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In the naval intelligence which appt-ared in 2he Sun of the 13th inst. reference was made to the correspon dence passing between Whitehall end Portsmouth dockyard respecting the ship. A doubt was then expressed whether the Admiralty would .sanction any further reconstruction of the Royal Alfred, which was already in a very advanced stage to wards completion as an ironeaeed ship. We under• stand, however, that the Admiralty are so fully convinced of the weaknesses of the Royal Alfred class of ship, both for purposes of offence and de fence that they have now under their serious con sideration the plan to which we formerly referred f u r the entire alteration of the ship's armour and arma ment. If the Royal Alfred is eventually completed as was originally intended when ehe was con verted to her present form—that de nearly finished screw two-decker, she will add one more to the total number of the Prince Consort and Royal Oak class. She will be a vessel of 4,045 tons, and of 800-horse power, wooden built from keel to topsides, with the exception that her composite iron and wooden upper deck will rest on rolled Butterly iron beams, encased with armour.plating of 41-in., except at the extreme ends round the bows and stern. where it will taper to'2'ciii. Her weakness in offence will be that she will be limited in the size of her guns on broadsides behind her armour; and her weakness in defence will be that her 41in. armour will rest upon its 26in. of timber without any inner iron skin. With the feeling growing stronger day by day that it would be at the present moment supteme ignorance to fir any precise .imit to the axe of the ordnance our future iron ships will carry it cannot be wondered at that the Admiralty have at length made public their alarm and doubt as to the policy of still further going on in the construction of a weak composite ship such as the Royal Alfred. Tee plan laid befote the Admi ralty to meet the case has been prepared by Rear- Admiral G. Elliot, superintendent of Portsmouth dockyard. It provides for a belt of armour of great thickness, say from 10in. to 12i0., Co go entirely round the ship, from about 2ft, below the waterline to the level of her main deck. Amidships is a square box of iron, of (gum thickness with the belt at the water-line, and in . this box is one turret to mount 2 600-pounder rifled guns, the box being built for the protection of the turret's base, the turret having a thickness of iron quite equal to that of the belt and square box or tower, The main deck forward and aft of this tower-turret battery would be without any armour, which would thus be confined, as al• ready stated, to the protective belt at the water. line, the revolving turret, and the square tower which woulcVprotect its base. The unarmoured portion of the ship's main-deck is intended to carry eight rifled 150 pounder guns, two forward and aft of the tower on each side. The arrangement of the ship's defensive armour at the three points named, it is calculated, would give the ship the same weight of plating to carry that she would have if she is finished with her originally designed coating of 41-in. spread over the whole of her sides, and which, it is contended, can withstand nothing more formidable than the ordinary 68. pound castiron shot. The rig of the ship it is proposed to make as composite as her armour and armament. Her mainmast would be a tripod, on Cept. Coles's plan, while her fore and mizenmast would retain the ordinary form. With this arrangement it is calculated that the two 600-pounders in the turret would have a training of 62 deg. before and abaft the beam, the angle of training between the fore and mizen rigging being 12411eg. 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Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal Highness the Princes of Wales. Fearful Accident on the Great Western Railway. An accident, which might have been attended with a large sacrifice of human life, occurred on the lino of the Great Western Railway, at the Pangbourne station, on the night of Thursday last. From inquiries made on the spot it was ascertained that nearly abeam of the Alfred before she could bring the fire of her guns to bear upon the latter vessel's turret, and would probably throw herself in the trough of the sea and roll to excess, while the tur reted Alfred could keep her bow to-the sea and thus a narrow gauge special luggage train reached Pangbourne shortly before 10 o'clock, and from some defect in the valves of the engine, which caused a want of steam, the train was unable to proceed. The switchman, anticipating the arri val of the Birmingham express, directed the driver to "get on to the down line, and there appeared to be enough steam to enable this to be done. Soon afterwards the down mail was due, and it is said that some person in authority ordered the luggage train to be removed from the down to the up line. This was done, and it had not long been there when the Birmingham express was observed to be in sight, and the railway officials foresaw that something most fearful must happen. preserve a mach steadier gun platform. It is also argued in favour of the plan of Admiral Elliot that recent experience with the Channel s qua d ron h as proved that all of our ships attached to the squadron that have carried their armour-plating round their bows and sterns have proved themselves wretched