The Sun. — London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00

!ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager,Mr. Vining. • THIS EVENING, at 7, THE SECRET. After which (at 8 o'clock), Dion Boucicault's new drama, in four acts, entitled AFTER DARK. a Tale of London Life Messrs. Vining, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray. C. Harcourt, G Shore; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclercq. Entirely new Scenery by !kir. F. Lloyds and assistants. To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 10 till 5. AN easy and accurate System of Self-measure, introduced by E. MOSES and Son, has served to extend their connection to all parts of the kingdom, L IST of PRICES, with Rules of Self-measure, Patterns and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. 10 MOSES and SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS 12/• are CLOSED every Friday Evening at sunset till Saturday Evening at sunset, when business is resumed until 11 o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE CCAMBERWELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At a quarter to 8, MONTE CRISTO. Mr. Fechter, Mr. Benja min Webster, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. Ashley, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Stuart, Mr. C H. Stephenson, Mr. C. T. Smith, Mr. Romer, Mr. W. H. Eburne, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss Carlotta Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lei:see and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30. THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Clarke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Baton and Maitland. After which, THE FIELD OE THE CLOTH OF GOLD. Messrs. Thorne. James, and Robson; Mesdames 31. Long more. F. Hughes. L. Maitland, R.7(7. 'ro conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE. THIS is to give notice that I, the undersigned AMELIA RUDDERHAM, of Watton, in the county of Norfolk, Spinster. have relinquished and ceased to use the name of AMELIA RUDDERHAM, and assume the name of AMELIA MONTAGU, and intend henceforth in all deeds and writings which I may execute or sign, and for all other purposes and on all occasions, to use the name of AMELIA MONTAGU only. Dated this 10th day of December, 1868. AMELIA MONTAGU. (Witness) RICHARD JACKSON. GRATIS and POST FREE. E. MOSES and SON'S POCKET DIARY for 1869, ADAPTED for PERSONS of all CLASSES, I NOW READY. AMONG a VARIETY of USEFUL I\ FORMA TION, IT CONTAINS the FOLLOWING ALMANACS. TRANSFER DAYS OF PUBLIC FUNDS, WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. STAMP DUTIES. FOREIGN MONEYS. MINISTERS OF STATE. CORPORATION OF LONDON. POSTAL INFORMATION. LIST OF BANKERS. ARMY AND NAVY AGENTS. CAB FARES. READY RECKONER. A DIARY, arranged on the most approved plan, And neatly Printed on good Writing Paper. 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Chsrle, Mr. O'Neill, Mr. W. C. Temple; Miss Heath, Miss Edith Stuart Miss Fanny Addison, and Mrs. Frank Matthews. To conclude with a Grand Ballet of A etion, entitled BEDA. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, EASY SHAVING. Messrs. Rogers, Clark, Gordon ; Mesdames Burke and F. Wright. After which, PIETRA. Messrs. Chippendale, Howe, Ken dal, Gordon, &c.; Miss Bateman. Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam. Concluding with RURAL FELICITY. Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers, Kendal, Weaihersby, Clark, White, &c.; Mesdames Chippendale, Burke, Wright, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Lewin, &c. Commence at Seven. CLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL-At 7, GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, Mr. J. Flyron's original Comedy, in five acts, entitled CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs, Warner, Vernon, David Fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlston, and J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Breman, Berend, Hughgs, and Stephens. ROYAL AMPHITHEA THE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. Unplrsileled Attractions for the Cattle Show Week. LTpwaids of Fifty Prize Animals will be on view at this elegant Fatablish reent. The entire Piece ha; unanimously declared the lovely and magnificent horses to he matchless. whether as regards breed, aNtnimeirv, or training. A programme of unusual excel lence for the Sh6sy Week, and next to the •how itself no place in London preFenti so much attraction as the Royal Amphi theatre and Circus. VISITORS may depend upon securing at this Establiehtnent the most enjoyable Even.ng's entertainment t.) be found in the Metropolis. Open at Seven, commence at half-past Seven. Morning Per formance, Wednesday and Saturday, at Half-past Two. Children 11 ider ten, half-price to morning performance only. 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B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at 7, BORROWED PLUMES. After which at a quarter to 8, KING 0' SCOTS: Mr. Phelps; Messrs. Addi son, Barrett.. J. Irving, H. Sinclair, E. Price, John Rouse, G Cumming, W. M'lntyre, and W. C. Temple; Mesdames Heath, Edith Stuart, Fanny Addison, and IL's. F. Matthews. Grand Ballet of Action, BEDA. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAY3fARKET. THIS EVENING, EASY SHAVING. Messrs. Rogers, Clark, Gordon, Miss Burke, &e. After which, PIETRA: Messrs. Chippen dale. Howe, Kendal. Gordon, &c.: Miss Bateman, Mrs. E. Fitz william. And RURAL FELICITY: Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers, Kendal,Weathersby, Clark, White, &c.; Mesdames Chippendale, Burke, Wright, Fitzwilliam, Laws, Lewin, &c. Commence at 7. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8, AFTER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. Walter Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murray; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore, Maclean, Holston; Miss Emma Barnet and Miss Hose Leclercq Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. THE AT RE -ROYAL, ADELPIII. TIITS EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO (lAMB F.RW ELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45 N'l E CRISTO . Messrs. Fechter, B. Webster, G. Belmore, A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, W H. I , burue, It. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclercq, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. ' GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. THIS EVFNiNG, at 7. GOOD FOR NOTHING. At a quarter to 8, CYRIL'S SUCCESS: Messrs. Warner, Vernon. David Fisher, Newbound, Andrews, Tindale, Hurlstone, J. Clarke; Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Bremen, Berend, Hughes, and Stephens. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough ~ , .. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James. Fenton; Mesdames Maria Longmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To conclude with MARRIAGE AT ANY PRICE ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. lass EVENING, A NEW TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Sir Giles Overreach. Mr. Creswick; Margaret, Miss Pauncefort After which, LAND RATS AND WATER RATS. QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Manager, Itlr. W. H. Liston. THIS EVENING, at 7. THE LANCASHIRE LASS: Messrs. Irving, L. Brough, Stephens, Wyndham. Clayton, and S. Emery; Mesdames Hodson, Montague, and Nelly Moore. And THE STRANGER, Stranger than Ever. Mr. L. Brough, Miss Mon tague, &e. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. Under the Management of Mi. Fanny Josephs. THIS EVENING, at 7, BLOW FOR BLOW: Messrs. Honey, ,owper, Haynes, Arthur, Westland, and Parsello; Mesdames Foote,Weathersby, Rignold. At 9.30, LUCRETIA BOIiGIA ; bless Drew, G. Honey, &c.; Mesdames Minnie Sidney, Fanny Joseph THEATRE-1;01'AL, OLYMPIC. Tars EVFNING. at 7, SL SHER &CRASHER: Messrs Atkins, Vaughan. G. Vincent, &e. Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. After which, at 7.15, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. H. No ille, G. Vincent, E. Atkins, 11. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and 11. Wigan; ➢iesdames Furtado, Lennox Grey, and Caulfield ROYALTY THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver. Tars EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CUP. Mr. Dewar, Miss M. Oliver. To be followed by THE RISE AND FALL OF ICH AHD III.; or, A New Front to an Old Dicky: Mr. Dewar, Vr. Danvers; Miss Collinson, and Miss M. Oliver. To con • elude with THE CLOCK MAKER'S HAT. PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins EVENING, WHO SPEAKS FIRST! Messrs. Montague and Blakeley ; Miss Addison. After which, SOCIETY : Messrs. J. Clarke, Hare, H. J. Montague, Blakeley, Montgomery, and Bancroft; Mrs. Buckingham White and Miss C. Addison. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN. THIS EvE:kaNci, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud of 50 Horses; also M. Avolo, Alfred Bradbury, M. Clifton, Captain Austin, Miss Carrie, and Samwell's Performing Dogs. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS, Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. la. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mcndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. - **/ titt 4 11 Ki l tr.0 1: 1 14 auTh LONDON, IHUBSDAY, DEC. 10, 1868. It is a matter of regret and, indeed, a subject of direct complaint (as we took occasion to remark yes terday), against Mr. GLADSTONE, by some of the more eager among our contemporaries, that more offices of State 'within the circle of the Cabinet Ministers should not have been allotted by him to the Advanced Libe rals. It is argued by them that the old leaven of Whiggery is too obviously there in the new administration. For ourselves, after a very mature consideration of the matter, we cannot see this. We are thankful, on the contrary, for the immense concessions in this way made to the popular requirements by the Prime Minister. He has foregone so many and such enormous temptations to conciliate the old leaders of the Whig Party, that we cannot but conceive that he has let the country off very easily in nominating the men he has to the great offices of State, to actual and prominent seats in the Cabinet, We complain not the least in the world that, by a wise selection on his part, he has numbered among the inner circle of his Ministerial colleagues such Liberal chiefs as Lord CLARENDON, Lord GRANVILLE, the Duke of ARGYLL, Lord DE GREY, and Lord KIMBERLEY. We complain not in the least of this, for the simple reason that we remember at the same time those others we have been spared from having placed once more over us, the weight of whose dullness and fatuity would have been, on the contrary, a something simply intollerable. We can afford almost to exult in the actual nomination to the great offices of State, bearing in mind that we might have had to endure the burden of such obsolete Whigs a 3 Lord HALIFAX, as Sir' GEORGE GREY, as Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, and of others whose equally preposterous names it would be only wearisome to enumerate. Thankful for the mercies which have been thus vouchsafed to us, we are disposed to regard with something like positive complacency the admix ture of Whiggery pure and simple, with Advanced Liberalism observable in the newly constructed Cabinet. Our only serious cause for regret is not the selection of the men, whether Whigs or Ad vanced Liberals, so much as the distribution of the offices among them. Mr. GLADSTONE, of course, being behind the scenes, having the responsibility IM.•••• .._. THE SUN, _LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN of selection entirely his own, knowing the require ments of the time and the necessities of party better than any one by whom he could possibly be advised, has his reasons, sound and valid reasons enough from his point of view, no doubt, for precisely the distribution of the great offices of State, upon which be has deliberately decided in the formation of his Government. Nevertheless, for all th at, we should have immensely preferred a different construction of the Cabinet, could that in any way have been accom plished. Mr. LOWE might then have been the new Minister of Education instead of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. BRIGHT, Secretary of State for India, instead of President of the Board of Trade. Mr. CHILDERS, Chancellor of the Exchequer instead of First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord KIMBERLEY, once more Lord Lieutenant of Ireland instead of Lord Privy Seal. Lord GRANVILLE, once more Presi dent of the Council, instead of Secretary of State for the Colonies. Mr. W. E. FORSTER in the Cabinet, as Colonial Minister, instead of out of if in his pre sent subordinate position. Other rearrangements of a similar kind we should have rejoiced to have seen thus rendered in any way practicable. Conspicuous among these, of course, the substitution of the Lord Chief Justice of England for the Lord Justice of Ap peal as the new occupant of the Woolsack, and the selec tion of some eminent Liberal Chief having a seat in the House of Commons, as the new Secretary of State for the Home Department, instead of nominating to that office a new man, who has the additional and ludicrous disadvantage of not being a Member of Parliament ! Blots there are of this kind in the distribution of offices among Mr. GLADSTONE'S colleagues, and blots those two last mentioned are, especially, blots that we cannot pos sibly cease from very earnestly regretting —n am the choice of Mr. AUSTIN BRUCE, who is not an M.P., as the Home Secretary, and the choice of Sir W. PAGE WOOD, or, as he is now to be Lord HATHERLEY, as the Lord