The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-09 00:00:00

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By a tele gram despatched from Suez on January 8, it is re ported from Senafe that the natives are very friendly towards the forces, and that supplies are arriving. This is a very important thing, and one of the most reassuring pieces of intelligence that we have yet received. From the first hopes have been held out as to the goodwill of the natives, and nothing has transpired of a nature to contradict it. The troops are healthy, which is another fortunate report, especially as there have been some mis givings on this point, and not without reason, on account of the news from time to time received as to the sanitary condition of the forces. Still more reassuring is the next paragraph, to the effect that letters have been received from the captives, dated November 11, stating that they were then all well. It is, indeed, most astonishing that these unfor tunate men should have preserved their strength and spirits as they have done, and it affords us a well-grounded hope that they may yet keep up to the end. King THEODORE is still in an embar rassed position, and perhaps he may never recover himself if our forces are able to get on with promp titude. On the whole, then, we may safely con clude that this last intelligence is of a satisfactory character, and that we have reason to believe that success may attend this expedition, the issue of which is so important and so vital to the interests of the country as regards its own sentiments and its prestige abroad. In some quarters is; has been rather the habit to ran down this Abyssinian expedition, but we expect that those who are pleased to find fault would find themselves puzzled to ex plain what they mean exactly, and still more at a loss to show how the Government could have acted otherwise than they have done. It is very likely that this war would never have been necessary had not their predecessors been so unwise and uncer tain in their dealings with King THEODORE, but the consequences of that imprudence entailed upon the present advisers of her MAJESTY this grave responsibility, and it is both unjust and ungene rous to give them the blame of the misfortune occa sioned by others. As this expedition has become necessary, and has actually started on its way, it would be the most satisfactory thing, as well as the most becoming, to abstain from making any depre ciatory remarks upon it, and putting aside vexatious questions as to the why and wherefor of its depar ture, to await with interest the success of a cause which s . nould be dear to all who really respect the rights of Englishmen, and desire to uphold the dignity of their country. The marvel of reading in London on the 9th news from New York dated the Bth has become so com monplace that men almost cease to notice it. It is nevertheless no small testimony of the progress of skill and science, and the year 1867 has something to boast of in having familiarised us with it. By its agency we are kept completely au courant with the course of American politics, and we on this side of the Atlantic are often sooner aware of the events at Washington than residents in the more distant States themselves. The news which the electric messenger has just con veyed to us is rot surprising, though it augurs ill for the American tax-payer. The Secretary of the Treasury has just issued his monthly state ment of the public debt and the cash in the Trea sury, from which we learn that sr far from dimi nisbirg at the rate which was once promised the national burden has actually increased. On the Ist of January the debt was $2,642,000,000, against $2,639,000,000 o❑ December Ist, showing an increase of $3,000,000. The cash in the Trea sury at the same date showed a decrease in a cor responding period of four million dollars. This is an additional proof of the evils of Radical legisla tion, and will perhaps stimulate the more moderate party to further action. So long as the ruinous ex pense attending the military government of the South is kept up, and the energies of the country cramped by the desolating policy of the extreme faction, there is little chance of amendment. The position of the finances has long been demand ing consideration, but it is so difficult and in vidious a subject that the most daring and ambitious politicians have been glad to postpone definite action. It has been of late pressed upon the consideration of the Legis lature, and hundreds of schemes and sugges tions, all more or less impracticable and illusory, have been brought forward. But while Congress is weighing their !dative merits, and discussing their possible results, the debt goes o❑ increasing. If it is to enlarge at the rate of three million dollars a month, the fortunes of the Spates will have to take a more favourable turn to enable them to pay the interest in any form whatever. We would rather anticipate that the evident decline of the Radical party in public estimation will lead to such a thorough alteration in the administration of national affairs that confidence and security may be restored throughout the country and that trade may revive. The Americans of whatever occupation never want for enterprise and energy, but public confidence has been so completely shaken by recent events that capitalists naturally fear to invest their money. The Southern States are at present a dead weight upon the industry of the North. If we consider for a moment their extent and their population, and then think what it would be to have such a pauperised nation dependent upon us, we shall realise in some measure the difficulty in which American statesmen find themselves. We must add to this the cost and burden of the military routine and the Freedmen's Bureau