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London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

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After Drury-land Thea
After Ilaymarket Thea
After Adelphi Theatre,
After Olympic Theatre
After Strand Theatre
After New Royalty Th(
After St. James's Thea.....
• After Prince of Wales' Theatre .EVANS' to SUP.
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After Queen's Theatre EVAN'S' to SUP.
After Qaecu's Theatr, EVANS' to SUP.
After Queen's Theatre - EVANS' to SUP.
After Queens Theatre EVANS' to SUP. •
After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB.
AT EVANS' COVENT GARDEN VOCAL ENTERTALNIiEIni
At Eight o'Glock.

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A special meeting of the Birmingham Chamber a Com-
merce was held yesterday afternoon ; Mr. George Dixon.
M.P., in the chair. The circular stated that " Tla
council have received application from the Government to
furnish information on the subject; they therefore wish to
obtain such facts as will establish the need of technical
education, and to suggest the kind of technical schools
required. Facts are, therefore, requested bearing upon
the question." There was a large attendance. Mr.
Bernhard Samuelson had promised to attend, but at the
last moment Sent a telegram regretting his inability to do
so ; Mr. Mundella, of Nottingham, was present. The •
Chairman, in opening the proceedings, explained that
at the last meeting of the Associated Chambers of Com-
merce this subject had been discussed, that had led
to an interview with Lord Robert Montagu, and the
result was an inquiry on the part of the Government
as to what trades had been injured by the want of
technical education, and what was the best plan to
adopt with the view to bring about a remedy of
the evil. The great importance of the subject was
beyond a doubt in Birmingham ; their trades were not
only extensive, but of a very varied character. They had
Art Schools. The question was now about having Science
Schools ; and they must shew to the Government that they
could not afford to wait ; the time had come when the Go-
vernment must take the matter in hand completely. Mr.
Mundella then entered into a detailed account of his ex-
periences of the educational system, and more especially
of technical education on the Continent. He referred to
Mr. Samuelson's pamphlet, and expressed his opinion that
if we had much to fear from France, we had more from
Germany. He entered into statistics in reference to the
educational system in Saxe/Iy, which he described as the
best in Europe ; not a child in that country could pos-
tibly be taught less than what was called the "primary
education " there. With respect to our manufacturing
industry, he said that, in his opinion, we were not
going back : we were moving on progressively, but that un-
fortunately other countries were progressing much faster
than we were ; they were applying art and science in a way
which we at present do not understand. One result
was that at that very time, as he knew, silk was being sent
from Nottingham and Leicester to be dyed black ; that was
because of our defective knowledge of chemistry. Those
were cases which must be met. The defective education
among our people was truly lamentable ; there was a
family of fifteen in the district which Lord John Manners
represented, not one of whom could either read or write ;
not 10 per cent. of our working population were fit to touch
" technical education ; " many years must elapse before
much could be done, but we must set about it at once.
What the country wanted was as thorough a man in the
education movement as Mr. Cobden was. in free trade.
Mr. Field, an American merchant, and chairman of the
Council of the Chamber of Commerce, expressed similar
views. Thirty years ago, he said, in every hardware store
in America, one-third of the value were goods sent
from the Birmingham district ; now the value was not
1-10th. English manufacturers did not possess the faculty
of adaptibility as did those of America ; they used our
raw material and sent the goods to various markets ;
here the brain power was wanting ; that was only to
be got through the school. Here the men set :up their
rules and raised difficulties with manufacturers which
the educated men of other countries did not. The educa-
tional screw was wanted from the bottom before we could
get to a better system. Mr. Jelin Lowe was for begin-
ning at the foundation, and not attempting too much at
once. In his opinion the working men had been made
too much fuss of in late years, and they were immensely
better paid than labour in other countries ; he wanted to
see the " City Arabs " in a course of training, instead of
going for " technical education" at one great leap. Mr.

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A Life-size PORTRAIT MODEL of THEODORE, KING of
ABYSSINIA, is • now added; also all the Kings and Queens of
gllnci. American Celebrities, &c. Room of Horrors. Open
rom 11 in tf.e morning till 10 at night.
Admittance, ls ; children under 10, 6d, Extra rooms, Ga.

