The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-12 00:00:00

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GLOBE TIIEATRE -ROYAL. Tins Ev :Irmo, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David Fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlatone, 3. Olarke ; Mesdames Henrade, C.Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke: Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OW THE Ci OTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; N'esdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE QUEEN'S TIIEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. TUTS ENTNnia, 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. THIS EVENING, at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Honey, aowper, Haynes, Arthur, Westland. and Parselle Mesdames Foot e,Weathersby. Rignold. At 9.30, LUCRETIA BO 1 , GI A ; es s Drew, G. Honey, &c.; Mesdames Minnie Sidney, Fanny Joseph ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, The Great Cane Troupe and magnificent Stud of GO Horses; also M. Avolo, Alfred Bradbury, M. Clifton, Captain Austin, Miss Carrie, and Farnwell's Performing Dogs. TII EATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. This EVENING, at 7, SL \SHER &CRASHER: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan. G. Vincent, &c.•, Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, THE. Y ELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. 11. Ne file, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, 11. Cooper, and H. Wigan: Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield . ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Tuts EVENING, at 7.:M, A LOVI ‘'(4 CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To he followed by TUE RISE AND FALL OF ICH A HD III.: or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar 'Jr. Danvers: Miss Collinson , and Miss M. Olive r . To con :Jude with THE ULOCKMAKER'S HAT. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton] Tits EVENING, TAME CATS: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Baneroft; Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, WHO SPEAKS FIRST 1 Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss C. Addison. And ATCHI. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and gaturdays, at ;a nd 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL El AMB R A PALACE. THREE BALLET 4 , Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Alcndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, &I. 1) ; 41.121 „ I fig tr 121 - Sint LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 12, 1868. Several days a o we gave a duplicated list of the late and of the present Administration, so far as the latter had then advanced towards completion. The Government offices are now so nearly all of them filled in, that it seems desirable here to repeat the much more lengthened catalogue, or rather cata logues— the list, that is, of the recent and the list of the existing Administration. Here, to begin with, are— TIIE CABINET MINISTERS. F irst Lord of the Treasury, Mr. GLADSTONE Lord Chancellor. Lord HATHERLEY President of the Council. Earl DE GREY and RIPON. Duke of MARLBORO UGH, Lord Privy Seal. Earl of KI3IBERLEY. .. ...... Eatl of MALMESBURY. Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. ROBERT LO E. Secretary for the Home Department. Mr. AUSTIN BRUCE. Mr. GATHORNE HARDY. Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Earl Of CLARENDON. Lord STANLEY. Secretary for the Colonies. Earl GRANVILLE. Secretary of War. Mr. EDWARD CARDWELL... Sir JOHN PAKINGTON. Secretary for India. Duke of ARGYLL. Secretary for Ireland. Mr. C. FORTESCUE. First Lord of the Admiralty. Mr. CHILDERS President of the Board of Trade. Mr. JOHN BRIGHT. Poi.tmaster-General. Marquis of lIARTINGTON.... Duke of MONTROSE. Poor Law Board. Mr. J. G. GOSCIIEN The Earl of DEVON. Pointing out here once more the one distinctive dif ference between the last and the present Cabinet, ob servable in the fact that the Postmas'er-G..:neral has a seat in the present and had not a seat in the last one— the fifteenth seat in the latter having been awarded instead to an administrator who is on the contrary endowed with no seat in the present Cabinet, namely, the Chief Commissioner or. Public Works, or Woods and Forests as he used to be called a few years back —we may now add the two following high extra- Cabinet appointments, recent and present— Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord D UFFE RIJN Colonel TAYLOR. Chief Commissioner of Parks and Palaces. Mr. AUSTIN LAYARD Lord JOHN MANNERS. TflE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN The subjoined, again, are the principal Household appointments in attendance upon the SOVEREIGN : Lord Steward. Earl. of BESSBOROUGII Earl of TANKERVILLE. Lord Chamberlain. Viscount SYDNEY Earl of BRADFORD. Master of the Horse. Marquis of AILESBURY Duke of BEAUFORT. Mistress of the Robes. Duchess of ARGYLL Duchess of WELLINGTON. Master of the Buckhounds. Earl of CORK. Only of less importance than the Heads of Depart ments themselves, are the Under Secretaries, who are thus distributed : Home Under Secretary. Mr KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN. Sir JAMES FERGUSSON. Indian Under Secretary. Mr. GRANT DUFF Lord CLINTON. Foreign Affairs Under Secretary. Mr. EGERTON. Mr. OTWAT Colonial Under Secretary. Mr. WILLIAM MONSELL Mr. ADDERLEY. War Under Secretary. Lord NORTHBROOK Then come those exceedingly important officials, the— Joint Secretaries of the Treasury. Mr. GEORGE GLYN Mr. AYRTON Mr. SCLATER-BOOTII. While, added to the Second or— Janior Lord of the Treasury. Mr. ADAM Sir G. MONTGOMERY. there has been created now, what there has not been hitherto—a Third Lord of the Treasury, who is Mr. STANSFELD. Ailing the President of the Board of Trade, there is, now under the Right Hon. JOHN BRIGHT, as there was previously under the Earl of DEVON, the-- Vice-President of the Board of Trade. Mr. LEFEVRE Mr. STEPHEN CAVE. Another high official, whose name ought especially to be particularised, is the— Vice-President of the Council. Mr. 