The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-04 00:00:00

IHE FA\ rOURITE trated. ,ILLES, all Elul OUDO C R QUADRILLE (C. CooTE).—Piano solo an( I duet, each 45.; quadrille band, 3s. lIAPPY FAMILY QUADRILLE (S. GLOVER), Piano iolo, 35. ; duet, 4s. HOLID AY QUADRILLE (s. G tovEßl Piano Nolo, 35.; duet, 4s. OBIN: ;.ON CRUSOE QUADRILLE (S _ILI) GLOVE a).—Piano Solo, 3s. ; Duet, 4s. E SAIS G AMONG THE FLOWERS. Song by W. T.. "WRIGI.rroN. 2s. 6d. -WA KB i.INGS Iticit aims• 3s. NOON. By BRINLEY 1 LOYAL GREEK MARCH. By S, . I GLO VE. t. 3r„ PERCY M. DO`' F, 74 anager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary to the London Board. OYAI, ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, for the 11th time, BAlfe's new Opera, BLANCH?. DE NEVE RS : Miss Louisa ryne, Miss Aana Emma Heywood ; .Messrs. W. 11. NVeiss, EL Cora, A. Cook, A. at. Albyu, C. Lyall, J. Rouse, and W. Harrison. To Conclude with the Second Act of THE DESERT FLOWER. Conductor, Mr. A. Mellon. Doors (rpen at half-past, Six— 'ornmence at Seven. THEA'i['itE ROYAL D RURY - LANE. Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. E. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, her Majesty's Servants will perform the Farce tit MY lINA.RI"S I.N THE HIGHLANDS: characters loy Mr. Neville, Mr. G. Weston, Mr. Warne., Air. J. Man is; Mrs. C. Melville, and Miss Harileur. At er which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. Messrs. : k Ips, Ryder, Rayner, M agreson, vVard, Spencer ; Miss liburn e, Miss F. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss isitter, Miss Cicely Not', Miss 7Eleywood, and Mr. Swift. Followed by BEAUTY OR THE BEAST. Principal cha racters by Messrs. Addison, G. F. Neville, Barret, Spencer, and G. West on; Mrs Edmund Falconer and Miss R. Lecicrq. THEAVRE ROYAL HAY MARKET,- ScOe Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, SILKEN FETTE ttS Measrs. Chas. Mathews, C i.ippen:Jale, W. Farrell, Howe, &c. ; Mesdames C. Mathews and M. Harris. Followed 'hy THE GOLDEN FLEECE Nressrs. Charles. Mathew., C• 3 mpton,Westhersby,&.;. ; Mesdames C. Mathews, L Keeley. Griffith, &c. Followed by CO .)L AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. C. Mathews And LITTLE DAISY. Commence at 7. ttING_ESS'6 THEATRE.-HERRAIAN► N.- lie public Ere respectfully inf rmed that there will be I\ (-) PE ; Fultll.lA C THIS EVENING, in consequence of Jl(rr Herrmann 8 being commanded to perform at Erozinore before the.r lloyad Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Waks. ROYAL. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the: Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DENIONI 0 (a Triumphant Success) will be repeeed Every Evening - u ntil further notice. THIS EVENING, the Comedietta, by W. Gilbert, entitled UNCLE BABY : Mess s. Widdicombe, .1. G. Shore, Charles ; bliss P. Le.,lerc• 1, and Carlotta Leclercq. After which, at Ei , glit o'clock, BEL DEITONIO, a Love Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian. Chronicle ," by' Mr. John Bronzmm. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fecliter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Br ery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Andrew s, Sims ; Miss Kate Terry, E. Lavenue, 3i ra. Lee, and 31 /es Elsworthy. Doors open at half-past 6—commence at 7. LEA .H.-EVERY NIGHT. MISS B ATEMAN.-LEAH.-TII!S EVENING.. , the r/Z th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Mis t s " V ENIAN, in the characterPAlL In csmsequenee o the uonbn onitti ~ lir dect success with which Miss I3ateman's imperso ti:` ' f the priccipal character in the new rive Act Drama that It AA ll has been attenied. Mr T e b s t e , b egs t o announce wi be notice. performed EVERY EVENING until further __ N - gly , T REATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.- - --0. l'eortrii.tor rind Itanazer, NT:.. R. Wehopr. THIS EV x i , S tirliug,7. E-- "Gr, at 7 THE TItAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. At R, the Niewbrvii man, supported b y . ut a of LEAH : Sth wenic of Miss Bate timfton, Stuart, steilefgerBAo.Art,:hbuurSeti;rliis wee E nitß.. Simms, Phillips Thl- Mrs. Billing,tcn, neon , ira and To conclude. with luz I RISH TIGER. : Miss K. Kelly and Mr. btepherrson. OYAL sT M 8 anazer, Mr. w NP THEATRE. T ills' EVENING. 3lllt lAvi . swanbo lioney, Porsche, Belford, 'burn e r eltIlIE. 3Tessrs. Geo. 31,,ii tie rs. , Miss li. Saville, and 3liss l'ohowed by (10th time) P ATIENT Th .„ ,Ret „ rn o r Ulysses. Messrs. 'mon ey au VNE r. OPE • or, The wan borough and Shnpson. Penton Mesdames After which, MY Nhlti PLACE 41,,, r, COmmenco at 7, A. Wood. 'ROYAL SADLER'S-WELLs ------------ % ' TR E A rpm, manapercss, 311 8 S Marriott, --- ...L.,. THIS EVENING, th e s uccessful new Play b„ Marston, ll:sn., entitled Pliitl*: GOLD: MessricVemtland H. Mar4on, D. H. Jones, IV. D. Gresh am * 6 - Peri l ' il Pf4 .Alundlebert, Mrs. B. White. and .3liss Marriott. tt ; Atis -4 To conclude with TILE BRIGAND: Mr. D. 11. Jones, llandlebert. 1 118 s _ . Box-ofiee open from 11 to 4. Wills and Bequests. The will of Sir Samuel John Bonham, Bart,, K.C.B.— formerly Govern or o f P r i nce of Wales Is l an d, Singapore, Malacca, and How - 4-liong, and her Majesty's plenipoten• tiery in Chin a — was proved in London by the execu t or s and trustees, Renry Scott Turner, Esq.; Commander C. W. Bonham, R.N.; James Guthrie, Esq. ; and Captain G. P. Teesdale, "formerly my aide-de-camp in China."' Sir Samuel died on the, Bth of October last, at the Great Western Royal Hot(,l Paddington, at the age of 00, having executed his will in April, and a codicil in July, both iu tho present year. His personal property in this country was sworn under £120,000. After mak ing some specific and pecuniary legacies, he directs that his plate, jewellery, Chinese and other orna. ''a . tt:, scroens, an t '. a ll ar ti c l es of virtue shall be retained for_ . his only son , b ut other moveable effects may be sold. Sir Samuel has for the benefit of his son ; but in the event of his son dyine. unmarried,the Pre before attaining the ago of 2.5, or intestate, then Property to left tocertain• • parties named, also to some 1-17hit:w18iiitxt. toeindOn and other charitable institutions. an C i h i aer.:cs Rawlings, Esq., of Great Marl'oo • rearzh-street, 0 4 3 rue-walk, Chelsea, was proved in London unde r .0 1) Ib. relict, together 'i°t:). The executors appointed are ~,,_„.„ phiiu ns, k, ....._ .. h _T ,. homas Elliot Price and James ; , ,na " ,wit,,i ,,: nut al r ' oui 'l le ne wia hears date March, 1863, relatives and personal : f r i en d s , as well as many et t ' ar a i eies to bequests. Ilia widow takes a life interest in th e r t e 4 B l3° and ue t , and upon her decease egacies are left to two niecesaa beauhee widow of a nephew. The folier : n th ed to his nephew, The ultimate residue ho h g are the charitable Charles Rawlings, Esq. Dramatic bequests:—The Clockmakers' 0 0 - 4 1 A nnui lu ty P sZ' et t y l , °o _ ; C )11ege, £ 100; Jewellers' smiths' Benevolent Society, £lOO • _ 4:400 ; Gold , uhelaea R.l . f Association, £2OO ; Chelsea Rectors' Garde n s ~.- le £2oo ; infant School, S. Luke's, Chelsea, £200; Chelsea, Brompton, and Belgrave Dispensary, £5OO ; ch o . ett e le: , tional Day and Sunday Schools, .£200; City of Laudon Truss Society, £500; Society of Musicians, £100; R efo , n, Association, £100; Blind Institution, Euston-road, £2OO ; and Westminster Hospital, £5OO. All legacies to be te e e z egarY duty. -- fatottata.Loitdoit ;rocs, Pee, 5. r C(ITRSICAN BROTHERS: Melody from, For Pi r no. By G. le. WEST. FOUR Ii . UNPRED VOLU MES tor PEESENTS Cats] agues gratis and post free. - ID °BERT COCKS and CO., L on d on .