The Express. — London, England, 1852-09-17 00:00:00

Wont promoter of that polished mirth which more %Mei all others ha seemed heartily to enjoy, suffered no point, weever minute, to wipe his notice, to which it behoved the commander of a great army to pay attention, while, at the same time, he conducted and brought to a favourable ronehi•ion tiolitical and financial negotiations, which, but for the skill and &mom displayed in his Bitumen:sent, ro:glit bare et.ded disastrously. WELLINIATON AND BLVCRIIt. About eight in the morning the Duke of Wellington ginned Bru.sels. About eleven, or • little later, he/cached Uthttft. Brae; whence hr closely reconnoitered the enemy's te „. i tion, and satisfied himself that there was no immediate danger trout the side of Fresno. This done, and having lift directions with the Prince of Orange as to the points of halt for seat eery* as might arrive in his absence, he galloped off to communicate in person with Meld Marshal Blather. The latter had, with exceeding diligence and gathered three out Of his four corps into posi ton. Ile occupied a chain of elevations, rather than heights which, extending front Bey un the right, embraced Sombre( in the centre, and terminated at Tinigrines. The advantage of this position woo that it covered the high road from Na mur to Nisalies =4l goatee Bran, at the point where the toads from l'harteroi huiu (all in with it. It had likewise in its trued the rivulet of Ligny, into which a mailer stream, att, r winding through a ravine, falls ; with several valla,:es, especially St. Amend and Ligny itself , Handing forward as outposts, et the foot of the slope. Its disulvantaees were, that it off. red 60 security to the right; in other word. ' to that thank by which the communications with the leuglish were to be kept open ; and that the vil lages in advance were too far removed from the line to permit of than' being reinforced, in case of need, except at great hazard. There, however, Blucher had drawn up his army; and when the Duke o f Wellington joined him, he explained the dispositions of the 'leveret carp, with much apparent complacency. The duke is said to have ex pn,sed, with caaracteristie giod breeding, yet firmness, ho disapproval of Prince Blucher's arrangements. Every man " (such is the su'istance of the words which the duke is said to have spoken) '• knows his own people best ; but I can only say that, with a British army, I should not caeupy this lzrouutt as you du." Blucher. however, repre sithil that los countrymen liked to see the enemy biter, they engagi d him, :mil adhered to th- o.,iuion that St. Arnaud and Liens' were the key* of his position. Aud the duke wa% at once to', wise and two much under the influ mice of it right limas his point. It was the duke's ' desire to co 'sprat. with Prince Blucher actively, rather than paieivele. Ile saw that against the latter the main strength of the Frei, It 1110 y would be carried, and he pro po.cd to advaisce, as soon as he should have concentrated trice enough. ut .111 brasue and Gout/lies, and to fall upon the min'', rear. But this, which would have been both • practicaldi .1714 a judicious movement, had his Unice re ceased intonation wWe French attack in good time, was now well nigh i.npossible. It was idle to expect that Napo leen would delay his onward inoveineut long enough to permit the c nesotration at Quatro Bras of such a force as would authorise an aggressive operation; and a project, ad mirable in itself, woe at once abandoned, and an arrange-' meet mark that by he Namur road the allies should sup port one medlar. It is said that the duke, as he cantered hack to hie own ground, turned to a 'toff-officer deeply in his confidence. and slid, "Now mark my words: the Pine- Liens e a t m .),•• a gallant *the ; for they arc capital troops, and well commanded; but they will be beaten. I defy any army not to be beaten placid as they are, if the force that attacks them be such as I suppose the }'roach under Boone parte are... TUE JOI 160 ArtZil 141:6Ttli . llavin:ilheriiire; men hit outposts well arranged, and lett no point urn area fur which seemed to demand atten tion. lie withdrew to a tire near the roadside and sat (lowa. Other genera:a would have been oppressed with a.naiety as to what the marrow alight bring forth, lied it been Napo leon, in the day. of hisearly glory, of whom we now write, it would have probably been our way to describe him as poring over n map and me•sun•g with a pair of compasses the routes and di.tances from one portion of the district to another. But the duke seems always to h she possessed the rare, and, to en ora,er, invalua4le quality of relaxing his enertnev as coo-. as the call fur them was over, and turning his thoughts into any enannel which happened to invite them. tht the present occasion a regiment of cavalry, the 12th, happened to come up won atter he had taken Lis sent. it was comiramir d by one of the bravest suldien, though of the gentlest nature, that ever wore ■ Britiab uniform, Litut..Cul. the lion. Frederick Ponsonby, who, passing over to salute Lis Iri,nil and beloved commander, found him busily ening, din the perusal of some English newspapers. A packet hail jest reached him, and the duke began upon them forthwith, mailing aloud, and indulging in many a good juke at the capen.e of the lean of the home govern ment, as they Wen there described. To speck of such a man as at any moment liable to be ...itemised," is to exhibit • asarvellously alight acquaintance with human nature. He who is surprised must lose self.raseasiou ; and if he be attacked in some manner upon which he had never mice !stet!, his wear.. of r. pelling the attack will be to seek. But the lam of selt-p.....woiva can hardly be predicated of one who, amid the hurry of active operations, and in the very middle, so to speak, of a battle, is able to amuse himself and all who come near him, as tits duke amused that night his staff, mu the gallant soldier who joined himself to their company. THE DCILE AT WATERLOO. While the French remained thus unaccountably supine, the Duke of Wellington with characteristic activity, was providing agaiust every possible emergency that might occur. He was shaved and domed at two o'clock in the morning ; sat down by the light of a lamp to Ins desk, and wrote many letters, of which three have been given to the public in Col. G1T.0041 . 8 invaluable collection. One of these—to the English minister at Brussels—has for its object the maintenance of quiet in that city. The writer speaks with conikleme sit the events which were hurrying forward, sad assures his corteroondent that "the Prussians will he ready again for anything in the morning." " Pray keep the English quiet,' he continues ; let them all prepare to move, but neither be in • hurry nor • fright, as all will yet turn out well." Another, addressed to the Dec de Berri,gives a brief but clear account of the operations of the 16th, and en. plains the arrangements which had been made Let the pro. tennis of the Mons road at Hal. At the same time the Dec is advised to remove with his suite to Antwerp, and to carry thither also the Kim of France, though only as a measure of precaution. 1 ba r e," toys the Field Marshal, " indeed I hare every regent to believe, dig ail will go well ; but it is necessary to leek a good way Wins us, and to provide against serious lessee, should any astidoat mear." And last of all, the Governor of Antwerp imersated what to do—that he is to consider the city "in a alb ef eau % and have his means of inundating this sarnsmadhs ready ;" while at the sem time 11.4084 the King of Frame and his atte ta,aewerasb ay British subjects who any desire to pan taw* Agawam on their way to EnglaaL Nor was it as IBM ant dm Duke of Wellington dovetail the first Oath irthadil day to the adjustors** w matters chick boo min hod mately upon the amacomeats of its later ham The IWO ammunition, which had boss parked over-n*4o War.' 100, was se ilhttibuted as to ha ready for onpingo to parts at a ns.ment's oaks. Ataani wove ow lip as every house, both than and the mobs rear or Ohs position, for the aseamsdadua or woundsd. Nothing, in sheet, was neglected se overiorkal wYsh waild in staff respect contribute to the security of the sentry, or the ei ciency of the force gbh* defended It, whin all was dam with a cheerfulness end good-hamonvel aisstrity width seemed to forebode the haggisat sash. Wad it wee pint of the chsraeter of the Dabs of Wangles to imam nosy man who approached Mgt with *who mugionse r the success of whatever be unierhask, sod so sannshabb it instant, of the extent to width MINI hiIINLINNI Innis& occurred this day, that it wed& be ogle* ple ba. Amain other domestic servants who had atteadod Nmr Oa Peninsula, sod afterwards followed hie fortunes to t Paris, and Vienna, was • Fritsch cook, • maa ot i. = science and excellent mothal in his way. This artiste contrived to get his seelfter dear toady at the exact when it was wanted, and on the 18th of June he no plied himself, as usual.