len f le e the streets roll a7ll zl ,l, 7e b oonytrool ? e I. it wklll not ' 1 1 1 ) hie' 13,-c°s has so INrge a family, that youh _.must 11 ) 11 h ireput ocheof them into a Rome. but that e t an for the ;110t11,(' d,4ttit,heerhre !" Is it doing theb w . the Co t rkh e ouse. Is t e i n t ltil)leR: liottlt_heres :ial'wtt,'lN.,4:ll,;ntliehyirnhs to ouid do unto .f: Itaetntwintl txieeti:tc7ote,,,oeerelltzetititga,u3,7ll-prraereuzutsenwtntntu "inn a,Nv.i9rdiy, riith.,(,)a,(l tontlinoh d be found to care for them, tods rat ea tslitHm ? s i r i ~,,, levainv,etionheitrtl,ll the.m, Aochrore canassin4, by on thes IceePer?,!;l°, or chi n e 8 exeraimiengo "Am I mY bother 's Th, ~, Ist irde of admission to the Rouse is twofold, admitted etrtre,, 1 election ot che subscribers. Voys thus taught till thel, Zreiv,,:i free, boarded, clothed, educated, and llit h t‘',l ars co age. most deserving the li l l e s ,. s, i it''.!o;ll4vlllt?esii,cauvreettrlice eleectio of th first 'l discouraged canvas :lll.4rl4l t hey do not print an addresses of the subscribers. •111,, ,111zr 'Papes contain a description of ear•h case t %care s: 110,i, titilvestigated by the Committee, and with this int as t ; Those toe,,n,hScribers are able to judge for themselves 2(1. ''.._e le tor free we advance. quarterly in advan „ Alt 01,10:ov nt of ss. a week, made ofagr at the time of 114;14 :s ieel:e V • c t , s u : t re b e e e t i l v n e d deurn1Opy ay a m s ent are admitted at any tretql:ctiZontaes,irgroved by tl:e. Cornmi e ot ! .. lilted fr t e t e e ‘iil tak lace as Ilntl' h B the incZatsoe be e n a the 'annual sub s cri pt i onsiwfl! edit, till the IP7 --.onle is full; they will then be held per odi 1;• 7 actN" of , 11 dmission of children may be at th e TiPP cation for the a -4°M; Alltl. of the honorary Secretary, List. . /fr'' ; ~ / :# i ~~~~ ~r;, 9- r is. ;g_ No. 22,G54. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JA.NUARY 30, 1865. At all Libraries. Vol. 1., in demy Bvo., with Hans of Battles, • • pIIYSTAL .PALACE.—TO-MORROW to FRIDAY.—LAST FOUit DAYS of the WJZARD of the NO ttTH and• Miss ANDERSON.--Also LAST WEEK of MOILING UP the Palace. THE, WEATHER. The Sewage Report. - - THE HISTORY of the PRESENT AMERI CAN WAR, from The Commencement to the Conclu slon of the Campaign of 1863. By Lieut.-Col. FLETCHER, Scots Fusilier Guards. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. Large crowds assembled in the parks yesterday to see the skaters. : As:might have been expected from the great quantity of snow that has fallen since Friday, the ice is by no means - lit to bear large numbers. 'About 5,000 persons ventured upon the ice on the longwater in Kensington gardens, and during the day not fewer than 25 fell through the ice in deep water.. The icemen of the Royal Humane Society, with their drags; ladders, and ropes, managed to get them out, but in so doing they were themselves several times under the ice, which was so_ rotten as not to bear tho weight of the apparatus and the-men. A man named Raws ton, of Trinity-cottage, Brunswick-street, was brought out so much exhausted that at first it was feared he was dead. He however recovered under the treatment of Mr. Super intendent Williams and the other officers of the society. Admission, One Shilling. Children, Sixpence. • - ORYSTAL• PALACE.—SUMMER in tIJJ WINTER.—LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY. — ARRANGEMENTS TO-MORRUW. Orehestral Band . 12.30 Wizard's World of Magic 2.30 Rope-Tying Trick Great Organ The thousand and one other attractions of the Palace in clude: —The New Picture gallery The Fine Arts Courts, in variety and beauty unequalled in the world—The decorations of the Palace, with the' great Christmas Tree Shakspere House—Montanari Models—Swings, Roundabouts, Invigo rators, and other popular Athusements—Clalleries of Models and Ships—Armour Plates and Armstrong 90-pounder lent by official authority —The. extraordinary Chimpanzee— I he unique Aquariums. AlLaliese things render the Crystal Palace the one place for ii6llday enjoyment. Admission, One- Shilling. Children under 12, Sixpence. Open for Admission from Ten till Six o'clock, Lighted up till halt-past Six. On_the Royal Round Pond there were on the ice upwards of 7,000 persons. There also the ice gave way, and seven persons became immersed. They were, however, fortu nately rescued by the - Royal Humane Society's men. In the Regent's-park not less than 20,000 persons crowded the ice. The principal performance upon this ice yesterday consisted of a new game, same 50 or 60 men and wo men joining hands together, and at a g i ve n signal starting, and when once off none of them could stop until they came .to the end of the river. The w e ight of so many persons be ing suddenly concentrated at one point of necessity broke the ice, and more than a dozen persons became immersed. One person, Mr. Robert Stone, was a very long time in the water before he could be rescued. On the Serpentine, Hyde park, there were 1,500 sliders and skaters, including several ladies. Suddenly, owing to the strong wind, the ice parted, and eight persons became immersed. They were extricated by the society's icemen; and after being attended to were able to return home. Policv-co ble Smith, No. 315, who wass off duty, and who was •v- g, fell and cut his neck and face in a fearful manner ; He was taken to the Royal Humane Society's house,' ancf was attended by Mr. Young, Mr. Williams, 'and Dr. Christian, and was able to return home. In St. James's Park there were 5,000 skaters and sliders. Upwards of 100 immersions