The Express. — London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

if 1 LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the storms of the past year, the boats of the National Lifeboat Insti tution wed 417 persons from different wrecks on our coasts The Itutitution hoe also expended £13,819 3a 2.1. in the same period ou Its Lifeboat estabWhmehp, in addition to granting x 1,151 Ca. as rewards for saving 716 s►lpywrecked parasol by its lifeboats and other mean , . The Commtiee of the Institution earnestly APPEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE, to enable them to meet the eon Untied heavy demands ou the laatitution's 136 lifeboat est iblishments. Contributions are received by Messrs. Willis and Co., Harries and Co., Coats and Co., and b all the London and country bankers. and by the S cretary. Lewie, liar., at the In stitution, 14, Jobn.street, AdelphL DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF me ABTA AND MANUFACTURES., 1%5. l'n,ler the Special Rarronbge of her Majesty the tjUEEN. IN LENDING REID DITORA an, Informed that the Slat De cember is the latest day on which APPLICATIONS for SPACE will he received. The requisite forma can he obtained at the A.M., of the Society of Arts, John-street. Adripki, London, W.C., or at the Exhiintlon Midi 11.-44 r order, HENRY PARKINSON. Secretary. JOHN BROGDEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, 16. RENKIETTA-STILErf. COVINT-GIRDEN. JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. jOkiN BROGDEN'SGOLD ALBERT CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. 3IR. MILER'S (the ORIGINATOR'S) World-famed lee. T MM. - WM can only be had at 79, BROOKATREST. HANOVEReisQUAItE, here " comps titinn Is fairly distanced hy Mlles.' ALFRED WEBB MILP,4, ESTABLISHED 141. OVERCOATS. —No. 105, STRAND.—Special atb•ntion is risen In this establishment V. WINTER nv } I of which a select stock Is always on hand to choose from. g ,ITLToN awl KIMPTON. Overcoat-makers, 105, STRAND :opposite Eteter•haß. INTEGRETTI awl ZAMBRA'S On Guinea and Two Guinea FIELD °LAMP and TILVICOPI9 are war natal rt nnelrrlle•t foe power and loilltenev. 111. and In . sae complete.-1, Ilatton-garden. LC.: tca, LoraMIL LC.: 122. Iteeentotre.g. R.: ISL Fleetwarwet : and Cry stag R E3IEMBEIt ! we wait Supper for you after CoTent Garden Open. M EVAN S. }MI not. erproos. TO eiqI,ETSPONTENT4. A l , rtiselnehts The Enmesh" Lhlrion !tithing i*. I.er. Mist be tne 05ce, W, lionveriestroet, by Two o.L.k on the ,Ihy of pubticat.on. HAYMARICET. Tr . . Rrrrrs). THE SCH.s.IL TOR SCANDAL Messrs. ehippenle, Howe, Fatten, R.sters: Mesaam..t and SioNo; Nil SUPPER. Mr. c M:,skeeleyo—Athl , JCR MARY ANNE. PRINCNS9 3. TH74 EVENING. BORN 76noorLroc. Mr. T. Murray. 111a.1 THE sit:HI:TS JM DINDON. Messrs. Vining. J. W. Ray, D. l';,tur, 6. Wirmy, .1. H. I , ..rrester. mud H. llellou ; Mrs. H. HArst...a. Ulm* Earuett and Gwyn e. LYCEUM. Cale EVENTN , I, MY wiPiitiFf. Yr. Widdiconiti.—BUY AL Meiirs. Ye, hter. Ryder. Fltrpstrick. Charks. Mclntyre. Collett, Clifford c 31iss c. Leelerot. Mrs . Wmaitaidey.—And :CURSEY CHICW.WEED. Mr. WiStLicvtub. MGR WATER AT LONDON-RRTDOE. Tsui Ifinning, 61t. M0...../Jtennon, fn. 4522. 74 4m. Aittriv.en, .I.").ffboN, TUESDAY, DEr.EMCER 2J. Tee examination of TERRY and Brat n, the Manager and Secretary of the defunct Unity Bank, is casting valuable light on the possibilities of joint-stock enterprise in this, the commercial capital of the world. It is seldom that a police report con veys so much useful instruction. The delinquen cies ascribed to the defendants hare ceased to bo the centre of the interest of the case, the evidence of tho Directors being so exceedingly remarkable in i•.s disclosures. Every shareholder iu a ;oint- StOiii company should read it teice—once for the excitement of surprise, in which it exceeds many a novel, und again for the purposes of reflection. The history of the Unity Bank is, as it should be, unique. Other banks may hare led a short life and a merry one, failing at length through the peculation of officers or the wilful dis hon.:sty of directors. But the history of the Unity was widely different from theirs. Except in its institution, there was nothing flighty or specalative about it; on the contrary, it may be said to have been well ballasted with that solid mediocrity which is so much trusted by many in. vesturs. The Direcbra were highly respectable— too respectable, alas ! since it was the confidence which their character, apart from their business qualifications, inspired which betrayed so many shareholders to ruin. The extraordinary feature of the case is that, whereas the bank was a failure from the first, was continually denounced as a failure at its own meetings, and was avoided as a failure by the general public, a certain class of persons clung to it to the last, refusing to be warned by the plainest facts. The inborn vices of the bank began to disclose themselves from the very commencement of its existence. Shortly after it opened a number of shareholders ar proaclied the Directors with an urgent re l uest that the" Superintendent-Director, - by which title the promoter of the bank had obtained an appointment for life, might be got rid of, and it became neces sary to give him 3,0001. in cash, besides 6,000 1 . which had been paid him for his precious inven tion, to induce him to g 3 away. This was in 15:,.;. In September of the same year Mr. CH.CIE ft.., the Manager, informed the Directors that sa great was the panic out of doors that the money would ad run out, and that the bank must be closed unless the Directors would step in to maintain the shares at their " proper value." This was done by Alderman Nlseur buying, in the most public-spirited manner, a large number of shares with his own money. In February, 1857, by which time Mr. CHAIIDERS bad left the bank, a committee of shareholders repert,d that of the 150,000'. corotituting its capital, 90,000... had been eitl.er I>st iu bad debts or sunk in preliminary expenses or in bank premises, and that only o,ooo'. remained, with which to carry on the concern. One of the Directors, Mr. E% RE, nir.de the sensible teeeestion that