The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-15 00:00:00

THE' LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington," Wellington-street, Strarrl. IFE BOAT SERVICES. —During the Storms of -1 the present ycarthe National Lifeboat Institution has contributed to the sa ing of 1,027 lives from various ship wrecks and 32 vesse vtroin destruction. The Institution also expended .429,618 in the same period on its Lifeboat Zstablislanents, in a 55 ion to granting £2,444 for rewards. The Committee oddit Institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistanof the Liable them to meet the continued Leavy demands on l , to eibti Litebtnit Establishments. Contributions w their haukfuliy received by the London and country hank ill be t by the secretary, Richard Lewis, erg ' 1, s(1 at the Instltand4, John-street, Adelphi, London. ~ . ution, 1 rfII EA TRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, and until further notice, will be per formed a new and original Farce, by R. Reece, Esq., en titled BONEYDOVE'S TROUBLES. Characters by , Messrs. Joseph L•ving, C. Warner, J. Morris ; Mes dames Kate Harfleur and E. Melville. After which will be performed the Drury Lano annual grand Christmas Pantomime, written by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., entitled FAW FEE FO FUM ; or, Harlequin Jack the Giant Doors open at half-past six, the performance to com mence at seven o'clock. Morning Performance every Wednesday and Satur day until Feb. 13. THEATRE ROYAL, lIA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. 'MIS EVENING, FAMILY JARS. To be followed by A WIFE WELL WON. Messrs. Sothern, fluekstoue, Howe, Kendal, Rogers, Braid, Wcathersby, &e., and Robinson. After which, AN UTTER PERVERSION OF THE BRIGAND. Messrs, Compton, Kendal. Rogers, Clark, Braid, Weathershy, Johnson, &c.; Mesdames Burke, Wright, Dalton, &e. Commence at Seven. lIE A Tlt E ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, UP FOR THE CATTLE SHOW. After which, at 8, NO THOROUGHFARE. Mr. Fechter (his 18th appearance here), Mr. Billington, Mr. H. Neville, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C. J. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin Wes)ster; Miss Carlotta Leclereq (heri 18th appearance), Mrs. Allred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, Grand Combination of the Two Great Drimas, THE COLLEEN BAWN and TIIE STREETS OF LONDON. Mr. fold Mre. Dion Boucicault as Myles na coppaleen and Eily O'Connor, and Mr. Vining as Bader. M.i,srs. Dominick Murray, J. G. Shore. G. F. Neville, H. 14 or res;cr. If. Mellon, R. Cathcart; Misses Elsworthy, E. Barnett, Rachel Sanger, and Mrs. Addie. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. IIOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry. -- - THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE ELYING SCUD. Messrs. Atk: , is, Price, Garden, Arthur, Westland, Wilmott; Mesdames Henrade, Goodall, Lennox, and C. Saunders. After which, the Graud Comic Pantomime of VALENTINE AND ORSON; or, Harlequin the Big Bear and the Little Fairy. 3.1,)51 ;Ines Saunders, Goodall, White; Messrs. Garden, Odell, Arthur; Mdlle. Montero, Miss Ellis, Lupino, Green, and the Great Little Rowella. UEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, Jan. 15, HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. John Clayton. _ . . _ After which will he produced (7th Time in London) Mr. H J. Byroll'S New and Original Domestic Drama, in Three Acts, entitled DEARER THAN LIFE. Michael Garner, Mr. J. L. Toole • . To conclude with THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS; Mr. J. L. Toole. _ On Saturday, Jan. 18, DEARER THAN LIFE. After which (First Time) a New and Original Operatic Extravaganza, by Mr. W. S. Gilbert, called LA VIVANDIERE; or, TRUE TO THE CORPS. The Scenery by Messrs. W. and T. Grieve, Johnson, and Assistants. Doors open at Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Acting Manager, M. W. H. Liston. Box-office open daily from Ten till Four. 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Tile SPORTING EDITION of "TIIE SUN" can be seen at INUER'S Establishment, as above, every evening by Eight o'c!uck. RICII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, sh. 5-Itu. I Afternoon, 613. 17m, To-Monnow.-Morning, Gh. 11m.—Afternoon, 7h. sni r , s lut lls THE SUN, LONDON, WE oNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1868 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15, 1868. We learn from Paris that the Corps Legislatif has agreed to the whole bill of the Army Reor ganisation by 199 votes against GO, thus making the decisive majority of 139. This must be a great satisfaction to the EmrElton and his Ministers, and also it may be added that it is a decided gain to the country. It is high time that something decisive should be done in this matter, for France cannot afford to lose her place among the nations, and Europe is just now so unsettled, and so little likely to enjoy peace in anything like a fundamental style that no one can blame the Cabinet of the Tuileries for being on the alert and seeking to remedy de& ciencies. The Government had a majority also concerning the Fourteenth Article of the Army Reorganisation Bill prior to the final triumph. This must tend to make them strong, and to give a greater feeling of security to the people respecting their policy. If anything is to be done, it must be do-le at once and in a decisive fashion, for the times are too critical, and important events succeed each other too rapidly, to permit of doubts and delays. It is indeed fortunate that this result should have been obtained, and now we may expect that as something definite has been done great pro gress may be speedily made in the work of remo delling the army. We wish that the intelligence was equally satisfactory that is afforded to us con cerning the law on the press in France, but in this, the weak poiat of his Government, though long years are changing circumstances, the Em peror NAPOLEON seems resolved to keep to his first decrees with a zeal worthy of a better cause. It is of no use to talk of liberty when a gagge d press can be pointed out by the critic, and it is ix 1- deed a pity that no friend or adviser can be found to assure the EMPEROR of the fatal error he is COM mitting in this respect, and the injuries he is in flicting on his reputation by interposing these constant restrictions upon the expression of public opinion. The ;policy of Russia seems stall to agitate the French writers, and La Patric contains a dissertation upon its tendency, and the best mode to adopt to check its encroachments. It declares that no danger will arise if the Western Powers will, by " mutual agreement," present a for midable barrier to the schemes of the St. Peters burg Cabinet. The best way will be to terminate this crisis, and thus put a stop to the present system of encroachment. There are certainly not wanted many subjects of an angry nature 'for discussion just now, but there is some reason in this piece of advice just quoted. The worst of it is that the Western Powers are so divided amongst themselves that there seems little or no chance of combining with that complete and perfect unanimity which can alone effect the triumph of an undertaking and secure its permanence. There seems little to choose between the policy of Berlin and St. Petersburg, except that the former is more insidious. 