occurred during the day, and three persons had their heads cut. The whole were attended to by Dr. M'Cann, of Parliament-street. The thermometer on Saturday night stood at 18 deg., yes terday at 20 deg., and last night it rose to 35 deg. In the midland counties the frost, which set in with some severity early last week, has been followed by a heavier fall of snow than has been recorded for a great many years. The first snowfall occurred on Thursday. It was followed on Thursday night by another snowstorm, so that on Fri day there were lBin. of snow. In places where it had drifted it had accumulated to the depth of many feet. In a few situations the railway cuttings have been partially blocked up, and on some portions of the Welsh district of the West Midland line there has been an obstruction to the traffic ; but generally there has been no hindrances. The inconve nience is felt most severely on the turnpike roads, the traffic on which is reduced to the narrowest limits owing to the accumulation of snow. On Saturday, although the sky was unclouded, the sun had no effect upon the snow, ex cept to increase its dazzling brightness. The frost was intense on Saturday night. Wilts and Somerset there was a snowstorm on Fri- On Mendip and on the Wiltshire Downs the drifts are deep, and trafEc has almost ceased. The trains, how , are as yet enabled to keep tolerable time, and the lines are much encumbered with snow. In Yorkshire there has been more than a week of con tinuous hard frost. The lowest readings of the thermometer at Walton for the week has been—Friday night week 25 deg., Saturday night 24 deg., Sunday night 27 deg., Mon day night 24 deg., Tuesday night 24 deg., Wednesday night 28 deg., Thursday night 31 deg., and Friday night, the coldest this winter, 23 deg. At Welham the reading has been 1 deg. to 2 deg. lower. On Friday night a heavy fall of snow took place, with a strong north-east wind. The roads are much obstructed with drifted snow, and the trains were from the same cause mostly late on Saturday morn- MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY. in THE RIVAL COMPOSERS. in which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY; and to cone ude with MRS. ROSELE AP AT THE SEA-SI LE. By Mr. John Parry. Every Evening (except Saturday) at Eight; Saturday Afternoon, at Three. - —ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUST.RA TION, It Regent street. Unreserved seats, ls., 25. ; stalls, S's“ stall spring chairs, ss. , OPERA DI CAMERA., the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by Macfarren, and TOO M ANY COOKS, by Offenbach. Every TUEeDAY and T EIURSDAY, at Three. T 6, E 0 X FORD, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). ORPHEE AUX ENFERS (Offenbach's brilliant Opera Comique), is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the Song "li.ng of Bccotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and the spirited "Ililliho Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, and k, horus ; the side-splitting "Couplets," by Minerva, Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; and final Minuet and Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and Lascelles. Also, MASANIELLO, in which Mons. L ATESSIERE, the successful new Tenore, from the Theatre Lyrique, Paris, will make his appearance. _ _ Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, LITTLE 808, SESTIL LION, and all the pro curable Talent of the day. CANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). HODGE PODGE, the most extraordinary Christmas Entertainment in Lon don the whole strength of the establishment), every evening at hall-past Nine o'clock. The usual Operatic Selections by Kisses Russell, Barrie, Hays, (}olden, &c.; Messrs. Lasoelles, Harland, Beaumont, Kimberley, &c. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Extra Comedy by Mr. and Mrs. Randal', Mr. Hilton, Stacey, Woodman, Little Bob, &c. R 0 YAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditch. (Close to the Great Eastern TerminusN Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NTJGENT. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS. Operatic Selections, &c. Prima Donna, Miss ELLISON. The Comic strength of the Company includes ANNIE ADAMS, NELLY POWER, J. G. FORDE, WEST, GEO. LEYBOURNE, Mr. HERBERT, J. F. 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There is every appearance of continuance of frost. A very severe gale from the E.N.E. prevailed on the Northumberland coast on Friday night, and the sea was very high. The only vessel which sailed on Friday was a barque, the Holywood, bound to Carthagena, and the Dundee and Newcastle steamship. But the steamship was glad to get back to the shelter of the port, after encoun tering the gale for a few hours off the Northumberland coast, and the pilot and some other men, who went into the offing with the Holywood, had some difficulty in landing. A boy could not be landed, and he will pro bably have to go on with the vessel to Spain. A letter written from Hartlepool last night says :—" About eleven o'clock a full-rigged ship, which turned out to be the Clon tarf, from Sunderland to Alexandria, laden, was observed in the offing displaying a signal for assistance. Mr. Thos. Dawson, the proprietor of the tugboats at the old har bour, ordered two of the boats to go out, notwithstand ing the heaVy sea that was running. The Apollo went first, and encountered some very heavy seas, and before she returned a portion of her paddleboxes was washed away. The Amelia next followed, having in tow one of the lifeboats. Both