the bank should be , VOlllll up ; however, strongly op posed by .tiderman the G.,venior of the iastitution, for the singui..r reason that "the bank " wzs at that time sald:t (1 with large premises "for 30 pars, and w.! 4 1 all the expenses of f t the wcsterti branch.' Even at this distar.ce of time he can believe that " it would have heen rm act of great lolly to wind rp the bank " at titat time. - At the laeetin4 hell roll the nth of January, i r 7,5, the Alderman, who to,k the chair, thought it expedient to advert to the leases that had I: c-n sustained, which he did in these words--" Let " me hero remark that there is, in my opinion, " much to be s MI on behalf of Mr. CuPOtims , and "the &her evn•lcmon who have left us. They "were plaid in a position of considorablv difficulty. "As hankers, we came into the City without "the prestige of groat names, and we had to get "accounts. You all know how dithcult it is to "induce persons to leave th.ir old bankers, and "you alio know that many persona who go to a "now bank do so in order to get something there " which they cannot obtain elsewhere." The Alder man explained in the witness-hex last Saturday that by this language he meant that in order to do busineis the bank was obliod to give credit to those who did not deserve it. And it was for being inducted into facilities for lending money to petp:e whom nobody else would trust that the Unity Directors had paid their promoter 9,000 1 . !I At this same meeting the shareholders were warned of their danger by a Mr. HIND, whom Alderman MECHI puts aside with the remark that "he was one who never " had confidence." By the June meeting of the same year the affairs of the bank had become so much worse under Mr. TERRY'S management that proposals were again made by various shareholders for a winding up. "There were always," says Alderman MECHI, "two or three shareholders " anxious to wind up." The wonder is dui& there were so many, the general practice of worldly-wise investors being to speak up for the concern at the meeting, and then quietly go away and "get out." Mr. DAVIS, one of the shareholders, observed at the June meeting that he could not see of what use it was to go on month after mouth flinging good money after bad, and was told by the Governor that "a leading joint-stock bank had first lost its " capital, and then raised new capital and gone " on." The Unity successfully emulated the earlier half of this example. All this while the Chairman and Directors were sedulously impressing two considerations upon the perplexed shareholders one, that the Bank, although beset, like all young concerns, with temporary difficulties, was well managed ; the other, that it was well directed. At , the meeting in January, 1859, Alderman Meese said—" Through the excellent management " of Mr. TERRY, combined with the careful super " vision of the Directors, the bad debts of the past " year, instead of 40,0001., are 1,0001. 1 really " think great credit is due to our management in " this matter. We have got an excellent manager ; " we take care that all who are employed are not " merely testimonial men, but persons who have " been tried before." So at the meeting in July, 1800, Deputy BOWER said—" We believe that Mr. " TERRY and our other officers are clever, good, " and honest." And to show the shareholders how complete was their security for a vigilant and sound direction of their affairs they spared no assurances. At the meeting in June, 1858, Alderman Mecitt said—" Allow me to say that the " Directors do not trust entirely either to the clerks " or manager. Every Tuesday we examine every bill " that is discounted, and the particulars of every " loan that is proposed." So at the January meet ing of the former year, already mentioned, Alder man 111 E( 111 said—" We are now in smooth waters ; " past experience has made us wise ; we have " learned not to place too much confidence in any " man. We have got an excellent manager, but " we shall watch even our manager closely, and 1 " contend that in a concern of this kind no man " should be entrusted with unlimited responsi " And thus they went on meeting after meeting enouncing, like Lord M aI:E.-num - , the wisest general principles, but getting further into the slough, deceiving the shareholders only the more fatally because they at first succeeded in deceiving themselves. Let their strong tram juillizing 1194urances, given while the mischief was doing, be compared with the following extract from Alderman 31Eciri's evi dence on Saturday last :—" On the 9th of Fe " bruary, on my way to the meeting, I said to " Mr. BCR. II 1 could not understand what had "become of our money. I told him to make a " list of the bad debts. He said, ' Here is the 6" book,' producing one. The first three names " of STERNE, LoWENTH.U., and BUNIARD appeared " by it to owe us a large sum, which we thought " had been paid twelve months before. I expressed " my indignation and surprise at those amounts "of several thousands of pounds in all [Mr. " LEu 1.; : 16,0001.] having been concealed from " us. Mr. BERCH said he did not like to mention " the matter to us, and I mentioned the matter to " my brother directors at the meeting of the day." Now that the money is gone,the Directors hold a much more modest language. They say, " We had "no means of ascertaining the value of past " due bills except through the Manager and " Secretary. Wo inquired of them as to " which were good and which bad. When " wo complimented Mr. TERRY we believed that "he was making a profit." We need not pur sue the subject. Alderman DlEcui has given the best proof of his sincerity and good faith by sharing the fortunes of the bank from its com mencement to its close. But it is not irrelevant to remark that his blind confidence in a concern which was rotten almost before it was formed, in managers who never made a profit, and in him self, destitute, as experience might have taught him, of every qualification of a bank director, has been most disastrous. Honesty is an invalu able quality in the director of a public company, but in this case, divorced from practical ability, even honesty has proved positively a snare to the investing public. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER SO, 1864; frbe €Ollll. OsBORNE, DEC. 19. The Queen and Princess Helena drove out this itnraing. Princess Louise also drove out, attended by the Hon. Florence -.ay more. and Prince Leopold and Princess ♦Beatrice walked in the grounds. Despatches were received yesterday at the ColoriaLoffice from the Governors of the North American Province; Bermuda, Vancouver's Island, and British Columbia. Despatches were seat to the Governors of Malta, Gibraltar. the Mauritius, Hong Kong, Ceylon, Labium, the Australian Colonies, the Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. At the sitting of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council yesterday, the arguments in the matter of the peti tion of the Bishop of Natallwere brought to a close. Judg ment reserved. The Lords present were—The Lord Chan cellor, Lord Cranworth, Lord Kingsdown, the Master of the Roils, and Dr. Luslaington. The Earl and Countess Grey have arrived at Rome. It is said that the noble earl and countess will remain abroad until after Easter. The Earl of Coventry has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris. Viscount and Viscountess Holmesdale have been receiving a same:tots of guests at Linton House, Kent, duriog the past week. Mr. Alexander 13. and Lady 31ildrA Hope will entertain a saceession of visitors at Bealgebt.ry Park, nea r Goukllturst, during the next month. Accrmnts have been received from J Tau an n6uncing the death of Captain the Hon. .Idolphus Edward P. Yereier, of the 29th Foot, fifth and youngest son of Vi•count (tort. He was formerly in the 6th West York Militia, toil in 1 , 155 entered the 20th Reziment u lieutenant. The gallant young officer served with his regiment in the Crimea. The Secretary of State for War has deehle.l that Lute at Aldershot camp appropriated to married soldiers *hall M future De occupied by four, instead of five families. The Sodcty fc.t. the Propagation of the Gospel herd its ncra monthly meeting at 79, fall-moll, on Friday Lot ; the Archbishop of Canterbury in the cLair. The Rev. I:rm o whips, the newly-appointed canon,..` Westminster, crm•.t,rmel bin intention to retire in February next (when the society will hold its annual meeting for the election of °leers) from the secretaryship, which he has held for 2d years. After a full discussion if the question what steps shoold be taken to sopply Mr. Hawkitt's place, it was resolved " that it be referred to the standing committee to recommend a fit person to be elected secretory, and to reptrt upoo the subject to the next monthly meeting." It is understood that the committee Cr. now actively engaged in making upittiry for the most suitable person to fill this vary important poet. LATEST INTELLIGENC.E. (ILECTERM TELEGRAMS.) NEW AUSTRIAN COMMISSIONER FOR THE DUCHIES. VIENNA, Enc. 20. Baron Halthubee, formerly Austrian commis sioner for Jutland, has been appointed civil com missioner for the Duchies. Herr von Lederer has returned to his post in Hamburg as representative of Austria at the Hansa Towns. EGYPT. fltlllo, Dzc. 19. The Egyptian government has formally denied the rumours current on the London and Paris Ex changes that it was about to issue Treasury Bonds to the amount of 2,300,000 f. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 20. The agents of the Hamburg American Company at this port have received the following telegram : ~ NEW YORK., Dn. 8. " The steamer Bavaria, appointed to sail hence on the 10th inst., has been detained. She will sail on the 14th for Hamburg, and may be expected off Cowes on the 26th inst." (acorn's nrsEss4 HURRICANE AT LISBON. LISBON, Dec. 14. On the 13th inst., at about 9 a.m., a hurricane burst with fury over Lisbon. In a very short space of time great damage was done, principally to the shipping. Several ships have been sunk in the river or damaged considerably, among which may be mentioned the Portuguese brig Feliz Ma falda, and the brig Lusitano ; the barque Linda has been ►njured ; the French brig Boieldieu, from Rouen, has been sunk. The vessels of war in the harbour did not suffer any damage, but all the steam vessels kept steam up throughout the day. The lighters, of which a large number are employed in the harbour in the discharge of vessels, suffered very much. It is said as many as 42 have been sunk. The chief loss occurred at the Custom house quay, where several lighters with valuable cargoes from vessels in the harbour were waiting to be discharged, all of which were almost instan taneously capsized by the violence of the wind. Lighters with goods from the Ville de Brest, from St. Nazaire, the Ails% Craig, from Glasgow, and the Lusitania, from Oporto, were annk, and the loss of goods is estimated at something like 40,000/. Several lighters belonging to the Royal Mail Company, which were moored at the buoy, coal laden, waiting for the arrival of the Magdalena, were sunk, and their cargoes lost. Iu the Alcantara gardens and other exposed places large trees were blown down, and in Lisbon generally and the suburbs flinch damage has been done. It is long since Lisbon was visited with such a gale as that recorded above. The Go-:, , tfc has not yet published the decree re lieving &mhos Mendez Leal from the post of Minis ter of Marine, but it is considered certain that his excellency has resigned. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mom ova OWNlcoausroxDrxr.) PARIS, Mon EVECMG. The T, laps cannot understand how the Monitt r can have printed Lord Pahnerstou's speech in favour of the press without appending reserves and explanations. Is the Mostito , r converted i Does it share Lord Palmerston 's opinion t D ›es it think with him that "the press is the true support of civil and religious liberty, and that without a free press liberty is but a dream; and a delusion t" Or .toes it suppose that the French public is so degraded that liberty may be safely lauded without awakening au ezho iu its breast ? The Tta , ps particularly calls the Monitores attention to this, that Lord Palmerston's doctrine is general, and not appli cable, as the Duke de Persigny would pretend, to England alone. Ile must be either right or wrong, and the .11,ntitt rin promulgating doctrines so diametrically at variance with the practice of the French government, should let its readers know whether it approves or disapproves of them. The diplomatic relations between Russia and R,me are getting worse and worse. Baron de Meyendurff, after being given to understand that the Pope would not see him, has suddenly left Rome. It does not, however, appear that there is as yet an official rupture. The Munitcur only to-day announces the robbery of Lady Cowley's diamonds, which occurred up wards of a fortnight ago. Yesterday afternoon, during mass at St. Severiu Church, a woman dressed up iu man's clothes tired a pistol at 31. Rankle, the curt;, who was officiating at the altar, and wounded him rather severely. She was at once arrested. The curd had frequently given her money, and his neglect to answer recent begging letters was the cause of the crime. The Palace of Industry destined fur the Univer sal Exhibition of 1861" will be erected on the out side of the triumphal arch of the Etoile, on ground between the Avenue de Neuilly and the Avenue of the Grande Armee. An American railway from the Champs Elys... , cs to the bridge of Neuilly will be made for the convenience of visitors. We have had a Cale dry frost in Path for three orfour d us. There was a heavy fall of snow last night between Boullgne and Abb-ville. Mathieu de la Drome is triumphant. Several ships have been wrecked in the Mediterranean on the very dayfor which he predicted a storm 14 months ago. The public excu , e his many false prophecies, and buy up his altliallaCk6 as fast as tiny eAn be printed. The notorious Ueneral Mirainuu has arrived in Paris from Mexico, and is suing to Vienna. _ _ 31. E. de Girardiu gave a dinner last Saturday to Prince Napoleon, the Duke d , . Persiguy, M. Nigra (the Italian Slit:data), and M. Alex. Dumas. A more heterogenous company could scarcely have been assembled. It is related that one of the guests put to the host this posing question— " Since your constant doctrine is that the press is impotent why do you write P The answer is not recorded ou this occasion. But I remember that M. de Girardin looked this difficulty iu the face long ago, and attempted to meet it by saying, " I write for the same rea..tn as roses blow ; be cause it is my nature. I never supposed that I was doing any good." M. Barthet, the author of the U,dwnu de was called out the other day for a lampoon. The meeting took place in Switzerland, and 31. Barthet received several severe sword wounds. The report that his life was in danger is, however, contra dicted. It is said that tho revenue derived from news paper stamps has been lately falling off at the rate of lOU/. a day, owing to the Momteur du Soir, the Petit Jortnial, and other prints issued at the small ct•st of one sou. Lady lecturers are becoming the fashion. Mdlle. Esther Seth has been authorised by the Imperial Council of Public Instruction to lecture in the Rue de la Pain. She will make her debit on Christmas eve, Les Femmes Paurres being the subject. - . The Bourse is firmer. Rents rose Sc. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 65fr. 30c. and 65fr. 40c. Mobilier rose 111 r. 25c. It is asserted that the Company has signed a contract for a Spanish loan. The bullion in the Bank of France is under stood to have increased since Thursday from 351 millions to 367. This shows that the demands for accommodation at the end of the year are less than waa predicted. AMERICA. (fox OM SPIECLU. communal: r.l NEW YORK, Du. G. The rumours from Sherman, for they are only rumours, are still conflicting, but there seems to be no doubt that he is already near Savannah, if not at it. The Richmond papers sometimes announce that he is " floundering about in the interior of Georgia," "that he has been checked," "that be is making no progress," &c. ; at others, that "he is meeting with very little resistance," and will "doubtless reach the coast." I think it probable that all the means of resistance which the Southerners possess in that quarter have been expended on the defence of Augusta and Macon, and that the open country has been abandoned to the invader, so that if, as seems likely, Sherman has passed by these places, and bent all his energies on reaching 'the coast, he can march on as fast as the necessity of living ou the country will let him. There is a report in town since yester day that his cavalry were within six miles of Sa vannah four clays ago, and it is confidently believed at Grant's headquarters. lam told that he is by this time already in communication with the Fede ral forces at Beaufort. Foster has been making demonstrations in his aid, against the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, but so far, I think, with very little effect. The force be can muster is too small to be able either to advance very far inland, or to hold its own against the troops which the enemy can at any moment bring by train from either 1 terminus of the road. People are asking now, more earnestly than ever, what Sherman will do after he gets to the coast, fur clearly upon this depends the value of the wonder ful march which he has doubtless ere now success fully accomplished. As a raid it has not been thoroughly successful, for it has not destroyed, as i people here generally expected, the arsenals and storehouses at Macon and Augusta. But even if it had accomplished in this direction all that could possibly have been expected of it, it would still have been hardly worth while to undertake an expedi tion of such magnitude, and risk a whole army for such results as these. In short, from a military point of view nothing will justify it, except the exercise of a decided influence on the situation at Richmond. Sherman must make himself felt by Lee, or the public will think he has marched across Georgia in vain, and there is, therefore, and naturally enough, a general disposition to believe that he does intend to make himself felt by Lee, and that that has been Lis main object in coming to the Atlantic coast. A gentle man who=e position gives Lim unusual facilities