The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-31 00:00:00

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HARLEQUIN Puss IN Boors, A.ND THE MILLER'S SONS. with now and magnificent Scenery by 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 10 till 5 daily. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, A 111.110 OF ROMAN' E. Messrs. Buckstone. Sothern, Compton. Chippendale, &c.: Mesdames Ada Cavendish, C'iinnendale, Burke. Fitzwilliam, &e. Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. essrs. Comp ton, Kendal, Weaihersby, Buckstone, jun., &c. ; Mesdames Wright. Burke, Gwynn, &c. Commence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress. Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING. DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO (Am BD WELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. kt a quarter to 8. MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter. Mr. Benja min Webster, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips. Mr. Stuart, Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. 'Romer. Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leclercq,Mrs. T,,eigh Murray, and Miss Nelly ll arris. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Mans ger,Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. After which (at 8 o'clock) Dion Boucicault's new drama. in f cur acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life. Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray. C. Harcourt, J.Cr. . Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by Sir. P. Lloyds and assistants. To conclude with VASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daliy from 10 till 5. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Solo LesEee and Manageress, Mrs Swanhorough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30. THE N'IDOW HUNT. Messrs. Cl►rke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames But .in and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD 01 , ' TI..L CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, F. Hughes, L. Maitland, &c. To conclude pith A COMICAL COUNTESS. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. —At 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to S, Mr. J. Byron's original Comedy in five acts, e n titled CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David fisher, Newbound. Andrews, Tindale. Hurlston, and J. Clarke: Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Breman, Berend, Hughgs, and Stephens. OYAL AMPIIITHEA I'RE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. .111) The Proprietors of this elegant Establishment. in announcing to their patrons and the public their PROGRAMME for the Christmas and New Year Holidays. desire to draw attention to the high character and varied nature of the performances, and also to the comfortable accommodation provided throughout the building. The Press has been unanimous in pronouncing the enter ainment the hest, and the Theatre the most comfortable. in London; and the Proprietors, encouraged by the success of their past endeavours, will relax no effort to provide - an enter tainm..nt uneothllled and unsurparsable, and in which both old and young may paricipate wlth pleasure and delight. It must be rem , mhered that the Prot rictors of the Amphitheatre and (limy, do Oct rely on any attempt at outside show, tinselled dis play. or gorgeous l roeccsion, having every confidence in the pn.ved talent of the C, in! - any, and the well-known character of the performance, to insur, i'or them the public support.. Still, at this Festive seas 71 tions are needed, and these the Proprietors hot,' supp:icil. The 1 ro,rsmme orn!Taces eve: . ? novelty which it has 'wen piesii_i'e The SCENES in the AR', NA will inA , iiinee the tut, t TA LENTED ARTISTE:4 LL the World, end a SITE) oc Hottyas wliieh are the theme of universal admiration. The OtYurte IlEv;:t.s are specially attractive, and embrace several new and astonishing Feats. R _A OYAL AII'IIITHEATIZE AND CIRCUS. —A spectacular Lit c.f Pantntnimic Extravagance, entitled T E AI 'WEL • OF ELECTRICITY, in which the whole strength of the establishment will t .ke part, besides 210 troops, beautiful ponies, and the most extraordinary electric and lime light effects ever witnessed, will be produced THIS EVENING Doors open at Seven, commence at half past. For the conve nien"e of those residing at a distance it has been decided, during the HOLIDAYS, to give I hrce Morning Performances weekly, viz., Monday, Wednesday, and Sat ur d ay. Doors open at Two. The Amphitheatre and Circus is easily accessible from all part., and the Morning Performances afford an excellent opportunity to give the little ones a treat. N.B.—The second grand morning performance on Wednesday, at Half-past Two. GEORGE'S THEATRE (ST. 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SMITLI'S, 31, Bow-street, Covent-garden. gruE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. smmirs Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town, TB EATRE-Re,YAL DRURY-LANE. , ole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7. MY WIFE S OUT. Followed by the Grand Pantomime, I USS IN BOOTS Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET Tuts EIaNING, A HERO OF ROMANCE. Messrs. Buck stone, Sothern, Compton, Chippendale, &c. ; Mesdames Ada Cavendish, Chippendn7c. Burke, Fitzwilliam, &c Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL H dB: Messr , . Compton, Kendal, Buckstone, jua, Weathersby, ; Mesdames Wright, Burke, Gwynn, &c. Commence at 7. THE AT R E -ROY AL, AD F. L PIT I. THIS Ev , NING. at 7, DID Y( .0 EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO ('AM 11. RWI( LL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45 sio • lE CRISTO . Messrs. Fecbter. B. Webster. G. Belmore, A. Stirling. R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, \V H. borne, B. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. PRINCESS'S TIIF,ATRE. Sole Lessee and Man tger, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with TAE SECRET. At 8, AFTER DARK. a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. W. Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murry; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston: Miss Emma Barnet and Miss 1 ose Leclercq Concluding with "TASTE .. JONES'S BIRTHDAY. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL7 - Tine F,VENTSCI, at 7. GO( , D FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, CYRIL'S SUCCE.- Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David Fisher, Newhound. Andrews, Tindale, Millstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Bremen. Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee awl Manageress. Mrs. Swanborough. Tans EVENING. at 7.30, THE WID! r W HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Buftcn. TIDE FIELD OF THE CLOTH. OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, Tames, Fenton; N'esdarnes Maria Long:more, B. Goodall. Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager. Mr. W. H. Liston Tars EVENING, at 7. THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham. Clayton, and S.Eniery Ilesdr.mest Hodson, Montague. and Nelly Moore And TIIE GNOME KING. Mr. Toole. With A RACE FOR A DINNER. THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. ) THIS EVENTNG, at 7, SL k SHER & C ASHER:Messrs . tkins, Vaughan. G. Vincent. 6:c.: Miss Lenact : Orey and Alm Ciolfield. After *which. at 7.45, THE YELLOW/. ASSPORT : 31 , m'irs. fl !Co ille, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vetughan , H. Cooper and H. Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caul .eld ROYALTY TI.EATAE. Under the Management of Miss it Oliver. TIPS EVENING. at 7:'o, A L0V1 , .. CVP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by THE AND FALL OF ICH A BD III.: or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar "!r. Danvers: Miss (7ollinson. and Miss M. Oliver. To con ...ludo with THE uLOCKMAKERS HAT. PP.INCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton This EVENING, TAME CATS: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery. end Banoroft: Mrs. Buckingham White, Miss C. Addison. and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, WHO SPEAKS FIRST' Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; bliss C. Addison. RoYAT, AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, The Great Cnrre Troupe and magnificent Scud of 50 Horses: also Alfred 'Bradbury, M. Clifton, and THE MARVELS OF ELECTRICITY. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and , aturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL AL fl AMBR A PALACE. THREE BALLET Promenade Concert. Band of CO. Begin at 8. ls. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert sq.sah, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Yrndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, Oil. , 4117 41 , • q!.4; Sint LOA DON, 7IIURSDAY, DEC. 31, 1868. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Eight, the year of grace which will expire to-night at twelve o'clock amidst the ringing of joy-bells ushering in its succes sor, while it has, no doubt, been memorable in many ways, can hardly be regretted. There have been years, of course, within the recollection of the present generation far more disastrous; but there have been others also, and that very recently, far more deserving of being borne in grateful re membrance. Nearly fifty years have elapsed since the birth of our own reigning SOVERElGN—upwards of sixty years since the birth of the neighbouring Sovereign, the Emperor of FRANCE. Thirty years and more have elapsed since the date of QUEEN VIC TORIA'S Coronation—twenty since supreme power, first as Republican President, afterwards as despotic Emperor, passed into the hands of NAPOLEON 111. As reigning Sovereigns, the one Constitutional, the other Autocratic, the monarchs of the two great allied Powers of Western Europe are rulers not of yesterday. Already the reign of each has been long, as reigns go, and the reign of each, it should be added also, has been, as reigns go, sufficiently glorious. If, for nothing else, they must be re • garded as having been glorious, for inasmuch as they have been the means of knitting together in cor dial amity the two foremost races in modern civilisa tion. And they have accomplished this alliance so securely that it has conti n u e d, th roug h d ea dly war a nd through prolonged peace. The soldiers of both na tions have, during this interval, bled side by side, not face to face, on the same b atlefields, here in Europe, there in Asia, now fighting against the Chinese, now against the Russians, storming Pekin and bombarding Sebastopol. Better by far, how ever, than any such recollections is the remem brance now of the peaceful achievements worked cut, not one jot less enthusiastically, togethc r, than the warlikt, deeds associating the glory of France and England with such heroic memories as those of the Alma and Inkermann. The blessings of Free Trade ; of cheap postage; of rapid steam communication ; of electric telegraphy; and of other similar boons, secured to the two great nations almost simultaneously, or or at no matter what intervals, when the time came for their accomplishment, with the most cordial co operation between the two peoples and the two Go vernments, in the beneficent labour of carrying them cut—blessings like these illustrate the reigns of VIC- LONDON, TITITRSDAY - . EVENING; - DECgMI3ER . 31, TFIE SUN, TORIA I. and NAPOLEON 111. far more resplendently than any victories won by land or by sea by their allied forces fighting together under the same colours, that is, under the "red, white, and blue," only differently disposed, here in the form of the union-jack, here in that of the tricolour—the staff of one crowned with the warlike spear-head, that of the other with the Imperial eagle. Throughout the whole of these last twenty years during which VICTORIA and NAPO LEON have been contemporary Sovereigns, the amity of the two countries has been altogether uninter rupted. During the ten previous years of her Britan nic MAJESTY'S reign, during the first of the three decades of that reign, which have already elapsed, it was a question of days, almost of hours (that is when the so-called Citizen King was on the French Throne) as to whether France and England should not come into collision, as during the reigns of King GEORGE 111., and the Emperor NAPOLEON the GREAT. Happily the emergency passed over, but during the later years of the reign of LOUIS PHILIPPE and the earlier years of the reign of Queen Vicrottri the deadly alternative of war or peace between the two countries trembled for a while, as we have said, in the balance. Not so throughout the twenty years during which the Third NAPOLEON has been at the head of the French Government. Remembering that those twenty years of his regime have but just now been completed, within these last few days, within this still unfinished month of December, it seems to us but fitting at this moment when another decade is commencing, when the old year is going ont and the new year is coming in, that we should recall thus to momentary remembrance the peaceful as wel ; as warlike, the beneficent as well as glorious, the firm and cordial friendship which has been established be tween France and England under the rule of the reigning SOVEREIGNS. THERE have been, and there will be, more eventful years than , 1 868. Most of its recent predecessors have been more remarkable than itself ; and we shall be greatly surprised if our yearly chronicle twelve months hence is not a more exciting record than that which we present to our readers to-day. And yet 1868 has not been without some marked charac teristics. It has, for instance, seen overthrown the last member of a family that was, only twenty years ago, seated on two of the principal, and several of the smaller thrones of Europe. It has seen a British Ministry, which held office in the face of a hostile majority, suddenly collapse, and its leader's place