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Doors open at )ialf-past Six; commence at Seven. LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 4, 1867. If there is one thing in which the members of the Reform League fail mare than another, it. is in want of discr'etion, and if they eventually fail in carrying out th it plans to the extent they desire, we shall attribute their discomfiture in a great measure to their want of moderation. They seem inclined, moreover, to fall into a worse error, and to exhibit a want of that justice and fair play which should never be absent from the doings and sayings of men who put themselves prominently before the public as the pioneers of a work of progress, and the exponents of popular opinion on a subject of interest and importance. We have all along con sidered that a very unnecessary fuss was made about a particular passage in one of Mr. LOWE'S speeches about Reform last session. No doubt he was rather exaggerated in his language, and might have so arranged his sentences that it would have been impossible to put a wrong interpreta- tion on them. But more than once has the mistake, whether accidental or wilful, that some jealous critics made about it, been rec tified, and therefore the matter should be allowed to drop. Instead of this, however, Mr. BRIGHT has been making political capital of the unlucky expression while he has been starring it in the pro vinces, and a new DANIEL has conic to judgment in the person of JOSEPH GUEDALLA, who deems it a sufficient reason to give for his interference that he is a member of the Reform League Executive. He has written to Mr. LOWE to request that gentle- man to say whether he has not modified the " harsh, unjust, and unfortunate opinions" which he expressed about the working-classes during lag session, opinions, he goes on to state, which have " tended more than aught else to raise a spirit of stern inflexible resolve, and which, if allowed to foster among the masses a sense of wrong and insult, may lead to consequences which few expect and none desire." We really must pro- test against these members of the League, who presume to know by intuition the feelings and thoughts of the lower orders ; they talk as if the working classes of England were mere puppets, and by drawing this string and making that sign they could make use in overtaking dam- nation round the land, and put down all dissen- tients at once and for ever. Mr. GUEDELLA then calls upon Mr. Loi,vE, and advises him to retract his assertions, this being a very suitable time to do so. To this very uncalled-for and intrusive epistle, Mr. LOWE makes a fitting reply, commencing by stating that for months past the Reform League has " by resolutions, handbills, and speeches, accused him of charging the entire working class of this country with venality, drunkenness, and other misconduct." This is strictly true, for the charge has been made with great vehemence, and reiterated with a persis tency that betrayed a purpose. After so many mis statements, and so many essays upon a false test, it is as well to have Mr. LowE's own explanation, which ought to satisfy those of justice and discern ment, whatever party they belong to, and those who hold such qualities in contempt will never be content, whatever they hear and see that militates against their views and sentiments. Mr. LOWE says therein that the passage in his speech of the 13th of March, on which this accusation pro fesses to be grounded, only " states that such things do unhappily exist in the constituencies, and that where they do exist they are to be found among the poorer rather than the richer voters." As he justly observes in sequence, a comparison of the two statements will show, first, that he was speaking of constituencies, not of the working-classes at large ; and next, that he only pointed out where " such ven ality and misconduct as does exist is likely to be found." " The Reform League," adds Mr. LOWE, " having thus fastened upon me assertions which I have not made, has loaded me with most virulent abuse, and has striven to make me an object of the hatred, perhaps a mark, for the vengeance of my fellow countrymen." After this statement, which is true, we are not surprised to see that Mr. LOWE declines to accede to the request made to him, and " leaves the case to the judgment of the country." In concluding these remarks, we would say that we do not come forward as the ex ponents of Mr. LOWE'S views, nor as the defenders of his political opinions, but we con sider that those who judge others should first judge themselves. They who criticise the speech of Mr. LOWE persist in twisting and turning his re marks to suit their purpose of exciting and irritat ing those they address ; and such is not a course to pursue with any likelihood of gaining the respect or the confidence of the public. It is high time that these contemptible devices for gaining an end should be put aside, and since Mr. LOWE has given a direct denial to these oft-repeated assertions let the matter drop. If, however, these zealous patriots permit in going on with the affair, the public will now have to appreciate their sincerity and their straightforwardness. We have often said that the worst enemies of real Reform were its candid friends, and this confusion worse con founded about the misrepresentations of Mr. LOWE'S speech is an admirable illustration of the manner in which these misguided individuals mistake cause fur effect, and waste time in personal attacks that should be given to public services. The news which we have received from New York on the 22d ult., tells us that the few days before the adjournment of Congress had been compara tively unimportant, consisting mostly of debates. The territorial plan to which we alluded the other day is still under consideration, but judging from appearances we may hope it will not be passed. It will most likely be brought up in two or three bills on the reassembling of the members, but it is under stood that a careful canvass of both houses has con vinced its promoters that it will not be possible to secure for the measure the two-thirds majority ne cessary to carry it over the PRESIDENT'S certain veto. It is generally believed that little in the way of reconstruction