—A it, Mu sicEellers. --11.1P,NI"PURE, CARPETS. EDDING, and 11 " FLOORCLOTH, CAURIAGE-FREE to any house in the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted GLItlhGYALit..7 , .i and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are retipectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and. Co. are pubiishiug an entirely New Edition of their un t quailed 110 USE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by 410 admirable emzravings of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent Ft atis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised sale : A Six-roomed Parsonage An Right-roomed ditto A Ten -roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed d:tto Together with a (rice List of purified neda ~aad a mass of valuable i:lformation to all requiring hour Ad turniture, carpets, orb adding. References kindly perm ttea to Cler_ y men and gen Tl, men in or near Great inaivern, Southampton, Chichester, Flury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, Wells, Oxfo rd, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Cambridge, stains, Dorking-, st. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, P e t er borough, St. David's, Wrexham, Paid above SCO ocher places in all parts of Great tain. COBBETI7 and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford bridge, London, S.E. • THE ii3OYAL INSURANCE COMPANY is now prepared to accept MERCANTILE INSUR- A.N OE i in Loudon at a considerable reduction upon the rates hither ;o charged, and under a scalebearing more equit ably upon merchandise of a non-hhzardous class. Full part iculars given on application at the Office, 29 , Lombard-st.zeet. it IFEBOAT SERVICES. — During the recent l c F h i e n 6 , 4 p t h n i. e . gales some of the boats of the Royal Thricnal o i 1 i o n r e e r ' _LA heavy e 0 . .Lit b at Institution ha w ve re b e e k e e n d i v n e s s t s r e u ls ni :_ en s ta ch l crews of the lollowing Aberdeen, 5 men ; barque Tantworth, of Norway, 17; lus, of schooner s Sorthern Lights, of Preston, -I ; pilot boat, of St. 7 , chooner Anon. of Workington, 4; schooner Gipsy, smack , Saucy Ja'.:k, of Inverness, 1 ; barque' of Droghedf,, 4 ; Marietta, of Lisbon, - ; fishing boat, of Filet', 2 • Tenby fishing boat, 3 ; and barque Providence, of Dantzic,7'. Total lives saved, 55. The liieboats also assistei in bringing safely into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian brig Camoglino , the schooner Sir Cohn Campbell, of Whitby, the schooner Guiha, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am sterdam. on fourt Ihe lifeboats also went off in reply to signals of distress een oceasions, but their services were not these ultimate servi ly c es ;req was £uired.2l6. The amount of rewar d pa id f or all The Comr. iittee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the ' public for A.SSIsTANLE to enable 'hem to meet the con tinued heavy demands on the Society's i 25 lileb at estab lishments- •Contri butions are receiv d by all the Lon.um and country bankers; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq.. at the Institution, 14, .iohn-street, Adelphi, London. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," records of Birkenhead and Birmingham might show Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE 3an be had A very Evening of , a very curiou s con t ras t. Th a t a still more s t r iki ng G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, instance of partiality is continually exhibit e d i n No. 4, Connau g ht-t errace, H yde-park. another part of our dominions is a fact generally admitted, but, thantes to the waters of the Irish Channel, it is not thrust so conspicuously upon our notice, and the supporters of Lord PALMERSTON may conveniently ignore it. If it be an infringe ment of neutrality to furnish one of the combatants with ships, what is it to supply the other with men ? Can fancy picture the indignant excitement of Mr. ADAMS, the horror of Earl RUSSELL, the rage of the whole American nation, if a regular system of en listment was found to be going on at one of our seaports on behalf of the Confederates ? Yet that a wholesale invasion of the Foreign Enlistment Act is actually carried on by the agents and cheers of the Federal Government in Ireland, there is very little reason to doubt. If the supply of men from thence were stopped, the grand armies of the North would soon dwindle away considerably. It is im possible, of course, to prevent men from emigrating with a view to subsequent enlistment, but at least some effort should be made to check that enlist ment being openly carried on in ouryorts by a Go vernment which so loudly proelaiins it's impartiality, and, in pursuance of the duties . of neutrality, thinks fit to confiscate unfinished mid unarmed vessels. Two curious documents have been forwarded .to a contemporary, authentidated by the name and address of the sender, which contain the declarations of two Irishmen before one of the Justices of the Peace for the borough of Cork. These men state that an American war steam frigate came into the harbour of Queenstown on the 2d of November, and that in consequence of its being generally circu lated through the town that she was enlisting men, they went on board, each in company with one or two other men. The pay was to be twelve dollars a month, and the men were well received, being provided with meals. One of them was refused on account of his height, but his two companions were engaged. The other passed inspection,bnt changed his mind for, some reason which he dOes nut give, and came back in the pilot boat. Both men agree in affirming that there were from 150 to' 200 !nen taken on board, the most part being Irish. The American consul for ,Qaeanstsiwn and- his agent were on board, and remained, soma time in conver sation with the officers, soihat the wholesale system of enlistment thus carried on can scarcely be dis owned by American offici'ils. The open manner in which it was done, and the object of the ship in coming there being known throughout the town, afford pretty good evidence that Earl RUSSELL'S remonstrances do not inspire so much respect in the minds of his Federal friends as their threats do him. Or is it that the bias of the Foreign Secretary is so well known by the Northern Govern ment and its agents, that it is considered to be useless trouble to keep up appearances, seeing that their offences are sure to be weighed in a very different balance from any act of the Confederates. Guns and commodities of various kinds have doubt less left this country for both sides, but if the rela tive proportions were aecurately known, the result would not be very flattering to Northern indepen dence or to English non-intervention. It is the worst kind of inactive intervention which brings all the resources of a vast trading community to supply the needs of the one, while any effort of the other to obtain what it wants is met by a universal outcry. Englishmen are not sufficiently quixotic to go cn in any line of business at a heavy loss, and Earl :RUSSELL and Mr. ADAMS have taken care that the owners of the Alexandra and of the Birkenhead rams shall suffer enough from litigation, delay, and annoyance, that smaller capi talists may well hesitate before undertaking trade engagements with the South. If it was the Cabinet of Washington that happened to want hall a dozen Monitors, armed, equipped, and manned, how pleasantly and easily matters might be ar ranged. How conveniently the English authorities might look another way while the vessel steamed out of the harbour—how slight would be the obstacles put in the way by the Custom-house. It must be a great satisfaction to Mr. SEWARD and his fellow s to know that when the ranks of the army of the Potomac,which we hear so much about, are thinned, they can always be supplied in the English dominions; when their naval force has suf -fered f,om encounters with the Power that has no navy, all that is necessary can be obtained from the strictly impartial English. We have certainly a good right to admire and appreciate the courage and determination with w hich the Southern States maintain the struggle against heavy odds, when we ourselves have contributed so consistently and kindly to the assistance of their enemies, and to . the 'ncrease of their difficulties. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Cate DAY.—Morning, 7h. 41m.—Afternoon, Bh. 15m. ' O O-monnow.-Morning, 811. 50m.—Afternoon, 9h. 23m. The Weather—Sun Office, Dec. 4, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock .. 41 Barometer-30.30; a rise of an inch since yesterday. Wind—S.-W. ; moderate breeze, and fine. e-8.- - 1 (t 4l Sun, " LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 4, 1863. M. FOULD'S report upon the French Finances comes rather as an anti-climax after the EMPEROR'S reference to those Finances in his MAJESTY'S inau eiral address to the Senators and Deputies upon the opening of the French Leglislature. It will be remembered that in that inaugural address, NAPO LEON 111. spoke thus distinctly and positively as to little ssion the financial empire.situationofthe lAsr JE,y, " a , The session now tthakaninogrdPink:rey',' said hie the report of the Minister of Finance has not yet been published." The EMPEROR was speaking, recollect, on the' ot;a of November. "It will be so (that is, published) immediately." M. FOULD S Report upon th e F inancial Situation, ' now but just given to the world, being dated, how ever, it will be perceived, on Monday the Ist of December —very nearly a whole month afterwards. Reverting, nevertheless, to the notable words uttered by the Emperor of the FRENCH in anticipation of his Minister's report upon the inaugural day of the Legislative session, we find his MAJESTY speaking thus hopefully, or at any rate, encouragingly, `You will there see," he remarked, meaning in the report when published, " that if our hopes are not completely realised, the revenues of the coun try have still continued to advance and improve, and that, without extraordinary resources we have met the expenses occasioned by the war in Mexico and Cochin China." The passage is so important, however, to our thinking, as contrasted with M. FOULD'S actual statement, now that it has been aublishee, not immediately, but some five weeks afterwards, that we are tempted to give here the EMPEROR'S ipsissima verbs.:—" Vona y verrez que, si nos esperances ne se soot pas completement ealisees, les revenus out suivi une marche ascen dente, et que, sans ressources extraordinaires, nous aeons fait face aux apenses occasionneds par la guerre au Mexique et en Cochinchine." After which very comforting assurance from the lips of the Sovereign himself, comes now, rather, as we have said, as an anti-climax, under the un compromising and pitiless hand of the EM PEROR'S Minister of Finance, the demand of another extraordinary loan—a loan of no less than three hundred million francs, that is, about twelve millions of pounds sterling—really and truly in order to meet the deficit caused by those very wars in Mexico and in Cochin China. To meet the deficit so caused, it is true, and to have some three mil lions sterling to the good, over and above it, after wards. For it is to be remarked that, whereas the deficit notified by M. FOULD amounts to seven millions sterling, the loan he asks for is for twelve millions. In bringing forward that bold proposi tion, however, M. FOULD does so with no evidence on his own part, as Finance Minister, of either de jection or disappointment. He is sanguine that the Mexican debt will at some vague future time be liquidated. He is especially hopeful that a rational economy may, before much longer, be adventured upon by France, in common with the rest of the Great Powers of Europe, with or without the aid of a Congress —a rational economy by means of a general diminution of a war expenditure in a time nominally of peace. Realise those delight ful anticipations of M. FOULD, and no doubt all will become very pleasantly rose-coloured ! Let the Mexican debt be liquidated, let the ruinous rivalry among the European Powers in the way of warlike armaments by sea and by land, during this interval of general tranquillity, cease, and the happiest future is, no doubt of it, clearly before the French Finance Minister, bo that Minister M. ACHILLE FOULD, or some as yet undreamt of successor. For, the truth is undeniably propitious in this way, both in regard to the Financial condition of France and of England —namely, that but for our extravagant rivalry in warlike armaments by sea and by land the resources of the two countries are steadily and wonderfully on the increase. Insomuch is this the actual position of things on both sides of the British Channel, that, let but there be a mutual reduction of extravagant armaments, and the annual deficit would in each instance become transformed into an annual r. ADDERLEY'S last letter on Punishment and Reformation contains some reflections that may be of essential service to those whom it may con cern, or, indeed, to the public generally; for, apart from the mere official set who require more or less advice and assistance in the discharge of their one rous and complicated duties, the whole country has a direct interest in the subject, since the safety of many is closely connected with the right treatment of this important matter. Mr. ADDERLEY'S chief point of discussion in this letter is the "present mode of discharging criminals from punishment." On this he comments at some length, and his stric tures are for the most part most just ones. It is a notorious fact, that the plans adopted of late years, and which were generally considered to be so wise and humane, have almost utterly failed, and that the result has been that the ends of jus tice have been defeated, and the return of the criminals to active life has been marked by a decided &sire to resume the evil of their ways. Hence the greatest consternation has been experi enced in many quarters, and universal indigna tion expressed at the latitude allowed to prisoners, and the false principles which have guided their treatment, and pervaded the establishments wherein penal servitude is carried out. Enormous sums are expended every year in the mangement of these prisons; and if the end is to be that safety is not preserved, and a due terror inspired by the idea of imprisonment, it would appear that the money is wasted, the time thrown away, and the system a decided failure. It is not quite the thing for the general public to abandon the consideration of this subject, until their attention is aroused by the grievous annoyances to which they are exposed, and the greet discomforts that many have to endure. This not at all the right way of treating the question.. It should be calmly and cautiously regarded, and all its bearings taken into account. Then, when objections have been studied, f a ll ac i es exposed, proposals cons id ere d , an d ances introddi theo r i es analysed, some real and l as ti ng b ene fi t m ay pe rc h ance accrue, and the - whole framewo r k be changed ; u w ee h l t e h a so t n i m a p ercep sneeringt imperceptibly a y mi are ca p t the io a a s p p a l d i herent to th e o l d • be called a " panic legislation" routine can possibly declare that we are acting under . . ev fearr every w and tn mit eminentlyt: .t l g Dwp w oE h rß a t L t iiE m y y a: si if their intrinsic merits were not suggestio a n n s d a e r v e e i : regard ; so great, there would b e this advanta that they call attention to they ge in th em , subject, and may last something beneficial may be i mparted to the stimulate others to go and do lik ewise, so that at and year after year an increasing sur plus. This, moreover, in despite of very untoward circumstances circumstances as untoward, for example, and as extraneous, so to speak, in their origin and consequences as that most deplorable and protracted civil war in America, the results