'WILLIAM FORSTER Lord ROBERT MONTAGU. The legal appointments, again, were and are the following : Attorney-General. Sir ROBERT COLLIER Solicitor-General. Mr. JOHN COLERIDGE Lord-Advocate for Scotland. Mr. MONCREIFF Mr. GORDON. Attorney-General for Ireland. Mr. SULLIVAN Dr. BALL. Solicitor- General for Ireland. Mr. Sergeant BARRY Mr. ORMSBY. The two grandest appointments of all in the sister Wand, being and having been— Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Duke of ABERCORN. Earl SPENCER Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Mr. Justice O'HAGAN Mr. BREWSTER. Examining carefully the names of those who have thus been selected by Mr. GLADSTONE to fill the offices of dignity or of responSibility under his Government, we are still of opinion that the names themselves are not in reason to be -objected to, tha tthey are names, in fact, everything considered, which have been by him admirably well selected—our only regret being, to the last, that in this instance several of the more important on the list of the offices of State should not have been more judiciously distributed. Mr. BRIGHT we would far rather have seen Secretary of State for India than President of the Board of Trade. In Mr. LowE we should have preferred to recognise, instead of our pressnt Chancellor of the Exchequer, our future Minister of Education, giving to him to that end the Vice-Presidency of the Coun cil, instead of to Mr. W. E. FORSTER, for whom might more reasonably have been found a seat in the Cabinet, as Secretary of State for tho Cvlu- Lord GRANVILLE, instead of being placed over that department would have far better filled the post of President of the Council than the Earl DE GREY and RIPON, tVIIO is in no'rcspect whatever that we can see qualified for it. As for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it would have been far more suitable for Mr. CHILDERS than the First Lord• ship of the Admiralty : while the selection of a Home Secretary without any seat whatever in the House of Commons, in the person of Mr. BRUCE, seems to us not only inadvisable but incomprehensible. More than anything else, however, as a source of lasting regret to us in the construction of the new Cabinet, is the selection by Mr. GLADSTONE of Sir WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, or rather, as he is now, Baron HATHER LEY, as the new Lord High Chancellor instead of Sir ALEXANDER COCKBURN, the Lord Chief Justice of England, who, as a brilliant debater, as a profound lawyer, and as man of unquestionable genius, would have been in all those respects a worthy successor of one of the most gifted men who has ever taken his seat upon the Woolsack. fl cB. IT is very rarely that men have an opportunity of returning to political life after sixteen years' seclusion from it. Sixteen years constitute a large portion of the period during which men are fit for political achieve ments, and the chances are that a man who absents him self from the arena during that time never returns to it. The new LORD CHANCELLOR is more happy. Having spent this period in the judicial calm of Lin coln's Inn, he now returns to the stormy contests of Westminster. He finds that all the measures which he advocated when he was there before have been carried. Men called him a Republican then, because he proposed the measure which the " Constitutional" party have carried—household suffrage. It was while the same party were in office that the corn laws and church rates were abolished, and that Jews were admitted into Parliament. What lugubrious vati cinations these measures excited when Mr. PAGE WOOD was M.P. for Oxford city; how groundless those vaticinations are admitted to be even by the political opponents of Lord- Chancellor HATHERLEY. It is not the agriculturists who have been destroyed, but those bad feelings which set one class against another ; it is not commerce which has been extinguished, but those fetters by which it was hampered ; it is not religion which has been swept away, but those hard and fast lines by which the members of one faith were separated from another; and now, by way of finish, the working class have been admitted within the pale of the Constitution, and it is not the Constitution which has been broken down, but only Hyde-park railings. So much the new LORD CHANCELLOR finds has been done during the half a generation that he has been absent from Parliament. But he would be the last man to affirm that nothing remained to do. Retrospect was natural enough in his position, but if he had been contented with retro spect he would not have joined the Ministry whose great fault in the eyes of its opponents is that it will be dangerously p.ctive. The great question of religious equality is the first that will have to be settled. Education, law reform, pauperism, the licensing system will follow, and each of these ques tions involves work of which a septuagenarian, as Lord HATHERLEY very soon will be, cannot hope to see the completion. They would occupy us for many a year to come if we had nothing but domestic affairs to manage. Unfortunately, there is an outer world- with which we are bound to have relations, and that world just now is in a very " parlous " state. Lord STANLEY, the heaven-born Foreign Minister who was supposed to have set everything to rights, has handed the uni verse over to his successor in a most unsatisfactory condition. We were told only a few days ago, on the high authority of this Minister and of Mr. JOHNSON, that the difficulties between the Governments of London and Washington had been overcome; whereas the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES now tells us that he hopes some arrangement