The Express. — London, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

Vty Court. • WINDSOR, Nov 14. The Duke and Durbesa of Brabant, attended by the Url.oan Minieter and the Count and Count.es Gustave de lenooy, left WISIIOOI tut evening by the Great Western *Wetly for Plymouth. The earl of ClArcudon ieft the Castle to•day for Loados. Lord E:phialltolle bad an audience of the Queen. A deputation from the parish of AU Saints, Poplar, rela tor to clooing the churchyard, transacted buaint sa pater day at the llonie.othee. The deputation conaisted of the Ber 1. T. Basely (rector), Messrs. John Carter, Samuel K. Charles Darling and Edward Coleman (veatry • nd r Cuss. C. Clte (vestry clerk) The (foram t,,a intro M duced be Mr. ee thas. S. Butler,. M.P. 04 Earl of Clarendon on in town yesterday from a vivo to ter *tit sty at Windatir Castle. v....patches were received at the Colenial.office yesterday tremolo Governor of Bermuda. Dispatches were seat yesterday to the Governors of the Cape of Good Mope and lier Mujesty the Queen, hearing of the very b to y „rein up ► the fund. of the Shipwrecked Fisher men And Menace.' 11uyal Benevolent Society, consequent s p u u late disevrous gales, hes with her accustomed liist . r .iry ye...muted this vulauhle institution, of which she ramp, with the sea of 100 guineas. The Austrian Ambassador at St. Petersburg, Count Memdos if Pouilly, now at Vis ring will, it is raid, shortly return to St. re call . f the purpooe of deli •g an impart letter of recall. Count Valentine Esterhasy, at present Austrian Ambassador at Munich, is spoken of as their hsble future Austrian Ambassador at the Court of St. Peter, meg. )I.ljur lierbert Edwardes is spoken of in India as the pr ,bahle successor to Colonel Marks:ton, lately assassi nated at PiIbIIWUT. I.ord Fullerton has retired from the Scotch bench. The Rev. When. Vincent Sheldon has been appointed to the curacy of St. Matthias Church, Liverpool, as the n omination of the Venerable Jonahan Brooks and the Bev. Augustus Campbell, rectors of Liverpool. DEATH OF MR. THOMASSON, IN INDIA. To TUE EDITOY Of TUE MIMI. Colonel 11 ar hewn deserved the brilliant repute ties which be enjoyed, but his loss will be far mote easily sepplied to the State than that of a man like Mr.Thomasoon. to latter was engaged throughout his eminently useful carcet—not in gaining great victories, nor in ithilfully de• finding the frontiers of India against the intrigues and amoults of foreign states, but in the most laborious, and, at the man dine, the most direct work of civilisation—the work of organises( end dinning civil government. The fruit of his labours is to be sought, not in conquered, but in &went territories, not is the annexation, but us the tram• cid, lightly taxed, wall organised prosperity of large pro. TM so. Techaical trudges, caviare to any but the goinchir and magistrate, bet to him invaluable and in dispen•sble; compendious nimeseries of the fundamental ringlike and minute details of agrarian law ; comprising is • modest, unpretending form the mules of the esp.. eines and the study of a lifetime. Seth are the solid memorials which the late Governor of Agra leaves behind him—the reputation (than which none is more noble) of a useful man. The religious world will hear with sad interest of the premiere death of that "little James" whose early peo nies Y recorded in the biography of the elder Thomism.; tile friss& of ladle will feel that the sou bashers set less truly a " nimiosery to India " than the father was ; the olkial drone in India will acknowledge that the beet of their number is gone from them; and, not least, the satires of lints sill pay the highest possible tribute to his memory is regretting the loss of a man in whose person the British 'ewer in Indio waned the aspect—not, as is too frequently the ease, of terror and conquest—but of law, of order, of peaceful sad girdisiag site. A. " JUSTICE" IN NAPLES. TO TNT IWITOR OF THI =FITTS. Stz,—We Lae MI a defiant meet, the grapes ea entire failsre,lesie tai, mrevammes, provisions dm, and the people without mailapasat ; political state of the Neatly gloomy and tessiolffsil. sad • government Meat either energy or new ; se pen may fancy what a plum{ prospect we have for the winter. I will give you a bor anecdotes of our paternal aim pushing that they are all facts, which I tan myself wash he. On the 13th Do. camber, 1861, in the evening a party of the keepers at Pompei (a low set) were drinking in • tavern near the street of the tombs, one of these, • man of very bad chit rater and notoriously • spy, got exceedingly drunk. About sine at night, he left the place, intending to go home, tie seat day his wife sent to inquire for him. He was nowhere to be found. Day after day passed, and still no tidings. At last, in the afternoon of Christmas eve, when the millers had opened the aluiusgstes to let the water pass, an un fortunate mai, of the name of Domenico Scarps, observed • dead body jammed between the lower part of the slobs and the bed of the mill-dem. Notice was immediately given to the manager of the planless, and by him to the judge, who came down. An inqasst was held and method evidence heard. It wan declared, list, that it was the missing keeper; secondly, that the cause of his death had been apoplexy. The judge made his report accordingly. Meanwhile the whole affair had been told to the kis& but giving quite a different Ironies : that a mass swims g steadied to hie majesty, and who had at different them bens eminestly surviseable in giving useful informatics, hut been waylaid, murdered, and thrown into the dam, by parties unknown, bat doubtless belonging to the liberals; that the judge had been suborned, the opinion of the medical men false, and the witnesses perjured. An seder was sent by the king himself to rehear and reopen the in quest, appointing a new judge extruallaary ; the meillesl men were imprisoned, and the foveae judge (Ouistial) sent to • atiesselste village in • distant province, as • punish. mat. A new process was opened, every mimes tokenising and unjust ; intimidation and torture ; 32 parsons intpritsasi for upwards of a year on stupid's, sad were treated with such severity that two died is sensequesse, wee Ise hie eight, and another thew at Ids limbs ; nothing, hew. ever, meld be discovered. There was nothing to dieseenr, the real !scabies that the man, in going home, died hem the sleet of • et, increased by the effect of his smosnire drunkenness. He had had gawks peerlessly. The sent morning he was found dead by one of the country peeple. who, to prevent suffering any annoyance, throw Ida late the dam; the current of the water carried him down to the liaises, when be remained unit the millers went to Ist off tie yew, as I have already stated. What has been the malt ? The judge who gowned rightly is still in Apish whereas the ether, who was the caws of the deaths et Sew individuals, of misery, and the author of the torture awl bereavement to thirty others, illegally keeping them in prima, in order to second the views of • political party, has been nude judge of the Supreme Criminal Court of Nelda, I hare not here exaggerated • fact, nor written • Oft which Ido not myself know. I and you my name. Yours, tc., A READER IN ITALY. N spies, Oct. 72. LYNCH LAW IN MISSOURI. Obadiah Wingo was summarily executed at Rich mond, Mo., by the populace, on the 15th October for the murder of a very estimable citizen, byname