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RE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. TREAT Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, and until further notice, will be per formed a new and original Farce, by R. Reece, Esq., en titled HON EYDOVE'S TROUBLES. Characters by Iltssrs. Josk-ph Irving, C. Warner, J. Moiris ; Mes dames Kate Harfleur and E. Melville. After which will be performed the Drury Lane annual grand Christmas Pantomime, written by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., entitled FAW FEE FO FIJAI ; or, Harlequin Jack the Giant Killer. Due notice will be given of the re-appearance of Mr. Phelps in the character of Dr. Cantwell in THE HYPOCRITE. Doors open at half-past six, the performance to com mence at seven o'clock. Morning Performance every Wednesday and Satur day until Feb. 15. THEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET . Sole Lessee, Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BROKEN-HEARTED CLUB. Mr. Gordon, Mr. Braid, Mrs. Chippendale, &c. To be followed by A WIFE WELL WON. Messrs. Sothern, Buckstone, Howe, Kendal, Rogers, Braid, Weathersby, &c., and Robinson. After 'which, AN UTTER PERVERSION OF THE ..BUIGAND. Messrs, Compton, Kendal, Rogers, Clark, Braid, Weathersby, Johnson. &c.; Mesdames Burke, Wright, Dalton, &c. lIE'ATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon. THLS EVENING, UP FOR THE CATTLE SHOW. After which, at 8, NO THOROUGHFARE. Mr. Fechter (his 26th appearance here), Mr. Billington, Mr. H. Neville, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. G. Belmora, Mr. C. J. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin Wehster; Miss Carlotta Leclercq (her 26th appearance), Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. • Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. (Last Nights only. THIS EVENING, Grand Combination of the Two Great Dramas, THE COLLEEN BAWN and THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mr. cad Mrs. Dion Boucicault as Myles na Coppaleen and Eily O'Connor, and Mr. Vining as Badger. Messrs. Dominick Murray, J. G. 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Yesterday a Conference was held in the rooms of the Society of Arts to consider the subject of Tech nical Education. There was a numerous attend ance of distinguished persons, among whom was Earl RUSSELL. The noble lord made an interesting speech in seconding the resolution moved by Dr. PLAYFAIR, to the effect that there educational re forms were needed. He took a sanguine view of the matter, and congratulated his hearers upon the improved state of things, which, indeed, reminded one of what COBBET once said, " The straw moves." The first change deemed necessary was, that in the universities and grammar schools the instruction in science and art should be placed on the same footing as other schools, but Lord RUSSELL truly observed that great caution must be exercised in this impor ant respect, for the alteration must be a work of In some places a change is taking place. It is certain that, without any detriment to classical instruction, more care might be taken in other cul ture. The noble lord looks forward to the time when the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge may become really national institutions, where the education imparted may be in every respect worthy of the citizens of this glorious country. " They should be acquainted with THUCYDIDES and XENOPHON, with CIO and TACITUS, but they should also be familiar with CLARENDON and HumE, with HALLAM and MACAULAY ; they should all be specially acquainted with what their an cestors have done for the freedom and reputation of their country, and not be conteutel with remem bering what were the laurels won by PERICLES or C.ESAR. There is a great deal worthy of attention in these remarks of the noble lord, and it is espe cially true what he says about the desirability of those persons who may not hereafter be calledupon to lead hard lives being rendered competent to understand and appreciate what others have to pursue with ardour. They will thus be more useful to their country in the station in which they are placed, and lead more happy and more honourable lives. Respecting the desirability of efficient means of primary instruction being brought within the reach of the working classes, the noble lord remarked that every child had a moral right to education. The principles of " compulsory education" finds favour with Earl RUSSELL, and he is glad that it has been recognised at Manchester ; but he seems to doubt the probability of the Legislature giving its sanction to it. No wonder so experienced a politician and so excellent a judge of such matters should hesitate upon this point, for there is no likelihood of it for the present at any rate. JOHN MILTON declared that this country ought to have the precedence in teaching the nations how to live. This is, indeed,"an object worthy of his genius and his fame, but we of this generation are not following the precepts in the great subject of education so lamentably observable among us. Lord ItussELL anticipates great difficulties for those who endeavour to get an education bill through the Legislature. "I am glad I am not to undertake it. I struggled for a long while in the House of Commons, and I shall not have to take my part in the buffetting of the waves and the roaring of the winds which, no doubt, will soon shake the walls of Parliament." 01 course great obstacles will arise in the task of settling what is to be done and how it is to be done, but to wait any longer to Solve ' the problem will not do for many reasons. One thing is very much wanted in this country, and that was referred to in the last part of the resolution. Technical Schools should be established in order to improve the position of the people of England in relation to foreign cpmpetition ; and the experience gathered at the French Exhibition fully confirms the necessity for such au undertaking. Education is, as Lord RUSSELL emphatically remarked, in conclusion, the great subject of the day. It requires for its settlement the best faculties and the general concurrence of the nation, and " I hope that both these things—the highest faculties of the best in structed men, and the general consent of the na tion—will be given." Lord GRANVILE, in making some remarks, in the course of which he appro priately referred to the speech of Lord STANLEY, delivered on the previous evening, when the noble lord bad expressed the readiness of the Government to bring forward " a Wise, a large, and a well con sidered measure for the education of the people." The arrival of the Nova Scotian from New York on the 