of which are so seriously adverse to the mercantile and shipping interests of both France and England. Of one thing, however, 11. FOULD may rest per fectly well assured, while asking for this new and extraordinary loan of tweive millions, namely, that he will obtain it without any difficulty whatever. Experience has shown, more than once, how impli citly the EMPEROR may reiy upon the confidence reposed by the French.people alike in the strength and solvency of his Government. He has had but to ask, and his demands have been invariably granted, uPan the instant, by the nation, anct granted, too, itil hands running over with substantial tributes ° 1111, 3 far beyond his own immediate requirements. It Jab 'Y this time p re tt y genera ll y known that the strict to observeneat rality which Earl R USSELL proposes re , P e Oing the Ame r i can W ar, a d m i ts of important e xcepti ons on one side at all events. It principal manufactures has is true that on e of 0 inlesthousands of English work been paralysed, that the llorthern States out of re uolfate n o d - have paid a bitter price for men and their fun ambition ae th a e rd m to ad ouri facts do not dependent neutrality, but these Prev "t the balance from • hed one aide, being heavily wc:g We may ad mit foreign spies to pry about ou r „rivete Working establishments from th e one, althen„h We cannot receive accredited representatives of the Oth er ; may boar with patience the dictation of a foreignW Minister, and accept his continual hints and 6 sug gestions as to the course most proper for us to t a k e, but we may not recognise the existence of th at adversary he has apparently so much cause to fear. Our Ministers may stretch a point of law to the utmost possible eaten t, nay they may even overstep the limits of constitutional law as welt as of isdi vidual courtesy with .regard to an Englishman of character and standing, but they may conveniently overlook a direct infringement of the very same law in another quarter. The law, which by any reading of it, renders it illegal to export unarmed vessels because they may be used for the purposes of war, must certainly apply with double force to the direct exportation of arms and ammunition to one of the belligerents, yet the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1863, af f air. It is particularly in a case like the one before us that it is so difficult to discern the right road to take, and to discriminate between conflicting opie nions, so as to take the best and wisest course to arrive at a safe and satisfactory conclusion. It may well be said of this convict question, in its treat ment by divers experimentalists, Tot homines, tot sententice. It is incumbent upon all who are in any way responsible for the public safety, and the due observance of those regulations which are insepa rably associated with the decorum of society, to in vestigate all the particulars of the system now in vogue. Mr. ADDERLEY complains of the ticket of leave system. Its first fault is, that freedom is mixed up with punishment, and another error is, that the conditions imposed are valueless, so that a regular discharge would be infinitely preferable. It has been found by practice that this once vaunted plan has been a total failure, and that it affords ample opportunity for the worst,charac tars to resume their evil ways, while the more timorous are worried into wrongdoing by the .per tinacious espionage practised upon them, and the prejudice entertained against them in many quer ters. Mr. ADDERLEY thinks that the establishment at` Lusk, where the Irish Convict system is pursued, is open to objection, as it is not sufficiently distin ... gnished from a p r i so n. It would answer better if . • it were more of an "adult reformatory e " and not .at all as a third stage of penal servitude. Mr. ADDER LEY is against the proposaleof .sending convicts to Western Australia. He prefers discharged ones going out as free labourers. This to be conducted by private agency, assisted by funds from the Treasury, for he says the market of the world will be before them, and this plan will not complicate the Government. It is, however, to be qeestioned if this idea can be carried , out altogether. In the first place, sufficient sums will not b e ra i sed to meet all the requir ements, an d th e p l an of the societyreceiving sub s idi es f rom Governm en t may cause s ' ' confusion and l ea d t o a failure. iiiinetually. Still with all its difficulties the notion ieeee allerepeei:da incomparably pref e r a bl e t o the measures ndW tak e ne and if no b e tt er are to b e devised theee is no valid reason why it should not be tried. Nothing is done without time and trcuble in a case of this sort, and it does not appear that our authorities are willing to recognise this important fact. Tbey seem too ready to fancy that, if they spend large sums and employ a considerable staff, the sys tem must work as it has done already. But criminals do not, any more than the rest of ns, re main unchanged amid this changing scene, and it behoves those who take the charge of them to study the revolutions that take place in social existence, and the altered features of a case that experience brings under notice. It does not matter whether or not the ticket-of -leave system answered when it was first introduced. It is better to assume that it did do so, to avoid discussion on an irrelevant topic. It suffices to say that it does not do so now, and had better be given up, and some other mode devised. It is very bad to go on so long without coming to a settlement on this question; it is apt to make the criminal population imagine that there is no really effective check to be put upon their proceedings, and that an unequal warfare will be waged which will end in their ultimate success. It is important that the majesty of the law should be vindicated at once, and with such decision and energy that there may remain no doubt that its institutions are powerful to restrain vice in.all its ramifications, and to enforce the severest penalties against those who persist in the commission 'Of crime. At the same time it should be distinctly understood that due assistance will be offered to those who wish to re turn up the steep ascent that separates them from the pleasant paths of honesty- and we 1-doing. Until these advantages are offered in a convict establish ment it cannot be said that its mission is fully and faithfully carried out; nor can its upholders arro- gate any right to themselves of adhering to the plans which common sense and practical experience have alike pronounced against and declared as incomptent and insecure. The Gale,--Lifeboat Services. TENnY, Thursday Night.—At daylight this morning, the weather b e i ng moderate, severa l cod boats went off to their fishing li nes as usua l . S u d denly, about 9a m, it came on to bl ow a very severe gale o f w i nd from the N.N.W. The larger fishing boats managed to reach the harbour before the height of the gale,.hat two of thc.. smaller boats were obliged to let go *AP' Ond 'gradually ; drove to leeward, It soon bpcame evident _tlWat prompt measures were taken the boats and their crews would be lost, and the Tenby lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, Was, therefore, immediately launched to their assistance. The lifeboat made sail and succeeded in getting the crew, of three men, of one of the boats on board. In the meantime the smack Emma, with ten hands on board, seeing the lifeboat had gone to the rescue of the crew of the boat furthest to leeward, gallantly started off and succeeded in rescuing the crew of the other fishing boat. The lifeboat was reported to have behaved most satisfactorily. The cost of this lifeboat was presented to the Institution last sum mer by F. llagenis, Esq., of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) • HOLYHEAD, Thursday Night.