boats had a number of pilots on board, to render, if necessary, assistance to the vessel. As the latter boat was passing the new pier a heavy sea broke over her, and carried away her gangway. The sudden shock of so great a 'sheet'of water caused not only alarm on shore, but appeared to unnerve those in the boat, for the steam was shut off, and the boat was for a few minutes at a stand still. As the worst of the sea appeared to be in that par ticular locality, however, they steamed forward and joined the other boat at the vessel. During the passage out of the boat, the Clontarf was lying to, sideways to the wind, and unable to turn round and put to sea. The nautical men on the land who were looking at the position of the vessel doubted very much her ability to get way on her to make to sea, and were of opinion that, unless the wind changed, she would drive ashore, or would be compelled to make for and anchor in the roads, as it was clear she was drawing too much water to enter the port. The wind, however, fortunately for the ship, veered round in a more northerly direction, and the vessel was stayed' just as one of the boats got to her. The captain of the vessel offered £4OO to those on board the boat to tow her to Shields but they, considering the severe weather and wind which they had to contend with, refused to take her for less than . _ £5OO. A further off er w a s ma d e to take her at the same price to the Humber, but this also was declined. No terms being come to the boats eventually left, and the vessel steered in a southerly direction. Two or three vessels have arrived at the port in safety, an d several are observed off, which are said to be laden." The weather was a little moderate on the Northumberland coast on Saturday, and several laden vessels, both steam and sailing, left the Tyne in the afternoon, though the sea was very high. T here was no appearance of the frost yielding. On Friday morn ing it was very intense, and the earth was thorougly ice bound. A good deal of snow fell on Saturday. The aurora borealis was very beautiful off the Northumberland coast on Saturday night. A heavy snowfallltook place throughout the south-eastern counties of Scotland on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, accompanied with a strong north-east wind, causing a great drift in many of the hilly districts. The snowstorm was followed by a 'keen frost, which still con tinued on Saturday evening. A day or two before the snow the lochs had begun to breeze, and catching the snow on the surface, the ice, became very rough and heavy. The curlers, however, turned out in large numbers, and thou sands betook themselves to the ice for skating and prome nade. In the Firth of Forth above 100 vessels took shelter from the gale which prevailed in the North Sea all Thurs day and Friday. At Belhaven Sands, Dunbar, on Friday the crew of the Vulcan, Simpson master, from Newcastle for Aberdeen, with coal, were rescued by the Coastguard by means of the rocket apparatus. The vessel was drifting ashore, when Mr. Brodie, of Belhaven brickwork, observed at daybreak its perilous condition, and sent an intimation to the Coastguard station. He at the same time turned his own workmen down to the beach. In about an hour the Coastguard, under Lieut. Hamilton and Morgan, chief boat man, arrived. The sea was breaking astern and midships and the men, four in number, were taking refuge in the forecastle. The third rocket carried a line to the ship, which was made fast to the,rigging, and the crew were taken off one after another, the master being the last to leave. In an hour afterwards the ship sank and afterwards 'broke up. The Josephine, of Newburgh, from Rouen for Grange mouth, was on Friday morning run into off St. Abb's Head by a brig, name unknown, and the crew.had to take to their boat, in which they were tossed for four hours in a high sea and amid a heavy snowstorm, till taken up by the brig Hubertus, of Sunderland, which conveyed them to Burntisland. AN EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.—Last market clay Mr. Richard Beale, of Frensham Mill, grove into Alton as usual, to attend the market, accompanied by a friend. He was driving a young and spirited horse, and everything went well until they arrived inside the yard of the Swan Hotel. Mr. Beale's friend alighted, and Mr. Beale threw the reins across the horse's back. The horse winced and rattled the bridle and bit, when he started off with a bound, ran round the yard, and, seeing no exit ex cept by an open door, dashed into the back door of the hotel, passed through the hall, and out at the front door into the street. Of course the wheels of the dog-cart struck the brickwork on either side of the doorway, the shock sn apped off one shaft, the harness and breaching gave way, and allowed the !horse free exit through the hotel, dragging one shaft with him at full speed. Mr. Beale sat quietly in the dog-cart, and escaped perfectly unhurt, the horse and trap parted company, and the rider came to the ground without the slightest injury. Happily no one was in the hall or entrance at the time, and the horse, having passed into the street, was soon secured and taken back into the stable yard, and on examination found also un injured.—Surrey and Hants News and Guildford Times. / fig. . . r t, • i „ ''' \ , e4LAti 4 r . • : , -,,,,. _ 1 -1 1111‘, . , .. e ' , ............_ _ 1 111 I gi , :crit .‘ N. • \cf)•;p.: V.....: ' s_ ' "r.' ' ,/. * *III ~,, 1 c. , • _ C : 1 ".„1 414.. “ , 1 i ii ) It.G .f.---1, '7,7 . ., . e - • - ,sr" •-.N.,- -). '''' ''---, " U ' .7- 4 ? , 1 1 l ."