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~. -Thj ,--rjor) /~ , . • r' • 4 . • , / 4 ,41 104 t. 8611 P:4 90 ‘ , s . l /9_ • *- 41 ." .10 `" A ., "\- • „ ciao , ' • PST& •SP a : 1 4'01 . 71 17.&_ ; 4?-7 : '... ;,_ • 6; 4111 11 7.4 • r * *°4' f lA, • ~,,,,, 4 01#4 ---r0 • , ' IT L IF:r . 27 „re' ' ‘77' - , 31 7 ;7. • INIO_NDAY EVE N l Nci ‘A FEBRUARY 27, 1860. WHEREAS, by a Decree of the High Court of' Chancery, made in a cause " George Mullins and others against Ffanoes Smith and another," bearing date the 10th day of December, 1859, an enquiry is directed to be made what charities were intended by the testator. Isaac Smith, late of No. •,:9,Cannon.-place, Brighton,Sussex, Esquire, who died the Ist day of February, 1856, by the bequests in his will, in the words following, that is to say. "The Church Missionary Society; the Church Pastoral Aid Society; the Moravian 3lission Society ; the British and Foreign Bible Society ; the Naval and Military Thble Society ; the :Royal Orthopmdic Hospital, 6, Bloomsbury-square, London ; the Malta Protestant College ; the London Tract So ciet y ; the London City Mi ss i on ; the Charing-cross Hospital ; the Royal Free Hospital,: Gray's-inn-lane-road ; the Colonial Church the Society for Prolnoiln. , g Christianity amongst the Jews • the Brighton Town Mission ; the Lou don Society for Promoting' Irish Missions ; the Female Or phan Society, Brighton ; the Indigent Blind Society, 27, Red Lion-square, London • the Brighton County Hospit al ; and the Brighton Dispensary ry ;" and all such charit ies claimin g under the abore description to be entitled to the bequests, are, by their treasurers or solicitors, on or before the 9th day of lifarch, 1860, to come in and prove their claims at the chambers of Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Toxin Kindersley, No. 3, Stone Buildimrs, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in de fault thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the be nefit of the said Decree. Tuesday, the 13th day of March, 1860, at one o'clock in the afternoon, at the said chambers, is ap pointed for hearing and adjudicating . upon the claims of the abore charities.— Dated this 3d day of February, 1860. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. MARSON, DADLEY, and MARSON, 1, Anchor terrace, Bridge-street, Southwark, Plaintiff's Solioitors. '‘' T 4U.AFER and the working of the Atlantic cable month of August in 1858. Tn this hop, have been disappoir.ted. The a hsen (.0 ment terms of any provisi.in ag,a last ,; lute loss of the property or the sh r. of failure, and. the continuance of tho income during the working of the c. proved hitherto insuperable obstc.e4.i ing sufficient subscriptions, hotwift great exertions that have been made for ru._ pose by the directors and officers of the company. Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow were succes - visited by the chairman, who explained to .gc meetings of shareholders and others the posi tion and expectations of the company, and an active canvass was afterwards maintained in two of these places, and to some extent in London, but the total result in subscriptions only amounts to £72,000. The directors propose to keep the company in existence, and to raise £20,000 for the purpose of restoring the cable to working arder, or to recover as much of it as possible. The directors trust that the enterprise will not be suffered to expire for want of such additional 'help as ma y be necessary. The capital a ccoun t s h owe d that i.:466,685 had been expended. 4114'6 ', tz, I"..lyrwPtlrct4WM-4\-N ' 1 , tilt U: - ••••. *W . , \ - c - 4 \y‘ .. c iez,4 , r ,5 ..e)F4 t ;vitt • ~ __...6k 4,,, : e fiit I-. o.: = 7 •-- ? „-- 27,_ . 4S . ''' hStanfitag fa, , s [ON. r o' Clock. No. 21,116. THE SUN, LONDO PRICE 4 1) . STAMPED, SD. ,announces had arisen Venezuela: WRONGS W.HICH CRY FOR REDRESS. often and often seen them down asleep, nit being able to lt Ad up for their work. If the manager had gone out, they would drop down in a minute in the packing-boxes and go to sleep" (No. 68). —" We have often gone to sleep on the tables, or with our heads on the wet cloth, or anywhere where we could sit still" (No. 378).—" The little ones very often fall asleep standing to their work"— [Mothers of little ones, you will not, you cannot read, and then not stir in this. You have a mission here. Say not that you can do but little in the matter. Let but the ma ternal feeling of the country rouse itself, and not another session shall pass away without the rescue of these little ones.] — They " fall asleep standing to their work. They fall asleep standing before their hooks. I have to keep them awake ; and my heart is so sore for them that I cannot speak to them. I have worked at bleach-works, in the finishing-room, twenty years, and it has always been so in all the works where I have been" (No. 462).—" It falls very hard upon the weak& boys. I have often seen them sleeping on their logs, and I have done so often myself. Their whole frame suffers. I have know at least eight in the last twelve years who have fallen into consumption and died" (No. 414). This retiring from work to die is of coursevery common:— " I have buried one little sister; my parents always thought it was from the long hours. She came here at ten, and was fourteen when she died, and she used to work very long hours. She was ill" (that is, off work before she died) " ten days only " (No. 223).—" I have often been ill from working in the great heat. My leg is now bad from it, and the doctor told me I must give up. The girls very often suffer from it ; go away and die from it and the long hours" (No. 646). Ten consecutive witnesses (pp. 42-44)-ten consecutive witnesses, mark you, employed at different establishments mention "many cases within their knowledge, of boys and young men having been ill and off work, and who have died from the long hours" (No. 422). Naturally, with females matters are oven worse. MR. IifiIITIVOR7LI'S RIFLED CANNON. ( only two degrees elevation the practice wit' piece was beautiful. Five shots were fire the following result : Yards Range. Deviation. 1,280 .. .. .. ito the right. 1,270 . , .. Ito the left. 1,257 .. .. .. Ito the left. 1,2.54: .. .. .. 14 to the right. 