The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-16 00:00:00

LIFE BOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms o f the present year the National Lifeboat Institution has contributed to the saving of 1,027 lives from various ship wrecks and 32 vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended £29,655 in the same period on its Life boat Establishments, in addition to gr anting £2,414 for rewards. The Committee of the institution earnestlyappeal to the public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on their 186 Lifeboat Establishments. Contributions will be thaukfLdly received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. NEW ORLEANS, JACKSON, and GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY.—FIRST MORTGAGE CONSTRUCTION BONDS, endorsed pay able in sterling in London. Tho tiALF-YEARLY INTEREST on the above Bonds, due on the Ist January next, will bo PAID on that day and any suceK. , din;. -, , day, at the counting-honse of Messrs. J. HENRY SCHRODER and Co. , 145, Leaden hall-street, between the hours of 11 and 2 o'clock. 1. 1 114 Coupons must be left for examination, two clear days bifore applying. for payment. London, Dec. 16, 1867. EXPOSITION UNIVE RSELLE,, PARIS, 1867. WHEELER AND Ty ILSOIV,_ 139, REGENT-STREET, AND 43, ST. PAUL'S CHURUHYARD, AWARDED, OVER EIGHTY-TWO COMPETITORS, TILE HIGHEST PREMIUM, A GOLD MEDAL, For th© Perfection of SEWING MACHINES and BUTTON-HOLE MACHINES, TEE ONLY GOLD M MEDAL FOR THIS BRANCH OF ANUFACTURE. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckatone. THIS EVENLNG, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Messrs. Sothern, Raymond, Chippendale, Braid, Gordon, Rogers, Clark, Coe, &c.; Mesdames Robertson, lone Burke, Chippendale, Dal ton, F. Wright, &e. After which, TO PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE. POUNDS Mr. Buckstone. To conclude with THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Messrs J. T. Raymond, W. Gordon, &c. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Last 5 nights of the Company's performing previous to the Christmas Holidays. Notwithstanding the Triumphant and Bril liant Success of the DOGE OF VENICE, it cannot be performed after Thursday, December 19, in consequence of the preparations for the GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMI3fH. To be produced 011 BOXING NIGHT. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's servants will perform the new Romantic Play, in 4 Acts, entitled THE DOGE OF VENICE, adapted by Bayle Bernard, and Musically illustrated by Selections from the Operas of "Marino," by Donizetti, and the •` Duo Fos care" and "Bravo" of Verdi and Mercadante,, with New and agnilicent Scenery by Mr. Wm. Beyerley. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Messrs. J. C. Cowper, H. Sinclair, E. Phelps, Barrett, James Johnstone, C. Warner, W. M'lntyre, C. Harcourt, W. C. Temple, C. Webb, &c.; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Grattan, Itc. Increased orchestra and numerous chorus. To conclude with each evening THE LADIES' CLUB. Mes dames Beatrix Shirley, Rate Harfleur, Grattan, Hudspeth, L. Wilmot, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff ; Messrs. J. Rouse, Barratt, C. Webb, F. Moreland, Harcourt, James Johnstone, W. C. Temple. Stage manager, Mr. Edward Stirling. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7 o'clock. On Thursday, December 26, will be produced the Drury-lane GRAND COMIC CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, entitled FAW FEE FO FUM ; or, Harlequin, Jack the Giant Killer. First Morning Performance on Saturday, December 28, and every Wednesday and Saturday, until February 15. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. Tills EVENING the performances will commence with (at 1 o'clock) HE'S A LUNATIC. _ After which (by particular desire), the celebrated comedy, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham, W. M. Terrot, C. Seyton, Miss E. Terry, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. To conclude with the Comic Drama of THE FIRST NIGHT. Achille Talmo. Dufard (a French actor), Mr. Alfred Wigan. NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE ROYAL , Mr. and Mrs. ALFRED WIGAN every Evening. p OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. LI) Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. Dion Bouci cault; Messrs. Dominick Murray, E. Atkins, G. F. Neville, J. G. Shore, H. ldellon, Gresham; Miss Elsworthy, Miss E. Barnett, Mrs. Addie, and Mrs. Dion Boucicault. The wild scenery of Kerry and the Water Cave have been painted by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants. The Drama preceded by A LITTLE FLIRTATION, and fol lowed by NO. 1, ROUND THE CORNER. On Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 23 and 24, the performances will be for the Benefit of Mr. J. Roberts, Acting Manager. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. - N.B.—Due notice will be given of the next representation of ARRAH-NA-POGUE. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, MAN IS NOT PERFECT, NOR WOMAN NEITHER. Messrs. G. Bolmore, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, Miss E. Pitt, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon. After which, 47th time, MAUD'S PERIL. Messrs. Killington G. Bolmore, Ashley, Ehurne, C. J. Smith; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Billington, Miss Emily i'itt. To conclude with UP FOR TIIE CATTTLE SHOW. Messrs G. Belmore, Ashley, Miss E. Pitt, and Miss Harris. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Set ton Parry. Tti.LS EVENIAO, at 7, the highly successful Drama, of FOR LOVE. Mesdames Stephens, lieurade, C. Sa.uuders; Meseti. Montague, Price, Widdicombe. At 8, Burnand's new Burlesque, MARY TURNER; or, The WiCioll3 Willin and Wictorious Wirtue. Mesdames Fanny Josephs, Saunders, Wilmore, Clinton, &c.; Messrs. Robins, Mon tague, Garden, Wilmot, &c. Magnificent new scenery, dresses, and appointments. IN - OTE.—Seats may be secured a month in advance Boa-office open from 10 till 5; and all Libraries. R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fechter. Tiffs EVENING, at 8, ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Vestvali ; Mercutio, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Friar Laurence, Mr Ryder; Nurse, Mrs. Marston; Juliet, Miss dilly Palmer. Preceded by, at 7, PERFECTION. Messrs..l. Neville, Dalton J. Francis, and Miss Maud Shelley. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7, NOTHING TO NURSE. Mr. Thorne and Miss IS ewton. After which, a New Comedy, RIND TO A FAULT. Messrs Parselle, Belford, and Turner; Mesdames Johnstone, Gwynn°, and Hughes. To conclude with Byron's WILLIAM TELL WITH A VEN GEANCE. Metisis. James and Fenton; Mesdames Holt and Weatheraby. R OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. New Management. Solo Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. THIS EVENING, FROM GRAVE TO GAY. Messrs. H. Neville, H. Wigan, Addison, and C. Mathews; Mesdames L. Moore and Stirling. Followed by IF I HAD A THOUSAND A YEAR. Messrs. 11. Wigan, Cooper, C. Mathews, and Farrell; Mesdames L. 