The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-05 00:00:00

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H. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leelercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. CLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL—At 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a q uarter to 8, Mr. T. Byron's original Comedy, in live acts, entitled CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, Fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindal°, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Ales dames Henrado, C. Thorne, Breman, Berend, Hughgs, and Stephens. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE. Sole Lessen and Manager, Mr. Vining, THIS EVENING, at 7, THE SECRET. After which (at 8 o'clock), Dion Boucicault's new drama, in four acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, C. Harcourt, G. Shore; Miss Emma Barnet, and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by Mr, F. Lloyds ani assistants. To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Clarke. 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Francis.Wright.Maccabe, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Coleman, &c. And A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSIE6S. Messrs. Buckstone. Howe, &c. Commence at 7. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. This EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8, AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining,-Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murrby; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston: Miss Emma Barnet and Miss Hose Loclercq Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL THIS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBF.RWELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45 MONIE CRISTO . Messrs. Fechter, B. Webster, G. Belmore, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson. C. J. Smith, W H. lli burne, R. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. TIT'S F.vFNING, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, CYRIL'S SUCCESS: ➢iessrs. Warner, Vernon, Fisher, New hound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlstone, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Honrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Mnnftgeress. Mrs. Swanborough, THIS EVENING. at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke: Miss Baton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees. Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. fITIS EVENING, THE WIFE'S SEC It ET. Fir Walter Aymott, r Creswick; Lady Evolina, Miss Pauncefort. After which, AND RATS AND WATER RATS. QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston. Tress EVENING, at 7, THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham. Clayton, and S. Emery ; tlesdames Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore. And THE STRANGER, Stranger than Ever. Mr. L. Brough, Miss Mon tague, &c. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Under the Management of Miss Fanny Josephs. Tuts EVENING, at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Honey, t...owper, Haynes, Arthur, Westland, and Parselle; Mesdames Foot e , Weathersby, Rign old . At 9.30, LUCRETIA BO GIA ; cs s Drew, G. Honey, .te.; Mesdames Minnie Sidney, Fanny Joseph THEATRE-I:OVAL, OLYMPIC. Tms EVT:SING, at 7, SLASHER &CRASHER: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan. G. Vincent, fie.: Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. H. G. Vincent, E. Atkins. 11. Vau'glian, H. Conpor, and Ti Wigan; Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caullleld ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Trrrs EVENING, at 7.30, ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT COLD. To ho followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF NICIIARD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar, Mr. Danvers: Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con tlude with THE CLOCKMAKER'S HAT. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins EVENING, ATCEII! Messrs. Blakeley and Montague; Misses Addison and A. Wilton. After which, SOCIETY : Messrs. J. Clarke, Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White and Miss C. Addison. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROT AL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also Avolo, the Marvel of the Nineteenth Century, Alfred Bradbury, Mdlle. Montero, M. Napoli, F. Clifton, and SamwelPs Performing Dogs. Commence at 7.30. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET 4 , Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. 4,4,o4.teit*A LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 5, 1868. Mr. GLADSTONE'S principal object will, of course, be to form a strong Government. A host in himself, he must not surround himself with a host of mediocri ties. The first guarantee against this is, as a matter of course, the sweeping aside altogether of those old used-up Whig Administrators of whom the world was sick to very nausea long ago, men too utterly insignificant individually to merit, even the distinction of being enumerated. Those, at least, we are at last, thank Heaven, well rid of. But, while we aro rid of them, there are other claimants for promotion to their vacant places immediately surrounding the future Prime Minister, his selection of whom as his colleagues would be very serious matter for regret—simply, it should be said at once, by reason of their comparative insignificance. Precisely, however, because Mr. GLAD STONE is so vigorous and powerful an administrator in himself, is it earnestly to be hoped, in the inte rests of the Crown and of the country, that he will associate with himself in the Cabinet men of com manding ability, not mere political make-weights —the pick of the foremost men, in fact, of what was yes terday the Opposition. Obviously a strong GLAD STONE Government would be one which would in clude in the same Cabinet such men of mark as the following—under Mr. GLADSTONE'S Premiership— Lord CLARENDON, Lord GRANVILLE, the Duke of