—'We have had a most disastrous day here. Several vessels are ashore in the bay, and it is feared that all will be perfect wrecks. What is worse, we have had great loss of life. The lifeboat of the National Life Boat Institution was out this morning trying ' to afford succour, but the wind and sea completely mastered her, and compelled her to return to the shore.-5 p.m. The lifeboat has gone out again to see what can be done for the disabled seamen, but it is feared that the continued violence of the storm will prevent succour being afforded to more than one schooner, which has a signal of distress flying. SWANSEA, Thursday Night.—lt is blowing a very heavy gale, and the new lifeooat recently stationed at Swansea by the National Lifeboat Institution has been launched in reply to signals of distress, to the assistance of the barque Duke of Northumberland, laden with copper ore, which is on shore at the entrance of our harbour. The tide is still falling, and at present the crew of the vessel are compara tively safe, but when the tide rises again it will be night, and with the violent gale now blowing they will be in great danger. The lifebo a t i s t h erefore in attendance on the v. 5- sel, in order to b r i ng o ff the crew if required. It is supposed that the barqu e is bilged, EAsTuotruNE, Thursday Night.—Yesterday morning, during. very w ild weather, two small fishing boats went off to fish. Whil s t t h us engaged a heavy gale sprung up from W.N.W., du r i ng t h e prevalence of which one of the boats hoisted a signal of distress, upon which the lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution stationed here was at once launched, with a view of rendering assistance, but before reaching the scene, however, both boats had been driven many miles to leeward, and ultimately ran ashore in safety. BAIL' TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND t.-I(Ve once heard a great millionaire repeat with much naivete a piece of advice which he had received from the first Lord Ash burton. " Always (said that great merchant) keep a ba lance of £lOO,OOO at your bankers." If there are any City capitalists of a bygone generation who fellow this advice, what halcyon times do they not live in 1 The Bank of England pursues an uninterrupted career of prosperity. It regulates the monetary concerns of the Continent, - Und pier. , the rule of monarch of therkingdOm of finance, to the honour of its directors and the signal profit of the concern. The shareholders, with Bank stbelcat VSS-237, have at least no reason to be dissatisfied - The grett London bankers buy lauded estates, portion their daughters liber ally, pay their income tax cheerfully,. and, bequeatha bulky and Lefghly satisfactory piece of parchment to the care of Doctors- Commons. The joint-stock ..banks divide fa bulous profits and bonuses, and furnish a ." sensation" section to the ordinary City quotations. 'A :London and Westminster share, upon which £2O has been paid, may, it seems, be bought for the ridiculously small figure of £79. A Union Bank share, on which £l2 his been paid, may be had for £39. A share in the London Joint-stock Bank, on which £lO has been paid, may be bought for £37. They London and County Bank has called up £2O on a share which cannot be bought for £55. - The - City. Bark has called up £5O per share, but the share may be sold.for £llO. The Provincial of Ireland £25 shares are at. X 9.1. It is needless to exhaust the catalogue, but it is'clear. that ' me tropolitan bankers and bank managers are at present in high feather. The more adventurotis capitalists, with money at command, turn up their noses at 5 per cent., so great is the seeming abundance of more prefitable invest ments: Yes I these are bright days for gold.—.LondOn • Review, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE BANK OF FRANCE , PARIS, DEC. 3 It is said that the Bank of France has not yet been affected by the action of the Bank of England, and the amount of bullion held by the former Was to-day 212 millions francs, or about seven millions more than at the date of the last return. SPAIN. REPLY OF SPAIN TO THE CONGRESS PROPOSITION. MADRID, DEC. 3 (Evening). The reply of the Queen to the Emperor's later of invitation to the Congress will not be discussed in the debate on the Address, which commenced to-day in the Congress. Advices have been received here from the Antilles, They contain no news of importance. MADRID, DEC. 4, The steamer Prince Alphonso arrived yesterday at Cadiz, having left Havana a fortnight ago. It is rumoured that she brings news of fresh disasters at San Domingo. JAPAN. PARIS, DEC. 3. The Paris papers of this evening publish intelli gence from Japan, stating that Prince Satsuma asserts he inflicted severe losses upon the English in the late engagement. CHINA. TRIESTE, DEC. 3 Advices received here from Pekin, to the 3d of October, state that the General-in-Chief of the im perial troops received from the Emperor an order to strangle himself, and obeyed. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 3.—The market under the favour 'able impression of the financial report opened at an improvement, but it was not long maintained in consequence of the arrival of the English funds with a decline. Threes, for the Account, after having been done at 67fr. 10c., are now again at 66f. 95c., the price of yesterday. Mobilier show an advance, being now at 1,030 fr. Railway market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows:—. 41 per Cents .. 94 50 1)o. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 Credit Mobibor 1020 Do. end month 1028 75 Bank Shares 3360 Credit Fonder 1190 Roman — Italian Loan ' 71 50 Do. end month 71 79 New ditto 7l Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes.„ Home Debt Deferred - WAYS. Orleans Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean New ditto Geneva Smithern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon' bard North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona Cash. Account. 955 .. 965 955 .. 962 50 913 75 .. 920 - 871 25 .. - 493 75 - 630 - 681 25 506 25 .. tO5 - 475 - .. 475 - 3 95 - .. 392 50 385 ' - ~ 391 25 sio - .. 513 75 513 7.5 .. 515 - 603 75 .. 610 - 297 50 .. 302 50 THE PEACE SOCIETY ON JAPAN. Tne following memorial has been presented to her Majesty the Queen, by the Home Secretary, on behalf of the Peace Society : To TUE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, The Humble Memorial of the Committee of the Peace Society. May it please your Mojesty,—The Committee of the Peace Society ask permission most respectfully to empress to your Majesty the feelings of deep sorrow and shame with which they have read the accounts that have recently reached this country of the proceedings of the British squadron on the coast of Japan. It would appear that in September, 1862, a party of English subjects, while riding on the road from Yokohama to Yeddo, were assailed by the armed retainers of a Japanese daimio, when one of them was barbarously killed on the spot, and two others were seriously wounded. Fur this cruel outrage the British Government demanded repa ration from the Japanese authorities. In accordance with the requisitions made by your Majesty's Foreign Secretary, the Government of the Tycoon made a formal apology, and paid into the hands of the British Charge d'Affaires at Yeddo the sum of £lOO,OOO as an indemnity for the offence. But, beyond the demands thus made on the central Government of Japan, it was thought right to require fur ther amends from the Prince of Satsuma, whose servants, it was alleged, had been the perpetrators of the acts com plained of; and, in case of refusal, the Charge d'Affaires was instructed by the Home Government to call upon the senior naval officer on the station " to adopt such measures of reprisal or blockade, or both, as he might judge best' calculated to obtain the end proposed." The particular