-- 1 ,: t ...c ~,, 4! - • "e,•-< , == e 0,-,, . r ~ c; i : 4O l' "..' ' H- 1 e'. l -i ' .',.1 i ~.. ............ - —,, ~ .„. .., . ~,4 , i - " --.lk o.l' ~ ( I°llll ' ' '''':.4,. 4 • / -4- .-_+ ,4/ ~,,,. • : ~, ,„, _, b. .0, a, ' - „,..f., ' 1 11 lIIVi . .. 1)1111 "CY li, - q _ . L ,. ; `` , l „- (4 0,4) ."... DIE • .111illi ,,, i ta4 0,1 , ' , . will 04.-- .. . ~. ...., THE CATCHMENT BASINS OF RIVERS When.Bramah about3s years ago invented the watercloset he little dreamt of the great sanitary and agricultural revolution he was inaugurating. We all know upon what trivial events momentous changes sometimes depend; but possibly in the whole history of our material progress no such example of this trite saying can be found than is afforded by the intro duction of this useful appliance. Before its intro duction the house drains were in no manner connected with the public sewers; the sewage flowed into cess pools which riddled oui4asements and perpetually gave forth deadly. gases, which filled our houses and killed us with fevers, while the main sewers only took off the surface drainage. They, were simply the conductors of the watershed of towns,. and any attempt to turn the house drains into them was resisted by the Commissioners of Sewers. The rain fall throw them found its way to the river, and the sewage to the land, which was removed at stated times by a service of nightmen, as it is at present in Paris and other large Continental cities, after doing all the mischief it could to the household, and after losing as much as possible of its own virtue for the purposes of the soil. When the hydraulic appliance of Bramah come slowly into operation, the cesspools could no longer hold the largely diluted sewage, and the evil became so great that the custom arose of flushing the house drains into the main sewers. This was clearly contrary to law, but it was winked at by the authorities ; it was a great public necessity, in fact, which put all old arrangements aside, and slowly the whole sewage of the metropolis was con duCted into the Thames. Those who remember the river 30 years ago can- remember a comparatively pure stream, up which salmon used to work to their spawning grounds. Shortly, however, its colour began to change from year to year, and at last it became so foul in 1859 that white paper thrown into the stream was immediately blotted out by the dirty water, and the committee rooms of the Houses of Parliament became unbearable in conse quence of the stench it gave forth. Chief Justice Hale laid it down as law, that " every man was to keep his own dirt at home ;" we did this, and pro bably should have gone on doing so until this day had it not been for Bramah ; he washed it up before our very eyes and noses in the river, and, more dis gusting still, he made us drink of it, and forthwith we commenced mighty works to take it down to the ocean. But other towns higher up the valley Of the Thames having acquired powers under the newly-constituted local Boarks of Health, took example by the metropolis, and transferred their cesspools into the stream, and thus com menced again the poisoning process we have taken so much trouble to abolish. Every day sewage is flowing down into our drinking water from the 800,000 persons located in the valley of the Thames above] London. The gross absurdity of thus going to the expense of millions to get rid of our own sewage, that we may have the pleasure of drinking that of the 53 towns and villages of the upper Thames, must have struck everyone. It is quite certain that the maxim—" everyone for him self "—must in its narrower interpretation give way to some scheme for dealing with the difficulties thrown upon us by the independent action of local Boards having jurisdiction over restricted areas only. The Thames valley, containing perhaps the most important elements of the problem to be solved, has attracted the greatest amount of attention. Dr. Ackland, of Oxford, has for some time advocated the necessity of appointing some authority to control the catchment basins of rivers, and, in_conjunction with other gentlemen, presented a memorial to Sir George Grey two years since with respect to the particular catchment basin of the Thames. The evidence he gives of the report before us of the con dition of the river near Oxford is certainly disgust ing. He states that in one place the deposits of sewage have diminished the depth of the river by 6ft., " a disengagement of gas takes place at the bottom of the water, and large masses of black sew age which have been deposited are thrown up to the surface," masses of human ordure totally unchanged are seen floating down the river for several miles. Every year the other large towns on the Thames, — Abingdon, Wallingford, Reading, Windsor, Eton, Walton-on-Thames, Richmond, Brentford, &c., are obtaining powers to drain into the Thames. Each town thinks only of getting rid of its own refuse, quite regardless of the nuisance it is creating for the other towns lower down the stream. It is quite clear that no genuine system of fluvial purification can be carried out as long as mere local interests are allowed to be consulted. Mr. Rawlinson, the principal inspector in the Local Government Act-office, who has inspected the rivers of Lancashire and parts of Yorkshire, says (3,993) " They are foul almost from source to estuary." The rivers Irwell, Medlock, Irk, and the Bridgwater Canal are more offensive from sew age than the Thames. The Medlock at Manchester is covered with a black scum so thick that