The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-22 00:00:00

BPORTING DiTELLIGENOS.

13.1MITNG AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY.
TWO TELOUSAND GUINHAS STAMM.
7to 1 apt Kettledrum (of)
7to 1 Nastily' (t)
THY DERBY.
600 to 100 apt Dundee (o
13 to 1 Big Bat (
16 to 1 Inophantus o
(of
20 to 1 Kettlolrnm
25 to 1 Dictator (t)
25 to 1 Maraud (t)
25 (o 1 Nautilus (Gild,t 30 to 1)
Nothing else mentioned.

HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.

The fund rehearsal of a new entertainment, which
appears likely to maintain a moceednl miser in 4blLc
(avow, took place last evening in the large conesiriesom in
Hasemrsiquice. The audience, a select one, was half
friendly and half critical, the performers having, as it would
seam, determined on taking the meets and bitters of their
enterprise in one combined draught. Oa a temporary stage,
very tastefully decorated, a semi-dramatic series of repre-
sentations went off lightly and pleasantly . mingle ;
Mamie Lancia, Mr. Augustus Brahma, mil Mr. W.
Wins* stitilains the entire levity between theta. Any
analysis ot a plot is out of the questioa, simply because
there is =egad to analyse. The scene is a photographic
studio ; frees which fact, together with a mere dubious one
—namely, tit the character. represented are supposed to
to of everyday humanity—the entertainment
ofy the"
eight and dhad& There is a szkis,i:
bt
111VEM rie" on the stage, in a not wholly intelligible,
*MO it a emillizisatly smusiag manioc. The Maws in
the . first 'part from me conventional type to
mother were not so good as the musical pare-
'lies and selecting with which the scenes were
Mired. Madan Lindens m accomplished an artist in
her on way that we have little hesitation in pointing out
her failure in a way which is not her own. When she
dimes home/ in the ecenese of a century ege, with an
111011111119111 powdered teaspekaad then, with no attempt at
tiltrigliff t4a rksikruktom *lt foes, bobbles on the step
with s necked stich, and the intimation that she is
.4' Ramey-04es," Madams Lancia does what we have no
Seidl kis see ler rlo again. But when she legs the war-
time from Anita we feel, on the contrary, a desire that she
anay aotilisue that energetic and melodious reformism
MA* saki( opporttudty will allow in to go eni
11l• I.
Or.. AMPOce Linhen took his fair share of the mask,
and weevil his hest powers tp give effect to the minable; „ 4
.1111;1.111111* h ;coolness; and drollery of Mr. Willett,
coeditedto 'the swam of the performazoi. Mr.' ' 't
Illianard is the Metier of thin anterkinnont, which wee so" '• t
wildly reheated Wt eight that be has oo reason to corn-
pi* et odittipated publicly
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• • AfTPBOPOLITAIN BOARD OP WOMB. " ...1
The tweak
.ieeptieg of the 11,fetrvohtsa . .1;,11 t
^ Works was bald ed.ide In WoArommitaas-rso.4 Itik(
hall ; Mr. J.Alreeiree ibsioW6•. '•
The Maeda alatesswi wee promoted Whisk rove leo
following ash behoves in tbe_hancla of tile treamuror.
refits wOOOkSW, OMNI: lok 311.; &Posh aceowata,ll4,oool.,
lentl9t,Olet. 10esopievelemee 17,15114,, :
- • CibiNpum but t, premedel :
2, 16.'10d. ; oeu 49 378L/i. Ifir • Wel, Iftg •
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, TSB GLUT POISaCIP =DUI War mum. •
The bawd Olen proceeded to mein ter6sue for the cam-.phitiou a/ tip Norlibeen Middle Level Sewer Works, rem-
iseed neismary bY the shendoement of the contract by
% Mop, !Ito lad original; obtained ft.
she) saidthe matter in reference
to Mr. =lrstatthas : F.ngineere original' estimate for
the work, 100;11001. ' • taken rn 1850, by Mr. Rows, for
Mi4b5431.3 WWII does. by Mr. Rowe, 10,73 W. • bay-
ing dim oo the cn mama to Mr. 'Rowe,
of work unfinished of *the value of 254,794/. The
prompt estimate for the auilnished work 929,800(. •
deduct thp sum still due to Ir. Rowe, on the contract:
213,1941.'• iilsowhz=ixrceos to be paid on the new contract
of HANG This sou the 1111110411161 ille cesemets
this day NIA y/07-Mr. ono% 322.8751. • Mew"
and On., WV& ; Detbiok, 535,0061. ; Mr. =
3414,V901. ; Briviand, Brotherhood, and Co., 346,5001. ; Mr.
W. Mill, 3W,0501. ; Mx: J. Des, 261,0001.
On the motion of Mr. Cearnenr., seconded by Mr.
Douvroir, the tender of Messrs. Brassey end Co. was
erseipted.

