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To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime, entitled GRIMALKIN THE GREAT; on, HARLEQUIN Puss IN BOOTS, AND TILE MILLEn's SONS, with new and magnificent Scenery by Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire strength or the company. In the Harlequinade a Double Troupe of Pantomimists ; and combining the grandest stage effects of any Pantomime ever produced at this theatre. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Messrs. F. Buckstone, Vhite, Clark, &c. ; Mesdames Laws, F. Wright. &c. After which, PIETRA. 1i essrs. Chippendale, Howe, Ken dal, Gordon, &c.: Miss Bateman, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. Concluding with RURAL FELICITY. Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers, Kendal, Wealhersby, Clark, White, mes Chippendale, Burke, Wright, Fitzwilliam, Laws,Lewin,&c. Commence at Seven. lIITEATRE ROYAL, AD ELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. (it a quarter to 8, MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter, Mr. Benja min Webster, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. Emith, Mr. Romer, Mr. W. 11. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. IT. GEORGE'S THEATRE (ST. GEORGE'S HALL).—This Theatie will Open for the Season on Web- NESDAY, December 23, with a powerful Company selected from the leading provincial theatres. For the first time, a domestic Drama, in three acts, entitled SAVED. By H. Such Granville. After which, the entirely new ind original Ninevitish Burlesque of SARDANAPALUS. with magnificent scenery, dresses, and appointments. Concluding frith THE BENGAL TIGER, in which Mr. T. B. Shenton will ppear. _ Box-office open from eleven till five. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.-At 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, Mr. J. Byron's original Comedy, in five acts, entitled CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tinclale, Hurleton, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Remade, C. Thorne, Breman, Berend, Hughgs, and Stephens. R OYA PRINCESS'S TIIE.A.TRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7 (Benefit of Mr, ROBERTS), a drama, in Nu- acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life. M ess rs. Vining. W a lter Lacy, Dominick Murray, C. Harcourt J.G . Shore; Miss Emma Barnet, and Miss Rose Lode/wt. Followed by a CONCERT. And concluding with SAVED BY A SONG. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. 1) OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole I.essee and Manageress, Mrs swanhorough• THIS EVENING, at 7.:30, THE WIDOW BUNT. Messrs. Clarke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Bnl and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD ON' 1 . 1 . - E CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland. &c. 'to conclude /nth A COMICAL COUNTESS. R OTAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. The superb horses, unanimously admitted to be matchless and the equestrian and gymnastic performances to be the very best ever witnessed in this or any other country. To-ni; , kt, and during the week Oscar Carre's magnificent stud of 60 per forating horses. M. Adolphe Carre, M, Kremhser, Herr Loyal, Herr Salamonsky, M. Burgess. the Kin< , of Comiques; Avolo, the Marvel of the Age; Alfred Bradbury, Sc. Open at Seven, commence at half past Seven. Morning Per formance, Wednesday and Saturday, at Half-past Two. Children under ten, half-price to morning performance only. N.B.—A grand spectacular Pantomime, THE MA RVELS OF ELECTRICITY, will be produced at Christmas, with the whole strength of the establishment, 250 troops. beautiful ponies, and the most wonderful electric and lime-light effects ever witnessed, ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS. 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Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne. James, Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, I ydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Liston. THIS EVENING, at 7. THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham. Clayton, and S. Emery; ►lesdames Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore. And THE STRANGER, Stranger than Ever. Mr. L. Brough, Miss Mon tague, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Under the Management of Miss Fanny Josephs. TIIIS EVENING, at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Honey, ,owper, Haynes, Arthur, Westland, and Parselle ; Mesdames Foot e ,Weathersby, Rignold . At 9.00, LUCRETIA BO EGIA ; El ess Drew, G. Honey, &c.; Mesdames Minnie Sidney, Fanny Joseph ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Tiri EVENING, The Clreat Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also M. Avolo, Alfred Bradbury, M. Clifton, Captain Austin, Miss Carrie, and Sa.mwell's Performing Dogs. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING. at 7, SL A SHER & CRASHER: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan. G. Vincent, ctc.; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. H. Ne - ills, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H. Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield ROYALTY TIIENTRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Tars EVENING, at 7.:10, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF ITCH ARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar Ur. Danvers; Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con elide. with THE CLOCKMAKER'S HAT. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton; Tins EVENING, TAME CATS: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, WHO SPEAKS FIRST Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss C. Addison. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. fins EVENING, HAMLET, Mr. Creswiek; Ophelia, Miss G. Pauncefort After which, THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Henry Marston. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerfe-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mendays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. " THE SUN " WILL BE PUBLISHED AS USUAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY. 411 T, LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 22, 1868. Several Ministers spoke yesterday, but there were no confidences. The Prime Minister spoke at Green wich. The President of the Board of Trade spoke at Birmingham. The First Lord of the Admiralty at Pontefract. The Chancellor of the Exchequer at the University of London. It was the same with other members of the Cabinet. Each of those hold ing office, and having seats which by the reception of office they had ipso facto vacated, each of those ap peared before his constitutents, claimed re-election, and was, as a matter of course, re-elected. Each spoke graciously, frankly, and to the point. There was no studied reticence. There was no careful evasion of any theme that could be mentioned. The Irish Church was commented upon, and so also was administra tive economy, and so also legal improvements, and the possible revision and emendation of the last great Reform of Parliament, and military reorganization, and the modification of the existing system of poor law relief, cum cxteris paribus among the great and vital questions of the hour. All these things were touched upon. They were each in turn openly discussed. But upon not one of them, upon not even the Irish Church Question—the question of all others more immediately pressing upon the attention of the nation, of the Legislature, and of the Government, as having first of all to be dealt with—was there anything whatever, as we have just now said, in the nature of a confidence. Aud it would simply have been out of place had it been otherwise. The hustings at Greenwich, honourable platform though it is, for any member of the I - louse of Commons, for any Minister of State to speak from, was hardly the tribune from the elevation of which Mr. GLADSTONE, as Prime Minister of England, could have been expected by any rational man to foreshadow what is now being meditated by him and his colleagues in the way of disestablishing and afterwards of disendowing the Irish Church as a State establish ment. The half academical, half political gathering together yesterday under the roof-tree of tho London University, - was scarcely the entourage from the midst of which Mr. LowE could be reasonably ex pected to give the public a foretaste of his notions as to the con4uB; Budget (his first Budget) as to what taxes, if any, he was likely to remit, and as to what reduction he conceived might be possible in GLADSTONE is clearly open to conviction upon that point ; and if we do not greatly mistake, we shall see that measure receiving an amount of support in the new Parliament which it has never received before. These questions—and they arebut a few of the many mentioned by the PREMIER—wouId be enough for one session even though there were no such matters as foreign affairs to be discussed. We devoutly hope that these will not interfere with the real work which Mr. GLADSTONE means to lay before the House of Commons. GUItILi S the aggregate of the national expenditure. Yesterday's speeches, in fact, at Greenwich, at the University of London, at Birmingham, and. else where, were simply formal addresses from Ministers of the Crown speaking in their representative capa- city, and greeting their respective constituents. "There are circumstances connected with Mr. GLAD- _ STONE'S appearance before the electors of Greenwich which naturally enough imparted a peculiar interest to the occasion of his re-election by them as their representatives. As is npt usually the case, there was a sentiment between the consti tuency and the representative. During the turmoil of the General Election, the electors of Greenwich spontaneously, unasked, without a " with your leave or by your leave," had chosen Mr. GLAD STONE as the colleague of their old member, Alderman SALOMONS : instigated so to do through a conjecture, through a fear, it should rather be said, then very general among the Liberal electors of the United Kingdom, lest the Leader of the Liberal Party should be rejected—as in the end the result proved him to be—by the consti tuency of South-West Lancashire. The forethought was provident. Mr. GLADSTONE, discarded by his native county, found the constituency of Green wich to have been, in his regard, faithful among the faithless. Greenwich had not only done him that good turn by elect ing him thus unasked, it had conferred an enor mous obligation upon the whole Liberal Party by guarding it thus from the ludicrously anomalous posi tion in which it would have been placed had its Leader been found to have been returned nowhere to a seat in the very Parliament of which his own followers formed the immense and overwhelming majority. Talk of yeoman's service —here it was ! And yeoman's service done with a heart and a half, in the very nick of time, and with out its having been in any way solicited. It is a memorable incident, and one which will always be associated with the name of the Greenwich consti tuency. It has at once and permanently raised its reputation among the great metropolitan con stituencies. And it is hardly probable that at any future time Mr. GLADSTONE will be tempted to seek elsewhere the suffrages of his fellow-countrymen. The member for Newark, the member for the Uni versity of Oxford, the member for South Lancashire, has settled down now permanently, we may pre sume, in the position of member for the borough of Greenwich. In that position as M. P. for Green wich ho inaugurates his career as First Lord of the Treasury. And as a husband is said to raise his wife to his own social elevation, even though his posi tion happens to be of the lowliest, so may it be said in regard to a great statesman, in respect to the obscurest of constituencies. The obscurest, Green wich is not by any means : but, even supposing it to have been so, its importance would at once have been enormously increased by Mr. GLADSTONE'S election and re-election, as its chosen representa tive. As to the relation in which Mr. BRIGHT stands towards the constituency of Birmingham, it LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per the City of Antwerp, via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Dec. 12. The Senate finally consented on Thursday to hear the President's Message read. The Senate continues the Committee charged with the investigation into the alleged bribery and corruption of the Senators during the Impeachment trial. • A resolution by Mr. Wilson, providing for negro suffrage in all the States, has been introduced into the Senate by Mr. Wilson, and has been