'inn presence of her Majesty's second sOnlll the loyal colony named "in honour of our gOod Queen," as the Victorians remind us, gives more than'ordinarY interest to the affairs of that rising State. r Whatever que - stion there may be of the loyalty of some of her Majesty's subjects nearer home, there is no room for any doubt at the anti podes. The reception which the Duke of EDIN BURGH has received places that beyond controversy. But apart from this link of enthUsiastic loyalty, which keeps up the attachment of these vast colonies with the mother country half the circumference of the world removed from them, there are political and commercial interests connected with them g the pre sent moment entitled to grave consideration at home. This is especially the case with Victoria. Erected into a separate State as recently as 1851, it has already exjiwrienced difficulties of parlia mentary government such as England has never had in 600 years. During the visit of Prince ALFRED a sort of coitp (Mat was in existence. One of the chief functions of the Legislature was being discharged by the law courts. The Council and Legislative Assembly—the two Houses of Parliament—had been prorogued with a view to a dissolution without voting the supplies, and the only means which Sir HENRY MANNERS SUTTON had to carry on the Government was to permit countless actions or petitions to be brought against the QUEEN in the Supreme Court of the colony. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL "confessed judg ment," and then, agreeably to English precedent, the Executive was empowered to apply the accruing revenues to meet the expenditure. The conflict between the two Houses which resulted in this state of things is without a parallel. It began three years since, in January 1865, on an alleged invasion of the privileges of the Council by the Assembly, and the dead-lock which has existed from that time seen likely to continue for months, if not years, to come. The question at issue is one of privilege. As the result of the general election in 1864, an unfor tunate change came over the counsels of the M'CuLLowa Ministry. They became Protectionists. They proposed to substitute for a simple tariff, with eight or ten articles subject to duty, a tariff of great complexity, with sufficiently high duties "to protect native industry " and " to encourage home manufacture." The Assembly, elected by ballot and universal suffrage, attempted to smuggle this through the Council by including it in the same bill which appropriates the supplies for the year. The Council is the counterpart of our House of Lords, except that it is an elective body. Its mem bers are elected by the professional and propertied classes. They were opposed t o th e pr i nc i p l e o f protection, and considered that they were entitled to be heard before the new policy was adopted. Being by the Constitution unable to alter the Supply Bill, they rejected it. A long struggle ensued, which it is unnecessary to detail. At length an appeal was made to the constituencies, which brought a still more Protectionist majority. The Tariff Bill was sent up in a sep ara t e f orm, and t h e Council, deferring to the express wish of the country, accepted it. This did not take place till April 1866. There, however, the struggle might have ended but for the part which the Clovernor, Sir CHARLES DARLING, took in it. He had authorised the collection of the new duties before they had received the assent of the Upper House. Addresses were sent to Her MAJESTY complaining of his conduct, and at the critical moment, when the two Houses seemed to have a prospect of reconciliation, came the Governor's recall. Immediately the old feud was revived. The Assembly voted an address of condolence to . Sir OnAr.LEs, and a grant of. £20,000 to Lady DARLING. Mr. CARDWELL, then the Foreign Secretary, ruled that this grant could not be sanctioned by Her MAJESTY, Sir CHARLES DARLING was told that its acceptance would necessitate his withdrawal from the colo nial service and the forfeit of his pension. Sir CHARLES, cashiered and without prospect of immediate employment elsewhere, determined to take the money if he could get it. For it s now became a question whether the terms of Mr. CARD WELL'S letter were to be construed as a condition of accepting the grant, or as a penalty for doing so. The Assembly took one view, and the Council the opposite. The new governor, Sir HENRY MANNERS SUTTON, recommended the Council to vote the sum "in anticipation of receiving which Sir CHARLES DARLING had retired from the colonial service." Refusing this, they were asked to consent to a temporary supply of half a million, but, fearing that the obnoxious grant might be included in it, they rejected this proposal also, thus driving the unfortunate Governor to the necessity of administering the colony without the power of spending a penny except by the orders of the law-courts, and that, too, when the second son of Her MAJESTY was his guest. Such has been the constitutional struggle in Victoria. The popular branch of the Legislature has claimed not only that no money shall be granted without its con sent, but the far wider exclusive privilege to grant what moneys it may think proper, and for what purposes. It has resented the inter ference of the Upper House as "an attempt by indirect means to obtain co-ordinate authority with the Legislative Assembly in dealing with the finances of the colony." The Assembly having thus shewn a determination to have its way, the Council has sent an address to Her MAJESTY, submitting that the proposed grant was not a matter with which the Victoria Legislature should deal, and praying that she would signify her Royal will and pleasure on the subject. If her Ma • 1 Ministers advise th e U pper House to hive ~ti a 3, they will probably do so ; if the sam e a d v i ce b e tendered to the Assembly, the issue is itarde,, to predict. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather it is encouraging to find that the condition of the public health is highly satisfactory. According to the return of the Registrar-General, the deaths in the metropolis during the week ending Saturday, January 11, were 1,574, or 225 less than the cor rected average. This return is the more satisfac tory, as there was some reason to apprehend a dif ferent result, owing to the unfavourable condition of the weather, and more especially the great amount of destitution and distress existing among the poorer classes. Even as it is, it is grievous to see that three deaths are recorded from privation, and it may well set men, considering where lies the error in our administration that men and women should die in our wealthy and charitable city from " exhaustion from insufficiency of food," from " destitution and exhaustion," from " want of food and other privations." Such facts are startling, and the more so as they are recorded from different parts of London. One of these melancholy deaths occurred in Westminster, one in Whitechapel, one in Kennington in the public Deal. Besides these extreme cases, there are thousands, no doubt, on the verge of starvation. The difficulties attend ing the administration of the Poor Law are very great, both practically and theoretically. It is very difficult to strike the just medium between giving undue encouragement to laziness and thriftlessness and neglecting to relieve those really unable to help themselves. Again, there is the difficulty arising from the undue pressure of the rates on the poorer ratepayers. It seems absurd on the face of it to declare that the poorer a parish is the more shall its householders pay, yet such is the real result of the inequality of our poor rates. If the charge were actually equal all over London the small shopkeeper in Bethnal-green or Mile-end would certainly feel two shillings or half a crown in the pound a much heavier burden than the wealthy householder in Hanover-square or Bel gravia. But, as things are at present arranged, the poor man pays for the support of other poor men five or six times as much in proportion than his rich fellow-citizen. Why, the duty of support ing the pauper population is more incum bent on those with whom it is a per ' petual struggle to keep above the line of pauperism themselves than on those to whom a hundred or two is a matter of indifference may well puzzle the inquirer ; but the fact that the existing law recognises it to be so adds very much to the perplexity of relieving the destitute. The official scale of relief in Poplar is sixpence a day in money and three 41b. loaves a-week for a man with a wife and one child, and one additional quartern loaf for every other child. A single man is allowed 3d. a day and three quartern loaves ; but in all cases the money is only given for six days in the week. In the winter weather it may very well be asked how a family can keep above starvation at such a rate. Three shil lings a week will not certainly allow for paying rent and buying coals, considering what rents al e even in the poorest parts of London. Six loaves will be useful, no doubt, but two persons and four children can hardly support life for seven days in winter weather upon them. Poplar, however, is rather a liberal parish. The average out-door re lief is at the rate of Is. 4id. in the Poor-law return for December, whereas that of Stepney is ls. Id., of Whitechapel 11d., and in Bethnal-green only 90. per week ! Thus a man with a wife and one child receives in the latter parish 3I loaves and sixpence a week: ; a man with a wife and three child ren 3 loaves and one shilling and sixpence. These are plain facts, speaking for themselves, and the natural impulse is to condemn the guardians. Yet what can they do? The ratepayers in the poorer parishes are being summoned by the hundred. We h and the other day of 1,000 defaulters in a comparatively limited area. The bad times, the depression of trade, and lack of employment have pressed heavily on them as well as on the labouring classes. Indeed many of them actually belong to that class themselves. They have not only to contend against high prices and high rates, but they have for the last t Ne l vemont h s oo,p t ehe o mbu m do e iuf r n: for Thos eawrl s i h teet o rlae p er k wns e ci opiglpegsr money relief their o their aa rn dd n e- e t their ia l o re lief,noi thedosr. so that e tqr u l gaa ' i h tdl i e si ami r nt e pige a ou l nsi tr s eoy o fr l sui the toenodmttehdoterr drunkards ke l h applications ir t t cdaasn e t s im e ornaasy pb t erfbsoo, be de problems is tected, and the money now fruitlessly expended saved. It is utterly useless at the present time for Trades Unionists to try to get up any sympathy for their cause, and all the meetings and protestations in the world cannot make the worst appear the better side of the argument. Their last attempt is to induce Mr. GLADSTONE to be their champion, but we expect that the right hon. gentleman will not be so easily caught as they imagine and desire. Mr. POTTER has sent a Circular to Mr. GLADSTONE, in which he directed attention to a speech of that gentle man " denunciatory" of Trades Unions. To this Mr. GLADSTONE sent a very fitting answer couched in a dignified and impartial strain. He declared that what he had said at Oldham was, that it was the " abuse, and not the use, of such asso ciations " that was to be objected to. " I;then ob - jected broadly for myself to all rules which tend to limit the freedom of labour, or to produce an arti ficial equality among workmen, and this mainly on the ground of the injury which they do to the working classes." This is a very sensible and ex plicit definition of the state of the case, and we are glad that Mr. GLADSTONE should be so decidedly and promptly state his views on this vexed question at this especial juncture, when so many misrepresen tations are being made on the matter. At the same time, the right hon. gentleman expresses his readi ness to hear and consider anything that may be said on the other side, and therefore he agrees either to receive a deputation, or to peruse any written document which may be forwarded to him. This is fair enough ; but it seems difficult to under stand how men can deceive themselves after this fashion, when so many outrages have been shown to have been committed in the cause and for the furtherance of these Unions. It needed not " false charges brought by influential persons" to damage them : they are their own witnesses against themselves. They have been condemned by the words out of their own mouths, and therefore it is quite idle to argue in this manner. The worst and most prejudiced opponents of the Union could hardly do more than accuse them of murderand wanton acts of cruelty, and for this they have acknowledged all themselves. Let us hear no more of this defence, but rather let those who are so infatuated about the merits of the Trade Unions set themselves to work to cancel the errors and evils that abound in It is quite time that they should be reformed if they are to exist at all, but it is not the right way to go to work to attempt a braggadocian style of argument that can do no good to any one. The John Bull is authorised to contradict a statement that is current in Paris as to the Earl of Claren don having been entrusted with a mission in Italy by the Government. JEANIE'S QUIET LIFE. By the Author of " Olave's," &c. 3 Vols.