The Sun. — London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

2HE NAVY. The Hero, 89, screw, Capt. Rider, at Spithead, nas dockyard artisans working on board her extra hours to expedite her departure to join Vice-Ad miral Sir Alexander Milne's squadron on the North America and West India station, A body of seamen, from Woolwich, arrived at Portsmouth, by railway, on Friday evening, and joined the St. Vincent, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Hon. George Grey, for disposal. The Orpheus, 21, screw, Commodore Burnett, C. 8., commissioned as flagship for the Australian station, will go oat of harbour at Portsmouth this morning and make her official trial of machinery prior to sailing for her destination. This is the _ . _ Orpheus' first commission. She was launched from Chatham Dockyard on the 23d June, 1860, and is one of the improved class of full-powered corvettes, admirably adodpted for service in the American waters could her presence be dispensed with for a short time in Australia. She is 226 ft. 6in. extreme length, and 40ft. Bin. breadth, with a tonnage of 1,70 - 5-55-94. Her engines are 400-horse power, nominal, by Messrs. Humphreys and Co. The following are the names and conditions of the vessels in the reserve at Portsmouth to this date : —The Duncan, screw, 99 guns, 800-horse power, and 3,727 tons ; the Shannon, screw, 51 guns, 600- horse power, and 2,667 tons ; the Euryalus, screw, 51 guns, 400-horse power, and 2,371 tons; the Pandora, sc rew, 5 guns, 80-horse power, and 426 tons ; the Vigilant, screw, 4 guns, 200-horse power, and 680 tons ; the Stromboli, paddlewheel, 6 guns, 280-horse power, and 967 tons. There are 7 gun boats of 60-horse power and 2 Armstrongs each. The total of the first-class reserve is then 216 guns, 2,360-horse power, and 14,838 tons, exclusive of gun boats. Of these the Duncan is being rigged by the dockyard authorities, and can be made ready in a very short time. The Shannon, the Euryalus, the Pandora, and the Stromboli are rigged, stored, and armed, and require only their crews, powder, and shell to be put on board to enable them to proceed at once to sea. The Vigilant received her arma- ment on Saturday, consisting of one of Sir W. Armstrong's 100-pounders for her after pivot, a 68- pounder smooth bore for her forward pivot, and two 32. pounders for broadside guns. A few days would place her in the same position as the four preceding vessels. The gunboats are ready for sea at an hour's notice in accordance with regulations previously noticed, and their officers and crews and engineering staff are told off to them on board the harbour guard and gunnery ships. The second class reserve consists of the following vessels :—The Royal Sovereign, screw, 131 guns, 800 horse power and 3,765 tons ; the Victoria, screw, 121 guns, 1,000 horse-power, and 4,127 tons; the Prince of Wales, screw, 131 guns, 800 horse-power, and 3,994 tons ; the Duke of Wellington, screw, 131 tons, 700 horse power, and 3,771 tons; the Nelson, screw, 86 guns, 500 horse-power, and 2,748 tons ; the Frederick William, screw, 86 guns, 500 horse-power, and 3,241 tons; the Sutlej, screw, 51 guns, 500 horse-power, and 3,066 tons ; the Sharpshooter, screw, 8 guns, 202 horse-power, and 503 tons ; the Plumper, screw, 12 guns, 60 horse-power, and 490 tons ; the Coquette, screw, 4 guns, 200 horse-power, and 677 tons. There are besides six gunboats of 60 horse-power and two guns each. The total of the second class being, ex clusive of gunboats, 761 guns, 5,262 horse-power, and 26,382 tons. Of these the seven first named can be made ready for sea at a very short notice,the Royal Sovereign, Victoria, and Prince of Wales are newly built vessels with new machinery of the most modern character. The Nelson, Frederick William, and Sut- lej are converted vessels, with new machinery equa to the preceding. The Sharpshooter, Plumper, and Coquette require some repairs before they can be commissioned. The gunboats would also require to have their outfit completed. The third class com prises —the Octavia, screw, 51 guns, 500 horse power, and 3,161 tons; the Prince Regent, screw, 86 guns, 500 horse-power, and 2,762• tons ; the Tri bune, screw, 31 guns, 300-horse power, and 1,570 tons ; the Glasgow, screw, 51 guns, 600-horse power, and 3,038 tons ; the Furious, paddlewheel, 16 guns, 400-horse power, and 1,287 tons ; the Nimrod, screw, 6 guns, 175-horse power, and 859 tons ; the Roebuck, screw, 6 guns, 175-horse power, and 857 tons; the Fury, paddlewheel, 6 guns, 515- horse power, and 1,124 tons; the Highflyer, screw, 21 guns, 250 horse power, and 1,161 tons ; the Sparrowhawk, screw, 4 guns, 200-horse power, and 676 tons ; the Vulture, paddlewheel, 6 guns, 470- horse power, and 1,191 tons; the Sampson, paddle wheel, 6 guns, 467-horse power, and 1,299 tons ; the Inflexible, paddle, 6 guns, 378 horse power, and 1,122 tons; the Cruiser, screw, 17 guns, 60-horse power, and 752 tons ; and nine gunboats, of 2 guns and 40-horse power each. The total of the third class, not including gunboats, is 784 guns, 5,700- horse power, and 28,256 tons. Of the fourth class the Fox, screw storesbip, of 200-horse power and 1,131 tons, can only be reckoned fit for sea service on a distant station. In addition are the Rosomond and Volcano paddle steamer floating factories, the former of 280-horse power and 1,059 tons, fitting up as a factory, the latter recently fitted as such, and rigged and stored in readiness for immediate service, of 140-horse power and 720 tons. The three classes of reserve thus comprise eight line-of battleships, 6 frigates, 4 corvettes, and 12 sloops, giving a grand total of 1,861 guns and 72,386 tons, propelled by 13,942-horse power of engines, nominal. The gunboats attached, not included in the above figures, are 21 in number, with 42 guns, and a horse-power of 960. This, how ever, does not include gunboats and mortar vessels laid up at Hasler, neither does it in clude the Black Prince. All doubtful vessels in the reserve at the port, such as the Retribution and the Penelope, paddle frigates, have also been thrown out of the ret urn in order to confine its list to ships really effective at present, or could be rendered so with but little delay in the event of an emergency. The ships in commission for service at the port are the Edgar, screw, 89 guns, 600-horse power, and 3,094 tons ; the Hero, screw, 89 guns, 600- horse power, and 3,148 tons; the Warrior, screw, 40 guns, 1,250-horse power, and 6,039 tons ; the Orpheus, screw, 21 guns, 400-horse power, and 1,706 tons; the Trafalgar, screw, 86 guns, 500-horse power, and 2,900 tons ; the Chanticleer, screw, 17 guns, 200- horse power, and 950 tons; the total being 342 guns, 3,550-horse power, and 17,837 tons. Of these all are ready for immediate service in any part of the world, except the Chanticleer, which vessel has to receive the officers and crew of the Wasp. The fine steam transport Melbourne, Capt. Ben son, 1,411 gross tonnage, chartered on Saturday and surveyed by the Admiralty Commissioners, for the despatch of troops and war materials to America, arrived at Woolwich pier the same even ing, and commenced shipping yesterday morning. She will continue receiving the supplies night and day until her cargo is complete. She is under orders to sail on Thursday from Woolwich for Halifax, or any other port more available in our American pos sessions. The cargo will consist of the following stores :-25,000 stand of arms and accoutrements, a large number of brass howitzers and other smooth bore guns, one battery of 12 -pounder and one bat tery of 9-pounder guns, gun - carriages, pl a tf orms & e. Capt. G. H. Vesey's sth Battery, 4th Brigade, Field Artillery, supplied with Armstrong guns, cons i st i ng of seven officers and about 240 men, will arrive at Woolwich by special train on Wednesday from Bristol, and will embark on the following morning on board the Melbourne. Some further experiments with the Armstrong guns took place last week under the direction of the Ordnance Select Committee, when two 100- pounder guns of the ordinary service pattern fired a large number of consecutive rounds at the Wool wich butt. The rapidity of fire was nearly 50 uniform throughout. One 100 pounder fired its last _, rounds in 31 1 ,- minutes, and the other 100- p ounder fired its last 50 rounds in 331 minutes. This in cluded every stoppage. The guns were not sponged for 70 and 80 rounds respectively, and remained clean to the end. There was no escape whatever of gas from the breech. BENSON'S WATCHES AND CLOCKS.