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TOWER..-SALE OP STOrLES. BY order of the Secretary of State IT To be Sold, by public nulloa, in the Towzr, n 'FR : TEAS' the ?Ist of November, (x 6, at Elovini o'clock in, tire, fren, tre , risely. the following STOLES lying at tae Victi, (1.onlon) !Jocks 1 .7 '.l al, Zinc, P,wter, and Copper - 1 C.teeis and Pa'll , ,nes articles ' , bills I Toe's, various lir,s;:ital Cleihinz. Hinges and :- , crews Fur t7o us, and Cans Hair Beds, &c. Sheepskin 4' oats, &c., Blankets and Rugs Mule .Covers Covers And Mlscer alter us articles. N ORWICH UNION REVERSIONARY I'..•TTERP...; COMPANY. NOTTCB TS HEREBY LIVEN, That fhb TIM F-YEARLY DI VIDE D, at the rate of 5 per cent., cloar clincomo tax. due 3 !it October last, is now in cony o of payment at the °Mee of the ,Ccm panv 11 , NRY NOR:11i, :secretary. • 23, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, 13th November, P 5.5. N.B. - PrOposalsfof the sa!e of Reversions may no alcirefsed to • he Secretary. M COUNTIESEL T R ri O tA rp ii T u aI A T ss A 6I N tINcm srF27, Re:enntd street, Watertoo-place, London. Canna], 100,00 CL ' TRUSTETCS. Rt. Ttn.givnceTTl. Walnole,M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq..lkt henry Peter Fuller, EFq. l E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Aeaurance tonincas transacted in all its branches. • N.B. The bonus decla:eci •:t the of profits ityeraged 23 per cent, on all the p - erninon • F, FERGUSON Q4MROU,X, Manner. 1 1 HE LIVERPOOL awl LONDON FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Ilsa been established Twenty Years, Hos paid in Claims, wide; its pol-cica, uttwar!s caf £loo,ooo in Dividends to its ft opletors 417,310 Has a paid-un Capital a ...... •• •• 170,858 and accumulated Fluids 0f.... •• •• • • . • ..... A 41,234 Hits from Sire Premiums only an income esceeding lBo,nro and from Life f remityr ...... • And it paid to Annuitants, in 1.6 i, the Finn of.• £11,',91 11s. Id . Forms of proposal awhfurther information con be had on apPitra- Von at the Offices of the Company, 37, Castle-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, London ; 6 1 , King.strert. Manchester p 123, Ingram street, Glasgow ; or to the agents eUesshere. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. Octobei, 18.56. • FRIEND of. the CLERGY CORPORATION, for allowing Pension',. not exceeding; 4'l. per mum, to the Widows and Orphan unmarried - Daughters of Clergymen of the t'atablithel Churcb. a nii•tor affording' temporary assigtalce to netes ti tons Clergymen and thei Ireland. r-famiLes,..throng b out England, W a l es, and The next ELECTION of PEN:TONERS will take place at the London Tavern, Bishopsale Street, on TuEtnAr, November 25th, 1856, at 12 o'clock prec,selY; The Rev. JOSEPII BROWN. 1 1 r:A.., in the chair. The Report of the Proceeeings of ,he Corporation during the past Sear, the balance-sheet, list of subscribe-a and pensioners, tee., may be had at the ()treks, 4, Martin'F-Nave, Trafalgar-square, where donations and su: reriptions will be tlmnkfally received. The Th.r. ,10 , EPH B ROWN, Nt.A , I Hon, The Rev. JOHN EDMUND GOY, M.A., F.S.A., 5 Secs. HENRY BRA.MALL, Secretary. THE METROPOLITAN SALOON OMNIBUS COMPANY (Limltr-d). Shares 1/. each.—Deposit 54. per share. PATRONS AND IiDNuRART REFEREES. An o eyVett, Esq., M.P. Sir James Ey+ e Alderman Sir R. W. Carden. Mr. Alderman Carter. TRUSTEES. • Sir Augustus Webster, Bart., Rattle Abbey, Sussex. James Gordon Murdoch, Esq mall East. . (Ranum, llouverie, and Co.), Pall- DIRECT ORS. Mr. David Rower Catlin, Ho . va-d-rc. ad, Stoke Yewington. Mr. George Ilwrison, F.S.A., Kennington -park. • Mr. W. Lancefleld, 414, Oxford-atrett. Mr. P Lewis, Islington-i're:st. Mr. F. Parker, Elm llcruse; Ilomerton • - Mr. E. T. Smith, S,-re,an•House, Cbelsca and VI3, Fleet-street. • Mr. V. Ilenty Stevens, 2, Finsbury -place South Mr. Charles et. John 0 Nei 1. Your-street, Chelsea. Mr. George Shillibeer. City-read (original introducer of omnibuses). Mr. J. Wilson, , • ZI With power to add ea to thf ir number. AN RERS—The City Bank, Thrdni.elle•atreet 11fessrs. Rturorn, • Bouverie, and Co., Pall-Mall E as t . Soraciroa-;—F. Reeve J es, No, .1 ones, I- sq., 5, Chatham-place, Blackfriar s . Of . Lea lenhall-street, City. The evils and annoyances resulting from the mes - nt Omnibus INTslem are universally. rOmitted •; in consequence of which it is be lieved the pablic will cordially support an Association intending to introdace more convenient carriages, working under beite,r arrange menu . Thts Patent Omnitus has received the aorroval of the .C.lty and nuthoritie.a . and toe most eminent London Coach Builders Those interested can satisfy themselves by perSonal inspection of its great superiority. The amount of each share has been placed as low es ii., in order to obtain a greater amount of subscribers, who will have a personal interest in the progress of the Company. Omnibus travellers becom ing shareholders will be able to exercise a control o'er the manage ment, and, at the smile titre, profitably invest a portion of their capital. The accounts of the Company will be audit!d- half-yearly by the appointed Auditors,. and the books of the Company always open to the inspection of the shareholders. • , Prospectuses and any information can be obtained at the Corn- Pany's Deices. Should-no allotment be made, the depositwill he returns d. _ _ • District Agents w R. anted.PorE, Secretary, PRINCE'S CLUB.-11,ACQUET and TENNIS COTIRTS, Tlans•olace.Belgraye.s.quare. The Racquet Conrti of this Clnh are now OPEN, comnrislng three close and two open courts. Gentlemen desirous of becominz members are requested to tOrward their names to the seere:ary of the cMh. By order. . R. CLEMENTS. Secretary. ITADAME TUSSAUD'S BAZAAR, Baker tv. ti ' street, rortman-equve. —Full-length portrait models of • ~. • 0 • D'OS'E sod PALMER are now added to the exhibition. Admittanv, s. • extra rooms 6d. Open from e l even till dt ek, and from seven to ten. Brilliantly Illuminated at eight o'clock. M. ISS P. HORTON'S POPULAR ILLIJS 'MATTI:MS.—Mr. and Mrs. T. GERM EN BEE]) will give the above EnterMnment at the Gallery of Illustration, Every Even s f P:zcept ,atnrdaY), at Eight o'clock. AMO -k \ G PERFORM ANCE every Saturday at Three o'clock. Stalls. Co ','s . lg., maybe slcured at the Gallery, and at Cramer, Beal, and .'s, 201, Regen:- street. • A it(lkLl4 ROOMS,—I,AU.P.TiINT'S CASINO, -CIL. Great Windmill-street, St. ,Tarnes's..—The abPve elegan /looms are now open every evening tor the winter season, With taurent'a celebrated Orchestra. rrincipal C ornet•R-DiSton, M. Anulcourt. The Proprietor he. 44 Wenn the public that th s Ttnninnahle Piece of resort been entirely redecorated during the re''tst• Donrs open at half-pail eight, commence at Line. Adults " One Shilling'. . • It • ICARWs AN A , —.-----.------. , OMICAL ~zUSEU~s ,11), . Coventr y . street, Leic ester - square. —Open ,(for Gentlemen ' "' 3 ') &inn •1 0 till W, containing tipw irds of one thousand models andreparations, illustrating every part r+f tha human frame in health and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. Szarox, F.R.G.S. ; and a new rind tilnly-Ititerogting series of lectures Is now In course of delivery by Dr. Kazis, et 4 p.n.:. Precisely. Admission, One ,hilline• CANTERBURY HALL, We3tmiuster-roaci. —OPENT Evratr F.VEtiI:VG.The. Se l ections company of Vocalists are ,ngaged for the performance of Selections f , o n alt tit: Popular gals, Chorus e•+ Glees, Duets, Itc., viz. : llis E.' Pearce, Mts. ,t. wield, Miss tiranell, and AT Summers Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr .E.. Jon; Ilan it. Grover, T. Rain°, T. Tarrant. S. Jones, J. Barker. VV. • ening, and P. Crirric ; Masters Austin, Bennett, end Corti; Mr. Sam Cowell an 4 E Alackney. Pia. Wort°. .1. Ilarroway. A . „harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun • direc tor, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commcalce at Bccen L'clocit precisely. guppers, &c„ uatil twelre o'clock, . TO LOVERS of FlSEL—Pifth Season.- 08,,uine TAR lIOUTrf BLO \ TEtti .1- These highly_ 103 delioabie3 forwarded to all Parts..a receipt of the amount as under, In penny postage stamps, or Posto:11:e order :-- loa prime - .......... .... re. 0,1. s . 100 especially seleaed.. • . Bs. 44. IPackago included. 50 ditto .... 4s. 6d. Bend full and pl a i n directions, county, and nearest station. (bless, 1110.31A8 LETTES, J un., Fish Curer, Groh Yirmouth. 