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d'IHIIISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall,
Piciadilly, EVERY EVENING, at 8. Wednesdays and
Saturda)%. 3 and a. —Great sueciais of the Holiday Progriunme,
which w ill Ite raTeated until fa 'her notice. company Increased
to purl..rmers. M ro. A.lanis, T. Mudge, Crocker, Ritter,
Pedro stilling. Japanese Tommy, and Mr. Richard Darla, the
t'bri ,ty", Eirht star Comedians, and their powerful Vocal and
lustruuleutal land—the talk of Loudon.

ROME.

—I learned that in consequence of ilia frequent
usessination of sentries, chiefly Frenchmen, at that
place by the natives, a general order had been
issued to the regiment to allow no stranger to ap-
proach within thirty paces of the sentry boxes after
dark, and instructing the sentry to fire if the in•
trader should neglect the third challenge. As the
penalty of an unconscious infringement of this re-
gulation, an Italian was recently shot dead on the
spot. As this regulation applies also to Rome, it
is well to be aware of it, for • fortnight ago on the
Pincio, soon after 10 p.m., I was myself rudely
challenged by a sentinel, who had, I believe, fallen
asleep at his post. Being then unacquainted with
his instructions, I was innocently approaching to
make further inquiries, when he made a gesture,
the look of which I liked so little that I thought it
prudent to beat a hasty retreat.
From the same Zonave, whose conversation
relieved the tedium of awaiting the Papal proces-
sion, I learnt that, since the arrival of the regi-
ment in Rome, he had heard of bat one cue of
stabbing, the victim of which—a Frenchman—had
quarrelled with an Italian in a cafiS, and was lying
in hospital in a most dangerous condition.
But now the Papal procession is appreaebtng,
headed by the Thurifer and cross-bearer, followed
by Greek and Latin deacons and sub-deacons,
cardinal bishops and cardinal deacons, patriarchs,
an Armenian bishop, conspicuous from his oriental
appearance and rounded mitre, and a mixed crowd
of prelates, canons, monsignores, &c. In the
midst of these, preceded and immediately sur-
rounded by his Guardia. Nobile, is borne aloft,
seated on his throne, shaded by a silken canopy,
and flanked by huge fans of ostrich feathers, the
Holy Father himself, who, with his two fingers
uplifted, dispenses as he goes along his blessing to
the kneeling crowd. As the procession defiled
past me there was an air of such barbaric splen-
dour about it, that I was irresistibly reminded of
Presoott's description of the approach of Monte-
zuma on the occasion of his going out to meet
Cortes. Indeed, I think that most of the unfaith-
ful spectators present would have found it easier
tobelievo that they were witnessing the theatrical re-
presentation of some Pagan religious spectacle
than attending an act of Christian worship.

SPAIN.

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ROME, Dna 25.

