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Me E WS.PA PER theless they went on Until they tri &k i# .l having triumphed, th e y went b ack to a and their looms, and resumed the p life, and. with no more thought of continnigt S longer in military life, or making an invasion or • encroachment upon their neighbours, than if they had never handled a musket. That is the defensive army' which we require, and we ought, with the ut most vigour we can, to oppose and resist any attempt to give us an increased aggressive force. Wbat we want is that the people should be disciplined and armed, and ready to come forth and fight, as the Americans did, in their own cause, or in any cause in which they feel a disinterested concern ; that it should be for themselves, and not for others, that they fight; and that the highest place in that force should be given, not to those who have bought it, or who are born to it, but to those who have shown that they have gained it, and that they deserve it. (Loud cheers.) . 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Look out for this novelty.—This extraordi nary Company will make their FIRST APPEARANCE in Europe, at the Great St. Martin's Hall, on MONDAY EVENING next, Feb. 11, 1867, for a limited number of representations prior to their appearance io Paris during the Universal Exhibition. Full programme on Thursday next. Sofa Stalls. ss. ; balcony (reserved seats), 35.; area, 25.; back seats, Is.—which may be obtained at Mr. Mit chell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street; and at the box office of the hall. Business communications to be addressed to their solo agent, Mr. A. Nimmo, 55, Wigatore-street, London, W. T H 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W., THE MUSICAL ESTABLISHMENT OF LONDON. LES DRAGONS DE VILL ARS (Opera Comique), Music by A. Maillart, in which bliss RUSSELL will appear, as sisted by Hisses Barrie and Fitzlienry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Hulls, Fox, Husk, Evans, and Bury, with Mxtra Band and Chorus ; produced and conducted by Hr. F. Jonglimans. " The strength of Mr. Morton lies in his operatic selections, executed b r a small but highly efficient band, and a well selected body of vocalists, under the direction of Mr. F. :lon4hmans. --Times, Jan: 9,1867. COMEDY, by Messrs. HARRY SYDNEY, MILBURN, G. W. ROSS, and the celebrated American Gymnasts the BROTHERS HANLON, their third appearance in this country. Slr. ROBT. FRASER. Comedian and Vocalist. will make his appearance THIS EVENING with his crop of comicalities and his new song, "THE BOY AT DIUGBY." ityADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, it I. BAKER-STREET. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. NEW ADDI PIONS. —Life-size Models of the KINGS and QUEENS of ENGLAND, from WILLIAM of NORMANDY to QUEEN VICTORIA. Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m. Admittance, Is.; children, under ten, half-price; extra rooms, 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO, 11 Windmill-street. Piccadilly. 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The Addresses in answer to the Royal Speech were agreed to, both by Lords and Commons, without division, andi almost without discussion. Some criticism was, of course, inevitable ; some hesitation to echo sen timents expressed in words obscure and, perhaps, ambiguous; some doubt as to the possibility of -a divergence of opinion when the studied phrases of a Royal Speech come to be explained in the precise language of legislative proposals to Parliament; but, subject to those necessary qualifications, nothing could be happier than the tone of the debate on the Address in each house. If experience did not warn us against being deceived by the fair promise of the first day of a seesion, we could fancy we were en tering upon a perpetual peace : that the year 1867, instead of being a time in preparation, for which gladiators had tested every joint of their armour and made ready every weapon of de s t ruc ti on , was to be signalised by a display of goodwill such as has not been seen for many a year. It is too probable that in the course of the ensuingsession party feeling and party conflicts will be revived; but meanwhile we cannot but rejoice at its happy commencement. The members of the late Ministry seem to have returned from their holdiday sojourn beneath Italian skies renewed in strength, yet free for the moment from the distempered zeal which magnifies points of dif ference, and refuses to discern any good in an oppo nent. Mr. Gladstone was particularly happy. He showed no disposition to stint his approval of the pro posals of Government with respect to Ireland, and he approached the crucial question of Reform with a breadth of spirit which we trust will be maintained unstraitened. The earnestness with which he dwelt on the necessity of attempting to remedy in some degree the electoral corruption that dishonours our representative system was confessedly due to the in fluence of foreign critics, and while he