The Sun. — London, England, 1867-11-29 00:00:00

H ER MAJESTY'S THEAT RE. LAST NINE NIGHTS. Mdlle. Titiens and Mdlle. Clara Louise Kellogg To-morrow Evening (SATURDAY), Nov. 30, Mozart's Opera, IL DON GIOVANNI. .Mesdames Titiens, Kellogg, and Sinico : Signori Santley, Zoboli, Fob, Casaboni, Ilohler. Conductor —Signor Arditi. Next week. Positively the Last Eight Nights. Mdlle. Clara Louise Kellogg. Monday next, December 2 (in lieu of " La Traviata" as announced), Last Time, Mozart's Opera LINDA DICHAMOUNI. Mdlle. Kellogg. Last Night of "Norma." Tuesday next, December 3, Be Tragic Opera, NORMA. Norma, by ;Mlle, Titiens. 3ldlle. Titiens and Mdlle. Clara Louise Kellogg. Only Morning Performance. Wednesday next, December 4, IL DON GIOVANNI. (See below.) Mdlle. Titiens and Mdlle. Clara Louise Kellogg. Thursday next, December 5, IL DON GIOVANNI. Titiens in " Fidelio." Saturday, December 7, Beethoven's Opera, FIDELIO. Leonora (Fidelio), by lidlle. Titiens. Commence at Eight o'clock. Stalls, 15s. ; Dress Circle, 10s. 6d. ; Upper Circle, ss. ; Pit, sa. ; Gallery, 2s. Private Boxes, from One Guinea upwards. Box-office of the Theatre open daily. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY - LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. TRIUMPHANT AND BRILLIANT SUCCESS. The Carnival of Venice, at the conclusion of the first sett, has been unanimously pronounced by the press and the public to be one of the grandest spectacular effects ever witnessed on the stage. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's servants will perform the new Romantic Play, in 4 Acts, entitled THE DOGE OF VENICE, adapted by Bayle Bernard from Lord Byrou's Tragedy of "Marino Faliere," with additions from the Play of " Marino," by Casimer de la Vigne, and Musically Illustrated by Selections from the Operas of "Marino" by Donizetti, and the "Duo Foscare " and " Bravo "of Verdi and Mercadante, with New and Magni ficent Scenery by Mr. Wm. Beverley. The music selected d arranged by Mr. J. H. Tully. The dances and panto mimic action devised by Mr. J. Cormack. The costumes and masks invented by Mr. B. W. Keene. The play will be produced under the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Messrs. J. U. Cowper, H. Sinclair, E. _Phelps, Barrett, James John stone, C. Warner, W. M'lnty re, C. Harcourt, Webb, F. Moreland, Sir.; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Grattan, &c. Increased orc:.estra and numerous chorus. To conclude with each evening THE LADIES' CLUB. Mesdames Beat rix Shirley, Kate Harfleur, Grattan, Huds peth, L. Wilmot, Mrs. H. Vandenhoff ; Messrs. J. Rouse, B trrAt, Harcourt, &c. Doors open at half-past G, commence at 7 o'clock. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, Sole Lesseo and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE 'WINNING CARD. Mr. Compton. After which, BROTHER SAM. Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Compton, Johnstone, &c.; Mesdames Chip pendale, Robertson, Lewin, Ste. To conclude with MY WIFE'S MOTHER. Mr. Chip pendale, Mr. Howe; Mrs. Chippendale, &c. Commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, at Eight, ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Vestvali ; Mercutio, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Friar Laurence, Mr. Ryder; Nurse, Mrs. Marston; Juliet, Miss Milly Palmer. Precedm by, at Seven, PERFECTION. Messrs. J. Neville, Dalton, J. Francis; and Miss Maud Shelley. QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. T HIS EVENING the performances will commence with (at 7 o'clock) HE'S A LUNATIC. After which (by particular desire), the celebrated co medy, by Tom Taylor, Esq , called STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. Principal characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham, W. M. 'Perrot, C. Seyton, Miss E. Teri y, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. To conclude with the Comic Drama of THE FIRST NI&HT. Achille Talma Dufard (a French actor), Mr. Alfred Wigan. jEW QUEEN'S THEATRE - ROYAL. 31R. and MRS. ALFRED WIUAN Every Evening. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. Dion Boucicault ; Messrs. Dominick Murray, E. Atkins, G. F. Nevile, J. G. Shore, 11. Mellon, Gresham; Miss Elsworthy, Miss E. Barnett, Mrs. Addis, and Mrs. Dion Boucicault. The wild scenery of Kerry and the Water Cave have been painted by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants. Thq Drama precaded by A LITTLE FLIRTATION, and followed by NO. 1, ROUND THE CORNER. Doors open at hall-past 6, commence at 7. ROYAL ULYM - Pl . O THEATRE. New• Management. Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan. THIS EVENING, THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Messrs. C. Mathews, Nevill, Addison, Soutar, and Frrrell; 31adame St. Henry. Followed by IF I HAD A THOUSAND A-YEAR. Messrs. H. Wigan, Cooper, C. Mathews, and Farrell ; Mes dames L. Moore and St. Henry. To conclude with MY WIFE'S BONNET. Messrs. R. Soutar, H. Cooper, and J. G. Taylor; Mesdames L. Moor© and E. Farren. Commence at Seven. FrHEATRE ROYAL ADELI'HI. .1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, at 7, MAN IS NOT PERFECT, NOR WOSIAN NEITHER. Messrs. G. Belmore, J. G. Taylor, C. H. Stephenson, Miss E. Pitt, and Mre. Alfred Mellon. After which, 33d time, MAUD'S PERIL. Messrs. Billington, G. Belmore, Ashley, Eburne, C. J. Smith ; Miss Herbert, Mrs. Billington, Miss Emily Pitt. To conclude with THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Harris, Miss Nelly Harris, &c. 110LBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole pro;riotor and manager, Mr. Sefton Percy. THIS EVENING, at 7, the highly succesiful Drama of FOR LOVE. Mesdames Stephens, Henrade, C. Saunders; Messrs. 3loutague, Prieo, Widdicomb. At 9, Burnand's new Burlesque, MARY TURNER ; or, 'Cho \Vicious Willie and Wictorious \Virtue. Mesdames Fanny Josephs, Saunders, Wilmore, Clinton, drc.; Messrs. Robins, Montague, Garden, Wilmot, (tc. Magnificent new scenery, dresses, and appointments. 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His object in so doing was, he said twofold ; to place the special reports before the House and the public, and to give himself an op portunity of explaining the duties and powers of the various parties connectel with the management of workhouses and infirmaries. Lord DEVON, in referring to the voluntary inquiries which had been lately carried on, expressed his sense of their labours in cordial terms. "No department," said his lord ship very truly, "ought to be superior to receiving useful information, from whatever quarter it might come ; and he, for one, believed that a department was under an obligation to those who brought before it a real grievance, candidly, fairly, and tempe rately." It augurs well for the cause of future re form if the head of the department wil! adopt this view, and throw aside the prejudice an 1 obstinate routine which too often characterise those who should be most prompt to listen to complaints and THE SUN, LoNpoN. FRI;JAI EVENT, NOVEMBER 29, 16c7 rfiIIE "SUN" NEWSPAPER . - 6. R. GL lit, Sporting L brsiy, 4. Cnnnan.ht tt e( yri L ;srskre-no , d. re avers the L& ' l' ELI lON of E . ut the e4riieet polls b e moment .fter leaTiPg the p; ( 11, ;g ta to ce,rrer ople,s the Suburb!. fir dto many pull of the country a t • co(rnpe.ratively *Arty h. n: the s au t e evenii L:, s ,, Y 4 0 miles I . - Orders by rest punctually attended to. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morni6g, 3h. 40m. I Afternoon, 3b. 55m. To-Mottnow.-Morning, 4h. 10m. Afternoon, 4h. 28m.. et` t 't • -gg • • Ilk `‘ , i l • LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 29, 1867. The Committee of Ways and Means has disposed of the Abyssinian business in the most satisfactory way, and a majority of a hundred and twenty-five may well dispose of the dissentients. The debate of last night was a sufficient answer to those who have gone on persisting that the Government was not popular in this affair, and that the money would be given in a grudging spirit, and the support ac corded must certainly be rendered under protest. In consequence of the indisposition of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the task of explaining the proposals of Government fell to Mr. HUNT, the Secretary to the Treasury, who acquitted himself in the most admirable manner of the onerous charge. On the whole, the proposals seem to be fair enough, and we do not see how the Government could have done better than select the course last night announced to the House of Commons. It appears that, taking a comparison of the Budget estimate of receipts and expenditure with the ac counts for the eight months of the year, the income is less than the estimates by £lOO,OOO ; the expen diture has been also less to about the same amount. The surplus of the year will be about £205,060. The consequence of all this is that it will be neces sary to provide for the Abyssinian expedition £1,800,000, and it has now been determined upon by the Government, very wisely as it will be thought, that so far as possible the expenses of the war shall be borne by the taxation of the year. In the first place, the deficiency is to be supplied by an addi tional penny of income tax during the financial year, which will bring in £1,500,000. Just on £840,000 only of this will come into the Exchequer during this year, and the remaining £960,000 to be supplied will be taken out of the balances of the Exchequer. Mr. HUNT contended, fairly enough, that the expenses of this war would not be wholly supplied by the income-tax payers, because the balances in the Exchequer were made up of the general expenses of the country, and thus the Government had equalised the burden in an efficient manner. Mr. GLADSTONE, after ex pressing his regret at the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, paid a tribute to the manner in which Mr. HUNT had performed his task, and pro ceeded to give his opinion upon the merits of the proposal, the time of the year, as he truly said, jus tifying him in so doing. It is satisfactory that so good a judge as the right hon. gentleman should say that the Government could not have done better or made more prudent suggestions than those they have put forward. " No sound principle is violated, no practical risk is incurred, and I believe that the good sense of the public will be infinitely better satisfied by meeting a manly demand for an imme diate extension of taxation towards the expenses of the war than it would have been if the Govern ment had resorted to any expedient less direct, and less calculated in the end to maintain the strength, and credit, and resources of the country." These remarks of Mr. GLADSTONE are the more appropriate and reassuring after the extravagant observations that some speakers have indulged in ; and it is satisfactory to see one in so eminent a posi tion as Mr. GLADSTONE thus adopting the common-sense view of the question. The triumphant majority of last night will, 'it may confidently be expected, settle the opposition that has been raised in some few quarters, and convince the irresolute that Parliament has decidedly maintained the policy of the Government, and given its answer in the affirmative to the question put to them as to the wisdom of its choice. Sir S. NORTHCOTE moved the resolution relative to the payment of Indian troops and ve:. , sels em ployed in the Abyssinian Expedition. The right hon. gentleman made out a very succes3ful case to prove the desirability of the preparations, and showed how much India was concerned in this war, both in maintaining the character of our Envoys, and that but for Indian interests the ex pedition might not have been despatched so soon. The arrangements that were made in the Chinese and Persian wars were not nearly so favourable to India as the present proposals. It seem 3 strange that Mr. FAWCETT could have persuaded himself into the belief that India had no choice in this war, but the House certainly took the best way to convince him of his error, and he must have regretted that he did not follow the advice tendered to him by Mr. OSBORNE in a speech more humorous than wise. Lord CRAN BORNE did not agree to the proposal as to its advis ability, but he urged that it would be impolitic in the difference of opinion ; and the concluding words of the noble lord were well worthy of the occasion : " Whatever criticisms we may pass upon the su bordinate measures of the Government, there should not seem to be any want of unanimity in the heartiness with which we support the Crown in the action it has taken. We all of us, or at least the most of us, agree in the thorough justice and necessity of this war, and the more heartily we support the Crown in carrying it out, the more thoroughly will it effect its object.'