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

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. --:During the Storms of the past twelve motths the National Life boat Institution contributed to the saving of 1,190 lives from various shipwrecks and 29 vessels from destruction, The Institution also expended £24,746 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting 0,741 for rewards. The Institution has now 218 Lifeboat Stations under its management. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers,and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street Adelphi, London. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital... Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—WiIIiam Steven, Esq. DEPUTY-CRAIRMAN - Frederick H. Janson, Eeq. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq Richard M. Harvey, Esq Hy. Bonham-Carter, Esq J. G. Hubbard, Esq Charles Win Curtis, Egg, G. J Shaw Leferre, Esq, M.P Charles F. Devas, Esq John Martin, Esq Francis Dart Dyke, Esq Rowland Mitchell, Esq Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart James Morris, Esq James Goods,n, Esq Abraham J. slob arts, Esq Archibald Hamilton. Esq Henry Vigne, Esq 1 homson Hankey Esq SECRETARY—Thomas Tallemach, ESC! ACTUARY - Sarni. Brown, Esq. N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Christmas must be renewed at the Head Of fice, or with the agents, on ur before the Bth of January. The Government Duty is totally abolished. ProspeetuaN4 and Forms of Proposal, with statemen of the asset and liabilities in the Life Branch, free on application to the Company's Agents,or to the Secretary. " TETROPOLITAN PUBLIC CARRIAGE ACT, 1860." The following ORDER has been approved of by the Right Honourable HENRY AUSTIN BRUCE, one of her Ma jesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and will be made by him and be in force on and after the Ist day of January, 1870. Orders as to Licensing Hackney and Stage Carriages, as to Licensing Drivers of Hackney and Stage Car riages, and as to ceraiu Regulations relating to Hackney and Stage Carriages, made in pursuance of " The Metropolitan Public t'arriage Act, 1869," 32 and 33 Vic., cap. 115, sec. 6,8, 9, 10, and 11, by the itigbt Honourable Henry Austin Bruce, one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. I do order, prescribe, and direct as follows (that is to say):-- AS TO LICENSING HACKNEY AND STAGE • 10A1111,1AGEM 1. Licences to be granted for Hackney Carriages under the said Act shall be in the Form A contained in the Schedule to this Order, and Licences granted under the said Act for Stage Carriages shall be in Form B contained in the same Schedule. 2. Licences to be granted under the said Act shall be granted by the Commissirmer of Pulice of the Metropolis, who has been appointed by me for that purpose ; but no Licence shall be granted to any person under the age of 21 years, or to any person who shall have been previously convicted of felony. 3. Before any such Licence shall be granted, the person applying for the same shall pay to the Receiver of the Me tropolitan Police District, or to some pers^n appointed by the said Receiver to receive the same, the sum of .£'2, which I hereby prescribe to be the sum and price to bo paid in respect thereof. The application for a Hackney carriage Licence shall be made in the form of C, and for a Stage-carriage Licence in the Form of D, in the Schedule hereto. 4. Before any such Licence shall be granted a Certificate is to be signed by an inspector of Public Carriages stating that the Hackney or Stage Carriage in respect of which the application is made has been examined by him, and that it is fit for use, and specifying the number of persons which the carriage may be licensed to carry, and the num ber so specified shall be stated in the Licence. 5. Any Licence granted on the application of any Co partnership or Company shall be issued to the senior part ner, or to the Secretary or Manlget, of the Compary, as the case may be; and the senior partner, or the Secretary or Manager, to whom the Licence shall be issued, shall be responsible for the observance of the regulations hereby made, and of the conditions under which the Licence is granted, and shall be liable to all penalties for breaches of these regulations and the provisionsof this Order as if they were the person solely interested iu the Carriage and in the Licence. 6. So soon as may be after the signing of the Certificate as to the fitness of any Carriage for i.ublic use, the Carriage ahall be brought to the Police-station of the District, where a metal Plate bearing the distinguishing number of such Carriage will be fixed, in the presence of an Inspector of Pnblic Carriages, in the case of a four-wheeled Hack ney Carriage, on the back panel thereof; in the case of a Hansom Carriage, on the off-side panel ; and in the case of a Metropolitan Stage Cal riage, on thp back thereof. And I hereby prescribe that each Carriage licensed shall be distinguished by such Plate, and such Plate shall not be removed from the place where it shall have been so fixed without the authority of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. 7. A Licence will afterwards be prepared, bearing the distingnishir g number of the Carriage, and n ill be sent to the Proprietor. 8. Each Licence shall be issued in respect of one Carriage only, and shall distinguish the Carriage licensed by a Number. 9. Every Licence to be granted in pursuance of the said Act and this Ordei shall continue in force for one year from the date of such Licence, unless suspended or revoked, and the Licence shall be subject to revision, or suspension for any period, iu any events in which any Hackney or Stage-carriage Licence might have been sus pended or revoked at the time of the passing of the said Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869 ; end in the event of any breach of the provisions of the seid Act, or of this Ord. r, or of any regolati ns made therLby, which provi siont, and regulations relate to lieckticy or State Car ria,z‘ s and the Proprietors thereof; and also in the event of the Proprietor being convicted of any felony or mis demeanour. And I hereby order and prescribe it to be an express condition of the granting of snyllackney or Stage carriage Licence milder thsChller_. 1.70 - 151M . p.ct to toVISIOII MT. 1,81011 'or any punt' y the Secretary of State for the Home Department. if at any time any Proprietor shall be convicted of any offence against the provisions of this Order, or of any Act for the time being in force relating to Hackney or Stage Oar= ! riages, or of any felony or misdemeanour. 10. The Pro - prietor of any Licensed Carriage shall, within three days after a notice shall have been deli vered to him, either personally or left at the address mentioned in his Licence, or on the expiration of the period for which his Licence shall have been granted, within three days from such expiration, deliver up his Licence to the Inspector of Public Carriages at the Police-station of the District within which the place of his address, as described in the loth Clause hereof, shall be situate, and within the said periods shall bring the Carriage to such Police-station named, in order that the Plate may be unfixed, and he shall then and there de liver up the Plato to the Inspector of Public Carriages. 11. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall at any time, when required by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, produce and show the Licence which shall have been granted to him iu respect of such Carriage. 12. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall not conceal the Plate, nor shall he obliterate or deface any number or mark thereon. 13. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage shall not knowingly permit the same to be used for any illegal purpose. 14. Any Licence erased or defaced shall be void and of none effect. 15. The Proprietor of any Licensed Carriage who shall, during the currency of the Licence, change his abode or place of residence, shall within seven days of such change, give notice thereof to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, and until such notice the address men tioned in the Licence, and after such notice the address mentioned in the notice, shall be deemed to be the address of the Proprietor of the Licensed Carriage for all pur poses, whether of service of notices or otherwise. 16. During the currency of any Licence, and until it shall have been returned to the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, the Proprietor of any Carriage shall, at all reasonable times, allow to all persons appointed by the Secretary of State, or by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, for the purpose of inspecting Horses or Carriages, f ree access to their premises where such Horses and Carriages are kept, for the purpose of such in spection, on the production of a special order of the said Commissioner for that purpose. 17. In case of the death of any Proprietor during the continuance of his Licence, the Licence shall be brought to the Office of the Commissioner of Police of the Metro polis, who will by endorsement thereon transfer the Licence to the person entitled thereto by Will, or to the person entitled to administer to the deceased Proprietor, or to the widow or surviving husband, or eldest male child (being of age) of the deceased Proprietor. N.B.—The above provisions apply both to Hackney Carriages and Metropolitan Stage Carriages, and the word Carriage when used above (unless where otherwise specified) applies equally to both of these classes. The following provisions apply to Hack ney Carriages only :- 18. Every person desirous of applying for a Licence in respect of any Hackney Carriage, under the said Act and this Order, shall make and sign his application in the Form C contained in the Schedule hereto. 19. At any time during the currency of the Licence the Proprietor of the licensed Carriage may alter the Fares mentioned in the Form of Application, but fourteen days' notice shall, previously to any such alteration, be given to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. And with respect to "Regulations relating to Hack ney and Stage Carriages," I do by this my Order snake the following Regulations : AS TO HACKNEY CARRIAGES ONLY. 1. The number of persons to be carried in any Hackney Carriage shall be the number mentioned in the Licence granted in respect of such Carriage. 2. Previous to the granting of any Licence for any Hackney Carriage, the Proprietor thereof shall cause to bo distinctly painted, and shall thereafter keep distinctly painted, on the outside, at the back of each Carriage, the Number of persons to be carried, and no greater number of persons shall be carried than authorised by the Licence. 3. Every child shall be reckoned as a person within the meaning of the foregoing Regulations. 4. The Table of Distances signed by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis in pursuance of the 6th section of statute It; and 17 Vie, R. 33, gee. 17, and now in f wee. shall until further order be evidenee for the purp.l. o of any F.re to be cliareil by distance within the meaning of the 9th section of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869. 5. he Props iotor of every Licensed Hackney Carriage shsal provide and affix to the top of the ofCarriage,lie o f it he na socket or by a hinge, as the Commissioner Po Metropolis shall direct, a metal flag, on which ;tall be distinctly painted in black letters on a white ground, or I, the Fares licensed td be ime. be the Fares mentioned in icence until they shall have alteration shall have been after the expiration of such ,ned in the notice, and such painted on the flag. , ny Licensed Hackney Car en authorised public stand ,all be there plying for hire, hinge or fixed in the socket the top of the Carriage. iage being hired, the flag SPORTING. —J WIN ROBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as pub ished.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.C. white letters on a black grow) , charged both for dietance and t: 6. Fares to be charged sball written application for a Lip altered and notice of sucli , as above mentioned, and he Fares mention 'area are to be rep of be lawful for at hire except on a the Carriage sht e raised on the h e hibited on Carri ~!""' shall be lowered on she bingo or taken from the Fo( kot, and shall not be again raised on the hinge or placed in the socket or otherwise exhibited, until the Carriage shall be again plying for hire on an authorised public standing. 9. No Hackney Carriage shall be let to hire elsewhere than on an authorised public standing, nor shall any Fare be recoverable in respect of any hiring unless at the time of the hiring the Carriage hired shall have been plying on an authorised public standing, with the flag raised and exhibited in pursuance of the Regulation 7, as above pre scribed. 10. When the Carriage shall have been hired by dis tance, and the carriage shall be stopped at the request of the hirer during the journey, for any time or times amount ing in the whole to fifteen minutes, the driver shall be en titled, at the end of the journey, to demand and receive a further sum, in addition to the Fare to which he shall be entitled for the journey calculated by distance, equal to one fourth part of the Fare exhibited on the metal flag as the Fare per hour, and to an additional sum equal to one such fourth part for every further fifteen minutes completed for which the Carriage shall Lave been stopped at the request of the hirer during the journey. 11. When the Carriage shall have been hired by the hour the driver shall be entitled to demand, for every fifteen minutes or any part of fifteen minutes not com-. pleted above one hour, one fotirth of the Fare per hour exhibited on the metal plate. 