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He commenced by stating that some had questioned the propriety of such subjects being introduced in a strictly scientific as sociation ; but for that matter, they certainly bear reference to many things connected with the details of physical science. There is great truth in the noble lord's remark, that the chief object of their meetings was to " suggest and stimulate," rather than to originate, thought. Investigation cannot possibly be carried on to a very great extent in crowded meetings, but ideas may be diffused, and pro posals made, which can ultimately prove of great bene fit to the community in general, and to men of science in particular. It is certain that the questions thus brought prominently before the public are more likely to engage attention and attract interest than the maxims of philosophy and the treasures of wisdom hoarded up in books that very often re main sealed volumes to an active and bustling generation, intent on 'business and overwhelmed with distracting pursuits and requiring objects to divert the mind. " Men go home with their heads full of subjects of which they perhaps never thought seriously before," remarked the noble lord, " and it is indeed in this that the chief benefit of these associations consists, for they scatter seeds which may take root in many directions, and improve the general knowledge of the time, and awaken the mind to the perceptions of those sublime and beautiful truths which science possesses in a remarkable degree, and which can never be too fully appreciated or too generally recognised." In treating of the right application of the " Statistical Method," Lord STANLEY pointed out some of the chief fallacies that exist, and among those more conspicuous those of taking too narrow a basis for the purpose of calculation, and also not taking into consideration all the causes which affect the result. 'Thus, for instance, in speaking of the effect pro duced by a reduction of duty, it does not follow that all the increased consumption is produced by the reduction, because many other causes may intervene, such as prosperity of trade, greater cheapness of transport, &c. Mistakes are also of ten made in taking an average of mortality, for if an epidemic occurs that year is struck out of the term which is taken as a sample, but the error is made of forgetting that the succeeding years are too favourable for computation, because the most unhealthy will have been taken away during the period of the epidemic, and thus the standard is not a fair one. Lord STANLEY wisely pointed out the mistakes which those people who think that " to work by and with statistical calculations is a merely mechanical func tion, needing no ability beyond that of a clerk." The fact is that great errors are made in the ques tion of calculation, as well as in minor matters, by persons jumping at conclusions, and saying that the work is done for them, instead of its requiring thought and attention. These may take a hint from the comments made in this discourse, and this sentence is correct beyond a doubt which refers to the fal lacies that prevail in many quarters. "Figures do not indeed deceive you; but if you put them to a use they were not meant for, they will let you de ceive yourselves." This is just the epitome of the affair, and reveals the true nature and state of the case. The statistical method is of great import ance national affairs, and, as the noble lord ob served, one man keeps " accounts" who wishes to be careful with his money, and another writes a diary, who does not wis h to trust t o va gue recollecti on, but to possess a sure chronicle of interesting events, and, therefore, every person of abstemious habits, or engaged in pursuits that require accuracy, is, i n fact, a statistician. Many who have not thought much of the matter will be surprised to fi nd how much statistics enter into the diaries of all nationa. life. The statistical test on a large scale is abso lutely necessary, in order to form a definite idea of matters with which it is desirable to be acquainted. Thus, as the noble lord said, by dealing with masses, " we eliminate individual peculiarities, and we reason but from the mass to the individual, the subject of the statistician, his typical or representa tive man, as the average man of many thousands." The Post-office returns, the Registrar-General's returns of marriages, and the annual publication of the Customs and Excise Departments, the Census abstracts of public occupation, and the criminal statistics, are each and all valuable, as forming what is here truly styled " the social and economi cal history of the age in which we live." It certainly suggezts ita.-If to the 3to aLL, Of what 'advantage is the aggregate c this informa, tion ? And to such querists the noble lord has here given a proper answer, when he states that no knowledge is useless which bears upon human life, and that a discovery once made always tvxns to ac count in some way at some time or other. We may realise this more fully by the reflec tion that the greatest mechanical inventions arose from purely mathematical theories, and their authors never dreaming of their being appled to their subsequent purpose. It is only by taking large views of life, with what assistance we can gain frcm the means of accuracy which statistics present, that we can possibly arrive at correct con clusions as to the nature and true meaning of things, and the effects produced by different causes. Indi vidual testimony is never to be relied on ; preju dices insensibly influence, and ignorance prevails to a large extent, but the results of statistics are to be relied if only properly managed in regard to facts and figures. Agricultural statistics are greatly wanted in England, and Lord STANLEY adverted to the com plication of all weights and measures. In this respect we are behind other nations, yet, as the noble lord remarked, there are no very reasonable grounds for hoping that a change for the better will take place. It would be a very good thing, no doubt, if the suggestion here made as to the different Governments of Europe having their decennial censuses arranged in a similar form were carried out, as it would be thus easy to form a useful com parison. The noble lord's address gave general satisfaction, and it will be found useful to refer to, on account of its variety and the careful way in which the subjects were treated. Mr. ROEBUCK is always worth listening to on - whatever occasion he may favour us with a speech, and his address at the Sheffield Cutlers' Festival is as usual vigorous and independent. The presence of the member for Sheffield at the Great Northern Dinner is a matter of course, and there are few of the customary visitors whose presence would be more missed. Yesterday's banquet and ceremonial passed off with their wonted eclat, and the speakers who enlivened the after-dinner hours included the most prominent members of the Northern nobility and of the master cutlers themselves, though the head of the community was unfortunately absent from ill health. Politics are forbidden at the Cut lers' hospitable board, a prohibition - which Earl FITZWILLIAM declared made the feast as indiges tible as a" Welsh rabbit." Mr. ROEBUCK, how ever, was not to be fettered by any such restrictions, and announced his intention of converting the " Welsh rarebit" into a pungent salad, in which each different opinion could form a condiment, and the whole melange created by men agreeing to differ might be alike wholesome and