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NOTICE H (lEltEliY GIVEN, that a SPECIAL GVN ERAL MEETING of the Members of the Clergy Club and }lntel Company (Limited) was held on TUN.:DAY, the Bth lay of January, 1. 4 67, at Two o'clock p.m., at the Oakes of the Com, any, for the purpose of cnntddcrinz the Propositions, a copy of which were annexed to the circular notice convening' such meeting. Notice is also hereby given. that anotl , er Special General Meeting of the Members of the Company will he held on Thursday, the 24th day of January, 1507, at the same t me anti place, to confirm the Resolutions which may be passed at the iirst-named meeting'. By order of the Board, A. Pd.'NAXGIITAN, Secretary. Offices of the Company, 24, Charles-street, St. James's-square, Dec. 24. 1866. riIIIEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. sale Lessee and Manager, Mr. }. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING To conclude w th the Pantomime NUMBE It NIP • ' or II arlequln and the Gnome-King of the Giant 31 iuntain. eso arnee: Lydia Thompson. Hudspeth, Hodenham, Seymour, Gardonni, .nci H. Vandenhoff; Messrs. Tom Matthews, isanby, Clifton, Robins, Sc) tou, and Master Percy Roselle ; t ssrs. Holeno,Savii le, Lauri, corn:tack, Barnes, and Morris ; M.ido.ine Bolen° and Malle. Marion. Commence at Seven. rI\HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone, THIS ING, A MERE CHILD. Messrs. Howe, Gordon, White, &e.; Mesdames Chippendale, Fitzwilliarn, Law,, &e. •- - - . After which, A :.ESSON FOR LIFE. Messrs. Eothern, Clii. , pendale, Comptin, Howe, IC tndal, Gordo', Rogers, Braid. Clarke, Vincent, la ; Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, Wright, &c. Followed by JENNY LIND AT LAST. Miss lone Burke ; Mr. W. Farren, &c. To conclude with a GRAND BALLET DIVERTISSE MENT. 3ldlle. Sophia. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, ROUGE ET NOIR. Maurice D'Arbel (a Gambler), Mr. Pechter ; Messrs. Emery, Evans, Moreland, Fitzpatrick/. Dalton. 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ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS .EVENING, NEIGHBOURS. Messrs. Porsche, Belford, and G Murray ; Misses wwanborough, Johnstone, and Hughes. After which, will be produced a Grand Burlesque, entitled GUY FAWKES : Messrs. 1 borne, J amen, Robson, and Fenton; Mesdames Swanborough, Hsynham, Johnstone, Hughes, Newton, &c. To conclude with BOOTS AT TIIE SWAN. Commence at Seven. HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, MY TURN .NEXT. Mr. Pehuore, Miss Foote, bliss Lennox. After which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Belmore, Blake, Garden,Vollaire ; Mesdames F. J csephs, C. Saunders, B. Foote. ttaym nd. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, Jan. i, at Seven, A SISTER'S PENANCE. Miss Kate Terry, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Piet ; Messrs. H. Vezin, Biitington, Ashley, Eburne, Rom,r, Stephenson. To conclude with the New Grand Burlesque of THE MOUNTAIN DIIU ; or, THE KNIGHT, THE LADY, AND THE LAKE. Messrs, J. L. T-ole (his Ith appear ance ;ince his provincial tour), Pdul Bedford, Ashley, R. _Romer, and U. J. Smith ; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss I'urtado, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Vitt, he. rrIIEATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY'S. Under the Management of Mr. W. 11. C. Nation. The Great Nation-al Pantomime nightly received with thunders of applause by overflowing- houses. EVERY EVENING, the elegant Comedy, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. Fernandez and Richardson, Miss Louise ',aidlaw. After which, the Great Nation-al Pantomime of HUSH A-BYE, BABY, ON THE TREE TOP. " The Trans formation Scene is exceedingly.fanciful and brilliant, and a marvel alike of decoration and mechanism."—Times. " Everything that money and exquisite taste can do for it ias been done."—Telegraph. "A magnificent coup d'ceil, which fairly brought down the house with loud calls for the artist and manager, who were compelled to appear and and bow their acknowledgments to their patrons."— Standard. During the Pantomime, Misses Caroline Parkes, Nelly Nisbett, Marshall, Gwynne, Burton, Howard, Kelsey, and Mrs. Caulfield ; Messrs. Atkins, Stevens, Milano, Arthur, the Original Little Rowella (Clown), and Miss Austin (from Paris), will appear. In consequence of the nightly overflow, the nee List (Public Press excepted) entirely suspended. THE BEST CHILDREN'S PANTOMIME in LO-N DON at the T kIEAT RE ROYAL ASTLN.Y'S.— t , pecill NIORNINU I'ERFORMANCES evtry MONDAY, E DNEDAY, and SA't Ult DAY, _ commencing at Two o't.”ock. (I..rriages may be ordered at halt-past tour. EVERY CHILD SHOULD SEE THE FROGS, the Will-o'-the-Wisps, the Grasshoppers, and the Ladybirds in the Great Nation-al PANTOMIME at the THEATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY'S. No charge for bills or booking. 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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.- Samuel SMITE!, late of Chelse now of the White Darr, Acton, Middlesex, begs to inform Ws friends and n. , ighbours that the Latest Edition of "The Sun" can be been at his house as above. 111IIE LATEST EDITION of "T H E SUN." A.J. 110LMNS begs to inform his friends, and the pubiio , enerally. that he supplies the LATEsT EDITIuN of 6UN " as soon as published —No. 16, llampstead road, N.W. MGR WATEti AT LONDON BRIDGE. Cris DAY.-31.9rning, 411. 2m.—Afternoon, 41i. 20m. 1.'..)-Mußnow.-_horning, 4h. 38m.—Afternoon, 41i. 55:n. tf''ll '" • r osi-1 '`V.'r,•`-';417;-.... • c - 51111, d); 7 1 -t , LOIN - DOA', WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9, 1867. Sir STAFFORD NOP,TIICOTE made an interesting speech on Mondaylast at Exeter, when he took the chair at the annual meeting of the Exeter School of Arts, of which institution he is President. The right lion. gentleman laid great stress upon the ap proaching Exhibition at Paris, and declared that it vas likely to surpass all that had ever been done in 1. TiE SUN, LON UON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1867 this way before. " I think," said he, "without jealousy or carping, that the French have a wonder ful degree of organisation, which probably exceeds this or any other nation ; and we know well that they are on their mettle, that they are determined to make this oue of the greatest Exhibitions that have ever been seen." We hope, as the President said, that England will do well, and be creditably represented in industry and art at this celebrated display of the works of all nations. The affair of 1851 was chiefly valuable inasmuch as it first brought to light the opportunities that existed for the bringing together of the best exploits of dif ferent countries ; but by the time that the Paris Exhibition is opened in full splendour and increased lustre this year mankind will be able to judge of the progress that has been made, and of the heights which