taken by a statesman who had lost his seat. It has seen certain questions, which the most far-sighted thought would not arise in their time, assume a pros minence and an urgency that make it imperative upon our rulers to deal with them, and uncertain as to the distance they may have to go. The year which witnessed the fall of ISABELLA, the resignation of Mr.,DISDAELT, the uprising of the Irish Church ques tion, cannot be called altogether tasne, even though the events have been fewer than in former years. If the political world has been during the last twelve months somewhat more quiet than usual, the physical world has rarely been more excited. Earthquakes of all but unexampled ; destructiveness have ravaged the Western South American Republics, and even in Europe the earth seems to have. been disquieted, so numerous and wide-spreading have been the subter ranean disturbances, so alarmingly grand have been the, displays of the most active of European volcanoes. Hereafter, 1808 will be remembered, if for no other reasons, as the year of the grea+ drought and heat in England, and of the great earthquake in Peru. When 1808 opened it found us still agitated by cne atrocious misdeeds of the Fenians. The Clerkenwell explosion of a fortnight before had horrified and exasperated the country. It was at once the most fiendish and the most foolish act that the " Brotherhood " had perpetrated. It estranged from them and converted into bitter foes that small section of the English working class which was disposed to fraternise with them. It was not only the victims of the explosion who received their (Ip:lth-blow on December 13th, 1807. Fenianism itself received such a mortal stroke that it is now, if not wholly dead, so paralysed as to be almost beneath contempt. This foul massacre of women and children shewed such frightful reck lessness, such utter callousness with regard to human life, that it aroused the whole nation against the men who had done the deed, and against the con spiracy of which they were members. The Home Secretary displayed commendable energy in dealing with the offenders. The last murderer executed in public was BARRETT, the only one of the Clerkenwell miscreants whom the law succeeded in reaching. This spectacle, and the execution of ALLEN, COULD, and LARKIN, in the previous November, were such a stern lesson to the " Brotherhood" that since then they have found the only true valour to consist in discretion. So inno cuous have they become that the new Home 'Secretary and the new Secretary for Ireland are besieged with petitions for the pardon of those minor offenders who are undergoing their sentences in the various prisons of the kingdom. Another principal cause of the decline of Fenianism must be stated here, although it will be considered more fully when we review the political events of the year. The advent of a new Ministry to power pledged to deal with two prominent Irish grievances has deprived the Fenians of much of the support which they have hitherto found among the Irish people. It is the natural sequel of events that a Ministry which has undertaken to disestablish the Irish Church and to establish tenant-right, should restore to the Irish the first of political rights whereof they have for three years been deprived. Parliament had held an autumn session in 1867 in order to sanction the estimates for the Abys sinian expedition. It was stated that five millions sterling would be sufficient for it ; but though it was completed with remarkable celerity and with unexpected ease, there is reason to fear that the cost will be over six millions. The campaign dis played qualities not usually exhibited by British troops. Our military leaders are for the most part slow and cautious, and strict adherents to routine. Sir ROBERT NAPIER knew well that if he followed the usual tardy precedents he would involve the country in an enormous expenditure, and probably in a great disaster. Fortunately he was not afraid of responsibility, and he therefore dashed on to Magdala with a small force—small, that is, so far as the fight ing part of it was concerned—without losing a man ; and he gained possession of the prisoners for whose restoration this expedition had been undertaken. It. was a brilliant achievement, and it merited even more substantial honours than those—a peerage and a pension—which were bestowed upon him. Perhaps the conqueror of Magdala, may even yet live to be Governor-General of India. • Parliament reassembled on February 13. Lord SiseseEi'hacl stated, in a remarkable speech de livered at Bristol just before, that Ireland must form a prominent subject of legislation for the then ensuing session. The renewal of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act was not a very promising be:. ginning for Irish legislation. It was, never theless. unavoidable. Before any other measure could be presented an important, but not wholly unex pected, event took place. Lord Dr any had been for some months in very bad health. In February he was near death's door, and on one night his decease was so confidently anticipated, that in several news paper 0...1ice.a obituary leaders upon the Premier were written. Me did not die, but the Times published its article, an d spoke of the veteran Tory leader throughout i n ' the past tense. The article was so far justified, that a :ew days later, February 25 , his resignation was announc,* (l b y in the Upper House, and by his Lord MaLMESBunv own son in the Lower, and Parliament adjourned until _ Mani ' 5, so as to allow time for the rearrangement 0: the Cabinet. The alterations were not numerous, and with one or two exceptions were unimportant. Mr. DISRAELI himself became Premier, as was inevitable, ,and con gratulations were showered down up on this suCnesse ful "gentleman of the press," Lo r i d CnEtimsronif was sent his conie With Tess consideration fol . amour pnyyre - than might have been - - expected from so accomplished a man of the would as Mr. DISRAELI. Lord CAIRNS went to the woolsack. Mr. WARD HUNT was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer. These were the leading alterations in the composi tion of the Cabinet. As regards its policy, Mr. DISRAELI carefully laid down that it would continue to be the policy of Lord DERBY, whose confidant for many years he claimed to have been. He also declared that it would be a " Liberal policy," a state ment which excited some laughter from those who remembered the .history of the previous year and its Household Suffrage introduced to dish the Liberals. The Ministerial changes had delayed, but could not frustrate the raising of the Irish question. Mr. MAGUBRE, on March 10, moved the appointment of a committee to take into consideration the condition and circumstances of Ireland. It was opposed by the Government; awl Lord MAYO, the Secretaryfor Ireland, in a speech of four hours, detailed the intentions of the Cabinet with regard to that country. The most remarkable of these, so remarkable that it has since been sought to explain it