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"DRESS COATS, 25g. to 009. -ivi ORNING TROUSERS, lls. Gd. to 21s. DRESS TROUSERS, 12s. 6d. to 265. MOURNING SUITS, 28s. to £5. MOSES and SON invite special attention F• to their large stock of GENTLEMEN'S DRESSING ROBES, at 18s. to 20 Guineas ; the assortment is unequalled for variety of materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. 10 MOSES and SON'S BOYS' CLOTHING : KNICKERBOCKER SUITS, 9s. 6d. to 40s. ETON SUITS, 15s. to 40s. BRIGHTON SUITS, 18s. to 48s. DRESS SUITS, 255. to 635. lOSES-and SON supply every description of 1:4 • clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes ; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any tide exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when busi ess is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON : LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM -COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRA.NoH. RADFORD. YORKSHIRE. THEATRE ROYAL DRL Y-I A N E.—Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTauTox. This Theatre having been re-decorated under the direc tion of Mr. C. J. Phipps, F.S.A., is now Open for the SEASON THIS EVENING. Doors open at half-past Six, commence at Seven o'clock, and terminate at half-past Eleven. Prices to the public parts of the Theatre from Sixpence to Seven Shillings. Private Boxes from One to Four Guineas. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. TIIEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE .- Under the patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. —Miss NEILSON has the honour to announce that her FIRST BENEFIT at this Theatre will take place THIS EVENING, on which occasion her Majesty's servants will perform, at 7.45, Shakespeare's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. J. B. Howard ; Mer cutlo, Mr. T. C. King; Juliet, Miss Neilson. After the Tragedy Miss Neilson will recite Tennyson's Poem, " The Charge of the Light Brigade." The performance to commence with the farce of PHOBUS'S FIX. To conclude with the farce of A DOMESTIC HERCULES. Doors open at half-past (3, commence at 7. Box-offlce open from 10 till 5 daily. WSS NEILSON will appear in the character of JULIET, in ROMEO AND JULIET, THIS EVENING, Dec. 19.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. AR. T. C. KING will appear in the character of MERCUTIO in ROMEO AND JULIET, THIS EVENING, Dec. 19.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. 1)110BUS'S FIX, in which the celebrated YOKES FAMILY will appear at Seven o'clock THIS EVENING, Dec. 19.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE, ADOMESTIC HERCULES, New Farce, by blartin Becher,at half-paat Eleven o'clock THIS EVENING, Dec. 19:--THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. ON MONDAY, December 26 (Boxing Night), the Grand Christmas Comic Pantomime, entitled THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shipton. Stage Manager, Mr. Edward Stirling. Doors open at half-past six ; performances to commence at seven, and terminate at eleven o'clock. THE DRAGON OF WA.NTLEY ; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shiptpn, with New and Characteristic Scenery by William Beverley, will be produced on MONDAY, December 26 (Boxing Night).—Box-office open from Ten till Five daIIy.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. THE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shipton, will be produced on MONDAY, December 26, and positively withdrawn on Saturday, February 25. Places can be secured from the first until the last date. MORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY •, therefore, to prevent disappointment, an early application for seats is respectfully requested. Box-office open from Ten till Five daiIy.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE.—In reply to numerous inquiries, the Lessee begs to state most decisively that no proposition whatever can be entertained with regard to the introduction of ADVERTISING SCENES in the forthcoming Pantomime. Those who desire to avail themselves of the Drury-Lane Grand Comic Christmas Annual for the purposes of publicity are respectfully informed that Advertisements can only be allowed to appear in the Book of the Pantomime, pub lished and sold in the Theatre, and for the employment of the limited number of pages which will be set apart for this pur pose, immediate application must be made by letter to Mr. Quiver, Treasurer. OPERA. COMIQUE, 299, Strand.—Lessees H. Leslie, C. Steele, W. Norton.—This most beautiful Theatre in London, will re-open for the English Dramatic Season on Monday, December 26, at popular prices, from 6d. to 7s. 6d. OPERA. COMIQUE.—Mr. G. F. ROWE will make his re-appearance in London in a new and striking Drama, founded on Charles Dickens's celebrated novel " Our Mutual Friend." OPERA COMIQUE.—FOUND DROWNED, or pug MUTUAL FRIEND. Supported by Messrs. Samuel Emery, John Nelson, W. M'lntyre, Charles Warner (by permis sion of W. 11. Liston, Esq.), Edwin Stanley, and Granville Tidy earl Mesdames Ernstone, Patti Josephs, Holston, Manders, Tiny Earl, and Miss Rose Lisle. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SWANBOROUGH. This. Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch, Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Button, and F. Hughes. The New Hurly-Burly-Esque, " THE IDLE 'PRENTICE." Messrs. Terry, Fannon, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. • VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees--Messrs. 11. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7 CHISELLINef , Mr. David James ; after which TWO ROSES (170th night), by James Albery.- Conclude with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, David James. and T. Thorne, &c. ; Mesdames AmyFawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, &c. MADAME TIJSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view Portrait Models of the ex-Emperor and Empress of the French, and Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal BaZaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, &c., &c. &c. — Admission, ls. ; Children under Ten Years of age, 6d. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view Portrait Models of the Kin Crown'Prince of Pr ussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern! Als d o Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke.—Adrnission ch i l d ren under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d, extra. _ Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. • GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY J TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives. the teeth a pearl whiteness,protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. dd.— lied Bull Wharf, 93, - Upper Thames-street, London. IT MOSES and SON'S A y INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to £5. BOY'S OVERCOATS, 7s. 6d. to 455. MOSES and SON beg to remind the public 1:..4• that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its finality. and they venture to say that their prices will compare favourably with those of any other no Ise tu England. E. MUSES and SON'S OXFORD COATS, 17s. to 60s. CAMBRIDGE COATS, 19s. to 50s. KERTCH JACKETS, 15s. to 425. SUTHERLAND JACKETS, 19s. Gd. to 60s. BUSINESS SUITS, 28s. to 60s. EMOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system . of self-measure enables them to execute orders by post with the guarantee of a faultless lit.. 1 4 1 MOSES and SON'S F ROCK CO STS, 245. to 635. ME SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1870. tion, westwards and not eastwards, across' the Atlantic, and not upon the borders of Asia, a sect whose name, here in England, has, ever since it came to the fore, been a byword of derision, , the eccentric religions community known in America as that of the Shakers, have set a wise example to the world in their domestic economy, an example that, instead of laughing at, we should be • acting only wisely if we systematically emulated. Describing a Shaker's house. in "New Ame rica," Mr. IlzPwolall DixoN says of it —" My room was painfully bright and clean. No Haarlem vrow ever scraped her floor into such perfect neaiviess as my floor ; nor could the wood of which it is made be matched in purity except in the heart of an uncut forest pine." He describes how everything about the room was scrupulously clean ; how the "Shakers" having no doctors among them, smile at our manifold ailments, at our head aches, fever, colds, and all the rest of them; taking a close and scientific care of their ventilation. Every building on Mount Lebanon, according to his account—farm, granary, mill, and dwelling—is pro vided with shafts, fans, flappers, drafts, and vents. The stairway, he says, is built as a funnel, the vane• as an exhauster. Fresh air, in half a dozen words, is the Shaker medicine. Referring to this, and evi lently bearing in mind the prevalence, now, in midwinter, in December, of such deadly maladies as scarlet - fever and small-pox; an earnest correspondent of the Lancet, in its issue last Saturday, quotes yet further from Mr. DIXON'S account of the Shakers :—" Antionette led me over it (the dwelling house) from the fruit cellars to the roof, shewing me the kitchens, the ladies' chambers, the laundries, the meeting rooms, and the stoves. My friend, WILLIAM HAYWOOD (Civil Engineer to the City of London) and his wife were with me. The engineer was no less smitten by surprise at the singular beauty and perfect success which the Shakers have attained in the art of ventilation than the lady was charmed by the sweeetness, purity, and brightness of the corridors and rooms." Hav ing quoted this passage from "New Americs," the correspondent of the Lancet, while re gretting that Mr. DIXON does not give us an insight into " the mechanism as to how these excellent sanitary engineering arrangements were carried out with such excellent perfection as regards ventilation, heating, &c., &c.," adds, " it is to be hoped that his friend Mr. HAY WOOD has not forgotten the cardinal points of what he observed, and that he will induce the authorities of the City of London to carry out, wherever they may have an opportunity of doing so, these unex ceptionable sanitary arrangements in the dwellings of their poorer brethren." In truth, the national foot is as yet but a very little more than upon the lowest rung of the ladder of sanitary improvements. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE. The Conference upon the Eastern Question wil probably meet in the middle of the ensuing month and there is good reason to believe that efforts wil he made to extend the action of the Conference to the Luxemburg question, and even to that of Alsace and Lorraine. If the French GoNernment do not ask M. Thiers to be their representative once more at the Congress, it is most probable that M. Tissaud, who is acquainted with all the phases of the Turkish difficulty from his long residence in the Levant will be asked to accept the position. It is not unlikely, moreover, that the Provisional Govern ment will nominate as M. Tissaud's colleague, some French diplomatist decidedly of their own colour, as they are very tinxious lest any arrangement should bo proposed with the tacit consent of the exile at Wilhelmshoe for securing a member of the conference who might hold Imperialist views. reEponsibility of the defence of the nation. He referred to Switzerland, which was able at the first _ _ intimation ofvvax to send on her frontiers 40,000 men, and could send out 200,000 men ; but it was doubtful if a country which was considered one of the greatest of Europe could effect anything like this in the same time. General Wilmot expressed a hope that some system might be adopted which would attain the desired results of an organisation, without interfer- ing with industrial arrangements.. England had no desire to follow the Prussian system, but she required something suited to ber mercantile cha racter as a nation. On the same occasion Colonel Chesney delivered an interesting lecture 'on the "Reform of Prussian Tactics," in connection with the events of the pre- sent war. Ile shewed that the military history of Prussia illustrated the importance of the active study of military science by her officers. Ile hoped that in future no brigadier would be appointed to the command of troops until he possessed a thorough knowledge of artillery. THEATRE ROYALMAYMARKET.—T wenty sixth Night of a NEW FAIRY COMP.DY. Tins EVENING (Monday) and during • the week, including Satur day (Christmas Eve) at Seven, the WOLF AND THE LAMB. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, W. Gordon, Madame E. Fitzwilllam ; after which, at' a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new Fairy Comedy, in Three Acts, entitled THE PALACE OF TRITTII. Characters by Mr. Buckston.e, Messrs. - Kendal, Everill, Clark, Rogers, Braid, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynn°. After which UNCLE'S WILL— Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with FAMILY JARS. Box office open daily from 10 till 5. UHE WOOD-STREET WAREHOUSE COM PANY (Limited), Late Hugh Jones and Company.—lncor porated under the Companies' Acts, 1862 and 1867.—Capital £300,000, in 60,000 shares of £5 each, of which £1 per share is to be paid on application, and £2 on allotment. No further call will be made without three months' notice of such intention. Two-thirds of the capital has been already applied for. DIRECTORS. Hugh Jones, Esq., Wood-street. C. M. Yglesias, Esq. (Messrs. J. R. Yglesias and Co.). George Buck, Esq. (Messrs. Hardy and Buck). William Whitworth Limbert, Esq., Milton-on-Thames. James John Frost, Esq., Warrington Lodge, Streatham-common, Arthur Wellesley Healy, Esq., The Hollies, Clapham. - The National Bank of Scotland, London. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Crosley and Burn, 24, Birchin-lane. AUDITORS, Messrs. Good and Daniels, Publics Accountants, 7, Poultry . BROKERS. Messrs. Robins and Barber, 29, Threadneedle-street. OFFICES. 100, Wood-street, Cheapside. SBCRETART (PRO TEN.). Mr. EL J. Westrup. PROSPECTUS._ This company has been incorporated for the purpose of pur chasing the extensive and well-known business of Mr. Hugh Jones, Warehouseman, as carried on by him since the year 1850, in Wood-street, Cheapside, under the firm of " Hugh Jones and Company." The character of the undertaking, and its prospects as an in vestment, may be estimated by the circumstanoo that the greater portion of the fortune of which Mr. Hugh Jones is possessed has been realised by him out of the profits of this business, which is now in full activity, and capable of still further de velopment. The terms of purchase for the whole of the freehold and lease ' hold premises, being Nos. 100 to 110, in Wood-street, the stock 1 in-trade, business, and good-will, details of which terms are fully set out in in the contract for purchase filed with the memoran dum and articles of association, involve an aggregate payment of £171,080, subject to any difference in the value of the stock on the day of taking possession. Mr. Hugh Jones subscribes for 20,000 shares (being the maxi mum amount allowed by the rules of the Stock Exchange), in volving a present payment by him to the company of £3 per share, or £60,000; and with a view to the provision of an ample working fund, and at the same time to obviate the necessity of eels, Mr. Hugh Jones has agreed to lend the company a further sum of £70,000, 5 per cent, interest, for a period of three years. A. portion of the unsubscribed capital has been reserved for the customers of the house, who number about five thousand, and the residue is offered to the public. The shareholders may reasonably anticipate a minimum divi dend upon the capital invested of 10 per cent. per annum, with a bonus of greater or less amount, according to the state of - trade. Mr. Hugh Jones has consented to act as managing director of the company, and the services of the whole of the staff of tra vellers, managers, and clerks (many of whom have been in the establishment from the commencement of the business) may be retained. Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and of the Contract for Purchase, can be seen at the Offices of the Company, Brokers, and Solicitors. Applications for shares must be accompanied by a deposit of El per share on the number of shares required, Prospectuses and forms of application may be had at the Offices of the Company, and of the National Bank of Scotland, 37, Nicholas-lane, E.C.; Messrs. Crosley and Burn, 24, Birchin lane, E.C.; Messrs. Robins and Barber, 29, Threadneedle-street, E.C.; and Messrs. Good and Daniels, 7, Poultry, B.C. THE WOOD-STREET WAREHOUSE COM PANY (LIMITED).--Notioe is hereby given, that the LIST of APPLICATIONS for SHARES in the above Company will be CLOSED for LONDON on WEDNESDAY NEXT, and for the COUNTRY on THURSDAY NEXT, at four o'clock p.m. on each day. By order, H. J. WESTRUP, Secretary. pro tern. 100, Wood-street,! December 17, 1870. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AQUA AMARELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO.. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. - It is now,offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also Bs., 7s. ed., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Bed Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 92, upper Thames-street, Lon don, E.O. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DIIIIRY-LANE -- A Domestic Hercules. Romeo and Juliet. Phobus's Fix. HAYmAnKET—The Wolf and the Lamb. Tho Palace of Truth. Uncle's Will. Blue Devils. VAnDEviLLE--Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. The Idle 'Prentice. ST. JAmEs's—To Oblige Benson. Fernande. Christ mas Eve. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predihment. Nell and (Bur lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. GAlETY—Happy Village. Fra Diavolo. Trombalcalzar. QUEEN'S—Aunt Charlotte's Maid. Richelieu. Day after the Wedding. "Ballot. Vicar of STANDARD —The Wife's Tragedy. Wakefield, HOLBORN—The Married Bachelor. The 0(.1,1A. Jezabe' *".; f try? - Slut LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1870. IT is only of late years that sanitary science has been in any way systematically applied to the purposes of administration. A benevolent physician of the last generation, Dr. SOUTHWOOD SMITH, ac quired during his eminently useful lifetime, the reputation of having been one of the principal pro moters of this admirable movement. During his career, he was one 'of the, world's practical bene factors. He helped to purify, to a considerable extent, the homes and haunts of his fellow crea tures. He directed his energies to the emulation of one at least of the mythical labours Oi HERCULES. The proper drainage of London alone, and the adequate ventilation of the dwelling houses its three million inhabitants, reduce the task of cleaning the Augean stables to insignificance, when brought for an instant into comparison. Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than the radical altera tion of the habits of a people. A trans formation of that kind requires time im peratively for its accomplishment. The endeavour to effect it, however, was commenced in earnest not many years after the beginning of the present century. There had lung been a half-conscious recognition of the truths of the latent or dormant science, as evidenced in such a scrap of old-world wisdom as that condensed into the immemorial proverb that " Cleanliness is next to Godliness." The far seeing founder of Mahometanism—wise in his generation—made daily ablutions part of his ritual, made personal cleanliness an integral portion of his religion. Strenuous as have been the efforts made by our sanitary reformers the dissemination of the really beneficent truths they have had to enforce upon the popular recognition, the fact, unhappily, remains, even now, strikingly self-evident, that their emissaries have all the while been talking in a language in respect to the knowledge of which the people at large have not as yet got through their primer, even if they have advanced sufficiently far to acquire more than the alphabet. Hence it is humiliating enough to know that it is to the despised Turk, to the Mussulman race—who:aro generally supposed"to by so little advanced on the path of civilisation—that the Christian communities of Western Europe have been indebted for the revival, through the Hammam of the East, of the classic baths of Pagan antiquity, the most efficacious means the world has yet discovered for ensuring bodily purification. The only difference between the • classic bath of two thousand years ago and the bath of now-a-days adapted from Turkey, being the abandonment of: the striyil, and the substitution for it of the system of manual shampooing. Again, just precisely as the despised Mussulmans were enjoying what the self-complacent Christians of Western Europe were blindly groping for until yesterday—in a totally opposite direc- THE GREAT MISTAKE. There can be little question that the Germans have been subjected to what is termed " a sell" touching the resistance of Paris. When the•siege commenced it was stated in the French newspapers that the city was provisioned for two months ; and the calculation was universally accepted, not so much from a feeling of trust in what the French papers said, as from the difficulty of believing that large provision could have, been made for such an immense population. The delusion proves to !lava been complete. The correspondents of the Cologne Gazette and the Daily News—two of the best war writers—agree that the Germans were completely at fault. The siege has already lasted three months, and the Germans now seem convinced that they had better prepare for several weeks' more work. •Some of the calculations now made seem, indeed, to be too favourable to the French. The Spectator says : —"After a careful comparison of all statements, we come to the conclusion that the city retains enough meat, principally horse, to give the people two full meals a week, and the soldiers four, till March ; and enough bread, chocolate, and wine for three months." This is perhaps too liberal ; but it is clear that some weeks' resistance is left in the capital, and there Is no knowing what may turn up in that time. THE LATE SORTIES. An important mistake seems to have been almost universally made in this country with respect to the great sortie from Paris on the 30th of November. It has always been understood that the French abandoned the advanced positions in the great bend of the Marne which they held after three days' fighting. It is true that they drew off the great masses of troops which occupied them, but it was a delusion to suppose that the places were given up altogether. On the contrary, it now transpires that fresh batteries have been pushed out in that direction, and some of the heavy guns in the forts removed to arm these new works. The positions on the Marno are held, and large bodies of German troops are watching them. What may be the value to the French of Champigny and the district round about it is another question. It furnishes•an excellent starting point; but, on the other hand, the Germans are forewarned, and able to take special precautions. FRENCH ANIMOSITY AGAINST GERMANS. The animosity of the French against the Ger mans threatens to have a very injurious effect on classes who are by no means responsible for the war. It is well known that large numbers of Germans have been in the habit of getting their living in France, and these were among the very first sufferers by the hostilities, as they had to give up their employments, and leave their adopted country. But it now appears that even with the restoration of peace their old careers will not be open to them. Nearly 200 bankers, stockbrockers, and merchants of Paris have come to a formal agreement not here after to take a German into their service. Some persons maintain that Germans . ought not in future to be admitted into France at all as resi dents. This, of course, is simply preposterous, but it shews the strength of the prevailing feeling, and it is certain that Germans will find it very difficult to get employment in France. In some places all foreigners are alike put under the ban. Marseilles has always been a great resort of strangers, as was natural from its position as a great trading port. But now it is ordained that Frenchmen alone are to be employed in public works. NATIONAL DEFENCES. At a gathering in the _Royal Artillery Institution, Woolwich, General Eardley Wilmot pronounced in favour of a combination between the Army, Militia, and Volunteers. The regular army felt that the service should not sustain the whole ENGLISH AND AMERICAN THEATRES. Recently a discussion was undertaken in the papers, respecting the 'difference in the prices of admission to theatres in America and England. Mr. Boucicault wrote in favour of the American cheap tariff, and urged that a fee of 2s. for admission to all parts of a theatre would be profitable. Several London ma nagers declared that high fees paid, as a rule, better than small ones, and some members of the theatrical profession threw doubt upon Mr. Boucicault's allega tion that a- two-shilling price of admission was most general and remunerative in America. - Mr. Bouci cault, according to his own account, , " was so astonished" that he waited to see what the Anieri can press said on the subject, and as the New York, Clipper has just declared that Mr Boucicault "in the main was