The Express. — London, England, 1863-12-26 00:00:00

AMERICA. (P sr tn. Sooti►) NEW YORE, Ditc. 16. There is no news of importance from the army of the Potomac. Mosby's and White's guerillas a " very troublesome and numerous, continually h a rassing the, outposts. On the 13th, 700 of them wa de a dash at the bridge across Cedar Run, near Catlett's station, but were driven back by the f ac e guarding the bridge. The line of the rail ra,d i m m the front to Alexandria is hereafter to b e ne n protected by both cavalry and infantry. Short leaves of abecence are freely granted to ethos and men. There is nothing further in re ham° to the removal of General Meade. It is re- Fe nd that he has demanded a court of inquiry juts , the conduct of the late campaign. Pending this inquiry, the command of the army would de voice by seniority on General Sedgwich. Despatches from Knoxville, dated 14th Decem ber, state that General Foster had assumed com mand of General Burnside's troops, and Burnside bad started for Cincinnatti. All was quiet in the mo ney of Knoxville. It is rumoured in Nash mile that General Sheridan, commanding the co lumn in pursuit of Longstreet, had encountered the rebel marl/Iprd, and sustained a heavy repulse, in which General Sheridan was seriously wounded. This rumour is not generally believed, although it is traced to several usually reliable sources. There is no telegraphic communication with General Sheridan. The Richmond Enquirer of December 10 contains the following : Bristol., Dn. 9. . - - General Gilteer's Southern Brigade encountered the ad. moo of Wilcox's corps Dear Mayeardvine, Tameness, and routed them, capturtng a number of prisoners. Wilocies troop, IMO mostly raw recruits. -• • . • i s There no stirring news from Chattanooga. At latest accounts General Hardee was making every exertion to re-organise the rebel army. A despatch from General Butler at Fortress Monroe announces that a portion of his force, under General Wider, had succeeded in capturing the rebel garrison at Charles City crossroads on the James river. Eight officers and over 80 Confederate soldiers were taken. The Federal forces, to accom plish this, had marched 72 miles in 64 ham, mostly is a severe storm. A brigade of coloured troops under General Wild occupied Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on the 10th of Deoember. The inhabitants were entirely taken by surprise, and offered no resist ance. Twenty waggon loads of contraband goods were sent back to Portsmouth by General Wild. It is said that Elizabeth City is to be made the base of important operations. General Banks has announced to the War De partment that General Washburn, with the 13th Army Corp., seized the approac hes to Matagorda, Terse, on the 29th of November. The Confederate garrison at Fort Beperanza, on Matagorda Island, consisting of 1,000 men, fled on the approach of the Federate, after first blowing up the magazine of the fort. Ten guns were captured. Tina gifts the Federate command of Matagorda Bay, and is considered an important preliminary to the occupa tion of the whole Texem coast. It is reported via Cairo that Manneduke was at last accounts endeavouring to join Price, who, with 5,000 Confederates, was crowing the Ked River into Terri, pursued by a large(Union force. Marmaduke's force is not known. The captain and crew of the Chesapeake have arrived in New York. They state that the men who captured the vessel were mostly British subjects, and were very desperate characters. The Chesa peake left Shelburn Dec. 12 with an increaaed crew and twenty chaldruns of coal. She is supposed to be on the track of some coal vessel. One report states that she is in Lahore river, Nova Scotia. A despatch from General Butler, at Fortress Monroe, announces that the rebel authorities have decided to permit no more supplies to be sent to he Union prisoner at Richmond. Captain Hatch, of the Coofederate army, Who had an interview with some Federal othcers at City Point, stated that the Confederate authorities had thus decided in consequence of the imputations cast upon them by the N orthern government and press, it having been generally reported in the North that the relief stores sent south for the Union prisoners had not been delivered in good faith, but had been other wise appropriated. Captain Hatch further stated with regard to the bad condition of the prisoners, returned to Annapolis from Richmond, that they were extreme cases of consumption, and, though the Southern agent of exchange thought it a grave error to allow them to return, they were neverthe less allowed to go home to die ; and this act of ge nerosity on the part of the South had been repaid by representations in the Northern press that these dying men afforded a fair sample of the condition of the Union prisoners at Richmond. The Aschnsond B.rovaisser says : "Of the 30,000 Yankee prisoners held in Richmond since January 1,1862, only 671 have died, or leas than three per cent.—a small proportion, considering the Yan kee accounts of starvation and exposure.' The Richmond Sashed of Dec. 11 says that Lin coln's proclamation of amnesty is intended to blind his own people and make capital in Europe. The government is said to have information that over 16,000 deserters from the Federal army are nowinCanada in • destitutecondition, and wbodare not cross the lines for fear of arrest and sentence. It is believed that the President will proclaim • pardon toall who shall rejoin their regiments within Sthlisys from this date. The Wasllngtoncorrespondent of the New York World states that the raiiimila are determined that Mr. Lincoln shall no longer dodge the Missouri question, but shall take decided grounds. The re moral of General Schofield is again demanded, and mother delegation is soon expected in Washington, from Kansas. There have been several rumours of peace pro posals coming from the South lately, but nothing of the kind has appeared as yet. It is generally believed that commissioners coming from tbe sepa rate States in rebellion would be received at Washington, but that commissioners from the merriment at Richmond would not be received. It is said that proposals for a peace will soon come from the State of North Carolina, and that three prominent citizens of that State are daily expected in Washington. These reports cannot, hosever, be traced to any reliable source. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 2S. The Hamburg and American Company's steam p Sammsliie, from New York on the 13th inst., 1.34 arrived. She brings 41 bags mails, 60 Pis *nen, 90,000 dole. in specie for England, and 13,U0U dole. fur Hamburg. THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON. Doc. 25. The Penititi:ar and Oriental Company 's steam ** bats, Captain Weeks, with this heavy portion of the slue made mad 53 passengers, has arrived here. She brings °° freight 53 packagn specie, val ea 36W. Her cargo laelodes S. Wee raw silk, value 57,0001. sterling. The British tarkiloogley (of London), from Constantino plc for Ccek, 21 days oat, fouudcil off Algiers on the 10th !nut. ?beau whi abandoned bar the mune day, were — ` l4 ( i 4 bralta; by the British steamer Ida on the 15th mut, L agaguil London at Gibraltar on the 21st boldest wu I . l "eit 9 0 due date, so‘ ; Paris, 5.26 ; ei ; tsenoa, 5.36 ; M a d r id , 8 d ays s i g h t, g per cent. Pre" g diseestat. TIE Toxa or F.za• TIE &aim. —This is the T__"c4 te enasmarstioas. While we hare la Ragland are V it te celebrate lb. three huadredth anniversary of ""' me of Ayes, the Jews is the heart of Asia are ham itet thosselres to erect • mommemat to the stemawy of the Mat maim ef their sacred writises. After hawses meta !, ha hemmed grave for pearly 1500 years, the Jews of mfd.l hays Lees reseed to erect hire • moeumeet oe the Yeah the most ancient Meddles hoe dedgaseed as his '°, eed the correctecoe of which there is as names to ,• This spot lies is the desert, ow the ooellsesee of i ._ . , 1 "kilter sod Tigris, sad the monamest to be seta. ,„. - 7. hi the only ose belitAied the memory of • maa am .'" 