agreeable. Cer tainly no political salad will want pungency or flavour when the member for Sheffield contributed a share, and with his accustomed boldness he plunged at once into politics, leaving the venerable and venerated prohibition altogether out of sight. Per haps the company thought that retrospective politics, which included the reigns of ELIZABETH and CHARLES 11., passed out of the area tabooed by the regulations, for they made but a faint effort to arrest the speaker, and laughed and cheered their favourite member very heartily. Mr. ROEBUCK said that they were most of them familiar with the unsteady sen sation produced by crossing the Channel in a storm. The land seemed to move up and down, and the very railroad to be bounding and rocking with pre ternatural vivacity. This, he said, was his feeling with regard to the late election, but still, having got over so much of the disturbance, he was able to take a general survey of its progress and result. The conclusion at which he arrived after this retrospect was one acceptable enough to the good people of Sheffield, for he considered that it affirmed the triumph of Liberal and progressive principles. Re form and reaction had, he said, been alternating in our history since the day of ELIZABETH. The last triumph of the reactionary policy was in the days of GEORGE 111. , but since the end of the great war onward progress has been the motto. "In 1829 we got rid of ecclesiastical measures of opposition to Reform ; in 1830-32 we altered the political reform of the country." The wish of the English people, as Mr. ROEBUCK observed very,truly, is not for theo retical perfection, but gradual political advancement. They do not wish to clear the ground before they begin their structure, but they prefer to alter and amend what their ancestors have left them. Mr. ROEBUCK confesses that he was once a Republican, but that he is now glad that our system is Monarchic. Its success in securing the liberty and happiness of the people under its sway is freely admitted by all. "We have freedom of speech and thought; we have security for person and property to an extent that the rest of the world does not know ; and when foreigners come among us the wonder to them is how this vast multitude of human beings can live so quietly and so happily." Of course so important an event as the meeting of the fleets could not be passed over in silence ; and Mr. ROE BUCK drew hopeful auguries for tho future peace of the world from the union of the two foremost nations. Outlying populations on either side of the Atlantic, as he quietly terms the principal disturbers of the peace at the present time, may indeed wish to introduce disturbance, but they will, he con siders, be kept down by the consistent and united action of England and France. This prophecy will, we trust, prove to be correct, but at any rate staunch and outspoken ,politicians like the member for Sheffield will always be useful; and whether in peace or war there is little fear that Mr. ROEBUCK will not be foremost in the van, deterred by no pre judice, frightened by no panic, from saying and doing what he honestly believes to be most condu ive to the interests of the country. The prolonged insignificant wars into which this country has so often been dragged by the mis management of a few officials have long gone out of favour. The Ashantee affair brought those who encouraged it into great disfavour, and the Brazi lian difficulty, and other entanglements of the kind, have taught our authorities, both civil and military, to be cautious how they involve us in unnecessary quarrels. At the same time, when from any cause hostilities have actually begun, there is no greater mistake than taking half measures. A vacillating and hesit a ti ng pol i cy is cruel both to friend and foe. It w as t es unnecessarily the health and strength of our men, and it encourages the enemy to perseve re i n opposing us, either from ignorance I of our real resources, or from the hope of tiring us out by resistance. This is especially the case when our adversaries are send-savage, like the Maories or ' liv3 in remote and inaccessible d istricts, like the 131looteas. There is great re ason for the general dissatisfaction with respect to the management of the Bhootean war, which should, when once begun, have been a promptly and vigorously pushed t o conclusion. In accordance with the temporising policy so popular with a certain party in these days, no sooner is a blow struck than we proclaim our reluctance to fight, and taking up some position we wait patiently for overtures of peace. But, unfortunately, this readiness to conciliate is often mistaken for reluctance to fight, and Bhooteans and Maories think to tire us out by resistance. the hoalth of our troops is szori.... - ed and awir spi4ti depressed by iilactiozi in 1.144014thY THE SUB, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1865.7 places. 'Many of the troops at the Bhootean Dooars have been suffering severely from sickness, and in one :district three-fourths are said to be in hospital. Men awhile the Bhooteans profess their willingness to treat, and seek to beguile the British authorities into public inaction. The season for active measures is. now at hand. Let our Government then bring the matter to a crisis without delay ; insisting on immediate submission, or extorting it, without prolonging a useless and costly system of sur voillance. Death of Mrs. Moore. " On September 4th, at Sloperton Cottage, Mrs. Moore, widow of the late Thomas Moore, Esq., author of Lalla Rookh,' aged 68." This is an announcement that one of the last roses of a glorious summer has at length disappeared. Few are now left of the brilliant company who adorned the early part of the 19th century, and whose names are famous in our literature. Among these names none is or will be held in more kindly remembrance than that of the lady to whom the poet Moore gave his heart. Moore not only loved her—he was proud of her, and it is delightful to see in his letters and in his diaries with what eagerness he sounded her praises. He writes to his mother in 1813: " You cannot imagine what a sensation Bossy excited at the ball the other night. She was very prettily dressed, and certainly looked very beautiful. I never saw so much admiration excited. It strikes everybody almost that sees her how like the form and expression of her face are to Catalani's !" And so through all his letters and journals he is never tired of referring to her—quoting what she said, telling what she did,describing how she looked, and recording how she was admired. He married her in 1811, and her history is summed up in this one phrase--that she was the delight of his life. She does not appear to occupy a great place in his poetry ; but it is one of the curious traits of many a poet that he is excited to sing less by the real mistress of his heart than by some imaginary heroine or by some beauty that kindles a passing flame. Mrs. Moore was not a Lesbia, nor a Beatrice, nor a Laura, nor a Highland Mary, destined in song to live for ever ; but as much as any of these, if not more, she was the poet's idol. She died az 3 o'clock on the morning of Monday last. She was sensible to the end ; she knew that she was dying ; and she said that she was quite happy. She was the last that remained to us of the Moore family, and now that she has departed we begin to count with some sadness how many links are there left to connect the present generation of letters with the past ? Yr. Moens among the Brigands. Concerning what