The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-19 00:00:00

/ 7_ l 7. 5 : 2 / 1 1.- OF — Z • • rt -s t rt 45 4 .411 "7 LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1867. N 0.6,668.3 [STAMPID, Id. [TWOVkIeE j. - INMAN LINE.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK. and PH ILADF.LPRIA COMPANY load despatching their full-powered Clyde-built iron germ mios hipi, carrying the United States Malls, calling at Queens lown. Ireland, on the following day, to take on bo.ni ers despatcho, and with liberty to call at as 'alarm port: CITY iir LIM KRICK. Saturday, December YE cat ow Ni ASIIINGTON. Wednesday, December SS. Alinl every Wednesday sad mammy. pegs :merge by the mall lb .steamer salting every Wednselay, 17. . d guineas, according to e accommodation. Forward I:llinAludes a full supply of cooked provna Pamengers :.d. ma the United States booked through on very &than untie. —For further particulars apply to WILLIAM QL 3igs. gt. Water-street, lAverpool ; and to RIM and MACXY, gbg Illiamotresk Leedom NORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICE. The full tieneet of the reduction of duty to la 61 per cent. ow e to insurers effecting pouches with this Company. IT this reduction and the BonasSystem of the Norwich Union, the cost of insurance Is reduced to a minimum amount. The rates id premium are In no case higher than those charged 1 1 the other principal offices giving no bonus to their Insurers. The duo psi,' to Government for the year late eras £61.15E lla . the amount insured on farming stock was 610,203,37 E. Fs p ro spectuses apply at the Society's Ounces, 50, Yteet-street, . and Surreyatreet, Norwich. scIENTIVIC aed MISCILLANZOUS APPARATUS. MK. J. C. STEVENS will BELL by AUCTION, at his Vreat Room $ B, King-street, Covent-garden , TO.MORPOW. Dec 20. ft halt-past 12 precisely, ant-rate DIisoLVING VIEW MAGIC LA M'N, with a great variety of well painted dldrs, twn expensive panoramas, several capital mask al boles. breech loading guns, n a crosco p es , tekueope.. opera and race glasses, cameraa and lenses, and other photographic apparatus. k le,trical and galvanic apparatus, to.—On view the ineneagef sale, and cataloger had. KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, MSS. This celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN TIME MEDAL—It is pure, =Ltd, mellow, delkious, and very wholesome. Sold In bottles, Si. ltd. each, at the retail houses In London by the agents In the principal towns In England or wholesale at S, Great Windmill-street, London, w.—ohe e eee the red seal, pink label, and cork blinded ••Kinahan's LL Whisky. rro HOTEL KEEPERS and large CONSU J. The Cheapest House in London for YOULTRY, GAME, and all kinds of DAIRY VROGITCK. Wiltshire Bacon, by *le or half-side Good family Cheese 7tl. to 74.1. per lb. line Culture Cheese: Bisl. per lb. Port, KlCtry, and (lame are now eery cheep. W. and J. LTA YIAtICS, 35, little Fulteney-street,Goldenssquare. Estabtlehed Half a Century. grtANDLES.—If you do not want your candles exclusively for show, but with pleasantness of appearance require exceUeuce of burning, buy "PRICE'S OOLD MEDAL PALMITIN E, ' or their "Sherwood Palmitin.," or their good old•fashloncl "Belmont Sperm," or "Belmont Wax," or their Best," .• Nu. X,* " No. 3," or " Battersea" Composite, In prefer ence to the nuest, and most transparent Parailine Candles But if you mast have the extreme transparency of pure Parafilne, "Price's Paraffin." or their " Belmontine" will give It to you In perfection, and at a more moderate pVrice than Is usually charged for any other really fest-class Paraens Candles The new toilet wasp " PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE," containing half its weight of their concentrated distilled Glyce rine, should he In general use In every house before the winter comes on, because of Its admirable elf eels in preventing chapping of the hands and face. In every house there ought also to be one of the sealed bottles of their concentrated Distilled Glyee rine, known everywhere as „ Price's Olpoenne," and prescribed by the most eminent medical men abroad as well as at home, as the one only Glycerine for medicinal use whether externally PRICE'. FANCY SOAPS of the different sorts usually made am excellent. and command a constantly Increasing sale. The "Solidified Glycerine" spoken of above is, however, the one fancy seep to use. PRISE'S NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS," for burning In the wide Masse*, are believed to be the very best night liable made. "Price's t Midi' Night Lights," for burning without glasses, and their different sorts of • Chamber Candles" are so well known, and so generally need and appcedated as not to need say special notice here. CAr(CANDLES. —A Hint to Purchasers.—Do not ake sure th.it you know what price you are paying per Imid for your candles until you have stripped them and put le the scale. Some candles are right weight without the IRS some with moderately thick wrappers, some with very Ykk wrapper" and some are not nearlight weight with :17r is however tllicit PRICE'S "GO LD SIEDAL PAULl "Sherwood Palmitin'," "Belmont Sperm," and "Bel. moot Wax," "Best," " No. 2," " No. h." and ' Battersea" Composite', "Price's Panama," and " Belmontine," and all the other candles of Price's Patent Candle Company (Limited), are till weight without the wrappers. OHRISTMAS.—Another Novelty in Candlea.— vv PATENT PAKII-COLOCIUD CANDLES, l awn& or stripes, Mike°, Green. Mauve or Amber. Moe b. 6d. per lib. box of four camiles.sa amid M the Clfte Beseptiee of She &San, and at the Lord Maroes BaNust. Vey be obtained of all dealers in tow newt country wiiMmal• of J. C. and J. FIELD, Upper Marsh, Lambeth, Loudon. PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE (Patented).—Oold medal, Paris 1987.—The newest and best toilet soon, wears well. gives a rich and fngrsnt lather, Is methyl, tree hem cocoa nut oil or suer of alkali, and coolants half Its weight of Price's distilled glycerine. Retailed by all chemists, grocers, fie., In 4d. and &L tablets. PRICES PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (baited), Sebum% Works, Battersea. &W. TarHER and ()LENNY, 017171717E8. establishment In London, nut door to Soutane. Mau elrand. N.& Lista of atoosetry outfit for every purpose sawarded d appoint on ap ment to Iplication. ndia, MINN sod We Colonies, will be for- WINTER OVERCOATS. lOS, STRAND, OPPOSITE EXETER-HALL. o=attention is given In this Establahment to WINTER Ars, and n select stock is always kept on band at HAMILTON sad ILIIIPTOWS, TAILORS and OVIROUAT-lIALERS. VHRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S V GIFTS fur all who court the gay and festive ocean.— ROWLAIY DR JUACAnskit OIL, a preserver and beautifyer of the hair beyond ail precedent. Rowlands' Kalydor, fur Impart /us a radiant bloom to the complexion and a softness and deli. racy to the hands, arms, and neck. Rowlands' Odonto, or Pearl Diontitrice, fur giving a pearl like whiteneu to the teeth, and frit. =to the breath. The patronage of royalty throughout , their general use by rank and fashion, and the tinker- STiflyTmoira enemy of these articles, give them a celebrity tin peraßeled.