11th shows us that the Fenians are endea vouring to stir up an angry feeling in America with respect to our political prisoners. The House of Representatives, always ready for any mischief making, has been passing a resolution requesting the intercession of the PRESIDENT with the QUEEN on behalf of Father M'MAHON, the Fenian pri soner in Canada, and also for other prominent Fenians now in custody. The Irish vote has probably a good deal to do with this affectionate in terest in Fenianism, and the leaders of the move- , ment take good care to avail themselves of the favourable opportunity. A mass meeting has been held at Washington in favour of " securing the rights of American citizens abroad." This meet ing, as also those held in other cities, was under the auspices of Fenians as their avowed supporters, and, therefore, we need not attach much im portance to their censures on Mr. ADAMS, their denunciations of British cruelty towards Americans, or their appeals to Congress for immediate legisla.. tion. A significant sign of the times is to be found in the sympathising letters read at the Washington meeting from Mr. COLFAX, General BANKS, and other members of Congress. The Canadians wisely, no doubt, are resolved to be on their guard, and are apparently apprehensive of some specimens of the dastardly and malicious tricks which have been tried in this country being attempted against their public buildings. They have taken the precaution of increasing the Guards in all such localities, and Ire vigilantly watching for any evidence of such designs. Of American politics the Nova Scotian tells us very little. There has been a riot at Marshall, in Texas, where a Republican meeting was dispersed by the mob. The rioters were arrested and order restored without serious mischief. General MEADE has addressed the Georgia Convention, informing them that their ordinances were not valid until ra tified by the people, but that he would exercise his discretionary power in enforcin g some of their measures. The Conventions have hitherto been failures, and the measures which they have approved do not give very great promise of their I , %italative powers. Considering their Constitution we need not be surprised at this ; it would rather be matter of astonishment if they had shown more statesman ship and more enlightened moderation than the expe rienced politicians of the day. Of the great dispute between Congress and PRESIDENT we hear ~~ : r . THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 186§, nothing, except that Senator DoourrLE is pre paring the report of the Minority of the Mili tary Committee, sustaining Mr. JOHNSON in the suspension of STANTON. Minorities have little chance of being heard as American politics are at present constituted, and Mr. MILL must try his eloquence in the New World if he wishes to sea his favourite theory universally accepted. A lecture upon "Abyssinia and the Abyssinians," by so good an authority as Dr. BEKE, has just added considerably to the popular information on this in teresting subject. The war may be, as Lord STAN LEY styled it, " a little one," still the lives and for tunes of so many of our countrymen are engaged, and the story of the captives is so painful, that very great anxiety and interest are felt concerning King Theodore and his dominions. The lecture which Dr. BEKE delivered on Tuesday eveningjtook a hope ful view of the people and their capacities. It was difficult, he said, to place a limit upon the capabili ties of Abyssinia under a more favourable state of things, the first grand step towards which is to induce the feeling of fresh wants in the minds of its inhabitants. Dr. BEKE very justly observed that whatever the duration of the campaign one result is certain : the presence of so many Europeans in Abyssinia will show that the difficulty of pene trating the country is purely imaginary, and that when reached it is deserving of the serious conside ration of the British merchant and manufacturer not less than of the Christian philanthropist. Iron and coal are known to exist there in considerable quantities. Copper has been recently discovered, and sulphur - and salt are extensively worked along the eastern edge of the table land. As Dr. BEKE observed, in enumerating these natural advantages, the possession of iron and coal alone are sufficient to form the basis of national prosperity. But the natural wealth of Abyssinia is not confined to mi nerals. Cereals of all kinds are cultivated by the natives, who are skilful agriculturists ; and Dr. BEKE boldly asserts his belief that Abyssinia is not only capable of supporting a large population, but might become the granary of less favoured regions. At present much is wasted from want of knowledge and for lack of markets. The varied character of the country enables it to produce on its hills and in valleys everything that is the growth of tropical or temperate climates. Like India, the hilly regions are so different in temperature from the plains or valleys that productions of a varied character can be grown. The climate, as we are all now aware, has been unjustly decried, and Dr. BEKE cites, as evidence in its favour, an argument which has already occurred to many, The Euro pean captives have, in spite of all their trials and anxieties, preserved their health during four years of captivity, a sufficient proof that the climate is not unfavourable to Europeans. In fact, the greatest obstacle to the civilisation of the coun try is THEODORE himself, notwithstanding his early efforts as a national reformer. Under his savage and inconsistent dominion no people could flourish ; and very certainly the Europeans whom he is so anxious to secure are not likely to settle there. The Abyssinians themselves are more Asiatic than African, both in their ap pearance and in their degree of civilisation which they have attained—a fact which renders the future progress of their country, when the barriers that now enclose it are removed, more hopeful and more certain. The lecturer gave an interesting and valuable account of the chief races, the hereditary rulers, the antecedents of the KING himself, formerly the mili tary adventurer KASSA, and the laws and religions of the people. Those who were not fortunate enough to hear the address of Dr. BEKE will do well to read it attentively, and they will form a goo I general idea of the country, its people, and its rulers. We may reasonalily hope that the misfortunes of Consul CAME aoN and his companions may lead even tually to a favourable change. There is every proba bility that Sir R. NAPIER may seize an opportunity to push on to Magdala, scure the captives, and achieve the work in