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This magnificent building is NOW OPEN to the public, for e SALE of all kinds of USEFUL and FANCY ARTICLES. T he Photographic E s t a bli s h men t, Aviary, Conservatory, Ge neral Refreshment Roo m , and Ladies' Private Refresh ment Room, with Retiring Room attached, are replete in their several departments. ilitia—Wm. noted. • that which caber last : tia—George n, resigned. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1859. )orset-place, ADMISSION FREE. ID R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, „,arket) TICHBOURNK-STREET (Opposite the Hay -'. No. 20,768. PRICE 4 D . S4ARED, SD. wood, near Open daily (for Gentlemen only). g, LECTURES at. Four and Eight o'clock, on important and lteresting topics in connection with ANATOMY, PM . - I °LOGY, and PATHOLOGY (vide Programmes). DR Admission ONE SHILLING. KA.HN'S NINE nth 33, :LECTURS ON THE $y OF OF MAIAGE, &c., sent post post free, direct from the r, RR on the receipt of twelve stamps. Alt GYLL-ROO MS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. " cr . 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Performances are particularly recommended, !,!e Pantomime can be seen with the same effect as at night. ~crLLA, the wonder of the world.—The celebrated horse, k, 3 Per," will be exhibited in his subdued state, as tamed edu ce Rarey.—""Black Eagle," the horse of beauty.—The , ct mules, " Pete " and " Barney." The Comic Panto th!ne., entitled THE MISER OF BAGDAD; represented in •F,ple at each performance. / 10 V a , l rcs.; Boxes, 2s ; Reserved Seats, 35.; Stalls, 55.; Private G e, lerY .R 2, Children . under Nine years of age, half-price. T. Gd • Per forMances Daily at two and half-past seven p.m. • ALBERT LIFE ASSURANCE AND GUARANTEE COMPANY. 7, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. 4 JIVI T ,“ , E IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Half-yearly Per . .. "END, to the 3lst after the rate of 7 per cent. Ott _9llum, Will be in course of pay meat to the Shareholders end after the 101.11 January instant. 801 1..1 2 E y WILLIAM SMITH, Actuary and See.retary -1859. e TE RNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. y I\r Januar 10, 1859. ter,„ c , r r CE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Half-yearly In tent ou the Capital Stock of the Society, at the rate 0 5 per eouri,,Per,, annum, to 31st December last, is nova due, and in ofii °l. Payment •at the Society's office, between the.hours 142 4 V, and, London, W W.C. MOND S. SYMES, Chairman. ED TitE ECONOMIC SOCIETX, 6, New I/1 Establisl DIREC ItOBERT BIDDULI wI LLIAM ROUTH, E ife'red Kingsford Barber. Esq. I,o7.barnett, Esq. vltoe 4ight .1101). Tleydell u rerte, lota tlWard Oharr inolon, Esq. as . 8113' 4.l.eXkli 1;(1, d e a r r ' D .. 11 Gordon, LIFE ASSURANCE ridge-street, London. hed 1823. 'TORS. PH, Esq., Chairman. Deputy Chairman. Rear-Admiral Robert Gor don. Charles Morris, Esq. George Kettilby Rickards, Esq. Augustus Keppel- Stephen - son, Esq. 1 tk„turo, . b 'll, E sq. AUDITORS. I John Gilliam Stilwell, Esq. N: 4400erts, Esq I Richard Taylor, Esq. ct.--WilliaM Emanuel Page,. MD, Oxon, 11, Queen Bty/ t , street, May-fair. • -4 "—Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.C.S., N 0.49, Dover Sciz i .,, street, Piccadilly. IToll llrenry Young, Esq., 12, Essex-street, Strand. ACTUARY --James John Downes, Esq., F.R.A.S. Il,Mutual Assurance. An 1,,,ge lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual Sstem. go W hole of the profits divided every Fifth Ye y ar. £1,695,000 b. ecumulated Capitarof nri ng its existence the Society has paid 'n 1,544,000 liriaims ersionary Bonuses have been added to cies to the extent of Po- The last Bonus declared in 1854, averaged £67 Aer Cent, on the Premiums pald, and amounted Aar Policies in for ce 397,000 he Annual Income excee d s th ( kPursuance of the i nvar i a b le practice of this Socie o, ty, in event of the Death of the Life Assured within the 15 days grace, the Renewal Premium remaining unpaid, the Claim 'oil be admitted, subject to the payment of such Premium. The next Division of Profits IN:11 be made in 1859. Assurances effected prior to 31st December, 1859, 1%111 par ticipate in the Division of 1861. P rospe3tUses and full particulars may be obtained on appli- Cation to ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. ADVANTAGES. 890,000 BUILDERS.—By Order of the Court of t4BChancery.—The T rus t ees o f th e B e d for d Charity are 4Z , rous of receiving Tenders for the ENLARGEMENT of ti GRA MMAR SCHOOL, also Tenders for the Erec a New Preparatory COMMERCIAL SCHOOL, and requi r es Nw Road. Plans and Specifications of the works arei,Jn een at the Office of Mr. James Hors:ord, A Bedford ~,11.inoTendera must- hi delivered at Mr. `Horsford's Office, at Jannre eleven o'clock in the morning of the 24th day of 159. reusl e b i enders for the enlargement of the Grammar School 41, 1 ,,e Placed in a sealed cover and marked "Tender for ,enient of Grammar Scliool." The Tenders for the Parator e' „ d Y , - , ommrcial hool must be iulaced in a sealed Th.ercial other` "Tender for building Preparatory Corn 411d oni„„--°,;" and the Tenders for making a New Road d Iriarked ' '', .• *°r ks, must. be placed in a sealed cover, an ', h ender for making a New Road, and other Works. T entl Vali not be bound to accept the lowest, or any 4 e ,, this twentieth day of December, 1858. (Signed) JAMES HORSFORD. It OLES, MAPLES,' and PEARSE, 6, Frederick's Place, Old Jewry, London, agents for T. W. Pearse, of Bedford, the solicitor to the said Trustees. WARD AND RESIDENCE. A Superior ka., , rea ! i loTe is offered to a Ge!ttleman _st o eady habits, en l!ring, the day, by a family restdin,. near Regen . t's e - N s lor a young man coming to London for the first time D he found a desirable residence. Terms moderate. bair re naes to be exchanged. Address, J. P., Wright's Y, Gr anby-street, Hampstead-road, N.W. ~11 ° ,, THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. ',RARLES WATSON, M.D., Fellow and Honorary toi,President f the Imperial African Institute of France, .I"e* Mernber o of the Medical Societies of Rouen and Peru, ".'"it Academy of Sciences, Paris, &c., and late Resident fo r ) ( islciati to the Bedford Dispensary, 27, Alfred-place, Bed etat;square, London, continues to issue, on receipt of six „Ps, " THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." 1 :-" s e abqut entering the Marriage State shoald es so s n e 114„ffatson's invaluable little work, as the advice he give k e llo, and disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound ttre. IT-raltiv'erusrt ; 3 to ra t z h a o z s t e n 7ho desire a speedy and private ol ints surril i Fi t y . lV. Of AMEßlCAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates the English Mode of treating such com -44 wi lt Prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely easily reg•airt • pruatine health by adopting the means pre -I,44nted J v eniorr Sun ire- ic,ua.lifleation, vide . " Diplomas," and the " London lis v FIFTY THOUSAND CURS tobeen effected without Medicine, inconvenience or expense lstion (dysppsia), Constipation, Flatulency, Phlegm, Nr°ollsness, Biliousness, Liver Complaints,Hysieria, treutalgla, Sleeplessness, Acidity, Palpitation,. lleartburn, b,,,,lPtions, Impurities, Irritability, Low Spirits, Diarrhoea, aale/11,aterY, Hemorrhoids, Headache, Noises in the Head am ,-. 4 . rB, Debility, Despondency, Cramps, Spasms, Nausea, e(;.oTclrness (during pregnancy or at . sea), Snking Fits, Co ,h, Asthma, Bronchitis, Consumption ir \ alAlaints, are effectually removed by ~ also Children's I,o_ BARRY'S delicious Health-Restoring tilt, ,nEVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, which saves fifty te ot r f Jt:s cost in other remcdies, and is, moreover, t the br e t , „or infants and invalids generally. as t never . inn_ id bat in iveakest stomach, nor interferes with i n good liberatediet, th e ?Parts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the ag altY' of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to We e xtract a few out of the many thousand expressions of tude from invalids thus cured :—Cure No. 71of dyspep from th ili 4 , e Right i s ei d be er n i e t fl a t afrom Du Hon. the Lord Stuart de Deccie—" Dro sid, a' '4lllll'3'lllln, Count Waterford.