The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-23 00:00:00

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Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattArton. Special Morning Performances of the Grand Pantomime on Monday, Dec. 28, and every Wednesuay and Saturday during the Christmas Holidays. On BOXING-NIGHT, Saturday, Dec. 26, will be performed the Farce of MY WIFE'S OUT. To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime, entitled GRIMALKIN THE GREAT; OR, HARLEQUIN Puss IN BOOTS. AND THE MILLER'S SONS, with new and magnificent Sceneryby Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire strength of 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 1 0 till 6 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, H A YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, A KISS IN THF: DARK. After which. PIETRA. N! essrs. Chippendale, Howe, Ken dal, Gordon, &e. ; Miss Bateman, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. To be followed by the last Two Ac's of LEAH. Miss Bateman. Concluding with MAKE YOUR WILLS. Mr. Bnckstone. Commenee at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. 13. vihRSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CA.MBET< WELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At a quarter to 8, MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter, Mr. Benja mm Webster, Mr. 0 Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart. Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. smith, Mr. Romer, Mr. W. H. Ehurne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. On BOXING NIGHT (Dec. 2.;), THE SECRET. After which tat 8 o'clock) Dion Boucicault's new drama, in four acts, entitled AFTER DARK. a Tale of London Life. Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, C. Harcourt, J.G . Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds awl assistants. To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Jl, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Clerks. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames But grid Maitland. After which, THE FIELD 01? TF. CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS. GLOBE THE XTRE-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, Tindale, Hurlaton, and J. Clarke: Mesdames Henn de, C. Thorne, Breman, Berend, Hughgs, and Stephens. ROYAL 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-night, and during the week Oscar Carre's magnificent stud of 50 per forming horses. M. Adolphe Carre, M, Krenabser. Herr Loyal, Herr Sa,lamonsky, M. Burgess, the King of Comiques; Avolo, the Marvel of the Age; Alfred Bradbury, &c. Open at Seven, commence at half past Seven. Morning Per formance, Wednesday and Saturday, at Half-past Two. Children u vier ten, half-price to morning performance only. N.B.—A grand spectacular Pantomime, THE MARVELS 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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SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. WILE LATF. EDITION of " THE SUN" at 41. W. SMITH'S Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden• town. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, PIETRA: Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Kendal, Gordon, &c.; Miss Bateman, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. And The last Two Acts of LEAH. With MAKE YOUR WILLS. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Tms EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45 MONTE CRISTO . Messrs. Fechter, B. Webster, a Belmore, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, W H. I% burne. H. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lesseo and Manager, Mr. Vining,. Boxixo, NIGHT, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8, AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. NV, Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murrh,v; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston; Mies EMma Barnet and Miss Bose Leclercq Concluding with 11usTE JONES'S BIRTHDAY. GLOBE THEATRE -ROYAL. Tins EvFNiNa, at 7. GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David Fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlstone, .1. Clarke; Mesdames lienrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. Tins EVENING. at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs Bel ford, chlrke ; Miss Burton. TDE FIELD OF THE C1...0TH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; NI esdames Maria Longmore, B. CI oodall. T.ydia Maitland. Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston Tins VI/ENING. at 7, THE L. 4 NCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham, Clayton. and S. Emery : `.te,,lr.rnes Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore And THE STRANGER, Stranger than Ever. Mr. L. Brough , iss Mon tague, Ite. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND oncus, HOLBORN. Trus EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 !Horses; also M. Acolo, Alfred Bradbury, M. Clifton. Captain Austin, Miss Carrie, and Saunwell's Performing Dogs. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. THIS EVENING. at 7, SL A SHER CRASHER: Messrs Atkins. Vaughan. G. Vincent. &c.: Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which. at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT Messrs. H Ne Site, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper. and H. Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Bliss M. Oliver. THIS EVENING, at 7.7,0, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar , Mist M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF NICHARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar Mr. Danvers: Miss Collinson, and Miss H. Oliver. To con• elude with THE CLOCK MAKER'S HAT. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton; This EVENING, TAME CATS: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Dakeley, 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. CI:MISTY :MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Enry Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Eaturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin a t 8. is. Box-office open from 11 _ _ ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, lieges-pa/Ir, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission , I s. ; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, M. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. " THE SUN " WILL BE PUBLISHED AS USUAL ON CHRISTMAS DAY. •k, g, • tt--; ' - ,aut. g LOLVDON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 23, 1868. M. ROUHER has more securely than ever the iball at his feet. He is rid of M. PINARD, and he is rid of M. de MOUSTIER. He is still Minister of State — equivalent to our First Lord of the Treasury and President of the Council rolled into one. And, while still, thus, actually himself Minister of State, he is now virtually also Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs, the former through M. FORCADE DE LA ROQUETTE, the latter through his (i.e. M. ROUHER'S) connection by marriage with M. LAVA LETTE. Hitherto, it is true, the great Minister's counsels have been in the ascendant, but they have been so in spite of more or less of an antagonism to his policy, an antagonism manifested at home by t. PINARD, and abroad by M. DE MOUSTIER. Relieved of that antagonism by the removal of those two ad ministrators, it is very generally believed that M. ROUHER will now have, if not full swing, at any rate very much more of his own way in the direction of the Imperial Government. Since the fasces of the Republican PRESIDENT became transformed irto the sceptre of the Second Empire, NAPOLEON 111. has never had so able or so eloquent a Minister of State at his right hand as EL/GENE ROUHER, now for more than five years occupant of that high and most responsible position. It was in the October of 1863 that M. ROUHER was first appointed Minister of State—upon the demise of M. BILLAULT. He has held his own, there, ever since uninterruptedly. His in fluence is greater at this moment than it has ever been. His capacities at the same time are now at their highest. He is a match both as an orator and as a debater for the most gifted chiefs of the Opposition. His harangues, whenever he ascends the tribune, are listened to as eagerly as those of M. THIERB himself. He is never at a loss under attacks the most un looked for. He is always prepared, no matter how sudden the emergency. And his words, though weighty, and no doubt spoken after the utmost possible deliberation, have more of the fire of an assailant than of a defender of the Government. He, more vigorously tban any other man upon either aide of the assembly, can carry the assault into the enemy's camp. At these moments his look, tone, and manner have an air of audacity. And in terruption, instead of repressing his ardour, inspirits him. At such times there is no more impassioned orator in the Assembly than the Mini ster who is the vindicator of the acts and of the policy of the EMPEROR'S Government. M. ROUHER is now fifty-five years of age—just four years younger than Mr. GLADSTONE. Originally a member of the French Bar, and practising in his profession at Riom, he first entered the Constituent Assembly in 1848—shortly after the Revolution of February, taking his seat there as representative of the Department of the Puy-de-Dome. The very next year his Ministerial rank commenced, namely, on the 31st of October, 1849, when be was appointed Minister of Justice by the Prince-President. That office, in July of 1851, he resigned. But at the time of the coup d'e'tat he was reinstalled as Minister of Justice, only however, as it happened, un til his nomination, a short time afterwards, to the post of Vice-President of the Council of State. Subsequently he was appointed Minister of Agriculture ; of Commerce, and of Public works, in which capacity he had the responsibility of negotiat ing with Mr. COBDEN the Treaty of Commerce signed in 1860 between the Plenipotentiaries of France and England—M. ROUIIER being the French Plenipoten tiary, Mr. COBDEN the English Plenipotentiary. As before remarked, it was upon the death of M. BILLAULT that M. ROUIIER succeeded, in October 1863, to that supreme post of Minister of State which, with a firm grasp, he.has held ever since, which he has directed all the while with a bold and resolute will, and which at every emergency—that is to say, upon every occasion when the policy of his imperial master has been assailed—he has defended and vin dicated with a tongue of splendid and audacious eloquence that has often won for him the reluctant admiration of his foes. It is somewhat remarkable now that his position is seemingly more than ever firmly assured to him—that the outgoing Minister of the Interior, M. PINARD—but yesterday one of the most unpopular men in France— is to-day being covered with the eulogiums of the French journalists, who but just now were most certainly his depreciators, if not actually his vituperators. Here is December not yet run out, and yet the very Minis ter who was derided for the demonstrations of the 3d instant, is being followed by panegyrics at the moment of his quitting his post in the Government. M. PINARD, there is n2:doubt of it, has captivated those who were so recently his noisiest and most scornful assailants, by the simple but very conspicuous, and certainly very exceptional, self-abnegation with which he has bowed to the EM PEROR'S decree removing him from the Government. Whether actuated by resentment or influenced by the loftier impulses of civicism, he is known within the last few days to have declined the proffered rank of Senator, and to have refused in like manner the yet more tempting offer—to a man of high legal attainments like himself —of a distinguished judicial position in the Court of Cessa tion. The mustering of horse, foot, and artillery, in the streets of Paris on the 3d of December, has, upon the instant, been forgotten—in the admiration excited by this unprecedented disdain by M. PINARD for the temptations of his own personal advance ment. M. DE MOUSTIER, the other outgoing admi nistrator, still occupies the official residence of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, but he does so simply by reason of the alarming illness which was sufficient of itself to account for the nomination of M. de LAvALETTE as his successor. Whatever else may be signified by the Ministerial changes which have taken place so very recently at Paris, the upshot of them is clearly and distinctly this—that the influence of M. ROUIIER is more than ever domi nant in the councils of the EIIPIROR. THE arrival of the full text of Mr. ANDREW JOHNSON'S last Message to Congress fully dissipates the surprise that was generally felt at the refusal of the Senate to hear it read. It would have been better if the - Upper House of the American Legis lature had followed the example of the Lower, and silently accorded a decent interment to the last manifesto of Mr. JOHNSON'S obsolete policy. But though the course adopted was extreme, it was neither surprising nor unwarranted. The retiring PRESIDENT would have best upheld the dignity of his position by a Message that as much as possible omitted all recommendations which Mr. JOHNSON will never more have power to uphold, save as a private individual. Instead, however, of the silence THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DE(JEMBE of virtual retirement, Mr. JOHNSON closes his term of office by a manifesto which is as offensive as it is useless. He condemns the policy which the great majority of the American people has just confirmed. The nation has supported the course taken by the Republicans in the South, but the PRESIDENT asks that this policy be reversed. The unquestionable disadvantages and dangers of Reconstruction have been braved for several years, and the people, after this long experience of a difficult and hazardous remedy, has decided that it is the only one to meet the case. The majority of those who consider the evils of the system to be hardly compensated by its benefits would scarcely venture to suggest a change now. Reconstruction has been firmly established ; it has achieved in part the work of preserving the integrity of the Union, and yet admitting the Southern States to participation in the Government; and, above