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GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this worm ,Hui 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. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. _ _ Red Bnll Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street T•ondon. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL., DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and 3lanager, Mr. F.D. ChattArton. THIS EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: or, OLD MOTHER BUNCH: Misses Jessie Vokes, Victoria Vokes, Rosina, yokes, Kate Santley, Hudspeth. and - Harriet Coveney: Messrs. Fred. Vokes, Rrittain Wright, W. F. Vokes, F. Moreland, Rowella, and Harry Boleno. - 14 E ATR 14: ROYAL, HA Y RKE T. )rr. - Rnekstnne. TTIP3 E77.7.cTN'IN. r. 7 0-TYPRXTIVE MOVEMENT. Followed by, at 20 to R. the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : sfr Tillokstono., Mr Chippendale, Mr Log'ers Mr. Mr Buol<stone, on.; Miss Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss r. Hi! Att.r which 'ME ONE WITT' THE GOLDEN Jry7KS : 11" r A. Wood, Miss F. Wright Miss F. G . wynne Miss Francis, Miss Murray. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. T HE ATRE ROYAL, ADEL HI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, THE LONG STRI iMr Benjamin Webster; Messrs A. Stirling, George Belmore kins, W. ilignold, Miss Furtado, &c. conclude with LOST AT SEA: Mr G. Belmore, Mr A. Stirling, Mr Atkins, Mr W. Rignold, Mr C. H. Stephenson, Miss Furtado, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Miss Lennox Grey. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees 1 bookin planes can be secured a fortni g h t i n advance.: g HOLBORN THEATRE-R_OYAL. Sole T,essee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. Fifth Week of " Love's Sacrifice." THIS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, the laughable Farce of THE BATH ROAD. At 7. 4 5, Lovell's celebrated Play (in five nets), of LOVE's SACRIFICE; Mr Barry Sullivan ; Messrs. 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To the Committee of the Six Associated Australian Bauks, as Agents for the Government of Victoria. Gentlemen,— hereby tender for (the amount also in words), Debentures of the Victorian Government, according to the annexed notice of the 3d instant, on which have paid the required de posit of £ and undertake to pay £ (the amount also in words) for every £lOO in Debentures, and to accept the same or any less amount that may be allotted to , and to pay for them in conformity with the terms of the said Notice. Name Address Date January, 1870. TII EATRE - ROYAL D RORY- L ANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING. at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, BEAUTY AND TIIE BEAST Messrs. Fred. Vokes, Brittain Wright, Harry Boleno, &c.; Misses Vokes, Harriet Coveney, Kate Santley, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Tuts EVENING, at 7 o'clock, A CO-OPERATIVE MOVE MENT. After which, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES; Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale. Miss Robertson, &e. Concluding with THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS: Mr. A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE LONG STRIKE: Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr A. Stirling, Mr George Belmore, Mr Atkins, Mr It ignold bli,s Furtado, &e. Followed by LOST AT SEA : llr G. tlelmore, Mr A. Stirling, Mr Atkins, Mr W. Rignold, Mr C. 11. Stephenson, Miss Furtado, and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVENING, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD FAIRY. At 7.'5, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr 11. J. Byron. And LORD BATE3IAN : Miss Fanny Joseph; _Mr J. Clarke, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE BATH ROAD. At 7.45, LOVE'S SACRIFICE: ➢lr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Bermann Vezin, And STATE SECRETS. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Tnrs EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG TETE BREAKERS: Mr aarke. With THE TOODLES. And INO. Concluding with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. - ZOOLOGICAL G A.F . tDENS, Regert's-pack, OPEN daily (ex. cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children tinder twelve. 6d. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office o pen fromll to 4. F -o • • Abl DA, • LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 1, 1870. 'Mere is now Some prospect that the !‘ Contagiotie Diseases Act" will receive a degree of public atten tion somewhat in proportion to the importance of the question with which it deals. The nature of the subject makes it unsuitable for discussion, and ad vantage has been taken of this circumstance to pass a measure which is repugnant to the moral sense of the community. However disagreeable:the topic may be, it is now become necessary for the public to make them selves acquainted with the facts of the case. A. few strong-minded men have carried a bill through th House of Commons by the very simple expedient getting a committee, calling before that committee only persons who were favourable to their views, and then publishing the conclusions so arrived at as the result of a full consideration and di: • cussion of the question. But this full consideration and discussion has yet to come. The principle of the Contagious Diseases Act is one so absolutely un just and degrading to women that, even if it were expedient, it would be impossible to advocate its adoption. But so far from the measures co:tem plated by the Act being expedient, we find that simi lar action in other countries has entirely failed to produce those results which, we are confi dently told, will follow its adoption in this country. It is notorious that disease has not been eradicated in Paris, although far more stringent measures have long been adopted there than will ever be possible in ,Etigiand. Bur, unwise and unjust is are the measures which are now being taken in reference to the vice of prostitution, they aro almost harmless compared with the principles which are often enunciated in their advocacy. The Act proceeds upon the principle that the wrong-doer ought to receive all the assistance which the Government can afford to secure him from inconvenience, and to provide him with victims. Against QM; 2.3. 