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A FTER Covent-garden Theatre—EVANS' to
_PA_ SUP.
After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Lyceum Theatre FVANS' to SUP,
Atter Adelpbi Theutre EVANS' to SUP.
After Olympic fheatre
After Strand Theatre EVANo' to SUP.
After New itoyaity Theatre ......EVANS' to SUP.
After St. James'a Theatr.! ........EVANS' to SUP.
Aitcr Prince of Wales' Theitrc....E VANS' to SUP.
London Singing and Supper Club, E iANS', Covent-garden,
V0c,41 Nutertainment at Eight.

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LES DRAGONS DE VILA, ttcS (Opera Comique), Music
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INDIA OFFICE, 11th December, 1866.
BY ORDER of the SECRETARY Of STATE
for INDIA in COUNCIL.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that it is intended to
send to India, at the ( nd of 1869, five young men, trained and
educated for:ultimate employment in the higher branches of
the Department for the conservation and managPment of the
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Geometry, Ist, 21, 3d, 4th, and 6th books of Euclid, and
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THE SUN, LONDON, WED.\ ESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9,-1867.

Opening of the Portuguese Cortes.

law. The visit to all the administrative districts
of the kingdom enjoined upon the civil governors,
the inspection of the schools of primary instruction,
and the spontaneous co-operation of the nation
in all that can generalise the instruction of the
people, are important facts which you will be able
to appreciate upon examining the documents which
will be laid before you. Difficulties of execution
which always precede a new organisation of the

public service, particularly in a branch which

requires the services of a numerous staff, have pre

vented the definitive installation of the land

registries. I hope, however, that in a very short
time the country will be in the enjoyment of the
benefits secured by the law of the Ist of July,
1863. My Government will submit to your exami-
nation the project for a penal code and bills for the

reform of the prison system, the organisation o

the public Ministry, the endowment of the clergy,
and upon other matters of equal public interest.

By virtue of the authority conferred by the law of

27th July, 1855, and 19th June, 1866, the Govern-

- •
ment called out for effective service the reserve of

the army, and opened two extraordinary credits
with the Minister of Finance for the purchase of

armaments, equipments, and war material to the

The reserve was

again disbanded by decree of the 21st November
last. My Government will account to you for the
manner in which their authority wao employed, and
you will be enabled to estimate the grounds for
the measures which they considered it Advisable to
adopt. I direct your attention, however, to the
organisation of the army, which needs r:4orm. To
give it a better constitution, to facilitate the
development of its strength, and to make these ob-
jects compatible with the severest economy and the
general interests of the people will form the
subject of special propositions which the MiniAu
will lay before you. Other bills will be subtuitted
relative to the penal military code, the disciplin
code, and the laws of process and jurisdiction; and
you will give these matters all the attention re-
quired by their great importance. The state of the
public finances demands your most serious atten-
tion, and I recommend it to your solicitude. My
Finance Minister will lay before you a statement of
the general receipts and expenditure of the State.
Various bills will also be submitted to you with the
object of sustaining public credit, continuing moral
and material improvements throughout the country,
and diminishing the charges upon the public trea-
sury. I trust that you will discuss these important
matters guided by your enlightened patriotism, and
I rely entirely upon the concurrecce of the legisla-
tive body to carry out the reforms required in this
important branch of the State adaiinistration.
Important measures have been decreed relative to
the colonies by virtue of the powers conferred upon
the Government by law. These will call for your
enlightened examination. The question of ;free
labour iu our Portuguese dominion's in Africa ogeu-