Benj. R. Allen. On the morning of the 12th, Mr. Allen, in company with a friend, arrived in town, and, while yet on horseback, was accosted in an insolent manner byWingo, who, gun in hand, told him he must retract instanter what he had said about him. Allen replied in a calm and mild manner that he was not aware of anything derogatory to his character, sad desired to be informed of what he bad referred to, at the semi time requesting hint not to be too rash, whereupon Wingo, +Mout more ate, coned him and said, " I'll make you rennet," and on the instant fired, blowing off the whole top of Allen's bead. The exciting sanese of the hanging of Wingo by the mob are thus given indignation of the whole community being so strong against him that so lawyer would volunteer his services, the court as signed him able counsel, and appointed Friday for the trial. When the can came up, the prisoner wished his conned to move for a change of venue. His counsel advised him not to make such a motion, stating that if the motion was eas tward he would certainly be taken by a mob, and hanged without trial. Hereupon be dismiend his counsel, and us• dertook the management of his own case. He then ordered • subpana for Mrs. Allen, the lady of the man whom he had murdered, evidently supposing that her deep distress prevent her attendance in court. The eubpcena wee, however, granted; but whether the attendance of Mrs.' Allen was procured or not we did not learn. He next stated to the court that he bed learned, from experience in crimi nal courts, that the law required that the prisoner should be furnished with a panne) of the venire that was to decide upon his ease, forty-eight hours before the commencement of the trial. This requirement of the law not having been complied with, he demanded a continuance of the case until the next March Term. At this paint of the proceedings the multitude being satisfied that bandy design was relay, with an intention to make his daterminedto take the law into their own hands, and the sailerable wretch from the court, immediately SALISBURY BOROUGH ELECTION. SALISBURY, MONDAY. To-day being fixed for the nomination oldie can didatat who have offered themselves fur the teat rendered vacant by the dealt. of Mr. Baring_ Will, the city was astir at an early hour, and active preparations were made for the proceedings, which excited considerable i throughout the city. The candidates—Major General Buckley, of New Hall, _ _ . . . dad Capt. 'alias Reberts—saet their friends at their mpeetirs committed moms, and ward escorted by them to the biotin', which were erected is the market place. Here they were met by the mayor and other officials. The MATOZ addreMed some Oben'Vltloo.ll to the multi hide, in which he paid a high tribute of respect to the me mory of Mr. Baring Wall, and then 'spewed a hope that the proceedinp would be conducted with ceder and impar tiality, and that each gentleman would meet with a fair and patient hearing. He then asked Many elector had a candidate to propel, whereupon Dr. Fisica Buckley; but the confusion which prevailed at this moment p ed scarcely • word of his address being heard. The nomination having been seconded by Mr. FAW- Mr. MILTON came forward and proposed Captain Roberts, which was seconded by Mr. GOULD. Major• General 131:CILLBT then came forward, but was greeted with such loud expressions of disapprobation as to make it difficult for him to be heard. Re said that he was a supporter of the present government ; for when Lord Aber deen took office last year he pronounced it to be liberal and conservative. It was for this reason that he should support it : it was conservative because it knew well how to value that glorious constitution which is our country's boast ; it was liberal beeline it entertained those measures of propos 'ion which the country required—its members gave due consideration to the voice and feelings of the people, whilst they were at the same time supporting our glorious constitu tion, and making it advantageous to the country at large. (Cheers.) lie would ask them to lock at the state of the Continent a few years since—he would invite them to con sider what a miserable condition it was in. And why did this state of things exist ? Simply because the energies of the people were prostrated through having no constitution upon which they could rely to duly consider their wants and necessitise—whilst in this country, at stated times, an appeal could be made to the electors, who had it in their power to return as representatives those who would well and usefully consider those measures which would tend to advance their interests and promote their welfare. (Ap plause.) This was one of the greatest benefits which at tached to the constitution of this country. He would my that he gloried is each a constitution, and nothing would induce him to commit any act that would have a tendency to impair it ; bat, on the contrary, he would use his utmost seating to increase its efficiency. (Cheers.) He would do everything in his power to promote the welfare and prosperity of the city. He had supported their different railways ; he had snorted himself in favour of the Warminster line, and he hoped soon to witness its completion. (Cheers.) He bad been told that they were in want of a market house. That object should not only have hie support, ►ut also his pecuniary ' assistance. (Loud cheers and waving of hats.) He had not been influenced by any feelings of personal ambition or ag grandisement in offering himself to their notice, and would only assure them that if they returned bins as their repre sentative be would be a zealous and efficient servant, not only for this constituency, but also for the country at large. (Cheers.) _ _ _ Captain ROSIIITS then stood forward, and said he stood before them, young as he wee, to fight for their liberty sad for his owe hones, in this cause. He tome into the field openly to fight this battle, and to continue it to the last. He came forward with that independence of spirit and ear nestness of purpose which would prove to them that he was an basest man. Some people had said that he was an adventu rer • sad so he was, for his whole life had been an adventure, ▪ happy sae, too, of progress and soccer. When he sum to this tatty he band a vacancy likely to occur in its yornmalntles b r t e death of Mr. Baring Wall—a gon dola's millilleibuss his many geed qualities they could ass Mb* is Rivet ; sod he would assure them that if theliblMOMPOil him with their confidence he would endea vour MD equal him in all his virtues, and to do ill snob non good as possible. (Cheers and uproar.) TM malt of even a single day's canvass proved to him that the "screw"—and a very pretty little instrument it we--was In operation, and that there was a probability of Oa drain " rending in that aloe little spot called Irbiertes," being canoed and their votes taken from him to support his opponent's gauss. (Cheers and uproar.) He felt that they required an independent member; and that the only way to bring about such • result was by their being independent themselves—independent in their voice and their votes. He wished to go into parliament as an is. dependent man ; and he believed that if he had not come for ward the city would never hays been free from the " pocketed" state into which it had fallen. (" Oh, Oh !" and laughter.) There was a probability that Del •re twelve months had elapsed they would Uvulae deuce of returning