High Chancellor. But, otherwise, with those exceptions—coupled with the regret, already rather implied than actually ex pressed, that, by the nomination of Lord KIMBERLEY anew to the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, room might have been found in Cabinet for Mr. W. E. FORSTER as Colonial Secretary, Lord GRANVILLE resuming his old post as President of the Council, and Lord DE GREY having in that case allotted to him, let us say, the Privy Seal—we do not conceive that the newly in stalled Prime Minister has evidenced in the selection of his colleagues any undue predilection for the Whigs, or anything at all like indifference to the claims for office of the representatives of Advanced Liberalism. The Earl of CLARENDON, the Earl GRANVILLE, and the Duke of ARGYLL, are judiciously in the Cabinet. While as for the leading champions of advanced Libe ralism—at the head of whom is the First Lord of the Treasury himself—are there not, in illustration of Mr. GLADSTONE'S loyalty to the interests of that im portant section of the great Liberal party, are there not, as proof positive of that loyalty of his to Ad vanced Liberalism, " towers of strength" in the names of Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. CHILDERS, to say nothing of so eminent a Peelite as Mr. CARDWELL, so clear headed an expositor of the modern school of financiers as Mr. GOSCIIEN, or a new man so thoroughly intellectual and so variously gifted as the now Chancellor of the Exchequer ? Everything considered, indeed, there is reason for satisfaction, as we conceive, rather than for complaint with reference to the selection of his colleagues by Mr. GLADSTONE in the formation of his partly Whig, partly Advanced Liberal Administration. TIIE old rule caveat emptor does not apply when the buyer is under age. The helpless innocent of twenty years, being totally inexperienced in the ways of the world, being ignorant of the value of money, is so compassionated by the law that he is far better cared for than the full-grown, matured, and discreet man of twenty-one. The law says that the "infant" may buy jewellery ad libitum, cigars ad nauseam, brandy ad inebrietatem, and yet he need not pay. It is for the seller to beware, and if he is wise he will demand cash down or decline the honour of his juvenile visitor's custom. llere, for instance, is a Mr. WALKER, who in 1804 was introduced to some jewellers as a young man of fortune, possessed of not less than £B,OOO a year, and who might safely be trusted with a consider able amount of jewellery. He was a liberal infant, and ordered £4OO worth of trinkets at once. They were sent to his lodgings, but the jewellers became uneasy, and had most of the things back again. However, the ingenuus puer seems to have allayed the jewellers' suspicions, and his infantine grace and simplicity so won upon them that they and other brethren of the same craft allowed him to have goods to the value of nearly £15,000. Considering that cigars do not cost as much as brilliants, the tobacconists must have been as liberal and confiding as the jewellers, for they trusted the weed-loving infant with £4OO worth of tobacco, to the great damage of the infant's digestion and of their own pockets. The infant fell in love, and married another infant, who had to be supplied with brace lets, tiaras, and brooches. The French say un et un font deux ; un et une font trois, and in due time a third infant was born, who demanded corals and mugs. By this time the jewellers began to think it time that the elder of the three infants should be called upon to pay. So they sued the papa infant, who retained Mr. HAWKINS (funny counsel), who declared that the gross ages of the three babies was only 35 years and 9 months, or an average of less than twelve years. As for the biggest of the babies, his riches had been greatly exaggerated. Instead of £B,OOO a year he had but £1,000; and he had been exceedingly unlucky on the turf ; had been quite a little marquis, in fact, for he had lost over £l9,ooo—nineteen years' income—almost by the time that he was nineteen years old. Under these circumstances was it not hard to come down upon the poor babe? He had been surrounded by rogues ; instead of robins, harpies had at tended him. These jewels and trinkets and cigars were not necessaries, and therefore the jewellers and the tobacconists ought not to have supplied them. Funny Mr. HawiuNs did not say if his client ought to retain them. Nor was that a matter with which the jury thought they had any concern. It was enough for them that the defendant was an "infant," and they found a verdict for him. Moral—jewellers and tobacconists should not allow an infant to run up a long bill, even though he should be a papa. PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S last Message to Congress contains some highly important, as well as some doubtful and perplexing, statements of policy. It is satisfttory to learn from an opponent of Reconstruction and of the Republican poli c y in general, that the country is rapidly recover ing from the effects of the civil war. Mr. JOHNSON does not make any declaration to this effect, but the tenour of his Message clearly shews that such is the fact. The election of General GRANT has been already followed by a marked improve ment in the social condition of the South, and the PRESIDENT'S recommendations demonstrate quite clearly that trade and finance in the North are reviving, after the terrible collapse of the late struggle. Mr. .ToiiNsoN advocates the early resumption of specie payments and the contraction of the currency. The report of the Secretary to the Treasury supplements this advice . by recom mending that greenbacks cease to be legal tender for private debts contracted after the close of the following year, and that they cease to be legal tender for all debts and contracts, except dues to Government, after January 1, 1871. There can be no doubt of the signification of these state ments. They prove that the causes which have so long compelled the issue of a paper currency, which have kept down the price of gold, and have injured the credit of the American Govern ment, are rapidly disappearing. The end of the forced paper currency will mark the beginning of a new era of prosperity for American commerce. Further, the fall of the greenback from the unfortu nate position of prominence which it has occupied so long, will be accepted as an assurance to creditors abroad. It finally dis poses of the scheme of repudiation under cover of which a section of American politicians sought to injure their neighbours and finally ruin their own credit in Europe. The payment of the debt in the depreciated currency will no longer be possible. When greenbacks cease to be tender in the United States, the American Government will hardly offer them in payment to foreigners. It is in the matter of external policy that the Mes