justly re marked on the enigmatical character of the para graph in the Royal Speech relating to Reform, he insisted strongly on the duty of accepting an ade quate measure, come from whatever party it might, and gave the Government credit for the intention tosubniit their proposals to Parliament on the earliest possible day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was fortunately able to declare that he would lay before the house the Ministerial plans as early as next Monday, unless unexpected obstacles intervened, and with this declaration the debate in the House of Commons may be said to have collapsed. The course of discussion in the House of Lords was, on the whole, not quite so equable. Lord Russell's temperament is, perhaps, not so amenable to soften ing influences as that of Mr. Gladstone, and, as au old combatant, he is always eager for a fray. Neither the unstudied simplicity of Lord Delamere's eloquence, nor the more elaborate review of the mul tifarious topics of the Royal Speech attempted by Lord Beauchamp, availed to mitigate his criticism. In expressing his doubts as to the possibility of a durable peace in Europe so long as the spirit of ag gression prevailed which prompted the attack upon Denmark two years ago, , g in opposition to every treaty," and which had since been exhibited by 4 , one Power," he showed himself needlessly offensive to an ally, forgetful of the fact that he had himself acqui e,ced in the attack, and incapable of understanding a movement which was undoubtedly supported by the mass of the Prussian nation. But it was on the sub ject of Reform that Lord Russell's idiosyncrasy be came most apparent. Reform is undoubtedly the question of the hour, and, impoitant as are the other subjects referred to in the unusually extended Speech from the Throne, the short paragraph refer ring to Reform is probably worth more than the rest. Lord Russell, as a v e t eran R e f orme r and the leader of the Opposition, was on e very account justified in drawing attention t o R eform an d demanding an ex planation of the ob sure l anguage i n which the pro posed action of th e G overnmen t i s described. Lord Russell is, however, such a veteran Reformer that he cannot bear in mind the just relations between the tasks of to-day and the conflicts of the past. He cannot even forgive the late Duke of Buckingham for having marred the symmetry of the measure of which he had the conduct, and apropos to nothing, he ventured last night on the extraordinary asser tion that all past and present agitation for Reform was due to the fact that the Chandos clause had been inserted in the Reform Bill of 1832. We know not whether to marvel more at the obstinacy of Lord.. Russell's resentment or at the limited view of the reasons for Reform implied in this assertion. It is clear that, had the Chandos clause not been ac cepted, many more Englishmen would have been excluded from the franchise. Reformers are accus tomed to say, and with truth, that the franchise is not only a trust, but a means of education, and yet Lord Russell would have us believe that the demand for enfranchising the unenfranchised would have been less had the unenfranchised been more, that the cry for the admissionof working men to the polling booths would have been unheard had tenant farmers not been admitted. If, however, Lord Russell is un able, after five-and -thirty years, to forgetthe defeat which Lord Chandos, assisted by Mr. Hume, once inflicted upon him, we cannot be surprised that he should be incapable of viewing aright the transactions of last session. He cannot believe that the Reform measures of 1866 were rejected on their merits, and complains of an unprincipled opposition which never existed, except in his own imagination. It is time to forget the mistakes of the past—to some extent doubtless share d b y both parties — and brace ourselves up to deal w ith the work of the present. Next week the plans of the Admi nistration will be thishei v ois e h a mt eotdmh, the most moment t n o d as Mr. Gladstone truly said last sl, L i r portant interest of th e country at in the speedy settl emen t o f t h e Reform question ; it is above all things necessary that the proposals of the Government should be ap proached without prejudice, discussed without fac tiousness, and perfected by the joint wisdom of all sections in the great council of the nations. Neither the Royal Speech, nor the observations let fall by Lord Derby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer lait night, explained the mode of action proposed to be followed by the Government in dealing with Re form, and we may reasonably consent to wait till next Monday for a full explanation of their inten tions. TIIt WESTMINSTER GAZETTE ON NATIONAL CIIA RACTER.