—" Perfection of mechanism."—Morning Post. Gold watches, sto WO guineas; silver watches, 2 to 50 guineas. Benson's new Illustrated Pamphlet, free for two stamps, descriptive of every construc tion of watch, enables persons in any part of the world to select with the greatest certainty the watch best adapted to t a T e i' m e• Watches sent free and safe by post on receipt of ) 7 Ns Ltan . ( *. —3 . W. Benso n , 33 an d 34, L u d ga t e -hill, 40 and , emlun, London LAI Established 1741 THE ARMI. An order was received on Saturday at C hatham from the office of the Deputy Adjutant-General, Royal Engineers, directing Col. Harnes C. 8., di rector of the Roy al Engineer establishment, to select 40 of the most skilful mechani 2' , consisting chiefly of masons, bricklayers, and carpenters from the companies at head-quarters to be posted to the sth company, in order to complete it to its required strength of 100 men of all ranks prior to its embar kation for foreign service. The non-commissioned officers and men of the company have been medi cally inspected, and are daily expecting to receive the order to embark. THE SUN ) LONDON, MONDAY EVE NI NG, DECE YIBER 2, 1861. cases the tenants are filled with alarm, their being many of the older houses in probably no better con dition than the fallen one. R AMWAY INTELLIG EA CE. DANUBE AND BLACK SEA. The half-yearly meeting of this railway and Kostendji Harbour Company was held on Satur day at the office, Abingdon-street, Westminster; Sir S. Cunard in the chair. The report stated that the harbour works had not yet advanced to the point which, according to the view adopted by the directors and placed promi nently before the shareholders, it was essential, or, at least, eminently desirable to attain. Mr. Gordon and Mr. Barkley concurred in recommending that the company should at once largely increase its power of cleaning the grain, and should make a considerable addition to their rolling stock, so as to be in a position to do next season a trade approach ing 1,000 tons a-day. If those recommendations were to be adopted, and if the harbour works were to be prosecuted after the present year, it was essen tial to provide funds for the purpose. The directors, still adhering to the opinion that the harbour works were not yet sufficiently advanced to give the undertaking a reasonable trial, must regard any suspension of those works or hesitation in their prosecution as a grave disaster. They entertained, however, perfect confidence in the success of the operations, and were of opinion that the profits of the undertaking must be mainly derived from the grain trade. Up to October no grain whatever passed over the line. The fact was the harbour at Kostendji did not earlier afford the facilities re quired by the merchants. When, however, vessels could be loaded from the jetty direct the traffic commenced. An English brig of about 400 tons burden then at Kostendji was at once secured by one of the largest merchants of Ibraila, and other influential houses of Ibraila, Galatz, and Varna began to contract for the delivery of drain at Tcher navoda, and to charter vessels to load at Kostendji. In this way three vessels were loaded during the month with cargoes for England, Marseilles, and Constantinople. On the 6th of November Mr. Barkley reported that the loading of the second vessel that month was on the point of completion, and that he had already been compelled to decline corn for the winter trade, as the limit of the com pany's warehouse accommodation had been reached. Between the 6th and 16th of November three fur ther vessels were loaded; and at the latter date six others, including one English vessel, were awaiting their cargoes. The route offered for the Wallachian corn all the advantages anticipated, as, with the price at present charged by the company, the mer chants saved ls. 6d. per qr. by shipping at Kos tendji, instead of at Salina, without taking into account any difference between the freights from the ports. Three of the most considerable of the Danube merchants had established branches or agencies at Kostendji, and others were on the point of doing so. The traffic for October amounted to £Bll. The CHAIRMAN having formally moved the adop tion of the report, Mr. S. BEALE, M.P., seconded the motion. He said it was very satisfactory that the violent storm at Kostendji had not damaged the works of the mole to a greater extent than merely shaking the stones closer together and sinking them a little. The ships in the harbour rode out the storm in perfect safety. The further extension of the mole would advance the improvement of the harbour still more. The promise of traffic on the line was greater than they had ever anticipated. They required more warehouse room, and more engines and waggons to accommodate the traffic they were to have. He had been told by Mr. M'Lean, who had visited the spot and was an excellent authority on such matters, that they need have no apprehension as to the traffic. The CHAIRMAN said they had just received a tele gram informing them that there were on Thursday the 28th, four English and two Austrian vessels loading in the harbour. The report and statement of accounts were then unanimously adopted. The CHAIRMAN stated that the original estimate was £400,000, but the directors thought they would commence the works with a capital of £300,000 and see what they could do with that sum. He believed the outlay of the £400,000 would give them a safe and secure harbour. The original estimate would cover the whole of what was originally contem plated, and he believed that an additional sum of £50,000 might be required to provide further accommodation. The traffic they had anticipated had been so far realised, and he for one did not regret what he had done towards the undertaking. Mr. GORDON, the engineer, stated that about £328,000 had already been expended, and they now wanted £30,000 to provide for additional harbour works, warehouses, and machinery, not included in the original estimate. When the contemplated works and arrangements were carried out they would have sufficient accommodation for all the traffic that could be brought by the railway. They now required more extensive warehouse room than was necessary for carrying on the traffic of the railway. They , were still at great expense for labour in the har bour, but the expenditure would be considerably reduced when the machinery was completed. There could be no doubt that the price they charged, and the amount of traffic they would have on the rail way, would enable them to pay.good dividends. The CHAIRMAN explained the advantages of the railway and harbour to merchants and shippers on the Danube, and the saving of time and expense. His opinion was, that the £75,000 they proposed to raise would not be sufficient to make the harbour and storehouses as complete as they should be ; he thought that a further sum of £50,000 would be ' required to provide additional accommodation and working stock, and that would comparatively be a very small excess over the original estimate. After some further observations a formal resolu tion was unanimously passed, authorising the directors to raise £75,000 on 3,750 preference shares of £2O each, at a rate of interest not exceeding 8 per cent. per annum; the shares in the first instance were to be offered rateably to the shareholders. The object was to complete the capital of £400,000. The preference shares were to be convertible into ordinary shares within five years from the date of issue. The retiring directors, Sir S. Cunard, Mr. S. Beale, and Mr. Price were unanimously re-elected, and also Mr. R. Potter, the retiring auditor. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. General—Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., G.C.8., G.C.M.G., Colonel 15th Foot. Lieutenant-General—Sir James Holmes Schoedde, K.C.8., Colonel 55th Foot. Major-Generals—Richard French, Barth. V. Derinzy, K.H., retired full pay, inspecting field officer recruiting district; Robert Mercer, retired full pay Royal Marines. Lieutenant-Colonels—William Greenwood, C. 8., captain retired full pay Royal Artillery; James Johnston, late 99th Foot; Eyre Evans Kenny, late Unattached. Majors—Frederick Geo. Nuttall Clarke, 3d West India Regiment ; Marcus Louis, captain retired full pay sth Veteran Battalion ; Geo. Bownell Pepyat, retired full pay Royal Marines. Captains—Wm. Fourbelle Dowdeswell, 7th Dra goon Guards; Frederic Southcote Seale, Royal Artillery; Stanley Slater, 82d Foot; Robert M. B. Maurice, 95th Foot; Robert John Little, half pay Royal Marines. Lieutenants—Henry Bond, Royal Artillery; Graham R. T. Stevenson, Royal Artillery ; John Samuel Foster, Royal Artillery ; Frederic C. Irwin, 28th Foot ; Edmond Pakenham, 52d Foot ; Henry Sturt Lewis, Royal Marines; William Richmond Nixon, half-pay 52d Foot; Henry John Lindsey, Unattached; Joannes Justin von Fumetti, half-pay 2d Light Dragoons, King's German Legion; John Ede, retired full pay, Royal Marines. 2d Lieutenants—James Barry, retired full pay, Royal Marines ; Wm. Davis, retired full pay ; John Jackson, half-pay, Royal Marines, _ _ Paymaster—George Bartley (Major), half-pay 54th Foot. Adjutant—Richard Ellis, half-pay 97th Foot. Assistant Surgeons—Fred. Gus. Hamilton, Gre nadier Guards; George Smith, 34th Foot; George Parsons Wall, 64th Foot; John M`Leon Cameron, Staff. Veterinary Surgeon Christopher Sanderson Royal Artillery. Purveyor—W. S. Rogers, half-pay. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING. The insult offered to the British flag is felt as keenly here as in any part of the United Kingdom. It is the subject of conversation in all circles, and the chief topic in all the newspapers. It is the universal opinion that, unless the Southern Commis sioners are restored, with an ample apology, war is inevitable. The whole country sympathises with the Government in its demand for reparation, and would be ready to prove its loyalty by any sacri fices in case of war, with the insignificant exception of the "Young Ireland party" that still linger among us. The organs of this moribund remnant have been thrown into hysterics from joy at the prospect of a war between England and America. The Nation says the capture of the Commissioners on board a British steamer was an " act worthy of the spirit, daring, and dash of the Americans ; it was one to make Irish hearts jump with joy." " The news," continues the same organ, " has created wild excitement and enthusiasm in Dublin, and it will awaken similar feelings and sensation throughout the whole country." If the English Government resent the insult, then, we are told, will come " a great time for Ireland. Then will the men who are gone with a vengeance prove vengeful gmen indeed. Then will the Irish race in America rush to arms and bound into the battle:— " Yes, then will the forces of England find in their front such desperate men as crushed their ranks at Foatenoy to the cry of ' Remember Limerick.' Yes, the rmen crowbarred out of their homes in Ireland ; the men oppressed, insulted, scoffed at, and, wherever they went, pursued by English slan der, scorn, and hate—those men will be in the van of the fight, and then will woe come to England ! And what of Ireland in this great time ? What will Irishmen do when comes this supreme opportunity, the like of which can only come once in many ages ? We can tell what they may do, what they will be able to do if they act well their part as brave men —they can, most certainly, establish the independ ence of Ireland." This explains an announcement embla zoned in both the Nation and Morning News to-day as most important—to the effect that a large and most re spectable meeting of Nationalists resident in Dublin, Mr. Plunkett, town councillor, in the chair, was held in the European Hotel yesterday, to consider and determine upon the course that should be adopted in the present crisis of affairs. It was resolved to call a public meeting in the Rotunda on Monday next. From the names of the half-score persons given and the tone of their organs the object of the proposed meeting is plainly treasonable, and it is to be hoped that the Government will not allow the minds of the ignorant to be disturbed and in flamed, as they did in 1848. The country then paid rather dear for its joke about the Widow Ryan's cabbage-garden. It is stated that the meeting on Monday is to be attended by The O'Donoghue, 1 M,P., Mr. Moan, late member for Mayo, and Mr. Martin, who has already suffered for his folly in this line. The Nationalists know by experience how little they can count on the sympathy of a Roman Catholic Attorney General should they get into the meshes of the law, and they may be sure that Mr. O'Hagan will do his duty as zealously and firmly as Chief Justice Monaghan did his in the state trials of 1848. They call the oatrage on the British flag a step of Nemesis, but they will pro bably watch the progress of events as mere noisy spectators, inspired by a wholesome dread of the Nemesis of British justice. The Nation concludes one of its sensation articles with a prayer—which is a good one if uttered in the right sense : " This is a solemn moment—a moment big with the destiny of nations. May it be that wise and brave men will use it to good account !" The Northern Whig, referring to the same sub ject in its commercial article, says:— " The excitement that prevailed in mercantile circles today relative to the probable results of the conduct of Captain Wilkes, of the San Jacinto, ex ceeded anything ever seen during the days of the Russian war. Many of the most thoughtful fre quenters of 'Change are of opinion that the act of the American captain was a portion of the policy of the anti-British section of the Senate at Washing ton. Others, again, suppose that the officer only consulted his own feeling ;n arresting Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and that the President will dis avow all cognisance of the matter. Transactions in the wholesale departments of trade were, for the time, almost suspended, the dread of a war with America absorbing most other considerations." A deputation from the Dublin Corporation waited upon the Chief Secretary yesterday, consisting of the Lord Mayor and a number of aldermen and town councillors, with roeuferrs in havingencetoe grievance under which th e city lab to maintain provincial lunatics. From the report in the Daily Express it appears that there are 350 lunatics from the provincial districts in the asylums of this maintained by the ratep a y ers o f Dublinat city, a cost of more than £7,090 per annum. The deputation complained of this as an intolerable grievance, and they also complained that the cost per head of maintaining lunatics in Dublin is greater than in the provinces, though it should be less in consequence of the large number in the same establishment and under the same management. They proposed as remedies that the provincial paupers should be sent to their own districts, or, if maintained in Dublin, that the cost should be charged to the districts in which they last resided. With regard to the Lunatic Board, they demanded that some members of the corporation should be placed upon it, in order that it might more adequately represent the interests of the ratepayers. The Chief Secretary said he con sidered that this complaint was, to a certain extent, well founded, though he defended the present board from the charge of "inefficiency" contained in the statement laid before him, but withdrawn in consequence of his remarks. A memorial on the subject was presented to him, and he promised to give the whole matter his most careful considera tion. NATIONAL TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. On Friday, at 11 o'clock, a deputation from this society had, at their request, an interview with