The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-18 00:00:00

. . TILE SUN LONDON, FRIDAY EVE NI NG, ...-.----......-........-..---..--...--- THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. nisters yet remain to be particularised - the I CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. LIFE BOAT SERVICES. -During the Storms Under the -Management of Miss Fanny Josephs. one, the President of the Poor-law Board, the other, 1 brthis year (1868) the National Lifeboat Institution.. It lle e • mrs Me sdames Honey ' (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) con tributed to the saving of 754 lives from various ship- THIS EVENING, at 7, BLOW FOR d BLOW: pr ,dowper, Haynes, Arthur, N . Testlen 9 , and a c , 30 LUCRETI do O Fanny • the Postmaster-General-heads of departments, each wrecks and 19 vessels from destruction. The Institution . Foote,"Weathersy, Loney, of At : &c.; Mesdanles Minnie Sy, Si also expended £14,657 in the same period on its Lifeboat al Drew, G. lof them, from whom no small amount of activity PARIS, THURSDAY, December 17. Est biishments, in addition to granting £2,090 for re- Joseph .i.‘; has become too evident that the worst must be appre- WI will be imperatively required, and that, moreover, im wards. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. ended in Algeria. The natives have sown but a part of Ili The Committee of the institution earnestly appeal to the g :heir land, and the disasters of last year must almost th THI EVENING The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud mediately. Mr. GOSCHEN upon his part, has nothing public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued of 50 S Horses; 'also M. Avolo, Alfred Bradbury, M. Clifton, th necessarily be reproduced after the fine season. For some heavy demands on their 189 Lifeboat Establishments. Captain Austin, Miss Carrie, and Samwell's Performing Dogs. less before him as a distinct requirement on the part Contributions will be thankfully received by the London time . past . the natives have been . flo . eking to the northern. Co of the public at large than the complete reorganisa and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard . Lewis, THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. regions in the hope of obtaining some subsistence Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. THIS EVENING, at 7, SL A SHER & CRASHER : Messrs Atkins, tion of the whole existing system of poor law relief. from public charity. They have been compelled N Vaughan, G. Vincent, &c.• Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After whch, at 7.45, THE' YELLOW PASSORT : Messrs. H. While the Marquis of HARTINGTON, in his turn,will be to take refuge in European territory to avoid dying of el TROTTING HARNESS COB, possessing ex- Ne. isle, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and H. called upon to inaugurate his accession to authority hunger. The A venir .Nationale says •: " The Mayor of C Wigan Mesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield traordinary speed, with first-class action, . has been Bl . itla . h naturally felt himself much embarrassed by IF driven at the rate of 20 miles an hour fair trotting, well in St. 111.artin's-le-Grand, by the carrying out of the worth attention, is to be SOLD by Messrs. Tattersall, ROYALTY THEATRE. this increase of the floating population, and in conse- w Monday, 21st December. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. scheme resolved upon last session by Parliament, the queues addressed himself to General de Wimpffen, com- T THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss bold and comprehensive scheme absorbing into the Posts . mandant of the province of Algiers. That officer a RACING COB to be SOLD by Messrs. TAT- RICHARD Oer.Ll be fol i o s itv e F by t T t HE ym m A ck ND . LA . l i t w O a F r TERSALL on MONDAY, December 21; very fast office system the responsibility of henceforth regulating replied by a letter to the prefect of the city, in which he PI Mr. Danvers; idis o s r, Coni e n w son, ro a n nd o lts M. OHL'. To con declared, in military style, that 'on no point of the 111 galloper, with fine quick action; a perfect hack; carries tiude with THE CLOCRMAICER'S HAT. that astoundingly swifter and subtler system of the 's hunter. province did there exist any extraordinary distress.' W e Iv a lady; would make a first - class boy Electric Telegraph in all its wonderful ramifications. have yet to learn what the General understands by the al J°HTON OTH GO P S A N ST E E LI . J and CO.'S CHERRY PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. s greatly superior to any tooth Under the Management of Miss Marie Wiltonl Forecasting, thus, their collective future, examining epithet ' extraordinary,' with which he satisfies himself 1)1 powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the THIS EVENING, TAME CATS: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne, so easily, and which he does not justify by any precise ti rkl y, Montgome • and Bancroft•, Mrs. Buckingham White, each of them, thus, department by department, we enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to ..'.-fact or document. During the past year it has PI the breath. Price ls. 6d.-Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper s Mice C . Addison, arml Y Miss Marie'Wilton. After which, Wild ....._ withway reason end what we have here said of our SPEAKS FIRST! Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss C . been a very ordinary thing for Arabs to die it Thames-street, London. Addison. administrators, by reiterating, in regard to Her of hunger, but perhaps that circumstance does a l ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. MAJESTY'S fifteen newly-installed Cabinet Mi- not suffice to justify the measure recommended, ix NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. or rather prescribed, by General de Wimpffen:--' If the ti A GITA AMARELLA. restores the Human Hair rem EVENING, THE WIFE'S SECRET. Sir Walter Amyott nisters, the remark with which we commenced, police of Blidah,' says he, ' arrests individuals in a state of tl to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. Mr.IES Creswick; Eveline, Miss Pauncefort After which , TIM E TRALL, to the effect, namely, that they will most vagrancy, they should deliver up such individuals to the NI .INO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid . of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect- assuredly be put upon their metal, if only by judicial authorities, who will pronounce on their fate ;and 'I ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - THREE BALLET 4, lug this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8 . 15 . Box-office reason of t h e ir individual antecedents-enforced these vagabonds will suffer the penalties imposed by the I in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. open from 11 to 4. law.' We see here the natural result of the idea of an a Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, more especially, as those antecedents of theirs will including brush. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8. Arab kingdom, which has been, as we foresaw, still more I Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames- Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. be, and indeed are, by the urgent and, in some re- fatal to the natives than to the colonists." Thames street London. E.C. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex spects, enormous requirements of the juncture in the The Council of War at Blidah, Algeria, has condemned k cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children midst of which they are now assuming their aggre- an Arab to death, and his wife to twenty years' imprison - T HE ATRE" ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. under twelve, 6d. went, for murder and cannibalism. Five natives were gate responsibilities as a Government. ee and Manager, Mr. F.D. ChattArton. implicated, and each of them, beyond doubt, had partaken Sole Less THIS EVENING, at 7, NIN It POINTS OF THE LAW. At 7.45 KING 0* SCOTS. Mr. Phelps. Mr. E. Price, Mr. H. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. of human flesh. But though the crime was committed v Sinclair. Mr. Addison, Mr. H. M. Barrett, Mr. Jeseph Irving, Mr. IF we are not greatly mistaken, we shall hear before several months ago, they were all in good health-a result I Rouse, Mr. William Mclntyre, Mr. James Johnstone, Mr. F. " THE SUN " WILL BE PUBLISHED AS USUAL ON •_lh%rle, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. W. C. Temple; Miss Heath, Miss Edith long a good deal more than we have yet heard about which hardly bears out tho dictum of the Governor- c ituart Miss Fanny Addison, and Mrs. Frank Matthews. CHRISTMAS DAY. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of Action, entitled BEDA. 66 a free breakfast-table." The originator of that General of Algeria, who declared that cannibalism is C invariably followed by disease and death. .....---- THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. .... i ... -- 2, e?. , ee / ' ! Privy Councillor and Cabinet Minister. When he M. Ferdinand de Lesseps has declined the official canal- l dature which the Government offered him for the Corps 1 Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Messrs. F. t) I ,j 1 t . , , ' • ".; ,‘ '. 'll announced this new programme he must have known L4gislatif. The independent papers rejoice greatly over t Buckstone, White, Clark, &c.; Mesdames Laws, F. Wright. &c. ~,,,./.$ .1- lU4' •• ' '; and they have some reason for it. The i After which, PIETRA. itt essrs. Chippendale, Howe, Ken- t full well that he would be, a few weeks later, holding thi s resu lt , dal, Gordon, &c. •, Miss Bateman, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. . office under the Crown, and in a position to give Government can get ne-able men on its side, except the ( Concluding with RURAL FELICITY. Messrs. Buckstone, li s tleah Rogers, Kendal, Weaihersby, Clark, White, &c. ; Mesdames practical effect to his scheme. True, he is not few who fill the hig e . ~ts. All the first-rate journalists E Chippendale, Burke, Wright, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Lewin, &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 1868. and officials go over to tft2 other side. i Commence at Seven. -- 4 0--.. Chancellor of the Exchequer, but he holds the office Three French ships of war cast anchor before Cadiz, in 1 .-... Ministers will, collectively, be put upon their metal most closely allied to that post ; he is President of 1 order to protect the interests of French subjects during . T HEA T R E ROYAL, ADELPHI. . the Board of Trade. In that capacity Mr. BRIGHT Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. if only by reason of their individual antecedents. the insurrection. One of these has since withdrawn, but Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. must have abundant opportunity for inquiring into the others remain. The Premier, to begin with, is known intensely and THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE the whole machinery of taxation. We believe that The Council of the Order of Advocates of the Imperial TO CAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. essentially as an innovator. lie especially has Her et a quarter to 8, MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Pechter, Mr. Benja rain Webster, Mr. G Belmore, M e . A rt h ur Stirling, air, Ashley, culean work before him, to the performance of which the more he inquires the more he will be convinced Court in Paris has decided that a subscription shall be opened among the members of the bar to erect a menu- I Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr, C. J. of the costliness of a taxed breakfast-table. 1 smith, Mr. Romer, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss he is solemnly pledged, for the accomplishment of meat to M. Berryer. Carlotta ILeclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. The duel between M. Paul de Cassagnac and M. Lassa- Carlotta Very opportunely, a contemporary who makes which, in point of fact, he has been made Premier, his class of subjects a specialty has published an jaray, which was marked by such fury, has found its way Li T. GEORGE'S THEATRE (ST. GEORGE'S so to speak, by acclamation, and for the carrying article shewing how excessively inconvenient and in due course to the Correctional Tribunal. The k) HALL).-This Theatre will Open for the Season on WEn- It is inconvenient principals and their seconds were all fined, M. de NEsnAY, December 23, with a powerful Company selected from through Parliament of which the immense Liberal costly indirect taxation is. the leading provincial theatres. For the first time, a domestic Drama, in three acts, entitled majority at his back has been sent to the House of to the importer, and therefore costly to the con- Cassagnac receiving in addition a sentence of six days' im- SAVED. By H. Such Granville. After which, the entirely new Commons by the electors of the United Kingdom. ti on prisonment. and original Ninevitish Burlesque of SARDANA.PALUS. with 1 sumer. Taxation checks consumption, consumption A frightful scene took place at Marstilles the other day. the increased cost of a magnificent scenery, dresses, and appointments. Concluding ! Mr. GLADSTONE'S energies will be sufficiently occupied checks production, and thus The police were endeavouring to arrest an Italian ruffian with THE BENGAL TIGER, in which Mr. T. B. Shenton will taxed article is far greater than the amount of the appear. for some time to come, in th e maturin g of his as y et who had made a desperate attack upon one of his associates, when suddenly the offender drew out a Box-office open from eleven till flue.vaguely foreshadowed plans for the disestablishing indirect • exception, and the excep- knife and stabbed the first ' police agent three times in the GLOBETHEATRE -ROYAL.- At 7, GOOD and disendowing of the Irish Church as an institu taxation with one FOR NOTHING. - tion thoroughly establishes the rule. We refer to breast ; and, the companions of the wounded man hasten- At a quarter to 8, Mr. J. Byron's original Comedy, in five acts, tion, the foundations of which were laid as nearly as the duties on alcoholic drinks. These are taxed in to his assistance, two more of them were struck in the entitled CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David abdomen. A fourth would probably have suffered the Fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlston, and J. Clarke ; I possible three hundred years ago. The Chancellor of not only for the sake of revenue, but Mesdames Henra,de, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughgs, and same fate if the spectators had not seized the miscreant. Stephens. the Exchequer, in his department, is hardly less dis- for the sake of morals. These, if sold and disarmed him. The wounds are dangerous, but, it is tinctly pledged than his leader is pledged in the matter at all, ought to be taxed to the extremest limit to R EATRE. hoped, not mortal. 0Y AL PRINCESS'S TH of tbelrish Church, to have e 3 pecial regard to the eco- which taxation will go, just because their consump - The establishment of a new religious sect 'in Russia is Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE SECRET. nomical employment of the national revenues and to tion is injurious to the community. No such argu- announced. Its code is not yet complete, but it cora- After which (at 8 o'clock), Dion Boucicault's new drama, inminces by . 3 very fay , collection of impossibilities.. It four acts, entitled AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life diminish in every reasonable way that can be devised meat exists with regard to . the breakfast table. honours celibacy, forbids the use of brandy, and proscribes Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray. C. Harcourt, )G. Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclercq. the aggregate amount of national taxation. The Tea, coffee, sugar are all good in themselves. It is' , the love of dress in young women. The sect deserves every Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds an assistants. therefore, wise to encourage their consumption. How To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. First Lord of the Admiralty, if he, as a civilian, has encouragement, but its stipulations are not such as arelikely Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open greatly this is discouraged we gather from a very to attract converts. But applause of celibacy and conderana daily from 10 till 5, been selected for any particular reason to undertake excellent article in the Produce Markets' Review. tion of extravagance in dress are admirably consistent. The the duties of that high and responsible office, has cer- OYAL STRAND THEATRE. to the enormous amount of papersthat Owing . have Paris ladies are terribly in need of some such provisions. tainly been chosen with the express intention that he The luxury of dress in this capital surpasses all precedent ; THIS Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. shall do his very utmost towards guarding against to be signed, and formalities that have to be gone the latest new thing is a jepe composed of . twenty skirts, Clarke. Belford, Joyce ; Mesdames Bui , .sn and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OF TE.E CLOTH OF GOLD. through, all of which the merchant has to be repaid the continued prodigality of our expenditure in plus his commission on the extra expense, £2,000,000 . one overlapping the other, and all of different colours. Messrs. Thorne, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long more, The wearers of these absurdities ' will completely outdo F. Hughes, L. Maitland, &c. the operations of our dockyards, without, of course worth of tea costs the public in England £3,600,000 ; the rainbow, which, indeed, they left behind long ago. A Toconclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS. at the same time in any way recklessly jeopardizing that is, a revenue which could be raised d i r ectl y b y p erambulatin g spinning wheel seems ta have been the ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, the maintenance of our maritime efficiency. The 2d. in the pound on the income tax, costs, raised ideal they had in view. HOLBORN. December has been ushered in by storms, which:have 20,00 people visited this elegant Theatre last weak. The , President of the Board of Trade, again, distinguished indirectly, a sum equal to 3d. in the pound. The caused great devastation throughout France. From the superb horses, unanimously admitted to be matchless, and the 1 ectileatrian and or performances to be the very best ever ,ashe is among the champions of justice to Ireland- cost of sugar is even more flagrant. Free sugar exterior the intelligence of disaster is equally abundant. witnessed in this or any other country. To-nblit and during , should cost £lO per ton ; taxed sugar costa £3l. In the week Oscar Carre's magnificent stud of 50 petforming horses. earnest advocate as he is of the interests of Peace, At Fritzlar, in Bohemia, a steeple was blown down, and M. Adolphe Carr, M, Krembaer. Herr Loyal, Herr Salamonsky, other words, sugar which now costs 41d. per lb. killed sixteen persons, besides wounding many others. M. Burgess, the King of Comiques; Miss Carrie and Captain even to the length of identifying himself years ago Au4itn's lightning Zouave Drill; Harry Croueste ; Samwell's I with those who are the recognised exponents of ought to be sold at lAd. Put in another way, the The Court returned from Compibgne to-day. p e r:orming Dogs. i £5,500,000 revenue returned by sugar, in round " open at Seven, commence at half past Seven. Morning Per- teo principles of Peace at any Price-devoted numbers costs 213,000,000, as it raises the cost THE WEATHER TABLE. - THIS DAY. tormiece, WedLesd a y and Sa t u rda y , at Ball- p ast Two. Children wader ton, half-price to morning performance only. l as his attention and sympathies have long of the 600,000 tons of sugar we use yearly from ...._ __....___ r . been to the design of ameliorating so far £6,600,000 to £19,000,000. That is, in order to METEOROLOGICAL REPORTS. LICENSED 'VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN as may be found practicable the condition of the don the income Extreme Sea a R. GLENIE, of the Sporting Library, obtain what would cost 4 c l . in the p ound Kit •4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, London, W., begs to vast population of India now subject directly to the A F. 0 I nform his customers, and the Licensed Victuallers in general, tax, we spend what would be equal to ls. in the pound. Friday. Our contemporary estimates that the Bd. or Dd. in Dec. Dee. 18, B. T. 1 '.'4 W. 11 te F. D. wR. to 12 let he has been appointed Agent for the above-named paper in I sceptre of the English SOVEREIGN-is above all what 8 a.m. I' - ddition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of " Tux SUN," I the pound on the income tax, which the L9,500,00031r. ____ ___ _ ______ _ tea can supply the same on Friday evening, if required, in town Ihe was so very conspicuously thirty years ago, and Nairn - 1 Aberdeen 29 eef. 48 47 S. 0 z C . 0-03 2 Sr country. it might even be said what he was then, at the outset.' 29'311. 52 E.O 5.W.,, 1 ,„Y 2 1 W.S.W. m.O o'o7 - G. R. G. begs to inform the Trade that ae is Agent for the I B . WWI . T'S 4 . ‘ free breakfast table " would represent & baith , Shields , ~ 29•451. 50 49 • , Y• 6 2 +,N.«', CO.. - 3 'AATEST EDITWN of "TILE SUN," and can supply it earl:;;:. if levied directly, actually costs the country when ocarourou . in 29'48f. 49 48 S.W. 4 4 W.S.W. b.cr 007 3 , :iati any other man in London or Country the evening of plait. of his political career, almost:exclusively, the eloquent levied indirectly L 20,000,000, or, roughly, ls. 6d. in Yarmouth 29'621. 48 47 SS F. 6 7 W.S.IV.' r.o. 011 5 r i t r i i7 . , t,,, N , N o c onnection nu ga ° l% w (V j uirj °U ric Ifi r etliiy Pip. l.:i '3•;:.-,s: ill's, and devoted advocate of those great economic tin- fielder - - - _ the pound of its income. These are startling figures Cuxhaven - - - - - _ -- - iin,,a, and Periodicals as soon as published_ Agent fur Wel uiut cip . es 1 which are at the heart of what is popu- which Mr. LOIVE will do well to ponder. seeasaawa - - - - --- _ -_ _ Ste, -;::'oil C.eupany. Orders by yx,,,a nt 1,0.1 to Ardrossan Greencastle 29•27 f. 46 45 S.S.W. 3 2 E.S.E. or e. o'2B - - lardy known as Free Trade. To the furtherance yet We do not pretend that there is nothing to be said Holyhead - - SHE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN "to Liverpool be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK'S, I more and more of those beneficent principles wherever for indirect taxation, or rather that there is nothing 'Y 1! - - _ e a al p e e n t. a n oa . r . .. 29 7 3 - 4 i 4 - 6 44 W - 810 I; m.r 0 7 52 8 'Amnia, Kensal New-town. S. r.c.o 93 5 they may still be applied afresh, he is pledged now, as to be said against direct taxation. It is inquisitorial, p e o n te n sl . t : 2 2 9 2 35irf:* 52 7 4 5 1 V i s . . B w . W . . 4 9 4 8 S.W. mrc 0'42 4 i he has ever been, he is pledged now, if possible, more T HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," it . is . a temptation to dishonesty, too often not resisted; Weymouth. 29 62f. 52 51 S i r 4 8 S. S.W. r.c. 0'53 4 29•631. 53 4 6 S.S.E.r.c. 0-34 2 g iving all the SPORTING NEWS of the day, may be seen I than he has ever yet been-now, that is, that to his it is,moreover,almost impossible of application to the Portsmouth 29'65f. 52 52 W.S.W. 4 6 S. r.c. o'4o 4 8 s.s.E. o. 0116 3 Lon don , 29'591. 50 49 1 , W.5.W.1,2 8 S.W. c.rb o'l4 - at JEM )1Y MA t NTON 'S house, "The Swan and Horse Shoe," Little Britain, Ciy, E.C. responsibities as an individual legislator and as a re- poor. The idea of levying an income tax on a apeGrisliez 29 G6s. 48 44 S.W. W.S.W. 0. 001 4 labourer earning £1 a week is chimerical. So that B u r o e a r t , e n . t : .. : : 2 29 9 :6 74 9 1 0 . . 5 5 4 2 .559 S.W. SW 7 5 17 ' 5 S.S.E. r.o. o'o9 4 c cognised Tribune of the People, have been added the h'i°.crhrllf.t.:: B 1 1 11: ti l'9 E.S.E. 4 5 $. i i. -.= 1 wHus GRAIN G E R ? LICENSED 1 if we abolish indirect taxation he goes tax- VICTUALLERS' TOBACCONIST, SHEPHERD'S-BUSH. I still weightier and more solemn responsibilities of - free. At the same time we could very well ig u s:e n i:'...:: ---- - - - - - - e , SPORTING EDITION of "THE SUN '• can be seen at - - - - - OR A INGER'S Establishment, as above, every evening, by Eight a Cabinet Minister, a servant of the Crown, afford to give up a considerable portion of the Strasbourg.. _ _-- - - _ -- - trasbourg.. - - - - - - - - - Lyons• a'cl3ck. and an affirmed Councillor of the SOVE- revenue derived from the working man, if we could Toulon .... - h - - - - - - -- _ THE LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN " . REIGN. Of the Lord Privy Seal nothing whatever only reduce the expense of raising the revenue from t:narttis9Ca.ornn-. supplied, as soon as published, Every Evening, by W. local time) - - - - - - - - - A LEX A N.D ER (late Brooks), Newspaper Agent, .N o. 4, Old I departmentally of this kind, as a matter of course, the middle class. Surely we need not grumble that Exmarearrosr Cavendish street, Oxford-street. our poor neighbour goes free, if his freedom costs ... T HE " SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLENIE, offices in the Cabinet, being purely and simply orna- us nothing. We ought even to be prepared to letter r, rising ;1, falling ;s, steady-indicates direction of motion of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road, I ! mental. But, pay a little more than we do for the sake m. -misty, hazy ; 0.