—liiild by chemists and perfumers.—Ask for Row lands " articles. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, In Wet tual remedy, without confining the bowels or at Whig the bead, truly metcacions and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, costumed cams of asthma, and Incipient consumption. It Un quietly cores persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. la approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial _blown deprived of sleep, or men lying down for fear of sulfas leek may depend on mild in a few minute. after taking W— lo peted ooly aid sold by W. LAMBILBT chemist. 8, K lag Wt. Lbaringeross, London, and by all druggists, In lis ih rea law 4d, and three QQuantities In one, b. 9d. lie particular V ask for Lambert's Ashmatlo Bahasa Ilse nom* eml address ileiersual r.n the stamp. LAITUE.—The Lrrrucz oOntaina an active pie, the lonicins, Mikis penman all the soothing nplam without its demesne—J4.o. JOZEAU, French 40, Haymarket, prepense a Syrup and a rate o f Loan* Or Waal), highly recommended by the 31edical Yrelenuonlor 401111 ._ Whom, bronchatla, and all abut affectioes. Syrup, to. M.. me. le lid. ond to. M. hill, by peek la. Old sad M. OZEAU'S COPAIIINIC.—In chronic or recent diseases a cure is effected In an avenge of six days. fflntored by the Parts Phyinclane Acedemy --Mold by all re steetab • chemists, 4s. ed. General Depot, 49 , Haymarket. Leedom ; at O. Joseao, the only Preach chemist with the ffkionta of the Paris School of Pharmacy. WARNING hy the CLERKENWELL EXPLOSION.—f• BUILDER of this week, 4d., or by Pata, °muds' Moo Views and Plan of a Gentleman's Ka ickne—"Orry" Towers—Dangers of the Viten Islands— ,_lrorkmen's Th anes and Cholera — The Liverpool Competition— '.°ollll,ll.„_ Houses Paris Exhibition sod Birmingham—The .__.cmoaa of the tkrkenwell Explorion—Mkew Arches—Malta, „ . .n t 'erC, and other Articles, with all the news, sanitary, artls ot. and social —l, York•trent, Coveat-marden, and all newsmen. THE LITE TAILORN' STRIKE. —The annual meet ing of the London Operative Tailors' Association was held het sight at the Cambridge-hall, Newman-street, Oxford lariat ; Mr. George Druitt, the president, in the chair. About 1,000 members were present, every one being strictly excluded wlasio card of membership WY not clear since the termination of the strike. In the course of the pro inedinp the balanoe-sheet of the strike fund was read. It 'hewed that the subscriptions received bad been 11,300 f, nf which stun the Provincial Amalgamated Tailors' Society had contributed the London tailors in work 2,413 W., tad the Loo 100 and provincial trade societies 5,2171., the balance being made up by sundry miscellaneous subscrip iintn. The sum o f 15,6811. b a d b een pa id to t h e men on *lke from April to October, the remainder of the 17 , 30 0/. with the exception of the balance of 8/. in hand, having been paid for law expenses and other inci dentals eat:beefed with the strike. A LITERoAT AT TILL CRTNTAL PALACE. —The In erYvtal Palace directors have applied to the National Life boat stitution to place in the central transept of the Palace, during the ensuing Christmas holidays, one of its San sew lifeboat., like those which have been doing such food work in the recent storms. The committee of the lifeboat Society have complied with this request, and or kullements ere accordingly now being made to send to the Palate a fully equipp.d lifeboat, mounted on its trans teng writ . A somewhat similar boat was exhibited tte Pull Universal Exhibition during the past summer. THE FIRE IN LINCOLN'N-INN.—We are requested it state that the premises of Messrs. Davis and Son, thory-street, sustained no injury from the Are which Go tland la Lincoln's.inn on Tuesday night, TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (mitre TZLZOZAML.) FRANCE. PARIS, Dr.c. 8, EVENING. In speaking of the important debate at present in progress in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the bulletin of the Mouiteur du Soir alludes to the quiet tone displayed by the great majority of the speakers. "It may be hoped," says the writer, "that Italy, understanding her interests and her duties, will respect the engagements she has con tracted, and will devote her strength to the develop. ment of her prosperity." La France says that the offers of the Italian alliance have not met with a favourable reception at Berlin and St. Petersburg. Italy would now base certain hopes upon the eventual accession of General Ignatieff to the ministry, as he is said to represent a more decided policy in the relations of Russia with foreign powers. It Is stated that Baron Budberg will leave on Saturday. - ITALY. FLORENCE, Drc. 18. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day, Signor Rattazzi accused the ministry of only having published such documents upon late events as place the policy of the Rattazzi cabinet in an unfavourable light. He requested General Menabrea to lay on the table all documents which concerned the events of the last few months of the Rattazzi administration. He was equally grieved and astonished at the justification by the minister and his friends of the French intervention without a word of protest. The late government had struggled to the last against the Garibaldian movement, and had employed all possible means to prevent it. It believed the movement inopportune, and not calculated to attain its object, besides pre judicing the sale of the ecclesiastical property. Relative to the means of going to Rome, he would meet Signor Menabrea's general question by an equally general reply. " I wished," said the speaker, " to go to Rome by means permitted by our right without compromising order at home, or our foreign relations : I believe that moral means are useful as preparatory to a great act ; but it is vain to hope to obtain a final result from them. We must be prompt to try an opportune moment. Order and financial prosperity are not sufficient to bring us to Rome. Ido not feel bound to specify what moments or circumstances I should consider propitious. Relative to the September Convention, I would observe that treaties between two powers, one weak and the other strong, should never be in the least degree ambiguous, as the weaker power must in case of contro versy accept the interpretation of the stronger." Signor Rattazzi regretted that one consequence of the convention was to allow foreigners to interfere in internal affairs, and to give information, warn ing, and advice. The convention having been made, should be respected, but the question arises, by what means 1 They could not arrest Garibaldi or his followers for a simple declaration of a wish to commit an illegal aet, and, being responsible to parliament for the violation of the law, it was impos- sible to adopt the measures recommended by the French envoy. Signorßattazzi,who was prevented by indisposition from proceeding, will continue his speech to-morrow. He spoke with great energy, and was frequently interrupted by clamorous applause on the left, and by the public in the gal lery. Signor Nicotera disavowed the anti-mo narchical principles attributed to the volunteers by Signor Mari and General Menabrea. The debate will be resumed to-morrow. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Dec. IR. In to-day's sitting of the House of Representa tives the report of the committee on the Army Bill was presented. _ . . The report concludes with a recommendation that the actual contingent should be provisionally main tained. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Dsc. IS. At the sitting of the Upper House of the Prus sian Diet to-day the bill upon the union of the Supreme Court and the Chief Court of Appeal came on for debate. The committee recommended that the bill should not be passed at present. The Minister of Justice supported the bill. Count von Bismarck urgently advocated the acceptance of the bill, upon political grounds. The government would be compelled to cast the responsibility of the evils arising from throwing out the bill upon those who opposed the attempt to bring about the union. Upon the votes being taken, by calling over the names of the members, the bill was rejected by 42 to 33 votes. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Die. I% Count Banal, the Italian Ambassador, has arrived here to present his letters of recall. His excellency will then repair to his new poet at Brussels. General Cialdini, his successor at this court, will probably be detained for some time in Florence. The Presse considers it probable that Baron Magnus, formerly Prussian Ambassador to the late Emperor Maximilian, and now recently returned from Mexico, will succeed Baron Werther as the representative of Prussia at this court. SPAIN. MADRID, Die. 18. _ . The Gazette of to-day publishes an official list of the victims of the recent hurricanes and inunda tions of Purto Rico and in the Philippine Islands. The number of dead at Porto Rico is given as 158 ; at the Philippine Islands, 595. The Progressist journals Iberia and Noredades have been authorised to reappear on the Ist of next. THE WEST AFRICAN AND TENERIFFE MAILS. Jaw The mail steamer Ethiope, with the above mails, arrived at Liverpool last night. Her dates are Fer nando Po, Nov. 18th ; Cameroons, 9th; Bonny, 12th ; Lagoa, 13th ; Cape Palmas, 17th ; Teneriffe, 20th ; and Madeira, Bth inst. She brings 300 ozs. of gold and 5,000 sovereigns in specie. Fernando Po and Cameroon were considered healthy. At Benin trade was interrupted by the war between the rival chiefs. A gunboat was got ready to pro : tact the traders. The King of Porto Nova had expelled the Wesleyan missionaries. CILIrrfAL PALACIO. - 0/41 SITLLING DAT.- WEDII=DAY. Dic. 18. Admissions as yoym .at, 443 ; MN by soma tisbeir, 1408; total ',fajta", 1,651. THE CLERKENWELL OUTRAGE. Yesterday afternoon a fully attended and excited meet ing of the representative vestry of St. Pancras was held la the Vestry-ball at Camden-town, when the subject of the late outrage in Clerkenwell was brought under consider* tion. Mr. Churchwarden Fatale, prodded, and Mr. Platy, the vestry clerk, read a communication from the Home Secretary, stating that as it is possible, owing to the de signs of wicked and evil-disposed persons, that the ordinary police force may at the present time be found insufficient in number to perform the duties required of it, he had instructed the magistrates of the police courts to afford facilities for swearing in special constables, and request- ing the vestry to lose no time in inviting all well-disposed persons to come forward and enrol themselves as epeohd constables, and to grant the use of the Vestry-hall for the swearing-in of persons who offer to serve. Severe speeches condemning in unmeasured terms the per petration of the late outrage were delivered, and the following resolution was carried unanimously :—" That this vestry desire to express to the government their entire abhorrence of the recent dastardly proceedings that have disturbed the public peace, whereby the lives of many of her Majesty's subjects have been sacrificed and others injnred i and Riede thamolroa to rend assistance in their power in supporting the government la the maintenance of public order." As Vestry-ball was also granted to Dr. tankesfer, the ootoooraor holding the adjourned inquest on Friday week on one el the indexers ; and during the sitting of the vestry great excitement was created by the attendance of large bodies of young men ' who had been sworn in as constables applying for their batons, of which there are many hundreds in readiness to be delivered as they are applied for and the constables show their certificate. The reported arrest of a suspected Fenian neer the City of London Gas Works occasioned a little excitement fat that locality last evening. It seems that about 8 o'clock a well-dressed man, of gentlemanly appearance, entered the Rose and Crown public•house, Dorset-street, opposies the gas works referred to, and neer which, It is said, be bad been observed walking for some time previously. On entering the house he called for a glass of something to drink, and gave money to a number of working man who were in front of the bar to regale themselves. From his singular conduct the landlord, Mr. Bates, refused to serve him with more liquor, and after this refusal the customer took from his pocket a seven-chamber revolver and flourished it about. His exo traordinary behaviour induced the landlord to send for th police, and two constables were quickly in attendant* and took the man in custody. At the police-station in Fleet- 1 street he produced a pocket-book, and a card, representing himself as a brother to a solicitor is Bedford•row, and in other particulars gave what was considered a satisfactory 1 account of himself, and the inspector, did not feel *stifled in detaining him. The revolver was given back to him. but some cartridges found in his pockets were detained by the police. He is said to be an American, and had been in England about three years. It is supposed that be had been drinking. We have received the following additional particulars of the attack on the prison :—About nine o'clock on Friday morning the governor ordered the cleaning of the prison to be stopped, and the officers to proceed at once to the ' yards, with their prisoners, for exercise. When the warder in charge went to that prisoner's cell, Burke asked, " Why am I brought out before the usual time r The warder lightly answered him, and ordered him to the yard. A change came over his countenance, and he ap peared dejected, pound his teeth, and clenched kis furls,' , at the same time casting furtive glances to No. 7, Corporation-lane, where Crowley, one of the officers, noticed several men and women in the top room, which caused him to call the attention of