the several nations of the world have attained to in their upward and onward struggle after the sublime and beautiful in art. One thing is certain, that the English have made important progress in art and all connected with it since then, and have taken a start as it were in that most interesting and elevating study, which for one reason and another had been too much slighted among them. As Sir STAFFORD NORTIICOTE very truly said, it is important to notice the spread of art-education among us. Drawing has now become, as we are glad to find fully proved most completely, a part of national education among us. The right honourable gentleman cited an instance of this, which he was well qualified to do, as a member of the commission on middle-class education, in looking through the report of one of the assistant commissioners. Ile observed that drawing stood higher than any other of the various branches in the district that was then sur veyed. " Drawing was taught in 95 per cent. of the schools which he visited, while only in about 87 per cent. was any other subject taught." As the President well said, it was not desirable to put the study of drawing above that of grammar, history, or mathematics, but it will be very gratifying to lovers of art to learn that drawing is now so much appreciated in our schools and other places of education as it is. At one time, as all must remember, we used to look upon drawing as a " mere accomplishment," and that it was a perfect waste of time for a boy to learn it who had to look to being useful, and that, in fact, it should be reserved for those who happened to have a particular taste for it. Now, however, a change has come over us, and, as Sir S. NORTIICOTE said, emphatically, the delusion is dispelled, or in the course of being so, and it has been one that has done considerable injury to us as a nation. Draw ing, rightly considered, can be taught upon strict principles as well as any other branch of education. "It may be made a means of training the mind as well as the eye and hand, and will enable the learners to appreciate much more fully the work they have got to do in other respects. We are beginning to see that it is not only useful in all branches of indus trial life, but that the habit of working carefully, truly to represent on paper actually what we see , is good for the mind, because it induces a habit of clear observation." A deputation yesterday waited upon Mr. WAL POLE in reference to a very important topic—the better local government of the metropolis. The deputation, which was a very large one, repre sented the Metropolitan Municipal Association, of which Lord EBURY is President, and a number of influential gentlemen, including some of the metropolitan representatives. The object of this association is to effect a complete change and thorough reform in the local management of the metropolis, and to merge the 100 bills affecting the sanitary arrangements of London into one clear and simple act. The changes proposed by this association appear at the first sight rather sweeping, and are certain to meet with ob stinate opposition from interested parties, but there can be no doubt that there is already very general dissatisfaction, and if the common sense of the measure commends itself to the great body of the public it will ultimately be successful. Any proposal for an alteration in the present system is usually met by an outcry against centralisation, but we must take care that in grasping the sha dow we do not miss the substance. If we have not got centralisation, we have got monopoly, and a good many evils besides. Complaints are felt to be useless against Boards and Vestries, whose one idea too often seems to be the saving of money, although it is often saved from public purposes to be wasted in petty litigation. The rates in London are high enough in all conscience to provide all that is requisite, but with the un certainty and inconsistency of the district system, in which every parish manages its own affairs in its own way, the state of London is a national dis grace. As Lord EBURY yesterday observed in introducing the deputation, the Government of London is far inferior to many provincial towns, and certainly far inferior to the city of Paris in its agencies of local administration. Many old grievances have become almost popular from their antiquity, and the force of custom often blinds us to the existence of serious drawbacks ; but in this matter of local adininistra tion we have not even this consolation. How many useless complaints have been made of the tyranny of the gas companies. What bitter fruits we have I gathered from the maladministration of the water supply in some quarters. How loud and universal was the outcry raised last week respecting the con dition of the London streets. A fair specimen of the I . spirit in which vestries conduct their affairs has just been given on this very subject. Yesterday, the very same day on which the maladministration of the local boards was being so strongly dwelt upon at head-quarters, the St. Pancras board held a meeting. Mr. Scorr, the chief surveyor, presented a report, showing the active and energetic measures which lie had taken for opening the main thorough fares after the heavy fall of snow last week. He sent orders to the contractors to remove the snow from parts of the roads, so as to leave the channels open for the thaw as well as to open the traffic. Seven thousand loads were carried away, and nearly ten miles cleared, which, of course, was of the greatest possible service to the trade of the locality. On Sunday, too, men were employed in clearing the gullies so as to prevent flooding. It was well said by one of the gentlemen present that St. Pancras had set an example to all other parishes. But there were not wanting malcontents who strongly censured the energetic proceedings of the sur veyor, declaring that they had wasted £l,OOO. " He could not imagine," said one member of the vestry, " a more extravagant bit of madness than that of clearing the snow away, for if they had let it alone it would have melted away !" Here is a specimen of what really practical and energetic men have to contend against in vestry administration, and it is only fair to the St. Pancras Board to admit that even now they have the advantage over other parishes, whose surveyors have not ventured on such proceedings. The plan which the deputation yesterday submitted to the Home Secretary was as follows : It i 4 proposed to establish ten municipalities, lieyen north and three south of the Thames, all having as nearly as possible the same population. They would have greater power than the bodies Alikesent existing, and at less expense. The conflicting interests of about 100 different com mittees would be reconciled ; there being at present in the metropolis about 40 vestries and 4,000 per sons engaged in our local government (or mis government ?) It is proposed to reduce that cum ber to 400 aldermen and