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THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses ; also Avolo, the Marvel of the Nineteenth Century, Alfred Bradbury, Mdlle. Montero , M. Napoli, F. Clifton, and Samwell's Performing Dogs. Commence at 7.30. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET 4 , Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. ls. Box-offico open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regenfs-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. Astrt 1 4 • kA .4 , -,-11S1111 .r,OVDON, THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 1868. Entering Parliament with so enormous a majority, it is certainly not surprising that the Chiefs of the Opposition are beginning already to forecast the arrangement of a new and Liberal Administration. It would be matter for astonishment if it were other wiser They feel themselves, naturally enough, to be Masters of the Situation. And, in consequence of this, as rational men, they look forward to the exceed ing probability, not to say dead certainty, of their tak ing office sooner or later—sooner more probably than later. The difficulty, it was conjectured before the old Parliament was dissolved, before the present appeal had been made to the country —one of the principal difficulties at least foreseen at that time in regard to the formation of a Liberal Cabinet, was felt to be one arising out of what is called across the Channel an embarassment of riches. There were so many claim ants on the front opposition bench, both in the Lords and in the Commons, but principally in the Commons, for nomination to one or other of the great aces of State, in the construction of the prospective Cabinet, in the formation of a Liberal Administration ! Happily, for the next Prime Minis ter, when his time comes for the selection of his col leagues, something, at any rate, of this anticipated difficulty, has been cleared away by the results of the General Election itself, a General Election now all but completed. By the Right Hon. Tilos. MILNER GIBSON'S rejection at Ashton-under-Lyne, one of those who might reasonably have looked to the future Premier for office, has been summarily swept out of view altogether. In the Marquis of HARTINGTON, at any rate for the time being, another claimant for a seat in the next Liberal Cabinet, has disappeared. Mr. BRIGHT'S objection to many of the formalities of official life—to kneel ing on a soft cushion in the Council Chamber to kiss hands, for example, —to dressing himself out in that hideous Court suit, the absurdities of which everybody recognises —to these and to a num ber of other fantastic ceremonials sufficiently ludicrous every one of them in themselves, but simply inte.er able to a man of Mr. BRIGHT'S strong common sense and disdain of what lie would probably call so much tomfoolery : objections like these confronting him, as it were, upon the very threshold, preclude (it is felt by all, it is feared by his more intimate friends and adherents) the honourable member for Birming ham from assuming the position of a Cabi net Minister. Lord RUSSELL, again having ong been recognized as such by every one but him self—now at last wou!ol seem himself to have begun to suspect that, as a Cabinet Minister, he is little I better than an anachronism. But, together with Lord RUSSELL there are others of the old world Whigs ' whom it would be simply ridiculous for any one to dream of seeing again inducted into official life as members of an Administration. Such past and gone Mummies of Ministers let us say, as Lord HALIFAX and Lord STANLEY Of ALDERLEY. They, at least, we are (thank GoD) rid of altogether. Degraded long since to the position of mere Political Fogies, they are, beyond all manner of doubt, Let aside as men who are obsolete, cushioned, shelved com pletely. it might be, doubtless, if only out of respect to him, as a statesman who has been himself thrice Prime Minister of England, that a place even now might be allotted to Lord RUSSELL in the next Liberal Cabinet—as a Minister, as the phrase is,with out portfolio. Just as was done some years ago in re gard to that Nestor of the Whig Party, the late Marquis of LANSDOWNE. And Lord LANSDOWNE had never been Prime Minister, whereas Lord RUSSELL has, and that thrice. But the nomination of such a a nonentity mLord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, or of such another nonentity as Lord HALIFAX to any similar honorary position, much more, be it said, to any post requiring administrative energy or ability, would involve, in itself, nothing less than the covering with ridicule of any Cabinet so monstrously overweighted. They, too, therefore, are as completely out of the question, though for a different reason, as Mr. MILNER GIBSON, or as the Marquis of HARTINGTON. Again, there are certain flighty, eccentric, unreliable Liberals hitherto seated on the back benches, or below the gangway, who might just probably, had they been returned to the new House, have entertained a faint idea of being appointed or reappointed to lesser offices in a future Liberal Administration ; but who, not having been returned at all, are now swept aside from among the number of even—day-dream ing aspirants ! Conspicuous among these, being Mr. HORSMAN, Mr. ROEBUCK, Mr. MILL, and Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE. The