The Sun. — London, England, 1870-01-22 00:00:00

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MOSES and SON'S Establishments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, 'Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Ou tette for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDOI. CORNER OF MINORIES AND ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART STREET. CORNER OF TOTTENHAII-COURT-ROAD AND EUSTON ROAD. Country Branch BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F.D. Chatt.rton. THIS EVENING, at 7, FM NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; or, OLD MOTHER BUNG t I : Misses Jessie Vokes, Victoria Voices, Po Tina Yokes. Kate Santley, Hudspeth, and Tlsrriet Coveney; Messrs. Fred. Yokes. Brittain Wright, W. F. Vokes, F. Moreland, Howells, and Harry Boleno. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET Sole Leasee, 31r. Ilnekstone._ THIS EVENING, A RI S IN THE DARK. Followed by, at 20 to 8, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES: Mr Buckstnne, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mr Buckstone, rm.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hiil, dre. . After which, THE FAIR ONE WITH 'WE GOLDEN ',OCRS: Mr A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynne Miss 1 :ancis, Miss Murray. Box-office open daily from Ten till Five. frHEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock. OPEN TO CONVICTIoN. Messrs. G. Belmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Miss L. Grey, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. At 8, TH I NIGHTINGAL Mr Penjamin Webster, Kessrs Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, Vies Furtado, Mrs Alfre 1 Mellon, MiF s Eliza Johnstone, Mrs Caulfield, &c. lo conclude w'th MMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr U. &I more and Mrs Leigh 'hurray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can he secured a fortnight in advance. RIO YA 1, PR TN CESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager—Mr.Benjamin Wester. THIS EVENING, at 7, AFTER DARE: Mr.VininT; Messrs. Phillips, Ashley, Taylor, Rignold, Leeson, Eburne; Mesdames P. Lecleroq, Barnett. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON: Mr. Vining: Messrs Phillips, Ashley, Stuart. Rignold. Taylor, 'Leeson, and Eburne; Mesdames Barnett, Stoker, Brewer. LYCEUM THEATRE will (WEN 1 Hi- EVENING, under the management of the Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated by MacTntoshl. To commence at 7 with CORRUP P PRACTICF.S; ItTeqsrp Cogh:an, Vincent; Mesdames L. Thorne, S. Itignold, and Fitz- Opening Address by Mrs 'Keeley. Aft ,r which, CHILPNRIC, lierv: Messrs NT. 3Tsrins, G Vi , :cent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan. and NT. Ilers - e 3Te4daines Dolaro, Fitzlninan, Romlnelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Ein;ly 3fnir. OYAL STRAND TTIE,XTRE Sole Lessee and Manageress, llrs Scvanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BEE KERS M. irk.'. Followed by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke. Atter which, INO; Messrs Thorne, James, Fenton, T (mar: ,'esdames Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. To conclude withTHE CHOPS OP THE CHANNEL' rirl II P. "SUN" NEWSPAPFAL-G. R. (I„EN I I' Sporting I,ibrary, 4, Connaught-terrace, Eclgeware-roa , ' delivers the LATE EDITION of "TM.; SUN " at the carlie possible moment after leaving the press. Tfe, is able to delive Copies ir. Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the county at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles 1 7 45 o'clock Orders by post punctually attended to ►rHE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" tc 1 be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK'F , BAtannia, Kensal Now-town. SPURTING. —.1 MIN ROBERTS supplies th, LATEST EDITION of "THE STN" as soon as pub ished.-4, Bath-street, City-road. F C. 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Sold in bottles, 3s. each also 55., 7e. 6d., an d 155. each. including brush. Bed Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. UIL DITALL, 13 rh January, 1570.—The ‘-)4 Corninittna for'LETTING OA CITY LANDS will MEET at GUILDIIA I,n WEDNESDAY, the 26th f!ny of January inst., Half past t)no Pre"i"lY, to receive PROI'0;-3A LS ft r a LEASE of a HOUSE. No. 222, Tottenham-court-road. in Iht county of 3 fid. llo "x• Also to rercivo Proposals for a Bilibling Least. for Eighty years. of t",. site of the pr, ni'sds, No. Lon.l)u-wali, in lire City of London. Plans of I bit pr. party niny 113 seen, nn I further particu lars an'l form" of t , nl , r obta no,l, up m application at the Archtvet's Office, Gui1(111,11, FERDD. BRAND. r-mr#,-,‘","*. 91HE UNITED LAND COMI'AN 3TITED). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENERA L LETTING of the COMPANY will la,‘ he4l at the Offle s, N. S 3, 1 , 4 - orfolk-s , r , et, Strand. Lo:iiinn tit Two of the Clock: p.m., on WEDNES 1. the 2d F:brunrr, 1870, for the purpose of receiving th, Report of the Director.. c f ci , clarin4 a Divi lend, and of transacting the ordinary busi ns,,s of the Company. By order of the Board. CHARLES LEWIS CiRUNEISEN, Secrotary. 83, Norfolk-street, Strand. London, W.C., 17th January, 1870. THE LA'Z'E EDITION of "THE SUN " at J. SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, BEAUTY AND THE BE ST t Messrs. Fred. Vokes, Brittain Wright, Harry Bolero, &e.; Misses Vokes, Harriet Coveney, Kate Sa.ntley, THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'MS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, at 20 to S, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES; Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale. Miss Robertson, &c. Concluding with THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS: Mr. A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. 'furs EVICTING, at 7. OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs George Belmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. btephenson, Miss L. Grey, and Mrs L Murray. At 8, THE NIGHTINGALE: Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs Arthur Stirling, J. O. Beveridge, Skinner, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon, Miss Eliza John stone, Mrs Caulfield, &c. To conclude with DOMESTIC f.CONO3IY: Mr G. Belmore and Mrs Loigh Murray. LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, at 7, CORRUPT PRACTICES. Opening Ad- dress by Mrs Keeley. After which, CHTLPERIC: Messrs M. Mar.us, G Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan, and M. Herve ; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitz Inman, Romanelli, Nellie Nesbit, ann Miss Emily Muir. ROYAL PRINCESS'S -THEATRE. THIg EVENING, at 7, AFTER DARK: MrVining. Followed by THE STR S OF LONDON: Mr Vining; Messrs Philips, Ashley, Stuart, Rignold, Taylor, Lseson, Eburne ; Mesdames Barnett, Stoker, Brewer. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG TIIE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And INO. Concluding with THY CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hail, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission. is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. ed. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open fromll to 4. 4 • -7:019. 'I7A LONDOJ.V, SATURDAY, JAN. 22, 1870. an. STAFFORD .NORTHCOTE deserves a word of praise for administering the coup de grdce to the reciprocity agitation. His speech on the subject was marked by no special depth of argurhent, but he spoke in the full consciousness that his disclaimer must have important consequences, and yet party considerations did not deter him from pronouncing for the truth. As a leading Conservative statesman Sir STAFFORD has declared in unmistaekable language that he will have no hand in any attempt to revive a policy which so long ago proved disastrous to his party. One point in the discourse before the Exeter Chamber of Com merce is very noticeable ; Sir STAFFORD NommtcoTE observed that too high expectations had been formed of the effect of free trade, and the present reaction, in a time of distress, was perhaps the natural result of dis appointment. Such appears to have been the case. It was thought that free trade, like international exhibitions, and other new things, would regenerate the world, whereas it has done no more than give a great impetus to legitimate commerce. And thus it happens that those persons who anticipated the greater result are inclined to deny to free trade the merit of the lesser, and to complain that the present commercial depression is solely owing to our tariff reforms. These reasoners never consider that the Treaty of 1860 benefited both countries alike, and that nevertheless a certain party in each remains dissatisfied. Not only did French exports to England rise from £16,870,000 in 1859 to £33,740,000 in 1867, but English exports to France increased in the same period from £9,560,000 to £23,022,000. There has been a huge advance on each side, and the proportionate increase is greater in English than in French exports. Will the men of reciprocity kindly shew how an increase in the trade of both countries could have injured either ? If the gain had been one-sided there might have been room for complaint ; but here we have a treaty which has doubled• the exports of France, and more than doubled those of England, and yet both Englishmen avid Frenchmen cry out that they are ruined. Well may such men as Lord DERBY and Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE shrinkfrom a policy into which Mr. NEW DEGATE and Mr. STAVELEY HILL SO presumptuously rush. Surely the reciprocity leaders wl.d be satisfied now, and will content themselves with a legitimate and laudable occupation, which affords every scope for their energies— obtaining better free trade bargains from our neighbours. The Treaty with Franco is capable of great improvement, though it was infinitely better than none. THE doings at the Thorncliffe Collieries must be considered too much even in these days of high-handed proceedings on the part of the sovereign people. The circumstances which have led to open war between the authorities and a number of unionist workmen are very peculiar. Messrs. NEWTON and CHAMBERS, of the Thorneliffe Collieries, growing weary of trade society interference and dictation, gave all their men notice to quit some ten months ago. It does not appear that there was any dispute between masters and men ; there was no strike impend ing, nor had any demands been made on the part of the employed. But the employers had suffered from the proceedings of the South Yorkshire Union, which had on a previous occasion forced up the rate of wages, and gained a practical control over the affairs of the firm. In order to recover the full power of managing their own concern, and with the view, it is not denied, of reducing the rate of wages, Messrs. NEW TON and CHA3II3ERS turned out all their hands, and offered to re-engage them on terms which would have rendered the Union influence of no avail. The results have been disastrous. The colliers refused to re-engage on such terms. The employers sought assistance in other quarters, and the unionists resolved they should not have it. Some three hundred non-unionist men were engaged, and the discharged colliers, who refused to quit the district, straightway proceeded to make war upon them. For some time past law and order have been suspended in the parish of Chapeltown. The unemployed unionists assail the men at work incessantly, annoy their wives and children, and outrage the dead on their way to inter ment. A guard of police is required by a non-unionist or any of his family on the most trifling mission. Organised attacks in great force are quite common. A little military law, or law of some sort, is a clear necessity in this region. Nothing that Messrs. NEWTON and CHAMBERS can have done can justify these attacks upon men in pursuit of their daily work. The act of the proprietors or lesaees looks extreme; but though the full nature of the Union interference of which they complain has not been made known, the plain facts are that they wished to be relieved from it, and had a right to seek relief if they chose. Dismissing an entire staff' of workmen seems harsh ; but if the employed claims the right to strike—a privilege which must be conceded— the employer has an equal right to adopt the expedient of a lock-out. Moreover these men all had the alternative of re-engaging on different conditions, if they chose to do so. Their position could not justify, in any case, an attack upon the masters. Their conduct to the non unionist men is an outrage which the public at large has as much interest in repressing a 3 a Penian outbreak. A few more such occurrences woul l. not facilitate the passage of the labour combi nation measure next session, for whilst the men demi to do as they please with their labour, they practically testify that the masters have no similar right. So intense is the TROPPMANN mania in France that our excitable neighbours cannot make up their minds to part with their hero even now. They watched his minutest actions, and analysed Lis most indifferent remarks during life; and they are not less interested in trying to divine how he felt after death. Did he immediately die at all ? Is the punishment of the guillotine such a speedy and painless mode of taking life as is commonly supposed ? These are the questions which 111 El SUN, LONDON, SAT U RDA Y EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1870. too rare occurrence of a capital infliction in France has raised, and which a cer tain Dr. PINEL