The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-11 00:00:00

THE FENIAN INSURRECTION. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) KILMALLOCK, County Limerick, Friday. Nobody who visited this dreary, poverty-stricken village could suppose that it was once a fortified town, that it possessed a charter, and was the chosen town residence of Irish nobles. The wonder now is that it could ever have been worth the trouble of besieging. But its walls invited many an assailant until Cromwell ordered their destruction. One can hardly assume that the Fenians wished to revive historical traditions when they marched into Kilmallock last Wednesday ; but if any historian thinks it worth while to record the Fenian insurrec tion of 1867, he must not pats over the three hours' siege of the police-station here, and the gallant re pulse of the Fenians by its little garrison. The bar rack, as it is called, is nothing more than a two storied house, built substantially of stone, with a low wall round it, and other houses on either side. It was held at the time of the attack by Head-con stable Adams and 14 men. Here, again, the Fenian plans were divulged beforehand. The head-constable beard on Sunday night that the insurgents were coming, and that he and his men would have to fight for their lives some day during the week, probably Wednesday or Thursday. They were, therefore, prepared, though they hardly knew whether or not to believe the stories. At a few minutes to 6 o'clock on Wednesday morning the three constables who were on the watch heard a noise outside and received no reply to their challenge. Immediately after wards there was a blaze at the front door, oil or " Greek fire" having been poured upon the panel ling. The persons outside made a hasty retreat, and fortunately the woodwork did not ignite, so that this attempt to burn out the garrison failed. The rest of the police force, who had not taken off their clothes, were soon at their posts. In front and rear the house has 26 windows, so that 11 of these were without defenders. The outer wall, too, afforded good cover to the assailants, and after pouring in a volley through all the windows, they got under cover at once. Their number is estimated at 200 at least, and according to some accounts they mustered twice as many. Their commander was a " Colonel" Dunne, who wore a green uni form, and a hat of peculiar shape, with a big white feather. To show that they were on the alert, the police returned the volley, but acting under the orders of the head-constable were careful not to waste powder in the dim light which at first pre vailed unless they saw somebody to aim at. As it grew lighter the firing on both sides became hotter. Two or three of the Fenians who ventured to show themselves were then hit from the barrack, and the rest of them were extremely careful not to present any target to the practised marksmen within. These, on the other hand, sheltered themselves as much as possible at the windows, which were soon shattered by the shot. Their chief object was to prevent the bursting open of the doors, either in front or rear. The Fenians had come provided with crowbars and sledge hammers to force an en trauce, but they had not pluck enough to risk the exposure of their persons iu this way. Some at tempt was made to pull down the house-wall at a point which was commanded by no window, but the wall was so substantially built that they gave up this attempt also. From that moment it became evident that the garrison would be able to hold their own. One great source of anxiety to them was the presence of four of their wives and 13 children. These were placed in as safe positions as could be found, but, each room having its window, there was danger in all. Nor could the children be always kept in the safest place in the room. Some were old enough to be fright ened ; the rest played about during the attack, and " just took their chance." I went through the house to-day, and the numerous bullet-holes in the plaster and shutters proved how serious a risk this was. One man showed me where he stood and fired, his wife and five children crouching down behind him ; and a dozen bullets at least must have passed not many inches above his head. A considerable num ber of the Fenians were townspeople, who knew ex actly the construction of the barrack, and which room might best be fired into. Thus the head-con stable's room was a favourite target, and at the window here, commanding the back door, Mr. Adams planted himself. His most pertinacious enemy was a militia-man, whom he recognised, and who fired from the cover of a house close by, or from the low wall around the barrack. One of this man's bullets smashed the washhand basin, and the head-consta ble made very pretty practice in return, splintering the wall now and then close by the head of his an tagonist. The police fired on an average 18 or 20 rounds per man. One and all behaved splendidly, though some had not been more than six months in the force. There was no flinching and no talk of surrender. " They whistled and joked most of the time," one of the women told me, " and this kept us up too." The fathers now and then would go to see that their wives and little ones were unharmed ; now and then, too, mothers could not be prevented from running into danger, that they might know their husbands were not struck down. Only one policeman was hit by a musket ball, and the wound was a mere graze. Some three hours passed in this way, and brought no help. None of the townspeople seemed to have sent for any. Many, indeed, as I have said, were in the Fenian ranks, and the rest were too timid to venture on doing anything for the relief of the garrison. Meanwhile a mounted policeman, bring ing despatches from Brough, had been captured by the Fenians. A pike was put in his hand and he was forced to go towards the barrack to aid in the attack under threatspf being shot if he refused. But the policeman, of course, did not feel bound to ex pose himself to fire any more than his captors, and found means to escape afterwards. Meanwhile, the Fenian Colonel, finding the attack languish, ex horted his men to " go in," he himself smoking a short pipe comfortably all the time behind a wall where he was perfectly safe. He also wrote de spatches, using the step of a jaunting car for a desk. These missives, which are supposed to have con tained demands for reinforcements, were sent into the country by messengers mounted on horses taken from the neighbouring farmers or gentry, the policeman's horse being, of course, pressed into the service. Dunne also found time to shoot Mr. Bourne, the manager of the Union Bank. He called at this gentleman's private residence and demanded a re volver. Mr. Bourne refused, saying that he should want it for the defence of the bank. He was imme diately shot down by the Fenian colonel, and now lies in a very critical state. Mr. Bourne's revolver was afterwards found upon one of the prisoners taken. About 9 o'clock the garrison heard firing at the end of the street, and knew that relief was at hand. It reached them in this wise :—Sub-inspec tor Milling happened to be coming to Kilmallock with three policemen in the mail car from Kilfillane. At a short distance from the town he heard firing, and was told that an attack was being made upon the barrack. He at once ordered the driver of the mail cart to turn back to a police station about six miles off and returned with ten men. It was now about 9 o'clock, and the Kilmallock constabulary gallantly held their own. The sub-inspector, with his small party, took the insurgents in flank and fired a volley upon them before they were aware that any new foe was nigh. At the Barrio time, the new comers cheered lustily to give noti ce to their com rades in the barrack ; and the head -constabl e there at once ordered the door to be thrown open, and j.