befell Mr. Moens some particu lars are given in a letter from M. Erdan, the clever Neapolitan correspondent of the Temps, who heard Them from the lips of the released captive : " Mr. Moens, it appears, never heard any mention of Francis 11. He saw very plainly that Manza and his people had taken to brigandage for profit's sake. Their idea, at the outset, was to make a round sum and retire into private life, either in Rome or in Spain. They very cynically avowed themselves greedy of money, and did not even seek to palliate their course by making themselves out victims of injustice. I said to Mr. Moens They are warring against society.' Against purses,' replied that cool and matter-of-fact gentleman. Rifle balls have now be come the more usual termination. Accord ing to Mr. Moens, the brigands feel this, and would be glad to make an end of it. Our Englishman's opinion is that the perspective of the punishment inflicted when they give themselves up is still too alarming. He would advise a sort of half amnesty. By such means he thinks brigandage might be stopped. Such is the opinion of matter-of-fact men. He speaks of his brigands without bitter ness. Upon the whole he has no complaint to make of their treatment of him during the three months he remained in their hands. He speaks of Alanzi, the chief, as a man of ability and decision. He was witness to no amputation of ears. The bandits did not appear to him more cruel than other people. His feet having swelled, Manza placed him in a cavern, guarded by five of his men. He remained there a fortnight, and they sent him everything he wanted. Manutengolismo (system of agents and purveyors of the banditti) was perma . _ _ _ _ nent. All that Mr. Moens required was brought to him next day from the neighbouring town or village. There was only one interruption of five days after the arrest of a number of gentlemen of the town of Campagna who had organised an asso ciation for the carrying out of brigandage on a large scale. During five days after that razzia nothing came. They had to eat some animals of a very in different flavour, among others a sheep that had died on the skirt of the wood. Then the supplies recommenced. Mr. Moens refuses to reveal any thing that might lead to the detection of the manu- engoli. Mr. Moens is by no means poor, and is a photographer only for his private amusement. He has at least 30,000 f. a year. It was the English con sul, Mr. Bonham, who from the very commencement cleverly made him pass for poor, sending some small assistance through the nianutengoli to his poor coun tryman. Mr. Moens had the courage to hold out three months in defence of his fortuue, of which he has given only a sixth, instead of one-half, as at first demanded of him. He has paid, or others have been supposed to pay for him, 30,000 ducats, about 120,0001 r. (i 4,800). The brigands have always been convinced that the consul and the English at Naples paid for him ; the trick has been very well done, and skilful Albion has kept up her reputation. The certainty that, if the worst came to the worst, he was able to pay what was demanded, encouraged Mr. Moens very much ; he affirms that he never for a moment feared for his life ; he was playing a game, that was all. He played to keep 25,0001 r. a year instead of 15,000 fr. The most important part of this gentleman's souvenirs, but perhaps the least re liable by reason of his ironical tendencies, is that which concerns the repression of brigandage. Ac cording to Mr. Aloens, the means employed are very feeble. He says that the Manza band, during the whole time of his detention, was never more than fives miles from the nearest military detachment and might easily have been laid hold of. The patrols, he says, never leave the beaten paths of the forest, and do not beat the wood, and several times, when surrounded by his captors, he saw the soldiers pass ing at a very short distance. In short he criticises the Italian police and troops very unfavourably, but his criticisms do not appear to me very demonstra tive. As to the patrols keeping to the paths and not going in among the trees, it would be desirable to hear military opinion. For my part, at Eboli, in that same district, I have seen the Italian officers and soldiers at work, and my impression is far from resembling that of Mr. Moens. Moreover, I repeat it, the gentleman is ironical, viewing things —even those which are personal to him—as from an upper window. One cannot well draw a conclusion from what he says. Mr. Moens is anxious to repudiate the excess of misplaced honour attributed to him by the papers ; he had never the possibility of escaping, of calling the troops. The attempt would probably have cost him his life. At the moment of his de parture Manza gave him 400 f. for his journey, and a ring as a keepsake, and said, I have let you off 30,000 ducats, but you must not let the other Eng lish suppose they would get off so easily.' " PREPARATIONS OF STRYCHNINE.—Mr. C. J. Cart tar, coroner for West Kent, held an inquest yesterday on the body of Frances Symonds, aged 68, a married woman, who committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of pre pared powder usually sold for killing rats, and known as "Battle's Vermin Killing Powder," the ingredients of which contain a large portion of strychnine. The evidence showed that the deceased, who was addicted to habits of intemperance, left home on Sunday morning last and pur ch ch ased a 3d, pack e t o f the above powder at a neig hbouring emist's, and on returning home mixed it in some liquid and drank it. The chemist at whose shop the poison was supposed to have been purchased said it was generally sold to persons who asked for it without any questions b3ing put, and Dr. Cogan, who had been called to the deceased, said that a 3d. packet of the poison would contain a grain and a half of strychnine, and that the deceased must have suffered excruciating agony, The Coroner said it could never have been the intention of the Legislature that such a compound should not come within the Sale of Poisons " co=rlitteci suicide 'FUG lainuaing undo: temporary derogixout,,, LATEST INTELLIGO'CE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN AND ITALY. BAYONNE, SEPT. 8. Letters received here from Madrid state that a project for the marriage of Prince Armadeus with the Princess Isabella, eldest daughter of the Queen, is seriously spoken of in political circles. Ip is asserted that the Marquis Tagliacarne haa _Ud a special audience of the Queen on this subject. SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 7 (Evening). The Queen gave audience to-day to the Italian Ambassador and the Duke d'Acosta. Prince Amadeus of Savoy dines this-evening with their Majesties. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND ASTRALIAN MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 7. The Syria and Ceylon left here with the above mails at 10 a.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 13th and at Southampton on the 20th inst. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept 7.—Two o'clock.—Though busi ness is not very active, quotations are higher. Threes are at 69fr. 22k0., and Italian Fives at 66fr. 35c. Credit Mobilier show an advance of 6fr. 25c., and Spanish Mobilier of 3fr. 75c. Loin bard Shares continue to draw attention, and have again risen ; their present quotation is 463 fr. 75c., an advance of 7fr. 50c. The principal feature has been the sudden fall on Roman Railway Shares, for which no motive haibeen given. After retrograd ing as low as 200 fr., these shares are now doing at 260 fr. 25c., with a fall of 22fr. 50e. The situation of the Bank of France is good compared with the past week ; it shows an increase in the bullion account of 5,641,323 fr. 70c., having attained 503,716,344 fr. 37c.; whereas the portefeuille shows a diminution of above 52 millions of francs. Three o'clock.