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

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Chatterion. l'irst Morning Performance of the Pantomime on Saturday, Dec. 28, and every Wednesday and Satur day until Feb. 15. Children and schools admitted at reduced prices to . the following parts of the Theatre :-- Stalk, dress circle, and first circle, for Morning Per formance only. —On BOXING NIGHT (Thursday), Dec. 21i, and every evening until further notice, will be per formed a new and original Farce, by R. Reece, Esq., en titled HON EYDOVE'S TROUBLES. Characters by Messrs. Joseph hying, C. Warner, J. Morris; Mes dames Kate Harfleur and E. Melville. After which will be performed the Drury Lano annual grand Christmas Pantomime, written by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., entitled FAW FEE FO FU3I ; or, Harlequin Jack the Giant Killer. The gorgeously beautiful scenery by Mr. William Beverley. The characters in the opening: Miss Poole, Mesdames Edith Stuart, Kate Harfleur, E. Mel ville, Carew, Blair, Corri, Amy Herbert, Hall, and Anais Tourneur, premiere danseuse ; Mr. Joseph Irving (his first appearance this season), Messrs. Moreland, J. B. Johnstone, Naylor, Pennington, Mitcheson ; Master Edward Lewis, Master Frederick Charles, and Master Russell, the living Miniatures ; Master Percy Roselle. The Harlequinade includes the services of those popu lar pantomimists (forming a treble company), Messrs. Bolen° ' C. Lauri, and Tom Dot, clowns ; Messrs. Barnes, Morris, and Master Russel, pantaloons; Messrs. Cormack, S. Saville, and Algar, harlequins ; Messrs. Sidney and Jelina, sprites; Mdlles. Fanny Lauri, Adele Marion, and Eugenie Valckenacre, columbines. The Juvenile Christy's Minstrels Majilton the Gro tesque ; and the celebrated Skaters, Madame Fredreka and Mr. Elliott: Stage Manager, Mr. Edward Stirling. The mask., designs, and dresses, from designs by the humorously-renowned Dyk-Wyn-Kyn. The music selected and arranged by Mr. J. H. Tully. The dances and action of the Ballet, and the general business of the children's scenes, arranged by Mr. John Cormack. Costumes by Mr. S. May and Mrs. Lawler. Private boxes, one, two, three, four, and five guineas ; stalls, is. ; dress circle, Sc.; first circle, 4s. ; balcony seats, 3s. ; pit 25.; lower gallery, ls. ; upper gallery i 6d. Box-office open from ten to five daily. Doors open at half-past six, the performance to commence at seven o'clock. T HEATRE ROYAL, lIA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. TO-MORROW EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Mr. Sothern; Raymond, Chippendale, Rogers, Gordon, Braid, Clark, Coe, &c.; Mesdames Chippendale, Robertson, Dalton, Wright, Burke, &c. After which, the New BURLESQUE; Messrs, Rogers, Clark, Braid, &c.: Mesdames Burke, Daiwa, Wright, &c. To conclude with A KISS IN THE DARK. Mr. Clark, Mr. Gordon, &c Commence at Seven. lIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. TO-MORROW (Thursday) UP FOR THE CATTTLE SHOW. After which, at 8, NO THOROUGHFARE. Mr. Fechter (his first appearance here), Mr. Billington, Mr. 11. Neville, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. J. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin Webster; Miss Carlotta Leclerc(' (her first appearance), Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mce rs. H. 7. Lewis, &c. Commen at OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. New Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. TG-MORROW, FROM GRAVE TO GAY. Messrs. H. Neville, H. Wigan, Addison, and C. Mathews; Mesdames L. Moore and Stirling. -- To conclude with PETTICOAT PARLIAMENT. Messrs. R. Souter and G. Vincent; Mesdames L. Moore, St. Henry, and E. Farren. Commence at Seven. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. On Boxing Night, Grand Combination of the Two Great Dramas, THE COLLEEN BAWN and THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mr. sad Mrs. Dion Boucicault as Myles na Coppaleen and Eily O'Connor, and Mr. Vining as Badger. Messrs. Dominick Murray, J. G. Shore, G. F. Neville, H. For rester, H. Mellon, E. Atkins; Misses Elsworthy, E. Barnett, Rachel Sanger, and Mrs. Addie. Doors open at half-past G, commence at 7. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. First appearance of Mr. J. L. TOOLE. BOXING-NIGHT, Dec. 26, 1867, and Every Evening, Shalc spere's Comedy of KATHERINE AND PETRUCHIO. Mr. H. Irving, Mr. W. H. Stephens; Miss Kate Terry. After which, DOING FOR THE BEST; Mr. J. L. Toole. To conclude with TILE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS; Mr. J. L. Toole. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. IIOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. TO-MORROW, at Seven, THE TWO POLTS. Messrs. E Price and Withlicombe. After which, the Grand Comic Pantomime of VALENTINE AND ORSON; or, Harlequin the Big Bear and the Little Fairy. Mesdames Saunders, Goodall, White; Messrs. Garden, Odell Arthur; Mille. Montero, Miss Ellis, Lupino, Green, and the Great Little Rowella. • ROYAL STRANI) THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorough. 'On BOXING NIGHT. at 7, KIND TO A FAULT. After which will be - produced a Grand Christmas Operatic Oriental Extravaganza •• THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD " Messrs. Thorne, James, Turner, Murray; Mesdames A. Swanhorough, Johnstone, Harland, Holt, .\ ewton, &c. To conclude with NOTHING TO NURSE. CANTERBURY HALL.-NEW MANAGEMENT. —W. HOLLAND, Sole Lessee, late Proprietor of Weston's Music Hall, High Holborn, will RE-OPEN on BOXIN G NIGHT, December 2G, this favourite old established Music Hall Great Alterations and Improvements are being made, and an entire new Company, comprising most of the popular artistes of the day, will have the honour of appearing. W. Holland's known liberality as caterer for the entertainment of the public is a sufficient guarantee that the amusements will be both novel and unequalled. A new grand Ballet will be produced, under the direction of Mr. Fred. Evans, of the Alhambra, and Crystal Palace. Full particulars duly announced. The Bars will be under entire new management, and every article will be of the choicest quality, prices of which are greatly reduced. Admission —Balcony and At ea., Cd.; Stalls, superbly carpeted, ls. REMEMBER-BOXIN G N 'GUT. LoxD ox , TrEILVESDAY, DEC. 25, 1567 The approach of Christmas with ',its holidays and social gatherings is always welcome in England, where old customs, especially if they are associated with our domestic feeelings, are warmly and stead fastly [cherished. It is well that it should be so, for we have not too many holidays, and if we lost our traditional Christmas we should find it hard to find its place. In the press and hurry of modern life there is not much time for the cultivation of the more kindly and genial feelings, and it is well that once a year they should be brought into active pl a y. What with Christmas parties, Christmas pre sents, and Christmas family gatherings, the most lonely and misanthropical