birds are able to walk over it ! The rivers and streams in Lancashire and Yorkshire are fearfully abused. There are river beds in Lancashire and Yorkshire that are raised 10 or 15 feet by sewage, ashes, and other refuse. " There are," says Mr. Rawlinson, " bridges under which a dog can scarcely creep, and I have had evidence from inhabitants that they have driven loaded carts under these same bridges." In the neighbourhood of Birmingham the streams have been silted up many feet in the same manner. The want of some central authority to deal with the watersheds of districts is illustrated by the case of Salford. The inhabitants of this town wished to carry their sewage by tunnel three or four miles from Manchester at an expense of £BO,OOO, but were prevented from doing so by the refusal of other towns to co-operate. "Of what use is it," they say, " to expend large sums when Manchester and all the other towns above will continue to foul the river ?" The river at Birmingham contains in dry weather as much sewage as water. Birmingham once boasted of being one of the healthiest towns in England, but this distinction it has long lost, as its mortality is now much higher than that of the metropolis, and it always suffers from a type of fever. The river Aire, which passes through Leeds and Bradford, is as foul as the Medlock. Passen gers crossing the canal in trains are obliged to shut the windows in consequence of foul air (4,115). The Clyde at Glasgow is worse even than the Thames. We might perhaps expect to find filth in the rivers of manufacturing towns, but it is observable that places famed of old for hygi enic advantages are now being poisoned by the practice of throwing the sewage into the river. The case of Bath is particularly strong. The river Avon, near that city, is nearly a stagnant stream, and is quite poisoned from this cause, and so great is the deposit of sewage in it that the navigation is impeded. It is not quite so bad at Bristol, as a portion of the sewage of the town is diverted into the tidal river, but the floating harbour which runs through the old town is quite pestiferous. The per verse arrangements which obtain in many of our watering-places are very observable. In many cases the outlet of the drains is into the sea. The sewage of Exmouth passes, by an open drain, along the foreshore as far as low-water mark, which is within 70 yards' distance of the public bathing place. At Brighton the ladies are subjected to a similar ob noxious arrangement. At Southsea, again, the mouths of the sewage pipes open close to the pier and to the bathing machines. The county surveyor for Somersetshire, who has paid much attention to the drainage of towns, gives a moat deplorable account of the condition of some of the western towns. In the rising watering-place of Weston super-Mare all the sewage runs into one of the rhynes, or open ditches which drain the mars h land of the district. The water in it is so foul t won cattle will not drink it. The riv er Tone is p by the sewage of Taunton. The river Frome in many PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. places is in a disgusting condition with respect to the water and the deposit along its ' banks. Indeed, the evidence in this respect gives most abundant proof that our rivers are everywhere being -silted up by deposits of cinders and stewage, and that nobody interferes, the reason, in many cases being, according to the evidence of Mr. Toni Taylor, the secretary of the Local Government Board (3,897), that the persons who create the nuisance are themselves members of the local Boards whose duty it is to conserve them. 'hat it is * nuisance at Common Law to disehargO- sewag9uto a river has been decided, but *here it is orkly:a . 'public nuisance there is no one to put the law:into o ti W-I pera pn. . ien, however, direct injury is done to the:property of any individual, local boards can be restrained frOnVol luting streams by injunction. Indeed, seAral'Boards of Health have been stopped in this manner. At Ux bridge, for instance, Col. Tower obtained an i 'Cijune_ l i tion against the Board for poisoning his fi'sh' i i i th e river Coln with the sewage; at Hitchin the local Board was restrained in a similar manner, and so terrified were the members at the penalties threa tened by the law that they resigned, and there is now no Board in the town. At Croydon the Board have suffered six or seven injunctions, and have been so embarrassed with their sewage that they have a ~ solutely - been forced to do what they should have done in the first instance, and which has made them the example to every other town in England—they have turned it on to the land at a profit! When we rememberMa remember eveit faimei ii - CO:ifi lied by his le' bu to consume upon his land all the manure producek upon it, it does seem extraordinary that a reverse rule should obtain when human beings are concerned. And we think we are ittstiy open to tho rcproaqh_ca4 upon us by Liebig, who accuses us of wilfully cast ing forth into the ocean those fertilising elements we have drawn not only from our own fields, but from those of Europe and the whole world. But Croydon; we say, has solved the difficulty Bramah has slowly brought about, by the introduction of the water-closet. His invention emptied the cesspools into the rivers, and for a time robbed the land, for of old their contents were returned to it in a very disgusting and costly manner. His invention now enables the sewage to carry itself on to the land. At Croydon, being stopped by injunction from throw ing the