The Sun. — London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

BFIEIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times suggests wh6ther some Who l esotne restraint should not be put upon the liberty Of expression which ie so abused py the Irish press, Just now the great insti gators and fomenters of the designs against the integrity of this empire are indulging in a liberty of free-speeth which must astonish some of our neighbours. Some of them will ask why Government allows it ; others will in terpret it into something like fear ; and the more remote and less informed will imagine that the expressions they see quoted must be from lithographed or even manuscript circulars, such as " national committees " elsewhere distri bute privately, with fear and trembling, among sworn adherents. On the contrary, the papers before us are the printed, public, and recognised organs of the Irish party, or " Young Ireland," as it now loves to be called. They are sent over from Dublin in scores of thou sands to this country, and landed at Holyhead tons at a time. There is in the language of these papers something more than a proof of that toleration on the part of the British Government which we believe to be without an example in the world, and which the event only can decide to be wise or not. There is also, by in evitable consequence, a striking and necessarily true por traiture of the " Irish party," by itself. We need not scrutinise the numerical strength or the national character of the party which thus displays itself. It boasts to num ber millions. It boasts to be Ireland, the nation, the race, the cause. It claims millions in the United States ; hun dreds of thousands in this island. Its organs have an immense circulation. It assumes the friendship and con currence of all the Roman Catholic clergy. It expects that its directions as to services in all their churches in honour of the " Manchester martyrs " will he observed. It feels itself the moral ruler of Ireland ; the rightful ownef; and scarcely suspects the presence of a dissentient, except in the ranks of the avowed foe, the hated foreigner. It' is of such a party, of such magnitude and pretensions, that we are speaking, and of which the best estimate is that which is derived from its own organs. It defies to the uttermost British authority, the British Government, its servants, and all who are living peaceably and contentedly under it, even in this island. Since it has not fleets and armies in the field, it suggests to all the Irish malcontents living amongst us that they can easily procure gunpowder or nitro-glycerine, and do us much injury. The dreadful spectacle of sixty or seventy inno cent persons, chiefly women and children, blown to pieces, mutilated, and disfigured, so that their own mothers do not know them, it suggests for repetition in every town in this island. English life is nothing in the scale. The very instance which excites these glowing hopes in the mind of the "Irish party" proves that the smallest effect is only possible together with the most frightful risk to innocent life and property. What of that? Let the British people have their own tender, scrupulous, foolish laws ; let them, if they please, tolerate the public advocates of assassina tion, incendiarism, and massacre. It is the stupid instinct of the animal, and as such may be utilised for the ends of the " Irish party." That is not tits way of going to work. The Telegraph urges us to be cautious as to believing all we hear respecting Fenian designs. It is possible, of course, that the alarms raised may be only for the purpose of diverting attention from the real point of danger in a totally different quarter. As yet, however, it is not very clear that the attempted outrage at Warrington is of Fenian origin ; and we must beware of visiting on the head of every poor Irish labourer the c eisquences of what might prove to be carelessness in some other work man. Nor are the scattered items of intelligence from Ireland sufficiently circumstantial to enable us to judge whether they really indicate any new effort, or are only the revival of an old alarm under a new guise. But, in any case, the authorities must exercise more than usual vigilance. In these long nights lurking villains have their powers of mischief practically doubled, and the guardians of the public peace are proportionately weakened. It re joices to see that the metropolitan police force—not a moment too soon—is to be largely increased ; and it also ob serves with satisfaction the vigorous efforts made to supple ment the regular force by special constables. Too much cannot possibly be done as a preventive. Our police are only numerous enough for ordinary and peaceful times, not for extraordinary occasions, when adventurers and ruffians threaten to involve an imperial city in the desperate issues of a civil conflict. The Star thinks that the appointment of Sir Henry Storks to be Controller-General of the War Office, with the rank of Under-Secretary of State, is an important step in the direction of bringing order out of the chaos which Is known to reign in that department. The next move ought to be to reduce the number of branch depart ments, and to bring the work into the hands of as few superior officers as possible, for in this way alone will it be possible to have thorough control, efficiency, and economy. We do not place the horses of a cavalry regi ment under a different authority from the men, although we certainly make them dependent for food on a com missariat officer who is not subject to the colonel. The War Office of the present day has grown up gradually, by the addition at various times of new boards and auxiliary establishments to take the supervision of fresh arrange ments suggested by experience. These were probably intended to be temporary, but have become permanent, and gradually acquired a certain recognised position and power, while there has, unfortunately, never been a thorough union with the main establishment. The best way to make that union now complete is to abolish sepa rate names, separate heads, and separate forms, and maks all the parts mere portions of the one office over which Sir Henry Storks is to exercise control. The Daily News, while admitting the gravity and im portance of other matters now before the public eye, expresses its belief that the future position of trades unions in this country is one of the most serious questions now inviting public attention. It is evident that these societies are destined to exert a powerful influence upon the social and political condition of the country, and that upon the manner in which they are now dealt with much of our immediate future depends. The concurrent de mands both of the friends and of the opponents of trades unions for fresh legislation on the subject shew that we must very soon deal with it. .The friends of trades union ism demand new laws in its favour, some of which are perfectly fair and reasonable, while others are exceedingly unjust and unreasonable. Its opponents, on the other hand, point to the revelations at Sheffield and Manchester to shew that new repressive measures must be contrived. The public mind has been sufficiently startled by those revelations to produce a strong impression that fresh legislation of some kind is absolutely necessary. We can not permit a system that even occasionally, and in an ex ceptional way, employs violence and murder to exist among us if any effort of ours can destroy it. We may, therefore, take it for granted that the position of trades unions will ere long become the subject of serious discus sion in Parliament. Education is always a good subject for a leader "when other topics are scarce, and it is to-day dealt with by the Standard. Our contemporary is of opinion that the most serious defect of the existing system lies in the existence of a very large number of districts in which, from the absence or inadequacy of local subscriptions, it hat been found impossible to comply with the conditions of the Govern ment grant, and in which, consequently, there is either no school or one very insufficiently supported. Something might douktless be done by relaxing the rules, in special cases, so far as to permit the collection of subscriptions from a distance, and to allow non-residents to take part in the management. A considerable number of unprovided districts would still remain ; and here, perhaps, the prin ciple of local rating may be the best that the case admits ; the rate to take the place of the local