The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-19 00:00:00

THE JUDGES AND THE ELECTION

PETITIONS.

Am evening contemporary, in an article exhibit-
mg humour as well as acute observation, thinks it
wise to re-echo just now the alarm that the pres-
tige of our judges, in the matter of absolutely
passionless impartiality, may suffer under the test
which it will undergo when the election petitions
come to be tried according to the now regime.
Now let all that has been said about the inexpe-
diency of the new scheme be admitted to the full,
and also all that our contemporary has to
urge concerning the immoral haste of the late
Government in adopting the first obvious ex-
pedient that came to hand, merely that it might
rapidly tide over a parliamentary difficulty. To
say, let us admit what the article contains respect-
ing the integrity and impartiality of the Bench,
would very imperfectly represent our own feel-
ings. We are all proud of our judges, and those
who know them best in their public capacities
arc the most proud of them—of their wonderfully
minute application, their untiring patience, their
courtesy, and that impartiality of theirs which,
as our contemporary rightly obser►es, seems as if
it were part of the very computation of the men. It
really looks almost mechanical, and there is a

noble sense in which it is so.
is discussion lake that to which oo
devotes two columns quite wise it
speculation of that unwise
journalists, and, perhaps, the Otos.' us
among them chiefly, too often spermii- "them-
selves to glide P The thing is done. The judges
have their task before them. Is it good, either
for their prestige ortheir ownfeelings in a new and
difficult situation, that an influential review should
ask—after referring to their "impartiality "
"How long will it survive exposure to
" the violent temptations which will assail
"it under the influence of this new and
" tempting [sic, but, perhaps, a press error] juris-
" diction P And, what is perhaps even of more
" consequence, how long will public opinion be-
" Hove it to survive P How long will the prestige
" the Bench remain unsoiled by this contact with
" vile matter ?" We doubt the wisdom of
this kind of writing :—" Lot a judge once yield
" to temptation, and all his influence, so far as
" founded on supposed impartiality, will be at an
" end. And with his influence will perish his useful-
" nese. Nor will the evil end there. Disorodit will
" attach through him to the whole body. Judges
" who have failed, under the jealous scrutiny of
" angry partisans, in maintaining their credit for
" absolute impassiveness in election cases will
" lot* it in other cases also. The whole body
" will lose that impalpable halo of reverence now
" attaching to it which we have endeavoured
" rather to describe than to define. This is the
" great danger which we cannot but apprehend
"to be approaching." It is all very well, after
this, to say, " That oar fears may be exaggerated
"is our very sincere hope," and to refer
to Lord Chief Justice Oocrstrture letter
of warning. But his warning was given
before the change was made ; end, except as a
premonitory lecture to our judge', we scarcely
see what value our contemporary could suppose
the article is question would have► Bran if we
did not, as we firmly do, believe that the prestige
of our judges will stand all the strain that may
be put upon it, we should be inclined to question
the prudence of snob writing. All the ability, all
the ingenuity, and even ell the good intent in the
world cannot justify the public discussion of
grave topics in respect to which sinister prophecy
can be supposed to have the smallest tendency to
fulfil itself, or to strike a key-note for ill-intea-
Coned people to take up. Silence is often, very
often indeed, the only patriotism possible to the
journalist.

The DatilMita thecetbee the Mk kingdom of Greece
am a very badly °cymbal expeeedas of the god= mall
faculty of a madam and upset:Us( ne4 whisk hem sae
bash of reality far ita dream and None ream far iis
faith ia as impede' Mare. We @hal never en mother
we: far the assiatessaoe of the Elulteu'e badepestleuee

and the integrity of his dominions, But Orme; will not
be allowed to precipitate the Mesa The great powers,
and England not less strenecunly, will act as the police of
Europe; and will not suffer diplomatic wrangling to de-
velop into war.
The falsraph says that the European powers have de-
termined jointly to protest against the position assumed
by Greece in recklessly rejecting the reasonable &meads
of the Turkish ultimatum The answer of Prussia to the
proposal for combined action has not, the 2lskyreph be-
lieves, yet been received ; but the proceedings of the
British government in concert with its most powerful
allies, will be such as can leave no doubt of the strong
opinion entertained in England respecting the course
adopted by Slog George's administration.
The /bat thinks that with the means which Kr. Glad-
stone possesses, he ought to maws a great mess of
administrative reforms for which the march of the age is
crying aloud. There is room for improvement in every
department, but at nose is the opportunity more evident
than in that favourite nest of maladministration and
_ _