before we shall rightly appreciate the situation, and we shall then be thoroughly convinced that nothing but a com prehensive change iu the form and spirit of -admi nistration will relieve the Treasury or restore the prosperity of the Union. In regard to the political differences between the PRESIDENT and Congress, we find that Le military committee of the Senate has presented a report recommending that the Senate should not concur in the rewovalof Mr. STANTON from his Qffi e. Whether THE SUN, LONDaN. THURSDAY EVENiNG, JANUARY 9, WS. they concur 07 not, there is one thing certain: they cannot reinat ate the offending Secretary, and Gen. GRAITT, one , installed at the War-office, will not be easily dii dodged. The license of Representative 3, we learn, has passed a. revolution authorising the sale of fifty-four surplus ironcl ads. This does not look as if, in spite of their declamations, they contemplated war—and in fact thel country is in no condition for it. To whom these ironc lads are to be sold is not stated, but it is very likely that Russia is to be the purchaser. Fifty-four is a large number of vessels to dispose of, thougi i the Americans can soon build as many as they require. Still, if we remember the account which au Admiral high in the service gave of the ditlicultiev against which the Federal Government had to caltend at the opening of the war, we shall feel some surprise that Congress should sanc tion such 21 measure. Possibly it is done with a view of enriching the national coffers. The French Army Bill has met with a better fate than some supposed possible for it, but it is fortunate that it should have done so for several reasons. In the first place, anything that looked like weakness or insecurity on the part of the Go vernment just now is to be deprecated, and this bill tends to interpose a check upon the encroachments of Prussia. No doubt the Berlin Cabinet would have rejoiced to hear of the defeat of this attempt, and recognised in the fact an additional pledge of their security and suc cess. Another cause for satisfaction is the passing of this measure, as at the present time especially it would be a great pity if the supe riority of France was decreased in any way, and an idea became prevalent, even if it were an erro neous one, that her prestige was diminishing, and her glory was departing. It is now seen that the year which has just completed its course was not, a lively one for our Continental neighbours, their star was not in the ascendant, and one thing after another seemed to damp their hopes and disappoint their expectations. Hence, it must be a relief to the mind of the nation to know that something decisive has been done to put matters in the right line, and set the military position of France in a more sure and firm foundation. The Government of the EMPEROR deserve just credit for the zeal and ingenuity which they have displayed in the matter, and it is to be hoped that the result will justify their expectations. It by no means follows that war will ensue because people are prepared for it, and perhaps the news that France is about to concentrate her forces, and to invest herself with renewed power from more fully developing her vast re sources, may in itself be the herald of peace. The news that the French EMPEROR is to have an army of 1,100,000 men will do more to stop undue pre tensions, to check unfair claims, and to put down arrogant assumption than a hundred conferences and great diplomatic displays of skill. It will be a language all can understand, whether they like it it or not, and though some of its provisions may seem hard to our notions, it cannot be denied that the bill contains much that is good for the present and the future. There is, it would seem, very good reason to hope that England has not lost one of her most enter prising and distinguished sons. Dr. LIVINGSTONE, we have grounds for believing, has been seen in the vicinity of Lake Tanganyika. Mr. REUTER yester day received a telegram from Alexandria, dated Jan. 7th, reporting a message from Zanzibar bear ing so late a date as December Ist. " Intelligence from Keelwa," so runs the message, " states that Dr. Li v INGSTONE, or a person resembling him, was seen travelling towards the west of Lake Tanganyika." The date at which this traveller was seen is not given, but the news from Zanzibar comes nine dap later than the intelligence already published by the Government, so that Dr. LIVINGSTONE must have been seen on the west of the lake, which, it must be remembered, is 300 miles long. It is clear that the person referred to must have been a European traveller ; and, therefore, as no other would have been likely to penetrate so far, there is every reason to hope that the tale of the Johanna men was altogether false. Should we be fortunate enough to welcome the ad venturous explorer once more among us, it will not have been by any means the first occasion in which , the explorer of a distant and dangerous locality has been given up for lost. The enterprise is in any shape one of great peril, but, at the same time, Dr. LIVINGSTONE has courage, resource, experience, and presence of mind to assist him ; and these, we may trust, have, under PROVIDENCE, stood him in good stead when his worthless attendants and servitors have failed him. BOW, OLD FORD, AND BROMLEY COAL RELIED' FUND. TO TIIF: EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Stn, —May I solicit the valuable aid of The Sun on behalf of a fund which I believe has rendered good service among the destitute in this eastern section of the metropolis. Reference to your ad vertising columns will show that by the liberal en couragement given to the committee last winter they were enabled to make nearly 6,000 gifts of coal to the destitute poor of the district, and the testimony of the medical officers affords ample proof of a timely supply of fuel having been the means of relieving a large amount of human suffering, if not of saving life. Another committee has been formed with a view of assisting those who, from their very unfortunato position, are unable to help themselves. Many cases of sad distress are hourly arising. The com mittee have made 500 gifts without soliciting extra neout aid, and now requiring help to meet the great destitution which still prevails, I hereby venture to seek your assistance by allowing me to appeal through the columns of The Sun to the benevolent to assist in this good work. I shall be glad to receive and acknowledge any subscriptions that may be forwarded me for this purpose.