amongst us must once in the twelvemonth be shaken out of his isolation and made to acknowledge his kinship with hu manity. Even EBENEZER SCROOGE of famous memory, with all his hatred of Christmas, could not shut out the genial reminders of the season, and found it impossible to forget that it was " merry Christmas." The yeas of grace 1867, however, does not bring our old friend with such a pleasant face as usual. The Fenians, if they have not succeeded in any of their more ambitious objects, have at least the churlish satisfaction of knowing that they have produced a sensible effect on Christmas rejoicings. To some little circles they have brought bereavement and mourning in place of ,cheerful laughter and the well-spread board. The quadruple funeral which passed through Clerkenwell a day or two ago represented but a small portion of the desolation and misery which a few reckless and daring miscreants con trived to work in the space of a few minutes. Those who have visited the ruins and caught a glimpse of the remains of little cheerful firesides suddenly de stroyed, and the tokens of simple domestic life tell ing their melancholy story to tottering walls and empty air, will give a thought to the sad Christmas of the Fenian victims of Clerkenwell. Instead of jovial reunions and hearty, if humble festivities, they are spending their Christmas tossing on beds of constant pain and danger, tended by strange hands, surrounded by strange faces. They had little reason a few weeks since to foresee so sad a close to the year, and it will be long if ever before they can again spend " a merry Christmas," or welcome with renewed life and energy " a happy New Year." Then, in addition to this melancholy story, the Fenian worthies will contrive to spoil the Christmas of the many hundreds who have to guard the property of themselves or others from attack. The men on duty in many large establish ments will not be more inclined to sympathise with the schemes of the Brotherhood for spending a dull Christmas among counting houses and stores. Luckily our authorities are now so much on the alert, and our population is so thoroughly aroused from its characteristic apathy in matters of the kind, that the mischievous conspira tors will have less opportunity of putting their ne farious schemes into effect. There is no vigilance like that of officials who feel their own interests directly concerned in the effectual discharge of their duties, and in this way we may readily believe that the thousands of special constables who have within the last few days enrolled themselves for the pro tection of the metropolis will prove very efficient guardians of the public peace. The strength and unanimity of the prevailing sentiment has displayed itself strongly in the eagerness with which volunteers have pressed forward, and we may hope that their so doing will convey a useful lesson not only to the disaffected in the sister country, and to the Fenians scattered among ourselves, but to the Americans and Irish Americans across the Atlantic. Whatever opinion they may have of our constitu tion, we are making it quite plain to the world in general that we are thoroughly satisfied with it ourselves, and that whatever faults we may find with our Government and our governors we are not disposed to entrust the task of Reform to other hands. The performances of the Fenian Brother hood, so far as they have as yet shown themselves, are not calculated to inspire much confidence .n their administrative capacity any more than in their mutual confidence and agreement. Fenianism, when allowed iu New York as much latitude as its leaders could wi,h for, soon passed from the sublime to the ridiculous, and the quarrels and dhisensions of the leaders; and their lavish appropriation of the funds entrusted to them, pro voked the satire and contempt of the keen-witted Americans. It would not he possible to make the same experiment here, but their dupes would pro bably be as much surprised as any one if they could see the result of it. The fact of the matter, very , likely, is that the so-called " dangerous classes,' who live upon their ' fellows, are glad to associate themselves with more mischievous and turbulent spirits, who have taken up Fenianism as a profession ; more especially since darkness and fire are to be the attendant satellites of Fenian avengers, burglars and pickpockets may find it de sirable to become suddenly imbued with a sense of the wrongs of Ireland. In other matters the Christmas of 1867 is not altogether a cheerful one. The exceptional mild ness of the season, indeed, has been a blessing to the poor, but the condition of the East-end parishes, where chronic destitution always prevails, and where the dullness of trade has been painfully felt, is more than usually distressing. Here, again, too, however national energy and benevolence came to the rescue, and there is no lack of willing hearts and hands to succour the needy and comfort the afflicted. Thus although we have seen gayer Christmases, we have not seen any that should give us more confidence and satisfaction, since it is not in the time of untroubled prosperity that individuals or institutions can show what they are really worth, but when anxiety, and annoyance, and disappointment fail to shake their courage or to lessen their patriotism, their energy, and their self-reliance. It cannot be said that the aspect of things abroad is very pleasing just now, or can afford those who at this season take a glance at them comprehensively any very favourable anticipations of their future, near or distant. What with one thing or another there is much to dread in the way of a collision of interests, and those who try to render their assist ance to one nation can hardly venture to do so without offending another one. The most pre scient politician cannot say that there will not be war, and the most sanguine cannot really feel safe in expressing their hopes on the sub ject. As one dwells upon the theme what hosts of recollections throng around, and what dark memories suggest themselves to us of past wars and recent struggles for power and sordid motives of gain. A great deal of the evil that now exists may be traced to the want of principle that pervades the Continental Governments, more especially that of Prussia. We are now reaping the abundant har vest of misery and misfortune that that nation sowed with no sparing hand a few years back. Denmark may see her wrongs and injuries avenged a hundredfold in many of the painful dilem mas and difficulties that now environ and perplex the nations of Europe, paralyse trade, re strict commerce, injure the credit, and shake the confidence of communities. Where fortune has smiled upon us a great deal of the good has been counteracted by the sinister accounts and warlike rumours so rife abroad ; and when, as unhappily has been the case of late, other things have been proved adverse, bad has been made worse, and a lesser evil converted specially into a great calamity. Thus the