for knowing military matters I have always found sound and trustworthy, assures me that Sherman will, after establishing a base on the sea, either at Beaufort or at Savannah, move up along the coast towards Rich mond, keeping in communication with the fleet, which will accompany him, destroying the railroads as be goes. Another opinion is, that he will, after reaching tee coast, turn back to Augusta and cap ture that place, and make it his base for ulterior operations. Which of these is the correct view time only will tell. Probably even Sherman him self has as yet no fixed plan, beyond that of moving against Lee from some point or other. But in calculating what is to occur in the neighbourhood of Richmond during the next two or three mouths it does not do to overlook the I Virginia mud, which is now beginning to show itself, and will probably by the first of January render all movements of much importance on the James impossible. I do not believe, therefore, that if Lee is not disturbed before that time, he can be disturbed after it by actual fiLtliting. Any pressure which Sherman can bring to bear on him will be through the severance of his communica tions with the South, which now consist of a single line, the loss of which at any point this side of Georgia, from which he is Lirgely supplied, would undoubtedly render Ricbn:ond, I will not say uuteuable, but very diNicult to hold, even without any active operations against it on Grant's part. The condition of Sherman's army when it makes its appearance on the coast is another point that must not be lost sight of. If he Las suffered serious loss in men ou his way, or if he has suffered much from fatigue, or exposure, or underfeeding, the continuance of Lis operations w dl of course be for the present impossible. He will Lave to rest, recruit, refit, and organise traLs portation. But about this we are of course, as yet, in complete ignorance. Ad we know is what the Confederate newspapers tell us, and this is not only very little, but such wild nut that it is impossible to extract anything from it sufficiently solid to afford bases for a prediction. The Duchess Riario•Sforza is about to purchase the hotel of the late Signor Pi amain° at Passe. Fioren tino, as musical critic of the .lfoui tc r and other journals, made a large fortune in Paris ; his hotel at Nagy is a princely residence. The Emperor of China has decorated with the order of the Dragon several Freoch officers who took put in the capture of Nankin. This decoration, which is sus pended to a yellow riband, rerresents the tee-clawed im perial dragon, and has the following inscription in Chinese characters :—" Before it the 1:m turns pale, and the tier is silent !" The Minister of Public Instruction at Turin has, by a decree of the 14th, definitively closed the college of Piave di Cento, kept by the Szolopians, on account of immodest conduct on the put of the reverend fathers. This is the fourth institut:an condurted by a religions corpor►tion among those comprised within the late Papal provinces, which it has been f ound imperative to suppress foe the reason above mentioned. The peninsula of Lunkoran (Asiatic Rudaia) contains numerous springs of naphtha. No less than 100 are now worked, and yieLl annually about 4,000 tons of naphtha, similar to that brought from America. There are also many springs of the kind in the Isle of Taman. The teipsie University in the present term con tains 382 students, of who= GGI are natives of Saxony, and 318 forenoon. The Turkish liue4-battle ship Peik Nusret— which has been at Southampton for about five months—is expected to leave that port in about three weeks' time. She will proceed to Portsmouth previous to starting for Constantinople. She will take out 10(4000 bricks from Southampton, which are required to build an arssual in Turkey. Sr. Pat - ea.—The Bishop of Loudon bast eon (anvil the honorary canonry of St. Paul's Cathedral, vacant by the promotion of the Rev. Ernst Hawkiae, 13.1)., to a prebendal stall in Westminster Abbey, upon the Rev. G. F. W. Mortimer, D.D., heed mister of th e City o f Loudon School. Dr. Mortimer has for mace years taken a warm and active part in the cause of education. E. F. N.Y. B.W. R.S.W. B.S.E R. 4. B. S L N. S. E. 8.3. W. K. R. E. 04 2 lf 4 470 4 10.23 ! 4:4 3 CO Nom TfiraSTUT. S.E to S.W. and back COMBS. I. to S., strong to to E. moderate to moderate, snow in stromr, SelLe 100 W or places. lain. W. to N. and L. fresh Inertia. N.E. to S.E., strong to to .tronr, some snow moderate. or rain. S.W. to N.W. and N.E. SOCTEMUL N.W. to \.E. and S.E , fre.h to strong, with fresh to moderate. some rain. n. E. to s. W. and back. LAMM E. to S.,streag to fresh, tin iltrale to strv ng, some rain or snow. Northern=deotJand. Wistarandreland. Weise, and adjs. eenles. floathern= English Channel smiling of May. Eames mgastward Lifland and North Sea. ACCIDENT TO MR. JAMEH MURRAY, OF THE roatik.s.orncE.—w• are informed that Mr. !Turray. Aa sistant Under-Secretary at the Foreign.offioe, met with a serious accident on Saturday last, at Aldermarston-coort, near Reading, while oat shooting with Mr. D. Higford Baer and a party of friends. One of the shooting party, in firing, accidentally discharged his gun, and one of the shots lodged in the left eye of Mr. Murray. It is feared he has quite lost the sight of his eye. Ou Veducmlity last the Rev. William Vincent, clerk, Mader of Arts, was instituted to the rectory end parish church of Poetwick, in the county of Norfolk, on the oreseLtation of the Right Hoe. Archibald John Earl of ltosebery. At a general ordination holden in the cathedral chinch of Norwich on Sunday lad the following persons were admitted into holy onien :—Descona : Goodwyn Alfred Archer, A. 8., Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Otbo William Steele, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin; Hirzel Carey le Lisle, B.A, Trinity College, Dublin. Priests: Jolla William Colvin, 8.A., Corpus Christi College, Oxford ; Charles Henry Shaw, hang's College, Loudon. THE PRWE OF LAND IN SWELAND.