LISBON, Jan. 2.
The Cortes was opened to-day by the King in
person. The text of his Majesty's speech from the
throne, of which a telegraphic summary has already
been forwarded, is as follows :--
"Honourable Peers and Deputies of the Portu-
guese nation—l come to-day to open a new period
of your parliamentary labours. I always feel great
pleasure in being among you to fulfil the prescrip-
tions of the political institutions which happily
govern the country. To them the nation owes the
prosperity which the national alliance of the prin-
ciples of progress, liberty, and order produces among
a people who know how to adopt them with security
and to generalise them liberally. As repre-
sentatives of the country you are called to
watch over the guardianship and the fulfilment of
the Constitution, and to take that part in the orga-
nisation of the laws which belongs to you as one of
the great powers of the State. You will discharge
this difficult and important mission, examining the
acts of my Government, and studying the reforms
and improvements urgently required for the public
good. The war which appeared imminent at the
close of the last legislative session broke out soon
afterwards between Italy and Prussia on the one
side, and Austria and various German States on the
other. Portugal maintained the rigorous neutrality
counselled by the national interests, preserving with
all the Powers during the war, as she now pre-
serves, peace being concluded, relations of sincere
and unalterable friendship. A few days ago I had
the satisfaction of receiving the visit of her Majesty
the Queen of Spain, accompanied by his Majesty
the King, and their Royal Highnesses the Prince of
the Asturias and the Infanta Donna Isabella. The
presence of these august guests afforded me the
highest gratification. In the reciprocal manifesta-
tions exchanged on this auspicious event I am pleased
to see a testimony of the cordial esteem which hap-
pily subsists between the two Crowns, and the ten-
dency which, while strengthening the friendship
between two nations, kindred from their historical
origin and the glory of their traditions, respects
nationalities consolidated by ages, and encourages
the development of the ample resources which Pro-
vidence has bestowed upon the peninsula. My Mi-
nister of Foreign Affairs will lay before you the
settlement of two interesting matters that were
pending between Portugal and the Holy See. I
refer to the extension of the ecclesiastical jurisdic-
tion conferred on the archbishopric of Goa by virtue
of the concordat upon the rights of my royal
patronage in the East, and the question re-
lative to the mission recently sent to Congo.
The satisfactory result of these negotiations
gives reason to hope that the same con-
ciliatory spirit will prevail in the settlement
of other difficulties, thus re-establishing the
definitive and complete exercise of my patron-
age in the regions of Asia and Africa subject
thereto. An important treaty of commerce and
navigation has been concluded between my Go-
vernment and his Majesty the Emperor of the
French, inaugurating the commercial policy which
we are bound to follow in the sense of discreet and
progressive liberty, and opening up a larger market
to our productions while we facilitate importation
to foreign commerce. I entertain the hope that
other treaties of a similar character will be submitted
to you during the present session. Conventions
with France respecting consular powers and prero-
gatives, and with France and Belgium for recipro-
cally guaranteeing literary and artistic copyright,
will be equally submitted for parliamentary ex-
amination. The boundary and transit treaties be-
tween Portugal and Spain have been ratified, as
also the appendices to the former, establishing con-
venient regulations for the execution of some of its
prescriptions. The necessary bills for ameliorating
the foreign service in its various branches, and re-
porting the most important acts concerning inter-
national relations, will be laid before you in due
course. At home, security and peace have been
preserved unaltered ; a happy consequence of the
conviction among the people of the advantage re-
sulting from the general tranquillity, and of the
daily increasing influence exercised by the public
mind in the progress and life of the nation. Civil
administration and public instruction among a free
people vary in their different branches, but are
identical in the general system which should control
them—the spirit of liberty, the direct co-operation
of the nation in the development of the country's
resources, and in the public administration and the
culture of intelligence in all its aptitudes. The
general reform in these matters which will be sub-
mitted to you by my Government embraces the
various branches of the civil administration and
public instruction, and is modelled upon these
ideas. The obstacles opposing the immediate execu-
tion of the law of the 6th June, 1864, have been
removed, and the result obtained corresponds to
the expectations of the Government, and has pro-
moted the interests held in view in framing the

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pies the attention of my Government. With this
question is bound up in great measure the moral,
commercial, and economical development of those
possessions, which I hope will become one of the
most important sources of the public wealth. Bills
will be introduced for ameliorating the condition of
the colonies and of our marine ; to generalise rapidly
the network of roads upon a system which shall
afford all possible facility for ordinary travelling ; to
continue the development of acecelerated commuti!
cation by completing the general railway system of
the country ; to formularise in laws the general
principles of the constitution of joint-stock and
banking companies ; to develope credit in localities
by creating a convenient representation for all secu-
rities by means of appropriate banking institutions,
which will carry out the intention of the law of
22d June, 1866 ; to organise a system of sav-
ings banks and establishments of popular credit ;
to give to rural industry the proper impulse
due from the admininistration ; to create resources
for draining the marshes and utilising the rich lands
at present lost to agriculture. Such is the general
scheme of the proposals that will be laid before you
by the Minister of Public Works. In the political
condition of the nation, with internal tranquillity
undisturbed and the public liberties constituting the
basis of Government, administrative perfection arid
the profitable employment of the ample resources of
the country form the problem the solution of which
most interests the community. I confide it to your
devotion for your country's good. Enlightened ini-
tiative on the port of the Government, energy and
liberality in its action, efficacious concurrence by
the representatives of the country—these are the
conditions which will enable us to fulfil happily and
successfully the lofty mission that devolves upon
every State in the age of movement and progress
in which we live. The session is opened."

Lord Teynham on Reform.

