The Sun. — London, England, 1863-01-03 00:00:00

I 2- -Ye ‘'G , / G - e"-c 7 f` i 014 e, NCO * gut Vi 4 ) - 4 t; 7 Ul l l+ . ldb // C were blown in_ In the several Royal parks an im mense amount of injury was done to the trees and shrubs. The scene on the river was alarming. At Lambeth the water was forced into the cellars and basements of the warehouses and dwellings, causing an immense amount of damage to property, as well as flooding the land adjacent. Two sailing vessels came into collision between Chelsea and Putney, by which one, the Alliance, received extensive in jury to her bulwarks and was obliged to put to shore for repairs. Near Vauxhall a heavily-laden coal barge ran in shore, had a large hole stove in the bottom, and was with difficulty kept from sink ing. In the Pool the shipping suffered most ex tensively, several losing spars and having the rig ging much injured, while others were damaged by breaking anchorage and coming into collision. Several small boats were destroyed by being crushed by the vessels near where they lay. N°. 22,001, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JAN VARY 3, 1863. STAMPED j\IETROPOLITAN RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the METRO POLITAN RAILWAY will be OPENED for PUBLIC TRAFFIC on and after SATURDAY, the 10th day of January inst. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Naval and Military Intelligence. &c., for the use of the non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery attached to first division of the Depot Brigade. The building which is similar to the one recently opened at Chatham garrison, though on a much smaller scale, will con tain a commodious room, 80 feet in length by 40 in breadth, capable for being used as a conc er t- room, smaller rooms for indoor games, and refresh ment rooms. By order of the Board. JOAN HENCHMAN, Secretary. Offices, 17, Duke-street, Westminster, January 2, 1863. THE NAVY. to 1- ?n is ip, of for ast ad off Leal 409 3 to 300 qr. ued )re. 57e ri per Tat ATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER. The public is respectfully informed that this Tbeatre, Slaving been Re-modelled, Decorated, and Embellished in a truly 'magnificent and costly style, is now open. Notwithstanding the immense expenses incurred in the arrangements, the P: ices of Admission will be as usual, and similar to those of the principal London Theatres, viz, : Private Boxes, 10s, 6d., 215., £1 Ils. 6d., £2 25., £3 38., and £4 48. Stalls, 68. D ress c i rc l e , 4s. Fi rs t Ci r cle, 38. Boxes, 2s. Pit, 2s. Lower G a ll er y, i s . Upp er Gallery, 6d. No :Ralf-price. A MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PANTO MIME EVERY WEDNESDAY, at Two o'clock. T HIS EVENING w ill b e p resen ted Mr. E. Falconer's Comic ?Drama, entitled NEXT OF KIN. Principal Characters by Messrs. S. Calhaem, H. Sinclair, hclair Neville, Wa. - rde, Rourke, Fredericks; Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, and Miss Portman. After which will be produced the Great Drury-lane Ar.inual in the form of an entirely Novel, Original, Bur -1 r B que, Grotesque, Poetical, Pictorial, Pastoral, Grand Cowie Christmas Pantomime entitled LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES ; or, HARLEQUIN and COCK ROBIN I "Little Bird with bosom red, Welcome to my Humble Shed, Daily near my table steal, While I pick my scanty meal, Well rewarded if I spy, Pleasure in thy glancing eye."—Old Poem. The novel Effects and Extensive Scenery by Messrs. GRIEVE and TELBIN, assisted by Messrs. DAYES, JONES, C. FENTON, E. LLOYDS, GRIEVE, Jun., TELBIN, Jun., and D ANSON and SONS. The Ma chinery by Mr. TUCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY and Mrs. CLARKE, The Masks, Des;gns, and Personal Appointments by the celebrated DYK-WYN-KYN ; com pleted under his direct supervision by Messrs. GLINDON, CHALTON, and numerous Assistants. The Tricks, Pro perties, Changes, and Transformations of the Harlequinade by Mr. BLAMIRE and Assistants. The Gas Appointments by Mr. HINCKLEY. The Scenes of the Harlequinade by H. BOLENO, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The Groupes, Tableau s , Action, and Grand Ballet, designed and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. The Overture and Music composed and arranged by Mr. J. BARNARD. The Opening invented and written by E. L. B-JANCHARD, Author of "The House that Jack Built," "Peter Wilkins," Itobin Hood," &c. THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. EARLY MORNING. Little Goody Two Shoes—Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. "This dear little Girl, whose real name was Margery Mr.anwell, once lived," &c.—Old Story. " His kind Wife gave little Margery a nice pair of new Shoes; and she was so pleased with them, and so fond of showing them to every one she met, saying, Two Shoes— Two Shoes,' that s h e ga i ne d th e name o f ' Littl e G oo d y Two Shoes.' "—Old btory. The Raven, the Pigeon, the Cat, and the White Rabbit (her pets), Masters Quork, Coo, Mew, and Bunny. Pet Robin—Master Redbreast. Little Boy Blue (her Shepherd Swain) Miss HELEN HOWARD. Johnny Stout (the Good Boy) Mr. J. ROBINS. Thommy Green (the Bad Boy) Mr. G. WESTON. Day Scholars—Masters Wag, Lag, Fag, Brag, Dag, Nag, Gag, Mag, Ta So and Misses Nimble, Simple, Sample, Rumple, Whim g, per,. 'Simper, Niminy, Piminy, &c., &c. Sir Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), Mr. TOM MATTHEWS. Graspall (his Steward), Mr. SHAW. Villagers—Messrs.Bumkin,Whackstraw,Oatcake,Chaw bacon, Thatcher, &c., &e. "The room in which she taught her scholars was very large, so that she could have her children stand in front of her while she instructed them.—Old Story. Of the proposal made by Sir Timothy to Goody Two Shoes, and what became of it. HU NTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OF THE FOREST. The Fairy Good Nature (assuming the form of Goody Peabody), Miss KATE SAXON. Gamekeepers, Messrs. Popp and Bang. Footman, Mr. Powdernob. Page, Master Buttons. Housekeeper, Mrs. Chickabiddy. How Little B oy Bl ue meets with a particular friend, and bow the Squire dooms the small Birds found on his Estate to general destruction, and what ensues thereupon. THE BRAMBLE BRAKE IN THE DEPTHS OF THE FOREST.---SUNSET. t " W hen good Little Goody Two Shoes had finished her _pn sets of letters, she invited a great number of her poor lutle Companions to meet together under an old oak tree, and there she taught them."—Old Story. The Demon Envy, Mr. GLIN oN. Hatred and Malice (his attendants), Mess n rs. Scowl and Growl. The Bad Boy's Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. HAUNT OF THE ID OOD NYMPHS IN THE ENCHANTED DELL. May Miss WORTH. _ Bluebell, Cowslip, Violet WENT , Wild Thyme, Golden Broom, Speedwell, Daisy, Buttercup, Wood Anemone, Primrose, L'olvolvulus,Wild Rose, Traveller's Joy,Celandine, Hearts ease' of of Po x Glove &c, (her attendant Wild Flowers), by a ho Cory Pas de Forge phEet-me-not, Mi s s LYDIA THOMPSON. Pas de Double Heartsease, The Misses GUNNISS. Ballet des Bouquets, invented and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. WOODY AVENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MEAD, " All hail to thee, thou first of May, Sacred to merry sport and play, To wine and jest and dance and song, And mirth that lasts the whole day long." CELEBRATION OF 4 1 1AY-DAY AND FESTIVAL OF THE MAY QUEEN. OUTSIDE OF LITTLE GOODY'S COTTAGE, MILL << BROOK, AND ANCIENT BELFRY. Who killed Cock Robin ? I, said the Sparrow, with my Bow and A rrow. " —Old Nursery Legend. The Sparrow, Mr. Take-an-Aim. The Fly, Master Buzzy. The Fish, Mr. Gillbut. The Beetle, Mrs. Gamp. The Linnet, Master Downey. The Owl, Mr. Whit-to -Whoe. The Lark, Mr. Higbflyer. The Rook, Mr. Blackcoat. The Bull, Mr. Roarer, with a Horn accompaniment. The deed done. Impressive fate of Little Cock Robin, and his marvellous restoration by Good Nature, who pro ceeds on her radiated Path of Prisms over the World, Harlequins Mr. CORMACK an d M r. ST . MAINE . Columbines, Harlequins, BOLENO (her first appearance here these two years) and the 'Misses GUNNISS. Pantaloons, Mr. G. TANNER and Mr. DEULIN Clowns, Mr JOHNSON. . HARRY BOLENO (his first appearance here these two years) and Mr. C. LAURI. Scene I.