‘ining Milling's party, dashed into the road i n pur suit of the retiring Fenians. For some little time longer the two bodies skirmished in the street, and then the insurgents broke and ran in disorder, pur sued for some distance by the police. It was in the street that young Cleary, the medical student, was shot by the constabulary. He had been attending the wounded. Of the two insurgents whose dead bodies were found one was a shoemaker of Rockhill; the other man is not yet recognised. The second in command of the insurgents, Patrick IValsh, was captured. He had received a flesh wound in the thigh. In all about 30 prisoners were made, of whom several were slightly wounded. Other wounded or dead men are supposed to have been removed to the houses of Fenian sympathisers, so that the total casualties will probably never be known with accu racy. The trophies of the police were 40 pikes, some with handles 12 and 14 ft. long,lB guns, two pistols, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1867 two swords, some daggers, a tin can filled with what is called " Greek fire," but looks very much like paraf fin oil, 12 crowbars and pickaxes, a couple of sledge hammers, tin canisters containing bullets and percus sion-caps, powder flasks, ball cartridges, and several yards of the cord-fuse which is used in blasting, and is supposed to have been intended for use in con .. nection with the Greek fire. There was a railway rug which the Fenian commander had not disdained to bring into action, and perhaps in such weather as this he would give a good deal more for his rug than for the sword which, in the hurry of his departure, this terrible chieftain also forgot to remove. It is a Tower sword, and the handle bears the crown and cipher " V.R." Inside the leather scabbard of the other I noticed, written in ink, the words " John F. New, West Middlesex Volunteers, F company." This weapon belonged to Walsh, and was of the same make as that worn by Dunne. Of the guns four are double-barrelled, and the muzzles of two have been shot through by bullets, which were, no doubt, alined from the barrack window at the only mark which the police could see. Both Dunne and Walsh are Irish Americans. The former is a native of Charleville, and was ar rested a year ago, but was released on promising to leave the country. He is supposed to have served as a captain in the American army. Head-constable Adams, who maintained so stout and skilful a de fence, has been 25 years in the force. His conduct and that of the whole party, garrison and reinforce ment, cannot be too highly spoken of. TIPPERARY, Saturday. Ever since the outbreak there have been rumours in this town of an impending attack from the Fe nians, and to-day I find the same apprehensions. I am afraid it is no exaggeration to say that with the greater number of the inhabitants hope is stronger than apprehension. Tipperary is a name that does not carry with it very pleasant associations, and the population of this town is supposed to be greatly disaffected. The streets are clean, the houses better built than those of inland towns usually are in Ire land, and the shops are of such pretensions as show the place to be the centre of an agricultural district of some importance and wealth. In fact, the land near here is the most fertile in the whole country— " The Golden. Vale," it is called—and as a class the farmers are well to do, and the peasantry better lodged and paid than in other counties. A low range of hills rises at some little distance from the town, and towering above these is the well-known Galtee range, the crests of the mountains now whitened with a thin covering of snow. From the unfinished Court-house, now occupied by troops, all eyes were directed yesterday afternoon to the far mountain range, where the rebels are believed to be in force, and at times have been visible. The highest point of this range, Galtymore, is over 3,000 ft. above the sea level, and is only overtopped by three other mountains in the South of Ireland. On its bold, rugged shoulder many persons were able yesterday to make out a strong force of men moving towards the loftiest peak, where it is assumed that some sort of Fenian stronghold exists. As the sun now and then lit up the mountain gorges I saw clearly the same dark objects amid the snow ; but whether they moved, or whether they were trees or mere patches or gorse, I cannot profess to say. The wild, wintry weather that now prevails, and the difficulties of maintaining a large body of men for any time on the bleak mountain side, incline one to doubt whether the Fenians can remain there in any numbers. If so, cold and hunger must soon drive them into the plains ; but, although cold and hunger may make men desperate, the Fenians in Tipperary must differ much from their brethren in other parts if they venture to attack a town garrisoned as this now is by infantry, horse artillery, and cavalry, strengthened this morning by new arrivals from the Curragb. The Fenians of this party were no doubt in con siderable force, and had prepared to do great things; but here also, as everywhere else, the promise was great and the performance miserable. As in Dublin county and other places, the rising b?gan on Tues day night. Detachments of the 31st Regiment, under the command of Major Lind, were at the time sta tioned here, and as information was given of an ad vance upon the town a reconnoitring party was pushed forward in the direction of Croughill, under the command of Lieutenant Wallrou. Mr. (1 , ? Gernon, the resident magistrate, knowing the roads, accompanied the party, and while SOlll3 yards in advance came upon a Fenian sentinel. As this man refused to surrender, the magistrate seized him, but several armed men ran to his aid, and in the scuffle all escaped. Several blows were aimed at Mr. de Gernon, who drew his revolver ani fired three shots ; the patrol also fired at the party, who thereupon took to their heels, leaving about a dozen pikes behind them. As a pursuit was not thought advisable no prisoners were taken, nor could it be seen whether any of the shots fired took effect. Early on Wednesday morning several men were arrested. Some of them were making their way back into the town. (The man was found lying helplessly drunk in the fields, with his pike close beside him, and was carried ingloriously to gaol upon a stretcher. During Wednesday informa- tion was received that the Fenians had fixed their camp in an old Danish fort at Ballyhurst, about two miles from Tipperary. The approach to this fort is by a stiff ascent over a ploughed field, and at the top of the hill a circular embankment some 15 feet high remains in fair preservation, and at the foot a ditch. Some stunted trees within the hallowed space and on the bank afford capital shelter, and a body of determined men might have held this stronghold against a considerable force. A detach ment of the 31st Regiment and a troop of Carabi neers marched out from Tipperary to dislodge the insurgents, who were seen in force on the crest of the hill. Major Lind, who was in command, brought his men forward at the double, and they charged up the hill with fixed bayonets. I need not say that the Fenians did not wait to receive the attack, but, after firing two or three ineffectual shots, fled long before the troops mounted the summit. The