'oecrated be Chrietrees as Jews. The pesPeeed tamell6st Si 1 calfse • for the Misty of the writiogs pill e4 '4h pu hie Oleo fce. the civilised world. Costae i fin. this rpose Mire bees forwarded from Bombay, . 400 , tad Paris.—Jewiet CArosick. NAVAL AND WI 'TART. CHATHAM. Dec. 25. The Warrior target erected at Shoeburyouis trader the superintendence of Mr. Bulmash*, one of the foresee at this dockyard. bee been removed to Sheersees, where it as been ioepeeted and a report male to the Admi ralty by the dockya d officials whether or net the target is la • (sedition to be repaired. An order has bees recurred from the War Department for the erection of • commodious block of buildings, adjozia Chatham bermeke, to be need an quarters for the m minumunissioned abase and troops of the lies quartered at this pens.. The contract for the erection of the buildiep has born takes by Mr. K. Spicer, and the works are to be proceeded with immediately. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1863. STATISTICAL socnerr. At a meeting of the above society, held on Tues day December 15, PrOilll•Of J. S. T. Room, of Oxford, read a paper "Oa the continuous price of wheat for 106 yean, from 1380 to 1484." The writer observed that the prime of wheat annexed to his paper were takes from • series of farming amanita of Heyford Warren, in Oxford shire. The metes is complete, except foe the pars 1380, 1383, 1386, and 1390. The prices. however, for these Pen are supplied from Wooden, in Backs, • pia* atfilaisally avert the purposes of compatioon. It will be manifest. Profane Roger remarked, that during the whole of the period before us prime of food were, with few exceptioos, remarkably low. They were far lower than those which prevailed during the , 14th century, and that part of the 13th daring which accounts of farm produce have come under my in. spates. The harvest daring this time mat have hiss ex ceedingly abundant, more so in all hkebbood than, araitatia niutandis, they were in the early half of the 18th men , a period which has always been sited as thirlidieibiaT prosperous. Of the 106 yeah, 21 &beware relatively dear ; fa them the price is above 6s. per qr. Those 21 years are 1389- 90,1400.1-2, 1408-9, 1416, 14114, 1428, sad 1429 ; 1432-3, 1437.8,1460-1, 1477.78,1480.81 ; and in *sly two of those was the price radiative of famine, namely, 1390 and 1438. The highest prim is much below that at which wheat am sold during two or three years of Edward IL and Edward lIL In orataidoring these prima thanks of thecoia is which they are expressed has to be considered. Theooin of the time was of customary fineness,ths pound of silver con taining 1 loz. 2 dwts. of pure motel and 18 dwa of alloy. But the currency was twice degraded during the period. Up to 1412 the pound sterling was equal is meters value to 24 6e. 66., in 1412 it was diminished to 14 18a. 9d., and in 1464 to 11. lie, At the commencement of the period re viewed by the writer, the price of common labour was gene rally 3d. per d ;of artisans, such as cane•ten, masons, and sawyers, 4 4. About the end of the tint quarter of the 15th century them kinds of labour rose respectively to 4d. and to &L, and so remained to the close of Henry VIIL's reign. On the other hand, the price of lead, wrought iron, and brass, slightly falls—the prios of these metals was about 3e. 4d., lid., and 3d. per lb. respectively. Wheat was, I have no doubt, obasnad Professor Rogers, the habitual food of the people. Of all the prima of grain, the moos abundant are those of wheat, barley, and oats ; of theme, lON the largest information is that which tea be supplied for wheat. Labourers rarely used eau, =mpg on occasion in their porridge. The breadth of wheat, barley, and oats grown on the land from per to year, occapies by far the largest of the aoreage. Most cult use need at har vest, when, snow, wages for day-work were mach higher than at ordinary times. Corn was reaped at la. to 8d : per acre. Rye was • rare penis. The Hayford ;OK:of wheat wen then compared with the at church iu Ease:, and Stert in Wilts. As might be ex pected, the dirrgeam of prioes is greatest in the cheap years. It is a haown exacenind law that the prices of what, or of any other absolute of life, decrease in plentiful years eta very different ratio that is which they increase ial dear noes. The price of labour appears to have been higher is Load= than in the ectiatry by 26 per Gent. A table of the prices of wool at Altos Buses, is Wiltshire, was.apponded to the paper. It was toted that dramas amongst docks in the mid' die ages perpauslly de stroyed one-fourth of the number kept. With respect to the productiveness of the land it was stated that • crop of 30 bushels on average land under widen culture is by no means excessive ; land under tillage io the present time yields two and a half times more than in the days of our forefathers. It was during this time that the class of small farmers roes ; the fact is traceable not only in the suggestions of legislation sod history, but in the change made by owners of land in the insaagesteut of their estates by a bailiff. Bawer the last thirty years of the 14th century and the first forty of the 15th this practice is almost universally abandoned. The landowner cases to cultivate his own land, his rests are in by a collector, and • farmer cultivates the soil Cr th hi li n c i l wn profit, at • fixed rat sometimes for • long term, but with his landlord's stock, which he is pledged to restore, or its equivalent in money, at the expiring of his tenancy. After a short time, however, this practice ceases, the tenant finds stock himself, and occupies an estate either under a lease, or very censor by purcham. THE LATE HEAVY GALES. At no recent period have the disastrous effecta of skews bees more severely experienced than during the hurricane of the 2nd sad 3rd JAIL In order to realize, corn. y, the destructive character of the storm, we must = tivl oar attention to the coasts of the British Isles, where it blew with unexampled fury for 48 boars, and where it coosigasid to the deep .many a goodly ship and her crew, ceasing destruction of property sad loss of life to a truly appalling extent. It is not our peones to barrow up the fringe of the reader, nor is it our intention to dwell on the sad wanes of desolation of bereaved women and children rendered widows and orphans by this truly calamitous ria tatioa ot the storm of the 2nd and 3rd inst We shall, there fore, oily remind the reader of the few siroplestremeate of the services of the lifeboats during the recent gales, as they readied the National Lifeboat Institution from its zealous honorary secretaries OS the meat, feeling assured that those facts have appealed with irresistible force to the sew of duty on the Fart of