another member to parliament, sad all he asked at their heads was this—to sleet Dim for that period, and then turn him out if he did not fulfil every pledge he had given. It had bees mated that he had come forward for the pur pose of producing a " split " in the liberal camp, but he (haled the accusation. If he carried this election it would not he achieved by any split of political faith, but by • split in the feelings of the electors as to who was the beet man. It had been said—and that is perfect keeping with the , trickery*, which it had bees attempted to turn him out of this place—that he had no property qualification ; but the thief, was altogether aboard. If he did not posies, the necessary qualification he should not have some forward. If they elected him, sad if only 60 voters at any time found fault with him, he would resign at saes. (Cheers.) IJpos • show of hands being taken, the majority was declared to be is favour of Captain Roberts, a declaration which called faith several rounds of hearty cheering from the 'anent saptain's biocide. • poll wee they desseaded ea behalf of General Buckley, which is to take place this day (Tuesday), and the assembly than dispersed. ~ BACKING OUR FRIENDS." THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1853. THE CHOLERA. __ 4 ,-- (Prom the Onoral Dowd of NW , Nov. IL) The returns from the divisions D L ki T of the Metropolitan Police and the Thames division give 13 new Mel and 8 deaths. On the 11th inst. Dr. Milroy had an interview with the guardians of St. Saviour's Union upon the subject of the public health of the parish. For some weeks put the number of deaths from cholera in this and the adjoining districts has been steadily on the increase. The Sanitary Committee have been ener getically at work in the removal of surface nuisances, and hue organised a staff for the inspection of every house in the unwholesome localities; but the con dition of the sewerage is alleged to frustrate their labours more seriously than any other cause. Par ticular mention wu made of one sewer which was declared to be full up to the arch with deposits seve ral feet in depth, and exhaling at various points the most poisonous effluvia. The incurably bad state of the dwellings of the poor in many of the courts and streets in St. Saviour's parish, is another grave difficulty with which the guardians have to contend ; for they complain that they have no power to deal summarily with such property. Dr. Milroy urged the appointment of two addi tional medical officers, and advised the board to pro vide a place of refuge for the reception of the inmates of such houses as might require to be thinned or emptied altogether. _ LUTON. _ _ _ _ In consequence of a severe outbreak of cho lera, an inspector of the General Board of Health has visited this town. Luton (says Mr. Lee) is pro- bably one of the moat thriving towns in the king dom. The population is said to have doubled since 1841 ; and although 800 or 700 houses have been erected since the last census, there is still a great de mand. Ths relieving officer says :—" There is not a cellar dug out but there is an applicant for the isnnre " All the natural circumstances connected with the niece are highly favourable to health. There are no mining operations, scarcely any machinery, and the atmosphere over the town is almost as free from smoke, and looks as pure, as that of a small country village. The greater part of the staple trade consists in the sewing of bonnets. In this operation men, women, and children are engaged, and the work is mostly done at their own homes. There was no cholera in Luton either in 1832 or 1849, nor ought there to have been now, but for the neglect of almost every precaution and arrangement connected with the preservation of health and life. The Public Health Act was supplied on petition of the inhabitants in 1840. The local board consists of nine members. At the first election there were two lists of candi dates, consisting of nine each, and locally distin guished as the" clean party" and the " dirty party." The "dirty party" was at first triumphant, but at the last election three of the five vacancies were filled up by the friends of sanitary improvement. The relieving officer and district registrar accounts for the apparent anomaly of the original composition of the board by saying that "the poor people were driven to vote for such candidates by the owners of cottage property. Mr. Sibley, the owner of Adelaide terrace (the place where nearly all the deaths from cholera have taken place), and of much more cottage property in a bad sanitary condition, was one of the first of the local board. He must have about 100 cot tages in the town. He and one or more persons could command sufficient votes to swamp the town. Every influence was used to get in a class of men that would do nothing; and there cannot be a doubt that the sanitary state of the town is worse than before the act was applied. The whole of the new property has, until lately, had dumb wells made to drain into. Those are intended to percolate away to the chalk ; and the water the people have to drink is drawn from the chalk." _ _ _ Mr. Lee adds, that when he attended the meeting of the local boardhe read to them the verdict agreed to at a recent inquest, in which the jurors found " that the local Board of Health had been extremely neg ligent in not carrying out the powers given to them by virtue of certain acts of parliament Mr. Henry Brown, the chairman, said in reply, that a majority of the board had been elected pledged by the ratepayers not to expend money in large works; and therefore he felt that the board was not responsible, but that they threw the responsibility back upon their constituents. He admitted, how ever, that great influence was used at the elections to bias the ratepayers. Mr. Lee, after giving a number of details, thus summarises the statistics of Adelaide-terrace, already referred to : " There are 33 houses (8 empty and 25 occupied) and 128 inmates. There have been 64 cases of choleraic disease in three weeks, and 16 deaths ; so that the mortality in three weeks is equal to 119 in a thousand. At the same rate, the whole population would be destroyed within six months. Mr. Sibley's property at Adelaide-terrace is a terrific proof of the power of filth, and also of the extent to which so awful a disease as cholera may be localised. On three sides, at least, this property is enclosed by other buildings, many of them houses. I inquired, but could not ascertain that there had been a single cue of the disease in any of the untiring. property." CROOK, NEAR BISHOP AUCKLAND. Dr. Waller Lewis visited on Thursday last this colliery village, in which there have occurred 9 deaths of cholera and lof diarrhoea. The place is stated to abound in unissued, the habits of the pitmen being dirty in the extreme. " Wherever I go (says Dr. Lewis) the poor people complain bitterly of the want of doinesticconveniences,and the consequent impossi bility of keeping their abodes clean or sweet. This great evil is evidently caused by the total absence of regulations as to buiMing. Nothing effectual will be done to remove the mischief until it is made illegal to let house for human habitation without provisions for health, decency, and comfort. This appears to be the greatest desideratum fur nearly all the towns in the north. In company with the clerical, medical, and other local authorities, I inspected a house in which 6 deaths have occurred, and 3 other persons were attacked but recovered, making 8 cases out of 13 inhabitants. This is one of hundreds of examples of the direct connexion between sanitary evils and disease. The churchyard is full to repletion. The village green, instead of being a lthy rendezvous for the recreation of the children, is made the meeting place for the open sewers that contain the drainage of a great number of the houses, and the air there is always tainted with noxious effluvia. The Public Health :Act is much wanted, and I think the inhabitants are very anxious for its application. The board of guardians of Bishop Auckland have resolved to meet occasionally at Crook. Blum? AIICILAND.