1,208 .. .. .. i ditto. The 8 0-pounder was then tried at 10 degrees with P. 101 b. charge and a 901 b. shot, but the ineffi d.wnt wooden carriage of this piece offered such difficulties to its being well worked on the rough planks on which it stood on the sand that after PUBLICATIONS. Mr. Crook's bill for the Protection of Women and Children employed in Bleach Works, &c., will be proposed towards the end of March. If, be tween this and then, popular opinion is not brought to bear on this most atrocious question, it shall be no fault of ours. We purpose that this article shall appear in our columns frequently, until the bill has again been brought before the house; and we implore our brethren of the press to help the country, and especially the Legislative Body, to a right way of thinking on these horribly cruel mat ters. Our extracts are taken almost at random from Mr. Hopley's pamphlet : Samuel Price examined—" I was in the employment of Messrs. Ainsworth, near Bolton. They employ about four hundred people. It was mostly from eleven till two o'clock in the morning before we left off. In the last year I was with them, from April, 1853, to April, 1854, we were busy, as well as I can remember, through the spring and through the summer, for six or eight months of the year; that is, we went to work from six to half. past six, sometimes at four, and left off from ten to twelve, one or two in the morning, and sometimes after that. * * * All the people in the works averaged these number of hours—some even more." [Observe that this dreadful toil was not an occasional or exceptional fact. Girls and boys were thus working, "through the spring and through the summer, for six or eight months of the year."] "At times, if a sudden order has come, we have not been in bed more than 16 or 18 hours in the week (averaging more than 211 hours of unrest out of the 24 during seven successive days and nights for girls and boys, some of them no more than 12 years old)." —Report of the Com missioner appointed to inquire how far it may be advisable to extend the Provisions of the Acts for the better Regu lation of Mills and Factories to Bleaching Works, pp. 10, 11, Nos. 81-84. William Johnson, finisher—" I am twenty-four years of age. I was eleven when I first went to work. I worked first for Mr. Fletcher, Leylands, ten years,. At.ny com mencement" (that is, when he was a child of eleven) " I began at twelve o'clock on Sunday night, and worked till eight on Monday night (20 hours) ; then we started at six o'clock on Tuesday morning, and worked till 12 at night (18 hours) ; and we did that for two or three months without stopping. * * * I have been at a worse place than that for long hours since ; at Mr. Whowell's, Two Brooks. * * * There were a deal of young girls, one or two under ten years of age.—lbid., p. 9, No. 68. [To have a full perception of the severity of this toil, it should be borne in mind that a very large number of the workers in these establishments are standing and " work ing hard" (as rapidly as possible) during almost the whole of these lengthened periods. It is shown in evidence that sometimes for days in succession the girls and boys have no opportunity whatever of sitting down (save for their hastily-snatched meals during the whole of the time spent at the works.—Reports, passim.] John Hamer, finisher—" I have been 15 years in the bleaching trade. I was employed at Messrs. Hollins', Tootle Bridge, Bolton. * * * One morning we went to work at five o'clock and worked till six the morning after" (25 hours.) " All the sets were working the same hours" (the young with the adults). * * * " I have been so tired, though I am a strong and healthy man, that I have often to sit at my bed-side when I get up of a morning, and my fingers are so stiff and sore that I cannot dross my self. If I feel thus tired, what must the young girls and boys feel ?"—lbid., p. 8, Nes. 61, 64. [The frightful state of prostration—often ending in death —to which the young girls and boys are reduced in some of these establishments will be touched on presently ] Ann Simpson (14 years old), Elizabeth Hilton (15), Sarah Higson (16)—" We came to work last Friday morn. Ing at half-past six" (at Mr. Ridgway Bridson's Bleach works, Bolton). "We worked all Friday night till half past five on Saturday morning" (twenty-three hours.) "We did not sleep any time in the night, except on Saturday morning at half-past five we laid down to sleep on the hooking-box, and slept till a little after seven" (less than two hours' sleep—and with the clothes still on—after twenty-three hours' work) ; " then we went to breakfast for half-an-hour, and then came and worked till ten minutes past eleven."—lbid., p. 25, No. 236. William Crompton —ii lam 17. I have been four years and a half" (that is, since he was twelve years and a half old) " in the dressing-shop. We go on till different hours, sometimes early, sometimes late. I worked once three days and three nights" (he is only one, remember, among mul titudes—children as well as adults—who toil in the same way) ; "and not long since I began wi.rk on Friday morn ing at four and worked till five on Saturday night" (37 hours). " I mostly slept at meal times, and only stopped ono hour for meals ; the rest I ate while I was working."— rßom THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES. SOUTHPORT, THURSDAY. The experiments with these rifled ordnanc2 were resumed here during yesterday and to day, in the presence of what might almost be called a great concourse of gentlemen, when the out-of-the-way and rather desolate nature of the spot is taken into consideration. Lieut.-General Pennefather, Major- General Anstruther, Major-General Watkins, and a number of other military officers came down from London to witness the trials, and there were also present a considerable number of machinists and fur Foreign the special ent, a note nezuela ac- Emperor's fulfil them• THE NEW NOVEL. On Friday next, in 2 vols., THE VOYAGE OF THE LADY, By the Author of " THE THREE PATHS." Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Co: burn, 13, Great Marlborough-street umed with was hoisted by twenty arms to do Ile military e churche o The Vene itovernment Now ready, in post Bvo, 10s. Gd., THE SEASON TICKET London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. This day, Part IX., price 6d., TALES FROM BENTLEY Les Poissons d'Avril. By Father Prout. Irish Invention. Ey P. McTeague. Scenes in the Lite of a Gambler. Mrs. Jennings—who wanted somebody to care for her. Death-bed Confession. Sardanapalus' Last Dinner Party. Also this day, the Third Volume, price ls. 6d. London : Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. four shots the attempt was given up. Even these four shots, however, show such results with such a charge and such a low degree of elevation as have not been surpassed except by the previous perform ances of the same gun. They were as follows : Yards. Deviation. 4,411 .. 24 to the right. 4,503 20 ditto. 4,400 20 ditto. 4,320 30 ditto. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS , Polygraphic Hall , King William-street, Strand.—Farewell Season in Lon don.—Every Evening at 8, and every Saturday Morning at S . o'clock. Tickets and places may be secu r ed at the Hall horn 11 till 4, and at Mr. Austin's West-end:Box-office, St. James's Ball, Piccadilly.—Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. J. W. RAxxon. scientific gentlemen from London, Liverpool, and Manchester, and, in.leed, from all parts of the kingdom, anxious to witness the successful working of a gun the gradual progress of which towards completion has been so attentively watched for months past. Officers specially sent by the French, Austrian, and Swedish Governments were also pre sent, with some American engineers, Admiral Gren fell, of the Brazilian navy, Capt. Mends and the officers of the Hastings, and others. A general hope was entertained that the large 80-pounder would have been tested on a stand which would admit of .RECEPTION OF THE 78th lIIG.H -LANDSRS IN _EDINE URGIL This celebrated regiment having been ordered to move from Fort George (Inverness-shire) to Edin burgh, a party of about 180 men, under Lieut.