subscription, and to be supplemented in the same manner by a grant from the Privy Council. At all events, it would be folly, and worse than folly, to sweep away a system which works well in the great majority of parishes, because there are some into which it has not penetrated ; or to revolutionise our whole scheme of primary education on account of diffi culties such as those arising out of irregular attendance and religious instruction, which will occur, and have to be specially provided for, under any arrangement what soever. The military position of France must, as the Herald points out, always be a matter of the highest importance to the rest of Europe —to dynasties, politicians, and tax_ payers alike. This seems, of course, the veriest platitude possible, and yet it involves the question upon which French opinion is most angrily divided, and the question upon which parties in France apparently have the least chance of agreeing. Upon the who'e, however, the Imperial Government has succeeded in clearing away the principal objections to its project, which will undoubtedly pass the Chambers. But it is not the original Army Reorganisation Bill that has been submitted to the dis cussion of the Legislative Corps ; it is an amended measure, upon the resources— h uman and pressing far less heavily material—of the country-. The former scheme con templated, it might be said, the conversion of the whole manhood of the nation into an army ; the present merely enlarges the basis of that army, and strengthens it sub stantially. Upon the degrees of change thus indicated a fierce controversy, professional and partisan, has arisen. Into its details, from a soldier's point of view, it would be superfluous on this side of the Channel to enter ; but broadly, and considered in an European light, the Army Bill cannot be regarded either as menacing France with an rcessive burden or threatening Europe with agression. TRAGIC END TO A QUARREL.—A case of man slaughter occurred at Rawmarsh on Saturday evening. Several miners were at a public-house there drinking, when a quarrel arose between two of them, named Porter and More. They fought, and Moore either struck or kicked his opponent with such violence that almost imme diately after they had been separated he fell and e x pi re d . More is in C1149(.1.Y. THE FENJAN OUTRAGES. The large nrm of Shoolbred and Co., Tottennam-court• road, have organised among their assistants a corps for defence and inspection of their premises. When the busi ness of the day is over ten of the assistants, under a super intendent, patrol every portion of the establishment up to eleven o'clock, when they are relieved by fifteen of their colleagues, also under a superintendent, who remain on duty until the morning breaks. In this way a frequent and thorough examination of the premises is made, and every precaution taken against the consequences of any act of incendiarism. Several large firms are about to fol low the example so well set by Messrs. Shoolbred. The Cork Examiner notices with satisfaction the increase in remittances from Irish-Americans to their relations in this country. During the civil war the amount received from emigrants had fallen to zero, but with the return of more prosperous times in the United States, it has again risen to nearly its former height. Numerous money-orders now pass through the Irish banks. Yesterday a general court - martial assembled at Chatham, by order of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., for the trial of Privates James Molloy and Patrick Daly, two soldiers belonging to the 2nd bat talion of theist King's Royals, on the charge of having made use of seditious language. The court was presided over by Col. Robert Boyle, C. 8., Royal Marines Light Infantry, and Col. J. H. Laye, the deputy-judge-advocate for the dis trict, conducted the trial; Capt. D. Reid, of the Ist Depot Battalion, was the official prosecutor. The charge on which the prisoners were arraigned was for having, on the even ing of the 13th inst., in the public streets at Brompton, Chatham, made use of the following seditious language against her Majesty's person :—" The Queen may —, and the Colonel may I am an Irishman to the backbone, and I'll swing the same as Allen and Larkin swung before. If there is any Irishman here, let him fall to the rear," or words to that effect. The prisoner Daly was further charged with striking the nen-commissioned officer in charge of the troops who conveyed him to the guard-room. Tile witnesses in support of the charge were Sergeant M`Queen, Royal Engineers ; Sergeant Latham, Bth Regiment ; Corporal Snelling, Ist Royals ; Privates O'Donnell, Bth Regiment, Hardwick, 14th Regiment, and Johnston, 82nd Regiment. The prisoners since they have been in the regiment have each borne a very bad character, and they have been previously tried by court martial. The finding and sentence of the court will not be known until confirmed by the authorities at the Horse Guards. the attempt to blow up the Warrington gasworks, which is alleged to be the work of Fenians, is thus recorded in the Warrington Guardian :—" During the last few days a rumour has prevailed in this town that an attempt would be made by the Fenians to blow up the gasworks, although little attention was paid to the rumour. On Wednesday last a lad, about thirteen years of age, went to a house in Mersey-street, occupied by an Irishman, and told him to leave the house as the Fenians were going to destroy that part of the town by an explosion of gas on Saturday night. The thing was put down by the police as a pure invention. However, extra precautions were taken by the officials of the gasworks to guard against any attack. Nothing occurred on Saturday night to excite suspicion. About ten minutes past eleven o'clock on Sunday night, as a police-constable was passing Gas-street, he noticed a large cloud of smoke rising from the premises, and was almost overpowered by the smell of gas. Feeling certain there was something wrong, and seeing two men in the yard, lie called their at tention to it, and on investigation being made, it was dis covered that a plug had been taken out of the purifier and the gas was escaping rapidly. The furnaces had just been drawn, and a large quantity of coke was lying in the yard. If the escaping gas had come in contact with this coke the consequence is frightful to contemplate. An explosion which would have destroyed the works and other pro perty in the neighbourhood must have taken place. Four men, one of whom is a noted Fenian, and the brother of the keeper of a beerhouse which is a Fenian haunt, have been taken into custody for being concerned in the affair. Their names are respectively John Burns, stoker, 27, Pocket-street ; Thomas Cloran, stoker, 8, Pocket-street ; Michael Mulkearn, stoker, Town-hill ; and Edward Griffin, Tanner's-lane. These men were employed at the gasworks, and were in the yard at the time. They were brought to the police-office, and charged with attempting to blow up the works. Three of them replied that they knew nothing about it, and one of them said the plug was blown out. They were on Mon day brought before the magistrates, but were discharged, as there was no evidence to connect them with the act. No application was made for a remand, and the magis trates had therefore no alternative but to dismiss the charge. LAW AND POLICE. ACTION AGAINST THE " MARK-L AN EXPRESS."