—The local Board of Health have now at their disposal a sufficient scavenging staff, and it is to be hoped that the streets of this town, containing a magnificent episcopal palace, will not present much longer the disgraceful appearance described in a report made at a recent inspection. ELT.—The local Board of Health are stated to be at work most efficiently ; but from the low situation of parts of the town many things must remain in their present condition till the house sewerage is connected with the main drains. No deaths have occurred for the last few days. &max.—The active exertions of the sanitary committee, together with the house to house visita tion, and the more favourable weather, appear to have entirely checked the spread of the disease, at any rate for the present. On the 12th and 13th there were three fatal cases. DUNDEE.—The medical arrangements, it is stated, are now complete. There are three ordinary medical officers who act as superintendents of their respective districts. There are five extraordinary medical offi cers, eight qualified house-to-house visitors, and four city missionaries engaged in addition as lay visitors, and in giving information and assistance. On the 10th and 11th instant there were 9 deaths from cholera. FoarAß.—On the two former visitations of cholera this town was exempt from the pestilence, but, there have been already nine ouss of the disease, five of which have been fatal. On the 9th instant a powerful man was seized about eleven o'clock, and died in five hours. ARDROATIL—One fatal case of cholera having occurred the acting committee of the Board of Health have to request Dr. Gavin to promo the services a or e t e N l v i o medical students as home to house visitors. Two of the medical officers have been specially appointed to go through the town, and 1 under authority of the Genera Board of Health Iv' TO THI 710IT01_0. TON TITUS/. Su,—Through anei;di;seldys ifficetiOn of words we have a$ lest amnd at the knowWge of the fact—eat by oar own promise of ream bat by the practical logie of As Tarim, accepted by the Sw , orn of Rasaia—that war is What we sent want to undernead is the meaning of the words " backing our fried.." Racking out of our pro mises of support is ell that we pramieelly know to the m oat moment. Had am the Turk, poor fellow, felt a kind of muss at the draught we prepared for him at Visas., he would sew be in anima; mortis, from th e penman quality of the mixture, and our wor thy selves and Frame acting as pall-bearer at hie fussed, while Russia, his chief mourner, apprepriated his inbaritesce. Sir, good fortes* has saved him, and unmasked his friends. For very sheme's sake their fleets have bees obliged at last to show themselves at his capital. Is the meantime, to the weeder Of these Meade, he beats his enemy is the held, and they immediately tell him, with great skewing, however, that he is strong 'sough to do without their maltase& _ . They are but too glad to throw over all their preconceived notions of hie weakens, sad to Judge of his power by his lint success. They had hoped that he would have been beaten, and that the satisfied pride of Me conqueror would have accorded him tonne that would have saved their honour sad released their weed, without greatly damaging him. Foiling this mode of escaping from their promises, they teas refuge in the other alternative, that he can do without them. It is certainly a novel mode of " backing your friends," and it may be orthodox, bat I cannot =der stand it, and, like the net of the English public, would be thankful for an interpretation of it more consonant to oar notices of fidelity and honour.—l am, de., London, Nov. 12. AN ENGLISHMAN. 66 LIVINGS" FOR SALE. TO !NI TIMOR OP PRI ISPZESII._ 15siorilehsevieireceiiiiiiiraern the attention of the bishops anti, the laity to the grow scandal of selecing aged and infirm incumbents for vacant livings, independent of the offence is the eyes of God of making such a choice for the guardianship of Christ's church. The real and only motive is an opprobium to any Christian country,namely, to make the most money in the sale of cures of souls. The recto ry of Roughens be. just been so filled up with an Invalid of 88, in spite of Mr. Osborne's remarks as to this very living. It is also notorious that many of these aged individuals have often the greatest difficulty in reading themselves in. A few years ago the same thing occurred in a parish adjoining Brighton (Ovingdean). A clergyman was selected who was quite unable from infirm ity to do his own duty in his own parish, at 80 years of age, after it had been offered sad declined by a more aged and wealthy clergyman, in which the more a man is bodily in capacitated for his parish duties, the better is it for the sale, as in all probability his tenure of the living and its profit* will be short, sad the purchaser the sooner obtain possession. There is something so anti-Christian and un holy in the whole proceeding, that the especial attention of the governing powers of the church should be directed to some decisive measures for its discontinuance. A CHURCHMAN WHO DISLIKES BEING BOUGHT AND HOLD LINZ A SOWN. Nov. IL THE STRIKES. (ram ors Loral. SPONDIUIT.) WIOAN, hIoNDAY.. The black faces of the colliers are re-appearing in the street, and the reports from all the collieries encourage' the opiaion that the strike is at an *ad. A report from Police-Inspector Gillett, of the county constabulary, to the chief °mutable at Wigs., this morning, sap:—" The whole of the ctilliers at Slackrod, Haigh, and Aspull, have resumed work, except those of lir. Thickness., M.P., and they resume work to-morrow." The Welsh colliers have been sent back by Lord Bilearm to the priatipality, to pre vent say ill-feeling between thorn and the late turn-outs. About 60 men have resumed this morning at MOSS Hall, and 50 at Kirkleee Hall. A portion of the colliers at Mr. Taylor's, sad Mr. Taylsar's colliers at Standish, went in this morning, and to-morrow morning about 600 resume at the Ines Hall Colliery. These various parties will embrace • very lugs proportion of the turn.oste. The colliers appear un willing to present themselves in bodies, but visit the pit• banks, and hang about them, until asked by the seder looker if they are disposed to go down. On pick and shovel being offered to them, but few have been found to resist the temptation; but, without this offer, there would be a harrier to the negotiation, because most of the colliers have sold or pledged their own tools. The factory workers have made no sign. Mr. Eckersley's mill was opened this morning, to give an opportunity of returning to work, and a few presented themselves, but net a sufficient number to enable the machinery to