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I Afternoon, 37m 47i C§4 4 50k r -4, , , z ,„t., : 4 S iTi r s g 9 - 40 - int .T,ONDON, MOADAY, DEC. 16, 1861 • Seldom has there been a stronger or more un.lni mous feeling evoked throughout the Ivhole of London than the sentiment of pity and indi,gnatioo called forth from all classes by the catastrophe at Clerkenwell. As the hours go on, and the misery and suffering so wantonly inflicted on unoffending women and children becomes more widely under stood and more fully realsed, the universal execra tion of the reckless and cowardly ruffians whose work we are all deploring grows loader and more intense. The mournful pictures of the quiet little homes so suddenly and so terribly desolated, the heartrending accounts of the sufferings of poor little children, and the total ruin and overthrow of so many industrious families just on the eve of social and cheerful Christmas, all combine to render the story one of the most painful and melancholy which it has been our duty to record. No doubt every thing that public effort and private charity can do to relieve the victims of the outrage will be done, and the spontaneous sympathy of all classes has been shown with a promptitude and heartiness which does honour to English hearts and hands. Within a few moments of the first terrific shock brave men were risking their lives in extricating those embedded in the ruins. No sooner were they all rescued, and the alarming nature of their Injuries perceived, than every vehicle within reach was at once offered for their service, regard less of consequent damage. The hospital authori ties having heard the explosion were on the alert, and ereryting thing skill and kindness could do was done to alleviate the sufferings, which at the best were harrowing to witness. Meanwhile those who had happily escaped from the ruins with slighter injury to life and limb, but with the total loss of their belongings, were not uncared for. Early on Saturday morning the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with commendable promptitude, despatched his Private Secretary in concert with Mr. LAMBERT, of the Poor-law Board, for the purpose of distributing immediate pecuniary assistance to those left desti tute by the catastrophe. This kindly forethought was doubly welcome, as many of the homeless families belonged to the class of respectable me chanics who would have shrunk from applying for parish relief. Mr. HARDY, the Home Secretary, was also on the spot on Saturday morning, and soon after the Government proclamation of reward was offered. Unhappily, notwithstanding all these efforts, there_will be much distress and loss, in dependently of the personal injuries, and a public meeting is convened for this evening to consider the beat means to be taken to relieve the distress. Had the Fenians endeavoured to devise the most efficacious means of destroying all sympathy with their proceedings, and of changing their position from that of political offenders—misguided, indeed, but sincere and enthusiastic—into reckless and determined criminals, whose hands are against every man alike, and who are callously indifferent to the torture and suffering of those who have never injured theth,provided they have even a chance of gaining their object, certainly they could not have done so more effectually than by causing the fearful catastrophe of Friday. The offence of forcibly rescuing prisoners from the custody of the law is in itself a very serious and unpardonable ono, but this falls into the shade compared with the means Adopted to effect i;. The feeling; of the working classes are now thoroughly aroused against Fenian is n, and the Government will meet with the ready and unquestioning support of all ranks of her MAJESTY'S subjects in the firm and consistent re pression of it in all its aspects. The great catastrophe of Friday has been the one engrossing topic of the last few days. , Happily the proclamation of the Govern ment and the effects of the authorities in the several cities in which the funeral demonstrations were to be held have proved effectual, and the lire cessions were not attempted. The news from Ireland reports that everything was tranquil in Cork and the adjoining counties. It is understood that 11r. JOIIN MARTIN hts left the country in conse quence of the summons served on him for having taken part in last week's demonstration. No doubt, in common with other worthies of his class lie thought discretion the better part of valour so soon as personal danger threatened him self. The mock funerals were altogether abandoned, and at Killarney the originators of the movement posted a placard counselling the people to obey the law. At Leeds the streets were paraded by artillery, infantry, and yeomanry, but not the slightest mani festation of Fenian feeling showed itself, and the military dispersed about four o'clock. At Liverpool, where the scene of action had been changed from the town to the suburbs, some anxiety was felt, and to judge from the quantity of crape and green ribbon provided during the week a grand display was in tended. But the vigorous preparations made, and die resolute attitude of the authorities proved to be amply sufficient to prevent any attempt at the ab surd and mischievous display. The fact is, that the crowd of neutrals, and idlers, and sight• seers whom mere curiosity and love of excitement usually draw to the scene of such affairs, are now thoroughly dis gusted, and will not countenance by their presence any more Fenian celebrations. We have no doubt that the explosion of Friday haq been fatal to the interests of the conspirators themselves, but even that gain is dearly purchased by so much needlessly inflicted suffering. Tho Cuba, from New York on the 3d of Decem ber, brings a further account of the PRESIDENT'S Message lublished on that day in advance of de livery. We have been already put in posseesion of the substance by means of the Atlantic Cable, but some additional passageS of considerable interest are now given. The points upon which Le prin cipally dwells are the Reconstruction of the South and Negro Suffrage, and these are indeed the all engrossing topics of the day. The Negro ques tion more especially is gaining daily in im portance and interest, for the white men of the North are not slow to perceive the results with which they are threatened. It is one thing to keep the Southern States at bay, to refuse them representation, and to Illy the petty tyrant without damage to themselves ; but it is quite another to allow negroes to be elected, and thus to put a considerable share of the legislative powers of the country into their hands. On this subject the PRESIDENT says, with sound common sense and justice, " Four millions of slaves yes terday cannot be made intelligent freemen to day." The PRESIDENT is desirous to " better their condition in all their rights, save transferring to them our political inheri tance." The dangers of such a course must be apparent to every impartial observer, and there can be no doubt but that this perception has had a considerable share in altering the constitution of Congress. Whatever professions of equality the FIIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEAI Mil 16, 1867. Radicals may make for party purposes, there are very few white men in the North who really desire to put the blacks completely on a level with themselves, and there can be no question as to the imprudence and danger of such a course even as regards the North. As for the Southern States, the PRESIDENT says the subjugation of the Southern States to