all, whilst the good results of the South are now manifesting themselves, its evils have in great measure been overcome. But Mr. JOHNSON attributes to Reconstruction all the calamities which have befallen the country, and demands that all the labour of the last four years be thrown away, that the country revert to the position it occupied just before the war, that, in short, the policy of the American nation be sacrificed to the policy of a retiring President. The Message is an insult to Europe as well as to the people to whom it is addressed. The last act of Mr. JOHNSON'S Presidency is to advocate repudia tion by a scheme which is more foolish and impracti cable than any that has yet been put forth. At a time when the Legislature has most emphatically declared that all forms of repudiation are odious to the American nation, Mr. JOHNSON deliberately recommends a proposal which betrays alike the most astonishing ignorance and want of honesty as a statesman. He believes that the in terest of the debt ought to be employed to pay off the principal. The bondholders have already received several years' interest at a high rate : this ought to suffice for all recompense. For the future the interest should be paid, but it would go towards the liquidation of the principal, which would thus be cleared off in less than seventeen years. This is the retiring PRESIDENT'S scheme, the admirable simplicity of which amounts to this: that it is just and honest dealing to borrow money in a lump sum, and repay it in instalments without compensation; and that bargains made by a State can be altered by an expedient which would be simply an act of fraud in an individual. It is merely characteristic of Mr. JOHNSON that he should wait for the resolu tion of the Legislature before bringing forward a scheme in direct opposition to it. But that he should offer to a great nation a project of such studied absurdity would be incredible were it not before us in the plain language of the Message. It is not surprising that the senators should have trampled the document on the floor of the House in their indignation at such an attempt to vilify the noble sentiment of their resolution. LATEST INTELL LGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Dec. 23. It is stated that in consequence of a proposal made by Russia, and supported by Prussia, a con ference will probably be held for the :purpose of preventing a conflict between Turkey and Greece. Austria is inclined to agree to the proposal, and it s not unlikely that Italy will also consent, though whether the same views will be held by the Western Powers and the Porte is not yet postively known. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MEssiNA, Oct. 23. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Massilia passed through the Straits of Messina at 6.30 this morning, en route for Marseilles. QUEENSTOWN, Dec. 23. The National Steamship Company's steamer France, from New York, arrived off this port at five o'clock this morning. She landed passengers and proceeded for Liverpool. All well. FRANCE. BOURSE, Dec. 22.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 69 65 Credit Mobilier 287 50 End of month 283 75 Credit Foncier 1530 End of month — Bank Shares 3160 hal:an Loan End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds 151 15 Spanish Threes Home Debt 3O Deferred — Cash Orleans ... 910 N orthern .... i2oo Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6221 Western Eastern .. 557* Sardinian Austrian 645 Lombard 415 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 5O RAILWA' LIFEBOAT SERVICES. HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND, Dec. 21. A gale sprung up to-day from the south-east (says R. A. Wilson, Esq.), and one of the fishing cobles which had gone out early this morning had to return. On reaching the bar the sea ran very heavy, and the other fishermen seeing the imminent danger, the men ran immediately, launched the Grace Darling Lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, and with her assistance the noble and two men were happily brought into harbour in safety. LOWESTOFF, Dec. 22. Last evening information was received at Pake field that two brigs and a barque, now ashore in Pakefield Gateway (reports Mr. Henderson, the officer of the Coast Guard). The lifeboat Sisters, belonging to the Lifeboat Society, was got ready, and a messenger sent to Lowestoft for the steam tug to tow the boat to windward, it being an ebb tide, but by the time she had reached there the crews of the two boats had landed in the harbour and reported that the barque was still aground. The Pakefield lifeboat went out in tow of the steamer to the assistance of the last named vessel, and, skirting the edge of the Newcome Sands, she arrived in the Gat and was cast off. She then com menced her saarch but was unable to discover any thing but the wrecks of the two brigs, and she there fore returned to her station. The barque is sup posed to have extricated herself from her perilous position and proceeded northward. The two wrecked vessels were colliers ; one was The Favourite, of Blyth, bound thence to Boulogne, and the other the Adventure, of Sunderland, on a voyage from that port to Maye❑ne. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—The approaching Christ mas holidays will doubtless attract, among the foremost of the many amusements, numerous visitors to the renowned and groat exhibition in Baker-street, where the mind and intellect may not only be highly benefited, but a most pleasant hour be profitably employed iu witnessing the thousand-and-one objects, which cannot fail to produce a pleasing effect on all who may honour Madame Tussaud's exhibition, in Baker-street, with a visit on, not only Box ing-day, but during the period of the Christmas holidays. ller Majesty's unarmoured screw frigate Are thusa, 35, 3,141 tons, 500-horse power (nominal), Capt. Robert Coote, arrived at the Nore yesterday, from the Mediterranean, on the completion of her period of commission, and saluted the flag of Vice- Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., Naval Commander-in-Chief, which was returned from the Formidable, flagship. . LUXURIANT AND BEAUTIFUL TIAIR.