—l have derived con 4t. 1,,, ,, ~, r co a b n County Revalenta Arabica Food, yourselves and the public to authorise iiltublidttion of these lines. Stuart de Dedes." Cure No. Pe us • " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, ner siek_ges, asthma, count, constipation, flatulency, spasms, t i „ !!ess at the stomach and vomiting, have been removed by 1 1 .,'_ narrre excellent Food. Maria Jolly, Wortham Ling, near 141,4N0rf01k." Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nis h ! I lcarne, Waltha Cross, Herts, of extreme ner %es ' - aa, indigestion, gathe m rings, low spirits, and nervous ten th Care N 0.48,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman. Gateacre, near efthe,ool: of ten years' dyspepsia, and all the horrors %,,III)W i.,,,eas irritability. Cure No. 18,216, Dr. Andrew Ure,,oCcon- J e i r ti n 'Jr, g',..ua, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure No. 34,210. hi_ uorland, of dropsy and debility. Cure No. 36,212. Cap ,of epileptic fits. Cure No. 42,116. Maior Edie, of N. O ",`li kidney disease, and total prostration of strenc4th Itlit .11 0 . 3 6,418. Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms, and 4fte vclnitinn•s Cure No. 26,418. Dr. Harvey, of diarhoea Ch..,,de,,,rhility ; Cure e ' No. 39,628. Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. Esq., barrister, of paralysis. ,%i • r e - V°. 39 ,880. Wm Hunt, 'ey 'O. 4 6,270. Mr. Julies Roberts,timber-merchant, l•kt;,°l thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver de ea,,,:,alellt, Partial deafness. Cure No. 180. "itTnlrepety-Ave r neryonsness, constipation, indigestion, ,a a bultY, di er„ W hich I have suffered great misery, and wine% no me d . 10;r1Seu fangedove or relieve, have . been erectile y cured d lee, ood in a very short time. W. B. Reeves, tibit,‘,-atreet, London." Cure Igo. 4,208. "Eight years' 40e,Pata, nervousness, debility, with cramps, 'spasms, and tlteet„,.. , have been effectually cured by Du Barry'shealth ori4s,Pood. Rev. John W. Flavell, Riddlington Rectory . eft ~ Cure No. 3,906. "Thirteen years'cough, in cliges `ke42l,l general' debility have been removed by Du Barry's , Sui t 'll,t Food. James Porter, Athol-street, Perth." _ no ' R ae 1 ,1°, 1 Y Packed for all climAes and with full instructio . 1. -41 1) --t er'', 11b 2s 9d. ; 21b. 4s' 6d. ; 51b., 11s. ; 121 b.. 229. ' , IN% refined. quality. 10ib., 3'35.. The 101 b. and 121 b. canis ,,°Nr-rejorwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post-otlice . ,„"litri kiln Barry And Co., .77, Ren•ent-street, London; Fort- U 480 0, and Co 182 Piccadilly, and through all grocers ,p r ~,eoiists in town'and country. ' pt: ",„,ALLACE'S PILLS and OINTMENT are pr2pared 1) -411, ;" r -en tfic 'pith - chiles, without mercury, to prevent tilt 111 1.f e ,, - ad injury resulting from quack preparations ; they llaliv"jegulate, and strengthen the system, and cure effec ilver".„'Nepsia (bad din•estion), bile. flatulency, cooqtipation. ) ,`fte ~ql4 s tomach compfaints and all internal disorders ; and „"„IllieleTiletit heals sores, wounds, ulcers, boils, burns, ear -2-;(1 ch,"l e naPs, pimples, diseases of the scalp, &c. Both pi!ls k " , 9,1 -- Mein are direfully packed for all climates. at ls. 14d.. h nl atei ,4 l l d 4 s. 6d. London and : Hannay, 63, Oxford-st. - `eclier "3, Oxford -street, and may be ordered through all b ti ~ae vendors al e „ ' " ‘ ARR Y'S . PULMONIC COUGH BON BONS are a ll stig•'..e, and effectual remedy for coughs, colds, hoarseness, N`keel' anand„ all affections of the lungs, throat, and of unrivalled Jor t re• In boxes—ls, iv., 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. J. Sanger, 150, o t vitre et „, z London, and all Chemists. cl e ver i" A “at Ir'S ANTI-DIARRIFEAL BON BONS are a .ilarril'alling remedy for English cholera, bowel complaint, ',., e n .,„ 4, d Ysentery - • &0,, ste. In boxes—ls. io 2s. Chemists 5. 6d. ,k,,,"1.1 'lls-r„,„150, Oxford -street, London, and all 1. - ' 4l) I' lt itir FOOD FOR INFANS, CHILDREN, 'et -V the dangers and expense of pr b'"r" LIDS, B"pereedee "with it and it is the yst e,„,, 11 Z, fts infants are easily reared , . ti , , ,7 e ': Ift•Tst digestible Food for the delicate and invalids of st r e et Free of 41 canisters, at 2 5 ., an d 121 b 21 s. Th e l arg e cants , Le nds Wage. Barry Du Barry, and Co., 77, Regent -4141" l'i Us u. ti o „ a), h ab ,,, and all other Medicine for Indigestion (dys- Ii" Of th e -,."41a1 Constipation, Flatulency, 40 14 ,, ilamt, Torpidity of' the Liver, bilious Headaches, I 'the ' eas, ouness, General Debility, ug, Acidity. Palpita 4st a, Consh th,,, ain,, s . Mption. Despondency, Spleen, &c. Send 2cl. 1 - 1',, 6 4 411,1 You will receive free b_y Post, a popular Tree- Ilt , ' Dl4'Det;,.----"TFIE NATURAL REGENERATION OF 154 edieinerlVE ORGANS." . Without pills, purgatives, IA „Pant. „',,ef any kind, and without eense, by a s mple .14,, , her 1.,;,,,',_,,1nfa11ib1e means which saves 50 times its cost Stlr e e Qiii,- ue ules • adapted to the general reader. London: -il k -wvre 'An' ..,•'r Paternoster-row, and through all hook- ;, and New t twelve, at ngton, Jan. rt of Bank- ad Feb, 18, lmondbury, t the Leeds Tan. 21 and Court. .nufacturer, 1 the Man- t of Bank f the wind and 1857. he Court of matter' of r Company Tian, Ross- bride, Ayr- tendance of •ately. good Last market Indian corn , and fully 6d dearer. r advance. lerate sup- Was good currencies. ears make cet to-day. Od to 5s Lbout sup 3ndency to .23s to 329 , 40s to 456 . 55s to 589 la 9d per straw, 25s show of ices at tho ngtons, 85 Ind a slow' , from 5s - ley, 4s to d. Wheat to is per 3arley im- 1 g :—lted ley 108 03 ;al©. consisting were very d ; short -3 of 141bs• s 6d to 8s per atone. 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In every respect they are especially adapted to the present festive season, - and will be regarded as a means for the profitable and pleasurable enjoyment of many winter evenings. '-31es senger. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now publishing, THE MINISTER'S WOOING ; By Mrs. H. B. STOWE, Author of " Uncle Tom's Cabin." - - Orders received by all Booksellers in town and country; and at all the Railway Stations. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 47, Ludgate-hill. THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS for SATURDAY, JANUARY 15th, contains the follow ing splendid ENGRAVINGS :—The Annual Ball of Non- Commissioned Officers 'at the Royal Artillery Schools, Wool wich. Presentation of Colours to the 14th Regiment by the Countess of E"linton. Dynevor Castle,- .earmartheushire. Portrait of the Very Rev. Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Dean of Ely. St. Mary Magdalen Chapel of Ease and Schools, at Chiswick. Wotton Church, Surrey. The Font in the New Episcopal Church at Dunkeld. 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Containing Twelve Coloured Engravings, and Illustrations of the most important Events that have occur red during the past six months. Covers for Binding the Volume, 2s. 6d. ; Reading Cases, 25.; Portfolios, for preserving the Numbers, 4s. The Fotirth Edition, Just Published, Bvo, in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. 6d. oN TRUE and FALSE SPERNIATORRINEA ; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFOR,D. " Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medical reader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct."—London Medical Gazette. " The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this Mae book, and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which .hey know nothing, 'with no other object than to fill iheir own purses. The &Terence between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is orered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. " We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preli minary chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pfckford ; but the moderate price at which the `brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter."— Dublin Medical Press. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. FEIST'S RACING RECORD for 1858, with Nominations for 1859, is now published. W. Wright, Fulwood's Rents, Holborn. London. MORTGAGE. --LARGE OR SMALL SUMS to be Advanced on Freeholds or Leaseholds, Advow sons, Railway Debentures, Reversions, Corporation Loans, Personal Security, Deposit of Leases, without the expense of Mortgage Deeds. Any of the Aristocracy, or other substan tial persons requiring money upon their own personal secu rity can be accommodated by applying to Messrs. ELLIS and Co., Civil Engineers and Surveyors, Tavistock-chambers, Southampton-street, Strand, London. The strictest secrecy may be relied upon, but no agent treated with. fIINOPOLION TAVERN and HOTEL. Noe.