The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S NEWS POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(TBIS DAY.) G lIILDHALL. CHARGE OB FELONY AGAINST A CITY MERCHANT.— ..Tames Burney, a bankrupt, described as a warehouse man, of Addle-street, City, was brought up in the cus tody of Spackman, one of the City detectives, charged under the Bankrupt Act with improperly disposing of Lis property within three months of his bankruptcy. Mr. Turner appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Parry for the prisoner. Mr. Turner said the prisoner was a warehongeman, and bad carried on business in Addle-street fur about 12 months, in which time he had incurred debts to between 9,0001. and 10,0001. Since the prisoner's bankruptcy the assignees had ascertained, from an examination of the prisoner and his books, that he had pledged, or unlaw fully disposed, or sold goods to the amount of 3,0001. within the three months preceding the date of the adju dication in bankruptcy. The sales complained of had been effected at less than the cash price of the articles dis posed of, and the circumstances attending the transac tions were such as would bring them within the 230th section of the Bankruptcy Laws Consolidated Act. Evidence was given to show the date of the adjudica tion was the 6th of August, 1853, and the prisoner's examination at the Bankruptcy Court, on the 6th Sept., was read, which stated that on the 12th July he sold for 121. 16s. ld., to Mr. Russell, pawnbroker, goods re ceived of Messrs. Taylor and Robinson, one of his creditors. Mr. Hugh M'Gregor, agent of Messrs. Taylor an 1 Robinson, who carry on business near Huddersfield, proved that on the let July the prisoner purchased of him woollen goods to the amount of 181. 19e., which have not been paid for. Mr. Turner asked for a remand to enable him to pro duce further evidence in support of the charge. Mr. Parry said that as the Celia must ultimately go before another tribunal, he should not object to that course. The prisoner was then remanded till Tuesday next. Bail would be accepted, the prisoner in 5001., and two sureties in 2501. each. BOW-STREET. ROBBERY OF 1001.—This morning Fredvick Ralph Barrell was placed at the bar for final examination, charged with stealing the sum of one hundred pounds. the property of his employers, Messrs. Woodhead, of James-street, Adelphi, navy agents, by falsely entering a cheque for 1971. 19s. as only drawn for 971. 195., and embezzling the remainder. In addition to his former evidence, Mr. Young st%ted it was the usual practice of the house to cheque the money transactions of the prisoner. It was made monthly, and the mode was to obtain the cheques from the bank and compare them with the books. One per son called over the amounts, and another examined the books. He (witness) took the cash-book to see that the purchases were all entered. The prisoner took the vouchers, and his clerk took the banker's pass-book. The July accounts were in course of examination when the prisoner absented himself from the office. In calling over the cheque produced for 1971., the clerk called the amount 971. 195., and when that amount was called be made a mark in the 'cash-book, in order to show that the book was right. He thought the pencil mark on the cheque was made by the prisoner. The prisoner was authorised to fill up signed cheques for any sum which he considered necessary for business transactions, and which he ought duly to have accounted for in his books. In cross-examination Mr. Young said he had no posi tive recollection of any circumstance relative ti the cheque in question. William Dennis Townshend was a foreman to Smith and Sons, pawnbrokers, 1, Clark's-place, Islington. Knew the prisoner, and had dealings with him as a cus tomer. The six five-pound notes produced he had had in his possession on a former occasion. On the sth of September this year he received the notes from the pri soner in payment for a general account of goods sup plied. He was confident the notes were the same as he received from the prisoner, as they each bore his private mark. The notes in question were a portion of those paid by Mr. Stanley, the cashier in Contts' bank, to the prisoner for a cheque of 1971. 19s. drawn by the firm of Woodhead and Co. Mr. Lewis, who appeared for the prisoner, stated that if the magistrate thought this case was a felony he should advise him to reserve what he had to say in an. ewer to the charge elsewhere. Mr. Jardine said be thought that this case ought to go to a jury, as whatever question there might be in regard to the legal technicalities he had nothing to do with them. He should therefore commit him for trial at the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court. Mr. Lewis made an application fur bail ? but it was refused. SOUTHWARK. ALLEGED BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FEMALE ET HER EUSBAND.—WiIIiam Poland, a costermonger, living in Union-street, was brought before Mr. Combe, charged with beating his wife over the head and arms with a poker. The complainant, a gin-drinking looking female, but whose upper lip was much swollen and covered with blood, stated that, yesterday afternoon, the prisoner ame home, and as soon as he entered the house corn enced abusing her. He told her that she had made ischief with a young man at the Two Brewers public use in Union-street. She told him it was a falsehood, 9 had not, when he struck her with his fists. She tuned the blow, when he took up a poker and struck •on the lip, and as he was going to strike her again put up her left arm to ward off the blow when she ived a cut across it. She immediately ran out and rmed the police, when she gave him into custody. tr. Combe—Has he ever beat you before ? fitness—Oh yes, many times. He broke my ribs and I was sent to the hospital, but I never came ourt before. 'ae prisoner here declared that all his wife had uttered false. She was a notorious drunkard, and spent tis money in the public-houses, and when he remon f ted with her she struck him, and aggravated him to ke her, as she could give him six months. She hbed him once severely. • Mr. Combe—What have you to say to striking her th the poker ? Prisoner—l never did so. Look at the poker. Had struck her with it on the face it must have broke her ,w, or killed her. The constable here produce a poker, which the female aid he struck her with across the face. It was a heavy black ene, bent very much, but there was no blood on it. The female's lip was not cut, neither were there any marks such as to show that she had been struck with the poker. Mr. Combs asked the female whether any one saw her husband strike her with the poker ? She replied in the negative, as she was in her own house. Mr. Combe asked the police what was known of either of them ? Sergeant Fleming, 459 A., said the man was a hard working man, but spent a deal of money in a public house, and the female was a drunkard. The prisoner said that was quite true, and as for the marks on her face they were caused by their having a , fight, as he was compelled to protect himself. Ele, however, never used the poker. Mr. Combo said they both appeared a violent pair ; but as it was clear he had used much violence towards her he should adjourn the case for further evidence. L THAMES. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. John lif 'Quire, a young man who is well•known to the police, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with committing a very daring robbery last evening in Princess•street, St. George-in -the-East. Robert Anderson, a seaman, stated that he was lodg ins at No. 1, Princess-street, Ratcliff-highway. Yes terday morning soon after six o'clock he was walking along Princess-street when the prisoner game up to him, made a snatch at his watch-guard and broke the ring. Before he could recover himself the prisoner stole his watch and ran away with it. James Corey, a boy, was talking to the sailor when the robbery was committed. He pursued the prisoner, and saw him throw the watch over a fence in Christian• street, about a quarter of a mile from the place where he accost3d the prisoner. Charles Matthews, a carman, stated that he went over the fence and recovered the watch. The watch was produced and Identified, Mr. Yardley asked if the prisoner wets known, to Which Roche, the gaoler, replied that he had been in custody before for felony, and he believe d was once convicted. Robert Wheeler, a young man formerly in the army, and whose toes were shot off before Sebastopol, said he was present two year s ago w h en th e prisoner wa,-: con victed and sentenced to imprisonment fold hard labour. The prisoner said that Wheeler was a I . ,vini.t. vagabond. Ite had not been convicted before—it was a lie. Mr. Yardley lectured the prisoner on u. ling such dis- ~: graceful language to a man who had setved his coutilfz, and who was now pensioned for his services. He wished the prisoner was as good a man as the witness. He com mitted the prisoner fur