—M RS. S. A. ALLEN'S WORLD'S HAIR RESTORER OR DRESSING never fails to quickly restore Grey or Faded Hair to its youthful colour and beauty, and with the first application a beautiful gloss and de lightful fragrance is given to the Hair. It stops the Hair from fallin g off. It prevents baldness. It promotes luxuriant growth; it causes the Hair to grow thick and strong. It removes all dandruff. It contains neither oil nor dye. In large Bottles Price Six Shillings. Sold by most Chemists and Perfumers Depot, 266, High Holborn ME. CARDWELL ON THE EXPENDITURE. On his return for Oxford without opposition on Tuesday, Mr. Cardwell, the new Secretary for War, took occasion to refer to the expenditure. "In forming his Government Mr. Gladstone did me the honour of inviting me to join him, and I felt that the calls of duty and the wishes of the constituency alike required me to accept the invitation. I believe there is, as Mr. Neate has said, a natural con nection between the office I formerly had the honour to hold and that which I have been invited to undertake in the Government that has just been formed. It must be evident to all that the distribution of our troops in the distant possessions of the Crown mast be one important element in the expenditure they must occasion. During the summer we repeatedly said to each other we believed it would be possible to reconcile efficiency with economy, and to shew that the Government had in view the diminution of the public burdens without at the same time impairing the efficiency of our defensive services. The principles I explained to you in the summer are the principles which actuate me now. I entertain the Same opinions, and feel them, if possible, with increasing strength. I shall endeavour by every means in my power to give effect to them in office. As yet the time has been short, and it hasbeen impossible forme to examine minutely the details of questions of expenditure ; but I think it may be satisfactory to you if I say that even now I venture to anticipate that in the estimates of the ensuing year you will find evidences of a substantial reduction of the ex penditure. But it must be evident to everyone who has thought upon the subject that the object of retrenchment is not confined to a single year, and that it would not be true economy which should lighten the burdens of the present year at the expense of increasing the burdens of future years. The object must be to lay down principles which shall endure for all time, and which will be effec tive in future years as well as in the immediate year with which we deal, Vast questions of the highest national im portance underlie the whole subject of military expendi ture. They are subjects of cardinal importance, requiring careful examination and deliberate consideration ; but I venture thus early to make this remark, that while there may be an economy that will starve the service—and this would be economy which, in dealing with the gallant defenders of our country you woukl not desire, and Parliament would not approve— there is also an economy which braces and invigorates, which seeks to expel from the system everything which would interfere with its healthy action, which gives a tone to energy, and which makes its pulse beat with vigour. It ought to be the object of Government, as I am sure it will be of Parlia ment and the people, to introduce this kind of economy through every branch of the public service. It is with a sincere desire that I may be able to render some assistance in performing a task like this, that I have ventured to accept the office I now fill, and that I stand before you to-day as a candidate for your suffrages." Passing to other subjects, Mr. Cardwell said: " In Oxford we naturally attach the highest importance to the question of education, and whether it be the higher education pursued here, whether it be to bridge over the gap which separates, by the abuse of charities for the use of the middle classses, the higher from the lower educa tion, whether it-be to carry the lower education through all the deserted portions of the country till a religious but not sectarian education is available to every subject of her Majesty, questions like these shall always receive my most earnest attention. There is one question which, however, overshadows in importance almost every other—it is theiquestion of whether we shall be friends and united cordially in the ties of affection with the sister island, or whe.ther we shall continue as we have been, separated and divided. The Irish people were once called by a great senator •an alien people.' If they be alien it is because they have been treated as aliens. But, gentlemen, the mission of the present Government and of the present Parliament is, I trust, to reconcile an alienated people, and incorporate them in the bonds of affection with the great body of her Majesty's loyal subjects, to pre mote concord among ourselves, and to exhibit to other nations the spectacle of a strong, because a united people. I have now only to thank•you for this, the ninth occa sion on which in sixteen years you have been kind enough to return me to the Commons House of Parliament. I heard some gentleman just now call out ' The Ballot. Well, I will tell you with perfect plainness my notions about the Ballot. lam for free voting,whatever else happens, but I shall always be best pleased to find that in this free country every man is able to give his vote and fear nobody in so doing. As you have already returned me nine times in sixteen years, there is another point of the Charter of which, so far as I am concerned, you will feel that you have no need—l allude to triennial parliaments. I return you once more my most unfeigned and sincere thanks for this new mark of your unvarying confidence and kindness, and assure you that I feel deeply the resporgirdlity which has been cast upon me. But Sou know a man it greatly strengthened and encouraged when he can return to the duties of his office supported by the confidence, the kind ness, ancl,l,may truly say in your case, the attachment of the citizens whom he represents." Weston, who was to have walked 5,000 miles in 100 days in America, has abandoned the task, after accom' plishing 300 milts of the journey. An explosion of. 200 kilos. of gunpowder took place on Saturday evening in the magazine of the military bar• racks at Madrid. The disaster is attributed to the impru• donee of some children, who 11Wd discovered a means of access to the building to pilfer its contents. Two of them were killed, and another grievously wounded, and two or three others, as well as two soldiers, slightly injured. A Cabinet Council was held on Tuesday at the Foreign Office. The Ministers present were the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Lord Chancellor, Earl• De Grey and Ripon, the Earl of Kimberley, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, the Duke of Argyll, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, the Right lion. J. Bright, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartington, and the Right Hon. C. Zartescue. TaLorsoresAVlG.—Tillotson was the first clergy man in England Who was seen in the pulpit with a peruke. Tillotson's wig, however, only represented a natural head of hair, cut short. " I can remember," he says, in one of his sermons, " since the wearing of the hair below the ears was looked upon as a sin of the first magnitude, and when ministers generally did either find or make occasion to reprove the great sin of long hair ; and if they saw anyone in the congregation guilty in that kind, they would point him Out particularly, and let fly at him with great zeal.— Doran's "Saints and Sinners." A METEOR IN BRAZIL.