councilmen. No inter ference with the parish boundaries is proposed, though vestries are no longer to have any power except for ecclesiastical purposes. The present Bill is to be supplemented by another for establishihg a central controlling body, which would have control over the main drainage, the management of bridges, gaols, lunatic asylums, and also extensive powers of improvement. Under this scheme the metropolis would be made a county, and questions relating to gas and water would be re ferred to the central body. Mr. JAMES BEAL, a member of the deputation, said very truly that a great many of the existing evils arose from the utter helplessness of the citizens to cope with the power ful joint-stock companies. One of the arguments used in favour of the plan was that under it a better and more intelligent class of men would be induced to become agents on account of the im proved character of the administrative body. Other gentlemen who took part in the discus sion brought forward strong evidence in favour of a change. Mr. GODWIN, F.R.S., whose name is well known among the champions of sanitary re form, declared that medical officers elected by vestries were afraid to speak the truth, and had to do good by stealth. " Estimating it at no extrava gant rate," said Mr. GODWIN, "the deplorable man ner in which our thoroughfares are managed costa the metropolis about £500,000 a year." Mr. HUGIIES, M.P., and other gentlemen, stated that every gas-lamp in London costs the inhabitants five guineas, while in Manchester they are supplied at a rate of 255. a-piece. In fact, in almost every department there is something that calls for reform, and we have no doubt that a measure for the amendment of our local administration will form one of the principal tasks of the coming ses sion. Mr. WALPOLE, who listened attentively to the statements of the deputation, promised to submit the scheme to his colleagues, and to give it his full consideration. It has some very good points, and is at any rate deserving of attention and delibera- ,ion. We wish that those who are so constantly telling us about the great advantages that are to be derived from Prussian rule, and the many bene fits and blessings that will accrue to the States and Provinces annexed, would take the trouble to consider a little what those most immediately con cerned think of the matter themselves. The great gain of unity and centralisation can never com pensate for the loss of liberty, personal and national, which all must experience who have mixed up with the authorities of Berlin and their officials. A curious instance of the un popularity of the Prussians was given in Frankfort the other day when the play of the " Merchant of Venice " was being performed. At that part of it where it is asked by the judge what the Jew requires, and he replies, " a pound of flesh," a voice called out, " and eight cigars," which provoked universal applause from the citizens, who have lately had the honour of giving up their inde pendence, and being joined to the Crown of Prussia. Of course the Prussian officers objected, and the police being called in order was speedily restored. This is, however, a very significant circum stance, and one that speaks strongly for the Frankforters to conform themselves to the sway of Prussia. An anecdote like this shows plainly the state of feeling among the people, which no hints of official journals can gainsay or contradict, and no emphatic declarations of Ministers may put aside. There is no doubt whatever, no matter how they may glose it over, that the Prussians are hateful and obnoxious to all the inhabitants of these annexed States ; and so they will find to their cost before long when an opportunity presents itself to them for giving public expression to their private foelings. How can it be liberty, in any sense of the word, which these new subjects of King WILLIAM enjoy when they are not permitted to give free expression to their sentiments, and when the strong arm of the law puts down all their attempts at self-vindication and national representation. They are now weighed down by circumstances, but a rebound will as suredly take place, and then the perpetrators of the injustice and tyranny which are now crushing down national feeling and insulting independent citizens will regret when it is too late that they did not pay more attention to the scruples of conscience and the dictates of honour. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Tuesday Evening. The Moniteur says : " All the letters from Italy agree in the state ment that perfect tranquillity prevails at Rome, and, indeed, that, thanks to the zeal and watchful ness of the ordinary police, even trifling crimes be come more rare than ever. At Viterbo and at Velletri the same calmness exists, and the popula tion are on the best terms with the Pontifical gar rison. The Pope continues to fulfil, without feel ing any fatigue, the long and numerous ceremonies at which he makes it a point to preside himself. " The Chamber of Deputies of Italy is convoked for the 10th of January, and the order of the day will be the discussion of various laws, among which will figure the Treaty of Peace, concluded on the 3d of October, 1866, with the Empire of Austria, and the Convention agreed to between the French and Italian Governments relative to the division of the Pontifical debt. The address, in reply to the speech from the throne, will also be read at the same sitting." The Minister of Marine and the Colonies has re ceived despatches from Vice-Admiral Rose, which give some particulars of his operations in the Corea, in pursuance of his instructions to obtain reparation for the murders of the French mission aries there. Nothing of particular importance has taken place. The Admiral had explored several points, and during his visits the Coreans, in am buscade, fired several shots, and loss was incurred on both sides, but it was very trifling. Vice-Ad miral Rose, wishing to ascertain the state of the country, a detachment, commanded by Captain 011ivier, was sent from Kang-hoa. It was attacked by the Coreans in a numerous body a short distance from the town. They were intrenched in a forti fied pagoda, but they made a sortie. The French detachment, however, speedily compelled them to retreat to their intrenchments, abandoning their dead. A few days afterwards Vice-Admiral Rose, seeing that the Corean Government did not attempt to give effect to the overtures which he expected on receiving a letter from the King, decided upon leav ing Kang-hoa. The approach of winter was visibly felt, and it was found that the navigation of the River Salee would be interrupted. The Vice-Ad miral therefore ordered the destruction of all the Government establishments, as well as the King's Palace. After effecting which the French sailors returned to their ships, at anchor opposite the Island of Boisee. Several chests, containing silver bars to the value of 197,000 f., manuscripts, and