The Sun. — London, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVlOES.—During the storms of the past year (1886) the National Lifebaat In stitution, by its lifeboats and other means, contributed to the saving of 9t3 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. 'f he Institution also expended L 31,430 in the same period on its lifeboat ettablishmeuts, in addition to granting £2,173 as rewards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly*A?PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the 172 lifeboat Stations of the Institution. Contributions are reeeived by the London and country bankers - and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis , Es q ., at the Inst~tutfon, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chutterton. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDIN To conclude w,th the Pantomime NUMBER NIP ; or harlequin and the Gnome-King of the Gant M uutain. Nest - tames Lydia Thompson. Hudspeth, Bodentiam, Seymour, Gardonni, .nd IL Vandenhoff; Messrs. Tom Matthews, Barsby. Clifton, Robins, Se) ton, and Master Percy Roselle ; Messrs. Poleno,Savii le, Lauri. Cormack, Barnes, and Morris ; jiadame Riled() and Mdlle. Marion. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Bucks one, TO-NIGHT, A LESSON FOR LIFE. Messrs. Fothern, .oendale, Compton, Howe, Kendal. Gordon. Rogers, Rm. id. Clarke, Vincent, .kc ; Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, Wri flit, ttz. Af or which, THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Messrs. Buck stone, Novre, Farren, Vincent, &c. ; Mesdames Chippendale, Mo.re, iurke, Rill, Sidney, ..te. Commence at Seven. 'ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. — sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, ROUGE ET NOIR. Maurice D'Arbel (a Gambler), Ntr. Fechter ; Messrs. Emery, Evans, Moreland, iiizpatricic. Dalton. Reynolds, Lomas, Newbouni, Andrews. Anderson, Vivian, Bennett. and Edward Price ; Miss Ile3- rade, Mrs. Leigh-Murray, Miss Grattan, and Miss Carlotta Leclercq. Precede i by THE TWO POLTS. Mr. H. Widdicomb. "IQ OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 11, Sole Lessee and 'manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. T `-tIS EVENING, DELICATE GROUND. Mr. Vining'. Mr. J. G. Shore, and bliss Katherine Rodgers. Follcwed by, at 8 o'clock, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mrs. H. Marston, Miss Montagu, Miss Katherine Rodgers blests. F. Villiers, J. G, Shore, Calhaem, H. Forrester, and Mr. Vining as Badger. -ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, NEIGHBOURS. Messrs. Porsche, Belford, and G Murray ; Misses Swanborough, Johnstone, aPd Hugh( s. ,kiter which, will be produced a Grand Burlesque, entitled GO Y FAWKES Messrs. lhorne, James, Robson, and Fenton ; Mesdames Swanborough, hsynham, Johnstone, • Hughe.`,, Newton, &c. T o con, ludo with A surr OF TWEEDS. Commence at Seven. A L. ICiLsoleßrPopilN T n.tor and M ilA an E a, 0-erTMRr THEATRE Sefton ß l'rr Y y. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, MY TURN NEXT. Mr. Blmore, Miss Foote, lliss Lennox. After which, Boucicault's drama of FLYING SCUD. ess:•s. Neville, Belmore, Blake. Garden,Vollaire ; Mesdames F. Josophs, C. Saunders, B. Foote, Raym nd. THEATRE ROYAL ADEL PHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVETING, Jan. 15, at Seven, A SISTER'S PENANCE. Miss Kate Terry, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt ; Messrs. H. Veziu, Billington, Ashley, Eburne, Romer, and Stephenson. To conclude with the New Grand Burlesque of T UE MOUN DFILT ; or, THE KNIGHT, THE LADY, AND THE LAKE. Messrs, J. L. Tole. Paul Bedford, Ashley, R. Romer, and C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Furtado, Miss Hughes, Miss Emily Pitt, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. New Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster ; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. THIS EVENING, LONDON ASSURANCE. Messrs. Horace Wigan, H. Neville, a Vincent, Addison, D. Murray, and 3lr. Charles Mathews ; Miss )hilly Palmer, Miss E. Farren, and Mrs. Charles Mathe, s. After whi, li, the successful Burlesque of FAUST AND MARGUERI lE. Mesdames E. Farren, Sheridan, and Stephens ; Messrs. G. Vincent, W. IL Eburne, D. Murray, dte. Doors open at half-past Six ; commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ASTLEY'S. Under the Management of Mr. NW. 11. C. Nation. " The Pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Astley's, was completely successful in every respect."—Telegraph. " Is a decided success."—Sun. " Must be pronounced a decided success."— Standard. " The success of the performance was complete."—lllus trated London News. "Au unqualified success." —Sunday Times. "A great success, as deserved as it is fully justified."— Era. EVERY EVENING, the elegant Comedy, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. Fernandez, Richardson; Miss Laidlaw. After which, the Great Nation-al Pantomime of lIUSEI - A-BYE, BABY. The Frogs and their Revels.—" The Frogs' Dance was ludicrous in the extreme, and gave rise to roars of laugh ter."—Star. " The Ballet of Ladybirds.—One hundred dancers, in elegant attire, elicited rapturous applause as they figmed through the mazes of the ballet. '—Morning Advertiser. The Nation of Toys.—" The evolutions of the Toy Army is a capital bit of grotesque. action."— Observer. The Three Favourite Children Danseuses.—" For chil dren, this Pantomime will prove a great treat."—Weekly Times. The Grove of Golden Palms.—"ln seeming prodigal abundance of gold, jewels, and fairies richly and fantasti cally attired, it realises the description of those scenes of enchantment given in the Arabian Nights.' "—Dispatch. The Harlequinade, with the Original Little Rowella as Clown.—" The Harlequinade is decidedly superior to many that have been witnessed of late years."—Morning Post. All the Best Songs, Dances, and Pantomime Tricks.— "The best Pantomime seen on the other side of the water for many a long day."—Court Circular. MORNING PERFORMANCES every Monday, Wed nesday, and Saturday, at Two o'clock. T" "SUN" NEWSPAPER. - G. It. 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Part the First front 8.0. 55 to A.D. 1006. E. Moses and Son, corner of Minories and Aldgate ; Now Oxford-street, and Tottenham-court-road, London And Bradford, Yorkshire. Gratis and post free on application. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Nis DAY.--11( ,, rning, Bh. 28m.—Afternoon, 9h. sm. ra-Moßßow.-Morning, 9h. 43m.—A fternoon, 10h. 22m • e - - ‘ 4 1. , tolubiloora,„ .4 44. "N) LONDON, TUESDAY, JAN. 15, 1867. There are few things more gratifying to the feel ings of those about to proceed to distant lands than to carry with them proofs of the fidelity of the attachment of their friends, and signs and tokens of the esteem and regard in which they are held. Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD has this gratification to the full extent, and he may depart to the arduous duties of his vocation in India, in the full assurance that he is respected and honoured in his native country, and that he leaves behind friends and well-wishers. Yesterday afternoon a large party assembled at Horsham for the purpose of presenting the right hon. gentleman with a testimonial of their regard, and a tribute to his merits. The subscriptions raised by his neighbours and friends were expended in the production of a portrait of himself, which was executed in the highest style of art by Mr. LUCAS. Mr. DICKENS, who was de puted to present it, assured Mr. FITZGERALD that those who thus sought to do him honour earnestly trusted that when the term of his service abroad had expired he might be restored in health and happiness to his friends and admirers. The address was couched in appropriate terms, and declared that the presentation was made to him in testimony of the high appreciation in which they held the eminent services he had ren dered to the borough of Horsham during the 13 years he represented it, and of their " admiration of the great talent, ability, and eloquence displayed by him in the discharge of the arduous and important duties devolving upon him as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Government of the Earl of DERBY, with their warmest congratulations on his elevation to the exalted office to which he has now been appointed by her Majesty the QUEEN." Mr. FITZGERALD, in his acknowledgments for the compliment which had been paid to him, said that he felt embarrassed on that occasion, although he had seldom been at a loss in addressing a public meeting, and never in communicating with his friends at Horsham, but he spoke under mixed feelings. As he truly styled it, this presentation made by his well-wishers is a " last and crowning act that will testify his time has not been spent in vain ;" and also it will ',serve as an encouragement to those who come after him that, if they do their duty to the best of their abilities, they will not find an ungrateful constituency. In taking a glimpse at past days Mr. FITZGERALD alluded to the position which Horsham had held. when he first had the honour of being its repre sentative, and he was able to congratulate himself and his hearers on the improvement whieh has since taken place in it ; at that period it did not enjoy he best reputation among the constituencies of the country, but by dint of strenuous exertions on the part of many it has since redeemed itself, and may now be ranked high among those constituencies which are distinguished for independence of cha racter and for an honest exercise of the franchise that the Constitution bestows." In taking leave, at any rate for some time, of his old friends and associates, the right hon. gentleman tendered some excellent advice to them, and declared that if spared to return he hoped to find the borough very much improved. They bad ancient privileges and an ancient name. It is a great source of satisfaction to find that one is leaving only friends and well wishers behind, and Mr. FITZGERALD, although the parting from old associations was painful, had at least the consolation of knowing that his career as a public man had been successful, and that as a private individual he was esteemed and appreciated among those whom he said farewell to. Mr. Lucas, who was warmly congratulated upon the admirable manner in which he had executed the task consigned to him of taking the portrait of the right hon. gentleman, in making his acknowledg ment, said that he was not, as had been supposed, a member of the Royal Academy, " although he had practised portrait painting in public for the last thirty-seven years, during which he had had the good fortune and distinguished honour of painting no less than thirteen portraits of the Royal Family ; although he had been called upon by the late Sir ROBERT PEEL to paint the portrait of his most distinguished colleagues for his gallery at Drayton-Manor, and although there was scarcely a county in England, or a country in the civilised world, in which his pictures were not ha nging, still he bad not the honour of being a member of the Royal Academy." The inconsistencies of this In stitution have often before been pointed out, but surely this is a glaring instance of bad management somewhere. There can be no second opinion as to the merits of Mr. LUCAS'S productions, and why, we may well ask, is he excluded from a privilege to which he has every claim ? Mr. FITZGERALD had another opportunity of ad dressing his friends at a luncheon which was pro vided after the ceremony of presentation had been gone through. In the course of these brief obser vations he alluded to the significant circumstance that some gentlemen; politically opposed to him in the town, had joined in this testimonial, and there fore, he emphatically observed, that " there was nothing so encouraging to a man in public life as tho knowledge that he had not only the support of those who agreed with him, but that he had been fortunate enough in the performance of what he thought his public duty as to win the esteem of those who were opposed to him." This idea is illustrated in the expressive line of BYRON His mourners were two hosts—his friends and foes ; but it is a pleasant reflection for those still living to know that they are respected and regarded by all parties. There is something very interesting in this genuine and cordial feeling towards one who is about to depart to a distant sphere to serve that Crown on whose dominions the sun never sets, and that country which has sent forth so many brave defenders of her rights by sea and land, and so many eminent men to be the civil servants of her extended and enlightened Government. We feel sure that all who have watched the course of Mr. FITZGERALD'S career among us in this country will hope that in India he may still go on and prosper, and receive that appreciation and admiration for his talents and merits which he so readily deserves, and of which he yesterday received so signal a proof that they were not forgotten and slighted among those who knew him best and delighted to do him honour. The condition of our mercantile navy is un doubtedly a matter of great importance. It is the nursery and foundationpf that Imperial navy which is the best guarantee of our national independence. Soldiering is from sundry causes going somewhat out of fashion, but sailoring will probably never lose its hold on the affections of the English, unless the whole characteristics of the race are changed. Islanders are usually expert in seamanship and fond of a seafaring life, though there is something THE SUN, LONDOS, TUESDAY EVEAING, JANUARY 15, 1867 more than the mere neighbourhood