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EIS ni tin, i 8.1 lon MR. AT IBIt&T SMITECS MONT BLANC is Open TO-ITIGIIT, at 8 o'clock, - nd every evening (except Sgaturday). The first Morning Repraentation will take pace On aturday, Dec. Bth. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAIIRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for the winter sea son. Fria •Ipol Comet Piston. M. Bouleourt.—Doors open at 8. Admlssion one Shilling. L aurent's new Varsoviana every sight. MR. W. S. WOODIN as RACHEL, in Les Horaces.—Mr. W. S. WOCDIN will have the honour of ring it representation of the celebrated trage dienne, with other new features every evening until further notice, in his NEW ENTER YAINSI'ENT, the OLIO cf ODDITIES, illustrated by 50 instan taneous Metamorphoses of Voice, Chara cter, and Costume, and a Panorama of the beautiful Lakes of Westmoreland and Cumberland, evening, at S.—Polygraphic-hall, King William. street, Cl.ar n-eross. PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SMITHFIELD CLUB.—The Arnual Exhibition of Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Im plements, &c., commences on Tuesday Mora'bg, and cores on Friday Evening,-1 I th, 120.1, 13th, and 14th December. BAZAAR, /-STREET, and BAKER-STREET. Oden irom daylight till "le in the evening. Admittance One Shilling. GENERAL POST-On - WE, DECEMBER, 1855. THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL will receive Tenders for the supply of WAX, COMPOSITION, and TAL .I,'"W CANDLES. and OIL and SOAP, for the use of this office, "Ting the year 1856. The Tenders must be delivered at the Secretary's Department of hi " effiee, at or before noon, on Saturday, the 22d instant, and they Po stmaster-General," be enclosed in sealed co , ers, addressed to " Der Atzjesty's and endorsed, "Tenders for Candles, BLe." ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. THIS EVENING, and every evening during the week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety Of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary effects. 3 f, „agiC and Mystery is an entirely new ente rtainment, pos fB2ing distinctive characteristics and pec uliar p hase s of " 4 "isement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition, for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the e 338 of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com pany' melodrama replete with startling positions and unex mted denouements ; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of th e,_l l lUblic-overy, night to appear as auxiliaries; and an ex ." , -.4 t nagna, In which all that seems to be is entirely beyond 130taids of probabilit: Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged an , " iafhionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum iTheatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he has 4 . been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of his. art 'as at any time or in any place been honoured with an amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual. Ire would attribute that success to three causes ; first, that in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of rerfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has F eared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on b e stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment of the fi rst mec h an i c ians and artists of the day ; and thirdly, that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those Who honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor ',Unity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner, e designing have succeeded in making dupes of ths credulous. f T he 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pre .es sor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the I , ll eatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which Sttend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has r!sulted, Professor Anderson's exposé of spirit-rapping and hra illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex- Pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible I n' Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of ths eol umunications which reach him on the subject. He regret, that e many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen / t v uo, from their position in society and their well-known in ellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have t een converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and s easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every ev ening:, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinione 'll,sirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within th- Y e ennl, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited ; ra tibli de c lueiclated. It is respectfully requested that this exposition will be accepted generally as Professor Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his M ultitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the names of the great and learned of the land should ha ve been made to figure in the documents emanating from, the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex vacted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem h`et 20 , and taken by that journal from the New York Spirt f„ -L ai Telegraph. It purports to emanate from an American 1 , 114 R - rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :—" Sir David Brewster :, a41,1 Y confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has ', l tnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be 1 . - poroughly nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the Sol ution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial, e trial hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits W ho thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate objects about the room, proved to be too much of a pies for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the "'eve, has recently left England, and the following account of W ho, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No. 648: This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and now in Italy, is a remarkable medium for all the manifestations Without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout th e Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offereciliim 2.000 a per annum if he would perform at his museum in New f orlc. Barnum then took it for granted that medium" could e bought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was taf lued. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply sud honestly remarked, that the money would have been very te eePtable to him, for he was poor, young (under 2o), an or- Phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid ??. losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner lose is life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful. Re inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is ‘ il e of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom ! n ight be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe rn spirit-rapping—does spirit-rapping gain or lose b 3 this accession to its adherents? and, with Barnum's endorse ment to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likel3 to be nego ti a t e d ? P ro f essor Anderson would believe not ; l ot, When he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of - reagland have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross aS windle, when he finds that the incumbent o f Wortle y (the Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts kis belief in it, and W rites a book on the subject, he considers it t' be time for hire to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which rt is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the 4 'es ° " 0 : 12 9 Advertiser of October 3 appears a l e tt er from Sir Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel, M company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that Which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that s pirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bed ,I n n'Poses. In the Morning Advertiser of the following day flow ever there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one :, 110 was present when he and Lord Brougham had their Zane° with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the ‘ 4l -0 (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the must e xtraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship'-' light hand, apart from any person, it played an air through out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of the people of the 19th