trial. WORSHIP-STREET. THE MURDER IN ARTILLERY LANE. Dernzel Lordon, the man charged with wilfully mur dering his wife Catherine Lordon, at 15, Parliament court, Artillery-lane, Bishopsgate•street Without, was placed at the bar before Mr. *D'Eyncourt fur further examination. The same excitement r-revailed in the neighbourhood of the police-court as on the first examination of the prisoner. On the prisoner being placed in the dock some of his children who were in court burst into tear 4, and had to be removed. The prisoner looked extremely pale and appeared to feel his unfortunate position snore acutely than on the former occasion. The depositions taken at the first examination were read over to the prisoner. Mr. Shaw, the surgeon, gave similar testimony to that he gave before tke coroner at the inquest on Wednesday last, and fully reported in The Sun of that day. The prisoner paid particular attention to Mr. Shaw's description how he thought the •wounds with the knife roust have been inflicted on the deceased ; and in answer to questions from the magistrates, whether he had any questions to put to the witness, he answered, in a firm voice, "No." John Davies, who resided on the same floor with the deceased and the prisoner, at 1 Parliament•court, deposed being disturbed on Tuesday morning last by cries of " Murder " proceedirg from the prisoner's room. He recognised the voice to be that of the deceased. He also heard a wrestling against the door and the prisoner call his wife a "b- bitch," and other epithets of a similar character. He heard the foot steps of a heavy person leave prisoner's room descend as far as the landing. Immediately fresh cries of " Murder," and the person return to the room again. He got up, and on getting outside his door he -aw blood near the prisoner's door, and a slipper in it. He looked into the prisoner's room, but saw nor heard no one there. He then described the appearance of the stairs from blood, and the position in which he found the deceased sitting on the stairs, in nearly the same terms as at the inquest. The prisoner was not a drunken man, but the deceased was much addicted to drinking. By the prisoner—He knew it was prisoner who used the language deposed to from the sound of his voice; he was in his bed at the time, which was about 5 or 6 yards distant. _ _ . Prisoner to the Magistrate—There were no loud words passed between me and my wife. Witness—Prisoner and'his wife were often quarrelling, and she frequently screamed " Murder." Sarah Elias deposed she resided on the floor below the prisoner. About 2 o'clock on the morning of the 18th she was disturbed by the prisoner, who was quarrelling with his wife and a man in the street. She thought de ceased was in liquor. She beard nothing after that. Between seven and eight o'clock she saw deceased sitting in a crouching posture on the stairs, but did not speak to her. Blood was on the landing, near where deceased was sitriiig. Witness bad no idea she was dead, but thought her tipsy. It was only when she heard persons in the passage, and saw a policeman and a doctor there, that she knew deceased was dead. By Mr. D'Eyncourt—Did you' ever see Kingstone with her ?—No. How long have you known her ?—Sia years, and she was continually tipsy. Is the prisoner a sober man ?—He is not altogether a drunken man and was not a sober man. Have you ever heard him express feelings of jealousy l —No. Have you ever heard him acotve deceased;of infidelity ! —Nn. Margaret Lorion, daughter of the prisoner, deponed she was 18 years of age. She went to the Green Dra gon, Half Moon-street, Bishopgate-street, on the night before the murder ; there found her father and mother. A raffle had been got up there for the benefit of her mother. Her father and mother being both out of work. Her mother was sober, but her father had been drinking. Kingstone was there, and also Daniel Crease, her uncle. Her Mbar had been put out of the house by her uncle, and about half-past 12, when witness, her mother, Kingstone, and her uncle left the house, they saw her father outside. Kingstone took no part against her father in the Green Dragon. He and her father were then on the best of terms. After leaving the Green Dragon, witness and her mother went home, and by the time they bad reached the door Kingstone had overtaken them. He asked her and her mother where her father was : her mother re plied, "God knows." Kingstone sent her for a pot of beer, which was drank between them on the door step. The public-house being closed she took the pot up stairs and returned to the street door to her mother and King stone. Immediately after her father rushed between them. Kingstone called out "Dan," but he made no answer, and went up stairs. Shortly after something hard was thrown from her father's window, which struck Kingstone. Her mother made a noise, and asked Kingstone to have her father taken into custody. Kingstone asked her father "Why he did not come out like /a man, and be would fight him fair." Her father came down stairs, and Kingston went up the court. Kingston said, " Here's the b— vagabond," on which her father struck him with a poker, without making him any answer A scuffle ensued between them, and her rather was thrown on his back by Kings ton, who, finding he could not get the poker from her father, let him go, and he then •got up and went up stairs. Kingston then spoke to a policeman, and asked him to take her father in charge, but be declined to do so. Kingston then said he would go to the police station, and left. She saw no more of him that night. By Mr. D'Eyncourt—ls Kingston a friend of your father's I—Yes. How long have they been acquainted ?—Twenty- eight years. They have always been on the best of terms. Have you any reason to believe your father was jealous of Kingstone beside from what you saw this night believe there was a little grievance between my father and Kingstone about three months' since, but I was not at home then. After some further evidence, tho prisoner was re manded. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS D A Y.) HAY MARKETS. liurrartirtro.—Meadow hay, 4' Os to 6/ ;' , F4 clove. ditto, 51 Os to 61 lOs ; and straw. 1/ 8s Od to 1/ 12s Od per loa• Supply moderate, and trade firm. UTIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5s to 6/ 8s clove} do., 4' 15s to 6 1 6s ; and straw. 1/ 10A to 1/ 14s per A. fair average supply and a steady demand. WHITEOHAPL.—Meadow hay, 4? Os to ti 63: cloves do., 5/ Os to 61 108 ; and straw, 11 8s to 11 12s per lead Trade steady, at full quotations. COLONIAL. TEA.—There has been a steady market, but the trade being only for present wants. SUGAR.—There has been more business in foreign for exportation at full rates. Yellow Havana has been at 42s to 435. Colonial is held firmly, and fine sorts are in re quest. Of refined the supply is small, and prices are maintained. COFPRE.—Prices are steady. Good ord Ceylon at 52s 6a, and with a reduced supply. Plantation Ceylon has been in demand, and there is not much on offer. Bra zilian have been at very full rates. RUM. —This article has been firm at advanced rates. Demerars , proof is at 2s Ba, with a large business in second parcels. RICE. —Bengal good mid, from the ship, has been sold at 15s 9 , 1. Arracan on the spot realised 12s 9d to 13s, and Bengal 16+ to 163 6,1 per cwt. SALTPETRE. — Refraction 7.1 per cent. realised 38s Gd, and 8i per cent. 335, being rather easier. CLEARANCES ON THE LIICAN ESTATES.—The auction of some 4,000 of Lord Lucan's sheep fleck took place on Saturday last, and every lot was disposed of at rea sonably remunerative prices. The lands heretofore oc cupied by the stock will, as soon as the usual prelimi naries are adjusted, be let out to the farmers of the dis trict. EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE OF BUSINESS AT THE POST-OFFICE.---The duty at the Post- ,, lice in St. Mar. tin's le Grand is daily increasing. Y.;sterday was the heaviest day ever known in the establi.htnent. A mail from Australia, in addition to the usual amount of con tinental and provincial correspondence, was brought in, which mail, besides letters, contained 720,000 news papers. The result of this was that the ordinary morn ing despatch was delayed upwards of an hour, and it was some time after that before the sorters could leave the office. THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT RElGATE.