of the 3134 required to make good sailors. The French, though they possess a seaboard of consider- able extent, have never equalled the Eng lish as seamen, while the Americans have always been distinguished for their sailorship. But although the ideal of a seafaring life is always pope lar, though the schoolboy, sick of his tasks, drean is of a life before the mast as of an existence in Papadise, though NELSON and his contemporaries are still the favourite heroes of the popular idolatry, and. though Jack Tar is generally looked upon with interest and kindliness by landsmen and landswomen, the English navy has several practical drawbacks which are seriously affecting its reputation and its efficiency. There have for some time been complaints made of the increasing difficulty of obtaining recruits for the Royal Navy, and various plans have been set on foot for manning our ships and providing a good naval reserve. The mercantile marine is naturally looked to on these occasions as an invaluable train ing-school for able seamen, but we find the same complaints made respecting the difficulty of obtain ing men, or of keeping them in the service, and this in spite of the natural English love and aptitude for the sea. The American masters appear to meet with no such difficulty, though the harshness of their rule is well known, and contrasts most unfavourably with that of most English officers. It is well, therefore, to look a little into the causes of this seeming inconsistency, so far at least as our mer cantile marine is concerned. Some very valuable information has recently been laid before the public by Dr. STONE, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, who has personally inspected numerous ships in the various docks on the Thames. He gives us a very full account of the capacities of the ships, the accommodation pro vided for the men, the time for which they are kept at work, the quality of the food provided, and the grievances which they most complain of. The result is that any one who reads Mr. STONE'S report attentively through, instead of wondering at the demand for men exceeding the supply, can only wonder that the supply is forthcoming at all. We believe that the attention of the Government has already been directed to this question, and we ear nestly hope that they will devise some measures of thorough and practical reform. The first visit which Dr. STONE paid was to the East India Docks, where he found the vessels mostly of a high order, large and well ventilated. These are the ships employed in the traffic between England and India, China, Australia, and New Zealand, many of them being capable of accom modating a large number of passengers and heavy freights. Even here, however, many of the ships are fitted with mangers and scuppers, so that when the cables are bent it is nothing uncommon for the forecastles to be deluged with water through the hawse holes. Dr. STONE was told on good authority that sometimes the men have to wade to their bunks. In these ships scurvy, the dreaded foe of the sailor, is scarcely ever met with. The provibions are good, and the supply of lime juice regular. The masters, moreover, usually see that the men actually drink their allowance. Very different is the case of the vessel's employed in other trades, in many of which the food is bad in quality and insufficient in kind; while lime juice is either not given at all, or if professed to be al lowed, is anything but genuine, so that the men not only dislike to drink it, but lose their faith in its efficacy. Scurvy is actually on the increase in our mercantile navy, the number of cases admitted to the Dreadnought last year exceeding those of the three former years. The law provides an effectual remedy for this the worst evil of the sailor's life, but the law is disregarded. The masters have often a share in the ship, and consequently it is to their interest to spend as little as possible on the men's provisions. So glaring is their conduct in this re spect that in the vessels used for the coast trade-- ;easels mostly of a wretched condition—Dr. STONE found a common complaint among the boys and men that they have not enough to eat; and although the vessels are seldom more than three or four days away from land the men scarcely ever get fresh meat. The supply always consists of salt beef—the coarsest parts—and the biscuits are of the worst description. Under these circumstances we can only be thankful that vessels so managed are not longer at sea. The strength of the few men employed is nevertheless severely overtasked. The hands are so few that they are kept working on deck or in the rigging for 20 or 25 hours consecutively ; and even when the vessel reaches the harbour they are not allowed to rest or go on shore, but are re quired to assist in discharging the cargo. To this fact Dr. STONE attributes the great preponderance of chest diseases among them ; and as a natural consequence of excessive fatigue, exposure, and bad food, the men in har bour drink largely, and are often attacked with severe diarrhoea, and it is with a crew in such condition, half-delirious from drink, weak from illness, that an old ill-found ship is sent in rough weather to our northern coasts. No wonder, under such circumstances, that the colliers exhibit a dis mal preponderance in our annual Wreck Register As on too many of our railway lines a pitiful and unjust economy produces a cruel waste of life and health. The large screw steamers now employed in the coal trade are much superior in their accom modation and provisions, but th e men are k ept so incessantly at work, that often when th ey arr i ve in the morning after a rough passage, they are set to unload during the day, and at night the ship is on her way to the north again. The ships in the West India Docks are mostly of a wretched description, and, indeed, it is mortifying to find Dr. STONE continually reiterating the bad hygyienic condition of our men, and the superiority of the accommodation in the vessels of other coun tries. The Swedish and Norwegian ships are better so far as the forecastle and sleeping quarters are concerned. The American are far superior, and the masters of the American commer cial marine pride themselves on the con dition of their crews, and say it is the best economy to give them good and abundant food, and pay strict attention to their sleeping quarters. This is very different from the belief acted upon in English ships. "In the timber trade the state of things is disgraceful : a house on the deck is an exception, and the men live in a small, close, and ill-ventilated hole." In the West India vessels Captain TOYNBEE " has himself seen forecastles and seamen's chests in first-class ships black from the gas which rises from the cargo, and which smells like sewage, especially in sugar ships. Captain TOYNBEE informed me a day or two since that he had actually seen a place containing two packs of foxhounds and three horses which received half its ventilation by a hatch which opened into the sailors' forecastle." Into the horrors of the manure cargoes and bone ships we will not enter. Enough has been said of a large proportion of our regular mercantile marine to account for the acknowledged and increasing re luctance of our young men to enter the navy as a profession. It is more than time that the condition of our sailors was looked into by competent authori ties if we wish to retain our naval strength undi minished. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Monday Evening. There is no political news of importance to day in the .3foniteur, but it contains some official decrees of interest relative to ecclesiastical matters. In pur suance of a bull of the Pope, dated July 25, 1866, an archbishopric is created by the Emperor at Algiers, and there are to be bishops at Constantine and Oran. M. Lavigerie, Bishop of Nancy, is appointed arch bishop of the newly created Archbishopric of Algiers. The Abbe Callot, of Lyons, is appointed Bishop of Oran, and the Abbe de las Cases, of Angers, is promoted to the Bishopric of Constantine. The Abbe Thomas, Vicar-General of Autun, is appointed to the Bishopric of Rochelle, vacant by the appoint ment of Monseigneur Landriot to the Archbishopric of Rheims. The Abbe Flacquard, curate of St. Symphorien, Versailles, is appointed to the Arch bishopric of Verdun, vacant by the decease of Mon seigneur Rossat. The Abbe Foulon is raised to the Archbishopric of Nancy, vacant by the appoi n t men t of Monseigneur Lavigerie, as Archbishop of Algieis. A letter from Lisbon states that the Portuguese Government is occupied with the preparation of a treaty of commerce and extradition with Spain, and that the formal negotiations between the two Go vernments upon the subject will commence without delay. The Moniteur de l'Algerie contains some further melancholy particulars of the terrible earthquake. The inhabitants of almost all the houses at Blidah have retreated from them in alarm. Three villages have been entirely destroyed, Mouzaivitle, le Bon Roumi, and El Afroun. When the houses fell clouds of dust obscured the whole neighbourhood. The number killed at Mouzaivitle was more than 40, and upwards of 100 mere or less injured. At El Afroun, of More than. 100 houses only one re mains entire : this house, it appears, was of a iecu liar construction.' Eleven victims were carried away from one house at El Afroun. In all the villages situated at the foot of this part of the Atlas the terror prevalent is indescribable. The mountains of the Atlas at the time of the earthquake were illu minated as if by fireworks or lightning. Some other villages, Chiffa, Ameur-el-Ain, and isolated farms have been nearly destroyed. At the latter village several persons were killed and many were injured. The Courrier de l'Alyerie gives an official account of the deplorable catastrophe, and says that it was more disastrous than is represented by the Moniteur de l'Alyerie. It adds— , ‘ We went to Mouzaia. The reality of the destruction is more terrible than the accounts of it. It seems almost impossible, but whole villages have been suddenly destroyed. The earthquakes continue to be felt. Marshal Mac- Mahon has hastened to visit the scenes of death and desolation." _ en. The sun has been so bright a day as this has be • intense, and the seen all day, but the cold is still sufficiently powerful Even in the height of summer there is not always rays of the sun have not been to cause a thaw. At post hour the frost continues with no prospect of abatemeat. The Constitutionnel confirms my statement in regard to the manufacture of exciting news relative to the affairs of the East, ant says that the ques tion being " so interesting, people must not be astonished at the fe cun dity of the newsmongers who invent or propagate imaginary projects and solutions relative to it." The Constitutionnel, never theless, seems to put faith in one report, according to which France an d A us t r ia have taken som e steps, if not in concert at least in common, in be half of the Christian subjects of the Sultan. The account goes so far as to say that Prussia, Italy, and Russia have the same views upon the question, and that the adhesion of England to them is considered certain. At all events the French Ambassador at the Court of Turkey, M. Bouriee, was received with great cordiality and attention by the Sultan when he presented his credentials the other day at Pera. M. Bouriee expressed a hope that his advice and suggestions would be received with the same favour and cordiality as those of the late French Ambas sador, M. Moustier. The Sultan, through his in terpreter, Aali-Pacha, assured the new Ambassa dor that such would be the case, and expressed a hope that each day would Strengthen more and more the relations of " good friendship" now exist ingm. between ingreB F , t r h a e nce m a os n t d Turkey. eminent, perhaps, of all French painters, is now in almost a hopeless condi tion. He is 87, but a f ew days ago he was i n per fect health. A v i o l en t co ld and inflammation of the chest has suddenly prostrated him, and this afternoon it was f eare d t h at his recoyery was almost impo ss ibl e . Yesterday afternoon the funeral ceremony over the remains of the renowned actress, Mdll e. Georges, took place at Passy church. The church di with ' ffi culty could contain the crowds of d • ramatists and literary men who pressed for entrance to pay their last tribute of respect, but yet, in her " utmost need" it is said that she was almost neglected, and the friends who might have assisted her were " conspi cuous for their neglect of her." Napoleon 111, and the Parisians. The Emperor has of late adopted a Haroun-al- Raschid sort of habit—i.e., of going about alone, on foot or in a private brougham, which is very distressing to all his surroundings, great sticklers for etiquette, and still more so to the Prefect of Police, who objects —very naturally —to his Ma jesty going out unattended. The other morning, says the Paris correspondent of the Standard, he walked down the Tuileries, crossed the river, and literally " beat up" the Foreign Minister, M. de Moustier, who was surprised at the unexpected honour paid him. His Majesty, however, was bent on business ; the Turkish Ambassador was summoned, and a long conference ensued, the re sult of which may possibly shortly appear in the Moniteur. On Wednesday their Majesties drove in an open caAche through the Faubourg St. Antoine, and were received with enthusiastic acclamations. On the following day the Emperor and the Prince Imperial drove out in a private carriage, and visited the Imperial stables on the Quai d'Orsay. His Majesty and the Prince afterwards