The Sun. — London, England, 1856-12-26 00:00:00

Tl 3 iOl Xbitte it SUN OFFitIB, Seven, o'Wock. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day) The following appointments were made at the Admi• ratty this afternoon : Lieutenants—W. M. Wright, to the Scourge, for dis posal ; H. J. Challis, to the Blerheim. Naval Cadets—J. C. Montgomery, H. F. Crohan, W Otter, and J. W. Gambier, to the Iris. Master's Assistant—George A. Browning, to the Plumper. LONDON G. WHITEHALL, DEC. 26. Evening.) The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Earl Granville to be Chancellor of the University of Lon don, in the room of the Earl of Burlington, resigned. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 26. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Jose Joaquin de Mora as Consul-General in London ; of Don Lorenzo Juan Gutierrez as Consul at Hong gong; and of Don Manuel Gomez de Avellaneda as Consul at Malta, for Her Majesty the Queen of Spain. The Queen has been also pleased to approve of Mr. Gideon S. Holmes as Consul at the Cape of Good Hope, for the United States of America. WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, DEC. 26. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Robert Blair, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Chadwick, who exchanges. 3d Dragoon Guards—The Christian name of Troop- Sergeant Major Don, appointed to a Cornetcy, without purchase, and Adjutancy, on the 12th December, 1856, is James, and not William, as previously stated. 9th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John De Heley Chad wick, from the 2d Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Blair, who exchanges ; Samuel Ashton Pretor, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Gifford, promoted in the 6th Dragoon Guards. Corps of Royal Engineers—Staff -Sergeant James Mutch to be Quartermaster and Commissary of Clothing; for Gentleman Cadet George E tward Langham Somerset Sandford to be Lieutenant, which appeared in the Gazette of the 11th ult., read Gentleman Cadet George Edward Langham Somerset Sanford. 2d Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant John Chalrner3 to be Captain, without purchase, vice Adams, deceased ; E ns i gn Charles Squirl to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Chalmers. 4th Foot—Ensign George M. Billington to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the Hon. H. N. G. Massey, who retires David Smith, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bil lington. 29th Foot—John Edward Longdet.‘, Esq., late Paymas ter, Turkish Contingent, to be Paymaster, vice Jameson, deceased. 40th Foot—Ensign John Vander Horst Rees, from the 90th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Handy, who exchanges. 43d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Arthur Croker has been permitted to resign,,his Commission. 44th Foot—The Ch,istian name of Mr. Abbott, who was permitted to resign his Commission as Ensign on the 12th instant, is John, and not William, as previously stated. 47th Foot—Ensign Spencer Edward Orr to be Lieut., without purchase, vice Mallett, deceased ; Ensign George Onrry Clarke to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Morres, who retires; Samuel Heywood, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Clarke ; Gentleman Cadet Francis Thomas Elwood, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Orr. 57th Foot— Ensign Samuel F. Sewell to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Macartney, deceased ; Gentleman Cadet Charles Henry Cox, from the Royal Military Col lege. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Sewell. 62d Foot—Ensign James O'Hara to ba Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Duff, who retires; Reginald Whitting, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice O'Hara. 72d Foot—Ensign James William Fitzgerald Butler has been permitted to resign his commission. 90th Foot—Ensign Samuel Roden Handy, from the 40th Foot, to lie Ensign, vice Rees, who exchanges. CAVALRY DEPOT (Maidstone). For Capt. William Miller, from half-ply of the 2d Dra goons, to be Adjutant, which appeared i❑ the Gazette of 14bh Nov., 1856, read Capt. William Miller, on half-pay, &c. HOSPITAL STAFF. Staff Assistant Surgeon Douglas Arthur Reid, M.D., has been permitted to resign his Commission. Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, with local rank, Thos. Ligert wood, M. 8., to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class. BREVET. TO BE LIETJTENANT-COLONELS. Brevet-Major John George Rawatorne, 91st Foot. Major Robert Henry Lindsell, 28th Foot. Brevet-Major Tyrrell Byrne, Ist Foot. Major John A. V. Kirkland, Unattached. Major James Conolly, Unattached. Major Frederick Robert Elrington, Rifle Brigade. Brevet-Major Thomas Henry Clifton, Unattached. Brevet-Major John Turner, C.B , Royal Artillery. Major Edward W. D. Bell, 23d Foot. Major Robert Lockhart Ross, Depot Battalion. Major Robert William Lowry, 47th Foot. Major Frederick Spence, 31st Foot. Major Edward Westby Donovan, 33d Foot. Brevet-Major J. F. Manners Browne, C. 8., Royal En. gineers. Major Robert 0. Bright, 19th Foot. Brevet-Major S. Delves Broughton, Royal Artillery. Brevet-Major William A. Fyers, Rifle Brigade. Brevet-Major Hugh A. B. Campbell, Royal Artillery. Major William Pretyman, Depot Battalion. Brevet-Major Henry Robert Carden, 77th Foot. Brevet-Major George L. Thomson, 4th Foot. Major David Watson, 82d Foot. TO BE MAJORS. Captain Edward E. Haines, 92d Foot. Captain William Murray, 10th Light Dragoons. Captain Richard Anderson, 56th Foot. Captain George Edward Baynes, Bth Foot. -Captain Henry- Loftus, 71st Foot. Captain R. J. ROBB O'Connor, 17th Foot. Captain Richard Rocke, 72d Foot. Captain William Francis Ring, 87th Foot. Captain Edward B. Cureton, 12th Light Dragoons. Captain Hon. Edward S. Plunkett, 95th Foot. Captain Henry Charles Fitz Gerald, 33d Foot. Captain Henry W. Campbell, 79th Foot. Captain Horatio H. Morant, 68th Foot. Captain William Pole Collingwood, 21st Foot. Captain H. Bassett Scott, 9th Foot. Captain Joshua Grant Crosse, 88th Foot. Captain Frederick C. Bligh, 41st Foot. Captain William Macdonaid, 53rd Foot. Captain Thomas Gilley, Adjutant of a Depot Battalion. Lieutenant and Captain Alexander Viscount Balgenie, Grenadier Guards. Lieutenant and Captain Robert James Lindsay, Scots Fusilier Guards. Captain George John Forsyth, 57th Foot. Captain Alexander J. J. Macdonald, 95th Foot. Captain Coote Buller, Rifle Brigade. Captain Frederick E. Apr , leyard, 7th Foot. Captain H. Hope Crealock, 90th Foot. Paymaster Richard Jellicoe, Half•pay Recruiting Dis trict, to be Major in the Army, the rank being honorary only. Ile following promotions to take place in consequence of the death of General the Hon. Wm. Henry Gardner, of the Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-General Richard Seeker Brough to b© General. Major-General Thos. Dyneley, C. 8., to be Lieutenant- General. a Major-General Sir Wm. Fen wick Williams, Bart., the Senior Supernumerary General Officer, to be placed on the fixed establishment. The undermentioned Officers on the Retired Fug Pay List of the Royal Artillery, to be Generals, in consequenco of the promotion of Lieutenant-General Brongh, the Offi cer who stood next below them at the time of their retire ment, in accordance with the 21st clause of the Royal Warrant of 3d Nov., 1851, viz. : Lientenant-General Richard Uniacke, of the late Royal Irish Artillery. Lieutenant-General George Irving, of the late Royal Irish Artillery. The undermentioned Cadets of the East India Com pany's Service, to have the local and temporary rank of Ensign daring the period of their being placed under the command of Colonel Sandham, Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for Field Instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining : Juin; Herschel, Gent. Robert Claude Danbuz, Gent. Hastings Macsween, Gent. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Warwic!shire Militia, Ist Regiment—Robert Dymock Vaughton, Esq., to he Adjutant and to rank as Captain, vice Captain and Adj %taut T. Cassan, resigned. Corn rnis. mission as Adjutant from the Crown, dated the 7th Nov., 1856. Commission as Captain, dated the 18th Dec., 1856. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS -LIEUTENANT. 2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia.—Ensign John Gurneys Freeman to be Lieutenant, vice Mathew, promoted. 3d, or Royal Westminster Light Infantry R-giment of Middlesex _Militia—Ernign John Willcock to be Lieute nant, vice Thomas, appointed Quartermaster. RIFF PIRATES. Barque "Hymen, of Liverpool, captured by Riff Pirates on the Moorish Co as t i n Ap r il, 1851 i. , Notice is hereby given that the Board of Trade have received from her Majesty's Consul at Tangier, through the Foreign-office, bills of exchange amounting to 3 ,278/. s s , being the equivalent in sterling of 16,000 dollars, paid by - the Mo rish Government in satisfaction of the loss occa sioned by the pirates. All persons interested in the above ship, cargo, freight, wages, &c., are requested to send in their claims, with full particulars, accompanied with documents and such evidence of their right as they are able to furnish, to the Board of Trade, on or before the 20th January, after which the distribution will be made as soon as sums to which the respective claimants shall be found to be entitled shall be ascertained. Board of Trade, Dec. 22. • NOTICE TO MARINERS. (Y0.,45 . .)