—Yesterday fore noon, at ten o'clock, Mr. Carter, the coroner for the eastern division of Surrey, and a highly respectable jury, assembled at the Fox Inn, Kingswood, near the town of Reigate, for the purpose of inquiring into the circum stances attending the distressing death of Mr. John Shepherd, late proprietor of the Oxford Arms Tavern in the Westminster-road, Lambeth, and brother to Mr. Richard Shepherd, one of the lessees of the Royal Surrey Thea,re, who died from the effects of a gun-shot wound, accidentally caused by Mr. Crsswick, the other lessee of the theatre and well-known tragedian. The learned coroner devoted two hours in minutely interrogating the different witnesses, but not oue solitary additional fact came out beyond what has already been published in this journal. A verdict was returned of " Accidental death." en reit' pu tting ;he e : bale nce li .3one ° 'i ecline" cto h p— r. I ina' rket is 4' 8* Orr 9i fir°l' rul e y P THE SUN. LO N :lON. TUESDAY EvENING. SEPTEMIVER 25, 1855. NaNal and Military Intelligence. Ey the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-chip Ava, Captain Field, which arrived at Southampton on Sui-day night with the heavy portion of the India and Me literranean rnails, we receive the following items of naval and military intelligence from Gibraltar :—Her Majesty's steamer Chasseur, fitted as a floating work shop fur the Black Sea fleet, sailed from Gibraltar for Balakla,va on the 6th inst. The. British steamer Ante lope, laden with shot and shell, and the steam transport East Anglian, left for the Crimea on the Bth inst. Her Majesty's steam floatirg battery Meteor, having com. pleted the alteration of her rudder, sailed in company with the paddle-wheel transport Rhadamanthus for the Black Sea on the 10th. Tne British paddle-wheel steam transport Europa, with detachments of the 55th, 68th, and 89th Regiments, from Liverpool fur the Crimea, passed Gibraltar on the morning of the 9th inst. The two companies of the 94th Regiment, under the orders of Capt. Bruce, landed at the new Mole on the 10th inst. from on board the Great Britain transport, and, after forming into line, marched down to the quarters assigned them at the Grand Casemated Barracks, preceded by the band of the 3d It yal Lancashire Militia. Two hours . after the Great Britain left the harbour for Malta and the Crimea, with the remainder of her gallant freight (detachments of cavalry and infantry), amid great cheer ing by their brethren in arms, and the sailors on board the ships of war and transports lying at anchor off the Mole. At sunset her Majesty's screw steam guardship Horatio, Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, and the fl tat ing battery Glatton, Capt. Cumming, weighed anchor to proceed to their destination, when, just as the vessels moved onwards, the whole of the men of the head-quar ters 94th Regiment on board the Perseverance steam troopship turned up on deck, and saluted them on their departure with three hearty cheers, the band playing " God save the Queen" immediately after. This corn plitnental act was duly acknowledged in gallant style by the tars on board the Horatio and Glatton. The Madagascar steamer left Gibraltar for the East on the 12th inst., having shipped 60 horses and mules for the use of the Land Transport Corps. Two foremen, a farrier, and 20 grooms embarked in charge of the ani mals. The sailing transport-ship William Jackson, with invalids from various regiments in the East, left for Portsmouth on the 14th inst., in tow of the steam-ship Bustler. Capt. Christie's company of Royal Artillery were under orders to embark for the Crimea on hoard the Sanspareil line-of-battle-ship, expected from Ports mouth. The steam transport Lady Eg'inton arrived on the 13th inst. from the Crimea and Malta on her way to England, baying on board Miss Scott and servant, Miss Gibbs, Miss Pearson, Miss Haulyside, Lieut. Sidehottom, Buffs ; Dr. Maund, Medical Staff ; Mr. Atherton, Sergt. Vallaney, and three other non-commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery, four women (soldiers' wives), and 10 children. Dr. Pain, of the Royal Artillery, returned by this conveyance, and proceeded on the 29th ult. in medical charge of the 92d Highlanders. The captain of tue Lady Eglinton reports that, on the 4th inst., the British steam transport Sovereign was aground in the Dsrdanelles off Abydos, and that he for two hours ren dered assistance to get her afloat, but unfortunately could not succeed. She was laden with shot and shell for B dak lava, and would have to be lightened to get her afloat again. The Lady Eglinton, after taking in coals, left for her destination. The steam-transport Volunteer left for Spithead on the 13th inst. The Bremen steamer Germania arrived at - Gibraltar from Woolwich, for the Crimea, on the 14th, with shot, shells, &c. The steamer Hansa arrived at Gibraltar from Malta on the 17th inst., bringing Major Hoste, R.A., Capt. G. Morley, 20th Foot Lieut. Franas, 38th, Lieut. Gsrnier, 47th, Lieut. Alcock, 25th, Capt. W. Mayne, Land Transport Corps, Lieut. W. Liddell, R.N., Assist.-Engineer R. Henderson, Ser jeant Bell, R.A., 20 invalided sailors of the Royal N av y and two drivers for Spithead, and one muleteer for Gib raltac. The Hansa: after taking in a supply of water and some fresh provisions, proceeded to her destination. The Steam-ship Emu, Captain Small, and the sailing transport Great Tasmania, Captain Brewer, from Ports mouth, arrived at Bymouth on Monday morning. The Emu will embark the Land Transport Corps for the Black Sea, arid the Great Tasmania will convey the West Mid dlesex Militia to Corfu. The regiment, under command of Col. John Glossop, was inspected yesterday (Monday) on Mount Wise, Devonport, 1)3 , Major-General Eden, Commander of the Forces in the West of England. The steam.vessel Avon, from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday, and went into the docks at Key. ham, with machinery for the Satellite, 20, which is to be launched on Wednesday and taken to Keyham to be fitted, preparatory to being commissioned forthwith. The mail-pachet Candace, Commander Hawkesley, is appointed to leave Plymouth this afternoon for Madeira and the West Coast of Africa. The transp.irts Gibraltar and Prompt sailed on Sa turday from Woolwich with huts and a mixed cargo of military stores for the Crimea. The Northumberland left yesterday morning for the same destination. Her M jesty's paddle-wheel steamer Princess Alice, 270 tons burden, tender to the flag-ship Duke of Wel lington, arrived at Woolwich from the Baltic on Satur day, and went down the river on trial yesterday. She is immediately to be taken into basin and paid-off. The Admiralty yacht Black Rigle arrived at Wool wich on Saturday from Portsmouth, and was ordered alongside the Messenger coal depot to coal. A most interesting proof of four experimental guns of various kinds and sizes has taken place at the Butt, in the Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich. Two of these guns were iavented by Capt. Blakely, Royal Artillery. The novelty consisted in the application of wrought-iron rings to strengthen the cast-iron, and enable it to sus tain the explcsion of the gunpowder. In the larger of these 2 guns (an 18-pounder) the rings were shrunk on a hollow cylinder of cast iron, and a separate breech was fixed on, and retained in its place by four wrought-iron bars, which connected it with a large ring about the centre of the gun. This gun burst at the first discharge, shattering the block of wood with which fir safety it had been surrounded to some distance. The -Aber gun (an ordinary nine-pounder), strengthened with these rings from the trunnions to breech, +stood the proof well ; as did also a 12-pounder wrought-iron gun, made by Messrs. Holrovd and Co. The fourth gun was a six pounder, and of cast steel. That, also, burst in the first round, and the breech was driven with great violence into a model of a ship's side which bad been erected in rear of it. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commanders W. C. Forsyth and I. F. C. Mackenz , e to he Insoedting Commanders of the Coast Guard; the Rev. Henry E. Yeoman to be Chaplain o f t h e H ar py, for service in Tiler tpia Hospital ; J. E. Ryan, Second• Master to the Caradoc ; A. J. A. Parks, Second-Master to the Illustrious, for service in the Sea Lark ; Dr G. Clarke, Acing Surgeon to the Urgent ; James Wallace, Assistant-Surgeon to the Urgent. The following mates have been promot-d to be lieute nants, to date from Saturday last—W. H. S. Mourilyan (1852), H.. J. Urquhart (1852), G. W. Carter (1852), G. H. Barnard (1852), W. Cwre Annesley (1852), Joshua R. Palmer (1853). A. INlontagu Wells (1853), Augustus TabAteau (1853), W. B. Stuobs (1853), W. H. Goold (1853), G. Winter Strong (1853), G. Aurelius Douglas (1853). J. Walcot Lambe (1853), Arthur Sal wev (1853), John Campbell (1853). Henry Knox Lest (1853), A. G. Bogle (1853), E. Mitford Hankinson (1853), J Brasier Creagh (1853), E. England Richard , (1853). F. Maslen Carter (1853), G. D. Clayhills, E. White (1854). Gilbert T. Key (1854), J. E. Hunter (1854), C. 0. D. Ailing ham (1854), W. G. Silverlock (1854), J. Barber Barnett, the Hon. H. Lascelles. A letter from Lisbon. of the 13th inst., says—" The Sanspareil, 71, Captain Williams, leaves to-morrow even ing (the 19th) for Gibraltar, Malta, and the Crimea ; and the Malacca, 17, Captain Farquhar, on Thursday, for Spithead. I do not think there is the sligh•est foundation in the report of our (the three deckers St. George and Neptune) proceeding to Naples, but ad I can hear we shall remain some time in the Tagus, as the time of the year is coming on for inaction, and theihome ports will be crowded with the Baltic fleet. We are cer tainly better here than in England, the climate being so good, and the men always together enables one to keep a sbip's company in good order. We arrived in the Tagus on the morning of the 16th, just in time to take part in all the honours of the occasion of the young King of Portugal coming of age (18) and taking the reins of Government in his own hands." The following order has been issued from the Adju tant-General's office, Royal Artillery, Woolwich, dated 22d of September : "GENTERALTREGIMENTAL ORDER. " Roysl Regiment of Artillery. " Lieutenant Charles Carpenter, to be Second Captain, vice Pasley ' seconded,' being attached to the Turkish Con tingent.