TEI new 041 ACT.
Mr. WOOLILTCH, the legal adviser of the board, gave it as
his opinion that no portion of the expense metered b ob-
tain* lase Gas Act could be ehargeshie as the (by of
T'HELandon.
BOTIKATIO3 OF rue BOARD TOE TIE CONIODIT TILL
The following is • (mows' sum of tie eraimide of
the sums required to be raised by the board See the year
1861 :—Curretit ordinary expanse el the board, 58,M01.
let. 11d. , special parliamentary charges, 7,3134 15e. ld. ;
hrepsyrnext of loans„interest an mortally debts, a0.,58,0211.
71. Bd. ; compueetion allowances to late officers, 1,9661.
7x 6d. —total, 125.6821. 7s. 2d.
quitntheme intimate of the amount which will be. re.
er. the execution of sewerage works during the year
1861, exclusive of mate drainage works and other special
was, ka. :—Fulham and Hammersmith, 7001. ; Coaster's
Creek, 8001. ; Haaelegh, d,7001. ; western derision of Wet-
minter omen, 2,5001. ; liegant-street, Ito, 2001. ; eastern
division of Westminster sewers, 1,500/. ; Holborn
dtviaiou, 2504 ; Finsbury do., 1,6001.;
U., level, 1,8081. ; /deo bogy Brook do., 350/. ;
Lower Wapping do., 2601.; Liatehoise do., 450/. ;
Upper limehouse do., 201. ; Hermitage-street do., 901. ;
Poplar and Bladrwall, SOW. ; Surrey sod Kent, 6,8001. ;
Greenwich, 4831. Gt. Bd. ; Revensbourne, 6861. 13a. 4d. ;
Wand* 150/. ; liming process of the Thames sewers,
City of London, 5501. ; pulping station at Dept-
f .15:01. ; tote), 27,7401.
• very Niel dimension, on the motion of Mr.
DA.11014 then estimates were agreed to.

GIAMT/1
An applioation from the • al hiboreditch for per-
mineion to borrow the sum of for repaving with
granite blocks such of the carnage ways within the parish as
might be determised on by the vestry was granted, the
amount to be pail by lb oral annual instalments.
Some uninteresting routine business having been disposed
of, the board adjourned for a fortnight.