run to ad vantage, and the gates had to be closed again. The cavalry were withdrawn from Wigan, nal returned to Manchester on Saturday, and two companies of the 34th Regiment returned to barracks at Preston, leaving only two companies in this borough. An address to the factory hands has been issued by the gentlemen who interested themselves in the strike last week, with a view to bringing about a reconcilia tion between employer, and operatives: THE PRESTON LOCH-OUT. PRESTON, MoNDAY. A large meeting of the factory operatives of this town was held this morning in the Orchard, under the presidency of Mr. Lax°, of Blackburn. The amount brought in by the weavers' delegates yesterday was stated to be about 1,9501., rather lees than last week, but this was accounted for by the fact that in several districts from which contributions are received, the hands are only paid once a fortnight; their money will come in next Sunday. .. Mr. Ono. Covrixt said he should rejoice to bring this unfortunate dispute to an amicable termination if we had power to settle it with the advance of wages paid on the lot of March last. He did nut know whether the people were tired of play or not ; but he was perfectly sensible of the fact that suffering, privation, and misery must be felt to an alarming extent where such a strike as this existed in the heart of a manufacturing town. It was for the sake of the little ones and old people that he would, if he hod it in his power, close this unfortunate dispute. After giving en account of his week's tour, the speaker proceeded to criticise an article which appeared in the Times of Tuesday He concluded by saying,—With all due deference to the editor of the Times, let me tell him that so far as the weavers are concerned, we have never during the whole of this struggle asked • single millocrat to hold conference with any man from another town. We have invariably seat their own hands to meet them—not strangers• We have sent these whose interests are identical with the inte rests of the masters. But how have they been met 7 When a deputation waited upon Messrs. Swainson, worsted masters—a deputation composed of their own hands—not a stranger amongst them—not an operative working in any other mill in Preston—their own weavers were Ana ad- dressed :—" We don't know you. Where have you come from I" When a deputation from the hands of Mears. Taylor, Water-lane, waited upon their employers, what was their answer ? They were literally driven from the place ; they would hold no conference with them: And then there is Mr. Miller, the great champion of the millocracy of Preston,—this Mr. Miller would never say that say man from any other town inter fered between him and his operatives. The work has been done entirely between his own men and himself. He gave them the advance ; they were perfectly Whiled ; they were working peaceably and quietly, and yet notwithstanding I that, he has turned them into the streets to beg, to starve, or to do as they like. And, mark yen, it is not unionists merely who have been thus , treated ; there were no " re volten "at the Canal-street mill. Not a card-room hand there ever paid a peony to the union ; cob one spinner ever contributed ; and yet he has turned them out, and they have no support from the union or any where else. (Cries of " dhlate.") Another month and we pledge ourselves to give you de. a week. Go on, then, peaceably, orderly, and quietly, end you may depend upon it victory is ours ; and by and bye, British artisans will not only sing in public. houses andjerry-shops, " Britons never will be slaves," bat it shall be so in reality. (Great cheering.) Mr. Brown, Mr. Walton, and Mr. Grintsbw, also ad dressed the meeting, which lasted about two hours. DRAMA. HAYM.&BIEET. The Lady of Lyons was performed at this theatre last night. Mrs Reynolds appeared far the Ant time is the part of Parise Desehappelles, and Mr. G. Vandesboff in that of Claude Monate. Both were highly ssecerfal; and Weed we have rarely seen this beautiful play—its author's masterpiece, and one of the brightest gems of the Zuglish stage—more effectively represented. Mir Rey nolds gave a charming picture of the haughty beauty, and Mr. Vaadenhoff sustaiaed the character of the humble bat aspiring lover with spirit, manliness, and feeding. The nisei* scenes made a great impression ; that especially in which the pass wife, her pride and rrestment quite dissolved in primate len, parts, as she thinks, for ever from her repentant husbaad ; sad the Aar senor of truer port when they are re-united. Not only in them moetaffoot lag perages, bat throughout the whole play, both performers wen warmly applauded, and likewise when dry mass forward alter the conclusion of the piece. This is the walk is whirr Mr. Vaadenhoff A best qualified to skin. We doubt if his powers an adequate to the Miranda& tra gedy ; but in high sad elegant comedy, in which seem of dowries life are streagthesed by sentiment and passion, we are convinced that be has so superior an the stage. Still, however, his acting of this kind is not faultless. In the lighter seises last evening, la was not sufficiently 'soy ; he was too forage, too dealamatiry, too much is the style of the buskin. This made some parts of Claude Melnotte's earlier segues a little slow and heavy; but is the scenes of nap sad passion he left nothing to be desired. The other prisaipal characters were well supported by Howe, Chip 'gads's, Bern, Mn. Stanley, and Mrs. Poplar ; and this Haymarket performance of Ties Lady of Lyons is truly a dramatis treat of a very high order. ADELPHI. A stew farce, entitlad Whitebait at Greenwich, was produced hen last night, with entire and deserved nose, Mr. Benjamin Buzzard (Mr. Garden) and his sister Miss Lucretia (Mrs Leigh Murray) are both secretly married, the former to their domestic Sally (Miss Fanny Maskell), tie latter to their lodger, Mr. Glimmer (Mr. Selby.) I Neither dare avow their marriage, as the discovery would involve the transference of some property, expected from an aunt, from the married to the unmarried party. The servant Sally, being out of favour with Miss Lucretia from the marked attentions paid her by the supposed bachelor brother, has received notice to quit from the indignant sister, and is to be replaced by a young man who presents himself, in the person of one John Small (Mr. Keeley.) Now this John Small happens unfortunately to have been for merly waiter at the Crown and Sceptre at Greenwich, where Buzzard and his Sally and Glimmer and his Lucretia had (each pair unknown to the other), spent the day of their surreptitious marriages. Small has no recollection of the parties, but by a series of most amusing and well sus tained ertspoques, is supposed by each to be in possession of their secret, which be is bribed on all sides not to betray. Small has his own secret too—he is in search of a father, his only clue to whom is that his christian name is Besjamin and that he stands 5 feet 7in his stockings. Fully possess ed with the notion that he shall one day find this parent, he carries with him a measuring tape; and no sooner does he hear that Mr. Buzzard is a Benjamin, than be applies his measure, and !lading the height to be the required 6 feet 7, immediately assumes that he has found hie long-lost parent. Here ensues • fresh imbroglio; and the fun is sustained to the uttermost until all Janice are enlightened, the pair of marriages confessed, and brother and sister agree to keep each other's secret from their anti-connubial aunt. The Ism abounds in comic situations, and the mystification and perplexity are very cleverly sustained throughout. It was acted with gnat spirit and vivacity on all hands. Keeley's bewilder ment on finding himself the supposed depositary of un known secrets was only equalled by his ludicrous outburst of filial affection on the application of his measuring tape. The piece was gives out for repetition every evening amidst unanimous approbation, and will doubtless have a ram. It is frost the pea of L. Kaddisea Norton. platioas order the immediate removal of every otuaance. LIEKCALDY.