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MOSES and SON'S W INTER OVERCOATS, 19s, to 25. B oys OVER,COATS, 78. 6d. to 455. MOSES and SON beg to remind th e p u bli c E• that the cheapness of an article depends entirely on its quality. and they venture to s iy that their prices will compare favourably with those of any other w ise in _England. - 2 -- 1 MOSES and SON'S e OXFORD COATS, 17s. to 50s. CAMBRIDGE COATS, 19s. to Ns: KERTCH JACKETS, 15s. to 425. SUTHERLAND JACKETS, 19s. 6(1. to 50s. BUSINESS SUITS, 28s. to COs. EMOSES and SON'S easy and accurate system . of self-measaro enables them to execute orders by post with the guarantee of a faultless tit. MOSES and SON'S F FROCK. CO .t.TS, 245. to 635. DRESS COATS, 25d. to GOs. m ORNING TROUSERS, lls. Od. to 21s. DRESS TROUSERS, 128. 6d. to 265. MOURNINCT SUITS, 28s. to £5. - E1 MOSES and SON invite special attention • to their large stock of GEN TLEMEN'S DRESSING ROBES at 18s. to 20 Guineas the assortment is unequalled for variety of materials and designs, and neatness and elegance of finish. EMOSES and SON'S • B OYS' CLOTHING : KNICKERBOCKER SUITS, 9s. 6d. to 408. ETON SUITS, 15s. to 40s. BRIGHTON SUITS, 18s. to 48s. D RESS SUITS, 255. to 635. MOSES-and SON supply every description of E clothing, ready-made, or made to measure, for all ages, all occasions, and all classes; also Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Caps, Boots and Shoes, and complete outfits for all climates. ' All Goods marked in Plain Figures. Any tide exchanged if not worn or injured. List of Prices, with Rules for Self-measure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Ectabhshments are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when bugl oss is resumed until Eleven o'clock. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON LONDON. CORNER of MINORIES and ALDGATE. NEW OXFORD-STREET, CORNER OF HART-STREET. CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD and EUSTON-ROAD. COUNTRY BRANCH. RADFORD. YORICSEIRE. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE Solo Lessee and Manager, F. B. Chatterton.—Morning Performances every Wednesday and Saturday, until Saturday, February 25th, inclusive. THIS EVENING, (Monday), will be produced the Drury Lane Grand Comic CHRISTMAS ANNUAL, written by E. L, Blanchard, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY I and Harlequin Old Mother Shipton ! with New and Characteristic Scenery by William Beverly, whose personal services are now exclusively devoted to illustrating the produc tions of this Theatre. The general action of the Pantomime arranged by, and the whole produced under, the direction of Mr. Edward Stirling. Characters in the opening by Messrs. Fred. Yokes, IL Moreland, Charles Steyne, Fawdon Yokes, H. Naylor, Seymour, Firth, Meade, Webber F. Wright, Master Russsll ; Misses Victoria Yokes, Jessie Vokes, Rosina Vokes, Harriet Coveney, M. A. Basquerville, A. Hamilton, Hall, Florence Harvey, De Grey, Ross, Timbrell, Elphinstone, Har court, Lee, Leslie, Mills, White, Burpitt, Rivers, Russell, Hastings. The Harlequinade will include tl me popular Pan tomimists, forming a Double Company, F. Evans, and W. H. Harvey, Clowns ; Paul Herring and J. Mor is, Pantaloons ; W. Fawdon Vokes and Stonette, Harlequins ; the Misses Rosina and Jessie Yokes, Columbines ; Miss Lizzie Grosvenor, Har lequina. B. Slowman, Imitator of Birds, &c. Mr. 11. Collard, the Pocket Sims Reeves. Master Dassie, the Chickaleary Boy. E. D. Lyon, the Short Footman. Lawson and Garton, the French Pierrots. Master 11. Rawlings, Clog Dancer. La Patrie, the Baby Velocipedist. The Masks and Costumes from Designs by Vandyke Brown. The Music Composed and Selected by Mr. W. C. Levey. The Dances and Action of the Ballet, and the general business of the Children's Scenes, Invented and Arranged by Mr. John Cormack. The Comic Scenes and Tricks, &c., arranged by Mr. John Cormack and Messrs. Evans and Harvey. Doors open at Half-past Six ; commence at Seven. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Private Boxes, 1,2, 3,4, and 5 Guineas. Stalls, 7s. Dress Circle, ss. First Circle, 4s. Balcony, 3s. Pik, 2s. Lower Gallery, is. Upper Gallery, 6d. rirllE DRAGON OF WANTLEY ; or, Harlequin Old Mother Shipton, will be produced To-night (Monday) January 2, and positively withdrawn on Saturday, February 25. Places can be secured from the first until the last date. MORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY ; therefore, to prevent disappointment, an early application for seats is respectfully requested. Box-office open from Ten till Five daiIy.—THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. PiTORNING PERFORMANCES of the Grand m Pantomime, entitled the DRAGON OF WANTLEY, every Wednesday and Saturday. Children and Schools at re duced prices to the following parts of the Theatre ;—First Circle, Dress Circle, and Stalls. Box Office open from 10 till 5 daily.— THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.—Thirty eighth Night of a NEW FAIRY COMEDY. rms EVENING (Monday) at Seven, O'Keefe's Musical Piece, THE POOR SOLDIER, with selections from the original music. Patrick, Miss Fanny Wright Norah, Miss Fanny Gwynne. After which, at a quarter to Eight o'clock, a new Fairy C ome dy, in Three Acts, entitled THE PALA€E OF TRUTH. Characters by Mr. Buckatone, Messrs. Kendal, Everill, Clark, Braid, Rogers, Mesdames Robertson, Chippendale, C. Hill, Fanny Wright, and Fanny Gwynne. Act I. Garden of King Phanor's Country House. Act 11. Interior of the Palace of Truth. Act 111. The Avenue of Palms. Followed by UNCLE'S WILL. Mr. Kendal and Miss Robertson. Concluding with the Farce of THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM. Box office open daily from 10 till 5. ADELPHI THEATRE ROYAL.—SoIe Pro prietor, Mr. BENJAMIN WEBSTER ; Managers, Mr. B. WEBSTER and Mr. F. B. CHATTERTON.—THIS EVENING, at 7, a new Drama, in One Act, SMOKE. Mr. Billington, Mr. Ashley, Mr. C. H. Stephenson, Mrs. Billington, and Miss Furtado. After which, THE MISTLETOE BOUGH. Mrs. A. Mellon, Miss Elise Holt, Mademoiselle Debreaux, Mdlle. Camilla Dubois, _hiss Bellew, Miss M. Cooper, and Miss Bella Moore, Ms. Brittain Wright, Mr. John Rouse. and Mr. Odell ; And THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY, Mr. John Rouse and Miss Emma Barnett. OYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. SIVANBOROUGH. This Evening, at 7, ON AND OFF, LIVING AT EASE. Messrs. Crouch Turner ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, E. Bufton, and F. Hughes. CCEUR-DE-LION, Messrs. Terry, Paulton, Fenton, and Turner ; Mesdames Amy Sheridan, E. Bufton, Santley, Lee, Goodall, &c. VAUDEVILLE THEATRE, STRAND.