the governor and chief warder to the fact. When the prisoners returned to their cells from exercise. Burke was, transferred from the cell which he had occupied to another, and three times during that day be Iry re moved, in order to baffle his friends as to his whereabouts. About a quarter past 3 is the afternoon of Friday last the governor (Captain Oodd) paraded the officers of the prison, and gave separate instructions to each man how as he was to set, in the event of attempt being made to obtain acmes to the prison over the exterior or boundary wall. The officers then took up their positions in the top octagon rooms, giving them a perfect view all over the exterior of the prison, each man being armed with a revolver and a carbine and twenty rounds of ball cartridge. The positions were not taken up many minutes when Crowley noticed • man on the top of a house overlooking the prison yard where Burke usually took exercise, and he answered the description subs.. quently forwarded. Crowley reported the circumstance to the governor, and to Moore, the chief warder. About twenty minutes to four Crowley saw • woman open the window of • top room in the house where the man was seen, and three men were there. They all seemed excited, and occasionally looked at the place where the explosion occurred, a few minutes afterwards, hurling the officers about, and blowing the carbines out of their hands. The prisoners were highly excited. They beat the cell doors with their stools, and kicked and shouted for maistance. Order and dis cipline was speedily restored among the officers, and Mr. Perryman, the clerk of the prison, arrived with a loaded carbine in his hand, as had also Dr. Smiles, the surgeon to the prison, who was vary instrumental In allaying the fears of the prisoners, as they thought they' were being fired upon or the prison being blown up. Immediately after the explosion the governor called a parade, and asked for six volunteers to guard the breach in the wall which had been blown away, himself taking the lead. No police had then arrived. The inquisitive public were shown out of the yard, and told if they attempted to enter over the boundary wall they would be fired upon. This kept the mob back until the arrival of the police. The following story of a plot to blow up Millbank prison is published by a contemporary :—" Early yesterday morn ing two of the Thames police, on duty near Vauxhall bridge, immediately above Millbank, saw • small boat coming up the river, and stopping opposite the end of the prison next the bridge. Watching the movements of the boat, they observed two men leaving it, and curious to know what the later were about at that time and place, they made for them, in order to question them. The men bad no sooner no ticed I the police than they entered the boat, palled off the river bank, evidently intending to make off, but, after a moment's hesitation, evidently deeming terra firma safer for them, they pulled beck to the shore, and fled down the river side, soon disappearing in the darkness. The con stables, seeing pursuit useless, took possession of the boat. On searching it, underneath some tarpaulin, • keg of gun powder, containing about Gffib., was found. Their discovery was communicated at once to their superior officers, and an instant search was ordered of every spot of ground around the prison The hunt for fresh traces was continued for some time, when a constable who had entered an old and disused sewer announced another discovery. He had come upon a keg of the same size, containing the same quantity of gunpowder as the first, concealed a few yards from the mouth of the sewer. The mystery of the men and the boat wee at once explained. This sewer, which falls into the river, formed at one time the main drainage of Millbank pri son. For some time, however, it had been blocked up, the sewage being conveyed now into' one of the drains of the metropolitan system. It had evidently been ' prospected' as far as the conspi rators could go, and their purpose probably was to mine through the wall that blocked it up, and then at some suitable time blow up the prison. So far sa we know there is small chance of tracing those engaged in the plot. There is no name on the boat, but it is ex- j pected the owner of it will be found. Should the clue s fail here, the sagacity of the police, having nothing to work upon, will be baffled, as they seem ill this instance to have bad no warning a any intention to attack the prison. A strong body of pnffice, armed with cutlasses and revolvers, are now on guard within the octagon, and outside the walls." . . _ At the ordinary meeting of the Edinburgh Town Council on Tuesday, the Lord Provost, before the ordi nary business was begun, took occasion to refer to the Fenian outrage in London on Friday last, and expressed, in the name of the corporation and community of Edin- burgh, the deep abhorrence they entertained of the con duct of a band of traitorous and merciless conspirators. Anything more atrocious, be said, had not occurred in our tame ; and as the crime wee great, he could only trust that the punishment would be strict and unhesitating. He hoped the government would not flinch from their duty in the matter, and went on to my that all rebellious demonstrations and outward tokens of sympathy with mardsrus mast be put down with igour. His lordship concluded by referring to the grati fying fact that them was no appearance of Fenian conspi racy, or even of sympathy with Fenians, in Edinburgh and at the same time stated that, by the Provisional Order obtained last year, no procession whateverwas legal in the city without the sanction of the magistrates. The remarks of the Lord Provost elicited warm marks of approbation from all the members of council. TO THI ZDITOR 01 THE IXPRZBS. SlR,—The Central Committee will feel obliged by your kindly announcing the following subscriptions re ceived.—l am, Etc., ROBERT PAOET, Vestry Clerk and Hon. Secretary. The Marquis of Northampton, 100/. ; M. S., 501. ; a lady near Grosvenorequare, 21. ; Sir William Martins, 100/. ; T. W. N., ls. 6d. ; Mr. P. Carenove, 51. ; Mr. W. Nichol son, M.P., 10/. 104. ; Mr. Henry French, 11. ; Mr. Thomas Hyde Mills, 101.10 a. ; Sir Roderick Murchison, 6/. ; A. R., 10/. ; Mr. George Nicholas, 22 Sie ; F. J. L, Post-office, 2s. 6d. ; Mr. John Ball (per the Tilton), 51. ; M. C. IL, IL Is. ; Mrs. S., se. ; Hears. Watney and Keene, 21.25. ; Mr. J. H. Hutchinson, 11. ; Mr. Philip Hardwick, 6/. ; Miss Arden. 15/. ; Lieut.-General Sir Edward Macarthur, 51. ; Mr. B. H. S. Campbell 5/. ; Hare.oourt Chapel, Canonbari t Sunday evening eollsotioADes. 15 (per Rev. Dr. Ral ), 151. 15a. ; Thomas Albert (cabman), le. ; Margaret lichen, sa. ;M. M. se. ;A. F. H., la.: Mr. Edward Gotto, 31. 3e. ; Martha B. Pugh, 6/. ; J. K. L, 31. ; the Misses Widnell, 1011. ; a Friend, Is. ; e Policeman, Is. ; Mn. Burrell, 51. ; Mr. J. thogook, 1 0a.: 27 Friends at the Bricklayers' Arms, Edward-strea, Sehg, lir It& ; the Hee- Mr Armenia, Oct., 51. ,• M. Y. it, 10/4 DunOss Bet, ool Children, St. Paul's, Clerkanwell, 10s. ; A Wiao*, Sf aii,; Mr. W. W. Kerslake, 2/. ; Miss Ward, 11. ; Miss Morris, 101. ; Mr. Thomas Kinder, 21. 