The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-02 00:00:00

TILE NAVY. or Y;esterday the Undaunted, 51, one of the im proved class of large screw frigates now under con stn action for the navy, was launched from Chatham do( •kyard with complete success, making the fifth of - the large vessels-of-war which have been built at that establishment during little more than 12 months. The Undaunted is one of a squadron of large 51-gun frigates now building at the various Royal dockyards, all of which have been laid down by direction of the present Board of Ad miralty, who have availed themselves of every improvement which has been effected in that class of vessel. She has been rather more than a year in progress, and has been built under the superintendence of Mr. 0. W. Lang, the master shipbuilder at Chatham, and his assistants, from the designs of Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., the late Surveyor of the Navy, Not withstanding the Undaunted is nominally classed as a frigate, she is considerably larger than most of the line•of-battle ships now afloat, being only two feet less than the screw three-decker Prince of Wales, 131 guns, launched a short time since at Portsmouth, and nearly double the ton nage of many of our line-of-battle ships built a quarter of a century ago. Her principal dimen sions are : Feet. In, Length between perpendiculars. 250 0 Length of keel for tonnage 214 9 Breadth, extreme 52 1 B roadth for tonnage Breadth moulded . 50 9 Depth in hold Burthen in tons, 3,399 44-94ths Her armament will be an exceedingly formidable one of 51 guns, which will be thus arranged : upper deck—one 68-pounder pivot gun of 95 cwt., 10ft. long, and twenty 32-pounders, each of 58 cwt., and 9ft. 6in. long; and main deck—thirty 8-inch guns, each of 65 cwt., and 9ft. long. Her pro pelling power will consist of a pair of 6 00-horse power engines by Messrs. Ravenhill arid Co. Her figure-head is a colossal bust of a British sailor. Although the weather was exceedingly unfavour able for the spectacle a large number of spectators were present in the dockyard to witness the launch, every spot which presented a view of the ceremony having its occupant. Miss Johnstone, the eldest daughter of Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope Johnstone, Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, performed the ceremony of " christening" the ship. A large bower anchor brought the frigate up in the river, and she was safely moored off the dockyard, The Undaunted is to be fitted with her engines imme diately and be prepared for the steam reserve. Another vessel of large size will be immediately laid down on the same slip. Preparations are being made at Devonport for supplying a new forefoot to the screw steamship Hero, 91, Commodore Seymour. Her false keel, being defective, is being removed. The War Department vessel Inkerman left Ply. mouth on Monday, with stores for Woolwich. The paddlewheel steam sloop Spiteful, Com mander Wilson, which left Plymouth on Friday with the coal depot Alarm in tow, arrived at Pembroke on Saturday. The screw steam frigate Ariadne, 26, Captain Vansittart, will be removed to-morrow (Thursday), weather permitting, from Hamoaze to Plymouth Sound. The iron screw steamship Victoria, which has for some time past been lying at anchor in Ply mouth Sound, is about to be removed by a Govern ment tug to the basin in Keyham steamyard for examination and repair. The electric cable which she has on board, which was intended originally for Rangoon, is now to be laid from the island of Malta to Alexandria, by which a gain of 10 days is expected to be made in the transmission of in telligence between England and India. It was blowing so heavily yesterday (Tuesday) at Plymouth that the screw steamship St. George, 91, Capt. the Hon. Francis Egerton, in the Sound, was riding with two anchors down, and the sheet anchor cleared ready for dropping. Steam was got up on board the screw steam corvette Jason, 21, Capt. E von Donop, to assist her anchors is case of need. The crew of the screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Capt. Henry Lacon, at Devonport, are strip ping her foremast ; the main and mizen masts are stripped. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Dr. Robert Beith, sur geon, to Plymouth Hospital ; and Dr. John Stewart (B), surgeon, to the Majestic. TILE SIEGE OF GAETA. A letter from Mola di Gaeta, of Dec. 27, says— Should your readers look upon oar siege operations as a kind of Penelope's web, which is always said to be approaching completion and never attains it, they would, at least in appearance, be not far wrong. Two months have already elapsed since we came to this damp and dirty hole of Mola, and the much talked of bombardment has not yet begun in thorough earnest. Almost every day one hears some such gossip as this—" Our fire will most positively open about the end of next week." The week passes, however, and the " most positively" is again adjourned. But though public expectation has been so often deluded, I think that it will now be so no longer. The great event is now positively announced for the sth or the 7th of January, and everything leads me to believe that General Mena brea will keep his word. Yesterday morning a new battery set up on Monte Cortola began its practice at 3,600 yards, and drove away the gunners of the enemy's battery opposite, after about 200 rounds. The Sardinian engineers every now and then seeing something to be gained by the erection of a work or battery at some point or other, set about the task with an activity which can only be appreciated by those who are here to witness the daily difficulties they have to contend with. If, therefore, there has been a long delay in the completion of the work, it must be mainly attributed to the impossi bility of getting sooner from Genoa the material for carrying on a siege. The storms 'which at this season of the year prevail in the Mediterranean make it almost impossible for the steamers to arrive when they are expected. Accordingly five of the vessels directed to these shores are due, and they are loaded with Cavalli's guns, carriages, platforms, powder, shot, shell, gabions, fascines, scaling ladders, and other siege materials. Our engineers, if not quite so numerous as they ought to be, are active and energetic, but the work they have in hand is of a magnitude to fully account for the time they take in completing it. Meanwhile it is gratifying to observe that the besieging army, severely tried as it is both by the continuous throwing up of earth works and by bad weather, is in the enjoyment of good health. The men who were sent down to Capua to recover from disease or wounds are coming hack as jolly and fresh as when they arrived here from the Marches, and resume their work with that good humour which is one of the promine n t c h arac t er i s ti cs of Italian soldiery. The hats, or rather tents, which have been provided for them, afford as great an amount of comfort as can be expected by an army which is obliged to bivouac in the open air. Pro visions aro in abundance at the` camp, and it must be confessed that the soldiers occasionally add to their stores by assuming the ownership of some stray fowl which is wandering about in the fields, or of some bottled wine which has been forgotten in the cellar of an abandoned villa. The other day a young captain of engineers happened to pass through the courtyard of a casino which had been abandoned by the landlord, a certain count who has followed the fortunes of Francis IL The casino, which stands on a height opposite the Regina battery, had been abandoned by the count since the beginning of the siege; there was no mistake about it ; the young captain knew it. What therefore was his astonishment on hearing the noise