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KNIGHTON, M.A., Author of " Forest Life in Ceylon," " The Private Life of an Eastern King," &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING. ATTACK ON THR ESTABLISHED CHURCH. The agitation started at Clonakilty a short time since has been taken up in the midland counties by the same class of agents—to wit, the Roman Catho lic priests and their local servitors. A requisition, we are told, is in course of signature, and already numerously signed, convening a meeting of the " Reformers" of no narrower a circle than the three extensive counties of King's, Queen's, and Kildare, to adopt measures in support of the motion of Mr. Miall, which is to be again brought forward in the next session of Parliament. Some people here are innocent enough to suppose that the Catholic party is the one in the ascendant in the government of Ireland. Certainly the way the patronage of the country is dispensed goes to support the proposition. For the bench or the vari ous l aw o ffi ces at t h e dis posal of the Minister none other need apply. Seeing, then, that the Ro man C at h o li cs and ultra- Radicals have it pretty nearly all their own way, they may be asked seriously, are they acting wisely in urging on this new onslaught on the Established Church ? They ought to know that the Protestant party, although passive, is not powerless. The spirit of resistance once aroused may become some thing more. Rome is not impregnable, and Ri ng James's advice to the residents in glass houses not to throw stones, ought not to be lost sight of by the movers in the present agitation. (Signed) General Paddington, 4th 0ct.,1856,' W. L. NEWCOIIBE, Li Manager, Gooda Department Cheap Edition, with Portraits of every Queen, complete in 8 vols., price 7i. 6d. each, bound, LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND. By AGNES ST.tICKLAND. " A valuable contribution to historical knowledge. It contains a mass of every kind of historical matter of interest which industry and research could collect. We have derived much instruction and entertainment from the work."—Athenmum. Burst aid Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- EXCURSIONS to the SEA SIDE, commencing July 30, ending 15th October.—Tickets, available by any train for 28 days, are issued to Isle of Man, 'Bangor, Llandudno, and Carnarvon, vla Great Western and Shrewsbury Railways, to Birkenhead and Liver- Pool, thence by any of the steamers leaving Liverpool for the Isle of Iran, or to Bangor, Beaumaris, Llandudno, and Carnarvon, by the Prince of Wales steamer, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. FARES THERE AND BACK. Ist Class and 2d Class and Best Cabin. Best Cabin Frem London to Isle of Man........ £3 0 0 .. £2 5 0 Oxford to ditto ...... ........ 2 5 0 .. 115 0 London to Bangor, Beaumarls, Llan dudno, and Carnarv0n............ 3 10 0 •• ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1857, price 6d., post-free. CONTENTS: National Loss and Humiliation! The 'noon -struck Philosophers, and the true motion of the Moon; not round the Earth, as they teach. Answer to Sir David Brewster's attack on Astrology. The origin of Idolatry, &C. Fulfilled Predic tions of the Peace, &c. London : Piper, Stephenson, and Spence, Paternoster row. In the press, ZADKIEL'S EPIIEMESIS for 1857 and 1858 ; price Is. 2 10 0 Oxford to ditto ditto .ditt0...... 210 0 .. 115 0 Passengers must return from the Isle of Man by the same Corn Pany's boat that they proceed there by ; also.from CarnarVon,llan dudno, Beaumaris, and Bangor, by steamers, on Monday, Wednes. day, and Friday. They may on their return stop at Llangollen, but must complete their journey within 28 days from the date of ticket. These tickets are available by any Train, but are not transferable. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. was Published on Saturday last. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- TOURISTS' TICKETS (Great Western, Hereford, and South 'Wales Railways) available for Three Weeks from the day of issue. These Tickets will be issued until the 15th October, at Paddington, Oxford, or Leamington, over the Great Western Lines, via Glouces ter, to Ross and Hereford, and over the South Wales Line, to Milford Haven, and back, with the liberty to stop at Ross, Hereford, Chep stow, Neath, and Carmarthen. FARES. Ist Class. 2d Class. From London and back...:........ £3 10 .... £2 10 Leamington and d 0........ 215 .... 2 0 Oxford and d 0... .. .• • • .... 210 .. .. 115 Tourists' Tickets are available by any train, but are not trans ferable, and they do not entitle the holder to travel twice in the same direction over any portion of the lines of railway. GREAT WESTERN and SHREWSBURY RAILWAY& NORTH WALES TOURIST TICKETS available for Three Weeks from the day of issue. These tickets will be issued until the 15th October, at Paddington, Oxford, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton, to Chester and back, With permission for the passengers to stop at Shrewsbury either going or returning, to proceed either from Llangollen-road to Cornwen, or from Oswestry to Welshpool by coach, the London passengers hav ing the option of calling at Leamington and Warwick, and returning to London either via Shrewsbury, Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester, or via Shrewsbury, Birmingham, and Oxford. Fares. Ist Class and 2d Class and Inside Coach. Outside Coach. From London and back.... From Oxford and back.. .. •• .. •• .. 2 10s. .. • • 1 15s. From Birmingham and back ...... 2 Os. • . • 1 103. From Wolverhampton and back .. 1 15s. .... 1 7s. These tickets are available by any train, but are not transferable, Lid they do not entitle the holder to travel twice in the same direc tion over any portion of the lines of railway. Passengers can proceed into the interior of Wales by coach from Corwen or Welshpool, by arrangement with the coach proprietors froth those places. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAI7RENT'S CASINO, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket.—The above elegan ?Zooms are now open every evening for the winter season, with Laurent's celebrated Orchestra. Principal Cornet-a-piston, M. li onlcourt. The Proprietor begs to inform the public that this lashionable place of resort hm been entirely redecorated during the teuess. Doors open at half-past eight, commence at nine. Admis- Edon One Shilling. 'DR. 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Monday, the 10th day of November, 1856, at Twelve o'clock at ll'oon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicat ing upon the Claims. Dated this 7th day of August, 1856. GEO. WHITING, Chief Clerk. • WILLIAM KINSEY, plaintiff's solicitor, 20, Bloomsbury-square. B LAIR'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC PILLS. Price Is. I%d. and 2s. 9d. per box. . This preparation is one of the benefits which the science of modern Chemistry has conferred upon mankind ; for during the first twenty Years of the present century to speak of a cure for the Gout was con sidered a romance ; but now the efficacy and safety of this medicine is so fully demonstrated by unsolicited testimonials from persons in rerY rank of life that public opinion proclaims this as one of the most important discoveries of the present age. Further proof of the great efficacy of BLAIR'S GOUT and RIIEU kATIC PILLS, forwarded by Air. Reinhardt, Chemist, Hall : e M S ir ,— Enclosed is a testimonial from a customer of mine, who is ; 11 known about here ;ke speaks in the highest terms of ates ut and Rheumatic Pills, and would be glad to give information to anybody, " To Mr. Reinhardt, 22, Market-place, Hull. " December 4tb, 1855. "Dear Sir,—l have been afflicted with rheumatism for 12 years, " l ing which time 1 have tried almost everything, both internally VA externally, but could not obtain any permanent relief. A short ,nne ago I purchasedbox of Blair's Pills of you, and before had taken the whole of them I was more free from pain than I had reen for the last dozen years. You will please let me have another "t4el,, as I mean to keep them by me in case I should again require n, and oblige, "Doer Sir, yours obediently, . _ " iZREMIAH GAME/9." de old by Pront and Harsant, 229, Strand, L on d on , and all Yen , a of Medicine. NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. latent Office Scal of Great Britain. 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It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all C utaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expell it with the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the English Physicists treats with Mercury, tothe inevitable destruc tion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Price lls., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves 1 ls., and in 5/. cases, whereby there is a saving of 1/. 