celebrated black Friday of last year was partly owing to the state of affairs incidental to the forthcoming war between Austria and Prussia and the expected collision with France. How often during this current year, so near its close, have the funds fallen and the Bourse been de pressed through this and that report that the dark and doubtful state of affairs justified. If it were intended by a moralist to convey a practical warn- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING ) DECEMBER 25, 1867 ing of the fatal effects of evil desires and unworthy endeavours on the part of nations, no less than on that of individuals, where could he find a more im pressive illustration than in the present state of these countries, supposed some years back to be at the summit of prosperity and crowned with suc cess, present and prospective. France, to begin with, is not the France of yore ; she may regain her position and shine forth with increased force and undiminished lustre, but for the nonce she is shorn of some of her prestige through the encroachments of Prussia and the insidious snares of BISMARCK. Austria has had a heavy loss, indeed, and though she retains nominally her position among the countries of Europe, she is not whaqshe has been. Italy has in some respects made a decided advance, but then again she has lost a great part of her gain through the ill-judged and persistent attacks of fanatical enthusiasts. Even now she is disturbed in her councils, and seems likely to lore her ruling statesmen at a very hazardous and momentous time. Spain is generally not in a very satisfactory state, but at present it is worse than usual through the continual discord promoted by jealous and un principled persons. Russia is verging on a great confusion with the Eastern question in the distance, and the European nationslooking on in mistrust and disapproval. Prussia, which may be called the next successful state by some, is, in reality, far from being the happiest land, through the want of sin cerity that distinguishes its rulers, and the want of public spirit that characterises its people. We hear of liberty having made a great stride, but then, again, we know that Deputies are imprisoned for speaking their minds, and while we are told of an nexation to Prussia being earnestly sought after, we are told that very little, if any, individu ality is allowed to them. Some very short sighted politicians have presumed to lec ture us upon the superior merits of foreign nations to our own, but let practice be pre ferred to precept, and for which foreign rules or regulations would an Englishman give up his free dom and merge his independence for the show of liberty which exists under a military despotism or gagged . press, and a conventional Parliament ? Among the blessings which we regard with peculiar thankfulness at this season of the year, surely esti mated at its right value, and ranked at its r ight w orth, is the real unpretending nature of our institutions. A glance at foreign nations will convince us of their immeasurable superiority to our own in what is most worth prizing. Peace on earth can hardly be counted among our gifts this Christmas, for there is strife among ourselves, and many troubles in other lands. A useful lesson may be learned, at any rate, even by this adverse condition ; and if right principles were more the standard of action than the greed for territory, ar.d if the happiness of the people were truly sought after among the Kings and Ministers of the Continent, there would, in all pro bability, be a marked improvement in the condition of things, a consummation devoutly to be hoped for ; and we trust that next Christmas will be the dawn, and hail the dayspring of better things, and be illumined by a brighter prospect. consequences may not be serious, but at some critical moment we may find these initial blunders fatal. In the latest European wars victory has followed the first success. Austria owed her com plete humiliation in a seven weeks' war in a great degree to having allowed Prussia to anticipate her. She never recovered the first reverses. We incur the same risk while our military system remains without organisation ; and it is becoming a more pressing question every day how long this state of divided responsibility and inexplicable blundering shall be allowed to continue. The task may be Herculean, but a reform is needed, and it will be well if this expedition contributes to bring it about. It seems little likely to enhance our prestige. LATEST INTELL MENU. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. NEW YORK, Doc. 24, 6 p.m. The Cimbria has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing Prices—Gold, l 34. Sterling exchange on London, 1101. 5-20 United States Bonds, 108 i ; Illinois, 130 i; Erie, 72i. Cotton—Middling Up; land, 15i. PHILADE um, Dec. 24. Petroleum, standard white, 24. ITALY. FLORENCE, Dcc. 25. Earl Clarendon left yesterday evening for Rome. Lcrd Bloomfield has arrived in Florence. M. Boittel, Chief of the French Police, has also Wit may congratulate ourselves upon the fact hat the small portion of our Abyssinian army vhich has been able to get actually into the coun try has fared well enough. So far there has been io resistance and no enemy. The great physical iifficulties, especially want of roads and of water, Lppear to have lain on the threshold of their march. From the shore of the Red Sea to Senafe was, no ioubt, up-hill work. A strong pull must have been necessary before the adVanced brigade had reached twice the height of Mount Snowdon for Semple is T,OOO feet above sea-level—along the difficult and tangerous mountain pass of Koomaylee. Once there, however, • on the elevated table land, their course promises to be smoother than we might have expected. A solitary native chief of the Pro vince of Tigrd was reported to be in their vicinity at the head of 7,000 men, but he has professed a friendly disposition. The conciliatory proclamation of gir Roz Err NAPIER. is said ,to have had an ex cellent effect ; the appearance of the troops has produced a respectful impression on the natives ; and, above all, the brigade is quite able to take care of itself. So far all is well. But we must not fail to remember that the bulk of the Abyssinian expe dition, at our latest advices, had not yet quitted Annesley Bay, a considerable portion of it had not arrived so far, and that Sir ROBERT NAPIER, the commander-in-chief, was directing operations from Bombay. While we have been congratu lating ourselves on the success of the pioneer force, there has been anything but cele rity and good management with respect to the main body of the expedition. Our difficulty, it seems, was not to open up a way into the country, but to make use of it after it had been opened up. Although a million sterling had been c:..pcnded on the Land Transport service, and though our autho rities had three months during which to mature their preparations, when the time came to follow up the Advance Brigade it could not be