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, AUSTIN CHAMBERS, Treasurer. Miss BURDETT COUTTS AND HER TENANTS.—Miss Burdett Coutts has been at great trouble and expense in getting her tenants in Columbia-square, Bethnal-green, put upon the electoral register as voters for the now borough of Hackney. Still further to add to their fulness of knowledge respecting the relationship existing between " owners" and " occupiers" of houses and tenements under the New Reform Act, she has had printed and distributed among her tenantry an extract from an important circular addressed by the Poor-law Board to the overseers of parishes. The tenantry, sensible of the importance of the communication which they had received from their land ht.ld a meeting on December 17, at which a resolution was unanimously adopted, expressing the opinion that Miss Burdett Coutts deserved the grateful thanks of her tenantry for having ailed them in obtaining the benefits of ciVzonship, and for having voluntarily defrayed all the expenses attendant upon their being put upon the electoral roll. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A MEDICAL GENTLEMAN. —Dr. Swift, of Eccleshall, near Stafford, met with a shock ing accident on Monday evening, which proved fatal to him on the spot. He was returning home after dusk on horseback along a bridle-road, when, on coming to a hurdle which had been placed across the way during the day to prevent some sheep straying, his horse stumbled and throw him to the ground, dislocating his neck. The unfortunate gentleman lay there dead soma time before the accident was discovered, THE STIRCHLEY Mul:DEH.—Yesterday the inquest respecting the death of Barnard Zusumn, the Birmingham jeweller's traveller, who was found murdered at Stirch]ey, in Shropshire, was resumed, acd, as it was thought ad visable in the interest of justice, an open verdict of wilful murder against some person or persons unknown was re turned. most diverse and most furiously bent upon attack ing the great legitimacy whose existence is the ob ject of this most important question. Why are all voices raised ? Why are so many objurgations heard ? Why do so many criticisms and clamours recommence ? Why do rumours of revolution break out against that Power ? Because it is the key of this great question of modern times. Why do we see grouped around that rampart all alarmed con sciences—all men who do not wish to walk in dark, ness—all who, without being blind to the natural progress of humanity, do not desire to advance without light, guide, or compass, without ideas, without that quid intimum in default of which man lives like an animal. and is unworthy of being, considered an intelligent being ? Because in de bating this question that of all authority is de bated ; and do you know in what the question of authority consists ? It is the work of humanity inspired by God, without which humanity is dissi pated, like dust carried away by the violence of a hurricane. . . . Gentlemen, it is the practice outside this 3ountry, when speaking of Spain, to allude to her with a kind of disdain. I do not know what society or what cabal of authors has seized upon the Spanish name, occupying itself with vilify ing Spain and depicting the commonest things in our country in such a manner that no one can re cognise them. A kind of conspiracy has been en tered into to place us in the rear of all good things, and always at the head of those that are bad. It is essential that those who vilify and ca lumniate us in other places should know that one thing indubitably does exist in Spain, viz , a sacred spirit that has reunited us in a great danger. This spirit, happily, is not dead. It may be reflected, consecrated anew, and represented in the vote you are about to give. When Europe shall see that the deputies of the Spanish people, when a question like this comes uppermost, show themselves united, and arise, to use the expression of Napoleon 1., like one man of honour, it may be that people will ask them selves whether truth or falsehood is daily written concerning Spain ; then, it may also be, people will reflect and rectify their opinions." It has already been telegraphed that the draft of the address was carried by 161 votes to 3. LATEST INTELL CGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. By a telegram despatched from Suez yesterday, January 8, at 2 p.m., our (Times) Special Corre spondent with the Expedition reports from Senafe " The natives are very friendly towards us, and supplies are arrriving. " The troops are healthy. " Letters have been received from the captives at Magdala, dated November 11, stating that they were then all well. " The King of Shoa and Waagshum Gobazye are reported to be near Magdala. " Theodore is still in an embarrassed position." (Per Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.) ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 8. The establishment of a line of telegraph between Kossar and Annesley Bay is completed. ADEN, Dec. 29. Advices received here from Massowali state that the Egyptians appear determined to send a mission to King Theodore, notwithstanding the remon strances of the British. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Nov. 27 (via Trieste.) his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, who arrived here on the 231 inst., has met with a most enthusiastic reception. The entire city was decorated, and upon the entrance of the Royal procession the road was strewn with flowers. Eleven thousand children sang the National Anthem. The following gold ships have sailed for Eng land :—The Kosciusko, with 40,5000 z. ; the Witn mera, with 12,6230 z. ; the Yorkshire, with 6,0000 z. ; the Sarah Grice, with 3,6250 z. ; the J. M. Joshua, with 5,375 oz. ; the Australia, with 20,1250 z. ; the Lightning, with 16,3750 z. ; and the Star of Peace, with 10,7500 z. ADELAIDE, Nov. 28. One thousand colonists were presented to his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh at the levee held in this city. The red rust has appeared in the growing wheat crops. A short harvest and much damage are anti cipated. AMERICA. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued his usual monthly statement of the public debt and the cash in the Treasury of the United States. The total amount of debt on the Ist instant was $2,642,000,000, against $2,639,000,000 on the Ist of December last, showing an increase of $3,000,000. The cash in the Treasury at the same date was $134,000,000, against $138,000,000 at the corre sponding period last month, showing a decrease of $4,000,000. The Senate has passed a bill exempting from tax the United States' cotton crop in 1868, and abolish ing the duty on the importation of foreign cotton grown during the year ending April, 1869. The Military Committee of the Senate has pre sented a report recommending that the Senate should not concur in the removal of Mr. Stanton from the Secretaryship of War. The House of Representatives has passed a resolution authorising the sale of 54 surplus naval ironclads. NEW YORK, Jan. 8. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out $1,590,000 in specie. The Manhattan arrived out yesterday, and the Moravian to-day. COMMENCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—GoId, 134. Ster ling exchange on London, 109 k. Five-Twenty United States' Bonds, 1882, 1081 ; ditto, 1885, 1061. Illi no i s s h are s, 1331 ; Erie shares, 75 Cotton—middling upland, 16e. Petroleum—stan dard white, 25c. Corn—old mixed, $1 43c. THE POSTIFIUAL ARMY. ROME, Jan. 7. Two hundred fresh recruits for the Antelego Legion arrived here to-day, thus raising its strength to 1,835 men. The Papal Zouaves number above 5,000. THE LATE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. CORFU, Jan. 8. The Austrian war frigate Novara, with the re mains of the late Emperor Maximilian on board, arrived off this island yesterday. ITALY. FLORENCE, Jan. 8 (Evening.) The Minister of War has issued orders to send to their homes on the 15th January all the soldiers of the class of 1841 called out shortly after the accession of General Menabrea to office. The Committee on the Budget met to-day. It was resolved that the discussion on the Budget should be placed first on the order of the day upon the re assembling of Parliament. FRANCE. • BOURSE, JAN. 8, Three o'clock. —The market closed as follows :--- 41 per Cent. 99 75 End of month -- 3 per Cent End of month 6B 77 Credit Mobilier End of month 162 50 Credit Foncier 1350 End of mouth 1356 25 RAILWAY Bank Shares 3275 ItsFaa Loan End of month— 4l 67i Mexican Loan 17 Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 37 Home Debt__ 34 50 Deferred — Account Orleans ... 8661 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 5521 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard 3461 North of Spain Saragossa Raman 47 SPAIN AND THE 11,0,11 AN QUESTION. MADRID, Jan. 3. Upon the draft of tha address in reply to the Queen's speech being brought into the Chamber of Deputies yesterday, Senor Gonzalez Bravo, the Minkter of the Interior, made a speech, of which the most striking portions are here given : "Something very serious, very important, is incon testably taking place in the worle of the civilised society of Europe in general. Extreme rumours and great reticence proceed from great causes; they cannot be explained by petty reasons. Wher ever great contests, great disagreements, great lasting discussions occur, they must indubitably be produced by great causes; and when silence reigns in places where people might speak, where the right so to do is not refused—where liberty and talent are not fettered—the fact is ow ing to sonic great superior cause which weighs upon all, What is that cause ? It has been alleged to be that expressed in her Majesty's speech, as well as in the draft brought i❑ by the committee. . . . . Now, I have no desire to evoke a debate which nobody else has entered upon, and it is no , for me to seek by my language to corroborate the eloquent words you have heard from the most august person in the realm. A previous speaker (Senor Nocedal) has said here is a question which dominates all others, which rises up like towers above humble buildings, and in face of which all other topics, if they do not en tirely disappear, at any rate become dwarfed, and that is the truth. It is true trout the point of view of all men and of all sects, even the 711 E LATE COLONEL KENNEDY, C.B. An event which has created a most painful im pression on English society at Alexandria was the death of Colonel Kennedy from neglected dysentery on the night of the 18th of December. Among the many officers who have been lately added to our colony few were so generally esteemed among the small circle of acquaintance which they have made during their short stay ; and apart from this there were other