-Col. Lockhart, arri ve d i n th e b eg i nning of last week and . took up their quarters in Edinburgh Castle, vacated by the West York Rifles, who are now distributed in Paisley, Ayr, and other towns. The main body of the regiment, under Colonel Ewart, left Fort George at 2 o'clock on Friday morning, and, tra velling by railway, reached Edinburgh about half past sin the afternoon. The expectation of their coming had deeply stirred the hearts of the inhabi tants, and arrangements were made to give them the wannest welcome. The city bells were rung as the signal that the regiment was expected in an lwr,iincl the Edinburgh Rifle Volunteers, the 11tid- Lothian Coast Artillery, and the Leith Rifles, turned out to line the way for the gallant Highlanders, and to give them a military salutation. All the way from the railway station at Waverly bridge to the Castle (via Princes-street and Mound) there was an immense concourse of people of all classes in the streets, the windows and other favourable points of view being also crowded. The darkness was rapidly falling by the time the tr:.in conveying the regiment reached the station. At the platform two bands— those of the County Militia and the Coast Volun taers—had taken up their places to play the " Conquering Hero" and other appropriate tunes. The Lord Provost was present, and shook hands with the Colonel, giving him welcome and con gratulation. When the regiment left the station they were at once involved in a tremendous and eager crowd, who sent up ringing cheers, while hats and handkerchiefs were enthusiastically waved from the windows commanding the scene. The Volunteers were scarcely able to stem the multitude, and their line not being very continuous the gal lant Highlanders had actually to push and elbow their way through at many points. At length/ the protecting lines of the Volunteers ceased altogether, and the soldiers, fatigued with their journey, could with difficulty make their way up to the Castle, owing to the pressure. The band of the regiment was quite unable to continue the strains of " Auld Langsyne," with which they had hitherto responded to the public welcome, and the " big drummer" had for some distance to hold his sonorous instrument in silence above his head till some of the ready throng gave their aid to drag it along. Even the ranks of the column were some what broken, and the gallant Highlanders could not in some cases prevent their being relieved of their rifles by those who desired to do them the service of carrying them, while many of them found old and new friends in the craw(' who eagerly sought to bear them company. It was not till half-past six o'clock, it being now quite d a rk, that the regiment reached the Castle into which they were followed by the last echoes of the loud huzzas that had accompanied their whole progress. It . just 20 years since the 78th were last quartered in Edinburgh Castle, and it was shortly after they left Edinburgh that they were sent out to India, whence they have now returned covered with so much glory. re, returned if. On the 3 reconcilia ie members ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE CIRCUS, Leicester-square. Two Performances Daily The only Equestrian Establishment now open in London.—The Proprietor having at his disposal all the available Equestrian talent now in London, will THIS DAY, MONDAY, produce an entertainment far superior to anything of a similar description ever previously attempted. Morning at Two ; Evening, at Half-past Seven. OLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE , N..) The MARCH Number will be ready on the 29th. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. S rON AND IiPTON. RLACKIVOOD'S MAGAZINE for MARCH, 1860. No. DXXXIII. Price 2s. 6d. The experiments (which were necessarily much delayed by the constant arrival of distinguished military and scientific gentlemen, to whom Mr. Whitworth explained the chief peculiarities of the gun) then terminated, and the crowd of visitors, to the number of some 2,000, made the best of their way across the sands to Southport. The experi ments were continued to-day with the 12-pounder. though the weather was about as unfavourable for them as can well be conceived, the mist being dense and the wind high and irregular. Nevertheless the practice was very good. The 12-pounder at 5 deg. in 10 shots ranged from 2,150 yards to 2,250 in length, with only a deviation of one, two, or three yards to the right of the true line. At 10 degrees it ranged from 3,750 to 3,850, and was almost equally accurate to the true line of fire. The 3- pounder at the same elevation, gave beautiful prac tice, almost throwing its shot 4,000 yards, and only a few feet to the right or left of the true line. With spherical shot it was almost equally accurate, and so also was the 12-pounder. The best practice, however, was made wilh the 80-pounder at seven degrees, as follows this admir' 'ternoon, ill . Sir Henri e governors CONTENTS. Lord Elgin's Mission to China and India. St. Stephens—Fart Third. Norman Sinelair : An Autobiography—Part 111. Nelson and Carracclolo. Betsey Brown—a True Story. A Word about Toni Jones. The Luck of Ladysmede—Part the last. The " Foreign Connection" of the Ilouse of Bull. Dieo Volunteer Cavalry Movement. The Anglo-Galilean Budget. • William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. the piece being elevated to such a degree as would show its utmost powers of range. Unfortunately, however, the carriage for this gun, which is being constructed at Manehester, could not be brought upon the ground, so the trials yesterday were with guns of the same calibre as formerly, though not elevated _to obtain mere length of flight with the projectiles. Long-range shooting, in fact, was out of the _question, as the tides, being high during ft — greater part of the day, re duce the extent of available range ground to some 7,000 yards, so that even had the carriage for the 80-pouuder been ready it would have been dif ficult to register any distance beyond that we have mentioned. One of the chief causes of the delay, also, arose from the fact that Mr. Whitworth is entirely occupied in getting ready for his approach ing trials at Sheerness against the iron .cased float- ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Grand CASINO, open every Evening, with the celebrated Band. Established 10 years. Conducted by Mons. Lamotte ; principal cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt. Doors open at half put 8. commence at 9. Close a few minutes before 12. Ad- Mission, Is. Now, reader, it is no use mincing words. Look upon all this calmly, weigh the matter well, and have the manly or womanly honesty to call it by its right name ; and what is it ? Wholeaale murder—murdey for zold. The man who p:iisons - another to escape the payment of a debt, is hung. The man who stops another in the Queen's high-way and demands " your matey or your life," is hung. But these, who build up princely fortunes with the bloody hands and bloody feet of helpless little ones—who wade through killing tyranny to wealth —who live upon women's and children's life's blood,—who are guilty of the death not of one only, but of scores of their fellow .creatures, —these roll about in carriages ; and after founding a church or two, and a school or two, arc looked upon as just, liberal, and benevolent men ; and sit on magisterial benches ; and take their place in Parliament ; and assume an interest in . the welfare of the poor ; and argue upon the rights of labour. Woe to the legislature that contains within its body the rust that must corrupt I Woe to the nation that hears such things and will not raise its voice ! There is nothing in this report more touching than the patient and almost despairing anxiety shown among the operatives for a protecting law : "We are all most anxiously looking for the bill" (No. 420).—" Is there sny sign of the ten-hours bill being got ten" (No. 213) ?—" Is there any chance for the bill being passed this session" (No. 240) ?—" I feel very tired many times, but I dare not stop. I would like the short-time bill" (No. 211).—" I know that all in this room are very anxious for tho short-time bill" (No. 221).—" Every girl in the room would like a short-time bill, though they would earn less wages" (No. 276).—" I should like the short-time bill very much" (No. 278).—" I have talked to them many a time about the hours being shortened like the factories. They wish that time would come" (No. 462).—" We have long been waiting for the short hours" (No. 494).--" We all very much want the short-time bill" (No. 495).—" They all wished for the short-time bill very much" (No. 509). " The short-time bill will do us all good" (No. 543.)—" I have seen the girls, when they have been taking a piece from the pulling-up machine, fall asleep ; one of them was not ten years of age. The child looked as pale as a piece of cloth. I have seen men take this child in their arms and say they wished they could see it in London in this state ; —that is, so livid and wan from work. I mean that if they could see such things in Landon, they would know that there was a want of a bill" (No. 68). Think of all this, ye apathetic legislators. And think of this livid and wan child, ye cruel men of mammon. Her little hands can ply her task no more. " The spoil is in your houses." . . . For twenty years have these poor operatives, "by meetings, by associations, by petitions to both houses," been endeavouring to ruse attention to all this awful tyranny, and for twenty years has their cry cone up in vain !—Hopley's " Letter to the Men and Women of the United Kingdom." 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"—Medical Circular. every case sent his shot as easily through the sides of these vessels as if they had only been made of the usual strength of oak. But it is supposed now that the wrought•iron armour-plates for the frigates J. - 13 urdon t physician. L bequest of .eversionary sin parties. ther legacy', the amount Lng woman, n in-patient that time five months, she made gs, and the e Conaump e very kind titution. Yards range, 3,503 3,493 3,487 3,482 Deviation in feet. 4/ right. 6 ditto. 6/ ditto. . 6/ ditto. are forged of greater strength than heretofore, in- B URROWS AND CO., Wholesale Wine Mer chants, LIVERPOOL. Stores Lime-street. Offices 54, Duke-street. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent•street. asmuch as Sir W. 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A dividend at the rate of 91 per cent. per annum was declared for the half-year, and the proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to the chairman and the directors. uses a perfectly flat-headed projectile—as flat at the top as the crown of a hat, which instantly makes its way through the armour, when, as mechanics A sample case, containing three full-sized wine bottles, Will be forwarded to any address on receipt of F. 0.0. for 6s. ed., or a dozen for 245. It is a well-known fact that impure and adulterated wines are the greatest foes to health, producing acidity in the stomach, and debilitating the digestive organs, while pure Wines will accelerate the digestive powers, invigorating, strengthening, and bracing the nervous system. Their Tonic Wine is admitted to be most essential to in "Vide, both old and young, and should never be absent from the homes of the weak and sickly. Its properties are duly acknowledged and appreciated by the leading men of the faculty, both at home and abroad. To prevent imposition each bottle is sealed with the name Of the firm. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL for the DESTI TUTE SICK and DISEASED, Gray's-inn-road. Founded 1828. At this particular season the numerous and urgent appeals which are made for admission by the most miserable and helpless of human beings, renders it imperative on the Com mittee to entreat the bounty of the affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily compelled to treat as out patients very many distressing cases, which, under other circumstances, they would gladly admit into the wards, want of funds alone compelling the adoption of a limit to the num ber of in-patients. 10,562 afflicted persons received the benefits of this Charity either as iu or out patients during the month of January. Contributions received by the Treasurer, Edwd. Mastermau, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Mess-s. Coutts and Co. ; Drum mond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones, Lloyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nis bet and Co., Berner's-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Hospital. By order of the Weekly Board. S. S. SMITH, Secretary. will easily understand, the sharpest pointed shot would fail. With the present 80 pounder it is said the thickest plates of the 'Warrior will be pierced 204 162 27 1191 with as much ease as ever, even if backed up with be 22 inches of teak behind. The three guns used in these trials were placed BIRKENHEAD. n-essed their make some belief that , seeing that .stival. The at the Right P., G.C.8., ctn the °ca ke place at for the ob .iture of the nation of a e mortgage financial re- on the same part of the beach as on previous occa sions, the crowd of visitors finding their way there in and on conveyances of all kinds, so that the The half•yearly meeting was held on Saturday at Birkenhead—Mr. E. G. Salisbury in the chair. The report stated that the capital stock entitled to dividend and in the hands of proprietors on the 31st of December last was X 1,941,505 ; the loan and mortgage debt amounted to £494,972; the 4 per cent. perpetual debenture stock was £6,170; total, X 2,442,648. The expenditure during the half-year had been X 21,429. The gross receipts for the half-year on revenue account amounted to £74,66E, which, added to £909 brought over from last account, made a total to credit of revenue of £75,577. Deducting the working expenses, £34,103; rates and taxes and passenger duty, £2,218; interest on loans and mortgages, £11,599, there remained a net balance of £27,656, out of which the directors recommended the payment of a dividend at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum, leaving £3,310. The directors regret to say that they have not succeeded in inducing the two com panies to seal the agreements for the lease of the Birkenhead undertaking. The CHAIRMAN stated that with the exception of one claim for land every liability of the company on capital account was closed. After a long discussion the motion for the adop tion of the report was carried. The dividend, at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum was then declared. All orders to be made payable to HENRY BURROWS. bleak shore presented an appearance which on any other part of the coast would have festive and ani mated. 