—A rather unusual action against a newspaper proprietor has been tried in the Court of Common Pleas, brought by one Hawkins, a miller and corndealer at Belper, against Mr. G. P. Tuxford, proprietor of the Mark-lame Express, for damages sustained through the non-insertion of an adver tisement in his newspaper. It appeared that in November 1864 the plaintiff was desirous of selling a steam flour mill. He instructed the agents of Messrs. Smith and Son at Derby to insert advertisements in certain news papers ; among others in the Mark-lane Express and in the Magnet. By some mistake the advertisement was not in serted in the Mark-lane Express, and Messrs. Smith omitted to send the advertisement to the Magnet. The day of sale was fixed for the 2nd of December, hut, as the plaintiff alleged, in consequence of the absence of proper advertisements, the attendance was very small, and no sale was effected. On applying for compensation the de fendant admitted his clerk's error, and offered to insert the advertisement gratis if another sale was contemplated. The offer was not accepted, and this action was brought. The jury returned for the plaintiff ; damages, £2O. ACTION FOR DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURY. - In the Court of Common Pleas, the case of Swanson v. the London and St. Katherine Dock Company, was tried be. fore:the Lord Chief Justice Bovill and a special jury. It was an action to recover damages for personal injury. The plaintiff was a gauger in the Customs, and on the 22nd February last he was on duty in the London Docks, en gaged on some casks which were beside a gangway. At this time two labourers were employed pushing along the gangway a four-wheeled truck which had on it a hogs head of sugar. One of the wheels of the truck passed over the plaintiff's right foot, and crushed his great toe. Of course he suffered very great pain, and he was for three months unable to perform his ordinary work. The plaintiff's case was that he had no warning of the approach of the truck. This was denied by the defendant, but the fury found for the plaintiff ; damages £75. DOES THE OFFERTORY COLLECTED IN A PROPRIETARY CHAPEL BELONG TO THE INCUMBENT OF THE DISTRICT ? This is the question to be decided by Sir Travers Twiss, judge of the Consistory Court. He is applied to by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Liddell, as incumbent of St. Paul's, Knights bridge, to issue a citation against the Rev. Mr. Marcus Rainsford, the officiating minister of Belgrave Chapel, in the district of St. Paul's, in regard to the offertory alms. The question was whether the incumbent was entitled to the offertory alms for the poor, and it was submitted that as Belgrave Chapel was a proprietary chapel, they ought, as had been done by Mr. Rainsford's predecessor, to have been paid over to the incumbent of the district. An ap plication had been made by the proctor for Mr. Liddell, to the Bishop of London, and he had refused to gmnt let ters of request to the Court of Arches. ERECTING A PULPIT IN A CHURCll.—Another case be fore Sir Travers Twiss was an application by the rector to erect a pulpit in the church of St. Mary's, Stoke New ington. The pulpit was paid for, but the churchwardens objected to its erection, as they contended the present pul pit was sufficient. The attendance at the church had fallen off because of the number of collections. Judgment reserved. THE ROYAL LIVER FRIENDLY SOCIETY.--A very singe. mode of exercising the virtue of charity has just been brought to light at the Southwark Police-court. A Mrs. Parkinson appears to have been in the habit of insuring the lives of children and other persons (who are too poor to do it themselves) in a friendly society, in order that when death ensues she may hand over to the families of the de ceased the sum assured, less the amount paid by herself. The magistrate said ite was sure that no insurance office of respectability would do any thing of the kind. It was certainly illegal. The rules of the society in question were greatly called in question by Mr. Burcham, the magistrate, and Mr. Tidd Pratt undertook to report the circumstances to the proper quarter, when a thorough investigation will take place, and the society (the officers of which contend that they are acting in a perfectly legal manlier) can be represented by counsel. ALLEGED MURDER.—A charge of murder was preferred yesterday at the Thames Police-court against two men, named Jeremiah Duggan and Timothy Donovan. Shortly after one on Sunday morning cries of " Murder" and " Help" were heard coming from the direction of the bridge over the London Docks in Gravel-lane, Shadwell. A Mr. Wagstaff ran to the spot, and found the two pri soners on the bridge and a man in the water. The man was drowned, and on the police coming up Mr. Wagstaff as well as the two prisoners were taken to the police station. Search was made for the body, and it was almost immediately recovered. It proved to be that of a man named Francis Brown. While searching for his body, another—that of a prostitute named Elizabeth Moore— was found. It is supposed that she had committed suicide. The prisoners Dugan and Ainovan were remanded. THE SUN, LONDON, FUESIJAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1867 MODERN CHITALRY In the midst of an enthusiastic outburst in fa 7 your of chivalry, Cervantes expressed a bitter re gret that, on account of the depravity and dege neracy of his age, those brave knights were no longer seen who formerly took upon themselves the defence of kingdoms, the chastisement of the proud, and the recompence of the humble. But we, thank lleaven, live in happier times. Though we no longer hear of the " andantes caballeros," yet the days of chivalry are not gone by. Though our age, too, may be in some respects selfish and averse to self-sacrifice, yet we are glad to find that there are still amongst us hearts as noble and souls as grand as in the days of the Tancreds and the:Godfreys. And so will it ever be as long as the Catholic Church holds her sway over millions of mankind. She it is that ennobles•men, and makes them superior to nature. "In the Catholic Church," says a brilliant living writer, " there is a perennial source of great men and heroes. There is no other." Yes ; on her bosom they are ever being nurtured, ready to come ;forth into action whenever the occasion may call for them. And such an occasion we have lived to see. The Father of Christendom is in danger. The im pious children of the Revolution have directed their attack against him, and advanced to the very walls of the Eternal City. A thrill of fear is felt through the Church, and lo ! the old spirit of chivalry is awakened. The past is being repro duced. We are reminded of what was seen cen turies ago, in the times of the old Crusaders. A cry of woe and grief was then heard coming from the Holy Sepulchre. It went through Europe with a wondrous awakening power, and whole nations were stirred to their depths. Then were heroes seen coming to light from city and from hamlet, through the length and breadth of Christendom. They buckled on the shield and the broad-sword, and set off on their march for Palestine. They thought not of home or lands in those days of faith. That cry of woe from the East acted on them with a magic power. The tomb of the Saviour must be redeemed. It must be wrested from the defiled hands of the savage Saracens. God's honour required it ; their own faith and devotion demanded it. And so these Christian warriors went in thousands on that noble expedition. Over rough roads and smooth they went ; over the bar ren and dreary desert ; over rivers and rocky passes ; under the burning sun ; through pestilence and through famine. They had great hearts, those old Crusaders, and they feared nothing in their burning zeal. Gibbon is amazed, and confesses that he does not understand how men should thus leave their homes and their worldly possessions and sacrifice their lives for a stone tomb 2,000 miles away. The infidel had no right to see it, because he had lost the light of faith. It is not now from Jerusalem that a wail of distress is heard. We cannot say there is a cry of suffering heard at all. But there is a thrill of fear throughout the universal Church, and Catholic in stinct tells every member of it there is pain and agony in the head and the heart which areboth centred in Rome. Homeward, then, the whole Catholic world is looking with painful anxiety ; sleeping chivalry has felt a thrill of fear and has sprung to its feet. It is leaving noble homes and rich ancestral lands, and hastening to stand in armed defence round the throne of Peter, and there will be thousands in our day who will understand as little the chivalry and self-sacrifice of these gallant men who have gone to fight for Pius IX., as the earthly minded Gibbon did the noble self -devotedneskof the old Crusaders. The infidel and self-worship ping world must be amazed and puzzled to see the noblest of the Catholic aristocracy of almost every country in Europe gathering round the throne of the Pontiff-King. From chivalrous France they have gone in numbers, and have al ready done deeds of gallantry and heroism which Frenchmen will be proud of as long as:the world lasts. We see that the heart of France is, as it ever was, full of love and devotion to the Holy See. In spite of revolution and infidelity France is, after all, what she always was, the chivalrous, the brave, the devoted, the Catholic. When her first Chris tian King Clovis, in ages far (back, heard of the passion and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he cried out in his generous ardour—" Had I been