—Nov. 11. Death—Cholera, 1. E. Dllll.—Nov. 11. Death —Diarrhoea, 1. Itammraw.—Nov. 13. Death—Cholera. 1 301eLFATON.—Nov.12. Death—Cholera, 1. Letcr.arta.—Nov. 12. Death—Cholera. I. NAVAL. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 14 A - —Lieu tenante B. Wilmot,to the Excellent, gunnery-ship, at Ports mouth ; and T. M. F. Bond, to the Royal George, 120, screw steam-ship, at Sheerness. Matea-8. P. Brett (1862), to the Duke of Wellington, 130, screw steam-ship, of 780-horse power,st Plymouth ; C. E. 8. Woodman (1851), J. B. Michell, and A. Broadhead ( 1862 ), to the Princess Royal, 90, screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth ; W. Codriogton, to the Excellent ;C. W. Buckley (1861), A. R. Wright (1852), H. D. Grant, and' R. Adams, to the Royal George ; N. J. Morphy, to the l'uturs, 6, paddle-wheel steam-frigate,ol47o.horie power,at Deronport ; W. Pauli (1852), to the Rifleman, 8, screw steam gun vowel, of 100-horse power, at Woolwich ; C. Smith, to the Hogue, 60, steam guard-ship, of 450-horse power, at Devonport ; E. Hankinson, to the Desperate, screw steam-sloop, of 400-horse power, at Devonport; T. F. F. Studdert, to the Prince Regent, 90, flag•ship, at Spithead ; A. L. Galbraith (1851), to the Arrogant, 47, screw steam-frigate, of 360-horse power, at Portsmouth ; J. B. Creaigh (1852), to the St. Jean d'Acre, 100, screw steam-ship, of 650. horse power, at Portsmouth; W. F. Gollock (1852), to the Stromboli, 6, paddle-wheel steam sloop, of 280-horse power, at Portsmouth ; and E. J Richards, to the Magicienne, 16, paddle-wheel steam rigid°, of 400-horse power, at Devonport. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 14.—The Vice-Chancellor having I appointed Wednesday, the 16th inst., for the election of • clerk to the perpetual curacy of Acton Round, has given notice that the hours of polling will be from 10 to 11 cm., and from 3to 4 p.m. The candidates are—the Rev. Simeon Taylor Bartlett, LL.D., the Acv. Gregory Bateman, the Rev. John Cooke, the Rev. John Gibson , the Rev. Willie= ILinghton, the Rev. George Hughes, the Rev. Martin Jolley, the Rev. Thomas Rowley, D.D., the Rev. William Tyson, and the Rev. John Prendergast Walsh. The testi monials of the candidates, which have been sent in to the Vice-Chancellor, will be on the Registrar's table for SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.—MONDAY. Many subscribers having left town for Shrewsbury, the muster at .. The Corner" was very scanty, and only a small amount of business was transacted. SHREWSBURY HANDICAP. 7to 2 egst Mr. Howard's Little Harry (t) 12 to 1 Mr. W. Palmer's Goldtlnder (t) 14 to 1 Mr. Bazou's Cleveland (t) COLUMN HANDICAP. 7to 1 apt Mr. Copeland's Kiteßyer (t) Bto 1 Mr. Palmer's Catherine Parr (t) 9to 1 Mr. Moseley, jun.'s., Alone* (t) 9to 1 Mr. Howard's Nerve (t) DERBY. 800 to 100 apt Mr. R. R. Cooper's Autocrat (t) 900 to 100 Bayou Rothschild's Kiog Tom (t) 400 to 10 Mr. Graville's Berms (t) 2000 to 50 Mr. Waterworth's Neville (t) 1000 to 16 Mr. St. George's Bro to Chanticleer (t) 20 to 1 Autocrat's winning the Derby and Meteor. the Oaks (t) THI SCAZW CA.I AT ETIION.—The committee of Tat tersall's are of opinion that the steward of Epsom Autumn Steeplechases has no power to declare the bets void ; they must therefore be paid.. ALTCAR COURSING MEETING (CONCLUDED). SIIPTON Sumac. —Deciding Course: Mr. Georp's r d Celt by his Exchequer out of Mr. Coupe's Handy beat Mr. Ardern's bl d Man by his Marquis out of his boggy, and won the stakes. CROITITH StAxim.—Deeiding Coarse: Mr. RandeU's r b Remembrance by Mr. Lo 's Lynn out of Mr. Randell's sister to Ruby beat Mr. H. Jefferson's r and w b Jilt by his Jolla Bull out of Mr. Fox's Fudge, and won the stakes. Avrceu COP.—Third Ties: Weapon beat Thought, Junta beat Papist. Deciding Course : Mr. B. H. Jones's bk and w d Junta by Lord Sefton's Senate out of Mr. Eddliston's Tiny Trip beat Mr. Wilson's bk d Weapon by Mr. Fyson's Figaro out of Mr. Randell's Ruby, and won the Cup. AvrcAtt fixxx.sc.—Third Ties Magic beat Speedwell, Brenhilda beat Staylace. Deciding Course: Mr. J. Blun dell's f b Brenhilda by Mr. Parry's Punch out of Mr. C. Stanley's Selina beat Mr. Atdern's w and bk d Magic by his My Lord out of Mr. Walker's °glass, and won the stakes. MOLTNEVX STMCia.—First Ties: Mr. Randell's f and w b Rival beat Mr. Swan's r and w b St. Catharine -, Mr. J. Blundell's bk b Blackbird but Mr. C. Langton's f b Lady Franklin ; Mr. Temple's w b Triples beat Mr. Peacock's r b Pamela; Mr. Randell's bk b Reliance beat Mr. G. Cooke's r b Cheraisette. Second Ties: Blackbird beat Rival, Triplex best Reliance. Deciding Course : Mr. J. Blundell's bk b Blackbird by Mr. Moore's Leander out of Mr. Weld Blundell'a Bitters, beat Mr. Temple's w b Triplex by Mr. Bdieston's Kolauth out of Mr. Temple's Thalia, an d woa the stakes. — Wear Darn BTAXEB.—Fint Ties: Mr. Ardern's bk d Mango ran a bye ; Mr. R. Stanley's f d Shark beat Mr. 0. Cooke's r b Crorteth ; Mr. R. G. Temple'. bk and w b Turtledove beat Mr. Swan's f d Soda Ash ; Mr. T. D. Hornby's bk d Haymaker beat Mr. G. Cooke's f d Hurkaru. Second Tin: blimp beat Shark, Turtledove beat Hay maker. Deciding Course : Mr. Ardern's bk d Mango by his My Lord out of Mr. Pearson's Princess, beat Mr. R. Ci. Temple's bk and w b Turtledove by Mr. Jebb'a Lodore out of Mr. Temple's Titan* and won the stakes. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN. SHIRE RAILWAY. _o__ At a meeting of the directors of this company on Friday, the committee of investigation appointed on the Bth Inas, presented their report. It states that they have visited the stations and docks, and examined the ex isting and proposed traffic arrangements. The financial position of the company is, that there remain available as sets amounting to 708,5171., against which the liabilities for new works, itc., are 682,9371. The total expenditure will then be 8,243,2361 leaving a balance of 25,6801. for con tingencies. The arrears on preference shares are 661. 