of a hammer coming from the inner part of the ground floor, It could not surely be the landlord or any of his servants. They were at Gaeta. The young officer hastened to the place, the gate of which was wido open, and called out I , Who is there " Presently two bersaglieri came up, and the officer inquired the cause of the hammering. "Nothing, sir,"--Italians w h en found in fault never fail to begin their answer - with that word—" Nothing, sir; we happened to pass here, and have just been having a look at the ;casino.' " Well, then ?" added the captain. " Well, we have broken open the cellar and found some bottles of Capri wine, in which we shall drink your health. On the captain remarking that marauding in a friendly country was not permitted, the bersaglieri seemed to think all objections obviated by their promising that after they had removed all the bottles they could find, they would " shut the door of the cellar as it was before." The French papers have of late spoken of an address of thanks sent by the ladies of Mantua to the Countess of Shaftesbury, who, as you know, presides over the committee of the Garibaldi Relief Fund. I have been enabled to get a copy of the document, which by this time will have probably reached its destination. Addresses are very easily written and sent when they aro drawn up in a free country, but there is always a certain amount of danger in getting them up ander the Argus eyes of the Austrian police. This danger, however, did not prevent the noble demonstration of the Mantuan ladies, who are perhaps the most patriotic of Italy. Here is the address:— Mesdames,—Our turn has arrived, and we feel it our duty to add our thanks to those which the rest of the women of our dear fatherland have already addressed to you. You, we feel certain, will accept them with that kindliness which is the first attribute of a generous mind. Not from to •day dates the debt of gratitude which the mothers, the sisters, and the wives of Italy have owed to the women of England. History, unfortunately, commenced in 1821 to register the names of those Italian patriots to whom your powerful coun try has given a generous asylum. Those of our children, brothers, and husbands who have returned have not failed to tell us what gratitude they owe to the women of your country. But the debt of gratitude thus contracted was increased on that day on which, by the boldness of an Italian general and the patriotism of Victor Emmanuel, the despotic power of the Bourbons was for ever annihilated in the peninsula. It was then that you took thought of our brave wounded of Calatafimi, of. Melazzo, and of the Volturno. It was then that you employed your generous influence in miler that the love of Italy should be redoubled in this classical land of liberty. Unfortunately for us, we women of Mantua have nothing to offer you but our gratitude—the only sen timent, united with that of love for our country, which the Austrians have not succeeded in forbidding us the use of. But, believe us, that sentiment will never decrease, and this it will be our duty to prove to you in the day of our deliverance. MR. CARDWELL AT OXFORD. The annual festival of the 59th Lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids took place in the Town hall, Oxford, on New Year's-day. It. is usual for the Parliamentary representatives of the city to be present on these occasions, and yesterday offered no exception to this rule. About 400 gentlemen, including the Mayor and other members of the cor poration, sat down to dinner, presided over by Mr. Alderman Dudley. The hall was decorated with banners and evergreens, and the band of the City Rifle Volunteers enlivened the prooeedings by their performances. The customary loyal toasts having been duly honoured, The CHAIRMAN gave " The Army and Navy," which was acknowledged by Capt. FANE, who said he had served with the British soldier in the Crimea, and had never found him flinch from any danger or hardship. They had it on the high authority of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge that our army was now in as efficient a state as it ever was at any former period of our history. Prosperity to the Lodge having been drunk, The CHAIRMAN next gave the health of the mem bers of the city, Mr. Langston and Mr. Cardwell, and expressed the pleasure it afforded him to see those gentlemen again among them. Mr. J. H. LANGSTON, M.P., as the senior mem ber, first responded. In the course of his remarks, he said it was a practice with Englishmen at that season of the year to balance accounts, or at least, to endeavour to do so. Nor ought that operation to be neglected in respect to public affairs. They would all agree with him that, comparing the last year with the previous one, the present state of the public account was very favourable. At the com mencement of the year just expired our small army, however effective as far as it went, might of itself have been insufficient for the defence of our shores, and our navy would have had to be retained near our own coasts, however much its services might have been required elsewhere. Thanks to the volunteer movement, which had already furnished • the country with 150,000 men capable, if need were, to meet the enemy, the alarm wiaick recently prevailed had given place to a feeling of security. (Hear, hear.) Again, since they last met there the unhappy dispute with China had been closed; and although no very implicit confidence was to be reposed in the good faith of the Chinese authorities, it was yet to be hoped our Armstrong guns had created such a salutary im pression on their minds as would make them slow to provoke us to another quarrel. Not long ago con siderable apprehension was entertained in this country as to the enormous army maintained by the Emperor of the French. He trusted, however, that the commercial treaty recently concluded would be the means of producing a better feeling between the two countries, and that the constant intercourse inseparable from extended trade would engender sentiments of mutual friendship and peace. (Hear.) Every friend of liberty would rejoice at the late events in Italy. Any one who had prophesied at that time last year that that splendid country would have the chance of independence and union which was now before it would have been set down for a perfect madman. In the course of the ensuing spring they would perhaps witness further develop. ments of freedom in that great peninsula. (Hear.) It was insanity in Austria to attempt to keep pos session of Venetia, by the people of which she was so much hated ; and it was to be hoped that as that province was really of no value to her, she would _ _ feel it her interest to make a bargain for quitting it. (Hear, hear.) When he addressed them last year he ventured to express not only a desire but a belief that a measure to which he would not now more particularly refer would become the law of the land. He did not know what measures Government might intend to bring forward when they next met Parliament, but so little had been done during the late session that he thought it incumbent on them earnestly to consider how they could most advan tageously employ the period devoted to legisla tion, so that Parliament might not separate again without adding to the statute book some of those bills which had been repeatedly promised in her Majesty's Speech, but which were, nevertheless, no further forward than ever. He hoped that, whe ther by greater management of the business of the house, or by introducing at first only such measures as they believed would pass, such progress would be made in the work of useful legislation as would make the labours of the coming session contrast most favourably with the achievements of its pre decessor. (Hear, hear.) Mr. CARDWELL, on rising to