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from 11 in the morning till 10 at night. Admission, Is.; children
under 10 years of age, 6d. ; extra rooms, 6d.

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Admission, Is.; ReserNen Seats, 2s.

THE OXFORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
buring the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC-
TION from Offenbach's Comic Operetta, ORPHEE AUX
E„NPERS, LA TROVATORE, and the New Cantata
MERRY CHRISTMAS.
~,sPrincipal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz-
Henry; Messrs. Bury, Marler, R. Greene, and De Brenner.
Pull Band and Chorus: Instrumentalists: Miss Bryant ;
Messrs. Paque, Melling, and Plumpton.
COMEDY, Szc., by the LEVITES, Miss and Mr. FOS-
TER, FRED. FRENDH, Mr. H. RICKARDS, and
ALFRED PERRIER.
E. W. MACKNEY will make his appearance again
this evening.

Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmams.
Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro.
Inenade, Is.—THIS EVENING.

WESTO N'S GRAND MUSI C' HALL,
Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey.
'fir• SWE SEY 'begs to inform the public, in consequence of
the flattering patronage he has received, he has engaged the fol-
:Zing talented Company :—The Great VANCE; GEORGE LEY-
b""ll,lqPs the Lion Comique; JEAN BOND, the unrivalled Equili-
• 44. b; GEORGE ELLIS, the Australianßuffo; the Brothers DANIELS
(Who are allowed by the Press to be unapproachable by any
other artiste in their performances); SIDNEY BARNES (his first
appearance) • Miss ALICE DUNNING, the most fascinating Serio-
Comic Singer and Dancer at the presentlime ; Mrs. PHILLIPS,
the pleasing serio-comic; Miss ANNE TREMAINE, the English
Ballad Singer, is re-engaged after a most successful provincial
tour.

Full Orchestra, in which Mr. H. Baker, the unrivalled Cornet
ziaYer, Will appear.
The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRL
Special Notice.—ln consequence of the length of entertain-
_e?t the doors will open at 7, commence at 7.30. No alteration
thein Prices of admission. Private boxes, 10s. 61, to be secured
at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street ; and Sams' Library,
'St James's • also at the Box-office at the Hall from 10 until four
Vclock.

W. C. Aitken admitted that much was required for the
lower class, but for technical education we could not afford

to wait. A discussion of a somewhat discursive character
took place, which lasted nearly three hours, but scarcely a
suggestion of a practical character was made. Mr. Wag-
ner said that the foreign manufacturers availed themselves

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produces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and
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of our best models, and Mr. Mundella observed tan•

among our artisans were to be found the test raw material
in the worhl ; all that was needed was effective education,

Ultimately the discussion was adjourned until Friday
next

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A somewhat alarming accident has occurred
Bromley. The roof of a house fell in, burying the inmates,
all of whom, however, ereaped without serious injury.

The Cambridge Indepeulca says :—"There seems
be but one opinion in the university as to the probable
senior wrangler ; his name is on every one's lips ; and we
do not think we shall damp the ardour, or in the least way
hurt the feelings of the fortunate second wrangler by
repeating it. Mr. Moulton, of St. John's, is the gentleman
we allude to, and according to all accounts he is rather
above the average of his year ; we fear, however, that the
test of being a member of the Church of England will
interfere with his chance of a fellowship, and his name,
with many others, will stand recorded in university annals
undistinguished by the familiar asterisk denoting fellow-
ship. This ought not to. be ; and all liberal-minded
persons must regret that it is so ; but We trust the year is
not far distant when this narrow-minded restriction will
be numbered among the things of the past."

