The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-25 00:00:00

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After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Ilaymarket Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Olympic Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Strand Theatre After New Royalty Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Prince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP. ...Mon Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. MAISON DOREE, THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (Ono door from Regent-street), CUISINE FRANCAISE, &e. High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers, Ice. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND BENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CASH. . On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine Pan. to One a.m. _ _ Manager, CHARLES CASTLE, KINAIIAN'S LL WHISKY. - DUBLIN , 1865. This celebrated OLD EXH IRISH IBITION WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize MedaL It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at tho Retail Howes in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded. "Kitts ban's LL Whiel4 " MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1850), 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, AD VANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free hold or Leasehold Property. for onc, two, or three peals, repay able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER. Secretary. A RGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, Mr. R. It. BIGNELL. This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment, having been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art by Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor Mosca Solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at half-past 8. Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. NEADAME I USSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. . A Life-size PORTRAIT MODEL of THEODORE, KI VG of ABYSSINIA,' is now added; also all the Kings and Queens of Englind, American Celebrities, &c. Room of Horrors. Opon on Boxing -day, from 9 in the morning till 11 at night ; Christmas Holidays, from 10 in the morning till 10 at night. Admittance, 18.; children under 10, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-A PORTRAIT MODEL of FREDERICK BAKER is now added to the Chamber of Horrors. Open on Boxing-day, from 9 in the morning till 11 at night; Christmas Holidays, from 10 in the morning till 10 at night. Admission, ls.; children under 10 Years of age, 6d.; extra rooms, 6d. T H E 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. W. During the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC TION from Offenbach's Comic Operetta, ORPHEE AUX tI‘TFERS LA TROVATORE, and the New Cantata MERRYCHRISTMAS. Principal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz- Ifenry ; Messrs. Bury, Marler, R. Greene, and De Brenner. Pull Band and Chorus: Instrumentalists: Miss Bryant ; Messrs. Paque, Melling, and Plumpton. COMEDY, &c., by the LEVITES, Miss and Mr. FOS TER, HARRY SYDNEY, FRED. FRENCH, Mr. H. RICHARDS, and ALFRED PERRIER (his 2d appear ance in England). Mr. E. W. MACKNEY will positively appear on Mon day next, the 80th inst. STODARE'S MARVELS of MAGIC THIS EVENING. Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmans. Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro rnenade, Is.—THIS EVENING. W E ST 0 N'S GRAND MU SIC HALL, Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. Mr. SWE ASEY begs to inform the public, in consequence of the flattering patronage he has received, he has engaged the fol lowing talented Company:—The Great VOTER; GEORGE LEY ROuRNR, the Lion Comique ; JEAN BOND, the unrivalled Equili brist ; GEORGE ELLIS, the Australian Buffo; the Brothers DANIELS (who are allowed by the Press to be unapproachable by any other artiste in their performances); SIDNEY BARNES (his first appearance); Miss ALICE DUNNING, the moat fascinating Serio- Vralc Singer and Dancer at the present time; Miss LIZIZE . - EARSE (her first appearance in London), allowed to be by the Psovincial press the most rising artiste of the day; Miss ANNE REMAINS, the English Ballad Singer, is re-engaged after a most successful provincial tour. Pull Orchestra, in which Mr. H. Baker, the unrivalled Cornet r pl l a u y te er p , l w ay il e l r. appear, in conjunction with Mr. J. Young , the gre at The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORR'. 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Now ready at all Libraries, in 3 vols., NOTICE. EUROPE DEC,4PITA7ED. SACRI F I C E. By Mrs. W. GREY. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. LOVE'S C. F. HANCOCK, SON, & CO., The political results of the Emperor of Austria's visit to Paris are not known, and probably are not of any consequence. The Conservative policy, if there be a Conservative policy in Europe, is want ing in one of the first conditions of power, and that is the knowledge of what it wishes to conserve. Hence its impotence—an impotence it recog,nizes, it feels itself, and which public opinion is tho roughly aware of. AT EVANS' COVENT GARDEN V'-0 locksA.T., ENTERTAINMENT. At Eight o'C. Now ready, priee.26s., with Map, JEWELLERS AND SIIXERSUITHS TO THE QUEEN AND PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, And by Special Appointment to the principal Sovereigns and Courts of Europe, ;Beg respectfully to state that their only Address is 38 & 39, BRUTON-STREET, 110 ST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for 1868 (69th Year). Kelly and Co., 12, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn, W.C.; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., and all Booksellers. The world is felt to totter. Some have no hope, others look scornfully on the presence of the Em peror of Austria. A sovereign so illustrious, lately so powerful, and who stands in so much need of doing something, ought, one would think, to have made a stir; an effort at least ought to have been made to place up a prop in this place or that. Nobody imagines that any thing of the kind was even thought of ; the Emperor went about as a curious traveller, and his famous Chan cellor, M. de Beust, scarcely excited curiosity. We have seen, before now, this cunning diplomatist in the Vaudevilles de Scribe, with his pre-occupied geant of speech, of serene mind, intent on fixing his pin into the chain of events. The personal qualities of Francis Joseph, the pro priety of his demeanour his recent misfortunes, some presentiment, perhaps, of a future still more melancholy, exact respect. It was shown on all sides on his arrival and at his departure, or at the review in places. The crowd uncovered on his passing by. On festive occasions, where people are always to be found to wave their hats, the usual politeness made a little more stir. But this stir expressed no hope, no wish, no emotion. Nothing nothing 1 nothing ! The world is dead. They who say the contrary mistake the struggle of disso lution for a movement of life. The world is dead because it is