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LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, t

OEBRUARY I, 1867.

PRICY 4d.
STAMPED sd.

AFTER Covent-garden. ‘Theatre--EVANS' to
SW.
After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Lyceum Theatre ' EVANS' to SUP,
After Adelphi Thet.tre • EVANS' to SUP.
Atter Olympic theatre
After Strand 1 heAtre. EVAN,' to SUP.
After New tcoya.ty Theatre ...... EVANS' to SUE'.
Alter St. James's flteatr:
Alter Prince of Wreee fheatre....EVANS' to SUP.
London Singing and Supper Club, E VANS', Covent-ga:den.
Voc4l Entertainment at Eight.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

man, to the Terrible ; Ralph W. Jones, naval cadet,
to the Rodney; Ewen F. Domville, Tom B.Ficklin,
Henry J. Jeffreys, and Henry C. Ploggett, naval
cadets, to the Victoria ; W. J. Johnston, naval
cadet, to the Ocean ; Douglas A. *Wright, naval
cadet, to the Royal Oak ; W. B. Risk, paymaster, to
be secretary to Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry
Keppel ; James Bowles and Benjamin Urwick,
assist.-paymasters, to the Rodney, as secretary's
clerks ; L. H. Edwards, assist.-paymaster, to the
Royal Alfred, as secretary's clerk ; and C. Harvey,
assist.-paymaster, to the Royal Alfred. The follow-
ing were made yesterday :—Lieut. 11. F. Stephen-
son, to be Flag-Lieut. to Vice-Admiral the Hon.
Sir H. Keppel, K.C. 8., Commander-in-Chief on the
China stations ; Lieut. F. Gaskell, to the Royal
Alfred, for disposal ; F. E. Haigh, midshipman, to
the Rodney ; A. B. M. Bower, midshipman, to the
Liverpool ; T. H. B. Beresford, midshipman, to the
Hector ; G. 11. Whalley, naval cadet, to the Lord
Clyde ; W. E. Ryan, naval cadet, to the Caledonia ;
J. S. Mnggeridge, Laval cadet, to the Bellerophon ;
and J. M. Ross, acting second master, to the Vic-
tory, as supernumerary.
Mr. Lawrence Temple Hippisley has been nomi-
nated a naval cadet. The name of the cadet nomi-
nated on 24th ult. was James Ellard, not " Elland."

and maintain its particular interests by means of its
own specially appointed committee, and that its
members in conference with the directors could dis-
cuss and adjust the existing difficulties. Before the
committee, however, engaged in further labours,
they felt it a duty they owed to themselves and
those who might hereafter assist them in their efforts,
that the extent of support they might reckon upon
from the shareholders in the main line capital should
be ascertained—and a subscription of 2s. 6d. per
cent. was solicited to meet the expenses which must
necessarily be incurred. The course of the com-
mittee would be determined by the extent of the
co-operation they obtained from the shareholders,
and if the response be favourable to their views im-
mediate steps would be taken to add other share-
holders to the committee, willing to exert themselves
in sustaining the efforts already made to extricate
the main line from the embarrassments which bad
hitherto beset their separate undertaking.

Their .Royal Highnesses Prince Christian and
Prince Arthur arrived at Portsmouth harbour yes-
terday morning from Osborne on board her Ma-
jesty's paddlewheel yacht Alberta, Capt. his Serene
Highness the Prince•Leiningen, on a vi&t of inspec-
tion of some of the'principal of the land and coast
-defensive works of the, garrison and port. Imme-
diately on the yacht's arrival in the harbour the
two Princes disembarked, and attended by Colonel
Willis, Assist.-Quartermaster-General of the South-
West District, entered a carriage in waiting and
drove. ont to Portsdown to inspect the great forts
along the crest of that bill. On returning from
Portsdciiin their Royal Highnesses drove to the Go-
veinyient-house in Portsmouth, and' partook of
ltinckop. with Lieut.-Gen. Sir G. and Lady Buller.
Afteiluncheon the Royal visitors drove to the forts
on the beach line between Southsea Esplanade and
Fort Cumberland, Southsea Fort, " Lumps," and
Eastne,y,---the latter the head-quarters of the Royal
Marine Artillery. On returning from this round of
inspection their Royal'Highnesses re-embarked on
board the Alberta, from Southsea pier, and returned
to Osborne.
At a naval Court-martial held on board her Ma-
jesty's ship Victory, under the presidency of Capt.
F. E. Egerton, C. 8., Aitlia-de-Camp to the Queen,
Ar-A.
her Majesty's ship Victory, Lawrence Ball, a ma-
rine, serving on board the Excellent, was tried on
four different charges of theft. The Court found
the first charge fully proved, the remainder not

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THE iruslcAL ES rsnmsuili:NT OF LONDON.