circumstances which tended to render the event still more sad. Connected with the Transport service for the Abyssinian Expedition, his work seemed, for the time at least, almost com pleted, "and while he was looking forward to spending his Christmas at home his wife is sum moned out to attend him in a serious illness, and will arrive only to hear that he is dead. The body was to be sent home; general invitations signed by Colonel Ross, C. 8., the deputy-quarter master-general, announced that the funeral cere mony would take place at 3 o'clock on the, 20th with military honours, and there were few who did not appear to pay this last :tribute of respect. The cortege assembled at the house of the deceased, on the hill of Corn el Dik, about one mile from the town, but the procession was formed further on, at the Rosetta gate, _just without the walls of the city, under the direction of Colonel Ross, whose friend and comrade he bad been. Everything was arranged with the utmost care indeed, but with perfect simplicity. The hearse, preceded and sur rounded by marines and seamen, led the way in dead silence across the desert where the pretty little English cemetery is situated; then, in full uniform, the military and naval officers of the Terrible and the French frigate, Colonel Stanton (the Con sul-General) walking between the Egyptian authorities, Scherim Pasha (Governor of Alex andria), and Lattif Pasha (Admiral of the Port) ; then the representatives of the British and other Consulates, closed by a crowd of civilian friends. It was a simple and impressive sight, as the long and silent procession moved across the desert ; the very absence of music increased the effect, the stillness being only broken by the report of the minute-gun of the Terrible in the distance. Arrived at the cemetery, the plain deal coffin was carried out by the Marines and placed upon a stand in the centre of a group of trees. The bat, sword, and medals of the deceased were then laid on the bier, while the chaplain, standing by a roughly-made cross serving as a tombstone to some grave, read the service in a voice which hardly broke the silence of the dense crowd. Many of those who had known the deceased best were visibly affected, and even to those who knew him but slightly there was, apart from the respect that the man himself had so tho roughly inspired, something even more than ordi narily touching in that homely service as it was read over the corrse so far from home. No salute was fired ; the body was placed in the deadhouse, and conveyed the next day on board the Crocodile for England. LIVERPOOL COTTON .111ARKE1—This Day. Market opens dull and easier. Sales probably 8,000 bales. ACETATE OF LEAD. - .6-- This substance, also known under its old name of extract of Saturn, an :important element in ma teria medica, is prepared in various ways, and the new French pharmacopias or Codex, published in 1866, gives a process which, in the opinion of its authors, will free it from every particle of copper; for which purpose, among other things, it is re commended that the operation be conducted in earthenware instead of copper vessels. On this point M. Magne Lahens, in a paper inserted in Dr. Caffe's " Journal des Connaisances Medicales," differs from the authors of the Codex, and con tends that earthenware vessels are extremely incon venient, especially when it is required to put them into a water-bath, and are moreover apt to crack, while copper vessels are exempt from this drawback. It is true, they are subject to another, viz., that of communicating particles of copper to the extract; and it has been proposed to avoid this by boiling in the vessel the water required for the opera tion before introducing the compounds of lead. This answers the purpose to a certain ex tent, but is far from yielding an acetate of lead perfectly exempt from copper. M. Lahens next examines another method, which consists in putting grains or plates of lead into the copper vessel while the operation is in progress, and this, especially in the case of leaden plates, he finds to answer infinitely better, since it not only prevents the liquid from borrowing any copper from the vessel, but also causes all the copper with which the compounds of lead are usually tainted to be precipitated on the plates, proVided the following rules be observed : —l. The surface of the leaden plate must he completely renovated by scraping just before using it; 2. The leaden surface should be proportioned to the quantity of acetate to be made ; 3. The leaden plate should be bent circularly, and be nar row enough to be entirely immersed in the liquid ; it ought also to be so placed as to have its lower border in contact with the copper vessel in as many pGints as possible. In this way the two metals con stitute a sort of voltaic pile, which acts long enough to cause the precipitation of all the particles of copper contained in the extract, either on the leaden plate or on the sides of tho vessel. This is an im mense advantage, which could not be secured if earthenware vessels were employed. [ADVERTISEMENT.] — Holloway's Ointment and Pills need only a single trial to make known their capabilities. No outside sore or inward inflammation can long withstand the cooling, purifying, and healing influences exerted by these twin medicaments. 