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CURIOUS IMPERSONATION. —The following curious
incident occurred in the Lower Castle Yara, Dublin. A
woman applied to the police at the lower end of the yard
for admittance at a late hour, and was refused. She then
made her way round to the upper gate at Ship-street, and
succeeded in borrowing a portion of the corporal's uniform,
including great coat, shako, and belt, containing sixty
rounds of ball cartridge, and made her way back to where
she had been previously refused admission. She was
allowed to pass, but the policeman on duty, suspecting all
was not right, followed her up to the guardroom at Ship-
street, when he arrested and brought her to the station-
house. On Saturday she was brought before the police
magistrate and sentenced to a month's imprisonment. The
corporal, who belongs to the 74th Foot, is under arrest,
and will be brought before a court-martial.

DEATH OF PREBENDARY BLAND.—The death is
announced of the Rev. Miles Bland, a name which for a
long succession of years past has been a household word at
Cambridge. He was educated with Adam Sedgwick, the
Professor of Geology, at Sedbergh School, and the two pro-
ceeded together to St. John's College, Cambridge, where
they commenced residence in 1804. Mr. Bland took his
B.A. degree in 1808, when he was second wrangler, Mr.
Bickersteth, afterwards Lord Langdale, being the senior
wrangler of the year, Mr. Blomfield, afterwards Bishop of
London, the third, Mr. Sedgwick the fifth. In the same
year he was elected a Fellow of St. John's, and in 1809
was appointed assistant tutor. In 1823 he accepted the
college living of Lilley, near Luton, which he held up to
the time of his death. In 1826 he was presented by Bishop
Law to a prebendal stall in Wells Cathedral. He was a
Fellow of the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquariesf
and the Royal Astronomical Society, and the author o,
several mathematical and philosophical works. His best
known work is " Bland's Equations."

EXTENSION OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN IRELAND.
—Dr. Carroll, being the first Roman Catholic Lord Mayor
of Dublin elected since the repeal of the statute forbid-
ding the display of the insignia of civic state in a
Roman Catholic place of worship, determined to avail
himself of the liberty accorded by the recent Act, and
accordingly proceeded in state on Sunday to Marlborough.
street Cathedral. A procession was formed, all the civic
officers were present, and a number of the Roman Catholic
members of the corporation attended in their robes of
office. There was a great crowd assembled at the cathe-
dral, and the Lord Mayor, on descending from his car-
riage, was loudly cheered. Cardinal Cullen, who arrived
shortly afterwards, was greeted with equal warmth. A
pew richly ornamented, and bearing the name and
arms of Dr. Carroll, was placed near 1.1. altar. High
mass was celebrated, after which Cardinal Cullen
preached. In his sermon he made a passing allusion to
the presence of the Lord Mayor. " That day," he said,
" they saw, for the first time for a number of years, the
Lord Mayor of that great city and his colleagues coming
to that church in their insignia of office to offer up their
prayers at the altar of the living God. Hitherto that was
not allowed to be done. But a few years ago this country
was oppressed by penal laws, and their forefathers had
been prosecuted for their adherence to the Catholic faith.
The law which prevented a Catholic Lord Mayor from at-
tending divine service in his robes of office was o:remnant
—a vile remnant—of those penal laws. But it had been
removed ; and how ? Was it by secret societies, or assas•
sination, or the blowing down of houses? Was it by
violence and rebellion that these rights were obtained?
No ; it was by irn.ceful and constitutional conduct." After
a brief allusion to the " Pagan system of education " now
established in Ireland, Cardinal Cullen concluded his ser-
mon by exhorting his hearers to obedience to the dictates
of the Catholic Church. The religious services having
concluded, the Lord Mayor again entered his carriage, and
proceeded to the Mansion House, amid the cheers of the
large crowds that lined all the streets through which the
procession passed,

