The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-17 00:00:00

ItEMEMBER! WE WAIT SUPPER for you /tot after the Covent Garden Opera, at EVANS'. Fail RINAHAN'S LI, WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. Thi pD. celebrated Old IRI6II WHISKY rivals the finest RNCR BRANDY, I t 14 Pare, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. il i S old in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by a t e A gents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale 9 , GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. lit... Observe the Red Seal , Pink Label, and Cork brand e d inanahan - 's LL Whisky." W pm erry OFFICES COMPANY (Limited). i,„„ }:RALNOT TCE IS HERERY GIVEN, That th e FIRS I' MEETING of this k, Comp ary will be held at the or tdon Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on FRIDAY, the 23d of December, 1864, at Eleven o' lock p -13r ecisely, when the Directors will s ub m it a Report, sworn aled by an Audited Statem en t o f A ccoun t s, s h ow i ng t h e .su is of the Compa - y's op era ti ons f rom th e commencement ,1 business up to the 30th November, By order of the 13o1rd. G. W. BENWELL, Secretary. T emporary Offices, 70, rornhill, December 13, MP. A.D. 1720. ItOYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (E stablished by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Sub-Governor. JAMES STEWART HODGSON, Esq., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. p iT enry Bainbridge, Esq. Wm. Tetlow Hibb er t, E s q. Mehra Garra tt Barclay, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Garratt Cattley, Esq. . Geo. F. Malcomson, Esq. ark Currie Close, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Leward James Daniell, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. lliam Davidson, Esq. Hon. Josceline W. Percy. umas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. "texander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo .t:chuster, Esq. ,redk. Jos. Eellmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. wkarlem linscoen, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. M.P. hiver'sdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Wallace, isq. Itobc. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. 0 , IRNOETICE. PREMIUMS—The usual fifteen days t allowedChrlstma will tor paexpire of falling due a 9th January. TIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. of ? AR e tra charge is made for th e use ul a Steam Thrashing Machine. :The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has aye - Il Lgd , early 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. (Ittivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums vaYable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Lif e AnY sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. THE IMPERIAL MERCANTILE CREDIT ASSOCIATION, Limited. Capital subscribed, £5,000,C00. Paid up, £50 1 ,000. DIRECTORS. JOHN CHAPMAN, Esq., Chairman. Xenophon Balli, Esq. Charles Kelson Esq, 13 . J. Coleman, Esq. G. G. Mo.ophers , 3n, Esq. Ur, Alderman Dakin. Sir J. H. Pelly, Bart. James Dickson, Esq. W. Scholefleld, Esq„ M.P. P. D. liadow, Esq. Sir S. 0. Scott, Vart. 0. Hanson, Esq. H. D. Seymour, Esq.. M.P. w. H. llartord, Esq. Joseph Thornton, Esq. G. F. Holroyd, Esq. F. G. Westmorland, Es 1. G. Homere, Esq. Allred Wilson, Esq. Capt. J. Gilbert Johnston. M. Zarifi, Esq. MANAGERS. Henry J. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Ashurst, Morris. and Co., and Messrs. Edwards and Co. The Association receives money on deposit for fired periods. Makes advances on approved securities. ues,. Negotiates Loans, and undertakes General Financial Busi- W. C. WINTERBOTTOM, Secretary. Crosby Rouse, 96, Bishopgate-street Within. the Medical Profession, and univers 2 ly accepted by the One, as the Bi st Remedy for' Acidity of the Stomach, e artburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion and as a Mild ":tierient for delicate constituti ons, more esp ci illy for Ladies I,ncl Child. Combined with the Accidulated Lemon Syrup totms an en agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its ZPerient qualities are much increased. During Hot Seasons, 4c l , above all, in Hot Climates, the regular I , se of this sim- It e and e egant remedy has been found highly beneficial. t"ltraztured (with the utmost attention to strength and urity by DINNEFORD and CO., 172, New Bond-street, tk"don ; and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout td" • pre. BED•ROOM CANDLES, 413 RICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop Tase when carried."—Thin ver hal. candles 401 4 in boxes le. and 3s. each, are recommended as the best carriers. " FICTRA HARD 5.12 rHAMBER CANDLES," Old in bolcs 2e. each. Thicker candles intended for those l'fho will not burn thin. " SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS," 14 packets of 36 candles for one shilli ng, i ntended for use Where cheapness a great object, will be found an improve alent on the ordinary candles, RA they gutter less. St ecial candle ticks io fit thin candles, ls. and 2s. 6d. each 'educing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each. TOILET SOAPS. She, wood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleasant scent. Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains trice's Glycerine. Plior and t4lycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter. GL C NE. SM . :RW(IOI)OLE _ 1 1 z - rice's Tilwrrar - rettry'be Cleans gloves arid removes :..0 from any Chemist, in gvease and other stains. i l Tsnled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled rric Impure rds 's Patent," Glycerin from 6d. I ties, 6d. and is. each. Piva. e L l 4 been sold , 5n the state- Vent that it is "equal to ric em , wholesale by Prißetail thro te n ug Primes Pa di any Grocer. Candle Company (Limited), don Lone PRIZE ME D A L.-INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. F RANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, &c., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 1720.) Jurors' eport on Wax and Church Candles in 1862 stifies to he e R xcollence of the quality of Messrs. , Tuakers , ' 4441 1 i acture. TA. distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis ticker and Co., on the subject of w AX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : %,,,,„ i 1 have found them fully equal to the recom men d a ti on keth you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I coru d them to the clergy for the use of the altar." ohl Mest quality, with latted Wicks, patent e d.. ? s. 2d . p er lb . inary, quality :s. Od. per lb. r V EGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Trltqua Is. sd. per lb , ond quality • ls. 3d. per lb. ird quality .. is. id. per lb. 471 age paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory-- T Kensington (Established 1730). h e largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Was Candles for the use of the Altar. CIT Y SH 0 W-It 00 M s FOR GLASS AND CHINA, 147, HOUNDSDITCH. bEFRIES and SONS' TABLE GLASS Cut and Engraved, of the choicest designs. trRIES and SONS' DINNER. DESSERT, and Tea Ware, of the newest patterns. bEFRIES and SONS' LUSTRES. TAZZAS and Flower Vnaes for the present season. bEFRTES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, for the Dinicg-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and silver. IEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS, in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles. bEFRIES and SON- S' CHANDELIERS. India. in Crystal, in the Venetian and Grecian designs, for bEFRIES and SONS- ' SPECIAL DESIGNS in Lamps for India. tIiEPRIES end SONS' WALL LIGHT Chandeliers, in Crystal, for India (Registered). 