the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house. There were . present Alderman Sir Robert Carden ; Mr. Scott, the Chamberlain of London ; Mr. C. F. Leaf, of Old Change, Mr.Tweedie, Mr. Rae, Mr. Arpthorpe, Mr. G. Frodsham, and others. Sir R. Carden, in introducing the subject, said he most cordially ap proved the general cause of temperance, though he did not go quite so far as some of the gentlemen present. He believed, however, the League of which they were members was guided by the purest motives, and that the Lord Mayor in his official experience saw daily more of the evil effects of intemperance than perhaps any one else in the whole city of London. Mr. Scott, the Chamberlain, then presented to the Lord Mayor a memorial, signed by 98 of the principle mercantile firms in the city, some of the•aldermen, and other members of the corporation, requesting the use of the Egyp tian-hall for a public meeting for the purpose of promoting temperance among young men engaged in industrial pursuits. Among the memorialists were Mr. Samuel Gurney, M.P., Mr. Gilpin, Mr. Samuel Morley, Messrs. Greatorex and Co., with many more of equal repute, and they were said to employ among them many thousand young men—one or two firms nearly as many as 200 each. The object, Mr. Scott added, was to foster among this Glass of the community at least an abstinence from excess in the use of intoxicating drinks, if not total abstinence. The Lord Mayor said undoubtedly the promotion of temperance was a most desirable object, but we should be temperate in all things. He hoped no attempt would be made at the pro posed meeting to take a pledge from any one for total abstinence. Mr. Tweedie said the deputa tion would undertake that the speakers on the occasion should be judicious men, and not likely to give offence to others in advocating their views. In order, however, to induce young men to avoid the temptations of London life the society would take them a step further than ordinary tempe rance, as far even as taking the pledge, if in individual cases there should be a desire to adopt it. During the last summer returns had been re ceived from 35 societies in London, showing there were about 10,000 members there, all of whom paid a small weekly sum to maintain their organisations. Nothing would encourage people like them more than the chief citizen of London lending his high sanction to the proposed meeting. The Lord Mayor said a desperate disease called for a desperate remedy. Here and there, no doubt, the sin of intoxi cation existed to such a degree as to require a vio lent remedy; but he thought taking the pledge was not absolutely necessary. If it were only intended by the proposed meeting to advance the cause of temperance, he should gladly go with the general feeling. Mr. C. J. Leaf remarked that temperance in the language of the League meant total absti nence. The Lord Mayor said, in that case, he could not be a party to it. Sir R. Carden said he strenu ously endeavoured to induce people to be temperate, but he was certainly not in favour of total absti nence. Mr. Leaf said every speaker that would ad dress the meeting would advocate total abstinence. The Lord Mayor replied he was bound in candour to state that he could not go that length. Mr. Arp thorpe said the Lord Mayor, as a magistrate, must know that there were men and women so habitually addicted to intoxication that nothing on earth would save them but total abstinence. Mr. Tweedie said they should not think of convening the meet ing unless they were to be allowed to bring forward the distinctive principles of their society. The Lord Mayor asked how they would like him to say, if he was called to the chair, he did not hold with abso lute and entire abstinence, and that he did not think it right to advise people generally to take the pledge. He thought the deputation and he might compromise the matter by it being under stood that they were not to be fettered in saying anything they liked, while he was not to be under any engagement either to be silent or to advocate total abstinence. The deputation, smiling, said that they would be happy to fall in with that suggestion. The Lord Mayor said he should be happy to join in promoting so good a cause, believing that nothing was more likely to tend to the regeneration of society than abstinence, moderation, and temper ance. A day was then fixed for the meeting, and the deputation withdrew. THE EDINBURGH CATASTROPHE, The full extent of the catastrophe occasioned by the fall of the house 109, High-street, Edinburgh, on Sunday morning last, has now been ascertained. Thirty-five bodies have been recovered from the ruins, the remains of persons of all ages, from 90 to sucklings found on the mother's breast. The num ber of the escaped and rescued is, so far as can be ascertained, 32. The bodies last extricated were those of David Skirving, cabinet maker, and his wife and daughter, which were found on Thursday. The daughter was the first of three discovered, the body slipping down from a corner of the building on some wooden beams being remove 3. The remains of Skirving and his wife were found about five fee' below the surface of the street, the very cellarag( having been choked with the ruins. This family re• sided on the second floor, in the corner of the build ing last cleared, the walls of the house being con spicuous after the clearance by a large coloured priut of her Majesty adorning the chimney-piece. The excavations were continued until Friday night, when the foundations of the house were laid bare, about 18 feet below the level of the street. The cause of the catastrophe was at last disclosed. There was a concealed stone wall, three feet thick, which ran parallel to the front and back walls, in the middle of the huge building, but which was not carried into either of the gables, and it was found that on the west side it had been to a large extent under mined to make way for a boiler, the heat from which had helped to crumble the thin remainder of the wall. The boiler had been there probably 30 or 40 years, but of late it bad been very little used. The wall had been further weakened by hallowing out a chimney for the boiler, and by carrying through a door. On the east side the wall on the shop floor had been partly removed, it is believed, in 1814, to open the shop from front to rear, two pi:lars of the wall only being left for support. This wall was not only undermined, but was utterly decayed; and it not merely fell, but was shattered to pieces, one considerable fragment of it only being found remaining. The timbers, also, were perfectly rot ten with age. On Friday—the sixth day after the catastrophe—a cat and a dog were extricated alive, both much emaciated. Some of tho animals dugk out alive from the ruins, including two birds taken down from the walls in their cages, having been since sold for considerable sums, one gentleman giving £2O for a little mongrel previously not worth as many pence. The fund for the relief of the suf ferers amounts to about £1,200 or £1,500, and would have been much greater but that large con tributions have not been encouraged, from the fear of embarrassing the committee with a surplus, as has been the case with several fire funds. There is no doubt the fund will be quite ample, but many are displeased that the ready bounty of the public should have been repressed either by example or advice. On Saturday men were engaged in taking down the eastern gable, from a scaffolding and ladders raised on the roof of the adjoining house. The inmates have been allowed to return to the h b o u n i l s d e i s n 27.:1 butth e th w a e t s t o n and e s o u t h sides of h east side e has .the been fallen ren dered uninhabitable. The late accident has caused a strict investigation by many proprietors into the condition of their properties, and in the case of three or four other large buildings the tenants have been warned out, and the tendency of this move ment for the present is only to crowd still more tho habitations of the poorer classes. In other Nonwicii AND SPALDING. A meeting was held in the Town-hall, Wisbeach, on Thursday, respecting the proposed