jobbery, the Admiralty; mad the Pest is coolidest that
Mr. Childen's bold prolsob sad AM hand will lasogurate
a are order of things is Whitehall.
The Hersh( thanks there is eomethiug partisularly des.
phable about the miasmas' that a rabbis Ma menet be
sees is the easysay et those hem wham be &Om
oat campressisieg his ears tategrity. Seek a do**
rise recognised would break up every misty is which
rasa at liberal naiads sad isdaysadmi lodgment mold
most together, sad solistitate for a taimant, wids-esa-
beards& sad ocortsoos seminessity a posse of stigma at
small-Laded !mastics.

Exempt for the stamp permit, whisk toe aka Air
noterisee °Mal view% the Sato woad be await le
drama the report that the ethos* are to be eat dews
by a him redestica la the twee et Beyel Ihrbes. Ow
cootiesporary thinks it hepomale to hoagies a sore libel
imideke. It we ewe Mimi. es =iv perhaps be the ems,
to &wen with 10,000 sea, let the 10,010 go, bat the
leat who should go ere estiala/y the Mariam

orden tht the re-

s.

PARIS. Dao. It

ear:Asti= of woven stalk hapoeted temporarily
free of duty, for the purpose of being dyed or
printed, shall take place within four months•

TURKEY AND GRIMM
PAWS, Dso. 19.

The Mead Mir, in its. bulletin of to-day, contra-
dicts the rumour about an encounter, followed by
a hostile engagement, between the Swabs and a
Turkish vessel of war. The Greek blockade
runner replied to the signals of the Turkish ship
with a cannon shot. and than took refuge in Spa
harbour. However, thanks to the good will
of the French naval oommander Forlin, Hobart
Paella was prevailed upon to swede to the former's
proposal to raise the blockade and desist from
further pursuit, provided that the Hellenic frigate
Hellas should convey the 'gnosis to the Pineus,
there to await a prompt judicial investigation of
her conduct.

SPAIN.

ItADBID, Dao. Is, Zwitneo.

The telegrams received from the provinoes are
wry satisfactory. The minicipid elections have
commenced, and the principal members are sup-
porters to the monarchical party.
The Minister of Finance has again declared
that the payment of all obligatioas of the state
are panatteed, and that the interest of the
public debt about to fall due will be promptly
Paid.
The Minister for Foreign Albin has stated
that he regards peace with Cbili as as moon-
pliabed fact. -

AICIRICLL
NNW YOU. Dui N.

According to Mr. Adam MAW" roped, the re-
ceipt' of cotton at Albertson ports for the week
are 82.000 bales. Total receipts from September
Ito date, 890,000 Wes. Shape sate to Ragland,
32,000 bales; shipments to i'renos, 10,000 bales;
shipments to the Oonlitmot, 9,000 bales. The
total export to date, 430,000 boles. Stook, 290,000
bales. Market stagy. Middling upland, 9 16-16,
cost end freight per 'teener.

OUR PARIS LETTER.

THE NEW FRENCH
MK= OUR OVZ 00BZ

PARIS. TRULY /MIN&

The ministerial changes which I have several
times of late led you to expect are garotted in the
Moniker to-day. It is quite contrary to the
genius of imperial institutions to suppose there is a
ministerial crisis of any importance whatever.
The country is not entitled to those " ministerial
explanations" which are a. matter of course in
England. Ministers here are " his Majesty's
servants " in the most literal sense. Never-
theless back stain conversation will break
out, and people will find reasons for great
°facers of state being dism'ssed against their will
and replaced by other men. As far as I earl con-
jecture one important feature of the present
change is a check to the clerical party and the in-
fluence of the Empress. M. Pinard is a jesuit,
and was picked out by the Empress for the honour
and glory of the Church. The Marquis de
Moustier, also, is highly papal. Now, the Mar-
gals de la Valette, who succeeds the Marquis de
Moustier, is married to an English pro-
testant lady. When ambassador at Rome
he made some terrible reports against
the temporal power and the Pope positively re-
fused to receive his wife. Then, again, M. Rouher,
who remains in higher power than ever, is under-
stood to have advised the Emperor that the Baudin
prosecution, if not a mistake in the beginning, has
dine him so much damage that it is politic to
make a scapegoat of the minister, M. Pinard, by
whom it was instituted. The Marquis do Moustier
is pitchforked into the Senate according to usage.
The Moraine does not say what is to become of
M. Pinard. The Pays, which, like him, is an organ
of the jesuita and the Empress, arms without any