12s. To be had wholesale and retail in London, of Johnson, 68, Comilla; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox ford-street ; Saer, 150, O x ford-street ; R. H. Ingham, druggist, 46, Atarket-street, Manchester; H. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Holton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 51 , Lord-street, Liverpool ; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street Dublin ; Winnall, bookseller, 11 :gb-street Birmingham. ORIENTAL INLAND STEAM COMPANY (Limited). For establishing Steam Naviga tion on the Rivera of India. Capital 25 0,0001. in 25,000 Shares of 101. each, with power to increase it to 1 , 00 0,000/.—Deposit 10s. per Share. Mane Es. JAMES ALLAN, Esq., Managing Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The Honourable W. WILBERFORCE BIRD, Esq., late Deputy- Governor of Bengal. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Hon. W. WILBERFORCE BIRD, Esq., late Dep.-Governor of Bengal. Captain BOLD, K.T.S., Belvidere Villa, Millbrook, near Southampton. HARRY BORRADAILE, Esq., late Civil Service, Bombay. Join; &Ram, Esq., late of Messrs. John B ourne and Co. Lieut.-General JOAN Baffles, Madras Army, late Political Agent in Candeish, and officiating Resident at Nagpore. Colonel A. COTTON, late Chief Engineer of Madras. Capt. 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India wants cheap means of conveyance for her produce; water conveyance is cheaper than any possible mode of conveyance by land ; and ten thousand miles of this cheap water conveyance will be afforded by the great rivers when. properly navigated by steam: Tho last dividend of the Ganges Steam Company was 48 per cent, per annum, and the latest returns of a Navigation Com pany on the Godavery was 55 per cent. The field, however,- is far too large to be adequately filled by local effort, and an English Company is necessary, which, with adequate capital, will render available the resources of European science. Prospectuses and Forms of Aptlication for Shares may be • obtained at the offices, 9, Billiter-street, London. CONTENTS. I. The Life and Works of Francis Arago. 11. New Poets 111. Sinai, Palestine, and Mecca. IV. Vehee's German Courts. V. Alpine Tr:milt-is. YI. Beaumarchais and his Times. VII. Decandolle's Geographical Botany. VIII. Perversion. IX. Tocqueviile's France before the Revolution. X. The Political Crisis in the United States. London ::Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. The Third Edition. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d., ON -TRITE & FALSE SPERMA.TORRELCEA, with the View of distinguishing, the Ilnaginary fr9m the Real Sufferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICRFORD. "Dr. Pickford is known to English renders by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi eal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if be shall detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. "The tribe of ' Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical friends,' are mercilessly exposed; and if this book could find its way into the bands of thoso who saffar from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would '.: saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of :CPA importance, though it is that which the quacks most prizo•— much m0ney...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Sperroatorrhcea, and to place the treat ment upon a more rational and pbyliological basis. It is, therefore, like 'y to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. and T. GILBERT, No. 4, Copthall-buildings, i.o • back of the Bank of England, London, beg to inform the public that they allow a DISCOUNT of 2d. In the SHILLING off all Books, Magazines, Periodicals, Quarterly Reviews, Alrnanacks, Pocket Books, Diaries, Maps, Prints, &c. The rate of postage is 2d. for each a lb. Music supplied at a Discount of 4d. in the Is., post free, and detailed Prospectuses sent po s t f ree t o a ll applicants. N.B. All Goods warranted perfect in every respect, and precisely the same as if the full price were paid.—Copy the address. COCKS'S CELEBRATED R EADING X__) SAUCE, which is so highly esteemed with Fish, Game, Steaks, Soups, Grills, Gravies, lot anti Cold Meats, and unrivalled for gene ral use, is sold by the most respectable dealers in fish and sauces. J. and C. Cocks, Reading, sole Manutactarers. 1 1 / 1" R. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETH ,fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found ♦ery superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At home from ten till five. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. I . EA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE .1.1 SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, sad all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to ,erfectly digest the food. The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. - Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.B.—To guard Against imitations, see that the names of "LEA and PERItINS " are up on th e label and patent cap of the bottle. CONTRACT FOR NORTH AMERICAN MASTS, YARDS, BOWSPRITS, TIMBER, &e. Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 9th Oct., 1856. THE Commis§ioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ind Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY, the 11th November next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with 4nch persons as may be willing to contract for supplying her Majesty's Dockyards with North American Yellow Pine Masts, Yards and Bowsprits, with Masts for Topmasts, Masts for general purposes, and Hand Masts, Bed Pirte4Yellow Pine, Pitch Pine, and llock Elm Timber, Ash Oarßafters,and Spruce Deals. A form of the tender, the conditions of the contract, and a Distri bution of the at tides may be seen at the said office. No tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly autho rised in writing. _ _ Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Ind bear in the left-hand comer the words "Tender for North American Goods," .tnd must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a lebeer signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 5,0G0/. for the due per tormance of the contract. RAILWAY MEETINGS. The half-yearly meetings of all the principal railway companies may now be considered to have terminated, and those held during the past week have been of secon dary importance. The dividend recommended in the re port of the Great Western of Canada is at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, which will absorb 109,2481, and leave 8,0551. to be carried forward. The severity of the winter is stated to have had the effect of limiting the traffic in the early part of the year, and of increasing the work ing expenses, especially the maintenance by way. By limiting the capital expenditure, supporting friendly re lations with neighbouring railways, and adopting strict economy, the directors still believe that the line will in crease in prosperity and value. The inhabitants of Faversham have passed resolutions in favour of the pro posed line froto Faversham to Herne Bay. It is the ught that this project will be of great advantage to the East Kent Company, which is expected to be opened in about 12 months. A preliminary report on the line from Dart mouth to Torquay has been received by the shareholders and others interestea as favourable. The director 4 of the Tralee and Killarney Company express a belief that they will shortly be in possession of the land required for the railway, and that every endeavour will be made to expedite the construction of the works. At the meeting of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway the dividend de clared was 4 per cent. for the half-year, free of income tax, leaving a balance of 7181. to be carried forward. The arrangements with the Wicklow Company having been carried our, the rent payable will secure the share holders in the Kingstown Company 8 per cent. per annum, and if the receipts exceed 55,0001. a year 30 per cent. of the surplus is further available. A special meeting is to be called, for the purpose of considering the propriety of making some compensation to Mr. J. Pim for his outlay and services to the Kingstown Com pany. It 18 expected that the first section of the Per nambuco Railway will be ready for traffic by next Midsummer. At the date of the last advices upwards of nine miles were ready for the permanent way. La bour is found to be abundant, and the general condition of the men employed upon the works is healthy. The progress of the works and the contracts enable the d'rectorr to repeat with confidence that the capital of 1,200,0001., to which the guarantee of 7 per cent. ex tends, will prove abundantly sufficient for the comple tion of the railway. The inhabitants of Huddersfield have passed resolutions in favour of a project for making a line from