may hereafter be presented to Congress which may lead to a settlement—a very different thing, espe cially as it is assumed at the same time that we have admitted a condition which we have always refused to admit. Then there is the Eastern Question, which Lord STANLEY appears to have discovered for the first time three weeks ago when he addressed his constituents at King's Lynn, and which is now in such a tangle that ships of war are sailing and armies on the point of marching ; and it will require all the energies of all the Foreign Ministers in Europe, to say nothing of Lord CLARENDON, to postpone an outbreak. The new tenant of the Foreign Office will find numerous other matters to engage his attention. Spain, having got over its first stage of revolution with unexampled quickness, has now entered upon the second stage the stage of civil war. Prussia and France are still looking at each other with vizors barred and lances in rest. Italy is still bent upon getting possession of Rome. . And then there is the China dispute, which seems to be growing more serious every day. Lord STANLEY has left his successor a good many worlds to conquer. We only hope that the House of Commons will not be compelled to take part in the conquests more than it can possibly help. It has abundance of other more fitting and more urgent work to do. THE story of the poisoners of Marseilles,which has been told in our Paris correspondence, presents some features of exceptional horror. It is not, indeed, comparable, either in the magnitude of the results or the subtlety of the means employed, to some historical cases of wholesale slaughter. It bears no resemblance to the famous Roman conspiracy for the poisoning of husbands which resulted in the execution of some 170 ladies. It becomes insignificant by the side of the history of the aqua tofana, a liquid clear as water, five or six drops of which would cause death, which was employed by a woman without discovery for above half a century, and which is supposed to have caused the death of six hundred persons. Murder by poisoning, both as a rude expedient and as an occult act, as an ordinary instrument of revenge and as a scientific means of causing death •by a process so slow as to resemble disease, has been sufficiently common in all ages to furnish more remarkable examples than these husband murders at Marseilles. But no instance of the kind has occurred of late years. Some recents trials in England—the PALMER, MADELEINE Sum', and PRITCHARD cases—have been remarkable enough to justify the intense excitement caused by them ; but this is, perhaps, the first instance of death being bought and sold as an ordinary commodity, and of victims being disposed of at so much per head. No such revelations of ignorance, superstition, and vice have been disclosed at a modern trial. The history is one of descent to the last extreme of depravity ; and, unfortunately, it is in some measure a testimony to the uncertainty of justice against this mode of slow and secret murder. It is little likely that these crimes would have been discovered but for an accident. The victims had been killed in safety, and some of them had been buried for some time; but the imprudence of one of the guilty women gave a clue to a labyrinth of crime which was penetrated at length, not by the police, but by a private individual. Even when three murders had been disclosed, and seven persons arrested, the President of the Court expressed the belief that justice was still in arrear, and that the crimes revealed were but a few of the whole number committed. The narrative of one murder is really the history of the others. One of the women, named VILLE, 41 years of age, was married to a linendraper 'in good circumstances. The two lived comfortably : the husband entrusted everything to his wife, who had the absolute command of the household purse. Excess of liberty at length proved a bane. She fell into evil courses, and after ,savy dissolute life for some years, fcwinca an attachment for a mason named MARINO. Her infatuation became so boufidless that she neglected her business for her paramour, and squandered her money upon him. Wishing to know whether her attachment was reciprocated, she consulted a fortune-teller, named FANNY LAMBERT. It is here that the tragic part of the story begins. Fortune-tellers gave her the information she sought. But little by little—in what manner does not transpire—the idea of poisoning t M. VILLE was conceived, and at length attempted. The process of murder was begun in February and lasted until May, the husband suffering horrible torments the whole of the time. Arsenic and belladonna were given alternately, so as to change and confuse the symptoms ; on one occasion, when suspicion was excited, the process was suspended ; but it was resumed, and at length the linendraper was despatched by continued doses of arsenic. Neither the fortune-teller northe wifewas the moving spirit of this tragedy. A herbalist of the name of JOYE, a swindler, wizard, fortune-teller, and finally pro fessional poisoner, supplied the drugs, and at the last directed their use. The fortune-teller was merely a subordinate in a business of murder which was carried on after a regular system. Superstition and ignorance induced many women of the lower orders of Marseilles to apply to the fortune teller for necromantic aid generally against troublesome husbands, or on behalf of obstreperous lovers. They were supplied with charms against every kind of mischance, and prophecies of every description of event. When the supernatural failed, the terribly real was brought into requisition. After the cabalistic element had proved useless, the fortune-teller would suggest the expediency of the herbalist's white powder. Some of the mis guided women eagerly embraced the proposal to murder their husbands in order that they might marry other men. Some of them