-overcast, dull ; r.- shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hour& delivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN at the earliest without in any respect speaking possible moment after leavin g the press. He is able to deliver •• • • ' ' •is right and of economy. Our contemporary suggests that z.-calm. Weather : b.-blue skY ; c.-clouds, d e ta c hed ; 1.-fog; jopies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country , invidiously in either instance, it only at a c omparatively early hour the same evenin g , say 40 miles by Air. LolvE should retain the income tax at 6d ', rain ; s.-snow ; t.-thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) 9.45 o'clock reasonable that we should add that in the ease - . reduce the expenditure £3,000,000, and with the daring last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. Orders by pos tpunctually attended to of the Lord Chancellor, in the case of the Lord extra £5,000,000 which he would thus secure abolish REMARKS. HE LATEST LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN " President of the Council, many will look un- the sugar duties. Is there any one who would grudge On the NE. coast the increase in pressure noticed yesterday has been succeeded by a fresh diminution of considerable extent. Read 111 supplied as soon as published, containing all the LATEST questionably for acts that shall justify the selection this extra 2d. of income tax ? We paid it cheerfully NEWS and SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, by 11 W lags at all stations arc now lower than yesterday, but In the S.W. of liewspaper Agent, 4, 13Iackfriars-road, London, S. umutis, is recovering itself. Readings are low in the ito those offices of State, of Lord DE GREY and to recover a score of prisoners in Abyssinia ; we could Ireland pressure again N.W., and a difference of six-tenths of an inch exists between those SPRTIGJOHN B4OBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" as soon as pub- regard as superfluous it. nri _..4. Bath-street. Citv-road. E.O. I RIPON, and of Lord HATHERLEY. It would be idle to hardly grudge it for the sake of our poor in. these the manifestation by these two hard times, when pauperism threatens more and at Nairn and Rochefort, Temperature has increased generally about 10 deg. in Scotland. The southerly gale reported yesterday afternoon In the S. of Ireland extended to the entrance of the TIIIIIIA 1 nrria rvc *Le. ~....4:4...../..1...... .../ a 1. .. . . ...ini.eirtrt more to overwhelm us as a flood. Channel, and lasted till about midnight ; a strong S.W. wind was . ._ ~...., been to the design of ameliorating sl far as may be found practicable the condition of the vast population of India now subject directly to the sceptre of the English SOVEREIGN—is above all what he was so very conspicuously thirty years ago, and it might even be said what he was then, at the outset of his political career, almost:exclusively, the eloquent and devoted advocate of those great economic prin ciples which are at the heart of what is popu - - larly known as Free Trade. To the furtherance yet more and more of those beneficent principles wherever they may still be applied afresh, he is pledged now, as he has ever been, he is pledged now, if possible, more than he has ever yet been —now, that is, that to his responsibities as an individual legislator and as a re cognised Tribune of the People, have been added the still weightier and more solemn responsibilities of a Cabinet Minister, a servant of the Crown, and an affirmed Councillor of the SOVE REIGN. Of the Lord Privy Seal nothing whatever departmentally of this kind, as a matter of course, can by possibility be said—that office, among all the offices in the Cabinet, being purely and simply orna mental. But, without in any respect speaking invidiously in either instance, it is only right and reasonable that we should add that in the case of the Lord Chancellor, in the case of the Lord President of the Council, many will look un questionably for acts that shall justify the selection to those offices of State, of Lord DE GREY and RIPON, and of Lord HATHERLEY. It would be idle to regard as superfluous the manifestation by these two noble lords of the justification of their selection, each of them respectively, the one as occupant of the woolsack, the other as head of the Council Board— On the N.E. coast the increase in pressure noticed yesterday has been succeeded by a fresh diminution of considerable extent. Read ings at all stations arc now lower than yesterday, but in the S.W. cif Ireland pressure is again recovering itself. Readings are low in the N.W., and a difference of six-tenths of an inch exists between those at Nairn and Rochefort, Temperature has increased generally— about 10 deg. in Scotland. The southerly gale reported yesterday afternoon in the S. of Ireland extended to the entrance of the Channel, and lasted till about midnight ; a strong S.W. wind was a:so felt in the S.E. of England. This morning moderate S.W. winds prevail in the Channel, but in Ireland the gale continues from tho W. Heavy rain has fallen In the S. of England and Ireland. The sky is cloudy, and it is now raining on the E. coast. Weather appears still unsettled. The sea on the Irish coast has not gone down. PORTING.—JOHN ROBERTS supplies the LATEST EDITION of "THE SUN " as soon as pub- Its ed.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.O. THE " SUN" NEWSPAPER.-G. R. GLEN IE • delivers the I ATE EDITION at Chelsea, 7.40; Kilburn, 8 ; Starch-green, 8; Woolwich, 7.30; Uxbridge, 9.20; Watford, 9.45. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. Lord HATHERLEY by his energetic furtherance of legal improvements generally, Lord DE GREY and RIPON by his strenuous advocacy of the cause of National Education. From the Home Secretary there will be eagerly looked for, now, that resolute attention to the hitherto, in a great mea sure, disregarded interests of the population at large, in the dealing by the authorities with that criminal residuum still at large, and on the loose, as one may say, in all our great and thickly-peopled cities— classes that were in a manner seared and branded as with a pen of red-hot iron by Lord MAC - AULAY when he wrote of them as 16 Heathone in of cbristianity, and Savages in the m idst of Civilisation." From the Foreign Secretary, now that he has been called upon to resume once more the office for which he is so peculiarly well qualified, im mediately in succession to a Foreign Secretary as popular and as successful as Lerd STANLEY—from the Earl of CLARENDON, in the light of the succers and of the popularity of his immediate predeces sor, much, it is almost idle to say, will be looked for, in the way of placable and dignified conciliation in all our various diplomatic relations with the great Powers of the earth in either hemisphere. The Indian Secretary, the War Secre tary, and the Colonial Secretary, each in turn will be scrutinized by the people at large, out of an ear nest solicitude on the part of the latter to witness the systematic and energetic development of a wise and activo policy in each, respec tively, of those great and comprehensive de partments. Upon the Secretary for Ireland mere than ever, there will just now necessarily de volve a heavy weight of responsibility by reason of the vastness and of the radical importance of the great measure of innovation now about to be ap plied by the Imperial Legislature, at the direct in stance of the newly installed Ministry, to the general conduct of the Government of the Irish people. Two others only among our fifteen Cabinet 111 - (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) rrHE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN' at I_ JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Wellington , " Welling t o n-street, Strand. THE RUMOURED RECALL OF LORD MAYO. — Some of our contemporaries have reaffirmed the accuracy of the statement respecting the recall of Lord Mayo, and have added that the letter of recall has actually been despatched to the new Viceroy. They are, however, mistaken. We have the authority of a Cabinet Minister, and also that of another dis tinguished member of the Liberal party, that the Cabinet have not taken that step. So far as the Marquis of Salisbury is concerned, the matter is set at rest by a letter from that nobleman in the Times denying that he is going to India. A gentleman named Rotherham, residing at Ath boy, county Meath, has been fired at near his own gate as ho was returning home from the railway station. Slugs struck Mrs. Rotherham, who was sitting beside him in his carriage, in tho forehead. Her life is in some danger. Bisgrove, the Wells murderer, immediately after his condemnation, begged to see an Independent minis ter, to whom, after ho h a d engaged in prayer, he stated that on the night in question, being quite intoxicated, he lay down near Cornish; he awoke, and ho had an impulse, not from any feeling of revenge, or with any intention of robbery, to kill the man. He got up in a semi-drunken state, and went to the brook, and there ho took up a stone; he carried it to the spot where Cornish was lying, and threw the stone upon his head, and that blow killed Cornish. No one was with him. This tends to exculpate S wee+, his fellow-prisoner, alto gether, and shows that the evidence of the woman Drew was substantially correct. FRANCE. TE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN." H J. HJLMES begs to inform his friends and the public generally that he supplies the LATEST EDITION Of " THE SON " as soon as published.—No.lo, Hampstead-road N.W. PARIS, December 18. The Marquis de Lavalette has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, replacing the Marquis de Moustier, whose resignation has been accepted. Also M. Ferado de la Roquette has been appointed Minister of the Interior, and M. Greasier Minister of Agriculture. The Marquis do Moustier has been made a Senator. IVIIE LATE EDITION of " THE SI4N " at J. SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. rytHE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden town, THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Lease° and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton THIS EVENING, at 7, NINE POINTS OFFHEW. And - at a quarter to 8, KING 0' SCOTS: Mr. Phelps: Messrs. Adat son, Barrett, J. Irving, H. Sinclair. F. J,L.in 'souse, Curl-mW3.1 , 1..ty , ., spa w. Temple; Mesdames Heath, Edits' Stuart,s Fanny Addison, and Mrs. F. Matthews. Grand Ballet of Action, BEDA. The Moniteur says :—" Notwithstanding the counsels in favour of moderation and peace which the Great Powers had tendered at Constanti nople and Athens, the suspension of diplo matic relations between Turkey and Greece could not be prevented. The latest telegrams an nounce that the Envoys of both countries have received their passports, and were pre paring for their departure. However much this rupture is to be regretted, there is still room for hope that the co-operation and unanimity of the siguitary Powers of the Treaty of 1856 will suc ceed in diminishing and restraining the conse quences of this rupture." THE ATRE-R OYA L. HAYM ARK ET. TITIS EVENING, AN ALARMING SACRIFICE. Messrs. F. Buckstone, Clark, 8:c. After which, PIETRA : Messrs. Chippe ndale, H owe, Kendal, Gordon, &c.: Miss Bateman, Airs. E. Fitz william. And RURAL FELICITY: Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers, Kendal,Weathersby, Clark, White,Mesdames Chippendale, Burke, Wright, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Lewin, &c. Commence at 7. ROUAIANIA. BUCHAREST, Dec. 1 Mr. Justice Hayes, who is taking the criminal cases at the Liverpool assizes, does not share the opinion entertained by some of his colleagues that grand juries are useless. In his charge, delivered on 'Wednesday, his lord ship remarked that, whatever , might be said with respect to the use of grand juries, it was ob vious that they afforded to the gentlemen engaged the opportunity of acquiring some knowledge of the state of the criminal classes of the country. It was very desirable that they should be made acquainted with the sort of moral volcano which existed in the country, because gentlemen in their position had the means of setting in motion and en couraging everything tl.at might tond t) diminish crime and check in a groat measure the causoa which were an in- ColltiVO to it. The draft of &he address in reply to the Speech from the Throne has been agreed to by a majority both in the Chamber and in the Senate. Demete Stourdza has been appointed diplomatic agent of Roumania at the Porte. A decree orders a slight increase of artillery. INDIA AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SUEZ, Dec. la The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Mooltan, from Calcutta the 24th of November, arrived at 5 p.m., yesterday. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1868. THE SIAMESE TWLY,S. Chang and Eng, known all over the world as " The Siamese Twins," are expected to arrive in Edinburgh this week, and intend to appear before the public. Their last visit to this country was in 1830. With the exception of the time taken up in a trip to the Continent of Europe, they have since resided in the United States. With the competence realised during th eir successive tours through the Old and New Worlds, they retired to the county of Surrey, North Carolina, having previousiv'wen married to sisters of the name of Greenwood, daughters ot a clergyman in North Carolina. The marriages were celebrated in November 1842, and each of the twins has now nine children, some of whom accompany them on their present visit to Europe. The object of their voyage to Europe is twofold, and is of arather melancholy character. They have lost their pro perty through the recent American civil war, and find it necessary to resort to the same expedient by which they were originally put in funds. And they have, further, arrived at a time of life when they are forced to contem plate the day of their death as not remote. Born in 1811, they are now in the sSth year of their age, and the possibility of one dying before the other brings with it considerations which must render an event, serious at all times, particularly trying to them. They have accord ingly made up their minds to submit to a surgical opera tion, if the surgeons of Paris are prepared to undertake the unprecedented task of severing the living ligament, by which they have been connected for nearly sixty years. The purpose of the twins in making their first stay in Edinburgh is to have a consultation with Professor Syme and others of our eminent surgeons before proceeding to Paris. SHAREHOLDERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY. On Thursday afternoon a meeting of shareholders in rail ways and other joint-stock companies was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering what steps ought to be taken to protect them in the present state of commercial affairs. Mr. W. BROOKS, on being called to the chair, said there were thousands of shareholders suffering extreme distress, not only in the metropolis, but in all parts of the country, on account of the liabilities they bad incurred in connection with joint-Mock companies. He had re ceived many representations and many suggestions and sehemes for the relief of the present distress. Some persons had suggested a philanthropic system, such as the Society for Protecting Young Women. He did not think there was much sympathy for shareholders out of doors, and much esprit de corps among their own body. When companies were started, shareholders implicitly followed the directors, and at length they found that their confidence had been abused, and they fell an easy prey to the lawyers. In time past lawyers were a plague, but liquidators were a great deal worse, and he knew cases in which liquidators had most shamefully squandered the property. A lawyer went up to a court and received his 6s. Bd. or 13s. 4d., but a liquidator received twelve guineas a day for his attendance. No wonder, therefore, that the assets of companies mysteriously disappeared. At present the law was in a most disgraceful state, and frauds of the grossest and most