43- 3/1 R. FIOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet It street; has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI t• ICIAL TEETH.,ibted without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so rerfectly. resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the eh seat °User , - r; they will never change colour or kll 'ea3". and win be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. his method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and rreserve teeth that are loose, and Is wuarantecd to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and 'home f rom ten till five Metal ha m astication. -52, Fleet -street. At - T . BLAIR'S GATT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Price la. I%ll:and 25. box. ' This preparationis one of the be nefitswhich the acienceof moJern cherrilstry, has conferred upon mankind ; for during the first twenty Tears of the preent 'century to speak of a Cure for the Goutiwas con siere a romance; but now the efficacy and safety of this medicine in so fully demonstrated by unsolicited testimonials firm persons in every rank of life that Public opinion proclaims this as one of the most Important discoveries of the Present age. ieurther proof of the great efficac of BLAIR'S GOUT HuIIHEIT -24.A.T1C PILLS, fonvaried by Mr.Yßeinbirdt. Chemist, ~,`,1.r.. Enclosed is a testinionial from a customer of mine, who i 5 ,7"."°w-ti about here ; he speaks in the highest terms of 13Iatr's -Witt and Itheurnatic Pills, and would t c glad to give information to itnybody. To Mr. Reinhardt, 22 Market-place, Hall. "Decamber4tb, 1855. "Dear .tir,—l have be ,, .'n -- - aufcted with rheumatirm tbr 12 years, dttring which tima I have tried almost everything, both internally .uld externally, but could ant obta,n any permanent relief. A chart !time ago I purchased a 2s. 9d. 1 bad taken the whole of them I was mo free from pain than I had box of Wail's Pills of yc ti. and before -.been for the last dozen years. You willreleve let me have another box, as I mosn to keep them by me In case P ' .I. should again require thew, and oblize, "Dear Sir, yours obedlcntir, lots of - field Medicine. bY Prout and Ih " JettE mus GAMESS." rsant, 222. Strand, Lo n d on, and all pen- NEW AND IMPORTANT____________ Dlsco-v,,lnt----- OF MEDICINE. IN TAE SCIENCE Patent Office Seal of Great Britain. Diplome cr.. Pharmacien de Paris. Imperial Colleg e of xt Z e le de Tharmacle a lozenge, TRIESEMAU No. 1. 2, and 3, prepared in tho trio, Vienna. devoid of taste or =on, and can be carried in ther'svrarnistCloat pocket. lis a. 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TRIESEMAII No. 111.. tithe great Continentai Remedy for syphilis and Secondary EiYmP terns. It also constitute. n certain cure for Scurvy, S emtnia ' and all I ts Eruptimis, removing and erpelling in its course all corrup tions snd impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of dlsease, and expell it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and' s a n ew er.failing remedy 'or that clans of di•orders which unfortunately . 11 1 e F.nzlfsh rhys:cian treats with llercury, to the inevitable destruc tion of th, patient's constitution, and which all the tarsaParilla in the World cannot restore. reienPrice 1 Is., or four cases in ono for 33.„ Whi c h saves 1 is., an d in 61. , whereby there i s , sav i ng of 11. 123 . To he had w h Icsale and retail it London, of Derby and Gorton 140 , I t et •t. Leadenhal •re , l 'reut 2 t 2.1 • , Strand; Hannay and C o., 63, Oaf rd-street ; Sanger' 150, o.(ferd•street. .—.,..... tiaIJNIAN FRAILTY ; ar .Medical work. price I ri., post ft eo, beautifully strapilld with 100 ingravings, t°All,l co.taliting the opinions or V elpeau, Lalleznand, Poux, Iticord, h:, P . g i Veti copious inetructions for the perfect restoration of those „...,,-," 'te Prevented by impediments front entering into the married i u ,'" c e ' 4130 s howing the dreadful results from early abuse, gonorrhwa, ex4:ls:Pills, and the heitetits arising' from the the tests and nnerulOsuatpoi" Of the spermetoza, by the author's n -ew lY-constructed e° • with ful lenses.—Piper and Co.. 23, p a t ernoster . ow; uti t„,..., power "' l n WI agents for the sale of `...Trleeeroar: -_. . . ~ ~x~: Maybe %lowed at the VictorlA Docks from 10 to 4 o'clOck, on the 3 days preViOns to the sa!e; and catalogues had at the War Department. Pall-mall, the Toner, Victoria Docks, apd Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, en payment of 6d. each, which wall be EtilONV?Ci 10 pure:)asers. No peron hilt be admi.ted to view the lots, cm; into the sale room,' without a' catalogue. This day, in demy Bro., 125., SEVEN LECTURES on SHAKSPEARE and MILTON-. By the late S. T. COLERIDGII A. List of all the :NI . Emendations in On'lier's Folio. 1632 ; and an introduliory Prate?, br d. Payne Collier, Esq. London : Chapman and Hall, IM, Piccadilly. 7hi., eta y, in pose Bvo., 551., RUSSIAN POPULAR TALES. Translated IrJm the German Version of ANTON DrzTaten. With an lutioduction byJACUB London: (Thapna,n and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. On November 191 h, in .'cap. Bvo., 3s. Gd., QUEEN ELEANOR'S VENGEANCE, and OTHER POEMS. • ' By W. C. 13 if;NNE r r. London: Chapman and.llall, 193, Piccadilly. Ju,t publish id, in leap, Bvo., price ixpence, A SONG in PROSE to the WESTMINSTER t. OWL. John Moxon; 2S, Nladdox-strect, liegent-street. EGUW.LED,GE'S SH AESPEARE. • On rec. let, pi i 0 One Shil:lng, super royal, THE TWO GENTLE MEN OF VERONA, with Eighteen Illustrations by JORN GILBERT, being the ffrst part of a new and spl'ndidly Illustrated Edition of the Works of Shakspeare, edited by HOWARD STAurtiox, End Illustrated by JOHN GILBERT ;ti be continued in Shilling Monthly Parts. Each part will contain forty-eight pates of matter, printed in elegant type, on surcrior paper, and on art average twenty Illustrations by the mad v3lle I Joirs • GILBERT. '1 he l'u,dishers will spare neither labour ner expense to produce an ed tilt; of the works of our great national dramatist that FILM be worthy o f a ;lace upon every dr aw i ng - room table, in• the famlly library, and on the .. lo student's shelf—au edition whi.la they feel conflient for excellence, accuracy, and cheap- MSS, must ever remain vritbout a rival. Specimens olOthe illustra tions may be seen at all botioe:lers, and may be had gratis, on or will be sent tree on receipt of one stamp aPplicLaotinoln:n : George fteuttedge' and Co., 2, Fa ringdon-street. . .. The Third Editlim. Just i!' üblithed, Price 5i., by post, tree. s s. 6 d• N. TRUE d: Ii'ALSE SPERMATORRIREA, t“,al Elufrertre tinder this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread 'trlo'ii* of distinguishing the Imaginary fl'om the arol t :n relation to their Treatment and Cure. Tr anslated fro" Dr. Plek tord !8 known to English readers by from the tletraan o f D r. V I CKFORD. cl contributions to °email medical literature. This is the Bret :h1 reader, We trust this may im 3, he informs rue, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi. his frequent praett ".ither eqnally flagrant evil which it May be In his power to col'. leteet any rect."—encin Medical Quetta. "The tribe of 'Quiet Sympathisers,' not be the lest, if he shall and 'Medical rtlinds,' are mercilessly exposed; and. if 'this book %ould find lts w.. 3, lulu the hands of these whs i'etTar from the corn. ,utainit of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would 'u, saved numb nee:ll,ms stiflcting of body and mind, and what 14, of .zgus importgnee, th , mo. it Is that which the quacks. most prize -ouch money... -~This volt:minis well qualified to putt an end to the 'metrical spteru of treating Spormatorrhrea, and to piece the treat. mont upon a more ratlertal ',rid rt ydolegical bto!s, it is, therefore, !key to do menb gaol."--Merlical Circular. London: 11. Baiiiere, 219. tte gcn t- arrest. ‘,....,.7.,_ -....,r.,..,u.-.N..,.i.-..a..tu.i.........--......—__ VIIALKABU3 ESCAPE OF FRENCH POLITICAL .PRISONRRS. ----sia---___ ln a recent art i c l e on the penal colony . of Guyana the Mon iteur stated that several political prisoners had found means to escape, but it gave no details. A. private letter brings some particulars on the subject of considerable interest. At the beginning of this year several political transports, confined in the Devil's Island, conceived the idea of escaping. They cut down sonic trees and built a schooner, but, owing to an accident in launching, the schooner struck and went. to pieces. Nothing daunted, they set to wink again, and, with such planks of the schooner as they we're able to pick out of the water, and the stump of a large tree which floated down the Amazon river, they con structed a raft, on which, on the 7th of August last, seven men embarked in search of liberty. For four whole days they floated nearly at y re ex random hausted, slende r s t oc k of provisions was entirely Two of on the s ea , an d a t th e en d o f th a t time, l when their Oi their raft w en t as h ore on a mu d b an k. the party ono an Italian named Pianauri, and another a P o l e named Bsgenski—left the boat and waded a l ong i n the mud hoping to f i nd a h_ t habita tion. 