hand without delay ; but when the war is over we may easily believe that its effects will not cease. Abyssinia will no longer be to us an unknown world, and the glimpse which its people will have bad of civilized life will open to their view new worlds of thought and action of which they have never hitherto had any per ception. Great pains are being taken in Paris to prove that there is no warlike meaning in the Government, and it is confidently believed that a manifesto will shortly appear, setting forth that the EMPEROR'S views on this question are of a pacific tendency. This report deserves the greater credence on account of an offici , ll statement having been already distri buted to the members of the Senate on the subject of the bill for the Reorganisation of the Army. In this it is affirmed that the "real cause" for this measure was not the fear of war, but rather the experience that hal been derived from the cam paigns of the Crimea and Italy. As for the recent war in Germany having to do with its preparation that furnished the desire more than the cause for it. Had it not been for some such striking warning as that appended the public might not readily have agreed to the passing of the bill. Those who are responsible for the honour and security of the coun try are, it is added, the most fully impressed with the importance of the step and the most impressed with its necessity. At any rate we may conclude that, from one indication and another, there is no present possibility of war on the Continent ; but the peculiar state of things that exists just now cer tainly justifies the EMPEROR and his Government for taking such decided steps in the work of reor ganizing the army, for who can tell how soon they may be called upon to put their utmost strength and to direct all their resources. Mr. LowE, being dissatisfied with the turn which political affairs have taken, is devoting himself with more and more interest to a topic out of reach of party controversy. Even with regard to education, however, Mr. LOWE must take a peculiar and ex ceptional view of this question. He is never happy while thinking as other men think, or talking as other men talk, and, not content as ordinary mortala are with advocating education, he would have the form and manner of that education uudergo a com plete change. lie complains, not without rea son, that while the middle class have had the greater share of political power during the last generation they have done nothing for themselves in the way of education. It had allowed the en dowments intended for its benefit to pass into the hands of another class, and it has, according to Mr. LowE's belief, allowed political power to pass from it iu a similar way. About this latter pro position less bitter anti-Refottners may entertain considerable doubt, but most persons will agree that the middle class being above the primary schools assisted by the State, is not prepared to send their children to the universities or great public schools is in a dilemma respecting education. Mr. LOWE, indeed, holds University education no loss, and affirms that the study of Latin and Greek is nothing more than a " mere mechanical exercise for the memory." Almost in the same breath, however, he recommends the study of the great English writers, and advises the student to learn German thoroughly for the sake of the literature. How is it, then, that he does not think a familiarity with the ancient tongues desirable on the same ground? Are not HOMER and 2Estalv',us, VIRGIL and HORACE, worth reading, in a literary point of view, as well as CHAUCER and SPENSER, GOETIIE and SCHILLER ? English composition is no doubt an admirable study, but if history and the classics, logic and algebra, are to be eliminated from the schoolboy's programme, we apprehend, when he puts his knowledge into practice his com position will be somewhat poor ! Mr. LOWE is himself a brilliant example of theory and practice contradicting each other, and the classical education he so much despises will stand his eloquence in good stead all the days of his life. LATEST INTELL LGEN CE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) OVERLAND MAILS. CALCUTTA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS, MALTA, Jan. 23. The Bangalore leaves at 5 a.m. to-day. She may be expected at Southampton about the Ist February. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL The Delta, from Southampton on the 12th inst., arrived at 8 p.m yesterday, and left at 2 a.m. to-day for Alexandria. The Ripon, from Marseilles on the 20th inst., arrived to-day at 5 a.m., and leaves at 11 a.m. for Alexandria. EGYPT. (Dy Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.) ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 22. It is asserted on reliable authority that the Vice roy intends to withdraw the greater part of the Egyptian troops from Abyssinia, leaving only a few men at Massowah. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, Jan. 23. Another Imperial interview is on the Lapis. On dit that she Emperor will shortly meet King William of Prussia in )ne of the towns on the banks of the Rhine. The Prusso-Danish negotiations have again come to the surface. The State archives of Schleswig, lost during the war, have just been discovered. Prussia has demanded that they should be restored to the duchy. Hitherto Denmark has refused compliance. With regard to the whole question between the two Cabinets, the France states that Denmark insists on having the line of demarcation south of the town of Flensburg, and she persists further in refusing Prussia any guarantee which would enable her to interfere in the internal affairs of the people north of that line. It seems to be thought that a settlement of this question will soon be obtained, and that Denmark will have her way. In financial circles the Hungarian Loan attracts atten- tion. People now admit that, reconciled to Austria, the kingdom is more powerful and her progress more assured than they could have been with a separate nationality. The resources of Hungary are enormous, and the only second thought with regard to the new loan was, that her financial stability might be rendered precarious by the military enterprises of the empire. Reflection, however, will show that-Hungary is new a sort of guarantee that Austria will enter into no rash wars. The contract between the two parts of the empire expressly stipulates that every demand for men' and for money for the common army must be separately discussed and agreed to by the representatives of Austria and of Hungary. Austria, 'without Hungary, would be powerless in a military point of view, and, except to resist an invasion