The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-05 00:00:00

HRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James Hall,
C Piccadilly, EVERY EVENING, at 8; Wednesdays and
Saturdays, 3 and S.—Great success of the Holiday Programme,
which will le repeated until further notice. Company inewased
to 3: performers, Novae, Adams, T. Mudge, Crocker, Ritter,
Pedro Stirling, Japanese Tommy, and Hr. Richard Davis, the
Christy's Eight star Comedians, and their powerful Vocal and
InStruuteltal Ltand7the talk of London.

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FaUtentl., as. • stalls, as. ; arcs, the. : gallery, le : Juveniles
under 1.,. hall price to stalls and area. Tickets and plates at
Mr llatellelts Library. an, Ohl Lond•street . Mown.
Prowse, Cheapaide : and at Mr. Austin's Ticket Unice,
Mr. FREDERICK MI:WM% Manager.

QTODA RE'S (Madame, Widow of the late Colonel
THEATRE et NINTERY. EUMIAN-HALL,
Piccadilly.

Illusion, '• WHERE Is sIIE t" will shortly be produced.

QTODA R E (Madame). Great success of
ilirS IIE:" the funniest Ventriloquist in the World.
t W JestiT and Madame st.slarv'a CHRISTMAS DISTRIBU-
TION of IltlisliNTS. Magic. by 11r. Firbank Burman, pupil of
I olonel nn.lare. "sphinx." Marvel of Mecca," and 'lltasket
Trick." EVERY EVENING at s, Wednesday and Saturday
M.•ruin¢r at 3—Admission, Is. and 25.: stall., Ss.: schools and
children at half-price .Meats secured at the lUils;Moe, from 11
till and at Mitchell's, 34 Old Road &tract. —Mr. JA.M.113
Wray ER, )1 an ager.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High
Hollsons.—This very elegant and spacious establishment
haring linen entirely redecorated, OVEN E% ER V' EVEN I NO. The
grand Nth& conducted by Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform nigh try
a choke selection of operatic and dams music. Open at Mid-
point e . close at It Admission. Is.

HAVANA SEGAR AGENCY, 2, Canute-road
Docks, Southampton, and 77, REOENT-STREET,LONDON
two doors from St. James's Hall'.—The proprietors draw attem
Hon to the success which has attended the establiahment of this
agency, and which has resulted in the supply of their imports-
tams to many of the most Important clubs hotels, and private I
cousunicrs in the kingdom. The stock offered to the attention
at connoisveurs comprises nearly SOO kinds of the choicest
productions of the most celebrated Havana manufactories, and
Is the finest selection of Havana wars at present existing in
Europe, the whole teing the exclusive importation of this esta-
blishment from its agents and resident buyers in Havana, who,
from bung experience, exercise the greatest cure in selecting only
the finest brand. and sorts, and who ship the same direct to the
warehouses In the Southampton Docks. Than advantages
enable the proprietors to supply (JUAE.ANTEED HAVANA
SOUS ss, wholesale and retail, at prices lower for the respective
kinds thou it is possible for other houses to quote, Terns, cash,
or an undoubted Introduction. Prospectuses on application to
the proprietors WoLLT, PHILLIPS, and Co.
Havens Semir and Counnisdon Agency, Southampton,
mid 77, VAlentstreek Loudon-

THE SUNDAY GAZETTE,
THREEPENCE.

THE SUNDAY GAZETTE,
TURZUENCS

THE SUNDAY GAZETTE,
TUREEPKNCE

THE SUNDAY GAZETTE
of TO-MORROW wM contaln'apealal Intellialince ot pest
public Interest and Importance.
PRICE THREEPENCE.

1111 HE SUNDAY GAZETTE
can be bad ot all Nene Agents to the vicinity of London
by 9 o'clock, and at the Mee, 18, Welllngton-street, Strand,

THE WORKING MER'S COLLEGE.