seaboats, and that the proposed alteration in the her i in form t ndo f disposition of the Royal Alf re d' s armour must greatly The square tower whi c h intended, benefit o intended the b ase o f t h e turret, i s also transverse athwartship s and prevent the ship bei ng ra k ed b y an enemy ' s fire fore and aft, The weigh t o f the R oyal Alfred ' s to to protectha a t respect, kind i broadside under the Proposed new arrangement would be I.Boolb. Such is the plan proposed by Admiral Eiiiot for the reeonstructian of the Royal Alfred. It has been described with as few attendant remarks as possible. Its adoption may possibly ccn vert a notoriously weak ironclad into a most for midable vessel, but there would be a more positive chance of success for Admiral Eilioes scheme if it was applied to an iron framed ship rather than to the necessarily weak and yielding bottom of a wooden frame. If the:pl an is applied to the Royal Alfred, she will not be a solitary instance of the combined broadside and turret systeth, the Federal American navy already possessing one vessel of the kind—the • Danderoerg, a vessel with a turret at ea ch end and guns on the broadsides, the sides of the ship being constructed at an angle of about 40 deg. on the plan tested in Jones's angulated target at Portsmouth some two or three years since. The Terrible, 21 guns, paddlewheel frigate, 1,850 tons, BJO harse power, master in charge Mr Fre derick Townsend, was taken out of tho large basin in Sheerness dockyard on Thursday last. The terrible, which is one 'of the finest vessels of her class in the navy, was found, upon inspection, after the close of her last commission some three years ago, to require such considerable repairs both in r egard to her hull and machinery, that it was thought almost better to break her up. The Lords of the Admiralty, however, determined that the necessary repairs should be executed. The vesse l has been fitted with new boilers, while the machinery has been carefully repaired at the steam factory of the yard. Her hull has been also nearly rebuilt, and the ship altogether may be considered almost a new vessel. Previously to being taken out of the basin it was f o u n d necessar y to take off the outer rims of the paddle wheels, and to wait for a high tide, as the width of the vessel was too great for the entrance to the basin. Even when this had been done'while thevessel The anxiliary signal, when first seen by the driver of the express train, was stated by him to indicate that all was right, but almost immediately it was reversed, showing that there was something on the line. He did all in his power to stop the train, but it was proceeding at express rate, and the space was too short to admit of the speed being at all checked. The result was that the engine ran into the goods train with fearful velocity, forcing the guard's break-van, which was at the end of that train, over a salt van on to the top of the third van from the end, where it remained, the first salt van being dashed into pieces, and the second very extensively damaged. The noise from the colision was tremendous and so alarmed [he inhabitants of the village of Pangbourne that all seemed to feel at once that it was the result of an accident on the railway. Many rushed to the station and rendered every assistance that appeared to be required. The driver of the express train, Abraham Hill, was discovered to bo but slightly injured in the ribs, and the stoker by some extra ordinary means escaped any material injury. The fearful nature of the collision not unreasonably excited fears that some of the passengers had been killed, and the general anxiety was to ascertain what had been the effect of the ac cident among them. The carriages were instantly examined, and it was gratifying to the people to learn that none of the passengers had sustained any more inconvenience than a severe shaking. The great thing remaining to he done was to clear the line of the broken vans and the engine of the express, which had got off the line and was embedded in the earth. The pas sengers of the train, railway officers, and people of the village all assisted to remove the guard's break van from the top of the salt van, to which it had been driven, as already described, by the express train. Great difficulty was ex perienced in the effort, and ultimately the van fell across the down line. Both lines were thus blocked, and proper appliances being required for removing the obstruction, a telegraphic message was sent to the Reading station for assistance. Mr Bailey, the district superintendent, with a staff of men, proceeded to the spot with the least possible delay, and succeeded in getting the down line clear. The axpress train was eventually despatched by another engine, but its progress was interrupted at Reading, owing to an engine having got off the ine near the Caversham road. The down mail at night, and also the up mail early in the morning, were both delayed several hours. The express train, which was due at Paddington at 11 p.m., did not arrive there until between 4 and 5 o'clock on Friday morn ing. A number of men wore employed the whole of Friday in removing the disabled engine from its ',milieu, and gettine it on the up line, at Pangbourne station. In consequence of this obstruction the down line had to be used for all trains, so that great delay was necessarily occasioned to the ordi nary course of traffic. The desire of the