of Russia or to hold the Czar in check in the East, Hungary has no interest in any military adventures. The dream of avenging Sadowa has never entered the mind of the Hungarian statesmen. They know that peace is essential to their national existence, and that a war with the North German Confederation would be a*.l attempt at suicide. For 1868 the share of Hunr.ly in the common expenses of the empire will be 62,000,000 f. ; her own ad ministration will cost a hundred millions more, and tne ilitr"firCo l tare;penditute is, therefore, estimated at 238,000,000 f. ; in 1865 the revenue was 246,636,000 f. Veiy few new countries begin to borrow under more hopeful circumstances. International postal reform is likely to make progress soon. Prussia is about to open negotiations with Norway, Switz,rlankt, Belgium, Italy, and France for the reduction of the rates between these countries and Germany. The Due des Cars has hen followed by another devot adherent of the House of tourbon. The Prince de Caf.ni, one time ambassador of the ex-King of Naples at London and Berlin, hast just died in Paris. The Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial attended on Tu , 2sd.ly the commemoration masses celebrated at the Tuileries for the repose of the soul of Louis the XVI. Jan. 21 is the anniversary of the unhappy monarch's execution. The execution of the Queen took place on the 10th October ; but the two events are united in one cele bration. The Archbishop of Valladolid is mentioned among the prelates likely to be made a cardinal at the approaching ceremony at Rome. A. correspondent, writing from Rome, gives the following as the names of those who will be honoured with the cardinal's hat :—Erince Lucien Bonaparte, Boromeo Arese, the Apostolic Nuncios at Madrid and Lisbon, Monaco, the secretary of the Saint Office ; the Archbishop Gonella, of - Viterbo, and the Archbishop of Valladolid, of the Capuchin preacher of the Sacri Patazzi. The aldrcss to the Holy Father which is being signed in Spain has received already, it is said, two million signa tures. M. Berryer delivered a telling address in defence of tho Union, one of the prosecuted journals. He maintained that there was no law to compel the newspapers to publish the official report of the debates, and that without doing so they were fully entitled to summarise them for the pur pose of discussion. The prosecution was the result of political caprice. Jules Favre will assist Emile Thaler in the defence of the Siecle. The Liberty explains by a joke the nomination of M. Dumas, a chemist, to the functions of reporter on the army organisation law in the Senate. Why give such an appoint ment to a chemist ? Because the law on the army is an amalgam very difficult to analyse. _ _ A very curious exposition is projected for August 1868. There is in Paris a Sociad d'lnsectologie Agricole. Its learned members study insects from an agricultural point of view, the means of propagating those that are useful, and of destroying those that are injurious. To excite an interest in their labours, they propose to hold an exhibi tion in the Palace of Industry, Champs Elys6es, of useful insects, such as the silkworm, the bee, the cochineal, together with their products, and of destructive insects, with examples of their devastations. A daring robbery is reported from Spain. A rich landed proprietor, named Don Marcos Martin, resides near a vil lage called Fuentelsaz. About midnight on Sunday week a hand of twenty armed men attacked his house. A slight resistance Ni;as offered, the result of which was that a son in-law of Martin's was killed. Otherwise the robbers were enabled to sack the house, and to depart with their booty in peace. The neighbours rendered no assistance, alleging that the authorities took away their arms in the late " state of siege," and had not yet returned them. Eleven men have since been arrested on a charge of parti• pating in this outrage. A Viennese journal states that Austria, in informing her agents abroad of the inauguration of parliamentary government, has pronouuced emphatically in favour of peace and the observance of a strict neutrality upon European questions. Some extracts from the letter of a Prussian clergyman, sent to the Times by the Rev. W. L. Blackley, North Waltham Rectory, give an appalling picture of the famine in East Prussia. The want is so great that even large landholders, instead of having corn to export, find their own supply only sufficient for their wants till February. " The smaller ones," says this correspondent, " myself among the number, have harvested but five bushels of potatoes from land which ordinarily yields eighty; and as to other crops, we have actually and literally obtained nothing whatever." The extreme cold also adds to the misery of the people. In rooms crusted all over with ice, without fuel or warm clothing, they lie shivering in bed, vainly trying to sleep away their hunger. The want of fucl hinders some from cooking the few handfuls of flour they have been able to beg. Mr. Blackley offers to for ward subscriptions to his correspondent, who is the pastor of Schiinau. Dr. Beke has been lecturing at Richmond, on Abyssinia and the Abyssinians. He spoke for nearly two haws, illustrating his lecture by pictures and maps. He de scribed the geographical features of the country, and com bated the assertions made with regard to the difficulty of travelling among the mountains. There are three passes into Central Abyssinia—the lower, the middle, and the upper roads ; the latter is by far the preferable pass, and has been taken by our troops. With regard to climate, although in the neighbourhood of Massowah the tempera ture is high, the doctor assured his hearers that the maximum at Shoa was only 69 deg. Fahrenheit, and the average was only 551 deg. His opinion was, that the climate of Abyssinia was more congenial and healthy than that of many other countries. Dr. Beke stated that the cause of the internal wars now raging was that Theodore had attempted to substitute a military organisation for the existing system. He also touched upon the religion and latter history of the country, and expressed his pleasure at finding that the difficulty of piercing into Abyssinia had been shewn to be purely imaginary. - - - According to the Manchester Guardian, Sir John Rolt has actually resigned the high office of Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery. The Lord Chancellor and Lord Cairns have reiterated their entreaties that he would hold on, if it were only for a few weeks longer. The physicians in attendance on the learned judge are, however, peremptory, and declare that his only chance of pro longed life lies in