The Sun. — London, England, 1870-02-04 00:00:00

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The "CENTRAL PRESS," 112, Strand, London, W. 0., Jan. 29th, 1870 "I - THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIIL Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs. G. 13e1rnore, J. D. Beveridge, C. IL Stephenson, Miss L. Grey, and Mrs. Leigh Murray. At 8, TlI M NIGHTINGAL*'. Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, Nits Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon, M iss Eiji% Johnstone, Mrs Canifleld, &c. o conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY. Mr U. 13(.1 more and Mrs Leigh Murray. Box-office open daily, from 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a fortnight in advance. R.O YA 1, PRINCESS'S THEATRE Lessee and Manager—Mr.Benjamin Wel-ster. THIS EVENING, at 7, AFTER Mr.Vininz 3ressrs. Phillipg, Ashley, Taylor, Rignold, Leeson, Eburne; Mesdames R. Leclercq, Barnett. After which, THE STREETS OF LONDON: Mr. Vining Messrs Phillips, Ashley, Stuart, Rignold, Taylor, Leeson, and Ebnrne ; Mesdames Barnett, Stoker, Brewer. L ONDON" AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. - - Established 1836. Subscribed Capital—X2,soo,ooo, in 50,000 Shares of £5O each. Paid-up Capital—.£l,ooo,ooo. Reserve Fand—Zsoo,ooo. DlREcrous. Nathaniel Alexander, Esq. Frederick Harrison, Esq. ThomasTyringhamßernard, Lord Alfred Hervey. Esq. Wm. Champion Jones, Esq. Philip Patton Blyth, Esq. Edward Harbord Lushing- John Wm. Burmester, Esq. ton, Esq. Thomas Stock Cowie, Esq. .Tames Morley, Esq. Frederick Francis, Esq. William Nicol, Esq. GENERAL MANAGER. William Maewan, Esq. CHIEF INSPECTOR. W. J. Norfolk, Esq. INSPECTORS OF BRANCHES. H. J. Lemon, Esq., and C. Sherring, Esq. CHIEF ACCOUNTANT. James Gray, Esq. SECRETARY. F. Clappison, Esq. Head Office-21, Lombard-street. MANAGER. Whitbread Tomson, Esq. ASSISTANT MANAGER. William Howard, Esq. At the Annual General Meeting of the Proprietors, held on Thursday, the 3d Felonary, 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street Station, the following Report for the year ending the 31st December, 1869, was read by the Secretary. WILLIAM CHAMPION JONES, Esq., in the Chair. In presenting the Proprietors the Balance-sheet of the Bank for the half-year ending the 31st December last, the Directors have the pleasure to report that, after paying interest to customers, and all charges, allowing for rebate, and making provision for b a d a nd doubtful debts, the net profits amount to £87,669 19s. 10d. This sum, added to .£6,225 17s 7d. brought forward from the last ac ount, produces a total of £93,895 17s. sd. The usual Dividend of 6 per cent. for the half-year is recommended, together with a Bonus of 24 per cent., both free of income tax, which will absorb .£85,000, and leave £3,893 17s. sd. to be carried forward to profit and loss new account. The present added to the Juno dividend will thus be 17 per cent. for the year 180. The Directors have to announce the retirement of John Fleming, Esq., from the Board, and the election of Ed ward liarbord Lushington, Esq., in his stoad. The Directors retiring by rotation are— FREDERICK FRANCIS, Esq, THOMAS STOCK COWIE, Esq., and FREDERICK HARRISON, Esq., who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. The Dividend and Bonus (together £1 14s. per share), free of income tax, will be payable at the Head Office, or at any of the Branches, on and after Monday, the 14th inst. BALANCE-SHEET OF THE LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, 31sT DECEMBER, 1869. Dn. To capital paid up To reserve fund... To amount due by the Bank for customers' balances, &c. .£13,305,679 14 10 To liabilities on ac ceptances, covered by securities 15,371,536 12 9 _ £1,000,000 0 0 500,000 0 0 To profit and loss ba hoc° brought from last account To gross profit for the half-year, after mak ing provision for bad and doubtful debts, viz. 6,225 17 7 256,704 3 7 AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE to introduce commodities valuable to every householder nigh L 3d low. This offers a highly remnnerativeCommission to Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street,Norwich. 011 N GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pear] whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. 6d.-1 - led Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames street, London. CR. By cash on hand at bead offieo and brandies, and with Bank of England £1,995,538 14 3 By cash placed at call and at notice, covered by securities Investments, viz.:— By Government and Guaranteed Stocks... 1,370,628 0 7 By other Stocks and Securities 61,073 10 4 By discounted bins and advances to custom ers in town and country 9,402,260 8 8 By liabilities of cus tomers for drafts ac cepted by tbo bank, as per contra By freehold premises in Lombard-street and Nicholas-lane, freehold and lease hold property at the branches, with fixtures and fittings By interest paid to customers By salaries and all other expenses at head office and branehes, including income tax on profits and salaries 3,841,F,6210 4 1,431,701 10 11 11,471,117 6 7 241,342 4 4 41,416 3 7 101,101 0 7 £17,131,240 16 4 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. To interest paid to customers, as above £44,416 3 7 To expenses, as above lOl,lOl 0 7 To rebate on bills not due, carried to new account To dividend of 6 per cent. for the half year ................. To bonus of 2i per cent....,. .,... To balance carried forward 17,291 2 0 60,000 0 0 25,000 0 0 8,895 17 5 £256,704 3 7 Cn. By balance brought forward from last account By gross profit for the half-year, after making provision for bad and doubt ful debts 250,478 6 0 6,225 17 7 £256,704 3 7 We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing Balance-sheet, and have found the same to be correct. (Signed) WILLIAM NORMAN, . Auditors. R. 11. SWAINE, _ _ • •-• • - London and County Bank, 27th January, 1870. The foregoing Report having been read by the Secretary, the following Resolutions were proposed and unanimously adopted : 1: That the Report be received and adopted, and printed for the use of the Shareholders. 2. That a Dividend of 6 per cont., together with a Bonus of '2l per cent., both free of income tax, be declared for the half-year ending the 31st December, 1869, payable on and after Monday, the 14th instant, and that the balance of £8,895175. bd. be carried forward to profit and loss new account. 3. That Frederick Francis, Thomas Stock Cowie, and Frederick Harrison, Esquires, be re-elected Directors of this Company. 4. That William Norman, Richard Hinds Swains, and William Jardi ne , E squires, be elected Auditors for the current year. 5. Th'at the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Board of Directors for the able maniler in which they have conducted the affairs of the Company. 