walked down the Avenue Rapp as far as the Champs de Mars, where they again got into the carriage. " His Majesty's health," we learn from the Pays, " has greatly improved since hilt return from Com piegne, so that every day he attends to business for some private hoursc,aarnrida carriage, and out a i a t a h il o y u g e h i th t e h r er o e n iu his equip age t o attract attention he is speedily recognised, and rece i ves the most respectfu l mar k s of sympathy. is f°°t'orin anothing There is a rumour, according to the Salut Public of Lyons, that M. Edmond About is to be made a prefect. - _ ROYAL NATIONA L L IFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—His Royal High ness the Prince of Wales has s i gni fi e d his intention, th rough Gen. Knollys, to take t h e c h a i r at the forthcomi ng annual meeting of the Royal National Lifeboat Instit u ti on, which is expected to take p l ace a b out the latter pa r t o f t h e ensuing month. The P r i nce and Princess of Wales have always manifeesd considerable interest in the grea t and national wor k o f th e Lif e b oa t Institution. On th e first anival of the Princess in her Majesty's y ac ht , in Margat e R oa d s , the lifeboat of the in stitution on that s t at i on gave her roya l hi g h ness th e earliest wel come to the shores of England. A ga i n, t h e Manchester branch of the institution, on tho representa tion of the Rev. E. Hewlett and R. Whitworth, Esq., re ceived permission from his royal highness to name one of their nine boats the Albert Victor, after his eldest son. Since then that lifeboat has contributed to the saving of 31 shipwrecked persons. The city of Bristol, through Admiral Tryon, about three years ago, presented to the institution the cost of a lifeboat, and decided to name it the Albert Edward, after the Prince of Wales. The life boat was stationed at Padstow, on the coast of Cornwall. 'l' he following w i n t er, duringa fearful midnight storm, the Albert Edward, was happily the means of Saving, under Providence, 17 poor fellows from an inevitable death from the barque Juliet, of Greenock. Her Majesty the Queen is also a warm friend of the institution, and sends it every year a subscription of £5O. Thus this great and philanthropic society, which last year con tributed to the saving of nearly 900 lives from a watery grave, receives the support and sympathy of all classes of tho community, and is thereby enabled to accomplish suc cessfully and energetically, the national work it has un dertaken to do on WWI of our bhipwrookoci bailors. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 15. The semi-official Vienna journal publishes an article censuring the agitation being carried on against the convocation of the extraordinary Reichs rath. The article concludes thus : " The Government abandons the ground of the February Constitution, simply because the present position of affairs allows solely of its theoretic 1 maintenance to advocate the February Constitution, is only to desire to defend marked absolutism 'The Government has convoked an extraordinary Reichsrath, not because it wishes absolutism but because it is anxious that the Parliamentary co-operation with the representatives of the people should be resumed at the earliest possilA period. In view of the opposition of political leaders, who themselves declared the February Constitution par tially impracticable, but who, nevertheless, demand the execution of that which, according to their own declaration they consider unfitted to restore Con stitutional rights to the people. No choice remains to the Government but an appeal to the people themselves." It is asserted that Russia intends to appoint a consul at Lemberg, in Gallicia, and that General Nerenzer will be nominated to that post. ITALY. FLORENCE, Jan. 14. To-day, in the Chamber of. Deputies, Signor; Friscia announced.his intention of putting a ques tion to the Government relative to the diSturbances' at Palermo in September last. Signor Mordini said he considered a question addressed to the Govern ment on this subject would be useless, and moved that a Parliamentary Committee should be ap pointed to inquire into the wants of the inhabitants of Palermo, and to indic tte the best mode of satis fying them. The Minister of the Interior intimated that he assented to the motion for a committee of inquiry provided it was not intended to imply a censure upon the Government. He was also of opinion that the course proposed by Signor Friscia could answer no useful purpose, all the documents relating to the subject in question having already been made public. After several speeches had been made, Signor Friscia withdrew his proposal, and the motion of Signor Mordini was referred to a com mittee. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 14. All shipping from England, France, and Italy will in future undergo a quarantine of three days only in the ports of Cadiz, Carthagena, and Santander. THE NEW SPANISH LOAN. PARIS, Jan. 15. The subscription to the loan contracted by the Spanish Government with Messrs. Fould and Co. proceeds so unsatisfactorily as to render it probable that it will prove a failure. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, Jan. 15. The statement of the Globe that the Dutch Go vernment had declared its unwillingness to submit the Scheldt question to the arbitration of French and English engineers is officially denied. The Dutch Government only stated that it would take no part whatever in the labours of the committee. AMERICA. • NEW Yonic, Jan. 14, Evening. Notwithstanding the efforts made for the aban donment of the impeachment of President Johnson, the Radical members of the House of Representa tires strongly insist upon its being proceeded with. 'rhe screw steamer Manhatten arrived out :o-day. Gold, 135. Exchange on London, 1091. Five twenty United States Bonds, 104 ; Illinois, 120 ; Erie, 65k. REUNION AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MARSEILLES, Jan. 15. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Moeris, with the above mails, arrived here this morning at 2 a.m. RECEPTION OF THE FRENCH AMBAS SADOR BY THE SULTAN. C ONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 31. This day his Excellency M. Bouree, recently ap pointed ambassador of France at the Sublime Porte, has been granted an audience to present his creden tials by his Imperial Majesty the Sultan with un usual pomp, that had, however, been previously settled between the Ottoman Ministers and the am bassadors of France and England. Imperial car riages had been placed for the purpose at the disposal of the ambassador and his suite. The whole diplo matic personnel, the dragomante, the military mis sion, the staff of the cruiser La Corse, the French functionaries of the finances, mines, public roads, and woods and forests, now on mission at Constan tinople, accompanied the French ambassador. The introducer of the ambassador, Kiamil Bey, came and took his excellency to the Imperial palace of Dolma-Bagche, and thence to the Sublime Porte. The ambassador rode in a carriage and four, escorted by a picket of Imperial Guard ; his suite followed in thirteen Imperial carriages. A guard of honour was stationed in the second courtyard of the palace, where the ambassador alighted. M. Bouree was immediatey admitted with his suite into the presence of the Sultan, and delivered the following speech, which was translated by Aali Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sire, the Emperor, my august Sovereign, has deigned to confer upon me the honour of represent ing him to your Majesty. The numerous duties devolving on me on account of that mission will he made easy by the mutual confidence established be.. tween two States which are united by so many ties; political and commercial. I succeed an ambassador who will leave in Constantinople lasting remem brances. Your Majesty wished that such an assur ance should be given to him by your ambassador in the most honourable terms ; I would feel happy should my counsels be accepted by your Majesty and his Ministers, as were those the Marquis de Moustier was able to give, and of which the high bearing was so fully appreciated. Those counsels have been always characterised, as in the recent question of the Principalities and Montenegro, by that wise spirit of moderation which softens the present and ensures the future ; it will continue, the Emperor Napoleon feels sure, to inspire the policy of your Majesty and also of your Government. " Owing to a long sojourn in the East, the ques tions that rise up here are not unfamiliar to me, and I bring with me to Constantin ople the personal dispositions the most fitted to:merit the goodwill of your Majesty. I dare asking it from this day. The Emperor,Sire, is not indifferent to the measures through which your Imperial Majesty has tried, and will try, to increase the prosperity of the populations under your sceptre. It is, above all, in developing the immense riches, sources of the public as well as of private fortunes, that exist in the soil of the em pire, that he thinks this aim can be reached. The Emperor does not ignore the fact that great im provements are sometimes difficult to be realised; but no one knows better how a strong will can mul tiply those ameliorations in the area of a great state and render them everywhere simultaneously pro ductive. I have, Sire, the honour to place in your hands the letters accrediting me to your Majesty, and which renew the assurance of the constant amity of the Emperor." 1 ES Zitiljeaty, through thq intermediary a Aali Pacha, answered that speech by a few words full of goodwill for the new representative of the Emperor, and expressed a wish that the relations of good friendship which exist between France and Turkey should be daily increased. Then the ambassador took leave of his Majesty the Sultan, and was conducted to one of the adjacent rooms, where he was offered refreshments according to usage; and he went afterwards to the Sublime Porte, through Tophane, Galata, and the new streets of Stamboul, and paid his visit to the Grand Vizier and the other Ministers of the Sultan. PRANCE. The celebrated painter M. Ingres and M. Victor Cousin are dead. The Etendard of this evening says that the Otto man circular relating to Greece was prematurely announced, since it has only just now been pre sented to the protecting Powers. A young woman was returning to her home in the Rue des Filles-Dieu, about 11 o'clock, the night before last, when she was suddenly stabbed iu the right shoulder by a young man, who made his es cape. A little later another young woman was stabbed in the breast under similar circumstances in the same street. At two in the morning a young man of 23 gave himself up at the Prefecture of Police as the author of the two attempts, and exhi bited a pair of compasses covered with blood as the instrument with which he had accomplished his crimes. In his pocket was found a manuscript en titled :—" Reflections on death ; general considera tions on the punishment of the guillotine." This document, of which he says he is the author, tends to prove that the most agreeable of all deaths is that on the scaffold. He is supposed to be insane. Some evenings back a person entered the lodge of a concierge, Rue des Fosses-Saint-Jacques. He wore the dress of an eccleziastic, and, saying he was very tirci, asked permission to rest a while and finish some notes he had roughly taken on his tablets. The request was granted, and he remained a couple of hours, during which time, it was noticed, he made a minute inspection of the room. On leaving he promised to return and bring to the concierge a chaplet blessed by the Pope. He did present himself on the following evening, but only to ask for the loan of a few francs for a pressing purpose, he having accidentally left his purse at home, lie would return the money next morning by on e o f the boys of the choirs of his church at the Batig nolles ; but as yet the benevolent concierge has not yet been favoured with a visit. A young woman, named Schmit, was tried at the Paris Court of Assizes on Saturday for the murder of her illegitimate male child, aged 13 months. The accused had left her parents voluntarily to lead a disorderly life, and was delivered of a child which she placed out to nurse. Finding, however, that it was a burthen she took back the infant under the pretence of confiding it to her mother, and then drowned it in the Canal St. Martin. She was con demned to eight years' imprisonment. A gentleman of Verona (Euro) was going out shooting one day last week, accompanied by a young man named Panton, when he stopped to speak to a neighbour. Panton asked him to lend him his gun while he was waiting, and upon his doing so he put the muzzle in his mouth, fired, and fell dead, his head being blown to pieces. He had long been considered by the neighbours as of unsound in tellect. In the Paris Corn Market last weak the four marks of flour advanced Ifr. 75e.—to 82fr. 75c. the 157 kilos. ; wheat rose Ifr.—to 48f. the 120 kilos. ; rye was unvaried at 24fr. the 115 kilos. ; barley was unchanged at 23fr. 50c. the 100 kilos. ; and oats likewise unaltered at 24fr. 50c. the 100 kilos. At the last cattle market at Sceaux, oxen sold at 1f r. 26c. to Ifr. 54c. the kilo. ; calves, at lfr. 56c. to lfr• 95c. ; and sheep, at Ifr. 42c. to lfr. 75c. At Poiav the prices were Hr. 23e. to lfr. 56e. ; lfr. 540. to lfr. 95c. ; and Ifr. 45c. to lfr. 76c., respec tively. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric situation on Saturday : —" The winds at present blowing over France are from the north; they are generally temperate, but fresh near the Pas-de-Calais and on the coast of Provence. The sea is heavy at Dunkirk and rough in the Channel and in the Bay of Biscay. Squalls aze passing over the Mediterzanean. The usual de spatches from Portugal, England, Sweden, and Norway have not been received. Great oscillations are observed in the magnetic needle." During the year 1866 seventy-five new plays were produced on the Paris stage. The number of telegraphic despatches exchanged in the interior of Paris now exceecl.s 1,500 a day. The winter has set in with severity throughout the country. The thermometer (Centigrade) fell to 3 deg. below zero (26.5 Fahrenheit) at Rouen on Saturday. At night snow also fell, and the frost is reported as general in the south-eastern and central departments. A stranger entered the court-yard of the Hotel- Dieu, at Rouen, on Saturday morning, and drawing a pistol from his pocket shot himself through the heart. The body has not been identified. An infant has just died of starvation at Roche fort, the avarice of its unnataral father having refused sufficient nourishment to the mother who was suckling it. The city of Lisle is preparing to celebrate, in grand style, the 200th anniversary of its annexa tion to France. A young man aged 19, named Rebouillet, a domestic at Beauvosin (Gard), has just died from drinking a bottle of brandy in less than 5 minutes. BOURSE, Jan. 14, Two o'clock.—Securities are falling, with the exception of Italian Fives, which have slightly advanced, having been quoted at 53f. 95c., with an improvement of 10c., whereas French Threes have fallen 12ic., at 69f. 60e. Credit Mobilier and Credit Foncier shares have declined each 2f. 50c.—at 506 f. 25c., and 1,412 f. 50c. Comptoir d'Escompte, weak during the last few days, have again fallen, this time to 827 f. 50c., with a loss of 10f. Railway Shares are very calm, quotations are either unvaried or a shade lower. Generally very few transactions are taking place. English Consols lower. Three o'clock. —Italian Fives have further ad vanced, and Comptoir d'Escompte shares have im proved. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent 5......... 98 75 Bank Shares 3590 Do. end month....„ Italian Loan 54 3 per Cents. ...... ... 69 60 Do. end month 54 15 Do. end month 69 60 Mexican Loan Credit Mobilier ... 506 25 Do. Bonds — Do. end month ... 506 25 Spanish Threes Crddit Fonciet — Home Debt ...'.c.... DO. end month 1415 Deferred ...... ...... 1 B.AILW LYE,. Orleans 905 Northern llB2 50 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern 9 12 50 Western 568 75 Eastern — 545 Sardinian — Austrian Lombard 3BB 75 North of Spain l2O Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona — Roman. 9O COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PASSENGERS AND GUARDS ON RAlLWAYS.—Yesterday a number of railway directors and gentlemen connected with mechanical science attended a series of experiments made on trains running between Victoria Station and the Ciystal Palac as to a means of establishing communication between passengers and guard, or between the guard at the rear of the train and the driver. The first obstacle to the adoption of any system has been the want of simplicity and cheapness. An ;nvention tried yesterday, anal which seemed to give satisfaction to a large body of practical men, is apparently all that is wanting. The apparatus is applied to a car riage, or any number of carriages, by simply drilling a hole in the roof. A tuba having a slight slit in it is then irt reach of the passenger. In the slit is a pair of jams or jaws, covered with a chemical composition of an ignitable character, but which can only be ignited by the touch of another composition having an affinity to it. This second composition is to be supplied by touch ing the passenger's tickets with it, and the insertion of a ticket will at once explode a rocket, which can be heard from end to end of the train, and ignite coloured fire which will flare for several minutes on the roof of the car r:age, so pointing out who:o the explosion came from. The passenger's ticket will show who caused the explo sion. The experiments were completely success:ul. The inventors aro Messrs. Lo Keux and Wishart. The inven tion tried yesterday has been brought to po_fection by Mr. T. Brown, civil engineer of the European Inventors' Agency. _ - Court Cirtribt HER MAJESTY, &c. OSBORNE, Jan. 14. The Queen and Princess Louise walked in the grounds and rode on ponies this morning. Prince and Princess Christian drove out, accom panied by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and Miss M'Gregor, and visited the Female Prison at Park hurst. Mrs. G. I). Engleheart was in attendance upon their Royal Highnesses. Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia went out walling. We have much pleasure in announcing that her Majesty will open Parliament in person, and with tho same Stab as last year. THE KING OF THE BELGIAL,M—The Avenir .National says there is no foundation for a re' ant report that the King of the Belgians was about to leave for the south of Europe for the sake of a milder climate. His Majesty's health is bet;;er than it was formeAy, and he does not now require to pass the winter in Egypt or Turkey. Leopold 11. is able to endure the inclemency of the weather with impunity. Last week he was to be seen riding for several hours together on the boulevards in the midst of rain, wind, and snow. The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey have been entertaining at Beaudesert the following party : The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings, the Earl and Countess of Winchilsea ; Ladies Constance, Mabel, and Hilda Finch-Hatton; Viscount Maidptone, the Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Viscount and Lady Cons'.ance Marsbam, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia Des Vcoux, Mr. George Tredcroft, Mr. Peter Wilkinson, Mr. H. Thou). - bill ; Lords Henry, Alexander, and Berkeley Paget. The Earl and Countess Gray are expected to arLive at their residence on Carlton-house-terrace at the end of the month from Howick Hall, for tho meeting of Parliament. The Countess of Coventry has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Asdown Park. Lady Catherine Boyle, eldest daughter of Henry, third Earl of Shannon, by Sarah, fourth daughter of JNir John Hyde, of Castle Hyde, county Cork, died on Tues day last at Dover. She was born 13th March, 1801. The lion. Mrs. Ramsay, of Barnton, and Mrs. and Miss Pollock Morris have arrived at Brown's Hotel. Sir Bruce and Lady Chichester have arrived at Maurigy's Hotel from their seat, Basingstoke. Sir Edwin Scudamore Stanhope has left Alaurigy's Hotel for Holme Lacy, Hereford; Sir Frederick, Lady, and Miss E. H. Bathurst have left for II *stings. ARCHBISHOP MANNING. (From the fli,•at:ngitam Gazette.) Archbishop Manningpreached a sermon yesterday' at