04. • lIRFRIES and SONS promptly execute CLUB, Mess, and Gen( ral Furnishing Orders of China, Glass, IEFRIES and SONS supply MERCHANTS with Pattern Books and Special Des%rue. 4 REFRIES And SONS have just acided Five New Show-Rooms to their extensive Manufactory ; - ,T have now on show the largest assortment in the world "ie above goods of their cwn manufacture. MANUFACTORY AND SHOW-ROOMS, 147, Houndsditch. ET H. -IMPROVED MECHANICAL littp D ENTlSTRY.—Professional abilities and great artistic 1 have been most succesefullycombined in the production Viti„'"•tt-fIIcICIA_L TEETH upon a new principle. The real !lic 3 4 0 ,! . the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be ripen st.; 0 3r all wishing to avail themselves of professional % tr e - Atice by censulting Mr. ALBERT, 34, Great Russell ateet, Bloomsbury. whose experience has enabled him to ke, e t such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial and which arc so perfectly efficient. TtET ESICELL'S PATENT.—The 11 ,i tik,i, e , xclusive right to this_ ..o l%atent was secured to Mr. tr: of Grosvenor-street, ~ .venor-square, by her Ma ,,n.,Royai seal (July 17, 1S(10), and can only he procured at i g ki, Bl ilence, where specimens maybe seen, and every infor VII can be obtained. Under this Patent, A rtificial Teeth, 't a Wet' e re made, and fitted in a few hours without , a or traltions. They support loose teeth, and protect m to,„7 gnius • their resemblance to nature is perfect and un fltt.--tab] let t ! e. and they are guaranteed tor mastication and oh. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps, Illtations free. OPINIONS or THE PRESS. kP lifi„ l. 4 * taken dental-surgeon, has succeeded in producing Zvtir,-.1 teeth, and so constructing them that they last their ildlse a lifetime. . . . The process has been patented, 4,3jonlises to be most valuable,"—Court Journal, August 4;.' e 6 ,,. ll ,. l 'Pr:sing novelty in the adaptation of artificial teeth k t 'lecrn by a patented proaciple, whleh secures the most 4e 4 „ 41 (1, combined with thP greatest ease and agreeable bz ne e•''--Morning Advertiser, August 9, 1860. `4r n_,ELYed teeth stopped,Terms strictly moderate. olmenor.gtreet, 29nd-street. /0 - 4c_ N°. 22.616. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECLAIBER 17, 1864. PR1CE...... ...4d STAMPED ....5d Now ready, in 2 vo]s , Bvo., with Portrait, T HE HON, GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS. . _ Naval and Military Intelligence. Princess Charlotte—Martin Magill, Assist. Surgeon, to the Prince Consort—Samuel Bimfield, Assist, Surgeon, to the St. George—.limes Farrelly, Assist. Surgeon, additional, to the Sutlej—George Duncan, Assist. Surgeon, to the Excellent—and. James T. Syme, Assist. Paymaster, to the Wellesley. ASSIZE IS TELLIGENCI. "A book unrivalled in its position in the range of modern literature." 'The 'times, Dec. 16. Hurst and I3;ackett, Pvb ishers, 13, Grcat Marlborough strcet. The plating of the Royal Alfred frigate at Ports., mouth remains suspend( e, pending the final deeis sien of the Admiralty in relation to the disposition oc the ship's offensive ane defensive powers. In , he naval intelligence . which appeared in the Sun of the 13th inst. reference wus made to the correspon dence passing between Whitehall end Portsmouth 4lockyard respecting the ship. A doubt was then expressed whether the Admiralty would sanction any further reconstruction of the Royal Alfred, which was already in a very advanced stage to wards completion as an ironcased ship. We tinders stand, however, that the Admiralty are so fully convinced of the weaknesses of the Royal Alfred class of ship, both for purposes of offence and de. fence that they have now under their serious con sideration the plan to which we formerly referred f o r the entire alteration of the ship's armour and arma ment. If the Royal Alfred is eventually completed as was originally intended when ehe was con verted to her present form—that of a nearly finished screw two-decker, she will add one more to the total number of the Prince Consort and Royal Oak class. She will be a vessel of 4,045 tons, and of WESTERN CIRCUIT,—TAUNTON, Dcc. 16, Mr Baron Bramwell opened the commission for holding the winter assize for the county of Somerset yesterday afternoon in this town, His Lordship afterwards attended Divine service. Tnis morning at 10 o'clock the learned Judge teak his seat in the Crown Court. Although there are not so many prisoners as there were at Winchester, yet the calendar may be said to be heavy. There are 27 pri soners for trial. NOTICE. rtlTs - 'I , ,ItSONS SEEKING LANDED TOWN AND CoUN TRY li,: - SIDENCES, E`REEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER VIES G ENERALLY— To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout, the kingdom, or at the Auction and E s t a t e Offi ces, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY MOISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. LODGE'S PEERAGE rind BARONETAGE for 1865, under the especial P , tronage of her MAJESTY, and corrected by the Nobi ity, 34:h Edition, IS row READY, in 1 va, w,th the Arms beautifully engraved, 31s. 6d., handsomely bound, gilt edges. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. Toe undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi nated to naval cadetships :—Allan Cornelius l'ho rold Mann, Francis Hall Logan, Leonard George Eardley Childers, George Benson Bradford, and Stephen J. H. Bravo. The name of the naval cadet which appeared among the nominations on the 14th, was " Carruthers Massy," and not " Carrn• there." William Marsh was indiC;ed for feloniously cutting and wounding John Greenhorn, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, at Haselbury-Plucknett, on the 16th of November. When called upon to plead, the prisoner said—l should ltke the case to be heard, if you please, Sir. These people were labourers, and had had a job of work together, which came to a sovereign. Greenham was paid the sovereign to divide between them. As they were going home the prisoner said he would have his share directly, but Greenham could not get change. The prisoner abused him very much, and at length they got to blows, and the pri. Boner stabbed Greenham in the neck, and injured him very much. The wound was a quarter of an inch deep and five inches long. The prisoner was apprehended. He said Greenham had hit him with a hook. and he had struek at him in return with a knife, but whether ho had cut him or not ho could not tell. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., S WART'S INTENTIONS. By the Author of "Grandmother's Money," &c. the first chapter of this interesting story enchains the reader's ttention, which continues absorbed without inter ruption to tie close of the book ; and that great end of novel writing is accomplished by the legitima e means of correct appreciat on of char acter, natural sequence et events, and lively diversity of scenes and circumstan es."—Post. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. OWNERS OP PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the oppoi (allay that the medium of this Register affords, by sending the partictears of their properties to the Estate Offices, 07, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers where the property is of an eligible chars ter, thereby avoid inf.-, the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon veniences. frIERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or put , haler is introduced throne% 3lessrs. Lumley's Agency, Ind :hen only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. NEW NOVEL BY THE REV. J. C. M. BELLEW Now ready. at all th e Lib raries, in 3 vols., BLOUNT TEMPEST. By the Rev. J. C. M. B/4.11,1•EW. " Blount Tempest' is a novel that cannot fail to be suc cessful. It has all the requisites for making it so. It is a very uteresting story, well-written, and carefu'ly worked out. Mr. Bellew ells his tale admirably. 