century, with the facts before us that the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the greatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention" has.,, actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's -h a ll . professor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual ists of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum , will be received by the people Qf England as genuine honest at tempts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual Jugglers.. In the course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have visited the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed, than has ever before been assembled within its walls in so short a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even ing, the programme being continually changed. Grand mshionable Day Performance, or Saturday, December 8, at 2 o'clock ; the programme being thus arranged ; Part 1. —Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical Capabilities of the Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer lain, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in the air. Act 2, The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most complex forms of ornithological existence. Act 3. ,Le Livre des R;eusils Choisies : or, Puck's Own Pock e t R oo k, w ith . Puck himself within it. Typifying the evening's entertainment in the production of the very voile- Milieus from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude out of minuteness, in developing bulk where no space appears for its existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and in bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely place for to be found, Act 4, Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor mation—black into white, and the Discovery of every Article be the position which would seem she most inappropriate. Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verre ; or, the Casket of Croesus. Into which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent, and suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present, the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed, locked, and the key in the possession of the audience. Act 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency of Opacity. Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine and Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will no's only be in exhaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the word of command, producing soda-water, butter-milk Epsom salts, Port, Sherry, bra nd y , g in, rum, whisky, noye en , or any other wine or spirit required • and finally Proving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry, and occupying the whole space when tightly packed. f Act 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose o Spirit-rapping. Introducing the spirit - rapp in g table and tocsin of the invisibles. Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of the Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor phoses,' and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become transformed into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng land, France, Turkey, and Sardinia. Act. 10. The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which be who seats himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to the audience, under circumstances least expected, in a posi tion as peculiar as perplexing. Act. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the Nucleus of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the audience will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part of the evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin) in mid-air, into which all things will travel, and out of which all will be produced. Act. 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest Route to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of ridding ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages of the newly-discovered dia-terrestrial passage from the west ern to the eastern hemisphere. Doors open each evening at half-past 7 ; commence at 8. Private boxes, 1/. 115. 6d. and I/. ls., to be obtained at the Boa-office, or at the principal libraries; stalls, 4s. ; dress circle, 3s. ; upper boxes, 2s. ; pit, Is. ; gallery, 6d. The Box-office is open daily, from 11 till 5, under the direction of Mr. Chattorton, jun. Grand fashionable Morning Per formance on Saturday, December 8, at 2 o'clock, Doors open at half-past 1. No. t 9,713.) ROYAL SWEDISH RAILWAY COMPANY. ROPING TO lIULT. • Notice is hereby given that all Shares in thin Company, on wh'ch the Final Call of 21. per Share, payable on the let October, 1855, shall not have been paid previously to the Bth day of December, 1855, w.ll. in acconlance wish the Statutes of the oinnany, be For feited at the next meeting of the Directors after the last•mentioned date. By order of the 7, 0ar0. JOEL , . SADLEIR, Chairman. London, 18, Cannon-street, 23d Nov., 1855. L ONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. ELEVEN HI AND LAST CALL-NEW 501. AND NEW 401. SHARES. 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To which ,re added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre sautionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice, ind on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writ.ess on hese important disorders. By SAMUEL LAWERT M.D. 87, BEDFORD-s QU A. 1. E, LON DON, outwit, Honorary Member of tho'4embc7 of the University of Edin. D , ctor of Medicine, Matriculated o a s e p . i , ta k l e lt . edical Society. ' to Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, point out the fearful eon in habits, y rregularities, and eacesses, The essential object of this treatise ages O r i li, degradation In Man :el uences resulting trom certain than, perhaps, any :Inch have produced more misery oFis g ts, Its perusal is ~ed, and premature decay at all Stages :tiler class of disease known to modern pathiofle, i,rtieularly recommended to persons antertai .e eir physical condition, and who are conscious of having hazardell secret doubts o , t,r , health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being fs eeti fled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that rrinciPles of personal management which cannot be vlolateci th"e a": 3, be r p e e in nalties lec,rring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret wlth°B' no heyday 0 inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these succeed , eienee cannot apply a cur eay be mitigated, tem the sting of their hitterness ma . id how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and abov7a e l d i . , at there '.3 scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functions' Tangernent to which the timely aid of ee Author ha. for a series of years been engaged in an exteinslvi . ;.; sci_ice in the treatment of these delicate complaints, which have. ortunatele been too genere.lly conildeJ ti the core of ignors.... emniries, who inflict grew inivy on those w;,o are Induced to plge.. faith in their pretensions. NERVOUS DEBILITY e - ay ce toad price f.'s, of Messrs. Sher wood and Co., 23, Peternester.rew; Msnuay, 53, Oxford-street ; Leicester-square; Maini. Horne, 19, or free fly post for 31, Cornhill ; ra st ;reps to any address from. the Antl - or's residences. 37. lie ,, - ford-s inare. At home for consultation daily from eleven till two, and from six ill eight. 4' ..4 4 ` fist i Cb Ater, f • A -, .411111151111 .4 e .10 ; t7ticiaa . " 0,1)1 • Ae• • ~4pAildit.,t- -• zris4 , ) ‘ r • : 4:a - 140,7 -, X',* I :• 4 t , . . • 2 ..41 ss • Jib mda. 41 1. ;1‘ • _, ' l4 -= - 4341 ,4 P 4 0 1 7. So.. o p • ad ith,, evp.., 4 04(- r:u OIT. 