_ . JERSEY— CLIA.NNEL ISLANDS. Fixed Light at Verclut. St. Catherine's. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty hereby give notice, that on and after the Ist day of Jan., 1357, a light will be exhibited from the light tower recently erected at the outer extremity of Verclut pier or breakwater, on the north side of Sit. Catherine's Bay, on the east coast of Jer sey, one of the Channel Islands. The light will be a fixed white light, the illuminating apparatus a lens of the sixth order. The light is placed at a height of P.O feet above the mean level of the sea, and s h ou ld be visibl e i n ordinary weather from the deck' of a ship at a distance of from 7 to 1') miles. The light tower is an octagonal structure of iron, painted white. It is 30 feet high from base to vane, and . stands on the outer extremity of the parapet wall of the pier, in lat. 49 deg. 13 min. sec. 18 N., long. 2 deg. 1 min. 12 sec. west from Greenwich, nearly. The tide at Jersey rar ges 20 feet at neaps, and 36 feet at ordinary. springs. By command of their Lordships, , JOHN WASHINGTON, Hydrographer. Hydrographic-office, Admiralty, London, 17th December, 1856. This notice affects the following Admiralty Charts : Channel, No. 1,598; Jersey , 11.1 . 62; Cape Car taret to Cape Frehel, No. 59 • also British Lighthouse List, No. 23. NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Department of the Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house, Dec. 24. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested therein, that preparations are now making for the intended distri bution of proceeds arising from the Russian barque Clio, captured May 27, 1855 ; the Russian vessel Alku, and the Russian brig Eros, captured May 28, 1855, by her Majesty's ships Swallow and Wrangler •—a quantity of Swedish iron seized in the island of Ap plo, Oct. 5, 185 5 , by her Majesty's ship Falcon ;—the Russian vessel, name unknown, cap tured Sept. 19, 1855 ; and the Swedish vessels Active, Charlotte, and Fernan, captured Nov. 20, 1855, by her Majesty's ship Gorgon. Agents or other persons having any just and legal de mand, unliquidated, against the said proceeds, are required to transmit the particulars of any such demand to the registrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that the same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said Court. Agents and all other persons holding powers of attorney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled to claim the share of any captor, are requested, with as little delay as possi ble, to transmit the same, accompanied by the usual do cuments, to the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset house." Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in the London Gazette, of the date proposed for the com mencement of distribution ; and, at the same time, the amount of an individual's share in the respective classes will be announced. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Torn Fowler Slater, grocer, Bradford. BANKRUPTS. George William Jones, milliner, Oxford-street, to sur render, Jan. 6, and Feb. 5, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Par ker and L ee, St . P au l' s-c h urchyar d . James Wood, cheese factor, Shude-hill, Manchester, Jan. 7, and 27, a t t we l ve , a t the Manchester f )istrict Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Heald, Manchester. Thomas Wells, grocer, Dorset-place, Clapham-road, Jan. 7, and Feb. 10, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Richardson and Sadler, Old Jewry-chambers, City. Robert Ashworth, cotton spinner, Rossendale, Lanca shire, Jan. 9 and Feb. 6, at the Manchester District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthing ton, and Shipman, Manchester. . , Francis Boyd, grocer and flour dealer, Tynemouth, Jan. 9, and Feb. 13, at half-past twelve, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Mewcastle upon-Tyne ; Watson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. John M`Millan, ship owner, Liverpool, Jan. 7 and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Anderson and Collins, Liver pool, George Gwilliam, wheelwright and blacksmith, Leeds street, Liverpool, Jan. 7 and Feb. 2, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Li verpool ; Pemberton, Liverpool. Frederick Read Davies, auctioneer and forage dealer, Union-street, Plymouth, Jan. 12, at eleven, and Feb. 2, at one, at the Exeter District Court, Plymouth. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Elworthy, Plymouth. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, the Week ending on Saturday the 211th day of Dec., 1856. METE DEPAITIKENT. Notes issued $24,378,93 )7.) 31 Dated the 24th day of December BANKING DE Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000 Rest ........ ...... 3,240,390 Public deposit s (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 6,841,949 Other deposits ...„ .. 9,493,093 Seven Day and other Bills ••:••• •• •• 822,242 Government debt.... 11,015,10 Other securities 3,459,900 Gold coin and bullion 9,901,930 Silver bunion.. £24,375,930 MARSHALL, Chief Cashier, 1856. PARTMENT. 435,000,674 Governmentsecuritiet (lneludg.Dead Weight Annuity).... . 10,870,431 Other securities 17,654,460 Notes .... 5,863,890 Gold and silver coin., 611,893 £35,000,674 1. MARSHALL, Chief Caabier. 1856. Dated the.24th day of December AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 23, 1856, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : s. d. From the British Possessions in America 37 104 Muscovado, the produce of the Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies 37 41 Average of the above three descriptions 37 4 COURSE OF EXCHANGE.— THIS DST, Amsterdam.. .• •• • ... 11 '4% Gibraltar,... .• •••• • • • • --- Ditto, three months 11 173 Leghorn ..... .• 29 62 Rotterdam •••••• • • •• •• 11 17% Genoa ***** ••• • • •• • •• 25 80 Antwerp .....• ........ 25 35 Milan .......• --- Brussels .....• ........ 25 37 Venice. Hamb... . .• • urgh 13 7 Naples •• • • •.. 42% iltona .............„ Palermo ..... .... 129 Pari5........ „ ........ 25 25 Messina .. ••• 12951 Ditto, three months .. 25 6731 Lisbon .. Marseilles 25 67% Oporto .. .••• • • • • 51% Bourdeaux ............ ltio Janeiro Frankfort-on- aine 119 1 A Buenos Ayres ...... „ Berlin ................ New York,6o days' sight Vienna 10 44 Philadelphia •• • • Trieste • 10 46 ' ?aloes or strLucts, Pli eetersburg 37% ltadrid. ......... 49 , 4 Barcelona „ - oz. Foreign Gold In Bars £3 17 5 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Silver in bars .. 0 5 1% TEE BORDER COUNTRY.—A n i nt i mat i on, wh i ch has just appeared in the journals, of an application by the Duke of Buccieuch to the court to disentail his Gran town and Caroline Park baronies, has given very Brea' satisfaction throughout his wide border domains. It is hoped he will now extend this judicious movement to his estates in the south, where the entail laws are no favourites, and thus the towns, at present suffering from an odious embargo, will obtain relief. As a counterpoise to this, however, it is rumoured that a very extensive emigration is contemplated next spring from, the duke's Eskdale's estates. This is greatly to be regretted, and would be quite unnecessary were a different system of management adopted by the landlord. That wide range of country comprehends 40,000 acres, and as there are only 104 heads of resident fami lies, consequently every one of these might have a com fortable holding of 300 acres or so at home, instead of being driven out of a country in which they receive little encouragement to remain. But this cannot be accomplished, owing to a system of favouritism which prevails in the disposal of farms, to which every consi deration must give way. Thus Scotland is losing the services of a remarkably fine race of men, who would de honour to any country, and wide tracts in Eskdale, Liddelsdale, and Teviotdale, a t p resent no t h a lf culti vated, are doomed, for the present, to remain unim proved.