12. And for the better publication of the Fares which the driver may demand from the hirer of any Hackney Carriage, the Proprietor of every Hackney Carriage shall provide for the driver, and the driver :Anal deliver to every person hiring the same on entering the same a ticket of the following form, on which shall be printed the owner's Name and Address, the Number of the Carriage, and the Rates of Fares by thee and distance, which the driver, according to these Regulations, is entitled to de mand from the hirer of the Carriage. OBVERSE SIDE. PARES. s. d. Per Mile I No Fare under a Per Hour Shilling. If hired by DISTANCE— For every 15 minutes completed If hired by TIME— One-fourth Part }- of the Rate For every 15 minutes or part of 15 per Hour. minutes not completed above One 1 Hour LUGGAGE T wop( nce for each Package ca , ried OUTSIDE. CHILDREN. All Children to count as Passengers. EXTRA PERSONS. For each Person abeve Two, for the whole journey, the sum of —. Licensed to carry - Persons inside and - outside. REVERSE SIDE. HACKNEY ,CARRIAGE, No Owner's /I ame.:— Address.. Reference in case of Complaint; or Property left in the Carriage. 13. Every Licensed Carriage and all its furuiture and appointments, and the harness used for the horse or horses drawing the same, shall be always kept in per fect order and repair. And for securing the safo custody and re-delivery of any property arcidentally left in Hackney and Me tropolitan Stage Carriages, and fixing the Charges to be paid in respect thereof, and with reference to the sale of such property, and as to giving it to the finder in the event of its not being claimed within a certain time, I make the following regulations:- 1. Immediately atter the termination of any hiring, the driver of any Hackney Carriage, and immediately after the completion of any journey, the conductor of any bletro politan Stage Carriage, shall carefully search the Carriage for any property which may have been accidentally left therein, and any such article found on such search, or at any other time, by, or delivered to, any driver or conduc tor, or which may be found at any time by any other per son shall, if not sooner claimed by the owner thereof, within twenty-four hours after such finding, be deposited in the state in which it shall be found at a Police-station within the Metropolitan Police-District, but nothing in this Regulation is to be deemed or taken to repeal the 11th section of the statute 16 and 17 Vic., cap. 33. 2. All property found in Hackney or Stage Carriages, and deposited with the Police as aforesaid, and all pro perty brought to any Police-station by any driver or con ductor, under the statute of 16 and 17 Vic., cap. 33, sec. 11, if not claimed and approved to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to belong to the claimant, for three months after the property is so brought to or deposited at the Police-station, will, at the discretion of the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, be either delivered to the person who shall have deposited the found property, or be sold. 3. If the property found shall not be delivered to the depositor, but shall be sold as aforesaid, a sum of money shall be awarded by the said Commissioner and paid to the person who shall have deposited the found property, on the following scale : If the article deposited be of less value than £lO, for gold and silver money, bank notes, jewellery, and watches, a sum equal to three shillings in the pound or. the value of the article. For:all other articles, two shillings and sixpence in the pound. But in no case shall any less sum be awarded than ono shilling. If the article deposited he of .£lO value or upwards, then in every case such a sum shall be paid as the sail Commissioner may in his discretion specially award. 4. If the property which shall have been so deposited shall be claimed before the extdration of the said podod of three mouths, the same shall be re-delivered to the claimant, if h. , shall prove to the satisfaction of the Com missioner of Police of the Metropolis that he has a right to the re-delivery thereof, on payment by the claimant of all expenses incurred, and of such a reasonabl sum to the driver, conductor, or other depositor, as the Commissioner shall a ward. And with reference to Metropolitan Stage Carriages, the following 1-legulatious 1. No printed or written bill shall be affixed en any part of the outside of any Lic,used Metropolitan Stage Car riage, except to designate the destination of such fiithin i ngr4al,l app printed or written bill bo fastened Carriageu!'"n3 tae inside of the wioa,,,,s „,, jt 2. Every Licensed Metropolitan Stage Carriage and all furnittre and appointments, and the harness of the horses drawing the same, shall always be kept in perfect order and repair. And with regard to Licensing Drivers of Hackney Carriages, and the Drivers and Conductors of Stage Carriages, I do by this my Order, direct, and pre scribe as follows: . 1. All Licences which a Secretary of State may grant to drivers of Hackney Carriages, and to the drivers and conductors of Metropolitan Stage Carriages, shall be . granted by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, who has been appointed by me for that purpose. 2. All Licences so granted to the drivers of Hackney Carriages, and to tle drivers and conductors of Metropo litan Stage Carriages, shall be respectively in the forms marked E, F, G, in the Schedule to this Order, and all the provisions of the Acts relating to Hackney Car riages, and Metropolitan Stage Carriages, and Police Re gulations now in force with respect to the application for the granting of and generally as to Licences granted under these Acts, or any of them, shall, save as the same are varied by this Order, or are inconsistent therewith, or with the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, apply to Li cences granted under the said last-mentioned Act, and this my order. 3. Licences granted under the said Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, and this my Order, shall be granted on and after the Ist day of January, 1870 , and if not revoked or suspended, be in force for one year from the date there of ; and there shall be paid in respect thereof to the Re ceiver for the Metropolitan Police District, or to such per son as he shall appoint, before any licence shall be granted, the sum of Three Shillings for every licence granted before the Ist day of February, 1870, and Five Shillings for every Licence granted on and after that day, and 1 hereby prescribe the said sums of Three Shillings and Five Shillings to be the sums respectively payable for every License. 