has, to the alarm of his countrymen, answered in the negative. Dr. PINEL'S theory of death by decapitation is that the body dies quickly and without pain, for the separation from the brain deprives the trunk of consciousness. But the brain itself retains its life for a long period. Though some of the sources of sensation are cut away, the nerves of hear ing, sight, and smell remain active; and, in fine, the head lives after separation for a period which may extend to three hours. The question is thought an important one. A correspondent of the Telegraph naively points out that things are rather shaky in Paris just now. A violent political change might give the guillotine a good deal of employment, and it may be as well, there fore, to know what is the real effect of the instru ment before it comes into actual requisition. No doubt the provision will be a sage one, but an obvious difficulty presents itself to the cautious writer. We never yet bad the pleasure of considering this question in a practical manner, nor have we the ac quaintance of any person who has. But the testimony of history and the opinions—formed quite theoretically—of the leading medical authorities are decisively against Dr. PINEL. Decapitation has been the fashionable mode of punishment in all lands and ages—in the East as well as the West, and yet there is no record, nor has any sign or symptom worth considering ever been adduced, to throw doubt upon its efficacy. In fact, the evidence is all the other way. "It is true enough," says the Lancet, " that the brain does retain a large quantity of blood after decapitation ; but it is equally certain that that blood rapidly becomes venous from auipiy proves tnat, in complete asphyxia, conscious ness is entirely abolished in one minute and a half, and is, of course, being progressively lowered during the whole of that time." MoreoVer, the effect of the shock 'Lust be considered. A blow of far less violence is enough to terminate consciousness; the shock of the guillotine must paralyse any functions which would be in operation after the separation. There are these reasons for thinking that Dr. PINEL has alarmed his sensitive countrymen without just cause. But if he will employ his skill in this happy land, he may be useful. The strange paraphernalia by which a crimi nal is strapped up and marched off in solemn pro cession to a gallows, where he is kept waiting until a fumbling old man ties the knot so clumsily that the criminal dies of slow torture, will probably astonish him. If he will exert his powers to dis cover how often our dear system d.ees its work properly, and how often it inflicts a form of death which. Was never intended, h e will render a great service to the humane public. After all, the French have a great advantage over us. Whether decapitation be the better mode of punishment or not, they know how to do it, which is more than can be said of the ceremony that we have industriously practised for so many years. RATES OF FREIGHT AND CHARTER. (From the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.) The tonnage loading on the berth for India, China, and the Cape of Good Hope amounts to 54,178 tons, and for Australia and New Zealand to 37,386 tons. The freight market, instead of shewing signs of a re turn to more activity, seems rather to increase in dulness and whilst Berth Freights generally continue without ani mation, rates for coal to the East remain slack at the last decline, many of those quoted below being simply nominal. In homeward chartering the inquiry is almost restricted to Steam Tonnage. Not much business, has, however, yet been done, owners standing out for betterrates than those offered. From Newcastle (N.S.W.) 255. to 275. per ton coal is offered to Bombay; 275. to an Francisco, and 20s. to Calcutta. A fair amount of tonnage has come forward for guano from the West Coast of South America. The nt ;s are now 655. to Antwerp and 655. to Nantes. Outward rates to the West Coast are low, and there is hardly any inquiry for tonnage. For iron to the United States, 235. and 5 per cent. can be done to New Orleans, 13s. 6d. and 5 per cent, to Mobile and 18s. and 5 per cent. from the Tyne to, New York. Homeward employment is just now rather scarce. A few fresh orders for coal to the West Indies have sprung up during the week, more particularly for the Cuba Ports.• There is nothing new to notice in sugar chartering from that quarter. Rates for the Brazils and River Plate have undergone little alteration since the last report. For the Mediterranean and Black Sea the tendency of rates is downwards, and for many of the further ports a decline of as much as per keel is recorded. From the Danube to the United Kingdom 7s. per qr. wheat is the most at present offered ; from the Azoff 455, for 3,000 qrs. can be got for the opening, and 525. 6d., with the Medi terranean options, for Ist--13th June: TRADE AND FINANCE. FRIDAY EVENING. There has been an active demand for money during the week in connection with the collection of the assessed taxes, payment of which is now being required by the Government. The public balance at the Bank of England has accordingly been on the increase, and the position of that institution has been materially strengthened, but as the capital so acquired will be utilised in the course of a week or two by the purchase of the telegraph system,there is little importance to be attached to the fact of the cash holding of the Government being a large one. The dis count market has accordingly shewn some strin gency, and the Lombard-street minimum has been nearly equal to the Bank rate throughout the week. When the purchase of the telegraphs has been effected, the capital so disbursed will speedily find its way into Lombard-street, and cause a return of ease there. We understand that advantage will be taken of this state of affairs to introduce several important con cerns, among which some new submarine telegraph com panies will hold a prominent place. Nego'siations are now beingcarried on for the construction of three otherlines on im portant routes as yet unoccupied, and so long as the public continue to shew an avidity for this kind of investment there is no doubt that other schemes will be forth coming. Very much has been written on the subject of a pro bable panic in telegraph shares, and we hold that such an occurrence is not, unlikely. It must be borne in mind that the shares are at present very strongly held, being mostly in the hands of the constructors, who have taken them in payment for the first cost of the lines. This being the case, the shares are not likely to be forced upon the market, lint will probably be held and be disposed of from time to time, as opportunity offers. As yet only a small number has been passed into the market in this manner, but the supply