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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That the O rdinary Half -Yea r ly GENERAL MEETING o f the SHATZ EHOLD 1, RS of th i • AIN GEORGE'S BARBOUR COMPANY will be held at the Offices of the Company, No. 1, Robert -street, Adelphi, in the city of London. on s,i.TIJR DA I , the 18th Feb, uary inst., at Twelve o'clock precisely. R. WI LBEItIci R CE BIRD, Chairman. Dated this 12th of' February, 1863. THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Four-and-a-Half per ( ent. Preference Stock. The GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY CO &IPANY is pre- Pared to receive plications for sums of £lO , or upwards, of the ab ove St ock, bearing a fixed Preferential Interest of er cent. per annum. Interest c mmences from the date of payment. Applications to be made either personally or by letter to the undersigned. .T. B. OWEN, Secretary. ishopsgate Terminus, February, 1863. II 0 IAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONLss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PEnsinErev—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R. S. CHAT nmAN—•Thos: Raring, I sq., M.P. F.R.S., V.?. Dtrumv-CnAininAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since ►he beginning of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat Institution has expended L 32,1,00 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments • n the Coasts of Eng and, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period the Lifeboats of the Institution have een Instrumental in rescuing tue Crews of the follow ing Wrecked Vessels : 18FO. Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose .. .. 1 Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone .. .. 6 Brig Pallas, of Shields .. .. .. .. 3 Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. .. 9 Smack John Hu*, of Yarmouth .. • • • • • • 5 Schooner Catherine, of Newry .. .. .. 4 Barque Niagara, of Shields .. .. .. .. 11 A Barg•e of Teignmouth •• •• •• •• 2 Brig George and James, of London Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• • . 6 Coble Honour, of Cullercoats .• • • • • 3 ,„, Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. • • • • 7 Barque Oberon, of Liverpool • • • • • . 15 Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .. • • • • 0 Smack Wonder of Teignmouth .. .. .. 2 Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. .• • • • • 6 Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. • • •• 5 -tool) Charlotte, of Woodbridge .. . .. 5 B rig Ann, of Blyth .. •• • • •• • •• 8 Vo,_ P Hope of Dublinbe •• •• •• •• 3 *•"•;,u0e Druid, ner of Aberystwyth .. •• • • 5 . " 4 .., rqu e Vermont, of Halifax, 'U.S. .. •• •• 16 SC hooner William Keith, of Carnarvon .. .. 2 Bri g Plying Fish, of Whitby •• •• •• 5 smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis . .. ... f so l an l Dredge, at Newhaven .. -.-- • 9 s - ocner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. .. 8 ch ooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. .. 5 Bchooner Rose, of LYnn 3 ,t ) . _ . ,rig Predroma, of btockton .. .. .. .. 11 Brigantine Eliza, of Middlesborough 'ungantine Freia, of Konigsberg .. .. .. 6 Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. .. .. 7 210 Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other menus, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1860 Total .• ..455 1861. Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham • • .. .. 6 Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. 5 Schooner Prosp , ct, of Berwick •• 6 Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Fishing -boat of Whitb urn • Brig Arethusa, of Blyth •• • •• •• 8 Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoo . • • • 8 Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris .. 2 Schooner William, of Morecambe .• • • • • 5 Smack Gipsy, of Newry 4 Schooner N' p r Nl argaret Anne, of Preston • .. 4 Draper, of Whitehaven •• •• 8 Schooner William, of Liverpool .. 5 ugger Nimrod, of Castletown •• •• 3 B rig•• Providence, of Shields • • • • •• •• 8 8 Brig Mayflower, of N ewcas tl e .• •• Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood . • •• 4 Barque Guy •na, of Glasgow .. 19 R& Roman Empress, of Shields .. 10 i - ;g San Spirid ne, of i; alaxlde .. 2 Schoo ner Wenc h Voador du Vouga, of Viana 8 vrench Brig La .Jenne Marie Therese .. 6 Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough .. .. 5 Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater .. 4 Schooner A orten sin, ot Hanover .. .. 4 Ship Danube, of Belfast •• •• •• 17 Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven .. 4 Brig St. Michel, of Marans 8 Spanish Barque Primers de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) 1 Schooner Harrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) .• •• .. 4 Barque Frederick, of London 1 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 • Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) • • • • • • •• •• • • • 6 • • • Barge P eace, of London 2 I .u gger Saucy L ass, of Lowestoft .. 11 Smalk Adventure, of Harwich.. • • 10 Pilot cutter Whi m, of Lowestoft :.• .. 7 Barque Undaunted, of Aberdeen • Schooner Skylark, o f Folkestone • •:• .. 11 • 6 Wrecked boat on Bl ackwater Bank, • on the Iris h coast Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk •:: •"• • • I Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. 5 • . Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. 6 Schooner Friends, of Lynn 4 Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin 5 Brig Content, of Sunderland e 5 Smack Ellen Owens, of Cardigan • .. g Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel and crew) 4 Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. 5 Number of lives saved by sho r e-b oa t s an d other 288 means, for which the Institution has granted rewards in 1861 Total • • • • .• ..424 Schooner Bellona, of ReclL 1 Prig' Pioneer, of Carnarvon • 1 Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipewich .• •- 5 P rig Minerva, of Workington Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh 6 Brig Sisters, of W hitby • • • • • • 9 Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm .. 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields .. 10 Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. 3 Schooner Sylphiden. of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) .. 7 Brig Trial, of Poole Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda •• •• ••1.34 Smack Frodsham, of Liverpool .. .. 2 Sloop William, of Liverpool .. 5 Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth .. 