—North British Daily Mail. GABOTTING ET A TICICET-OF-LEAVIC MAN. —On Christmas-eve a daring gar ote robbery was attempted near Sheffield by two scoundrels, one of whom has a ticket of leave, and was captured on the spat. Benjcmin Buckingham Styring, a scissor-grinder, living in Orchard treet, was going home between 11 and 12 o'clock, and just as he turned up an archway leading to his house he was seized by the neck by a man who was following him, in the usual manner of garotters. A second mail immediately went up and commenced rifling his pockets. Styring struggled and punched at the men with all his might, and succeeded iu turning round and closing with the man who had seized him by the throat. Being an adept at wrestling, he threw the fellow down, and called out for assistance. His house was within a distance of 20 yards, and his wife, hearing the cry, ran out and seized the man with whom her husband was struggling en the ground. The other robber swore at the woman, and used considerable violence to rescue his companion, but before he could effect his release a number of neigh bours and persons passing along Orchard-street, which is a very busy thoroughfare, flocked to the assistance of , he Styrings. One of the robbers ran off as fast as they approached, leaving his companion —the one who had seized Styring by the throat—to his fate. The captured man struggled violently, and severely " punched " several of his captors, who, however, stuck manfully to him until the arrival of a policeman. On being taken to the police-station the robber was recognised as a ticket-of-leave man, named John Sylvester. The fellow, though only 21 years of age, has been twice sentenced to be transported. The first time was about tee years ago, when he was transported for a term of seven years, but was released, and returned to Sheffield, after the lapse of five years. Four years ago he was again sentenced to be transported for 10 years for a till robbery, but returned to Sheffield with a ticket of leave six months ago, since which time he has had to abscond io consequence of robbing his sister, and only a very short time ago reappeared in the town. - -- i ADVERrISgM , _ , ENT. 1 lOEIT AND HEARING SPECTACLES, POWERFUL TRIMMER, OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE Geasszs.—Messrs. S. and B. Soloruons, opticians, 39, Albe naartc-street, Piccadilly. Observe--opposite the York Hotel. By leer Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable ano extraordinary improvements in the most powerful ami brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per spective Glasses, to know the distances. These telescope, possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece, swill show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three miles and 'I i hi.if distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They are of large r and a': sizes, with increasing powers accordingly.—Th e Boyar Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very smal', powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by whict, a person can be seen and known li miles distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, and at the opera houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, reee-cotase, , =nap, and perspective glasses, with wonderful power. Newly-constetzted Spectacle Lenses of the great est transparent power, The valuable advant age d er i ve d from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aged persona are seenlepleeioyththese lenses o f a muc h l ees magnify' their enabled pation_. cant osight at the m os t m i nu t e occr big power—and they do not require the frequent change 4 to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance Persons can be suited at the most remote part of the world, by sending o ne o f the g lasses out o f t h e i r spectacles in a letter, and stating, the distance from the eyes they can read small newspaper print with it; and those who have not made u se o f spec t ac l es by statin g their age . Deaf ness. New Di scovery. The Organic Vibrator, an ex trao:dinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for 1 deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass any thing of the kind that has been, or probably ever :an be, produced. Being o f th e same co l our as th e s k in, is not per ceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church sad at public assemblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises i n the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-39, Albemarle see. Piccadilly. Observe —opposite the York Hotel. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1856. no easy matter. The Emperor had gone to Tula , the day before, and was expected back the day hftef: that on which we intended to start ; and, to make a long story short, it was 6 o'clock on the evening of the second day after we intended to start before four very miserable, lame, limp, little ponies were sent to our hotel to be fastened to the huge ta rantasse, which we were gravely assured they would whirl away at the rate of 10 or 12 versts an hour. A verst, be it understood, is about the same measure of distance as the French kilometre—and may be practically considered as two-thirds of an English mile. Leaving the courier, the valet de place (one Antonio Bellini, au honest Italian who had come to Moscow as a wild beast proprietor, and had been rendered bankrupt by the obstinate way in which his lions and tigers persisted in dying)—and the English courier to pack up our luggage, we sallied out to the Hotel de Labardie to dinner, and gave orders to the driver to call for us as soon as the operation was completed. It should be premised that we had laid in a stock of provisions for the road, as our friends had counselled us to do—tea, the great Russian wade mecum, which is certainly , more refreshing and delicious in Russia than any where else—white bread, sugar, sher r y, h am , saus ages, cheese, sardines, potted game, all foreign except the bread, and in that Moscow can challenge the bakers of any city, not excepting Vienna, in the world. And here, before leaving Moscow most probably for ever, let me, in an- ticipation of the more general remarks I shall hereafter have occasion to make, and of the de scription of the great establishments connected with charity and philanthropy in which that strange city abounds, give some data as to the prices, such as we found them, at least, during the Coronation. The impossibility of travelling uninterruptedly, the annoyances of the passport system in its most rigid form, and the exaggerated statements respect ing the difficulties of obtaining accommodation which were industriously circulated prevented any great influx of foreigners to those fetes. It was imagined that the circulation of those stories would justify the shopkeepers and lodging-house pro prietors in the exorbitant charges they have made on those who fell within their grasp. A. rouble, or 3s. 2,0., scarcely goes as far as a shilling in the dearest parts of London. For example, the hire of an ordinary brougham, with a pair of sorry horses, for the month is from 651. to 701., and the driver expects to be paid besides. The common drosky drivers ask a rouble and a half an hour, and a rouble for the shortest drive. The price of a bed room and sitting-room for the month has been about 551., and the most grubby and dingy boar l ing -houses charged 10 roubles, or about 1/. 15s : a day for bed, dinner, and breakfast, without wine or beer. For washing shirts 12 roubles a dozen was asked at the outset, and the price was with difficulty reduced to about ls. each. The price of a pair of white kid gloves is ss. 6 , 1. or 6s. There was a fish soup, very excellent indeed, and of pe culiar flavour and richness, served up at the Rus sian restaurant at which we dined, which cost 25 roubles, or about four guineas for three persons, and the same description of soup is sometimes made so extravagantly that it costs 51. or 6/. a head ! The common price of champagne is 15s. a bottle, and the quantity the Russian officers consume is very great. In fact, the luxuries of life, which are here regarded almost as necessaries, are of enor mous cost. The whole price of food was raised very little, so that these excesses must be regarded as extortions for the most part, and as the involuntary contributions which all strangers and travellers are required to pay to the maintenance of trade and commerce when they go to see sights beyond their own country. But what is this roar of distant thun der! Oh, the " ekipadge" (the Russians are obliged to borrow many words from foreign languages to express those things with which civilisation has made them acquainted)—the " ekipadge" is at the door My two friends and myself got inside ; Walter and our English courier got into a huge dicky, or rumble, in front ; poor Bellini made us a warm speech in Italian ; the driver cracked his whip, and we—were immediately sent with our head into each other's stomachs with a lunge so violent and so sharp that we really should have been justified in thinking the carriage had blown up. But it was nothing ; our tarantasse was merely under way, and this was the first roll over the stones. Before we could utter an exclama tion we were pitched violently back with our heads rap against the hard cushions, while the noise, the creaking, the rattling of glass, the screaming of tortured timber, rose high above our cries of dis tress. Any one who has ever been buffeting a gale head to wind in a short sea, and in a short elderly steamer, will be able to form some notioi of the motion of our tarantasse over the ill-paved streets of Moscow and across the huge blocks of stone of the chausee. The lights in the shops danced like wildfire before our eyes ; and as the camphine lamps which illuminate the streets shone in through the ports of our driving land-ship the features of each seemed to the other hideously distorted, now pulled out to an unnatural length, and in an instant flat tened, and then extended to twice their breadth. No one had the moral courage to say it. Each was waiting for the other to pronounce the fatal word, but it is my belief that if any of the party had said, " I really can't stand this ; we must stop !" the expedition would have been at an end, to the great joy at that time of the whole socielte. It was at 6.30 p.m., in the dark of a cold, wet, and blowing night, that the tarantasse