relief from all sense of responsibility, actual or contingent. The difficulty is great in filling up this high and important post. In 18G6 Sir Fitzroy Kelly had his choice of the Lord Justiceship of Appeal or the Chief Barony of the Exchequer. He,preferred the latter, which is higher in rank, and is £l,OOO a year more in pay , although much more arduous in point of work. Sir Fitzroy now declines to forego that preference, being still active and vigorous in the exercise of his powers. He is now in the 72nd year of his age. Mr. Solicitor-General Selwyn is a rich man by inheritance, and not altogether unambitious, so that a vice-chancellorship would be be neath his acceptance even if Lord Derby cared to promote either of the three learned knights now sitting in Lincolu':. Inn. As the Lords Justices of Appeal have to sit upon appeils from the Vice Chancellors and the Master of the Rolls, many eminent lawyers declare that Sir Charles Selwyn is not yet sufficiently strong for a seat on the supreme bench in equity. Education is for the time the question of the day. The Speaker of the House of Commons, at an address at East Retford, was very earnest in contending that the subject ought to receive immediate attention. The day for useless controver3y had passed, and the period for action had arrived. He recommended that " there should be a sus pension of hostilities, and that all parties should confer together for the purpose of ascertaining whether they could not arrive at a better understanding on such an important question —an understanding which would lead to very ad vantageous results for all," LITERATURE. Mr. Hepworth Dixon's New Work. ,)iritual Wives. By William Hepworth Dixon. Two Vols. Hurst and Blackett. This extraordinary book would have had an Ipecial attraction for our dear old friend, Mr. ustin Caxton, and, upon coming into his hands, could doubtless have suggested to him more Ilan one new section of remarkable interest )r his great work on "The History of Human rror." Supposing it to have been carried by dm into his favourite chimney-corner in the louse-room at the Tower, on the opening of the ,ondon book-box just arrived—we can imagine ;ven the gentle Blanche giving an indignant toss )f her pretty head upon catching a glimpse of qr. Dixon's title-page—we can fancy the equable Mrs. Caxton herself aroused for a moment iuto 'sympathetic indignation out of her accus.= tomed equanimity—we can picture to our- selves Mr. Sid Els the apothecary, and Uncle Roland, and Pisistratus the Anachronism, exchanging amused glances with one another over the indignant looks of the elder and the younger matron, in contrast to the eager and delighted ab- sorption of the senses of that large-minded and all assimilating philosopher. And, beyond all doubt, s'lr. Dixon's work is worthy of Mr. Caxton's exa - mination. It is the last and not the least re markable contribution that has ever yet been made towards that magnum opus "The History of Hanna Error." it is the production, especially and essentially of the author of "New America,"—not of the biographer of William Penn, or of Francis Bacon, or of the A.dmiral and General Blake, or of Howard tho Philanthropist, but peculiarly and distinctively of the celebrant of the Mormons and of the other Religionists, or, as we should far rather prefer co call them, the other Irreligionists, here and vutcrctrf - ara.. • , c in writing the book now submitted to our conside eation is, of course, of the noblest character. We ,ay of course---addressing ourselves to those with whom the literary labours of Mr. Dixon have long since been familiar. He has never yet, to our knowledge, written with other than with high, and ,nore than once with lofty, aspirations. His themes here, however, as in his preceding work—as in those two volumes about " New America," of which these two about " Spiritual Wives" may be regarded as the sequel—are suggestive, to ourselves at least, of the pro foundest melancholy. They are, morally Aud in tellectually, so many studies in morbid anatomy. they are like adventures into the Land of Unreason. they are like a record of the Experiences and Ob servations of a clear-eye 1, calm-spirited, perfectly dispassionate Commissioner de Lunatico In- quirendo. The depressing influence, however, to which we cannot but acknowledge to hive sue- eumbed during our examination of the pages o: this extraordinary work of Mr. Hepworth Dixo ,'s a work so extraordinary of its kind that, if "New America," has already run into its Sixth or Sarenth Edition, this one will not impossibly before long have run into its Sixteenth or Seventeenth—arises from the fact that the psychological hallucinations, as we may call them, which our author has herein delineated with wonderful minuteness, spring directly out of what we cannot possibly designate by any other words than those in which we must here speak of them as so many hideously revolting and blasphemous carica tures of Christianity. Th 3 Insanity here in delineated is that of Religion Run Mad. The intensely sane intellect of Mr. Dixon regards the phenomena he has here undertaken to describe so dispassionately, that he has evidenced nowhere one particle of pity for the astounding phantasies that have here and there met his observa- tion. He simply describes. What he sees, what he hears, what he deduces —he sets forth in a narrative perfectly clear, plain, and unvarnished. He be gins with a distinct recognition of the fact, as he here puts it, that " Three of the most singular move ments in the churches of our generation seem to have been connected, more or less closely, with the state of mind produced by Revivals; one in Ger many, one in England, and one in the United States ; movements which resulted, among other things, in the establishment of three singular societies—the congregation of Pietists, vulgarly called the Mucker, at Konigsberg, the brother hood of Princeites at Spaxtou, and the Bible Com munists at Oneida Creek." He then goes on to remark that " these movements, which," as he says with reason enough, " have a great deal in common, began without concert in distant parts of the world under separate church rules, and in widely different social circumstances. The first movement was in Ost Preussen; the second in England; the third and most important in Massachusetts and New York. They had these chief things in common : they began in colleges, they affected the form of family life, and they were carried on by clergymen ; each movement in a place of learning and of theo logical study ; that in Germany at the Luther larch of Konigsberg, that in England at St. David's College, that in the United States at Yale College. These