sage is most doubtful. In the first place, it states that the United States have offered mediation between Paraguay and Brazil, but that it has been declined. It seems strange that the American Government should have endea voured to mediate between two States, with one of which it has of late become decidedly unfriendly. To despatch a squadron to enforce from Paraguay redress for an insult offered to Mr. WASHB URN, the American envoy, and at the same time to offer LOPEZ friendly assistance in saving his power and his country, is not a very intelli gible combination. It may, however, be cleared up afterwards. With regard to the Alabama claims, the Message states explicitly enough that certain portions of the protocol which were not approved by the United States have been returned to England. The resignation of Mr. DLSRAELI'S Government is regarded as only a temporary hindrance to the prose cution of the negotiations. But according to what is apparently an official statement, the American Government desires the Anglo-American Com mission to dispose of the whole dispute between the two countries : both the recognition of the South as a belligerent, and the value of the indemnity to be paid on account of the Alabama. It is hardly libely that " the resignation of Mr. DISRAELI'S Government will be only a temporary hindrance " if this be really the demand of the United States. It will utterly destroy the former settlement, and so alter the aspect of the negotiations, that progress can hardly be hoped, with or without a change of Government. Lord STANLEY has conceded that the commission shall sit at Washington instead of Lon don—though it is not easy to perceive why the American Government should insist upon such a point—but neither Lord STANLEY nor his successor could well consent to give the commission an extent of power which has formerly been persistently denied to it, and which is altogether beyond the claims of justice and reason. LATEST INTELL MENGE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) NG, DECEMBER 10, li6B THE NEW MINISTRY. The Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland is the only great appointment remaining to be filled up. Who will be chosen, or who will accept the offer, are alike open ques tions. Even speculation is chary of pronouncing on this point. The Telegraph remarks that the Marquis of Ailesbury undoubtedly possesses many of those personal qualities which it is so difficult to find in combination with high rank, and with the requisite means to sustain the dignity and costly graces of the Viceregal Palace. The other journals leave the matter to the decision of time and Mr. Gladstone. The minor posts are rapidly filling up. Mr. Stansfeld has taken office as Third Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. Ayrton has become Financial Secretary. Mr. ICnatchbull-Hugessen is Under Secretary for the Home Department, Mr. Monsell for the Colonies, and Mr. Grant Duff for India. Mr. Forster takes the Vice-Presidency of the Education Department. The Times says it has been suggested that Lord Morley or Lord Monck may be nominated to the post of Under Secretary for War. Mr. Gregory has been named as Under Secretary for the Foreign Office, but the report requires confirmation. "Another rumour assigns the honour to Mr. Vernon Harcourt, but it seems in the highest degree improbable that Mr. Harcourt would desert his peculiar sphere for such an office. It is said that Mr. Otway will fill the new post of Secretary to the Board Trade, which comes into existence in lieu of the abolished Vice-Presidency. One of the most impertant of the secondary posts, that of Secretary to the Admiralty, has not yet been filled, and there remains also the Parlia mentary Secretaryship to the Poor-law Board still vacant. Mr. Lefevre will be enlisted in the Ministry, and may, perhaps, return to the office with which he has been asso ciated, while a new recruit will be found in Mr. Trevelyan, whose destination is at present wholly unfixed. The preferment of Lord Justice Page Wood to the Chancellorship creates a vacancy in the Appeal Court in Chancery, and the opinion of Lincoln's Inn seems to have determined that Vice-Chancellor Sir George Giffard must succeed to the post. A less positive choice has nominated the learned gentleman who should ascend to the judgment-seat thus presumably vacated by the Vice-Chancellor. These promotions and the appoint ments possibly depending upon them could not, howAtr, in any case have been well settled before to-day, when the new Lord Chancellor will for the first time emerge in the glory of his office, though the patent of his creation as Lord Hatherley may still be delayed for a day or two." The Star thinks it not improbable that Lord Westbury may accept the vacant Lord Justice ship of Appeal. The same paper says : "We have authority to contradict the statement that Mr. W. H. Gladstone had been nominated to the Secretaryship of the Board of Trade. No one could have demurred to such an appointment ; but it is characteristic of Mr. Gladstone that he has deferred the promotion of his promising son to office in favour of others whose claims are in point of seniority superior." The Post has the following :—" The duties of the Board of Treasury are increasing daily, and likely to increase still further in these days of inquiry and projected retrench ment. Under these circumstances the financial work of the Treasury will be divided between Mr. Ayrton, who will be Second Lord, and Mr. Stansfeld Third Lord, with the same salary. Vice-Chancellor Giffard is to be the new Lord Justice, and Mr. W. M. James the new Vice-Chancellor. Mr. Dowse is to be Solicitor-General in Ireland. The Naval Lord of the Admiralty will be Sir Sidney Colpoys Dacres. We believe that the Earl of Cork will be Master of the Buckhounds, and the Marquis of Ailesbury Master of the Horse. It is understood to be the intention of the new Ministry to distribute the offices of the Household as far as possible among efficient and able supporters of the Ministry. The Duke of St. Albans, who has shown much talent, will, it is said, be offered place, and Lords Sefton, Morley, and Camperdown will be among the new officials." With respect to the Under. Secretaryship of the War Office, Lord Northbrook and Captain Vivian are each spoken of. THE LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL.—The Right Hon. Earl De Grey and Ripon (George Frederick Samuel Robinson) was born in 1827, at the time when his father, the late Earl of Ripon, was Premier. He first entered Parliament when Lord Goderich, in 1852, being returned for Hull in the Liberal interest. He was, however, un seated on petition, but in the April of 181;3 he found a seat at Huddersfield. In 1857 he was elected for the West Riding of Yorkshire, which he represented until his accession to the peerage, in January 1859. In the same year he first took office as Under Secretary for the War Department. When Mr. Sidney Herbert was removed to the Upper House, in 1861, Earl De Grey was transferred to the Under. Secretaryship of the Colonial Office ; but he returned to his former post a few months afterwards. On the death of Sir G. C. Lewis his lordship became Secretary of State for War, and was sworn a member of the Privy Council in April 1863. This post he held until the incoming of the Derby Government. THE LORD PRIVY SEAL.