—The market has generally continued to improve towards the end, closing with the follow ing quotations : 4i per Cents 96 50 Do. end month 3 per Cents. 69 30 Do. end month 69 32i Credit Mobilier Do. end month Bank Shares 3570 Ditto Threes Roman Mexican Loan 5O 50 Do. Bonds 333 75 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes Rome Debt Deferred Credit Foneier 1325 Italian Loan 66 20 Do. end month 66 45 rAYS. Cash. Acct. Orleans — ... 850 Northern — ... 1090 Lyons and Mediterranean ... 880 Southern — 568 75 Western — 552 50 Eastern — 540 Sardinian. 242 50 Austrian Lombard 458 75 North of Spain .•• 220 Sa ... ... 827 N ragossa _ Ditto to Barcelona — -- ... 145 --- Roman - -- ... 210 -- BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 7. The following is the return of the Bank of France for the week ending to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : DEBTOR. Sept. 7. Aug. 31. fr. c. fr. c, Capital of the Bank.... 182,500,000 182,500,000 Profits in addition to capital (Art. 8, Law, June 9, 1857) 7,044,776 02 7,044,776 02 Reserve of the Bank and its branches 22,105,750 14 22,105,750 14 Reserve in landed pro perty 4,000,000 4,000,000 Notes in circulation ... 849,749,975 916,501,325 Bank notes to order and receipts payable at sight 8,955,167 22 9,564,394 57 Treasury account cur- rent Creditor Current accounts, Paris 189,232,379 48 163,885,138 75 Do. branch banks Dividends payable 1,624,32 1' 75 42 , 456 7 5 Discounts and sundry le interests Rediscounted the last six months 1,427,623 17 1,427,623 17 Surplus of receipts not distributed Sundries Total CREDITOR. Sept. 7. Aug. 31. Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c. Branch banks Commercial bills over due Commercial bills die- counted, not yet due 289,159,977 67 332,560,620 76 Do. branch banks 296,442,672 305,111,833 Advances on deposit of bullion 54,439,066 15 53,115,273 25 1)o. branch banks 12,094,900 11,902,000 Do. on French Public Securities 14,428,100 14,675,700 Do. by branch banks 9,793,300 10,226,000 Do. on railway shares and debentures 1). branch banks 21,522,080 21,078,680 Do. on Credit Foncier Bonds Do. branches Do. to the State (Con vention, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 Government Stock re- 60,000,000 - serve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14 Do. disposable Rentes Immobalisees (Law, June 2, 1 1857) 100,000,000 100,000,000 Hotel and furniture of the Bank and landed property branches 8,434,423 8,426,191 _Expenses of manage ment 1,100,299 83 1,059,373 49 Sundries Total 1,465,540,351 84 1,508,669,616 27 Certified by the Senator Governor of the Bank of France. (Signed) ROIJLAND. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—Yes terday a meeting of this institution was held at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Capt. Sir E. Perrott, Bart., V.P., in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read, a reward of £9 10s. was voted to the crow of the Lowestoft lifeboat in connection with the in stitution, for putting off in reply to signals of distress, and assisting, in conjunction with a steam tug, to save from destruction the brigantine Light of the Harem and her crew of four men. The vessel had struck on Corton Spit during a strong gale of wind and thick weather on the 15th ult. A reward of £4 10s. was also granted to the crew of the lifeboat of the institution at Rosslare, County Wexford, for going off and remaining alongside the barque Provi dence, of London, which was observed in a very dangerous position near the north end of the Blackwah , r Bank during a strong S.E. wind on the 24th ult. It was reported that some of the earlier boats of the institution were, from va ribus causes, requiring to be replaced. In so large a fleet as 150 lifeboats such must necessarily be expected. Reports were read from the inspector and the assistant inspector of lifeboats, on their recent visit to various stations of tho institution on the coasts of Kent, Sussex, and Scotland. It was decided to place a new lifeboat at Rosslare, and to appropriate thereto the contributions, amounting to £3OO, ngii7cbalylinagbtehnsevhooleazt at t on h o i r s under the the th n e ofsamaeint Patrick.‘iber- "Hiber nia," The Suez Canal Company had ordered from Messrs. For restt and Son, the builders of the institution, a lifeboat on its plan, to be stationed at Port Said. It was reported that the Devon and Cornwall Lifeboat Bazaar, held at Teignmouth last month, had realised to the institution upawards of £5OO, and that to Mr. G. P. Rowell, of that town, was chiefly due tho credit of carrying it out to so successful a termination. Payments, amounting to nearly £l,OOO, were ordered to be made on various lifeboat estab lishments, and the proceedings terminated. DOUBLE SUICIDE AT VIENNA.—A Vienna letter in the Union says :—" This city has "experienced a sharp emotion ou hearing of the double suicide of the Pro fessor do Stabenvauch and his wife. This high functionary had abstracted about 50,000 fr. from the principal savings bank of the capital ; not being able to cover the deficit, he had communicated his despair to the burgomaster. The latter then gathered together several friends of the Pro fessor, and several councillors of the commune, and with their assistance found means to raise the money necessary to re-establish the honour of a man generally esteemed. In the meantime, the delinquent had shut himself up in his house in the country along with his wife, and had forbidden the servants to wake him the next morning. At ton o'clock his son arrived with a friend to announce to him that the de wh ad ole ab aff ou ai t r t w en h ass o e u t rs ; tled. Uneasy at finding the door locked, he entered by a w i n d ow i n the b e d room, an d found both his parents ext en d e d lif eless on the b e d. Th e y h a d be en the poison was still on the dressing table. The deceased was Professor in the University of Vienna, and in other establishments, one of the editors of the " 1-641 and volux.es of works olalaaw,The Mains ho enjoyed wooded 20,0001. The Capture of Taschkent, The Invalide Russe contains the following nar rative of the capture of Taschkent in Kokan, a town, containing, according to some estimates, 100,000 inhabitants, and certainly of considerable size. The fact of the capture, and the circumstances which led to it, have already been described : " Taking into consideration that the garrison occupied a vast extent of ground, that their artillery was distributed over a line of 15 versts (10 miles), and that in the place there was a numerous party devoted to us, General Tcher naief formed the resolution to capture the town by assault. Having chosen the point of attack, he decided that the assault should be given on the night of the 26th-27th June. With this view it was arranged that the principal detach ment, under the command of General Tchernaief in person, after breaking up from their camp at eleven o'clock at night, should, at daybreak, deliver the assault at the gate chosen for attack by means of ladders and arbas (a kind of chariot) constructed for the express purpose, and furnished with little flexible ladders for the passage of the ditch. At the same time the detachment of Colonel Kraievsky was to