6. That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to the Auditors of the Company for their services during the past year. 7. That the thanks of this Meeting be presented to the General Manager, and to all the other Officers of the Bank, for the zeal and ability with which they discharged their respective duties. (Signed) W. CHAMPION JONES, Chairman. The Chairman having quitted the chair, it was resolved, and carried unanimously— F. That the cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to William Champio❑ Jcnes, Esq., for his able and cour teous conduct in the chair. (Signed) "WILLIAM NICOL, fleputy Chahman. Extracted from the Minutes. (Signed) F. CLAPI'ISON, Secretary. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 4, 1870. It is so customary to postpone the consideration of pressing social reforms until the more exciting or inviting topics of political warfare shall have had full sway that we need not be surprised if the discussion of the Emigration question be deferred until the very end of the session. It is true that the condition of our labouring classes is becoming every day more serious ; that men able to work and willing to work, men of strength, honesty, and sobriety, endeavour, day after d‘ty, fruitlessly to obtain employment. We have not now to do with the vagrant, the beggar, the worthless idler, whim indis criminate almsgiving has rendered helpless and dependent, or habitual intemperance has thrown out of employment. All these, more or less, deserve their fate, though private benevolence may labour to relieve them from its more painful features, and the State itself is bound to preserve them from absolute starvation. But the labouring man, the artisan, or the skilled workman, whose tr4de suffers from pro longed depression, who goes vainly from yard to yard of the great employers to seek work, what is to be done with Lim ? Is he to be allowed to starve, or is be to be assisted to makebis way to those "other Englank" beyond the seas which are clamouring for LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPAN. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a DIVIDEND on the Capital of the Company, at the rate of 6 per cont. for the half year ending 31st December, 1861/, with a BONUS of 21 per cent., will be raid to the Proprietors either at the Head Office, 21, Lombard-street, or at any of the Company's Branch Banks, on and after MONDAY, the 11th instant. By order of the Board. W. Nl‘li EWAN, General Manager, 21, Lombard-street, Feb. 4, 1870. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at W. SMITH'S " Camden Stores," 78, Park-street, Camden- town. THE LATE EDITION of " THE SUN" at JAMES SPEEDY'S, "The Welling,ton,"Welling,ton-etraet, S rand. rcHE LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at J. SMITH'S, 39, Bow-street, Covent-garden. 11..81G COMPANY'S EXTRACT of MEAT. —AMSTERDAM EXHIBITION, 180 FIRST PRIZE, being ABOVE the Gold Medal. S u p p li ed to the Bri.ish, French, Prussian, Russian, Italian, Dutch, and other Governments. One pint of tine flavoured Beef-tea at 21d. Most convenient and conotpic "stock." CAUTION.—OnIy sort warranted genuine by the Inventor, Baron Liebig, whose signature is on every genuine Jar. Ask for LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT, and not for Litil3HlG'S EXTILICT of NEAT. THEATRE-ROYAL DRURY-LANE. dole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Messrs. Fred. Yokes, Brittain Wright, Harry Boleno, &c.; Misses Vokes, Harriet Coyeney, Kate Santley, &e. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING, at 7 o'clock, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, at 20 to 8, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES; Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale. Miss Robertson, &c. Concluding with THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS: Mr. A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, &c. £17,131,240 16 4 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Mans g 3r, Mr. F.E. ChattArton. THIS EVENING, at 7, I'M NOT MYSELF AT ALL. At 7.45, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; or, OLD MOTHER. BUNG H : Misses Jessie Vokes, Victoria Vokes, Itosina Vokes, Kate Santley, Hudspeth, and Harriet Coveney; Messrs. Fred. Vokes, Brittain Wright, W. F. Vokes, F. Moreland, Rowena, and Harry Boleno. VHEATRE ROYAL, HA YMARKET. Sole Lessee, Mr. Ilueltstone. THIS EVENING, A KISS IN THE DARK. Followed by, at 20 to 8, the New Comedy, NEW MEN AND OLD ACRES : Mr Buckstone, Mr Chippendale, Mr Howe, Mr Rogers, Mr. Braid, Mruckstone, jun.; Miss Robertson, Mrs Chippendale, Mrs. E. Fitzwilliam, Miss C. Hill, &c. After which, THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN OCRS: Mr A. Wood, Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn Miss / rancis, Miss Murray. Box-office open daily from Ten till Fivel LYCEUM THEATRE (under the management of Messrs Mansell (elegantly redecorated ty Macintosh). THIS EVENING, at 7, 'C'OR itUP f PRACTICES; Messrs Coghlan, Vincent; Mesdames L. Thorne, S. Rignold, and Fitz- I nman. Aft r which, CEILLPERIC, by Eferve: Messrs M. Marius, G Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan, and M. nerve : Mesdames Dolaro, Fitzlnman, Romanelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. 0Y AL STRAND THEATRE. -, Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Cl irke. Followed by THE TOODLES: Mr Clarke. • After which, INO; Messrs Thorne, James, Fenton, Turner ; gesdarnes Sheridan, Newton, Maitland, &c. To conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL' THE "SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G. R. G...ENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware road, 3elivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" as soon as published. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN " to 1- be seen Every Evening by 810 at Mr. ROBERT MEAEOCICS, BAtannia, Kensal New-town. QPORTING.—,I 01IN ROBERTS supplies the LATN:S r EDITION or "THE SUN" as soon as pub ishod.-4, Bath-street, City-read. F C. 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Followed by THE STREETS OF LONDON: Mr Vining; Messrs Philips, Ashley, Stuart, Rignold, Taylor, Leeson, Eburne ; Mesdames Barnett, Stoker, Brewer. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, at 7, OPEN TO CONVICTION. Messrs George Belmore, J. D. Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, Miss L. Grey, and Mrs L. Murray. At 8, THE NIGHTINGALE: Mr Benjamin Webster, Messrs Arthur Stirling, J. D. Beveridge, Skinner, Miss Furtado, Mrs Alfred Mellon, Miss Eliza John stone, Mrs Caulfield, &c. To conclude with DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr G. Belmore and Mrs Leigh Murray. LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, at 7, CORRUPT PRACTICES. After which, CHILPERIC: Messrs M. Manus, G Vincent, Odell, Lapierre, Coghlan, and M. Fierce; Mesdames Dolaro, Fitzlnman, Ro manelli, Nellie Nesbit, and Miss Emily Muir. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With THE TOOTLES. Aud INO. Concluding with Till CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. wOODIN'S CARPET - BAG AND SKETCH BOOK, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, every Evening (except Saturday) at S; Saturday Moinings at 3. Admission, Is, 2s, 3s. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL 0 .RDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays' 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-office open fromll to 4. 3: Tjt 'Y c rt_f_4 4 ): -h -• I • .-01414 rnE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY VENING, FigBRUARY 4, 1870. sturdy hands to till their soil and hew their forests, and develope their illimitable resources ? Such was the question virtually proposed to Mr. GLADSTONE, yesterday, by the deputation from the National Emigration League, and though the Prime Minister's answer was, after the fashion of such replies, vague and uncommunicative enough, the facts laid before him were such as must, we may hope, make some impression. The Duke of Manchester, who introduced the deputation, referred to the recent inquests on men who had died of star vation in the prime of life. Mr. TORRENS, M.P., brought forward statements which exhibited an awful amount of distress, existing just above that boundary line which divides the pauper from the poorer labourers. Dr. FRENCII, of Liver pool, has said that the people round him are not earning more than 10s. or 12s. a week. What does that statement imply for a family ? One of the workmen at Messrs. CUBITT'S said he hated the look of the yard, because of the hundreds outside the gates waiting for work they would never get. Turning from the report of the deputation to the record of the Police Courts, we find an additional instance. An employer of labour waited yesterday on the magistrate to point out the wretched condition of some of his men whom he could not possibly employ longer ; they all had families, and had been forced to sell their chairs to get coals. The magistrate ordered them some slight relief from the poor-box ; but what arc they to do when that is spent ? There are hundreds, there are thousands,in a similar predicament. What is to become of them? The coroners' inquests perhaps can answer. We may be told that no one need starve under our Poor Law, but, setting aside every consideration as to the manner in which it is applied, is it the interest of England to pauperise her respectabla workmen ? The rates are so heavy that they are al ready crushing down the poorer householde'rs. Are they to be made heavier in order to give Mr. LOWE a few more figures in his Budget ? Over the seas—east, west, north, and south—lie widespread, thinly-peopled lands, where the men now standing hopelessly idle, or bur dening their fel!ows, may " give the lips they love unbotrowed bread." They may become in their turn customers and benefactors to the old mother-country, for, in spite of Earl GRANVILLE, it is indisputable that a large proportion of our commercial wealth flows from our colonies. What is it that stands in the way of making the excess of one country supply the want of the others? THE report of Dr. LIVINGSTONE'S death is CUS-• ,tredited on all sides. Plausible as the story looked, the oalance of probability rests decidedly with the evidence adduced against it. Sir RODERICK 3luncinsoN shows tt to be all but impossible that the traveller could have reached the point at which he was said to have been killed. Whilst at Ujiji he wrote for a supply of boat men and goods, and Dr. KIRK, in a despatch from Zanzi bar, dated October 2nd, expresses his intention of forwarding these necessaries. Supposing he had lent them off at once. Dr. LIVINGSTONE could not have received them before the middle of December, since it takes two months to communicate between the coast and Ujiji, in the interior. How, then, zould Dr. LIVINGSTONE have reached the Congo, and have met with his death at a point in the interior from which intelligence could not be brought to less than three months, for we are told in the letter by Captain COCHRANE that the disaster occurred ninety days' journey from the Congo ? Still more serious doubt is cast upon the report by the testimony of Messrs. GRANT, BRODIE, and Co. They have in their possession a letter from a Portuguese trader, describing the murder of a white man for " bewitching" a native King. This letter was received by the Messrs. GRANT some weeks since, and the event to which it refers is represented as occur ring so long ago that Dr. LIVINGSTONE could not possibly be the victim of the superstitious natives. Now, the story told by Captain COCHRANE was brought to the West Coast by a Portuguese trader, and it accords precisely with the narrative in the letter to the Messrs. GRANT. In all probability it Es the same account. The melancholy story of Captain COCHRANE is therefore discredited doubly. Sir RODERICK MuncuisoN shews that Dr. LIVINGSTONE could not have penetrated so near the West Coast, and the City firm bring very strong evidence to prove that if a white man was killed by the natives, he could not have been Dr. LIVINGSTONE. The great traveller's progress through a perfectly unknown country will be watched with much anxiety, but there is as yet no ground for posi tive armreher.sion. A meeting was held at Norwich to-day to promote the abolition of University tests. Sir Willoughby Jones, one of the chairmen of the Norfolk Quarter Sessions. presided. A telegram to the Hudson's Bay Company says it is reported that Riel is a prisoner at the Red River Terri tory, and that the authority of Governor Maotavish is restored. The announcement recently made of the appoint ment of tho Rev. A. Willis to be Bishop of Madagascar is somewhat premature, and that the matter is not yet defini tively settled. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princes Albert Victor and George, and Princesses Louise, Victoria, and Maud, and attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen and Colonel Teesdale, will arrive at Marlborough House (his afternoon from Gunton Hall, Norfolk. The Dublin Daily Express of to-day says :—" We understand that a medical gentleman in this city has been warned, on peril of death, not to pay any more profes sional visits to a lady who is the owner of property in the county Meath, and who, it appears, is unpopular with her tenants." It appears from a letter written by General Fraser to the Glasgow herald that there has been some mis take about the "identical cane" of Lord Lovat, the recent sale by auction of which was the other day made the occa sion for regretful comment. General Fraser says that the historical cane handed upon the scaffold to his (General Fraser's) paternal groat grandfather, Wm. Fraser, of Ford, is, together with other relics of Lord Lovat, now to safe keeping at Avondale. The friends of Santi Nistri, the German tailor, who was recently found dead under somewhat suspicious circumstances at Hauwell Asylum, have offered a reward of £lOO for information showing