acknowledge the toast, was loudly cheered. He said—Gentlemen, I beg to return you my most sincere thanks for the honour you have done me in drinking my health. You spoke, sir, of your members visiting you on this festive occasion, It would indeed be painful to me to bo absent through any pressure of duty from this gathering ; for in coming to Oxford I always feel that I come every member tronlytor of enderthat tribute which is due from v Parlia ment to those by whose favour he sits in the House of Commons, but also to renewa a n t c t i a e c n hm tf e ri n e t n s d w s h h i i e p h s and reviveearly as sociations and I regard as the pride of private as well as of public life. (Cheers,) G entlemen, i n the review which my friend and colleague has taken of the year that has passed I generally concur, but if he will permit me I will venture to s a y a few words on b e h a lf of the House of Commons. It has been customary during the recess to say that the late session was like some of our fruit trees in the past autumn, which' yielded more leaves than ripened produce. But, gentlemen, in the past, as in every preceding session, we had noble efforts of eloquence, such as perhaps no other popular assembly in the world was ever privileged to listen to—we had high and lofty expressions of the position of our country in the face. of other nations which were worthy of the leading representatives of this. free and generous people. And though Ido not think you can Mea sure the House of Commons—any more than you THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1861, can measure a farm by the produce of a year in ' which you have not had an abundant harvest—by the bills that have been carried in a particular session, yet I say that among those 150 acts that we passed into law there will be found many which were the result of labour and the offspring of thought, and although they were not the subject of party conflicts or keen disputes, nevertheless, by the consent and co-operation of politicians of all shades, they were inserted in the statute-book, and will, I believe, confer lasting benefits on the whole com munity. (Hear.) But, gentlemen, your popular institutions, of which the House of Commons is the chief, and that free press which, co-operating with them, so collects and distributes the united intelli gence of the whole people, that England now pre sents the spectacle of a country in which the reason and enlightened conviction of the entire nation pre vail and govern in the last resort—l say that . those popular institutions give to your councils in the eye of the world a weight and a force which no other institutions have ever given to the councils of any other State, and which even among ourselves were, probably, never raised to a greater height than they are at this moment. (Hear, hear.) Gen tlemen, if you look to the narrative of events in China to which my hon. friend and colleague has referred—a narrative which, whether you speak of its horrors or of its triumphs, is so tinged with the colour of eastern fable that you can scarcely believe it is a record of facts that you are reading —you see there the energetic arm of popular institutions carrying on almost at the antipodes a great expe dition with as much success as if it were conducted at within one day's sail from our own arsenals and sources of supply; and you see nothing left to be desired in the skill of the commander, the heroism of the troops, or the wonderful effect of those arms of precision which have now been tried for the first time, which are destined to exercise such an impor tant influence on the result of all future conflicts, and of which England, the metropolis of art and science, is so naturally the mistress, that you may depend upon it the main command ot those weapons will ever remain with this favoured and powerful country. (Cheers.) But, with your permission, gentlemen, I would touch for a moment upon other triumphs which we have been enabled to achieve during the past year. First, I would refer to the treaty with France, to which my hon. friend and colleague has adverted, and from which I sincerely trust we are destined to reap signal advantage. It was by an unfortunate commercial treaty which this country once concluded that the mischievous separation between England and France, which has now happily been terminated,was originally created. You know that down to the beginning of this year a wall of protection, as impassable as the rampart which the Tartars built on the frontiers of China, fenced in the commerce of France, and separated England and France, the two countries in the world most formed for friendship and mutual assistance. (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, by whom was that wall erected There used to be commer cial intercourse between England and France, but the historians of the last century tell us that by a treaty which, with mischievous ingenuity and in comparable skill for evil, our negotiators contracted with Portugal we succeeded •in securing for our selves the commerce of that comparatively small country, and excluded ourselves from the benefits of that great commerce with France which I trust is now by another treaty about to be opened to England. But, gentlemen, great as are the mate rial advantages of increased trade between France and England, in my judgment they sink into insig nificance in comparison with the other and higher benefits that may be expected to follow in their train. How can you be surprised if the experience of the last and the early part of the present century has been hostility between the two greatest and foremost countries in the world, when ill-contrived legislation shut them out from the reciprocal advan tages of commercial interchange? But now, break down the barriers between them, invite the people of both countries to increased intercourse and freer trade, and you bind them both in the re cognisances of commerce to amity and concord; and I trust the civilisation of the world is destined to receive blessings yet unimagined from their extended relations. (Hear, hear.) My hon. friend has spoken to you of Italy. You have watched with interest and hailed with delight the results of the conflict in which that noble people have been engaged. You have seen the clergy and the laity, the rich and the poor, side by side con tending to shake off the tyranny to which they had been so long subjected. What does the great Mi nister of Italy tell you is his aim and object ? Why, to raise his country after the example and according to the model of England, which he truly designates " the classic mother of liberty." (Cheers.) And, gentlemen, you know that with Italy the struggle is not over when the strife of arms has ceased, but the real question is whether when the victory in the field is won, her people will be able to build up for themselves those peculiar institutions by which they desire to be governed, which they have to create by their own wisdom and their own exertions, and which you, by the blessing of Providence, have de rived as an inheritance from your ancestors, and mean to transmit unimpaired to your posterity. ((sheers.) So far, then, gentlemen, for the position of this country in the face of Europe. Now let us turn to the other side of the Atlantic. During the past year it was your pride and privilege to have resident among you the heir apparent of the Throne. You watched, therefore, with special interest and affection the visit which he paid to the colonies of the Crown and that great Republic in another hemi sphere, whose origin is the same as ours, whose laws, language, and literature have descended from our own. You can appreciate better than others the effect which that visit has produced, and you will agree in rejoicing, at a time when the Ameri cans appear to be threatened with many dangers from internal dissensions and disunion, that the common feeling of the whole Anglo-Saxon race has by that auspicious event been drawn more closely and united more firmly to the common mother, from whom all its virtues and all its honours have sprung. (Hear.) Gentleman, at home we have not, indeed, been blessed with a favourableiseasen, but such is the industry and such has been the policy of the country, that we can now meet an adverse season without being shaken to our centre, as we used to be in former times ; and, notwithstanding the difficulties with which we have to contend, we have on every side a loyal, a prosperous, and a contented people. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, in these blessings I era happy to tell you that the sister island shares in a signal and remarkable de gree. (Hear, hear.) Ireland has been more severely tried, perhaps, by the harvest of the year which has just closed than her richer sister,. England. The time is not long gone by when her warm-hearted population had not the pursuits of industry open to them, for there were no means of obtaining wages for the labour of the day. But those times are now happily past, and in Ireland there is growing up a spirit of industry, a desire for improvement, and a thirst after knowledge and the blessings of educa tion which bid fair year by year to raise her more and more in the scale of nations. Depend upon it that, side by side, the two sister kingdoms will continue to flourish and improve, forming one united empire, the envy of surrounding nations, and the happiness of the people who inhabit them. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we have marked the progress during the past year of that Volunteer movement upon which my hon. colleague dwelt with so much force. We have seen this country rising like ono man, de termined that at whatever sacrifice, either of person or pocket, that should be done which was most conducive to the honour of the Crown and the in terests of the nation. In this we have witnessed a spectacle such as I venture to say no other country at this moment could present. (Hear.) Gentlemen, withn c w n c h l i u e s h i o y n , 0 , uI have nthank you heartily recthvedme,a for ndl t b he eg k o h a llln ssu e r s e s personaland c cordial lgi good 0 1 . feelin g d will , as NV w ith el W l h a i s Ch th l e havee I believe that, notwith onour m . standing the short-comings, whatever they may marks of public confidence with which you are good reciprocatenoollugo enough t t h o e k y warm our been, privileged to live is des country in wh i c h we are to the subjects of the Queen , expired, the favoured just cause of happiness b of theyear tined to be m ore and mo re the to be the object of admi ra ti on and imitat i on t o th e o ther nations of 4 the globe, and to be—thanks to its popular and free institutions—the ark of rational and well ordered liberty. (Loud cheers.) Several other toasts appropriate to the occasion followed, after which the company separated. TILE LATE SHIPWRECK llf PLYMOUTH SOUND Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held on the bodies of Edward Hosken, James Toms, David Libby, Waiter Hosken, and John Crapp, the crew of the schooner Speedwell ; which was wrecked on Saturday afternoon, between Redding Point and Hooe Lake, just under Mount Edgcumbe. The inauest was held at Maker Farm, before Mr. J. Jagoe, county coroner, and a respectable jury, of which Mr. Webber was the foreman. After the jury had viewed the bodies of the deceased, which lay in a barn belonging to the Maker Farm, they re turned to the house, when the following evidence was adduced:— The first witness called was Wm. H. Williams, who said—l am a master in the Royal Navy, and chief officer of the Coastguard station at Cawsand, in the parish of Rame. About 8 o'clock on Satur day morning I was at Cawsand, and saw the Speed well at anchor between Redding Point and hone Lake, under Mount Edgcu m b e . J us t a b ou t 10 o'clock a steam tug cam( out and took hold of the schooner with a rope. The tug, however, shortly after left, and went toward s Plymouth, but I can not say whether or not the rope parted. When I saw the perilous positioa the schooner was in, I sent round two of my men to watch her, but it was impossible fo assist her ; although I sent two lines in case the men on boarc the schooner should take to their boat. I went stortly after them, and saw the sailors take the boat on board, and bail her out. The vessel was then at anchor. The crew in the course of the day pulled down the burgee from the maintopmast—a small narrow flag, bearing the name of the ship Speedwell, and put it in the fore rigging. The whole of the crew, comprising four men and one boy, then took to their boat and pulled towards Redding Point with the head of the boat to the eastward. They evidently tried to weather Redding Point, but the first surf they entered swallowed the boat up. The men were all immersed in the water, and only two of them appeared again. One of my men got within a distance of four yards to one of them, when the sea cut him down, and it was as much as we could do to haul him in. (The coroner here praised the gal lant conduct of the man referred to.) The whole of the crew were lost to sight in less than five minutes. I then left my men, and went on my station to make a report of the matter. When the men ieft the vessel it was half-past 2 by my watch. When I first saw the vessel in the morning she had a pilot jack at the forecrosstree, and a burgee at her maintopmast. There was no signal of distress ; for what we consider a signal of distress is au en sign turned upside down. But she had no ensign on board at all, and I considered from the fact of her having the pilot jack flying that she wanted a pilot to come to her; but it was impossible for a pilot to go near her on account of the boisterous state of the weather. When the steamtug left I thought she was gone in to Plymouth to obtain assistance, but I did not see her return, One of the jurymen here asked whether if the Coastguard had been supplied with a rocket appa ratus the deceaseds' lives would not have been saved The witness, in reply, stated that it would have been perfectly useless in this instance ; for even if they had had one at their disposal the surf was so great that the men would have been drowned if they had attempted to drag them through the heavy sea that was running at the time. Mr. Carne—Was it not your duty to telegraph P Witness—l have no telegraph. Mr. Carne—l think that as this is one of the greatest harbours, and there being so many Govern ment men here as there are, the five poor fellows drowned were five lives entirely thrown away. Witness—The men left the vessel themselves on their own account. One of the jurors here said he saw a signal of distress flying all the day from the masts of the schooner. Witness—The ship came to sea with no ballast, and without a signal of distress on board; so that it was entirely their own fault. Mr. Carne was here about to dictate to Mr. Williams as to the course he should have adopted, when he was interrupted by the coroner telling him it was not for him to tell the witness what he ought to do ; but, when consulting as to their verdict, he, or the whole of the jurors, 'if they liked, might blame the Government, the Coastguard, or any one they pleased, but at present he (Mr. Came) must confine himself to the evidence as given by the witness. A Juror (to witness)—Was it possible for you or any other man to have gone off in a boar to render the men any assistance ? Witness—No. In answer to a question from the coroner, he replied that the vessel rode safely at her anchors for several minutes after the men left her. The Coroner—Were there any large