—The Right Hon. the Earl os Kimberley (John Wodehouse) was born in 1826, and suc ceeded to the barony of Wodehouse in 1846. He has filled several offices, beginning as Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1852; a post which he occupied until 1856. From 1856 to 1858 he was Envoy Extraordinary to Russia, and in 1859 he resumed his post as Under Secretary at the Foreign Office. In 1864 he became Under Secretary for India, and in the same year was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, an office which he held until the Liberal Government resigned. THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL.—Spencer Compton Caven dish, Marquis of Hartington, born 1833, is the eldest son of the Duke of Devonshire. He entered Parliament in 1857, being returned for the Northern Division of Lanca shire, which he continued to represent up to the present election. The duty of moving the celebrated vote of no confidence in 1857 fell to the young member, and was performed by him in a manner which created a very favourable impression. In March 1863, Lord Hart ington was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty. A few weeks later, by the death of Sir G. C. Lewis, the office of Secretary of War became vacant, and Earl De Grey and Ripon, who had been Under Secretary for some time, was advanced to the chief post. He was succeeded by Lord Hart ington ,who remained Under Secretary until February 1866. Sir Charles Wood then retired from the Indian Secretary. ship, to which Earl De Grey was transferred ; and Lord Hartington, following the example of his late chief, was elevated to the position of Secretary of State, with a seat in the Cabinet. The office of Postmaster-General falls to him at an important time, just when the Act for the acquisition of the telegraphs by the State comes into force. THE PRESIDENT OF THE POOR-LAW BOARD.—The Right Hon. G. J. Goschen is young in every respect, as a Cabinet Minister, member of Parliament, and in point of years. lle was born in 1831, and first entered Parliament, as a representative of the City, in 1863. During 1865 he was entrusted with the charge of the Oxford Tests Abolition Bill, and so strengthened his position in the House by the ability with which he advanced this measure, that at the election of 1865 he was returned at the head of the poll, a position which he again occupied at the late election. On the death of Lord Palmerston, Mr. Goschen was appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade, in succession to Sir William Hutt, resigned. He had been at the Board of Trade only a few weeks when, early in January 1806, he was elevated to the position of a Cabinet Minister as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Earl of Clarendon, the former occupant of the post, having been transferred to the Foreign Office, SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 9. Owing to the mediation of the foreign Consuls both the insurgents and the Government party at Cadiz have agreed to an armistice of 48 hours, for the purpose of burying their dead and affording sufficient time for the women and children to leave. The armistice will end to-morrow, and a vigorous attack, in conjunction with the men-of-war, will then be made upon the insurrectionary forces. The frigate Tetuan and two other frigates have brought their broadsides to bear on the fort, ready to bombard Cadiz if the insurgents should continue resistance. The Mediterranean squadron has also received orders to return to Cadiz. The insurgents have opened the convict prison and distributed arms to 700 felons there confined. A man named Yunco, formerly a member of the Progressist party, who has now joined and gathered around him the partisans of Republicanism, is in command of the revolutionary forces, and their numbers are estimated at 3,000 men, including the released convicts. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Dec. 10. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales dinei last evening with Count Frijs, the President of the Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs. His Royal Highness will probably leave for Stockholm next week on a visit to the King of Sweden. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 8. The Turkish ultimatum with the demands to the Greek Government was only sent off last night by a Government steamer. The Captain of the steamer has received orders to wait and bring back the Turkish Minister from Athens in case of refusal. Upon the representation of the five Ambassadors, the prolonged for a few da T yst uhrketimeGovernment Ggraenrntemdefnot hay rraesceiving a reply to the ultimatum. Her Majesty's ship Caradoc left last night for the Archipelago upon a special mission from the English Embassy. 6, The Turkish troops are moving. _The day before yesterday a Mi n i s t er i a l C ounc il was held iu the presence of the Sultan. AMERICA. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Upon receiving the Presidenti a l Message, the Senate refused to hear it read and adjourned. SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 10. The North German Lloyd steamer New York, from New Orleans on the 20th and Havannah on the 25th, arrived here this morning with a large cargo of cotton, tobacco, and cigars for this port and Hamburg, and 4,000 Mexican dollars for Paris. The New York experienced favourable weather throughout the voyage. On the 28th she spoke the English bark Tigris, bound for Cork ; on the Bth the Norwegian brig Polyria, and the ship Ocean Pearl. The New York will land her cargo fur this port, and proceed for Bremen this evening. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MALTA, Dec. 9. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Bangalore arrived from Alexandria at 2 p.m., and leaves for Southampton at 7 p.m. this day, where she may be expected about the 18th instant. The ➢iassilia, from Southampton, with the heavy outward India, China, and Australian mails of 28th November, reached Malta at ten on the morning of the Bth instant, and left for Alexandria at one p.m. the same day. GIBRALTAR, Dec. 8. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Syria, arrived f rom Al e xandria at 7 a.m., and l e ft for Southampton at 2 p.m. on the Bth inst. All well ; experienced foggy weather. She may be expected to arrive on Sunday morn ing. 