hesitated ; but not one to whom the offer was made refused it, or the crimes would have been disclosed sooner. In but one case was there the slightest excuse for the murder, and in this instance the husband was drunken and idle. The other women seem to have had exceptionally good partners. The evil deeds were carried on and con secrated by the aid of the supernatural. The Paris journals might well express the wish, as they served up this story to their readers, that com pulsory education was the law of. France. It would be very hazardous, after our PALMER and PRITCHARD experiences, to affirm that instruc tion would have prevented these crimes ; but the trial revealed an extremity of moral blindness and superstition which must have been no small aid to the arch-fiend JOYE. The women seemed utterly unconscious of the magnitude of their offence : their distreSs arose only from the fact that it had been discovered. They laboured under the impression that they purchased murder just as they purchased sorcery—only that the former was higher-priced and more effectual. They bought their commodity according to their means. The woman VILLE said she paid. 2100 for the four months' slow poisoning ; whilst another victim cost only £2O. It is beyond doubt that the trial did not disclose the whole extent of the trad e . J OY E and the fortunetelle r incriminated each other in court. The herbalist charged the fortune-teller with disposing of numbers of people during the last visitation of the cholera, when they disappeared without sus picion. The fortune-teller retorted that JOYE would have poisoned all Marseilles had he been granted ten years more liberty. Such depravity almost defies comment. It would not, however, be well to attempt to conceal the danger of these practices. There may not be many JOYES in existence, but the example of CATHERINE WILSON chews that the species is not confined to this one example. To some extent the public is at the mercy of its own morals. This long series of murders was only terminated by the imprudence of the fortune teller. She threw out a hint to the wife of MARTINO ; the latter made inquiries, and after a difficult and intricate search found out part of the truth. The whole truth will never be known. The moral of the story is, that justice, though a great agency in the protection of mankind, is not infallible, nor the only means by which crime can be detected or averted, • NG, DECEMBER 12, 168. THE RE-ELECTIONS. The following is a complete list-of offices the acceptance of which will involve the issue of new writs :—Firstl„ l ord of the Treasury, Secretary of State for War, Chancellor of the Exchequer, First Lord of the Admiralty, President of the Board of Trade, President of the Poor-law Board, Chief Secretary for Ireland, Attorney and Solicitor- General for England, Attorney and Solicitor• General for Ireland, Solicitor-General for Scotland, Vice-President of the Council for Education, the English, Scotch, and Irish Lords of the Treasury, the Chief Commissioner of Works, the Treasurer, the Con troller, and the Vice-Chamberlain of the Royal House hold, the Lords of the Admiralty, the Judge-Advocate- General, and the Groom in Nlriting to her Majesty. The whole of these offices have not yet been appro• priated, hut, as a consequence of those which have been filled, the following constituencies will be called upon to ratify' the appointments :—Green wich, which returned Mr. Gladstone ; Oxford, City, Mr. Cardwell ; Lonchn University, M L•we ; Pontefrac, Mr. Childers ; Birmingham, M.. Bright; City of London, Mr. Goschen ; Louth County, Mr. Chichester Fortescue; Plymouth, Sir Robert Collier ; Exeter, Mr. Coleridge ; Bradford, Mr. W. E. Forster ; Halifax, Mr. Stansfeld ; Southwark, Mr. Layard. Had the Home Secretary and the Postmaster - General possessed seats in the House of Commons, they must have vacated them on being appointed to office ; but seats for Mr. Bruce and Lord Hartington have yet to be found. Under ordinary circum stances, the Lord-Advocate of Scotland would also have been obliged to seek re-election on his appointment ; but in the present case there is no necessity for doing so, inasmuch as Mr. Moncreiff was nominated to his post before lie had been declared elected for the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen. None of the parliamentary under secretaries have to be re-elected. The secretaries to the various departments—Treasury, Admiralty, Board of Trade, and Poor-law Board—enjoy a similar immunity. PARLIAMENTARY SKETCHES. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The process of swearing-in members of the House of Commons and the royal ratification of Mr. Dension as Speaker, took place this afternoon at two o'clock. The pro• ceedings in the Lords were exceedingly brief, and did not occupy more than ten minutes. Very few peers were in attendance, the majority of the small numberpresent seating themselves on the Opposition side of the House. Soon after two the Lord Chancellor and the Royal Commisioners, who were dressed in the same eccentric style as on the previous day, took their places on a seat behind the woolsack. Black Rod was then despatched to summon the faithful Commons, who in a short time were heard rush. ing pell mell through the lobby. The Speaker, dressed in a Court suit, and having the official wig on his head, occupied the first place at the bar, surrounded by several members of the Lower House. In a clear voice, which was not broken by the nervousness which characterised his remarks yesterday, he stated that, in obedience to her Majesty's commands, her Majesty's faithful Commons, in the exercise of tbeh undoubted rights and privileges, had proceeded to the election of Speaker, and that their choice had fallen ' upon himself. He therefore humbly submitted himself to her Majesty's most gracious approbation. The Lord Chan cellor, who called the Speaker " Mr. Denison," assured the right hon. gentleman that the Queen was fully sensible of his zeal for the public service, and most readily approved and confirmed him as the Speaker of the Com mons. Mr. Denison, again addressing the Lords Com missioners, then asked that the ancient and undoubted rights and privileges of the Commons should be confirmed, that their persons should be free from arrest and molestation ; and that they should still be guaranteed freedom of speech in debate, and free access to the Queen whenever occasion should require. Lord Hatherley, now addressing the right honourable gentleman as " Mr. Speaker," as sured him that her Majesty most readily confirmed all the rights and privileges which had been granted by her royal predecessors. The Speaker and the other mem bers of the House of Commons then withdrew, the Lords Commissioners retired in order to doff the scarlet robes and cocked hats, and the formal swearing-in commenced in right earnest. The attendance in the Commons at the time fixed for the commencement of business was large, there being about 300 members present, chiefly Liberals. The Speaker took the chair at two o'clock, but no chaplain was in attendance, as prayers could not be offered until the House was constituted, and until the Queen had sanctioned the appointment of Speaker. The mem bers therefore waited patiently until Black Rod made his appearance at ten minutes past two, and summoned the faithful Commons to the House of Peers. After the Speaker had returned from the Upper House, the members proceeded to take their oaths in the usual manner. For this process two long tables had been provided, on which, as well as on the Speaker's table, bibles were placed. The names of thirty-two members were called by one of the clerks, and then the hon. gentlemen so-called assembled round the table. As the brief oath was administered, each member had to sign his name, the latter process necessarily occupying a considerable time. After signing, the different members shook hands with the Speaker, and their membership was then complete. Among those who had the honour of being called first were Sir George Grey, Mr. Walpole, Lord Stanley, Lord John Manners, Mr. Corry, Lord Robert Montagu, Sir, John Hay, Mr. Knatchbull- Hugessen, Admiral Seymour, Colonel Taylor, Mr. Kin naird, Colonel Gilpin, and Mr. Hibbert. The time occupied in swearing in the first batch was twenty-two minutes. At this rate, eight hours will be required to complete the whole House. The at -,dance at Westminster Hall was not near so great as yesterday, but there were many people present, who formed a long line opposite the members' entrance, and cheered several new men as they made their appearance. THE NEW LORD CHANCELLOR. The Times gives the following account of Lord Hather ley :—" The learned lawyer who takes his seat henceforth upon the woolsack as Lord High Chancellor, and whom in a clay or two we shall have to style Lord Hatherley, is the second son of the late Alderman Sir Matthew Wood, who sat for many years as M.P. for London in the Liberal interest, and who was one of the first persons on whom her 'Majesty was pleased to confer a title after her acces sion to the throne, in acknowledgment of manyobligations to the alderman on the party of royalty. We do not allude so much to the zeal he displayed in the cause of Queen Caroline as to the fact that it was he who, having acted as a trustee of the Duke of Kent's affairs, first suggested to his Royal Highness shortly before the birth of her pre sent Majesty the propriety of the Duke and Duchess coming over to England, in order that the possible future heir to the throne of England might be born upon British soil. The Lord Chancellor's mother was Maria, daughter of the late Mr. John Page, a surgeon and apothecary, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, the same gentleman to whom the poet Crabbe was originally articled or appren ticed. The title of Baron Hatherley, by which his lord ship has chosen to be called to the Upper House, is taken by him from the village of that name in Gloucestershire, in which stood the residence of his father, Hatherley House. It is not a little singular that the living of Rather ley is now in his lordship's patronage in his official capacity. The Lord Chancellor himself was born in London in the year 1801, and received his early education at Winchester School. Thence he was transferred at the usual age to Trinity college, Cambridge, of which he was successively Scholr Fellow, and where he took ' — achelor's degree, e Twenty-fourth Wrangler, in 1824, the late Bishop (Bowstead) of Lichfield, Professor Hall, and Arch deacon Lawson obtaining honours in the same mathemati cal tripos. The classical tripos was not instituted till the following year. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1827, and, devoting himself to the Chancery side of Westminster Hall, soon gained a very fair share of pr fessional practice. It was not, however, till after he bad entered Parliament that his name became widely known to the public ; and he must be set down as one of those to whom a career in the Commons proved a first step to the woolsack. He sat as M.P. for the city of Oxford, in the moderate Liberal interest, in the Parliament of 1847-52, and was re-chosen at the general election of the latter year, on both occasions without the trouble of a contest. In 1849 he was appointed to the post of Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster, and two years later succeeded Sir Alexander Cockburn in the Solicitor-Generalship, which he held until the retirement of his party from Power in the February of the following year. His tenure of this office was but short, and it was marked by no event of importance or significance. We believe it is nn gperet in the profession that his appointment to the Solicitor- Generalship was largely due to a speech he made