—Dated Sept. 7. . . "Second Captain and Brevet-Major Samuel Enderby Gordon, to be Captain, vice Grey, deceased. " Lieutenant William Gilly Andrews, to be Second Cap tain' vice Gordon.—Dated Sept. 16. "Frederick Spratt, gentleman, to be veterinary surgeon, by augmentation. Jonathan Briggs, gentleman, to be veterinary sur by augmentation.—Dated Sept. 10. " Major Thomas Atchison, of the Royal Lancashire Militia Artillery, formerly captain in the Royal Artillery, who was dismissed from the service in the year 1824 by sentence of a general court-martial, has been restored to his former rank in the Royal Artillery, and permitted to retire upon the full pay of that rank from the 16th of Juno, 1855, but without any claim for arrears of pay, or to bo restored in his original place in the Royal Artillery. • —• " Hospital Staff. " Surgeon Joseph Ambrose Lawson, M.D., from the Ordnance Medical Department, to be Staff Surgeon of the second class, vice Protheroo, who exchanges.—Dated Sept. 21. "Ordnance Medical Department. " Staff Surgeon of the second class Edward Schaw Protheroe, to be Surgeon, vice Lawson, who exchanges.— Dated Sept. 21. " By command, "H. PALLISER, Assistant Adjutant-General." One officer, two set geants, two corporals, and 46 men of the 10th Hussars (the men being volunteers from other cavalry regiment) arrived at Portsmouth dock yard at half-past 2 o'clock yesterday from Maidstone, and embarktd in the steam transport Arabia, for passage to join the h ea d- quarters i n t h e C r i mea . The horses for these draughts will be shipped this day, and the Arabia will leave to-morrow. Mr. Rattery, gunner, R.N., doing duty in the Fox frigate, in dock under repairs at Portsmouth, fell down dead on Sunday morning in the dockyard. The 3-gnn steam-vessel Otter, Lieutenant Glover in command, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Baltic. The recruits for the British German Legion brought to Portsmouth from Halifax, by the Emma Eugenia, freight ship. were landed at the Royal Cla rence-yard, Gosport, yesterday afternoon, and marched to quarters in the vicinity pro tent. The Powerful, 84, Captain T. L. Massey, is refitting at Spi4head. The Rosamond, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Crofton, is or dered to replenish her stock of coal, and hold herself in readiness for immediate service. It has been no;ified at Portsmouth that on the withdrawal of the fleet from the I Baltic they will winter, as last year, in squadrons at the • - • various outpurt s , 1.e.! sail of th 4 d ezotouslnvat Portionoutit. ErPign J. B'agz, 914, proceeded from Chathani Sunday to Woolwich, to tmbark on board the ship 'Gib: raltar for pa-sage to the Pinßus ; and Assistant Surgeor, Day, 3d Foot, will leave Chatham to-day for Winches ter, for duty there. A. Chelsea Board assembled yesterday morning at the Supplemental Hospital, Brornpton Barracks, which %MP composed of two officers from the Royal Hospital, Civil sea ; Mr:. A. J.. Moorhead, Secretary, and — DePhty . - Inspector-General, Dr. Maclachlan. 105 itivalidS pass.-cr the board for pensions, the whole being wounded -men, and also the medical board for discharge, they being un• fit for any furth,r military duty.' The board was as sisted by First-class Staff Surgeoniiattersby from Fort. Pitt, Dr. Dartnell, the principal medical officer, being on temporary leave of absence. LOSS OF THE 'VOL-PERINI: The following is an extract from a letter written by an officer of this sl o p • "Officers' Tent, Courtown Bank, Aug. 18. " The cruise of the Wolverine haS been brought to a sudden termination. She struck on a reef of rocks called the Courtown Bank, about 160 miles east by north of Greytown, at 10.20 p.m., on toe 11th inst., and is a total wreck. Thank G o d, a ll hands were savd without a single accident, although for eight hours it looked very unpromising. From the time we struck until 6 o'clock the next morning we were anxiously waiting for daylight, the ship nearly on her beam-ends striking heavily at in tervals, the sea making a clear breach over her and wet ting every one through and through. Even at daylight it did not look very cheerful. There was a small island, not half a mile in length, about half a mile on our lee beam, covered with sea birds, and a dark mass of coral rocks on all sides. However, sailors very soon get over difficulties. We first got our largest boat safely landed with the sick men and some water and pork, so that we should ha.e some means of sending tn Greytown, and then lauded the whole crew by degrees, with materials for tent, which we soon elected. We are now living in comparative ltxury, having saved most of our provisions, stock, wine, &c. The greatest losers by this affair are those whose cabins were on the side the vessel struck, as they immediately filled with water, and everything was spoiled or immersed. The large boat having been sent off as soon as possible, fell in with the Buzzard steam-vessel, which we were going to relieve, at Greytown, on the point of starting for Port Royal, being short of provisions. She started immediately on receipt of the intelligence, and arrived here this morning. She leaves immedi itely for Port Royal to get provisions, and our crew remain here to save the stores, &c., out of the wreck, a lar4e portion of which we have already rescued. We are well off for provisions and water... . As soon as the Buzzard returns we shall have saved all the valuable stores, &c., and shall then return in her to Port Royal for the court-martial. . . . We are all in excellent health and spirits. . . _ " P.S.. Please publi.:th the account of the loss of the Wolverine, and add that all were saved, as some of the crew have not been able to write, and their friends will naturally be very anxious on their account." WROUGHT V. CAST IRON GUNS. The failure of wrought-iron guns of large calibre, says Mr. J. Blackburn, of Erewash-valley, although much to be regretted, is not surprising to practical men. The Government of the United States of America, after the lamentable and fatal accident which occurred some years since from the bursting of a wrought-iron gun of large calibre on board the Princeton frigate, instituted a vigorous inquiry, conducted by gentlemen of great ex perience and science in New York, when it was by them for ever decided that wrought-iron guns of large calibre were "unworthy and dangerous." A report of these investigations was published in this country soon afterwards, and must have been seen by many of your mechanical readers. There is, after all, no doubt but that guns subject to e fact of the great c m a i s g t hty iron e o i n s u t h s o t n r u s s m i : n a p t e l y r i a f l r f o o t : l t a h r e g facility of securing a sound gun, with only ordinary care in the process of moulding and from the uniform crys talisation of the iron ; this great desideratum cannot be ,obtained in such very heavy masses of iron as are neces sary for the wrought-iron guns of large calibre, on ac count of the great length of time they must necessarily be under the action of the fire, for it is an ascertained fact that wrought iron during this process, when in large masses, undergoes what is termed a molecular change by being kept so long in an incandescent and soft state. The cohesive tenacity of wrought over cast iron is about as 3 to 1, but from the cause assigned it cannot be estimated fairly at more than as 2is to one, if so much. The vast expense necessarily incurred in the production of these wrought-iron guns of large calibre ill, lam convinced, be fatal to their permanent introduction and use, even should they ever succeed to the utmost wish of their most sanguine advocates ; at a moderate calculation 10 cast-iron mortars of 13in. calibre can be made for the cost of one wrought-iron of the same dimensions. Taking then, the data that 600 rounds fired will render an or dinary 13in. cast-iron mortar hors de combat, 1,200 rounds or less would place the wrought-iron gun in the like situation, while the cost has been in all probability five times the cost of the two cast-iron mortars. Many persons advocate the general adoption of a wrought-iron gun on account of the supposed durability and the op