—A correspondent, writ ing from Bahia, NOvetnber 27, says :—" On the 15th inst., at 1.30 a.m., a splendid meteor passed over Bahia, a little to the north of the Equator, from E.S.E. to W.N.W., which, bursting like.a rocket, but without any detonation, splendidly illuminated the whole country round for a few seconds. So far this is nothing new or remarkable, you will say, and I fully agree with you, but what is new to , me at least was, that it left a fiery streak apparently about 9in. broad, very sharply defined on the outsides, but fainte' in the middle, and of about 30 deg. in length, which, like a huge fiery snake, kept its place unchanged for at least five minutes, and must have been an object of terror to anybody who may have casually seen it with out having observed the meteor which originated it. After the lapse of five minutes the streak gradually became fainter, slowly commenced rolling itself up from W. to E., and finally assumed the appearance of the larger of Magalhaes' (Anglia Magellan's) clouds, but much larger and brighter than the brightest part of the Milky Way, and, remaining in the same position, gradually vanished after the lapse of at least a quarter of an hour. There can be no doubt about its duration, for after observing that the streak did not vanish immediately, as is usually the case, I looked at my watch and marked the time. Several other meteors were seen the same night, twenty-four hours later than the period marked for their regular annual appearance. The night was clear and calm, with a slight breeze from E." SCOTCH FARE. —The Glasgow Stationers' Com pany, a day or two ago, gave the Lord Provost (Sir J. Lumsden) a complimentary dinner. In proposing the health of the guest, the master referred to the past history . of the company, and quoted a minute from one of its oldest records. It was in these terms : " The said day the mem bers supped together, and took a cheerful glass, and served the poor as usual upon the like occasions." (Laughter.) And, again, on the Centenary of the Revolution, 1688 : "It is resolved to meet at three o'clock to eat sunkets and drink to the glorious Revolution." (Laughter.) The same friendly and convivial spirit still continued to exist among the mem bers of the society. Sir James Lumsden, in his reply, said : I have been asked by a gentleman near me to explain what " sunkets " are. I find by referring to " Jamieson's Dictionary " that " sunkets" has a very extensive meaning. It means provisions of any kind. The simplest and best way to illustrate its meaning is an anecdote :—" We are told of an English gentleman who, hungry and weary, alighted in the evening at some petty inn in the south of Scotland, the appearance of which had no great promise. Good woman,' said he to the landlady, can I have anything for my horse? Ou aye,' she replied, he'll get sunkets.' Although he did not under stand the meaning of the term, he naturally enough con cluded that this must be the food commonly given to horses in that part of the country. In a little time, urged by his personal wants, he proposed another qua• . tion: ' Good woman, can I have anything for myself ?' His astonishment may well be imagined when he received the very same answer, "Ou aye, ye'se get sunkets."! (Laughter.) IHE COLLLEY EXPLOSION NEAR WIGAN. WIGAN, Tuesday Afternoon. The number of persons killed in the Arley Mine of the Norley Hall Colliery by the explosion re ported yesterday was, it is now believed, six, and one of the five men who were burned, named Cunliffe, expired this morning. The first bodies brought up at about six o'clock last evening were those of two men named Fair hurst, who were found in a level a short distance from the pit eye. The explorers then directed attention to the dib hole at the foot of the downcast shaft, where were shortly found the bodies of Rutter and Caunce, the two men who were blown into the shaft from the mouthing of the tunnel. They were sent to the sur face at about 9 o'clock, and were placed with the others in a workshop near to the shaft. It is pretty certain that two other men, named Elirah Cheet ham and Thos. Sharrock, lie Chad in the workings ; but this atternoon the spot where they are believed to be lying had not been reached. The man Taylor still lives, but he is not expected to recover. A man, named Sharrock, too, who was working with him, is in a dangerous state.— The names, &c., of the deceased, assuming that Cheetham aril Thomas Sharrock are dead, are :—William Caunce Crook, carpenter, aged 24, leaves widow and and three children ; Thomas Rutter, pony tenter, Lamber head Green, 40, widow and five children ; Robert Fairhurst, datalar, 55, Lamberhead Green, leaves widow and five children ; William Fairhurst, datalar, Lamberhead Green, leaves widow and four children ; Elijah Cheetham, fireman, 35, Lamberhead Green, leaves widow and five children ; Thomas Sharrock, a dataler, 35, Lamberhead• green, leaves a widow and four chil dren; Elijah Cunliffe, dataler, Lamberhead-green, 18, unmarried. There seems to be no doubt that the gas fired at the point where the men Cheetham and Thomas Sharrock were engaged in cutting across a step about five hundred yards from the pit eye. It is stated that on the morn ing previous to the explosion the under looker gave instructions to Cheetham, who was fireman for the district in which the gas ignited, not to use any powder in the work he and Sharrock had to carry out. On the way to the step, however, Cheetham had to pass two men en gaged in blasting the rof, and from them he bor rowed a small quantity of gunpowder. Workmen are engaged repairing the shaft. The work neces sarily proceeds very slowly, and after the workings have been reached several hours must elapse before the remaining bodies can be recovered for stoppings will doubtless have to be built and other arrange ' ments made for restoring the ventilation. MR. AMPILL 'The Conservatives of Bromsgrove have given a public dinner to celebrate the return of Mr. Amphlett. The hon. member made a speech on the occasion, in which he thanked the electors for the support he had received at the late election, and in referring to public questions ad mitted that a large majority had been returned to Parlia meat in favour of Mr. Gladstone's views on the Irish Church question. He believed that Mr. Disraeli had acted in accordance with the spirit of the Con. stitution in resigning at once, and in not putting any obstacles in the way of his successors. Mr. Amphlett referred to the mode in which the majority had been obtained, and contended that the whole scope and extent of the Liberal policy respecting the Irish Church had not been put before the country. He declared that a great distinction existed between the terms of dis establishment and disendowment, and that the Opposition possessed strong vantage ground by this means. The hon. member did not believe that the House of Com. mons would deprive those places in Ireland of their ministers whichwere Protestant, and the Opposition, if in a minority, could do much in this respect. In conclusion Mr. Amphlett expressed his belief that Mr. Gladstone would modify his views when he came to consider the Conservative tendency displayed in the late general election by the important English counties. At any rate he would find great disfavour with the people of this country if they saw their wishes disregarded to suit the Scotch and Irish majorities. MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM, Mr. Bright attended two meetings at Birmingham on Monday night. - Reviewing the progress of Liberal legisla tion, he