'h on. They were so weak that they soon found hem selves unable t o d raw t h e i r l egs out o f t h e heavy soil, and their ce;npanions - learned some days later that their dead bodies half devoured by crabs, h a d b een seen by a native. The five who had remained ou the raft, finding that their comrades did net return, and being con vinced of the hopelessness of looking for them, resolved to put 'to sea again. But to do this it w asnecessary to con s t ru ct another raft, it being impossible to get the old one off the mud. For an entire week they floated up and down aloess the coast upon such pieces of wood as they had been able to detach from the raft, and during al this time they had nothing to eat but raw crabs, and nothin g to drink but salt water. At length they were fortunate enough , to find a house, where they received succour. The names of these five men were Guerard, Bongnels Carpezal, en Chabire, and Babirr de Candre (of the department of a the Indre and Loire). A fortnight after their departure 'from the Devil's Island the other prisoners there learned the issue of an enterprise which it might have been thought utter madness to undertake. A. burning desire to risk their lives in like manner for their liberty ran through the colony. With th e help of Government timber collected for build ing purpeees they found means. to .construct two rafts, each capabl e of holding 20 men. Saturday, the 13th of September, was chosen for the depar ture of the expedition, Saturday being s the day on which a week's provisions were served out to the prisoners. Thirty-four men in all got away o n hoard the rafts. O n the first raft were MM. Bor daye, de Tours, Bijon, Chauvin, Attibert, Gueren, Caillet, Davau, Salem, Carriere, Dime, Bourlon- Jeanfrais, Pan Herrey, Montfalcon, Seronde, Paul, Bivart, Meunier, and Desalle. On the other were MM. Frouin, Guognard, Tourenace, D es b o i e, T r i s son, . Aisans, her, Bouselle, Dunaux Vivant; Bonassieux, Bardiget, Angeliaume, and'mairvian. The weather was stormy for two days; on the 16th it became fine, but the night following was frightful. In the morning of the 17th, however, the 20 men on the first rattlanded on a Dutch possession in habited by natives, who gave them so bad a recep. tion that they resolved at once to start into the interior of the country on foot. Atter a painful march of several hours they slept in a wood, where they suffered greatly from insects; and the ne x t day, finding no place of rest, they could think of nothing better than making their way back to their away the sail, raft, but they found that the natives had taken to sea, they Were glad t o pass the night in an empty com mandant of the Dutch Tibron Company, and being, therefore, unable to put hut. On the 18th the natives took them to the with a letter to sonic, re ceived thein very kindly, and gave who them a boat, conduct the to'Pararnarho. 4 They left on the 20th, and pantyt he 27th landed safely at Para y, natives, ordering them to maribo, the capital of the Dutch Guyette, a town of 20,000 in hibi,ants, situated about 400 kilometres north-west of Cayenne' and nine kilometres from the sea. There they were authorities and w kindly treated by the find their five friends were h o as surprised as delighted to the rst to escape from the Devil's Island. Thew ere othe r ourteen me ou the second raft al so arrived at Paramaribo on, . fi f the 29th. The Dutch authorities, not knowing whether they were ordinary convicts or political convicts, thought right to s teep them in prison, where they were up to Sept. 30, but they were to be released two days later. o. 20,(,95.) PC.TBLIOATIONS. :Yon- ready, in 2 cols., 21L,10a^.d.. • ART and NATURE at HOME and ABROAD . By G. %V. TAIOR icl3 " i his is- the best Molt 7.1. r. Thorn!)nry has written. Ile;ng an artist, he wrars about art ; ai a Londoner with quirk CTC3 raid a en'- t , vated taste, h writes of Lo aion; as an artist who has travelled, he tells driecdotei /r.d dw.ql4 en scenes of lily pait life abroad. All this hi do s ;n a frank and genuine way."—Exarainer. Hurst and Blackett,Pultlisher3, 13, Great illarlb6rough-street. NEAT V0LT.731 OF MIS;3 ST RICSLAND'E. I RQYAL RIOGRAPFIIES. , On 18th tm ne. w' to published, Klee' 105.61.„ the SIXTH VOLUME Of LIVES' of the' QUEENS o f - . 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Thia day, in post Bvo., LOs THE GIRLHOOD of CATHERINE DE By T. ADOLPHUS TROT,LOPE. London : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. flits day, in 3 'oh. post Avo., THE lIILDMAYES ; or, The Clergyman's Scutt. A Story - ot Twenty Years ago. Lotdon : Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. a,„ reit,t, 0 .),,,, -....:_, -- 44,,,.' • • „.„.,;(. .. ,4 .... ::4eis ..7, - , , , i .., sr" : 4l *, 'it s -;,.,.. ' : . , ,1.. 7 . , '1 .. . . o.C r i • , ~ • .01' ...nt . : F--.,,,, j14 .t," „ '' ''5 , ; - , - ---,4 ;:, • ~. • ' 4 *•4 7, i4. 1 .;::• • ••• • i . :t.'. • ....4 , ..., 7 , 14,,,.,,: - . --, .4.,_,; ~. / ~.*!,, ...,, ' k \,. \,. .t....b ik . ~. ..4 .2-6....4r: '-:.1.1: •' '; ',',/,' \ :•.'. ---.1 . ',/!' ~ ,'„ ii. l4,4 tb - 'r ______ . ;:% 1. 44,44, s, ; 1 - ' f ,t. ! 4,, tv g iflt r, it / , i 4,-,..-. . ;,.. .„ . - • ......4. .4,4,4 m, ~,,-----.-.,,, . , 4 t 1• "*.. 1 1 ' ‘::.., 'Y '' .- 1 / Y . , i' ' i t'' ' • ....". Netc . 7l, 1 9,... 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So, precisely at eleven, a band, headed by Mr. E. B. Denison, Q.C., its accomplished de signer, and Mr. Taylor, assembled within the hoard ing at the foot of the W es t m i ns t er Cl oc k T ower ; some with tuning keys ready to apply to their mouths, some with their ears stuffed with cotton, leatstheir tympanums should crack, and some man fully trusting that their ears would stand the sound. All were in anxious expectation, an d awa it e d w ith mixed feelings of impatience and awe the first accents of the monster; Children are said to be born imperfect in every respect excepting their tongues ; of this all fathers blessed with progeny ha - ve had aural,dem,onstration ; but this Frankenstein— this Bell of Belli;, though born, is unable to wag his tongue or to give the faintest lisp - without help, and yesterday morning this help was supplied by six or eight sturdy artisans, who tugged lustily with a measured strain at ropes attached to Big Ben's clapper. Now the bells of St. Margaret's, and of the Abbey ; struck it, loud enough in their way, but sooa to be pet,to silence. With the north-cast breeze came booming down, a moment after, the sound `ol 4 antrt - her- bniti- attlt - the -greatest in. England, but in a few minutes to be immeasurably sur passed in sound, and destined to take the second place. It was the last protest of the Great Bell of St. Paul's, ci-devant Great Tom of Westminster, which at once proclaimed its own power and rung in the supremaly of the mighty rival, swinging over the very spot on which it had once itself stood, to whom its sceptre of sound was now about to depart for ever. If bells can feel, no doubt the Great Bell at St. Paul's felt sad at that moment, and " Big Ben" proportionally triumphant, but externally the latter made no sound as the voice of his'antagonist came wailing up the Thames, and he looked as firm and unmoved as the First Com miisioner of Works when he is listening to the re proaches of a deputation. Well, mow the time has come. As Wallensteiu told his soldiers to fight or rot, so Big Ben must now speak or split. By his voice we shall show him. Be there flaw or crack in him out it now must come. So the sturdy fellows in fustian pull with a will, at first somewhat jerkingly and excitedly, Mr. Denison lending a willing hand as leader in that honest team. One, two, three, and then such au awful, solemn, heartrending sound ; like a potent poison, the vibration penetrates every vein in the body, it strikes every nerve, it attacks and tries every fibre and muscle, it makes your bones rattle and your marrow creep. In despair of describing a sensation which combines all sensations and invades the body by so many senses, we can only call it a liquid blow ; it strikes you all over your frame at once, and, not content with mas tering your outworks, it steams into and per vades and floods your inner man in an instant of time. Se much for the first 'stroke, the work of a moment, an electric shock intensified, which it has taken so many words to describe, even imper fectly. The men are not in good gear, and tug somewhat hurriedly ; the second and third strokes are faltering, and cause our Frankenstein to give an "uncertain sound ;" the fourth and fifth, and so stroke after stroke, with rare exceptions, come truly home. And now arises a wondrous conflu ence of vibration as the air in the confined space under the clock -tower is lashed into fury by the tempest of sound. Many stop their ears—and, if any of Mr. Denison's detractors .were present, it must have amused him to see the attitude of these " deaf adders, who refused to hear the voice of the charmer"—scoffers who, perhaps. came to exult over a defeat and remained to swell a triumph. But to return. Many stop their ears ; many would run away if they dared, and some did, saying they preleued to hear it' a little way off, but the true friend of science neither stopped his ears nor thought of running away. 