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This eostly work also contains complete estimates for furnishing on the following revised Butte :-- The jury found the prisoner guilty, The Judge then said to the prisoner —There are not many men like you, but there are some, It is more credit able to be beaten than to take out a knife, It is a cowardly act. I sentence you to be kept in penal servitude fur ten years, 800 •horee power, woc den built from keel to topsides, with the exception that her composite iron and wooden upper dick will rest on rolled Butterly iron beams, encased with armour.plating of 44in., except at the extreme ends round the bows and stern. where it will taper to 211 n. jler weakness in offence will be that she wiiree'lim4ed in the size of her guns on broadsides behind her armour ; and her weakness in defence will be that her dlein. armour will rest upon its 26in. of timber without any inner iron skin. With the feeling growing stronger day by day that it would be at the present moment supreme ignorance to fix any precise iimit to the size of the ordnance our future iron ships will carry it cannot be wondered at that the Admiralty have at length made public their alarm and doubt as to the policy of still further going on in the construction of a weak composite ship such as the Royal Alfred. Tee plan laid before the Admi ralty to meet the case has been prepared by Rear- Admiral G. Elliot, superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard. It provides for a belt of armour of great thickness, say frcm 10in. to 12in., to go entirely round the ship, from about 2ft. below the waterline to the level of her main deck, Amidships is a square box of iron, of equal thickness with the belt at the water-line, and in this box is one turret to mount 2 600-pounder rifled guns, the box being built for the protection of the turret's base, the turret having a thickness of iron quite equal to that of the belt and square box or tower, The main deck forward and aft of this tower-turret battery would be without any armour, which would thus be confined, as al ready stated, to the protective belt at the water. New ready at all the Librarie=, in 3 vo's., THE ORDEAL FOR WIVES. By the Author of " The Mora's of Mayfair," &c. " A very clever story. '—Morning Post. "A first-rate novel. The story is a very good one, and contains a vivid de cription of modern society."—John Bull. Hunt and BLacke.t, 13, Great Marlborough -street. 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Marriages, Obituary, &c., with all the Naval and Military Intelligence of the Month. " This is one of the ablest and most attractive periodicals of which the British piess can boast, presenting a wide field of entertainment to the general as well as the professional reader." England. It appeared that the prisoner was a butcher at Eaniouth. About 8 o'clock in the evening of Dec. 8 the pri- Murat and Blaekett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Grav' s ei nn s i o'd, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way terminus, King's-cross. • FUNDS are urgently REQUIRED to enable the Commit tee to admit the distressing cases tha , more especially at this inclement season of the ye }r, daily present them elves. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wh , lly dependent on voluntary contributions and le2acies, which are received by the Treasurer, Riward Maslerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; and at the Hospital from 10 till 5. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF "LOST' SIR MASSINGBERD." This day, 3 vols. crown Bvo., lls. 6d., MARRIED BENEATH HIM. By the Author of "LOST SIR MASSINGBERD." Macmillan and Co., London and Cambridge. NEW WORK ON AMERICAN SOCIETY. This Day, in 1 vol., price 10s. 6d., THE DOBBS FAMILY IN AMERICA, By our Own "SPECIAL" CORRESPONDENT. This remarkable Volume comprises a true and particular account of the Men in Office—Civil, Military, and Political the Evening Re-unions, the Manors, Customs, and Pecu liarities of Society in general, b It especially of Washington and New York, as seen from the Diplomatic point of view. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF " SIR VICTOR'S CHOICE." This Day, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., BARRY O'BYRNE, By A NNIE THOMAS. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet street. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF " DENIS DONNE." This Day, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., B A it RY O'BYRNE. By ANNI ^ THOMAS. John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street. 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SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient i n ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES 0 IL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free fors4 stranps.— ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay )n Hair, ld. PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness ,te 28. 9d.; by post for 40 stAmps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, ls.; sent for 14 stamps ; Eye Colour, 3s. 6(1., or 54 stamps. Skin tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or Cu stamps. Bloom of Roses, 3s. fld., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS. 248, High Holborn, L(Nion. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELL A. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.. 3, King-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumors to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous flui i. which gradually rest .res the human hair to its pristine hue no matter at what age. The Agua A marelia has none of the properties of dyes ; ir, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Pri e one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, its. 61 Testimonials from an istes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princes, of Wales. Fearful Accident on the Great Western Railway. ROYAL GALLERY OF' ILLUSTRATION. 1;1R. qnd _Mrs. GERMAN REED. wkii Mr. aupeariu "E.TM "r• goy- POSERS (fora Ift'ited""lliunber .01 tepiesentatto' To be followed by THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY. and Mrs. GERMAN REED). Shakespearian Visions of Rosa lind, Witch, Touchstone, and Ariel, illustrated by Mrs. Ger ' man Reed. Conc uding with MRS. ROSELEIF AT THE SEA-SIDE, by Mr. JOHN PARRY. - v0ceic1er0,32 , 443.-sttiut*4-11,,,ebeen o.ttnided with char sacrifice of human life, occurred on the line of the Great Western Railway, at the Pangbourno station, on the night of Thursday last. Every Evening (except Saturday) at 8. A Morning Repre sentation every Saturday, at 3 o'clock. Unreserved seats, ls. and Is. • stalls, 3s. ; stall spring chairs, ss. Stalls may be secured in advance, without fee, at the Gallery, From inquiries made on the spot it was ascertained that a narrow gauge special luggage train reached Pangbourne shortly before 10 o'clock, and from some defect in the valves of the engine, which caused a want of steam, the train was unable to proceed. The switchman, anticipating the arri val of the Birmingham express, directed the driver to get on to the down line, and there appeared to be enough steam to enable this to be done. Soon afterwards the down mail was due, and it is said that some person in authority ordered the luggage train to be removed from the down to the up line. This was done, and it had not long been there when the Birmingham express was observed to be in sight, and the railway officials foresaw that something most fearful must harpen. 104TH REPRESENTATION of the WIZARD of the NORTH. TO-NIGHT, at Eight.