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The occasion, it is true, is a trying one, for the young member has to travel over somewhat hacknied ground, and the for mality of the task is burdensome to him. Neverthe less the speeches generally afford a fair test of the orators' powers, and although there have been noteable instances in which brilliant future orators c ompletely collapsed in their first Parliamentary as • T HE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at J. SMITH'S, as, Bow-street, Covent-gsrden. LIE.BIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT of MEAT. —AMSTERDAM EXHIBITION, 1869, FIRST PRIZE, being ABOVE the Gold Medal. Supplied to the British, French, Prussian, Russian, Italian, Dutch, and other Governments. One pint of fine flavoured Beef-tea at lid. Most convenient and economic "stock." CAnnoN.—Only sort warranted genuine by the Inventor, Baron Liebig, whose signature is on every genuine Jar. Ask for LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT, and not for LIEBIG'S EXTRACT of MEAT. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. 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Box-office open from 11 to 4. 0 1 :3:Lijit ; , LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 28, 1870. The relations between England and her Colonies is a subject that just now engages general attention, and is, indeed, one of paramount importance. It is interesting to notice the opinions of eminent men on the question, and the letters which were sent to the Emigration meeting the other day may well furnish matter of reflection. The Poet Laureate wrote to the effect that he could not believe Ministers entertained the suicidal policy which had been attributed to them, and thathe entertaineda strong conviction of the value of the Colonies to Great Britain. Mr. FROUDE Said, " Your figures add demonstration to what was before as clear a 3 mathematics." He went on to de clare that England was governed by the moneyed classes, whose first idea was cheap labour, and they dreaded anything which might tend to promote emi gration. "The history of England can produce no parallel to such preposterous conduct. You are welcome to put my name to your peti tion if you think I can be called with pro priety a working man. Perhaps, however, I may be more useful standing alone and fighting the battle in reason and prudently as long as there is anything left to fight for." It is well that the Go vernment should have an opportunity of hearing the opinion formed of their conduct by those who are so well qualified to express their views, but it is to be hoped that Lord GRANVILLE stands alone, or almost •so, in the strange course he has thought fit to follow, and the perverse policy he seems determined to pursue. His colleagues may think better of the matter, and refuse to endorse his views, which would, indeed, be a satisfactory solution of the affair, and one devoutly to be wished for. The Melbourne Argus has a leader on the sub ject of colonial relations, in which it is asserted that the greater part of the population of Victoria are proud of their connection with the mother country, although some jealous feelings may occasionally be aroused on the subject. The notion of establishing a small republic does not find general favour, and the doubtful advantages of an independent rule cannot be weighed in comparison with the decided benefits conferred by British rule. At Melbourne great interest was excited by the discussions of the Social Science Association on the question of the Colonies. The Argus seems to favour the scheme of a grand Federative Council of the Empire, so that all parts should be represented. The power and dignity of the Empire will be best consulted by strengthening the ties of union instead of loosening or severing them. In case of war those dependencies of the Empire might prove of immense service to Eng land, and form natural allies to improve her position by augmenting her naval and military forces. The Argus is firmly convinced that the desired end might be gained of preserving the unity of the Empire, at the same time that the self-government of the colo nies is not unduly interfered with. To do this, it advocates the formation of a Committee of Council for Colonial Affairs, to be composed of representatives sent from the Legislative Assemblies of the several colonies. This seems to be a good idea, and at any rate it possesses sufficient merit to deserve a trial. Let the Government take heed in time, and not trifle with a matter which is of weighty importance, and inti mately concerns the best interests of the community. THE SUN, LONDON, FIIiDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1870. effort, ag rn the case of the present leader of the Opposition, while men like " single speech lIAmiL?oN" have made one or two successful ad dresses to sink: afterwards into insignificance, the speeches on tb e moving and seconding of the Address for the most part show us what position our new members at.'likely to assume in the ranks of Parlia mentary spec kers. The selectic , n for the present year is full of promise. The Marquis 4)f HUNTLY and the Earl of FINGALL, in the Lords, arc ready, we may hope, to maintain the traditionary pablic spirit of the old English nobility. In the Commons, Sir CHARLES DILKE and Mr. EGERTON are likely to be valuable auxiliaries to the Government ranks. The former more especially commands our- interest. At an age when most men have hardly etdressed themselves to the real business of life, he has completed, not the " grand tour " of the past generati , 3n, but PUCK'S traverse of the globe. He b its in his " Greater Britain " given us the results of his experience and observation, achieving so signal a success in the literary world that we may hope at least the member for the new borough of Chelsea will rise something above medio crity in St. Stephen's. His recent journey through Russia has furnished him, we