negro domination would be worse than military despo tism, under which they are at present governed. If anything could drive the whites of the South to a fresh outbreak it would be the sudden eleva tion of the negroes. Setting aside the prejudices of race and colour, which are not iu fact so strong in the South as in the Not it is not difficult to believe that the sudden conversion of servants into masters is a dangerous as well as a distasteful ex p :riment to the latter. Yet the numbers of blacks in some of the States are so large that representation, if the franchise were extended to them, would be completely in their hands, and the interests of the whites would be altogether sacrificed. The Radicals have gone on much too fast. Allowing them to be sincere in their loudly expressed desire for negro elevation, the haste and precipitation of their schemes would have been sufficient under any other circumstances to secure their condemnation. We wish to see a child well educated, and accordingly send him to school and college, but we do not ex pect him within a day or two of his arrival to carry off the highest honours. Much has been said of late about the elevation of the masses among ourselves, and much has been done to procure it, but nobody expects to find our miners and our bricklayers on an intellectual level with our engineers and our skilled mechanics. Yet the proposed method of registration in the Southern States does more than put the negro on a level with his former master. .It decimates the numbers of white voters, who are already in some parts numerically fewer than the blacks, and consequently the whites are left totally unrepresented. As matters are at present arranged by the Radical Reformers, the members for the Southern States might actually in Congress vote for the confiscation and re-distribution of Southern laud and property. Happily for the Southerners the danger which threatens them extends itself to the North also, and the negro will be no welcome addition to the deli berations at Washington. The words of the PRE. SIDENT on Reconstruction will be listened to with more attention now than they would have been last year. He does little more than repeat the old un heeded • arguments. The disorganisation of the Union is, he says, a subject of profound regret, and the Union, as formerly established, can only really exist when all the States are represented in Congress. The rebellious States were always part of the Union, and their secession ordinances were mere nullities. If it is now to be admitted that they were valid as the authors intended them to be, the whole ground upon which the civil war was justified would be swept away. In fact the Radical party are now doing the very thing which the great majority of the Northern people refused to do during the painful years of struggle. They are acknowledging the secession of the South. At the time of the secession the Radi cals, like most others in the North, refused to re cognise the Confederacy or its officers. PRESIDENT, Ministers, Congress, and Geneials, were all to them mere empty names ; and the whole body of Confederates, great and small, were classed together as " rebels," men who had resisted a supe rior authority, and laid claim to an independence which they had no right to possess. But if, by their own voluntary act, they had power to dissolve their connection with the Northern States, how were they rebels? The claim of the North was based on the indissolubility of the Union, and the North was victorious. How, then, can the Radicals, with any consistency, maintain that the Union is broken, and the South must not be re-admitted ? These are the questions which the more moderate and reflective among American politicians and statesmen have been put ting for some time past, and they are at last obtain ing an answer from the great body of the people. We have in the news brought by the Cuba another significant intimation of the change. General POPE has ordered the adjournment of the Alabama Reconstruction Convention, for the pithy reason that " its action tends to delay reconstruction." Those who have watched the progress of these African legislators during their brief deliberations will not Lo disposed to dispute the truth of the General's asser tion. CONTINENTAL nations seem to be surpassing Great Britain in their appreciation of cheap means of intercommunication. By the convention just concluded between Austria and the North German Confederation, the penny-postage system is ex tended over the greater part of Central Europe. Heretofore, postage throughout the whole of Austria cost only a penny, and by the new arrangement a letter may be sent from Hamburg to Vienna, from Pesth to Cologne, for the • same sum. This is not the whole of the improvement. These States offer their subjects still greater advantages; By this convention with North Germany, Aus trians will be enabled to send small packages, for many hundreds of miles in fact, for the same dis tances as they could post letters—for threepence. The desirableness of some such system in this coun try needs no enforcement. The present charge on the transit of most parcels more than a few ounces in weight, whether by post or by rail, is nearly pro hibitory. In the matter of telegraphic messages we have also a great deal to learn. Austria is not an advanced country in commercial progress. Nevertheless, its telegraph system is being deve loped more rapidly than ours. Cheap rates have been adopted, and have succeeded so well that they are to be made considerably cheaper. The means for the rapid transmission of informa tion will soon be brought within the reach of the bulk of the people. In the first six months of this year the inhabitants of Vienna alone sent 175,638 private messages. This number, considering the ratio of progress, would allow an average of nearly one message to every member of the population, and five or six to every adult male, per annum. England has heretofore taken the lead in such matters, but now we are content to follow other nations at a humble distance. It is no wonder that we are not quite so prosperous as formerly. The Abyssinian Expedition seems to be prosper ing on the whole. From Malkatta, December the Ist, we learn that Colonel MEREIVETHER is moving on Senafe with the advanced Brigade. One very encouraging circumstance in the affair is that the Expedition seems likely to receive the support and assistance of the people of the various places through which it pas3es. In this last account we learn that the inhabitants of Okulch and Kuzeih have offered their services. It is very cer tain that this aspect of the matter must not be slighted, or made little of, because it might hereafter prove to be of material advantage to our forces. The troops, it is said, are in good health ; but from Aden it is reported that there is a great scarcity of water, and the disease among the mules and horses prevails to a great extent. It would be well if, in any future transports, more care were taken that there was not so much crowding in the transit of these animals. The mules were sent packed in so " tight" a manner that it was impossible for them to lay down. This not the way to enable them to bear the subsequent fatigues and privation that await them, and a change for the better would be a desirable one. Colonel STAVCLY and Staff, with the last de tachment of the Scinde Brigade, have passcd Aden en route for Abyssinia; it is mentioned also that a chief of the Tigre, with six hundred men, had arrived in the British camp, and that is a significant an nouncement of itself. On the whole, we feel assured that the expedition promises well so far, and the public may feel confidence in its future prospects. Of course we cannot expect that it will be without drawbacks and disappointments to a certain ex tent, but the result is the main thing to consider, and in every view of the question there seems no reason whatever to doubt that it will have a pros perous issue. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM our, olv:i CORRESPONDENT.; PARIS, Sunday, Dec. 15. From telegrams received here I am informed that a tearful explosion, attended with loss of life, took place in London on Friday night. The telegram is extremely bald and inaccurate, but the circumstance that all the journals have taken it up. chews that the calamity has created excitement here. The telegram gives notice that the event took place at the "Prison de Elerkenwell," and that Burke has escaped. Lord Clarendon has passed through Paris en route for Florence and Rome. During hie brief sojourn here, he he was accompanied to the Peace of Saint-Cloud, and introduced by the Marquis de Moestier to the Emperor. In spite of the promises made by the Moniteur and other ocia.l organs, and in spite of the efforts of M. de Moustier himself, the project of the 'Conference, for the realisation of which the French Government has been labouring with more perseverance than success, has been abandoned. A common topic of talk here is the strengthening of the garrisons of Gibraltar and Moscow. It is believed that these measures have been taken in view of approaching complications in the East. The fact that Gortschakoff has been superseded by Ignatieff is believed to be a sort of menace to Turkey. At the close of a confer3nce held at the Imperial Asylum of Vincennes upon the nutritive qualities of the flesh of horses, 31. Reboul, director of the establishment, ordered that a plate of this meat should be served to convalescent patients. A most remarkable and mysterious case of murder is just now the topic of conversation here. A farmer and money-lender of Bourgueil, named Pierre David, disappeared suddenly in June 1863. The body was discovered in a state of decomposition in December 1866. On examination it was found that death had been pro duced by strangulation, and also that the body had but lately been removed to the spot in which it was found. On tie 17th of Febi-uary last Hilaire David, son of the victim, was standing in a wine-shop talking to a man named Bouchet. Suddenly the young man, pointing to Bouchet, exclaimed, " Arrest him ; he has in his possession tho names of the murderers of my father !" Bouchet was observed to have a slip of paper in his hard at this moment, but ho put it into his mouth and swallowed it before he was placed in custody. Bouchet and Hilaire David were found to have been in close relations respecting the crime since August 1863, and it turned out that the former had agreed to produce the body of the murdered man in con sideration of a sum of money. For a further sum of money Bouchet agreed to write down the names of the mur derers, and he had actually written a name or names upon a piece of paper, when he seemed to change his mind, and would not give up the writing. At this moment David, pointing to him, accused him cf complicity in the murder. The charge of murder has just been made, and though it was found to be impossible to bring the charge directly home to Bouchet, enough was made evident to pi uv.z that he knew something about the tragedy, and he was sen tenced to twenty years' hard labour. Herr von Dreyso, the inventor of the needle-g - un,.died on the tth instant at his native place, Sommcrda, near Erfurt. He was born in 1787, and in youth he worked in the shop of his father, who was a locksmith. From 1809 to 1814 he lived in Paris, and was employed by a German officer who had been commissioned by Napoleon I. to in vent a breech-loading rifle. On returning to Prussia he devoted himself to the pursuit of the object which his Paris employer bad vainly endeavoured to realise, and the result was that in 1836 he produced the famous needle gun. Herr von Dreyse is also the inventor of the grenade rifle, and of other varieties of firearms. The neefille-gim was first placed in the hands of the Prussian infantry in 3840 • LATEST INTELL (REUTER'B TELEGRAMS.) THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. MALKATTO(?), D EC. 1. Colonel Merewether, with the advanced brigade, is moving on Senafe. The inhabitants of Okuleh and Kuzeih had tendered their services. The troops are in good health. The Abuna is dead. ADEN, Dec. 6. Colonel Stanley and Staff, together with the last detachment of the Scinde Brigade, have passed here, en route for Abyssinia. Advices from Annesley Bay report a great scarcity of water. The disease among the mules and horses continued to an alarming extent. A chief of the Tigre, with 600 men, had arrived in the British camp. MALTA, Dec. 4. The Orontes troopship has just arrived here from Portsmouth, with 614 officers and privates, women and children, belonging to various regiments, and two naval officers. The Leith steamer, from London for Alexandria, with stores for the Abyssinian expedition, has broken her rudder, and is repairing here. The weather since the 26th of November has been very tempestuous. Many ships with cargoes of grain have taken refuge here. HUN GARY. PESTII, Dec. 15. In to-day's sitiings of the Lower House of the Diet the bill on the Hungarian quota of the public debt of the empire was passed by 239 against 110 votes. The debate has lasted nine days. The Civil Marriage and Landwehr Bills will shortly be laid before the house. SWITZERLAND. BERFE, Dec. 16. Large popular meetings were held yesterday at Zurich, Winterthur, Uster, and Bulach, at which resolutions were passed in favour of a revision of the Zurich constitution in a completely democratic sense. During the meeting loud cries of " Down with the present system ! away with its supporters 1" were uttered. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 16. The North German Lloyd steamer• America, from New York, has arrived here, with 109 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg ; 48 sacks of mails for London ; $92,000 in specio for England, and $156,000 in specie for France. NEW YORK, Dcc. 5 (Morning). The Senate has paused a resolution calling for papers relative to the Alabama claims, and has also passed a bill declaring five to form a quorum of the Supreme Court. A resolution has been laid on the table denouncing those portions of President John son's Message in which he condemned the course. of Congress as a breach of official propriety, and re commending Congress to express reprehension thereof. Senator Sumner, in a speech opposing the printing of extra copies of the President's Message, denounced the Message as incendiary, and calcu lated to stimulate rebellion and provoke civil war. It was evidence, he said, of a coalition existing between Mr. Johnson and the rebels. Mr. Davis whose successor Mr. Johnson was, would have sent just such a message. Mr. Dixon, a Conservative Republican, defended Mr. Johnson, and declared that Congress was mis representing