—" The authoress of ' St. Olava's ' always writes well, and contrives out of the simplest ma terial to make a thoroughly interesting story. And sLe has never exhibited this quality to better advantage than in her new novel 'Jeanie's Quiet Life.' It is essentially a novel of character, but its merits are not confined to it delineations of character, clever though they are. It con tains numerous pictures of English home life—of tin t quiet domesticity in which everything that is good amoi g us rejoices. The book is one to be read, and it is sure lo be admired." —Star. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. tFROU OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TIISEDAY, Jan. 14. To-day the Army Reorganisation Bill has neen agreed to by 189 votes against 60, and the Corps L6g - islatif has adjourned to tho 27th. Much disappointment has been felt at the delay which ha 4 arisen in the publication of the financial statement for the year. It is, however, promised in a few dayd. M. Magne's illness, it is commonly reported, bai caused the postponement. Count von der Goltz is much improved in health, The Imperial Court of Paris has been engaged in hear ing a remarkable appeal case from the Civil Tribunal pt Bayonne. The guardianship of a young English lady, the only daughter of a colonel in the Guards, was deputed to her mother, by her paternal grandfather. The mother, Mrs. B--, whose fortune is considerable, attracted by the reputation of Biarritz and the mildness of its climate, settled in that place, with a large establishment of servants, and a governess exclusively devoted to the education of her child. That governess having suddenly been compelled to go home on account of urgent private affairs, Mrs. B placed her daughter at school at Bayonne. The managers of the school were Catholics. This circumstance alarmed the zealous Psotestantism of the grandfather, and he com municated with his daughter-in-law ; but Mrs. B- only replied to the first of these communications, and evinced her determination not to remove her child from an establishment which she knew to be suitable in every way. The resistance of his daughter-in-law exasperated the grandfather, who en deavoured to gain possession of the child. In an action which he brought before the Civil Tribunal of Bayonne he claimed that she should be given up to his custody ex clusively. He was nonsuited. He then attempted, with the assistance of two men, to carry off the young lady bodily from the school, but the attempt failed by the energy of the schoolmistresses. After this check he once more appealed to the law, but ineffectually, to obtain by judicial means that which violence and cunning had been unable to compass. The court dismissed the colonel's suit, made the schoolmistresses provisional guardians of the child, and gave leave to move for a judgment " interdict ing " Mrs. B----- [i.e, pronouncing her civilly incapable of managing her own affairs.] An application was then made to the English Court of Chancery, on an affidavit that Mrs. B- had deserted her daughter abroad. One of the Vice-Chancellors ordered the girl to be taken to England in her grandfather's custody. Mrs. B- determined to make a last effort to regain her daughter. She therefore presented herself on Sunday morning at the school already referred to and asked to see her before he r d eparture f or P au . Airs. B- was shewn into the dressing-room, where the young lady was about to commence her toilette. Mrs. B-, profiting by the absence of the servant, wrapped her daughter in a shawl, jumped from the window, which was on the ground floor, and succeeded in escaping with the treasure without being seen. A cab, it is supposed, awaited them near the school, and up to the present moment all search after the young lady has proved in vain. In the meantime the Court of Pau has given judgment in the case. Putting aside the arguments of the Tribunal of Bayonne, the court decided that it was not only its duty to fulfil a simple formality in adding its visa to the English judgment, but to investigate the grounds of the action, in order to assure itself with regard to the private rights of the parties, as well as with regard to private and public morals. The court, there fore, decided that the Vice-Chancellor was right in order ing that, pending a final decision, the young lady in ques tion, compromised by the imprudent conduct of her mother, and abandoned to the care of a servant, should be handed over to the protection of the grandfather. Our detective police have made a successful haul of thieves. At the commencement of the year a band of English pickpockets, men and women, arrived in Paris for the fetes. Notice had, however, been sent from Eng land, and several were arrested while pursuing their operations among the persons collected round the shop windows of two of the principal confectioners. When taken to the Prefecture of Police, several portmonnaies, all of French make, were found upon them, containing more than 4,000 f. in gold, and other property. Of course they knew nothing of each other, and had only just arrived from England. They have all been committed for trial. The Papal Nuncio has personally announced to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs the decision of the Pope to confer the cardinal's hat upon the Archbishop of Paris, as requested by the Emperor. The Metropolitan of Paris is the youngest of the French archbishops. He is but 54 years of age, and only entered the episcopate in 1859, when he was made Bishop of Nancy. The nomina tion of the Abbe Bonaparte to the rank of cardinal is an act of courtesy and gratitude, of which the initiative is due to the Holy Father. This promotion of a member of the Im perial Family of France to the scarlet hat is an exceptional act. The French Government,in accordance with the desire of the Holy See, is said to have proposed the new Archbishop of Rennes, Monseigneur Landriot, who was raised to the episcopacy in 185 G, and Monseigneur Regnier, Archbishop of Cambrai, aged 73, and « 1 o was made a bishop in 1312, as the two other prelates to be honoured in the samo way. Pa:•:s has almost always had eight cardinals. At present she has only five. It is not anticipated that the Hungarian Loan will be introduced into Paris before the 20th or 22nd inst., and it seems likely to meet with a favourable reception both from the Bourse and from the public. It is estimated that 100,000 obligations out of the number into which the loan will be divided have been subscribed in Hungary itself by anticipation. The excellent harvest of last year has made money abundant there. Hungary will probably take one-scventh of the whole number of obligations. The Berlin corre spondent of the Ti mes, referr i ng to the deplorable famine which is now devastating East Prussia, says it extends over a tract of c oun t ry i n h a bi te d b y 1,250,000 people, a very cons iderable portion of whom are destitute of the most ordinary necessaries of life. In some parts the sufferers, a large proportion of whom seem to he Lithuanians, have been terrified by the appearance of a malignant