—GRAND HINT 0' NATIONAL (THEATRE) Scene 2. EXHIBITION OF FUN ! EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF INTER NATIONAL LODGING-HOUSE. Scene 3..—SHELL -FISH SHOP, COBBLER'S STALL, AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE! ScAND ene 4— THE ISLINGTON'AGRI CULTRAL HALL, FLOWE GR-SHOREAT WDOG-SHOW, CAT-SHOW, AND Scene S—(Comic)—EXTERIOR of MARINE STORES, PUBLIC-HOUSE, AND SAILOR'S HOME, Last Scene—(Danson and Sons.) ENGLAND'S. GLORY AND RICHES BROUGHT BY HER OCEAN WAVES I Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. HOLY ALLIANCE'D 0 GREEK-PALATIN E OF CHESTER. ON JULIAN O.S. I [i qi 't• 17 i] Grepirien v N.S. TAX'S IN CH! FULCRUM OF ARCHIMEDES. ACKERLEY v. DALTON, TURNER, & OTHERS. Marlbro'-street, late Coal-hole, Dog-set'ng grievance, with its' L'Bur ska Gladiatorial Inchkeith Toga'rry. The Telegraph of Ctmas-day states that Capt. Ackerley claimed £5 fine and costs, from defendants (Dalton, Tur ner, and wife, servants of George Harrow), on their being bound over to keep the peace six months, under £lO penalty, for misdemeanour and wilful d og o ff ence w i t h a "Le mic mac " -p/ot intent to do injury by canine agency, on Sundays below stairs and week-nights above. The dis cr Park epancy in B..c.iP o li ce reports, induces us to refer to this government persecution against the plaintiff (the sup porter of Anglo - America's unpaid Income tax Chief, Peter -Basque% 11,1 years)—for holding und er hi s C oal H ole County court Fin a l j u d gment on 1842-B's double-rent leaae, now a 20-yrs title ; checkmates ' the WorksiWoods, and Forests' 1582 N.S Chiliarcher Goner of St. Mie. Corn hill's gold-key lessees' wish, by Ouster le main to regain a Primer Seisin by getting the Captain to recognize an in verted tenantcy by their lessee Batchelor building-in his Coal •hole basis without Party-wall, with intent at steam engine boiler HEAT —to effect cold-draft ejection.—to Torn& ). 'Think l —every day to be thy last, { Chandos. For when night-sleep comes Life is past. The papal 129 Metropolis Police Act, 3 Wm. 4, cap. 19, § 15, 39, 44—gives 1.,5 fine, and is repeated in 1861 Act, on " Offences against the person, &c., 24-25 Vict., cap. 100, sec. 4, 42, 67, 77— Garot - Chloroformists, and Chester po lice fire-raisers" conviction, with £5 fine, recoverable against Stipendiary-justic'r—therefore in homage to our readers we refer to this case, (of Clapham Atkins City beam and Mint scale Sydney-like, 13 Hen. 8, in 1835 standard act), wherein the Captain (& brother Chamberlayne, by reason of Jul. 3's papal sk• boy Edw. 6th in-valid City grants, at age 14), as Montague kin executor of privy council by '35 act, e. 1, he being sworn trustee of Brandon and Southwark's Bethlem Hospital Estates, now on St. J ames ' s H all, as Q, Eliz, Park lodge, 5, Swallow-street, and Ormond-Y ar d, as th e people ' s land, under no Queen's Church head assumption. t * Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Troy -weight meter from the Exchequer for Pope's mitre -and-key mint in 1838 ? whence, by City charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Hess Mayor Rose, M.P. (of Southampton Tower Ordnance Office-shift, Win chester-shift),—was mock presented in November to Indian Peter, Corsitable of the Tower—as Angl't Micmac flag union' conis ,t On Luther-set 3ty of 21st July, 1 521, by Leo X and .c.nap. Charles V, for Paduan intermediate supiremacy in the land —Sydney was appointed the Archer --, standard inch b earer. In like manner, by 1831's Co-partner Act, No, 64, for 2-3 Will . 4, caput-81, 92 , 1832, for Russian and Dutch Loan gu ar antee--on Submission of the Clergy restrint of appeals to Rom, o for ma n lack of justice Ilen a . 8, c 19 and 8 Eliz. c e s,marine can —names 25 So, on 1825 Holy Alliance of Kings' abolition, the Greek Ce sar Per u rota-crown ' Protector' Lieut Ackerley, R.N.,. as i t King John's Ist Montague 'BI kin trust, was sworn-in "ales Statepivot, at Worcester's Crt. in January, 1837 by G01d,,, stick archer-Wm. 4 [—whose daughter married the Captain's nephew, by the 2nd branch of Dartmouth's Pliney le Fleming Chamberlayne, in L e i ces t er C o k e , Hun i'e g a te Shelley de Lisle Sydney a s Fit zc l arence b ar 'd i n eraldr, like E a t on - hall Grey-hill Egerton, by ' Somer et' half-ycast],—A s M a l co l m iii line of Clare Lincoln-in- Lacy as Palatin e o f W a l es, Ireland, since 1825-37 on Holy f an " in Ackerly's £ Mint of Chester by Indian lady 3ePli,ernting the 1820 the (2d) as fist Christian marriage y "'min Graacina and Plautus, A.M. 43. U.C. { p ." .1,4 A Chester's Judge—like Owl alone The —l3 u gh "s•Loop'd aml,—thy ' Plautie' a one. } A. D. me a atne malicious isolating influence appears to have gai ust him the doors of Junior United Service Club, ;in his X4OOO Co-burn discovery, and United S. Museum c. embership, for holding to his Duplex official duties, and ,X O 7l- 1 law cause of his mixed church imprisonment at Bath, e 4 thill, and Merthyr Tydvil, without crime. od's aro ofcillation of the pendulum in lat. 51? 30 N as tioenlc'3o to and fro in sphere note to like polar • decline , above (25 M) and below pole, 29 Sept., for Poor-law , 1 k iito ttisr..tkudits year, now in 0 : : • • . style as Pgroad ' , R. ' It, rideth. round the heavens as on a horse for Prefix s* to 51e 30 flow, B antry, Pellisle, idrunswic. 44101.94 ante, jamutry 2, 1663. LOCKING UP A JIIRY.—At the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, yesterday, before Under-Sheriff Burchell, an action brought in the Exchequer was tried in which the sum sought to be recovered was £3 lbs. 9d. The question was whether the amount was included or omitted in an account which had been settled. After the case had occupied nearly three hours the jury retired. In about an hour they asked to be discharged, but they were not allowed to depart. The learned Under-Sheriff suggested that the parties should con s e n t t o a j uror b e i ng w ithd rawn, an d !hry clineruci3bxd.4 was 'willing' save further litigation. Mr. Greville (Greville and but Mr. Schultz for the plaintiff de- was were further detained, and when the officer of the court again went to the room h e f oun d some smok ing, and wa s told there wasno chance of their agreeing to a verdict. Afte r some further beingdelay the attorneys o n both discharged, leaving the sides consented to th e jurysaidthey could not matter open as to any further litig ation . Mr. Under-She riff Burchell sent for them, and th ey e jo t rit o y f agree, on which they were discharged. O ne of the jurymen thought the law ought to be altered to mak e a ma. binding. Another juror was about to make a s tateme nt their differences. Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell—" I cannot hear you ; you most not disclose the secrets of y our prison -house.' " (A. laugh.) The jury were accordingly discharged without giving a verdict. SEAANEMONES.