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The property may be viewed by cards, to be obtained from the auctioneer, Mr. Edward Lumley, of 67, Chancery-lane, London, %% C., and of the undersigned; of each of whom printed particulars may also be had, and to whom proposals for purchase by private contract may be made. ADAM RIVE ti S ST E E LE, Solicitor, 44, Bloomsbury-square, London, W.C. HIGH Vi ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tais DAY.—Morning, 4h. 53m.—Afternoon, sh. 20m To-moßnow.-Morning, sb. 48m.—Afternoon, 16h. 12m fill - 9 • • A vz t „ rc 4 4 , , • 0 bye) • • • - - THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, 1862. The Ticket of Leave System we may confidently ' regard now as doomed. It has received its quietus, of late effectually, from the knuckle• dusters of the Garotter. Englishmen will no longer tolerate a slovenly mode of punishment like this : one that is perpetually casting loose upon society the most ruffianly scourings of the gaols—seonndreis prepared to celebrate their release from the felon's cell by murderous assaults upon inoffensive passers by in our most crowded eities, and in our most public thoroughfares. If we can boast nowadays of our im munity from the perils besetting the wayfarer a cen tury since on the road to Hounslow, when Tom KING an DICK TIIIIPIN, and other redoubtable high- wziymert, were in the saddle—lords of the situa. tion—levying black mail day and night upon his MAJESTY'S lieges : we must boast of that immunity from a peril, long since out of fashion, with but a very small grace indeed—seeing that a danger of a far more brutal kind has been brought so much nearer home to us! Thanks to the Ticket of Leave System, and its pampered pets the Garotters ! The Highwaymen of old, compared to these ruf• fianly Garotters, were refined gentlemen, as corn pared with the veriest blackguards of the back slums. There was a touch of chivalry about Monsieur CLAUDE DUVAL—one of whose most redoubtable exploits was celebrated, a season or two back, by the gifted Academician whose brush pourtrayed that Hero of the Road grace fully dancing a minuet or a coranto with a lady whose release from captivity is assured to her upon that one condition. "Your money or your life," though an unpleasant alternative enough— still was an alternative. Nowadays there is none, A blinding blow—a throttling grapple—and the victim lies there upon the flag-stones in a state of insensibility, his clothes torn open at the breast, his watch gone, his pockets rifled : the garotter gone as well as the watch; and nothing for it, when the tardy policeman comes up, but to obtain a stretcher as quickly as possible and to exer cise his discretion promptly as to whether the vic tim shall be borne off to the nearest police station or the nearest hospital. The evil is becoming, nay, has already become, most serious. The magistrates—though dealing as rigorously as they may (and do) with the exceptional few among the garotters who are caught—acknowledge themselves, more and more frankly upon every opportunity, power less to deal with these deadly criminals now haunt ing our widest streets and lurking in our obscurest 13 3' ways. It is not forgotten yet how, in the midst of last session, a member of the House of C ommons was struck down by one of these garotters--while crossing the open space where Pall-mall and Waterloo place converge, Just in front of the Guards' Memorial—when on th e way to his Club from the Houses of Parlia ment. A frequentl y by burning, as the miserable cases of death in consequence of the cruel persistence of our fair county", In and d estruct ive°fash i enin maintaining the ridicu louson of crinoline—as fre quently as th e i nstances of child -murder brought to light perpetually in all P this metropolis— aro the evidences of th e i ; i ts of man of the Ticket of-Leave system in affordinga sortityof semi-official license to the most skilled amon g the ad epts i n the science or art of Garotting, These, in fact, are t h e three crying evils of the hour—becoming fast (ea c h of them) more and more frightfully multiplied. " Infanticide ! B urnin g to death t hrough crinolineGarotting—or, as the slang phrase for it is, Put tin, the Mug on !"—in the highways and byeways of 14.)ndoti and Wes!minster Resulting, as th e from the operation of th e latter evil glaringly does, horrible Ti c ket-of -Leav e -Leav e system, it becomes manifest that the Legislature, must, immediately after its re-assembl in g in February, adopt the most energetic measures with a view to the suppression of this social curse by a careful and vigorous and discreet revision of our criminal la ws, so far as that revision can in any way tend to affect these infamous Garotters. Meanwhile—if every person attacked would act as promptly and as energetically as a gentleman connected w ith the Customs did only the other day, when suddenly robbed of his purse by a woman passing by, and immediately afterwards set upon by three ruffians, manifestly her accomplices! Mr. BIRT was the hero of this little incident : and we honestly commend to her MAJESTY'S lieges gener ally the adoption at once of a system of Birtiny, by way of retaliation to the savage marauders. It will be the most effectual means, we are satisfied, ' of at once putting down this brutal system of Garotting. The case was simply this—for it Is ' really worth giving exactly as it was related by the reporter at the Man sion House, whither the accused were brought before the bench on Saturday. Their intend ed victim,EDWlN JOIIN BIRT, belongings o the EXAMIIIer s-office in the Customs, stated th " a bout a quarter-past 7 o ' c lock he was in Church-passage (a narrow, dark alley, leading from Fenchurch-street, underneath the Blackwall and North London Railway to Crutched-friars), and had his purse in his hand, taking some coin out, when he was suddenly ac costed by a female, who, snatching his purse away, darted off down the alley. He followed, but i suddenly the prisoner HART came out of a door way, where he concealed himself, and, stopping him, asked ' what his game was.' Pro secutor not liking the man's appearance, turned round to get away, when he was confronted by two other men who were close behind, and who instantly seized him by the throat, and endeavoured to throttle him, at the same time his coat was torn open to get at his watch. Getting away from their grasp, he struck out with a heavy-loaded stick, hit ting at them indiscriminately. He felled one of the men by a blow on the head, who called out, 'Oh GOD! my head, BILL.' What became of him he could not say, for he followed the two prisoners, who tried to escape ; but he kept up with them, hitting at them with all his might. He at length secured HALL, and some passers-by pursued LEAT for nearly a quarter of a mile, when he ran into a constable's arms, and was secured." Both the ruffians captured were eventually, as a matter of course, committed for trial : regret being expressed at the same time by the