The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

P 40 , /1111 PFI RSONS SEEKING LANDED "pREIMATES, TOWN AND COUNTRAWSIDENCES; I 1 ) AND H O EASEOL INVESIIIKENTS, AND - "OP la ', t VI T'S C•• N'e It if i LY ... thro RE itAD GRATIS, atithe‘prlleinal Railway Deokstalls A- 0. Z.F Chan he kingdom. or at tile Auction Eitate Office?, 41,...i. cery-lane, London, 3lessrs. E.andrt. Lumley IA r.. PROPERTY nEGIaTER," containing a varied selection I ,_ voided and lir properties now in the market, from '47;,lnobleman'S sion, with its manorial domain, to the 1 -Ze with its 1 w acres. b p ' ae Wlv . , pt e s OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let pin o. e ir m e ; efror,',_9_ opportunity that the medium of thisrte ie i the 1:oar/Soy sending the particulars of their properties Liml e Offices, 67, Ch ancery -lane, London, as t h e M essrs. whet —Le can in m os t cases introduce immediate customers, ink thhe Property is of an eligible character, thereby avoid venter,:esdisadvantages of delay and its attendant incon ch Tu x,.._ . • E Is No CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or o pur ,„7tir is intrduced through essrs. Lumley's A g ency, ' Paen only o the usual moderatMe commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. "-----_____ q-CA.RDIAN FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO M PANY. SPECIAL NOTICE. 'the Di ll ti . h ore are now prepared to grant Insurancea on e„e andise BAT Port of Loadun at the REDUCED 1 - OP ES. "ree t Partlar, E. E.c. s to be obtained at the Offices, 11, Lombard .— JU LLIEN'S CONCERTS. ' HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. , L'IVELY THE LAST WEEK BUT TWO. • oeabt MdllE. Signor SIVORI. O reliestra—Three Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductor—M. JULLIEN. Commence Every Evening at 8. Admission, One Shilling. 11 1 E OXFORD, 10T ,in ~, 6 , OXFORD STREET, W. L011 0 ,W„ vA r RNING, will be performed Selections from the . ri" , `-r Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the 1 17 A .-• of MILAN' by Sir Hy. 'Bishop ; also, from LA FOR" arti 4 s — f„,. l3 E DES'IINO—Verdi ; by the following talented Itild 'Pr :— Misses Russell. Townley, Fitz Henry, almsley, Ar; c : 116011 ; Messrs. Green. Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, &c. Cele)). ' Solos on the Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS, the .ated English Violinist. nite by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant. l'i4c.,,the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL by Herr scHALKENBACH, the Inventor. Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. 19' ``.9, by UNSWORTH ("or any oilier man "), Eugene, „andall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclagan, and the marvel 7,,,,Ylunast, J. Henderson. TQ D :e BALL has been newly. Decorated, and is one of the t B eautiful in the Metropolis. haltpast . 7 o'clo,k. Admission, area, ed.; stalls a 'e° ,l Y, ls. ; private boxes, les. 6d. HE GHOST CLUB" at the tr).... CANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting s'tral Tableaux.—Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to announce tat, throuA he medium of Professor Pepper's World of imedo:vs, a "GHOST CLUB" i s nightly held at the CAN— AL L. The object of the Club is not the re th'"ng of the Haunted Houses of London; but, through agency of Phantoms, to 13resent d (if' transient "flares of the drama of real life, both in its serious ° Vd mirthful aspects z and, by means of spectral tableaux, 'recall and still further impress on the mind, some or the t eac h ings or pleasantr i es o f th e best weters. At pre sent, the two orders of Slavery—the Slavery of the South, 'and the " White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisatio n , eceive emphatic illustration ; and these life pictures will be taPidly replaced by otht-rs. The pages of Shakspere and th e el(ter Dramatists, of Scott, Hood, ingoldeby, Dickens, &c., Arc., WI I. in turns, furnish subjects for illustration. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, i ncluding Operatic Selections, Ate. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and George Hutchenson. R OY AL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - IM MENSE SUCCESS.—ARTHUR and BERTRAND, the celebrated French Clowns, will appear every evening in an entertainment reserved expressly for their engagement at this establishment —The MARVELS of PERU, the most wonderful Performers in the WorId—LANGLOIS, the great Indian Juggler—The FAIRY FOUNTAlN—Operatic Selec tions —Grand Comic Divertissement, by the Francesco Family and Mons. Rate', assisted by 12 Young Ladies. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE . Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR ICOSlA vening• , the eminent Vi o li n i st, who will appear Every • ROYAL ALHAMBRA.—The Manager has the madehonour to announce that an arrangement hs een made with Mons. BASTIEN FRAN CONI, Proprietor a of b the Gra nd Cirque Imperiale, the whol e o f w h ose UNRI v A. LLED TROUPE will APPEAR, for a li m it e d period, ra Mencino• on the FIRST NIGHT of the CATTLE SHOW, "ecernber ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. burl INt a i n T; the Concerts given Mons. JULLIEN, at Her Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY EKING at NINE O'CLOCK. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager—M. GRENET. 29 , GEORGE STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. 1- 1: 1114 „ - E LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. weln e i: l3 'll daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7 SiaM - Wif e ; Where a seen the Aecs ; Bushman and anl ia Past m ran y a a be nd Infant ; E st ng and Shang, the Daratio m° j wina • and upwards of 3,000 Models, Natural Pre old=Au. -%gyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years One shilling (tor Gentlemen only). I F THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any tilloc'ne troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indizestion, or I,,_rustess, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Oworld take celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Potit Medicine vendors at is. lid. endor free by zi t o 14 or 33 stamps trom Page D. Woodcock, Chemist, u y ear BOTT. JACKSON, AND CO. ear execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the w e • Market price guaranteed. Remittances, London and s trninster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber :N. 14 •—•—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. R i9.edress—Borr and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine BI George -street, Camberwell-park, London. BANKRUPTCY AND COMPOSITIONS.- C ity WETHERFIELD, Solicitor, 35, Moorgate-street, i l ,' „PRACTISE:3 in COURT. and effects PRIVATE ~t*"'ANGEMENTS with creditors, without publi-ity. try n r ,e s, the lowest p oss ibl e , p a y a bl e by i ns t a l men t s . Conn ,,,,e*!ses economically conducted. .f )I. I ?.—DEBTS recovere d on comm i ss i on, free of l aw costa. p enee. vorce and Probate business conducted at moderate ex- E AUTIFUL WOMEN.—Alabaster Powder, and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. Cir eostiyanloom, Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. 