The Sun. — London, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

.EARL GREY ON TTIE RIFLE VOL UN- TEER MOVEMENT. The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Volunteer Rifles, now numbering 500 men, were assembled on Friday . last with a view to their being enrolled. Great inte rest was felt in the matter, and the afternoon was observed as a holiday by great numbers of the townsfolk. The bells of St. Nicholas rang at inter vals, and the fine brass bands of the Northumber land Militia Artillery perambulated the streets. The rifle corps mustered about 2 o'clock in the after noon, at the Yeomanry Cavalry riding-school (where the volunteers have been drilled.) There were six companies present—the three originally formed, of 60 rank and file each ; the Highland company, mustering nearly 100 men and officers ; Sir William Armstrong's company, which is to be an artillery corps ; and a company from Messrs. R. Stephenson and Co.'s factory. After having been put through a variety of evolutions, the men left the riding school in " twos," and then, headed by the band of the Third West York Militia, play ing a quick step, fell into four deep, marching thence to the Guildhall. The houses on the line of route were filled with ladies, who thronged the windows, and the streets' were quite as ranch thrOnged with the lady admirers of our volunteers. At various points on hose route the spectators cheered the volunteers, w steadiness of march was the theme of general commendation. The majority of the men have been under drill thrice a-week since September. At the Guildhall, Sir John Fife. who commands the regiment, drew up hi s m en, who marched into the building in compa nies and were served with attestation papers, but the process of swearing them in was deferred, owing to certain preliminaries with the War-office not having been completed. The Mayor, accompanied by the mace and sword-bearer, together with Earl Grey, Mr. G. Ridley, M.P., and a number of the magistrates, received the men at the Guildhall. The proceedings at the Guildhall terminated, the men and officers marched to the ,new Town-hall, where a banquet was served up, under the presi dency of Earl Grey. About 600 sat down to din ner, at the close of which the lady of Sir J. Fife, accompanied by a great many ladies, entered the hall amid the plaudits of the men. The usual loyal toasts having been observed, Sir J. FIFE proposed " The Health of the Lord- Lieutenant of the County, Earl Grey." (Cheers.) The noble CHAIRMAN, who rose amid protracted cheers, said,—Gentlemen, I beg to thank you most sincerely for the kind manner in which you have received the toast which has been proposed, in terms' which I am sensible are most unduly complimentary, by my friend on the right, Sir John Fife. (No, no.) I have had, I can as sure you, the greatest pleasure in meeting you this' day. lam always glad, when the occasion arises, to meet the inhabitants of my native county ; and lam more particularly happy to do so upon this occasion, because from the position which I have the honour to hold it has been my duty to co-operate with you in the pretminary arrangements which were necessary to be made in the formation of the volunteer rifle corps of this town. (Applause.) Let me congratulate you upon the energy which you have all displayed in carry ing this scheme—this proposal into effect. lam sure that the country is indebted to you and to all those who have taken a leading part in this busi ness ; let me mention especially Sir John Fife, whose efforts have been so conspicuous in encourag ing you in the course which you have determined to take. (Cheers.) I must say that I think the patriotism and energy which you have been dis playing in the town of Newcastle is worthy of the highest commendation. (Cheers.) lam informed that fully 500 men, if not more, have enrolled them selves upon the books of your corps; and although your services have not yet been formally accepted by the Queen, because certain preliminary forms have not been completed, and that then you will be enrolled and officers appointed: (Hear, hear.) Gen tlemen, I have said that I am happy to find that Sir John Fife has taken the lead in this matter; and I cannot help, gentlemen, referring; to what has been the conduct of your distinguished townsman, Sir William Armstrong, in this matter —(cheers)—who, although he has gained so high a reputation in the invention of his famous gun—(cheers)—has, I am informed, now taken upon himself the whole expenie of equipping and arming one company of the Newcastle Volunteer Rifles.. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I heartily rejoice at the success which has thus far attended your measures, and I hope that in the course of a few months, when you have had one fine season for practice, the Newcastle Volunteer Rifles will be able to appear in review before military officers of the highest reputation with the greatest credit to themselves, and show that they are an efficient well drilled corps of brave and gallant men. cheering.) Gentlemen, I say that I rejoice in the success which has thus far attended your efforts; and let me add that I rejoice in the manner in which the formation of the volunteer rifle corps has been taken un, not only in this town but through out the country, because I confess that it appears to me to be of great importance for the nation's safety thet there should be efficient bodies of volun teers formed upon a very large scale indeed. (Cheers.) I hope that we shall soon be able to reckon upon the services of 50,000 men—l should be glad if it were even double that number—but, at all events, noon the services of :50,000 men, well drilled, and well taught in the use of that formida ble weapon, the rifle, ready at a moment's notice to come forward in the defence of our common coun try. (Cheering.) I know there are some persons who- throw cold water, if not absolute ridicule, upon the present movement in favour of the for mation of volunteer rifle corps. (Hear, hear.) I have heard it said " What is the necessity for doing so ? We have no near neighbour who can possibly attack us, except France, which by its geographi cal position is the only European PosVer from which it is possible to apprehend any attack, and with France we are on the very best terms. (Hear, hear.) The Emperor is oar faithful ally ; we have no reason whatever to be distrustful ; there fore all this labour in the formation of volunteer corps is totally useless—it has only caused a panic to seize upon the nation." (Hear, hear.) Gentle men; I cannot regard it in that light„ (Cheers.) Far be it from me to impute to the Eaiperor of the French, or to the gallant nation which he governs, that he or they cherish hostile designs against this country. I am willing to give him credit for those assurances of a friendly disposition towards England which we are told are constantly reite tated by the Emperor, but still I say that within the last few years circumstances have arisen which make it expedient that this country should increase its means of defence: (Cheering.) Gentlemen, France has always had a much larger force than England. In France itself, and within a few days' call, in Algeria, she has had a land force three or four times as large as our own. (Hear, hear.) Con sidering, then, her position as a continental nation —considering the unsettled state of her internal affhirs, I do not think that we have any right to be surprised, however much we may doubt the wisdom of the course, at her thinking it proper to keep up so large an army. But, gentlemen, having this great superiority of force on land, and considering that France has within the last few years been making gigantic efforts to be as strong as we our selves at sea—(hear, hear)—seeing that she has ' greatly increased her naval power—more than this, seeing that it has been announced in the French newspapers (which possess almost a semi-official character), that while increasing her naval power, • she is, as part of that great measure, providing a fleet of steam transports of the largest class—(hear, hear)—that she has also lately finished the construc tion of a magnificent naval station where these steam transports and a formidable steam fleet of the line may be assembled under the protection of almost impregnable fortresses, where there are ar rangements of the most complete and elaborate cha racter for embarking in the shortest possible time a very large army—(hear, hear)—l say that while we know all this, and know moreover that within the last few years the system of railroads in France has been completed (at all events is nearly com