presiding alderman, that the woman and the man whose head had been hammered were not also themselves taken prisoners. Such in brief was this really exemplary instance of sum mary punishment administered to Garotters—a system of punishment that we fain would once more hold up to general imitation, upon every pos sible opportunity, under the name, style, and title, of flirting! In illustration of the flagrant audacity character ising some of these assaults at the hands of Garotters, here is another case-in-point of very recent occurrence indeed, a case thus briefly related by our chief morning contemporary : "In Sloane-street, Chelsea, a respectable woman was standing with her husband and two friends, waiting for an omnibus. They were at the Knightsbridge end of the street, and, consequently, in one of the most open and well-frequented places to be found in the metropolis. In fact, besides that the party were four in number of themselves, the whole neighbourhood, we are told, was ' thickly crowded' at the time. Could a highway rob bery be thought conceivable under such circum stances ? One would certainly say not, but it actually occurred, and with the most incredi ble characteristics of audacity. The lady, while standing at her husband's elbow, was suddenly seized by the throat with great violence, while her brooch was torn from her shawl, and her shawl from her shoulders. As soon as she could manage to scream, one of her friends, who was ' not more than two yards from her at the time' came to her rescue, her husband joined, and a policeman, who himself was ',not more than 40 or 50 yards off at the time, in uniform,' took the robber into custody. The whole case astounded even Mr. PAYNTER'S experienced mind. He said these ruf fians ' seemed to be getting more and more daring,' as indeed they do. , Hero was a respectable woman, surrounded by her friends, garotted and robbed under the very eyes of the police, in a great thoroughfare, one of the busiest in Lon don. It really was outrageous.' " The latter being the words of the adjudicating magistrate. Another instance must suffice for to-day—other wise (these crimes being of such terribly frequent recurrence) we might fill column after column with miserably apt illustrations. The prosecutor, in the instance we are now referring to, thus tendered his evidence in the Police Court at Marylebone:— " I am," he said, " a jeweller's assistant, and reside at 17, Holles-place, Haverstock-hill. On the 12th of this month, at about 11 o'clock at night, I was in Maitland-park. The road led from Haverstock-road to the Maldon-road. I was crossing the park when a man stepped in front of me and asked for relief, saying, Would you please to relieve a poor distressed fellow ?' I replied that I had no money with me, and never carried any. I only saw one man. Scarcely had I said this when the man seized me with both his hands by the throat, and at the same instant I received a tremendous blow on the back of my head. I think the blow was given with the fist. It partially stunned me, and the effect was that it made me ill. I have been un der the doctor's hands ever since. The man at the back of me put his hands in my pocket and took my purse out. The man in front released my throat with one hand and seized hold of my watch-chain, which broke as he attempted to pull it from me. My purse contained two sovereigns, 18s., a pair of coral and gold earrings, and some coral beads. I had a struggle with the man in front of me, and saw some thing flash in his hand like a knife. He put it to my throat, and I threw myself back. The instrument cut my collar and grazed my throat. I called out ' Police,' and the men ran away•" Are these atrocious crimes any longer to be tolerated ? Are the Garotters to run riot in our metropolis—almost with impunity, as they have been doing for months ? We cannot but feel at length perfectly well persuaded that the evil has at last attained a magnitude and a flagrancy that call imperatively for what they will obtain, the vigorous interposition of the Legislature. So then the party conflict of next Session is to be over reduction of taxation. So we are told, and we could wish it to be true. We do not, however, believe it. Tories will be miserable volunteers in the battle for reduced taxation. Mr. DISRAELI—whose chief Tory quality is ambition for office—would be willing to reduce taxes, or raise church rates, or do anything else that would place him in power, not so the wary old Tories, without whose aid he can do nothing. Economy is, in their eyes, the cardinal sin, expenditure the car dinal virtue. It is their instinct. Never were they mere surprised than when their leader, last session, proposed to reduce our " bloated armaments," and cut down our expenditure, say some five millions. He very well knew that was the road to office, but they as well knew that taking office on these terms was taking unfurni s h e d lodgings. They grumbled or were sil en t as he spoke. The only cheers were from th e independ ent members. The sons o f f at h ers and the landlord h in theil ouse of bro thers, mention the gentlemen actu ally services," whether Whig their displeasure. Lord at the earliest possible o Lieutenant's blunder, and proclaimed throughout the cr Tory, belonging could s ought of their penniless an their offspring, not to DERBY as thei r ever since opportunity that they are not the men to .. no not o conceal " the rectified hasfied his s p o k esman, been country by the Tories, grudge what is ne- cessary for the national honour." 'National honour and an expenditure which finds occupation for ------- younger sons, being always synonomous expres- sions. Still we rather hope that reason, and the exigencies of the time, may be too strong for both Whigs and Tories. The latter like the former, would never spontaneously proffer re duction, but if reduction must be, why then the lowest bidder might be the buyer—of office. Political auctions once begun, it is not easy to say where the biddings will atop; and if less must be spent—if so, the nation wills it—why then Tories may think that they may as well have the spend ing of the curtailed amount, as their opponents, trusting to providence for giving them an oppor tunity to increase their estimates again. Thus, though sadly against the grain, the Tories may be• come glad to adopt their leader's speech of la's session, contemptuously and angrily as they then received it. They will forgive Mr, DISRAELI when they see that he only anticipated what was inevitable, and so gave them a locus standi in the battle. On the whole, however, we must counsel our readers not to rely on Mr. DISRAELI and the Tories for reduction of taxation, but on themselves alone. Though the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer would gladly return to office with a popular budget, nothing will induce his followers to back him up in that line, but the knowledge that the people will compel any Government to produce one. We are now assured, in the language of