The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-16 00:00:00

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To conclude with THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Messrs J. T. Raymond, W. Gordon, &c. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Last 5 nights of the Company's performing previous to the Christmax Holidays. Notwithsto nding the Triumphant and Bril liant Succe3s of the DOGE OF VENICE, it cannot be performed after Thursd:ty, December 19, in consequence of the preparations for the GRA.Vo CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME. To be produced on BoXING NI HIT. - - THIS EVENING, her Majesty's servants will perform the new Romantic Play, in 4 Acts, entitled THE DOGE OF VENICE, adapted by Bayle Bernard, and Musically illustrated by Selections from the Operas of "Marino," by Donizetti, and the "Duo Pos en re ant "Bravo" of Verdi and Mercadante, with New and Mag-riLticent Scenery by Mr. Wrn. Beverley. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Messrs. J. C. Cowper. H. Sinclair, E. Phelps, Barrett, James Johnstone, C. Warner, W. 11PIntyre, C. Harcourt, W. C. Temple, C. Webb, &e.; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Grattan, &c. Increased orchestra and numerous chorus. V. To conclude with each evening THE LADIES' CLUB. Mes dames Beatrix Shirley, Kate Ilarflour, Grattan, Hudspeth, L. Wilmot, Mrs. H. Vandenho if ; Messrs. J.13.0u:•e, Bsrratt, C. Webb, F. Moreland, Harcourt, James Johnstone, W. C. Temple. Stage manager, Mr. Edward Stirling. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7 o'clock. On Thursday, December 26, will be produced the Drury-lane GRAND COMIC CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, entitled FAW FEE FO FUJI; or, Harlequin, Jack the Giant Killer. First Morning Performance on Saturday, December 2S, and every Wednesday and Saturday, until February 15. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with (at 7 o'clock) HE'S A LUNATIC. After which (by particular desire), the celebrated comedy, by Tom Taylor, Esq., called STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham, W. M. Terrot, C. Seyton, Miss E. Terry, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. To conclude with the Comic Drama of THE FIRST NIGHT. Achille Talma Dufard (a French actor), Mr. Alfred Wigan. NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE ROYAL, Mr. and Mrs. ALFRED WIGAN every Evening. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee anti Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. Dion Bondi eault; Messrs. Dominick Murray, E. Atkins, G. F. Neville, J. G. Shore, IL Mellon, Gresham; Miss Elsworthy, Miss E. Barnett, Mrs. Addie, and Mn. Dion Boucicault. The wild scenery of Kerry and the Water Cave have been painted by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants. The Drama preceded by A LITTLE FLIRTATION, and fol lowed by NO. 1, ROUND THE CORNER. On Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 23 and 24, the performances will be for the Benefit of Mr. J. Roberts, Acting Manager. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. N.B.—Due notice will be given of the next representation of NRRAII-NA-POGUE. T~IIIEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, MAN IS NOT PERFECT, NOR WOMAN NEITHER. Messrs. G. Belmore, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, Miss E. Pitt, and Mrs. Alfred Mellon. After which, 17th time, MAUD'S PERIL. Messrs. Billlngton G. Belmore. Ashley, Ehurn , ,,, C. J. Smith; Miss Herbert, Mrs. [Ellington, Miss Emily Pitt. with ep FO.ll THE CATTTLE SHOW. Messr, o.l33lnvre, A.513.1f.,y, Miss. E. Pitt, and Miss liar IRTOLBON THEATRE ROYAL. L Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. TATA EVENI.G, at 7, the highly sueeeBsful Drarik of FOI. LOVE. 3tesdames Stephens, Ileum,.le, C. Saunders; 3lessr., Montane, Price, Widdicombe. - - At 8, Bum:),las new Burie6Tie, MARY TURNER; or, Thu Wicious IVillin and - Wict‘n - ions Wirtue. Mesdames Fanny Josephs, Saunders Wilmore, Clinton, &c.; :least::. Robins, Mon tague, Garlen, Wilmot, b.!.lecnt new scenery, dres2es, and appointments. iNoTE.—Seats may be secured a month in advance Box-office open from 10 till 5; and all Libraries. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Solo Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fochter. 'VII Li EVENING, at 8, ROMEO ASO JULIET. Romeo, Miss Vestv,tli ; Mercutio,. Mr. Walter Lacy ; Friar Laurence, Mr Ryder; Nurse, Mrs. Marston; Juliet, Miss Miliy Palmer. Proceled by, at 7, PERFECTION. Messrs. J. Neville, Dalton J. Francis, and Miss Maud Shelley. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7, NOTII' LNG TO NURSE. Mr. Thorne and INlisfi Newton. After which, a New Comedy, KIND TO A FAULT. Messrs Farrielle, Belford, and Turner; Mesdames Johnstone, Gwynne, and Hughes. To conclude with Byron's WILLIAM TELL WITH A VEN GEANCE. Measts. James and Fenton; Mesdames Holt and Weatherby. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. New Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. 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THIS DAT.—Morning, sh. 10m. I Afternoon, si. 42m, To-Mon now.-Morning, 6h. 10m. I Afternoon, 6h. 371 n. tviit LONDON, MONDAY, DEC. 16, 1867. Seldom has there been a stronger or more unani mons feeling evoked throughout the whole of London than the sentiment of pity and indignation called forth from all classes by the catastrophe at Clerkenwell. As the hours go on, and the misery and suffering so wantonly inflicted on unoffendiug women and children becomes more widely under stood and more fully realised, the universal execra tion of the reckless and cowardly ruffians whose work we are all deploring grows louder and more intense. The mournful pictures of the quiet little homes so suddenly and so terribly desolated, the heartrending accounts of the sufferings of poor little children, and the total ruin and overthrow of so many industrious families just on the eve of social and cheerful Christmas, all combine to render the story one of the most painful and melancholy which it has been our duty to record. No doubt every thing that public effort and private charity can do to relieve the victims of the outrage will be done, and the spontaneous sympathy of all classes has been shown with a promptitude and heartiness which does honour to English hearts and hands. Within A few moments of the first terrific shock brave men were risking their lives in extricating those embedded in the ruins. No sooner were they all rescued, and the alarming nature of their injuries perceived, than every vehicle within reach was at once offered for their service, regard less of consequent damage. The hospital authori ties having heard the explosion were on the alert, and everyting thing skill and kindness could do was done to alleviate the sufferings, which at the best were harrowing to witness. Meanwhile those who had happily escaped from the ruins with slighter injury to life and limb, but with the total loss of their belongings, were not uncared for. Early on Saturday