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There is no other enemy to be threatened, professions of amity are pleasant but not scenic, and es to internal liberties, it is not of them that an Emperor of the French will talk to a meeting of foreign ..A.mbaEse.- dors. On the whole, admitting, : as we have said, .the temptation s w hi ch prees the Emperor towards a coup do theatre, the reasonable probabiiity is that he will express nothing beyond a regret that his proposal should not have met a wider and more cor dial acceptance. I Xi s 7 , ~, t t .,to ~. • 4,44 iii /nor .....--• toman 111.„ 2PE RSONS SEEKING LANDED 'IPS'PT.FS AN'DOLEAS A:,;TIOLD ai INVESTMENTS, AND ND C, r's TRY RESIDENCES, E OLD ? "urER LIES GENER.ALLY— To ur . OM) GRATIS, at the princinal Railway Bookstalls thr "f-Thout the kingdom. or at the Auction an d Estate Offices, V. :?:67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. L umle y 's ,_ REE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing avaried selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from Me nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the c °r,aff.e with its few acres. , OWNERS OF PROFF.RTIFS wishing to Sell or Let can em 1-:ace the opportunity that the medium of this Register V t°llB , by sending. the particu'ars of their properties to the Lumley Offices, el, Chafe Ty-lane, London, as the Messrs. can in most cases introduce immediate customers, 4 Where the property is of an eligible chars, ter, thereby avoid 'n'.:' the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon- Veniences. Tur.ttE IS NO CITAUGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduced throueli Ni es s r s. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Aliction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. co THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1863. FLICE..... STANPED ....sd. N O . 22,305 MR. COBDEN AND THE "TIMES." LE 11URNI PURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and FLOORCLOTEL CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in he kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First• class goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select from, displayed in Stiowrc ems occupying an acre of ground. Every article warranted. CL E tiG - YMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR NISH are respectfully intormed that Messrs. Cobbett and Co. are publishing an entirely New Edition of Vivi• un equalled HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illostrated by 410 admirable entrravings of every description of Furniture and Bedsteads, with prices attached. A copy sent g: atis and post-free on application. This costly work also contains complete estimates fur furnishing on the following revised scale IVINAHAN'S LI. WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It i Pure. Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns In England ; or wholesale at Shipwreck of the German Emigrant Ship Wilhelmsburg. LOSS OF THREE HUNDRED LIVES. It has been briefly announced that an emigrant vessel which left Hamburg for Australia a short time since with about 400 persons on board was lost on the coast of Holland during the recent storms, and that nearly every soul on board perished. One of the few survivors has furnished the following narrative of the wreck : " You will have heard that the Hamburg ship Wilhelms burg, Captain Gross, belonging to the house of Godoffroy and Son, was lost on the coast of Holland, and that few lives were saved. Among these few lam one, and there are also 15 of the crew saved, and about 25 of the passen gers. About 300 men were drowned or died in the terrible night from Thursday to Friday, and among those were the captain and the aged doctor, No clothing was saved, as all was washed away and strewn on an unknown coast. Of the Wilhelmsburg, one of the largest vessels sailing for Ham burg, nothing remains but a portion of the after part, which, in consequence of the strength of the deck, still re mains a little above water. I will briefly tell you our adven tures from the time we sailed, We left - the city for sea, having on board from 315 to 320 passengers, and had a fair wind. We had not been long at sea when we encountered a westerly wind, which increased from day to day, until it became a storm which we could make no head against, and were driven back to the coast. In the night from Thursday to Friday the storm raged so violently that the sails which were stowed were blown away, and those which were set were more or less split. None of the sailors dared venture up the masts, and we feared they would go ev ;vc minute. The vessel was driven about ia a terrible man by the winds -and waves, and at last she could no longer be steered. About The following additional correspondeuce has been "orwarded to us for publication : Midhurst, Dec. 18. Sir,—For the first time you now disavow having imputed to Mr. Bright and myself the design of promoting by vio lent, illegal, or immoral means a redistribution of the land of this country. had you contested yourself with this simple disavowal it might have passed in silence ; but you have invented for us another theory, that of the equal testa mentary division of land, for which you have no better foundation in anything that ever fell from us than for the former and heavier aspersion. You now ask my aequi es . cence in a process of reasoning by which you attempt to show the connection between your former language and your new accusation—against which grammar, logic, and N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSUP,ANCE COMPANY. FIRE DEPARTMENT. —SPECIAL NOTICE. I ,This Company is now prep ared to ISSUE POLICIES for Mercantile Insurances in the Port of London at the reduced Seale of rates Particulars . may be had at the Offices , 28, Threadneedle ayeet. 8, GREAT WIND3IILL-STREET, IV. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded " Kinahan's LL Whisky. THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT, 4 cnd 5, Kin . William-street, City, will be CLOSED on SATURDAY, the 26th instant. rrinoe Napoleon on the Probability of War. -~~- (From (Ito French Coiresponcle;2t qf th e D a il ? , N ews.) P Eurldi,:y v eninT. .I' , Tapoleon, Viilo2o InCrat!.l be 3 btb etln lic E ; . h i U a t n i n tl the Senate, is Pow brought before the pl cnc:onted nrlnner. Tr,e .Naticn riT r ed e „, s fr A i the Traterlcnd of ViUlila the following I„ t!cr, tri. bated. to him, aui expressing an al:Anion that wrir is inevitable. The name of his correspondent i, stated. Tne Nation, while publishing the letter under all reserve as to its authenticity, says it f i rtcfs in it th . 3 bellicose, language of the prince, wh o „,„ 111 : 3 to desire a war at any price bath in the north a n d the south. Here is the text of the letter in qucg_ rtlE CONTRACT CORPORATION (Limited). Inctlporat ed under " The Companies Act, 1802." "P:tal £I,CCO,OOO, in 4^,c09 eliares of £lOO each. First issue, la • 20,00 Shares. er.o , lt on application £1 per Share, and £2 on allotment. No future call to exceed £5 per share, and at intervals of not less than three months. • A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Tea-roomed ditto A Twelve-roomed ditto 191 11 0 Together with a Price List of purified v.edding, and a mass of valnable information to all requiring househ 31d furniture, carpets, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Cl en2y men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, Southampton, Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston , Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth., Wells, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder minster, Wellington, Croydon. Ca m b rid g e, Staines, Dorking, St. Alban's. Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's, Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great Britain. COBBETT and CO., General House Furnishers,Deptford bridge, London, S.E, RIDGWAY & CO. ITER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. CHRISTMAS EVE. The Lessee and Director begs to announce that a Grand Performance of the 3IESSI4II will take place on TII.UriS DAY, December 21. Principal Vocalists—Madile. Titiens (most positively her last appearance previous to her departure for Italy), Miss Lascelles, Mr. Wilbye Cooper, and Mr. Sautley. Conductor, Signor Arditi. The Band (selected from the Orchestra of Her Majesty's Theatre and the Sacred Harmonic Society) and . Lhorus will consist of 500 'Performers. Prices :—Gallery, 2s. ; pit, Is.; dress circle. 7s. ; upper box seats, 58 ; pit stalls, half-a-guinea ; private boxes, from one to three guineas. Doors open at half-past seven. Commence at eighto'clock precisely. Boxes, stalls, and pla"es may be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre, open daily (under the superintendence of Mr. N agent) from ten till five. Now ready at all the Libraries, crown Bvo., price 65., common sense at (MCC rebel. I will not allow you to divert me from the real question at issue into a new discussion as to the comparative merits between the equal division of real property, as it exists in France and a great part of the Continent, and the custom of primogeniture as it prevails here. That is a subject fairly open to discussion in our Law Amendment Societies or the Social Science meetings, and as it can affect the pocket of no living proprietor it is not likely to lead to a very impas sioned debate. But I must point out to you how impossible it is to reconcile your present plea with your former lan guage. You now profess only to impute to us the design of favouring the equal division of landed property among all the children at the death of a proprietor. But this will not correspond with your reiterated charge that we contem plated a division among the poor of the land of the. What you now affect to consider to be our object is the divi sion of the laud of the rich equally among the children of the rich. I must bring the question to the test of your own language. In your leading article of December 3 you alleged that the small States of the Continent regarded a Congress with the "satisfaction with which the poor might regard Mr. Bright's proposition for dividing among them the lands of the rich." I now infer from your new interpre tation that I am asked to construe this as meaning only the satisfaction with which the children of rich landowners would regard a proposition of a division among them of the lands of their fathers. DIRECTORS. WM. Latham Bailey, (Crawshay Bailey Brothers and Co.), ,Liverpool. "• Nrontazue Baillie, Esq. (Mille, Wine, Cave, and Co.), Anthon y Old Bank, Bristol. A Kington Baker, Esq., Director of the Great Western r , rg ßailway Compan. '"e S. Beecroft, y Esq., M.P., Director of the London and North-IV estern Rail way Company. 'Joseph Boyce, Esq., Director of the Royal Bank of Ireland, ~and Midland Great Western Railwa y Company, Dublin. gauross Dilberoglue, Esq. (G. J. C avaf y and Co.). Thread 'nos. Dakin, Esq., Alderman, President of the Great Western Railway of Canada. ,„Ileedle- street. W Smith Dixon, Esq , Govan Iron Works, Glasgow. Thomas Gooch, Esq. (Gooch and C ousens), Director of the 's ank of London. k•antain B. J. W. Jervis, M.P., Deputy-Chairman Great astern Railway. Oct4vius Ommanney, Esq. (Hallett, Ommanney, and Co ), Westminster. Joseph Robinson, Esq., 7, Laurence Pountney-hilL SOLICITORS. Messrs. Edwards and Co., Westminster. SOLICITRAS IN BRISTOL. Messrs. Dittiel and Cox. MRS. MUTER'S TRAVELS. Now re dy, in 2 vols., 215., TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE IN INDIA, CHINA, AND NEW ZEALAND. By Mrs. MUTER. wife of Lieutenant- Colonel D. D. MUTER, 13th (Prince Albert's) Light infantry. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ion:— rr H 0 X F OR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the MAID of MILAN, by Sir H. Bishop; also, from LA FORZA. DE h DESIINO—Verdi ; by the following, talented artistes . —Misses Russell, _Tovrnley,,Eitallenry, Walmaley, Tyrrell,' -and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. Also, Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS, the celebrated English Violinist. Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL PIANO, by Herr SCHALKENBACH, the Inventor. Comedy, by UNSIVORTH ("or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, and the marvel lous Gymnast, J. Henderson. In rehearsal, and will be produced on Christmas Eve, sup ported by the entire company, a new and original Cantata, entitled "King Christmas." written by Litchfield Moseley, Esq., and composed by W. Meyer Lutz, expressly for the establishment. - - -:~-~ :::.y; NEW NOVEL by the Author of "GRANDMOTHER'S MONEY." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., A WOMAN'S By F. W. ROBINSON, RANSOM. Author of " Grandmother's Malley," &a. - --- Thirst and MaCkett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE or HER MAJESTY. Now ready, Thirty-third Edition, 1 vol., with the Arms beau tifully engraved, handsome y bound, gilt edges, 31s 6d., L ODGE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1864. Corrected throughout by the Nobility. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ODIToRS. Messrs. Deloifte and Co., Loshbury. C. J. 11. Allen, Esq., Threadneedle - st reet. BANKERS. Il ank of London. Bankers at Westminster, Messrs. Hallett, Ommauney, and Co. BROKERS. London—Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co. Dublin—Messrs. Boyle, Low, and Pim. SECRETARY (PRO TEM.) J. C. Ilandfield, Esq. Temporary Offices-31, Threadneedle-street. This Company has been constituted for the purpose of undertaking; the execution and construction of railway: , and other works both at home and abroad, a class of business hitherto exclusively conducted by private co .tractors. The large fortunes which have been realised by them. not- Withstanding obvious disadvantages, sufficiently attest the soundness and value of this enter; rise. It is admitted that, in many instances, the terms upon 'which alone contractors, even of known position and wealth, are enabled to raise the necessary funds for carrying their operations into effect are so onerous that it is only by profits of extraordinary magnitude that such charges can be met ; and it follows that a Company having a large capit , l sub scribed by a wealthy proprietary, and with an able executive , would enjoy great advantages and, at tie lime time, fre quently afford im..ortant aid to the individual contractor. The sub-lettings of contracts are known to bean important source of profit. In addition to this the Company will pos sess the advantag , of raising funds upon debentures secured upon its unpaid capital at rates which would be small as com- Pared with those charged to snb-contractors. It is not con templated, therefore, to call up any considerable portion of the c pital. unless the operations of the Company may show it to be des rable. The security of a large subs:Tibed capital will necessarily inspire confidence on the part of Govern ments, Financial Companies, and others with whom the Company Com- P may have to deal. In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will be returned in lull. Should a less number of shares be al lott ed than are applied f or the deposit will be made available towards the payment on allotment, and the balance, it any, returned to the applicant. Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained at the offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the t.lolici;ors. FORM OP APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Contract Corporation (Limited). Gentlemen, —Having paid to the Bank of London the sum of request you to allot me shares, in the Contract Corporation (Limited), and I hereby agree to be come a member of the Society, and to accept such shares, or any less number that may be al'otted to me; and I request You to place my name on the Register of Members in respect 01 the shares allotted to be. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address Usual signature Date THECONTRACT CORPORATION (Limited). NOTICE.—The SIT RE LIST will be CLOSED at eutir o'Clcck TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY), the 22(1 inst. • By order. J. C. lIANDFIELD, Secretary (pro tern THE CONSOLIDATED DISCOUNT COMPANY (Limited). (The Directors reserve to hemselTes the right of changing the name of the Company.) To be incorporated under "The Companies Act, 1562," by which the Liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount of share. Capital £ 1 ,C 0 0,00f, , , in 20,000 Shares of' £5O. First issue, 10,000 shares. Deposit on application £1 per share, and £2 on a l lotment. No future call to exceed £5 per share, and at inter ..als of not less than three months. It is not intended to call up more than £'~o per share. DIRECTORS. George ➢ Walter Constable, Esq. (Messrs. Henderson and Con stab!e`, Cannon-street. George Denny, Esq. (Messrs. George Denny and Co.), Great St. Helen's. William Little, Esq., Director of the Cape Town Railway. Wm. 3PArthur, Esq. (of the firm of Wm. and Alexander M'Arthur, Australian Merchants), 46, Moorgatc-street. P. J. Sargood, Esq. (Messrs. Sargood, and Sargood), London and Melbourne. Th mas Shepherd Richardson, Esq., Director of the Buenos Ayres mad River Plate Bank, James Thompson, Esq. (Messrs. Le Gros Thompson and Co.), G utter-lane. * llngh Fraser Sandeman, Esq. * Richd. Manners Sanderson, Esq. Messrs. Sandeman dt Co. "Samuel Baker, Esq. * Committee of Mana?;ement BANKERS. The London and Westminster Bank. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick. I3ROKERS. dames Shepherd, Esq., Auction Mart , Ba rtholomew-lane. u — 'eaars. andemtn and Dobree, 2, Royal Exchange-buildings. Offices—No. 4, Abchurch-lane. PROSPECTUS. In formin ,, this Company the Directors have secured the c ° - operation"of Mes•q . s. Sandeman and Co.. of Abchurch-lane ' w hose well-known and long-established business it is the obi-et of this Company to take up and develope. he 'oral:any will conduct all the operat i o ns of ordinary discount thisinesz. CO.rms, on which the business of Messrs. Faudeman and ‘-' has been put chased justify the Directors in anticipating a Profit of at least 10 per cent. per annum on the paid-up The Company will take possession of the premises now oc 7Pied by Messrs. Sandernan and Co., as from the Ist day of anuary, and the business of the Company will commence from that day. No promotion money has or will be paid , and the expenses _ be strictly confined to the necessary payments. Prospectuses and forms of applications for sharp s may be obtained at the Offices of the Company, of the Brokers, and of the Solicitors. In the event of no allotment being made the deposits will Pe returned in full; should a less number of shares be al lotted than are a pplied for, the deposit will be made avail able towards the payment on allotment, and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant. F ° 1111 : OP APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Consolida`cd Discount Company (Limited). Gentlemen,--llaving paid to your Bankers tae in theesumof , I requ es t you to allot me Consolidated Discount Company (Limited), and I hereby agree to bec ome a member of the Society, and to accept such shares, or any legs number that may be allotted to me ;and I request you to place my name on the Register of Members in respect of th e shares allotted to me. I ant, Gentlemen, your obedient servant. Name in full Address Usual sir,natnr Date .. ... 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A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit , f orwarded by post, on th e cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being Bent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. 8d: o, 4., and 31s. ed. Postage, Is Double TrusB, ' 3ls. 6d., 42 5. , nod 525. 6d. Posta ge 41 1 Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. led: is Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post. °f ace, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT VLASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS. &c., for Varicose Veins and all They cases are ot Bakness and Swelling ot [ he Legs, Sprains, tie. a nd are drawn on "rone, itglit in texture, and inexp ensive, If ean ordi nary stocking. Price 48. 6d., is. 6d., 108., to 168. em.h. Postage dd. JOAN Nlabufacturar. V.:2.4. Piccadilly. 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THE TEETH, as Supplied by NATURE and Preserved by ART. By M. C. ROGER S, M.R.C.S., Surgeon-Dentist. London: is, New Burlington-street, W. Just published, gratis, THE REPORT of the BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH. LONDON, for 1861. It contains a signifi cant remark on the excess of 23,000 in the mortality during the three healthiest months of the year. May be had of all the Hygeian agents throughout the world. IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of an y one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or 13iliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at Js. lid. .nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist Lin^oln. MESSRS. BOTT. JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the }ear. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. Landon and Westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber well-park. N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. 