—There are some things which appear difficult to express in exactly the same proportion in which they are easy to conceive. A simple object can be seized at once by the intelligence, but it is quite another thing to express it accurately with the pen. Multiplicity of words is somewhat antag onistic to simplicity of thought. A broken mirror may reflect the object, but it will be in a multitu dinous and fragmentary manner. This difficulty does not always arise from the nature of human speech. We often imagine we possess very distinct notions, till by some accident we are forced to try our hand at putting them on paper. The very fact of taking up the' pen Aeew to. act as a dissolvent lon our power of conception. The vivid thought which we prided ourselves so much upon, moves, and melts, and runs into a cloud, and disappears the moment we attempt to throw it into words. These notions possess a sort of affinity to ghosts —they disport themselves with all the greater boldness in proportion to the imbicility of the mind which they inhabits. The more vivid they are, so much the more difficult it is to grasp them. But there are other causes of this difficulty besides poverty of mind. Men may not only be possessed by an idea, which, while it haunts them, escapes their apprehension ; they may also conceive a notion which bears about it all the notes of genuine thought ; and yet, when they attempt to seize hold of it and force it into words—like catch ing a pony in a field with a wisp of hay—it cleverly gives them the slip, and leaves them looking fool ish, with the experiment to try again with proba bly about the same success. It is a much easier thing to repeat words than to fix the mind steadily on thought. A parrot, we presume, is not gifted with any power of analysis, or even with capacity to understand the force of words. But a parrot can talk. To make use of words is one thing, to understand them is another. Most animals can be taught to imitate certain sounds. Men are pro verbially of the imitative class. Sheep do not walk more contentedly in each others foot marks, than men follow each other in the grove of thought. To repeat what has been said before, without the trouble of having thought it out, requires very little intellectual wear and tear. Most men are simply echoes of another voice. Few think ; but all men talk, and theorise, and declaim. The leis' the - intellectual ballast, so much the more freely can the tongue disport itself. Now there are a variety of topics upon which men consider they have a right to speak. Of course matters of strict science, of theology, of jurisprudence, and such like, are the property of a certain class. But every man can talk of liberty, and pro gress, and free thought, and religion, and truth, and morality, and national character. These be long indiscriminately to all. These, and kindred questions, the multitude may toss about with as they please ; and no one is thought presumptions who ventures an off-hand opinion on them at a mo ment's notice. Men can speak fluently upon them and with ease. They have their opinions at their finger ends. They can go on arguing and beating round the bush, till they have fairly muddled them selves, and effectually puzzled everybody else. Where the weight of thought is absent there the consequent flow of words begins. Now there is a certain class of subjects upon which the public has so long made up its mind, * that is, upon which it has so long ceased actively to think at all, that we have some hesitation in touching on it. We know well the force and inveteracy7of habit. And we know that there is no force and inveteracy equal to a formula of words, which, by process of time and continual bandying about, has had all the thought knocked out of it. One might just as well try to ward off the blows of a bludgeon with an enthymeme as imagine it possible to overcome the immoveable rigidity of steriotyped phraseologywith argument on common sense. But, when to the inveteracy of habit, and the torpor of a satiated mind, is added the dictates of self-love, the case becomes ten times more difficult. How best the old formulas can be broken up, and the dried bones be decently buried away, while a new life of genuine thought can be implanted, is a problem which requires solu tion. We clearly see the delicacy of the task. Our thorough appreciation of it at once accounts for so long an introduction. Now there is no ima ginable question on which an Englishman thinks he has a greater right to speak than on the na tional character. And yet, of all others, this is a subject in which the difficulties we have just men tioned find a place. No matter ; the English man's views, like a Newfoundland cod, have long ago been cut and dried for him. He wants no schooling on this point. It is simply preposterous to imagine that he does not know the very people amongst whom he has been bred and born, and is incapable of understanding them. Ask him and he will tell you at once that an Englishman is honest, manly, straightforward, and truthful. He is the magnanimous man. He possesses the noblest national gifts of any man under the sun. 