'ffr#, on the part of the Russians to spare the officers' make them prisoners, as the balls struck all r and they fired at us repeatedly when running i n , of th 3 shots being fired within a few yards of u; a , should certainly have been bayoneted in a few seconds ha I not the officer arrived at the moment he did. Under the circumstances in which we were attacked, and from the nature of the grout I, it was impossible to estimate with any degree of accuracy the number of the Russian soldiers engaged, but I should consider that at the lowest estimation there were from 150 to 200, be. sides the Cossacks who appeared after the firing was over. It was also difficult to judge of the exact time that the firing cont i nued, but I should say that from fi rs t to last it could no t h ave b een less than from seven to . eight minutes, whi c h a l t h ough the aim of the Russ i an soldiers was very b a d, fully dead bodies .bplaces ifluousn;d n sad in her apee Jog, were each accounts forth the afterwards nary manner in which the boat w as r iddl e d, as was a f ter . wards proved when th e b oa t was recovered - by H.M.S. pierced d k w ; t t h h the not four less d etah poor fel low who had been hit in two and had tied his handkerchief roinid it Te T ri'lleetly when lying wounded in the bottom of. the boat), wag struck by three balls in the body and so killed. As I was heini dragged by the soldiers towards the houses, I encount're 1 an elderly officer in the uniform, of the Russian navy, whom I now saw for the first time, and who, I have since heard, was the lieutenant of the telegraph station ; I immediately addressed him in French and English; he returned me no answer, but shook his fist,, in which he carried a cane, in my face, in the most insulting manner, although I was held by eight or ten soldiery. Addressing the men who held me, he made them run me up towards the houses, he himself running beside us, while one of the Cossacks who had now appeared on the scene urged me forward by repeated blows of his lance in the back as ho follow( dcn his horse. Oa our ar rival at the houses, we found two small Russian carts ready at the door of the largest ; the officer in the naval uniform gave directions for us to be bound, which was immediately done, by tying our arms behind our backs with a piece of small rope, the officer himself superintend ing and assisting with his own hands to draw the cords tighter. _ _ - Mr. Snlivan and _myself_ were then thrown on our backs in one Of the carts, being also tied to the cart itself, and driven off at a rapid pace towards Hokum, with a Cossack escort. The men, after being bound in the same manner, and then tied together two and two, were har ried off on foot in the same direction, urged forward by blows of the Cossack lances behind, the slightly wounded and few that were unhurt being compelled to support and drag their more severely wounded comrades with them. During the time that we were being bound the military officer was also present, but the older officer, in the'naval uniform, evidently directed all the proceed. ir gs. "The soldiers who perpetrated this most barbarous out rage were not irregular troops or militia, but belonged to one of the best Russian reg i men t s , th e grena di ers o f Frede-ick William of Prussia, as they are called, the King of Prussia being their colonel. These troops had only come down from Eckness to Hango the same morn ine, and had only been a fear hours at Hango when the affair occurred. After our men had proceeded some way towards Eckness, the Russians, perceiving that it mai quite impossible for the wounded men to march so far in t sir suffering state (the distance being 20 to 25 English miles), procured carts, in whic'i they were tied, and conveye I after Mr. Sullivan and myself to that place. To return to those who had in the first place taken refrge under the jetty, they consisted of Dr. Easton, ore Finnish captain, and one sailor from the boat, and Lor ton, the midshipmen's stewnr3, who (after being shot down by my side whilst carrying the flag of truce) had contrived to creep under the pier. These were not dis covered by the Russian soldiers at that time, and re mained in their concealment for more than two hours, considering us all killed, and fearing to come out until the departure of the Russian soldiers. Finding at length that the Russian soldiers Lad left the place, they came out. Dr. Easton wishing to dress Lorton's wound, as it was serious, before going off to the ship, they ei.tered cne o - the Russian houses for that purpose, but unfortu nately whilst they were so engaged some Russian sol diers returned, and surrounding the house, took them all prisoners, and placing them all in oarts conveyed them also to Eckness. Most unaccountably the soldiers still allowed the boat to remain in the Caine position, with, as they imagined, five dead bodies in her ; but happily one man, John Brown, although severely wounded in two places, was not dead, and succeeded during the night in getting off from the shore, and was discovered by the Cossack next morning, as mentioned in Capt. Fanshawo's report. When Mr. Sullivan and myself arrived within two miles of Eckness we found a Russian regiment encamped outside of the town. The officers of this regiment imme diately cut the cords with which we had been bound, but not before they bad left marks on our arms which were not effaced for more than three weeks ; and they also ex pressed much indignation at our being bound in so unne cessary and barbarous a manner. We waited at this place until the arrival of Gen. Mol lar, the commanding officer of the district, who was ex pected the sane afternoon. On t. is arrival I immediately told him the state of the case, and requested him to send at once a boat with a flag of truce to H.M.S. Cossack, to communicate with Capt. Fanshawe and inform him of what tad happened. He replied that it was not in his power to do so without permission from Gen. de Berg, but that if I wrote to Capt. Fanshawe he had no doubt Gen. de Berg would forward it immediately from Eel singfors. Gen. Moller remained until the arrival of the men who were prisoners, and then we all proceeded with him to Eckness. In crossing the river to that place I perceived, placed in the same boat with myself, the arms which had been taken out of the cutter, as also the boarding-pike on which we had carried the flag of truce, but from which the flag was now removed. On arriving at Eekness the wounded men were placed in the hospital, and the unwounded in a house in the town, with a guard over them. Mr. SuMy:in and myself accompanied Gen. Molar to his house, where he inquired at greater length into tLe case. He appeared veay much annoyed with the con duct of the Russian officers at Hango, and I have also reason to believe that ho placed the young military offi cer tinder arrest the same evening, under which he was kept until General Moller received orders from the higher authorities to release him. Dr. Easton and the others who had been with him ar rived at Eckness the same evening about 10 o'clock. D►. Easton was allowed to see the wounded next day, but was not permitted to remain with them, as he desired, being :•emoved to Helsingfors two days afterwards. Mr. Sullivan and myself were removed to Helsingfors on the second day after our arrival at Eckness. I imme diately sent my letter for Captain Fanahawe to General de Berg, and was informed it would be sent by the first opportunity, although it was not forwarded for nearly two months afterwards. Mr. Sullivar, Dr. Easton. and myself were kept in close confinement to our rooms, with sentries at the doors, for five weeks after our capture. After that time we were treated more leniently and kindly. , th l e found t h h e e atte .. nothing r the first d a y As we were all separated, I could hear of the fate of those who remained of my unfortunate boat's s Of the fate of the poor wou n d, d f e ll ows I have as yet crew, tube. 3,yi b. un woundedsuasii)l;l e , ietoeteinnf treated rir i e. n ea y atdeT a vdh r retiyvo withal gamoi a d t o od O tffeh d raa e tit s ne s a af ; ( kindness. been unable to hear anything. The names of those who fell in this unfortunate affair, being already known to their lordships, it is unnecessary to repeat them in this place ; suffice it to say, that in this murderous attack, 1 Russian prisoner was killed, 3 were badly wounded, and 1 escaped by leaping under the jetty ; of the total of 17 English present, 5 were killed, 5 were merely wounded, m 3 escape a i L 1 e d ulnbhyu unhurt being f t under heee f t e h e e r, pier, Mr. andsei Sullivan o y were taken prisoners on shore, aLd the other eot of , were tight, protected by keeping as much as possible sie d of the boat. nearly covered by the water on the o that mstances connected taking into consideration all the circumstances perceive u that no precau with this melancholy day, will hich is necessary and It only remains for met o o wa h tion was omitted on our part . w os :..... every au dn reason signa t o o f s uapil proper to be used on snoh 1. That the flag of trace from the shore, and remained ex hibited at a long distance the whole time. conspicuous during of being in no way answered, or 2. That the Bag o! being armed force e el wa s no armed force on the spot, and in pose that there oes we acted in strict accordance with these circumstances the . Thatg la on reaching the shore, no Russian officer or ye of war in advancing to the shore. that there was a lieutenant of the navy in the telegraph authority being ready to meet us, but we, knowing well station immediately above us, I was perfectly authorised in advancing under the full protection of the flag of truce to communicate with him (he being the nearest naval or military authority), and so carrying out my im perative duty, and fulfil my mission, having, of course, any signal ofhanlgkviinsdible,wemandeed, taken all proper and necessary precautions that no com munications should be held with the inhabitants without his sanction. All our proceedings being thus in strict accordance with the laws of war, I hope it will plainly be seen that not the smallest pretext was afforded by us to the Rus sian officers and soldiers for their treacherous and pre meditated ambush, and murderous and cowardly assan3 upon a small unarmed party, defenceless and incapable of defence, and under the full and legitimate proteotifl . of that flag whose sanctity has always been uckn °w ledged in civilised warfare.