the people, and that it should reflect on the lessons taught by the Conservative victoria in the recent elections, which were a rebuke to th© Radicals. A resolution has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, declaring that no claim of a foreign Government over na turalised citizens of the United States shall affect the right of such citizens to Federal protection, and that the Government shall at all hazard protect naturalised citizens both at home and abroad. General Hancock has reinstated several judicial officials in Louisiana who had been removed by General Mower. The Alabama Convention have passed an ordi nance suspending all civil courts with the exception of the Supreme Probate and Criminal Courts. General Popo has ordered the Convention to adjourn on the ground of its action injuring re construction. The Virginia Convention ,has elected Judge Underwood as President. He addressed the Con vention, advising it to exercise all Christian charity consistent with future safety. Governor Brownlow has published a card deny ing the evidence of Chief Detective Baker before the Impeachment Committee, and declaring that he never testified, and dogs not believe, that President Johnson ever corresponded with Mr. Davis or any other rebel during the rebellion. The negroes of Bullock county, Alabama, have organised courts of their own. They were armed and threatened to seize the property of the whites. General Swaync sent a detachment of troops, who dispersed them, and arrested fifteen of their ring leaders. Mr. Hoffman, a Democrat, has been re-elected Mayor of New York by a majority of 22,000 over the Opposition Democratic and Republican candi dates. The Republican vote showed a decrease of 7,000. Intelligence from Mexico, of the 20th ult., pub lished by the Now York journals, mentions a rumour that a messenger had arrived in thateapital from the Emperor Napoleon to President Juarez. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 14, Two o'clock.—The market opened very weak, and transactions generally mo derate. Three per Cents. lose 12ic., at 69f. 60c. Italian Fives are steady at 45f. 70c., losing only sc. Credit Mobilier are firm at 170 f., without change. Spanish Mobilier are higher by If. 25c., at 197 f. 50c. Comptoir d'Escompte at 142 f. 50c., losing 2f. 50c. Credit Foncier shares are weak at 1,3701., less by 2f. 50c. Gas shares firm at 1,432 f. 50c., with a gain of 2f. 50c. French Railway securities are in rather more demand. English Consols arc telegraphed with a fall of at 921 93 Three o'clock.—The m. 41 pez Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 69 621 Credit Mobilier End of month l7O Credit Foncier 1375 End of month 1370 • 6rket closed as follows : Bank Shares 3350 ItaPan Loan End of month 45 80 Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred Account Orleans ... 8631 Northern 1174 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... Western Eastern • . • Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman 55 RAILWA" 5334 43 .... 5081 .... 360 nET7ETV OF 7HE BRITISH CORN TRADE. The groweri having thrashed out only limited quantities of late, the supplies of wheat brought forward in nearly all the leading markets have been very moderate, and in but middling condition. Good and fine samples have changed hands freely, and in some instances prices have advanced ls. per quarter. In the value of inferior kinds, very little change has taken place. Increased quantities of barley have been on offer, yet, on the whole a steady business has been doing in most descriptions, at about stationary prices. In the value of other descrip tions of produce no cbango of importance has taken place. From our import lists it will be perceived that the importations of foreign and colonial produce continue enormous, and they have had very little influence upon prices. Our farmers seem determined to meet the consumption with only moderate supplies of grain, and most of the large importing houses arc lan , ling their cargoes in warehouse and thus specu lating upon higher prices. We have now arrived at the dullest period of the year, a-11 ye t the tendency of the value of wheat is - against the buyer. Indeed, the pre sent state of the trade is in favour of a long continuance of current market values. Much will; of course, depend upon the extent of the outflow of wheat and flour from America. At Mark-lane, both on Wednesday and Friday, only a limited quantity of English wheat was exhibited coastwise and by land-carriage. Really fine qualities were taken off at fully Monday's prices ; inferior parcels, however. were a slow inquiry, at that day's decline. The imports of foreign wheat have been again on a very extensive scale, but as they have been mostly landed in warehouse, the show of samples has not increased. Sales have progressed slowly, but we have no decline to notice in the quotations. Most of the foreign wheat con tinues to arrive in good condition. The imports of flour have been extensive, but there has been no pressure of supply in the market. The trade has been in a very inactive state, and the quotations have been with difficulty supported. The supply. of both English and foreign barley has been tolerably extensive. Fine malting parcels have changed hands steadily, at full prices. In the value of grinding and distilling sorts very little change has taken place. The supply of malt has been fully equal to the demand. In prices we have no alteration to report • - Owing.to the large arrivals of oats from abroad the demand has fallen off, and the quotations have ruled slightly in favour of buyers. The few samples of English beans brought forward have been disposed of at previous currencies. White peas have given way fully is. per quarter. Grey and maple qualities, however, have maintained their previous value. Very few transactions of Indian corn have taken place in this article ; holders, however, have been firm in their demands. THE JAPANESE PRINCE. --- On • Saturday his Highness the Japanese Prince, accompanied by Captain Edmonstone, Cominodore Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, and by the members of his suite,' visited, at the request of the Admiralty, the works of the Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding, Engineering, and Dry Docks Company at Blackwall. His Highness was received by Mr. Peter Rolt, chairman ; Captain Ford, the managing director ; and by other officers, and was strewn over the entire works. He paid particular attention to the large ironclad frigate Wilhelm 1., of 6,000 tons, which is being built for the Prussian navy. He also went on board the Greek ironclad of 1,050 tons, with 7-inch armour plates, and two 3001 b. guns. He noticed the other vessels and works in progress, and examined the model of a broadside vessel which was adjudged to be the best of the designs sent in in the late competition invited by the Lords of the Admiralty. FATAL FIRE.—At West Bromwich, on Saturday morning, a carter, aged 40 years, and his mother, aged 79, were burned to death. The carter, whose namo was William Haines, was noted for his drunken habits, and it appears that he went home intoxicated on Friday night. He went to bed in the back room upstairs, and in his stupor must have tumbled his candle upon the bed, or in some other way.have set fire to some portion of the furni ture in the room, The fire spread, and was discovered by people outside very early on Saturday morning. So soon as the flames were extinguished a search was made for the bodies. Haines was found lying in bed, his face down wards, and his body, which had been literally roasted, was so drawn up as to shew that he had died in extreme agony. His mother had also suffered terribly. Her legs had been severed from her body by fire. JUVENILE " FENIA.NS."