Naas of coercion suggested by the Foreign Secretary were the:blockade of the port of Kagosima, and the seizure and cretenflon, tilPivdress Watt tigtainedi'bf certain steam-ships, the property of the Prince. ' It 'Was left to the judgment of the naval officers to decide whether it would be possible or advisable to shell the residence of the Prince. In August last, Lieutenant-Colonel Neale, your Ma jesty's Charge d'Affaires in Japan, proceeded with the British squadron, udder the command of Vice -Admiral Kuper, to the port of Kagosima, the capital of the Prince of Satsmua. On the 13th of that month he sent a despatch to the Prince, making certain demands for redress, as pre scribed by your Majesty's Foreign Secretary. On the fol lowing day a reply was received from the Ministers of the Prince, stating the difficulties in the way of conceding some of the demands made; one of which was, as Lieutenant- Colonel Neale explains it, that the Prince of Satsuma should deliver up his own father to condign punishment, and recommending further conference on the subject with the Government of the Tycoon. But after he received this communication, and without attempting any further nego tiation, the Charge d'Affaires instructed Vice-Admiral Kuper at once to have recourse to measures of coercion. In the execution of these orders Vice-Admiral Kuper not only seized the Prince's steamers, and shelled his palace, as the Foreign Secretary had indicated, but destroyed the whose town of Kagosima. Nothing can be more explicit than his own language on this point. In summing up the injury inflicted upon the possessions and property of the Prince of Satsuma, he speaks not only of the disabling of many guns, the explosion of magazines, and the serious damage of the principal batteries, but of " the destruction by fire of three steamer/4, five large junks, the whole town of Kagosima, and the palace of the Prince." He further describes the conflagration ho had created as "continuing with unabated ardour up to the time of the departure of the squadron, 48 hours subsequent to the first attack." And finally, in writ ing to the Chargé d'Affaires on the 17th, he states that "the fire, which is still raging, affords reasonable ground for believing that the entire town of Kagosima is now a mass of ruins." Your Majesty's memorialists are informed that the town of Kagosima, like all Japanese Walls, owing to the frequency of earthquakes in that country, is built of wood, and that it has, or had, a population of 150,000 or 180,000 inhabitants. Among those there must have been a largo number of aged persons, of infants and young children, of the sick, the helpless, and the dying. No warning whatever was given, by which they right have profited, to attempt to escape from the fearful fate which awaited them. And when this vast and peaceful popula tion found their homes suddenly wrapped in the flames of a universal and inextinguishable conflagration no imagina tion can adequately depict the horrors of the scene that MUSE have ensued. The committee respectfully submit to your Majesty that this tremendous act of vengeance, inflicted by British arms, cannot be justified on any ground, they will not say of justice and humanity, but of international law, or even of the laws of war. However heinous may have been the criminality of those concerned in the act for which redress was sought, the people of Kagosima, situated at a consider able distance from the scene of the outrage, were in nu re spect implicated in the guilt. Your Majesty's memorialists are profoundly convinced that acts like these, unhappily of lOU frequent occurrence in those remote regions, are inflicting a deep and lasting injury on the character of this country. Far from helping they create an insurmountable barrier in rho way of our progleas as the professed apostles of civilisation and Chris tianity in the East. They afford matter of just reproach against us to other nations, and take from us the power of remonstranc e s or rebuke with them, whatever acts of injus heti or oppreasion they may commit. They dishonour our Christian profession before the face of the world , and may we not justly apprehend that they may expose us to the righteous displeasure of Him by whose signal favour our .c,,untrys has been raised to such unexampled power and prosperity ? Tao Committee of the Peace Society, therefore, most humbly, but most earnestly, entreat your Majesty to with hold your roya l sanct i on f rom t hi s great outra ge, perpe trated, It. your Majesty's name, on the unoffending people of Kagosima. And your Majesty's P memorialists, Ics P ident. ever Pray, ~See. JOSEPH. EASE, as in duty., b o und, will S AMUE L Gtruemv , Treasu rer. . 11.Ekuty Ii,IQUARD, Secretary, LITERATURE. Sir Guy de Guy. A Stirring Romaunt. By Rattlebrain. Illustrated by Phiz. One vol., pp. 167. Routledge and Co. Any one who may remember Mr. Alphabet Baillie's new Tale of a Tub, will understand at once our meaning, when we say that Sir Guy de Guy is akin to it. The adventures related in that won derfully absurd narrative, also in rhyme, also grotesquely illustrated, were those of a certain couple who had gone out to enjoy themselves in a sort of pic-nic together in (of all places in the wide world for a picnic !)—the desert—the level, trackless, sandy wilderness! Who that ever saw that preposterous book has lost a recollection of it Who has not an almost painfully ludicrous remem brance of the unlucky pair who were the heroes of those memorable adventures ? The long thin friend and the short stout friend—we forget their names now, or even, for that matter, it they had any ! The empty barrel they took out into the desert with them—to employ at p;easure as —a store place for their provisions, a table to dine from, a chair or stool to sit on, a wooden sort of tent or screen from the sun if propped edgeways, or—don't we recall to mind what else be sides? A shelter frotn—more than the noonday sun ! A. trap—far more than merely to catch a sunbeam! How the loug and the short of it was this—that the lean and the fat friend were startled from their en joyment of the good things brought by them into the desert in the empty barrel, were startled from their enjoyment of those good things by the apparition of a raging, ravaging, wild Tiger ! How they dodged the tiger to and fro and all round and round the barrier of that empty barrel ! How, in the tussle with the tiger, they got into all sorts of rela tive position with him and the barrel—now the long one, now the short one, now the lean one, now the fat one, getting into the most fearful jeopardy, and then in the very nick of time getting out of it again —who could possibly say or sing but Mr. Baillie, who imagined it, or the illustrator whose comical pencil so marvellously realised his imaginings ? Until— somehow or another—between the two friends (we don't mean the poet and the artist, but the two heroes, the stout one and the thin one) they managed to get their enemy, the tiger, caged under the empty barrel which they then sac down upon for safety's sake. Despair being even then, however, before them in the desert—seeing that they could not possibly contrive to leave off sitting on the barrel in order to run away, without, by so doing, of course, enabling the caged tiger to scramble out and run after them. Everyone who ever saw the work remembers, to be sure, how they did contrive to get off at last, and with safety. Namely, through the happy circum stance of the tiger, while wriggling about inside and lashing his tail about in wrath at being kept thus in ignoble durance, getting the tip or that tail of his (by an unlieeky chance for him) through the bunghole. Whereupon the fat friend and the lean friend, holding on to the tip of that same protruding tail like grim death, haul it out by superhuman efforts, hand over hand, as if it were a coil of rope—haul it