will be effected during the present session. Perhaps, judging from the specimens of Radical legislation for the South that we have had, and remembering the predominance of that party in Congress, the less that is done the better. It is safer to leave the South even in its present unsettled state in which the people can at least hope for better things than to force upon them violent changes, which are supposed to be permanent, and which are therefore certain to irritate and incense them. But we are not without indications that a better state of things may prevail. The fact of this territorial scheme failing to secure a larger and more certain amount of support Is encouraging. Very possibly among the Republicans of America, as among the Radicals of England, there are many who support and advocate extreme theories who would shrink from actually putting their own professions into practice. If some prominent members of our Re form League were given the power to overthrow the House of Lords, the. Established Church, and to institute universal suffrage and payment of members, it is most likely that the most vehement orator among them would think twice before he ventured on any of those measures. In the same way, the very additional political strength of the Radi cals of America may act as a check upon the extravagance of their leaders, because the party is not composed of a few fanatics, but in cludes many thoughtful men, who, under the sense of national responsibility, may well hesitate to push their theories to extremity. It is a very different thing to quarrel with the PRESIDENT and to try to limit his power, however mischievous the ultimate result of such interference with the constitution may be, and to involve the country in a fresh outbreak of civil war, to derange trade and commerce, and to punge the national finances into hopeless confusion There are quite sufficient tokens of resentment and disaffection in the South , An States to justify appre hension on this score. Eve ry mail brings us fresh intelligence from one or :another of the States. This time we hear of consia 'erable antipathy being manifested in Florida towards the national offi cials, and several outrage ; upon negroes being committed. The people have waited, considering their antecedents, with 19 ond er ful patience and self-control the will and pleasure of the North, and it is not surprising K. -they should now mani fest symptoms of discont when they find their adversaries gaining unquettioned power, after two years' delay. Mutual. concessions and mutual forbearance will be necessary before the American people can be really consoli dated, but at least it will be something gained if: legislative interference is staved off for the present. Fenianism is, we may hope, coming to its natural conclusion. The New York Herald of Dec. 22 writes pointedly and justly on the subject. Its plain speak ing will not be very acceptable to Hibernian en thusiasts, but it is none the :less forcible for its un palatable truth. Fenianism, it says, is coming to an end. The news from Europe has for some time brought nothing but indefinite rumours concerning the great insurrection which was to have taken place in Ireland, and there are many in America who believe that STEPII:ENS has never left the United States and has no intention of doing so. The year in which he promised that Ireland hould be in arms is, says the Editor of the Herald, writing on Dec. 22d, very nearly at a close without a hostile gun being fired on that soil. As for the Fenian question on American soil, he adds, it was never much more than " a noisy mystery and money-gathering operation." "We have been treated to mock republics, senates, houses of repre sentatives, bombastic proclamations by 'presidents', and all the other paraphernalia which could make a cause ridiculous, by a few selfish men labouring for their own ends, and, with the exception of one or two, not possessing a spark of patriotism." This fact has been patent to most observers ever since the be ginning of the movement; and if anything was wanted ,o demonstrate the selfish ambition of the heads of the movement, it would have been found in the rival Presidents" and " Senates," the divisions among themselves, and the perpetual subscriptions kept up from the humble members of the confraternity, while the chiefs lived in useless state and luxury. The Nrew York Herald, in the passage alluded to, con cludes by saying that it is well that the Fenian business is lkely to be closed with the closing year for the sake of the poor Irish labourers and cham bermaids whose savings have been monopolised by " rapacious head centres, presidents, and other vam pires." We hope the common sense of these remarks will induce many a poor dupe to be less credulous for the future. At any rate it is a matter of con gratulation thatithe mischief has been comparatively limited in its operations, andsomething of the tempo rary importance it has possessed in America must be credited to the Americans themselves who, for their own political ends, have flattered the national vanity of the Irish element. The elections are over, and with them the necessity or the desire to conceal the truth has passed away. The Fenians of all de grees may put more faith in the New York Herald's recent stinging commentary on their proceedings than in all the honeyed words and courtly compli ments they have received from the PRESIDENT downwards. A few years ago people would have been very much surprised to know of the fuss that was to be made about the King of PRUSSIA and his wonder ful Minister, but nowadays we are quite used to it, and nothing is less astonishing than that we should hear of this or that celebration taking place in Ber lin with unwonted excitement and glorification. The first of January was the sixtieth anniversary of King WILLIAM'S entering the army, and ten years ago a number of soldiers presented him with a helmet of precious metals, but on the last occasion they gave him a golden laurel wreath. It does not seem likely that Berlin will hear the last of the war for some time at any rate, and each public occasion of festi vity is seized as a fitting opportunity for giving force and meaning to the occurrences of last sum mer. The next news that we shall hoar of any moment will, doubtless, be about the election for the Diet of the North Germanic Confederation, and some considerable degree of interest is already being felt as to the provisions and other ar rangements connected with the matter. So far as we can judge of the various provi sions they are fair enough ; but, of course, the question is how far will they be kept in truth and consistency? The Prussian Government is very skilful in its schemes, and can always make a good show ; but who is to know if they will abide by what they say, and perform what they promise? Experience only can show how much Germany has benefited by the great and comprehensive changes that have just been wrought in her States, and they are not very sanguine as to the gain and glory that will accrue from Prussia ascendancy. THE CATTLE PLAGUE AND THE MAGISTRATES.