understand, with material for a fresh work, while the newspaper world is familiar -with the name of DILKE in connection with the editorship of a well known London journal. Sir CHARLES DILKE has, it would seem, energies enough and to spare, and finding literary and journalistic labours not suffi cientlyiengrossing, has come forward to solicit the suffrages of the new metropolitan borough. As we all know, he was deservedly successful in that effort, and we hope he will before long be able to redeem our good city of London from the charge of preferring mediocrities in its representation. zELDOIr - has it been our duty to record a Mere painful accident than that which occurred on Loch leven two or three days ago, and rarely has such a disaster been marked by more heroic conduct. Three young ladies, sisters, went out to skate on the historic lake. They were accompanied by a dog; whose vagaries on the frozen sheet of water soon got him into trouble. Chasing some wild fowl, the animal ran upon a weak part of the ice, which gave way; and the dog fell into the water. One of the Misses STEEDIIAN, undeterred by the warning shouts of some workmen, ran to help her favourite out of danger. Whilst attempting to lift out the dog, the ice broke still further, and the young lady was precipitated into the water. Her cries at once brought another of the three sisters to her aid, but the ice was by this time thoroughly broken up, and the only result of the second girl's efforts was that she also was engulphed. Still, undeterred by these catastrophes, the third sister rushed to give assistance, and she, too, became a victim. The ice was so destroyed that a boat was the only available- means of rescue, and long before it could be brought into requisition all the three girls, with their four-footed companion, were dead. All three had behaved with deplorable rashness in ven turing upon au errand which could not but be fruit less. It would have been obvious to the reasoning mind that no assistance could be rendered either to the dog or the girl who tried to save it, without proper instruments of rescue. The ice which would break with the weight of a dog must be less able to sustain an adult person. But women reason neither in their terrors, nor in the heroism which they so often display in cases of danger. Sometimes with that rashness which is occasionally the only real prudence, they accomplish deeds which amaze the other half of mankind; sometimes they heedlessly aggravate the original calamity. This ice accident was one of the latter class. The attempts to rescue could end only in dis aster, but it is impossible to withhold warm admiration from the spirit in which they were made. The display of heroism was singular. The first young lady might have conceived hopes of saving the dog; but the full extent of the danger was open to the second; whilst the third knowingly rushed upon certain death. In contemplating such conduct it is difficult to decide wllether sorrow or admiration prevails. The American papers say that the British brigan tine Baltimore, Captain Durfee, foundered at sea, Dec. 31. The captain and crew, twelve in number, reached Bermuda after fifty hours' exposure in open boats. At the St. Pancras inquiry into the charges against the medical officer to-day, Dr. Edmunds, who represented the Guardians, wished to have the Court adjourned, on account of a slanderous article which had appeared in the Times; but the case was ordered to proceed. John Patterson, the policeman charged with having on Christmas Eve placed two gates upon the North-Western Railway, with intent to upset a train, has been discharged by the magistrates at Melton, there not being sufficient evi dence to send the accused for trial. . The Fifeshire miners have unanimously agreed to demand from their employers an advance of wages, and also that they should consider the propriety of adopting the eight hours a day. The latter movement has already been inaugurated in other Scotch counties. The I.iberte publishes the latest notion on the deca pitation theory. If there be any doubt whatever, it says, respecting animation in the head after separation, why not let it fall from the guillotine into a tub of water, instead of a basket, as now ? No person, and much less a severed head, can live more than two minutes under water. This expedient would therefore set all doubt at rest. Messrs. Dalglish, Graham, and Anderson, the members for the city of Glasgow, have addressed a nume rously attended meeting of their constituency. The bon members gave an account of the part they took in the legis lation of last year. Mr. Anderson made a spirited defence of his vote against Mr.ll l Laren's Annuity Tax Bill. A vote of confidence in the three members and an amendment were proposed. The vote was carried. The conference of -the Yorkshire Church Associa tion at Wakefield was brought to a close yesterday. A re port of the proceedings of the association having been adopted, it was agreed to hold the next meeting at Bradford Afterwards the Rev. J. Richardson read a paper on the com prehensiveness of the Reformed Church and its just limits, and the subject was discussed by the Dean of Ripon, the Rev. Canon Crosthwaite, the Rev. J. Bardsley, the Rev J. Blomefield, and others. The Right. Honourable George Young, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, having been appointed one of her Majesty's counsel, this morning took his seat within the bar re; the Court of Chancery, on the invitation of the Lord Chancellor. The same ceremony was performed in the other Chancey courts. The right hon. and learned gentleman was recently called to the English Bar (it is thought at the suggestion of Lord Cairns) mainly with the view of enabling him to appear as counsel at the bar of the House of Lords in appeals from Scotland. The bill for throwing open parish churchyards,will this year be entrusted to Mr. Osborn Morgan, the mem ber for Denbighshire, a thoroughly Liberal