portunity they present of reducing the weight. This, however, is a known error ; a light gun of the same calibre as a heavy one cannot throw a shot or shell by any means so far. The failure of our mortars used this season in the Baltic is much to be deplored, but had there been duplicates on board the ships of war which could have been stowed as kentledge, and exchanged when required, a more terrible blow might have been inflicted upon , our enemies. The question then arises— Can anything be done to make the cast metal guns and mortars of large calibre, subject to mighty concussions, of greater cohesive tenacity, and thereby more capable of sustaining the tremendous expansive power of a heavy charge of gunpowder; I answer decidedly yes, and at a nierly nominal increase of expense. This process was fully explained to the Government of this country in 1860. IRON MASTS AND YARDS. The Paris Exhibition has proved that in the mecha nical arts where iron is the material of use, we distance all exhibitors. Our machinery is better finished, the display is of greater variety, there is an evidence of more extensive ingenuity, and in all articles of iron, whe ther f-r the mill, the workshop, agricultural purposes, or ornament, we stand pre-eminent. But there is one matter in which England is not represented in the Paris Exhibition, a matter which deserves, from its great im portance to commerce, a place in the British collection ; we mean the uses to which iron is applied in the build ing of ships, and i❑ the manufacture of ships' spare. Iron is now becoming so extensively used in the British marine that the wants to which it is adapted in a com mercial sense might have held an honourable place in our display. We have been led to make these remarks through having had our attention directed to an iron yard in course of construction by Messrs. Cato, Miller, and Co., and we think the application of iron to masts and yards, being cheaper and more durable than wood, sufficiently interesting and novel to have been illustrated at the Paris Exhibitio n . The yard in question is of the following dimensions : Length V ll2 feet. Diameter at slings 2 feet 4 inches. Do. at yard arms 1 foot 2 inches. .0 1 his main yard, the large , t ever made, and weighing from seven to eight tons, is being manufaetured for the new ship Schoenberg, belonging to Messrs. James Baines and Co.'s Black Ball line of Australian clippers, under the patent of the inventor, Mr. J. Clare. A wooden yard of the same size would weigh from 11 to 12 tons, wad when we take into account the difference between the iron and wood yard (the former is hollow of course) we think it of sufficient importance to the shipping interest to direct especial attention to this in vention. The weight of spars is a consideration in the outfit of a vessel, and when a material can be found lighter than wood, and that material cheaper, we should think it would ha to the interest of shipowners to coun tenance the substitute. The workmanship of the main yard of the Schomberg is beautiful. and a view of it wou'd well repay the distance.—Liverpool Telegraph, Sept. 22. CHURCH RATES AT TAUNTON. We had one of the most exciting church rate contests here last week that we ever remember. It arose re specting St. Mary's tower, about the repair or restora tion of which we are almost tired of waiting, if our read ers are not of reading. A vestry meeting was held on Thursday, when it was proposed, on behalf of the churchwardens, that 2,0001. should be raised on secu rity of the rates, in addition to 1,0001. which the parish had previously agreed to grant, in order to re s tore the tower. Many of the inhabitants th ink t hat the tow e r has been tampered with, and that if it bad not been pulled about in the manner it has, since some busy bodies suddenly discovered it to be in a dangerous state, it would have stood another century with but little out lay on it. Others say that the parish has been misled and deceived by Mr. Gilee, the architect of the work, in the opinions which he has given from time to time respecting it. Other persons oppose c'ltirch rates for whatever purpose they are proposed, on principle, and the resolution of the churchwardens also met with oppo nents in those who considered the subj ec t i n a fi nancial point of view more particularly. With these varied objec tions, it is not to be surprised at that the vestry (which was numerously attended and was held in the Assize Hall) should reject the churchwardens' proposition by a large majority. The churchwardens determined to perse vere, and demanded a poll, which commenced at once, and finally closed at four o'clock on Friday afternoon, the votes when the number of persons who had voted was stated as follows :—For the churchwardens' resolution, 392 ; conclusive, against, 402: majority against, 10. This was not of made, co urs e and en different persona, as a e titled to give more than one vote enumerated. This was done on Monday, and an Tuesday morning the Rev. H. Parr, the chairman, officially announced the number of votes actually recorded to be as follows :—For the churchwardens' proposition, 414 ; against 420: ma jority against, 6. The churchwardens' partisans used every effort to drag up voter , , and just before the final close of the poll a number of persons who went up to poll against the rate, were prevented by the mob. It was more like a contested borough election than a church-rate contest, and it crated almost as much in terest and excitement. The victorious party are much elated at their success.—Sltcrbourne Journal. r; j . . “TERAPUB 110 N. ROBERT CURZON. Visits to the, Monasteries of the Levant. By the Hon. Robert Curzon, junior. Fourth edition. 1851. John Murray. Armenia : A Year at Erzeroum and On the Fron tiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia. - By the, Ran: Robert Curzon. 1854. John Murray._ '..• . ,ct p curious ro b e u u p sse sd aercltio be stowed aftera w jumbleaaoyfiannTh'ea aii ancient rn t a ig n i 7 ; dwellings kill occupied by the celebates of St. Sabba, of Thebes,.of Mount Athos, and of Meteora,.. would,' at the first blush, seem to give but small :1 promise through the narrative of 'its prOieCutiOnl of anything like even the most moderate entertain went. Nevertheless, all the world knows that this was literally and precisely the very enterprise to which we have been indebted for one of the . most charming books of travel ever offered to the popular examination—the picturesque record of the visits made some twenty years since by. Mr. Curzon to the "Monasteries of the Levant"—a classic descriptive of thiental adventure such as the future student will not fail to treasure .up de lightedly with Warburton's " Crescent and the '.Croas," and Kinglake's " Eothen," with the poetic reveries of Lamartiue, and the eloquent medita :ions of Chateaubriand. Immediately on its first appearan de, Curzon's Monasteries of the Levant was felt to be a genuine book, and as such was welcomed accordingly. Its refreshing vivacity, its perfect good humour throughout, its keenness of observation, its instant and snbtite appreciation of the ludicrous, its unaffected enthusiasm wherever enthusiasm happened to be 'called. for by heroic , associations, its homage for' whatever deserved tomage, its respect for - Whatever spoke of the past, and in doing so appealed to our nobler sympathies (old books, old paintings, old churches, and, above all and beyond all, old mouldy, worm-eaten maim scripts)—all these peculiarly distinguishing quali ties of the work commanded for it at first our in terest, and at last (when we had fairly entered into the spirit of the narrative), our thorough and un stinted admiration. We abandoned ourselves, after the introductory chapter, to a sense of com plete enjoyment while following our traveller in the story told by him of his personal adventures. It mattered nothing whether it conducted us into Egypt or into Turkey, to the Natron Lakes or to the islands of the Greek archiumlago. The narrator was still the same, though the scene visited and described might, in all essential respects, he entirely different. The voice we listened to had still for us the same charming influence, still in spirited by its frank hilarity, still delighted by its evidence through every syllable of being the utter ance at once of the scholar and the gentleman, the voice in fact of the wandering child of civilisation. Whoever has once read the book, remembers it, reverts to it, recalls to mind now one, now another of its incidents or its characters, the incidents re counted and the characters delineated with a pen of such luminous observation. Who, for example, that has once turned over those pages, can ever forget that wonderful picture of the young monk of Xeropotamo, a magnificent-lookin g man of thirty r thirty-five, a study for Titia n or Sebastian del .iombo, who had never seen a woman, retained no remembrance of his mother (having been conveyed shortly after his birth in Roumelia to his perma nent dwelling place upon the Holy Mountain) who, in fact, had no idea at all as to what sort of things Women were, or what they looked like—listening Open-eyed, and perhaps open-mouthed from under the groat cowl out of which streamed forth his black hair and long beard, while the young English man assured him that women have no resemblance whatever to the stiff, hard, dry pictures of the Penagia, the Holy Virgin, hanging up in every Greek Church as the accustomed altarpiece ? 