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A distinguished Dignitafy in a letter a dd resse d to F rancis Tucker and Co., on th e subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says:-- " I have fou n d th em fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, recom mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality 2e. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. •• ls. sd. per lb. Second quality •• • ls. 3d. per lb. Third quality .. .• • • .. ls. id. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8 , South Molton-street. Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS 'PATENT. 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I nvalids or residents in the country can ad just these teeth to many changes of the mouth without the aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea tise explaining 11Ir. Eskeirs Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps. s lnspection o d f specimensßond-street, iv t and consultations rce.-8, G rosven or and at 89, Bennett's-hill, Bir mingham, .-../ -I°-. '° / ',.A,- . c..1J1 • Ar d a I : • • •1 1 1 1 \‘, • - .__--- 4 - •-•.'" - z 11 4 0 ,„: 4 • 411irt 6 - .4 P ir ,„&" : ' 44 : )4 . l A l4 °•;; l N 4. ' dy. • . DRorr. D quer, —..4d. STAMPED Naval and MlEtas/ Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Capt. A. Cochrane, C. 8., steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday evening, and joined the Edgar, bearing the flag of Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8., commander in chief of the Channel Fleet, and the Resistance, 16, iron frigate, Capt. Chamberlain, at Spithead anchorage. Messrs. Traehsell and Clayton, patentees of the ozone gas, with which the engine room and screw alley of the ship is partially lighted, have received orders from the Admiralty to complete the lighting of that part of the ship . on their system. Capt. Cochrane soon after the arrival of the ship in port applied to the Admiralty for an order for lighting the ship throughout, or nearly so, on Mesas. Traehsell's system ; but the Admiralty have declined to ac cede to his request, owing, it is said, to the contents of are port, forwarded for their information by the chemical assis tant of Portsmouth dockyard, ascribing explosive powers to the gas, together with other properties dangerous to human life. Now the chief qualities claimed by the patentees for the ozone gas are its perfect non-explosiveness and its free dom. from sulph ur o r other vapours that can be deleterious to life if inhaled in confined spaces, and the numerous expe riments which have been carried out on board the Warrior fully confirm these conclusions. During the recent cruise of the Channel Fleet round the coasts of the United Kingdom much valuable information was collected from the records kept onboard different ships. As an illustration of the nature of these records, and the wide range they have taken, w e g i ve two of the shortest in form and most apposite in character, selected from the many kept on board the representative ship of our iron-dads--- the Warrior. The consumption of coal from July 11 to Oc tober 3 from the time of leaving Spithead at the com mencement of the cruise until anchoring at Plymouth Sound at its conclusion, for the various purposes, was as follows—Lighting fires and getting up steam, 186 tons ; keeping fires banked, 35 tons ; in ev o l u ti ons and experi ments, 82 tons 10 cwt.; distilling water, 72 tons; culinary p ur poses, 21 tons 5 cwt.; keeping station with squadron, 563 tons 10 cwt. The total expenditure was thus 962 tons 5 cwt. The number of hours the fires were lighted was 1,406 ; the number of hours steam was up, 604;, the number of hours the screw was actually working, 341 ; the total quantity of fresh water distilled in gallons was 127,000 ; the total distance the ship went in knots, by log, was 2,286; the maximum power of engines exerted was 3,186 horse power, and the minimum 73.5 ; the number of days was 35. The most striking feature in these figure s is the reduction of the working power of the monstrous engines of the Warrior to 73 indicated collective horse power, the en g ines at the time making 10 revolutions, and the ship going 21 knots. This is probably the greatest feat yet accomplished w ith marine engines of large power. Friction in this instance can scarcely be said to have existed at all. As an example of a record of an entirely opposite kind we give the following, which relates to the number of visitors received on board the War rior at the various ports visited. The numbers were—At Yarmouth, 15,000 ; Sunderland, 24,285 ; Leith, 47,049; Invergordon, 4,500 ; Orkneys, 2,000; Lough Foyle, 35,000; Greenock, 41,100 ; Belfast, 21,500 ; Liverpool, 57,400 ; and Dublin, 20,000. There was also received on board at the various porta from yachts and small vessel, of which no exact record was kept, an estimated number of 30,000. The grand total was thus 301,634. The greatest number of visitors on board in one day was 14,273, at Sunderland, and the greatest number of steamers alongside in one day was 194. The Steam Reserve Commission still remain at Ports mouth, and yesterday were engaged in receiving evidence in the room set apart for their use in the offices of the steam factory. The Duncan screw liner, at Portsmouth, is being hurried forward for commission as the flagship of Admiral Sir James Hope, Mr. Crichton, the newly appointed chief engineer, has joined. The pennant, it is expected, will be hoisted on the Ist of January, 1864. The Wasp, 17, screw, Commander W. Bowden, fitting out at Portsmouth for foreign service, was swung yesterday for the adjustment of her compasses, and is expected to go out of harbour to Spithead to-day, where she will take in her ammunition and complete stores previous to leaving for her destination. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :-51atthew Barker, engineer, to the hussell— Hubert F. Roe, assistant paymaster, to the Victory—T. H% L. Bowling and• James K. Bell, assistant paymasters, addi tion, to the Edgar—John H. Mooney, assistant paymaster, to the Royal Oak—and George T. T. Cheyney, assistant paymaster, to the .Ajax. THE ARMY. In consequence of the numerous cases of corporal punish ment put in force by the verdict of garrison courts martial at Woolwich during the past year, a meeting of the inha bitants was yesterday held in the Town-hall. with a view of manifesting abhorrence of the practice, which it was proved is considerably on the increase. Letters were received from Lord Fermoy, M.P., Mr. W. Cox, M.P., Mr. J. Locke, M.P., Mr. C. Butler, M.P., Mr Alderman Salomons, M.P., an d others, approving the object of the meeting, but re gretting their inability to attend. The Town-hall was crowded, and the platform was filled by the members of the Local Board of Health, clergymen of the different denomi.