ARGYLL, Mr. CARDWELL, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. LOWE, MT. CHILDERS, Mr. W. E. FoRSTER a Cabinet including in it, moreover, Sir ALEX ANDER COCKBURN (then, of course, Lord COCKBURN) as Lord High Chancellor. There are ten out of the fifteen names required to make up the aggregate of the Cabinet— ten of the foremost names of the Liberal Party. Others there are from among whom the rest might be judiciously selected, among them Lord KIMBERLEY, Lord I)UFFERIN, Mr. GOSCIIEN, Mr. AYRTON---We were going to add Mr. LAYA RD, only that Lis intollerable insolence of temper, as so often evidenced in the House, and as more recently and more shame fully manifested on the hustings in South wsrk, may be regarded as having in a mea sure shelved him. From names, such as those we have just now enumerated, if Mr. GLADSTONE makes a bold and discriminating selection, then but then only, as we conceive, he may be deemed to have constructed an administration worthy of him in its intellectual strength andin its administrative capacity. There is some talk however, of Lord ,Thstiee PAGE Woon being pri•rnot7ql to the woolsack. That would hardly strengtheu Arlui;ilibtratiou. It would place an admirable equity lawyer in the position of Chancellor, but it would secure but a feeble antago nist to the out-going Chancellor, Lord CAIRNS. Whereas with a brilliant debater of commanding in tellect like the Lord Chief Justice of England, nomi nated as Lord CAIRNS' successor upon the woolsack, the Liberal Cabinet might look with confidence to the future in the Upper House in reference to those momentous debates which are looming up in that future in regard to the Irish Church, debates in which Sir ROUNDELL PALMER, even if raised to the peerage as is proposed, can in no way participate in the House of Lords to the advantage of the Go vernment. With a Chancellor like COCKBURN and a Chancellor of the Exchequer like CHILDERS, and a Colonial Secretary like FORSTER, and a Minister of Elucation (in the future) like LOWE, and an In dian Secretary like BRIGHT, and a Home Secretary like CARDWELL, and a President of the Council like GRANVILLE, with COLERIDGE as Attorney-General with either Lord KIMBERLEY or Lord DUFFERIN as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and so on—with the offices of State thus distributed, or distributed at any rate somewhat after that fashion, the Premier elect would find himself surrounded by statesmen and ad ministrators qualified to co-operate with him in the weighty responsibility of carrying on at this junc ture the affairs of the QUEEN'S Government. If, on the other hand, the lesser names that are many of them now in people's mouths are really the names of those likely to constitute the majority of the occupants of seats in Mr. GLADSTONE'S Cabinet, the incoming Premier will be regarded as having, in some measure, weakened the otherwise enormous strength of his position, certainly as having to a considerable extent foregone a magnificent opportunity. What the Liberal party wants now for its Cabinet is—a great man, not surrounded with medio crities, but clustered about with the ablest intellects, the most vigorous administrators, the foremost chiefs selected from the very front rank of what is still numerically the weaker side in the Lords, but the immense majority in the House of Commons. Let the lesser names be introduced in place of those, and we may almost as well have at once a Cabinet made up once more of the old worn-out materials —of such mere political nobodies as Lord HALIFAX and Lord STANLEY Of ALDERLEY. THE intelligence from New Zealand grows more and more gloomy. It is unsatisfactory enough to find, after several years of conflict with the native race that our position remains very much where it was at the beginning of the outbreak. If the colony has not retrograded in its relations with the Maoris, it has certainly not progressed ; the chance of a settlement with that warlike people is as remote as ever. But the gravity of the situation is greatly increased by the fact that the recent disasters are not due to accident or unforeseen causes, but are the direct result of mismanagement. There can no longer be any doubt that the disgrace which has befallen the colony is largely owing to errors both of design and execution, to the inadequacy of the means at the disposal of the authorities, and the unskilfulness with which they were put into operation. The task of keeping down the Maoris is one of great diffi culty; but of this the Colonial Government was fully aware, and ought to have been prepared accordingly. The war which employed the Imperial troops so long resulted at last in the accumulation in the islands of no less than ten thousand soldiers. As the entire native population numbers not more than forty thousand, and as the colonists themselves bear a proportion to the Maoris of five to one, this army was preposterously large. But it is not the less evi dent that the force which the authorities have kept in hand is altogether too small. The onus of pro tecting the colony was recently thrown upon the colonists themselves, and the troops were withdrawn. The result was very significant. So long as the English taxpayer was willing to pay the cost of defending New Zealand, ten thousand soldiers—who were not unprofitable residents—were not too many; but when the local Legislature had to find the money, a wretchedly equipped detachment of two or three hundred inexperienced recruits was deemed sufficient. It is not surprising that such a body, ill-disciplined and badly led, has been signally beaten in the woods of New Zealand, that the natives have gained a material and moral triumph, and are making the most of it. This is by no means the only shortcoming of the local arrangements. If the vice of intemperance is not rampant throughout the colony, there is too much reason to believe that it is unusually prevalent amongst those who ought to have been the guardians of the public safety. The information furnished on this subject is extraordinary, but too precise and well authenticated to be incorrect. Not only has drunken ness been very common in the New Zealand " army," but it has