said that thirty years ago it seemed as if moun tains bad to be removed, and some of them had been removed. The abolition of the corn laws was a task which, when it was undertaken, seemed almost hopelessly beyond the strength of those who engaged in it. It was necessary to convince or to alarm those classes who held a monopoly ; but, by years of labour, and the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of pounds, a great thing was accomplished which ought never to have needed accomplishment, because nothing but the most obtuse blockheadism or the most criminal guilt could have devised or maintained a law so wicked as the corn law was. But he hoped that progress with other questions would be less difficult, because he observed that the principles which for many years had been considered extreme were becoming the creed of the whole Liberal party. This was no occasion for wonder, because the measures which the Radicals had succeeded in carrying had been proved to be most substantially and largely advantageous, while the fears entertained with respect to them had been shewn to be shadowy and unreal. He could judge from many symptoms that a wonderful change of feeling and opinion was taking place among influential classes in the country, and that the Liberal party was becoming fixed, and would not be much longer divided into two hostile sections, but would unite and become more powerful every day. Referring to the representation of the working classes, he said he hoped the idea of class representation would be got rid of, that the people would no longer be regarded as divided into the included and the excluded, but that all would unite to carry those measures which would be for the advantage of all. In conclusion, he spoke of the recent victory in Birmingham, observing that nothing done in this country had tended more to set a final seal upon Liberal progress. MR. MILL ON WOMEN SUFFRAGE. Mr. Mill seems to be occupying his time at Avignor. with writing letters. There is now another from him in answer to a woman's letter of condolence on his defeat, The Women's Suffrage Committee of Edinburgh pre pared the letter. In reply Mr. Mill says : "Of all my recollections connected with the House of Commons, that of my having had the honour of being the first to make the claim of women to the suffrage a Parliamentary question is the most gratifying, as I believe it to have been the most important public ser- vice that circumstances made it in my power to render. This is now a thing accomplished, and the cause has a sufficient number of supporters among the best men in the House of Commons to carry on as much of the contest as can be conducted there. It remains for the intelligent women of the country to give their moral support to the men who are engaged in urging their claims, and to open the minds of the less intelligent to the fact that political freedom is the only effectual remedy for the evils which most women are conscious that women suffer. Whatever power I may have to promote this cause outside the House of Commons, I shall not fail to exert to the utmost. " Your expression of sympathy with my feelings, and approbation of my conduct on the subject of the Jamaica atrocities are peculiarly grateful to me, for it has been with especial sorrow that I have seen so many women cold and unmoved at the recital of sufferings which it might have been supposed would at least have aroused some womanly pity and generous indignation against the perpetrators. It is peculiarly among women, who are not aware VI:It it is their duty to use theirintel ligence on matters of politics, that the severest condemna tion of Mr. Eyre and his instruments should have been found ; for if such women had possessed the warmth of heart which all women ought to have, their feelings would have been revolted at the tortures inflicted, and they would have considered the reasonings by which these were attempted to be palliated as beyond their province. As it is, the conduct of so many among them has afforded one more evidence that the renunciation of masculine intelligence gives no security for womanly kindness." A marriage is arranged between Lord Colchester and the Hon Isabella Grace Maude, eldest daughter of Vis count Hawarden. The Bourse Gazette of St. Petersburg gives cur rency to a report that in case a rupture between Turkey and Greece the troops in the circumscription of Odessa would be placed on a war footing. It is proposed to erect a memorial of the late Rev. Dr. Cooke. A meeting with this object in view was held in Belfast on Saturday, and a committee was appointed to consider the matter. With rsspect to the strictures passed by a morning contemporary on Sir Henry Bulwer for bringing forward the ballot, it may be mentioned that Mr. Berkeley, coincides with Sir Henry's notice, and that the latter in no way interferes with his taking the lead upon the question. At a sheriff criminal Court, held in Glasgow about a fortnight back, a juryman was discovered to have left the box at the finish of a trial, and notwithstanding that every search was made he could not be found. He has since been apprehended, and fined ~£5 for his freak. . - From a despatch received by the Customs authori ties at Liverpool, it appears that the cattle plague is in creasing in Hungary and Transylvania, and the authorities are instructed to exercise the greatest vigilance in the examination of cattle from that part of Europe. The Rectory of Bramwell, near Doncaster, has fallen to the gift of Lord Dufferin, the new Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, in consequence of the death of the Rev. F. Maynatd, M.A. It is worth about £520 a year. The Right Rev. Dr. Moriarty, Roman Catholic Bishop, has barely escaped a serious accident at Killarney. lie was leaning upon the hand-railing of a rustic bridge spanning the river Dinagh when it gave way, and he was only saved from falling by Lord Castlerosse seizing him by the arm. With regard to the vacancy in South Derbyshire, no active steps have yet been taken by either of the great political parties ; but it is currently reported that Mr. W. F. Cox, formerly the Conservative member for Derby, but who was defeated at the last election by Mr. S. Plimsoll, will do battle for his party. Mr. Evans, the defeated Libe ral candidate, has already announced his intention to try again. At a vestry meeting at Oswestry, on Thursday, the subject of the long-continued absence of the vicar being introduced, a resolution was passed to the effect that '"f he vestry viewed with extreme concern the long-continued ab s,nce of the vicar of the parish, now extending over a period ,d 11 years, and considered that the present state of Church imperativvly demands a resident vicar." The Rev. Mr. :.:alwey's absence is owing to indisposition. The petition against the Conservative member for Ashton-under-Lyne has been dropped, in consequence of the petit . oner not having served a copy of it upon the sitting in mber, made the required deposit, nor entered into recog- Idzances. Some days ago, a petition was presented against the return o! Mr. Beaumont by Mr. Stanhope, one of the de :'eated candich.tes for the Southern Division of the West [tiding. On - Monday, en the opening of the Common Pleas ,111ce, it was found that a second petition had been lodged, • his ono being against the return of both Lord Milton and •'r. Beaumont. In the Equity Court, on Tuesday, before Vice- Chancellor Mulins, a special moton was brought forward or au injunction to restrain the Metropolitan District Rail way Company from opening their line fur traffic until the compensation to the poor of Emanuel Hospital for their land taken by the company had been properly tssease3, and the purcl , ase money paid. The motion was dismissed with costs, the company undertaking to deposit in the Londpn and WesttninstQr Dank . 