-104th REPRESENTATION of the WORLD of MAGIC.—Miss ANDERSON, the Second-sighted Sybil.—Prices, Is., 25., and 3s. To be secured at ST. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly. The Great Rope Tying Mystery and Cabinet Seances. by Miss Lizzie Anderson and Mr. Sutton, will terminate the Programme every Evening and Saturday Afternoon. THIS DAY at Three and Eight o'Clock p.m. Next week there will be only one Levee every even ing, commencing at 8 o'clock, at ST. JA VIES'S HALL, Piccsdilly, in eonseQuence of their engagemrnt at the Crystal Palace during the day. COMM ODJItE NUTT and MINNIE WARREN, Best man and Bridesmaid to GENERAL TOM THUMB an i WIFE, will appear in a Melange of Songs, Dances, Duets, &c. &3. Change of Programme at each Levee. Admits'on, is. and 24. ; reserved stalls, 3s. each. Children under 10 half-price in 2s. and 3s. places. The anxiliary signal, when first seen by the driver of the express train, was stated by him to indicate that all was right, but almost immediately it was reversed, showing that there was something on the line. He did all in his power to stop the train, but it was proceeding at express rate, and the space was too short to admit of the speed being at all checked. The result was that the engine ran into the goods train with fearful velocity, forcing the guard's break-van, which was at the end of that train, over a salt van on to the top of the third van from the end, where it remained, the first salt van being. dashed into pieces, and the second very extensively damaged. The noise from the colision was tremendous and so alarmed the inhabitants of the village of Pangbourne that all seemed to feel at once that it was the result of an accident on the railway. Many rushed to the station and rendered every assistance that appeared to be required. The driver of the express train, Abraham Hill, was discovered to be but slightly injured in the ribs, and the stoker by some extra ordinary means escaped any material injury. The fearful nature of the collision not unreasonably excited fears that some of the passengers had been killed, and the general anxiety was to ascertain what had been the effect of the ac cident among them. The carriages were instantly examined, and it was gratifying to the people to learn that none of the passengers had sustained any more iwonvenience than a severe shaking. T U t, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury HAll Company (limited). ORPHEE AUX ENTERS (Offenhach's brilliant Opera Comiquel, is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the Song : "Kim - of Boeotia ;" " The hymn to Bacchus •;" and the spirited "Hilliho " Chor us, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, and t horns ; the side-splitting "Couplets," by Minerva, Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; a• d final Minu ,, t and Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and Lascellcs. " Nothing can be prettier of its kind ; nothing can zo with greater spirit or be more heartily enjoyed by the audience." —Athenaeum. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. THE DESCENT OF MERCURY, by Mr. Jas. TallOtt. LE MONSTRE CHARME, by M. SILVESTRE. 'i he D'AUB ANS in their famous Character Sketches. Comedy, by Mr. WTI, !JAI( RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, LITTLE 808, and all the procurable Talent of the day. Instrumental Solos, .1 , 0., &e. Admission—Area, ed. ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private buxcs, les. 6d. The great thing remaining to he done was to clear the line of the broken vans and the engine of the express, which had got off the line and was embedded in the earth. The pas sengers of the train, railway (facers, and people of the village all assisted to remove the guard's break van from the top of the salt van, to which it had been driver, as already described, by the express train. Great difficulty was ex perienced in the effort, and ultimately the van fell across the clown line. Both lines were thus blocked, and proper appliances being required for removing the obstruction, a telegraphic message was sent to the Reading station for assistance. Mr Bailey, the district superintendent, with a staff of men, proceeded to the spot with the least possible delay, and succeeded in getting the down line clear. The axpress train was eventually despatched by another engine, but its progress was interrupted at Reading, owing to an engine having got off the ine near the Caversham road. The down mail at night, and also the up mail early in the morning, were both delayed several hours. The express train, which was due at Paddington at 11 p.m., did not arrive there until between 4 and 5 o'clock on Friday morn ing. A number of men were employed the whole of Friday in removing the disabled engine from its ?osition, and gettine it on the up line, at Pangbourne station. In cons( quence of this obstruction the down line had to be used for all trains, so that great delay was necessarily occasioned to the ordi nary course of traffic. The desire of the railway officials was to expedite the passenger trains, and to do that the goods trains were detained at Reading. At one time on Friday m3rning there were no less than 30 trains of this description waiting to be despatched. Although a posse of men have been at work all day, the up line, at the time of the despatch of our parcel last evening, was not cleared, There is no doubt a strict inquiry will be made by the directors into the cause of this accident, which might have entailed an awful sacrifice of life. The removal of the dis abled goods train from the down to the up lino no doubt led to the calamity; but, for the sake of the public, and railway t •avellers in particular, it ought to be ascertained by whose authority it was done, and who is responsible for such an act of utter carelessness in railway management. THREE YEARS' CAMPAIGNEN G.—The American papers say that there is a New York regiment which, during their three years' service, has travelled by sea and land more than 12,000 miles, fought 20 general engage ments, marched through 15 States, and has been under Burnside, Pope, M'Clellan, M'Dowell, Meade, Sherman, aad Grant, the revolving turret, and the F (pare tower which would:"protect its base. The unarmoured portion of the ship's main-deck is intended to carry eight rifled 150 pounder guns, two forward and aft of the tower on each side. The arrangement of the ship's defensive armour at the three points named, it is calculated, would give the ship the same weight of plating to carry that she would have if she is finished with her originally designed coating of 41in. spread over the whole of her sides, and which, it is contended, can withstand nothing more formidable than the ordinary 68. pound castiron shot. The rig of the ship it is proposed to make as composi.e is her armour and armament. Her mainmast would be a tripod, on Capt. Coles's plan, while her fore and mizenmast would retain the ordinary form. With this arrangement it is calculated that the two 600-pounders in the turret would have a training of 62 deg. before and abaft the beam, the angle of training btqween the fore and mizen rigging being 124ideg. In attacking anotborship that mounted only broadside guns, the Royal Alfred, with her mixed aystem, could place herself in a position the most favourable with regard to the sea, and still fire at the enemy from her turreted 600-pounders by the aid of cane 124 dog, of training through which they would work, while the broadside gunship must bear down -ne9.rly-abaasn.of-,l4 . AgreeL.befores -she -oo mkt- bring the fire of her gnus to bear upon the latter vessel's turret, and would probably throw herself in the trough of the sea and roll to excess, while the tur reted Alfred