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The announcement that two Privy Councils would be held at Windsor Castle on Wednesday caused considerable interest and excitement amongst the usually quiet citizens of the royal burgh. About twelve o'clock the appearance on the platform of the Great Western Railway at Pad dington of a group of statesmen, consisting of Lord Cairns, the Earl of Malmesbury, Mr. G. Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Ward Hunt, Sir S. Northcote, Sir J. Pakington, the Duke of Marlborough, Colonel Taylor, and others, attracted no small attention amongst the passengers and the officers of the railway company. Their presence on the occasion was rendered the more significant from the circumstance of nearly every one of them carrying in his right hand a smal official box, and it was generally taken for granted that they were en route to Windsor for the purpose of com pleting the last act of their official life, namely, their formal resignation as Ministers of the Crown. A special train having drawn up in front of the platform, the above-mentioned individuals entered a saloon carriage, followed by Mr. R. Baggallay, Mr. Baron Cleasby, and Mr. Justice Hayes, who were about to receive particular honours. At ten minutes past twelve o'clock the train started, and arrived at Windsor at ten minutes before one o'clock. Upon leaving their carriage the party walked through a crowd numbering about 300 persons, who lined both sides of the platform, and regarded them with a ierntinising glance, but with no demonstrative feeling, except that indicated by the respectful removal of the hat, 'in act of courtesy which some of the spectators proffered, and which was gracefully acknowledged by the personages thus honoured, Five of the royal carriages were in waiting upon the distinguished travellers, in which they were conveyed to the Castle, amid a respectful silence on the part of the people —a silence which was, however, now and again l)roken by exclamations of " Where is Mr. Disraeli?" .'he absence of the head of the late Government on such an , ccasion could not he accounted for, and various conjec tures were uttered in the way of explanation. At length tll4 mug riggiAEge enligh_t_g_44_llp9Ake mild, by certain individuals who, assuming to be intimately acquainted with the matter, stated that on the previous day her Majesty gave special audience at the Castle to Mr. Disraeli, who then went through the ceremony of retiring from office. About a quarter-past two o'clock the ex-Ministers beforenamed, having severally delivered up their seals of office at the Privy Council, took their de parture from Windsor Castle. They all, with the excep tion of the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Stanley, availed themselves of the royal carriages which her Majesty was graciously pleased to place at their disposal, and were driven back to the railway station. The noble duke and the late Foreign Minister, however, preferred walk ing, and arrived at the platform nearly as soon as their late Ministerial colleagues. On entering the saloon carriage of the special train which was drawn up to receive them, the assembled crowd paid them much outward respect, many of them raising their hats to their honour, whilst a small minority attempted to get up a cheer. About twenty minutes past two o'clock the train started for town, and scarcely five minutes had then elapsed when the other special train from Paddington arrived at the Windsor station, conveying in a saloon carriage the new Ministers. As soon as Mr. Gladstone was recognised by the crowd a vociferous cheer was raised, which was repeated again and again as his presence became more generally known. The right honourable gentleman and his colleagues, raising their hats, bowed their acknowledg ments to their enthusiastic admirers. Mr. Bright, whose advent to Ministerial honours was looked for apparently with great interest, was welcomed on his arrival with a similar ovation. The hon. gentleman appeared greatly moved by the reception given him. The royal carriages which were awaiting the arrival of the new Ministers drew up at the side of the platform on which they stood. Mr. Gladstone and Earl De Grey and Ripon, accompanied by two other gentlemen, entered the first carriage amid a perfect hurricane of applause. Several persons (including some ladies), not satisfied with this expression of their approval, rushed forward to the door of the carriage and cordially shook Mr. Gladstone by the hand - the right hon. gentleman reciprocating the compliment with hearty good-will. At length, with some difficulty this warm interchange of friendship was put an end to, and the horses had almost to force a passage through the crowd. In the next carriage Mr. Bright took his seat, accompanied by Mr. Bruce and Mr. Goschen., We need scarcely say that a similar demonstration awaited the hon. member for Birmingham. Mr. Lowe, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Childers, and Mr. Layard occupied the third carriage. In the fourth were seated the Marquis of Hartington and Lord Kimberley. The fifth royal carriage followed without any occupant. The Duke of Argyll and the Earl of Clarendon walked together from the station to the Castle. A crowd followed the carriages until they entered the gates of Windsor Castle, cheering the occu pants the entire way. BANQUET TO MR. BERNAL OSBORNE On Tuesday night a banquet was given at Nottingham to Mr. Bernal Osborne, who was defeated in contesting that borough at the late election. Mr. Osborne made a long speech, which occupies three columns in the Nottingham Journal. The ex-member began by admitting that he was not perfect, that he was not "That perfect monster which the world ne'er saw." He had some human feelings, and he could not but regret his defeat in solitude, though he might smile at it on the hustings. In the great political tournament which had taken place during the last month, many more able and stalwart champions than himself had been unhorsed and laid low. But he claimed a pre-eminence in misfortune. for he had not only been hurled to earth by his opponents but he had been ridden over by his friends. His experiences of the recent election were somewhat painful. He thought that parliamentary government was now for the first time upon its trial, and he felt certain that if parliamentary government was to flourish and be respected in this country, they must root out parliamentary corruption. And in order to do that, they must firs strike at municipal venality. It was of no use asking for bribery bills ; it was of no use inveighing in good set phrases against parliamentary corruption. So long as the municipal franchise was bought and sold, so long would members of Parliament corruptly gain seats ; and so long would the " almighty dollar " be the real sovereign of England. But the humble electors were not alone to blame. He did not hesitate to say that from the