largely prevailed amongst the officers, and some of the couriers charged with the important duty of transmitting despatches have been stopped on their journey by intoxication. The primary cause of this last outbreak was the escape from the Chatham Islands of a large number of Maori convicts. This escape was effected with great skill, and, be it said to the credit of the natives, with no violation on their part of the laws of humanity. It now transpires that the convict establishment at the Chatham Islands is under the care of twenty-eight constables, and that there are two public-houses in the place, each of which does a " roaring business." The number of regular customers necessary to support a public-house may best be estimated by those who keep them, but fourteen individuals must do some tolerably hard drinking in order to secure the prosperity of a house which has no other rescources whatever. It is not stated that the constables were all drunk when the prisoners escaped ; but it is affirmed that the success of the attempt was owing to the negligence of the police. These details are suffi cient to point out, the causes to which the recent re verses are to be attributed. The authorities have notkept up a force in any respect equal to defending the property of the colony, and they have not exercised sufficient care in choosing the men to whom this important duty should be entrusted. The love, or the want, of money s eems t o h ave b een th e root o f all the evil. The Government could not, or would not, pay for a sufficient force, and it did not suffi ciently remunerate each individual. The wages paid were so low that only the scum of the colony could be found to undertake its defence. The authorities have saved their money. But in the recent battle they lost the lives of several valu able officers; part of the territory has been handed over to the natives—conquered, in fact ; and much valuable property has been destroyed. This is not economy. THE hesitation of the Reform League to testify their admiration of America through a medium so " tainted " and generally unsuitable as Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON is not very important. But it is unfor tunate, on the eve of the settlement of a great difficulty, and at a time when the relations between England and America have assumed so promising an aspect, that Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON'S conduct should have caused so much dissatisfaction in America. That the dissatisfaction is great and general cannot be doubted. That it may lead to unfortunate results is much to be feared. The .merican press is, almost without exception, engaged in crying down the policy of their Ambassador, and even his recall is said to have been decided upon. Such an extreme course can scarcely be justified by the evidence against Mr. JOHNSON. The people of the United States are best able to decide for themselves on this matter; but there is an Eng lish as well as an American side to the question, SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1868. The ai nbp. ssad ors from the United States have generally secured the respect and the esteem of the people to which they are accredited, and Mr. JoirNsoN's unusually warm manifestations of friendship are but the natural accompaniment of the settlement of the great dispute between the two countries. Moreover, these banquets and speeches are merely the shadow and notthe substance of his mission. His business is to be the medium of the diplomatic interchanges between the two countries, and this he has performed most successfully. The credit of the Alabama settlement belongs largely to him, and he must be fairly conceded the merit of having secured an arrangement as favourable as the imericans . could expect to obtain by diplomatic means. Had he sacri ficed the interests of the United States in this respect, the ground of complaint against him would have been much more serious. But he has concluded as good a bargain as any American diplomatist could have hoped for, and better than seemed possible a short time back. llis recall, should such a step be taken, would be most ill-omened. He is identified with the arrangement between the two countries, and it is doubtful how far his removal might vitiate it. England could hardly look upon such a step as favourable to her re-established friendship with America. Mr. JOHNSON'S politics are adverse to those of the ruling party in America, and his conduct here has displeased them ; but his diplomacy has not failed to carry out their views. 'When the substance of his mission has been accomplished almost beyond hope, it would hardly be justice, and it would be no compliment to England, to recall him for running counter to American views of diplomatic etiquette. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) HUNGARY. PESTH, Dec. 4, Evening. The budget for 1869 was submitted to-day to the Hungarian Diet. The receipts are estimated at 170 millions, the expenditure at 180 millions of florins. This includes the common deficit, which it is proposed to cover by the sale of Northern Rail way shares, the collection of taxes, and by re trenchment in the expenditure for the public service. It is stated that the Archduke Joseph is to be appointed Commander-in-Chief of the lionveds. The differences which has hitherto prevailed be tween the Delegation regarding the army have just been settled, and the estimates of the common Budget agreed to. The Delegation will be closed to-morrow. AMERICA. NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (Evening). According to Mr. Adam Moffat's report the re ceipts of the week at American ports amount to 92,000 bales. Export to great Britain 25,000, Con tinent 26,000, . stock 239,000 bales. Market very dull, and tendency downwards. Middling 10d. cost and freight per steamer. PER SCOTIA. NEW YORK, Nov. 25. General Sheridan, in his report upon the Indian war, charges the savages with great treachery towards the Government, and with having com mitted brutal outrages upon the settlers and pri soners, and recommends the transfer of the management of Indian affairs to the War De partment. Mr. Henry