many of our constrymen who have hitherto withheld from the lifeboat ears their support. It is supposed that upward. of 230 vowels were wrecked during those two disastrous days, and that the loss of life was proportionately great. It is, how ever, very gratifying to tied that, owing to the gallant and persevering exertions of the crews of the lifeboats, 246 persons were happily snatched, under God, from *enamors shipwrecks on various parts of oar omit. The lifeboat is but • little vessel to contend with • cauldron of see on • stormy night, like that which was recently experieciord at Holyhead and Bud. Haven, bat her rowers are stalwart wastherbeatee meet, whose sacred object is to human life, and who peril their own in that so e enter prim The thing is altogether characteristic of our country— the build of the lifeboat, her hardy crew, and her system of mainteseace by volnatery contribution. Well may foreigner shipwrecked on oar rut recapitulate, as their re- tors home, the great efforts made on the room' of the United Kingdom to succour them in the boor of their deep distress ; sod well may Begliehnies in all parts of the world testify their high ap procinion and thankfulness for the eminence amongst them of an aeration simply and goodly desigeed for the " pre servation of life from shipwreck," as its founders forty years ago described it. The institution we feel savored doss posers, and cannot fail to pones, the sympathise of the public, so long as it ran publish monde of deeds ea valiant as those that marked the services of its lifeboats on the dad and 3rd inst. We may add, that during the year which is now closing, 373 lives bre been saved by the boats at the National Lifeboat Institatios. When we remember that every life saved by lifeboats has been rescued under ==as circumstance, it will at oar be seen what great has been cordoned by the lifeboat Institutioo, not only only on the poor men thealealvea, bat also on their wives and children. who would otherwise be widows and indica Agra 301 lives have been rescued is the same period by share boats, to the crews of which the society has granted riewerde,thias making a totalof 679 persons saved from shipwreck daring the year, through the instrumentality of this great and valuable institution. Sines the begin ning of the year (1863) the institution bin also expended show 13,0004 on its various lifeboat establishments on the coasts of Eeglaad, Scotland, sod Ireland. The number et lives saved either by the lifeboats of the society or by epeeist exertions, for which it his granted rewards sines its tornados, is 13,530. How inadequately m words express the segregate amount of misery which the saving of so many thousands of lives must have prevented I It can only have been fully appreciated by the potion them selves and by their relatives and friends, whose expressions of gratitude for such important benefit's are often of the more feeling character. Since the establishment of the institution it has granted 82 gold medals, 733 silver medals, sad 17,7301. is rah, for saving life from shipwreck, is sdditioo to 80,0001. expended by the society ms its lifeboat A COLONIAL NERO. The West Australian Times of October 15 con tains the following : As incident le the life of a poor man was related lad week in the course of our Crimins! I Sessions that, in a former age, would have excited general admiration. Two shepherds were in charge of one of the flocks of Mr. John Hassell, at a remote station. There was no other station within 20 miles of them. One &hansom, some time ago, one of these men while occupied io his hut, which was only composed of stakes and rushes, fancied he heard a groan at a little distance. Going outside he again beard the sound of low moaning, and soon discovered his companion, Charles Storey, lying inseesitde in • beaks, and cowered with innumerable veer-wounds. Carrying him on his beck to the hut, be laid him on his kangaroo-skin rug, washed and probed his wounds, succeeded in extracting the barb of a spear which was buried in hie side, and ultimately restored him to cooscroust. ees. It tamed out that Storey bad been attacked by a band of natives, who wished to Wig the sheep. This was admitted by the native witnesses at the trial of one of the party for the murder of Storey, who even tually died of his wounds. The two usfortneate men remained awake all night ; one in extreme polo, the other carefully attending epos him. Next meeting the native, earrouaded the hut, and began throwing spears, which completely passed through both sides of it. Finding that they would be moldered, Edward Ladbury, the witness, who told the tale in simple, unvarnished terms, leek his only weapows, his pocket-knife and bill-hook, and boldly sallied forth. He had covered the bill-hook with his coat, so as only to display the boodle, which the Datives took to be a pistoL He threatened to fire upon them unfree they withdrew, and after some deliberation they sullenly retired. All that day the men remained in fear of their return. During the next night Storey said he felt better, and they resolved to endeavour to make their escape to Mr. 'is next station, 20 miles distant. At 2 o'clock in the morning they stole out of the hut. Edward Indbory was laden with their bedding and effect., and Stony duos to his arm. After crawling about 150 yards the wounded man said be could go no farther, and urged Ladtury to leave him to his fate, and safe him self. it appeared to be almost imp:amble to rescue Storey, bet Ladbury &demised not to leave him to cer tain death. He hurried forward with his load and deposited it a quarter of • mile off, then returned for his comrade, hoisted him oo to his back, and carried him to the same spot, where ha exchanged him for their personal effects (the sole property of those poor fellows), which he again carried a quartet of a mile farther. Then he returned for his friend, and thus they journeyed, one needy dead of his wounds and the other exhausted with his exertions, for a distance of seven miles, when they reached a spring of water. HIM they remained a while, scarcely able to crawl any farther. Ladbury could no logger carry Storey, but he managed to drag him along. After a miserable joniney of two days and a night they reached Mr. Hasselrs station at , Jerrymungup, both of them nearly dead. The wocuckci 1 man after necessary rest, was trot forward in • cat tto the hospital at Albany, where his sufferings were terminated by death. Few men have better deserved the Victoria cross than this bumble shepherd, Edward Ladbury. What struck us most forcibly about the matter was, that his conduct elicited Dot • single comment or remark from either court, counsel, or jury. From which we are inclined to infer that such acts are far from singular or uncommon in this country. For our own part, we feel it to be only one degree lower than a crime to allow such ao instancy of generous self.devotion to pass without the tribute of applause ; and although in this, as in most other cases, virtue is likely to he its own reward, Edward Ladbury rosy return to his hard life with the con sciousness thas he has nobly earned the sympathy and ap p.-obeli°n of his fellow-colonists. Comm IN Eoyrr.