railway officials was to expedite the passenger trains, and to do that the goods trains were detained at Reading. At one time on Friday morning there were no less than 30 trains of this description waiting to be despatched. Although a posse of men have been at work all day, the up line, at the time of the despatch of our parcel last evening, was not cleared, There is no doubt a strict inquiry will be made by the directors into the cause of this accident, which might have ertailed an awful sacrifice of life. The removal of the dis abled goods train from the down to the up lino no doubt led to the calamity ; but, for the sake of the public, and railway was passing out the Fponsons were souse distance over the wharfs, and the paddlewheels were only a few inches from each side of the jetty. The Terrible is fully rigged, has got her armament on board, and will be ready for sea ab3ot the Ist of January next. She is now lying at moorings in the harbour, and it is expected she will be shortly commissioned. A draught consisting of 40 men of the 37th depot have left Pembroke dock, under command of Lieut. Rosser, for Dover, to join the regiment. Major Burnside, 61st Regiment, Captain ln,. atructor of Musketry to the Bth Depot Battalion, is t - avellers in particular, it ought to be ascertained by whose authority it was done, and who is responsible for such an act 0 utter carelessness in railway management. THREE YEARS' CAMPAIGNING.—Th 3 American papers say that there is a New York regiment which, during their three years' service, has travelled by sea and land more than 12,000 miles, fought 20 general engage ments, nnrohcd through 15 States, and has been under Burnside, Pope, I‘.l`olellan, M`Dowell, Meade, Sherman, And Grant, about to be removed from Pembroke dock to the School of Musketry, at Hythe, in order to fill the appointment there of Lieut. Co'onel. Captain Mackenzie, 2d,lsth Regiment, is also about to join the School of Musketry, in order to qualify as Captain Instructor to the battalion, vies Burnside, promoted. Princess Charlotte—Martin Magill, Assist. Surgeon, to the Prince Consort—Samuel. B imfield, Assist. Surgeon, to the SI. George—James Farrelly, Assist. Surgeon, additional, to the Sutiej—George Duncan, Assist. Surgeon, to the Excellent —and .litmcs rr. syme, Assist.. Paymaster, to the Wellesley. The undermentioned gentlemen have been nomi nated to naval cadetships:—Allan Cornelius no rold Mann, Francis Hall Logan, Leonard George Eardley Childers, George Benson Bradford, and Stephen J. H. Bravo. The name of the naval cadet which appeared among the nominations on the 14th, was "Carruthers Massy," and not " °arm. thers." The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commandt r E, H. Murray to the Achilles--Cornelius W. M'Damott, Paymaster, to the Cadmus--James T,. Southey, Paymeeter, to the „-,----- - - , ,,2 . ... ... z .... ~..__ ...,, 7-„, _._ 4 • - - 7 , 4 's;;;' , t • ... • , c,/, z ,;,d -. 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William Marsh was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding John Greeuhani, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, at Haselbury-Plucknett, on the 16th of November. When called upon to plead, the prisoner said—l !thou]. , like the case to be heard, if you please, Sir. These people were Labourers, and had had a job of work together, which came to a sovereign. Greenham was paid the sovereign to divide between them. As they were going home the prisoner said he would hav e his share directly, but Greenham could not get change. The prisoner abused him very much, and at length they got to blows, and the pri. soner stabbed Greenham in the neck, and injured him very much. The wound was a quarter of an inch deep and five inches long. The prisoner was apprehended. He said Greenham had hit him with a hook, and he had struek at him it. return with a knife, but whether he had cut him or not he could not tell. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Judge then said to the prisoner —There are not many men like you, but there are some. It is more credit able to be beaten than to take out a knife. It is a cowardly act. I sentence you to be kept in penal servitude for ten years. William Harding was charged upon five indictments with uttering forged Bank of England notes at Taunton and at _ _ Mr Prideaux and Mr Warry were counsel for the prose cution. This was a prosecution at the instance of the Bank of England. It appeared that the prisoner was a butcher at Exmouth. About 8 o'clock in the evening of Dec. 8 the pri soner went to the shop of a Mr Hamlyn, a draper, at Tann. ton, and bought some articles amounting to £1 8s 10d. lie then tendered what appeared to be a £lO Bank of England note. The change was given him, after deducting the amount of the bill. The prisoner immediately afterwards went to the shop of Messrs Chapman, drapers, Taunton, and there he purchased articles similar to those he had bought at Hamlyn's and ho there tendered another apparently £lO Bank of England note and obtained change for it. Hamlyn had obtained change of the £lO note of Mr Patteson, the landlord of the Castle Hotel, Taunton. The next day the police having reoeived some information, proceeded to Ex mouth, where they found the prisoner was a butcher. The police charged him with having uttered the notes in Taun ton. The prisoner said he had not been in Taunton ; he was taken to the lock-up and searched. He had