CLOSING OF THE CONGRESS AGAINST
THE DEPUTIES.
MADRID, Dec. 29.
The following official communication has been
addressed by the Captain-General of New Castile to
the civil governor of the province, in reference to a
clandestine proclamation which has been recently
circulated against the government :
Most Excellent Sir,—lt has eome to my knowledge that
some persons , enemies of public order, have drawn up and
signed • demonist prolaeing against; tbe decrees Mined by
the governmeat more than two months ago, and received
b the country with she demonstrations of spontaneous
o and liberality all have witnessed. They
further condemn the non-assembly of Cortes during
the present year, and falsely and maliciously pervert the
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coamitutional precepts. lam firmly persuaded that dery
ties of the nation, mosideriag that they have been
responded from their political act., and that this legally
is is • state of siege, have not taken part in pr •
which I deplore, and am imperatively celled upon to chas-
tise severely. dine, however, it has ban ascertainedthat the document in question has been exhibited for clan-
destine signature in the Chamber of Deputies, thus vials..
ing the laws in the sanctuary in which they are formed, I
have determined that a similar scandal shall not be re-
peated, and your excellency will therefore see that the
orders and arrangements I dictated in the Congress
last night in your preemie are executed with
alh,Lreateut =adages. Them orders prohibit
to that Ears* to all persons
the conservative members and the 17 officials reef=
the building and employed as watchmen and home-
keepers. Your excellency win be good enough to provide
these persona with cards, to be shown to the sentinabi, end
I shall give orders to the otiose of the guard which I have
posted at the entrance that no person, unless furnished
with such a card, 'hall be permitted to enter or leave the
building.
It only remains for me to recommend your excellency to
prevent, by the exercise of your usual vigilance, all meet-
ings for political purposes of any kind or of any number
of penmen If through this watchfulness the clandestine
document in question, or any other of a similar nature,
should fall into your excellency's hands, you will imme-
diately proceed to arrest the persons whose signatures
it may bear, and convey them to the =Weary
prison!,
(thereto await their trial by the court-martial ap-
pointed or purpose. Should your excellency ascer-
tain that meetings of the above character are held at the
residence of any person of the military profession you
will be good enough to communicate with me, is order that
I may take the proper steps against him, which I shall
immediately do, however elevated in rank or estimable
from personal qualities he may be. Nothing is se great
as justice, nothing so estimable as peace and order.
God preserve your Excellency many years.
Madrid, Dec. 28, 1866. Count Da CHEST&
On receipt of the above, Senor Marion, the civil
governor, forwarded • notification to the conserve-
' tive members of Congress, communicating the
ordersof the Captain General that they alone, besides
the officials employed in the building, would be
permitted to enter the Congress. Senor Marfori
subsequently issued the following general order to
M.adrid police :
Referring to my general order of yesterday, I again
all the officials in my department to use every
diligence in order to obtain possession of a clandestine
document protesting against certain acts of the govern-
ment, which appears to have been pined by some persons
enemies of public order. I also again request my subor-
dinates to be particularly watchful with regard to any
meeting of a political character in which the said Eiroteet
may be discussed, and to arrest all the persons present at
any such meeting, regardless of any consideration, what-
ever may be their number or their place of meeting, con-
ducting them at once to the military prisons, there to
await the decision of his Excellency the Captain-General.
Finally, I request those dependent upon my authority to
give me immediate information should they ascertain that
rich meetings are held in the house of any military per-
sonage.
Madrid, Dec. 28, 1866.

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under half price to stalls and area. 'rickets and places at
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22, Mr. FREDERICK 131.11.02265, Manager.

Having just returned from attending high mass
at St. Peter's, where the Pope officiated in person,
I will at once, without attempting anything like a
formal description of the ceremony, which would
be quite beyond me, endeavour to give your readers
some amount of what I saw and heard there, pre-
mising that at this moment (2.15 p.m.), being
blessed with a lodging looking to the south, I am
writing in a fireless room, with the sun streaming
in at my open windows. The sunshine, however,
Which is cheering the heart of your correspondent,
has also brought to life a swarm of flies, which are
buzzing about me in a most unseasonable manner,
and which, settling with the usual persistency
of Italian flies, seem bent upon enjoying a very
merry Christmas at my expense. To complete the
pictureof Roman Christmas weather, it is, however,
neoemsary to add that it is mid-winter at the
back of the house, towards the north, where it is
still freezing, and the ground white with hoar-frost,
as is Vss case wherever the rays of the sun do not
penetrate.
Were it not for the salvo of artillery which is
tired at midnight from the Castle of St. Angelo,
announcing the fact authoritatively, it would not
be e4sy to fix the precise hour at which Christmas-
day may be said to begin at Rome. For, from the
hour of Ave Maria on the evening of December
24 onwards commences a succession of anticipated
matins(eaid over night for the sake of convenience),
followed by a series of pre and post-midnight
mamas, running into Primes, Tierces, and other
weird services, or, more correctly, offices, quite un-
intelligible to good protestant!' ; so that but for the
echoes of the cannon—that most audible and
effective of thunders from the Vatican—you would
suppose that Christmas-day in Rome, like the
Jewish Sabbath, began at sunset on the previous
evening.