—l have, &o. STE. LOUIS ' GENE To the Secretary of the Admiralty. sospio clearly ff. a theirnd dliosa4rtnclitodit :hot mysel fielpryss,rie. Nuni ........A. very strong CHURCH-RATE CONTEST AT polling. For the rate, Neath. There were day s'three for the rate 49.—Smansect 165 ; against, 116 ; major ity and exciting church-rate Herald. L e rcesTEnsalßE.—An adjourned in. THE MURDER IN John Acres Fo k w es was held at all an importantnen v e rdi ot. particulars p n , on the beds' of quest We dnes day, when the evidence of William Snareston on _ brother of the man who was committed for Fowkea, Monday on a charge of having committed the trial on contest has just terminated at that he gave on Monday, that the jury, after a very the report which appeared in The Sun on Wednesday, it will be seen that William Fowkea swore to having seen hie brother John (the prisoner) at the window at the time of the shooting, and that this was the strongest evidence adduced against the prisoner. At the inquest on Wed; that nesday he swore that he did not see his brother at long n urde. investigation, w a ss° opp os i te returned in er time. He s aw a f ace, and supposed it was his broth ,r e a l i o from the expressions he had used that n ight. t . ° J.- report swore that he saw no smo k e w h en lie heard b of a firearm. H e cou ld not te ll w h e ther It was A gun or a pistol that was fired. PUBLICATIONS. 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. ANEW STORY by Miss KAVANAGH, entitled RACHEL GR. IY, in I vol., will be shortly published by Alessi , . 14urst and Blackett, successors to Mr. Colburn. Orders received by all Booksellers, and at all the Libraries. VALUABLE LITERARY PRESENT, CHEAP EDITION of MISS STRICK LAND'S LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGL kN D. With all the late Improvements and Portraits of every Queen. in 8 volumes, price 7s. 6d. each, bound, either of which may be had separately. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Cclburn. On the 10th will be publishe, in 3 vols. post Bve., ZAIDEE. ARO MA NC E. Wm. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. MIRTHFUL CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Now ready, 10th edition, in 3 vols., with numerous Illustrations by Cruikshank and Leech, 215., r HE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS; or, Mirth and Marvels. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. common sense to command themselves, let alone a body of men, to say the least of them, as I have already stated, lath better than demi-savages, as they proved themselves. The officer who is in per foiana.nce of his duty, outrageously assaulted by a mob of plunderers miles from their cantonments— saving his own life and those of others around him— is immediately placed in arrest for seven days, and then coolly informed by the Deputy Adjutant- General that the Lieut.-General Commanding can not allow him to serve with this force any longer, and that he must leave for England. at once, and present himself to Lord Panmure for his decision ! of the case, who it his hoped will take a more honest and just view of it than General Vivian. .The officers of the contingent are highly incensed at the decision given against Major Guernsey. He bears with him letters from most of the officers of rank in the force, approving of his conduct, regretting his loss, and indignant at the injustice done him. Not a sentence is breathed of Major Guernsey's case in the general orders of the day ; but in a few days a letter is sent to the generals of division, &c., requesting them to read it to all the officers under their command. The purport of it is that General Vivian requests and commands that nq officer will draw his sword for the future on any Turk, under any circumstances ; but if they commit a crime, their regiment is to be found out, and they are to be handed over for punishment. The Turks being now aware of such an order, place it all to fear, and act accordingly. Turkish prejudices, more especially when mixed up with them politically, are to be viewed in a dif ferent light than when largo bodies of troops are congregated together, such as are at present in Kerte!), &c., consisting of material scraped to gether from all parts of the Ottoman empire. In stead of our bending to suit their ideas, half bar barous, it should be the object of the officer i❑ command, as far as compatible with the order of things, to bend them to the form of the civilised portion of the army of the two great nations doing duty in Kertch and its vicinity. General Vivian may rest assured—and it is the opinion of the principal generals and officers under his command —that his soothing system, of letting no European whatever interfere for the future with the Turks, as far as punishment goes, for any crime, will go far to render the force nugatory and useless. Their own officers, from their highest pasha downwards, are men so ignorant that, if he got the Sultan's do minions, one of them could not sign his name. An English officer would be ashamed to be seen in a tent with one of them, so degraded, and vile, and lost to all decency are the characters of those men, more especially when we know and rest assured that the source of their appointment proceeded originally from a calling so disgusting and so pol luted that it can hardly be named or even hinted at. Such are the proteges to be brought under British rule by mild treatment. I can give the opinion of a French officer who witnessed the affray with the provost marshal. If, says he, a French officer were treated in a similar manner to your provost marshal, more especially in the exe cution of his duty, I should feel degraded if I did not order out every man of the French army in Kertch, and decimate them on the spat, for inter fering with justice. The destruction of public pro perty fresh from England is disgraceful in the extreme ; only within the last week I witnessed such havoc and waste that it is high time John Bull should open his eyes to the facts. At Fort St. Paul I witnessed the landing of 700 sheep on the beach, per the Tynemouth, from Constantino ple, ordered there by the command of Captain Hall, of the Miranda frigate. No person was pre sent to receive them ; the consequence was, that nearly one half of them were lost (Captain Hall's duty seems to be chiefly riding with an aide-de camp two government horses, provided by order of General Vivian, through the streets of Kertch) by the negligence of giving an ord.ar for the com missariat to receive them. The same vessel brought up 300 bags of barley, which were landed on the beach. No person ever came to receive them. I saw a lot of Turks, each with a horse, the next day feeding out of sacks ; after they had finished, the remaining portion was thrown away, so that out of 300 bags only 120 remained untouched. Any per son walking on the - beach for the last fortnight could have perceived several _cages of medicine, ex posed to every danger, addressed "The Inspector- General, Turkish Contingent ; " there they remain, and are likely to remain. The same remark ap plies to the purveyor's stores. I witnessed several cases of lamps lying in the same condition, the cases burst open, and any one that chose helping himself to what he pleased. Now, instead of Gen. Vivian showing off through the streets of Kertch daily, with a guard or escort of Turkish Lancers, if ho would give his attention to these trifles, he would far better serve his men and the country that employs him. In Madras he never saw ser vice, and it is very unlikely while lie is employed here that he will ever have the chance of seeing a shot fired, with his Brummagen brigadiers, as Sir Cohn Campbell most felicitously designated them. Major-Gen. Shirley