weighed and stood for Tula, driving through the streets of Moscow like a two decker rushing through the Downs for her moorings in a winter breeze. For nearly half an hour the noise, the clatter, the pitching was most annoying and sickening, forsolong were wein working through the enormous city, which revealed itself to us for the last time shining with rain, and at last died out in a dim glow w hi c h li g h te d up the heavens far and wide. Then we g o t off the paveme n t, an d th e motion was easier ; the perch began to play a little, and we settled down more readily into our places. Out of the windowslwe could see nothing; all intowas dark. The rocking and shaking had set us cessationat t Igetlrei good, woo oavo emblazonedsa f d : 8 0 a. o u lnu n sdr d tpfiho.rerms first stage, asv o tcea t eTr i g o he n e . hlec l 7h V avedne respectable. h rsoss a ret had all a hazy unpleasant sleep, which was broken p by ul a led sud u d p en fromdo hadubl beene-double-headed es Moscow. aodfeadr with much veryea et of t l hh g eimh unintelligiblei o t s e t b a u n i c l i d e i n n ti g ntf w yop i r t me h aa a t. tion engraved thereon respecting places and dis tances : de e e a s Pl in asr tg black 1 ° a lDu c os k se w letter ai the side of the entrance, invited us to enter, and in distant apartments we heard Walter battling with the Spirit of Evil, or the postmaster, as we crossed the threshold. Th e post for four horses had been paid to Tula, a distance of 180 versts. It was not very great-21 roubles silver, and 5 roubles and 46 copecks for turnpikes, for there are said to be turnpikes in Russia, on to Orel. Passing through a long and cheer less room, in which a high-smelling and dingy-looking party of natives wore waiting, we entered a smaller room, warmed by a stove and provided with two chairs, and a most uncompro mising leather-covered sofa and a card-table, by way of furniture, and in this we remained worship ping the goddess Tchai till the hors es were p a t to, and we rushed forth into the darkness once more. For the somovar, or hot-water urn, the charge was about 10d. To the yainschik, or driver, the fee was 30 copecks, or a shilling, for which trifling consideration he performed a humiliating series of genuflexions. As the horses were announced Wal ter came forth, looking flushed and red in the face and guilty in the eyes. We knew we had b een telling an awful number of lies on our account ; but we forgave him in the most generous manner, as they had not been told to us, and so w• set forth upon our journey from Berliova. oi7or some other people. On these grounds you deelare yoti' dissent from the proposition of the committees, antl your adhesion to th# , o of Mr. Marcy. The committee declare their inabilityto comprehend how Otte dimensions or the amount of any trans,:ctiOn can affect the laws by which it is governed; how those who seek to maintain the laws against physical force can be accused of seeking to institue physical for for the laws ; how those rho are endeavouring to arrest the rggressions of Great Britain against a variety of foreign nations should be accused of wishing to assert her supremacy over some other people. Still more are they at a loss to conceive how these in comprehensible charges become the basis of the conduct of a public man in striving to put down, not only the laws of England, but her means of defence ; and, inde pendently of thi , , of depriving the nation of all action and of all care i❑ reference to its own action ; its own laws and its own existence. This rule, applied to aggro gate securities, must come next to apply to individual securities, and the Bill of Rights, Magna Charta, and the Trial by Jury, he found no less objectionable to modern progress and incommensurate with its interests. On this point the committee beg to refer you to the leading article in the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last, which they have rend with pleasure and gratifi cation. "The Spectator of the 13th inst. also corrects a very grave error into which you have fallen. The editor says :—' Mr. Cobden confounds two things essentially distinct. The 'right to search,' that led to the war of 1812 was the right to search United States men-of-war in order to discover and take British subj..cts ; not the right to search merchaehnen for goods. The latter was the right waived in 1854.' "Notwithstanding all the committee have herein stated, in the present extinction of all public men and the fear that has possessed them of hearing their own voice or seeing their own handwriting, the committee are bound to thank you for even such an opportunity as you have affor,led of discussing the question of whether Eng!ar.d is to sink or not, and they give you the credit of this, that you are the only politician in England who —subsequently to the Paris Conferences—would venture to write a letter upon maritime la v. "The committee beg to cenelude by repeating their request with reference to the letter of the Ne , ..ca , tle Cumuli , tee and the report of the Birmingham Conference on the Right of Search.—Your obedient servant, "IsAec IRONSIDE, Chairman. "Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. THE CAREER OF A NOTORIOUS CONVICT. We gave in The Sun a short time ago a brief account of a desperate convict named George Woodcock, who was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the recent Devon winter assizes for escaping from Dartmoor Pri son. It appears that, although so young—being only 25 years of age—he boasts that he has been in almost every gaol in the country, and that he has committed " every crime short of murder." He has been convicted under various aliases—Sigismund, Colbeck, Johnson, Thompson, and Massey. In the spring of 1853 he coal witted a burglary at Bedferd, and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. While in gaol he behaved with great violence, and made several attacks upon the gover nor, Mr. Roberts. He was threatened with corporal punish. went, but this had no effect upon, him, and in the fol lowing July he smashed the furoiture of his cell, and threatened to take the life of any one who approached him. The governor, however, with the assistance of the officers, overpowered him, and he was then placed under restraint. He afterwards kicked at the governor, and serious injury would have been the result had he net fortunately misstei his aim. On one occasion he closed the door immediately on the governor entering the cell, with the intention, as he afterwards stated, of stabbing him, " washing his hands in his blood," and then destroy ing himself. Frustrated in his diabolical design, be exhibited alternate signs of repentance and fury; and on being released from restraint he attempted to straegle himself. Being detected in this attempt by one of the warders, he endeavoured to dash out his brains by knocking his head against the floor. So violent was his conduct that for six weeks he was secured, hand and foot, to his bed. In the month of August he was placed in a lunatic asylum, and here Woodcock assumed a quiet and even pious demeanour, which threw the keepers off their guard, and on the 6th Oct. following he effected his escape. He was not at large long, for in the next mouth he was committed to Derby gaol on a charge of theft, and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment and 10 years' penal servitude. While in Derby gaol the governor, Mr. Sims, having ascertained that Woodcock was a notorious character, made sundry inquiries re specting him, and found out that he had been iu prison no less than five times in Wakefield for various offences ; was sentenced to a month's impri sonment at Aylesbury sessions for stealing shoes, in 1847 ; three months for some offence, in the name of Massey, at Durham, in 1848 ; a month's imprison ment at Leicester assizes, for stealing boots, i❑ 1849, in the name of Johnson ; 12 months at Retford, in 1850, for housebreaking ; and nine months at Northampton assizes, in 1851, in the name of Thompson, for stealing boots at Daventry. Besides this, Mr. Sims says he has reason to believe he has bee❑ i❑ many more prisons in London, Scotland, and France. The conduct of Wood cock while in Derby gaol was most violent and outrageous; he struck a fellow-prisoner, and attempted the life of an officer with a piece of wood which he broke off from the seatboard of an iro❑ bedstead in his cell. He was i❑ the dark cell of Northampton gaol for misconduct 72 days, was once flogged ,and several times put in irons for the safety of the officers. He boasted to the cbapiain that he had committed every crime short of murder. On o:,:e occasion he made a daring attempt to escape from Preston gaol by ascending the chimney, but was dis covered. He retuned to come down again, but altered his determination when some fire was kindled and the smoke ascended the chimney. Being sent to Dartmoor he made his escape while doing some out-door work. He was apprehended at York, and was sent to the Dation county gaol, which is the receptacle for all the escaped convicts of Dartmoor ; for nu matter in what part of the country they are apprehended, instead of being taken back to Dartmoor, they are conveyed to the county gaol, and, after undergoing a punishment, they are sent bank to finish the period of penal servitude to which they bad been previously sentenced. A CALENDAR OF FIRESIDE SAINTS. ( From Punch's Almanac.) ST. BETST.