3 Barque Cruz, of Oporto Barque Druid, of Sunderland Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved ves and crew) • • •• • • • • • • 3 Pishing 'Boats of Whitburn .. 12 Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. _ 4 Ship Annie E. Hooper, of Baltimore, U. 5... .. 18 Schooner Rook, of Liverpool •• •• •• 3 Schooner Ceres, of Arbroath (saved Item. and crew) 5 Sloop Loftus, of Padstow .. 4 Schooner Ellen, of Liverpool (saved yes. and crew) 3 Sr/la& Mary Elizabeth, of Padstow Smack John, of Teignmoulh 2 Schooner Osprey, of F raser burgh .. • • •• 6 S•hooner James I iavell, of Newcastle (saved ves sel and crew) .., • 2 • • • Schooner Champion, of Liverpool .. 10 Galiot Aremana, of Jaffa (assisted to save vessel and Tew) 6 Ship James Browne, of Philadelphia (assisted to sax, vessel and crew) ',roper Countess of Lisburne, of Aberystwyth .. 3 . 12 It • Pw steamer Alice, of Leith . ',Nue Arazi I, of Liverp ol • • • • •. 13 '' e noorier Little of Berwick ,chooner Sisters, of %I ick .. 3 Total .. .• • • Number of lives saved by shore-boats and other 358 means, for which the Institution hag gnu:it'd rewaras in 1862 .. , preen' Total SUMMARY OF LIVES S 19f 0..455 1881 ..4 t 4 180 ..I AvED * Total .. 50 For these joint numerous services in saving ,cio lives from Shipwreck, the Institution ht,.. granted - mounting to £3,502 1 's. 7d., in ddition to 68 Silve Medals The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, nd other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ; for' which services 82 Gold Medals, :18 Silve r M e d a l s, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67, 0" on Life-boats, Lite-boat Tran s porti nr- car; tares, and Bost-houses. t The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of generous snpnort which they have received from the I," n tiSh public during the past few years, a support which has enah ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet ,)s,' sexes , 123 Lifbboae,s t however, the shores the ogreatf the responsibility t United Kingdom hhat -e son them to maintain' ot their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and i.s Crews practised in the management of their 13 " ks, whi h cat only be effected by a large and pe manent annual income, they earnestly a,,peal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly nation.l a work. The Committee gratefuliy acknowledge the following con tributions:— T er Majesty the Queen • • • • • • annual £ d 50 0 0 Ca mpbell. the Hon. Mrs. G. .. .. annual 5 0 0 Clerk. Colonel, R.A. annual 1 1 0 Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers annual 10 0 0 t u rr'e, Wm., I.'sq. •• .. 4th don 10 0 0 Lord Chief hstice don. 10 10 0 anshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Fenwiek, G. J., Esq , cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage „ 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and *Mrs. .. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • • • .. 7th don. 10 0 0 .. don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. Geor Stirlino', Col. Sir Anthony IC C2 are.collect - ed by - her 3 ° o Thom :'s Lady, Weston- su p er —M : - - annual 20 0 Ladyship • • • • • . ilbe is t r hankfußy re- Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. :: " • • 16 16 0 annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Sut,sc r ipti onßw i re ceived by the Bankers of the Institution tercival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; 24; Isr : ss •Zillis, C o• , 59 Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, an d Co utta 6 and s a ' • n tnes's-street, London ; by . a 1 the Collectors of Co ., usio -t. I t i ld Bankers in the linitedlimgdom ; and by the Secre4 s jlhard L ew is Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, un-street, AClelphi, London, W.C. ......._ -ALLEGED SECOND - HAND SAFES. AAs-LIJ fny rom PERSOFurnitur B ro kers or N or PERSONS having Dealers in recentl SECyONp- PUR NTe , " FRT., FIRE-PROOF SAFES, any such Safes which oblin STATED )BE OF CFIUBB'S MAKE, will n "Y COMMUNICATING with Messrs. Robinson and 'tessrsadirck. No. .12, Charte r h ouse -square, solicitors to übb and Son. TRETH.—By MR. ESKELL'S Sets or partial Bet s ° NYC. Seal granted 17th July, 1860),are made and fitted i heres with vro eeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, ott elastic and INVENTION i n , ,n,alew hours by means of his patented s to which it ad _ per,suanle bas e of the colour of the gum, • ( vs or u ntlightl II erfu tenacity , by , tile ci 4e t observer, Y fastenings, and defying. detection , _ ntion d i dispensing with sprin., s . The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell s inve 11 3, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to ,11 y change of the mouth (even by the wearer); and as they 49 Inde pendently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth _rdlnary construction, they are zuaranteed tt. last a life p la . , ,tIFI well Its for mastication and articultalon. Mr. '''KELL'B TREATISE. which fully explains his invention, post tree for s even stamps.--In specti, nof specimens and ( 'on -1_491 a t i ons tree. T erms strictly moder ate.---g, Grosvenor- In eet, Bond-street, London ; and 49, Bennett's-hill, Bir 11111101ettn. --- TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MIL D .- Dr. SCOTI"S BILIOUS and LIVE PIS, ftred 'without any mercurial i ngre di ent, from therms e pre of Dr. colt, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious . - tn d aver complaints, indigestion, wtnd. BPastne, andgidess, izziness of the eyes, dtc. loor, habitual c ostiveness, family aperient medicine, and as a purifi er of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to 'he stomach, they create appe ite, pro /note digestion, and streuirthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, haring-cross, Loudon, and by most druggists, in boxes, lb. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the ;stun% / sUN, LoNDoN, FRIDAY EVENING FLBRUARY 13, 1863 Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., S T. 0 L A V E 'S . KJ Live for to-day ! To-morrow's light To-morrow's cares sha,i bring to sight. Go sleep, like closing flowers at night, And Heaven thy morn will bles Hurst and Blackett, ,3, Great Marlborough-street. (No. 2.) FISHMONGERS' FORE STALL-AGE OF SEA-STRAND, ON SALMON RIGHT. NOTICE TO QUIT on " Wad Tyler and Ric. it.'s Kentish word of faith .treaty--' You've lost your Leader ; as your King I'll be your leader, and by advice of council will grant your wishes'—no tax without Poll-representation." If within seven days, the pile-driving as a Weir obstruc tion to the tide set be not removed, as militating in prin ciple against the embankment of the Thames—and its Weir clearance for Ova-pisiculture and consequent Salmon run to its WINDRUSH fork-font L'Bourton on the Water, via Atkins a Swell. bowl of Stow's E Cutsdean Font. Action of trespass will have force on th e fi rs t 500 marks fine enroletirent Pat. 18, Ed. 1, m. 15' in Exchequer Court against the papal Fishmongers' Walworth-PALL-guild fi assumption on Tyler's ,(murder, A.D. 1381—to sell and exa mine Royal monkfish, Whales, sturgeon, mer)maid &c., out side the stalls of City Stocksmarket, now Mansion-hs. scite under Crown-rota Escheat in O.S. data, 12 H. 7, 2 Car. 1699 by 1832-42-3 Act, in Canada's Quebec Fish Statute. (Signed) CHARLES g , ACKERLEY, J. P. Born, Montague *Chamberlayne, of Ric. lI'S I brother J. Holland's 3ty-voice, in 1-2 W. 4, No. 54 in Planta genestella O.S. Evesham's pollen fish-trust-14 J.I. PETER BASQUET, England's Carib Ind. Chief, of 1842-3, as Admiralty Red flag Chain-bearer, elect 20 yrs. no pay. Naval and Military Intelligence. purchased by the Admiralty her speed was well known to reach 14 and 16 knots per hour. Now, when registered under Admiralty supervision and with new engines, her draught is made nearly double that which her builders designed her for, and her speed has been reduced nearly one half. When steaming at full speed in the Lower Hope, the Caradoc's cutter with 13 men in it was lowered with perfect ease by Commander Wilkinson in ,a few seconds by means of Clifford's system of boat THE NAVY. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Ad .miralty, held his first Levee yesterday afternoon at ,he Admiralty, Whitehall, at which the undermen tioned officers attended :—Admiral Sir Stephen SE , OND EDITION, REVISED, In 2 vols. Bvo., with Portrait, THE LIFE OF EDWARD HIVING, Minister of the National Scot c h Ch urc h, L on don. Illustrated by his JOURNAL and CORRESPONDENCE. By Mrs. OLIPHANT. " Mrs. Oliphant's • Life of ledward Irving' supplies a long felt desideratum. It is copious, earnest, and eloquent."— Edinburgh Review. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street Lushington, Vice-Admiral Collier, Vice• Admiral Carter, Rear-Admiral Hallows, Capt. W. G. Luard, Capt. C. B. Hamilton, Capt. J. E. Commerall, Capt. S. Grenfell, Capt. C. C. Forsyth, Capt. S. G. Cress well, Capt. E.B. Rice, Capt. J. B. Marsh, Capt. W. J. S. Pullen, Capt. F.A„ Campbell, Capt. J. A. Paynter, Capt. C. 0. Hayse, Commander A. B. Owen, Commander H. Phelps, Commander P. H. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE MORALS OF MAY FAL R." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., A POINT OF HONOUR. By the Author of "THE MORALS OF MAYFAIR," &c. "A book which exceeds in truth and beauty all the author's former works." —Morning Post. "A really good novel."—John Bull. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Dyke, Commander the Hon. M. H. Nelson, Com• mander W. Grabble, Commander S haw, Commander W. H. Hood, Commander W. F. Ruaton, Comman- der J. Ward (b), Commander E. Fisher, Lieut. G. D. Fitzroy, Lieut. J. 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On Thursday next will be published, in 2 vols., post Bvo., HISTORY of the SUPERNATURAL in ALL AGES and NATIONS, in ALL CHURCHES, CHRIST lAN and PAGAN; Dem nstrating a Universal Faith. By WILLIAM HOWITT, Author of "Colonisation and Christianity," &c. London : Longman, Green, and Co., 14, Ludgate-hilL A./3.—Neither the holding over 1862 office of CUBITT on the Wat Tyler fi protest tax as Warden of Mark xi': under Walworth's Pall-cloak token-keys—' Sub annuls:, piscatoris' in Fisherman's ring of yr. 1381, or their Vintner's Portugal wine-landing agent Rose, M.P. for Southampton, on Tower Ordnance-office shift, for King John's illegal life-right (8d per ton on wine) cancelled in 'x' 1825—can be admitted, as 'lawful ordinances' on their Merman & Mermaid-armorial craft-mystery with 5 W. 4, c. 63, the State-meter Act, For Ova Fishery-park plant. Feb. 11, 1863. his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, arrived on the sth inst. from Carfu and Messina, and will leave i nt .;he end of next week for Naples. ale is to convey prince Alfred- to , Marseilles, after Next Week will be published. 2d Edition, 2 vols., Bvo., with Maps and illustrations, price 245., LIFE in NORMANDY: Sketches of Fren c h Fishing, Farming, Cooking, Natural History, and Politics, Drawn from Nature. By an ENGLISH RESIDENT. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. Loudon: Hamilton, Adams, and Co. his Royal Highness has passed his examination on POLICE INTELLIGENCE--Feb. 12. ,he 16th inst. for a lieutenant. The Prince of Leiningen will go home on leave with Prince Alfred, to attend the marriage of the Prince of Wales. The Magicienne will return immediately from Marseilles to Malta,in charge of the first-lieut. HAMMERSMITH.—THE MURDER AT ACTON. —APPREHENSION OF THE WITNESS JANE LAKE. —Just before the ,cicsing of the Court Inspector Searle, of the T division, who has bad the manage ment of the case of the murder of Police-constable Davey, at Petherton Villa, Acton, brought before Mr. Dayman the young woman Jane Lake, who gave important evidence against her affianced hus band Joseph Brooks, and charged her with being an accessory after the murder. Mr. Treherne conducted the case for the prosecu tion on behalf of the police, as in the case against the other prisoners. Mr. Martin said he would watch the case voluntarily for the poor girl, as he thought, some one should defend her. Charlotte Walter, tile wife of a labourer, living at No. 9, Chapel-place, Turnham-green, deposed to the effect that she knew the prisoner Jane Lake. She saw her on Wednesday, the 21st of Jan., the day after the other prisoners had been remanded. Witness was in bed, as she was ill, and the prisoner came to her room between ten and eleven o'clock. Witness said sne was very sorry things had hap pened as they had, meaning the prisoner's disap pointment at not being married to Joseph Brooks in consequence of the charge against them. She told the prisoner that it was a good job she was not married to Joseph, for if sbe had she would have been dragged from him a week afterwards. The prisoner replied that it was. She called on witness in the evening of the day of the second re mand, and she asked the prisoner who it was that spoke about hitting the man on the head with the gun, and she said she did. She also said that they were not the words Joseph used. The witness then detailed the exact words the prisoner said Joseph used when he returned home with the gun, and they consisted of several bad expressions. Tee words were to the effect that if he had the man there he would strike him on the head with the butt-end of the gun. The prisoner here said it was false, but Mr. Mar tin requested her to remain silent. The witness added that on the morning