corroboration that he waa offered a seat in the
Senate and refused it. The news is perhaps true.
He is young and has talent enough to make a
larger income at the bar should he fall back upon
that than the senator's salary of 30,000 fr. His suc-
cessor, M. de Forcade La Roquette, is half-brother
to the late Marshal St. Arnaud. The relationship
is far from a recommendation, but he is nevertho-

less an innocuous man. He will do as M. Rouher
tells him. M. Greasier, the new Minister of the
Interior, is a member of the Corps Legislatif, who
did the government good service by drawing up
an able report on the unpopular Army Bill, and
upon the last loan. He represents the fifth elec-
toral circumscription of tho Somme, in which there
are flourishing manufactures of the arrondisse-
ment of Amiens. I suspect, notwithstanding his
being the liegeman of M. Rouher, that he has
protectionist leanings, for I see that a government
paper interprets his nomination as meaning a
" conciliatory commercial policy." This apprecia-
tion, however, may very likely be mistaken.
This is the first instance under the Empire, of a
minister being selected from the benches of the
Chamber.

The Patrie says the new ministry moans :
" Unity of direction at home and a pacific policy
abroad." On the first point I think the Patrie
is right. M. Rouher, after throwing over the only
rival he feared, M. Pinard, reigns triumphant. He
has now substantially, by his creatures, the abso-
lute direction of home and foreign affairs, which,
according to some rumours, the Emperor wished
to have confided to him nominally until the next
elections. As to the pacific character of the
Marquis de la Valette'e appointment I have
doubts. In the first place, it would be diflioult to
call him a peace minister, unless the Marquis de
Moustier, all whose acts as well as declarations
were peaceful, should be said to have
been a war minister. The Emperor is not, I
appprehend, prepared to say that the reiterated
peaceful declarations made during the Mar-
quis de Moustier's administration were insin-
cere. It is true that the Marquis de la Valetta
signed the celebrated circular of 1868, declaring
that the result of the battle of &doers was in no
way detrimental to Prance, but he, as the relation
andprotsge of N. Rouher, cannot be considered as
repudiating the declaration of the latter that the
news of Bedews caused France a pang of "pa-
triotic anguish." M. de la Valetta was face to face
with Illentahikoff at Oonstantinople when the
quarrel occurred which led to the Crimean war.
He piques himself on hie knowledge of the
Eastern question, and is not likely to be on very
good terms with Bassin. He left the Ministry of
the Interior in 1867, only because he is not an
orator and did not like to mount the tribune.
M. Botcher, who has eloqueace for a doses, will
now speak for hiss, sad so that diMoulty is at an
end.

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UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBIUDOZ tinosatir.
PBZVIOUB XLILMNATION.