pleted), so that now in a. few days a very large and gallant a rmy may b e assem bl e d—l say that , seeing all this, what is our duty ? (Hear, hear.) Remem ber, gentlemen, th a t we have had very recently the strongest proof of how very great and sudden an effort France can make ; for, at a moment when we were told that she could not disarm, because she had never armed, in an incredibly short space of time she was able to assemble beyond the Alps an army of 200,000 or 300,000 men. (Hear.) Now, gentlemen, I say that when we see all these mea sures, we are bound also to loOk to our own means o,t of protection. (Cheers.) I hav e no floubtl don't menu to throw any doubt upon th e declarations of the Emperor that these preparations imply any hos ti!ity to us, but when I consider the nature of these measures . , 'hat they are not all of them of a defen sive character, I think it must be admitted that their object is this —namely, that if Fran eAlionld. be un expectedly engaged in war with any Power she. may he enabled promptly to strike a severe if not a fatal blow upon her antagonist. (Hear.) Now, gentlemen, it is possible that eve may be that anta gonist; and if France is ready to strike, I say we ought to be ready to defend. (Prolonged cheers.) We must not, gentlemen, owe the safety, we must not owe the security of this land, which has been for centuries unpolluted by the foot of an invader — (applause)—l say we must not owe our safety tb the forbearance or to the good faith of any other nation —(cheers)---but, under God's providence, we must rely upon ourselves. Gentlemen, among nations as among citizens quarrels may arise very suddenly, and_grom very slight causes. We eannot forget that a very few years ago a dispute relating to a mis-i sionary in the South Seas had almost involved this country in a war with France ; nor can we forget that a difference of opinion'. which arose between two nations regarding Turkey and Egypt brought us to the brink of a similar calamity. (Hear.) Gen tlemen have we not - lately , too , had proof of how suddenly a war may arise between two nations which were not looking for it ? - This day twelve months all Europe believed that there was no rea son to aprehend that its tranquillity would be dis turbed; but, on New-year's-day that ominous speech was made which was the first symptom of those rrathering clouds which soon covered the political horizon, and in the course of no very long time afterwards ended in war. (Hear.) I say, then, that we are bound to stand upon the defensive, and that more is required of us in this respect than was required a few years ago. I am quite aware that when I speak of the defence of the country every Englishman feels that the first and greatest re liance should be placed in our navy. (Cheers.) I be lieve we can rely upon it. I trust that the British navy is, and I hope that it long will be, in a state in which it need not fear to meet any hostile fleet that may be brought against it. (Cheers.) Gen tlemen, in these days of steam, and especially when those steam transports to which I have alluded have been constructed on such a gigantic scale that they can carry, we are told, 2,000 men, and for a very short passage even 3,000 meet, with a fair pro portion of artillery,—l say in these days it does ap pear that we cannot too confidently reckon upon its being impossible that a hostile expedition might elude our navy and be thrown upon our shores. (Hear.) I trust that such a contingency is net likely to happen ; but I do say that such an attempt is far more likely to be made if it is known that the party to be attacked does not possess the means of promptly encountering the force to be landed. (Hear, hear.) On the other hand, gentlemen, if it is known that a hostile expedition, after encountering all the risks which it must meet with at sea, and having safely reached our shores, even if it should accomplish this, the moment it lands, with the sea behind and no retreat, it would be compelled to fight for its existence with a powerful rifle force. I say that the moment this is known, I believe so hazardous an enterprise would never be attempted. (Cheers.) His lcrdship therefore strongly advocated the formation of rifle corps, because, as he argued, they would tend to diminish the chances, if not to render impossible, the success of such an enterprise. He also advocated the rifle corps as a cheap and efficient mode of de fence ; and while paying a tribute to the bravery and , discipline of the regular army, and urging that the rifle corps would form an efficient auxiliary corps to them, he urged that standing armies were a source of trouble ; thus they were like a man who having invented a curious machine, was ever look ing for and anxious to have the chance for display ing its qualities. On the other hand, he urged that a volunteer force was the legitimate arm of defence of the country ; and that being for the mere defence of home and hearth it could not give offence to fsreigners, but it would of necessity teach them to respect us. (Prolonged cheers.) He had, therefore, great pleasure in proposing " The Newcastle Vo lunteer Rifles." (Renewed cheering.) Sir JOHN FIFE returned thanks in an address of some length, in which he pointed out the efficiency of volunteers, as shown at New Orleans, where the Americans beat the English; in the Landwehr of Germany, as shown in the part they took in 1815 in the war then raging ; and in the Tyrolese rifle men, as shown more recently in the Italian war, and more particularly in the battle of Solferino. (Cheers.) The other toasts were—" The House of Lords," proposed by the Mayor of Newcastle, and acknow ledged by the noble Chairman ; " The House of Commons," acknowledged by Mr. G. Ridley, M.P.; " The Ladies ;" " TL e Mayors and Corporations of the Tyne ;" " The Yeomanry ;" " Colonel Loftus and the Third West York," &c. CHRISTMAS FA HUE q. OUR NEW POLICY IN OUDE. The Bombay Standard publishes the following correspondence : FROM THE SECRETARY TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER or 01:DE TO THE SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OP INDIA, WITH THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL. Foreign Department, Lucknow, Oct. 24. Sir,—l am directed to observe that his Excellency the Right Hon. the Governor-General will have learned from a memorandum the chief commissioner had the honour of submitting for his perusal, that it has been the chief commissioner's constant endea.- your, within the compass of his authority, to accom modate the forms and procedure of revenue adminis tration in force in the North-Western Provinces to the different system on which the settlement of the land revenue of Oude is based. The close control and frequent interference of the revenue authorities which may be suitable where peasant proprietors enter into direct engagements with the state are not so well adapted for Oude, where three-fourths of the revenue are paid by great landholders of an • cient lineage. Those restrictions are also new to the talookdars, who, under the native government, were vested with absolute power within the limits of their estates. That :government, which was in cessantly engaged in coercing some refractory talookdar or other, never thought of interfering between him and those under him. 2. The feature of our administration that is viewed with most dislike by the talookdars is the subordination under which it places them to the tehseeldars, or local revenue officials, not merely because such subordination lowers their position and wounds their pride, but also because it tends to foster a spirit of litigiousness and disrespect in their tenantry. Loss of power and of the respect of his inferiors are what a native of rank feels most acutely. In great measure this result is unavoid able • we cannot perpetuate the old state of things, but ;hough we cannot avert we can soften the blow. 3. It is also a frequent apology for the indolence and insouciance of the talookdars, and for their habit of resigning the care of their estate to corrupt agents, that we, by adjudicating in every difference be tween them and their tenantry, take all the busi ness of management into our own hands. Though this plea is not valid to the full extent urged, and a large sphere of usefulness is still left open to the talookdars, it must yet in fairness be admitted that with the loss of power it is but natural they should lose interest in the management of their estates. 