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I I I 1 I it' I£lo kill, By order. GEO. SAWARD, Secretary. THEATRE ROY AL DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. EDMUND FALCONER. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre, flaying 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 Prices of Admission will be as usual, and similar to those of the principal London Theatres, viz.:— Private Boxes, 10s, 6d., 215., lls. 6d., £2 25., £3 35., and £4 4s. Stalls, Gs. Dress circle, 4s. First Circle, 3s. Boxes, 2s. Pit, 2s. Lower Gallery, is. Upper Gallery, 6d. No Half-price. A MORNING PERFORMANCE of the PANTO MIME EVERY WEDNESDAY, at Two o'clock. THIS EVENING will be presented Mr. E. Falconer's Comic Drama, entitled EXT KIN. Principal Characters by M O essr F s. S. Calhaem, H. Sinclair, Neville, Warde, Rourke, Fredericks; Mrs. EL:awl...F*l - and Miss Portman. - After which will be produced the Great Drury-lane Annual in the form of an entirely Novel, Original, Bur lesque, Grotesque, Poetical, Pictorial, Pastoral, Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime entitled LITTLE GOODY TWO SHOES; or, HARLEQUIN and COCK ROBIN! "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 C and TELBIN, assisted b y M essrs. DAYES, TELBIN, JON . FENTON, E. LLOYDS, GRIEVE, Jun., Jun., and D I NSON and SONS. The Ma chinery by Mr. TUCKER. The Costumes by Mr. MAY and Mrs. CLARKE, The Masks, Designs, 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. BLAM IRE and Assistants. The Gas Appointments by Mr. HINCKLEY. The Scenes of the Harlequinade by BOLENO, J. CORMACK, and D. JOHNSON. The Groupes, Tableaux, 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 Wilki ns ," " Robi n H oo d , " &c. THE VILLAGE SCHOOL OF GOODY TWO SHOES. EARLY MORNING. Little Goody Two Shoes —Miss LYDIA THOINIPSON. "This dear little Girl, whose real name was Margery Meanwell, once lived," &c. --Old Story. "His kind Wife gave little Margery a nice pail 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 she gained the name of Little Goody Two Shoes.' "—Old Rory. 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 O . J ohnny Stout (th e H Good Boy) Mr. J. ROBINS. Thommy Green (the Bad Boy) Mr. G. WESTON. Day Scholars —Masters Wag, Lag, Fag, Brag, Dag, Nag, Gag, Mag, Tag, &c, and Misses Ni m bl e, Simple, Sample, Rumple, Whimper, ' Simper, Niminy, Piminy, &c., &c. Sir Timothy Gripe (Lord of the Manor), r. MATTHEWS. Grasp Mall (hi TOM s Steward), Mr. SHAW. Tillagers—Messrs.Bumkin,Whaekstraw,Oatcake,Chaw bacon, Thatcher, &c., &c. "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. HUNTING LODGE ON THE BORDERS OE.. 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 Blue meets with a particular friend, and how 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. " When good Little Goody Two Shoes had finished her ten sets of letters, she invited a great number of her poor little 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), Messrs. Scowl and Growl. The Bad Boy's Compact with the Evil Genius, and what followed therefrom. HAUNT OF THE WOOD NYMPHS IN THE ENCHANTED DELL. May, Miss WENT WORTH. Bluebell, Cowslip, Violet, Wild Thyme, Golden Broom, Speedwell, Daisy, Buttercup, Wood Anemone, Primrose, Colvolvulus, Wild Rose, Traveller's Joy,Celandine, Hearts ease, Fox Glove, &c. (her attendant Wild Flowers), by a host of Coryphees. Pas de Forget-me-not, Miss LYDIA THOMPSON. Pas de Double Heartsease, the Misses GUNNISS. Ballet des Bouquets, invented and arranged by Mr. OSCAR BYRNE. W OODY AVENUE, LEADING TO BUTTERCUP MEAD. " All hail is 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 MAY-DAY AND FESTIVAL OF THE MAY QUEEN. OUTSIDE OF LITTLE GOODY'S COTTAGE, MILL " BROOK, AND ANCI ENT BELFRY. Who killed Cock Robin ? I, said the Sparrow, with my Bow and Arrow." —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 -Whoo. The Lark, Mr. Higbflyer. The Rook, Mr. Blackeoat. 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 and Mr. ST. MAINE. Columbines, Madame BOLENO (her first appearance here these two years) and the 'Misses GUNNISS. Pantaloons, Mr. G. TANNER and Mr. DEULIN JOHNSON. Clowns, Mr. HARRY BOLENO (his first aearance here these two year s ) an d M r. C. LAURppI. Scene I.—GRAND HINT 0' NATIONAL (THEATRE) EXHIBITION OF FUN! The Meeting of all Nations —Gold Washing and Gold Finding —Armstrong's Breech -loader —the Exhibition Bells and Belles of the Exhibition —Clown rings one of the Belles -a Belle Savage—the Majolica Fountain —Clown's new Vapourizer—Cent. per Scent—Striking Two—the Exhibi • tion Club—a Medicated Vapour Bath --a Piping Bullfinch --(Ram Airs)—the Australian Obelisk makes a decided Move—a Toad in the Hole— a Long Nap (2,000 ) , Bed in th e C oa l Hole —Froggy would a-Wooing Exhibit years s — a ud den influx of Strange Vi s itors and close of the Exhibition. Scene 2.—EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR OF INTER NATIONAL LODGING -HOUSE. Invented and Produced by Boleno (Registered). Pantomimists—HAßßY BOLENO, Madame BOLENO. CORMACK, and TANNER. Trip Storm 'Wise—Madame BOLENO and Mr. CORMACK. Landlady, Mrs. Graball ; Page, Master Bellbutton ; Housemaid, not yet engaged ; Visitor; Cabmen, Sweeps, Shoe-Black Brigade, &c., by Artists too numerous to mention. Lodgings! Lodgings I L o d gings !—HouAe Full—A Fair Sample of a Cabby's Fair —A Foreigner all Abroad—Harry Boleno's return to his Old Quarters—:soniebods Luggage -- Nobody's Luggage (Oh, Dickens)—oi Ay are on the cold ground—Alamp Bed with Sheets LodgingsfWater (which am always damp)—Bottling Spirits —A Policeman on Duty --Coming down with the Dust—Clown newlownaßndedProttonmtalpooonorr_e solve to ch ange th e i r quarters—The the Exhibition Early-rising Bedstead—Clown makes an Impression—Oh , rest t h ee, m guisher—P ut out the Light I Puty Babe—A Novel R u i n . out the Light—Acild and NorseSquan Night—Cl own gets rid of a Lodger— B o th Child are fast asleep--Clown gives them a drop too much—anew Boa nd tnethod o f getting off to sleep—forty winks-- qu a Cox (up)--'Tis swhen to sp he Shades the Worldof Nlg retir . ehs—t and sion—an unwelcome Vi s itor—The Night Shad Look on this Picture and on this—List, oh, list —I'm alwawith I'll warm yer—Oh, slum air you— lightias thy darling, and sleep while you may—Visions air —the Nurse—the Child—the Great Sensation Scene and benournent. Scene 3.