is daily on the increase. There is, atter all, but little importance to be attached to a panic in telegraph shares, should one ever occur, as the amount of capital in volved is comparatively small, and barely sufficient to disarrange the markets. It might produce a slight tem porary disturbance, but would have no lasting effect, as in other panics, where a large amount of capital is in volved. There continues to be a steady feeling manifested in nearly all departments of trade. The prospects of the year are good, and for many reasons a steady demand for our manufactures is anticipated. Cheap bread and lower prices for meat will have the effect of increasing the home consumption of all kinds of goods; while the great addition that has been made to the supply of cotton will also favourably influence the markets. Abroad stocks are not large, while the state of the trade for a long time past has deterred spinners from operating beyond the cur:mt wants of consumers. The cotton trade is, therefore, likely to become animated, so soon as prices shall have receded to any important extent. Large orders for railway irons aro anticipated, and throughout the manufacturing districts a feeling of confidence prevails. Russia will make considerable addition to her railway system during the current year, while the United States have already a number of new undertakings in hand. In the South of Europe similar activity prevails, and the Continejat is fast being covered by a network of iron roads which are destined to work a marvellous change in commerce. fir Moses Montetioro has beet!' confined to_ room for some days through indisposition. The Rev. J. Scott, Vicar of Wisbeach, is appointed a Canon of Ely Cathedral. The consecration of the suffragan Bishop of Lincoln will take place on Tuesday. There were rumours existing. in London on Wed nesday, thought substantial enough to be telegraphed to some of our contempoiiiies, to . thol i effeet that Dr. Living stone had, indeed, beeniinidered at' last. No confirmation of tile 6JB:the gISNATicI, '''3ll23LE LATEST INTELL IGEN OE (REUTER'S TELECRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlaltic Cable.) PRINCE ARMUR. NEW YORK, Jan. 21 (Evening). His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accompanied by Colonel Elphinatone and Lieutenants Pickard and Fitzroy, arrived here thi3 afternoon, and was received by Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, and by Mr. Archibald, the English Consul. Prince Arthur and party vill stay here to-night at the Brevoort Hotel, and proceed to Washington to-morrow. Ntw YORK, Jan. 21. The National Steamship Company's steatEship Queen arrived out yesterday. The Cunard steamer Calabria arrived out at 10 p.m. yesterday. The Hamburg and Arne/lean steamer Holsatia arrived at 6 a.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 120 k; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 121 ; the lowest, 1201. Sterling Exchange on London loB}. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 66 " 1885.. ll4l. 16 " 1867 ll3l. 10-40 66 Illinois Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 2sle. Petroleum—Standard White ... 31;c. Flour, extra state,ls.loc. to $5.70c. Corn, old mixed, sl.2c. According to Messrs. Moffatt Davidis and Co.'s report, the receipts of cotton at all ports for ti e week have been 99,000 bales, and since the Ist of September 640,000 bales. Shipments to England, 30,000 bales; to France, 7,000 ; and to the Conti nent 15,000 bales; and since the Ist of Septem ber, 840,000 bales. Stock, 480,000 bales. Mid dling upland, 11 1-16 cost and freight per steamer. PORTLAND, Jan. 21. The Allan steamer Nova Scotian arrived here to-day. THE BRAZILS. FALMOUTH, Jan. 22. The London, Belgium, Brazil, and River Plate mail steamer City of Brussels arrived here during the night. She brings £1,370 in specie and 21 passengers. Her dates are—Buenos Ayres, Dec. 17 ; Monte video, 19 ; Rio de Janeiro, 27 ; and St. Vincent, January 10. At Buenos Ayres and Montevideo preparations are being made for a triumphal reception of the contingents from Paraguay. he report is confirmed of the alliance betwcen Lopez and the Indians of the interior. At Assumption great scarcity of provisions pre vails, and numerous deaths have occurred in con- sequence. It is asserted that dissensionshave arisen among the members of the Provisional Government. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Jan. 19. For 71b. shirtings, 39iu., 14 by 13, sr. 15a.. and 811 b. ditto, 16 by 15, 6r. 12a., the market is quiet. 40's Bannermill twist, 7a. Fair Bengal cotton, 25r. Jute doss, K, 21r. Exchange on London, six months, bank bills, 1.111. Four per Cent. Government Securities, 94k; ditto 5 per Cent., 1088 ; ditto 5} per Cent., 1128. Freights, rice 375. 6d. BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, Jan. 22. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer China, from Bombay on the Bth instant, arrived here at seven this morning. MARSEILLES, Jan 22. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera arrived at 8 this morning, and the mails leave for London at 10.30. EGYPT. CAIRO, Jan. 22. The Khedive pays tLe Agricole shares, and has furnished his accounts to Constantinople. Sir S. Baker was at Shendy on the 12th inst. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Mimic DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called "The Royal Irish Distillery." ITIOII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. - Morning. Evening. SATUDDAY '25 min past 5 47 min past 5 SUNDAY 10 niin past 6 86 min past 6 MONDAY 58 min past 6 24 min past 7 TUESDAY.. 52 min past 7 20 min fast 8 WEDNESDAY 56 min. past 8 33 min past 9 THURSDAY 10 Mill past 10 50 min past 10 FRIDAY.. . .BO min past 11 0 min past 12 DEATH. OP ADItMAL SEYAIOUIt: We regret, to announce the death' of Sir George Francis Seymour, G.C.8., Admiral of the Fleet. Previous to his attaining that honourable . position 1n the Navy in 1866, Sir George was a Lord of the Admiralty, Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, on the North American and West Indian stations, and at Portsmouth, and was Vice-Admiral of the United Kingdom. He was the son of an admiral, and grandson of the first Marquis of Hertford, and was in his 84th year when he died. The deceased admiral had seen some active service. In the battle of St. Domingo in 1806 he was severely wounded on board the Northumberland. He commanded the Pallas frigate in the Walcheren expedition in 1809, and other ships until the conclusion of the war in 1814. In 1820 he was Serjeant-nt-Arms of the House of Lords, and in 1820 Master of the Robes to William IV. ART, LITERARY, AND SCIENTIFIC GOSSIP. The following items are from the Atheneum :—Mr. Richard Morris is writing a short historical English Grammar for the use of King's College School.