- Lessees—Messrs. H. J. Montague, D. James, and T. Thorne. THIS EVENING, at 7 CHISELLING, Mr. David James; after which TWO ROSES (181st night), by James Albery. Conclude with ELIZABETH. Supported by Messrs. H. J. Montague, David James. and T. Thorne, &c. ; Mesdames AmyFawsitt, A. Newton, and Nelly Power, &c. OPERA COMIQUE, 20P, St ran d.—L essees, Messrs. H. Leslie, C. Steele,W. Nc:ton.—This most elegant Theatre in London. Great success of FOUND DROWNED ; or, Our Mutual Friend. Every Evening, at 7.45, preceded by BLUE DEVILS, at 7. Conclude with NOTHING TO NURSE. FOUND DROWNED.—Messrs. G. F. Ro we , S. Emery, John_Nelson, W. M'lntyre, Charles Warner, Edwin Stanley, Granville, and Bell ; Mesdames Ernstone, Emily Pitt, Holston, Handers, Tilly Earl, and Miss Rose Lisle. OPERA. COMIQUE.-PLASHWATER MILL LOCK. The Great Sensation Scene in FOUND DROWNED received nightly with tremendous demonstrations of applause. Prices, from 6d. to 7s. 6d. Open at 6.30 ; commence 47. , ^1 T. JA ME S'S T HEA T R E.—Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. JOHN WOOD. —LAS T NIGHTS FERNANDE. This Evening at 7.45 great play, FERNANDE, Messrs. Farren, Leeson, Lin Rayne, Murray,' and L. Brough ; Mrs. Hermann Vezin , Miss Larkin, Miss Fannie rirow , h, Miss Turner, and Mrs. John Wood.—Doors open at 6.30. At 7, TO OBLIGE BENSON. At 7.45, FERNANDE. To con clude with the Great Burlesque, BOMBASTES FURIOSO,—Box dace nto a. No fees. FIIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1871. against the Emperor's person, take the just and proper ground of refusing to assist in seating any dynasty whatever on their country's throne by force of arms. The national voice must decide the question. THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE SCHE➢IE. The action of the Prussian Government touching these protests is noteworthy. The " last" appears in Friday's Independance, not because signatures are lacking for more, but because the prisoners are forbidden to send any more protests. The Belgian papers says :—" Letters we have received in this subject reflect the most vivid indignation. We believe we are acting in the inte rests of the officers who write to us in not publishing these communications. Such publication might ex pose them to oven more rigorous treatment than they now suffer." So much for the Prussia❑ profession of not interfering in the domestic affairs of France. Imperialist agents are allowed free circulation amongst the prisoners to carry on the work of canvassing. The prisoners themselves are forbidden to protest against such insults. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--Sole L essee , Ben jamin Webster. Managers, B. Webster and F. B. Chat terton.—THlS EVENING will be performed A CHRISTMAS CAROL ; or Past, Present and Future, dramatised with the especial sanction of the late Charles Dickens, by Mr. Edward Stirling. After which will be produced an entirely new grand spectacular extravaganza, entitled LITTLE GIL BLAS ; and How he Played the Spanish D(Dence. Written by 11. B. Farnie. The music selected and arrangckl by Frank Musgrave ; the ballet, groupings, ex., by J. Milano ; the new and magnificent scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds and assistants ; the costumes designed after drawings by Gustave Dort. To conclude with HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. J. Clayton.—Box Office open from Ten till Five. GLOBE THEATRE.----Manageress, Miss illeyne. Great Attraction for Christmas.—New Burlesque by F. C. Burnand. New Company. Grand Ballet, in which the re nowned Madame Colonna and Troupe will appear. This and EVERY EVENING until further notice, at 7, BOARD AND RESIDENCE. At 7.30, DELICATE GROUND. Messrs. Walter Lacy, W. H. Vernon (his first appearance under the present management), and Miss Ma Cavendish. To be followed by a Grand New Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled THE WHITE CAT ; or Prince Lardi-Dardi and the Radiant Rosetta. Gorgeous scenery by Messrs. Fenton, Johnson, and assistants. Superb costumes and appointments. Mr. E. Danvers, Mes dames Emily Fowler, Nelly Nisbett, Rose Roberts, and Miss Montgomery (their first appearance at this theatre), in addi tion to the regular Company. To conclude with a popular farce. ROYALTY THEATRE, DEAN-STREET, SOHO. Crowded Houses. Brilliant Succoss of R. Reece's Genuine Burlesque " Whittington, Junior, and his Sensation Cat," pro duced with New and Gorgeous Scenery, Superb Costumes, Choice Music, Characteristic Dances, and Splendid Appoint ments. Every Evening, at 7.30, WEALTH. At 9.20, the New Grand Burlesque WHITTINGTON, JUNIOR, AND HIS SENSATION PAT. Concluding with THE RENDEZVOUS. Box Office open from Eleven till Five. No Fees for Booking. A.STLEY'S.—Lessee and Manager, Mr. JoHN Beum.—EVERY EVENING, Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, HARLEQUIN LITTLE TOM TITTLEMOUSE, and the Eleven Dancing Princesses ; or, Deedle Deedle Dumplin and the Silver Frog. Messrs. Atkins, Beckett, Russell, Smithe, and Simpson Misses Osborne, Armstrong, Hobson, and Madile. Maury.—Private Boxes, 31s. 6d. to 525. 6d. Stalls, ss. Dress Circle 3s. ; Boxes, 25.; Upper Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. Box Office open from 11 to 4. No charge for booking. MORNING PERFORMANCES every WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY at 2. Children half-price to Stalls, Dress Circle, and Boxes. CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION of WAXWORK k) now OPEN at 369, Oxford-street, W. (nearly opposite the Princess's Theatre). Historical Tableaux. Moveable Figures, a splendid German Christmas Tree.—Admission, is., Children half-price. Vf,► ADAME IUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view Portrait Models of the et-Emperor and Empress of the French, ?Ind Prince Imperial. Also, Marshal Bazaine, Marshal Canrobert, General Trochu, Bcc. &c. — Admission, Is. ; Children under Ten Years of age, Od. Extra Rooms, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. A / TADA ME TUSSA UD'S EXHIBITION, Baker street.