3d. on 18,000 No. 1 quarters; 60e. on 87,200 101. shares; and Is. thtl. on 172,6(10 61. shares ; making 284,1501. Th e Lin celestite lines and the Grimsby Docks yielded a very inad equate return. Thi'new manager, Mr. Watkins, of the London and North. Western, who had been appoi nt ed with the concurrence of the co mmittee, should remodel the es• tablishment, and remaining in his office, or on the line, should give his whole time to developing the traffic and economising the management. The Waldo of the prieeipal officers should be pertly dependent on the net profits of the undertakieg. As to alliances, there should be a good understandiag, and full and free interchange of traffic with all the companies round. Arrangements had been made with the Sheffield Coal Coin =secure a large supply of coal, for which the Birley was needed. The branches near Barnsley were also essential, but must be so managed as to avoid disputes with the South Yorkshire. The expectations formerly en tertained of reducing the working expenses bed not been realised. They had not been moth below 60 per cent. Rewards should be offered to any of the servants devising economical methods of working. Arbitration should be offered in all cases of litigation. The Humber Ferries suit was involving great ex"ense, which should be stopped, and an arrangement mails with the defendants to bring it to a close. As to the preferential arrears, arrangements should be made when the money market would permit, and a hint is thrown out that power should be obtained to capitalise them. The report lays down six rules of policy for the directors :—No further expenditure without abso lute necessaity. No aew lines but these authorised for coal. Ne parliamentary :expenses without manifest neces sity. Arbitration to be offered in all eases of difference. The manager to apply his whole time to develop the traffic and reduce the expenditure. A committee of directors to communicate with other boards on the same subjects. The report concludes with the belief that there is vitality enough in the concern to give it a fair chance, if they had vigorous and united counsels, but there must be harmony between the directors and the shareholders. Pitmen RAILWAY Tansnc.—The following are the last returns oldie gross reestpla of the principal French railways : NOITIMUI.—Free Oct. II to Nev. 4: Passengers, 307,2784; gads. 439,9754; total, 743,643?. goo.—Frent Oct 30 to Nov. 5: Passage s, 89,003 f.; Rooth, 119,9880.• total, 108,991 f. itacia—Freei Oat. 30 to Nov. 5: Paceeegen, 31,6034; goods, 62,1134; total, 91,6110. 0113.11.4.1 MID Bathos Lewas.—Pros Oct. 30 to Nev. 6: Pram. gees, 329.8691.; goods, 472,9174; total, 881,775 f. Bramisoceo.—Pross 0at.29 to Nov. 4: Psisespra, 214,9914; goods, $12,249f. • tots!, 49',240f. Sam—Prom 'Oat. 24 to Oat. 31 : Panniers, 311,5371.; gads, 31,3794; teta1,64.91111. Moirreamo.—Prom Oet. 29 to Oct 31: Passangere. 4.8837.; I goods, 6,514 f. ; total. 11,3771. LTolll4—Prom Oct. 30 to Nov. 6: Passengers, 217,839 f.; goxia, 213,1061.; total, 411,0357. Wrsrum.—From Oat 31 to Nov. 6: Paaerngere, 91,3374; goods, 300111 f.• total, 121,398 f. Irons To Ilsormaasessth.—From 051.22 to Oct. 98 : Presagers, 67,3690; goods, 118,6634: total. 205,6337. NON-LIABILITY OF RAILWAY COMPANIEB.—Two cases establishing the non.fiability of railway companies in certain eases where the carriage of goods is concerned, have just been decided by the county court judges. The plain tiffs in the first case, Mews. Benson, of Huddersfield, brought sit action for 61 18s. 6d., against the London and I North Western, the alleged value of a quantity of che es es consigned by a house in Manchester, and which were deli vered crushed and damaged ; bat as it was not clearly shown that the damage occurred upon the railway, or from wilful neglect, the plaintiffs were declared nonsuited. la 1 the second case, the action was against the Bdinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Railway Company, for W., owing to detention in the delivery of goods in London, and booked by Woe ompany, the court deciding that the COMpany were not liable, unless it could be shows that the detention took place oa their own Use. STATISTICS. TO TIM =ITO& OP THII 32P14.811. SlR,—The only difficulty respecting this subject (which is act a sew one) has always been a political one : a daMeulty of tamper on the eon/creative side, and of fear on that of the Whigs.. Year conservatives have been t oo irri table sad absorbed is the question of protection to seriously trouble amnesty°e about such a matter ; and your whigs have hared for their free trade legislation. They had nut thoroughly studied the subject, and had not such confidence in the results we now witness as justified to their fears t h ese statistics ; and so they linger e d over t h em until time and our quarterly trade returns thoroughly sanctioned the free trade measure. Ws must not sev ere l y censure them now. They have had a vulgar retribution i n th e s ill y as rnuralnacesnds ha oi d th gone atfwl out ish of P c l u i l t t ic iv ia a ynti Sir Fitzro Kelly, that ouron. They have had to listen to such stuff as this without the instant means of ex posing the absurdity by a statistical demonstration. ' Certaia recent writers have come to the conclu sion that it would be well to employ district sur veyors to collect our agricultural statistics. Speaking generally, the surveyors and land agents may b e sa id to have in their hands the management of all the land in the kingdom ; and, giving them credit for the commonest business capability, they must have felt the importance of agricultural statistics, especially since the time of their destruction; for to say nothing of their utility for the pur poses so ably explained in the Bankers' Circular, we are now only capable of loosely conjecturing for rent between landlord and tenant. As to any equitable demonstration of it in figures, that is utterly impuesible, and never will be possible until we have in sound operation a national plan for our statistics, soundly regulating our importations. Thew things being so, I assert, and defy contradiction, that our surveyors have not, in any way or manner, pro claimed this great fact to our government. We may reasonably conclude that had they, holding as they do all the lands of the kingdom in their management, come for ward with a well prepared explanation of this national necessity, sustained in it too—as it is quite clear they would have been by the bankers and the merchants of the nation, and the public behind them, with my Lord Ash burton, and many other men of mark among them—no government would have dared resistance to their sober ap peal. We have all been astounded, from time to time, during the last few years with the contradictory statements put forward in parliament and elsewhere as to the average growth of corn in this nation. It has been a common thing for noble lords sad honourable gentlemen to differ in their statements to the extent of many millions of quarters. And now, at is truly stated in the Banker's Circivar, we have again to listen to monstrous statements as to the amount of grain we must import to feed our population. National men donot credit them; but, on the other hand, we have had no resistless facts put forward in contradiction of them. Now, if there is in this country a class of men better qualified than any other class, or all other classes put together, to give information on this important subject, it is our surveyors and land agents. They are now, emphatically, district surveyors ; and they could, with but little trouble and outlay of time, have given valuable infor mation in this matter—information near enough to the truth to have hurled away all fable from the real facts, and thus have enabled our bankers to safely advance their money in the starvation or no starvation investment. These oracles have been dumb—they have done nothing. The surveyors, as a class, have never served the cause of our statistics, and now it would be a poor compliment to our bankers and merchants, and the public, to compel us to pay them for their services. It has been expounded to statesmen that it is not neces sary to put any questions to farmers at all for the purpose of those returns, and such is the