books, likely to be of interest to science, were sent to Shang hai, from whence they will be despatched to France. The despatches also announce that the two mis fiionaries who had remained in the Corea, and for whose safety great fear had been entertained, had succeeded in reaching the French expedition, after landing at Tche-fou. The despatch thus concludes: —" The destruction of Kang-hoa, an important war position, the powder magazines and the public establishments of the town, must convince the Corean Government that the murder of the French missionaries will not remain unpunished." The Italie states that it may be considered as certain that the Pope has come to an understanding with M. Tonello, the Envoy from the Italian Go vernment, upon the principal points of his mission. The only point which remains to be settled regards the reduction of the number of Dioceses, but the delay only turns upon an obstacle of form, and it is expected that the difficulty will very shortly be overcome. To-day has been warm for the season, but it has been very stormy, though attended with little rain. The Seine continues to rise, and the official meteo rological observations presage more unsettled weather. The Marseilles papers notice a thunder storm in that city a day or two ago. I mentioned the serious illness of the Marquis de Larochejacquelain. He died at his chateau at Pecq on Sunday night last. The marquis was only 63. He was a member of the Senate, and his name has for many years beet connected with important political events. The trial of the young convicts before the C o u r t of Assize of the Var, held at Draguignau, is con cluded. The jury g ave a verdict o f gu il ty on most of the accusations. Three prisoners—Paris, Lecoq, and Ferrandou—were acquitted. The last two accused, however, will be kept prisoners in a house of correction until they shall have attai ne d 30 years of age. The jury managed to di scover "extenuating circumstances" in reference to a ll the other prisoners. Four were sentenced to hard labour for life, and the rest to imprisonment for various periods. Accounts have been received of the death of M. Charles de Malvin, Consul of France, at Cronstadt. Madame Reine Dumez, of Boulogne, who bad reached her 100th year on New Year's Day, died on that day. A widow lady, named Contain, has just died at Epaney (Calvados), aged nearly 105. I recently alluded to a very pacific manifesto from the Swiss Confederation. Nevertheless the Federal Government seems to desire to prepare for any warlike eventuality. It has contracted a loan of 12 millions for the purchase of 100,000 guns upon the Winchester system, the military authorities preferring that weapon either to the Chassepot gun or the Prussian needle gun. The only additional accounts received in Paris respecting the earthquake in Algeria is contained iu a letter dated Mont-Riant, near Algiers, Jan. 2d, but it does not supply any new fact of much interest. It states that there were three shocks, the first of which was the most formidable, aid lasted 15 seconds. The noise was much more ter rific than that produced from the firing of a park of artillery. The two other shocks followed at the interval of half au hour for each. Almost ali the houses in Algiers suffered more or less. Some of the public establishments were completely de stroyed. The weather on the day previous to the earthquake was very fine, and the sea calm, but the barometer descended suddenly. Up to the 3d there had not been any other shock. The President of the Board of Trade on Art Education. -- - ~__-- The Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote took the chair at the annual meeting of the Exeter School of Art, of which institution he is the President, on Monday evening. In the course of his address, he said--" There will be an interesting exhibition of the works of all nations in Paris this year; and though we have had a great many international ex hibitions, I think there is a general feeling that there never has been an exhibition since that of 1851 which possessed the interest which the Paris Exhi bition of the present year is likely to possess. The Exhibition of 1851 was exceedingly interesting, be cause it was the first bringing together of the pro ductions of all nations. The Exhibition of 1867 will be interesting, because it is likely to be the mit thatn nation io the n ; greatest attempt a t b r i ng i ng t ogether a fair repre sentation of the works of all nations. I think, with out jealousy or carping, we may ad French have a wonderful p ower of organisation which probably exceeds this or any other and we know well that they are on their mettle, that they are determined to make this one of the greatest Exhibitions that have ever be en seen. I think there is every promise that it will be perhaps more remarkable than any since that of 1851, to which it will be decidedly very superior in extent and scale of magnificence. It is important that England should show well at the Paris Exhibition, and 1 think very probably that England will do we ll and be very creditably represented in industry and art. I hope that those who take an interest in art will go over to Paris, and I hope the result of the Exhibi t i on will be as remarkable in its way in advancing th e cause of art education as the Exhibition of 1851 was in first promoting a movement which has now grown to so much. I think the French Exhibition will be extremely valuable, and will well repay the trouble and expense of a visit." In another part of his speech the right hon. ba ronet referred t o the spread of art education. lle said--" I am pleased to see that drawing is now becoming so completely a part of national education as it is. I was very much struck the other day in looking at a report of one of the assistant commissioners who are sent out by the commission upon middle class edu cation, of which I have the honour to be a member, to find that in going through the list of th e var i ous branches of education, drawing stood higher than any other in the district which the asestant com missioner was appointed to survey. Drawing was taught in 95 per cent. of the schools which he visited, while in only 87 per cent. was any one other subject taught. If you looked at the number of pupils learning different subjects, more boys were learning Latin and English grammar than were learning drawing ; but drawing stood third. Ido not place drawing above grammar, history, and mathematics, or any other branches of instruction, but I do look upon it as a very important fact, and one exceedingly gratifying to those who are friends of schools of art, that drawing has taken such a place in the education of the country ; because when this movement began we remember quite well people used to talk of drawing as a mere accom plishment, its acquirement waste cf time to boys who ought to be learning something useful, and only to be taken up by those with a particular taste and genius for it. But lam happy to find this de lusion is beginning to be dispelled, and we may hope that in course of time the English nation may throw aside altogether the delusion, which I believe was a very unfortunate one for this country. We are be ginning to discover that drawing may bo taught on as strict principles as almost any branch of educa tion. It maybe made a means of training the mind Pc3 well as the eye and the hand, and will enable the learners to appreciate much more fully the work they have got to do in other respects. We are be ginning to see that it is not only useful in all branches of industrial life, but that the habit of working carefully, truly to represent on paper actu ally what we see, is good for the mind, because it induces a habit of clear observation. THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS AT MAIDSTONE.