—On view Portrait Models of the King and Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern. Also Count von Bismarck and Count von Moltke.—Admission ls. ; children under ten years of age, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. extra.— Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.O). rHE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, AND JARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20e Per ream. B.d. Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap pap er ................ ..... ..... 0 Superfine Cream Laid Note; much approved . 4 0 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note ;especially recommended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick ()ream Laid Note .. 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing 2 6 Large Commercial Note Papers 88., 4s. ss. and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.......... 108. Cd., 12s. 6d., , and 14 .6 Outsides Foolscap Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 4e.; ruled ditto, 4 6 Tinted Lined Note ... five quires for ls. 6d., or 5 6 New Vellum Wove "Club House" Note, five quires for 2s. O. Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 45 6d, 558 d, & 686 d .. Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6dl . per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 85... _ . COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 1 100. Polished steel files sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, inkstands, Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Oases. Desks, post free. Established 1841 TURN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY el TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whitenemprotects the enamel from eeeny, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price lb. dd. Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE, A GUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfecting this wonder ful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a morn concentrated form, arid at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., is. Bd., and 15s. each, includ ing brush. Iced Brill Wharf, Angel-passage, P 2, Upper Thames-street, Lon ion, E.C. ANY GENTLEMAN requiring the comforts of a HOME in a respectable and cheerful family, where there are no other lodgers, to board or not with the family, as required, may hear of the same by applying to A. L., Mr. Hawkins, Post Office, Liverpool-road, Barnsbury, N. THEATRES, AND AMUSEMENTS. DRURY LANE—RuIe Britannia. Dragon of Wantley. COVENT GARDEN—Lottery Ticket. Sleeping Beauty. ADELPHI—Smoke. Mistletoe Bough. HArmAnKET—The Poor Soldier. The Palace of Truth. Uncle's WilL The Spectre Bridegroom. --vv --- VABDEvlLLE—Chiselling. Two Roses. Elizabeth, or the Invisible Armada. STRAND—On and Off. Living at Ease. Cceur-de- Lion. ST. JAMES'S—To Oblige Benson. Fernande. Bombastes Furioso. OLYMPlC—Poppleton's Predicament. Nell and (Bur lesque) Paul and Virginia. ROYALTY Wealth, and Whittington Junior and his Sensation Cat. GAIETY—A Christmas Story. Alladin 11. QuEEN's—Farce. Midsummer Night's Dream. GLOBE—Board and Residence. Delicate Ground. The White Cat. Rely on my Discretion. OPERA COMIQUE—Found Drowned. Nothing to Nurse. HOLBORN—The Married Bachelor. A Breach of Promise. Jezabel. PRINCE or WALES'S. Queen Stork. Ours. Locked In. PRINCESS'S—A Christmas Carol. Little Gil Blas. He's a Lunatic. NATIONAL STANDARD—Farce. Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross. ASTLEY'S—Farce. Little Tom Tittlemouse. SADLER'S WELLS—Farce. Sinbad the Sailor. SURREY—Farce. My Son Jack. POLYTECHNIC—Professor Pepper's War Lecture. After noon and Evening. EGYPTIAN HALL—Poole and Young's Panorama of the Franco-Prussian War. AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS (Holborn)—Scenes in the Arena. ST. JAMES'S HALL.—Christy Minstrels. Every evening. PALAIS ROYAL—Professor Faber's Talking Machine ALHAMBRA—Promenade Concert. MADAME TUSSAUD'S (Baker-street) —From 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. is. ; extra rooms, 6d.. tjjt LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1871. AN ENGLISH PRISONER IN GERMANY. Germans are famous for keeping Christmas, but they do not seem inclined to allow their captives to do so, especially when those captives happen to be Englishmen. A. friend of the unfortunate Mr. Frederick Gonner Worth, the Englishman who was taken prisoner by the Germans on the 27th of October, complains that he has not been allowed to receive the Christmas presents sent him. 'Jr. Worth is detained in prison at Cologne, no one knows what for, and his friends are quite uncertain as to when they may hope for his release. As it was plain he would not be allowed to come out before Christ mas they sent him some Christmas cheer to the care of the Governor of Cologne, with the request that he might be allowed to have it. This was refused; for what reason is difficult to say, since prisoners of war are not usually treated like criminals ; and even criminals are allowed some relaxation at Christmas. ROU➢MANIA. The question whether Prince Charles of Roumania has declared his independence seems for the present settled in the negative. This is satisfactory, for this Roumanian question is far more dangerous to the peace of the East than anything that may be done in respect to the Black Sea. Turkey will not consent to give up her nominal suzerainty over the Principalities, for if she did, her power, such as it is, would be transferred wholly to Russia. Austria is equally averse from allowing the mouths of the Danube to fall into Russian hands. Both countries, in short, would fight against Roumanian independence. The positive announcement from Berlin that no declara tion of independence has been made is therefore satisfactory. it would be premature, however, to affirm that nothing of the kind is contemplated. An influential party in Roumania has this object at heart, and Russia lends willing support. THE ATTACK UPON MARSHAL PRIM. The attempt to assassinate the chief working Minister of the Spanish Government has had the usual effect. His position is strengthened; his enemies are weakened; the differences be tween him and some of the leading Revolutionists are healed up. Admiral Topete, one of the principal actors in the revolution of September 1868, has long been on indifferent terms with