2e. ; Mr. George Hughes, 11. ; sion Room, Clerkenwell, per Rev. B. Oswald Sharp, 101 ; Mr. W. Wilson, 101. ; Mies Shipley, 101. ; J. Oliver, Guild ford-street, 21. 2s. ; Messrs. Buller and Hutchinson (in cluding 3/. 18e. from assistants and workmen), 6/. ; Mr. Alderman Lusk, M.P., 101. 10e. ; Mr. Tonens, M.P., 101. 10s. ; Messrs. Bonlion and Sons, 10/. 10e. ; Mr. E. J. Thompson, Si. 5a ; Mr. Churchwarden Wilcock, 51. ss. ; Mr. Churchwarden Nunn, 51.5 a. ; Messrs. H. Holland and Son, 51. ss. ; Mr. T. Dix, F.R.G.S., AmweU-street, Si. 54.; Mr. W. Winn, Curtain-read, Shoreditch, 2/. 2s. ; Mr. J. W. Robyn, St. Jarose's-plane, 21.25. ; Spa-field's Chapel, per B e v. Mr. Thoresby, 12/. ; Messrs. Salmon, Upper -street, ss. ; Mr. Watson, 24, King-street. le. ; Col lected at Mrs. Stone's, Bird-in-Hand, 17e. ,• Mr. G. Silver side, 21s. ; Mr. C. H. Silvendde, 21. 2s. ; Mr. I. Phillips, self and friend, Si. 2s. ; Mr. B. Marriott, kaglon-house, Highbury, 215.; Woodbridge Chapel, per Rev. Mr. Luckin , 101.10 s. ; Mr. Piokburn, proprietor of the Clerhswell News, 1001. ; Mr. W. M. Wortley, Si. 54.; Mr. C. F Wilson, 2/.25.; Mr. A. Nelson, se. ; Mr. Dethridge, Vestry-hall, 51. ; Mrs. Veaney, la. ; Mr. T. Pace, Great Sattimetreet, 21s. ; Mr. G. Brooke, Myddleton-equare ls. ; Mr. Collins, Little Frederick-place, Southwark-bridge-road, profit on sale of papers, 4d. ; Dr. Macaldin, 11. le. ; Mr. Mannerin, Penton-ctreet, 10s. 6d. ; Mr. Jackson, St. John-street, 104. ; Mr. W. Gillingwater, Goswell-road, 2/. 2s. ; Mr. J. W. Franklin, Chapel-street, 2/. ; Mr. Dewsnap, St. John-street, Si. 6s. ; Mr. Chubb, Exmouth-street, 21. 2s. ; Mr. Atkinson, 62, Pentonville-road, 10s. ; collected at door of School-rooms, Amwell-street, after public meeting, 61. 17r. ; Mr. 0. B. Holliday, Upper Charles-street, 2/. 2e. ; Mr. Berm Amw4Jl-street, 51. se. ; Mr. Bevan, 21s. ; Mr. Grover, 3/. 3a. ; Mr. Henry King, churchwarden of St. Mark's, 21s. ; Mr. W. Slater, e.hurchwarden of St. Mark's, 20s. ; Mr. G. Sankey, 215.; Mr. Rodolph Sankey, 21. 2s. ; Mr. Penrose, 21a. ; Mr. Henry Johnson, 1/. L. ; Dr. Ilanisbottorn 21s. ; Mr. G. Layevell, 215.; Mr. R. H. Jones, 21. 2s. ; Vi ca r. Henry Stanton, F.R.G.S., 21s. THE DISCOVERY OF A FENIAN PLOT AT WOLVERHAMITON. WOLVERHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY. The document discovered yesterday is found to be no hoax, its authenticity having been established by indisputable information obtained to-day con firmatory of the planned simultaneous Fenian attack on the militia armouries throughout Eng land. Further communications have taken place between the mayor, chief constable, and the county authorities, and the necessary steps have been taken to render the plot abortive. 1 TILE FENLLN PROSECUTIONS IN DUBLIN. DUBLIN, WitortmenAy Mawr. Mr. John Martin, Dr. Waters, and Mr. Lalor were committed for trial at the next commission, but admitted to bail in their own recognisance ff of 5001. each. In the comes of the proceedings yesterday, Mr. Murphy Q.C., addressing the bench, said—l see Mr. Sullies= here, and some other gentlemen who were here yesterday, and complained of being summoned to attend, and I am de , sired by the Attorney-General to state that he regrets that they were served, and that he never gave directions that any one individual in that procession should be served ; nor did any one under him give directions either. The matter occurred in this way. General directions were given to the police to establish that four gen. tlemen who were summoned took an 'active part in the procession. The police have in all these cases exercised their own discretion as to the wit 'lessee to be called. They are scarcely ever named to them, for the parties acting for the crown counsel know who they are, and the police thought it might be necessary to summon persons who actually themselves took part in the procession, but there never was an intention on the ' pert of any one acting on behalf of the crown to produce as , • witness any person who was in that procession taking a part in it. Mr. Dix—So far as the magistrates are concerned, they know anything about the witnesses who are sum moned when signing the summons. In fact if the wit messes were in Jamaica he would sign the summons an • matter of course, on the responsibility of the person put ting it before him. Mr. Sullivan—l thank your worship and Mr. Murphy, and I think it will be men that but for your forbearance and courtesy, which allowed me to make a protest, the Attorney-General would not have had the opportunity of making a disclaimer, which I think it becomes the dignity of the government to make in this case. The aspect of the case yesterday was VOl7 grievous towards Sir John ' Gray, M.P., towards myself, end towards other men. My brother, who was also summoned, was the only gentleman who signed the placard who gave his address in full in the papers, and he was not summoned as • principal, but aa a wit ness, when he desired to stand by Mr. Martin's side in the dock, if it came to that. (Applause.) Mr. Allen--I am glad that this satisfackny explanation I has been made. I am of opinion that if a man has • ground of complaint the sooner it is out the better, if it is well founded ; and equally so if it is not well founded, for then it can be explained. lam the more desirous that this should be set right, because there was a very strong popular feeling against the parties being brought here at aIL ( Het r, hear.) Mr. Sullivan—Especially as public journalists. I THREATENED FENIAN ATTACK UPON KIREDALL GAOL—Captain Gibbs, the governor of Kirkdale Gaol, Liverpool, has just received a communication to the effect that the Fenian contemplate an attack upon the gaol, the means to be employed in the attack being Greek, or Fenian fire." It is said that the court house and the governor's house are first to be destroyed. As soon as Captain Gibbs was informed of the intended attack he at once made preparations for the defence of the prison. Officers are appointed to watch the gaol, the guards are doubled at various points, and every step that prudence suggests has been taken to insure the safety of the prison and the inmates. If the information received be genuine the attack can only be suggested with one object—a reck less destruction of life and property, as there are no Fenlans in the gaol to liberate. In connection with the proposed Fenian procession at Liverpool last Sunday, at the usual nightly parade meeting of the Liverpool pollee on Tuesday night an order was read from the Mayor thanking the police for the services rendered on the occa sion,and intimating that the Watch Committee had ordered an extra day's pay to every man in the force in apprecia tion of their conduct on Sunday. Fear!Artier.' 1r IRELAND.