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1858 -Fail -not. to- begin the NEW YEAR • with a DIARY. LETTS'S are kept by every bookseller in the kingdom. Catalogues gratis. Those generally adopted by LADIES are Nos. 10, 12, 18, 20, ARMY and NAVY, 8,9, 10, 11 22, plain or elegantly bound. in perpetual sprg. lock cases, GENTLEMEN, 8,9, 11, 11, etc. MERCHANTS, BANKERS, in perpetual sprg- lock cases. ENGINEERS, etc. 51, 52, 53, CLERGY WEN, 9, 10, 12, 12 enl. 1,2, 3,6, 8,9, 11, with Dr. and Tanlet, Sermon books, etc. Cr. forms, 38, 4a, 113, etc. MEDICAL MEN, 1,2, 8,9, 10, TRADESMEN, 4,5, 11, 13, 15, Medical, Professional, etc. Dr. and Cr. fore's, 33,113, etc. LAWYERS, 51, 52, 1,2, 8,9, the FARMERS. 4, 5,6, 7, 11. 13 . etc. Scribbling, plain or interlvd. MECHANICS, Is. 6d., Is 9 d. , 6d. LETTS, SON, and Co.. Stationers & Mapsellers,B, Royal Exchange. HER MAJESTY'S TUE A.TRE. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Pieeolomini, Spezia, Giaglini, Belletti, Rossi, Vialetti, and Aldighieri. THIS EVENING (Saturday, Jan. 2), LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Prices :—Pit Stalls, 12s 6d; boxes (to hold four persons), pit and one pair, 21. 2s ; grand tier, 3/. 38 ; two pair, three pair, 158; gallery boxes, 10s ; gallery stalls, 3s 6d ; pit, 3s 6d;. gallery, 2s. THEATLesRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. see—Mr. J. B. Bucks - tone. THIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with SPEED THE PLOUGH. Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Compton, Chippendale, Mrs. Poynter, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, and Miss E. Ternan. After which, a new comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD; or, Harle quin and the Spiteful Fairy. Harlequin, Mr. A. Leclercq ; Columbine, Miss Fanny Wright ; Pantaloon, Mr. Mackay ; Clown, Mr. Charles Leclercq. -•- Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the evening) 6s. each. (No charge for booking.) First Airco. s. d. Second price. s. d Dress Boxes 5 0, Dress Boxes 3 0 Upper Boxes .. 3 0 Upper Boxes 2 0 Pit 2 0 Pit 1 0 Gallery ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. —THIS EVENING, (Saturday, January 2.) THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. On Monday next Mr. Charles Kean will make his first ap pearance these two years in the character of Hamlet. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, will be presented THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. _ . After which, a new grand comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN WHITE CAT; or, The Princess Blanche Flower and her Fairy Godmothers. The Princess Blanche (White Cat), Miss Kate Terry ; Harlequin, Mr. Cor mack ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss C. Adams. THEATRE ROYAL, AD EL PHI. Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE WEPT OF THE WISH-TON WISH. Mr. Wright and Madame Celeste. After which, a Mythologi , !al Extravaganza, entitled HARLEQUIN, OR THE LOVES OF CUPID AND PSYCHE. Jupiter, Mr. Paul Bedford ; bars, Mr. Frank Hall ; Venus, Mrs. Billington; Cupid, Miss Marie Wilton ; Psyche, Miss Mary Keeley. R OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.—SoIe Lessee and Manager, Mr. C. Dillon.— THIS EVENING, will be presented DON CASAR DE BAZAN. Principal characters by Messrs. Charles Dillon, Stuart, Barrett, J. G. Shore ; Mesdames Woolgar and Buck ingham White. To conclude with the Burlesque and Pantomime, LALLAH ROOKH, and the PRINCESS, the PERI, and the TROU BADOUR ' • or, Harlequin and the Ohebers of the Desert. Supported by Mesdames Charles Dillon, Buckingham White Eliza Webb, Maria Ternan, Esther Jacobs, and Woolgar ; Messrs. Barrett, Calhaem, Holston, Fitzhenry, Poynter, and J. L. Toole. Clowns, Messrs. T. Matthews and R. Stilt ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Ricketts; Pantaloon, Mr. A. Stilt ; Sprites. Herr Zeleski and Sons ; Columbines, Misses A. Malcolm and Lees. Gorgeous Feast of Lanterns.—Fenton's Grand Trans formation Scene. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7. Morning Performance on Saturday.—Doora open at 2, commence at half-past 2. 3ox•office open from 11 to 5 daily. OYAL SURREY THEATRE. tl.) Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. THIS EVENING, will be performed BROKEN FAITH. After which, QUEEN MAB ; or Harlequin Romeo and Juliet. Clown, by the Surrey Buck ; Pantaloon, Mr. Brad. bury. TRAND THEATRE.—Lehsee, Mr. T. Payne. —THIS EVENING, will be performed HARLEQUIN NOVELTY AND THE PRINCESS WHO LOST HER HEART, Harlequin, Miss Craven ; Columbine, Madlle. Deulin ; Sprite, Herr Kirt. The Lambert Family and the Red Man of Agar in their wonderful performance, &c. Commence at Seven. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 25.; Pit, ls.; Gallery 6d. CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road. — OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The follow ig company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of lections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS, CHORUSES, GLEES, DUETS, drc., viz. :—Miss Russell, Mrs. Badzey, Madlle. Marietta, Miss Brunoll, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti, Miss Montagne, and Madame Marietta ; Herr F. Jonghmane, Mr. Renshaw, R. Grover, T. Farrant, S. Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E. L. Rime, Mr. Badgey, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Ber nard; Messrs. S. Collins, W. T. Critchield, and E. Mack ney. Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, Master Williams ; Director, Herr F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely. Sappers, drc., until twelve o'clock. Mr. A UGUSTUR BAAIIAM will make his first appearance on Monday, the 25th inst. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT—Morn., 35 min. aft. 3—Even., 0 min. aft. 4 Ts-MORROW —Morn., 20 min. aft. 4 —Even., 45 min. aft. 4 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAN WARY 2. 11111RMONIET ER, IN THE SEAM M. 47—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and daring the night. 47 —this day at noon. BAROMETER. 30.48. WIND, Westerly and variable; with dull weather. ‘f, „., ( 4 11 4 " LONDON, SATIIRDAV, JAN. 2, 1858. We trust that the New Year which has jus opened may prove a more auspicious one than that which was on Thursday brought to a conclusion. The Indian revolt, which at one time assumed so menacing an aspect, has virtually been suppre sed. Its neck has been completely broken by the cap ture of Delhi and the relief of Lucknow. Much, however, remains to be accomplished in the way of punishment, and visiting the treacherous and bloodthirsty mutineers and rebels with well_ merited retribution. An avenging NEMESIS is now pursuing the murderers, and worse than murderers of helpless women and children. They must expiate their unparalleled atrocities, how ever deeply it may excite the morbid sympathies of the Phdo-Sepoys. They will, if permitted to number the earth, roa.i about as scattered ban ditti, seeking every opportunity for mischief, and rendering the lives and properties of Europeans in the disturbed districts very insecure. A vigorous policy and many striking examples will be indis pensable, in order to re-establish the British su premacy on a sure foundation, and to set aside the evil consequences that must otherwise follow the ill-judged clemency exhibited towards the hoary miscreant who tortured English women and chil dren, and his hopeful (!) son and heir the youth of eighteen years of age who was, forsooth, too young to be punished for his participation in the rebellion. The effects of this absurd leniency may be very disastrous, as it will un- questionably be ascribed rather to our fears than to our moderation. The work, however, will be comparatively easy, and with such men as CAM.P ZELL, HAVELOCK, OIITRAM, LAWRENCE, and a host of others, there is nothing to excite apprehension of the worst kind. In China, too, our troops must actively em ploy themselves, in order to teach Commissioner YEH awl his advisers the folly, as well as treachery of the course they have adopted. Hitherto we have been comparatively quiescent, contenting ourselves with naval operations, and latterly a strict blockade of Canton and the neigh bouring coast. An attack on the offending city hafi, however, been organised ; and it is by no means improbable that at this moment the British standard is floating over the walls of Canton, and that " the harblrians " are in possession of the city to which, despite the obligations imposed