decapitated. Monarchy is dead. All the Sovereigns who have lately visited Paris have not brought their people with them. The words which they have spoken at our banquets are not as they once were, acts, but simply opinions, and opinions very uncertain and much disputed. They have spoken as a kind of " president of a section," and that is all. In former times, at the head of every people, was a man who was the father of his country, the expression of its faith, the sum ming up of its traditions, the thought which ex pressed its aspirations, the hand which wielded its sword, and lastly, the noblest and the most potent drop of its blood. When this man, this King, placed his hand into the hand of another King, an alliance was concluded, and something real and definite was the result from the fact that two Powers had combined. These times arc passed. i Francis Joseph ought to feel it, and suffer more from it than any other. He the chief of the House of Hapsburg—he the Apostolic Emperor—he on whom so many races depend —to see his empire .curtailed, to lose battles, to give up provinces— to. day Milan, to-morrow Venice—these are but slight strokes of ill-fortune. Other Kings have suffered heavier blows, and have remained, and retained their glory. The nation was faithful to the King in misfortune, furnished ransom for the King in captivity. In those days a long-forgotten language Was spoken. It was said : All is lost save honour. But honour saved, and a faithful nation recovered all things. Louis of France, dying in car tivity, was as glorious, was as much King in his coffin as when he returned from his first crusade bearing the crown of thrones between his hands. And on this coffin the fidelity of the people and the fidelity of God deposited the sovereignty of Toulouse. Less worthy Kings obtained no less honour. France was faithful to Francis I. and to Henry 111. And later, Louis XIV., old and surrounded by disasters, was able to say, in spite of the errors of his long reign, " I went about Paris. I laid bare my shame and my misfortunes, and I went out followed by an army." There was a bond of good faith be tween the people and the King This bond is broken now. Misfortune dissolves all oaths ; fidelity gives way when the troops lay down their arms. Kings excommunicated by the decrees of the Revolution do not re-enter into communion with their people when fortune turns its back upon them. Who has thus changes the peoples ?—who has denationalized them ? Francis Joseph, of Austria, has known, and knows, the bitterness of such an abandonment. He protected many crowns, but they have fallen, together with the treaties which he had signed to maintain them. He has seen these treaties trampled under the feet of a wretched enemy. He was also the protector of the Church. He has seen it despoiled in his armed presence, and his fortresses—from the heights of which he saw this sacrilege committed—crumbled beneath his feet on the morrow of a victory ; and his people were not enraged—and his capital begged not to be defended. Still young he has known many of such bitter and heavy hours. What of splendour remains round his throne cannot compensate for these tortures. This prince was born unfortunate. At the beginning of his reign, the premature off spring of a terrible storm, but full of hope, he did voluntarily a great and noble act, the chief, if not the only, thing which has to be done in our day for the reconstruction of the world—he enlarged the liberty of the Church. The Concordat was his title to glory, and, as Fontana said of Napoleon, apropos of an analogous act, " his best paper." But this Concordat he allows the Revolution to tear by the hands of the wretched Minister whom the defeat of Sadowa has made him a present of ; and, after having assisted, a too tranquil witness, at the disasters and the spoliation of religion in Italy, he suffers it to undergo a like treatment in his own States. He will see it de-Catholicized ;he will act as if he put his own hand to the work ; he will, perhaps, sign a civil constitution for the clergy. A prince veritably to be pitied. And his evil star brought him to Paris at the moment when Italy was attempting to commit its last assault against the Church, against his mother, who had hoped in him. This news came to him in the midst of a feast, and it is not said that he let fall his glass, nor that his hand trembled. But Ca tholic Kings were instituted to protect the Catholic faith, and it is because they have abandoned this supreme duty that fealty is dying out, that nations are breaking up, that nationalities are perishing, and that tyrants announce themselves to take the place of Kings—who are about to disappear.— Univers. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Last Evening. Amsterdam Short. 11 181 11 19 Ditto 3 Months. 12 Of 12 1 Rotterdam Antwerp —2 E 25 40 Brussels — 25 35 25 40 Hamburg — 13 9} 13 10 Paris . . 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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The Providence and Worcester Railroad Com pany intend to 'petition the Legislature at Rhode Island, for power to increase their capital $200,000, and to construct a branch to Attlebro. The project of constructing a new trunk rail road from Troy to Boston, through North Adams, Northampton, Barre and Sterling Junction, is being pushed ahead energetically. The citizens of Ware had a meeting on the subject on the 2d inst., and sent a committee to Northampton to confer with the friends of the new route in that town. The Northampton and New Haven railroad com pany have offered to build the proposed railroad from Westfield to Holyoke on condition that Holy oke people will subscribe $lOO,OOO. The first passage car ran through the Sierra Nevada tunnel on the Pacific Railroad on Satur • day, the 30th November ; and the 305th mile of the Kansas Pacific Railway was accepted by the Go vernment on "Wednesday, the 4th inst. The sur veying parties of the Southern Line are to meet in San Francisco next February to decide upon the route it is to take. Among the large number of profitable Western railways the following are mentioned in the West ern Railway Gazette :—" The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railway paid last year 20 per cent. upon its capital stock. The Rock Island Railway, running in competition the greater part of the way with the Illinois River, has paid for the last three years, annually, about 10 per cent. The Illinois Central pays 7 per cent. of its gross earnings into the State Treasury. After deducting this 7 per cent., it leaves 10 per cent. to the stock holders. This is outside and distinct from its land operations. The last annual report of this road shows the permanent expenditure on the road (cost) to have been $30,000,000. Its capital stock is about $23,000,000. Its net earnings last year were $2,602,523 13. The Chicago, Alton, and St. Louis road cost $10,118,521 32. Aside from this, it made perma nent improvements last year, amounting to 59.8 per cent.. of its gross earnings. It has paid 10 per cent. for the last three years, and in addition has declared an extra dividend of 25 