done. Carriages were not ready, store-ships were unloaded, the Persian and Egyptian labourers were worthless, and everything was in the state of confusion which always ensues when there is no paramount autho rity. During the whole month of November there was no fresh arrival of men, and the whole force to be organised, provided for, and sent forward was only 2,000 men. Yet this seems to have taxed the administrative ability to the utmost, and we are not without some anxiety to know how it will deal with the larger force, for the advent of which every arrangement should have been completed. Time was important, but this delay has been attended by a still greater loss. The low country on which the troops were encamped proved ex tremely healthy to the men, but owing to the want `of forage and water it has been death to the mules, horses, and camels. These invaluable animals were dying in great numbers, and apparently the only hope of saving them was to press forward promptly to the elevated ground. The fact that mules required water and forage seems to have been overlooked' in the conduct of the expedition. Thousands of them were let loose on a sandy plain, under a scorching heat, and with the atten tions of one muleteer to some fifteen animals, and the natural consequence has been that they have strayed or perished by hundreds. The British tax payer has been providing carcases for Abyssinian vultures at the rate in some cases of £6O a piece, and the complaint is that the vultures cannot devour them fast enough. It is to be remembered that this waste is twofold. Expen sive means have been provided for meeting this want. Condensers have been sent out, but up to the 28th of November not one had been erected. Little as we knew of Abyssinia, Massowah was at least accessible, and Annesley Bay need not have been a icrra incognita. The most ordinary foresight could have seen the folly of merely accumulating men and military matgrie/ at such a place as this without arranging for the subsistence of men and animals. How does it come to pass that we begin nearly every war with a blunder 1 That a people accustomed to every species of military enter prise, and possessing unlimited resources, should commence each fresh undertaking as though it was the first ? On a small scale, we have here at Annesley Bay the Crimean errors repeated. We are unwilling to believe that the English mind is devoid of that faculty for organising which con tinental nations possess. But it is clear we have much to learn and much to reform. Our military expenditure at the rate of nearly £1 per inhabitant of the United. Kingdom is not enough to produce tolerable efficiency. With Kin,: TnEoDonus the income tax. This was imposed during the winter how you, how sach a distinction may be made session of 1798-99, at £lO per cent., or 2s. in the with advantage on both sides, as it is by no pound, and so it remained on until 1802, which means at all clear to my mind that people of was the Peace of Amiens, the Treaty of which was Permanent incomes really derive a n y a d van t age signed on the Ist of October, 1801, and the late from not paying, as they ought to do, more than Lord Sidmouth, at that time Mr. Addington, and those poor unfortunate individuals, who merely eat who was then Prime Minister (the Must-Hens their bread and butter from day to day, by means of William Pitt having resigned the year previously, the whims audcaprices of porn' frail, weak humanity. on account of the well-known disagreement This is undoubtedly a gross abuse, which will, I between him and King George the Th i rd trust, be one of the, first efforts of our new reformed upon the Catholic Question), came down Parliament to see rectified. At any rate, our beau to the house and voted and carried nem. tiful soi-disant Liberals have never attempted to con. a total repeal of the income tax. On make any change. The only time any change was the breaking out of the war again, however, :in ever seriously attempted was by our present Go- May, 1803, it was put on again at ls. in the pound, vernment—the first time Lord Derby was Premier, or half its former amount ; i. e., £5 per cent. per and just before the accession of the late Lord Aber annum, instead of £lO per cent. per annum, and so deep to office, on the resignation of Lord Derby, it continued for two years, until 1805, when the when our present Chancellor of the Exchequer pro war had got a great footing again and the immortal Posed that precarious and uncertain i ncomes s h ou ld Nelson was killed at the battle of Trafalgar, pay one-fourth less than those derived from inde endent sources. The Whiga comme a l'ordinaire and Pitt had again for the last time become P Prime Minister, and then the impost was further blackballed this, and when they became poaseased increased to 61 per cent., or is. 4d. in the pound. of the sweets of office, proposed that the income- But a few weeks, not to add days, after England tax should gradually die out in 1860, like a dis had given the remains of Nelson a public funeral in solving view, on the falling in of the long annui- St. Paul's Cathedral, and while " the fatal wound ties ; but no sooner does 1860 arrive than they make which caused dismay around " was piercing the the income-tax more firm and secure than ever, hearts of a brave and generous people, William Pitt following the precedent of 1806. Their doings was gathered to his fathers, " his sun having gone with regard to the income tax, and indeed I might down while it was yet day," and he, too, was buried add with regard to many other things, come round at the public expense in Westminster Abbey. What like the solar and lunar cycles. I trust it is, how followed all readers of the history of the last sixty ever, with them as it was said by a morning Minis years full well know. The Whigs, or rather that terial print in the days of the first Melbourne celebrated and well-known Broad-bottomed Govern- Government, I mean that Administration which went, came into office ; and as I have often in for- succeeded the Government of the late Earl Grey, mer letters remarked to you, the - Whigs, who had the Father of Reform, when it was thought the raved and stormed at the income-tax when first im- Tories were banished for many a long year to the posed by Pitt in 1798, were only too glad to put it Opposition. on again at the same amount that Pitt had origi- The aforesaid journal concluded its article with nally levied it, 2s. in the pound. The Whigs, as "a long and a hearty farewell to these officious curs a party, have invariably been followers, but yelping at our heels."