by solemn treaties, they were refused admission. There are many domestic matters of paramount importance that must be disposed of within the THE SCN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVII_NENG, JANUARY 2, 1 58. present year. The Legislature has ample work on ' hand. There is the currency question, the most important of all that can be brought under the consideration of Parliament. That must, if Possible, be disposed of within the session, although a dilatory policy will be practised by the ministers at the dictation of " thehard calculators," who want to postpone the introduction of any measures until the public excitement is allayed, and the terrible calamities endured by the people are no longer thought of. We trust this insidious and tortuous policy will be thoroughly exposed by monetary reformers, and the eyes of the people opened to the real magnitude of the points at issue, so that further procrastination may be averted and some enactments passed that may relieve their doubts and uncertainties so very in jurious to the mercantile, trading, and manufac turing interests ! The Reform Bill, so long promised, must be brought forward. Wa trust that it will not be merely illusory, but of such a character as to satisfy the reasonable wish of the nation. Unless it gives protection to the voter by means of The Ballot, we tell Lord PALMERSTON that it will not be acceptable, that the refusal of this just and equitable boon may imperil the position he now occupies, and shatter the power he now holds. The India Bill, too, will occasion many ani mated discussions before the complete overthrow of the Double Government, and the establishment of Queen Vic-rouLes rule on a firm basis. Having ' suppressed the rebellion, and punished the rebels, it will be the imperative duty of Great Britain to bestow a wholesome administration of justice, and to remove every well-founded complaint of the loyal and faithful natives. We trust ~that, Parliament will not shrink from the arduous task. It is essential to grapple with the difficulty zealously and ener getically. The Jew Bill, which last year nearly led to a collision between the hereditary and representa tive branches of the Legislature, must be finally got rid of, and full justice rendered to a useful race, by the removal of the last vestige of reli gious intolerance. necessary to create an artificial scarcity that they might realise large pupas, and subjecting the operatives of the manufacturing district 3 to the tantalising process of starving in the midst of plenty, was but one step in the course which was taken with profound indifference. All these matters must be taken into consideration, not only by the Select Committee, but by every popular representative —aye, by every man in the com munity. It is the ignorance and apathy that have hitherto prevailed that has permitted the hard calculators to have their own way. All we ask is that the question should be fully discussed, and from that discussion we are satisfied that the truth will be advanced, and eventually prevail. The Bank returns last night resumed their ordinary form. The 2,000,0001. issued in excess —on the authority of the Government letter— were cancelled. The act itself had previously been abrogated by the reduction of the minimum rate of discount below the very moderate 10 per cent. insisted on by Ministers as an indispensable condition of the relaxation. But, notwithstand ing the cancelling of that large amount, the re serve of notes, the most important item of all in the account, inasmuch as it constitutes the fund for carrying on the business of the banking de partment—stand at the very respectable figure of 6,064,9851. It is true that there is an apparent decrease of 1,361,6851., but so far from this being an unfavourable symptom, the real fact is that there is an actual increase of no less than 638,3151. to the notes unemployed. The bullion in both departments is 11,454,9611., being an increase of 701,6801., while there is a decrease in "other securities" of 788,3711. Nor is this all, the increase in Government Securities exceeds two millions sterling (2,048,7351.) ! Driven out of the discount market by the extra vagant rates which they demand, they are willing to devote the money which should be used in legitimate banking to stock-jobbing operations. But for that the reserve of notes would doubt less have been much higher, and there could have been no excuse for delaying the reduction in the rate of discount so urgently demanded by the commercial and manufacturing interests. Indeed, under any oireumstances, there can be no pretext for maintaining a charge of 8 per cent. on approved securities, and the Bank directors will not look at any of an inferior class. It is obvious, therefore, particularly when they have ' added more than two millions to the Government Securities within a week, that the price is main tained in order that they may be enabled to get 1 cheaper bargains of Consols, or to exact _higher interest on the deficiency bills which Government may be compelled to issue for the due liquidation of the dividends, which become payable on the sth instant. But in either case the system is unbecoming a quasi national establishment, and should be earnestly deprecated by all right-minded Their Highnesses the Siamese Ambassadors yesterday paid visits to Mr. Hancock, the celebrated silversmith, of Bruton-street ;to Messrs. Benson, of Ludgate-hill ; and to Mr. Wilkinson, the army accoutrement maker, of Pall-mall. His Excellency Ferukh Khan paid a visit yesterday to the Earl of Shelburne, at Lansdowne House. His excellency dined last evening with the member of his suite, at Claridge's Hotel. The Duchess of Inverness entertained a select circle to dinner last evening, at her apartments in Kensington Palace. The Duke of Leeds has arrived at the Clarendon, from Hornby Castle, near Catterick, Yorkshire. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane are expected in town in a few days, from Langton House, Berwickshire. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Stanley are expected in town from Knowsl.ey Park, on or about the 18th instant, in order to be present at the nuptials of the Princess Royal and his Royal Highness Prince Frederick William of Prussia. The Countess of Liatowel is passing the season at Convamore, Ireland, surrounded by a numerous circle of Mends. Viscountess Jocelyn and family are staying on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Palen( rston, at Broadlands, near Romsey, where her ladyship will remain until the 12th inst., when the Viscountess goes in waiting on her Majesty. Tiscount Curzon has taken a house in Charles-street, Berkelepaquare. The Viscountess has quite recovered from her late indisposition. Lord Ashburton has returned to the Grange, Hants, from a tour of visits. Lady Brougham arrived in town, a few days since, from a tour of visits. Lady Wenlock and her infant son are both pro gressing favourably. The Count and Countess de Flahault and Miss Elphinstone de Flahault will leave Bowood in a few days, where they have been staying on a visit to the Marquis of Lansdowne, for Torquay, Devon. The Count d'Alton Shee has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, St. James's, from the Continent. Intelligence has been received at the residence of the Bavarian Legation, in Hill-street, announcing the death, at Munich, on the 28th ult., of Madame la Baronne de Cetto, née Baronne de Deuxponts, stepmother to his Excellency the Bavarian Minister, Baron de Cetto. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Lady Emily Peel, have arrived at Florence, and purpose to make a vfsit to Rome before their return to this country. Intelligence has reached Constantinople that very large masses of troops are being sent from Odessa to Georgia, their numbers being stated at 20,000 men. The screw transport Gironde was towed out of the port of Toulon by the Vigilant, and sailed for China. She has a detachment of artillery and several companies of marines on board. A Russian steam-corvette anchored in Toulon roads a few days since, after having exchanged salutes with the batteries of the Grosse-Tour and theaFrench Admiral's flag-ship the Bretagne. A letter from Marseilles, of 31st Dec , announces that Mlle. Rachel, the celebrated tragedian, embraced the Catholic faith and received the sacrament of baptism on the 18th November last. It is added that she had been long preparing for this change. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the North American Provinces and the Governors of the West Indian Islands. New YEAR'S DAT AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—The Royal baron of beef, supplied by Messrs. Banister and Bed borough, was cut from a choice Scot, fed by Mr. A. Roberts, of St. Leonard's, and weighed 3201 b. ; the process of roasting occupied 13 hours. The noble joint will be placed cold on the aide-table in the dining room, with the boar's head, woodcock pie, and Christ mas trees. HER MAJESTY'S PRIVATE BAHL—The members of her Majesty's private band gave a dinner at the White Hart Hotel, Windsor, on Wednesday last to their respected leader, Mr:Anderson, and in the course of the evening presented that gentleman with a handsome diamond pin as a mark of respect for his courtesy and kindness to them during the long period he has presided over them. MORE CHANGES IN THE CABINET.—The retirement of Lord Panmure is said to be imminent. Lord Pal merston seeks additional strength by inviting Mr. Sidney Herbert, who is said to be neither coy nor reluctant to occupy the post. The sharp debating which is expected at the opening of the session in February, can no longer he met with a nightly monologue from the Ministerial benches by the venerable and witty Premier himself. In this manner the aid of so accomplished and ready a debater as Mr. S. Herbert will be of great value at this moment of Parliamentary emergency. Morning Chronicle. THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S BRIDESMAIDS.—The following are the names of the Princess Royal's bridesmaids : Lady Cecilia Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Rich mond ; Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, daughter of the Duke of Newcastle; Lady Susan Murray, daughter of the Duke of Athol; Lady Catherine Hamilton, daughter of the Marquis of Abercorn ; Lady Emma Stanley, daughter of Lord Derby; Lady Cecilia Molyneux, sister of Lord Sefton ; Lady Constance Villiers, daughter of Lord Clarendon; Lady Sarah Spenc. r, daughter of Earl Spencer. As regards the last-named young lady there will probably be a change, in consequence of the death of her father, Lord Spencer, lest Sunday. DEATH OF DR. COLERIDGE.—It is with unfeigned regret that we announce the death of the Rev. Dr. Coleridge, rector of Thorverton, near Exeter, preben dary of Exeter Cathedral, and one of the proctors re presenting the clergy of the diocese of Exeter in con vocation, which event took place, after a short illness, en the day following Christmas-day. The decaied was the eldest son of James Coleridge, Esq., of Heath's Court, Ottery St. Mary, Devon, brother of the Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge, and nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the celebrated poet. Dr. Coleridge was distinguished as as scholar and warm supporter of Church principles both in the pulpit and through the medium of the press. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S WORKING MEN'S LITERARY INSTITUTE, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—On New Year's-eve the members and friends f this excellent institution were gratified by hearing Miss Limy Stuart deliver her musi .l entertainment entitled "A peep at Scotland through their songs.," The cordial reception which it has invari ably met with in the provinces was fully equalled on this occasion, and its introduction at the St. Bartholomew's In-titute was entirely successful. A MAN BEHEADED.—The town of Aberayron, Car diganshire, has been thrown into a state of gloom caused by the awful death of Richard Morgan ; f arm bailiff at Penygarreg. On Tuesday morning the thrashing machine on Penygarreg farm had only just been set to work, when Morgans went out as usual to oil the iron rods connecting the water-wheel with the boiler, a distance of 50 yards, and while in the act of oiling one of the plates suspending the rods it is supposed the rapid revolutionary action took hold of the end of his shooting jacket, which gradually drew in his head under the bars, thereby dislodging the massive stone pillars and severing his head completely from his body. It put a full stop to the work, and it was not until the people left the barn to know the cause that his poor headless body was discovered,— Shreessi ury Journal. persons. It may be said that the two millions is the temporary advance to Government required for the dividends ; hut this cannot be the case. Sir G. C. LE - wls would be singularly unmindful of his public duty if, more than a week before these dividends become payable, and ten days before the fundholders, who received their amounts in person, could even apply for payment, the Exchequer had borrowed at a heavy interest, so large a sum, in order that it might lie idle and unproductive in the Bank till. Mr. GLADSTONE earnestly protested, and not in effectually, against the principle of giving the Bank unnecessary subsidies at the cost of the tax paying community. We are by no means ad mirers of that Right Honourable Gentleman, but there is no doubt that, in that respect, he adopted a manly and straightforward course, and the organ of " the hard calculators," even the Levia than itself bullied the directors, for the time being, for not immediately, according to the Ministerial demands, reminding them that they had but a brief tenure of their monopoly, and that they had no right to demand a renewal of their Charter. Sir G. C. LEWIS would now have far greater power, inns- ea ACTIONS, taking eFffoacteninder the ne . CON.—From the Order in Co. un much as the charter has virtually expired, and an 11th inst., no action isto be "maint ainable Divo rce Act on the in Eng -day proprietors r. J. o f o t a t: t e i ey London n the chair,Doek C inquiry is actually pending before the House of lan A d" for t in Frimin i al conversation. Commons as to the propriety and expediency of pany was he g ld e te d th e s ai r a s r p d ort t an th d accounts t 2 per 7 were adopted, and adi hem its renewal. He could, therefore, dictate to "the dividend 15 ent. le f s o a r i the half-year t Old Lady," and certainly would not be required ending the 30th e rate Tco of venler demand ax. think p h e a r a f• n c h tly fi nat b ural to pay interest for ten days before the time it was activity Mllm t .—la bia wihe mining f share masket has shown more eetkh,e week the required. Sir G. C. LEWIS would struggle hard causes During 2 fo o r Tre . lawnyg, th w e e nwpagdtiovidananidmparfov2er per r t e i h n ar t e hLl J 42 o , nu an a d the pros which bave advanced from 23i t y o 25i, een before he could be induced to surrender an onerous and oppressive tax, producing some thousands, pint o and Wentworth have advanced to 6, 61 ; Clijah ?fa r but he has not the slightest objection to shares have been fiat, at 44 to 444 ; West Granv i l l e ,T Ann squander an equal amount, selon lea regles, to ss . ; Grenville, 1R to 11 ; East Basset, 90 to 9 2 .-- provided it were expended in strict accordance with the principles of red-tapism, and savoured coroner , h ll o r d a t illiT a . t . - 7 the West m inster Hospital strongly of a job. on the body of James Walker, aged four years, the son' It must now be clear that the Directors, if they o w f o wo w r p k a inf iil y e e d op t le hr l o i l v l ic h g in in Pri r n a c n es a -s v t e r r ee h t, L d am be th , pleased 2 might follow the course so properly longing to Mr. be g Wo g odward, brewer, y P a ark r - a slre b e e t ; adopted by the Bank of France, and demand i t K enannipnegatroand. that From the evidence of s everal . witnesses on Monday morning last, about only 5 per cent. on approved securities. It is 11 o'cleck, deceased was standing in the road a few more than they will get on G ove rnment Securi- feet from the kerb wh en one of Mr. Woodman's drays, ties, for there is a vet the carman of which, it being only drawn by one horse, y wid e distinction between was sitting on the shafts with the reins in his bands, interest and discount —th e former being driving at a very slow pace, came along. It is strpro ied less than 3i, while the latter, und er the most favourable down, passed over his right leg and arm before the circumstances, is 8 per cent., and considerably driv-r, who was called to, cf , uld stop. Deceased was more to the great majority immediately picked u insensible and conveyed to the of those re i ing pecuniary accommodation ! This Si g: lr- above d i n s t i t t h u t i cause where o c) fd e death, n o e n v a er rall m ie n d, rte a m nd e d x i a e m d i t n h a e fact proves, beyond