— The North and East Riding Quarter Sessions have been held this week. At the former Lord Bolton presented a memorial from the inhabitants of the town of Hawes, in Wensleydale, a place which has been fortunate enough to escape the plague altogether, praying that, as there had never been any disease within 20 miles, and as there was none now, their markets and fairs might be re-opened. His lordship, however, did not support the prayer of the memorial, and the Bench arrived at the conclusion that the present state of affairs was the safest. The cattle plague committee report that in the North Riding 2,590 head of cattle had been slaughtered, representing a value of £16,825. Four beasts only had been killed in the last quarter. The total expenditure on cattle plague account in the Riding was £19,636, of which £B7 represented last quarter. In the East Riding the statistics wore not given, but it was stated 36 persons had been prosecuted for breaches of the regulations, and fines of upwards of £4B inflicted. The disease yet lingered in Holderness. CONVICTION FOR SMOKING IN A COLLIERY.— Before a bench of West Yorkshire magistrates at Barnsley, on Wednesday last, George Onions, a minor, between 30 and 35 years of ago, was charged with smoking in the Darfield Main or Low Valley Colliery, Wombwell, near Barnsley. Mr. Peacock appeared on behalf of the com pany, and Mr. Hamer for the defendant. According to the evidence of a minor named Lawton and Mr. Wilson, the underground steward, on the day named the defen dant was at work in the mine 400 yards from the pit bottom, in a part where nothing but safety-lamps were used. Tho defendant was seen by Lawton to go to a bolt hole, about 30 yards from the bank in which ho was at work, and strike a match, with which ho lighted a pipe, and then went hack to his work with it in his mouth. Lawton went into tho hole, but the defendant had made away with the pipe. He then went and ac quainted Mr. Wilson with what ho had seen, and they at once went to the part of the pit where the defendant was at work and searched his clothes. In his waistcoat pocket they found nine matches which had not been used, and four which bad been struck. For the defence, a witness stated that the defendant was never out of his working place that morning. The bench, however, fined the defendant 40s. and costs, or two months and hard labour in Wakefield House of Correction. TUE WATERFORD ELECTION RIOTS.--We learn by telegraph that the inquests on the bodies of Captain Kelly and William O'Brien, who were mortallyiwounded by the Lancers in the election riots at Dungarvan last Saturday, have been adjourned to Monday for the military to prepare their defence. Tho Waterford Mail states that the soldier who was wounded on Friday in the attack made on the military escorting voters to Dungarvan died on Wednesday at Clonmel. Mr. Thornycroft, with the assent of the Queen, has been selected as the sculptor for the equestrian statue of her Majesty to be erected opposite St. George's Ball, Liverpool, in a line with that of the Prince Consort. The statue is to cost aim. riiE SLN, LOM ON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4 1867 CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. There is nothing worth mentioning in the Moni teur of to-day. The Journal des Debats, remarking upon the speech of the Emperor on New Year's-day, says : " This speech, we think, is destined to re assure Europe in regard to the bellicose intentions which since the battle of Sadowa have been gra tuitously attributed to France and to her Govern ment. We are happy to be able to hope that we have entered upon that era of peace and conciliation to which the Emperor alludes." The Debats then refers to the nomination of the Bishop of La Rochelle, M. Landriot, to the Archbishopric of Reims, and says that his opinions are of the same liberal tendency as those of Mons. Darboy, the Archbishop of Paris. . Thus his ap pointment may be considered as an anticipatory commentary upon the address which the Emperor intended to make the next day to the Clergy of Paris. The Paris papers of to-day are, as may be sup posed, exclusively occupied with the address of the Emperor to the diplomatic body and the clergy. To translate their remarks would be to reiterate the general and indeed unanimous feeling of admiration and satisfaction which I told you yesterday the brief speech had excited. La Patrie thus comments upon the Emperor's brief but noble declarations of policy :—" The words pronounced by the Emperor at the reception of the diplomatic body will be read with the greatest attention. Under the noble form of gravity habi tual to the Sovereign they included assurances of the continuation of European peace and aspirations for the stability of the thrones and the prosperity of the peoples." " Let us inaugurate," adds the same paper, " the commencement of the year 1867 under these hopeful auspices, and may the inscrutable future, the future which is only under the guidance of God, confirm the hopes so solemnly expressed by the Emperor. We must remark upon the compliment addressed by the Emperor to the Archbishop of Paris. The whole signification of it is, in our opinion, comprised in the word concilia tion,' which is introduced so as to give a political bearing to religious matters, the word being in tended to connect the interests of religion with those of the State. Such an association