after the first remand the prisoner told her that she pulled Joseph's hat to pieces and burnt it, and that they could not find it. She did not say where she burnt the hat. She also told witness that both Joseph and Isaac were out together on the Monday night (the night of the murder), and that they returned home together. She said that when Joseph re turned he was in a perspiration, and that she wiped his face with her apron and combed his hair. He trembled like a leaf, and she told JAM he must have done something wrong, and he replied, "No, my girl, not anything." She further said that Isaac was very restless, first sitting on one side of the fire and then on the other, and that he gave two or three groans. On Tuesday witness communicated to Sergeant Rogers as to the conversation with the prisoner, and she came to her and asked whether she had informed Inspector Searle what she had said about burning the hat, and she told her that she had. The prisoner then stated that what she had said was that she was going to burn the hat, not that she had burnt it. She cried very much. She had not spoken to witness since. Catherine Powell, the wife of a baker, living at 7, Chapel-place, said she heard some of the conver sation. She was not in the room all the time on the first occasion the prisoner was there. Witness might have said that it was a bad job which had happened to the Brookses. The prisoner said it was, and that she was very sorry for it. Witness did not hear her say anything about the hat. The wit ness then corroborated the evidence of the other witness as to the statement of the prisoner about the other prisoners returning home on the Monday night, and wiping Joseph's face. The witness also confirmed that pa I of the conversation after the second remand, and added, that the prisoner said she did not like to make use of the expressions Joseph made in the court, and she thought the words she used were better. The witness Walter was recalled, and she said the prisoner did not state what kind of hat it was. Inspector Searle said he was present at that court on the 27th of January, when the prisoner was examined against the two men. She stated that she had been sent by Joseph on the Monday night, in company with Isaac's wife, to Hammer smith, to redeem a gun. They took a pair of Joseph's trousers to redeem the gun. It was 20 minutes past 7 o'clock when they left Chapel-place, that they ran nearly all the way, and returned about 20 minutes to eight o'clock. They gave the gun to Joseph, who war dressed in his working clothes, and he went out with the gun, and returned with it about eight o'clock. Mr. Andrew, the clerk, referred to the minutes, and said that the prisoner in her evidence stated that Joseph was absent about 20 minutes, that they returned at 20 minutes to eight o'clock, and Joseph went out in a few minutes afterwards. Inspector Searle said the prisoner stated that Joseph went out alone, and that Isaac was at home the whole evening. She further said that when he returned with the gun, he laid it down and said, " God bless the man, if I had got him here I would hit him." She also identified the dark coat wit ness produced as Joseph's property. In cross-examination she said she thought the observations of Joseph referred to the man to whom he intended to sell the gun. Mr. Treherne said that was all the evidence he intended to lay before his worship that day, and he asked for a remand for her to be brought up with the other prisoners. Mr. Martin submitted that there was not a tittle of evidence against the prisoner. Mr. Dayman thought there was evidence as to the destruction of the hat after the charge had bee n made. Mr. Martin said the whole of the evidence con sisted of something she told two women. Dr. Dayman thought it wa s quite sllffici remand, as she had disposed of so mething ent was supposed to have been worn b y one of the parties, after the charge had been mad e. w f h e i r ch a Mr. Treherne observed that at the time she gave evidence she was aware of the circumstance respect ing the hat. Mr. Dayman said that if the police had been aware of the circumstance at the time she gave evi dence, he should have thought it rather severe on their p ar t to have taken her into custo d y , b u t it did not come to their knowledge until two days ago, The Meanee, screw line-of-battle ship, 60, Captain G. Wodehouse, left on the sth instant for Naples. She will refit at Baja before returning to Malta . The Phoebe, screw frigate, 35, Captain T. D. A. Fortescue, left on the 6th, for Corfu. The Tra falgar, screw line-of-battle ship, 70, Captain the at _ Cephalonia. Hon. T. has been While at Argostoli she got aground, but she floated off again without sustaining damage. The Icarus, screw sloop, V., Commander N. Salmon, V.C., is shortly expected home here from Corfu. The Tri dent, iron paddlewheel sloop, is also expected here from Constantinople, atter visiting the different islands in the Archipelago. The Psyche, despatch vessel, paddle, 2, Lieut.-Com. Stern, left Malta to relieve the latter vessel, calling at Corfu on her way to Constantinople. The Chanticleer screw sloop, 17, Commander C. Stirling, had gone from Corfu to Dragomestri. The Foxhound, screw gunboat, 4, Commander the Hon. A. Hobart, has returned to the Piraeus from visiting all the islands of the Archi pelago in search of pirates. She arrived at the Pi rwas on Jan. 25. Orders have been despatched for the M a l a cca, screw corvette, 17, Capt. G. Napier, now at Beyrout, to proceed to Alexandria, on a visit of ceremony after the death of the late Pasha of Egypt, and thence to return to the coast of Syria. Letters from Smyrna of Jan. 27 mention that her Majesty's steam sloop Pelican, 17, Commander P. Brock, has been ashore at Voarlah, and that in at tempting to get her off four lives were lost. The Pelican left Smyrna Jan. 20 on a cruise to Vourlah, for the purpose of practising and watering there. She was io have weighed anchor and returned to Smyrna in time to catch the mail of the 24th, but the wind having veered round to N.N.E. and fresh ened into a gale prevented her leaving. The wind afterwards moderated and went round to a point to the northward. It was then conceived practicable to weigh anchor and cast in shore, in doing which the ship touched the bank on the lee-bow to the southward of the watering-place, and hung on it. Sail was immediately shortened, the large kedge run out on the weather quarter,- and the -bower anchor laid out as soon as possible on the same quarter for heaving her off. Preparations were made to lay out the small bower at a greater angle on the quarter to secure her for the night if she did not come off by another trial astern. The