The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-08 00:00:00

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, Now Orleans, Porto Rico,
Haiti. Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND
CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama); La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japan.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

THE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.—Every Policy effected with this Society by the
31st inst. will have the advantage of one year in every Annual
Bonus. - _ _ _ _

The Directors give notice that the Policies of the Society be
come Indisputable, and are relieved of all conditions (except
payment of the annual premiums), when they have remained
unchallenged for five years, and the life assured has completed
his 30th year.
The bonus additions allotted by the Society are highly satisfac-
tory. In a recent claim the addition to a £l,OOO assurance, dated
1845, amounted to £l,OlO, making the total payment £2,010.
CHARLES INGALL, Actuary.
No. 39, King-street, Choapside,
London, December, 1868.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES:
Royal Insurance Buildings Lombard-street, London.
Royal Insurance Buildings North John-street, Liverpool.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £Boo,ooo
Accumulated Funds in hand £1,500,000
• LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Life and Annuity Funds....
SPECIAL ADVANTAC ES
Exemption of Assured from Liability of Partnership.
BONUSES among the largest ever declared by any Company.
Profits divided every five years.
All new Life Insurances now effected will become entitled
to an Increased Share of the Profits.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Premiums in 1867 £461,553.
REDUCTION OF DUTY.—Since this first took place the increase
of business of the ROYAL has exceeded that of any other Office,
as shown by Government Returns.
;_Prompt and liberal settlement of Losses.
JOHN H. MeLAREN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.

Report of the Directors for the year ending the 30th
June, •1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Proprietors, August 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES
WETHERALL, K.C.T., Chairman of the Company, in
the Chair.

The proprietors will no doubt remember that at the last
annual general meeting a report was made to them for the
quinquennial period then terminating, and that a bonus
was declared in respect of it amounting to the sum of
.£208,774. The surplus fund account, as under, commences
with the balauo of June, 1867, after deduction of this
bonus—that is to say, with the debit of £772,740 13s. 9d.

SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, 30TH JUTE, 1868.
DR. INCOME OF TU YEAR.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, £981,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0
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Premiums on new assur-
ances
Ditto on old ditto 366,215 7 3

.£350,811 8 3

Interest from invest-
ments. 117,584 7 3

£72,740 13 9

£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account
Total inc0me544,466 9 2

£1,317.207 2 11
CR. CHARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives
.£265,523 13 5
assured
Additions to those under
participating policies 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered .....• 28,642 11 3
Re-assurances, new
Ditto, old 50,365 0 8
----

£370,618 5 3
Commission 11,702 15 0
Medical fees 751 16 '2
Income tax.............. 2,215 4 7
Expenses of ma ll:To-
mcat 15,489 8 5,;
400,777 9 5

Total Amiga ..... £109,654 14 5
Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907,532 8 6

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approv)l
THOMAS ALLEN
lIENRY ROSE, Auditors.
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £541,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,651 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by—viz., £134,811 14s. 9d.--raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. Gd.
The interest received during the year is £117,584 7s.
3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised
assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in the last year's report.
The whole assets, productive and unproductive, may there-
fore be considered as having improved at the rate of rather
more than 4 per cent. ; or, if the profit shown of £46,070
13s. 3d., derived from various extraneous sources,be in-
cluded, at upwards of £5 12s. per cent.

Theepremiums on new assurances are £14,596 is. 9d.,
and of this sum £3,270 15s. 4d. has been expended in re-
assurances.
The claims on decease of lives assured are nearly iden-
tical in amount with those of 1866. They are less than
those of last year by nearly £19,000.
A considerable reduction, too, appears in the amount
of premiums paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of management are less than those of last
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
incurred in the final closing of the two officeslast absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 51
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-Sheet is as follows :
DR. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid 61,530 4 5
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,469 11 7
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

£3,97713 3

Total £7,565,198 1 3
Amount IPnit;ested in fixed mortgages ....£1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto
Ditto ditto reversions 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities 479,932 13 3
Ditto ditto temporary securities 142,424 011
Current interest on the above invest-
-36,243 ,7 6
ments
Cash and bills 22,604 2 9
Advanced on security of the company's
policies
Agents' balances
Sundry accounts
Value of premiums (1867) ............ 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances ........................ 86,860 13 9

Total .................................... £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS A LLEN,} Auditors.
HENRY' ROSE,
The present dispositions f the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On ceparing it with that of 1867, it
will bo observed that further investments have been made
on mortgage and in the Governn:ent funds, and that about
£ll 000 more has been advanced on security of the com-
pany' 's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value
of the future premiums, the assets amount to £3,059,030
3s. 3d.
The direction of the company is now constituted as
follows :
The Right Hon. Sir JOHN YOUNG, Bart., K.C.8., Chair-
man.
Esq.
J.Cohsahsu.
aTtoose.kliwoolocdombt, Esq.
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE Eaq D
Chairman. .) eputy-
Jpahmileips MRouserr,a
Esq.y ,}l4 Esq.
Charles Bischoff, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, E
Charles Chatfield, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart.,
D.C.L. George Russell, Esq
Thos. Godfrey Sambrooko,
Robert A. Gray Esq.
Wm. Augustin u uy, m D
F.. 15. 1 .., Esq.
Admiral Tindtq

The effects on society are worth noticing of a re-
turning prosperity and a continued depression. We
know how differently each individual views the
same question according to his health, his mood, or
Li the state of the atmosphere, but more especially if
he be in a vein of success or the reverse. So it is
with communities, for a whole country changes
1 opinions as well as appearances with prosperity and
adversity, of which atiextraordinary instance has been
. furnished by Manchester, wherein the champion of
Free Trade advocates the resuscitation of Protec-
' tion. It is positively beyond belief that a great
commercial emporium which has associated its
name with a principle, to the adoption of which
some nations attribute unexampled prosperity, which
among others has causes the fier3.yst controversies,
perhaps wars, which is at this moment with the inhabi-
tants of many a fertile subject of dispute, should
have wheeled round to advocate the very doctrines
against which it had successfully led a large and
enlightened pnrtion of mankind. But so it is ; and
the cause is said to be the depression of the cotton
manufacturing industry occasioned by the short
supply of the staple. This had its origin in the;
American war ; and it is passing strange, but true,
that the very country whose agriculture was cut to
pieces, commerce annihilated, fields desolated, and
cities depopulated and destroyed, is likely to reco-
ver more quickly than the mart whose supply that
war interrupted. While Manchester is growling and
talking Protection, the Southern States are settling
into peace and prosperity. Even the New York 7'ribune,
whose sensational heading, the " New Rebellion,"
covered every campaign document circulated from
its office in myriads through the country, has now
turned over a new leaf. Political assassinations in
the South have almost ceased, and collisions be-
tween the races are few and far between. Indeed,
from the tone suddenly assumed, it is clear that
the Radical papers exaggerated the condition of
the South during the elections to make political
capital in the North. We are told by the journal
foremost in creating the evil impression how few
I stopped to consider that the South covers a million
square miles, with twelve millions of people; add-
ing that, as every collision has a quasi partizan
character, they are trumpeted about, and made to
assume the worst aspect. One county gets up a parti-
zan struggle; scenes of violence are then enacted, but
the whole State, however peaceful elsewhere, bears
I the blame—versions of the fight come out in different
papers, so dissimilar, that they appear like new tales
of blocdshed, and entire districts are condemned
which are as orderly and industrious as any in the
Union. It is a fact, if we look carefully over the
telegrams, that the troubles and outrages will be
found to be generally confined to a narrow area in
a State. For instance, the neighbourhood of Savan-
nah gives to Georgia a bad name; of New Orleans
to Louisiana; of Little Rock to Arkansas, and these
and other places to all the reconstructed States ; and
while our eyes are fixed on such localities, we
overlook the fact that they are but spots in
the mighty territory of the South. If the peo-
ple of Augusta are cutting each other's throats,
and race arming against race in Ogechee, what is the
South generally doing ? Why, for the last year
producing two millions and a half bales of cotton,
each of which has averaged $lOO, representing the
pretty little sum of $250,000,000 obtained at the
depots, perhaps the largest price they have as yet
fetched there. Add to this the sugar and rice crops,
which have not only brought good prices, but
exceed in quantity those of 1867, and when we con-
sider that the South now supplies itself with Indian
corn and wheat, we give an idea of what the people
really have been doing. Here also is the answer to
the cry that the "free niggers won't work," and
here is the reason why Northern men go South to
settle, notwithstanding the odium attached to the
name cf a "carpet bagger." The truth is that
those who take an extreme part in politics opposed
to the prejudices of a sentimental people run an
unpleasant risk of being " ridden on a rail," but
those who purchase Southern estates and set to