referred to the Judiciary Committee. Tat cases, involving the constitutionality of the Legal Tender and Reconstruction Acts, have been brought before the Supreme Court. It is rumoured that President Johnson, at the request of Mr. Seward, has sent Mr. Caleb Cushing to Spain, to open negotiations for the purchase of Cuba. It is reported that prominent repeal agitators in Nova Scotia have been notified that the Canadian Government will increase the Nova Scotia subsidy 50 per cent. if the repeal movement be abandoned. Whelan has been respited until the 29th inst. is simply absurd to speak of him as the least consi dered of its three Liberal representatives. He was there the last upon the list in the recent contest sim ply and solely for safety's sake—so as to prevent the hazard of one or other of his colleagues miss ing the chance of election with him. Fears were entertained as to their election, none as to his—and hence his name was at the bottom of the list when the aggregate rolling was announced. Yes terday, however, he stood forth alone and unop posed for re-election, and, as was only fitting un der the circumstances, was so re-elected by acclama mation. Restored to their position as members of Parliament, Ministers of the Crown may now de vote their time and attention undisturbed to the preparation of the great measures, but more particu larly of the great measure with which in a few weeks more they will have to meet in earnest, and for genuine work, the recently elected Legislature. IN the midst of pelting rain from murky clouds that made darker than usual the darkest day in the year the PRIME MINISTER of Great Britain was re-elected by his new constituents. It is but four weeks since Mr. GLADSTONE was, to use his own expression, driven a vagrant from his native county, amid the jubilant shouts of his political opponents. In that short period he has seen his opponents overthrown, and the rejected of South-west Lancashire installed in Downing-street leader of the nation. Mr. GLADSTONE'S position is unprecedented. To be rejected by a great constituency at the very time that he was being chosen by the great majority of the nation, to be called upon to form a Government without the usual preliminary conflict in Parliament, to have to return thanks to a constituency for re-election before he had had the opportunity of returning thanks in person for his first election, are circumstances so strange that Mr. GLADSTONE might well be par doned for dwelling upon them at greater length than he did. But the PRIME MINISTER cannot afford much time for retrospect. He has his hands full, his head full, his heart full, and out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. It was not sur prising, therefore, that a considerable portion of his speech should have been devoted to the Irish Church. This is the most difficult question which has been presented to statesmen for many a generation. Other important measures have taken far longer to pass than this is likely to take; but a delay in their case arose from the reluc tance of Parliament to accept the principles which they involved. It was easy enough to admit Roman Catholics into Parliament, to abolish the Corn Laws when once the country was resolved to do so. But, while it took only a few days to persuade the nation to disestablish the State Church in Ireland, the details are so complicated that they will need many months to elaborate, Under these circum stances it was not to be expected that Mr. GLAD STONE would give more than a general idea of his policy on this intricate question. The nation knows that he is determined to disestablish and partly dis endow the Irish Church, that he has promised that no part of the funds accruing shall be devoted to the Roman Catholic Church ; and knowing these two foundation principles, it can afford to wait Mr. GLADSTONE'S time for raising the superstructure. The nation is the more willing to do this because the details must necessarily be somewhat dry, not to say unintelligible, to a large number of persons. But the Ministerial bill of fare is not confined to one dish. If the Irish Church is the piece de resist ance, there are other dishes nearly as substantial. Perhaps if the nation were polled it would be found that it cares rather more for the reduction of the estimates than for the red uction of ecclesiastical establishments. The one was almost as prominent a feature in the Liberal election programme as the other, and Mr. GLADSTONE had the satisfaction of tel ling his constituents that already Ministers had begun to retrench, and that the estimates would show the result of their labours. Reduced estimates mean reduced taxes, and so Mr. GLADSTONE'S information is good news at this season, when most of us are anticipating an influx of tradesmen's bills. On the other subjects adverted to by Mr. GLADSTONE there was one concerning which his rather ainbiguas votes were significant by their very ambiguity. Mr. GLAD STONE announces that while he has always preferred open voting he wished that the voters should be pro tected. But how if the two conditions are found incompatible ? how if the late elections, with their enormous pressure of squires and. clergy upon the county voters have shewn that " protection" is essen tial, and can be secured only by secrecy? Mr. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1868. PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY, December 21. I regret to say that the bulletins of the Marquis de Moustier's condition grow rapidly worse. The malady from which he is suffering, disease of the heart, makes such advances as to give rise to the gravest apprehensions of the result. His successor, the Marquis de Lavalette, has not inherited a sinecure. The outbreak in the East is evi dently becoming a serious matter for Europe, as much from the difficulty of securing joint action amongst the Powers as from thebitterness of the quarrel between the two principals. It is to France that the heavy work of diplomacy must fall. Other Powers are hampered by their well-known predilections for one or the other party. The Western States alone are perfectly free, but the Ministerial crisis in England has left the first place in diplomatic action to France. M. de Lavalette has, it is confidently reported, submitted to the other Cabinets a scheme of action which is likely to settle the