sewage into the Wandle, the local Board leased 240 acres of land at £4 an acre, turned their sewage upon it, and relet it for £5 an acre. Thus they make a clear profit of £240 a year, and enormous crops are got off the land, which serves as a pattern card, as it were, to the surrounding farmers of the value of sewage. Moreover, there appears to he good reason to believe that at least another hun dred acres may be profitably employed, considering the heavy dressings placed on the land by the pre sent tenant. This would yield £340 a year, which would go in diminution of the rates. It is true that Croydon is favourably situated for the distribution of its sewage, as it stands on a height, and it can therefore be distributed by means of simple gravita tion ; but there are hundreds of towns in England just as favourably placed ; and with this example before their eyes, of turning this heretofore consi dered public nuisance into a source of profit, it is really disgraceful that they should any longer pollute our rivers with it. The importance of the principle of placing entire watersheds under the control of some central Board is most clearly set forth in the evidence published in the volume before us, but there appears to be a verygeneral agreement of opinion that the functions of Boards appointed for such catchment basins should be merely to supervise the action of the local Boards within their district, and to enforce obedience to the law, leaving the necessary works to be carried out by the local Boards alone. In short, gat fear of centralisation which is ever before the eyes of Englishmen, and which has led to evils almost as great in some cases as those it wishes to avoid, is clearly evinced by all those who have given evidence upon this very important subject. The Committee, in their Report, have embodied their opinions upon it in the following paragraph : " We recommend that the important object of completely freeing the entire basins of rivers from pollution should be rendered p ossible by general legislative enactment, enabling the inhabitants of such entire districts to adopt some con trolling power for that purpose; but it should include a pro vision for compelling local boards to render the sewage of their districts innocuous by application to the land for agri cultural purposes. The case of the valley of the Thames (where the purification of the river has been sought by the expenditure of enormous sums, is, to a, considerable extent, counteracted by the increased discharge of sewage from towns higher up the stream) requires special and imme diate attention." Naval and Military Intelligence. Advices received by our Southampton correspon dent, by the mail steamer Atrato, report the follow ing movements of her Majesty's ships of war on the West India and Pacific stations :—The Aboukir, 80, Commander Cracroft, C.B. ; the Fawn, 17, Commander 'Wrey ; and the Nimble, 5, Lieut. Hallowes, were at Port Royal, Jamaica, on the 9th inst. The Rosario, 11, Commander Palmer, left Kingston for Honduras on the 7th, with and for the mails. The Styx, 6, left Antigua for Barbadoes on the 11th. The Cordelia, 11, Commander J. B. Scott, was at Dominica on the 10th. Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.8., in the Duncan, 81, Capt. R. Gibson, was expected at Barbadoes on the 20th. The Shannon, 35, Capt. 0. J. Jones, arrived at Aspin wall on the Ist from Greytown, and she reported the safe arrival of the steamship Golden Rule at San Juan del Norte. The Phaeton, 39, Capt. G. L Bowyer, was at Matamoras on the 28th December. The Petrel, 11, Commander E. Madden, left Vera Cruz on the 30th December for Matamoras. The Wolverine, 21, Capt. A. F. R. de Homey, left Ha vannah for Matamoras on the Bth January. The Leander, Commander Harvey, was at Callao on the 28th December, and the Shearwater at Islay on the 23d ; the latter vessel was to rejoin the Commodore in a day or two. The Alert was at Valparaiso on the 17th December. The Sutlej, flagship, with the Admiral, was expected at Valparaiso, from Vancou ver's Island, about the end of December. An Ame rican paddle steam ram had arrived at Havannah, and left the same day for Wilmington, to join the squadron there. A Federal steam corvette and two gunboats were off Brazos. The French frigate Bel lone, Rear-Admiral Hoy, was at Martinique on the 6th of January. The French transports Entrepre nante, Eure, and Rhine, and the Austrian frigate Navarre, were at Vera Cruz. The Rinaldo, 17 gun screw corvette, 951 tons and 200 horse-power, Commander Hon. Maurice H. 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SAINTINE, author of one of the most charming of tales, " Picciola.," and Honorary President of the Societe des Gens de Lettres, died in Paris this week. M. Saintine, in conjunction with M. Scribe and others, wrote several theatrical pieces, the " Ours [et le Pacha," and " Riche d'Amour," still retaining possession of the stage. A GODSEND FOR THE SHETLANDERS.-By a pri vate letter from Shetland we learn that, since the recent storms many of the voes (or arms of the sea running in land) have swarmed with the small fish known as " sil locks" to a degree unequalled for many years. The natives have been bagging them by the boatload, and building them up on the beach in heaps, literally like peat stacks in size, preparatory to boiling them down for the oil ; and at this process some of the people have been making as much as £1 a day.—Aberdeen Free Press. CIRCULAR OF CARDINAL ANTONELLI. The Gazette de France publishes the following as a letter which Cardinal Antonelli sent with the syllabus to the various bishops :—" Rome, Dec. 8, 1864.