—ft will be interesting to many readers who cultivate an acquaintance with the wonders of the shore to learn that the sea pinlet (Hal camps Chrysanthellum), a species of the sea anemone, is to be got:in this quarter. Two were procured a short time since, and though sickly, having been torn from their homes and dashed on shore by the waves of a tempestuous sea, still our townsman, Mr. Edwards, managed to keep them alive for two days. During that period he had the satisfaction as well as the pleasure of seeing them fre quently expand their beautiful though star-like discs. The only other recorded locality for this small and worm-like species is Caruwall,--,130201iir0 Journal. TlMES.—Thirty millions a year are we now pay ing because on the Continent of Europe one na tion of immense martial energy, great pride, and great ambition, possesses an uncertainty of temper which has often caused it to abandon the pursuits of peace and turn its arms against our selves or one of our neighbours. We are suffering also because another Empire, the Chief of which is heraldically the first personage in Europe, until it conciliates one disaffected province and cedes another, is liable at any time to invite by its weak ness another war. We pay for all, and as long as Europe is unsettled we are likely to pay. Each spasm of the " sick man" at Constantinople affects the British householder; each vagary of sentimental or martinet Royalty at Berlin tends to keep up the disquiet which can only be allayed by expensive preparations. Not a petty Prince can quarrel with his subjects in any part of the Continent without in some degree affecting the British Budget, for it is impossible to say what even a provincial squabble may bring forth. The Servian question, the Greek question are but the types of those which cannot but yearly arise, until Europe has settled down into the new forms which the general craving for nation ality, liberty, and equality, among the Continental populations demands. We have, however, now seen the worst. The inordinate expenditure of all the Continental nations has sobered Princes and peoples. Both the rulers and the governed are be ginning to find that greatness may be purchased too dearly. Even national regeneration may lose its advantages and its glory if the new-born State comes into the world crippled with debt. Hence there are abroad signs of a hopeful reformation. France at last has begun to recognise that her vast armies are a terror to herself as well as to surrounding nations, and it is but just to say that her Emperor loses no opportunity of impressing on other countries that he is sincerely peaceful. Seldom has a New Year's-day passed away more quietly than the last, and the few words uttered by Napo leon in reply to the congratulations of the Diplo matic Body were of satisfaction at the quiet of Europe, and of hope that peace would be preserved in the year that has just begun. Some interest was felt in this year's reception at the Tuileries, for it was known that on many subjects the Emperor had something to say, and could, if he chose, put all the Exchanges in trepidation. He might an nounce an Ultramontane decision on the Roman question, or, on the other hand, cut to the heart the Nuncio who stood before him by a few bitter and ominous words on the obstinacy of the Pope. Then his intentions with regard to America have been the subject of some anxiety. It was thought that he would not have gone so far unless he intended to go further, and the recent victory of the Confede rates might have given him occasion to intimate his future policy. Words of menace dropped on one or two New Year's-days have made both diplomacy and commerce very excitable just at this period. All, however, has gone off well this time. The Emperor tells us briefly, but explicitly, that, as far as France is concerned, the peace of Europe will not be broken in the year 1863. Rome may be obstinate, Italy irritable, Austria defiant, but there will be no angry response on the part of the Empe ror. Gratified ambition, the consciousness of having gained for himself a place in military history, com bine, with the respect which is shown to him on all sides and the advance of age, to make him pacific in his tastes. The great material progress of France and the increased centring of all continental civili sation in her capital cause the people to be every year less desirous of war with the neighbouring Powers, even to secure territories which were until lately always in the minds of patriotic Frenchmen. Not that the old passion has entirely passed away. The Emperor is too full of Bonapartist traditions ab solutely to forego military enterprise. In his theory of supplementing by the Second Empire everything in which the First failed, the design of founding transmarine dominions seemingly holds the first place. We see the effects of this in the expedition to Cochin China; in the still more important and costly invasion of Mexico. But such a diversion of policy is a gain both to France and to us. To France the possessions which may be gained beyond the ocean are likely to be more profitable than the " ideas," the realisation of which are the only reward of European war. And to us, as a maritime and com mercial people, it is a great thing that France should address herself to the regeneration of distant regions. If she gains possession of the mines of Mexico, or establishes a flourishing colony in Eastern Asia, we shall be as much benefitted by her energy as we should be harmed by a forcible exten sion of her limits in Europe. If, then, the year 1863 is destined to come and go without seeing European peace disturbed, we shall be ready to acknowledge our obligations to the French Emperor. But, though Napoleon is power ful, he does not command the policy of his neigh bours, much less the course of events. There is an other quarter from which war might possibly come. Italy has been treated with caprice by Na poleon, and she is, perhaps unreasonably, impatient at the delay which must be borne before she comes into possession of Rome. There was much fear that either the quarrels of the Italians and Austrians on one frontier, or the irritation of the discontented Roman people on another, might lead to some sud den excess that would end in war. But as far as can be predicted from good intentions the policy of Italy will be moderate and praiseworthy. No one can read the circular of M. Pasolini without being pleased to see the affairs of the kingdom at such a crisis pass into the hands of men who seem firm, able, and conciliatory. The true policy of Italy is now to consolidate what has been gained. By con tinuing to merit the goodwill of Europe she will en sure the possession of Rome and Venetia when the hour comes for demanding them. The pride of one Emperor, the fancies of another, must soon run their course, and if in the meantime Italy has held her high place in the esteem of nations the two coveted provinces will fall to her without an opposing voice. MORNING POST.