away, was a proposal for levelling up the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland to the position of the Protestant Church. The ex pression turned out unfortunate, and had to be repu diated as inconsistent with the new attitude which the Ministers assumed after a very memorable declaration made during the course of this debate. He who made it was the leader of The majority, although in Opposition, and when he declared that 'the Irish State Church must cease to exist" there was such a tumult of applause as is seldom heard in the House of Commons. On this announcement Mr. DISRAELI at once appealed to the anti-Popery feeling, which he believed to be very strong throughout the country. It turned out to be much feebler than he expected. A large section of English Churchmen detested it ; the Dissenters, almost without exception —even the Presbyterians of Ulster—refused to adopt the cry, seeing in it only a device for maintaining the ascendancy of a Church which by a bold fiction was called national. Mr. GLADSTONE lost no time in giving effect to his policy. He brought in a series of resolutions, which were carried by a majority of over sixty ; he then brought in a bill for suspending the appointments by the Crown to vacant preferments in the Irish Church, and its second reading was carried by an equally large maiority. It was not opposed on the third reading, but was taken up by the Lords, who threw it out. In this they only did their duty, inasmuch as it was fitting and constitutional that a measure of so much importance should be referred to the nation. An immediate dissolution was clearly impossible, for that would have meant an appeal to the old constituencies, some of which were absolutely defunct. The effect of these proceedings was that Mr. DISRAELI maintained himself in office seven months after his defeat. Parliament was prorogued on July 31, having completed the work of Reform so far as it could be induced to do so ; having got rid of the church rates grievance by the aid of Mr. GLAD STONE'S measure ; having sanctioned the transfer of the electric telegraphs from the present companies to the Government; and having passed a measure for the suppression of corrupt practices at elections, whose efficacy has yet to be ascertained. THE long vacation, which usually sees a cessation from politics, was, during the past year, wholly given up to them. From the end of July to the end of November the public were wearied to death by election speeches and tactics. The battle for which these had been preparatory began on November 10, and lasted just three weeks. The result was in many respects remarkable. In the first place, the Parliament elected under the enlarged franchise differed in no degree, so far as the social position of the representatives was concerned, from preceding Parliaments. An unusually large number of new M.P.'s were returned, but they belonged to the same classes which had furnished our legislators before. The effect upon the position of political parties fully compensated in fullness for any lack of effect upon the social condition of members. Lord PALMF.RSTON would have met the Parliament of 1805 with a majority of 70; Mr. GLADSTONE has met the Parliament of 1666 with a majority of 115, the largest known since ilt32. Mr. DISRAELI shewed both consideration for his opponents and regard to his own position in resigning office without waiting for the vote of an assembly hopelessly hostile. By resigning in November he gave Mr. GLADSTONE a fortnight longer for the construction of his Ministry and the preparation of a legislative programme, and he spared himself the necessity of chewing his own hand, so far as the Irish Church was concerned. By this time the speeches of last spring, with their "heated" rhetoric, are forgotten, and Mr. DISRAELI will feel himself free to criticise the words and deeds of his opponents unfettered by anything that he has said or done. Of events that may be termed social rather than political there has been the usual widevariety. It is not often that we have to record an attack upon a mem ber of the Royal Family. The attempted assassina tion of Prince ALFRED in Sydney was at first sup posed to be the handiwork of a Fenian emissary, but after asserting this the assassin O'FARRELL admitted that he had no ground for his statement, and that he had done the deed on his own account and for no intelligible reason. The event drove the Australians into a frenzy of loyalty, and they passed a measure for dealing with persons suspected of disloyalty so stringent that it was worthy of St. Petersburg rather than of a free British colony. The event which next to this caused the greatest excitement was the Abergele railway accident. England is used to great catastrophes on her iron highways, but this one was exceptionally ghastly and fatal. Nearly three dozen persons were killed—not by the collision, which was slight, but by the ignition of a quantity of petro leum, so that when the flames had subsided all that remained of the victims were a few calcined bones interspersed with fragments of jewellery. Among the killed were Lord and Lady FARNHAM and an Irish judge ; This event, which hap pened on August 20, was preceded twenty days by another calamity nearly as fatal, but affecting persons of a far humbler rank of life. At a low place of entertainment in Manchester the cry of " Fire !" was raised, and was followed by a frantic rush of many hundreds of spectators to the doors. About two dozen were crushed to death, and a dozen others were frightfully injured. More destructive than either catastrophe, but one of a kind only too common, and therefore attracting little attention, was the colliery explosion at Wigan of about a month ago, and which involved the death of more than threescore persons. But all these calamities put together are, so far as the loss of life is concerned, a mere bagatelle compared with the frightful earthquakes which took place in Peru and Ecuador during August. The country visited extended over 1,300 miles, the number of lives sacrificed has been estimated as high as 100.000, and the value of the property destroyed is reckoned by millions. There has been no calamity so destructive since the great earthquake at Lisbon, on November 1, 1755. These convulsions in South America were but one out of many symptoms of subterranean disturbance which have prevailed throughout the year. We have learnt more of the causes of earthquakes than our ancestors knew a hundred years ago ; we are not more able than they to prevent that one catastrophe of nature which is most appalling and most destruc tive. Meteorologically, the year has been remarkable for a spring and a summer of excessive drought and heat, and for a December of the most violent gales. During July the maximum shade temperature was for many days above ninety degrees, and under the influence of the burning, cloudless sun the pastures became converted into dry stubble; and the cornfields not only ripened a month before the time, but were in imminent danger of conflagration. Large tracts of heath and grasslands were burnt, and Englishmen had an opportunity of witnessing on a small scale the bush-fires of the antipodes. CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Wednes day, Dec. 30.