— SHELL -FISH SHOP, COBBLER'S STALL, AND MUSIC WAREHOUSE I Invented by Mr. D. John son . panto Invented GUNNISS and Messrs. ST. MAI NE, DEULIN JOaNSON and C. LAURI. as Tr ots Mansilla Spiritu—The Misses GUNNISS and .A Neat M. ST. MAINE. and pr iP--a Trip less Flat—Flat Fish, Flying Fish, Groundtbait—tak-ing in the Natives Childish Games, Boyhood' s 4 aPPy da s—Arrival of Fun—Sudden appear ance of an old friend—Y Clown goes a fishing—G . ets a_bite Which prove to be a nibble for him, Garotting with a Ven --sanse —the strong Arm of the Law—Clown in a Fix -uuck t...; 3 7 Escape Clown gets a Ticket of Leave—the indus 13t000utss C obbler that Lived in a Stall —Clown finds a pair of Cl and gets Awl for his pains —a Rally and a Jump— he wit has a taste for Music and Gives a Concert, in which 1 1 1 ., ! will play a Solo on the smallest Banjo in the world and AsTC°l:arnon Garden Pots—Pataloon has Five Bars rest— 'lll gets Drummed in and quickly gets Drummed Out tiPi l a p -- A Supply of Natives—a fair Division—the head of orce and everybody taken in and done for. E ISLINGTON AGRICULTRAL HALL, THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Liability Limited by Act of Parliament. £ 6 00,000 in 120,000 Shares of C 5 each. Deposit on allot ment, One Pound per Share. Guaranteed 8 per cent. by the British Government upon completion and working of the cable. CHAIRMAN. The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY. VICE- CHAIRMAN. CURTIS M. LAM PSON, Esq. ELECTRICIAN. CROMW ELL F. VAEILEV, Esq. CONSULTING COMMITTEE. William Fairbairn, Esq., F.R.S., late President of the British Association. Joseph Whitworth, Esq., F.R.S. Professor Wheatstone, P.R.S. Professor IV. Thomson. F.R.S., of Glasgow. SECRETARY —George Saward, Esq. BANKERS. In London—Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., and the Bank of England. In Lancashire—The Bank of Manchester. In Iroland—The National Bank and its Branches. In Scotland—The British Linen Co. and its Branches, BROKERS. • Messrs. Foster and Braithwaite, 68, Old Broad:st , London. Messrs. P. Cazenove & Co., 52, Threadneedle-st:, London. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be had at the Brokers, or at the Company's Offices 22, Old Broad -street, London. N°. 22,003 AND GREAT DOG-SHOW, CAT-SHOW, AND PLOWER -SHOW. Invented and Produced by BOLENO (Registered). Pantorsiroists--HARRY BOLENO, EMMA BOLENO, CORMACK, and TANNER. Flowers of Loveliness and Flowers of the Forest—going to see the Green Bushes—Heartsease and Tulips—coming in Pears (pairs)—a clearing Pair—Fruits of Industry -Music, the Food of Love—l calculate not—Music hath Charms—not so always—Where's the Police P—Opening of the Great National Dog Show—Port Whine and Bark—an Impudent Puppy—Carrots and a Turn-up—Clown gets Pugnatious—a Dog-MA—Dog cheap and dear Hound— Clown keeps the Dog Watch, which he enters—the Way to Barking—Clown and Pantaloon gone to the Dogs— Sweet Sounds—Calculation, Multiplication, and Vexation —Clown's Cat Show—Cats-up and Cats down, and a Cat for the Garotters—Descend ye nine—Dogs' Meat—Cats' Meat—a Jolly Dog—a Pair of Tabbies—the Kill-Kenny Cats—the Seat of War—How it will all end—a Prize Fight for a prize Cup—Catalessis—Catacresis—a Catastrophe which leads to a Cataract of the Feline Race, and thus ends the Catalogue. Scene S—(Comic)—EXTERIOR of MARINE STORES, PUBLIC-HOUSE, AND SAILOR'S HOME. Invented by Mr. J. Cormack. C. LAURI, D. JOHN SON, ST. MAINE, and the Misses GUNNISS. Nautical Hornpipe, by M. ST. MAINE and the Misses "GUNNISS Set a thief to catch a thief—and he will go the " whole Hog or None"—A Sailor, half Seas over, mistakes all he Sees—Old Aunt Sally proves herself, rayther— Shell Hands wanted—and secured by Hook or by Crook—An cient and Modern Warriors—Hearts of Oak—Our Ironsides (not Cromwell's) Al good metal—the great Drainage Question—Pretty Poll of Wapping —she was such a nice young Gal! with Old Ballad, " the Lass that loved a Sailor"—" Home, home, Sweet Home"— The Sailors' Home—time to go home, but before doing so we introduce you to Last Scene.—(Danson and Sons.) ENGLAND'S GLORY AND RICHES BROUGHT BY HER OCEAN WAVES I Box-office open from Ten till Six daily. Doors open at Half. past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON. UNION BANK OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE (Limited). IS HEREY GIVEN, Tt the Transfr Books of this Company %yid be CLOSED from TUESDAY,e the 6th, to SATURDAY, the 10th January, 1863 (inclusive). By order of the Board. J. W. MOLLETT, Secretary. THIRD EDITION, REVISED, WITH ADDITIONS. Now Ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., FEMALE LIFE IN PRISON. By A PRISON MATRON. " The authoress writes throughout with good sense, good taste, and good feeling."—Times. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough -street. NEW WORK BY Da•CUMMING. Now ready, in 2 vols., printed on toned paper, 215., DRIFTWOOD, SEAWEED, and FALLEN LEAVES. By the Rev. JoHN CUMMING, D.D., F.R.S.E Hurst and Blackett, publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. M R. BALDWIN'S " AFRICAN HUNTING." '-- 7A- with Fifty Beautiful Illustrations, is now ready at all Booksellers and Libraries, price 21s. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THIRD THOUSAND, in 3 vols., 'FRS. HALLIBURTON'S TROUBLES.- By MRS. HENRY WOOD, Author of "East Lynne, is now ready at all Booksell rs and Libraries. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. L IVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, in FUN, every week. One Penny, Now Ready, handsomely bound In Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d. ; post free, is., the „ZECOND half-yearly VOLUME of PUN, with K--- , numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. - E. L. Blanchard, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq._ F. C. Burnand, E s q. G o df rey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &c., &c., &a. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. CANTERBURY HALL,- THE THIRD EDITION of the celebrated Panto mimic Entertainment THE ENCHANTED HASH, thirteen characters, including Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, and rantaloon, sustained solely by Mr. E. Marshall, re-written by W. F. Vandervell, Esq., new characters and new dresses. UNSWORTH, in his renowned Speech upon all the topics of the day; and the following Comic favourites: -Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, Frank Hall, and Miss Georgina Smithson. GRAND SELECTIONS from POPULAR OPERAS, as usual, conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. T lIE 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD STREET. George Hodson's Irish Entertainment. Unsworth's great Stump Speech, "Or any other man." Eugene's burlesque Songs and Dances. W. Randall's Comicalities. Caroline Parkes' Pantomi,nical Sketch, " Little Red Riding Hood " EVERY EVENING. In addit'on to Drew Dean's Flute Solos, Operatic Selections, &c., by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, and Miss Oesten ; Messrs. Albert, Greene, Bernardi, &c., &c., with full Band and Chorus, Conducted by Mr. F. Jonahmans. TURNHAM'S GRAND CONCERT HALL (Sole Proprietor, Mr. JOHN TUR NHAM), EDGWARE ROAD, W. EVE KY EVENING AT SEVEN. Operatic Seleetions.