The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1866.

jTODARE.-THE HOLIDAYS.
THEA L'RE OF MYSTERY. EGYPTIAN HALL.

MARVELS in MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM, as per-
formed by command before her Majesty the Queen and
the Royal Family at Windsor Castle, Tuesday Evening,
Nov. 21, 1865. Great attractions for the HOLIDAYS. Magic,
Ventriloquism, Inexhaustible Showers of Presents, the
marvellous SPHINX, the BIRTH of FLOWER TREES, and
STO DARE'S c'lebrated INDIAN BASKET FEAT, as only
performed by him.

Every evening at 8 ; Wednesday and Saturday at 3. Stalls
at Mitchell's. Old Bond-street, and Box-office, Egyptian
Ball. Admission, ls. and 2e. ; stalls, 3s.
"Almost miraculous."—Vide Times, April 18, 1865.

pHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall,
Piccadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate
CIIRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Wednesdays and
Saturdays at 3 and 8, retaining, all the specialties and old
favourites who originally created the reputation of the Com-
pany. Fauteuils, 55.; stalls, 3s unreserved seats, 2s. ; gal-
lery, Is. 'rickets at Austin's, 28, ricoadilly.—Manager,
Frederick Burgess.

T"OXF O R D.
6, OXFORD /STREET. W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
THIS EVENING, and' during the Week, EXTRA PER-
FORMAN( ;ES by all the available talent. Opera, Bur-
lesque, Pantomime, Ballet, and Comedy Every Evening,
performed by the entire company, includiug Misses Russell,
Fitz Henry, Barrie; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, W. Williams,
Spagnolt, Ate. The HUNGARIANS in their new entertain-
ment; Messra Duriah and Davies's illustrations of Negro
Life ; Herr Preskow, the wondrous posturer from the Grand
Theatre, St. Petersburg ; the D'Aubans, Herr Berrani and
his talented family; the ENCHANTED HASH, eleven
characters performed by. Mr. E. Marshall (his first appear-
ance here', the entertainment written expressly for him by
Mr. W. T. Vandervell ; and a host of other talent, for which
see programme and small biIIs.—EVERY EVENING.
Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is.; private
boxes.los. 6d.

CAN„TERBURY HALL.
RI-FUM ! TI-FUM
The Music composed and arranged by Willem Vandervell,
will be produced This Evening.

Mr. E. MARSHALL will make his appearance in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!
Mr. and Mrs. W. RANDALL will make their Re-appear-
ance in
RI-FUM T I-F UM!
LES FRERES D'ETOILE in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!
Lea MONTAGNARDS will make their first appearance in
this Country in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!
The FLIGHT of MERCURY by the renowned
TALLIoTT in
RI-F UM TI-FUM!
Signor TESCANO, the Cousin and Rival of the late
DONATO, in
RI-FUM T I-F UM!
The MYSTERIES OF MABILE in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!
Les TABLEAUX D'AMOUR, illuminated by the Magnesium
Light, in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!
The Beautiful BA L L BRINE S in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!
LE GALOP INFERNAL in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!
The Fairy Orchestra, designed and painted by Mr. W.
Gowrie, in
RI-FUM T I-F UM!
Upwards of ONE HUNDRED PERSONS will appear in
RI-F UM T I-F UM!

IVIADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Baker-street.
NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are full-
length Portrait Models, taken from life, of CHARLOT rE
WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias ERNEST
SOUTHEY.
Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ;
Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season.
Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURT!.
Manager, Mons. GRENET.
The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close live minutes to 12
o'clock.

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured
in one diy by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO.
This preparation gradually dissolves the corn in a few hours,
removing the very root. Price 4s , sent by post for 60 stamps.
—248, High Holborn, London.

HAM-CURLDTG FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is app ded. Sold
at 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d. ; sent free for 51, 81, and 111
stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, is. 6d., or 20 stamps.

0 REY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
Immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na-
tural in efl'c t. Price 38. ed. ss. CI.. and 10e. ad. ; sent by
post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.

-nrAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
j_ London.—ALEX.*ROSS'S DEPIL A. roRY removes,
without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face.
neck, and arms. 3s. 6d., ss. ed.. and 10s. ed. ; sent the same
day as ordered by post for 61, 84, and 144 stamps.

Lately published, id., sent free by boat for two stamps.
AN ESSAY upon the HUMAN HAIR : Its
Close Analogy to Vegetation, and its Reproduction by
the Stimulant Spanish Fly or Cantharides.—By ALE.
ROSS, 248, High Holborn. London.

fPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin
are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE-
TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness,
&e. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d. ; or by post for 40 and 100 stamps.—
ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London.

HOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.,
for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of
Outcast and Destitute Boys, Sand those verging on crime,
underlo years of age.
President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., MP,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Stephen Cave, Esq., M:P. Sir S. M. Peto, Bart,
Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Samuel Morley, Esq.

COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. H. M'Sorley.
Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short.
Mr. E F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair.
Mr. George Moore. 1 Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. I Mr. It. T. Turnbull.
Treasurer—W. H. Winans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, £6, Suffolk-street,
Pall-Mall East, S.W.
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-
,...

street, KC,
The mode of admission to the House is twofold,
Ist. By election of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till
they are 11 years of age.
With the view f o secure the election of the most deserving
cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas-
sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers.
'the voting papers contain a description of each case, as care-
fully investig,ated by the Committee, ant, with thtB informa-
tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to
those most eligible for free admission.
This Home was opened in April, 1864. It was designed to
take to the little ones whose character and circumstances
disqualify the for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender
age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are those
who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are
those who have been deserted by theirnatural protectors and
left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose
parents may have at one time or other received parish relief,
and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose
parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who
train their children in the same path. Stich are those whose
evil associations have already had their painful effect, and
must lead them to a life of crime and misery.
There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of
age to 10. There is room for nearly 100, and the Committee
would joyfully see the Home filled at once; they only wait
for the necessary subscriptions.
The Committee feel constrained to plead for those who
cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir-
cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they
ask—is it right to make a widow and her family paupers for
life because ono of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs
wild in the streets and is beyond her control ? Is it kind to
tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not
1p her to put one of them into a Home. but that they must
ail go into "the house ?" Is it doing the bast we can for the
little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it
doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when
these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into
the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to " rua away,"
none of us show' d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly
word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe thrm ?
Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the
other side, or else exclaiming "Am I my brother's
keeper?„ - _ .

The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi-
dent from the police statistics, which show that in London
alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of
age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom
were convicted aad punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis-
charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too
young to punish, though not too young to learn the beginnings
of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but
for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must
otherwise become paupers, and losing all idees of self-reli-
ance and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State.
Ihe Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established
to revue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the
one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour
to make them useful members of society.

The daily routine of the Ins! iturion presents all the fea-
tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones
are cared for as children ; they have their regular meals,
their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement,
and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every
morning is devoted to school work—reading, and writing,
and ciphering, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional
lessons in oljects and other subjects. But they are also
trained to work. As they, must all, and that at a very early
period in life, earn their living by the sweat of their brow,
they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after-
noons are occupied with various industrial occupations—
making brown paper bags for bankers, and white taper bags
for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any
who will buy them ; picking the coil for the mats, mending
the c othes, Sze. Some assist the master in the garden,
digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By
degrees they are being made useful in the hou.e, scrubbing
and aceeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots,
knives, dm In this way it is sought to fit them for an active
working life.

2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance.
All children must be under 10 y.ars of age at the time of
admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any
time as soon as approved by the Committee,
Elections of children to be admitted free will take place as
frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will
admit, till the Home is full; they will then be held periodi-
Forms of application for the admission of children-may 1)9
had at the flue, and 91 tb,e. Itenorazy Necretary,

H
anl D. NICOLL, Tailors to the
• Queen, Royal Family, and Courts of Europe.—
For GENTLEMEN the FASHIONS for the SEASONS,
for the promenade or demi-dress—Superfine frock coats,
with rich silk breast facings, or morning coats of superfine
Melton cloths, the charge for the former being 31 to 4it
guineas; for the latter 21. to 31- guineas. For neglige
purposes, morning coats with pocket flaps at the waist,
also the neglige jackets ; these are of Melton, fancy coat-
ings, Angola and Cheviots, the prices from 255. to 4
guineas. The Angolas and Cheviots are also made in
suits, at prices from 2 to 4 guineas; evening dress, black
cloth of the finest quality. For Overcoats—Melton,
Beaver, and Witney cloths, from 2 to 8 guineas. For
young gentlemen from eight years of age—The morning
coat and neglige jacket ; also suits of Angola and Cheviot,
the prices according to size, commencing at 31s. 6d. the
suit. For boys from four years of age—The Knicker-
bocker and Highland costume of black velvet, or fine
cloth for dress, and of Angolas and Cheviots for morning,
the price of the first size Knickerbocker, 1 guinea the suit.
For Overcoats—Melton, Beaver, and Witney cloths, from
Ito 2 guineas each. Foreigners and visitors to London,
Manchester, and Liverpool will find at Messrs. Nicholl's
garments ready for immediate use, or made at a few hours'
notice.-11. J. and D. Nicoll, 114, 116, 118, 120, Regent-
street; 22, Cornhill, London; 10, Mosley-street, Man-
chester ; and 50, Bold-street, Liverpoel.

CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH.

CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast.

CHOCOLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and
delicious.

MENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE.
.I.U. 'Warehouse, 23, Henriettalit,reet, Covent-garden.
Sold every,

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
I Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegant assort-
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, oeautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, dso., in Italian,
Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o.
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANTS Mine-
ralogist to her Majesty, 140, Stand, W.C., London.

Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
MINERALS; and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly ficilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each.

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
R A.LOG Y. is given by Kr.TENNAN r,F.G.s., at 149. Strand.

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and

SONS, Dentists,
80, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.

Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas-
tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the
most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.

Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from sto 25 gs.,
warranted.

For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide
" Lancet."

Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
448, Strand, London; 15, Whitefriargate, Hull; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parade, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas-
street, Scarbro'.

Observe—Established'lB3o. No connection with any of the
same name.

that the Government will not accept your personal apolo-
gies for your bad faith. lam further ordered to say to you
that hereafter, when any garrison under your command is
in a state of siege, no supplies of any kind will be permitted
to be sent to such garrison from this side, General Sheri-
dan considering that it would be less of a violation of neu-
trality against the legitimate authority in Mexico to send
powder to such garrison. lam further ordered to stop all
intercourse with any garrison during the progress of a siege
except that which humanity shall dictate.
"I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" G. WEITZEL, Major-General Commanding.
"Major-General Tomas Mejia, Commanding Line of
the Rio Grande."
The foregoing communication was returned by General
Mejia, with a verbal message, to which General Weitzel
returned the following:
" Headquarters, District of the Rio Grande,
Brownsville, Texas, Dec. 4, 1865.
" General,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your communication of the Ist inst., in reply to my com-
munication of the 24th of October last. The three men that
cannot now be found in your prisons have long ago been re-

leased. If the three men of the 23d United States coloured

troops were captured in the lines of your enemies in arms
against you, I have nothing more to say of course. But, for
humanity's sake, I ask that, on their trial, your court may
take into consideration their ignorance, their ignorance of
your language, and the fact that officers and others from
the other side induced these men to do what they did under
promise of large sums of money. But three pieces of artil-
lery have crossed and re-crossed this river, and that only
once, and then not on United States' transports. But one
of my officers, who saw the whole performance, says the
guns were dismounted, the carriages taken apart, and the
different parts carried over in skiffs. These were brought
over to be repaired, and returned as soon as they were re-
paired. As I understand you, however, you do not com-
plain of this nor of projectiles of American manufacture
being thrown over Matamoros ; but you merely mention
them as facts which justified great precautionary measures
on your part. I have also received my communication of
the 27th ult. returned to me. I must consider it unan-
swered, as I can receive no verbal reply to a communication
written by direction of such high authority as it was. •
" I am, Sir,, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" G. WEITZEL, Major-Gen. Commuting.
" Major-Gen. Tomas Mejia, Commanding
Line of Rio Grande."
A special despatch to the New York News from Washing-
ton, of the 26th, says :
" The Cabinet meeting to-day was very brief and com-
paratively unimportant. The quidnuncs who started the
story that the French delegation was to be withdrawn from
Washington, and based it upon the recent visit of the French
Minister to New York, were considerably nonplussed by
the return of the Marquis de Montholon to this city a few
days ago. As I had telegraphed, his visit to New York re-
lated solely to private affairs of his own ; the most friendly
relations exist between him and the Government here, and
there is no prospect that they will be disturbed."
Another Washington despatch says :
" The constitutional term of President Juarez expired
by limitation on 13th November last. Among the Repub-
lican statesmen of Mexico there seems to be some doubt
as to whether he should continue in his office until another
election could be held, agreeable to the constitution and
the exigencies of the country, or as to whether he should
relinquish the Presidency into the hands of Gen. Ortega,
the Vice-President. All true Mexicans were, however,
unanimous in the first opinion. Gen. Ortega deemed it his
duty to be at the capital of the Republic at the expiration
of the constitutional term, with a view to assume the
charge of public affairs, should President Juarez deem it
proper to relinquish them. As rumours growing out of
these circumstances prejudicial to the Liberal cause have
been circulated, the friends of Mexico in this city deny
that President Juarez and General Ortega have quarrelled,
and say that the latter will submit graciously to the deter-
mination of the former, and continue as hitherto to up-
hold in the field and Cabinet the independence and integ-
rity of the Republic."

Now Orleans advices of the 22d contain the following :
" The Times' Mexican correspondent says the Liberal
General Diaz is carrying all before him, and the whole
State of Oaxaca is in arms against the Imperialists. The
Liberals are masters of the whole coast between Vera Cruz
and Tuspan, also south of Vera Cruz. Foraging parties of
Austrians have met with several defeats. Marshal Bazaine
writes to Mejia that the northern frontier is under the
double protection of the Emperor of Mexico and the Em-
peror of the French."