the possibility of doubt t' next unta a Lg place, being found to be fracture of the skull that it is not capital, but currency, that I xtending to the base. Ch arles Oeb t orne, l the driver, ? said is wanting. We have bona fide wealth, but car h ef a u d l, b'' a s n a d k 2s ne Y w ea n rs i oth n ing s o p f the occur p re a n y ce til s la a ft w e a r y i s t is measure and representative is wanting. W e hal 3 happened. Verdict—" Accidental death." have literally had " a money famine," and in E ttsT ri. s h T a o f theGthLeaswuiollwo.;--A t thelate re ; a d m in e g s on Buchanan, Monday all through the absurd provisions of an Act, ob ,Eh'lan''.6°'ne years ago of the firm of Dennistoun, Bu rained under false and fraudulent representations. distal- s.a. nt i 1 .. c 5u 0. ,,, , s,efvleorao l o7l • 7a in b t e e e re n b i t e 'n it u b b y ei t i h u s e d s? ce w as e e r c e i There has been au abundant harvest, w hi c h ought '11,,I,112: Nairelchalite House, an equal 4 :+tq i t, th.!. T'adsO to supply plentifully every working man and his 1 family. But,thanksto thesharppractiee of thehard per annum for t tl e e l p n r ti o r m ' O :l t 'Y r o ' f 'r't .2 ;g ive d ls ; snehhieofoltr i u in te Gl s asgew n d ' nil ;n d 3 a . B o t O r O ia t i as an experiment nra for ten veers. The understand, are gentlemen selected calculators, this could not be accomplished ! It was from the magist w ra e cy and council.—Glsgow Daily Mail. LATEST NEWS AUSTRALIA. MALTA, JAN. 1. The steam-ship City of Sydney arrived at Suez on the 27th of December, with the mails, 22 passengers, and 199,567/. in gold. We understand that the City of Sydney will convey to Australia the mails, passengers, arc., ex Teviot, which left Southampton on the 12th of December. The Cydnus arrived at Marseilles on the 31st ult. with accounts from Constantinople to the 23d. The steamer brings 2,500,000 fr. The reconcilia tion between Reschid Pacha and M. Thouvenel has given great satisfaction to the Sultan, who has testified his feelings to that effect to the Pacha. The official visit of the French Ambassador to the Turkish Minister will take place very shortly. The divan of Wallachia has been dissolved, and that of Moldavia will very shortly be so. Nail. Emin, the Circassian chief who had been sent to reside at Damascus, has fled from that city. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. Being New Year's-day, the Bourse and public offices ars closed. A decree in the Moniteur promotes General Charon to the rank of Grand Cross in the Legion of Honour ; Generals Alexandre, Noel, Foy, Le maire, and Delhorme, and M. Petitet, director of the accountant's office at the Ministry of War, with 41 years' service, and councillor of State, to that of Grand Officer ; 13 other generals and superior officers to that of Commander, 23 to that of officer, and nominates 272 officers of different ranks and non-commissioned officers and privates to that of Knight. Another decree promotes 4 captains in the navy to the rank of Commander, 12 naval officers of different ranks to that of officers, and nominates 70 officers and non-commissioned officers of the navy and marines to that of Knight. Generals of Brigade de Fririon and Le Bumf have been promoted to the rank of general of divi sion, and Colonels Baret de Louvray, Neigre, de Maud'huy, Etienney, Lenoble, Orianne, de Cam biaire, D'Aboville, Gniod, Chabord, and Goury, to that of general of brigade. , By order of the Emperor renewals of temporary furloughs were granted yesterday all over France to soldiers of the classes of 1851, 1852, 1853, and 1854. The first renewal of these furloughs took place on 30th June last. M. Collet-Meygret has been nominated receiver general of the department of the Orne. In conformity with the ministerial instruotions of the 4th of June last, which prescribed that for the future the accounts of the savings banks of all France shall be closed each year on the day after the last Sunday in December, the Paris establish ment has just balanced its accounts, which give the following results : " The number of depositors is at present 326,221. The year 1857 has witnessed a diminution of 1,161,742'. in the total of the sums deposited, since, having been on the let January 45,771,985 f., it is new only 44,607,244 f. But it is only right to observe that this diminution arises solely from the change of destination given to an important portion of the depositors' funds. The pur chases of State stock, effected either at their request, or ex officio according to regulations laid down by law, ab sorbed a sum of 3,832,052 f. It therefore appears evi dent, from the aggregate of the facts collected by the savings bank, that hitherto the commercial and Indus , trial crisis has not pressed as heavily as might have been apprehended on the working classes of the capital ; and everything leads to the expectation that less un favourable circumstances will soon permit the greatest number of them to enter on, or continue in, the path of economy. A cheering symptom, and which ought not to pass by unnoticed, is that, notwithstanding the difficulty of existing circumstances, the number of depositors has increased during the year 1857 by nearly 8,000 persons, as in place of 221,375 on Jan. 1, there are now 226,211 f. The accounts for the Paris estab lishment for the past year eaay be thus summed up : It has received, let, in 250,715 deposits, 33,227 being new, the sum of 23,688,053 f. ; 2d, in 1,300 transfers from the provincial savings banks, 650,545 f. ; 3d, in 11,000 sums of interest on rente belonging to deposi tors, 152,559 f. It has, besides, capitalised for depositors sums of interest amounting to 1,441,103 f. Per contra, it has reimbursed, Ist, to 90,525 depositors, of whom 28,447 were paid off, the sum of 22,869,557 f. ; 2d, has made 1,097 transfers to departmental banks, amounting to 440,351 f, ; and 3d, has disbursed 3,832,052 f. in pur chasing 182,233 f. of rente for 5,488 depositors. Lastly, it owes, at the end of 1857, the sum of 44,607,2441. to 226,221 depositors." The ratification of the treaty for settling the limits of the Turco-Russian frontier in Bessarabia were exchanged yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A Paris letter, in the Nord of Brussels, states that Ferukh Khan, the Persian envoy, has ob tained the authorisation of the French Government to engage 22 French officers to assist in the reor ganidation of the army of the Shah, but they will not leave France until after the departure of the ambassador. LUXEMBURG. The States of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg reassembled on the 29th ult., and at once a grave discussion arose between the Liberal majority and the Govet nment, on the subject of the election of the deputies for Grevenenacher and M erech. M. Eberhard, a member of the left, proposed that the chamber should declare the elections invalid, as having been made in virtue of an unconstitutional enactment, and that it should not vote an address to the King Grand Duke, praying for the repeal of the last electoral law. The previous ques tion was proposed, but after a long discussion it was re jected by 16 votes to 6. After this decision the President of the Chamber, who is designated by the Government, declared that he would not op . p)8 a discussion of the question on it s mer i ts, b ut that he should formally refuse to put the question to the vote, inasmuch as his sense of duty would not allow him to permit the obligatory force of a law to be called in doubt. The senior member of the chamber made a similar declaration, and thtn one of the Government functionaries stated that in his opinion the chamber had no right to enter into a discussion at all, and that if it did so the Go vernment would abstain from taking part in it. In the sitting of the 30th, the president, before any deliberation was commenced, announced that several members had expressed a desire to see a good understanding come to between the govern ment and the chamber ; and that one member had written to him to say that he Wait ready to vote for the admission of the new deputies, and the civil list, and the budget likewise, if he received a guarantee that certain articles in the last elec toral law should not be carried into execution. The president on this had an audience of the Prince- Lieutenant, who in presence of three members of the government authorised him officially to declare to the States that if they showed a conciliatory spirit the articles referred to should not be acted on. It now remains to be seen how the chamber will receive this communication. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. announce that Lord Howden, the English ambassador, had waited on the Queen to pay his respects on his re turn to that capital, and to offer the hearty con gratulations of the Queen of England on the birth of the Prince of the Asturias. The journals con tinue to speculate as to the person whom the govern ment will select to be candidate for the presidency of the Cortes. A telegraphio despatch from St. Petersburg announced that on the 23d M. Isturitz, the Spanish minister, had left that city to re turn to Spain, and that he was replaced by M. Caballero, first secretary of the * legation. The Iberia had been seized. Some of the journals com plain that the telegraphic administration mill only transmit by telegraph such political articles as have appeared in the Madrid journals, and as have re ceived the approbation of the censorship, and they assert that sometimes it even refuses to transmit them. The Madrid Gazette of the 28th ult. the amnesty of granted the on the occasion con tains a royal decr ee w hi c h en act that naval and military offenders u n d er prosec ution shall be com prised birth in of the Prince of the Asturias, and that the condemnation s on o th ers shall be reduced. It also contains ministerial circulars, giving instruc tions for carrying out the amnesty to political offen ders, and for making reforms in the regulations relative to the sale of tobacco and to the National Printing-office. SWEDEN• "The Royal Academy of Stockholm," says a letter from that city of the 25th ult., "has just awarded a prize to Prince Oscar, the author of a poem on the Swedish fleet. The sitting was attended by the Queon Mother, the Prince R^:- gent, and all the other mernbels of the Royal Prince Oscar received the prize from the hands of the President, who addressed his Royal Highness as follows : " Noble Prince 1 when the academy heard for the first time the sounds which appear to so well reflect the soul of the poet whom it at once recognised as a son of the Ocean, it did not foresee that the unknown poet, who had modestly taken his place in the ranks with the other competitors, wore a princely crown. Half a century has elapsed since a King of Sweden (Gustavus III,) acquired in this very place the academio palm. The academy will with gratitude preserve these reminiscences, unparalleled in the annals of a literary society, and it congratulates itself on being able to add to the names of Scandinavian poets one who has been long dear to the hearts of the Swedish people.' " On the following day the Prince dined with Baron de Beskow, the secretary of the academy, who proposed the health of the Prince, which was drunk with loud applause." AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter of the 29th ult., in the Nord of Brussels, says : " The inhabitants of this capital are overjoyed at the changes which are about to be effected in the eiLy by the demolition of the fortifications. They were aware that the Government had some plans in contemplation, but they by no means expected that they would be carried out in so extensive a manner, and when the decree of the Emperor appeared, the offices of the Official Gazette were literally besieged by people anxious to obtain a copy. The immense buildings which are to be con structed will soon rise up as if by enchantment. Many millions will certainly be swallowed up in them, but neither the State nor the city will have to bear the expenses, for they will be amply covered by the produce of the sale of the ground. Many changes will doubtless have to be made in the existing laws and regulations on building, so as to secure landed interests, and it will be also necessary, in order to encourage building specula tion, to grant exemption from the land-tax for a certain limited period ; but as the government has so boldly entered on the path of improvement, it will nut allow its work to remain incomplete." RUSSIA. The Court Gazette of St. Petersburg, of the 22d ult., contains an article directed against Turkey and Austria. It says :—" After the taking of Adrianople, Russia, in 1833, saved Turkey front the attacks of one of its rebel subjects (Mehemet Ali), and in 1848 she aided Austria against the Hungarian insurgents, while no other great power showed any intention of assisting those two States. Austria and Turkey may now be sure, after the peace of Paris, that Russia will not render them the same service a second time. Henceforth they must rely upon their y own resources." THE EAST. Advices from Alexandria, of the 14th ult., says : —`• M. de Rosati, consul-general of Tuscany, has bee* charged by his government tooffer to the Vice roy the grand cross of the order of Military Merit. What increases' the value of this high distinction is that the grade of grand cross did not previously exist in the order, and that it was created specially to enable the Viceroy to be the first invested with it. The bad weather which wa have lately had has broken down the dyke of Aboukir, bat the breach was promptly repaired, so that the sea was prevented from inundating the splendid plain of that name. In consequence of early and abundant rains having soaked the desert between Alexandria and Rosetta, the Be douins of the interior sowed barley, and they have now remarkably fine crops. A reduction in the price of barley may consequently be expected in the spring. A company in shares for the con struction of a large theatre i❑ this place has just been formed, and the sum necessary for commenc ing operations has already been nearly paid up." SWITZERLAND. The President of the Swiss Confederation (says the Chroniqueur of Friburg) is from the Ist of this year to receive a salary of 9,500 fr. ; that of the other members of the Federal Council will be 8,500 fr. The Ecclesiastical Gazette of Friburg, in Baden, says :—" We learn from a good source that the protocols relative to the rights of the government of the grand duchy in the nomination to benefices in the diocese of Friburg were signed a few days back by the diplomatic agents of Baden and of the Holy See. It may now be hoped that this question will soon be solved at Rome, and that a definitive convention will shortly be concluded." PRUSSIA. " The President of the Council," says a Ber lin letter, " has prepared a bill for the corn ing session of the Prussian Chambers, enacting that two millions of thalers (7,500,000 fr.) shall be annually applied, for 15 years, to the development of the navy. It is not intended to create a large fleet, but one equal at least in strength to the Danish one." A letter from Berlln of the 29th ult., in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" Denmark has replied provisionally to the representatives of England and Russia that the answer which she will make to the Germanic Diet, relative to the Duchies, will be of a nature to lead to pacific solution of the question. It is this which has given rise to the statement about Danmark being about to make concessions." SPAIN. The following private telegram has been re. ceited " MADRID, Dec. 31.—A royal decree, published in the Gazette., authorises the Government to collect the taxe3 and to pay the Treasury Bonds in 1858 until the budget is approved by the Cortes." A curious trial has just been commenced in Electoral Hesse. The Minister of the Interior has commenced proceedings against M. d'Uslar Gleischen, ex-deputy of the Diet, to recover a sum of from 700 to 800 thalers, which were overpaid to him as representative. The government contends that this deputy, having let for a series of years his house in the country and come to reside at Castel, ought to be considered in the light of a resident in the capital, and as such only entitled to a lower rate of indemnity than what he had received. Among the measures which aro to be presented to the Diet of Oldenburg in its next session will be one, letters state, for abolishing the usury laws throughout the whole of the duchy. ASTRONOMICAL NOTES. During the past year astronomers have been pecu liarly active, as the following brilliant list of discoveries will testify : A. cotter, No. 1., by Dr. D'Arrert, at Leipsic, Feb. 22, visible for about eight weeks. A cornet, No. 11., by M. Brutens, at Berlin, March 18, visible for about eleven weeks. A planet (43), by Mr. N. Pogson, at Oxford, April 15, named Ariadne. A planet (44), by M. Goldschmidt, at Paris, May 27, named Nysa. A planet (45), by M. Goldschmidt, at Paris, June 28, named Eugenia. A comet, No. 111., by M. Klinkerfues, at Gottingen, June 22, visible for about four weeks. A comet, No. IV., by M. Dieu, at the Imperial Ob servatory, Paris, July 28, visible for about four weeks. This comet was discovered also by Dr. C. H. F. Peters, at Dudley, United States, on the 25th ; and by Professor Habicht, at Gotha, July 30. A pl teet (46), by Mr. N. Pogson, at Oxford, Aug. 16, named Ifestia. A comet, No. V., by M. KUnkerfues, at Gottingen, Aug. 20, visible for about six weeks. This comet in its advances towards the sun threw out a small tail. A planet (47), by M. Luther, at Bilk, Sept. 15. A planet (48), by M. Goldschmidt, at Paris, Sept. 19, named Palos. Another planet (49). by the same person and on the same evening, named Doris, A planet (50) by Mr. Ferguson, at Washington, United States, Oct. 5, named Virginia. This planet was also found Oct. 16, by M. Luther, at Bilk. A comet, No. VI., by Dr. Donati, at Florence, Nov. 10, visible for about five weeks.