extension of the line to Wisbeach. The Mayor of WisßEAm (Mr. R. Young) pre sided, and stated that he should give the proposed extension his strenuous support, not only in his public capacity, but by taking shares in the under. taking. Major WILKINsoN, chairman of the Norwich and Spalding line, addressed the meeting at considerable length in advocacy of the extension. The line at present opened from Spalding to Holbeach was worked by the Great Northern, and after all ex penses were paid a handsome return was left for the shareholders. The five miles already completed had produced an income of £5,000 per annum dur ing the last three years, and when Wisbeach was connected with the company's system he should not feel satisfied if the receipts were not doubled. The proposed line would effect a considerable saving in distance between IVisbeach, Boston, Lincoln, Hull, and the North. Resolutions approving the project were carried unanimously, and a committee was appointed to secure it increased local support, the proceedir gs closing with a vote of thanks to the Mayor for pre siding, and to Major Wilkinson for his lucid state ment. PUNJAB. The sum of £9,195 was paid on Saturday to the credit of the Secretary of State for India in Coun cil, in anticipation of the fourth and last call. It appeared that 35,600 shares were now fully paid up. SCINDE. The sum of £57,615 - hasju4 been paid to the credit of the Secretary of State for India in Coun cil, being the proceeds of the first call and payments in anticipation, on account of the third issue of shares in the above undertaking•, making with pre vious payments a total of £80,645, being about half the amount of £167,000 to be raised in 8,350 shares of £2O each. FATAL COLLISION IN THE ST. GEORGE'S CHANNEL, —The Waterford Company's steam-ship Zephyr arrived at Waterford from Liverpool on Friday, and reported having been in collision off Puffin Island with a French steamer, Comtese de Frigile Frigeville, from Nantes for Liverpool, in ballast. The French ship immediately sank. The cap tain, mate, and eight of the crew were lost; six wore saved. The Zephyr sustained no injury. - - - [AD VE AT I S EMENT.I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Bodily Infirmities.—The alternating - frosts and thaws, keen winds and foggy atmospheres, would try an iron constitu tion. These vicissitudes are on all sides producing coughs, colds, influenza, ulcerated throat, asthma, and rheumatism. For the relief and cure of this catalogue of comp aints, Hol loway's Ointment should be sedulously rubbed upon the skin as near the affected organ as possible, and his Pills should be simultaneously taken internally. The Ointment penetrates and soothes all affections of the throat and chest, and is especially serviceable in rheumatic diseases. In tic doloreux, neuralgia, sciatica, lumbago, and all mus cular pains, Holloway's Ointment and Pills have estab lished for themselues a world-wide reputation. These re raethes rondo' respiration easy in the worst weather, RAILWAY BILLS. The following is the official list of the plans deposited with the Board of Trade of railways, the bills authorising the construction of which will be submitted to Parliament in the ensuing season . Aberystwith and Welsh Coast, now lines, Alford Val ley; Abbeyholnie and Leegate and Bolton ; Andover and Great Western; Andover, Redbridge, 'and Southampton; Andover and Redbridge, _ _ Bognor, Chichester, and Micihurst ; Breandown Har bour and Railway and Weston-super-Mare Landing Slip ; Berwickshire ; Bridge of Weir ; Bristol and South- Western Junction Railways ; Barnsley Coal; Bradford, Wakefield and Leeds; Bristol and Clifton ; Birkenhead, Flintshire, and Holyhead; Bristol Port Railway and Pier; Birkenhead; Burton-upon-Trent; Birkenhead Docks and West Cheshire Junction Railway; Bala and Dolgelly ; Bristol and South Wales Union; Banstead and Epsom Downs; Brecon and Merthyr Tydvil ; Bishop Waltham, Botley, and Bursleydon ; Bala Railway; Balham and Putney. Carmarthen and Cardigan, extension and branches ; Caledonian, Leith branches ; Caledonian, deviations ; Cork and Youghal ; Cork, Middleton, and Fermoy ; Cannock Chase Extension ; Carlow, Tullow, and Newtonbarry ; Corwen, Bala, and Porl Maddock; Cowbridge ; Cannock Kneral Extension ; Crystal Palace and South London ; Cowes and Newport ; Carnarvonshire. Dundalk and Enniskillen (Quay Extension); Dare Valley; Dublin Metropolitan; Dulais Valley Mineral; Daventry ; Dee Side Extension ; Drayton Junction. Eden Valley ; Edgware, Highgate, and London ; Eastern Counties (Wisbeach and Peterborough) ; Edinburgh and Dunfermline Railway; and Perth Junction; Eastern Counties (New Railway to Colchester) ; Enniskillen and Bundoran Extension to Sligo) ; East Gloucestershire ; Edinburgh and Glasgow; Eastern Counties (new lines in Middlesex ; East Grinstead, Grootnbridge, and Tunbridge Wells: Ellesmere, Ruabon, and Shrewsbury; Ellesmere, Oswestry, Ruabon, and Shrewsbury. Frosterly and Stanhope; Fermoy, Lismore, and Dun garvon ; Furness. Great Northern and Western of Ireland ; Glasgow and Renfrew Junction; Greenock and Wemyss Bay; Garston and Liverpool; Great Northern, Nos. 1 and 2; Great Western, additional powers. Holbeach North Junction; Hatfield and St. Albans; Hull and Hornsca ; Horsham, Dorking, and Leatherhead ; Hereford, Hay, and Brecon; Hammersmith, Brentford, and Kew ; Hull and West Riding Junction. Isle of Wight. Kettering and Thrapston ; Keighley and Worth Valley ; Kent Coast ; Kingten and Eardisley ; Kensington Station and North and South London Junction. Launceston and South Devon ; Lancashire and York shire (Doncaster, Toole, and Hull Junction Lines) ; Lost withiel and Poway; Lancashire and Yorkshire, additional powers; London and North Western, additional powers; Leadburn, Linton, and Dolphinton ; London and South Western, additional powers; London and South Western and Andover and Redbridge ; Leeds, Bradford, and Hali fax Junction; London, Brighton, and South Coast (en largement of stations) ; London Brighton. and South Coast, new lines ; Ledbury and Gloucester ; London and Black wall ; Llanidloes and Newton ; Mid-Wales and Manches ter and Milford ; Llanelly Railway and Dock; London and Midland Junction; London, Edgware, and Bushey; Lon don, Chatham, and Dover (Junction at Battersea) ; Lon don, Chatham, and Dover (Extension to Waliner and Deal). Moretonhanapstead and South Devon ; Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire, additional powers ; Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Liverpool Central Station) ; Manchester and Milford (Rhayader Branch) ; Mold and Wrexham ; Midland Railway, additional powers ; Midland Railway (Rowsley and Buxton) ; March and Askerne ; Marton and Hanbury ; Mid-Wales deviations ; Market Drayton and Newport ; Mid-Wales, branch ; Mid-Sussex and Midhurst Junction ; Mid-Wicklow ; Metropolitan ; Maryport and Carlisle; .Mid-Kent Railway and Addis combe ; Merioneth ; Metropolitan and Thames Valley. North British, Monkt.,nhall to Ormistwo and Dalkeith branches; North Eastern (Hull and Doncaster) ; North Eastern (Market Weighton and Beverley extension and Hull branch) ; Newcastle (County Down) ; Newry and Armagh (Drumbanagher Deviation) ; North Devon and Okehampton ; North Eastern (Blayd(m. to Conside) ; North Eastern (Team Valley) ; Newport and Hyde direct; North Fleet Docks; North and Spalding; Nantle ; North Metro politan Junction. Oswestry, Shrewsbury, and Ellesmere; Oswestry, Elles mere, and Whitchurch ; Oswestry and Newtown, Llanid loes and Newtown, and Shrewsbury and Welchpool. Parsonstown and Pertumna. Ramegate, Sandwich, Deal and Dover; Rickmansworth, Amersham and Chesham ; Radstock and Keynsham. Severn and Wye Railway and Canal; Stamford and Es sendine ; South Eastern (Tunbridge and Dartford Lines) ; South Yorkshire (Sheffield and Thorn) ; South Yorkshire (Extension to Hull); Stafford and Uttoxeter ; Shrewsbury and Hereford ; Stockton and Darlington (Towlaw and Crook) ; Scottish Central ; Spalding and Bourn ; Swansea, Neath and Brecon Junction; South Leicestershire; South ampton and Netley ; Scottish North Eastern ; South Staffordshire and