• nations, and the most influential residents of the district. Those who addressed the meeting all spoke in favour of substituting for corporal punishment imprisonment for va rious terms. It was asserted that the use of the cat, instead of reforming criminals, only rendered them more desperate and unmanageable, The Danish Difficulty. The following is a translation of a despatch son by Earl Russell to the British Ambassador at Berlin, and to the representative of 31ugland at Frankfort : " Foreign.office,ll\lov. 23. " Sir,—Her Majesty's Government have observed with great regret, from a telegram received from Sir Alexander Malet, that the claims which Prince Frederic of Augustenbourg raises to the succession in the Duchies of Schleswig-and Holstein have been brought before the Federal Diet by the Minister of Baden, who thereby acts as the representative of the Prince, and that the question railed in consequence has been referred to a committee. Under a these c ircumstances, her Majesty's GovernmentlosCon siders itself bound to inform you, without time, that her Majesty's Gove rnment c _ pur sue no other course than that po i n ted out 13 3' h e obligations conscientious observance of all tons of May 8, 1852. entered into by the treaty Government, in This treaty binds her thereto, and in common with the other Majesty accordance with the termsBihgfinienassdicated in the treaty Prince Christian ot itself, to recognise his Schleswig.Holstein- lidigerbonrg-Glucksburg, and directo line from his marriage his male descendants S i o ° n: e f Hesse, as in possession with the Princess Lo uis e to all the territory at that of the right of succetsre of his Majesty the King of time under the ace aer gajesty 's Government anticipates Denmark. that the Powers hiali signed that treaty, or ap. proved it, w ill ta ke t h e sa me position in the ques " RUSSELL." tion.-1 am, ea. , . is the declaration of Austria and The following with regard to the admission of the Danish Prussia to the Federal Diet : Mi n ister „ Tho po si tion of the Austrian and Prussia n Go vernments is defined by the treaty which both, . conuno w ith the Governments of Fran ce , G reat Britain, Russia, and Sweden concluded . w ith t h e Crown o f Denmark at London in 1852, w hil e t h e preliminary conditions of the treaty were fixed by negotiations with Denmark in the years 1851-52. Both Governments regard the totality of these sti pulations as an inseparable whole, which received its completion by the Treaty of London. As the case has now arisen which was contemplated by the treaty, both Governments are prepared to execute the treaty, if the Crown of Denmark, on its part, complies with the preceding stipulations, the rea lisation of which formed a condition precedent to the signature of the Treaty of London by Austria and Prussia. According to the view of both Go. vernments the succession in Lauenburg belongs to King Christian even if the Treaty of London were not valid, while the next legal heir of the late King Frederic, Prince Frederick of Hesse, has transferred his right to King Christian. The admission of the Minister of Lauenburg, nominated by the King of Denmark, in the same proportion as the representa tives of single constituent States have a right to be present and vote at its sitting, seems therefore un assailable. The right to vote vested unitedly by Holstein and Lauenburg can only be admitted ebi both Governments when King Christian fulfils thel promises, relying on which both Powe rs l a te cclg I ol the Treaty of London, which, adverse. y forms the title of succession to the Kliog in stein." LORD PALMERSTON has the credit of having remarked that nobody in England has ever ta ect ek the s n the trouble to waster that most perplexing of a ll sub j, Schleswig,-Holstein questio n, but himself, and that he was certain he understood it once , though he would not answer for his ever beieg able to u nderstand it apin. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1863. 110 NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT. 11 —We Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, after Jullien's Concert. Fairest and most interesting of Cabbys—Drive Country Gentlemen to the Rue de Kydney, Covent-garden. K INAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. 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The arrivals gave sad intelligence of the destruction among ships which only a few hours before had left the Thames. A large outward bound Australian ship, called the Fusileer, Capt, Cavasso, with passengers and general cargo, bound for Port Phillip, struck on the Girdler Sand, some 20 miles below the Nore. Signals for assistance were shown, and the whole of the passengers were saved, and landed at Ramsgate on Thurs day from a lifeboat. Another large ship called the Deme rara, Capt. Scovell, from London, bound for Greenock, was lost on the Shingles, and the crew were also fortunate enough to reach Ramsgate in safety. A third ship, the Cornelia, outward bound, from Bremen, was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands, and the fate of her crew is yet uncer tain. The brigantine Belle, Capt. Pyne, bound from London for Algoa Bay, was driven from her anchors in the Downs by the force of the hurricane, and drove athwart a steamer carr ying away her foretopmast, and the captain, chief mate, and three men are missing. The second mate, one lady pas senger, one seaman, and two boys were only left on board when the brigantine was fortunately picked up by the Na poleon steamtug, and a lugger called the Buffalo, of Broad stairs, which remained by her until the gale moderated, and succeeded in towingthe disabled vessel into Ramsgate. A large Calcutta ship, known as the Maxwell, to escape being wrecked on the Goodwin, cut away her masts and so averted her destruction. She is insured far upwards of £70,000. A large fleet of vessels ara,rwrted to have sus tained damage by loss of chains and spare---eeveral have got into Ramsgate, Dover, and adjacent places. At Chatham the what blew with great violence from the westward and northward up till nearly 12 o'clock on Thurs day night, when it fell, and the night became fine and clear. The mercury rose rapidly until it reached last night 31.95 In the harbour all the vessels rode out the gale in safety with their topgallantmasts struck and their yards pointed well to the wind. While the storm raged the waves were washed completely over the caissons at the entrance of the docks, causing considerable inconvenience to those working on board the ships under repair. Fears were entertained that the roofs over some of the building slips would be de stroyed, but beyond some broken glass they escaped unin jured. The force of the wind when the gale was at its height was 201 b. to the square foot. At Lowestoft the steamer Norfolk, Capt. Bolland, from Rotterdam for Harwich, with cattle, &c., in the service of the Great Eastern Railway Company, was forced into the harbour, having been blown to leeward of her port. She came in in want of f ue l, a nd with 25 sheep, four calves, and one cow dead. Th e s t eamer , which experienced very heavy weather, is discha rg i n g her cargo. The brig Herald, of Whitby, Capt. Sh aw , with her until 9 f rom London for Hartlepool, in bal last, drove on th e M ouse S a nd about 5 p.m. on Thursday, and commenced filling with water. The crew remained p.m., when, as the vessel had nearly filled, they took to their boat, and were picked up about midnight by the schooner Pilot, of Goole, which brought them into the Lowestoft Roads. The crew were landed by the tug Powerful, and will be forwarded to their homes through the agency