The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-30 00:00:00

AGENTS REQUIRED. lIIHE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY is prepared to entertain applications for Agency Appoint ments from gentlemen having command ot Fire and Life Business. The Royal has always been conspicuous for its liberality and promptitude in the settlement of claims. Itsannual Income is now over .................... £500,00 -) Andits funds in hand exceed .................... Xl,to ),000 Transfers of Policies from other Companies received with- Dut charge for Policy, whatever the amount. Address, JOHN li. JOHNSTON, Secretary. cAmpa.Lombard-street Royal E NGLISH OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. Under the ISlanacr,ement of Miss Louisa Pyne and 11r. W. Harrison. HIS EVENING, to commence with the Second Act of T Balfe's popular opera, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. After which, a Grand Christmas Pantomime, on a scale of unprecedented maunificence, entitled ILA.B,LEQ'UIN ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Doors open at half-past Six— ommence at Seven. lIEATRE ROYAL D U R Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the Farce of A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, G. Belmore, the Misses Heath, R. Leclercq, Murray. To conclude with the new Grand Christmas Comic Panto mime of SINBAD THE SAILOR ; or, The Seven Wonders of th . World. Clowns, Messrs. 11. Boleno and C. Lauri ; IJarlequins, Messrs. J Cormack and S. Saville ; Pantaloons, hissers. W. A. Barn s and J. )orris ; Columbines, Madame Boleno and Misses Gunuiss. Prices as usual. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily. ROYAL LYCEUM THEA TRE. I tinder the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. BEL DE3IONIO (a Triumphant Success) will be repeated Every Evening during the Week. THIS EVENING, the performance will commence with a New and Original Farce, entitled THE LOST CHILD Mess's. 11. Widdicombe, Shore, Garden, F. Charles Collett, Moreland; Misses Percy, Pauline Lezlerci, Wood, Mrs. Lee, and bliss E. Lavenu. After which, t Eight o'clock, BEL DEMOIsIIO, a Love story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle'," by Mr. John Brougeam. Principal charac ter by Mr. Fechter, supported by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, Broughdm, Emery, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, Collett, Sims ; Xliss Kate Terry, E. Lavenu, Mrs. Lee, and Miss Elsworthy. 'The Public are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made t the occuitts of Bxes, Box-lace or Stalls, either for play o bills or tor the safe keeping* of hat,s, and cloak s, and teat the attendants in all parts of the house are forbidden to receive any gratuities whatever. Box-office open. daily from 11 to 5. Comm en ce at 7. THEATRE ROYAL HAYNIARKET.— Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN : Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Chippenddle, Braid, Gordon, Koc , ers, Clark, Cullentord, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Snowden, Terry, Lindley, Hill, Sic After which, KING ARTHUR ; or The Days and Knights of the Round l'able. Messrs. Cnippandate, Compton, Braid Clark, Rogers, Tilbury, &c. ; Mesdames L. Keeley, B r ougu, Wright, Terry, Lindley, Rogers, &c. Commence at 7. So ----- p OY AL .1- 1 i) PR INCESS'S THEATRE.--, Sole Lesee and Blana , zer, Mr. Geo. Vining, open for the Season. TUTS EV-ENING, THE HONEYMOON. wh i c h, lIRLEQUIA LITTLE TOM TUCKER; After .A. or The --, - -., e I.,ady of Banbury Cross, and the o ld Woman v ho Lived in a Shoe and Had so Many Children she didn't I c.now w hat to do. • OYAL ST, JAMES'S THEATRE, under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. rr if IS EVENING, the new Comic Drama of the HEN A ND CHICKENS: Mrs. Stirling . in her original character. Atter which, a Comical Conglomemtive Christmas Absur dity, by Henry .J Byron, Esq., and entitled 1 8 ( 13 ; or. THE SENSATIONS OF THE PAST SEASON, witn a Shamel ul Revelation of Lad, Somebody's Secret. New Scenery by Danson and Sons. Appointments by Mr. Ireland. Music by M. Walleratein. Principal characters by Mt. J. L. Toole, Mr. Paul, Bedford, Miss Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Ac. And the BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS Mr. J. L. Toole n his original character. TH EA rl{E-R0 PAL, ADELPHI.-- rote Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE SPIT ALFIELDS WEAVER: Arr. J. L. Toole. to Eight, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bate man, supported by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Bil ington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne ; Miss H. Simms, and Mrs. Billington. To c . nclude with LADY BELLE BELLE; or, Fortunlo and his Seven Na.s.rh Men. Messrs. J. Clarke, it. Phillips, Stephenson ; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss _Patti Jose,,hs, Miss L. Laidlaw, Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. LEAH. -EVERY NIGHT. MISS BATEMAN.—LEAH.—Tars EVENING, the 77th appearance of the great Tragic Actress, Miss BA fEMAN, in the character of Lii;AH. In c,nsequence of the unbounded success with which Miss Bateman's imperso nation of the principal character in the new Five Act Drama ot LEAH has been attended. Mr Webster begs to announce that it will be performed EVERY EVENING until further notice. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, OBSERVATION AND FLIRTA TION. Alter which, the Grand Christmas Burlesque, ORPHEUS AND EURYOICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton, Mesdames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, .fie. To conclude with TURN 11131 OUT. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, pan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, nyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAir.--I‘lorning*, sh, 10m.—Afternoon, Oh. 26m. T -Morning, sh. 46m.—Afternoon, 511. 59m, The Weather—Sun Office, Dec. 30, 1863. THERMOMETER. This ds y at Two o'clock 5O _ Barometer-30.15. Wind—N.-Westerly ; moderate, and fine. 411.0 g, '° • rt* I '°NDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30, 1863. ThE, a,e . 