% lie dram is the kitchen of al house in Waterke, wham len laad.quartaes of the se INTO established. *align ihnnin of the battle he new intermitted his task; ttadwlsatnomb&ataal came crowding back, and a thonsimil wilts mgodri: escape while he mold, he steadily minim! either to hedge an inch or to intermit hie labours. "His Grace had ordered dinner, and email certainly Man to eat it. He was not going to dimwit so geoerous a water for any consideration whatever:* And his Grace did come back, as ha had promised. sail And his dinner not less recherelit this astmk_dimigh lie sham of Ms own feelings, victor as he was, mold heierly pr ndt kin to dojustielta at. TIlli:DI;Le . 1 MIAMI. - IX UPC On the 18thallovemt;e;,iiCti; iismeyear, the Doke had an attack of epilepsy, which for a short time alarmed the public greatly for his safety, on account of his advanced erre. Sir Amity Cooper and Dr. Hume were down at Weimer with him for a week, at the end of which time he recovered, greatly to the joy of the whole nation. It timed out that the Duke had brought on the attach, adopting, to ewe himself of a slight illness, a mode of treatment which wield he the most wise in a man of 25, but wee most dan gerous es one so assailed in years. On this eceasioo he bad awnght to cure Wirral( by fasting and cold bathing : be they while under His treatment, followed the hounds, the aemegemses of whisk was that be fainted, and was soon eileetmeds setae& es issetitted. TM! DUKS OF WELLWOION AT sAAAvatsA, The At7sni:l; isaanits -- aill — distrust. Cunt& inspired term , bet so makes* ; esd Albuquerque, whether from conviction se inellipseed by momentary anger, jute a the French wan iambi es es the dui attack, seat one of his staff to edema lbe LOA emeeedar that Curets was betraying Ma The alle•deirep with this message delivered M Ir Weed Deeil lu eet r Z alter carried it to Sir ineetalr Weledep latter, seated on the summit (Atha hit midis YAWS SO pliantly contested, was intently wadies die MilleilMeete of the *dimming enemy, listened Y alb eaminnhst startling mew. Sage, without so muck el Wei( his Iwo& and then drill answered—" Very 'Ara ages Ma your brigade," continued his warm elan Mew& Beelda retired, filled with admiration of the psrteblDia reattlution and quick penetration of the man.— spier. Tee Lt;•a Ol WELLINOTON'S HUMANITY. It has been customary with than whose wishes Ind them to plate Wellington's character in an unamithis whes be compare him with Napoleon, in repiessatlig beds se elm and unpitying smdiers, worths; their linegmagn sot, reek lege of the sufferings they oceseiceed, and deed to th• kindlier sympathies of Insaaalty. Bet It dmi we eel& bilious of softer feelings min by body as ime Mend more. Napoleon's ielle• radio ; Bl dNogese's • secret offering. An osteeledelle 2 1 719 bb haerital•—• condolatory address tali rein ealedome wilds bars his wounded from the field--the mode of mew bride • dying friend—all with Napless euneesd M esolasse of acting, and seemed rather inMlagel to Ztreeee from the lookere-on, than giro eaprodoe sympathy. Wallington made ten open *hen eff sorrow. Its saw old friends fall—ha rode past "the dying and the dead "—the same stern climates in his look—the same ennead unalter able determination la his bossing. For the outfitters be had no empty words; hat when others slept, he was toiling iu his bureau to obtain mesas for their relief; and when none expected him, be visited his hospitals in private, and from personal inspection, enured himself that thous to whom his sick and wounded were committed had nut neglected their trust. THE DUNI OF WELLINGTON'S COOLNESS IN MOWER. At Fuente Uuinaldo the duke found himself with only a portion of his army in the presents of Marmont, who col lated • vast number of troops, as if it were his design to tiring his whole disposable force to bear against the polities. While !Lamont was amusing himself with this singular review, Lord Wellington looked on with the calmness of an ordinary spectator. Scarcely a third of the allied army was within his reach; and sixty thousand troops, some of them hitherto unconquered, with one hundred and ten pieces of artillery, manoeuvring barely oat of cannon range. It was at this moment that a Spanish general, remarkable for his seal and gallantry, and a great favourite of Wellington's, observed to him—t. Why, here you are with a couple of weak divisions in front of the whole Fr. neh army, and you seem quite at your ease; why, it is enough to put any man in • fever." " I have done according to the very best of my judgment, all that an he done," said Wellington ; , " therefore I care not either for the enemy in front, or for anything which they may say at home." tourer, like other qualities, has its varieties. Some men are born brave; when acquire intrepidity from ea ample; and even a tirri'd spirit may be stimulated by action until personal apprehension is overcome. Amid the crash of battle, the dullest soul catches a glorious impulse, and for the time, eats off its natural torpidity. To exert, how ever, that mental calmness which conveys, in brief and lucid language, the details of plans of action, requiring the agency of many, and whose access the misconception of au individual might destroy—this demands • philo.phie coecentration of thought, which many found foremost in the press of fight never can obtain. This, the most important quality of a great general, Na poleon and Wellington poseessed extensively; and when the fate of battle hung upon • hair, both were calm and self-collected, and the order upon which victory or defeat depended, wan issued with a coolness that approached in sensibility. The terrible attack at Healing was simply indi cated by • gesture; and when tidings were brought upon that bluody evening, which might have palsied the firmest nerves, not a feature of Napoleon was seen to alter. Sitting on the embankment of • field-work, undisturbed by the roar of his own artillery or • responding thunder from the batteries of the fortress, Lord Wellington penned the plan of the assault; and when that writing went forth, the doom of Ciudad Rodrigo was sealed ! When the eateut of the night's havoc was made known to Lord Wellington, the firmness of his nature gave way for a moment, and the pride of conquest yielded to • pas pinnate burst of grief for the lass of his gallant soldiers.— Napier. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY OPINIONS OF WELLINGTON. The following passeg es irons Mr Fran cr . ; book will be read with interest, as illustrative of some opinions held by the Duke of Wellington: WATT. LOO TO ♦ SOLDIER. Notre Bataldle du 18 a tul atm di Outs ; ; et sots, inertia a Eli Templet, comma vous voyes. Mae Dies me (soothe ass*: pour quo je teen aM plus, percalee je sits di. soli de la perte de ruts aneieusausis et comrades. Mon coins, et collabureteur (Blucher) sit en bonus multi, quoique an peu soutirant &use chute qu'il a fait* d'uu chisel blesse sous lui dans M bataill• du 16.—Letter to Doomouries, June 26, 1816. IF NCUBAPAILTE IT TO HI PUT TO DEATH, HI WILL NOT Br HIS_ General bu been here this day to oegeeiate fur Na poleon's passing to America, to whit\ reposition I have answered that I have no authority. The Prussian. think the Jacobins wish to give him over to me, believing that I will save his life. wishes to kill him; but I have told him I shall remonstrate, and shall insist span kis being disposed of by common accord. I have likewise said that, u a private friend, I advised him to lave soaking to do with so foul a transaction; and that he sad I had acted too dbtingeished parts in these transude.. to become execu tioners' and that I was determined that, if the sovereigns wished him pat to death, they should appoint an execu tioner which should not be me.