of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society. At Beccles a granary belonging to Mr. J. Crisp, near the railway station, had one of its sides forced in, and a portion of the roof blown off. Charles Oxborough, a bricklayer, who haditaken shelter from the fury of the hurricane, was killed, and a boy was seriously injured. The various mail steamers between Southampton, Havre, and the Channel Islands have been more or less retarded by the violent weather. The South-Western Company's fine new steamer Normandy, which was due at Southampton from Jersey and Guernsey early en Wednesday evening, did not arrive till between 8 and 9 o'clock on Thursday night. She behaved admirably in this heavy weather, and on her arrival in dock the passengers presented Capt. Harvey with an address of thanks for "the sterling qualities of a true British sailor displayed on this, one of the most terrific pas sages ever known between Jersey and Southampton." Dur ing the voyage several large ships were passed, some laying to and others running under bare poles, and some were no ticed with their topmasts gone. At Portsmouth, last night, the gale had subsided in a strong breeze from W.N.W., with the barometer slightly on the rise at 29.40. The readings on the barometer there taken at 10 a.m. for the past days have been as follows : Dec. 1, 29.7 ; 2, 28'98 ; 3, 29.25, it having fallen to and fallen from 29.52 in the intervening time ; Dec. 4, 30 38. In this last reading it will be seen the mercury rose li-tenths above an inch in 24 hours. At Bristol, on Thursday, a stone weighing 141 b. was dis lodged from the tower of All Saints' Church, Corn-street, and was blown down into a crowded thoroughfare; but for tunately without doing any harm. At Clifton a chimney stack fell, killed a horse, and broke a waggon to pieces, but the driver escaped. At Abbot's Leigh, near Bristol, a man in the employ of Sir W. Miles, M.P., was at work in a ditch, when a tree fell on him and fractured his legs. At Weston super-Mare the gale was very violent. The sloop Gleaner went on shore at Breane, and became a total wreck. The Mary had to run into Uphill, with sails torn to ribands, and with loss of her boat ; and damage was also done to the fishermen's boats in the bay. The gale was so sudden at Watchet that three boats, with two fishermen in each, went out in a comparative calm about two miles to fish with cod nets. One of the boats, however, was upset, and both men were drowned, while the others experienced the greatest difficulty in reaching the shore. At Taunton 50ft, of a chimney 100 ft. high, erected at Mr. Pollard's steam saw works, was blown down with a tremen dous crash, falling on and breaking in a workshop, in which five men were at work. Two of them escaped, while the other three were seriously injured. At Birmingham the gale of Thursday did considerable damage, and caused accidents by which many persons were injured. At a manufactory in Birchall-street, a chimney belonging to some premises adjoining was blown down and fell through the roof of a warehouse, A man and several women were injured. One unfortunate girl was dead when extricated from the mass of bricks and other material. The anemometer at the Midland Institute showed that the pres sure of the wind at 7 o'clock in the morning was 201 b on the square foot ; a little before Bit had fallen back to 111 b ; at 9 A i t t l w o a 4 s s 2 i 3 t b a s ; l a 9 n i d i bs,o and n n d a f t a e t r 1 1 2 0 i o t h , cl ad oa again fallen the pressure was 25111, full. It so remained for nearly an hour, and then gra dually declined. In the storm which occurred on the 21s t of February, 1861, the greatest pressure of the wind in Bir mingham was 311 b on the square foot; but at that point it appears the instrument was broken down by the violence of the gust. At Holyhead the storm appears to have been felt more Avery, boundhor age early for Halifax, Scotia, Thursday, sever ely than on any other p art of the coas t. Th e Eli za b et h, of Liverpoo l, tia, w aedr driven fromptaiu her anchorage after drifting some time foundered near the eastern s hore of the bay. The coastguards from Holyhead went rou nd and made an effort to render aid by means of the mortar apparatus, but were unsuccessful. The captain, se cond mate, and four of the crew saved themselves by cling ing to the broken timbers. The Elizabeth Morrow, from Glasgow for Old Calabar, is stranded. Her crew of 19 were saved during the night by the lifeboat. It depended upon the weather whether she and time other ships lying near her, whose names were not ascertained, would not be come total wrecks. The Westbeurne, Capt. Armitage, from Liverpool for Honduras, having lost one of her masts, came into collision with a bark in the same condition and sank: The crew were seen from the ship Confluence, against which the Westbourne ran, to take to the boat, but in a few minutes the boat swamped, and all were drowned. The body of the captain has been found. The Hibernia, from Workington for Dublin, came in during the gale and cast two anchors. Both cables broke and she was driven to the rocks on the south side of the bay. She yesterday morning had not broken up. Her crew waded to the shore at low water. The Climax, f Fowey (?), o , h a s run on the Salt Island. The Industry, from Liverpool for Ostend, was abandoned by her crew, but afterwards some of the men of the mail steamer Connaught boarded her and brought her into port. The Pearl, of Fowey (?), is wrecked. The crew were saved. The fate of the Harmony, from AYr for Drogheda, and her crew was remarkable. About 7 o'clock on Thursday night, she was driven rapidly towards the lee shore. She passed close to the end of the Great Eastern jetty, from which the mail steamers take their departure, and in a moment four of the for life, and reached the jetty. One boy crew have a leap only remained on board. About 2 o'clock on Friday morning ghes, of the Anglesey police, Constables Toohill and ID were sent by the inspector along the shore to see whether any persons might be in want of aesistance. They heard the poor boy on board the Harmony hallooing for help. By me ans of a rope they pulled h im ashore throu g h a tremen dous surf and in about 15 minutes afterwards th e ship , broke in a thousand pieces. The mail steamer Leincester de layed her departu re from 2 p.m. yesterday till 3 a.m. to-day, when she received the night mail from London. Strenuous and most successful exertions were made during Thursday night by the lifeboat to save the lives in jeopardy. Th e same lifeboat, manned by the same crew, brought 47 men ashore from the different ships in the course of 12 hours. The gale abated at Shields during Thursday night, and yesterday the weather was bright and clear, with a fresh wind from the W.N.W. As the bar is in such excellent condition through the improvements made tby the Tyne Commissioners in the summer, the depth of water enables laden vessels to sail much earlier in the tide than hereto fore, and from 6 o'clock yesterday morning until half-past 11 o'clock in the forenoon coal-ladeu vessels, mostly for Louclou, were leaving the Pont as fast as the steam tugs could take them, and considerably over 200 sail of coal laden vessels got to sea in the