difficulty hitherto looked forward to, therefore, as threatening Mr. GLADSTONE, immediately on his being called upon to select his colleagues in the construction of a new Liberal Cabi net—that dreaded difficulty of an embarrassment of riches— has been already very much and very ob viously diminished. Abstracting (from the list of those at one time thought of as just possible colleagues of his) merely the names we our selves have here quite casually enumerated—viz., those of Mr. MILNER GIBSON, Lord HARTINGTON, Lord HALIFAX, Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, Mr. OSBORNE, Mr. MILL, Mr. ROEBUCK, Lord RUSSELL even, and, we would add here, Locd RUSSELL'S some time Under. Foreign Secretary in the House of Com mons as a politician utterly unfitted for office, if for no other reason, because of his late disgraceful speech upon the hustings at Southwark, Mr. LAYARD—Mr. GLADSTONE'S choice of colleagues will be narrowed to the really able and energetic members seated around him or immediately behind him in the House. Conspicuous among whom there will be of course Mr. CIIILDERS, Mr. W. E. FORSTER, and, (happily for his party, restored once more to the House of Commons) the most gifted of all our diplomatists, the new mem ber for Tamworth, the Right Hon. Sir HENRY BULWER. Conspicuous in the Lords, on the other hand, will be the Duke of ARGYLL and the Earl of CLARENDON. From statesmen and administrators such as these, the new Premier, directly his time comes, will hive to select his colleagues in the next Liberal Cabinet. able because the adjoining county of Yorkshire— which is very similar to Lancashire, and where it differs does so, as one would have supposed, to the advantage of Convervatism—is decidedly Liberal. Why, then, has Lancashire given its voice • against the Liberal leader and the Liberal policy ? - Why has Lancashire severed itself from the.legisla tion of the next few years—Lancashire, which, the Marquis of SALISBURY said, was to rule England ? We have already explained the reasons ; we foresaw them, and foretold that which has happened. Very briefly, then, we would repeat that, in the first place, there is a hostility of races ; the Irish land in large numbers at Liverpool, and go up and down the county lowering the price of labour, and therefore setting the Lancashire operatives against them. Next, the No-Popery spirit—which is quite distinct from real Protestantism, from the Pro testantism which demands equal rights for all— is nowhere so prevalent as in Lancashire. In the third place, the operatives, as a rule, like to oppose their masters, partly in order to exhibit their inde pendence, partly because they have not forgiven the masters their opposition to Factory legislation, and especially the Ten Hours' Bill. Lastly, the personal popularity of Lord DERBY, gained, and deservedly gained, by his conduct during the cotton famine, has greatly assisted his party. When, therefore, the issue before the country was a measure of justice to Ireland, the Lancashire operatives, who hate the Irish both for their nationality and their religion, vehemently opposed the measure, and as it was brought in by the Liberal party they opposed it still more. Finally, we have to notice the unexpectedly Con servative feeling of the English counties. It was thought that when the county franchise was re duced to £l2, Dissenting shopkeepers of the small towns would be found so strong that the Conserva tive party would be in a great measure over thrown. This has not proved the case ; and that it has not is due in great measure to the country clergy. It must be remembered that these have identified (disastrously, as we think) the Irish Church with the English Church, and that they believe the mainte nance of the latter depends upon the preservation of the former. They have therefore, as a rule, used all their great influence on the side of the Conserva tive party. We do not complain of them for doing so ; we believe that they have made a mistake which will most injuriously affect them hereafter, that they have only given another proof of the irre concilable difference there is between them and the towns which, after all, do rule the country ; but we are not surprised that they have taken their present course. The result of it has been, that the counties have exhibited an amount of Conservatism which they would not otherwise have shewn, which has for the time falsified the predictions of those who anticipated that the £l2 householder in the country towns would carry all before him. THE result of the elections is now so far certain that we can estimate it without waiting for the con clusion of the few remaining contests. The Liberal majority will be something under 120, or say fifteen more than the 100 which we assigned to the Opposition before the elections began. It is impos sible that the Conservatives can continue to hold office long in the face of a hostile force so over whelmingly large. Even those of them who have the most boundless faith in their leader's skill as a tactician admit that this majority cannot, at all events for the present, be withstood, and that they must for a time go out of office, though, as they affirm, only for a very short time. But the elections have an interest far beyond their effect upon the position of the two parties. The independent poli tician values them less for the