out gradually down to the very root—then tying it securely into a very tight knot and so off—the long and the short of them, grinning, and quite at their leisure out of the wilderness. Well, precisely such another book as that was, is this Romaunt of Sir Guy de Guy—the very height of absurdity—the most ludicrous extra vagance, well imaginable—full of the most impos sible adventures—dashed off currente calamo, iu rhyme by Rattlebrain—embellished with fifty won derfully ridiculous illustrations by our old friend Phiz. Seriously to criticise such a book as this would be worse than breaking a but terfly on a wheel, it would be more like roasting it cruelly before an exceedingly slow fire ! All that the reader or ,the critic has to do with such a production, is to turn over the leaves, and laugh at it, and then throw it aside. The getting up of the work appears to us to be far better than the contents of it can be said in any way to merit. As a new book, it reflects the highest credit upon —the publiabersl L aughing at it, we must confess, has been for us rather wearisome—the thing is just simply too absurd. It is the very exaggeration of ex travagance in the way—we cannot say of humour, for that is always delightful, and we can never have too much of it ! But we will say of broad farce and ontrageous comicality. Guy Straggles, afterwards Sir Guy De Guy is the hero. The Lady Arabella. daughter of Sir Hildebrand, is the heroine. Their adventures all over the world are the incidents re lated. How outré ttiose adventures are, we don't care - to particularize. They are beyond us altogether. As a piece of fun, we suppose it is capital. And to those who can read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest anything so very rich as this same piece of fun before us, we may venture to commend it. Certainly to none more seriously inclined than the unaffected, lovers of—what we ourselves (we confess it). most unaffectedly detest and abominate—bur lesques, parodies, travesties, extravaganzas, tom fooleries lie fact of all.seertV and descriptions. The Cause of Lor& ttainford's Retiremen from the Turf. " Harkaway," in a letter to the illorning Herald, writes:— " With respect to Lord Stamford's retirement from the turf, no one can be in the least surprised at the resolution arrived at immediately he witnessed the performance of Litnosina for the Cambridgeshire. My only surprise is that his lordship had not retired from the turf in disgust long ere this. His career has been one marked with honourable intentions and the pure love of sport, but no owner of horses has had to contend with so many or such a continued series of expensiveblunders or mortifvingmishaps during the three years the turf has been honoured by his presence. It will be remembered that at Goodwood, the year before last, his lordship ran a mare called Provision against Contadina and Mr. Hall's mare. Ho then laid £3,000 to £2,000 on the two opposed to his own animal. The result was his own mare won, and he lost the £3,000. Walloon won the Cham pagne at Doncaster and he never backed it for sixpence, although it lost when he backed it at Newmarket for £2,000. When Diophantus cantered in for the Two Thousand Guineas at Newarket he scarcely won anything on the race, as he backed Imaus to win £30,000, because, in a trial the last named, by some cause or other, was made to beat Diophantus with a stone in hand. At Ascot his lordship laid 6 to 1 on Diophantus, and Lusk positively beat him. Shortly after that Diophantus met with an accident, and was never able to race again. Ensign was also heavily backed for the Derby, but he cut up very badly. This year Brick was broken down from the effects of a severe but satisfactory trial, and will never be able to race again. His lordship also backed Automaton to win a large stake for the Derby, but on receiving a telegram to the effect that the horse was dead lame ho scratched him at once. The next day ho found the horse was quite sound. Since then he has died. For the St. Leger his lord ship backed Avenger to win a large stake, although a veterinary surgeon had examined him before he was backed, and had pronounced his opinion that the horse was sure to break down. Whether that opinion ever reached Lord Stamford's ears I am not in a position to state. The last act, however, was the Limosina lfuei ness and the Cambridgeshire. It is soon told. His lordship backed her to win an immense stake. The mare was as well as any animal could be on the morning of the race, but from her appearance when at the post, and the fact that the poor thing could not get half a mile, it was the opinion of good judges that she had been poisoned, and her wretched appearance to-day leads to the inference that it is still in her system. Again, if Lord Stamford ever wanted to back his horses for any of the handicaps he found that others who had obtained his stable information surreptitiously had forestalled him to such an extent that book-makers coolly offered him 6 to 4 against his representative in a field of a ,dozen or fitteen runners. The result was he very property scratched his horses ou two or_ toretlle occasions, for the doing of which these unprin ci p led stallers have thought proper to throw out d ir a t y sn: nd s tement, tions, which neither amount to a char g :capable of o ne who to the effect that hie horses were pulled.° nor Every really knows Lord Stamford knowshimub, who have no to be lie such a proceeding; but the general means of knowing, may have believed public, th h e a s d e silly only t b u u r t nd mis chievousea reports. If Lord Stamford who have hove deaf ear to the Sir Lucius o"frl{"u.sr"l about him—parras without brains, and wh„ e• t could win a shilling for themselves —Le would have had a mo n , satisfactory career. He is a good horseman —in fact, a man —and if he cannot manage his own h orses n Let the result be what it m a y, the poor good oneioddowsps elsecr s can. n t d orphans at Newmarket will miss his bounty.' We learn with much pleasure that Sir John Laurence has recognised the services of Sir Charles Hatha way, who, as Inspector. General of Prisons in the Punjaub, has laboured with so much success in meliorating the state of the gaols in that province, by appointing that g entleman to ):e his private secretary. gr , 1611117„ - clank 4,4 HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 3. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Constance Villiers, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Jones, armed at the Castle yesterday. In addition to the above, the dinner party consisted of their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia and Princess Helena, Lieut.-Gen. Hen. C. Grey, Dr. Holzoaann, and the ladies and gentlemen i❑ waiting on the Queen and the Crown Prince and Princess. Tae Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highaess the Crown Princess of Prussia, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. The Right Han. E. Cardwell had an audiencs of the Queen. Lord de Tahiti has succeeded Lord Cremorne as ord in waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of Prussia, attended by Colonel Koppel and other gentlemen, were out pheasant shooting on Wednesday. In spite of the stormy weather which prevailed during a portion of the day their royal highnesses enjoyed v ery excellent sport. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, ac companied by the lady in waiting, walked and drove in the grounds of Frogmore House on Wednes day. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of Prussia went out phea sant shooting again yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales walked and drove in Frogmore grounds yesterday. --,11.._-..--- Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary are still residing at Brighton Their royal highnesses paid a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond at Goodwood-park on Tuesday. The Earl and Countess of Derby have enter— tained the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Dalkeith, Lord and Lady Skelmersdale, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Colonel the Hon. James and Mrs. Macdonald, and a select r arty at Knowsley Hall, Lan cashire, during the week. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was prevented by illness from joining the party. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln left town yes terday afternoon for Dover, on their way to Nice, to pass the winter. The E irl of Uxbridge has left town on a visit to Lord de L'lsle and Dudley at Penshurst, Kent. The Viscount Dillon has left Brown's Hotel, Dover-street, The Dowager Lady Blantyre has arrived at Brown's Hotel. Lady Charlotte Copley has left Grosvenonstreet for SpOutbourge Hall, near Doncaster. DEATH OF VISCOUNT rdIIDLTEON.—The Right Hon. Charles, sixth Viscount Midleton, and Baron Brodrick of Midleton in the peerage of Ireland, and Baron Brodrick of Pepper Harrow in the peerage of Great Britain, died at his seat at Pepper Harrow on Wednesday evening last, at ten o'clock. His lordship was born in 1791. He married, May 25, 1825, the Hon. Emma, third daughter of Thomas, late Lord Le Despencer. The Child in the Chimney. (From the Examiner.) Few people who remember what good ground there was for the Act of Parliament, passed 20 years ago, prohibiting the employment by the master chimney-sweeps of young children to climb up the chimneys and " small boys for flues," can desire otherwise than to support the efforts of a society that has been doing all it can to make the act effec tive. Instead of few people we should have said nobody, if we had not met recently with three manifest exceptions in. the Mayor of Newcastle and the Aldermen Sillick and. Dodds. At Newcastle the law for the protection. of children againet this improper and now un necessary use of their young lives is said to be very much set at defiance. An officer of the London and Birmingham Association for the Protection of Climbing Boys, has, therefore been to Newcastle, and on Thursday in last week four master sweeps were summoned to the Mayor's police court for defiance of the law. The terms of the Act are clear, and the lowest penalty for offence against it is declared to be £5, the highest £lO. Now let us see how this law was administered in. four cases by the Mayor of Newcastle and the Aldermen. Sillick and Dodds. In the first case, James Frame was charged with having employed a very little boy to sweep the chimney of a butcher in New Bridge -street. Evidence having been given— The Bench retired to consider their decision, and on their return into court the Mayor, addressing the defendant, said. that the magistrates had some doubt as to his guilt, and they were inclined to give him the benefit of that doubt, though they were very much of opinion that he had em ployed the boy as alleged. He must be very careful that he was not brought back again on such a charge, for if he was he would not be dealt with so leniently. He would be fined 6d. The three worthies at once give us the measure of their wits. They were " very much of opinion" that the case was proved, but they had some doubt, and were inclined to give him the benefit of it; so they compounded between opinion and inclination by substituting for the minimum legal fine of £5 te,,fine of, sixpence. What right had they , , to fine the man trixience : if the really,!" haefienee, d9u „ '•?°. as to his guilt, and were inClined to give hint the benefit ie.( that doubt ?" It they really had doubt, they were bound,. whether inclined menet, to giVe the accused the benefit of it. But the course of the other three cases will suggest that what they were in this matter most inclined to, was frus tration of the law. The next charge was not against James Frame, but against a Robert Frame, for using his nephew, a child of ten, instead of a machine. The boy was seen to go into • the house with a sweep's climbing cap on his head, the' defendant was seen to come out and look up at the chimney pot, the boy's hand-brush was seen thrust out at the top, in evidence to his employer that he had reached the top. The officer who sew this, testified farther that he went into the house, heard the boy workin g hi s way d own , and stvw come dsw saasidoeid clean,t, fl'rothritkh was efrofimrephliascei produced in appearance ntot h c e o room. ubret. Bu t tb tr. e 3 Dodds boy, od h Alderman t ina look as if he swept chi mneys. " The child stoutly s wore that ho did not go up th e c hi mney, and the mayor an d alderme n, on the stren g th o f such evidence, dismissed the case' the In the third case, against another master s weep of • name of John F rame,two w i tnesses prove d t he offence, but the lad who sw ep t t h e c hi mney h a d not rece ived his sum mons to appe ar . Th a t case, therefore, was adjourned. The fourth case was distinctly pr ove d : does no Alexander Lumley, a sweep, was then charged with per mitting a boy named George btoker to go up a chimney. _ Jane M'Duwell said that on the 23d ult. the prisone r and a little boy came to her house in Hi g h Bridge to sweep the chimney. The boy went up. She saw the boy go up the' chimney, and she also saw that they had no machine what ever. Francis Peacock confirmed the evidence of the las t wit nem, in the The prisoner affected ignorance of having ever se en Mrs. M`Dowell at all, and afterwards said he was not town that day. He admitted that h eou ld not be a ble to s tined the case the magistrates considered proved, and th e y obtain witnesses to prove the alibi ho had set up . In ' defendant 2s. 6d. • Did not the Mayor of Newcastle and Aldermen Siltick a nd Dodds con raider the sweep's asseveration of an a libi a gro und for more In this case may we trust the repor t ? ahalf-a-crown to proportioned to to the former doubt as aggravatedmase r sweeps to laugh at the pence? If they "considered the a inclination to give him the benefit oafs cl e ou p b ro t, v o ed nl , y ,, a a d s o t u h b e t as it was by a lie in. meant but contempt of the law ? the imposition, in a case drTheyeepfdefence, et c eer c" uwsl dahyaostn tichyoeuelde:biude:amg ° to re-establish the old . climbing mitigating circumstance, of a half-crown fine m without one allow lol c yo t s v o s f a ynaytechild Parliament ir, or r T which declares, hat from and after the Ist under an act y ue: ou dc n ah g ste'll p ep e b ra y on under the age of twenty of July, 1842, any person who shall compel or knowingly to ascend or descend a chimney, or enter a flue, one years for the purpose of sweeping, cleaning, or coring,' the same, or for e xtinguishing . a fire therein, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than £lO, nor less than £5." — There was an old custom of sweeping chimneys by pulling through them a goose with a string ILA to its leg. 6'hould that cu6iour be revived, we commend the -Mayor of New castle and Alderman Sillick and Dodds to the attention of all persons troubled with foul chimneys. There in a law to protect even geese, but if the wisdom of the Newcastle beach be transmitted front mayor to mayor, and from_ alderman to ald erman, wo sae no reason w h y th e discreet housekeeper should not take a sixpenny pull at a goose s when, at th e worst, she m i ght have t h em a ll th re e through her chimneys for a fine of half-a-crown a bird. The Court Journal. Established 34 years.' Sea the Court Journal of Saturday, which contains a vast amount of exclusive news of public intorest, and perfectly original Courtly, Fashionable, Theatrical, Naval, and Sporting Intelligence, Club On Dits, &c.; not to be found in any daily or weekly paper.—Price bd. ; Stamped, 6d.—W. Thomas, 26, Brydges-street, Strand ; sold by all News-agents; and at the Railway Stations. M. 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