—The Com mittee of the Society of Arts has declared in favour of a reduction of the postage rates on printed matter from hi. to id. per quarter of a pound.—Garibaldi's work "The Rule of the Monk," is to be published early in February. It is to appear in Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and Dutch, as well as in English.—The minor poems of William Lauder, playwright, poet, and minister of the gospel, referring mainly to that year of famine and plague in Scotland, 1561, are to be edited for the Early English Text Society by Mr. Furni vall, from Mr. S. Christie Miller's unique originals.— A " Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera," edited by Mr. W. F. Kirby, assistant in the Museum of the Royal Dublin Society, will shortly be published by Mr. Van Voorst. As it is sixteen years since the last catalogue of all known species of butterflies was published, a new one is needed. Mr. Kirby's will not be a mere list of names, but will con tain references to a good description or figure of each species.—A Belgian abbe, M. Thirion, has designed a new atrial machine. It consists of a pair of parallel boards, furnished with sails, and connected by jointed rods. Movement is obtained by the opening and shutting of the sails and the approximation and shutting of the boards. The action is kept up by a small steam-engine, which is placed in the back part of the construction. No experi ments have yet been made with this machine.—Professor Sonnenschein states that decomposition of a body, long buried in the ground, is accompanied with a change of dark coloured hair to red, and that the hair shows an acid re-ac tion.—Mr. Holman Hunt, who during several months past has been painting at Bethlehem, has made great progress with an important picture.—We are informed on the best authority that there are not to be four opera-houses, the Colosseum idea having been abandonsd. The things to be sought for at the time present are not orchestra and chorus, nor even singers—few as the list is and far be tween—so much as composers. We are assured that ample means for creating a new cosmopolitan opera-house are forthcoming, and that Sir Micheal Costa will be en dowed with plenipotentiary functions.—We regret t 9 hear that Mr. Balfe is seriously ill. Nature calls attention to the fact that the great refractor of 25 inches aperture, constructed by the Messrs. Cooke, of York, is so near completion that it will be erected in the observatory prepared for it at Gateshead early next month. The completion of this magnificent in strument marks an epoch in astronomy. Mr. Newall fur nished observers with an instrument capable of grappling with the physical problems which have now to be solved—one on a level with cur present acquirements.--The Senate of London University has proposed to establish a Faculty of Science.—The third volume of Dr. Percy's admirable "Metallurgy " will shortly be issued. There will still be another volume to complete the work. THE ANGLO-FRENCH COMMERCIAL TREATY. The debate on the Treaty yesterday (says a Parisian cor respondent writing on Thursday) was less interesting than on the day previous, though the question is one of so much commercial importance on both sides of the Channel that it deserves some notice. The discussion is still going on from day to day, and it is not easy to say when it will conclude. M. Thiers is to make a great speech, for which all parties look with impatience, though of course the ability and eloquence of the great historian and litterateur will be ranged on the side of the protectionists. These gentlemen are growing restive under the "inexor able logic of facts," and figures hurled at them by the ad vocates of free trade, who cannot be convinced that a large increase of exports means a decrease of national manufactures. Formerly the protectionists used to reproach the free-traders with putting forward theories unsupported by statistics. Now they have figures enDugh before their eyes, but they suddenly discover that no faith must be put in them. English traders must be flattered at M. Estancelin's method of explaining away the troublesome numerals which interfere so sadly with his logic. The official returns must not, he says, be de pended on. The value of the imports is under-rated, and that of the exports over rated. The English importers are accustomed to make out two invoices—one of the real price for the purchaser, and another, accorang to which the import duty in France is raid, which fixes the value of the goods at 40 or 50 per cent below their real worth. A month ago some English tissues were imported at a declared rate of 3f. 25c. The Customs seeing they were under value charged them at 4f. 25c., and a merchant at Rouen offered to buy them at sf. 50c. This was one of the most striking instances cited by M. Estancelin and it created some sensation in the Chamber; but unluckily for him it was too circumstantial, for it called up the Director General of Customs, M. Ome, who simply remarked that such a case was not possible, as goods of that price were taxed ac cording to weight and not to value! Further, the Government possessed the right of preemption, and had the power to purchase imported goods at their declared price. It would consequently be rather an unwise speculation on the part of British traders to undervalue their goods to pass the official inspection. M. Estancelin thereupon declared that M. Azenne (the Government Commissioner) had refused to face a public meeting at Rouen, and that in England the freedom of the chief cities was offered to the authors of the Treaty. M. Azenne protested that this was inaccurate. He had presided over the Chamber of Commerce at Rouen, and had received delegates from the chief firms. It was only when he wished to reply that he found there was a fixed intention to hear no explanations. Later on' M. Prax-Paris pointed out the inconsistency of the pro tectionists in requiring the denunciation of the Treaty before the parliamentary inquiry. If the inquiry shewed that the nation preferred the Treaty to a system of tariffs, the question would. naturally be asked why had it been abolished. Great complaints have been made, as you know, of the privilege granted to the Emperor of signing treaties of commerce without consulting the Chamber, but 31. Prax-Paris reminded his hearers that M. Thiers in 1832, M. Duchatel in 1834, and 1,1. Leon Faucher in 1837; had all failed to reform the tariffs. The fears entertained at the passing of the Treaty that France would be inundated with English goods had proved entirely misplaced, since France had exported to Great Britain more manufactures than she received from there. M. Jules Simon is likely to be a valuable champion of Free Trade, and has commenced a vigorous speech just before the adjournment. PAIUAMENTAIVY VOTNG.