7 iLLOVA_Pil_u.§_t_.PrgtOt _theMSelYeS.._and for °trier messes women must do the best they can. If the honest, hard-working servant girl gets the house maid's knee from constant scrubbing, she must cure herself, but if a girl contracts a disease from the practice of immorality she is to be provided for and cured at the national cost. A splendid hospital must be built for her reception, and doctors, chaplains, matrons, and a whole relay of servants are placed at her disposal. When she leaves, a certificate is given to her to the effect that she is fitted to pursue her vile calling. This certificate is as delusive in a physical sense as it is dangerous and degrading in a moral point of view. The sin is one which can never be made "safe," and even if it could, it ought never to receive the semblance of a sanction. The doctrine that the Government have nothing to do with moral considerations, and must regard only the physical health of the community, we utterly repudiate. But from a purely physical point of view it would be the greatest possible mistake to hold forth the idea of "safety" where safety cannot be obtained. The delusive idea of security has led numerous victims to ruin and destruction. Many young men have found out to their cost that the " system " adopted in Paris is literally a delusion and a snare. It must not, however, be supposed that the Govern ment have no duties to perform in reference to this sub ject. Their duty is very clear and very imperative. A. certain contagious disease is devastating our army and spreading amongst the civil population. Measures can bo and should be taken to arrest its progress ; but these measures must be repressive, not regulatory. There is no country in the world where prostitution and brothel keepirig are allowed to be so rampant as in this country, and the Government will fail of their duty if they do not arm the police with additional powers ; and in like manner all local authorities will fail of their duty if they do not more vigorously exercise the powers which they already possess for the repression of prostitution. There is novice more readily checked ; it is always practised precisely in proportion as latitude is allowed for its exercise. The supposed difficulties in the way of preventing women from selling themselves in the streets have no foundation in fact. Wherever the authorities of any town, supported by public opinion, act with vigour, there public prostitution can be re stricted. We are not of the number of those who suppose that the liberty of the subject will be in fringed if the police take action in this matter. At best, policemen are necessary evils, but in this case they certainly are necessary. It answers the purpose of those interested in the traffic to make a good deal of a case where an honest woman may have been annoyed by the police, but where there is one case of this kind there are twenty cases of honest women annoyed by ruffians of both sexes, froM whom the police should protect them. So common is pros titution, that honest girls are frequently pursued as prostitutes in sheer mistake, and very recently a case came under our notice where a respectable servant was followed and so seriously alarmed that she has never recovered from the fright, and has lost both her health and her situation. In cases of this kind, girls can rarely obtain . any redress, and a sense of shame often keeps them from making any reference to the circumstance. They are, therefore, far more numerous than is generally supposed. Mr. Gladstone tells us that the object of legislation should Ae te . Make':it as, „eaBY as possible to go right, and as difficuir irfibosible to do wrong. We have reversed this principle in, refe. ronee to prostitution, and we cannot .DOWPATQ49 our steps. _ . . The subject is one which cannot - be" A1.1:1 Oustie,d in the columns-oi a newspaper where it impossible to give all the details and explanationji which are necessary to confirm our statementi, it also requires much fuller treatment than has ye( been given to it In pny publicatlons e whig h. Art yvq able to the public, but we have Miceli '.tleailife calling attention to a pamphlet s r ecently Written' by F. W. NEwmear entitled. 1 4 the? Cure of ' - tie" Great Social Evil,". which . Containi much valuable intor. • • mation anti, bound reasoning upoA tl4ll IRlkatalit Question,/ "The GAVROCHE party." What is the GAVIWCHE party ? This is a question which very deeply concerns M. OLLIVIER to have answered. Mr. BLANCHARD JERROLD has given the answer in a book which Mr. HoTTEN has just published. Tho author gives no definition of his term. It is not to be found in ordinary dictionaries ; yet it has a very real and very formidable existence. It is the party in Paris which believes in nothing except itself— which begins with a sneer, passes on to a bitter sar casm and a cruel jest, progresses further downwards to a general onslaught on all institutions, human and Divine, and ends in a battle at the barricades and a Red Republic. No, it does not end there. It is found so intolerable that some "Saviour of Society" is necessary in order to rescue society from its own folly. He saves with the cannon and the bayonet— a sharp remedy, yet not quite so bad as the disease. Mr. JERROLD has described the rapid progress of this party in a series of letters extending from March 1868 to November 1869. Unfortunately, Nonditin estfin's. He does not know, we do not know, what the end will be; but he, at all events, fears a tragic end. The development of this madcap spirit has been most formidably rapid. Is there any stratagem in the liberty which has been given to this develop ment ! The latest hero of the GAVROCHE party, M. FELIX PYAT, is ready himself, and has induced thousands of Parisians to be ready to "pull down the entire fabric of 'society, that they may share the coins in the cavity of the foundation stone." Thereby they are "putting the liberties of the people in jeopardy." Tho question is, if this be not part of