morning the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with commendable promptitude, despatched his Private Secretary in concert with Mr. LAMBERT, of the Poor-law Board, for the purpose of distributing immediate pecuniary assistance to those left desti tute by the catastrophe. This kindly forethought was doubly welcome, as many of the homeless families belonged to the class of respectable me chanica who would have shrunk from applying for parish relief. Mr. HARDY, the Home Secretary, was also on the spot on Saturday morning, and soon after the Government proclamation of reward was offered. Unhappily, notwithstanding all these efforts, there will be much distress and loss, in dependently of the personal injuries, and a public meeting is convened for this evening to consider the best means to be taken to relieve the distress. Had the Fenians endeavoured to devise the most efficacious means of destroyingall sympathy with their proceedings, and of changing their position from that of political offenders—misguided, indeed, but sincere and enthusiastic—into reckless and determined criminals, whose hands are against every man alike, and who aro callously indifferent to the torture and suffering of those who have never injured them,provided they have even a chance of gaining their object, certainly they could not have done so more effectually than by causing the fearful catastrophe of Friday. The offence of forcibly rescuing prisoners from the custody of the law is in itself a very serious and unpardonable one, but this falls into the shade compared with the means mlopted to effect it. The feelings of the working •lames arc now thoroughly aroused against Fenian- ' ism, and the Government will meet with the ready and unquestioning support of all ranks of her MAJESTY'S subjects in the firm and consistent re pression of it in all its aspects. The great catastrophe of Friday has been the one engrossing topic of the last few days. Happily the proclamation of the Govern ment and the effects of the authorities in the several cities in which the funeral demonstrations were to be held have proved effectual, and the pro cessions were not attempted. The news from Ireland reports that everything was tranquil in Cork and the adjoining counties. It is understood that Slr. JOHN MARTIN has left the country in conse quence of the summons served on him for having taken part in last week's demonstration. No doubt, in common with other worthies of his class lie thought discretion the better part of valour so soon as personal danger threatened him self. The mock funerals were altogether aban toned, and at Killarney the originators of the movement posted a placard counselling the people to obey the law. At Leeds the streets were paraded by artillery, nifantry, and yeomanry,but not the slightest mani festation of Fenian feeling showed itself, and the military dispersed about four o'clock. At Liverpool, where the scene of action had been changed from the town to the suburbs, some anxiety was felt, and to judge from the quantity of crape and green ribbon the week a gra n d di sp l ay was in provided during tended. But the vigorous preparations made, and the resolute attitude of the authorities proved to be Amply sufficient to prevent any attempt at the ab surd and mischievous display. The fact is, that the crowd of neutrals, and idlers, and sight-seers whom mere curiosity and love of excitement usually draw to the scene of such affairs, arc now thoroughly dis gusted, and will not countenance by their presence any more Fenian celebrations. We have no doubt that the explosion of Friday has been fatal to the interests of the conspirators themselves, but even that gain is dearly purchased by so much needlessly inflicted suffering. The Cuba, from New York on the 3d of Decem ber, brings a further account of the PRESIDENT'S Message published on that day in advance of de livery. We have been already put iu possession of the substance by means of the Atlantic Cable, but some additional passages of considerable interest aro now given. The points upon which ho prin cipally dwells are the Reconstruction of the South and Negro Suffrage, and these are indeed the all engrossing topics of the day. The Negro ques- tion more especially is gaining daily in portance and interest, for the white men of the North arc not slow to perceive the results with which they are threatened. It is one thing to keep the Southern States at bay, to refuse them representation, and to idly the petty tyrant without datuage to themselves ; but it is quite another to allow negroes to he elected, and thus to put a considerable share of the legislative powers of the country into their hands. On this subject the PRESIDENT says, with sound common sense and justice, " Four millions of slaves yes terday cannot be made intelligent freemen to day." The PRESIDENT is desirous to " better their condition in all their rights, save transferring to them our political inheri tance." The dangers of such a course must be apparent to every impartial observer, and there can be no doubt but that this perception has had a cmsiderable share in altering the constitution of Congress. Whatever professions of equality the iicals may make for party purposes, there are very ; few white men in the North who really desire to In tt the blacks completely on a level with them. ;elves, and there can be no question as to, the imprudence and danger of such a o,urs e even as regards the North. As for the Southern States, the PRESIDENT says the stab jugation of the Southern States to negro domino tion would be worse than military despo tism, n nder which they are at present governed. If anyt ling could drive the whites of the South to a fr osh outbreak it would be the sudden eleva tion of the negroes. Setting aside the prejudices of race and colour, which are not in fact so strong in the :3outh as in the North, it is not difficult to believe that the sudden conversion of servants into masters is a dangerous as well as a distasteful ex perin lent to the latter. Yet the numbers of blacks in soi ne of the States are so large that representation, if the franchise were extended to them, would bo completely in their hands, and the interests of the whites would be altogether sacrificed. The Radicals have gone on much too fast. Allowing them to be sincere in their loudly expressed desire for negro elevation, the haste and precipitation of their schemes would hare been sufficient under any other circumstances to secure their condemnation. We wish to see a child well educated, and accordingly send him to school and college, but we do not ex pect him within a day or two of his arrival to carry off the highest honours. Much has been said of late about the elevation of the masses among ourselves, and much has been done to procure it, but nobody expects to find our miners and our bricklayers on' an intellectual level with our engineers and our skilled mechanics. Yet the proposed method of registration in the Southern States does more than put the negro on a level with his former master. It