—A curious suggestion has been made in the Prussian Parliament by a certain Count von Frankenberg. He proposes that the votes on a division should be taken by telegraph, a wire being attached to the\ scat of each member, and the vote registered on the dial plate in the wall of the Chamber, much in the same way in which telegraphic communication is kept up between the bedrooms and the offices in some of the large hotels. Ey the process he thinks that votes could be given and the result announced in something less than half a minute. A. NEW MINERAL. The Austro-Hungarian Consul at Bombay, appears to have been much struck with Captain Rose's accounts of the new mineral discovered by that officer, which he proposes to call by the formidable name of meerschaluminite. Baron Gumpert, the Consul, has written to Captain Rose requesting him to send some large specimens of the mineral, which the baron is desirous of forwarding to Vienna, where its com mercial value can be best ascertained, Vienna being the foremost place for the manufacture of meerschaumarticles. The baron desired specimens large enough to be practically tested, but Captain Rose was unable to send him any larger than a hens's egg, that being the largest pigment found as yet. The mineral, he says, has all the valu able properties of meerschaum, with the additional. d !ant. age of being absolutely infusible, which meerschaum is not. Captain Rose in forwarding his specimens asks at the same time for the Austrian Emperor's letters Talent, for the protection of a process discovered by him, by which iron or other metal will no longer rust or oxydise when exposed to tho normal influence of water or damp. Steel, he avers, may be treated in the same manner, and so improved in t;:mper that a native sword, which had been coated, cut through a brass hinge on a block of wood as cleanly as if it had been made of wax, though little force was used. The edge in this case was quite unaltered. Steel pens thus coated do not require wiping for months;' while brass assumes the oolcr of copper, but will not form verdigris with fatty acids. , ;eakt _captain Aosq'.o statement. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 21. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds this morning. TORN 7ALK. (From the Daily Westcrn Mail of Jan. 22.) As economists, her Majesty's Ministers may cer tahrly be described as doing a large stroke of busi ness, wholesale, retail, and (I was going to say, in remembrance of some of their at any rate projected colonial economies), for exportation. Not that they are gaining very much in the shape of " golden opinions from all sorts of men" thereby. On the contrary, as may be recognized at the merest glance in regard to two or three of the chief departments of administration, it would be no exaggeration at all to assert, for example, that no Secretary of State for War and First Lord of the Admiralty have been less popular, for a very long time past, in the twin services, than Mr. Childers and Mr. Cardwell. And their unpopularity among the red-coats and the blue-jackets can hardly be wondered, at, even by the least instructed among civilians. Promotion, afloat and ashore, seems very much indeed as though it had come, for the time being, to a deadlock. Looking eastward, down the river, there is Greenwich Hospital, hitherto among the most national of our institutions, a howling wilderness! Looking westward, up the river, there is Chelsea Hospital threatened, in regard to its inhabitants, with a like exiquatur, and with a very fair prospect indeed of becoming, like Greervvich Hospital, "silent as the halls of Balclutha." Mr. Childers, with the assent of his colleagues, has abolished the office of Governor of Greenwich Hos pital. Mr. Cardwell, it is expected, will follow suit by abolishing the office of Governor of Chelsea Hospital. llowever that may be, it is j looked upon as already ?in fait accompli that there will be a re duction in the army by some 10,000 men. So that we are not only having the candle clipped at both ends, but we are having a rel-hot poker running through the middle of it ! One comforting assurance, at any rate, is being bruited about just now by way of consolation, namely, that, as the result of the scraping together of so many candle-ends and cheese-parings from this and that newly-swept derartment, Mr. LDSVC will be enabled to announce in a very early budget a surplus of several millions. Supposing that to be really the case after all, one might even yet hope that Mr. Lowe might redeem himself from the odium of his notorious unpopulaiity—a surplus having about it an apostolic grace enabling it to cover as many sins as Charity. As for the long list of the shortcomings of Mr. Bruce, as Home Secretary, it would be difficult to think of anything ample enough to cover these ; their name is so distinctly legion, and some among them are al'ogether so monstrous in their extrava gance. While Mr. Ayrton contents himself with the celebration of his advent to the post of Chief Com missioner of Public Works (in succession to Mr. Layard, now Ambassador to the Government, one can hardly say to the Court of Madrid), by adding to the few weeks of the usual winter stock of frozen-out gardeners the great bulk of the ornamental gar deners recently employed, with so much advantage, in the decoration of the various parks here in Lon don, Mr. Bruce has gone out of bis way to contrive a most ingenious method for enabling all the old spavined cab horses under the whip of the cabby to ride rough shod over the whole length and breadth of the metropolis. Never was there a more ludi crous reductio ad absurdunt than the Home Secre tary has now arrived at by means of his newly concocted regulatious. According to the system, as it is now to be arranged, cabby,while still-plying for hire with the dirtiest hack vehicles in the world, will virtually be enabled to dictate his own terms to his fire without let or hindrance. He may snap his right hand in the face of the police, and his left in that of his customer. Ile may ch irge for every child, however young in years —nay, in mouths or in weeks. He may charge for el ery parcel, how ever small or light—providing only it goes outside. I❑ reference to the lamentable occurrence still gitating Paris, and by sympathy Loudon, the ho micide of M. Victor Noir by Prince Pierre Bona parte, it may be as well to recall vividly to mind the fact that the latter is a member of that branch of the Bonaparte family always more or less under a cloud and holding itself aloof from the Napole onic dynasty. Prince Pierre, who is not an impe rial Highness, is the central figure in the family group of the great Napoleon's younger brother Lucien, Prince di Canino—the fourth of Lucien's seven children by his second wife, Alexandrine