LES DR A.GONS DE NULL titS (Opera Comique), Music
by A. Mai;lart, in wh:ch StiSA RUSSELL will appear, as-
t iby gis.es Barrie and Fitz enry ; 11 o,,srs. A. St. Alhyn,
teox,-11nek Evan. and Bury. with h:xtra Band and
Cl.orns ; produced and conducted by .dr. F. Jonglimans
" he'strength of Mr. Morton lies in his operatic selections,
executed bY a small but highly efficient band, and a welt-
selected body of yo'alists, unner the direction of Mr. F.
JonAnnans. "—Times, Jan. 9,1867

COMEDY, by Messrs. HARRY SYDNEY, MILBURN,
G. W. ROSS, and Mr. FRANE HUSSEY. of the NEW
AMERICAN MINSTRELS, THIS EVENING.

• " 01 the decorum that prev4i9 throughout (veTy section
of the Hall it islmpos-lble to speak too highly." —Times,
Jan. t), 1867. • • . •

lOTICE. -)Ir. ROBT. FRASER, CoMedian and Vocalist.
will make his reappearanCe here THIS EVENING kith
his crop of comicalities and his new song, " The Boy at
Mugby."

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday the examiners held sittings at the llouse
of Commons before Mr. Frere. The Rathkeale and
Newcastle Junction was postponed till the Bth of
February, and the Airdrie, Coatbridge, and Wishaw
Junction was postponed till the 12th Februry. The
standing orders were complied with in the case of
the Bradford Canal. Before Mr. Palgrave the fol-
lowing bills were found to have complied with the
standing orders : —The Great Eastern (Steamboats) ;
the Central Cornwall (No. 1) ; and the London and
North Western (Buxton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and
Sheffield).

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.

The directors of this company have decided on
recommending the proprietors at their next meeting
to declare a dividend for the past half-year out of
the net revenue at the rate of 6 per cent. per an-
num, less income-tax.

clearly so, and sentenced the prisoner to 12 months'
imprisonment, with hard labour,in Lewis Naval Gaol.
The Jaseur, 5, screw gunvessel, Commander W.

11. Grubbe, which arrived at Spithead on Tuesday
from the 'West Coast of Africa, was under orders to
sail again from Spithead last evening for the Nore,
for dismantling and paying out of commission.
The Speedwell, 5, screw gunvessel, 428 tons, 80
horse power, Commander James E. Erskine, ar-
rived at Spithead on Wednesday from the West
Coast of Africa, and waits orders at Spithead rela-
tive to the port selected for her dismantling and
paying out of commission.

In addition to the ironclad frigate Hercules, 12,
5,226 tons, 1,200 horse power, and the turret ship
Monarch, 6, 5,100 tons, 1,100 horse power, build-
ing at Chatham, the Lords of the Admiralty have
directed a double screw steamer, to be named the
Beacon, to be laid down at that establishment, and
built during the present year. The new vessel is to
be constructed on the composite principle, the frames
being of iron, and the planking and other parts of
wood. The only entirely wooden vessels now build-
ing at Chatham dockyard are the Blanche, 4, 1,268
ton; 350 horse power, and the Myrmidon, 4, 695
tons, 200 horse power, both of which are nearly
completed for launching. The line-of-battle screw
steamer Bulwark, 81, 3,716 tons, 800 horse power,
remains on the stocks, about half completed, pend-
ing the final decision of the Admiralty as to her
conversion to an armour-plated ship.
In consequence• of the numerous models which
have been in preparation for some months past at
Chatham dockyard for the French Exhibition in
Paris not being completed by the date originally
fixed, a special order has been received enlarging the
time for their being transmitted to Paris from the
Ist to the 16th inst.