'Who again can ever lose the recollection of that garrul ous old Abbot of Caracalla who crammed down the throat of the traveller those unwelcome hazel-nuts of Athos and then spoilt his dinuer of stewed fish, and olives, and caviare, and salad, and papus yaknesi, by allowing it all to cool upon the brass tray of the sinni perched on the legs of the inverted table, while he—my lord the agoumenos—was telling very inopportunely one of his interminable long stories ? One of some interest it happily chances to be for once, about the Calabrian Monk Barlaam, who about the year 1336 in his antagen iam to the system of the ascetic quietists undertook to reconcile the Eastern and Western Churches and apparently all bet succeeded in establishing a per manent concord in Christendom. Have we not also a vivid reminiscence of each one among our tra veller's laughable first-surprises, when he conies, as it were breathlessly, every now and then, plump! upon some eastern custom fraught to his western ob servation with mat csr for wond Ting amazement? As when he marvels from tIL, window of his inn at Alex andria—much as Lever's Jack Masingbred marvelled from the lattice of his ho-telry iu the little Celtic bo rough of Oug,hterard —over chest range phenomenon presented by a (to hi in) wholly unaccust, )med specta cle. Watching with an eye of surprise the half-naked men running about, each with something like a dead pig under his arm, shouting out "Mother mother!" in a doleful voice—yet who turned out after all to be only the poor sakis or water-carriers, bearing their skins of the divine element and " Moyah ! moyah !" (water ! water !) to the thirsty bystanders. How exquisitely and with what a photographic pencil he sketches them all off, one by one, those variegated figures in the wonder ful panorama. The Bedouin Arab of the wild de sert, one of thoselimber children of the wilderness, thin, gaunt, and dirty, looking as if he could climb, and run, and leap over anything, crowned with the graceful birnoose, and robed with the ma jestic abba, glittering in eye, lissome in step, per fectly free from any restraint, and altogether un embarrassed by conventional manners ! " I had never pictured to myself," says Mr. Curzon, " that anything so like a wild beast could exist in the human form "—adding, comically enough, " An English gentleman in a round hat, arid a tight neck handkerchief, and boots, with white kid gloves and a little cane in his hand, was a style of man so utterly and entirely unlike a Bedouin Arab, that I could hardly conceive the possibility of their being only different species of the same sort of ani mal." A reflection calling to mind the astonish ment expressed by Elliot Warburton when (wend ing his way homewards again from the east, coming back once more to the boundary line be tween the lands of the Cross and of the Crescent), he came once more in sight of the shaven chins of civilised life—mean and degraded, he tells us, they seemed in his eyes, habituated so long to the flow of the ample beard furnished by nature as the in signia of perfected manhood ! Other denizens of the far-off countries bordering upon the Levant, Mr. Curzon delineates no less skilfully than the nomadic Bedouin—pourtraying them by a few master-touches in a miniature outline of marvellous verisimilitude ! The kawass, or armed bodyguard, in his whity-brown frock coat, and carrying in his hand a thick cane as his badge of office, a sort of dingy policeman transformed into an extempora neous retainer ! The chaoush, or hired officer of a similar description, bearing a comical silver-headed staff or wand of °thee, and stalking upon the scene, a melodramatic representation of a Brummagen Chamberlain ! With these the yassakji, or for bidder, carrying a stick without a knob, and look ing in all respects like a dirty kawass, the dimmer copy of a dim original ! And then that all-essen tial personage—the cicerone, interpreter, drago- Man, Oriental-Figaro-Factotum ! Describing whom our author tells us plainly that the servant is master and the master servant, so far as the eccentric relationship existing between the tra veller and the dragoman can in any way be ac curately defined with anything like a scrupulous regard to minute truthfulness. " The newly arrived European," says he, " eats and drinks whatever his dragoman chooses to give him ; sees through his dragoman's eyes ; hears through his ears; and, although he thinks himself master, is, in fact, only a part of the property of this eastern servant, to be used by .him as he thinks fit, and turned to the best account like any other real or personal estate." What imparts a peculiar charm to Mr. Curzon's narrative is the circumstance that he speaks of everything precisely as it appeared to him when he sa it. Just as Mr. Dickens told us in his " Pictures from Italy," that Rome looked to him when he first got sight of it, for all the world, exactly the very counterpart—of— London 1 Or as Albert Smith in a some what kindred spirit realised Constantinople to Cockney imagination by likening Galata to Wapping, and observing that Scutari was to Stamboul itself precisely what Birkenhead is to Liverpool ! So also, in like manner, the Hon. Robert Curzon—satisfied no doubt with the wis doM of the principle inducing us to call a spade a spade—declares as he slowly advances up the cur rent of the Father of Rivers, that the Nile, as it rolled by him in eddies and whirlpools of smooth muddy water, bore to him, in its colour, a close resemblance to a sea of mutton broth ! Weltering along in their old-fashioned and painted Nile boat, our loyageur and his companions get into a pickle—(don't we all recollect it, and grin as we do so, tickled back into risibility by the mere force of the recollection ?)—crashing down upon a little vessel of the kind called a djerina, sinking it, but saving its passengers. Have we not a grotesque memory of " our rein, or captain," returning to the roof of his cabin after the catastrophe, and lighting his pipe and smoking away steadily in spite of the mishap, while the victims of it are swearing, and vociferating, and shouting all man ner of invectives ? And of (three hours after wards) the local authorities arriving in the persons ► of two old villagers, M long blue shirts and dirty turbans, and of their taking their seat upon the bank and smoking away in a serious manner for tome time I And of our captain making no more reply to the fresh accusations of the re-assembled multitude than he had done before ; but lighting another pipe, and declaring that God was great I " At last"—let us hear Mr. Curzon himself tell the end of the adventure—" the two elders made signs that they intended to speak; and, silence being obtained,. they, with all due solemnity ; de- dared that they agreed With the Captain that God was great, and that undoubtedly Mohammed was the Prophet of God, All parties having come to which conclusion; it appeared that-there was nothing more to be said, and we returned . to our boat," and sailed away for a Tillage, in the neighbourhood I A genuine glimpse of :Egyptian life and manners, recounted with our traveller's customary facetious ness. It is surprising, by the way, how large a share the luscious puffs of the chibouk, and the gurg?ing bubble of the .narghile have in the luxu rious flow, or rather trickle of oriental conver sation, and how Very frequvntly the di a lo g u e s of those, s smoking the ever - delebtable latakia is sprinkled with. the pious ejaculation, 66 La allah allah, Mohammet resoot allah !" There is but one God, and Mohammed. is his Prophet I Converse throughout the E as t, indeed, bein g littl e more than tobacco-smoke and adoring apostrophies. But little leisure was allowed himself by Mr. Cur zon during his memorable visits tc the monasteries of the Levant, for the proper enjoyment of that profound state of listless repose, popularly known among the Asiatic races as kef. His progress onwards seems to have been as uniutertnitting-e s that of .the flying 'Tatars (or, as we have found them lately, without the f) the native couriers F iii the laud of the sun-rise. Slowly, or rapidly, as occasion admits,. he is ever advancing in those famous travels , of 1833, through Egypt, :Ilona the borders of the Natron Lakes, high up (eoaringly) into the Couveut of the Pulley, among the splintered fragments of the ruined monastery of Thebes, away, across the &saute to the white monastery and the. red monastery;' into the luxuri ant verdure of the Island of Philoe, the green and