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He hesitated a moment, and then said, " No, it is time to go." The others would not hear of leaving off, and dashed on again; but the moment after the ice gave way, and, in spite of all the efforts of Napoleon Bonaparte to save them, they were both drowned. In the course of a day or two there will be sold by auc tion a medal so curious that I have no doubt a large price will be offered for its possession. It is composed of lead which was used to rivet the chains of the prisoners of the Bastille, and bears the following ioscription :—" This lead sealed the fetters which chained the victims of despotisi and recalls the period of liberty conquered in the year ler." This is on one side ; the obverse is embellished with a somewhat confused representation of the taking of the Bastille, and bears date 14th July, 1789. Your readers have heard much of the Princess de Metternich. Let me give her portrait as sketched in the Paris Magazine :—" She is said not to be pretty. Listen to the enumeration'of her beauties : Eyes which have the sweetness of a German reverie ; teeth of brightest enamel ; a forehead smooth and clear as an infant's, high and wide as that of a thinker ; and abundant silky brown hair. People seem not to notice two particular beauties of her Austrian Highness : the form of her head, as Greek as that of the Venus of Milo ; her ear like a pink shell— whereas, everyone does justice to the beautiful fall of her shoulders, the exquisite form of her arm, the long aristo cratic hands, and the narrow, dainty foot. Be she dressed in blue, red, or yellow; be she coiffed with her toque over her eyes, or with a sergent-de-ville's cap, as she appeared one day at the Tuileries—she is and remains a princess ; and there are not many now. Witty, with a heart of gold, and extremely charitable, she is the adoration of the work men's families she visits in the Faubourg St. Antoine ; jumping the children on her knees, washing them, kissing them, sitting on a stool if there are not chairs enough— such is the woman. Devotedly and fondly attached to a good man—Prince de Metternich—such is the wife." The significance of a double defeat of the Government in election districts where it had every reason to look for success is fully appreciated here, and is regarded as evidently conveying a censure on the general policy of the Government. I find also that it is looked upon as a special protest against the Army Bill. The manufactory of the new guns at Meudon has re zeived another visit of inspection from the Emperor. Of course great curiosity prevails to know what is going on inside the building, and several too prying visitors to the neighbourhood have been quietly arrested. Being on this subject, I may mention as a matter of rumour that our fortifications are to be adorned with cannon. Though this statement mint only be taken for what it is worth, it is a fact that the War Office has issued large orders to private builders for gun carriages. It is seldom that journalists are so candid in the expo sition of their designs as M. Henri Rochefort, who, in announcing the appearance of his new venture, La Sau terne, says he means " to make himself generally disagree able." I believe that M. Rochefort couldn't brook the in. terference he met with from M. Pinard during the time he contributed to the Figaro. I hear it confirmed that M. Messon, the editor or. tne Union Bretonne, published at Nantes, will succeed M. Paulin Limayrac as semi-official writer in chief on the Conetitutionnel. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Morning Herald intimates that the distress amongst the poore” classes in Russia, owing to the bad harvest, is in many parts of the country very severe. At the opening of tbr Provincial Assembly of Novgorod, the Governor told the members that the province had to look forward to a yea of great difficulty both to the proprietor and the labourer. The bad harvest and the cattle plague had reduced the working classes to a state of misery, and he recommended a liberal vote of money to supply the peasants with the means of subsistence, and to furnish them with seed for the next year. The Governer of Olonetz opened the Pro vincial Assembly of that government with a similar address. A committee has assembled at Berlin to draw up a uni form code of civil procedure for the Northern Confederi;,- tion. All the members, at the head of whom is placed the Minister of Justice, belong to North Germany. The large number of forged notes in circulation in Russia has rendered necessary the issue of paper money of a novel design. A belief prevails in some quarters of Berlin that the sate M. Dreyse, the inventor of the needle gun, has left papers which prove that towards the end of the last war he was in constant communication with the Court of the Tuileries, and that he had revealed to the Emperor the mysteries of the needle-gun. It is also said that the other inventions made by M. Dreyse were not confided to the Prussian, but to the French Government, without the knowledge of the former. The number of artisans employed in the arms manu factories at St. Etienne has been increased to 5,000, not including those employed at Anailly, where extensive machinery for the production of muskets has recently been erected. The latter establishment can deliver 40,000 barrels monthly. A correspondent of the Star spews how the King of the Netherlands has discovered a new method for preventing Ministerial crivs. It is that of instituting a Ministry in perpetuity. When the Second Chamber rejects important Government bills, his Majesty dissolves the former, and issues a proclamation to his subjects calling upon them to return only such candidates as engage to support the Ministry he has chosen. Should the new Chamber prove hostile, it would be again dissolved. Indeed, the process would be continued until the Parliament thoroughly ac commodated itself to the Ministry. A correspondent of the Morning Post, writing from Mexico under date December 9, describes the opening of the Congress on the previous day, which was Sunday. President Juarez was in attendance, and when a formal organisation had been effected, he read what in the United States would be called the " President's Message," and