movements began to attract public notice much about the same time ; for Archdeacon Ebel, the chief founderof Muckerism, announced the year 1836 as the opening year of the personal reign of Christ; in that year the Rev. Henry James PrinCe became a student of divinity, founded the order of Lampeter Brethren, and received his pretended gift of the Holy Ghost ; and Father Noyes published the famous paper known as the ' Battle Axe Let ter.' These three divines—one Lutheran, one An glican, one Congregational—began their work in perfect ignorance of each other. Ebel is now dead, but I have reason to believe that when he proposed his theory in the Luther church in his native city, he had never heard the name of either Brother Prince or of Father Noyes. I can answer for the o ther two : until a few months ago Noyes never heard of Ebel, and Prince hAd never heard of goyes." It is of these astounding people, and of their congeners, as we may say, that Mr. Dixon writes with rare ability, often eloquently, always enthrallingly, in these two volumes about " Spiritual Wives" and Carnal Paracletes. Here is one of the latter—Mr.Prince of the Agapemone—as he has been photographed by his bright-eyed observer—" The gentleman," quoth he, " who is called by his fol lowers Beloved in the sensuous idiom of the Song of Songs—is fifty-six years old, spare in person, of middle height, with a pallid cheek, and the traces of much pain and weariness on his wan cheek. His lace is very sweet, his manner very smooth. He has about him something of a woman's grace and Alarm. His smile is very soft, and the key of his voice is low. He has the look of one who bad ever yet been vexed into rage and strife. In his yes, which are apt to close, you see, as it were, a ight from some other sphere. He sat in the centre f this group of men and women, rapt in his own lreams, into which he fell the moment we sat down )efore his warm and cheery fire. When the sound ,f voices roused him, he crossed his hands upon his lack frock, put his shiny shoes on the rug, and bore luxurious part in my first long and singular con ersation with the saints." The sanctuary of this .ugust being is elsewhere described jest as vividly —Mr. Dixon apparently finding some difficulty (and no wonder) in realising to himself, when he n it, that be is really and truly in the church these strange Religionists, for he exclaims : " Yes, in the church; lounging on a red sofa, near a bright ire, in the coloured light of high lancet windows, filled with rich stained glass; soft cushions beneath my feet; a aliard table on my right hand ; church furniture in oak ud brass about me; and above my head the sacra 1 sytn )el of the Lamb and Dove, flanked and supported by a ack of billiard cues. "'This room, I know, was that in which the Great Aauifestation had taken place ; that mystic rite through which living flesh is said to have been reconciled to God. Lovely to the eye, calming to the heart, this chamber was md is. The stained glass windows shut it in completely 'roar the world, allowing • nothing less ethereal than the gitt of dAy to penetrate those walls. A rich red Persian trpa covered the floor, iu contrast with the dark brown .ik,n roof. Red curtains draped the windows, the glass a which was painted with a mystical device : a lamb, a ion, and a dove - the lion standing on a bed of roses, with a banner on which these words are inscribed— ' Oh, Hail, Holy Love." A soft-spoken Parselete in a black frock-coat— whose sanctuary is a billiard room—whose name is Mr. Prince--whose attendant is a grinning flunkey —and who believes all the rest of the human race doomed to perdition outside the holy circle of him self and his immediate followers (about sixty alto gether), and who has a notion that he and they even in the flesh, will never taste death, is certainly a phenomenon sufficiently incongruous and astound ing. Yet is this but one among many others of a similar kind herein depicted—some of them still more outrageously extravagant than anything that has here been even hinted at. Mr. Dixon has simply journeyed to the Continent, to America, to one or two of our own provincial districts, here in England—yet he has returned with particulars more astounding than any ever gathered together by Lemuel Gulliver, by Peter Wilkins, by Baron Munchausen, or by Captain Poppanilla. He has told us all that any reasonable mortal could, at this stage of the Earth's History, want to know, about —Revivalists, Pietiste, Shakers, Mormons, Spi., ritualists, Pauline Socialists, Bible Commu nists, Bundling Perfectionists, Muckers, Ebe hans, 0 wenites, Swedenborgians, Priuceites, Fourrierists about sSpiritual Affinities, Sera phim Kisses, Free Love, and we know not what all, of other " fantastic tricks before high heaven," enough to make men no less than angels weep I " There are some that trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ." The word are worth calling to remembrance, and are such as we would gladly have seen adopted by Mr. Dixon as a warning motto for his title page. " But though we or an Angel from Heaven [to say nothing of some poor frail mortal or, worse still, some emissary from the Nether Deep] preach a gospel to you besides that which we have preached to you, let him be anathema." The Great Apostle of the Gentiles, adding with all the emphasis of itera tion, " If any one preach to you a gospel besides that which you have received let him be anathema," "ANATHEMA ST" I" Yea—livcieepta Zo-rw.`. Holier ling. nowever, tha n those of raul nave already uttered the prophetic warning —" And then if anyone shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ ; 10, he is here : do not believe. For there will arise up false Christs and false prophets, and they shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce (if it were possible) even the elect." Whether here at Oneida Creek or 'ere at Konigsberg i hic at Spaxton, or illic at the Salt Lake city ! Whether the signs or wonders be mystical phenomena—in themselves not worth a rap—or physical phenomena, such as those trace able to industry and agricultural skill, yet which nevertheless appear to have so greatly impressed Mr. Dixon himself, who comments with admiration upon the. marvel of " the wilderness blossoming like the rose" under the rule, here of Noyes and his com munistic disciples, here of Brigham Young, and his simply polygamous follow ers and associates. In quot ing S. Paid as an authority on the side of those dis- countenancing celibacy, it does certainly appear to us that Mr. Dixon has forgotten, for the moment, S. Paul's own emphatic precept, and his still more emphatic declaration of his own example in this very