'He stayed and braved -out the brazen autge of sound around him and re velled in its vibrations with the same excitement and delight as when a man stands upon a wind smitten headland on a stormy day, and joys to feel the wind pour down on him blast after blast, and to see each gust as it tears its way towards the land, smoothing its path across the rolling . , sea. Now the men begin to feel fatigued and a signal is given to cease for a while,. and here it is most curious to mark the cessation of sound and the gra dual decline of vibration ; for long after the metallic ring had ceased there followed a strange mysterious after-noise, a sound between the trickling of a slender rill and the dry shivering rustle of autumn leaves hustled together by a gust across a hard gravel-walk. This is the thin ghost of Big Ben's full utterance. Iu such dry husky accents did the shade of the great Achilles address the wandering Odysseus when he told him the life of a serf on this warm, genial, upper earth was worth a king's crown down in that gloomy nether realm of Hades. But even the husky whisper has ceased, and silence is again restored. We look at our neigh bours. Well, we don't think any of them have had their tympanums split, though some are cautiously removing their cotton. Opinions are compared, and we are happy to say that it is universally acknow ledged that the bell is without crack or flaw, a per fect piece of casting. So much for Mr. Warner, the founder. He way sleep happy. Well ! but for the sound ; how do Mr. Denison 's innovations of shape, material, and mixture answer ? What is the sound as expressed in reusical scale ? Here, again, opinion appears to be unanimous. Mr. Denison had prophesied—for it could scarcely be anything else than prophecy—ive mean of that scien tific kind which can boast of its fulfilment before the event—that it was to be E natural. And hero all the praiseworthy persons who had their tuning-keys in their mouths during the trial declare Big Ben's voice to be pure natural E. At this moment some one suggests that Mr. Turle and tke Abbey and its magnificent organ are close at hand—what easier than to run over to the Abbey and to check the sound of the bell by the organ ? Away goes the indefatigable Mr. Denison, and in a short time comes back with the information that Mr. Turle confirms the opinion that it is a pure natural E, the sound it was meant to be. We do not know that in these days of universal failure we can praise anything more highly than by saying, especially if it be matter of experimental science, that it turns out what it was meant to be. Big Ben's voice has turned out what it was meant to be, and when it says—" Here I am, E natural,—strike me, buffet me, crush me if you can, with a clapper of 16ewt., not one syl lable of anything else shall you get out of me than that. E natural I am, and E natural I shall re main till Jove splits me with his thunder." When the bell says this, we do not know that any words of 'ours can add one syllable more to the learned gen tleman's justly-earned mood of praise. Mr. Denison has had, as our readers know, a hard battle about this bell. He has routed his foes, he has carried his point, the bell has answered his expectations; what more can we say except to congratulate him on his signal triumph ? It is true tit it a critical friend of ours, over whelmed with the first tumult of sound, tried t o whisper in our ear that the bell was a dead failure. He forgot, however, that a bell of this size, espe cially if irregularly struck as this was, can never be a very pleasant companion when you ate within two yards of it. A6B pounder would be quite as agreeable. A bell of these proportions is intended to be hung some 200 feet above your head. It is meant to be beard miles in all directions ; in fact, it is only meant to be heard at a conside ra bl e dis tance. All the world are not Quasimodos, the whole metropolis will not live up at the top of this stouwppeorsecdlostehtaot ourt he friend bell did not,andther make sufficient therefore it s i u s fli t e obe t allowance for his close proximity w h en , m jarring vibrations of whol e stro k es and half-strokes,aid the he uttered his opinion. We are happy to add that bis doubts were rem ove d b y a shortwalk,for, on retiring from the spot, it was found . that as we receded from the tower the voice of Bic , Ben rapidly assumed, in spit e o f until i when tsenormous w e rea e v h o b e l d u tmhee, middle so lt melodious sou n d , of St. Margaret's churchyard—no great distance, after all—it was impossible to conceive a deeper or 'a finer tone. So much for the sake of truth and as an instance of the b es t way to remove th e scru pl es of these "doubtin g Thomases" who will not make due allowances for time and space. If any one stands before the bell and fancies he detects a jar, let him remember that the laws of proportion are universal, that the frescoes of Michael Angelo and the mosaics of St. Peter's are meant to be seen afar off, just as Big Ben is meant to be heard afar off ; and that if scientific men will scramble up to the one on lad ders, and will list, n within two feet of th eother, LOND JN, FRIDAY EVENING, YOVEMBER 14 1 1856. ;aYal and ridtary Inteihigemce. The commander-in-chief (Vioe-Admiral Sir G. Seymoi the rear-tidmiral Superintendent Mettle, and dockyard authorities, went over to 113Q1ar Creek yesterday to inspect the plans for hauling up the screw gnnboatSon the crAller., and to place them under cover. Thu beildieg takes up a vast space of ground contiguous to the lake. The Admiralty have purchased Lord Seymout's house in Spring-gardens, and contemplate openieg, it as the Coast Guard-office on the Ist Jan. next. It is rumoured that Admiral Stewart will be appointed to the North American and West Indian stations. Imperious° and Amp Lion aro ordered home from the We-t Wildfire, paddle, Mr. G. Brockman, master, command ing, left Sheerness yesterday morning for Shoeburyness, having on board Capt. B. P. Halsted, head of the steam reserve of this harbour, who proceeds to that place to make the necessary arrangement* prior to the floating battery Trusty being sent there, the Government having deter mined to test the Teal strength of these formidable'vessels of war (built for the express, purpola of demolishing the forts of Cronstadt). We hear she will be moored about 8)0 yards from the shore, and placed under the fire of the heavy mortars, which are now at Shoeburyness. The Terror, 'l6, floating battery, has been towed town from Chatham by the steamvessel Adder, and berthed alongside the floating coal depot' in Saltpan-reaoh for the purpose of being coaled, preparatory to her trial. A con siderable staff of naval and military officials have received orders to be in attendance. This trial will be of an interest ing nature as it regards future military and naval opera tions upon stronghold batteries on shore. • , The gunboats Mayflower, Magnet, and Ruby were yes• terday taken into the fitting ba,sin at Sheerness- for the purpose of undergoing a practical survey by the .pr~fes• sional officers. The Pylades, 21, screw steam corvette, Captain Edwin C. F. D'Eyncourt, ordered to be paid off at Sheerness on Tuesday next, is receiving her new tanks on beard ready for her being re-commissioned. Mr. William H. Sharp, her rosent master; Mr. Charles Dickson, her present engineer; and her gunner, carpenter, and boatswain hava received their commissions and warrants to her for her new commission. The Portland freight ship, lying in St. Katharine's Dock is shipping 20 tons of light Ordnance stores from Wool ich Arsenal for Malta, and will be ready for sea to. morrow. The freight ship Forerunner sailed on Wednesday from Woolwich, laden with Ordnance stores for the Mauritius. The Covenant& likewise left Woolwich for the Cape. The experimental paddlewheel despatch vessels Bawn and Brune, intended for exploring purposes on the Nile, were yesterday morning taken into the outer basin of Woolwich Dockyard. After a successful course of experi. mental trials of speed and requisite capabilities, these vessels have been ordered by the Admiralty to be com pleted for service. The gunboats Pheasant, Ripple Quail, Prompt, Parthian, Porpoisl, Handy, .and Hunter, of the light squadron, having undergone the necessary trials of machinery, were yesterday morning warped into the fitting basin at Wool wich Dockyard. Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Fawn, intended to carry 16 guns, was yesterday morning taken into No. 1 lOck at Woolwich to receive engines and be brought forward for service. The iron paddlewheel steamer lately employed in the packet service in the Mediterranean has undergone consi derable lepairs, and has been fitted in Woolwich Dockyard with new boilers and engines of increased horse-power, and speed. She is provided with new bulwarks and shelves, a new lower deck throughout, and will be shortly ready for re•cornmission. The Vesuvius will be paid off to-day. Her Majesty's ship Pluto, preparing for coast service at Woolwich, will be out of the shipwrights' hand on Tues day. The Abyssinian and Covenanter transports arrived at Spitbead yesterday from the Thames to embark further portions of the British German Legion for the Cape of Good Hope. The Surveying ship Admen, 26, Commander Bete, bent sails at Portsmouth yesterday. The Stamboul freightship hauled alongside Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday to embark the wives of the German Legion for the Cape. The Raleigh, 59, Commodore Keppel, is expected hourly at Plymouth on the way to the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies, where she/will be stationed. The sto eship Industry, from Wollwioh with machinery and moulding sand for Keyham-yard, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday. A screw steamship of 100 guns,, to be called the Gib raltar, is ordered to be built at Devonport. The coal depot Jupiter having had defects made good was taken out of Keyham Dock on Tuesday. The wardroom and lower deck of the Vengeance, hulk, at Plymouth, have been supplied with stoves fOr the ac commodation of the officers and crew of the Tntkish fri gate Paki Zuffir, now fitting for a screw in the Devonport Dockyard. Yesterday another draught of troops, to the number of 196 men of all ranks, received their discharge.at Chatham. The men discharged belonged to the 4th Royal Irish Dra goon Guards, 21 Royal Dragoons, 11th Prinee Albert's Hussars, 15th Hussars, 3d Buffs, 4th King's Own, 6th, 7th Royal Fusiliers, 13th Prince Albert's Light Infantry 17th, 18th Royal Irish, 19th, 20th, 23d Welsh Fusiliers, 25th King's On Borderers, 28th, 31st, 321, 3 id, 35th, 38th, 39th, 41st (the Welsh), 42-1 Highlanders , 44 th, 46 th, 4 9th, 50th Queen's Own, sth, 56th, 57th, 60th Rifles, 75th, 77th, 79th Highlanders, 81st, 82d, 88th Connaught Rangers, 90th Light Infantry, 94th, 97th, and the Ist and 3d battalions of the Rifle Brigade. A large number of those men ordered to be discharged had served in the Kafir war, and also in that in the Crimea, and were deco iated with those medals. The whole of the disposable corps, consisting of 14 battalions of the Royal Artillery Regiment, were yester day drawn up in divisions on the parade-ground of head quarters, Woolwich, and pat through a course of drill and exercise in the use of the short carbine recently served out for general nse. The junior officers of the regiment were likewise submitted to a separate court° of drill with the new carbine. The latter exercises occupied upwards of two hours, each officer consecutively falling out of the ranks and fulfilling the duties of. commanding-officer. The service generally will learn with much satisfaction that Sir Charles Wood has, in the handsomest manner possible, appointed Captain Craigie to the office of super intendent of Plymouth Dockyard, vacant by the removal of Captain Nies. Captain Craigie's public services as in spector gener,al of the relief operations in Shetland during the faminein 1851-2, and more recently chairman of the Transport Board, are too well known to require more than mere allusion to . them. Such an appointment is creditable alike to Captain Craigie and the First Lord, as Captain Craigie has no interest beyond that /which his merits have earned for him. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty ;-- Captain Robert Craigie, to be Superintendent of the Royal William Victualling-yard and the Royal Plymouth Hospital, vice Captain Nias, superseded ; Lieut. George Berlase, additional to the Royal Albert; Lieutenant John. E. Doran, to the Childers. At the monthly examination of officers to qualify for promotion, and of candidates for entry into the service, held at the Royal Naval Coll9ge, and which terminated yesterday, the following passed : For Lieutenants—C. Pringle, J. F. Lerion, W. A. de V. Brownlow, H. R. E. Grey, E. M. Collier, Edward Kelly, F. T. Thompson, W. H. S. Mourilyan, D. A. A. Denny, E K. Wilkinson, P . J. Murray, A. Eaton, H. Kent, and St. V. D. Lake. G. Burniston. Second Masters, R.N,, for Masters—A. Farmer and A. For For Naval Cadets —G. R. Thornhill and C. M. Turner. stants—W. T. Tredigo and H. N. At kinson. Sporting Intelligence. VERPOOL 'AUTUMN MEETING.—THOWitiaY. Handicap Hurdle Race of 30 sove, added to a Sweep stakes of 3 sovs each. Winners extra. Gentlemen riders allowed 51b. Two miler:, over six flights of hurdlee. 5 subs: Mr. Sydney's Victory, aged (h.b.), 10st - 21 b (M'Lean) 1 Mr. Griffith' a Royalty, aged, 10st, llb (F. Pag e ) 2 Mr. Tophain's Croxtetb, 5 yrs.(leb), 9.,t Sib , W. Wh) Betting -6 t o 4 on R oyalty, 2to 1 sgst,( Vietory.ite 0 Won cleverly by a nook. Croxteth „ was pulled up within the distance, and did not pass the pest. Selling Race of 2 soya each, with 15 added, for maidens of all zgea. To start 100 yards within the T.Y.C. port: 5 cube. • Mr. Simpson's Breach, by Stoern,2 yrs (200, fist 10th • Mr. Dawson's (Withington) 1 Mr. Morris's Sebsestopel, 2 yrs (20/.), 6st 101 b • (Glimmei) 3 yig (20/ ), 6et. 101 b (Bullock) 2 Mr. Barber's Ilarnlet,.2 yea (201.), 6st. 101 b ~.(Dales) 4 Bet tin to 1 o'n Breach, who won easily by a neck ; bad third. The winner 'vas bought in for 23 gottneal- The Great Autu mn C up of 200 sovs,'igiven !”, the Cap tains of America and the Stevedores of Liverpool, with 200 eon in specie added by Mr. E. W. Topham, the lessee and clerk of the course, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 eovs each, 10 ft. The second to receive 50 sore out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake. Winners extra. Entrance 3 sons, to go to the hind. One mile and three-quarters. 115 subs, and 50 acceptances. Mr. J. Heyvsood's Maid of .Derwent, by Flatcatcher, 3 yre, Set 111 b . • - (Snowdon) 1 Mr. T. Parr's Milacca, '3 yrs, ist 4j (including 7th -extra) Mr. Barber's Miss Harkaway, 3 yes, Set 31b (including 31b extra) (DaleQ) 3 Mr. Lewis's Pantomime, 6 yre, let 6lb (includi ng 31b extra) (Quinton). 4 The following also ran :—Pole Star, flungerford, Speed-the-Plough, Lance, Pretty Boy, Prince of Orange, Lough Bawn, Flatterer, Hospitality, Card sharper, Irnegene, Culc.ave Johnny Taft, F a l s t a ff; L a dy Fiorence, Uzell a , Little dell, Brother to Grey Tommy, and December. Betting -4 to 1 agst M a id o f D erwent, 11. to 2 agst Malacca, 8 to 1 agst Imogene, 11 to 1 agst Flatterer, 12 to 1 eget Hospitality, 14 to 1 each agst Pretty Boy, December, and Pole Star, 16•ta 1 agst Pantomime, 20 to 1 each eget Hungerford and Speed.the-Plough. After some delay, caused chiefly by the fractiousness of Lough Bawn and Miss Harkaway, they got away on good terms. Speed-the-Plough was first cif, but quickly dropped back, and Malacca took the lead and carried on the running to the distance, where he was joined by Maid of Derwent. Half way up Maid, of Derwent passed Malacca and at last won very easily by two lengthy, about five lengths separated the second from the third ; bad fourth ; Pole Star was fifth, Cardsharper sixth, Lance seventh, and Imogene eighth. Little Nell, Lough Bawn, and Prince of Orange headed the next division. Flatterer, December, Johnny Taft, Culcavy, Brother to Grey Tommy, and Lady Florence were pulled up within the distance, and did not pass the post. The pace was very severe throughout. Cress well was fined 10/ , Palmer 51., and Ducker and Dales 2 sore each, for disobeying the orders of the starter. This prizti, the gift of the Captains of Aeierioa and Stevedores of Liverpool, was manufactured at the well known establishment - of Mr. E. Whietltr, silversmith and jeweller, 11, Strand. The cup is executed in the 116uaissance style, after the design, of an amateur artist, upon whom it reflects the highest credit. Tne cup and coffer stand 23 feet high, and aro of soli.' silver. Upon ono ride is engraved upon a shield, formed by the twining together of the flags of the two nations, guarded by the British Lion, and aurrueuneecl by the American eagle, "Liverpool Autumn Meeting," and the flamer; of the stewards, sufficient space being left for the insertion of the name of the winner ; and on the reverse is a view of the port of Liverpool, with sine of the splendid American steamers "steaming" out for the "States," a portrait of whose President adorns this side of the cur. The whole is exquisitely chased in bold relief, and on the.top of the cover are a beautifully. designed thoroughbred mare and foal, while the hand es are formed of horses. The LiVerpool Nursery, of 60 cove, aided to a sweep. 'stakes of 3 sous each for 2 yr-olds. The second to receive 20 soya out of the stakes. T.Y.C. 2a 'tubs. Mr. Dawson's Red White and Bne, 7st (carried Tat 11b) Mr. Dewson's The Little Cob, bat 4lb (Bullock) 2 The following also ran : —Cora Linne, filly by Weatherbit, Ella, liomosopaA'st, Yorkshireman, Liver pool,- Master Begot, Kenerdy, filly by lag.. Janet, Apothecary, Sister to Dramatist, filly by Dan John. Betting-5 to 2 apt Master Begot, to 1 'agst Apo thecary, 6 to 1 agst Sister to Dramatist. 7 to 1 eac h age t Kenerdy and Liverpool, 8 to 1 aget floinceapathist, 10 to 1 eget bon John filly. A fine race, won on the post by a head. Ell a, M aster Begot, Yorkshiremeo, Apothecary, and .Elotrios , pathist were next, but so clone together that the judge was un able to pia a third. Handicap Sweepstakes of 3 soya each, 1 ft, with 20 added. One mile. 12 subs. Mr. T. Spence'e Catherine Parr, by Assault, 6 yrs, 6st 8 b Mr. Flintoft's Blossom, 5 yrs, Bit 21b (W. Whits) 2 Mr. Baker's Gamester, 3 yrs, 64 21b ...