in England the " Speech from the Throne." His voice was almost inaudible. The text of the speech has already appeared, and, with the reply of Senor Monte; was little more than a choice specimen of the rhetorical self-glorifi cation in which Mexicans are so fond of indulging. The same correspondent mentions that though the finan cial situation of the Mexican Government is admitted on all hands to be bad, the supporters of the present Adminis tration declare that the nominal amount of the various foreign and domestic claims against the Government can be greatly reduced by the strict scrutiny to which they are all to be subjected, and that shortly a financial state ment will be put forth by the Administration, which will shew that it is not impossible for Mexico to pay all the debts which she honestly owes. Colonel Hogg, the Conservative member for Bath, who seconded the Address to the Crown at the opening of the session, has been selected for the honour of proposing "The health of her Majesty's Ministers" at the forth. coming banquet at Bristol. It will be responded to by Lord Stanley. The chairman is to be the Duke of Beau fort, the Lord High Steward of the city. The banquet, which is to take place on the 22nd instant, is expected to be one of the most influential gatherings which has' ever taken place in the West of England. In expressing a hope for the speedy recovery of Sir John Rolt, the Bath Chronicle fears that the paralytic attack from which the learned judge now suffers will materially impair his strength, and may possibly necessi tate his retirement from the judicial bench. In such an event, the successor to the dignified position of Lord Jus tice of Appeal in Chancery would be the present Solicitor- General, Sir Charles Selwyn, brother of the new Bisho of Lichfield. In speculating upon the possibility of Sir Charles Selwyn's elevation, one remarkable fact cannot fail to be impressed upon the mind, and that is, the richness of the Conservatives and the poverty of the Liberals in equity men. Lord Romilly, the present Master of the Rollsyand Sir w. P. Wood, now Vice-Chancellor, were the two last Chancery supporters possessed by the Whig party in , Par liament. On the promotion of the latter, Lord Aberdeen appointed a Peelite, Sir Richard Bethell, to the Solicitor- Generalship. When Lord Campbell died and Sir Richard took his place as Lord Chancellor, Lord Palmerston had not a single equity man in the House of Commons, and was constrained to bring in Sir Roundell Palmer and make him Solicitor-General. In the next Liberal Administra tion there is little doubt that Sir Roundell Palmer's place will be on the woolsack, and unless in the meantime one or two leading Chancery barristers take their seats on the Liberal benches, the new Ministry must again go out of the ranks of their party for a law officer of the Crown. Mr. Ellice, M.P. for the St. Andrew's district of burghs. in addressing his constituents, said that while he lookei upon the Conservatives as deserters from their party, yet he accepted a Reform Bill from them, as he believed in the truth of the principle, " Measures, not men." He thought that Conservatives of the future would be compelled to follow in the paths of the Liberal party. The basis of the franchise on household suffrage he considered satisfactory, because permanent ; but man hood suffrage was not, in his opinion, ripe for discussion. Though admitting that Ireland had been harshly treated, he thought the attention of Parliament had been unduly .y/ 3 FA& discs io of Iriok wasusgh. 777 _ uzv', 6s a t, zi lrmar HER MAJESTY. - ---0 OSBORNE, Jan. 8. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds yes terday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise and Madame Van de Weyer. THE NEW FIELD-211 A RSHALS. " Dod's Peerage" gives the following brief memoirs of the four distinguished soldiers who have just been gazetted Field-Marshals : " WooDFonn, G.C.B. Created 1852, G.C.NI.G. 1832.—Sir Alexander George Woodford, son of Lieutenant - Colonel John Woodford, by the eldest daughter of the third Duke of Gordon, and relict of the ninth Earl of Westmoreland. Born 1782 ; married, 1820, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Charles henry Fraser, Bri4 tish Minister at Hamburg. Entered the army as ensign 9th Foot, 1794 ; served in Holland and Denmark ; was aide-de-camp to Lord For bes on the staff in Sicily in 1809, and subse quently with the Coldstream Guards in Por tugal and Spain ; was at Waterloo in command of that regiment, at the capture of Paris, and at Cam brai during the three years' occupation of France ; became a general in 1854 ; was colonel of the 40th Foot from 1842 to 1862, when he was appointed colonel of the Grenadier Guards ; received a medal and two clasps for his services at Salamanca, Vit toria, and .Nive ; was lieutenant-governor of Malta in 1825 ; was subsequently commander of the forces in the lonian Islands ; was governor of Gibraltar from 1835 to 1842 ; appointed lieutenant-governor of Chelsea Hospital, November, 1856 ; received the Orders of Maria Theresa and St. George, 4th class, for his services at Waterloo ; was aide-de-camp to George IV. " GOMM, G.C.B. Created 1859. Sir Wm. May nard Gomm, D.C.L. (Oxon and Cantab), son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Gomm, by the daugh ter of Mr. Joseph Maynard. Born 1784; married, first, the daughter of Mr. Granville Penn, of Stoke Park, Bucks ; secondly, 1830, eldest daughter of Lord Robert Kerr, granddaughter of sth Marquis of Lothian (she was born 1807) ; entered the army in 1794 ; served with the 9th Foot at the Helder 1799 ; at the battles of the 19th Sept. and 2d Oct. ; and on the coast of France in:1800 ; served in Hano ver 1805, at Stralsund and the siege of Copenhagen 1807, in the Peninsular campaign of 1808-9, in cluding the battles of Rolica, Vitniera, and Corunna, at Walcheren, and the siege of Flushing, 1809 ; was assistant quartermaster-general from Busaco to the close of the Spanish war, 1814, and also at Quatre Bras and Waterloo ; appointed lieut.