7 - Home s,tr . t si on arrived at by the right hon. the tary, in regard to the wretched criminal TowNLEI, Dears to us to be one likely to prove in the highe,, ta P ree alarming in its consequences. As constitutitu lttif 2 ontio itself, now that it has been defi nitively :t: fearful precedent,it holds out a frightful prosp ect (,)1 immunity to any future c riminals (Like Tow, , iElc) of the blackest dye well imag inable. A more a more dastardly murder -- a murder mo re l by the hands iberately done in cold blood —than that perpetrated o f this Miserable rn ,, i nowhere found mentio ned among all the to be 0 le cruel deeds recorded in the Newg,te e murderer, GEORG E VICTOR To.vi_m,t ndar. The education, a man even of ability, tk ,„ 401 ; a mans of the date of his crime, enjoying a mon g those -wi,tik: reputation for refinement , thoogh the a,,,,1 whim of a blood t. a itself proved the refineme nt to be only 4 In meat cf cruelty—has, by w hat appear s to us „,taoe t weak concession on the part of the authoritie,,i tl answer to a maudlin local clamour for a respi te, been allowed to escape from the penalties of the law, to the weight of which he had been most justly declared to have rendered himself amenable. It is not that we would be understood to be here arguing in any way out of a sanguinary yearning to see vengeance done upon this wretched man, according to the old pitiless dispensation of the Mosaic code—wherein an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life, each in its turn, was, as a rule, regarded as indispensable. All we are here desirous of insisting upon, in the instance of this educated assassin, this gentle murderer, is that while other condemned con flicts are brought to th© gallows and inexorably hung by the neck there until they are dead, for deeds of blood in no way worse of their kind, in no v~,my done With more atrocious deliberation, justice should not be outraged by the flagrant inconsistency of allowi ng this perpetrator of a crime of double blackness and triple infamy to escape from a punish tneht to N‘hicla les, i tr criminals are, as already in sisted upon, pitilessly doomed to lie the death. r ie parziculars Of s ,r,sm "W LEY S crime need here r t of recapitulatio n . no So It was a marder as thou ght out and coolly planned as any mur ver der t hat was ever pe r pe rpetrated Previously p rpe tratio n to the date of its , not a suspicion had been entertained in regard to the sanity of the man now declared to be non compos mantis, a criminal lanatic, a homicidal monomaniac. Ilia conduct u pon the occasion of the murder never g "e an y one - w i t h him, en i "filo saw him, or sPo" im pression Throng hilt k m that he was deranged. and patient trial by a jury of his fellow-countrymen— honest, intelligent, and impartial Englishmen (we at least may be allowed to speak of them thus, seeing that the trial is long since over, and that we never had any brief in this case confided to us)—honest, intelligent, impartial Englishmen, who were sworn to do this miserable man justice — throughout the whole of the long and patient trial of TOWNLEY for the murder of TAliss GOODWIN, we say, the jury were in no way brought to believe, nor yet was the judge upon the bench who di rected the verdict, and who pronounced the sen tence, led to believe, that the prisoner at the bar was an irresponsible agent—that he was mad, or at any rate so far touched with madness as to be irre sponsible. After the trial has ben conapleteu, atter the verdict has been delivered in by the jury, after the sentence of death has been pronounced upon the condemned criminal by the lips of the Judge, then, but not until then, a morbid agitation is set on foot in the county tainted by his pre• Bence, an agitation most morbid of its kind, as it ap, pears to us, the promoters of which agitation are bent upon persuading the authorities to do for this man of education , t his reputed gentleman of refine ment, what it would be utterly preposterous to have attempted doing for an illiterate mechanic or a horny handed agricultural labourer. The endeavour has been just now successfuly carried out. Miss GOOD wiN's murderer has received a respite. Commissioners of lunacy have examined into the state of the mina of GEORGE TOWNLEY. They have presented their report to the Home Secretary. It is subsequent to the receipt of that report, and, of course, quite ob viously consequent upon it, that the criminal has been reprieved. All the regular forms have been com plied with—we don't doubt that in the least. Neither do we for one moment doubt that any single One among those who have in any way whatever, directly or indirectly, had a hand in bringing about this result, namely, the reprieve of TOWNLEY, upon the eve of his execution, has acted otherwise than from motives the most unimpeachably conscientious. Yet, while saying this quite frankly and un reservedly, we say, also, none the less frankly, none the less unreservedly, that we look upon the whole transaction, we look upon the whole of this morbid interference with the course of justice, as not only most feeble in itself, but as cal culated to prove also, in its consequences, and in its character as a precedent, nothing less than most calamitous. Great strides have been made in shipbuilding of late years for augmenting the size of our ships of war, which has led to the construction of some splendid specimens of naval architecture. Despite the in cumbrance of their ponderous armour-plating, the Warrior, Black Prince, and their fellow leviathans, are handsome vessels, but they are all wanting in a most important requisite, namely, free ventilation. All steamers are more or less likely to be hot below from the presence of the furnaces and the boilers, and in iron-plated ships the impossibility of ventila tion through the sides below the batteries is a great drawback. Many attempts have been made, with more or less success, to neutralise this, by creating draughts by means of fans and hollow masts ; but for all this the unfortunate stokers and firemen on board of many of our ships pass a portion of their existence in a semi-roasted state. In the late trial of the Hector, at Portsmouth, notwithstanding that it is almost the last of our iron frigates launched, was specially designed by the Comptrollee of the Navy, and is, we believe, to be one of the ships which he promised should eclipse all ships afloat, the temperature during the runs over the measured mile in the engineers' and stokers' quarters was ex cessive, notwithstanding that the day was cold. The following are the temperatures taken during the first run :—On deck, 46 deg. ; engine-room, fore part, 75 deg. ; middle part, 72 deg. ; aft, 76 deg. Stokehole, Ist run—Forepart, 70 deg. ; middle, 117 deg. ; aft, 100 deg. 6th run—Fore part, 76 deg. ; middle, 130 deg. ; aft, 107 deg. If this is the atmosphere that our engineeers are to be sub jected to merely during a trial trip in cold weather, what are they to expect when the ship is in action ? and, instead of pure air being forced down between decks, smoke and sulphur will be added to their already close atmosphere. It is high time that the Admiralty bestirred themselves in this matter. We do not wish to detract from the merits of Mr. REED. He has undertaken to remodel our navy, and to turn out ships which shall in fact combine economy in construction, great speed, and immense strength. We cannot compliment him on the performances of the Hector at her recent trial, seeing that the Royal Oak and Warrior both excel her in speed— the former by more than a knot a❑ hour, while the ventilation is most faulty. Great allowance must be made for the archi tect when he is trying experiments to find out the most advantageous mode of constructing a ship to carry heavy guns and impenetrable armour plating; but as the ventilation throughout our steam navy is very defective, why should not the Government offer a prize worth contending for, for a p:an which should render the ventilation of steam ships a reality and not an idea? We believe that much of the excessive heat experienced on board our ships is occasioned by the fact of having the fires facing each other, so that the stokers work in a narrow passage with some dozen or more fires on each side of them. Now, were the boilers so arranged that the mouths of the