4. Any Licence granted under this Order to any driver or conductor shall be subject to revocation or suspension for any period of time by any Justice of the Peace in any of the events in which any Licence granted to any driver or conductor in pursuance of any Act of Parliament might, at the passing of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869, be revoked or suspended; and also in the event of any breach of this Order or the provisions thereof, or the Regulations thereby made, or of the provisions of the said Metropolitan Public Carriage Act, 1869. And further, 1 do Order and hereby prescribe it to be an express condi tion of the granting of any Licence under this Order to any driver or conductor, that the Secretary of State for the Home Department shall have power to revoke or for any period suspend any Licence granted under this Order, if at any time any driver or conductor shall be convicted of any offence against or breach of the said Metropolitan Punic Carriage Act, 1869, or this Order, or the pro visions thereof, or of any Regulations thereby made, or of any offence upon conviction whereof before anyJustize or Justices of the Peace, the said Justice or Justices had powe r at the time of the passing of the said Metropoli tan Public Carriage Act, 1869, to suspend or revoke any Licence held by any driver or conductor. And, lastly. I do hereby annex a penalty, not exceeding Forty Shillings, for the breach of this Order, or of any Provision thereof, or of any Regulation hereby directed, save only in those cases where a penalty may lawfully be imposed for any offence under the provisions of any other Act of Parliament now in force. Here follow the Schedules, copies of which may be seen at the Office of the Commissioner cf Police of the Metropolis, Public .Carriage ,Branch, Great Scotland yard. THE CHEAPEST DIARY EVER PUBLISHED. P OCKET DIARY FOR 1870, Second Edition, containing the following useful information:— Almamck Corporation of London Transfer Days of Public Funds Postal Information Weights and Measures List of Bankers Stamp Ditties Army and Navy Agents Foreign Motleys Cab Fares Ministers of State I Ready Reckoner Also' A DIARY, a - ranged oa the moat approval plan, and neatly pitinted on g,od writing paper, Price One Penny, or post-frea for Twopence. V. 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Box-office open fromil to 4. • THE PORTE AND THE VICEROY, In the Levant Herald of the 22nd we read :—" While accepting the Imperial firman, the Khedive—as mentioned by our Alexandria correspondent—bas replied to it in a letter which has given but indifferent satisfaction to the Porte. Nothing could be more deferential in terms, but in substance it says this :—`Though in the interests of present peace I have submitted, I consider my rights and privilages to still be exactly what and where they were' The only official notice taken of this was an immediate order, by telegraph, to send up the 200,000 breech-loaders and to direct the delivery over of the ironclads still at Toulon to an officer of the Government, who leaves for that purpose by the Marseilles steamer of to-day. To this despatch no reply has been given up to last evening, but a private telegram received this morning, and dated Cairo yesterday, states that on the receipt of it an order was at once telegraphed to Toulon for the vessels to Proceed immediately to Alexandria. It is hazarding little, therefore, to repeat our averment that the Egyptian difficulty is not settled but only postponed." INFLUENCE OF ALTITUDE ON TEMPER All CE. Dr. Marcet communicates a paper to the Bittiotheque Uuiverselle et Revue Suisse, November 15th, 1869, in which he gives the results of a series of observa tions made during an expedition to the Mont Blanc chain of mountains. He employed a thermometer so constructed that, whilst the bulb was under the tongue, the height of the mercury could be read off by means of a small mirror attached to the stem. The in strument was carefully graduated to fifths of a degree, but variations not exceeding a tenth were readily visible. The results he obtained were as follows :-1. The temperature of the human body in the state of repose does not ordinarily become less elevated at the summit of high mountains than at tho level of the sea. Diminu tion in atmospheric pressure, therefore, does not appear to have a marked influence on the temperature of the body in a state of repose. 2 The tempera ture of the body appears progressively to dimi nish during the act of ascent. The degree of this depression depends almost exclusively on the time that has elapsed since the last meal. As a general rule, rapid mounting, with free transpiration, produces the greatest depression of temperature. 3. The temperature of the body, after undergoing decrease during the ascent, quickly augments when the body is again at rest, or even when the rapidity of the ascent is diminished. 4. The general feeling of indisposition, and in particular the oppression at the heart, that is often experienced at great altitudes, is accompanied with a remarkable depression of temperature of the body generally.—Lancet. AN EMPEROR OF SIAM ON THE PRO GRESS OF HIS COUNTRY. The New York Independent of December 18th publishes a literal copy of a letter written by " the elder of the two youthful monarchs who at present occupy the throne of Siam "to an American lady who was formerly a mis sionary in that country. "The penmanship," the Inde pendent states, "is almost as beautiful as copper-plate engraving." The King begins by acknowledging with many thanks the receipt of a congratulatory note from his fair cor respondent, which, ho tells her, "called up many refreshing memories of childhood," " Numerous changes," he adds, " have taken place, and you would barely recognise Bangkok could you be transported here." Noticing briefly the reigns of his uncle and his father, and the accession of his cousin and himself, be proceeds :—" Treaties were made with all the great Powers of the West. Europeans and Americans resorted hither for trade. An extensive commerce has been the result. This city has greatly im proved in its appearance, its buildings, roads, and canals. Beautiful square-rigged vessels and steamers are now owned by the Siamese Government, and Siamese merchants. The industry, produce, and wealth of the country have correspondingly advanced. . . . Peace and prosperity exist throughout the length and breadth of the kingdom, and long may it continue, will doubtless be yours, as it is my earnest wish." His Majesty then requests her to accept "as a keepsake from your once baby friend." a set of Siamese coins and a silver cigar box, finished on the outside with gold, and ho thus con cludes :—" My honoured mother and other ladies of the palace wish to be remembered to you. Accept my best wishes for yourself, your husband, and your son, and believe me, yours truly, K. P. B. PAwAB &THAN MONGOL, Second King of Siam, &T., &c., &c." THE FUTURE LEADER OF THE COMER- VATIVE. The John Butt or to-day has a leader on this subject, anct says that no event of the past year is so fraught with disastrous consequences to the Conservative party as the death of Lord Derby. Even when he ceased to be leader, his former followers still trusted him ; and before that, when he still led, lie inspired the utmost confidence so th a t oven when he took a " leap in the dark " there was no wavering on the tart of those behind him. Mr. Disraeli is not to be blamed for his Reform bill. Though the small boroughs have been sacrificed, the large ones will doubtless before long follow the example of the Lancashire towns, and support the Conservative party. But to bring about this result there must be a definite Conservative policy. "There must be a complete cessation of the fatal policy of negation and expediency." If our leaders (continues our contemporary) do not believe in their own principles, how can they expect enthusiastic and devoted followers ? At this moment