—It is mentioned by the Cork Examiner that " General" J. J. O'Connor, the Cabirciveen Fenian leader, has been again seen in the neighbourhood of Killarney. Had the procession of last Sunday at Queenstown not been suppressed, it was intended to have introduced into it the novel feature of coffins exposed to view in the mock hearses, and these coffins were already purchased for the purpose. At the Devonshiie Arnie Hotel, in Yougbal, a dinner has taken plow, at which several relatives of the " martyrs" were entertained, along with the sister of the Fenian farmer O'Neill Crowley, slain at Kileloooey Wood. The Rev. Mr. Lynch, catholic curate, occupied the rice chair. At Macroom the Rey. Mr. Cullinane, P.P., having, in an address after mar, advised the people not to walk added that the populace had already achieved a virtual t riumph over the government, which had been obliged to have recourse to prohibitory measures against free opinion. THE RICZNT BRIZURR or ARMS AT MANCMFATRR. —The two men, William Pherson Thompson and William Hogan, were a ge brought up on remand at Manchester, charged with being concerned in the illegal possession of Ilre-anna, and with having taken part in the attack on the =z ed n and the murder of Berge's, Brett. Han was • ; but Thompson was committed for trial at the ' MMUS on Os later sharp. MR.W.E. GLADSTONE AT OLDHAM. (TXON OUS OWN COSINSPONDINT.) OLDHAM, WIDNIUSDAT AFTERNOON. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., visited Oldham to-day, and met with an enthusiastic reception. He arrived at the Victoria station, Manchester, on Tues d►y afternoon, accompanied by his son, Mr. W. H. Glad none, M.P., and was met there by Mr. John Platt, M.P., Mr. George Wilson, and Mr. Alderman Mines, President of the Wameth Mechanics' Institution, the opening of which was the main purpose of his visit to Oldham. The right hon..pntlauran proceeded to Oldham the same after noon, and is the guest of Mr. Platt, M.P., during his stay in the neighbourhood. A party of gentlemen of the neigh bourhood were invited to meet him at dinner, among whom were Mr. E. Watkin, M.P., and Mr. Manifold, M.P. Yesterday morning Mr. Gladstone went to the Hartford Works, belonging to Platt Brothers and Co. ; and otter wards visited the Bun Mill, Middleton, occupied by a co operative option manufactory company. The right hon. gentlemannext visited the cooperative sterna King-street, where an illumin►ted address was presented to him jointly by the "Industrial" and " Equitable" Cooperative societies. The address set forth that the co-operators viewed labour as the parent of wealth, earl were of opiates that the happiness of anises depended set upon the amount, but upon the dbtributlon of wealth. oe-opera ell4 artigi. ; s ee were steps to this end. Mutual 00-operation was as f ar i n glance of unrestricted individual competi tion as tbat was in arum of forced or slave labour ; it was also the mediator hairnet: capital end "beer. The two es-operative societies is Oldho." began business December, 1860. During the lief gm years .:.tile Mews was made. The number of members now was 4,t0k1, iii presenting a population of 20,000 ; the capital was 65,000/., and the sales during the present year had been 200,000/. They had eight free newsrooms and a library, and a penny savings bank for the children, 1,200 of whom had 1,0001. invested. Mr. Gladstone went through the store and the newsroom, and expressed himself highly gratified at the success of these self-helping institutions ; they were most excellent, and everyone must wish them well. Mr. Glad stow promised to give his attention to a grievance of the societies in having to make income tax returns, when the societies were exempted from payment of the tax. At one o'clock Mr. Gladstone received an address from the Mayor and Corporation, in the Town-hall, where he was welcomed by a large amemblage. Mr. PONI4ONBT, the town clerk, read the addrens, as follows : TO TUI 11011 T HON. 1 , 37.1A11 ETAT, WANTON; M.T. file,—We, the mayor, 'Mermen, and burgers* of the borough of Oldham, beg to offer you a respectful and cordial welcome on your first visit to this part of your important constituency. We also desire to express our high appreciation of the distinguished honour yen have done us by your preset)* here, and of the graceful and fitting manner in which you, an accomplished scholar—(hear, hear)--propose to mark your visit, by inaugu rating a new educational institute, dasise , il specially for the working population ; and by dlatribu the prises to the students In the Science and Art ooL (Cheers.)) We take this opportunity to record our hint admiration of the eminent and distinguished services you have rendered la themotion of many wise and beneficial measures designedfor the social, commercial, and religious freedom of **people. Your able and eloquent advocacy, always marked by conviction and sincerity—;"h ear, d bear," and cheers)—in the cause of liberty ; In promo enlightened fiscal changes, now universally recognised as fo nd on the trued wisdom ; la ex tending commercial intercourse between this country and France ; In the cause of parliamentary reform ; and In all other measures having for their object the elevatius of the people, cannot fail to secure for you the lasting admit-atom and esteem of a grateful nation. (" Heir," and cheers ) A reformed parliament wfil speedily be called upon to deal with pies/ tons pressing for solution, and vital to the interest, of the State. Amongst those holding the foremost place may be en unierated education. the con dition of Ireland, and national expenditure. When the time arrives for grappling with these questions, we shall look to find you in the van of those who assume as their motto—" The greatest good tot the greatest number." (Cheers.) Then we trust may again be made available In the cause of right those peat powers with which Providenos has endowed you—an elcepsence powerful to I away a mmate—an intellectual acumen penetrating as o= bend*, and a moral force not the less felt beaus a.b (Hear, hear.) May the Atheism long spare you in health and bsllDaan (brar, bearl—may you enjoy • es weer of t and undiminished essfuhsees, end may yes Tease the delkity ',Web ever awaits • life devoted as yours kse been to its *entry's highest interests i t Ch T eses.) Given under our cor porate common seal, this el teenth day of December, one thowiand eight hundred and 40•111. (Loud applause.) Mr. GLADSTONE, in the 11001114 of his reply, said—l want now rather to make a charge against the com mercial and trading classes of this country. Within the last twenty years they have got a vast deal richer than they were before, and having become so much richer—l cannot but make this charge—they have become a great deal more indifferent than they were about economy. (Hear, hear.) Now, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, that is wrong. It is wrong because it is our duty not merely to consider ourselves, but to consider how taxes affect the great mass of the community. Much as their condition has been improved of late years, it is not so im proved but that it ought