first-lieute nant and master left in the pinnace to perform this service, the men working well and cheer fully. The night was very dark, and, owing to there being a heavy toss of a sea, the pinnace was buoyed with water casks to enable her to carry the anchor, and a cutter was secured to windward of her as a breakwater and an additional support, the other cutter being also sent to attend on her in case of ac cident. As preparations were being made to clear away the cable prior to heaving the anchor clear, some one cut the lashings of the spar across the boats, and the pinnace immediately commenced fill ing. The anchor was cleared away, the men were in the cutter, the lieutenant being the last to leave the pinnace when she swamped, and was followed by the cutter, which it seems rert ained attached to her by the blw, the lashings there having been ne glected to be cut away. Some of the crew of the attending boat instead of picking up the men threw teem their oars. Three men and a boy were drowned, the others were saved. When the ship went on shore the second-lieut. was sent to Smyrna for as sistance, and the next day the French despatch boat Mouette arrived and anchored on the Pelican's quarter, and with her assistance the vessel Was floated at the first heave at 5.30 p.m. She fortu nately sustained no material damage, having touched on a sandy bottom, and remained on an even keel, though it blew a double-recfed top sail breeze at times. After recovering anchors, boats, &c., and getting guns in, the Pelican returned to Smyrna, taking in tow a Turkish man-of-war brig, with the Turkish Governor of Smyrna on board, which had come to her assist ance on hearing of the accident. Great praise is due to Capt. Maurion, of the Mouette, for the readiness with which he hastened to the help of the Pelican, and the valuable assistance afforded by him, his officers, and men in getting her off. The Swedish corvette Nayaden left Malta on the 31st ult., for Leghorn. The large steam war-ram Hector, built and en gined by the Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow, made a trial of her engines on Wednesday, with a success that surpassed the most ardent expectation. She ran the distance between the light s in the Clyde -13.666 knots—in 58* minutes; being equal to 161 miles per hour—a speed about two miles per hour greater than that accomplished by the Black Prince. Her engines made sixty revolutions per minute, with twenty pounds pressure of steam. The arrival of the flotilla conveying the Princess Alexandra and suite at the Nore is to be made the occasion of a grand naval display, orders having been received at Chatham for the Formidable, 84, Capt. Luard, flagship of Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir W. J. Hope Johnstone, K.C.8., Commander-in- Chief; the Cumberland, 70, Capt. Thompson, guard ship of the Chatham steam reserve in the Medway; and the Leander, 51, 500 horse power, attached to the first division of the steam reserve, to proceed out to the Note on Thursday, March 5, to salute the steam vessel containing the illustriou s Princess on her arrival from the Continent. At present only 'he above ships have been detailed for this service, but it is expected that some others may also be se lected from the steam reserve, in order to make the display as imposing as possible. The Formidable and the Cumberland are both at present only jury rigged, b. at once t a k en in liana in but they will order to be ready for the occasion. The manoeuvring of two sailing line-of-battle ships under canvas at the Nore will be a novelty in these days of steam. Her Majesty's despatch vessel Caradoc, Commander Wilkinson, before leasing Woolwich for ner destination in the Mediterranean, ran down the measured mile in the liver on a trial of her engines. As a Government despatch b oat h er spee d was considered very unsatisfactory, only realis ing about 10 knots par ho ur, o r an average work ing speed calculated to . attain, when o n her etittioa, 7 or 8 knots at the utmost. Before being ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, ind Dining-room, eonsisting of a new and elegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, am, in Italian, Alabas `er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her nalesty, 149, Stand. W.C., London. 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The prisoner was then remanded until Saturday, to be brought up with the other prisoners. --____ " - - THE BAR AND THE BENCH.—A deputation of the Quebec Bar have represented to the Government that by reason of advanced age Chief Justice Bowen is r i o longer able to discharge the active duties of his offlee, and that thereby very great loss and inconvenience are constantly suffered. The Ministerial oi gan at Quebec remarks that Chief Justice Bowen is not the only Canadian judge whom the infirmities of age should have warned into retirement i)efore now. RHEUMATISM, CHILBLAINS, &c. 00LES'S ALGA MARINA is the only really the Limb„, ‘.../ CONCENTRATED Essence of the Sea-weed. It is daily increasing in celebrity as a remedy for all kinds of Rheuma- W ril7c k t n io e n g s s ° to t r which the Rheuma tism, whether Acute or Chronic, immediately relieving the pain, and sp.:Ally curing the disease. 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The latter class, as well as children, are t o b e per witted simply to make an affirmation to speak the truth, and are to be liable to punishment for ire statements. 9 1 erzcsit / • 4 4. . ,t vL C A 1113 111 P L . 4 0 1. • ea i t - t „ , • 17 4% tt.47 , it* 41( Flp thk "' .2 l4 6 * ''lißorr. "` k „IP lowering. The Emerald, 34, screw frigate, Capt. A. Cum ming, has returned to Spithead from her anchorage off Osborne. On the 17th inst. she will go into Portsmouth harbour, and be placed in dock to pre pare for a series of experimental trials with various forms of screw propellers at the measured mile in Stokes Bay. Eight distinct trials of the screws were carried out with the Shannon frigate, but the closing trials with the Griffiths propeller were not commenced, owing to the Shannon's departure for the Mediterranean. The employment of another ship on the trials will, of course, render it necessary to repeat with the Emerald those carried out with the Shannon. The Admiralty paddle yacht Enchantress has undergone her water-pressure trial in the steam basin at Portsmouth with satisfactory results, pre vious to being finally accepted in her engineering department by the Government official from the hands of the contractors. In our notice of the speed trial of this vessel at the measured I mile, in The Sun of the 7th inst., we omitted t 2 !tate that her machinery was supplied by Messrs. John Penn