— Although efforts have been mado to obtain a commutation of the capital sentence passed upon the woman Anne Law rence, who was convicted at the gaol delivery for Kent of the murder of her child, a boy four years of ago, by cut ting his throat, it appears that they have been unsuccess ful. A communication was received on Monday by the acting under-sheriff of the county from the Home Secre tary that the Government hadlearefully considered all the circumstances connected with the crime, and they were unable to discover anything to justify the Executive in re commending her to the clemency of the Crown. With re gard to the other culprit, James Fletcher, who was con victed of the murder of one of the warders of the Chatham Convict Prison, where the prisoner was confined under a sentence of penal servitude, it was felt from the first that the case was of such a description as to preclude all chance of the Government interfering, and the culprit, who is a fine young man, only 20 years of ago, appears from his ap prehension to have been prepared for the inevitable result of his act. The executions will take place on Thursday at 12 o'clock. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Dec. 8. The House of Representatives has passed the re solution for the impeachment of President Johnson. The Inman steamer City of Baltimore arrived out to-day. Gold, 134; ; Sterling Exchange on London, 1091 ; 5-20 Bonds, 1071 ; Illiaois, 1192 ; Erie, 67 Cotton, Middling Upland, 351 c. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 9. An Imperial letter published to-day grants a complete amnesty for all offences against the press law, and relieves the newspapers from all legal consequences of the sentences whith may have been passed upon them. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Jan. 9. The Party of Progress intend to bring forward a bill in the Chamber of Deputies_demanding that the members of the North German Parliament should receive a salary, and that their travelling expenses should be repaid to them. It is positively asserted that llerr von Savigny will be appointed President of the Federal Com- mission. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA, Jan. 8. The Nyanza left at 3 a.m., and the Delta at 7 p.m. yesterday. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 9th, and the latter at Southampton about the 16th inst. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. The Syria, from Southampton on December 27; reached Malta at 3 p.m. on the sth, and left a t 8 a.m. on the 6th inst. for Alexandria. The Ripon, from Marseilles on the sth inst., arrived on the Bth at 3 a.m., and left at 7 a.m. for Alexandria. FRANCE. ST. NAZAIRE, Jan. 9. The mail steamer Panama has been signalled this morning. BOURSE, Jan. 8, Two o'clock.—ln London Con sols continue their upward movement ; the first telegraphic despatch announces an advance of I. In spite of this important rise the market here is flat, and all securities are at lower quotations. French Threes have lost 15c.—at 70f. sc. A simi lar decline exists in Italian Fives—at 54f. 10c. Credit Mobilier have fallen sf.—at 506 f. 25e., and Comptoir d'Escompte, 7f. 50c.—at 855 f. Credit Fonder are better maintained without variation. Many Railway Shares are quoted a fraction lower, and others are unvaried, with little business doing. Three o'clock.—The market closed with the fol lowing quotations : per Cents Do. end month — 3 per Cents. — Do. end month., 7O Credit Mobilier Do. end mo n th Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1425 - RAIL' Bank Shares - Italian Loan — Do. end month 5l 15 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds — Spanish Threes Home Debt — Deferred - %LYS. For Account. Orleans Northern ll9l 25 Lyons and Mediterranean 917 50 Southern 570 Western — Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 390 North of Spain 125 -- S aragosE a, Ditto to Barcelona 6l 25 Roman • 55 Tithe Commutation.—Septennial Averages. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. SIR,—As many of your readers may feel anxious to know the result of the corn averages for the seven years to Christmas, 1866, published in the London Gazette of this day, viz. : Wheat Barley 4s. 3d. do. do. Oats 2s. 9id. do. do. I beg to state for their information that each £lOO of tithe rent-charge will for the year 1867 amount to £9B 13s. 3d., or about 11 per cent. more than last year. The following statement from my " Annual Tithe Commutation Tables" will show the worth of £lOO of tithe rent-charge for each of the following years :- 1861 £ll2 3 41 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 If we include the whole period of 31 years elapsed since the passing of the Tithe Commutation Act it will be found that the general average value of £lOO tithe rent-charge amounts to £lOO 16s. 2id. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, CHARLES M. WILLICH, late Actuary University Life Assurance Society. 2, Montpelier-square, Rutland-gate, Jan. 8. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 8. Several journals publish articles urging the Go vernment to modify the customs tariff in a liberal sense. MADRID, Jan. 4. Yesterday the newly-elected Municipality of Ma drid, having at their head the Marquis of Villaseca, who holds the office of Alcalde Corregidor, had an audience of the Queen, in which the Marquis ad dressed her Majesty on behalf of his colleagues in the following terms : " Madam,—The first desire, as it is the first duty, of the newly-constituted Municipality of Madrid is to offer to your Majesty the homage of their profound veneration and ardent affection for your Majesty's Royal person and dynasty. In no other manner would they legitimately re present the patriotic feeling of this heroic city, which has the happiness of being the residence of your Majesty and the Royal family, and which affords constant testimony of the inexhaustible love treasured up in your Majesty's heart for all Spaniards. In this way alone can the municipal body be the faithful guardian of the venerated traditiOns and immortal glories with which the people of Madrid have in all time crowned their