decimates the numbers of white voters, who are already in some parts numerically fewer than the blacks, and consequently the whites are left totally unrepresented. As matters are at present arranged by the Radical Reformers, the members for the Southern States might actually in Congress vote for the confiscation and re-distribution of Southern land and property. Happily for the Southerners the danger which threatens them extends itself to the North also, and the negro will be no welcome addition to the deli berations at Washington. The words of the PRE SIDENT on Reconstruction will be listened to with more attention now than they would have been last year. He does little more than repeat the old un heeded arguments. The disorganisation of the Union is, he says, a subject of profound regret, and the Union, as formerly established, can only really exist when all the States are represen!ed in Congress. The rebellious States were always part of the Union, and their secession ordinances were mere nullities. If it is now to be admitted that they were valid as the authors intended them to be, the whole ground upon which the civil war was justified would be swept away. In fact the Radical party are now doing the very thing which the great majority of the Northern people refused to do during the painful years of struggle. They are acknowledging the secession of the South. At the time of the secession the Radi cals, like most others in the North, refused to re- cognise the Confederacy or its officers. PRESIDENT, Ministers, Congress, and Generals, were all to them mere empty names ; and the whole body of Confederates, great and small, were classed together as " rebels," men who had resisted a supe rior authority, and laid claim to an indepmdence which they had no right to possess. But if, by their own voluntary act, they had power to dissolve their connection with the Northern States, how were they rebels? The clai n of the North was based on the indissolubility of the Union, and the North was I low, then, can the Radicals, with any consistency, maintain that the Union is broken, and the South must not be re-admitted ? These are the questions which the more moderate and reflective among American politicians and statesmen have been put ting for some time past, and they are at last obtain ing an answer from the great body of the people. We have in the news brought by the Cuba another significant intimation of the change. General PorE has ordered the adjournment of the Alabama Reconstruction Convention, for the pithy reason that si its action tends to delay reconstruction." Thos• who have watched the progress of these African legislators during their brief deliberations will not be disposed to dispute the truth of the General's asser tion. victorious. CONTINENTAL nations seem to be surpassing Great Britain in their appreciation of cheap means of intercommunication. By the convention just concluded between Austria and the North German Confederation, the penny-postage system is ex tended over the greater part of Central Europe. Heretofore, post age throughout the whole of Austria cost only a penny, and by the new arrangement a letter may be sent from Hamburg to Vienna, from Pesth to Cologne, for the same suns. This is not the whole of the improvement. These States offer their subjects still greater advantages. By this convention with North Germany, Aus trians will be enabled to send small packages, for many hundreds of miles in fact, for the same dis tances as they could post letters—for threepence. The desirableness of some such system in this coun try needs no enforcement. The present charge on tho transit of most parcels more than a few ounces in weight, whether by post or by rail, is nearly pro hibitory. In the matter of telegraphic messages we have also a great deal to learn. Austria is not an advanced country in commercial progress. Nevertheless, its telegraph system is being dove loped more rapidly than ours. Cheap rates have been adopted, and have succeeded so well that they are to be made considerably cheaper. The means for the rapid transmission of informa tion will soon he brought within the reach of the bulk of the people. In the first six months of this year the inhabitants of Vienna alone sent 175,638 private messages. This number, considering the ratio of progress, would allow an average of nearly one message to every member of the population, and five or six to every adult male, per annum. England has heretofore taken the lead in such matters, but now we are content to follow other nations at a humble distance. It is no wonder that we are not quite so prosperous as formerlr. The Abyssinian Expedition seems to be prosper ing on the whole. From Malkatta, December the Ist, we learn that Colonel MEREWETHER is moving on Senafe with the advanced Brigade. One very encouraging circumstance in the affair is that the Expedition seems likely to receive the support and assistance of the people of the various plat s through which it pas - ;es. In this last account we learn that the inhabitants of Okuleh and Kuzeih have offered their services. It is very cer tain that this wpect of the matter must not be slighted, or made little of, because it might hereafter prove to be of material advantage to our forces. The troops, it is said, are in good health ; but from Aden it is reported that there is a great scarcity of water, and the disease among the mules and horses prevails to a great extent. It would be well if, in any future transports, more carp were taken that there was not so much crowding in the transit of these animals. The mules were sent packed in so " tight" a manner that it was impossible for them to lay down. This is not the way to enable them to bear the subsequent fatigues and privation that await them, and a change for the better would be a desirable one. Colonel STAVELY and Staff, with the last de tachmerA of the Scinde Brigade, have passed Aden en route for Abyssinia ; it is mentioned also that a chief of the Tigre, with six hundred men, had arrived in the British camp, and that is a significant an nouncement of itself. On the whole, we feel assured that the expedition promises well so far, and the public may feel confidence in its future prospects. Of course we cannot expect that it will be without drawbacks and disappointments to a certain ex tent, but the result is the main thing to consider, and i❑ every view of the question there seems no reasin whatever to doubt that it will have a pros perous issue. CORRESPONDENOB FROM PARIS. (FROX OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.i PARTS, Sunday, Dec. 11 - - From telegrams received here I am informed that a tearful explosion, attended with loss of life, took place in London on Friday night. The telegram is extremely bald and inaccurate, but the circumstance that all the journals have taken it up. chews that the calamity has created excitement here. The telegram gives notice that the event took place at the "Prison de Elerkenwell," and that Burke has escaped. Lord Clarendon has passed through Paris en 'route