—A letter from Egypt, in the Saha Pe rlie of Lyme, gives the following account of the puttee trade is that country :—" A traveller proceed ing by nil from Alexandria to Cairo sees nothing before him but an immense plain watered by small canals, which intersect it in every part. Irrigation is carried cm by differeot modes, which would take too long to describe. The soil, however, is well tilled, sod produces wheat, riot, and cotton in abundance. During the last few nous the cultivation of the last-named article hos taken the lead of every other. Barges, camels, and donkeys laden with cotton, may be seen in all directions. The Arabs °covey it to Zagarig for sale, when the railway intim is completely encumbered with it, and that town having breams the great cotton mart, has acquired CCM siderablo importsoce. Year years ago it only coutaioed about 4,000 isktbitanta, and the number has DOW In. creased to 20,000. Almost all the Bedouins sad farmers have abandoned their former cultivation and devoted themselves to that of cottoo. At Bence, another small tows on die live to Zagarig, I saw a number of Arabs who bad retorted from Alexandria literally lades with ban of gold and silver, which they had remind for their cotton, all of which they had sold to fleglish sod French merchants, Whew the fresh-water tend of the Bees Company shall be completed, immense plebe. now unprodoctive, will for the nod part be planted with cotton. The wealth of the country will norms,. and this fine prospect excites the most sanguine hopes of gain. The farmers are still engaged is getting is the crop of cotton. the gathering of which commenced in October lad." INertotanrem flf Yonxstints.—Another, making the twelfth, inceediary lire on the Yorkahire +olds occurred at Hugon on Wednesday night. The ire broke out upon the weld farm of Mr. Hanley, batsmen to have been found set early, aid the deetruetioe only included one corn deck. Theirs is listierod to have been the work of an ioosodiary, The is at image. The great number of incendiary fires of late has caused an extraordinary somber of applicants for 11•11110C111, and the Suniiffiee has met the demand by midst id rate from is. to lee guinea per cent for farm produce. Oilier otiose are expected to follow snit. SEA FISHERIES COMMISSION. An inquiry respecting the Sea Fisheries was held at the Exeter Guildhall on Thursday. The commissioners who acted se inquirers were Profeemir Harley and Mr. G. Shaw Lefevre, Y. P. The meeting was thinZal att ended. The first wit/seen who was called was Mr. Eyre ' captain of the 6th Devon Volunteer Artillery, who that he had been • fiehernma for upwards of fit years. The tide acmes up the Ex e as far as Salmon Pool, where it is stopped by • wear. At low tide the channel of the Ems is sorrowed, it being composed of sand and mud. Three are small streams ranging into the river, when fish go to spawn, and &retaken is large quantities by tishermee. He divide the fish which are caught in the Eau Into I two classes, namely —me clam for the poor, and one clam for the rich. For the poor be should take mackerel, pilchard, hake, Bounder, dab, and sprat ; for the rich, turbot, sole, white bait, see lamprey, and sturgeon. Lympateire is between Topsham and Hsmoaih ; they have one seine there, and take large quantities of cockles, mussels, oysters, and winkles. The Topsham fishermen use the small half-inch mesh, net, and the fish taken by them are sometimes so small that they are I ashamed to bring them into the city. They draw the river from one sad to the other, but nothing worth anything can be taken by them. He produced a flounder which be par chased, four inches and a half long, which was caught by • hook and line. and said they were sometimes caught much smaller than that. There ere some very small fish in the Ere, which he believed came there to get away from their memies. They had plenty of food there, and go and come with the tide. He has • seine, which he uses at Salmon Pool ; it is 43 fem. long, but does not take anything worth much by is. All the small fish that are of no use are thrown on the mad by the Topsham fishermen ; are left there and destroyed by the birds. Small herrings, whiting, and garnet are also caught near Lympstone. Large quantities of mussels are. also taken on the bed of the river ; they are sold at Bs. per seek of tee pecks, but they are decreasing. The fish are become lately so dear that the middle dames cannot afford to buy them. and any person can mod up to London end get a pair of soles much cheaper then they can be purchased in Exeter. The fishing around here is come to • misetable state. The fishmongers are obliged to take what they ma get. He should suggest that the meshes of the nets be made two Mesas and • quarter, and that he thought was the only remedy for the prevention of the destruction of fish. Mr. Huxley said that he had been informed that • sole would be able to pees through the mesh of that net. He hoped that the oommiasionen would do all in their power so that the middle-climes would be able to purchase fiat much cheaper than they do at present. He believed that the high mese of fish in Exeter arum from the waste made by fishermen. He was happy to say that the Nahum was wonderfully increasing in the Ere since the Salmon Act bad been passed. His object was to increase the fisheries sod todo the poor man good. The next witness examined wee Mr. Drew, steward to the Earl of Devon, who stated that the fishing in the Ere was decreasing, and be believed it to be owing to the facts which Captain K ingdoo bad stated. Wil liam Scott, fisherman, residing at Powderham, and several others, gave evidence of a similar nature, and the inquiry closed. THE DUKE or AVOUSTRNBURO. —While all Europe is in a commotion relative to the claims of this prince to the duchy of Holstein his ►oral highness is said to be very comfortably and quietly enjoying himself in pursuing field sports at Coombe, sear Hooka), in Devonshire. —Post. EX PENSEE or THE CRAWLEY COURS-31ARTIAL.— We understand that the Secretary of State fur War hes issued instructions that a separate and distinct record, of the minutest kind, be kept of the expenses of the court martial, in order that a clear statemeut of the expenditure may be forthcoming should any question be raised is par liament when the estimates are under discussant'. —flailed Service Gazette. Tax LATE MIL ADRIAN HOPE.—That eminent patron of arts. the late Mr. Adrian Hope. was buried on Thursday at liensalirsen, after a service at st. Andrew's Church, Wellsetrest. Mr. Adrian Hops was the second son of Mr. Thomas Hope, by Louisa, deuebtor of the first Lord Dacca, Archbishop of Tasm, remarried to Marshal Beresford, and was the proprietor of one of the finest col- lections of Incised masters in Loodoo. QUICKEST PASSAGE ON RECORD FROM AMERICA TO LIVERPOOL.