the question of the Conservative leadership in the House of Lords is being discussed. Ai we inti mated some time ago, our own opinion inclines to the Duke of Marlborough or the Duke of Richmond as the best leader under the present exceptional circum stances. There is, we believe, little doubt that Mr. Disraeli desires the Earl of Derby to succeed his lamented father, and the wish does him credit. But we cannot think it the duty of John Bull to pursue any course but the bold and outspoken one of saying in public what Mr. Disraeli knows is' said in every club and drawing-room. He is not popular, and he cannot, therefore, afford to ap point an unpopular leader in the House of Lords. Ho is profoundly distrusted (rightly or wrongly) by the old Church party. The situation is far too critical a one for the use of stammering language. The Con servative party is not, indeed, a disorganised rabble, for it will always vote straight, whoever may be its leaders; but the recent public utterances of Lord Henry Thynne and Mr. Newdegate bear witness to the intense dissatisfaction which exists amongst the rank and file. Men are loath to cast a slight on Mr. Disraeli's un doubted services or on his splendid abilities; but we warn him that the interests of the party, which are iden tical with those of the country, must rise para mount to all personal considerations. It is not too late for him to retrieve the day. Let him shew himself in earnest, and then, notwithstanding the way in which the Fenians have played Mr. Gladstone's game, he need not despair of success. It is not too much to say that on the attitude assumed by Mr. Disraeli with regard to the religious and educational questions now pending, hangs the existence of Church and State in England. We know what line the late Earl of Derby would have taken. We know what course the Duke of Marlborough and Mr. Gathorne Hardy will adopt. Can we affirm the same with truth of the present Earl of Derby and Mr. Disraeli? The true policy of the Censer vative party is to throw aside a mere waiting policy—in the hope of taking advantage of Liberal divisions—and to boldly enunciate their own views. Let them put honestly before the country, on Church matters, the policy enun ciated by Mr. Disraeli in his famous speech; and on secular politics let them make these the five points of their charter—(l.) That England shall not be entirely governed by Ireland and Scotland; (2) that our Colonies shall not be deserted; (3) that false economy, involving such fearful distress to the people, shall not co-exist with taxation payable in advance ; (4) that free trade shall not be one-sided; and (5) that the dwellings of the poor shall not be pigsties, and the workhouses pri sons. If some such programme were put forward, enthusiasm would take the place of apathy, and gloomy anticipations give way to well-founded hopes for the future. The Tablet notices, "as an indication that the re pentance of Victor Emmanuel is probably sincere, that the prefect and other magistrates of his kingdom were in structed to prohibit any public manifestations against the Vatican Council." According to the Tea le Francais, a I‘l. S-, of Montmorency, has solved the problem of fCrial navigation, by constructing a machine which can be guided through the air as readily as a cab on land, and by means of which he confidently expects to go from Paris to Marseilles in four hours. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN FRANCE.—A. petition was presented to the French Senate a few days since by a Member of the Institute, recommending that the execution of prisoners convicted of capital crimes should hereafter be conducted, as at present in England, within the walls of prisons, in the presence of certain specified authorities. The petition was warmly advocated on the report on its contents; but the Government Com missioner treated it with marked reserve, and expressed his opinion that the object of the petitioners was to make an indirect approach to the total abolition of capital punishment. The Senate proceeded to the order of day, THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. • TIM EVENING, at 7 o'clock, A CO-OPERATIVE MOVE MENT. After which, rEW MEN AND OLD ACRES• Mr Buckstone, Mr Chipp•ndule Miss Robertson, &c. Concluding with THE PAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS: Mr. A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, &c. THEATRE-ROYM., ADELrlir. rnTs EVENING. at 7. Ti,E T.ll/4 , ..4 S !MIKE: Mr. P.enjamin Webster, Mr A. Stir Nlr George Be:more, Mr Atkins, Mr iguold s Furta ke. Follewel by LOST AT SKA :1f r G. relmore, Mr A. Stirling, Mr Atkins, Mr W. Rignold, Mr 0. IT. Stephenson, Miss Furtado, and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. 1 iiiS EVENINO, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD F / al'. At 7 :5, NOT SUCH A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr Jr. J. Byron. And LORD BATEMAN : Miss Fanny Josephs, MrJ.Clarke, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, lIOLBORN. This EVENING, at', VIE BATH ROAD. At 7.45, LOVES SACRIFICr_:: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Vezin, &c. And STATE SECRETS. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swa,nborough. Tuts EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG TETE BITE..kKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOODLES. And INO. Concluding with THE CHOPS OF THE CHARNEL. i t 11l $ LOP 4 1r, JAN. 1, 1870. tencea whom h tenuatinB went is s, strongly aga. •er, has been sen few criminals without " ex- tal punish- )pinion is _es are disposed to evade it b , verdicts which result in a mitigation of natence. There appears to have been actually some little doubt whether this course would not be taken with the perpetrator of the Pantin tragedy; and absurd though such a question may appear, there can really be no limit to judicial freaks in a country where four women, convicted of slow poisoning their husbands in order to marry their amants, were a few months ago found guilty with "extenuating circumstances." But TROPPMANN'S case was too bad even for Frenchmen. His trial has had the only result possible in a country where the infliction of death is looked upon, even in the slightest degree, as a resource of the law. And, in truth, the history of the Pantin murderer, since he first took his high place on the scroll of infamy, has been" sufficiently amazing without addi tional matter for wonder in the shape of a mitigated sentence. The murders were without parallel, and the capture of the 4-4 was very strange. Then the Pad public ftibuted their qiare to the sensation. •Row. g reaf Aational questions Were thrown aside and forgotten, the people of the capital, including the aristocracy, flocked to the Pantin Aceldema, how the newspapers were full of small details and bad engravings for weeks, how, in short, nothing but the great tragedy engrossed public inte rest, are not the least remarkable points in the story. Then TROPPMANN himself was watched with undiminished interest up to the day of trial. We had copious daily bulletins of what he ate and said, how he looked, the feeling