Laurence de Bleschamp. The accused, who was born on the 12th of September, 1815 (being just now, consequently, 54 years and 4 months of age), was oi.e of the ultra-Democrat or Red Republican members of the National Assembly which was called into existence in 1848, after the revolution of February. His eldest sister is Letitia, widow of the late Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wyse, formerly M.P. for Waterford, and during the last sixteen years of his life, and, in fact, up to the time of his death, her Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of Athens. Although Marshal Canrobert has thought it ad visable, under the hand of one of his aides-de-camp, to contradict in the columns of the Figaro the statement put forward by that journal as to his having said that, while the troops under his orders should be kept out of sight, but in perfect readi ness for any emergency, in the event of any blood shed by the rioters, he would undertake that in five minutes Paris should be tranquillised—mean ing by the chassepot—everybody feels certain that, though the words were never uttered by Marshal Canrobert, they indicate precisely what he had made up his mind to do. The French army never was in greater perfection of ditcipline, more ter ribly well armed, or more loyal to a man, than it is at the present moment under the reigning Sove reign. Added to which the garrison of Paris is so placed now, strategetically, that a revolt, however formidable, can be crushed out at any instant with inexorable and unerring certainty. • Numerous though the theatres of London have become within these last few years by the opening of such new houses as the (4aiety, the Globe, the Queen's, the Prince of Wales's, the Charing-cross, the Royalty, and the Holborn, in addition to the old established favourites, such as the Haymarket, the Lyceum, Drury Lane, the Strand, the Olympic, Astley's, the Surrey, and the Princess's, to say no thing of a transpontine place of entertainment, like the Victoria, or a down-Whitechapel-way temple of the drama, like the National Standard, yet another new house is in preparation iu the heart of the metropolis ! The site selected is the centre of the northern side of Leicester-square, where stood the old house, accidentally burnt down some time back. The architect selected for the new theatre by its projectors is Mr. E. C. Rubies, of Southampton-street, a compa rativel y y ou ng man, but one fast rising into reputation. Mrs. Stowe's abominable book, from the speci mens of it already come to hand, will only s n k her, on this side of the Atlantic, as it seems to have done already upon the other, lower and yet lower in public estimation. A filthier deed of slander was never perpetrated. One among cur elder living poets, Mr. R. 11. Horne, the author of the farthing el is of " 0 ion," has recently returned homewards, after an absence of very nearly a score of years at the other side of the globe, as an inspector of gold in Australia. Ills return has been celebrated by the re-i.q3ue from the press, very opi.ortupely, of a new and re vised edition of one of his .most brilliant effamns, " The Death of Marlowe." One among our younger living poets, Mr. Gerald Massey, has, I am glad to announce, just given to the world what I don't shrink at once from pro , s.t.ob, not acing his unquestionable masterpiece. ft is called, " A Tale of Eternity." It is anything but what can be termed orthodox in its views—besides being treated by its author as a " medium" for the conveying of some of his spiritual experiences. But the power of it is beyond all doubt. An occa sional solecism, not to say absurdity, disfigures it, where the principal interlocutor, a murderer, and one who may be called literally a damned mur derer, for he speaks in the spirit and not in the flesh, exclaims : " Would that the Mighty One had spit on me, And wiped the blot from His eternity." Or, again, as where the same lost soul cries out : " I think Heaven will not shut for evermore, Without a knocker let upon the door." With the exception of blemishes like these, the poem is remarkable as revealing larger powers than Gerald Massey has hitherto evidenced the posses. sion of. It is greatly to be regretted, however, that his publishers, the Messrs. Strahan and Co., have not shown a little more discretion in their own in terests, and a little more consideration for his, than to have issued the young poet's new work from the Dress simultaneously with the publication of " The Holy Grail," by the Laureate. Another book, but one of a very different cha racter, I am tempted to refer to, momentarily and en passant, upon the very morrow, as it were of its first appearance. This is the work of two goodly volumes,- in which Mr. John Cordy Jeaffreson has at length completed his trilogy on the three learned professions. With the two previous portions—each of those also in two large volumes—the public are already familiar—the " Book about Doctors," and the " Book about Lawyers." There is now issued, as their companion, the one just immediately to hand—the " Book about the Clergy." To the com position of these half-dozen volumes, Mr. Jeaffre son has conscientiously devoted the labour of a doze❑ years. And the time has not been thrown away ; the work, as a whole, being indisputably the most considerable and durable addition the author has made to adorn literature. One distinctive pe culiarity of the book immediately under notice the author claims for it—namely, that of the liberality with which he has endeavoured to relieve the reli gious persecutions and persecutors from some, at least, of the obloquy, by which heretofore they have only too frequently been bespattered. Generosity like this is, to say the least of it, refreshing. Among artistic novelties, I would mention one which I had very recently myself the gratification of examining at Florence, in the studio of Charles Fuller, the sculptor of the exquisite statue of " Jael" in last season's exhibition of the Royal Academy in Piccadilly. The production here re ferred to, as having been but just now completed by this gifted artist, is certainly very new indeed in its character. It is nothing less than the life size effigy in white marble of a living personage—a portrait statue, in fact, of the beautiful Countess of Dudley. It is a seated figure, expressive, in every line of it, of graceful repave. Hitherto sculpture has been almost exclusively called into requisition as a memorial of the dead. There is no conceivable reason, however, why it should not be employed thus iu the celebration of living affection ; and it is to be hoped that others will follow the h ood example thus set by a munificent patron of art like the Earl Dudley, and by the skill of a sculptor as accom plished as Mr. Fuller, of