Churchman and able lawyer. Mr. Hadfield, who originated it, desire; according to the English Inclependent,that its advocacy may be committed to younger hands. It will not, however, reappear in just the shape it took last session. It was then almost literally a copy of the Irish Act, but an endea vour will now be made to give it a broader character Moderate Churchmen admit that all parishioners ought to be able to claim not only a place for their dead in the churchyard, but in the ordering of the service at the graves of their friends, and every objection raised to the Bill of last Session that has any show of reason in it will, it is hoped, be met in this year's Bill, which is not drawn in the interests of Nonconformists merely. The death is announced of Sir George Sbee. The deceased, who was second baronet, was born in 1781, and was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he took Lis M.A. degree in 1811. In 130 Le was appointed Under Secretaay of Foreign Affairs (Lord Palmerston being Foreign Secretary) in Lord Grey's Government, and ho held that appointment until Lord Grey was succeeded by Lord Melbourne in 1834. Afterwards he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Stuttgardt. He was married in 1825 to a daughter of Mr. William Young, of Heston House, Hertfordshire; and secondly, in 1841, to a daughter of Mr. Henry Borrett, of Denton, Nor folk. There is no zuccessor to the title. The first baronet, Sir George Ghee; was secretary to the Treasnry, Sur- TeT9r-901114 (21 the Ordmicei . s . Ad &Coif / ex-141W IA tiokaier" LITERATURE. A Tale of Eternity and other Poems. By Gerald Massey. Strahan and Co. It is greatly to be regretted that the publishers of so remarkable a volume should have issued Mr. Gerald Massey's new poem in this particular form, and at this particular time—as a quarto volume, that is to say, and as a work, making its appearance simulta neously with the "Holy Grail," by the Poet Lau reate. And it is regrettable, for this reason, that we very much fear lest many may be repelled by the unusual size of the book, while many others may overlook the fact of its publication at all, because of having their attention, in regard to new poetry, pre-occupied by the all-absorbing popularity of Mr. Tennyson. Everything considered, we may state at once, and without any hesitation, that we regard this " Tale of Eternity," by Gerald Massey, as the most remarkable of all his productions. It is for him what "Aurora Leigh" was for Mrs. Browning —the poet's undoubted masterpiece. For wierd power, at once in thought and in language, it is beyond what we had regarded as within the range of Mr. Massey's capacity. Not that we thought lightly of his capabilities, but that their scope is here shown to be at once higher, deeper, and broader than we had conjectured. It should be premised that, here and there, throughout the poem, there is a touch of the grotesque, and that at intervals the tone of the work verges even towards the blasphemous. But, as might be said of the blasphemies placed in the mouth of Milton's Satan in Paradise Lost, or in those of Byron's Cain, or in those of Goethe's Mephistopheles—it is completely and absolutely in character. For the chief among the interlocutors in the Poem under notice is the lost and demoniac soul of one who has been a murderer. In the de lineation of this " Most Miserable"—in the mere preparation for that delineation—in the whole of these terrible and soul-enthralling utterances, Gerald Massey has here evidenced a wealth of vocabulary and a force of imagination far beyond the reach of any mere versifier—in fact, only by possibility at the command of a true poet. Better than any words of praise that we might accord to him will be the visible justification of what we have here said by means of illustrative quotation. At the very outset of the " Tale of Eternity," the dreamer, who is re lating it, to us, at the dead of the night, starts out of his sleep affrighted— "At times a noise, as tho' a dungeon door Had grated, with set teeth, against the floor: A ring of iron on the stones ; a sound As if cf granite into powder ground; A pickaxe and a spade at work! sad sighs As of a wave that sobs and faints and dies. And then a shudder of the house; a scrawl As tho' a knife scored letters in the wall. About the room a gush and gurgle went, As if the water-pipe got sudden vent: Drop after drop, 1 heard it plop, and ping, Into some vessel, with metallic ring. Yet, on these very nights there was no rain ! And then, betwixt the ear's suspense and strain, A faint voice crying in the air or brain." Afterwards, he continues— " What does the darkness mutter ? Is it Death That makes the light burn bluer with his breath ? Was that a creaking of the stair ? a Rat Nibbling the wainscot? did a flittering Bat Flap at the window? Floors will crack for sure, But may not unseen feet be on the floor? Spirits stand rapping at Life's outer gate, And, if we dare not open, will they wait ? Was that the Death-Watch ticking in the wall ? One's hair—alive—begins to coldly crawl. Is there some 'Whispering Gallery of the ear, In which the other world we overhear? Tho very Mirror is a doorway, thro' Whose dark another face may look at you! It haunts you, gliding as the Moonbeams glide, Like waters wan that counsel suicide." Then it is, there comes the dreadful apparition— " There lived another Form within the room, Suddenly, strange and horrible, as rise The Torturers that stare in dying eyes : Or, as the Serpent—ere a leaf be stirred—. Looks thro' the dark on some bewildered bird: A face in which the life had burned away To cinders of the soul and ashes grey : The forehead furrowed with a sombre frown That seemed the image, in shadow, of Death's crown ; His look a map of misery that told How all the under-world in blackness rolled: A human face in hideous eclipse ; No lustre in the hair, no life on lips; The faintest gleam of corpse-light, lurid, wan, Showed sue the lying