leader was mounted on a horse which had been ' stolen by the party for his use from a gentleman in the neighbourhood but this man, not being much in the habit of riding across country, came to grief at his first bank and was taken prisoner. He gave his name as Burke, and upon his person was found a map of the country. One of the insurgents, a farm labourer, named Russell, was found hiding in a ditch, and tried to stab with his pike a soldier, who at once shot him through the shoulder. The man is since dead. The Carabineers and infantry followed two or three miles in pursuit, and captured 17 prisoners, some of whom were wounded ; but, as the Fenians flung their arms away, were fleet of foot, and had a considerable start, the main body got away. Inside the fort about sixty pikes were found, with loose powder, bullets, and percus sion caps, with a commissariat of cold boiled potatoes, white bread, oaten cakes, and milk. Along the line of flight sixty pikes and four guns were picked up. One of the latter is a rifle which was stolen from a sergeant of the 64th Regi ment during the last Tipperary election. And so ended the first and last encounter of Fenians and soldiers around Tipperary. Kilteelly, a small village about 12 miles west of the Junction here, was occupied by about 150 or 200 Fenians on Thursday. They took posession of the police- barrack there, which had been evacuated by the constabulary, and demanded arms and am munition from the well-disposed inhabitants and gentry. These were generally given up without re sistance, but a sturdy old farmer named Gearing, when thus summoned, refused point blank, and pre pared to defend himself. The insurgents battered at the door with a sledge-hammer ; and Mr. Gearing replied by firing through the door at the people out side. His wife, however, who was dreadfully alarmed, struck the gun upwards, and the contents passed through the panel above the heads of the Fenians. These men broke his windows, and pounded at the door till it was nearly off the hinges. Then ; a parley took place, the gun was handed out to the mob, and they were satisfied to retire without ac tually effecting an entrance. This took place before daybreak on Thursday morning. Kilteelly is five or six miles from any railway station. Some time elapsed, therefore, before any alarm was given. Still, if the mass of the inhabitants had not sympathised with the insurgents, troops would have been sum moned from here or from Limerick in time to inter cept them. As it was, the Fenians ate, drank, and made merry with their friends ; and the whisky flowed in such plenty that some of the men got exceedingly drunk, and lay about the street for some hours in a helpless state. Meanwhile, others were occupied in searching for arms, and one party impressed into the Fenian service several young men of the place, much against their will. This forced levy has prevailed largely during this rising, chiefly among the peasantry, who are much less disaffected than the townspeople, or at all events, are more timid and disinclined to commit themselves. In more than one case men have been shot down by the Fenian leaders for refusing to join their ranks. By examples like this, and by threats of vengeance, many men have been taken away from their homes, and the people you meet are not inclined to talk much about the Fenian doings. The people at Kilteelly would give little information, and said as little as they could possibly help about their visitors. It appeared, however, that these men preserved some attempts at discipline, and paid for all that they ate and drank, so that they were probably welcome. They were badly armed, and were extremely anxious to procure guns and re volvers. They left the village at about seven in the evening, moving towards the Galtee mountains, and were followed for some distance by women be wailing, with the demonstrative grief common to their class in Ireland, the sons, brothers, or hus bands who had been forced into the service of the " Irish Republican army." Yesterday morning a detachment of the 74th Regiment from Limerick and a small force of the 31st Regiment and the 4th Dragoon Guards stationed at Limerick Junc tion and Tipperary marched to Kilteelly, but of course were too late to be of serviee, except by re assuring the well-disposed inhabitants. The party of Fenians who performed this exploit are supposed to be among those who were seen on Galtymore mountain yesterday. LIMERICK JUNCTION, Sunday Evening. A movable column, under the command of Colonel M'Neill, 48th Regiment, left Tipperary this morning for the Galtee mountains where bodies of Fenians are believed to have taken refuge. Around Mallow, on Friday night, several farm houses and other residences were entered by the insurgents, who took away arms, but committed no other outrages. _ Troops were sent yesterday from Mallow junction to Mil'street, county Cork, where an attack was expected last night ; the Fenians, however, did not appear. Troops have passed through Limerick junction to-day from the Curragh, en route for Ennis and Clare. Three milesmen employed upon the railway here were arrested yesterday for having joined the in surgents. They say that they were forced into the Fenian ranks. Miscellaneous French News. --0- - (From Correspondents of Anglo-American Times.) PARIS, March 7. The weather really deserves mention this week, !or sunshine has enlivened Paris for some days past, and though quite cold, the Boulevards have been crowded with promenaders. The week has also been marked by the procession of the Bceuf Gras ; which was a novel and interesting spectacle to many Americans who never witnessed any thing of the kind before. Tuesday closed the Carnival in Paris ; the streets were thronged with persons in costumes of all descriptions ; men dressed in the habiliments of the " fairer sex," and many a short coat and blouse pantaloons enclosed the pretty figure of some petite demoiselle. The Americans have greatly enjoyed the past weeks of festivities ; and now that all gaieties are thrown aside till after Lent, many will leave for tours through Italy and Spain. In the American circles this week there is no news of interest, and after the festivities of the past few weeks everything now seems dull. Mrs. Colonel Norton has had a severe attack of illness, but hopes are now entertained among her numerous friends of her rapid recovery. It is s:C.I that by the 10th of this month all goods that are intended to be exhibited hi the Ex position must bc received in their designated places, or they will be• refused entrance. This official order will no doubt be extended to a later date; as there are yet many goods to arrive. The works of the Exposition buildings are progressing rapidly, but slight hopes are now felt that it will be completed by the Ist of April, though the persons having the affair in charge are using their utmost endeavours to insure its completion by that date. The little ship Red, lVhitc, and Blue is not to be shown in the Exposition building, but in the Pompien Palace, in Avenue Montaigne, for merly the property of Prince Napoleon. Judgment was given on Thursday in the case of M. Emile de Girardin, prosecuted on account of his recent article in the Liberte. The Court allowed the defendant the benefit of extenuating circum stances, and condemned him , to a fine of 5,000 f. The printer, M. Serriere, was condemned to pay a fine of 100 f. Some people think it is a very agreeable and easy task to be a fashion writer, to attend all the Court balls, parties, and banquets, and look at all the new clothes that are invented