right," and that persons can always get a good seat in a respectable part of the house at a much loWer rate than in England, the distin guished 'playwright publishes another letter in the Daily Telegraph with some degree of uncalled-for cruelty, and says: " As to the letters addressed to you by some of your self advertising correspondents, I could have wished, for the credit of the theatre, that they had been addressed to you from a circus." This is very hail' language, but Mr. Boucicault is a terrible man to argue with. YACHTING. An endeavour is to be made to amalgamate the metropolitan yacht clubs so as to form " one grand Yacht Squadron on the Thames," with the Prince of Wales as commodore. It is thought, too, that the Prince will accept; but this probability does not lead the Field, which makes the announcement, to ex pect any success from the plan. " The multiplicity of clubs at present existing is entirely owing to the dissensions and real or supposed defects that inevit ably arise in all similar institutions, and wo cannot hope, if a combination did take place as suggested, that it would work so harmoniously as to remain for several years intact." No doubt a Grand Thames 'Yacht Squadron would have its advantages, in pro moting a most useful and creditable form of enjoy ment, and there can be equally little question that the present subdivision causes much inconvenience ; but the dream of blissful unity is well nigh beyond hope. A RAID IN PATAGONIA. Lieutenant Musters has done a gallant and useful feat. Landing in April, 1869, in the Chilian penal settlement in the Straits of Magellan, he made friends with a Patagoniau caciique, named ()Aldo, studied his people, learned their language, joined their hunting parties, and finally induced them to join him in a march of 700 miles to the Rio Negro. The journey lasted many months, and severe were the struggles for food. In May, 1870, Lieutenant Musters marched eastwards down the valley of the Rio Negro, and finally debouched at its mouth within the Argentine Republic. Nobody had ever been through Patagonia before. Terrible stories have been told of the giants who inhabit that mysterious region, but Lieutenant Musters found them pleasant people, and a great exception to savages in general, in displaying much affection for their wives and children. The climate is cold. zl i r9W /Af. Irt HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 18. The Queen drove not yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice.. Her Majesty, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prin cess Beatrice, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included their Royal Highnesses the Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, Earl Granville, and M. and Miss Van de Weyer. ILLNESS OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. We regret to hear that his Royal 'Highness the Duke of Cambridge is seriously ill with his old complaint, the gout.—Standard. CHURCH AND STATE. Service was held in St. Thomas Church, Cropper-lane, Bradford, on Friday evening, when a sermon was preached by the Bishop of Manchester. In the course of his remarks the Bishop dealt with the position of the Church of England and the question of national education. He asserted that the State and when he spoke of the State he did S not mean this or that form of Government, whether monarchy, or aristocracy, or democracy, or by whatever other name forms of Government might be known ; he meant the state as a form of civil society which might presumedly differ in different ages of the world, and different countries—was for its function as divine in its origin and in its purpose as the Church was in her origin, and for her purpose. This posi tion was not affected by the fact that the functions of the one had a higher aim than the functions of the other. The prin ciple of his position was no more than that asserted by St. Paul, that there, was no power civil or spiritual but of God. In all compacts between ecclesiastical and civil, between political and spiritual powers, there must be, from the nature of the case, advantages and disadvan tages on both sides, but in his opinion the advantages largely preponderated. Though the clergy, the bishops, the priests, and the deacons did not derive their spiritual functions, as Erastia,nism asserted, from the civil magis trate nor from any Act of Parliament, still no one could deny that the legal position of the clergy, their secure possession of their rights and the unimpeded exercise of their prerogatives, were secured to them by the State, by the law. He was going a step further. There were cer tain things even of a moral and religious character which it seemed to him the State could do more effectually than the Church could; the State contained more power, more secular power, and the things he spoke of were things which required secular power. For instance, one of these things was the development, adequately to the wants of the people, of anational system of education. His lordship spoke favourably of the Education Act as a whole, although he did nut agree with some particular parts of it. He was, not, however, too sanguine as to the results, in the want of any general and pronounced feeling in favour of education in England. He urged the duty of all denominations to do their utmost to promote the working of the Act without thought of party advantage or disadvantage. At the close of the service a collection wasmade on behalf of the schools at present in course of erection in connection with St. Thomas's Church. THE FARNESE PALACE.