per cent. The Toledo, NV abash, and Western Railway, from Toledo, on Lake Erie, to Quincy, Illinois, is counted one of the poorest paying roads in the West. Its capital and indebtedness amount to $20,000,000. Last year its net earnings were $906,199 72. Aside from this, it put down sixty one miles of new track last year, at a cost of $241,057 79. It built a new telegraph line at a cost of $lO,OOO. It put cu the road $211,114 92 worth of locomotives, and $13,000 worth of new passenger cars. All this, and very much more, was reckoned into the expenses, and was deducted from the gross earnings, leaving the net earnings as stated above." The Iron Age says :—" The capital invested iu railway enterprises in the United States is some where near two thousand millions of dollars, and the amount is rapidly growing larger from year to year. The Pacific Railway will add one hundred and fifty millions within the next five years, and new, lines and the extension of the present lines, will probably add as much more to this great interest within that time. ANOTHER TRANS-CONTINENTAL RAILWAY. A project is on foot to extend the Valparaiso and Santiago Railroad across the Andes to Buenos Ayres. There is a company formed at the latter place, who have applied to that Government for a charter and a grant of land upon both sides of the track, upon which they propose to establish colonies. They propose to cross the Andes upon the plain known as the Plaueheon, which presents but few difficulties that cannot be easily overcome. The engineer of the line is Otto Van Armen, a German, who has made the necessary surveys of the route, which he declares are quite practicable. R. B. Lewis, the present chief engineer of the Connellsville and Southern Pennsylvania Railroad, has recently been elected president of the Hunting don and Broad Top Railroad Company. J. M. Toucey, formerly of the Hudson River Road, has been appointed superintendent of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. A meeting has been held in Northampton, Massa chusetts, to urge the plan of building a railroad from Williamsburg to North Adams. The total length of the proposed route is 52i miles, and will connect with the Troy and Greenfield Road, 500 feet west of the tunnel. The estimated cost is $2,000,003. The contracts for grading, masonry, and bridge building for the Reading and Wilmington Rail road were given out on the 20th of November. There were 164 bidders, and the competition was therefore very favourable in the interests of the company. The contract for grading along the whole line was let to Messrs. Wylie and Co., of Lancaster, at the engineer's estimate, which is a trifle over $500,000. The bridge over the Schuyl River and Canal, at Birdsboro,' was awarded to William Call and Co., Reading, for about $20,000. The line is to be graded and ready for the rails, and the bridge at Birdsboro' completed by the last day of December, 1868. The contractors will commence the work forthwith. THE MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD.-- The land agent of the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad has filed with the Commissioner of the General Land Office a map showing the line of road, commencing at the town of Hopefield on the Mis sissippi River, and running through the counties of Crittendon, St. Francis, Monroe, Prairie, and Pu laski, to the city of Little Rock, with six and fif teen milets laid down under the original act of Feb. 9, 1853, and also the additional five mile limits as provided for by the second section of the reviving act, approved July 28, 1866. In prospect of a consolidation with the other Lake Shore Railroads, the old Buffalo and State Line Railroad Company (including, by recent arrange ment, the Erie and Northeast Railroad), have placed their capital, from Buffalo to Erie, at $5,000,000. This arrangement places the original investment of the New York Central Railroad Company in the Buffalo and State Line as worth $1,355,750, at the par value of the new stock ; but as 140 per cent. is already bid for this stock, the market value of the $542,300 original Buffalo and State Line invest ment, as reckoned in the General Balance Sheet of the New York Central Railroad Company, is really to-day equal to $1,898,050. The Pithole, Reno, and Oil Creek railroad was sold at auction in Philadelphia, recently, for the benefit of the creditors of Culver, Reno, and Co., for $121,000. Galusha A. Grow was the purchaser in behalf of New York parties. The original cost of the road was $1,053,000." THE ATTEMPT ON WARRINGTON GAS WORKS. WARRINGTON, Dec. 24. To-day's Warrington Guardian announces that a post mortem examination of the watch dog near the gas works discloses the fact that the animal had been poisoned. Fourteen Irishmen have been discharged from the gas works. Special constables are sworn iu. The Mayor has received a message from the Home-office stating that mischief was intended by the Fenians in the neighbourhood of Warrington, and warning the authorities to be on their guard. A meeting of magistrates was called, and a large number of special constables have been sworn in. The proceedings at the Police-court to-day have caused great excitement in the town, and a feeling of uneasiness pervades the public mind. NORWICH, Dec. 24. A town's meeting was held at Norwich to-day to express abhorrence of the Clerkenwell outrage, and to support the Government in the matter. M ETROPOLITAN AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Extra Trains between the CITY, King's Cross, Gower Street, Portland Road (for Regent's Circus), Baker Street, Paddington, KENSINGTON (for Crystal Palace and West London Line), HAMMERSMITH, Shepherd's Bush, Notting Hill, and West bourne Park. Omnibusts meet the Trains at Portland Road for Regent's Circus. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Acts of Parliament. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Policies should be renewed within fifteen days from the 25th inst. Receipts may be had of the various agencies and branches, and at the Head Office. London: 61, Threadneedle-street, E.C. ~ West-End Office, 8, Waterloo-place, S.W. December, 1867. EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.- Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. Life Assurance—Annuities—Guarantee. Policies payable during Life—lndisputable--Not liable to Forfeiture. Chairman— General Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S. The ROYAL, NAVAL, MILITARY, and EAST INDIA LIFE DE PARTMENT, affording Peculiar Advantages to Officers and others in the Navy and Army, is under the especial Patronage of Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. New Premium Income in 1858, 1859, 1860 £76,000 1861, 1862, 1863 £117,000 44 ti 1864, 1885, 1363 £171,000 The EUROPEAN is specially authorised by the Imperial Par liament to Guarantee the Fidelity of Government Officials. Full particulars of the popular principles of this Society will be found in the Prospectus, which will• be forwarded to applicants post free. Chief Offices, 316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. TETALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES V are superseding all others. Prize medals, London, 1862; Paris, 1867. Gold from £l5 155.. silver from £6 Bs.