work to develope their resources receive aid and

countenance instead of opposition from their neigh-
bours. As a field for investment the South at this
moment presents a rare combination of attractions.
Real estate has been depreciated .to a positively
ridiculous degree, and in numberless instances now
sells at less than the owner expended on improve-
ments, though well situated, cleared and adapted
for the iumaediate production of valuable crops. It
is the fashion for people who hate Yankees, such as
" The Thirty Years' Resident in Canada," whose
letter of February 2 found a very congenial place
in the columns of the Standard on Thursday,
to cry up Canada and to decry the " Ameri-
can land-jobbers," and the United States generally,
as a field for emigration, and it puzzles Englishmen
beyond expression how this colony of " perfect se-
curity for life, limb, and property under just laws,
which are respected and always enforced," should
be deserted as fast as they succeed in enticing emi-
grants there, for another land " in which he would
find a total disregard of law and order, as witness
the almost daily accounts in the New York and
Chicago papers, and even in the occasional reports
in your own columns, of the almost innumerable
murders, shootings, robberies, lynchings, and other
horrible atrocities of the past year which have gone
unpunished." The solution of all this is simply,
they lie; and when on the spot those they send ascer-
tain it.' It is, then, the greatest folly ; for emigration
must be deverted to the antipodes orin spite of them-
selves they people the wasteplacesof the Union. The
" Canadian Resident" is justified in stating that
the American papers do report numerous crimes.
The English suppose that they of all people tell
most truth to their own detriment. But this is a
mistake, for whereas here a man requires to commit
a crime, and to get hold of that rare animal in Europe,
a reporter, before he has the honour of attracting
public attention, an American cannot think a
crime without it appearing in all the papers; and if
he commits a crime the übiquitous animals, the re-
porters, are there like vultures on carrion, when not
only that crime, but every crimehe ever committed or
the family or the victim, together with every crime
of his parents and their parents, ani perhaps a
catalogue of the crimes besides of which his village
was the scene. The writer of the letter includes
lynching, among the murders and robberies, but he
does not explain that they were the murderers and
robbers who were lynched ; the very word dis-
proving his assertion that the atrocities go un-
out to these
this ; for what we desire is to poi'lit f
un-
punished. But it is not our object here to discuss
" Yankee-haters" that they can find a section o
in which to settle, where they
will have full latitude in abusing
soon again to be so,
sunny land, once in a high state of
Yankees without
prosperity and
region shut up by ice for many months of the year.
North America is the finest field ever opened
locating themselves in an uncleared forest or in a
bar it to their countrymen for fear of strength-
eningfor emigration, but these wise men desire to
a hostile power. When we see a dog baying
t
even
atamong brutes, and to us these efforts look
the moon we conclude that the animal is an idiot
somewhat like this. These persons cannot prevent
America
theeric world ;
tbheecyonicairingnotthe
preventovers evenhadowiilhg power
of own
their
countrymen from settling there ; and if they could
wa frroin
they would only injure them. But what they can
o
and do do is to keep alive the feelings it is
essential to bury not only out of sight, but out of
mind, where they can never be resuscitated. One
of England's greatest objects should be to impress as
strongly as in her lies her image on the American
Continent. Happily for her the very Yankees these
people so hate have succeeded in doing this, and
her utmost efforts ought to be directed towards
keeping up and perpetuating their work. Yet, with
a perversity which history will some day record
with amazement, the utmost efforts of these wise-
acres is directed towards making this nation with a
future no man can predict hostile, and their coun-
trymen have already to thank them for the Fenian
difficulties, the Alabama troubles, and the strength
of • the Irish party in the United States. Why
should not English investors who do not know
what to do with their money seek for it an out-
let in the now rapidly reviving South, with which
many of them so heartily sympathized during the
struggle ?