abominable character were per petrated, concocted by men in -what were called respectable mercantile positions. Shareholders were plundered, and the ill-gotten gains were appropriated to the purchase of estates, or to obtaining a seat in Par liament. Such men were received into society because they were successful, and the plundered shareholders had no remedy. There had only been three or four prosecu tions in connection with these frauds, only three convictions. Of these two had received her Majesty's free pardon. In one case her Majesty's late Secretary of State had released the person connected with the frauds on the Leeds Bank because confinement did not agree with him, and because within twelve months he had lost a few Pounds of flesh. During that time there had been twenty seven premature deaths among the plundered shareholders, seven of them being suicides. He thought that attempts should be made to obtain an alteration of the law,particularly in the matter of winding up. The chairman concluded by suggesting that a protective association should be formed, expressing his conviction that there were persons at the Board of Trade who would give valuable assistance in carrying out the scheme. Dr. Tnom, after giving some startling facts in reference to practices in various joint-stock companies, and suggest ing remedies, proposed that an association should be formed to' be called " The Shareholders' Protection Society." Mr. H. N. NASH, in seconding the resolution, expressed .hope that the association should embrace all companies. Several gentlemen expressed a fear that the shareholders would scarcely be found to join a common association, preferring to act together in individual cases of failing companies. On the other hand, it was strongly urged that it would be very desirable to make the experiment, inasmuch as no very serious risks coald be incurred. The Chairman then put the resolution, and it was carried, it being arranged that any person paying two guineas a year should be a member of the society. The society was then declared formed, and Mr. Brooks was elected chairman. Dr. Thom, Mr. James Beal, and Mr. J. L. Nash were appointed a committee to carry out the arrangements, The nominations of the new Ministers will take place at the beginning of next week, and so far no opposition is threatened in any case. On Monday Mr. Gladstone will be nominated at Greenwich, Mr. Bright at Birmingham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the University of London, Mr. Goschen in the City, Mr. Forster at Bradford, Mr. Stansfeld at Halifax, the Attor ney-General at Plymouth, and the Solicitor-General at Exeter. Mr. Cardwell will be returned for the city of Oxford on Tuesday. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM OF POLICE WATCHING. At the Marylebone Court-house, on Wednesday, a meeting of the delegates appointed by the various metropolitan parishes to form a deputation to the Home Secretary respect ing the necessity for a change in the system of controlling the police and the better watching of the metropolis, was held, under the presidency of Professor Marks. The form of memorial decided upon provides for a withdrawal of police supervision from the Government, and placing it under the control of the ratepayers. To prevent mismanagement arising from the control being placed in the care of mino rities, it is proposed to divide the metropolis into four sections—north, south, east, and west—each division having a governing body for its own locality, and a central body to be established, to be appealed to by any or all of the sections when necessary. • SIR WATKIN WYNN AND THE PEERAGE.—The .o'swcstry Advertiser says :-" We have had an opportunity of perusing a letter addressed by Sir Watkin to his friends and supporters, of which the Ullowing is a copy:—` Dear sir, I beg to thank you most cordially for the kind way in which you have assisted in returning me for the seventh time as your representative in Parliament. It is a position which for more than a century and a half has been the most prized distinction of my family; it was preferred by my great grandfather to an earldom, by my father to an earldom, by myself to a peerage. Times and circumstances have undergone great changes, but one 'thing has never changed, the heartfelt gratitude of he House of Wynnetay 1 .;o the electors of Denbigh.—l am, sir, your grateful servant, WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN. —Wynnstay, Itu ibon, Nov. 30." DEATH FROM LIGHTNING. —A great storm raged 4.t Merthyr on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Through out the wind was very violent, and occasionally hailstones /ell with violence. Towards midday on Wednesday the sky cleared and the aspect of things was sunny in the ex treme. It was remarked that there was an April fresh ness in the air ; but with more rapidity than even a summer storm dark thunderclouds swept over from the west, and a most terrific gale raged for half an hour, the rain and hail coming at intervals, and exceedingly vivid lightning playing around the mountains. During this storm a fatal accident happened on the hills near Merthyr. A poor old woman, a character in her way, known as Betsy Shon Evan, had gone with a couple of donkeys to the mountain in order to gather sandstone. Not returning towards night, search was made, and the dead bodies of the old woman and her donkeys were found, they having evidently fallen victims to the lightning. THE LATE BRADFORD ELECTION. LETTER FROM MR. MIALL.—The following is a copy of a letter received from Mr. :Mall, in reply to one sent by the working men of Clayton :—" Welland House, Forest Hill, S.E., Dee. 10, 1803. Messrs. Andrews and Firth. —Gentlemen, causes which I need not particularly state, but for which I cannot hold myself responsible, have prevented my being able until now to acknow ledge the address of sympathy forwarded to me through you from the working men at Clayton. I beg now to express my heartfelt appreciation of the honour they have done me, and my cordial thanks for the generous feeling they have displayed. Though surprised and disappointed at the issue of the late election at Bradford, I rejoice with you in the triumphs achieved for Liberal principles in so many other parts of the country, and now hail with satisfaction the advent of Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and their colleagues to power. Whether my exclusion from Parliament was fairly and legitimately effected time will chew ; at any rate, I shall not cease to labour in any sphere remaining open to me for the advancement of the political truths which I professed at Bradford, and which will always remain dear to my heart, as I doubt not they to yours.—l am, gentlemen, yours faithfully and gratefully, gwyABD 11LALL," PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining'. Tuts EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SEORET. At 8, a AFTER DARK, Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murrby; Messrs. 0. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston: Miss Emma Barnet and Miss I' ose Leclercq Oonelnding with MASTE tt JONES'S BIRTHDAY. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIIT. Tilts EVENING, et 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMS RW ELL. Mr. G. Delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45 MON IE CRISTO . Messrs. Pechter, B. Webster, G. Belmoro, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart. Ashley, Stephenson. C.J. Smith, W A. burne. R. Homer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leelereq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. 'MIS ENT; Nrstl, at 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8. CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon, David Fisher, Newbound. Andrews, Tinda le, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames limit-sae, C.Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanhorongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDI)W HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; bliss Button. THE FIELD Or THE CLOTH ON GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longrnore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To Conclude with A COMICAL COUNTESS QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston . MTh EVENING, at 7, THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham, Clayton, and S. Emery; ileadatr es Hodson, Montague; and Nelly Moore And THE STRANGER, stranger than Ever. Mr. L. Brough, Miss Mon tague, &o. CHRISTMAS NUMBERS. Eighteen or twenty Christmas Holiday times Charles Dickens has gladdened, by his graceful, mirthful, kindly, romantic, humorous, eloquent genius. First of all, by h7s immortal little book, " The Christmas Carol." That he has never sur passed. He wrote it at the moment of his happiest inspiration. He has never, we repeat, surpassed it. It remains still the gladsomest, kindliest book that ever was written apropos to Christmas. He followed it up with four others of, we are almost tempted to say, diminishing merit—but any one of which would have made a new writer's reputation. " The Chimes," the next in succession to the Carol, was among these four, intrinsically the next best. Afterwards came " The Cricket on the Hearth." 'Then " The Battle of Life." And, last of the series, " The Haunted Man." The key-note was struck. A whole chorus soon became audible of yule-tide carollers or Christmas story-tellers ; until—year by year, as the happy season came round—there poured in upon us, in shoals, small Christmas narratives, bound in all the colours of the rainbow, red, green, yellow, blue, pink, purple, illustrated, and in all other respects, saving only in the genius latent among the leaves, a la Dickens. Then there came a change. " Household Words" —Mr. Dickens's first weekly serial—in the winter of 1855, brought out a Christmas double number of its own, followed by three others, during the three succeeding Christmases. The notion thus hit upon by the Conductor of " House hold Words," grew into an institution. The nineteen volumes of that famous literary jour nal having in the course of time, that is, by the close of 1858, run out to their completion—" All the Year Round" made its appearance. Twenty volumes of the latter have since then come out, and each alternate volume has been supplemented, almost as a matter of course, by the issuing, in a stitched blueish-green double number, price fourpence, of a collection of seasonable Christmas stories. Mr. Dickens's idea here, as formerly, being caught up by imitators without number, until there came to be a sort of Christmas literature, never before dreamt of, that is, never dreamt of until Charles Dickens called it, years ago, into existence. At last —this year in point of fact—the originator of it all, got tired of the incessant mimicry of everything he did in this way, and saddened us all for the mo ment by announcing that last year's was really the last—was, with greater reason than was no doubt originally intended, indeed, "No Thoroughfare." Only for the moment, we say, this announcement saddened us all. For, on reflection, it was impos sible not to recognise the reasonableness and judi ciousness of the great novelist's determination. Happily, however, by way of consoling us in the midst of our regrets at being thus suddenly left without a Christmas Tale or a Christmas Double Number by Dickens, there come to us, in a goodly, green, gilt-edged volume, all bound up together, the nine years'— CHRISTMAS NUMBERS OF " ALL . THE YEAR ROUND."--A wonderful collection of seasonable stories worthy of preservation in any, the most carefully selected, library of fiction, if only by right of their including amongst them those great originals, Mrs. Lirriper (not forgetting Major Jack man) and Doctor Marigold. A collection that is— not a nine days, but a nine years' wonder, consist ing, as it does, of--(1859) The Haunted House— (1860) A Message from the Sea—(lB6l) Tom Tiddler's Ground—(lB62) Somebody's Luggage— (lB63) Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings—(lB64) Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy—(lB6s) Dr. Marigold's Prescrip tions—(lB66) Mugby Junction—and (1867) No Thoroughfare. THE CHRISTMAS NUMBERS OF " HOUSEHOLD WO RDS"—four in all—have simultaneously made their appearance as an opportune supplementary instalment of the issue, month by month, by Messrs. Ward, Lock, and Tyler, of that cele brated periodical. They are—(lBss) The Holly Tree Inn—(lBs6) The Wreck of the Golden Mary —(1857) The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, and (1858) A House To-Let. The heat of them all being the first-mentioned, namely, " The Holly Tree Inn," and this more especially by right of that charming little child love story told by Boots—own brother of Sam Weller—about Master Waliners Junior, running off with Norah on the way to Gretna Green. THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF "LONDON SOCIETY"— Is as light if not as appetizing as a tipsy cake, a trine, or a syllabub. It is gorgeous in cover, profuse in illustration, and full of merry conceits in the letter press. For the current season, i.e., the season of plum puddings and mincepies, it serves its purpose. It will be turned over and dogs-eared before it is done with, but when done with at this first reading will certainly not be treasured up afterwards, for its contents are in the fullest meaning of the words, fugitive pieces. lts pretensions, however, are small, and therefore it serves its purpose—that being simply to wile away a winter's evening with amus ing narratives. THE CHRISTMAS NUMBER OF " CHAMBERS'S JOUR NAL"—CaIIed emphatically " Extra-ordinary"—is worthy of its name as well as of its associations. It has no extraneous adornment by way of attrac tion in the shape of either coloured or uncoloured embellishments. It is as full as an egg is of meat, however, of Christmas literary fare in the form of romantic, pathetic, impressive, and laughter-moving fiction. More than some of its gaudier contempo raries, however, it will secure to itself that best tri bute of all, an attentive reading : and, when read, it will be found very well entitled to be bound up with the half-yearly volume of the famous three halfpenny Edinburgh literary journal of which it is the avowed supplement. THE BELGRAVIA ANNUAL—Like the Belgravia itself, Edited by Miss Bra,ddon—if weighed in the balance (avoirdupois), if looked at in regard to the bulk. of its letterpress, if examined with an eye more particularly to the number and the merit of its illustrations, and, above all, if considered in re spect to the popularity of its well-known contribu tors, must certainly be pronounced a marvel of cheapness. A score of years ago the notion of such an annual as this being ever issued at the price of one shilling would have been scouted as something utterly ridiculous. Here it is, however—not a no tion, but a fact. Tales of glamour—original— varied—some of them the productions of true lite rary artists. The enterprise manifestly lavished upon the Belgravia Annual deserves a recompense which we can hardly doubt that it will, receive— namely, a very extended circulation. Goon CHEER—Being the Extra Number of "Good Words"—owes much of its excellence as a literary fare to that generous caterer for young and old, Dr. Norman Macleod. White-breasted turkeys fes tooned with sausages, browned and bursting—sir loins of beef running out with gravy when cut— culinary bombs of plum-pudding freckled with candied peel and sultana raisins, and steaming and reeking with deliciousness—will hardly be turned to with more watering mouths by the youngsters gathered about home tables during the Christmas holidays and hollynights than will this plentiful store of Good Cheer furnishei from the abundant larder from which, month by month, young and old respectively are receiving Goo). Words and Good Words for the Young. ONCE A YEAR—the Christmas number of Once a Week—with the prettiest, daintiest cover pencilled by Mat Morgan, would be thrice welcome, if for nothing else, for an expfisite little dramatic sketch, breath ing intensely of love and home, of youth and age simultaneously, a charming little picture drawn to the life by the noble author of " The Caxtous." To the examination of this small but perfect masterpiece we commend all those true lovers of art, who in their love of art have an eye especially to those subtler touches of nature which are beyond all art, and which, as the Poet-Dramatist has it, makes the whole world kin. Mr. Dallas, it should be said, is the editor of Once a Fear as he is also of Once a Week, in regard to which latter publication the former is as the Mistletoe is to the Oak. Tom HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL-1S just what any ono might have expected from the title of it, a capital piece of Fun, by the Editor