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ITRIT CLAM.Time win ham weal their examinaties with credit.
*Adam, lirmamoial ; *Adamson, Jokes; • Alsramear, VW, ;
Allen, 04 1'i1miy.;;....114 Trinity ; iyerd.
•AlCilEr . Citieee • Aan Jonias"a!
bones, =el tedig,lZZ,"7.,
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3.
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Pus • • ChekVe ; •Bereaett, Ilimmesel_ ; , Jenne ;
Milt
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alißluZr rel. Tr_fltiti : Vsdrins Woof i •Ositsb R. R.,
Jebel' schansisr_ ,
_Mare ; 'Cimino,. lira ad; "any. Tri-
idowis•MAllll. Aim's; Cionet i •Veltlia, John's ;
Itter's ; Van. IL 11'. : Onsillmatins, John's •
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b.4ll.ls•Loigoilasekillimeem ;lelidrigi."irmal jar;el4l2. q10.1"1.1
hale/ ; itliaslnts. Jaha's • • ; lin-
menng ; 'Kw Priabroke; NanisrA, Trinity ; Idswhaidiset
A., John's ; Mrs" TAINT ; •lilesisa. L. O. 8.,
IllrienChrist's; 'War, Ma's; Naway.l4ll.ninlin
OrrposA Nottisrm, IZ.:as_ =.;,
FkailarPws : Xlmarmel i
:'dells broke ;
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roil • •ime. irony ; •Peritar, Clare ; Pal. W. 1.,
Tem* ; •PbEips, Miser ; •Pipantt, Queen's : liking,
Closet; Protherne, Trinity ; *Palmer 1. ig., .r,inity ;
Catharine ; *Pima* Came. • Raytheon,
; Rawson. .• J ohn's ; •Eeeth, •'
Emmanuel ;
'Reyna. Dimity
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Bikeway.. Qua : 'Ridley, Jenne • Robinson, Trinity H. Be-
mis, Was; Bonin., Trinity; •RA•2OO, John's ; *Rowe,
Trinity; •Ramell. Hon. 0. W., Trinity; 'Singe, John's:
'Saxtar, Maudalen • %eat, l'ity ; Soon, John's ; •filhakes.
pier, Trinity H•
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nityr!Let•at.i;th, Quesm's , •fl
Pemagri,;
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; •Starey;
Trinity; litswert, H. Trinity; Stirling, J. L., Trinity; St.
John, How N. I'., 'trinity; 'Taylor, Christ'.; •Tecoperley,
Queen's; •Thackrah, Trinity ; Tharp, Cain.: •Thionss, Trinity ;
Thomas, Queen's ; , •Thampeon, A., Trinity; Timothy. Corpus ;
*Tiny, Pembroke; •Tobise, Sidney; •Tiotter, Trinity; .1%4,
King's ; •Wale, Jason; Milord, Trinity; *Walker, E. C.,
Carpus; Walpole, Jams ; Welpole, Trinity; *Wonsan, Cath.,-
rim ; Ward, Trinity' •Ward, J. L., Pembroke; Warkigh,
John's ; *Watkins, Christ's; Watson, T. C. Trinity , W.,e,
A. N., Pembroke : Mall, &dm, ; Whiteway, Trinity ; *Wight,
awe; Wilde. TrinitY WWns, John's ; Williams, T. E.,
Comas • Witt, Emmanuel; Wood, F. H., John's; Wood, W.
8., John's; *Wotan, John's; •Wirelledge, Cain.; :Wright, H.
R. 'Malty.
Those whom 111=411 are marked with as asteziak have also been
examined and approved in additional subjects.

BECOND qABB:

Those to whom the -essiniSteta have Cady not refused their
certificate of approval :
Anen, W., John's • Barber, Trinity; Hondas, fluist's ; Rora-
ima, snAst.'s • Bottverie. Trinity ; Bower, Corpus ; Boxall,
Enimanuel; Boyd, Trim*); Wediliibank Trinity; Burrough,
Jews; Cailiphronas, Clare ; Cartledge, Corps; Carver, John. ;
Cautley, P. L., Caine; Cautley, R. H. Caine; (lark, Queen's ,•
Colons, Clare; 030 k, Trinity H. ; (wteis, Jorus• Dale, Em-
manuel ; Pale, Was; .Tia,Trinity; Darb&re, Peters;
Davies, W. C., Trinity; , Trinity H. •, Trinity ;
Yardley-Wilmot, Clare; Elliot,Trinity H. • Forbes, Christ's;
Oatenby, John's; °him, Trinity ; Ooodaere, 'Queen's; Owen, H.
John's; TMllin. John's; Baykal, Emmanuel} Hely-Hubdi-
Woo, ; Henning, Corpus ; Hiplona, Corpus ;
Harrell, Trinity; Ismay, Emmanuel ; hairs", C. W. L.,
Trinity', Jukes, Trinity ; Kay, John's ; Kinlock, Trinity ;
Law, angel': Ligh_ten,, Trinity; 'Jewell* John's; Lowe,
flati's; Lydekker Tnnity ; Mann, Peter's; Madera Trinity ;
Jesus; Mariey, A., Trinity ; /Keeley, C., Trinity; Hunts,
Corpus; O'Brien, Trinity; Ord, Trinity H. ; Osborn., Trinity;
Pitman. Carpus; Pollard, Trinity; Pollock, Trinity; Pollen,
Kings ; Kw, Christ's; line, Trinity; balks., Peter • ; Ralph,
John's; Raymond, Peter's; Raymond, Emmanuel; Rebsels,
Corpus; Roberta, Downhill=; Rock, Trinity H.; Row
Carpus Rose, Rowe, Corpus; Shaw, Trinity; Smith, J. P., John's
Smith, I'. C., John's; Stevens, H., Trinity ; Stevens, L., Trinity;
Swanson, unpile ; ernes, Downham ; Taylor, J. H., John's;
Thomas, Barmanipl ; Vateher John's ; Viiliere,Cains ; Wanton,
King's; Weston, Trinity; Wiliam, D. H., John's; Wolfe,
Sidney.
The undermentioned lave also been examined and approved
in additionalsobjecte in additionto those whose names are marked
with an material above W. John ; Balding, Caine : Best,
Caius ; Boxall, Emmanuel ; Boyd, Trinity ; Beak, John's ; Calk-
Clare ; Carver, John's ; Cauthy, P. L., Cams ; Cbilde,
CSm; Conroy, Clare ; Colson, Liars ; Colvin. Trinity H. ;
Trinity H. ; Dale, Cahn ; Duke, T., Corpus ;
Forrest, John's ; Ostenby, John's ; tioodaere, Queen's ;
Hely-Hutchinson, Trinity ; Henry, 0., John's ; Burrell.
Trinity ; lienay, Danianuel ,• Low. Chri-Ce ; Lunn,
Jess; Morley, A., Trinity ; Warier, C., Trinity; O'Brien,
Trinity ; Ord, Trinity Hall • Rightism, ; Phillips,
Watt/ Carpus ; eollerd, Trinity ; Pullen, Kings ;
Rae, Trinity ; Ream, Peter's • Ralph, John ; Nalyrder, Canis;
, (his ; Swainson, Corpus ; Downing ; Tarleton.
r.iir John's ; Taylor, Catherine ; Taylor, J. 11., John's ;
Thomas, ,_ Warr, Trinity ; Wagon, Trinity ;
Sidney ; Wilson, D. 11., John's ; %We, Sidney.

CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMLNATION9.—For the
fifth successive year Windsor has been a centre for the
Cambridge local examinations, and they have been held
in the Town-hall of the royal borough throughout the
past week. There were twenty-four competitors—a
larger number than on any previous occasion. Seven-
teen of them are pupils at the establishment of Mr. W. R.
Harris, Clews? House School, Windsor ; six are from the
British Orphan Asylum at Slough ; and oue is from Over
Grammar School. The superintending examiner at
Windsor this year is the Rev. E. H. Morgan, M.A., of
Jesus College, Cambridge.
ETON CoLLEGE.—At the commencement of the
Christmas vacation yesterday the following was the state
of Eton College :—Provost. Rev. Charles Old Ooodfonl,
D.D. : Vice-Provost, Rev. George John Dupuis. M.A. ;
Fellows, Rev. John Wilder, M.A. ; Rev. Edward Cole-
ridge, ILA., Right Rev. Bishop Chapman, D.D., Rev.
William Lawrence Eliot, M.A., Rev. William Adolphus
Carter, M.A., and Rev. Edward Balston, D.D.: Head-
Master, J. J. Honk. D.D. The school—Sixth form, 20
fifth form, upper division, 166; middle division, 139; lower
division, 171 ; remove, 174 ; fourth form. 121—total,
795. Lower school—Third form, 67 ; second form, 3 ;
first form, 2—total, 72. There was thus a grand
total of 867, the largest number since the foundation of
Eton ; and the increase since Easter, 1868, is 31, the total
number of students then being 836. e;11, Captain of
the School,res sent up for good, lime being in the Head
Master's dlvWon, 16 times; Bell, ICS.. nine; Maude-
tre ; Coombe, K. 8., nine ; Rawlins, H. 8., 16 ; and
Tomlin, scholar, 1868 ; Perry. H. 8., nine ; Greenwood,
Ave ; Forbes, nu., 19 ; and Newcastle scholar, Pack*,
nine Gregory, K.B, Ave ; Dowding, seven •
Smith Prince Consort's Ant French psis; Hosier first
German prise and mooed Italian prise ; James mathe-
matical prise
'' • Blackburn Prince .t's second Ger-
man prime • Christie Miller ant Italian prise. There
were in the school last half two ear* one marquis, 30
lords, four baronets, end 27 honourable..
HARROW SCHOOL.—OId Harrovian will hear
with sorrow that Mr. Harris, the Lower ILaster, has
been eampelled by failing health to retire from the laboars
which he ban for thirty two years dreshergei with soar
e energy. The house which hes been so beg
irmVrWith ha name will pass into the hands of the
Bev. F. W. Ferrer, M.A., F. 8.8.
WELLINGTON COLLZOlL—Notwithetanding the
extreme inelmsency of the weather there was a very nume-
rous meseshlsge of-visitor. as
far or neer. at the annual
cerris by the boys on Thareday evening. Mr.
as usual, was conductor, and the increased pro-
cl"sios.7Thse performers testified to his dare in the ment
meat of his juvenile end ever-changing oint
concert was opened with several sacred pieces. Men-
&dacha's beautiful trio, " Lift thine eyes," was
er=hy B. Smith, B Lawton'. and
A seared Meditation by Wawa
and Bach, was sung with much taste and fur!.
itglaka.z. Smith andTheedrapthrouslieve zioencored.cs
the
ogocertins.After
this
the &intros Ilkuo, and showed what as be doss with
that instrument. He was encored, as also was& Lawton'.
ia "lo Cherry Ripe." After several thorium sad songs, and
aso an the /piano by Mr. G. Gliiks, i:erty
"0, huh thee, my Baby," justly IWO VIII
AlMlthrwiliert song, "Gaily o'er the Goma ' was also
trivia math spirit, and least lourarszeed, sr was
also the duet " fa " sung by M. and Mr.
Oda Bmi Lawford. and Fits-Herbert were again
in " Vie fles Flowers.' The sewed
Z7Sic Seigle "Merry Bora 12,=,:rith
lb, feethest and received
=e; Med Ilbee the Qum " demi a per.
whisk 'haired m much for the geed tiding and
Mee et the boys ea see *dr Busied /ewes. •

LONDON AMUSEMENTS.
(THIS EVENING.)

THILTBIBI.
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'raked.
lionrAsawr.—" An Wasson Besidoe." " hetes." • n 4„,„,
rebeity."—T
ADMPCII.—"DiII yew wree wed your wife to Caodorroll ".
.Maris Cidalo."—e eras*.
Pissiasses.--" The Seont." " After Dori" "Yeater:Pro*.
Bithdor."—?D'akok.
OLTEPIII4—"

Wt mad Ormisr." "me, Team PamPlit "
—T eels&

71s• lawssake lam." "Ito Stranger, gel",
than l4vw."--1 Vale& Par particulars see advt.
Ihsastra—" The WAN, Hot." "il. Infati at ea ash
"• Comical Cerantem"—f dab&
Puns a Wazaes.—" Tame Cats." "Who Speaks FM/C....
CIS Oak&
Ilosaaax.

r.—" Blow far Blow." "Lucretia Gaga, kuti 4
Ores& Deetreara."—l o'clock.
Orass.—" A Loving Cup.' "The Rise and Pall a .hol
" The Clockreakee's Hat."— La o'clock.
fleienr.—" Hamlet." "The Stranger.' -4 o'clock.
Ocoee.—" Good for Nothing." "Cyril's Swore." —f k.
BOTAL EOl4Ollll. Arek. Scenes is Zi
Arena. te.—'l.llo o'clock.
Barranria.—" The King of the South Sea blaa44." Th,
Scarlet Mark."-4.10 o'clock.
Brisoian.—“ The Grand Dudisa." " The Advertising Manic'
—1 o'clock.

LAY-RACE. hocabau.T.—Mr.. Retain Notice's Eateitain
wat..-11 o'clock.

Camara Ildwaraava, gr. Ulna's Hau..-4 o'clock. ?'r put,
tabus me advt.
Boras 4P:warm/am
Ilaaava Tavavaria.

mat le Orrui. *a.