'He is plodding and persevering, and indomitable. He is the ancient Roman Anglicised. He is com paratively the most perfect type of human nature that has been created. He has his faults, but so have others. He has done injustice ; but who has not ? He may be a sinner, but he is the noblest of sinners. His worth is seen in the works of his head and hands. In the fruit of his thought, in the results of his skill, and the enterprise of his commerce. His strong, hard, practical sense, his stubborn energy have made him take the first place in the race, and carry away the prize. Such are the common places which are continually repeated to the echo. They have been uttered a thousand times, and it is pleasant, and requires no thought to utter them again. To say we are the first people in the world, and to carry so pleasant a proposition by acclamation, and to raise it almost to a national axiom, is quite in accordance with the build of the public mind. Men do not object to flatter the national vanity on so trifling an intel lectual cost. But this miserable and weary repe tition, besides encouraging a sickly vanity, super induces a very unhealthy stagnation of mind—a stagnation of mind upon a subject of the most vital national importance. If men allow their minds to crust over with unmeaning platitudes, .they will never know anything of what lies be neath the surface. The traditional opinion of our superior worth is most likely to engender self-deception. It is so pleasing to indulge in these dreams of our own virtue and perfection, that they all the easier occupy the place of healthy thought. Have we advanced in our knowledge of the na tional character within the last hundred years? Have we not been content to take up the cry which has been handed down by tradition, almost from time immemorial ; has any one made a serious study of the Englishman? Has any one taken so much interest in the improvements of his character, as many have in the breed of sheep avd oxen, in studying the habits and functions of animal creation ? If the character which we give ourselves is mainly true, are we to be content with anything so vague and general, so unsatis factory for practical work? Can our sayings of ourselves help us in the least? The fact is, this is one of those points in which we play the parrot. Why not break through the crust and sink into the depth of this important subject ? For instance, do Englishmen ask themselves such questions as these? And are they anxious for an answer? How is the national character formed ? What are its essentials? Who is the model man? On whom should we form ourselves? Is there more than one type ? - Which is the most perfect ? Should we tend towards it ? Is the national character pagan or Christian, or a mixture of both ? . Have we a clear idea of the character we should en deavour to develop in the child? What methods do we make use of to elicit it in youth ? What are the principles on this point in 'our schools and colleges and universities ? Is there any systematic process for forming men on a perfect model ? What are our aims, what our success ? Is there a model universally received ? or is the English character formed imperceptibly by the various influences which surround his education—is he fashioned into shape like a number of pebbles shaken in a bag ? it is simply the result of fric tion ? or is it the spontaneous growth of the natu ral man ? or is any great hero held up to imita tion—Cromwell, or Newton, or Nelson, or Well ington ? 'These and a thousand questions more suggest trains of thought as interesting and often equally important with themselves. We sincerely hope that such questions as these have been seriously thought upon and carefully. discussed. If men have blindly followed the p icture of tradi tion they may possibly hav e fallen into serious error. The traditions of a race, and the radi ance of national glory , a re not always the est instruction of mankind. The type of i n f a e t. best instruction national perfection o al perfection may be an imperfect model. takes the accepted notion of an Englishman, in however the Englishman ma yi be advance of other national characters, take as his pattern that which itself requires a fairer form and a more per fect finish. He who does not look above and be yond a nationality, is little better than the pagan n ed Greek or Roman. Those sturd y pagans look higher than this ; they looked with reverence w on their gods, and strove t o reach them. There as a Fatherhood above the m which knit them into one, and after which they strove. They moulded themselves on the highest form they knew. Plato and Cicero, the model Greek and the model Roman, held lofty notions of the righteous man. At times they almost appear to have been visited by a vision of a higher a nd a p urer morality than their own ; though they fell continually to earth, their tendency was heavenwards, and their writing sparkle here and there, in a' startling manner, with a purer ray. The Greek especially had a more polished and a loftier mind than our own, and the Rowan, though alOrs;) On Monday the members of the Manchester Re form Club celebrated the opening of that establish ment by a luncheon, at which about 