-1, and 2, Brownlow-street, High-Holborn. W.C. The Best Served Dinnet in London for la. lid. A Succession of Joints from One till Seven o'Clock. Private - and Smoking Rooms. TABLE D'HOTE on SUNDAYS, at 5 o'clock, 2s. each. THE WELLINGTON RESTAURANT, ST. JAMES'S -STREET, AND 160, PICCADILLY. Gentlemen visiting the Metropolis will find ample accom modation for dinners at this establishment. The arrange ments are varied and perfect, and the tariff of charges is very moderate. Private rooms for large or small parties may be engaged on application to the Superintendent. By Order. JAMES GOFTON, Superintendent. 27th November, 1858. COALS. -18s. 6d. per ton, Derby s hi re ; Clay Cross, 21s. ; Silkstone, 21s. ; our Best are now 235. for cash. Care should be taken to address to T. JONES, Ma nager, Northern and Eastern Railway Coal-offices, 32, Great Marlborough-street, Regent-street, W. ; or, 127, Albany street, Regent's-park, N.W. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, &ND PRONOUNCED BY HER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to be THE FINEST STARCH SHE EVER USED. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers &c., APPETITE AND INDIGESTION DIPROVED. LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, and all Roast Meat, Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Cur ties, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safrguard to health. _ _ Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester ; also ty Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PERRINS " are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENT'S TO MARRIAGE. New and improved Edition, enlarged to 196 pages, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just pub lished. price, free by post, ls. 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Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester square ; Gordon, 140, Leaclenhall-street ; or from the Author, who may be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square, London. The work may be had in India, of Mr. Von Litzky, Loll Bazaar Calcuttaz-Messrs. C. and J. Hormtudee,Apollo-street ; Bombay—Circulator Offic -- e ; MadrasMolussilftOffice, e Agra; Dodsw rth, Colombo, Ceylon ; and of all Booksellers through out the Colonic. THE NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER ELBE. The following is an extract from the annual report of the Board of Cominerce of Hamburg, dated December 31, 1858 : " One of the questions which have particularly occupied the attention of the Board of Commerce during the past year refers to the Elbe tolls. Its importance to our commercial prosperity, and the peculiar position in which it has been placed by the recent negotiations of the Elbe-bordering . states, impose upon this the duty of stating their views in the present report more fully than in other times. " The great international treaty concluded between the five European powers and some other states at Vienna, in 1814 (the Vienna Congress Act), laid down, in the arts. 100 to 116, the general princi• - ples upon which the navigation of European rivers, traversing different states, was to be regulated; and the Elbe is expressly enumerated among these rivers. The fundamental stipulation is, that the navigation, of the rivers along their whole course, from the point where they become navigable to their mouth, shall be entirely free ' and shall not in respect to commerce be prohibited to any one; and with regard to the duties on navigation the 11th article stipulates that the tariff shall be regulated in such a manner as to encourage commerce by facilitating the navigation. " It is obvious that moderate duties, if they are only levied as an equi va lent for the careful _main tenance and improvement of the stream, are more advantageous to commerce and navigation than no duties would be, if concurrently the stream was neglected. The above important stipulation can only be read in this sense. The act does not con tain a single word about financial appropriation of duties on these rivers to the detriment of interests of navigation. They were to be levied for the pur poses. of encouraging commerce by facilitating navigation. " How has this wise international stipulation been carried out on the Elbe? The convention for the navigation of the Elbe, concluded at Dresden in 1821, which fixed the normal Elbe toll at 271 gros chen per cwt. of Hamburg weight, paid in sub stance but little regard to the above stipulations. So far, however, their influence prevailed that the 30th article gave this positive engagement, tha from time to time revising commissions should meet to take into consideration any measures or regula tions which, according to subsequent experience, might further facilitate commerce and navigation. The.additional conventions concluded at Hamburg. in 1814, and at Dresden in 1844, have, however, done little to carry out the principles of 1814. The tax formerly levied upon the vessel was abolished in 1844, but in its stead the normal toll was raised to 31 sibergroschen 11 pfenn. per cwt. At that time Hamburg remonstrated against the tax as exorbitant, but its remonstrances were met by the excuse that the navigation on the Elbe was, not withstanding, increasing; that other competing routes were still more expensive, and the thorough improvement of the stream would require for the next few years a large outlay. During the 12 years that have since passed these circumstances have undergone material changes. The transit dues by land in the Zollvereen have been considerably re duced on both sides of the Elbe ; railroads have been constructed, branching off to all places in the district formerly supplied by the Elbe navigation_; the duties on'the Weser have been totally abolished ; and, finally, the Sound Dues ceased on Ist April, 1857. Notwithstanding these serious .changes no conventional redactions of the excessive• Elbe tolls has been obtained, the stream has not been at all improved —on the- contrary, it has been allowed to grow worse and worse i n spite of all promise. " The third conferences at Magdeburg, 1850-54, only led to some insufficient palliative measures ; and if Prussia, Saxony, and Austria had not already previously introduced some modifications in their portions of the river, the whole Elbe navigation would have been totally ruined . .for, all important articles of commerce. " More recently, and particularly since the abo lition of the Sound Dues,- the traffic on the Elbe became so oppressed by Hanoverian, Mecklenburg, and Lauenburg tolls, that it was thought impossible that the conferences, which were again to meet at Hamburg in June last, would refuse relief. The former objections to modifications of the alleged •prosperity of the Elbe navigation at all events could now no longer be opposed against a thorough re form of the Elbe tariff, in face of the fact, that the more important branches of the Elbe traffic have been entirely driven away from the Elbe by the pressure of the Elbe tolls. What facts could be more convincing than the following ? " The conventional normal Elbe toll from Ham burg to Magdeburg amounts to 17 silbergroschen 4 pfenn. per cwt., the railway freight to that place (inclusive of transit dues) to about 84- silbergroschen, the Elbe toll to Dresden 29 silbergrosehen 10 pfenn. ; the railway freight to that place, 19 silbergroschen ; the Elbe toll to Prague, 33 silbergroschen 11 pfenn. ; the railway freight,-'29 silbergroschen. " Even taking into account the facilities so liberally granted by Prussia, Saxony, and Austria, the disproportion remains still bad enough. It still leaves the Elbe the most oppressed of navigable rivers. On the distance from Lauenburg to Witten berge, a course of 75 English miles, on which the river freight amounts at the utmost to two or three silbergroschen percwt., Hanover, Mecklenburg, and Denmark actually levy 6 silbergroschen 5 pfenn. as their normal • Elbe toll, that is, two or three times more than the whole .freight; and yet the stream in this part is kept in a lamentable condition. " As to the practical consequences of these oppres sive duties it will be sufficient to point out this fact that the Elbe traffic in goods, paying the full and the half -amount of the normal toll, has fallen from 2,033,000 cwts. in 1845, to 294,000 cwts. in 1857, or to one-seventh of what it was 12 years ago. " Prussia, at the beginning of the last conferences, in acknowledging the treaty-obligation of the Riverain States to remedy the present grievances; to her credit, made a proposition which