-68, Cornhill, and 280, Regent-street. FURNISHED HOUSES, from -£2 2s. to £2O per Week.—D. S. HUMPIittIES hAs at all times a number of Firs;-class RESIDe: •CES to be LET. furnished or unfurnished. or sold, more 1 articularly in the nei >hbour hoods of Sydenham, Upper Norwood, Forest-hill s and vici nity.—Particulars may be had at the Office, Printing House square. HOUSES and APAR r MEN I'S WANTED, and to be LET or SOLD, BUSPIESSKS for DISPOSAL, &c. PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. HUSIPHR KS has contin , ial applications for all descriptions of PROPERTY which will pay good interest for outlay. Houses out of rep air not object:A io. T. D. Humphries can at all times find customers for all desc,ip tions of businesses. Hotels, public bons s, ,tc , sold and transterrA. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent. Print ing House-square. ITIREB6II-LOADERS. The FINEST ASSORTMENT IN LONDON, from which purchasers may select the best systems and superior workmanship, at moderate prices. Direct-action, central-fire Breech-loaders, the perfection of this excellent principle, possess great shooting powers, facility of loading and durability. Cartkidges, loading instruments, belts, pouehes, and every use tul novelty. E. M. REILLY AND CO, NEW OXFORD-STREET ; ALSO NBA& REGENT-CIRCUS. CANDLES. —A Hint to Purchasers.-1)o not make sure that you know what price you aro paying per pound for your candles until you have stripped them and-put them in the scale. Some candles are right weight with out the wrappers, some with moderately thick wrappers, some with very thick wrappers, and some are not nearly right weight with wrappers however thick. PRICE'S " ILD MEDAL PALMITINE," " SHERWOOD PALMITINE," " BELMONT SPERM," and " BEL MONT WAX," "BEST," " No. 2," "No 3," and "BAT TERSEA" COMPOSITES, "PRICE'S PARAFFINE," and " BELMON TINE," and all other candles of Price's Patent Candle Company Limited, are full weight without the wrappers. H YAM & Co.'s GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING, 66 and 67, Oxford-street, London. For immediate Wear or to Order. The assortment. is most extensive and varied, comprehend ing every possible description of Attire, both costly and of moderate price. All the articles are designed, trimmed, and made in strict accordance with the prevailing styles of the day. H YAM & Co.'s SANDRINGHAM OVER COATS. H YAM & Co.'s SILK-LINED OVERCOATS. FIYAM & Co.'s FASHIONABLE REEFERS. H YAM & Co.'s SUITS. JIYAM & Co.'s MORNING COATS. HYAM & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE. 11 YAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS. 11YAM & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS. H YAM & Co.'s LIVERIES. }JYAM & Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY. HYAM and CO.'S PRICE LIST for GEN TLEMEN'S ATTIRE, Ready-made or to Order. New Styles in Tweed Overcoats New Styles in Sandringham Overcoats 2ss. to 635. New Styles in Silk-lined Overcoats 42s. to 84s. New Styles in Reefers New Styles in Dress and Frock Coats New Styles in Morning Coats New Styles in Dress and Undress Suits 42s. to 70s. New Styles in Vests New Styles in Trousers l4s. to 255. HYAM and CO.'S LATEST STYLES and PRICES for YOUNG GENTLEMEN'S ATTIRE. Sandringham Overcoats 2ls. to 425. Prince Alfred Reefers l6s. to 30s. Overcoats for Little Boys l2s. to 30s. Inverness Capes lss. to 30s. Knickerbocker Suits Braided Patent and Silk Velvet do 3ss. to 90s. Harrow and Rugby Suits Wimbledon Suits for Elder Youths Trousers in all the New Materials Waistcoats for all purposes TT YAM & CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS. INo. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear. No. 2. Bespoke or Order Department. No. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department. No. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department. HYAM. and CO.'S ESTABLISHMENTS. LONDON-66 and 67, Oxford-street. BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, New-street, LEEDS-42, Briggate, and DEWSBURY—Westgate. RUPTITRES.-13Y ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WRITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED IND EXHIDITED IN THE GREAT EXHIBI- Timm of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to he the most effective invention in the cure. Lrt'ye treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often tul in its e ff ects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn Vie body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by tie Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during Skop. A descriptive cireular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded 4 post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 238, A Single Truss, 165., 210., 2.5. 6d., and 31s. 61. Postage, ls. A Dou1)Is Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, le. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 42e., and 52e. 6d. Postage, le. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable ti John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT _ _ _ Veak LASI I - d - . STOCKINGS, KNEE-OAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all eases of ness and Swelling of the Lege, Sprains, &c. They a re porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 165.. and 16 5 . eac h. Postage 6d. • JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 228, Piccadilly . P R RINTIN G. -TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Printing and hining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars with stamped directed envelops for reply. Address—The Manager " Sun' Printing Offices, 8, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. HELP FOR THE DE'STITUTE Metropolitan Free Hospital, Devonshire-square, City. Instituted for the immediate gratuito us R e li e f of the Sick Poor of every nation and creed, without letters of recommendation. Funds are urgently needed to maintain its efficiency. Bankers—Messrs. Barnett, Mares, and Co.. 62. Leenbard-street. JNO. GURNEY rts, Chairman. ago. CItOXTON. Secretary ROYAL Fitli:i4.; OSP iTAL, Gray 's -inn -road, in the immediate Olinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's-cross. • ___ Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron--His Roya: nighnoss the Prince of liraLEi, K.G. President—His Grace the Dake of BUCCLRIJCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estabftsh the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the de lay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in adcri tion to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 8,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly sOlicit the assistance of the benevo lent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributionsaro received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hanson, and Co.. Abchurch-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Gly n an d Co. ; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Pioscott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bernera-street; and itt the Hospital, from 10 till 6. Just Published, price ls. fid., by post, ls. 84., the Second BalaOn7 with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks. REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: fr. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Despatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal aro reprinted with this edition (AT CHRISTMAS many persons are induced to take more than is wholesome. Two or three of TARR'S LIFE PILLS will clear off acidities, and remove feverish headache and other unpleasant symptoms, with out pain or inconvenience. PARR' LIFE PILLS may be obtained of any medicine vendor, in boxes, ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and in family packets, I.ls. each. Directions with each box. D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1808. Quotations on application. Tz . EATING'B COUGH LOZENGES. — The 13,_ best and safest remedy for COUGHS. 17 EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES relieire the difficulty of breathing in ASTHMA. EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. - Im ix. portant remedy in cases of INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION. KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. -A certain remedy for relieving the IRRITATION of the IsitoWCIIIAL TUBES. T 7 EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES WITICII ARE DAILY RECOIIBENDED BY TIIE FACULTY— l'estunoniAls from the most eminent of whom may be seen. Sold in BOIC3, is. lad.; and Tins, 2s. 9d., 4s. Gd., and Ils. each, by KEATING, Chemise, 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Sold retail by all Druggists, &e. QTOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS, PIGEON CHESTS, and other Deformities, are prevented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED HYGIENIC CHEST EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indigestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially recommended to children for assist ing the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, super seding the use of braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each. .-66, 13erners-street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars for warded. R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or liga tures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the originals by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and ren dered mad and useful in mastication. . 62, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5 THE BEST REMEDY FOR INDIGESTION. ORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as tisimple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we arc subject, being a medicine so uniformly grateful and beneficial that it is with justice called the " Natural Strengthencr of the Human Stomach." "Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation, safe under any circumstw•nces, and tb ousands of persons can now bear testimony to the benefits to bo derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at is. lid., 2s. 9d., and lie. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Be sure to ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be por enacted to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of " Norton's Camomile Pills." DOWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, for COUGHS COLDS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, Sore Throat, Difficulty of Breathing, and all similar affections of the Reepiratory Organs. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World. In Bottlee only, price le. lid., 2e. 9d., and lls. each. Eetablishod nearly half a Century. SATISFICTORY LETTER. 6, Wood-street, Millbank, Westminster, October 5, 1567 Sin,—Some months back I had au attack of 13ronchitis, which left at times a tickling in the Throat, with other unpleasant feel ings. I was advised to try the BALSAM OF ANISSED; I did so, and have found very great relief; it is most eemforting in allay ing the irritation, and giving strength to the voice. You are at liberty to =fake use of this as you think proper, and I earnestly hope that others may benefit by It as I have done. With many thanks from your obedient servant, SAMUEL DEAR, ' Dean's Verger, Westminster Abbey. To Mr. Powell. Ask for POWELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED PARTRIDGE AND COOPER WHOLESALE MAIMFACTITRING STATIONERS, 194 ST-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON, E.O. THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE CARRIAGE PAID TO T H E 20a COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVR , _ Per ream a. d. Fine Cream Laid Note: a cheap paper - 0 Superfine Cream Laid Note: much approved 4 0 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recom mended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 0 Straw Paper "Patent;" adapted for rapid writing Large Commercial Note Papers is., 45., 55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream 10s. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 0 Outsides Foolscap, thick hand-made Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.; ruled ditto 4 6 Tinted Lined Note five quires Is. 6d., or 5 6 per 1,000 Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes 4s. Gcl., 55. 6d., and 6 6 Extra Thick ditto, "Registered Secure" 9 0 Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes 4 6 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c. COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUL, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstanda, Stationery Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Teavellint Writing Cases, Desks, Bags, &c., post free. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. ad., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street, London, E.C. CANDLES, GLYCERINE, and SOAP. — A Gold Medal was awarded at the Paris Exhibition to Price's Patent Candle Company Limited, for " Candles, Glycerine, and Soap"—the only one to any British exhibi tor for these three things combined. The chief Candles of the Company are their " BELMONTINE" and "PRICE'S PARAFFINE" for those who must have the extreme transparency of pure Paraffine ; their "GOLD MEDAL PALMITINE " and " SHERWOOD PALMITINE," for those who, while desiring candles of great beauty, require also steady brilliancy of light and freedom from smoke and smell; their good old-fashioned " BELMONT SPERM AND WAX," and "BEST' , "No. "No. 3," and "BATTERSEA" COMPOSITES for those who require only perfect burning without caring for transparency ; and their "CHAMBER" Candles, hard, and of small diameter, to avoid the dripping of grease when carried. Their new toilet soap, "PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE" con tains half its weight of their distilled Glycerine, and should be the one toilet soap in use, especially in winter, because of its admirable effects in preventing chappin g of the hands and face. There ought also to be in every house one of the sealed bottles of their patent distilled Glycerine, known every where as " PRICE'S GLYCERINE," two or three dr , ps of which, mixed with three or four times as much water, will in a day or two remove chapping and roughness of skin, whether of adults or children ; and when this is effected, a single drop of the undiluted Glycerine applied once a day will prevent the recurrence of the chapping and roughness. insist on having " Price's Glycerine' in the Company's own sealed bottles, quantities of cheap impure Glycerine being now sold in the shops because of the low rate at which the dealers can buy it in comparison with Price's. All the good medical authorities abroad as well as at home order " PRICE'S" as the only Glycerine to be used. " PRICE'S NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS" for burning in the wide glasses, are believed to be the very best Night Lights made. " PRICE'S CHILD'S NIGHT LIGHTS" are known everywhere, and are excellent for burning without a glass. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAIVIENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Ita lian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TEN.NANT, Mineralo gist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS to Illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate the in teresting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MIND RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT. F.G.S.. at 149. Strand. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER-FAILING REAlEDY.—Prepared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddi ness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Prepared only and sold by W. Lam bert, Chemist, 6, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lad., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. Od. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine aro a square green A9kage, with "William Lambert" =graved on the sti InIN CORNER Or BOND-STREET. AWARDED TO C. F. HANCOCK : Great Exhibition, 1851—Council Medal for Originality and Taste. Paris Exhibition, 1855—Gold Medaille d'Honneur International Exhibition, 1862—Prize Medal, for great Excellence of Design and Manufacture. Paris Universal Exhibition, 1867 —Gold Medal. MANUFACTURERS OF THE VICTORIA CROSS. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE Is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from do cay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANS ATLA:N TIQT:TE, 8; Place Vendome, Paris. NEW YORK, via HAVRE and BREST. The undermentioned Steamers will sail every 14 days, as fol lows : From HAVRE-19th December, 1667. From BREST-21st December, 1867. NAPOLEON 111 Paddle VILLE DE PARIS screw PEREIRE Screw ST. LAURENT Screw EUROPE vir:4 2 94d1e RATES OF PASSAGE. Havre or Brest to New York, Ist class, £33 0 0 2d class, 17 0 0 3d class, 14 0 0 Agents—STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO., 8, 4ustinfriars, E.C. INDIA OFFICE, 23d December, 1867. TIIHE SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA .1_ in COUNCIL hereby GIVES NOTICE that the Rate of Interest of FOUR PER CENT. on East India Bonds, will cease and determine on the Ist January, 1869, and that from and after that date, such Bands will carry Interest at the rate of Throe Pounds per Cent. per annum. CLINTON. F. THOMAS & CO.'S PATENT SEWING • MACLIIITES. The celebrated No. 2 Machine, unequalled fr general work, £lO. The new Domestic Machines complete (Lock Stitch), 45 Bs, £6 65., and £B. Catalogues free. W. F. Thomas and Co., I and 2. Cheapside, and Regent-circus, Oxford-street, London.. T HE SINGER" Iv E W FAMILY _ _ MACHINE Is fitted with a new TUCK MKER which GAUGES and PATENT AR MARKS each succeed , ing TUCK while sewing, a MOST VALUABLE ACCESSORY, hot to be had with any other Machine. T"E "SINGER" NEW FAMILY SEWING mAolurrEs are the most complete, with all accessories for the family, soamstress, manufacturers of shirt collars, shirts, cloaks, mantles, children's clothing, caps, corsets, linen and silk goods, umbrellas, parasols, &c. Catalogues and Samples of Wolk post free. THE BINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 147, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON. DINNEFORD'B FLUID MAGNESIA.-- The medioal profession for Thirty Years have approved of this pule solution of Magnesia as the bost remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Clout, and Indigestion; and as the best mild aperient for delicate constitutions, este daily adapted for Ladies, Children, and Infants. DINNEFORD and 00., Chemists, 172, New Bond-street, London; and of all other chemists throughout the world PAINLESS DENTISTRY. MESSRS. GABRIEL, DENTISTS (Established 1815), of London 5B, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, 64, Ludgate-Hill, E.C., Liverpool 34, Duke-street, and Brighton have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining their Pain less System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Teeth without springs, at MODERATZ CRAMIX3. VilliCh may bo lied free by post for four stamps. LONDON GAZETTE.-LAST EVENING. At the Court at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, the 20th day of December, 1867. Present, the Queen's Most Excel lent Majesty iu Council. This day Sir Francis Bond Had, Bart., was by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Ma jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. - - WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, DEC 24. 39th Regiment of FootLMajor-General Sir Chas. T. Van Straubenzee, K.C.8., from the 47th Regiment, to be Colonel, vice General Sir Richard Lluellyn, K.C.8., de ceased. 47th Regiment of Foot—Major-General John Patton to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir Chas. T. Van Strau- benzee, K.C,8., transferred to the 39th Regiment. Royal Horse Guards—Henry Lane Fox to bo Cornet. 7th Hussars—Cornet Hamilton Beville to be Lieutenant ; Graham Hamond to be Cornet Royal Artillery—Lieutenant Alexander 801 l has been per mitted to resign his commission. Coldstream Guards—Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Legge to be Captain ; Ensign Henry Aldenburg-Bentinck to be Lieutenant; Ensign the Hon. Lewis Dawney to bo Lieutenant ; the Hon. Ronald Campbell to be Ensign ; Henry Charles Duncombe to bo Ensign ; Lieutenant the Hon. Frederick Arthur Wellesley to be Adjutant. Scots Fusilier Guards —Ensign the Hon. Paul Methuen to be Lieutenant; Sir William Cumming, Bart., to be En sign. 2d Foot—Ensign Bernard Beale to be Lieutenant; .Ensign Nicholas Bosanquet to be Lieutenant. sth Foot—Lieutenant Charles Broad to be Adjutant. 10th Foot—Staff Surgeon George Slaughter to be Sur- geon. 15th Foot—Major Henry Grierson to be Lieutenant- Colonel ; Captain Frederick Lock to be Major; Lieut. John Grant to be Captain ; Ensign George Daintry to be Lieutenant; Charles Thorne, Gent., to be Ensign. 16th Foot--Gentleman Cadet Edward Townshend to be Ensign. 17th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Burr to be Instructor of Musketry. 19th Foot—Staff Assistant Surgeon George Atkinson, M. 8., to be Assistant Surgeon. 31st Foot—Lieutenant Francis Davies Butler to be Cap tain ; Ensign Robert Phillips to be Lieutenant ; Gentle man Cadet Francis Dawson to be Ensign. 34th Foot—Captain Arthur Tufnell to be Captain. 