arrived here a fortnight back. with the cavalry of the contingent, and after re maining this length of time and losing several of the best horses, it is now found out there is no stabling or forage for them in Kertch. They are at last ordered to Eupatoria, where it is pretty certain they will be hardly allowed to land, and they will most probably proceed to Buyukdere or , Varna. Surely such wanton waste of public money must be put an end to—there is no denying it. The head-quarter staff of the contingent are ineffi cient, and not up to their work. General Vivian no doubt must have been delighted to have pleased and promoted his friends from the Madras Army ; but if the country pays for service supposed to be rendered, it ought to have the best men for the money it affords. His staff a t h ea d- quar t ers con sists of the following, where they came from being stated: —Deputy Adjutant-General, Lieutenant- Colonel Crewe, captain Madras Army ; Assistant Adjutant-General, Major Goldsmid, lieutenant, ! Madras Army ; Deputy Assistant Adjutant-Gene ral, Captain Hearne, lieutenant Madras Army ; Assistant Deputy Quartermaster-General, Major J. Luther Vaughan, lieutenant, Madras Army ; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, Captain J. L. Parry, lieutenant, Madras Army. All the brigadiers are from the Indian army, the last pro moted is Paymaster of Warley Barracks, and One of the Generals of Division is an Indian officer, who commanded a company in .Burmah two years back, but never was under fire in his life. One of those staff gentlemen, who got himself made a Pacha some weeks ago by a commission from the Sultan, to flatter his vanity, had the good taste and feeling to express publicly at Missiri's Hotel, Constantinople, a short time back, that Lord Pan inure had no right whatever to appoint an officer from the Queen's service. Having that opinion surely discretion should have made him keep it to himself. It certainly was rather an awkward expression to use. However, the officers of the Queen's army present treated it as it deserved, Constituted as at present, the Turkish Contingent can never repay the money expended on it in any one way. At a future period I will give you a further detail of its proceedings in Kertch. THE ADULTERATION OF FOOD. A large number of medical men, chemists, and phar maceutists, assembled last night at the rooms of the Phar rnarceutical Society, Bloomsbury-square, in order to hear a communication by Dr. Hassall. Amongst those pre sent we noticed Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Dr. Hassall, Dr. O'Connor, Dr. Dillon, Dr. Semple, Dr. Bernays, Ph. D., Dr. Normandy, Messrs. Alexander Ure, F.R.C.S., E. Joseph, M.R.C.S., Jabez Hogg, M.R.C.S., Jacob Bell, Wm. Bastick, Curtis, Mormon, Hills, Squire, Hanbury, &c. The subject was the adulteration of annatto, a vegetable dye, much used by dyers, painters, soapmakers, and also employed in the coloration of milk, butter, and cheese. This communication was of a very elaborate character, and it contained the results of the microscopi cal and chemical examination of 34 samples of annatto. The following ingredients were detected :--Very large quantities of sago, wheat, rye, and barley, in 14 speci mens ; tumeric powder in several ; chalk in a great many (this in some instances amounting to over 60 per cent.) ; sulphate of lime or gypsum in several, salt in a great many, alkali in many ; red earths, as Venetian red and ruddle, in a great many, lead in three samples, and cop per in others. To such an extent was the adulteration carried that some of the samples contained not more than 30 per cent. of annatto. Dr. Hassell admitted that alkali was necessary in order to render it more soluble, and possibly a small quantity of starch, but any excess of this, and all the other articles, Dr. Hassall regarded as adulterations. SAVINGS-BANKS.—Notwithitanding the many causes of distress among the industrious classes, the deposits and interest due to depositors in the Finsbur y Bank, Sekforde street, according to the ac counts made u p to the 30th of November, remain nea rl y the same as at the beginning of the year. During the last 12 months it appears that the deposits amounted to 74,36 N., the re payments to 82,593/., the interest to 8,6571., and the capital to 269,3961. The balance in their favour at the National Debt-office also esleeds the amount due on L their accounts. TIM MASSACRE AT HANGO HEA.I). The following official report of the circumstances attending the attack upon the boat of her Ma jesty's ship Cossack, at Hango Head, has been fur nished by Lieut. Geneste, at the request of the Lords Commissioners of the Board of Admiralty •r London, Nov. 29, 1855. Sir,—ln compliance with the order of the 22d inst., received from you, directing me to transmit 0 you, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Ad miralty a full and detailed account of the circumstances attending the landing from the boat of H.M.S. Cossack, at Hauge Head, and of the attack made upon her by the Riissian soldier?, I have the honour to state that, on Tuesday, sth June last, when lying .off Range Head, in H.M.S. Cossack, I received orders from Capt.Faushawe to proceed on shore in the cutter of that ship, with a flag of truce, to land five Finnish captains, Russian sub jects, and to communicate with the Russian .officer or officers at that place, to inform him, for what purpose I had come on shore, and also to acquaint him that we had received orders to take or destroy all the small Russian coasting vessels or boats found passing and repa sing along the coast. Capt. Fanshawe also informed me that he had given permission to the stewards to go in the boat, and that if the Russian officer whom I Should meet on shore had no objection, and the inhabitants were willing to sell any eggs or poultry to them, I was to permitthem to purchasethese articles, but I was on no account to permit their being with me to interfere in any way with the performance of the duty on which I was sent ; nor, if the things which they wished to purchase were not immediately at hand, were we to wait for them, nor on any account to permit them to detain the boat. Having received my orders I found the cutter at the gangway manned with the ordinary harbour boat's crew, of boys and young hands, she having another fighting boat's crew of older and stronger men, who were always sent in her when going away from the ship for warlike purposes, but who were not employed in this instance ; the Finnish prisoners, wirh their luggage, being in the boat, as also the three stewards, Mr. Sullivan, midship- man of the boat, and Dr. Easton, who had obtained leave to come with the boat for the pleasure of the pull and his own amusement. The muskets belonging to the boat were in her, as is customary whenever a boat is sent away from the ship in war time in an enemy's waters. The boat's magazine was also in the boat containing its usual complement ; that is, only cartridges for the muskets, two small blue lights for signals, one small rocket for the same purpose, and one slow match. The muskets were in the bottom of the baac, under the baggage belonging to the priso ner; ; the crew had not their cartoucha boxes on, they being attached to the muskets, and with them in the bottom of the boat. _ _ . . ----- As soon as we hai left the ship the coxswain of the • - boat asked me if he should serve out the ammunition to the men, and it the muskets should be loaded, as is the usual custom on going away from a ship in War time. I replied, " Certainly not ; that as we were going with a flag of truce we should not require them." In conse quence of this order the magazine was not unlocked, and no ammunition was given out, nor any musket loaded. When a little distance from the ship, and at least a mile and a-half from the shore, I ordered the flag of truce to be hoisted in th e b ow o f th e b oa t, it b e i n g the most conspicuous place, and it remained there during the whole time of our approach to the shore, equally visible as the boat herself. Theflag was of white bunting, attached to the end of a boarding-pike. As the boat approached the shore I examined most attentively with my glasses the beach and neighbouring coast and rocks, to see if I could dis cern the presen.ze of any Russian force, bat nothing whatever could be observed to indicate there being any troops in the neighbourhood. I was not, therefore, sur prised that the flag of truce was not answered, as we had no reason to suppose that we should find any soldiers there. _ _ The flag of truce not being answered in any way, and no signal of any kind being made, I of course concluded