—A schoolboy at New bury has narrowly escaped death by hanging, under rather singular circumstances. A number of lads at the Na,tional S ;hoc)]. were in their play-hour amusing themselves by a game to which they attached the title of " Fenianism." With boyish humour they were in their own way giving something of a representation of the proceedings of the Fenians at Manchester ; several arrests were made, and the game went on until it was decided by the youngsters to present the closing scene in the Manchester tragedy. For this purpase the group of lads adjourned to a neighbouring outhouse, where three of them volunteered to enact the scene on the scaffold. The first boy who came forward was Alfred Twitchen, around whose neck a scarf was fastaned by a slip knot, and he was thereupon suspended from a beam, where he hung for a few seconds, until his face became blackened, and there was fear that strangula sion would ensue ; happily, however, the knot slipped, and Twitchen, falling to the ground, escaped an untimely end. He had suffered sufficiently from the thoughtless freak as to become insensible, in which condition he was reployea to his hcme, tAit he has now nearly recovered, "~4`, ...:=~..~-~i SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, This is what the Times says with respect to the fearful outrage of Friday, an outrage whose memory can never be erased from the mind of British public opinion :—We desire to abstain from any language which could cause an indiscriminating and unreflecting feeling of indignation; but we cannot but observe that this crime removessil doubt as to the nature of the struggle in which we are now en gaged. Our path will no longer be obscured by the shadow of political considerations. The Fenians have cast the glare of a great moral crime upon the debatable ground which separates us, and we can no longer hesitate in what direc tion to advance. No man deserving of the name will ven ture to adduce political discontent in palliation of such an outrage as that of Friday. It excludes all consider ations but one, that of protecting by every possible method the elementary rights of humanity. Warfare, however desperate, is not to be waged by these means, and if there can be any reasonable and responsible per sons still engaged in the Fenian conspiracy, they are as much interested as we ourselves in putting down such atrocities. It is fair to notice that Burke and Casey them selves, when brought up before the police-court on Saturday, protested their abhorrence of the means which had been employed on their behalf. On the most favourable view, however, they cannot shake off the responsibility of having employed agents who have proved capable of such an out rage. If they are proved to have taken part in organising the Fenian conspiracy, they cannot escape the guilt of having deliberately let loose on this country a set of wholesale murderers. This is the fact we must now steadily face, and which has been indelibly imprinted on the public mind. We are confronted by a gang of reck less criminals, who respect, no laws, human or divine. We are far from saying that this is the character of all persons who have joined the Fenian movement, or that no other motives are to be taken into account in estimating its origin. But we are justified in saying that this is its practical issue at the present moment. That and nothing better is what it has come to ; and we must also add that those who, after this exhibition of the characters who have been called together by the conspiracy, continue to belong to it cannot be ex cused from full responsibility for all its consequences. We can have no parley with men in an attitude of menace. We must crush that at any cost. This is the first con dition of political life, and is nowhere so essential or so justifiable a principle as in a country like our own. We have free constitutional forms by which all classes are placed on an equality, and through which all may make known their wrongs and enforce their rights. To these forms we refer all appellants, and to these all must be compelled to submit. This outrage, therefore, will at least have the advantage of simplifying the course of the Government, and strengthening their hands. They cannot now hesitate in exerting the utmost vigour of the law, and they will be justified in doing so, not merely in order to punish the perpetrators of the worst crime of modern English history, but to crush a conspiracy of which such outrages, we cannot hesitate to say, are the natural fruit. The Post, in a leader on the absorbing topic of the day, speaks of Fenianism as a conspiracy which must now be dealt with in earnest. Still retaining the semblance of the self-devotion with which - it started, the unscrupulous adventurers who head it turn it to other purposes. Unable to compass their original 'designs, anarchy, terrorism, and plunder become their object, in the destruction of all order and civil peace. If this secret society, which is the .first of its class we . have expe rienced in England, is not at once stopped and trampled out, we have a future before us such as is not pleasant to contemplate. Continuous infractions of the law of the most daring nature, and the consequent gradual intro duction of the military and police system of the Continent into our free institutions, would become unavoidable—the glory of the nation would have departed. We must, then, fight this rising danger without hesitation, without fear. We can afford to deal with Irish grievances without relax ing our efforts to drive out Fenian conspiracy. No matter what Government may be in possession of Downing. street, its duty is obvious—immediate and careful legisla tion for Trish complaints ; certain and swift punishment for England and Ireland's disturbers. The Herald trusts that the researches which are now to be made, the reward - which has been offered, and the careful examination of the suspected criminals, will soon enable the Government to put its hand on this nest of murderers. Upon such men all sympathy will be thrown away. We will have no funeral processions to com memorate their fate. Our business is to crush the nest of vipers which has warmed itself at our bosc;m, which from a strange country has imported strange horrors, which, to win Ireland for the Irish or for the Irish- Americans, thinks nothing of putting London in mourning or laying England in ruins. Our Govern ment is fully awake at last to the gravity of the crisis. Fenianism has been dignified as patriotism, and depre cated as sedition. We know now that it is but another name for murder—wholesale murder. The demonstra tions which were to be made on Sunday in several towns of England and Ireland, in memory of the men who were so justly hanged at Manchester, were very properly forbidden by the authorities. No " funeral processions" took place at Liverpool or Leeds, at Killarney or at Cork. Though the news of the Clerkenwell outrage, if it had reached those towns, must have