36th Foot—Lieutenant William Smail to be Adjutant. 41st Foot—Captain George Miller to ba Captain ; Ensign James Sevier to ba Lieutenant; Arthur McCausland, Gent., to be Ensign. 56th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Lever has been per mitted to retire from the Service by the sale of his Commission. 59th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Lane to be Lieutenant ; Ensign John Stoyte to be Lieutenant; Bennett Lucas, Gent., to bo Ensign. 60th Foot—Ensign Crawford Allan to be Lieutenant ; Francis Ward, Gent., to be Ensign. 61st Foot—Captain George Ross to be Captain. 65th Foot—Lieutenant Thomas Chamley to be Captain. 68th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Brooke Rhodes to be Lieutenant. 71st Foot—Algernon Dawson to be Ensign. 77th Foot—Ensign Francis Dawson to be Ensign. 86th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred Howard to be Lieutenant. 90th Foot—Captain John Caulfeild to be Captain. 96th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Church to be Captain ; Ensign Charles Will oug hb y t o b e Li eu t enant ; Ensign Arthur Wix to be Ensign ; Benjamin Pollard to be Ensign. 102 d Foot —Staff Assistant Surgeon Thos. Kirkwood to be Assistant Surgeon. 103 d Foot —Lieutenant George Henry Bridges to be Cap tain. 106th Foot—Lieutenant Mowbray Lettson Elliot to be In structor of Musketry. Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant-Colon e l and Brevet Colonel Alexander Macdonell, 0.8., to be seconded on appoint ment to the Command of a'Brig‘de in India. 2d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Egbert William Cooper to be Captain ; Ensign George Roe to be Lieu tenant. 3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant Anthony Thomas Wilkinson to be Instructor of Musketry. Commissariat Department—Deputy Assistant-Commissary General Walter Umfreville Green to be Assistant-Com missary General. Medical Department—Surgeon Frederick Douglas, M.D.; to be Staff-Surgeon ; Assistant-Surgeon Gough Ashton, M. 8., to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon ; Assistant-Surgeon Charles Edward Wikelf .. 3y to be Staff Assistant-Surgeon. BIiEVE T. Captain John Ball Campbell, who retires upon full-pay, 109th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major. The following promotions to take place in succession to General Sir R. Lluellyn, K.C.8., Colonel of the 89th Foot, who died on the 7th Dec., 1867 :—Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry J. W. Bentiuck, K.C.8., Colonel of the 28th Foot, to be General ; Major-General Lord William Paulet, K.C.8., Colonel of the 68th Foot, to he Lieut.-General ; Brevet- Colonel Robert Newman Phillips, from Lieut.-Colonel, half-pay, Into Depot Battalion, to be Major-General ; Major Richard Roundel] Roundel], half-pay, late 28th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel ; Capt. Archibald Morteux Calvert, Royal Artillery, to be Major. ADMIRALTY, Dm. 20. Sub-Lieutenant Frank Elrington Hudson to be a Lieu tenant in her Majesty's Fleet; promoted for Special Service with the Naval Brigade in Now Zealand in 1864. DEC. 21. Mr. Thomas Barnes has this day been promoted to the rank of Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet. DEC. 23. Lieutenant James Samuel 13rickwell to be a Retired Commander in her Majesty's Fleet, under her Majesty's Orders in Council of 3d August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th March, 1866. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 23. Royal Marine Light Infantry.--The following gentle men have been appointed Lieutenants; —Hamilton De la Poer Beresford, John E. Thomas, Alexander L. S. Bur rowes, William T. Adair, Edward E. Pyne, Henry 0. P. Wright, Howard S. Thompson, James W. Walker, Arthur M. E. Hayes, Henry Y. Hext, Alfred 0. Nepean, Eustace E. G. Bird, Henry D. Robinson, Temple K. Byam, and Frederick A. S. Haycock. „ /!Y Q SPIRIT - OP Tlir-P"D'ELIO-301JRNALS The times, in treating the subject of the Abyssinian ex pedition, expresses itself in terms that are anything but sanguine. "The letters from correspondents," says our Contemporary, " comes in time to make us sober in our Christinas mirth." After speaking of the difficulty and the comparative fruitlessness of the undertaking, the Times says :—The only use of anticipating difficulties is to prepare for them. Forewarned is forearmed. If it is certain—and we cannot see our way to escape from the conclusion— that we cannot get back the captives by force during the current campaign, let us recognise the fact at once, and makes our plans conform to it. The difficulty of keeping an armed force in I')y - ssinia throughout the rainy season is of itself enormous, and we ought to set about at once making the needful prepara tions. It may not be too late, however, to provide that the actual force in the field shall be reduced, and the camp followers as much as possible restricted to the narrowest proportions. The error of the plan of the expedition has been from the first that it was conceived on too large a scale. This, we fear, becomes ino:e apparent every hour. Every fighting man drags five or six non effectives at his heels, and as men make horses, forage, and commissariat supplies generally necessary, the quantity of material to be put in motion goes on increasing. But, whether it be possible or im possible to reduce the scale of the expedition, it is essential that provision be made for the rainy season. The Abyssinian force must not be exposed to all the powers of the elements because we hoped it might re-embark before the time of their fury arrived, just as the Crimean army had to winter in the Crimea because we flattered ourselves that we had but to appear on Russian territory and all would be over. There is another point of no slight importance which may be secured by our forced delay. Our excellent Egyptian ally is zealous in rendering kind offices, and ambitious of sharing in the honour of the expedition. We are of course grateful, but every act he does for us gives us at least two enemies. Egypt and Abyssinia are constantly at war, and they were never more vehemently opposed to one another than during the reign of the present Viceroy. If we take the field with him as an ally, we unite Abyssinia against us. We turn friendly tribes into unfriendly. We con solidate and augment the power of Theodore. Egyptian assistance must, with the greatest gratitude, be peremp torily declined. If this be' not done, it will be impossible to restrict our action within the modest limits we have prescribed. The army of invasion will be converted into an army of occupation, and the next generation will curse our folly in entering Abyssinia at all. That they may not do so—that we may rescue our captives this season if possible, but if not this season, then in the next, and then retire, let us be wise, and wise in time. The Morning Herald speaks encouragingly of what has been done in the Abyssinian expedition. After mention ing that at the foot of the three great passes leading up to the table-land there is healthy camping ground for the troops and a spring of fresh water, the Herald