difficulty. The new Foreign Minister is an indefatigable worker, attending every day at the Ministry for a considerable time. His policy is so decidedly pacific that the appointment must be regarded as a demonstration in favour of peace. He is especially disposed to a good under standing with Prussia. Similar gratification can scarcely be expressed at the appointment to the Ministry of the Interior. The deposition of M. Pinard is beyond doubt a great triumph for M. Rouher, who has put one of his own partisans in his place ; but this change is by no means to be accompanied by a. radical reform of internal policy. M. Rouher believes in a restrictive Government ; what he does not believe in is foolish restriction. He is determined, for one thing, that the system of official candidatures shall be applied with greater vigour than ever at the forthcoming elections. An extreme exercise of the Im perial prerogative has signalised the advent to power of the new Home Minister. It has been determined that none of the various vacancies in the Corps Ltgislatif shall be filled up until the general elections. This means that several departments shall have no representa tives for six months. One of the vacancies is, of course, that caused by M. Berryer. Here the Government would certainly be defeatel, and it might sustain a check else where. It has, therefore, been decided to prevent all this by the coup de main of holding no elections. The net result of the change at the Home Office is, on the whole, adverse to liberty. M. Pinard was, indeed, no advocate of the freedom of the subject, but he was also no friend to M. Rouher. Now that the Minister of State adds the command of the Home Department to his immense influence in the Corps L6gislatif, Imperialism will gain strength in every department of Government. There will be no power whatever in France, except that centred in the Emperor and his lieutenant. M. Gressier, the new Minister of Public Works, is a barrister of great reputation. The official announcement of the receptions of the First of January has been published. The Emperor and Empress have already exchanged visits with the King and Queen of Spain. Marseilles has not yet got rid of the great poisoning case. The paramour of Madame Ville, the most notorious of the offendors, has been pursued and mobbed in the streets. He shaved off his beard in order to disguise him self, but he was recognised immediately, and mobbed again. A hostile demonstration also greeted the two women, Dye and Flayol. These two were acquitted, but their part in the Gabriel tragedy was not of the most creditable character. Unjust suspicion may frequently impel people to desperate deeds, but the suicide of a man and his wife through the fear of suspicion is rather remarkable. A tax-collector at Boussac has just committed suicide, because, as he alleged, he apprehended the imputation of having stolen three bags of silver money recently sent to Boussac by the Strasburg Mint, and which are missing. His wife refused to survive him. The honesty of neither had in the slightest degree been called in question. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY, METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. Extreme Sea Tuesday, !'."e' F. W R. to 0 Dec. 22, B. T. :v F 4 a W. Ito F. D. 12 9 8 a.m. I ---- N a i rn Aberdeen L e ith Shields Scarborough 29'10f. 43 42 W.S.W. 3 10 S.S E. r.o. o'Bl 2 Yarmouth 29'2lf. 47 46 W.S.W. 5 10 S.E. Le. O'n 4 _ _ _ Skudesrues '—— Ardrossan 2B'97r. 47 145 S.W. 5 6 S.E. r.c.,019 4 G r een castle 28•88 f. 4 5 t 44 S.W. 3 4 S.E. r.c.!0'07 Holyhead .. 29176. 48 [46 S.W. 6 9 S.R.W. c. 10 43 Liverpool .. 291.3 r. 47 i 45 S. 2 3 S.W. r.c. 10 '6l j 1 Valenti.... •. 29 TEL 49 !47 W. 6 7 W. r.c. o'l7 6 Cape Clear.. -- — _ _ Roches I't. 29' 115. 481 48 B.IV. 7 7 S.W. c.lo 1 020, 4 Penzance .. 29 31, ni 21 S.W. 3 6 S.W. o.c.!0•02 3 Plymouth .. 29'36r. ,50i 48 W. 3 4 S.W. r.h.to•lo, 3 Weymouth ! 29'34f. ,52, 49 S.W. 4 5 , SW. ,r. 13'1.6, 2 Portsmouth ! 29' ss. 120; 48 W. 6 8 W.S.W.; r.c.'o'2s 5 London ~ .. 29'33f. !48; 46 : W.S.W. 4 9 : S.S. W. ,o.rh o'ls— ez 29 39r. . 52 i5O j W. 8 7 ' S.W. r.o. o'sB 5 Brest .. —• • ' —,— I L'Orie nt .... 29'54r.. 52 50 S.W. 8 8 S.W. r.0.,01* 5 Roch e fort .. 29'795. '54 52 S.W. 5 5 W.S.W. r. 'o*s6' 4 Biarritz .... Corunna.... Brussels .... -- Paris Strasbourg — _ _ Toulon Heart's Con tent 19 a.m. local time) 1— I -- 1 I ——. — V VERB. AN CO We have already mentioned that summonses nave been issued against six of the principal directors of 0 verend, Gurney, and Co. We now find that they are charged with having, in July 1865, and at other times, unlawfully conspired together by various pretences and representations, alleged to be false and fraudulent, and by divers subtle devices and means, to induce persons to become, and by which it is alleged they did be come shareholders in the company, with intent to cheat and defraud them of certain valuable securities bankers' cheques, and sums of money, and by which they were, in fact, defrauded to the amount of £3,000,000. The chief complainant is Mr. Adam Thom, LL.D., and at his instance the summonses have been obtained. Before they were issued the Lord Mayor is understood to have given the matter his long and anxious consideration. The summonses are returnable at the justice-room on the Ist of January, and the investigation is likely to be exceedingly protracted, and to be adjourned from time to time. The present Lord Mayor (Mr. James Lawrence) will probably be assisted by Sir Thomas Gabriel, than whom there is not a more painstaking or astute man in the whole Court of Aldermen EXPLANATION Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter r. rising ; f, falling ; s, steady—indicates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed In shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f.—fog ; h.—hail ; I.—lightning ; m.—misty, hazy ; o.—overcast, dull ; r.— rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. On the N. and E. coasts pressures are a good deal lower than they were yesterday, but since midnight readings have scarcely changed on the coast of Scotland, where they continue below 29in. The difference between Rochefort and Nairn is o'36in. Temperature is generally lower than it was yesterday, except on the E. coast, where a slight rise is perceptible ; great differences in temperature are reported. Yesterday strong S.E. gales prevailed on the E. coast of England and Scotland ; in the English and Irish Channels the wind was high from the S.W., increasing to a gale at Holyhead and Portsmouth. Winds have moderated, except on the W. coast of France, and a fresh S.W. breeze is reported in the Channel. Rain has fallen on all coasts ;in the E. of England is largest amount. The sky is generally cloudy or overcast. Weather is still far from settled. CANTERBURY HALL. Last evening Mr. W. Holland, the proprietor of this the oldest and one of the best of music -halls, gave a full dress ball, which, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, was very fully attended. The decorations of the hall were of the most elaborate and splendid description, and on no occasion, not even excepting that of the ever memorable Belgian ball, have the Messrs. Defries performed such wonders as regards crystal illu mination. All the splendid trophies used by them in celebrating the majority of the Marquis of Bute were displayed either in the ball room or the saloon adjoining, and elicited universal admiration. The ball was under the direction of a number of " masters," and the band was greatly augmented for the occasion. The company, unlike the great gathering at an establishment of a some what similar character, a few evenings ago, was highly respectable, and the whole partook of a large friendly party rather than a public ball. Mr. Holland has every reason to be satisfied with the success of his endeavour to provide a ball for his patrons, and he is greatly to be complimented on the rule that he rigidly enforced with respect to all • those wishing to gain admission. Dancing ceased shortly before three, and the proceedings closed in a satis factory manner to every oie that had the good for tune to be present. 111ARKE7 S-2 HIS DAl'. COLONIAL. Sugar.—On the spot tho market is very quiet as might be expected in Christmas week; at the same time holders aro not at all pressing sales, and prices remain very firm. Coffee.—ln this article also we have to report a limited business at firm prices. Tea—The trade is quiet, as may be expected at this season of the year. There are no auctions this week. Rice is very dull, and no sales are reported. Stock 31,354 tons, against 17,200 tons at this time last year. BOROUGII AND SPITALFIELDS. There is an abundant supply at these markets, with a good demand LIVERPOOL COTTON. December 22.—Sales probably 10,000 bales. Marke uiet and unchanged. RE-ELECTION OF THE SECRETARYOF WAR.--OX FORD, Tuesday.—Alderman Sadler, in a very flattering speech, proposed Mr. Cardwell, who was seconded by Mr. Charles Neate, late member for the city. There being no opposition, Mr. Cardwell was duly returned amid great applause. I)UNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports, tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Beaufort -buildings, Strand, _London W. —[Ad vorth3ement.] SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 22. The Corr espondencia of to-day says that, so far as the results of the elections just terminated are known, it may be presumed that in Madrid the can didates selected belong to the party in favour of a Liberal Monarchy. The Papal nuncio here has transmitted to the Pope the wish of the Provisional Government that the sentence of death recently passed upon the two State criminals should be commuted. The elections in Seville and Barcelona have gone in favour of the Republican party. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Dec. 17. Senor Bento da Silva has resigned his posts of Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs. The former is held provisionally by Senhor Calheiros, the present Minister of Public Works ; and the latter by the Marquis Sada Bandeira, President of the Council and Minister of War. MALTA. - VALETTA, Dec. 22. Intelligence from Catania to the 21st of Decem ber states that Mount Etna had been undisturbed since the 9th inst. The Casa Ingleso is undamaged, although the ascent of the cone is difficult from the depth of new scoria, which have fallen. The mouth of the principal crater is hermetically closed by a huge stopper of lava and scoria), so that not even smoke issues from it. OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. GIBRALTAR, Dec. 19. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's:steamer Ripon, from Southampton the 12th inst , arrived at Gibraltar at five on Thursday afternoon (17th.) All well. Experienced very bad weather. DREADFUL STORM. WICK, Tuesday. A dreadful storm from the S.E. occurred here yesterday. Serious injury was done to Wick New Harbour works. The whole of the seaward stag ing and the stone work executed during the past year has been swept away, and other damage done. ROSSIIVI AND GUSIAVE DORE. Our children's child ren, s ays a correspondent of the A then awn, m ay see, by some great painter that is yet to be, a Chamber of Death. Upon the couch, bountifully pillowed, the grand head, in the cham bers of which 6 ' -William Tell" was created ; aside, living genius, bright and young, intense in manner, and eager to catch the fading rays of the great friend, and throw them upon his canvas. The scene will bear date November 13, 1868 ; Gustave Dore leave-taking with Gioacchino Rossini ! It is not possible to look upon a more interesting hasty work of a loving hand than this portrait of the dead composer. It is in broad, bold pencil marks, save where the hand approached the tender light and shade of the temples, and the indescrib ably delicate mouth and nose ; here the artist's pencil became , smooth and light, and exquisitely sensitive. You see the haste ;at the same time you feel the emotion that makes it. Not a dimple, not a muscle is, however, slurred over. The artist was deter mined to preserve all from the grave, so that lovers of Rossini's music who have yet to be born by millions, should hold in their homes the faithful human mask he wore in life. In the Church of the Trinity, when the gifted interpreters of Rossini's genius filled the air, the familiar figure of the painter lingered at the bier, loth to leave. 