—We read in the Opinione that on the 2nd of this month a contract was agreed upon by which the ex-Emperor Napoleon sold to the Italian Government the Farnese Gardens in Rome, with the Palace of the Csars, the museums and objects of art found there, for the sum of 650,000 francs (226,000), adding an express desire that the excavations should be continued, and that Professor Rosa should be still retained to continue the superintendence of them. The agreement on the part of the Emperor was arranged by Signor Arese, one of the senators, and Professor Rosa called in to witness the signing. The latter, seeing the letter of his unfortunate friend the ex-Emperor, became deeply moved. The deed was confirmed by Count Arese and Sella, the Minister of Finance. It is needless to add that the wishes of Napoleon will be scrupulously carried out. — Builder. LITERATURE. ♦ • Champagne, its History and Manufactures. By C. Tovey. One Vol. pp. 140. J. C. Hotten. • A delicious little volume about Champagne, descriptive of the country, the wine; the manufacture, the bottling, and all about it, has just come refreshing from the press through Mr. Hotten's establishment in Paccadilly. France is the vineyard of Europe, and Champagne is the garden of France. It is this beautiful grape land which has been for the last six months deluged with blood, devastated by the invading and de fending armies, and forcibly taken possession of by the German conqueror. Opening Mr. Tovey's charming book, we revert to Champagne as it was, not as it We see it in all its pristine luxuriance, productiveness , and industry. We, traverse it from end to end—from Rheims in the north to Vertus in the south, from Dormack in the west to Chalons in the east—the core or centre of it all being Epernay. The letterpress is as sparkling and effervescent as the wine itself, and scattered through it are a number of very, pretty lithographic illustrations. In times of peace, not in these ghastlytiines of war, 40,000,000 bottles of champagne are produced each season. Black grapes and white grapes, : ,Ay and Cramant, Verzeng and Avi•ze, Perrier-Jouet, and Cliquot, with all the rest of them—here, those• who list, may learn all about them, at pleasure (having read the book ourselves) , we may premiSe also, and with pleasure. Th mere account given in these pages of the tirage cc boutcilles, which begins about April, is full of interest. The fermentation of the wine continues even after bottling, the breakages being about ten per cent., in spite of every precaution. The wine is then brut or raw. After standing for weeks, neck downwards, for the settling of the sediment on the cork, comes the critical moment for the process of the degorgcment. The liqueur made of sugar candy and o ld cognac, is added by the chopineur in place of the ex• pelled sediment. The boucheur then takes it in hand• The nectar stored in glass, is corked, tied with string, wired and capsuled. Time perfects the liquid. And thin is produced fok the palates of the luxurious what Mr. Tovey himself so admirably well describes—the wine of all wines—Champagne. AN AWKWARD INCIDINT. At tho banquet held in LiVerpool in honOUr of the Royal Albert Asylum, under the presidency of Lord Derby, the harmony of the evening was tem porarily interrupted by an outburst of professional enthusiasm. Colonel Shute, of .the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons, was . called upon to reply to the toast of the Services, and he seized the occasion appropriate in the letter but not in the spirit—to anathematise the reductions in the army. Ile did not, it is true s specify by whom they had been made, but when he went en to deplore the pernicious tampering of "quacks who were utterly ignorant of all the details of the military profession, as ignorant as they were unscrupulous in craving for, public notoriety at the expense of the army," a gentlemen present . , whose zeal was more demon strative than complimentary, interrupted the speaker, declaring that he was reflecting upon her Majesty's Government. Lord Derby, when appealed to, inter posed with his usual calm judgment and good sense, by suggesting that disputes had better be avoided, and that while he did not suppose the gallant Colonel intended anything like a party attack, the subjects he selected for discussion were scarcely suitable to the meeting. The distinguished Conservative was rewarded for his efforts, and the irate supporter of Mr. Gladstone *as consoled, by the remark of Mr. Gray, .M.P., that for his part he thought neither political party deserved much credit for the reductions which both claimed in turn. THE COTTON TRADE. A. great conference has been held at Manchester by delegates of the factory operatives. Eighty-nine deputies were present, representing sixty-five or ganized bodies of all branches of the cotton trade, and twenty nine districts in the four counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, and Derbyshire. The greater part of the mills are now running full time,.but the spinners and weavers complain that the badness of the material produces a sensible effect on their wages in consequence of the frequent'stoppages. The prospects of the trade are on the whole gool. Resolutions were passed at the meeting of the, dele gates in favour of the reduction of the hours of labour on Saturday, and of the settlement of all dif , ferences between employers and employed by arbi tration. The operatives are anxious to bring the hours of labour to fifty-eight per week, and they are supported in this view by a number of the employers, while others oppose it on commercial groufids. In presence of these conflicting views, and . in the ab sence of Boards of Arbitration, the delegates re solved to submit the question to Parliament. THE 'VALUE OF VACCINATION. The present epidemic of smallpox in London has formed the subject of discussion at the Epidemio logical Society, at which Dr. Seaton, the President, delivered an important address. He said that in the ordinary course of events, London was visited by an epidemic of smallpox about every three 'years, and other great towns every four or five. The most striking facts which he mentioned, however, were in reference to the vaccination question. Nearly half the fatal cases of smallpox occurred in two eastern parishes of London, in which the guardians bad shaken hands with the promoters of the Anti- Vaccination League. In Bethnal Green the disease was almost always extant, and this is not surprising * , seeing that there are 4,000 children about whose vaccination no return could be made. Among the unions who bad carried out the Act thoroughly Dr. Seaton mentioned Poplar, which had suffered severely during former epidemics, 112 persons dying from smallpox in the outbreak of 1867. Now, thanks doubtless to the Vaccination Act, it has returned only eleven deaths out of the 281 of the eastern unions. In Paris the large increase of small pox during the siege is attributable to the entry of so many un protected people from the country. • THOSE GUARDIANS. The relation between parish guardians and the smallpox question is a serious one. It is no secret that some of the London functionaries favour the anti-vaccination agitation, and one country board