. This is speaking to the point, but the effort of the evening was spoiled by the very scanty number which the dissentients contrived to muster ; and we may, therefore, now conclude that the difficulties of the arrangements Sie over, so far as Parliamentary discussion is concerned. The affair is one of great importance, and also of commensurate diffi culty, and yet we see no cause to fear though a favourable result should not take place. The Government has adopted the wisest measures that are possible under the circumstances, and there will be no lack of means or of force used as have unfortunately diminished our prestige in former e, —.I investigate charges. The Lancet Commission has already done good service in the cause of the help less sufferers in the workhouse sick wards. Lord DEVON went over the whole subject very fairly and comprehensively. He began by informing the House that there were no less than 663 unions in England and Wales, including the metropolis. These unions, with the exception of those in the metro polis, are divided into eleven inspectorial districts, each placed under the management of one inspector connected with the Poor-law Board. In each of the workhouses of these districts there is an infir mary, more or less adequate to the wants of the district. But we must remember, as Lord DEVON reminded the committee, that the infirmaries of wor:chouses were originally intended only for the accommodation of those cases of illness which arose within the house itself ; and it must therefore be evident to the most casual observer that they must be miserably unequal to the needs of the whole of the sick poor of the neighbourhood. With increase of population has come, as a natural conse quence, increase of pauperism and increase of sick ness, yet the old building is left to supply the wants of hundreds when it was originally intended for twenties or fifties. The poor are often victims to long, lingering illness, rheumatism, consumption, asthma, and diseases of the internal organs pro duced by excessive and protracted labour. The natural and, indeed, compulsory resource for such sufferers is the wards of the infirmary, and there they congregate, in spite of all its discomforts and mismanagement, simply because they have no other resource. Many of the cases in our work houie wards are such as the best medical authorities would readily admit into permanent hospitals if they had the power, and would, if they were sufferers in another rank of life, order them to be supplied with every luxury that could alleviate their distress. What their fate is in the crowded wards of a country poorhouse we have some knowledge of from the evidence at Farnham, and although that may possibly have been an extreme case, yet the whole system is harsh, neglectful, and indifferent to this mass of human suffering. Those best acquainted with such matters have drawn moving pictures of the patient dismissed as incurable from one of our large hospitals, and thence removed to the neigh bouring infirmary. The sudden change from good and delicate food carefully cooked, wines and cordials, soft and well-filled beds, and, above all, kind and attentive nursing, to the rough and ready treatment of the sick pauper in the infirmary ward, is a most painful transition ; and when the sufferer knows he has no other prospect but to linger out the rest of his days in these dreary circumstances the desolation is great indeed. The so3uer we all acknowledge the fact which is patent to every one familiar with these establishments the better. Our workhouses are no longer the receptacles of thriftless and worthless idlers, whose own vices or indolence have brought them to beggary, and who are glad to live at the expense of other people. They include such, no doubt, but they form a very small proportion of the inmates. The intelligent and humane master of one of our large London unions, consisting of five or six hundred inmates, once stated that he had less than one hundred able-bodied under his charge, and in summer time there were barely enough to attend upon the sick and do the necessary work of the house. There is no prospect of any change in the requirements of the pauper population. Pauperism itself may fluctuate with the prosperity or depression of trade, but we cannot hope that the numbers of our sick poor will perceptibly diminish. The disabled mechanic, the crippled artisan, the superannuated laundress or charwoman, the broken- down servant, the deerepil old man or woman who are past work, the blind, the paralysed, the epilep tic, the imbecile, must still be found among us. Aye, even the friendless clerk or governess are sometimes driven to the shelter afforded by public charity. We must acknowledge the truth and act upon it. It is useless shutting our eyes. If the present arrangements are inefficient or inadequate, let us make others. If the burden of the votes presses unjustly on the poorer ratepayers, let us adjust the weight more fairly; but it is useless to shrink from touching the evil on account of its magnitude. Lord CAR NARVON is alarmed at the prospect of a change, and very apprehensive of the increase of pauperism. " lie confessed that he watched with jealousy the creation of new establishments, or the enlargement of those existing." But what would he have us do ? Are these sick persons to die of st trvation in the streets, or are they to be hud Hod together uncared for and untende], like the slaves ox the middle passage ? The fact is that our poor law-system has been a dis grace to us for the last century. Its excessive laxity and want of management fostered pauperism to such an extent that it roused public indignation, and then it rebounded to the opposite extreme. No one wishes to encourage able-bodied pauperism, and that is the very reason why it is proposed to classify the inmates of our unions and to put the sick and infirm under a different system. There can be no question that the local authorities have been very greatly at fault iu many instances, ar.d Lord Dit,VON last night cited cases which had came under his own notice, in which the visiting committees had neglected their duties of inspection, and the guardians refused to entertain most neces sary improvements proposed by the inspector. The Poor-law Board, however remiss in some respects, is actually deficient in power to deal with such cases except by a cumbrous and tedious legal process. The best thing that can be done without revolu tionising the whole system is to strengthen the hands of the central authority, and trust to Parliament to keep the central authority in check. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. Some important explanations in regard to foreign policy were given yesterday in the Legislative Body by NI. Rouher, Minister of State, in answer to a complaint from M. Pelletan that the yellow book did not contain some despatches which had been exchanged between France and Italy. M. Rouher said that, according to the usual rule, it was not customary to publish despatches emanating from a foreign Government until those despatches had been communicated officially and by an ambassador in his official capacity, so that they might form the elements of discussion between the Governments. If they had been received either from M. Rattazzi, or from General Menabrea, or from the Represen tative of Italy iu France, the Chevalier Nigra, despatches officially commutaiclted, they would appear in the yellow book—they would be submit ted to you, and you would have the right to appre ciate them, because they would have become a contradictory element of a discussion between the two Governments. No communication of the kind has been made. We have not received officially a despatch either from M. Rattazzi or his successors, or from the Representative of Italy at the French Court. For myself, at least I have no knowledge of any communication of the kind. Should my memory net serve me rightly, I am ready to pro pose to the Minister of Foreign Affairs that he shall fill up any omission which may be pointed out. I assert that all the useful elements of the discussion which is to take place upon the Roman question have been furnished by the yellow book, and that at present I have not a more perfect communication to make to the Chamber. (Approbation upon several benches.) M. Glaiz Bizoin The answer is strange in the extreme. It is impossible to believe that there has not been any communication between the two Governments. This is, perhaps, the first time in Parliamentary annals that such a declara tion has ever been made by a Minister. (Noise, and manifestations of difference of opinion.) It should be understood, in reference to this de• claration, that M. Pelletan asserts, or imagines, thai the French Government is in possession of important despatches from M. Rattazzi and Cardinal Anto• nelli, and that M. Rouher, the Minister, is ignorant of the fact. M. Pelletan then said it was impossible to sup pose that during the long period of eight months M. Rattazzi had preserved absolute silence. Such an improbability astonished him, and would astonish the country. He believed that when the Minister had made further inquiry, he would find that the Government must have received despatches from Florence or Rome. M. Rouher said he believed that when he bad consulted his colleague, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, he should only have the same answer to give. (Very good.) A letter from Rome states that the soldiers of the Pontifical army who were trade prisoners by the Garibaldians during the first affair of Monte Ro tondo, and who had been brought to Spezzia on board a steamer through the kindness of Monsigneur Mathieu, Cardinal Archbishop of Besancon, were received by the population of Rome with striking manifestations - of cordiality and sympathy. The Roman nobility entertained them at a splendid banquet. The King and Queen of Greece have arrived at Corfu. The foreign ships of war in the Piraeus pre pared a brilliant reception for their Majesties. A private telegram from Bucharest states that the Roumain Ministry is reconstructed thus :—M. Golesco, President of the Council; M. Bratiano, Minister of the Interior ; M. Anion, Justice; M. Adrian, Minister of War. The great Exhibition, which had such a marked influence in many respects, caused a great increase of correspondence. During the seven months while the Exhibition Ras open the increase in the sale of postage stamps exceeded a million of francs. In 1865, during the seven corresponding months, the consumption of staaps amounted to 34,200,000 f. In the ''same period, :n 1866, the amount was 35,800,000 f., being an increase of 1,600,000 f. in favour of 1866. In 1E67, during the Exhibition, the amountpaid for postage stamps was 38,500,000 f. This forms a total of 2,700,000 f., which deduction being made of the ordinary progress, which is ju6t stated was 1,600,000 f. or the corresponding period of 1866, constitutes in favour of 1867 an increase of more than 1,100,00)f. This amount, reckon ing the average postage rate, shows that about 2,500,000 letters were circulated in consequence of the Exhibition. The sun rose this morning with as much bril liancy as was ever seen, hut an hour afterwards came a dense fog, whits prevailed all day. The fog was so thick that you could not see from one side of the Seine to the )ther, although that river at Paris is not broader than the Thames at Rich mond. The fields wers covered with frost this morning. In some parts of France the thermo meter has been several degrees below freezing point. The supposed indications of severe weather increase in the provinces. Such large numbers of wolves have never been lee - n, and many sea fowl have been noticed at a loug distance from the sea. The Piedmontese Gazette says that the Pope is ill, though it is desired to conceal the fact. The foreign diplomatists go every morning to the Vati can to inquire after the health of his Holiness. The last answer given was his Highness reposes a n d keeps to his apartment. The Pope's favourite ser vant has just died, and his Holiness is inconsolable. The excitement about the high price of bread is diminishing, in consequence of the information received from many parts of France that there is a sensible decline in the price of: corn. Au immense quantity of wheat has bean imported at Marseilles, and further arrivals are expected. All that seems doubtful now about the Confer ence is as to where it will assemble. A Berlin letter says that a southern city will be fixed upon, in order that the diplomatists may have an agreeable residence during the rigorous Beason when the deli berations will take place. A strange story is related about a husband and wife, which has an air of romance, although it is substantially true. A gentleman received informa tion that his wife allowed the visits of a well-known actor during his absence, and he, therefore, watched the door of his house. His fears proved too true, for he saw the actor go up stairs. The gentleman soon followed and knocked at the door of the apart ment. It not being opened he called the porter and a demand was made to open the door in the name of the law. The room was in great confusion, but no visitor was seen. In a few minutes, however, piercing cries were heard from the window under neath. It appears that some sheets had been hastily tied together, and the actor had let himself down from the window, but they were not long enough to reach the ground and the intruder was afraid of being dashed to pieces, and theref o r e ca ll e d f o r help. Strange to say, it was the h us b an d w h o ran to give it, and he enabled the destroyer of his peace to reach the ground in safety. Then, however, a scene took place—a fight and loud reproaches, which soon brought a crowd. The actor was taken to the station. The next step in the affair will be a pro cess on the part of the husband for a legal separa tion from his wife. LATEST INTELLIGENCE . (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) LIVERPOOL, Nov. 29 (Noon). Shortly