100 gentlemen were present. The chair was occupied by Mr. Hugh Mason, of Ashton-under-Lyne, and amongst those present were Mr. J. S. Mill, M.P., Mr. Goldwin Smith, Mr. Cheetham, M.P., Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., Mr. B. Whitworth, M.P., Mr. G. Wilson, &c. The health of the Queen having been drunk, Mr. JACOB BRIGHT proposed the toast of " Earl Russell, Mr. Gladstone, and the Liberal members of Parliament." The following letter from Mr. Gladstone, who had been elected an honorary member of the club, was then read : "My dear Mr. Potter,—l thankfully accept the honour you have been pleased to confer on me,•and though I shall not be enabled to profit by your hospitable invitation to the luncheon of the new club on Monday, I would ask you to believe that on that day, as indeed cn most others, my thoughts will be very anxiously directed towards the at tainment of the salutary changes which I trust the session, now about to open, may see accomplished.—l remain very faithfully yours, "WILLL&M EWART GLADSTONE." Mr. CHEETILIM, M.P., in responding to the toast, referred to the cabal now afloat in London for the purpose of displacing Earl Russell and Mr. Glad stone from their positions as leaders of the Liberal party. He expressed his conviction that the Liberal party would not submit to any such intrigue, and said that for his own part he would never follow the lead of any titled nonentity, however distinguished might be the name he bore. Mr. T. B. POTTER, M.P., proposed the toast, " Political progress, the only safeguard of civil liberty," coupling with it the names of Mr. Stuart Mill, M.P., and Mr. Goldwin Smith. Mr. J. STUART MILL, M.P., who was loudly cheered, in responding to the toast, said—You have done me the honour of associating my name with the words political progress. It is with you—the men of Lancashire—that that idea should be more particularly connected. We of the south are accus tomed to look to you of the north, as invariably leading the van, not only in the industrial progress, not only in the commercial progress, but in the political progress of this country. And, in doing so, youhave confirmed the idea that we have heard from our childhood, which is admitted and even asserted as a general principle, by Conservatives as well as by Liberal thinkers, that manufacturing and corn .mercial populations are always the leaders on the side of progress, and that agricultural populations, and particularly an aristocracy of great landowners, have a different function in the community —a func tion which is sometimes necessary, although it is apt to be excessive—the Conservative function—. the function of keeping that which is good, and I am afraid, sometimes that which is bad too. (Cheers and laughter.) But to you it particu larly belongs—to the manufacturing and commer cial communities of the world, and to the manu facturing and commercial part of mixed commu nities—it belongs to you to take the pad y in improvement, both in ideas and in the application of those ideas to practice. It is natural that it should be so, because those who are constantly employed in devising more and more new contrivances for making the laws of nature applicable for the increase of na tional wealth and for attaining all the objects that are pursued in the economical department of things, with ever increasing facility, and those, a very large proportion of whom are always men who have made their own position and their own fortunes, and who are always rising —a succession of them rising from an inferior to a higher position—these are the persons whose practice and whose course in life naturally ought to make them, and very gene rally does make them, habitual improvers and re formers ; these are the antecedents which turn men's minds to improvements in all departments of things, as well as their own. I wish it were not unfortu nately to be said that, owing to the general infirmi ties of human nature, even these very men, after they have once raised themselves, and after their fortune is completely made—they and their descend ants very often cherish the rather low ambition of passing over into the class of territorial men— (cheers) —and from that time they would rather see their influence employed on the Conservative side— often wholesomely, sometimes not quite so whole somely—than on the side on which they have them selves made a position. (Cheers.) Still, however, it is to this class that we must look in all great na tional movements for political improvement ; and it is to them that we must look mainly for victory in the great battle in which we are now engaged against what remains of privilege in this country. (Cheers.) The sentiment which has been given by my friend Mr. Potter associates political progress with civil liberty as being the sole condition of it ; and I think no person who uses the smallest reflec tion can doubt that that is true, for our history and our principles together combine in showing in the first place, that the nation which is not going for ward always