nearly £2O in his pocket. He had a key in his pocket, with which the police opened the door of a house at Exmouth, which was shut up. In that house they found two pieces of paper which appeared to be £lO Bank of England notes, and they also found the bills of Chapman and of Ila.nlyn. On Nov. 29, in the evening, the prisoner went to a draper's at Bath, apparently very much intoxicate.d. He bought some calico, flannel, and stockings. The bill came to 178 3d. He ten.. dered a £lO Bank of England note, change was given him. He said his name was "Bux, of Box." All the five notes were proved to be forgeries; they were made from the same plates. The prisoner, in his defence, said he had a deal with a man who appeared to be a farmer, at Bristol market He sold him some bullocks, and he received these notes in pay ment. He had thus lost all the money he had made during all his life, and was now without a farthing in the world. The Judge said there was no doubt these notes were Forged, and there was no doubt that the prisoner uttered them. It was very unusual for an honest man to have five forged notes in his possession; but what made the prisoner ;top at Taunton and buy flumel and stockings, and give a false name and address, and having obtained change for one, why did he tender another when he had plenty of change in his pocket P There was no proof of anything the prisoner had said. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. The prisoner was then charged with having been con victed of felony (stealing sheep) in 1857 at Exeter. He pleaded not guilty. Proof was given of the prisoner being the same man, and he was found guilty. The prisoner said he did not know those notes were forged. The Judge—Oh yes, you did. I think the best thing to do with you is to shut you up for the rest of your days. I sentence you to 15 years' penal servitude. James Nicholes was indicted for feloniously wounding Eliz ibeth Nicholes, his wile, with intent to murder her. Mr Warry prosecuted, and Mr T. W. Saunders defended the prisoner. The prisoner had been married 34 years, during which period they had lived together. On the 10th December the prisoner had been out at work all day ; he came home in the evening tipsy; his wife was preparing his supper; he asked for his spectacles, which she gave him. He then said, "If I am living in the morning you will not be," and ho took down a marking iron, but he put it back again. The wife said "I'm not afraid of you, and shall never be." This seemed to annoy him, and he took down the marking iron and struck her four times on the head with it. The wife ran out of the house crying "Murder." She was afterwards in bed four days. The police hearing of this went in search of the prisoner, and found him in a field near his house. He said he was provoked and could not help it, and he supposed he should get a month for it. The surgeon who attended the woman said she was in a critical state. She was stil under his care. For the prisoner R was urged that he was tipsy at the time, and had not intended to do his wife any mischief There were knives on the table, as they were at supper, with which he might have destroyed his wife if such had been his desire. The jury might ignore all intent, and find the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wounding. The Judge then summed up. The Jury foand the prisoner guilty with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The prisoner had been imprisoned for four months some years since for assaulting his wife. - The Judge said it was almost impossible to hear this case without feeling angry, but a judge ought not to feel anger. It was a cowardly thing to strike a woman at all, much more so his wife ; he was bound to protect her. Let men learn that they were not to beat their wives. And if he (the prisoner) supposed he should get a month, he could tell him he would have much more than that, for he should sentence him to 18 months' imprisonment with hard labour, MIDLAND CIRCUIT—LEEDS, Dec. 16. (Before Mr Justice Keating.) Chas. Jessop was indicted for breaking into the dwelling house of Mr Bartholmes at Bradford, and stealing a quail. tity of plate. Mr Bruce appeared for the prosecution; Mr C. Foster defended the prisoner. It appeared that the prosecutor's family had gone abroad and that on the 16th of September he locked up his hum and went off to Harrogate for a few days. On the 19th a policeman, observing that the house' had been broken into, sent off to the proseoutor, who returned on the 20th and found that his plate had been stolen. On the Bth of November the police went to a beershop at Bradford called The Live and Let Live ; they noticed that the name of Brooks and not the prisoner's was over the door, although the prisoner lived there, and on search being made they found part of the plate concealed under the floor of one of the bedrooms, and in the chimney part of an urn bet nging to the prosecutor. The prisoner said that the plate had been put there to be out of the way of the children. On the prosecutor's wife going abroad part of the plate had been locked up, and it was not proved whether the plate found was the plate that had been locked up by the prosecutor's wife or some left out for his own use during her absence, The prisoner called a witness who proved that he had seen the forks and spoons in the beershop some weeks before the house had been broken into, and that those forks and spoons were engraved with a B. The whole of the prosecutor's sil ver was engraved with a B also, and it was contended on behalf of the defence that the plate was not identified by Mr Barthelmes, as the only mark he identified by was the B, which stood as well for Brooks as for Barthelmes. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of receiving. The learned judge, as there was a previous conviction proved against the prisoner, sentenced him to sa7en years' penal servitude. Charles Crosby was indicted for stealing a horse, of the value of £lO. Mr Lascelles conducted the prosecution ; the'prisoner was undefended. It appeared from the evidence float the prosecutor, John Stead, is a farmer living at Garford, and on Friday, the 7th October, a servant of the prosecutor's took the horse into a field where there were two other horses, and locked the gate. He saw the prisoner about 50 yards from the field. The next morning the horse was missed. A tollgate keeper had a conversation with the prisoner, and saw him riding the horse the next morning about half-past 7 o'clock. The pri soner then went to Selby lair, and, on some one offering to buy the horse, refused to sell it, as the man wanted to ride it out in the fair. boon after he saw Henry Balls, a horse dealer, in whose service he bad formerly been, and told him that he had heard the horse was stolen, He then rode off in the direction of Garford. The horse was found the same evening turned loose on the turnpike road. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. His lordship said that he had formerly sentenced him to 15 months' imprisonment for a smiler offence, but this timo he should inflict a much heavier sentence on him, and sen tenced him to 10 years' penal servitude. ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. MR slid Mrs. GEEMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, will appear in THE RIVAL COM POSERS (for a limited number of representations). To be followed by THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY. 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B,iing-William-street, Charing cross, Londo n , and by all drost , 4, in bottles, 130., and three quantities i n one, 2s. ed. each. Be particular. and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam, The name and address are engraved Qin the stamp. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA (From the Times' Correspondent.) • NEW YORK, Dec. 2, Recruiting has nearly stopped in New York and the cities of the North, although the old high bounties continue to be offered and the old hand money, or kidnapping fee, continueg to be paid to the crimps and other scoundrels who make it their business to supply the Federal Government with alien soldiers. General Grant requires a reinforce ment of at least 50,000 men to raise his army to the efficiency it possessed in midsummer, and opes rations before Richmond and Petersburg, though not entirely suspended, are delayed in consequence. The immen se aitnies aTh=pM"Trniiitirererafri tars have melted away as rapidly as that of Grant, and the cry is again raised for men, more men, to deal the blow within " ninety days" against the great serpent of rebellion, which is to break its back, cut off its head, and leave its dishonoured car cass to rot in the sunshine, or be picked to a skeleton by the vultures and cormorants of the North. The President's annual Message, to be delivered to Con• gress on its reassembling on Monday next, will, it is alleged by those who have been admitted to a pre liminary perusal of the proof sheets, dwell empha tically upon the necessity of a new levy of half a million of men, to be obtained by voluntary enlist ment if possible, but, if not, to be enforced by a stringent conscription, from which no man of the proper age shall be exempt for any cause except physical disability, and from which no money pay ment shall purchase immunity. At one time or other Mr Lincoln has called upon the Federal States for I,Boo,ooomen to fight the bat!le of compulsoryunion, but how far his calls have been responded to is matter of grave doubt, and will probably remain so until the history of the war shall be written in the next generation. What is the actual force of the Federal armies at this moment no one knows, unless it be Mr. Stanton ; but the estimate formed . by many who are in a position to judge with more or less of accuracy, and whose sympathies lead them to take as favourable a view as possible, places it under 300,000 men of all arms. They allot 100,000 to Grant, 40,000 to Sheridan, 60,000 to Sherman, 40,000 to Thomas and Slocum, 30,000 to Rosecrans, and 20,000 doing garrison duty in the cities of the North and West. This is a formidable host, but it is in daily process of disintegration and decay, and will require a considerable accession of new men to be maintained at :the same standard until the spring of 1865. As the number, liberal as it is, is palpably insufficient for the work in hand--to say nothing of that greater work, the subjugation and extermination of the Southern people, which is threatened as the penalty of a resistance much longer protracted—Mr. Lincoln must call for new legions, and the country must promptly supply them, or the Confederates will be in a position to assume the aggressive, and threaten Washington with the fate of Atlanta, and perhaps Ozlio with such a raid of desolation as Sherman at this moment is inflict. iog upon Georgia. The