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vestries, and . if every large borough can find its offence for which they were punished by being man and author from the charge of inconsistency.
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THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.
Mr. Gladstone, says his clerical advocate, held in CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.
ITALIEN SIX PER CENT. TOBACCO ' , a
Mayor and Corporation, very surely Westminster, I dismissed from their employrnent--was not that they
DjulDr.
GY.OBoUthiEVorEeRmSrEsNLD
xiYoOrraURy.tWirAITIES
arowteerehiscasterseatiinse
wohnichCltnihrecrhe
_Be- LOAN.-Messrs. STERN BROTHERS beg to announce that
voted for Mr. LAVERTON, but that they were guilty *
holders of the Scrip of the above Loan may, upon application to to 8, THE DEAD HEART. Messrs. Ben. Webster,A S ling, Marylebone, Islington, or Lambeth, ought, out of
nhl tdeh
iecnr :el .
TO' HAS 31-a?II3EFTWG'ELatL7. s'
G. Belmore, It. ;Phillips, Ashley, Stuart; Mrs. Alfred Mellon,
of falsehood in voting at all. Unfortunately, this pa.city to act in matters of 'mom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
them, receive an allotment of Shares in the IT ALIEN TOBACCO
MONOPOLY COMPANY (Societe anonyrcie pour la regie co- Miss Lennox Grey, lc. their hunlredsoftleousands, to beable to furnish men of
theory was rendered untenable by Mr. HARROP'S `w` aasso‘:
religion," and he described such a state of things as PARIS, SUNDAY, February 7.
Interessee desTobacs dans le royamme d'ltalie), at the rate of one
.
sufficient. cbarvater and standing for a similar a amity." Mr. Gladstone at the , e
• share of the nominal amount of 500 lire for every 5,000 frannet oaf
GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.
riaill able to add a few t• 1 ' .".
more par icu ars to the account
scrip. Applications must be accompanied by the scrip, d y
d a aid u THIS EVENING, at 7, A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S
purpose. The proposal to establish a central Board, own conduct. Ile himself, together with Mr. PHIPPS, present day has not discovered that the failure of the Irish '' - • '' • '
Church i 1
s to se regarded other than as a failure and a of the case'of attempted poisoning, or proposed poieoning,
payment of 259 lire per share, which will be credite as p p
SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMLNS: Messrs. a
;a . -
canvassed them in behalf of the latter gentleman. calamity ; but lie has discovered h
t at the State cannot N.vnichp now the one topic of gossip in Paris. It now
thereon.
larke •
ling money at an exehange to Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. C , consistin.g of delegates from the local Boards, may
Payment will be received in star
Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorne, Breniaen, Berend, Hughes, Ar-
That is, Mr. Hannop himself endeavoured to make propagate the Protestant religion in Ireland by keeping tippeans that the individual whom the young Polish count
be fixed deily.
instant. aold, and Stephens. be received with more suspicion ; such a limited up the Establishment, and that the State will best serve ' '
i No applications will be received after the 20th
srs _
ern
. them commit the falsehood which he now, by Protestant inter t b bl' le.
ess yaoising the present state of desired to poison was no less a personage than the Duke
Forms of application may be obtained at Mes . St
body m'ight be more under Government influence h•
things. He has altered, not his principles, but his judg- de B—. For a long time past Count K— has been
ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
is counsel, affects to resent. lEs first act was
Brothers', Angel-court, London, E.C.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
than a Corporation would ever be and in this cas bad en ugh • h h d
, e a no sort or ri nt
. . •, . ee ment, on a matter of fact, and all that is to be regretted is the amant of the Duchess de B—, who lives apart from
Bth February, 1869.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel- . , e o
g 1"-' that he had not seen more of the working of the Prot t t
_
es al..' her husband, and this attachment, so far from diminish-
ford, Clarke ; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH
at least in -the multitude of counsellors there is some a.sk his men which way they intended to Establishment before he wrote in 1838. The •
writer in
LIFEBOAT SERVICES.-During tbe Storms OF GOLD: Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; MesdaumesaMariao
vote. His second act, that of canvassing Macmillan thinks that in such a case he would have ing with the lapse of time, became such that both parties
of the year 1868, the National Lifeboat Institution ongmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and M ghe . T degree of safety, if not of wisdom.
;peewee with nor.: A.ND DYE them in his mill with the Conservative candidate, speedily discoveredthat theProtestantEstablishment wasat desired to consecrate by marriage an intimacy which
contributed to the saving of 862 lives from various ship-
Mr. BRUCE is evidently inclined to t th
accep c was worse still. -Worst of all was his dismissal of the bottom of Celtic discontent and Anelo-Irish arrogance. lacked h• b h
not ing ut t e ceremonial. Count K—
wrecks and 25 vessels from destruction. The Institution
Mr. Gladstone, in the opinion of this kindly critic, acted
those who voted against his wish but according to
thus first conceived the idea of getting rid of his
also expended £20,433 in the same period on its Lifeboat
QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. leading fes tures of the scheme thus roughly laid wisely in the autumn in making so many speeches explana-
Establishments, in addition to granting .£2.431 for re-
Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston their conscience. It was attempted to be shewri t 1 t
ia tory of his own career, and in publishing his auto- Paramour's husband ; little by little the enormity of the
Tens EYeeiren. A RACE FOR A DINNER. After which, before him. At any rate he pledged himself to some of
wards.
eh H. these workmen left his employ voluntarily ; biography. The latter act the " Clergyman of the crime disa d b cl• • •
ppeare y constantly mc stating upon it, and
The Committee of the institution earnestly appeal to the DEARER THAN LIFE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, L. Brons ,
A d submit it to th but Justice WILLFs with great ecumen end in Church of Eneland" accepts as addressed to th 1
e c ergy,
.
ble them to meet the continued Irving. Miss Hodson, &c. With THE LITTLE REBEL n . e consideration of Parliament, . . -'
- ' ' ' l • "Is • • finally Count K— resolved upon assassination. A duel
public for assistance to ena ,
TIIE G3TOME KLNG: Mr Toole. felicitous language, disposed of that plea. He said: though the reac er will possi ly be inclined to doubt
heavy demands on their 198 Lifeboat Establishments. and said that he would either refer the bills to a " Many men do that voluntarily which they do not do tbe suggestion that Mr. Gladstone's reputation as a was out of the question, for the duke was fully aware of the
• Contributions will be thankfully received by the London
THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. select ca•eemittee with a vi-
ew to legislation, or, in willingly. A man runs awayto avoidagreat danger. He sound Churchman is dearer to him than his reputation as life his duchess was leading. It was for the purpose of
and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
THIS EVENING MIRIAM'S CRIME: Messrs. E. Price, George
a statesman. A social question of v •
ery great importance, poisoning the nobleman that Count K-- applied
Esq., at the Institution, 11, John-street, Adelphi, London.
Honey, F. Drew' Parselle, and W. Howard. Mesdames Lydia case he ehould prefer bringing in a Government mea- does that voluntarily, but he would probably wish not though it is one more often treated with levity than with '' • - -
Foote and Larkin. After which. 1.111-I,KO THE TERRIBLE : to have to run away at all. A man takes to a small the earnestness properly belonging to it, finds a place in this • member of he / i . i
to the attractile t .- ceet WO ide. Your
sure on the subject he would withdraw the
JOIEN GOSNEIL and CO.'S CHERRY Messrs. F Hnghes, W. Arthur, Bruntorn, anvdelroArsghetolizzys r mon boat in the ocean rather than go down with a sinking number of Macmillan. " Two Girls of the Period" are shown readers knew the rest. I may add that the duke did go
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth Mesdames Larlein, W. eathersby, rn ,
' Tn'
e AUNT CHARLOTTE'S the prornise that the Cabinet should take up the ship. So a man may leave an employment without us-both, we may hope, really representative of their class. to the opera on the night when it was intended to
he I Fanny Josephs. lec. To concluae with s . .
The one, a picture of female life, from the " under side " • .
powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects t , mut).
b h
waiting to e taken by t e shoulder and turned poison him, and was noticed to enjoy himself amazingly-
question next session. It will be secu that Mr. BRUCE, tells the story of a simple country girl of eighteen finding
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
out. Such a man may be said to have herself homeless, friendless, and penniless in the great quite unconscious of the danger which he had so narrdwly
tho breath. Price ls. 6d.-Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper THEATRE-ROYAL, OLYMPIC. at all events, is tolerably confident as to his tenure done it volui t.lb t t -11' 1 I
ian y, u no aimg y. n short, the labyrinth of London streets. The other or " upper " side escaped. After this story Miss Braddon appears in quite
Thames-street. London. THIS EVENING, at 7, SL A SHER & CRASHER : Messrs A tkins,
Taughan, G. Vincent, fie.; Miss Lennox Grey and Mrs Caulfield. of office. distinction was well expressed by the poet four thou- of the picture is, however, the more remarkable. It is a natural light, and all more moderate writers needl 1
CBS y
. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. After which. at 7.45, THE YELLOW PASSPORT : Messrs. H
sand years ago when he said of one who acted in that written by a " Belgravian young lady," who, at least if ,„rne.
A GUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair incent E. Atkins H. Vaughan, H. Cooper, and IL
Neeille, G. V , ,_
Wigan; Mesdamee Furta,do, Lennox rey, an
G d Caulfield The only surprising thing about the affair is that way, he did it, willingly, with an unwilling mind." •
the editor's assertion of authenticity be well founded, has l'"
risen superior to the manifold temptations she so vividly The week closed with a great debate in the Senate. The
172._ to ire pristine hue, no matter at what age. sOme such plan was not thought of long ago. There The result is, that all Sees eant PARRY'S eloquence was describes. She boldly confronts the charges made against " Upper House," in fact dt h k
~ seeme o aye awo e
JNO. GgSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid
thrown away. Mr. PHIPPS was declared unseated, the " girl of the period," acknowledging that so
ROYALTY THEATRE. can be no question that we need not be rated so
me to a consciousness of its great legislative func-
of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect-
and the borough is vacant for another of Sir MASSEY amount of truth is to be found in most of them, 1
Under the Management of Miss M. Oliver.
heavil tb
y, at much money is wasted directly and in- but not content with lamentation or with satire, Cons. M. de Maupas, Minister of Police, who was
ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, A LOVING CITP. Mr. Dewar, Miss
LOPES'S friends. The judge would. t • - V
no gie ee r. , ,
in a more concentrated form, and at a loxver price.
M. Oliver. To be followed by CLAUDE DUVAL; Mr. Dewar,
directly, that fro f •
m our want o unity and scrutiny LAVERTON his costs, and said that he was not bound "
s. e asks the cause for a recognised and growing evil, and one of the most vehement opponents of the new press
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. &c. To conclude with EVERYBODY'S HUSBAND*
finds it in the enforced uselessness and emptiness of law last year, introduced an interpellation on thisquestion.
including brush.
into doubtful cases, much is laiished with one hand to state the reason why. It would therefore be im- women's lives. With a fidelit l'f h. h 1
yto lew lc none wso Mde Mau ' '
pas a ideas have changed in some measure. He
Red Bnll Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-
PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
pertinent to ask if Mr. LAVERTON WaS gllilty of inti- know the routine of a modern fashionable household can '
street London. E.C.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton and stinted on the other. I oth E
n any er uropean midation towards his worlcpeople. Perhaps, if the dispute, she shews how the young, earnest girl, full of noble is no longer the uuconapromising opponent of concession to
t
THIs EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague,
kin dom 11 th' whole truth were known, ,
Westbu spirations is checked and thwarted in her efforts to the press •he is now inclined to tolera th 1
THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Addison, Glover, and Baneroft; Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss g a ts would have been rectified before ry would cease to r., . , , . , te eaw of
reek througn the m , nd. She has
onotonous deily rou
/
C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
possess the privilege it has enjoyed since the days of last year, but he demands that Ministers them-
discontent had t•
tree to grow, but we, in England, in literally nothing to do at home, where servants are more
1 Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
HAZARD. And INTRIGUE.
• h selves shall be responsible, so that the Emperor
' Special Morning Performances of the Grand Pantomime on
EDWARD 111.-would cease to return a burgess to plentiful than work ; she is not wanted in the pans
every Wednesuay and Saturday duringthe Christmas Holidays s obedience to the old adage which forbids us to be Parliament.
THIS EVENING, will be performed MY WIFE'S OUT. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
school, where the trained teacherslook on amateur labourers may no longer be subjected to personal attacks
-
To be followed by the Great Christmas Pantomime, entitled Tins EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud happy unless we are miserable, seem to have kept . with contempt ; she must not visit the poor, for from the newspapers. The press, indeed, soon
GRIMALKIN THE GREAT ; OR, HARLEQUIN PUSS IN BOOTS, of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, M. Clifton, Don Juan
fear of infection • she tries study but finds it •
LND THE MILLER'S SONS, with new and magniftcent Scenery Barto, fie. up this cumbrous, costly, and impracticable machinery THE Protestant Defence Association has done its wearisome alone ; 'she be • t - d' h t I
gins o won er w a use sie yams e
h d from the cl* •
iscussion, which speedily
,
1 ey Mr. Wm. Beverley. Characters in the Opening by the entire
just to see how very far behind the age we could best in behalf of the Irish Church, and, happily for 'n the world Her rent.: larmed at
is to be 1 . pa ~ a . turned upon the greater subject of Ministerial responsi-
strength of the company. In the Harlequirusde a Double Troupe
CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
. the prospect of her developing into a " blue," entice her bility alone. M. de Maupas looked upon the law as a con-
ot Pantomimists ; and combining the grandest stage effects of
the Church, that best amounts to very little.
duced at this theatre. Doors open at Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. contrive to let matters remain which daily affect our into society, and as the place of all her cherished plans is
any Pantomime ever pro
cession which had been made and could never be recalled ;
half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily.
Assembling in the Dublin Rotundo, where the noise supplied by mere empty pleasure-seeking which brings no
health, our purse, and comfort.
pleasure, she sinks by degrees into the " girl of the period." the question was to avoid any ill effects from it. And
-
ROYAL ALITA3II3RA PALACE. - THREE BALLETS,
of Kentish fire has been so often heard before, the The Belgravian young lady does not hesitate to affirm though himself one of the most ardent supporters of the
T HEATRE ROYA L HA YMARKET. Promenade Concert. Band of GO. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office -
that there is a very general feeling- among lier class
open from 11 to 4.
most fervid supporters of the Establishment could Imperial rEgime, he found no other resource than the
Sole Lessee. Mr.,Buckstone. IT was stated during the long and stormy debates
against the life they lead, a strong craving for better
THIS EVENLNG, BLUE DEVILS: Messrs. Howe, Rogers,
not at this supreme crisis of its fate muster more nclusion that corn lete a,nciabsolute res onsibilit of the
things; but the atmosphere of a woman's life in the upper co B . p Y
Blackstone. jun., and Miss Fanny 'Wright.. ' k OPEN d'l (
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert s-pai , _ al y ex- on the Reform Bill that Mr. DISRAELI persevered
After which, HOME: Messrs. Sothern, Chtßleendale, ConsP- eept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d.; Children with his measure in s't f d'ffi ilt•
pi e o i ct ies a wou
th t ld than a very few hundred persons. These, before the classes forbids the effort to attain them. She asks that sovereign is no long•er admissible. He granted that steps
lon, A stley, &c, ; Mesdames Cavendish, Burke, Hill, fie. under twelve. 6(1.
girls growing to womanhood may have the opportunity of had already been taken to protect the Crown by an inter-
Concluding with THE FRIGHTFUL HAIR. eessrs. Comp
have overwhelmed an ordinary man, because of his speaking was over, had dwindled down to two spending a portion of their lives in the service of
._
mediate authority, but these reforms were not nearly
ton, Kendal, Weathersby, Buckstone, jun., &c. ; Mesdames
or three score. It cannot be said that the their God and of their fellow-creatures, that they
.
Wright, Burke, Gwynn, &c.
great desire to have his name written in the
adequate to the necessities of the case. M. Rouher evaded
absentees lost much by their absence. There may have a release from their present bondage of idle
Commence at Seven. 0 'l4_4 "St fi.e.se,
s., ,
... .
ilit,
statute-book. Until then he had succeeded in pass- w h f selfishness, and the means o .
f exercisine• their talents the prime question. By assuring the interpellator that
ere speec es rom Lord BANDON, from Viscount
-
ii i ;ire 0 . ''rellirk-, '
in the cause of good and not of evil. " -Vir'e cl i • '
a m it, ' she Ministerial responsibility already existed, that no .
. • l'
'-_-1-•'''
T HEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. ~..,,,ii, , • s.-,,,.,,,,,„, . 4-1
%II T
ing no measme of importance, and he was seeing life TEMPLEToWN, and from three members of the
i I
emphatically concludes. " because we feel that it cannot
, ~ Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. tessesiess.„,:essleeee4s.,----- • 5...\._ _
_, e s ..e.e . 4 ,
ebb away with no lasting memorial of him. In House of Commons, none of them in any way be the will of God that so many talents, youth, energy, one of the Ministers was not ready to resign '
Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
notable. Not a single bishop was present. The intelligence, and influence should be wholly eiven up to his portfolio on a vote of censure from the
THIS EVENING, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE ...--.........---..
TO CA um?, It WELL. Mr. G. delmore, Mrs. L. Murray.
7. d e to the convictions of those who see nothing but matter for
fst 15 to 8, THE DEAD HEART: Mr. Benjamin Webster, L aNDON, A/ aNDeI. /7, FEB. 8, 1869. two measures of first-class importance, the Reform ha,ve 1 d d
p e ge themselves to "IN o surren er, and the
ridicule in the wasting of so many fresh young lives, the Imperial logicians do, the extent to which this amount of ;
Mr. Arthur Stirling, Mr. G Belmore, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Ash- Bill and the Corrupt Practices Bill. It must be con- bishops, includine• 't ld seem, Dr. G
. even, i wou REGG, responsibility falls short of what is needed. The Chamber I
-411..
"Belg,ravian Girl of the Period" will have done good ser-
ley, Mr. Stuart, Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Visa Lennox Grey, fic.
Commence at Seven. • fessed that these offspring of the ex-Premier's know well enough that their only chalice consists in vice. Women, however " fast" or eccentric in society, passed to the order of the day, and there the affair ended. I
How best to regulate the social economy of our a compromise. Argument there was none worthy of have rarely courage to start for themselves in N th I
ever e ess, a debate of this kind within the frigid atmo- ]
statesmanship are treating the author of th • b •
eir eing the name. Lord BeemoN • ted out that if Mr.
poll]. new and untried careers. It is always their impulse
0 YAL PRIN C E S S'S THEA T R E. huge metropolis is a question which is just now en- •th ss in ati
wi gro gr tude. icTXON devoured b h* G
Y 13 LADSTONE'S Suspensory Bill had been carried last to follow the lead of others, and thus in our own day many sphere of the Senate is decidedly one of the most interest- i
R Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining.
grossing a good deal of interest and attention. It is
who find the hollowness of fashionable life really intoler- ing events since the constitution was first voted. I
own dogs did not present a more heart-movin t year, no Dea fth Chapel Royal wold
Last 5 Nights.
g, ear- n o e
u able talee refuge in sisterhoods and convents. The work c
THIS EVENING, THE SECRET. universally admitted that there is a great and pressing compelling spectacle than Mr. DISRAELI suffering have been appointed-a contingency which he seemed there offered to them is felt to be something nobler and
After which iat 8 o'clock) Dion Boticicault's new drama, in
I
to conte KF tlt's7F
mplate with dismay. Dr. - - ,Y, who more truly feminine, and they overlook the dangers of the
f aur acts. entitled AFTER DARK, a. Tale of London Life. need for reform. We cannot boast that, so far as under the effects of his two great statutes. The
THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.
Messrs Vinime, Walter Lacy, Dominick Murray, C. Harcourt,
ha.s been doing duty as a lecturer on this side of St. methed in their anxiety to obtain it. A man who devotes E
J. G . Shore ; Miss Emma Barnet. and Miss Rose Leclerce• our local administration is concerned, we are either Reform Act placed him in a minority of about Geor ' C - was 't
ge s hannel, said that he qui e ready to his life to the 't f 1 says good old Jeremy
pursui o p easure,
es. I
Entirely new Scenery by Mr. F. Lloyds awl assistants.
9 T Taylor is as wise as he who would make his garment of
To conclude with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY. cheaply governed or well governed. -We pay three lle. he Corrupt Practices Acr is reducing return to England, but not with the white flag in his •- ' • METEOROLOGICAL RETORTS.
fringes or his meal of sauces ; and while we virtually con -
Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7. Box-office open
pocket while their enemies flaunted the red flan. of
s
.