furnaces faced the coal bunkers on either side of the ship, time and labour would be saved, and the health of the fire men not endangered. This may be one step in the right direction, but we doubt not that many other improvements may be made if proper encouragement be given to engineering talent and enterprise by the Government. We read with horror of the suffer 'llll3S of the unfortunate victims who perished in the 1 / 44 , 1 ''ek - hole of Calcutta, without thinking what is " w ' ' , tat e of the stokeholes of our own men-of-war, esiae ' all s' interesting just at the present time. There 1„ _: ° accounting for prejudice. When once i t takes ro ot i of opt o_men's . minds no argument seems ."'lleg it, and no efforts can induce I be convinceda 'list their will. gat The notion that has _x. . w v availed in regard to the send tchaepa pbrleedeterramw 4 %te te Australia has been so rooted that at l ast . It has been allowed to 'l°lggestions of a timely against the dictates of dinegeployf convicts to and to prev„ li gain the day, is greatly to be r , and the foresight. wise regretted that such a It , “noce it project should have been o ba ndoetd - ee best and it also pro mised so well for the furtherance of t' in terests of those concerned, Ptomised to confer essential service on t hose at home, by re ing to another sphere the unfortunate hel ots vilo, left on our shores, would infallibly have return,d to their old courses, and exemplified the state of that man whose latter end was worse than his begin. ning. A letter to the limes of yesterday very pro perly takes up the question, and points out some of the fallacies of those who so vehemently support the opposition to the project of Western Australia being selected as the receptacle of our convicts. The writer very truly declares that one authenticated instance of an escaped convict committing serious crimes at Adelaide or Melbourne would go further to support the case than all the high sounding declamations that have been uttered against the idea, There THEt SUN. LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1863. have been innumerable proofs afforded during the discussion of this vexed question that incalculable advantages would accrue to all parties immediately connected with the affair, and that no detriment could occur to the colonies that are in so much tri bulation at the notion, owing to the immense dis tance that lies between, and the other impediments that bar the passage of the unwelcome visitors from one place to the other. A passage is quoted from a letter of the Crown Solicitor to the Colony, who once resided in Adelaide, and he states that he gives it as his decided opinion, after mature reflection and a mple opportunity of forming a judgment, that the transportation system to Western Australia is a great advantage to both the convicts and the population, and that he also believes the plan to be innocuous so far as regards the remaining Australian Colonies. Nothing that can be adduced in the way of testi money, however, seems to have been of any avail, and the consequence is that, as usual, the cause of improvement has been checked, and the services that might have been rendered to a class which pre-eminently require all the adventitious aids that can be given them, are lost for the present at all events, and the kindly wishes and energetic schemes thrust churlishly back on their propounders. It seems a cruel wrong to inflict upon the convicts themselves thus to debar them from a great privi lege, and to shut the door upon all efforts to amelio rate their position and deprive them of the benefit of entering into a new sphere of action, and seeking a new world, as it were, where they might more easily put off the sins that so readily beset them in the old one. This is a sad reflection to d well upon, and it seems desirable to consider whether it cannot be contrived that something should be done to mitigate the evil, and thus lessen the extent of the disappointment which such a decision as that referred to must inevitably occasion. If the spot that was selected is not to be permitted to remain the trial-ground of the system to the degree proposed, why not seek a fresh sphere, and discover new opportunities for carrying on the good work that has been checked and stopped in the desired localities. There are vast tracts of fertile country in the north-west and ncrth of Australia, as yet but partially explored, but enough of these parts is already known to inform us of their value. Why should not convict labour open up the resources of these districts the same way that it developed those of New South Wales, Tasmania, and Queens land ? Why should the colonists of New South Wales and other districts remote from Swan River act the part of the dog in the manger ? Govern ment have restricted the number of convicts to the old quota. Let them be satisfied with this, and remain quiescent for the future, and let the Govern ment turn to account the district above referred to. 'The life may be hard perhaps, and the results may not be appreciated for years to come, but one great object will have been effected, England will be freed to some extent from long-service criminals► and the foundation of new empires will have been laid. The statistics of the Registrar-General are no less interesting than important. The thousands who die annually from preventible causes are con- tinual reproaches to our social reformers, and afford but too conclusive evidence that much remains to be done in spreading education among the masses, and also in enforcing the observance of sanitary laws. Tb.e rapid increase of the population renders the observance of such precautions especially neces sary among us, seeing that the increase in London alone is reckoned at 121 daily, or, taking merely the excess of births over deaths, at 72 daily. The English registration shows an addition to its numbers of a population equal to the present inhabitants of London and York shire, and this within the comparatively short space of time that elapsed since the establish ment of the registration sy stem of 1837. It is cal culated that in every five years there is an increase of a million, and in the middle of 1861 the popula tion of England was reckoned at 20,110,496. There is, therefore, little reason to fear any diminution of oar numerical strength, but the wise man will look not only to the actual number of the population but to its vigour and endurance. Health and power are not less important considerations than the number of individuals that form the State. The quality of the water consumed is known to have a powerful effect on the general health, and Dr. FARR, in the report we have been speaking of, attributes disastrous consequences to the habitual consumption of impure water. He says, " The ova of worms and the seeds of various diseases are thus diffused among children ; while great numbers of men and women in the prime of life also suffer, and often die of the maladies which are the inevitable consequences of violations of natural laws." Dr. ACLAND, the Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford, in writing on the subject, also speaks strongly as to the evils attending im pure water and its effect in encouraging fever of a typhoid