before any one puts them on. Superficial observers do not know that a fashion writer has a great deal to go through in private life, and that the pleasure one certainly ex periences on beholding pretty girls tastefully and elegantly attired is deafly bought in the course of every-day existence. Ladies who read fashion letters, and gentlemen too (for while they are pretending to be deep in politics they are often running over the next column all about crinolines), have no idea of the annoyances a fashion oracle is exposed to. The following are only a few, but still they convey an idea of the rest : In the first place, one's sleep is disturbed by the ringing of bells at an hour when none but chiffon niers and dust-carts ought to be allowed in the public streets. These early visitors, intent on way laying the doomed writer, take up their station in her hall, and bribe her servants to carry in a chignon or pots of pomatum on the neatly-laid breakfast tray. Now, hair oil and head grease of any description, however nicely they may be perfumed, are notprecisely what people order for sharpening a morning appe tite. The things have to be examined, however, as suffering humanity must wear chignons, and it is a duty to recommend what is really deserving. Then letters, prospectuses, and invitations come in by the basketful. All must be answered as at tended to. At about 10 carriages draw up con- taining ladies who are in want of advice, which one feels will never be followed, for the simple reason that it is asked for. 1 have observed that when a young beauty is in a tremendous hurry to know what she is to wear, and on being told presses one's hand with overflowing gratitude, she is sure to change her mind before she has got to the end of the street, and comes out in blue if she was advised to wear mauve. Women do not believe in women ; they trust in man's taste, and man— who cannot invent anything more becoming for his own wear than black cod tails behind and waistcoats without any buttons in front—pretends to find fault with us for treating our skirts as those lovers do daisies, who, on throwing petals to the winds as they tear them off, repo.at—" A little, very much, not at all." We may love crinoline a little if we have not yet acquired the habit of walking without one ; we may lore it very much if we are so destitute as to have nothing else to build on ; we may love it not at all if we can get through this world without it; but these are affairs of our own on which woman should make man hold his peace. These are the grave considerations which absorb a fashion writer by day, but at might her real troubles begin. She must give an account of every dress worn by " her friends," hear all the new songs, record all the bon mots among which je ne le de mande is almost as witty as " Lambert, eh ! Lam bert !" She must drink sugar and water in one salon, sirop and water in another, ice and water in a third. Aquariums are fashionable in more senses than one. She must heat —" Ah !si j'avais des ado," without any idea of flying away herself ; or if any of the old masters—Beethoven, Mozart, or Haydn—are preferred, she is doomed to see them sacrificed to the graces. But then, again, salons there are where the classics are sacrificed without any grace at all. Some of the worst inflictions are balls to which some three score people are invited, and while round the middle of a room about as spacious as three silk handkerchiefs sewn together. In this country of no bodies and no sleeves, men must know what torture can be endured from pointed elbows and angular shoulders. Fanraps are nothing to it, and spirit-rapping is scarcely less startling. When sleep gently falls on the eyelids of some, the real work begins for tin conscientious fashion writer. Then it is she produces those epistles which are to come out iu print and enlighten forthcoming ages on the ways and customs of her contemporaries. If Napoleon felt awed at the idea of forty centuries looking down on him from the top of the Egyptian pyramids, what feelings must a weak woman experience at the idea of the per plexing mystification which forty generations will be entangled in on computing the length of our trains. In the silence of night she therefore mixes satire, morality, and economy with her,ribbons and shreds ; and this is certainly one of her most arduous under takings, but posterity must be relieved in some way or other. The new colours I promised in my last are called " Isabelle," a kind of fawn ; " cornaline," which is very lovely on poplins ; and poult de sole, " moon light," with a dreamy haze on a silvery surface of light mysterious grey ; " grenade," which is a lovely bright glow, all sunny dreamland ; and the freshest sea-greens that ever mermaid 19,thed in, under twinkling evening stars. There are tulles worked with moss rosebuds, all coming down in showers on budding beauties, and broches for next summer in reserve on Bilk muslin. The spring textures are nearly all chine ; but I may not anticipate, or I shall be accused of spoiling the blanket and fur trade. As long as there is a chance of selling a yard of flannel I will give freezing humanity • fair play. I can even do more, by de scribing Mme. Rimsky-Korsakoff's buiade costume in my next. The Prince de Korsakoff is the Em peror of Russia's grand master of ceremonies ; if that is not freezing and chilly enough for the blanket trade about the middle of March, why I can only say that Timon of Athens showed less ingratitude to hi. 3 fellow-creatures. GENEVA, March 2. The cold which made its appearance in Paris yesterday proved more and more intense as the sun went down, and the cars swept out into the open country. It was a relief after being shut within walls, however elegant, for so long a time, to gain free range for the eye, and to obtain ocular evidence that the stars do shine in France. To be sure, one may sometimes catch sight of them in the capital, but even on those rare occasions when they are visible it can be only by glimpses, and the very skies s.3ein cut up into streets and lanes, or laid out in Boulevards and squares. On leaving the city, however, thanks to the general flatness of the French territory, and the clearness of the night, a wide expanse of heaven was open to us, and on one side we could see the bear, as it is classical to call it, (though the Yankee name of " dipper" is so much more descriptive,) slowly sweeping round the pole ; while on the other " great Orion " appeared, strid ing, as it were, through the clear fields of upper air, a starry giant. Whether such references are inte resting to the reader now, the traveller was fortunate to whom the sight could be interesting then, for it was the only means of beguiling long periods of sleepless weariness and of chill, which no clothing would keep out, and no sustenance or beverage expel. _ . The passengers, in self-defence, patronised liberally the well-appointed buffets, which are wise enough to keep open in the night, and soup, meats, coffee, wine, and some stronger stimulants rapidly disap peared ; but probably most were heartily glad when daylight returned, and the cold became somewhat less intense. Then we found ourselves in a more broken country, where were rough rocks curtained and fringed with ice, and dry sandy fields very full of short sticks, which peasants were carefully trim ming, an 1 which will by and by be bright with the green leaves and ruddy clusters of the grape. The spots now look as if nothing could ever grow there. Then came the passage of the long tunnel under the Jura, and soon we were in Geneva. But what a change