is too rare in our days, but its success would be very desir able, both in the interest of civilised society and of religion." The German papers continue to attach great importance to the affairs of the East. An idea seems to be that the Porte, which has hitherto exhibited great deference to the advice of moderation given by France and Austria may, in as excited mood, assume a de cidedly hostile attitude towards Greece. Tho Vienna Journal remarks upon this uneasy feeling displayed in Germany, and, in anticipation of the eventuality of war, says :—" A war between the two countries cannot trouble the peace 'of Europe if Russia should continue to maintain the same re serve which she has exhibited up to this moment." Winter maintains its sway. The snow fell in great abundance last night, and there was plenty of ice and snow in the streets of Paris this morning. In the suburbs and villages within eight or ten miles of Paris the snow was nearly two feet deep. There was bright sunshine from about 12 till 2. Then the snow began to fall heavily, steadily, and abundantly, and the snow continued with little or no intermission up to post hour. " Pleasure reigns at Paris ;" the consequence is that the papers, even after a day of rest, are barren of incident or novelty, and a difficulty seems to have been experienced to fill them even with the stale events of two or three days ago. " The weather" chilling, dreary, and exciting, though seasonable, is the great topic to day with the Parisians. A Mysterious Affair in Venice. A. letter from Venice tells of a mysterious affair which lately happened in that city. The details are guaranteed. One night last September, the Aus trians being still iu the town, but thinking of little else than making preparations for their departure, a boat with two men in it entered the little and at edcanal twee which runs ben the tPalace theiro tohv was craft u ra h if e gt h ll tto ckogssiedosme andsome f t t h he e speed steps criminal prisons. When the b oa t h ad got as far as sombre o h L e n a bltsriigev signal a caa d ln e at hlC,e and n boatmen fastened the o leading to a doorway. This was hardly the sort of place one would come to for a gallant adventure. The silence of the spot was only broken by the heavy, re gular tread of an Austrian sentinel pacing up and down the pavement of theCananicabridge. To explain why the boat with its two men were in the position described, it is necessary to state that th e l ast years of the Austrian domination were marked at Venice and in its provinces by several painful events. There was a mysterious underground kind of struggle con tinually going on betw4en the Austrian police and the secret committee formed in furtherance of the emancipation of Venice. The 12 labours of Her cules were nothing compared to the work accom plished by the committee on one aide and the police on the other, and the result was many a dark epi sode. Amongst the most celebrated political trials were that of the Countess Cornello, and the Lonigo Calvi, the Coutarini Bentivoglio, the Errera, Fusi nato, and Touch trials. Being generally carried on with closed doors, they necessitated an enor mous quantity of writing —every one knows how the Austrians delight in that exercise — w hi c h com prised the most extraordinary information on politi cal life in Venice. For some of the prisoners the examination lasted six, seven, or even eight months. Even the military tribunals, under Marshal Bene dek, which were the most just, had to do with them. These papers co ntained matter of the greatest interest, such as the opinions of judge s g i ven i n secret council, the reports of informers, the notes of agents, and the letters of the Director -General of Police. All these papers, forming a consider able mass of manuscripts, to which must be added those connected with the terrible affairs judged in Mantua since 1854, composed the "political trials" in the archives of the Secret Tribunal, at the low door of which was moored one night a boat with two men iu it. The carrying off of these delicate archives was the object of this nocturnal visit, and the leading motive was this. Those interested in not letting the-papers leave Italy, had heard that for two nights the police had been trans porting papers to the military ovens, and having them burned. Of course it could not be known if the police were going to burn the " political trials," or to send them secretly to Vienna. The com mittee, for certain reasons easily understood, were quite as desirous of getting hold of these docu ments as other pei sons were of seeing them destroyed,and determined to try and effect their cap ture. The task was a dangerous one, as there was a sentry so close; however, before the barque reached its destination, one of the committee was already in the building, and had made sure of being able to get into the room where the coveted archives were kept. The least noise in the canal, which, with its tribunal on one side and its criminal prisons on the other, was looked upon as sacred, would have caused sus picion, and immediately alarmed the quarter. To effect the robbery proposed some time was neces sary, as it was not a question of carrying off a few indiscreet epistles, but whole bundles of papers. Strange to say, the adventurous members were in no way disturbed, and at th ree a .m. effected their re treat, carry ing with them their booty. It is not difficult to imagine the anger of the president of the tribunal on the following day. What a misfortune to happen to a president whose functions were just expiring. Search was everywhere made in hot haste, and all the civil and military authorities did their best to find out the daring plunderers, who amused themselves by spreading the report that the theft had been committed by the secret emissaries of the Government. Wh en the Austrians left Venice the mystery was c l e ared up, and nothing showed the value of the papers more than the bribes that were offered to the committee for the destruc tion of certain leaves. An inventory was taken of the papers, and notice was sent to Florence, mid within the last week the papers thus mysteriously carried off from Austrian keeping have been for: warded to the capital of Italy. LA TES ( "ll' 'r / 7 ' _ _ .1.4. A (REUTER'S TELEGRA HS.) AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. PESTI', Jan. 3. The new Imperial patent has caused great dis satisfaction in Hungary, and will create fresh ob stacles to a reconciliation between Hungary and Austria. Herr von Howarth, the amnestied Hungarian exile, is expected hero in a few days. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 3. The different Ministers have been ordered to have the statement of the respective Budgets for 1867 in readiness by the 13th inst. THE BOMBAY MAILS. MARSEILLES, Jan. 3. The Tanjore arrived here at 4 p.m. The mails leave for London by special train at 6 p.m. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 3. The Nyanza left at 8 a.m., and the Delta at 3 p.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 9th, and the latter at Southampton about the 16th inst. AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Jan. 3, Evening. Gold, 133/. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 107 ; Illinois, 121 f ; Erie, 671. The steamers Chicago, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and Pereire have arrived out. ARRIVAL OF THE ARAGO. FALMOUTH, Jan. 4. The New York and Havre Company's United States steamship Arago, from New York on the 22d December (afternoon), has arrived here with 62 passengers, 58 bags of mails, $124,000 in specie, and a general cargo. After landing eight passen gers and the mails she proceeded for Havre. BOURSE, Jan. 3, Two o'clock.-The Emperor's Speech continues to be viewed in a favourable light, and to have a beneficial influence on the settlement, which to-day includes all foreign stocks and securi ties as well as French Railway, Credit, and Miscel laneous shares. The charge for crrrying over is very moderate, and occasionally advantageous to the buyer, as is shown by the deports. The report on Italian Fives has varied from lc. to 3c., on Lyons shares from lfr. 25c. to 2fr., ou Orleans 75e. to 2fr., and on Lombard from 15c. to 45c. ; on the other hand, there is a deport on Credit Mobilier shares varying from lfr. to 75c., and on Comptoir d'Escompte from 90c. to 50c. Under these circum stances the market is more buoyant, and an advance has taken place. French Threes have gained 10c. -at 691 r. 75c., taking yesterday's deport into ac count. Italian Fives 10c.-at 56fr. 25c. Credit Mobilier 3fr. 75c.-at 502 fr. 50c. Credit Foncier 71r. 50c.- at '.1,400fr. Comptoir d'Escompte 2fr. 50c.-at 847 fr. 50c. Railway Shares are also in very good demand, especially Northern, which are quoted at 1,203 fr. 75c., with a rise of Bfr. 75c. ; Lyons at 912 fr. 50c., or llfr. 50c. higher ; and Orleans at 9001 r., with an improvement of 3fr. 75c. General Ottoman Debt are firmly held at 30fr. ex div. The following are a few of the prix de com pensation just posted up :-Bank of France 3,575 fr., Credit Fonder 1,400 fr., Credit Mobilier 5051 r., Italian Fives 56fr. 20c., Lyons 910 fr., Southern 582 fr. 50c., Northern 1,200 fr. Orleans 900 fr., Austrian 405 fr., Lombard 390 fr., Immobilier 382 fr. 50e., and Gas 1,570 fr. Three o'clock.-Credit Foncier Shares have further advanced 30fr. The closing quotations aro as follows :- per Cents — Do. end month — Bank Shares 3565 Italian Loan — Do. end month 56 35 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - Y LYS. 3 per Cents. — Do. end month 69 75 ;redit Mobilier ... Do. end month ... 501 25 redit Foucior , o. eni Louth 1400 For Account. Orleans Northern 1202 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 912 50 Southern 586 25 Westeria 538 75 Eastern 533 75 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 386 North of Spain 125 Saragos.sa Ditto to Barcelona — Roman. The Insurrection in Candia. _ ~. (REUTER'S EXPRESS.) ATHENS, Dec. 27. M. Soliotis, who commanded the Greeks in the engagement at Cares, district of Apocoronon, in Candia, already announced by telegraph, has writ ten a letter describing the affair, which has been published in this city. Subsequent advices from the island to Dec. 19 represent the loss of the Turks in the engagement at 1,000 killed and wounded. The insurgents occupied the positions of Phokes, Hostes, Prasses, Zourva, and Cacopetron, thus dominating the pass of Apocoronon, at Selmon, both by Mount Omalos and the plain. Byzantios, who had under taken the siege of the fortress of Kissamos, had complied with the request 41 the General Assembly, and abandoned an operation the success of which would have been of no service to the Greeks. Byzan tios afterwards joined Zimbrakakis. The bad weather and constant rains had compelled the belli gerents to suspend hostilities. The English gunboat Assurance, which brought some Cretan families to Athens, returned two days afterwards to Candia; but on reaching the island she found another gunboat, the Wizard, which arrived on the 15th from Matta to_replace the Assurance. Comparison of dates will not admit the supposition that the recall the Assurance is due to a dis avowal of the philanthropic conduct of Commander Pym. The Assurance arrived in the Piraeus on the 13th, while the Wizard anchored in the port of Sonda on the 15th. Now, as there is no telegraph between Candia and the continent, the English Government could only have received information on the 13th at the earliest of the act of Commander Pym, and the Assurance cannot therefore have been recalled on that account. The Wizard is a smaller vessel than the Assurance, and this would render her incapable of performing a similar act of humanity. A report has been in circulation that the Russians would send some vessels to Crete to rescue the sufferers. But at the last moment it was found that the instructions from the Home Govern ment were insufficient. M. Bontakow, commander of the Grand Admiral; and M. Dendrino, Russian Consul at Canea, are instructed to give refuge on board the Russian vessels to Cretan families hile respecting the blockade. They would thus have to apply for permission to that effect from the Turks, who would certainly refuse it. The com mander and the consul have therefore demanded fresh instructions from St. Petersburg, but commu nication being difficult at the present season, the question will not probably be settled until the winter is over, and with it the suffering of the un happy Cretan