daily from 10 till 5. millions yearly for local purposes, which is a large pro- that minority still more. One after another - . a dernn our maidens to such an endeavour, we have no right Extreme Sea
battle or rether the black flag of piracy One of the t •
o give them the exclusive blame of the result.
a
Ear On Monday, Feb. 15, a new Drama, entitled MARIE 0 at which the asse -
portion even of the £15,000,00 seable ,
Conservative M.P. is being Unseated • one k' ' - *
Monday, se 4 , /is
ANTOINETTE, in which Mdlle. Beatrice will appear. spea ers declared that the Church had been pre- Tim • -if th' AI J l
e two engravings in tis mon s 2 ourna repro- Feb. 8, B. T. ,° ' W. II to F. D. WR, to t
after another of the eat trium hs of Conservative ••
,e.,; 1 12
property of London is rated, and how or why we pay gr p 1. ented from being a missionary church by the inter- sent two well-known paintines " The Last Toilet of Char- 8 a.m. 9 b
R OYAL STRAND THEATRE. reaction is turning out to he due to conservative ference of the State, and then went on to urge the - _______— —.....
it, we are most of us sublimely unconscious. Who
Nairn
lotte • • 'BMWd • th R
Corday," exhibited by • . . ar ,in e oyal 29•08 f. 39. 37 S.W. 2 4 S.IY. lo.b. o'os, 1 a
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough.
maintenance of the State rule over the Church. A Aberdeen . 29'26f. 42 40 W. 1 3 W. ch. o'o2, 1
gold or to Conservative intimidatioa. Sir HENRY
Academy of 1863, and " Christ and St. John," by Amy Leith " 29'22f. 15 42 W. 2 8 W. ha. o'2l,- il
THIS EVENING, at 7.50, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. shall solve the riddle why the parochial management Mr. DOBBYN ELLIOTT denied that the Irish Church Scheffer. The latter is particularly soft in its shading, Shields ..
CI srke. Belford, Joyce; Mesdames Butasia and Maitland. STRACEY has been unseated at Norwich, Sir RICHARD
52 W.S.W. 4 7 W.S.W. c.o. o'oB, 3 '
After which, THE FIELD OF T.LL CLOTH OF GOLD. of Marylebone should cost £B,OOO, while that of West- was an alien Church, " because no li'art of Ireland and the face of Christ most expressive. Marcus Stone Scarborougl 22'33f. 53
Yarmouth 29'6of. 52 50 S.W. 6 8 S.S.W. o.c. - 5 /
Messrs. Thome, James, and Robson Mesdames M. Long- GLASS at Bewdley, Sir Anreren GUINNESS at Dublin, in whi hth P •
c e rince and Princess of Ireland set foot is the life which has been selected for the type of British Helder - - - - - - - -
more, F. Hughes. L. Maitland, fie. minster costs £20,000 ? Who shall tell us wh L
y on- and Mr. PHIPPS at Westbury. Mr. RepLEy, though was alien to the ern • " Such was the rhetoric, artists ; and his career is most interesting. Born in Cuxhaven - - - - "-- - - -- - n
To conclude /nth HUE AND DYE.
pire.
Skudesmes - - - - - -
don is under oae head divided into 37 departments, a Liberal, was the cha • fth C t• -
mpion o e onserva ice such the logic which distinguished this meeting; and London on July 4, 1840, he exhi
leited his first picture of
Ardrossan .. 29•231. 46 44 S.W. 3 9 W.S.W. o.c. 0'53 3 c'
h 1
't oug i there were occasional displays of Kentish " Rest "at the Academy when he was only 18 years of Green castle 2919 f. 44 44 S. 1 2 W.S.W. is o'4l -h,
ROYAL AMRHITHEArRE AND cißcus, under another into 54, under a third into 90, and party at Bradford, and he, too, has been unseated. age. His pencil was a favourite plaything with him as a Holyhead .. 29141. 51 50 S.S.W. 9 10 SAW, r. --
HOLBORN.
t 1 der another into 16 1 It 'I t t 11 b On the other hand th C 't• - h- - inly bth 6
megt na ura y e sup- , e onser‘a ix es aa eN. a fire, there was a e•eneral feeling of depression caused clild btth h. h f 1 artist he may fairly be
1 , ii oug t e son o as , _ Liverpool .. 29-40 55 53 S.S.W. 3 10 S.W. o.r. o'o2 2 bi
Valentia . 29'28f 53 53 S W 8 10 S.W. r. I'ol 7 01
Another change of Programme.-First appearance of DON -u •
dhb• b Y 1
y e result of the elections, an t e elief that called " self taught," as his father took ut At e trouble Cape Cle *r :: ' • • _ -- _ _
JUAN BARTO, a Mexican Grotesque, and the most astounding posed that a community numbering three millions, endeavoured to unseat Mr. EYKYN at Windsor, Mr. those most qualified to speak for the Church had to foster the boy's talent. He exhibited for three - - - - --9
S W r 0'92 6 .4
Roch e s art. 29•361. 51 51 S.W. 8 • • •
Prestidigitateur ever witnessed. Without the aid of apparatus,
uccessive years after 1858 but his picture of Napoleon Penzance .. 2910 f. 53 o'2B
52 S.W. 6 8 S.W. r.me . 5
or conredera,y of any kind whatever, he will perform, in the whose rateable property is estimated at the ONSLOW at Guildford, Messrs. GAVIN and RUSSELL made up their minds to come to terms with the 0
snth ' ' P• fit d li•
e Road from Waterloo to aris rs ma e im w
Plymouth .. 29'78f. 53 52 S.W. 8 8 S.W. m.r.10 31 6 st
centre of th 3 0 rena, feats of magic more wonderful than can
Cabinet. eymouth 29'78f. 53 52 S.W. 3 6 S.W. b.0.10'11 2
possibly be imagined. The Press in every city in America in high rate we have mentioned, would re I t
gu a e at Limerick, Mr. DALWAY at Carrickfergus, Mr. popular. Napoleon has staked his all and lost, and sits Portsmouth 29'79f. 51 50 W.S.W. 8 8 W.S.W. r. o'lo, 7 W
London , - 29'72f. 53 51 S.W. 8 9 S.W. c.ro trO2'- Cc
which he has exhibited unanimously proclaim him without an
moodily brooding over the fire, his hat and sword thrown
; e'PeGrisNes 29'82f. 50 48 W. 11 9 W. o.r. - 7
3PCEuRE at Belfast, Mr. RYLANDS at Warrington, THE MAGAZINES. carelessly on the ground, and quite oblivious of a group os Brest
equal. Hundreds of criticisms might be quoted in pra,ise of his their affairs on some clear a d
n comprehen-
exceeding cleverness, but one selected from a leading American
Mr FORSTER at Bradford, and they have withdrawn
-____,_____ ____ peasants watching him with mingled curi9sity and s9rrow L'Orient - ... - - - - - - -- -
paper will probably be deemed sufficient: "We have seen dur sible system ; that they would take care at • .*
- Th • h b
in t e ac eground. Roch ef rt
ya is,s see in, re uge in e H. o ..
I " The Ro 1. 4. k e f th 30191. 46 44 S.W. 5 4 S.S.W. c. - I ea
ing the past week," says the joarnal in question, " the perform- their petitions against Mr. Par at Dublin and Mr. e current number of Blackwood contains an article
house of a Puritan" was another very popularpicture. The ciarritz .... - - - - - - - - B
orunna.... - - - - - - - - - -
maces of Don Juan Barto, the extraordinary grotesque, and are least that there should be neither waste nor irregu - . on " Army 0 e •t• ~ • • de
compelled to acknowledge that his tricks of Prestidigitation are MONCREIFF in Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities. rsanisa ion, which leen serves attention Journal give some curious facts about rings, and says the Bru sa els .... - - - - - - - Tv'
truly wonderful. We have seen Hermann, Heller, Anderson, larity in their expenditure, and that they would put at this time. It is observed that our army is maintained Greeks seem to have derived the custom of wearing rings Paris - - - - -- -
Only two Liberals have lost their seats through Con-
Th Strasbourg - - - - - - - -- - bc
from the East, and the Italians from the Greeks. e Lyons,
..
and numerous other professors of the magic art, but we have
at a cost relatively much t tl th t f fth
grea er ian a o any o e
never witnessed any so dexterous, so complete in their perform- matters into the hands of the most enlightened, im- servative agency, and one of these by an informality I
, continental rine- distinguished the free-born from the servile. The Toulon :::: 30725 f. 4-6 4-4- N.-.W. -4
-i. IT. C.f. .--- -2
ne
ances, nor so truly beyond comprehension, as this celebrated
Powers, and this is owing in a great measure '''•
earliest Roman rings were of iron, and gold ones are first tlears Con-
an
magician. We accord him the praise of being the best performer partial, and generally competent men whom they on the part of the sheriff. Only one, therefore, Mr. to the fact'that our army is raised by voluntary enlistment, mentioned B.C. 321. Julius Cmsar used a signet with a Le ?. •'?
loenal (lima el i• i - C
that we have ever seen upon any stage,: In addition, Her Oscar
Carr° and his Fifty wonderful -performing Horses, and the ne- could discover. WneTwoRTH, at Drogheda, has been unseated on while that of all continental St t • f db tl
_aes is orme y se con- Venus Victrix upon it. Plato has generally a butterfly -
paralleled Scenes in the Arena, including A. Bradbury, En
upon his. Juvenal tells of some dandies who had two sets EXPLANATION' qu
scription. The fashionable doctrine of the day is in favour
g- We do not suppose that any one would employ account of electoral malpractices. The judo-es
, are
land's Champion Egaestria.n, A, Salamonsky, A. Cerra, Manes.
of chart enli2tznents, hut tl - . nee fti B •tish
perie, o ie. T'l , 0 .
of rines for winter and summer wear. Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The in'
Montera, Schwartz Kremser and Salamonsk I
• , . y, n a series of there terms as being ordinarily characteristic of yes- sterner men than M.P.'s. Their lordships will not army has sliewn that th'ee "
soldier s value increases The first thing to greet time rea er etter r, rising ,r. falling ,s, eicad,-- indicates direction of motion x% 1
d•Ldl•• - • - • • ,*
in on on
unparalleled acts of horsemanship. Castel() ti and the Brother.,
sanction the lame and im otent
p conclusions which until he attains the period when his health begins of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in sli
Girardes in their Thrilling Ladder and Trapeze evolutions. The tries, nor would many persons be inclined to affirm
Society is no less portentous an article than " A
Clowns Burgess an i Loyal, t,he greatest grotesque of the day
hon. members used to arrive at. They woul 1 th• 1 to fail. Hence it has been suggested that good soldiers of
Study of Character." A second glance, however, proves shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours. s, i
" Many persona form their estimate of a circus from some of that our London Government is all that it (in c sixteen years' service might be discharged on half pension z.-calm. Weather : b.-blue sky ; e.-clouds, detached ;fa foe ; ''''
thoae exeibitioas which travel through the provinces; the Hol- it monstrous to declare, as the Great Yer th
, mou on condition of beire enrolled in the reserve of their own that the writer is still au co?rrant with the topics of the h.-hail ; 1.- li 1 i ' d 1
g itn ng ; lie-misty, hazy ; 0.-overeast, u 1 ; r.- de
born Amehitheaire, is aa far above them as Patti's singing is 8110Uld be. Every one grumbles at the rates, and FA -
reeiment for t .°
en years more. They could thus be recalled day, and has not wa,ndered far from the central area of rain ; s.-snow ; e-thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail (melted) tie
above Peat of a etreet ballad-singer."-Court Journal, Jan. 2. ection Committee declared, that briber
y had ex- , to'the ranks oe their regiment in time of war. In dealing London society. The character, so studied, is no very
of
g last 24 hours. Sea disturbance.
dririn .
Doors onen at Seven, commence at half past. Morning Per- few have ualimited confidence iu the manner in tensi 7 1 •I d
xe y prevai e ,so extensively that the borou I ' •
with the difficult and delicate subject of the relations easy one for the critic to analyse, and he is forced to ae-
f ortnences Wednesday a.ud Saturday, commencing at Half-past
g 1
REMARKS. re(
Two. which the funds so collected are administered. had to be disfranchised an between the Horse Guards and the War Office the writer knowledge at the very outset that the character of our
.
d
, yet suffer the bribers to ,of this article remarks that the a,clvice of the Commander- present Premier presents a social puzzle, an ethical prob- The rise in pressure noticed in the north on Saturday afternoon to
There is a want of method and of manaeement retain their sert M
GLO B E 1' II EAT It E-R OYA L. a As. e oreover, the judges have in-Chief has not that weight attached to it which some loin. " There is no man against whom greater was succeeded almost immediately by a sudden fall, which exceeded SUS
Sole Proprieter and 3lanager, Mr. Sefton Parry. which is anything but satisfactory. Take for in- ideas of their own res • ' belie veit to possess. It is sug,gested that the present perma- contradictions and inconsistencies are alleged, in-
pecting intimidation, • • • a- f W • • 1 td• t. 1• I • • •
Bent Military ti /icier been, ary or ar should be abolished consistencies anc con re, ic ions w iic i he himself a
half an inch by Bam on Sunday This change was accompanied by
slight rise in France, and great inequality of pressure was thus ani
At 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.10, CYRIL'S SUCCESS. 9. 0. ideas of a very different kind fr
off
- BROWN AND THE BRAHMIN S : Messrs. Marshall, Warner, st f our London
ance the poor rate, which in most o , om those entertained and a permanent Financial Under Secretary appointed in admits, and which the world hastens to condone." produced. This morning a still further decrease in pressure is noted
David Fisher, Andrews, Flurleton, and J. Clarke; Mesdames C.
lace A by memben of the Legislature A • • • • I his stead. Also that the Horse Guards should be trans- The article is, on the whole, a just and discriminative one
2 at all stations-mostly in the west ; but since 11 p.m a recov y
ei of sp,
Thorne, L. Morgan, Brennan, Fountain. Arnold, Henrade, Be parishes occupies a painfully prominent p . • s intimidation '
1 ferred to the War Office, and the Commander-in-Chief shewing a full appreciation of the manygreat qualities and at Nairn is 1•11 in. Un
one-tenth has occurred at Nairn. The reading
rend, Hughes, and Stephens. was always a favourite wea
close inquiry often shows that cases of real aud lin- , pon with the Conservative ' e
/laced in direct personal communication with the Secretary shining talents of the orator, the scholar, and the consum-
lower than t a a o
h t t R chefort. Temperature has not changed very sta
party, we are likely to hear of of State for war in all executive matte s I erat- mate man of business • while it acknowledees neverthe la the north and higher in the south than
QT. GEORGE'S THEATRE, Regent-street, ininent distress are left unrelieved, while the idle a good many decisions 1 • • • li. h h
; ing the considerations wle r . n enum _ _ , _ / . _ . . . e , -
s ould govern all the less, the w ant of proportion in lus mind, the tendency to much, but is slightly lower
net
th of the last few days hes been .
ej Langham-place Licensed by the Lori Chamberlain. like that given by Mr. Justi W
Saturday, The unusual warra
Jail
ce ILLES at Westhu , reductions that are made in the army, it is said that sophistica.tion and diffuseness in his eloquence, and the °n rrence of storms. During Saturday night a
First app ..nrance, since 1862, of the-ROYAL ORIGINAL a.nd vagrant are burdens on the parish ; neces- A . . , . rY• I
succeeded by a recu
CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS (Proprietors, Messrs. WI 1.-
1 while sit is, the list of unseated m b •
ern ers is already for- great care should be taken in reducing those branches of irritable temper which sometimes forgets the courtesy due S and W. coasts, which has since ex- iS
SW. gale set in on our .
strong S
the service in which an expensive course of training is to an opponent. It was once said of Mr. Gladstone that eme northern stations, and has been very me,
503.1 and MONTAGTJE), who will commence their Lou- sary reforms are I:ithlield or delayet , midably long, and there is still
tended to all but our extr
don season In the a'-‘ove theatre on Thursday, Feb. 11, the official h eked More i• t
expenses go on unc e . tamen meets, and a good political erticle is entitled Mr. Gladstone and Disesta- that twice six multiplied by three minus thirty
recruit into an
a week before Par- needed to turn the „ effective soldier. The he would not say that twice six was twelve, but
st This morning the wind has moderated, and
.
severe in the we .
tO
d in the east ; but a S.W. gale is still blowing on our
1869. The only Company of Cbristy's who have had the many weeks afterwards I, '
drawn westwar
honour to appear by special command before the Queen than once cases of systematic fraud have in which to increase it. 2 lishment." It is said that the time is at hand when it plus six was twelve ; and the satire was not n and weather is very unsettled. Rain cf
and Court. Acting Manager, Mr. A. Nimmo. Evening ,ar 186
must be decided ie the ye 9 shall constitute an era, in altogether unjust. In conclusion, the writer of this west coasts and in the Chan el,
ral, and heavy in the west. The sky is overcast and the
esca for As et the • •
at 8, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 3 and 8. Private ped the vigilance of the guardians y majority of cases in which the mem- the history of England. It is complained that Mr. Glad- sketch observes that all Englishmen may well have a has been gene . .
11 falls at western stations. The sea is very h' h
le nev
stone is not sufficiently explicit, and does not explain the national pride in their Premier, and the most timid may eloudy„and rain sti
boxes_, £3 3s• and X 2 2s. ; dress stalls, 55.; reserved seats. some time, so th tth leesant bers have been i
a e ratepayer has had the p inseated have been cases of bribe h h• h h pects to arrive at his ob. fd. f t• hI-th• f b • d. 1 li. 11 d th outh coasts.
tior
35.; balcony seats, 25.; admissi n, ls. Boxes and place,- ry means yw lc eex ject o is- or a ime cec a eir ore odings, an wis i im a goo ee e s
or treatin
• h Church. in
-
may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library ;at all th, conviction that he has paid about three times as g. There was bribery at Norwich and establishing the Iris the event of the Pre- wishes for a strong and successful Administration. It
as I
principal musicsellers; and at the box-office.
mier's policy being successful, the writer finds some con- would, of course, be an unheard-of thing to have a
Dublin, treating at Bewdley and Bradford, f • •
WANT OF ECONOMY. soci
much as was absolute] I most other
y necessary. n
or solation in the thought that while the Church of England February magazine without any reference to St. Valen-
_
instance. Here there lasts in England it will be impossible for Mr. Gladstone to tine, and accordingly the patron saint of the Fourteenth .-6—___ as t
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' GUARDIAN. matters the same thing is visible. We pay a good were two parties to each
c.f. R. GLENIE, of the SPORTING LIBRARY, su f 1*
na or po ice rates, and yet our police force is ad- offence-the party b •1;
TI 111 effecttruediseetabliehment by the real separation of Church claims a share in no fewer than six of the contributions
gor treating, end the and State, as tbe Irish disendawed Episcopalians will re- to London Society. Indeed, I may add a seventh to A Liberal contemporary has the following :-Li The thei
k.),1 •4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, London, W., begs to party bribed or treated. But hil in voluntary members of the State Church of England. the list, for the present instalment of " Poppies in present Government is so clearly determined to ro- thei
inform his customers, and the Licensed Victuallers in general, mittedly insufficient. We pay for the preservation w e there were thus I xia
Due regard is paid to the taste of lovers of 'fiction by the the Corn," treating.of " February Snowdrops," discusses the Civil Service estimates that we can scarcely be- °Ph
" duce
that he has been appointed Agent to the above-named paper in two offences cornin'tt •
i ed in each act ; while th '
ere was appearance of the story of " Doubles or Quits : a Comedy the kindred subject of unrequited love. The writer finds the story we are now going to repeat. The place if th
addition to his agency for the Sporting Edition of " THE sus," of our roads, yet for a third of the year we walk eunaw u
th 1 f 1 e lof I;]rrers,” and a sketch entitled "In Life and in Death." consolation for the various disappointments of life in a lie" - -
and can supply the same on Friday evening, if required, in town • purchase arid the unlawf 1
u sale ca a
tary to the Board of Works, to which a salar VIII
or country. tiarough accumulat.
ions of snow, mud, or dust, as vote, and so a douls!e wron , The first is a romantic tale, full of adventures ; and the graceful simile, " Every butterfly's wing with us, if our of secre Y
G. R. G. begs to inform the Trade that he is Agent for the h g, neither act wa.s in itself ' second unfolds a page of family history which ' lurns hands grasp it, loses some of the fine feather-dust. ef xi,200 a year was attached, became vacant a short in a
is very c y
.
LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN," and can supply it earlier t e case may be. In fact, the united efforts of our so bad as intimidation • ' e 'n its details. " The
complicat d 1 Pulpit of the Olden It remains perfect as it dances away from you over the ..s,e since. Two rival claimants at once started up
than any other man in London or Country the evening of publi- metro l• ,in which there is only one '
Time" is an interesting paper. It is said that the old line corn." " Gurnel Duke's First Valentine" is a pleasant ‘i-
h with his own claims and his own patrons-or,
ca.tion. No connection with any other pernons. Bally's, Ruff's, po nen vestries during the last several years, offender. It is a sin to
, ~
purchase a vote, but at least the of •
wst, once so popular, of having a flit, _
gat the parson, and somewhat original story, but the same cannot be said -eac
Wright's, and M'Call's Guides. All the Daily Papers, Magazine% have been
and Periodicals as soon as published. Agent for the Joint-Stock apparently devoted to the laudable end purchaser leaves to the other the free ex • •
creme of his ha I 1t ly reproduced, and the preachers are having a " Lady Mai7aret's Valentine," which is certainly snore strictly speaking, one with his claim, and the other
s ieen a e
Coal Company. Orders by post attended to. of disc •
s would call " a
what the American . . , good time" of it. I ut mt b• •
original, b os o jectionable throughout. The Picea- his patron. The economically disposed Gove
overmg how to do the least work with most will. He buys what he ought not to bu 't • + With rnment R
y, 1 is .rue; find in the course of this artlcle some striking descriptions dilly Papers supply as usual some animated notes on men It b a ointin both •
solved the difficu yy pp g competitors, as joint cons:
means. but he does not rob. It*•d t• • e h t• f Ipit orator - -h d and books and the' Christm'as E • ts are dul
o t e great mas es s o pu y who have flouris e , ntertammen Y t the reduced rate of XI 000 a
THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " to n inn a ion is nothine- less
a
1- be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEACOCK's. The Home Secreta • than robbery. The pe in different centuries. chronicled and illustrated by some clever sketches. Some secretaries a , year each. The met]
rson guilty of undue influence
ant-secrete has it is t
.ry, in receiving a deputation on
of the larger illustrations are, as they often are, very place of assist rY , rue, been abolished, dam
-Rennie, Sense' New-town.
The first article in the Dublin University Magazine,
this subject the oth goes up to a voter, if in England, a d t li. • er ceful and effective.
a ,„,, ; f was long ago condemned a e s
n says o im, in
- er day, made an important admis- "Early Norman Fret ch Literature," eonfeine a crnnri rlasl . •-'
THE THIRD EDiTION OF " THE SUN." sion with reeaeet. ae - _ _ the snirit. if not in Hee 1.--___ _ . - .. . -