would have given real relief. It was to reduce the duty on all articles paying 1-sth and more to 1-10th of the present tariff duty, and those paying at present 1-20th to 1-40th. This proposition was adopted without reserve by Austria, Saxony, and Hamburg, but was frustrated by the-obstinate refusal of Hano- ' ver and Mecklenburg. The two latter states even refused to entertain the modified proposition of Denmark, to reduce the duty on the articles paying the full amount of the Elbe toll to one-half, and the duty on cotton and zinc to one-fourth. The only concession offered by Hanover and Mecklenburg was to reduce by a temporary and revocable ar rangement the duty on goods going to and coming from Prussia and Saxony to two-thirds of the pre sent tariff, and to grant a . further reduction on good s pasiing without transhipment to Bohemia. Expe nence havingproved that the navigation is not able to bear even one-half of the tariff duty, it is evident that the proposed reduction to two-thirds was quite insufficient. The Board of Commerce therefore, upon being consulted by the Senate, declined to assent to such an arrangement. Not only Hamburg but also the other Riverain States declared the propositions of Hanover and Mecklenburg unac ceptable, and insisted upon the originalpropositions of Prussia, as that requirect.by the stipulations of the Vienna Treaty and Art. 30 of the Act on the Elbe navigation, and as altogether necessary for the maintenance of the traffic on the Elbe. But Hanover and Mecklenburg obstinately rejected this fulfilment of their treaty engagements, and after six months of negotiations the Riverain Commis sion of 1858 broke up without any result. _ " It remains now to be seen whitt can and must be done ? For the moment Hanover and Mecklenburg have succeeded in maintaining the present exorbi tant Elbe .tolls, in order to promote their railway interests to the detriment of the river navigation. It has then come to this state of things, that the present Elbe tolls are retained not merely as for merly, for the sake of the revenue derived from them, but avowedly for the sake of interests en tirely unconnected with the navigation of the river. If the Elbe traffic enjoyed the facilities which were intended by the treaties, and thereby should again revive, so as to enable a proper steam tug service to be organised, the Hanoverian railroads might lose some traffic; and the Mecklenburg , transit dues on the Berlin-Hamburg railway might become intole rable. These apprehensions may .be well founded to some extent. But how can they justify the smaller Ri vera i n S tates, not only in injuring the important interests of other States, but in violating treaty engagements sanctioned by the interna tional conventions of all Europe ? " It is the constant refusal of Hanover and Mecklenburg to reduce the Elbe tolls that has chiefly caused the ruin of a formerly prOsperous river traffic, hindered the development of the in dustrial and commercial resources of the districts of the Upper Elbe, especially of Bohemia, and diverted the trade artificially into less advanta geous channels, which would not have been selected had not the navigation of the Elbe been practically closed up for important branches of commerce. " The Prussian and Austrian Governments, be longing both to the contracting parties ofthe Vienna Congress Act, have now formally acknowledged i hat the continuance of the present state of the Elbe navigation is in direct contradiction -1. To the convention of the Riverain States, which pro raised such further facilities for commerce and navigation as subsequent experience might require. 2. To the laws of the German Confederation, which guaranteed the stiliulations of the Vienna Congress Act for the freedom 'of rivers ; and finally, 3d, to the international stipulations of the above act, which provided that the tariff should be regul#ted so as to encourage commerce by facilitatin.• yi gation. " In the face of such well-founded claims, exe sistance of some Riverain States, consulting only their own particular interests and their own con venience, must - ultimately yield, if the German powers, in vindicating the general interests of Ger many, materially concerned in this question, took at once efficacious steps to carry out fully the stipu lations of, the above treaties, or if the Germanic Diet, upon an appeal against the violation of, these treaties, should direct redress to be given. But if these hopes should fail, the foreign powers, having signed and gUaranteed the treaty of Vienna, may be called upon to secure, in favour of the commerce of all nations, to the Elbe; thoSe advantages which were stipulated, by international treaties, and which have, hitherto been illegally withheld by some of the Riverain States. "It would be an error to suppose .that the pres sure of these river tolls falls exclusively upon the countries bordering on the Elbe ; the commerce of foreign nations is equally prejudiced by them indi rectly, in so far as their goods on - the Elbe are sub jected to these oppressive tolls, or•obliged to go by more costly routes to avoid them. "The aggregate amount of the Upper Elbe tolls levied by Hanover, Mecklenburg, and Denmark, in addition to the transit dues on the Berlin-Ham burg Railway, which notoriously are the river tolls transferred to the railroad, and with the Stade toll, which comes likewise under the opera tion of the Vienna Treaty, has yielded during the decade, 1848 to 1857, a revenue of nearly 9 millions of thalers, or £1,350,000 sterling, of which sum the British commerce at least paid four millions, or £600,000, falling not only on the British exports to Germany, but as well on the British imports from Germany. What extensive commercial in tercourse might spring up between Great Britain and the industrious and fertile dominions of the Austrian empire, if this its most important river . communication to the north was opened to com merce by the removal of the oppressive river tolls ? Are the interests . of large and powerful nations, equally solicitous about the development of their resources as the protection of titeir commerce, to be' permanently injured, only because it is convenient to some of the Riverain States to refuse the fulfil ment of their treaty-engagements ? • It is time that such an abuse should come to an end. • " The Board of Commerce trusts that the Govern ment 'of - Hamburfr, - will endeavour by all means to. obtain a regulation of the Elbe navigation in accord ance with the treaties. But at the sane time, it is to be hoped that when the commercial and legal posi tion of the question is more universally understood, public opinion willsleelEire •itself strongly against the continuation of such illegal obstacles to com mercial intercourse, and demapd their immediate removal. The representatives Of commercial com munities beyond Hamburg, *ally interested in the commerce of the Elbe, will urge their Govern ments to claim energetically that the stipulations of the Vienna Congress guaranteed to all nations, be applied also to the Elbe. " The Stade toll was mentioned above as coming also under the act of the Vienna Congress. This tax is levied at present under a separate convention, concluded between the Riverain States of the Elbe, • simultaneously with the additional Elbe Act, in 1844. The accession of Hamburg to that conven tion was literally extorted, for Hamburg had struggled against an arrangement, which was con- • trary as well to the Vienna Act as to former treaties. The Stade toll has become still more obnoxious to Hamburg since Hanover, not satisfied with levying this tax without rendering an equivalent for the benefit of navigation, now uses it unfairly as a dif ferential duty to the detriment of Hamburg. It is certainly not to be complained of, if neighbouring ports rise by competition upon equal terms, for se veral ports on the same river may prosper at the side of each other as commerce expands and com petition adds to the energy of all. But it is not competition upon fair an equal terms, if Hanover on the one side diverts trade t o th e Harburg rail ways by keeping up the exorbitant Upper Elbe tolls, and on the other side exempts from them all cargoes landed at Harburg. It is the highest in justice, that whilst Hamburg is oppressed by those tolls and provides, nevertheless alone, all the money for the maintenance of the Lower Elbe, the com merce of Harburg should profit by these river works without contributing to their expense, and more over be exempted from the Stade tolls, which' Ha nover:levies upon the commerce of foreign countries without any equivalent. ' " For Hamburg it is therefore a favourable cir cumstance, that foreign States will no longer be bound to pay this passage toll, imposed by the con vention of 1844, contrary to the Vienna Treaty, when their special treaties with Hanover expire. It is most gratifying that those views have pre vailed during the past year in. England, and that notice for the termination of the treaty of 1844 be tween Great Britain and Hanover has been given. In the report of the committee appointed in the House of Commons on the Stade tolls, the following resolutions were agreed upon : " 10. That it does not appear that any service whatever is rendered by Hanover in return for the tax levied upon the commerce of Great Britain. 