typhus, the result of starvation or a long continued course of bad fool. In Esthonia and Finland, provinces not very distant from those outlying regions of Prussia, things are even worse. From Berlin daily trains with fuel and provisions are despatched to the afflicted districts, but as yet without any visible alleviation of the calamity. The charitable munificence of the middle classes is very great. It is suppos e d th at h av i ng so The Radical and Secessionist p ar t y in Wtirtemberg refuse m t t a p k a e r l a i n a n y i e p l a l t r . t in the electi on o f deputies to the s frequently boasted of having the majority on their side, they are afraid to venture upon a trial of strength, which might prove the contrary. The bill conferring absolute liberty of speech upon members has been read a second time in the Prussian Lower House of Parliament. The new Minister of Justice declared that the Government had not made up th e i r minds whether they would advise the Crown to sanction or reject the measure. This, a ccor di ng to the corre spondent of the Times, is tantaltount to an invitation to the ];louse of Lords to throw it out. The struggle for liberty of speech in the State Parliament will now be transferred to the Federal Assembly. The number of persons perishing from the famine in Algeria is so great that, according to a correspondent of the Avenir National, they are thrown into trenches for burial, as on the day after a battle. The Brussels correspondent of the Morning Post states that the King of the Belgians will not go to Vienna to attend the funeral of the late Emperor of Mexico. His Majesty has sent as his representatives the Count Vanderstraten-Ponthos and Major Vandermissen, two dignitaries of the Royal household. The members for Halifax, Mr. Stansfeld and Colonel Akroyd, addressed a crowded meeting of their constituents on Tuesday evening. The speech of the evening was that of Mr. Stansfeld. He reviewed at considerable length the events of last session with regard to the Reforzn Bill, and condemned the methods used by the Conservative party to obtain its passing as un-English, as a poor and feeble copy of continental statecraft, which bore an Imperial hue. As to the future, the Liberal party should not think how soon it might return to the possession of office and to nominal power. That return would come soon enough—he hoped not too soon. Their object ought to be, as genuine Liberals, not to return to power, but to reconstitute the Liberal party, and to propound a programme which would be worthy of the Liberal name. They must complete the Reform Bill ; they must work their way sooner or later to a radical redistribution of representative• power; they must work their way to the removal of the fanciful and valuless ratepaying tests. With household suffrage he was in favour of the ballot. Mr. Moncreiff, M.P., has been lecturing in Edinburgh on modern scientific speculation in its relation to received religious Opinions. The learned gentleman declared that he was not at all impressed with the soundness of these speculations. On the contrary, he had read Colenso, and was confirmed by his criticisms that 'St. Paul knew more about religious truth than the bishop. He had read Darwin, and was satisfied that man was created, not de veloped. He had read Lyell, and met no evidence that man. was older than the Mosaic chronology. Mr. Mon creiff combated Sir John Lubbock's - theory, as stateil at Dundee, of the progressive intellect of mankind. The learned representative observed that the real progress of moderntimes was moral, not intellectual. Our superiority to the ancients arose from the shadow of Christian ptecept under which we live. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. (By Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.) ADEN, Jan. 4. The Bengal brigade is now passing this point en route for Annesley Bay. Steamers from Abyssinia are hurriedly returning to Bombay, to bring up the remainder of the troops destined for the expedition. From accounts that have been received from Abyssinia it is believed that it will be absolutely necessary to employ force to effect the liberation of the captives. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 14. The semi-official Marine Gazette of to-day asserts that both England and France are actively carrying on military preparations in the Mediterranean. The marriage of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg with the Princess of Leuchtenberg will take place on the 2d of February. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 15. The Presse of to-day states that at a Council of the Ministers, held yesterday under the presidency of the Emperor, the budget for the Empire was settled. The amount required for the expense of the ordi nary war budget will be 80,000,000 florins, and for the extraordinary war budget 31,000,000 florins. The Debatte asserts that the mission of Haider Effendi is connected with the conclusion of a new Turkizh loan in London. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 14. It is stated that the Ministerial crisis which existed last week is now over. Aali Pasha and Fuad Pasha were to have gone out of the Cabinet, and I(iamil Pasha and Mustapha Fazyl to have replaced them. The Grand Vizier is likely to remain in Crete some time longer. The public begin to see with a certain apprehen sion the hostile policy of Russia towards Turkey. AMERICA. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. In consequence of the resolution of the Senate, General Grant has vacated the War-office, and Mr. Stanton has resumed possession. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Jan. 14 (Evening). It is stated that the Cortes will soon be dissolved, and that the Ministry will then carry out great and radical measures of economy in the civil and mill- tart' services. The Ministry is said not to possess a suffieien majority in the present Cortes. FRAN CE. PAnIS, Jan. 15. The Constitutionnel of this morning announces the death of M. Louis Boniface, secretary to that journal, who expired yesterday afternoon. BOURSE, JAN. 14, Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 4i per Cent. End of month... Ital , an Loan 3 per Cent End of month 6B 75 Mexican Loan ... 15 50 Credit Mobilier End of month... 162 50 Spanish Threes Credit Foncier _1352 50 Rome Debt 33 75 End of m0nth...1350 Deferred 33 75 RAILWAYS. Account Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean Southern. Western — Eastern . 