after 6 o'clock this morning a Greek blockade runner, called the Boyboyania, which was lying in the Mersey to take in powder, blew up. One portion of the vessel remained at anchor, and the other part, the stern, drifted away. Forty lives are supposed to have been lost. CALCUTTA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS. The following telegram has been received by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com- pany : " GIBRALTAR, Nov. 28. " The Sumatra leaves at 1 p.m. to-day. She may be expected at Southampton early on the 3d December." THE OAKS CALAMITY. The adjourned inquest on the bodies of Mr. P. Jeffcock, Mr. Smith, and others, whose remains. were recovered in October from the Oaks Colliery, was resumed at the Court-house, on Thursday, be fore Mr. T. Taylor, coroner. There were also pre sent Mr. J. T. Woodhouse, Derby ; Mr. Dymond, the managing partner, Mr. Maanalt, and others. Samuel l3iovvn, the man who was so miraculously saved, was examined, and said ho lived in Pall-mall, and was a miner, but had not wtirked in a pit since he was got out of the Oak's. The witness detailed the parts of the pit which, he visited whilst he was in the workings. Shortly before the second explo sion, on reaching the box-hole, he was joined by John James Iloyland, Mr. Minto, and Limbert. They all came in and sat themselves down. He, together with Iloyland and James, were getting some meat and bread and tea, when the second ex plosion occurred. He was rendered insensible. The first thing that he could remember afterwards was he thought that ho was in bed. He shouted out, and then he found he was in the pit. On look ing round he saw a fire at the top of the incline. He came out of the box-hole, where he saw two bodies, but he could not tell who they were. He went to No. 1 shaft, when he nearly fell into the lump-hole. He then returned to the box-hole, and sat himself down. It then occurred to him that there were two shafts, and on going to the No. 2, he found the bell-wire all right, and he rapped. He heard a voice, and after a long time two men came and got him oat. Ho had been told that three hours elapsed before he was got out, but it seemed like three weeks. Mr. Minto and Mr. J. T. Woodhouse were examined, and gave similar evidence to that at the former inquests. The Coroner then briefly summed up, and pointed out the folly of allowing so many strangers to de scend the pit at one time, when it was known that all the men in the pit were dead. The jury retired, and after being absent for about half an hour, returned the following verdict : That the deceased came to their deaths by an ex plosion of fire-damp whilst endeavouring to recover the bodies of the men killed by the first explosion." TIIE LATE EMPEROR MaximiLLui.—The Aus trian squadron in the Levant has been recalled in order to escort the body of the Emperor Maximilian on its arrival on the coast of Austria. On the passing of the vessel containing his remains all the forts and batteries on the coast are to give the prescribed salutes. The body will lauded at Triftte and immediately sent on to -Vienna. FRANCE. M. Accoyer, known by the name of Spoll, direc tor, and M. Schiller, printer, of the journal the Cor saire, have just been tried at the Court of Correc tional Police for treating on political matters in that publication, which is without authorisation, and has not made the legal deposit of caution money. The articles implicated were a " Causerie" in the num ber of the 15th November, and a paper entitled " Les Cumulards," in that of the 18th. The first contained some general remarks on the progress of affairs, while the second criticised the direction of the studies in the Jardin des Plantes. The court condemned Accoyer to a month's imprisonment and 500 f. fine for each offence ; and Schiller to a month's imprisonment and 100 f. for each of the offences. It also ordered the journal to be suppressed, and the two defendants to pay the costs. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory of yester day morning gives the following as the atmospheric situation :---" The weather is calm and the sky is getting sensibly clearer in the W. and NAV. of France; at the same time the wind veers to N. and even to N.N.E. in Paris and in the Channel. This change is caused by a barometrical rise of 8 mm. in Scotland, and a fall of from 7 to 8 mm. in the centre of Germany. The atmospheric pressure is weak over the N.W. of Europe, and bad weather appears to be passing across Germany towards the Mediter ranean. Snow fell this morning at Leipsic and at Skudesnoer." In Paris, yesterday, rail fell heavily in the early morning, and the sky showed ragged clouds throughout the early part of the day. In the afternoon the sun shone out and the horizon became clearer. At three in the afternoon the thermometer marked 7 7-10 Centigrade (45 4-5 Fahrenheit). BOURSE, Nov. 28, Two o'clock.—The main feature of the market is great confidence, and another increase has taken place. Threes are at 69f, 'lke., with a rise of 37ic. Italian Fives 46f. 95c., an increase of 65c. Credit Mobilier 172 f. 50c., a rise of 12f. 50c. Spanish Mobilier 213 f. 75c., higher by 15f. Comptoir d'Escompte has improved 2f. 50c., at 650 f. Credit Foncier 1,387 f. 50c., with a rise of 13f. 75c. French Railways in demand ; in foreign nothing remarkable. English Consols are telegraphed with a rise of at 93k. Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows: 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 69 10 Credit llobilier End of month 175 Credit Fonder _1387 50 End_of month 1390 - RAILWA: Bank Shares 3300 It!.Fan Loan End of month 47 15 Mexican Loan .„ 13 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 37 25 Rome Debt — Deferred 34 Account. Orleans ... 872} orthern 1175 Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 560 Western Eastern • • 535 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 350 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 4Bl VEST VALI. Felicita de Vestvali is a member of an old aria iocratic family, being the daughter of the Count Pawlowski, who was married to Charlotte, Barouess llunefeldt. She was born in Berlin on the 23d of February, 1811. Endowed by nature with singular talent, she was early given every advantage that in struction could afford. At the age of 12 she spoke five languages fluently, and was well versed in the works of the principal ancient as well as modern poets. She was likewise a skilful performer upon several musical instruments.