a concerted plan by that sovereign who is supposed • to have got up the riots of last summer, who is thought by many persons to be a very 11Inc cniAVELLI. We cannot say. We only notice the fact. We only listen to the ravings of PYAT and the Hooos, and to the frantic shouts of approbation which greet their wildest, maddest outbursts, and say if this be impe rial sport it is rather too much like playing with gun powder to be pleasant to the onlookers. First among the satirical writers of the Second Empire is HENRI ROCHEFORT. His weapon is cold and glittering. He is pitiless and plain-spoken. He conveys to his reader his own sense of enjoyment when he is using:the scalping-knife. " The mocker revels in phrases that degrade the diplomatic uniform to the footman's plush, and humble the princess to the chffoniere. He delights to pin a ridiculous some thing upon a man's coat ; to stab with a mot; to strip artfully-clothed deeds and things, and discover the mean motive of that which the blind world has agreed to call a noble action." His little weekly pamphlet in a red cover became the chief event in Paris. It sold to such an extent that in a few weeks the three proprietors were able to divide nearly £O,OOO profit between them. Tho wit was the most polished, as well as of j the keenest sort. There was no invective; there was endless epigram. Laughter in France is fatal; and so in order that the dynasty might n be ex ting—ished La Lanterns was. Nay, not extin guished, but hid under a bushel, and surreptitiously lighted when messieurs the poli!e wore not by to see. The author thereof was condemned to a fine of £4OO, and six months' imprisonment. He paid neither penalty. A few months later we see him laughing at the sentence, and those that pronounced it, and offering himself, and becoming a candidate for ; the Legislative Body. Mr. JERROLD is severe upon the miserable figure cut by the brilliant writer when he came to speak, and most of all upon the servility which he displayed towards his liege lord King Mob. Ro cm:Fowl' has started a new daily paper of his own, with the significant title of La Afarseillaise. " With a daily paper to direct and provide with lampoons ; and a sovereign people to serve—taking his MAJESTY'S orders weekly from a Throne to be paid for out of his own pocket—ROCIIEFORT'S work is cut out largely for him. His reward will be the unbounded ingratitude of his masters. He may die Grand Cross of the Inestimable Order of the Sabot, and be honoured with a ' secular funeral,' but if he should live the allotted am of Immaalife.his shoutinsr A constituents of to-day who shall have sintived thbiis political messenger will be impatient with their even ing paper for writing a paragraph upon him. He will have been long ago ` Embalmed in hato, and canonized by scorn." A melancholy prophecy; but likely pough to be realised, for Paris has already got sated with the daintily served dishes of M. ROCHEFORT. Pungent though they were they now seem tasteless. Vinegar and cayenne must give place to grains of paradise and oil of vitriol. Epigrams about the excellent monarch NAPOLEON the Second, whose innocuous reign France remembers so gratefully, have been succeeded by wild denunciations of property and government. When ROCHEFORT made his elocutionary fiasco, his friends apologised for him, saying that even ROBESPIERRE failed at first. The ROBESPIERRE of to-day, M. FELIX PYAT, shews no signs of failure. He is fluent enough, fervid enough, Red enough ; yes, let us not mince words, bloody enough to shew that Mr. CARLYLE'S "sea-green incorruptible," has left a successor who has no need to serve any apprentice ship to the trade of Revolution plus the Guillotine. There are some people whom PYAT would save from the guillotine. BEREZOIVSKI, who shot at ALEXANDER and NAPOLEON, JUAREZ who killed MAXIMILIAN, the Manchester Fenians who murdered Sergeant BRETT, O'FARRELL, who all but murdered Prince ALFRED. Those whom he would bring to the knife are " the night-man of December," called NAPOLEON and "the Parliamentary Opposition, who have steadily advanced Imperial institutions to a degree of liberty that tolerates language which would land an Eng lishman in Newgate." All programmes—allreforms. are contained in this one word—Revolution. Says Mr. JERROLD, " Citizen PYAT is the EMPEROR'S best friend It is the men who have served him who have been his bitterest enemies." We believe it well. It is these most unfaithful of counsellors who have con verted the ruler of France—the man who, be his faults what they may, has done much to promote the material prosperity of France—into the man of all others detested by France, so hated that, when a few weeks ago, he lay sorely sick and like to die,:news paper editors danced on his sick bed, were bitterly inhuman, analysed with hilarity his death-sweat, banqueted on a couch of pain, and, with finger on his pulse, shouted in his ear with glee that in a few days he would be carrion. Had France been only free all these years, the sorry spec tacle would not have been seen. And now it seems as if, when freedom is once more offered, there is no room for it, no wish for it, but only an insane cry of "Overturn, overturn, overturn." It is not only the Bourbons, but the French people also, who have " learnt nothing and forgotten nothing." The touting practice amongst 'soi=disant sawyers has become such an evil at the metropolitan police court, Worship-street, that the magistrates have had to issue a notice, stating that only barrister; attorney; or solicitors will be allowed to practise in the court. An exception is made in favour of articled clerks, whose principals are un avoidably absent. A coloured man named John Codrington, was charged at the Birkenhead Police-court on , Saturday, with having caused the death of his wife. The poor woman was found by a policemen lying in the street, and she had been brutally kicked by the prisoner who was standing near. She was removed to the hospital, but died directly. Prisoner was remanded. , It is stated on "good authority" that the Princo of Wales intends shortly visiting Lord Fitzhardinge, at Berkeley Castle, for several days, during which ho will shoot with the noble owner