families. The condition of those who were brought here by the Assurance is such as to excite compassion in the most insensible breast. They arrived in the most utter destitution. The delegates of the Anglo-Hellenic committee of Lon don received them on landing, and took them under their protection. The Chamber reopened on the 22d inst. There was no speech from the throne. The election of the 'President did not take place until yesterday, when M. Crestenitis, the Opposition candidate, obtained 94 out of 100 votes. The Ministry sup ported no candidate for the post, LITERAT L Fur. The Statesman's Yearbook for 1667. Martin. Macmillan and Co. Another annual reprint of this most valuable—in its way this really invaluable—compilation, more than simply sustains its reputation. It enhances it. And it does so for this simple reason, that never since the occasion of its first appearance has the compiler of it been surrounded by so many difficul ties. Difficulties so multifarious of their kind, and so glaringly obvious under the circumstances, that: Punch had recently a joke in connexion with them, to the effect that the Editor's Room at the Alma- nach de Gotha was in a state of panic -confusion, by reason of the all but impossibility of revising in time for the new year an accurate guile to the royal houses of Europe so soon after the Bismarck bouleversonent. There is but one solitary oversight of any noticeable kind that we can anywhere detect in this rapidly compiled and minutely revised re issue of The Statesman's Yearbook for the year of grace just commenced. And it is an oversight that we stumble across at the very threshold. It occurs on page xiii.—a page dedicated to a categorical enu meration of the Sovereigns of Europe in 1867 among whom we look in vain for the name, style, and title of his Holiness. It might naturally enough have been presumed, however, that in this ellision or elimination of the name of Pius IX. from among the Sovereigns now Reigning the editorial com piler of the Yearbook was simply endeavouring to seize Time by the Forelock after the manner Of whom shall we say ?—well, of Zadkiel or of Dr. Cumming, the Times' Beemaster and the self appointed Explainer of the Apocalypse. Only—in the analysis upon the very next page (p. xiv.), upon the back of that selfsame leaf, in the analysis (already quoted by us in 7he Sun verbatim), an analysis showing at a glance, in parallel columns, the Political Changes of Half-a-Century—there, in the column set apart for a list of the Sovereigns of Europe in this present year of grace 1867, side by side with the much fuller list for the year of grace 1817—in each of those two lists duly appears the two words " Pope—Rome"—the Papacy remaining to this moment (though, no doubt, wonderfully contracted as to the boundaries of its temporal dominions) intact as a sovereignty. As a dis passionate, honest, copious, admirably -arranged, and easily-consulted store of information in regard to all the great Powers of the earth, the " Statesman's Year Book" is to this moment not only without any rival whatever, but entitled to hold its place by right of its intrinsic excellence, without .any fear of competition. A better guide book we doii't know, or one that can be turned to for information with such absolute certainty of that precise information being found whenever the book comes to be consulted. :Vanostroches Receuil Choisi. Nouvelle Edition. Guillaume Tegg. It would be interesting to know the number of editions that have now appeared of this famous elementary schoolbook, the Recend Choisi of N. Wanostrocht. There is no clue whatever to the precise number upon the title-page of the present re-issue of it this " uouvelle edition " for 1867. Whatever the multiplicity of preceding editions, however many they may have been, this New one is in several respects an un doubted improvement upon the best of its predecessors. It is by reason of its careful revision under the hand of its new editor, the Chevalier d'Chatelain—an accomplished French homme de lettres, long since naturalized in this country, and himself honourably known in the lite ratures both of France and England. Of the body of the work under notice it would be idle, nay almost ridiculous, to say one word, nowadays— Waznstrocht's " Receuil Choisi" being about the best known, and the best thumbed book compiled for inducting of English students into a knowledge of the French language. Of the completion of the work now, however, by the supplementing to it of English poems, and afterwards of French poems, each accodtpanied on the confronting pages with appropriate translations as nearly as possible line for line and stanza for stanza, we may, ani in fact ought, to say a word or two, if only en passant. Gracefully referring to the English poems thus supplemented to the number of fifteen, the editor of this new and as far as practicable perfected edi tion of the Receuil Choisi takes occasion to remark in his Preface :—" Que cette partie nouvelle du livre laisse de charmants souvenirs dans l'esprit de nos jeunes lecteurs, nous n'ens dontons pas, vu le merits reconnu de chacuu des Po6tes Anglais que nous citons." About the merits of the French Poets, of whom specimens are given afterwards, he is never theless altogether dumb—his speech just now being indeed silver and his silence thus immediately after wards golden in its eloquence —when it is remem bered that among the French Poems given, there are some by himself, as well as others by Arnault, Victor Hugo, and Deschamps. One of the editor's own (Le Nee dun in petit Enfant) being, truth, quisite a morceaux as th ere i s iu the volume. asTehxe list of poetical writers honoured by quotation in this new issue of the " Receuil Choisi" comprises within its restricted range the names of Joseph Addison, Robert Burns, Thomas Campbell, William Barnes, Gerald Griffin, Felicia 1 I emans, Leigh Hunt, Charles Kent, Charlotte Smith, and Robert Southey. The translators of the foregoing are various, and for the most part very noticeable in deed for their accuracy. PERSONAL INJURIES. --Two actions were yester day tried before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell and a jury at the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, in which judgment was