—Admissions by season tickets, 2,022; ditto on payment, 4,343; total visitors, 6,36 F6B. CORRES2ONDENCE FROM PARIS, - (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, December 30. To-morrow the reception at the Tuileries will he held, and already the Moniteur has come out in anticipation with a host of military honours. One general is to be made Grand Cross, another Grand Officer. There are to be twelve appointments to the rank of commander, forty-three to that of officer ; 347 knights are to be nominated, and 709 military medals conferred. Truly, the Emperor believes in the army as the source of his strength, and has resolved that if he cannot keep his soldiers in good humour during war, they shall not lack cheap honours during peace. The New Year's Day Speech, I hear, is to be remarkably pacific. Everything points to the conclusion that a decla ration against war would be sincere, for the present at least. The Eastern question notwithstanding, never was the aspect of the situation so reassuring. The Chamber of Appeal has done a good deal in the way of " confirmation " lately. It has ordered that the sentences on M. Duret of the Tribune, M. Weiss of the Journal de Paris, and M. Hdlrard of the Temps, shall hold good. On the other hand, it has, however, been so mer ciful as to remit part of the sentence on M. Deleschoze, of the Rived, but it has retained the full term of imprison ment, remitting only part of the fine. The decision of the Chamber of Commerce against the Government Moniteur—that it has no right to bear a title which has already been assumed by M. Dalloz's organ— has caused much astonishment, M. Wittersheim, the proprietor of the Government Moniteur, has lodged an appeal, which is to be heard in the Imperial Court to-morrow. Should the impartial decision of the Chamber of Commerce be reversed, the effect on public opinion, though the matter is of no great importance, would be the reverse of favourable. The Parisians are getting tired of seeing judgments set aside to order. The Constitutionnel has attempted an explanation of the charge made by the Gaulois, and repeated by other journals, of a number of pictures having been fur nished from the gallery of the Louvre to the apartment of M. Troplong. The semi-official paper is hardly more successful than the public. Its plea is that the thirty paintings at the Imperial Club were taken there because there was no room for them at the Louvre, and they were therefore hung where people could see them. The argu ment is childish. The public cannot get to the Imperial Club. As to the pictures at M. Troplong's, the Constitu tionnel says that they were there because the President of the Senate has always been provided with furniture. Even if this be accepted with regard to the two pictures which were burnt, how about the rest? The charge is substantially admitted. M. Pinard has obtained permission to practise at the bar. The Seine has risen so much by the recent floods that the landing places are inundated, and navigation is sus pended except for the steamboats. The weather is bad all over France ; nay, further, for heavy gales are reported from Germany, The channel remains in commotion. The storm of the last few days has spread over a great part of the northern hemisphere. " Th4odoros " at the Chatelet is rapidly being voted dull. Like all spectacles of the present day, the leg element largely predominates, and indeed the best part of the play is the ballet with its picturesque mingling of Nubian girls with the white Alm4es of the East. But as Th(odoros commences operations at a quarter past seven, and does not put himself out of his misery and the audience out of theirs until a quarter past one, the general effect is slow. Six hours are too long fur a ballet. At the Grand an attempt is being made to rival the London performance of " Faust." The tenor's air in the fourth act has been suppressed, and Gounod has composed another. If rumour is to be believed he has not improved his chef d'oeuvre by this change. _ A neat bit of engineering was successfully effected in an iron mine at Meylan a few days back. A great mass of earth fell in, completely enclosing two men in a narrow space. The air was so bad that the lamp speedily went out, and the lungs of the two men gave palpable signs that life could not be long supported in an atmosphere so foul. A number of labourers came to the rescue, and, under the direction of an engineer, a long series of tubes with a ventilator was driven into the mass of earth, and thus a constant supply of fresh air was afforded the prisoners. After twenty-four hours clearing away they were rescued. Your readers maybe interested in hearing of the Marquis Novaliches, the only partisan of Queen Isabella who remained faithful to his trust. This gallant officer, lam sorry to say, has not recovered so completely as was anti cipated. He can rest only in a horizontal position, on account of excessive salivation in any other attitude. Although he is able to pronounce some words, they are intelligible only to those who have attended him for some time. He has lost part of the bones of the mouth, and is supported by liquid food, conveyed through a silver tuhp. The recovery of the Marquis 10 It. ~,11 respects to be desired, for though he fought on the wrong side none of the revolutionary acted his part more worthily. He might very probably be of much use to his country just now. THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAV. MEI roil °Lome). T, EFTCRTS. Extreme Sea Thursday, i V f F. 0 Dec. 31, B. T. I: rz ' W. 11 , F. D. W It. to 8 a.m. 12 0 -- _ Nairn Aberdeen Leith Shields Scarborougl 29'63r. 26 35 W.N.W. 1 2 N.W. s.e.f .1'27 2 Yarmouth.. 29'60r. 38 36 W.S.W. 3 5 W. o. 3 Fielder .... Cuxhaven . _ _ _ _ _ _ Skudesntes _ ... _ Ardrossan .. 29'74r. 37 34 N.N.W. 2 4 S.W. c.b. o'o4 1 Green castle 2913 r. 38 37 N.W. 1 2 W.S.W.ler.b o'2B Holyhead .. 2975 r. 42 (40 W.N.W. 5 8 W. c. Liverpool .. 29 74r. 41 39 N.W. 2 2 W.S.W. 0.0. o'lB 3 Valantia .... 29'98r. 45 i 43 N.N.W. 4 6 S.W. s.r.c 9'19 3 Cape Clear.. 2992 r. 42 1 40 N.W. 2 6 N.W. c. o'o6 2 Roches Pt. 29'91r. 40 (38 W.N.W. 3 6 N.W. c.b. 0 . 10 2 Penzance .. 29:812. 45 i 45 N.W. 4 6 N.W. c. o'o3 2 Plymouth .. 29 90r. 42 (40 N.N.W. 1 5 N.N.W. c.b. o'lo 3 Weymouth 29:84r. 44 1 42 W.N.W. 1 1 W.N.W. c. 0 . 03 2 Portsmouth 29•53 r. 42 (40 W.N.W. 8 8 W.N.W. c. o'l7 5 London ~. 29'73r. 38 1 37 W. 3 6 W. s.r.c o'4o C'peGrisN er. 29 72r 45 45 W. 9 8 W.S.W. o.c. o'ol 6 Brest ...... 33:02r. 46 41 N.W. 5 5 N.N.W. c.o. 3 ['Orient.... 30•84 r. 145 (43 W. 4 7 N.W. C. o'ol 3 Roch e fort .. 30'09r. 43; 41 S.W. 7 7 S.W. c. o'o7 4 Biarritz .... 