since the early autumn ! Nothing except the wind appeared active. The omnibuses at the station could scarcely find a passenger ; the cabs seemed to have laid aside all thought of being present ; and the very porters and coachmen had become tranquilly p o lit e i n their utter despair of prizes worth clustering for. The lake was in a state of wildest commotion, its deep blue surface flecked with foam as far as the eye could see, and the waves dashing in clouds of spray across the breakwater. Many of the hotels and cafés have closed the doors which open on the lake, and submit to the comfortable humiliation of a back entrance. If any one should now Quai prob a bly no v i o l en t presume to promenade on the little island in front would ofthebe taken with him, but he would be thought of in connection with a retreat in the environs of the town, which is called Maison des Foux. The Hotel de la Couronne, which all the guide-books declare to be quiet, along with its other excellencies, is eminently so at pre sent, as far as human excitement is concerned, agreeing in this with all its confreres, which are contented in receiving little because at present they expect nothing. Otherwise we are anything but quiet, for the whole establishment is in a state of siege ; and, as I look out from my window upon the Lake, and listen to the wind crashing and shrieking around the casement, I can only think of a wild night on the summit of Mount Washington, or of wakeful hours in a New England home, where the March winds sing the same stormy melody. Yet in frigid, unrelenting fury, I think this exceeds anything that even America can produce. This mountain wind is here a not unfrequent guest, and is naturalised under the name of Bise ; but the residents say they have had scarce anything so severe through the whole winter, and that of late, until within a day or two, the weather has been fine. They congratulate themselves on the beneficial effects of the present state of.things, upon the atmosphere and the public health ; and cer tainly, if such a draft could be forced along the most fetid streets of the most neglected city, it could scarce leave a cubic inch of any noxious gas. It is perhaps needless to say that the inclemency of the weather does not keep people from the cafes. In fact, it would rather seem as if it shut thorn up there. You seldom see any one entering or leaving, but open the door, and there is a solemn crowd reading, talking in low tones, playing chess or billiards, sipping coffee, beer, &c., or tranquilly smoking, while the waiters are the only persons who seem to be in any haste. _ . . March 4 —One reason why the weather has be come so favourite a subject of conversation is pro bably its instability. As the exciting changes of life are fortunately so few, it is pleasant to have some thing to speak of which seldom continues so fixed as to become monotonous. Certainly one who writes on this topic can seldom write long in the same vein. During Saturday ni g ht th e wind went down, and the temperature h as s i nce been just pleasmtly low. "Clear placid Lema n " h a s regained its wonted calm. There is more movement in the streets, and more cheerfulness in the faces of the people since the Rise has ceased its attentions. Services are maintained here throughout the year in the pleasant English Church, and if all arc alike what it was my privilege to attend, the English speaking residents have reason to profit by them. In the afternoon the Temple Neuf, where M. Conlin was to preach, was so crowded that many persons were obliged to go away, all the standing room to the very doors being occupied. A larger crowd, as may be supposed, attended an open-air masquerade, where equestrians ap peared in various costumes of olden time, and a number of carriages were filled with ridiculous in ventions of the present. Ethiopians of course were largely personated, and one fellow made himself prominent by an immense pug-nose, which he wore so naturally that I could not rid myself of the im- pression that it really belonged to his face, in spite of a toy windmill which revolved at the end. The procession passed through the principal streets, a number of collectors bearing on either side cloth tunnels elevated on extremely long poles, and connected by a cloth tube or hose, as it might be termed, with a money - box slung at the back of the bearer. Copper and sil ver descended pretty freely into these re ceptacles. The collection was said to be for the poor, a worthy object surely, though one won ders where the poor are found in this thrifty town ; but surely such means of forwarding the object would be better employed on another day, for it needed but a glance at the performers and atten dant crowd to see that the immediate effect was not in the slightest degree religious. The collection of the last year, which was obtained in the same way, though not on a Sunday, amounted, lam told, to 25,000 francs, certainly a handsome sum for a town of less than 50,000 inhabitants. This afternoon I had the satisfaction of inspec ting the watch manufactory of Messrs. Patek, Phillippe, and Co., who- perform in their own establishment all the work, which is done upon their watches, preparing the metals, and making even the tools employed from the very first. It is wonderful that the human hand and eye can attain such exactness as to shape by the dozen delicate wheels which a breath would blow away like feathers, and yet so perfect that any one taken at random will at once fit any watch of its own grade. The manufacturers seem well acquainted with the American works at Waltham (Mass.), and are now in treaty with the proprietors for a new patent. They consider that they have an advantage here in using no steam, which they deem too violent for the delicacy of the work, a point which results must of course determine. They are preparing some fine specimens for the Paris Exhibition, and among various novelties have a watch, about the size and shape of a walnut, to be fastened to a bracelet or a riding-whip, or worn in any eccentric way. They have also some beautiful specimens of those little " singing birds " which jump out at a touch, warble their song, and then fold themselves up and disappear. The song, they say, is an exact imitation of that of the lark. Yesterday increased largely the number at our table d'hote, which seems to be as well maintained in this dull season as it could be in the height of summer, as is the case with all the other appoint ments of this pleasant house. A. bridal party are now dancing to merry music in the marble-floored hall, tastefully decorated for the occasion ; and Monday night presents a striking contrast to the stillness and chill of Saturday noon. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TWENTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PENN SYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY. The following are extracts from the report issued to the stockholders of this line, dated Philadelphia, Feb. 19, 1867 : The shareholders will perceive by comparing with previous reports that, in addition to the pay ment of dividends upon your original investment, equal to 46 per cent. above legal interest, the cost of your road from Philadelphia to Columbia has been reduced $900,000, and from Harrisburg to Pittsburg $6,426,855 from the surplus profits of the company ; and the equipment of the line, which has cost $10,603,559 55, is now represented at $3,371,214 93. 