over the extensive Berkeley estates, which now abound with game, and will also hunt with the Fitzhardingo splendid pack of foxhounds during his stay. On the 6th of this month, and thenceforward, the postage on letters posted in the United Kingdom ad dressed to any part of Canada, Nova Scotia, or New Brunswick, will be reduced to threepence per half ounce or fraction thereof, when cenveyod by direct packet or private ship, and to fourpence per half ounce or fraction thereof, when sent vid the United States. The Western Mail states that the promoters of the scheme for tunnelling the Severn at Portskewit, consider ing the geological difficulties that might be involved in the carrying out of the project, and calculating the finan cial consequences of complying with the new standing order of the House rf Lords, have resolved not to proceed with their bill. Lord Camperdown arid the other Royal Commis sioners appointed to inquire into the whole system of civil administration in Scotland, accompanied by Mr. Vernon Broughton, the secretary of the commission, left London this morning for the Doug'as Hotel, Edinburgh, where the inquiry will be conducted. The commission held a sitting at the Treasury on Saturday, when Mr. Craufurd, M.P., was exranined. A deplorable accident happened in Breck-road, Everton, on Saturday afternoon. Two horses and a cart wore left without anyone in charge, the animals took fright ; dashed through a crowd of children who were watching a drunken man, and five of the children were seriously injured, some of them, it is feared, fatally. The carter, a man named Glover, who had gone into a public-house, was taken into custody. There can be now no doubt whatever as to the reforms which Mr. Cardwell proposes to effect in the Volun teer force. The suggestions he has made are no longer to be regarded as mere casual hints, as some of our contem praries thought, for Lord Ranelagh announces that he has obtained from the War Office a copy of the proposed altera tions in the Volunteer system, and will be happy to submit them for the consideration and opinion of such metropolitan or other commanding officers as will do him the favour to meet him. The magistracy seems to be obtaining an unwel come notoriety. Two have, within a few days, been re moved from the Commission of the Peace forintemperatelan guage, and now another is the subject of public comment by reason of abusive speaking and attempted assault. Lieut.- Colonel Hunter, a mag'strate for the County of Montgo mery, was on Saturday charged at the Petty Sessions of Llanidnois with assaulting the town magistrate's clerk. The case was settled privately. It was understood both the plaintiff and defendant were bound over to keep the peace, each in £lOO. The Pope officiated on Christmas-day in St. Peter's. The ceremony was a magnificent one, but the procession of bishops was omitted, as too long for the Pope, who suffers severely from sickness. Among the archbishops assisting was Mgr. Manning. The crowd of visitors was immense, and the coup d'cril of the sanctuary, with 750 bishops robed in silver copes and mitres, and backed by the heavy crimson velvet draperies of the royal and diplomatic galleries, with their galaxy of brilliant uniforms and royal and princely ladies, offered a most picturesque spectacle. At the Sheffield Town Hall, on Saturday, Mr, Edwin Cadman, of West Bourne House, was charged with having stolen some stationery from a shop kept by a widow, named E. Matthews. The defendant occupies a high position in society, and is the reputed heir to a peer age. Prosecutor said that whilst defendant was in her shop buying some cards fJr the season, he contrived to secrete a number in his sleeve, which he afterwards dropped in the fire when accused. A witness corroborated this. Mr. Cadman's solicitor asked for a remand, which was granted, the prisoner entering into his own recog nisances far £lOO. The prisoner was recently respondent in the Divorce Court, the charge against him being adultery and cruelty. The mortal remains of the late Mr. Thomas Cres wick, RA., were consigned to their last resting place in Kensal-green Cemetery this afternoon. The funeral was one of the most unostentatious character, and the coffin plate bore the simple inscription—" Thomas Creswick, Esq., R.A., died December 28, 1669, aged fifty-eight years." Amongst the mourners were Mr. R. Ansdell, A.R.A. ; Mr. IL 0, Neill, A.R.A.; Mr C. Sylvester, R.A.; Mr. W. P. Frith, R.A. ; Mr. G. Fulford, R.A. ; Mr 0. Smith. At the grave were Mr. Mark Lemon, Mr. Topham R.A., &c. Mr. Elmore, R.A., intended following the cortege, but was seized with ,an attack of sciatica, which rendered him unable to do so. The funeral took place amidst a shower of drizzling rain; the Rev. Mr. Stuart, chaplain to the Cemetery, being the officiating clergyman. On Saturday a married woman named Anne Philipson, living at Whittle-10-Woods, near Chorley, was found burnt to death. On Friday night she and her hus band called at the house of a married daughter. The hus band left his wife and went to a relative's named Crook, who lived near, and remained there the whole of the night. His wife called at a public-house and had some ale, and it has not been ascertained that she was again seen alive; but her daughter states that she was then far gone in drink. The husband went home at seven o'clock on Saturday morning, and was horrified at finding his wife on the kitchen floor near the fire-place, and burnt to death in a most shocking manner. Her body presented a fearful spectacle, the lower portion of her clothing being burnt away. A candlestick was on the table, and the candle was burnt away ; but there is no mckng of Ip9wipg how the ontva ono t 9 bs tnitt FALSE DIXI RI ES; V i ee are not (d4pl the Atanchostet auaraian) among those who attach a superstitious value to a university degree, but in England, at least, men are in the habit of assum ing certain antecedent conditions to such a combina tion of letters as MA., LL.D., and so on. The Ger man receipt for turning out doctors has been often enough exposed, but not, it would seem, with effect. We cut the following from a journal of high standing : "Degrees :—M.A., Ph.D. &c. in absentia.