for Florence and Rome. During his brief sojourn here, he he was accompanied to the Palace of Saint-Cloud, and introduced by the Marquis de Moustier to the Emperor. In spite of the promises made by the Itioniteur and other official organs, and in spite of the efforts of M. de Moustier himself, the project of the Conference, for the realisation of which the French Government has been labouring with more perseverance than success, has been abandoned. A common topic of talk here is the strengthening of the garrisons of Gibraltar and Moscow. It is believed that these measures have been taken in view of approaching complications in the East. The fact that Gortschakofr has been superseded by Ignatieff is believed to be a sort of menace to Turkey. At the close of a conference held at the Imperial Asylum of Vincennes upon the nutritive qualities of the flesh of horses, M. Reboul, director of the establishment, ordered that a plate of this meat should be served to convalescent patients. A most remarkable and mysterious case of murder is just now the topic of conversation here. A farmer and money-lender of Bourgueil, named Pierre David, disappeared suddenly in June 1863. The body was discovered in a state of decomposition in December 186 G. On examination it was found that death had been pro duced by strangulation, and also that the body had but lately been removed to the spot in which it was found. On tke 17th of February last Hilaire David, son of the victim, was standing in a wine-shop talking to a man named Bouchet. Suddenly the young man, pointing to Bouchet, exclaimed, " Arrest him ; he has in his possession the names of the murderers of my father !" Bouchet was obse;ved to have a slip of paper in his hand at this moment, but he put it into his mouth and swallowed it before he was placed in custody. Bouchet and Hilaire David were found to have been in close relations respecting the crime since August 1863, and it turned out that the former had agreed to produce the body of the murdered man in con sideration of a sum of money. For a further sum of money Bouchet agreed to write down the names of the mui derers, and he had actually written a name or names upon a piece of paper, when he seemed to change his mind, and would not give up the writing. At this moment David, pointing to him, accused him of complicity in the murder. The charge of murder has just been made, and though ii was found to be impossible to bring the charge directly home to Bouchet, enough was made evident to pl (.v.,; that he knew something about the tragedy, and he was sew tenoed to twenty years' hard labour. Herr von Dreyse, the inventor of the needle-gun, died on the t,th instant at his native place, Sommerda, near Erfurt. He was born in 1787, and in youth he worked in the shop cf his father, who was a locksmith. From 1809 to 1814 he lived in Paris, and was employed by a German officer who had been commissioned by Napoleon I. to in vent a breech-loading rifle. On returning to Prussia ho devoted himself to the pursuit of the object which his Paris employer had vainly endeavoured to realise, and the result was that in 1836 he produced the famous needle gun. Herr von Drcyse is also the inventor of the grenade rifle, and of other varieties of firearms. The needle-gun was first placed in the hands of the Prussian infantry iu 3840 LATEST INTELL WINCE (REUTER'B TELEGRAMS.) THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. BIALKATTo(?), Dec. 1. Colonel Merewether, with the advanced brigade, is moving on Senafe. The inhabitants of Okuleh and Kuzeih had tendered their services. The troops are in good health. The Abuna is dead. ADEN, Dec. 6. Colonel Staveley and Staff, together with the last detachment of the Scinde Brigade, have passed here, en route for Abyssinia. Advices from Annesley Bay report a great scarcity of water. The disease among the mules and horses continued to an alarming extent. A chief of the Tigre, with GOO men, had arrived in the British camp. MALTA, Dec. 4. The Orontes troopship has just arrived here from Portsmouth, with 614 officers and privates, women and children, belonging to various regiments, and two naval officers. The Leith steamer, from London for Alexandria, with stores for the Abyssinian expedition, has broken her rudder, and is repairing here. The weather &ince the 26th of November has been very tempestuous. Many ships with cargoes of grain have taken refuge here. HUNGARY. PESTI', Dec. 15. In to-day's sitiings of the Lower House of the Diet the bill on the Hungarian quota of the public debt of the empire was passed by 239 against 110 rotes. Ihe debate has lasted nine days. The Civil Marriage and Landwehr Bills will shortly be laid before the house. SWITZERLAND. BERET, Dec. 16. Large popular meetings were held yesterday at Zurich, Winterthur, Uster, and Bulach, at which resolutions were passed in favour of a revision of the Zurich constitution in a completely democratic sense. During the meeting loud cries of " Down with the present system! away with its supporters !" were uttered. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 16. The North German Lloyd steamer America, from New York, has arrived here, with 109 passengers for this port, Havre, and Hamburg ; 48 sacks of mails for London ; $92,000 in specie for England, and $156,000 in specie for France. NEW Yonx, Dec. 5 (Morning). The Senate has passed a resolution calling for papers relative to the Alabama claims, and has also passed a bill declaring five to form a quorum of the Supreme Court. A resolution has been laid on the table denouncing those portions of President John ion's Message in which he condemned the course of Congress as a breach of official propriety, and re commending Congress to express reprehension thereof. Senator Sumner, in a speech opporing the printing of extra copies of the President's Message, denounced the Message as incendiary, and calcu lated to stimulate rebellion and provoke civil war. It was evidence, he said, of a coalition existing between Mr. Johnson and the rebels. Mr. Davis whose successor Mr. Johnson was, would have sent just such a message. Mr. Dixon, a Conservative Republican, defended Mr. Johnson, and declared that Congress was mis representing the people, and that it should reflect on the lessons taught by the Conservative victories in the recent elections, which were a rebuke to the Radicals. A resolution has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, declaring that no claim of a foreign Government over na turalised citizens of the United States shall affect the right of such citizens to Federal protection, and that the Government shall at all hazard protect naturalised citizens both at home and abroad. General Hancock has reinstated several judicial officials in Louisiana who had been removed by General Mower. The Alabama Convention have passed an ordi nance suspending all civil courts with the exception ordered of the Supreme Probate and Criminal Courts. Convention to the injuring re construction. adjourn General on i the has ground ed er of its action The Virginia