subject will doubtless be prominently noticed by Mr Lincoln. Evident:y some fresh zeal must be infused into the heart of the native Americans, or some new force employed to convert them into soldiers, or the war must linger, if not collapse, and all the immensely superior advanteges of wealth and numbers possessed by the North be come unavailing tor want of the unselfish patriotism and the heroic devotion exhibit3d by the poorer and less numerous people of the South. Mr Fessen den's annual Report on the state of the Finances is expected with even more interest that attaches to Mr Lincoln's Message. The army is in arrears of pay, some regiments not having received a cent for seven months. The taxes, whether from import duties or internal revenue, do not provide for one fifth of the daily expenditure, so that there must either be an increase of the burdens upon the people —new loans—or fresh issues of paper money, to enable the Government to pay its way. Some o! the war-zealots, whose audacity is only expl!cable by their ignorance, are of opinion that an income and property tax of 20c. or 252. would be cheerfully borne by all but the very poorest of the people, and urge its imposition, as not only the most effective, but, in the long run, the cheapest mode of main taining the credit of the Government, and meet ing the daily increasing difficulties of the finan cial situation. Congress, however, will scarcely be so reckless as the eager but irresponsible poli ticians of the press and the pulpit, and risk the imposition of a burden so onerous upon a people already taxed in every conceivable mode, upon every conceivable commodity, profession, or trade, though it is not improbable it may raise the existing income and property tax to 10 per cent, upon all incomes above 600 dollars. But even if the screw were placed upon the comfortable classes to this extent, the operation, if successful and not largely evaded, would put no immediate millions into the depleted treasury, and the Secretary would have either to borrow or print fresh paper to meet his current necessities. As the certain result would be to raise the premium on gold to a point much higher than it has hitherto reached, it may easily bt imagined Mr Fesbenden has greater difficulties to contend with than ever fell to the lot of Mr Chase. The public was told from Washington two days ago to expect " thunder all round the military horizon," that is to say stirring news from Grant, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas, and other generals in the field. As yet the only " thunder " of the kind that has been heard has sounded from Tennessee, whore Gen. Hood assaulted Gen. Schofield, a lieutenant of Gen. Thomas, at Franklin, and fought a desperate battle in which Gen. Scho field, in his official report, claims the victory, with a loss to himself of 1,200 men and of 6,000 to the enemy. These figures, however, do not impress impartial people with the idea of accuracy, and as Gen. Hood only used a small, and, under the cir- cumstances, too small a portion of his available force, aad threatens to renew the attack, the battle of Franklin, as at present reported, takes no higher rank than a severe skirmish, Sherman's position is suspected rather than known, He has slipped past Macon,whioh was too strong to attack, and will, it is supposed, do the same by Augusta, in full march to the seaboard, if the Confederates will permit him, The attempted ineendiaridm of New York has already lost much of its interest, and the theory at first received with derision, that it was never in• tended to burn the hotels, bat only to frighten the people to an extent sufficient to justify the establish ment of martial law on the plea that public safety required it, has grown rapidly in favour. The police aided by the military, or the military aided by the police, whichever be the proper subordination of the two authorities, have not yet succeeded in obtain ing any real clue to the perpetrators. Several arrests have been mad°, and several mysterious and semi- official announcements have appeared in the news- papers to the effect that the authorities were on the right track,and that the ringleaderscould net by any possibility escape; but the public has fast settled down into the conviction that the scheme, whether Confederate or Federal, or simply that of thieves and murderers, Nv4B too cunningly planned to permit much hope of the discovery of the guilty 'Allies. 'I I 14,C 4 ir-4.. .•\ SPIRIT OF THE 31 , 10 XOTTIi , itilit. .... --_, .—t,i- - - - - -, A TIMES.—Lord Palmerston at 11.0=14 p - isediee of L t-tose ic tures of Engli s h li fe and politic s that we may some day value the more because we no longer have them. The Pre mier walks out of Broadlands, and in a fow minutes is in the New Corn Exchange of the neighbouring market town, among the gentry and farmers of the neighbourhood. As the chief man thereabouts, he opens the building, presides over a dinner, proposes the toasts, and makes speeches. The day's work is what may fall to the lot of any English gen tleman, and Lord Palmerston is only doing what any one of 10,000 squires may have to do next week. But of couree tie does it well, and we a ll na t ura ll y care to hear what 'fee guys, because we are at home with him, understand hire, arid kno w that ev-n a short speech will give us a point or two. The chief point is one which every farmer ought to receiv e with respect from a man