present at the head of my valiant Franks I would have revenged his injuries." Many a time since then have the descendants of that brave King and his `warriors had the honour of defending the suffering Vicar of Christ. And the old traditional spirit is among them still. We cannot read of the gal lant Charette leading on his French Zouaves at the battle of Mentana amid the fiery storm of whistling balls, with the soul-inspiring words, " Vive la France ! Vive Pie IX. !" without feeling our hearts swell with emotion, and remembering that he and his brave Zouaves are the descendants of Clovis and his valiant Franks." From Holland, yet full of the courageous spirit of the Gorcum martyrs—from Catholic Belgium, the laud of glori ous congresses, ardent and generous youths have gone in hundreds. From Germany, too, we have seen them going with the old " Biederkeit " and Tapferkeit' of their fathers deep in their generous hearts. Other countries, also—Spain, Switzerland, Ireland, and Scotland, have sent their sons to shed their blood for the great cause. And what has our own England done—the land whose history is one of glorious battles and deeds of bravery, whose name has been heard of in every c li me as the synonyme of gallantry and heroism? We had almost thought that chivalry had died out in the heart of England. We had almost believed that those noble men who left their homes for the Holy Land in the centuries gone by, under the leadership of the Richards and the Henrys of Ca tholic England, had left no sons behind them to perpetuate their noble race. We were beginning to feel shame and confusion that no English blood seemed likely to be mingled with that of those gal lant troops fighting for a cause so sacred and dear to us all. We were beginning to look into the future, and to picture to ourselves the feelings of Catholic youth, in years to come, when they read of the persecutions and the dangers of Pope Pius IX. The noble and warlike Crillon, when he heard described in vivid language the scourging and the cruel treatment of our Blessed Lord, sprung to his feet, and, drawing his sword from its scabbard, cried out, "Uu etais to brave Crillon." Such we had begun to imagine the question, and such the feelings of English Catholic youth in future times, when it would hear of the sufferings of the Holy Father, and not find itself represented among his defenders. But, thank Heaven, such will not be the case. Young Englishmen, and some, too, of noble blood, have already gone to offer their ser vices and their lives for the Vicar of Christ, and others are now going. The tide of English chivalry is at length setting in Romewards ; so we hope it will flow deep and strong round the throne of the Holy Father. We look for great things from our gallant countrymen. We have a hope and confidence that the noble Catholic blood of our brave young English hearts, shed with love and devotion for the Vicar of Christ on the battle fields of Italy, will rise with a mighty power be fore the throne of God, and descend as a shower of heavenly blessings on this unhappy land. And the memory of those who have thus died shall ever be cherished in the country of their birth. The glorious things they did shall be repeated with gratitude and with pride in thousands of English homes through the centuries still to come. The names of Alfred Collingridge and Julian Watts Russell, and others of our countrymen who may yet shed their i blood for such a sacred cause, shall be dear to English Catholic youth, and have a musical sound in Catholic ears, as long as history has a voice to tell of their noble deeds. What has already been done by the brave Papal troops is an encouragement for the future. Not in vain has the Holy Sacrifice been offered up daring these late years of bitterness, that God would protect his Church ; not in vain, those up lifted hands of the children of the Faith ; not in vain that. never-ceasing telling of beads to the Mother of God by the simple and the poor. God has heard his people. He has shown. Himself once more as the " God of Battles," and has scattered his enemies. By his help a victory ban been gained that will hereafter be looked upon as one of the landmarks of history. When the Crusaders of old went forth against the Saracens, it was not merely to liberate Jerusalem that in reality they went. The time was a momentous one ; it was a great crisis in history. " The question was not," says a historian, "to know whether the Holy Sepulchre should belong to the disciples of Christ or Ma hornet ; it was to decide which of the two peoples should possess the dominion of the world." The warlike ardour of the Crusaders was not probably far-sighted ; it only saw an accidental enemy in the Saracen host. It saw not at their back cruelty and ignorance and savage barbarism. Those Christian warriors, therefore, only " aspired to the deliverance of a tomb, but they saved a world." So was it in the late battles of the modern Crusaders against the Italian Revolutionists. The near-sighted eye could only see the discontented rebels of "young Italy." But behind their back was cruelty and irreligion, and blasphemy and horrid sacrilege, and oppression. The guillotine which they had with them, and which they ex pected to set up in Rome, was the symbol not only of cruelty, but of much that is terrible and diaboli cal besides. Hence, we may say with truth, these Christian warriors of our days, whilst they only aspired to save a city, have in reality saved the Catholic world. But though, by God's help, so much has been done, we cannot believe that all danger is passed. Like the rebel host in the 6th book of Milton, the vanquished enemies of the Holy See have disap peared for a time, but, after having taken counsel, " the atheist crew " will come forth again. They will not so easily forgive the humiliation they have received. The contemptible sbirri of the Pope— the " vile mercenaries " whose blood was not wor thy to " soil " the Garibaldian sabres—have utterly routed and crushed into surrender the " diavolo rosso " and his miserable brigands before the face of the whole world. This the red-shirts will not forget, nor, if it be possible, leave unrevenged. No. We cannot think the danger altogether passed. The Holy Fatherforetold that the Revolution would reach to the very walls of Rome ; yet we cannot but think that it will come thundering against them once more, shouting its horrid blasphemies and impious curses under the very battlements that guard all that is dear and sacred in our holy re ligion. Yes ; there will be terrible fighting yet and immortal glory for the soldiers of Christ. But we may look with confidence to a glorious issue. Be ready then, gallant heroes, for the battles that still await you. The Catholic world will have its eyes upon you. Whilst you are wielding the sword in the battle-field, consecrated hands will be raised in sacrifice for you in the sanctuaries of the Church, your mothers and your sisters will be invoking the help of God for you in the country of your birth, and supplications will arise to Heaven for you through the length and breadth of Christendom. Courage, then, noble warriors, for whether you die on the field of battle, or return home as con querors, the issue will be glorious for you. The voice that caused the warlike spirits of the Crusaders of old, comes sounding to you through the centuries, with these words of encouragement, " quam gloriosi revertuntu victores de prcelio, quam beati moriuntur martyres in prcelio." (S. Bern., ad milites templi.)— Westminster Gazette. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. This company has just given notice of an in tended application to Parliament for an act to con firm and legalise the issue of stocks and shares in payment of dividends, in accordance with a resolu tion of the company passed at a general meeting of the company held on the 29th of March last, and also in accordance with another resolution of the company passed at the general meeting held on the 30th of August last ; power to issue stocks or shares in payment thereof to share holders who have not received or accepted their pro portion of the same, in payment of the dividends payable to them ; also to authorize the company, at any time after the passing of the intended Act, to issue to shareholders in the company, in payment or in part payment of any dividends or in terest due to them, and who are willing to accept the same in payment of dividends, any shares or stocks in the company which may be agreed upon between the company and the shareholders. sue the ruinous policy of extension now so much in vogue, but close the capital account at once. They might then have some hopes of a dividend. The CHAIRMAN stated that after the payment of £12,000 for the two vessels now building there would be no PROTECTION OF THEATRES FROM EIRE Dion Boucicault, not content with fame, as an accomplished actor, and success as an author of sen sational dramas, has recently appeared in public as the projector of a sensational scheme for extinguish ing fire in our theatres. One, at least, easily to be understood—familiar in its foundation to all house wives, cooks, and seullerymaids—which is a great r.dvantage, after all, for there is nothing like sim plicity. It is that the roofs of such places of public amusements should be fashioned like inverted cul lenders, i.e., perforated with innumerable holes or tubes, communicating, we presume, by capacious valves to vast reservoirs above. If we admit the scheme to be feasible, there are many other pur poses to which these reservoirs might be applied. They might be swimming -baths, on an elevated scale, or spacious aquariums, in which the Liliput and Brobdignag of our lakes might sport amidst a luxuriant vegetation. Only fancy, the tadpole and the salmon, with the leaves and the flowers of a Victoria Regina, so far above the dirt and turmoil of our streets, as to be in close proximity to our reeking chimney-pots; and then what a supply for real water-falls and cataracts, and, moreover, for a new sensational scene upon the stage ! All playgoers are familiar with " The Streets of London" during a conflagration, but the streets of London in a thunder storm, umbrellas and actors thoroughly drenched, would indeed be a startling novelty. There is but one drawback to such plea surable conception, which is, that the wrong tap might be turned, and the stalls, and the pens, and the gallery would get it. There would be no re spect for persons in such a downfall—nay, not even for a stray reporter. So, as the scheme for extin guishing fire by the means of artificial tropical storms is one which is not to be damped by throw ing cold water upon it, we will dismiss it, and con sider what may be done with bricks. When we have arrived at such a pitch of happi ness as to be under no apprehension as to the de struction of our own dwellings by fire, we may then anticipate a like immunity for our theatres, but un til then we can but deem them as doomed (sooner or later) to the usual mode of destruction. Why, then, should we not endeavour to construct them so as to secure, in the first place, safety to an audi ence, and, in the second, a lower limit to the loss of property ? This appears to us the real question at issue, and to lead to its solution we bring forward the following suggestions, not with a feeling of pride but with a sense of duty. Let the stage and the auditory be separated from the lobbies by walls of more than ordinary strength, and these lobbies solidly vaulted over, floor above floor, and the roof vaulted likewise. Neither wooden flooring nor wood in their staircases of communication should be allowed, and even the doors to the auditory should be (if pos sible) of non-indamtuable materials ; the saloon, offices above, as also the ways of egress similarly constructed, and thus the audience would step from the auditory into places of perfect security. Now let the stage and the auditory be solidly domed over, so whilst there would be no rafters to form additional fuel, the conflagration would be con fined. Then, if iron were plentifully used (wherever the comfort of the spectators would ad mit, and the permanent security of the walls allow, as in the seats and in the elevation of boxes and gallery), the amount of consumable material would be reduced to a very small supply, in the auditory at least. The stage, indeed, from its requisite machinery, scenery, and decorations, would be the great area of destruction. Hero the fire for a time would be fierce, but, comparatively speaking, of slight duration, and if its walls were of a nature so solid as to resist its effect, if even a conflagration ensued during a performance there would be little risk of having to deplore a loss of life, and ultimately there would be but a theatre to restore, not one to rebuild.—Racing Times. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) On the occasion of a squabble between the Times and Sir Charles Napier, it will be recollected that our contemporary resorted to the rathor cruel expedient of printing one of the gallant Admiral's letters literatim ; seamen of Sir Charles Napier's date and school not being renowned for accuracy in spelling. The anti-negro party in America, in a similar spirit, have taken to reporting the negro deli-gates verbatim, and the result is comic enough, but not much more comic than would be the speeches of some of our own legislators were they thus dealt with by the malice of reporters. On the occasion of a debate in the Virginia Convention, as to the necessity of employing a shorthand writer to report their debates, Mr. Lindsay, a negro delegate, is stated—by the enemy of course—to have thus delivered himself :—" Mistar President, —I hope on dis late hour ob de struggle that Old Virginny have been imperilled that no free thinkin man can suppose for a moment dat we desires to misripersint do idee dat we can't qualify do ability of do stornorguphy for dis Convention. I hopo ev'y good thinkin gentleman will observe de necessity of havin a stenogappy, and dat dey will be willing in de desire to gain de ability of do common welt of Virginny to see dat do gentleman is justly disarve. I hope, sir, dat ev'y gentleman will now see de necessity ob having dis stenogerphy, so that we can den be able to understand de principles of dar proposition." Mr. Charles Hopkinson, banker of London, filed a bill against the Marquis of Exeter, the trustees and com mittee of the Conservative Club, to reinstate him in his rights and position as a member of the club, from which he had been expelled for supporting Liberal candidates at Parliamentary elections. Lord Roniilly considered clubs peculiar institutions. They were societies of gentlemen for social purposes, superadded to which were certain other purposes, literary or political. The Conservative Club was social whore it was necessary members should be on a good footing with each other, where nothing was likely to interfere with social enjoyments. Ile was of opinion that the 29th rule of the club vested in two-thirds of the general meeting of the members the right of expell ing a member, if in their judgment he has done any-- thing to endanger the welfare and good order of the club, and the Court could not disturb it if it was a bona fide and not capricious judgment. In this case the meeting acted with perfect bona fides, and therefore the bill must be dis missed with costs. Rumour at Washington gives three names as the candidates for the mission to Austria ; lion. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, C. C. Cox, of Maryland, and General Carl Schurz, of Wisconsin. Secretary Wells took his seat at the Cabinet on the 29th Nov., when the President's Message was read. Although still feeble ho is greatly improved in health. Mr. E. G. Dunbar, known in connection with the accusation of fraud he so repeatedly brought against officers of the Treasury in the New York Globe, appeared before the Senate for contempt, and was discharged. General Capron was confirmed by the Senate in his appointment of Commissioner of Agriculture on the 29th Nov., and A. C. Hunt as Governor of Colorado. Horace L. Capron conducted a farm in Maryland for many years, and is well known, not only as a practical farmer, but as a writer on Agriculture. He commanded an Illinois cavalry regiment during the war, and General Burbridge, of Kentucky, under whom he served, urged his appoint ment, which has since been confirmed. Senator IVilson received a letter from Horace Greeley, in which he draws a dismal picture of the de faults, the miscarriages, the reverses in the South. Unless there be more intelligence and concert of action on the part of Republican leaders he presages discomfiture, per haps annihilation, for his party. General Wisewell is likely to succeed Mr. Rollins as Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The Alabama Reconstruction Convention granted eight divorces, Nov. 29, and dismissed ono suit fur bigamy. The New York herald states that on Tuesday, Dec. 3, at Washington, Mr. James Vernon, a