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THE CAPE MAIL. PLYMOUTH, Dec• 21 The mail steamship Briton arrived here this even ins at 10 o'clock. She left the Cape on the 20th ult., St. Helena on the 28th ult., and Ascension on the 2d inst., alai brings 39 passengers. Bishop Colenzo's trial commenced at the Cape on the 17th ult. in St. George's Cathedral, before the Metropolitan Bishop of Cape Town and two suf. frt gaps, the Bishop of Graham's Town and the Bishop of the Orange Free State. The accusing clergy, the Dean of Cape Town and the Archdeacons of Graham's Town and George Town, were present to support the charges they had preferred. Dr. Black, Curator of the Grey Library, attended on behalf of Bishop Colenzo, and read a letter from the Bishop, denying the jurisdiction of the court and handed in a formal protest against the proceedings. The Dean of Cape Town supported the charges in an eloquent and forcible speech, characterised by deep research and great ability. The trial was expected to extend over several days. The question at issue would finally pass into the hands of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. A civil action was pending against the Dutch Reformed Church for suspending from the ministry the Rev. Mr. Kobse, on a charge of heresy. The Federal steamship Vanderbilt returned to Cape Town from the Mauritius, and remained in Table Bay uutil Oct. 27. She then proceeded to Angra Pequina, the Confederate rendezvous, and carried a quantity of coals stored on Penguin Island, which was annexed to Cape Colony two years since. The Vanderbilt also seized the British bark Saxon, of Cape Town (in British waters, it is said) that vessel being supposed to have been laden with part of the cargo of the Federal bark Conrad, captured by the Alabama and converted by Capt. Semmes into a tender to the Alabama, and renamed the Tuscaloosa. The Vanderbilt then put a prize crew on board the Sazon, and sent her to New York for condemnation. Tho crew of the Saxon, with the exception of the mate, said to have been shot by a Federal officer, were transferred to a coasting vessel and forwarded to Table Bay. There bad been destructive storms and heavy floods is the Eastern Province. Provisions continued plentiful and cheap. Trade was reviving. Horniman's Tea is choice and strong, moderate in price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have secured for this Tea a general preference. It is sold in packets by 2,280 Agents. ACCIDENT ON A RAILWAY.--On Sunday morning the driver of the goods train which arrives at Swin don station on the Great Western Railway at 2 o'clock was passing Hay.lane, midway between Wootton Bassett and Swindon, when he perceived something lying between the rails on the up line. Tho engine was stopped, and it was found to be the body of a woman, about 40 years of age, quite dead. The legs of the deceased were broken ; the head was crushed. There were no marks by which she could be identified. The deceased was dressed as if for travelling. The body was brought on a truck to Swindon station, where it now lies awaiting identification and the inquest. [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Ointment. All varieties of ulcerations, sores, wounds, and eruptions, , can be cured by the diligent use of this cooling, soothing, and healing unguent. The old and often failing fashion of strap ping the edges of ulcers together with plaister has en tirely given way before the snore reasonable treatment of Holloway's oin(ment, which builds up from the bottom of the wound with sound and healthy granulations. Thew gradually grow till they reach the surface, then contract, harden, and immediately become covered with a new and wholesome skin. The proper application of this ointment diminishes the inflammation, causes the unhealthy discharge first to grow thick, then to cease, when the swelliv.g disap pears and the natural shape is restored. 1 o'clock the captain gave orders to sound with the lead. We did so, and to our horror found only 17 feet of water. We saw that we were lost, and in a few minutes the ship struck for ward, and with a terrible shock she afterwards struck aft. The rudder then gave way. We immediately proceeded to cut away the masts, but they broke off like sticks, and their wreck beat great - holes in the deck,through which the water poured and filled the 'tweet) decks. Another fearful crash was heard, and the ship broke in two amidships. All who were in the fore-part of the vessel and 'tween decks were drowned, as the one sank with all who were there, and the other was full of water. Thus 250 lives were sacrificed to the waves in the space of a few minutes. It was a fearful sight. Yet we could do nothing. In such a moment one has enough to do to think of himself, and has also enough to do to save himself. The after-portion of the vessel also sank in a few minutes, but was not entirely covered with water. The lower portion held together, but was imbedded in the sandy bottom. Now, however, one sea after another rushed over the deck, tore away the bulwarks, and carried off all who could hold on firmly. We all jumped into the largest boat, which was firmly jammed in between the wrecks of the masts and water vessels. Behind and before me lay dead and wounded, and among these was the cap tain. Thus cowering together in the boat, exposed to every sea which swept the vessel, sometimes lying on the dead, at other times packed between corpses, I awaited the dawn of day. It was quite 7 o'clock when we saw a northern barque in the distance. with her masts cut away, but other wise holding together, drive upon the strand. Her crew launched their long-boat,and fortunately succeeded in land ing. We followed this example, although our boat leaked. Men now came from behind the masts and water ves sels and from every corner of the deck, almost blue with hunger and frost, but anxious to get to land. There were about 10 more than the boat would carry; but, as these were passengers, come of the crew were compelled to remain be hind,and amongst these I was one. The boat left us with the promise that we should soon be fetched from the wreck. The boat, however, soon stuck fast, and those who were in were compelled to wade to dry land. The tide now ebbed,and as the boat lay high and dry wa were compelled to try and save our selves, as we could expect no help from the shore. We therefore patched up a small boat the stern part of which had been broken away by the waves, and this frail barque we launched in the darkness into the sea. The waves fortu nately drove us to the shore, and then we got out and waded towards our comrades. The next night, like the last, we were forced to spend without any shelter ; but at all events we were not exposed to the waves. On the evening of the next day some men arrived, and we were conveyed to the nearest village in waggons. We then learned that the land was the island of Terscheliing, and hers we remained till we could be sent to Harlingen. Of the 300 passengers only 24 men and one woman are saved, and, with the remnant of the crew, are reduced to a state of utter destitution. They are now at Hamburg, where they have been treated kindly; but one or two have left for England, with the intention of finding their way to Au3tralla in another vessel. Fatal Collision on the Scottish Central Railway. (From the North British _Daily Mail of yesterday. On Saturday morning we were able to announce the fact ,hat a collision attended with serious consequences had oc• curred the previous night near the Dunning Station of the Scottish Central Railway, and that two wen had been killed and other three severely injured. Dunning Station is nine and a half miles south of Perth, and 53 miles from Glasgow, and the dire catastrophe oc curred between the distance signal and Dunning Station, on the down line of rails, about half•past five o'clock