course of the forenoon ; more were to follow in the evening. The wind was very favour able to their making a very quick passage to London. Some anxiety prevailed with regard to the rash and foolish men who took their laden vessels out to sea on Wednesday evening just as the gale was coming on. They would en counter very bad weather off the Yorkshire coast. The wind has been off shore, and no casualties are reported to have occurred upon the coast of Northumberland and Dar ham. On the Northumberland coast the fishermen are are warned of impending storms by the admirable system established by the Duke of Northumberland, who has barometer stations in the principal fishing villages. Ad miral Fitzroy's storm warnings are also exhibited by the officers of the Coast-guard on all the prominent headlands between the Tyne and the seaport of Blyth. The accounts and telegrams which came to hand yester day from distant continental ports describe the recent gale as the most severe that has been experienced since the fear ful storm in 1857. Wills and Bequests. The will of Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.A„ F.R.S, F.S.A.' M.A., Oxon, of Norton Hall, Northamptonshire; Hopton Court and Decker Hill, Salop; and Grosvenor-square, Lon don, was proved in the Northampton registry, and the per sonal property sworn under £200,000. The trustees are the Earl of Powis and Sir B. Leighton, Bart. ; and the executors are Baldwyn Leighton, Esq., and Rainald Knightley, Esq., M.P. The testator was Chevalier of the Order of Albert the Brave, Knight of the Order of Leopold of Bel gium, and a Deputy Lieutenant for Salop and Northamp tonshire. He succeeded to the estates in 1813, and died at the age of 56. The will is dated 1861, and a codicil, June, 1863. The bequests are numerous, and there are legacies, though small in amount, to about 150 charitable Institu tions. To each of his clerks in the offices of his iron works and collieries he leave one year's salary, and to his bailiffs and all in and out-door servants one year's wages. He directed that sixteen labourers on the estate of Norton should bear him to his grave, each to receive M. He has founded at Harrow, where he received his early education, "the Botfield Scho+ larship" of £6O, to be held for three years. The catalogue which he had compiled of his library of books he directs shall be completed within 12 months, and inspected and compared at stated periods by his trustees, all series and numbers to be continued, and, together with MSS., prints, pictures, statuary, arms, and armour, and all other collec tions, to be held and enjoyed by the possessor of Norton Hall. LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 23. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Algernon Bertram Mitford, Esq., of the Foreign-office, to be an Acting Third Secretary in her Majesty's Diplomatic Service while employed abroad. WHITEHALL, Nov. 1. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Gillery Pigott, Esq., one of the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer. DEC. 2. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John Webster, M.A., to the church and parish of Cameron, in the Presbytery of St. Andrew's, and county of Fife, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. William Purdie Dickson ; and also the Rev. Alexander Matheson, to the church and parish of Glenshiel, in the presbytery of Lochcarron and county of Ross, vacant by the death of the Rev. Farquhar DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 2. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Somers Martin, Esq , to be a member of the Legislative Council of the Island of Antigua; William Wilkin and Edward Bow man Dyett, Esq., to be members of the Executive Council of the Island of Montserrat; and Charles Garrow Blanc, Esq., to be a member of the Legislative Council of her Majesty's Settlements on the River Gambia. DEC. 4. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Arthur Edward Kennedy, Esq., C. 13., to be Governor and Commander-in- Chief in and over the Island of Vancouver and its depen dencies. _ _ . WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MILL, DEC. 4. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Veterinary Surgeon Thorn ton Hart to be Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class. 4th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Herbert Sewell to be Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class. 13th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon William Varley to be Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class. 14th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Dawson to be Veteri nary :surgeon of the First Class. 15th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Martin Mence to be Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class. 18th Hussars—Cornet Frederick Charles Hooper to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Owen Whiteside, who retires—George Watson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hooper. Coldstream Guards—Ensign Arthur Farquhar, from 62d Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles Walter Lee-Mainwaring, promoted. 7th Regiment of Foot—Francis Wingfield Douglass, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice John Hosack, trans ferred to the 14th Foot. 10th Foot—George Hood, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Jasper N. Anderson, tranferred to the 76th Foot. 14th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Gerard Amstrong to be Captain, by purchase, vice George J. Newman Beamish, who retires—Ensign John Daly to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Armstrong—Ensign John Hosack, from 7th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Daly—William Brown Churchward, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Charles Curtis, who retires. 23d Foot—Captain Frederick Chandos Clifton, from the 3d West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Hewett, who exchanges. .58th Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant Daniel Munro, to be Quartermaster, vice Patrick Hopkins, who retires upon balf.pay. 621 Foot—Thomas Hamilton Forsyth, Gent., to be En sign, by purchase, vice Arthur earquhur, promoted in the Coldstream Guards. 76tp ,0 F 0t 0 , 0 t t o — b E e ns E ig n n sign Jt:sp v e i r ci N A ic i o e l x ls an A d n er d , e p rs r o o n m , ot f e r d om —L l i t h . tenant Edward Le Breton Butler to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant L. E. O'Connor, promoted. 82d Foot—Lieuteuant Charles Neville to be Adjutant, vice p L o i i e n u t t m en e a n n t t , Edward Snow Mason, who resig ns the ap 84th Foot—Ensign Andrew George Saunders, from the Military Train, to be Ensign, vice Knight, promoted. 88th Foot—Lieutenant H. Garrett Moore to be Adjutant, vice Lieutenant Thomas H. Cuthbertson, who resigns the appointment. 92d Foot—Ensign David Papillon, from 12th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Arthur Bryce Murray, deceased. 104th Foot—Lieut. Horace Mottle Evans to be Adjutant, vice Lieut. Archibald Logan Douglas, promoted. 