certain knowledge, that our load of SEVENTY MILLIONS is to be reduced by TWO MILLIONS. It may be so. We have had no special communication from any of the fifteen lords and gentlemen who are sworn to secrecy on matters of Cabinet discussion. Assuming the correctness of the report, we have only to tell Lord PALMERSTON that two millions will not do. Mr. GLADSTONE himself gave us the cae when he told us that if we could be content with sixty-five millions, he could dispense with the income-tax. That is, therefore, the course that our demands must take. Mr. GLADSTONE con siders that the abolition of this most odious, inqui sitorial, and unequal of taxes would so increase consumption, as to recoup him the sacrifice, in the larger produce of other taxes. We should save five pence, and gain ninepence. We have no doubt that Mr. GLADSTONE knew well what he said, and that his calculations would be as de cidedly justified as they have been in regard to the French treaty. We warn Lord PALMERSTON, however, that if he means to remain in office, the " honour of the country" dodge will suffice no longer. We have had enough of it now for several years, at the cost of ever increasing estimates. He must listen to a hungry country, and not to the hungry "services." The demands of Lancashire will equal several pence in the pound, we fear, of the income tax, and the increasing amount may well be come such as private benevolence may prove it competent to meet. Besides the suffering operatives also, there is a rapidly increasing number of per sons who will feel the ruinous effects of the loss of their consumption of the articles they deal in. Tradesmen of all classes will find their incomes dimi nished or gone—landlords and masters even will have less to spend than usual—the circle will be ever widening, while this cotton famine lasts, which will feel the affliction more or less severely. This is the grand fact of the day as regards taxation. Generous contributors will feel it too hard to pay, in addition, taxes for " national honour." Suffer ing tradesmen will feel it yet more—suffer ing masters will join in their complaints — even landlords will begin to think it too bad; and there will be a general conviction that for the I nation, as well as the individual, " seeking the bubble reputation e'en at the cannon's mouth' , is paying rather too dear for the whistle. Lord PALMERSTON has long enough identified " the honour of the nation" with the number of her cannon and her bayonets—but the nation begins to see that he has overdone it. Who would have believed it possible to find Count DE PERSIGNY and M. BILLAULT cited to answer a civil claim in an English court of justice P Who, if they heard of such a fact, would have sup posed the debt could be for services in the English Press? We all know that the days of bias and influence are likely to last as long as the world lasts, but in our simplicity we had supposed that the days of hiring a newspaper to advocate certain opinions had long passed away. There was a little unpleasant affair, to be sure, not long ago in Ireland, but the exceptien in that case, so far as it went, only proves the rule. It is manifest, however, now by the pleading of the man who thinks himself defrauded of his due, that the proprietor of an Eng lish newspaper did sell the use of his paper and his pen to the Imperial Government, Mr. Sergeant . GLOVER, on the one part, and ik essrs. PERSIGNY and BILLAULT on the other being the contracting parties. The learned sergeant's action is only in a very incipient state, yet it is not too much to say that the prima facie case is complete. Mr. GLOVER would not have brought such an action unless he were quite certain of a claim on the merits as well as the law of the case. Nor can :we be wronging the defendants, we conceive, in assuming that they led the plaintiff to believe that he should be fairly remunerated for his outlay and services. That if Sergeant GLOTER, in fact, held a brief for his MAJESTY in the English Press he should be fairly remunerated. At :present the purely technical question of where the cause of action arises is the only point. A point which has nothing to do with the merits of the ease. The Count appears to the action—M. BILLAULT wishes to be out of the affair, as well he may. The amount claimed—Ll4,oo0 — seems large, but that is a question of degree for a jury. When, however, we find that it was required for the conduct of the Morning Chronicle and its satellites, the Morning News, and Evening Journal, we know at once that a large sum may have been sunk by the Sergeant in attempting to get up a circulation ; and without that the Chronicle, and its adjuncts, could have rendered his MAJESTY but little service. But Mr. GLOVER had charges for work done in the purely editorial line. He wrote Imperial articles, as instructed no doubt, for the Chronicle ; we well remember them, we imagine. His value in the work was that, if PERSIGNY and Co. found statements and arguments, he would best know how to dish them up for the English taste. As a matter of fact they did much amuse English men. It was hardly supposed they were paid for in hard cash ; but at a time when the EMPEROR'S views were an object of curiosity, it was conjectured that saying the best for an Anti-English policy might be rewarded with that valuable article to a newspaper, the priority of in formation on one subject, respecting which all the world was curious. Far beyond this, however, were the services, and expected rewards of the learned Sergeant. He in forms us that he conducted the three papers for his MAJESTY, but " wrote and translated from the French, and printed in the Morning Chronicle cer tain articles, and wrote certain other articles to be translated into the French language, for insertion and publication in certain French papers, the teur, Constitutionnel," &c. The account is not very clear; we understand him to mean that, amongst TUE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVPIAING, NOVEMBER 26, 1862. . . other editorial duties in the Imperia service, wrote articles in the Morning Chromele which his masters could translate into French, and display to the natives of France the high terms in which the more judicious and independent press of England spoke of the Imperial policy. The real wonder is, however, twofold. How men who know England so well as we might suppose PERSIGNY and his master did—for we can hardly suppose the EMPEROR not to be cognisant of the business—how they could suppose such a scheme would succeed in England—and next it is wonder ful, that having committed themselves (assuming that they have), they should not satisfy their agent without driving him to expose himself and them to the world. They must, of course, have resolved not to try the same trick again. The failure of the Chronicle, we may suppose, has satisfied them that it will not answer to try and mould English opinion through her own press. The hirers of the English press would hardly have shown their hand if they