beautiful, among the holy wonders of Jerusalem, over the sacred soil of Palestine, into the monas teries of St. Sabba and Meteora, and finally into those of the classic Athos, the giant rock that was to have been sculptured into a colossus of Alex ander ! Onward, and ever onward he goes, mer rily, musingly, laughingly, meditatively, observant, and appreciative, our roving Heraclitus in search, not like Ccelebs, of a wife, or Syntax of the pic turesque, but of rare, old, mouldy, dust-begrimed, worm-eateu manuscripts, on vellum, on skins, on pap -'r, on papyr us , palempsist a n d unc i a l, w i t h his saddle-bags bulging out morceand more protu berantly as he moves on from one to another of those not easily numerable monastic institutions. Greeting the old monks, as he comes upon them suddenly in the mulberry-bearing solitudes of Athos, with a "Kalewera sas, ariste, kalem era sas (good day to y ou , s i r , good day to you); or a kali s a; (good morning to you) ;" being answered in re turn, " Kalos orizete ? (how do you do T)" as he., advances to some polite old hermit of the Holy. Mountain—one of whom presents the young Eng lish traveller with a large rosy apple, "evidently the best thing lie had," says Mr. Curzon, " and I was touched when he gave it me." Hear him fur ther—" I took a great bite ; it was very sour in deed ; but what was to be done ? I coulsi not bear to vex the old man, so I went on eating a great deal of it, although it brought the tears into my eyes." And thus genially and humorously— does our author encounter adventure after adven ture. His perception is alike keen for the sublime and for the ridiculous. He takes equally appre ciative note of the awful pillars of sand, columns of dry and heated dust, raised by the whirlwind, and met, every now and then, stalking through the desert, "like the evil genii of the storm " and of the horrid dissonant bray of old Fatima's jackass in the tomb, visited atter nightfall iu the Thebes Necropolis: The latter incident interrupt ing, very laughably, a earth made there after cer tain Coptic manuscripts. Mr. Curzon's account of his interview with Mohammed Ali—according to him "a hale, broad-shouldered, broad-faced, man Hi 1833]," with a "short grey beard stuck out from each side of his face, his nostrils very much opened, and with his quick sharp eye, look ing like an old grey lion"—is, altogether, a capi tal piece of aerie-comic description. Following out a hint offered by the very remarkable calcu lation that it takes the wits of -4 Turks to overreach one Frank : 2 Franks to cheat one Greek : 2 Greeks to cheat one Jew 6 Jews to cheat one Armenian : Mr. Curzon tells a delightful anecdote about the ingenious manner in which a poor devil of a Jew is regularly (there is no other word for it) bam boozled by a Turk, acting upon a plan suggested to him by a venerable Hadji, "a sly, long•bearded, grave personage, who had made two pilgrimages to Mecca." First of all, the Turk is the poor devil, rather than the Jew, upon whom he is ultimately revenged, thanks to the ingenuity of the cunning old Hadji aforesaid—for we learn that "every day when the Turk brought back his purchases to Valid 6 Khan, where he put up during his stay in the city [Cairo], he invariably found that somehow or other he had been taken in : lie was sure to find that he had been cheated either in measure, weight, quality, or something else." Bono Turco, under this daily infliction, gets at last, as a matter of course, thoroughly exasperated —sore and touchy to the last degree—and the more he is fleeced the more and more thin-skinned he becomes on the subject of his dealings with the Hebrew. In de spair he flies to the Hadji already mentioned— " Oh ! Hadji," he cries, "in the name of the Prophet help me in this thing : tell me of your charity of some device by which I may be revenged on this Citifoot, this Jew, for the shameful way in which he has continually cheated a true believer like myself. I might beat him certainly, I might make him eat stick ; but then I should put myself in the wrong, I should get into trouble with the Cadi, and the end would be worse than the begin ning." Tile Hadji having listened with becoming gravity delivers a long whiff of smoke from kis pipe from among the hairs of his umbrageous mous tache, and thus replies—" My son, return again to the Jew's shop, look about among his wares, and, seizing upon some insignificant-looking thing, ask eagerly the price, holding it in your hand and taking out a purse of gold at the same time : pay him down upon his counter board immediately whatever he may ask ; walk away rapidly with a smiling countenance : do this, and you will be re venged." The poor Turk is so bewildered at first by this strange advice that he is almost tempted to fancy his countryman is joking, only he knows very well, says Mr. Curzon, " that the Hadji is no joker, and [in fact] had never made a joke in his life." However away he starts to the Jew's shop, in which lie pounces upon a little old box worth per haps some 20 piastres—but for which the villain of a Jew asks him, unconscionably and without any bowels of compassion -200 ! " His great dif ficulty now was," says our narrator, "to pay thi s money with a cheerful countenance, for he felt that he was being cheated again ; however, he made an effort, paid the 200 piastres with a smile, and walked off with the shabby little box with the air of a man who had done something clever," "Well," says the Hadji to him when they met again towards evening', "have you done what. I said I—have you followed my advice ?" " Yes," replies the Turk, " I have : see, hero is a box ; what is it worth ? ten piastres ? Cursed be a!l *IOWA 1 What do you think I gave for it ? Blessed be the Prophet, Jews have no chance in the next world; that is some comfort anyhow : hut how am I revenged, 0 Hadji ? Tell me, 0 father ; do not laugh at my beard, for the son of abomination is counting my 200 piastres at this moment : may his soul be ' grilled and made into 200 skewers of kabobs ! Behold, I do not sea how I am to be revenged." " Yavash, gently, my son," says the Hadji, " yaVaSll • to - morrow, Inshallah, you will see , '— and speaking thus he puffs away at his pipe com placently. To-morrow comes in due course—and lo ! our friend Bono Turco of the simple-mind, wandering through the bazaar with a rueful visage, finds the J ew ' s s h op s hut up ! "Oh, sir," rays a bystander. in reply to his inquiries upon this some what unusual circumstance, "Oh, aga, be it known to your nobility that yesterday a merchant, who had many dealings with this Jew, and to whom he was as it were an estate, a kliasno.dar, a treasurer, from the profit which the Jew made out of him— this merchant bought a box at his shop ; it was evidently worth nothing so far as its appearance went ; hut the merchant having paid two thousand rather than lose this mean lpoioakstirnegs,boaxs is said, a thought came into the head of the Jew—there must have been a diamond in it ! He considered, and, shutting up his shop in vexation, he went home and told his wife. Perhaps it was a talisman,' she said. ' Oh, fool I' said his wife's mother, 6 miserable dog that thou ar t, d ou btl ess it was Solomon's seal ; for otherwise why should a Turk give such a sum for a mean box worth no thing ? Alas ! thou fool, what bast thou done ? Thou disgrace to our house, hest thou kept a shop in. the bazaar so long for this ? Oh, small man, a woman indeed would have been more awake. Alas, that we have married our daughter to an ass ! Woe is me ! Dost thou call thyself a man ?—a man ! where are thy brains, oh man ?—say hast thou any brains or not ? Hast thou ruined thy family or hest thou not ?