—Great success of John Barnett's "Mountain Sylph," with full band and Chorus—Vocal and Instrumental Solos. Comte talent —Mackney. Sam Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Bren nan, Harry Wall, West ("Or any other Man"), and Taylor. Arthur Barnes (the Champion Vaulter), Chadwick (the Parisian Grotesque), 11G1 Madame Cerito (the Great Trans formation Dancer). Admission, 6d. and ls. Musical Director and Manager—Mr. CHAS. GREVILLE. A RGYLL ROOMS, Windmill -street, Piccadilly. CA_ Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the above elegant Establishment a Grand Conversation Saloon, Reading Room, and Smoking Lounge. French, German, and English papers taken in. The musical arrangements under the direction of Mons. Roulcourt. The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro polis. Admission ls.—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. t►pen daily, from il to 10 (for Gentlem , n 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. TEETH. -By MR. ESKELL'S INVENTION (Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and fitted in a few hours by means of his patented soft elastic and imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensing with springs or unsightly fastenings, and defyi ng d e t ec ti on by t ee closest observer. 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 ai e guaranteed tt. 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 mingham. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.— Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who kuirer from bilious and iiver complaints, indigestion, wind. spasms, giddiness, •iizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appe rite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. for mality of ptuatnitoedn inh...l2.ts"rneir psi'tilaebt Treasurer —Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for magnitu-ife sickness l t e er i s in.m lLcs iz., entirely tha t d w e h v i o ch te d i s to ac d e e o s m t 1 .... capable of adrnitti and disease, and is now of sufficient with adequate support, it may be rendered the casual sick of Vint° its funds in order to have= wards a very large proportion of at metropolis. It requres but the sratlavialoilwalclerefaotrutrhese. receptionmoreoveorf, these the most wretched ofbedul pavecentr ad medicine to more, it gratuitously affords medical v e : d t uty to make an ipued support, on the average, than 3,000 out.. The Weekly Board feel it their Inip r tr ek ' g cases that EARNEST APPEAL to the public to a r to enable them to admit and relieve the distrnessin daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Ilerries and Co. ;anlt_apom and Maiverman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. 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PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE- ItALOOY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C. .'e----c--f 2- -~ Naval and Military Intelligincell THE NAVY. About 100 tons of the large armour-plates for the iron frigate Achilles, 50, 1,250 horse power, have been received at Chatham Dockyard from the esta blishtnent of Messrs. Saunderson and Co., the firm under contract with the Admiralty to supply a portion of the armour-plating for this ship. The iron slabs for the exterior are now being prepared in the factory adjoining the dock in which the Achilles is building, in order that no delay may be experienced in the work of plating that vessel when the 18 inches of teak backing, on which the armour-plates will be hung, is completed. This will probably be in about two or three weeks hence. The Royal Oak, 34, 800 horse power, iron-cased frigate, preparing for sea at Chatham, is to have tw o of her Armstrong pivot guns placed on her forecastle, instead of one, as originally ordered, in order that a scuttle may be fixed for ventilating the sick bay. The iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, in dock at Chatham, is to have her boilers taken out in order that a thorough. examination of her hull may be made, to taiascerain. whether sh e w ill requ i re a new bottom. e ll be accordingly un d oc k e d and placed under the floating shear s in the harbour, and as soon as she has unshipped her boilers will be re • docked. The repairs to this ship already in hand will occupy some time, and will detain her in the dock some two or three months. The Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. E. L acy, yesterday tested her machinery at Spithead, under the supervision of Com. Miller, of her Majesty's ship Asia, and Mr Murdoch, inspector of machinery afloat at Portsmouth, Everything worked in a very satisfactory manner, and this very efficient ship is now again available for the public service. The Frederick William, 84, screw steamship, fit ting for commission in May next at Portsmouth, is reported to be destined to relieve the Nile, the pre sent flagship of Vice-Admiral Milne, on the North American and West India station. The Termagant, 25, screw frigate, Capt. R. Hall, dismantling alongside P ortsmouth dockyard, is stripped to her lower masts, a n d her crew- are busily stores. She w i ll be paid out employedo f commission i nreturning on The new yacht ordered to be constructed for the use of her Majesty when at Osborne will be built at Pembroke Dockyard, according to designs furnished from the office of the Controller of the Navy. She will be propelled by paddles driven by engines of 160 horse-power, from the manufactory of Messrs. J. Penn and Son, will be of consider ably more tonnage than the Fairy, and will have a somewhat different midship section from that vessel. The Fairy has stood unrivalled for a num ber of years past either in beauty of form or rate of speed, but the peculiar roundness of her bottom has rendered her a very uneasy vessel in crossing Spithead during a south-east breeze. Her Majesty has experienced much inconvenience and personal discomfort at times in consequence. The Victoria and Albert large paddle yacht has been used on several occasions to convey the Queen when there was very rough weather, but, as she could not approach either of the landing-places at Cowes or Haslar, the Fairy had still to be retained as a means of transport to and from the large yacht. This again has been a cause of much personal discomfort and delay to her Majesty. The new yacht will supply the means of crossing between the Isle of Wight and the main, under any circumstances of weather, in comfort and in safety. THE ARMY. Capt. Baldwin, of the 31st Regiment, has as sumed the duties of Brigade-Major at the camp at Colchester, in the room of Major Cooch, whose period of service has expired. Dr. Frazer, prin cipal medical officer at the camp, made an official visit to the forts at Harwich in the course of last week. A party of 14 sergeants, of the 9th and 10th battalions, have left the camp for the Fleetwood School of Musketry, Where they wilt go - throifgh'iF course of instruction. Letters received at Portsmouth yesterday from India via Marseilles, state that the recent visitation of cholera experienced by the 93d Highlanders, and which carried off Major Middleton and many of the officers and men, had, on the March of the regi ment to Sealkote, Punjab, entirely disappeared. The regiment was expected to arrive at Sealkote on the 31st of December. In consequence