—Qualified gen tlemen desirous of proceeding to the following honorary degrees, BA., M.A., Ph.D., Ph.B., LL.B., LL.D., D.D., M.D. receive official instruction and advice, without charge by writing to * * N.B.—These degrees and diplomas are guaranteed bond fide, and they are issued by colleges and universities empowered by charter to grant the same. Only the applications of Authors and other decidedly qualified candidates will be replied to. Unqualified men and " busybodies " need not trouble themselves to write, and their personal application will not be attended to." There is something infinitely cool in that " N. 8." to "unqualified men "and " busybodies." In the nature of things, "unqualified men " and " busy bodies" can be the only persons for whom such an advertisement can have any interest whatsoever. There is, we fear, a steady growth of this form of doing things by false pretences. It is something for a clergy man or a schoolmaster to be able to write M.A. or LL.D. or D.D. after his name, and we are sorry to say that the thing is sometimes done under circumstancos which would hardly bear investigation. The clergy sin especially in this re spect. A degree is an affair of some importance to them, and, too often, without troubling themselves to secure even the seeming basis of fact which a few obscure foreign universities place within their reach, they do not hesitate to label themselves in the reading desk and at the altar with (so to speak) a forged trade mark. We have seen a St. Bees man clothe himself in the scarlet glories of a doctor's hood, and it is notorious that when non-university men take to this kind of thing they prefer a fine bright colour. The Cambridge M.A. hood is much more safefrom desecration of this sort than the corresponding Oxford badge. Indeed, we remember with what bitterness of soul an Oxford man once appealed to literates and men ordained from theological colleges to turn their attention now and then to Cambridge. But the white silk is less brilliant than the red, and Oxford, we fear, has been, and continues to be, grievously wronged in this respect. Has a literate ever been detected wearing the blue—a very honourable distinction, by the way—of Trinity College, Dublin, or the lilac of Durham ? THE INSTALLATION OF IRISH MAYORS Mr. William Hegarty was installed as Mayor of Cork on Saturday, this being his second year of office, and received the thanks of the Council for his conduct during the past year. The ceremony was conducted with business-like brevity on all sides, and occupied only a few minutes; but at its conclusion, Alderman O'Sullivan, ex-mayor, to the surprise of most persons present, insisted on explaining the motives which had induced him to resign the office last year, as he phrased it, "to make a great act of justice." The gist of his statement was that feeling the fate of the Ministry depended on the result, he, acting under the advice of his friends, sacrificed himself to keep the Government in power. " If I," he said, " had continued as Mayor of Cork, and opposed the Dis ability Bill brought in against me, the chances are the Gladstone Government would have been shattered, and Disraeli now in power. We have passed through times of great excitement, and I now ask any good Irishman whe ther he would wish for the interest of this country that Mr Disraeli and the Tory party of Ireland should be at the head of affairs in this country. I made a great sacrifice, but I believe it will still turn out for the best for the in terests of this country." The installation of the Mayor of Limerick, Mr. Spil lane, was marked by a curious scene. The outgoing mayor, Mr. Boyce, who does not seem to enjoy much popularity with the democratic and "national " sec tion of the community, had stationed a strong force of police at the entrance to the Council Chamber, with orders to keep out the mob. Against this proceed ing Mr. Ambrose Hall, and other members of the Council, protested in terms more forcible than complimen tary to his worship, of whom Mr, Hall spoke as "that man who calls himself Mayor of Limerick ;" and Mr. Boyce, in turn, sent for the head constable to put Mr. Hall out of the chamber. The dispute was arranged without recourse to so extreme a measure, and as soon as Mr. Spillane had been invested with the insignia of office, Mr. Hall called on him to order the "public" to be admitted to the chamber and have the policemen turned out. Mr. Spillane gave the requisite order as regards the "public," and the mob flocked into the chamber with noisy demon strations of delight at their victory over the unpopular ex-chief magistrate. The rest of the proceedings were rather turbulent. An amusing incident cropped up in the installation of Alderman Kenny as mayor of Clonmel. During the pro ceedings a councillor asked the ex-mayor whether it was true that two of the town sergeants bad been arrested by a military picket as Fenian emissaries a few nights before, and his worship replied that it was. It appears that the ex-mayor has a luxuriant turnip field close to the walls of the military barracks, and having suffered from depredations lately, he availed himself of his authority as mayor, and set the two town sergeants to watch the field. They were observed from the barrack wall prowling about, in what seemed to the sentries a suspicious manner, and a picket was despatched to capture them. The surprise was cleverly effected, and the sergeants, notwithstanding vociferous assertions of their innocence, were detained in the guardroom for the night. In the morning they were brought before a civil magistrate, when explanations were given, and the men liberated. Alderman Kenny, in returning thanks for his election, made rather a "national" speech, ridiculing the formation of flying columns in the country, and, alluding to the late election, said he hoped when they had to return a member again they would not have to apply to a Dublin barrister. The Pall 211 - all Gazette contradicts the report that a coastguard cruiser, supposed to be the Fanny, had been lost near Cape Clear. The Admiralty have every reason to believe that the vessel lost in that neighbourhood was a small smack, taken up on freight, with Government stores on board. Marlborough College (says the Medical Times and Gazette) has set the example of introducing the study of physiology into our public schools. As all teaching to be effective must be tested by examination, the class of phy siology at Marlborough College has just been examined. Dr. Burney Yeo, of King's College, was the examiner. No fewer than fifty-two boys sent in answers. MORE SHOOTING IN IRELAND. — Mr. Crotty, a farmer, was shot on Saturday night, near Ballincove, county Mayo, while returning on a car from the fair at Westport, and near his own house. Some of his hair wts shot off the crown of his head, and the crown of his hat blown away. The assassin, who was inside a hedge, walked coolly away. Another man is reported to have been shot near Crossmolins, in the same county. BEVERAGES FOR SICK SOLDIERS.