changes which they will cause than for the spirit which they indicate. There are a few broad facts concerning which there is no room for doubt. All the arithmetical feats in which party journalists delight will not explain away this fact—that Ireland, Scotland, and Wales have decided for Mr. GLADSTONE'S policy ; or this—that Lancashire has decided against it ; or this—that the extension of the county franchise has not elicited that amount of Liberalism in the counties which was anticipated. Let us consider these facts, and try to estimate their importance. In the first place, it was obvious from the outset that Ireland would pronounce as it has done. The circumstance that the Roman Catholics are to the Protestants as ten to one (the proportion on the poll book is somewhat smaller) rendered it inevitable that the voice of the Irish people would be given against the Protestant Established Church. The verdict has been even more decisive than we expected. In Ultra-Protestant Belfast and Londonderry, the supporters of Mr. GLADSTONE'S policy have won two seats. The opponents of that policy explain the circumstance by mentioning that the Presbyterians voted for the Liberal candidates. But this fact aggravates, rather than extenuates, the importance of the decision. If the Presbyterians, the Protestants of Protestants, pronounce against the Irish Church —pronounce against Lord MAYo's scheme of g iving them Government grants, what hope is there for that institution, for that scheme ? Their fellow-religionists in Scotland have arrived at the same result. In Scotland, Protes tantism is far less identified with State religion than in Ireland, and there the decision has been pro nounced with an approach to unanimity that is quite unprecedented. Not only do all the Scotch boroughs, without a single exception,. return Liberals, but ancient Conservative strongholds in the Scotch counties have been wrested from the great territorial magnates, to the surprise as much of the victors as of the vanquished. That the Duke of BUCCLEUCH should be unable to retain the seat which his son held, that in Peeblesshire and Selkirk he should be within four votes of losing another seat, that Sir W. STIRLING-MAXWELL should be put to flight by a London -alderman and Major WALKER by a London attorney, are facts perfectly astounding to those who know anything of social life in Scotland, who know the old feeling of clanship which still exists among the Scotch tenantry, and the reverence which they have for their lairds. But the Scotch are an intensely religious people, and their religion over comes all the traditions of fealty to their hereditary chiefs. Add to this the very important consideration that they have long leases, and therefore are not at the mercy of their landlords as the English tenant farmers are, and we are able to estimate the force of this great demonstration in behalf of religious equality. In this respect Wales is very similar to Scotland. The Welsh are nothing if they are not religious, and though they, too, have great regard for the old Welsh chieftains, they do not hesitate to reject them in favour of " Sassenach" strangers, if these come forward as the representatives of religious equality. We turn now to Lancashire; and here we find the voice of the people as decisively against Mr. GLAD STONE'S policy as in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales it has been decisively in favour of it. Three Liberal Cabinet Ministers, including the Liberal leader himself, have been rejected by Lancashire constituencies, and, remembering that this great county is very little associated with agriculture, and is closely identified with manufactures, this rejection is a phenomenon which requires explanation. It is the more remark- THE SUN, LONDON, HUBSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1868.1 NOTES UPON LIFE ASSURANCE. A well-written and important pamphlet has just been issued by the Rev. John Hodgson, M.A., for merly Vicar of St. Peter's, in the Isle of Thanet, and now secretary to the Clergy Mutual Life Assur ance Society, entitled "Notes upon Life Assurance." The object of the work is to show what life assur ance really is, whence it is, and bow it is ; more eApecially with reference to the Clergy Mutual Society. This society was founded in 1829 for the purpose of affording the clergy an opportunity of insuring upon the most bcneficial terms, and in every form suitable to their particu lar circumstances. That the right course was struck out at first is amply proved by the solid and substantial position the society now enjoys, stand ing, as it does, amongst the best and safest institutions of the present time. From the first everything has been open and above board, so it has continued, and the wisdom of such a policy is shown by the fact that without the aid of a single agent to seek out new business, or the expense of a single shilling for what is called agency or commis sion, the society has now an annual income that en titles it to the greatest confidence. The pamphlet now under notice is addressed more particularly to the clergy ; and here it may be remarked how few are thoroughly acquainted with the principles of life assurance, or able to form a judgment as to the comparative merits of the various schemes in rela tion to it; but a careful perusal of Mr. Hodgson's pamphlet will show m the clearest possible light the importance of the subject to those who have no capital either in reversion or expectancy, and hav ing done that very few will rise from the perusal of the little book without making a resolve to avail themselves of the writer's advice, and at once taking steps to join a society offering such advantages to them its " the Clergy Mutual." MISS BATEMA.N.