Rivus Pollard, editor of the Southern Opinion, published at Richmond, has been assassi nated. Nov. 24 (Noon). The Washington correspondents of several jour nals state that the Government approves of Mr. Reverdy Johnson's conduct during the negotiations for the settlement of the Alabama claims. The trial of' Mr. Jeffergon Davis has been fur ther postponed, Chief Justice Chase being unable to preside in court. General Howard, in pursuance of an Act of Congress, has issued an order for the discontinuance of the Freedmen's Bureau after the Ist January next, except the educational branch of that office. A large band of desperadoes attacked Bear City, Nebraska, on Saturday, intending to plunder the town, but they were repulsed by the citizens. Advices from Ifayti state that the Cacos are concentrating their forces for an attack on Gonaives. In Cuba great dissensions had arisen among the in surgents, who arc now reported as acting on the defensive. aliereport of the ca pt ure o f P uerto Principeis c o ntradicted. Gen era l D a l mse d a h a d notified to the insurgents that if they surrender pardon will b egran t e d th em. I n notification several insurgents c w o i n t h s e i n qu t e h n r e c e e o d f ay t s b a is have laid down their arms. The Royal Mail steamship Scotia, from New - York, arrived at Queenstown at 5 a.m. to-day (sth December) with 72 cabin passengers. She landed 108 sacks of mails and seven passengers and pro ceeded immediately. All well. Intelligenceeedo , aps Mexico state that Es after being d e f ea t e d b y V argos , obtroo, received from have joined the insurgents in large numbers, who now hold nearly the entire state of Tamantipas. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLES, Dec. 5. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera arrived at 11 p.m. yesterday. The mails leave for London by the 11.30 train this morning. FRANCE. Bo URSE, : Dec. 4.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : Bank Shares 3185 Italian Loan End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes 34 50 Rome Debt Deferred Cash Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.... 640 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian 665 Lombard 42Bf North of Spain 7l Saragossa Roman 471, 4} per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of month 7l 75 Credit Mobilier End of month 3OO Credit Foncier 1542 End of month — RruLWA' TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE.—In reference to a state ment made in our notice of this popular periodical on Magazine Day, wo are requested to assert that Mr. Hannay is not, and never has been, its editor. The talk of " the Hall" is now what is to be done with Sir Roundell Palmer, whose avowed opposition to the destruction of the Protestant Church in Ireland makes it impossible that ho should accept the seat on the woolsack, which would unquestionably have been his bad he possessed a more pliable conscience. A plan has been suggested which would retain his services to his party in another capacity and for other objects, un til the settlement of the Church question shall enable him to hold office with honour. Elevate Lord Romilly to the woolsack, make Sir R. Palmer Master of the Rolls, which will not deprive him of his seat in the Commons, and there let him abide until in the fulness of time the Church question is disposed of. The scheme is perfect,and would have theen tireapproval of the whole profession, without distinction of party. But how will it be if, as is certain, the English Church question will come to the fore as soon as the Irish branch of it is despatched ? 'Chia is a difficulty, which may be safely left to the future to solve. No living man has made such a sacrifice of ambition to principle as Sir Roundel Palmer, and no honour the country can bestow upon him can be too great. - Law Times. _ _ DusvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re commended by the medical profession in preference to French Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Danville and Co., Belfast; or 4, Blaufort-buildings, strand, London Tortioeraent.l TIE 111. 1 77. - c"r - nr r. r T T`' 7 The work of reconstruction progresses somewhat slowly, partly through the absence of some of the foremost Liberal statesmen, partly through the intrinsic difficulty of the work. The formation of a Ministry is at no time an easy or a thankful occupation, but in the present case the task must be one of peculiar delicacy. The number of Liberal statesmen who can justly claim a place in the new Cabinet is large, whilst the diversity of opinion and policy existing amongst them is very considerable. II "uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," the head that is now to represent one must be perplexed indeed. But there can be no doubt that the Liberal party can at the present time furnish abundance of Cabinet material, and when the general settling down is over, the result can hardly be other than a strong Government. As the Speetatorremarks, it will be difficult to rival, to say nothing of surpassing, the Conser vative Government in the Foreign department, but in all other respects the Liberals ought to be equal, and in many superior, to their predecessors. The Times thinks the com parison between the incoming and the outgoing Ministry is eminently infavour of the former. "Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stan ley, Lord Cairns exhaust the front rank of the late Cabinet, Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Hardy only just appearing below them. The rest of the chosen advisers of the Queen, from'the dukes downwards, were rather like flies in amber. It cannot he said of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Russell, Lord Clarendon, Lord Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Bright that they would not hold a dis tinguished position in any Administration." Even the Standard, which of course anticipates that Mr. Gladstone's task will be one of almost insuperable embarrassment, attributes the difficulty to the number of candidates for office. Thirteen or fourteen is at most the number Mr. Gladstone can gratify out of the noblemen