Prim. He was a warm supporter of the Duke of Monpensier's candid ature, whilst Prim was prepared to support al.nest anybody else. Through thii difference the Admiral left the Ministry. He now returns to office, and will officiate in place of Prim, whilst the latter is recover ing. Such is always the fruit of political murders. A NEUTRAL CONFEDERATION. A. Daily News correspondent at Brussels notices a healthy tone of public opinion in Belgium :—" The opinion is gaining ground here from day to day that, if Holland and the intermediate districts between France and Germany comprieing Luxemburg, Lorraine, and Alsace—had their neutrality guaranteed in the same way as Belgium and Switzerland, and if all these States were allowed to form a strong defensive league an 1 customs union, of which England would be the leader, wars in Western Europe would simply become impossible." This is a promising project, but there are some diffi culties iu the way. England, who has most to gain by getting together such a happy family, has no influence to do so; and the Power which would op pose it (preferring annexation to neutrality) is para mount. THE CABINET. We learn upoti trustworthy authority that the Presidency of the Board of Trade has at last been offered to Mr. Chichester Fortescue. Whether he will accept an office of £2,000 a year and give up what he has at present, £4,000 a year, is however doubtful. He may, however, prefer taking his chance for a seat in the Upper House, which would probably compensate the right hon. gentleman for the loss of income. From Ireland, meanwhile, we learn that there is little hope of any change being made in the Irish Secretaryship. The Countess of Waldo grave, whose expenditure annually in maintaining the splendour of the Irish Vice-regal court is said to be fabulous, is, so report goes, anxious that her husband should retain a popular appoint ment, and gain the spurs of the peerage after thoroughly good services to the State, rather than in a hurried manner. It is not at all unlikely that Sir William Mansfield, the late Commander-in Chief of the army in India, and now governing the Irish forces, may be soon placed in Parliament by the Government, with a view to his becoming Secre tary of War. As an Indian Administrator, Sir William gained a reputation that any military con noisseur will not deny to him, and he is thought by maby influential supporters of the Government to be the soldier best fitted to reorganise the War Department. THE SCOTCH CHURCH. Among the various questions raised of late re specting the administration of eccleciastical establish ments, the law of Patronage in the Church of Scotland has been brought under discussion. A. meeting has been held in Edinburgh under the presidency of the Lord Provost, at which resolutions were moved de claring that the present law of patronage in the Church of Scotland had been productive of serious evils t) the Church and to the country, having occasioned se cessionsfrom the Church and weakened many congre gations, and that as a strong desire prevailed through out the country to give the communicants of a parish a prevailing voice in the selection of their minister, it was desirable to abolish the present law of patro nage. Mr. Gordon, M.P., in supporting these mo tions, said that many persons had given their adhe sion to the movement in the hope that it might lead to the co-operation, if not the incorporation, of the several Presbyterian Churches of Scotland. The Marquis of Tweeddale; who was unable to attend the meeting personally, supported the object in view in a letter, in which he said he was of opinion that a "modifi cation or alteration of the present law of patronage was called for in order to sr2cure that the wishes of the congregation may be respected in the selection of their minister." The Marquis, who is himself a patron, goes so far as to advocate that the females should also have a voice in the appointment of the minister, though he is opposed to female suffrage in political matters. In spiritual affairs the welfare and happi ness of men and women are independent of each other, and therefore he wonld give all an equal right. THE hum Offuncir. The Irish Church was disconnected from the State under Mr. Gladstone's famous bill yesterday, and no doubt all the clergy of the sister island are now busily considering how they shall best settle down as ministers of religion under the Re presentative Body, or as ecclesiastical pensioners of the Crown. Among other important alterations in the Church laws of Ireland coming into force for the first time this week are the amendments in the marriage code. Henceforth licenses for marriage will be issued by surrogates as before, but the latter officers will be appointed in every case by the bishops. Formerly the Government had a selection in the matter. A second new provision is that wed dings may be solemnised up to two o'clock in the day, the limit heretofore being the hour of noon. The ceremony in all cases of marriage must be preceded by either , banns, license, or certificate of registrar, the bish o p s , however, having it in their power to give a special license for marriage at any place or time. Whileon the subject ofthe Irish Church we may mention that the Armagh Presbytery of the Irish Presbyterian Boly seem determined to enter upon the new state of things with a full sense of authority and resolution. Last week they suspended one of their clergy from the Ministry partlybecause he refused to commute his regium donum in the interest of the Church in accordance with an agreement he had made in March last, and part because he failed to deliver up the key of his former .manse. AN IRISH REBEL ON IRISH POLITICS. A. " Cork Rebel " sends a letter to the Daily News, giving an account of the convictions which, he fears not to say, " are steadily gaining ground among all classes of thinhing Irishmen." He is rather a friendly sort of Fenian on the whole. His letter is one of advice in favour of a " real Union " between England and Ireland being effected at this crisis—one in which the enemies of England have shewn themselves mighty, and when it is well known that " bitter memories" are still allowed to keep alive a positive danger in Ireland. "The Rebel" himself lives in a city where 60,000 of the 80,000 inhabitants are "actively or passively disloyal." He