to be improved a great deal more. And, moreover, there are large portions of the population with respect to whom, although there has been an im provement—l don't mean in your district, but elsewhere— that improvement has been comparatively slight. But if we were ever so rich, if every man in the country from the lowest upwards had, at any rate, the humblest idea of wealth that we can give—an ample sufficiency for himself and his family—for food, raiment, education, and the cultivation of his mind—and we are infinitely far from that point —even if we had attained to that, still economy of the national expenditure ought to be prose cuted and pursued, because public economy is associated with public virtue, and extravagance in public establishments is associated with jobbery and extension of political vices of every kind. (Continued cheers.) With respect to education we have got other places to devote to that subject to-day, and therefore I will not touch upon it here further than to say that I think you have shown a very sound judgment in giving to it the prominent place that you have done among the subjects that demand public attention, and the attention of the government and the legislature ; nor can I deny, with the feelings that I entertain, that you have been right, and I would almost say more than right—you have only discharged an imperative duty in referring to the condition of Ireland. We have been re minded within the last few months of matters connected with the condition of Ireland in a manner to which we were not accustomed. We have had sorrowfully brought home to our minds this idea—that there is a war being made by certain misguided men—not upon the govern ment, not upon public authorities only, not upon any par ticular class, but upon society at large. (Hear, he►r.) That is the nature of the war which was indicated by what lately took place in Manchester, and by what has since taken place in Clerkenweil—that act, which ought almost to bring a blush upon the cheek of every man that belongs to our country, in reflecting that wickedness so atrocious can be practised, and practised by men so deluded— I won't may it is impossible that they may believe that they are doing good. Society will discharge its duty—the law of this country will be maintained. (Loud and continued applause.) Justice will be administered firmly and strictly, and I hope calmly. It is very difficult to koep heat out of the blood when we see pro ceedings of this kind going on. And let none of us forget that the principles of justice—those prin ciples which give every accused man fair play— thaw principles which forbid us to mistake the enormity of the crime for the clearness of the evidence, those prin ciples which bind us to give, in the ease of those actions aimed at the very life and heart of society, every chance of escape that is given to • man arraigned for picking a pocket—all those principles are so sacred and vital that if in our heat we were to allow them to be compromised, we should ourselves do much greater permanent mischief than any that these miscreants ever will be able to do. (Cheers.) But also, while thus maintaining the l►w and administering it firmly, upholding its authority, and finding abundant force—for it is not want of force in this country—to secure it we must not forget to ask ourselves whether the condition of Ireland is such as it ought to be, whether we have put ourselves in the right, whether we have given to that country the full begat of equal principles of legislation. And if we find that we are not able to assert that of ourselves, we must not be ashamed to put ourselves in the right, we must not be ashamed to confess it where we have done wrong. We must not, as it were, " get upon our high horse," and my we will entertain no question with regard to measures of relief until what is called F• sus is extinguished. No, gentlemen, when you want to attack great social and political evils, don't attack these merely is their maxi feetations—attack them in their roots and causes. Thom roots and PAM Ile deep in human nature. These mon strous evils must be met in every way—at the manifests. tion, and likewise little root. These monstrous evils would never have existed had we pursued • wiser, a jester course in the government of Ireland. Therefore, Mr. Mayor, I thank you, and I thank your coadjutors in this municipal body, for having pointed to the condition of Ireland es one of those questions which have the most imperative claim upon the care and attention, the prudence, the courage, and the justice of the nation. (Loud cheers.) The right hon. gentleman ooncluded with • repetition of his thanks for the good wishes that had been expressed towards himself, and his reciprocal desire foe the prosperity of the community of Oldham. The proceedings then terminated. OLDHAM, WiDSZSDAY noire. In opening the Werneth Mechanics' Institute in the afternoon Mr. Gt.ansroaz spoke on education, touching especially upon the distinctive features of the programme of study carried out in the sew institution. He recommended the study of the English languap and lite rature, and said • man who could not speak his own language correctly Gould mkt no M. tension to culture. In speaking at the working men's institute Mr. Gladstone spoke in favour of • national system of education, and the right of secular mhos& to support from the Man Ha asteroid the necessity al a general system of primary education, sad afterwards spoke of co-operation and the liquor laws. He hoped while by means of co-operation labourer, would become capitalists, the 0411011011 of such a clam would tend to soften and mitigate whatever there was left of collision between labour and eepital. He was opposed to any legislation on the liquor laws which would create a distinction between c•lasese, and to s parligzient of gentlemen legislating to restrain another portion of the eatetatuilty from doing what they claimed a right to do themselves. He would restrain the consumption of liquor on the Lord's-day if there was really • general wish for it, but it was not legislative restraints that would do most to mitigate the disgrace of won wows. Speaking ',of trades unions, he denounced violence under any circumstances ; but he thought the association of working men was in itself a good thing if not misused, and tended to the creation of a healthy public opinion among the labouring dames. THE EXPLOSION OP NITRO-GLYCERINE Ar NEWCASTLE. A second edition of the !cantle Daily Jourttal of yes terday says :—" The excitement canoed by the dreadful calamity of yesterday has not yet abated. The most in tense sympathy is expressed on all sides for the unfor tunate sufferers by the dire calamity. Throughout the livelong night active search was made on tho moor for any temente of the poor fellows who fell victims to the um dent. At three o'clock this morning a human leg was found : it is supposed to have belinged to Police-constable Bain. The force of the explosion may be imagined when we elate that the