that town to the Barnsley collieries. aaRKENWELL INCUMBENCY. It might have been expected that with the election of Mr. M`Guire to the incumbency of Clerkenwell by the vestry board on Friday evening, the contest which has agitated the whole parish for some considerable time would have ended, at least, until a court of law had de cided whether the vestry had the legal right to elect, or whether it was still vested in the parishioners generally. On Saturday, however, a placard was issued, signed by the Rev. Mr. Roberts, in w hi c h he says to the parishioners, "Youwillii a doubtless ta meeting remem at remember word to 11-street that I wou ld i n t h e the that school-rooms publicly p pledged e Ad raw event of my being elected to the vacant incumbency by the new vestry, give you, the ratepayers, an opp ortun i ty of exercising your right and privilegeeither to confirm or set aside that election. Notwithstanding I have been left in a minority by the defection of several of my pledged' supporters on the decision of the 66 members of th a t bad vestry rre (who ha lm ve e u n s t fuerpmedy ndypo l ur ge. i m privilege), committeee),l amno havetde- now taken steps, and which, be assured, with your aid, they will follow up to the very last, to co nfirm fo r you, if possibl e , that right which you as parishioners have without opposition until now exercised for 200 years. If they succeed in restoring, to you your otherwise for feited patronage, I shall then earnestly solicit your votes to elect_ me to the important position of incumbent of Clerkenwell." This placard caused a good deal of ex citement, which was added to by a rumour that got into circulation that on Sunday morning Mr. Roberta would claim the right of preaching in St. James's Church, to the exclusion of the elect of the vestry, the consequence being that yesterday, long befor e th e comm ence ment of Divine Service, the chur ch was filled in every part, the aisles wore crowded, and there was not even stauding room. The Rev. Mr. Ford read prayers, and.the Rev. Mr. M`Guire was in 'attend ance in the churchwardens ' pew ready to officiate. The Rev. Mr. Roberts bad taken the precaution of being there first, and, backed by his friends, insisted upon preaching the sermon. Mr. M`Guire and his friends very wisely yielded, rather than risk any disturbance where so many bad met for Divine worship, and Mr. Roberts preached from john v., verse 38. Mr. M'Guire rethained in the churchwardens' pew, and the greatest excitement prevailed. WREXHAM, Oct. 11.--The inquest on the body of Robert Kenrick, who lost his life while attending to one of the pumps by which the water is being raised from this mine, was held to-day before Mr. Thelwall, the coroner for the Wrexham division of the county, at a small public-house in the neighbourhood of the works. The first witness called was John Kenrick, the brother of the deceased. He said —At 7 o'clock on Wednesday night I was standing within half a yard of the engine pit. My brother was standing on a stage about 50 yards down the pit, which is about 160 yards deep. He had gone down to change one of the buckets. He was shaking the rod when the capstan chain attached to it broke, and he fell Eix or seven yards down upon his head. When we found him he was dead, but the chain was not touching him. When the rod dropped, in consequence of the breaking of the chain, he must have gone down with it. He had been working at the engine for the last five or six years. I have worked there for four or five years. Frederick Hutchinson, a clerk in the employment of Messrs. Clayton and Darlington, said the deceased was engineer and pitman of the engine pit, and it was his duty to attend to everything connected with it. He was a very zealous man, and had been particularly anxious that all the gearing belonging to the pit of which he had charge should be in order since the inundation, as there were relatives and friends of his among the missing men. He had sometimes been dragged from his work in order that he might get a little sleep, but he had always re turned to the pit in a few hours. He was a very bold man. Fresh buckets are usually required at intervals of a week or a fortnight, but since the inundation they have been changed much more frequently, as the water wears them very rapidly. The men are very eager to change the buckets quickly in order to prevent the engine from standing still. The deceased has changed the buckets in 15 minutesithe usual time being half an hoar. There were three or four men isnler him. This witneis pro duced the broken link of the capstan chain, which it was stated had been 'in use for the last 18 or 19 years. The link had evidently given way or opened at the weld ing. He added that the same chain was still being used. The weight it usually had to bear was certainly under a ton. Samuel Warburton—l have worked at the engine pit under the deceased for about four years. On Wednes day night I was down in the pit with him. We were standing side by side on our scaffold at the first lift. We had gone down to change one of the buckete. The rod was fast is the barrel, and we shook it in order to loosen it. The deceased held in his left hand the wire by which the signal for raising or lowering is given to the engineer above. He said to me, " Stop a bit, I will l ower ;" and he then gave four knocks by means of the wire. That was the signal for lowering, and the men above lowered the chain until the deceased, seeing it began to double, as the rod continued fast,' stopped them in order to pre vent it from jerking when it was again raised. He then knocked five times—the signal for raising. did not feel the chain jerk, but when it was pulled tight I heard the link break. I jumped directly to the other side of the stage to save my life, and saw no more of the de ceased. I think I heard him groan once or twice. Since the inundation one of the buckets has required changing every three or four hours. The chain seemed a very good one ; but I would rather trust to a rope than to a chain. The Coroner called attention to the rules for the regu lation of the Bryn Mally Works, copies of which, under the 18th and 19th Tic., chap. leS, are given to all the workmen. The 20th rule was to the effect that the head banksman of every pit should examine daily the ropes, chains, and gearing of the pit under his charge. He wished to know who was'the head banksman of this engine pit ? Mr. Hutchinson explained that there was no head banksman at the engine pit, so that the rule could apply only to winding pits. It was the duty of the deceased to see that the chains and ropes of the engine pit were in proper order. In reply to further questions Mr. Hutchinson said that the men were furnished with copies of the rules in the English language only ; but, on the suggestion of the coroner, he promised that Welsh copies should im mediately be given them. John Kenrick was recalled, and stated that eight men were pulling at the capstan when his brother gave the signal for raising, and that he and four or five more went and assisted them. The chain was not jerked at all ; it was broken by fair pulling. He had always thought the chain a safe one, but he preferred a rope to a chain, because any defect in a rope could easily be seen. Mr. Kirk stated that his father, who was formerly manager of the mine, ordered the chain 18 or 19 years ago. It was made without regard to expense, and the best iron was put into it. It had been proved to bear 10 tons. It had never broken before, but it had pro bably done more work during the last week than it would do, under ordinary circumstances, in a year or two. It was only used for the purpose of raising the rods when it was necessary to change the buckets. The Coroner sa , d there could be no doubt that the man's death was caused by the breaking of the chain. It was for the jury to say whether the chain brake in consequence of some defect, or in consequence of some fault in the management of the machinery. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a ver dict of "Accidental death," but expressed an opinion that the chain was unsafe, and that it was the duty of the deceased to have examined it. They recommended that a rope should be substituted for the chain. The Government inspector was not present at the in quiry... Within the last 12 hours the depth of water in the mine has decreased 2 feet 4 inches, but the men have nct been able to reach the upper workings. The fate of their 13 missing comrades is still, therefore, a matter of doubt, although, even if they escaped drowning at the time of the inundation, it is hardly possible that they can have sustained life for the 10 days during which they have been buried in the mine. RAILWAYS IN BRAZIL -THE PERNAM. BUCO LINE. By the Tyne, which arrived at Southampton on Satur day, with the usual files, we learn, from - the Diario de Per!tanzbuce of Monday, Sept. 1, th a t thi s un d er t a ki ng , so significant of Brazilian progress, and of such impor tance to the interests of the province which it intersects, is advancing in a most satisfactory manner. On Sailer day, August 30, the works were inspected by the Presi dent of the province, the Chevalier de Macedo, recently , ambassador from the Court of Rio in London, accom panied by Senor Francisco R. de Mello Rego, director of the public works ; Mr. H. A. Cowper, British Consul ; Messn. C. and F. de Mornay, brothers of the concessio- naires ; Mr. J. S. Tucker, acting as chief engineer to the company until the arrival of Mr. W. Peniston, who has been appointed to succeed Mr. Borthwick, deceased ; Mr. J. Bayliss, engineer to the contractor, Mr. G. .Fur ness, and several other gentlemen, interested in various ways in the success of the undertaking. Leaving the "Village of Alfogadas on horseback, his Excellency and party proceeded to Imberibeira, from which place they rode along the line foe thirteen miles, diverging from it only when they came to rivers not yet bridged over. About 1300 labourers were at work in an orderly and systematic manner, and the portions which were com pleted gave unqualified satisfaction. The earthworks of the length inspeoted were nearly finished, the curves being well traced and the embankments slo?ed and dressed in the most approved manlier. Mr. Bayliss at tributed the advanced state in which the works were found in a great measure to tho order and sobriety which have prevailed among the workmen from the • nnmencee went. The supply of labour has been ample, and the regularity with which wages have been paid has contri buted to the satisfactory relations which happily exist. Nine miles of the line are ballasted, and ready for the permanent way ; and the first section, as far as Villa de Cabo, is expected to be completed in March, 1857 ; the second, terminating at the Escada, in the following December; and the third in March, 1858. Should these anticipations be realised, the first two sections will be completed within the period allowed for the first alone, which would be an incontest able proof of the activity with which the works have been pushed forward. After the inspection the company took luncheon under a tent erected and decorated for the occasion, and the toasts drunk and the speeches made were strongly indicative of the amicable and mut ually beneficial relations existing between Brazil and Great Britain. The party returned to Pernambuco in the evening, much pleased with the evidence they had had of the rapid progress of this important undertaking, the accomplishment of which must contribute so much to the prosperity of the province of Pernambuco, and the increase of the already large and advantageous trade carried on between this country and the thriving empire of Brazil. The staff of the railway has been completed by the appointment of Mr. E. de Mornay, one of the concessionaires, and a life director, as resident manager. The health of all employed on the line continued good, affording the best proof that can be desired of tho salu brity of the climate. Though native unskilled labour is abundant, almost an y number of skilled European mo cfhues could be ab sor b e d w i th facility, and to this class of immigrants the B raz ili an government offers great en• a u n ant, couragement. Those who have gone from this country have sent home most glowing accounts of the unexam pled fertility of the soil, the easy acquisition of land, and the certainty with which industry there attains its due reward. While the Tyne, which has just arrived home with. the Brazil mail, was at Rio Janeiro, the purser, doctor, and chief steward (Mr. Cotterell) of her went ashore. On their return to the ship, accompanied by two passengers in a shore boat, the latter was struck by a sea and upset, and the whole party were immersed in the sea, They were soon picked up again, with scarcely any damage done with the exception of Mr. Cotterell, who was found to be dead. When the boat upset he was seen to seize hold of it.; when pinked up he hal an oar under his arm, and did not appear to have received a blow. It appears that some years ago he bad a fall on board ship which injured his neck, and he carried his head On one side in consequence, and this, it is imagined, predispoped bim to apoplexy. It is supposed the sudden imuneraion and fright caused the blood to flow to the - head, and pro.; duced death by an apopletic fit. Mr. Cotterell was formerly a Southampton tradesman. -- The United States screw steam-frigate Merrimac will, it is expected, take her departure from Southampton Water in about a fortnight's time. Amongst the visitors of the frigate during the last week were several captains and commanders in the royal navy and military officers ; Sir John Rennie, the engineer ; Major-General Dickson, who fought in the last American war, and was taken prisoner ; and the Portuguese minister to Brazil. On ' Saturday the frigate was visited by Count Pontiatine, a vice-admiral in the Russian service, and aide-de-camp to the Emperor of Russia, The count commanded the Russian frigate Diana during the Russian war, when she was chased by the English and French fleets through out the South and North Pacific oceans, making her re markable escape in a dense fog from the Amoor river. It will be remembered that after baffling the combined fleets of the Western Powers for nearly two years she was finally engulphed owing to au earthquake on the Japanese coast, her officers and crew beim! saved by an American man-of-war. Admiral Pontiatine, a slender gentlemanly man, speaks very good English, and is a highly educated scientific officer. He spoke modestly on board the 11 , Terrimac-of his adventures in the Diana. He was accompanied on board the American frigate by a young liaiscovite gentleman whose name and rank were not known. They both came from Southampton to the frigate. The Russian admiral was saluted with 13 guns on his leaving the Merrimac. The remarkable shape of some of the frigate's guns excited great curiosity, • the pivot guns having the appearance of InPurnoth black bottles, from the enormous size of the hinder part of the gun as compared with the cir cumference of the gun towards the mouth. The brass howitzers, or boat guns, on board the frigate have also s perambulators attracted attention. Their carriages' appear something like children' perambulator The guns can be lim berecratict unlimbered silth'ire — airablY fan lity, lIMGI the apparatus for, running 'them ashore, and guiding and moving them about on land, is very complete and in genious. These howitzers throw shrapnel shells of about 121 b each. In consequence of the disputes in England about the treatment of naval medical men, it may be as well to mention that assistant-surgeons in the American navy do not go through the steerage now, but step at once into the ward room where they have precisely the same accommodation as the lieutenants and other officers. The assistant-surgeon on board the Merrimac has really superb accommodation. The whole of the officers of the Merrimac have been invited by the Mayor of Southampton to the banquet to be given by him to the directors of the European and Australian Mail Packet Company and the heads of the Southampton governmental departments, at the Dolphin Hotel, in that town, on Friday next, the day previous to the sailing of the first mail packet for Australia under the new contract. An order has been issued by the Government to allow the officers of the Merrimac to view all the dockyards and naval establishments in the kingdom that they may choose to visit. The Merrimac was designed by Mr. Lenthall, the chief naval con structor of the American navy. The royal yacht was proceeding up Southampton Water one day, when she was stopped, and permission was asked for one of the maids of honour and a gentleman belonging to the royal household to view the frigate, which permission was im mediately politely accorded. REMARKABLE SPEECH BY A RUSSIAN MERCHANT. Among the feasts at Moscow by which th e l a t e coro nation of the Czar was attended, was one given by M. Basile Kokoreff to the deputation of peasants and mer chants, assembled from the principal cities of Russia. M. Kokoreff was formerly a peasant, but is now one of the wealthiest merchants in Russia, and has made him self singularly popular throughout the empire by his profuse generosity and enthusiastic patriotism. The last occasion upon which his name was brought prominently before English readers was in connexion with a grand banquet given by him at Moscow to the soldiers and sailors returning from the defence of Sebastopol. At the late dinner to the merchants he delivered a speech sufficiently remarkable to repay translation. "It is not long since (he said) that at this very place, Moscow, the heart of the Russian nationality, 'the Mus covites feted the welComed and