- Her education was conducted principally in Berlin, where she studied elocution under the celebrated Emil Devrient, and subsequently became a pupil of the famous Professor Rocaurt. Having completed her musical studies under the great Maestro Merca dante, she made her debut at the Theatre of La Scala, in Milan, as Azucena, in Verdi's opera " Il Trovator6," and effected at once an extraordinary sensation. She then made a tour of the principal cities of continental Europe—Rome, Florence, Naples, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Lisbon, fin lly visiting Paris, where she had been previously offered to be received as a substitute for Rachel, at a period when the physical powers of that grand actress began to how symptoms of decay. At the Imperial opera in Paris, Vestvali created a perfect furore in the part of Romeo (the piece having been expressly for her rendered into French). Fiorentini, Jules Janin, and all the leading critics spoke of her genius and execution in language of the highest eulogy. After a brilliant career of two years in Paris, the universal laudations bestowed upon her histrionic abilities decided her on culti vating the loftiest walks of the drama, and she pro ceeded to give several representations in Germany, reaping additional laurels in that classic( land of art, which she would have made her home, but that the love of travel and adventure impelled her to seek " fresh fields and pastures new." The New World next became the arena of Vestvali's triumphs. In Mexico, Cuba, and all the chief towns of the United States, she was received with enthusiastic admiration throughout her professional campaign. She was, moreover, greeted most cordially at the 'White House by both the late and the present President of the Great Republic. From all who have enjoyed the good fortune of her private acquaintance she has won gol len opi nions both in Europe and America as a most amiable and accomplished lady, whilst the public and the press of the various countries of her sojourn have paid universal homage to her as an artist of con summate histrionic ability. The warm, impulsive, frank, and sincere nature of Felicita de Vestvali attracts affectionate regard, as her artistic pre eminence commands profound admiration. Vestvali's features are handsome, their expres sion pleasing and replete with intelligence. Her figure is tall, commanding, and splendidly moulded. Her action is characterised by dignity and grace. Her voice, in speaking and in singing, is one of great power, richness, and melody. That study and reflection have been superadded to un common natural gifts is evident from her great im personation of Romeo, now being nightly given at the Lyceum, and which has been hailed by crowded audiences with storms of applause, and commented on by the London press in terms of high praise, as being portrayed with the utmost skill, with ad mirable power of elocution, originality of concep tion, and overpowering vehemence of passion. She has been pronounced to be the best " mile actor" on the stage; and a fitting colleague to Helen Faucit and Ristori. From seeing Vestvali in Romeo, we can easily conceive that she amply merits the reputation she has achieved, not only in such parts as her original creation of " The Jewish Mother," but in Lady Macbeth and the other parts that she has played in English, which language she is acknowledged to speak with perfect purity and correctness of pronunciation. Mr. Robert Buchanan is preparing a bijou edition of Longfellow's Poems for Messrs. Moxon, which is to' c mtain a complete collection of that author's poetical works, and to appear in two volumes, uniform with the popular edition of Hood's Serious and Comic Poems. Each volume will be prefaced by a critical esearby the editor. LITERATURE. Messrs. Moxon's Publications. TENNYSON'S " VIVIEN " AND " GUINEVERE." ILLUSTRATED BY GUSTAVE DORE. Another magnificent volume has, here, done honour to the genius alike of Gustave Dore and Alfred Tennyson. The " Elaine" of last Christmas has been fully equalled, if it has not even been surpassed, by the " Vivien" and the " Guinevere" prepared for the coming Christmas. And simultaneously with the pub lication of these superb companion gift-book=, the publishers give golden promise of yet a fourth Idyll of the King, to be issued from the press at the approach in 1868 of next Christmas twelve month—" Enid," to wit, another of the classic masterpieces of the Poet Laureate. Accepting " the goods the gods have given us," accepting what we have actually now in hand—neither looking for ward, that is, to the coming " Enid" of next season, nor backward in retrospect at the lovely, "Elaine" of last season—we have certainly here immediately under our notice in these two nobly illustrated companion editions of " Vivien" and Guinevere" sufficient, in all conscience, while turning the leaves to captivate two of the senses—the ear through • the music of the verse, the eye through the sym pathetic and harmonious beauty of the embellish meats. Witnessing editions de luxe such as these coming forth year after year during his own lifetime, must be assuredly for Mr. Tennyson himself like a very foretaste of the admiration of posterity. And he is certainly to be congratulated upon having had the expansion of his own immense popularity to a very considerable extent kept pace with by the co-operative enterprizeof his publishers; while he has yet more recently through that very eater prize of theirs, had his name covered with a new glory, a glory reficetel back upon the author himself, and upon two or three of the choicest among his poems, by the artistic genius of M. Gustave Dore. Fresh from his astounding achievements as an illustrator of the Holy Bible, of Milton, of Dante, •of Cer - vantes the young French draughtsman has seemingly devoted the whole force of his genius, as to a genuine labour of love, when undertaking this latest and apparently most congenial task yet allotted to him, that of revealing by his pencil the marvellous scenery and the exquisite forms already delineated with such master-touches of art, by the pen of Alfred Tennyson. The originals of these latest effusions of Dore's daring and prolific genius are now on view at the publishers' in Dover-street, Piccadilly. But, here, in engravings of rare excellence from the burines of engravers as skilled as Baker, Barlow, Brandard, Finden, Godfrey, Greatbach, Jeens, Mote, Ridgway, Saddler, Stephenson, and Willmore, we have those same original drawings of Dore's very wonderfully rendered indeed by a sister art. Added to which—those among the artist's more enthusiastic admirers who may be desirous of possessing even exacter copies than any that could be produced by the hand of the most faithful and dexterous engraver that ever lived, may, if they so please, secure to themselves by preference literal reflections from the actual drawings of Gustave Dore, in the form of a series of exquisitely delicate photographs —two of which, indeed, are here given in the published volume, vis-à-vis to the corresponding engravings. The one prefixed to Vivien being illustrative—how marvellously !