—The best chance of avoiding the calamities of war is by being always fully pre pared to meet them. This is the policy which has with so much wisdom been pursued ; and for evi dences of its soundness we have only to point to the exploded bugbear of an invasion of this country. We are anxious and ready to give praise where it is justly due; and the promptitude and efficiency of the arrangements made by the Admiralty last year, when the prospect of war breaking out be tween this country and America appeared immi nent, received at our hands the fullest acknowledg ment. The Americans were made fully sensible of the relative naval power of the two countries by our attitude upon that occasion, and, with an amount of zeal which we should do well to imitate, they have set themselves busily to work to restore the balance of power which was then so much in our favour. While on our part we have been placidly content to do little more than ring the changes upon our four aghievements, the Warrior, the Black Prince, the Resistance, and the Defence, the result of their labours has been the creation of an armour-plated fleet consisting of no less than fifty-four ships. We hear of new vessels building IburaT dockyards, some of which are said to em bracequalities of both ori g inalit y and science; but, e alas! like th e l ong -t a lk e d •o f s hi e ld •s hi p o f Captain Co wper C o l es, they have not up to the pre sent moment made their appearance. We should be glad to see something of these new vessels, should they even fall short of th e expectations formed of them asit is only by practically testing their value that w e shall ever be able to keep pace with novelty t ageh as n h t e r o s c d i u e e n e t d i fi c i n i t n o v t e h n e t i art r n t s w o f h c h a r . t h eapt troetsheen: in iron-clads has just been added to the navy of the Federal States of North America. The Keokuk is described as a vessel of peculiar form, " resem bling somewhat the shape of an egg." If the accounts which we have received of this vessel are to be relied on, she has been constructed on the principle of elliptic sections—her side presenting no one spot to the aim of the artillerist that can be hit fully and fairly by either a round or fiat-headed shot. The plan of constructing a vessel upon the more scientific principle of the sloping, angular, or elliptic side, from off which the shot, according to all natural laws, must glance, is the principle which we have always advocated, and is the only one which affords any real hope of making a ship invulnerable to the terrible ordnance now in use. Another great advantage which this newer form of vessel presents over any other consists in the in creased power of buoyancy and floatation which will be gained by a reduction of the thickness of the armour plates, a reduction in this more scientific form, it is calculated, will readily admit of. It is a noticeable feature in the construction of the newer ironclad vessels in the Federal navy that they are being mostly fitted with a double screw. Some time ago we gave a lengthened account of the suc cessful trial of the Flora, double screw propeller, a vessel built by Mr. Dudgeon, shipbuilder, of Lon don. We also point9d out, in a leading article bearing upon this subject, the immense advantages which the adoption of the double screw propeller would afford if applied to our own ships of war. Notwithstanding all that has been said upon this subject, and the fact of the Admiralty engineer having been present at the trial, and that he reports favourably of the experiment, we regret to say that up to the present time we have not heard of any of her Majesty's vessels having been fitted with the double screw. Now, if we could only succeed in persuading every maritime Power in the world to abstain from introducing new inventions and im provements, our position at the present moment would be an unenviable one; but as we do not pos sess this power, England has the choice, therefore, of two courses open to her, either to keep pace with the inventive spirit of the age, or t o re li nqu i s h h er position as the leading maritime Power. HERALD.—To the observant eye which watehes the undercurrent of events the different tendencies of the English and French Governments must be discernible. England seeks most her material pros perity and the peace and happiness of her people. France, as of old, is bent on the acquisition of glory; but, in addition, to this her prime idea is to extend and consolidate her power. There was a time when the proposal to cede even the protection of a group of islands most favourably situated for the assert ion of our naval supremacy would have roused the whole country from one end to another, and filled every Englishman's breast with indigna tion. It now happens that the British Cabinet yields the lonian Islands to Greece 'without any manner of equivalent, unless we are, indeed, to call the limitation of the Government of that country to people witness the sacrifice monarchy in a t n h e e q c u a i l v m a e l e s n t t m ; o a o n d d , and scarcely give themselves the trouble to ask why it is made. This apathy among the masses, this insensibility to everything which does not directly and perceptibly affect their private interests, ought properly to urge the Ministry to a more vigilant and conservative caution. They should not move with the stream. and show for solid Quaker, and to put I d f o J w o n hn al ß l u e l x l tr is an r e e o s u ol s ve l d ux t u o r t i u es rn comfort and worldly wealth and success the Go vernment should remember that pomp, dignity, and power are just as essential to the greatness of a na tion as they are to the honour and estimation of the individual. A large estate, a vast number of liveried servants and of other retainers, carriages and equipage, company, and all the loudness and ce remony of high life, might well be dispensed with if mankind sought for nothing here but the enjoy ment of simplicity: But somehow this has never been found to answer. No sooner does the citizen acquire wealth than he forthwith ambitions aris tocracy. He will not be a happy man until he becomes a great man, and lays the foundation of greatness for his children. This is the solid pur chase, the only real va'ue of his riches. The Quaker body themselves are experiencing so very natural a feeling. They are losing their stoical identity, becoming Epicureans, mixing like other men in the rapid river of life, and edging here and there not only into the national manners, idioms, and cos tumes, but into the National Church itself, slipping into St. Andrew's or St. Jude's, instead of the staid and dreary conventicle. Some politicians of these days are inclined to ignore these heart-sprung aspirations. They would chasten and economise everything. With Sir George C. Lewis they would get rid of the super fluity of Canada without a sigh, if Canada became in the least expensive or troublesome. With Lord Palmerston and Earl Russell they would yield the protection of the lonian Islands by reason of the turbulence of certain of their inhabitants, and to offer a bribe to Greece for making a baby toy of her vacant throne. What a contrest does this present to the Government of the French Emperor; every where striving to extend the nation's territory, in fluence, and authority, to magnify its power, to ele vate its character, and to endow it with premier rank among the kingdoms of the world. So far from ceding possessions, Louis Napoleon's aim is to grasp territory wherever he can lay his hand on it by safe stratagem or open force. A strip from Savoy, a highway canal to the East, a footin China, and a hand on Cochin-China, a voice in Madagas car, a word of mediation in America, and a military hold on Mexico, are only indications of the ultimate design of the astute and patriotic Emperor. Am bition, like other great qualities, may be easily car ried too far. We believe the Emperor Napoleon to be somewhat too aspiring for his peace sake and the enduring safety of his empire. But his noble policy stands out in bold relief to the paltry man agement of the British Cabinet. Government in the true sense we have none. The sole effort is to save trouble, to make a false show of economy, and to keep office. THE METROPOLITAN RAlLWAY.