monarchical loyalty. "Encouraged by the maternal interest manifested by your Majesty towards the nation you govern, this muni cipality will devote themselves with unwearied energy to the duties of their office, striving to render their adminis tration as beneficial as the noble people of Madrid have a right to expect. But for the realisation of this legitimate wish the constant maintenance of public order is an indis pensable condition, not only in a moral sense, but with re apact also to the moral perturbations that may arise. In those cases it is evident that all the classes represented by the municipality suffer serious injury, particularly the manufacturing and working classes, so much the more worthy of resolute protection from their dependent con dition. " The municipality of Madrid, therefore, consider it as one of the most sacred duties to contribute by all means in their power to the maintenance of moral and material order and thus decidedly adhere to all the Government mea sures tending to secure so important an object. " Deign, your Majesty, to accept the assurances of pro found loyalty and boundless support proffered by the Municipality of Madrid to your Majesty's august person and dynasty, and the fervent prayers that wo offer up to the Most High for your Majesty's happiness and that of the King your august Consort, their Highnesses the Prince of the Asturias and the Infantas, and all the Royal family." The Queen replied as follows : " I accept with real satisfaction the demonstrations of attachment which you have expressed towards me in the name of the city of Madrid. I comprehend, as you do, that the first condition necessary for the prosperity of municipal interests is the preservation of public order. I thank you for the assurances of loyalty which you proffer to me, the King my dear husband, and the Prince of the Asturias and the Infantas, my beloved children. May God graciously fulfil your desires and tho wishes you express for the pros perity of this heroic city, in which I was born and edu cated, which has been the favourite residence of my Court during so many years, and to which my family is indebted for sacrifices which will never be effaced from my memory!" THE PRUSSIANS AT FRANKFORT. —A correspon dent of the Courrier tiu Bas Rhin gives the follow ing example of the continued disfavour in which the Prus sians are held by the burghers of the ci-devant free city : "A fow nights since Shakspero's play of Shylock (the Merchant cf Venice) was represented at the principal theatre. At that part of the play where the judge inquires of Shylock what is his demand against his debtor, the Jew replies, ' a pound of flesh.' At that moment one of the audience rose up in the gallery and added these words of weighty recollection of the Prussian occupation, and eight cigars!' The Frankforters hailed the addition with continued applause. The Prussian officers protested, and the police cleared the place." 'ORDINATIONS FOR 1867.--The Archbishop of Canterbury has announced his intention of holding a general ordination on Sunday, March 17. On the same day ordinations will be held by the Bishop of Durham at Auckland Castle, the Bishop of St. David's at Abergwele, the Bishop of Manchester at Manchester, the Bishop of Llandaff at Llandaff, the Bishop of Salisbury at Salisbury, the Bishop of Ripon at Ripon, the Bishop of Norwich at Norwich, the Bishop of Worcester at Worcester, and the Bishop of Gloucester and Biistol at Gloucester. The Bishop of London will hold an ordination at St. Paul's Cathedral on the 16th June, being Tl:nity Sunday, and on the same day ordinations will be held by the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Worcester, and the Bishop of (Word. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. The following is the weekly return of the Regis trar-General of births and deaths in London and in 12 other large towns of the Uniied Kingdom : General Register-office, Somerset-house, Jan. 7. In the week that ended on Saturday, Jan. 5, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,048 ; the deaths registered 3,219. The annual rate of morta lity was 27 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,031 boys and 974 girls, in all 2,005 children, were registered iu the week. In the corresponding week of ten years 1857-66 the average number, corrected for increase of population, was 2,150. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,437. It was the first week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,615. The deaths registered in the week were thus 178 below the average. The effects of the weather will, we may expect, be visible in the returns of next week, as re gistration and funerals were alike more or less re tarded by the severe frost and the groat snowstorm. Forty-three deaths from smallpox, 36 from measles, 135 from scarlatina, 54 from whooping cough, 41 from typhus, and 16 from diarrhceA were registered during the week. No death by cholera was . recorded. A labourer, aged 45 years, died is reachurch street, City, ou the 2d of January, from " want of food, accelerated by cold." The deaths of 17 infants who were accidentally suffocated in bed were registered in the week ; the ages of these children varied from three weeks to six months. Five of them were killed on the 26th of December, three on the 27th of December, and two on the Ist of January. The deaths of six children from burns or scalds were also recorded. After festive nights parents cannot take too much care of their children. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 31 in Edinburgh, and 25 in o. e r ld y , i 30 , Hull, ; 24 i n B r i s t o l, 24 in Birmingha m , 35 i n Liverpool, 31 i n M anc h es t er , 29 i n S a lf or d , 22 i n Sheffield, in Leeds, 28 in 44 in Newcastle oph and 33 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna wa s 31 Per 1,000 during the week ending the 22d ult., when the mean temperature was 16.7 deg. Fah renheit lower than in the same week in London, where the rate was 23 per 1,000, At h t h t o e f tßoyalhe barometer ha th G e r w e e e e n k w v c a h s , 2 t1 9 1e .4 m 08 e j a n n . The barometric a l rea di ng increased from rh 2 8.91 in. on Wednesd a y t o 29. 92 on Saturday. e mean tem peratureiis deg, below heair in t h t e h the average owoafs thee same week in ,5.2 i deg., whi c h 50 years, a s d e t erm i ned by Mr. G Sunday. aisher. Th e highest day t em p era t ure was 41 . 