—Total, six comets and eight planets. Among the chief phenomena of the incoming year we have the following I A partial eclipse of the moon on Feb. 27, visible at Greenwich. G. M. T. First contact with the pennealara 7b. 46m. 9s. First contact with the shadow 9h. 10m. Os. Middle of the eclipse lOl3. 13m. 6s. Last contact with the shadow llh. 17m. 2s. Last contact with the penumbra l2h. 40m. 38. At the time of the middle of the eclipse about one third of the moon will be obscured on the southern or lower limb, An annular eclipse of the sun on March 15, visible (as a partial one) at Greenwich. G. M. T. Eclipse begins Greatest phase Eclipse ends The magnitude of the eclipse (0.976 of sun's diameter) is such that it will b 3 nearly total at Greenwich. The line of annular eclipse p3sses across Englai,d from Peter, t - ..r.tigh to Bridport. The aenulu4, nowever, will only continue a few seconds. This wi Ibe in oi..ny respects a very interesting eclipse, since it is the only one that has been visible in England for many years, and more over, it will occur when the sun is very favourably placed for observation. Mars will be in opposition on the 15th of May. There will be a partial eclipse of the moon on the 24th of August, but only visible in Asia. There will also be a total eclipse of the sun oa the 6th of September but as it will only be visible iniSouth America and the Cape, we omit the details. There s;x occultations of the planets by the Jnoon—namely, one of Mercury, two of Venue, and of z;!y.! two ~t Saturn ; bat they will ho invisible in fxofi; t the second of Stturn, which b;Tpen on the 22d of Dscember. In addition to the above, the c3eiets of D'Arrert (1851), Faye, and Encke may be expected to return in the course of the present year. FRENCH OPINIONS ON THE INDIAN MUTINIES. Two of the French journals contain comments upon the last news from India. The Debafs says : " The taking of Lucknow completes the work which was commenced by the taking of Delhi. The last stronghold of the insurrection is conquered ; the cam paign is finished, or very nearly so. England comes out victorious from a struggle which she has carried on for six months against her rebellious subjects in Bengal. That the English Government and the English people should triumph at this denouement is most natural and most legitimate ; they may triumph over the unlucky prophets who predicted that India was lost to England, and were debating about their own snare in the spoil. But let not our neighbours and allies triumph over g surrounding nations,' to use an expression of the Times, that would be a pretension ♦ery much out of place. For ourselves,who foresaw the denouement of the struggle from its very commencement, we have read the news of the event without wonder, displeasure, or envy. Nay more, we are sincerely glad of the success of England, and we think that all enlightened friends of civilisation will rejoice with ue. . . We would rather ree India governed by Lord Canning in the name of Queen Victoria than see it fall under the yoke of Nana Sahib. . . Delhi is taken, Lucknow is delivered, but the conquerors must not forget that they have as yet accomplished but a moiety of their task. It is not Bull. cient that India should be reconquered ; it mist be pacified, reorganised, governed." After alluding to the report circulated by the English journals, that the abolition of the Eastlndia Company's Greve/lime:at will be proposed to Parlia ment, our contemporary continues : " Thus then the English Parliament and Government will have to substitute for a system of administration which has existed for centuries one entirely new and of artificial creation. What a problem to solve I What a task to improvise a plan for the political and administra tive organisation of an empire of 156 millions of souls 1 Where is the mind capable of regarding with unblenching look the prospect opened by this reform, or rather this revolution, which has now become indispensable, of cal culating the probable consequences, of appreciating and measuring the influence which it may exercise, not oily upon the situation and nature of India, but also upon the situation and future of England herself, and the movement of her fundamental inetitutiosn I These are the reflections which seem to us calculated to engage the attention of the press and of public opinion on the other side of the Channel, to moderate the joy caused by the recent news, and to abate the pride to which the Times gave way a few days since, when it represented thisnews ae a lesson for surrounding nations.' We would recom mend the Times to read and meditate over its own article of October 27th last, where it will find an answer to the article it has just published on the siege of Lucknow. It will there find re flections perfectly appropriate to the present circum stances—such reflections as are alone compatible with the character and dignity of a great people, which should know how to bo moderate, and keep its moral equilibrium in good as in evil fortune. It is not only to individuals nut to nations that the lesson of the Latin Poet is applicable :- 2Equam memento rebus in arduis Servare mentem, non seems in bonis Ab insolenti temperatam moriture Deli.'" • The Spectator says, iu reference to the intelli ' gence that a part of the town of Lucknow still re mains in the possession of the rebels : " We do nut the least desire to undervalue the importance of Sir Colin Campbell's victory. li the advantage obtained by him is not complete, it is decisive ; the English journals are right in so consider ing it, and rejoicing accordingly. We think they are equally right in regarding the question of the re establishment of English domination in the kingdom of Oude and throughout India as substantially settled in their favour by the taking of Lucknow„ We did not even wait for that event to come to the conclusion that the rebellion must be crushed. From the moment when it was found that the insurrection remained concentrated in the Valley of the Ganges, and did not spread throughout the Deccan, we looked upon the triumph of the English as assured. But although the rebellion is, powerless to produce any important change in the situation of India, we shall be much mistaken if it do not defend itself yet for a long time against the victorious armies of England." THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. The Debats speaks as follows of the present state of the relations between Turkey and the Danubian principalities : "It appears that in the last Eastern war a great political and military event occurred, of which no body has ever spoken, of which no mention was ever made in any bulletin, and which has only come to light since the peace : this great unknown event is the conquest by Turkey of the Danubian principalities. This conquest, effected without the loss of a soldier or the expenditure of a crown, has invested her with the 'sovereignty' of the principa lities, for such is the term now used by Turkey to describe the species of power she exercises in Walla chia and Moldavia. Hitherto in all treaties—even in that of Paris of 1856, the suzerainty of the Porte in the principalities is the only thing ever spoken of. Wallachia and Moldavia were inespendent States which merely paid tributes to the Porte. Now all is changed. The tributaries are designated as sub jects; and if the, European chancelleries allow the expressions applicable to sovereignty which the Ottoman Porte presumes to use to pass unnoticed the silent conquest of the principalities