11. That if the treaty of 1844, by which the United Kingdom, is bound for a limited period to assent to the payment of the Static toll, were deter- mined by notice pursuant to the terms thereof,, but little injury or inconvenience would arise to the trade of this country.' "In consequence of these resolutions and the evidence taken before the committee, especially the decisive statements of Sir Emerson Tennent, Secre- tary to the Board of Trade, it may be hoped that notwithstanding the counter efforts of Hanover, the British Government will adhere to the resolutions of the committee, and refuse the further payment of the Stade tolls at the termination of the treaty of 1844. If one powerful nation once refuses to assent to this unjustifiable tax, the whole toll must cease, all the treaties with regard to the Stade toll containing the clause of the most favoured nation, so that when the cargoes under one flag can no longer be subjected to the payment, all other flags are entitled to the same exemption. The Stade toll and the other Elbe tolls are closely connected, and the further negotiations cannot fail to lead to the con viction that all the Elbe tolls must be regulated according to the Vienna Congress Act. So long as the Riverain States were, or appeared to be, unani mous on the maintenance of the present tolls, and these did not actually drive away the traffic from its natural course, the foreign nations had no in ducement to notice the non-fulfilment of the inter- national stipulations, but, since the Riverain Com missions have been broken up, the state of this question has been entirely changed, and the conse quences cannot fail to come." A curious book might be written on the abuse by mankind of the noblest gift of Providence in the injury and destruction of great rivers. Of all the beneficent contrivances which adapt the planet we inhabit to the use and abode of man, there is no one which we should view with more gratitude and admiration- than the rivers which Grain, fertilize, and enrich the more favoured regions of the world. Yet there is no gift of Pro vidence which man has more scandalously abused. Last summer we were continually lamenting the miserable state of Father Thames ; if we have not turned his waters into blood, we have, at any rate, succeeded in killing all his fish, and have begun at last to undergo ourselves the disagreeable results of the nuisance we have created. The Rhine is forced to find its way into the sea by a sluice, and the wrongs of the Mersey have for several years formed a prominent subject of Parliamentary investigation. But no river that we are acquainted with has suf fered the same amount of ill•usage as the Elbe. This noble river, rising in the mountains of Bohemia, and forming an excellent communication between the rich countries and the heart of Germany and the ocean which bears the German name, seems to have been selected to show what man can do to counter act by the most paltry arts and miserable expedients the beneficent intentions of the Creator. Some eight hundred years ago the Elbe was laid under contri bution for the purpose of building a cathedral, and a market toll granted for that purpose has become, in the shape of the Stade Dues, a heavy passing toll on all ships sailing up the river. The Elbe has had to undergo its share of feudal tyran nies from the rude population who have dwelt upon its banks, and in' these later days the exactions levied upon its traffic amply replace all that could be extorted by robber barons or rapacious corporations. At last ie seemed that the long period of oppres sion was drawing to a close, The Congress of Vienna in 1814 laid down for the guidance of the great Powers, and thus virtually incorporated into the public law of Europe, the general principles upon which the navigation of rivers passing through. different States should be regulated. Those prin ciples were, that the navigation of rivers along their whole course, from the points where they become navigable to their mouths, shall be entirely free, and shall not in respect of commerce be pro hibited to any, one ; and, further that the tariff of duties on navigation shall be regulated in such -a manner as to encourage' commerce by facilitating navigation. If we read these two principles together,---the first, the freedom of commerce, and the next the subordination of the tariff to the maintenance -that freedom, it seems to result -that, so far Orrommerce is concerned, the public law of Europe now considers all rivers as free high ways, and that it tolerates no duties on those who pass over those highways, except such as shall be honestly and fairly applied to the purpose of im proving the navigation. The friends of the Elbe can desire no more. Whatever is necessary to maintain the banks, to keep the stream free from obstruction, and do , whatever else is required for the facility of transit they cannot possibly object to; but they have a right to say that to make a• profit out of the navigation of the Elbe, or, still 'more, to lay on tolls with the view of driving com merce from its waters into other channels, is a direct violation of the principles laid down by the Treaty of Vienna. In this, as in many other cases, the sound principle of international law has been suffered to, fall into abeyance, or rather to be grossly violated,' for • want of some competent executive authority whose duty it should be to put it into execution. The management of the River Elbe fell into the hands of the Riverain States, who were supposed, though, we . believe, very erro neously, to have interests which would induce them to take all necessary steps for preserving the free navigation of the river. The free city of Hamburg, which lives and - has - its being in free trade, has indeed been uniform and unceasing in its efforts to emancipate the Elbe from the tyranny of its op pressors; but, unhappily ; its remonstrances were little attended to. In 1821 the river toll was fixed at 271 groschen per cwt., which was raised in 1844 to 31 silver groschen 11 pfennings, or more than 3s. per cwt. The sums thus collected • amount altogether to X 1,300,000 per annum, of which £600,000 are paid by the trade of Great Britain. For this vast expenditure nothing whatever is done for the improvement of the river. It is considered fair booty levied on the unfortunate trader and is applied 'without remorse in relief of the Exchequers of the different States among whom it -- is divided. But since these duties:were imposed a vast change has taken place, in' the means of transit. The. Zollverein has lowered its duties.. There is a railway on each bank of the Elbe, which actually carries goods' at a lower rate than the dues which are imposed for passing lip the river amount to. The Elbe toll from Hamburg to Magdeburg amounts to 17 - grosehen 4 pfennings - per hundredweight ;• the railway freight for the same distance to about one half that ,sum - ., :The Elbe toll to Dresden is in proportion to the railway freight as three to tivo, and the Elbe toll to _Prague . exceeds the railway freight by nearly five groschen; or 6d. a-hundred-• weight, so that, -so far from offering facilities to commerce, the Riverain States levy im the shape of tolls a tribute on goods passing up the Elbe con siderably larger than the'cost of their transit itself. Of course, the effect of this must be to expel traffic from the Elbe, and give it to the railways; for the benefit of which these iniquitous dues are avowedly imposed. • The States that have been able to work out all this mischief are scarcely entitled from their power or their posi tion to the bad eminence which they have ob tained. It is neither Prussia nor Austria that has thus skilfully applied the tourniquet to the great artery of Northern Europe ; the Powers that have sanctioned and enforced this extortion • are the potent kingdom, of Hanover..and the mighty Duchy of Mecklenburg. The motives in each case are peculiarly shabby. Mecklenburg receives a toll on the Hamburg-Berlin Railway, which she is apprehensive could no longer be levied if the Elbe were opened to fair competition . Hanover remits the Stade tolls to all vessels resorting to her own port of Harburg, and thus, while Hamburg defrays at its own cost the expenses of maintaining the navigation of the Lower Elbe, Hanover not only avails herself of this expenditure for the purposes of her trade, but levies a tax on Hamburg, for which she receives no equivalent, and remits the tax to her own citizens. We have before shown that the Stade Dues are imposed in defiance of the law of nations, and we therefore rejoice that, as the recent Congress of the Riverain Powers has sepa rated without giving any redress on any part of this question, the British Government has given notice of the termination of the treaty with Han over by which we are bound to the payment of these dues, and that this step will be followed by a distinct refusal to pay them in future. It is also high time that the great Powers, parties to the treaty of Vienna, should come to the rescue of its violated stipulations, and prove to the satisfaction of the King of Hanover and the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg that at least on thersubject of free dom of commerce opinion in Europe has not retro graded between 1815 and 1859.—Times. THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY. The eighty-fifth annual general meeting of the members of this society was held yesterday at the office, Trafalgar-square ; Mr. B. B. Cabbell in the chair. Mr. YOUNG (the Secretary) read the report, de tailing the operations of the committee during the past year, which stated that the total number of cases of rescue, or attempted rescue from drowning brought under the notice of the society during the past year was 169, involving 281 persons. Of these 179 were successfully treated, and 11 were unfor tunately beyond recovery. 31 cases of attempted suicide had occurred, and 27 cases had been espe cially referred to the committee. The number of Medals awarded for courageous and devoted conduct in rescuing drowning persons was 66. Thanks were also recorded on vellum and presented to seven persons, and on parchment to 14 persons; while pecuniary rewards had been given to 86 persons. The number of bathers in the Serpentine during the past season had been 165,200, and it was gratifying to record that in no ease had any fatal casualty occurred. The state ment of income and expenditure for the year ended the 31st December last showed that £lB2 had been carried forward from the preceding year ; that subscriptions, donations, &c., had amounted to the sum of £1,718, and legacies to £45, making a total of £1,946. After deducting the expenditure a balance remained in hand of £79. The report was adopted, and votes of thanks passed to the president and officers of the society. The following cases were among those especially submitted to the meeting, as deserving of the silver medal of the society :—The lion. T. J. Wynn, for saving Charles Vernon Hassall, military student. from the Thames, June 3d last; Mr. C. Pates, for saving Lewis James Knight, surgeon, from the Exe, at Exeter, April 18 ; Mons. M. Jacques Fosse, for saving Foulchier, blacksmith, at Beruciere, Aug. 5 ; Mr. 'Francis Hixon, for having saved Thomas Ross, acting mate of H.M.S. Herald, at sea, off Port Jackson, June 4 ; Viscount Hastings, for saving Henry B. Gough, from the river Suir, at Waterford, Aug. 8 , Sergeant John Buckley, Royal Limerick County Regiment, for saving Sergeant Mathew Mahony and Private J. Buston at sea off Hythe, Kent, Sept. 22 ; Captain Edward Roberts, for saving Charles Butt at Little Hampton, Sussex, act. 1 ; Mr. G. J. Anstruther, midshipman, her Majesty's ship Magician, for saving T. Mills, sea man, at China, Aug. 30 ; Mr. John Sullivan, boat swain, her Majesty's ship Gorgon , for saving John Martin, A. 8., at Halifax, North America, Sept. 6 ; Miss Lucy Rowbotham ' for saving H. C. Row botham from a tank, at Woolwich, Oct. 12; May Stout Hectorson, for saving the lives of two fisher men at Yell, off the Shetland Islands, Sept. 9 ; Corporal Thomas G. Warren, for saving John Gee, boy, her Majesty's ship Waterloo, in the sea at Sheerness, Sept. 17; Assistant Surgeon J. Davis, 57th Regiment, for saving Private Powell, 33d Regiment, at Bombay, Oct. 13 ; Joseph Saunders, A. 8., her Majesty's ships Liffey, fur saving Frederick Wraith, A. 8., same ship, at Devonport, Sept. 6. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned. 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" I, Patrick Callaghan, do swear in the presence of God to renounce all allegiance to the Queen of England, and to take up arms and fight at a moment's warning to make Ireland an independent democratic republic, and to yield implicit obedience to the commanders and superiors of this secret society. Finally, I take this oath without any mental reservation whatever.' I am quite sure these were the words, as well as can remember. The oath having been repeated, I kissed the book. He then gave me the document of the oath,' and tcld me to write a form of it in my own hand. I never:did so, but tore it up in about six weeks time. He said that the taking of the oath gave me power to swear in nine men. He did not tell me the names of any of the members of the society, but said it was a secret club, and he could not tell. I subsequently spoke to him about the society, when lie made it known to me that the Bridge-street boys were all right.' Before we separated he gave me no sign or word ; but he told me that there were ambassadors sent to America, and that he couldn't tell me anything more their return. He was not staying in Callan then, and I knew he was to go to Kilkenny by the mail car. It was one month from the time I was sworn when I next met him. I inquired if there was any subscription to be paid. He said no, but it would be necessary for me to procure firearms, a pike, and ammunition. I never swore in any member, but did speak. to a person about it, who refused to have anything to do with the society. I afterwards told Hawe that I intended to retire from the society for the priest would not hear my confession whge I continued a member of it, but had turned me away. Hawe said, Don't mind that, but stop as you are.' Some of the Callan boys were with him at the time. The conversation took place on the public car, on which we were sitting. The same day I got a message to meet him, but we had no further conversation. I had a conversation afterwards, and received two books from him, but did not get them from himself, but from a person he sent them by. He told me he would send me more instructions. I told him afterwards that I had got the books. When I got them first I laid them on a heap of coal, and afterwards put them in my box in the house. (The books were here produced and identified. They were printed by W. Kelly of Dublin, and were some of the Young Ireland productions, professing to instruct Irishmen how to arm for the defence of their country, &c.) He asked me if my number (the nine men) had been made up. I said I had made them up, but that was untrue; I merely said it to please him. My object was to pass him for the time. It was at our second meeting that he men tioned the firearms and the pike. " This was the substance of Callaghan's state ment as regards Hawe; his statement as regards the other prisoners, as we are informed, merely con sisted of observations made by them to him in the street, asking him, had he his number made up ,' some of the queries to which heoautthachtehdeimmpiorhtt ance appeared very.absurd, alt oy ci have a sinister meaning, such as Are you married yet?' Did you kill the pig yet ?' &c. " This man was cross-examined by Mr. Quin on the part of Hawe, and by Mr. Lowe for the ' other prisoners, with the object of leading to the inference that he had concocted the story which he told, but nothing material was elicited. He de clared his sole object in giving information to the authorities was that his mind was uneasy, and on account of the tremendous observations' on the subject made by Father Salmon, went to the head „l e _----"\ NEWSPAPER //2 ./ t i a.7. V -'-' e ..f - --,%. . . •1 ' • IZt4r;•:: --- 4 17: constable while drunk, and gave hi m t --•-..44ih-400tt,:”' 4,. tion. Would not take £l,OOO to