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in such great numbers. The sale of agricultural imple-
ments last year was beyond all precedent, and is still in-
creasing. The American cheese impeded last year was
nearly half as much again as in the year before, but yet
has met with successful competition from our own produce.
This speaks well for importers, hoine producers, and con-
sumers. Our wheat crop, not to speak of other grain, is.
computed to have been shor t by about three million quarters,;
which will have to be made up by increasing the imports
to about ten millions. We need not say what this means
far our shipping, and the foreign demand for our manu-
factm-es. The potato crop, by the way, Was the worse
since the great Irish failure. That hiii.o ,or exp4trlatcl,
about two millions of persons—so our Irish authori-
ties are daily assuring us ; this will probably neither
destroy nor banish one single human being; so much
improved are our elreurastances sines 15"..5. Cotton, which
cur manufacturers a few years ago were moving beaven-
and earth to cheapen by all manner of men, 'lass been
cheapening rather too fast last year; so fast, that
it was hardly penile to execute an order fast enough not
to be beaten by the fall in price which had intervened. It
appears, however, to be thought that Prices will not fell
lower,- and that we have attained to what was the consum:
mation most wished for some years ago—a steady and suf-
ficient supply of cheap cotton. Freights are high, thanks
chiefly to the short harvest and the Abyssinian expedition.
" The past year has been uneventful in the dried fruit
trade," the only incident seemingly being a currant crop of
indifferent quality, leading to some " bold" speculations.
But it is evident these luxuries are in as much request
as ever. The shipments of hemp from the Baltic last
year were several millions of tons short of the year
before. Whether the crop of last year, believed to
be abundant, would supply the deficiency is not known
nor, indeed, does it much matter, as we are now importing
an immense quantity of Sisal hemp—a new fibre from
Mexico, strong enough for many purposes. Indigo has
been very remunerative to the importers. There is no
reason to find fault, we arc told, with the year's operations
in linseed. The metal trade, with the single exception of
tin, has been as bad as bad could be ; but " we have seen

the worst." In petroleum, Iyhichno4olxl.24sv.lf.z*ti,
ten years ago, there have been heavy stocks and delmng
prices ; but the consumption, chiefly among the poor, still
increases. An expected home rival to be made out of
coal will not pay, and we may expect better days for
petroleum. The silk trade still drags. The 'worms and
the mulberries are not numerous enough to make up
for partial failure. As for sugar, it is enough to ob- •
serve that we are consuming more than ever, and that,
strange to say, the United States are producing more than
ever. Under tc:, we have chiefly to note that Indian tea
is gaining upon Chinese for some qualities and uses, and
that the grocers have formidable rivals in the publicans.
Our imports of timber have been increasing enormously,
and we are now importing immense quantities of wood
worked for house building. Tobacco, we are told, ought
to rise, expecially the better qualities. The imports of
wine are increasing, except from the Rhine and Portugal,
and it really appears that we are becoming again a wine-
drinking people. Last on the list, the import of Austra-
lian wool, which a few years back, even while in its
embro state, was one of the wonders of the age, has been
much greater than ever, but has been actually beaten this
last year by the imports from the River Plate, and, as
might be expected, the prices have gone down con-
siderably.

It has been the universal practice to make the posses-
sion of shares an indispensable qualification for direction.
The Post has always doubted the policy of this condition,
and believes that railway affairs would be far better and
far more straightforwardly administered if administration
were entrusted to men of ability outside the railway world,
whose views of the principles of government and of policy
were free from the taint of railway traditions and railway
intrigues. It confesses further to entertaining a very
strong persuasion that the ten or fifteen gentlemen who
constitute the visible and ostensible direction of railways
do not constitute the real directing and controlling power.
It believes in most cases there is a direction within this
direction, invisible and unrecognised, over whom the
estensible board have no more real control than the share-
holders ; and possibly, if every undertaking were turned
inside out, without reticence, it might be discovered that
there was some motive principle stronger even than
the spirit of rivalry, on whose influence the Caledonian
Committee lay so much stress, by which such continuous
activity is given to the policy of extensions and pur-
chases of branch lines, docks, harbours, and steam-
boats.