absolutely refused to put the Act of Parliament into operation. The medical profe3sion generally are in favour of vaccination; but if any third-rate practi tioner desires to obtain a little notoriety by lecturing on the opposite side, nothing is easier than to get a parochial magnate to, take the chair ; it adds dignity to the proceedings, and it gratifies the said magnates, who dearly love to snap their fingers at the law. A. man can, indeed, disbelieve in vaccination if he pleases ; but compulsory pro tection of this kind is ;the law of the land. guardians have much to do with the administration of this Act; and yet it is the special doctrine of the Anti-Vaccination League that people should at all costs refuse to comply with the law. On the whole, considering the prevalence of the epidemic, it may be as well to inquire into the application by guar dians of the compulsory principle. LEGAL FICTIONS. • - The persecuting entanglementS of our legal code have of late years not been so forcibly presented to us as in a case which came 'before the South Lancashire Judge of Assize last week. In the summer a barman named Swift was indicted for " assulting, beating, and wounding with intent to murder " a Mr. Proctor, a Liverpool publican. In asecond count he was charged with " as saultin g,bea tin g,and wounding" the said Proctor " with intent to do grievous bodily harm." At the first trial his counsel raised a technical objection on the ground that a wound was, in a legal sense, a breaking of the skin, and that in this case the skin had not been broken. The judge held that the objection was sound, and the indictment was quashed. At a second trial last week the accused was led into the dock in a weak state, and was charged under the amended indictments of " intent to murder," and "intent to do grievous bodily harm." The prisoner's counsel at first con tended that the man having once been put up on his trial could not be again indicted, but this the judge overruled, on the ground that the p,ccused had not been tried before by a jury. Later on the prisoner's counsel said the man would plead guilty to the . second charge but the prisoner, on being asked if he would plead, said that he would not, Eventually it struck the judge that the man seemed to be a wretched maniac AS he had to be held up at the bar by two warders. The surgeon at the borough gaol refuted this theory, however, and the case was allowe 1 to proceed. The prisoner was again asked if he withdrew the plea of guilty, and a warder, speaking for him, said he did. The Judge, who did not seem to think the prisoner understood all that was going on, said he must be put upon his trial. The case' was, however, adjourned, and the accused was carried, apparently helpless, out of court. _ THF. FRUGAL MARRIAGE QUESTION. What seems an irrational extension of autlio- rity, has been promulgated in a circular just distri buted by the directors of one of the chief London banking establishments among their clerks. It is ordered, upon pain of instant dismissal, that no one in the service of the directors Shall contract marriage while in receipt of a salary under £l5O a year. Viewing the diCtatorial circular in a philosophical spirit one would be inclined to think it wise in its object, but, taking into considera tion the fact that bank proprietors are in the habit of increasing the emoluments of their clerks by very insignificant augmentations annually, the hardship . of the regulation forces itself upon us. In London it is very hard for a young couple to live on less than £l5O a year, and doubtless the directors have been influenced by many examples of woe; but cut and dried rules are scarcely a promising way of regulating matrimony, It is very awkward for even the happy possessor of £l5O a year to maintain a family ; therefore, for the thike of consistency, the directors should impose a limit in this direction too. KELLY'S DIRECTORIES FOR 1871. The Messrs. Kelly's marvellous work " The Post Office London Directory for 1871 " has just appeared. We have so often had to speak in terms of the highest praise of this positive necessity to the commercial and trading com munity that on the present occasion we can only repeat our commendation for the care and accuracy with which the whole of the vast information has been compiled. M a specimen, we append a few instances of recent correc tions in the Directory, chewing the date to which the information is brought down. . _ The name of Mr. George Hume, the late Taxing Master in Chancery, whose death was announced Nov. 23rd, has been taken out of Chancery Offices in the Law Directory, p. 1860, and removed from the official index, p. 62. Mr. Charles Cavendish Clifford, the new member for Newport, Isle of White, gazetted Nov. 25th, is inserted in the Parliamentary, pp. 2,163 and 2,173, and Court Directory, p. 1,986. Archdeacon Hale, whose death was notified Nov. 28th, has been taken out of official index, p. 58, and Clerical Directory, pp. 2,204 and 2,227. The late member for Meath county (Mr. Corbally), whose death appeared in the papers, Nov. 29th, has been removed from the Parliamentary pp. 2,163 and 2,174, and Court p. 1,991. Lord Byron's death announced Nov. 30th, caused alte rations in the Parliamentary pp. 2,148, 2,151, and 2,15 8 - Mr; Walmsley, late of the Bill Office, House of Lords, and Mr. Goodwin, late of the Privy Seal Office, whose decease was announced Dec. 2nd, have been removed'frco the official index and list of Government.offices. The " Directory for the Six Home Counties " is also another marvel of accuracy. In size it has vastly in creased, but this arises principally from the additional number of. inhabited houses in these counties. The last volume contained 2,386 pages, whilst the present numbers 2,860, being an increase of 474 pages. The work i 5 worthy the publishers of the Post Office Directory, and the thanks of the pubic are eminently due to the enter prising firm that has produced such valuable and highly useful information. THE NEW GENERAL POST OFFICE. On Friday, Mr. Ayrton, M.P., the First Commissioner of Works, publicly laid the chief corner stone of the new General Post Office, an extensive and commodious edifice of fine proportions, now in course of erection in St. Martin's-le-Grand, in front of the existing establishment there. The Marquis of Hartington, as Postmaster-General, had expected to be present on the