—0ur very holy lord Pius IX., Sovereign Pontiff, deeply occupied with the welfare of souls and healthful doctrine, has never ceased from the commencement of his pontificate to proscribe and condemn the chief errors and false doctrines which exist, especially at this unhappy period, by his encyclicals and allocutions pronounced in consistory, and by other apostolic letters which have been published ; but as it may happen that the whole of the pontifical acts may fail to reach each of the ordinaries, the said Sovereign Pontiff has decided that a syllabus of these same errors should be drawn up and forwarded to all the bishops in the Catholic world, in order that they may have before them all the errors and pernicious doctrines which have been reprehended and condemned by him. He has also ordered me to see that the printed syllabus be forwarded to your excellency on the occasion and at the timo when the said Sovereign Pon tiff, in consequence of his great solicitude for the well-be ing and happiness of the Catholic Church and of the whole flock which the Lord has confided to his care, has thought proper to write another encyclical letter to all the Catholic bishops. While acquitting myself of this duty with the zeal and respect due to the commands of-the said pontiff, I hasten to forward to your excellency the syllabus with these letters. avail myself with much pleasure of the opportunity of expressing my respect and attachment to your excellency, and humbly kiss your hands. The very humble and devoted servant of your excellency, G. Cardi nal ANTONELLI. very ever, c~ 4 L%- / // / ~/ Meeting of the Proprietors of Drury-lane Theatre, On Saturday the annual general meeting was held in the saloon of the theatre to receive the reports of the committee, and of 31r. 0. Marsh Nelson, archi tect to the company of proprietors, to fill up the vacancies in the committee caused by the retirement of six members Who go out by rotation, to elect an auditor, and for other purposes. Mr. Joseph Arden was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN said that those who had for many years attended the annual assembly of the proprie tors were best aware of the progress that the theatre had made in the estimation of the public, and to the patronage .. and success which had attended it was owing the increased dividend they hail received. H e thought they might congratulate themselves on having so enterprising a lessee, and another gentle man associated with. him, who had displayed a n amount of zeal and indust.►y never surpassed in the management of the theatre. There was another matter which was also deserving of notice, inasmuch as for 'years thererular drama had notbeenwitnessed in that theatre, die lessee had made it profitable by. restoring this temple, hitherto famed throughout the world, to its proper and legitimate objects. The SECRETARY then read the advertisement con vening the meeting, and afterwards the following report of the committee : _ _ The accounts for the last 12 months ending Dec. 31, 1864, duly audited, and the annual report of the architect, cairue submitted to the general assembly. The receipts, in 186d2in, the a g rn9u_ n t b t a o lti x n 6 7 9. r o g f 5a £ , 1 1 ,5 d 3 . 4 I T 4 h s e . 7 pa d . yomnehtthse amount3lstDe e t; r t s e , e sB .l o4 `lB: (;h s ip d., v7 lea v ik; a balance of £1,334 ss. 3d. The :wm4ekt:oluzffii:.fg l zt •i: lll : l ; 6 e s is a.i t s t so l . n n2 o od f f. fi £ oB ; fi_ o l,4 (t e. fKom the lessees for and furthe-r sum- of £lOO for extra g rt u h a e et p e a r yni e reenhttstcootmhe liriSe the AAR Duke of Bedford, and £760 4s. sd. for rates and taxes. The sum of £1,950• - bas been paid to the traitres of new renters, and all the ordinary current ei : peniAs' of the 12 months -have been.paid lip to Cbristmas r day T • Itvith pleasure to the continued e lesSaes d they feel assured that the general assembly. wllll-eive with satisfaction the report of the architec • cl* 1 Tor y - tion of the propeity." 114. MARsIi NELSON, theaftliteracta lit a o i lowinireport:-;- "My Lords and Gentlomen,--I;adiliflon to the ordimay - - affairs of the theatre, the following works have been done during the past year, namely, the reconstruction of a por tion of the Main Northern Longitudinal Sewer, which had given way ; the rebuilding of the property-rooms,chimney stacks, and the fence walls on the southern side next Vinegar-yard. Two houses on the estate, Nos. 16 and 17, Marquis-court, have been thoroughly repaired, and the ground landlord (the Duke of Bedford) has converted the two houses into three, and effected other permanent im provements, at his own cost. The result will be an increase of rental to the proprietors for the remaining term of the lease. By direction of the sub-committee, I prepared in March last valuations of the theatre and properties, and gave evidence at an appeal before the Property-tax Com missioners. A reduction of £B4B was obtainedin the amount of the assessment, and a proportionate annual saving will thus be effected. The monthly report from the firemen shows that the fire-cocks and apparatus throughout the theatre for the prevention and extinction of fire are in good working order, and I have the satisfaction to state that the lessee (Mr. Falconer) has faithfully carried out the instruc tions of the sub-committee, referred to in my last report as having been highly approved by the inspectors of theatres of the Lord Chamberlain's department, in removing all barriers and