—The Canard mail steamer Sootia sensed is the Mersey yesterday, making the rootage from New York to Liverpool is less than eight days 21 hours, laded ing all detentions. She came from Study Rook to Caps Clear in seven days rod three-quarters, and in about eight days to Queenstown, which in altogether uoparalleded. Therm Rat-um—The traffic receipts of rail ways in the United Kingdom amounted. for the week ending December 19, co 11,029 miles, to 577,2601., sod fur the corresponding week of last year. ou 10.645 miles, to 516,4401., showiest an increase of 384 mile', and of 40.8201. in the receipts. She gross receipts on the following 15 rail ways amounted in the aggregate, on 7,790 miles, t 0465,299/., sod for the corresponding week of 1862, oe 7,595 miles, to 435,079/., showing an Increase of 194 miles and 30,2201. in the receipts. The increase oa the Caledonian amounted to 2,0421.: on the Great Posters to 3,0841. ; on the Great North ern to 4,1261/. ; on the Great Western to 2.8731.; on the Lan. ambito and Yorkshire to 4,0101. ; on the Loudon and North- Weatern to 7,1651. ; on the Loudon sod South Western to 2,3324 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, sod Lincoloshire to 1.6431. ; on the Midland to 2.0881. ; on the North Bri tish to 91 X.; on the Neeth•Eistern to 6791., and on the South Eastern to 1,316/. ; total, 32,21:6/. Bat from this must he deducted 766/., the decrease on the Great Southern and Western, and 1,2171. on the Louden, Brighton, sad South Coast, leasing the increase as above, 30,2181. The goods and mineral traffic on those boss amounted to 274,4641 , sod for the corresponding week of 1862 to 249,1731., showing an increase of 25 291/. The receipts for massagers, parcels, &c, amounted to 19.1,835/., against 1&5,906/., showing an increase of 4,9291. Tbe traffic receipts on 63 other lines amounted, on 3.2:39 miles, to 111,9611., sod for the consapondiag week of hat year, on 3,049 stiles, to 101,361 f., showing no increase of 190 miles and of 10,6001. in the receipts. The total receipts of the past week show an increase of 9,56.1/. as contested with those of the preceding week, ending the 12th of December, and as compered with the corresponding week of but year a considerable increase in the trade of the country. 14W INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OP BANKRUPTCY. (Mon Mr. Oommimiaesr Goa Than.) II Pal= ---.—Tili (7711171011 07 DISTOIS IZSIDING ABROAD. The alleged debtor reabled in France, and an application had bee° made to Mr. Commimiouer °millions that he should be adjudicated bankrupt The leaned Oommienoner upheld the promedinp, and made the requisite adjudication. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) KRIM OP 111,IIST. A very respeetabre-i;eilegwomaa, —. upwards or 50 years of ago, wee charged with felooy, wader the following cif eumotteame Hoary Gress, ansistant to Mr. Chem, provisimmerelont, 83, Fulham. read, said that on Christmeoem the primer came into the shop, mid bought • small nasality of butler, for which she pa& While was serving her he iambi that she was endeavour* to put a pleas of boom from the mantras. tato • basket eke had with her. He west up sad amused her of trying to steal the bares, when he discovered that ohs had got another large piece, value 5•., under her shawl, and lie Ma pre her into custody. Silts—What er Mom of the primmer ? Panama& —Nothing. She gave bar address at °Wow cottages, where I found she lived. Her elder is here. A raspoitable-kokiag woman, with a child is hr anis, stepped w fsf as s Ztla sad said eved that thahrr aroused was was p hat COD. She WM a TI•p116•11b)4 8M ilifd•WOTILIOg . woman, and wat p.- had gained her living for many years by service. Mr. Selfe—How do you aroma far her committing this that abs bad sag with some lased', sad it Ming abs bad bees Minced to Wks sows drink, sad did sot know whit she was about. Ur. Belts (to the prosseator)—Had ohs been drinking ? Prosseatcs—Stis wst oartaialy the worse for liqaor, but assorted to know well whit she was about. Primmer—l am guilty. I was istoziosted. Mr. Selfe—l calsot 'allow that to be urged all au excuse, or no one's proporty would be safe. You are committed for oee Month. TEM CHRISIItAS FRBTIVITII2I. There were shout 80 charges for heating this morning, the greater portion ooraisting of drunk and incepable, and drank and disorderly. SKRIOCS CASE OF CUTTING AND WOONDI3O.—EIPECTELI FATAL 111111JLT Hoary Robinson, aged 19, an engine-driver, of 3, Bath coert, Coldhath-fielda, Clerkeewell, was charged with oat tiat Bath -a n sad wouoding L cleorp Riley, in the breast, with a knife, :art, Si. ake's. Policeeergesot Broweisg, 401 A, produced the following medical certificate :—" 20, Bath-street, City-road. This certifies that I am attending George Riley, who is suffering from a wound in the left lung, and that i t is at present un safe to remove him, as his condition is eery daagerous. JOIE HOWLA.VD POTTLE, ?IL R.C.S., and L.13.A. Dec. 26,1 M&" The brother of the injured man stated that his brother wee in a very dangerous state, sod as the bleeding could not be stopped. the doctors were afraid that he could not survive. On Thursday night the injured man and t were in a skittle-grousd. Bows words ensued = them, and the injured man attempted to strike the prisoner. A scuffle ensued, and the prisoner drew • knife Lod stabbed the injured man in the left side. He called out that he was stabbed and when the brother wept to seise the prisoner. he thee had the keife in his head and made a lunge at him (the brother). The prisoner after wards wiped the knife, and threw it away. When it wee picked up it had blood on it. The prisoner sake& the brother of the injured man if his (witeen'e) brother did not " badger" him in the skittle grouted ? Whores answered in the niceties. Mr. D'Ey ocourt said that as the case was rely to menses a very serious aspect the prisoner bad, perhaps, better re serve his defence. If the man died the prisoner would be tried for murder. He should now remand the came for a week, sad rakes bail. MARLBOROIJOHATREET. CONIFITTAL OF Alt HOM-1321.211 FOR ?VI PULL TUX FOR ABSALOM%) HIS WI/IL _ _ Mr. George Stripi,iikisharist:.&et, St. Jams's, pri vate hotel keeper, wee cluirged before Mr. Hem with imitating his wife, Mrs. Edith Stripp, and with threaten tag to minder her. He was also &used with assaulting Elam Cornish, a young woman living in his service. Mrs. Stripe said—On Thutsday night my husband came home, sod thortlyafter he threw a quaatity of slops over me while I was lying ha bed. He then poured some hot candle- grease in my face, and took up a feeder and struck me with it, cutting my hand. I was so ill all yesterday that I was obliged to keep my bed, and he never came seer me till the swaged. When be did come then I was locked in the room with my servant and five children, an as to get out of hie way. On letting him in he began his Mileage again, 'biking and pinching me in the side. He has of tee aimed me before, and it is all through drinking, bad com pay, and bad women. We live by letting the house to gentlemen, but they will not stay owing to my husband's conduct _ _ . Prisoner—Jealousy is the cause of it all. My wife once gam me a black eye. Mrs. Stripp—He bee often threatened to lull me and chop me up. Him Cornish-1 am servant at the hotel. I saw the primmer strike his wife last evening. We bad all been locked in the room to protect ourselves, bat we were obliged to let him io. He struck me twice in the face and struck and pinched hi, wife. I beard him state that he would murder his wife nod thou throw her out of the window. Prisoner—Yoe have told my wife a peek of lies about me. Richard Braham, a young man employed at the hotel, said —I saw my master strike Mrs. Stripp with the fender while site was lyre' in bed. Henry Daniel Cronin, 215 C—l was called to the house about two this morning, and the prisoner was very violent. He broke several oroaments in the room, and tried to throw a chest of drawers over me. Stripp, it is all through drink? Mrs. Stripp—lt is, sir. We have eve little children. Prisoner—lt's an through her goyim I go about with a parcel of women, which is not true. She is a very good wife, so I will not say anything