heroic defenders of Se bastopol. We were then expecting peace, and were consoling ourselves with the hope of soon profiting by its happy results. To-day peace is no longer a hope, it is a reality ; and now again, in the same city of Moscow, we are celebrating, heart and soul, the holy coronation of our beloved monarch, the author of the peace and so many other blessings. Here also are united the repre sentatives of the whole nation, as well as you also, gentlem.e , . the delegates of our bourgeoisie. Let us, therefore, manifest in unison the sentiments which we feel at the - idvent of these recent blessing.: Our gracious eovereign has been pleased to order that our. children should henceforth frequent without any restric tion the University course. He has ordered the revision of the relation between Government and commerce ; and the revision of the tariff, which cannot fail to quicken our industry. All our relations with foreign nations are rendered easier. His Majesty has also been pleased to authorise the foundation of an Industrial Society, under the patronage of the heir to the throne. Happy the people and grand its future when its princes apply themselves betimes to the sacred duty of learning its wants and studying the means of satisfying them ! Lastly, in the midst of all these events, the ` Society of Navigation and of the Commerce of the South and of Russia,''has been established, the aim of which is to ex pedite our relations with Europe, and to facilitate our exports and imports. Russia has always been able to confess her faults as well as recognise her merits. Let us, therefore, frankly declare, gentlemen, that, in point of commerce and industry, we are, in many respects, rather behind. Our merit at present consists in the desire to improve our ourselves by intelligent practice. It is a fact that in the industrial life of a people, certain and complete success is less easily obtained by the theo retical precepts of books than by a continuous contact with otter peoples. By this contact we acquire experi ence, ideas, taste, and establish new relations which are sure to be maintained because they rest upon common interests—the only stable securities for treaties of peace. In order to arrive at this end, the surest means is faci lity and rapidity of communication with foreign nations. The question of steamboats and railways is at present a question of human interest, because it is by their means that nations can be united in a community of interests and in feelings of fraternity. In regard to commerce, there exists among us the most con tradictory opinions. Some still speak of a Chinese wall ; others of free trade. But be certain, gentlemen, that such questions are never resolved by extremes : their true definitions can only result from an interna tional exchange of ideas. When by means of steam we shall be able to unite ourselves more closely wi h foreign merchants, more expert than we are in point of industry, and exchange with them our ideas, then we shall arrive at the exact and true definition of the very principles of commerce—a definition which is deeply interesting to the whole of Europe. It will then happen that we shall see here in Moscow, the centre of the internal commerce of Russia, as well as in the other cities and ports of the empire, representatives of the principal commercial houses of Europe. We shall then be able to learn every day here in Moscow, and at a fixed .hour, the progress of business in Paris, London, and other places, and be able, when we are assembled as now, with the glass in our hands, to learn by telegraph the health of our chil dren, who may be placed in foreign countries in Russian houses of commerce. When I review in mind all the pregnant consequences which must infallibly result to nations from their union, by means of commerce—a union based on common interests—l cannot refrain from proposing to you, gentlemen, to drink at once and unani mously the following toast , .` T o Eur opean commerce, to foreign merchants, our elder brethren in i n d ustry, and to my honourable collea g ues the merchants o f R uss i a. ' " Th The personal app earance o f M. Kukoreff, while deliveri n g this •speech—hisi long beard and hair cut a la moujik, and hi s warmt h of repeated above and o a h s u receiv ed r r a "hurrahs. " b y the company v v ,th l ou d manner—did not by any means lessen the effect of his words. A postscript to some of the commercial letters from Brazil, by the last mail, mentions the death of the Mar quis of rParena, President of the Council and Minister of Finance. The Emigration Commissioners have advertised for vessels to carry emigrants to Sydney and Melbourne, to a D nd eli D ei e o b u i s . be ready for passengers between the 24th of November and the Ist of December, as may be hereafter deter mined. I:emal'easC°t remarkable :—AthoI [ADVERTISEMENTA—Among the numerous extraordinary Health-Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food of Indigestion, (Dyspepsia) Flatulency, Constipation, Nervous, Bilious, and cures without medicine effected by Consumption, lunti Barry'sPon street, Perth, May 2, 1848.—Thirteen years' cough, indiges tion, and general debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Revalenta Arabica Food.— Janes Porter. 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Quitter and Ball is not yet concluded, but it appears cer tain that the whole loss of the company, by recognising the validity of shares improperly issued, will not exceed the nominal sum of 20,0001., and considerably less if the shares were purchased at the present market prices. The largest proportion of shares improperly issued were pre ference shares, with a guaranteed rate of interest, similar to those of Mr. Robertson, of Leith, which form the subject of the present charge against Rob= on. The diffieulties which Robson bad to c , ntend with in carry ing on his practices foi the two or three last years must have been very great, and it is scarcely possible to conceive how he could have provided for the payment of the dividends on the irregular shares without the circum• stance coming earlier to the knowledge of the directors. The first discovery of the frauds was owing to the discre pancy which existed in the amount paid by the com pany's bankers on the dividend warrants, and the actual sum • which ought to have been paid as dividend on the preference In every department connected with the shares cf the company, Robson appears to have had some irregular transactions. Having sold Shares deposited with the company it became necessary to pro vide dividend-warrants for the payment of dividends' when due, not only for the original owner, but for the subsequent purchaser. In many cases these warrants were supplied by Robson, and having access to the seal of the company, they were all dilly and regularly stamped. In the case of transfers the signatures of !the secretary aud otie of the directors of the company were required, Itnd they were supplied by Robson. In other cases duplicaf shares harty been issued. printed. 'eigned.-and sealed in the same manner as the regular shares of the company. The shares, transfers, and dividend warrants, have, it is said, been all more or less tampered with. The style in which Robson lived, and the appearance which he kept up, ought to have suggested something like inquiry on the part of the directors as to his means. His salary was but 1501. a-year, and yet every morning he drove ap to the palace with a curricle and a pair of horses, which for beauty and symmetry could probably not be matched in Loudon, or rode on one of the pret tiest "nags about town," attended by his servant in livery. He had also the famous trotting mare Eliza, which was accustomed to trot easily from the Crystal Palace to London-bridge in 20 minutes, being at a rate of 20 runes an hour ; or, as her owner frequently boasted, of beating the railway trains by several minutes. The pair of horses which he was in the habit of driving were sold under the hammer for 5201. Never, perhaps, was there such an instance of self-sacrificing exertion for a great public undertaking as that of a gentleman living in this style consenting to do the daily drudgery of the duties of.a transfer clerk for the small consideration of 1501. a-year. Questions were sometimes asked as to the means which he possessed, and satisfactory answers were always given. Among other things he said that his wife had just succeeded to some property of 5001. a•year, and that he was making large sums of money from the theatres from the performance of his plays ; for it is not generally known that Robson is the author of several plays. Among the dramatic works which he has written are "Love and Loyalty," a piece which had a run of over a hundred nights, if we remember rightly, at the Maiylebone Theatre. Another of his plays is "The Selfish Matt." His most ambitious work, however, is "Bianca," a play in five acts, which was under rehearsal at Drury-lane up to the time of Robson's flight. The play has been in print for the last two or three months, and it bears the following dedi cation :—" To those who, believing in the realisation of the highest aspirations of the human mind, claim for the drama the proud position of being one of the chief means by which that realisation is to be attained, this play is respectfully dedicated by their very humble and obedient servant, Wm. Js. Robson." It would have been well had the writer pondered more deeply over one passage in his play, in which he makes the haughty Venetian lady say— What briar next to twine around The goodly flowers of my better self ? What demon urges me ? What fiend directs ? Why is it so? Why,-so riveted - Unto thy fearful throne, Iniquity,? Captive led—captive bound—unwilling slave, I must work on, and fill my destiny ? Oh, poor excuse ! Oh, paltry argument ! Mine inward conscience recoiling shrinks From such false reasoning. To feel I'm wrong, And still persist in wrong, marks me as accurs'd. With any gossamer I can conceal my face, But where's the veil will hide my conscience from myself ? I have no tears, I would drown my guilt. If drowit'd 'twin...