—St. Betsy was wedded to a knight who sailed with Raleigh and brought home tobacco, and the knight smoked, But he thought that St. Betsy, like other fine ladies of the Court, would fain that he should smoke out of doors, nor taint with 'bacco s moke the tapestry. Whereupon the knight would se ek his ggarden,n, his orchard, and in any weather smoke , s ub Jove. N w' it chanced as the knight smoked St. Betsy caeme to bins house ;" and said, "My Lord, pray ye , c ime into and n e t w h l e y k. c n ed ig a h r t e d went o ra with and St. said,Betsy,l who pr took ay: h m him Lo in rd to a , henceforth e smoke a h t e i p r en, and is d r t, r i n t p n n o a f t yn s u h r a h ur c e m s t e h ,, a , s t h y n o n u, l d your a h i r e , a a d n i d n t witho a n d h s e m r o o k w e n t fin A ge n r d s fi S h l . v e d e ß e n h t i o s m y p l a ! a e c p d e i p ht e ioni ; pu a to nd from that time the knight sat in the cedar chamber and smoked his weed. ST. PHILLIs.—St. Phillis was a virgin of noble paren tage, but withal as simple as any shepherdess of curds and-cream. She married a wealthy lord, and bad much pin money. But when other ladies wore diamonds and pearls, St. Phillis only wore a red and white rose in her hair. Yet her pin money bought the best of jewellery i n th e happy eyes of the poor about her. St. Phillis was rewarded. She lived until fourscore, and still car ried the red and white rose in her face, and left their tpT l a op k p e e o r e o tiro girl,and and g e n came s h t e e fragrance in her memory. Sr. Noten.—St. everything,Noihese te h w t_e as s seemed England 1 0 0 ve service. ; and she pray e d to St. Patrick that h e W ou ld g i ve her a good gift that would make her not proud but useful ; and St. Patrick p o o u t t a o to f h A is s o a w d n th h i n e g a , d a n ta d u t g o ll tbeSlta. m N e n o t r e a d h t h h a o t w Xi) secret has come down to so few, ST. Pacer.—St. Phoebe was married early to a wilful hut withal a good-hearted husband. He was a merchant, and would come home sour and-sullen from 'Change. Whereupon, after lunch pondering, St. Phoebe in her pa tience set to work, aid praying the while made of dyed lambs.wool a doer -mat. Arid it chanced from that time, that never did the husband touch that mat that it didn't clean his temper with his shoes, and be sat down by his Phoebe as mild as the lamb whose wool he had trod upon. Thee gentleness may .rake miraculous door-mats I ST. SALLY.—St. Sally, from her childhood, was known for her innermost love of truth. It was said of her that her heart was in a crystal shrine, and all the world might see it. Now once when other women denied, or strove to hide, their age, St. Sally said, "I am five and.thirty Whereupon, next birthday, St Sally's husband, at a feast of all their friends, gave her a necklace of six-aud thirty opal heads ; and on every birthday added a bead until the beads mounted fourscore and one. And the beads seemed to act as a charm, for St. Sally, wearing the sum of her age about her neck, age never appeared in her face.. Such, in the olden time, was the reward of simplicity and truth. St. LILY.—St. Lily was the wife of poor man, who tried to support his family, and the children were many, by writing books. But in those days it was not as easy for a man to find a publisher as to say his Paternoster. Many were the books that were written by the husband of St. Lily, but to every book St. Lily gave at least two babes. However, blithe as the cricket was the spirit that ruled about the hearth of St. Lily. And how she helped her helpmate ! She smiled euobeatns into his ink bottle, and turned his goose-pen to the quill of a dove ! She made the paper he wrote on as white as her name and as fragrant as her' soul. And when folks wondered how St., Lily managed so lightly with fortune's troubles, she always answered that she never heeded, them, for— That troubles were like babies, and only grow the bigger by nursing. very good man was St. Becky's hus- ST. BECKT.—A band, but with his heart a little too much in his bottle. Port wine—red port wine was his delight, and his con stant cry was " bee's-wing." Now, as ho sat tipsy in his arbour a wasp dropped into his „lase, and the wasp was swelled, stinging the lean inwardly. Doctors crowded, and with much ado the man was saved. Now, St. Becky nursed her husband tenderly to health, and upbraided him not, but she said these words, and they reformed him :—" My dear, take wine , and bless your heart with it, but wine in moderation ; else never forget that the bee's-wing of to-day becomes the wasp's-sting of to morrow. St. Petersburg accounts to the latest date state that the mild temperature of 1 to 3 degrees, which had pre vailed for Borne days past, was by no ratans welcome to people bisiaess., NOTES OF A TOUR FROM MOSCO FT TO THE CRigEA AND ODESSA. (From Special Correspondent of the Mmes'.) The Russians complain that the books of travels which have been written concerning the vast em pire they inhabit abound with misrepresentation and falsehoods, and are deeply imbued with preju dice, ignorance, and conceit. In order to prevent such charges being preferred against the notes made by me during an excursion of nearly three months' duration in the southern part of Russia I beg at once to state that I do not pretend more than to record what I saw, and that whatever is advanced on hearsay was reported to me by persons of re spectability and character, on whom the responsi bility of these statements must depend ; that I do not venture to offer any philosophic reflections on the habits, institutions, or social condition of the people, or propound any theories con cerning the government and administration of the country, but that simply writing what I believe true on the evidence of my own eye sight or hear ing, I leave to others the task of drawing such conclusions and deductions as they please. The friends whom I have left behind me in Russia must be well aware that I set out from Moscow without any disposition to regard their countrymen and in stitutions with an unfavourable eye, and they must not be offended if my impressions are recorded as they were formed, and are expressed with sincerity and candour. These impressions may be erroneous, but, at all events, they are honest, and I must own that had I gone no further than Moscowf should have had a very different notion of the condition of Russian sooiety from that which I now entertain after a short tour "off the rail." The grand spectacles of the coronation, the glare of the ballroom, the glitter of monster reviews, and all the civilised pomp of Moscow—its French and German shops, its gay equipages, and orderly streets, dazzled and per plexed the judgment. The Russian post-house,, the serf villages, the roads, the soldier on the march, the post- cart, the country town, the hotel —these presented another and a very different aspect of Russian life and manners. One of the objects I had- in view in making the journey was to judge, a= far as the time and means of observation at my disposal would enable me, of the condition of the country and of the effects of the late war upon the mass of the population ; another was to follow the route of the main body of the Russian reinforcements as they approached the Crimea; and a third was to get home as speedily as possible by a new route, which alsoafforded oppor tunities of becoming acquainted,superficially indeed but still to some extent accurately, with the physical aspects and social state of a vast tract which few strangers have occasion to traverse, and still fewer think it worth while to describe. In addition to these motives for undertaking, as it proved, a long and not very agreeable jaurney, au inducement presented itself the force of which moved me power fully, and which I am sure would exercise equal influence with any one who had lived so long with a British army as I had, and who had passed so many months of mingled joy and sorrows VI the society of friends whose voices are silent for ever. I wished to revisit our cemeteries and the scattered monuments and resting-places of our noble dead, to see with my own eyes that the Russians had kept their promise, and to ascertain the present state of Sebastopol. The prospect of beholding the plateau on which I had lived for nearly two years with very little interruption, and which was the scene of so many events, to be rememb ere d f or ever by all wh o i n th e smallest degree participated in them ; of going over the old ground once more, of mounting from Balaklava to the front, tracing the lines of the trenches now fast crumbling away, and peering about the city of the dead and its sunken navies, exercised over me a fascination which, if not strange, is certainly indescribable ; and the chance of doing this might, in all proba bility, never come again. And so I decided that I should proceed home by the Crimea and Odessa, for we had reason to believe very confidently that we could find steamers plying between the ports of the former province and the latter city, from which three or four routes to Eng land lay open to the choice of the visitor. The " we" is a pleasant reality, and not a newspaper phrase, for