(nom usr mires ciAnirra)

DowEHre-frnEET, DEc. 16.—The Queen her
to appoint Sir William Seegg, Hot., to bs
riediramuatroed for the POIODy of British Guiana. Her .
entleyyhes mho been pleased to appoint Sydney Smith Bak
~ to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
of the Cape of Good Hope ; and Quirks Thema,
Smith, Re q., to be • ponce judge of the Supreme Court of
that colony.
WHITEHALL, DEC. 15.—The Queen has been
talaiby letters patent under the Great Seal to appoint
dElgke Henotuable George Joachim Guam to be
Poor-law Commandant for England.
WHITEHALL, DEc. 16.—The Queen has been
Et:id to direct letter patent to be paned under the
Seal, oonetitutinigazar a tag the Ridit
Honourable William • the Bid
Honourable Robert Lowe ; James Stands/it, fan., Esq.;
the Most Honourable Henry Charles Keith, Marquis of
Lansdowne; Transmit Patrick Adam, Req.; and the
Honourable John Creech Walker Vivian,- to be Corms
mlmioners for executing the *Moss of Treasurer of the
Ere of Great Britain, and. Lord High Treasurer(,f
The Queen has also been pleased to direct
letters patent to be passed under the great seal, grantin
to the Right Honourable Robert Lowe the races of Chan-
cellor and Under Treasurer of her Majesty's Exchequer.
The Queen has also been pleased to dare{ letters paten:
to be passed under the Great Seal, appointing the MOE
Honourable George William Frederick, Marquis of Ailes,
bury, E.G., Master of the Horse to her Majesty. Th,
Queen has also been pleased to direct letters patent to b
passed under the Great Seal, granting the office and deo.,
of Advootite-General or Judge Martial of her Majesty's
forces to the Right Honourable Sir Colman Michael
U'Loghlen, Bart.
WnrrEHALL, DEr . 16.—The Queen has been
pleased to appoint the Right Hon. William Edward
Forster to be ice-President of the Committee of Camel!
on Education. The Queen has also been pleased to ap-
point the Right Hon. William Edward Forster to b
Fourth Charity Commissioner for England and Wales.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEc. 15.—The Queen his he,n
pleased to approve of Mr. Wilhelm Marauder Braise 4.
consul at Melbourne for the North Uerman Coaiederati

Earl Spencer will, it is said, probably 1131,.
public entry into Dublin on Wednesday next.
DUBLIN, FRIDAY' Stun.-Mr. 011aguu
sworn in to-day as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, an i Aft,:.
wards took his seat at a meeting of the Privy
The return of Mr. Weguelin for Youghal has b
petitioned against on the ground of bribery and trest.r.
Mr. 11. Munster has petitioned against the return
Mr. O'Beirne for Cashel, on the ground of bribery sal
corruption, &c., and claims the seat for hinoeli.