9 deg., on The lowest night temperature was 6.6 deg., on Sa turday. On Friday the lowest t emperature was 7.7 deg. The enti re range of temperature in the week was 35.3 deg. O n every w day of the e k the the defectm ean temperature was b e l ow the average, an e and The on Friday was no l ess t h an 23.2 deg the highest tempe ra t ure o f the waters of T the e mean Thato of es was the lowest dew westwas 3 3 deg. The differencedog.e ;that twe of en the mean 4 pointdos6eg 3 9 tempe rature and air te m p erature was 3. on Wednesday to th e d epth of about g. loinnowTfehlle er of direction of the wi n d was variable. According to return furnished b y th e engine h g • t eMetropohtan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of sew age pumped into the river Thames at the southern outfall works, Crossness, was 180,230 cubic metres. THE YEAR 1866. The great cities of the kingdom may be thus ar ranged according to their rates of mortality during the past year. To 1,000 persons living the deaths in Birmingham were 24, Hull 24, Bristol 25, Edinburgh 27, Sheffield 28, Dublin 28, Salford 29, Gasgow 30, Manchester 32, Newcastle-on-Tyne 32, Leeds 33, Liverpool 42. The mortality was lower than it was in the year 1E65 in Manchester, Salford, Birming ham, Hull, Edinburgh, Glasgow; and higher in Leeds, Bristol, Dublin, Liverpool. Cholera was excessively fatal in Liverpool. In London the mortality was at the annual rate of 26, which is two above the average, entirely due to cholera, happily confined within narrow limits. The mortality of London, west, north, central, and south, holding 2,430,046 people, was 241, or slightly above the average, while in the east districts the rate was 34 in 1,000 among 607,945 inhabitants. The causes of this local intensity have already been explained. Cholera was epidemic, and proved ex traordinarily fatal for a short time, from causes that favoured the diffusion of its elements. The detection of these causes, and the judicious hygienic measures which were employed, generally stopped its progress, and saved, as well as much suffering, many thousands of lives. PROFESSOR SIMPSON--Sir James Young Simp son resumed his medical classes in the University of Edin burgh on Monday, and was greatly cheered by his students on reappearing among them after his late severe indisposi tion. The learned Professor has had a severe attack of rheumatism and sciatica, confining him to his bedroom for some weeks, but not altogether incapacitating him from carrying forward a new work on which he is engaged. Sir James, whose class had, in his absence, been taught by Dr. Keiller, delivered the first of a course of lectures on anaesthesia. A TRAIN SNOWED UP FOR TWELVE HOURS.— The sudden thaw on Saturday evening caused the snow accumulated on the sides of the cuttings between Andover and Salisbury to give way, and the line, in con sequence, became blocked up. Tho 510 p.m. train from London to Salisbury ran into a drift of about 7ft. of snow, between Gratloy and Porton, and was unable to proceed further. A telegram announcing the fact was forwarded to Mr. Davis, the district superintendent at Salisbury, who also ascertained that the 7 55 p.m. train from Salisbury had been stopped at Porton. Mr. Davis got a staff of men together, and with a powerful goods engine immediately proceeded up the lino to render whatever assistance might be in his power. A heavy storm of hail prevailed at the time, and the snow was forced down the sidings in such quantities that the engine got "drafted up" about two miles and a half from Porton. With great difficulty Mr. Davis forced his way on to that station on foot, and at once made arrangements for digging out the down train, As soon as possible men were brought to the opposite end of the cutting, but notwithstanding that both parties worked most energetically during the night, it was nearly 8 o'clock on Sunday morning before the snow was cleared away from the engine and carriages. The train had been at a stand-still for nearly 12 hours. Mr. Wm. Day and a party of friends from Woodyoates were in the down train. On reaching Porton on Saturday evening Mr. Davis tele graphed to Salisbury for flys, but the roads were in such a wretched state that it was found impossible to send them. At daybreak on Sunday morning the request was repeated, and flys were started, but the drivers were com pelled to leave the vehicles near Old Castle and return with their horses to Salisbury. Fresh flys were obtained and another attempt made to reach Porton via the London road, but with no better success. The train reached Salis bury about 11 o'clock on Sunday, about 15 hours behind time. „.,....,.,:t...... j i b, .:= ...,,,,,t,,___ € 2 1 ,--: g i ffil It *-7----?---Ciritill Tar. HER MAJESTY, &c. OSBORNE, Jan. 8. Tho Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Madame Van de Weyer and Miss M'Gregor, and attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Colonel Ponsonby was in attendance upon horse- back. ller Majesty drove out this morning with Princess Christian, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. ACCIDENT TO THE QUEEN OF HOLLAND.—A letter from the Uague, dated the sth inst., and published in the Avenir National of yesterday, says :—" The Queen mot with an accident to-day. IV hile walking from her own palace to that of her son, the Prince of Orange, she slipped upon the snow, and fell with such violence that she be came insensible. A soldier who was on the spot raised the Queen, and one of the King's aides-de-camp having hastened from the palace, they carried her into the royal apartments. It is hopad that this fall will not lead to serious consequences." The Earthquake at Algiere. We have been favoured with the following account of the earthquake whichrecently occurred at Algiers : " Algiers, night between 2d and 3d Jan., 1867. " This morning, or rather yesterday morning (as it is now nearly the dawn of next day), I was awoke towards 8 of the morning, I think, by a very strong shock of an earthquake, particularly awful, not only from its sharpness but its singular motion, quite different from the trembling motion one generally feels and hears described, and which reminds most people of a heavy waggon passing by, as one often reads of in accounts ; but this one felt like being in something, a box, for instance, which was being shoved along by several angry pushers over rough ground, but always in one direction. " The movement came distinctly from the sea, and went inland, and the moments it lasted the house seemed hopping from north to south, and proceeding onward that way. It was indescribably terrific. I sprang; up from bed, and was jerked forward. I called all the people, and we went down into the court, and sat there about an hour and a half, not withstanding the rain which fell for the first time since two months. Then, thinking it was over, we again went up to our apartments, but soon after a slight shock of the usual trembling kind was felt, and some minutes after another stronger one, of a swing ing motion, but without the displacing sensation of the first. Since that we have had no other. I hear in the town the consternation is great. Some houses have fallen in, all the people are sitting in the rain in the open places, and all the Jews have fled into the fields, shutting their shops, &c. A telegram from Blidah announces the fall of 40 houses in that town, and the town of Medeah has also much suffered. One of the walls of our house is cracked, and the garden walls are rent from top to bottom. It is true they were old, but still it is awful to see. Another shock is announced, I do not know why, and so none of us sleep this night ; a man is placed near the great door to open it directly he feels anything, and I am sitting up in my bed whence lam writing. Other circumstances make the night most dismal. My rooms are all leaky, and the rain pattering in the tin basins put to, receive it makes a most melan choly sound ; the whole day has been most dreary, as when it rains a tomb-like chill pervades the house, which no fire can dispel, and the little old-fashioned Moorish windows let in hardly any light. Altogether lam very much impressed, and the fear, cold, wet, and waking make me feel very uncomfortable." GLASGOW, Jan. B.