—Wo under stand that Mr. E. Horsman, M.P. the present lessee of the Glenfeehie shootings, has purchased the flee little property of Alvie from the trustees of the late Mr. Baillie, of Kin gman.. The purchase price, we bear, is 20,0004 Taking the present restal. t,( 1., ass criterion, we would say Mr. Harman has paid for his whistle ; but the property is susceptible of much improvement, sod may, with • mode rate antler, be made a tolerably good and at tbe same times mast deniable inyeetment It is not MOT years dace the late Mr. Bsillie purchased from the late puke of Cordon the above property. on which he never expend e d • s i mi l e sitillink for 6,5001.-21 On Courant. ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE NoMil KENT LINE. Yesterday morning a second accident ~r . on this company's property, this time on the , it:.- with line. The scene of this fresh accident Sanction where the Groenwich line diverge] a r distance from New-cross, at which spot, shortly 8 o'clock, au engine was on the up-line prepsriL_ run on the metals of the North Kent line, when ; senger train from Greenwich Male up, and a colloi the consequence. The driver and stoker of to p .; . . . . train were much injured, the former haviox • !., cut and bruised, and the Latter his ear neatly , They were conveyed to Guy's Hospital. The c.OOO accident is stated to have arisen from the signal clear" being given at the last point which the pa train passed, and the driver was prooeedi,q iu f , r. . 1 security through a dense fog which then prevailed ut... very moment when the train came into collision er-.h •, . engine. A large body of men was employed ti:l (1..1 A pairing whatever damage was dons to the hce, traffic was resumed soon after the accident. As might be anticipated, the passengers au . injury, but no fatal case is reported ; the comp,. 7 ..„ however, received several communications from sub I : who experienced "severe cuts and otherwise IL! .r..!,' "much shaken and hurt," " bruised anti cut ." The collision is described as the result of the fig, *J. which it was impossible to see any impedimei.t. THE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT I:L.1 , HEATH TUNNEL-STATE OF THE LNJU!:i. INQUEST ON THE FIRENAN.—(THIS 1).1 , This morning at 11 o'clock Mr. C. J. Cirtt.tr coroner for East Kent, opened an inquest at the Freer... Tavern, Woolwich Dockyard, on the hody of Edo n ;he flrsmaa of the 9.10 expren train from Ma , ulsvm . e. A ran into the ballast baba Co Bleckheitth tuauel 04 tL Kent Railway on Friday evening bat, by wii::11 o. people were killed and injured. The jury having been errant, • -• • •• • The lesi'nesl 6roner said that on the previous err inveetigatiou had been opened by bins at Llackl.,eL the deaths of five of the unfortunate men who bet : lives by this sad calamity, of which no doubt th;;l..: all beard. Upon the present occasion he did net to go into all the evident* again that was taken upon t_ previous evening. He would have the body ident-,.,/. order that it might be interred; and after t.. medical testimony, be should adjourn for a sutc:-.: time to allow of the other inquest to he romp . ... •; should require the jury to proceed to the Mare.le lie t,. to view the body. The jury then viewed the body, and The Coroner asked Mr. Inspector Linvell, of r. division of police, if he could inform the court as • condition of the other sufferers? Mr. Inspector Linvell said that Mr. and Mrc. Windt's, who were taken to the Airtilican, at oe the night of the collision, had been removed to own residence, at 23, Terrace, GreeohitLe. 31r4. Windus had sustained a very severe freest the leg, and being far advanced in pre:na.. the shock brought on the pains of labour. and :t found Ili:ordure to remove her to her own home, as it ear her desire. Mr. Windus was much contused, hut not posed to be in danger. The other eases at the Marine MN. pital were those of Randall. the guard of the ballast trod", who had three of his toes amputated and is progro , :::g favourably. and Callen, the plate layer, who ii is a very bad state and considered to be to hopeless. Another bad ease was that of Hurst, the drv-r of the passenger train, who was frightfully scalded. M !Tice, who also lays at the Antigenic:au, at Charlton. is ore bad. At Guy's hospital. Miss Frances Gilliegbam, who bas a broken leg; and Juliet Pledge, • platelayer, much contused, are progressing favourably. fir. Browne •till remains at the ( , olden Cross, very prostrate. The followieg evidence was then taken : James Allan, of 3, India.rad, Albany-road, Camberwell, said be wane stoker on board of • steamboat. He ideeti fied the body of the deceased as that of Edwin Allow, his brother. He was 24 TOW/ of age, and was • stoker in the service of the South Eastern R cilway Company, whore he had been far ten years. He was • very steady man. Mr. Alexander 3linnock„ surgeon of the Marine 11,1.34 Woolwich—The deceased was brought icto that at..hlish ment about 10 o'clock on Friday night. Ha was salaries:: from extensive scalds of head and face, arms and hands, and greater part of the lower limbs. He ate t.ntfer• deg severely from the shock and intense cold. Ile was quite sensible, bat not able to give any collected account of the shucking affair. He gradually ral lied, but the reaction was imperfect and ineffectual. During the &hansom of the following day delirium set in, and at half-past 11 there was a very bad sudden change. Ile died about 12 o'clock on Saturday, or a little after. Had not made any post-mortem examination. He bad DO doubt the death was caused by the extensive shock, from the scalds, and other injuries received. The ease was hopeless from the first. The parts were all quite denuded of the skin. Mr. George Claydon, the stet.otornaster of Charlton, was the next witness. He knew the deceased. and last saw him alive at 4.30 at the Charlton station on his engine. He was performing hie duty with Hurst, the driver. That was the 2.40 train from Maidstone, and they were waiting for a bal. hut train to be telegraphed from Blackheath as having gone through. He received • signal, upon which Le sent on the train after waiting at the station for 18 minutes. After the train bad left &boat 12 minutes received a message from Blackheath, statiug that the ballast train had parted. Having got assistance he went up the tunnel, and on his Lis return he saw the deceased, who was very badly injured, and said, '• Oh, Mr. Claydou, I am so bad." He was re moved to the Marine Hospital. By a juror—The deceased was removed to • cottage near Aegerstein Junction, and placed warm in bed. He was afterwards brought down to the station by the military, and placed in an ambulance waggon. There were several doctors there, and assisted the demised. The ballast train bad the proper tail lights. The inquiry was then adjourned for • fortnight. DEATH THROUGH PARAFFIN OIL. INQUEST.