—Yesterday the trial trains commenced running on the line, as if the ordi nary passenger traffic of the railway was being carried on. An engine having been despatched to Farringdon-street station, for the purpose of shunting the carriages from the up to the down line, the first train was then started from the Bishop's-road station, at Paddington, at 10.30 a.m., the engine, The Wasp, being driven by Mr. Luxmore, of the Great Western Railway locomotive department. Among the passengers were Mr. C. Saunders, the Secretary of the Great Western Railway; Messrs. Fowler, Johnson, Fen ton, Tanner, D. Gooch, and several ladies. Trains were despatched every half-hour during the day from each end of the hue till about 20 minutes past 3 p.m., when the last down-train was started from Farringdon-street station. The whole distance of 3 1 miles was accomplished by each train in from 20 to 21 minutes, a full minute:being allowed at each station for stoppage, the porters calling out the names of the different stations on the halting of the trains. The speed attained varies from 20 to 25 miles an hour, the pressure on the boilers of the engine being about 1201 b. on the square inch, the ordinary working pressure of the boilers of the engines on the Great Western Railway. About four minutes were occupied in the run from the City terminus to King's-cross. The signals worked well ; and, as the trains glided into Farringdon-street station, they were greeted with cheers from a numerous body of spectators. TUE IRISH CONVICT SYSTEM.—It is indeed a great triumph that, commencing the system with prisoners in a most disorderly state, receiving recruits from the rebellious convicts of Bermuda, and having to contend with great difficulties, in consequence of the peculiar cha racter of the Irish, and the strong religious jealousies which exist in that country, the number of convicts should have diminished from 4,278 on the Ist January, 1854, to 1,314 on the Ist January, 1862; that the directors can trium phantly challenge the country to show one prisoner at large in Ireland, released on ticket-of-leave, who is infringing the conditions endorsed on his license; and still more, that public confidence is so firmly established in the really re• formatory nature of the system pursued, that the public are no longer unwilling to take into their employment persons who have passed through these prisons, even applying after trial again and again for more,—Fraffe4 The paddlewheel steamer Prometheus, 5, 200 horse power, has been surveyed at Chatham by the master-shipwrights from Deptford, Sheerness, and Chatham dockyards, in order to ascertain whether her defects allow of her being repaired. Owing, however, to the unsatisfactory report of the condi tion of that steamer which has been made to the Admiralty, their lordships have directed that her repairs are to be no further proceeded with, and have decided on offering her for sale. In accordance with instructions received at Chat ham from the Admiralty, the screw gunvessel Vigi lant, 4, 680 tons, 200 horse power, and the Osprey, 4, 682 tons, 200 horse power, Mr. G. H. Dominy, master, in charge, both of which are attached to the Steam Reserve, are to be ready for commission by the Ist Feb. The Osprey will be sent round from Deptford to be fitted. The paddlewheel steamer Terrible, 22,1,850 tons, 800 horse power, now in the third division of the Chatham Steam Reserve, is to be brought forward for commission, and is to be out of the hands of the dockyard authorities on the 30th April. Some delay has taken place in fixing the large wrought-iron sternposts and keel of the iron frigate Achilles, 50, under construction at Chatham, in con sequence of it having been found necessary to make some alterations in them before they could be fitted. The sternpost and the other portions of the keel were received at Chatham dockyard from Glasgow about ten days since, and since their arrival it has been necessary to alter the length of the afterpiece of the keel. Some three or four days will still elapse before the alterations now in hand are effected. The weight of the inner sternpost is 12 tons 4cwt., the afterpiece of the keel 14 tons 4cwt., and the outer sternf ost 13 tons 12cwt. The Termagant, screw frigate, 25 guns, Capt. R. Hall, is dismantling alongside Portsmouth Dock yard, and will be paid out of commission about this day week. We committed an error in her dates of sailing from Honolulu for England. She sailed from Honolulu on the Bth September, and from the Falk land Islands cm the 7th November. The names of the following officers have been re moved from the Navy List by order of the Lords of the Admiralty :—Lieuts. A. B. Wodehouse and C. H. Eden ; Lieuts. J. M. Sadleir and C. B. Brand, Royal Marines ; Assist.-Sorg. F. L. Graham, Assist.- Paymaster S. L. Lancaster, and Second Master W. J. Montgomery. The following promotions and appointments in the corps of Royal Marine Light Infantry were promulgated in a divisional order at headquarters, Chatham yesterday :—First Lieut. and Adjt. John M. Lennox, of the Chatham division, to be Capt. and appointed to the Woolwich division, vice Jones, who died in China; Second Lieut. William Men zies, of the Chatham division, to be First Lieut., and appointed to the same division ; First Lieut. No well Fitzupton Way, of the Chatham division, to be Adjt., vice Lennox, promoted; Second Lieut. John Alfred Sweny, of the Woolwich division, to be;First Lieut., and appointed to the Chatham division. By permission of Col. Lemon, C. 8., the sergeants of the Chatham division of Royal Marines gave a ball last night in their library and messroom at the Royal Marine Barracks. The apartments fitted up for dancing and refreshments were decorated with flags, flowers, and evergreens, and presented an ex ceedingly attractive appearance. In addition to the sergeants at headquarters, invitations were is sued to several of the non-commissioned officers of Royal Marines at Woolwich and Deal. The divi sional band was in attendance. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Richard 0. L. Madden, to the Osprey ; George H. Dominy, master, to the Osprey; John Phillips, master, additional, to the Cumberland, for the Vigilant ; David Wilson, sur geon, to the Osprey; Valentine Spain, paymaster, to the Osprey; Edward W. Gordon, paymaster, ad ditional, to the Fisgard ; George Bolster, assist.- surg., to the Egmont ; Hon. H. L. Bowling, assist.- paymaster, to the Victory ; and John T. Greet, clerk, to the Osprey. Herbert T. Murray has been nominated to a naval cadetship. B ANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.- Incorporated by Royal Charter. THE COURT OF DIRECTORS HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That a HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Six per Cent. per Annum (,free of Income-tax), on the Capital of the Bank, will be Payable to the Proprietors of Shares registered in this country, on and after the sth day of January next, at the Office of the Corporation, No. 7, St. Helen's-place, Bishopsgate-street, between the hours of Ten and Four. - - —• No Transfer can be made between the 15th inst. and the sth proximo, as the Books must be closed during that period. By order of the Court. C. M'NAB, Secretary. No. 7, St. Helen's-place, London, Dec. 9, 1862. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., `LAVES OF THE RING; ►) OR, BEFORE AND AFTER. By the Author of "Grandmother's Money." " Slaves of the Ring,' as a story, is superior to any of the author's previous works. It is developed with great skill."—Post. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK by the AUTHOR of "JOHN HALIFAX." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., MISTRESS AND MAID. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." " A good, wholesome book, gracefully written, and as pleasant to read as it is instructive." Athen2cum. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ter the Special ratronage of His late Royal Highness th. Prince Consort. BLANCHARD JERROLD'S HISTORY OF INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS, Part 3, appeared ,with numerous illustrations), on the Ist inst. Imperial Press—Central Offices, Paternoster-row, Aldine chambers. Manager, HENRY AGATE. MR. WILKIE COLLINS' NEW NOVEL. 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French, German, and English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under the direction of Mons. Boulcourt. The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro polis. Admission is.—Manager, M. Grenet. THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ; containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon strosities. Open daily, from 11 to 10 (for Gentlemen only).— Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han over-square, and 41A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon don, W. Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Seven. Illus trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve stamps. Address the Secretary, as above. T E 0 EID ON: kl What is it? See Patent, March 1, 1862, No. 560. 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The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to any change of the mouth (even by the wearer); and as they act independently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth of ordinary construction, they are guaranteed tc last a life time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr. ESKELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains his invention, post free for seven stamps.—lnspection of specimens and Con sultations free. Terms strictly moderate.-8, Grosvenor street, Bond-street, London ; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir mim ham. ,N EFFECTUAL REMEDY.—LAMBERT'S L 1 ASTHMATIC BALSAM, without confining' the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediat4iv relieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which pro vokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption Its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King . William-street, Charing cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and ad dress is engraved on the stamp. RHEUMATISM, CHILBLAINS, &c. COLES'S ALGA MARINA is the only really CONCENTRATED Essence of the Sea-weed. It is daily increasing in celebrity as a remedy for all kinds of Rheuma tism, whether Acute or Chronic, immediately relieving the pain, and speedily curing the disease. It is the best remedy for Spinal Affections, Contractions, Weakness of the Limb., Scrofulous webings, and all those affections for which the sea-side is recommended, and is also AN ADMIRABLE APPLI CATION FOR CHILBLAINS. The public should be careful to obtain the original prepara tion by asking for " COLES'S ALGA MARINA," each bottle of which is enveloped in a Pamphlet containing nume rous Cases and Testimonials, without which none is genuine. Sold in bottles, 2s. 9d., Is. 6d., and 11s. each, by T. BEATING, 79, St. Paul's Churchyard, London ; and by all Chemis s. Observe in the GENUINE ALGA MARINA the name of " JAMES COLES " is engraven on the label. THE ARMY. A series of trials was commenced on Tuesday in Woolwich dockyard with Bray's traction engine, in presence of the commodore-superintendent and the officials of the yard. The engine is intended to su persede horse-labour for the ordinary work of the yard. It was exhibited in the Great Exhibition, where it was awarded two prize medals in classes 8 and 9 for practical utility. One of the boilers for the Caledonia, weighing 28 tons, was placed on a truck and attached to the engine, which drew it about the yard with perfect ease. The engine then went to the foundry, where a load, consisting of a plate weighing 16 tons 15 cwt., was drawn by it to the factory travelling crane, and here two other plates were put on the truck, each weighing about 18 tons bringing up the load to over 30 tons. With this the engine went several times round the yard, turn ing the sharpest corners without any difficulty, with only one driving wheel in gear. The engine was then uncoupled and run up and down the yard without any load being attached. The speed at tained was equal to 10 miles an hour. It was tried over the rough paving, the soft ground, and trams, and answered equally well on each. The day's pro ceedings terminated by conveying an old boiler, weighing 22 tons, from the foundry yard to the old iron yard. On the following day the engine com menced by taking a load of about 20 tons of loam plates from the foundry to the ironyard. It had to take this load in and out and around the various iron stacks in the yard. This it did without any difficulty. It returned to the factory, and the sheer legs were fitted to the engine, when it lifted the screw propeller of her Majesty's ship Racer, which it took to and brought back from the weigh-bridge. The weight was ascertained to be 2 tons 1 cwt. 2 qrs. It then steamed on to the armour plate shed, and drove, by means of the drum fitted for trans mitting power, the hydraulic pumps used for work ing the press for bending the 4,1 inch armour-plates for the Caledonia, some of which were bent to the re quired extent by the power transmitted by the en gine. Yesterday the experiments were continued,the engine was tried as a steam fire-engine with equalsuc cess. The diameter of the cylinder is 7in. ; the length of stroke, 10in.; the working pressure of the steam, 1201 b. ; the gearing 21 slow speed and 71 quick speed; the weight of engine complete, with fuel and water, is about 12 tons. It is fitted with link motion and reversing gear, feed and tank (hot and cold water) pumps, the latter being a double action Sin.-bore, worked direct from the piston through the cylinder bottom ; Giffard's injector, sheer-legs, and a barrel for hoisting, a drum for driving machinery, a winch end for a fall rope or tackle, &c. The wheels and steering gear and general arrangement of the engine are on the com pany's patent principle, the steering being effected by means of a worm working in the segmental rack. The driving wheels have inner and outer bearings, and the engine is mounted on innera d outer springs on each side of the driving w h eels, ron g while the fire carriage is also mounted ..v_n a Nv of he th e best spring. The gearing is throughout best malleable cast-iron, and t he g e l e fat! s are of wrought iron. The machinery is cased in by the end is form e d i nto a light iron casing, atcarried about 12c vet. of bunkers, wherein can bo fuel, while the tanks content about 400 gall ons o f water. The eng ines and all th e mac hi nery are at tached to a framing independent of the boiler, which i s of the horizontal tubular description, made throughout of the best Lowmoor iron. A commodious range of buildings is being erected by Messrs. Naylor and Son, of Rochester, the con tractors to the War Department, consisting of a library, reading-room, music and lecture-room, THE VOLUNTEERS. The Ist Middlesex Engineer Volunteers, under Itieut.