ships of war inside the Breakwater? Witness—One man-of-war and a steam sloop. The Coroner—Could they have seen the perilous position in which the schooner was ? - Witness—lt is most likely, if she had had a pro per signal of distress flying ; but, nautically speak ing, the pilot jack and the burgee were not a signal. A Juror—Row did you know she was in a peril• ous position ? Witness—l only judged so from the fact of the steam-tug being alongside of her, and on account of the heavy sea that was running at the time ; there was also a gale of wind blowing. A juryman here said he considered the burgee flying from the fore-rigging was a signal of distress. Another juror said he should take any flag flying from the fore-rigging as a sio•nal of distress. Witness—l can't make that out. One of the jury observed that he never saw the bargee flying at the cross-tree at all; it was at the fore-rigging all the day. Witness—l never saw it at the fore-rigging until a short tire before the men lilt the vessel. What could have; been the intention of the crew in leaving the vessel ? Witness—l have not the slightest doubt that they thought they could round the point, which they would in all probability have done had they con tinued in the same course. But if they remained on board the ship they.would all have been saved. The Coroner—lf the men had hoisted a signal would you have had any means of saving them ? Witness—Nothi ng other than throwing the lines to them. It would have been impossible • for any lifeboat to have pulled the vessel off. I have no lifeboat at my station, but I should say there was one at Plymouth; but I could not telegraph there with my flags, for I could not say the vessel was in distress when she had no signal flying. irlrhat I did was on my own responsibility ; but I never dreamt of the men leaving their ship. I knew, however, all I could do would be to take a few lines, in case they should leave their ship. If you see a ship in a perilous position, is it not your duty to relieve them ? Witness—Yes; whether it was a man-of-war, a merchant ship, or a foreigner. The schooner would never have been lost if she had had ballast in. It was a calm on the previous evening (Friday), and, after coming down from St. Germans, the vessel was obliged to come to an anchor on account of having no wind. The weather came on very bad early on Saturday morning. In answer to another question, witness said he had been in the navy some 35 years, and lie knew of no other signal of distress than that of the ensign turned upside down. The next witness called was Robert Bennett, who said—l live in Kingsand, and am a mason: I was employed on Sunday morning by Mr. Gillard, Lloyd's agent, to go and look after the wreck. I went, and after being there some time I saw the body of a man in the water, but I did not touch it then, and in an hour and a half after it washed ashore, when it was dis covered to be the body of Captain Hosken. It was removed away some distance, and then handed over to the charge of a policeman. In about an hour and athalf after that the whole of the bodies washed in. Edward Bowden was next called, and deposed as follows :—I am brother-in-law to Edward Hosken, deceased, and reside at Looe. The deceased was captain of the schooner Speedwell, from Looe. I saw the body of my brother on Friday morning at Looe. His vessel sailed from St. Germans on Friday evening. The crew consisted of a mate (James Toms), aged 34, who is married and has one child ; David Libby, 36, able seaman, with a wife and three children ; Walter Hosken, 19, ordi nary seaman, unmarried ; and John Crapp, a boy, 17. The bodies 1 have seen in the barn are the same as comprised the crew of the schooner Speedwell. The Coroner then addressed the jury as follows : —He said—l don't think it necessary for you to go into any further evidence. It is your duty to ascer tain the cause of death, which you have obtained from the first witness. The next thing for you to consider is, whether this could have been pre vented by any efforts on the part of the Coast guard, or on the part of the authorities of the Government at Plymouth, or on the part of the vessels in the neighbourhood. There were two of her Majesty's ships inside the Break water, and also a steam-tug which came out to the assistance of the crew, and there were also a number of people about the shore, and it is for you now to consider whether any or all of those parties I used their utmost exertions in attempting to save the crew. It appears that it is the duty of the Coast guard to give every necessary assistance to all boats or vessels in perilous situations, and it would seem that Mr. Williams did his duty as far as possible in going to the spot when the accident took place. He also sent his men and lines for the purpose of assist ing the poor unfortunate fellows out of their diffi culty. From the evidence of Mr. Williams, it appears that a steamtug came to the assistance of the men on board the ship, and was attached to the schooner, but from some cause unknown to us she left the schooner and went to Plymouth, but what about we cannot ascertain. I regret we have no opportunity of ascertaining that, and I also regret that the steamtug did not communicate with the admiral at Devonport, so that he might have sent assistance. But we must look at it in another way, and must not attach all the blame to the Admiralty or the Government men. When Mr. Williams got to the place he found the vessel was not in that peri lous position he afterwards imagined she was. The first thing he saw was the men bailing the boat out, and then his attention was directed to the posi tion they were in then, and found it was more perilous than before from the fact that the five men shortly after got into the boat and pulled away from the ship. He said they pulled away eastward, and ho thought their Jives would have been saved, but unfortunately they turned in a different course and were destroyed. In this instance I do not fancy there was so , much blame attached to the . Government officials I as to the poor men themselves, because it is evident they ought not to have left the ship, for if they had not they would not have lost their lives. The law upon such matters is that if any one is placed in a post of responsibility, and he fails, either through negligence, or wilfully, or through ignorance, to perform his duty, he is guilty of a criminal offence ; so that if a Coast guard man does not do his duty to the extent he ought, he becomes culpable. But Mr. Williams, who is the responsible person at the Coastguard station, did do his duty; and he told them that the surf was so great that no men could have gone out in a boat to the assistance of the shipwrecked crew. It was of no use for him to throw the lines out, because the men would have been drowned in pull ing them through the sea ; therefore I think, so far as Mr. Williams and the coastguard are concerned, he has done his duty so far as Government will call upon him to do so. I think the principal censure you have to cast upon any one is on the officers:and men of the steamtug. I believe she is not a Govern ment steamer, but a common harbour one that goes up and down for the purpose of assisting vessels in the harbour. Still he could not help thinking that, if the men in the steamer had understood that the crew of the Speedwell were in a perilous position, common humanity would have compelled them to return again to their assistance in order to get either the vessel off or to have taken out the crew. Therefore I will readily give them credit for huma nity, and will believe they did not think the schooner was in peril. But any one would have thought it was their duty either to have communicated with the Government officials, in order to get something sent out to their