The Home Secretary, in receiving a leputation on
,his subject the other day, made an important admis-
sion with respect to the deplorable want of system in
our metropolitan local government. He stated that
so great were the difficulties in the way from want of
organisation, that when he was preparing his education
scheme, he found himself obliged to leave London out
altogether, dealing with it separately later on. Mr.
BRUCE indeed was altogether surprised out of his
official reticence. He frankly acknowldeged to the
deputation which waited upon him that he thought
there had been already sufficient inquiry, and that the
time for action was come. Contrary to most mal-
contents, the gentlemen who waited upon him were
really prepared to deal practically with the grievance
of which they complained. They submitted a well-
considered scheme for amending our local govern-
ment by removing the power from the vestries, with-
out running the risk of that dangerous centralisation
to which Englishmen have so strong and so well-
founded an objection. This plan proposes to divide Lon_
don into a certain number of municipalities, the Cor-
poration of the City of London retaining its
have
position. Each of these municipalities is
complete self-government in its own province, while
it has also been suggested that a general municipal
corporation might be formed for the whole of the
metropolis. The number of these municipalities has
been variously estimated from seven to nine, and
there is no reason to suppose that they would not
work industriously, intelligently, and efficiently. In
all our country towns and cities, like Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Birmingham, the municipal system works
excellently, and we should be amazed if we heard that
such places had determined to give up, or put
down, their mayor and his colleagues, and to substi-
tute our cumbrous and uomanageable vestries in their
place. No one objects to the Corporation of the City,
and there is no very plain or manifest reason why the
City should be governed differently from the rest of
London. Under the new arrangement there would
at least be a degree of unity and simplicity in the
direction of affairs which at present we cannot lay
claim to, and we should be able to try
the effect of bringing a higher order of intel-
ligence to bear upon our parochial questions. We
should get men of a different stamp to govern us
through municipalities from those who rate us in the