—Our readers will bear in mind the fact that this gifted lady's engagement draws rapidly to a close, and that great as are the audiences that nightly throng the Haymarket Theatre, " Leah " can only be played a few nights longer, as on Monday, December 7, Miss Bateman will appear in a new play written by the same author (Dr. Mosenthal), entitled " Pietra." SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.— Ilanders "Israel in Egypt" will be performed, under the direction of ?dr. Costa, to-morrow evening, by special de sire of their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. The performance will commence at half-past 7 o'clock. THE NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY.—This great institution, consisting of nearly 600 of the most efficient choralists of London, announce the opening of a ninth season on Wednesday next, with a performance, for the first time in Exeter Hall, of Dr. Sterndalo Bennett's new cantata, " The Woman of Samaria." In addition to which Mendolssohn's favourite cantata, "The First Walpurgis Night," will be performed, and a selection from Ilandel's "Acis and Galatea." The band and chorus will number nearly seven hundred performers. Mr. G. W. Martin, the founder of the society, will occupy his usual place as con ductor. Miss Lucy Franklein, Mr. G. Perron, Mr. Lewis Thomas, and other artists will take the solo parts. There are a few vacancies in the choir; particulars of mem bership may be obtained at the offices, 14 and 15, Exeter hall. MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—The annual Smithfield Club Cattle Show is announced to take place the early part of next month, when, we feel assured, that the many visitdrs thereto will, as hitherto, patronise the far-famed wax-work exhibition in Baker-street, where innumerable life-size portrait-models have, since last year, been added; and among which we may mention those of the great African explorer Dr. Livingstone, Lord Napier, of Magdala, the late Emperor Theodore, of Abyssinia, the celebrated Madame Rachel, &c., &c. . _ PRIMARY EDUCATION (IRELAND).—The Royal Commission on Primary Education resumed their sittings on Tuesday, the 24th inst., at the offices of the Commis .sion, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin. There were pre- Mr. Gibson, Mr Stokes, sad sent—the Earl of Dunraven, th e Bisho p of Meath, Lord Clonbrock, Sir R. Kane, Mast er Brooke, Rev. Dr. Wilso n, Rev. B. M. Cowie, Mr. Dens e, Ppruonfenses, reowr eSuliin attendance.ivan. The secretaries, Messrs. May and The following officers at Chatham garrison have been granted leave of absence by the Duke of Cam bridge until the dates named : —Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Ward, Royal Engineers, till the 31st of De cember; Lieutenant W. J. M'Cartney, Royal En gineers, till the 14th of December ; and Lieutenant H. Everitt, Royal Marine Artillery, till the 20th of December. The reductions in the Government establish ments, Royal Asenal, which have been going on for the past two months, have been suspended, the men being put upon short time, and consequently less pay, leaving off work at the dinner hour on Fri day and not resuming it again until the Monday morning following. The amount of wages thus reduced must form a considerable item in the estimates voted for the manufacturing departments for the financial year terminating on the 31st of March next. The two companies of the 46th Regiment, sta tioned for some time at Pembroke Dock, have left for Winchester, to there join the head-quarters of the Regiment just returned from India. Capt. Fraser, 14th Regiment, has assumed the command of the troops at Landguard Fort, Har wich, vice Capt. Miller, 48th Regiment, who has rejoined his depot at Colchester. Lieut. Hollings worth and 103 men, 6th Regiment, Lieut. Powell, Ensign Pollard, and 41 men, 96th Regiment, have proceeded from Colchester via Stratford for Ports mouth, for conveyance to India. This draught was expected to IMO Portsmouth yesterday. LITERLTURE, The Poetical TVorks of Henry Wadsworth Long fellow. Edited and Prefaced by Robert Buchanan. Vol. I. Edward Moxon and Co. Apropos to Professor Longfellow's recent, or shall we say present visit (his fourth) to England, the Messrs. Moxon are now, in their recognized capacity as the Poets' Publishers, issuing from the press a very charming collective reprint of the Poetical Works of that greatest living representa tive of American literature. The first volume is the only one which has yet made its appear ance. But, although merely a first volume of a new edition, it justifies us in welcoming it at once as the most compact and beautiful edition which has yet, in this country at least, made its appear ance. Costlier editions there no doubt are—edi tions de luxe adorned with edges of gold, and covers of morocco, and embellishments daintily drawn and exquisitely engraved—but for an edition intended simply for reading, and treasuring up, and carrying about in one's pocket, or in one's