make a demonstration by attacking the town on another side. The principal detachment was preceded by volun teers, commanded by Captain of Cavalry Wulfert, and Sub- Lieutenants Chorokhef and Lapine. The principal detach ment numbered in all seven companies, with two light pieces of artillery, and four pieces of position. The Priest Malof marched at the head, cross in hand. The enemy perceived the approach of the columns of assault when they were 100 paces from the gate. Before they had time to reconnoitre our troops were already on the barbette, and drove the Kokanians out of it with their cannon. Having advanced with 250 men by a street which ran along the wall of the town, Captain Abramof, in spite of the resist ance of the sarbazes who were entrenched behind the gabions, and the fire of four pieces of artillery, carried four barbettes, and proceeding along a distance of 14 kilometres of the wall, gathered on his passage all the pieces of can non abandoned by the enemy. In the town itself Captain Abramof met with an obstinate resistance, and was obliged to carry by assault a number of barricades. Arriving at the citadel he found it already occupied by the troops of Delacroix and Jemtchoujnikof. Although these two detachments had almost immediately followed that of Captain Abramof, they had not the less the whole way encountered and carried barricades, which the enemy erected with extraordinary rapidity. At half past seven in the morning the citadel was occupied. The enemy, driven back to the centre of the town, ceased to skirmish ; nevertheless, our detachment was obliged to evacuate the citadel, for the Kokanians had set fire to the buildings attached to the palace of the Khan, and the fire, spreading with very great celerity, threatened to explode the powder magazines. Then the detachment of Colonel Kraievsky, aided by men from the principal detachment, escaladed the wall with the help of their muskets and their straps. The numerous cavalry of the enemy (5,000 men), pursued by a handful of Cossacks, sowed the road with their standards, and, arriving at the Tchirtchick,flung themselves into the river in order to cross it,the horsemen drowning one another in the crush. The half of the town had been cleared —but, towards evening,the enemy, having concealed them selves in the houses nearest our troops. recommenced the fire upon our line ; barricades reappeared in all the streets and squares ; the resistance became more desperate, and went so far that one or two men, armed with ailbots (a sort of battle-axe), precipitated themselves on an entire company, and succumbed under the bayonets without ask ing quarter. Little detachments sent into the streets met everywhere with an obstinate resistance. Each house had to be carried by assault, and was only evacuated at the point of the bayonet. The resistance was particularly ob stinate in the street conducting from the gate of the town to the principal bazaar, and which was first cleared by the artillery officer Ivanof, and again by Lieutenant Makarof. Thanks to the efforts of the troops, the streets were a second time swept clear, and the fire of artillery continued the whole night. Colonel Kraievsky, despatched next morn ing to gather the cannon of the enemy and blow up the citadel, again encountered a desperate resistance, but com pletely fulfilled his mission. Towards evening all the streets were free, the town surrendered at discretion, and the disarmament of the inhabitants was proceeded with. Our trophies consist of 16 large standards, one of which is Bokharian ; a multitude of flags ; 63 pieces of cannon of different calibre, 48 of which are bronze, and of excellent workmanship, and an immense number of muskets. There were also found 2,000 ponds (70,000 pounds) of powder, and about 10,000 various projectiles. The number of the defenders of the town, according to the most moderate statements, was 30,000 men. We had 3 subaltern officers wounded and 4 bruised ; 25 men killed, 86 wounded, and 24 bruised." ANOTHER LARGE IMPORTATION OF FRENCH GRAPES.—Yesterday afternoon another largo consignment of French grapes, shipped at the port of Havre, and con veyed by steam to Southampton, and thence by rail to the Waterloo Station of the London and South-Western Rail way, have arrived in the metropolis. The consignment consisted of 1,115 baskets, weighing twelve tons, and oc cupying five railway trucks. This large quantity of fruit was consigned to Mr. J. Day, of Spitalfields-market. DOCKYARD Accouns.—A report has been pre pared by the Accountant-General of the Navy, showing the measures which have been adopted since 1859 for the improvement of dockyard accounts. An:account is now annually presented to Parliament stating the expense incurred in the year upon the several ships building, alter ing, and repairing, and the cost of every ship building. There are also presented the balance-sheets of manufactur ing operations in the several warkshops and timber con version accounts. After inquiries instituted by Mr. Stans feld in the autumn of 1863 an annual survey valuation of timber and stores and a continuous record of the receipts and issues were ordered to be made ; and accounts were ordered to be kept on a basis of shipbuilding upon sectional arrangements, to facilitate comparison between the dock yards and the private trade. In the autumn of the following year Mr. Childers continued the inquiries commenced by Mr. Stansfeld, and the result was that a committee was appointed, which has recommended a weekly return of expenditure upon every ship, to enable the Controller of the Navy to exercise a full and prompt supervision over the economy of the various operations in the dock - yards and tie gradual absorption of the Parliamentary grant ; instruc tions for. this purpose are now in operation. The com mittee were to be engaged this autumn in revising all the books and forms in use in the dockyards. The accounts of the expenditure in the home victualling yards have also been subjected to investigation by a committee; and the valuation, expense, and manufacturing accounts of these yards, prepared in the manner which has been approved by the committee, will be laid before Parliament. A com mittee of practical officers has been engaged this year in inquiries, with the view of enabling a comparison to be made of the cost of manufactures in the dockyards with that of productions in private trade, and investigating the difference in the cost of similar produce in the several yards ; and revised instructions for keeping the manufac turing and conversion accounts have been issued. It is intended in future to present to Parliament the three following baiance-sheets :—A plant account, showing the value of land, buildings, and premises, repairs, replace ments, and alterations ; a stock valuation account, giv ing the value of remains of stock of timber and stores on hand, and of receipts and issues in the year, and depreciation or enhancement of value of stock, and a general balance-sheet, or expenditure and production ac count for ships, services, and conversions. Thus will be shown the extent and value of the works executed, and the amount of the expenses with which they should be charged, in accordance with the principles of account observed in the commercial world. EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN THE HOUSE OF COM moNs.