The Christmas converaazione of the Working
Men's College wee held last evening in the rooms of the
institution, Great Ormond-street. This college was
founded in the year 1854. The greet majority of the
students are working men, and the teachers are, as a rule,
either metubers of the universities, and of different liberal
professions, or men who have themselves been students in
the college. The purpose of the institution is to unite
these classes together by associating them in the common
work of teaching and learning. It provides instruction at
the smallest possible cost (by mean. of unpaid teachers) in
the subjects with which it is most desirable that English-
men should be acquainted, and thus endeavours to place a
liberal education within the reach of working men. Nor
has the attempt been hitherto unattended by success. Since
the close of the first terra the number of students has in-
creased from 145 to 509. This increase of numben has rendered
necessary a corresponding increase of accommodation ;
and at the present moment the operations of the institu-
tion are greatly ,cramped for want of larger and more
suitable buildings. In the year 1857 the hired house in
which the college was first established was found too small,
and the large freehold house flaw occupied was purchased,
with its garden, for 1.5001., of which 1,0001. was raised by
loan, and 5091. was generously presented by the princil,
the Rev. F. D. Maurice. The debt which was so created
has since, by savings from the current Mame and unso-
licited donations, been reamed to 4001. Now that serious
hindrance is again experienced from the want of space, the
committee have determined to erect upon the ground be-
hind the existing house a suitable building, containing a
room or rooms for the art department, to super-
sede the rooms now occupied by the drawing claws,
which are entirely unfit for the special purposes of an
art school ; • moderate sired hall for general meetings,
lectures, and social gatherings ; a room or rooms for the
adult school, which has been found to be a valnable ac-
cessory to the college ; a room for a museum, which
should also serve as a natural history clam room ; and a
few small rooms for classes and general purposes. The
site being already secured, the committee have been ad-
vised that such a building as this can be erected in a plain,
but good style for between 3,0001. and 3,5001. ; end to
raise that amount they have determined to appeal for the
first time in the history of the undertaking to the general
public. About 1,0001. has already been raised, his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales costributing 25 guinea,, and
Professor Maurice, the principal, 100/. ; but about 2,5001.
more will be needed to complete the work.
Although the weather last evening was by no means
favourable to such a gathering, there was a good muster of
students and their friends of both sexes, ancl many of the
gentlemen engaged in the work of teaching were present
during the whole or part of the proceedings. Almost all
the rooms of the college were devoted to the reception and
entertainment of the guests. Tea was served in the
library ; the rooms usually occupied by the drawing classes
were hung with a collection of sketches executed by
students in the art school ; and the principal class rooms
were devoted to the general entertainments of the evening.
These rooms, which in old times were the drawing or
receiving rooms of the mansion, had been tastefully and
effectively decorated for the occasion by two of the stu•
dents. In this work a liberal use bad of course been made
of the evergreens, without which at this time of year no
chamber decoration is complete; but in addition to this
the walls were hung round with coloured shields, bearing
the names of celebrated poets, historians, artists, philso-
pliers, &c., the thinkers and the workers of all
times and of all countries. The drawings which
were exhibited in the upper rooms included pencil,
chalk, and water colour sketches, as well as some
finished pictures (in water colours), which showed great
merit, and bore marks of being the result of really earnest
and painstaking labour. Among the coloured sketches
were a small series executed by two young men while on
an excursion in North Devon. All these were very good,
and particular attention was attracted by • humorous
drawing which represented the arrival of the tourists at
Lynton in a heavy shower, or rather a storm of wind and
rain. After tea the guests mustered in the principal class
rooms, where the members of the vocal musks class enter-
tained them with a selection of glees and part wings, and some
short readings were given by students of the college. In
the intervals between these performances the visitors
amused themselves by inspecting the wonders of insect
life through microscopes, or turning over the prints or
photographs with which two or three small tables were
covered. Upon one of the walls were hung photographic
copies of Deri's illustrations to " Elaine," executed by
Mr. Jeffrey, one of the drawing masters, and these did
not fail to attract a large amount of notice and admira-
tion. Professor Maurice, the Principelof the college, arrived
early in the evening, accompanied by Professor Brewer
and other friends, and remained some time. He was
very cordially received by the assembled guests, and ap-
peared to enter heartily into the amusements of the even-
ing. The next term of the college commences on the ith
inst.

THE Vicrosua CROSS.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to signify her intention to o'nfer the
decoration of the Victoria Cross on Private Samuel Hodge,
4th West India Regiment, for his bravery at the storming
and capture of the stockaded town of Tubabecolong, in
the kingdom of Barra, River Gambia, on the evening of
the 30th of June last. Colonel D'Arcy, of the Gambia
Volunteers, states that this man and another, who was
afterwards killed (pioneers in the 4th West India Real.),
answered hie call for volunteers, with axes in hand, to hew
down the stockade. Colonel D'Arcy having effected an
entrance, Private Hodge followed him through the town,
opening with his axe two gates from the inside which
were barricaded, so allowing the supports to enter, who
carried the place from east to west at the point of the
bayonet. On bitting to the (lards through the west gate,
Private Hodge was presented by Colonel D'Arcy to his
comrades as the bravest soldier in their regiment, a fact
which they acknowledged with loud acclamatiotui.—Gazette.
A man named Thomas Cox has given himself up
to the polio. of Cork as the man who fired at and wounded,
though not mortally, Mr. Worland, a gentleman of pro-
perty in the county of Clare, four years ego. Since
then Cox has been working in Liverpool as a quay
l►bourer. _ . .

ltTah Campton, who was tried, found guilty,
and sentenced, at the recent Warwick anises, for the wil-
ful murder of her infant child at Foleshill, but who was
afterwards respited, has been ordered to be kept in penal
servitude for We.