particular. " But I say to the unmarried and to the widows : It is good for them if they so con tinue, even as I." Again, later on, "Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage doth well, and he that giveth her not doth better.' Whatever any Pseudo christs such as Sweden borg, as Ebel, as Noyes, as this one, that one, and the other, through the whole fantastic catalogue of names and creeds, may argue or aver One hath spoken in words of sufficient distinctness One who hath said Ccelum et terra transi bunt : verba autem• mea non transibunt— ,, And Jesus said to them : The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage : But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world and of the resurrection from the dead shall neither be married nor take wives." Enough, however, in regard to these 'Spiritual Wives about whom Mr. Dixon has been discoursing, if we here add, that they mostly result in a baby, generally in two or three. Towards the close of his extraordinary record, Mr. Dixon pronounces an impassioned panegyric upon the pre dominant glories, power, and influence appertain ing to the Teutonic race. And certainly, for inas much as that great section of the Human Family have, especially of late years, enhanced the material well-being of mankind at large through their development of the material sources of mo dern civilization, through their wonderfully ingenious - application to this end of the manifold resources of the physical sciences, of chemistry and mechanics, of chemical agriculture, and so forth—as evidenced, far and wide, by steam navigation and the railway system, by locomotive and stationary engines, by electric telegraphs, by submarine cables, by all the other marvels of modern invention— all honour, say we also, to the Tuetonic race 1 But—xot honour, say we, far lather shame and dishonour, grief and lamentation, ashes and sackcloth, for inasmuch as out of that same Teutonic race have arisen, these later carica tures of the.. Manichwans of old, these pseudo prophets, with their Spiritual Wives (being, for the most part, their very Carnal Concubines), these men and women who—to apply rather differently the phrase in which the lovers in Southey's Poetry are described by Lord Macaulay in one of his famous essays—aspiring to " love like Seraphim," have ended almost all of them by " loving like cattle"— these Ebeliaus, and Muckers, and Princeites, and Noyesians, and Mormons, and Bible Communists, and Pauline Socialists, and Bundling Perfectionists. Upon whom and upon whose doings a broad flood of light has here been cast by means of Mr. Dixon's luminous survey of their antecedents, their present condition, and their probable future, not in the other world but in this. Several remarkable illustrative documents are interspersed through the body of the text, and an extraordinary appendix has been added to the whole, in the original German—that daring paper by Professor Sachs, which contains within it the gist or gravamen of the charges of immo rality brought against Archdeacon Ebel, upon the occasion of the great trial in regard to Muckerism and Spiritual Polygamy. As the frontispiece to the first volume, the readers of Mr. Dixon will be glad to find, and henceforth to possess, a very fine and life-like portraiture of himself—a head be fitting, we will not say the author of " Spiritual Wives," but the biographer of Lord Verulam, MADAME TUSSAUP'S EXHIBITION. —A portrait model of Mr. Charles Kean, in the character of Macbeth, taken from sittings given by the late eminent tragedian/ has some time since been added to this exhibition, and which will. be viewed with much interest by his many friends and admirers. COLLISION OFF DUNGENESS.—At 10 yesterday morning the captain and crew of the bark Mahtoree, from Hartlepool for Bordeaux, were brought into Dover har bour by a bevelling boat. The Mahtoree was run into by a full-rigged Prussian ship and instantly sank off Dunge ness. the night was very dark, and the men had great difficulty in climbing up the sides of the Prussian ship, no assistance being rendered to them by the crew of that vessel. One man was overboard for some time. When the crew of the bark arrived at Sailors' Home they were utterly destitute, and only half-clad. They were unable to save any of their effects. NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT.—Mr. Leno, a clown performing at Paisley, took his benefit on Wednesday night, when a prize was awarded for the best amateur comic singer. The prize was a live donkey, and the con ditions were that the competitors were to sing, seated on the back of the ass, before the audience. Probably as ivany of the large'assemblage were attracted to the entertainme nt by the novelty of this exhibition as by any of the other features of the programme. During the day great atnuse ment was afforded to the juvenile population by the inte resting spectacle of the "cuddy" being led along the pria cipal streets, with " Hungry Jamie," a wretched vagrant about the town, seated on its back, and bedizened with handbills of the entertainment. Jamie seemed to enj o y his ride immensely, and to regard the shouts and hurrahS of the crowds of boys that followed and pressed about him and the " cuddy" much iu the light of a triumphal ovation. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—A.ll our Faun''' . ties.—Almost all disorders of the human body are dis: tinctly to be traced to impure blood. The purification that fluid is the first stop towards health. Holloway's Pius recommend themselves to the attention of all sufferer 3 ; no injurious consequences can result front their u se, no ati3" Lake can be made iu their administration. In indigestion: continued dyspepsia, and chronic constipation, the 1- 13 ° 5 ,,' beneficial eif..cts have been, and aiways must be, obtail; from the whole,soine power exerted by these purifying P e a over the digestion. Persons whose lives were a coutirin,,, series of sufferings have been restored to ease, stret.47; and perfect health by Holloway's pills, after the frut tle trial of the whole pharmacopoeia of physic,. FRANCE. BOURSE, JAN. 23.—Transactions very moderate, yet prices well supported, and the main feature is a slight increase of confidence. Three o'clock. --The market closed as follows : 4} per Cent. End of month — 3 per Cent End of mouth 6B 60 Credit Mobilier End of month 163 75 Credit Foucier 1375 End of mouth 1367 50 RAIL WA I Bank Shams 3235 Itt.P.att Loan End of month 42 GO ➢iexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Home Debt 32 75 DeferroJ — Account Orleans , ... 875 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean ......... . 8771 Southern..... 