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IT was stated during the long and stormy debates
on the Reform Bill that Mr. DISRAELI persevered
with his measure in spite of difficulties that would
have overwhelmed an ordinary man, because of his
great desire to have his name written in the
statute-book. Until then he had succeeded in pass-
ing no measure of importance, and he was seeing life
ebb away with no lasting memorial of him. In
the end Mr. DISRAELI succeeded in passing
two measures of first-class importance, the Reform
Bill and the Corrupt Practices Bill. It must be con-
fessed that these offspring of the ex-Premier's
statesmanship are treating the author of their being
with gross ingratitude. 'ACT EON devoured by his
own clogs did not present a more heart-moving, tear-
compelling spectacle than Mr. DISRAELI suffering
under the effects of his two great statutes. The
Reform Act placed him in a minority of about
112. The Corrupt Practices Act is reducing
that minority still more. One after another
Conservative M.P. is being unseated; one
after another of the great triumphs of Conservative
reaction is turning out to be due to Conservative
gold or to Conservative intimidation. Sir HENRY
STRACEY has been unseated at Norwich, Sir RICHARD
GLASS at Bewdley, Sir Anriren GUINNESS at Dublin,
and Mr. PHIPPS at Westbury. Mr. RIPLEY, though
a Liberal, was the champion of the Conservative
party at Bradford, and he, too, has been unseated.
On the other hand, the Conservatives have vainly
endeavoured to unseat Mr. EYKYN at Windsor, Mr.
ONSLOW at Guildford, Messrs. GAVIN and RUSSELL
at Limerick, Mr. DALWAY at Carrickfergus, Mr.
M'CLUItE at Belfast, Mr. RYLANDS at Warrington,
Mr. FORSTER at Bradford, and they have withdrawn
their petitions against Mr. Par at Dublin and Mr.
MONCREIFF in Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities.
Only two Liberals have lost their seats through Con-
servative agency, and one of these by an informality
on the part of the sheriff. Only one, therefore, Mr.
WHITWORTH, at Drogheda, has been unseated on
account of electoral malpractices. The judges are
sterner men than M.P.'s. Their lordships will not
sanction the lame and impotent conclusions which
hon. members used to arrive at. They would think
it monstrous to declare, as the Great Yarmouth
Election Committee declared, that bribery had ex-
tensively prevailed, so extensively that the borough
had to be disfranchised, and yet suffer the bribers to
retain their seats. Moreover, the judges have
ideas of their own respecting intimidation,
ideas of a very different kind from those entertained
by members of the Legislature. As intimidation
likely
jh
tei as
tr
coef awgi or, oLdE
smaatn dinlyveesct
bsui ory s.
was always a favourite weapon with the Conservative
like awtegailr-eenlilbey
As it is, the list of unseated members is already for-
midably long, and there is still a week before Par-
liament meets, and a good many weeks afterwards,
in which to increase it.
As yet the majority of cases in which the mem-
bers have been unseated have been cases of bribery
or treating. There was bribery at Norwich and
Dublin, treating at Bewdley and Bradford, for
instance. Here there were two parties to each
offence—the party bribing or treating, and the
party bribed or treated. But while there were thus
two offences committed in each act ; while there was
the unlawful purchase and the unlawful sale of a
vote, and so a double wrong, neither act was in itself
so bad as intimidation, in which there is only one
offender. It is a sin to purchase a vote, but at least the
purchaser leaves to the other the free exercise of his
will. He buys what he ought not to buy, it is true;
but he does not rob. Intimidation is nothing less
than robbery. The person guilty of undue influence
goes up to a voter, if in England, and says to him, in
the spirit, if not in the language of the highwayman,
"Your vote or your livelihood. Vote for my man, or
I will turn you out of house and home, and turn you
off from your employment to starve in the streets."
If it is an Irish election, the offender says, "Vote
for my man or I will denounce you from the altar,
I will withhold the sacraments from you, I will
damn you to all eternity." It is nothing to the point
that he has no power to influence his victim's ever-