valise, commend us to this handiest and completest of them all, published by Messrs. Moxon, and edited and prefaced by Robert Buchanan. how " Edited" by Mr. Buchanan wo hardly know ; but, " Prefaced" ic certainly is by him, and that, too, very grace fully. At the same time we cannot but regard it as wholly uncalled for that, incidentally in one per ' tion of his brief yet sufficient Preface, the Editor of this new Edition of Longfellow should go out of his way to assert very invidiously that the American poet's " Evangeline " is immeasurable supe rior to Goethe's " Herman and Dorothea." " Her man and Dorothea," says Mr. Buchanan, has the great distinctive merit and advantage, of course, of being the precursor or predecessor of "Evangeline :" but otherwise, according to him, Goethe's poem is in no way to be named in the same breath with Longfellow's. Now, we yield to no one in our admiration for the exquisite grace and tenderness of that transatlantic idyll of "Evangeline." And yet —against this dictum so depreciatory of Goethe's idyllic masterpiece, we must, and do protest, as at once ungrateful and undeserved. Say whatever Mr. Buchanan may to the contrary, " Herman and Dorothea" commands, and will ever command, the tears and love of all those who know what an idyll ought to be. The foremost to assert this would, we feel certain, be Longfellow himself. And, for one, we could never understand, we shall never be able to understand, the good taste or the wisdom of those who, to praise one man, must needs, to that end, depreciate another. As an idyll of perfect b.?auty, " Herman and Doro thea" has never yet been surpassed, even, pace Mr. Buchanan, by the " Evangeline" of Professor Long fellow. Nominally the first volume of this collec tive edition of the Poetical Works of Longfellow, contains his narrative poems—such, for example, as " Evangeline," and " Hiawatha," and the " Court ship of Miles Standish," and the " Tales from a Wayside Inn," and minor poems, let us add, like " Excelsior" and "The Village Blacksmith." But, even here, we cannot understand why, among other poems of a like character, place should not have been found for such a complete miniature narrative as that of " The Slave's Dream." Probably, the Editor would reply, Because its production, apart here, would destroy the completeness of the collec tion of poems, afterwards to be introduced, having especial relation to the question of Slavery. Proof positive, this is, however, as we regard it, that the sib-division here hit upon for the Poetical Works of Professor Longfellow, as a whole, is one purely ar bitrary in its character. Whatever may be thought in regard to these points of detail, however, the present Edition is, in all essential particulars, we repeat, charming, and ought to he welcomed, as no doubt it will be welcomed, accordingly. The Complete Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb. With an Essay on his Life and Genius by George Augustus Sala. Vol. I. pp., 537. Edward Moxon and Co. Nothieg could well be handsomer in its " g" - up" and general appearance, internal and extern; than this first volume of a comprehensive at collective reprint of Charles Lamb's Works re Correspondence. Yet, here, upon the very thrt hold, we cannot but feel ourselves constrained take exception to the very title of the book as a who and to the very lettering of that title upon back of it. As it appears here, in regard to t . title, the Correspondence takes precedence of t Works, while, in regard to the lettering of tl title on the outside of the volume, the CORRE PONDENCE, appears in big capitals, the Won in little capitals underneath, with the insignificau almost of an ampisand. And the peculiarity this disportionate arrangement is borne out by the circumstance that Volume One, instead of being devoted to the pro luction of " Elia," or of "Rosamond Gray," or of " John Woodvil," or of the " Poems" —" Album Verses" Mr. Sala calls them deprecia tingly in his rather supercilious Prefatory Essay (though for our own part we should certainly not dub as mere Album verses such a true poem as " Old Familiar Faces")—Volume One, we say, in stead of containing anything of all this, com prises within it Charles Lamb's Correspondence, and (barring Mr. Sala's Essay) nothing but his Correspondence. It makes a goodly tome for all that cf from 500 to 600 pages of delightful chit-chat (prattle Thackeray would call it), in the shape of off-hand letters from Charles Lamb to Coleridge, to Southey, to the IVordsworths, to Manning, to the llazlitts, and to the Quaker Poet Barton. With Mr. Sala's Essay we are almost, dis posed to quarrel—it is so undisguisedly and per versely depreciatory. Ile at any rate is not in fected with that disease of Biographers or Biogra phical essayists, which Lord Macaulay happily defined as the Liles Boswelliana. Nothing of that sort. On the contrary—reading this essay we find Mr. Sala grumbling, through we don't know how many discursive pages, over the little that Charles Lamb after all has written. Pity he did not write more ! That is the whole drift of his argu ment. A lamentation that might be ap plied with much more force and reason to Thomas Gray or to Iloratius Flaccus. When in point of fact it is the quality and not the quantity that the true critic looks to. Bat, even then, Mr. Sala, when he comes to descant upon the little