I was fortunate enough to find that my two com panions during the coronation month at Moscow were willing and anxious to accompany me and to make tht same journey —the one inspired by a de sire to revisit the Crimea, the other actuated by the natural wish of a young Englishman to behold the ground which the brilliant valour and the suf ferings of his countrymen have consecrated to the end of all time. As it would not be possible to procure permission from the police authorities of Moscow for such an expedition, undertaken, as it was, for pleasure, and not busin ess connec t e d with the service of the State, I applied to our Mi nister, Lord Wodehouse, to move the officers of Government to assist me, and his lordship,iwith his usual kindness and courtesy, at once complied w ith my request, and begged M. Tolstoy, adjoint of the Minister of Forei g n Affairs, to give me perrnissioi, to proceed into the Crimea. M. Tolstoy, to whom I was personally known, promised to do what was asked of him, and in a few days after the first appli cation forwarded to the Hon. Julian Fane, First Secretary of our Embassy, an " office" which he addressed to the Governor of the Crimea in our behalf, and of which we were bearers. It was a formidable looking missive, directed to the " General Major Jokoffsky, Civil Governor of the Crimea," and was about a foot squar e , w i t h a tre-. mendous seal full of distorted eagles and Cyrilli c letters, which is possibly familiar as being the seal of the Russian Foreign office to a good many of our statesmen. Armed with this, we proceeded to the passport-office, a large barracky-looking build ing, full of clerks, all as busy in describin g the eyes, noses, and chins of their fellow-men as Audubon ever was over a rara avis or Cuvier on new bone. In a few days our passports would be ready for Simpheropol, the civil head-clerk told us, and he kept his word. The passports which had been given at the St. Petersburg Chancellorie of the Minister Dolgorouki were taken from us, and in their place we received documents quite illegible to the general, in which "Alexandra Nicolaevitch, Gosondar and Emperator of All the Russias, in the form of a ukase," ordered all his subjects to take care of a gentleman with a stout figure, middling nose, eyes, mouth, arc., and to let him go and aid him in going to Simpheropol. For each of these the charge was about the same as that for our own Foreign-office passport—or a little less. So far we were all right, but the next thing to be done was to find out some means of locomo tion. There was a diligence going south to Khar koff, but all the places were engaged in this for many days, and, judging from the company we saw starting in it, and the outward appearance of the vehicle itself, we were irather pleased than other wise at finding that it would be impossible to get places. It was necessary, therefore, to buy a car riage of some kind, and all our Russian friends said, " By allimeana purchase a tarantasse—don't get a spring carriage, for if anything happens to it on the road you will never get it repaired, whereas any country smith can mend a tarantasse. And so to buy a tarantasse we sallied forth, and visited the quarter of long-bearded coach manufacturers, whom we discovered to be quite as advanced in their ideas as to the cost of their work, and as to hard bargains, as if they had lived in Long-acre all their lives. A tarantasse to look at is a decent commodious quiet sort of family °each, secured on three long perches, so that the body, which is placed amidships, so to speak, is balanced between the fore and hind wheels at some distance from them, owing to the length of these perches. I say to look at, but to travel in! when the time comes that horror will be revealed. They are of all shapes, however—like gigs, cabrio- THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY FRAUDS.—Rad• lets, sociables, broughams, watch boxes, soup tu- path, Kent, and Hogdon, were on Wednesday fully corn reens, all alike springless, and in that absence of mitted for trial by Mr. Tyrwhitt, Bail was accepted for springs possessing the occult virtues which recotn- the last named person. mend them to Russian t rave ll ers . Th e M osco w HI GHWAY Roe ssar AND MunDsa.—A cold-blooded Long-acre is a long line of wooden coach sheds of murder, perpetrated only for the purpowe of gratifying one storey in height, about half a mile from the the cupidity of the murderer, was committed on the Kremlin, fronting a branch of the Moskau river. It highway near Wiveliscombe, Somerset, about 12 wiles The a murder called ri was first Siieavered about 11 o'clock, by a Of from Taunton, about 10 o'clock on Tuesday night last. is unusually infested with saints and pigeons. the former there is always one in each shed, and it max LanglyeePawndhFiwrdhileobwsaelkinF home on the road in the road without an attendant lrve n is no wonder that he is generally black and wrinkled n a n h ea o r r e s r e and cart ach from assisting at so much cheating and roguery as cart, and w a n t d h f e n feetrthe further of e examination m person i b n a r e e g s n l g t . e d o e n r fi t n h d e i n f g re e t n h p t e p o r b f o n t d b y e is constantly being practised before his very eyes b 37 his votaries. We were asked invariably about a third more than the proper price, except inof Thomas Aplin, young man 22 years of age, employed stance, where the long-bearded proprietordemanded as an agricultural labourer by Mr. Corner, of Kings for a tarantasse as much as one would give for a brompton, Nettlecombe, the owner of the vehicle. He good secondhand carriage in, London. The agonies was quite dead, hie throat having been cut so as to nearly of bargaining were insupport a bl e to us, but what sever the head from the body. A carpet-bag was found in one in- must they have been to our kind friend who tran- the cart undisturbed, but deceased's pockets had been ceceaeede mar bad that day been at Wivelk -scc oel 51. note, nub: : ee,Cahn,rhdi Christmas slated French in to Russian and Russian into French turned tai o d u f t and his money carried away. It way soon as certained where he got change for a for one long hour ? And all to no purpos®. longobarbi thought we must give in, and we were Th ttm ho as determined not to be done, and the contest ended named Thomas showed his money before an acquaintance several days afterward,] in our purchasing a taran ceased drank freely anodn,trat treated White Hart, where de tasse with room for tb.ree inside, two outside, and a I , liquor. Aplin, the ea e l d Nation and others with eft to go home about 9 driver, in a remote part of the city, to which we had o , ctock, when he was very decease d, tipsy, h and Nation went away penetrated in search of less extortionate coach-menu- with him. Their way hams was the same for nearly a fasturers, for 501., including alterations and repairs. mile, but before they bad travelled so far the horse's The next thing was V 3 ge tau interpreter and servant, bead was turned in another direction, where it was and in this matter 'another excellent friend, M. de found as above stated. The young man Nation, who Mouchanoff, assisted US by obtaining from the Pos- lodged with his father, a small farmer, at Upton, was master-General a post-office courier, who was pope- taken into custody about 7 o'clock on Wednesday morn larly believed to speak German and to be versed in ! jug, a . a he w as proceeding home on foot, and his clothes other languages. O ur goo d Walter, however, on , w with ere bi " (11y ; he h a d i n hi s poc k ets a c l asp k n if e stained presenting hi mse lf t o us , was found to be rather ;blood, four sovereigns, and some coppers; and foot• weak in Teutonic and to be uite ignorant of any , other language but his vernacular. The sight of ponded with his boots. On being charged with the mur with der he exclaimed 'G You don't mean and n it • his uniform however (a smart green frock, the repeated examined b e f ore he made no reply. The same black facings charge being and braid on the shoulders), was cal- afternoon the prisoner was privately culated to produce a great effect on the postmasters, the magistrates and committed to the countyandawait a further • • examination on Wednes t set him to work at once to get horses. But this was day next. MARITIME LAW: (From the Shefield Free Pi•ess ) The Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee, at their weekly meeting, on the 231 inst , adopted the following reply to Mr. Cobden's third letter on Niaritime Law : "Council Hall, Sheffield, Dec. 23 ,1 , 1856, " Sir,—The Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee have to express their regret that in sending for publication your reply to their letter to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce you did not also send the letter to which it was a reply. With reference to your declining further dissuasion until the meeting of Parliament, the com mittee have to observe that you yourself raised the dis cussion of the subject by your letter to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Even in this very letter to the committee, not only do you decline dismission after opening it, but you discuss whilst so declining. The subject is one to discuss between man and man, not with reference to any conclusions of Parliament. You refer the committee to your letter to the Bradford Committee, The Sheffield Committee have had no communications on the subject, either with the Bradford or the Newcastle Committees, but they know that both those bodies, like themselves, have been studying the subject ; that they are moved by no personal or party considerations, and that a subject like the one under discussion requires both study and impartiality. The committee adopt the statement of the Newcastle Committee, which they subjoin, as the clearest and most suc duct enunciation of the cave that they have seen. They also transmit you herewith the report of the Birmingham Conference, of July, 1855, on the Right of Search, and beg of you to deal with the facts and arguments i❑ the letter, and the report, by pointing out any statements or conclu• sions that are erroneous." LETTER OF THY NEWCASTLE COMMITTRE, " 7, Sunderland-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, " Dec. 3. 