Central Wales (Dudley and Bridgenorth) ; Se vcnoaks ; Shrewsbury; Sidmouth Railway and Harbour; Scottish Northern Junction ; Southampton and Isle of Wight Railway and Pier. Tewkesbury and Malvern; Tottenham and Hampstead Junction ; Tendring Hundred. Uxbridge and Rickmansworth. Vale of Clywd. West Hartlepool Harbourand Railway (Dock Extension); Waterford and Limerick, and Limerick and Ennis; West Galway ; West Riding, Hull and Grimsby ; Weymouth and Portland; Wellington and Cheshire Junction; West Cheshire; West Midland (Merthyr, Tredegar, and Aber - gavenny Railway (lease and extension) ; West Midland (additional works) , Whitchurch, Wrexham, Mold, and Connah's Quay; Waterford ald Passage; Wellington, Drayton, and Newcastle ; Weymouth and Portland ; and West Shropshire Mineral. Also for Thames Embankment (North Side) ; Thames Embankment (South side) ; and Dovoy Reclamation. ROMANTIC 111ARR1AGES IN FRANCE. A curious development is taken place in the ad vertising columns of some daily newspapers, pub lished at Paris, in which it is not unfrequent to see, Confiance—Garcons et _Demoiselles a Narier suc ceeded by an announcement of the situations and facilities of living enjoyed by the former, as well as the dots belonging to the latter, and several other details that would not be out of place in the mouth of a South American auctioneer disposing of his negroes, but which seem to be taken rather cooliy by the French. Indeed, everything connected with a matrimonial engagement is every day becoming more and more business-like in its character. A young gentleman gives out that he is an eligible party, and a young lady's friends, who do the same with their youthful charge, at once enter into nego tiations with a minuteness and a coolness that is perfectly amazing, previous to the examination of actes denaissance et de baptcnze, in case none of the parties are Jews, and I understand, a doctor's certificate to prove that both were vaccinated. In addition to the dot, the lady's friends not unfrequently obtain good conditions by calculating the probable income she could obtain when at lull liberty, as a married woman, to go about and make money by giving lessons ; but in such cases, if these calculations are any way well founded, a stiff strug gle takes place to have the contract drawn up under the regime de la separation des biens. A few days ago a case occurred in which a good, provident lady, wishing to establish a ne'er-do well of a son upon the earnings of a girl supposed by her to be itl receipt of a considerable income, was notably de ceived, and also deceived as notably the respectable matron to whose daughter she wished to act as mother-in-law. The 3 oung gentleman was com pelled by his wary parent to appear very studious, to wear spectacles, and to go out at regular periods with books in his hands as if for the purpose of giving lessons, when he would be almost certain to meet a young lady and her, mother, living on the first floor in the same house, and whom the con cierge, by means probably of a small bribe, was prevailed on to describe as an institutrice tres re cherchec. This game at mutual deception lasted about three weeks, when the principal parties in it, both of whom were new comers to the same house, apparently by accident fell into conversation on the stairs about a little poodle, and commenced an acquaintance which led to the hoped-for result. The more effectually to blind each other, the young gentleman gave gratuitous lessons to several juve niles, and the young lady, who was in her way a perfect comedienne, acted the part of an over worked person so well as to deceive effectively the deceivers pitted against her, who did all in their power to hasten the match, the more so because the others appeared to be growing cool about it. But the gods punished the whole set by granting them their desires, as the marriage was celebrated, and a week hardly elapsed when both found the mistake under which they laboured, and far from having wedded a young woman who had obtained a superior diploma at the Hotel de Ville, the disappointed husband found, to his utter discomfiture, that he had only married the namesake and the first cousin of one, a girl who had been, like himselt, brought up en ailiant gate, and whose whole genius was developed into being an accomplished intriguante. It is flat improbable — as this auspiciously-founded menage is nut the happiest in the world, and presents the spectacle of a youthful pair leading a cat-and-dog existence with each other—that the juge de paix will be called upon to terminate an engagement that might not have been out of place in some of the Paris theatres, where such comedies are often played.—.l" etter from Paris. DARING ACT OF WRECKING ON THE ESSEX COAST. SHEERNESS, Nov. 30. A very daring act of wrecking, on the Essex coast, a few miles below the Nore, involving a loss to the underwriters of £lO,OOO, was investigated by , the county magistrates at the district bench (Sit tingbourne) yesterday. Saven boatmen belonging to Brightlingsea, at the mouth of the Colne, named Wm. Dove (master), George Oliver, Charles Cook, Wm. Rumble, James Gould, James Bacon, and Jas. Fielding, of the smacks Prima Donna and Sarah, were charged with feloniously carrying away a large quantity of tallow from the wreck of the ship Regina, stranded on the Middle Swin Sand on the night of the 13th ult. The examination occupied the whole day ; but the following will be found to contain the main facts. The Regina was on a voyage from Cronstadt to London with a cargo of tallow and lathy, ood : and on proceeding through the Swin for the mouth of the Thames on the night of the 13th November, heavy weather was encountered, and the brig went upon the Middle Swin sand, some seven or eight miles from the coast, and the crew left her in the long boat, and, after drifting some time were picked up by the schooner Effort, which put into Whit stable. On the following morning, at daybreak, a signal was hoisted on board the Effort, and two smacks, with divers, &c., came off, and they were told to go to the wreck, which they did. In the evening of the 14th Captain Skelton, the master of the Regina, who had been ill on board the Effort, went ashore at Whitstable and reported the wreck of his vessel to Mr. Wood, Lloyd's agent. On the afternoon of the next day, the 15th, Capt. Skelton and Lloyd's agent proceeded to the wreck, and they found a lot of boats alongside and about 50 men on the top of the wreck. Several holes had been cut in her broadside. The men were cutting into the ship with axes and crow bars fishing up the casks and taking the tallow out of the casks with boat-hooks and hands together. There was a general scramble as to who should get most. Captain Skelton and Mr. Wood remonstrated with the men as to their reckless pro- ceeding, and commanded them to cease cuttieg holes in the side of the vessel and removing any more of the tallow. About this time a breeze sprung up, and all had to leave the wreck. Coates, the mate of the Regina, was left in a Whitstable smack, near the wreck for the night, and a telegraphic commu nication was sent up to Lloyd's. announcing the plunder that was going on. On the following (Saturday) morning, at two o'clock, Coates found the men again at work on the wreck, and several yachts, with tallow in them alongside. The mate told the fellows to leave off digging into the ship, with their crowbars, and they pelted him with tallow. A boat-hook was thrown at him, and they stated that they would as soon put an axe into him as the ship. The names of the Prima Donna and other smacks that were lying near were taken. The men continued working at the wreck, and be tween three and four o'clock Captain Skelton and Lloyd's agent returned ; but they could not get near the wreck in consequence of the number of boats that surrounded her. The captain hailed the men to leave her, but they treated his remark with deri sion, and told him that they had as much right there as he had. About daybreak Capt. J. Russell, the special agent for Lloyd's Association, who bad taken a steam tug from Southend, arrived on the