and gentlemen who will offer him their services with the conviction that the offer ought to be accepted. And yet the Standard enumerates some thirty names who will be put forth to fill these places. The Liberal party will be rather asto nished to learn that its embarras de richesses is of such mag nitude as this. The Spectator has faith in the incoming Administration, and hopes that we shall now have a middle-class Government bent on extirpating the worst and rankest growths of the middle-class prejudices and selfishness of these latter days. Some little time must elapse before everything is finally determined, present appointments being, in fact, in a measure provisional. Meanwhile the political atmosphere is full of rumours, not to speak of " prophesying with accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events." Some of the speculative appointments very well authenticated, and others less probable, are worth notice as a reflex of public opinion. To begin with the Deus ex machind. A Cabinet appointm'ent without portfolio is generally assigned to Lord Russell. He will thus take the place which the Marquis of Lansdowne held in more than one Liberal Administration. The Privy Seal is allotted by the Imperialßeview to Earl Granville, a noble man who is at present filling more imaginative posts than any other prospective Minister. That he must lead the House of Lords is deemed by the Spectator a matter of course. " There is no man half so well fitted by sagacity, by intellectual tact, by grace of manner, and for large ness of view for that rather delicate task for Liberal Administrations." The Presidency of the Council is quite an open question. The Times observes that "the President of the Council is by long tradition, if not by necessity, a great peer, but it is at present uncertain whether the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville, or another peer will fill this position of highest dignity. Lord Gran ville would have the advantage of considerable experience in the office, but we do not abandon the hope of seeing him at last obtain a more adequate field for the exercise of his very considerable abilities." The same journal assigns the Chancellorship of the Exchequer to Mr. Lowe, but three other candidates are named—Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Childers, and Mr. Goschen. Of these Mr. Childers is the favourite, though the capacity of Mr. Cardwell is very highly spoken of by journals so diverse as the Spectator and the Imperial _Review. Of the Secretaryships the Foreign Office is decidedly the most difficult, because in this direction the late Ministry was strongest, and the danger of a comparison unfavourable to the Liberal party is most imminent. The French moat desire the Earl of Clarendon to fill this post—not that this will be considered by Mr. Gladstone any very good reason for appointing him. The Spectator thinks that Lord Clarendon would not support the prestige which Lord Stanley has acquired, but the Times seems to be certain that he has already been selected. The chances of Earl Granville and Lord Kimberley are not to be overlooked. The Imperial Review. says : "It is not known, as yet, whether Earl Granville will assume the direction of Foreign Affairs, which he held for a short time after the secession of Lord Palmerston from Lord J. Russell's Government in 1852—0 r whether he will return to his old post as President of the Council. In either case, we are informed, Lord Kimberley will take the office which Lord Granville declines." The Horne Office is generally assigned to Mr. Cardwell, though this gentleman must he highly flattered by the diverse rumours which consider him capable of guiding half a dozen of the most important departments of the State. He has been allotted to the War Department by the Times, to the Admiralty by the Imperial Review, to the Chancellorship of the Exchequer and the Colonies in less well-informed quarters. But the balance of probability decidedly points to the Home Office. For the War Department, Lord Hartington is almost the only candidate spoken of. The Times' speculation respecting Mr. Cardwell is almost the only exception. The public voice, too, largely preponderates in favour of Mr. Forster for the Colonies. The Duke of Argyll and Mr. Bright are mentioned for India. The whole formation of the Ministry rests very much upon the decision of the member for Birmingham. The Advertiser positively announces that he will take office, and that he bas been congratulated upon his acceptance. The Times favours Mr. Bright's chances, though it is doubtful whether his depart. mental energy will be equal to India. Should this difficult choice finally end in the selec tion of the Commoner, the Duke of Argyll may have the Presidency of the Council or the Privy Seal. The Star, however, has no moral doubt that the nobleman will govern India. For the Admiralty nobody is men tioned but Mr. Stansfeld and Mr. Childers, the former having by far the greatest number of votes. The Presidency of the Board of Trade is generally given to Mr. Goschen, and the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster to Mr. Brand or Mr. Bright, should thelatter take no more respon sible office. Mr. Chichester Fortescue, says the Tinzes, will return to his position as Secretary for Ireland, but follow ing the example of the outgoing Government, Mr. Glad stone has wisely determined that his Irish Secretary shall have a seat in the Cabinet. The legal appointments will give rise to much difficulty, except, of course, the Attorney-Generalship, which Sir Robert Collier has obtained. The Times alone makes any very definite statement on this question. We repro duce its remarks :—" The functions of • Minister of Justice are divided between the Home Secretary and the Lord Chancellor, but the moat arduous duty of the Lord Chancellor in the new Ministry will be to provide legal means for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, and to carry the bill embodying it through a hostile House of Lords led by Lord Cairns. We are told that Lord Justice Page Wood has been designated for the Great Seal. There could possibly be .no better head of the law, nor would Sir William Page Wood's promotion be grudged in any quarter ; but it will be admitted by his warmest admirers that the faculty of lucid and con tinuous exposition is the least developed of his powers, and the assistance he could render to the Ministry from the woolsack would be very slight indeed. In his present position as Lord Justice, Sir William Page Wood is doing good service to his country, and it would be a mischievous diversion to remove him from an office in which he is supreme, when a lawyer far better qualified to assist the Ministry in its political and parlia mentary difficulties may be found elsewhere. Sir Robert Collier will resume his former position as Attorney- General, and Mr. Coleridge will find in the post of Solicitor-General opportunities of official distinction." THE INTEw PARLIAMENT.