'The sinking fund, which cost $1,996,367 68, it is believed is ample, with its accruing income, to take up at maturity the debt of the Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad Company ($760,000), the second mortgage bonds of this company, and still leave in it all the stocks that it is important that this company should retain for the security of its traffic. This conser vative policy has been pursued in view of the ad ventitious character of the traffic of the line during the past five years, and for the purpose of giving to the company a financial strength which will render the continuance of its dividends certain, in dependent of the action or policy of rival lines. The company has been placed in this strong posi tion, while it has, at the same time, to a larger ex tent than any other corporation of the kind, pro moted the development of the interior of the commonwealth by aiding the completion and ex tension of other railroads where private capital would not incur the risks of such investments. The Pennsylvania Railroad was commenced under the sanguine hope that it could be completed and equipped without incurring a debt. The efforts of the company in this direction, in view of thegreat abuse that bad attended the financial operations of the earlier corporations of this State, were emi nently wise and worthy of an earnest effort to carry them into effect. But after some years of persistent labour it became evident that the enterprise was too great for the local capital of this city without sub mitting to a delay in its completion, which neither the commercial prosperity of Philadelphia, nor the interest of the shareholders of the company would justify. This policy was therefore abandoned for one which limited the mortgage indebtedness of the company to its capital stock. At the commencement of its work, the views of the company extended only to the construction of a railway between Harrisburgh and Pittsburgh. But in operating such a line, in connection with the un certain and frequently adverse management of the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad, under the State authorities, it became evident that it must fail to meetthejust expectations of its projectors, unless an independent connection could be made with its commercial depot, or a lease or purchase of the existing lines effected. After many abortive efforts this object was accomplished by a lease of the Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad, and the pur chase of the State improvements at a high price, but upon a satisfactory credit. The great point, however, of securing harmonious action throughout the line, from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, was accomplished, which at once imparted new life and vigour to the enterprise, and insured its prosperity. It was early foreseen that a trunk line, intended to accommodate the traffic between the East and West, would fail in its object if wholly dependent upon the uncertain navigation of the Ohio River as a feeder. The earlier commencement of the other trunk lines bad already diverted the routes of the railroads in progress from the commercial centres of the West towards the East to their works. To overcome this disadvantage, it became essential that other lines connecting your road with these trade centres of the West should be commenced, and, to effect this, direct and efficient aid by this company towards their construction was necessary. So fully impressed were the shareholders of this companyat the time, of the importance of this move ment that in voting such aid they exceeded the views of the directors. The three principal lines selected for such aid were one to Cincinnati, a second to the centre of Ohio, at Columbus, and a third towards Chicago. The connection with Cincinnati via Marietta was adopted, and failed from the inadequate means pro vided to construct a line over what proved to be an unexpectedly rugged country. The line to Chicago" was only saved as an investment, after the failure of the credit of that company, by much labour and large additional outlays by this company to secure its completion. These efforts were crowned with entire success, and the enterprise, both financially and as a feeder of your main line, has met our most sanguine expectations. Thn line to Columbus—which also afforded au equally good connection with Cincinnati as that via Marietta, though leaving a large district of country tributary to another railway, after long delays, growing mainly out of a failure to procure adequate legislation in Virginia, has recently been brought into efficient use„ and promises satisfactory results. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will own as a preferred shareholder more than half of the capi tal stock of this Rue. The Marietta line, which had enlisted the warmest support from tKe shareholders and the merchants of this city, of e.ther of the lines mentioned, became so hopelessly involved that the funds advanced by this company, for the construction of that part of the road between Marietta and Wheeling were taken without .our assent, to meet its debts incurred upon the liner west of that point. In consequence of this misapplication of the means furnished by this company, and the immense sums that would have been absorbed in carrying out the original plan, it was not deemed prudent to make any attempt to save the amount invested in the enterprise, under your instructions. This amount was accordingly charged to profit and loss, and its stock no longer appears among your assets. The interest of the company in the Chicago line has nearly all been disposed of, at a profit to this company fully equal to its loss upon the Marietta line. But for the timely aid afforded by this com pany it would have proved, as an investment, nearly as unproductive. The shareholders will perceive, from this resume of the operations of the company, the extent of means required, and the labour and responsibility incurred to save the original investments made under your instructions, to build up lines to con nect yours with the trade centres of the West— expenditures that were necessary to the success of your own work, but which a few years earlier commencement of it would have rendered unneces sary, as the tendency of the Western lines would probably then have been towards Pittsburgh. We have thus presented to you the extent and the causes for the unusually heavy expenditures made by this company on account of its tributaries. Their magnitude has made it necessary, not only to protect the investments made in them, but also to secure the control of other lines important to their success. This policy has eventuated in a system which includes the Philadelphia and Erie and Northern Ceatral Railroads, by which the com pany's cars find their way over continuous and un broken lines, under one control, from Columbr.,s, Erie, and Pittsburgh, to Philadelphia and Bal timore. • The responsibilities assumed by this company, through the endorsement of the bonds of other railroad corporations, are confined to the first mortgages of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, amounting to five millions of dollars, the Western Pennsylvania Railroad Company for eight hundred thousand dollars, and the Connecting Railway Company for one million of dollars. In the two last-named companies the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is also the owner of nearly all their share capital, and upon the first it has a lease for 999 years. The directore have given to the subject of esta blishing a line of steahLships between this port and Europe, committed to them at your last annual meeting, all the consideration which its importance required ; but they have not yet arrived at