—l remain, Sir, your faithful never originators. Their conduct with regard servant, to the old income tax of 1799 and 1806 was something after the fashion of an old maid, who, so long as she remains a spinster, rails at and condemns her own country, because she does not consider it has done her full justice; but no sooner does she get spliced, and contracts her late mar riage, than her country, which has heretofore been everything that was odious and detestable, is now everything that is charming, delightful, and happy. So the Whigs, who while in opposition had made the income tax their stock in trade against the Government, were the first to make it their stock in trade to suit their own purposes in carrying on the business of the country, when they became possessed of the sweet and savoury things of office. They attempted to do the same thing in 1848, and failed. " Sarve them right" was the verdict of the country against them. The income tax, at the time of the last-named date, might fairly have been called the sour grapes of the Whigs. Perhaps I may here be allowed just to digress a little further, and to show that the conduct of the Whigs with regard to the income tax has been quite on a piece with regard to their conduct on almost all other subjects, religious and political. They drove out one King and decapitated another, and yet they were the first, on their return to office in 1830, after a banishment to the regions of the Opposition of (with very little intermission) 70 or 80 years, to vote no less than two palaces and £lOO,OOO per annum to Adelaide, the Queen Con sort of William IV., in the event of her surviving ber royal husband. They too, in 1850, on the death of the late Duke of Cambridge, were the first to vote £24,000 per annum to the House of Cambridge alone. £27,000 per annum had fallen into the Treasury by the decease of the Duke of Cambridge —the country was a gainer, therefore, by only £3,000 per annum—no small sum to save. It is true the Whigs confiscated the estates of the Crown, and at proper intervals have vindicated the majesty of the people ; but nevertheless they have been glad enough always to serve Royalty when it suited their purpose. They who had spent their lives, from childhood almost to old age, iu advocating Catholic emancipation, were the first to cry shame on Cardinal Wiseman for the so-called Papal Aggression. To return, however, to the income tax. This tax, after having been increased to £lO per cent. by the so-called Broad-bottomed Government, in 1806, was fixed to remain on until the sth of April, after a general treaty of peace, which was actually the case, as it remained on until April 5, 1815, being the first year after the general peace of 1814. In April, 1815, it was reimposed for one year in order "to wind up," as the saying is. Now in 1816 came the violent battle against it, when Lord Liverpool pro posed to make it a perpetual tax at 5 per cent. Sir William Curtis, and divers other Miuisterialists, all went over to the Opposition for the purpose of voting against the income tax, which was, after a somewhat sharp discussion, at once dashed to the ground and banished for a quarter of a century, until reimposed by Peel in 1842. So very unpopular was the tax that, ou the motion of Lord Brougham—. then popularly known by the name of Mr. Henry Brougham —every paper connected with the tax was burned. And I have been told by those who were living at the time that the cheering of the people continued from the lobby of the old House of Commons to Charing-cross, so intensely unpo pular was the income tax. That a golden opportu nity was then lost for making it (the property tax) a good, sound, permanent, substantial tax, few can deny who have studied the history of the period ; i.e., few sound politicians. The heavy weight of A LOVER AND OBSERVER OF HISTORICAL DATES AND FACTS. indirect taxation which England groaned under from 1816 down to the passing of the old Reform Bill in 1832 —or, more properly speaking, until the introduction of the new commercial tariff of Sir R. Peelin 1842—was something fearful to contemplate. So fearfully was all kinds of food taxed in those good old days that a large number of persons were kept without the common necessaries of life, and were in fact in a state of complete starvation. When the aforesaid tax was laid on again in 1842 by Peel the emergency was equal to a time of war, albeit we were in a state of profound European peace, but not universal peace, for, as I remarked to you the other day, we were engaged in two distant Eastern wars ; and only the very week Sir R. Peel proposed the income tax accounts were received in England of one of the most bloody and disastrous engagements ever known since the days of the old American war, in the reign of George 111. Now it never can be fair to tax precarious an d professional incomes in the same proportion as in comes derived from fixed and independent property. The gross injustice is so very apparent on the face of it that I trust it is wholly impossible for it to escape the eye of a Reformed Parlia ment. To expect, or even to desire, any altera tion before the Ist of January, 1869, is wholly un desirable, as well as being quite out of the question ; for it is obviously unfair to tax people who work for their living by the sweat of their brow, subject as all professions and tradesmen are to all the whims,' caprices, and changes of human nature, as well as leading a life of complete self-denial, and bearing in mind, as all politicians ought to do, that the least ailment or disease of the brain may deprive a man of gaining his livelihood for ever. Moreover, none who gain their living from trade or profes sional sources can ever tell exactly what their real income is—and albeit they tell you, you may take the average calculation of three years or so ; never theless this by no means does away with the present gross unfairness of the present mode of levying the income and property tax. Let a dead onslaught, therefore, be made against our present income and property tax at the general election, which is most certain to take place in the early part of the year 1869, and let all people who feel deeply on the subject, as you and I do, make it a sine qua non with their consti tuents before giving the favoured candidate their vote, on the especial condition of his bringing in a measure for the readjustment and reassessment of the income tax. Direct taxation, provided it is but fairly assessed, is of all modes of taxation the most fair, the most just, and the most equitable. To say that it is impossible to make any distinction between fixed and precarious incomes is to my mind, as I have no doubt it is to yours, the very height of absurdity. On another occasion I will show yo , or attempt to Dec. 13, 1867. arrived here. MALTA, Dec. 24. Her Majesty's Indian steam transport ISerapis, 9 days from Portsmouth, has arrived here, with two batteries, F F and G, of the Bth Brigade, with artillery under Colonel Bruce, and other Indian reliefs, together 1,050 of all ranks, 139 women, and 162 children. The ironclad Lord Clyde has also arrived here from Lisbo❑ and Gibraltar, and the gunboat Trin culo from Patras. The steamer Ceyc (?) has sailed for Alexandria, with stores for the Abyssinian expedition. Heavy North-Westerly gales continue, and many vessels are arrivin g here for shelter. CHINA AND JAPAN. HONG KONG ( Via Trieste), Nov. 15. According to recent statistics the sanitary condi tion of Shanghai has been greatly improved. It is reported that the Imperial troops have sus tained a severe repulse from the Nienfei, who cap tured their camps and a battery. Great distress prevails iu the extreme North, owing to the failure of the crop 3. In consequence of their having received tele graphic advice; the banks have resumed the six months' usance, thereby causing a heavy fall in the exchanges. Tonnage is very scarce in all the ports of China. The international boat race between the English and Americans at Shanghai has resulted in favour of the former. Advices from Japan state that a general dis bandment of the Japanese troops has been ordered. Satisfactory terms have been concluded with Choi.u. The arrangements for opening Osaka are pro gressing. The opening of Yeddo is doubtful. The Japanese have established a line of steamers between Yokohama and Osaka. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 24, Three o'clock.--The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 6B 65 Credit Mobilier End of month l6B 75 Credit Foncier 1368 75 End of month 13 61 25 Bank Shares 3lOO Ital'an Loan Eud of month 45 20 Mexican Loan 13 75 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 87 50 Rome Debt 35 Deferred — RAILWAYS. Account Orleans ... 856 1 Northern 11724 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 5531 Western Eastern • • 532k Sardinian __ Austrian Lombard 350 North of Spain 62f Saragossa Roman 5O THE INCOME TAX. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The increased amount of ld. in the pound Income-Tax on allowance for the Abyssinian war emboldens me to address you once more on this most unjust (as levied at present) and iniquitous tax, but which said tax is fully capable of being made the fairest and most equitable of all modes of taxation. To expect any change in its assessment or revision of direct v. indirect taxation generally during the present Parliament would be idle and childish. But I trust the whole system of taxation will be one among the many tasks of our new Reformed Par liament. Perhaps it may not be amiss just to re view the history of the tax from the time of its first imposition, just this time 69 years ago, by the im mortal Billy Pitt. He first proposed it on the 3d of December, 1798, curiously enough almost the very same month and day of the month that our present Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the increase of the tax this year. -But mark the differ ence of the two periods. In 1798 we were engaged in about the most gigantic war that England, or even the world, had ever seen. To have attempted to make any difference between dependent and pre carious incomes and independent incomes would have been utterly impossible, and out of the ques tion at such a time as the close of the last century, when we were at war with the greater part of the continent of Europe, with Consols at 474, a famine in the land, a rebellion in Ireland, a mutiny at the Nore, and a host of other maladies and grievances whose name is legion, cum multis aliis gum nunc prescrihere longum est. Then William Pitt never for one moment contemplated the con tinuance of the tax after war should have ceased. That was a heavy impost, such as the present generation living in these days of profound and piping peace have but a mere abstract idea of. Its absolute necessity, however, alone reconciled the people of England to the imposition of this burden, which our ancestors of 70 years back bore not only with patience but with enthusiasm. I speak for myself, and I have no doubt Ido for you and many others of the genuine true Liberal (but not Whig Melbourne-Russell Bedchamber) school,when I say that that old long French and Eu ropean war, albeit most unjust, uncalled for, and un necessary in its origin, nevertheless brought out the finest passions and spirit of the English nation, and as it was remarked many years ago, at the end of the last century, and the beginning of this. "We were a nation" such as the mean mind of Lord Rus sell, and many other of the soi-disant Liberals, who governed the country so beautifully for o many years, can have no more idea of than the dirt they kick and trample on with their toes in the streets, in asmuch as when we were once engaged in the war nothing remained but to go on with it in the most courageous and magnanimous manner possible ; and this the people of England, to their praise be it spoken, did. Yes, to their praise be it spoken, as long as we continue a nation. In many respects, with all the privations we had to endure, England n ever saw such days as these. But to return to the THE MURDER AT SHAD ItTLL. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Humphreys, coroner of Middlesex, opened an inquiry at the Crown Tavern, High-street, Shadwell, respecting the deaths of Francis Andrew Brown, aged 21 years, and Elizabeth Sophia Pickford, aged 34 years, whose bodies were found in the waters of the London Docks on Sunday morning. It will be remembered that a Mr. Wagstaff, on coming up (.1; ravel lane, Shadwell, a little of ter one o'clock on Sunday morning, heard a man shouting for help. Immediately artwards he heard a splash in the water. Going on the bridge he saw two Irish labourers there looking at the man in the water. There was no way of reaching the drowning man. Mr. Wagstaff came to the conclusion that the men had thrown the drowning man over the parapet of the bridge, and he asked them " Who threw him overboard?" The men answered to the effect that he had 'done so him self, and the result was that, the police coming up, all three were taken to the station-house, and the two labourers, Jeremiah Duggan and Timothy Donovan, were charged with the wilful murder of the deceased. They were taken before the magistrate on the charge, and the circum stances being full of suspicion against them, they were remanded for a week, and are now in prison under the charge. At the inquest, however, a chance question put to a witness, Catherine Laye, brought out the fact that the deceased man had threatened to commit suicide ; other witnesses were sent for, and the whole complexion of the case was changed. It was in searching for the body of the young man Brown that that of Sophia Pickford was discovered. After hearing evidence, the jury returned a verdict in the case of the woman, " That the deceased, Elizabeth Sophia Pickford, was found drowned, but how she became drowned there was no evidence to spew;'' leaving the case of the young man undecided until Duggan and Donovan could be brought before the court under a warrant from the Home Secretary. LOCAL MUSEUMS IN INDIA . —The demand for local museums of industry and fine arts which is now so active throughout Europe has extended to India. The Governor-General has appointed a commission to report on the conservation of the ancient architecture of India, and the best means of obtaining casts of the finest sam ples. The Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces has also organised a committee of action for his district, and has laid down the principle that a museum should be established at the headquarters of each revenue division, and that- the chief mus cum for the North• Western Provinces should be at the seat of government. Collections of diagrams and drawings illustrating pro cesses and works on decorative art have been ordered to be sent from England. The main objects of local museums are ',defined to be —first, the improvement of manufactures; and, second the preservation of ancient and improvement of modern art. An official memorandum states that in order to prevent natives from thinking that European designs were desirable as copies for ornamenta tion, it would be necessary to procure many modes of Illustration from different parts of India and the Easi generally, and that "it is not, however, in the snoders art manfactures of India that the means can be found to give new life to the native designer. It is in the architec ture of the country that power and more original ideas can be formed." The Countess (Maria) of Harrington is suffering from a very severe attack of bronchitis, and is still in a very precarious condition. Dr. Cross, of New-street, Spring-gardens, has been in attendance on the countess since Wednesday last, on which day her ladyship was taken ill. The Countess of Mountcharlos has constantly waited on her invalid mother during her serious illness. SEIZURE. OF GUNPOWDER AT SUNDERLAND.—A large seizure of gunpowder was made at Sunderland on Monday by inspector Elliott and Detective Milne, of the Sunderland police force. On Sunday night the officers re ceived information that an Irishman named Joseph Spear, residing at Cumberland-terrace, had a quantity of gun powder stored about his premises. Spear works at Messrs. Scott and Horn's bottle works, and the officers fell in with him on Monday morning as be was going to his work. Spear at first denied that ho had any gunpow der in his possession. But upon the officers telling him that they had a warrant to search his house he took them to a yard adjoining his own, where they found 4001 b con tained in three large bags in a coal-house. Spear said that he had the gunpowder for blasting purposes. The magistrates ordered it to be destroyed, and it was taken out to sea in a coblo, and the bags were emptied into the water. THE LATE EXPLOSION IN NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE —On Monday afternoon the town of Newcastle presented a singularly gloomy appearanc-_?. Nearly all the shops and places of business were either wholly or partially closed the bells of the parish churches tolled muffled peale, and between 1 and 2 o'clock a funeral procession fully a mile long followed the remains of the late Sheriff, Mr. John Mawson, killed by the explosion a week ago, to Jesmoncl Cemetery, where they were interred by Archdeacon Prest. Newcastle has enjoyed municipal privileges over 400 years, and Mr. Mawson is the first sheriff who has died during his term of office. It seems that according to the Munici pal Act the Town Council cannot elect a successor until the 9th of November, 1868, and the Under-Sheriff will have to perform the duties of the office in the meantime. THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER.—III our report of the boiler explosion at the dyeworks of Messrs. Chapman and Holland, Manchester, forwarded on Monday evening, it was stated that at the time the report was despatched the bodies of three persons killed and five injured had been recovered from the ruins. Subsequently three other dead bodies were dis covered, making the total number of killed by this fatality six. A boy six years old, named Arthur Holland, son of one of the partners, was among the killed. Ho had come home from school for the Christmas holidays the day before, and had gone upon the premises to play. Half his heal was crushed away, and tho poor little fellow's body was much disfigured. Twenty-six of the workmen were fortunately away from the premises when the explosion occurred, or the loss of life might have been much greater. SOUTH KENSINGTON INIUSELTM.—A portion of the objects obtained from Paris, either by loan or by purcLase, will be exhibited during the Christmas holydays. Among the loans may be specified the extraordinary crystals lent by his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, and the goldsmith work of the fourth century lent by the Roumanian Go vernment. Among the purchases are the cabinet by Four diniois, which was the cape d'opera of furniture ; the beau tiful spinette made at Milan in 1577, and Castellani's col lection of peasant jewellery. SAVINGS-BANKS.—The accounts of the old trustee savings-banks on the eastern side of the kingdom show a gradual decline in the deposits. At Lynn, in the year end ing Nov. 20, 1867, the sums received from depositors in money were £9,532; and the sums actually paid to deposi tors in money, including interest, within the year were £13,483. The total balance due to depositors Nov. 20, 1867, was £69,428, as compared with £71,995. Nov. 20, 1866. The sums received from depositors at the Cam bridge Savings-bank during the year ending November '2O, 1867, amounted to £22,104, while the sums paid to de positors, including interest, amounted in the same period to £26 ; 210. The balance due to depositors November 20, 1867, was £186,874, while the balance duo November 20, 1866 was £188,705. , Cr'.4 41 ' 459 • tk',l - (fir HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dec. 24. The Queen walked and drove i❑ the grounds yesterday afternoon, accompanied by rriu cess Louise ; and her Majesty went out this morning, accompanied by Princess Christian. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess lien" riette of Schleswig-Holstein, attended by LadY Susan Melville and Lieutenant-Colonel G. Gordon' arrived at Osborne yesterday, from Draycott where they have been the guests of Earl and Coma° Cowley. --- Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian and the Princess Ilenriette were the guests of the Earl and Countess Cowley at Draycot, Wilts, fr °l3 Thursday last till Monday. There were invited by tha Earl and Countess Cowley to meet the Prince 3 " Princess the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Shrews" bury and Ladies Talbot (two), Viscount and Viscountess Sydney. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and fanli l Y have arrived at Paris from London, on their waY to the south of France. The Earl of Ellesmere and Viscount Evelyn bay s passed through Paris on their - way to Egypt. Count and Countess G. de. Wezele have arrived in Eaton-square from the Continent. Lord and Lady George Quin have arrived OD 3 visit to Sir John and Lady Gwentloline Bamsclen, at Byrom, South Milford. Lord Wallscourt has retired from the army. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DEC. 24. The Open Fellowship at Merton College has been awarded to Mr. W. Wallace, 8.A., of Ba]liol Col" lege ; the Clerical Fellowships to Mr. E. C. Dear, BA., of St. John's College, and Mr. R. Wilson, M.A., of Merton College ; and the Natura l Science Fellowship to Mr. T. IL G. Wyndba►n' 8.A., of Oriel College. Mr. Wallace and Mr. near obtained first classes in Classics both at Moderations and in the Final Schools ; Mr. Wilson obtained 3 second class in the Final Classical School ; and O . ' Wyndham a first clas.3 in the Natural Science School. On Saturday, the 22d of February, and not 00 the day previously advertised, there will be ancice' tion in Exeter College to five scholarships, 0 10 °I the value of £lOO per annum, two of the value °'; £BO, and two of the value of £6O, tenable for fiv e years. Candidates must be under 20 years of age' and if born in the diocese of Exeter, or educated f a any school therein fur the last three Yea /5 .i have a prior claim to the two latter scholarship s ' in the judgment of the electors they are qualified to be scholars of the College. Ou the same dal there will be an election to two Exhibitions, ti' le open, the other in default of the kin of the Ile v i T. How, limited in the first instance to the son s clergymen living in either the county of Devon Somerset, or, in failure of such candidates of sub' cient merit, to the sons of clergymen, without re, , Bard to residence or place of birth. Another fi bl bition may be filled up at the same time. Candid o are requested to call on the Rector on Monday, tile f 17th of February, before 9 p.m., and if desirous .% also competing for the Exhibitions they must O n , proof beforehand that they are in need of assista uev at the University. WRECKS IN 186 G. A return recently issued by the Board of Tra de records 1,860 wrecks and casualties as baying e e ' d curred in 1866 on and near the coasts of the U v ili te s Kingdom. The number reported in 186 5 Iv % 1,656. The number for 1866 was not only a h°f the corrected average of the last ten years, but a'so above the average of the preceding five Y e3r L s e This was partly attributable to an increase le tv number of vessels frequenting the coasts, and it 13 , also to be noted that the numbers for any one Y ea will be increased or diminished according to the P re i valence or absence of gales. In 1866 the gales, o , January, February, and March and October, Nel'Aew; ber, and December gave 793 wrecks, C. Of ' 4 ' l 4 number 279 occurred in January. The 131°- serious disasters occurred on the 11th of Jant l3 7 i : Of the shipping in Torbay on that dap vessels were either totally lost or sail: 1115 " d damaged. The number of ships lost or dare age in 1866 was 2,289, and was in excess of the nude ber of wrecks and casualties (1,860), be c r i e j in cases of collision two or more ships were invc° e , in one casualty. Out of 1,860 casualties 9 53 ° a, curred on the east coast, 274 on the south O a ; 412 on the west coast, and 144 on the Irish 035 '; n et. but while the greatest number of wrecks hare; on the east coast of England, the greatest I° l9 of life occurred in the Irish Sea. AVe st ,, e p of gales were far more fatal than eas'",:h, gales, the most fatal, however, being from s 0 , ea west. The number of lives lost in the Iris h 'OO during the last eight years was more than dc )ti of the number lost on any other part of the coasts' pr o the 2,289 vessels lost or damaged in 1866, 8 6 W- fg rigged as ships, 150 were steamships, 631 schooner: r 1 426 brigs, 249 barks, 257 brigantines, ali — crere a smacks, &c. Nearly half the vessels that Oil.'" te a from wreck or casualty last year was repreol/ A by the unseaworthy, overladen, or ill- in vessels of the collier class, chiefly emploY e the coasting trade. The state of rottennes s bo o of want of repair of some of the ships 3 :00 20 years old often called for remark, and I I- go age of 25 to 30 a ship was some titeet io g rotten that it fell to pieces immediately on totle' teo t the ground, without giving the crew the s li g il opo warning ; but disasters to comparatively nee' s l ot , bore a very high proportion to the whole 0111 . , 5 :31 Thus, taking the eight years ended 1866, of ll' o p wrecks, &c., in which the ages of the QeS i 3 ' were stated, 1,135 happened to nearly new s co ,ro and 1,981 to ships from three to seven l o l- of age. Then there were wrecks and e 3 3 01 ties to 2,506 ships from seven .to 14 years 01“, vied to 4,180 from 15 to 30 years old. Then f° ll° $ 0 1,528 old ships from 30 to 50 years old. w- stb°,, v more than half a century old 283 were betw ee sOt and 60, 127 from GO to 70, 61 from 7 0 t° f the and 31 aged 80 years and upwards. fore total total number of wrecks, &c., in 1866, 4 22 a ill referred to collisions, of which 121 oceu° 3 e o itr the daytime, and 301 at night. Of the rel Ol ing 1,438 casualties, 562 resulted in the a ,,t0 l loss of the vessels, and 876 resulted in P thali damage. Of the vessels totally lost no kl e feel 125 were lost through carelessness, 74 from " in ship, &c., and 276 from stress of weat her ; o d i a the vessels partially damaged 119 suffered twa carelessness, 44 from defects in ships, Ike. , I/13 0 i lif e ' from stress of weather. As regards the 10 0 a p ea the returns show that the total number tipit', sons lost on and near the coasts of the 'O l t Kingdom last year, in 199 ships, was 8 96 ' w eep i was in excess of the number lost in any Ye llr ' so) l e in 1859, when, owing to the loss of th e pa The Jer e Charter, the number reached 1,647. uode number of 324 lives was lost in vessels tha t fe v,oe6 127 were lost through collisions, and 39 3 it ' d 4, 03 stranded or cast ashore. On the other has lives were saved from wrecks during the 3 131° L i tar 353 by lifeboats, 516 by rocket and nicir tiar a ratus, lines, &c., 439 by huggers and coastg od o i , other boats, 973 by ships and steamboats , 3 , o ViI 3P O by ships' own boats. For the purpose °: 16 60°,, 0 life from shipwreck there were at the end ° l of ro cV 4o th© coasts of the United Kingdom 265 sets 1170J0 and mortar apparatus, 2,828 of CaPta i l e Oa f cork lifejackets, and 207 lifeboats. BesidesL j co ° , a there were also 102 volunteer life brigades ali be f ° '; panics. In addition to pecuniary reslards:retrotileljo lowing presentations were made by tilt. during the year 1866 for saving life :--v". 0 1) t roP o . medal, one gold medal, five silver medals, et O ti ectp '' llr medal, 12 gold watches, seven gold C 00, A 23 telescopes,four binocular glasses, 20 se one quadrant. EC 0 This b Exchang( T`IT,I ° per Ueut Do. Aca 3 pur New '4- lid Do. 010 Do. for Do (Pod E Kehoquor lio Do. Bank of El Do. Ace, INDIA: Indiart S' to Do. Acc Du. 5 Ito Do. 1 pe Do. (Jor Do. Elm! Do. 5 pc Do. Do. 5 pc Do. Do. Do Del Do. Bor Do. mid FO Argentine Austrian : Brazilian Do. 41 Do. 5 p Alo AcC Do. £ll Buenos A Da 2 pc Cuba, 6p Cuilian 6 Do. 4i 00. 6p Do., Do., 7 j Do.; Sc C ,l. mbia Danish, D laut)i.ar Do 8 pi Feluador o.lgyptian tin. Se D Do. £1 Do. .£5 Do. £1 Dover tireek, 5 Do. L.k. Do. Cc Do. A( G I,h,nut it / i 1 Do, A( i)o.M 113 xi ear. 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