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A meeting convened by the members of the Ro-
,herham and Masbro' Branch of the Reform League
was held in the large hall of the Mechanics' Institute,
Rotherham, a few nights since, under the presidency
of the Rev. W. Blazeby. It was announced that
Lord Teynham, Mr. Plimsoll, Mr. Edwards, and
others would address the meeting, but the two
latter gentlemen were prevented attending from
sickness, and his lordship did not arrive until an
hour after the proceedings had commenced. The
room was not more than two-thirds filled.
The CHAIRMAN proposed, in suitable terms,
" That this meeting expresses its gratitude to the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, John Bright, John
Stuart Mill, E. Beales, and others for their honest
and noble advocacy of the rights of the industrial
classes of this country." (Cheers.)
Mr. GEORGE NEWSOME seconded the proposition
with very greatpleasure, because those four gentle-
men were no lukewarm friends, but had always
proved themselves the champions of the people.
(Cheers.)
The resolution was adopted unanimously.
Mr. J. WRIGHT proposed, " That this meeting
protests against the perpetuation of class govern-
ment by the exclusion of the great majority of the
people from the franchise, and pledges itself to sup-
port the present movement for a very liberal exten-
sion of the suffrage with the protection of vote by
ballot."
Mr. THOMAS NEWSOME seconded the proposition,
which was then carried.
Lord TEYNIIAM, on rising, was received with vo-
ciferous cheering. He commenced by accounting
for the absence of his friend Mr. Plimsoll. That
gentleman, he said, went to London by the night
train on Thursday, and got such a severe cold that
he dared not venture to Rotherham that night. His
lordship was with them, however, heart and soul.
(Cheers.) Be then wished every person present a
happy new year—the poorest among them, as well
those who were in better circumstances and paid the
highest rent. (Applause.) They had wished one
another " A happy New Year," and he would ven-
ture to say there was not one of them when he gave
that greeting to his neighbour had paid any respect
whatever to the amount of money he possessed, or
what was the rent he paid. (Hear, hear.) And
when their little children went forth singing their
carols—" Glory to,God in the highest, and on earth
peace and goodwill towards men"—they meant
peace and goodwill to the poor as well as to the
rich. (Cheers.) Not indeed peace to men in doing
ill ; not peace to the stepfather in cruelly using
his step-children ; not peace to the drunken
man who robbed his home of all comfort ; but
peace to men of probity, and to those whom they
esteemed as men until they were proved guilty of
crime before their neighbours. (Hear, hear.) In
pleading for manhood suffrage, then, did they plead
against the well-being of man or religion ? God
farbid. (Applause.) They pleaded for religion,
but they did not plead for taking away a poor
man's goods under pretence of religion. (Applause.)
They ask for manhood suffrage that men in matters
of religion might be treated as men. (Hear, hear.)
It had been tried in the House of Commons over
and over again, bat it had failed, and would fail,
and therefore the people must stand forward and
say it should not be so any longer. (Cheers.)
Neither were they pleading against the laws when
they asked for manhood suffrage. (Hear, hear.)
On the contrary, they were pleading for the law,
for the principle of English law was that there was
the same law for the rich as for the poor. (Hear,
hear.) If two men, one rich and the other poor,
were drowned, they were treated alike at the
coroner's inquest, and the same inquiries were made
as to the cause of their death. But were the living
bodies of the rich and the poor treated alike ? As

the law at present stood they were not, and they
asked for manhood suffrage that the poor should be
dealt with the same as their rich neighbours.
(Applause.) They had laws with reference to
debtor and creditor; but let the debtor have been
worth his thousands he would obtain what was
called protection, and never see the inside of
a prison ; but the case was very . different
with a poor man. While he was absent at
his work his wife might have run him into
debt, and he is brought into the county court, and
perhaps imprisoned because he is unable to meet the
claim. They asked for manhood suffrage that the
rich and the poor in the matter of debt and credit
may be treated alike. (Cheers.) If the poor man
has his cherries eaten by blackbirds he may shoot
them ; but if he destroys the hares and rabbits that
get to his cabbages, he would be incarcerated in
prison. The rich man, however, was treated very
differently, and they wanted manhood suffrage in
order that the
poor man may shoot that which de-
stroys the produce of his garden, for which he paid
rent, and on which lie had bestowed his labour, and
still have his liberty the same as the rich man who
did the same thing, and went home to enjoy his

port and eat his game. (Applause.) Then there
was the farmer who had corn in stack. If he found

that rats were consuming it he was at liberty to
destroy them ; but if he attempted to shoot the

pheasant 3 which destroyed his corn while it was
vowing, he would be imprisoned. They wanted
mitnhood suffrage, so that an Englishman, if he

found the fruits of his industry, and for which he
had, paid the labourer's wages, was being ruined, he
might shoot the destroyers, and still ba accounted

an honest man the same as the rich.

(Applause.)

And had this nothing to do with the food of the

people ? If _ they read the newspapers they

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