-. rise a pallid Corse, and damn My trembling soul with its more fearful ghost. Judging from the rate of remuneration given by mana gers of theatres. it is not probable that any very large gains were made by Robson from this source, and his play of " Bianca" is not calculated to raise a very high opinion of his dramatic genius. It appears, however, very certain that he had several other sources of revenue than either those from his dramatic writings or his at tendance at the transfer office at the Crystal Palace. He had made a considerable sum by some very success ful speculations on the Stock Exchange ; some chemical works, in conitection with the preparation of antimony, are said to have yielded him considerable profit; he was proprietor, also, of a large share in the timber bending patents ; he held some paying shares in a Welsh sine, and he was a director in three or four joint stock com panies. With all these sources of revenue openly avowed by himself, he was still found sedulously attentive to the duties of his small office, and if the charges against him are well founded, his object in continuing in the transfer office is easily understood. As soon as Robson had taken flight the directors offered a reward of 2501. for his apprehension. Now that he has been captured, a question arises, who is en titled to the reward ? We understand that the rightful claimant is a lady. For some days no clear traces of Robson could be obtained, though there are good grounds for supposing that for several days after the discovery of the fraud he was concealed in London. Aided by some friends he succeeded, however, in oetting out of th e country, and when on the continent he ' addressed a letter to a lady, who, in happier times, had been the subject of his attentions, and the recipient of no small share of his wealth. This letter, it is stated, was delivered to a milliner, who was at work in the house, and who, having some suspicion as to the writer, detained and opened the letter, and tempted by the reward gave information to the police authorities . . The fair disciple of the Grahamite policy has, we are informed, put in her claim for the reward. The circumstances connected with the sale of the pre perty of Robson at Kilburn Priory have excited consi derable surprise. It is said that the lessee of one of the theatres took possession, und, r a bill of sale, of all the property and effects, early on the morning of the fol lowing day after the absconding of their owner, and the effects were immediately sold by auction, the holder of the bill of sale being, of course, ignorant of the real state of affairs. Mr. Robson, on his ap prehension, stated that large sums of money were due to him by several persons, and among the names mentioned was that of the gentleman who had taken possession of his property under the bill of sale. A. fiat in bankrnr has been issued against Robson, so that the whole of the transactions connected with the disposal of the property will be thoroughly investigated. As must naturally be expected, the position of the prisoner has hal a mot serious effect on the health of his wife. Without the slightest notice or warning Mrs. Robson was expelled from Ler splendid residence at Kilburn, and driven from a sick bed, on which she had languished for some time past, under a most painful disease, and arrived almost penniless at Brighton, where she now remains in a most precarious state of health. MAINTENANCE OF FENCES ON RAILWAYS.—At the last sitting of the County Court at Halifax an action was brought by an innkeeper named Pickup against the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company to recover 101., the amount , 1 damage sustained by the plaintiff in the loss of a foal. -which had strayed out of a field adjoin ing the defendant's line and been killed by one of their trains. It appeared that early in March last the plain- tiff's agent agreed with the owner of the meadow for the agistment of a foal. This meadow adjoined the main line of railway between Manchester and Leeds at a place called Ludden Foot. The owner of the land bad shortly before agreed to sell part of the same meadow to the defendant for au extension of their station at Ludden Foot, but the company undertook to provide a new ap proach and entrance to the field before removing the existing gateway. They railed off the plot of land they had purchased preparatory to making a stone fence, and in the meantime the plaintiff, by direction of the . company's foreman or contractor, obtained access to the meadow by removing a bar of the rails, which he tied up at both ends when the foal was in the field. Early on the morning of the 31st of March the pony got out of the meadow, strayed on to the railway, and was killel as already stated. On examining the temporary fence the loose bar was found broken in two, apparently by the pony jumping upon it or bursting through it. It was contended by the plaintiff's advocate, who quoted the sth and 6th Vic., c. 55, sec., 10, and the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act, and also cited the case of " Fawcett v. the York and North Midland Railway Company" (20 Law J. Rep. (N. S.), Q. 8., 222, as well as the ease of "Barnes v. Ward," that the defendauts were liable for the damages claimed, as they had not provided a good and sufficient fence to the plot of land staked off. Mr. Highaw, for the defendants, argued that the plaintiff was answerable for his agent's wrongful act in taking down the rails, and for the negligent and insufficient way in which they were replaced ; that he had been warned that the foal would be killed ; that he had taken the pasturage after the fence bad been put down, and when notice that no gateway had been provided ; and ought not to have used the pasture until May day, and that the fence was good and sufficient before it was interfered with. His Honour (Mr. J. Stansfield), without requiring a reply, held that the plaintiff was clearly entitled to a verdict for the amount claimed. THE TIPPERARY BANE.. The guardians of the lienagh union have agreed to adopt the suggestion for a compromise of their claim, recently thrown out by other creditors. Mr. Going has, been appointed to represent the board. The impression is becoming pretty general that the whole available funds will be swallowed up in law if an atmicableartangement be not adopted, and that immediately. The unfortunate depositors resident in the neighbourhood of Tipperary have as strong grounds in pushing the law to the ut most as any other creditors, yet as they are now satisfied to accept a reasonable compromise from the equally unfortunate shareholders. in the face of this we still hear of the preliminary steps being prepared for some hundreds more of additional actions, promising a goodly harvest to the ap proaching term. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP MEANDER. BBREHAVEN, Oct. 6.