Convention has elected Judge Underwood as President. lie addressed the Con vention, advising it to exercise all Christian charity consistent with future safety. Governor Brownlow has published a card denying the evidence of Chief Detective Baker before the Impeachment Committee, and declaring that he never testified, and does not believe, that President Johnson ever corre3pondecl with Mr. Davis or any other rebel during the rebellion. The negroes of Bullock county, Alabama, have organised courts of their own. They were armed and threatened to seize the property of the whites. General Swayne sent a detachment of troops, who dispersed them, and arrested fifteen of their ring leaders. Mr. Hoffman, a Democrat, has been re-elected Mayor of New York by a majority of 22,000 over the Opposition Democratic and Republican candi dates. The Republican vote showed a decrease of 7,000. Intelligence from Mexico, of the 20th ult., pub lished by the New York journals, mentions a rumour that a messenger had arrived in that capital from the Emperor Napoleon to President Juarez. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 14, T►vo o'clock.—The market opened very weak, and transactions generally mo derate. Three per Cents. lose 121 c., at 69f. GOc. Italian Fives are steady at 45f. 70c., losing only sc. Credit Mobilier are firm at 170 f., without change. Spanish Mobilier are higher by If. 25e., at 1971. 50c. Comptoir d'Escompte at 142 f. 50c., losing 2f. 50c. Credit Fonder shares arc weak at 1,370 f., less by 2f. 50c. Gas shares firm at 1,432 f. 50c., with a gain of 2f. 50c. French Railway securities arc in rather more demand. English Consols are telegr►phed with a fall of at 928 93. Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares 3350 Itid'an Loan End of mouth 45 80 Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home , Debt — Deferred 41 per. Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 69 621 Credit Mobilier End of month l7O Credit Foncier 1375 End of month 1370 - RAILWAI Account Orleans .......... .......... .. B63} Northern 1177-f Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 555 Western • Eastern . 53 34 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 360 North of Spain Saragossa Lyman IeEVIEW OF 71:IE BRITISH CORY TRADE. The growers having thrashed out only limited quantities of late, the supplies of wheat brought forward in nearly all the leading markets have been very moderate, and in but middling condition. Good and fine samples have changed hands freely, and in some instances prices have advanced is. per quarter. In the value of inferior kinds, very little change has taken place. Increased quantities of barley have been on offer, yet, on the whole A steady business has been doing in most descriptions, at about stationary prices. In the value of other descrip tions of produce no change of importance has taken place, From our import lists it will be perceived that . the importations of foreign and colonial produce continue enormous, and they have had very little influence upon prices. Our farmers seem determined to meet the consumption with only moderate, supplies of grain, and most of the large importing houses are landing their cargoes in warehouse and thus specu lating upon higher prices. We have now arrived at the dullest period of the year, and, yet the tendency of the value of wheat is against the buyer. Indeed, the pre sent :state of the trade is in favour of a long continuance of current market values. Much will, of course, depend upon the extent of the outflow of wheat and flour from America. At Mark-lane, both on Wednesday and Friday, only a limited quantity of English wheat was exhibited coastwise and by land-carriage. Really fine qualities were taken off at fully Monday's prices ; inferior parcels, however were a slow inquiry, at that day's decline. The imports of foreign wheat have been again on a very extensive scale, but as they have been mostly landed in warehouse, the show of samples has not increased. Sales have progressed slowly, but we have no decline to notice in the quotations. Most of the foreign wheat con tinues to arrive in good condition. The imports of flour have been extensive, but there has been no pressure of supply in the market. The trade has been in a very inactive state, and the quotations have been with difficulty supported. The supply of both English and foreign barley has been tolerably extensive. Fine malting parcels have changed hands steadily, at full prices. In the value of grinding and distilling sorts very little change has taken place. The supply of malt has been fully equal to the demand. In prices we have no alteration to report. Owing to the large arrivals of oats from abroad the demand has fallen off, and the quotations have ruled slightly in favour of buyers. The few samples of English beans brought forward have been disposed of at previous currencies. White peas have given way fully is. per quarter. Grey and map:e qualities, however, have maintained their previous value. Very few transactions of Indian corn have taken place in this article ; holders, however, have been firm in their demands. THE JAPANESE PRINCE. —On Saturday his Highness the Japanese Prince, accompanied by Captain Edmonstone, Commodore Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, and by the members of his suite, visited, at the request of the Admiralty, the works of the Thames Ironworks, Shipbuilding, Engineering, and Dry Docks Company at Blackwall. His Highness was received by Mr. Peter Rolt, chairman ; Captain Ford, the managing, director ; and by other officers, and was shewn over the entire works. He paid particular attention to the large ironclad frigate 'Wilhelm 1., of 6,000 tons, which is being built for the Prussian nary. He also went on board the Greek ironclad of 1,050 tons, with 7-inch armour plates, and two 3001 b. guns. He noticed the other vessels and works in progress, and examined the model of a broadside vessel which was adjudged to be the best of the designs sent in in the late competition invited by the Lords of the Admiralty. FATAL FIRE.