that (according to his showing) Charles Lamb did write, tells us that after all there were only about half-a-dozen of the Essays of Elia (he obliges us with their names) that were really and truly so very remarkable ! For the rest of them he says—Why, dear me, many others have written quite as well ! Such and sack an Essay of Elia, says he (naming it) —Why, surely we all know in regard to that that it is not a bit better than such and such a paper (naming it too) among the " Sketches by Boz." Such and such another Elian Essays (nam ing it)-INrhy, Thackeray wrote quite as cleverly in such and such a number of his Yellow-plush. And so forth. All this, in a preliminary " Essay on the Life and Genius of Charles Lamb !" And that too an essay written itself in a style so helter-skelter and at random that it speaks in one part almost indignantly of the superlative excellence of all (!) Defoe's writings, makes mention of Leman Blanchard, talks of Off Alley, in the Adelphi, between Duke-street and Buckingham-street, and outrages the reader at page x. with such an egregious slip of bad grammar as—" Under different circum stances [he is at his old work, depreciating Elia] he might have been as copious and infinitely more edifying than Horace Walpole." Again—where he is incidentally touching ulna Thomas de Qiincey (as he touches upon almost everything and everybody in turn apropos des buttes) ---he extorts from us, by a most astounding diebon of his in regard to the effects, or rather the non-effects, as he would have us believe, of opium—he extorts from us our most positive assurance (we speak not by any means as opium -eaters, but as having once most effectually partaken of opium) that it, opium, does give mental and bodily pleasure, and that, moreover, pleasure of the most exquisite descrip tion. Altogether, we cannot but regard this ['roll minary Essay on the Life and Genius of Charles Lamb, by Mr. Sala, as a mistake. But, as for the edition itself, judging it from the first volume, it is one deserving a place of honour upon the book , shelves of any library, however fastidiously selected. ANOTHER ROY AL COMMISSION. The Gazette announces the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the operation of the sani ;ary laws for towns, villages, and rural districts in 3reat Britain and Ireland, so far as these laws apply to iewerage, drainage, water supply, removal of refuse, pre iention of over-crowding, and other conditions conducive ,o the public health ; upon the laws for preventing the ntroduction and spreading of contagious and infectious liseases and of epidemics injurious to the public health ; fpon the local administration of the sanitary laws ; and fpon the operation of that part of the registration system which relates to certificates of causes of death," &c. The tommissioners are Lord Northbrook, the Earl of Romney, Lord Elcho, Mr. C. B. Adderley, Mr. H. A. Bruce, Sir T. Watson, Bart., Sir Charles Lanyon, Lieutenant-Colonel 7. B. Evart, R.E., Mr. J. R. M`Clean, C.E., Mr. G. :live, Mr. F. S. Powell, Mr. A. S. Ayrton, Mr. R. S. kytonn, Mr. B. Shaw, Mr. J. Lambert, Mr. J. Paget, F.R.C.S., Mr. H. W. Ramsey, Dr. H. W. Acland, Dr. Christison, Dr. W. Stokes, and Dr. S. 11. Clerk. DRIVING THROUGH AN ACT OF PA.RLIA- MENT. It Is a proverb that any Act of Parliament can be driven thrGugh in a coach and six. The Refreshment Houses Act a case in point. The Act of 1864 provides that no person within the limits of this Att shall open or keep Dpen any refreshment house, or sell or expose for sale or ;onsumption in any refreshment house any refreshments )r any article whatsoever, between the above-mentioned 'lours, namely, between the hours of one and four in the morning. A refreshment-house keeper in the Haymarket has been summoned for infringement of the Act. The police visited the house at five minutes past one, and found men and women drinking therein. In another hour he went again and found some of them drunk. The keeper of the house said they were lodgers. When he went the door was closed, and his knock was %nswered by "Too late." The watchword "Police," however, gained him admission. It was proved that men and women were seen leaving the house during prohibited hours. Mr. Tyrwhitt dismissed the summons with evident regret, quoting several judgments as precedents, but hinted that he would rant one if the police consulted on the matter. It appears to be a very simple thing to evade the Act. The keepers swear that all the refreshments were served before one, and though the police know better they cannot prove it. A landlord is not bound to turn out his cus tomers on the stroke of one, and thus the Act is worthless. The neighbourhood of the Haymarket is full of places where supper and drink can be had almost at any time. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW. The Smithfield Club Cattle Show for the present year opens at the Agricultural Hall, Islington, on Monday, the 7th of December. A visit to the building shows that already the managers are busily engaged in carrying out the preparations incidental to what is likely to prove one of the largest shows that has been held for several years past. The fact that Parliament will he sitting at the time of the exhibition will no doubt tend in a considerable measure to the success of the undertaking. The entries have been made with unusual spirit, and it is anticipated that many breeders who hitherto` have hung back from sending cattle for exhibition will this year submit their stock to the decision of the judges. The Cen tral Chamber of Agriculture intend to take advantage of the number of agriculturists who will be attracted to London to hold their annual meeting at the Salisbury Hotel on the oth December, when several of the existing rules will be considered with a view to their amendment or alteration. At the same time a vice chairman will be elected for 1869, and eight members of council elected in the place of the following members who retire, viz. :—Messrs. John Byron, Thomas Chandler, Charles Clay, Thomas Duckham, William Gardner, John Hemsley, Edward Holland, and W. E. Long. Prior to the general meeting, a meeting of the Council will be held, when, amongst other matters, aresolution on the cattle plague rule, proposed by the North Cheshire Chamber, and resolutions on a national poor rate, proposed by Mr. H. George Andrews, of the Somersetshire Chamber, will be discussed. These meetings, it is expected, will be largely attended by deputed members from provincial chambers. Dr. Tait bas been on a visit to his new diocese, and preached last Sunday at St. George's, Ramsgate, and St Peter's, Margate. We are informal Major General Sir C. W. D. man d noral o ex• tary )gical not of ' crib cracked" being the Adelphi Hotel, Sheffield. The thieves forced open a locked bedroom door, and by removing a slido in a chest of drawers succeeded in abstracting from a locked drawer immediately underneath the slide £2OO. They got safe off. The Nottingham Guardian publishes a letter from the Under Sheriff of the county, which it says "most com pletely disproves Mr. Denison's charge against the High Sheriff, of partiality in the discharge of his office, by making the arrangements for the county elections in order to favour a party." At the Salford Town llall on Tuesday, before Mr. Trafford, a young Irishman, named James Durkin, was com mitted for trial at the assizes, for personating a voter during the late election contest in the borough. Another youth, under age, who had attempted to personate his own father was discharged. There was a desperate riot at Barnsley on Tuesday by which about twenty persons were injured. There were about 15,000 pcoplo in the market place jostling the police about. The police had to draw their cutlassks, and several persons were severely hurt. The superintendent telegaphed to Wakefield and 54 armed men arrived by train. The riot act was read. 'I he Pall Mall Gazette believes that the announce ment made in the Telegraph as to the new Cabinet are in accordance, in some important particulars, with the agree ment previou sly come to. It also understands that there aro gocd grounds for the presumption that Mr. Bright will consult both his own independence and the interests of the new Government by remaining ono of its unofficial sup porters. KICKING A BISHOP.—The late Dr. Blomfield had a quarrel with au Essex rector—paper war and so forth between the parties. The rector called at London House, and the interview was not of a very calm description. The Bishop, in the heat of the debate, kept eddyin4 his chair nearer to that of the Essex rector, who at last said, "My lord, if you come any nearer, I'll kick your shins." It was recently stated that a working painter at Worcester, named Albert, had picked up for £4 or .£5 a picture (" Christ bearing his Cross"), about which there had been a great deal of excitement, and that he had sold it to a Worcester tradesman for 700 guineas. A contemporary now says that the present owner. of the picture—a Mr. Milton, a grocer—has been offered .£1,500 for it. Mr. Milton has refused the offer, which, we are told, was made on be half of a wealthy nobleman. Lord Amberley having been written to with a view of eliciting his op . nio non the question of Sunday evening lectures, his lordship has replied that ho does not wish to open all places of amusement on Sunday. The object he sought to obtain by the Sunday Lectures Bill is fully secured by the decision of Mr. Justice Pyles, of the Com mon Pleas, in the case of Baxter v. Langley. That decision establishes the legality of the lectures and sacred music which Lord Amberley asked the Commons to sanction. No further need ca❑ now exist of appealing to Parliament to sanction the delivery of lectures accompanied by sacred music. The Church News remarks that the S. Alban's case is before the Privy Council. Cn neither side are the arguments new, though Mr. James put some old arguments —such for example as those contained in the prefaces to the Directorium Anglicanum, in a new light. Dr. Stephens avoided anything prolate and was insufferably dull, and Dr. Deane had evidently not taken the trouble to get up the case. The Archbishop of York, from time to time, pre tended to know something about it, but his pretensions were self-evident assumptions. Lord Westbury's remarks wcrc' always pointed and pertinet.t. DEATH OF CAPTAIN G. H. COULSON, R.N. We (Northern Express) regret to have to record the death of Captain Coulson, R.N., which sad event occurred on Tuesday morning, at his residence, Newbrough, The deceased gentleman, who was about 70 years of age, had been ailing for some time, and the death of his brother, the late high sheriff of the county of Northumberland, which occurred quite recently, had a marked effect upon him. The late captain was a magistrate for the county, and was universally beloved and respected, He has left a large - - _ LPJAPY to Pi1.4..c4the41,9P, ~ ~. , tirtert• CI 44 HER iIIAI.ESTY. WINDS OR CASTLE, Nov. 25. The Queen, accompani(xt by the Crown Prin cess of Prussia and Princess Teck, drove out yes terday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompani I by Princess Beatrice, walked in the grounds this, morning. LATEST INTELL MENU,. (REurEit's TE LEGRAMS.) INIJIA. (Via Brindisi.) BOMBAY, Nov. 7. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, reached this Presidency before the cold season set in. No better accounts have been received from the famine districts, where aim.) great scarcity of water prevails. The district o 1 Kamiarivar is suffering from the same cause, and no less than 60,000 per sons are said to have arrived at Guzerat from the famine-stricken district of Marivar. Her Highness Secundia, the Beguma of Cchopal, is dead. She was a stattrich ally of the British during the Sepoy mutiny, The campaign against the Husora rebels has now been formally proclaimed at an end. CALCUTTA, Nov. G. It is believed that the Aimeer of Afghanistan i$ unable to leave Cabool for Feshawur. Sir John Lawrence is expocted to start for Eng land on the 20th inst. The crop returns in Lowzr Bengal have become more favourable. The Thibetans are stated to have received their claims for tribute from the Bhootan Government. BOMBAY, Nov. 20. The Bank of Bombay has raised the rate of dis. count one per cent. CHINA. SHANGHAI, Oct. 1 4 . A lighthouse is being erected on the Yubleaf Island (at the mouth of the river Yang-tse-Kiang) , and will be completed in May next. Attempte d outrages on foreigners aro again reported from Formosa. The anti-missionary mania is spreading as far as Shanghai. It is proposed to establish cotton spinning ma chinery at the latter place. Great excitement pre vails in consequence, and petitions for the preven' tion of the undertaking are being presented to th e authorities. HONGKONG, OCt. 20. The Union Dock Company is progressing 13 ' vourably. __ It is reported the Council of llongkong will AP' propriate a sum for the reception of the Duke °f Edinburgh. The Legislative Council has met twice and I)W ° the estimates for 1868 and 1869, amounting t° eight millions of dollars. The Building Ordinance has been referred to committee. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Oct. 1 3 . The Victoria Parliament has been prorogued' and is expected to re-assemble in January next. The appropriations were voted, including the a rrear° due to the former Governor, Sir Charles Darling, amounting to nearly £3,000. The Government intends raising the loan of two millions for railway purposes, in London, and 3 further sum of half a million for waterworks . Melbourne. The effects of the late Legislative dead.-lock 31.° disappearing, and confidence is rc-established. The Meat Preserving Company is in full oper3- tion. The following gold ships have sailed for linglo l —The Benvenue 23,625 ounces; the Yorkshlre' 24,125 ounces ; the steamer Great Brit 62,125 ounces, and the George Thompso n Wit 30,500 ounces. SYDNEY, OCt. 10. On the assembling of the Sydney Parlia o3 c i LI Mr. Parkes, the Colonial Secretary, resigned/ P Mr. Docker was appointed his successor. Mr. Tighe has succeeded Mr. Docker as "-- master- General. ADELAIDE, Oct. 13. t The Ministry has been defeated. Mr. 113 r A met' formed a new Administration, which also s a- he defeat on the land policy. Mr. hay attempted t-0, formation of a new Cabinet, but has been o' l cessful. JAPAN. YOKOHAMA, Oct. The native Government has notified that flie of chant vessels accepting charters for the 1)0- Nugan do so on their own risk. 51 No particular damage was done nor were lives lost through the recent earthquakes at ~iio,o, The boiler of the steamer Hermanus exPl °d , ti g Six men, comprising the whole of the engineers staff, were killed. MALTA. 25 , VALLETTA, Nov. - ac e Her Majesty's ship Caledonia, with Lord Cl3:ire Paget, arrived here on the 17th inst. from Her Majesty's ship Royal Oak has not arricetej Her Majesty's Indian transport Serapis Brri pp here from Portsmouth at midnight on ) 1 ‘ )/3 with the 3d Hussars, and the reliefs 1,200 yea all. She left for Alexandria to-day. All WellcoY A dangerous floating wreck, and also it 10 marked in white "G. G.," or "G. and Co., reported between Galita and Pantelleria. EGYPT. CAIRO, N O- * r ad, Lord Napier of Magdala arrived here Ye ste. v ot• and to-day, at ten o'clock, the ceremony of 111 10 p ing the Viceroy with the Order of the Sta r 01 will take place at the palace. HUNGARY • PEsTif, jJovj;roe In to-day's sitting of the Lower house' Eotroes delivered a brilliant speech on the cl u of nationalities in Hungary. Cr ° : In to-day's sitting of the Upper House the ed in tian Magnates appeared. They will be rece'cl the Emperor to-morrow. NEW YORI;, SO'' sot 0 u To-morrow being set apart by the Vreitioti. a day of thanksgiving, business wi ll be ssPe -• MADRID, - -NT ° Pot The Gazette of to-day publish es a dec' i o; poning the municipal election s until tl3,Bpret° of December ; also a decree of Admiral o f th° abolishes the old grades of brigadiers-gaer3; navy, and substitutes those of rear-ad ro i " admiral, and admiral. jCh wl th D, At