Tess WRATH= AND MR FARM—The thermo-
meter at the Royal Hunene Society's receiving-house at
Hyde-park during Thursday night fell as low as 27 degrees,
being five degrees of host. A* 9 o'clock yesterday morning
tie glee iadszed at the seine plies in the. shade 30 41887.3.4
and in the middle of the day.it still stood at freezing point,
gamely, 32 degrees. Last eight the memory wee as low as
30 degrees, being 9 degrees below freezing. During the day
the metropolis was visited by several showers of snow. The
barometer yesterday stood Amen stationmy at 29.90. The
wind, however, was so variable that it was impassible to
' conclude with any degree of accumeT as to how long the
I present weather might continue. Notwithstanffing that
the was lees than two inches in !Meteors on the waters
In the various parks,. large numbers of persons insisted
upon venting opal it, in spite of all the diode of the
Humane Society's officers to prevent them. The cone.
Queues we that about fifty inenerabna took place during
the day, none of them happily resulting fatally.
A Lips WELL SAVID.—On Sunday night at 10
o'clock, Policeman 510 A, on duty on the south side of the
Serpentine, beanl a splash in the water, be ran t., the spot,
and seeing a kat floating gave an alarm. The boatman of
the Royal Humane Society were ou the alert, and as quickly
as possible the boat was pulled across the river and the body
of a young mos was recovered by the first throw of the dm;
he wasapparently quite dead. The treatment of the society
was immediately adopted, both while being carried to and
at the Receiving-house, and slowly life's [onetime were
restored, and *night of serious attention reeelled in the
young men being able to go before the magistrate in the
morning. He stated himseif a clerk out of employment
sod driven by debt and poverty to this rash act. This ease
is peculiarly interesting as marking the time life may be
restored after complete submersion. The body was uader
water while the policeman ma to the spot and gave the
alarm, and while the men, who were at supper, cleared and
tamed the boat round end pulled obliquely across'and up
the river at least five or sir minutes must have elapsed.
Foamow Mama—The following notice Ina issued
from the General Post-office yesterday, viz. :—" The Royal
Mail Company's stainer Tasmanian is about to sail from
flouthamptoa for St. Thome* on Sunday, the tad inst.,
sad the company have offered to 'wry as extra mail by her.
Any letters for St. Thomas, y addressed ' Per Tas-
manian,' which may be in or may reach Louden up
to the usual time for closing the snails on the ereniag of
Saturday the 22nd last., will be forwarded by this oppor-
tunity. The sailing of the Bremen, appointed to convey the
l;nited States mails from tioutbaniVee, oa the 26th natl.,
has beau postponed till Thursday, 27th."
CRYSTAL PALAM. Ora SHILLING DAT.
FRIDAY, Dan. 21.—Admissions on payment, 625; ditto
by same tickets, 561—Total visitors, 1486

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DEO. 22.