-(THIS DAY). • -- This morning Mr. Payne, liepuipcoroner for the City sad Southwark, held am inquiry respecting the death aliened' Pick, eked tau years. . . John Pick, -,'' Red-ley. Kent-street. Southwark, said that he was a hawker, and deceased was his sou. Between 12 and 1 on Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, his was standing at his door, when ho heard screams front the deceased. He ran upstairs and saw the deceased standing in a mass of &OWL Liquid fire was runnin; over the floor, and the bed was burning. Witness seized a blanket and B.ing it over the deceased to extinguish the tire, but his skin and thigh seemed to be burning. There seemed to be a sort of spirit in the oil. The neighbours came iu to has as sistance, and with some difficulty put out the fire. The do ceased said that as ho was going to bed he upset the paragin lamp otf the mantel shelf ; the glass broke and the oil spilt over him, and be found himself all in a blaze in a minute. The paraffin lamp had been bought by witness for a penny. Martha Hallam said that she heard the screen., of the deceased, and upon rushing in sho saw the room on are. and the deceased standing naked in the middle of the room. He was horribly burnt, and be said, " Oh, Martha, take me to the doctor's, for I am ilyiog.” The medical evidence proved that deceased died a few hours after the accident, from burns over the trout, Bea, sad The Coroner baying summed up, The jury returned& verdict of •• Accidental death by fire." THE BEsT OF THE LATE DCKE OF illeßttoNti.-... Tins marble bust of the late Duke of Richmond was placed in its position in the Assembly Room, at the County Hall, Lewes. on Wednesday last. under the personal superintend ence of the sculptor, F. 11*Dowell, Esq. On the front of the pedestal is the following inscription :—" Charles, fifth Duke of Richmond, &c., KM. ; born, A.D. 1791 ; died, A.D. ISO/ In earl life he served with distinction in the Penin sula, and at Waterloo, and retained to the last his love for the army. As a peer of parliament, as • minister of the crown, as lord-lieutenant of his nAtire county. as a warm friend to agriculture, he per? cried honestly and Ably the ditties intrusted to him and the work which he undeitook. In every relation of life, his good sets° and energy, the frank courtesy of his manners, and the kindness of bin he..rt won for him the respect and attention of all who knew bim. This memorial has been placed here by his Sussex friends in grateful recollactionof hie virtues and his services."—S ,, .B4 4 Adrcrtim r. _ _ DEATH OF ME. A LOEENON FREDERIcK GEE mtg.—This gentleman died on Thursday last at his brother-in-law'. seat, at HiMeador), Middlesex. after a few houn' illness. He was the second ems of Mr. Charles Greville, by has marriage with Lady Charlotte. eldest daughter of Williams Henry Cavendish, third Doke of Portland. He was born January 29, and married, April 7, Del, Charlotte Maria. dsumbkl of Mr. Richard Henry Cox, the army banter. The deceased gentleman was well known to society from hie long association with the great Duke of Wel liegtos as private secretary, a post he retained up to the death of that illustrious nobl.tuan. The deceased geode• mem was father of the Duchew. of Richmond. His eldest sou, Major Arthur C. Greville, was with his regiment in the Crimea, but has retired on half-pay. liissoe Cavendish Hubert, a promising otticer in the Coldstream Guards. was killed in the battle of Inkerman in 144. The late Mr. Greville was a brother of Mr. Charles Greville (for many years one of the clerks of the Privy Council). and Mr. Henry Greville (gentleman usher) and of the Countess (Dowager) of Ellesmere. ILLEGAL Woaos.—A journeyman turner, namml Bouttenot, was the day before yesterday brought before the Tribuosl of Correctional Police, charged with haring, on the 24th November. written on the walls and other public places in Paris the words '' Viva la Comte de Paris !' which conduct was considered destined to disturb public tranquillity, and leed to disobedience to the laws. He was condemned to a fine of 301 r. end • fortnight's imprisonment. POLICE " UKASES.' Several correspondents of the Times protest against the new police edict against the " sandwich men," or boardtnen. At 9 o'clock on Monday evening orders were Wined from Bow-street that they were not to go out the next morning. If they were seen by the police they would be fined, and also the persons employing them. "If the commix/goners of police," says one correspond ent, " could have seen the poor fellows yesterday morning walking about in the snow, and heard their piteous tale (many of them had not tasted food that day), I think they would have regretted their severity to the old and helpless, and not have prevented them from getting an honest livine." Another writer says:—" Let Mr. Superintendent Durkin's exterminating edict at least be deferred until after Easter, when the streets are more crowded. It seems a refinement of cruelty suddenly to stop • long recognised and established vocation in the depth of winter, in the midst of frost and snow. Unless the board. men are sent to their respective parishes for the remainder of their days, they have no alternative but to beg, steal, or starve. They are mostly • class of infirm men, with broken-down constitutions, who are incapable of doing hard work. The occupation is not of a very inviting nature, or the pay good. No poor man will take to it who can do bet'er. Our polioe ought to be ashamed of depriving such • large class of their daily bread