how tho deceased received the injuries which caused his death. It may be remembered that the deceased had 13 of his ribs fractured, and the jury were of opinion that the injuries were sustained after his admis sion to the asylum. Captain Sherard Osborn, managing director of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company (Limited), announces that by a cypher telegram from Bom bay, dated Jan. 30, 1870, 6.35 a.m., he has learnt that the Great Eastern hoisted her number off Cannamore on the Malabar coast the previous evening. Cannamore is 480 miles south of Bombay, and the ship was not therefore due until the morning of the Ist February. Mr. Shirley Brooks is lying seriously ill at his house in Regent's-park. Overwork and an access of gout had un favourably prepared Mr. Brooks for the cold of last week, and o❑ Wednesday week (after presVing at tho Punch dinner, in tLo aY . ence, from illness, of Mr. Mark Lemon) Mr. Prooks was .9, ized with spasms and shiverings, which prostrated him. His medical adv;sers report favourably of the case, Lul, have strictly forbidden the least attention to business or the rcceptiou of vi:itors. The death is norm - weed of Sir Edward Cecil B:ssltop. The deceased, who was the eleventh harona , , was a son of the Very Rev. Sir George Bisshop, the eighth baronet, dean of Lismoro and archdeacon of Aghadoe. Ile was born in 1826, and succeeded his brother, Captain George Curzon, of the 12th root, in 1865. He was ap pointed a cornet of the North Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, in 1839. He was married in 1847 to Mary, daughter of Admiral Taylor, of the Brazilian navy, but loaves no issue. The family of Bisslitkp canto from Gascony with Henry 11., and wore noted as being firm Royalists, and suffered much in puree and estate. Sir Thomas Bisshop, who bought the Parham estate in 1591, had the Anew Qj EficesiTivg Queen iYhg clinodia the tresi halL LEPUTATION TO MR. GLADSTONE ON - EMIGRATION. A deputation, representing the National Emigration League, and others interested in the question of emigra tion, waited on the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, at his )1B cial residence, in Downing-street, on Thursday afternoon. Amongst those who attended were his Grace the Duke of Manchester, Lord George Hamilton, M.P., Mr. ISPCullagh Torrens, M.P., Mr. Charley, M.P., Sir E. Dennison, Mr. E. Wilson (Melbourne Argus), Captain Bedford Pyra, R.N., Mr. Edmond Beales, IX. Mr. Gladstone received the deputation, in company iith the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, Pred lent of the Poor Law Board. The DUKE of MANCHESTER, in introducing the deputa tion, said it came not only from the English League, but represented many classes, including working men. He sympathised entirely with its ob:e;ts. He believed it was an imperial duty to assist emigration in the manner it would be proposed, and that the benefit conferred would not be merely temporary was shewn by statistics recently issued by Mr. Eddes. These were compiled from official documents, and from them it appeared that the area of the colonies was forty-four times that of the United Kingdom. The population was only two to the square mile, while that of the United Kingdom was 245, so that to make the population of the colonies as dense as ours it must be increased to five thousand millions, which would not be readily accomplished by emigration. The colonists con sumedour manufactures at the rate of £6 per head, while othernations only did so to the extent of a few shillings per head ; so that to put people who were now almost paupers in a position where they would be such large customers to the mother country, would be a great advantage to the country. But this was a matter of Christian duty as well as- of political advantage. The men an behalf of whom the deputation pleaded, were anxious for work, and it was almost wicked to suggest, as had been done, that they should be kept at home starving until capitalists found it convenient to employ them. (Hear, hear.) Mr. JENKINS, hon. secretary of the League, presented a memorial from a meeting at Exeter Hall. He stated that it set forth the general distress of working men through out the country, and boldly affirmed that the distress was ... so great as to. demand the - interfention of the Govern ment. It proceeded to set forth a remedy—State aid to emigration. Mr. Jenkins added that he had received letters from many hundreds of persons in the country proving how widespread was the distress. Amongst these were communications from Aberdeen, requesting aid for the emigration of 100 families ; from Birmingham, stating that hundreds of persons were applying for assistance to emigrate ; from Clifton, where the curate had already sixty men in his emigration club; at Redhill, where fifty men had only yesterday banded themselves together for purposes of emigration, and in fact from the various agri cultural and artisan districts. The League repu diated all imputations of socialism or communism. Mr. WCULLOGII TORRENS, M.P., who next addressed the Premier, said that nothing but an overpowering sense of necessity would have induced the deputation to trouble Mr. Gladstone at such a season. There were present mon of all classes and opinions, lay and clerical, and they threw themselves on the kindness of the Government, hoping that they would be received in the same spirit. In support of the statements which had been made he would say that ho had lately heard Mr. Morley say that he, as a manufacturer, never recollected employment to be so scarce. The poor's rates were rapidly increasing in London. But the distress was not merely metropolitan. In Manchester in the third week of January, 1869, there wore 3,511 persons in receipt of relief ; in the corres ponding week of this year, 4,200. The difference in the cost was £578 per week last year, and £7lO a week this year. Another very suggestive item was the number of typus patients. Last year they were forty five and now seventy-five (Hear, hear.) He had given some attention to the question of illness created by poverty, and he had not words to express what this increase of contagious disease implied. In Liverpool, as the right hon. gentlemen well knew f the bulk of the labouring population was of the unskilled kind. He wrote to Dr. Trench, the experienced head of the Sanitary Department in Liverpool, a few days ago' on this subject. In reply Dr. Trench wrote: "You ask me as to how the people live. My answer is this : Wages are nominally for these rough people 3s. 6d. a day. But they get only half time, and the ordinary average wages on whicll they rim with their families ranges from 10s. to 12s. per week. Well, the man who could bring up his family even decently, to say no more, in Liverpool on 10s. was a very clever fellow. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Torrens strongly urged the claims of the working classes to assistance from the Government in this matter, and recommended that the opinion of Parliament should be taken. All he asked now was that there should be a grant of money for free pas sages, and for loans to emigrants. Mr. GEOBOE POTTER, as representing working men, said millions of them were anxiously watching for the reply of the Government. Sir WILLIAM Dzsrsusost testified to the willingness of the Colonial Government to receive—not the sweepings of our poor-houses—but such labourers as the deputation proposed to send out. Mr. GLADSTONE, in reply, said: The Duke of Man chester, Mr. Torrens, and Gentlemen, We have listened with great interest to the expression of your opinions upon a subject of such deep importance as the distress of the people. 'Whenever it prevails, it must necessarily be a question which has the very first claim upon the attention of the Government; and it is their duty to study to the best of their power all prac ticable and available means for relieving it; and listen with great attention and respect to all suggestions with regard to any particular form that a process of that kind rs.ay assume. In that spirit we desire to receive the repre sentations you have made, and so far from complaining of the character of those representations, I should rather express —and lam sure Mr. Goschen will concur with me—my thankfulness to the deputation for having placed before us proposals of wide scope and great importances, though, as you - yourselves admit, of very considerable difficulty, yet at the same time in a clear and definite form, Mr. Jenkins has spoken on the part of the deputation and I should like to ask if the pamphlet sent to me expresses the views generally of those who are present. ("No, No.") It is simply, then, an expression of individual opinion. I should like, also, to ask another question. There is no doubt about the character of this deputation ; as 'Mr. Potter has said, although it was unnecessary, it does not represent any narrowclass or section, but it is, as I understand, a London deputation. Mr. JR-N=2.N said the deputation originated at the Exeter Hall meeting, and other gentlemen explained that the League represented all parts of the country. Mr. GLADSTONF.: IS it composed of London gentlemen only ? Mr. BRALES: There are some gentlemen here from the country—Mr. Eastbrook and Mr. Charley. Mr. GLADSTONE: Oh, now I understand. We shall take care to make known to our colleagues these proposals, and this will be received in a respectful spirit. I cannot say more than that. And whatever conclusion we may ar rive at will of course be governed by the best view we can take of public affairs. I had requested Lord Granville to be present to-day on the part of the colonies, for be, as Colonial Minister would necessarily have much to say on a question of this kind, and no small part of any measure which will be undertaken would fall on his department; but I am sorry to say that he is prevented from being present by ill-health. There is another member of the Govern ment who would require to be consulted—(a laugh)— especially upon this matter of investment of publia funds which has been suggested, and that is our right hon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Laughter.) He will, I am sure, regard the question in the same impartial spirit, with a sense of the great dif ficulties attaching to it, and with a desire to overcome them, and with the firm intention to make a fair exami nation and consideration of the whole matter, and arrive at the conclusion which shall be best. (Applause.) The deputation thanked the right hon, gentlemen and withdrew. Later in the day a conference, presided over by Sir W. Denison, was held at the House of the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi, on the subject of Government Aid to Emigration. Amongst other speakers, Mr. Eastwick, M.P., advocated such assistance being given, and condemned the present Poor Laws as tending to produce pauperism. A YOUNG WOMAN SUED FOR BREACH OF PRO nnsE.—A dockyard labourer at Leith has obtained £3 2s. ed. damages from a young woman who had promised to marry him, and to whom he had entrusted various sums of money for the purchase of household furniture. The pursuer said that the defender not only refused to marry him now, but that when he visited her house he found, instead of " preaching and praying' a scene of " drinking and singing," and the company enjoying themselves at 1 is expense. CAUTION TO MINERS ON STRIKE.—A number of miners have been charged before the magistrates at Morpeth, with absenting themselves from the service of Messrs. Barkas and Co., of Widdrington Colliery, without giving proper notice. The defendants had been regularly. engaged, but it was contended on their part that tl.e masters, by their conduct towards the men, had not fulfilled the terms of the agreement. The magistfates ordered the men to pay 108. each as compensation to their masters, and the amount of the cots, rAitiS CORRESPONDENCE, TIIITIISDAY. The [Corps L4gislatif has rejected M. Grevy's amend ment, empowering the Chamber to call upon the army for its defence by 21T against 42. The whole of yesterday's sitting was devoted to the discussion of the internal regu lations of the Chamber, the chief points of debate being the amendments of M. Dreolle and M. Grevy. The latter supplied the only interest of the discussion, and rau as follows :--" The police of the Corps Legislatif and of the enclosure of the palace belongs to the Pre sident. The Corps Legislatif determines the amount of the military forces necessary for its security, and has the right to dispose of them. The civil authorities and the military commanders are to obey their orders." M. Grevy appears to imagine he is living under Republican institutions, for lie reminded his hearers that the princiide he claimed for the Corps Legislatif had been enjoyed by the Assem bles Nationale and the Assembles Legislative. He explained that he did not demand the power of calling in the army for protection, with a view to the possibility of an eateate, but rather in case there should be a colli sion between the chief powers of the State. Would it not be a misfortune, if in such a case the national representation, that is to say Law and Liberty ; was left defenceless ? The Left loudly ap plauded this sentiment, and were not less gratified by a passing observation of M. Grevy's, " when the last touch is put to that system of Parliamentary Government of which we have heard so much, but of which we have yet to see the foundation." M. Picard put in a word which ores ted fresh excitement. " We have as yet," said he, "only the panygeric ; we have not even the Parliament." M. Grevy reviewed the several objections to. his proposal, and said, in reply to the charge of offering needless defiance to the Government, that it was part of the duty of a Legislature to be defiant. He did not wish to awake painful memories, but such an objection compelled him to remember that the Legislative