4 92 4 .7.; ITWA Utter* at Overlent.. rETT ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS. DUTCH SLAVE-DEALING IN AFRICA. A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing from Cape Coast Castle, exposes the slave-dealing practices of the Dutch in that quarter :—" At the present moment, the Dutch are at open war with some of the native tribes on the Gold Coast on this account. Until last year the English protectorate extended over a wide territory belonging to the }antis, the Denkeras, the Wassaws, the Assins, the Akins, the Aquapims, and the Accras, all of whom had succeeded in throwing off the yoke of Ashanti. The only exception to this indepen dent combination on the part of the coast tribes was the Elminas, who, at the insti gation of the Dutch, preferred to remain subject to Ashanti. The reason of this policy on the part of the Dutch was no secret. Through the Elminas the King of Ashanti communicated with the coast —they offered indeed the only opening in that direction in the line of independent and hostile tribes ; and the interest of the Dutch in this com munication arose from its importance to the traffic in emigrants' or apprentices' upon which they depend for keeping up the slave labour of Java. Such was the state of things last year, when a treaty was negotiated between ourselves and the Dutch. 'By this treaty,' writes the cor respondent, the British Government, on the sug gestion of the Dutch Government, exchanged certain British forts to the westward of Cape Coast Castle for certain Dutch forts to the eastward. Geographically speaking, the arrange ment was a good one ; each nation has now a con tinuous strip of coast, while previously the forts were mixed up in ludicrous confusion, and the town of Accra belonged partly to one Government and partly to the other. But, unfortunately, the natives appertaining to the aforesaid British forts did not desire to be handed over to the allies of their ene mies, the Ashantis, who certainly, in the event of a war with that nation, would not have given them assistance, nor even their good wishes. At Ap pollonia, Dix, Covo, and Saccondeo they protested ; at Commenda, a very turbulent and very patriotic little village near Elmina, they refused to accept the Dutch flag. Whereupon they were bombarded by a Dutch man-of-war ; and the Fantis laid siege to Elmina. The siege is now converted into a blockade, and the inhabitants are beginning to suffer the horrors of imprisonment and famine. At first sight it appears scandalous that the natives of a British protectorate should (in spite of British in fluence) attack a town which bears the flag of a friendly power. But then it must be remembered that these people are acting in self-defence. We cannot send troops into the interior to defend their frontier from invasion ; they know that our Ashanti expedition will never be re peated. Can they be blamed, therefore, for acting as they do? Supposing that England, Scotland, and Wales were independent kingdoms, and that in time of war France were to threaten an invasion, would the two former countries permit Wales to acknowledge itself subject to France, to pay an an nual tribute, and be satisfied with promises of 'strict neutrality ?' Such is the position of the Fantis. It is to be regretted that they have shown eo little deference to our remon strances. But then they are fighting for their homes. The Dutch Demand that we shall force the Fantis to suspend hostilities. We must con quer the country then ; or rather we must exter minate its inhabitants. There is, however, a very simple way of obtaining peace without resort to such desperate measures. The present war be tween the Fantis and the Elminas—this war which is so mortifying to us, and so dangerous to the Dutch and their native allies—can be ended by the Dutch whenever they please. They have only to permit the Elminas to enter into an alliance offensive and defensive with the Fantis to defend the coast territory against invasion. Is it unatural that they should do so ? The Elminas and Fautis are actually the same people ; they are kinsmen and neigh bours ; their real interests are the same. The Ashanti is a foreigner, and an hereditary foe. Yet, incredible as it may appear, the Elminas have refused to abandon the Ashanti alliance in spite of the strenuous exertions of the acting administrator in the first place, and again within the last few days of Sir Arthur Kennedy, the governor-in-chief. But everybody here knows why the Elminas, or rather Dutch, prefer the old time-dishonoured custom of paying ground rent to the King of Ashanti. Emigrants' are re quired. It is Java and Java only which feeds the treasury of the Hague. Java eats a great many lives (I beg to refer the reader to Max Ilavelaar,' a Dutch book full of revelations upon the subject) and requires annual replenishments. Ashanti sup plies Eliniva, and Elmina supplies Java. Slaves are brought to the Fort of St. George d'Elmina, are purchased at a set price per head, and are con fined in dungeons till an opportunity arises for ex portation." The King of Ashanti, the correspon dent adds, now holds captive three British subjects, a messenger from the Governor, sent a year ago, with a friendly message and a present ; Mr. Watts, a missionary agent (coloured), and Prince Ansab, as he is commonly called, an educated Ashanti of the royal family, who is, however, a Government employe at Cape Coast Castle. Au envoy from the King had intimated that on the intercession of the Dutch Governor the prisoners would probably be released, but that dignitary declined to inter tere, on the ground that he had received iustruc tion3 from his Government to preserve a strict neu trality. tAtii ,%i , : , :-(firaftar N N . HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Dec. 22. The Queen, attended by the Countess Revent low, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Princess Royal), and Prince Arthur, visited the Royal Victoria Hospital at Net ley to day. AGRICULTURAL PRUSPECIS. Last week opened with a damp, dull day, there was no rain. Monday morning was fine, although of a doubtful appearance ; still not much rain fell until five p.m. when this was very heavy. Wind S.S.W. ; thermometer 52 deg. barometer 29 -80 in. In Ireland the weather hag been very wet and stormy, with rain and gales alternately. In parts of the south the mills have been stopped by floods—a somewhat unusual cir cumstance ; and in that country wheat sowing has been procrastinated, and is now in a back ward state. In Scotland the weather has been very boisterous, and so much rain has fallen that all the streams have been in heavy flood. Agricultura l operations have been interrupted, and autumnal wheat sowing has not yet been concluded. 