30'16r. 1 43 4l S.W. 5 -- r. 0'55 6 Corun n a .... Brussels .... _ _ _ _ _ Paris...... _ _ _ itrasb ou rg..l 1— _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Lyons ......1 1— •• _ Toulon ' 29'958. :46 44 W.N.W. 4 3 S.S.W. m.O 4 Heart's C0n..1 I tent (9 a. TO . local time) , _ __ _ __ _ _ _ XXPLANA' 3arometer corrected and . recluced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter r, rising ; f. falling ; s, steady—indicates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather : b.—blue cky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f.— fog; h.—hall ; I.—lightning ; m.—misty, hazy ; o.—overcast, dull ; r.— rain ; B.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REM A RIC S. Barometrical readings are considerably higher at all stations than they were yesterday morning. sheaving a rise in the west and south of about half an inch: the motion during the last twelve hours has been quickest in the N.W. Greater uniformity now exists in pressure generally : the difference from Rochefort to Yarmouth is half an inch. The lowest readings are on the North Sea coast. Tempera ture has risen generally. During the night a westerly gale sprung up, and lasted for some hours at Holyhead and Portsmouth ; but it has subsided, and a prevalence of moderato north-westerly winds is re ported this morning. At Cape Gris Nez, however, the wind is still high ;in the Bay of Biscay it is south-westerly. The sky is clear in the N. and W. ;on other coasts it is cloudy. Snow is reported in places. Rain has fallen on the English and Irish coasts. Weather appears settled, and the sea is calm. CONFIRMATION OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. The ceremony of confirming the election of the Right Rey. Dr. Archibald Campbell Tait, Bishop of London, to the Archiepiscopal See of Canterbury, took place at the parish church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside, on Wednesday, in the presence of a large number of spectators. The ceremony is of a far more imposing character than the confirmation of a suffragan bishop, which is ordinarily little more than a dry legal . proceeding. His Grace the Archbishop- Elect arrived at the church at half-past • ten o'clock, being accompanied by his six chaplains, namely, the Rev. F. G. Blom field, M.A., Rector of St. Andrew Under ,haft; Rev. Edward Parry, M.A., Rector of Acton ; Rev. E. ff. Fisln , r, 111. A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Twick enham; Rev. Arthur Martineau, M.A., Rector of St. Mil dred, Bread-street; and the Rev. C. W. Sandford, M.A., Censor of Christchurch, Oxford; Mr. J. B. Lee, his legal secretary, and Mr. John Hassard, his private secretary. On arriving at Cheaps:de his grace was received by the Bishop of Lincoln (who is to bo his successor in the diocese of London), the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Hereford, and the Bishop of Peterb.Nough, all of whom worn their full episcopal robes ; Sir Travers Twiss, the vicar general of the province; Mr. F. Hart Dyke, the registrar; and Mr. Felix Knyvett, the apparitor. Having taken their seats i❑ the church, the Litany IN as read by the Rev. Mar shall Hall Vine, M.A., the rector of the parish,after which the archbishop left his p•w and took the oaths at a table which was placed in the body of the church. The usual public proclamations were then made by the apparitor. This act vacates the diocese of London and fills that of Canterbury. The Metrapolitan see must at least for four or fivo weeks be ' without the comfort and solace of a chief pastor," and during that time all episcopal patronage that falls will be long to the Crown—that is, either to Mr. Gladstone or to the ' Lord Chancellor. Dr. Jackson will have to bo recommended, ' elected, and confirmed, and then must do homage to the Queen, before the patronage of the see returns into the. ePis coal cho,nnel. - THE RITUAL JUDGMENT. The discussion at the meeting of high Church clergy and laity, convened on Wednesday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, London, to consider the late decision of the Privy Council, was prolonged until a late hour. No decision was arrived at, and the meeting adjourned for a fort night. The following letter has been addressed by Archbishop Tait, as Bishop of London, to Mr. Mackonochie, incum bent of St. Alban's, Holborn : " Fulham Palace, S.W., Dec. 29. " My dear Mr. Mackonochie,—l have received from the Privy Council Office a copy of the judgment which has now with authority explained the law on the various points of ritual observance in the service at St. Alban's, Holborn, respecting which there has been so much conten tion. I expect that this will be the last day of my tenure of the see of London, otherwise I should have invited you, at a personal interview, to arrange with me what is the best mode of giving effect to such changes in your service as will at once bring it into conformity with the simplicity enjoined by the rubric, and at the same time be the least distasteful to a congregation like yours, which has become accustomed to a form of worship more ornate than it is now ascertained the law of the Church has sanctioned. Probably before you receive formal notification of what is now required of you through the proper officers of the bishop's or archbishop's court I shall have ceased to be your diocesan. But I will take upon myself, as my last act in that capacity, to advise you and all others of the London clergy who may now feel themselves placed in a difficulty by their having conscientiously, though I believe unwisely, thought it their duty hitherto to act against the advice and judgment, I believe I may say, of all the bishops, in intro ducing novelties of worship, to do now what I am sure all true Church principles must suggest —viz., to take counsel with those directly set over them in the Lord as to the mode in which their services are henceforward to be conducted, in conformity with the ascertained law of the Church. Some weeks must elapse before my successor has entered fully on the duties of his office, but I can have no doubt he will be ready to give you his best advice at once, and to approach the subject of your present difficulties with that same appreciation of your devotedness and zeal which I have ever myself entertained. You are quite at liberty to make any use you please of this letter, which I shall myself make public.