had intended to continue the game. They must know that after this revelation all laudations of the EMPEROR would be regarded as duly paid for, and would of course be perfectly inopera tive. They have found that bribing of the press, here, is dear and unprofitable work, and as they intend to give it up, they feel no shame about let ting all the world know what they have been doing. One thing they may learn if they will, that Im perialism can find no support here. We do not wish needlessly to insult a neighbouring ruler, but as little will his praises, or even apology for him, be endured. We may acknowledge his neighbourly aid in the Trent affair, and his wisdom in the treaty, but his general policy must be too odious to us to find an advocate who could command an audience. We look on liberty utterly curbed in France—a press with bat one ;editor—Nice and Savoy taken by fraud, and Sardinia coveted—Rome crushed beneath foreign mercenaries—ltaly deprived of her capital and harassed by brigands—GARIBALDI shot—Mexico invaded—the people crushed under heavy taxes, that a vast army and fleet, useless but for gross ambition, may keep all Europe in alarm— we look on such broad patent facts as these, and must therefore scout the English journal which should attempt to justify such a disturber of Europe. CO7RT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 25. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess Alexandra, Princess Louise, awl Prince Leopold, drove out this morning. Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Caledon and Lord Charles Fitzroy. His Royal Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Lieut.-Col. the Hon.D. de Ros, also accompanied her Ma jesty on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, returned to Greenwich Park yesterday. Viscount Torrington and Col. Seymour have succeeded Lord De Tabley and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell as Lord and Groom in Waitiig. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Lord High Ccmm issioner of the lonian Islands. The Archbiehcp of Canterbury Elect and the Misses Longley have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Raby Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, who have been staying with the Dtke of Devonshire and family at Chats worth, Derbyshire, leave to-day for Roseneath, Dambar tonshiro. The Dake of Somerset left his official residence of the Admiralty ye&terday for Norfolk. The duchess has arrived at Bu!strode, Bucks, from Stover Park, Devon. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor arrived on Saturday at Chatsworth, on a visit to the Duke of De vonshire, from Calverley Park, Cheshire. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield returned to Bretby Park, Derbyshire; on Monday, from Wiley Park, Lord Forester's seat in Salop. The Countess of Fife and Miss Stapleton arrived in Grosvenor-place last evening from Scotland. Lord Richard Grosvenor and the Hon. Jas. Stuart Wortley have arrived in London from a tour in the East. The Right Hon. Col. C. W. Forester, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Forester, who have been visiting Lord and Lady Forest. - at Willey Park, Salop, left Willey on Mon day last on a tour of visits. Sir Charles and Lady Clifford, Mr. and Mrs. Clavering, and Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Rhodes have left Brown's Hotel. - DEATH OF THE COUNTESS GRANTILLE.—We regret to have to:record the death of the Countess Granville, mother of the Lord President of the Council. Her lady ship expired at her house in Hereford -street, Park-lane, yesterday morning, shortly after 5 o'clock. The late Coun tess was the second daughter of William, fifth Duke of Devonshire, and was consequently sister of the late Coun tess of Carlisle and the late Duke of Devonshire. She married, on the 24th of December, 1809, Granville, first Earl, by whom she leaves Lady Susan, married to Lord Ri v ers ; Lady Georgians Fullerton, wife of Mr. Alex ander George Fullerton, of Ballantry, County Antrim ; George, the present Earl Granville ; and the Hon. Ed ward F. Leveson Gower, M.P. Her ladyship was in her 78th year. The adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr. W. Buss, Irish provision merchant, trading under the firm of Buss and Leedham, took place yesterday, when Mr. Humphrys, of the firm of Honey, Humphrys, and Honey, accountants, submitted an amended balance-sheet, showing liabilities to the amount of £27,192, with assets estimated at £26,674 net; tbe deficiency is consequently only £5lB. After some discussion relative to the position held by the creditors on Mr. Greaves' account (who failed in the Aus tralian trade), and the claim held by his assignees, it was resolved that the estate should be wound up under a deed of assignment for the benefit of the creditors, no offer of composition being made by the debtor. REGISTER YOUR LAND.—Let the squire and my lord now shout exceedingly and sing for joy, since my Lord Westbury has come to their help, and established by his new act, which ca me int o operation in the middle of this last O Chancellor has thrown himself with his whole h the entanglement s in which land and the trans w weight trans fer of it have bee n en meshed by tho scientific theories of b ygone g enerations of lawyers, who have thriven on the diffi tcto upon her, revolutionaryg , a Register of Titles to Landed Estates 1 The diffi culties of their science. " Why not treat land as stock ?" says the unscientific public. the answer is old enough. It was given by Lord Macclesfield 140 years ago. " Some lands," he said, "are more convenient than others; but there is no difference in stock." One acre of Cheapside is more convenient than one acre of Salisbury Plain ; but one £5OO of Patagonia Loan Preference shares is like any other £5Ol of that fattening investment. But the dif ference between land and stock, great as it is, is only mate rial for some purposes, of which the Chancellor's purpose is not one. Tho public makes also, by its own natural dealings with land, a fresh difficulty in the way of easy transfer. We must needs establish actual and possible dis positions of it among our children, and grandchildren, and nephews, and nieces, and brothers, and sisters, in a way that makes the use of conveyances, short as the little printed transfer of stock, almost beyond hope. Then we add leas ing powers, and charging powers, and powers of giving portions to younger children, and jointures to wives. All this is done so elegantly and easily that no one thinks of abandoning the practice. Only declare that your estate shall be held to the use that you shall have it for your life ; then to the use that your wife shall have her jointure ; and to the use that she shall have a right of dis tress, &c., and the thing is done, and all through that ad mirable old statute of Henry the Eighth for turning uses into possession, or for trying to find out who and the real owners of any bit of ground. That statute has, with ad mirable skill, been so (treated by judges and conveyancers as to be the chief means of defeating its own end, and con - cealing the real ownership. It was the Magna Charta of conveyancers ; and, when the learned Sandars, one of the fathers of conveyancing, whose life had been spent in studying and testing the strength of every line in the con veyancing web, was lying on his death-bed, the equally learned Brodie came in—" Sandars I Sandars I" says he, " they've repealed the Statute of Uses I" Mr. Sandars fell back on his pillow and died. Has the Chancellor sufficiently weighed the effect of his legislation on the Sandarses of our own day ?'