p.m. A down train had arrived at Dunning Station, and was a considerable time detained there in shunting. While doing so a ballast engine, with one third class class carriage attached, came up, also from the south, on the same line of rail, and drew up close to the rear of the goods train, which had not started off on its journey, and within protection of the distancs signal. The carriage was filled with platelayers, who had been engaged dur ing the day working on the line near Blackford, and who were returning to their homes at each of the stations on the line up to Perth, including Forteviot and Forgan. denny. Some time afterwards another goods train of 34 trucks, from Greenhill, came up, ran past the distance signal at full speed, and into the ballast and other goods train, producing a scene which forcibly recalled the dread ful spectacle presented by the Winchburgh collisicn last year. Happily the workmen in the ballast carriage had all got out but five, or it would probably have rivalled that catastrophe in the loss of life. The destruction to property is not so extensive as that which took place at Winchburgh, although it must be very considerable. Botb lines were blocked up with a dozen broken trucks, and the passenger carriage was smashed into very small pieces, while the en gine and tender of the train which did all the damage—a very heavy one—was damaged so as to render them well nigh useless, and the ballast engine and tender were like wise a good deal broken. Some of the vans had been thrown right en the top of others, while one or two were knocked on end as if they had been lucifer-match boxes, and others were so reduced in size that only their mere framing re mained intact. The down rails were twisted and broken, and the debris heaped around was very considerable. As soon as the sound of the collision reached Dunning station the attendants there ran to the spot and gave speedy help to the injured; while, at the same time, a telegram was sent to Perth informing the chief officials of the occurrence. As quickly as possible they arrived in two special trains, bringing with them Drs. Buist, Wallace, and Stirling, all of Perth. By this time the five men who were in the canine had been extricated alive from its broken fragments, but two of them died in the Dunning station house soon after. Their names are William Morris and James Bowden, both married men, who have left widows and families to lament their loss. Morris, who was an elderly man, resided in Perth, and his family are all grown up, Cunningham, so me of his sons being driv ers on the li ne ; and Bowden is a young er man, who lived at Forteviot. Other two men, named and foundGeorge to be much injured. After in both re sidingat Matthew being attended to by the surgeons the y were carefully con veyed to the Perth I nfirmary, where the y a rrived about 10 r p.m. Reilly is b adl y in j ured in the chest, and h e had also his foot bruised ; bu t Cunningham's in juries , which are otevio R t, Reilly werelly chiefly on his back, are believed to be more severe. How ever, b e has youth on his side , being only about 30 years of age, while Reilly is at least 20 years older. Both were re • ported on Saturdayas being slightly better, although neither is out of danger. The other man who was hurt was able, with assistance, to walk home, and no serious consequences are apprehended on his account. Immediately after the sufferers had all been extricated and attended to, a strong force of men were gathered to. gether from various points, and vigorous measures were taken to clear the up line, so as to permit of the usual traffic being resumed with as little delay as possible on the one line of rails. This was accomplished by midnight, when the south express, leaving Glasgow at 9 o'clock, which arrives at Perth at 11.20 p.m., was able to proceed. In con sequence of the stoppage of the line the passengers by the trains leaving Glasgow at 4.15 and 6.15 p.m., and that at 7.30 p.m. f ro m Perth were detained, they having to leave the carriages and walk to others which were in waiting for them at the ether ends of the blocked part of the road. From ea this • use the latter train did not arrive ire Glasgow till midnight. Who is to blame for this sad cat istrophe it is not for us to say at p r esent. The distance danger signal was shown, it is averred, but the driver says he neither saw it nor any tail lamp at the ballast carriage; in fact, that he saw nothing of the preceding trains uutil he was within 20 yards of them, when he had, of course , no time to pull up. Under these circumstances it is wonderful that more casualties have not occurred, and that the drivers and stokers of the trains were not injured. Mr. John. M`Lean, the procurator-fiscal for the county, wee early on the ground on Seturdey, and com menced a se4reolaiog iflve6tlgatiou into all the circumstances. Again, in your letter to me of Dec. 7 you stated, "These speeches are diecussed elaborately in two leading articles on successive days, and in each of them certain passages are interpreted as recommending a repartition of the land among the poor." Now, the word partition or repartition means simply a division, and not a bequest or inheritance, and yet, with our dictionaries at hand, you now ask me to interpret the " repartition of the land among the poor" as only meaning to say that Mr. Bright and I wished to compel rich landowners at their death to leave their estates equally among all their children. And in your letter to me of Dec. 1 11, you "repeat" the assertion that "certain passages" of our speeches "bear no other interpretation than that ascribed to them." Now, up to that date you had put no other interpretation on those speeches than that they advo.. cated the division of the land of the rich among the poor. The poor we are now told to interpret to mean only the children of rich landowners I Then, I suppose, we must altogether agree to forget that you coupled us with Gracchus and the agrarian system of Rome. _ . No ; in the teeth of all these proofs in plain, unmistake able English to the contrary, I should be sacrificing truth to courtesy were I to affect to concur in this new version of your language, which does not admit of two meanings. I note your recantation, but repel the attempt to raise a fresh issue to covet your retreat under a fire of minor accusations. I will conclude this correspondence with merely remarking that the blow which was aimed at the fame of Mr. Bright and myself has missed its mark. How far the recoil of the weapon may affect the hand that levelled it time will show. —I am, Sir, yours, &c., R. CciinEN. J. T. Delane, Esq. p.S. I cannot compliment your political economy. You reproach me for having made the " concession " to France of undertaking to levy no export duty on coal. Sir Robert Peel had abolished the export duty on coal for the benefit of England a dczsn years before the French treaty, and all I engaged was that for ten years more we would not be so foolish as to put any i m pediments in the w a y o f our ex ports. As for the paper duty, it is the interest of the British public to buy everything in the cheapest market. If foreigners put foolish restrictions on the export of rags, it is an additional reason why we should take their paper. lor This may,—and lam sorr y for it—for