coneuesion wee most distinctly felt at Walker, and even as far down the River Tyne as Howdoo, Jarrow, and the higher parts of Shields. To the north it was felt for miles, whilst in the west as far at Walbottle the shock was distinctly beard. On making inquiries at the infirmary this morning we were informed that the sheriff (Mr. W.wson) had passed a favourable night, and that there wee some improvement in his con dition. It is, therefore, hoped that his valuable life may yet be spired to the services of Newcastle. Of Mr. &Toon, we have to report that his condition is gradually getting worse, and that he is rapidly sinking. Mr. Bryson is an old and faithful servant to the corporation. For many years he was assistant to the late Mr. Robert Wallace, *ad on that gentleman resigning his post as tows surveyor he was succeeded by Mr. Bryson. The inquest on the bo dies will be held before the borough coroner, Mr. J. T. Hoyle, to-morrow morning." The second of a series of lectures under the auspices of the Reform League, with a view to the diffu sion of politked educetion among the people. wee held last night at St. James's-hall. The subject chosen was Arbi tration against Strikes, the lecturer being Mr. A. J. Man dolin, of Nottingham, president of the Chamber of Com merce in that town, and also chairman of the Council of Conciliation. The chairman of the evening was Mr. S. Morley. THE IRISH CATHOLICS AND THE EDUCATION Quvenos.—We learn by telegraph from Dublin that at • meeting of the Irish clergy of the Dublin diocese which was held yesterday, presided over by Cardinal Cullen, resolutions were adopted protecting against the state forcing on catholize any system of education restrictive of the doctrines of the church, condemning monopoly of education enjoyed by the existing protestant universities end schools, denouncing the mixed system on which Queen's colleges and model schools are founded, and call ing on the government to aid catholic educational institu tions from the public exchequer. SOUTH KENSINGTON MUMEIJK.—The relict of the late Dr. Woollaston has just presented to the art library of this museum • valuable series of drawings of Greek and Roman mosaics to be found in Spain, France, Pompeii, Prussia, Halicarnauus, Switzerland, Rome and Italy gene ' rally, Constantine, Carthage, and also in various counties of England, which had been executed for Dr. Woollaston. THE LATE MR. EDWARD JAM'S, Q.C.—A reso lution was pared at • meeting of the members of the northern circuit at the recent Manchester *anises, express ing " their deep sense of the loss sustained by the circuit in the lamented death of Mr. Edward James, Q.C., M.P., the late Attorney-o*nm' for the county palatine of Lan caster, whose integrity and independence of character, joined with great abilities and remarkable powery as an advocate, had secured for him a distinguished position in his profession, and the admiration of his brethren at the bar." Another resolution directed "that the above be transmitted to Mrs. James, with the expression of the sympathy and condolence of the meeting. This has been done, and the receipt has been suitably aok.n2wledged. THE LATE FENIAN EXECUTIONS AT MANI4ENTER. —THE Polies 6.IIIIANOZHENTS.—The justices of the peace for the borough of Safford, in 'pedal session assembled, have offered their " best thanks" to Captain Sylvester, chief constable of the borough, "for the very effective arrangements made by him on the occasion of apprehended riots in tie borough during the execution of the Fenian convicts, as well as for the sea and ability which he evinced in niaraballing and controlling the large body of police-constables from the adjoining boroughs, as well as the special and police constables of this borough, on that occasion." And the Watch Committee of the Town Council have decided to entertain the entire force at dinner at Christmas, in acknowledgment of the zeal and fidelity with which both officers and men discharged the onerous extra ditties which devolved upon them at the time of the trial of the Fenian prisoners, and of the execn. thin of the convicts.—Yotterday afternoon a deputation of Orangemen presented to the Mayor of Liverpool a resolu tion, which was rased at *general meeting of the body on Monday, expreanee of the thanks of that body for the repressive measures taken in reference to the proposed Fenian demonstration. ---.---- - Mr. Bradlaugh was tendered as a witness in one of the courts on Tuesday in an action upon a foreign hill of exchange in which he was plaintiff, and was objected to by the other side as en atheist, a•ml so incompetent to be sworn. Mr. Keane, Q.C., who made the objection, said he did it with great pain, but his client had left him no option. Mr. Justice Smith raid he would take upon him self, if the objection were premed, to allow Mr. Bradlaugh to make affirmation. The difficulty was got over by the admission on the part of the defendant of the facts which Mr. Bradlaugh's evidence waa to have proved. A Sr MIERGED Tonee torpedo experiment was made yesterday at Portsmouth, in the presence of Ad mirals Bit Thomas Feeley and G. G. Weiitaley, Captains A. Hood, C. 8., W. C. Chsmherlsin. awl other offieers, eo prove the effects that would be prods's& on a Seas launch by firing a submerged torpedo containing a charge 4 1001 b. of gunpowder, when suspend.' front the out spar pry jecting over the bows of the launch, and supp ose d t o be in contact with the bottom of en enemy's vessel or e =mine obstruction of any kind. The torpedo was red by one of the Excellent's boat batteries, the construction and ma nipulation of which is now taught to all .comet 'su llen passing through the ship as part of their ordinary drill. 7'be ajar, with the torpedo attached to its outer end, was slung and fitted with a running rope fall in the same manner as was applied, or nearly so, in the first experiment of the kind when the captain of the Excellent's gig wee converted into a temporary but very formidable torpedo beat. The experiment yesterday proved mei ' neatly enooessfuL The torpedo was exploded at the de sired moment, throwing up an immense mushroom.sharied column of water, while the only effects felt by the steam launch from the explosion was the taking in of a quentity of water over the bows. This was of no moment, how ever, as endangering the Boating power of the boat ; hut even its entrance could have been prevented, if desired, by simply covering in the boat forward with canvas, es is done with gigs and other small boats in all experiments of the kind sande with them. and the man y of toles few [van- Osta ivals 060; very r the >eing vices 'heat 1, at is li. :e at iambs mices , d. , und mode ming, rates. ;rind. Oats grain thin. anal mat a Iferior ivy at it few tete& il. LO ARE, • wal 0 THE g, with msurup- awl all it ace; rah. p ; :g .d en a ti 1-10,04; Is of T. S-:Old. wife 01 eklustb. wile 01 b. Can , of A. KIWI )13t• ollte. ighte Lill ll. ' l, o °. . Bidlo!' 1. of.Jsm o aco. Hit' 1 c a rotin , oad, e .2 1, . r, tatslar v."