in the House of Commons on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, upon which it is remarkable that he took the very opposite line to the present leader of the Cabinet in which he sits. He maintained,with great learning, and with frequent reference to the canon law, that, notwithstanding the Roman Catholic Church was not an established body in England, still the act of the Pope in issuing his bull' for appointing bishops with territorial titles in England would largely affect the nature of the law of the Romish Church here ; and that as the Court of Chancery, in its dealings with religious and charitable trusts, must recognise and enforce the law of every religious community, whether established or not, therefore this measure, if allowed to he legal, would practically work an alteration in the law of the land. In fact, his argument came to this : that establishment' meant `recognition by the State,' not 'a positive connection with the State.' This question, so raised by him nearly twenty years ago, may, as will readily be seen, have a direct bearing on the impending controversy respecting the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Early in the year 1853 Sir William Page Wood was nominated one of the Vice-Chancellors by the Administration of Lord Aber. deen, on their accession to office, and he consequently retired from the representation of Oxford, his removal from St. Stephen's making a vacancy for the return of Mr. Cardwell, who had failed to secure his re-election at Liverpool. The duties of Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood discharged until early in the present year, when he succeeded Lord Cairns as one of t'• Lords Justices of Appeal in Chancery, and at the same t;me was sworn a member of her Majesty's Privy Council. It is no small tribute to his high personal and legal merits, that, although a Liberal in politics, he should have been offered this high appointment by the Conservative party, who had no lack of available candidates on their own side of the House ; and a similar honour was paid to him by Lord Justice Selwyn, who, though nomi nated to a Lord Justiceship a few weeks or months pre viously, gracefully waived his right of precedence in favour of his brother justice, so much his senior. Neither as a member of Parliament nor as a member of the bar did Sir William Page Wood ever rank very high as an orator ; but it may be safely said that on the judicial bench few of his brethren have ever held a higher position. He has shewn himself a sound and able lawyer, most honest and con scientious, and wonderfully industrious and painstaking ; and his courtesy and kindness have won for him the respect and even affection of the bar. He is known to the world at large as a man of high character and attain ments, a sincere and attached Churchman, though tolerant in his religious opinions, and a zealous supporter of the leading societies of the Established Church. He is also the author of more than one work on religious subjects. His lordship-- who,although not actually heir-presumptive, is in remainder to the baronetcy of his great-nephew, the present Sir Matthew Wood, of Rivenhall-place, Essex— married, in 1830, Charlotte, only daughter of Major Edward Moor, of Great Beatings, Suffolk." THE EVANGELICAL CHURCH UNION.—A meeting of the Evangelical Church Union was held on Thursday afternoon at Exeter Hall, in the course of which it was announced that during the winter bands of persons would parade the streets and the suburbs of London, singing hymns and psalms, with the view of attracting persons not alive to the influences' of religion, it being impossible to carry out open-air preaching to any successful extent during the cold months. The Cattle Defence Association, which includes many members of Parliament who sit on both sides of the House, assembled on Thursday at the Salisbury Hotel, and passed a series of resolutions ; in which it was main tained that the ensuing session ought not to be allowed to pass without effective legislation on the subject of the foreign cattle trade, and urging that every legitimate effort should be made in aid of this important object. Two new M.P.'s were amongst the speakers—Mr, :\l`Cumbie and Mr. Albert Pell. iJLArm3 or WomEN.—On Thursday night Hiss Emily Faithfull addressed an audience at the tfanover-square Rooms on this subject. The lady claimed for her sex a fairer chance than they now possessed of earning a livelihood : proper legal rights, greater educa tional advantages, and the suffrage. It was not her wish that women should perform men's work, but that they should be encouraged to do that for which they were physically and mentally capable. At present they had not that fair opportunity which was their undoubted right. Out of the six millions of women in this country, two-and-a-half millions were unmarried ; and it was abso lately essential to the well-being of society that, where the disproportion between the sexes was so large, the weakest should have the widest possible field to obtain the means of supporting themselves. 