of that ilk, widening the mouth of the reader on opening it, and shaking his sides at each turn of the leaf. The loyal staff of the merry wight who wears with so much grotesque grace the bell-hung cap of our weekly jester Fun, are here-co-operating with him as heartily in his Annual as in his Weekly outpouring of comicality. We needs must laugh whether we will or no; but at any rate, as a rule, we laugh with rather than at Tom Hopei and his congenial colla borateurs. MONEY LENT—in a hideous, cross-grained cover —is the title of Beeton's Christmas Annual, and in return for one of the small silver coin of our cur rency the purchaser certainly gets here money lent to him galore. Some of it is of sterling min tage, and but a very small proportion counterfeit. SOMETHING LIKE A NUGGET—good metal never coined but in the lump—is the theme of Lynlph's new Christmas Story : that same Lyulph being al ready favourably known as one of not the least suc cessful of the Dickens' imitators. In his present venture, Lyulph—whoever he is—goes far to sustain his reputation. CAST ASHORE ON CHRISTMAS EVE-13 the name of another tale of the like kind, but one wholly anonymous : of it, however, we can say little or no thing in the way of commendation. Not so in regard to Miss Echo's Girl of the Period Altnanack, which is wonderfully good, sparkling, merry, and graceful to a marvellous degree. The illustratio3s are delightful to look at—the prettiest, daintiest freaks of fancy on the part of the artist, whose pencil can draw young girls as we hare not seen them drawn since John Leech, to the grief of us all, disappeared so prematurely. • WHAT MIGIiT BE• The following remarkable article appears in the Morning Star, a contemporary which is the organ of the Right Hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade, who understands more about India than any other Cabinet Minister, not even except- ins his Grace the Duke of Argyll : A statement has appeared in the Manchester Exa miner, to the effect that the Earl of Mayo has been recalled from India, that the Marquis of Salisbury has agreed to accept the Viceroyalty as Sir John Law rence's successor, and that Sir John Lawrence's re turn home is to be delayed for another year. We do not confirm this statement; but the arrangement which it describes offers a not improbable solution for the grave difficulty which was thrown by the late Premier upon his successor. To those who re gard the greatest posts in the State as mere items of preferment, the presence of the Earl of Mayo is Calcutta as Governor General does not suggest 'doubts or anxiety. One man is as good as another to enjoy a good thing ; and Lord Mayo is a man whom no one would object to see as happy as the most inappropriate exaltation could make him. But the Governor-Generalship is not a mere posi tion of honour and state. 'The Viceroy of India is, with certain limitations, chiefly felt in quiet times, and even then very ineffectually opera tive, a quasi sovereign ruler over some one hun dred and eighty millions of people. His vast and barely manageable domain might at any mo ment be thrown into a ferment such as only the most competent statesmanship could allay. Lord Mayo in this country never exhibited even average ability, and he received the grandest prize at the disposal of the Crown, either as a consolation for failure, or as a reward for having taken upon him self the responsibility of a hastily declared and pre cipitately renounced Irish policy. But in India' left to govern a vast dependency on his own re sponsibility, he can no longer be inc)mpetent with impunity. Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues cannot but have felt this. Whether they have ordered Lord Mayo home or not they must be well aware that they, and not he, would be really responsible to the people of this country if mischief were to arise from his rule in Calcutta. At the same time, to recall a man of Lord Mayo's inoffensive character from a post to which, according to the loosely practised principle of party management, he had as good a title as auy other member of his party, would be an act seemingly Be invidious that the Cabinet must have arrived very reluctantly—if they have arrived —at the resolu tion to take the step. Mr. Gladstone, of course, has long foreseen his present responsibilities in all their bearings, and the Duke of Argyll cannot have been ignorant that the public voice has for some time designated bite for the high office which he fills. In the Cabinet there is another Minister whose actual exee rience is sure to have deeply impressed him with the responsibilities of Indian administratioe . An eminent statesman who has made the inte rests of the natives of India the subject of some of the most burning eloquence in our language, i 4 also one of the most prominent of Mr. Gladston e ° colleagues; and there are,others —such men as gr Lew° and Lord Clarendon—who, themselves se lected on the ground of :special fitness, will, pro bably, prove incapable of tolerating, however much they may compassionate, incompetency Pitc h ' forked into an office demanding the profounde st and most apt ability. Never was a Cabinet brought together from which a job such as th e Viceroyalty of Lord Mayo would have been less likely to receive indulgence. As a mere job it might have been spurned ; but a job agai nst which the whole country exclaimed, not mere l y in indignation but in alarm—a job which b 0 set the press of India at work deriding t he Home Government ---a job which insulw all past, and would if ratified go far te deteriorate the calibre of all future Governor-Gee e• rals—a job which would lead to five years of inglc" rious sway, unless some disaster brought its issue to a sudden and fatal termination—must We ar to an Administration like the present a perfect l y intolerable blemish in the great machine of State ‘ i for the working of which they are responsible. it is true that Sir John Lawrence has un dertake ° to be answerable for the Government of. India O f another year all anxiety as to the immediate future will be over. Lord Mayo would have to bear a° almost unexampled humiliation, because he has bees the hero of a State scandal in these times no less unexampled ; and with his disapPe it „ ance from the scene all peril that hunt: foresight could avert would pass away. again, it were true that eventually Lord SW; bury would succead to the Viceroyalty, a prosPe e u of good for India would be opened up, which ec e the continuance of Sir John Lawrence in that lev portant office could not present. Sir John I,3l'f rence is an able and sure-footed Indian statesral but his ideas are necessarily cast in an old me, Lord Salisbury's Indian policy was not only but full of fresh intelligence ; not merely free frf at prejudice, and superior to departmental control, /I, courageous and enterprising in a direction hithea,,rw, untried ; not only wise, new, and bold, but dr tinctly adverse to all the annexationist immora li in which even Sir John Lawrence, however CO entiously and innocently, has been by circuresta ue ; and official experience involved. Lord Salishe r i be appointment would mean, in the opinion of a Cabinet, all the good that might be expected to leo' from such great and absolutely novel qualiti;s, as these. There was something in Lord 5 1 iti , bury's sudden recognition of the Mysore c la ,o s imilar in beneficent audacity to Mr. Gladst o . e 611 courageous declaration of war against the Ise, Establishment ; an d L or d Salisbury 'e be signs for the material development of India 03 / o +o considered a brilliant adaptation of Mr. Gladstoetv ideas of economical statesmanship to the eir eu o d stances of the noble e m pi r e over which it is el w l e po to be Lord Salisbury's destiny to bear away. l ac e ; considerations, of course, deserve the first P t ing but it is also worthy of notice that, by desig a t he Lord Salisbury for this great sphere of duty' t la Prime Minister would most effectually rebokrliory reckless allegations so freely made by tan 00 organs, that he begrudged Lord Mayo f bio which he wished to bestow on some follower t ij W o own fortunes. hether well or ill-foun ded , co o - report which has appeared in our Manchester ad temporary is one which, for great reason e ie to for smaller reasons alike, would be aceeP tab the country, and full of hope for its grea t Indian empire. 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