peer in Westminster to the town councillor in a parochial ward, the expenditure of money or the use of money's worth was the thing which made alike peers and town councillors. There were men in the last House so greedy of honours, with wives so anxious for dis tinction, that they would accept knighthood. There were two instances which should be nameless. Men of great com mercial knowledge ; they became knights—made what for? It was not for building churches, but for voting in the House of Commons. Well, they were made knights, and, like himself, they were now benighted, and were out of Parliament. He did not wish to make it a party attack ; both sides were equally bad. But he would say that Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli had carried their system to an extent to which it was never carried before. They had been ruling this country for two years and a half in a minority, and there ought to have been a Suspensory Bill brought in to hinder them from giving honours and titles, as well as to prevent them making Irish bishops. They had made sixteen peers ; he did not know how many baronets, and the two unfor tunate knights. That was the most unfortunate stretch of power. Mr. Osborne then went- on to speak of the reduced county franchise, and asked what had been the result of the £l2 rental? Look at Lancashire. As far as he could understand, Lan cashire had been carried by the exertions of two of the most powerful elements of society in this country—the pulpit and the petticoat. The pulpit had united with the petticot to reuscitate the cry of " The Church in danger." Not only that, but they had resuscitated the old cry of "No Popery." But they had not been satis fied with that even. In addition to reviving the old cry, they had actually resurrectionised a man of 1678, and by the exertions of a second Titus Oates— although not able to send innocent men to the scaffold— as in 1678 ; still, by the preaching of another Titus Oates, it had been possible to drive statesmen from the House of Commons, and to ostracise them for a time from the Parliament of their country. Such had been some of the handiwork of Murphy, Derby, Disraeli, and Co. He had often heard aspersions cast upon the Irish people. But he would say, look at home. See what their own clergy had been doing ; look at the conduct of the Episcopal clergy in this country, and see what part they had taken in the late election. They had formed themselves into a great political trades union, and there had been many cases in which these gentlemen, not satisfied with advising, had rattened their congregations in an electioneering sense. lie was tired of hearing of the Church being in danger. Talk to him of toleration 1 Why, Ireland had set them an example of toleration. In England there were about two millions of Roman Catholics, and for these two millions only one member was returned Sir John Simeon. Now in Ireland there were about four and a half millions of Roman Catholics, and under 700,000 Protestants. And yet Ireland sent seventy-five Protestants and but thirty-five members of the Roman Catholic faith. What did Mr. Disraeli say the other day in Bucks on the Irish question? He ascribed the ills of Ireland—and it was very curious— he ascribed them to the influence of race. The Irish peasant, he said, lived in a damp climate, contiguous to a melancholy ocean, and that he suffered from a monotony of pursuits. He had the face to say this to the Buckingham peasants, who live in an equally damp climate, and with no more diversity of occupation, though it was true the only melancholy ocean they had was the reservoir of the Grand Junction water works. A new page had been opened in the history of Ireland. He believed Mr. Gladstone's name to be a guarantee to Ireland that her wrongs would not only be considered, but her grievances redressed. No doubt they had gone over the names of the new Cabinet. With respect to the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, he believed that Mr. Lowe was probably the ablest man in the House of Commons. Mr, Lowe was a giant among the pigmies, and he was glad that Mr. Lowe was in the Cabinet. There was another man that he rejoiced to see in the Cabinet—he meant John Bright. Let them also do houour to another states man. He would say that Sir Roundell Palmer's conduct in refusing the first prize in his possession, set him upon a pinnacle, to which he himself would be the first to look up and bow down to. While they reared men of this description, England would never want statesmen. But there was one other— a great and illustrious name -- which he was sorry to see was conspicuous by its absence from the new Cabinet. In the absence of Lord Russell they missed the first, the foremost, and the best man this coun try had ever seen lead the Liberal party—the first man of the Whig aristocracy, and the first man of the old Liberal party. Mr. Osborne concluded a long and able apeech by regretting thathe had notbeen returned for Nottingham at the last election. Whilst he had been in the House he had been a volunteer, not a camp fol lower ; he had shared in the assault, but he never cared to ask for a share in the spoil. Notice has been given to the inhabitants of St. Mary-le-Strand that, although their parish church had been closed for months past in consequence of litigation between the churchwardens and rector, arrangements had been made for the reopening of the church for Divino ser- TickS4 StUadaYaitt 049_414 iqt. Ot, ; or m a t T .6'llll HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 9. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday after noon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Countess of Gainsborough, went out this morning. LOUD CAMPBELL AT HARTVICH. The autumn meeting of the Harwich Liberal Association was held on Wednesday evening in the large room of the Three Cups Hotel. Lord Camp bell, a former member for the borough, had been to attend it. Dr. BrmT, the chairman of the association, having called on Lord Campbell to address the meeting, Loid. CAMPBELL said that since he had the plea sure of visiting their body some years back, he had declined the invitation to be present from various impediments. Unless, however, members of the Legislature who no longer sat in the House of Commons mixed from tune to time with the electors of the country, they would wholly want the lamp of popular opiniOut one element at least of truth to aid in their di rection. As regards public speaking, his view was that when men had nothing to say they ought to stay at home, but that when anything occurred to them which might, however indirectly, affect the legislation of the country, they ought to go out and briefly state it to the people. Of one thing he was certain, that many topics which could not be at first alluded to judiciously in Parliament required discus' sion out of doors, and one or two of these he meant with their leave to touch upon that evening. Facts also which had lost their edge when the ensuing session opened, might sometimes be referred to with the hope of salutary consequences in a meeting like the present. But he must first convey to them as frienai his true regret that under the new Act they had not grown to a majority. The result at Ipswich would, however, give them some degree of consolation ulicl encouragement. (Hear) The sun could not shill ° everywhere at once. But if he could not congratu late them on a local triumph, he might do so on th e voluntary downfall of the last Administration. 