(Withington) 3 The following also ran :—Alma, Gay, Jack.up.the- Orchard, Sun r i se , M yster i ous Jack. Betting -2 to 1 eget Alma, 4to 1 aget Caltherine Parr, 100 to 15 eget Sunrise. Wen' by two lengths; a neck between the second and third. Gay and Alma were next. EXTENSIVE FORGERY AND FRAM'S ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The Great Northern Railway Company have been de frauded of an immense amount ef money, in consequence of the dishonesty of one of its principal officers. Up to a late hour last night it bad been proved that Ilia defalca tions amounted to 150,000/. The report is that 180,0001. will not cover the amount, but no accurate esti:nate can be formed until the auditors can make up a report, an operation which will occupy some weeks. As soon as the accounts can-be arranged, the result will he made up fir the purpose of being submitted to a pler,' meeting of proprietors. Mr. Leopold Redpatb, of 27, Cheater-terrace, Regent's park, wee, until a few days past, the Regi.trar of Shares and Transferer of Stock in the Great Northern Railway Company.. Although his salary was not very extensive, amounting to something between 2501: and 3001. a year, he lived in a luxurious style in a fashionable .house, had ot G a tti fobnot:vohsexe.: Governor most rothschoet Society, ept o yci: n w,oh e amf r a,j a ni , snid:esa w :rHt a cr, s emuol sybe a pss n ciretorav h i plehaorebiaraii and of dohcodfi charitable anr t t erah h icbte e ta. ,RI el theatres, oaryrinatyrlgn,tai Stanutyr ! a : le operatic performance, or a gathering of the beau 'monde, in which the name of " Leopold Redpatb, Esq.," did not appear. ticoo- course, the r t i h ni e p n a t l ir r e eg a i o s n tr t a r r ol o o f fattiometkd, department t ß rn e e d u p t a o t f h ti b ie ad c , orn o . f pany's business. The investigation of the hooks Pince his disappearance—for he left the office in a somewhat hasty manner en Tuesday last, and has not since been heard of —has shown that the frauds have been perpetratcd in the following manner :—When Mr. Itedpath, who was the principal registrar, had to issue a 1001. stock, it appears that he added an "0 " to the amount,, thus making it 1,0001. on the company's books. This Opera : was not confined do VOW.; licit extitadol47-49.4 qi 2001.. 30C!.. and 5001, so that out of every 1001. stock transferred he gained 9001. The directors appear not to have made any examination into the accounts, pro bably because they never had any suspicion of their officer, and it has been to them a mystery for some years past.tbat they were called upon to pay dividends upon 15,0001. or 20,0001. more than according to their audited accounts they were liable for. Two or three weeks since, however, the directors established a di:, tinct department for the purpose of securing a strict investigation of the company's accounts. The officials of this new department met on Monday last, and on Tuesday morning they re-assembled for the purpose of entering upon their duties. Soon after they met Mr. Redpath entered their room, and said to the chief clerk, " What are you going to do ?" The chief c!erk repli e d, "To go throu g h all the accounts from the commencement of the compa;y." Mr. Redpatb replied, "Thatisf.;per: featly useless proceeding. You will find all the accounts right in the gross, and it is of no use entering into de tails." The chief clerk said, "We are bound to go into the whole of the accounts, as the directors have given us explicit directions to do so, and we wish to begin with the numerical register." Mr. Redpath took up one of the hooks and then threw it down again, saying, " Well, if that is your intention, I will have nothing to do with it." He then said to one of the officers, "I am going out for a few minutes." He went, but he never returned. Previous, however, to his departure, he sent one of the ticket-porters belonging to the railway, to the Union Bank, in A rgyll-place, for the title deeds of his house in Chester-place, and for other securities which were lodged there in his name, directing him to meet 'him with the documents at Chester-place. The porter misapprehend ing his instructions took the parcel he received from the Bank ; to the Great Northern Railway, and the officials of the Company have taken possession of it, and notice has been given at the bank to withhold his balance until further inquiry. As soon as the discovery of the frauds was made di rections were given to the police to take possession of Redpath's house in Chester-terrace. This was done, and almost simultaneously Inspector Williams arrested Mr. Charles James Cumming Kent, a young man aged 25, who was a clerk in the register office, over which Mr. Redpath presided. Mr. Kent, who is supposed to have been the dupe of Redpath, was arrested at big residence in Castle terrace, Harnpstead•rnad, and he immediately afterwards underwent a private examination at Cler kenwell Police Court. He was remanded until Tuesday next, and is now in the custody of the Governor of the House of Detention. A warrant bas been granted for the apprehension of Leopold 'path, who is still a fugitive from justice. He is described as being about 45 years of age, 5 feet. 10 incl)ea in height, with fair c )rnplexiou, hair. • He walks in A hurried or " jolting" manner. He dresses well, but not foppishly, awl his genEral demeanour indicAtes perAon of extremely quiet habits and good position in society:" The directors of the Great Northern Railway appear to 'Jaye been acquainted with the expensive habit.; of their servant, and to have been aware that 300/. a year could not have m e t hi s ex p enses . Singularly enough, .ft feeling prevailed thathe filled his relymeible oflion simply from a desire of having something to do ; and thia opi nion was confirmed by the filet that he made large con• tributions to the many religious and charitable institu tions with which the metropolis abounds. ALLEGED ROBBERY AND MURDER AT ERITH ERITH, KENT, Thursday Evening.—For the past few days the greatest excitement has prevailed in this mu al:y quiet village and the surrounding neighbourhood in consequence of the discovery of the dead body of a young man at a place known as Park Spring Copse, about a mile from this station. It appears that as a working man nanicd Thos. Sewell was proceeding up the avenue leading to Lesnes House, Lesnes Park, the mansion of Captain Wheatley, at a quarter-past 11 on Saturday morning last, he discivered the dead body of a man lying on the grass amongst seine trees in the avenue known as Park Spring Copse. The spot is about 400 yards from the road, and the man sion is at present unoccupied. Sewell, seeing that the man was lying in a pool of blood, was in the act of hast ening for assistance, whon about 21 yards from the body, he saw a man's coat, and about the same distance off, in an opposite direction. he found a cap, both of which arti cles evidently belonged to the man, as he was without either on his body. Sewell then went for assistance, and the body was conveyed in a shell to Erith dead-house. There was a carpenter's gouge or round chisel lying iu the deceased's hand covered with blood, and no doubt that was the instrument with which the wounds were inflicted. When the body was stripped there Were found to be no fewer than 16 wounds (stabs) in and about the region of the heart. From one of the wounds (a very se vere one near the breast and very large) there was a por tion of the left lung protruding. A great number of persons visited the dead house, but were not ablelo identify the body. In the pockets were found a second-class railway ticket from Waterloo to Wandsworth a week old, three halfpence in money, and a catalogue of a tale in the York-road, Battersea, on Sept. 27, 1855, with the name of John Cox written on the fly leaf. Notwithstanding the fact that the descrip tion was widely circulated the body was not identified until after the inquest had been opened. Mr. C. Carttar, the coroner for East Kent, having issued his warrant, a jury was etnpannelled at tk) Run ning Horses Tavern to inquire into the death of the deceased. Thos. Sewell and police-constable Turner having deposed to the finding of the body as above narrated, A female, named Parkins, said she was the wife of a fisherman living at Er.th. For a few days previous to the body being found, she bad seen a young man about the village, wham she thought to be a person whom, when she was living at Wandsworth, she knew as John Carter. She had seen the body, and she was of opinion that it was that of Carter, but it was not the man she had seen in Erith as she had thought. At this f.tige of the proceedings,' Several jurors expressed an opinion that there should he further evidence brought before them, as they felt far from satisfied with tilt) case as it stood. The inquest was accordingly adjourned. Later iu the day, the family of the deceased, who carry on business as market gardeners at Wandsworth, identi fied the body as that of George Carter, aged 28. It was stated by the relatives that the young man was in good health and spirits up to the day preceding the discovery