— AU the Year Round. AMERICAN SEAMEN IN RATCLIFF-HIGHWAY O— night there Was a somewhat riotous assemblage of American seamen in Ratcliff highway. They belonged to two ships, and were all armed with knives. A fight was intended, but the police, who mustered in considerable numbers, and had heard that a row was in contemplation, dispel sed the Americans. On Monday night a fight took place in the highway between two American sailors, and one of them bit his adversary's lip off. The WEATHER IN NORTH AFRICA. --A lettir from Constantia (Algeria) of the 14 th say s :—" The night before hat the mo un t a i ns which are at some dista nce around Constantia w ere en ti r ely covered with sno w, br ought on by a north wind of great violence. For many years snow had not been seen to fall hers so early as the middle kimukr," ATEST NEWS. PARIS, Nov. 23. The Constitutionnel of to-day contains an article on the affairs of Greece, signed by its chief editor, M. Limayrac. in this article M. Limayrac recalls that France has no motive for refusing, should Eng. land make the proposition to renew the engage ment of the three Powers with Greece. The writer continues— " The situation of France is free, decided, and completely disinterested. The accession of Prince Alfred to the throne of Greece would not wound us. Greece is free to choose her Sovereign. Our re lations with England are so cordial that we should feel no displeasure at the choice of Prince Alfred. In w hat way could we take umbrage at the position of a great Power who would create for itself the obligation of maintain ing a Prince on the Hellenic throne ? Greece exists with difficulty as it is, and the Power which fur nishes a dynasty will be confronted by two perilous difficulties. Either it will have to restrain the aspirations of the new King within the prison walls of the present frontiers, and thus lose popularity and prestige, or it will encourage the ambition of the Greeks for territorial aggrandisement, and in that case open the door to the redoubtable Eastern question, which is pregnant with all kinds of com plications." M. Limayrac concludes : " These serious embarrassments would result for England from the triumph of the candidature of Prince Alfred. The Morning Post has not thought proper to take cognizance of them, but the Tires has perfectly comprehended them." ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 26. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of this morning publishes the bases of the Trade Tax Bill, laid before the Council of the Empire. Its main features are the equal admission of natives and foreigners to the Merchants' Guild, and the retention of the social privileges of the merchants. The tax upon the first class of the Guild is fixed at 265 roubles, that upon the second class at 25 roubles 65 copecks. The arrangements now in existence in reference to foreign Jews are maintained. TURIN, Nov. 25. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Nicotda sought to prove that Signor Rat tazzi had, at the commencement of his administra tion, endeavoured to effect an alliance with the party of the Left. Signor Nicotera also spoke of promises having been made to him by Signor Rattazzi relative to the national armament and reforms in the administra- General Cagia explained hie conduct in the government of Sicily. He stated that Garibaldi had promised to leave the island, and that it was necessary to temporize in order to avoid sanguinary collisions. During the negotiations, however, Gari baldi suddenly entered Catania. Signor Rattazzi will reply to-morrow. BERLIN, NOV. 25 It is asserted in diplomatic circles that in the note despatched to the Government of Electoral Hesse this morning Prussia reminds the Elector of the engagement entered into by him in June last, and points out the steps that the Prussian Govern. ment might take should the Budget not be laid be fore the Chamber. CASSEL, Nov. 25 An orderly, with despatches from the Prussian Government, arrived here early this morning. It is reported that he has orders to wait 24 hours for any answer it may be decided to return. Lieutenant-Field-Marshal von Schmerling is ex pected to -day upon a s ppoiai m;..inn from nuotria. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram:— " MARSEILLES, Nov. 25.—The Valetta, with the above mails, arrived this day at 5.20 p.m. The mails leave for London by the 10.30 p.m. train." EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE AGAINST A CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MINISTER. For some time the Presbytery of Dornoch have been engaged in prosecuting the Rev. Mr. Mackel lar, of Clyne, for various acts unbecoming a minister. The Northern Ensign says :—The libel is of great length, and its head and front are as follows :—lt charges Mr. Mackellar with singing or repeating a lewd or indecent song, or part thereof, and with telling or repeating a lewd end indecent story in the hearing of some servant girls in Hill's Hotel, Golspie, on the evening of 11th April last (the song and story being quite unfit for publication), and also with conducting himself, on the evening of Saturday, the 3d of May last, in a riotous and disorderly manner, by shouting, bawling, and making a great noise, and furiously and violently ringing the door bell of the hotel, and with vio lently and furiously kicking and striking against the door with his feet, and with breaking several panes of glass and part of the wood work of a window in the hotel, to the great terror and alarm of the inmates ; and also with threatening to knock down a policeman, and o knock his head into jelly; of using certain pro 'ane and blasphemous language to the said police- man, to the effect that he would yet be roasting on the branders of hell ; with making certain allusions of an indecent kind, not fit for publication, and of saying to the policeman and some other persons there at the time, that as for himself his salvation was secured, and that if at the day of judgment they would take hold of his coat tails he would smuggle them into the kingdom of glory. Mr. Mackellar was cited to appear before the Presbytery on Tuesday, the 4th curt. He appeared accordingly, along with Mr. Robert Ross, writer in Dornoch, and the libel having been found relevant, Mr. Mackellar requested leave to give in a written statement or explanation, which he did on the fol lowing day; but the Presbytery having found the statement unsatisfactory, after dealing with him with a view to confession, they resolved to pro. teed to proof, and appointed the same to take place on Monday, the 10th current. One witness, whose evidence was considered important, did not attend, and the Presbytery adjourned till a future day in order to take his deposition. It is under stood that the Presbytery have no further evi dence, excepting that of this witness, to lead against him. The specie to be taken by the Bombay mail steamer Massilia, on the 27th, amounts to £459,248, of which £1,500 in gold is for Alesane.ria, and the remainder, £48,198 in gold and £409,550 in silver, is for Bombay. MAKING MONEY.