a time, but only a time, bs injurious to our own manufacture of that article, in w hich I believe you or your family are largely engaged. The difference between you and me in ISG3 that I was looking to the public interest and you were ad vocating the interest of a class. Midhurst, Friday Evening, Dec, 18 Sir--I am compelled re luctantl y to resume my pen, after having sent to the post what I hoped was my fi na l com munication. But this morning's Daily News which has just reached me, contains a statement which cannot with honour be passed over, either by you or myself in silence. In the first leader of that journal 1 have read, for the first time, the following passage, which purporte to be an extract from a leading article in your journal of the 26th of Novem ber on the following day, commenting on the speeches of Mr. Bright and myself at the Rochdale meeting "This language, so often repeated, and so calculated to excite discontent among the poor and half-informed, h as really only one intelligible MEANING. Reduce the doc torial franchise ; for when you have done so you will ob tain an Assembly which will SEIZE on the estates of the proprietors of land, and DIVIDE THEM GRATUITOUSLY AMONG TILE ;'OOR lt may be right to re duce the franchise, but certainly not as a step TO SI'OLIA- TION.'' I sincerely trust there is some inaccuracy in this quota tion, which is not only a libellous outrage on two members of the House of Commons, but a dire insult to millions of honest and industrious Englishmen. If it be a correct ex• tract from your leading article, which I have no means of verifying at the moment of writing, it is in direct contra diction to the statement made - in your last letter, that you never imputed to Mr. Bright and myself the contemplation of any more violent means of dividing the land than by a change in the law of succession. Assuming the words to be correc tly given, you charge us di stinctl y with aimi ng at the SEIZ URE of the landed prope rt y of the countr y for GRATUI TOIIS division among the poor. You will at once see that unless this language be unreservedly recalled it makes the statsment in your last letter simply a mockery and an un truth.—l am, sir, yours, &c., R. COBDEN. J. T. Delano, Esq. 16, Sergeants'-inn, Dee. 2 Sir,—l received your second letter, dated "Friday Even ing, December is, ,, only last night. The quotation you take from the _Daily News is so far inaccurate that it does not convey the same meaning as the whole article from which it is taken does. I enclose that article and that which ap peared on the following day. I add an extract from an other, which has been published since; and, having now given you all the means necessary for obtaining that redress which purported to be the object of your first letter, I beg to retire from the personal part of this controversy.—l am sir, your obedient servant, Richard Cobden, Eeq., M.P. Joux T. DELANE. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.--A vacancy having been createdin thechair of Scots law by the lamented and sudden death of Mr. George Ross, advocate, who has filled it for two years, the Faculty of Advocates met on Fri day to exercise their privilege of selecting two names to be presented to the curators of the patronage. The Faculty unan i m ously selected as the first name Mr. G. Moir, advo cate, sheriff of Stirlingahire. Mr. Moir was called to the Scottish bar in 1825,and from 1535 to 'ISO filled the chair of rhetoric and English literature in the University of Edin burgh, but resigned it in consequence of increasing profes sional practice, and the chair has subsequently been filled till 1815 by Professor Spalding, and since that date by Professor Aytoun. The second name chosen—the advocates being required to present two—was the Dean of the Faculty (Mr- Moncrieff, Lord Advocate, M.P.), who is sent to the cura tors as a nominal candidate in the expectation that they will, as usual, choose the first on the list. Since the open ing of the university session in November, several of the classes have been attended by Prince Alfred, and by Prince William of Besse, who have for th e time occupied apart ments in Ilolyrood Palace , The Princes left on Fr i d a y for the Christmas holydays, and Prince Alfred returns again to his studies in Edinburgh early in Janu aryStans ' MR. STANSFELD, 111. P --On Friday, Mr. fold, ALP., Junior Lord of the Admiralty, who has been making a tour of the naval dockyards, and inquiring into their management, arrived at Birkenhead on a visit to Mr. John Laird, M,P., and left for London on Saturday. the d () Br e s k , Birkenhead n I d i o t eelkys nsipeesestresd. Clover and Clayton' s g raving During his stay b e visited the extensive works and docks of Mes , rs. Laird Lre'hc He also wont on board the Agincourt, at present in course of construction by the firm. Tile suspected rains under s eizure in the river w ere visited. O n the Liverpool side Mr. Stansfeld confi ned his attent ion to the Canada Dock, the Sandell Graving Dock, and tho new steam decks. 11e boarded the Inman steamship City of London, his visit Mr. Stansfeld made particular lar inquiri ondon es into During the both sides progr ess of all works on deof the Mersey. Ho wa s accompanied by Mr, W a lk er, ono of the chief auditors to the Admiralty. DIRECT C O MMISSIONS.—The next (x. =nation for direct commissions will take °lace at Ch e lsea Ho s p ital o n Nondfly, the Ist of February, 1864, (From the Spectator.) The salons of Paris are feverish, for the jour de l'an is approaching. Ever since 1860, when the Emperor with a dczen words sent down the funds in every capital of the Continent, and broke up that icy surface, an smooth and so dangerously thin, which is called the European peace, Paris has been unable to divst itself of the belief that a coup de the'(2:re so exciting and so successful wcuid one day be repeated. The toraptation, they say, of the im. proreptu Congress, with all Etircpe in attendance., the world listerriog anxiously for the telegram, and no possibi ity of reply is to a monarch who combines with unusual power of secrecy ueueuel love lot. sudden and striking scenic effects always great, and this year may, they think, prove irresistible, The difficulties of the Empire are, they conceive, thick ening fast, the deus ex machind must descend, and the clouds could not open with more awe-inspiring effect than amidst the combined etiquette and joy ousness of the Imperial receptions held upon New Year's Day. We are to-day in possession of the talk of circles to which th e or dinary newspaper cor respondent has rarely access, e.nd though we be= vbajed as much on a secret longing n theirg for o pinihnis sensations —terribly s t rong i n a soc i e ty l l i o e peak, _b_ecalmed—as on that Wbich the Empi re has, e o . to w ell worth the passing trustworthy calcu lation, it is study of those who recognise Napoleon may at any moment app l y a solvent to all diplomatic chemistry. The line of argume n t current in cir cles in which argument has not bee n su pp ressed by a governi ng hate, of Bonapartism runs much in this direction. The Emperor, say the talkers, stands, and k nows he stands, in the presence of three new dangers, t wo of them self-created, and one the natural effect of eleven years of repression: His address to his