Birmingham on behalf of a local hospital under the care of the "Little Sisters of the Poor." In the course of his sermon Dr. Manning said :—The Holy Catholic Church was founded by Christ, and, like Him, was one and indivisible. He had never founded any other Church. Many, it was true, had ceased to be of it ; many had separated from it ; but such Churches were human—they were schisms—sins against the Church, and wounds in its bosom. The one visible Church had continued from the time its founder was visible ; and it would continue the same to the end, occupying the same base, spreading charity now as at the beginning, and never moving from its foundation. None other could ever lift it from its position, or substitute in its place other Churches. No human band had fixed it, and 11 0 human hand could lift it from its stand-point. The voice of the Church was the voice of its Divine Head ; and the Holy Catholic Church was the one true and indivisible witness of the truth and the way' of salvation among men. There was a time when this nation of England was linked to the one true Church, and when the gloryandpeace of that Church covered the land as the waters cuver the earth. There was a time when every man in England be longed to the one fold, knelt before the same altar, and followed the one guide. There was a time when England knew no differences among her people, and when their obedience was claimed by only one Church. But what was it that overcast the splay dour of this nation ? Why was England now la darkness? Why was she torn with schisms, an d why were men, not only disputing on points of doe trine, but disputing the inspiration of the Holy Book ? What had brought England to such a state as this—what had dimmed her glory so much ? Be cause she had departed from the Divine authority, and thrown off allegiance to the Holy Church of God—this was the cause. She had turned from the paths of her fathers—from the paths of her Divine guides. She bad pulled down God's altars—she had removed the symbols of His presence. There coul . d . be no rest un til th ese woun d s were healed—un til these blemishes were smoothed away—until they all were brought to a true knowledge of peace before the altar of God—until the schisms were all cast out, and until they all rejoiced as one flock and ne one people in the kingdom of Jesus Christ. Il e trusted that day was coming—that it had nearly approached. It might be a vision, it might be a 1 illusion ; men might mock them, but surely if i t were a want of wisdom, there was no want el charity in praying and labouring earnestly that 3 day might come when England would be reunited to Christendom. THE CASE OF THE TORNADO. —By a decree dated the 15th of December last, and notified on the 24th of December to the British Consul at Cadiz, the Spanish Court which has teen sitting there since the 4th, of September, declared the Tornado "a good prize of Aver, and ordered the proceeds of her sale (she cost £75,000) t° be divided amongst the crew of the frigate Gerona, which captured her. The crew (57 of whom are British subjects) are declared to be "Chilian prisoners of war," and as such are to remain in p_ison until the close of the war between Spain acd Cbg;. It will be observed that the Spanish Celia, while pronouncing sentence of condemnation ott,, the ground that the Toeeedo is "a Chilian privateer , thinks it necessary to notqy its decree to the British Cow sul, thereby Etultifying itself. The whole proceedings of the Court were conducted with closed doors, without the owners of the Tornado being present or heard in their defence by counsel, or their being made acquainted with the depositions of the crew, or even with the charge s against their vessel. Nor were they afforded any oppor tunity for rebutting the charges or disproving the allege.- tions of the captors. The unfortunate crow, who he' r° boon detained prisoners since the 22d of August last, WO: out having been informed of what they were accuse' , were subjected for months to prolix and inquisitorial eO -- minations by the secret tribunal, but were not permitted to have the eseistalce of the Bash Consul or of a tor, or even an English interpreter. The Spanish inter preters employed by the tribunal spoke English most Oi l perfectly, and often quite unintelligibly, so that the 0 6 ' men were unable to understand the meaning of we n / questions put to them, and many of their answers We ll misinterpreted.—Observer. ROTHSCLllLD.—Rothschild's greatest achievemen in over-reaching distance and his fellow-speculato ro was in 1815. He was near the Chateau d'Hougoumont exla the 18th of June, w a t c hi ng as eager l y as B uonapar te Wellington themselves the progress of the battle of W 6,; terloo. All day long h o f o ll owe d th e fi g h t i ng w i t h s traine; eyes, knowing that on its issue depended his welfare $ 0 well as Europe's. At sunset he saw that the victory . " 1 wsth Wellington and the A - lies. Then, without a re ° ; : ment's delay, he mounted a h orse th a t h a d b een kept '; readiness for Lim, and hurried hom ewar d s .. E ver ywhe re on his road iresh homes or carriages w ere i n waiting ~ help him over the ground. Riding or driving all Dig it " he reached Ostend at daybreak - , to find the sea so sterol that the boatmen refused t o t rus t th emselves to it. At Is s he prevailed upon a fi s h ermen t o make the venture O ,r e reward of £BO. In th a t way h e manage d to reach Decli; At Dover, and et th e i n t erme di a t e s t ages on th e road London, other hoses were in waiting, and he was bil-' °ll o don before midnight. Next morning, the morning of t * - A 20th of June, he was one of the first to enter the St ° 6s Exchange. In gloomy whispers he told those whel, is usual, crowded round Lim for news, that Blucher and P o Pruss;ans had been routed by Napoleon before Weiiing o i a had been able to reach the field ; that by himself ho ce ti o a not possibly succeed, and, therefore, the cause of EDP and her allies was lost. The funds fell, as they were nies_a to ;all. Every ono was anxious to sell, and Rothschil d his accredited agents scoffed at all who brought thorn s c ig for purchase. But scores of unknown agents were at w°r o all that day and the next. Before the Stock Exch el3 % closed on the afternoon of the second day, when No 3u ' l a, Rothschild's strong boxes were full of paper, he a unon , ? ° : ll , an hour or so before the news came through other c n o do nels, the real issue of the contest. Very soon the fu 0 5 were higher than they had been during many Pre v ,, i a weeks ; and Rothschild found that ho had made soreet" like a million pounds by his quick travelling and cr ue t misrepresentation. Other millions were collected, 1- ‘ more slowly, by other transactions of a like teat° j3g " Nathan Meyer Rotbse;tild," in • English Merchants. H. R. Fox Bourn,.