—of the lines— " And pushing his black craft among them all, He lightly scattered theirs and brought her off With loss of half his people arrow slain." Death hurtling in the air in a cloud of arrows, gurgling and washing luridly about the hulls of the grim warships, struggling fiercely in the desperate forms of the contending warriors! The companion phOtograph to " Guinevere" being illustrative of a very different spectacle, indeed— "And still, at evenings, on before his horse The flickering fairy-circle wheerd and broke, Flying." The solitary mail-clad horseman, conspicuous afar off on the height in the moonlight—the night wind blowing freshly through the tall water-reeds in the foregrouud—the swirling, eddying trail of fairies voluptuously swimming past in mid-air ? Shall we say it? however, while the vigorous en graving, by Stephenson, of .the desperate conflict in " Vivien" is after all, in spite of its excellence, inadequate as a rendering of the wonderful lights and shadows in the original drawing from the hand of Dore—Ridgway's ver sion of the wheeling fairy circle in Guinevere seems almost an improvement in some respects : judging of the contrast, that is, by a mere comparison of the engraving with the accom panying photograph. Eighteen drawings there are in all to the two poems—nine to " Vivien" and nine to " Guinevere." And again we are left in doubt, after a careful examination of them all, as to whether Dore's genius is more conspicuously mani fested in his limnings of the " human face [and form] divine," or in his delineations of scenery. The illustrations of " Vivien" take, almost by right, precedence of those to " Guinevere." Take the first—not the frontispiece (already mentioned) but the first in the body of the text— " At Merlin's feet the wily Vivien lay." This is the opening scene of all—under the oak "so hollow, huge, and old," as the poet slugs, that it " looked like a tower of ruined mason work." The storm coming--not come, but coming—in " the wild woods of Broceliande." The venerable magician and the voluptuous enchantress are revealed, there, to our view as the fitting denizens of those awful woodland solitudes. Next comes— " And touching Breton sands they disembarked." Under the shadow of a gaunt and craggy head land, the same two forms, Merlin and Vivien, are seen advancing from the beach, across the sands, on towards the next incident of their wanderings together, namely, to their re-entrance into the wild woods of Broceliande—a scene of rare and austere beauty, in which the eye notes the casual dropping, here and there, of a flickering leaf from the autumnal branches. A glorious depth of overshadowing woodlands there is in the next drawing in this marvellous series of illustrations to " Vivien"—the one in which Arthur and his Knights, brimming goblets in hand, aro pledging each other at the first ,thought "About the founding of a Table Round." But the glory and rush of the next are yet more remarkable—where the royal and knightly caval cade are seen careering over the dense underwood, and over the prostrate trunks of trees crumbled by age or blasted by lightning—the riders bearing straight down upon us " against a rushing wind," as we gaze upon the animated picture with an admi ration which it commands rather than simply claims. The next is very beautiful— " And speaking not, but leaning over him, I took his brush, and blotted out the bird." Merlin is the speaker—the "fair young squire" being the draughtsman, for the nonce, whose device upon his shield is thus emended by the hand of the magician. Afterwards we have the " little glassy headed hairless man," seated, hermit-wise in his rocky den at his meditations—an admirable piece of character-painting with a magical flooding in of the outer light, in the midst of which the foragers are described by " the great master" as descending into the cavernous abode of the recluse. Merlin's sleep and Vivien's flight, in the next picture—with the roaring of the storm through all and over all—the storm of wind and rain and lightning and thunder— bending the branches of the prostrate oak, snapping the twigs off, whirling away a cloud of flying leaves " thick as leaves of Valambrosa," wild and weird as (what they actually are) the leaves of Broceliande —all this is astonishingly pourtrayed by Gustave Dore's pencil, as all of it had previously been as astonishingly pourtrayed by Tennyson's pen of luminous fascination. Of the nine drawings allotted to " Guinevere," and of which we have as yet only made mention of one (the frontispiece) —the most tenderly pathetic among them all is that in which Lancelot and his love -- "Rode to the divided way, Then kissed and parted weeping." A charming scene, the pathos, the light, the beauty of which are simply inimitable. The flight to Alines bury " by glimmering waste and weald"— next in sequence—has in its way also a singular power of fascination. So, too, the glorious star light scene upon the terrace—and the forest glade, where the Cupids are gambolling among the wayside flowers—and the Cornish sea foam ing up on the sand of " dark Dundazil" —and (best beautiful of all) the lovers sauntering their hor s es 4‘ under groves that looked a paradise of blossom"—these, with the rest of the charming em bellishments to " Guinevere," complete a volume as beautiful, both p oe ti ca ll y an d p i ctor i a ll y, as the most fastidious lover of verse and art could reasonably wish to see, or still more to possess. Poetry like that of Tennyson, but more especially in these his " Idylls of the King," is essentially every young and ever fresh in its vernal and perennial beauty. And though adorning it thus by the graces and charms of asympathetic and congenial art, somewhat partakes of the nature of gilding refined gold, paint ing the lily, and adding a perfume to the violet —one is almost tempted to speak of the freshness and youth of poetry like this, when so adorned, as about the aptest illustration the world has yet been of — L a Jeunesse Dord. LORD HOUGIHON'S LIFE OF KEATS. Sixteen years ago, at the time of its original pub lication, we remember very well reviewing, at cow siderable length is these columns, this exquisite memorial of John Keats by Lord Houghton, then a commoner, and member for the borough of Pon tefract. A re-examination of the work in its new form—[it appeared originally in two small volumes, whereas it is published now in one handsome tom e of goodly size extending to 363 pages, arrayed in bevilled