01 1 Tuesday the weather held fine throughout the day ; but very heavy rain was experienced at eight p.m. The temperature was high, and barometer down to 29 50in. Land is too wet for any work to be done on it for the present. Our advices from the West Riding of Yorkshire stated : The week opened with dull but rather drier weather on the whole ; slight frost at times." From the East Riding, it was remarked : " Weather ig still mild and open. A great deal of rain has fallen, and the low lands are in many places flooded ; still the growing wheat plant looks well, but frost would now be beneficial, to prevent its top exuberant growth." From Lancashire it is observed : " Frost still keeps off, and we have had unusually mad weather. Agricultural operations pregress favour-, ably, there being no interruption to field labour. Other advices from the same county state :—" Th e weather continues mild, with a good deal of rain. , Wednesday proved a showery day ; wind still blowing strongly from the S.W. ; thermometer 0 0 deg., barometer 29.30 in., with the land too mu ch saturated to be worked upon for any purpose. Thursday morning was fine, but rain fell in the afternoon, and the gales continued to be violen t in many places. From War wickshire our ad vices stated—" Reports of the potato continue very unsatisfactory, and it behoves holders to keep constant watch against the ravages of the disease." Friday was tolerably fine, but heavy ral e fell at night, the temperature remaining v ery high. Our advices from the W est Riding of Yorksh-lc e stated :—" The weather continues mild, with strong breezes at times, and heavy rains in the nigh tts chiefly, so that the grass is greener than at mid summer, and young cattle seem to do well 03 it, where they get warm lodgings at night." The ra was not much rain on Saturday ; the temperature rather lower. Wind W.S.W. ; thermometer 48 deg' baromoter, 29.80 in. The drenching rains at nig ht throughout this week must have done something towards replenishing the water in the wells, a° , tend to give the millers who work on variou s , streams additional power, which they have 1 013 ,g_ wanted. The upward movement in the tra de one week before Christmas is somewhat unusual but not the less acceptable to our agricultu ra ; friends, who cannot complain of the prices paid f° barley, which averaged this week 465. 9d. °0 lir 73,677 quarters, whilst that for wheat was onl y 495. Bd. on 53,771 quarters, so that barley has ~ . brought, in the 150 towns making returns t b P . week, £26,272 more than wheat.—Mark L On 6 Express. MILITARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENC' Yesterday Major-General F. Murray inspecte d on the general parade-grounds at Chatham 1 331 " racks the reinforcements for the 109th Bomb a y Infantry Regiment, which will take their departure from Chatham Garrison by special train for Ports' month, on Saturday, to embark for India. D ie officers who will embark with the troops of the 109th are Lieut. J. H. Campbell, Lieut. A. ElnY ee ' and Ensign F. F. R. Burgess. fo A garrison Board of field officers, consisting Lieut.-Col. G. D. Pritchard, Royal Engine ers ' president ; Major C. W. Burton, Royal Mar ia " Light Infantry ; and Major F. Connor, 2d RoY 3I I assembled at Chatham yesterday, by order f e Major-Gen. Murray, for the examination of t" officers ordered to appear before it as to their g. lla. lifications for promotion. 0) The Ariadne, screw (unarmoured, won - e d frigate, Captain Colin A. Campbell, fitted uP 3 ' seagoing yacht for the service of the Prince 01110 Princess of Wales in the Mediterranean, will steam out of Plymouth harbour to Spithead this ma ll ; ing, and make a preliminary trial of her machin er7 o 9 preparatory to sailing for Malta, &c. The 0131 d, deck of the frigate has been entirely appropri a %, from the galleys aft, to cabins for the accoann e tion of their Royal Highnesses and suite, and th e whole is very elegantly yet chastely fitted. All ' e boats belonging to the ship carry on their bows t,og Prince's plume of feathers and their accompenr" o motto, with the exception of those devoted to I ' l3 ' ci personal service of their Royal Highnesses , a o , they carry the royal arms on a shield, richlY e te a blazoned. A steam lifeboat cutter, built and -t " o f by Mr. John Samuel White, of East Cowes, 1191 , e 0 Wight, a State barge, and a gig pulling six e i - to : are magnificent specimens of boat building. Ah - et gether, the Ariadne will be the finest vessel 0 ' sent afloat as a royal yacht. o ne, Her Majesty's screw frigate Arethusa, 3 0 b 3,141 tons, 500-horse power, Capt. Coote, en t f" r Sheerness harbour at four o'clock on Monday noon, having sailed from Portsmouth on the P ri a vious day. She has been absent from Eng l e j about three years and a half, having been atte oi t o to the Mediterranean fleet. In consequence °f irer illness of Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. W 31 ' 1 .; K.C.8., Naval Commander-in-Chief at the ,° r , ' the customary interchange of salutes with the f a y midable (flagship) were dispensed with. Yeet e 7 ie r, the Arethusa commenced discharging her pe so and in the course of a few days she will be t he mantled and her crew paid off and grante d be usual leave of absence. She will afterwards transferred to the fourth division of Sheerness St e i Reserve. The ship and crew were inspeet el % D of Captain W. King Hall, C. 8., Superinten dee 4 if Sheerness Dockyard, in lieu of Vice-Admira l Baldwin Walker, whose absence, as above st ale was occasioned by serious indisposition. r so o A. PIANO KEY WARMER.—Some in g enious P v- v or ! h a s invented and patented a pian o an d organ key mar 0135 the design of which is to keep th e k eys o f the instr ti— of from chilling the finger s o f th e p l ayer. I can tell 1 P; 0 3 a piano and organ key warmer which is very siulP be e o effective, though I am not aware that it has ev er patented. It consists of a roasted potato. For marl is ters past I have known it to be used by many 11 ';., - 1 divers places. The roasted potato, wrapped in 5 " 1 0 1' flannel, is taken to church in a small bag, from vil l°11 0 ; tt a is brought out when needed, to be held in the han ds ,, - D itli i , fair lady who acts as the unpaid organist or har n3 ' player. Fingering the icy keys of the organ in church on a winter's day i 3 certainly a chilling Pc'r.„..efo auco ; and there are some who read this may thane Tor the hint of the roasted potato. It will retain its ing the service. One trial will prove the fact, Bs t " vertising grocers say.—Once a Week. ed ' [ADVERTISEMENT.]-llolloway's Ointment r Dangerous diseases would not present thernselo; fee l often if timely attention were bestowed on the fir 6. 00 1 ,,, 1 ings which betray a departure from health. h lo ' .4 11 ) life-long maladies spring from neglecting trifling o'o4 toms ! 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