4. Many talcokelars have told the chief commis sioner that if they could he put on the same foot ins, . as the Rajah of Benares, who, within the limits of his family domains, enjoys certain revenue juris diction, they would have nothing left to desire. The chief commissioner has never heard that the condition of the village occupant on the estate of the Rajah of Benares is inferior to that of the rural population in the adjacent British districts, nor has he heard that they have expressed any wish to be brought under our system. The chief commissioner would much like to see this precedent followed in Oude, not of course gene rally at first, but experimentally in a few special instances of talookdars in whose good sense and moderation reliance can be placed. The chief com missioner has lately had the advantage of meeting the superintendent of the domains of the Rajah. of Benares, and of learning from him the nature and extent of the authority entrusted to the Rajah. It embraces civil jurisdiction, but the chief commis sioner does not purpose to go so far, at present, nor would he concede the authority primarily exercised by the Rajah, as a collector of revenue, of selling the rights of the under proprietors for de fault. His plan is for the talookdar to appoint an agent or tehseeldar to a sub-division of his estate, paying a rental of, say from 30,030 to 40,000 rupees. The tehseeldar would exercise the ordinary powers of a landlord for the collection of the rent, and when these fail, must, like any other landlord, sue for recovery of the arrears. But his suit will be heard by the talookdar, not by the district officer, and on his obtaining a decree he would execute it according to the rules in force. If the defaulting tenant has proprietary rights, the I talookdar would in satisfaction of the decree be I authorised to transfer them for a term not exceed ing five years to any other member of the village community who will pay the balance. If a sale becomes unavoidable, which is not likely to happen, the sanction of the deputy commissioner must first be obtained. The tenants, on the other hand, would bring their complaints of exaction, ouster, &c., against the tehseeldar to the talookdar, who would hold open court, as indeed has been his wont heretofore. From all orders of the talookdars an appeal would lie to the deputy commissioners, who would occupy the same position as the superinten dent of the Rajah's domains. 6. The privilege which the chief commissioner proposes to confer, according to the above sketch of his plan, would be personal only, never heredi tary. It would be hold by the talookdar during good behaviour, and on the distinct understanding that it will be withdrawn the moment he appears unfitted to exercise it. With the right of appeal to the district officer, the chief commissioner does not well see how it can be put a stop to before it can have reached any great length. He thinks, however, that the privilege will be so highly prized as to make the possessor careful to do nothing to fsrfeit it, and he also thinks that the fact of pos sessing such authority would incline the talookdar to use it with moderation, for it is in the nature of men, particularly of Easterns, to be more disposed to deal liberally and kindly with those who are dependent on them than with those who assert their independence of them. 7. It must also be explained that it is not pro s posed to confer this authority on any talookdar until he has given leases (puttahs) to every tenant holding directly under him, and until all subordi nate rights.have been recorded. 8. The chief commissioner knows there are ob jections to putting any class above the law; but the measures he propoees are practically only a modificae tion of the fiscal law to suit an altered state of things. It is, ho admits, a measure of a novel kind in our revenue system, and in a counter direction to the course we have been pursuing; but it is not novel to the country, for it is but a return to the native system, from which many now think we have been rather too prone to depart. 9. The Chief Commissioner would also desire to invest wit magisterial powers the same talookdars as enjoy exemption from the ordinary course of fiscal procedure. To confer on them such authority is consonant with English policy, and will, the Chief Commissioner thinks, have the effect of mak ing them identify themselves with the governing race and feel themselves part of the govern ment of the country. Their powers should at first be the special ones of an assistant magistrate, to be'ex tended to the full powers of a magistrate as they show fitness to exercise authority. The Chief Com missioner would not allow them to issue orders of a general nature to the police, they should merely , try the offenders brought before them by the police. They would also be required to conform to all the rules of our system of criminal procedure and to furnish the customary reports and statements. 10. The following are the talookdars whom the Chief Commissioner desires to recommend ; they have been chosen as far as possible from different parts of the province to make the example more public, and excite a spirit of emulation. They have not been selected solely for their claims on the con sideration of Government ; for, unfortunately, some of those who have rendered the most signal ser vices are wanting in intellectual capacity, and other qualities besides loyalty are required for the exercise of this extended authority. I. Maharajah of Bulrampore. Pays a revenue of 300,000 rupees ; his estates are situated in the Baraitch division. (From Noles and Queries.) My grandmother has often told me of fairies dancing upon our green, and that they were very little creatures, clothed in green; they would do good to the industrious people, but they pinch the sluts ; they would steal children, and give one of their own in the room ; and the moment any one saw them they were struck blind of one eye. All this I have heard, and my grandmother, who was a very tall woman, said she had seen several of them, which I believed because she said so ; she said, moreover, that they lived underground, and that they generally came out of a mole-hill ; they had fine music always among themselves, and danced in a moonshiny night around, or in a ring, as one may see at this day upon every common in England, where mushrooms grow. But, though my grandmother told me so, it is not unlawful to inquire into a secret of this nature, and so I spoke to several good women about it. When I asked one whether there were such things as fairies, " Ay," says she, " I have seen them many a time ;" another said, " There's no room to doubt of it, for you may see thousands of their rings upon our common," &c. ffound, however, another way to be satisfied of the matter, and heard the following story of fairies from a person of reputation : A gentlewoman and her husband were going into the country, and thought •it best to retire out of town four or five miles the night before, to receive the stage coach, and avoid the ceremony of taking leave of their friends, who are generally more troublesome than, welcome on that occasion ; and being gone to bed in a country town where fairies walked, about 12 o'clock up comes a little woman, not much bigger than one's thumb, and immedi ately follows a little parson, also a great number of people, and a midwife, with a child in her arms ; and I suppose by their power chairs were set for them ; but it happened they wanted a godmother for their child, for it was to be christened that night; so says the good fairy, " Father, the gentlewoman in the room will do us that favour." "Ay," says the rest of the company, " it is a good thought ;" and up brisked the fairy father to the bedside, and called the lady, who did the office; for which the father gave her a diamond ring. All this while the lady's husband was as fast as a church, and knew nothing of the matter. Bat in the morning, good luck, the case was altered; he espied the fine ring upon his wife's finger. "How came you by that, my dear ?" says he. " Why, my love !" replies she, " the fairies have been here to-night ;" and told him the story of the christening. " Zounds," says he, " the ring is Sir John's ring; I know the stone ; I have often seen familiarities between you and him, and now I am convinced of your treachery." And so I suppose he took his wife for a wanton. The fairies were very necessary in families, as much as bread, salt, pepper, or any other such com modity, I believe ; because they used to walk in my father's house, and if I can judge of the matter, they were brought into all the families by the ser vants ; for in old times folks used to go to bed at nine o'clock, and when the master and mistress were laid on their pillows, the men and maids, if they had a game at romps, and blundered up stairs, or tumbled a chair, the next morning every one would swear is was the fairies, and that they heard them stamping up and down the stairs all night, crying " Waters locked, waters locked," when there was no water in any pail in the kitchen. Ss from what I have said, the hobgoblins, the witches, the conjurors, the ghosts, and the fairies, are not of ae.y value, nor worth a thought. ADVICE.