—This ship, Captain T. Baillie, arrived here last evening. It appears that she had been at Valentia during the last fortnight, and while there Captain Baillie, his officer and ship's company, rendered good service in saving from becoming a total wreck an ill•fated ship, timber laden, which was driven on the rocks. After leaving on Friday last the gallant captain was equally fortunate in relieving another vessel timber laden, which he supplied with provisions, and sent car penters, and that in heavy weather, to repair part of the damages which she had snitained, for which the master and crew felt most grateful. MURDEROUS AFFRAY. We (Derry Standard) are informed that in an affray between two men at the Sion Mills, near Strabane, last Tuesday evening, a person named Allen, was so much injured as to tender his death almost certain. Accord ing to the information received it would appear that Allen was land steward to :T. Herdman, Esq., of the Sion Mills, and that for some time past an unfriendly feeling had existed between him and the coachman, ,a native of DuVia. The coachman was accused by Allen of having ill-treated a valuable horse belonging to Mr. Herdman, which charge the former denied. On the evening of Tuesday the two men were drinking in a public house, when an altercation arose between them. Blows were given, but nothing very serious resulted up til the parties reached the road. Allen was going home when he was overtaken by the coachman and beaten in a most inhuman manner. The unfortunate man wsis removed to his own house, where he now lies in a very dangerous state. The other is in custody, and we un derstand the matter will form the subject of a magisterial investigation inamec:iately. THE HARVEST.-THE MARKETS. , This has been a splendid week for the late har vest. It has saved thousands of pounds worth of hay and grain that were on the ground during the late heavy rains and storms. The Cork Examiner says : "The past few days have been exceeding fine—a fo{ tunate circumstance for the farmers in the remote moun tain districts, as it has enabled them to save their hay, which a continuance of the weather we have had in the early part of this month would have destroyed. Potatoes are being extensively dug throughout the country, and are on the whole turning out most satisfacto'rily." EXPORT - OP BRITISH CATTLE TO TH.S' UNITED STATES. growing ohororoe l ts swt n uehoins a nnesi e glitc v yoeoi e ndmfu r oo a nkprf l tiotrn i rhfnygttiesadrtabmnoatecmnes largeeer instances saca s abr anrd d no during choicest oa n nbwi s g edrthee. sithecttdhTbe breads h l sses a i abts s dhe t of Bei ef f nre e oegni w ffi enoac yratga therefore attached :slu r eht s gsoeoo w ucdfurk e s ochwebat whichbu y : e: had occasion to place on record facts illustrative of the national satisfaction to see how highly such are prized. During the past week there were shipped from Liverpool for New York, on board the Antarctic, Capt. Stouffer, a most valuable cargo of horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs Prominent among the cattle were a young cow called Darlington Sixth, by a son of Grand Duke, bought at Mr. Sainbury's sale in August for 300 guineas ; and a very fine heifer, Marie Louise, by Mr. Booth's Hope well, purchased at a recent sale in Ireland. There were also three first-class heifers from the unrivalled herd of Col. Towneley, of Towneley-hall, in Lancashire—But: tercup second, by Horatio, from Rosette; Missßutterfly, by Master Butterfly, from Rosa ; and Pearlette, by Fal con, from Ringlet. The price given for these three heifers was 1,000 guineas, although only just turned one year old. Two of them are descended oa the dam's side from the same family as the famous bull Master Butterfly, which animal was sold for Australia, in July, at 1,209 guineas. Miss Butterfly was the first heifer-calf by him. Pearlette is descended from Mr. Booth's Bracelet, one of the most celebrated prize cows of her day ; and for the dam of the heifer Mr. Douglas recently gave Mr. Towneley 500 . guineas. These animals have been pur chased by Mr. Strafford, of London, for Mr. Thorne, of New York, one of the most enterprising breeders of that country. There were also .unsigned fa- this gentleman some very fine Southdown sheep, purchased at the Hen grave sale, as well as some ofthe best Berkshire and Essex pigs that we ever saw leave the port of Liverpool. The Berkshires were from the famed stocks of Mr. Hewer and Mr. Overman ; the Essex pigs were bred by Mr. Crisp, and included the prize boar at Chelmsford, as well as some young sows, also shown there. With the above there were also shipped some splendid Southdown sheep from Mr. Lugar's flock, as well as the shearling ram bought at his sale for 80 guineas. These are for Mr. R.A. Alexander, of Kentucky, a gentleman whose namestands high as a great purchaser of our best animals, and who, in a recent visit to this country, bought the celebrated horse Scythian, by Orlando, winner of the Derby (by Touchstone), one of the best stallions this country ever produced, whose pedigree and performances are well known in the sporting world. He w as winner of the following prizes :—Newmarket Stakes, 3501. ; Dee Newmarket a S a 2 t c a l e7oks.nehits accompanies s n C e S i h e t s e f o :c ß r t t k e hw o t r e i h n a ai 7 , e l b s h s o Bo 3 v : t o ei t ae;Gts:Gol Alexanderdo, 2 u w d . i n w oo d o o l o l r d; gave a t h t v l s: 3 :3 k 9 l : C / 13 :. 5a h' ore9goHTsteghoc guineas, n ' al t he Cup,t:.- f Beek, and is consigned through the Messrs. Tattersall. Some cattle and sheep were also sent by Mr. Wythes for a house iu New York. The entire arrangements for the shipment were made by Mr. Bell, of the Adelphi Stables, and were of the most complete character, being such as to reflect the greatest credit upon the care and attention of this gentleman. IRON PAPER.—We had last week (says the Liurpool Albion) an opportunity of inspecting a sam p le of th in sheet-iron prepared by Bessemer's process. It was re markable for its great tenacity and beau beautiful finish, but more especially for the thinness t o which it had been wroneht. Indeed it bad more the appearance of glazed paper than sheet iron, and suggested the possibility of our some day seeing an iron newspaper. We commend the idea to Herapath , as a material aptly suit e d f ur h i s railway journal. The chief difficulty would be the dark appearance of the sheets , a n inconvenience which might be pleasantly overcome by the use of Coloured inks. The sample was shown on 'Change on Thursday, to those in terested in the iron trade, and excited great admiration. Several gentlemen who remember seeing the thin sheet iron exhibited by Prince Demidoff, a t t h e Crystal Pa lace, 1851, wore of opinion that it was not only consi derably thicker, but that it was far inferior in quality to this specimen prepared by Bessemer's process. FRENCH FISHERIcH IN TOELAND.—For several years past the French have been e x t en di ng t h e i r fisheries more and more northwards, an d o f l ate found a more favour able fishing ground on th e coast of Iceland. Their pre sence has given rise to a number of unpleasant conflicts between the French fishermen and the natives of that island, and been the subject of repeated complaints on the part of the latter to the Danish Government, as they maintain that it interferes with their priucipal means of existence and almoet sole article of export, and threatens seriously to annihilate their little com merce. On the other Land, the French, wishing to re move for the future all cause of collisions with the Icc:landenz, proposed to regulate the question by a treat: on the subject with Denmark. The late visit of Prince Napoloon—first to Iceland and then to Copenhagen — has tended much to accelerate the negotiations, and a treaty between France and Denmark has been already signed, and will be published as soon as the ratifica tions are exchanged. Denmark, however, has net the d the sovereignty of any part of Iceland to France; treaty simply grants to the French fishermen certain privileges, and secures to them the right of curler; their fish on shore, which had hitherto been denied them by the local authorities in Iceland. e'eflea ea' ts'sSe'r• - - THE ELRCTRIC L") Vii.. (Prom. the Times.) There is au old Arabian tale in which th • princes are represented as baying obtained eion of three implements, the works of the gellisi,% which were esteemed the most Wonderful of which man had yet heard. There was a small telescope . whioh could assist the sight of the observer ; to penetrate thousands of miles from the spot on which he stood. There was a carpet which transported any one who took his station upon it swift as a wish to any place he desired to go. There was-nn apple which healed all diseases if the patient but inhaled the fragrance of its sunny rind. Such were the subjects of the tales with which the Arabs soothed the monotony of their midnight encamp ments, and which the Indian storyteller related to his swarthy audience under the arch of the city gate in the short twilights of the East. The imagi nations of the most imaginative races had been taxed to their utmost stretch to conceive what miracles could be performed if the supernatural powers might he made favaurable to man, and such were the results. Science in these modern times and human reason, acting, as we believe, under the immediate guidance of Providence, have outstripped these fanciful legends of the Eastern world. There is no Oriental poet who ventured to imagine that a dweller in Damascus or Bagdad could communicate his thoughts to the utmost limits of the habitable world instantaneously as they were conceived