is, however, prepared to say that they are yet open to honourable conviction. They will be amenable like the rest of Ireland to one act on the part of England, the granting to the country an undeniable equality of independence with Eng land itself. The " Cork Rebel " is persuaded that a compromise likely for ever to cement the connection of the two islands would result from a conference of a few of the leading men of both nations. This is no time to mince a most serious question. "Ireland is at this moment in the balance for independent union with England, or an indepen dent Republic without it." RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Touching the means of preventing railway acci dents the Saturday Review has some remarks which well deserve consideration at a time when the public seems disposed to plunge into one of its periodical panicß. Tho suggestion that companies should double their lines is practically next to impossible. The expense would be such as no shareholders could be found to face. It would reduce the value of many properties by one half ; and as most of the great lines are competitive, it is obvious that a rail way which did not double its lines would have a ,great advantage over one that .did : A much more feasible proposal is to run fewer express trains. The public, it is said, do not fill the express trains, which is quite true, and they do not want to go so fast, which is doubtful. If the North-Western and the Great Northern both ran a train at the same hour and the .same price to Manchester, and the Euston train ran forty imiles miles an hour and the King's Cross twenty-five, how many travellers would pass Euston, and go on to get slow ness and safety at King's Cross ? We believe that the traffic manager of the Great Northern would be able to count them on his fingers. The Saturday Review is, therefore, brought to the conclusion that it is the public, who will not be con tent to travel loss frequently and less rapidly, that is really responsible for the accidents. If one company will not supply the demand for fast and frequent trains, another will. OFFICIAL LIQUIDATORS. "A Contributory" complains that great injury is inflicted by the present system of remunerating official liquidators of companies wound up in Chan cery. The remuneration is calculated on a scale based on the number of days employed, and the amount of assets distributed among unsecured creditors. By this means the liquidators are plainly told that the longer they are the more payment they will receive. No encouragement is offered to exp3dite the liquidation, though it is manifestly to the advantage of both creditors and contributories that every facility should be given by the court for speedy winding up. It is argued by some persons that if the per tentage were allotted to the liquidators irrespective of the time consumed by the work, they would often receive a sum quite out of proportion to their labour. The contributory replies that even in such a case there would be a positive gain, as a rapid liquidation would economise a host of other expenses. It may reasonably be inferred that very few of the parties interested would wish to see the legal proceedings, which are always sufficiently tedious, prolonged for the sake of a possible diminu tion in one branch of their expenditure. THE FIRST TELEGRAPHIC REPORT. It is not generally known that Mr. George Wilson, whose unlooked-for death has thrown such a gloom over the Christmas season in Manchester, was asso ciated with the first newspaper telegraphic report on record. He was connected with the late Mr. Ricardo in establishing the Electric Telegraph Com pany, and was assisted by Mr. Varley, the eminent electrician, who was then very young. It is said that Mr. Wilson was the first to suggest the scheme of telegraphing . public news, and this is probable enough, from his habitual sagacity and foresight. As a director of ono of the local railways, lie was engaged in laying down a line of electric wires from Manchester to Leeds in the year 1847, at the time Mr. Cobden stood for the "West Riding. Mr. Wilson, anxious to give prominence to the pro ceedings, had several miles of wire run on tempora rily to Wakefield, so that Mr. Cobden's nomination and election were telegraphed from Wakefield to Manchester. The account appeared in a second edi tion of the Manchester• Times, in the afternoon of the day itself, and this was the first of those marvellous newspaper reports by telegraph which now enable our orators, while speaking at the Land's End in the evening, to address Hull, Newcastle, and Dover by eight o'clock in the morning. WASTE TN HOUSEHOLDS. A correspondent thinks the suggestions made by "A French Lady" respecting the mismanagement of English cookery deserve attention on the special ground of the waste occasioned by our national defi ciencies in this respect. Good cooking means economy; bad cooking means waste. A notable housewife might save more at home than she could earn abroad, and a thorough knowledge of the simplicities of cookery wo'uld introduce meat into cottages, where now it is seldom seen , would turn to Recount . many an article of food now discarded, despised, or disregarded, •and would in fact increase wages by mak ing them go further. At a season when there is great and prevalent distress from the slaikness of employment, caused by the severity of the weather and the long continued depression of trade, it is a matter of no small moment that our labouring popu lation should be able to turn their scanty resources to the best account. The common fashion of laying out the hardly -earned halfcrown in bread and cheese (always new bread, of course) is about as thriftless and unprofitable a method of expenditure as could be devised. A French woman, with three francs, would give her family a succession of hot bouillis, which would puzzle an English professed cook. • THE TRUCK CO3IMISSION. The commission into the working of the truck system has just concluded a three days' inquiry at Gloucester into the " tommy shops " of the collieries and ironworks of the Forest of Dean, and the coal and iron districts of Monmouthshire. The masters of the collieries and ironworks disclaim any connec tion with the shops at the works, which are estab lished by the " butty "or middleman ; but all the masters and managers assert that the plan is