—Be and continue poor, young raan, while others around you grow rich by fraud and dishonesty ; bear the pain of defeated hopes, while others gain the ac complishment of theirs by flattery ; forego the gracious pressure of the hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend and your daily bread, If you have in such a course grown gill , with unblemished honour, bless God and die.—Heinzel rnenn. 11. The brother of the Rajah of Kuppoorthulla provided he resides on the rajah's estates in Baraitch division. 111. Maharajah Maim Singh. Pays a revenue of 260,000 rupees ; his estates are situated in the Gonda and Fyzabad districts. IV. Rana Rughonah Singh. Pays a revenue of 99,000 rupees; his estates lie in the Roy Bareilly district. A rajpoot of the same family as Benee Madho and the Rajah of Morarmow. V. Rajah Aurdeo Buksh. Pays a revenue of 36,516 rupees ; his estates lie in the Hurdeo dis trict, opposite Furruckabad, VI. Rajah Roostum Sahae of Dora. Pays a revenue of near 60,000 rupees ; his estates lie in the Fyzabad district. 11. These are all whom the Chief Commissioner can at this moment recommend with entire confi dence. He would like to see the number raised to 12, and if permitted will submit the names of six more, .hereafter, when in the course of his tour through the province he shall have become tho roughly acquainted with the character and qualifi. cations cf some in respect of whom he is not quite so confident. He wishes to take every precaution to avoid fai!ure even in a single instance.—l have, &c. ..... [ADVERTISEMENT.] —To the hectic, the consumptive, the dyspectic, the emaciated, and the debilitated, Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Aral.' :a Food restores sound lungs, perfect digestion, refreshing sleep, and ner vous and muscular energy without any of the uncertainties, annoyances, and ruinous expenses incurred by medicines, cod liver oil, or visits to distant climes. 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Both these measures will tend to the object which, as you are aware, the Governor-General has in view, of turning to the purposes of good government the influence which the great land- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1859. holders and hereditary chiefs of Oude legitimately possess, instead of seeking to suppress that in fluence, and to supplant it by our ruling authority in our own officers. 3. The Governor-General is satisfied that no scheme of administration which sets this influence aside will be acceptable to the people or successful ; and now that the revi:•al in perpetuity of the ta lookdaree system in Oude has been declared it be comes more than ever necessary that the authority of the talookdars should within wholesome bounds be sustained. 4. The Governor-General approves of the proposal that revenue authority should not be conferred upon any talookdar until he has given basis to every tenant holding directly under him, and until all subordinate rights have been recovered. 5. His Excellency also agrees in thinking that for the present it will be well to invest with magis terial powers those alone of the talookdars who are to have exemption from the ordinary course of revenue procedure. 6. The Governor-General has it much at heart that the experiment now about to be made in Oudc to enlist the services of the chiefs in the administra tion of the country should not fail, and that not even any discouragement of it should occur. He therefore entirely concurs in your opinion that the talookdars chosen as tho recipients of the new powers should not be chosen on account alone of services rendered to the State, but that very great care should be taken to select those whose intelli gence, self•contrel, and considerate treatment of their dependents, give the best promise of a faithful discharge of their public trusts. 7. For the same reason the Governor-General wishes you to guard against a conclusion being drawn in the minds of these men that, because the Government is about to recognise in them powers akin to those which were left in their hands by the native government, it will look upon the abuse or lax exercise of those powers with the same indiffe rence as was felt by their former rulers. 8. To prevent this the precise scope of their functions, the mode of exercising them, and the errors into which they are most likely to fall, should be carefully pointed out 'to them ; and as this can never be so effectually done by general written instructions as by personal intercourse and friendly admonition, the Governor-General wishes that during the approaching cold season you should visit all the talookdars whomyou have proposed as the first to be selected, each on his estate, and there personally induct the chief into his new duties. This will be more likely to impress each with a sense of the responsibility placed upon him than any communications through the ordinary channel of the local officers. 9. The measure is one of which, if it should be successful, the importance will reach far beyond the limits of Oude, and the Governor-General places the introduction of it in your hands with the fullest confidence.—l have, &c., CECIL BEADON. Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General. Camp Cawnpore, Nov. 2, 1859. A 3LITBMIONLIL ESCAPADE. (From the North British Daily Mail.) We have a story to relate, so pregnant, however, with romance, mingled with credulity and impos ture, that our readers will be apt to doubt the facts, but we regret to say that, to the great mortifica tion and grief of a very worthy family, occupying a humble but respect ►ble position in Greenock, they are but too true. We give them as follows : A respectable widow keeps an eating-house in Shaw-street, near Open-shore, GI eenock. Her eldest daughter, L—, is a handsome, engaging young woman, of 21 years of age, and assists her in her small business. The family reside in premises immediately over the shop. About seven o'clock on the night of Sunday the 21st November last, the screw steamer United Kingdom arrived at the Tail of the Bank from Quebec and Montreal. Two hours thereafter a tall, wiry man, of about 40 years of age, with bushy whiskers, and wearing a rough fatigue-looking dress, with a cap on his head, was seen wending his way along the streets near to the harbour. He was one of the passengers by the United Kingdom, and had contrived to get ashore by an early boat. Accuiting a policeman, he inquired where he could obtain refreshment, and the officer introduced him to the house of the widow. He said he was the captain of the United Kingdom, talked largely about his position and responsibility, asked to be served with some fowl, and insisted on the officer and a boatman belonging to the port joining in his repast, in return for their trouble. The widow had no fowl, but provided some roast beef, after par taking of which the officer and boatman went away, leaving the soi-disant captain still in the house. He waxed loquacious, and soon ingratiated himself into the good graces of the widow, and paid some attention to L., the daughter. Leaving shortly afterwards, having paid his small bill, he said he would return in the morning; and he did return, had a fire lit in one of the rooms upstairs, where he wrote a number of letters, and then left to go to Glasgow, to attend, as he said, to his vessel, which, in the meantime, had proceeded up the ricer. On the evening of the same day he returned to the widow's, but he was not then made such a wel come guest. L.'s brother, a shrewd young trades man, two years her junior, had noticed what he conceived to be an undue attention to L. on the part of the strange captain. He did not believe half the stories told by the vaunting skipper, and failed not to indicate this, which gave the latter mortal of fence. Indeed, on one occasion they had come to fisticuffs. The captain quitted the house for an other of the same description, the back door of which opened into the same staircase. There he became a welcome guest, as likely to become a good customer. Into this house he contrived to induce L. to come and take tea with him, and ultimately prevailed on her to accompany him to Glasgow on the following day (Tuesday), L. stipulating that her younger sister, and a female neighbour who had au errand there, should accompany thorn. Tuesday arrived, finding the party prepared to start by the early forenoon train, but it appeared as if the captain, who was bustling about between both houses, wished to get off with L. alone, and leave the sister and the female neighbour behind. At first he was likely to be disappointed in his wish, but as accident would have it, the bonnet of the sister dis appeared, and while its owner was engaged looking for it, the captain and L. contrived to disappear by the back stair, and wont off to Glasgow by the 12.30 train. At Glasgow the lovers proceeded to the Crow hotel, where the captain bustled about among the waiters with all the air of a man of importance, ordered a fire in their room, and dinner for two. Dinner being discussed, he left the house with L., promising to return in a short time, which he did with a cab. Both entered, and drove off with great rapidity. L.'s statement is that she wondered where she was going, and that on questioning her com panion he replied he did not know, but still he im patiently enjoined the driver to go ahead. 