of the comparatively small num ber of recruits who have recently joined the corps of Royal Engineers, which is now below its proper establishment, orders have been received at the headquarters, Chatham, directing recruiting par ties to be despatched to Aberdeen, Glasgow, and some of the districts in the West of England for the purpose of raising men. The class of young men required for the scientific corps of Royal Engi neers are mechanics who have been brought up to some trade, engiLeers, surveyors, photographers, printers, &c. The 10th company of Royal Engineers, under tho command of Capt. E. D. Malc3lm, has been ordered to rejoin headquarters Chatham, from Aldershot Camp, for the purpose of going through a complete course of field-work instruction, ;previously to em barking for colonial service. Arrangements are in progress for transferring the British and East India depots, comprising the 3d battalion of infantry a t Chatham garrison, from the hut barracks to Fort Pitt, as soon as the invalid and other troops quartered th ere Hospit a l. Th e build aNset a ley hospital are su ffi c i ently i a t r lg e s re n m ow ove u d sed to capacious to accommodate about 1,000 troops, but it will be necessary to make several important alterations before the quarters at Fort Pitt can be rendered capable to receive troops of the line. The hut barracks will still be used by troops, and it is understood that an in fantry regiment will be quartered there. St. Mary's Barracks, in which the invalid troops who were awaiting their discharge are quartered, will, on the removal of the invalid depot at Netley, be used for the reception of stores. 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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, CLASS 17. One visit only required from country patients, Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. Consultations free. NOVA SCOTIA. The occupation of the valuable harbour and military post of Halifax by a band of settlers in 1719, was conducted by the English Government under a full sense of the import ance of the operation. It was, indeed, the most decisive step which could then be taken towards the establishment of English power in North America. Money was freely spent in fostering the early growth of Halifay, and the in crease of its population was sought to be secured by the ap pointment of an cfficial midwife. When the older colonies revolted, Nova Scotia remembered that she had been protec ted by the arms and nurtured by the purse of England,and she remained faithful to her allegiance. The only circumstance that might have tended to influence her destiny the other way was that a body of the most energetic of the early settlers came from NewEngland.But these settlers were outnumbered by English, Scotch, and Germans, and the 7entiment i which would naturally possess th em were not pow er f u enough to change the direction of the aggregate of colonial feeling. 'We cannot help suspecting, too, that there must have been profitable contracts to be got at Halifax during the war of American independence; and colonists, even of Bos tonian origin, would not be wholly insensible to the advant ages of remaining loyal,and supplying the King's troops with beef. The colony, however, owed to the American war one of the best elements of its population. The most valuable emigrants were the Loyalists, a large proportion of whom were gentlemen of the first position in the old colonies, who preferred sacrificing their property, and wandering away to Nova Scotia, to seek amid an unbroken forest a home and a grave under the English flag. The town of Shelburne, founded by these Loyalists, is now deserted and almost swallowed up in that forest which has reappropriated the conquest made from it by ardent but ill-sustained exertions. If many of these Loyalists sank, as is stated, into poverty, it is open to question whether the colony gained much by their advent. Nevertheless, the spirit in which they emigrated will always command respect in England ; and wherever a colony reckons their descendants among its people, that colony, although perhaps it may be poor and unprogressive, will be counted by discerning Eng lishmen among the ehoicest jewels of their Sovereign's crown. If the sacrifices made by these Loyalists have been forgotten by Englishmen, and almost by ourselves, it is a sufficient apology, if any were needed, that it commemorates them. The loyalists were joined after the war by other settlers, who were some thing more than loyal. The disbanded soldiers of the Eng lish king would be likely to transmit to their descendants some portion of the hostile spirit which they had imbibed in their years of conflict with revolutionists. Veterans of the American, and also of the German, wars brought their tra ditions of military obedience to the Crown to swell the force of that sentiment which is still strong enough to provoke the contemptuous pity of Republicans by the pleasure which it takes in the title of " the loyal colony of Nova Scotia." The pedigree of Nova Scotia might well be called, by comparison with some other colonies, aristocratic. But, as sometimes happens to individuals, nobility of birth is here found united with scantiness of means. The loyal colony is neither populous nor wealthy. The rate of increase of its inhabitants is diminishing, and the state of agriculture is not such as to do justice to the great capabilities of the soil. In the midst of the finest fisheries in the world, its fisher men are ignorant helpless paupers. Looking to education, ti appears that a third of the population cannot write, although the whole of it possesses votes. An address which admits these shortcomings stands in advantageous contrast to the monotonous self-laudation of the 4th of July orations of the neighbouring Republic. The Nova Scotians have to confess to many deficiencies .in themselves, but the natural advantages of the country in which they dwell may claim from their spokesman un reserved praise. The agricu tural capabilities of the pro vince are unsurpassed. Nova Scotia, hitherto supposed to be only able to rear fir trees, sent the best oats to the Inter national Exhibition. Her apples and potatoes also were al most unrivalled. Unhappily, the mention of potatoes re calls to the mind a fable under which the author of Sam Slick reproved the laziness of the Nova Scotians. A native of that country was represented as saying that he liked hoe ing potatoes better than any other sort of work, and be would rather die than do that. Allowing for the difference ut between a lively sat i re an d a ser i ous a d d• ess, our two autho ritiesnard agree pretty closely as t o w h a t i s want i ng to ma k e Nova Scotia prosperou s . t w getie is s h own b y the example of Sir Samuel Cu cctcd to country ry go thaten ou ho establi s h e d the existing line of Transatlantic on as their fath there ers didare That others w ho so me natives appear of nte conception of what is me before th em , h av i ng not even a dim any persuasion of its utt by social prog ress , an d s till l ess know not worth learning, any, thinking what they do not rage i mm igration as tending strongly disposed to discou ultxmately to create such a co mpetition for land as will oblige them or their descen dants to cultivate it in a less thriftless and lazy manner. —Saturday Review. _ LIVERPOOL, JAN. I.