lasting fate ; the victim believes that he has, and
yields accordingly. In neither instance does the
intimidator leave the voter the small consolation of
feeling that if he has not got the free use of his vote

he has at least something in exchange for it ; that if

his conscience has been violated his pocket has been

filled. There are really no words too strong to con-
demn the man guilty of undue influence, whether he

be a Roman priest at Drogheda or a Wiltshire manu-
facturer at Westbury.
We commented upon the first case at the time. The
second, which has just been settled, is as bad as
bad can be. Westbury is a borough for the most

part under the control of one or two resident land-

owners. Chief of them is Sir MASSEY LOPES, who
represented the place in the last and some pre-
ceding Parliaments, but who abandoned his safe seat
in his pocket borough in order to fight the battle of
his party in South Devon. Westbury is one
of those small decaying Wiltshire towns
in which the manufacture of woollen cloths,
once confined to the West of England, is still
carried on after a feeble fashion. The town contains
two manufacturers—one of them, Mr. LAVERTON, the
Liberal candidate at the last election ; the other,
Mr. HARROP, whose conduct has led to the unseating
of the Conservative candidate, Mr. PHIPPS. Mr.
HAnnoP was not only a political opponent of Mr.
LAVERTON'S, but a rival in business, and feeling for
his competitor all that petty but bitter jealousy which
is to be found in small country towns, and would
astonish centres of industry like Bradford or Leeds.
From the first Mr. LAVERTON'S candidature was a very
sore matter with Mr. HAnnoP. He early called upon his
workmen to say which way they intended to vote.
They, in order to prevent unpleasantness, fenced
with their employer's most improper question by
saying that they did not intend to vote at all. It

was argued by the counsel for the sitting member

that this was a promise, and that Mr. HARROP

would not have minded if the men had

The first article in the Dublin University Magazine,
"Early Norman Fret ch Literature," contains a good deal
of varied information. It is a proof that conquerors
cannot force their language upon the conquered ; that the
language now spoken in France is essentially the same as
was heard two thousand years ago, modified at a sub-
sequent period by additions from the Latin. " The Lays
of Marie de France " contain some very curious sketches of
the loves and wars of ancient times. The chivalric romances
kept their ground for five centuries, thus enjoying a longer
life than any other class of literature in the country.
"My Own Sto " continues the well-told adventures of
ry
Edith Aubrey. The concluding passage of the race that was
run by the two ladies is described with great ani-
mation, and the unfortunate result to the heroine is not to
be wondered at. "The Wyverel Mystery" is the title of
a new tale which fulfils the promise of its name from the
outset, but cannot be much recommended for anything
else. It is well adapted to the taste of the lovers of
romance, and the adventures of the heroine are
most extraordinary. " The Theatre Royal, Dublin," pre-
sents some interesting accounts of the theatrical doings of
the years 1841 to 1845. Many of those whose names are
here mentioned as great theatrical celebrities no
I longer adorn the stage ; but this recital of their triumphs
will prove attractive • to many readers. " The
Railway Problem in Ireland and Belgium " is
the subject of the last paper, and it offers
some useful statistics to those who are studying the
subject. A comparison has been instituted between the
railways of Belgium and Ireland, but the cases
are not quite similar. The coal produce of Bel-
gium is 11,840,000 tons, that of Ireland 123,950 tons.
The iron produce of Belgium in 1865 was 1,018,231 tons ;
that of Ireland, in 1866, 25,525 tons. The advantages
which Belgium possesses in minerals have caused a large
passenger traffic and an immense traffic in goods.
In both countries there is a mile of railway
for about the same number of persons, 2,850. In.
Belgium the third-class passengers are much more nume-
rous than in Ireland, and the amount a goods and mineral
traffic is six times as great. If the Belgian standard of
fares and rates were adopted in Ireland, the result would
be an immediate loss of 44 per cent. on the same amount
of passenger traffic, and of 46 per cent. on goods. The
Commissioners do not propose quite so large a reduction,
but are of opinion that any reduction of passenger fares in
Ireland to be beneficial must be on short and long traffic
equally. By the adoption of the new system they be-
lieve that in twelve years there would be a balance in
favour of the exchequer.
Belgravia is more diversified than usual. Fiction, of
course, is largely represented, Miss Braddon finishes
" Charlotte's Inheritance," and her place will be taken
next month by Mrs. Huey. Mr. Sala tells a story about
a prude, by way of warning to young ladies in general, and
engaged ones in particular. Mr. btigand descends from
the loftier work of quarterly reviewing to writing a read-
able paper about Byron and the Countess Guiccioli. Mr.
Escott, having justcompleted a new edition of " Juvenal,"
gives a few pages about Intellectual Solace. Mr. Thorn-
bury continues his interestingossip about London
Theatres and London Actors. Mr. Joseph Hatton, known
well to Worcester news readers, offers Fragments of an
Old File" in the shape of historical extracts from Berrow's
Worcester Journal which he now edits. Dr. Scoffern con-
tributes prose in the shape of a chapter on Suffolk Witches;
poetry in the shape of a translation of Anacreon's
fourth ode. Mr. Patterson discourses of "Sensationalism
in Science," a propos of " photospheres."
" Mr. Gladstone's Autobiography," by a clergyman of
the Church of England, in Macmillan's Magazine, can
hardly fail at this juncture to attract the reader's atten-
tion, and the Premier's warmest admirers may well be I
satisfied with a writer who aims at reconciling the policy
of 18j$ with the book of 1838, and defending the states.