will be ac complished, and Eastern Europe will have changed her state and condition by the substitution of one word for another. Russia has protested against these pretensions on the part of Turkey, and we feel quite sure that France must have protested also. In making this protest Russia has served the cause of Europe, but she has also served her own." The Debats, after quoting au opinion of au Eastern traveller, M. Mislin, an Austrian priest, occupying an exalted station in the church, to the effect that Russian influence is still very great in the East, proceeds to attribute to Russia a policy of profound dissimulation in regard to the question of the union of the principalities. It says : " Why, it may be asked, if Russia has air interest in preventing the creation of an independent Roumania, does she support, or has she hitherto supported, the union ? We certainly cannot pretend to penetrate the secrets of Russian policy ; we only say what we think we see ; and what we think we see in regard t) the clues ' tion of the union of the principalities is that Europe has contrived to leave Russia such a capital game to play that she may play it in a great many different ways. Is the union effected ? Russia gets the credit of it, and all the danger is for Austria. With the union Russia hopes that her interests in the principalities may not be too much weakenei, particularly if the powers who are opposed to the union should thwart its working. Russia sees, moreover, in the union a cause of weakness for Austria, who is already greatly annoyed at the possible prospect of it. Accordingly, in the congress of 1856, when the irritation between those two powers was recent, Russia did not hesitate to support the union against Austria. The union would not perhaps do any good to Russia, but it would do harm to her neighbour ; and that it is a sufficient reason for her to look upon the chance of it with equanimity. She knows all the time that for the present there is very little probability of the union being effected, and she understands, moreover, that the best way to prevent the union is to appear to wish for it. On account of the passions which yet pris7ail in Eng land, everythingthat Russiaappears to wish for is for that reason alone odious to England. Russia, therefore, holds up the union to England just as fhe taureador shows a red rag to a bull. The bull rushes at the red rag, and tears it to pieces. Just so England destroys the union to annoy Russia, and while she is about it Russia recon quers the principalities, which she likes better than the union ; she sees the principalities ready to throw them selves into her arms, being convinced that, as they have only a choice of rulers, the Russian domination is the least objectionable. The union of the Principalities effected with a good grace, and sincerely maintained by Europe, would be very disagreeable to Russia, because it would consolidate and emancipate Eastern Europe. That is the French combination ; but Russia clearly sees that this combination is not likely to be successful. She therefore risks nothing is supporting it, more particularly if it be true that she is at the same time working under hand against it. But should the union he prevented, and Roumania be crushed in embryo, Russia will be much pleased, and she will at the same time enjoy the favour of all the discontented Rouniains. They will say : there are only two powers who have taken part with us under whose protection we could put our., selves—France, who, is too far off to accept u-, and Russia, who is too near for as to refuse her. To prevent the formation of Roumania is therefore ultimately to give the two provinces to Russia." THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL.—Mr. W. Tooke has been elected a Vice-President of the Corporation of the Foundling Hospital, in the stead of the late Sir. Charles Mansfield Clarke, Bart. THE LIVERPOOL OFFICE IN LONDON.—The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have unanimously agreed to recommend Mr. Thomas Baines, to succeed the late Mr. Wainwright, in the Liverpool office in London. ALLEGED MANBLLUGHTER.—Yesterday,an inquest was held at the Cherry Tree, Whitecross-street, on the body of Mary Coney, aged 6 years. A boy named James Bell, about 9 years old, said that about three weeks ago the deceased and himself a sd several other childroa were playing about near some old houses, when a man at work there named James Brown, told them to go away, as the houses were dangerous ; on the little girl mot obeying him, he struck her on the right temple with a belt, and she cried and ran home. The mother, who lives in Adam and Eve-court, Whiteeross-street, stated that the child, who bad been in good health previously, came home on the day referred to by last witness and complained of sickness. She had been ill ever since and died on Wednesday.—A su rgeon who had made a page ntortera exam i na tion gave it as his opinion that death had been caused by the blow. He had found a clot of blood, the size of a hen's egg, on the train. Toe jury returned a verdict to the ellt.,t i,Lat the (t,,o.R ; :ed had din i a clot of bloc , _! bra;o, NV,B evidence to show how the clot was ca'l, , itd. In our Clerkenwell pelice report of this day will be found Brown's examination on a charge of manslaughter and hie committal for trial. TREMENDOUS FIRES AND GREAT LOSS OF PROPERTY. Yesterday morning, at an early hour, a fire, attended with a great loss of property, and almost fatal results to several persons, happened in the extensive premises belonging to Messrs. Lewis and Co., furniture brokers, situate at No. 5, Savoy-plaoe, Newington-causeway. The discovery was made by a poliee-officer of the L division, who, in passing on the opposite side of the road, noticed smoke issuing from the lower part of the building. Feeling convinced that the plane was on fire he gave an immediate alarm, and after considerable trouble he succeeded in making the inmates sensible of their impending danger, and they fortunately succeeded in effecting a safe retreat from the building, with nothing more on than their night-clothes. Intelligence of the disaster having been sent to the various quarters for proper assistance, with as little loss of time as possible the Royal Society's fire escapes arrived, as well as the brigade engines from Waterloo road, Southwark-bridge-road, that of the West of England Insurance Office, and others of the London establishment from Chandos•street, Watling-street, and Farringdon-street. By the time the firemen arrived the building, which was 40 feet wide and upwards of 20 feet deep, and two stories high, presented a scene of fearful grandeur, inasmuch as the flames were rolling through the roof and out of the different windows, threatening destruction to the premises of Mr. T. Wells, a tobacconist and cigar dealer (No. 4), and those of Mr. G. Howlett, zinc warehouseman (No. 3),.in the same thoroughfare. Under the direction of Mr. Henderson, the chief officer of the D section and engineer Holloway, the engines were set to work , from abundant streams of water furnished by the Lambeth and Southwark Companies, but notwithstanding the fearful element continued to rage ; and it was not arrested until the premises, and all they contained, were nearly destroyed, and the adjoining houes of Mr. Wells and Howlett were alto extensively injured by fire, water, and removal. The sufferers were insured in the Sun, Royal Exchange, and British Empire Fire-offices. • The origin of the disaster is unknown. A very alarming, and at the earns time destructive, fire took place in the premises belonging to Mr. J. Abrahams, a carpenter and joiner, situate No. 2, Trinity-street, Rotherhithe. The flames commenced, from some unexplained cause, in the workshop, a range of buildings nearly 40 feet wide, filled with articles of the most combustible character. A mounted police-officer was instantly dispatched to town for the aid of the engines, and forthwith Mr. Braidwood, the superintendent, and Mr. Henderson, the foreman of the brigade, started to the scene, and they were pre. ceded by a private engine. Unfortnnat.ily the mains of the Kent Company,.which run through the district, for the period of three quarters of an hour, yielded not a' drop of water, and the flames being thereby unre strained, they travelled with fearful impetuosity, until eventually the whole of the workshops and the sheds adjoining were complAely encircled in flame, At leegth water was procured, and the fire was eventually