kind. The Registrar wisely and kindly adds a warning to his list of the deaths from this source, in which he insists upon the necessity of cleanliness and ventilation in the dwellings of use poor, if the ravages of typhus under its many various forms are to be kept within moderate limits. Such advice is specially needed by the poor, pent up in close workshops or small and un healthy homes; but, in truth, the dwellings of the rich are not altogether free from blame in such re spects, and people teem to be almost as much afraid of a breath of fresh evening air as of typhus itself. In many other cases much lies within the power of the public, such as in the instance of smallpox, which is now said to exist only by sufferance, though unfortunately the ignorant pre• judice of many of the lower classes hinders much of . the good that might be done in this respect. There are several other points of interest in this report as affecting the condition of the national education, the peculiarities of the marriages, &c., but, these points which affect the public health concerns us all more nearly. CHAMPAGNE should be not only cool but cold, and, if it be not kept in a temperature sufficiently low, it must be iced. In a hot room, even in winter, the coolness is pleasant; but when the bottle is allowed to re main in the ice-pail until the wine becomes nearly as cold as the ice itself, it is wasting fine champagne to give it in that state,: for flavour atel taste become what wine-mer chants call " locked up." Ten minutes' iceing, or, as the French call it, frappe, does not deteriorate the wine; but even then it is not equal to that which is fresh brought out of a cold cellar, where it has lain long undisturbed. The practice of putting pieces of ice into the wine itself shows that a cool refreshing drink is wanted, but it is destructive to the quality.—Thaw's Wine, Vine, and Cellar. THE OLD MAN'S ARCH, Arcus Sinilts —A white ring on the outside of the pupil of the eye so known to physicians and anatomists. The nature and im port of this sign of senility has only been lately understood. This ring, ou being submitted to the analysing powers of the microscope, shows itself WI be composed of fatty matter in the substance of the cornea. The ring itself seems to be of This 'ilk. consequence ; but it is found to be an indication of what 8 generally going on in the body. Modern research has l 'hown that one of the ways in which old age reveals itself hl t iscoor_earnseio.o. into fat gradually diminishes the integrity 113 body by the fatty degeneration of the tissues. of the de s ano n their functions. it occurs—and at last leads to the i lr st f s tmetione. Where this process of fatty one organ, it is found generally to degeneratio n e indicate that the s am in e going on in other organs. of this s comes to the physician an indi, other organs of the body. sam lt e kind may be going on in cation tthhaetacrhcauna gee s ch b ange is is a secret sign not to be dby judicious treatment the neg l ec ted. This conditio n of the system i s n o t w ithou t remedy—an the disastrous effects maybe averted. - of a fatty d eg eneration of th e tip LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I Proclamation oCommif the Htte un g arian National e, [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] AMERICA. NEW YORK, DEC. 19, Morning. (Per the Etna via Crookhaven). The Federals are falling back in East Tennessee before Longstreet, who has turned against his pursuers. The New Orleans papers repeat an improbable report that the Mexicans had recaptured Puebla. Tho Hecla, Hibernia, Australasian, and City of Washington have arrived out. Advices receivad from Charleston announce that the Federals threw a largo number of shells into Charleston on the 10th, provoking a heavy fire from the Confederate batteries. A severe gale had seriously injured the Confederate obstructions in Charleston harbo'ir, it was believed sufficiently to render them ineffective against the Federal fleet, Hardee's army is estimated at 35,000 strong, and is at Dalton, with pickets extending to the tunnel. Wheeler is reorganising cavalry at Dalton for an active winter campaign. Grantland Sherman have left Chattanooga for Bridgenorth. The guerilla General Morgan has escaped south wards across the Tennessee river, sixty miles above Chattanooga. Sixteen of his escort were captured. The official reports of the commanders of the monitors during Dupont's attack upon Charleston, now published for the first time, show that all the monitors received severe damage, and if the attack had been continued they would have been disabled. One commander says he was disap pointed beyond measure at the experiment of Moui tors overcoming strong forts, and considers it was a fair trial. The New York, Tribune asserts that as the Chesapeake was captured in British waters she will be delivered to the British authorities, but it was not believed that pirates would be allowed to put to sea again. Mr. Seward has had a friendly interview with Lord Lyons on the subject. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS SOUTHAMP lON, DEC, 30. The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Shannon, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 142 passengers, 3,319,261 dollars in specie, of which 88,133 are on account of the Mexi can dividends, and 1,500 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas on the 16th inst. Her Majesty's ship Nile, Admiral Milne, arrived at St. Thomas on the 14th inst. It was reported at Havana on the ith that news had been received favourable to the Spaniards. The revolution was expected to be soon over. The news from the West India Islands is unimportant. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BRESLAU, DEc. 30. Arrests continua to be made in Warsaw, particu larly at the hotels. The National Government has made a fresh appeal to the insurgents in arms. Intelligence received from Radom states that Chimielinski has been ehot at that place. JAPAN. PARIS, DEC. 30. According to news received here from Alexan dria the parties of the Tycoon and Prince Satsuma bad agreed upon the expulsion of foreigners from Japan. The yielding of the Tycoon was attributed to the pressure exercised by Prince Satsuma. THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION. FRAI\ KFOR L-ON•MAINE, DEC. 29 (Evening). The following is the text of the Austro•Prussian motion introduced in yesterday's sitting of the Federal Diet : "That the Confederation should require Denmark definitively to suspend the November Constitution with regard to Schleswig, and should at the same time notify that, in case of refusal, the Confedera tion will be compelled to obtain a pledge for the fulfilment of its just demands by the military occu pation of Schleswig. "That the Federal Diet shall also request the military committee to submit propositions for rais ing the forces possibly required for the occupation of Schleswig to the necessary strength." THE BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) BUENOS AYRES, Nov. 28. Wet salted hides, 35 to 88 ; dry American, 33 to 37 ; wool, 85 to 102 ; tallow, 141 ; lumber, 34. Flour native advancing. Imports paralysed owing to the depreciation of the currency and the unsettled