could keep her bow to the sea and thus preserve a much steadier gun platform. It is also argued in favour of the plan of Admiral Elliot that recent experience with the Channel squadron has proved that all of our ships attached to the squadron that have carried their armour plating round their bows and sterns have proved themselves wretched seaboats, and that the proposed alteration in the disposition Alfred's armour mustg rea tly benefit et. The square tow er w hi c h is intended to protect the b ase o f t h e t urret, i s also her o in f t h thateß or respect. sl p intended to form a kind of transverse athwartships and epreventnd raked by an enemy' s fi re o weight of the Royal Alf re d' s broadside under aft, the The sp he be ing prop ose d new arrangement ra h t i would be I,Boolb. Such is the plan proposed by Admiral Elliot for the reconstruction of the Royal Alfred. It has been desc r ib e d w i th as few attendant e adoption may possibly ccn v e• weak iro nc l a d i n t o a most for mrin remarks a br ks r e as notoriously vessel, possible. ossibl ebut. Its there would be a more positive chance of success for Admiral Elliot's scheme if it was applied to an iron framed ship rather than to the necessarily weak and yielding bottom of a wooden plan is applied to the R o y a l Alfred, a solitary instance o f th e co mbined broadside and t urret system, the Federal A mer ican navy already possessing one vessel Of the kind—the "Danderber frame. she will If not the h b e e g, a vessel with a turret at each end and guns on the broadsides, the sides of the ship being constructed at an angle of about 40 Jones's argulated target at or three years since. The Terrible, 21 guns, paddlewheel frigate, 1,850 deg. Portsmouth on e t some tons, 800 horse power, master in charge Mr Fre derick Townsend, was taken out of the large basin ilesausocthnelconsiderable repairs both in was found, some three years in Sheerness dockyard on Thursday last. The u ntdh,e upon inspection, essels of afterher at f h t: eo r r,eillotoloseo, require fl h uh i i c er h re theo h n e a r vy h ' ull and machinery, that it was e t r h elag o s u asr g id h n t almost better to break her ap. The Lords of the Admiralty, however, determined that the necess ary repairs should be executed. The vesse l h as been fitted with new boilers, while the machinery has been carefully repaired at the steam factory of the yard. Her hull has been also nearly rebuilt, and the ship altogether may be considered almost a new vessel. Previously to being taken out of the basin it was found necessary tide, as tho width to take off the outer rims of the paddle hthe entrance to the o w f h t e h e e ls v , e a E n se d i t w o a sw tooait f g o e a a t h f j o g ! basin. Even when this had been done while thevessel was psssing out the sponsona w ere some d i stance over the wharfs, and the paddlewheels were only a few inches from each side of the jetty. The Terrible is fully rigged, has got her armament on board, and will be ready for sea about the Ist of January next. She is now lying at moorings in the harbour, and it is expected she will be shortly comminioned. A draught consisting of 40 men of the 37th depot have left Pembroke dock, under command of Lieut. Rosser, for Dover, to join the regiment. Major Burnside, 61st Regiment, Captain in structor of Musketry to the Bth Depot Battalion, is about to be removed from Pembroke dock to the School of Musketry, at Hythe, in order to fill the appointment there of Lieut. Colonel. Captain Mackenzie, 2d,lsth Regiment, is also about to join the School of Musketry, in order to qualify as Captain Instructor to the battalion, vies Burnside, soner want to the shop of a Mr Hamlyn, a draper, at Taun• ton, and bought some articles amounting to £1 8s 103. Ho then tendered what appeared to be a £lO Bank of England note. The change was given him, after deducting the amount of the bill. The prisoner immediately afterwards went to the shop of Messrs Chapman, drapers, Taunton, and there he purchased articles similar to those he had bought at Hamlyn's and he there tendered another apparently £lO Bank of England note and obtained change for it. Hamlyn had obtained change of the £lO note of Mr Patteson, the landlord of the Castle Hotel, Taunton. The next day the police having received some information, proceeded to Ex mouth, where they found the prisoner was a butcher. The police charged him with having uttered the notes in Tann- ton. The prisoner said he had not been in Taunton ; he was taken to the lock-up and searched. He had nearly £2O in his pocket, He had a key in his pocket, with which the police opened the door of a house at Exmouth, which was shut up. In that house they found two pieces of paper which appeared to be £lO Bank of England notes, and they also found the bills of Chapman and of Ha.nlyn. On Nov. 29, in the evening, the prisoner went to a draper's at Bath, apparently very much intoxicated. He bought some calico, flannel, and stockings. The bill came to V. 17s 3d. He ten , . dared a £lO Bank of England note, change was given him. He Paid his name was "Bun, of Box." All the five notes were proved to be forgeries ; they were made from the same plates. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had a deal with a man who appeared to be a farmer, at Bristol market, Ile sold him some bullocks, and he received these notes in pay ment. He had thus lost all the money he had made during all his life, and was now without a farthing in the world. The Judge said there was no doubt these notes were forged, and there was no doubt that the prisoner uttered them. It was very unusual for an honest man to have five forged notes in his possession ; but what made the prisoner stop at Taunton and buy flannel and stockings, and give a false name and address, and having obtained change for one, why did he tender another when he had plenty of change in his pocket ? There was no proof of anything the prisoner had said. promoted. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was then charged with having been con victed of felony (stealing sheep) in 1857 at Exeter. He pleaded not guilty. Proof was given of the prisoner being the same man, and he was found guilty. The prisoner said he did not know those notes were forged, The Judge—Oh yes, you did. I think the best thing to do with you is to shut you up for the rest of your days. I sentence you to Id years' penal servitude. James Nicholes was indicted for feloniously wounding Elizabeth Nicholes, his wife, with intent to murder her. Mr Warry prosecuted, and Mr T. W. Saunders defended the prisoner. The prisoner had been married 34 years, during which period they had lived together. On the 10th December the prisoner had been out at work all day ; he came home in the evening tipsy; his wife was preparing his supper . ; he *eked for his spectacles, which she gave him. He then said, "If I am living in the morning you will not be," and he took down a marking iron, but he put it back again. The wife said "I'm not afraid of you, and shall never be." This seemed to annoy him, and he took down the marking iron and struck her four times on the head with it. The wife ran out of the house crying "Murder." She was afterwards in bed four days. The police hearing of this went in search of the prisoner, and found him in a field near his house. He said he was provoked and could not help it, and he supposed he ehould get a month for it. The surgeon who attended the woman said she was in a critical etate. She was stil under his care. For the prisoner ic was urged that he was tipsy at the time, and had not intended to du his wife any mischief There were knives on the table, as they were at supper, with which he might have destroyed his wife if such had been his desire. The