Legislature, with its great but dreamy proposal, followed as it was by a series of refusals reverberat ing from every superior Court, had among his own people two distinct effects. It excited, and very powerfully, the popular imagination. Franco feels great ideas as no other country feels anything, ex cept, perhaps, menace or new taxation, and French men had special reasons for feeling this one. The conviction, perfectly jest in itself, that the treaties of 1815 were intended to humiliate France, that they had for nearly for fifty years operated as a heavy restraint, and that " glory" was impossible until they were swept away, has burnt itself deeply into the mini of France. A vague hatred of those agree ments, acknowledged by all classes of educated Frenchmen, by Republicans no less than Impe rialists, by M. Thiers as much as Prince Jerome, has extended itself even to the peasantry, whose traditions are of the Grande Ar2nee whose career was arrested in 1815. Peasants who read nothing else still read the Emperor's speeches, and as they deem him irresistible, the acknowledged leader of the Continent, his pledge that those treaties should end, should be replaced by a new "fundamental pact'' more favourable to France and the nationa lities, created throughout all France a sense of deep and pleasurable excitement. It was increased by the knowledge that the Congress must first of all take up the question of Poland, upon which the strong feeling always existing had been recently deepened by the unchecked invectives of the press, and the greedily credited steriec of Russian cruelty to the Poles. That feeling might rot survive a long and still less a disastrous war, but it was strong enough to authorise the Emperor to begin one—as he said in his speech ho would have done had England consented—had to obtain such a result of a campaign in peace seemed to mast Yet.L . elt - ne the ne plus uTtra of etrategv. The universA refus:ll of Europe to obey the summons has diec,richanted the populace, and their disappointment, like the hailstorms and every other misfortune, is visited or. the Government. The educated closses know the truth in spite of the illoniteur, and the uneducated, though bellied as to the facts, have an instinctive sense that noire maitre is not so strong as he said he was. "Isolation in Europe," " diplomatic de feat," " dust thrown on the fin.," these are to the public mere phrases, bat that Mouravieff goes on, and that Napoleon does not interfere himself, and cannot make Europe interfere for him, this is a fact, and one which the masses by no means accept with pleasure. Napoleon, who hears from official reports everything that passes in France, the very talk of the wine-shops and gabble of the market women, knows well how deep is the disappoint ment, and knows, too, that a similar one discredited Louis Philippe for years, and that he, far more than Louis Phillipe, cannot afford to fail. Some striking act, some speech which shall set the world in movement, would seem absolutely required to alter the current of national thought, and remove the impression of failure, and that speech must be made just when the world from habit begins to listen. Again, the Emperor is known to have been startled, not to say shocked, by the result of the elections, a result which has been, so to speak, re peated by the votes given this week in Paris and at Dijon. He suffers, despite his cool judgment, from the temptation of day-dreamers—the disposition to believe that the world is going their way, and he had imagined that the masses of France were reconciled to the Empire. The elections show nothing to the contrary, but they prove that the townsmen through out the country are thirsty for wider liberty, that the artisans are voting with the rich, and the Em peror, who knows best of all men the gigantic efforts made to divide those classes, is proportionately alarmed. The debates in the Corps Legislatif have proved that thevote of towns has greatly the ibe the rals prestige of the Government, for tho n g claim only 35 members, yet in t he trial debates on the elections 84, some of them nominees, voted affec Lied " against M. de Persigny-" i There is a swerve, too, in the tribunals, whic h are apt to respond to power the fluctuations of s too himself,barometric aand t style, and editors, for amazementexample, getting prefects, are to their own example, prosecuted by g o move the personal following acquitted. These thin of the Emperor almost SO 11311 C a est t h e only one w ho en j o ys some faint we believe, corr ect to affirm that the shr ew d among them, fortnight, Emperor that if the Legislattare is n o t informed th e s hare of social liking, has, within the past to become u nmanageable, war, or a furthe r Liberty grant of dyna sty is still not beyond the r eac h o f i nterna l interna l w l b ib e e n rt a y v , o a i r d e ab th le e , o e n x l a y al ternatives. otly is rot, the or-aparte role, the attack, and war, if circumstances; would only allow, as well as the easier out- m i g ht be the more popular let from an unmanageabl e situation. There is, t h er efore, say the salons, reason for fearing that N o w Year's Day will b utterance, possibly e marked by some Imperial We admit dangerous, and certainly im portant. the full fo r ce of these argument s, at least as far as t o the influences now work in g in the direction but there are reasons of some grand and theatric coup , which make such a New Year's gift to Europe seem to men not longing f or Scenes at least improbable. The Emperor uriy , and possibly w ill, take the opportunity o f publicly aban d oning his scheme of a general Congres s, end throwi ng the h by itself would be re sponsibility on the Powe rs whose adhesion has been withdrawn ; but this s p eec— It is only w hen that which suggestive of peace. exists is to exist n o longer th at war becomes immi "lent, and such a speech would be a confe ssion that that mus t continue to last. Yet whet r or to say ? He is known to b e bitterly uri ne) , ell. at the conduct of the Aus tr ian Court, which h as saddled him with the Archduke a else which is the exists Em pe Aux, without affording him the support he expected ' n r eturn, but h e cannot a second time menace the Al us trien representative. There is nothing to fight Austria for, unless, indeed, ho draws the sword cu all Germany in defence of Denmark, which he seems as yet by no means inclined to do. Popul4r f e eling might back him then, because there would " You ask me whether I belizvo in war. Yes, I do. How will it break cut ? I will toll you. It will break out in the pping, and. my father-in-law will begin it. Tne situation of King Victor Em manuel is no longer tenable. The public d, bt in creases every year. There must 100 an end. to this. The King has several times written to the Emperor that he must have a solution, and that he would rather be plain Chevalier de Carignan than continue to play the part of a sovereign who is gravitating towards a precipice. I repeat to you, my father-ina law has warned my cousin that in the spring he means to attack the Austrian lines. Believe me that thi s i s t h e way th e s truggle will commence ; the King gives way to no illusions; he k nows that Austria will gain the victory, but he knows also that his magnificent army will not yield