'We are cold in these circumstances —outwardly at any rate ; and it is not among us thaf all the Arts, in the person of the greatest living representatives, would meet to do honour to the illustrious servant of one. Nor can we understand—that is, can the Eng lish mass, or British genteel public, understand — such a scene as that which happened in Gustave Dore's studio, after the obsequies of his beloved friend. The Italian is simple, with more than the Frenchman's warmth. The Italian deputation, sent from under Rossini's skies to pay a final tribute of national love to him, the last funeral duties over, went to the Rue Bayard, to see that which had been snatched by the artist's hand from the grave. There was the maestro, as in life he sat, with closed eyes (a perpetual habit of his), and with his hands clasped, at the head of his table, dealing out lively comment as his humour led him. His simple c3un trymen wept like children before the pencil-marks that had snatched the honoured head from the earth. But for the pillow propping the head, and the crucifix clasped in the 'hands, and the wreath upon the coverlet, the beholder would say—That is the Rossini who would dream in company, and who, when gayest, seemed to close his eyelids as upon an inner consciousness—a dream within a dream. All of death that is upon the face is the divine tranquillity. To have caught this out of the ebon shadows of Erebus is a glory of which Gustave Dor6 is justly proud, and for which the whole of intellectual Paris has already thanked him. Item. Dore is engraving his illustrious friend's portrait in death with his own hand. I believe the picture will reach London in the spring. B. J. AIWERTISEMENT.I-11olloway's Ointment and Pills. — A large and important class of society suffers year after year, and has life robbed of half its pleasures, through sub jection to some cutaneous complaint, readily remediable by Holloway's treatment. His wonderful productions have now become so appreciated in every part of the world that they form a complete household treasure. The worst cases of ulcers, wounds, and every variety of skin diseases, for which so many remedies have been tried without effect, readily succumb to their power. They act so miraculously on the system as to be considered a complete phenomenon in the healing art. For this reason they are advocated by many modern practitioners after everything else has proved unsuccessful. THE EARTHQUAKES. The late earthquakes reached India. Advices from that empire state that on the night of the 12th November a very severe shock of earthquake was felt at Peshawur. It was unusually severe, so much so that many persons sprang from their beds and rushed out of their houses. Walls literally trembled, and some damage was sustained. The shock lasted, it is said over sixty seconds. On the same night, at Fort Attock also, a smart shock was felt. A severe shock of earthquake is reported to have oc curred at Dora Ismail Khan also, early on the morning of the 12th ik stant. Lahore experienced a shock of an earth quake on the night of the 12th, shortly after midnight; the vibrations lasted about four minutes. Jubbulpore, also, was visited by an earthquake at about five o'clock on the morning of the 17th instant. " The shock," says the Delhi Gazelte, " lasted about a minute, and though not severe was very distinct and generally felt. Charles Dickens must have felt a similar shock in England, when he described it as a huge beast shak ing himself under the bed, and our informant says he cannot give a better description, unless is be the effect of heavy thunder on the hills. Some of the natives in the city are said to have rushed out of their houses to look for the locomotive engine, which they believed had got loose from the railway station." THE CYCLONE IN THE BAY OF BENGAL, The cyclone which swept over the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal is described as having been terrific, blow ing down some of the oldest trees at Akyab, and causing great damage to property of all kinds. How far the crops had suffered it was impossible to ascertain. The lines of telegraph to Calcutta and Rangoon were both completely interrupted. Several casualties also occurred amongst the shipping. The mail steamer Busheer,which arrived at Akyab from Rangoon on the 12th, was forced from her moorings at the landing pier, and 'driven on shore with considerable damage. The British barque Duke of Northumberland, which was loaded ; the British ship Naomi, about two thirds loaded ; and the British barque Volunteer, which had lately arrived in bal:ast, were all driven on shore, and the latter so high that it seemed doubtful whether she could be got off again. The native shipping and smaller craft were all driven on shore or sunk, in some cases with loss of life. The Government steamer Nemesis escaped without damage, and she was the only vessel of any kind left afloat in the harbour. After the cyclone had diminished she was engaged in trying to tow the other vessels off the shore. A few days before the cyclone there was a gale from the east, during which the British ship Clasmarden, 1,598 tons register, sunk at her anchors out side the port, where she was waiting for instructions from home, and nine of the crew, which consisted of twenty nine men, were drowned. THE AMERICAN POET IN FLORENCE. The Daily News Florence correspondent describes the requiem to Rossini which took place at Florence, on December 14. He does not seem to be altogether pleased with it; but he describes an interesting incident which took place at the close of the service. "As I left the church, and whilst still standing on the flight of steps before descending into the Santa Croce square, my attention was arrested by the singularly engaging and intellectual coun tenance of one who had likewise been present to hear the Requiem. A gentleman, perhaps some sixty years of age, with silvery locks and beard, accompanied by a lady, a youth, and two young girls, was gazing from the topmost step on the crowd in the square as it flowed onwards past the statue of Dante. Whilst watching with curiosity the human stream before him, he was himself an object of keen, undisguised, yet respectful interest to a party of young Anglo-Italian girls only a few steps off. I could overhear one saying to the rest, lam sure it must be he, he is so like the prints.' At length one of the young girls drew near to the lady accompanying the silver-haired stranger, and said, Pray excuse the liberty, but is not that Mr. Longfellow ?" To be sure it is,' was the reply. Oh, lam so happy to have seen him,' was the instant