The Virago, 6, paddlewheel sloop, 1,0b9 tons,
200 horse power, Commander 11. M. Bingham, ar-
rived in Sheerness harbour on Wednesday morning,
and was anchored off the west shore. The Virago
has only been in commission about two months, be-
ing ordered for particular service on the west coast
of Ireland. While there she encountered a severe
gale, which broke the main shaft connecting the
paddles and inflicted other injuries. She has now
returned for the purpose'nf making good the da-
mage, and it is probable the crew will be tempora-
rily turned over to another ship.
The Eclipse, 4, screw gunvessel, 700 tons, 200
horse powei, which arrived is Sheerness harbour on
Monday from the Australian station, was yesterday
morning brought alongside the basin, and com-
menced unloading her stores. As soon as the
Barrosa is removed to make room for her, she will
be taken into the basin, where she will be dismantled
and paid out of commission.
The Pylades, 21, screw corvette,
•1,278 tons, 350-
horse power, is placed in No. 2 dock in Sheerness
dockyard, where she is to be brought forward for
commission.

The Viper, 2, new armour-plated gunboat, 737
tons, 160-horse power, fitted with double screws, has
been brought from Woolwich to Sheerness, where
she is now lying in the basin preparatory to being
brought forward for commission.

Eight 40-pounder naval guns, slides, carriages,
and appurtenances were yesterday despatched from
Woolwich Arsenal to the Thames Ironworks and
to Messrs. Wigram's establishment at Blackwall, to
form the armaments of her Majesty's new Indian
troop transportsSerapis and Crocodile, built by those
firms, and now fitting for service.
The manufacturing departments of Woolwich
are now engaged incessantly night and day in push-
ing forward to completion the heavy amount of
work included in the present year's financial esti-
mate. Several hundred additional hands have been
taken on in the Royal Laboratory, to expedite the
manufacture of the new Boxer cartridges (which are
now thoroughly organized) required for present
issue. The Royal gun factories are equally actively
engaged in hastening the construction of the large
number number of guns demanded urgently by the
Board, and which are principally on the system in-
troduced by Mr. Fraser, Deputy Assist.-Superin-
tendent of the Department. Two hundred and fifty
guns on that principle have already been manufac-
tured, and have undergone the most severe and satis-
factory proof of endurance, &c. Col. Campbell,
Superintendent of the Department, has received in-
structions from the Secretary of State for War to
confine himself in future to the exclusive manufac-
ture of all guns, both for land and sea service, on
the above-named method.
The next examination of candidates for commis-
sions in the medical department of the army will
commence at Chelsea Hospital on Monday, the 11th
instant.

Capt. W. S. Jemmett, late adjutant at Milton
barracks, has been ordered to join the depot of the
2d battalion of the 15th Regiment, at Chatham, on
his promotion to a company.

Yesterday morning the whole of the depots com-
posing the 3d Depot Battalion at Chatham garrison,
under the command of Lieut.-Col. the Hon. J. J.
Bourke, were drawn up in front of their respective
quarters, within St. Mary's casemated barracks, for
the purpose of undergoing their first inspection by
Major-Gen. Freeman Murray, commanding the
Chatham district. The troops, who were in heavy
marching order, consisted of the depot companies
of the Ist and 2d battalions of the 10th Regiment,
2d battalion of the 14th Regiment, Ist and 2d bat-
talions of the 22d Regiment, 34th Regiment, and
45th Regiment. On the arrival of Gen. Murray,
attended by the officers of his personal and the gar-
rison staff, the customary salute was given, and the
battalion having been formed in columns of corn-
panics, the inspection of each corps was made by
the Major-General, who afterwards witnessed the
troops go through a few manoeuvres. At the close
of the inspection of the troops, Gen. Murray went
through some portions of the barracks in which
some important alterations and improvements have
been made in course of the last few years, to render
them better adapted for the accommodation of
officers and troops—a purpose for which the build-
ings were never originally constructed.

The following appointments were made on Wed-
nesday at the Admiralty:—Lieut. Henry J. Hesketh,
to the Vestal ; Lieut. A. de C. Crawford, to the
Bristol ; T. E. Cochrane and W. A. Beckles, mid-
Alai-Innen, to the Rodney E. Ponsonby,