-Colon el M'Leod of M'Leod, marched on Box ing-day to Putney, and went through the various duties of a battalion on reconnoitring service. Fif teen rounds per man were served out. On reaching Putney-common, No. 1, which formed the advanced guard, extended smartly at the double, and, sup ported by No. 2, commenced carefully to examine and patrol all cover that an enemy might be capable of turning to account. At the first cross-roads, No. 3 was ordered to reconnoitre and, if possible, take the first bridge that crosses the railway, and by that means protect the flank of the battalion and threaten that of the enemy, who was supposed to be occupying the second bridge. O❑ perceiving the latter movement the enemy's cavalry charged across both bridges, and was received by Nos. 1,2, and 3 in company squares, and the remainder in battalion square. The falling back of the advanced guards of the main body and No. 3, the forming squares, and opening fire, were. done very_ §Knartly. As soon as the enemy was beaten off and No. 3 had, after a second advance, succeeded in taking the first bridge, the battalion moved quickly on the second and took it in fine style. It was materially assisted by the flank movement of No. 3 and the sharp fi that was kept up by the advanced guard, which lined a fence on each side of the bridge. Roehamp ton-lane was treated as a defile, and after the village had been carefully reconnoitred, two companies a time performed outlying picket duty while the rest were dining. At 2.30 the assembly was sounded, and in barely 10 minutes the regiment was moving in the direction of Wimbledon. After having received the enemy's cavalry twice in com pany and battalion squares, and been warmly en gaged with a strong advanced post of theirs, the regiment retired into Putney. The corps gave another proof, if any were required, that with offi cers and non-commissioned officers determined to learn and perform their duty, Volunteers are quite capable of executing the most difficult military ope rations. The Ist West Riding of Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers (Leeds), comprising six batteries, has recently erected by subscription a battery of four 32-pounder guns for practice at Morecambe Bay, near Fleetwood, and the first practice took place on Saturday last. The battery is constructed on a site near the railway station, granted to the corps by the Midland Railway Company, and has cost nearly £2OO, The guns and an abundant supply of am munition and stores were provided by the Go vernment. Every facility has been afforded by the Midland Company, who have engaged to convey the Volunteers from Leeds to Morecambe and back (a distance of 70 miles), by any train, for the low charge of 2s. On Saturday, in consequence of the numbers and to insure an early arrival at the battery, a special train was provided, which con veyed about 250 members of the corps, with their band. Lieutenant-Colonel Waud, who has recently accepted the command, met the corps on parade for the first time. The newly appointed adjutant, Mr. Shields, also entered upon his duties on this occasion. The other officers present were Captains Lawson, Pepper, and Hainsworth ; Lieutenants Holforth, Barr, Kay, Smith, Butler, Jackson, Clarkson and Oates; Surgeon Price, and Lieutenant Turner, hon. secretary. After promenading the town the Volunteers were marched to the battery, where, before commencing practice, Lieutenant-Colonel Waud addressed them in an appropriate speech. Practice then commenced at a target moored in the bay, at a distance of 1,200 yards. The guns were admirably served and the target was struck twice. A large concourse of the inhabitants of the district witnessed the proceedings from the beach and cliffs, and appeared highly gratified. The Volunteers were afterwards marched to the various hotels and refreshed with a substantial dinner, provided at the expense of Lieutenant- Colonel Waud. The officers dined at the North- Western Hotel. The volunteers returned to Leeds at an early hour of the evening. The second year's competition for the Mapperley Challenge Cup, value £5O, presented by the late Mr. J. C. Wright, banker, took place on Monday and Tuesday by the various companies of the Not tingham Robin Hood Rifles, at the Mapperley butts (near the town). Last year the cup was borne off by the Castle, or No. 1 Company. The conditions were :—Rifles, those in actual use in the corps, Government ammunition ; 20 effective mem bers from each competing company ; five rounds of file firing at 300 yards, five rounds of volley firing at 400 yards, and Hythe positions. The 10 companies of the battalion finished shooting on Tuesday afternoon, when the Castle Company were again declared the victors, they having scored 150 points at volley firing. A protest has been for warded to Major Sherlock, the commanding officer, on the part of the Park Company, against the decision awarding the prize to the Castle Com pany. HEAVE GALE A high gale sprang up on Thursday night, and continued to an advanced hour yesterday morning. It caused a serious destruction of property. Between 11 and 12 o'clock at night, near Clapham-common, a lofty stack of chimneys, hurled from the top of a house, fell upon the coachhouse, crushed in the roof, and carried away the side walls. Near the same spot two immense trees were blown down, and, falling against the garden-wall, brought the whole down. In the Brixton-road a house near the church was partly unroofed, the slates being hurled in the air for a considerable distance. Early in the morn ing, as two men were proceeding along the Ken nington-road to their work, a heavy leaden gutter was torn from the top of a house, and in falling struck a man named Henry Abbots on the shoulder, causle:aveirnn,thae hurling him to the ground. On being raised up it lar was found that his arm was broken and his leg e severely injuredvi.tahlßeivapNVsyeaadtsdCieno;inisle,Gaihyye.elld,aarNttogtotnh,e h h a o s a p i his a i l ss • In the same roadway, a large coping - atone .w as blown from the roof of a house, and falling i o u P l ' r the fragments, and crushed the Robert from a slate, pavembeenrtt. Westminster-road, a man named Wilbram received a dreadful cut on and another man, named Alfred right arm broken through near bl a o th w e n Bt down, ags and several Wandsworth-road' , eear brick he a site n d strongly-built persons narrowly sh ol e d d li V a a : x the roofb smashed of the chimneys falling in by a heavy upon it, and a man stocknt ianimbdro o f chimneys Hewett, who was in it at the time, had his thigh broken, end bad to be taken to the hospital. In this neighbourhood seve ral persons were severely injured by pieces of tile, &c., blown from the tops of the houses. A lofty stack of chimneys on the roof of a house near the Elephant and Castle was, although secured by stout iron rods, hurled from its position, and, in falling, destroyed a portion of the roof. At an early hour a waggon, heavily laden with bales of goods, was proceeding down the road, when the wind caught the load and snapped the ropes, and a large portion was blown over. The carman, named Henry Ste vens, received very severe injuries by one of the bales falling on him. In the York-road, Lambeth, the roof of a house, occupied by Mr. Beasley, was partially destroyed by the fall of a stack of chim neys, and several other houses in the same wndOiva greatly injured; in two instances, the i road were DEMOLITION OF EXETER CHANGE. The shadowy little roofed-in thoroughfare ex tending from W e lli ngton - street to C at h er i ne - s t ree t, Strand, and known to the curious in London arcades as " Exeter Change," has disappeared within the last few day s from the sphere of metropolitan oddities. The miniature shops, that were always mated by a