jury might ignore all intent, and find the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wounding. _ _ The Judge then summed up. The Jury found the prisoner guilty with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The prisoner had been imprisoned for four months some years since for assaulting his wife. The Judge said it was almost impossible to hear this case without feeling angry, but a judge ought not to feel anger. It was a cowardly thing to strike a woman at all, much more so his wife ; he was bound to protect her. Let men learn that they were not to beat their wives. And if he (the prisoner) supposed he should get a month, he could tell him he would have much more than that, for he should sentence him to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour, The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander E. If. Murray to the Achilles—Cornelius W. MDdrmott, Paymaster, to the Cadmus--James L. Soathey, Paymaster, to the MIDLAND CIRCUIT—LEEDS, Dec. 16. (Before Mr Justice Keating.) Chas. Jessop was indicted for breaking into the dwelling house of Mr Barthelmes at Bradlord, and stealing a quan tity of plate. Mr Bruce appeared for the prosecution; Mr C. Foster defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor's family had gone abroad and that on the 16th of September he locked up his house and went off to Harrogate for a few days. On the 19th a policeman, observing that the house had been broken into, sent off to the prosecutor, who returned on the 20th and found that his plate had been stolen. On the Bth of November the police went to a beershop at Bradford called The Live and Let Live ; they noticed that the name of Brooks and not the prisoner's was over the door, although the prisoner lived there, and on search being made they found part of the plate concealed under the floor of one of the bedrooms, and in the chimney part of an urn bel,nging to the prosecutor. The prisoner said that the plate bad been put there to be out of the way of the children. On the prosecutor's wile going abroad part of the plate had been locked up, and it was aok pug/0 whether the plate found was the plate that had been locked up by the prosecutor's wife or some left out for his own use during her absence, The prisoner called a witness who proved that he had seen the forks and spoons in the beershop some weeks before the house had been broken into, and that those forks and spoons were engraved with a B. The whole of the prosecutor's sil ver was engraved with a B also, and it was contended on behalf of the defence that the plate was not identified by Mr Barthelmes, as the only mark he identified by was the B, which stood as well for Brooks as for Barthelmes. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of receiving. The learned judge, as there was a previous conviction proved against the prisoner, sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude. Charles Crosby was indicted for stealing a horse, of the value of XlO. Mr Lascclies conducted the prosecution ; the'prisoner was undefended. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor, John Stead, is a farmer living at Garford, end on Friday, the 7th fieldOc October, ber , wherea servant of wereof prosecutor'stthweoother orses took the k h e d o r t s h e g into t e a . He saw the prisoner abou t 50 yards h from the field. The next morning the horse was missed. A tollgate keeper had a conversation with the prisoner, and saw him riding the horse the next morning about half-past 7 o'clock. The pri soner then went to Selby fair, and, on some one offering to boy the horse, refused to sell it, as the man wanted to ridr rit out in the fair. Soon after he saw Henry Balls, a horse dealer, in whose service he had formerly been, and told him that he had heard the horse was stolen, He then rode off in the direction of Gafford. The horse was found the same evening turned loose on the turnpike road. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. 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VP 0 ',"!../. ..! •••• - . +O. • , ~ - ,Li •••'''' I#'' --, • ' . 7 {4.1%? • - HERALD,—Sarah Henderson, about thirty years of age, now picking oakum in the House of Correction, is in her way a representative woman. She is " well known to the police by the cognomen of the Bloomer ;" she had torn her clothing to tatters in the Eusteneread ; she had again rent them into rags at the police-station; she has been charged 82 times and convicted 48 times in one metropolitan division alone, and her ambition apparently is to live oat her life in prison- When placed before the Marylebone magistrate on Wednesday, she declared herself "sick and tired" of being sent -to gaol for seven and fourteen days, or a month. Sentenced to three months' hard labour, she pe titioned for six; and we have now to ask what terror to such offenders have our correctional institutions ? Hero is an idle, dissolute, vagabond creature, a nuisance of the streets, who prefers incarceration to liberty, who enjoys the former as safe, comfortable, aad healthy, and who only makes use of the latter to bemire herself with drunkenness, and ribaldry, while raising a clamour of shrieks and itmie nine ruffianism in the public thoroughfares. Too little attention has been bestowed upon this order of delinquents. We have devoted endless speculations to the secondary criminal, and oscillated between solitary, silent, and labori ous systems ; but to what does punishment come when a wretched creature, only in her 30th year, who is known to have been =dunned 50 times, implores that her term of imprisonment shall be increased ? They tell us, oracularly, that a bad person cannot be converted into a good person by the simple expedient of shutting him up in a cell. The process may, indeed, render reformation possible, break di evil habits, and wear out pernicieus associations ; it may prepare the way for further reformation ; but in such cases as those to which we now especiallyrefer, when the chance of reformation begins the authority of the law ends, and the miserable sot is turned forth to the tavern bar, where her first day of freedom is disgraced by drunkenness and delirium. Would it be hazardous to prophesy, for ex ample,that this branded vagrant, Saralillenderson, after her three months of penal correction, will immediately return, to the degradation cf a female savage and pollute the very kennels with her ignominy ? It is an accepted principle in our times that justice must be measured out carefully and upon a well - considered scale; but in this instance the ques tion is not so much one of justice as of social right and mercy. Such a being is not to be dealt with as a criminal, but as a lunatic, or as an incorrigible child, Will three months' imprisonment remove her from daily temptation and the stimulants to vice, destroy her ardour for intoxi cated excitement, sub lue the violence of her animal appe tites, or quench her craving for gin ? Assuredly not. A comfortable cell, plenty of food, abundance of clothing, artificial warmth and ventilation, medical attendance, a t e i n s a en ity lif t e ol n er a a s b n le e . terrors—she enjoys it--and what else can soc i e ty d o w i t h Forchaplainth e waanind woman schoolmaster, Henderson, at renderall events, the p p her ? That is the necessary and the difficult question. DESTITUTION IN BETIINAL-GREEN.