likeness of a Man ! The old soiled 'filing of some mortal dress : A Spirit sorely stained with earthiness." On the revelation by the lost spirit of the deed for which it is suffering—the dreamer, who is relating it all to us, cries out through the horror of the mid night darkness— " Then came the liquid gurgle and the ring Metallic, with the heavy plop and ping, Heavier than largest water-drops that fall From melting icicles on house-saves tall. I knew them now; this resurrection night Sounds were translated into things of sight. These were the innocent drops a father shed. They had the weight of blood, fell heavy as lead. And now again I felt the grinding sound 0' the grating door; the digging underground ; The shudders of the house ; the sighs and moans ; The ring of iron dropped upon the stones ; The cloudy presence groping near ; the quake Of walls that vibrate with the parting shake ; Then the relief. As they who stoop with dread, While the Simoom goes withering overhead Like iron red-hot, look up and breathe at last, So felt I when that thing of Night bad passed." The same wierd, grisly, eerie, eltrich horror runs through the whole current of the narrative. One is conscious throughout that it is a lost spirit who is addressing us, the grim and abhorred ghost of a cruel and most despicable murderer. Towards the close of the poem the argument rises into a some what clearer, certainly into a less lurid atmo sphere—but one to the last clouded, and misted over with the hazy influence of what is called spiritualism. To orthodoxy in his belief, the poet can certainly enter no claim whatever. Revelation, he interprets, according to his own, no doubt, conscientious judgment. With his theology, however, we have nothing whatever to do here in the columns of a newspaper. Our com mendations are solely directed to the results of his labours, not as a theologian, but purely and simply as a man of letters—as a contributor to our modern poetical literature. Regarded exclusively in that light, this latest fruit of those labours cannot but be pronounced in many ways very remarkable. A poem has often, before now, been spoken of as a gem. Were we so to designate this new poem of Gerald Massey's we could not add in regard to it, however, that it is " one entire and perfect Chrysolite." For, to our mind, it has many a noticeable flaw. Blemishes of thought and of expression there are that we would gladly see eliminated in some revised edition of the work in a more popular form. " I must believe in ghosts," says the poet, one . while, "lying awake With them o' nights, when flesh will pimple and quake." Surely a phrase intensely and essentially unpoetical. Again, at another moment, the Murderous Appari tion exclaims " Lo ! I am he, the gloomy sneak, who did The deed of darkness, fanoying all was hid." The author in his own person ejaculates elsewhere.— " I think Heaven will not shut for evermore Without a knocker left upon the door." Yearning at least for melody of rhyme, what pos sibly can be said in defence of one who couples— " On the great ocean of Almighty Power No scope to tako the life-stream from our shore?" When, at the very close of the second instalment of the poem, the despairing spectre of the mur derer cries out in an agony— " Would that the Mighty One would spit on me, And wipe the blot from His eternity!"— the utterance comes less as an outrage to good taste than as an outrage against Omnipotence. The work is full of power, however, and is in many parts the effusion of a true poet. Among the miscellaneous contan, which are wonderfully various, there are hymns and lyrics, there are songs " and other brevities"—there are the outpourings of patriotism as in " England," or of loyalty, as in " A Royal Wedding Chime"—there is homage for "Albert the Good"—there is appreciative admiration for William Makepeace Thackeray. In the last men tioned we cannot but think thacthe evidences of affection are rather overdone—as where the eulogist of W. M. Thackeray exclaims— " We listened to his voice, as some true Wife, Upon her Husband's breast may lean her head, While many things in her dispraise are said By Him ; but, she leans closer, life to life, For, while the covert words sound on above, Their other, deeper meaning she divines ; She heat s the heart; knows its masonic signs; And nestles in a bosom large with love." Or, again, where at the close he is apostrophised— " Soft, 0 beloved! be your early Rest," &c. Thackeray would have been the first to resent this over-tenderness. So indubitably would he, that we could not for the life of us help recalling to mind as we read this panegyric, so effusive in its terms of endearment, the incident of the Jack Tar, who, either upon his arrival or his departure, while going the round of a family circle with a kiss to each of the children—on being threatened with a similar salutation from an adult brother-in-law, bawled out, " Vast heaving, you lubber !'— following up the exclamation with the grip of a manly hand. Here and there, we are at fault as to the actual meaning of Gerald Massey in the strange words drawn into the vortex of his vocabulary, as where—in the sorrowful little poem called " The White Child"—he exclaims, " 0 mothers of children three ! Two of them blight of blee." What blee may be (beyond a rhyme), being an in soluble mystery to ourselves—possibly, it occurs to us, a provincialism. Tenderly beautiful, however, are all his verses about children. Fondling a child in the loving arms of his nurse, he is at these mo ments always seen at his very best—his whole nature being opened to the recognition of the truth in regard to children, that— "Trailing clouds of glory do they come From God, who is their home !" Seldom has a young poet of the large promise of Gerald Massey more fully justihed,jthan he himself has done in the present instance, the reputation won by him at a bound when he first adopted lite rature as his profession. In this " Tale of Eer nity" it