—June 28,1815, rill POUNDING MATCH.... You will have heard of the battle of the 18th. Never did I sett such a pounding_ match. Both were what the boserscall "gluttons." Napoleon did not monomers at all. He just moved forward in the old style, in columns, and was driven off in the old style. The only difference was that he mixed cavalry with his infantry, and supported both with an enormous quantity of artillery. I bad the infantry for some time in enures, and we had the French cavalry walking about us u if they had been our own. I never saw the British infant y behave so well. —Letter to Marshal Bercuford , July 2, 1815. WHY TIM DORI OF WILLI:4O7OX MILD 110 MAXI 07110111 "AD INT 111111," IX 110Y1M111, 1834. I gave h Majesty the beat *deice which. nailer the cir cumstances el the are, it wittari4 teamposaisabie to give. I advised Ida Majesty le mad dr *at alikt ben. gentleman (dir R. Peel), a atesaber of ibe &ma el Cm moo, who seemed to me to ho the mod fit sad capable person to ilipe at the head of the nem administration, as first lord of Os treasury. That eight ban. patleman was then in Smother part of the world, and woe time must necessarily AWN before it would be meals that he could return to ibis serantry. It appeared le his Majesty and to myself, bawler, to be essentially neessemy that, in the meantime, the promainent of this ammtry amid be take., possession of end adminkbered. Tkasilsel esitaliksoll to be absolutely necessary, and 1 also felt it ti; be etholutely thearary thai, whoever oalgibe therein theythete', _el gthowlethst in tbe interval, avoid aka as step that West embootos es elm• pada the him thawed is his sera It was wag that primal that I accegbd, kr the dos, al the aim of gag ef the treasury and secretary el TMs dlr dr hems deportnteet. The mirk visseeet les writ a little wreaks Is That I wee eggshaled te three disgrlirsate at eme l t ashes it a setter et shame spier sae that I merged the authority of the three seatharies ef state ; but the whit viscount knows very well that the seeretary of state for the bane department is eraapolast,uithereertabeeisametansee, hide ise. It was ibr se ethos. roma wheorior_ Abet% wig Wis. cemented to Mid, fee a tree, dr ellweilsos es Lint lead of the rearm. and weerrry of thee bathe bone department Bet I want to Mew whether this was, es the WM errant Winnable, aa tagesesdested art? Whoa Mr. Canning was secretary of agate fer the Amiga dea* neat be woo appointed Out lad of the tesseary. The latter ethos Mr. Canning raelved ea the lab of Aged, and be did set resigo the stele of tie Amigo detheltheed until the 10th of that math. During the whets of this period Mr. Canning discharged the dada bush of somoory of stele doe foreign affairs aid Oust lied of the temp My lads, I ea quite share that there were at thee two ease earetaries of state, but the fact le se hove stated le, OM Mr. Casein therciied at the awe elm the fesedem of int his el the Meanly sad ..retry of state kir the Ilissiga depostmeat The armotion in mg ems was, tbssekre e ar ; art I most also say, dm whoa the odds pew to blares Mb es he ad, be was b id row mailost, in that respect, hod hem atliedoll sion ce heirs with Neer, It dor eel ewer that it has lortollooLd with any soot resod. The AM le, thus *wig *e wide of the thee shot dark, tie obis of tit doodled I MI the two casts I seMisosig eyelid taft sag dip ishlob Milt be goadostive el =sat lorowwisot se ir and whoa my t hem faked toult_ dop• eer= l :l l % ease, I ma to any that be Watt Lad biased semperised by any sett am—Feb. 24, Ida piacurp! N iqsFrr's x#ftwAos. Them wise sierra mom dame* then Ide In the impeseis• of eimpeesielen to hs esty epee tie apprembleg meeriego, width she heels* pima* to &MMUS • mooed time to Me penis hem Os threes this day. I eneerely win with the 1141111 NAM wed reyeader ef the einem time ads mow may Is* to the limier@ sad mad et the Owe* IJpon this maim I demi& hem is.. ill•Oraisi with the *- drew, and shield law Awed ass 1101011 we*, if per lordships Went Imes mind igen is the @gown from the throne to warm with the mine Mom ef podiums in making a We in gembisa be the yelase, thr whim fours station Is this sesetry bre y et mesa hes Bat, ay lees. it 19111•11111 whoa 2 .l lsWee d is called epee le to en epithet epee a del* of Mk &- Mathes@ eight is is* nee, and est ape, this se eight sot to be a sews esepthelesiss. I is. sive net Me puddle haw • Tight to knew ssasslibig be. ye* the awe name of the piss whew bee Meaty is dim bo apses. My imde4 had the bower sf esatesowsd to eas•A bst . ,MMIZ3 sooslil, whoa Ming her Majesty in sesame wed to declare her intention of the e sl this prince. I ob. eseasil that the t of the Nip of Osumi 111. was Mowed la di rap* smith me, mad MN was the &- thermion that this mime we • gesessisat. (Load miss of " Hear, hem," tram the eppodibra Immilm) My lards. I, for one, entertain is Been Mee the prime is • mthesteat. I believe he is a pees** I haw he is of a pmeestaist family. I haws the hewer ef bsto hews to mem sem. hers of that ihmily. and Ism sere *lt ft ia • preenstant badly. BA say lords, this is a posessieth Mate, sad it is absolutely assassary, by law, that Me mese who shall be. sees the epees of the times he a yeelleibieti sad, if the them** of George 111. bss boss Wm it pith le hem been t=2 end ll* the is weld have f orth. Imewiewthet die IM; the ph* Mal • prelsoleth ha bees thoDy desisted by iter Modesty s goyernomed. My Math I here the sable Ised:=Eits too welts so give sat aware of the in the publiss = this ; sad I know else that y had it in tisk yaws, te that moiety, end te polity the pates by sashias this ibssimelion—esy, *re, my lords, Ism sin •1•11IMI net theme Wen the isms anxiety is the royal mind about the preletheth ohmmeter of the state as is felt by me or any of you , Irordals Aad if so, say leads, I ask, why was the president el Gems 111. dowsed hum ? Is there say Muth is to the Nih* see time* of this pines ? Now Meh ; them ma le we doubt that he h • peemeteet ; he mead be sithewise. Thee why is it net es sins* ? We ham herd emmthisig of this mar sags him =ether part of the sosaily; we hays seen some premothep is this subject shoe the declaration is whish shewpetty clearly why the ward"protestant" we meth* My Lids, I mks that I am me of these lobe reed will peat *Menthes all that perm la Irelend—ell these membee thet some Aim that wont—end I de it for this sem* : I hem bum monstemed to net hi* of veto. lelleemy theme** It his bow seld by is Miming leash writs; "as phis fawn ms ms easepweper;" bat this is sot as sow. The *Jest pups* is knee. These Minis ere thelined openly. This I sea see hem what ap- pees in Me ph& pinto, as I reed Mew pains letter sod missives in wan to see what the real danpr is, and that I may net be takes by surprise. Now, what I mean to say is ' this—that I see la what has passed elsewhere a very sus. pit:does realms why the word " protestset " warn not in serted in the commanication made to the privy council, and why it has not been inserted in the speech from the throne. I say is the noble lords appellee, that I believe they are as mace determined as lam myself to maintain the pro. testae% ascendancy of the state. I think, then, if this be the ease, that epos the first °cession, when this question COONS before your lordships, and when the Hoare of Lords shall be called upon to do asp act, or to make any declara tion upon the subject beyond the mere congratulation of the Queer, tour lordships aboaltl take that course which may procure the country the satisfaction of knowing that Prince Albert is a protestant prince, and that this is still a pro testant state.—January 16, 1618. THE nets OF WRIELIiOTON NOT ♦ WAR lIINISTRR. No noble lord or any other man that 1 know hoe done half so much fur the preservation of peace, and, above all, for the pacification and the maintenance of the honour of France and for the settlement of all questions in which the interests of France were involved, as the individu■l who is addressing your lordships. From the period of the year 1814 clown to the last month of my remaining in the service of my king, I did everything in my power for the strength ening and preservation of the re•ee of Europe, and more particularly for the maintaining and keering up the best understanding between England and France. I repeat that I have done more than any one els" to place France in the situation in which she ought to be in the councils of ' Europe, from • firm conviction—which I feel now as lstrongly never I did—that if France is not, then there is no neceuity for the preservation of the peace of Europe, or for • sound decision on any subject of general policy. lam sure that the noble viscount would find, if he would take the trouble to search the archives of the government, pawn written by me shortly before I went out of Ake is 1880 that would fully justify the assertion which I have just made. lam sure that those who were in office with me were as anxious for the preservation of the peace of Europe as any politicians, be they liberals or otherwise. They were so anxious fur the preservation of a good uoder standing between France and this country, and that France should be on a perfectly good understanding with all the powers of Europe, and that she should take the station which becomes her in the rank of nations, and which her power, her wealth, and her famines entitle her to.