—Perhaps the best proof of the extraordinary ferment and excitement of feeling which the Corn law agi tation produced in England, is the incident we are now about to relate. It is necessary to premise that in the January of 1843, Mr. Drummond, Sir Robert Peel's private secretary, was shot dead in the street by a lunatic, who mistook him for the Premier. Peel was deeply wounded at this, for Mr. Drummond was not only his secretary, but his friend, and he was ill and harassed with manifold anxieties. Two hours past midnight of February 17 he got up and said, " Sir, the honourable gentleman (Mr. Cob den) has stated hero very emphatically, what ho has more than once stated at the conferences of the Anti-Corn- Law League, that he holds me individually—(great excite ment)—individually responsible for the distress and suffer ing of the country ; that he holds me personally responsible; but be the consequences of these insinuations what may, never will Ibe influenced by menaces, either in this house or out of this house, to adopt a course which I consider—" (The rest of the sentence was lost in shouts from various parts of the house.) Mr. Cobden rose and said :—" I did not say that I held the right honourable gentleman responsible. (Shouts of Yes, yes ; you did, you did.' Cries of Order,' and ' Chair.' Sir Robert Peel. ' You did.') I have said that I hold tho right honourable gentleman responsible by virtue of his office—(' No no;' much confusion)—as the whole context of what I said was sufficient to explain. (' No, no,' from the Minis terial Benches.)" Sir Robert Peel rose and repeated his assertion, that Cobden had " twice repeated that ho held him individually responsible." At a later period of the debate, Cobden, again essaying an explanation, was hooted down. Probably a more extraordinary trans action never occurred on the floor of the House of Commons. Miss Martineau say s of it— " The Anti-Corn Law-League had not yet had time to win the respect and command the deference which it was soon to enjoy ; but it was known to be organised and led by men of station, character and substance— men of enlarged education, and of that virtuous and decorous conduct which distinguishes the middle clan of England. Yet it was believed— believed by men of education, by men in Parliament, by men in attendance on the Government—that the Anti-Corn--Law League sanctioned assassination, and did not object to carry its aims by means of it. This is perhaps the strongest mani festation of the tributation of the time.—McGilchrist's of Cobckx. The Herring Fishing. (From the Scotsman.) BERWICK.—The fishing here is evidently drawing near a close, and is gradually growing more irregular, and less prolific. Monday's fishing was one of the poorest of the season. Though a good number of the boats had gone to sea on Sunday night, the most of them cams in empty on Monday morning, and even the few that had any fish had not more than one or two baskets each. The highest takes of the best fished boats were only two and three barrels. The fish were of good quality, and sold for 30s. and 31s. a barrel. A good many of the boats did not go to sea on Monday night, but those that did so most returned pretty successful on Tuesday morning. A few as usual came iu empty, but the greater number had fair takes, some of them as many as twenty barrels, and others eight, ten, and fourteen barrels. Prices ruled much the same as on the previous morning, running from 28s. to 30s. a barrel. Wednesday's fishing was again of a partial character. The fish were all of good quality, and sold for 245. to 265. a barrel. FRASERBURGIL—There is a very general disappoint ment in the fishing to-day. Both from the indications of the presence of whales in the bay—a well-understood concomitant, it may be observed, of the presence of herrings—witnessed last night, and also from the com parative success of the few boats that went to sea between Sunday and Monday, hopes were entertained of a very abundant catch. Instead of this, however, the large majority of the boats are clean ; and what herrings have been brought ashore are, as they have been of late, largely mixed with small and spent fish. The average will not exceed two crans, while the highest take is about twelve. The clearnesss of the moonlight, together with the enormous swarms of dogfish, are said to have caused this unsatisfactory result. The prices given by curers continue as formerly—viz., 178. for spent, and 225. to 28s. for full fish. Farmers are giving from 6d. to 10d. per score for dog-fish, according to size.—Sept. 5. Wicii.—The fishing here seems likely to prove as un successful this week as last. The whole fleet proceeded to sea last night, and although more than the half of them made for the land without setting their nets, in conse quence of the prevalence of a strong gale of wind, a sufficient number remained at the fishing-ground to test the probabilities of fish being on the coast. The re suit proved sufficiently discouraging, not a single crap having been landed this morning. Our average, therefore, remains at the low figure of 761 crans for the season ; and although a fow native crews may, with favourable weather, continue to prosecute the fishing for a short time longer, no great addition can be made to the season's catch. This year's fishing, with the exception of two years -1852 and 1857—is the lowest we have had for the last thirty-eight years. The West Highland boats are all preparing for leaving Wick for their respective homes, and the hired men are being paid off to-day, so that the fishing is virtually over for a season. At Lyb ster and Holmsdale all the stranger crews have left, the fishing at both these extensive stations being considerably worse than at Wick. This state of things has had the effect of making curers very stiff to sell their fish at the prices now offering. To-day a large number of buyers were in the field offering a considerable advance, but they could find no sellers. For full crown brands 325. per barrel, and for spents 255., were freely offered, but in every case refused. The quantity for sale is not very consider able ; and, unless a heavy fishing sets in at Peterhead and Fraserburgh, where the business is generally prose cated a week or two longer than on the Caithness coast, a considerable advance upon these prices is expected to bo realised by the holders. Prices in the Continental markets, however, hardly warrant the figures already offered, but the receipt of the news of the premature close of the fish ing at Wick is expected to have the effect of causing an improvement. Upwards of 10,000 barrels have been de spatched from this district within the past week to the Continent, and about 1,000 barrels to Ireland, and a good many vessels are still in the harbour loading. There are now more vessels here than can procure cargoes at pre sent ; and, unless buyers succeed in making purchases, a number of vessels will have to leave in ballast, after wait ing several weeks for herrings.—September 5. The Harvest in Scotland. DENNY.