--At West Bromwich, on Saturday morning, a carter, aged 40 years, and his mother, aged 79, were burned to death. The carter, whose name was William Haines, was noted for his drunken habits, and it appears that he went home intoxicated on Friday night. He went to bed in the back room upstairs, and in his stupor must have tumbled his candle upon the bed, or in some other way have set fire to some portion of the furni ture in the room. The fire spread, and was discovered by people outside very early on Saturday morning. So soon as the flames were extinguished a search was made for the bodies. Haines was found lying in bed, his face down. wards, and his body, which had been literally roasted, was so drawn up as to chew that he had died in extreme agony. His mother had also suffered terribly. Her legs had been severed from her body by fire. Jl5 YEN= FENIAN'S. ''-A schoolboy at New- bury bas narrowly escaped death by hanging, under rather singular circumstances. A number of lads at the National were in their play-hour amusing themselves by a game to which they attached the title of " Fenianisnn." With boyish humour they were in their own way giving something of a representation of the proceedings of the Fenians at Manchester ; several arrests were made, and the game went on until it was decided by the youngsters to present the closing scene in the Manchester tragedy. For this purpose the group of lads adjourned to a neighbouring outhouse, where three of them volunteered to enact the scene on the scaffold. The first boy who came forward was Alfred Twitchen, around whose neck a scarf was fastaned by a slip knot, and he was thereupon suspended from a beam, where he hung for a few seconds, until his face became blackened, and there was fear that strangula sion would ensue ; happily, however, the knot slipped, n,n,l Twitchen, falling to the ground, escaped an untimely end. He had suffered sufficiently from the thoughtless freak as to become insensible, in which condition he was removed his 4opp, I,tt he has now neaily Tco9YMIL SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. This is what the Times says with respect to the fearful outrage of Friday, an outrage whose memory can never be erased from the mind of British public opinion :—We desire to abstain from any language which could cause an indiscriminating and unreflecting feeling of indignation; but we cannot but observe that this crime removesall doubt As to the nature of the struggle in which we are now en gaged. Our path will no longer be obscured by the shadow of political considerations. The Fenians have cast the glare of a great moral crime upon the debatable ground which separates us, and we can no longer hesitate in what direc tion to advance. No man deserving of the name will ven ture to adduce political di s content in palliation of such an outrage as that of Friday. It excludes all consider ations but one, that of protecting by every possible method the elementary rights of humanity. Warfare, however desperate, is not to be waged by these means, and if there can be any reasonable and responsible per sons still engaged in the Fenian conspiracy, they are as much interested as we ourselves in putting clown such atrocities. It is fair to notice that Burke and Casey them selves, when brought up before the police-court on Saturday, protested their abhorrence of the means which had been employed on their behalf. On the most favourable view, however, they cannot shake off the responsibility of having employed agents who have proved capable of such an out rage. If they are proved to have taken part in organising the Fenian conspiracy, they cannot escape the guilt of having deliberately let loose on this country a set of wholesale murderers. This is the fact we must now steadily face, and which has been indelibly imprinted on the public mind. We are confronted by a gang of reck less criminals, who respect no laws, human or divine. We are far from saying that this is the character of all persons who have joined the Fenian movement, or that no other motives are to be taken into account in estimating its origin. But we are justified in saying that this is its practical issue at the present moment. - That and nothing better is what it has come to ; and we must also add that those who, after this exhibition of the characters who have been called together by the conspiracy, continue to belong to it cannot be ex cused from full responsibility for all its consequences. We can have no parley with men in an attitude of menace. We must crush that at any cost. This is the first con dition of political life, and is nowhere so essential or so justifiable a principle as in a country like our own. We have free constitutional forms by which all classes are placed on an equality, and through which all may make known their wrongs and enforce their rights. To these forms we refer all appellants, and to these all must be compelled to submit. This outrage, therefore, will at least have the advantage of simplifying the course of the Government, and strengthening their hands. They cannot now hesitate in exerting the utmost vigour of the law, and they will be justified in doing so, not merely in order to punish the perpetrators of the worst crime of modern English history, but to crush a conspiracy of which such outrages, we cannot hesitate to say, are the natural fruit. The Post, in a leader on the absorbing topic of the day, speaks of Fenianism as a conspiracy which must now be dealt with in earnest. Still retaining the semblance of the self-devotion with which it started, the unscrupulous adventurers who head it turn it to other purposes. Linable to compass their original designs, anarchy, terrorism, and plunder become their object, in the destruction of all order and civil peace. If this secret society, which is the first of its class we have expe- rienced in England, is not at once stopped and trampled out, we have a future before us such as is not pleasant to contemplate. Continuous infractions of the law .of the most daring nature, and the consequent gradual intro duction of the military and police system of the Continent into cur free institutions, would become unavoidable—the glory of the nation would have departed. We must, then, fight this rising danger without hesitation, without fear. We can afford to deal with Irish grievances without relax- ing our efforts to drive out Fenian conspiracy. No matter what Government may be in possession of Downing street, its duty is obvious—immediate and careful legisla tion for Irish complaints ; certain and swift punishment for England and Ireland's disturbers. The Herald trusts that the researches which are now to be made, the reward which has been offered, and the careful examination of the suspected criminals, will soon enable the Government to put its hand on this nest of murderers. Upon such men all sympathy will be thrown away. We will have no funeral processions to com memorate their fate. Our business is to crush the nest of vipers which has warmed itself at our bosom, which from a strange country has imported strange horrors, which, to win Ireland for the Irish or for the Iris. Americans, thinks nothing of putting London in mourning or laying England in ruins. Our Govern ment is fully awake at last to the gravity of the crisis. Fenianism has been dignified as patriotism, and depre cated as sedition. We know now that it is but another name for murder—wholesale murder. The demonstra tions which were to be made on Sunday in several towns of England and Ireland, in memory of the men who were so justly hanged at Manchester, were very properly forbidden by the authorities. No " funeral processions" took place at Liverpool or Leeds, at Killarney or at Cork. Though the news of the Clerkenwell outrage, if it had reached those towns, must have suggested a long train of such processions to come, we are charitable enough to these misguided sympathisers with a wicked cause to believe that the crimes of their leaders had so filled them with horror that they shrank