is no extravagance to say that— " The Poet's eye, in a line phrenzy rolling, Glances from Heaven to Earth, from Earth to Heaven." In his religious creed he may find but few sympa thisers, but in the recognition of hie unquesionable genius as a poet, none but the purblind cynics of criticism will do otherwise than yield him the full and cordial admiration to which he is, according to our view, most certainly entitled. FIRE IN TOTTENHA 31-00 URP-R0 AD. A fire, attended with a considerable destruction of property, broke out about twenty minutes past three o'clock this morning in the large warehouses belonging to Mr. T. Walton, a grocer and tea dealer, carrying on business at 34, Tottenham court-road. It began in the front shop, and was discovered by the policeman on duty, who at once gave an alarm and sent for the escapes awl engines. The inmates having been aroused, they fortunately escaped in safety. The engines of the Metropolitan Brigade, the fire-escapes, and the London Salvage Corps having arrived, the 'firemen found plenty of water flowing from the New River and Grand Junction Companies, which was sufficient to supply the engines, and they were forthwith set to work ; but by that time the flames were rush ing out of the building, nearly half-way across the street. The firemen and the Salvage Corps, however, went to work in a most intrepid manner, and after a couple of hours succeeded in extinguish ing the flames, but not until the whole of Mr. Wal ton's stock in trade was destroyed, the lower part of the premises gutted, and the other por:ions partially consumed. The adjoining premises of Mr Keates, bootmaker (No. 36), were also much damaged by fire, &c. The origin of the fire is un known. The loss will fall upon the Union Fire office. POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. EMBEZZLEMENT.—John Green, confidential clerk in the employ of Mr. Nosotti, looking-glass manu facturer, of 398 and 399, Oxford-ANet, was brought before Mr. Knox, by Sergeant Davey of the detective police, charged with embezzling several sums of money received on account of his employer. One case having been entered on, Mr. Knox asked Mr. Nosotti whether there were any other defalcations, and Mr. Nosotti said there were. The prisoner said he would plcad guilty. Sergeant Davey said that on taking the prisoner into custody he admitted that his defalcations were about £6O, and that through being in difficulties he was induced to act as he had done, and that he had intended to repay the money. Mr. Knox said it was too serious a case for him to deal with, and that he should send the case nhe;: completed to the sessions. The prisoner was remanded. WESTMINSTER. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A CABMAN.—William Ellis, cabdriver, badge No. 10,604, was charged with stealing a quantity of silver and plated spoons and forks from the house, 96, St. George's-road, Pimlico. James Gilbert said ho was butler to Mr. John Alger "Worth, of 96, St. George's-road. Last night they had a ball, and there were several cabs out side the door ; at two o'clock he heard a noise in the kitchen, and on going down found the prisoner going out of the area door with four silver spoons and forks in his hand besides several plated ones; he said he was going to lay the cloth for the ser vants' supper; in his pockets were found some cake. Prisoner said one of the servants asked him to have some drink ; he took the cake but not the spoons. Mr. Partridge remanded him till Monday. THAMES. TIIE DISTRESS AT THE EAST-END.--A deputation from the Poplar Benevolent and Accident Relief Society, consisting of Mr. S. R. Ellison, medical officer of the district, Mr. John Allen, church warden, Mr. J. Bradbury, overseer and editor of the Stratford Mercury, and Mr. W. Shadrake, sanitary inspector and secretary of the society, waited on Mr. Paget to solicit a donation from the poor-box fund. Dr. Ellison gave an appalling account of the misery and distress which prevailed in the district, and said the society, of which he was a member, was established with the object of affording prompt and efficient relief in all cases of accident and sudden calamity which might b brought under its notice, and to afford relief to the deserving poor during the winter months. Each subscriber received tickets, according to the amount of his subscription, of the value of is. each, which were cashed by tradesmen in the parish of Poplar indiscriminately for bread, meat, grocery, or coals. The extreme distress which had existed for the last three years, together with the excessive rating, had so reduced the supporters of the charity in means and in number that the deputation were compelled to make this appeal for assistance. Mr. Allen gave an appalling account of the desti tution which existed in Poplar, and said his house was besieged daily by famishing people asking for bread to appease their hunger. Mr. Bradbury and AIL Shadrake confirmed the statements of their medical officer and church warden, and said the funds of the society were exhausted, and the applicants for relief were daily increasing. Mr. Paget had no doubt of the truth of the melancholy statements made to him. He would consult his colleague, Mr. Lushington, on the sub ject, and give an eariy reply to the request of the deputation. STEALING A COAT.