a satis factory conclusion as to the best means of effecting this desirable object. Proposals have been asked until the Ist of May next, by public advertisement, of those engaged in this business to establish such a line, under concessions, and a subsidy to be paid by this company during the continuance of the contract. The bonds of these railroad companies, with the exception of $1,200,000 of those of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company, were endorsed after their purchase by this company, and were so en domed to secure a better market price for this com pany when sold by it. The propriety of selling the bonds of this line aided by this company, either with or without its endorsement, is questionable, inasmuch as better results can be obtained by the use of the direct credit of the company. Hitherto, however, there has been no alternative, as the powers of the com pany have been too circumscribed to act upon such a policy. The earnings and expenses of the Pennsylvania' Railroad, and the roads worked by it, except the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, were for 1866 as follows : EARNINGS. From Passengers, Ist class 53,245,800 06 7 , Emigrants 3,385,521 31 „ United States Troops 560,945 44 11 1/ 11 Mails B 9, 730 00 - „ Express matter „ General freights 11,709,293 59 „ Miscellaneous sources 471,023 28 $16,583,882 84 RECAPITULATION. Gross Earnings Total ordinary expenses ... $10,616,362 17 " extraordinary " con sisting of additional se cond track and sidings, additional locomotives, car , Sze 12,790,909 27 Leaving a balance of 53,792,973 57 The passenger travel has fallen off during the year in sympathy with that of nearly all of the other railways of the country. To this general depression this line haE , also had added to it the loss of travel from the decay of the speculative excitement of the oil region, while the same train accomodation has to be entertained. ' The tonnage of the Philadelphia and Erie is mostly made up of cheap products that can only be moved at low rates of transportation, which, under the existing condition of the business of the country, are inadequate to meet the cost of their movement at the percentage stipulated in the lease of the road. This traffic has been quite irregular during the past year, though in the aggregate it has largely in creased over that of 18G5, and must continue to grow with the increase of the population of the region traversed, while the relative transportation expenses can only be reduced by this enlargement of its business and a fall in the prices of labour and materials. Arrangements arc being made to increase the business of the road by the establishment of a line of steamers between Erie and the other lake ports, under the patronage of this company, with antici pations of successful results. The future of this great work is very encourag ing, but its traffic, as in all other similar projects, will require the application of capital and time to develope. The transportation facilities are ample for the accommodation of all the business that can be offered to it during the present year. The whole revenue of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company from its several lines is as follows, viz. : Prom the Pennsylvania Railroad and branches Canals 51g,583,882 84 17 297,867 1 6 17 7 , Philadelphia and Erie Railroad 2,541,05 1 79 $19,422,801 79 And the expenses of operating these lines are : Pennsylvania Railroad, ordinary Do. extraordinary 2,174,547 10 Do. Canal Philadelphia and Erie Rail road 2,086,974 53 Thirty per cent. reserved to pay taxes and interest on debt of Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Company... 732,738 80 15,844,060 58 Balance From which deduct payments made during the yearto the shareholders of tho Penn sylvaoia Railroad Company for divi dends, $1,737,969 ; the balance to debit of interest and coupon account, $539,859 57 ; the amount due to the Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad Company under lease, $135,274 18; the taxes on dividends and coupons, $138,855 57 ; and the annual sum of $460,000, due to the State of Pennsyl vania for the purchase of the main line of public works, amounting in all to 3,301,958 32 Leaving a surplus of 5276,782 89 This is the result of the year's operations of your railways and canals, after charging all expenditures fdr new work and additional rolling stock, &e., to gether with an instalment of $lOO,OOO upon the principal of the debt due to the State, &c., to ex pense account. . _ _ By order of the Board. J. EDGAR THOMSON, PreSian' A bill has been introduced into Congress to ex tend the time for the location and construction of the Springfield and Farmington Valley railroad to May 1, 1870. Among the dividends declared for 1866 were the following :—Boston and Worcester, 10 per cent. ; Western, 10 ; Providence, 10 ; Maine, 10 ; Nor wicli and Worcester, 10 ; Stoughton Branch, 10 ; Worcester and Nashua, 10 2.3 ; New Bedford and Taunton, 9 ; Rockport, 9 ; Taunton Branch, 8 ; Providence and Worcester, 8 ; Nashua and Lowell, 8 ; Eastern, 8 ; Connecticut River, 8 ; Lowell, 8; Old Colony and Newport, 7 ; Fitch burg, 7 ; Fitchburg and Worcester, 6. The amount paid by the different corporations in 1866, for taxes and insurance, was $1,440,058 ; in 1865, $1,327,134. The expense of removing snow and ice from the track in 1866 was $7,098 ; in 1865, $22,704. Of the fatal accidents to passengers (15) not one was caused through any negligence or care lessness on the part of the railroad employes. The deaths were in consequence of direct violations of the rules of all the companies, in regard to leaving or getting upon the trains while in motion, or riding upon the platforms of the cars. The Massachusetts horse railroads have a capital of $4,410,800, and their gross earnings last year were $1,707,447, and the net earnings $215,921. The roads own 2,106 horses, 349 cars, employ 1,078 men, and they carried 26,232,330 pasiengers last year, a decrease of 399,084 from the year before. The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to Con gress the following statement in regard to the amount of United States Bonds issued to the several roads now being constructed to the Pacific, w i t h the number of miles completed of each road :—Unio n Pacific Railroad, 350 miles west of Omaha , $4,880,000 ; Union Pacific, west from Lawrence, 155 miles, $2,480,000 ; Atchison and Pike's Peak , 40 miles, $640,000 ; Central Pacific California, 114 miles, $4,600,000; Western Pacific: California, 20 miles, $320,000. The large rolling mill at Danville, Pennsylvania , owned by Waterman and Beaver, turns out eightY tons of railroad iron per day, a quantity sufficient to make nearly two-thirds of a mile of track. The rails now being made are for the Union Pacific Railroad. TIIE STEAM RAILROADS OF MASSACHUSETTS. --- The Boston Transcript compiles the following statistics relative to the steam railroads of this State, from the last annual returns as made to the Legislature. Most of the figures have been pub- lished before in detached form, but they receive a fresh interest in being grouped together : Capital stock $83,091,6 00 Capital paid in 68,952, 10 Debt 27,471, 634 Cost of roads and equipments 79,466,774 Total income in 1866 21,205,527 Working expenses 14,534,2 36 Net earnings 6 7 671,291 Interest paid 953,37 3 Amount of dividends paid 4,467, 469 Surplus, November 30, 1866 ... '. 