against her. Mr. Knox—ln consequence of the brutal and runlanly way in which you have treated your wife I should advise her to place herself in the hands of a solicitor, with the view of getting a total separation from you for her sake and that of the children. Icm hardly trust myself to speak my indignation at your mods& I shall corona you for six months with hard labour. WORSHIP-STREET. CAUTION TO THE POLICI. William Haycock and Mary Haycock, his sister, wen charged before Mr. Cooke under there cireumstassose : Po . .liar-m•ostable 202 K mid—Between 1 and 2 o'clock this morning, while on duty in Cambrittur-road, I saw the male prisoner and two others creating • disturbance, shout ing and singing. I said to them, " Gentlemen. go on, and not maks • noise at such an hour.' William Haycock used very bad language to me, and I followed them into Coventry-street. where he stopped at • house. Supposing that they lived there I told them to go indoors ; he repeated the abuse, and I then said I should take him into custody for being drunk and creating a disturbeneJ. Directly I laid hold of him he resisted, I was thrown on the ground, and he tit my thumb ; subsequeetly he was rescued from me and dragged indoor. Knowing the character I had to deal with, I waited until another constable came up, and we then forced an entrance, he haring escaped from my custody. His sister and others were very viole74 and when he was again apprehended the former eadeavon, to get him from us. They all had weapons of some kind, sods as candlesticks, La. Cross-azarnieed—l did not tell his father that I would serve him as I bad served his son. I did strike prisoner when he bit me, but not on the forehead. Mr. Cooke (alluding to a large spot covered with adhesive plaster above his eyes)—How did he get that wound? Wittier —I do not know. I believe it was from my brother constable, whom he kicked and tried to injure in the room upstairs. 386 K —At the time in question I heard a disturbance, and on reaching the house heard what bad occurred. We knocked at the door, but being unable to gain admission than way forced an entrants. The male prisoner seized a portion of a bedstead and armed • blow et me with it. I struck him somewhere with my staff; we were in the dark, and Ido not know on what part. HO tried to n eaps out of the window. There was a general attempt at rescue, io which his sister was foremost. By the magistrate—He has had three months for assault ing the police. It was here urged that the male prisoner was a marked man, and his parents were called in defence. From their statement it appeared that the last witness, immediately on entering the room, rushed at the young man, who was then in bed, and say*, "Now, you b—, I'll have you, I've marked you," be struck him a terrible blow with the truncheon, causing the blood to gush from his head, that they thought be was dying, and a doctor might be scot for. They denied that he used or bad any weapon in his hand, and added that two boon had elapsed from the time of the diaturbeoce outside to that when the police got inside the house, an assertion denied by the constables, and shown to be quite impossible in &amide's*, with their duties. . . After great attention had been given by the magistrate to the whole ones, the young man was fined 21b., and his sister fie, Mr. Cooks remarking—l have not any doubt that an assault was committed on the constable in the first instance, and that Wm. Haycock was roomed from law. ful monody, which fact jostifkd the subiequent entrance to the home. How the injury apparent ou his forehead occurred there is nut any disinterested wits... tor show, bat at the same time I consider that the police would have used weeder discreMou bad they, seeing that the prisoner wan istoxicated, have permitted him, when at his own door, to have gain within. SHAMUS FIRS IN LOWER BELGRAVE.PLACS. (MIS DAY.) SEVEN LIVES LIVES SAVED BY THE FIRE-ESCAPES. INJURY TO -- AN - 318CAPE CONDUCTOR. Fire-maps Conductors Brooker sod Cottrell, with the Royal Society's escapes from Estee-square and Horseferry-load, attended • ire at 34, Lower &agrees plats, about Indf-pest two. They found the ire rapidly extaacling, and the inmates in greed alarm. They rearmed Mr. Parent and his wife from the second Boor. !root room by means of the nneps, and • afterwards four woos. (lodgers) from the But door by the spare ladders. The whole of theme were rescued in perfect safety, two of the neighbours, Mr. James and ► friend, rendering great assistance ig effectiag this result. One of the fire•escaps conductors (pro/leer), however, met with • sad accident ; in descending the ladder with Miss Ferrara, • daughter of the above, from the same window, it is supposed her straggles overbalanced him, and he fall tram • height of 95 feet, sheltering his burden as well as be weld. He sus tained the chief injury and wee takes to the hospital with his charge. TERRIBLE TIRE IN EIRMINORAN.-SII LIVES LOST. BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY. maa-day dawned upon the Shortly before sleeping town, a fire broke out which bee resulted in the lose of six lives. The first hones in Little Hill-street, abutting oa the Hone Fair, is the Hill-street Tavern, kept 'by Mr. George Gammon. On Thunday night, when the customers bad left, the following were the occupants of the 1 house : Getup Gamma, laedlard ; Mrs. GlolBlloo. his wife ; Mrs. Bradley, an old lady, who came that rivaling to speed her Christmas holidays ; a general sennot (cams not ascer tained ); a nurse.= Banat, aged about 12 ; and Mr. Gantesos's mix , varying m ap from 2 years to 17. — Between 4 and 5 o'olock this (Friday) morning some pe nes is the street discovered that Mr. Gammon's house was as fire, and the Mimes wan ascending from the upper windows of the house The fire bad evidently ongi sated in she lower part of the house, in one of the back rooms. A few person crowded to the spot, and the alarm was at once give, to the fire sad poles offices. The fireaseape was the first to arrive, sad was Ma mediately got into use. The wean arrived soon afterwards, sad got iato play, but the fire had made great headway before they Coo2lllllllold work, and the house in complety gutted, though the °Molester& fair and unranked, with the anew Wm of some Wickes windows. The house has a ground floor and two storeys, the fist floor front being occupied as a club-room. Feeding the arrival of the fin swaps some men bad waled the wale and gaited the leads over the bar windows. The landlord had by some means got out of the house, and was frantically calling on the people to aid in rennin his wife and children. When the gee -escape came it was reared against the upper windows of the hone and some men who had penetrated into the upper stories commend to get nut the bodies. Old Mrs. Bradley was found under the bed in her room, with two of the children. They were all horribly burned and scarred, and bad been dead for some time. Two other children were also dead, besides the aune-gbt Out of six children only two were saved—John and George GSAMPOU. They were very badly injures, sad when our hurried inquiries were made it was considered very doubtful whether either of them would recover. Mr. and Mrs. Gameno and the elder servant escaped unhurt. The bodies were removed to the Acorn Tann), opposite, kept by Mr. T. Briggs . They present • most horrible spectacle, wrapped ia bed clothes and other coverings