—In some " Gossip from Rich mond," a transatlantic paper states that the dollar and two - dollar notes of the Confederate States are all signed by young ladies, of whom many are beautiful and accomplished girls—ornaments of the society of capital. Several are young widows or orphans of those who have lost their lives in battle, and a preference is given to these in all appoint ments. They are engaged by the Treasury Department at 600 dots. a year, but the salary is about to be raised 60 per cent. Each clerk has to sign 2,000 notes a day. A serious fire, involving destruction of property to the abount of about £lO,OOO, occurred on Saturday night, at Messrs. Brown and Co.'s distillery, at Dundalk. One of the soldiers called out to assist in extinguishing the fire has died, while three others are seriously ill, from having drank fusel oil, mistaking it for whisky. AN OLD TRAFALGAR MAN.—There is now serving on board the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Ceylon, a fine old sailor named Cracker, who entered the Royal Navy in 1800. He fought under Nelson at Copenhagen, in the frigate Ariadne and on board the Mars, 74, at Trafalgar, where he was wounded in the leg. Ninety-seven of his comrades were killed outright in this action, besides those who died afterwards of their wounds. He subsequently served at Genoa, Flushing, and Gaeta, and was present at the taking of many prizes and minor engagements on the sea. On board his present ship he bears an excellent cha racter, and what is remarkable is that, though 77 years of age, he is one of the best look-out men in the ship. Our captain, Evans, has some time since kindly given directions which exempt him from going aloft. The old man left the Royal Navy in 1835 and has since enjoyed a pension of ls. a-day. He has a wife who is 63 years old, and four children living out of 12. I believe he is the only existing instance of a first-class powder boy of Trafalgar (October 21, 1805) still serving as an able seaman in 1862. Cracker states that he distinctly recollects Lard Nelson, paying ti equent visits to the Mars, then commanded by his old friend Captain Duff, and that he often praised the crow for their discipline and efficiency. He adds that the French began the action with great pluck, but says that after three quarters of an hour they did not appear to keep to their work. Cracker's gun was No. 13. STEEL 3130 . T.--*The 3a .et Cuurniittee of Or nance, as well as the Iron Plate Committee, have now under consideration the advisability of adopting " steel shot alloyed with silver (the 1-300th part). This alloy pro duces the very hardest description of steel, which it is said will penetrate any amount of iron or backing a ship can be made to carry with vire viva. The inventor states that steel shot, alloyed with this portion of silver, will not be more expense, as a much lighter shot will be used.— ffechanles' Magazine. ALARMING FIRE IN EASTCHEAP, CITY (THIS DAY).—This morning, between the hours of five and six o'clock, a very alarming fire happened in the premises be. longing to Mr. Wm. Leask, a fruit dealer, No. 14, East cheap. The fire commenced in one of the upper rooms, but the cause is unknown. The inmates happily succeeded in effecting a safe retreat. A good supply of water having been obtained for the engines, the flames were speedily extinguished. BYGONE BOYS AT THE PLAY.-1 am rather sorry—remembering ' myself the fag-end of this state of theatrical affairs—for the youth of the present day ; being convinced that they have no enjoyment, and certainly no excitement equal to the joys of the Legitimate Drama, as seen from the pit. A well-conditioned boy living in the days of legitimacy, and going early to the pit, was the boy for my money, and could decline the verb " to enjoy" in all its moods and tenses. You knew where you were in those days, and what you had to expect. As you sat and listened to the first act, and took in the introductory dialogue between Ist Gent. and 2d Gent., what rapture you got, independent of that which you derived from the resem blance of the " Gents." in question to the character-figures you had been painting and spangling under the lid of your desk at school—what a distinct rapture you got, from the thought that every word of their dialogue was bringing the moment nearer when the hero of the night would appear, responsive to the cue, " But who comes here ?" How you criticised—if admiring may be called criticising—all the hero's appointments, and his glorious stage costume. It was much more exciting, that same costume, and certainly better adapted to subsequent tinselling, than after it became so confoundedly correct. To this day I prefer a short cloak and stage boots to any other dress, and would not give two pence for Richard the Third without his ringlets. • miserable that these things are over, and sometimes one gets quite indignant about it, and inclined to cry out to this detestably enlightened age, " Doest thou think that because thou art" well informed "there shall be no more "tights and spangles ? Oh I Ist and 2d Gents. I—oh, Ist, 2d, ay, and even 3d Murderers I—oh, Citizens of the Forum, obtuse Countrymen, uncorrupted Peasants, simple Shepherdesses —I loved y all I Shall I see you then no more 2—All the Year Round, INTELLIGIBLE DEEDS.—But what is the new re gistration ? How far is it to replace the old machinery, which it is not designed wholly to supersede ? When in the registry one map shows the length and breadth of a piece of land, while another exhibits the family-tree of persons owning shares in and drawing incomes from it, and a third shows the names of those who must be bought off before incumbrauces are cleared ; then, when the squire wishes to mortgage, or the peer to buy—lands, owners, creditors and all, are set forth at once at the land office. There is no more need of inquiries or of costly searches. The death of the right Mr. Smith, in Labrador, was proved to the registrar before Mr. Smith's successor was set down as owner in his book. The deeds that carelessness might lose, or accident destroy, were perishable; the land certifi cate has now taken their place, and printed copies may prove their contents. For the registry does not abolish deeds, it only shortens them. The general reader, being omnivor ous, may perhaps have attempted the perus al of some dusty e titled deed. The names of parties at the outset haveti m cipates interest for him. He remembers the names, and a the story of their dealings with each other. But he forthwith enters upon a long,dreary this passed desert of wide, and and among which he written lines, interminable, dazzling, az z 1 the end of every yard cannot fail to lose hie way a e s in the desert are the mystic words, And Wher eas, at which the 11 least long sentence. The only ca.