state of affairs. MONTE VIDEO, Nov. 30. Exchange, 52k. Wet salted hides, 5.30; dry American, 4.74 to 5 ; dry German, 5.20 to 5.60, scarce, small transactions. Wool, 3.80. Tallow, 1.65. Imports unaltered, very dull. (Reuter's Express,) MILAN, Sunday. The Alleanza publishes the following proclama•- tion, issued by order of Louis Kossuth, by the Hungarian National Committee, and distributed and placarded in all the cities and towns of the kingdom : " BY ORDER. OF LOUIS KOSSUTH. " THR NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE NATION. " Faithful attachment to the flag of 1849 is un alterable in the heart of our nation. The great majority of the nation, rejecting every kind of com promise, is firmly resolved to shake off the detested yoke of the Austrian domination. " But, as the outward signs of our national life have not latterly been in harmony with this reso lution, doubts have arisen among our natural allies abroad with regard to the firmness of those inten tions. These doubts have been the greatest obstacle to the efforts of our government, tending to effect the freedom of our country. To remove this obstacle becomes an imperious necessity in view of the new direction of European events, which offer a tempting perspective to all the peoples groaning under a foreign yoke. " We must give some sign of life in order that our natural allies may be convinced that they can count with certainty upon the Magyar arm against the common enemy. We must be on our guard in order that the stratagems of alarmed Austria do not draw our nation into a snare. "We must prepare ourselves so that we may be !ti a condition to energetically take advantage of the favourable opportunity. To obtain all this the Go vernor, Louis Kossuth, terminating all previous arrangements, has deemed it necessary to order the formation of a new general committee. " By the present act it is therefore made known to the nation that in consequence of this order the General Committee of Independence has been con stituted, and that, having as object the realisation of the declaration of independence of 1849, being ready besides to make every sacrifice, it has reso lutely undertaken the direction of affairs, in con• formity with the instructions received and to be hereafter received from the elected governor of our country. " The committee counts on the patriotic senti ments of the nation that the crders it may give will be promptly executed, its instructions followed and its arrangements spontaneously carried out, "At the same time it seriously warns the open and secret enemies of the flag of 1849 to abstain from any plot or intrigue if they do not wish to incur the penalties inflicted upon traitors to the country. " Inany case, the General Committee of Indepen dence declares that it has determined to secure obedience to its orders and the execution of its eventual arrangements. Let the nation live in good hope, and let every honest patriot prepare for action " Our device is ' 1849 and Victory.' " Given at Buda-Pesth, Nov. 26, 1863." Here follows the seal of the committee, bearing the national arms, around which are inscribed the words, " General Committee of Independence." This proclamation has been printed in all the dialects of the kingdom. IS, 1863. t.zg Herald, says : I beg to submit the 163 : Successor Then for 1864-- Subtract Add Showing a majority in favour of Lord Derby of fifteen votes. In point of fact, there is strong reason to believe that when the day of account arrives, as soon it will be, the Whigs will be driven out by a majority even larger than this. The following table has been drawn up from year to year, and may, I think, be relied upon : JANUARY 1. 1864. 1863. 1362. 1861. Conservatives.. 314 Peelites Whigs 233 Dadicals 656 656 653 651 It is not a little noticeable that the pure Whigs (save the word I) are invariably the chief sufferers by electoral changes. Fewer Whig vacancies are filled by Whigs than occurs in the case of any other parties. TELE CONDEMNED MURDERER IN KIRKDALE GAOL.—Few criminals who have been inmates of the condemned cell at Kirkdale gaol have exhibited such cheerfulness and firmness as the matt Charles. He eats and sleeps well, and converses freely with all who approach him. It is very clear, from observations that have fallen from him since his trial, that he never expected the jury would convict him of the murder. On Friday he intimated his desire to communicate with Mr. Pope, the learned coun sel who defended him, upon the subject of a memorial being got up and sent to the Queen, asking that his life may be spared. He was informed, either by the learned counsel or another gentleman connected with the legal profession, that it would be of no use to send a memorial to her Majesty ; that the only thing which would be likely to affect the sen tence was for him to prove that he was not with the unfor tunate woman on the night of the alleged murder. „On tilt s information being conveyed to Charles, he s aid he rawit. in duce some of his friends " outside" to get tip a petition, expressing at the same time his belie f that it theorel. ra t s tances under which he had been convicted w ere fully se forth snd explained in the petition , the sentence of the law would not be carried out,—Manchester Guai FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 29-7 —The market continues in the same state, with prices unvaried, Threes, for the Account, being now at 66fr. 45c. Mobilier is slightly lower, the present price is 1,031 f. 25c. Railway Market heavy, The market closed as follows : 41 per:Cents. 9l 25 Do. aid month 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 40 Credit Mobilier 1033 75 Do. end month 1033 75 Bank Shares 3270 Credit Fonder 1235 Roman RA IL' Italian Loan 7l 80 Do. end month 7l 50 New ditto Do. end mouth.;.. Russian Austrian SpaniAL Threes 52 Home Debt .. — Deferred PATO. Cash. Account. 975 975 971 25 .. 971 25 Orleang ... Northern .... - N e w ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 935 .. 933 75 New ditt0...... BOO .. Southern Western ]astern .. .. 478 75 .. 477 50 Sardinian Austrian Lon bard North of Spain Saragossa .. 613 75 .. 613 75 Ditto to Barcelona .... 