a good one for the men's families, as it prevents the men from spending their money in drinking. If this were the case, there is something to be said even for the obnoxious truck system, - but it may be questioned. The system of credit is not generally a sound or provident one for work men, and the men's wives are usually strongly opposed to the truck system throughout the country. The masters say that if weekly wages were given, the men would have weekly instead of monthly spells of drinking. Sometimes after getting their wages, they will be off for three days drinking until they have spent all their money. This looks as though the certainty of getting credit at the " tommy " shop increased their natural recklessness, and certainly afforts little support to the plea of improved sobriety. THE RESTORATION SCHEME. We have previously alluded to the protests from French captive officers against a Bonapartist restora tion, which have for many days past appeared in the Independence Beige. The importance of these pro tests is very great. They strike a deadly blow at the scheme which is known to have been at least thought of by Count Bismarck, and which is now being actively pushed forward by the Imperialist adherents. The last of these protests has appeared, and the total number of signatures is over three thoimand, including several generals and many com manders of regiments. There can in no doubt as to the significance of a demonstration on this scale. Three thousand officers are one-half of the total number that capitulated at Metz, and thus they amount to such a large fraction or the whole imprisoned force that it is difficult to imagine how the "restoration army" can be organised in the face of so many malcontents. Some of the protests do not mince matters in speaking of the "man of Sedan." Others, without saying anything ADULTERATION OF CONFECTIONERY. At a Dublin police-court on Thursday the Public Health Committee prosecuted a confectioner of the city for having adulterated the sweets he sold "chiefly to the poorer classes" with chromate of lead, a substance proved by the city analyst as one inju rious to health. In the courso of the inquiry, it was stated on the authority of the Food Journal that from ten to fifteen per cent, of the confections sold in England were coloured with the chromate. No WORK TO Do. At a meeting of destitute working men held in Spitalfields, Mr. Trench spoke of the distress which prevails among the working classes of London, and said it was partly attributable to the completion of some great works, such as the Metropolitan Rail way, and the cessation of housebuilding consequent on the panic. He did not approve of relief works, believing that there was plenty of work for men to do in the world, and the cultivation of waste lands was, he thought, quite in admissible from its want of remuneration. He wished public assistance to be directed in two ways, in the promotion of emigration to thos3 lands where the supply of labour did not equal its requirements, and in assisting immigration to other parts of the country where labour was in demand. '['ho Rev. Canon Baldwin, of Toronto, made some remarks calculated to encourage those desirous of emigrating, •by assuring the meeting that all sober and industrious men might feel reasonably secure against poverty when they went out there, especially if they could turn them selves to agricultural work. Miss Macpherson stated that she had received fifty-eight dollars as contributions for her Home from boys who had been sent to Canada. A satisfactory account of some emigrants was given by the Rev. Mr. Herring, who has been out to Canada to take note of their actual condition, and stated that out of seven hundred who had been sent from Clerkenwell, only two had failed to prosper, and that v as on account of their giving way to drink. A CRUEL LANDLORD. The bakers are generally thought to be a harmless set of men. Still there has been found. one heartless member of the confraternity. This is a man named Thomas Parsons, a baker of Brompton, who, because his defaulting tenant, the wife of a carpenter, did not leave his premises on getting a notice to quit, attempted in a diabolical manner to smoke the poor woman out. This, however, was not the whole of his oppression at an inclement sesso'i. Finding that seizing the furniture and stuffing up the chimney did not accomplish his wishes, the landlord took out the window of the woman's room, and left her exposed to the bitter cold weather then prevalent. When she went to the magistrates to apply for a summons this humane baker locked her out, and that night she was obliged to sleep in the street. The magistrate before whom the hard hearted baker appeared said that although in exe cuting the power of distress, "a relic of feudal times," the man had not overstepped the limits of the law, still he had been guilty of gross oppression, and the law could not skew clemency to a man who had no regard for the feelings of others. He was accordingly fined heavily. THE LATE EARL OF ABERDEEN. An application has been made 'to the Collector of Customs, in Boston, for the papers of the schooner Hera, for the purpose of establishing the identity of the mate, George Osborne, with the missing Earl of Aberdeen. The documents which contain the sig nature of George Osborne have been photographed in pursuance of instructions from Washington and the originals will shortly be dispatched to England. The late Earl was highly accomplished, but was rather eccentric. Ile left home for the : pur pose of travelling, and on arriving in Ame:.-Ica wrote many interesting descriptions of American, life, but subsequently embarked on board the schooner Hera, in which he wa3 nominal mate. He fell over board shortly after, however, and was drowned. The o dn b e j p e ,ea c nr t ooei Osborner r nist t p 1 ona e pttsi who s h eoesfernte the result country. eqooruuifsinrttyerhyi question,a tot As st sea determine he wasiti successiont hse ifs same t ie e l h tio e George George Osborne who was teen and k nown b y persons i the estate and to the seat in the H ouse o f L or d s are neces sary to use the greatest precaution in respect to testimony. THE WEATHER. Whilst the meteorologists are fighting hard to de cide which was the coldest day of last week, it may suffice ordinary mortals to know that they were all very cold. In Herefordshire at 9 a.m. on Friday, the thermometer registered 10 deg. only; Saturday, 24th, °deg. ; Sunday (Christmas Day), 25th, 3 deg.; Mon day, 20th, 15 deg. The cold diminished a little on the 27th and following days, owing to snow, but re covered its lost ground on Friday night. Freezing point is 32 degrees. ..,-,-,-;„--);,a !,51(.5.7 , f i r • , * ,,, i - 4 . ;-:_,.._,____, - , , -- I I frlsm i.,, ,, , i ,-„r cov, - 11 gin Li , _,s,__F-- -, ,,i::, -- (.