— January 28, 1841. PUBLIC FUNERAL This morning intelligence was received in London, which, it may be fairly supported, will settle the question as to the mode in which the remains of the late Duke of Wel lington will be interred. The Wt.; will be removed from Wilmer Castle to Apiley House to-morrow morning. hints already been placed in a leaden shell fur that purpose. Mr. Holland, the undertaker, has received the necessary directions for the removal of the body, and intends leaving London this g, in order to carry out his instructions. The will has been opened, and it has been found that his grace has ezpressed a wish that his mortal remains may be disposed of as the severeign may direct, and under these eke rinstances it is not difficult to suppose what will be the decision of her Majesty upon the subject. The pub lic funeral of the deceased hero will doubtless be conducted on a scale of great magnificence. It Is supposed that his Orates remains will be brought from Weimer Castle to Apsley House by a special tram along the South Eastern Railway. [G, SEPTEMBER SELF-LOADING RAVOLVER. The New York Courier and Inquirer describes a newly invented revolver and self-loading rifle made by Colonel P. W. Porter of Tennessee, and said to be capable of discharging 60 loads in a minute and a half. The rifle is a little over the ordinary weight, and, although a revolver, can be used as a single gun—the revolving agent being the guard of the gun instead of the hammer, as in other re volvers. The guard after revolving the cylinder, returns to its place, and firmly fastens by means of a spring in the stock. The cylinder which is perforated with nine cham bers on the exterior rim, tuns in the breech, presenting in rapid succemion tech loaded chamber to the barrel for dis charge. 1 he part that comes directly in contact with the bar rel is protected first by the cylinder pressing firmly against it and next by springing plates which catch and turn off any fire that might penally escape through the junction. The ordinary trigger is used, and the rifle is discharged by percussion caps, nod primes itself by an arrange-1 meat which presents itself to the hammer in succession. The caps are placed in a rim and the hammer is on the side of the gun. The nine chambers mentioned above being discharged, another cylinder, which may be kept in the pockets of the person using the gun, may be inserted in place of the one deprived of its con tents, without a lose of more than three or four seconds, and nine additional discharges made in succession. Then by placing over the top of the cylinder a flask which con tains both powder and ball (or shut if nceesaary), the cham bers are loaded by every revolution of the cylinder, so that the supply is Only exhausted when the flask is empty, and in this mane? 60 discharges are made in the short space of a minute and a half. The flask or magazine over the cylinder is water tight, and affords good protection to the works it covers. The flt_ can be discharged u long as the magazine containing the ammunition holds out, and by manufacturing a gun with proportionate arrangements, the magazine would consequently be larger and capable of con taining fifty or one hundred charges. Shot can also be placed in the magmata, and would, by charging the barrel, which is often done, be equally available. By these means the newly invented gun will answer all the purposes of the fowling pieces, besides having the advan tage over the latter of discharging about forty times per minute. The priming part is so arranged that the fire, in stead of setting off the powder at the bottom of the charge, ignites it on top, but under the bell, thus burning all the powder inserted instead of destroying some end throwing the residue out of the gun in its crude state, and having • greater resisting effect. The charged used is very small, yet this rid, has been found to carry a great distance, and in all experiments made drive its bullets deeper into timber than any other tested against it. The gun in question is the only env of the description as yet manufactured, but in the cum of • few days several will be completed. Colonel Porter is at present having 10,000 manufactured at Tann too, Massachuseats. The experiments made were very sue tented and highly satisfactory to those who attended the exhibition. - RELICS Or THE SPANISH AUMADA.--Our raiders (says the AratalA Grariliss) know as a matter of history that several ships bilangla to the great Spanish Armada, destined foe the museftef England, were driven away by stens te the wee use Ireland a nd wrecked. We Ind her Kr. Woodhouse, of NMI= that he has now assert keel that ewe ef these are /ying off the west emit d Demesel, see of them at Mallagliderg, in the Beene. mil tie ether arse mike northward. It =Kat abseil slaty ye= tT aii ‘ementry people eem el the Wu amass to the reseds, a em o d s z: limn brakes and said. This ea the ef a very low tide and a asellesrly wind. whale blew of the sand; bat their autism weas distethed by the warn of the molthery tide and changing of tbe ward. The cuss wise merited with the royal arms of Spa* and showedplotialy easegh that anise Seised beleaged to a alp of war. The - ualemeal and num ey Seised Wediffes ed the emery all piste proveshM the ship kid belonged tow Amnia. Abu Mae maths espe Kr. Beard, of the Osethgesed, saw the alga ea the emeeks ef ama low tide lad the aittleg of eased ia width they lie onabsolded. He diabsedy saw We halls of the moth keen the liessembe the seem The hrs. oaalla lehigh, mad NMI se we me es parade's of ships VKm yelp of Mambo*; anr: Mr. Heard snail on a Wlllket of dui mass lying on and about :the heitende. Be reseeded aa seeker, whale is s Ksel sethelly, mai is saw sent .ever to laatha, by liar ei the Adeledeg t h be depeiled in veered ay Kamen. The gravel sad smidebent Magyar band ay Mit the less in am solid sum. Abu a peel ad of WOK , en the sabjest, Mr. Woodbines Wm me doubt of the meek baffles belonged to the amide Armada ; sad he kiss& at the nest spring tidos, rasa the ember rands* endleks*. W make an attempt at raising ROM the can. nos I bailee thinks if the mattes were takes up by the 'abate, sad • divine bell, or wee a MUM sack ask now used by dime, were preeared, the Wide of the vessel might be pt at, and MON ef the 611•611161 raised. We seed hardly my how ma amities and finer the arti stes la the held and cabin nest be, paella ry after Wks hie maks water kr a petted el surly three bun. di. g CiIINHAM AT WAEHINOTON.—Mr. Pack eahms British Minister Sea 'Wales. us ens_ thy di at the mddleass ef flawarrie ienew, of Iwat slaes ashes Meesr. and he the absentee if his boot trom p th s teellopety's Aas or wee moseted by an old mimed man, who was in the amt. ment, Mae W rights," with—" Kra, leroe name Pinar "Ys," said the Matisse. "Wes dat you' Wader dat was killed et Odom% kde peon battle dar ?" "Be us," replied the Ambeesathe. " Well, dere !—I seen MO I= obis mil ply ewe eyes. Greet fight dat, masse!" at dinner, Kr. Paskseimm said to Mr. Barrow : " Your ma ails no, sir, that he was at the battle of New Odessa" " Ile wee," amid Kr. Denew, "and acquitted him ar ethethily in that segegemeno I" bat at the same time be "leaked daggers" - at the rid " seneschal" for having breathed melt a subject le Ip s e s = mane of his pest. "He tells me, too," mid Mr. ben, "that be saw my brother fall." The frown am the host's fees grew darker, and the subject was adroitly changed. The nest day "Sam" came in to Mr. Barrow with a note: "Mains, dare's a note, and dey say dat it's for me. E'yah! e'yah !" And owe ener4b, it was for hin; moreover, it was an invitation to dine dm neat day with Mr. Paekenbam, which he dal, end was listened to with intense interest while he rehearsed the meats of the great battle "all of which he maw, and w, part of whisk he mg."— /CPI icionleater. • EIUGIIATIOS FILM SCOTLAND.—The tide of emi gration lows ea with unabated vigour, and in all likelihood will maws le do so. America and Australia are domes the Assartles, the latter mere to, la cessequeum of is gall hada, mad the sepsis, advantages it offers to farmers, meshaaks, sad servants. At present there an several lug* Wail lying at the Broomielaw, anarmaced to sail for both ermisses which we observe the Cerra Linn, Bennoek sedllerah, for America, and the Typhoon and BS =ha anesseded by serval others, for the gold regions. these, there ere several ships for the East ladies, Sae& Ilasseisa, aad the West India colonies. The greater paper*. of the amigreab leaving ear shares is composed of mem of war beet workmate'. We wish emigration to pressed vigemsly, bat we would and rather me a larger amber of weavers, and others who san esusely tam a sulaisteses at their trades at home, seeking to improve their asedllisa abroad.