—The Secretary of State for War has approved of soda-water being issued to patients in army hospitals, in cases where the issue is specially approved by the principal, or, in his absence, the senior medical officer of the command. The issue of bottled lemonade is prohibited. When fresh lemons cannot be obtained, lemonade is to be prepared from lime-juice, in. the proportion of two ounces of the juice to one pint of the beverage. AN OFFICIAL LNSPECTION OF THE SUEZ CANAL.-- Captain Richards, R.N., the hydrographer (who is not, rumours to the contrary notwithstanding, going to resign his place), will leave the Admiralty this week for Egypt, for the purpose of thoroughly inspecting the Suez Canal, and reporting to their lordships his opinion upon the practicability of despatching vessels of war by the new route ; but the gallant officer will not confine his observa tions to this solitary subject, but will take an enlarged view of the probable uses to which M. de Lesseps' under taking can be turned. - - - TIIE YORICSIIIRE COAL MINERS.•-011 Monday a meeting of five or or six hundred miners, who represented three thousand men employed in the Leeds and Wakefield district, was held at Castloford, in the Mechanics' Hall, to discuss the advisability of soliciting from the employers an advance of 7 per cent. in the present rate of wages. A resolution was passed, asking the employers in mode rate t erms, to restore the men to the position they occu pied before 1358. Deputations were appointed to wait upon the employers. THE ADMINISTRATION OF TIIE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.—The Secretary of State for War has issued an order, under the powers of the Contagious Diseases Act, which was formally served upon the police magis trate at Woolwich, on Monday. The order provides that a complete register shall be kept by the police in the dis tricts to which the Act applies of all the women residing therein who come within its provisions, and that these women are to be urged to sign a form of voluntary sub mission to medical inspection, being informed of the penal consequences which may follow their refusal. If they decline to do this the police will then summon them to appear before the magistrate, to have an order made against them under the 4th section_ of the amended Aot of nev, PROFESSOR TYNDALL TO THE CHILDREN. Professor John Tyndall, F.R.S., delivered the third of his series of lectures to children upon " Light," at the Royal Institution on Saturday. He began by proving, by the aicl t of simple experiments, that light travels in stiaight lines. He proceeded to .... „:Ocplain the action of double-convex lenses upon. rays of light. He bril• liantly illuminated the face of a boy with a parallel beam from the electric lamp, and 9iefi he threw a large image of the boy's face upon the screen by means of a lens. Hs explained the principles governing the construction of the magic lantern. First, a bri:liani source of light is necessary, and in front of it, between the light and the slide, it is necessary to place a double convex lens, somewhat larger in diameter than the glass picture, and of great curvature—two piano-convex lenses mounted close together, with their convex surfaces next each other, answer better than a double convex lens. The object of the lens between the light and the slide is simply to strongly illuminate the picture. A double convex lens mounted in front of the picture is then all that is ne• ce3sary to throw an enlarged image of the painting upon the screen. The lenses are mounted in tubes, and the light is enclosed in a lantern, in order to keep the room in darkness. In this way a home-made magic :lantern may be very easily and cheaply constructed. LORD CAMPBELL UPON LIFE PEERAGES. Lord Campbell and Stratheden has been discoursing to the Liberals of Harwich on life peerages. He said that the project of life peerages had been rejected as entirely inadequate. It had been rejected because it was thought likely to disturb the House of Lords rather than re form it. At the outside it would enable legal digni taries to escape what they sometimes regarded as the burden of an hereditary peerage. Imperfect as it was, he (Lord Campbell) had supported it. It had brought the whole question of the House of Lords under parliamentary discussion. The mind of that House had been awakened to a kind of self-examination. Unless the topic was stirred again next session, the opening would be closed. and self-complacent indolence would again present a rigid front to every invader. If they desired change to be effected in that House, it was essential to follow up the blow which had been given. Anyone might ask, however. " Why should it be altered?" and to that question, as a person intimately versed in its pro ceedings, he should not hesitate to answer. His lordship, having admitted the great merits which the House of Lords displayed in the late debates on the Irish Church, went on to remark that the assemblage consisted of about 450. From circumstances which, as he should afterwards explain, involved no great reproach, 400 were habitually absent, and the remaining 50 conducted the business and debates. The 50, however, could not all be present on every occasion. Their number was frequently reduced, and important motions come on before 20 and 30. By a law well known to men of