Te z good old fashioned Christmas has oome back,
" frosty, but kindly ;" and it comes with all the
messages of peace and mercy, all the traditions of
clarity and goodwill, all the memories of Divine
compassion, which for eighteen centuries have
thrilled like the joy of a single household the
warring and divided worshippers of the Cause. U
the snow storm lends a keener zest and a richer
glow to the comfort of the family fireside, it must
awaken a more poignant pity for the homeless
and the destitute, and inspire a more awful ten-
derness fur the starving and the outcast. Indeed
to all noble natures the " happiness " of Christ-
mas is dimmed with tears, not only of private and
personal sorrow for the absent and the dead, but
of a troubled and yearning wonder at the immense
mystery of mortal destinies. " The whole creation
" groaneth and travaileth until now ;" and to two-
thirds of the civilized human race life is, at bed, a
blind chance, • battle in the dark, • penalty without
judgment or reprieve. When we look at a drop of
water through the microscope we see an epitome of
the life of millions of mankind. Whether the spread
of education, the growth of political freedom,
the euergy of religious proselytism, the conquests
of science, or the electric forces of opinion, are to
result in the deliverance of multitudes from this
helpless state of bondage to the lust of glory, the
disordered ambition, or the pride of power, of half
a dozen rulers of armies and their parasites,
the next half century will show. To clever peo-
ple the question seems ridiculous. Ths messy will
always be the many, and the few will always
be the few ; the few rich and the many
poor, the few win and the many ignorant,
the few leaden and the many led. Poverty is
necessary for the display of Christian virtue, and
war is occasionally beneficial in promoting •
chivalmus spirit and in weeding surplus popula-
tions. Such is the philosophy of clever' people.
Any oilier doctrine is silly sentimentality. And
yet—silly sentimentalists or not—at this particular
moment we cannot help observing that even
Monarchs and Ministers of State spend their
Christmas like the rest of their fellow-creatures,
and celebrate in many solemn, festive, and homely
ways the good old tidings of peace on earth and
goodwill to man. For • little while there is a lull
all Europe over, except, perhaps, at Gaeta, when
FIANCES 11. is desirous of burying himself
under the patronage of a French Erna-
Row and the caeemates of a fortress.
By common consent the annual armistice is tacitly
inaugurated in every hostile camp of home and
foreign politics, and for all the European
" questions," upon the issue of which hangs the
fate of nations and of Empires there is one month's
amnesty and oblivion. The stillness of the snow-
clad earth is scarcely more intense than the stillness
of the world of public affairs at Christmas. And
like the stillness of nature laid to winter sleep,
this political stillness is tremulous and thrilling,
for beneath it is the unknown promise of the com-
ing year. Shall it be health, plenty and pros-
perity, or plague, pestilence and famine I Shall
it be peace, freedom and international reconcilia-
tion, or war with all its miseries and follies, for
the satisfaction of a young headstrong Emperor's
self-love I We were saying some weeks since that
within five months the peace of Europe must be
made securer far than any Congress of the Powers
has ever made it, or • war mint break out in
which principals would soon be seconds, and
Venetia but a spark in the devouring conflagration.
Time moves silently and relentlessly on, while
Milliliter* and diplomatists are making Christmas
holiday. A month after the British Parliament
has met it will be too late to talk of special envoys
to Vienna ; of equivalents, and guarantees. Too
hire, we know, is a favourite phrase with monarchy
in these latter days. It may be that the Emperor
FRAN. 14 Alegre has chosen it for the epitaph of
his house and reign. But the English public has not
forgotten the miserable makeshifts and delusions
of statesmanship in the first months of the year
before last, the abortive missions, the impotent
negotiations, the reckless romancing of Mr.
Disc Acit in the House. The war came which I
everybody out of Downing-street knew must wine,
and Europe had to thank Austria once more not
only for her obstinate refusal to prevent, but for
her headstrong precipitation in provoking the
conflict. Austria did not drift but drive into
war ; it is a triumph of statesmanship when a
war takes Europe by surprise ; and this is the sort
of triumph which the diplomatic art of "drifting"
is not unlikely to celebrate next year.
Never easeredly will the saving wisdom of go-
vernments and the farsighted beneficence of di-
plomacy hive achieved • more remarkable success.
Perhaps it may be argued in excuse that diplomacy
can only deal with secrete ; and that the war
announced for the spring of 1861 is beyond the
pale of diplomacy precisely because it i. announced
beforehand by vulgar lookers on. This ex-
cuse nay servo in some degree for the brilliant
failure at Vienna in the spring of WA, but it will
K far more apposite on the coining occasion
11111C0 the Liberator of the Two Sicilies has limped
the very hour for the final struggle, and sum-
mooed a nation to his standard.. There is reslly
nothing left for diplomacy to do, except in-