or want of feeling he displayed, the exercise ho took, and tha sports in which he indulged. His indifference added much zest to the sensation. The amount of chicken he ate was a momentous fact. And it was a solemn thing to hear that the great man had gazed upon the prison in which MARIE ANTOINETTE was confined, though history is unfortunately deprived of the noble ideas which, doubtless, filled his mind on that occasion. It has been said that the English are growing sensational and artificial, but it may be reasonably questioned whether anything so artificially sensational has ever been known in this country. The procedure at the trial, too, though strictly in accordance with French practice, is calcu lated to shock English notions. No wretch, however utterly lost, would be subjected to such an ordeal as the many hours' interrogation of TItOPPMANN by the President of the Court. No accused, even if innocent, could fail to make a slip at some question or other. And when we find the President assuring the prisoner that his statements are false, that nobody could believe the story about the accomplices, that TROPPMANN did it all himself, that he robbed and murdered the entire family, and that ha had better make a clean breast of it, we are constrained to ask what the business of a jury can be, if the judge settles everything himself. No person, of course, doubted the prisoner's guilt; he confessed, in fact; but if the judge is to take the result for granted, why go through the form of a trial ? The system of questio' - cr, a prisoner to obtain evidence is condemned leading English jurists; but if it be ail .4 its application ought to be rations' I be no good object whatever in que.' cused, and at the same time at his answers are untrue. ) be believed, the questions ing. If it be the mission of the prisoner until he has told all, the . ,jury, and colinspl,.-fitight be Ong ago sufficient for the pur e only use of the late enquiry ain gaps in the story. This object, with a trifling exception, has been effected. TROPPMANN, a native of the Haut-Rhin depart ment, in France, worked as a machinist with the firm of which his father was the chief. Being sent to Roubaix to fit up some machines, he made the acquaintance of the linsTex family, and learned that there was a slight difference between M. and Madame KINCK respecting the wish of the husband to increase his property at a place near TROPPMANN'S own abode. M. KINCK, it appears, was a native of the same department as TROPPMANN, and was strongly desirous of adding to his property there, with the view of some day settling at his own native place. Madame KiNcic, who lived on the best of terms with her husband, endeavoured to dis suade him. The murderer resolved to turn this differ ence between the two parties to account. He often ex pressed his desire to be wealthy, as well as his opinion that America was the only place where wealth was to be obtained. From the Ifaxcxs he resolved to procure the means of crossing the Atlantic. He contrived to get on good terms with the household, especially the father. At length a journey to the Haut-Rhin department was arranged between Timex senior and TROPPMANN. The latter set off first to his native town, arriving there on the 24th of August, 1869, and immediately writing to M. Kure; with the assurance that all the arrange ments had been made. KINCK forthwith set off, taking some blank cheques with him. He met TROPP MANN at a place called Bollwiller, and departed with him to another town. Now, when KINCK senior left his family, he informed them that he was going to Guebwiller to see his sister; but he never reached that town, and, indeed, after joining TROPPMANN at Bollwiller, was never seen again. He was murdered after leaving the latter place. The relatives at Guebwiller, informed that KINCK senior was coming, and alarmed at his non appearance, wrote to his family at Roubaix. Unfor tunately, the letter was badly addressed, and miscarried. Upon this slight circumstance turned the whole tragedy. TROPPMANN had. every thing his own way. He became KINCK senior for the time being. He represented that "the husband had hurt his hand, and by writing as his amanuensis, obtained an order for £220, though fortunately the money was not paid. But with the blank cheques, which the murderer filled up, he was more successful. Baffled in his scheme of cashing the order for £220, TROPPMANN next conceived the idea of murdering the entire family and getting possession of their property. He had no difficulty in carrying out this design. The son, GUSTAVE KINCK, was allured to Paris by a letter, purporting to come from his father. He was mur deredl and buried in the field. Immediately afterwards Madame KINCK and her five remaining children fell into a similar trap, and shared the same fate. The remarkable circumstances atten dant upon their discovery and the capture of the murderer, were all disclosed long ago. The later revelations supply information only as to the long mysterious doings and death of the father. Of defence TROPPMANN had virtually none. He fist confessed and then retracted ; and afterwards in sisted that the crimes Were committed with the aid of three accomplices. But no substantial evidence was brought forward in support of tAis theory. The trial was, in fact, a mere form, and, as we have seen, nit a very satisfactory one. But it is finished, and it is to be hoped that even the French public will now have done with TROPPMANN STEAM VERSUS SAILING SHIPS. The Engineer has an article on the United States navy founded on the report of Mr. Robeson, and lays especial stress on the Secretary's remarks on the sea-going qualities of the monitors. "They require," says Mr. Robeson, "several vessels to accompany them, and being entirely without sail power must be towed as soon as their coal is exhausted. They would be always dangerous to health in tropical seas, and with broken or disordered machinery they would be helpless in mid-ocean. They are valuable for auxiliary defence of otu• own shores, but should not he relied upon beyond them." The Engineer italicises this passage, and observes that we are constructing iron clad ships, depending solely on steam propulsion, just at the moment that America, having tried the system, con demns it. During the last two years the Americans have tried two great experiments on a very costly scale, and have fully tested the merits of the smooth-bore cast iron ordnance, and the monitor system. The first has been completely condemned, the last is now rele gated to its former position. The Monitor is considered suitable for the defence of harbours and dockyards, but is condemned as unfit to represent a great nation on the ocean. Should we fail to profit by this lesson, we shall go over all the ground turned by Bro ther Jonathan, and come back to the good old-fashioned broadside ship for general purposes, while our costly monitors will be used as guard-ships on duty which could be performed quite as well by the ships of our old wooden navy cut down, plated and turreted, for one-fifth of the cost of new monitors. HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dec. 31. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, drove out in the grounds this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold walked in the grounds. LATEST INTELLIGENOS (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) IMPORTANT THEATRICAL DECISION IN AMEHICA. (I'er French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Jan. 1. Some time since Miss Bateman obtained an in junction against an American manager restraining him from continuing the performance of " Mary Warner," which was written by Tom Taylor for Miss Bateman, and afterwards purchased by her. The New York Court has now sustained the injunc tion, thereby securing Miss Bateman's sole right to the play. NEW YORK, Dec. 31. The North German Lloyd's steamer Main ar rived out to-day at 9 a.m. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 120 1 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 120 i; the lowest, 119 g. Sterling Exchange on London lOBl. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1134. !4 " 1885 ll3. ic " 1867 llsg. 10-40 it Illinois 1314. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 2slc. Petroleum—Standard White 3olc. Flour, extra state, $5.30c. to $5.90c. Corn, old mixed, sl.loc. LISBON, Dec. 30. The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Com pany's steamer Halley has arrived here. Her dates are Rio, Dec. 3, and Bahia, Dec. 9. Exchange at Rio, 191. Coffee and cotton firm. The outward-bound steamer Donati, from Havre, arrived at Bahia on the 7th, and left the same day for the south. FRANCE. PARIS, Jan. 1. The Consiitutionnel of this morning says : " Unless unforeseen changes should occur the following will be the members of the new Ministry. The publication of their names in the official journal, however, will not take place before Sunday : M. 011ivier . . Justice. M. Gaudin Foreign Affairs. M. Chevandier lnterior. M. Richard M. Louvet Commerce. The other portfolios will remain in the hands of their present holders. Yesterday Traupptuann took the necessary steps for appealing to the Court of Cassation. He has resumed in some degree his former cheerful de meanour, but is unable altogether to conceal his sense of his present serious position. tiOURSE, Dec 31.—Three o'clock—The mark t closed as follows : per Cont. End of month — 3per Cent -) 57 Bank Shares 9840 Italian wives 56 60 Austrian Fives — Ottoman Loan 333 Do. Dobt 43 35 Spanish Threes Dome Debt — Deferred — -- s, Cash. Orleans Western Northern Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..." 592 Sardinian - 521 Austrian B2O Lombard 525 North of Spain 46 Saragossa Roman 4l End of mont.b 72 45 uredit Alobiner 207 50 Transatlantic 220 Orodit Foucier 1722 50 Paris Gas 1640 RAILWAY THE QUEEN'S TAXES. The Times publishes what is evidently an official state. ment with respect to the payment of Queen's taxes. It is explained, with regard to income tax, that there is no alteration whatever in respect to the payment of income tax on dividends arising from public funds or shares, on interest of moneys, or on salaries. The tax under each of these heads will be deducted at the time of payment, exactly as before. "The income tax chargeable in respect of houses or lands, and on profits of trades or professions, for which an assessment is required to be made in and fog• the year ending the sth of April, was formerly, by maw, payable quarterly; but the first and second quarters have, in prac tice, been generally collected together in October, leaving the third quarter to be collected in January, and the fourth quarter in the following April. Under the present law the tax for the whole year ending the sth of April will be collected in a single payment to be made in the month of January of that year. As to land tax and inhabited house duty it is pointed out that these taxes are chargeable as before, the house duty being rated on the current annual value of the pro mises in the year of assessment, ending the sth of April. They were payable in moities, on the 20th of September and 20th of March of such year. The whole year's tax will now be payable in one sum in the month of January. " Assessed taxes were chargeable in respect of the greatest number of articles (male servants, carriages, horses, &c.) kept or used at any one time during the year ending sth of April. These taxes became due onlg in the year succeeding that in which the articles were kept, and were payable in moieties on or after the 20th of September and 20th of March. Thus of the assessed taxes on articles kept in the year 1868, ending sth of April, 1869, one moiety has, or should have been, already paid, and the remaining moiety will have to be collected in April next. No tax has been or will be charged in respect of any article kept between the sth of April, 1869, and the Ist of January, 1870. The new excise licences, which are in lieu of the assesssed taxes, come into operation on the Ist of Janu ary, 1870. These licences must be taken out during the month of January, or within twenty-one days from the time at which any of the articles are taken into use, and will hold good until the 31st of December, 1870. To faci litate the obtaining of the licences, forms of declaration have been prepared, and are being forwarded to all persons whose names appear on the lists of assessed tax payers; others may obtain them by application by letter, or personally, at Somerset House, or at any of the places indicated in the notices affixed to the church-doors, &c. The licences will only be supplied on the delivery of these forms, pro perly filled up, together with the amount of the duties pay able. The foregoing explanation will make it evident that no one can be called upon to pay taxes twice for the same articles for any one year, or to pay duty twice in respect of income tax, inhabited house duty, or land tax for any portion of a year. The Palestine and the Sinai Exploration Funds have been united. REPORTED STOPPAGE OF THE MAIN DRAINAGE OF LONDON.—The Architect says that the main drainage works at Barking have experienced, if report be true, a serious check. The fracture of an important part of the pumping machinery is stated to have so disabled the whole that for a considerable number of hours working was impossible, and it has only been with great difficulty that in the City the sewers have been kept at all clear_ GOVERNMENT ).IADE PAINT---Another change is to be made at Chatham dockyard. Hitherto all the paint used in the dockyards of the United Kingdom, and also in the Royal dockyards abroad, has been made in the paint factory at Chatham yard. The Lords of the Admi ralty have ordered that this manufactory shall be closed as soon as the orders now in hand are completed. No doubt the Admiralty intend in future to obtain their supply of paints by contract. DISTURBANCES IN KILKENNY.