—Last Light Mr. Jas. George Richards, the deputpcoroner, held an inquiry at the Bricklayers Arms Tavern, Cullingwood street, Bethnal-garden, respecting the death of David W. Keefe, aged 25. Catherine Keefe, of No, 22, Wellington-. street, Bethnal-green, a sickly-lookin g y o u ng woman was accommodated with a ch a i r , sa i d that she was a woman, who mg ) . stress, and worked at a sewing machine for ono of the city warehouses, but she had been out of employment through sickness for 7 weeks. The deceased was a fur dresser, but he was consumptive and unable to work: He had been under the care of Mr World, the surgeon, but latterly he had dis continued his medicine. On Monday morning last he wished to go to the Consumption Hospital at Victoria - park for ad vice, when s h e p l e d ged h er earr i n gs to get the money for a cab, but he could not go, as ha beeamo so much worse. He got worse and died on Wednesday last. They were in great distress, but never applied for parish relief. Dr. Llewellyn of Whizeshapel-road, said that he found the deceased dead in bed. There were no marks of violence on the body, which was very thin and emaciated. The cause of death was disease of the heart and lungs, no doubt accelerated by the wan t of proper nutritious diet, which the deceased was u nable through poverty to obtain. The deputy - coroner said it was to be lamented that the sister had not applied for relief for the deceased, who no doubt had suffered great privation. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony. A r Ell'S py t p . E R a EfIX. qp, *WZN3: 4 tt,...:1 -.) L-h,fe- Afit, 1:1,i9 ,e AL • A ,-,-". ___, ._.....- • on . .—Lord Pal mers t on at Romsey is one of th o se pie tur,es of Englfehlife and politics that we may some day - 'ce the more because we no longer have them. The Pro wler walks out of Eroadlands, and in a few minutes is in the New Corn Exchange of the neighbouring market town % among the gentry and farmers of the neighbourhood. As the chief man thereabouts, he opens the building, presides over a dinner, proposes the toasts, and makes speeches. The day's work is what may fail to the lot of any English gen tleman, and Lord Palmerston is only doing what any one of 10,000. squires may have to do next week. But of course be does it well, and wo all naturally care to hear what be says, because we are at home with him, understand biro, and know that even a short speech will give us a point or two. The chief point is one which every farmer ought to receive with respect from a man who, spending much (Allis lime in the country, and having his eyes always open, has been 'coking about him for near 70 years. In the course of that time he tells the agriculturists of Romsey he has no ticed an immense change in husbandry. No doubt the pro gress has been quite as great as during any other 70 years of the '2,000 that have elapsed since our ancestors depended a good deal on acorns and beech nuts. It is only 30 years since whole cou n ti es were n i ghtly lit up by the destroyers s of thrashing mac hi nes . Y et i t was not because flail-thrashe ing was a light, or agreea bl e, or healthy occupation—for what with the heat, the draught, and the barn dust, it was believed to have ruined many a good constitution, and was left to men with more sinew than wit. Yet such is the change, as Lord Palmerston observes, that the men, whose fithers went about destroying thrashing machir.e s now insist on their use, and hold the fiail:too hard work for man. The inference his lordship draws is that the steam, plough will one day become as familiar. No doubt it will and must. The price of corn must adapt itself to the cheapest methods of productions, and they who cling to the dearer will find themselves beaten, like the hand loons weavers and all the crafts that persist is hand labour. Time infertnce. however, does not rest here. Agriculture is a progressive science, and they who expect to succeed i 4 it must keep pace with every improvement. Sir Robert Peel had to make many apeeehes at Tamworth, but we cannot recall that he ever confined himeelf to such plain advice as to tell the farmers to do their best, to keep ahead, and im prove as much as they could. That is Lord Palmerston's recommendation, and, as it is evidently beyond the means, of many farmers and beyond the scale of their farms to hat steam ploughs of their own, he suggests that it may be worth while to keep steam ploughs on hire, as thrashitg machines are kept all over the country. Landlords may lead the way by lending the steam plough, but such assist. finer) can be but temporory, and must soon give way to more businesslike arrangements. Another change Lord Palmer eton notices, with an eye to the future as well as the past, and that is the preposterous weight and solidity of the carts and waggons formerly in use—in days, no doubt, when. ' the condition of the roads and state of the ground made strength the first consideration. But when agriculturists complain of short crops, as, indeed, many have done this year, i~ is excusable to notice that a good deal of the strengt h of the soil still goes in weeds. When a field is all red with poppies, or all yellow with charlock and the many other weeds that wear that livery, we may venture to ask whether it must always be so, and how it comes to pass. It has not escaped Lord Palmerston's eye. We confess to sharing his suspicion that the presence of weeds tells a tale of neglect. Surely they may be extirpated at last, by continuous care, for though thistledown is borne on the wind any distance, thistle is not the worst foe to the crop. The moat numerous and most inveterate enemies are those that deposit their seed under their own stem, and are reproduced in future years upon the very same spot. Surely at length they may be destroyed, and it is one gain of machinery that it releases a good deal of manual labour from such operations as the destruction of weeds. It does not require a man to bo a professed agriculturist, or a farmer in any sense, to see the harm done by weeds. He may see in five square yards of garden, or even in a flower-pot, the universal fate of a plant choked with weeds in ever so small a degree. We wonder whether Romsey appreciates the dis tinction of having a man of world-wide fame to open its public buildings, and to preside over its entertainments, and to be associated with it in history. The county of Hants evidently holds that honour cheap, and has taken another measure of its quality in its represen tatives. The University of Cambridge, too, has provided in its own way for its public credit and Parliamentary influ ence. Bat Sir R, Peel, by the time he had worked his way to light and truth, was not member for Staffordshire, or for the University of Oxford, or for any considerable consti tuency, but for Tamworth. Such, then, are the localitea ennobled by the greatest names of our age,—Tamworth, Romsey, Tiverton. It is a matter of accident where amen is born, or from what old town or ruin he derives his title, but it is not accident that our great statesmen seem to make their most familiar and most pleasant appearances at small country towns, which bat for them would be as little known as many hundreds more. Romsey has its fine old Norman abbey, Tamworth has its castle. Both objects are interesting to residents and visitors. but there ends the claim of either town to national interest, excepting only that it is associated with the name of a great statesman, with many an amusing speech, or important manifesto. A time may come, perhaps, when these associations will be classic, and when names of merely local interest in these days will recall to the student the virtues, the talents—possibly too the liberties—of a former age. A time may come, per haps, when there may not be this plain speaking, nor will it matter what a man can say when he will be able to do nothing. We now find everywhere, as if from the soil of Old England, free and generous utterances. We recognise the voice of nature in the talk of men face to face, or the somewhat more composed words of the man rather greater than his fellows in his little Parliament of social peers. Parliament itself can hardly match what is said in these almost rural:haunts. It will be a sad day for England if these local associations disappear from hor political annals, and the grand story of British life be reduced to one long, dull, angry controversy. CANTERBURY HALL. The Oxford and Canterbury H a ll C ompany (limited). PERFUME and BOUQUET, the NEW OPTICAL ILLU SION, in wh'ch the whale resources of the establishment are trought into requisition, written by Mr. W. F. Vandervell. The usual Oper :tic Sele tions, the Anthropoplinginian, &c. Comedy by Mr. W. Handal , T. Stacey, W. Hilton, and the Wondrous Indian Rope Trick by Messrs. W. Hilton and Kelley. 