and spontaneous exclamation ; that really is a treat ; that is worth a great deal more than the Requiem.' The young Anglo-Italian then retreated to join her own party, but her remarks had been communicated both to the American poet and to the .two girls whom he was holding by the hand, and with a charming frankness they all came forward and spoke a few words of natural and simple courtesy ; there was also a kind shake of the hand—facts which I have little doubt will, throughout the whole lives of those to whom they were addressed, lend a sweeter . perfume to the verse of Evangeline and Hiawatha." The petition against the sitting Conservative mem• bers for North Leicestershire has been withdrawn. It is stated that the subscription for the sufferers by the Hibernia now amounts to £2,000. This sum, how ever, is insufficient for the purpose. The Postmaster-General, in an order issued on Monday, announces the extension of the money-order sys tem to Switzerland. Arrangements are being made for a grand Volun teer review on Durdham Down, near Bristol, next summer. It will embrace the counties of Gloucester, Somerset, Wilts Monmouth, and South Wales. We have the first approach to the Ocean Penny Post in the announcement issued on Monday as to postage of newspapers to the United States. On and after January the Ist the cost of sending to the United States a newspaper not exceeding four ounces will be a penny, with ld. for ever additional weight of four ounce. By the Board of Trade reports just issued appears that the French imports of this year, ending Sept. 30, reach the value of 2,543,501,000 francs, an advance on last year of over 313,000,000 francs. The exports to the same date as above quoted amounts in value to 2,080,555,000 francs—a falling off from last yt ar, when the estimated value on principal articles exported was 2,089,091,000 francs, and is still worse as compared to 1866, when the total of exports reached to 2,375,365,000. Three men, named respectively Morton, Hall, and Moore, were indicted at the Leeds assizes, on Saturday, for taking part in the riotous proceedings on the day of the tion in Sheffield. The prisoners, with some thirty others, went to the Wharncliffe Arms beerhouso and smashed the furniture, and assaulted and robbed the landlord. The prisoners asked the jury to believe that they went to the beerhouso to protect the landlord. The jury were incredu lous, and found the prisoners guilty, and they were each sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. At the Leeds Assizes on Saturday the Grand Jury made a presentment to the judge on the connection existing between beerhouses and crime. They were of opinion that the attention of the Legislature should be called to this subject without delay, in the hope that some plan might be devised whereby continuance of existing beerhouses may be mad dependent upon the ascertained requirements of each locality, as well as upon the manner in which they may periodically be reported to have been conducted. DANGEROUS FREAK OF A LUNATIC.—The other day some men in the employent of the Tees Conservancy Commissioners saw a man named Thomas Bowen enter the River Tees, opposite Blue House Point, and deliberately commence to wade across. A boat was put off to take the man across, and, having been picked up, Bowen declared. that he had been informed by a magistrate that unless he crossed the Tees three times he would be hanged. Although he seemed sensible of the danger he incurred in attempting to cross the river, he preferred the chance of being drowned to the certainty of the alternative. 1. he magistrates sitting at the Sheffield Police court, on Saturday, decided that it is unlawful fora publican to allow billiards to be played in his house between the hours of one and eight o'clock in the morning, even though the persons taking part iu the game are lodgers. In the case before them, the defendant was Mr. Peach, of the White Hart, Waingate, and the fact was not disputed that at two o'clock the other morning four men were play ing at billiards in his house. The defence was that the men were lodgers, and that consequently it was no more an in fringement of the act to allow them to play at billiards than it would have been had the defendant supplied them with liquor. The Bench thought otherwise, and fined the do fondant. tit= 74a ii„ . tif =ln Taint HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dec. 22. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Mary Las celles, walked in the grounds this morning. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar left Osborne this morning. PALMER'S INDEX TO THE TIMES• Another volume of this remarkable compilation has just made its appearance. It extends over an interval embraced between the Ist of July and the 30th of September of the present year, each inclu sively. Like its predecessor, it is arranged alphabetically. Nothing could be handier than it is for instant reference. The amount of time it will be the means of saving is simply incal culable. It is therefore a boon, the value of which can hardly be exaggerated. Until Mr. Palmer took in hand the problem he has now solved so corn' pletely, it appeared to many all but insoluble. And yet now that the difficulty has been vanquished, the marvel is that it should not have been swept out of view long since. The motto upon the title-page is still that famous utterance of Lord Macaulay's, " The only true history of a country is to be found in its newspapers." A file of the Times is a monument of all the marvels of modern civilization, and it is a monument that is perpetually being added to. Yet, while it is all this, perhaPsf rather it should be said because it is all this, even one year's file of the Times is, to any one in search of a fact known to be in it somewhere, a labyrinth the windings of which it is bewildering to penetrate. Here, in Palmer's ludex, the clue to any part of that labyrinth may be grasped upon 0 0 instant and followed up,:to the point aimed at, with unerring precision. To employ another and yet homelier illustration, we would say that w hereas_ hitherto the lighting on any stray fact in a file of the Times has been like looking for a needle in 3 haystack—here, in Palmer's Index, we have, it may . be said with truth, a loadstone so powerful that it has only to be presented to the haystack to dray( forth the