transpoltithodd. young men. - •• - - " The result of the inquiry was, that Martin Hawe was committed for trial at the assizes, bail being ii.clined. Managan and Coyne were dis charge,: on their own recoo'hisances to appear if ~0 again called for. Sullivan and Kavanifgh were discharged unconditionally on the ground of an insufficiency of evidence to support any charge against them. " ' The inquiry did not conclude till between fire and six o'clock in the evening ; soon after which . - time four men discharged, with some of their friends, DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING. drove from the county gaol on cars, through THE IRISH JUDICIAL BENCH. Patrick -street, on their return to Callan, shouting It is slated that Baron Pennefather's resignation loudly in celebration of their deliverance from dur was platted in the hands of Government on Monday an ce.' " last. In reference to his successor nothing positive The lib era ti on o f f our o f t h e C al l an men created is yet known, but in the absence of reliable infor- great excit emen t i n t h at v ill age on their return matron the Freeman's •.Tournal says :—" It is home ; and on S un d ay the Rev. Mr. Salmon, the rumoured that the vacant judgeship h a s been parish priest, a ft er mass, preached to his congrega offered to Mr. Francis Fitzgerald. Q.C. and that if tion, referring to th e di sc h arge o f t h ese young men, he declines the o ffi ce it will be conferred upon the and expressing a hop e th at w h at had occurred would Solicitor-General. In connection with th e re p or t e d be a warning to them a n d a ll hi s hearers against Joining in any secret societies. He extolled in warm resignation of the venerable Baron, it i s rumoure d that the vacant judgeship will be given to M as t er language the impartial and abo ve -b oar d manner i n w Litton, and that the Mastership in Ch ancer y th us which the Earl of Desart had act e d mag i ster i ally in the matter, both as to the arre s t s an d the hives vacated will be given to Mr. Hayes, th e Solicitor t General. In this event, it is said that M r . G eorge tigation, which resulted in the discha rge o f those will be the new Solicitor-General. With the ex- men, and he recommended the noble earl to the ception of Mr. George's succession to the Solicitor- prayers of the congregation, as a good and upright Generalship, in case of a vacancy, all the .othet nobleman and conscientious magistrate. statements that are flying about mu s t b e t a k en as LUCKY ESCAPE FROM MURDER. -mere speculation. It is also stated that Mr. Lend- News Letter : The following statement appears in Saund er ' a rick has. resigned his chairmanship, a n d th a t M r . Edward Pennefather, or Mr. • Lane, Q.C., is to i" The brother of a Roman Catholic clergyman succeed bini." . . . w as fired at on his way to Newport a short time Suunders says that Judge Crampt on w ill soon since. He was riding, when he was suddenly retire; and that the vacancy will most probably be . attacked by three armed ruffians—one of the party filled by the Solicitor-General; the more immediate fired at him, fortunately without effect. A severe post in the . EXchequer is to be occupied by either struggle ensued; but, in a manner which reflects Mr. Brewster or Mr. Francis Fitzgerald. The the highest credit upon him for bravery and pre- Attorney-General will not accept either of the senee of mind, he secured two of the ruffians ; the judgeships. , • third in the meantime fled. H av i ng p rocee d e d b ut REPRE SENTATION OF TRIN I TY .COI , ‘ _ . le e npris nloance they were met by some coun t ry • Three candidates are•already mention.._. -'. e prisoners immediately dropped on in the field to contest the seat left vacant by the -their kifeeS and implored mercy, statin g th a t th ey appointment of Mr. .11amilton to the Secretaryship . ' mistook their man —the land agent of a gentle. of the Treasury. The gentlemen named are Mr. m in in the neighbourhood. Th e y were i mme - Joy, Q.C., Mr. George, Q.C., a n d D r . G ayer , Q . C . diately allowed to depart, which extraordinary Mr. Joy is a moderate Conservative and anti-Pro- conduct can only be accounted for by the dread tectionist. . He was .in the field at the last election, fr?m intimidation which exists in the neighbour but the amount of suppoit he received upon that hood. The informations were sworn before the occasion holds out no great prospect of hi s s u c c e e d - resident magistrate and also lod ge d, as our infor ing Mr. George A. Hamilton as the representative mant believes, in Dublin Castle. " of Trinity College. . Dr. Gayer, the ultra-Tory, ran ' THE CAPTURE OF THOMAS BLACK. a close race in the contest-with Mr. A. Lefroy, the The following account of the capture of Thomas successor of Chancellor Napier. Black, the murderer of his wife, is taken from the THE ARRESTS. . papers : Well authenticated private accounts froM Cork ‘ Thomas Black, the husband of the unfortunate mention - that the Crown case against some of the woman who was found murdered in Deane-street, Phcenix Club members in that (garter is much more on Sunday morning, was yesterday morning ar-, reited ; o r , p er h a p s it may - more properly be said complete than, the public. would' have been led to believe from- the information which has transpired delivered himself up. It appears that the remains of the murd ere d woman were b roug h t f or i nterment through the public journals. The law officers, it is , - said, are quite confident of th e resu lt, and it is said Y . terday mor n i ng t o Gl asnev i n Cemetery and .that the evidence against several of the .prisoners w re foll owe d b y a numerous concourse. Among is of a nature to leave no do u bt up o n the minds of spectators Black was observed, aft er th e th o any jury, however, dispos e d th e y . m i g ht be to fiqieral, by two men ,- one o f w h om f i rst po i nted h i m • regard the prosecution as an ex cess of Government out to his companion, and, going over to the w re t c h e d rigour. The farming :classes, it haS been aster- man, laid his ha n d upon hi s s h ou ld er, and told him thitt he was ' a Queen's prison er ,' an d that there tamed, have carefully' stood aloof, and h ave h a d , ..wls no use in offerin g . any resistance. He then ac theno part in thee silly but mischievous Conspiracy, coaipanied them quietly until they came to police- Jaffiers. and Pierres being in almost every sOgeant Delany, into whose custody he was deli instance taken - from the - ranks of shopmen and. . Mechanics. The chibs, it is ,. added, were more . tel:el Another account of the transaction . represents' that - Black first called- out the names of rapidly increasing towards the ,-close of last year; and, if left unchecked, might in .due season have the two men, whom he knew ; being in the same become troublesome instruments in the hands of trade, and that they thereupon stopped the car on some yet undiscovered John Mitchel or Thomas which they were returning tome, and that he then Francis Meagher. - gave himself up to them, observing that he could The following, account of .the investigation into noT rest. It is evident that he attended the funeral the charges against the prisoners arrested in Kil-• with the intention of- surrendering himself to jus kenny is condensed froin a local paPer (the Mode- -He tie , being impelled probably by feelings of remorse. rater). It took place on Saturday, and th e re p or t was immediately-brought to Chancery-lane sta has ' found its way into the journals . despite the tioh - house, where his pockets were searched, and : attemptto close the doors against thepublic press : his person were found a p a i r o f l ong , s h ar p- . " The prisoners brought forward were—Martin -- on pointed scissors, a putty-knif e , a s h ar p t rowe l, a Hawe, leather merchant, Kilkenny ; Edward Coyne, wide-bladed knife, and two newspapers, containing publican, Callan ; Thomas Managan and William the account of the murder and the proceedings at Kavanagh, nailors, Callan ; -and Denis Sullivan, thd inquest yesterday. It is conjectured that the national school. teacher, Ballydonnel. The only mUrder - .was - perpetrated with the scissors. He witness who appeared to prove anything against stated that he had read the newspapers, and knew these persons 'was Patrick Callaghan, a rather that he had no chance of escape, asserting at the respectably-dressed man, aged about 25 years, who seine time, however, that he knew nothing what had filled a place of trust under the Slievarda Coal ever of the crime he is