-. ade traveller may rest on hi s way, until his fate overtaking him at l ast he is swallowed up alive in a great dust - s t o rm. This will be at the recital s , hateful to the profane, joy and solace of the legal soul. I n th e m is set forth the histo r y of what has been done with the paternal acres of the las t half cen tury. The births, mar riagee, and deaths; the mortgages, settlements, and wills; all the de capo of life is there repeated and recorded. Hence forth, says our registrar, I will save men out of this. The recitals shall be my book, your deeds shall contain but the names of parties, and the mystic words of contract. Your deeds shall be intelligible, I will give you printed copies of them. Landowners henceforth, on rai •ny days, reclining in their arm chairs in their libraries, shall reach down from their shelves their bound and printed deeds, and, with an ex tract from my, book, and printed plan frem my estate, master what hitherto they could not learn-:--the history, liability, 414 Citltill Y Qf 0 4 And they qcopy,-.-AU ohs ivar FRANCE. BOURSE, Nov. 25.—The arrival of the English funds with a rise of s, has given some little firm ness to the market, but without producing any im provement in quotations. Threes being now, as at the close of yesterday, at 70f. 10c. Little doing in Railway Shares. The market improved towards the close, and left off as follows : lt per Cents .. 97 65 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 15 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1075 Do. end month 1076 25 RAIL' Bank Shares 3360 Credit k oncier 1290 Piedmontese Fives 70 50 Italian Loan 7l 15 Roman — Russian Spanish Threes —.— Home Debt rAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO4O .. 1042 50 Northern New ditto . .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1042 53 .. 1143 75 Geneva — .. Southern 823 75 .. 827 50 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 631 25 .. 630 Ditto to Barcelona KING OTHO OF GREECE. The Pays gives the following resume of the events of King Otho's reign : Since 1830 the regal power of King Otho, which had been imposed upon Greece by the powers, has never ceased from being called in question. Received from the beginning with coolness, it has never been able to take deep root in the national soil. Thus, for 30 years it has only been supported through revolutions and conspiracies. Two years had hardly elapsed since the proclamation of King Otho I. as ;Regent of Greece, when in March, 1834, a conspiracy was discovered, the aim of which was to overthrow the Regency. On the Ist June, 1835, Otho, then of age, took into his own hands the reins of Government. In 1837, two years afterwards, another conspiracy was discovered, which was planned with the intention of modi fying the basis of the Government. In 1840 a fresh conspiracy, which had no result. In 1843, on the contrary, the popular rising was triumphant, and imposed a change of ministry on the King. In 1844 the political constitution of the kingdom under went a change, the result of three insurrections simulta neously from three different points. In 1847, 1848, and 1849, fresh movements took place. In 1850 the Minister, Korfiotakis, was assassinated by his political enemies. In 1852 there was a conspiracy against the King's life. In. 1854 occurred the military insurrection of Karaiska, In 1860 some disorders arose in several places, and a con spiracy was discovered. In 1861 an attempt was made on the life of the Queen. In 1862 the insurrection of Nauplia occurred. Such are the revolutionary phases through which the reign of 0 tho I. has passed, to arrive at the catastrophe which has for its highest result—his irrevocable fall. The Cape Argus states that Dr. Livingstone covertly blames the missionaries for the conflict that oc curred, says that "fighting with the Ajawa put them all in a false position," and at the same time condemns them for having retreated from Magomera to avoid a further colli sion. The following is a passage from a letter of Dr. Living stone to Sir Thomas Maclear, dated Shupagna, June 21, 1862 :--" I am sorry that the missionaries turned tail, but, under the circumstances, it was perhaps well. They want an energetic head. Mr. Proctor . . • • • 18 a good and sensible man, with sufficient fi rmness; but fight ing with the Ajawa put them all in a false posi position. They, however, beli ev e that in so doing they acted rightly, and it is of great importance that their cousciences approve all they did." ;ion. THE LATE DUEL IN FRANCE. The Court of Assizes at Versailles was again crowded on Monday by persons anxious to hear the proceedings in the action brought by Mme. to recover damages from the Duke de Gramont- Caderousse for the injury she has nuffired through the loss of her son in the recent duel. Owing to several criminal causes standing before it on the list, the trial did not come on till half-past eight in the evening. M. Frideric Thomas was counsel for the plaintiff, and M. Lachaud for the defendant. The plaintiff demanded that the defendant should be condemned to pay her a life annuity of_ 4,000 fr., with reversion to her sons Horace and Frederick Dillon, both of whom are insane, e° long as their insanity shall continue. She also demanded the sum of 5,000 fr. to cover the elc" penses of the funeral. If the defendant should prefer to meet her demand by a single payment le stead of an annuity, she claimed a sum of 50,000 f. The plea put in by the defendant and his judicial counsel or guardian, Count de Sparre, was to the effect that the defendant had been acquitted by the jury 'on the charge of homicide, that he was the offended party, and that those two facts g reatly diminished his civil responsibility. Then as to the amount of damages demanded the plea averred tha t no proof had been given as to how far Madam° . Dillon was dependent on her son's aid, but that the defendant left it to the wisdom of the Court to fig the amount of damages which would meet the ills" tice of the case. M. Frederic Thomas, after passing in review the principal circumstances of the duel, de' dared that his client would never have demanded cote" pensation from the author of her son's death, if the insufficiency of her own resources had not rendered, such a step absolutely necessary. He consid ered that the damages demanded were but a r eason' able compensation for the loss his client ha d , sustained, as the late M. Dillon had rece ived 400 f. a month from the proprietors of the Sports and was also correspondent of several Englis h journal , , his income from all sources being W ilt 25,000 f. to 30,000 f. a year. The learned ge tl° tleman concluded with an eloquent denunciatioe of the barbarous practice of duelling, and vitt", expressing the hope that the defendant would find, in the payment of the compensation de manded, some relief from the remorse which could not but feel at having deprived a w idost" mother of a son who was her sole su pport.