that there could not be any Russizn troops in the neigh bourhood, and therefore proceeded slowly to the shore to fulfil my mission, the flag of truce being still kept in the most conspicuous position. . . . On arriving at the jetty, no person being visible ex cept two women standing at the door of one of the houses, and one peasant who ran across between two houses, I landed the Russian prisoners and their bag gage, and giving particular orders t U Mr. Sullivan not to let any of the boat's crew leave the boat, proceeded to accomplish the remaining part of my mission by com municating with the Russian lieutenant at the telegraph station, to acquaint him with the reason of my coming on share close to his station, a,n,d to tall bim our orders to put a stop to the coasting trade, as I have before mentioned. The telegraph station was on the hill, immediately above where we landed on the jetty ; the road to it ran round the bottom of the hill ; in so doing, approaching the houses on the beach, and being under three minutes' walk from the boat. The Russian prisoners accompa nied me (in order to be delivered to the officer), as did also Dr. Easton. I also permitted the three stewards to follow me, but ordered them particularly to keep close to me, not to communicate with the inhabitants or attempt to purchase anything, even if offered, until I had given them permission, after having, in the first place, obtained the sanction of the Russian officer. _ The stewards were dressed in plain clothes, as were the Russian prisoners, and they could in no way be dis tinguished from them. I beg to state that the stewards being with me did not in the least influence my proceed ings • that I should have advanced to communicate with the officer at the telegraph station equally whether they had been with me sr not ; the consideration as to whe ther they should obtain a few eggs and poultry not being of the smallest moment. My intention was, on finish ing my official communication with the Russian officer, to ask him if he had any objection to their obtaining anything that was for sale on the spot, and, if he had consented, I should have permitted them to do so, but should not have allowed them to go away from the sta tion or detain the boat. On moving from the boat I gave the flag of truce to Lorton, the midshipman's steward, who carried it beside me, high and conspicuous in the air. Being thus in the act of carrying out my obvious and imperative duty, and bona fide proceeding V) find the nearest military authority, with whom the duty required me to communicate, under the full protection of the flag of truce, my astonishment may be imagined when, before we had proceeded 40 to 50 paces from the boat, a heavy fire was suddenly opened upon our small and utterly de fenceless party, from all sides, by Russian soldiers, who, having hitherto lain carefully and treacherously con cealed, now first gave notice of their presence as, after a murderous volley, they leaped from behind rocks and advanced on us, uttering the most furious cries and firing rapidly as they came. Of our small party who were on the pier several fel at the first fire ; Lundstrum, one of the Finnish captains, called out in Russian to stop the firing, but was immedi ately shot down with a bullet through his head ; three of the other Russian prisoners Uso fell wounded, and one, with Dr. Easton, leaped into the wat.:r and got under shelter of the pier. The captain's and gun-room steward were both killed. The midshipmen's steward, who carried the flag of truce, was shot down with a ball in the hip the first fire. I immediately took the flag of truce from him, and, hold ing it up in the air, and pointi ng t o it, called out in French and English, and did all I could to prevent them firing on the boat. Of the party who had landed, I was the only one left standing in less than half-a-minute after the fire opened. Fora moment the soldiers seemed puzzled, and partially stopped their firing, but immediately afterwards resumed it harder than ever, advancing upon us with frightful yells. Of the poor fellows in the boat many fell at the first fire, killed or wounded, one jumped immediately into the water and got under the jetty, by which means he escaped being hit ; the others seeing the numbers of the soldiers and the impossibility of resistance, not having even a loaded weapon or the powder to load one with, also jumped into the water, and hung on the off-sido. )f the boat, keeping as far down in the water as po"°_ l °_ for protection. But even there they were not safe, re a 3 on although not a blow had been struck or thman ner to fire through and through the boat, several of the Russianour part soldiersan d no t a continuedm an w was now the visible ln o smost h i n a r n u i r h o : i t ? b us o sh a e t , w a s completely riddled, killing and woanding off-side. poor fellows who were in the water on the and not having succeeded in kilkn-resistance from their rushed at me with the bayoneteess;l 20 being close round numbers was, of course, d at this moment, when their In the meantime, on shore, the me, and many more behind few ' feet of my breast, the Rus sianweapons were within almost breathless, and just got be tween officer ran up infuriated soldiers in time to keep me and his I immediately showed and spoke to him in French and gsomldeiewrsitrhas thheedirdboawnns: andwithgood replied French, English ; be le pas Francais. " By his directions I was j e ee par the soldiers, who at once deprived ssatvoepinhyis life. firing, who still in the and took the b • of my sword and glasses , me f truce attached to it out of my hand. with the flag o then commenced pulling me off to the houses, I, of They h t ion h i ffis m e tac ni e t nr h b t e il a yn n fl t k es a er g a n ifze o er d f de t t r b o o e y e ep. course, endeavouring to remain, trying to make the tmhorsotugcholttbeloboodate,dinmwahnincehr ncoopnetirnsounedwatso ,liosaibdiea,nads the fire killed and wounded men were in the bottom of the boat. They did not cease firing for some time, and then went down and got into the boat, and took prisoners the poor fellows who were on the other side of her, only two of whom had not been hit. They then took the weapons which were in the bottom of the boat, and which they could not possibly have seen before they got into the boat, as also the magazine ; and with these, and dragging tbeirprisoners, wounded and unwounded, al on g with them, c a m e up from the boat to the houses. Mr. Sullivan had also a most extraordinary escape ; be was on the jetty, c l ose by the boat, w h en the firing s com menced, and moved up towards the end of it afterfae art rd all round him, an d was t a ken prisoner almost at the same moment as myself, to an orders or wish I do not a tt r ib u t e out escape y li be was not hit, a lth oug h t h e b a ll s ploughed up th e NEW CHRISTMAS EOM. Price 3s. Gd., cloth gilt, HE SPIRIT OF THE HOLY. Bs - Mrs. OWEN, Author of " The Heroines of History." " This e'egant tale is pronounced to be one of the most thrilling and i,,teresting pieces of natural fiction which have appeared since Mrs Inchbald's ' Simple Story.' " Loudon: George Routledge and Co., 2, Farringdon-street. Just published, price Half-a-Crown, SANITARY REFORM and SANITARY lIEFOR NIERS ; for the information of Metropolitan Vestries and Local Boards of Health. With an Abridgment of the Metropo litan Local liana , ement Act. London : Edward Stanford, 6, Charing-cross. Just Published, price in cloth, 2s. 6d. ; by post, 2s. Gd.; as a Pocket book, with It et.illic Paper and Pencil, 4s. Gd. ; by post, 4s. 6d., R UFF'S GUIDE to the TLRF ; or, Pocket Racing Companion for 185 G. - - CONTENTS :—The Nominations for Great Britain and Ireland for 1 , 456, and the Great , stakes for 1857: a complete Calendar of the Races in Great Britain and I eland for 1855 ; the Horses Indexed. with their Pedigrees; Laws of Racing, Lengths of Courses ; Revised rt,ld Et.lar ed Lists of the Trainers; Winners of the Great Paces from their commencement; Races to come ; Derby Lots, &c , &c. Loudon : Viper, Stephenson, and Spence, 23, Paternoster-row. The Third Elition.