107th Foot—The surname of the Assistant-Surgeon ap pointed from the Staff, Nov. 17, is Dustan not Dun stan. 3d West India Regiment—Captain Charles Hewett, from 23d Foot, to be Captain, vice Clifton, who exchanges. M EDICA L DEPARTMENT—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert Graves Burton, M.D., has been permitted to resign his Commission. The services of Staff Assistant-Surgeon James Samuel Currie Collier have been dispensed with, from 14th November, 1863. VETERINARY DEPARTMENT—Veterinary-Surgeon of the First Class William Thacker, from 10th Hussars, to be Staff Veterinary-Surgeon, vice Matthew Poett, de ceased, BREVET. Quartermaster Patrick Hopkins, half-pay, late 58th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Captain. The undermentioned Officers having completed the qualifying service in the rank of Lieut.-Colonel, under the provisions of the Royal Warrant of 14th October, 1858, to be Colonels : Lieut.-Colonel Bartholomew O'Brien, Military Train. Lieut.-Colonel James Holt Freeth, Royal Engineers. BANKRUPTS The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im portance in the Gazette : Martha Seales, poulterer, Jermyn-street George Barnard, b a k er , L e i g h James Ramsdell, commission agent, Alderma nbury John Stein. Be nne t, comm i ss i on agent, Railway-place, Fenchurch-street i William Henry Richards, publican, Bagshot John Dennett, builder, Hackney THE SWARMS OF EGGS IN A SINGLE FISH (vide Frank Buckland's Fish-hatching) : —The trout, weighing 1 Ib, carries 1,008 eggs—the perch, weighing lb, carries 20,592—the smelt, weighing 2 oz, carries 36,652 —the brill, weighing 4 lbs, contains 239,775 eggs_ th e herring, weighing lb, contains 19,840—the turbot, weigh ing 81bs, contains 385,200—the cod, weighing 20 lbs, carries 4,872,000 eggs. Mr. J. MORANT LOCKYER, an architect, sud denly withdrawn from the exercise of a thriving practice in his profession by the severe sfiliction of total blindness, has generously presented his numerous sketches and studies made during a long residence in Italy, to the Institute of British Architects, This disposition to enable others to benefit by his labours in the freo use of these sketches and professional notes—and, judging by their number, his industry must have been unwearied and in cessant—id in itself a rare occurrence. Mr. Lockyer has augmented these benefits to his former colleagues by the donation of an extensive series of the best casts from the early Consular Diptychs and ancient ivory carvings which h e had long studied. His minute knowledge of subjects of this nature, and even on a larger scale, was shown in his account of .ancient Italian bronze doors, and other papers contributed to the Architectural Publication Society. Th e casts from the ivory carvings now presented to the Institute were carefully arranged by himself, and are contained in drawers with, a handsomely ornamented cabinet,— thowetim. METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. The usual meeting of this Board was held yes terday at the offices in Spring-gardens. The Pre sident took the chair at 12 o'clock. FINANCE. The cash statement for the current week shows a total general balance of £164,323 ls. 3d. PROGRESS OF THE MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS. The CHIEF ENGINEER read the following re port as to the progress of these works: — The Engineer reported that " About 10.1 miles of the middle level line tial its branches, con sisting of sewers varying in size from 4ft. by 2ft. Bin. to 12ft. by 2ft. 6in., have been completed by Messrs. Brassey and Co., at a probable cost of £289,000, being £5,000 in excess of my last report. Much of the past month's work under this contract has consisted of small sewers and connexions, which necessarily consume more time in their execution thus. in a fair run with the main work. " I reported last month that the western sewerage works had made slow progress, owing to the very difficult nature of the soil, the quantities of water met with, and other adverse causes; but these have now assumed a somewhat more favourable aspect, and Messrs. Moxon and Co. will, therefore, I anti cipate, be enabled to proceed more rapicry with their contract. To the present time they have com pleted 2 2.3 d miles of sewers, of sizes varying from 3ft. 9in. by 2ft. 6in. to 4ft. 6in. circular, at an esti mated cost of about £38,000, or £3,000 more than reported last month. " The northern outfall sewer is not quite com pleted, the weather having been unfavourable to the work at the apron of the river, which can now only be proceeded with at certain periods of the tides. A small portion of the embankment also re mains unfinished. The total cost of the work done by Mr. Furness under this contract is about £635,000, of which £1,500 is due to the progress made in the past month. ig Mr. Furness's contract for the northern outfall reservoir is progressing satisfactorily. The arches a re being turned in three of its compartments, and the puddle and embankment are being formed over them. The penstocks, 32 in number, are all fixed in the wall next to the substructure. The estimated value of the work done is about £125,000, being £20,000 more than at the date of my last monthly report. ig Mr. Webster is making fair progress with the southern outfall works at Crossness. The total cost of the work done is estimated at £168,700, £7,200 being for that executed in the past month. "Upwards of two miles of the main southern low level sewer have now been completed by Mr. Webster, at an estimated cost of about £74,000, of which £7,000 is due to the progress made last month. " The whole line of the Bermondsey branch of the southern low level sewer, with the exception of the Spa-road junction and penstock chamber, is com pleted, by Messrs Aird and Son. Its total length is nearly three miles, and its estimated cost is £83,500, or £ 1 , 500 in excess of m y las t monthly report. " The works at t he Southwark ne w street are i b m ei p n o g rt p a u n s t line ofhedrapidlyforward in order t o get t h at thoroughfare open to the public throughout its entire length, from the Borough to the Blackfriars-road, by the end of the present year. Mr. Pearson, under his contract for the completion of the street between the Blackfriars-road and Great Guildford - street , has constructed a bout 1 , 634 feet of the subway , 1,620 feet of the sewe r , 840 feet of area wall , 198 vaults, and about 3,000 feet of pipe connexio ns. These and other minor works the t k dinvoanle in theuetoab pouatsf month. 0, being £3,500 for (Signed) "J. W. BAZALOETTE, Engineer." THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT ISLINGTON. The Superintending Architect (Mr. Vulliamy) presented the following report : "Fall of House, west side of Islington-green. "I have to report that an inspection of the pre mises has been made on the 27th ult., before the ruins had been much disturbed, when the fact that the front wall fell upon its own base, or perpen dicularly, and net inwards, as represented in some of the newspapers, was clearly discernible. "The building was for a public house on the site of an old one, and was being rapidly hastened to completion before the cattle-show on the 7th of December. From the district surveyor's clerk, who was present, the following particulars have been gathered:—Mr. Mosely received notice on or about the 22d of October, so that in a month and five days the building was completed in carcase, and some of the sash frames were being fixed. The f ron tage is 36 feet , and the wall which fell went up through four stories. It was 18 inches thick in the restsummers b ase ment, and had piers in the ground story sup portingbuilt in cement." 