suggested a long train of such processions to come, we are charitable enough to these misguided sympathisers with a wicked cause to believe that the criraes of their leaders bad so filled them with horror that they shrank from a demon stration which would have implied their fellowship with assassins. While, says the Daily News, it is impossible to exag gerate in a political point of view the effect of the recent Fenian outrages, there is equally no question that they have a serious bearing upon trade'. Commerce can mpport and overcome many evils, bat poPular disturbance and uncertainty are drawbacks that in these days at least are not easily withstood. No one cares to buy or sell when the whole current of affairs may be suddenly altered by some unforeseen event against which it is im possible to provide. Probably the present agitators reckon upon such a result. They must have heard that trade is one of the vital sources of English prosperity, and may imagine that the more they can injure it the better for their cause. A series of movements that may reduce ball the factories in Lancashire to short time, and propor tionally diminish the iron acid coal supply, fOrm a desperate but an intelligible mode of warfare. It may be said that Fenian outbreaks are not likely to damage our internal trade to a very great extent, since there must always be a certain interchange of commodities. We wish but cannot believe it. Our foreign commerce, how ever, will chiefly suffer. The telegrams that by this time have conveyed the news of the Clerkenwell prison explo sion to nearly every country in the Old and New World will indirectly affect. the credit of even our most eminent Linkers and merchants in London. To a foreign mind the impression conveyed will be simply that there is ar end to English security. What may be the secret fancy of the Fenian chiefs in promoting these deeds is as the Standard says, difficult to surmise. If th e y thi n k to frighten the Government or the nation, they are, of course, simply demented ; if they think keep a " cause " alive by a series of dastardly murders, they mistake the times in which they live. This, however, is hardly the occasion for inquiring into their motives or hopes. It is a trite thing to say, but it is all that for the . moment can practically be said, that the vigi lance of the Execntive must, both for the sake of dispelling extravagant alarms, and for that of diminishing the public danger, be incessant ' • that the authorities must not shrink from their responsibilities ; that the law must make the, weight of its hand unmistakeably felt ; and that with the facts of these atrocities before us we cannot, in any fair. ness or in common sense, begrudge the Administration any discretion with which it may be constitutionally invested. The Government of England has a power and a meaning, and that power ought not to be brought into contempt, or that meaning misunderztood. Nor upon either point does our contemporary entertain the slightest fear. Is not, asks the Star, the calamity of last Friday one to give pause to all true and manly Irishmen who may have felt tempted to lend their countenance to agitation which begins by law-breaking? Is not any agitation accursed which developes such crimes ? Perhaps even Friday's horrors may not be without some com pensating result if they compel Irishmen in general to acknowledge that only in the path of peaceful progress can anything good for themselves or their country be obtained. For if Irish rebellion have really come to this if it is to be carried on by the murder of women and the mutilation of children, what Irishman is there with heart or brain who would not - declare himself for ever on the - side of law and order? Certainly, the pro cess of debasement, even in rebellion, must be Wonderfully rapid to-produce such results as these ! From Wolfe Tone, captured in honourable fight, sword in hand — from Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the chivalrous gentleman whom English statesmen lamented; nay, from Smith O'Brien and Meagher—what a di%tance must Irish rebellion have traversed to come down within so short a time to the mis creants of Friday's massacre ! Ireland is, indeed, just row to be pitied. If these are her friends, tell us who else, are not her enemies. We cannot but believe that this deed will produce a reaction and a revulsion in the feeling even of Irish rebels. It would be a sin against human nature to suppose that there can exist anywhere many creatures so.utterly. base and wicked as they who planned and they who perpetrated the crime ewer which now all England shudders. The fact of Dr. Kenealy having thrown up hi s b igot because he was not certain that Burke did not sympa thise with the Clerkenwell outrage, is commented upon by the Telegraph, which tells the learned counsel that he was in court as an advocate and not as a judge. Even supposing Burke's friends to Have been implicated, that was no reason for withholding legal service from Burke himself. Because a man's friends may have been suck villains as to blow down a house and kill several people, that is no reason why he should be refused the means of freeing Himself from a criminal charge on another and a totally diffe rent matter. But that is precisely what Dr. Kenealy did refuse, in so far forgetting the etiquette of hi s pro f ess i on as to withhold his legal assistance. Nay, not content with saying that he would not defend his client, he made a speech which was more damaging to his client than it would have been if he had been counsel for the prosecu tion. It is amazing that a man of Dr. Kenealy's ability and experience should have committed such a blunder, and equally amazing that he should have defended it on such arounas. - 71i , „r, LIER MAJESTY. WINISSOR CASTLE, Dec. 1 5 . The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, 1' cess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, cess Beatrice, and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig Holstein, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in WiLi i4 :, attended Divine service this morn i ng in the pri vet chapel. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster prea ch ed the sermon. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess NC': riette remained to luncheon with the Queen. tile Prince Christian honoured the officers Of Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards with his compa9J at dinner in the Sheet-street Barracks on Fri d3 / evening. liis Excellency the Turkish Ambassador An 3 At Mesalles. Musurus do not leave th e ir resideooo - Roehampton for town till about the middle of Febru ary ' when they will return to the Turkish Embassy for permanency. The Duke and .Duchess of Northumberland ill tend to leave Alawick Castle, their princely seat in t4e north, to-morrow, fo r Alb ur y P ar k, S urre y, where till purpose to pass the Christmas. Viscount and Viscountess Boyne, on lea town at the close of th e P ar li amen t ar y sess ion, went „ t a Brancopeth Castle, Durham, where the noble viseouut viscountess intend to pass the winter. p t Lord Eliot, M.P., left town on Saturday for -° Eliot, Cornwall. Lady Henrietta Allen and the Misses Allen had arrived at their residence in Chesham-stroet, from F l l 4 Castle, Perthshire. The Earl and Countess of Warwick and fAu lil 2; have arrived at Nice, where they intend