charged with, as he was Mining Company, as their clerk in the Callan Coal quite drunk on Saturday night, and that he did Store. His evidence chiefly, or it might be said not know his wife was dead till he saw her in the altogether, tended to the inculpation of Hawe, what morning. A messenger having been despatched for he had to say with respect to the other prisoners Mr. Hyndman, city coroner, he soon attended at being of a more trival nature. His statement, in the' station-house, accompanied by Surgeon Porter. answer to the interrogations of the magistrates, Colonel Lake, chief of the police force, was also was to the following effect : . present, and at his request Mr. Porter examined "' I was returning from mass, in Callan, on a the clothes worn by the prisoner, and found that Sunday before last harvest, when Hawc tapped the back of his shirt and the flannel vest which he me on the shoulder p r iv a t e ly, an d sa id, " Y ou are wore were stained with bl oo d. Th e f orm o f committal upon the coroner's w arran t on a c h arge the man I want." He s pok e i n a l ow - t one . I had known him p rev i ous ly. Th e s t ree t was of wilful murder, p ursuan t t o th e fi n di ng o f the coroner's jury, was then ma d e ou t; an d t h e pr i soner full of people at the tim e , an d thi s t oo k p l ace at the Cross of Callan. I made no reply, b u t we —who is a middle-si ze d ; d ogge d, an d di rty -l ook i ng walked on together down Mill-street. H e sa id man, about 35 years of ag e — was conveye d away i n after some time that he wanted to make me a m em - a covered car to Richmond Brid ewe ll, am id th e ber of a society. I asked him of what sort of a execrations of a dense concourse of the lower classes, society, or what it was grounded upon. He did who soon got word of his arrest, and congregated not tell me presently, but afterwards said it was a about the vicinity of the station-house. A large secret society, that it was founded on good moti ves , crowd also assembled in front of the head police and that the greatest men in Kilkenny were office, supposing that he would be b roug ht u p th ere , members of it. I asked who the member s w ere . eager to catch a glimpse of him bef ore hi s remova l He replied that he could not tell me that till I to the gaol. He will be tried at the next commis became a member myself. Could not say po s iti ve ly sion, which will open oa the Bth F e b ruary ." whether a portion of this conversation took place in Mill-street or in the corn field 'into which •we went from the street. He said he should test me, - and that I should take an oath. We went into a corn field, and I there inquired again about the nature. of the society. He said he should swear me before he could tell. I refused at first to be sworn. He said he would sacrifice all he possessed to have me. He then swore me, and said the object of the society was to make - Ireland a free and independent democratic republic. He swore me on a book like a Prayer-book, and produced the form of the oath written out. As well as I con recollect the oath, it was this : DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Mr. Porter, the magistrate of the head police office, pronounced judgment to-day in the cat •of John Francis Nugent; of almanac notoriety. The magistrate refused an application for further post ponement, and directed that Mr. Nugent should enter into his own recognizances in the sum of £5OO and two sureties in. £5O each, who were ob liged to swear themselves householders of the city of Dublin, and worth each £lOO over their just debts and liabilities. The recognizances bind Mr. Nugent to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for seven years, or in default two months' imprison ment. THE BOMBAY, AUSTRALIAN, AND UNITED STATES MAlES.—SOuriumrToN, Jan. 12.—The screw steamship Orissa, Capt. J. K. Joy, was despatched to-day by the Peninsular and Oriental Company for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandiia, with the Bombay mails ; and the paddle steamer Thames, Capt. H. P. Lewis, by tho Royal Mail Company, for Malta and Alexandria, with the Australian and New Zealand mails. The Thames has 72 passengers, among whom are the Rev. T. V. Thompson, for Malta; Dr. Edward Young, for Alexandria; Lieut. Hollinworth, Dr. George B. Beale, for Sydney, &c. ; also jewellery, value £l,lOO, and a general cargo. The Orissa takes 30 first and 10 second class passengers, and 15 men of the Royal Artil lery, under command of Captain Govan ; a large cargo and 293 boxes for Bombay, containing £81,230 in bar silver and five-franc pieces, and jewellery value £545 ss. Among her passengers are Col. Gordon, Surgeon and Mrs. Brown, Dr. E. T. Downes, for Bombay, and Mr. Holton, the Peninsular and Oriental Company's superintendent Alexandria. The United States mail steamship Arago, Captain D. Lines, left Havre and Cowes to-day for New York, with the French and English mails, passengers, and a full cargo. The next American mails to arrive at this port will be brought by the Fulton, Captain J. A. Wotton, due off Cowes on the 20th inst., on her way from New York to Havre.. The Magdalena, Captain Abbott, is duo on the 16th inst., with the West India and Pacific mails ; and the Indus, Captain Weeks, on the 20th, w ith th e E as t India and Cina mails. The Atrato, Captain Woolley, takes out the next West India and Pacific mails, on the 17th ; the Sultan, Captain Neil Cook, the Peninsular mails, on the same day ; and the Pera, Captain Jamieson, the India and China mails, on the 20th. DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF A SHIP'S CREW. — The following narrative of the dreadful sufferings of the crew of the brigantine Minnie Harley, of and for Cork, from Archangel, with spars, tar, and pitch, and which was abandoned on the 29th ult. near Butt of the Lewis, is from the report of one of the survivors. She sailed from Arch angel on the 2d of October last, under the charge of Copt. rounded ijilleg hanthe master, North Cape, in about favourableandha d otseven d weather from untilather the she encountered a succession of gales, the vessel bein6 being hove of starting. After a few days of unsettled weather, they about by the cross currents in all irections and ei. t t° o . th l e ' they alldri g u o t t damaged, and were repaired over and over again the topsails he southward galescon the tinu beste d 28v,0,ary29 they day could,s: t they y t h in e - o sailsk t w e e r s e h a t i p l ignorantwere o f wh more er e t htahneyonce. were, having masterng lost latitude. and' F c o r e rs were during which the t a th n he d roN s u e og t rhth saL in l s a ea, g k ai in n g . terardsthey fo s r ig p h ro ted visi F on lam s an bo d r i o .r u e s sh h w H a ee r , ; great deal of salt water. He gave charge to the mate, Daniel Leary, who soon soon afterwards became disabled from want of food and. mastertidanhteyoys Middlesboroughprovisions,wafre knocking becamebutseriouslyilo waboutatwater, He took to his berth, afte r water. which the naged by Henry Desmond, se an, and the rest of the crew, three in number. On Chris as-day the mate died from starvation, and at noon on e 28th the ship wore to tu ar the Butt of Lewis. The ea tainwas alive in his berth but insensible. They hoisted a gof distress, and in the course of the day Mr. Kenneth Mu y, a merchant of the port of t Ness, and a boat's crew, came alongside; the ship w a s strain ing and making a great deal of water. Seeing their dreadful condition Mr. Murray immediately ordered his men to take hint and the remaining three of the crew on shore, which was accordingly done. All of them were in a shocking con dition, almost exhausted and helpless. The master could not move, and the boat left without him, but afterwards re tarried and brought him on shore ; he, however, died on the following day, the 29th. The mate was left dead in the cabin. Henry Desmond and the other seamen drank a great quantity of water on landing. Had they remained on the vessel but a short time longer they must have shared the same fate as the captain and mate; they were so exhausted as to be almost unconscious of what was occurring around. The provisions were eaten up three weeks previously ; there was nothing whatever on board to subsist on excepting a dog, which they killed four or five days before the vessel was boarded by Mr. Murray, And which was the lastiood of which they partook. None of the ship's papers, or the log book, were saved. 3,td 7d 7d 8d 3d Od qrs. )Uly , ibdro, ter a land, ssex, shire, .t for xton, Leria, atess NG, 112, I of