1., that downfall there was little to surprise. It di' not become a man like Mr. Disraeli to defend th e transactions of the last three years, for which he was far from being exclusively responsible. It becam e him still less to hold power—as Addington O f done from Pitt—at the dictation and the mercY ° another. As regards the rest, men who knew they had appointed a Governor-General, not because II: was great enough to hold the post, but because t h o post was great enough to hold him ; men o h , in 1866 bad permitted riot to prevail, ei r , though the maintenance of law and order IT their only title to existence—men who had grossly misconducted the larger and the smaller busitle'' in both Houses of Parliament, habitually renou o ' ing their engagements, :and systematically contre:o dieting one another, had done wisely to anticip3l' the sentence and to escape the battle which awaited them. Last of all. it might tend to raise th e a spirits, damped as they had been, to bear in u 111 3130 that the Sovereign had summoned, withou t t slightest hesitation, Mr. Gladstone to the eruine rto e of place, which answered to his eminence of v irtue s that for the first time during the century; ,:o might almost say the first time since the Govern ment of Sir It. Walpole, or at least Lord Chat td their party had a leader, who owed his lustre no _ A birth, but to ability. (Loud cheers.) Dr. Burt Ja3; remarked that since 1865, when he had met thealf . , great organic change had happened. It remindedi; of a certain law which seemed to run t hrough ° the history; the law by which from time to tirue. ruling power of the State has altered its foundatle'l. They all knew in the early centuries after the Carlin quest the power resided chiefly in the Barons. F ro these, about the time of Henry VIII., it passed lute the monarchy. In 1688 it was effectively trat 3 ; ferred to the two Houses of Parliament, which O r r, based upon a landed aristocracy and some co nside it able cities. In 1832, after a great straggle, e a centred in the middle class, and it has now Pa o 0 into the larger body, who depend not so nauc h . . c i i capital as labour. At least he was led to su,s a view, because, in nearly all the boroug o; which formed the Parliamentary majority pol o new electors were predominant, and the ' lt ' id middle class were before included, unless theY j u terr. not care to register. He was also led to 0 ao" their position in this manner, because, even 3 Co f ting that the middle class are not as yet deprived,‘, their authority, the new Acts seemed to him 'tor• without the faintest promise of stability. Co tion marked their limbs, and death was traced ;ca. their features. The ratepaying clauses armed 2 . 00 . chial interests against it. The combina t i on for 031 a ops rid t es enlists against the law the very party " 06 ascendancy it favours. The £l2 qualification 030 one of the most arbitrary limits, and ther efere too of the most frail, which had ever emanate d yet: to the infirmity of councils. It has overwhebnooto. freeholders ;it threatens to demoralize the ja• ties ; and, what is even worse, it has give n a far' tensity, which did not before exist, to the decid. cation of the urban and agricultural co nstitu o l o is Some of the most flagrant boroughs still reniaerved Ireland. In Scotland groups have been p reset without a reference to either justice or g eegr ...t i o• If you renounce a £lO limit for the house TO° you cannot long impose it on the lodger. ha o who, looking to these symptoms, imagine thel solid ground and permanent security in this I;tiglitoo tive measure, remind me of the lines which the ntroduces about a class who form, perhu?'GO. best and truest element of maritine cons titue° rg la agt He has been speaking of Leviathan, the :"/ " of all the beasts that swim the ocean streaw "Him haply slumbering on the Norway foan% The pilot of some small night-foundered 01°P1 Deeming an island, oft as seamen tell With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moors by his side under the lee." But with morning he discovers his illus ion.. 0 it be true, gentlemen, that the anchorartoo rather on a whale than on an island b g era has passed away, and one Inigl j ora permitted for a moment to regret it. t h ad Campbell then pointed to the outline of I'M le been done under the Act of 183 2 in legis l3 , tl :a th o finance, in foreign policy, in war, an d add it WO e they must not dwell too long upon the past ;„atecl' enough to look into the tomb of the dl'o-siiti' Regret paralyses energy, because it chills th e g el' ment on which energy is founded, and ev en Poll et , vates our losses, because it takes away th, e b ; ti to confront, examine, and repair them. -L"tior of every man, according to his light, was rattrapi suggest the useful purposes, a new and toso ant force might gradually accomplish. I ngfes°:, be strange, indeed, if education made n° P 1. 4 - te d . tv 4 while it rested with those most deeply intere,i control it. Much might be done 1 1 1 3°- s t P' point by giving Town Councils, at let4 „oti e t the great cities, a large discretionaria:oo as to how far it ought to be compulsory oll not dwell upon that topic. In regard to th e as Church eo, it would be absurd at present to ~b 1 you. It is long since our party we re eng- i, - g such men as Lord Macaulay, Mr . Senior, : 4iv es il o Henry Ward—upon the subject. If mens ti ost i. 13. go beyond the policy they advocated, it , 1 : 3 , 1 10 .3 remembered that their voice was lorig heard vain ; and the priciple appears to be in e _ oe si l however much we may deplore it, that an e f ' po lici retribution will always follow the delaY ° Gro yer, ll : and justice. As regards the ballot, n° e rt 1,1 to tet men+, he thought, would long be a- -° s gret' The desire seemed to be increasing for it, b a eo c oil; numbers wanted its protection. klad it itaf i° ,l been so ceded, the Act of 1832 might still haVe g sacr ia o 6 late in substance ; and those who havie,,blm that act expected to resist it, seenied.,%.." th e ide a men who set fire to a town of stone, wit% tie cl se n. that all the wooden habitati ons would berth 0..° immortalised. (Hear.) In connection tao' p res entative arrangements, there WAS on o teP th, 4 ( vr( fu] tti ( .pt Cc 4ti ref