scene. Capt. Skelton and Mr. Wood at once commu nicated with him ; and as it was evident that the men would not leave the wreck, Capt. Russell at once proceeded in the tug to Sheerness Dockyard, and obtained the aid of a file of 12 marines. On re turning in the afternoon, 25 smacks were seen near the wreck, and the men were still busy at work in breaking up casks and fishing up tallow through the holes which were cut in the side. Captain Russell and Captain Skelton went near the wreck and desired the boats to take what they had to Sheerness, and for the men to leave. With a deal of abuse they refused to go to Sheerness, and as the marines were now seen on board the steam-tug there was a general rush amonst the men to get the smacks under weigh and run for the coast. A sergeant and a party of the marines were got into the boat, which made for the nearest smack. On approaching the Prima Donna, which was hoisting the sails and heaving up the anchor, the prisoner Dove, the master, was called to stop. He refused, and defied Captain Russell or any one else to go on board. The sergeant and some of the marines were then put on board the smack. Still the crew refused to obey the order to stop until the sergeant drew his bayonet. There was a large quantity of loose tallow in the smack. Two other boats, Sarah and Spray, were boarded, and the three were taken to Sheerness ; but 17 of the smack ran away to leeward and escaped capture. The prisoners were stated to have been on board the Prima Donna and Sarah. Very close upon 200 tons of the cargo was lost, and with the exception of the tallow brought into Sheerness none of that taken from the wreck had been accounted for to the receivers of wreck. As soon as the men left the wreck, Captain Russell set the divers to fork from the Whitstable smacks, and the whole of the casks left had been got up. Mr. Wood deposed that when he remonstrated with the men upon their improper conduct, he ex plained to them that they were prepared with divers to save the casks whole. Captain Skelton stated that when he left the ship he intended to return, and that he got the two smacks from Whitstable to take charge of her. The prisoners were convicted under the 478th section of the Merchant Shipping Act in the double penalty of £5O, £lOO each man, or to be imprisoned three months on each penalty until the amount was paid. Mr. Goody said it was unnecessary for him to say that the men could not pay such large fines, and intimated his intention of appealing. The men were removed in custody by Superin tendent Green, of the Kent Constabulary. AAOTLIER TRADE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFIELD. SHEFFIELD, SUNDAY EVENING. The horrible details of the outrage in Acoru street (which have been fully given in The Sun) are still fresh in the public mind, and we arc sorry to state that another deed of violence has been com mitted, which will throw fresh disgrace upon the town. The outrage we are about to record, how ever, has not caused injury to life, but a large amount of valuable property has been imperilled. It appears that early this morning a man named John Bollington, engine-tenter at the works of Mr. Harry Houldsworth, crinoline manufacturer, New George street, Sheffield-moor, went to his master's premises for the purpose of inspecting the machinery. Very shortly after entering the works he found that an attempt had been made to blow up the place during the night. On going into a room which is let off to a factor named Pattison, he found the window shattered to pieces, the hearthstone broken, the joists of the floor heaved out of their places, and one or two of them broken. He went in the machine room and there found that the joists of the floor had been lifted up, and the framework of the door forced out. It was evident that the explosion had proceded from the lower story, and on proceeding there Bol lington found his surmises confirmed. The usual means of destruction adopted in these cases was found, and sufficiently marked the nature and origin of the outrage. In the cellar he found the shattered remains of a large milk-can, capable of holding several pounds of powder, which had been thrown in through the grating. In the broken lid of the can there was a small hole in which the fuse had been placed. It is remarkable that the damage done was not more extensive, but the building, as it is, is seriously injured. A man was working all night in another part of the works, but he says he did not hear an explosion, but heard a hissing noise about four this morning. The wind was very high at the time, which may account for this somewhat singular circumstance. The facts were at once communicated to the police, and Mr. Jackson, the energetic chief constable, was shortly afterwards engaged with his detective officers in investigating the case. The shattered remains of the can are in the possession of the police, and it is hoped they will be the means of affording a clue to the perpe trator of the outrage. It seems that a non-unionist grinder has been working on the premises, and the explosion was, it is thought, intended as a warning. The two unfortunate victims of the explosion of the " infernal machine" in Acorn-street are still lingering in great suffering. This afternoon a special sermon was preached by the Rev. Brooke Herford, Unitarian minister, to a vast assemblage of working men in the Temperance-hall. The rev. gentleman, who is a stanch supporter of unions, strongly denounces these crimes, and called upon the working men of Sheffield to leave no means untried until the perpetrators of them were rooted out. The general feeling in the town is one of un mixed detestation and horror of these crimes, and no amount of punishment will be deemed too severe if the perpetrators are discovered. HEAVY GALE OF WIND AT MANCIIESTEE.—Late on Saturday night a strong gale of wind sprung up in Man chester and its neighbourhood, from the west, which by ono o'clock on Sunday morning had increased to one of the most fearful hurricanes ever remembered there, and did not abate till towards five o'clock. It was feared much mischief would result to shipping on the Lancashire coast, but very little damage to property had been heard of in the neigh bourhood of Manchester up to nine o'clock, wilcn our re port left, METROPOLI RD OF WORKS. titan Board of Works The usual meeting of the Metrop ring-gardens, Mr. J. was held on Friday, at the office in Os, Thwaites in the chair. THE EMBANKMENT OF THE T. liAmr,S. The CumnikrAN said he had receive d a communication from the Right Hon. W. Cowper, the , VIVA Commissioner of Works, in reference to the embankm, of the Thames, which ho would read to the members o. f the „Board. The letter was as follows : "Office of Works, Nov. 26, 1861. ".Dear Sir,-1 am anxious that the II oystl Commission on the Thames Embankment should meet ag in as soon as possible, to consider .the embankment of the Surrey side, so that the second report may be made b tfore the meeting of Parliament, and T trust that you will be able to find time amid your many engagements for this inai iortant purpose. "I have the honour to be ycurs c sitedientlY, "J. Thwaites, Esq. "WILLIAM COWPER." To this letter ho had returned the followin g reply : " Metropolitan Board of Works, Si eng-gardens, Nov. 29, 1861. " Dear Sir,—Tbe construction of a T ht tmes embank ment is a matter of such eminent public in tportance, and its urgency is so fully appreciated by my se. if and my col leagues at this Board, that I cannot hesit ate 3 to waivo all personal feeling in order to resume my seat at the Thames Embankment Commission, although I st - ill adhere to the views expressed in my protest against the I b rmer report. " In adopting this course, I confess rnysc 31 f influenced by the belief that the strong expression of in tb lie opinion'in behalf of this work, backed by your own an d Lord Palmer stou's cordial sympathy, will materiah l y c on.tribute to re move all difficulties in the way of its exeou tion, and insure the concurrence of the other members of t b•e Commission in the views which I formerly ventured t our ge—l remain, dear sir, yours