—Just published, price 55., by s.:st, freo. a.. 6d ON TRUE az FALSE SPERMATORRIICEA, with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the -lufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. From -he German 01 Dr. VICKI , Ou; , . With an Introduction by the Editor, containing a complete exposure of the system of terrorism and extortion pursued by the advertising quacks of the metropolis towards those who are credulous enough to seek their aid. " or. elektorti 4 s known to English readers by his frequent preen contributions to German medical literature. This Is the first .ime, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. Wo trust this mr.y not be the last, if he shall iet t3 ct, any ither equally flagrant evil which it may be in his p)wor to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and • Mrrdical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book t3ould find to way into the hands of those who suffer from the coin plaint of which it treats, we aro satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of coo importimoe, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money ......This volume is Welt qualified to put an end to th e empirical systml of treating Spermatorrheea, and to place tho treat ment upon moo rational and physiological ba s i s. It is, therefore likely to do much good." , London: 11. Ballicre, 219, Regent-street. PENALTY FOR SHOOTING A PHEASANT. At the Wingham Petty Sessions yesterday (Thursday) before Mr. M. Bell (chairman), S ir B roo k W. Bridges, Bart., and mix other county magistrates, a youth of the name of Henry Hoile, about 17 years of age, and ap parently somewhat deficient in his intellect, was charged with having unlawfully killed certain game, to wit, one pheasant, the property of Mr. Edward R. Rice, M.P. for Dover, at the parish of Silmonstone, on the 28th ult. A keeper in the service of Mr. Rice deposed' that about a quarter past two on the day in question he was in Mount. Plewant Wood, on the Dane Court estate, when he heard a gun fire. He immediately went to the spot, and saw the defendant on a footpath on Mr. Harvey's land, which joined Mr. Rice's. Witness asked him what he bad been shooting. Defendant replied, " Rooks." The next morning witness went to the cover immediately opposite where he saw the defendant the previous day, and then, within shot of the footpath, he found a cock pheasant dead, having been shot. It was lying on the ground, not covered up or hid in any way. Witness watched the plain, and about 11 o'clock the defendant passed, but did not touch the bird ; he also came again at 3 o'clock but did not interfere with it. Witness then went up to the defendant and charged him with having shot the pheasant. At first he denied it, but subsequently admitted that he did shoot at the pheasants "to scare them away." Defendant was employed as "rook boy" by Mr. Harvey. Thomas Dawkins, yardsman to Mr. RiCe, preyed having heard the defendant say, while in custody of the previous witness, that he shot at the pheasant, but did not intend to kill it ; he only wanted to Jrighten it. He cried very much at the time and said he was very sorry. Defendant—l was sent there 0 keep things off my mazter's wheat, and I shot at the birds, but not to kill them. I shot at them with a stone. Sir Brook Bridges— Your master, no doubt, told you to shoot the rooks. Defendant—But there is a terrible many of them other birds, aid I was told to drive all birds off the land. Dawkins expressed his belief that the pheasant had been killed by shot and not with a stone. The Bench consulted together, after which The Chairman told the defendant that the magis trates considered that the case was clearly proved against him. He was liable to a penalty of 51., but they would only order him to pay 1/. and 17s. 6 , 1. costs, or one month's imprisonment with Lard labour. Defendant—l have no money but what I work for. Sir B. Bridges—lt will be a very good warning to you. Defendant—Will you allow me atYy time? C hairm n—No. Defendant—l have got 103. Chairman—That won't do. Defendant was accordingly taken to prison. ALLEGED BURNING OF A NETYLY-BORN CHILD. A shocking case has been investigated before Mr, jiiwison, coroner, and a jury at Cleckbeaton, in which Eliza Woo(7, of C!eckheaton, a delicate, fair-complexioned, and respectAble•looking young woman, was alleged to have destroyed her offspring, the birth of which she had unlawfully concealed. The woman resided in a sort of cellar-dwelling, at Moor-end, CleckheAton, and was em ployed at a worsted mill in the vicinity. She had one child, about two years and a half old, the offspring of her marriage with her late husband, who died somewhat more than a year ago. Since her husband's decease she formed a connection with a man who, we are credibly in formed, was employed as an overlooker at the mill in which she worked, aad after she had become pregnant he married another woman. The neighbours observed her condition, but she never mentioned the subject to them. On the Wednesday of last week, however, they noticed that the door of Mrs. Wood's house was locked, and a Mrs. Wooller saw her in bed, on which occasion she said she had been poorly, but was then better. The parochial constable was informed of the suspicions which had been aroused, and eventually Mr. Sykes, surgeon, on having his attention directed to the woman, made such discoveries as can lead to no other conclusion than that the unfortunate woman bad not only been confined of a mature male child, but had deliberately destroyed it by burning. Among the ashes of the grate were found eight small portions of burnt bone, some of them forming part of the leg, foot, and great toe. The child was found in the bed, pinned up in a napkin, and much burnt and mutilated. The legs, from the knees, were wanting, and the thighs, buttocks, and abdomen were much burnt, as well as the lower part of the chest. Be fore the discovery of the burnt body, the mother, in reply to repeated questions as to what she had done with the child, said at last, " I burnt it." She said the child, when born, fell among the ashes, and she becom ing senseless, it was burnt to death. Mr. Sykes gave it as his decided opinion that the child was put alive upon the fire, and that the accused then washed it, and thus blisters were produced, and the charred legs came off. After a long investigation the. jury returned as their verdict—" That the child was put on the fire by its mother, and that its death was caused by being burnt." The Coroner—Then that amounts to a verdict of wilful murder against the mother ; and I do not see how you could have come to any other decision.—Leeds Mercury. ANTI-CHRISTMAS Box MOVEMENT.—The Cheltenham grocers, to the number of ninety and upwards, have en tered into " a solemn league and covenant" to abstain from the practice of giving Christmas boxes this year, under " a penalty of 51.," to be presented to the hos pital. As a set-off to the above, the crier was employed yesterday to announce that, in consequence of the " combination" among the grocers, the public of Chel tenham would this year discontinue the custom of eating Christmas plum-pudding. --Cheltenham Examiner. A SERVANT POlSONED.—Yesterday a female servant, residing with a family in Cockspor-street, Charing cross, was brought into Charing-cross Hospital in a dangerous condition, having been poisoned by eating a compound of red lead known as beetle wafers, and used for the purpose Of destroying those troublesome kitchen insects. I 'Mr. Beck, the resident medical officer, immediately ap plied the stomach pump, and extracted a considerable quantity of the poisonous mineral from the system. It appears that the young woman eat the wafers (the taste of which she liked) without any idea of their noxious properties. She is progressing favourably. TPIE TUffKISII• CONTINGENT. KERTCH, Nov. 26.—The arrival of this force at this late season puts an end to the slightest chance of active operations this year on their part against the enemy. General Vivian, instead of heedlessly wasting most precious time in the delicious halls and bowers of the Russian summer palace on the banks of the Bosphorus during the summer months, now comes forth with his men to ensconce them for the winter in the Crimea. Most are still under canvas. &low -leas set in; and the Turkish Con tingent will be housed and hutted probably next January;. In the meanwhile sickness and the in clemency of the weather will do its work of deci mation, far greater than the sword of the hussar or the lance (4-the cossack, who occasionally show in the neighbourhood. Lieutenant-General Vivian, no doubt, while Adjutant-General of the Madras Army, was most efficient at the red-tape and pen and-paper business ; but the utter waste and reck lessness incurred in this force completely place his capabilities and ideas on a par with those of the ancient race of generals of 1793, who led their men to disgrace and defeat. No wonder that robbery, rape, and plhndering of all description have become the order of the day in Kertch ' from the indecisi on an d w i s h on th e par t of the Lieiitenant-Gener a l to soothe a few old Pashas, by