particular needle that is wanted at one! , and in the twinkling of an eye. This little thin quarto, therefore, is a most welcome aid to any one in search of information in regard to recent occur rences. It deserves, what we doubt not it will command, an immense circulation. THE G.AIETY 711EAIRE. Last night the promise of Mr. John Hollingsne" was redeemed, and the new Gaiety Theatre, o ne of the handsomest theatres in the metropolis, w as thrown open to the puhlic. The extraordinary r 3; pidity with which the building has been conv erten into a theatre hardly prepared the brilliant an di ' ence that assembled for such a magnificent in terior and loud was the applause the splendour of the scene called forth. We have but so lately giye ll - full and detailed description of the new th eatre' that on the present occasion we have only t e deal with the performances. The company tb t Mr. Hollingshed has secured for operetta an burlesque is good and sufficient, but, excep ting : few well-known names, the dramatic corps is sv e3 l The curtain rose precisely at seven o'clock, th e firs piece being a one act operetta, in the Watteau sty le, called " Two Harlequins." The music is prettYd and it was well sung by Miss C. Losbey, Mr' `/„. Lyall, and chorus. The main incidents turn UP" the discovery of a plot of Harlequin, after a sere tion of six years, to return in disguise to Colurn b ' e f and test her fidelity; the lady being forewarned of the fact welcomes her former lover in a very stoeg, manner, and in revenge for his slight of her honoe' . ' imposes herself upon him in disguise as the gentliP Harlequin, and excites his jealous and other pa: sions. However, in the end a mutual reconci liatio,P follows, but not until poor Harlequin has Paid dearly for his frolic. The piece de resistance, " the Cards," is an adaptation of a French drama, not new to the metropolis, as it was p er forra e ' some years ago, if we recollect rightly, u nder the title of "Jocrisse the Conjuror," 1 1017 ' ever, on the present occasion the adap tat ion has been so well done that it had all the cha{eat novelty. The plot turns upon the cons tant that takes possession of Sir Gilbert Ethelvval'' that his daughter, who is, in fact, only so by 0°13; tion, will be claimed by her father. The nea r : male relative of the baronet, a spendthrift and et gambler named Guy Chilstone, discovers the soe r a , and persuades a French conjuror named Cb al e d lard, to personate the father of the suPPl e s daughter of the baronet, and he consenting) re3,bo the demand for the girl at the moment, Arnold, the son of a French nobleman, has solicited her P ot in marriage. Florence leaves the house of ug a Gilbert with the conjuror, and we next find t'iot in comparatively poor lodgings ; a part of the P OO of Guy being to appear to rescue Flore nce ( bets poverty. Florence thinks all have forgotten '1,,e0 but it is not so, as her lover sends her a small e 3e il ' o b which belonged to her real mother, on openi n g W het it is discovered that the conjuror is inde ecl hal il• father, and that he is in fact a gentleman. Copci lard is in extacies at the discovery of his child' v a, through his instrumentality the villain is u ninas, o o and Florence marries her lover Arnold. Tb e i t r ed of Chavillard was of course sustained by Mr•.,1 1 0 Wigan ; and in one word we may truthfully saJsclo acting was perfection. Miss Madge Robertson P I , ed a sweet and loveable Florence, Miss Farren the leo beau ideal of a boy as Sprightly, and Mr. I‘l3craore a very excellent father. We must See , iO O, of M. Stuart, who appeared as O,O before we pronounce an opinion on his m erits 11$ a do actor ; but with respect to Mr. Teesdale, be 133 0 of but a. poor Guy Chilstone. The burlescliatic. " Robert the Devil " was a very splendid P r° 4o' tion, and altogether the entertainment may ero nounced a great success. The leading Per f°r t ocl received the honour of a call, and the lesse e 0 3 manager, Mr. Hellingshed, also had to appea Ted acknowledge the applause of his patrons. 01 1 h e e e tv exc ellent arrangement in the new theatre IS tP c loO t tire abolition of fees—the payment at th e o eh covering all demands for hats, coats, progr am booking, &c. &c. Another very agreeableised tasteful arrangement was that Mr. Rimnael 13 0 0 0 in the different lobbies some of his elegant P er o re s' fountains,which entirely overpowered the diS.3,Siag; able odour arising from the newness of the 10 1 J O and he also introduces a new programme, beat i t la aie.4 perfumed, but mounted as a fan, a boon th ° o6 o will unanimously thank him for. The its su e e ° 00 0 / this novelty will lead, no doubt , to g adoption in all the metropolitan theatres. f tb We have already said the Gaiety is on e ? to ot" handsomest theatres in the metropolis, a nd rem ing that opinion, we have no doubt of its O l ia ce ,l success, as the most implicit faith can be f ei l upon the promises of its energetic and to manager. Major-General a communication c d a i t n i g o n at fr 0 til l':: ,4o ° Bl l ll. e c.i i; , garrison rr h e has received a H. Brown, M.A., rector of St. Mary's, 1 ' expressive of his gratitude and that o f a e di t ' Committee, of which the rev. gentlersa l3 l ; e iig ev f dent, for the liberal subscriptions they have e a ii °Ol from the officers of the garrison by th e n i Captain Hobart, Aide-de-Camp, for the -00ero the men recently discharged from the Gclerietoho establishments at Woolwich. The re v. gefiagtof also refers to the readiness which the offic e— o ri;', garrison have always shown to aid hi s poer4rtic,:!l ioners under urgent circumstances, and 15 F ri O A , la r ly thankful to them for the assistare` oriev.o they have now rendered to the nurnerotio ployed artisans and labourers in Woolwich t n eighbourhood. 4 0 1V , Her Majesty's screw troopship g hegr-it' ld , Commander Jabez Loane, arrived at SpeivAli terday morning from Ascension, with nava' "itio). and returned stores. The invalids wer aft 0f yesterday afternoon, and the Megwra 0 0 , sailed for Woolwich to discharge her call turned stores. Cour Tian clitt( Cen' Cen. Cen Cen I, t and alt e. vest £49 mai Rep the Ares opir tens, Scot the was bold divi, Tha fur t AM Teri Jan Iron 30 i Con wh e Pro' the, fro tin. this COT] a dt of 1 alio , Con Z p e D 8 i; - e Nero NONI A.t", D Exe Ban Can Int( Arz, Ikul Bra 11 Cu 04i: ltal Z