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Teta halm motterd away es ropidirso , that of Elmo t‘ and the cry is again raised for men, more men, to deal the blow within " ninety days" against the great serpent of rebellion, which is to break its back, cut off its head, and leave its dishonoured car cass to rot in the sunshine, or be picked to a skeleton by the vultures and cormorants of the North. The President's annual Alessage, to be delivered to Con. gross on its reassembling on Monday next, will, it is alleged by those who have been admitted to a pre liminary perusal of the proof sheets, dwell empha :ically upon the necessity of a new levy of half a million of men, to be obtained by voluntary enlist. ment if possible, but, if not, to be enforced by a stringent conscription, from which no man of the proper age shall be exempt for any cause except physical disability, and from which no money pay ment shall purchase immunity. At one time or other Mr Linnoln has called upon the Federal States for I,Boo,ooomen to fight the battle of compulsoryunion, but how far his calls have been responded to is u matter of grave doubt, and will probably remain so until the history of the war shall be written in the next generation. What is the actual force of the Federal armies at this moment no one knows, unless it be Mr. Stanton ; but the estimate formed by many who are in a position to judge with more or less of accuracy, and whose sympathies lead them to take as favourable a view as possible, places it under 300,000 men of all arms. They elot 100,000 to Grant, 40,000 to Sheridan, 60,000 to She, man, 40,000 to Thomas and Slocum, 30,000 to Rosecrans, and 20,000 doing garrison duty in the cities of the North and West. This is a formidable host, but it is in daily process of disintegration and decay, and will require a considerable accession of new men to be maintained at :the same standard until the spring of 1865. As the number, liberal as it is, is palpably -insufficient for the work in hand—to say nothing of that greater work, the subjugation and extermination of the Southern people, which is threatened as the penalty of a resistance much longer protracted—Mr. Lincoln must call for new legions, and the country must promptly supply them, or the Confederates will be in a position to assume the aggressive, and threaten Washington with the fate of Atlanta, and perhaps Oitio with euch a raid of desolation as Sherman at this moment is inflict. ing upon Georgia. The subj,ot will doubtless be prominently noticed by Mr Lincoln. Evident:y some fresh zeal must be infused into the heart of the native Americans, or some new force employed to Eonvert them into soldiers, or the war must linger, if not collapse, and all the immensely superior advantages of wealth and numbers possessed by the North be . me unavailing for-want of the unselfish patriotism and the heroic devotion exhibited by the poorer and less numerous people of the South. Mr Fessen den's annual Report on the state of the Finances is expected with even more interest that attaches to Mr Lincoln's Message. The army is in arrears of pay, some regiments not having received a cent for seven months. The taxes, whether from import duties or internal revenue, do not provide for one fifth of the daily expenditure, so that there must either be an increase of the burdens upon the people —new loans—or fresh issues of paper money, to enable the Government to pay its way. Some of the war-zealots, whose audacity is only explicable by theirignorance, are of opinion that an income and property tax of 200. or 25e. would be cheerfully borne by all but the very poorest of the people, and urge its imposition, as not only the most effective, but, in the long run, the cheapest mode of main taining the credit of the Government, and meet ing the daily increasing difficulties of the finan. cial situation. Congress, however, will scarcely be so reckless as the eager but irresponsible poli ticians of the press and the pulpit, and risk the imposition of a burden so onerous upon a people already taxed in every conceivable mode, upon every conceivable commodity, profession, or trade, though it is not improbable it may raise the existing income and property tax to 10 per cent, upon all incomes above 600 dollars. But even if the screw were placed upon the comfortable classes to this extent, the operation, if successful and not largely evaded, would put no immediate millions into the depleted treasury, and the Secretary would have either to borrow or print fresh paper to meet his currant necessities. As the certain result would be to raise the premium on gold to a point much higher than it has hitherto reached, it may easily be imagined Mr Fessenden has greater difficulties to contend with than ever fell to the lot of Mr Chase. The public was told from Washington two days ago to expect " thunder all round the military horizon," that is to say stirring news from Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas, and other generals in the field. As yet the only " thunder " of the kind that has been heard has sounded from Tennessee, where Gen. Hood assaulted Gen. Schofield, a lieutenant of Gen. Thomas, at Franklin, and fought a desperate battle in which Gen. Scho field, in his official report, claims the victory, with a loss to himself of 1,200 men and of 6,000 to the enemy. These figures, however, do not impress impartial people with the idea of accuracy, and as Gen. Hood only used a small, and, under the cir cumstances, too small a portion of his available force, *lad threatens to renew the attack, the battle of Franklin, as at present reported, takes no higher rank than a severe skirmish. Sherman's position is suspected rather than known. He has slipped past Macou,whioh was too strong to attack, and will, it is supposed, do the same by Augusto, in full march to the seaboard, if the Confederates will permit him, The attempted ineendiariam of New York has already lost much of its interest, and the theory at first received with derision, that it was never in tended to burn the hotels, but only to frighten the people to an extent sufficient to justify the establish ment of martial law on the plea that public safety required it, has grown rapidly in favour. The police aided by the military, or the military aided by the police, whichever be the proper subordination of the two authorities, have not yet succeeded in obtain ing any real clue to the perpetrators. Several arrests have been made, and several mysterious and semi official announcements have appeared in the news papers to the effect that the authorities were on the right track, and that the ringleaders could not by any possibility escape; but the public has fast settled down into the conviction that the scheme, whether Confederate or Federal, or simply that of thieves and murderers, Was too cunningly planned to permit much hope of the discovery of the guilty parties. t THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT, 4 and 5, KING WILLIAM-STREET. CITY. The above Establishment will be CLOSED on MONDAY, the 26th inst. RIDGWAY & CO. December Bth, 1864.