overlooking the most horrible atrocities ever committed by the hand of man on the part of the Osmanli soldiers now beion,ging4 6 the Turkish Contingerit. What little remained of Kertch, from its first sack by the Allies, once one of the most beautiful towns in the universe, is now a scene of the greatest misery and desolation, from the atrocious and villanous excesses of every description by the troops __. ____. under Gen. Vivian—the roofs and flooring of the best houses torn up and burned for sheer wanton ness and a passion for destroying property which ought to have been available fora future slay. The arrival from Bnyukdere of a fresh supply of those heroes was the signal for a fresh display of the same conduct, consisting of every crime in the calendar, on the unfortunate few of the poor resi dents who could not escape with their more fortu nate neighbours to a secure place of safety. A minute portion of some of their soldier-like propen sities I will now relate for the edification of John Bull, who has the gratification of raying for those scoundrels. A few evenings hack two of those heroes, a cap tain and a private, attacked a small house occupied by two old ladies above 60 years of age, and plun dered them of all the money and valuables they possessed. They then attempted a horrible crime, when, an alarm being given, they escaped with th e i r spoil. The next day the fellows came again, when an outcry being raised, one scoundrel drew his sabre, and cut ono poor woman's head asunder, while the other smashed her skull with a huge stone. The wretched woman being released from her misery in a very short time, the fellows made towards their camp as if nothing occurred, no looker on daring to notice it for fear of meeting the same doom. Those murderers belonged to a regiment of the Contingent that. arrived only a few days back from Buyukdere, and, though officially reported at head quarters to the Deputy Adjutant-General, Turkish Contingent, Lieut.-Colonel (local) Crewe, a captain in the Madras army, no notice or endeavours what ever were taken to find out the assassins, though this gallant officer of the Madras army, who never saw a shot fired during his career, if lte perceived au officer out of regimentals in the camp or street, would order him to return at once to his quarters, under pain of being placed in arrest and reported to the Lieut.-General commanding, making a fuss perfectly ridiculous to soldiers, while no notice is taken of assassins such as I have described. It is well known that the wealthy portion of the Russians inter their dead with their rings and jewel lery attached to their persons, and it was brough t under the notice of the authorities that the graves and tombs in the burial-grounds were exhumed and the dead bodies exposed to every indignity by the atrocious rapacity of the Turkish soldiers re _ _ cently arrived. A small picket of the 71st High land light infantry, a corporal and six men-250 of whom are quartered in Kertch—were patrolling the town near the churchyard the same evening the woman was murdered, when tTey were fired upon by those sacrilegious vampires ; they soon re turned the fire, a yuz bashi on the spot and wounding others. N'ot the least notice was taken by the contingent authorities of the conduct of those men, unless to hush the affair, if possible, from becoming public ; while the non-commissioned officer and men of the 71st, for their gallant con duct, were thanked in regimental orders. The morning after this affair, Reschid Pacha, who com manded a brigade of Turks previous to General Vivian's arrival, had the consummate impertinence to send his interpreter with a written order to Captain Hope, commanding the 71st, to place the picket in close arrest, previous to their being tried by a court-martial for shooting one of his officers. The gallant captain, th e moment h e rea d th e order, crumpled it up, stating to the interpreter there was no answer, but to tell the Pacha how he treated his orders, and would continue to do the same with any others he might send on the subject. Peaceful measures with these demi-savages will never teach them their duty towards society—nothing, I am convinced, but the strong iron hand of military discipline held over them will ever bring them to order. No temporising or half-measures of mis placed affected feeling towards a Turk can make him act towards you in any other way than a half suspicious feeling that you have some design to wards him, to b e tt er yourse lf out of h i s su p e riority as a human bei ng — a f e ll ow li tt l e b etter in intel lect than the lar ger spec i es o f a b a b oon, a s far . as '1 his moral or hu man f ee li ngs go, where a Ch • st= is concerned. A slight commotion was caused in the market place of Kertch on F r id ay l ast. Th e - c i rcum stances are as follow :—The provost marshal, Major Guernsey, and th e comman d ant of t h e s i eg e de fences Major Hill, R.A. were walking in the neighbourhood of th e chief pay-office on the heights of Kertch, the former looking out, as was his duty, for squalls —or, vulgarly speaking, to see what was going on, in the vicinity of the late dreadful mur der. At some distance ocf, on a hill, lie espied five Turkish soldier s susp i c i ous l y wa t c hi n g a house belonging to an old man , a R uss i an, an d five chil dren ; they soon ent ere d , an d , as usua l , knocking down th e man an d c hild ren, putting them in fear of their life ; then plundering became the order of the day. The provost-marshal coming up to the house changed the scene. Two of the fel lows, coming out of the gateway laden with the spoil, immediately dropped it and bolted ; the other three were caught in a trap in the yard, with all the articles they could carry away ; two of them escaped, but the third was secured by the provost marshal, and taken to the guard, where he re ceived three dozen lashes, which he most richly deserved, amidst a commotion of Turkish officers and soldiers, of all descriptions and grades, who appeared dreadfully annoyed that this person was not allowed to go free as they wished—foras toknock ing down an old man and children, putting aside a little 'outing, in their eyes constituted no crime. However, the chief leader of the mob outside the prison was a captain of the same regiment, the 7th Turkish Contingent, quartered at Fort Paul, near five miles off from where the delinquents were caught. After the fellow received his punishment he was let free, when an attack was made by a mob of over three hundred, headed by the above officer with a drawn sword ; stone throwing and other missiles were vented on the unfortunate provost ind as his revolver out, and, covering a fello w that nearly cool provost marshal and his assistants , who were knocked down, and would to a certainty have be en murdered on the spot, the t, if saying n f g o r i isn) a ers a m , with cu c presence u a ber,had not pulled broke his arm with a stone, shot him through the lungs—repeating the dose to two other indivi duals, by clipping a fellow's ear and shooting a Turkish soldier through the neck, which nearly settled him. The valiant heroes soon cleared the streets. The captain, who caused the row, threw himself flat on the ground the moment he saw Major Guernsey's pistol pointed towards him, who had magnanimity enough not to shoot the scoun drel as he lay on his back floundering like a turtle and growling for mercy ; he merely took his sword and broke it. The provost-marshal was wounded in the head and his arm nearly broken ; one of his serjeants was cut and bruised ; a corporal of the 71st also had his arm severely cut from a sabre. The affray was witnessed by Major Hill, R.A. Captain Geo. Swaby, 39 th Regt., Major F. Miller, BOth Regt., and Captain Walker, of the East India Company's service, who all deposed before a court of inquiry that, but for the coolness and intrepidity of that officer, all the Europeans would have been murdered on the spot to a moral certainty. He only acted in self.defence, and they would have done the same. Indeed the latter officer, riding up at the moment, cut down a Turk with his sword, while in the act of felling one of the ser jeants with a stone. Now what follows is a sad reflection on giTing unlimited power to parties not, I may say, having NEW CHRISTMAS BOOK BT G. P. R JAMES. ESQ. On the 17th, pee() Is. 6d., beautifully Illustrated, PRINCE LIFE. A Story for my Boy. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq. Also, now ready, THE OLD DOMINION. T. C. Newby, 30, Welbeck-street. LOND(')I‘ , FRIDA ' 4 ' i Cs' DEc EMBE kt 7 tB.t,-)5 [ PRICE 4D. STAMPED fiDa I A 'To Id. ?at no ,cos ua qr. a $