—The number of new ..iernbers returned to the House of Commons exceeds that at any general election for very many years. In 1859 only 131 new members came back from the country ; in 1865 there were 196 ; while at the present election the number is 221. IRISH LAWYERS.—The following legal appoint ments have been announced :—The Right Hon. the Attorney-General has been appointed judge of the Court of Probate, vice the Right Hon. Judge Keatinge, who retires; Dr. Ball, Solicitor-General, has been appointed Attorney-General, and has been sworn in a member of the Privy Council ; Mr. Henry Ormsby, Q. 0., as already announced, has been appointed Solicitor-General ; the Hon. David Plunkett, Q.C., has been appointed law adviser at the Castle; Mr. William F. Darling, Q.O. LL.D. has been appointed to the chairmanship of the county Wicklow, in the room of Mr. James P. Hamilton, Q.C., who has been transferred to the county Sligo, vice Mr. Hartstonge Robinson, Q.C., resigned; Mr. Dodgson Hamilton Madden, barrister-at-law, has been appointed a supernumerary Crown prosecutor for the county Wexford ; Mr. Hugh Lane, solicitor, has been appointed Master of the Court of Queen's Bench, vice Mr. Bushe, resigned; Mr. Colhoun, solicitor, has been appointed clerk of the Crown for the county Derry ; Mr. Dane has been appointed clerk of the Crown for the county Wicklow ; Mr. Thomas Gerrard, solicitor, has been appointed Crown solicitor for the Queen's County and County Carlow ; Mr. George H. Major, solicitor, has been appointed sessional Crown solicitor for county ..1.72 CAB' S P 0... P. ..71AN.NLNG 01 7 HOSTITA T: S. On Sunday Ilr. 111 Inning preached at St. Moortields, in aid of the funds of the Royal Hospi tal for Diseases of the Chest, City-road. The church was crowded in every part. The Archbishop selected his text, from the second chapter of the Epistle of James, verse 12th, 4 ‘ So speak ye, and so do ye, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." At the conclusion of his discourse Dr. Manning said : "We desire to-day to promote the objects and increase the funds of the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. Charity in itself is always a blessing, not only to the naturally benevolent, but to every one—to everyone with a heart to feel for another. Think, for a moment, of the sighs, the weary, wakeful nights, the long, anxious days—the silent agony—to be found within the walls of an hospital. In the enumeration of these items is to be found more than an appeal. Words will only weaken its strength. An hospital appeals to Christians more than any one class of charity, to any other class of persons. This hospital for diseases of the chest has a very special pleading in it. lam correct in stating that of all the diseases mortal to the human frame, in the course of a year, there is none which carries off so large a proportion of its victims, and which disables so many more from earning a livelihood, however scanty and meagre, as these affections of the chest and lungs. Misery, utter wretchedness, helplessness, the death of fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers—the wreck of households—the breaking up and sending adrift of whole families—poverty, hunger,and gradual pinching away of the children—that is the meaning of sickness to the poor —aye, the industrious, honest poor. When sickness falls on the rich man, how ever severe, there are all sorts of alleviations to accompany and palliate it ; but on the poor man it comes with redoubled force, from the very fact of his poverty. The poor man disabled by this linger ing, creeping, insidious disease of the lungs, be comes helpless, and all his household suffers with him ; and this is, I need hardly remark, a kind of malady which attacks those who, in honest industry, are exposed to the keenness of the wind and the intense cold of the winter both morning and evening. The numbers of those who, engaged in honest daily labour, receive their first wound in this way are very great-- greater perhaps than wculd be imagined. Last year thirty-nine thousand persons were relieved by this charity. The in-patients were 2,300. The out patients, as I said before, living by its benign and beneficent influence, 39,000. It has, however, so far increased its operations since then, tha e t for this year the figures will be some 45,000 or 50,000 out door patients. " I feel confident you who are strong and healthy, who do not know what the pain and languishing of sickness accurately mean, will indeed be glad to make ad offertory thanksgiving for the health and strength you enjoy. I feel sure too that if any of you have been struck down by the same fell malady at any period of your lives, and perhaps never ex pected yourself again to join in the worship of the sanctuary of God, that you will now be the more ready to give to-day. There is not one of you in my presence who ere long may not be the victim of this terrible malady. Does it not, then, behove us all, seriously, in the time of health, to remember sickness which may come alas too soon ? It is a fact generally known that none die so happily and so softly as those who in health and life have been careful and attentive in charity towards the sick. They who with their own hands have smoothed the pillow of the dying, and gently eased their passage to the