just at the very time of year when labour is most scarce." In a third letter we read :—" It is now some time since • police edict came forth (under what special statute or act of parliament, I think, even you, sir, would be puzzled to tell us), to the effect that no license should be granted to any cabdriver or omnibus coachman or conductor; unless he could pass an examination in reading, writing, and arithmetic. When this was first alleged as an excuse by a middle-aged father of • family, who had served for years as a ' has cad,' upon his applying to myself for relief, I could not believe in such gross injustice in this 'land of liberty,' but found it to be too true. This ' ukase,' sudden and peremptory as it wee, in a country where public education is neither compulsory nor gratuitous —a way of visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children—turned hundreds of poor fellows out of honest employment, and compelled these unfortunate illi terates to take a step downwards in the world and become costermongers and boardmen ; but now what are they to do ° It is high time that public attention should be spe cially called to the encroachments and annually increasing tyranny of these police nkaass,' particularly since the Gallomaoia and admiration of the peculiar institutions of our neighbours across the Channel, among others that of an armed gendarmerie, are notorious as the charactestice of some of our would-be iprdets, from whom and all other petty tyrants, good Lord, deliver us."' B. I. Milne.-- 39. y 33 1 . RE. tberdson —. Wl4 371 R.R.W. L •Ith kraroisan ^9.91 3$ N.N.E. Grctucrat.l4o Zio Ir.! 301 E. Valenti* ' —I •• • • C ,___ _._.... ape hear.. 4:. 1.71 N. iE. 4ieeoston. 2'...t.5 43 N.W. i fAserp-ol .. 1.9 s 1 '3l F..ii.r. 5013 head ... 9.71 41 E.\ .E I Peznbruke... 29.74 43 K. 'MUMS.. 71V.4447 W.N.W. Seed !to 44 W. twhefort nl 04 46 W . Pl(ranutk 47 SS. W. t .I , e)sa.rit.S 1.) 74 44 &Y.. Portmuuth 2.1.7447 1R.R.W. 1 C 444444 !laver 20.9 44 11 S. firmottth taki 41: S. on,ugb. S.A.E. 9 42 9.9. 6. 30.17 a S.E. • A FARMER STABBED BY HIS BROTHER. George Deadman, a small farmer, residing at the North Stroud, in the parish of Eastmeon, MU Peters. field, was brought up at the magistrates' clerk's office on Saturday. charged with cutting and wounding his brother, Joseph Nadine°, on Tuesday last. The prosecutor (who appeared very weak) deposed—On Tuesday, the 13th. about 1. o'clock, I saw the prisoner (my brother) on his own Lod. I went to him, and asked what he had cut down the fence for. I put up my fist, but did aot strike bin,. He came up to me, and I thought he was going to strike me with his fist. I did not see the knife till he struck me. The cut was on the edge of the jaw bone ;it was a lied cut, and the doctor sewed it up. My son was about ten yards from me ; he came up. and we threw him down and took the knife from him ; he did not attempt to strike him with the knife again ; he got up and went away. About half an hour after I sod my wife went to the police -station at Peten fi eld, and I gave the knife to the soperintendcut. I had washed the blood off the knife is the ditch. The knife (which was • pocket knife) was produced, and identified. . . . . BT prisoner-1 wee on your premises (belonging to Sir W. Jolbefe). I did not strike you at all. I believe my son struck you with a stick afterwards, but I do not know. George Deadman (son of the prosecutor) deposed—On Tuesday, the 13th, about 12 o'clock, I was in my father's meadow. My father war in the lane (a private one). My mule was also in the lane with • horse and cart. My father asked him what be pulled down the hedge for. He said he did Ato let the Wyes out. M father told him if he would put down the knife he'd te ll him if he'd poll down the hedge or sot. Ile then swung the knife round and struck my father iu the face. 1 saw the blood follow and run down his neck. I was about 10 yards off sad ran to help to take the knife away. I took ups stick and struck at him, but do not know if I struck him or not, and we threw him down. We let him get up and he went away. Frederick John Gray deposed— lam assistant to Messrs. Whichor and Ones. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon of Tveday, the 13th inst., the prosecutor Cll2lO to the surgery, and said he had been stabbed by his brother. Upon exami. nation I found an incised wound cut to the brow, about an , inch above the angle of the left jaw. I stitched it and stripped it up. I saw the wound to-clay, and it is doing well. tut be was sot out of danger. The knife produced would cause such a wound. Mr. Superintendent Longbinds deposed—On Tuesday, the 13th of this mouth. I received the knife I now produce, and flora information I received from prosecutor I took the prisoner into custody, and charged him with cutting his brother with a knife. He said, ' I was obliged to do some thing ; I am sorry I struck with the knife ; I knew I had done wrong by cutting him." After the usual caution from the magistrate, prisoner said—l went there on Tuesday morning last, and Lewin making my own hedge. It cleared up fine, and I left it, and got my horse and cart and began drawing swedes down. I bad left my tools there, and was going beck after to clear my ditch out. My brother came along wbrn 1 was coming out of the field with the last load of swedes. He 1W:el u.e what 1 had done that for. I told him I was going to make a new hedge up there. He said if I meddled with it any more he'd knock my heed off in two minutes. lie then came ten yards into my premises, and ran his fist into my face and skinned it. I tbea made a bit of a blow at him, forgett.og I had the knife in my hand, and cut Wm in the face accidentally. I bad the knife trimming swedes in my band. The prisoner was committed for trial at the assizes, and asked for bail, which being allowed, John headman (prisoner's brother) and Thomas Greet) were bound over as sureties in 10'. each. and the several witnesses alio to appear, in the same sum each.—S , irrrfi Wan4,trtl. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TIMM, DECZJIBIZ 20, 1 ALL F. Ex A 1. A. S. 1 2 2 ; 7 I'2 2 2 ; 2 B.E. E. 10.36! 3 'O.lO, 0.06 ?.