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Patronised by her Majesty's Government.—CONDY'S PATENT PURR CONCEN TRATED MALT VlNEGAR.—Familles, by using this de licious Viiegar, insure purity, and effect a saving of 50 per cent. See Report of Dr. Letheby, City Officer of Health ; Dr. Hassall, of the " Lancet" Commission, and others. Sold by the Trade, in bottles labelled and capsuled. Wholesale, 63, King William-street, Londow-bridge, E.C.—Six Quart Sample sent free to any Railway for 3s. 6d. We received yesterday a Parliamentary paper entitled "Return to au Address from the House of cast away. The day was an unusually fine one, though, from :he very uncertain state of the wind, about the worst for accurate firing. The puffs of air wore from all THE GREAT TURN-OUT OF COLLIERS :AT ST. _HELENS, LANC.ASHIRE. 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WOTHERSPOON & co., GLASGOW AND LONDON it was loaded and fired by one of Mr. Whit worth's people, and the ease and rapidity with which it was managed excited tho utmost astonishment more than ,o keep the among the gentlemen present. That which, next to the gun itself, seemed to be most admired, was ,ho tin cartridge-case for the powder. This case is of hexagonal form and about seven inches long, with a very fine hole at the back, through which the flash of the friction tube ignites the powder. The meeting was made special for the purpose of submitting the draught of the bill "for Testing the Birkenhead Railway Company in the London and North-Western and Great Western Railway Companies, and for other purposes." The resolution was adopted unanimously. At the end which meets the shot is a small lump of grease, which, being melted by the explosion, lubricates the barrel from end to end. The im- )roved and o the chtur ts proposed ilogised the E,.r in which ered by the by I. Ivatt pinion as to tal, and re itients, and them. 'hem a pro 3rammont, fitted to the st :—" The onceived in ing to the ible to all ml liberty ied by the of proce cording to !d without abolished, cil of State as that in ive Chain r the Pro- on to dim e Budget. !ci directly ng chosen stablished would be 1 amnesty political despatched ng malls. Next Malt due. tifarre.llll ia 5 Mar. 15 iFeb. 22 !March 3 overduo Feb. 26 overdue ,Mar. 16 loyerdue IFeb. 26 Feb. 25 Mar. 5 Mar. 5 overdue ;overdue !Feb. 28 'Mar. 3 Mar. 10 1 3Iftr. 1 y, Herta, Esq., of roshua Albert daughter e Middle rest, Re ",. Co 14! 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SECTION 111.—Marriage in its Moral, Social, and Physical delations—lts Expectancies and Disappointments—Advan tages of Physical Contrasts in securing Healthy Offspring. SECTION IV.—Sperrnatorrhva and Impotence—The causes of Sterility in both Sexes—Sett-inflicted Miseries. SEeTtox V. -The Vices of Schools—Effects of certain per nicious habits on the mental and general faculties. SECTION VI.--Treatment of Nervous and Generative De bility—lmpotence and Sterility—Dangerous Results of various Hazardous Specifics —The Author's Principles of Treatment ; Medical, Dietetic. and General, derived from Twenty Years' successful practize , The above work is intei•ded for the perusal of those who • have in early life been induced to swerve from the strict rules ipt . morality. In its pages facts of par ;mount utility are brought together, wholly divested of tne delusions and incon sistencies so largely introduced tntn certain quasi. m edical publications given to the world szratis under the tuise of y, philanthr o p or as " acts of g;ratitude," . by pretended clergy men and oth ers, w h ose tamperings with the constitution are frequently followed by serious consequences. p. 26, No. 246. Surely all this is very terrible. But read on : "James Thomson (Mr. Wallace's Bleaching, Scouring, and Finishing Works for Cotton and Woollens, Burn bank, Glasgow)—" I am manager of these works, and nephew of tho owner. In summer some of the hands work occasionally from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m." (18 hours) " the whole week through; we did this last summer several times. Three days we worked 20 hours each day. The ages of most of our girls is from 10 to 18." (Observe these ages—some of the girls mere children.) " The stove-rooms in which they work are in winter heated up to 100 or 110 deg.; in summer the heat is from 120 to 130 deg." (and at times very much higher, as stated by the same witness in evidence given at a subsequent page.) " I feel, when lam urging the females to work these long hours that I am doing what is not right, but I have been urged to do it to get a lot of goods finished. Sometimes they stay here all night, and then we make a place for them to lie down upon in a store room upon the pieces of goods unfinished. Sometimes 14 or more girls will pass the night in this manner, after work ing 19 hours, and coming out of those hot places dripping wet with perspiration, and their clothes wet through with it."—lbid., p 59, Nos. 643-645. And this in the country which is energizing through the world to put down slavery Alexander King.—" I work at Mr. James Young and Son's bleachworks, Auldhousefield, Pollockehaws. There are about 300 hundred hands employed ' • of those 250 aro females. When we are busy the number is about 400. * * * Sometimes, about once a week, one shift will be • gin at 6 a.m., and go on till 6 the next morning" (24 hours). "This has happened once a week on an average for the last six months. The females all work in the stoves."—lbid., p. 61, Nos. 682, 683. What a spectacle—what a hideous, sickening spectacle must 400 workers present at the close of their 24 hours' toil ! " The females all work in the stoves 1 " Among them " will be some from 10, 11, to 13 years of ago ; the rest chiefly between that and 21;" —toiling, bear in mind, in a temperature, exceeding, by some 20 dog. er 30 deg., the general temperature of an Indian summer Elizabeth Henderson (Mr. Clark's Bleachfield, Burnbrae, Millengood).—" We sometimes begin at one o'clock upon Monday mornings and work sometimes till nine o'clock on Monday night" (20 hours), " and sometimes even all Mon • day night, and got home at six o'clock on Tuesday morning" (29 hours from the time of commencing work).