„ HER MAJESTY. OSBORNE, Jan. 1. The Queen walked out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, attended Divine service at Osborne this morn- On dit, that the Court Festivities usually held in Brussels in January will not take place this year on account of the war. HopELEss.—A. letter from a ycung officer in the French army of the Loire, says :—" My dear Parents, — I am quite well, but I have lost all hope that France can recover from the blows which she has received. You may say to all those who chatter about politics that France is conquered and betrayed, and that she will be again. Why ? Because three dragons rule in France— Indifference, Ignorance of Military Art, and Party Spirit, which devour, and will devour, France. Panic is in the French army. All the chiefs cry to the soldiers,`Sauce qui pent.' First, national indifference. No one cares for aught but himself. National utility is extinct Our chiefs at the table, at the cafe, in the billiard room, at play—behold their life. They dream of nothing but to parade and to gossip. The rest are becoming even more depraved."—Another says :—" We have seen arrive at Vendome soldiers from all corps, not knowing where were their regiments ; artillery without guns, cavalry with horses which they knew not how to keep. In fine, nothing could be more sad than to see that mass of soldiers in want of everything. All those whom wo have interrogated say that it is useless to fight, for they no longer count on the least success. They have done what they could, and have arrived at nothing. They are completely demoralised." LITERATURE. ,BLANCHARD JERB,OLD'S CHRISTMAS STORY. Ilfadge ; or the Fairy Content. By Blanchard. Jerrold. One vol., pp. 184. J. C. Hotten. As seasonable and delightful a little book as any pub lished this Chrismastide is Blanchard Jerrold's homely fairy tale about Madge and the Plum Pudding. It is illustrated by close upon a hundred woodcut pictures, shew ing the child reader the industry involved in the produc tion of one of those delectable masterpieces. Orange and citron and lemon are among the candies. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves are among the spices. The flour kneaded together with milk and sugar and eggs and suet into a delicious compost, becomes a depository not only for these luscious ingredients, but for countless plums and currants and sultana raisins, with a delicate flavouring of brandy-sprinklings, until, having passed through one fiery ordeal of considerable duration, it attains a sort of convivial apotheosis• by means of another—blue and lambent and flickering and evanes - cent—and is crowned with a sprig of green-glittering, red berried holly—prince, king, emperor of all confectionery. It is the history of the creation, of the rise, the triumph, and the eventual dismemberment of this imperial dish that the author of this charming little child's story-book relates with a gracious ingenuity worthy of Hans Christian Andersen. Turning over these pictured pages, and foreseeing the eagerness with which they will be thumbed and conned by the young ones in many a nursery and playroom in this holiday season, when the old and the new year clasp hands, we cannot but commend the graceful thought out of which the goodly volume has sprung into exist ence. And while doing so we cannot also but recall to mind for a moment in passing the indefatigable assiduity of the pen inscribing it. There would be but little extrava gance if we were to say of anyone who is the inheritor of a name already eminent, that, starting on a career of his own, he is already, at starting, heavily weighted in the race for distinction. The writer of the little book now under notice—a mere graceful freak or whim thrown off in a careless moment like the "Crackers for Christmas" by the Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, but thrown off in each instance, however carelessly, most gracefully—the author of "Madge, or the Fairy Content , began the careerhe hasbeen now sometime running so sue cessfully, doubly weighted in that way as his name itself indicates. Addressing literally the million week by week through the popular newspaper his father's name and genius first raised to its exceptional circulation, Blanchard Jerrold has, while strenuously discharging his edi torial duties in his capacity as a journalist, contrived at the same time to secure to himself in other ways - a distinct repu tation. His books on Paris we would put on the same shelf as that " Faggot of French Sticks," which, to our mind, is Sir Francis Head's happiest production. . His " Cool as Cucumber" is one of the most delightful farces that ever was written, as anyone who has ever seen Charles Mathews in it (and who hasn't ?) will readily admit. His papers on the Poor of London published nearly ten years ago lend weight to the rumour that he has since then, by his researches on the Continent, gone far towards master ing a knowledge of the condition of the poor in several of the other countries of Europe. An authentication of this, so far as it relates to France, he afforded, in fact, throught he medium of the work entitled " The Children of Lutetia." He has written stories like " The Progress of a Bill," and " The Disgrace to the Family." He has written comedies like ;" The Chatterbox " and " Beau Brummell." And he has been contributing, fitfully, of course, but very industriously, all the while to the current periodicals. It is in our remembrance of all this industry and of all this diversity of labour that—child's story though it is —rather, indeed, we should say, because it is a child's story book—we are disposed to commend " Madge, or the Fairy Content," with all possible cordiality as a most seasonable Christmas or New Year's offering. It carries the young reader off to the ends of the earth in imagina tion, enabling him to "survey mankind from China to Peru ; " and