—Believe me to remain yours faithfully, "A. C. LONDON. " Rev. A. H. Mackonochie." The Rev. Dr. Littledale has addressed a long letter to the Daily Arms on the late judgment. He says that from the outset he was not sanguine of a favourable decision, having " a rooted distrust of Mr. Disraeli," and believing that he " manipulated " the Privy Council as a part of the programme by which he hoped to secure the support of the No-Popery party at the elections. But there are two things which "take nearly all the venom out of the Conservative sting." First, the judgment was not, as in "Liddell v. Westerton," that of the whole court, but of a bare majority, Lord Westbury and Sir William Erle being opposed to it, Sir J. Colvile being neutral, and the two Tory Chancellors, Lord Cairns and Lord Chelmsford, and the Archbishop of York being in favour of it. The latter had passed judgment on the matter before hearing a word of the arguments, and therefore "his judgment is discredited from the outset." The other circumstance which Dr. Littledale considers favourable is the fact that•the position of the celebrant has been defined to he in front of the altar, with his back to the people ; so that, if the High Church party have been reproved for excess, the Low Church party are reproved for defect. As a matter of fact, Dr. Littledale considers the principle of the judgment wholly untenable. If the rubric, and the rubric alone, is to be the guide for 'she clergy, they cannot get into or out of their surplices, cannot walk from the vestry to the church, cannot read the prayers, for there is no place directed where they are to say them, cannot preach except during the Communion Service, cannot repeat the psalms alternately with the people, cannot sing a hymn except the Veni Creator. The commandments on the walls, the alms chest, the stone :ont, the stoup for the communion wine are all illegal. The clergyman may, for ought that the rubric says, appear in shell-jacket, and sit in the font. What is to be done? pr. Littledale, says. In the first place, the judgment is as et only advice, and cannot have the force of law until the ueen confirms it in Council. Dr. Littledale therefore urges that a protest should be lodged with the proper authorities demanding the re-hearing of part of the case— that touching the lights on the double ground that the finding is that of a bare and biassed majority, and that the reasons assigned for the judgment are bad in law and in fact. That failing, he would comply with the judgment "under pro test, and avowedly waiting and working for its reversal." He will teach the doctrine of the Real Presence more care fully than ever. He advises that the High Church party should not retaliate upon their opponents. "Above all, I desire to protest against counter prosecution. If some .111,1,1 A rp uio ir „ be criminally prosecuted under Lord Cairns's finding, well and good. He needs a lesson, and no argument, save one addressed to his person or his pocket, will touch him. But I see no moral or practical good in exasperating evangelicals by petty worryings like their own. That is no way to make converts from amongst them ; while, on the other hand, if they refuse, as they will refuse, obedience to the iron rule now first laid down, they will damage their position snore than ever in the eyes of the public. We can afford to wait, and if anything comes to grief by reason of the judgment, it will not be ritualism, but the Act of Uniformity." The Daily News, in a leader on this letter, and an article in the Guardian says " that the consequences of the judgment are by no means so simple as they have been in some quarters assumed to be ; and it is at least certain that the Act of Uniformity has never been subjected to so severe a strain since its enactment as that to which the Lords of the Privy Council have now exposed it." Bishop Selwyn is expected in England daily. The sum realised by the first day's sale of the library, belonging to the late Marquis of Hastings, was £1,344 IGs. 6d. Some of the books were exceedingly rare. The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Tait have been commanded to attend her Mijesty at Osborne on Tuesday next, when his Grace will do homage to the So vereign. Justice Blackburn has appointed the following days for holding election inquiries, viz.: Bewdley Jan. 19 ; Stockport, Jan. 26; Wallingtord, Feb. 2; Stalybridge, Feb. 9 ; Ilartkpool, Feb. 16. The woman Mary Manly, who was sentenced to death at the late Staffordshire Assizes for the wilful murder of her infant child, at Rushton James, near Leek, on the 17th of October, has been respited during her Majesty's pleasure. The Bishop of Dunedin, who was reported some days ago to have set out for his diocese in New Zealand after three years' delay, has turned up in the Unitod States. The Church News says, that "at the opening of the Albany Con vention on Dec. 2 the Holy Eucharist was offored by the Bishop of Dunedin, assisted by the Bishop of New York." The weather has been very severe in Ireland. The gale did not do much damage on Tuesday, but it was one of the heaviest experienced about Dublin for some time. The mountains visible from Dublin were covered with snow. In the provinces all farming operations are stopped by the excessive rain. A sad mishap has happened to an excursion party near Exmouth. They were returning from a Christmas outing in a spring van, from which they were thrown out, and Mr. Warmington, of Exmouth, was killed on the spot, his wife also recoiving severe injuries. The driver was likewise a good deal hurt. It has been ascertained that the amount expended by the late William Walker, of Bolling Hall, Bradford, in connection with the firm of Wood and Walker, and Walkers and Co., by working shorter hours, in order to prove the practicability of the system subsequently introduced by the Factory Acts and promoting the passing of bills, has been no less than £50,000. Three policemen were shot at and wounded at Cloughton Newlands, near Scarborough, on Monday night, while proceeding to protect a house at Ilayburn Wyke, they having been informed of a plan to rob it. Three men, noto rious poachers, have been arrested on suspicion, and, having been taken before the magistrates were remanded. A conference of leading Liberals was held in Brad ford on Tuesday, for the purpose of seeing if something could not be done to withdraw the two election petitions the one against Mr. llipb y and the other against Mr. W. E. Foster, but after considerable discussion, it was resolved, by a ma jority of 30 to 28, that the meeting considered that it was not desirable to interfere between the gentlemen in charge of the petitions. At a meeting in Manchester of the central corn mato° to promote the adoption of short time in the cotton trade, as a means cf relief to the manufacturers in the pre sent depressed state of the trade, it was reported that of the replies which had been received 50 per cent. were uncondi tionally in favour of short time, and 37 per cent. would adopt it if their neighbours in the trade did. The representatives of the various Constitutional Associations throughout the kingdom held a Conference at Birmingham on Tuesday. The Earl of Dartmouth occupied the chair. It was mentioned that in 23 large towns, whose aggregate population amounted to 2,500,000, and in which Constitutional Associations had been most active, that no less than 23 COnservative members had been returned out of a total of 48 members sent to Parliament, and_of thPtse 83 §eats_2o had been wrested from the fAherAlo. ‘l. Cana1.,___.;.....u.. . 