positive fact. In the end, the innate Food sense and god temper of our farmers would override all sensitiveness in respect of our statistical inquiries in the simple condition, that the returns be col lected by men who can make no subsequent and sly use of them. But why employ a professional man in such a busi ness as this ? It involves no acquirement rightfully belong ing to a profession. An accoutant, master of the simplest English education, is amply qualified to such engagement. By employing such a man as this, a guarantee would be given to the farmers that, with the passing statistical use of the information, thus acquired, in a government office, all memory of the local transaction would cease A non-pro fessional collector of it could have no use for it, and in all human probability the transaction would be blotted from his memory instantly after the completion of his periodical duty. But this could not be said were district surveyors to be let into the business. From habit a surveyor everlast ingly memory is almost a profession to him. Give such a man as this a map and a particular of parish lands, in neither of which, however, shall the al farms comprising it be particularised, and let him walk over the lands once or twice, and he will know the lands belonging to each occupier, and have stamped into his memory, even against his inclination, the leading circumstances of each man's cultivation. Isolation, however, fur a surveyor in such an affair as this, is an ideal absurdity. Intercourse with the farmers, and others of the parish, would give him every individual in formation. Now, this is a knowledge which no gentleman not a government district surveyor, at all l i k e ly t o b e called on to value a given form at a given time, would condescend to sneak about and acquire year after year. There would be 'something so infamously inquisitorial in each a habit; so thoroughly low-minded in the man pro spectively employing such a surveyor, and in the surveyor himself that, were the inquisition done, the execration of every man in the district should be the least retribution for the pair of them. I very well know that every landlord reserves for himself and his agents the right, at all convenient seasons, to come upon the occupier's estate for the time being ; but then they come but on occasions of imperious necessity, and for the mutual benefit of both parties. For the sake of his professional reputation, no respectable agent would take advantage of such an opportunity to prowl about the place. He never moves but in the presence of its real owner for the time being, and he would be fearfully degrat'ed should he be found surreptitiously lurking at any time by other per ons. What is a sound and manly surveyor ? A man who, in the might of his practical and scientific acquirements, can go upon a farm, and without torturing the occupier with intrusive inquiries—w ithout acquiring an information which a gentleman would scorn to know—can yet value that farm. report on its latent capabilities, and demonstrate, In figures, the rent which would be equitable between man and man. _ May our poueesion of agricultural statistics soon give many a talented man the opportunity to display such quali fications in honourable practice. las,dtc, London, Nov. 1. EXAMINER. HAIRDRESSERS' PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.— The hairdressers "of all nations" met yesterday evening at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of celebrating their eighth anniversary. Upwards of 100 members of this cosmopolitan trade sat down to a very substantial enter tainment. The chairman (Mr. Unwin), in giving the toast art " Prosperity to the Society," congratulated the members on the pr..grets they had made during the short period of the society's existence. The funds were flourishing, but they had the prospect of • severe and dear winter, and there was no doubt but that there would be many demands on their charity from their poorer fellow tradesmen. But he was full of h^pe ; they bad an excellent committee, and no doubt the wealthier of the trade only needed an application to come forward with handsome donations. The society had al ready, besides its charitable efforts, produced good results in the increase of friendly intercourse among the members of the trade, and would, he trusted, long continue in that course of philanthropy and good fellowship. At the con clusion of the chairman's speech, the statement of accounts was read, which showed a balance from lest year of 901. Is. 54., and the donations in the present brought the total of receipts up to 1621. 13s. 7d. The expenditure in gifts, and other expenses, had been 571. se. 3d., leaving a Wanes in hand of 1051. 81. 44. The evening's proceedings terminated with a collection, which resulted in a liberal addition to the funds of the charity. DARING ROBBERY.—On Sunday night a daring outrage was committed at the house of Mr. Young, 2 - , South Peckham. Boon after the family had gone to church, leaving the house in charge of a female domestic, a gen tlemanly dressed man knocked at the door, and asked if Mr. Young was at home. The servant answered in the negative, upon which the fellow pushed by her into the passage, saying that he would write a note; and before the girl could remonstrate, he seized her by the throat, and threatened to kill her. He then let in two accomplices, who, having bound her hand and foot and thrust her into a cupboard, proceeded to ransack the house, from which they took away plate and other property, valued at some hundreds of pounds sterling. When the family returned home from church they were obliged to enter the house by means of a ladder through an upper window, and they then found the servant in the plight described. The thieves have not yet been apprehended. NEW KIND OP MAIL MATTEL—A few days since a poetmsater at one of the offices on the New London route was very much astonished on emptying one of the mail hags upon his table to see a nice litre kitten spring out from the heap of lettere, and frisk about very much, as little kittens are apt to do.—Newhaven Panadium. THE BOMBAY AND ADEN MAIL.—The terms for the performance of a fortnightly mail service between Bom bay and Aden have been agreed upon between the govern ment and the Peninsular and Oriental Company, the pay meat fixed upon being at the same rate as that received by I the company for the other branches of their mail contract with the Bast—namely, 68.2 d. per mile. - - - SOME SURPRISE has been expressed at the low figure, 20,0001, under which the personal property of the late Gen. Sir Charles James Napier was sworn when his wi I was proved, as it was understood that the gallant g I had received 70,0001. price money from the conquest of Scinde. It appears by the will that 50.0001. had been given away by the gallant general before his death ; so that the proving of the will under 20,0001. will account, with the 50,0001. given away, for the Scinde prise money. The other property being real property is not of course taken into account in proving the will. GOOD CouNsu.—The most superficial glance "at the present condition of European states shows that those nations which linger in the race cannot hope to esegile the partial diminution and perhaps final annibilatioditir theft resources. It is with nations as with nature, wide lupus no pause in ever increasing movement, dews oil production—a curie ever cleaving to etsmilni 0014t4 I