533i Western Eastsrn • • 533i Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Roman 45j LA W INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) CRABB (MISS HERBERT) V. CHABB. Dr. Spinks, QC., and Dr. Tristram for the petitioner ; Mr. Searle for the respondent. This was the petition of Louisa Crabb (better known as Miss Herbert, the manager of St. James's Theatre; for a divorce on the ground of adultery and desertion. She was married to the respondent in Juue, 1855,. at Holy Trinity Church, Brixton, and they cohabited at Ouslow• terrace and Hans-place, where a child was born in April , 1837. The rest of the c Ise is described in the evid mce. Mrs. Helen Polto—l reside at Clifton, and am sister to the petitioner. Her maiden name was Maynard. I visited her after her marriase. Mr. Crabb was a s.o.:kbroker. lie lived with my sister at Hans-place, Chelsea. They appeared to be living comfortably. I visited them in 1857, shortly after the birth of their son. I stayed with them about a fortnight. There was a dispute about a servant named Jane. The petitioner hat not recovered from her confinement at that time. I had found the respondent shut up with Jane i❑ his dressing room one ruorniug. 1 ;,brew the door open, and said, "Mr. Crabb, I will not allow if my sister does." They were whi,pering ;og e ther. I told my sister, who said the woman must leave the house. She refused to go, and Mr. Crabb would not allow her to leave. Mr. Crabb then went away, and nly sister sent for a policeman to turn Jane out of the house, but he declined to interfere. I remained in the house several days afterwards, but Mr. Crabb never returned while 1 was there. On the 19th of November last I saw the respondent in the presence of other wit nesses. Since then my sister has supported herself on the stage. Mrs. Crabb lived with my husband for a year at Onslow-terrace, and from thence we removed to Hans place. I had reason to complain of neglect on the part of my husband. He would b e out all night, and his be haviour to me was generally bad. When he stayed out Ihhadad been playing with him respecting Playing at whist. He did usuallynot d r drink. said d a h a l t B h yi e a servant. After my confinement I was very ill for some time. The respondent went away from me on that occa sion for two or three days without telling me where he had gone. When he returned ho showed me no atten tion, but he occupied the entire time of the servants, and would not let them attend to me. 1 very often remonstrated with him about Jane. He kept her down stairs and gave her the keys. When the nurse asked for wine she would not let her have it. My husband supported her in that conduct. They went on till my sister came to me. I don't think he slept in the house after the time he left me, as my sister has described. 110 did, however, come to the house for some of his clothes. ‘Ve had had a dispute before that about some other misconduct of his. Ile was very angry about it ; but I did not know that he was going to leave me. I sent my solicitor to him, and he said that I should have £25 a quarter on application at Hoare's bank. It was paid me twice ; but on applying for it the third time, I found that the respondent's account was closed. 1 afterwards received information that he had gone away to India. From that moment I lost all trace of him, and I have never received money or letters from him since. I have, how ever, met him in the street about three times. I have maintained my child ever since. By the Judge Ordinary—l communicated with him through my attorney within a few days after he left me, for I had uo means on which to live, and I was too ill to take an engagement. I wanted my husband to coins back to me. I saw no written agreement for the payment of the £lOO a year. was content that he should live separate from me so long as that was paid. Mr. Henry 11. Murdogh—l am a merchant at Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate. From 1858 to 1861 1 resided at Calcutta. I knew Mr. Crabb, the respondent. I left him in India. He was an indigo planter's assistant. I have seen him since his return to England. That was at his office, 18, Finch-lane, where he is in a stockbroker's firm. Wm. Wright, clerk t the petitioner's solicitor, served the citation on the respondent in St. James's-street. Had been to his office at 18, Finch-lane. Maria Hockington—l live in the service of Mrs. Julia Prescott. I was with her in 1866 at 29, Stanley-villas, Chelsea. I remember Mr. Crabb coming to the house. He remained there all night, and slept with my mistress. That happened more than once. Last year I saw hint in the presence of Mrs. Polto and Mrs. Wright. Mrs. Pres cott was not the petitioner. Mr. Wright, the petitioner's attorney (called at the re quest of the court) The prisoner desired we to communi cate with her husband's soliciters,Messrs. Lake and Kendal, whose clerk had brought her £5. I was directed to arrange terms for the maintenance of her child. She told me that the clerk had informed her that if she had an attorney he was to communicate with Messrs. Lake and Kendal, with a view to an arrangement for the maintenance of the child. I saw Mr. George Lake, and my communications wore confined to that subject. There was no question of Mr. Crabb's return to his wife. A written agreement was drawn out relative to the allowance. [This was produced, and it proved to he a regular separation. deed, executed by Mrs. Crabb as well as the respondent.] The Court —ln that stare of things, what becomes of the desertion ? Dr. Spicks—The deed was void on the ground that her husband hail abandoned his right to the child ; awl it was, moreover, never acted upon. The Court -It was acted upon by the payment of the allowances twice. Dr. Spinks —The petiti o ner was only willing to live apart if the money were paid, and that arrangement has nut b on carried out. The Court—lt occurs to me that though she has con sented to live apart, her consent cannot be held to be bind ' iug on her after the failure of the respondent to pay the money. Dr. Spinks—Besides, it wa3 a case of Lloloson's choico. It was a forced assent, not a willing CULISeI4I, and was only intended on her part to be a temporary arrangement until the respondent's health was restored. The Judge Ordinary—l think, however, that it will he better that the case stand over, and see if you cart find any case in point, for 1 am perfectly clear that it is im possible to say that there was any separation at the time of the execution of the deed. _ The hearing was accordingly adjourned. at Per Ex( low Ne l prei 31 1 via] cm quo Illii Purl fiat 105 ill wit] 5 tc All to I We e ] by 1 we e . gettl th e oth e but Whi( Y o ;.! X2O