goes back, and the nation which is not constantly employed in improving whatever it has, both of material and also of spiritual good which is not constantly engaged in improving—gets into a state of stagnation and mental indolence, the sure consequences of which is decline. And we have declined in these things. We have declined either in material prosperity, or in mental and moral culture, and with that decline comes necessarily, where a people has been free, the gradual loss of liberty. Consequently, it is not to be expected that any country should long retain its liberty which is not engaged in political progress— which does not keep political progress constantly going. But more than'that , 't here is a p oint which very specially demands and invites our attention at this very moment, namely, the question how a coun try, in the new state of the world, is to protect not only its liberty, but even its national independence against foreign countries. Look at the armed hosts which are rising up all over the world just now. Look at the immense extent to which all the Govern ments of Europe—all the more powerful Govern ments—are devoting the whole of their resources, and the whole, almost, you may say, of their peo ple, to the maintenance of enormousarmiesm;ie. and s not is merely of defensive, but of aggressive ar that not menacing to th is country ? Does anybody suppose that those Govertehnatst w look enjoy,k with andpl upoeasuroe upon the degree of freedo m the contrast respects, our position offers to that which, of ich, their r many subjects, owing to our free domth ? Not at all. And yet what position are we in ? We, with our small army—and I hope we never shall have a larger—still cannot keep it up. we cannot get recruits, because—and this is a point to which all men's attention, I think, ought to be turned, as being one of the most remarkable signs of the times —the people of this country, and indeed of other countries, but especially of this country, will n o longer fight for a cause which is not their own. Men will not be soldiers as a mere profession ; at least the number is constantly diminishing of those who will hire themselves out to shed the blood of others, when it is not for their own protection and their own free dom and laws. But we have a noble example of how a people can fight when it is for themselves, for their own cause ; when it is for their own liberty, or for moral principles which they regard equally with their liberty, in the late heroic and glorious struggle of the United States. (Loud cheers.) We have seen a million of men in arms for their own freedom, but chiefly for the freedom of others, chiefly for the general cause of liberty—a million of men in arms, and every family in the country almost bad some one of its members in that force—there is scarcely a family in the Free States that is not now in mourning in consequence of that war. Never- BRUSSELS, Feb. 5. Thirty of the miners who took part in the riots at Marchienne have been arrested, including the principal ringleader. This has had the effect of restoring order, and the men belonging to the diffe rent factories and coal mines near Marchienne have now resumed work. A denial is given to a current rumour that the disturbances were provoked by the intrigues of foreign emissaries. BRUSSELS, Feb. 4. Intelligence received here from Charleroi gives the following account of the progress of the riots in the mining districts:— It appears that the coal miners of Dampremy left their pits on the morning of the 2d, and advanced towards Marchienne. The day hands, being threatened by the night shifts with having the ropes cut if they went down, joined their comrades. The point of attack was the steam mill. The strike had suddenly changed its aspect, the iron workers hav ing given place to the colliers. Among the crowd were to be seen women and children, who were not the least prominent adding to the tumult. The men were, for the most part, armed with sticks ; some of the women carried pitch forks. When this mob arrived at Marchienne, swollen by those who joined with the intention of taking part in the disorders, but also by many in quisitive persons, its number was estimated at about 2,000 individuals. The mill of Marchienne was defended only by a small detachment of 100 men of the 11th Regiment of the line. They were immediately assailed with showers of stones by the crowd, which had taken up its position upon the square facing the mill and the brewery, and in the old cemetery surrounding the church. Their numbers momentarily increasing, the mill was soon surrounded upon all sides. The small garrison supported the attack for seve ral hours with patient courage, but it was impos sible that such a state of things could last. The rioters, encournged by the apparent quiescence of the troops, gave signs of au intention to storm the mill, and the soldiers then received orders to fire. Only a few drew trigger, but three of the rioters were killed. For a few minutes great con fusion prevailed, but the assailants