grave, receive the most assured grace, the most pleasant, loving recollections in the time when their own sickness and death approach. " Let us, then, all remember that we live under the dispensation of Christian liberty (the topic of the discourse) ; you are not, in your contributions to-day, bound by the law of tithes, or the computa tion of numbers. By the law of Christian liberty you may be bound—compelled to give more than a tenth of your income to charity. Do not, I say, be merely profuse. Such giving is not always gene rosity. But be really generous ; give from the heart. Again, I say, it is not always the largest gifts which show the most liberal heart. It is when people give that which costs them something to give that true liberality is shown. Remember, Christ gave the last drop of His own precious blood for you. Surely you all can give something gene rous in aid of the cause of Him who went about on earth doing good." 7HEATRICAL AND MUSICAL ITEMS. (From the Era.) The Christmas pantomimes by Mr. E. L. Blan chard, at Drury-lane, will be entitled " Grimalkin the Great ;" at Covent-garden, " Robinson Crusoe" is the subject ; at the Haymarket a burlesque will be produced, " The Rightful Heir" forming the subject. Mr. Sothern has accepted an engagement to appear in New York. Miss Sheridan has quite recovered from her late accident ; she reappears at the Strand on the 12th in " A Comical Countess." Mr. Barry Sullivan has been acting with great success at Bath. Miss Hazlewood's benefit takes place next Mon day at Sadler's 'Wells. It is entirely untrue that the building of her Majesty's Theatre has stopped for want of funds. Everything is going on rapilly, and it will be opened, as originally intended, in March next. Miss Bateman appears for the first time in the p l a y of Pietra" at the Haymarket on Monday next. Miss Lydia Thompson is meeting with great suc cess in New York. The " Grand Duchess" is attracting large audi ences at the Standard. (From the Sunday Times.) Mr. Sothern is at present performing in the " Hero of Romance" at Glasgow with great success. Miss Marriot has met with a great reception. Gounod has gone to Rome for the benefit of his health. The " Lancashire Lass" is being performed at two or three theatres in America. Mr. Brougham has written a new drama called " The Emerald Ring." It is to be produced imme diately in New York. Mr. Toole has met with great success at Bir mingham and Manchester. (From tlus Musical Standard.) Mendelssohn's "Reformation Symphony" has been performed in Paris. _ _ _ Madame Rossini has consented to the transfer of her late husband's remains to Italy. Two new opera bouffes have just been performed at Paris : one is entitled "Le Vengeur," by I. Legonix, the other "Le Grand-Due de Matapa," by M. Debillemont. The Italian Government has ordered a grand funeral service to take place at the cost of the State in honour of Rossini. A statue of the composer is to be erected in Milan. The director of the Imperial Theatre in Russia has brought an action against the singer Thascini, who has refused to come and sing at St. Petersburg according to his engagement. The damages are laid at 80,000 francs. • Verdi has written a letter suggesting that the best Italian composers should write a Requiem in honour of Rossini. The Stamford Mercury is informed upon good authority that steps are being taken by some of the lead ing laity in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, for the presentation of a testimonial from the laity and clergy to the Bishop of Lincoln, on the occasion of his translation to the diocese of London. VERY BAD WEATHER.—On Tuesday and Wed nesday the Liverpool Local Marine Board investigated a charge of drunkenness against Captain White, of ,the schooner Ripple, and his mate, C. J. Bruce. A number of witnesses spoke to the captain's drunken habits. Mr. Robert Hargrove, one of the owners, deposed to having engaged Captain White, receiving at the time good testi monials. The morning that he put back the captain said to him the weather was so bad that the sea had washed the watch out of his hand overboard. A number of wit nesses were examined for the defence, but the court held that the charge was proved, and suspended the cap tain's certificate for six months. The charge against the mate was dismissed. te.;iun , t . vv 3 4Ar tti br HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 4. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Emily Cath cart, walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, went out this afternoon. LITERATURE. New Editions of Famous Works• ti athek. An Arabian Tale. By William Beck ford, Esq. One Vol. Pp. 184. 'Pegg. The lovers of romance have reason to thank Mr. Tegg for this exquisite edition of an exquisite tale Beckford's Arabian Tale of " Vathek." Externally and internally—that is, in binding and in embellishment—it is worthy of this brief but per fect masterpiece. William Harvey, the illustrator par excellence of" The Arabian Night's Entertain ments," is the artist from whose pencil we have the illustrations. And prefixed to the wonderful nar rative of " Vathek," we have from " R. 5.," who ever that may be, a biographical sketch of the ac complished and voluptuous author—William Beck ford, son of the famous Alderman William Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London, purchaser founder and planter of the estate of Fonthill. William Beckford's life is in itself a romance. Born on the 27th of September, 1759, nearly ten years before the birth of Napoleon the Great and the Duke of Wellington, and dying on the 2d of May , 1844, his span of life extended over eighty-four years. On his coming of age, in 1781, he was then the richest commoner in England. His net income was £lOO,OOO a year, and in ready money he came into possession of one million sterling. Five years afterwards he bad written Vathek. He wrote it at one sitting. Three days and two nights he was bard at work at it—never taking off his clothes the whole time—and having a serious illness after wards as the result of that severe application. What was yet more remarkable about Vathek, was the fact that Beckford