—The By George schooner has been captured and sent into Key West. The Herald from Nassau, ran the blockade en the 17th Deo. Singular• Case of Mistaken Identi A most remarkable case of mistaken identity has occurred at Kingscleve, in Hampshire, in which it was supposed that a tailor at Trowbridge, named Jacob Long, had been drowned in a mill dam, a dead body having been found there. It appears that a man who gave the name of Jacob Long, and who stated that he came from Trowbridge, IVilts, applied for relief at the Kingscleve workhouse, and was placed in the casual ward. After breakfast on the following day he left, and beyond being seen in Kingscleve nothing more was heard of him. How ever, on Christmas morning it was stated that a baker in Kingscleve, named Martin Palmer, had disappeared, and could not be found. Inqu b ir a i d e , were made, and it was ascertained that Palme r had' • It appeared on the day immediately before his disappea rance, been of Trow bridge—and to the workhouse and left a . lo e af between the a tender for supplying themubniaonce that there was a great ro e I bo dy was and t Long_ o f taken from the bridge—and when the bogy men—Palmer, of Kingsclev e, to be thatof mill dam it was bel i ev ed the latter. bold on the body in the An inquest was hol d name of the jury after h • Jacob Long, an 9 r hearing the evi dence, returned a verdict to the effect that the de ceased, Jacob Long , was found drowned, but how he got into the water there was no evidence to show . The coroner's warrant for the burial of the body was made out, but just before it was removed a juryman thought he would take a last look at the body, as he was not altogether satisfied it was that of Jacob Long, The result of his inspection was a perfect conviction that the coroner and jury had been mistaken in the identity of the deceased, and that the body before him was not that of Lung, of Trowbridge. In order, however, to be thoroughly satisfied of the accuracy of his surmise, the wife of Palmer was sent for, and she at once identified the body of her husband. Palmer's body was removed to his native village for burial, but it was thought ;hat a second inquest would have to be held. I ,rlti _mporting tea without colour on the leaf prevents the Chinese passing off inferior brown leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's tea is uncoloured, therefore always good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents. VENTING, JAN VARY 6, 1863. starvation, is bringing contempt upon the Govern ment, and that is high treason for a journal. It is warned immediately, and at a second warning sup pressed. The reproach of the Rouennais against the Paris press, that it is muoh more concerned in the exclusion of an English Prince from the throne of Greece than attentive to relieve 100,000 of its fellow-countrymen from starvation, is scarcely just. The French journalist has been given foreign poli tics:as a field in which he may play and lucubrate at pleasure; but domestic politics are like the beau tiful green sward of the public parks and pleasure grounds in and near Paris, which you are permitted to look at but forbidden to tread. It is to M. Fould, therefore, and the Emperor, we fear, that the ope ratives of the Lower Seine must look. The mill owners of the region are not in the best odour with the Imperial Government. With the exception of the Dollfus family and a few others, the majority have clamoured loudly against the Emperor for his Free-trade policy and Anglo-French treaty. Now that the proportion of work performed by hand has come to be stated, one is not astonished that the lowering of duties has thrown many out of work. Much of the distress attributed to the want of cotton must have taken place at all events. It offers, however, a fair opportunity and pretext for the Imperial Government to step in and show itself under its favourite aspect of pater patrice. TIMES.—The political divisions of the North are likely to neutralize, for war purposes, its superior command of resources. And the difference between the two rival sections as to supplies appears from the evidence of the Southern journals to be decreas ing. The Confederacy obtains military stores and provisions to an extent that perplexes Northern observers. The Southern army has no superfluity of rations or luxury of clothing; but it has stores enough for existence, and the troops are armed to efficiency as soldiers. It is evident that the blockade is not complete. Cargoes are run upon the coast, and find their way to Richmond and Charleston so frequently as to make the sales by auction a regular item of the newspaper advertisements. The an nouncements are generally "of such goods as we now get through the blockade." There is no secrecy observed, except as to the places of landing. Prices are high, for a pound of candles costs 48., and a sixpenny tooth-brush commands a dollar. But the community is not wholly cut off from the outer world. There is more mystery as to exports, hut some amount of business is quietly done. We hear of agents in Richmond buying tobacco on European account. Foreign speculators also invest in cotton, and against these cargoes it is believed the Southern Government draws for funds. There are also reported purchases of Confederate Bonds, which render the possession of the sinews of war by the South not so inexplicable as it has appeared. Of the scarcity of provisions in the Southern towns the descriptions given in the North are both true and not true. There have been short supplies, but the inconvenience is not caused by actual dearth. It is a result of interrupted communications, and the derangement of the machinery of distribution. Artificial scarcity has thus been produced in loca lities surrounded by abundance. The same thing would happen in any European city if the railroads were broken up, or used exclusively for the service of an army. There is at this moment a scarcity of provisions in St. Petersburg, because Nature has not laid down the usual winter road of snow. The railway lines of the South have been under the control of the Government during the war, and while the trains were carrying supplies for the troops the citizens of the towns have undergone many pri vations. But there is no other evidence that the Con federacy will be crippled in its means of continuing the war for another year. The greatest deficiency under which its armies suffer appears to be the want of shoes and good clothing. The contrast be tween the 11,000 Federal prisoners taken at Harper's Ferry and their captors is described as having been most striking in all externals. The well fed and per fectly booted Northerners could scarcely believe that men could march and fight in such ragged array. But if the contest becomes one of determination and power of endurance, the united spirit of the Sauth will give it the superiority of morale. The ac knowledgments of this superiority made by the Northern journals must be a compensation in the south for much suffering. The New York ?Imes actually holds up the Confederates as displaying virtues worthy of imitation. " The rebels, notwith standing all their trials and disappointments, have been patient. They have submitted with hardly a murmur to the management of their leaders, have not clamoured for intelligence, nor dictated plans, nor mourned over mishaps. They have exhibited remarkable trust and constancy." How are the exactly opposite qualities to conquer the community thus described in the next few months P "Expe diency" would answer the question better than " fanaticism." HERALD.