extinguished, hut not until the whole of the workshops were consumed, as well II the valuable goods contained therein, and the adjoining premises seriously damaged. Fortunately the property destroyed was insured in the Phoenix Fire-office and also the Manchester office. A serious fire likewise happened at the Royal Exotic Nursery, the property of Mr. Jas. Veitch, situate in the King's-road West,, Chelsea. The fire commenced from the heat of the furnace-flue in the store-room on the ground-floor, in which a costly stock of goods, valued at probably several thousand pounds, was stored away. Fro it that part of the building the fire extended to the hot-houses, also filled with plants, bulbs, and the choicest exotics. The engines of the parish, three or four of the London Brigade, and that of the West of England-office, arrived, and owing to the exertions of the firemen and the parish engineer the flames were subdued, but not until the store-rooms were destroyed, the contests reduced to ashes, and the hot -houses adjoining and their contents severely damaged by fire, water, and removal. The loss, it is understood, will fall upon the Pbcenix Fire-office. THE TALUE OF AN EYE. At the Rotherham county court, en Wednesday, a case was tried of considerable importance to men em ployed at iron foundries, and it is the firstaction brought under similar circumstances. E. Burgess was the plain. tiff', and G. Booth the defendant. The formeris employed as a puddler, and the latter a "shingler," at the Park Gate Iron -works. The action was brought to recover 501. as compensation for the loss of an eye, and was heard by a jury. The defendant had the management of a tilting hammer of several tons ' weight, and the plaintiff and other puddlere carried molten iron from the furnace to the hammer, in round balls, to be beaten and welded. The process was this :—Two balls were required to be taken to the hammer in immediate succession, for the purpose of being welded together. The hammer strikes on two " faces" or anvils ; the ‘. splod" face, which is so low that on it the balls can only be just squared ; and the " high" place, on which the metal can be beaten quite fiat. The first ball is placed upon the splod face by the puddler, and atter receiving a stroke or two with the hammer is turned over by him, and then left in the care of the shingler, or hammer manager, who, having in the meantime inserted into it a rod of iron, called a "staff," lifts it upon the high face, to be farther beaten. The duty of the second puddler is in like manner to place his ball upon the splod face, turn it over, and then move off, leaving the shingler to manage the welding. On April 15 J. Cole took a ball of molten ore to Booth's hammer in the usual way. Burgess, the plaintiff, was some minutes later than he ought to have been in following with a second ball—a circumstance of frequent occurrence owing to unavoidable difficulties in puddling. The plaintiff's ball was unshapely, in conse quence of which he was unable to get it upon the eplod face. It should be mentioned that the usual course is for the shingler to lift the first ball on the high face, and hold it there quite still, while the second puddler places his ball on the splod face, as, if it is moved about, more sparks are thrown out, and the puddler is in danger of being burnt: While Bargees was putting his ball on the splod face s piece of molten ore gashed into his eye and destroyed it; and the question at issue was, whether Booth west° blame for the injury. The evidence of Burgess was, th a t B oot h threatened to " burn his liver out,' , if he did not bring tile his iron, and immediately threw down the staff in a passion. This caused the metal on the high face to turn over under the hammer that was in motion, and throw out an immense quantity of sparks, one of which struck the plaintiff's eye and caused the injury. The plaintiff alleged that if the defendant had held the staff still, as he ought, the few sparks which the blows of the hammer would have sent out would have passed in another direction, and he (plaintiff) would have been in no danger; and that his injury was entirely the result of the defendant's carelessness. Witnesses were ca'led to say that it was Booth's duty to have kept hold of the staff to prevent the motion of the iron on the high face, until the hammer had been stopped by gagging. They, however, admitted that there was danger even when that was done. The defendant, o❑ the contrary denied getting into a Passion and said his object in dropping the staff was to gag the hammer, in which, however, an assistant antici. pated him. He admitted that the injury occurred be. tween the fall of the staff and the gagging of the hammer, but said it was not unusual to let the staff fall, when, as in this case, the first ball had, in consequence of delay, been a good deal beaten, and that no additional emission of sparks resulted. The injury was purely accidental. Witnesses were called to support this view. They ad• mated that it was an imprudent thing 'to let the staff fall, but said puddlers were exposed to danger under any circumstances, and frequently got their eyes burnt. They considered that Booth was not blameable, and some of them alleged that the injury arose from a piece of metal being thrown from Burgess's ball, during his attempt to place it on the splod face, upon Cole's ball, on the other face, and causing the emission of sparks. For defendant, it was contended that, the puddlers should wear wire gauzes over their faces, as the shinglers do, and that if shinglers were to be exposed to actions every time puddlers were burnt, they would be unable to carry on their occupation. The jury, however, gave a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 1,51. THE PRINCESS ROYAL AND THE BALMORAL COTvAGERS. --Now that the marriage of the Princess Royal is just at hand, that auspicious event forms the engrossing sub ject of converse with the cottagers on the Balmoral estates, among whom her Royal Highness is an immense favourite. And justly so. Nowhere, else, perhaps, is the state of royalty so entirely laid aside as at Balmoral, and nowhere else does joyous, sympathetic human nature shine out more undisguisedly among the young members of the Royal Family. H.R.H. the Princess Royal was wont to be a frequent visitor at m an y o f t h e humble cottages around the palace, and her habits of acute and intelligent observation had• rendered her quite familiar with the details of lowly life as seen in a Scottish pea rant's home. Burns has sung the praises of " parritch," " Scotia's hawely food." Some of our 'readers may be surprised, while sager faces may relay into a genial smile, on being told that a princess of royal blood has, in this nineteenth century, donned the housewife's apron, and in childish glee " tried her hand" at stirring th'porridge pot. One anecdote we have heard of the Princess Royal was this:—" Several years ago, when quite a young girl, a matron, for whom her royal high. ness had a special liking, had added one more to her husband's family. The baby, of course, was an object of superlative interest • and whe n th e christening was about to take place, the princess asked to be permitted to attend and act as god-mother. This was freely agreed to. The day came, and so did his presbyterian reverence, but the expected god-mother, from some cause, did not make her appearance, and after a little the ceremony went on in her absence. It was barely concluded when the princess came, breathless with haste and excitement. On being told how matters stood, her undisguised feel ings found vent in a sorrowful "Oh but couldn't you do it over again l " When the Court left Balmoral last summer, the dependants were invited up to the lawn to hid farewell to her royal highness. The feelings of the princess so overcame her, however, that she was unable to make her appearance before them, and the Prince Consort bade adieu on her behalf. It is a cherished hope that they will yet see'her at Balmoral, though her home must now be at a foreign court. Invitations to be in London at the princess's marriage have, we bear, been sent, by her own special request, to Dr. Robertson, the Prince Con,,ort's commissioner, and to Mr. Grant, the bead pinekeoper at Balmoral.—Edinburgh Express. Wo aro anthoti,cd to '3lat 3 that the report of Capt. Snoto and Lieutenant Turner, of the 64th Regiment, baying been killed in action at Luckuow is incorrect. There is every reason to believe that these officers are alive and well.