—George Laurel was charged with steaLng a coat, the property of Aucneas Nillsen, in a lodging-house, No. 19, Grace's-alley, Well-close-square, in June last. There was 12s. in one of the coat pockets when it was taken. The prisoner lodged in the house and suddenly disap peared. The prisoner waited on Nillsen last night, and said my conscience will not let me rest, .1 stole your coat and mean to make up the loss to you and pay the value. The prisoner was given into custody. He was cook in the house in Grace's alley, when the coat was stolen, and in the employ of Mr. John Lane, the proprietor. THE LAW COURTS. It is rumoured, says a writer in the Globe, and in authoritative circles, too, that the Judicature Com. missioners contemplate recommending a convict( alteration of the machinery by which the administra tion of the law, civil and criminal, is at preset'• conducted. Even more extensive powers and jurisdiction than they now possess are to be given to the County Courts, while I hear it is also under consideration tc localise and expedite the trial of prisoners by the creation of a tribunal of a similar character throughout the country for the dispatch of criminal business. This last reform would be a most desirable one, and likely to work sub• stantial good to the community. I understand (thE correspondent of the Globe goes on to say) that an honour able member intends calling the attention (4 the llousc to the non-filling up of the place in the Queen's Dena vacant by the death of Mr. Justice Hayes, and asking Mr. Gladstone under what statute or authority he has arro gated to himself the right of annulling an Act of Parlia ment, or rather refusing to carry out its provisions. THE WEATHER ANT) THE PARKS. After a night's frost, there is certain to be a vast num ber of persons desirous of practically testing the strength of the ice in the London parks. Thursday morning proved no e2:cdpticn to the rule, and by an Early hour the lake in St. James's Park was visited by some thousands cf persona. The ice was very weak; it required another day's frost to make it strong enough for skaters ; yet, not withstanning all the entreaties of the Royal Humane Society's men hundreds of persons ventured upon the lake. As might, have been expected, numerous immersions took place, and the Humane Society's men had plenty of employment. Before midday over a score of foolhardy persons had received a good drenching. Fortunately it was on the left side of the bridge, near the palace, where the ice was strongest, as there is only some four to five feet of water there, and this no doubt prevented more than one fatality. The most serious accident which occurred was that which happened to a boy, who fell lengthways on the ice, which broke from the weight thus placed on it. He remained in this perilous position for a few minutes, and was then rescued by the society's men. In another instance a skater was observed to disappear near the bridge, and suddenly come up, and was endeavouring, though without success, to get on the ire again. Another person, seeing his, to say the least, unpleasant situation, seized hold of a ladder, and pushed it towards the unfortunate skater, but, in doing so, he slipred, and broke the ice, and received him self a good " ducking." When this occurred—as is always the case on these occasions—a crowd of some dozen or so surrounded the spot, and the ice giving, three others be came acquainted with the depth of the water. LIBERAL BANQUET AT PORTSMOUTH. On Wednesday evening a large and influential section of the Liberal party in Portsmouth celebrated the first anni versary of the association organised at the close of the late election, by dining together in the capacious hall ad joining the Portland Hotel, at Southsea. The event wasin every respect a complete success, and of such a character as to admit of encouraging prospects at an ensuing poli tical contest. The chair was occupied by Mr. E. K. Parson, the President of the local Liberal Association, and amongst those in attendance were Mr. IV. H. Stone (M.P. for Portsmouth), the Right Hon. W. H. Cowper- Temple (M.P. for South Hants), Mr. J. D. Lewis (M.P. for Devonport), Mr. C. Millward, Q.C. (who at the last election contested the southern division of the county of Hants in the Liberal interest), and Captain Maxse, R.N., the energetic but defeated Liberal candidate for the borough of Southampton. Mr. Stone was cordially re ceived. He defended the Government in reference to the dockyards. Mr. Cowper spoke at length on the Educa tional question, and gave a decided opinion that compul sory tuition should not be based on any fixed religious principles. Mr. Lewis, in responding for " Mr. Gladstone and the House of Commons," spoke at length, and was cordially received. The proceedings throughout were en thusiastic. THE RITUAL COMMISSION UPON THE LECTIONARY. The report of the Ritual Commission upon the Lection ary is now published. It is signed by all the commission without comment except by Sir Joseph Napier, who thinks that the report ought not to have been presented to the Queen until the whole subject under the consideration of the commission had been considered—else he agrees with the report. The signatures to it are the following:--A. C. Centaur, M. G. A magi', Stanhope, Carnarvon, Harrowby, Beauchamp, S. Winton, C. St. David's, C. J. Glocester and Bristol, William Chester, Harvey Carlisle, Portman, Ebury, Spencer H. Walpole, Joseph Napier*, Robert Phillimore, Travers Twiss, John Abel Smith, A. J. B. Beresford Hope, J. G. Hubbard, Charles Buxton, Arthur P. Stanley, J. A. Jeremie, R. Payne Smith, Henry Venn, W. G. Humphry, Robert Gregory, Thomas Walter Perry. After remarking that the commission has specially to con sider the subject of the morning and evening lesson, the commissioners proceed :—We felt it incumbent upon us care fully to consider the many schemes which have been pub lished, or have been privately submitted to us, upon this subject. After much deliberation we have come to the con clusion that it is sxpedient to read, as now, at each service on ordinary days, one Lesson from the Old Testament and an other from the Now Testament,generally according to the order of the Books. On a careful revision, however, of the present Table of Lessons, we have thought it desirable to vary and shorten many of them. We have disregarded to some ex tent the present division of chapters when the continuity of the subject seemed to render such a course desirable. And while we have not felt ourselves justified in recommending any omission in the passages selected, we have endeavoured so to arrange the