to remain for t " - winter. The Earl and Countess Amherst and L/ clieg Amherst have left Montreal, the family seat near Sc ) f e-n' oaks, for the Continent, and intend to pass several 131 ° 13t1I ' l abroad. tbo The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury an d Ladies Ashley, who have been staying several days io P a h l on their way southward, were to leave the French caP a on Saturday for Nice, where they are expected to NO from six weeks to two months. - • . The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath arrllc,l in town on Friday from Chatsworth, whore they been visiting the Duke of Devonshire. CHARLES DICIMVS AT BOSTON. A Special Telegram, under date Boston, Pe cell , l .; ber 2, 1867, 11.30 o'clock p.m., to the New 3 1 ,. Herald, thus relates the first appearance of Dickens in the Tremont Temple at Boston, and t' complete success of his readings : Mr. Dickens's first reading took place this even' ing at Tremont Temple, according to announcesc ruent. It was a success in every possible resPe c lo pecuniarly, artistically, and fashionably. weather was just stormy and unpleasant enc ti e , out of doors to make almost any interior seem t o liciously liciously cosey, yet it was not stormy enong b or d frighten the ladies into those precautions in reg to dress that might have taken all the brillisecilo and colour out of the picture, So the TOP 0 bloomed freshly and richly in toilets, and must bav suited the most difficult taste by their very Yer ie. ,j The pieces read were a " Christmas Carol," the "Trial of Bardell versus Pickwick," from t "Pickwick Papers." They were read with ee° 6ll . lll n ; mate skill, and the effect in securing and earil l- 10 with the reader the sympathies of his hearers 1 beyond whatever the warmest admirers of 1 71 Dickens had conceived possible. The comPli nie i ti in applause was extravagant ; and this was a eas e po which extravagance in compliment was perhaP s . i t offence against taste, oven in the eyes of the is ' amiable of satirists. e 5 The scene outside was all animation. Carrier, o t began to arrive in profusion at a quarter P3slit seven o'clock, and a few minutes before e l k t. o'clock the human freight which they had broug,,i together with the pedestrian arrivals, had A ll t et nearly all the seats in the Temple. The ti f l ' e j office was then opened, and- some t en hu cu :, - c i tickets for standing room w er e qu i c kly disPGea of, the eager purchasers having p a tiently Nl 3iw o for the same fur an hour or more. At no time there any great crowd or confusion about the 11 . 1 . 1 Very few assembled who had not secured adreissi° before coming, and if there had been any mod erate rush of the curious they would have been out° ll l bered by the police, who were there in force to rel it any demonstration that an eager multitude Islig 4 have made. Indeed, when all were gathered two seated, awaiting the reader, the scene was 001 0 , which happy and expectant faces gave the pre. minant tone. All the world of literature, of faeh l° o t, and much also of the world of politics, were pre se i i, The Governor of Massachusetts stood for the tics, all the handsome ladies of the city presec . , re fashion in a most attractive mood, while literet;r, and science were represented by Agassiz, 'V b itt Longfellow, Lowell, and Holmes. „ fr About two thousand people were seated ttie ably in their places at eight o'clock awaiting a d coming of Mr. Dickens. The hall, a light - It pleasant one, was filled to its utmost capaei t l r ail is a ball that presents a very pleasant coup ;of when filled. The gallery, rising very grac e '' o cl from the further wall of the lower portion 500 giving a good distance from the very foot ° f vo g reader's desk to the limit of this distance, pia one delightful perspective of happy faces. Pr° ll3P l ,o at his Lour Mr. Dickens came. He was clad in A ► t- dress suit, with a white necktie, and wore kid g lo t he of a neutral tint. His head and face 0 10 ye p finger of Time in deepening lines and coming h e —for the colour has gone from the thin bear' b oi wears on his chin and from his moustache. 10 4 , be is bald on the top, and the hair remaining t o sides is brushed energetically forward, as i l show a spirit in what remains. He stepped lib eit cl• and quickly across the platform to the r ou t , ing desk, and his coming was the signal for an It burst of applause that lasted some momen ts ' 0 gained strength as it was kept up, and we°t ft of ° hand to mouth till from the ordinary e ve n t hee clapping hands it became quite an ovation Of c the subject taking it all with easy dignity. thiS From the reader's standpoint the sight pleasant reception must have been very agr e l'or So soon as the pleasant little storm of c`c,,eilt ing applause had passed away, Mr. Dickens 1. o ro rapidly forward with his reading. Both Pie e , es tf of highly dramatic in dialogue, with great Yar' e ,, - ;ce• character, the " Christmas Carol" the more 14 0 tt ably so of the two. All listeners Vr e get moment in the very presence of Old S i9 j o lll of his patient, light-hearted clerk, the so d Nephew, the ghost of Marley, Tiny Tirt ao f , rho Conversational Boy under the W m 00 3 It is hardly correct to say that Mr. Dicken,,' as this story. He told it—he told the story' o , c lot e ' common-place persons will tell any little all 7 t oe giving, with more or less success, the air en " 0 ; e tba t of such speaker as they may introduce, , hi° Mr. Dickens presented the individuality °` 011 011 speakers with such well-defined lines, w it " 1, thed vivid conception of the identity of each that e ter n became real—and no one of his dozen charncoa• following closely through the hour beea rlie t air' fused with another. Each had a differellaiffe' and many a different tone of voice, 3 orb ° rent face, so that the recognition of 00 3 5 was speaking in the story was as read!' 3 The easy as if each had walked on in thepero reader was frequently interruptal by e plause and centinued laughter of the audiene when, in the Pickwick trial, he came where the clerk calls " The next witness' Weller," the very name of this favourite bre"ose• e b ° genial recognition from every hand in th t one To our thinking, all the persons in Treto° ll or e ud , pie, through the whole reading and at its e 0 01 W l° of as full as possible of merriment and god , lag keen for the most dainty jest or lightest 00 • of spoo r r. word, and fairly bubbling with the spin ,bte • hit* o• taneous, general, contagious, epidemic ~e 0 ti lt to tha2;ool Happier men or more delighted women, t aj ' .. N O, gether, could not be found in all the valle3Tlgotoo or cities, lying between Richmond -bill and gage Tb prem. At Pany of 5 Prc receiv Week of tra farthe ev er, 4 Leeds, little c 'railed trad es been , tricts 1 ton th suitab: Year. Railro able in ne x t . At t Way C stat e d th e ext / ernnii tion, divic ta.l o f . The d e ffect I Penses means gradu a k ay, ternizu e al the as Year, t • _ kent c shar e h ( th at da Whi ch i venu( the lin, PaYlzei abo ve, of re ve , t ip the alzotiet r eserve c ' t her c( The ] and l ast T hy qt Syd ney ; 44 Di lane I °Pe : a At tt ~e rate t grow n , kilt _ co w heat, , itl o ma F 1 ,„ cot , rleh Th e Is eat t or , " evr 52 4 Th" 211 w ; sa' lod. -8 . to Po' reic khi l 4 t ) : e Itt• 111 I h., th Ett. A. 4ed I In be a curre Tit with also a is not ,Ati have