'We sus pect, however, that L. must have been under some impression, vague though it may have been, that she was on the road to a clergyman to get married to her strange companion of only some few hours' acquaintance. After a rapid but short drive, the cab stopped at a large Louse, which stood back from the line of street, inside of railings. Here she ventured to ask the 'coachman who lived hero, and he answered, a clergyman. She says that, hearing the captain talk of the chaplain of the steamer, she thought all was right, and that they were going to visit some of the captain's friends. They entered the house, and, in a large apartment, found a tall old reverend gen tleman standing at a fire, a young man sitting at a table, and a servant girl. The old man conversed with them for a few minutes about the ordinance of marriage, its relations, obligations, and responsibili ties; in the course pf which, she says, the captain grasped her two hands in his. She adds that no documents were either asked for or produced ; but she at length became aware that some ceremonial was gone through. The ceremony, whatever it was, only occupied a few minutes, at the expiry of which the parties returned to the cab and drove back to their hotel. After remaining at the hotel for a short time they walked on foot to the railway station in Bridge street, and returned to Greenock by the traiu about six o'clock. When they entered the mother's house she demanded some explanation of their sudden dis appearance in the morning, but could get none till the captain retired into the neighbouring house — his lodgings. L. then told her mother of the day's adventure. at which the latter was perfectly shocked. Guided by the:counsel of her elders and some friends, she enjoined L. at her - peril not to go near the captain till they had ascertained his true character (for they now began to suspect him), and the naturo of the rash and mysterious contract to whichL. had that day been a party. The captain kept dangling between the two houses, wondering why his bride's mother was not prepared to wicome the newly wedded pair with a supper party, and began to evince a gradually deepening impatience at the absence of his bride. He, too, became suspicious, and na rowly watched every movement of L., and would scarcely permit her to be out of his sight. He grew violent at what he conceived to be bad treatment, and L., for the first time, began to discover that he was a man of vio . ent temperament, and became afraid of him. At length a ruse had to be adopted to get away from him ; the mother told him that L. was wanted to assist in preparing tea for the wedding party, and be allowed her to leave his side. • Instigated by her mother and her own fears, L haqilythrew on some extra clothing, and was des- I patched. off to the house of a relative in Gonna, there to await the tide of events. THE CORONER AND TILE POLICE. Finding himself deceived, the captain got into a towering passion, uttering the most violent lan guage, and was like to turn both houses upside down looking for his lost bride. He rushed from one apartment to another like a madman, then left the house, threatening to take legal proceedings to recover L. It was eventually, however, arranged that on the following Wednesday morning the cap tain, accompanied by legal gentlemen called in by the mother, and L., accompanied by her mother, should proceed to Glasgow to have an interview with the clergyman who was alleged to have mar ried the couple. Though the four smisa to Glasgow by the same train the mother and daughter went by themselves. It appeared that on their way to B----terrace ' the residence of th e c l ergyman , th e law ageni had occasion to make a business call, and when L. and her mother arrived at the house, they found the captain there without the law agent ; and apparently' some understanding come to between him and the clergyman as to the proceedings. A printed document was produced, headed " Marriage Certificate," and this L. was asked to sign, and actually did sign, and the captain signed it " Charles Allan, sea-going bachelor ; " the o ld rev . gentleman signed it " J. G., minister of 13--- street Church," and it was signed by " J. A." and " C. G." (we suppose the whole names) as wit nesses ; and the document certified that the parties had been duly proclaimed according to law, and were regularly married by the said clergyman of B--terrace, Glasgow, on the 23d day of November, 1859 (the day on which the certifi cate was granted was the 24th). Strange to say, this latter ceremony was gone through in presence of the mother ; but it seemed a mystery to her, and also to the daughter, if her own statement is to be believed. Oa leaving the house the captain told the clergyman that a law-agent would call there that day, and he (the clergyman) would know how to act. The three returned to Greenock, the mother and daughter apparently in a quandary, but the mother was resolved that, whatever had transpired in the shape of a marriage, she would prevent its con summation by cohabitation till she learned more of the bridegroom. Her daughter, beginning to see the danger of the course she had pursued with an entire stranger, adopted her mother's views, and took the earliest opportunity of beating a retreat to her old quarters at Gourock. When the captain found she was gone he became fierce as a hungry tiger bereft of his prey. He hired a cab, and drove about the town in all directions, seeking for his wife. He visited one clergyman's house after an other, in hope of learning something of her where abouts. He employed a law agent, who went to the mother and remonstrated with her about the On Saturday, at the Afarylebone Vestry, held in the Court-house, Marylebone-lane, Mr. Church warden Poland in the chair. Mr. GREENWELL, the vestry-clQrk, brought up a report of a special committee appointed to consider the threatened interference with the coroner's ju risdiction, as proposed by a recent Royal Commis sion, whereby that office would be made entirely subservient to that police. The report set forth : " Your committee having taken into their consi deration the matters referred to them, have ascer tained that tho commissioners appointed by the coronets on the 11th of May, 1858, recommended as follows :-Ist. That the Home Secretary be empowered to lay down regulations for the hold ing of inquests, and to require the police to sign the requisition to the coroner, by which the proceedings of that officer would be set in motion. 