of his body. He left his home on the Friday, having with him, it is supposed, between 601. and 801., since which nothing was heard of him until ha was found dead, with only lid. in his pocket, upwards of 20 miles from his home, from which be had not been absent 24 hours. In pursuance of the order of the coroner at the opening of the investigation, a very minute examination of the body has been made by Dr. Oates, an eminent physician of this place, and it has been found that there are 16 punctured wounds in the chest, breast, and ribs on the left side. ,Of these injuries no less than five have pene trated the heart, one being in the apex, which is a fleshy part without important arteries, a second in the right aurico, and the other three are in the left ventricle of the heart. The whole of the latter four are in the most dan gerous part. One of the wounds in the heart was three inches deep, being the centre of the three in the left ven tricle, corresponding exactly with the external incision through which the portion of the lung protruded. In ad dition to the injuries above stated, there was an exten sive fracture of the skull at the back part of the head. A portion of the skull about the size of an egg was beaten into the brain. Various rumours are afloat in the village, and the greatest excitement prevails, every exertion being used tti sift this mysterious affair to the utmost. Sergeant Ebbs holds the case in hand, and is prosecuting the in with the greatest assiduity and perseverance. - _ SUDDEN DEATH OP A LIVERPOOL MERCHANT. — LIVERPOOL, Thursday.—lt is with regret we announce the very sudden demise of Mr. Samuel Johnston, a mer chant engaged in the South American trade, and a mem ber of the firm of Messrs. S. Johnston and Co., Orange court. The deceased left his residence, New Brighton, Cheshire, this morning, and arrived by the usual ferry boat. He called immedia . ely in the office of his solicitor, Mr. John North, Exchange-alley, and was engaged in transacting some business when he complained of being ill, and although medical aid was at once called in, life was on its arrival extinct. Deceased was much respected. He was 64 years of age, and brother-in-law to Mr. Bramley-Moore, M.P. for Maldon. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. • UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. M.B. SECOND EXAMINATION.— 1856. The following is a list of Candidates who passed the held : Second Exami n ation for th e Degree of ALB., lately FIRST DIVISION. Medical Schools. ANDREW, EDWYN .................... University College. BLAKE, JAMES GIBBS, .... University College. BROWN, THOS. EDWIN BErRroN... Guy's Hospital. CLAPTON, EDWARD ............... St. Thomas's Hospital. JONESDowtallo, FRANCIS JOS/CPR ...... Ring's College. , SYDNEY ....................... 't• Thomas's Hospital. MAIIDSLEY, HENRY .................. University College. THOROWGOOD, JOHN CIIARLES.. University College. SECOND DIVISION: ..... Ring's College. RICE, JAMES WHO STOLE THE QUEEN'S 'DINNER ?—der head th e Berwick, Advertise r mentions that great 1.7 n ibis exer tions had b een ma d e b y the fishermen in Berwick to obtain a fi ne salmon for her Majesty's dinner on the d a y she return e d to Fl olyroml from Balmoral. One of 201bs. was obtained, and ono of the fishers went with it to the station. He called at a house to invite the owner of it to look at the " beauty," and remained but an in.tant, but on his return to the door where he had l e ft creel, to hi s Sorrow the fish had vanished, and never more was hea r d of. AQUATICS. GREAT SCULLERS' MATCH FOR £lOO. The great 'match between Henry Kelly, of Fulham, and Richard Buttle, of Norwich, from Putney to Mort lake, took place yesterday afternoon. This event, in consequence of the celebrity of the competitors, has created a great interest amongst all classes of rowing men ever since the match was made. The day being very fine, a great number of spectators assembled, and betting commenced at 6 to 4 on Kelly, and ultimately 2 to 1 was freely offered --the result fully justifying the confidence of Kelly's backers.. . At 25 minutes past 2, Kelly having won the toss for stations, an excollent start was effected, both going off at a tremendous pace, and rowing together for about 100 yards, when Kelly began to draw ahead, and off Craven point was about a boat's length clear. Battle here made a desperate spurt to regain the lead, but without succe,s. Kelly, keeping steadily on, passed under H ammersmith-bridge about /two lengths' ahead, which lead he maintained till near Barnes-bridge, where Buttle made another effort, and gained a MC*. From thence to, the finish at Mortlake it was a most excitinz race, Kelly winning by little more than half a boat's length. Time, 25 minutes. The sculls used by Kelly were manufactured by Mr. Robert Bain of Lambeth. The return match for 1001, between the same men, for which the , whole of the money is staked, is t) take place at Norwich, from Surlingham to Thorpe, on Tuesday, Nov. 25. In consequence of the closeness of the above race we have no doubt the return match will excite in tense interest. TERRIFIC RAILWAY COLLISIONS. NEWPORT, MomEMBED:Mt% Nov. 12. This day two collisions of a very, serious nature have occurred on the Newport and Hereford Railway; one of them attended with loss of life. The first collision occur red about a quarter to 8 in the morning, near the Ponte newydd station, about six milearrom Newport. A goods train left Newport for Pontypool at 7 o'clock, an d on ar riving at the l a tt er pl ace it was divided into two portions —the latter of which consisted of 10 empty coal wag gons and a break van. A strong breeze pr eva il e d a t th e time, and these trucks were blown back by the wind, until they came to a portion of the line which has a some what steep descent towards Newport. The waggons ran h n a b d y ju t s h t e le d f r t i t v h e e imminent r ando f n for oakbeorn of t 3 thero i and passenger w e ti r a e n t tv e th en s c e h e Pontnewydd station. Seeing their danger, the driver reversed the engine, the stoker tightened the break, and before the collision they both jumped off, the guard following their example, after screwing up his break as tightly as he could. Such was the effect of the collision that the break-van attached to the waggons mounted upon the top of .the engin e , b reaking in the front of the boiler, sweeping aw ay the chi mney and ot h er parts of the t o p, an d finally sliding off into the ditch by the side of the rail. The waggons were terribly smashed; but the passengers in the train were uninjured, with the exception of a few trifling bruises. The np-line was blocked up for several hours by the debris of the wag gons, but by the arrangements of Mr. Ring, of the Pontypool station, and Mr. Mogford, of the Pontnewydd station, the down-line was worked both ways, and the passenger train for Hereford was seat on its journey in tbree-quarters of an hour. The second collision happened in the afternoon, near the Nantyderry station, not far from Abergaveney. The down express from Hereford left the Abergavenny station about a quarter past 1 o'clock, and it had not procee4ed far before it came to a sharp curve near the Nantyderry station a rs .rr c e o r n eth a ac ee r x o p s7 s t s hF road engin e j Jumped o ff t h e li n e, and tookto the up-li ne , w hi c h it crossed, and just at this critical juncture th e goods train advanced and came into contact with th e passeng er carriages, some of which it gutted. e T he; engine was thrown upon its side doe n the embankment, and more or less the train presented the appearance of a wreck. How so many of the passengers escaped instant death is marvellous, and equally so is the escape of the driver and stoker of the express. Two gentlemen were killed. Their names we have not learnt, but one was a traveller for a Wolverhampton boot and shoe maaufactory. Seve ral persons were severely bruised, am ongst whom was the guard of the express. The dead bod ies were removed to Abergavenny. It was half-past 5 this evening before the Passengers by the express reached Newport. Had all gone right the express would have been here about 2 p.m. .CJ e-e -'`z they must expect to find the lineaments and limbs of the frescoes distorted and grotesque, and the sound of the bell occasionallyjarring and discordant. Returning to the foot of the tower, we found an adventurous band, head e d b y Si r B. Hall and Mr. Denison, about to scale its height, bent on seeing *here the bell was finally to be hung. To those who La I mounted Antwerp Tower or scaled the G,t!tic lacework of Strasburg, 200 feet, especially up an unworn staircase lighted with gas, is no very arduous undertaking; still, keeping historic truth always in view, we are compelled to say that if any of the " deaf adders" before allud ed to were of this climbing party they became "puff adders" ere they reached the top. Deans and bishops and ecclesiastical dignitaries ought never to climb above their thrones or prebendal stalls. Fancy a dignitary of the Church suddenly becoming broken-winded 150 feet