it does this in merely illustrating by pen and pencil the variety of industry involved in the fabrication of a genuine English Plum Pudding. The Piccadilly Annual. J. C. Hotten. A capital title and an excellent miscellany. It is the first of its name, and it is to be hoped that it will not be the last, for it is certainly in its way a marvel of cheapness, of variety, and of entertainment. The very cover is alluring, though, remembering the name of the Annual, it can hardly be regarded as appropriate. A picturesque chalet among snow-clad firs and Alpine mountains, exquisitely colour-printed, can hardly be regarded as an apt sym bol or exemplar of Piccadilly. Dead and living authors are among the contributors. Among the former are Charles Dickens and Tbackeray, Albert S mith and Dudley Costello. Among the latter are Longfellow and Lowell, Bret Harte, and Blanchard Jerrold., The first paper is that powerful record founded by Dickens upon the infamous career of the poisoner Wainewright, already delineated under the name of Varley as one of the bad heroes in Lord Lytton's romance of crime, entitled "Lucre tia, or the Children of Night." Costello tells a ghost story, Longfellow rings out " The Alarm Bell of Atri," Mark Twain tickles the reader in the midriff with some quaint "memoranda," Albert Smith calls back the dead past for an instant with a reminiscence from his " Mont Blanc by recounting to us all over again the performance " Der Kleine Kasper." Bret Harte has a charming recollection of a reading of " The Old Curiosity Shop" in the Far West, which he commemorates in some tender lines, entitled " Dickens in Camp." Other memories of Charles Dickens there are in the annual, but they are fromspers edw the th pen i w o o f o u r t . s J . H F s m o American coaf the publisher.n very few Robert Brough's parody of Edgar Poe's "Ra ven ," inter parodies really "tolerable and to be endured." Sketches by ,Thackeray, like all his drawings, are remarkable for their combination of coarseness and comicality, their crudity and their character. Orpheus Kerr's specimen of an adaptation under the heading " Mystery of Mr. E. Brood," simply passes our comprehension. Varied letter-press and abundant illustrations, brought to gether from the most widely scattered sources, all contrive in combination to render ," The Piccadilly Annual " as pleasant a miscellany for a winter's evening as any reasonable mortal could wish to secure for the chimney corner. THE CAPTAIN-GENERAL OF CUBA.—American papers state that General Valmaseda had assumed com mand of the Island of Cuba. The ex-Captain. General, Be Rodas, left on the 15th for Spain. There is a characteristic story of General Man teuffel's " liberality " at Rouen. The general sent for a barber, who consequently attended upon him at the inn. The general next sent to the innkeeper for a napoleon, and gave it to the barber for his services. FRENCH WAR VESSELS OFF NEW YORK. Among the documents in the correspondence of the State Depart ment accompanying the President's Messa ,, e is a despatch from the Secretary of State to Mr. Washburne, relating to the presence of French war vessels at the entrances to New York harbour and other harbours on their coast. The Secretaty says nothing had come to his knowledge to justify him in saying that the hospitality offered by the United States' Government to the armed vessels of both belligerents had been abused, but the presence of armed French vessels so near the ports would injuriously affect the commerce of the United States. These representa tions Mr. Fish made directly to M. Berthemy, owing to the tardiness of communication with Paris, and the French Minister laid before the State Department a letter from the commander of one of the French vessels at New York, in which the latter stated that he had put in under stress of weather and for repairs, having no intention to watch for the German steamers. COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—A. serious colliery explo sion occurred on Friday evening at the Mear Hay Col liery, near Longton, Staffordshire, belonging to Mr. Sparrow, by which seven men—Thomas Reece. senior, Thomas Reece, junior, Noah Hawkins, Henry Hollins, William Ball, John Holmes, and William Mason—wero more or less seriously injured. The management of the colliery seems to have been almost faultless. The venti lation has been perfect, and gas has never been discovered in the pit; so that the men were allowed to work with naked candles. Early in the morning a fireman examined the workings, and reported the pit to be safe before the other men commenced operations. Between eleven and twelve o'clock, however, there was a fall of roof, and the gas generated in the " waste " became suddenly libe rated, and coming into contact with a naked light caused an explosion. Several men, immediately upon disco vering the presence of gas, threw themselves down,, and were saved by the good ventilation of the pit. The seven men who were injured were taken to the Longton College Hospital. COURTS-MARTlAL.—Lieutenant Joseph Edward. M`Neale, of the Royal Marines, serving on board the Northumberland, was tried by court-martial on board the Royal Adelaide on Saturday for desertion. Prisoner had leave for twenty-one days, and at the expiration of that time he did not return. He pleaded guilty, and called Captain Carrington, of the Narcissus, with whom he had sailed for eighteen months in the Caledonia, to give him a character for attention to his duties during that time. After some consultation, the prisoner was ordered to be dismissed the service. A second court tried Daniel Burgoyne, ordinary seaman, of the .14-0 1 ; court, for desertion. The prisoner waitried at Portiall; some since for insubordinaon, and sentenced to nu l months' imprisonment. He was waiting on board his slog for an order directing to what gaol he should be sent , nn " on the 17th of December he broke away from the sentrYci hid himself in a cutter, which Was going ashore, escaped. The Court sentenced him to twelve month imprisonment, to commence at the expiration of his 1 3 4 vious sentence, and ordered him to be dismissed service. THE EUROPEAN WAR. The SUN is Published Every Morning at EIGJT r O'CLOCK, with SOME HOURS' LATER NEWS than any other paper. This edition will always contain the LATEST NEWS of the WAR, and of all other events.