wrote it originally lc French, and in French so thoroughly idiomatic that it was for some time believed to have been written by a Frenchman. It was afterwards trans lated into English : so that in point of fact, the tale, as we here have it, is not the original, but a translation. If only for the conception and descrlr tion of the Hall of Eblis, it is deserving of immor tality. It is a gem of price —one entire and perfect , chrysolite. And as such, it is ind ee d worthy of its present setting. Small as it i s , th e book 15 worthy of a cordial welcome, and ought to hays , what we doubt not it will command in its present form, an extended circulation. The Spectator. With an Introduction, Notes, an d Index, by Henry Morley. One Vol. Pp. 9 19 ' _ __ Routledge. Professor Morley has conferred upon all thes e who love to drink from the " pure w e ll of Englie' undefiled" a veritable boon in placing within their reach, under the imprimatur of the Messrs. Roe ledge, this compact, and beautiful, and w° rt. derfully complete, re-issue of " The Spectator" --- Addison and Steele's Spectator. Thursday, March 1, 1711, appeared th e fi rs t " S pec t a t or ," No. T written by Joseph Addison. Monday, December 2v+ 1714, appeared the last, No. 635, written by Hen r y Grove. When first collected they were inscribed PJ Sir Richard Steele to the B aron o f E ves ham, bette r known as Lord Somers. They constitute the most de lightful literary miscellany that has ever been Pr °- duced. And as such they are a noble monument of e friendship between two great men of letters, as r e ; nowned as that associating together in draulat i literature the names of the Damon and Pythias °f English poetry, Beaumont and Fletcher. As t he frontispiece, or rather as the vignette portraiture 011 the title-page of this new edition, we have the f " short face" of Mr. Sp ec t a t or hi mse lf, i.e., 0 , Sir Richard Steele, the or i g i na l projector o'i principal editor of it throughout, or at any ra te to the close of No. 555, whi c h i s th e l a st 01 ' , the genuine Addison-and-Steele periodical. Wb, et is especially noticeable in rega r d t o this el tion is that it faithfully reproduces the origi" e text both as first issued and as corrected 191 its authors afterwards. The " Introduction" Pr e ; fixed to the collection, thou g h e xtending l os e little more than twenty page s a lt oge ther, enab of Mr. Morley to give us at a g l ance a survey °f the times in which Joseph Addi s o n and Ricblmei Steele and their confreres and collaborateurs peo n . 11 day by day their charming papers about W i rt Honeycomb, and Sir Roger de Coverley, and and letters, and life and manners, and fun an frolic, and wisdom and wit—sweetening s c ' llti existenee in those days with a fla v our of morn' .o „ that has come down to us in these days of our ( T io ~a r through so many intervening generations, apd th e still as fresh upon our lips, as agre eable in " nostrils, as delicious to the ta s t e , and as gladden in g and exhilarating to the heart, as ever it 1f . , 0 in their own lifetime to St ee l e - an d-Addin o contemporaries. The book is almost a libra r i nee itself, so ample is its range. It is in one Ise it almost a microcosm of literature. To kno ll is (as was said so charmingly of a beautiful laclY/ of itself a liberal education. The Works of Lawrence Sterne. One Vol., PP' 648. Routledge. It was Leigh Hunt, if we remember rightly,Ti..nb°,l by a magnificent hyperbole of panegyric, P'l4 flounced " Tristram Shandy" the wittiest 1 1. 5 $ that ever was written, the drollest, the of humorous. Call it one of the three ' or fot lt .„ - g such books in the world's literature worthy of be l ",l so eulogized, and you are right. flea. side by side with " Don Quixote" and with " wick," and, even then, it will hold its own. - , 0 0 world of readers shook its sides when it firet ° out—ushering it into existence with peals of 't o o ter. And it has been doing the like ever s . 1 :0 in the remembrance of it. It is naughW7 1- n ot audacious, it is a violation of all the proprietie s - e re - a doubt of it; but for all that it is delightful• 08 on the title-page—alas ! poor Yorick —he is I ° l° :1 at us whimsically as of old under his arch ed .' 13 01 let us say, under his arch eyebrows, with his wi g,,,f• head leaning upon his forefinger. Sterne, o cl rence, the Reverend ! Incongruous, that It oe— t hot was in his instance. But so it was also fo r o f matter, in the instance of Swift, of Rabe Wolcot, of Barham, and we know not now more of those unclerical jokers. Here, Inc'vr eg !.,.. ; ti. this goodly volume we have Sterne in his et"',",oo We have his life, written by Himself. W e A the whole of that wonderful Tristram Shil nu li ta lf the Sentimental Journey through France an - to —of the Sermons—of the Letters : even dOll-clo the merest fragment, or to the History of It_ Warm Greatcoat. The present is more t han of simply comprehensive edition of the W alla ° 6-s eat i- Sterne—it is careful in the editing of it, b tiful in its typography. The Poetical Works of Scott. One vol. , PP. 60 W arne. Another of those marvellous Chandos Classic°; been issued in succession a Shilling in the three preceding volumes of which there 113/1. sh a kspere, S bj g mg Byron, and a Shilling Longfellow —here brioge within reach of the multitude for a dozen Pelle; the whole of Sir Walter Scott's Poetical Writillgo, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, the firt b ; , of the Lake, the Vision of D on Roderick, Roke the Bridal of 'r r i erma in, the Lord o f the Isles, .ci the Field of Waterloo, llareld the Dauntless, e l l3l rtn l a Hill, Border Minstrelsy, B allads from the G.c; ul and the whale mass of the miscellaneous Poems—all, as Doctor Marigold ld 03 Y: • OP while heaping them out on the tray of /to no with an air of indignation at the price (sil' raoreea'a. wonder) for one shilling. And, what is markable yet, the whole is printed in larg ° able type, on capital white (uot toned) PaPer'.o only fault we can find with the voluniei,nl is fact, this—that the edges are not only cti r t iP v to t b° the cutting of them, are pared down pea quick.