deed, to premien the peace of Europe hithe only
possible way it can be premix-red :by peessieding
the young Emperor of AUSTRIA to be content waft
one great defeat, with an insolvent treasury, with
dieaffection in all his provinces; and to consider •
little the convenience and comfort of his friends
and neighbour% before he twelves upon • second
and more complete catastrophe.
It is nothing that France adds • battalion
to all her regiments ; this time, at least, we
know that the EIIPIIROS wants peace—it is
nothing that Sardinia is arming to the teeth,
for we are certain that Count CATOUR would
be rejoiced to settle the Venetian question
honourably without striking a blow. But the
honour of France is doubly engaged towards
Venetia ; first by the treachery of Campo Formio
not yet redeemed ; secondly, by the words "from
"the Alpe to the Adriatic" not yet fulfilled. And
as to the Sardinian Government, it must win
Venetia or lose Italy. Nor is this Venetian ,
question a question of military ambition or poli-
tical intrigue, though by exasperation it may bo-
om:tie an instrument of both. It is in its present
aspect such • question as any simple family
making holiday at this happy season can appre-
ciate as well as the astuteet Cabinet. It is before
and above all, a question of life and death, of home
and household, and property, for two millions
and • half of human beings. Doubtless it is
part of the Italian "idea," and of the political
programme of Italian patriotism, that the inde-
pendence of the Peninsula must precede its unity.
To talk of the unity and independence of the
Peninsula is absurd while Austria holds the
Quadrilateral. But for the people of Venetia it
is something more than an idea, however grand, or
an aspiration, however exalted ; it is the question
of living the life of freemen, or of enjoying Aus-
trian taxation, conscription, silence solitude, dun-
geons enlivened with fusillades, and violent death
escaped by exile. Surely this is a question which
any Englishman who knows what it is to have a
country and • home, public freedom, domestic
security, and equal laws, can answer without con-
sulting the diplomatic augurs.
The rumours which reach us of attempts at
an amicable settlement, and the pamphlets
' which are coming out in Paris, are not
altogether reassuring. It is of little avail, we
fear, to impress upon the mind of the Emperor
FRANCIS Joinern the extreme imprudence of an
Emperor, notoriously insolvent, making or sus-
taining war. To young Emperors, wars, in which
hecatombs of human lives are sacrificed, are so
much " wild oats." Enterprising spendthrifts don't
renounce the stud or the yacht because they are
" hard up." Insolvency is sometimes an irre-
sistible temptation to extravagance. It is a
precipice over which the giddy climber must go.
The pamphlet lately published at Paris, attributed
to an eminent capitalist, and even to Imperial ril-
-1 vision, is admirably reasoned, and would convince
any capitalist, perhaps even any Emperor alive,
except the one to whom it is addressed. Its only
fault is that it is written by a rich man in his senses
to a man insolvent and in a passion, whom
with much provoking coolness it recommends to
give up in time and for • consideration what he
cannot keep. Of course, it is obvious to every-
body out of Austria, or rather out of the Court of
Vienna, that Austria has everything to gain by
parting with Venetiaefor a handsome sum. But
the Emperor Fas.wers Josses's blood is up, and his
army is full of fight. The threat of European capi•
talists to withdraw their credit from the Austrian
Government is lightly felt in those quarters.
Indeed the Austrian Government will be agreeably
surprised to learn that it has any credit to lose
in any money market in the world. It remains,
therefore, to be seen whether there are in Austria
itself influences strong enough to curb an EMIT,'
Boa's temper, and to control the policy of the
State : or whether among the rest of the m-
etalled Great Powers there is energy enough to
save Austria in spite of herself, by binding her
over to keep the peace, and purchasing Venetia
for Italy on fair and honourable terms.
But such a settlement must be abso-
lutely concluded on its own basis, not hampered
with guarantees or with eventual compensations.
The British people will most certainly never con-
sent to guarantee the dominions of any Power.
And to promise Austria territorial compensation
in the East of Europe would be simply to light an
inextinguishable funeral pile for the Turkish
Empire.

(nom cur insar's auxin.)