rescue, or else to have returned again themselves. However, you can give no other verdict than that of " accidental death," but it is for you to admonish those officers of the steamtug, or to make any remark upon the officers in Ply mouth and Devonport. The Coroner then dismissed the jury to another room in order that they might consider their yen cl ; and after an absence of about ten minutes they returned again into court, smell The Foreman, addressing the Coroner, said — The verdict we find is that of " accidental death," and we wish to say at the same time, that Mr. Williams and his men did the utmost in their power to rescue the men; but we think that a great cen sure should be laid on the commanders of the men of-war in the Sound, and also to the harbour master, for it is evident that the ship, having laid where she was for so many hours, must have been seen by the harbour-master and the commanders of the vessels. The Coroner—l think you are perfectly right. I shall take your verdict. One of the jurymen said he thought great praise was due to the Preventive men, who acted so nobly on the occasion. TILE POPE'S ALLOtU2ION. There is a noted case on record of a Presbyterian parson having prayed for "the puir Deil ;" perhaps we may even come at last to hear prayers from zealous Protestants for " the poor Pope." The " Al locution of Pope Pius IX." delivered recently in Secret Consistory, and now published to the world, would almost melt the heart of Martin Luther, and throw into grim derision the wrath of John Knox. When other people are shaking hands and congra tulating each other upon a prosperous year past and a hopeful year come, when nations are happier and strifes have ceased, when rational liberty plays joyfully over many lands, and there is general pro , mise of peace and goodwill on earth, there are three greatexceptions to the general joy. The Hapsburg, the Bourbon, and the Pope lie mournio,7 in sack cloth and ashes. The Pope is the saddest,' of the three. He goes to his Cardinals in a state of osiLms tatious helplessness, and, instead of wishing them " merry Christmases" and " Happy New Years," or treating them to new hats all round, he does nothing but unfold his griefs to them. This sac, conclave looks out upon the merry world as discon tentedly as a colony of rats might peep from behind a skirting-board upon cats and kittens frolicking in the fire warmth. While all the rest of the world is full of joy the hearts of the Pope and his vene rable brothers are " full of anguish." Cruel events have come to pass, and no bounds have yet been placed to the-great calamities that are overwhelm ing them. It is not that the temporal sovereignty of the Prince-Priest of Rome has passed away, and that he is compelled to surround himself by French bayonets in order to moderate the too affectionate caresses of his Italian sons. This is a grief which must be numbered among those reco ll ec ti ons o f th a past which fill him with a chronic anguish. Each day brings with it new sorrows. The case is now getting so bad that his spiritual dominion threatens to follow his temporal sovereignty, and he tells his Cardinals—and with a freedom which passes the bounds of ingenuousness, and seems to border upon fatuousness he tells the world—that " the principles of the disastrous Reformation have acquired almost the force of public law." This is almost hauling down the flag. The Pope is, of Masse, astounded at the phenomenon. Poor, terrified old Alan, he does not, perhaps, quite be lieve what he says. He thinks that he is startling the world by revealing in an exaggerated form a very startling profanity when he is simply stating a very common fact. He recapitulates the threatening facts which from day to day come before him and denounces them as symptoms of deep depravity in the world, and as " contrary to the liberty of the Church," and " the result of the false doctrine of Protestants." He sees the Church of St. Peter filled by Roman citizens making de monstrations in favour of annexation to Piedmont, and lie thinks what wicked men the Roman citizens must have become. He sees the Baden Concordat swept away, and he bewails the lapsed faith of the men of Baden. He looks forth once again . to France and there he sees another pamphlet as in famous and atrocious as that which not long ago stirred his holy bile, and drew forth irreverend words from those most reverend lips :—" A most infamous pamphlet lately published in Paris has come to add to our sadness. In that publication there are so many things so completely opposed to truth, so many absurdities and contradictions com bined by the author, that it is more fitting to throw aside and despise it than to refute it. What is, however, intolerable is the audacity and impiety of this writer, who, not having feared to attack the Civil and Ecclesiastical Principality of the Roman Church, has endeavoured to contrive a particular ' species of Church, to be founded in the French Em pire, and organized so that it should be removed from the authority of the Sovereign Pontiffand completely separated from it." This dreadful Protestant sugges tion goes to the root of all things. The poor Pope's head seems to go round as he listens to such unheard of absurdities. ,They are actually saying now that " the Church is a sort of corporation existing in civil society, enjoying no rights, excepting those which are granted it by the civil power." We are much afraid that that is becoming the current notion upon the subject. But how can this absurdity gain ground when the Pope is convinced of it as he is of his own existence that the Church has free power over all men, without reference to States or civil powers P He can quote a text for it, and he does quote it in this Allocution :—" All power has been given to me in heaven and on earth." Yet hero is the Pope possessed of all power in heaven and on earth—for if it was given him by the awful sanction he blasphemously cites he surely would have it—yet he is not able to burst a heretic, or lay a kingdom under interdict. Pamphleteers are ,gibing at him and provoking him so m uc h that he cannot help replying. Every assembly which has the least popular element in its constitution is protesting against his Concordats and withstanding their operation ; persons, as he bitterly says, who call themselves " sons of the Church" act more like " sons of darkness ;" his influence in every land depends Only upon female influence, or, in the absence of that, strengthens or diminishes in exact proportion as the rulers are nearer or further ye moved from dotage, or as civil liberty is flourishing or depressed. There is an evil awakening of the nation and —most wonderful of all the signs of the , times—the historic precedent of Henry,VllL is com ing into fashion, and several of the Sovereigns of Europe are trying on the separated Crowns of the Pope's tiara. Pius IX. is amazed. He cannot under stand it. It is contrary to common sense that people should doubt that all power has been given to him in heaven and on earth. If this &lusion should spread, he bids fair to be left with his ecclesiastical kingdom shorn as close as his temporal principality. That " son of darkness" who calls himself " the " Eldest Son of the Church" has just conquered an enormous ecclesiastical dominion, and has con secrated his cathedral to the tune of " God save the Emperor," just as the prayer for the head of the Anglican Church might be read at Melbourne. Austria is about to creep out of her Concordat. The Pope does not mention this fact, but his special lamentations over Baden have as an object, no doubt, to curb the expected backslidings of his long faithful Austria. "This state of things, as we know, is the result of the false doctrine of Protes tantism." The Pope'. communicated this