parlia mentary experience, the dullness of proceedings increased with the paucity of numbers. Those who came,finding the fatigue they suffered insupportable, were less apt to come again, and so the inanition was continually increasing. No doubt, on critical occasions, the 400 went to London in a body, and then the House assumed a very different aspect. But whenever this occurred another class of evils rose to activity. The House, according to its standing orders, had not any functionary appointed for the mainte nance of order. They overlooked what, all over the world, in this country, in America, and in Australia, the Anglo-Saxon race acknowledge as the first necessity of an assembly met together to debate and determine. If violence occurred, no one was under and obligation to rebuke it; if usages were trampled under foot, no one had the least authority to vindicate them. If a dozen members rose at once—and in the late debates they often did so—clamour only settled a priority. No one had disputed the anomaly, no one had defended, and no one could reform it. Committees had sat in vain to intimate a remedy. The principle which he submitted, with fearless confidence to them and every man in the com munity, was that if superstition, torpor, or decrepi tude rendered an assembly incapable of those internal changes which its dignity required, external change was necessary to enforce them. If in point of numbers an assembly fell below the necessary standard of efficiency, external change was necessary to invigorate it. It was no disparagement to 50 men, however able, sensible, and business-like, to regard them as unequal to the vast responsibility of balancing the other House of Parliament. But in point of fact the two defects were entertwined 'with one another. Men of judgment and experience—and they were frequent !.n that House—would not habitually attend a body which had not any functionary to • control it. Some would be inclined to ask what plan ought to be adopted, and that question must be answered by the gifted persons to whom political employment had been given in the country. He had formed his own ideas as to a change, but did not think it prudent to disclose them. In the meanwhile he should support any proposi tion, from whatever quarter it might come, which would .nsure an efficient Speaker on the woolsack, and a working audience of a hundred. But although it was lot possible to say what exact scheme ought to be fol .owed, he would suggest the steps to be adopted if any good was ever to be done upon the subject. It was essential that the Liberal Associations of the country should declare themselves. The question could only be initiated, or, as it was initiated, rather advanced in the House of Lords; and no one could encounter the lethargic, superstitious, indolent resistance it would meet with in some quarters unless a strong opinion out of doors were ready to assist him. On the other hand, there were, no doubt in that House, the elements of acqui escence and of sympathy. A large number of the Opposi tion were inclined to go with Lord Salisbury upon this as upon other subjects. The Government, having supported the recent measure on life peerage, were bound to listen to proposals for effecting the result which that unsatis factory suggestien had arpired to. There remained another element of sympathy which was easily apparent to those who mingled in the body. The men who influenced pro :eedings, and attended at debates, had nearly all been educated in the other House of Parliament. They cast nany "lingering, longing looks behind" upon the !radio they had quitted. They often pined for its genial warmth, its animation, its vicissitudes, its num bers, and its movements; they were apt to quote its pre cedents, and even reasoned from its usages. They had not therefore, much alacrity for wholesale vindication of a plane in which their faculty and industry were frequently suspended. If the defence of Babylon had been imposed apon the exiles of Jerusalem, a more reluctant garrison ould not have been summoned to exert itself. At the lame time there might, no doubt, be party battles on the .object. On no other ground had he presented it as dis tinguished from other topics to their notice. But the party might act upon the sense an ancient line had con veyed—" Let us become the men by whom our early dangers were encountered.' At the commencement of the next financial year three of the foremen in Chatham Dockyard will be super annuated, with a view to reduce the staff, ten years being added to the service of these officers to increase the amount of their pensions. • The question was recently propounded in a Sunday school—rather an odd question for such a place—how we know that it was intended a man should have but one w ife. " Because," promptly answered a little girl, "it says In the Bible that no man can serve two masters." EXTRAORDINARY ANECDOTE.—The Rev. H. Ward Beecher,in a sermon preached at Boston (U.S.), onthe 19th tat., said :—" Men got the notion that they had committed the sin against the Holy Ghost, very often as the result of bodily weakness operating upon the mind. It assumed then the form of a religious melancholy or insanity; but when men had any anxiety at all about it, it shewed that there was a conscience left, and they were not reprobate. Good Christian men sometimes got that notion. One of the predecessors in his father's church—Dr. Champin, of Litchfield, Connecticut—had this conviction, and he never •hewed himself so much a Christian as when he thought that God was about to send him to hell ; for if it was His will he said he would go willingly. Well, he was very miserable about it until one bright day the thought struck him that when he got to hell he would open a prayer meeting there." LECTURE BY A FENIAN.