suffered by default, brought for personal injuries of a serious character through the gross negligence of the driver of a horse and cart. Mr. Gibbons was counsel for the com plaining parties, and the defendant did not appear. In the first case, Houghton and Wife v. Balding, it appeared that Mrs. Houghton was driving a cart and horse at Snetsham, Norfolk, where her husband was, a plumber, when the de fendant, a farmer in the neighbourhood (whom Mr. Gib bons, in his address to the jury, described as being in a state of intoxication), ran with his horse and cart against her vehicle, and she was thrown out and much injured. Her appearance in the witness-box denoted that she had suffered severely, and her husband, who was also exa mined, said the defendant had paid the doctor, and he did not want heavy damages. He lost £2O by the accident, and the jury gave £3O damages. In the second case, Parsons and Wife v. Balding, it appeared that Mrs. Par sons, the Mother of Mrs. Houghton, was in the cart with her daughter when the collision occurred. She had suffered very much, and exhibited her arm to the, jury, which had been permanently injured. She had, as *ell as her daughter, been attended by a chemist named Clarke, who was called as a witness. Mr. Gibbons told the jury that he was sa tisfied with the verdict in the last case, and he thought the case of Mrs. Parsons was entitled to the same considera tion. Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell, in placing the case be fore the jury, said the accident was very severe to the old lady,who had been permanently disabled in her right hand. The defendant did not appear, and had admitted his mis conduct, leaving the matter to the jury to assess the amount of compensation. The jury awarded £2O. In each case the damages were laid at £5OO. THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—The return of the re ported cases of cattle plague in Great Britain, issued by authority of the Lords of the Privy Council, for the week ending Saturday, Dec. 29, 1866, states the following facts :—ln the concluding week of the year 1866 the pre valence of cattle plague showed a tendency to increase. During the week ending Dec. 29 nine attacks are reported to have occurred in Great Britain, being an excess of three on the previous week. Three fresh outbreaks of the disease took place, the number in the week preceding being also three. One hundred and eighteen healthy cattle were slaughtered from having been in contact with infected ani mals. The attacks reported are for the following two Petty Sessional Divisions—viz., Yorkshire, (East Riding). Scuth Holderness, four cows and four calves; and Market Weigh ton, one steer. The number of animals attacked since the commencement is 253,807, and 52,646 healthy cattle have been slaughtered to prevent the spread of the disease. ARREST OF A SUPPOSED FENIAN IN LIVERPOOL. —YeEterday Patrick Murphy, a respectable-looking young man, was charged before the Liverpool magistrates with having i n hi s poss e ss i on a G overnmen t rifle and dnalrish) uni form belongin g t o t h e 28 t h Middl ese x (Lon Volunteers. He was arrested at Liverpool, in company evening. The he with two of hi s b ro th ers , o n Wednesday uniform was found in his bed-room and t hrifie explanationin the parlour wh ere h e was s itting. The prisoner's tended drill for two years. The case was was that he was a member of the corps, but rleimadanndoetdattn obtain witnesses to character. The bishops are having their full share of illness ; three were unable to hold their ordinaries --the Bishops of London, Exeter, and Hereford ; a fourth, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, has also been seriously ill.—The Lancet, • 411 HER MAJESTY, &c. ,LW. The Queen walked and drove ye,iterday tur noon, accompanied by Princess Louie, and her Majesty drove out this morning Wi Princess Christi:Ln. Princess Louise, Prince Leopilil, Princess Bea trice, and Prince Floury of Prussia walked out in the grounds this morning. Prince Christian went out shooting, atteinkii by Major-General F. H. Seymour. Captain von Schroettcr had the honour of accomp:lnying his royal highness. The Right Hon. Gathorne hardy arrived at Os borne yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Miss M‘Gregor has arrived at Osborne on a visit to her Majesty. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Ponsonby has suc ceeded as Equerry in. Waiting. The Royal Visit to Holkham. HOLKIIAII, Jan. 3. Yesterday the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, with the other noble sportsmen at Holk ham, were out on the New Marshes, and enjoyed some excellent wild fowl shooting. Notwithstand ing the deep snow and the coldness of the weather her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales drove down to see the shooting. The Earl and Countess of Leicester gave a dance last evening to the guests staying in the house, Mr. F. Howlett's band being in attendance. The fol lowing were present :—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of 'Vales and the Duke of Edinburgh ; Viscountess Walden, Major G. H. Grey, and Hon. E. Yorke, in attendance ; the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis of Huntly, Earl and Countess of Kimberley, Earl and Countess of Dunmore, .Tscount and Viscountess Powers court, Lord and Lady Stafford, Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord and Lady Rendlesham, Sir Archibald and Lady Margaret Macdonald, Hon. E. and Mrs. Russell, Hon. Edward and Mrs. Coke, Hon. H. Harbord, Hon. T de Grey, M.P., Hon. Colonel Coke, the Earl and Countess of Leicester and the Ladies Coke, Miss Whitbread, Colonel Stephenson, Captain Stephenson, and Mr. Powell. The weather over-head this afternoon having greatly improved, the royal and distinguished sports men are out shooting the covers in the park. rue royal visit will be extended to Saturday. The Duke of Buckingham will return to town on Monday next from Stowe. Buck.