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111 st KEY. ECI I'IIAN-11 %LG. PICCADILLY.
WHERE IS SIIEr u new Illusion, will shortly be produced.

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Madan., suAlAr,'s CIIRBI'M A$ 111,1RIBUT1OlV of PRESENTs.
magic. •' Marvel of Mecca," and "Basket Trlelc," an
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Adittisvion, H. and 2s. ; stale, St. ; schools and children, half-
prov seats secured at the Boa-office, from 11 till 6; and at
Mitehell's,33, Old Bond street. —llr. JAMES WEAV KR, Manager.

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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High
II "'born—This very elegant and spa inns establishment
having been entirely redecorated, )11:). I VERY KV F.N INO The
grand b md, conducted by Mr. W. M. racket, will perform nightly
a choice selection of operatic and dance musk: Open at half
past n cloee at It. Admission. Is.

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7, ..ud Al rulutaa, aeconlina to the acoommodation.
, rd P.kniktgt L.,ludre a lull supply or cooked provisious.
.e ,es for C.a., .1s end the United States honked thoughoa
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ljd ti scEY, .41. E inn WLlllaat-etreet. London.

ARRIS'S CRYSTAL SPECTACLES of well
known excellence can only he had at 61, Oreat Raisaelb
street, cupcake the British Museum Oates. The vety best steel
trams Crystal Svcs:tub's, las and UM—THOILAS HAI*A and
DUN C. 11.1121011 as panne aminst persons elan Own ems
Established 17a0. Nu travellers or agents.

At an early hour this morning, or at any rate at
an earlier hour than your correspondent was there
to see, the two conspicuous banners, on one of
which are blazoned the triple crown and cross-keys,
emblematic of the papacy in general ; on the other,
the particular arms of Pio Nono—the lions rampant
(well may they be rampant now), on a light blue
field and the red and white bars—were hoisted on
stout flag-staffs on the lower portion of the Castle
of St. Angelo, a long way beneath the giddy height
at which the ordinary papal banner floats by the
side of the archangel, who lords it over Hadrian's
colossal tomb. Only on the very highest days and
festivals are these banners displayed in public.
These gaudy insignia, and the papal dragoons on
duty at the bridge. gave me, as I approached St.
Peter's, the first indication of the great holiday
which Rome and all the Christian world is keeping
to-day.
In the Piazza of St. Peter's, which dwarfs almost
to nothing every thing admitted within its huge
embrace, reducing even the great fountains to ap-
parently insignificant jets of water, the crowd of
cumbrous ecclesiastical coaches, ambassadorial,
princely, and royal equipages—for is not the ma-
jesty of, Naples within the building i—looked at a
little distance like a collection of Tom Thumb's
carriages ; and the throng of human beings buz-
zing about the entrance of the cathedral like a
swarm of ants, at which you must look closely
before you perceive that the tiny things are in
motion at all.

THE OPENINO OF PIALIAIIENT.-111( THE QUEEN,
• PROCLANATION.—Victoria, R.—Whereas our larliament
stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 15th day o January
next, we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby
publish and declare, that the said parliament shall be fur-
ther prorogued, on the said 15th dry of January next, to
Tueaday, the stli day of February next; and we have given
order to our Chanosllorof thatpart of our I 'tilted Kingdom
called Great Britain to prepare a commission for proroug-
ing the same acconlingly ; and we do to roll further, with
the advice aforesaid, declare our royal will and pleasure
that the said parliament shall, on the said Tuesday, the
sth day of I. ebruary next, assemble and be holden for
the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs; and
the lords spiritual and temporal, and the knights, citizens,
and burge see, and the couunimioners for shires and burghs
of the House of Commons, are hereby ',mired and com-
manded to give their attendance amonhowly, at West-
minster. on the said Tuesday, the sth day of February
next.--Given at our Court at Osborne-house, Isle of
' Wight, this 28th day of December, in the year of our
Lord 1866, and in the 30th year of our reign.—Gazette.
Sin J•wim B•ooKE.—Sir James Brooke, some
time Rajah of Sarawak, is dangerously ill, having been
seized with a serious attack of paralyais. Ile lies at pre-
sent in a critical state.