hastily snatched up by the rescuers, and lying in the horribly grotesque distortions of violent death. It appears as if the old lady bad not been in bed, for she was partially dressed. In each use the flesh of the victims is burnt up until their limbs only resemble sticks of charcoal rather than the remains of humanity. The eldest daughter of Mr. &union was • fine grown girl of seventeen, and now she lies a charred mass of ruin, sickening to see, the ooly part of her body comparatively uninjured being her rich brown hair falling in wild die bev4ment over the blackened remains of her body. The following is a list of the victims :—Mrs. Bradley, an old lady ; Amy Spent, egad 12 (nurse) ; Matilda Gammon, aged 17 ; Emily Gammon, aged 6 ; Be ey Gamma, aged 5 ; William Garman, aged about 2 years. MONEY MARKET,-(THIS Two •Vioat. The Stock Exchange is closed to-day, and is every department of business there is a diopositioa to make holiday. No ialinmetions sppeffir to bars taken place in public securities. RAILWAYS--(THIS DAY•) Two o'Cwci. The Stock Exchange is shut to-dg, and we have consequently no information to give under this head. MINES.-(THIS DA Y.) Two o'Curs. Both the Stock Exchange and Milling Exchange are shut tc- lay. TALLOW MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) The market is closed today. Mazur AVERAGZB.—Town tallow, 435. ; tat by ditto, 2a. Id. ; yellow Russian, 435. ; lashed staff, ka. 6d. ; roue ditto, 17s. 6d. ; tallow paves, its. ; good drop, is. COVENT (lARDEN.—(THIS DAY.) All kinds of woduce in mason otiatinise to be abundant. Pineapples are wen supplied, and eanaleskig the time el year. prices for them may be mid to be moderate. Hot house graves are now beginning to get scarce. Of foreign melons there lea good stock. Them is also a good mpply of lie Plus Meuris, Glou Morass, Monsieur le Cure, and Ileuri4 Esau pears. Good English apples are slain( somewhat some. Some good examples of Ribeten pfNia and American New Town pippin may still be °Maimed. Heat cobs are good, but in few hands. Oranges are piss ; the best are resin,* from to. to 10s. per 100. For potatoes the market is still heavy. Christmas evergreen. are abundant. Cat Bowers chiefly consist of orchids, pelargoniums, primrose; migatinatte, and roses. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) gATORMAT. MOON= 211, 6 &IL .i „.. 1 • • ✓ ell e OM' o 086, 1m 1 6.1: . 1 r 1 0.416 1 • 6. I r 0.16, I la .Oaf e 0.11, WILLS •ND BNQUSSTS. The will of the Right Hon. Katharine Stewart, of Bryanston-square, London, and New Steyr'', Brighton, wee proved in the principal registry by her daughter, Miss Susan Katharine Stewart, the sole executrix. The per sonalty was sworn under 16,0001. Her ladyship wee sister of the wraith Earl of Wemyes, sad married, in 1806, the Hon. Edward Richard Stewart, who died in 1135 L Her ladyship bequeaths the property loft to her under the will of her mother, the late Dowager Lady Elcho, to be divided between her children. To her eon Edward she has left her library, with the exception of 200 volumes, to be selected by her daughter Susan, whom she has appointed her residuary legates. The plat* is to be divided amongst her sons and daughters, in certain proportions. The will of Mu. Willyams, of Tar-Mobilo. Devon, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel James Bridges Willyems (Roial Cornwall Militia), was proved in the London Court, orethe 11th inst., by the Right Moo. Benjamin Disraeli, ILP., P.C., the surviving executor, the personalty being swore ruder 40,0004 The will bears date Noy. 18, 187; and was attested by Charles Kitson, solicitor. Torquay. and S. Johnson, his clerk. The testatrix, after leaving lega cies to the amount of about 6,004, has bequeathed the remaiuder of her property to the R ight Hoo. Benjamin Disraeli, expressed in these words:— • In testimony of my affection and of my approbation and admiration of his efforts to vindicate the rate of Israel ; with my views he as ac quainted, and will no doubt eodsavour to acoorepli.h them ; and, farther , has expressed her wish that he should obtain permission of her Majesty to use the surname and arms of the family of Lars sod Misdeal de Costa, in addition to or precedent to that of Disraeli. The villa Samuel George Smith. Esq., of &combs Park Ware, Herta sod of Lion hard-street, banker, was proved in London by his sons, S.imuel George Smith, Esq., SL P., and Frederick Chatfield Smith, Ede., the executors. The personally was sworn under 300,0.7.34 To his eldest eau s bequeathed bin farms and lands, The Beeches, Herts, and all his landed estates is Adelaide and Australis, and his ieterest in the banking burins", " Smith, Payne, and Smith, Lombard-street." To his eon Frederick he has bequeathed his interest in the basking establishment, " S meal Smith Brothers, Hull." To his daughters a legacy of 30,0001. The residue of his property to be divided amongst his four eons, Samuel, Frederick. Rowland, and Horace. There are legacies left to each of the clerks in both the banking establishments of 101. Also 1001. to each of the infirmaxies at Nottiogharn, Derby, sad Hertfordshire. MUNIFICENT LICIACY.—The late Signor Begrez, formerly a shirr of some celebrity, has just bequeathed LOOM to that excellent institution the Royal Society of Musician', coupled •itb the desire that the bequest should form the nucleus of s fund for the foundation of a collage for decayed musicians similar to the Royal Dramatic Charles Dickens does not let " Hard Cash" go out to the world, without ansio innovation that be has no sympathy with the attacks it 000tains upon the Commis. siouers of Lunacy. The story is finished io this week's num ber of All die Year Round, cod at the close, the following note is published in small capital letters :—" Note.—The statements and opinions of this journal generally are, of course, to be received as the statements and opinions of its conductor. Bat this is not so, in the case of a work of fiction Oral published in theee pages as a serial story, with the name of an eminent write, attached to it. When one of my literary brothers does me the honour to undertake such a task, I hold that he executes it on his own per sonal responsibility, sud for the suatainment of his own reputation ; and I do not consider myself at liberty to ex ercise that °petrol over Isis text which I claim ea to other contributions.—Cwantso Dicrans." Captain Speke is about to lecture at Frome t in Somerset, on Africa, and t►e way to its regontratiois. A letter ree?ntly addressed by Menotti Garibaldi to M. Giulio Rizzo, of Naples, published by the Popo'', trltaba, contains the following passage :—" My father's health is exeelleot ; be walks about the island with his cane only, and hopes to be able to join you next goring, to take part in the last battles for our independence." The niarmale di Roma publishes a decree from the Holy Romeo sod Miler's' Isquisition, by which the Ablate Pietro Moogini, ptrish priest of lhgebio, iu the diocese of Novara, is subjected to major excommunication for having published several works spirt the temporal sovereignty of the Pope. The Figaro-Prog►amme publishes the following curious detail :—" Alexaodre Dumas, the novelist, is no longer paid by the lien, but by the latter. Yes ! the ' San FOice,' which is now being published. is paid far at the rata of a centime a letter. We can guarantee the elactitude of this feet." The Seine, which was predicted by M. Mathieu (de L Drdme) to overflow its baulks at the end of the present month, has been (anise of Ltd. and is now as low as lm. 90c. above the ordinary level. That depth of water is most favourable for navipticio, which is going on with great activity. fieemaymtle 110.110;641 Giway 03.13 5 1461 Weals 30.0271 Cape Clear 39.90 65 MAW 47 lialybeed 20.111 reemheeke ,16.01 AO Penmen . :30.11 lt beet .. ate a L'Omeat ..... 