says the first proceeding of the commanders of the expedition has been to take possession of these important posts, the next to move forward to them the troops as fast as they are landed. Weea, on the road to Kiasloor ; Hadoda, at the foot of the Iladdas Pass ; and Roomayloo Wells, at the entrance of the pass which leads to SenaftS, are within a few miles of each other, and at a distance of twelve to fifteen miles only from the sea. Only a depot is to be left on the shore at Zulla, and this will be supplied with water by " condensers "or stills. The highest praise must be given to Colonels Merewether and Phayre for the active and able manner in which they have discharged their duties as pioneers of the force. Whatever may have happened at Bombay, at Zulla at least there seems to have been no hitch in the inaugural arrangements of this somewhat perilous enterprise. If every officer in the army acquits nimseff equally well, alj we can say is, that the Anglo-Indian Governments are well served by their officers, that the people of England is anxiously looking on at them, and ready to applaud them for proving themsel yes worthy of their race. Thinking of our friends far off in this inhospitable Africa, bold-hearted, with the desert behind them and the savage in front of them, at this Christmas time we wish them God-speed, and pray for their success in that high and almost sacred mission with which they have been entrusted. In noticing the present unsettled condition of European affairs, the Daily News observes :—A Ministerial crisis in three constitutional countries seems to indicate an uneasy condition of foreign affairs. In Belgium a Liberal Cabinet, which has administered the country with vigour and success for several years, and enjoyed the confidence of Parliament and the nation, has split into two sections, and the King, after repeated endeavours to conciliate them, Las at length accepted their resignation. The present crisis will probably be solved by a Liberal reconstruction of the Present Cabinet. In Holland the crisis is protracted by the reluctance of the King to accept the resignation of a Ministry which the Parliament has condemned. Hap pily neither in Belgium nor in Holland is the domestic difficulty complicated by the interference of a foreign Power. General Mena,brea has served his King and country with singular self-denial at a moment when no public man who considered his own interests and his reputation above his duties to the State was prepared to accept the responsibilities of office. He has faced a storm of obloquy and provoked the rancour of a host of adversaries by undertaking the most weary and thankless task of re pairing other men's mistakes, and submitting with the best grace to the consequences of other men's faults or follies. Mr. Bright's oration at Rochdale furnishes the Morning Post with a subject for a number of pertinent remarks. After stating that Mr. Bright is a disappointed man, the Post goes on to state that even the most zealous Conserva tive must admit that the last Reform Act is not faultless. With regard to this Act the Post continues :—Mr. Bright, as the still recognised leader of the advanced school of Reformers, now states publicly in what respects it falls short of the expectations of its projectors, or, in other words, the further changes which it will be necessary to effect. It is the declaration to this effect which consti tutes the most salient feature of the speech just delivered by Mr. Bright : " The representation of the country is not completed in this bill." This is a declaration which must, under the circumstances, be accepted as tanta mount to an intimation that the struggle in which Mr. Bright and his supporters have been so long enge red is not yet terminated, and that we have reached the end of but one stage in a crusade. Much has been done for the borough representation, but, so far as Mr. Bright conceives, comparatively little for the county re presentation, and, if we rightly construe his words, the " hard line " which has been swept away in the towns must equally vanish in the outlying country districts. The point raised is one which certainly affords subject matter for agitation as prolonged and as bitter as that which has just subsided. Why any distinction should be drawn between town and country voters is a matter which must sooner or later be solved by a na tion which has made such strides in the direction of democracy as those recently made by the people of this country. THE PUBLIC _HEALTH. It appears from the Registrar-General's weekly return that in the week that ended on Saturday, December 21, 4,317 births and 3,318 deaths were registered in London and in 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,000 in London, 29 in Edinburgh, and 29 in Dublin ; 33 in Bristol, 30 in Birmingham, 33 in Liverpool, 35 in Man chester, 31 in Salford, 23 in Sheffield, 23 in Leeds, 31 in Hull, 22 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 28 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 26 per 1,000 during the week ending the 14th inst., when the mean temperature was 10 . 3 deg. Fahrenheit lower than the same week in London, where the rate was 29. In London the births of 1,136 boys and 1,025 girls, in all 2,161 children, were registered in the week. In the corre. sponding weeks of ten.years, 1857-66, the average number corrected for increase of population, is 2,013. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1.,561. It was the 51st week of the year; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,487. The deaths in the present return exceed the estimated number by 74. Seven hun dred and seventy-eight persons died under 20 years of age, 172 were 20 and under 40, 240 were 40 and under 60, 302 were 60 and under 80, and 69 were SO years of age and upwards. Zymotic diseases in the aggregate destroyed the lives of 301 persons, 241 of whom were under 20 years of age. Whooping -cough was the most fatal disease in the zymotic class, and caused the deaths of 56 children. Forty-eight deaths occurred from scarla tina, twenty-one from small-pox, four from diphtheria, forty-four from typhus, and fourteen from diarrhcea were registered last week. From diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of phthisis) 409 persons died ; of this number bronchitis car. ried off 244 persons, pneumonia 111, and asthma 14. One hundred and fifty-nine persons died last week from phthisis, 67 from diseases of the heart, and IS9 froze diseases of the brain and nervous system. A. distressing accident lately occurred at Huns set, by which one man was killed and six others injured. Messrs. Longley Brothers have in operation there an extensive patent brickmaking apparatus, and several men were employed upon it, when it gave way, burying seven of them in the ruins. One of them was taken out dead ; another, who was seriously hurt, was removed to the Infirmary ; and the rest to the lluuslet Workhouse, and subsequently to their homes. i I. lg. .11 1. 2S• I. 6 . L 20. 1. 2 9 426. 13. L. 13 6 , i 3. _- a, tbe :11& 111' M3Vt '4l. died )00°°' VJile ; .. ra cly, i .o• n t bo ,i tiv" 0 112 ' f my ° y a