from a demon stration which would have implied their fellowship with assassins. • While, says the Daily News, it is impossible to exag gerate in a political point of view the effect of the recent Fenian outrages, there is equally no question that they have a serious bearing upon trade: Commerce can Napport and overcome many evils, bat popular disturbance and uncertainty are drawbacks that in these days at least are not easily withstood. No one cares to buy or sell when the whole current of affairs may be suddenly altered by some unforeseen event against which it is im possible to provide. Probably the present agitators reckon upon such a result. They must have heard that trade is one of the vital sources of English prosperity, and may imagine that the more they can injure it the better for their cause. A series of movements that may reduce half the factories in Lancashire to short time, and propor tionally diminish the iron and coal supply, form a desperate but an intelligible mode of warfare. It may be said that Fenian outbreaks are not likely to damage our internal trade to a very great extent, since there must always be a certain interchange of commodities. We wish but cannot believe it. Our foreign commerce, how ever, will chiefly suffer. The telegrams that by this time have conveyed the news of the Clerkenwell prison explo sion to nearly every country in the Old and New World will indirectly affect the credit of even our most eminent hankers and merchants in London. To a foreign mind the impression conveyed will be simply that there is ar end to English security. 'What may be the secret fancy of the Fenian chiefs in • promoting these deeds is, as the Standard says, difficult to surmise. If they think to frighten the Government or 'the nation, they are, of course, simply demented ; if they think to keep a " cause " alive by a series of dastardly murders, they mistake the times in which they live. This, however, is hardly the occasion for inquiring into their motives or hopes. It is a trite thing to say, but it is all that for the moment can practically be said, that the vigi lance of the Execntive must, both for the sake of dispelling extravagant alarms, and for that of diminishing the publi c danger be incessant • ' that the authorities must not shrink from their responsibilities ; that the law must make the weight of its hand unmistakeably felt ; and that with the facts of these atrocities before us we cannot, in any fair ness or in common sense, begrudge the Administration any discretion with which it may be constitutionally invested. The Government of England has a power and a meaning, and that power ought not to be brought into contempt, or that meaninc , misunderstood. Nor upon either point does our contemporary entertain the slightest fear. Is not, asks the Star, the calamity of last Friday one to give pause to all true and manly Irishmen who may have felt tempted to lend their countenance to agitation which begins by law-breaking? Is not any agitation accursed which developes such crimes ? Perhaps even Friday's horrors may not be without some com pensating result if they compel Irishmen in general to acknowledge that only in the path of peaceful progress can anything good for themselves or their country be obtained. For if Irish rebellion have really come to this, if it is to be carried on by the murder of women and the mutilation of children, what Irishman is there with heart or brain who would not declare himself for ever on the side of law and order? Certainly, the pro cess of debasement, even in rebellion, must be wonderfully rapid to-produce such results as these! From Wolfe Tone, captured in honourable fight, sword in hand—from Lord Edward Fitzgerald, the chivalrous gentleman whom English statesmen lamented ; nay, from Smith O'Brien and Meagher—what a distance must Irish rebellion have traversed to come down within so short a time to the mis creants of Friday's massacre ! Ireland is, indeed, just now to be pitied. If these are her friends, tell us who else are not her enemies. We cannot but believe that this clued will produce a reaction and a revulsion in the feeling even of Irish rebels. It would be aBl n against human nature to suppose that there can exist anywhere many creatures so utterly base and w:c:-:ed as they who planned and they who perpetrated the crime waver which now all England shudders. - - The fact of Dr. Kencaly having thrown up his brief because he was not certain that Burke did not sympa thise with the Clerkenwell outrage, is commented upon by the Telegraph, which tells the learned counsel that he 'Was in court as an advocate and not as a judge. :even supposing Burke's friends to have been implicated, that was no reason for withholding legal servic es from Burke himself. Because a man's friends may have been suck villains as to blow down a house and kill several people, that is no reason why he should be refused the means of freeing himself from a criminal charge on another and a totally diffe rent matter. But that is precisely what Dr. Kencaly did refuse, in so far forgetting the etiquette of his profession as to withhold his legal assistance. Nay, not content with saying that he would not defend his client, he made a speech which was more damaging to his client than it would have been if he had been counsel for the prosecu tion. It is amazine , that a man of Dr. Kenealy's ability and experience should have committed such a blunder, and equally amazing that be should have defended it on such arounas. - • - • - zv=4.447;:1,..rtg " • - TN* I: 4 ZZOA* e AAA+ HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, pee' 15 ; g . The Queen, Prince an d P r i ncess Ch r i s tian, f ri ., cess Louise, Prince A r th ur , P r i nce L eo pold, rr: 6 cess Beatrice, and Princess Henrietta of Sohle slT : g ; Holstein, and th e L a di es an d G en tl emen in Wriliti n ' attended Divine service thi s morn i ng i n the Pri vat; chapel. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster pre° bed the sermon. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess W l ' riette remained to luncheon with the Queen. b 6 Prince Christian hono ure d th e o fficers of Ist Battalion Grenadier Guards with his col a , at dinner in the Sheet-street Barracks on Fri` ' evening. --- His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador Olt Musurus do not leave their residen co a Roehampton for town till about tho middle of robrtryll, when they will return to the Turkish Embassy f°/. permanency. ill The Duke and Duchess of N or thumberlan - 1 tend to leave Alnwick C as tl e , th e i r pr i nce ly neat t) , north, to-morrow, for Alb ur y P ar k , S urre y, where t ile/ purpose to pass the Christmas. Viscount and Viscountess Boyne, on leL t ill to town at the close of the P ar li amen t ar y se ssion, 1013 a nd Brancepeth Castle, Durh am , wh ere th e no bl e viscoun t. viscountess intend to pass tho winter. Lord Eliot, M.P., left town on Saturday for r°rl Eliot, Cornwall. Lady Henrietta Allen and the Misses Allen b a o le arrived at their residence in Chesham-stroet, from Fi tl g Castle, Perthshire. The Earl and Countess of Warwick and for have arrived at Nice, whore th e y i n t en d t o r emain winter. The Earl and Countess A m h ers t and diet Amherst have left Montreal, the family seat near Sc ille f i l ; oaks, for the Continent, and intend to pass several 0 0 abro ad. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury Aa cl i , t . li i .y ° Ladies Ashley, who have boon st a yi ng sever al days in ` - it on their way southward, were t o l eave th e French 08 P; on Saturday for Nice, whore th e y aro ex p ec ted to re m ` from six weeks to two months. • ./1 fp. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath Arr l ' ye in town on Friday from Ch a t swor th, w h er e they 111 been visiting the Duke of Devonshire. CHARLES DICKENS AT BOSTON! A Special Telegram, under date Boston, -Li rl '; her 2, 1867, 11.30 o'clock p.m., to the New Herald, thus relates th e fi rs t appearance ofto Dickens in the Tremont Temple at Boston, and complete success of his readings : Mr. Dickens's first reading took place this e fe : e: ing at Tremont Temple, accordi ng to ano° ll/3 , meat. It was a success in every po ss ible res Pee T t h d pecuniarly, artistically, and fashionably tig h weather was just stormy and unpleasant en ° de , out of doors to make almost any interior seem to liciously cosey, yet it was not sto r my en° ll g frighten the ladies into those precautions in re d to dress that might have taken all the briltlo and colour out of the pict ure , S o the Te ei r bloomed freshly and richly i n t o il e t s , and ratlat h3o suited the most difficult taste by their very va r ` eti „A The pieces read were a ti Christmas Carol,'' 9 00 the "Trial of Bardell versus Pickwick," from "Pickwick Papers." They were read with coes tilog mate skill, and the effect in securing and carry with the reader the sympathies of his hearer s sr, beyond whatever the warmest admirers of d Dickens had conceived possible. The comPh ln e io in applause was extravagant ; and this was a °B o which extravagance in compliment w as perhap s offence against taste, even in the eyes a the l e ' amiable of satirists. r 'afj 'Fite scene outside was all animation. Car-I:ot began to arrive in profusion at a quarter Pabt seven o'clock, and a few minutes before et ht, o'clock the human freight which they had V iv i together with the pedestrian arrivals, had 10: 1 nearly all the soats in the Te m pl e . The ti e ed office was then opened, and some ten hun dr e d tickets for standing room were quickly disP es o i of, the eager purchasers h av i ng pa ti en tly 0 3l 0 , 1 for the same for an hour or more . At no time " 11 there any great crowd or confusion about the - joo Very few assembled who had not secured admis s ote before coming, and if there had been any mod er to , rush of the curious they would have been out °ll l bered by the police, who were there in force to re a r bt any demonstration that an eager multitude o l g ri a have made. Indeed, when all were gathered a to seated, awaiting the reader, the scene was 011° de , which happy and expectant faces gave the P r e 00 , minant tone. All the world of literature, of fa sill o t. and much also of the world of politics, were pre The Governor of Massachusetts stood for the P, e ,l tics, all the handsome ladies of the city Pre -sem to te fashion in a most attractive mood, while literal and science were represented by Agassiz, Longfellow, Lowell, and Holmes. ni fort' About two thousand people were seated co — 06 ably in their places at eight o'clock aweiti e g oo d coming of Mr. Dickens. The hall, a lig ht It pleasant one, was filled to its utmost capaci t P r rail is a hall that presents a ver y pl easan t cow f oy when filled. The gallery, rising very gra ce .0 from the further wall of the lower portioh giving a good distance from the very foot °f vtlet reader's desk to the limit of this distance, v tif one delightful perspective of happy faces. Pr en2 ,l o i4 at his hour Mr. Dickens came. He was clad in 6 Y C$ ,4 0 10 dress suit, with a white necktie, and wore 10'7, tits of a neutral tint. His head and face sb" gr el finger of Time in deepening lines and coming a he —for the colour has gone from the thin Wa r he ad wears on his chin and from his moustache. Ili ° 11 0 t is bald on the top, and the hair remaining I f to sides is brushed energetically forward, as A tli show a spirit in what remains. He stepped l ' reo rl' and quickly across the platform to the o at' ing desk, and his coming was the signal for an It burst of applause that lasted some mome n t t oo gained strength as it was kept up, and wen lit of hand to mouth till from the ordinary e1 e , 0 40 . 1 clapping hands it became quite an ovation of c" the subject taking it all with easy dignity thil From the reader's standpoint the sight s a ble. pleasant reception must have been very agreelooo' So soon as the pleasant little storm of W e 00 0 1 ing applause had passed away, Mr. Dickeo s es A ro rapidly forward with his reading. Both P iee :et i o f highly dramatic in dialogue, with great Yar',.,ree' character, the " Christmas Carol" the more ""iola ably so of the two. All listeners vie r° oo gef moment in the very presence of Old Scr of his patient, light-hearted clerk, the a pd Nephew, the ghost of Marley, Tiny T ini io jol . the Conversational Boy under the We' It is hardly correct to say that Mr. Dic ke lo t * 4 'this story. He told it—he told the story J ..c actgt common-place persons will tell any little and font givin th o g, with more or less succors, the air . . 1f of such speaker as they may introduce , 1 10 Mr. Dickens presented the individuali t y 00 0 speakers with such well-defined lines, wi th Orel vivid conception of the identity of each tltete° became real—and no one of his dozen oBL I eel?: following closely through the hour beeausotit fused with another. Each had a d iffere a and many a different tone of voice, 0 wh o rent face, so that the recognition o f , 0 a was speaking in the story was as r ead/ i : A be easy as if each had walked on in per° 00 l a r reader was frequently interrupts 11 „. _ 00o , a ,.t plause and centinued laughter of the au°' t pe t when, in the Pickwick trial, he came to th3sarelleo where the clerk calls " The next witness' oug ht Weller," the very name of this favourite Frovi3oooe, genial,recoguition from every bend ill t e _ t To our thinking, all the persons in Trera:) , w ale pl.) through the whole reading and at its , ) ;l itiro ott o ri as full as possible of merriment and goo °, , 1 „1 keen for the most dainty jest or lightes t word, and fairly bubbling with thsPi rlt i o il l o all tef ao taneous, general, contagious, epidemictalae It „e 0 Happier men or more delighted women) to t v all ea ~ o u il or cities, lying between Eichmon ether, could not he found in all the d_liiii At , dera t e g l ow n l ent ( C etSiol Whe4t, F r c eol tr lh e , eat k oh e l 42 4 t 21 3 1 t° t o ° NI 26 a tld 111 " e It. r 4. th re 1 ehz hay gag pre ] Pat of recc that Lo a bon( the 1 ist and grad, M ay, 7ernl th e