The New York World gives the following extraordinary
history of an association, Les Fils de la Liberti, which it
alleges exists among the French Canadians and sym-
pathises with the American-Irish Fenians

"About two years ago, at the time when Fenianism began
to assume its present gigantic proportions in the United
States, an association was formed of a somewhat similar
nature in the different cities of Upper and Lower Canada,
with the purpose of seeking for the two provinces annexa-
tion to the United States by peaceful agitation if possible ;
but, if absolutely necessary, a resort to the sword was to be
the last argument. The association grew with the growth
of Fenianism tho United States, and many thousands of
the French Canadians joined the movement. In Quebec,
Montreal, and every town and parish where the French
element predominated, the people became imbued with the
principles avowed as the cardinal points of doctrine of the
Sons of Liberty. In Lower Canada the organization was
styled Les Fils de la Liberte, and many of the most promi-
nent men of both provinces joined the order, and it is said
that at ono time the lion. D'ArcyM 'Gee, Premier of Canada,
and Sir Etienne }lathe were connected with the movement.
By degrees the order spread and ramified itself throughout
the whole of Canada, and the idea crossing the boundary
line found refuge and supporters in Northern Ne'w York
and all along the American border wherever there were
adventurous spirits to take it up. At the close of the
organization it numbered 180,000 men, all solemnly pledged
to shake off allegiance to the British Government at what-
ever risk the endeavour might call for. Very few Irishmen
joined the Sons of Liberty, from the fact that Fenianism
occupied all their attention,and that the organizations pro-
gressed together without clashing for two years. It was
the intention of the Sons of Liberty to keep their projects
secret until they were fully matured, but various disclo-
sures have been made by indiscreet persons, and it is stated
that a number of the officers of the crack regiments sent
over to Canada from England at the time of the Trent
difficulty have joined Les Fils de la Liberty, and are pleged
to act with the organization in military movements. It is
stated that over a dozen of the officers of the 60th Rifles,
an English regiment stationed in Canada, are active and
earnest supporters of the revolutionary idea, and are
on the books of the Sons of Liberty, having been promised
high positions in the provisional army which is in process
of organization. The leaders of the Sons of Liberty are
in communication with the Federal Government, as they
state, and the formation of branches of the Order in the
State of New York and in the regions bordering on the
Canadian frontier has been winked at—nay, encouraged,
by the powers that be of Washington. The Sons of Liberty
declare in public that the only means to be adopted in re-
leasing Canada from the British rule are—namely, peaceful
and parliamentary agitation, combined with the awakening
of the sympathies of the American people on behalf of their
suffering republican neighbours across the line. But
in secret the same drilling and organising for military pur-
poses which mark the preparations of the Fenians for a
grapple are also nightly witnessed and participatedin along
the Candian frontier, in the dark woods of the northern
part of the State of New York, on the banks of the river
St. Lawrence, and all throughout the Canadas.

" MILITARY STRENGTH OF THE SONS OF LIBERTY.

" In April last there were enrolled on the books of the
Sons of Liberty 180.000 members, of which 93,000 were
capable of bearing arms and taking part in a campaign. On
the Ist day of last September the number had increased to
240,000, of which number 188,000 wore capable of bearing
arms. The great increase and impetus given to the nume-
rical strength of the Sons was caused by the great and un-
paralleled success of the Fenian organisation in the United
States. A well-known officer of the British army, who has
seen service in the Crimea, holds himself in readiness to
take command of the forces of the Sons of Liberty, when
the movement has reached its zenith. To show that this
is not a mere sensation story, a document has been pub-
lished, showing the spread of the society, its ramifications
having reached Elmira in tho State of Now York. In the
announcement of the lecture by Dr. Cadieux, Irishmen and
Americans are invited to attend, and the band of the let
Regiment Veteran Reserve Corps, which is supposed to be
the pet organisation of Secretary Stanton, is to perform
without charge at the lecture. Dr. Cadieux is a prominent
Canadian, who has been for some years a member of the
Canadian Parliament. He is strongly in favour of Repub-
lican Government and annexation to the United States."

The Irish quarrel in New York continues with unabated
bitterness. The various addresses received from different
quarters appear to be nearly all hostile to O'Mahony.
Hon. Cornelius Cole has been chosen United
States' Senator from California for a full term of six
years from the 4th of March, 1867, when the term of the
Hon. John A. McDougall will expire. Mr. Cole was a
member of the last House, and an earnest and able Unionist
of the Republican stamp. Mr. McDougall is a Democrat.
We believe this is the first election of United States
Senator whose term commences with the next Con-
gress.

Colonel Goode, who commanded the 21st Illinois
Infantry, but who was superseded by Colonel, now Lieu-
tenant General Grant, has become Sir Samuel H. Goode.
By the death of his cousin, Sir Jasper Goode, who recently
died at York, England, ho has fallen heir to estates, the
rontal of which amounts annually to £3,000 sterling, and