—On Saturday the screw steamer Falcon, 264 tons, left Glasgow for London derry, with passengers and a general cargo. On Sunday morning, about two o'clock, she struck the land somewhere between the Mull of Cantyre and Marahanish Bay, on the west side of the peninsula. The night was very thick with heavy snow and sleet, and a strong gale was blowing south by east. The steamer afterwards got off, and the captain tried to back into the creek, but this was found impossible. The boats were got out, but the first wa , , swamped. The lifeboat was next lowered, nuct the second mate, one fire man, and the captain entered it. When the boat was clear of the steamer the latter drifted rapidly from land and wont down about a mile from the shore. The three men in the lifeboat suffered dreadfully from tho weather, but ultimately they got ashore on the island of Islay. The passengers are variously estimated at from 16 to 40, and the remainder of the crew, to tho number of 20, aro be lieved to have gone down with the ship. COMPULSORY EDUCATION.—Atthe Salford Epi phany Sessions, which commenced yesterday, the chairman (Mr. A. Milne), in charging the grand jury, said the state of education disclosed in the calendar was very lamentable and deplorable. Of 69 prisoners, 4 were well educated, 14 could read but could not write, 29 could read and write imperfectly, and 22 could neither read nor write at all. Judges from time immemorial up to the present time—and the remark applied more strongly to Quarter Sessions and the Superior Courts—had been crying out and begging the country to take into consideration the state of the education of the people. It was really shocking to see so much ignorance as must be rife among the lowest class of the community, as evidenced by the state of these calendars. They were told to train up a child in the way it should go, and when it was old it would not depart from it ; and they might depend upon it the converse of that was also true—that if they did not train a child at all, but let him run about the streets when he ought to be at school, that child unless he were very fortunate indeed, would come to grief and destruction. They would always have calendars full so long as they allowed such a state of things to continue. He was glad to say that the country seemed at last to be awakening to the necessity of giving these children some education ; they were beginning to find now that, taking the very lowest view of it, it was cheaper and certainly better to prevent children committing crime than to punish them by sending them to gaol after they had committed it. Some of the grand jury were probably aware that several efforts had been made in that city fell: the purpose of educating the lowest class of the commu nity. A society had been formed and had now been in operation for two or three years, and was doing its best to remedy the evil. Their object was to give assistance to poor parents to send their children to school. That society had done a great deal of good, and they had now come forward and stated at a public meeting in Manchester that , it was their unanimous and deliberate opinion, formed after considerable study of the subject, that nothing would be of any avail with the lower classes of the community but compulsory education. When they considered of what that society was composed—that it was not composed of one par ticalar sect, but that its members were composed of a ll shades of politics and of a great variety of religious opiniou o —and when these gentlemen thus came forward, after giving the subject a good deal of their consideration, and stated that it was their deliberate opinion that nothing would avail but compulsory education, their opinion was en titled to very great weight. He was happy to say thei had challenged public opinion in the town, and that by a very large majority they had carried their resolutionS• They earned the approval of the meeting to a bill making education compulsory, and further providing for it by small rate of 6d. in the pound. The objection which 12 0 . 4 been made to that bill appeared to him to be extremely weak. The rate would certainly not fall heavily on all but the poorest classes, and if they got cheap education for their children they would in the long run be decidedly the gainers. Whatever might be the fate of that bill, it would at all events have the effect of calling the attention of par liament to the subject. He trusted that it would meet with a favourable reception : because he was quite sure the coup' try had up to this time grossly neglected th e e d uca ti on 0` what might be called the lowest class of the community , and it was impossible to have anything but large calendar s and a great amount of crime while children were allowe d to learn everything that was bad by the neglect of their, parents. Feeling very deeply on the subject, he hoped su!! trusted that something might be done to remove a stt,t° of things in which we contrasted very unfavourably with many foreign countries. IMPORTANT TO Di STI LLE RS. — A jury trial O f some interest was concluded on Monday last, after fi'd days sitting, before the First Division of the Court of Ses" sion. Messrs. Taylor and Company, merchants, in Le ith ' sued Messrs. Macfarlane and Co., distillers, in Port Gla' s 2 gow, for breach of contract, by the failure of the defended to supply a quantity (20,000 gallons) of whisky colour e _ with burnt sugar, and supplying instead a similar qt 1 3 ,1 '_`. tity coloured with logwood. The whisky was ordered i v , export to the coast of Africa, where it was an advent s !, to have it coloured, though not with any deleterious s stance ; and the pursuers alleged that, by tho failure ° r the defenders to colour the whisky with burnt sugar other innocent material, as specified in the order, and tn' dicated in the sample accompanying—and the 1~ nicious effects produced by the logwood used instead a their trade had been lust and their reputation iv_c,i,ul , s 0 The jury, yesterday, after an hour and a quarter's d ration, returned unanimously a verdict fur the pursuer'a the damages, which had been laid at £6,000, being aSSOS S' at £3,ooo.—Sweenan. 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