occasion, but was obliged to forego his intention at the last moment. The cere mony, which was interesting in many respects, was conducted in the presence of the heads and other principal officers of the various administrative departments of the General Post-office, including Mr. Tilley, the secretary Mr. F. J. Scudamore, the second, and Mr. F. Hills, the assistant secretary ; Mr. W. Page, Mr. A. Benthall, Mr. R. Parkhurst, Mr. Baines, Mr. Baker, Dr. Waller Lewis, Mr. Hobart, private secretary to the Postmaster - General ; Mr. Ashurst, the solicitor, and Mr. R. W Peacock, assistant-solicitor; Mr. George Chetwynd' Receiver and Accountant - General ; Mr. John Mitford, of the same department ; Mr. Farmer, chief clerk in the Money - order office ; Mr. Boucher, Controller of the Circulation Department ment ; Mr. W. Rushton, chief clerk, and Messrs. If Mellersh and J. C. Lovett, sub-controllers ; Mr. F. Salie bury, postmaster of the eastern central district ; Mr Wallicker, postmaster of Hull ; Mr. Gould, clerk Of works ; Mr. Deputy White, and many more. The ne'n' building will be of four storeys and have four fronts, two each 286 ft. in length—one towards St. Martin's-le-Gland 'and the other in Bath-street ; and two each 144 ft. long- - one in Newgate-street and the other in Angel-street. It will be faced with granite to the height of sft. ahovs the pavement, and the superstructure will be of Portland stone throughout. The first two storeys will be ono' mented with Doric pilasters, and the two upper storeys with Corinthian pilasters. The principal or centre' ell trance in St. Martin's-le-Grand will consist of a Doric portico, surmounted by columns and an entablature of the Corinthian order. DOG DUTY.—The annual ss. tax was paid on 1,140,727 dogs in Great Britain in the financial year 1869' 70. In Ireland the tax is but 25., and about half A million dogs are on the register. THE REPRESENTATION OF MALLOW.—A rumour is current that Mr. Waters, Q.C., brother-in-law of Lora Chancellor O'Hagan, and member for Mallow, is about to be provided for in a legal situation , possibly the chairman' ship vacant by the death of Mr. Charles Shaw, in which event it is believed that Major Knox would be ready once more to contest the borough. - - 4 MAN KILLED AT STOURBRIDGE.—A marl? named Samuel Brooks, elnployed as a yardsman at Stour" bridge, was found dead on the railway in that town, at seven o'clock on Saturday morning. The body was dread fully mutilated, both hands and legs being cut off. It is supposed that he stepped out of the way of a train on to the down line, and was struck by a down train. Unfor' tunately, he leaves a wife and family. FISH FROM IRELAND.--11l the year 1869 11,06 0 boxes of salmon arrived at Liverpool from Ireland ; the average contents of a box are stated at 18 fish, 1201 b. ; 8,880 boxes of salmon were delivered and sold in Billing's' gate Market consigned from the Irish fisheries in 1 869 ; also 23,000 boxes and barrels of herrings, of the value of £47,000; 8,800 boxes of mackerel, of the value of £17,400; and 300 boxes of codfish, of the value of £B5O —Times: SELF-REWARDING BENEFICENCE*--The Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford, have decided not to hold a " gaudy" this year, and to devote to expenses at' tendant on the festive gathering to the fund for aiding tho sufferers in the present war. Their example has been fel' lowed by the authorities of Magdalen College, who haT e . notified that their annual Christmas - eve entertainm ent will not be given, and that the amount so saved will be devoted to the same good object. PROPOSED TUNNEL UNDER SCARBOROUGH.--T h° Scarborough Town Council, at the last monthly meeting' remitted to a committee a proposal from Mr. J. F. Fair bank, C.E., to unite the North Sands with the South Bel by a tunnel under the town. The report of the COl' mittee recommends that the council grant the application of , onreceipt of plans and guarantee of subscription capital, on condition that the work is completed i o n tw years. from the Ist of January, 1871, that indemniti, against damage and loss be given, and that an a nnua , consideration — at first 10s.—be given. H IGH WAY ROBBERY IN DERBYSHIRE. At the Derby Assizes, on Friday , Jo hn Brassine'ton, a publican, was indicted for highway robbery at Mickleover. The p ro secutor, a farmer, named Dean, living at Burnaston. left the prisoner's house, about nine in the evening. 00 his way home he was followed by Brassington, and an accomplice named Webster, and when he reached a dark lane they knocked 'him down and rifled his pockets of a evidence aaainst the money, and a receipt on the Uttoxeter Bank for 260 Webster was liberated cn gives prisoner, who was sentenced by gr. Justice By'lea to too years' penal servitude. BREAKFAST.—EPPEN COCOA..--GRATEFUL AND Co FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation 1 a rendered it ageneral favourite. The Civil Service Gazette e r marks By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws whiel; govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by careful application of the fine properties of welbsolected coeof., Mr. Epps has provi ded our breakfast tables with a delica o r flavoured'fte!? et w hi c h may save us m an y h ea vy doct , bills." i s labelled—JAMES EPPS ct CO., 1101101", Each be v p e a r e t e p a thic Monists , L ondon. Also, mak ers of Epps's Cacaoi ne, ve ry thin evening beverage. —Advt. SEC LATE RUMO The pal en attemp lu which I killed, an Prisoned, 1 unconfinni no advicee Paris. The Gc abandoniu Saint Aigi camp of 8. The alle the evacui contradict The fig] very 1361761 Vendome. the left ha railway at Before the 15th, over the I Yesterday broken frc The 111 holding th re-occupio The 0 Evreux, Fe2amp. REP i A. repo] ferenco ri neutral P Tuesday, basis p' acquiesce aeknowle, France si to raze Alsace, Count MI pay more of territo' Anotho sent to P bombard( short. promise I bardmen The F burg hal are place The g( Paris ma hard fig surrende Orleans for the the arm: der Tai Frederic Manteuf he cam rumoure Would s( The si health v Wehr thi program The c discusse Wiser ti to the i houses f southws Althc receive pression GermaE The Ge of Paris 0 ! Fran success, adhered The layed iz Mass cennes, Gene quarter tear L: over ti within The 200 waggoi Gem 30 men EV. A de Banks, by a a evacua All 9 Meekll occupil tow]; 1 , Duk© I Predei before ante, i enemy It if in whi T 1