truly, "J. r_ CS WAITES. "The Right lion. W. Cowpar, M.P." Mr. 11. L. TAYLOR moved that the letter and answer be inserted on the Minutes, which was put and. agreed to. WILLS AND BhQU.G.N7B. The will of the Right Hon. Sidney Baron - Herbert of Lea, P.C., of Wilton House, Salisbury, beari nF ; date July 10, 1858, was proved in the principal registry o.n the 21st inst. by his Lordship's brothers .in-law, the High t Hon. Thomas Viscount de Vesci, and Charles Wyndham a Court Reping ton, Esq , the executors, the personal property being, sworn under £160,000. Lord Herbert died poss'est;ed of very con siderable property, both landed and pers on a3l; and that over which his Lordship had the power of dispos. ition he has be queathed to Lady Herbert, his relict, absolutely, whom ho has also appointed residuary legatee. :His Lo rd ship has left a family of seven children—four sons and floret) daughters — all in their minority; and as no provision is made for them in the will, it is to be inferred than they are other wise amply provided for. The testator has left legacies to some personal friends and to his domestics. There is a legacy of £3OO bequeathed to the Salisbury Infirmary ; also a sum of £l,OOO vested in trustees, the divi; lends accruing therefrom to be applied to repairing the chancel of the church at Wilton, which owes its erection t o the munifi cence of his lordship. His eldest son, now Lt l rd Herbert, is in his twelfth year, and is heir presumptive to the earldom of Pembroke and Montgomery. The will of Alexander John Colvin, Esq., of Gloucester place, Hyde-park, was proved on the sth instant, by his daughter, Steuart Amelia, the wife of John Du.nsmure, Esq., whom he appointed sole executrix. The personalty was sworn under £40,000. The will bears date 4tb of Septem ber, 1856, and was executed at Portobello, N.B. This gen tleman has left many bequests to relations and friends ; but the principal part of his property is bequeathed to his daughter, whom he appoints residuary legatee. To his granddaughter, Jane Euphemia, a legacy of £5,000 is be queathed ; and to the children of his sister, Mrs Turnlaull, a sum of £B,OOO amongst. them. There is a legacy bestowed of £5OO, with a comment somewhat peculiar. The testator says,—" Upon leaving for India I was indebted to --- (naming him) seven shillings. I bequeath him £5OO, as a proof that I have not forgottar him." The will of Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq., of Pontypool Park, Monmouthshire, and Penarth, Glarnorganshire, was proved in London on the 14th instant. The personal pro perty was sworn under £lOO,OOO. The executors appointed are the widow and Lieutenant-Colonel George Grey Rous, Grenadier Guards, of Courtyrala, near Cardiff, and the Rev. George Gore, Rector of Newton St. Loe, Somerset. The will bears date August 22, 1860, and the testator died at Penarth on the 28th September last. The deceased has bequeathed to his relict, independently of marriage and other settlements, an annuity of t 2,400, and a legacy of £5,000; there are other gifts of residence, &c , beyond these bequests, devised to his son, John Capel Hanbury Leigh (aged eight years) ; he is also appointed residuary legatee of the personal estate. The testator has bequeathed a few legacies to personal friends, and his annuities and legacies to his dependents and domestics have been libera as well as his charitable donations. He has left to the infant school, which he had instituted at Z yengarth for the in struction of the children of his workmen and labourers, a legacy of £l,OOO, to the Swansea Infirmary and the Bristol Infirmary each £5OO, and a legacy of £2OO to the Bristol Eye Infirmary.—lllustrated London News. CO UN 1 Y IA L.- AS. ~~ YORK— Nov. 30. The supply of wheat at this market to-day was small, and consisted for the most part of new descriptions. fair business was transacted, and sales made at is per qr over last week's prices. In barley a tolerable show, but a limited demand. Oats still a poor in pity. Beans sup' ported late rates. Wheat, red 6os to 63s White do .63s to 66s i Beans Barley .32s to 38s Peas Malt, 68s to 70s per qr. ; rye, 36s per qr..;..—fl42Boo:urttt,ooo 42--56405:. to 48s per sack. NORWICH—Nov. 30. Wheat to-day was in short supply, and last Saturday's prices were fully supported for all descriptions. Barley was freely offered, and in some instances is per quarter la favour of the buyer. Flour unabered. White wheat 60s to 68s I Red wheat 56s to 643 Malting do .... 3 ....387s o , stio339ss Oats.. Chev Chevalier barley 37s to $54 New -s to -- -8 Flour, 41s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. NORTHAMPTON—Nov. 30. At this corn-market the supply of wheat was only mode' rate to-day, and the quality of the samples in some instances indifferent. The tone of the business was more active, and recent rates advanced fully is per qr-46s to 60s for old, and 58s to 64s for new. A fair business in barley—' malting 31s to 425, grinding 29s to 31s per qr. Oats in at modere show, at previous prices—quoted at 23s to 3 59 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 38s to 465; peas, 38s to 455• Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 70s to 74s ; 40s to —s per sack. LEICESTER—Nov. 30. The supply of wheat to-day was about an average, an d prices were rather higher than of late. White, 65s to 67 8 —red, 48s to 65s per 36 stone. Barley inactive, but a good show, grinding, 30s to 335; malting, 335 to 37s per qr.; oats, 24s to 35s per 24 stone. Beans were very scare° —new, 40s to 42s ; old, 43s to 48s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 45s 1 Seconds, 43s 1 Thirds, 41s per 20 stone. CAMBRIDGE—Nov. 30. There was a limited supply of wheat to-day, and the trade ruled steady—prices being is per qr higher than last week's rates—white, from 608 to 65s ; red, 55s to 600. Barley a dull inquiry—malting, 368 to 408 grinding, 3 05 to 335. Oats were quiet, at 22s to 30s. Beans were sold at 42s to 44s per qr, MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—A distressing affair occurred at L - ckton, in the North Riding, on WednesdaP Mr. John Smith, a farmer, aged 67, who for some time bad been in a desponding state, was found hung up by the nec k in a cow-house, quite dead. His son had been about the farm with him all the morning, and deceased had frequently desired to get rid of his company, which he at length .tuc ceeded in doing, and at once appears to have committed the fatal act. Deceased has attempted to hang himself at va rious times, and at Harwood Dale was once cut down by his wife just in time to says bis life. It is a most singular fact that deceased's father also hung himself a few years ago in the same place. A coroner's jury have returned a verdict That deceased hung himself when under tempo rary insanity." BIRTHS. Farm.—On the 27th ult., at 56, Camden-square, the wife of George Fripp, Esq., of a son. GREEN.--On the 28th ult., at Goadby, Leicestershire, the wife of the Rev. W. Green, of a daughter. LUCAS.—On the 29th ult., at, Sister [louse, Clapham common, the wife of Charles Thomas Lucas, Esq., of a son, MARRIAGES. FRY—INGLE.—On the 28th ult., at Brighton, Joseph, the eldest son of Joseph Fry, Esq., of Beddington, to Oath& rine Frances, second daughter of the late Fredk. Ingle, Esq., of King's Lynn. JEBB—JENKINSON.—On the 27th ult., at Battersea parish church, the Rev. J. B. Jebb, M.A., of Walton Lodge, Derbyshire, to Mary Frances, eldest daughter of the Rev J . S. Jenkinson, vicar of Battersea. DE A.TIIS. COOKE —Oa the 28th ult., at Rose Bank, Peckham-11 0 J Mr. Charles Cooke, aged 45. FINCH —On the 25th ult. ; at Dover, Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. John Finch. HUGGARD.—On the 26th ult., at Brompton, Mr. Richard Huggard, aged SG. JENRYNS.—OR the 29th ult., at West Brompton, Ivan C. Jenkyns, 8.A., fourthson of Edward Jenkyns, Esq., late of the India-office, aged 23. MOORE.—On the 26th inst., at 2. Tenterden-street, Han o ver -square, James Adolphus Moore, Esq., R.M.A.I agei 7 1. PAWLEY.—On the 27th ult., at Pentonville.road, Daniel Pawky, Esq., aged 61. 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