binding of a substantial character]- 5 re' examination of the work in its nresent form, and with one or two noticeable modifications in it s general arrangement, only confirms us in our previ ous opinion, that the book is worthy at once of the writer and of his theme. As a mere narrative, the biography of John Keats, as it has here been penned by Lord Houghton, has about it a fasninl tion that rivets the reader's attention a-, the outset, and carries the charm on unbroken to the end. Mingled with the story of the young poet's life , however, running through it in subtle involutions as a thread of gold might th roug h a pi ece o f tapestry, there is a vein of most delicate and gracefully ap preciative criticism as appli e d t o th e cons ideration 01 Keats's poetic genius by the brother poet who has assumed by sympathy the office of his biographe r ' The work in its very title affects not to be simply 3 biography of the author of Endymion and hype' rion—assuming, as it does, to be " The Life an' Letters" of John Keats whose corresponden ce thus naturally assumes to itself a certain promine nce or importance of its own as constituting a rather notable portion of the work as a whole. Th ere is an anticipative charm for the reader in the very dedication of the book, thus, to th e w if e of Barry Cornwall—we are tempted to give the dedication in its integrity— _ _ This Life of Keats Is dedicated to Mrs. Bryan Procter, A Poet's Wife, a Poet's Mother, and Herself of many Poets The Frequent Theme and Valued Friend. The work, in its new form, is essentially a ne vr edition. And as a token of the care taken in re gard to the mere arrangement of its constituent portions, it is worthy of especial remark that no in' considerable portions of the Literary Remain s instead of being appended to the biography as sort of illustrative supplement, as was done in t he original imprint, are here, in this new edition in sorted in the body of the text at the places to which they naturally belong, as having been at those particular periods of the poet's life Pro duced. This, of itself, is a very great ia l " provement. And the mention of another eas a g e that has happily been decided upon enables us t e make what we certainly regard as a I.ll° , st , agreeable announcement —to the effect that t' other portions of the Literary Remains not here ja" troduced at their appropri tte places in the body of the text of Lord Houghton's Life of Keats (not here in troduced by reason, we presume, of their length, a s for instance the Dramatic Pieces), are reserved nin re fitly to form part of a New Edition of the Poe t's Works to be printed u n if orm w ith th e preseew volume, a new edition that we are left, therefore' to conjecture, is now in actual course of prclJa r. (ion. Au appendix there is nevertheless—hapP i l i let us say—even to the present ca re fully revis ou imprint of " Keats's Life and Letters" by fo rd Houghton. Rather, perhaps we should say, more correctly, three distinct appendices—to wit, first specimens of Keats's criticism on Edmund Kean a n , Shakspere —secondly, another version of Keats 0 "Hyperion"—and thirdly, a fragment of Keats s ' of doubtful (shall we say of very doubtful ?) authea ticity. Prefixed to the work as it now stands, there is an exquisitely engraved, and very delicately iPen cilled portraiture of John Ke a t s , w ith his autograP i characteristically askew beneath it—a head crown ° with hyacinchine curls, among which one almos t naturally looks to find interwoven the tendrils ° the vine, wreathed with grape leaves, and leaves, and dittany—eyes luminous, sad, and tender —a sensuous mouth and chin—a b a cchic cont our altogether, in the general effect—th e head of 6 ' anacreontic anachronism, a true worshipper in these later days of all the lovelier denizens of the P 3ll. them of the antique mythology. MOXON'S MINIATURE POETS. sere Two other volumes of this very charming 15e ri have recently made their appearance : a Selectl°l; from the Poems of Lord Houghton, and a Sele cti° from the Poems of Sir Walter Scott, the latter ill" troduced by a subtilely appreciative comnieu ta l upon the lyrical genius of that last and greatest ° the Scottish bards, and closed by the publica to . n i (now, for the first time) of the l a test of all 315 poetical effusions, to wit, a copy of verses penned of him, within the year of his d e ath, in the album - Miss Wordsworth. The particular charm of th e little volume dedicated to the selection here Mu d° precious fragments from the poems of Scott, &ll sists, as a matter of course, in their exceeding f34-IL liarity. Snatches of songs, refrains, conPl e . t° g ' quatrains, rhrases, similes, what not —they rll3 e with a haunting melody upon our retnembrancli; chiming, in the rhythm and the rhyme of then 2 l can a music of which who is there among us t hat ever tire ? Adieu for ever more, my love, Adieu for ever more ! They carved of the meal with gloves of steel, And drank the rad wine thro' the helmet barr'd• Breeze, bird, and flower confess the hour, But where is County Guy? And bettor had they ne'er boen born Who road to doubt, or read to scorn. For all stood bare, and in the room Fitaames alone wore cap and plums• . , When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! Cast your plaids, draw your blades, Forward each man set ; Pibroch of D)nuil Dha Knell for the onset. So daring in love an I S 3 dauntless in war, ? Have ye e'er heard of gallant like you ng . . . Iu the lost battle, b3rne down by the ilyiag , ;r0 ... Where mingle with rattle the groans of tho'aP—ne Whereve rwe open the little bijou-book NO 0 upon some pearl of price familiar to us all--Soule "Jewel five words long That on the stretched forefinger of all TIM ° Sparkles for ever." polar n i ; As the frontispiece to the charming we have the " counterfeit present ment" exiluihstitfct,i, ~s- a engraved of Sir Walter's ki ndl y , thoug 16c 71.. manly lineaments—the likeness here o being taken from a photograph of Itaebura's websk known portrait of him. Contrasting w ith of charm of familiarity which, as we have just no remarked, invests the selection thus made from ac_ poems of Scott as with a not ea sil y resistible aura tiou— the charm investing the selection made, ilLori companion volume, from the peere s °f ite Houghton is one arising out of the e:cactly °pia characteristic --namely, their unialuiliaritY. 041 r Th e atte nd P r i n Alaedo TAM C larer, Sec ond Btn ashi] ! lc to wit Were u. tti E " 1 41, ‘ th e Ire 0 41 , 41, 24 is Etr I t Of ' 1 1,3 whichaad fatii 14 i 4 1)p oi r ge-h o 44 1 etn lent whi li k ' 0 „ eh hi e" L oo tl iiiea f°l, ot )y the ir b ' d :ie Pr( ap re , e ti 4 ••••-: R A 41° f at 4t cockl 1 ~j Sk :