know ledge to the Grand Duke of Baden, and ILas scolded him in letters, and has set his Cardinal Secre tary to remonstrate. " But, as all our endeavours ond all our anxiety have come to no result, we have deplored in your midst, as is our duty, that that Convention has been abolished, contrary to all the laws of justice, and without the consent of the other F ;rty, and we have protested, within the limits of our power, against the rights of the Catholic Cht2rch and cf the Apostolic See being violated—outrag'e ously olnihilated." It is very hard upon the Pope that the Baden people refuse to be fleeced, and tor mented, and plagued with priests, and have the education of their children and the management of their homes, .and the expenditure of their money, taken out of the.ir hands, and should persist in their resistance, even against the positive desire of " the other party" to fleece and manage them. Nothing can be clearer than that justice is all on the side of the Pope. It is very wrong of the people not to submit themselves at once to the Pope, that he may screw down the heretics and screw up the luke warm, and empty the purses of the avaricious. But they will not do it, and here he stands with his fists in his eyes " deploring in the midst," weeping bitter tears, even as a wolf might howl when a lamb had skipped away and robbed him of his dinner. It's very sad. But, if it be really true that " the principles of the disastrous Reformation" are at the bottom of all this, we are afraid it is a bad busi ness. Those principles are very awkward things for Popes to talk lightly about, and they are very unwholesome things to get into Papal Allocutions. They are, moreover, most insinuating things. They creep or percolate into old institutions like ivy or frost into old brickwork—the Pope might see the operation in many of the old abbeys—and then suddenly the strong walls will split, and the old mass come crumbling dowti.. If the Pope has really discovered these " false doctrines of Pro testants" to be so rife all around him as he says, we are afraid we cannot, honestly and with hope, wish him " a Happy New • Year." It is a very bad symptom indeed; but, if it should indeed be true that these " principles of the disastrous Re formation have acquired almost the force of public law," it is much to be feared that it is time for him to put his house in order. We must admit that he cites some very strong facts,—" translations of the sacred books everywhere scattered to corrupt the faith, !the removal from the authority of the Bishops of the education of youth, and the erection of Protestant temples in many cities of Italy." Cam it be true that these signs are marching throul , ,h Italy—toleration—education—the Bible ? Fol'd your robe, old man ; your enemies are around you. ! AN ENGLISIDIAY LYNCILED IN 11EISSISSIPT1 (From the Missouri Democrat.) ST. LOUIS, DEC. 8, 1860. A respectable-looking man named Wm. Smithy ma2, a native of England, and for several years a resident of Juneau county, Wisconsin, arrived in this city on Tuesday, from Memphis, by the steamboat .T.• D. Perry. Mr. Smithyman was driven from Mississippi last week, after suffering severe injuries for crimes alleged against him, but of which he declares ,''is entire innocence. He was formerly employed in ti L isty for a few weeks as a miller in the Planters' Mills,Nb on Franklin-avenue, and went to Mississippi for employment in June last. He bore letters of recomn;endation and cha racter, and obtained work in Pano2a and De Soto counties, near the Tennessee line. b l :e worked for several persons, dressing millstones, ant met with no opposition from any person whatevef , until a week ago yesterday, when he started from Looxa homie, De Soto county, for Senatobia station, °a the Tennessee and Mississippi Railroad, seven miles distant, employing a negro to carry himself arid trunk in a waggon to the railroad. He was them on his way to Memphis. Arriving at Senatobia after dark, he proceeded to look up some freight for the negro's owner, and in doing so went into the freight depot. While there three or four persons approached him, and asked him where he was go ing and what he was doing. He was then looking for some freight for Looxahomie, but they charged him with being an Abolitionist an a suspicious person, and seized and threw him into a freight car, which they locked, and then went up into the village to tell the story. The negro was also at restcd, and, as afterwards appeared, was threatened w ith i n !-ant death if he didn't confess that the man in the freight car had endeavoured to per suade him to rVu off. The negro, thinking probably to save himself fro.'n torture, said that such was the case, but, notwithstanjing the confession, he was severely flogged. About; 10 o'clock a crowd of 30 or 40 returned to the railroat station, tsok Smithy man out and marched him into the woods. There they stripped him naked, notwithstanding the weather was intensely cold, and gave him a large number of stripes, the victim thinks 200, with a thick leather belt, sometimes flat, and sometimes with the edge. A man, who appeared to he a doctor, then advised them to desist, saying thAt they would finish the job the next day. They then put him back in the freight-car, with nothing but his clothes and an old rug to protect him during the night. In the morning he was released and per mitted to pay 506. for a cup of coffee. An armed force, styling themselves " Minute Men," then took him into custody afresh, went into the woods again, made him strip, tied his hands around a tree, and then shaved his head as close as they could. Tice crowd urged him to tell all about his doings in the interior, said that they knew he was guilty of exciting slaves to insurrec tion, had tampered with them, and all that. Three or four said that if he would confess his life should be spared, but that fl he did not he would be strung up. By this time Smithyman was half dead from exhaustion and fright, ant 2 believing that it was his only chance of safety from hanging, he boldly avowed that he had, tampered with slaves. With a shout the eager listeners seized him, and some were for hanging him right off. Az; attempt was made to get a rope around his neck, but others were so anxious for another operation that the would-be executioners failed. Smithyma.`r was stripped, and liquid tar, almost hot enough to scald, was poured over his head, and, half blinded as he was, the victim was not allowed to put his hands to his eyes to keep the tar from blinding him altogether. They then stuck him all over with loose cotton. After this was through they told him that he must start for Memphis immediately-40 miles off—and not stop till he reached that city. They gave him five minutes to put on his clothes, and while ho was trying to pull off some of the cotton several of the mob stcld by kicking his limbs with their thick boots black and blue, the marks of which kicking he still bears, They then allowed him to start. Smithyman walked all the way to Memphis, and took the boat to this city. We give the above statement for what it is worth. The man Smithyman is an honest, sober man, and bears evidence on his person of the infliction ,of very severe injuries. [ADVERTISEMENT]—We quote a few more of the eY.tra ordinary cures without medicine effected by Du Barry's delicious health-restoring Revalenta Araliica Food Cure No. 180.-25 years nervousness, constipation, indiges tion and debility, from which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove or relieve, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very short time, W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London. 