—Most of us must remember in our school-time experience the thoroughly sympathetic satisfaction with which the interference of a cham pion on behalf of some urchin about to be soundly thrashed, and perhaps cleaned out or filched from by one of the customary bullies of Dr. S wish's esta blishment, has been regarded and repaid with hearty applause. One of the significant occasions in which Mr. Thackeray takes care to let us under stand the character of Dobbin in " Vanity Fair," is when he protects young Osborne from the cock of the school, who is about to perpetrate some act of cruelty to the infliction of which he considers him self irresponsibly entitled. The story told by Mr. Underhill, a passenger on board the British mer chant steamer the Thistle, which was stopped and searched by the Tuscarora, and at the exactly pro per and most critical moment rescued from the jaws of the devourer by her Majesty's paddle steamer, the Leopard, parallels precisely the occasion to which we have above alluded in the life of every schoolboy at a public school. The Thistle left Liverpool on the 20th November with a very valu able cargo for Nassau, New Providence, and of what the cargo consisted we need not trouble our readers to inquire. She encountered some very had weather, bat arrived in Funchal Roads, where she cast anchor, about noon, six days after her leaving England. As the Thistle stood in to wards the island she sighted a large screw steamer, to all appearance heavily armed, and whose rig corresponded to the description of the Northern States war steamer, the Tuscarora. The Tuscarora, as our readers may recollect, is a sullen-looking craft, drawing much water from her armament, which acquired a reputation over in this country for her intended but frustrated acts of mischief to the Sumter when coaling and equipping at Southamp ton. However, those on board the Thistle saw this ugly stranger put to sea, and for four-and-twenty hours absent herself from Madeira, where the Thistle was taking in coal. The day after the ar rival of the Thistle her captain and passengers were much gratified at the advent of her Britannic Majesty's steamer Leopard, bound to China, which ran into the roads, and anchored outside the mer chant vessel, also to take in coal. Three days after wards the Thistle proposed to resume her route but, at about fou r o ' c l oc k i n the afternoon previously u I to the day of her d e parture, the sign aimq: bay, Loo Fort, an isolated fortified rock in h an nounced that " An American man ; ef . of w the two pre was stand ingthe in, and t 39011 a fter the wonder the ro a d s , t h e ceding days steamed majestically h h b er mizen peak." A our this, carryi ng stars and stripes floating from . suspicious, nasty looking neighbour s i x or sevenshe heavy guns, with a broadside of p i v ot guns on d several large was and wherever she came from, those in command did not show the customary decencies of et'.quette and ordinary respect, for the new comer steamed silently to an anchorage a little ahead of the Thistle and astern of the Leopard, and never dipped her en sign either to the Portuguese or British flags. " Con sidering the Thistle's destination," writes Mr. Un- PRICE..... -..4d. —.id. Tthrititthe should k ee p derhill," it was n o t a sharp look-out 011 her formidable neighbour ; and these precautions proved to be founded on reason, for several times, during the night, one of the Fe deral vessel's boats, commanded by an officer, wa s found to have sneaked alongside the merchant steamer, with the effort more than once repeated to engage in parlance, which might be useful for ul terior purposes, with the look-out man on board the Thistle." It will be observed that the captain of the Tuscarora and his subordinates have very loose, if any, notions of punctilio or good breeding. The next day being Saturday, away sped the Thistle, and passing at tho ho ur o f sunr i s e between the two war ships saluted, as the fashion in variably is, each vessel in her turn. The Yankee disdained the courtesy, ignored it altogether; the Englishman, as a mere habit, dipped his ensign in return. It had been remarked that the Tus carora kept her steam up all the night, and accordingly the Thistle had not journeyed a mile from her anchorage when the American captain was seen to slip his cable and pursue with all his might and main. Away went the Thistle at fall speed, and was distancing her pursuer, when the American, very incautiously, and with an undue haste for his own interests, fired a bow gun as a signal for the merchant vessel to stop, and the cap tain of the Thistle, Captain Matted, who is evidently a very knowing and experienced hand, immediately brought to, as he did not mind being questioned and overhauled while be could still claim the protection of the English man of war. So the Thistle was hove to. Down came the Yankee, like a hawk or buzzard swooping for prey ; down he bore at full speed, " his ports open and guns run out, while his ports and hammock nettings were one mass of faces as the crew crowded to look at their chase," and eagerly gloated over their " pro spective prize." Presently a boat, manned with an armed boarding party of eleven men, under command of two officers, came alongside the Thistle, and the first lieutenant of the Tuscarora, by com mand of his captain," Captain Craven—an unhappy name —commanding the United States steam sloop Tuscarora," stepped on the deck of the Thistle, with plenary orders to search her from stem to stern, as she was reported to be carrying " ammunition and other articles contraband of war for the use of the rebels in the Southern States." Captain Maxted replied that his information was perfectly erroneous, and at the same time politely pointed to the English red ensign which was flying overhead, with the additional intimation that the Thistle was a British vessel, with a British clearance from one British port to another, and that if neces sary the protection