and Son, of Greenwich. The Royal yachts Fairy, screw, Master-Com mander Welch, and Elfin, paddle, Master-Com mander Balliston, have been placed in No. 1 dock at Portsmouth, to undergo a thorough renovation, in readiness for further service after the marriage of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. One of the most important events yet connected with the construction of the Royal Sovereign turret ship, at Portsmouth, took place yesterday, when a commencement was made in clothing her with her armour, by getting two of her 51 inch side armour plates in position in the lower tier on the star board side amidships, in readiness for bolting through. The plates, which were from the works of Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, were bent by the hot process, drilled, and their edges and butts planed in the new workshop which has lately been erected for such purposes in Ports mouth Dockyard. The official inspection of the Himalaya screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacy, has been made at Ports mouth by the military, naval, and medical authori ties, and the customary report forwarded to the Ad miralty. The heavy baggage of the 97th Regi ment will be sent on board to-morrow, the regi ment will leave its present quarters at Shorncliffe and embark on board the following morning, and the Himalaya will sail for the Cape of Good Hope, where the 97th are to be stationed, on Monday morning, giving the troops, women and children a clear day between embarking .and sailing to settle down comfortably into their berths. The members of the United Service Club are about to give a complimentary banquet, at their Club house in Pall-mall, to Rear-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.8., in recognition of his meritorious services while Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies and China. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander the Hon. H. W. Chetwynd, to be inspecting commander of the Coast Guard, vice Commander King, whose period of ser vice has expired; Lieut. E. W. Shirley, to the Vi gilant ; Lieut. the Hon. Albert D. S. Denison to the Asia; Lieut. J. F. L. P. Maclear, to the Excel lent; Richard C. Beale, paymaster, to the Vigilant ; J. A. Lodge, engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernu merary ; William Tempest, in the Fisgard, for the Bann, and George Murray, supernumerary in the Asia, are promoted to first class assist. engineers ; W. H. Brimfield, acting first class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernumerary ; J. A. Cawley, second class assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, as supernumerary; A. M. Boumage, J. W. Haves, G. J. Weeks, W. T. Foyer, and G. H. Barnes, acting second class assist.-engineers, to the Asia, as super numeraries; and S. J. Rock, acting second class assist.-engineer, to the Narcissus. The following appointment has been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Lieut., Jas, Mitchell. INDIA AND CHINA. 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STAMPED ....sd. familiar with the gaol, frequent the hotels,! .board inghouse, and mail steamers on their arrival,, with forged or very ancient certificates of character.. CHINA. HONGKONG, San. 1. Peace continues to reign in the neighbourhood of Shanghai, but active preparations are on foot there for the intended attack on Nankin by Colonel Bur govine's force. As the Imperialists will have no aid from the Allies on this occasion, their success may be doubted. The Taepings are numerous and well equipped, and have materially strengthened the fortifications of Nankin, as has been ascertained very recently by the commander of the gunboat Bouncer. They are said to suffer from want of supplies within the city, but there is no confirma- tion of the success claimed by the Imperialists, as reported by the last mail. At Shanghai several murders among the Chinese have drawn attention o the disproportion between so large and mixed a population and the protecting power of the police of the settlement, as Well as to the necostAty of a more effectlve systurn of local government. The last problem is not one of easy solution, Several questions connected with foreign trade in this country, in addition to those on which the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce has taken action, are assuming important dimensions, and will require prompt settlement. By a decision of Mr. Bruce, goods sent from one treaty port to another, but transhipped at Hongkong, are treated as coming from a foreign port, - although protected by a duty chop and fully identified. This decision particu larly affects the trade of Canton, whence a large proportion of exported goods is brought here in steamers, and transferred to vessels on the berth for the several coast ports. The rapidly increasing preference of the Chinese for foreign bottoms, before noticed, and the absence of injury to the Imperial revenue from the system of transhipment under very simple checks, renders it most desirable that so obstructive a decision should be reversed. The extent of the powers of the Foreign Com missioners of Customs and the area of their several jurisdictions require to be defined. British subjects in this country believe that, under the treaty of Nankin, the provisions of which are incorporated in the subsequent conventions, and under the Queen's Order in Council of June 13, 1853, they are entitled to the protection of the Consuls against irregular acts on the part of Chinese officials, equally as against other Chinese. in this view they claim consular investigation of all cases of seizure or con fiscation by the Customs' authorities whenever hard ship or injustice is alleged. The Consuls, however, refuse to entertain all such applications, acting, it is believed, under orders from her INlajesty's Mini ster at Pekin ; and as the Supreme Court disclaims jurisdiction in appeal over the Consuls, there is apparently no remedy for aggrieved parties short of going to the Privy Council. This state of things has just been exemplified by an argument before the Supreme Court in a case " Johnson v. Mid hurst." Again, the Foreign Commissioner at Foo chow has lately seized several foreign vessels at Keelang, a port in Formosa. Some at least of these vessels were there under license from the superin- tendent (Chinese) of customs et Tamsin—the treaty port of the island—full dues having been paid to him, and the ship's papers deposited with him. The provisions of the treaty in clauses 9, 12, and 47 are contradictory. By the first two British subjects " are authorised to travel, for their pleasure or for purposes of trade, to all parts of the interior under passport . ." and "to build or open houses, ware houses,&c., whether at the ports or at other places," if they desire it, on making fair arrangements to acquire the land or buildings; but by the last Bri tish merchant vessels are "not entitled to resort to other than the ports of trade declared open by this treaty. They are not unlawfully to enter other ports of China . . ." and " any vessel violating this provision shall, with her cargo, be subject to confiscation by the Chinese Government." No in terpretation of clause 47 can make the presence of foreign vessels, as at Keelang, in ports not open by treaty " unlawful," when in possession of a Govern ment pass granted under the circumstances detailed above ; for it can scarcely be argued that the onus of verifying the powers of Chinese officials lies on the unfortunate masters of vessels holding their licences. The fact that, in the present instance, the seizure of the ships at Keelang was commuted to a fine, in nowise alters the merits of the particular case, or the principle at issue. Many points of difficulty must arise in the pre sent transition state of trade in China ; but they ought to be settled with more reference to the liberal spirit of the treaty than has hitherto prevailed at Pekin ; and representations from this side might be materially furthered by the East India and China Association of London, but for the deep lethargy into which that very respectable but inert body has for some years fallen. Ningpo furnishes no news for this mail. The Tien-Wang was reported to have left Nankin in view of the Imperialist preparations for its attack ; but it is doubtful whether he has done so. Rumours of grave events come from Japan, but they are not to be relied on. The seizure of the Mikado, by the son of the last Regent murdered at Jeddo, and the violent death of the father of the Prince of Satsuma are reported, but not believed. The departure of the Daimios from Jeddo, however, continues, and it seems certain that there is strong political excitement among the governing classes of the country. Ex-Governor-Ueneral Laos, of Canton, has been appointed to the government of the Kwei-chow pro vince. The Russian steam frigate Bogatys, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Popoff, is now in the harbour. The Admiral proceeds to her to Singapore in a few days, and, after a short stay there, will return to Chinese waters. Nothing further is known of the reported Russian offer to assist in putting down the rebellion. The French mail steamer Imperatrice left for Suez on the 26th uit. The London mails of Nov. 10 were received on the 24th per steamer China, and those outward will be despatched to-day at 2 p.m. by the steamer Malta. THE ALABAMA AND FLORIDA, CONFEDERATE CRUISERS.—NEW YORK, Jan. 30.—The Escort, Whitmore, which arrived here last evening from Vera Cruz reports that when off the south - west side of Cubashe was in company with a vessel supposed to be the C o nfederate a t night, steamer Alabama, which approached q uite all but kept away during the day. She wasundnerrehesariinae. She sail, having her propeller hauled up , it g a leblowin a g L gan y demonstration. finally left the escort withou t mk Advices from Havannalbdat dated t he 24th of January, state that the Confederate steamer Florida, captured and b urn t the W d ( American brig), from Matanzas for with molasses, about four miles off the former P or tland, port on the 22d. Next morning the Florida burnt the Cornis Ann brig, of Machias, Philadelphia, for Cardenas, between Cayo Piedro and Cayo l‘lono. She soon after captured two snore brigs just out from Cardenas, one of which she burnt, and the other sunk. A schooner, which arrived at Havan nab on the 24th, reported having seen the Florida with the English flag flying, steering for the Bahamas. The Eagle, Adams, from Havannah, which arrived here yesterday, ro ports having seen a largo body of smoke in the eastern edge of the horizon, supposed to be from a vessel on fire, 26th of January, at 10 30 a.m., in lat. 30 N., 79 W. PAUPER DEPORTATION.—An extraordinary ease of pauper deportation, that will be probably noticed in Parliament, was the subject of investigation by the Board of Guardians at Westport last week, Lord J.Browno, M.P., in the chair. The facts of the case were thus certi fied by Dr. J ohnston, the medical officer of the Union :-- " Patrick Bourke, aged 73, who was admitted to the hospi tal on the Ist inst., labouring under chronic bronchit is , weak heart, and general debility, was removed from to Westport, by the Leeds Board of Guardians he got in a very inclement season. Immediately after his notwithstanding and died admission severe diarrhoea, under which he ands the greatest care and attention , daieclon the 13th inst. I consider hi remov al at such a time i i n, suchanThe man a state in judicious, and c alculated 0 hasten his death.'' a lleged that he had resided 4 i years in England, and the last 7 years in one parish at Leeds. lie stated that he was taken out of a bed of sickness aad " hauled" off to a railway station, that he was shaken almost to death in a third-class carriage, and that he would have died on the open deck of the steamer if the sailors had not given him shelter. The investigation was held in consequence of a motion by one of the guardians, Mr. Burke, solicitor, that the case be in quired into, and that the Chief Secretary for Ireland, as one of the Poor Law Commissioners, be called on to pro secute for manslaughter all the parties concerned in the in human and improper treatment this poor man h ad received , and by which he lost his life." C THE ARMY. Yesterday the time-expired men and disabled troops from the various regiments serving in the Mediterranean arrived at Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, from Portsmouth, where they disem barked from her Majesty's screw iron troopship, Megarra, Commander S. H. Henderson. The troops included detachments of the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, 2d Battalion 6a' Foot, and let and 2d battalion 9th Foot from Corfu ; Royal Engineers, 2d battalion 15th Regiment, Ist and 2d battalion 22d Regiment, 2d battalion 23d Royal Welsh Fusi leers, Ist battalion 25th King's Own Borderers, and the 4th battalion Rifle Brigade from Malta; Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, Military store, 2d battalion 2d Queen's Royals, 2d battalion 3d Buffs, 2d battalion 7th Royal Fusileers, and 2d battalion Bth (The King's) Regiment from Gibraltar. On the arrival of the detachment at Chatham they were medically inspected by the Staff at Fort Pitt, when those requiring treatment were admitted into hos pital, and the remainder sent to St. Mary's invalid establishment, to await being discharged or for warded to the various depots. Eight persons under sentence by Court-martial, who arrived in the Megmra, were forwarded to the convict establish ment ordered by Government. The following appointments have been announced in the Royal Artillery :—Lieut.