534 Sardinian Austrian Lombard 335 North of Spain Saragossa, Boman 49 110LBOILV TIIE.I7'I?E". --0- The very successful drama with which Mr. Sefton Parry commenced his management of this elegant theatre, and which proved such an extraordinary attra3tion during its very long and prosperous run, has been revived, and reproduced with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Mr. Atkins has been specially engaged to sustain the part of Nat Gosling vice Mr. J. Belmore, and we may at once say that he performed the part re markably well, and with such spirit as to call forth the loudest applause. The great scene of the drama, the Downs at Epsom, evoked as great a feeling of enthusiasm as ever. It is certainly one of the best things ever done at a metropolitan theatre, and it deserves all the applause it invariably calls forth at the fall of the act drop. The drama seems destined for another successful career, and, taken with the splendid pantomime of " Valentine and Orson," it forms an evening's entertainment of the greatest interest, and one which ought to receive the most extensive patronage. THE PHILO-PERISTERON SOCIETY. The annual show of birds by members of what, in plain English, might be called the Pigeon Friendly Society, was held on Tuesday at Free masons' Hall. These exhibitions of marked varie ties, produced from one common stock, are interest ing to the physiologist, and have indeed materially helped to settle the much-vexed questions of species. The display was excellent as a whole, the chiefly remarkable fact being that those particular breeds which have been growing scarcer every year were best represented. The beautiful pen of turbits, sent from York by that enthusiastic columbarian, Mr. Thackeray, and the two pens of trumpeters, shown respectively by the same gentleman and Mr. Hedley, secretary of the society, are cases in point. The almond tum blers were in extraordinary force, the crack pens of the room being furnished by these birds, exhibited severally by Mr. Lucy and Mr. Merck. The only three black mottles in the room, however, were shown by Mr. Esquilant. Mr. Hedley's barbs were, as usual, first-rate ; and Mr. Volckman, a new member of the society, exhibited a pair of pouters deserving sp ec i a l men ti on , amon g s everal birds of great merit in this class. The carriers, which, like the domestic footmen and a few other things in this world, may be divided into two different classes, the useful and the ornamental, worthily occupied a considerable space of the show. Of the ornamental carriers, bred to a refinement of ophthalmia and an Inca-like pride of enervation, the most wonderfully artificial were those of Mr. Crossley, of Leeds, Mr. Date, Mr. Hedley, and Mr. Else. The very opposite kind of birds to these were the three large and two small pens of useful carriers, shown by Mr. Hudson, among them being several renowned performers of long flights. By one of them the distance of 300 miles—from Antwerp to London, that is to say — was accomplished in four hours and twenty minutes. By two others the journey from Ostend was per formed in company. It is a noteworthy fact that, though carrier-pigeons are of ten known to fly from London to Ostend, few are recorded to have flown from Ostend to London. The clear Belgian air and wide expanse of flat country seem to have attractions for these winged couriers ; and even these two distinguished voyagers in the ser vice of Mr. Hudson, when started by the station master at Ostend, at 8 o'clock on a bright morning last August, headed first for the interior, and twice took their way inland, far out of sight, before they finally passed over Ostend and flew straight across the Channel. Mr. Esquilant, chairman of the society, contri buted several fine pens of birds, the most com mendable being his perfect specimens of that scarce and rapidly diminishing breed, the bald-head. His blue dragons were also praiseworthy, though their clean shapes and bright appearance yielded the palm to Mr. Percival's adjoining pen. The jacobins exhibited by Mr. Morris were all good, and the contrast of colours well maintained. Of Mr. Thackeray's admirable pen of turbits, number ing many of his prize birds, we have already spoken —and we may here add that a very good pen of blue and silver specimens of this breed were show❑ by Mr. Else. The least meritorious birds in the room were, perhaps, the fantails, though a few pretty representatives of this elegant white breed of pigeons might have been picked out of a rather indifferent pen. The exhibition was well attended during the hours to which it was judi ciously limited. EARLY LAmBING.:--An ewe on Mr. Laycock's Seghill Colliery Farms dropped a flue lamb on Thursday. This is the fourth successive year that the same ewe has lambed early in January, three years single lambs, and one year twins.—Newcastle Chronicle. GUSTAVE DORE'S PAINTINGS. Three splendid pictures by this unrivalled artist are now on view at the Egyptian Hall, each of which would be sufficient to secure for the painter universal fame. The paintings are " Dante and Virgil in the Circle of Ice," " Jephtha's Daughter," and " Life at Baden Baden," and to describe either one separately one might write column after column, and yet fail to convey an adequate idea of the extreme beauty of each picture. The first-named is a wonderful concep tion—wonderfully carried out ; the second is an extraordinary fine picture, and one as remark able for the colouring of the setting sun in the distance as the majestic grandeur of the figures of which it is composed. The painting, however, that will, generally speaking, call forth the most ap proval is the third and largest--" Life at Baden Baden." This immense surface of canvas, which re presents the interior of the well-known gaming salon at this fashionable German watering-place, we be lieve was all filled in the astonishing short time of six weeks. It represents the moment when the game is at its height, when the salon is crowded with persons from all parts of the world, and all habited in the most elegant, yet extravagant, cos tumes. There are fortune's favourites, and those upon whom the goddess frowns; and amongst the former there is a lady of surpassing beauty, who seems quite tired of gathering the golden harvest of her venturous play. A heap of shining pieces lie beneath her white and richly jewelled hand, and whether red or black is the turn up card she appears to regard it with the greatest in - difference. Then, again, there is the withered old lady gamester, who appears a constant attendant at the table, the English swell, who is winning _to day, and therefore in high glee, and at other parts of the room both male and female figures, all we believe portraits, which the visitor to Baden will not fail to recognise. The details of the painting are worked out in the most remarkable man ner, the artificial flowers forming the decorations of the ladies head dresses being finished with pre- Raphaelite correctness. As the Prussian Govern ment has determined to suppress gambling, this celebrated salle will soon be numbered with the things that were, and in after years this picture will be looked upon as quite historical. It is in very truth a wonderful work of art, and one that will richly entitle the great painter of it to all the honours he is certainly destined to receive both at home and abroad. SPECIAL CONSTABLES. The following letters have been received by Mr. B. Hancock, chief superintendent