—Wasgero Coesetiturisesat 17, 1452. DESTINIES OF THE AMERICAN coN TINENT. The following is an extract from a speech mode to several thousand of beaten, et Rutland, Vermont, t nited States, on the Sad inst., and given is the Item lark Time: _ Let me urge this (the duty of self-improvement) by a consideration of the nature of the great national nuns through which we are passing. One word describes it—ex- ' passion. Expansion within our borders, to people and organise not less than forty sittin, each as great and popu lous as those which sow constitute the union--expansion beyond our borders to bring in states more numerous than one dare to conjecture. Do you question the existence of this crisis? Recollect, then, hew soon you have become miliar with the yet new states of Wisconsin, lowa, Florida, Texas, and Cantered& ; and how fast the territorial fors of government, only preliminary to that of new states, is ex tended under names before unkn nen In Minnesota, Oregon, New Mexico, Utah, and Nansaka. Do you doubt the tendency of expansion beyond your present Bor den ? Oaly linty years ago all our settlements clustered between Cape Ann and St. Mary's River, on the Atlantic Coast ? Where are they now ? On the east and north they overhang tho Bay of Fundy and Lake Superior ; southward they stretch away quite around the Peniusuls of Florida to the banks of the Rio Grande . • on the west, their setting sun eatinguishes his fires la the waters of the Paci fic. By purchase and conquest, the boundaries of the re public have been made to advance equally with this Risen• tie but volantary expansion of population. And are we now content? Not at all. On every side there are signs of the chafing of the people against the rigid and unyielding frontier. What do these con troversies with the maritime British North American pro vices about the fisheries, and with the inland provinces about rntraints on trade, indicate, but discontent ? What these ill-suppressed and desperate expeditions from Louisi ana and Florida against Cube, but covetousness of the sugar plantations and coffee-grounds of that beautiful island. What this new and ominous diplomatic controversy with Mesice, about a route for a railroad actor the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, bat a further dismemberment, if not a com plete absorption, of that prematurely declining republic? And lastly, what these explorations and expeditions about Japan and the Sandwich Islands bat the necessity of naval stations in the Pacific Ocein ? Mark, also, that in nearly ell these coveted countries, not only have the principles of American Republicanism worked out practically institutions substantially similar to our own, but then are already organised in the native populations, parties straw enough when seconded by efforts on our part, to deliver them into our hands. !Low significant indeed are the facts that Great Britain has practically relinquished government, in the Provinces next to us, to their inhabi tants, and that simultaneously with the fixed establishment of society in Australia, indications of the rise of a republic appear. It is happily true that these desires for immediate annexation of adjacent regions are local, and in some mea sure, what we call sectional, and so counteract and balance each other; and that the expanding forces are also fur ther modified by conservative apprehen sio ns widely pre vailing in the country. Nevertheless, these are only checks —nokabsolate restraints. Aliso& restraintshave ultimately given way heretofore, and must do too sooner or later hereafter. Nor may it be believed that any American colony, planted beyond our borders will contentedly rennin without, or will, with the nation al consent, be lett to remain independent of the republic. Experience has taught us nothing well, if it has not taught us that who re ever the American people go, they will draw the American government over them; wherever an American colony establishes itself, there the American people will extend the constitutional roof over them. Indeed, there is nothing . new in all these movements, neither those within nor those aerobe the national borders. Expansion and incorporation were laws impressed on the American people two hundred years ago; and they yield to those laws now just as they have hitherto dune, because they have arisen out of cir cumstances above national control, and are inevitable. Let me not, however, be misur.deratood. I advocate no head long progress, counsel no precipitant movement, much less any one involving war, Melva', or injustice. I would not seise with haste and force the fruit which, ripening in time, will fall of itself into our hands. But I know, neverthe less, that the stare will rime out, even if the moon delay her rising. I have shown you, then, that a continent is to bo peopled, and even distant islands to be colonised by us." STARTLING SCENE IS A CIIIMCII.--Lrmt Sunday afternoon, in the " First Congregational Clesreb," in North Chelsea, during the singing of the MOW hymn, a rabid dog of enormous aim rushed up a side side sod an attack upon the pew of Mr. Jonathan Harrington. Failing to effect an entrance, be sprang with a spasmodic leap to the pulpit, beating furiously against the doors, until he fell upon the head stair exhausted, and frothing with impotent ray. The audience were instantly thrown into a great confusion, and a general, and perhaps fatal, rush (or the door seemed somewhat to ensue. They were somewhat reassured, however, by a caution from the pastor, the Rev. Norwood Damon, " to be composed, and remain in their seats, as the surest means of safety." At this crisis, Mr. Ephraim Pierce, a youth of 18, and a son of Captain John Pierce, stepped from his place, seised the animal by the back of the neck, and, notwithstanding several attempts to bite, succeeded in dragging him from the house unlearned. The doors were closed, and the dog fled to the adjoining graveyard, where he was subsequently shot. After quiet was restored, the choir finished their hymn, and Mr. Damon pronounced a sermon on death. A member of the congre gation had died during the previous week. Mr. Damon took occasion to illustrate ono of his points—the instinc tive fear in man of death, and of dangers tending to death —by the occurrence of the hour. U. also cautioned his audience against panic in sudden supposed or real dangers, instancing the School disaster in New York, and the de. struction of emigrants on board the Atlantic. Ile spoke of the necessity of self-possession to the exercise of sound dis cretion and the prompt selection of available means of safety or remedy. He concluded with a well-merited com pliment to young Pierce, " to whose heroism," he said, "too much praise could not be awarded," and by a reference to " the great source of deliverance and preservation in all times of danger."—Salon Journal. THE MILITIA IN THE EAST RIDING.—The whole of the volunteering militia force in the Hull district sp peered fur one day this week, to gBo through the usual legal form of attestation before the magistrates of the Hull bench. The " force " consisted of one pewees only ; and we may take this occurrence to be a fair ettantple of the absolute failure of the scheme upon which it may be said the present ministry attained dim Diiadtfr maleseesea sea an provided for, have, in fact, whim, whisk bid tar to reader the volunteering pest priestly nugatory. Besides the immediate effect eta kip deemed he labour in more pro ductive and ',midmost' eumpetiems them that of playing at soldiers, we have the egeratien of a newiy-discovered ob stacle to the emisedimeM of a national amps of volunteers. It seders of tlyp peculiar provisoes home( In the rules of seeteliss . seeatieftd fee the relief of members in ease of Mumma :2 mr seedi relief to who may false either the may, the • or the militia fens. The meta aloha eseesitete the awe hem wheat it was =posted that the volunteer levy would be MAW ; sad the obits= Mead snob mere them eeMbelancing the very mega. indaoemant eared in the shape of pay, has no doubt calmed the Whirs, so he as voluntary enlistment into the militia is emeresed. Clubs or societies, sash as we allude q. will . tines lb their dkees, denies mem of meting the flMltsyelualling, se to speak, the rotes of lasureses spaiests l bet aloes es the individual disedvantage exists--end it 11111111110 i be de steeped—it makes one of the molt formidable dilleslties to tie establishment of a permanent militia Mw-- Canadian HareM. UNITORILITY or TIME IN THE PROVINCE&—At a % . lel the town council of Bristol, h e ld yesterday it was resolved by a majority of 27 to 3, "That, el7ir v er Cr obviate the inconveniencies resulting from the weir of uniformity in the time kept by the public clocks end the railway, Greenwich time be kept by all the clocks under the mer.agennent of the council, and that a committee be appointed to confer with the persona in charge of the various other public and private clocks."