above the ground, in a narrow staircase. How is he to get up f How is he to get down ? Who is to pass him ? There he stands, a bulwark of Church and State, in hie proper place, no d ou b t, b ut a great obstacle here, puffing and panting like a Christmas bullock half way up a high tower. Now we are two-thirds up the tower, above the clock-dial, more than 200 feet above the pavement, and just where the stonework ends and iron begins. Here, on a frame of wood not yet erected, " Big Bin" is to be hung. Mr., Denison confesses a de sire that his boll should be hung still higher up, in the open gallery of iron-work above the stone. The feasibility of this was discussed, and, after an extempore debate, which, at anyrate, was not weary ing from itslength it seemed to be thegeneral opinion that the lo eer site is best, due regard being had to its more extensive area, while the higher position would tend to check and confuse the vibration, owing to the too great proximity of the bell to the iron of which the top of the tower is composed. So for the present we are advised to prefer the lower site, and we descend to the grounqighly delighted with our morning's work. But before we leave this subject we must make some remarks on the name now commonly given to the bell ; and certainly, as we first christened it, no one can have a better right to stand up for our god child. Some delightfully courtly persons on the top of the tower wore Aleploring-_-the vulgarity of the term " Big Ben." In a spirit of flattery—from which we are entirely free, as we do not expect to become great Government contractors, to farm the sewers, to be raised to the vacant bishopric which that Pope, Lord Palmerston, obstinately keeps in petto, or even to become a simple dean—in*a spirit of flattery we say, some of these worthy people, of whose profession and position we are entirely igno rant, and none of whom it is therefore requested will suppose that they are meant, were deploring that it was a pity the bell was net called "the Royal Albert," or "The Lady Victoria," or "the Princess Royal," or "the Crown Princess of Prussia," or any thing courtly, or, as the Germans would express it, " v)rnehnt," instead of this odious " Big Ben," so willingly adopted by that stupid public. We are ready at once to admit that these Sampsons of flat tery have a happy talent for dragging in the Royal family on all occasions, but we cannot congratulate them on their ears. The name of a bell must be short and glib ; it must run trippingly ; it must repre sent a sound ; it must be English. Now, " Vic toria" and "Albert " are honoured names, but they are not short or glib. They are neither of them particularly English in sound. In a word, they may be lit for anything else, but they are not fit for a bell, and if given the public will not accept them. We are glad to say that Sir Benjamin Hall when appealed to on the subject, replied in a man ner not very encouraging to the objectors ; while Mr. Danison observed that he was afraid the bell was already christened, and that it was too late to change the name. We wonder what the courtly flatterers of the age of the Planta genets thought of all the " Great Toms" which sprung up out of the blood of a certain low born Thomas, sometime Archbishop of Canter bury. We daresay they thought them horridly . . vulgar, but, though Becket's bones were scattered to the winds after an idolatry of more than three centuries. yet his name still survives in our English " Great Toms." We do not know that " Ben" is worse in this respect than "Tom ;" both are aw fully vrlgar, no doubt, though we know some good men and true called " Tom,' but both are decent English, and they certainly agree in this, that no English King has ever sat on the Throne either as Thomas or Benjamin. " En Thoma laude resono bum bom sine frmicle," ran the old monkish Leonine on Becket's bells. Would not "Vietorim laude resono Big Ben sine fraude"— where we beg all good Englishmen to excuse the false quantity for the sake of the loyalty of the een- timen - t—be as good for our Great Westminster Bell ; or would our courtly flatterers prefer alegend which we remeniber to have seen on some tho- roughly foreign un•English bell, hanging over P.Jace gate, and containing much more brass in corni;osition than this of Mr. Denison ? "lIIENTIOR ET ASSENTIOR." RISE OF THE RAT& OF DISCOUNT. The Bank of England yesterday resolvid upon an advance to a uniform rate of 7 per cent. It was on the 6th of last month they adopted 6 per cent. for bills not having more than two months to run, and 7 per cent. for all bills over two and under three months. There will now be no dis- tixiction between the two classes of paper. _ At the same time the course adopted on Tuesday of declining to rediscount bills for the brokers hav ing more than 30 days to run will be persevered in. This, however, is not a matter of importance, since it isa practice constantly resorted to when ever the immediate prospects of the money nr:zket have been of an uncertain character. Moreover, the usual monthly loans will be made on all bills maturing within 9i days. The announcement of the advance to 7 per cent. oecaiioned considerable surprise. Last week a general impression prevailed of the possibility of a new movement, but the anticipation had since, without any very clear cause, almost wholly sub sided. Nevertheless, there as been every dispo sition to recognise in it a continuance of the sound policy which kept the financial world free from all shocks during the war, and which has thus far a d vertedof our being permane n tly (a re n r iag i theedl, possibilityytliesubsequent break up of the conti nental inflation. In ,the live weeks since the last advance was notified the Bank bullion has undergone a further diminution-of more than a million, and the foreign exchanges have in many quarters become less fa.vour able, while the applications for discount havelately been on a scale again to trench on the reserve of unemployed notes. The fact is also to be noticed that those immediate changes are not to be attri buted to any unsound action on the part of the Bank of France. If such were the case a new rise in the rate of discount would scarcely be of much use. But that establishment for two or three weeks past has abstained from its irregular operations, and the French rate of exchange has consequently again approached a point at which gold might be sent away in ordinary course. The question was, there fore, whether this condition of circumstances was to be allowed to go on. It is true the arrival of the overdue gold from Australia might exercise an influence on the continent, whither it would be at once despatched, which would react well on this side, but it could no t d o more for the moment th an prevent the m oney mar k e t f rom b ecom i ng worse, and the thi ng d es i red i s an act i on that sha ll pu t an end, if possible, to the chronic uncertainty that prevails, and p ro d uce , if on ly i n a very gradual manner, a turn of the tide. What has now been resolved upon may not even effect that object, and it is q u it e cer t a i n it w ill no t d o mor e. That it is a measure in the right direction must, therefore, b e beyond question. Meanwhile, it cannot be too distinctly repeated not only that the present advance should e viewed without the slightest commercial apprehension, but that the public might still rema,in free wh from a is alarm, whatever rate might be adeßten going un art of other the cart a final crash in on is merely a scramble on t tries for our money, and, as to their speculations they unless w are d o i ff n e g s r a . n y: i h o i n n e r; e take care to they will of course succeed,ftb keep up to the full range . o I can not complain of this position.in fact, as the like everything else, We being a commodity, we are the only people whohave any to spare, and character of the drain upon ve evidence that that we are still lenders rather than borrowers, it i s th e most satisfactory ground we could occupy. It would be better f or co mmerce to be free fr om suc h di s turbances altogether, but if th ey are to happen we could not find ours e l ves i n a state of greater security than that which now exists. If our manufacturers are obliged to pay 7 per cent. for their capital, all other manufacture ri are obliged to make greater sacrifices, and hence, our power of competition not being injured, we have only to make a proportionate increase in the charge f or our productions. indeed, as it is plain 'rom the extent of our imports, the guarded nature of our trade, our suffi c i en t h arvest, and our abstinen ce from commitment s from foreign or h o me enter prises calcul a t e d to absorb our means t h a t we have ill co nsequences, not laid th e f oun d ation of any es, we may rest assured that the only duty we now owe to ourselves is to have faith in our own SOUllell 355, and not to allow the real bearing of such measures as the Bank have lately adopted to be misrepresented Times' City Article. or made i n any quar t er the cause of idle panic.-. :~__ ~ ~ _ -~~ i/~ l ~'~ ~ ~z.