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H. :3 PURGEON read the balance-sheet, from which it a ppeared that the total money received amountec l to £24,164 7s sd, and the amount required was £3( 1,000. They hoped to be able to collect £l,OOO tha t night, and having gone so far, he felt sure they ( :ould not fail. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN , after a few introductory remarks, said they had met. on the first evening of another year in order to give their New Year's offerings • unto the Lord. ' They had come together, he felt sure, prepared to give that which they could afford to promote the great work to which they had put their hands, determined not to look back, having once put their hands to the plough, but to look for ward to the harvest in the future—a harvest of souls saved from perdition through the instrumentality of their pastor, the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. They had heard that gentleman read a financial statement, which was clear and to the point. From that they gathered two material facts—first, that the estimated cost wris £30,000, and that they had towards that sum in round figures £25,000, Mr. Spurgeon and the gentlemen associated with him had a noble ambition that the glorious building in which they then sat should be dedicated to God without the pollution of a debt; it was not, there fore, expecting too much from them if he expref sed a hope, that before March — the time the buil ding was proposed to be opened for worship—the deficiency of £5,000 would be made up. They had the means to do so if they all acted together. It was not by isolated efforts that great works could be at thieved, but by the united efforts of thousands. T. - f they all strove to their utmost, that which wou td be difficult to the few would be easy to the man y. Ho was there representing the feeling of true c harity and liberality, which he be lieved existed in the present day. He was a Church man, and having been educated in the Church of England, begged ► to express his heartiest wishes for the success of T dr. Spurgeon. They (the Church of England) did :not forg©t that for the last seven years Mr. Spurgeon had devoted himself to advance the interests of various charitable and benevolent institutions, with out any regard to sect ; and, there fore, felt that he had a special claim to their sup port. It was calm dating on a feeling of reciprocity that he called on all those who were not of his eordmunion to ler id a helping hand to a work which Would be an hone iur to Mr. Spurgeon and to every one who had an - interest in the well-being of the south side of Lon don. (Hear.) As chairman of the meeting, it was h , is duty to ask their attention to the various speakers that evening; but he need not do so in the case of Mr. Spurgeon, for he com manded not only their attention but their love. (Hear.) He hoped therefore they would give ex pression to that love in a visible way, and give evi dence that they were not merely professing but actively engaged in promoting the work in which he (Mr. Spurgeon) took so deep an interest. And when he reminded them that he was appealing on behalf of the great voluntary principle, which would give them churches without the aid of a rate—(cheers)---which would give them soldiers if they wanted them equal to any emergency, and the principle of which that building was an instance, he was sure he need not press the subject any further on them. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) If they did their utmost to raise the required amount they would be buying a share in a great joint stock company, the liability of which they need not fear, but the object of which they might say was one of the noblest enterprises to which the energy of man was ever directed. He hoped the year they were then commencing might be fraught with happiness to them all, and that at its end they might reflect with pleasure on the fact of having commenced the year by putting their hands to a good work. (Cheers.) The meeting having been addressed by the Revs. R. Bushell, W. G. Lewis, D. Bottoms, 1. Trestrail, , &c., a vote of thanks to the chair closed the pro ceedings. We believe that a sum exceeding £l,OOO was, from different sources, raised in addition to the total amount referred to above. COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL-JAx. 1. To-day we had a fair attendance of buyers, with a very good trade, at is to 2s per qr. advance on late prices forgood wheat. Barleys maintain their former prices. Oats and beans quite as dear. Peas unaltered. LEEDS-JAN. 1. Our market to-day was fairly attended by millers, but e r ode had a rather inactive tone. Wheat must be quoted at Ito advance upon the rates of last market day. Barley wa g quite as well sold. Oats and beans held firm for for mer rates. All other articles unchanged. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNE—DEc. 31. At t his corn market there was only a middling show of English. wheat, but the trade was steady, and sellers made a little over late rates—white wheat making 60s to 755, red 50s iv 655. The demand for barley was pretty good, and the same in value. Oats were in quiet demand, and from 24s 10 32s per 24 stone. Beans made from 48s to Ms per qr. LYNN-JAL 1. A limited supply of wheat to-day, most of which was in demand, and prices advanced. Barley scarce, at about for mer prices. Oatm were disposed of at ;all values. Beans also taken off at high rates. Old white 66s to 60s I Old red 48s to VA Barley. ... to 46s f Oats .....•20s to 265 NORWICII CATTLE. The show of store cattle to-day was very small, but as buyers were not very numerous, little business was trans sued, and the rates were isuch the same. 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Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and free by post the "INVALIDS ' OWN GUIDE," or Natural Restorer, without medicine or ex. p'nse, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and refreshing sleep, to the most enfeebled, insuring the removal of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, liver complaints, nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervous ness, pa l p it a ti ot, cough, asthma, consumption, drepsy, flatulency, diarrhoea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms, sinking, fits, bronchitis,- " Unquestionably the safest Guide to health." BIRTHS. BROOKE.—On the 31st ult., at Sibton-park, Suffolk, tho wife of J. W. Brooke, Esq., of a son. FoixEs.—On the 29th ult., at Woybridge, Surrey, the wife of Thomas Eyro Foakes, Esq., of the Middle Tem ple, of a son. RANDOLPH.—On the 30th ult., at 72, Harley-street, the llon, Mrs. Leveson Randolph, of a daughter. Ashley Gibson, MARRIAGES. GIBSON—FARQUHARSON.—O a the 31st ult., at St. Paul's, i‘i .A ,Knightsbridge,to Louisa the Mary Rev. Agnes,J o h y n .ou i younger daughter daughter of Cap_at St. George's, tail,' Farquharson, R.N.) o f 1, Wilton - P lac t 13°IgnIve square. W. J. Brodrick, Canonlla n ov Hanover-square, I s WALTER — MACNABIS. W a lter, Esq., M.P. to Flora, the third daughter of the late James Monro Macnabb, Esq., of Highfield-park, Ila n "' Wells John j b o y iin th ° e nione7aYnedarl- v tla . ymr, DEATHS. BAnwis.—On the 31st ult., at Highgate-rise, Mr. W. H. B. Barwis, age d 69 ' Corrnm.-0n the 29th ult., at Ca m b erwe ll , G eo. C ottam, Esq., age d 82. , s —On the 30th tilt., in Connaught-terrace, Miss Oily Dickens, daughter of the late General Guy Dickens, aged 88 . F A TERSON.—On the 31st ult., a t 9, St. J ames ' s -t errace , DiciKEN • Regent's-park, Lieut.-Col. James Paterson, late Com manding 3d Regt., son of the late Lieut.-General Sir W. Paterson, K. C.H. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer; at THE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex, Weduesiay, January 1801. ~ tion =a _ Mid Aft( Eve Are, iron Cro A tion 13 Itm and tudi Pro Spa thoE wit] spir Maj Col Lie Dr, Re Lie