doubtful life, -fronts, w i th their faded closed, or imperfectly anim a t e d have vanished beneath the h an d s o f t h e wor k men ; the desolat e an d dusky the ara besque in t r e a r c a e e r k y h round first floor windows, have succumbed beneath the trowel and the pick ; the glass skylight which seemed never to shed any radiance on the grim solitude beneath, and nothing better to offer in the Way o f comfort than a prospect of brick walls,black and beetling, has lost its identity in an auctioneer's " lot," and may possibly in due time roof the grand aisle of some small Crystal Palace in a suburban pleasure-ground; the site lies open to the heavens ; and light and air are once more seen and felt in a locality from which they have been long excluded. The mutation has not been without warning. The beadle at whom Punch, some 20 years ago, used to poke so much fun—the maniacal beadle, gone melancholy mad with long solitary confine ment, and of whom, if we recollect rightly, Mr. Leech made a sketch, showing him as he glared from behind the terminal gates like the ghost of Chunee, the poor elephant in 1826—the beadle, we repeat, had long since departed, and the echoes of the passage were only now and then dis disturbed by the feet of adventurous errand-boys. It having been long apparent that to open a shop in Exeter-change was like going to a rudimentary school in bankruptcy, the demolition of the unlucky avenue has followed as a matter of course. There are some curious memories connected with the place. Pennant thought that the great Lord Burleigh, Queen Elizabeth's all-powerful minister, whom Spencer, the poet, seems to have regarded as his main enemy at court, had a mansion where " the Change" afterwards stood, and that he died there. The bishops of Exeter possessed a palace somewhere in the immediate neighbourhood, and hence the frequent occurrence of the name of that episcopal city in the mid-regions of the Strand. The spot first became noted as a place of business about the reign of William 111. ; and it must have been then that it acquired its title of "Exeter Change." The row (which stood where Wellington-street now stands) was a sort of mart for millinery and upholstery : the milliners occupying the lower floors and the uphol sterers the upper. 'Whether the speculation was a more fortunate one in those days than in these does not appear. The place, however, was certainly a little more lively. Shows were to be seen there, and in 1721 all London flocked to the Change to look at a bed which for a time became as celebrated as the great bed of Ware, though its fame has not been so permanent. The artist was a Mr. Newmond Cony, who valued the work of his ingenuity so highly that he charged half-a-crown for the privi lege of seeing it—not a small sum at that time, nor even now, when we are accustomed to enjoy for a whole day the art and industry of all nations for a shilling. The curtains of this wonderful bed were woven of feathers of the greatest variety and beauty ; the ground representing white damask mixed with silver, and further ornamented with vases of flowers and fruit. A purple border, a foot in breadth, branched with flowers shaded with scar let, ran along the curtains, the valance, and the bases ; and the bed was eighteen feet in height. It appeared worthy to have been the state bed of a Sultan. Rather more than half a century later, Exeter Change saw the lying in state—not in the showy bed of .111,•. Newmond Cony, however—of a nuble criminal. In the year 1774, Lord Baltimore was executed for the abduction of several girls; and his body was exhibited at the Change previous to its interment at Epsom. Subsequently to this the upper part of the houses over the shops was appropriated to a wild beast show, which held its ground for many years. A worse spot for such an exhibition could not have been selected. The poor animals were cooped up in narrow, unhealthy cages, where their sufferings after the free life of the woodland and the desert, must have been great. The spectacle of animals which have been accustomed to space and activity confined within four close walls, imperfectly sup plied with air, missing the familiar objects of their original localities, and pacing wearily to and fro till the hot spirit is broken by the weight of captivity, is always a very painful one; but at Exeter Change it must have been especially so. In the Zoological Gardens, at the present time, every alleviating cir cumstance is introduced; but this was impossible in a contracted space surrounded by the dwellings of a populous city. The discontinuance of the menagerie was hastened by a terrible conflict which occurred there on the Ist of March, 1826. It was on that day that the Indian elephant Chunee, to which reference has already been made, was killed as a necessary protection to the public. Elephants are subject in the spring to a paroxysm of fury, during which their usual docility entirely disap pears. At the time in question the fit came upon poor Chunee with more than wonted vehemence; and medicine of extraordinary power was adminis tered to him, in the hope of reducing it. All, how ever, was in vain ; the animal's rage increas ed b with every hour; his lunges at the massive tim b er bars of his cage became so terrific that a portion of the woodwork was carried away; and no t the s trand lest alter native was left but to put the beas he Strand and he should break loose, get into t adjoining streets, and carry havoc far and w id e. But it was no easy matter to acc o mplish t his de entities of arsenic a n d o f corrosive sign. Large qu ed to east ; but, th oug h su blimate wer e auer the h i di s gused in substances to which he was partial, he s eemed to detect the desi gn , an d re f use d to swa llow what was put before him. The brother ' in-law of Mr. Cross, the proprietor,b • mg known to be an excellent shot, was now sent for ; and he, in conjunction with a gunsmith's assistant, ulti mately reinforced by two soldiers, kept firing at the elephant for more than an hour with rifles ; the keepers at the same time • thrusting at the poor creature with pikes. The charges of the maddened animal at the bars were so terrific that at one time he loosened the whole woodwork from its fasten ings, and, had it not been strongly lashed together with ropes, he would have burst his way through. In the very height of his rage and agony, however, ho exhibited a remarkable do cility to the commands of his keeper ; placing himself, when ordered to do so, in a customary posture, which happened to be a favourable one for aiming at the most vital parts. Excepting back to the bars, so as to keep his head out of fi re. Al 1 this while Mr. Cross was frant i ca lly hurrying from place to place, in the hope of getting the assistance of heavier firearms and more rifles, but in vain-- an inability which to us in 1863 , when rifles and cannon are as common as blackberries, seems as tonishing. On the return ai the propri e t or th e elephant was de ad, havin g received between ono and two hundred bullets in his body. The second volume of Hones Every Day Book" contains a striking sketch by George Cruikshank of poor Chunee, as he lay dead just within the shattered bars of his den ; and a very elaborate and interest ing account of the catastrophe, from the pen of Hone himself, accompanies the woodcut. Shortly after this sickening affair the menagerie was removed, and the more modern Exeter Change built, though not exactly on the same spot. That in its turn has now disappeared, and the neigh bourhood will be the better for its demolition. t. . NI