—Since the beginning of the present week, as during the closing days of the last, the weather has been on the whole favourable for harvest operations. Com paratively little now remains to bo reaped, but a consi derable breadth is still in stock. Both autumn and spring sown wheats are a good crop, and the quality of the grain will be pretty fair, while the produce of straw will be fully an average. This remark applies both to dry-field and carse wheats. The anticipation that barley and oats would be deficient in grain and straw has been verified on most of the farms on the lower part of the district. In the higher districts, where the chief cereal grown is oats, the weather for the last few days has been favourable for filling, and where the crop has not been injured by the frost the yield will be pretty fair. Potatoes aro turning out well, and no disease has yet been reported. At the sales which have taken place in the dis trict, they have fetched from 5s to 6s 6d per 100 yards, ac cording to kind and quality. Hay i s selling at from £3los to £3 15s per ton, and in one or two cases as much as £4 has been obtained. Turnips aro giving good promise, the weather having been propitious for their growth. Grass lands afford an excellent and nutritious bite for grazing stock, which are making good progress, and continue to command a high price. KELSO. —Reaping may be said to be finished within a radius of several miles round Kelso, and within the last two or three days a largo quantity of grain has been safely deposited in the farm-yards. In the hilly districts, however, farmers are not so far advanced, and it is to be hoped will not require to let their cut grain remain so long in the fields as those in low and early parts of the county. In some parts of Berwickshire near the coast cutting had just commenced last week, some of the crops being very good, and as yet not damaged by the weather. The recent wet has not done the damage which was at one time anti cipated, and if the weather now keep dry for some days, the great bulk of the grain in this district will be housed in fair order. Symptoms _of disease among potatoes are showing themselves. The SHAKERS.--The New York Times described recently a Sunday morning among the Shakers, a body who take their name from their custom of dancing together in their religious services, shaking and clasping their hands, and singing a monotonous and repeated psalm or song. The sect appears to be a distortion of Puritanism, and an in stance of extremes meeting. It was founded in America by one Ann Leo, who went thither from England towards the close of the last century with ten of her disciples. More interesting" than the peculiarity of their worship is the mode of life of these people. The men and the women, though they dance together on Sundays, live in separate communities, bound to celibacy, and they are stated to be the only class who in America have succeeded in main taining the community principle through a long series of years. Their time is devoted to work. They are thrifty farmers, their barns full, and their hands hard with honest labour. They supply "the world of mankind," as their Phrase is, with excellent butter, fat turkeys, and fine cattle. They have a good repute for honesty, but they are careful to have their full amount of money for money's worth. In the season the women make knick-knacks and ornaments for ladies visiting the country, and take plea sure in amusing the young city people who go to see them. Like their meeting-houses, their dwellings are plain, but neat, and kept with scrupulous cleanliness. Their horses and cattle are in excellent condition, and their fields are industriously tilled. The writer of the article from which these statements are taken says that the men from " well kept," but the women he describes as a haggard set, their faces old and wizened, though in their Sunday wor ship they dance with wonderful agility. On the Sunday of which he speaks, at a meeting-house near Lebanon Springs, there were 50 or 60 women, four-fifths of them over 40 years of age, and at least three-fifths over 50 ; there were a fow younger women "of pale, attenuated, almost lifeless faces ;" their discipline appears to aim at a passionless life. It is stated that they are a declining class. Of course, what ever increase they make is from the world without. They have a number of boys "bound to them," and the disap pointments of life may supply them with a certain number of disciples. They live very plainly, dress in antique Puritan costume, and are useful in their way. IMPORTATION OF DISEASED SHEEP.—At a meeting of the Sanitary Committee of the Hull Board of Health, held on Wednesday afternoon, the Board's cattle inspector reported that he had seized and destroyed several sheep which were suffering from a disease which was entirely new to him. The inspector stated that his attention was drawn to a number of sheep which were being driven through the streets to a slaughter-house. On arriving at their destination he examined them, and found that they were peculiarly affected about the throat. He made a very careful examination of the whole flock, and he found that the throat of each animal was full of lumps about the size of a small nut. As the disease was a new one, the inspector sent for Mr. Lockwood, cattle inspector for her Majesty's Customs at Hull. Mr. Lockwood having examined the sheep, declared they were suffering from cold. The inspec tor was not satisfied that this was so, and on the following day he again went to the slaughter-house. The sheep had in the meantime been slaughtered and dressed. On exam • ining the carcasses he found the liver and lungs of one of them had been attacked by the disease, and the genital organs of another. In the latter case the pustules had broken. The intestines of the sheep were found to be covered with the same kind of lumps. Although the animals had only been slaughtered on the previous day, they had begun to smell most offensively. Under the circumstances the inspectorseized the whole of the carcasses, and had them destroyed. Mr. WMillan, a surgeon and a member of the committee, said that he had paid considerable attention to the cattle disease, and he believed that the rinderpest at tacked sheep as well as horned cattle. The inspector stated that the sheep above alluded to had been brought from B:.inen, and h 3 believed that at the ti 3 they were landed no true . o# disease was outwardly visible. -• . kift , • V , ,T, vg • C DT rt • - " =at at _o ititzlar THE QILLEN'S RETURN. OSTEND, Sept. 7. Queen Victoria arrived here incognito at 9 o'clock this morning. Her Majesty was received at the station by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, and conducted by them to the royal residence, where the Queen lunched with the Belgian royal family. The Queen was respectfully received upon her route through the streets. Queen Victoria left Ostend at eleven o'clock for Antwerp, where her Majesty will immediately em bark for England. Special agents of the railway administration had been sent to Coburg to take charge of the train conveying the Queen to Belgium. WooLwicn, Thursday Evening. The royal train, consisting of seven carriages, which will convey her Majesty and the royal family from Woolwich to Windsor to-morrow, arrived at the Royal Arsenal this afternoon, and also two ad ditional trains for the reception of the luggage, &c., on its being unshipped at the wharf. The short branch railway, just relaid from the Royal Arsenal Pier to the Plumstead Station of the North Kent, has been fully tested with a heavy pilot engine and train by the chief engineer of the South Eastern Railway, and is found to be in a perfectly satisfac tory condition. The police regulations issued this day are strict as regards the non-admission of the public to the Royal Arsenal ; and Captain Gordon, chief military storekeeper, whose duty it is to carry out the arrangements, has been compelled to refuse a large number of applications for tickets, in con quence of the well-known desire of her Majesty that the proceedings should be of a strictly private nature. DISEMBARKATION OF HER MAJESTY. WOOLWICH, This Morning. The disembarkation of her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family took place at the Roya Arsenal Pier this morning at an earlier hour than had been anticipated. The Royal squadron anchored at the Nore last night, and a telegraphic message announcing its arrival at Gravesend at half-past l eignt this morning was recei ve d a t th e R oya Arsenal, when those concerned ia.conducting the details of the disembarkation and the transit of the Royal party to Windsor were immediately on the qui vive. On arriving at the end of the pier her Majesty and the Royal Family, with the exception of Prince Arthur, immediately entered the royal carriages of the train, which was in charge of several officials of the South-Western Railway Company, and after the disposal of personal baggage the train proceeded direct to Windsor. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, left the Royal Arsenal for his residence at Blackheath. It was remarked that her Majesty and the Royal Family appeared in excellent health and spirits. Lord and Lady Skelmersdale have arrived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from Windsor. The Baron de Butcnval has returned to the Clarendon Hotel. The Baroness de Billing has left the Clarendon Hotel for Beckenham, Norfolk. The Duke of Roxburgh and the Marquis of Bowmont have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, from Nor way. The Duchess d'Ursel and the Countess d'Har court have left Brown's Hotel. The Marchioness of Londonderry is still saying at Dieppe. We aro informed that the statement published regarding her ladyship's illness is unfounded. Lady Wiltshire and family have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegal have left Grosvenor-square for Hamstead Marshall, Berks. Viscount Palmerston has accepted an invitation to visit Bath on the 20th inst., on his way back front Bristol. It is understood that he will meet the citizens in the hall and partake of a luncheon. It is the intention of the mayor and civic authorities to propose that the whole city keep holiday on the day of his lordship's visit. The person charged with robbing Mr. Loewen stark, the jeweller, resides at Camberwell, and not in Dove reux-court, Strand, as stated in our police report of the Gth inst. CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS AND VACANCIES.—The Bishop of Lichfield has instituted the Rev. Charles Septimus Cutler, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, formerly curate of North Darley, Derbyshire, to the vicar-- age of Hathersage, near Sheffield, in the room of the Rev- Thomas Stevens, M.A., on the nomination of the duke of Devonshire. The Bishop of Manchester has instituted the Rev. F. Talbot O'Donoghue, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, late vicar of Clevedon, Somerset, to the vicarage of Walsden, Lancashire, on the nomination of the Crown• The Bishop of Ely has instituted the Rev. H. T. Wale, M.A., to the rectory of Folksworth, in the room of the Rev. Henry Freeman, M.A. The Rev. Henry John May, M.A., late a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, has been appointed to the rectory of St. Peter's, Leguan, in the diocese of Guiana. The Rev. Joseph Merriman, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, late second master of St. Andrew's College, Bradfield, Berk shire, has been appointed to the Head Mastership of the Surrey County School. The rectory of Hunton, near Staplehurst, has become vacant by the death of the Rev Robert Moore, M.A., formerly of Christ Church, Oxford, who was collated in 1802. The benefice, which is worth £1,060 a year, is in the gift of the Archbishop of Canter bury. The chaplaincy at Havre will become vacant at the end of next month, in consequence of the appointment of the Rev. W. C. Howell, M.A., to the incumbency of" Holy Trinity Church, Tottenham. The chaplaincy of St. Michael's, Azores, and St. Mark's, Enmore, in the diocese of Guiana, are vacant. The nomination rests with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. IMMIGRANTS AT NEW YORK.—Let one but haunt for a week the Battery, where nearly every surge of the sea heaps the shore with immigrants from every land, if he wishes to know New York, and can bear to look upon the saddest of sights. Sitting close to the water's edge, upon their boxes, many of them alone, some in sullen groups, nearly all the women weeping and nursing chil dren, one would naturally conclude that they had all been wrecked there. (And doubtless they have been, but not by the sea.) Dreary must be that first day when the era= grant feels the great gulf fixed for ever between him and his native land—its cruelties hidden away behind the' troops of familiar scenes and faces, so dear as they vanish —and hovers on the verge of an untried world. Had they passed through the Dark Valley itself—and we once had philosopher in America who believed that death was i 6 westward migration of souls—and sat now at the g ate of Paradise, I fancy that they would be for a time thus dig' consolate. Slo .vly the crowd begins to thin off at the out' skirts ; they kiss and part from each other, and are bi nightfall merged in the great city. What becomes of them ? The filtration is always going on. Those who hav e the most energy pass through New York to be distribute d through the prairies of the West, and not a few will pro' sently own free homesteads in the unsettled territoria l beyond the Mississippi. The most worthless will remain in New York to become familiar with its drinking-08 11 e°' its brothels, and its station-houses. Already when the emigrant ship comes in, the vultures are hovering on the shore, and many a young girl and boy will become thei prey—unless, indeed, the Emigrant Protection Societies lately formed have routed the unholy brood. But Ne lf York yet receives two for every one it sends out to 0 6 West, and is always glutted with ignorant inaeses•-•-• Fraser's Magazine for September. THE PRISONERS AT FORTRESS MoNR 0 E • — ' ll ‘ letter of the 23d ult., from Fortress Monroe, in we New York Herald, says :—" John Mitchel was allowed day to walk out of his casemate for th e fi rs t ti me sine '- sine imprisonment. Notwithstanding his vigorous constitution; his continued close confinement was b eg i nn i ng to erect his general health. He r e li s h e d hi s wa lk ver y 13111° 0 which, like that of Jeff. D av i s an d M r. Cl ay, wa s on ,b, parapet of the fort. In all the while he has been here P a has not been half as affable in his bearing and polite AIL considerate in speech as during this hour of outdoor ev o ; cise. There was no en d t o hi s t a lk an d p l easan t r y. 1351 hig was never more enthusiastic on the ocean than he in t ip eulogies to-day of its grandly surging waves r toopa wind has been high—and no invalid ever took in ve i delicious respirations of the salty air. He is to be 811° 0 to walk every day. The arrangement will be enc il ibe ir neither Jeff. Davis, Clay, nor Mitchel will toke. jor walk at the same hour. The first two are daily nS no its t proving in health, and it is probable that Mitchel soon be as well as over. He is at present r . 7; e a Macaulay's History of England.' All are greatly at the increased reading facilities now afforded thera. e „t Quebec FIRE _ n k T the Q nightli E B E C o f. —t•the dle7sthtruluett„ivviehfiicrhe loacidcuivrras_utie:; large portion of the populous suburb of St. Boch's b . among a mass of small wooden houses, sheds, sta e 7 1 , 0 burnt or rendered unin thereulYbwYL fire n o brigade staying pro at until 79 tenements had been o w n o o o u d gh ril f e o s ; s a u n c d h th a e ta ck s e lt able, and about LQO fa idles.left Imges%