2d. That in future the coroners be paid a salary, to be fixed by the justices in quarter-sessions, subject to the approval of the Home Secretary. With regard to the first of these recommendations, your committee cannot concur in its propriety, having in view that the coroner's court is one of inquiry, and not necessarily of ac cusation ; that it originated from a desire to place the system of civilised and social existence on a firm basis, and that its effects have been to render human life more sacred and secure in this than perhaps in any other nation in the world. The proposition to confine the initiatory proceedings of this important court to one class of her Majesty's subjects, and that to a body of men partly armed, seems to your committee to demand the strongest protest, and they recommend the vestry to take such measures, either by appeal to the Home Sec retary or by communication with the members for the borough, as they may obviate this change, which they consider would be fatal to the efficiency and universality of the institution. Your com mittee consider that the second recommendation of the commissioners, viz., to pay the coroner a fixed salary, instead of fees as heretofore, deserves favour able consideration, inasmuch as it would terminate the unsatisfactory feeling now existing between some coroners and the justices, who it appears have disallowed the fees of the coroners in certain cases. impropriety of perhaps destroying her daughter's prospects, as the pretended husband had told him a fair story of his position and ability to maintain a wife. He had told him that he was a tradesman, and had property in America, and was willing to set up house-keeping in a respectable way ; but the mother, acting under iestructions, was inexorable. At length it reached the captain's ears that L. was in Gourock, and thither he drove in haste. This was on the evening of Friday, and learning that he was approaching, she escaped by a back door through the fields and sought shelter in the house of a respectable clergyman whom she had known previously in connection with the revival move ment, in which she had talsen a part, and under whose roof she experienced the utmost kindness and sympathy. But a visit from the captain to demand his wife was feared, and, three hours bo fore daylight on the following morning, L., wrap ping the minister's plaid around her to protect her from the cold, started on foot to Cloch Ferry, under convoy of the worthy minister, and was des patched across the Firth in an open boat to Dunoon, intending to seek shelter in the house of a relatlYeat S—r. The weather became wet and tempestuous; but the poor young woman, impelled by a fear that she had unwittingly been led into the oommittal of some act which had rendered her amenable to the criminal law, and that she was pursued by criminal officers, trudged on alone, footsore and weary, through a barren and inhospitable district, a dis tance of 25 miles, and reached her friend's in an exhausted condition. There, however, she could not rest, but started again on foot for Lochgoilhead, where she took the steamer on Monday for Greenoea, Now comes the sequel of the first act in this re markable chapter of errors. It appears that the captain had been playing some queer pranks else where in town about tho same time. He passed the first night on shore at the Royal Hotel, East breast, and on leaving next morning ho paid his bill, and seemed to have money. He next came back to the same house, driving in a cab, on Wednesday night, in a state of excitement, and in liquor, and the cabman being importunate for his hire (is.), the captain asked Mr. Walker, the land lord, to pay it, till he got change, which he did. Mr. Walker felt disposed to turn him adrift that night, in consequence of his offensive behaviour; but, taking pity on him, he allowed him then to remain, but turned him out next day, without how ever, getting payment of his bill. The captain com plained of having lost money, and had not a far thing to pay. He had run up a small bill in the widow's house, and a much larger one in that of her neighbour, both of which he failed to pay. On Thursday he drove a b ou t i n a ca b see ki ng f or his wife, until it was ascertained that he had no money, and then he was forced out in the street, and a fur boa which he wore round his neck detained for his hire. He went to Glasgow, to the Caledonian Hotel, where he ran up a bill, using the name of Mr. Walker, of the George, Greenock, to Mr. Mac farlane of the Caledonian. And finally, the Ameri can captain figured at the Central Police Court at Glasgow, on Tuesday, the 29th November, exactly a week after his marriage, as Chas. Brownlow Allan, alias Duncan Allan, where he was convicted of steal ing a number of silk handkerchiefs from a shop in Trongate, and to be imprisoned fel. 60 days, 30 of which to be accompanied with hard labour, and he is now undergoing that sentence in the North Pri son of Glasgow. " Your committee do not consider that the plan proposed would result in too few inquests being held, as the coroners would be amenable to the Court of Queen's Bench on the one hand, and to public opinion on the other. Your committee are of opinion, therefore, that it would not be advisable to alter the present mode of initiating the proceed ings of the coroner's court, which is now done by the representation of two or more residents of the locality where a sudden or violent death h as oc curred, subject to the option of the coroner holding the inquiry. " Your committee have had, in the course of their inquiry into the matter, referred to them some col lateral considerations brought under their notice, the result of which they venture to suggest to the vestry—first, as to the election of co r o ner . Yo u r committee, considering the appointment of the pre sident and judge of this important court is very properly vested in the freeholders of the county, and that no unnecessary delay or expense s h ou ld prevent the free choice of a suitable peuson, are of opinion that the duration, where a poll is demanded, for 15 days is objectionable, and ought to be assimi lated to the practice at Parliamentary elections. 2d. As to the procedure before the court, your com mittee consider that in order to put an end to the unseemly struggles which have frequently occurred between the coroner and the Government authori ties in cases where criminality is involved, the per son suspected ought, when in custody of those au thorities, to be produceable at the coroner's court, inasmuch as it may be considered not conducive to a fair investigation that it, should be conducted in his absence." Mr. HODGES, as chairman of the committee, moved the adoption of the report, which was se conded by Mr. B. H. SMART. Mr. Vwerner, Mr. Nicholay, Mr. Carr, and others strongly supported it, and it was adopted nem. con. The vestry clerk was then directed to forward copy to the Home Secretary, and the vestry ad journed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Dec. 26. Thus ends in the meantime this strange and eventful history. It conveys a moral which should be pondered by the softer sex in every condition in life, but more especially by those who, like this young woman, are exposed to the cajolery of every nameless adventurer who may happen to cross their path. She seems, innocently enough, to have been victimised ; but, happily, the wrong she has sus tained is not irremediable. Her relatives are not in a position to defray an expensive process in the su perior court in reducing the irregular marriage, but we understand something will be done to endeavour to extricate her from the toils into which she has been inveigled. As for the party who has been a chief actor in the affair, and without:whose agency it could never have taken place, and of whom better things might have been expected, we leave him to be otherwise dealt with. The possibility of having the peace of fami lies thus furtively compromised by illegal marriages cannot surely be tolerated at this time of day. Gretna Green, with all its irregularity, was nothing to this. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—ThorIey's Food for Cattle is now beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer, breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstand ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest. Experience ha's proved, first, that it effects a considerable saving in the consumption of provender; secondly, that it produces health and vigour in all animals subjected to its influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree an early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating this singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In this he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ap plicable to every description of domestic animal. The Eng. lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying he possessed in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate than by the employment or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food has been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch as in realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, becomes apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair application of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the present unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very gene ral use, in preference to any other of the usual articles of food ; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat is a nourishing and proper food for the w or