300 .. The directors of the East London Bank have determined upon increasing their capital from £600,000 to £1,000,000, by the issue of 8,000 addi tional shares of £5O each, at a premium of £1 10s. per share, to existing proprietors in the proportion of two for every three shares now held. The calls already arranged are two in number, one of £2 on the Ist February, and the other of £2 10s. in April next, together with a deposit of £2 on the 4th proximo. The amount that will be obtained by the premium will be appropriated to the formation of a reserve fund. The directors of the Oil Wells Company of Canada, satisfied by the personal visit of one of their board, and by the reports of their special commis sioners sent out from England to Canada, that it would not be for the interest of the shareholders to acquire possession of the oil wells and lands (2,948 acres) in Western Canada, for the purchase of which at £25,000 they had previsionally contracted, and subsequently learning from their local agents that many of the most productive wells in oil springs' districts had ceased yielding any supply except by the expensive process of pumping, have recommended, in a circular recently issued, the re• turn to the shareholders the mount of subscribed capital without any deduction whatever, and the dissolution of the company. . The deposits are now • in course of repayment. Kent, Reigate Totness Dtedes, W (d) Monson, Hon. VT. (p) Giff,rd, Earl (d) Dering, Sir E. Gower, G. L. Seymour • A. . _ , Cambridgeshire Ball, E. (r) Manners, G. Lisburn Somerset, W Hoody, C. A. (r) .... Langton, W. H. G Cambridge evonport Seymour, Sir H. (r) Ferrand, W. B. Devizes Chichester Freeland, H. W. (r) .. Smith, J. A. Bandon Antrim Thetford Easton, Earl (p) Fitzroy, Lord F. Dublin, Co. .. Hamilton, J. H. (r) Hamilton, J, T. Radnor Tralee O'Connell (o 11) O'Hagan, T. London New Ross Tottenham, C. (r) . . . . Tottenham ' Col. sale Lisburn Berwick Gordon, Capt. (d) .... Cargill, W. W. Clare ... Calcutt, F. M. (d) O'Loghlen, Sir M. Pontefract Milnes, R. M. (p) .... Waterhouse, Major Montgomery Ludlow Worcester W. Elmley, Viscount (p) . . Lygon, Hon. F. Tewkesbury .. Lygon, Hon. F. (r).... (Seat vacant) Tamworth Raynham, Visct. (p) • . Peel J. Coventry .... Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. (d) Treherne, M. Barnstaple .... Potts, G. (d) Reading Pigott, G. (off) Windsor Hope, G. W. (d) ..., Vyse, Col. H. Oxford Langston, J. B. (d).... Neate, C. Andover Cubbitt, W. (d) Humphrey, W. G, Buckinghamsh. Cavendish, Hn. W. (p) (Seat vacant) In the foregoing table d. stands for death vacancy; of., acceptance of office ; p., accession to the peerage ; r., re signation; e. v., election void. The number of changes has been unusually great; the results slightly less favourable to the Conservative cause than those of 1862 ; but then it must be remarked that 1862 was an exceptionable year, the Conservatives gaining six seats and losing none. Not counting Lisburn we have lost three seats and gained five. Two of the former, there is little reason to doubt, will be repaired when opportunity offers—l allude to East Kent and Barnstaple. Of our gains probably all are permanent ones. Since the last general election our gains have been 26 ; our losses, 11. Thus : Dartmouth Taunton Aylesbury Beverley Ayrshire Londonderry Harwich Boston Leicester Wilts, S. Cork Tynemouth Lancashire, S. Birkenhead Oxfordshire Lincoln Grimsby Wakefield Yorkshire, N. Southampton Devonport Lisburn Pontefract Coventry Tamworth Buckinghamshire Total gains 26 Total loss ll Let us now consider these changes as affecting the state of parties, and Lard Derby's chances of coming into power : NUMBERS IN DIVISION, JUNE 13, 1859. For Lord Derby.... 310 I Against Bodmin Whitby Berwick Pontefract Roscommon Plymouth Lincoln Kent, E. Lisburn Montgomery Barnstaple The Funeral of Mr. W. M. Thackeray. (THIS DAY.) To-day the mortal remains of the late William Makepeace Thackeray were consigned to their last earthly resting-place, i❑ All Souls Cemetery, in the presence of a large number of literary and other friends, who attended to pay respect to his memory. The funeral procession, which was one of extreme simplicity, left the residence of the deceased in the Kensington-palace-gardens, at eleven o'clock. It consisted of a chief mourning coach, in which were the Rev. John Thackeray, Captain Shaw, the brother-in-law of the deceased, Mr. James Rood, his cousin, and the Hon. E. Curzon. There were ten private carriages, in the following order—those of Mr. Martin Thackeray, Mr. Lowe, Lord Gardner, Sir W. Frazer, Earl Granville, Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Sir James Colville, Mr. Bradbury, of the firm of Bradbury and Evans. The funeral procession arrived at the cemetery at a few minutes past 12 o'clock at which time there were between 1500 and 1600 present, most of them congregated in • front of the chapel doors. Amongst them we noticed Mr. Robert Bell, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. Mark Lemon, the Rev. Dr. Rudge, Mr. Robert Bela, Mr. Leech, Mr Isaac Butt, M.P., Mr. Charles Matthews, Mr. Howel Morgan, the High Sheriff of Merionethshire, Mr. W. H. Russell, the historian of the Crimea, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. O'Dowd, the Aldermen of London (Masters of the Charterhouse in which Mr. Thackeray was educated), Mr. H. Cole, Mr. Rich mond, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. Theodore Martin, Mr. Cresswell, Mr. C. L. Gruneisen, Mr. R. Browning, Sir J. Carmichael, &c. The solemn service of the church was said in the small mortuary chapel at the western end of the cemetery, by the Rev. Charles Stuart, of King's College, London. The pressure of persons anxious to obtain admission into the chapel was intense, but there was no confusion, and every word which was spoken was distinctly audible. At the close of the chapel service, the procession was reformed, and, preceded by the minister,moved to the grave, which is situated on the south side of the cemetery, and near to the dead wall, which abuts upon the canal. There a dense crowd collected, and the chaplain at once continued the service. The body was lowered into the grave in solemn silence, amidst:the consolations which the burial service of the Church of England so patheti cally provides_ Having taken a last glance at the grave which contained the remains of their departed friend, the vast assemblage dispersed. The coffin was an extremely plain one, covered with black cloth, and bearing a simple inscription setting forth the day of the birth and that of the death of the deceased. The Mimes Thackeray were present in the ceme tery during the service, and were naturally much affected. On the Day of the Great Satirist-Humourist's Funeral, one of the periodicals his genius, in its time, the most signally adorned—Punch—appro priately comes forth with that genial, kindly, charming tribute to his memory : While generous tributes are everywhere paid to the Genius of him who has been suddenly called away in the fulness of his power and the maturity of his fame, some who have for many years enjoyed the advantage of his assistance and the delight of his society would simply record that they have lost a dear Friend. At an early period in the history of this periodical he became a contributor to its pages, and he long continued to enrich them, and though of late he had ceased to give other aid than suggestion and advice, he was a constant member of our council, and sat with us on the eighth day from that which has saddened England's Christmas. Let the brilliancy of his trained intellect, the terrible strength of his satire, the subtlety of his wit, the richness of his humour, and the catholic range of his calm wisdom, be themes for others: the mourning friends who inscribe these lines to his memory think of the affectionate nature, the 1 cheerful companionship, the large heart and open hand, the simple courteousness, and the endearing frankness of a brave, true, honest Gentleman, whom no pen but his own could depict as those who knew him would desire, ELECTORAL CHANG: "G. C. P.," in a letter to the Morn, In accordance with my annual custom following electioneering statistics for if Constituency. Late Member. Consoling Thoughts in Praise of Old Age, It seems to us, therefore, that a great