—ln the course of his observations, the mover of the resolution remarked that he understood the municipal bodies in Exeter, mouth, and Devonport were welting the result of the meeting in Bristol previously to their deciding on the count they would pursue .— Ehrter Flying Post. E.7LCLIASION TRAIN ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT Wirraitif UNION RAILWAY. BILIMSOO3IB7I, ?MAN 8711.0 CD, WawiraliDAT.--Last night, about 12 o'clock, an accident happened on this line of railway, near this place, which created smeiderable alarm and no slight loconvenimsee to an samersion train, heavily laden, on its way from Olotesester to 8 winder. It appears that the weal main geode rein from Olonmater to Swindle left the Amor place at about half-past four eels& yeeleseley aftersema, end emu after it bed slowly pined through the &ppm= tassel, by MN Mesas or ethic aft yet satisfectorily explained, a poetise of the trucks get of the whisk were Si. up to seas extent. One or two of the treks were imam! to Seer, and the contents, osaililleg *My of sane hem Cr of eftr, were strewed alms tbe Des. By this mem the se-lire elf mils was blesked up ami isedered kayessale. The lam peer serer rein, brewer, whisk losses Oisesearer er 1•11-past five o'clesk, la& parmil tbe_gesile rale et ere of the ma tions laurvaiss between Oismesstsr sad Dehmermbe, but on as enemies mein up about midnight it was stepped by the deli en the though • selliaion was for tanately preeented by the prmantionury measures which 1.4 6". Vr . we ek T er .C:lll7l.7wllluw*L' i mi,....° samiderable delay, and the exennissiste meshed bens this Miliralag, after having emementseed ggrreeaatt It is believed that no injury to Ills was omeeefaeed d b; la gessidest. SUDDEN DEATH AT THE LONDON-BRIDGE RAIL- W Alf Tialltiftri.—Yeaterday, upon the arrival of the 11.10 a.m. Dever train at the London-bridge terminus, anumget the were a mother and daughter, the latt e r sup ported by meeker is awe . k sinking state to a bark In the statism, where, after sitting a very short time, she Ml appereetly in • Innen* present hastened to the pear glereasehlense, but it we mesa evident that the hand of death woe um her, and ere new siestas elapsed, she aspired. TINS michee elated that assess& red Woolf had been hop-pick* is Kest, at whisk deemed, who was Islabourin sa mmier ememnption. continued until her strength her, wire she (the warn) hastened up to .t7en with bet 'brighter la the hope of obtalaizzllical aid ha her. The who were by the seem, raised a that enalrite meeker to coney her dead thud te bar regime in Desmasidesy. ACCORDING too esecture received hes the West ladle, steamer Parses, the assideat whisk kappemsd to her as ohs was yeesesditig Jemmies wee KO se seders es wet temente. le the - Awnless juries. It swum that after the accident, it had net been lewd anaray Minsk the engines, and, she travelled at the pis slain mike an bear. PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM Yesterday, a meeting of the general committee of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was held at the onion, in John-street, Adelphi, Mr. T. Walton in the chair. Mr. Lewis, the secretary, having read the minutes of 1t ruwi avaing, the :am: haTiLg hem ..a..... A contribution was promised in aid of a lifeboat to In placed forthwith at Lyme Regis, to be constructed on the plan of the several new life-boats recently sent to the coast of Northumberland, and also towards another, on the suns plan, to be stationed at Dover. A letter was read from Lieutenant Ellis, R.N. (member of committee), stating that the new life-bo at for Suutbwold, built by ' Mr. Beeehing, of Yarmouth, had been placed on her station and had been lately tried in a gale, and be haved well. The boat is of the form usually given to whale boats. Her length is 38 feet, and the other dimensions are in proportion. Tho provision for righting the boat, if upset, is by means of water ballast, an iron keel, and raised air cases in the head and stern sheets. From the form given to the boat, she will both pull and sail well in all weathers. Her cost is about 2801., towards which Sir E. Gooch, Bart., M.P., and Mies Sheriff, most liberally contributed each one hundred guineas. The boat is to be placed under the life-boat regulations of the Shipwreck Institution, as far u practicable, and is under the care of an experienced local committee. A reward of 61. was granted to three pilots of Pill, near Bristol, who had, by their laudable conduct and persever ance, saved the crew of the schooner Primrose, consisting of six persons, which had sunk in the Bristol Channel dur ing the terrific storm on the 11th ult. A reward also of 21. was voted to the master of the smack Brisk of Southampton, and ten shillings each to his crew, who had on the same day saved the lives of three helpless fishermen. The men were out at sea fishing, near the Land's End, and were suddenly nvertakeu by a heavy gale, which completely prevented their return to the shore, causing them to drift westward in a heavy sea, and leaving them no other hope ofsaving their lives and b oat, than that , of falling in with some friendly vessel to rescue them from their perilous situation, the sea having now risen to an awful height. One or two vessels passed them, and offered to take them on board, hut objected to tow their boat; this the poor fellows thankfully refused, preferring, as it ap. ' pears, to perish with their boat rather than pert with her: ' as their whole dependence was in their boat. About 10 ' o'clock, when almost despairing of the offer of further suo ' sour, the smack Brisk came most opportunely to their assist ' ance, took their boat in tow, and every kindness was shown to them on board by the master, Mr. Masters, who aafe:y brought them to Falmouth. Soule other formal business having been transacted, the proceedings closed. DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT COFFINS The Bath Chronicle says—" On Friday, the 10th inst., while the workmen were excavating the road at the top of Russell -street, for the purpose of enlarging the sewer, they discovered four stone coffins, with the heads lying to the N.B. One (the smallest) had no lid; Vie others were covered. They were uisposed in pairs ; the upper one, nearly parallel, •side by side, about two feet apart; the lower pair about a yard distant. Lying imme diately above these was a skeleton. In the first eoffiu was found a skeleton of large site, in the neat two skulls with various bone,. The small eoffineontained no skull, but loon bones. One of the coffins was preserved untouched till Monday, when it was carefully removed by Mr. Treasure, the contractor for the works, and afterwards examined by Dr. Falconer, Messrs. Oore, Bagshawe, and B. Hunt. It was covered with a regularly adjusted lid, not with a plain slab (as was the case with the others we have mentioned), the coffin being bevelled off at the foot, to allow the cover to fit more closely ; the upper cod of the lid seemed to have been slightly lifted up. The cover was of superior workmanship. The coffin was full of a soft clayey earth, with two human vertebra lying on it. The earth being removed, a perfect skeleton, supposed to be that of a female, was found ; it was lying on its left side, with the right arm crossing the breast, the left arm ex tended down the side. The remaining contents of the coffin were—part of an infant's jaw ; a metal pin, nearly two inches in length, but much corroded, together with the head of a smaller one ; portions of the jaws of two small animals, and a considerable quantity of a peculiar bitumi. nous substance, which left a greasy purple stain when rubbed between the fingers. We may add that in the neighbourhood of the coffin were discovered some fragments of an earthen vessel, a coin of Constantine, several pieces of glass of a beautifully purple green hue, with various bones of graminivorous animals. As far as can be made out by examination of the human bones, it is evident that they form part of eight skeletons—three being those of children of about the nes of two, six, and ten or twelve ,• the remaining five skeletons were those of adults. Subsequently, a fifth coffin was discovered. It was found in a line with those to which we have already referred. It contains the perfect skeleton of, apparently, a larger body than any of those found in the other coffins, and a small urn of dark pottery, which was placed on the right side of the skeleton, near the ribs. The urn (which is quite perfect, with the exception of being very slightly chipped on the rim), is now in the posseoeiun of Mr. Tree sure, the contractor. The contents of the urn, described by the workmen as being yellowish earth, were unfortunately shaken out by them, so that it cannot be ascertained what they were. The coffin contained, also, a small quantity of earth, but not sufficient to prevent the skeleton from being completely seen, on the removal of the cover, which is in two or three pieces. In addition to the above-mentioned urn, some interesting fragments of Roman pottery continue to be found at the excavations. A sixth stone coffin was discovered, containing the skeletons of two children, about eight or nine years of age. OLD Antrous.