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INTERMENT OF THE LATE DR. COOK.—A
gram from Belfast says :—" The remains of the Les.
Cooke were interred yesterday with public !moos la
Malone Cemetery. The funeral was one of the
ever seen in Ulster. Ministers and others were preen:
from all parts of the province, and all denominationns wens
largely represented. The Episcopal Primate of all
land was one of the pall-bearers."
WELSH NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD, 1 SO.—Tit
neat national Eisteddfod for the whole of the muniegiaLty
will be held the first week in August, in the ancient Cosa
of Brecon. A general meeting of the council has been
held in Brecon. and Mr. Pedr. Mostyn W lliams. of 3Lta-
chester, has been elected secretary of the Eisteddfod. :a
the room of Mr. J. P. William!, deceased. The followin4
are some of the principal prizes to be competed for at the
Brecon gathering in August :—A prize of tel., presentol
by Mr. John Jones, of Dolacanthy, Carmarthenshire. for
the best account, historical and architectural. of the
castles in the county of Carmarthen. to be written in Eng-
lish : a prize of 231. for the beet treatise on the mineral
springs of Breconshire and Llandriedod; a prize of 204
for the best poem ou "Elijah," and the bardic chair for
Wales for 18ti9 ; a prize of 20/. for the best Welsh
'• Pryddest on any subject; together with a largo
number of other prizes, varying from two to 13 guineas
each. The musical subjects and prizes are to be arranged
by Mr. Brinley Richards, and are not yet published.
THE ANNEAL Drit-IDS' DINNER AT OXFORD.—
The annual dinner of Lodge ..59 of the Ancient Order
of Druids will take place at (Word on New Year's day.
Mr. John Bacon, the Noble Arch, will preside. and thr
two city members, the Right Hon. E. Cantwell, M.P.,
Secretary of State for War, and Mr. W. Vernon liar.
court. U.C.. M.P. ; Mr. Cartwright, M.P., one of the
members for the county ; the lion. tt. Brodrick, Mr.
C. Neat`. Captain Fane, the Mayor and Sheriff. and a
considerable uumber of aldermen. councillors. and leading
citizens. have already accepted invitations to be present.
The gathering is expected to be one of the largest and
most important held in COUllelloll with the Order of
Druids for many years past.
THE EurEtton N.trotros AND MR. Conrire.
—On Thursday afternoon a deputation of the committee
intrusted with the erection of the metropolitan statue to
Richard Cobden waited by appointment on the Freneh
Ambassador, the Prince de la 'Tour D'Auvergee, at his
official ressdcnce, Albert-gate, for the purpose of present-
ing to the Emperor of the French. through his Et.el-
lency, an address thanking his Majesty for a °mum•
cent donation of 1.000 trees, and at the same ttniu
requesting his Majesty's acceptance of a photograph,:
representation of the ceremony of unveiling is!
statue, taken at the iustant when the veil wii
withdrawn. The deputation consisted of Mr. I.
Roes, chairman of the committee : Messrs. J. Sale.
and R. rumen+, churchwarden of St. P:incra.e, in wh.e'i
parish the statue stands: Mr. J. F.. Law ford, treasurer.
and Mr. Wills, the sculptor. The deputation was re-
ceived with the most marked courtesy. and after hearin.l
the address translated into French his excellency said that
bis Majesty would be exceeding.ly touched at reeeivin4
an address of this nature, couched in terms so expressive
of kindly feeling from a body of Englishmen. Cron
being assured that munificent as the sum was contributed
by his Majesty the committee valued it not so much for
its amount, as the earnest of the goodwill and friendly
disposition on the part of his Majesty towards this nation.
his excellency replied that no other significance but this
should be attached to the Emperor's act in offering this
contribution. and that this was the sole interpretation
to be put upon it, although, at the same time.
his Majesty dewed to do honour to the memory of
a grea and good man deputed. His eFelletwy upon
this t
inedially shook hands with the deputation. which tmu
withdrew.
FAu.ntO CCM Borr.rwo Trrnroz..—On Thursday
evening at the Plymouth Ouildhall an inquiry was Uhl
concerning the death of Jamee Thomas Buck, youth
aged seventeen years. The deemed was a plumber, sad
was on Tuesday employed with others at the vitriol works,
Cattedown. About 6 o'clock a man named William
GeorgeWic.ket was attending to the fires, when he haul
the noes of a splash proceed from one of the boilers
and for boiling down vitriol, and some one calling
out for help. Withers was going to the spot in-
dicated when be saw the deceased cooing down a
ladder from the boiler, and his clothes were all
falling from him, and when be reached the bot-
tom of the ladder lie fell down, but quickly mom snit
enVto another ladder, but in descending that one
e:
distance of ten feet. Witness went up to this
deceased, and conveyed him to a barrel of cold water. in
which he washed him, and soon afterwards be was row
Med to the hospital. Whilst in that institution deceased
told his father that he went up to the bodies to O see w
his tools, and whilst crossing the wall that separated them
he slipped and fell into one of the pans of bollix, vitriol.
A verdict of accidental death was returned. The fowler'
of the works said the buildings had been erected thirteen
and this was the first accident that had occurred
11r. Brian said that a juror bad remarked 00
some rails should be placed round the boilers to loot
paves from tolling In. He hoped the foreman would
most it to Mr. Gill. the proprietor.
Aniarryrr, 18.—Arronrrxzwrs.
Lieutsneeds Arekibald O. Hill, both* Comack ; and hum
B. Bamillands, to thew ylioa. Nevelt:iodate noweutol,
Thomas H. Veber, ks C. C. Itedolifo end Arad
A. Galloway.

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