deal of ure necessary pity has been thrown away upon old age We begin at school reading Cicero's treatise, hear• ing him talk with Scipio and Leelius ; we hear much about poor old men ; we are taught to admire the vigour, quickness, and capacity of youth and manhood. We lose sight of the wisdom which age brings even to the most foolish. We think that a circumscribed sphere must necessarily be an un happy one. It is not always so. What one aban dons in growing old is, perhaps, after all not worth having. The chief part of youth is but excitement; often both unwise and unhealthy. The same pen which has written, with a morbid feeling, that "there is a class of beings who do grow old in their youth and die ere middle age," tells us also that "the best of life is but intoxication." That passes away. The man who has grown old does not care about it. The author at that period has no feverish excitement about seeing himself in print ; he does not hunt newspapers for reviews and notices. He is content to wait ; he knows what fame is worth. The obscure man of science, who has been wishing to make the world better and wiser; the struggling curate, the poor and hard-tried man of God ; the enthusiastic re'ormer, who has watched the sadly slow dawning of progress and liberty; the artist, whose dream of beauty slowly fades before his dim eyes—all lay down their feverish wishes as they advance in life, forget the bright ideal which they cannot reach, and embrace the more imperfect real. We speak not here of the assured Christian. He, from the noblest pinnacle of faith, beholds a promised land, and is eager to reach it ; he prays " to be delivered from the body of this death ;" but we write of those humbler, perhaps more human souls, with whom increasing age each day treads down an illusion. All feverish wishes, raw and inconclusive desires, have died down, and a calm beauty and peace sur vive; passions are dead, temptations weakened or conquered, experience has been won ; selfish inte rests are widened into universal ones; vain, idle hopes have merged into a former faith or a complete knowledge ; and more light has broken in upon the soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed " through chinks which Time has made." . . . We are no longer the fools of time and error. We are leaving by slow degrees the old world ; we stand upon the threshold of the new ; not without hope, but without fear, in an exceedingly natural position, with nothing strange or doubtful about it; with our domain drawn within a narrow circle, but equal to our power. Muscular strength, organic instincts are all gone; but what then ? We do not want them; we are getting ready for the great change, one which is just as necessary as it was to be born ; and to a little child, perhaps one is not a whit more painful than the other—perhaps not so painful. The wheels of Time have brought us to the goal ; we are about to rest while others labour ; to stay at home while others wander. We touch at last the mysterious door — are we to be p itied or 0 be envied ?--The Gentle Life. A COMPETITION FOR THE BEST NEW STRINGED Q UARTE TT has been opened by t h e Musical Institute of francs, Florence, offering a first prize of 400, a seco nd of 200 Manuscripts am to be forwarded f re e of coat, u l na f our , Percy to o'clock in the afternoon of the IGth of August next year. The The Caluardzara announces that the A rchbish Bolt op of York has offered LlithiLao..iaTluhabeleslali.acvecrie.ne,dg BisEhxopEoTft Imam: under the direction of Disraeli a subscription concert. next performance will take m p , Mr. Costa, on Friday, Jan. e g d ht a t Grosvenor -ate, from Hatfield House, 11erts, where the for the Rome hav ir e he arr it iv i Bruce,lioti, B . b 'ng and Mrs. Disraeli they have been en a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury. Mr. 11 . A. M.P., Under Secretary of State Department, left town on Monday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess de Grey, at Studley Park, near ItipOnt wl4-0 , , • tr,__LkAy (rani tlrdien - HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dee. 29. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds to-day. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is expected to leave Gloucester House early in the ensuing' week, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby. at Knowsley, near Prescott, when a distinguished circle will meet the royal duke. His Serene Highness the Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein has left the St. George's Hotel. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador arrived at the embassy, in Bryanstou-square, on Sunday evening from visiting Madame Musurus and family at St. Leonards. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salibbury' s s, party during the last few days at Hatfie ld House, Klan , has included the Duke of "W e lli ng t o n, the Earl of Clan william, Lord John Hay, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir Hugh and Lady Cairns, the Right Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli, Maj Jr Teesdale, Baron Marcchetti, &c. The Earl of Lonsdale left Carlton House-terrace last week for Ventnor, Isle of Wight, where the noble earl will stay about a month. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough are re ceiving a sucuession of visitors at Brocklesby, their seat in Lincolnshire, during the Christmas season. The Earl of Shannon has arrived in town from Castle Marty, the family seat in Ireland. Count Woronzow Daschkaw, Col. Makaroff, and M. Feder have left the Clarendon Hotel for Paris. Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton have been en tertaining company at Tatton Park, Cheshire. Mr. Francis and Lady Eleanor Cavendish arrived at the Hon. General Cavendish's residence, in Burlington" gardens, yesterday, from Kimberley Park, Norfolk, the seat of Lord Wodehouse. Mr. and Lady Evelyn Brndenel Bruce h ave Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Woolaton, Larabourli, Berks. Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard have arrived at Compton Hall, near Eastbourne, from C hatsworth, Derby shire. We hear that Miss Gordon, only daughter of Lady Francis Gordon, lies most dangerously i ll at FramPt°ll dan. Court, Dorsetahire, the seat of Mr. Brinsley Sherileft The Right Hon. Thomas M. Gibson, M.P, i s staying with the Rev. J. G. Cullam, at his seat, Hardwick. House, near Bury St, Edmunds. Mrs. Gibso n is passing the winter at Nice. VICTORIA COLLEGE FOR LADIES, BAYSWATER.'" The Christmas term at this college was brought to a close on Tuesday evening, in a manner which was evi' dently as satisfactory to the fashionable and crowded asset''' blage of parents and friends as it must have been gratifying im to the director of the institution, to see gathere d a round h so many friends, willing to testify their app roval of Id assiduous s efforts during the last four years to establish' college where the really useful and practical is blended wi of the senversazione closing the term consisted of the ornamental part of a lady s education. The programme well selected morceaux for the pianoforte, which Were play ed with both taste and brilliancy by several of the paPi le, ar ; i d e , which evidenced even in the case