9PENING OF CONVOCATION. St. Paul's Cathedral was well filled yesterday morning when the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury was opened. The bishops were attired in their episcopal habits and Convocation robes, the minor clergy in their gowns and academical hoods. The Bishop of London, attended by the Rev. Prebendary Moorhouse, the Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys, M.A., and the Rev. E. H. Fisher, M.A., were received at the Chapter House by Sir Travers Twiss, Vicar-General, by whom he was presented with the commission which appointed his lord ship President of Convocation during the vacancy of the see of Canterbury. At the west entrance of the cathedral the bishop was met by the dean and canons, and con ducted up the centre aisle, accompanied by the bishops and clergy who were present, to the dean's stall. The litany of Convocation in Latin having been read, and the anthem " Oh, pray for the Peace of Jerusalem " sung, the Very Rev. Dr. J. A. Jerende, Dean of Lincoln, delivered the usual Latin address. After paying an appropriate tribute to the memory of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and referring to the changes .recently brought about, the Dean remarked that undoubtedly a great crisis had arrived in which all churches would have to bear their part. It would be idle to expect that the Church of England would escape from trial. In days gone by she had passed through many difficulties, and she would no doubt prove strong enough to contend against any storm that might rage, if free from internal weaknesses and dissensions. Allusion was then made to the several deaths of eminent members of Convocation since the last meeting in St. Paul's three years since, amongst whom were Dr. Longley, Archbishop of Canterbury ; Dr. Jeune, Bishop of Peterborough ; Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Here ford; Dr. Milman, of St. Paul's, the Rev. Canon Hawkins, and the Rev. Sir Henry Thompson, and the hope was expressed that in the deliberations upon which Convoca tion was about to enter, it would be borne in mind that humanly speaking the very existence of the Church depended upon the wisdom with which they were con ducted. The " Gloria in Excelsis " was sung at the close of the address, and the benediction in Latin pro nounced by the Bishop of London. The formal business connected with the opening of Convocation was then pro ceeded with in the Chapter House. From this place the clergy were admonished by the President, in Latin, to with draw under the direction of the Dean of St. Paul's to one of the chapels of the Cathedral, where they formed them selves into a Lower House to choose a Prolocutor, and to consider other matters incidental to the next meeting in the Jerusalem Chamber. The Dean of ST. PAUL'S presided at the election of a Prolocutor, which took place in the chapel. He announced that he had received instructions frDm the President to proceed with the election of a Prolocutor, and he would, therefore, call for any nomination that might be made. The Dean of CANTERBURY rose to propose the re-election of the Ven. Edward Bickersteth, D.D., Archdeacon of Buckingham, of whose unwearied diligence, unim peached impartiality, and unvaried courtesy, he spoke in the highest terms. Canon SEYMOUR, in seconding the motion, said it had been arranged that Chancellor Massingberd should pro pose the re-election of Archdeacon Bickersteth, and that Mr. Woodgate should second it, and it was only in the contingency of the absence of both these gentlemen that he had been called upon. (At this moment Chancellor Massingberd entered the chapel—a circumstance which created some laughter.) There being no other candidate, the Dean of St. Paul's declared that Archdeacon Bickersteth had been unani mously elected. The PROLOCUTOR then rose, and was received with loud cheers. In the course of his speech lie said there were many things which might probably engage the attention of the new Convocation. - Among them would be a moderate extension of the Episcopate, either by a division of dioceses, or the introduction of suffragan bishops ; the maintenance of diocesan action by the application of diocesan synods to the National Church ; the employment of lay services in the ministrations of the Church ; and the more extended representation of the parochial clergy, now daily increasing in numbers and influence He pre sumed, too, that the relations between the united Churches of England and Ireland might be thought of. Whatever might be done by the State to despoil the Church, the State could never despoil her of her spiritual inheritance. It was then arranged that the Dean of Ery and Arch. deacon Denison should present the Prolocutor to the Arch. bishop of Canterbury for his confirmation of the election. The Convocation was then adjourned until the 2nd of February. From a return of poor rates and pauperism, printed by order of the House of Commons, we gather that the number of paupers in receipt of relief on the last day of the last week in September was, in 1860, 842,860; in 1867, 872,620 ; and in 1868 927,239, showing for the presont year an increase of 6.5 per cent. in 1867, and of 10 per cent. in 1866. This does not include paupers in lunatic asylums and vagrants. In the Court of Probate and Divorce yester day, before Sir J. P. Wilde, the ease of Hunt and another v. Anderson, came on for consideration. Sir R. Col lier, Sir John Karslake, Q. 0., Mr. Turner, and Mr. Lopes, were counsel for tho plaintiff; and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., Dr, Spiuks, Q,C., and Mr. Searle, for the defendant. On seeing the array of counsel in the case, Sir J. P. Wilde (addressing Sir Robert Collier) said Mr. Attorney-General, are you in this case ?—Sir Robert Collier, pointing to Sir John Karslake, replied—" This is the Attorney-General ; lam not yet sworn in." Sir John Karslake then opened the coo for the plaintiff. —. ...., is.... --4 - 'TOT nif f Or• , HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 11. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice and the Crown Princess of Prussia, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Countess of G ai usboro ugh. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, went to Claremont to-day. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) GREECE. ATHENS, DCC. 9. In reply to a question put to him on the present state of affairs, the Minister for Foreign Affair e declared in the Chamber to•day that the Port e contemplated breaking off diplomatic relations with the Government on account of the generous succour which Greek subjects had given to Candi e in her struggle. He stated that the Ambassadors of the great Powers in Constantinople had inter' vened to prevent the contemplated rupture from taking place, and declared that the Government acted in conformity with the requirements 01 national dignity and with the desires of the nation. Next week he would lay all diplomatic documents referring to the present momentous position Of affairs before the House. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Dec. 12. According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the week's receipts of cotton at the United States ports amount to 90,000 bales. The shipments to Eng" land 35,000. To the Continent 22,000. Stock at all ports, 265,000 bales. The market is quiet an d steady. Middling upland, 10d., cost and freight P er steamer. GREENCASTLE, Dec. 1 2 ' The Allan Company's steamship Hibernian, from Liverpool, arrived in Lough Foyle at 10.30 135 t night, and proceeded to Portland at 2 o'clock th► 9 morning. SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 11, Evening . Hostilities have not yet been resumed at Cad iz i but a vigo r ous a tt ac k i s ex p ec t e d t o - morr ow $ lOl the insurgents not submit to the authorities. M ea , /r. while great exertions are being made to induce t' latter to lay down their arms. The insurrection hears an essentially Republican character, as 1° : solemnly asserted both by the Discussion and tu Ignaldact, two Republican papers that appear jo tbe city, and this declaration has caused much indig nti' tion among the public. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 11.—Three o'clock.—The 1 11 bet closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 25 Credit Mobilier End of month 292 50 Credit Foncier 1520 End of month — Bank Shares ~....3167 5 Ital'an Loan ...... End of month... --;; Mexican Loan ... 24 25 Do. Bonds ...... 104 Spanish Threes ... Home Debt...... Deferred ......... Cash Orleans ... Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6334 Western Eastern • • Sardinian Austrian 650 Lombard 4184 RAILWA' -.- _, _ North of Spain Saragossa •.. Roman THEATRICAL AND MUSICAL 1T.E.1115. Miss Fanny Gwynne appears in the Christiovo burlesque at the Haymarket, which is entitled 11 Frightful Hair." Miss Lucy Rushton, Miss Maria Simpson , I t; G. Jordan, and Mr. Coghlan, join the company the St. James's Theatre. Mr. Desmond Ryan, the musical critic, died °LI the 7th inst. of disease of the heart. Mr. John Brougham has completed hie a theatre in New York. It cost $50,000 dollars, 1 0 it is said to be one of the handsomest building s the great city. ;II be Miss Hazlewood's Christmas offering "1, 1 03 Planche's splendid burlesque, " The Fair Una the Golden Locks." Mr. Guiver, the treasurer, and Mr. Addison 14li t i nounce their benefits at Drury-lane on the 17th s' 18th inst. respectively. lesf There is a fierce contention goi ng on in the t he courts in America with respect to the right to great sensational effect in " After Dark." er An attempt to rob Mrs. Howard Paul a- f jewellery, at Worcester, last Wednesday, f orvto, nately failed. xfo Miss NeiLson appears in Dublin on .m.--31 next. Job ° Mr. Barney Williams has purchased Ntr• Brougham's last new drama, " The Emerald Si" the price paid was $2,000. 0 The dimensions of her Majesty' s Theatre a t the follows:—Height from pit floor to ceiling ill ia t; centre, 63 feet ; from stage to roof over, 7 ° 4 ; to basement under stage, 24 feet ; back of sta,,,g - 0 0 curtain, 52 feet 3 inches ; curtain to front O bi 96 in centre, 70 feet; width of pro s cenium, 40 feet high. (From the Musical Standard.) j o di' It is stated that an altercation between two ' A viduals arose at Rossini's fune r al w hi c h result e " a duel. h et Mrs. Wood, the American actress, the roa ch 0 13 e of the St. James's Theatre, intends as soon 38, 00 3 becomes possessed of the property to enlarg e reconstruct it. N tfl° A new theatre is to be erected at BromPt° l3 cor large houses having been purchased for tha t pose in Brompton-row. f t he Mdlle. Cecile Meyerbeer, second daughter ° f t he 0 late celebrated composer, is about to be ina rtl ,ica l Baron Walburg, a member of the Archo e ' °D Institute of Vienna. 41 - j o to /1:4 The Horrors of War," an opera beat - IG enacted on the stage of the Paris Athenee• .„ to be hoped that the public will l on g believe 1 ; truth conveyed in a title not particularlyjoe °° l ; of Ferdinand Hiller has gi ven , b e f or e a c irc a admiring friends, a v e r y i n t erest i ng sec li t„: o o 4o which he played a nu m b er o f hi s own canP° 3l- re tt. including one described as a pretty " ° P e without words." THE WEATHER IN THE BALTM—An° tbef gram bas reach e d th e T yne w hi c h d oes n ot O le o° o 4 favourable prospect of the north country steatnev 4 w e h s o ca ti v A li from the ice at Cronstadt as the previous one. i"."5, lingwood, of Shields, which had been cut ou t got to a poi n t w h ere no thi ng could be seen but —1:011), ward, and had to put back eight miles. It is tboug ore' the steamer s d e t a i ne d i n th e i ce w ill h a ve to rern li , li at ° I) the winter, as there were 16 dog. of frost at C ronsls Wednesday. THE MANUFACTURE OF WATCHES AND CO't-rjeol3 Al most interesting and instructive little work, describing seof but with great clearness, the rise andprogre ss of 11*t- 0, 4 clock makinz, has just b een published by Mr. J. 25, Old Boud-street, 99, Westbourne-grove, and the Cl Factory, 58 and 60, Ludgate-hill. The book, which i s r o :otcP fas ", illustrated, gives a full description of the -various kind° °' and clocks, with their prices, and no one should resito oi , tt*, without 'visiting the above establishments or consul ti" r , of i p f valuable work. By its aid persons residing in ani•P' '- e jec t ' o s United Kingdom, India, or the Colonies, are enabled to themselves the watch best adapted for their use, an d b b n e pitiO to them with perfect safety. 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