—The Fenians of this city and vicinity filled the hall of the Cooper Union last evening to listen to Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly, who was engaged in the Fenian demonstration at Manchester, Eng land, and who has just escaped from Australia, where he was serving a sentence of twenty years for complicity in that outbreak. Mr. O'Reilly, who was formerly a member of the 10th British Hussars, assured his hearers that the mass of the British army was with them in their caus e. " The fire of civil liberty had been lighted in their hearts, and English strength, and gold, and cruelty would never extinguish that fire—nothing but English blood would do it." Ho then alluded to his arrest and confinement in no less than six different prisons in Eng land, after being badly treated for attempting to escape, and finally being sent to Australia in a convict ship with 150 criminals. From Australia he escaped in a row-boat, and was pick6d up at sea by a whaling-ship, the Gazelle of new York, and from her transferredto the Sapphire, which carried him to Liverpool, and from there he came to New York. M r . O'Reilly yris frecitinifitintenntq _4lVew THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1870. tOP GM DI N oil iv t it 444 itlliv• HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 3. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, drove out in the grounds this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold walked in the grounds. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, .Tan. 3. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1201 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 120 I; the lowest, 1191. Sterling Exchange on London lOB2. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll3l. ti gc 1885 ll3. " 1867 ll5l. 10-40 t 4 Illinois l3ll. Erie 2ll. Cotton—Mid. upland 2sjc. Petroleum—Standard White Flour, extra state, $5.30c. to $5.90c. Corn, old mixed, sl.loe. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued his usual monthly statement of the debt of the United States, which amounts to $2,658,000,000, showing a reduction of $4,750,000. The Coin in the Treasury is $109,000,000, being an increase of $3,000,000, and the currency $12,500,000, being an increase of $500,000. The municipal authorities of numerous cities have appointed delegations to be present at the obsequies in honour of Mr. Peabody, to be cele brated at Portland upon the arrival of her Ma jesty's ship Monarch. The Cuban Junta at New York deny the truth of the report that the revolutionary movement in Cuba has been temporarily abandoned. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 3. The Government Commission appointed to in spect the Charkof-Azow Railway had sanctioned the opening of the whole of the line, and passenger trains will commence running to-morrow. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 4. It is semi-officially stated that there is no foun dation whatever in the rumour that it was the in tention of the Emperor to proceed to Rome. The Archduke Albrecht leaves to-day for the South of France, where he intends to remain some time to recruit his health. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 3. In to-day's sitting of the Cortes the only business transacted was the ballot for the members of the bureaux, after which the House separated, none of the Ministers being present. Jan. 3, Evening. The whole Ministry have resigned. This step was taken after the news was received that the Italian Government definitively declined to per mit the Duke of Genoa to accept the Crown of Spain. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Jan. 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tanjore arrived at 8 a.m. and leaves for Southamp ton at 6 p.m. to-day with the heavy portion of the above mails, and taking the Delta's specie, cargo, and passengers. The Tanjore may be expected at Southampton on Friday morning, the 7th inst. The Delta leaves Gibraltar for Southampton on Monday morning, the 10th instant, working one engine. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, Jan. 4. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Gironde has arrived here direct from Rio de Janeiro. She was delayed several days at Rio on account of an accident to her machinery. Count d'Eu was expected at Montevideo with a portion of the troops returning from the seat of war. FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 4. The Ogcial Journal of this morning announces that M. Parieu has been appointed Minister and President of the Council of State. The members of the new Ministry, after taking the oath to the Emperor, were yesterday presented to the Empress :—" Her Majesty said that she wished to avail herself of the opportunity to assure them that Ministers when invested with the confidence of the Emperor would always meet with her cor dial esteem." BOURSE, Jan. 3.—Three o'clock—The markEt closed as follows : 4i per Cent. lO3 End of month 3 per Cent End of month 72 45 Credit Mobilier 207 50 Transatlantic 220 Credit Foncior 1722 50 Paris Gas 1640 RAILWA' Orleans , Bank Shares 2840 ItaFan rives 56 60 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 45 35 Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred — 'B, Cash 957 Western Northern ... 1125 Strasburg • 590 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.-- 592i Sardinian Austrian B2O Lombard 525 North of Spain 46 Saragossa Roman 44 At a meeting of the directors of the Delhi and London Bank (Limited) a resolution was passed for reducing the capital of the company. The annual meeting of the proprietors of the National Bank is called for the 25th of January. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Consolidated Bank (Limited) will be held in Lon don on the 13th inst. The directors of the Illinois Central Railway Company announce a dividend of 5 per cent. Th e S ou th-Australian Company notify a half yearly dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. A special meeting of the Pacific St eam Naviga tion Company will be held on t h e Ist of February. rae very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUN VILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their tine old Irish whisky, is to be called " The Royal Irish Distillery." [HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening. SATURDAY 12 min past 1 40 min past I SUNDAY 5 min past 2 28 min past 2 MONDAY 50 min past 2 15 min past 3 TUESDAY. 37 min past 3 56 min past 3 WEDNESDAY 12 min past 4 35 min past 4 THURSDAY 52 miu past 4 12 min past S FaIDAT„. ..... ..... miu past 5,10 •0 0 2141 past 6