of the D division of special constables. The first, which is dated from Wellington Barracks, says :—" Sir,—l am directed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department to thank you for the efficient organisa tion of the force of :special constables under your command. lam further desired to express his sense of the zeal and alacrity shown by the officers and members of the D division, Marylebone parish." The second letter, which was signed by Mr. Greenwell, the clerk to the magistrates, stated that, "At a meeting of her Majesty's Ju s ti ces o f th e P eace for _ _ _ the St. Marylebone division, in special session assembled, Sir James John Hamilton in the chair, it was resolved unanimously, That the best thanks of the Bench be tendered to Mr. Hancock and the other superintendents of the division of special constables for the parish of St. Marylebone for the zeal, promptitude, and energy which they have exhibited in the organisation of the special constables who have so loyally enrolled themselves in aid of the civil power in the present emergency. Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace trust that their invaluable exertions will not be relaxed, and beg to assure the superintendents and the officers and men connected with them that they may con fidently rely on the cordial support and co-opera tion of the magistrates in this division of the metropolis." A letter of similar purport to the foregoing was also received from the Marylebone Vestry. The special constable movement in St. Pancras has evoked much enthusiasm, and the drilling is carried on with the greatest possible diligence. On Monday night Colonel Ibbotson drilled 200 special constables in the entrance hall of the Euston-square station of the London and North-Western Rail way. At this terminus, as we are informed, a guard of the 20th Middlesex Rifles is on duty every night, and challenges everybody passing into the station or about the works after a certain hour. Captain Butler will this evening drill the Camden and Kentish-town specials at the head quarters of the 29th (North) Middlesex Rifles, which have been granted for drilling purposes three nights a week. The swearing in of special constables for pa rishes and districts of the Tower Hamlets was con tinued yesterday by Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court, and the business was protracted to a late hour. The remainder of Charrington and llead's-people, including the heads of the firm, were sworn in by Mr. Paget in the afternoon. They number 212 persons. The clerks and workmen of M?ssrs. Batger's large confectionery works in Broad-street, Ratcliff, have been incorporated with the other specials sworn in for the Hamlet. Staves are very much wanted; but one person sworn in at the Thames Police-court in the course of the last week has been provided with a trun cheon, and if called out will have no weapon of defence. The fact is, the loyalty of the people has outrun the large supply of staves, and some thou sands more are required. Upwards of 500 special constables have been sworn in at Stamford, Lincolnshire. At Colchester the number enrolled has risen to GOO, and on Mon day evening a meeting was held, at which the superintendent (Major Papillon) announced the final arrangements made for the management of the force. On Monday night the special constables who had been sworn into office in Edinburgh, assembled in the Corn-Exchange. About 800 were present. The Lord Provost, addressing the meeting, said : " We have already within the last few days sworn in and received the cordial aid and assistance of up wards of 1,100 special constables—(cheers)—and I may say we could have doubled that number had we possessed sufficient batons ready in hand to give them ; that was our only difficulty, and lam happy to say that in a few days more we shall be able to enrol a system of at least 2,000 special constables in the city. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Morham, deputy city clerk, read the proposed magisterial arrange ment for the division of the city into six sections, for each of which a superintendent was nominated by the magistrates, leaving the deputy superinten dent to be nominated by the constables themselves. PRESENTS TO SUIT EVERY PURPOSE, TASTE, AND POCKET AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.—Photographic Albums a choice of 3,000; despatch boxes, writing cases, dressing cases, travelling bags, envelope cases, blotting books, ink stands, desks, book slides, work boxes, tea caddies, band bags and reticules, card cases, purses, stationery cabinets, scent bottles, albums for postage stamps, crests, Bre.; cigar cases, card baskets, pocket books, electro-gilt and elegantly mounted articles. Bibles, Prayer-books, and Church Ser vices, in every type. Parkins and Gotto, 25, Oxford street. Thousands of the above articles, all perfectly new p,ud fresh, consequent upon a raPisi 5 - 1 . rmtrit, Nip final HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 14. The Queen and their Royal llighnesses Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morn ing, attended by the Duchess of Roxburgho. Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice also went out. THE PRINCE AND 711 E ABORIGINES. The Duke of Edinburgh, in the course of his visit to South Australia, went up to the Lakes. On his way, passing by Point Sturt, two or three miles brought the steamers to the landing place coiled Macbeth. It is a station of the Hon. J. Baker, on the peninsula, between Lake Albert and the Cooong. Some time before reaching this the tents which had been erected ashore for the use of the party were observable, and on reaching still nearer a crowd of blacks, with a number of white people, also were clearly discernible. The steamers having been stopped, his royal highness and party put off from the Queen, and were taken to the landing by the crew of the steamer, who were in uniform. As soon as the boat touched the shore, three thundering cheers were given by the blacks—cheers which for heartiness excelled even the hearty cheers which had welcomed his Royal Highness elsewhere. The Prince landed, and walked up the avenue which had been formed by about 400 blacks. One native bore a Union Jack, and a second a banner with the words " Point Macleay," and " Peace" with an emblem of peace, and .also the sentence, " Welcome to our Country." At the top of the avenue a black fellow stood with a red, white, and blue flag, bearing the inscription, " Goolwa black fellow big one glad see im Queen picaninny." His Royal ,Highness walked up to the tents, before which he watched the dancing and antics of the natives. The blacks were then all mustered for the presentation of au address to his Royal Highness. A native named George Pan toni, from the Point Macleay Institution, came forward, and read the following address, cor rectly, but in a very low voice :—" To his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Your Royal Highness,—We, who