- - d l33 e : Lachaud then addressed the court for the , fendant, and endeavoured to show that his client had done all he could to avoid the duel, but in 0 . 11/ ,' That fact having been fully proved by the late trial, and acknowledged by public opinion, the quest l6 o of damages was but of a secondary nature. It vi L ll s a principle laid down in the Code Napoleon t° 6 o whoever suffered injury by the act of another W s 4 entitled to compensation ; but the application ()le that principle was not absolute, unless the suffe r i , had done everything in his power to avoid the a c . c b dent, and he thought this was not the case vota the late M. Dillon. 'With regard to the demitll,4 of 5,000 fr. for the expenses of the fu neral, ;, thought the sum excessive ; as to the alittullo his client was in the hands of the Court. ~e reply to questions from the President a s t 0 the fortune of the defendant, M. Lachaud stated !Di, his client had passed a stormy youth , and "80 pated a million of francs in a few years, which b e , induvel his family to place him under the legal o l io straint of a guardian order to save the rest- be client did not intend, however, to plead p o verty I' r was neither so rich nor so poor as he had been 013 , 0 sented. His present income was the interest e', million francs of his own, and of 1,800,000 fr• r herited from his brother, who had died on the sc 1 : 0 1, to Brazil. The Procureur-Imperial 1 101 . t„, S dressed the Court. He declared that the plaietTore• entitled to compensation, but expressed his laP,tri• dulity as to the income of 25,0 00 f. or 30,00 f. the buted to the late M. Dillon. He also deelpea sum of 6,000 f. claimed for the expense s of the 06, ral, &c., to be too much. He thought 2,ooa.sud, cient. As to the amount of the damages claial, it was not extravagant; and were t he y g rantee b the Court, such a decision would serve as a cur e l, those evil passions which instigate d men to dviAot ling, and which he much regretted that the verulif, of the jury had not condemned. As it was 13 : 0 , past ten when the Procureur-Imperial sat cl i c' ort the President stated that the judgment of the Cl° 1 would not be delivered until next day. -d A FRENCH STUDENT CHARGED MURDER. ----- 0 0 The Court of Assizes of the Seine -et-Oise li Saturday tried a young man of respectable f 011310) (a Corsican, and a relation of the Pozzo di , er , g : named Pierre de Signorio, aged 24, a i nediO L " 0 1 dent, on a charge of murdering a coaehraaa, ltd Sept Olivrot, at Enghien-les-Bains, on the lit h :,:itl; last. A young woman, named Bertin, a ged it ', e l whom the female prisoner cohabited,was also elu a , fr t be as an accomplice. Early in the morning v e ' o r i ft 11th Sept. two men when going to their vvcr't the a man, in a sitting posture, leaning ag aia ,: a or wall of a house in the Rue de l'Arrivee. ' - '" 0 lii° proaching him, they found he was dead, acrilabeerl clothes were bloody they suspected he 1111 :, 0 fo e ; murdered, and immediately gave notice of " — o p& to the police. On examination, it was W ert O f ; that the man had received two stabs in t he c tie one of which had penetrated the left ic hg ; ks 1 3° must have proved almost instantly fata l ' a rt liB marks of blood or of a struggle were found " d " her, spot, it was inferred that the deceased " 0 - o it o murdered elsewhere, and afterwards deli o f i i there. The body was soon recognised as ti raiti 4 coachman named Olivrot, who had been ee°.ooslP with the female prisoner some weeks Pr, e but he had recently been discarded by her;, t° „ ll l to ed way for a new lover, the male prisoner. , r r '.' so le tP inquiry instituted it appears that the tvgcoPri 00 4 i ll g had gone to a ball on the preceding eVenii, had there met the deceased, who was great'ltheei cited, and threatened to take vengeance e :,,a r e ; both. An hour or two after the prisoner bad turned to the girl's lodgings the deceased it ; ' II 0 5 : at the door, and demanded admittance , w h ' e tt irc v is refused, and he then went away, but soon r e ; ( loot' Iwith a large paving stone to beat in thiroelfl Meanwhile, Signorio had risen and dres sed m il t ragg i l and when the man forced an entrance, - e c Veh ensued between them in which the Pr is°l: : e .a i i i. 0: 1 t h ' ° several contusions about the head, and i c '' f i l c , I 'P ° wounds which caused his antagonist's d ee ' t he de ; evidence did not clearly show W hethe r . 0 0 ceased had walked to the place whet () h e 0 0 0 found, or had been carried there by th v as t made th e 'of prisoner. The medical man vv" mortem examination could not undertake ea il) that the deceased could not have svall‘4. J) 3 ; distance, but he thought it improbable. 'lode" chauds, who defended the male prisonerriefeoCei that the wounds were inflicted in self en v 1 and adduced numerous facts and argeci,..,,,, ,p tea i t abandoned the yrosecutiol2 against t.- Olio support of that conclusion. The ProcureurrPr 61° prisoner, but maintained the accuse "oil °ba d 1 the male prisoner. After the President li d 1 . r med up, the jury retired to deliberat e, an aO4Ol minutes returned into court with a verdi ct - 11 .4 0. ting both prisoners, and they were imine cliete - charged. ,11 ______.....-1.2 _.(40- Gazette A T t n o_ l d e a t y ter of the 21st 8:y-----i37—, T.,,,,e,,°:'",-1; Turin mora to the M • • pu bl ishes a note from Genera tope decd made by inlscer of War, contradicting. the ° t :`,,,par e , telegram that a body of tbree P: 11 Or brigand! a _ ap t had surprised a detachment of troops i.ti4 Ca dismissed The Minister of War has just &fin' IsS, as the second category of the class (44 JO well a s the Piedmontese soldiers of the class of 011;cf Lombards belonging to the Austrian army, arid °ln:oi° cate • genes, making a total reduction of about 25,0 v" the army Or on active service." 0 0 METROPOLITAN BOARDS. --The CorallliSS`- 101` the Metropolis Roads have given notice of applic6.o' Act Parliament in the ensuing session to repeal cartsior pao with a view to provide that certain turnpike road°, j‘etl. of turnpike roads, situate in 'Westminster, Chelsea' fact' sington, Fulham, Hammersmith, klanover-sOlre'street, dington, Hampstead, Clerkenwell, Islington. Old:0,toot Shorediteh, Be all, of Hackney, Stoke I'lesn:tob° and Hornsey s hall, after a day fixed by the Bill , pea se tIJ° maintained, repaired, lighted, watched, or watered coo' Commissioners of the Metropolis Roads, and shall I , e a l e mon highways, and as such shall be repaired, 8, / 2 / rospective Parishes iP, Which mob roads are oituate.