ki ng horse, certainly it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's Food, besides possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the health and increasing the physical power of allanimals, is a tonic and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their other food, materially assists their digestive powers—a matter of great consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that the nourishment contained in theiri - e •dinary food is lost, conse quent upon the impaired or defective action of the digestive organs ; it will also be found to be particularly beneficial in restoring to good working condition horses which haw been over-worked, or become weak from disease, or ;at naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its eff , ets art undoubted, indeed almost marvsllous, nearly doubling the yield of milk and butter, whilst it at the same time enriches the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualiti es are still more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest superiority over every other kind of compound or manu factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. such has been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows, Royalty, noblemen, and others who have f e d t h eir cattle on Thorley's Feed, have invariably carried off the principal prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarded. The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobilit y, t h e clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, must prove a great incitement to this gentleman to pursue his onward course; and'he may conticiently rely, in prod uc i ng so highly-favoured n coJapound, on a contiunaHolz of such high tau/. iistio4 - uishecrpatronne. • MARYLEBONE.—WiIIiam Ellons, a private in the Coldstream Guards, was brought before Mr. Broughton, charged with the following violent assaults : Mary Burns, 60, Ossulston-street, St. Pancras, deposed that on the previous night she was passing along the Marylebone-road, when the prisoner, without saying a word, placed his arm round her neck ; she called him a blackguard, and desired him to go about his business, upon which he gave her two blows on the face, and made off. William Allen, who was walking a short dis tance behind Miss Burns, stated that he was met by the prisoner, by whom he was struck a severe blow on the mouth. Maybank, 2 70 e, said that when he took the prisoner into custody Allen was then bleeding ; and at the station-house prisoner denied the assaults sworn to. He was the worse for drink. Mr. Broughton convicted him in two separate penalties of 40s. ; in default of payment, a month's imprisonment in each case. Thomas Cahill, an ex-policeman, was charged wish assaulting two constables of the D division. The evidence went to state that on the previous morning at two o'clock the prisoner was creating a disturbance in the Harrow-road. He was desired to go on quietly, but he refused to do so, and vio lently attacked Clarke, 160, and Kimber, 65. The prisoner was fined in the first case 305., or six weeks, and for the other 20s. ; in default of payment six weeks in the first case, and in the other three weeks in the House of Correction. CLERRENIVELL.—John Griffiths, Frederick Newland, and Matilda Newland, three persons well known to the police, were charged before Mr. Corrie under the following circumstances : The pris oners were seen by Sergeant Evans, 22 G, an active plain-clothes sergeant, in front of a house near the City-road, talking together. The sergeant, in company with Police-constable Short, 77 G, watched them for some time, and saw one of the prison ers t ry one o f the street-doors, when they were taken into custody, and at the station some skeleton keys were found in their possession. The prisoners gave a false address, but their residence being found, it was searched, and in it was found a work-box, a number of writing and other articles, the proceeds of a burglary which had been com mitted, and from which property had been taken of the value of £3O. The prisoners have before been in custody for robberies from the person, and have been long known to the police as desperate thieves. When they were taken into custody the male pri soner, Newland, dropped a key which would open the door of the house at which the robbery of £3O had been committed. Mr. Corrie sent the prisoner to the sessions for trial. --- LAMBETH.—Keturch Grobecker, a merchant's clerk, and a person of respectable appearance, ap peared before Mr. Elliott to answer a summons charging him with deserting his wife and child, and leaving them chargeable to the ratepayers of the parish of Camberwell. Mr. Sedgeley, the relieving officer of the parish of Camberwell, said the wife and child of the pri soner were chargeable to the parish. Mrs. Grobe'cker, a rather good-looking young woman, said she had been turned out 4, her house by her husband, whe told her at the tint! she might go and get her living in the streets, or in any other way she thought proper ; and she was ultimately compelled to apply for relief to Camberwell parish. In cross-examination by Mr. Charnock, who at tended for the defendant, the witness said she left her husband in 1855, and that he subsequently al lowed her ss. a week. Mr. Elliott—How long is it since he discon tinued the allowance of ss. a week ? Witness —About six months ago. Mr. Charnock—Had you been delivered of a child in the month of December, 1857 ? Witness—Yes, on the 15th December. Tr Mr. Charnock—Then tell his worship who the father of that child is. Witness —Am I bound to do so ? Mr. Charnock—Of course you are. Witness—Then I refuse to say who is the father of that child. Mr. Charnock—Have you not since then had a miscarriage in Bethnal-green workholue ? Mr. Elliott—lt is useless pursuing this case fur ther. The wife Las admitted to the guilt of adul tery, and after that I cannot think of making an order on the husband, and The summons is, therefore, dismissed. THAMES.—Robert Forrest, a clerk in the em ploy of the London Dock Company, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with assaulting Rachael Moss, a Jewess, and wife of Mr. Isaac Moss, the landlord of the Sir Walter Raleigh public-house, in Whitechapel. It appeared from the evidence of the complainant, which was given with great diffidence and modesty, that on Saturday night she was in Charlotte-street, Whitechapel, in company with another married woman, when the prisoner accosted her, stooped down, and laid hold of the top of her boots, at the same time making a vulgar noise with his mouth. She repulsed him, but he repeated the offence, and alarmed her very much indeed. She pushed him away, on which he struck her, and ran away. She followed him to the opposite side of the street, and seized him by the collar at the door-way of a . grocer's shop. He struggled hard to get away , and struck Mrs. Moss several times over the back, neck, and shoulders. Mrs. Moss held the prisoner for some time, and " beyond her strength," and her victorine was torn and lost, and her brooch b;oken. A policeman came to her assistance, and the prisoner was given into custody. Rachael Solomons confirmed the evidence of the complainant in every particular, and said the pri soner's conduct to her friend Mrs. Moss was very offensive. Mrs. Saunders, of No. 55, Charlotte-street , Whitechapel, confirmed the evidence of Mrs. Moss and Mrs. Solomon, and added that Mrs. Moss said to defendant, "You vagabond, w hat do you mean now ?" and he then put his hand on her clothes improperly, and struck her several times. Mr. Charles Young, solicitor who appeared for the defendant, cross-examined the witnesses, and said that Mr. Forrest had been spending the even ing with some friends on Saturday, and became inebriated. The defendant was very sorry for what he had done, and was willing to make the most ample apology. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a g eneral good character, extendi ng over a p e riod of maul years. Roche, the gaoler of th e cour t, sa id h e h a d known the defendant for the last seven y ears , and he was the very last man he expected t o h av e a c ted in the manner described. The witnesses [for the prosecution said the pri soner was quite sober on the Saturday night. Mr. Self asked the husband o f th e p r osecutriz if he wished the case to be sent to the sessions. Mr. Moss said he wished the magistrate to dig' pose of the case summarily. Mr. Selfe condemned the conduct of the defen dant at great length, and said he had not the miserable plea of drunkenness in extenuation of ht.! conduct. There was n o d ou bt th e p r i s oner had behaved most improperly and indecently to the complainant in the first instance, and afterwards committed a brutal assault upon her. He fined the prisoner £5 and in default of payment to be Im prisoned for two months. The find was instantly paid. THE PALACE OF FREDERICKSBOBG• It has been briefly mentioned by telegraph that the Palace of Fredericksborg, in Denmark, had been destroyed by fire i ; There aro two royal residences inD enmar k w hich bear nea t u the,same name. The one, close to Copenhagen, is Fredericks borg, built in the 18th century, by Frederick IV I y . the Italian style, and afterw ar d s en l arge d by Ch r i s tian V 1., and from the balcony of which there is a magnficent the:city the Sound, and coasts of Sweden. The other palac,.. e ' that of Fredericksborg, which has been just destroyed , wi'" the five miles from Copenhagen, and was the Pan'zheon. of glories of Denmark. It was divided into three parts, el a : rated from each other by fortified fosses. The principal ediur t had four stories, with handsome towers and pinnacles. , had vast cellars extending under water,Tor forth© chateau stool on an island in a lake, but they were built so substantially that no dampness could penetrate. What more particularly attracted the attention of strangers visiting this place wa s the chapel, situated in the left wing, and embellished with sculptures, pictures, and the most exquisite carvings wood. King Christian the Fourth himself turned several of view over the arabesques and flowers in ivory found there. The altar was a masterpiece of workmanship, and h a d no less then i l kilogrammes of silver employ e d en it. Over the gall stood an escutcheon with th e arms o f D enm ark, s urround by these of the knights still living of the orders of the Elephant and of Dannebrog. In an adjoining were the escutcheons of the deceased knights, and among th en ! that of Napoleon I. The hall of the knights, "- of the largest in Europe, being not loss than 150 feet long, was all of marble ; its handsome man tel piece had been unfortunately injured by the Swedes durinig the wars. The ceiling was ornamented with innumea b ' e figures, groups, and symbolical and emblematical repr.es,ll; tations of all kinds, intermingled with sentences 01 ,,,'„ Latin, Danish, and Gorman languages. It was a real truna mundi, and 26 artists were employed on it for ee!' 7 s years. The portrait gallery was unique of its kind, an d great value for the history of Denmark. ,Each sovereign }!:::; hall a space reserved for him, and round him were grouped made members of his family, ministers, and all who bed 111 • themselves conspicu ous u n d er hi s reign. In the colle en °. i wore portraits of the astronomer Tycho Brahe, the poe t Tic !. berg, the historian Suhm, and numerous others. The Po +midi traits of Struensee and the unfortunate Queen 3 14 " -- wa wore not suspended in the gallery, but visitors were sho the words, "O God, keep me innocent !" which the ( 2 ti e ; had cut on one of the windows with a diamond ring. ricksborg was, as has been above mentioned, situated middle of a lake, a site expressly chosen by Christian 12,a; who was an experienced sailor, and one of the mos t p ePw to kings ever known in that country. It was his fa des of place of residence. The courtiers laughed at the idc'.t. building a palace in such a spot, but the Kinpaide nor tention to their remarks, and by the aid of Englis h a ci"uc. tects and workmen, whom he procured for the purpose, coeded in carrying out all his plans successfully, a nd co pleting a magnificent pile of building. COUNTRY MA BEETS COLCHESTER—DEc. 24. off A fair supply of wheat ; the best samples were tak°ll., at about last week's rates ; inferior parcels la cheaPl ei Malting barleys are lower in price, and grinding " 1n P. 34( 1 were difficult to sell at a considerable decline. Bea ° peas in favour of the buyer. o to 38g Wheat, white 448 to 52s I Beans, Mazagatt• •33: to 441: red 38s to 46s I Midle & small 401 to 4'L Barley 36s to 50s I White peas ...... 0 go Oats lSs to 2Ss I Grev.. ........ 35s t CHEIASFO c. 23. a as t Lo b w u n sin to es - s d , a an y Lll qualities. B lya°81:10W' teTtoeikt2'll: Peas, Partridge ..38s to 39s °ll:ll:DhdiEot . 38s to 40s 80.... 38s to 4 10 Duniling .......33s to 3 eans, Tick •• • .39 5 to 4 B 14 Harrow Ticks 41s to 44s 36 5 t• 38 s Mazagan ...... The quantity of wheat shi a fair attendance. A very flat prices barely maintained for a: per qr. lower. Spring corn lc Wheat, white....42s to 51s red 40s to 44s Barley 308 to 33s Chevalier 32s to 43s Grinding 21s to 27s Malt 60s to 66s Chevalier 63s to 68s Oats 22s to 32s DERBY—DEC. 23. rao At market yesterday wheat was a mode rate shovr. T . active; with an improvement of 18 on the currencies of lo: week. Oats a slow sale. Barley a good shovt. 13 e 31111 White wheat, now, 48s to 52s ' Barley, grin ding' scanty supply, but firm in price. Red do. 44s to 478 Oats, old, .. ...... 24 5 0 , e , Old white Red do.. 44s to 47s Beans.. .......... 443 ton' Barley, malting— .38s to 44s Beans, new ...... 423 to 4 ' 4 '.2Bs to 310 OXFORD—DEC. 23. An average quantity of wheat on offer to-day, for l'illial the trade was good for fine samples ; and other sorts were as dear. White ruled at 45 s to 50s, red 40s to 465 per cir. Barley, 28s to 365; oats, 198 to 28s; bean s, 395 Flog t o 486 Flo hog peas, 39s to 42s ; boilers, 43s to 468 per qr. 33s per sack. Hay, from £3 5s to £4 Os per ton. --.—......... FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. In the following table B signifies that letters are despsill' aw by evening mails from London , and M by mornin ni by evening mails from London, and M by raorw.. - rire%t Mai D ESTIN ATIONS. Despatch Port of h duel of Mails. Despato • ___....--. Australia and Mauritius, via Jan. le Southampton Jan. 12, M Southall*. _ . BaDhiatmtoa,svaiandtraaveainllaesvia New Jan. 18 , E ............ Jan . 2 Canada, &c. (by Canadn. pckt ) York Cape of Good Hope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena China, Penang, and Sing,a- Jan. 2 pore, via Southampton Dec.f jan. 27, 5 I E I D .. e . Y . °. n .. P . ° . r . t . la e n- r . dile Jan. pee 20, 28, E E LLiivveerrppoot :oiyaenidl9ll. Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton -- Honduras and Blewfields India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, Jan. 2 via Southampton Jan. 4, 31 SouthaMP• . ~. 1 2 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South- o verdue Ditto, anlP Marseillesth.lnvliisgaloainadns ... 4 Jan. 3 lia: ...........•J.,. Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, Lisbon, and i' Malta, Egypt, anddover". 'Southampton Dec. 27, II Southamp. ~_„ 2 7 O A P o d r e t n o , . via.. Ditto. via Marseilles N ill e i N i N m i f e b ed u r incdal Statesa(bnyd Mexico and Havana Jan. 2. 31 bouthamp ."":_. and E _ ri t IBritishsh packet) N Dec. 31, E Liverpool•,. Dec. 23, Ditto (by U. S. packet) 5 West Coast of Africa, Ma - Jan, 10 dcira, and Tenerife a' 23 F LiverPol'' West India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey - Jan 1 town, New Granada, &c. ----••••• B I R T II S. Fours.—On the 22d inst. , a t Bishopton Vicarage, Stoektou• on-Tees, the wife of the Rev. C. 11. Ford, of a OW. PE Atty.—On the 23d inst., at East Hampstead, Woking' ham, the wife of Captain G. S. Poard, (late 20th Rea of a son. WEBER. —On the 22d inst. at 44, Green-street, GrOSVellOr sq uare, the with of Frederic Weber, Esq., M.D., • f daughter. MARRIAGES. CAVE—HARFOnI).—On the 22d inst., at Frenchay G e org* Chu rch, Ed w ard Cave, Esq. , 7 th Mad ras son of Cave, Esq., Of Hilston-park, Monmouthshire, to Susan ? °f Harriet, eldest daughter of Henry C. Raiford, Esq. Frcnchay Lodge, near Bristol. LITTLE — E SUMMRS.—On the 22d inst. , at St. James's, Pio' ers, cadilly, Thomas Henry Little , Esq., of Birchwood, to Helen Matilda, youngest daughter of Thonaas Summ Esq., of Mill Bank, Cradley, 31aern. DEATHS. BAKEtt.—On the 22d inst., at 31, Grosvenor -place, Bath, s Colonel George Baker, fo rmerl y of tha 16th (Queen') Lancers, aged 66, EILOART.—On the 1 5 th inst., Ferdinand Eileart, Esq. , of 9, Harrington-square, aged 69. KARLEY.—On the 22 d inst. , at Clarendon-crescent ape d , Edin: burgh, Alexander B arle y , Esq., Commander 74. MEssENGEn.—On the 21st inst., Mr. Josep h itiessenger, of Keswick, Cumberland, aged 33. Moss.—On the 20th inst. , at .Ottorspool ne ar Liverpo ol, , Win. Henry Moss, Esq., aged 35. L OND ON : Printed and Published by MURDO YO UNG. of No. 112, Strand , Printel at The Sun Office, No. 112, coital Strand, in the P recinct of the Savoy, in the °I Middlesex , Tuesday, Decemb er 27, 1859. a