—" Home for four hours and out here again at ten o'clock, and work up to 11 and sometimes 12 o'clock that night. The next day we should come out atsix and work the regular hours; that may go on fcr a few days or a week, and then we should commence, as before, at night-work, going home at seven in the evening for one hour, and working through the night. We stop from 12 till one in the night for re freshment. It was rather before the new year when we commenced to be so busy, and it has been going on this way up to this time (March 24)."—A quarter of a year of such toil as this ! —lbid., p. 66, No. 783. Elizabeth Edge—" lam 14 years of age. I have worked here" (at Mr. Sadden's, Breightmet Bleach-works) "four years. Three months since I worked" (and of course she was not working alone upon the occasion) " two nights and two days. I slept four hours the first morning, and not at all the next night. I have very often worked till twelve." —lbid., p. 49, No. 491. If there be any one thing which more than another adds to the enormity of this national iniquity, it, is the fact that there is not—nor ever has been—even so much as a ' diffi culty,' worthy of the name, to prevent a stop being put to all these terrible shames by just legislation. i hl( n 2aw4i t f h oh. rp a ok t aues t rdt i s t: tf t .wr e oo, l n t h h a o v n o ex workedt ( twe n ty on from t y * Diary Ann Smith.—" L as t S a t ur d ay I was 12 y ear s old. * * 1 came he re near l y t h ree years ago. Si x times I six h a v o e n e t on rub o u r b n i m n y g t t n i s l t s e i p x e t v h e e r y n e n x i g t h n t i b o r e o f o i n r h s o i n x ra in an t d h a e h m al o f rn ). in " g On t e il e l t m m e s y e . 1 o o g n s off.e o f m T y h h e n s g k e i r n s i cracks, gath e a r n i gI fromee n cannot abide ing cu l e I so ca by nni t eg h te e i selvage, and the other is running."—lbid., p. 47. No. 457. Contemplate o sicoit w t he a e s o n n i d n i e t i y o condition of s this old. poor A c d h i i t l a s I t t has g boon n at w hour after hour, day after day, the skinn of its instep still cracking and festering, the selvage still sawing against its gathering, running sores. Woe to the nation that shall hear such things and will not r a i se i ts voice I Amelia Woed (15 next Julp._.‘i have bees at this July). __« wor k about three years. We o toneat begin at 5 or 6 in the morning, and oftenest leave off at 11 or 12. * * * Sometimes we do not leave off till 3 or 4 in the morning. My fingers are often very bad; the cloth wears them through."—/bid., No. 158. Think of it, reader. It is the every-day complaint of The friction of the piece, in hooking, cuts their fingers and makes them very sore, their skins being soft. 'Whose finger is bleeding,' is net an uncommon expression as the suffering blood stains the pieces; they then have to have their fin gers ge As the blood stains the pieces Sore feet, likewise, —the natural consequences of stand- No. 414. and frequentlyturnitveery hot floors, — are very general, especially among ingnstoiendiau;::ouiris":" 'P. 43, had 'the aching legs' m any a time" (No. 22k8) "Ankle - always sore" ( o. 226.)—' Have The sin comes off, " My feet are almost and they are very sore" (No. 274)• I have often so bone was growing out" (No. 273 ). - - ,, kin is off very often, and the soles of my feet are blood-raw • " (No• 2i 9).—" My feet feet ; they bleed sometimes, a nd m y ankle_ bone has been r growing out" (No. 277). — "The s are often blood-raw"— No 241. "are often blood-raw, and they pain Inc" Mother " My feet blister at bottom and are ver y sore. Moth [How can we comment upon facts like these puts some snuff to them that ' makes the new skin come" No. 28.5).—" I have always sore feet in summer time" (No. 533.)—"' My feet aro often sere winter and summer" (No. 436).—" Feet often so sore that the skin comes off with my stockings" (No. 504).—" If you could have seen my feet last night" (No. 491). — " W orked when the skin was off my feet very badly" (No. 492).—" I have often had the skin (Army feet" (No. 232—" Her feet very often get raw" (No. 448).—" My feet were always sore in summer : they were blood-raw at bottom, and my ankles are swelled with a deal of pain" (No. 463). Equally painful to contemplate is the " dead -beaten" state of the workers : " I have scores of times seen both men and children asleep at their work. and very dangerous work too" (No. 10).—" Very often they go to sleep over their work" (No. 51).—" I have almost every day to take a board and beat it on the table to waken thorn, as they were slumbering at their work." (Observe the expression, reader—' at their worla " At that time they would be hooking cloth; and while they should be doing it, I see them nodding and trying to catch the hook" (No. 83).—" As to the older ones, I have The return is of the briefest kind, consisting only of four pages. There are one or two formal notes, acknowleding receipt of communications. Besides these, the important despatches are four in number. Lord J. Russell writes to Earl Cowley and Mr. Cobden, under date January 26, 1860, and receives their answer, under date January 28. Lord J. Rus sell in the first despatch named calls the attention of the English Plenipotentiaries to seven points of detail, and receives their answer in the secon , l 4 after their meeting with the Frenchh, plenipotentiaries to discuss the matters to which Lord. John had in vited their attention. In the first place, under article 2 of the Treaty, Lord John wishes that the terms " British coal" and " British coke" should be substituted for " Eng lish coal" and "English coke." Alterations allowed. 2. Lord John, under the head of the same article lad asked that the words "shall not exceed the lowest rates which is now paid by Belgian coal" should be substituted for " shall not exceed that which is now paid by Belgian coal." The English Government had contemplated that the general standard four years hence should be the lowest rate now leviable on Belgian coal, wherever or however imported into France. The French Pleni potentiaries decline to accede to this proposition in terms, with the remark that in the French tariff there is no mention whatever of Belgian or English coal. France, for the purposes of coal importa tion, is divided into three zones, and coal, without reference to its origin, is subjected to a higher or lower rate of duty, accordingly as it is im ported into one or other of these zones. The existing rates are 3 francs, 11 francs, 1 franc, exclu sive of the 2 decimes war tax, still in force. The Plenipotentiaries of the two countries finally agreed to drop all mention of Belgian coal, and to name 11 francs as the maximum rate to which foreign coal will be subjected, four years hence, on its in troduction into France. The third point refers to the additional 10 per cent. which, according to article 4, is to be paid to the French Custom-house over and above the de clared value of goods claimed in consequence of presumed