who, spending much of his time in the country, and hevieg his eyes always open, Las been 'coking about him for near 70 years. In the eousee 05, that tine h o tells the agriculturists of Romsey he has we ticed an immense chang e in husbandry. No doubt the pro gress has been quite as great as during any other 70 years of the 2,000 that have elapsed since our ancestors depended a good deal on acorns and beech nuts. It is only 30 year a since whole counties were nightly lit up by the destroyers of thrashing machines. Yet it was not because fleil-thraeh ing was a light, or agreeable, or healthy occupation—for what with the heat, the draught, and the barn due`, it wus believed to have ruined many a good constitution, and was left to men with more sinew than wit. Yet such is the change, as Lord Palmerston observes, that the men whose fathers went about . destroying thrashing machines now insist on their use, and hold the fleil:too hard work for man. The inference his lordship draws is that the etearne plough will one day become as familiar. No doubt it will and must. The price of corn must adapt itself to the, cheapest methods of productions, and they who cling to thee dearer will find themselves beaten, like the hand loo m weavers and all the crafts that persist in hand labour. Th e inference, however, does not rest here. Agriculture is a progressive science, and they who expect to succeed in it must keep pace with every improvement. Sir Robert Peel had to make many apeeehes at Tamworth, but we cannot recall that ho ever confined himself to such plain advice as to tell the farmers to do their best, to keep ahead, and im prove as much as they could. That is Lord Palmerston's recommendation, and, as it is evidently beyond the means of many farmers and beyond the scale of their farme to haves steam ploughs of their own, he suggests that it may I 0 worth while to keep steam ploughs on hire, as thrashi cg machines are kept all over the country. Landlords Limy lead the way by lending the steam plough, but such assist. ance can be but temporory, and must soon give way to more businesslike arrangements. Another change Lord Palmer.. ston notices, with an eye to the future as well as the past, and that is the preposterous weight and solidity of the carts and waggons formerly in use—in days, no doubt, when the condition of the reads and state of the ground made strength the first consideration. But when egriculturists complain of short crops, as, indeed, many have done this year, it is excusable to notice that a good deal of the strength of the soil still goes in weeds. When a field is all red with poppies, or all yellow with charlock and the many other weeds that wear that livery, we may venture to ask whether it must always be so, and how it comes to pass. It has not escaped Lord Palmerston's eye. We confess to sharing his suspicion that the presence of weeds tells a tale of neglect. Surely they may be extirpated at last, by continuous care s for though thistledown is borne on the wind any distance, thistle is not the worst foe to the crop. The most numerous and most inveterate enemies are those that deposit their seed under their own stem, and are reproduced in future years upon the very same spot. Surely at length they may be destroyed, and it is one gain of machinery that it releases a good deal of manual labour from such operations as the. destruction of weds. It does not require a man to be a professed agriculturist, or a farmer in any sense, to see the harm done by weeds. Ho may see in five square yards of garden, or even in a flower-pot, the universal fate of a plant choked with weeds in ever so small a degree. We wonder whether Romsey appreciates the disc thaction of having a man of world-wide fame to open its public buildings, and to preside over its entertainments, and to be associated with it in history. The county of Hants evidently holds that honour cheap, and has taken another measure of its quality in its represen tatives. The University of Cambridge, too, has provided in its own way for its public credit and Parliamentary influ ence. Bat Sir R, Peel, by the time he had worked his way to light and truth, was not member for Staffordshire, or for the University of Oxford, or for any considerable consti tuency, but fur Tamworth. Such, then, are the localites ennobled by the greatest names of our age,—Tamworth, Romsey, Tiverton. It is a matter of accident where a man is born, or from what old town or ruin ho derives his title, but it is not accident that our great statesmen seem to make their most familiar and most pleasant appearances at small country towns, which but for them would bo as little known as many hundreds more. Romsey has its fine old Norman abbey, Tamworth has its castle. Both objects are interesting to residents and visitors, but there ends the claim of either town to national interest, excepting only that it is associated with the name of a great statesman, with many an amusing speech, or important manifesto. A time may come, perhaps, when these associations will be classic, and when names of merely local interest in these days will recall to the student the virtues, the talents—possibly too the liberties--of a former age. A time may come, per haps, when there may not be this plain speaking, nor will it matter what a man can say when he will be able to do nothing. We now find everywhere, as if from the soil of Old England, free and generous utterances. We reccgniso the voice of nature in the talk of men face to face, or the somewhat more composed words of the man rather greater than his fellows in his little Parliament of social peers. Parliament itself can hardly match what is said in these almost rural:haunts. It will be a sad day for England if these local associations disappear from her political annals, and the grand story of British life be reduced to one long, dull, angry controversy. -- ; ~-s>: .