NEIVSPAPER
Lowe
,A
k m.f
1-.lt in Is ittrour,_
'onday,

in the hospital of the Richmodd Brict
was forwarded to the Lord-Lieutenas
an order for his release arrived on M,
found that Kennedy was too ill to be discharti. pt
White, city coroner, has decided on holding an inquest en
the body at 12 o'clock to-day.
At the Innishannon Petty Sessions, in the county of
Cork, John Moore, 20 years of age, one of the boys in the
Upton Roman Catholic Reformatory, has been sent for
trial at the assizes for stabbing with a penknife Mr.
IN,Toblett, the prefet of the establishment. He refused to
take off his coat when ordered, and when about to be
stripped of it and locked up in a cell, he resisted and com,
mitted the assault. He also struck Mr. Noblett on fie
face. In his defence the prisoner said that one a tho
brothers struck him on the head with a guttapercha, stick
till he fell, and struck him also with the tongs. The wit-
ness accused of doing this hesitated so much in his, evidence
that the magistrates expressed their surprisA and said
there was something they could not understu.nd. At length
the witness became ill, and could -not proceed. The
manager, the Rev. Mr. Pinlong, ascribed his hesitancy to
nervousness. The Reformatory is, of course, supported
by the Stato. There aro no printed or written rules on
the subject of punishment in the establishment.
DUBLIN, Thursday Evening.
The Cork Examiner announces the death of Mr. George
R. Dairy, member for the county of Cork.
_ _

The Lord-Lieutenad received two deputations to-day
on Railway Reform; the first from railway directors, intro-
duced by Lord Clauricarde, the second from the Mansion-
house meeting, introducel by the Lord Mayor. His Ex-
cellency gave favourable answers.

Circular Dtspatch of the Bavarian

Government.

-O-

MUNICH, Jan. 28..
The following circular despatch has recently been
forwarded by the Bavarian Government to its re-
presentatives at Stuttgardt, Carlsruhe, and Darm-
stadt :

Munich, Jan. 9.

The fundamental treaties of the Germanic Confederation
aro virtually set aside by the events of last year, and while
North Germany is constituting itself anew as a Confedera-

tion under the leadership of Prussia, a similar attempt has
not yet been made upon the part of the South German
Governments. The King, my august master, is too tho-
roughly aware of the:difficulties opposing the establishment
of a new Federal Constitution between Bavaria and the
remaining German States, and especially with the Govern-
ment to which your excellency has the honour to be ac-
credited, to desire at present to depart from the attitude
of expectation hitherto observed, and to enter into discus-
sion of the bases for such now Federal Constitution.

In one direction alone the King's Government considers

itself urgently bound by the duty of self-preservation to
operate at once, so that other, and, if possible, better fun-
damental arrangements, may be substituted for those set
aside by the force of circumstances.
The war Federal constitution no longer exists. For the
protection of Bavaria and the remaining south-western
States, —viz., of the kingdom of Wurtemburg, the Grand
Duchy of Baden, and the Grand Duchy of Hesse, so far as
the latter does not belong to the North German Confede-
ration—against external and internal dangers, it is high
time to agree upon another war constitution in the place of
that which has hitherto existed, and to make use of the
important lessons of the past year in its establishment.
Discussion and agreement by the above four countries
as to the necessity and upon the bases of such war consti-
tution is the more urgent, as public opinion in all of them
most justly demands a reorganisation of the military force,
and for that very reason the necessity for a revision of the
laws as to formation of the army has been recognised by
the Bavarian as well as by the other Governments, and a
prospect of this revision is held out.
But great danger exists that this revision should be
effected by the above-named countries in different ways,
preventing their united military constitution at any future
period. This danger especially prevails in Bavaria, where
a complete draught of the military constitution has been
already drawn up and submitted to the Ministerial councils
for deliberation. The King's Government considers the
conclusion of an agreement settling the bases of a common,
or at least similar, military constitution by the above-named
four States, reserving the assent of the Chambers, would
be the most efficient way of obviating this danger. A con-
ference of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War of
the four States in question appears to the King's Govern-
ment the mode calculated most rapidly and securely to
overcome the difficulty of execution.
Your excellency is therefore desired to invite the Go-
vernment of to take part in such a conference, which
will at the same time pass resolutions respecting the ar-
rangements to be adopted as to the late Federal fortresses,
Ulm and Rastatt.

Stuttgardt is proposed as the place of meeting, and, owing
to the pressing character of the circumstances, the end of
January, 1867, as the time.—Receive, &c.