=, for the season. The Marchioness of Hastings and Lady Con stance Marshain have arrived at the St. Ueorge's Hotel. The Viscountess Berthier has just died iu child birth at the age of only 21. The deceased lady was a Creole of great beauty and distinction, and her loss will be felt in the most brilliant circles in Paris. Viscount and Viscountess Dungan and Lady Feodorowna Wellesley have arrived at Brown's Hotel. Viscount Halifax and the llou. Mr. Wood have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-quire. Mi. Bright and the "Fortnightl) Review." TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. should feel obliged if you:could insert the enclosed letter to Mr. Bright, as Mr. Morley ap; ears from his second letter quite to have misunderstood what I wrote to him, and an explanation on my part seems to me necessary.—lremain, Sir, your obedient servant, HENRY D. SEYMOUR. Athenaeum Club, Jan. 3. Athenamm Club, Jan. 3. My dear Bright,—l am sorry to be obliged to trouble you with another letter, but as it is your speeches, and not your brother's, which I have written about and for whieli I am callsd to account, I prefer to communicate directly with you. I never saw Mr. Morley's letters to your brother till I read them yesterday in the newspapers, a,nd I was surprised to find that the explanations which I had sent to Mr. Mor ley near the beginning of the correspondence had, doubt less from an extreme press of business, never been commu nicated to Mr. Jacob Bright, but an erroneous impression was conveyed in Mr. Morley's second letter. In the Times of the 17th of October, page 7, column 5 from the left, line 14, I find these words : " But I deny altogether that the rich alone are qualified to legislate for the poor, and more than that, the poor alone would be qualified to legislate for the rich." A man can hardly be called poor who has an independ ence, however small ; the poor man, as I understand the term, is ho who lives from hand to mouth, who has been either unable or unwilling to save, and who has generally received an education far inferior to what I think he ought to have. Now, I repeat that if you put legislation entirely into the hands of these persons, as you are represented to have expressed a willingness to do, they would fall into the bands of designing men, or enthusiasts ; measures would be proposed inimical W the propertied classes, who would resist by force if necessary, and a civil war, such as we saw in France, would be the consequence. I think lam per fectly justified in drawing those conclusions, if you really said what has been attributed to you. Mr. Jacob Bright says you did not, and gives an entirely different version, in the spirit of which I cordially agree, and which I at once accept as correct. I conclude that the Times' reporter mis took your words. lam glad that Mr. Jacob Bright has raised the question, as it has cleared ep a point on which many others, like myself, may have had inisconceptious, and about which I should be sorry that your real views should be misunderstood. " With regard to the other point to which Mr. Jacob Bright has alluded, I admit that he convicted too of an error, although a very small one. It was a mistake of A single word, for which I have never ceased apologizing. " All" was printed instead of " half ;" but this did not in the least affect my argument. The statement that half the land of England is in the hands of 150 proprietors, I humbly submit, deserves the epithet I applied to it, and I respectfully beg to say that such statements appear to me blemishes in your matchless oratory, because the object of eloquence is to persuade, and men hesitate to believe if they cannot depend upon the facts on which the conclu sions of the speaker are based. In some minds also, though not in mine, it throws a doubt on the bona fides of the orator, because the greater portion of the audience can not inquire for themselves, and accept whatever you tell them on your high authority. You are i presumed to knout this, and therefore, if you mislead them, you are naturally held responsible. I have endeavoured now to justify myself where I think I was right, and frankly to apologise for my error where I was wrong. I think I have given an explanation which will appear satisfactory in the eyes of all just and fair men ; and as for those who are not just and fair, 1 think it my duty to regard them with the indifference they de serve.—l remain, yours truly, HENRY D. SEYMOUR. J. Bright, Esq. _ . P.S.—As your brother has attacked me, and sent his letter direct to the newspapers, without previously fur nishing me with a copy, I am compelled to adopt the same lino in my defence. FATAL EXPLOSION OF A KITCHEN BOILER .--• About noon on Wednesday a kitchen boiler in the house of Major Talbot Constable, Hull, son of Sir Clifford Con stable, exploded with terrific violence, killing a charwoman instantaneously, and severely injuring the cook. The boiler was situated in a detached kitchen, and was a self feeding one, nearly new. The only persons in the kitchen at the time of the accident were Harriet Jane Barlow, 2b years of age, the charwoman, and Mary Ann Storr, the cook. A guest of the Major's, named Allen, was the only other person in the house ; and, as this gentleman was reading in one of the rooms at the front of the house, he heard a loud report, which it struck him must have been caused by the explosion of the kitchen boiler. On rushing into that apartment ho found the two windows completely' blown out, part of the roof torn away, and various other damage. When the dust had cleared away he saw the cook endeavouring to free herself from the debris. Nothing could be seen of the woman Barlow, and it was not until a large quantity of rubbish had been removed that her dead body was found lying beneath the sink stones. The win dows of the opposite house were smashed, and in one a brick in the wall smashed to pieces. The accident is at tributed to the action of the frost. THE EXPLOSION AT THE OAKS COLLIERY.—The state of affairs at the colliery is the same as previously reported. On Wednesday morning the scaffold ing had so far progressed as to admit of being put into sections, and large bolts are to brace it together, which work was then going on. Tho district has again been startled by the report that au eaplosiun had occurred at the Farley Main Colliery. On inquiry the report was found to be untrue. A fall of coal or roof had taken place and given off a quantity of gas into the mine, and the men had to leave in consequence, some of theta iu 6 rather hasty manner.