10.24 46 Rochefort W.36 ell Plymouth MU 61 Weymouth 61' Portsmouth 30.10 0) Loofas 30.07 41 Dover 3O It 46 Tenon& Marb0r0agh....19.64 14 Oblate a.st 66 Zaidiatt .....11.10 arl 6011 DAT Of NONTEMPAI WoIOAT. B.S.W. to IS.N. W. salt COMM W. bo esessist baelt,trosh to why. with wale rai n Owes. As above. As above. Wlenzin. Al above . MoeLI. N.W. to S.W , fresh tie strong, some tale. W. to S. and to N., Storni:at W. to N., atm& fresh Co strong, lone equally. rata B.W. to N W., fresh, EASTIntn. W. to Y. sn.l bock, some esti'. strong, unsrttlsd. Northern e‘entland. Western= Ireland. Wales, opposite And adjacent ow kern =English Channel awl Biscay , Lay. Sastern.Zsatward England ana Malle. Adelina Patti and Mario are to appear in Paris is the course of the ensuing week. The sisters Mat shish, ere silo expected, and will appear in Senairam , de tee their de Jut. An Ostend letter mentions that during the late gal- not leu than nine fishing-baste belonging to that part were boat, fire of them with their satire crews, numboriai in all about 30 mow THE CHRIFITMAs ORDINATIONS.—At the general ordleatioes held in the various dioceses last *today morales 285 gentlemen were admitted respectively into the diaconate sad the priesthood. Of these there were—Of Cambridge, 117 ; °slued, 86 ; King's College, London , 15 ; 'frisky , 12 ; PA. Bats Divinity College, Cumber- Vanti e 2 ; University of Durham, 10 ; St. Alden 's Theolo gies. college. Birkesibead, 9 ; Cuildeaden The logical Col (diocese of Oxford), 7 ; Literate ponces, 5 • Lichfield Theological College, 3 ; University of Londosi, 3 ; 81. Mark's College. Chelsea, 2 ; Battersea Training College, I ; Nicolas Code" lamming (diocese of Chichester). l ; Chichester Theologi.2l College, 1 ; Queens College, Bir miagliam (diocese of Worcester), 1. CHELITMAS-DAY AT THE ORPHAN WORMED SCHOoL. IiAvIaIsTOCE•HILL. Yesterday was. happy dans this institatios. The large diniegessen, adapted for 400 chil dren, was festooned frau each comer to the metre, and gaily decorated with evergreens and flowers is all directiose. Oa the tables were Christmas trees ornameoted fal/y, sad besides, haslet& of oranges and sweets for ash child to have a goodly purlieu. Nor was this all, for a kind freed hangs gives some time mace a chilling to each child, this was reserved, with additiosal gifts, sad the whole expesided in toys and useful articles • and thew were en additional oraanieet to the tables whi'ch had to beer the weight of the liberal Christmas fare, of which the children partook with great relish. At the dipper a silver medal was permitted to the beet boy ie the school, left by an old scholar. Tile LEEDS MORDER.—REPRIEVE OY THE MOE DIME& —The Home Secretary (Sir George Grey) bee thought tit, on the recommendation of Mr. Jaskol Mellor, to grant a reprieve to Patrick Hirley, who mods sentenced to death for the murder at Leeds, on the 23rd of August last. The official intimation was received by the governor of York Castle yesterday morning, and not three or four days ago, as was premtturely aonounced by several of the pro iocial •• dailies which reach this city. The murderer's sentence, in all probability, will be commuted to penal servitude for life. The communication train the Hume Secretary merely states that the execution of the neatese* of death passed on the prisoner will be respited until the further signification of her Majesty's pleasure. Os Mr. Lowrie, the governor of the castle, communicating this information to kiir:ey he appeared very grateful, said declared that he was to such a state of intoxication at the time that be bad no recollection whatever of baying inflicted the fatal Wow on the unfortunate deceased.—York H. raleL Tar Patzs RING. FraTura PIOCIEDINEE aoatserr TNT PuGiLisTe.—A day or two since Jack Rook* was summoned before the reamstnites sitting in petty ses sions, at Idevaat, sad committed to take his uial for • breath of the peace on the occasion of big late fight with Patsy Hoarder', but he was admitted to bail. At the same petty serious Rooks was hoed s'. for an mouth apola e policestoostahle, and the Amount wee paid. The prcceed togs lasted several hour.. The principals (The Baker sad Joe Goes) ice the fight which came off at Woking on Thurs day, the 17th, will bebrougbtbe e fore the magiatautes this morning, for committing a breach of the peace on the thy named. THE ACADEMY OP COCK-CROW.—To speak of a musical endowment in poultry MOM ridiculous ' • yet poetry has turned the cock's crow into • song, • trumpet, • clarion • and the French always use " chaste?' es their version of " to crow." This is certain ' • the voices of cock+ vary se much, from tuneful to discordant, as the voices of good or bad singers. There are cocks who hare tenor voices, others who have the basso profited°. I milled one of my Co. hiss, Lablache, from hie deep yet cheery aote. Some like to lengthen out the last sot. in a 'estimate manser, which has its art. One of my feathered friends evidently imitates and vies with the reilway whistle, always beginning to crow when the whistle provokes it. On the other hand, others can never achieve a tuneful crow. That this is a defect in themselves, not in the race , is proved by the frequent falsity of the old proverb, • As the old cock crows, so crows the young one ;" for I have avows many of these young blood., with an admirable teacher in their sire, fail to do justice to his lemons. I had • Brahma (l.v the way. the Brahma' have generally meek stronger voices thee the Cochlea) which always fell a *smi te°. on the last note, and so ceded in a misorker, of a dimes! astute. There seem to be also fashions in morbid, set by some pert young springald, and becoming epidemic. All my young hauls one day altered their song—sot for the better— and I traced the charge to an infamous little dunghill eeek in the neighbourhood, who crowed short He bad evidently Net • bad fashion—always ea.ier to adopt thane ac fashion. It is very canons to observe an old bird t. a youag one to crow. he pot only makes the tiockeeed peat his frown separately, but sometimes, like a human musical professor teaching a pupil, in duo with himself. Whil e oft the subject of lb* real endowments of fowls, I may or n that that what is popularly called the cackling of • hen is partly achieved by her husband, who finishes the rejoicing strain, and comes up to time so neatly that few persona, I imagine, are aware that the cackle is not the work of one performer. Moreover. the cackle of the hem does sot always mese she bell laid an eu. It son:otiose' mama she is alarmed. A sudden fright will set the whole yard cackling. Ones • sponge of mine, blows by tho wind from a wiodow•ledge , excited fits of cordless cackling, as if all the haw bad laid at once.—.Dichrtir's " All the Year Bowed." _ _ — An enormous skate—a fish of the thornbselt speoss—wss caught off PortLod this week. It was 7 lasi long and 6 feet wide. In New Jersey they make bouquets out of bril liant coloured insects.— A mencun paper.