delegate from the Tailors' National Emigration Society of London, in com pany with several delegates from this city, was introduced to the President. After explaining that the object of their mission was to raise a fund for the relief of the journey men tailors in London, who have been on strike for the last seven months, the President made them a short ad dress, alluding to early days, when lie, too, made a liveli hood by the needle ; but it was not, he said, the profession which degraded the man, but rather the man the profes sion. In the course of his remarks ho explained the enig matical expression that nine tailors are essential to make a man, by relating the manner of its origin, how a knight of the shears became embarrassed and was relieved by the aid of nine of his brethren ; finally ho grew rich, bought a carriage, and put up as his mott9, "Nine tailors made me" —hence the derivation. In leaving, the President pre sented the delegation with $5O. _ _ Mr, Horace Greeley was so pestered with appli- cations for the Secretary of Legation to Vienna that he was compelled to publish an announcement that he would not accept the appointment of Minister. The mass meeting at the Coopers' Institute, New York, nomina►_ing Genoral Grant for the Presidency, was held on the 4th inst. under the auspices of A. T. Stewart, William B. Astor, Moses Taylor, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Hamilton Fish, Moses S. Grinnell, Robert L. Stuart, Wm. T. Blodgett, Le Grand B. Cannon, B. W. Bonney, and other influential gentlemen. THE LATE EItREHOR MAXIMILIAN.—EXTRAOR BINARY STORY.—The New York correspondent of the IV aterford Mail, under date of Dec. 3, writes :—" Admiral Tegethoff, of the Austrian navy, is now en route for home, with what he believes to be the body of the unfortunate Maximilian. My connection with the Mexican agents in this country forbids my entering into minutia:), but I cau assert that the remains which will be honoured by Austria are not those of the ill-fated scion of the house of Haps burg, but of Hamero, a noted bandit and guerilla, who in life was not unlike poor Maximilian. The latter is pining in an obscure dungeon in Queretaro, fed with felon's food, and awaiting the welcome arrival of death. The night beforohis supposed execution, Juarez, uncertain of his own success in seeking the presidency, and perhaps unwilling to imbrue his hands in royal blood, had the noble captive convoyed by stealth to a sacret den, and substituted in his stead the ruffian Hamero, hoping, had he not succeeded in his political aspirations, to have made a fortune by deli vering him safely to Austria. The Rev. Newman Hall returned to England by he Cuba, which arrived at Liverpool oil Saturday last, from America. Doubts are expressed whether Surratt will be tried again, in view of the difficulty of obtaining an im partial jury. An opinion has been expressed that Con gress should order a jury to be empanelled in some State outside the district. The Hon. Edward Cooper will, it is thought, be appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The Senate Finance Committee considered the nomination on the sth inst., but it was laid over for the present. It is announced that a marriage has been ar ranged between the Prince of Orange and the Princess Frederica, eldest daughter of the King of llanover. A colossal bronze statue, on a granite pedestal, of Major-General John F. Reynolds, will next summer be erected in the Gettysburgh Cemetery by the soldiers of the Ist Army Corps. Weston, the great walker, after resting a week at Chicago, is on his way home, lecturing as he goes. lie states that his share of the wager did not pay the expenses of his trip. Madame Francis Lord Bond has applied to the State Department for the post of Minister to England, vice Mr. Adams (!) whom she desires may be recalled. Detective Baker has bolted, and Mrs. Cobb is in pursuit, with her warrant for libel. Senator Morgan, of New York, presided at the first Congressional Caucus of the session held on the 4th instant. William J. Nelson was chosen President of the Kentucky Senate, and J. D. Branch, Speaker, by the House when the Legislature met on Monday, the 2d inst. Go vernor Stevenson sent in his message on the 3d. The Legislature is strongly Democratic. The official Democratic majority in New York for Nelson, Secretary of State, is 47,930; the Republican majority in Minnesota for Governor Marshall was 5,327, in a total vote of 61,413 ; and in Wisconsin for Governor Fairchild, 4,752 in a total of 142,478. The American ship T. J. Southard, Capt. Bishop, from New York Bth Nov., for Liverpool, went ashore near the Menai Lighthouse. The Liverpool steamtug Reliance, Capt. John Bibby, was near at the time, and the captain, at all hazards, resolved to render assistance. Finding it impossible to approach near enough a boat was lowered, and the crew succeeded in landing on the lee side of Puffin Island. On making their way to the beach oppo site the wreck, they found the line repeatedly thrown from the ship reached only to a rock half-way, over which the sea was breaking heavily. Here it was that one of the crew, James Ll‘Cartney, with a rope round his waist, swam through the raging surf, and, gaining the ridge, brought back the line from the ship to the beach, by which the crew of the American vessel wore saved. We hope that both Captain Bibby and James 3PCartney will receive a substantial recognition of this service. The manufacturers of northern Berkshire, Mas sachusetts, have chosen Harvey Arnold, of North Adams ; Sanford Blackinton, of Blackinton ; W. C. Plunkett, of South Adams ; Stephan \Valley, of Williamstown ; and Elisha Jenks, of Cheshire, to represent them at the con vention of manufacturers which was to assemble at Cleve land, Ohio, on the 18th, to take steps towards the repeal of the tax upon all taxable goods and the increase of taxa tion upon luxuries. Lord and Lady Amberley were presented to the President on the 6th inst. On the 4th inst. it was an nounced that they would be in the galleries of the house, and that Lady Amberley would be attired, we suppose, in the robes of a peeress, as the attraction drew a number of visitors who were disappointed. Mr. Charles Dickens was perhaps not aware of what his visit to Boston was worth to the kid glove dealers. When he fills Tremont Temple, he knows what his own receipts are likely to be, but a glover calculates the returns of the house to the trade, which is estimated at $4,000, giving for the four evenings $16,000 to the trade. A New York paper says —" Mary E. Braddon thinks of coming to America to lecture." Ex-Governor Isaac Davis bas been nominated Mayor, for Worcester City, Massachusetts. Rev. Edward Dunbar, the Minnesota polygamist, has been sentenced to three years and eight months in the Penitentiary. Mr. Robinson will have cause for congratulation when he hears of the Clerkenwell tragedy in his resolu tion for the impeachment of W. B. West, United States Consul at Dublin, for not moving more strongly in behalf of the Fenian prisoners. Perhaps Mr. Robinson will ac knowledge that Mr. West, who is on the spot, might have a true appreciation of the course to be taken in the interest and dignity of the nation he represents. Madlle. Clara Louise Kellogg, with her father and mother, has left Edwards' Royal Cambridge Hotel for Paris. The following obituary notice of old Mr. Wood appeared is the New York Citizen, Dec. 7 :—" Probably no event has ever given more universal satisfaction in this city than the burial of this old man. An enumeration of the causes that have made him so obnoxious to all honest and well-informed men, whatever may have been their personal or party predilections in other respects, would be both very tedious and unnecessary. Suf fice it to say that the individual, whose only power was shameless pretence and imposture; who lived and fattened solely upon dishonest and disgraceful gains; who made an open boast of crime, and mocked at truth and fair dealing, has passed away forever. No more, either as a living embodiment of power, or as a "grey headed spectre," can he plant himself upon the heads of deluded men, or inflame the passions or prejudices of de pravity or ignorance, or annoy a people who distrust and despise him. If there be those who think that we should remember the old maxim, which bid us to "speak well of the dead," let them bear in mind, if Caesar's memory will permit the quotation, that We come to bury Omar, not to praise him." It is believed at Washington by persons