are young men belonging to all the Lake tribes of natives, are glad to tell you our joy at seeing you in this our country. Our old men bow to your Royal Highness the coroboree, or, as we call it, singbaliu, such as our fathers used to have before the white men came here. But we do not wish you to think that we are wild blacks, because such a sight is shown to you. For seven years our tribes on this peninsula have had a Christian teacher. Nearly 100 native children have been taught in school. Every Sunday more than 50 of us meet together to pray to the same God and hear of the same Jesus as your Royal Highness does. Some have given up native customs and become real Christians, and many others are learning the way. Many of us get an honest living by working like white people. We have often been told about the Queen, your mother, and we hope and pray that God will always bless her ; and may Ilis blessing rest upon her children, especially yourself ; and may He take care of you till you see your mother's face in England again." His Royal Highness promised to write a reply and send it to Mr. Taplin, who was present. Night was now coming on, and every one seemed anxious to select a tent and make sure of a comfortable night under cover. The na tives were accordingly sent away to their camps, a little way off, and the party who had accompanied the Prince were busily engaged in collecting their " traps" and depositing them in the tents. Supper concluded, a start was made to see the grand coro boree, any description of which would fail to con vey an idea of its character to the reader's mind. We can only give a notion of the way in which it was managed, but a coroboree must be seen for a proper conception to be formed of it. About 30 or 40 women are seated, and beat time with wonderful precision on a cushion or rug before them, keeping up a monotonous " yah-yah, yah-yah," increasing i❑ earnestness as the excitement heightened. On the arrival of the Prince at the camp about thirty of the Point Macleay men—naked, except from the waist, and painted in the most singular and gro tesque manner—were lying down as if dead. After one or two manoeuvres with their legs they all sprang up, and then the real dancing began. Most of tl e natives had waddies, spears, boomerangs, and other warlike implements, and kept up a sort of monoto nous song, ending now and again with a whoop. The night was too light—it being full moon—to see the coroboree, with all the unearthly effect which a dark night gives to it, but enough was seen to give his Royal Highness an idea of the mysterious and fiendish dance. The several tribes of blacks amal gamated for this coroboree, and Mr. E. B. Scott, the Protector of Aborigines, made all the arrange ments for the grand assembly, and there was a darkie as M.C. The Prince continued at the na tives' camp till 11 o'clock, when he and the rest of the party left, but before leaving the blacks piled a number of their implements before him as gifts from them. During the evening rounds of cheers were given at intervals on a signal from the TvI.C., and as a return compliment the Duke sent for his piper, Farquharson, who played the pipes, much to the astonishment of the natives. —South Australian Advertiser. A court-martial was held onTuesday on board the Mersey at Cork, on Captain - Morrell and Lieut. Browne, of the Research, for running the vessel on Daunt's rock: Evidence was giving showing that the steamer struck not the rock, but the wreck of the City of New York, which was not officially noticed on the chart. The defence was that the Research, having secret orders to watch certain suspicious vessels, was pursuing the American bark Alaska, and seeing her so near the land, and apprehending a landing, bore down upon her, and had to approach the rock nearer than it otherwise would. The Court did not consider the charge of neglect proved, and acquitted the officers. TELEGRAPHS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.—It may bo interesting to our readers to know the total length, approximately at least, of the telegraphic lines throughout the world, and tho proportion which exists in each of the several countries in which this agency of correspondence has been adopted. The total length of telegraphic lines in the world is 178,086 miles. In 1866 there wero in Germany 28,347 miles of telegraphs ; in Russia, 22,992 ; in France, 18,694 ; in Great Britain and Ireland, 16,297 ; in Tut key, 8,665; in Italy, 8,216; in Sweden, 3,507; in Belgium, 1,089; in Switzerland, 2,160; in Canada, 5,050; and iu the United States, 52,957. Besides these, there are the two Atlantic cables, which measure 4,369 English, or 3,755 nautical, miles. The total length of the other submarine cables is nearly 6,000 miles. One of the most marvellous examples of the value of telegraphic communication was afforded on the recent occasion of Mr. Gladstone's tour. The addresses delivered at Southport and Orinskirk con tained 16,882 words. The report of the speeches reached Liverpool by train at 11.25 p.m. The transmission to London by telegraph began at 11.30 p.m., and was com pleted at I.4o—that is to say, in little more than two hours. The last slips were delivered at the offices of the daily papers before 2.30. Mr. Gladstone's speech on the follow ing day at Oldham contained 30,745 words, and was trans mitted with corresponding rapidity. WILD FOWL.—During the winter months our lakes and estuaries are visited by innumerable quantities of ducks and geese, which are driven by stress of weather from their feeding places in Norway, Sweden, and the north of Europe, and aro included by the unscientific sportsman under the general denomination of water fowl, many hundreds of which are every year taken in decoys, or slaughtered by the discharge of a pound of shot from a swivel gun by au individual calling himself a sportsman. Among the vast quantities thus taken, it is highly pro bable that many of the rarer species pass unnoticed along with the general mass. This suggestion is further strengthened by the frequency with which Leadonhall, or other of oar largo game markets, is given as the locality from which the majority of our rarer species of water-fowl are obtained, not unfrequently minus the head, or some other important organ ; it being the general custom of our game dealers, whenever they meet with an individual pre senting any peculiarities, in shape of plumage, which pre vents its being classed under the general head of " teal" or "mallard," to remove the abnormal part, and they con sider themselves fortunate if they succeed in disposing of it to some inexperienced purchaser. With fishmongers the reverse is the case; whenever a rare or curious looking fish is received it immediately occupies a commanding position on the marble slab, probably for the combined purpose of attracting the attention of Mr. Frank Buckland, or eons other uaturalist or epicure. —Land and Water. 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