1856. " 'To the President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, " Sir,—The letter which Mr. Cobden has addressed to you respecting the recent ' Declaration in regard to Maritime Law &aims attention, not only from the posi tion and talents of it.s author, but also from the gravity of the subject he has brought under your notice. " We, therefore, as citizens of England, offer no apology fur addressing you in consideration of such an important public question. "'The silence of Mr. Cobden for so long a time, in reference to the perilous position of this country in case of war, under the operation of the late international de claration, appears inexplicable, when we consider the very logical and able manner in which he has skown the irjurious effects it is certain to bring upon the nation. " We entirely agree with Mr. Cobden, that conse quences of the most serious nature must be apprehended by us, unless we escape from the imminent danger of such a departure from our ancient maritime usage ; but we differ with him respecting the course to be taken to avoid the results of the declaration he so ably exposes. We therefore venture to submit to you a few reasons which we hope will induce you to pause before you use your great influence,' as he urged you to do, in estab lishing the practice proposed by the American Govern ment of exempting from capture private property upon the ocean. " 1. The proposal to make war a duel of Govern ments is, we skink, likely to detach the operations of Governments from the interest of the people, and to make war an anomaly, and that to hold private property exempt while national property may be destroyed, 'rill cause wars to become frequent and protracted by limit ing their consequences. " `2. That no distinction of property, be it private or national, ought to be observed in case of war ; and that to spare the one and destroy the other is absurd, imply ing a national responsibility distinct from that of citi zenship. The sparing of enemies' pr perty on land has been always conditional on the submission of the district attached, but sparing it upon the high seas must be con ditional on the submission of the nation. " 3. That, as war is either the most holamn of all duties, or the most wanton of all crimes, involving in either case the sacrifice of human lite, to carry it on upon any novel principle of humanity is incompatible with the e.ecution of a judicial sentence, which is the only excuse for a just war. "'4. That, as just wars are undertaken to avert consequences more injurious than war itself, to limit their effects, or make them less terrible, would pro portionably weaken the sense of justice of the nation, which should make war the last extremity of demand ing reparation and enf .rcing redress. "' 5. That, although commerce in the first instance would apparently b• less obstructed by the adoption of the proposal of the American Government, yet as com merce depends upon the prosperity of a country, and as the coat of war must fall upon all classes of the commu nity by an increase of taxation, it would ultimately suffer in a greater degree than were the ancient Maritime Laws i❑ operation. " That in permit ing enemies' property to go free at sea, England parts with her only means of forcing an enemy's fleet to action, as the experience of the war concluded by the peace of 1856 disinctly shows. For it was only by her strict blockade of the enemy's ports, and the consequent injury to his finance, that those naval engagements were brought about, in which she se often proved victorious when hostile fleets, for the relief of their trade, gave battle to her blockading force. " 7. Thai as the military strength of Great Britain is not equal to that of the other great European Powers any future war would therefore be confined, should Mr. Cobden's wishes be carried out, into an exchange of broadsides between English ships and land fortresses, which the great war with Rusia hay shown to be wholly ineffective. England would have left to her neither military nor naval means of obtaining reparation or re dress, and would be limited either to the expensive, die honourable,' and dangerous resort of hiring mercenaries, or of purchasing peace by snbmit'ing to wrong. "'These considerations have induced us to address you on the sulject of Mr. Cobden's letter, for while we agree with him, that " the practical effect of the alterations made in the maritime laws at the Paris Conferences, if we go no fur- her, would be in case of war with a naval power to transfer the carrying trade, even of our own pens to neutral bottoms," we do not perceive the benefi *lel effects be supposes we would derive from the change he recommends, and that as by the maritime law the power of England has been established and maintained, we ought not to adopt the proposal of which he says " it is impossible to foresee all the consequences of such a revolution in the rules of war, but rather revert to the venerated judgments of our Admiralty Courts," for al though we cannot comprehend the" imperious necessity which caused us to waive our belligerent rights during the late war, we are solemnly convinced that whether we adopt the American proposal or submit to the re cent " declaration," in either case ruin will be brought upon the country. " I have the honour to remain, sir, on behalf of the Newcastle Committee for the Investigation of Diplo macy, your obedient servant, " GXOIIGE STOBART, Secretary." "In your letter to Bradford you assert certain dispo sitions of the United States, privately conveyed to the Foreign Office in England, as the grounds on which the British Government has acted ; Ahilet, in another letter to the same body, you assert the unfathomable nature of diplomacy, and the impossibility of knowing either the motives or act.' of the Government. You now as sume to have established the fact, and you leave it. The committee call upon you to make known the grounds of your statement, by which alone ibs value can be judged. They have to express their wonder that, with such knowledge in your possession, you did not, in your place iuParlieenent, call for the pro. Auction of such secret coinemnica.ions from the United States, which, if true, r en d e r e d futile and unavailing is its immediate effect the bloodshed occasioned by the hostilities wide Russia ; which, in their ultimate conse quences, went to supersede the laws of the realm ; and which at the moment constituted a case of coercion of England by a power with which she was not even at war, and the knowledge of which, with the exception of yourself, was concealed from the British nation. " After all, admitting all this to be imperious necee• city,' the legitimate consequence of such necessity would have been, not the waiver of the Right of Search, but the waiver of the war with Russia. "The committee are struck with the discrepancy in your manner of dealing with this subject as compared with others. On the repeal of the Cora Laws, you made die discussion in Parliament depend upon previous discussion in the country, and the committee cannot fail '„to remark thai, the results which must have been anticipated from your letter to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce have not come to pees. In that letter you urged the adoption of measures with the view f affect ing the decision of Parliament. You therein stated that the mercantile and manufacturing interests of the country were deeply involved' in the matter, and you called on the mercantile world to allow its voice to be heard on the question by Government and Parliament.' The committee cannot therefore understand your subse quent view respecting the unanimity of Parliament upon the subject. On the other hard, they cannot understand hot. Yeti could have so far doubted of the unanimity of Parliament as to have applied to to the Chamber of Commerce, seeing that the House of COIIIIIIO4EI has so far exhibited perfect unanimity in performing any taek that the Premier required of them. "The second paragraph of your latter to the commit tee proceeds upon an assumption very perplexing to them. They cannot find, and do not recollect it to have been stated anywhere, that the words of Nelson respecting England spending her last shilling and her last ship, applied to anything else Have the exercise of the Right of Search, at that