Lessons as to include whatever might be most conducive to edification when read in the general congregation. In the schedule to this report will be found the Revised Table of Lessons Proper for Sundays, the Revised Table of Lessons Proper for Holy Days and the Revised Table of Daily First and Second Lessons. It will be seen from this schedule that, on the one hand, wo have introduced many passages of Scripture (e.g., from the Books of Chronicles and from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel) which are not now read in public wor ship ; on the other hand, we have largely reduced the num ber of Lessons taken from the Apocrypha, so that, instead of 26 Lessons taken from it for holy days, there will now be only four, and, instead of 106 for ordinary days, there will now be only 40. The New Testament Lessons are so arranged that the whole of that which is now read three times will be read twice in the course of the year—once in the morn ing and once in the evening. The yearly calendar will be closed with 22 Lessons from the Book of the Revelation of St. John the Divine. For the Proper Lessons on holydays many passages have been chosen which we think will be found, more appropriate than those in the existing table. Lessons for Ash Wednesday are provided, and the series of Lessons for the Holy Week is now made complete. A second series of Lessons for evensong on Sundays has been also provided, to be used either as alternative Lessens at the second service, or: at a third service, if such ser vice be thought desirable. Where there is a third service, wo propose to leave to the minister discretion to read for the Second Lesson auy chapter or appointed Lesson out of the think it expedient to se l ec t . four Gospels which he may We further propose that upon occasions to be approved by the Ordinary other Lessons may, with his consent, be sub stituted for those which are appointed in the calendar. We feel it our duty to state to your Majesty that we deemed it expedient to submit privately the Tables of Lessons thus revised by us to the Archbishops and Bishops of Eng land and Ireland, to the Deans of Cathedral Churches, and to the Theological Professors of the Uni vers iti es of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, and Durham. To the sugges tions which we received we have given full consideration, and wo have adopted those which seemed to us to ho im provements on our original proposals. We cannot conclude this Report, which we now submit to your Majesty's consi deration, without expressing our humble but earnest hope that it may please Almighty God to bless our labours to the advancement of His glory, and to the fuller knowledge of His most Holy Word and Will. The Schedule contains a Revised Table of Lessens Proper for Sundays, occupying 14 pages. THE NESTORIAN OHRISTIANS.—The English Inde pendent has some exceedingly strong remarks upon the Archbishop of Canterbury's appeal for funds to aid the Nestorian Christians. "It will scarcely be believed (says our contemporary) that the Archbishop makes no refe rence whatever to the fact that Protestant missionaries have been at work among this people for a generation, and that he leads Churchmen to believe that they are in " igno rance and darkness" which nothing but their own fidelity truth prevents from becoming total. When the American missionaries first reached them theywere in darkness in deed, almost as degraded as their neighbours the Persians, and their Christianity was a mere form. Now it is true, as the Archbishop says, that " the reading of the Scrip, tures in the vulgar tongue "is diligently practised" by them. But for that they are wholly indebted to the Ame rican missionaries, who have rc d iced their vernacular to writing ; have set up printing presses, and published the Bible in the " vulgar tongue ;" have circulated copies, and have taught children and adults how to read them and how to profit by them, Tho Archbishop bases his appeal upon the fact that the Nestorians themselves have asked the Church of England to come to their assis tance. "Several Assyrian bishops, priests, and deacons" addressed, he says, the late Archbishop and himself in "a touching letter, to send soma one to instruct and enlighten them." Has the Primate made any inquiry as to the value or origin of this letter? Does it come from Nestorians who having been trained by the American missionaries for the work of preaching were dis iatisfied because they were not also paid by the American Society? By what casuistry does he justify himself in putting out such a statement as that which was printed in the Times last week without giving the English public the least inkling of the real condition of affairs among the Nestorians? He has deceived the English public, and when his action becomes known to the American churches it will excite their utmost indignation. We shall be surprised if the Araggican Episcopalians do not join in a ri4 , l43cras t eqvt PIA 4 e Bl4ql° i1q0414412, $ , tr l % kfpFL l ,. rt 4 HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 27. The Queen went out yesterday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea trice walked and drove in the groun is this mom- LATEST INTELL MENGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per FrenchAtlantie Cable.) NEW YORK, Jan. 27. The Ilamturg and American steamer Allernan nia arrived out at 2 p.m. to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1211 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 122 ; the lowest, 1211. Sterling Exchange on London lo9k. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 ll4. i 4 " 1885 ll5l. C 4 " 1867 ll4g. 10-40 tl, Illinois 1371. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 254e. Petroleum—Standard White 3lle. Flour, extra state,: . ss.loe. to $5.70c. Corn, old mixed, sl.6e. SPAIN. MADRID, Jan. 27. The result of the recent elections in the North is as follows :-519,000 votes polled by the Monarchist party, 149,000 by the Republicans, and 89,000 by the Carlists. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Jan. 27. The draft of the address of the Upper House, in reply to the Speech frotn the Throne, expresses a decided want of confidence in the present Hohen lohe Ministry. It says : " Confidence will not be restored to us until your Majesty succeeds in electing as counsellors of the Crown statesmen who in an equal degree poesess the confidence both of the King and of the coun try." INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN (HEAVY) MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Jan. 27. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tanjore (from Southampton 22d inst,) arrived at seven, and left at eleven this morning for Alexan dria. All well. THE BRAZILIAN MAIL. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 28. The Brazil and River Plate Company's steamer Hipparchus arrived here this morning. Her dates arc Rio, Ist inst., and Babia sth. Exchange at Bahia had been 201, but had dropped to i t , and was expected to .tally again. Cotton receipts were small. Sales at 14 milreis and 200 reis per arroba. Sugar in demand :at 17s. 6d. for Nazareth, and 265. 6d. for clayed biown. Freights dull. There is no news of importance from Rio since the departure of the Cordillera. FRANCE. BOURSE, Jan. 2 7.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares 2925 ItaPan Fives 55 10 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 44 20 Spanish Threes Dome Debt 23 Deferred .YB, ii. per Cent. 3 per Cent End of month 73 GO Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 2OO Credit Fonder _1773 Paris Gas 16e5 _ Suez Canal 337 50 ItAiLwA' Cash_ Orleans Western Northern .... ll3O Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6OBl Sardinian Austrian 7BO Lombard so6} North of Spain Saragossa Roman LA TV INTELLIGENCE --(This Day). COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. This morning Mr. Staveley Hill, Q.C., showed cause against a rule obtained by the Attorney- General, calling upon Mr. Stracey, sou of Sir Ed ward Stracey, to show cause why the information which had been filed against him for bribery should not be removed for trial from the county of the city of Norwich to tne county of Norfolk, or such other country as the court might direct. The court made the rule absolute, and directed the case to be removed to the county of Norfolk. DIVORCE COURT. The Judge Ordinary this morning fixed the hearing of the Warwickshire scandal case, " Mor daune v. Mordaunt, Cole, and Johnstone," for Sa turday, the 12th of February. THE SPRING CIRCUITS. Mr. Justice Byles and Mr. Justice Blackburn to-day fixed the Norfolk circuit as follows : —Oak ham, 'March 1 ; Leicester, 2 ; Northamptan, 7 ; Aylesbury, 10 ; Bedford, 14 ; Huntingdon, 17 ; Cambridge, 19 ; Ipswich, 23 ; and Norwich, 28. For the South Wales circuit the following dates were defiuitely fixed this morning :—Swansea, March 14 precon, 25; Prestign, 30 ; and Chester, April 1. A Cabinet Council was held to-day, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, Downing-street. There is another phase in the qnestion of the site of the new law courts. The sale of the houses in Fleet-street, which was announced for Wednesday next, has been postponed. THOUSANDS OF PRESENTS. —We strongly recom mend the Nobility and Gentry to visit Parkins and. Gotte's extensive show-rooms, where may be seen thou sands of useful and elegant articles of English, French and Austrian manufacture, especially adapted for birthday, wedding, and christe n i ng p resen t s —in fact p resents for every conceivable purpose, at very moderate prices. This is, without exception, the largest and best selected stock in Europe : each article is marked in plain figures, and 'iu consequence of a rapid sale is perfectly new and fresh (a great consideration in a present). The stock consists of portrait-albums, writing-cases, dressing-cases, dressing bags, despatch boxes, envelope cases, and blotting books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, handbags, card cases, book-slides, glove and handkerchief boxes, purses, pocket-books, cigar-cases, ret.cules, opera -glasses, scent- Ases, smelling bottles, bronzes, eleetro-gilt, oxidised and ele, gantly mounted articles for mantelshelf, dining, drawing and library table, chess-boards, bagatelle-boards, card trays, scrap-books, Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser vices, plain and elegantly mounted, besides an endless variety of other articles to suit every taste, purpose, and pocket.--Parkins and Gotto, 24 and 25, Oxford-street, W. The very extensive Distillery now being erected JA Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of [rish whisky, by Mesas. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called " The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening. FRIDAY BO min past 11...... 0 min past 12 SATURDAY• 8 min past 12 40 min past 12 SUNDAY 10 Damn past 1 36 min past 1 MONDAY 0 min past 2 24 min past 2 TVENDAY,,,. . 43 min pad 2 b min pad B ing. - 44. C COME The dei extensive, viz., the l Went up i under 3 p in the If 0: the turn 1 unusual Iletropoli and stances ui Console ditto, fo duced, 9t Icchequ( June, par ; 4 i per C, India ditto 5 I Cent., 0 s per ee l ditto 80, The a 1 already I it is no , In the since the div. ; Moscow, Egyptiat Per Cent Cent s., In th, consider, Great E and N o anything tations 78 i ; Gr 112 1 to Western 128 to 45 1 ; L. London don and 7 8i to Eastern Eastern, Great Venetia] Ameri 1865 Bc div. ; th 18 to 18 Anglc 191 to Indian to Rubber, nance, In Ba marked Prem. ; dated, preen. ; Weattni to 34. A sirs Grand, of telel must be day mo must b , all tilos, a telegr dueed." It i s shareho tak e si rejoin from it Mr. Gc conside th e emj free to honour The Rusaia l cedent€ the a►n 041 y a likely known place j it firni been 1 The with 1 dust i Esteatni tinen t £13,3 Th E with previc toria, 2,250 the E Duthi ounce of t and last