The Herald remarkl that, taking things at their worst,
it appears that the ordinary stock will still pay a divi-
dend, certainly not so great as that of two years ago, but
,rie that will make the Caledonian compare favourably
with almost every ether inculpated railway. On the whole
the report, if not exactly all that could have been de3red,
is very Inuch better than moat people had expected. It
furnishes a new proof that railway companies, like other
joint-stock undertakings, have been going a great deal too
fast of late years, but it proves also that, after all the
errors of the past, there remans some solidity in this kind
of property which may tend to reassure those who a little
while ago were ready to part with it at panic price. With
careful management and honest accounts there is no
reason why the Caledonian should not again become a
favourite investment, though it will, of. course, be
come time before it regains the position which it held
before recent damaging disclosures and disquitting
rumours.

The Times has opened its columns to a " Briton" who
preaches a Jamaica, cure fur the disaffection of Ireland and
of the Irish in England—martial law, and Governor Eyre
to administer it. The folly of these things may make
their wickedness innocuous. But, as the Daily Hews
observes, when such extension as thi; is given to the
terms Fenian, rebel, and traitor, and, such a remedy is
prescribed ; when a war of authority against opinions and
against the constitutional advocacy of a purely legal
change is preached up, we cannot.wonder that some men
should. shrink from becoming just now the servants of
Government. Sober and responsible statesmen, however,
ire not to be judged by the language of excited and irre-
:,ponsible talkers. It is important that the task of pro-
tecting society at a time of outrage and panic should be
discharged by men who are responsible to the Government,
whose duties are prescribed by law,•and who are bound to
obedience. A body of self-appointed and self-governed
watchmen, holding no official rank, might degenerate into
a committee of vigilance ; and in moments of excitement
would be far mere likely than an organised police force to
be hurried into arbitrary and lawless acts. The motives
which have led many persons to withhold their services as
special constables from the Government, though not
unintelligible or frivolous, appear to us raistaken or insuf-
ficient.

According to the Standard, it is by no means certain
that we shall not have to adopt martial law in Ireland..
We have in that country a population who dislike us and
distrust us, and are fast beginning to look upon the Fenians
as heaven-sent deliverers. These are people among whom
the contagion of sympathy may any day produce some act
of madness which will cost innumerable lives. To meet
this we must slew unwavering unanimity in cur resolution
to hold Ireland and put down treason. What may come
afterwards may ;Jo another question. But it will become
the character of the nouse of Commons, of the press, of
the British people, to make it felt at once that Fenianism
must be stamped out at any cost. Any attempt to turn
the existence of that conspiracy to account, with a view
forcing the country into ill-considered measures for the
amelioration of Ireland, must be discountenanced. It this
tone is adopted—if it is honestly maintained by all parties
at this formidable crisis—we shall probably have no need
for martial law in Ireland. If any other policy is adopted,
martial law will be but a small portitm of the trouble in
store for us. We shall have a whole nation madly rushing
on destruction in the wild idea that they are backed by the
American people, and enjoy the sympathy of the British
people. This policy need not interferp with the progress
of Irish legislation.. Of that we hope to have much. But
it must not be allowed to be supposed that Parliament or
the country will for an instant recognise the right of these
conspirators to stand between them and the Irish people.
Anxiety for Ireland's welfare, compassion for Ireland's
sufferings; we may still feel, but what we must shew above
all things at this crisis is a determination to maintain
British rule in Ireland at any cost.

E3IPLOYME2TT IN BETIINAL-CRIZEN. —The First
Commissioner of her Majesty's Works, &c., has decided
on increasing the bathing lake in Victoria Pad: to nearly
double its present size. The work will be commciLced
immediately, and, I.Jllov:ing the belt precedents of the
public works carried on in Lancashire during the cotton
distress, will be done by task work. In this • way, while
employment will be given to many in the East of London
willing, but at this time unable, to find work, a permanent
public improvement will be effected with economy and
despatch.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. —A young gentleman,
named William Chaine, has committed suicide in Dublin
by swallowing a large dose of prussic acid. He committed
the act in the parlour of Dr. Lyons, in the presence of
several female relatives, to one of whom, it is stated, he
had been paying his addresses, the rejection of which had
determined him to put an end to his existence. In his
pocket was found a letter addressed to his mother, in
which he*stated what he was about to do, and reque6ted
her not to think he was mad, but that he was broken-
hearted,