short declaration of value. Lord J . Russell remarks that the practice of the English Custom-house has been to pay only 5 per cent. in excsss under the circumstances named, and proposes this modification to the French Government. They accept with thanks. The fourth point is more im portant; it refers to article 6 and to the wine duties. Lord John suggests that, as the proportion of duty payable on French wines has been very closely cal culated according to the duties now payable on English distilled spirits, an express provision should be inserted in the Treaty, with reference to the two higher classes of French wines, that if henceforward the British Government find it ex pedient, for purposes of finance, to increase the duty on British distilled spirits—now fixed at Bs. a gal lon—they may augment the duty on that class of French p'oduce now charged with 2s. a gallon in the proportion of 21d. a gallon for every Is. increase in the duty payable on English distilled spirits, and of lid. a gallon on the wines charged ls. 6d. for every additional ls. of duty allowed. Three verbal errors are then pointed out, and rectified by permission. Article 10 had reserved to each Government the power of levying " landing or harbour dues, in order to pay the expenses of all necessary establishments at the port of importation." For the word " harbour" the word " shipping" is substituted ; and " the port of - impoi tation" now stands " port of importation or exportation." In article 16 an error of translation from French into English is rectified. As both versions now stand, it is declared that " merchandise of British manufacture and production shall not pay more than the maximu m of 25 per cont." Finally, under article 19, the words " to all other nations" are substituted for " to other nations." In the two concluding despatches of the corre spondence Lord J. Russell and Earl Cowley re spectively announce to each other, under date re spectively of Feb. 2 and Feb. 4, that ratifications have been formally exchanged between the two Governments on the parts of the Queen of England and the Emperor of the French. portanee of this tin cartridge is, that while it per mits the use of a lubricating material for the rest of the barrel to be used, it quite does away with any necessity for sponging out the breech, which at the end of a hard day's firing remains as clean and bright as if the gun Lad never been used at all. In fact, the tin case takes the whole impurity of the powder remaining in the barrel till it is withdrawn for the next charge. Any one who has seen the careful spunging or rather washing out which the Armstrong gun requtres, and the time which after each discharge is consumed in this operation, will at once see the value of the tin case for the car tridge. As regards facilities for transport, free dom from the chances of accidental ignition, and safety from damp, its superiority to the flannel cartridge is, of course, obvious. Another point which seemed to please equally the military men and engineers on the ground was the extreme sim- plicity of the breech-loading arrangement, and the fact of the double-threaded screw which closes it being outside the gun instead of inside the chambee. as is the case with the Armstr ong . It i s t hi s sim plicity of mechanism which enables one ordinary workman to load and fire the piece with such ease, and it is to the fact of the screw being outside in stead of in a chamber specially made for it that the Whitworth is fitted for firing either round shot or conical shot of any length whatever. When the carriage for the 80-pounder is ready, Mr. Whitworth intends firing a 2001 b. shot from it at 35 degrees elevation. One of the objec tions formerly urged against Mr. Whitworth's rapid pitch of rifling was the resistance it occa sioned to the passage of the shot, and the conse quent danger of bursting the gun. In theory this objection appears to be well•founded ; practically we find that with a piece of string passed through one of Mr. White orth's projectiles, a sharp move ment of the hand is sufficient to draw it rapidly out from the breech to the muznle, In the Armstrong the resistance caused by the 40 sharp grooves cutting into the double rings of lead is, on the contrary, immense, and to this is due the immense recoil of the gun each time—a recoil nearly three times greater than we find in Whitworth's. The first nine shots with the three-pounder at three degrees were fired in about six minutes, with the following results : Yards Range. 1,607 .. 1,593 .. 1,439 .. Deviation from true line, .. f yard to the right. .. Line. .. Line. 1,588 .. 1 yard to the r i g ht. 1,577 ditto. 1,575 .. • . ditto. 1,573 ditto. 1,568 .. .. 2 ditto. 1,552 .. •• .. I ditto. The practice with the three-pounder at 20 degrees (each time with 71 ounces of powder) was not so astonishing with the first five shots as on former oc casions, in consequence of a signalman having mis taken the direction in which the first shot fell. The range and deviation in yards were as follows : Yards Range. Deviation. 6,918 .. .. 26 to the left. 6,749 .. • .. 27 ditto. 6,602 ▪ 54 ditto. 6,556 .. 35 ditto. 6,511 .. 34 ditto. 6,561 20 ditto. 6,316 20 ditto. 6,469 .. 11 ditto. 6,339 .. 12 ditto. The 12. pounder gave a fair average result at 5 degrees elevation—all the shots, 10 in number, struck at from 2,290 to 2y350 yards range, and all at about 21 yards to the ',tight of the true line. At MARYPORT AND CARLISLE. The half-yearly meeting of this comp - any was held on Wednesday at Maryport, Mr. Senhouse in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was adopted. A dividend at the rate of 61 per cent. per annum on the ordinary shares of the company was declared for the past half-year, and at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference shares. The proceedings concluded with votes of thanks to the secretary and directors for their services. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern, Mr. J. W. Childers in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in lhe Sun, was submitted. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the proprietary upon the dividend having risen from 21 to 31 per cent., and he could assure them that the accounts were in no way cooked to obtain that increase. After some discussion, the report was adopted, a dividend as recommended declared, and a resolution passed increasing the number of directors from eight to ten. Sir R. Walter Carden, Mr. Bentley, Mr. Stanniforth, and Mr. Lister were elected direc tors. The consolidation of 450 shares of the River Dun Company into ordinary stock, and the expen diture of £7,400 on new works and rolling stock, were sanctioned. LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX JUNCTION. The half-yearly meeting was held on Friday at Bradford, Mr. E. Akroyd in the chair. The report stated that £14,814 was the amount to the credit of revenue, which enabled the direc tore to declare a dividend of 21 per cent. for the last six months, leaving £527. The divi dend was a quarter per cent, less, and tho amount of capital £45,Q00 more than at the correspond ing half of 1838. The total expenditure on capital account amounted to £ 5 89,916. The report was adopted, a dividend at the rate of 41 per cent, per annum was declared for the past half-year, payable on the 6th of March, and the retiring directors and . auditors were re-clected. ST. HELENS, FEB. 25. The strike of the colliers emplcyed at the mints in this district is assuming a very formidable cha racter, and, from what has transpired within the last day or two, there is. too much reason to fear that it is extending. Up to yesterday the number oat on strike wag estimated at about 3,000; and last night we learn that this number was increased by between 250 and 300 nun more, who, in a body, left the Cropper's Hill Colliery, in which they had been working. We understand that the proprietors of the mine refused to give them the advance they demanded, and hence the strike. The expressed determination of the turn outs continues to be that they will not yield until they obtain an advance of 10 per cent. on their present wages, arguing that, inasmuch as the masters have raised the price of coal, they are en titled to a proportionate advance. During the last few days the turn-cuts in large tun.bers have paraded the town of St. Helens and the surrounding districts, and held open-air meetings. We learn that at one of these meetings held at Haydock, near St. Helens, yesterday, the men were addressed by several delegates, who harangued them strongly in favour of " sticking out," and communicated the significant intelligence that they had every reason to believe that th great bulk of the colliers in the Wigan district were also about to strike. Some hundreds of the county constabulary, drafted from the Liverpool, Manchester, and other districts, have been stationed in the neighbourhood of the mines during the past week, to be ready to act in case of an outbreak, which was expected, the turn-outs having threatened intimidation to the few hands remaining at work. So far there has been no breach of the peace, but it his been found neces sary to escort the " knobsticks" to and from the mines, in order to prevent their being interfered With by the turn-outs. The greatest possible excitement prevails amongst the manufacturers and inhabitants of St. Helens and the neighbourhood, for it is now feared that the supply of coal for manufacturing purposes is almost exhausted. The St. Helens Railway Com pany have offered to run a special train to the Springs' Branch Colliery, near Wigan, in order to convey coals to St. Helens, to meet the deficiency there ; but it is said that the Wigan colliers will strike next week, and, if so, the effect upon trade in the neighbourhood of St. Helens will be most disastrous, as several works are nlw unable to go on for want of coal; and it is confidently believed that, should the strike continue even only fur another week, it will be necessary to import coals into St. Helens for home consumption, as the stocks at the various mines have been reduced very low indeed. 'EASTERN COUNTIES. It appears that on the question of i4-electing the retiring dii ectors, and of electing two new directors and one auditor, the result of the proxies showed that £2.950,000 stock, representing 47,800 votes, were recorded in favour of the re-election of Mr. Love and Mr. Goodson, and £760,000 stock and 16,300 votes in favour of the election of Mr. D. Waddington and Mr. Gamble to the board, and also in favour of the election of Mr. Walforil as auditor, showing a majority of £2,190,000 stock and 31,500 votes in favour of the re-election of Messrs. Love and Goodson. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOU TREND. The report states that the receipts for the half year ending the 31st of December amounted to £33,283, and the expenditure to £17,26 6 , leavin a balance of £16,016. Considerable progress bad been made in the erection of the houses for the new town at. Southend. The capital account showed that £392,816 bad been expended on the Southend line, and £201,288 on the Barking branch—total, £79.1,104. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH' The report of the directors states that the gua rantee secured to this company by her Majesty' s G overnme nt has been found insu ffi cient for the pur pose of raising the amount necessary for th e prose cution of this enterp rise. The directors had hoped that, in the absence of better terms, a fixed mini mum revenue of £34,000 a-year, added to a condi tional guarantee of 8 per cent. upon the new capi tal, might suffice for that object' especially as the ma in difficulties of the undertaking were, to so large an extent, removed by the successful submergence giant WILLS AND BEQUESTS. Lord llolland's will, which from particular causes has been much delayed, and which has ex cited the interest of the public, was proved in Lon don, in the principal registry of the Court of Pro bate, on February -20. It was executed by his lot dship the day before his death ; the greater part was written by his medical attendant, and finished by the British Consul at Naples, who is one of the witnesses thereto, his lordship having resided in that city for some time. The will runs thus :—He leaves everything " to the will" of Lady Holland. To his Royal Highness the Duke d'Aumale he beqeaths a portrait of Prince Talleyrund ; to his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome Bonaparte Napoleon by Gerard ; to his friend Mr. Edward Cheney he bequeaths his Italian paintings, M which he h D opes will be worthy of his ac ce p tance ; to r. M. S. avid son, £500; to Mrs. Smith, of Barfoot, £100; an d he bequeaths the following annuities :—To Mr. John Latham , his medical attendant, £3OO a_ year ; to his valet £ lOO a- y ear ; to his butler £5O dck Spicer Davidson, of Spring gardens, to his cook £6O a-year ;to his head gardener z e tt 4 r c a-year ; and one half-year's wages to all his ter vents respectively ; and appoints , L . ady - Holland, the urn Earl of Shelburne, and Nlr. leis execut ors . The ' oln under £so,ooo.—Th e l a t e eminentE alike ' both a s a p h ys i c i an an d i)r. personalty Todd, for medical literary attainments, died suddenly on thel3 t hmocfs most intelligibleet ob r l 5 the 30th (,f January. framing ; but it was a l l t te . s s ted by _W year (on the 970 He had made his will on the It is exceedingly brief, and 6 l . anguage is employed in its of i not executed till the following 1 )ecember, 1857), when it was W. Connor,. M.D., and ' H. Cooper Todd. which vas disposition ; and the per sonalty, sworn under £14,000, is held in_ trust for the widow during her life, and at her decease is to be equally divided amlng his four children The executors are the widow of the de ceased ; the Rev. James Henthern Todd, D.D., Trinity College, Dublin, his brother; and Mr. Robert Cheere.-11lustrated London News. The Queen has been pleased to nominate the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, late Head Master of Harrow School, to the Bishopric of Rochester, in the room of the Right ROT. Dr. Murray, deceased.