—Serious distur bances aro happening at Kilkenny between the townsmen and the soldiers. The other day a dispute arose between two soldiers of the 65th and a party of workmen who were drinking in a public-house. The townsmen attacked the soldiers with stones, but assistance having been ob tained from the barracks, the mob were resisted at the point of the bayonot, and, in turn, stoned by the soldiers. The following night there wore seventeen soldiers drinking in the same, place, and the affray was renewed, with a similar result. The soldiers when attacked drew their bayonets, chased the towns people through the streets, and, taking up stones, beat the mob away with their own weapons. A strong picket afterwards patrolledthe streets, and order was restored. THE GOVERNMENT POWDER MAGAZINES.—AII apprehensions of danger to the dockyard and other Government establishments at Chatham, and to a popula tion of some 60,000 people living in the locality, from the great powder magazines at Upnor Castle will soon be at an end. But one more cargo of powder has to be removed; then the deteriorated powder in themagazine will be taken away to be remanufactured, and the building will become harmless. It is understood that no dangerous amount of any kind of explosive substance will henceforth be kept in any magazines at Chatham. The powder taken from Upnor is conveyed to the magazines at Purfleet, but it will not remain there, but be distributed among the various powder magazines in different parts of the country, so that Lon don will not be in anygreater peril from the Purfleet stores of powder than it has been hithert THE REMOVAL OF CAPTAIN MADDEN.—The Dublin Daily Express characterises the removal of Captain Madden from the commission of the peace as " a glaring instance of profligate abuse of public authority." It has come to this (says the Express) a country gentle man cannot, in defence of law, and in tho interests of society, assail the conduct of a particular Ministry without being accused of insulting his Sovereign, and being degraded from office in his county. The conduct of the Chief Secretary is the best as it is the most recent justification of Captain Madden's charges that the func tions of Government in this country are prostituted to the vilest party purposes. If the Ministry cannot gas the press, if they cannot stop the right of meeting, they can at least shew the country magistracy that amongst them they will tolerate no criticism—no interference with their administrations of affairs. THE FACULTY AND THE WELSH FASTING GUM-- The B titiSh .111edical Journal, in a note on the Welsh fast ing girl, says : " It ought in justice to be made known that the medical gentlemen in London, who were en rapport with the committee in Wales, kept writing daily to the local surgeons to guard against any symptoms of exhans tion in the fasting girl, and to administer nourishment nolens volens, should there be any appearance of seriouE change in her condition. THE BISHOP OF MANCESTER'S FUNERAL.—The funeral of Dr. James Prince Lee, first Bishop of Manches ter, took place on Friday in the burial-place attached to St. John's Church, Heaton Mersey, near Manchester. The funeral cortege was not large, the late Bishop having expressed a wish to be interred aj privately as possible. It left Mauldeth Hall a little after twelve o'clock. The hearse was preceded by a number of car riages filled by gentlemen who had attended without invi tation, and near the church about sixty of the clergymen of the diocese joined the procession. The serv i ce i n the church was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Tongc, the rector, and that at the grave by the Rev. Dr. Durnford. The atten dance of spectators was not large, and nothing occurred to disturb the impressiveness of the proceedings. • The strange death of the man Wilson, who was an inmate of the Lancaster Lunatic Asylum, na longer appears wrapped in mystery. The Liverpool Courier says that "a fellow patient in the institution has come forward with evidence implicating two of the attendants in an assault on the deceased while he was in their charge, and the jury have so far believed the witness that they have committed the num for trial on a charge of ragiulaugliter." .lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. Evening. SATURDAY 12 min past 1 40 min past 1 SUNDAY 5 min past 2 - 28 min past 2 MONDAY 50 min past 2 15 min past 3 TuusHAv WEDNESDAY l2 min past 4 35 min post 4 THURSDAY 52 min past 4 12 min past 5 FRIDAY 30 min past 5 .50 min past 5 litat it I. , t'',4••• THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL [ITEMS. (Prom the Musical Standard) It is stated that the Papal authorities, doubting their ability to suppress obnoxious operas, have now resolved to try if they can alter them so as to make them harmonise with Romish ideas. Raoul, in the " Huguenots," is to be made of the correct Ultramontane pattern, and will be killed off by wicked Protestant heretics. Faust is to be a che mist, and Mephistopheles a doctor We hear from Glasgow of the publication of what is assumed to be the most complete collec tion of Scottish melodies that has yet been placed before the public. Madame Arabella Goddard will not winter in Paris, as some of our contemporaries appear to think. The lady's engagements in England (already entered into) will occupy her until March or April next. Cherubini's ~ Medea" is being performed at Leipzig. By request of King George, M. D'Adelberg has composed a national hymn for Greece. In spits of " difficulties" in Spain, a competition for a Spanish opera has just taken place at Madrid, and four works are highly commended. M. Pasdeloup, the well-known Paris concert giver, has placed his resignation as conductor at the Theatre Lyrique in the hands of the Minister of Fine Arts. Madame Monbelli, with Mdlles. Reboux and Pauline Lewitzky, the new Russian star, have signed their several engagements with Mr. Wood for Drury-lane Theatre. The Lyonese, who have a special Romish liturgy of their own, have had it set to music by Al. Fdli% Clement, and his arrangement of the plain chant has been adopted in several parishes. The House Committee on Ways and Means, after a close discussion, are said to have reached the fol lowing proposal:—" On all steel in ingots, coils, sheets, and steel wire not less than one-fourth of an inch ie diameter, 3 cents per pound in lieu of the present duties, viz., from 21 to 3 cents per pound, and 10 per cent. ad vaierent. Mr. Marshall proposed 21 cents; Blair, 3i ; Allison, 21; Schenck, 3, which was final*" carried, making the duty specific and uniform. steel rails and other articles of steel are yet to be acted upon' Whether the uniform duty of 3 cents raises or reduces the existing tariff is a matter of discussion." The Now Yor k Evening Post, alluding to the Committee, asserts that the members, as manufacturers of iron, salt, lumber, copp er ' or ste e l, ought not f o advise C ongress on i mport duties directly affecting their own interest, declaring that thos e who imposed prohibitory taxes wh en so p l ace d t o i n crease their own gains were no better th an M attoon, the State Senator of New York, who lat e l y di s ti ngu i s h e d himself._ The very extensive Distillery now being ereotecl at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gai ned a world-wide celebrity for their line old Irish whisky, is to be called " The Royal Irish Distillery."