4 ;. . HER IIAJESTY. OSBORIsTE, Dec. 30. The Queen, accompanied by Countess Spencer and Viscountess Clifden, drove out yesterday after noon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, drovo in the grounds this morning. LATEST INTELL MENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERIC A. NEW YORK, Dee. 30. According to the report of Messrs. Neil, Bro thers, the receipts of cotton at all ports for the past four days have been 46,000 bales against 50,000 same time last week. Exports to Great Britain, 25,000 bales against 14,000 same time last week. Exports to other foreign ports, 16,000 bales against 6,000 same time last week. Total exports for four days to all European ports, 46,000 bales against 29,000 same time last week. Middling upland, 11d. laid down in Liverpool per steamer. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29. Middling, laid. laid down by sailing vessel. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 31. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Borussia has put into Portland with her machinery disabled. She arrived here in tow of the steamer Dispatch to undergo repairs. SPAIN. MADRID, Dec 30. It is stated on official authority that provision has been made fur the payment of the coupons of the internal and external debt falling due on the Ist of January next. BELGIUM BRUSSELS, Dec. 31. The Court of Appeal has given judgment in the Doulton else. The Court admits the competency of the lower Court, but declares that the facts brought forward at the trial, however irregular in their character, do not constitute a penal offence. THE WEST AFRICAN MAILS. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 31. The Royal mail steamer Mandingo, with the above mails, arrived in the Mersey to-day. Her date 3 are—Benin, Dec. 3 ; Fernando Po, Caine mons, Nov. 29 ; Old Calabar, 27 ; Brass River and Bonny, Dec. 2 ; Lagos, 5 ; Jellah-Caffee, 6 ; Accra, 7 ; Cape Coast Castle, 8 ; Cape Palmos, 10 ; Sitri a Leone, 15 ; Bathurst, 12 ; Teneriffe, 22 ; and Madeira, 24. The Mandingo brings a quantity of specie and 14 passengers. The news from the different parts Of the coast is uninteresting, and the health of the rivers satisfactory. FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 31. The Paris papers publish a telegram from Corfu, dated 29th instant, emanating from a Greek source, stating that three engagements had recently. taken place in Candia, at Apocoroua Atnarion, and Hera,clion, in which the insurgents were victorious. BOURSE, Dec. 30.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 41 ver Cent. End of month... Italian Loan 3 per Cent - End of mouth_ 69 971 Mexican Loan 24 Credit Mobilier '286 25 Do. Bonds End of month... 286 25 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier —1513 75 Home Debt — End of month... Deferred RAILWA r 4. Cash Orleans ... 920 -.al the N orthern Lyons and Mediterranean - Southern-- 5731 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 4274 North of Spain Saragossa Roman 534 ST. MARK'S lIOSPn'AL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. City-road, E.C., Dec. 29, 1868. SIR,--Permit me to appeal to your charitabl e readers for a contribution iu aid of the funds of the St. Mark's Hospital' for fiitula and other diseasee of the rectum. 11, has alleviated the sufferings of 21,500 patients ; upwards of 500 are in att ,ndaucei and 88 anxiously awaiting vacant beds. Of thes e there is room for 50, but the funds are not sutn cieut for more than 34, so that 16 remain empty' The committee would gladly keep them filled, bu t the inadequacy of the means at their disposal pre' vents them. Last year we found it necessary to apply 12,00 0 of our capital to current expenses; and this yea r has entailed heavy expenses for painting, white . washing, and repairs. In the hope that some of your readers will aid ee in our efforts to maintain, and, if possible, extend , the sphere of our operations, I venture on this sr peal. Contributions may be sent to the treasurer, 1 34 ' B. Martin, Esq., 68, Lombard-street, or to 03° here.--I have the honour to be, sir, your very obe' dient servant, J. PIKE, Secretary. LII ERARY INTELLIGENCE. Messrs. Hurst and Blackett announce as in pre partition the following new works Her M jesty's Tower," by W. Hepworth ltixon, dedicated, by express permission, to the Queen,—A. Nes g Story, by Mrs. Oliphant, 3 vols.—" Lucre Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara," a biograp* illustrated by rare and unpublished document e : by William Gilbert, author of " Shirley fit Asylum," 2 vols., with portrait.—" Meta's Faith' by the author of " St. Olave's," 3 vols. --" l3e Sunny South : an Autumn in Spain and Majorca, by Captain Jr. W. Clayton, F.R.G.S., late 13th f Hussars, Bvo., with illustrations.—" The Life e u Rossini," by Sutherland Elwards, 2 vols., W't/' portrait. A New Novel, by Lady Chary Thyune, 3 vols. " Chaucer's England," bi Matthew Browne, 2 vols., with Portrait 11°d numerous Illustrations—" Only an Earl," by the Countess Pisani, 3 vols.—" Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage," a Contribution to EnglishlV P tory, 1617 to 1623, from unpublished Docuino t l in the Archives of Simaucas, Venice, 511 1 Brussels, by Samuel Ita.vvsou Gardiner, 2 1 " :/ ;' s. Bvo.—" Trials of an H e i i ess, " b y th e Hon. Am ,-4 ; Gifford, 3 vols.—" My Holiday i n Austri a ', o by Lizzie Selina Ed en, Author of " A Lady t h Glimpse of the W ar i n Bohemia," 1 vol. W` i. Illustrations. - " P easant Lif e i n S we d e n," „ Lloyd, Author o f Fi e ld S ports o f th e North, 8/ ";; with Illustrations—" Lodge's Peerage and Bar° l3 ,, e er age for 1869," un d er th e E s p e ci a l P a tronage of I ,' Majesty, a new a n d Enlarged Edition, coutaillll3° all the new Creations, royal Bvo. STREET NAMES.—The Metropolitan Boa rd -- of a Works has ordered that the line of thGroughfare eitte,ll.„; iug westward from Cavendish-square to the intersect''' . a of Duke-street, and now known as Wigmore-stre et Edsmrds-street, ba named Wigmore-street That the sub-names in Clapham-road and Clapb,"wla're be abolished, and that the whole line of thorunO'be from Kennington Park-road to High-street, Claphsuj'a, called Clapham-road. The Board has also issued ge-of rul order directing that in every case where plans 01,1109 streets are appioved, a condition be attache d tilA' oci name of each street, as approved by the Board, be d' ot il on posts at both ends of such proposed new street, °,41. the houses are built, when the name shall be aifiO d cording to law. Ira last ] disco Railv tern Uil and t 1885 Gr, Cent. An to rewai grapt Atl are fi gage lllino In inacti Th Bank the w Boi day t The Cent. took obligt re ven out tl rally joint- Thi favou withd stock in of: some ever, the w accou iuduci A r 6~citri set tlei being been i dealer don b drawr insta❑ and a CUTIISt origin the ca: portal: not in instan cessiot Bich, ror, b issue ( The author payme ternal Mes the fo Grana Santa street, stated lion is New sl An I Discou London Londo ness to the dir 31st o: divide[ 3 per C Ditto 3 per C 1 4 1.00, New 2 Do. b A.uuoiti Do. fc Do (I Exchoy . Do. Do. BALI k of I)0 a Canada later-C India 51 Do. 0 Jo. 3 Do. 4 Do. C Do. 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