12in, with a flitch of had five ironpor pointst iinng of thebsrue s p t centr e . e n r as Thesewere Mr. VIILLIAILY, the architect, proceeded to state that after a careful examination of the circumstances connec t e d with this unhappy affair, he was de of opinion that over-haste was employed, in completing the building, but also in fol enloiodwteidonulgylyup the other works, which would necessarily cause a great jar upon the unset and green brick work. A letter was then read from Mr. W. Mosely, the district surveyor, in which he attributed the failure to the want of a due and sufficient settling of the mortar and cement, from the state of the atmos phere, the rapidity of the execution of the works, or the vibration of the scaffolding, or perhaps the whole combined. It is only fair to Mr. Mosely to state that he claims to be exonerated from all blame in the transaction. 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We extract a few out old medicines: they of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de hag, ,ofwiathilvear digestion, constant sleeplessness, the most intolerable nervous agitation, and drea dfully low spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. ord Stuart de on, gatherings, low constipation, Decies, Lor d Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribabl e 11 , onY f r om dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, flatulency, spasms, sickness , and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." —Cu t e No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimle y , t hi r ty years' dis eased lungs, spitting of blood, liver Surrey, of derange - meat, g me at, and par tial deafness.—pure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of e xtreme nervousness, indigestion, sp irits, and n ervous fancies. —Cure No. Campbell, Fakenha.m, Norfolk, of " 54,816. The Rev. Jas, T m torpi dity of the l iver, which had resist e l all medical treatment." indigestion and In tins, 1 lb. , 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 45 . Gd ; 400 _..Barry Du Barry and Co., No Sib., lls. ; 121 b., 4s. ; 241 b also Fortnum and Mason ; ma 77, Regent-street, London; every town 0 the United Ein all Grocers and Cl , in gCI9M, • ir.: :::_ 5....... ... • lr:iiS W' P • a oeorx„ amt. : .. e •Ll. ./.: 4. : . ..1, ' 1 i . ,,.)TV* 1 1717.**‘ THE STATE Or NAPLES,;,„%s...;'-AAT.-• - .--, r7Lcciig, , ,•vclex - - ,;.,,.., • _______,„____ ,-. NOr . z.;AA i . :.i - i- .4 The Memorial Diplomatique publishes t14 , .:`ti . ... iii(o,o An Vg'," ing very important lttter from its Speka 7 ;.::* 7 l:it, Z.5.1 ; 4 1 44- , /. 1'` . ...' 4 . : -.''-4 1 . ANt: 7 75 - 7'. 4 Y 4 spondent:-- - • -.,..--- :',l - .3.AULNP .. ,,, NAPLES, Nov. 21, Trt, r) Let me tell you a little anecdote by which you will ' ti- 4 a mate the amount of Neapolitan sympathy for anythit ig which is Piedmontese, when it is not prepared.beforehan 1 by administrative prudence. On the 30th October Prinoo llumber, his brother, and his uncle, went to the Floren tine Theatre. On their arrival the orchestra played tho Royal anthem, and a little sensation was elicited, Between the first and second acts the audience turbulently demanded. Garibaldi's; hymn, which is forbidden; the orchestra imme diately played some other air, hoping to avert the storm. All in vain ; hisses, shouts, vociferations, . and the coarsest expressions drowned their music, and were found irrepres sible. The Princes thought it prudent to withdraw them selves, and then only did the tempest of exclamations cease to rage. Here, no day passes without some encounter, gcverally on political grounds, which results in mauv wound 01 and some killed. The Pungolo o f t h e 9d inst., an utter Ilinis eri a I journal, informs us that, in conformity with A.q. 5 of the Pica law , several persons hav e b een mit:ark:A, in oraer to be sent to the islands in the gu lf. I n th e naum of this Pica law t persons are exiled f rom t h e ca pital,. though it i:. situated in a province which does not come under the provisions of this exceptional statute, but what matters? The Piedniontt:se Government does no t stop a t such trifiec !Ir. Layard and Mr. Cowp er w i ll find out, nevertheless, that here all is best in this best of all possible worlds. In the provinces the arrests aro even more ntunerous than before, especially among the Bourbonists, but it is only fair to add that all are taken alike, the Bourbonists, Garibaldians, and Mazzinists. Colour no longer counts. It is no longer a question of political opinions, but of private usage, interest, and antipathies. Ia the Casano Mute and Benevento districts 30 persons have lately been arrested on a charge of connivance with the brigands. Others, warned in time, have escaped, and have joined the band of the Pietragallesi. From Catanzaro, we hear that a residence in the pro vince, even in the principal towns, has become impossible. If one has the goad luck to escape the brigands, it is only to fall into the grip at...the Government, Monaco has found Imitators and supporters. The bands of Strataca, of Dome nico, of Sacchetiello, of Palma, of Parfundi, are much talked of, as well as several others, who have not yet had time to become famous. The province of Terra D' Otranto is one of the 13 which are of right in a state of siege, but until last week few arrests were made there. Sixty-four persons were arrested at one time in the .three little tow of Castellamtta, Martina, and Gallipoli-50 of the most not-' able inhabitants of the country were put in prison. Brigan dage and arrests march side by side in Foggia, Lucerne. A vellino, and even the Terrra di Lavore, where for the few past he months little had been heard of pillage and reaction. triumph Pielmontese triumph all along the line, and their increases the hatred excited by everything Pied montese. In the Basilicata, and especially in Malfii, the xe of the auth or iti es k now really no bounds, thanks to the humanity of M. Mere, the Minister of Police. At Venosa, M. Guglielmi, the Chief of the Police, had deter mined to ruin a man he was rich, named Ruggieri, but his adversary was not as powerful as and the second quail cation is indispen sa bl e to the attainment of justice here. M. Ruggieri cleared himself, and from being accused het b e came accuser. The counsel of war condemned the public. f u nctionary, Guglielimi, to what do you think ? At the most, to dismissal from his post forl three Not at all, but to the ga lleys for life! Nevertheless , years , the life and pro p e rty of the citizens had been confidedto such hands, conferred on s the 17th and all the others are about as:worthy, From ed Sept, to the 26 th Oct., in virtue of the power th e Government on the law of brigandage they haveo fe r formed several corps in the N ea p olitan p rovinces, t o be sent el pursuit of the brigands. M an y new bands ar e i n process of formation, especially in the Basilicata. A correspondent writes to me frem