time contested by Russia, and made by her the basis of the second armed neutra lity. If any one has done so—which the committee doubt—it cannot be the committees herein named, for they hive made themselves too well acquainted with the object to beliable to eech.mieprision of facts and confusion of terms. It is very true that a maritime supremacy did result to England from the exercise of the Right of Search, but that depended on no exclusive pretension set up by her, It depended on the possession of a relatively greater naval Power, which has given her the victory in coot , et with others whom she might meet at sea. Eng. land has never contested this faculty to any State ; on the contrary, she has asserted it for all. It was not originally put forward by her ; its origin is too ancient to be found in any written law ; but the form in which it has been incorporated into the laws of England is I adopted from the first French codes. It is with a cer tain compunction and shame that the committee refer to facts so notorious, and propositions so evident, as it is im possible they sh ou ld be unknown to a politician theof I your hi g h standing. The comm i ttee are under necessity of doing so, their task being not to argue with you, out toj reply to your l e tter. " The last paragraph i tof your letter assumes that laws must be altered b ecause ' o f the world's progress, aen also that laws rauetlee established to take the place of phy sical f orce . furit ier assume it to be the object of , the ennitniitees to assere'. !..upremacy for Great:Britain I Country Markets. DE BY SMITHFIELD.-DEC. 23. There was but a small supply of beasts, sheep, pigs, and calves to-day ; buyers were few, and but little business transacted, _ _ The following were the quotations t—Beef, 6d to 60: mutton, bed to 7d ; lamb, —d to Od ; veal, 7d tc 8.1 per lb. ; pigs, Os 6d to 10s 9d per score ; rough fat, 5s 6u to LI per 111 b. ; hides, 41d to 5d per lb ; calf-skins, 4cl to 6id per 10. EDINBURGH GRAIN.—DEc. 24. Supplies still large. Wheat ready sale. Other grain' heavy. Prices geuerally tending downwards. Wheat, on the top, 18e down, and on the average 4e 8d dpwn. Barley, is 6d down on the top, and 8d down on the average. Oats on th e t op 2 s Od up — on the average, Os 3d up. Beans on the top 4s Od down, and on the average, 6s 7d down. ATERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £2 2 9 8-12th. Do. new Barley Oats 1 4 2 3-12th'. Beans -12the. BOSTON—DEC. 24. We have again to report a limited supply of wheat, the greater part much out of condition. Good dry qualitie s in request at last week's rates, but other kinds difficult to quit, at is to 2s decline. Beans a dull sale, and is cheaper. Barley, oats, and peas as noted last week. Prices :—Wheat, red, 48s Ud to 59s ud ; now, —a to white, 578 sfi, do 61s Od , extra, 645. Barley, 38s Od to 466 Od. Oats 19s to 265. Peas, 3G to 41s Ud Beaus, Os Od to 49s 0(1 per qr. NEWARK-Dim. 24. Wheat, white 60s to 68s, red 58s to 645; barley, malting 44g to 4; s, grinding 30s to 40s; oats, 24st. 34s to 37e, 212 1 , 24s to 23s ; beans, Ms to 5 . ;s ; malt, 73s to 741 ; peas, 4 4 ' to ,6s; tares, 44s to 50s per qr. SEABoRNE MAILS. [When the date reindint open until wail, via Southan erenin,i previout.) for rn,king up a mail falls on a Sunday, the mail the day tollowir•g; acept in the case of the India npton, which, on such occasions, is made up the Lisbon . • Spain Gibraltar Gibraltar 1 Malta • • • • • • EgyA . • • • • • I Ceylon • • India Mauritius via Ceylon) China Penang . •• H Singapore Australia(viai the Cape).• Cape of Good Hope . • •• • • Mauritius Ceylm India Lisbon.. • 1 Madeira CapedeVerde Brazil. BuenosAyres Falkland Is lands.... West Indies (except Ha vana and Ilonauras). Venezu,•la M Grey Town.. New Granada Chili Peru •• California • • llonduras Passau .... Mexico ... • Havana • • .. Madeira .. • • Teneritre W C.of Africa British North America .. United States United States BrithihNorth America .. United States British North America .. Canada .. Made up at the Post Office. 7th,l7th, & 27th of the month. 4th & 20th of the month. 4th of 1 the month. Ilan. 12 ..1 'an. 5.• .. lan. 9.... td and 17th of the month. IJan. 17 .. ran. 2.... I,Jan. 23 !Every Fri. lan. 6 and' alternate Tuesdays. Dec. 31 .. fan. 27 ..} Liver pool Myer pool South ampton Magda. lens Magda-, 1 lens 1 Liver pool Gambia Asia Atlantic) Wash ington v. Ame rican M—Morning. E—Evening. Dec. 26 Jsn. 7 BO Jaclet Engla ni lOrinoce 1...... - l O IIDO° I co dace Arabi* Atlanti c Argo W hence des- patched. South ampton South ampton South ampton South ampton Dart mouth South ampton South ampton South ampton South ampton Ply mouth By what Vessel. Madrid IColombol Colombol Co um blan IV.S. Lindsay Tamar I When expected Des. 2G 4th and 20th of the month. .ran. 4.. ,Dec.— Jan. 25 Jan. 12 Ist and 16th of the month. 16th of the month. Dee. 20 RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.--Traffic return for the week ending Dec, 14, 1856 £26,235 2 Corresponding week last year 25,014 19 3 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the week ending Dec. 21, 1856 tAlTOSponding week last year 144,4586 0 013 Increase in 1856 ... . ........ . LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAT.—TrafOo re turn for the week ending Dec 21, 1836•••••.£2O ,434 13 6 Corresponding week last year. ................. ,633 3 4 EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE AND SCOTTJ $R CEN TRAL RAILWAY& —Trafli return for the week ending C D o e r c r . e 2 sp l o , . g. . . 1 . a .. 5 . t . . a 25,186 5 7 ndin CORK AND BANDON RA. Y.. ; ; L a. 5,168 Traffic return for enraing Dec. 20, 1856 ...................... ........E260 10 10 , 4 06 : Corresponding week last year ........................ 219 11 9 LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS AN COMPY.—Trafflo re turns for the week ending De c. 20, 1856 ...... £10,237 .1 3 I - - ---••-''''""'"-------.."------------'-_ HORRIBLE DEATII.---A horrible accident haPP sn-ed , near Gloucester on Tu esda y last. A young man, narnes James Stephens, a bricklayer, went with some cow' oanions shooting wild-fowl in the swampy meadows, adjoining the Severn, and in the evening they repair 7 to the Boatman's Pleasure, a public - house by the side ! the river, and played at cards for some drink. Stephen . lost, and afterwards too k his loaded gun, and went to tb: door of the house, and s wore with a dreadful oath th a t " the contents should g o through him that night." Tabill dreadful expression he re p eated two or three tiraes • afterwards want and leant against a brickstack, 61), stood with the st ock of the g un restin g on the grotillu, ii and the mu zzle p ointin g towards his throat, and r p ared to be endeavouring to discharge the P ie l followed him eame . 11 P' with his foot. While so engaged, his uncle and one °' his companions enteredshtorwu struggled g v l e e r sd , tteotprhhatethnes h, gun,4 who ehe g w u h n i l e through in that and Stephens held out hie hand to shake hands, say hplossihtiioidny.theOgnuenowf went t e omftenanadndthSete::::: a h ad o n u dj l d u sbto s ut e hn n d d geort t t h e contents c jt o ah n we t ,g e n ar otnsudnopdf:stnehua outne wad a t t hesai d sk to ul b l' e —oltelle 7P ham Chronicle. - e ave young man. s a ca w tt e e i r i in b g h his d brains in all directions. 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B ar ry ~..ti on receipt of post-ovqce . Mason, and Co., Purveyors Regent-street, London ;. Fort also' at 60, Gracechurch-street ; to her Majesty, Piccadilly ; . de • 6S, CornhiU ; 49, Bishopo -33J and 451, Strand; 4, Cheassps! . 64, Upper Baker-strset ; 63 55, iihariag-cross, . crate-street; and 150. Oxford -stree t . ____ ------------.... BIRTHS. Or A DAUGHTER. On the 23(1 inst., at Gloucester -place, Portman-square, the wife of J. Payn, Esq. On the 2 3 d ce inst., at Beauforterra, Maida-va le, the wife of A. Marks, Esq. Or A BON. On the 21st ingt., at 12, NO Regent's' park, the wife of Charles A. J. Rich, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Park-place, Layton, Mrs. J. Efi b ' bent. MARRIED. On the 25th inst ., at St Pane Emily Mary, the only Pancras, d aug hter of Georg e Ansell, Esq., of 48, Stanhope-street, Thomas Burrows, eldest so n of 2 R e gent's-park, ) 3 * to Linscott, E..q., of Lympstone, Devon. On the 23d inst., at the Congregational Church, Slongb. tho Rey. George Stewart, of Illitcham, to Adelaide, t" youngest daughter of Mr. Richard Keen, of Horton, near Windsor. DIED. On the 24th inst. , at Cla p ton, Middlesex, Virra. Slarl.:' Esq., aged 83. On the 23d inst., at the Bertozerie, Guernsey, Nicholas Le Lievre, Esq., aged 82. LI an d On the 23d inst., John rob, Esq., Therrfiel', ton-on-S wale, Yorkshire , aged 61 . On the 24th inst., Sarah, daughter of Mr. Forster, 3, Ship Clarges-stre,t, aged 25. al On the 24th inst , at Hermitage House Brixton-li - , Mrs. H. Baker, widow of the late Charles' Bak°l•P Esq a g ed 66. On the 22d inst., at Thorpe Hamlet, Robert Gilbert, Esq., aged 81 . On thd 221 inst., at Ba yswater, Ada, daughter of tb ° late Thomas ( Dyson, Esq., of 21, ledfor d- ro w, a ged 2 3 . On the 20th inst ,at 27, Lisle-street, Leicester-010re' 13. Surneran, aged 84. ---------."---- 7 " . - '''''"---.-":".'" 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