well in formed that Garibaldi and his two sons will proceed im mediately to America, and that a movement will be made to induce American intervention in Italian affairs. Mr. Martin and the other persons summoned for taking part in the Dublin funeral processions are to be tried, and are at present out on personal bail of £5OO each. Hon. Walter Preston, a man of brilliant talents, and one of the finest orators in Virginia, died at Abingdon on the 25th November. James E. Halliday died on the 6th inst. in the 60th year of his age. Ile was a practical printer, and for many years foreman of the Congressional Globe office. He was twice elected tax-collector of Washington, and once was the Democratic candidate for mayor. Robert Denniston, late State Controller of New York, died at his residence at Salisbury, on Monday, 2d December. Silas Bronson, who died at the St. Nicholas Hotel at New York, on Monday, December 2, was a native of Middlebury county, Connecticut, and leaves an estate esti mated at over $1,000,000. He gives by his will over $200,000 to the city of Waterbury, Connecticut, for a public library, to each of twenty-five nephews and nieces $15,000, and the rest to his heirs at law, his brothers and sisters or their representatives. Ho hat six brothers and sisters, three of whom survive him. The venerable ex-Chancellor Reuben Hyde Wal- worth died at Saratoga on Monday, December 5, at the ago of 79. He was born at Bozrab, Connecticut, but has resided in New York since early childhood. Ho served one term in Congress, 20 years as Chancellor of Now York, and for the last 20 years has been consulting attorney. He has been long prominent in Christian and ref.rru move ments, and leaves a name not only distinguished but honourable. The intention of the herald to form an Asso ciated Press, in connection with Cyrus W. Field, Charles A. Dana, Samuel Bowles, and others, seems to have been entirely abandoned. Messrs. Charles Scribner and Co. will publish, on December Gth, " The Queens of American Society," by Mrs. E. F. Ellet. Mr. James Greenwood, author of " The Lambeth Casual," is to contribute a series of origi nal sketches to " Hours at Home," during the coming year. " The Chaplet of Pearls," a serial by Miss Yonge, author of the "Heir of Redclyffe," was commenced in the December number of "Hours at Home." "Fred, and Maria, and Mo," a story by the author of "The Flower of the Family," is to be published soon in the book form by Messrs. Charles Scribner and Co. Messrs. Charles Scrib ner and Co. have in the press "Eighty Years of Republican Government in the United States," by Louis J. Jennings, for some time the special correspoudent of the London Times. THE AMERICAN SCREW STEAMER ONTARIO. — Our American friends will bo pleased to see the success which has hitherto attended the American-built screw steamer Ontario, belonging to the American Steamship Company. On her last outward voyage she made the run from Liverpool to Boston via Queenstown in ten days four hours, beating by one, two, and three days all the other steamers that left at the same time. She has just returned, making the run from Boston to Liverpool in nine days seventeen hours, during which time she was only working about three-fourths of her full power, the directors having given strict instructions that she should not be worked at full speed for the sake of making quick passages, their object being to do the work well and cautiously, and in as good time as is made by any of the other lines, and thus socuro safety and comfort to their passengers. All who have travelled by this steamer speak in the highest terms of her splendid sea-going qualities, as well as for the ex cellent and complete accommodations, and state that the captain and officers are most attentive to their duties and the comfort of their• passengers. She leaves Liverpool again on the 27th inst. The New York Citizen says—" James Gordon Bennett's first daily paper in this city, the Globe, issued in October, 1832, lived exactly ono month. The jJurnalists of that time all declared that Bennett had no notability as a newspaper manager. " The Journal of Commerce is probably the only secular journal in this country that keeps the Sabbath exactly, the compositors and editors beginning their work for Monday's issue precisely at midnight." The Round Table states:—Mr. Frank H. Alfriend, formerly editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, and connected during and since the war with the Richmond press, is soon to publish, through a Cincinnati house,. " The Life of Jefferson Davis." The specimen pages which we have examined give promise of a hand some volume, but are otherwise most discouraging. The author has, wo presume, as we are told, had unusual opportunities for gaining an insight into what be writes of, "has had the co-operation and assistance of prominent officials of very high position in the into Confederacy, and has enjoyed facilities unsurpassed by any writer upon the subject of the war for obtaining information from original sources," and will explain much we have been ignorant of or have misunderstood. Yet we are confident that no degree of certainty of sub stantial information could sustain us through the pro mised five or six hundred pages of such turgidity and in flation and magniloquence as fill the half-dozen which constitute all of the books we care to see—except in the event of its translation. Here, for instance, are the words used to express the importance of the " Titanic conflict" —meaning the war:—" As a point of departure from the hitherto unbroken monotony of American history, the be ginning of a now order of things, the extinction of impor tant elements of previous national existence, embracing much that was consecrated in the popular affections ; iu short, as a complete political and social transformation, an abrupt but thorough perversion of the Government from its original purposes and previous policy, this period must take its place, with important suggestions of theory and illustration, among the most impressive lessons of history. The profound interest which shall centre upon the period that we have under consideration must necessarily subject to a rigid investigation the lives, characters, and conduct of those to whom were allotted conspicuous parts in the great drama. It is both a natural and reasonable test that the world applies in seeking to solve, through the qualities and capacities of those who direct great measures of governmental policy, the merits of the movements themselves." The Round Table Association will issue on and after Ist January a now weekly journal, to bo called The Week, upon a principle successful in England, but not yet attempted in America, being a reflex of home and foreign opinion, consisting entirely of extracts from the ablest and most influential journals all over the world. The most brilliant and interesting slections, excluding fiction, is promised, on capital paper, iu beautiful type. The choice of contents will be free from political bias, the object being to give all that is brightest and best from every quarter, the articles in foreign journals being translated. Thus the association will embrace the two reviews, The Round Table being entirely original, and The Week entirely selected. In the hands of so able and literary an organisation as that to which The Round Table owes existence, The Week can scarcely fail to realise the objects proposed. STAFFORD AND UTTOXETER. This line, which was commenced years ago by an independent company, and recently completed, is to be opened to-day for passenger traffic. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's lines, for the week ending Nov. 30, amounted, for passengers, to £10,2T1 ; for emigrants, to £139 ; for mails, &c., to £1,027 ; and for freight and live stock, to £l7,ll7—total, £23,554; and for the corresponding week last year to £29,117, showing a decrease of £563. The total receipts from the Ist of July to the above date amounted to £612,825, and for the same period last year to £628,203, showing a de crease of £15,378. ILLINOIS CENTRAL. The financial statement of this company for the month of November states that 25,504 acres of land were sold during the month for $278,013, and that the cash collected amounted to $339,021. In the traffic department the receipts on the railway in the month of November amounted to $679,160, and for the same month in 1866 to $570,485, showing an increase of $108,675. NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The traffic receipts on this company's lines amounted for the week ending the 9th inst. to £64,126, against £61,554 for the corresponding week last year, showing an increase of £2,572. NATIONAL BANK OF SCOTLAND. The annual meeting was held in Edinburgh on Saturday, Mr. T. Mansfield in the chair. The report stated that the net profits for the year ending the Ist of November, after providing for depreciation of heritable property and the public funds, and making ample provision for all bad or doubtful debts, were £133,609 ; out of this the usual dividend of 10 per cent. and a bonus of 2 per per cent. were declared (both free of income-tax), and £13,609 was added to the "rest," which now amounts to £249,879. The sum set apart for 12 per cent. dividend was £120,000, the capital being £1,000,000. BAHIA STEAM NAVIGATION. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the offices, Ethelburga-house, Bishops gate ; Mr. C. Lane in the chair. Mr. WiLsoN, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the balance to profit for the six mouths ending the 30th of June last was, at the par of exchange, £15,326, which (after deducting the ex penditure in London) showed an increase of up wards of £2,000 over the corresponding six months of 1866. Of this amount £3,010 had been expended on capital account, £2,550 was the loss in exchange, and £921 the expenditure in London, leaving a balance unappropriated of £8,840. For the purpose of maintaining efficiently the " San Francisco" navigation, and of providing a reserve boat for the Bay routes, a contract had been signed for the delivery of two suitable vessels in May next. The CHAN:MAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders on the improv ing position of the company. But for the exchange falling from 27d. the milrea to 204 d. owing to the war between Brazil and Paraguay, the directors would have been enabled to declare a dividend on this occasion. Matters, however, were now looking better, the rate of exchange was likely soon to re sume its former standard, and a dividend might be fairly looked for at the next meeting. They were now receiving a subsidy of £B,OOO per annum from the Brazilian Government, and their traffic was in creasing in all directions. The cost of the two vessels now building for the San Francisco traffic would be about £12,000. The debentures for £26,000 had been•all placed at Bahia. Mr. Cool: trusted that the Board would not pur- BILLIARDS. A handicap billiard match, arranged by Mr. ninon, was commenced on Monday night at St. James's Hall, Regent-street, and was continued on each succeeding even ing, in the presence of numerous spectators, among whom were several noblemen. The handicap was for a prize of 50 guineas, and a handsome silver-mounted cup for the second best player, presented by Messrs. Borroughs and Watts, who constructed a new pollard oak table for the occasion. Twenty-eight players from various parts of the country sent in their names, but as all could not contend 16 became entitled to Flay by a draw. The contest was in heats, 400 up. The first pair that showed were Diggles, jun., of Oxford, 110, and W. Green, of Liverpool, 70; the former won by 70 points. Then came Kilkenny, of Scar borough, 70, and A. Hughes, of London, 70; Hugliee was the winner by 75 points. John Roberts, the cham pion, 100, and T. Morris, of London, 70. When Roberts reached 55 he ran a break of 57, thus paying his debt of 100 with 12 over. After Morris's score stood at 21 2 ho increased it to 221. The champion then got in again, and made a splendid break of 95, including a dozen spot strokes, bringing his score to 231. Morris now played much better than in the early part of the game, obtaining a few good breaks, reaching in a short time to 272. Roberts, however, who was in fine play, made two or three long scores, ultimately winning by 62 points. On Tuesday evening R. Bradley, of Scarborough, 130, and M. Moss, of Manchester, 110, commenced the play. Although Bradley made many excellent scores, Moss ultimately won by 61, J. North, of Sheffield, 145, and H. Evans, of London, 7, next occupied the table, when Evans had it nearly all hie own way, winning by 136 points, his greatest brealoi being 47, two 45's, 25, and 24. C. Hughes, of London , 20, and G. Davis, of London, 70, finished the play for the evening. Hughes made two or three good breaks , one of 30 and another of 40, but notwithstanding h e gamely struggled on, and was eventually defeated by 68 points. On Wednesday W. Cook, jun., had to play Symes, but the latter retired, and J. Bennett, 10 points, played J. Roberts, jun., 10. Some splendid scores were made on both sides by losing hazards, cannons, &ci and when the game was called Roberts was 156 to 1 35 1 Bennett, however, got in advance for a short time, whe n Roberts headed him, and continued to gradually keep ahead, winning by 54 points, W. Cook, jun., v. J. Robert s, champion, owing 100. Notwithstanding much scientific play, in which Roberts embraeed many very long scores , among which was one .of 42, Cook also added several 20% and ultimately wou by 158. W. Moss, 110, and .A• Hughes, 70, next appeared, and another fine exhib it i on ensued on Thursday, when Moss scored his 400 to Hughes's 391, Harry Evans, 70, v. Young Digges, 11 0 1 when Evans won, Digges scoring 372. Among Evans breaks were 40, 30, 20, &c., and Digges's 47, 29, ac. 111 ag ain the final bout J. Roberts, 10 points, v. G. Davis, 70 , much scientific play took place. Young Roberts, son ° the champion, won by 194 points. Roberts's greatest break was 51, and he also scored 39, 36, 35, &c. The largest breaks of Davis were one 29, two 21's, &c. Roberts We e loudly cheered at the finish. On Saturday evening 9 ' match, 1,000 up, took place at St. James's Hall for X s(l c i between John Roberts, the winner of the handicap , and Joseph Bennett, of London. It was also for the title o f the second-best player in England, and a great many gentle men congregated to witness the interesting contest. i t°- berts won by 97 points. yrADVERTISEMENT. j —Holloway's Pills.—Premonitio n.l ' he opinion gains ground that disease is a diminution °,l,' vitality, and there is little doubt that the powers of life al principally depressed by the impurities In the sy steu3 : This depravity can be corrected by taking a course, or an casional dose, of Holloway's famous purifying pills, 1 0 ' 1 % expel all morbid matters from the circulation, a.% thoroughly cleanse and invigorate the glands, viscera, a",O brain. Through this wholesome influence, BolloWalm medicine casts out the seeds of all fevers, which autumn prove so formidable to health, and in a vast ''be jority of cases destroy life itself. Forewarned should forearmed—a position easily attained by taking these 7,_ cellent pills when lassitude, headache, or dejection di tresses us. Births. C0393E 7 0n the 22d inst., the wife of Charles Combo, of Cobham Park, Surrey, of a son. ad FEILDING—On the 20th inst., the wife of die Be'' 1) " A. Feilding, of a son, stillborn. Dor ms , . 1 C rOLTIMORE —On the 22d inst at Dltt'sso k Lodge, cheater, th 9 Lady Poltimore, of a son. Marriages. A 0.1V . ° HUNTER—WELLS—On the 19th inst , at Saint An" r- ; ,,u Church, Well-street, 11. J. Hunter, ' Esq , of OraY' 6- ri. barrister-at-law, to Louisa Mary, daughter of J• Wells, Esq., of Lansdowu-place. rittri B ITEMSTED—CODDINGTON- On the 19th inst , at `' .- 1,p,r1 Church, Kiutbury, Berks, Stephen, eldest son . of Stelnf Ifemsted, &q., of Newbury, to Blanch Martha, the o s n e ... daughter of the late Major Coddington, of the 4 0 th gitneut. Deaths. Gilbe rt HOGG—On the 21st inst., at Merton, Surrey, Col. aged 52. TX KENNEDY—On the 18th , inst., at Alexandria, Colonel Se Kennedy, C. 8., R.M.T., while employed ou Speci ta vice in Egypt relative to the Abyssinian Expedition. r ORME—On the 20th inst., George Orme, Esq., B roady/3° Worthing - , aged 71. MAYNE—On the 20th inst., at Morchiston-place , N" burgh, Robert Mayne, Esq. At riC" SANDIFORD—On the 21st inst., at 1, flart.stteeL, —3 lane, Mrs. Anne Sandiford. U TURNER—On the 22d inst, at 26, Wormwood -street, Gl' Mr. Samuel Turner, aged 67. ~. -- - - --- - - --- " ------7--------- ,„ Or London : Printed and Published by WLLLIAIf AND_,'" . 02. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TRH SUN Oftico, r' l3ty of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the °°u - blicldlotiox.—Tuesday, December 24, 1867. AFrE After I After After A After After S After 1- After S After Sin THE LUNCH] CU . Iligh-cla Me. 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