keeping open all doors of exit communicating with the various fire-proof corridors and staircases, and in guarding all exposed lights, both before and behind the curtain. These precautions, especially the latter one, add to the security of the property, as well as to the safety of the public. On the motion of Mr. RAWLINSON, the report was agreed to. Mr. BURTON moved that the report be adopted. Mr. ROBINS seconded the motion. Mr. SHARPE said before the chairman put the mo tion he wished to make a few remarks. He wanted to know if he was right when he said that two quarters' ground rent were owing to the Duke bf Bedford? The CHAIRMAN said it was paid up to Midsummer. Mr. SHARPE said it appeared that they had ,in hand a balance of £1,334 ss. 3d., and, such being the case, he begged to repeat what he said at the last annual meeting, and to express his opinion that they ought to get out of debt when they had the means. As they had a sufficient sum in hand, he thought they ought to pay off the two quarters' ground rent they were in arrear to the Duke of Bed : ford, and so get out of debt, and especially as they , would then have in hand a sum sufficient to meet the ordinary requirements of the committee. He moved that the two quarters' rent in arrear be paid to the Duke of Bedford. Mr. PYEFINCII seconded the motion. He had ex pressed the same opinion at their last meeting, and he was surprised that the suggestion had not been acted upon by the committee. At a subsequent meet ing of the renters, who were only interested in the finances of the theatre, there was a unanimous feeling that this debt should be paid off. As the committee had a sufficient sum in hand for the purpose, he was surprised that they had not done so. The CHAIRMAN said it would be better that he should give some little explanation of the matter, as it might save some misconception and discussion. It was true that at the last meeting the hon. gentleman moved a resolution almost similar to the one he then offered to the meeting. At the meeting of the new renters a resolution was passed, and the committee stated that they would, as far as their views were sound, endeavour to carry them, and to some extent they had carried them out. Any suggestion from the new renters would always be received with courtesy, and as far as was consistent with the protection of all the interests concerned they would endeavour to carry it out. In 1863 they paid four quarters' rent, and in the last year, fall ing in with the suggestion to which he had referred and having a large balance in hand, they paid five quarters' rent instead of four, and thus brought down their arrears to a lower amount than was ever known in the memory of anyone in that room. In stead, therefore, of being admonished for not having done more, they expected to have received credit for their prudence. Supposing their balance at their bankers should be reduced by the amount suggested, and any serious calamity should occur, how would they be placed ? They would have to pay the rent, taxes, fire brigade, besides payments which were re quired to be made monthly and quarterly, and if anything were to occur to interrupt the prosperity of the lessees, and they had no money to go on, the hon. gentleman would not like to be called upon to put his hand in his pocket to meet the current ex penses. Although they had paid the Duke of Bed ford five quarters' rent, they had made also an addi tion to his income of the renters, for it was treble over what it was ten years ago. Things were pro gressing, and their prosperity was most unaccount able,w for property which a short time a as go n w oN a y s w of o t rt h h e value of £B,OOO at a sale by auction from £50,000 to £60,000. The eased the Duke i n d e pendent zeal ke and was a proof of the earnest.tnteesse , and e m re us di t a e s x f e a r r as prudence would allow, - iur sum of money which had been pa id to of Bedford eise some Any suggsti would be adopted and f o ll o wed up, and as t anxietyo of thei t h e future. discretion. committee, heylia in d adnohnaedin madethe a past ea s pi o .. t a l speech, but it was only th e y would do in e but on th o e ff y Mr. SHARPE said the chair plead- i ng after all. He contended that they had the w as no complaint that thei r ren t was not r apiece of special mean s of getting out of d ebt they ought t o d o so. There regularly paid, and as they had the m eans o f get ting out of debt to their ground landl or d th ey oug ht to do so. • The CHAIRMAN said th e f acts were not as the hon. gentleman had stated.they eg If paid the Duke of Bedford they had an outstanding debt of £270 to pay for the repairs of the dilapidation of two houses, and . and they would then not have enough . money la hand at their bankers to carry on if the lessee was not to pay his rent. Lord W. LENNO x was about offering some obser vations, when the chairman ruled that he was out of order. The motion was then put, and negatived by a large majority, and the report was received and adopted. The six members of the committee who went out of office by rotation—viz., Mr. Holmes, Lord Wm. Lennox, Mr. H. Wilson, Mr. O'Dowd, Mr. Arabin, and Mr. Bond Cabbell—were then re-elected. The following gentlemen were re-elected as the sub-committee :—Mr. Joseph Arden, Mr. B. B. Cabbell, Sir W. De Bathe, Mr. T. Rawlinson, and Mr. T. Waring. Mr. Crombie was re-elected auditor, and thanks were voted to the auditors for their services. A vote of thanks to- the chairman and to Mr, Falconer, the lessee, closed the proceedings. ~~ . . ,~ t * - 111 A „. A