After receiving a provisional acceptance of the
invitation contained in this despatch, the following
points have been proposed by Bavaria as subjects
for discussion :

1. The assembled representatives recognise it as a ne-
cessity of the time to increase the defensive forces of the
countries, and to organise them in such manner that they
may be capable of common action upon an imposing scale.
2. They unite, therefore, reserving the co-operation of
their Estates, for the increase of their defensive strength
as greatly as possible, upon a plan modelled according to
the principles of the Prussian system.
3. The main features of this defensive system, which
is to be common to the four States, shall be as follows:
(a) Entrance into the army upon the principles of general
liability to service, with abolition of drawing by lot, ex-
change, and substitution, and with the obligation to serve
the entire time necessary for complete military education.
(b) Transfer of men who have served their full time into the
reserve, with three months' drill during the period of ser-
vice, and employment in war time like the line. (c) Sub-
sequent entry into the reserve battalions to be formed in
administrative districts with a short annual drill in time of
peace, dispensation from which may be obtained, and em-
ployment like the line during war. (d) Application of the
remaining male population capable of bearing arms as
landwehr to home and local service in two divisions, one of
which (the younger) may be employed within the country
in case of war ; the other (the elder) only at the place of
residence. Married men are liable to landwehr service.
During the regular period for service iu the line marriage
and migration are forbidden. Due provision will be made
for keeping efficient non-commissioned officers.
4. The conference will have to .11x the minima, below
which no State shall go, with regard to the per-tentage of
the population liable for categories a c of sec. 3.

5. regards the organisation of their armies, the dele-
gates acknowlodgo the principle that they shall be divided
and equipped in such similar manner as may be essential
for common action.
6. They will have to agree as to the instructions to bo
given to a military commission for the parpose, to meet as
early as possible under the presidency of Bavaria.
7. Resolutions as to the future of the fortresses of Ulm
and Rastatt shall be postponed until the close of the nego-
tiations for the division of tho Federel property therein
contained, which are to bo accelerated as much as possible.
Upon these bases the conference, in which the
Bavarian Minister for Foreign Affaira and War
intend to take part, will be opened at Stuttgardt
upon the 3d February next.

CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIAN CRIMINALS.—The
following interesting details regarding Indian prisoners
aro taken from -a paper read before the Statistical Society
by Dr. Mouat, Inspector- General of Gaols in the Lower
Presidency of Bengal :—" Heinous offence; since its an-
nexation, are said to be comparatively uncommon in the
Punjab, thuggee to be extinct, and gang robbery nearly
unknown. Riots and affrays are not numerous, and, when
they happen, usually arise from passion and impulse,
seldom from premeditation and revenge. Murder is the
most common of the heinous crimes, not for purposes of
spoliation, but from the uncontrolled impulse of a people
peculiarly sensitive to injury, and ready to revenge it. The
same nnay be said of the rajpoots, and many of the higher
castes and classes in Oudh, and even of some classes of the
population as low down as the province of Behar. Among
all these people— woman is usually an interminable cause
of crime—jealousy, and the rage consequent on it, ending
too often in the murder of the weaker party. In Lower
Bengal wife-murder is probably as frequent, but from no
chivalrous impulse. Cattle theft, again, is an endemic
crime in all the pastoral districts of India which afford
facilities for its commission, and consequently present
difficulteis in its detection. In the Punjab it assumes
the dignity of an honourable calling, in proof of
which an eminent authority on the subject has re-
corded that boys are taught to earn their first turban by
the theft of a buffalo or a cow. In that province, under the
vigorous rule of the Lawrences and Sir R. Montgomery,
it has been the subject of special legislation, and a combi-
nation of fine, flogging, and imprisonment is said to be
rapidly reducing it. The bulk of the criminal population
of most parts of India consists of burglars and thieves, and
the cause of this is easily determined. Houses Are ex-
tremely insecure, there being usually but a mud or aremat
wall to oppose the entrance of a robber. Money iscaeiY
ever invested—probably never by the bulk of commu-
nity—anditahe
theform
of coin or of gold and silver ornaments, or th
the wealth of the majority is
which the crucible of the receiver of stolen goodes ng
is el
always
ready. The temptation to steal,
from the facility of con-
cealment and ease of execution, is consequently irresistible
keptmatlies
to the idle and dissipated, who abound in most Indian
communities, and are nowhere
more w
Lower Bengal.
The rivears fresh
-water
pirates, are also
Eastern than in
stern numerous
Bengal, who
may fairly beregarded
numerous, a source of much mischief to river traffic, and
difficult to apprehend and convict.
The class of profes-
sional beggars is also numerous, and I believe usually travel
a
fakuiers or religious mendicants. As a rule, in Bengal,
thes majority of persons convicted of misdemeanours are
agriculturiete or landed proprietors."