of three very .in eb-- pianistes, that they had progressed most satisfactorily under their professor, Mr. George Kiallmark, and the lady supers Miss Snell. A scene from a German Pl a y an d enacted with great ability by the pupils of Dr. Fisel le4 in the case of a Miss Mossman eseciaily, .ct remarkable knowledge of the language was shown. P A French Piece' s everal also, performed by the pupils of M. De Bouge, a, iNlis g4 Craufurd, in particularly evincing extraordinary facility i s her use of the language, proved beyond doubt that skilful teaching had been appreciated by willing and hard-working students. Several readings from Willis, Montgomery , and Longfellow were then given by both senior and very j unior pupils; and the unanimous applause that followed th em was at once a testimony to the great attention the director, N. Flew"' Lesingham, professor of elocution, gives to this highly im portant but frequently much neglected branch of education; and this was the more obvious when the company hadin thr e o pportunity of hearing, and we might add o f seeing, M' Lesingham's own reading from the " Samson Agonistes" an exponent of what elocution should be. His reading W." everything those having an appreciative taste could shave e wished it to be, and it w as received in an enthusasti two manner by all present. Mr. Geor g e Kiallmark p of pieces in a most brilliant sty le, and one worthy our great players, and very m uch to the delight of all pre' sent ; whilst Mrs. Helen Percy, a lady well-known in Bayswater as a vocalist and t eacher of singing, sang two ed songs in a manner which elicited marked and prolonglayed of any applause. The evening's entertainment soon after this ended by Mr. Sergeant Miller, the Recorder of Warwick, distributing to several meritorious pupils certificates of merit, which were executed in a very artistic manner. In per forming this pleasing task, the sergeant expressed himself as highly satisfied with the progress of the pupils and the manner in which the college was progressing. The com pany then separated. EXETER-HALL. —MADAME LIND- GOLDSMIDTP-- This gifted lady and her accomplished huSbandt Otto Goldsmidt, Esq., having placed their services at the disposal of the committee of the Friends of the Clergy Cor • poration, it has been arranged to give a grand performance of Handel's magnificent oratorio of " The Messiah," at Exeter-ball, on Tuesday, January 5, 1861, on which occa sion Madame Goldsmidt will be supported by the leading vocal talent of the day. Apart from the object for whi ch the performance has been arranged, the great and ever existing wish to hear again the enchanting tone threat" The Lind'' will ensure an audience of no ordinary er. to The ticket arrangements have, we believe, been confid ed Mr. Mitchell, of Old Bond -street, so that the public ra3Y rest perfectly certain that, notwithstanding the extraorabi; nary nature of the performance, no more tickets than t ,_ hall will comfortably accommodate will be i s sued. l ' ha oratorio commences at eight o'clock. to to b e A LARGE LONDON GRAVEYARD is llg f made something pleasant to the sight by the Piae,t^:,l-don trees and shrabs in it. Hardly any churchyard ja hero offers greater facilities in this respect than the„°--is very alluded to, namely, that of St. Lu ke ' s, Chelsea; " s ides, large, not closed in by houses, has streets on th ree and is broad and wide enough to show large trees j a needful bulk. A subscription h as been o p ened to p ay the -vire expenses, and in a sho rt time the thing w ill be do ne ' now comme nd this example to parishes with church yards u il de. in anything but a pleasant and venerable condition. I ch a pendently of the sanitary advantages to accrue from Tinted planting of trees, it is worth considering that a tree, P' a by the grave of some lost friend, may remain te°tira d ered eul of affection long after the most costly s tone has In away. CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY.—It almost appears doubtful whether the long - expect ed opening ofda,.), important line will take place by Friday (New Year Tor not as was generally anticipated, the Government inspector p ublic. whose formal certificate it cannot be opened to the having yet made his report to the Beard of Trade, without In the meanwhile there is only some exterior finishing Inns work to be done, and the interval will been employed, properly, in drilling the company's staff to the working of the line and signals. The Customs departraent plat at the Charing-cross station, to which the Customs bas il ass now carried on at Folkestone will be transferre d, is finished and ready for opening. ff 00 TROTTING MATCH AT DONCASTER FOR £. 1 .- 00 " --' On Monday afternoon a trotting match came o the Doncaster Racecourse, in the preseace of an irtinuere. number of persons, between Rat Tail, the bay horse oi D: 1 43 Clayton, of Kirk Burton, ne ar Wakefield, and Digby, 11.`e, roan horse belonging to Mr. Field, of Copmantheorillfat Betting opened even, but towards the finish of thtehreacstarter taking place in Tail had the call. Mr. Aice, of Doncaster, throughout, and judge. Rat Tail took the lead, the two-mile course, and main tehae t i o , Digby broke winning, after a good race, by two leg an d did not go past the down4about fifty yards from home; t at that point by pet post, virtually giving up the cotaba the trot. The match was for turning round and resuming £5O a side. ti 3 thenawn in noticing th is A REVIEWER in , of " Poetry," cruelly remarks that the rdaceiW:asko the following like a novelty much ' toot][ cleaningeek as:mall vor every L in 14 I E restlessa y Mute the smooth, pure lips E w x or p k L in o g s s m on i ::_he ß p e e t ar l . con t he hours of seven and eiht o'clock on the morning of Saturday last, a fearful explosion took place at the Gin Coalpit, at Maesteg, the property of the Llynvi Vale Iron AsoTTiguhEteitnecdo Company, when 13 or 14 persons lost thei r liveli by most damp. The following is a list of tho bodies alreadybrough up wh en our report l e f t , namely:—William Isaac, carp en " ter, left a wife and seven children ; W illiam Elias, h : tely ro tied; John Bevan, left a wife and three children; David Williams (and son), a marr i e d man ; David Rees, married ; Morgan Thomas, s i ng l e; William Da vis, single; l3eni'e min Rees, single; William Jones, single; and David J onto} single.—Cambria Daily Leader. IRISH CALCULATION. --An Irish Indy Was ar se declaring that she could not understand how gentlemen could smoke. "It certainly shortens their lives," said sb° " I didn't know that," said a gentleman. " There's in_s", father, who smokes every blessed day, and hers new r i v _ . years old." " Well," was the reply, "if he had Deve smoked he might have been SO by this time." A WOMAN'S RAN SOM,--By F. W. Robinoooo author of "Grand mother's Aloney," &e. 3 v ° ?; AI r. Robinson has a lread y published severalsue,cosin sa d nove ls, among which are "Grandmother's Money ' or "Under the Spell." "A IVenian's Ransom" reinseal:_ii, to any of its predecessors . It is a good novel, ll i , sa " clever, and thoroughly r eadable. The story is final, i there is plenty of incident in it.— Press. disc peri to 13 is 6' Ban they the Ban Lion poir sett Con and Bra