Florence. POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—This Day. F RANCE. PARIS, Jan. 22. A telegram from Creuzot announces that 3,500 troops had arrived there, and that a certain num ber of the workmen had already resumed work. A placard has been published, signed by M. Schneider, which states that work would be resumed to-mor row in all the workshops, and invites workmen to come. It announces that sufficient force is at hand to protect the freedom of labour if necessary. A proclamation of the delegates of the workmen at Creuzot, and signed by M. Assy, was also pla carded last night, in which they declared their in tention of continuing the strike, but urged the men to observe the greatest tranquillity and mode ration. Last evening a private meeting was to have been held at the house of M. Assy, but a number of per sous who dissented from the course proposed desired that upon certain conditions work should be re sumed. The Figaro says that M. Assy had received 2,000 francs from Paris. The Procurer Imperial had arrived, but up to present time no arrests had been made. The Gaulois says that the irrcconceivable jour nals having been distributed at Creuzot by incen diary agents, the Marseillaise has been seized, and its distribution at Cruezot stopped. The Figaro asserts that AI. Limbrecht will be appointed Prefect du Nord. BOURSE, Jan. 21.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 4 per Cent. 3 per Cent End of month 73 40 Credit Mobilier ~ 2OB 75 Transatlantic 2Ol 25 Credit Foncier 1765 Paris Gas 1665 Suez Canal 347 50 RAILWA' Bank Shares 2890 l ltalian Fives 55 25 Austrian Fives 65 50 Ottoman Loan 315 Do. Debt 44 20 Spanish Threes „ 26 50 Home Debt Deferred Orleans Western . Cash c+7s ... Northern 625 ....... .. l]3o Strasburg .. 595 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... O7l Sardinian ..._ _ Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman 802 k 510 62' 47 MARLBOROUGH- S TREET. DECEIVING THE MAGISTRATE.—John Copparj, a cab proprietor and driver, attended before Mr. Knox, to answer the complaint of theßoyal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for cruelly flogging a horse. The chief officer of the society watched the case. Sir Henry Hoare, Bart., stated that on the Ist inst. he saw a cab being (Woven up at a furious rate up Hay-hill, the driver flogging the horse. lie called to the driver, who flogged his horse and galloped away, but he succeeded in getting the num ber of the cab (3,938), and then communicated with the society. When the case was first hefore Mr. Knox the defendant said that his cab was not out that day, it being at his coachmaker's under repair, and the case was adjourned. Young, an officer of the society, said that since the last occasion he had seen the defendant, who admitted that while his own cab was under repair be borrowed one of the coachmaker, and he saw an old cab in the yard, which appeared to have been recently used. Mr. Cherry, the Government veterinary surgeon, proved seeing two horses at the defendant's yard in a poor and weak condition, but as some days had elapsed all marks had gone off them. He also saw an old cab with the number 3,938 on it. George Robinson, a coachinaker, was called by the defendant, who said that while he was repairing the defendant's cab he lent the defendant an old one, and put the defendant's plate on it. Mr. Knox said he could come to no other deci sion than that the defendant had been grossly de ceiving him, and the defendant's coachmaker had proved the case against him. He would not, go so far as to imprison the defendant (Coppard), but in consequence of the defence he had set up he should impose the highest penalty. The specific act with which the defendant was charged was having whipped his horse in a cruel manner, and instead of 405., which would have been the fine ori ginally, it would be £5, and full costs, or a mouth. THAMES. A GENTLEMAN IN A DIFFICULTY. Richard Saunders, a well-dressed person, and described as a gentleman, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with being drunk and disorderly in Nelson-street, Stepney. The case had been adjourned from Fri day morning owing to the prisoner having contra dicted the statement in part of James Tavis, 262 K, who took him into custody, and said the pri soner was drunk and gave him much trouble. In spector Turner, a humane and intelligent officer of the'K divisioh, now attended by request of the magistrate, and he said that Mr. Saunders was brought to the station at a quarter before two o'clock on Friday morning, and he was then intoxi cated. The constable said that he saw the pri soner turned out of a beer-shop in Nelson-street, at half-past one o'clock, and that he fell down the steps. The constable thought it strange that a gentleman should be turned out of a house at that time in the morning, and as the neighbourhood was one in which infamous houses, where people were robbed and abounded he went to the assistance of the prisoner, who became very abusive. A number of thieves and prostitutes gathered round the prisoner, and the constable, finding the prisoner was drunk, and in danger, arrested him. Mr. Saunders took umbrage at that and noisy and violent. He was sure Mr. Saunders wasvery w was drunk, for he staggered from one end of the charge room to the other. He knew the prisoner to have been a respectable tradesman, in the Commercial -road, and he allowed him to sit down in an adjoining room for half an hour. Mr Saunders then appeared better, and, as there was a Limber's gentlem bail,annnn a e nd K ber with the d prisoner In he took Mr. In answer to Mr. Paget, releasedim The Inspector said the prisoner did not complain the constable assaulted him, but the constable said Mr. Saunders put his hand on his (the policeman's) shoulder to take his number. The police constable was sober. The Prisoner--I NES not :n the beer-shop at all. Mr. Paget was not sorry he had adjourned the case for the attendance of the Inspector, whose evi dence completely verified the s.a:ement of the con stable. There was no doubt the prisoner would have been robbed, and perhaps illused in such an abominable place as Nelson street if the police constable had not interfered, and he was turned out of a beerhouse at half-past one o'clock in the morn ing. The constable had acted perfectly right, and had not assaulted the prisoner as alleged, but pro tected him from robbery and violence. The judi cious conduct of Inspector Turner was very com mendable. lie fined the prisoner 20s. for being drunk and disorderly, which was immediately paid. coll The were n are no. In the fl ent, pated it rican S Eries r alterati Itailwa rate of &Com ditto, duced, Excheq June, par ; 4 1 per Indi~ ditto 5 Cent., 4 pei In t: have ai 6 per ( i to i better. 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