WINDSOR CA/111.1, Din. 17.—Tbe Queen, as
Sovereign of the Most Noble Order al the Garter has loses
gmeioury pleard by letters 'latest, under Her itozalSign
Mammal and the Great Seal of the Order, brariag te this
day, to dispense with all the statutes and regulations
usually &served in regard to installations, sad to great
unto the Most Noble Henry Pelham. Duke of Newomtle,
Knight of the said Most Noble Order, and duly invested
with the wipe thereof, hill power and authority to
exercise all rights sad privileges belonging to • Knight
Companion at the Meet Noble Order of the Carter in ea full
and ample • sensor as if he had been forma installed,
any decree, rata or sop to the aostrary sot
Irosawn-orrics, Deo. 12. —The Queen has beau
pecieeely plowed to appoint Fraser Howard Vow, Esq.,
sow British Via-Cord at Jed*, sad Acting Curial at Ka-
'opus, to be her Harry's Consul at Kauagavra.
Foitriwv-orricle, DSc. 19.—The Queen has been
pleased to approve of Kr. Jobe A. Callender as Consul at
Edinbargh and Laith ; of Mr. Charles Cotesworth as Mo-
sul at Livemool ; Hr. GeorgeNewanham Harvey as
Consul at Cork • et Mr. Thomas &yarn as Consul at New-
port, South Wain' amyl of Mr. Edwin Fox as Vim-Coosa
in Lando°, for the Repablio of Liberia.
Douai/co-emu; Day. 19.—The Queen has been
pleased so appoint Stewart Campbell, E to be on. of her
Majesty's Cattiest for the provisos of Nova Scotia : and
NV ilium Lard's Furlesp, Esq., to be • member of the
Conseil of the Oland of Monteernst.

Till CLERICAL PIIND AND POOR CLRLOT.—The
committee of the Clerical Fund and Poor Clergy Rolle
Society have made during the past year grants to ninety
poor clergymen, incumbents and curates, amounting to
303/., and to eighteen widows of clergymen, lilt. ; a total
of 1041. In addition to these grants of mosey they have
distributed Dolor than one hundred parcels of clothing, sew
and old, the estimated value of which is 3241. The society
aea of the most valuable in the metropolis, as Se bounty
is given in money and clothing to the poor clergy and their
widows in &island, Wales, and Ireland.

Came/Male OPTIONAL 81711111011 L Die. 1860.—
The number of juniors who were examined at the various
centres were, Scripture, 279; church eathechiam, 220 ;
English moil... Awn, E5O ; French. 2E4 ; German, 15 ; total
examined, 2,14. Seniors : Scripture, 90 ; common prayer,
KO; French, 7f. ; thernan, 12. Total examined, 96. The
numbers el Medea. who declined the examination in Scrip-
ture, he., is the years 18513, laso, 1510 respectively were as
follow 1858, 11; MS, 7 ; 11.
TUN EARL op ADZIDENSeI FUNZIAL. —The late
Earl af Aberdeen was buried yesterday morning at the new
duet* of St. Jobs the Evangelist, at Greet Stanniore,
Middle•ex. The funeral procession left Argyll-house shortly
helm eleven o'clock, the mournful cork,* cosseting of a
Mere and six and eight corning cal *as and four, with
the customary attendants. The funnel rorfinie proceeded
at a slow pace as far as Kilburn-gate in the lidgwarerned,
at wb*.ch poet the Queen's and other private aureate
turned otf. lin the funeral procession reselling the church
at Great Stanniore, the scred edifies won thronged by a re-
spectable and decorous congregation. Out .4 respect to the
of the deceased uobleman the majority of the inhabi-
tant& clued their houses &mpg the period of interment.
After the euatom,ry relMions rito the body of the late earl
was depleted 10 the family vault, in which is deposited the
lashes of his lordship's two wives, Lady thdherioe Hassiltes
awl Harriet, daughter .4 the floe. John lisuglas. la the
sine vault .111 T WHIM' of the deemed earl's children, who
died prematurely.
A letter fr Naplem 'kitten that f4iumnr Farini
has an 100•11101.11 41, fever, which prevents ha cuntinuotal
attention to his official duties.

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• •

WINDSOR CAME, Di 4 U.
Her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with Prin-
cess Alice, Princess Helena, and Prince Louie at Here,
arrived at Windier Castle at four ,'block yerfettin, from
Alderahott.

The Prince of Wales arrived from Oxford University yes-
terday afternoon, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel.
Lord Augustus Loftus, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, and
Lientenant.Cenend Sir Harry Jona, likewise arrived at
the Castle on a visit.