of her Britannic Majesty's ship Leopard would be claimed. The lieutenant, appa rently a German by Mr. Underhill's narrative, with more emphasis than courtesy, expressed his contempt for the flag and protection so invoked, and demanded a sight of the ship's papers, menacing the captain with his armed force if refused, and threatening " if he found anything contraband on board to seize the vessel as a United States prize." What a terribly important, vaunting, and Bobadil race seem the mercenaries in both army and navy of th 9 Northern States. No sooner does an expatriated adventurer, either from public or private necessities touch the Yankee shore, than he is clothed in arro gance, self-assertion, and vulgar recklessness such as any roystering, ill-reputed, loose rapparee assumes when he comes into a company where his antece dents are unknown. The bills of lading, however, were inspected, and were too much, with their mis- cellaneous contents of " coffae, tea, brandy, &c.," for this swaggering sea lieutenant. Presently he avowed his determination to search the cargo, but as 260 tons of coal would have first had to have been removed, and as he was advised to be quick in his duty "as the Leopard was approaching," he signalled his own vessel for further orders, and re ceived instructions to repair back to the Tuscarora. "No countenances" writes Mr. Underhill, and we implicitly believe him, " ever displayed disappointed rage more strongly than did those of the ill-looking and motly crew (apparently of every nation) of the Tuscarora's boat, as they pulled back to their own ship, amid cheers for England,' hurrahs for the Leopard, and so on." The whole story is very well to d by Mr. Underhill to the Scotsman, and the following illustrations of the chaff between the American boat's crew and the crew of the Thistle smacks so strongly of reality that we cannot for bear quoting it entire. " One of the Thistle's mates, the late boatswain of the Confederate steamer 290,' asked if the Tuscarora's crew had made much prize money this fall. A Yankee in the boat reckoned they hadn't turned a cent.' Oh,' re sponded the mate, You're not half chaps. The Alabama', men have each made a little fortune off the New York blockade.' Oh,' said the officer in the boat, we should like to fall in with that pirate Semmes. Do you think he is near this ?' 'No chance of his being in these latitudes,' replied the mate, or the Tuscarora daron't have ventured down.' Some of the Britishers expressed their wish to be 'in the land of cotton,' and their intention of living and dying in Dixie ;' while an Irishman in the boat suggested that they ' maybe hadn't to get there first, and so on." The Leopard, as the first lieutenant of the Ame rican man-of-war returned from his bootless cruise, came very close, and accordingly the Tuscarora steamed back towards Funchal, with the Leopard slowly following in her wake. Towards afternoon the Leopard stood out to sea to make assurance doubly sure, but the captain of the Thistle, seeing the enemy safe, turned his vessel's head to wind, and went ahead at full speed. The Thistle, at nightfall, changed her course, "headed away for the north-east trades," and saw no snore of the Tuscarora or Leopard. It would spoil such a pleasant adventure to com ment on the satisfaction of the Thistle in slipping through Captain Craven's fingers and the very grasp of the German first lieutetlant. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC) JOURNALS. POST.—The battle of Fredericlisbnrg has already begun to produce those consequences which we anticipated. In the Senate murmurs are now for the first time beginning to be heard, and in the Cabinet symptoms are shown of a desire on the part of some of its members to avoid the coming storm. The American people are at last becoming conscious of the system of misgovernment to which they have been so long subjected, and from almost every quar ter of the Northern States resounds under various forms the demand that some radical change should be effected in the Administration. The President alone remains unaltered and unchangeable. The same obstinacy and the same disregard for the principles of that constitution he was sworn to sup port, which led him to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, and endeavour by proclamation to create laws, equally prevent him now from recognising and giv ing effect to the declared wishes of the people. Mr. Seward, the Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Chase, the Secretary of the Tre asury, h ave sent i n th e i r resig nations, but Mr. Lincoln has refused to accept them. The unlucky general who, in obedience to the dic tates of his civil superiors, consigned some thou sands of his troops to indiscriminate slaughter, has asked to be relieved of his command, but the re quest has been refused. Indeed, so far as regards Burnside's resignation, we cannot help thinking that the President has acted with justice if not with judgment in declining to give effect to it. But for the obstinacy with which Mr. Lincoln refuses to reconstruct his Cabinet it is impossible to discern a single excuse. The American Government is still presumed to be, at least in form, constitutional, and consequently the incongruity of conducting it as if it were a pure despotism becomes all the more strik ing. Accustomed as we are in this country to re gard the voice of Parliament as the true and only test of the stability of an Administration, and know ing that in theory the American constitution in this respect does not differ from our own, we can with difficulty comprehend how the American President is enabled for a single month to conduct public affairs with a Cabinet composed of Ministers who both individually and collectively have lost the pub lic confidence. Nor is it alone the support of that political section which at the recent elections sent so many representatives to the 4orthern Congress that is denied to Mr. Lincoln's Cabinet. Those who have hitherto aided to their utmost that Adminis tration, and who, rather than see 'it shattered, have patiently concurred in measures which their judg ments must have condemned, now loudly demand its disintegration. It is the Republican and not the Democratic members of the Senate who have de clared their want of confidence in the Government. It is those who have quietly submitted to a rule not less rigorous than that of an Oriental despotism, nay, who have eulogised with the most fulsome adulation the Government, because in the name of liberty it reduced them to the condition of slaves, which threatens demand ruin the exclusion from power of their accomplices in th e grea t wor k to who overwhelm now an d a at t h h o e of destruction in which they have been engaged. Against General Halleck and Mr. Stantoa the popular clamour excited by the reverse at Frede ricksburg continues unabated. Burnside has taken on himself the whole retiponsibility of the advance across the Rappahannakk ; but