—what dirt has thou been eating ? Alas ! alas ! amaau, amaan, amaan !' The poor man had no peace. . . • and therefore, Oh aga, in the morning, his life being a burthen, he went out into his garden and hanged himself." Bono Turco is much shocked by this news of the unhappy end of the Jew, but, adds Mr. Curzon, a Persian dealer in Kirmann shawls standing by e observes, " By the name of Ali, I am g l ad that the - Jew hanged him self, but I am sorry he did not leave me the 200 piastres in his will." So does our humorist-tra veller chuckle over "ye manners and customs" of the motley Orient population, as he saunters obser vantly among-them, jotting down notes for the " prenting . " with -, a ‘sense of th e d ro ll as sly , anal dry a s -esti' isci•awled a grin upon Hogarth's thumbnail I It were superfluous, hOwtver, to_ consider either the beauties or the comicalities of this delightful book, seriatim et literatim; apiinicled plentif u ll y th rough it a 3 they are —yea, aililentifully as plums and candied peel in a Christinqs pudding. Scarcely less a matter of -supererogation would it be so to analyse the merits and demerits of the volume recently given to us by the same deft hand, and coloured into picturesque lif e by the same skilled ability —the volume de scriptive quite as. luminously of a residence in Armenia and a year's sojourn in Erzeroum as its predecessor was of our author's far-famed visits to the alicie. t mouniteiles of the Levant. Enough for our present purpose if we commend Curzori's Armenia with, the like unstinted cordiality with Which the heartiest eulogist could ever lip the praises due to Curzon's. lonasteries. Both are books of a rare value to the lover of adventurous travel and picturesque description —of a value as difficult to estimate with anything like minute accuracy as it would be to calculate that of a solid ton of ambergris, or of an extended hill-side of unflawed and unbroken malachite. A ( entury of Acrostics, Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. This elegant little volume comes before us with a strong title to consideration. We don't mean the merit attributed to it of containing the first series of acrostics which has appeared in a sepa rate- form ; but - the fact that its contents have been composed in order to relieve the tedium con sequent on the author's deprivatien of sight. We are the more gratified, therefore, on being able to award it a considerable degree of approbation, be cause, however deplorable the f ac t o f t h e author's affliction may be, that were an insufficient reason for us to aid in extending the tedium be experiences to others. It is decidedly a clever little book, all things considered, and turns the acrostic to really useful account, the hundred it contains being writ ten on some of the most eminent names in litera ture, sciesice, and art, down to the present time, the whole, commencing with Homer, being chrono logically arranged with dates of birth, &c. The peculiarities and merits of many ofithe subjects are very happily hit off in elegant verse, and in several instances where exception may be taken the fault lies mainly in the exigency of the restricted lines. Among those most successfully delineating the moderns are Burns, Burke, Dickens, Brougham, Tennyson, and Macaulay. Singularly enough, " the Lord Hamlet" is the subject of two acrostics; and, after all, why should not the philosophic prince of Shakspere be treated as a celebrity that has moved and breathed, that moves and breathes, indeed, in human form ? To thousands he is less of an abstraction than his creator, the im mortal dramatist himself. We would rather take exception to the introduction of Prince Albert, who, though real enou g h, i s somewhat imagina tively dealt with. Passing this by, however, we have felt pleasure in the perusal of the work, a pleasure greatly increased by the proofs it affords not only of the writer's talent, but also of the cheerful spirit in which he contends against his misfortune, evidenced in its healthy tone and the puns he perpetrates in it. 'We cordially recom mend the " Century of Acrostics" to the notice of our readers. My First Season. By Beatrice Reynolds. Edited by the Author of " Counterparts." Smith, Elder, and Co. One Of those books which will be welcomed in most circles and be asked for at the libraries . . The heroine records in propria persona her experiences in her '' first season," prefacing the account with a sketch of her early life. Until fourteen she .has owed her desultory learning to her own fancy, and her father, a studious clergyman and a widower's tuition ; and afterwards her naturally vigoarous powers of mind arc further strengthened by the instructions of her cousin's tutor, a Pole of com manding abilities and. character. Thus prepared she enters on her first season, during which ample scope is given by the author for the exercise of her keen analytical powers on the folly, duplicity, worldliness, or virtue of the characters introdi iced. Some of these aro sketched with masterly :skill, more especially her chverone, Lady Barres ; and of the work generally we may say, to a neat .and vigorous succinctness of style are added the re sults of a keen observation of character and mut:l independence of tho ight—by one duly alive to high and generous influences. Blenham. By E. Elliott. W. and J. G. Cash. An interesting story, founded on facts, and ex hibiting the iniquity of church-rates and the equity of voluntaryism in religious matters in a forcible manner. The hero and martyr is a sturdy and en lightened village smith, brought before the eccle siastical court, and cast into prison, where he contracts jail fever, and suffers otherwise in mind, body, and estate, for conscientiously refusing to pay a church-rate, and that, by the way, illegally levied, the result, though ultimately fatal to the individual, being the virtual establishment in the parish of the principle in vindication of which he suffered. The work is characterised by a good deal of fairness and moderation of tone, in conjunction with not a little hard hitting, shrewd r e flectio n , and successful delineation, and is likely to conduce to the spread of voluntaryism. The Harper Lstablishment. By Jacob Abbott. Harper and Brothers, New York. One of " Harper's Story Books," in which a lucid description of the magnificent printing establish ment of the Messrs Harper, of New York, and the mode in which the story books are made, is given. Those who wish to become acquainted with the mysteries of composing, printing, engraving, marbling, furnishing, die—, may consult these pages with advantage, while those who need no informa tion, on these heads may learn anrnething from the admirable arrangement of the establishment, amd the construction of the building, which is rendered fire proof. The Liues of our Heroes in the Crimea. By George J ames Field and Co. A cheap edition of this popular work, which cannot be perused without •motion, so heroic are most of the careers therein recorded. It is but just, while creditable to Mr. Ryan, that the chivalry of the humble subaltern should thus be associated with that of his military superiors. But how cane the author, who has executed his task con ainore, to omit such of the non-commis sioned officers and privates as have remarkably dis tinguished themselves in the same field ? In a future edition this omission, it is to be desired, will be supplied. Lizzie Leigh, and other Tales. By the author of " Mary Barton." Chapman and Hall. These tales, which have already appeared in " Household Words" and elsewhere, we have here published in connection with the " Select Library of Fiction," and which we do not hesitate to say will be generally regarded as a most valuabl e contribution. Among the tales associated with Lizzy Leigh, that story of homely pathos, deepening to tragic intensity, will be found " Morton H a ll," " The Heart of John Middleton," " The Nurse's Story," " The Squire's Story," and the graphic and amusing " Confessions of a Mr. Harrison," the whole forming a more than ordi nar il y fasci nating volume of this cheap and startling series. Was Lord Cardigan a Hero at Balaklava? By George Ryan. James Field and Co. The author is of opinion his lordship was not, and adduces startling reasons (ill or well founded) for thinking so, at the same time challenging con tradiction with the utmost boldness. The inquiry' is taken from the guinea edition of the preceding work, and contains remarkable additions. The south of England Papers record numerous in stances of dinne rs , pu b l i c and private, on the 20th inst., to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of the A l ma. TESTIMONIAL TO SIR Cutes Narrsa.—A nume rously attended meeting conve ned by a committee ap pointed t o carry out the ' object, was held last night at the Gordon Hotel, Covent-garden, for the purpose of obtainin g a testimonial to Sir Charles Napier. Mr. James Homes , who presided, adverted to the circum stances connected with the command of the Baltic fleet by Sir Ch ar l es N ap i er , an d his dism issal on rt turn, and contended that the Admiral had been goaded, vilified, and misrepresented. Several gentlemen warmly de fended Sir Charles Napier, and in called upon the meeting not only to sympathise with him, but to exp re , s a dis approval of the mode which the affairs of the Ailmi ' ralty were managed. Resolutions w ere th en adopted, to the effect that, having carefully considered the facts in connection with the dismissal of Sir Charles Napier from the command of the Baltic fleet, and the imputa tions cast upon his character avid conduct, the meeting was of opinion that he had been unjustly treated, and was therefore determined to present to him a testimonial both as an expression of their esteem and sympathy, and as an evidence of the public sense of right and wrong ; that the qualities exhibit e d: b y Si r Charles while in command were those of sound jntlement firmness, and discretion, whereby he had remtiered great ' service to his country and deserved their tla anlce and gratitude. It was also determined that teas cription lists should be opened throughout the canntry, the amount of each individual subscription being reittricted to the sum of le., in order to see how widely tl so opinions expressed were liberal.