^ ~""~- sue. •`-~~ ~~ ! ~~r %-~, ='s3~& :1 HERALD,—Sarah Henderson, about thirty years of age, now picking oakum in the House of Correction, is in her way a representative woman. She is " wog known to the police by the cognomen of the Bloomer ;" she had torn her clothing to tatters in the Euston.road ; she had again rent them into rags at the police-station; she has been charged 82 times and convicted 48 times in one metropolitan division alone, and her ambition apparently is to live out her life in prison. When placed before the Marylebono magistrate en Wednesday, she declared herself "sick and tired" of being sent to gaol for seven and fourteen days, or a month. sentenced to three months' hard labour, she pa • titioned for six; and we have now to ask what terror to such offenders have our correctional institutions ? Here is an idle, dissolute, vagabond creature, a nuisance of the streets, who prefers incarceration to liberty, who enjoys th 3 former as safe, comfortable, and healthy, and who only makes use of the latter to bemire herself with drunkenness and ribaldry, while raising a clamour of shrieks and nine rufflinism in the public thoroughfares. Too little attention has been bestowed upon this order of delinquents. We have devoted endless speculations to the secondary criminal, and oscillated between solitary, silent, and labori ous systems ; but to what does punishment come when a wretched creature, only in her 30th year, who is known to have been condemned 50 times, implores that her term of imprisonment shall be increased ? They toll us, oracularly, that a bad person oannot be converted into a good person by the simple expedient of shutting him up in a cell. The process may, indeed, render reformation possible, break off evil habits, and wear out pernicious associations ; it may prepare the way for further reformation ; but in such cases as those to which we now especially refer, when the chance of reformation begins the authority of the law ends, and the miserable sot is turned forth to the tavern bar, where her first day of freedom is disgraced by drunkenness and delirium. Would it be hazardous to prophesy, for cx ample,that this branded vagrant, Sarah; Henderson, after her three months of penal correction, will immediately return to the degradation of a female savage and pollute the very kennels with her ignominy ? It is an accepted principle in our times that justice must be measured out carefully and upon a well - considered scale; but in this instance the ques tion is not so much one of justice as of social right and mercy. Such a being is not to be dealt with as a criminal, but as a lunatic, or as raeninvee herorrig from dailyiblechild. temptationl Vilitlireo months' imprisonment remove and the stimulants to vice, destroy her ardour for intoxi cated excitement, subdue the violence of her animal apps.. titer, or quench her craving for gin ! Assuredly not. A, comfortable cell, plenty of food, abundance of cl ot hi ng , artifioial warmth and ventilation, medical attendance, a chaplain and a schoolmaster, render the penalty tolerable. For the woman Henderson, at all events, prison life has no terrors—she enjoys it—and what else can society do with , her? That is the necessary and the difficult question. DESTITUTION IN BETIINAL-GREEN.7-La9t right Mr. Jae. George Richards, the deputy, coroner, held an inquiry at the Bricklayers' Arms Tavern, Cullingwood, street, Bethnal-garden, respecting the death of David W. Keefe, aged 25. Catherine Keefe, of No, 22, Wellington, street, Bethnal-green, a sickly-looking young womar, who was accommodated with a chair, said that sho was a semi,. stress, and worked at a sewing machine for ono Of the city warehouses, but she had been out of employment through sickness fur 7 weeks. The deceased was aMr dress,.r, but he was consumptive and unable to work: He had been under ' the care of Mr World, the surgeon, but latterly he had dis.. continued his medicine. On Monday morning last he wished to go to the Consumption Hospital at Victoria-park for ad vice, when she pledged her earrings to get the money for a distress,go t sso rs worse but t(nl never r d They were in great cab, but he could not go, as he besamo so much worse. Ho a7pl W ied ed f n or es p d a a r y is l h as r t elief. Dr. Llewellyn of Whiteuhapel-road, said that he found the deceased dead in bed. There were no marks of violence on the body, which was very thin and emaciated. Tho cause of death was disease of the heart and lungs, no doubt accelerated by the want of proper nutritious diet, which the deceased was unable through poverty to obtain. The deputy-coroner said it was to be lamented that the sister had not apphcd for relief for the deceased, who no doubt had suffered great privation. The jury returned a verdict in uccordanco with the medical teethnoey. NEW NOVEL BY AUTHOR OF " BERTIE BRAY." This Day, at all Libraries, in 3 vols., BAR R Y O'BYRNE By ANNIE THOMAS. 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