even if in truth he had originated that disastrous movement, the War Secretary and General lialleck would still deserve censure for having compelled him so long to remain waiting for pontoons. The delay thus occasioned enabled the Confederates to construct those defences which ultimately proved impreg nable to the Federal battalions. That neither Hal leek nor Stanton have followed the example of their colleagues, Seward and Chase, in sending in their resignations, affords another instarne how utterly regardless of public opinion are the members of the Federal Government. The committee appointed by Congress to examine into the circumstances which led to the defeat of the army of Virginia at Fredericksburg continues its labours, but will scarcely succeed in eliciting any other explanation of the reverse than that with which the public are already acquainted. Burnside, who was examined as a witness, admitted that he accepted the supreme command against his will, and only did so in ac cordance with the pressing solicitation of M'Clel lan. It is, however, rather with the motives which induced him to cross the Rappahannock, and at tack the Confederate army behind its entrench ments, than with those w hi c h l e d him to tak e t h e command of the Federal a r my, that the Am er i can nation is most deslr o n s o f b e i ng made acquainted. If generals are to be mere automatons in the hands of unscrupulous Ministers, the public ought to know it. In the present instance they do not seem to have been much in error in laying the blame of the most bloody and profitless battle of a bloody and profitless campaign at the dcars of General Halleck and Mr. Stanton. DAILY NEWS.—The suspension of the cotton fac tories in France, and concomitant distress of its workpeople, have been, like almost everything else in that country, kept in mysterious silence. The Paris press, with one striking exception, did not touch upon the subject; the provincial journals, generally under the thumb of the Prefect, said little more. The quantity of cotton-yarn which had been introduced since the com mercial treaty, had allowed the weaving and more advanced kinds of manufacture to proceed. Now, however, all have come to a stand-still. The Go vernment authorities, unable to meet the amount of distress, have not prevented the chief manufacturers —of Normandy, at least—from coming together, forming a committee, and making an appeal to their countrymen. It is very remarkable that whilst we work up about five times more cotton than the French do (according to Mr. Ellison), the numbers of French employed in cotton manufactures are more than one half of those similarly employed in England. The official returns of 1852 give 245,000 as the number of the French employed in cotton manufactures; and they must have considerably increased since. The department of the Lower Seine, of which Rouen is the capital, produces cotton manufactures in value equal to half of those of all France. The Alsacian district, with iklulhausen for its centre, produces about a quarter. Half a quarter may be traced to Lille, and the remainder to different scattered localities. According to the Rouen Committee, of which M. Cordier is the chief, there are 130,000 workmen out of employment in the department -30,000 discharged from mills, and 100,000 hand looms, or 7netiers a bras, whose industry has been put an end to. The Rouen Committee appealed to Paris, and there was a meeting in that capital, but of course composed merely of those Parisians who were connected or acquainted with Normandy and its manufactures. The produce of the subscriptions made at the meeting did not exceed £B,ooo—little more than the amount of our daily contribution from English charity to Lancashire distress. In Normandy itself double that sum has been contri buted. But how far will £32,000 go towards feeding 130,000 indigent for at least three months ? In dividing £5,000 amongst 115,000 applicants, the Rouen Committee say they have but poured a drop of water upon the conflagration. The fault of this inaction, rather than indiffe rence, lies no doubt in the political habits of the French people, and more especially in the spirit of the existing Government, which prohibits associa tion, considering it dangerous, and making it im possible for men to meet together to discuss and aim at accomplishing anything in which the public in terest is concerned. There is no stirring without M. le Prefet, who is afraid either to stir himself or allow others to do so. He refers to his Minister, and ere he gets an answer the object is lost. The press is gagged just as much as the public. To point out that a large proportion of the population of a 1 actual department is in danger of starvation, or in act 1 ~~ G flu ~~~ Q- ~ - . I ,7A4_ FOUR CHILDREN SUFFOCATED- British Mail to have taken place at Greenock early A shocking occurrence is reported in the _North whose wife kept a greengrocer's mp i e _ s treet : Mr. and Mrs. Wood on Saturday morning, in the house of William night, between eight and Wood, caulker, shop at 5, Dairy nine o c o , 1 had . gone ' l c o k n : o ho P a party at a neighbour's, leaving in the house four ch i ldren of their own, varying in 12 vious e 1 0 theirek o n cousin, Saturday Fears, w and o 0 r S wn a ia r n a s g h 0 they TI ea ' yG visit.e sent e c n h t , had l Aaged : ati k years, 2oennet eldestwho , s r i e t e h to th em e on George, a boy of 14, whom they to the party, to see that all age from Was right, and he returned with the information that some were in bed and the rest were going. The party was kept up till about five in the morn ing, when Mr. and Mrs. Wood returning, knocked, but the door was not opeued, and they forced their way in by the window. The girl M'Geoch was fcund in bed unharmed in an apartment between the shop and the kitchen, but in the kitchen the fire appeared to have been smouldering on the door, a little to the right side, and in front of the fireplace, and this fire had communicated to and charred all the front of a chest of drawers, on the top of which stood a bookcase filled with books. The floor was bnrned through, forming a cavity of about 30 inches in diameter, and this seems to have been the seat os of the fire. The i n t ro d uc tion of fresh air into the hitherto :i e d d u w down smouldering th e bok fire ca to e apartmentb laze u p , but u a s e n d e i t g h h e b ou ip and drawers, and a few buckets o f water soon arrested any danger. Opposite to the fireplace stood the bed, in which lay the four children of Mr. Wood, and on rushing to ascertain their condition he found them rigid and dead, with every appear ance o f having died convulsively from suffocation by the smoke. Two medical men were soon on the spot, but though a slight pulsation was discernable in the boy James, he was past recovery. An in vestigation is being made by the prosecutor fiscal into the circumstance of the case, which has created a painful sensation in the town,