Assembly perished for a lack of being defiant, and because she refused the arm offered her. It was her last fault, but she paid dearly for it, and France paid with her. There were loud protests from the Right, but marks of approval from the benches round the orator. M. Segris, the Minister of Public Instruction, declared, in answer, that constitu tional liberty could only be established by mutual con fidence. He denied :the possibility of a conflict between the Executive and the Legislature, and protested on behalf of himself and his colleagues that when they intended to re-establish liberty they did not intend to do so in opposition to the Empire, or without the Empire, but with the Empire. M. Jules Favre lent his powerful sup port to the amendment of M. Grevy. lle contended that as the public functionaries had the right of requisition demanded, the Chamber had surely an equal right ; and while he admitted that every one was desirous of preserv ing a good understanding, they ought to provide against possible dissensions in the future, M. Segris had denied such a possibility, but could they agree with him under the existing regime, and with the unfor tunate tendencies of the Cabinet? Was it as philosopher or as statesman, as theorist or as Minister of Napoleon HI. that he offered such a guarantee? Until they possessed the constituent power they were nothing more than a body existing on tolerance, and their existence depended on the will of one man. The Ministry afforded them no security, and the assembly which should be the first power in the State held but a secondary place. Other language of a similar character was used, and M. Guyot Montpayroux declared that it was a disgrace to France that the Repre sentative Chamber should be at the mercy of a Senatus Consultum. The decree on the prefectoral appointments has met with many adverse criticisms, and surprise is expressed that some prefects have been maintained who are as much compromised as those who have been dismissed. Some of the journals attributed the late appointments to Orleanist influence. The Torlement asks if the Orleanist reaction is to take possession of France, and if the democratic, Liberal, and parliamentary Empire i 3 to have in its service men who prefer it to any other form of government. A fatal hour has arrived, in which the Empire and Demcciacy are driven into a corner. M. Masson is now Prefect of the Nord, and if the Duke d'Aumale disembarked at Dunkirk to overthrow the Emperor, what would this functionary, the friend of the Orleans family, do? 7ha Pays refers to the new nomi nations, and considers that the most unexpected and in comprehensible is that of M. Masson to the Prefecture of the Nord—one of the most important in France. Napoleon used to say to his Prefects of Lille, on naming them, "You hold the key of France in your hands." The Constitittiomte/, which had hitherto kept silence, has come forward to oppose the general character of the nomina tions. It says that the Ministers abandoned to the attacks of the Opposition the prefects who had contributed to their triumph. In every case, whether in promotions or renewals, people desire to see a manifestation of liberal spirit, but in this instance the desire has not been gratifiel. All legitimate hopes are not satisfied, and all merits are not recompensed. In the choice of the Government we may see the traces of unworthy influences, and obstacles aro allowed to stand in the way of Adminis tration which should have been got rid of without delay. M. Diener, who was dismissed from his office as justice of :the peace, at Eischuriller, because he had not exerted himself with sufficient zeal in the cause' of the official can didate, has written to refuse the far less important post which was assigned to him. He says that he will not submit to be degraded because he did not exhibit a certain amount of electoral courtesy MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CONCERT. The first concert of the spring series took place last evening at St. James's Hall, and resulted in a most triumphant success. The spacious hall was densely filled in every part previous to the com mencement of the programme, a fact that showed that really good music well executed has always a charm sqfficient to attract the largest audiences. The programme contained some of the most cele brated solo compositions of the old English masters and a variety of part songs and glees by Mr. Leslie, Sir H. Bishop, Henry Smart, Calcott, Wilbye, and Benedict ; the former were sung by Mr. Sims Reeves, the glees by Mdme. Poole, bliss Fosbrooke, Messrs. Hillier, Mellor, and Osborne. The part songs were given in an admirable man ner by Mr. Henry Leslie's choir, which showed an amount of training that won the most enthusiastic applause. Mr. Sims Reeves' songs were " Adelaide," " The Pilgrim of Love," and " Tom Bowling," and never has this accomplished artiste rendered the celebrated com positions with greater power and effect than last evening. The applause ;at the end of each vas loud, long, and unanimous. The instrumental pieces, by Mozart and Beethoven, were rendered in the most finished and complete manner by Messrs. E. Howell, Shakespeare, Crozier, Lazurus, Harper, and Wotton, and produced the greatest delight. Altogether the concert was a great and deserved success—a result that was as pleasant for the int mence audience as it was for Mr. Leslie, and we congratulate that gentleman on the brilliant pros pect it affords of the prosperous realisation of the whole of his future arrangements. Col. G. Rotton, 11th Brigade Royal Artillery, at Woolwich, has obtained leave of absence from the Ist to the 24th inst, Capt. and Adjt. F. Dun can, 11th Brigade Royal Artillery, has left Wool wich on leave to the 14th of next month. From remote antiquity wine has been the chief enlivener of mankind, and has inspired poets to hymn its praise in worthy and immortal verse. Through the efforts of Mr. Gladstone this precious liquor is becoming a national drink, and the period is fast approaching when every middle-class residence will contain its cellar of wine. The happy owner of 100 dozen of choice wine may esteem his cellar as a shrine wherein is gathered the odorous fruitage of 20 summer suns. With the pride of a general he may review his phalanxed bins, confident that his veteran battalions faithfully asnit his bidding to expel invading care. But the first concern with persons desiring fully to enjoy the important fiscal boon recently conferred on the community is where they may obtain pure wino at a reasonable price, their perplexity being further aggravated by importunate advertisers, who put forth meretricious descriptions of vintages and attractive prices to deceive and allure. It seems scarcely fair to name ono house in pith:War, but it would be unjust to withhol 1 from the public the names of th se firms.who for years past and at pre sent are supplying really pure wines at a fair and reasonable price. Foremost amongst them ranks the firm of Phythian and Sons, of 432, West Strand, whose sherry at 215., Amontillado at 425., and Manzanilla at 3Gs. per dozen can not be surpassed, unless, indeed, it is by their port at 2-15. and 365., of Sandernan's shipping (1663 vintage), their claret (yin de Medoc) at 125., or their champagne at 365. per dozen, guaranteed pure. Spa N 3 will . not p3rtnit a re view of all the wines imported by this old-established firm —suffice to say that every wine in existence is kept by them iu stock, and at equally moderate prices. In cases like this, where a leading house honestly offers the publio the full advantage accruing from recent wise it becomes a duty which the public owe themselves to give that patronage anti support which such efforts deserve.