-colonel Coldstream Guards, 1829 ; major general, 1837 .;commander of the forces, lieute nant-governor, and member of council in Jamaica, 1840-41 (where he established the mountain-bar rack of. Newcastle) ; appointed to command the northern district of England, 1842 ; governor and commander in chief in Mauritius from 1843 to 1849; colonel of the 13th Foot, 1846 ; colonel of the Cold stream Guards, 1863 ; general and commander in chief, and extraordinary member of council, froin January, 1851, to Decemter, 1855 ; has received for his military services the gold cross and one clasp, the silver war medal and six clasps, the Waterloo medal, and was made a knight of St• Anne of Russia, 2d class, for the last-named battle " Ross, G.C.B. Created 1855.—Sir Hew Dal rymple Ross, third son of Major John Ross, of Bal kail, county of Galloway, by the daughter of Mr. John Buchan, of Lcitham, Haddingtonshire. Born at Balkail, 1779 ; m irried 1816, only daughter of Mr. Richard Graham, of Stonehouse, Cumberland ; entered the Royal Artillery in 1795 ; became a general in the army in 1854 ; lieutenant-general of the ordnance, 1854 ; adjutant-general of the Royal Artillery in 1855 ; received a cross and two clasps for his services at Busaco, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nivelle, and Nive ; was at Waterloo, for his services at which battle he received the order of St. Anne, 2d class ; was nominated a Knight of the Tower and Sword in 1815, for his services in the Peninsular war. " BURGOYNE, Ist Bart. (United Kingdom). Created 1856. G.C.B. 1852--Sir John Fox Bur goyne, son of the late Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. John Burgoyne, who was well known in relation to the American war. Born 1782 ; married, 1820, the second daughter of Mr. Hugh Rose, of Holme, county of Nairn, lieutenant-colonel, E.I.C.S. ; entered the Engineers 1798 ; served at Malta, in Egypt, and at Corunna ; served in the Peninsula from 1809 to 1814 and in North America in 18.15 ; was wounded at Burgos and St. Sebas tian ; has received the gold cross and one clasp, as well as the silver war medal and three clasps ; was for several years chairman of the Board of Public Works in Ireland ; appointed inspec tor-general of fortifications' in England, July, 1845, salary £1,500 ; metropolitan commis sioner of sewers, 1849 ; lieutenant-general of the force sent to the Crimea, 1854 ; colonel-command ant Royal Engineers, 1855 ; Constable of the Tower of London, Lord-Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the Tower Hamlets, 1865 ; received the honorary degree of D.C.L. from Oxford, the Order of the Medjidie of the first class from the Sultan; the rank of general, a baronet, and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour for his services in conducting the siege operations at Sebastopol up to April, 1855. Heir, his son, Hugh Talbot, born iu Dublin, 1833 ; entered the navy in 1847 ; married daughter of Sir Baldwin Walker, Bart. ; made a commander in the royal navy in 1856 ; commanded the Wrangler gunboat at the taking of Kinburn ; received the Victoria Cross for personal bravery, 1857 ; also the Order of the Medjidie fifth class, and the Legion of Honour." LUNACY IN ESSEX.—One of the most painful sub jects coming under the consideration of the Essex quarter sessions this month has been the constant increase in the number of patients in the County Lunatic Asylum. Thus, at the close of 1867, the number of patients in the asylum was 587, as compared with 573 at the close of 1866, 541 at the close of 1865, 550 at the close of 1864, 521 at the close of 1863, 498 at the close of 1862, and 467 at the close of 1861. It is satisfactory to note that 101 patients under treatment recovered their reason last year. THE SALE OF BREAD.—The police in Cornwall are paying much attention to the sale of bread, and bakers and shopkeepers are being weekly brought before the magistrates and charged with selling bread otherwise than by weight. The county Bench at Truro on Monday fined three shopkeepers sums varying from 10s. to £2 and cost for this offence; during last week there were seven similar convictions in different parts of Cornwall. in every case the bread was proved to be below the weight which should have been given for the money paid. THE CIVIL SERVICE.—.—APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. Henry Holbrook, to be copying clerk in the Inland Revenue ; Messrs. James Birse, Thomas Mullin, John Henry Warren, P. Bannister, E. Bucklow, H. Fisher, G. Gould, G. Hartrick, H. Magowan, and T. Radmore, to be assistants of Exc so ; Mr. Francis Henry Hendre, to be temporary clerk in the Friendly Societies Registry ; Mr. George Ellis Cooper, to be clerk in the Post-office, Rother ham ; Mr. Edward Lynan, to be clerk in the Post-office, S he ffiel d. SINGULAR CASE OF Loss AND RECOVERY.-- About three years ago Mrs. Stewart, Montboy, while feed ing her calves, allowed :one of them to suck her fingers, but on withdrawing her hand beheld with consternation that her marriage ring and another which she wore as a keeper had disappeared, the calf having apparently swal lowed them. In consequence of this the animal was kept at Montboy, where it was reared, fattened, and slaugh tered last week, when a proper search was made for the missing treasure, and at the first incision made upon the intestines, both rings were found as clean and as bright as they were when they went amissing three years before.— Brechin Advertiser. 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