rallying, ad vanced again to the attack, and the garrison being clearly too weak to oppose effectual resistance, it was decided to save further bloodshed by evacuating the mill. Two of the soldiers were hurt while leaving —a sergeant badly in the head, and a private in the hand. Eight gendarmes were among the garrison, and seemed to be especially obnoxious to the rioters. They were overwhelmed with stones, their uniforms and faces covered with mud, and only succeeded in saving their lives by hasty flight. The garrison having withdrawn, the mill was at once carried and completely sacked. The books and papers belonging to the establishment were thrown out of the counting-house windows, and sacks of flour were carried sway by men, women, and children. Several were seen to make two or three trips. The granaries of the mill and the brewery were left untouched; the plunderers carried off nothing but the flour. The mill being cleared out, some of the most desperate among the assailants set the building on fire, but the flames were speedily extinguished by others, who stove in the casks of beer in the brewery, and poured their contents upon the blaze. It is said that the strong-room of the establishment, in which the journal and ledger, together with the bank-notes and specie, were deposited, was broken open and despoiled of its valuable contents, but no confirmation of the rumour has yet been received. After the pillage of the mill, further riot ceased. No opposition was offered to the plunderers, who continued carrying away the flour until no more was left. The troops had been compelled to seek shelter in the town. At half-past 1 p.m., 100 men of the 11th Regiment, commanded by Major Quenne, arrived at Marchienne, followed at three by a battalion of the 3d Chasseurs from Mons. Three other companies of the same regiment went on to Charleroi, where one occupied the Hotel de Ville, and the others returned to Marchienne. To wards ten in the evening two squadrons of Lancers came in from Mons, and two squadrons of Chas seurs from Namur. Reports having been spread that the mills of Charleroi and Chatelinean were threatened with the fate of Marchienne, these establishments were occupied by strong bodies of troops. Intelligence received direct from Marchienne, dated 4 p.m. on Sunday, announced that no further disturbances had t d h e a t t a ch morning u e n ta a of t C i h n a f r a l n e r t o r . ault was at Marchienne. The taken lde eGa Governor el a rr c yn e oh . ra d of arrivedfia Freshin ART IN IRONMONGERY.—NO lesson is more in structive than a visit to the warehouses and show rooms of some of the City trading firms. Take, for in stance, the furnishing ironmongery establishment of Messrs. Benetfink and Co., of Cheapside. Their exposi tion of goods in metal-work is astonishing for its intrinsic value, while the beauty in workman and design of most of the articles exhibited awakens unbounded admiration. Few persons reflect how much metal is employed in con ducing to domestic comfort and convenience; and it is only by visiting such laden emporiums as the one under review that a due conception can be gained of what is owing to the workers at the forge, and the more cunning craftsman at the crucible. A stroll through those noble saloons in Cheapside shows us corridors filled with stoves and fenders, from those of the plainest style to these whose burnished surfaces would serve as mirrors, and whose sensitiveness would reveal a sign of rust from a lady's fingers. Overhead, in ono of the rooms, are sus pended innumerable chandeliers, from a Quaker-like simplicity to an ornateness of design fitting for an Oriental palace. To those who need the luxury of rest, there are scores of bedsteads in brass and iron to select from, many very rich or ornamental details ; papier macho trays, some of which are real works of art, to delight the eye ; while a host of table-lamps stand up in emulation to court the alluring sight ; baths of every form and adaptability sug gest health and personal comfort. In the electro-plated department a very wilderness of wealth and exquisite workmanship enraptures the sight. As one passes over the successive ficers of metallic merchandise witnessing the multiplicity of articles, from a kitchen range to an iron skewer ; from a Japan candlestick to an ormolu lamp, with all the varieties of utensils for complete house furnishing, the feeling of wonders and admiration yield to that of thankfulness for the contrivance and manufacture of such utilities, and one is induced to reflect how much we owe to the thoughtful skill and enterprise of such firms as Benet fink and Co., who, while they are daily augmenting the national commerce and wealth, are serving humanity as civilisers and benefactors by placing such beautiful objects within the means of everybody.—Mernin.7 Pos t . akers in PAPERDIAKERS.-110 number of P perin in the United Kingdom is declining. In 18 a 64 414 took out licences ; in 1865, 402 ; in 1866, 392. 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