-- Observer. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(Thos Day). COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. THE QUEEN V. WILLIA3IS.-THE GODRICH DIVORCE CASE. The further trial of the prosecution by Mrs. Godrich of the defendant, Mrs. Williams,for alleged perjury in the Divorce Court in the suit of Godrich v. Godrich, for a dissolution of marriage, was re sumed to-day. Mr. Godrich was cross examined at great length. In his evidence in chief he charged his wife with in temperance, from the time of their marriage up to 1867, when she left him. He denied that he ever knew of Jlr. Forster's taking his wife alone to the theatres, and never asked him to do so. He also denied that he had forced Mr. Foster o❑ his wife for improper purposes, and in fact gave a general denial to her statements. In a severe cross-exami nation he denied that he had been guilty of intem perance himself. He said he had been charged with it by his father both orally and by writing. Ile did not mean to say he had never been intoxi cated, but he denied that he was what was termed a confirmed drunkard, or that he neglected his wife more than his professional pursuits rendered necessary. COMMON PLEAS. MASTERS V. LEFEVEE (P. 0.) The hearing of this o.se was resumed and con cluded this morning. It was an action against the Sun Fire Office to recover damages for an alleged malicious prosecution, founded upon the fact that the plaintiff bad been twice indicted for arson. Upon one occasion the grand jury ignored the bill ; and upon the second the plaintiff was acquitted upon the opening speech. Yesterday the jury, and also Lord Chief Justice Bovill, iuti.nated their opinion that there was no motive on the part of the defendants, and that they had reasonable and probable cause for the course which they adopted. At the sitting of the Courts to-day a long discu€sion took placc between the Bench and the Bar as to the effect of the evidence, and as to additional evi dence that could be produced for the plaintiff. The Lord Chief Justice said that no matter what evidence was produced to show the inno cence of the plaintiff, he must tell the jury that the case must turn upon what was within the knowledge of the defendants when they took the criminal proceedings. The jury still said that they adhered to the opinion they expressed yesterday, and a verdict was thereupon found for the defen dants. URT OF BANKRUPTCY. This morning an application was made in the matter of Thomas Richard Browne, timber-mer chant, Commercial-road East, to expunge a proof for £2,354, by a creditor named William Marshall. The bankrupt had neglected to comply with an order of the registrar to file accounts upon a certain day, and the chief judge decided to refuse a motion to expunge the proof upon this ground, but con sented to allow Mr. Reed time to file accounO. POLICE LV7ELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. TIIE POLICE AND THE CABMEN.—For some time past the greater part of the afternoons has been occupied by the magistrates in hearing summonses taken out by the police against cabmen for the offence called " loitering," &c.—some of the cases being of the most frivolous character—the number of summonses having gone on steadily increasing till it now averages about G 5 a day. The conse quence is that the ordinary business of the court is much impeded, and at times there is a scene of great confusion, as may well be imagined, when it is stated that frequently of an afternoon there are as many as 65 cabmen and an equal number of pro prietors or horsekeepers in attendance, besides a large body of police and those having other bUSiIiCS3 at the court. Yesterday afternoon for some time the court was entirely filled with cabmen and the police, and the street in front of the court presented somewhat the appearance of a cab yard. SAVAGE ASSAULT BY A FEMALE.-111aly Ann Beaumont, a woman who has been several times charged at this court, was charged before Mr. Knox with being drunk, disorderly, and assaulting Police-constable Henry Waller, 151 C. The constable was called by a tradesman to re move the prisoner from his shop as she was annoy ing his customers and making use of the vilest lan guage, and on his attempting to do so she became very violent, threw herself down, and bit one of the constable's fingers very„ . badly, causing him in tense pain. Several persons went to the con stable's assistance, but they were frightened to touch the prisoner owing to her violence, and some other constables arriving and putting the pri soner on the stretcher she forced off the straps, and it was with the greatest difficulty she was got to the station. Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for two months', with hard labour. THAMES. ALL THROUGH KLErromANlA.—Elizabeth Car penter, an elderly woman, described as having no fixed abode and no occupation, was charged with stealing a pan, value se. 6d., the property of Mary Ann Morgan, of Diamond-row, Stepney, shop keeper. A few days since the prisoner was seen by a boy named Gregory to enter the shop of the pro secutrix, and remove a pan, with which she coolly decamped with. She was pursued, and dropped the pan, and then fell on her face on the ground. It was some time before she recovered, and she was apparently in a fit. A sturdy police constable, named William Walker, No. 40 K R, said to her, " Now, old lady, this will not do—come out of that fit," and she recovered immediately, and called him an un feeling wretch. • He was still more unfeeling to convey her to the station-house, and to state that she was an old thief. James Briden, a police sergeant and detective, said the prisoner had been convicted of felony in 1863, and was sentenced to five years' penal servi tude. She then gave the name of Elizabeth Thomas. Another police constable said he had the prisoner in custody after her release from prison on a charge of larceny, for which she was convicted at the Worship-street Police-court, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. She then gave the name of Harris. Briden said the prisoner was at large on a ticket of -leave when she was last arrested, and that after she