—Let any one read the accompany ing extracts from a book published in 1767, nearly a cen tury ago (Smollett's Humphrey Clinker), and then ask himself if at is not really wonderful that precisely the same abuses are here spoken of and condemned which still flourish with all their rank vigour,while we are penning these lines. On the Milk of London, in 1767—" Tho milk Itself should not pus lysed , the produce of faded cabba ge l eaves and soar dreff, lowered with hot water, frothed with bruised snails; carried through the streets in open pails. . . ." Here follow some half-dozen ingredients which are pod tiveiy now unprintable. On Bread—" The bread I eat in ; London is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, ' alum, and bone ashes ; insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution. The good people are not ignorant of this adulteration, but they prefer it to ! wholesome bread, because it is whiter than the meal of corn. Thus they sacrifice their taste and their health, and ' the lives of their tender infants, to a most absurd gratifica tion of a misjudging aye; and the miller or the baker is obliged to poison them and their families in order to live by his profession." On Water.—" If I would drink water, I must quaff the mawkish contents of an open aqueduct, exposed te all manner of defilement; or swallow that which comes front the river Thames, impregnated with all the filth of Loudon and Westminster. Human excrement is the least offensive part of the concrete, which is com puted of all the drugs, mineral'', and poisons used in mechanics and manufacture, enriched with the putrefying caresses of beasts and men, and mixed with the scouring. of all the wash-tubs, kennels, and common sewers within the bills of mortality. . . ." On Wine.—" As to the intoxicating potion sold for wine, it is a vile, unpalatable, and pernicious sophistication, balderdethed with cider, corn spirit, and the farce of aloes. In an action at law laid against a airman for having staved a cask of port, it ap peared from the evidence of the cooper that there were not above five gallons of wine to the whole pipe, which held above one hundred, and even that had been brewed , and adulterated by the merchant at Oporto." . On the Government in 1767.—" Ibraham the Ambassador, who had mistaken his Grace" (the Duke of Newcastle ?) " for the minister's fool, was no sooner undeceived by the interpreter, than he exclaimed to this effect: Holy Prophet ! I don't wonder that this nation prospers, see ing it is governed by the counsel of idiots !'—a aeries of men whom all Food Musselmen revere as the organs of immediate hap ration."—Dickena's " Household Ironic" A WOMAN KILLED IN LIVERPOOL.—Thomaa Yates was brought up on Monday before Mr. Statham, deputy coroner, on a charge of murdering Grace Jones, aged 67 run. From th e evidence it appeared th a t th e p r i soner lived with Ellen Stitt, the daughter of the deceased, in 13 court, Horoby-street, Liverpool. The old woman resided in the ''ems house. On Saturday night, between 10 and 11 o'clock, the female Stitt will in a neighbour's house, when the prisoner, who was intoxicated, came in and said to her, " You faggot, have you no supper ready for me ?" She re plied that she had not the means of procuring supper. lie struck her in the fate and kicked her on the floor. The woman then fled into • cellar at the bottom of Largay. street, where she remained some time, but on coming out she was met by the prisoner, who again ill-used her. She then went home, followed by the prisoner. On getting into the house be offered to strike her again, when she ran down into the kitchen, and then went into the street. The prisoner appears to have followed the woman Stitt, but not finding her he returned, and the door was opened for hint by the deceased. He in stantly struck her a blow on the head with hi s fi s t, an d she fell down on her side inside the doorway. The prisoner then seised the deceased by the shoulder, and endeavoured to throw her down the steps, but she caught hold of the handle of the door and struggled with him. Her strength, however, gave way, and the infuriated drunkard succeeded in throwing her down four stone steps into the yard, where she lay seueleis. The prisoner then endeavoured to render assistance, and offered to go for a surgeon ; but ho soon left the place, and was not again seen until Sunday, when he gave himself into custody at the main Bridewell. A surgeon from one of the dispensaries was in attendanee at half-past one o'clock, and found the woman dead. lie subsequently made a post motion examination of the body, and found I that death had been produced by a fracture of the base of the skull. There was a transverse wound on the back of the bead, besides several scalp wounds. The jury returned a verdict of " mans/aughter" against the prisoner, and he was committed to gaol to await his trial at the next anises. —Liverpool Mercury. LIBERALITY OF THE DUKE OF DEVONEIMIRL—We have to record another instance of the prorerbialcoraolty of his Grace the Duke of Devonshire la prom to the ' Very Rev. Dr. Fogarty, the reeposiod pole papa of more, several several acres of land as a burial ground for the ea *elk" of that locality. This is not all, for his grabs at his own expense, intends erecting en this land a b eautiful I Gothic temple, the design of which we have seen,—Cork Reporter. SOUTH EASTERN AND CONTINENTAL sTEAM•PACKET COMPANY. Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders in this company, was held at the Bnagc-houss Hotel, Southwark. JAMES MACCIREOOI4, Beq. , 111. P , took the chair. The Secarrane read the notice convening the re, et'am. The report, which appeared yesterday in the Express 'vid .• r•ed. 1•401 The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he would briefly recapitulate the history of the com pany since its formation. The cost of huildicg the eight vessels was 131,3941. lls. 2d., and the share capitol was 111,2201. ; but a large amount had been laid out during the last eight years out of the profits, in repairs and improve ments. The outlay had been in the substitution of wrought instead of cast iron, in extensive improvement. in the ma chinery and the erection of brass boilers in all their vessels but two. The gross earnings for the half•ycar ending July 31, were 14,28 IL 4s. Bd. A diminution of the working expenses could be brought about if they reduced the speed to ten miles an hour, but it was necessary that the passages between Fulkstone end 13oulogne, should be done quickly and safely. The invitation by the South Eastern Com pany was accompanied by the assurance that they should receive 5 per cent., and be also able to pay a dividend of 6 per cent., subject to increase. This was the induce ment held out, und the actual rate of dividend had been M. 17s. Id. percent. The directors did not at preseut wilt any terms to be adopt. dby the two coni;anies, but taking all things into consideration, they recommend«l tl.n ap pointmeut el a committee of proprietors to be ay.oeiatcil with the board to inter into such Legoeiations a•. would meet with general approbation. Mr. IlatitilLETON cud, on the subject of the directors' muneration, that it had been stated that the connection with Mimi( gne was only a prolongation of the line, and because there was this eaten ion, the director, come for an additional allowance. Ile hoped this would not be pressed by the directors. Mr. WRIGHT said the remuneration was given sifter many years of service. Ile was of opinion that they should be bound to the South Eastern. What had they got to offer that company ? The boats it was true, and a great deal had been spent upon them. They had also at a very considerable sum maintained their trade with the continent. Ile thought the proposition for tie appointment of a com mittee was a good one. Lord TOKISINOTON said he felt it his duty to make tome observations. They must au feel satisfied wi t h the report. The idea of bringing the two companies together was sery valuable. At the first blush he thought they had letter re main where they were. Five gentlemen belonging to this company by meeting five of the Smth.Enstern and going into the matter would secure a guarantee. The general management of thiacompany was highly satisfactory•. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to a question, respem:eg the directors' remuneration being higher than presimi,iy, said it:wes owing to a change that had taken piece. The only question which had arisen was one of moral obligation. lie thought they would get the Post-office contract as no other company could perform that service more efficiently than themselves. lie would move the adoption of the report. The report was seconded, and passed unanimously. The CUMBRIAN then proposed that a dividend, at the rate of 6 per cent., be declared, free of income tax, which, having been seconded, was carried. Also, that the ba lance, 1,1871. 141 Ild., after the payment of the dividend, be carried to the reserve fund. ..... This was also agreed to, and a committee of five gentle men were associated with the directors, for the purpose of negotiating terms for the consolidation of the interests of the two companies. A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman and directors, and the meeting separated, commenced NAVAL ADMIRALTY. SEPT:I6I----APPOININIENTS.—Lieu tenants G. W. E. Lloyd to Termagant ; and J. 11. Crany to Hercules; Mate 11. Burnaby to Marero , A•aistant- Surgeons Dr. T. B. Pomba. to Electra ; and Dr. J. 11..ticIty to Dee; Midshipmen W. Howarth to Electra; and G. T. Purcell to Bstterts; Master', Assistant C. E. li. Farraut to Dee. _ Two SCREW STEAM-FRIGATES, Dauntlees, Captain Halsted, and Highflyer, Captain Matson, ordered to he ready for sea at :pithead yesterday, will proceed at once to Jamaica, there to await the arrival of Vice-Admiral Sir 0. F. Seymour, the commander in-chief of the West Indies. CLERICAL. PREFERMENT. Rev. Thomas Scott Huxley to — Altleby perpetual curacy, Norfolk ; value, 1201. ; patrons, Dean and Chapter of Nor wich. LI ngeitho Rectory, Cardiganshire, diocese St. David's; value 1061. ; patron, Bishop of St. David's ; Rev. Thomas Edwards, deceased. Bettwa-Leike Perpetual Curacy, Cardiganshire, diocese St. David's ; value 601.: patron, the Perpetual Curate of Llandewy-Brevi ; Rev. T. Edwards, deceased. Downham Perpetual Curacy, Lancashire, dioce.e Man chester; value 1201., with residence: patrons, Trustees; 11ev. Philip Abbott, deceased. Rhes-y-Cae Perpetual Curacy, Flintshire, di.,cese St. Asaph : value 60/.: patron, Bishop of St. A.Aph ; Rev. J. E. Davies, promoted. Altrincham Union Chaplaincy; stipend 1001. Oulton Union Chaplaincy, Su ff olk ; salary 40/.; testimo nials before Oct. 2; Rev. 11. G. Salter, resigned. Wortham Union Chaplaincy, Suffolk ; Rev.Hichard Cob. bold, resigned. VlCARAo2.—Kilgelln, diocese of Elfin; patron, Bishop of Kilmore, &c.; Rev. C. B. Swsyne, resignid. NELSON'S FUNERAL.—The enthusiasm of Eng land on the arrival of Nelson's remains from the caul of that peninsula which Wellington soon aftir mule the theatre of, if possible, greater services and exploits during ran of victory, can scarce ho realised or credited at this esine period of European Imaitude and relative repose. The lying in state of the naval warrior's corpse in the Great Hall of Greenwich Hospital on the Bth of January, 1806, was a spectacle of unparalleled interest; and the solemnity of the scene, the crowds thronging by land and water to the bier of the beloved, the tears and wailing of a grateful people, were indicative of the depth and sia cerity of the public sorrow. On the following day along the pathway of the Thames the funeral flotilla moved in slow and impressive procession. The coffin was for a moment deposited at the Admiralty, with ail the ceremo nial that contemporary records delight to describe ; the whole metropolis rose to accompany, as one man, the pro gress to St. Paul's; by torchlight led carriages of the prin cipal mourners kad assembled in Hyde-park, and were marshalled in due order of precedency. All the troops within 100 miles of London were by daylight is at tendance, the Life Guards keeping the line of proces sion. The Prince of Wales, the Dukes of York, Cumber land, and Clarence, Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, Erskine, Wind bam, Hominy, and every man of eminence in the land, were gathered in mourning concourse, and felt it a duty to attend - in the manifestation of general grief. Under the dome of the cathedral, alone in the occupancy of that proud catacomb, in a coffin formed out of the mast of L'Orient, the French admiral's flagship, blown ep in the waters of the Nile, all that was mortal of England's sea champion has for nearly half acentury found a fitting resting-place. Tun OUTLET FOR NORTII AMERICAN SLAVERY. ' —A home is open in Liberia to all free negroes who will accept citizenship there; on his arrival in Liberia, the negro receives an allotment of land, and is supported is • republic of his own nee for the few months that must elapse before the produce of his farm will fern him. . . . The best hopes of a man it is in the power of every free negro to realise, by quitting the soil on which he meets with daily insult, and establishing a true home in Liberia. He does not, however, feel the daily insult; be is acclimatised to the atmosphere of wrong. At the last census there were found to he four hundred and twenty-eight thousand six hun dred and thirty-seven free negroes in the United States; while the negro population of Liberia, proceeding from America, has not yet reached tan thousand auk. . . . The negroes in Liberia consist of the few mt n whose energies; re sisted all the depressing force to which they had been subject in America, end of their children who have grown up under better rule. Small as their number is, the energy with which they have conducted their atDirs, and the in fluence they have exerted on surrounding tribes, are un deniable. The colony has fought with many difficulties, and its promoters have been disappoint( d by the want of interest with which it is regarded by great numbers of the claufor whose advantage it was planned. In 1e47, in con sequence of objections that had been made on the part of England to imposts levied upon British vessels in Liberia, and the assertion that such rights of levying duties co u ld not be conceded to a privateanoeistion in men, however it might otherwise be worthy of respect,—the Colonisation Society of the United States decid e d on a b an d on i ng t h e land altogether to the negro emigrants, reserving only the space necessary for the further purposes of emigration, and a tax for the nurposes of education. Liberia, therefore, on the 24th of August in that year, hoisted its own flag, and started with &constitution of its own in the characte r of a free negro republic. p The Americans, the English, and the French, all heartily supported the new cat.. Conflicting accounts have been given of its present condition ; it ap pears, however, to be fairly established, and to pi +owe to the utmost of its means. The eight or ten thouaut civi lised negroes from America exert their influence upon three hundreu thousand natives who are living on Liberian soil, consenting to the laws and customs of their civilised society. Fifty thousand have learnt English, schcols abound, and the number of Christians is increasing every month. The Liberians grow coffee and cocoa, export palm oil, camwood, ivory, rice, gold dust, and other things; their port of Mon rovia being tolerably familiar with ships. There is, of course, room fur mach growth ; their farms are at present little more than country gardens, and they are under the disadvantage of not yet haying succeeded in the attempt to maintain horses or oxen in their country. The resourcesof the two colonies of Liberia, and Maryland in Liberia, have been so limited, that, little as they may have done, they do serve full credit for the achievement of remarkable results. —Dickens's " Household Words." AN IMMENSE PENDULUM, hung within Bunker Hill Monument, has led to the knewlcage of • variety of interesting facts. Among them Is one which we we given en the authority ot Professor Horsford, of liervard College, stating that the monument swings backwards and forwards like • pendulum every day. By an apparatus, which it is 111500•18ary to describe, it has been ascertained that there is a very slight but perceptible movement in the morning to the westward, at noon to the northward, and in the evening to the east. It is caused by the unequal expan sion of the sides of the monument by the heat of the can. What confirms it is, that • shower suddenly cooling one aide, also produces • movement. —.Kew Fork l'ribune.