In addition to the above, the royal dinner party included
the Prince Alfred, the Primer Alice, the Prince Louis of
Heim, the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, the Hon. Mrs.
T. M. Biddolph, Sir James Clark, Baron von Westerweller,
and Major Cowell, L&

The toad of the Royal Hone Guards played during din.
Der.

Her Majesty's private tend afterwards performed in the
dnwing•room.
The Queen and Prince Consort, amempanied by thePrine•
of Walee, Prince Alfred, Princes Ali" and Prises Louis
of Hesse, walked in the Home Park this azoniag. The
Duchess of Kent and the Prince and Primes of Letningen
vidted the Queen from Frogmore and took luncheon.
Lord Bloomfield had an sadisme of her Majesty on being
appointed Ambamedor at Vienna, and Lord Augustus Loftus
on being appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin. They
were introduced by Lord John Russell, her Majesty's Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Lord John Nowell had an audience of tbn Queen.
Vieootint Torrington and the Hoo. Mortimer liackoills
West, Lord and Groan in Waiting, were in attondanes.

A deputation, appointed at the public meting on the 12th
inst., for the purpose of drawing attention to the !moonily
for additional legWation in reference to arterial
drainage and general rattail works, had an inter-
view with Sir G. 0. Lewis yesterday, et the Hotoe-cifika;
The deputation was intsoduoed by Sir John Villiers
Shelley, Bart, M.P., and ocsuisted of Sir Henry Vaviaorsr,
Bert., Mr. J. H. langstoo, M.P., Mr. J. M. Heethcote,
Mr. John Clutton, Mr. John Algernon Clarke, Mr. W.
Fisher Habil; Mr. J. Bailey Denton, and Mr. Richard H.
Grantham.

His Highness the hinoe FULthierill and Count
Meeks Myrtle bare lift tke Hreeemiok Hotel far Park.

His Excellency the Count Persigny has left
Allartissas Hews for Park

The Duchess of Sutherland and his Excellency
Uwe Earl of Ouliale have left Stafford House, St. Jamie,
for Trentham, Staffordahire.

The Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon have
retuned to their villa at itoebsinpton, from • visit to the
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, ILE, and Mrs. Herbert, at
Wilton Howe, neer ashsbw7.

The Earl of Wilton has left Melton Mowbray
on a visit to the lisri of Stamford and Warrington, at
Ihmilk Hall, Staffordshire.

The Karl of Malmesbury comes to town on Mon-
day from Heron Court, Hants.

Colonel Taylor succeeds to the position lately
held by the Right Hon. Sir W. Hylton Jolliffe, In oonaezion
with the conservative party, and will be wilted in the
wen* session by Mr. Whitmore, and also by the Hon.
Gerard Noel, member for Rutland, who will All the
vacancy maned by Sir W. Jolliffe's retirement.

The Lord Bishop of London will hold hie Christ-
mas ordination for this year in her Majesty's Chapel Royal,
Whitehall, to-morrow morning (Sunday, the Wad Usk).
The chapel is free to the public. The Rev. W. C. Mar"
D.D., of Trinity College, Dublin, minister of Quebec
chapel, Portman-square, bas been specially requested by hie
lordship to preach on the ocessiou. The order of morning
prayer having been read at 10 o'clock, the sermon and ordi-
nation service will commode at 11 o'clock.

The elevation of Dr. Philpott to the bench of
Bishops will came a mane, is the miniterebip of Catharine
College. " Rumour," rye the Casigwidgc hidepersclest, "is
already buy with several names; smug the non-maiden*
the Rev. W. B. Hopkins, of Wisbecb, and the Rev. R.
Blakelock, of Oirningbam, Norfolk ; among the residents
—the Roy. F. J. Jameson, end the Rev. C. H. Robinson.
We believe there are only five electors, of whom Mr. Robin-
son and Mr. Jameson, being Foundation Follows, are two;
and if, as is stated, these two gentlemen have secured ano-
ther vote each, the ' odd man' will no doubt eessider him-
self as somebody.' •

The Rev. Bryan King has just addressed &second
letter to the Bishop of London, designed as " a public and
solemn protest" against the conduct of the bishop towards
its author and hie parishioners. The letter resumes the
history of the St. George's riots from the point where the
other letter left off, and concludes as follows :—" Even
you, my lord, can scarcely be saoguine enough to imagine
that I shall respect the acts of your late illegal aggremion
upon my return to my charge."