The February number of St. Paul's contains some really
good articles, chief of which are " The New Cabinet, and
what it will do for us," and " The Administration of the
Army." The writer of the former—probably the editor of
the magazine, Mr. Anthony Trollope—after rejoicing on
the advent of the Liberals topower, speaks of the action likely
to be taken by the new Government On the Irish Church. He
thinks that after the Church bas been disestablished the
revenues should be used for religious purposes and that
they should be divided among the three Churches known
in Ireland—the Roman Catholic, the Protestant Episcopal
Church, and the Presbyterian, according to the popula-
tion. This, it will be seen, is something of the same
kind as Earl Russell has lately proposed, and
which has been condemned by Liberals and
Conservatives alike. The author of the article on
" The Administration of the Army" contends that the
chief defect in our military administration—the absence
of one supreme authority—ls so serious and so far-reaching
in its consequences, that there can be no difficulty in assert-
ingat once that anecessary condition to a sound and healthy
management of army affairs is to render the Commander-
in-Chief wholly subordinate to the Secretary of State, and
to make his position simply that of a military assistant to
the civil head of our army. To this end his office should
be under the same roof, and that staff with which he works
should be identical with that of the War Minister. The
Minister of State, as the paid servant of the country, ought to
be required and enabled to give his undivided attention, un-
distracted by professional matters and technical questions, to
the vigilant control over the appropriation of the large sums
voted for army service. " The Sermon Trade" connected
with the Church of England is severely condemned. The
writer comes to the conclusion that no man ought to be
permitted to preach publicly until he has given evidence
before his bishop of his competence to do so. But he con-
siders that the best and surest cure of all is, that extem-
pore or oral preaching should be cultivated and aimed
at, if not—as amongst the Wesleyan Methodists—
absolutely insisted upon. The other articles in the maga-
zine deal with " The Disposal and Control of our
Criminal Classes ;" an interesting reminiscence of " The
Last Lynx " in a former royal forest of Burgundy;
" Gibbon's Autobiographical Memoirs," and " Life
Studies." " A Song of Angiola on Earth" is made up of
pretty similes and happy expressions. The two
tales " The Sacristan's Household" and " Phineas
Finn" are continued. The latter seems to drag some-
what heavily, and does not possess that interest which the
opening chapters led the reader to expect.
Under the Crown, a new and deserving candidate for
public favour, has reached its second number. It adopts
the principle of short articles, and amid a great variety of
contributions contains much that is excellent. The verses
are generally good ; and " Unter den dunkeln Linden," in
particular, is very pretty. There is a serial story, " Little
France," which promises remarkably well; and some
short tales, of which " How I was Buried Alive,"
and " Left on Board "—the latter an exciting story
of a blockade-runner during the American war—
are remarkably interesting. " Not a Chance," by
Tom II oe 1, is somewhat thin. • Amongst the miscel-
laneous papers, Mr. F. T. Palgrave's "Fortnight in Por-
tugal in 1859" occupies a prominent place; but there is a
careful paper—the first of a series—on the Progress of
Landscape Painting, and an article on Pauperism con-
sidered from an historical point of view—a more than
usually good contribution to the literature of this subject.
Mr. Hooper gives an interesting account of the great
Egyptian Fair at Tantah, and there is a short paper on
the Reform of the Musical Pitch in England, some. brief
notes under the head of " Miscellanea," and Notices of
Books. The staff of the new magazine is evidently very
strong. A magazine commanding such a great variety of
good writing ought to speedily attain a high position.

A Liberal contemporary has the following The
present Government is so clearly determined to ro-
duce the Civil Service estimates that we can scarcely be-
lieve the story we are now going to repeat. The place
of secretary to the Board of Works, to which a salary
of £1,200 a year was attached, became vacant a short
time since. Two rival claimants at once started up
_each with his own claims and his own patrons—or,
more strictly speaking, one with his claim, and the other
with his patron. Tho economically disposed Government
solved the difficulty by appointing both competitors, as joint
secretaries at the reduced rate of £l,OOO a year each. The
place of assistant-secretary has, it is true, been abolished,
waslongago condemned as an unnecessary expense,
attached to it but such as could be discharged
b
the secretary or the senior clerks. Is it really true
twthylilatt it
either
ththil o
ese duties
appointments have been made ?"

kept their word; that, iu fact, their offence--the

LIGHTS ON THE' ALTAI?,

Dean Stanley, of Westminster, in a sermon 01 gnalT,
made some referende to lighted candles on the altar. 111'
asid
text was, "I am the light of the world." He '',-
that during the past week they had observed t.4°
Feast of the "Purification," commonly Called '` Cant'
mas," in connection with which it had been
former times, as it was . now in some Piaci
the custom to give adoration to candles, as a 1331.
Christian worship. That custom had its origin in °le"
circumstances-Ist, the offering of human remains, f°t
which candles came afterwards to be substituted, 9.1/
sacrifices; and 2nd, in the search of the goddess Ceres f.cl
her daughter Proserpine. Out of these circumstance°
candles came to be lighted at the Holy Communion,
which was at that time celebrated in the evening, and f°l
the convenience of those who celebrated their ecclesiastil
rites in the darkness of the catacombs of Rome, 31;
were meant for the signification that Christ was the VP"
of the world. The candles which used to express that
doctrine had long been extinguished, and had passed aei°l
from the performance of divine worship, but not s° th
~ef
doctrine they signified, for Christ was still the light '"?
the world. What was the meaning of that doctrine
It was simply that light and not darkness was the attu°.
sphere in which the Church ought to live. There werero'
and had always been, characters to whom secrecy, °l°.
tery, and concealment seemed to be the breath of h'e'
disciples, apparently, of that crafty French politician nll,°
said that language was given to man to conceal 111
thoughts. Against such a state of things he protestealli
contending that light should be the atmosphere in whie
all our practice and doctrine should be exhibited, for they
might depend upon it that in the Church of God the SP'r't
of God would brighten more and more unto the perfect
day which was coming.

THE IRISH CHUI?CH AND CONVoCAOIOII

2he Lord Bishops of the Irish Church are very indiglit
because the Government will not allow Convocation t°'
called. The Primate of Ireland has just- laid before.:
meeting of twelve of them the reply of the Home Secrw;
tary. In default of Convocation eleven out of the tive`.l%-
declare they are prepared at once to take counsel 011-4
their clergy in synod or otherwise. But their lords
feel how inadequate this step would be unless they e°ll`l,7
also secure the counsel and co-operation of the laity. P.,
this co-operation may best be given they do not deterol'l.:l'
but they earnestly invite the laity of the Church in the
'r
dioceses to consult on this matter, and IA":
so done to communicate with them. This O's.
lution is preceded by two others, in which tile;
refuse to enter into negotiations with the Gor,et,e‘
ment .on the Irish Church question : first, because tel
have no authority to do so ; and because they are bold
to resist all measures for changing the status of the Chic.,
uc
To these resolutions the Bishop of Down and Connor 11
issued a protest. " I hold," he says, " that witb°.tio
forfeiting principle, we could in all honour, and sc. Ls
advantage to our Church, confer with the Prime Miruso
(whose sincere attachment to its doctrines ll° u°llo,
can doubt), in the hope of procuring slicP„,l.
modification of any measure under discussion which we e 4
sidered unnecessarily calculated to injure her, and alni
would be too late when her Majesty's Government
.1110
once committed themselves to a definite bill." lie 'to
prefers to meet unpledged the laity in his diocese 0 3
synods, and while convening them to confer with the sel
laity as to their advisability. ate
The arguments against Convocation being called
set forth with great force by the Saturday art
and aud the Spectator. The first points out
the strength of the adverse reasons is sw.i. to
by the refusal or omission of Mr. Disraeli's Governreell",4
allow Convocation to meet. It asks why the opportuu7o
was not taken when the friends of the Irish Church °ed!
in power, and the English Convocations duly summon
It was felt that the Irish Convocation being a c0n31)%
novelty, the State would be altogether inconsistent.
creating it at this crisis. It would have been a new cleric,'
body summoned for the purpose of resistingto
bill whose principle was approved .by the Ife
of Commons. The bishops, in fact, said to the Starai.
"Establish us and our Church a great deal It%
strongly than before, and we can then discuss with y°o
whether we shall be disestablished." If Convoeni
could be made to furnish the Government with a b°
competent to organise the Irish Church as a volui3t6r,
community, the anomally might have been overlook
But it could do nothing of the sort. No English states!! Pri
would leave the constitution of a Church to a purely cleric;
body. Before any organising body need be thought of it will
necessary to settle what endowments it has to acliniule"d,
and what are to be its relations to the Church of Eugte
Convocation could not assist the solution of either of tetie
questions, though it might seriously embarrass their set
ment. The bishops have now to consider whether tlit,
will form a voluntary and unrecognised association
support them. The Saturday Review thinks that they
would make a great mistake if they did so. If they are ~,11:
dent and moderate they must be able to control very 131":
the shape which the Church will assume. The ausP;e:
of the change are favourable to them, since the langu'gD
recently held in Romanist clerical circles will 110 t te
to diminish the prejudices of the ordinary Euglie1113:131:
The Irish bishops will do well to avoid the same e-e
and to remain in the silence and reserve that givelrbile
offence till they can do or say something
effective. ;e
Specta!or thinks that the Government, in refusiugA-br.
unwise request of the bishops, have shewn that they urt-eery
stand the situation. The bishops have betrayed coo
needlessly that they shrink from full confidence blvot
laity and from willing co-operation with them• oe
it is clear that we cannot look to the laity f°ermera
means of spreading a faith without asking :,-„re
to share in the deliberations on the cxpen°""
of these means. The Societies for the Propaguti°llol3
the Gospel and for Promoting Christian Knowledge Wilco/
never dream of relying on such clerical bodies as C°lll-06
tions. The Irish clergy must remember that they eye
as likely to be dependent on the laity as either of t
och
societies, and that lay opinion will count for twice as vltit,
as theirs on the question of political justice. They °.,°,0%
therefore, to be thankful to the Government for 5t%`•61,1
their foolish attempt to form a distinct body a cle..„ 11
opinion on the Irish Church question, and it would be ;t1
if they were wise enough to try and diffuse that ilea
sympathy between clergy and laity which can alone 1"
in a really thriving free Church.