had served her three months in gaol she was sent back to serve the unexpired term of her first sentence. She had been in custody and convicted several times before her conviction for pot-stealing and a sentence of five years' penal servitude. The prisoner admitted all that was said against her was trtle. She had been subject to fits of klep tomania throughout her life, and magistrates and juries would not make allowance for that. She had a fit a few days ago and took the pan from a shop. She did not know what she did when fits were upon her. The magistrate would not admit the plea of klep tomania, and committed the prisoner for trial. Lieut. Posnett and E n sign Baker, of the Ist Battalion of the Ist Regiment, who are with the depots at Chatham, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to Madras to join the service companies. Major-General J. 11. Lefroy, Royal Artillery F.R.S., Director-General of Ordnance at the War Office, and head of the Ordnance Dopartment at Woolwich, will shortly, it is reported, be trans ferred to the Council of Military Education ; and Major-General G. Balfour, C. 8., late Madras Ar tillery, is named as likely to succeed General Le froy, assuming the title of Commandant of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. It is considered rather singular to select a retired Indian officer for such an appointment, especially when there are so many officers on the Retired List, both of the Royal Artil lery and Royal Engineers, thoroughly qualified and of equal if not superior claims, to occupy such an important official position. The residence in the Royal Arsenal, formerly in the occupation of Major- General Boxer, is likely to be allotted to General Lefroy's successor. C P 'A I (DT eit Znillllo. HER 211A.T ESTI' . OSBORNE, Feb. 3. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, drove in the grounds yes' terday afternoon. The Queen drove out with Princess Beatrice this morning. Prince Leopold also went out. LATEST INTELL LUNGS (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Feb. 3. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1201; the highest quotation dur' ing the day was 1214 ; the lowest, 1201. Sterling Exchange on London lOB4. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1154. 11 " 1885 ll* 11 " 1867 ll4. (6 10-40 llllnols 1 3 74. Erie Cotton—Mid. upland 2sk3' Petroleum—Standard White 3le. Flour, extra state, ss.oc. to $5.60c. Corn, old mixed, sl.4c. CROOKHAVEN, Feb. 4, 4.30 a.m. The Cunard Royal Mail steamer Calabria, fronl New York on the 26th ult., is now passing Brow bead Signal Station en route for Queenstown. She brings no mails. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 4. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Holsatia, from New York, has arrived here with 129 passengers, $1,162,104 in specie for England, and $77,537 for France. The English mails were forwarded by the 3. 30 a.m. special train. SPAIN. MADRID, Feb. 3. 'ln to-day's sitting of the Cortes a long discus sion arose between the Minister of Justice and Senor Herrera respecting the Concordat. It is rumoured that the Greek Government, in order to put an end to party intrigues, have de cided upon proposing, very shortly, to the Cortes a new candidate to the Throne. INDIA. BOMBAY, Jan. 27. In the case of the Old Bombay Bank versus the Asiatic Bank judgment was given in favour of the plaintiff, with costs. Between this case and that of the Oriental Bank, lately decided, the only material difference was that the agent of the Asiatic Bank had signed the agree ment on the 13th of May last, while the Oriental Bank had refused to do so. The Great Eastern has been signalled from tho South Coast to-day. ; THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 4. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Bangalore, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 30 passengers, £2,089 in specie, and general cargo. GIBRALTAR, Jan. 31. Exchange on London, 49n. On Paris, 5.22. SUEZ, Fee. 3. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Dounail with the India, China, Reunion, and Mauritius mails, 172 passengers, and 2,2G8 packages Of merchandise arrived here. Suez, Feb. 4. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Oolumbian, from Bombay 22d January, arrived here at 9 this morning. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 4. The steamer Great Britain, from Melbourne, lia o arrived here. FRANCE. PARIS, Feb. 3. BOURSE, Eeb. 3.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows :- -li per Cent. 3 per Cent End of month 73 571 Credit Mobilier Transatlantic 202 50 Credit Foncier 1735 Paris Gas 1670 Suez Canal 345 RAIL WA Bank Shares 2900 Ital , an gives 54 95 Austrian Fives Ottoman Loan 321 25 Do. Debt 44 90 Spanish Threes 26 50 Home Debt Deferred Orleans Western Northern Strasburg ......... Lyons and Medit erranean Southern..... 6071 Sardinian Austrian Lombard so2} North of Spain Saragossa Roman 4s} THE GREAT EASTERN. The following telegram has been received by Captain Sherard Osborn : BOMBAY, Jan. 28, 1.20 a.m.* Cruikshank to Osborn.—Great Eastern arrived off the harbour. All well. Enters at daylight. * This is evidently a mistake ; probably the Ist a.m. LIFEBOAT SERVICES. HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND, Feb. 3. Yesterday morning the schooner Mary Jane, of Aberdeen, Alexander Esson, master, with coals from the Tyne to the Frith of Fortb, struck on Hauxley Head Rocks during very thick weather, and in a heavy sea, - with a strong wind from the south (says Mr. E. Whitfield). The sea made a complete breach over the vessel, carrying away bul warks, water casks, and boat. The crew, consist ing of four men, hoisted a flag of distress, and took to the rigging, frcm which position they were promptly rescued by the Hauxley lifeboat Algernon and Eleanor, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, which was presented to it a few years since by the Dowager Duchess of Northumborland• TIIEDDLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE, Feb. 2. The Rev. L. D. Kennedy reports that the wrecked vessel from which the Theddlethoape lifeboat saved fourteen men was the barque Rozzeto, of Genoa, bound to that port from North Shields, with a cargo of coals. She was damaged by striking on the Dowsings, fills with water, and is likely to become a total wreck. Preparatory to its leaving Chatham to be sta tioned at Dover the 10th Company of the Royal Engineers has been filled up to the proper strength from the other companies quartered at the head quarters of the corps, Brompton Barracks. h e 10th Company is the one which was engaged in the Abyssinian Expedition. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Mess's. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gain ed a world-wide celebrity for their line old Irish whisky, is to 1)° called The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning. 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