Mr. Bailey, curator of the Soane Museum, died
ea the 17th init. The appointment of a ammewor mats with
the Royal Academy.
Mr. Noble baa received a oomminaion from
government to execute the national monument in memory
of the lets sir John Franklin, for which 2,0001. bee been
granted by parliament. The monument will be planed m

The special subjects eelected for illustration at
the monthly rosetinp of the Archie*logical Inetitute in the
ensuing asseion, ere :—For February 1, Antiquities of
Breese ; April 5, Mediaeval Embroideries, Timms, and
Binelhigs of Books ; June 7, Antique Gems and Intaglios.

We read in the Illustrated London New.:—"
week or two since we asked whom the Lorenzo the Mag-
nificent ' could be who had given Mr. Frith a ten.thommail.
pound commission! We trust that some kind friend will
set us right if we an in error. Our information, which we
have every remise to believe correct, points to M. Flatou,
a gentleman well-known in 0011081i011 with the ' emu.
mercialities of art,' as the Usseeteus who is prepared to give
the 10,00 W. in question. The picture contemplated by Mr.
Frith is said to be ' Life at a Railway Station.' "

M. Berlioz is said, in the Gazette Must...ale, to be
at work on a ono act opera, on a subject take. from Shako•
Pans.

Mr. H. Leslie's new cantata, the title of which
is " Holyrood," will be produced on the let of February.

M. Vienztemps in coming forthwith to England,
to play at the Popular Concerts, and will appear ►t their
recommencement, early in January.

Among works completed or in progress we
(Atha/rum) hear of musical dramas, by Signor &him,
Herr Molique, Mr. Frank Mori, and half-a-doseu other
English aspirants.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean are playing to
crowded houses at Cork.
The Lords of the Admiralty have resolved that
Monday shall be kept u a holiday in their department.
This decision will have the effect of giving to the clerks
and others, whose attendance would otherwise have been
uromary, a respite from work of three clear consecutive
days.

The volunteer class at Hythe, which has just
concluded ita course of instruction, is tho largest that has
ever been at the School of Musketry. The total number
present was 96, of whom 32 are captains, 13 lieutenants, 14
ensigns, 51 non-commissioned officers, and 13 pri-
vates. The shooting of several of the best marksmen
was of the highest order, especially at the longest ranges.
The " figure of merit" at the lower ranges was 45.02, or
just about the average for volunteers, which for tho last
gee courses has been 45.20. The average for the rune
number of courses of officals of the army is 44.06.

The annual ball of the Excelsior Boat Club Will
take place at the Club-house, Crevrn and Sceptre Hata,
Greenwich, on Wednesday, the 2.'ird of January, *I,
tinder the direction of the following members :—!fart
J. F. Delany (commodore), P. K. Holdsworth, G. 0. Brows,
W. Myatt, J. Orating, D. Green, C. A. Curwood, sad J. B.
Brain, honorary secretary.
A new issue of bronse coin, to the amount of
1,500,0001., is about to take place in Prance.

. .
Tax BfEHOP AND THE 80CIZTI* 01
Fiutens.—ln connexion with the discharge of his is.
copal duties, the Lord Bishop of Durham visited Dar-
liogto• last week, and during his visit he became SW
guest of Mr. Joseph Pease, • member of the Bociskv
of Friends. The clergy of the district were invited to
meet the bishop at dinner, and prob..* such • company
never• before ass, mbled under the roof of one of WS
clam of denote's to which Mr. Pease belongs.— Yorialtire
Giudie.

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