without making a serious r ec i s t a n ce . The conquerors will re - enter Lomb ar d y; they peace, he cann o t allow Austria to destroy the work great the klngd will, perhaps, occupy Turin ; b u t t h en the situation will change. how evermay be th e d es i re o f th e Emperor for of France in Italy. himself, to maintain lie will contrary to all h om e f o o f rced, in Italy. I s f p , ite of how ever, expectation, the Emperor father-in-lavr he would prefer iillarli o a f t i Piedmont ,naoreprobableon de o b i e s should abandon my fat interfere, and that, after a war the to become once again Ki n° . , relieved of the responsibility which weighs upon a F s r K an in ce g w of ill ltaly. him m at King will have Northern Italy, and the ' Emperor will dispose of the south as he thinks R t. ', A few hours will probably decide whether th e above letter, which a Paris journal, wi th all the fear of warnings and suppression before its oy es , ventures to print, is of is not an impudent forgery. If it be genuine, it will probably rank as one of the most stirring events of those momentous times. This much is certain, that all the recent letters from Italy speak of preparations for immediate w ar which nobody can account for. Prince Napoleon's letter—if it be his—givz Ran explanation of them. - - TES GREAT FIRE IN TUE CITY, A. elortr examination yeste:day of the track'of the recent fire in Wood-street shows in a striking manner how much it was confined to a class of buildings the interior arrange- merits and means of communication of which appeal: to have been made in defiance or in ignorance of the principles which now regulate such matters, under the operation of the Metropolitan Building Act. The warehouses and oiiicts which have perid,ed seem to have been scparated from each other by thin lath and• plaster partitions for the most part, and only in one in*Aance was there an iron ricer letwstm. one part of the interior of the same building arid anotlier, j such as is now commonly uscd and made irnpuative, Lae( 0, a u o c ro ti m on ani of. sca lraah i O n lif e , e a s „ a s s o rT fi in2l T u h alLlo . raear of • i s il hu th tt e ir e ,7ol 2 neb te ffuo e cti , : w pui h ad ie i h n r u e r m re a s i t n iu s g un ta tj a n a re ra d e w s e in uld th h a a t v d e irc b a 7 i n o completely hat . n . :ro d n ~i oo• -• penetrated by it a rr v p u te ln p , t . e r d a . ble T p h o u in u t se in a t f o i t r ia cu e p f F p a r t of the against fire was most conclusively proved by a very renaark able circumstance. The large and handsome warehouses of Messrs. J. and R. Morley, situate at the corner of Gresham and Wood-streets, overlooked by a large window on the ground floor at the back the little court in which the fire originated, and to which it was at first confined. This large window was protected on the outside by a folding iron shutter, and that more against robbery than fire. On this occasion for some time the flames played fiercely, but harmlessly about the outside of the window, so guarded by the iron shutter. Had they once entered Messrs. Mor ley's premises at that point, the stock stored inside, and estimated at from £250,000 to -£300,030, would inevitably have been destoyed, if, indeed, th e devastation wo on uld uch a have slender condition of safety did p ro p erty almost fabulous in value and belonging s ended in that one vast pile of buildiugs. Up to a single firm depend in this case. The ruins, consisting for the most part of large masses of charred timber, show how largely wood .rather than 'wick had been used in the construction of the houses which h ave perished. The fire, indeed, has literally followed i n the thatorth northern tract of the combustible material, and on each side o f th gap which it has left huge cables of brick, s ome peuuwppeorlseeadsttoolzheta3mo,o yreemarasinolsdt,anadnidugw.hiclht italia the elusion of Mr. "Woodtherpe, the district surveyor of thr, division of London, who visited the spot yesterdayn, for those formidable old walls ;the n h o , e . mass of ware houses forming the east side of Wood. s t re of Milk -street, right up to Cheapside, and er and the west their contents some of the m os t including wit. valuable tiamo.:a theta.lvcree London, would have been destroyed, in the cit y of c aptain Shaw, too, t h e chief of the L ondon F ire Brigade, who was out far the anc ieus illness, and could not first time after his recent dangerous packed the conflagration com paratively small an area were brought resist the temptation to go sec the place, expressed his amazement that i n a A. been confined to so k, neighbourhood so densely imminent risk tilde with which th e s ' . The truth is that the prorapti numbsr, materially ch ec k ed vigour with which into action, and the resist less'team fiz 0-engines, six or seven in in spite of they played on the d fire, dime _ , ~, its progress from the first, taan only through a few . 0 11 l i i ri"? experienced in finding e a fi ce r : en it had 1 1 5; courts and alleys. The to nu eever the tops of lofty piles Of lIGUSeS bothsnduin Wood-street th eir hose ana Milk-street, and thr ough little by-wa s before the engines, 13 in all , could be br oug h t to bear ony the burning mass. Fortunately, the tr ade books of Messrs. Grant, who are the largest sufferers were preserved intact in an iron safe on their premises; but about 300 people to whom they gaveemployment have been suddenly thrown oat of work. The firm is understood to be insured to the amount of £37,000, that sum being spread over eight different insurance offices. Their stock consisted mostly of underclothing of all hinds, shirts, neckties, um brellas, and parasols, of all which they were msnufactuiers on a large scale. ln one room alone on the third floor they had 1,200 dozen. of fine flannel shirts stored, all of which have been burnt. They occupied four large warehouses, four stories high, two of which have been completely destroyed, with their valuable contents. Messrs. Morley, notwith. standing the risk they ran, did not suffer to an extent at all commensurate with the loss sustained by Messrs. Grant. It is true their shirt factory, with many valuable machines, has been burnt, but it was not a place in which they kept . any very considerable quantity of stock, and they only esti.• ma t e their loss, w hich is covered by insurance, at about £4,000 or £5,000. An underground communicationexisted between the shirt factory which has been destroyed another part of their extensive premises, and there, a n d safety afforded by an iron door which shut too, the from the other in the subterranean passage off one Pia" by the result. A considerable amount of salvia established collected from among the ruins of 1 - " vage was Using h ous es yesterday; but of Messrs. m jeS2rB Grant's ware contents, or of the stocks of Mr. orley's factory and its and Mr. Gibson, the other suffer Bunting, Messrs. livni y, . ers, not a vestige remains. THE LANCASIIIII.I.: COAL TRADE.—WIGAN, Sat ur day.--The district seems at last about to return to Et peaceful state, the advance of 10 per cent. asked by the men havb‘g been granted in many instance= it being nu de !: satf°te° t i h n e tif ne c a th re e s T tillimaiti.lll.lge up p LdditiGnal wages u•ia be .. 17! 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