Gallipoli, in the province of Leece : " Here, as throughout the whole of the provinces, secret lists are made of the inspected persons. in pursuance of the Pica law, familiarly known here as the "Act for tho negation of all liberty." Party spirit, family discords, per sonal vengeance, anonymous d e nunciations —these are the order of the day, so that arrests are multiplied all along the line. One town offers a melancholy spectacle, indeed. From every point came groups of people, led in under guards of gen.sd'armes, arzested . under the Pica law—that is, accused of being suspected. Everywhere the prisons are full to overflowing. In that of Ruffen° several prisoners narrowly escaped suffocation, owing to the immense numbers of per sons crowded together having utterly vitiated the sir. A little longer perseverance in this plan, and the Piedmon teso will have imprisoned every honest man in the two Sicilies." M, Massari, in his report upon brigandage, exults in the fortunate results of the levy of 1862. Nevertheless, the Chamber was obliged to vote a law for sending to the mili tary tribunals not only those who resisted the levy for mili tary service, bnt such persons as lent any support or, aid to that resistance. The discussion took place amid great op position, It was contended that the offences of citizens should only be referred to their natural judges. But all •was in vain, the law was passed, the law is in action, and God only knows with what violence it is enforced. Never theless, the refractories and the Lrfc,rands increase in num ber every day. In Sicily especially, where formerly the conscription did not exist, refractories and deserts may be counted by thousands. You already know the measures adopted to prevent the escape of the refractories. The towns are in blockade, no one, no matter whom, is permitted to go out, even in cases of absolute need, to fetch food, water, or any necessary of life. In certain places in Sicily they allowed the sulphur to be burnt, and on a complaint being made to the military authorities those implicated were flogged with horsewhips. The Terrenwto has already published some documents re lative to a conflict of this kind in the town of Favara. At the commencement, these measures had some succ swell ranks of brigandage. At Palermo, the results are small. A proclamation by the military Government obliges the citizens to procure a certificate of birth, which must always be ready to be exhi bited on the smallest requisition, if they do not wish to ex pose themselves to imprisonment as refractories; and the administration is so ignorant of facts that it is not uncom mon to see a wan of 30 arrested and called upon to exhibit his son of 20, a bachelor, because his son is a refractory, s o . The Sicilian journals state that several' names of wom en have been found included in the lists atateaccohmedpitioc. accomplices— fathers, official notes relative to the refractories. Such is the accu racy with which the business is done I InaThweordde,puthve l ister of War on prison , swa rm with refractories and gm t i h riln e s have (said he) such a t f i v lil a t h et n e el r rs s vi , i noftcomplainedmothers,u sus t , relatives, B6o3f.th i, ~ j N young irtoethe large number of individuals imprisoned and condemned for t e ho r s r e e irme s p is lo ta r n e c t e he to m t i h n e is c te o r ns t c o ri s p o t l i j o e n it , tthheatl indulgencethink it of my h dutySing in t g o prisons." But to these just remonstrances for these unhappy persons, who a a r n e ces ro th tt e in a (Another Ba 4) answered, " If, by using ties as unjust and cruel, g uth in orit t i h es e re sults, what would happen Correspondence.) s nc w e lieh you stigma ve cannot obtain any just if we showed any indulgence?" Amu (CALIE t 20th November, 1863,—What shall I say to you of our to despair. N o one poor country ? It is a prey to disgust , surrounded on all sides any longer live in safety. We are of our hous es withoutesbebiny g b l r a iE n tad w s. ith l ar Ve canlnikot walking; r ki o ng out auyn .). arsenals, e erg- - , its torpor would lead that it ' us to suppose is as destitute of material as of moral force. No expedition is undertaken • en against the brigands; they do not even give themselves the trouble to try and surprise the enemy by ambuscades. The band of Pierre Monaco continue to ravage the country. The wretched families of the persons whom they have captured have sent 20,000 ducats to ran -1 som these unfortunate creatures, but the brigands have re fused to take anything less than the sum they at first de manded, 50,000 ducats (213,000 francs). This band is not the only one—now ones start up day by day. It is frightfu l ; for we Calabrians know too well what brigandage inearll here. We are none the less crushed under the batten ° taxes which we have no means of paying . The small P r : ; prietors are making next to nothing out of their i :e ti n ' ture cannot procure labourers, because the timi d will no to min . out of the limits of the towns, and the others go °' force the brigand bands. (FrOM the -fl i .- RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CIRTA chancellor has Law Times of to-day).—The Loretion completed his scheme for the reconsbetril of the Circuits. nut aerous, and will It is said that the changes will lot itou t Circuits. York be limited to the Northern and a_u4 to the Middle Circuit, wskiitrhe Leeds d d D s aurshanamasasriezetoto.b..evi. ad d I Warwick and North n; Norfolk Circuit, Thcse ampton are to be united „„ but wo trust they will not end are manifest imPr"ve ra— dono for the overburdened Home here. Is nothing t o v be eitow i n g courts at Westminster an d Circuit and for the 0 no t the obvious improvement adopt e d, 1 i d s ne e d in the City ? WhYd'l'strict coextensive with the Central of a Nisi Prins eitting with it every ; sa weeks, as the -Criminal Coucr ourt for the despatch of metropolitan Metropolits n b . this,. 8 done, alt ether difficulties would diesppear; business lchanges areof • other without c annot be permanent; f. , r to this must a nd ca we come worth' later. It would be for c b • sooner cr very Jtly if the scheme w ere co mplete that then wc IN Lc no need for further hango so T ,: vi for a century to come . c. lw professional arrange ments necessnrily consclamt upon these alterations ate not yet known. It is saift that the counsel at present upon either of the atruilgamatetl circuits are to be permitted to attend all or any of the at - , ,, izes on both circuits. But this will be often impracticable and always inconvenient, so that in practice a choice will soon be made and each circuit will possess its own. bar. It will be awkward for some of the leaders to be put to choose between their clients ; it will be equally awkward for others to find leaders from other circuits stepping over their heeds, and possibly winning the business they had obtained by the process of living into it. How theso aitliculties will be met is a pro blem of which we have herd no solution. NEW STORY BY THE AUTHOR OF "DOCTOR ANTONIO," &c. This day, 3 vols., crown svo., £1 lls. I N C EN Z 0; OR, SUNKEN ROCKS. By JOHN RUiFINI, Author of "Lorenzo Benoni," "Doctor Antonio," &c. Macmillan and Co., London and Cambridge. I