in his own brain. Their notions of physical geography were so limited that the Easterns had no conception of the true form of the planet which we inhabit. Had they, how ever, been told that the world was a sph ere , and that the thought of man could be made to encompass it like a girdle, rapidly as the flash which_ rent the clouds asunder and passed away er e one could say that it had lightened, how poor in com parison with such a result would all tho wonders have appeared, which, as they supposed, lay hid den from human eye and sealed for ages to come under the maned signet of Solomon 1 The electrio telegraph in the miracle of modern times. As yefs this invention is but in its infancy, but already all Europe is traversed by its wires, and the continent, too, of North America. In the course of the next two or three years we trust to see results far more extensive. The wire is already coiled up which is to leo cast into the- depths of the Atlantic. The monnhinrsMtrvalleys of that great aea...have been, fathomed to ascertain the most convenient coarse for its deposit. In a brief space the electric spark which is generated in London will pass as swiftly as the exigencies of its own nature require to the great cotton city on the delta of the Mississippi, and to that rude town, whichever it may be, which may then lie furthest westward in the domains of the buffalo and the red mau. Contemporaneously with this gigantic result we have other labourera in the same field at work, who are busily engaged in fixing the tramroad for the electric spark be tween the European continent and the northern shores of Africa. This limit once obtained, the lightning-thought can flash freely on its course across the old land of the Egyptian, whether by the Red Sea or across the plains of Mesopotamia, to the cities of our Indian empire, and in due time, no doubt, to the great centres of Chinese commerce. Nor is this all. The wire which bad been laid down from London in one direction will soon be carried to the city of the Californian gold digger. The corresponding wire, on which we have just marked a few stations, will then be borne across the Chinese Seas and the Northern Pacific—touching, it may be, on its way at the mysterious empire of Japan, and will be linked on at San Francisco to the western chain. Then it will happen that a man may generate a spark at London, which, with one fiery leap will return back under his hand and disappear, but in that moment of time it will have encompassed the planet on which we are whirling through space into eternity. That spark will be a human thought ! The dinner which was given a day or two ago to Professor Morse was highly creditable to all con cerned in it, and we are pleased to see that in the speech which the Professor delivered on the occa sion lie significantly took the more ennobling view of the subject with which his name has been con nected. It is one thing to grub on from wheel to cog, and cog to wheel, inserting a screw here and adding an escapement there, but unless we raise our eyes every new and then from the tedium of detail to reflect on how much has been gained, and to take a long earnest gaze into futurity, we shall miss the greatest incentives to future exertion. Now, man cannot afford to lose a whisper front the unseen world. It is the spirit in which we work that signifies, and that spirit should swell the promptings of the Divine Being who thus Oyes us the earnest of our immortal destiny. Professor Morse was speaking of that most certain point in the history of inventions, that when the time has arrived when the discovery is to be made which is to exercise a great influence on the.desti hies man there occurs a remarkable coincidence of discovery and harmony of invention in many minds far separated from each other, and with no obvious knowledge of each other's thoughts. The recollection of every man who is familiar with the history of great scientific discoveries, and of the heart-burnings and rivalries in the midst of which they have been cradled, will coufim this view. Professor Morse is reported to have spoken thus I am sure I may venture before a Christian British audience to suggest as its proper solution that the Great Author of all Good, the Giver of every great gift to the world, intends when such a boon is bestowed that He first and prominently shall be recognised as the author ; arid so, in His wisdom, He first prepares the way-r He eliminates from hundreds of minds in various parts of His creation the minor inventions and lesser discoveries necessary to be made before the greater and more striking invention is brought forth, and then it is that the same thought, struck out at the same time, or at least so near the same time that all perceive the impossibility of any fntercominunication, leads one to exclaim as by an irresistible impulse, 'What bath God wrought r And this impulse of the heart is true. So, too, when the historian has made his search, and brought together the facts, if any one connected with a great invention or discovery has attracted to himself the more concentrated regard or honour of man kind, or of a particular nation, bow significant is that time and more research bring out other minds and other names to divide and share with him the hitherto exclu sive honours !" He went on to quote the instances of Cabot, Columbus, and of the northern adventurers in connexion with the discovery of the American con tinent ; of Guttenberg, and Faust, and Caxton in connexion with the art of printing ; of Watt and Fulton in connexio n w ith steam nav i gat i on ; of Adams and Leverrier as discoverers of the p'anet Neptune. The name of our own illustrious countryman Wheatstone stands prominently for ward as one of the three or four which have been chiefly mixed up with this wonderful discovery. So has that of Oersted, the Daue. It is not for us to say to whom the palm should b 9 assigned. It may be that one has been more concerned in evolving the theory, the other iu applying it in practice. To do Professor Morse but simple justice, he spoke with the utmost modesty of his own share in the invention, which ho described as the application of the discovery to the practical purposes of life. We Alight, p*qtaps, have desired a few warmer words pit praise for the original discoverers than the f lowing :—" Man is but au instrument of good, if he will fulfil his mission ; He that uses the instru ment ought to have the chief honour, and He thus indicates His purpose to have it. It is surely sufficient honour for any man to be a ccelabeerer in any secondary capacity to which lie may be ap pointed by 4ucli a head in a great benefaction to the world." But, though we miss the nettles of Wheat , stone and Oersted, we are quite aware of the m erits of Professor Morse. The guest at the Albion on SP: - turday last has deserved well of the world, and in his eeneratiou has done much to advance the cause of human progress. We rej o ice to see England and America united in a project so honourable to both nations, and we applaud this generous which expends its energies for the lt rivalry, orests of peace in the attempt, which we can not u doubt will be successful, to link together two 00 0 tinents. W e agree with Professor Morse when ho observes th at the effects of this marvellous discoverb and of it s application both in a political and commercial with sense, are incalculable. We awaitnclian o f impatience lines the completion of our own with the mother tele graph, and of their connex ion 'o of the Can d w it h country. The electric union of aas affair a few months, the British isles is but the nor need we despair of ultimately see i ng the ex tension of the system to our Australian colonies. Then indeed the British d 011111110118 will sbe concen trefed into one vast whole. The guiding thought which has been conceived at the seat of empire will pervade them all more swiftly than the red reflec tion of the beacons which bore across the .rEgean the tardy intelligence of a captured Troy to the Iweary watcher at Agamemnon's house. COLLAPSE OF A COLLIERY SHAFT.—Thi ea men— JA9eph Crosland, Jarneq Wrioht, and John Bolton—loot tbeir lives on Mocday last in the Newton Colliery, ma Ferry bridge, in the \F es t Ridi ng o f Y or k s hire. TneY were descending the shaft of the colliery, which: is 426 feet deep, when the sides of the shaft suddenly collapsed, and a large quantity of earth and other material fell upon them. The three unfortunate men were killed, and their bodies were not recovered till 12 hours after, though great exertions were made to reach them. The primary cause of the accident is supposed to have been th 3 lat e h eavy ra i ns. A n i nqu est on the bod ies of - the deceased h as b een o pened by the coroner of he district(Mr. Jewi s o n ), an d s tands adjourned till next Thurs. day, t o ena bl e M r . M ore ton, Government IntipentPr of t Mines, to attend.