1,8 6,019,22749 Total length of rail (as single track) in miles Number of miles run in 1866 9,025, 573 Tons of freight carried 6,046,546 Number of passengers carried... " 122 1.9,6 881 5 Number of passengers killed ... Number of ;nen employed (exclusive of those 8 8 12 engaged in construction) 35 Number of employes killed Numbor of persons killed while walking or lying upon the track ... Number of engines owned N umber of passenger cars ~ Number of merchandise cars . 51 8 620 9,486 COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH— SATURDAY. At this day's market there was only a limited supply of wheat, which sold at an advance of ls per qr. The supply of barley was fair for the season ; best samples of ma ltiog were taken off at a reduction of is per qr. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 68s to 70s ; old red eta°, (weighing 631 b), 60s to Us ; new red ditto (weig h „ ing v 601 b to 631 b), 60s t o 62 s ; b es t ma lting barley (vveig ll3 ) ., - 521 b to 531 b), 46s to 18 s ; runs ditt o ( we ighing 511 b to 42s to 44s •, distilling ditt o ( we i g hi n g 501 b to 521 b), 36 t. 4 40s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 37's to 398 ; peas Onaplol to 38s per qr. Flour, 45s Od per sack. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat to-dan tolerable condition. A fair show of barley, the quality of which was varied. The tone of the demand was slow, an prices were is per qr. lower than last week. Of oats sc." had a tolerable supply, and a steady demand was exP, e , r l l; enced, the currencies of last week being maintained. t show of beans was not large, and the demand slow, a' little or no alteration in prices. Peas a limited sale, a re cent rates. Old white wheat, 68s to 72s ; old red, 60s to 67s ;, 13 ts white, 62s to 70s ; new red, 54s to 62s per 36 stone. L/30', old, 34s to 37s ; new, 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans. °4Bs 54s to 588 ; new, 44s to 50s per 38 stone. Fine flour, to 50s per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. We had a fair supply of wheat, consisting of, wbito_ and red scuts. Business was healthy, and last week t' s rate s , were rather exceeded. Barley came steadily to hand, luarlii malting sorts receded is per qr; in grinding not u s alt e ration. Beans a slow demand, but last weeks Price were obtained. New white wheat, 64s to 68s •, new red, 58s to 63s ; ol' white, 67s to 70s ; old red, 63s to 63 s per 36 stone. 10.,,r: ley, for malting, 44s to 51s per qr.; grinding, 33s to a‘',7 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 34s to 36s ; new, 28s to 30s per stone. Beans, old, 56s to 60s ; new, 42s to 48s per 38 sto ne, Fine flour, 50s ; seconds, 45s to 46s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. At this market to-clay the supply of wheat was limited„' There was a moderato inquiry, and good sorts made fl , " rates. The inquiry for barley was dull, and prices scarce 9' equalled those of the preceding week. For oats there s` lo ot , a better demand, and the business done was at the rateses last week. Of beans the show was moderate, and fin sorts supported recent rates. New white wheat, 54s to 60s ; new red, 48s to 56s por 3 6 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 405 per qr. ;• 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24 s to 28 s p er 24 st 9 :. Beans, new, 42s to 44s per 38 stone. Malt, 685 to " Flour, 47s to 49s per sack of 2801bs. A dispute that furnishes amusement to the Pub lic at poor Mrs. Wood's expense has been dragged to light by the Pall Mall Gazette. Oar evening co temporary accused that lady of taking an old nov el ' of patching it up here and there, disguising it under another name, and then selling it as a new novel, and of doing this in more than one instan ce. The newspaper enforced its accusation by undeniable e%- tracts, which proved its assertions. Mrs. ge ni l Wood was naturally angry, and was ill - ad enough while the fit was on her to wri te a long letter to the Pall Mall. This furnished matter for another article which may produce another rejoinde s Mrs. Wood contends that she has a right to make a much from her labour as she can, and s h e main tains that her books were fair subjects of criticism, but that she herself was not. The Pall Mall Gazette responds in an article headed " Our Naughty Novelists," which will in surepart of the response is an authe nti c ated instance for it a very gen eral reading. The forcible Madred Arkell," who found after he had • which the writer s u pp lies of a gentleman who bought a copy of 6 ' paid his money that he had read it before un der another name in the New Monthly Ma' gazine. " Now in what position does Mrs. Wood stand to this gentleman ? Only W° as (;"" l a literary benefactor ? It may startle Mrs. a t first to learn that when an author ca lls a book a new novel he does declare that it has ne ver been published before. But when she quite under -1 stands that she will no longer find it in hemora nature to be angry with us for saying representations are very improper." The position taken by the Gazette is simply unanswerable. The B e:4 ADVERTISEMENT. 1 Holloway's Pills. -- Friends.—When bad health overtakes mankind, -bato would not be given to be free from it ? Hollows/ P i r o, sonts to all invalids the means of recovering their.he,alie and renewing failing strength for a mere trifle. ;; b0 invariably produce the most satisfactory results wh er oils th digestion, circulation, or nerves are at fault. These the purify the blood, balance its circulation, strength s v iva stomach, induce healthy action in the liver, a nd 0 . 0 2 the ir all painful affection in the intestin es, upon whic' o f t he gently but effectually operate as aperients. Illnesgt other most alarming character, which have withstood a 1 . 1 I'oll°' tretment, hve gradualy yielded to a course uf co t way's Pills, a which will ever prove the invalid's b`" friends. ths. AisToN—On the Bth inst ., at Greenhithe, the wife of Ce nt° wander A. 11. Alston, U.N., of a son. . the IliNNY—On the Bth inst., at 37 , Brya nstone-s4 ue l wife of John Binny, Esq., of a daughter. • 0 14 0 s 1r- PAYNE—On the Bth inst. at 8, Malcolin-terrac-7 cross, the wife of Mr. lt. ' Payne, of a son• t he ster , STOTHERD— On the 4th inst., at '2, Star-hill, Tio . o f a the wife of Captain Stotherd, Royal Engineel6' daughter. Marriages. NOV KENNEDY—FRASER—On the 7th inst , of St. John', -, t ting-hill, Donald Kennedy, Agent Bauk of Bungalr, Rangoon, to Sarah Purcell, eldest thu liter of 11.V 36 0- Esq., of Calcutta, and 29, Aruudel-gargdens, h.-01813i° park. ~,i s tle Octr v 1 - ' , In —_ ITZWILLIAM—On the 7th inst., at Sel'"` .011 Emlyn Church, Captain Alex. J. Ogilvie, of the I c r, ~. ton, Artillery, and of 116, Gloueester-terraco radtelrof f n, i to Emily Collingwood, eldest surviving d'augbooot '.. L. L. Fitzwilliam, Esq barrister -at-law, of the s - re. Temple, and of Adpar, Ne"wcastle Etnlyn, Uardiga'-tu DeathE. BAGSIIAW —On the 9th inst., at 3, Compton-terraoet —l-ligiv. bury, Wm. Bagshaw, Esq., aged 74. ja r 0, CHAMBERS—On the sth inst., at Bolton House, Eastbou Richard Chamters, Esq., aged 72. DUFF—On the 7th lust at Dumpton nail, near lianalot°l Mr. J. Duff, music publisher, of Oxford -street, sg ° ' c 6, KELL—On the 9th inst., at 48, Gloucester-road, itt%ol park, Robert Kell, - q ., aged 93. P en ne P ENN Ey— At Bombay, of fever, D. J. E. y, 'E sc° 11 second son of Lord Bombay,, of Edinburgh, aged 30- ........................................................'''...."..............................'...............''''.' 112. London : Printed and Published by IV IL L1A.51 AN V" -- ot No. 112, strand, Piiriter at Tile -;TIN 01: N' ;ot strand, in the. Preet_tet of the SAvoy, in the Coil . '" bliddlekeX,—.llonday, March 11, 107. Lou 1.