He who would contemplate flunkeydom in its
most grotesque forms and phases should come to
Rome and study it at the Vatican, St. Peter's, or
any other of the Roman churches, where the Pope
may happen to be officiating in state. Outside the
building are to be seen, basking like old hounds in
the sunshine, while their masters are at their
devotions within, lank and lean veterans in every
stage of decay, whose plush breeches and motley
liveries—a world too big for their shrunken forms
—proclaim them to be still serving men, but who
look mostly quite incapable of rendering any
human being a service. Still broken down as they
appear, they are exactly in keeping with the seedy
antiquated coaches, behind each of which two or
three of them cling, and which. as they go
rumbling through the streets, look as if they
would crumble away or go to pieces beneath the
weight of a single Belgravian flunkey with an
ordinary development of calves. Yonder go two of
them, whose costume, consisting of hats with
broad gold-bands extending half way up the black
and surmounted with nodding plumes, red cloaks,
with ample folds thrown toga-like over the
shoulders, and bright yellow stockings, distin-
guishes them remarkably from the herd, and
pleases 17110 particularly.
While the Piazza outside, and the approaches to
St. Peter's are thronged with these shrivelled, but
unmistakable flunkeys, within the cathedral itself
you come upon doubtful-looking individuals in
every variety of mediaeval costume, as to whose
proper classification and position in society you
are hopelessly puzzled. For instance, take those
picturesque-looking attendants dressed in suits
of solemn black, lace ruffles, velvet tunics and
hosen, black silk-stockings, shoes and buckles, who
glide about silently, like so many Hamlets. Are
they gentlemen, are they flunkeys, or are they
Roman senators, as the other day I was gravely
assured that they were I Then those others, in
lace neck-ties, and suits of maroon-coloured silk,
are they Monsignores, are they door-keepers, are
they male housemaids employed to dust the tombs
of the Popes in St. Peter's, or what are they 1
One thing at any rate is evident, that to-day
motley is the only wear. Those black-helmed and
booted giants, standing some eight feet high in their
bearskins, and, like tall cypresses overshadowing
the bright parterre of uniforms, which throng the
nave of St. Peter's, belong to the force of
Gendarmeria-a-cavallo.
When I entered St. Peter's the service was
already half over, but I arrived in time for the
most impressive episode of the ceremony, when
the troops on duty ground arms in the midst of the
creeping silence which is maintained during the
elevation of the host, and which is at last broken
by the liquid notes of the silver trumpets, which
are only sounded at that particular moment.
The duty of keeping the nave of St. Peter's clear
for the Papal procession, which for the last seventeen
years has been performed by the French troops,
was on the present occasion discharged by the
Palatine Guard—a kind of Roman National Guard
—it having been judged more prudent to employ
native Romans in the service than the Z01111%116, to
whom, I understand, it should have fallen by
rights. From one of these Zouaves standing by my
side—an Englishman, lately arrived from Velletri

SIR R. PALMER ox Cnriu it HYMNODY. —The
lecture on church hymnody which Sir Rom.dell Palmer
read at the Church Congress has been published in a
separate form by Macmillan,. Ito extent, Ile well as the
interest of the subject, and the knowledge and ability with
which it wan treated, made this re-publication desirable.
The same publishers announce a " Hymnal," chiefly from
Sir Roundell Palmer's " Book of Praise."

NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEM:VE.—The second
great Christmas party of this ateociation (which differs
from the Alliance in that it does not seek to invoke legis-
lative aid in the interests of teetotalism, but depends en-
tirely upon moral suasion) was held last night at Exeter-
ball. About 1,:.130 persons sat down to tea, but the doors
being afterwards opened to the general public, the number
of the audience was largely increased befo.e the speaking
began. The chair was taken by Mr. Mallet Gilpin, M.P.,
who expressed the most fervent attaclicient to the prin-
ciple of total abstinence. It was 32 ye, re *lace he had
taken the pledge, and every year bad increased his zeal
for the cause. Its was, however, never more convinced
of its truth than by what be had seen while lately keep-
ing Christmas. He was staying at a how, in a country
town, and two letters were placed upon the table, in one
of which it was stated that the abkA medical luau in the
neighbourhood had completely lust the coufideuce of the
public owing to his addiction to the vier of drunkenness.
The other letter was a touching appeal trim a member of a
distinguished family, who uske.l for advice as to how be
might get beyond the reach of ter...ptati .n, for be found
that be was ruining his family and bieeelf by his
fondness for drink. On the whole he (Mr. (;ilpin) rejoiced
to think that the cause of temperance was Sint y, if not ra-
pidly, progressing. The Rev. A. Hannay, rep'ying to the
argument that fermentation was a natural pieces% ob-
served that eggs would also undergo " a natural proems,"
if they were kept long enough ; end he stig.:ested that
wine should be called " addled grape juice." (laughter.)
Moreover, it was generally uudendool that there warn
very little of " a natural process" about the itaek in which
the wine sold in England was made. (Renewed laughter.)
Reviewing the calamities of the past year, .labez In-
wards declared that the wars, the chulr:u, the dap-
wrecks, and the colliery expludous which had occurred
since but January, were as nothing to t:,e r.asages of the
demon alcohol (Cheers.) A considerable tiun.her of other
addresses were delivered during the ececiue, and the pro-
ceedings appeared to afford ghat delight to the vast as-
sembly.
A Vigw IN Gazzen.—lt had been Inv good for-
tune to stand on the tops of Mout Blanc, Itionte Rosa,
and the Finsteraarhorn, and to wander among scene of
the golden-hoed mountains of Brazil. Truly. these are
grand things to think of, but though Tentelicus is only
about 3,500 feet above the sea, yet I ..,. tcr felt so in-
tensely interested, I may say so profentedly affected, as
when I looked upon old Greece from el spatula. The
sacred region of art, poetry, and philosoehy, ;he land of
heroes, the abodes of the immortals, wen. a l spread out in
one enchanting view. Almost at our feet, on the north,
lay the plains of Marathon, all corn-flobie down to the
edges of the fatal swamps ; we could see the tumulus
raised by the Athenians over the bodies of mighty dead ;
and neer us must have pused Phidippitles when
be ran to Athens from the battle-tield and died as
soon as be could give utterance to Pie glorious
tidings that the Persians bad tern driven into
the sea. There lay the blue channel of the &tripes,
and beyond it Eubea. That long ietetel whir., so puzzled
us in our map-making youthful days with its odd points,
and corners, and bays, was now glorified into a chain of
exquisitely beautiful mountains, rejoicing in a sea which
covered them with purple and gold. More to the west
rose Cithwron and Parnes' towards which Arlatopbanes
made his Clouds fly when disgusted with their reception
in the city. Then came the shining plain of Athens, and
the dark olive groves of the Academy where Plato walked
and taught, the bright hills of Corinth, and far away the
snowy summits of the Peloponeettus ; Arlene Melt,
where Sophocles and Raab lug triumphed, where Demos-
thenes thundered against Philip, and Paul preached on
Mars' Hill ; beyond it the island of Egine and the blue
bay of Salamis, once covered with the Persiau wrecks.—
reeer's Metmense far January.

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