-Col. George Row landson, 3d Horse Brigade, to be Col. therein, vise Conran. To be Adjts.—Second Capt. G. B. Traill, 2d Horse Brigade; Second Capt. and Brevet-Major Thomas J. Maclachlan, 4th Horse Brigade ; Second Capt. F. R. Butt, 16th Brigade; Second Capt. John B. Hardy, 18th Brigade; Second Capt. H. Mowbray Cadell, 19th Brigade ; Second Capt. George Francis Worsley, 21st Brigade ; Second Capt. P. Charles Anderson, 24th Brigade; Second Capt. Edward Simeon, 25th Brigade. Paymaster (with honorary rank of Capt.) Thomas C. Higginson, from the Ist battalion 16th Foot, to be Paymaster 4th Brigade, vice Griffiths, who exchanges. Resignation of Sir William Armstrong. Yesterday Sir William Armstrong sent in his re signation of the official position he has held for the last three or four years as ordnance engineer and superintendent of rifled ordnance construction to the War Department. This resignation was, we be lieve, as unexpected as it was unwelcome at the War-office. The causes assigned for the step are wholly unconnected with the forthcoming experi mental trials between the Armstrong and Whit worth guns, and Sir William only retires that he may attend more closely than his officialdurt duties lsw ick per mitted him to the extensive works of Ordnance Company, in the suecess of the s so large an interest. That c orn which hitherto, he has Pa continue to manufacture riflthedecronY dnnnatnrcyelboostehs f i o n r the army and navy. T hou g h William a valua ble servant, we cannot but think own the ignity in declining, chief contractor for I nowthat he h e ahttconsultedsce,ctnorn discharge in h y ordnance, ls' the incompatible duti es of Ordnance E ng ineer. So long as he held thi s offiiai pd on s t leisE position was at best ambig uous , an d rifled c t he less scrupulous of his enemies strove to turn it to his disadvantage. In retiring he put an end to all controversy on this point, While he still continues t o manufacture his guns, and to put them, as a pri vate maker, to the arbitrament of public trial against the ordnance of other competitors. INDIA. CALCUTTA, Jan. 8. If I were asked what is at the present moment the most pressing of India's wants, I should say the want of timber. It is as difficult to realise this fact in a country one-third of which is supposed to be coveted with forests as it was lately to believe that our Eastern Empire is so under-populated as to render the immigration of Chinese and others desirable. But the want of wood is more and more felt every day, and the country is scoured by contractors eager to supply railways and other public works. Take the one item of railway sleepers. India is a country where damp, dry-rot, and white ants consume the best sleeper in six years. For the past ten years all over the country we have been busy in laying down new lines, and all attempts to use iron or stone sleepers have proved unsatisfactory. We have still nearly 2,000 miles to complete, besides the *numerous feeders and branches which are being constructed. Creosoting has been tried, but it is doubtful if that is of any advantage. At this mo ment the railway might be open to within 12 miles of Delhi right from Calcutta, instead of only to Agra, if sleepers could be procured. And what will Government and the shareholders say to the cost of renewing the sleepers, which, on the Cal cutta and Delhi line alone, in estimated, at present prices, at £130,000 a year ? Except in Burmah, where Lord Dalhousie strictly shut up the forests, so that now, under a good system of conservancy, they yield perennial supplies, we have cleared the forests away wherever we have gone. In deed, the old rules for grants of waste land insisted on a certain extent of clearing every year under pain of forfeiture. The result is that wood is not to be got in our own territories, unless in very in accessible places, and timber from the north of Europe begins to figure largely in our imports. Not only so, but by clearing away trees, especially on the sloping ridges of hills, we have made the cli mate in some places rainless, and in others, because their is no belt of wood to catch and keep the periodical rain, the district has become barren, just as Palestine is, and from similar causes. With some degree of thoughtlessness, Lord Canning gave away to Sir Jung Bahadoo r, of Nepaul, our finest forests, which he has closely shut up as a hunting ground; and in another case, after the late Viceroy had promised a district, containing our next best forests, to a Mussulman chief for loyalty in 1857, he had to submit to the humiliation of asking it back when he found that there was no other well wooded tract in the North-Western Provinces. The waste land rules provide for the State reserving wastes covered with marketable timber or good as grazing grounds. Assam, where, under Lord Can ' ning's rules, there has been the greatest rush of capitalists to purchase land, is covered with small wood, which the Bengal Government will allow the settlers to clear away. If this is done on the ridges of the hills, as well as elsewhere, there is reason to fear that the physical character of the country will gradually deteriorate from the want of belts of forests to collect and utilize the periodical rains. All these considerations have left the Government of India seriously to consider how it may best con serve and extend the few timber tracts left, with. out interfering with what is so desirable as the spread of settlers and the clearance of really un healthy jungle in the plains. There is a conserva tor of forests in every province of India except Bengal, and one is now about to be appointed there. Dr. Brandis who has done so well during the last seven years in British Burmab, the country of the teak tree, is now in consultation with the Public Works Department as to a general system of con servancy for all India. A roost deplorable story has just been made pub lic by a court-martial held at Mooltan. Lieutenant Jackson, of the Engineers, was stationed at Dora Ismail Khan, on the Punjab frontier. On the 25th of June last he was robbed of some silver plate,and suspected his servants. Not one would confess, even when sworn on the Koran, and the master took ad vantage of their superstitious belief to call in a Mus sulman priest, who administered to each the ordeal of rice. It is supposed that fear will so influence the guilty person that ho will not be able to chew a grain of rice. All the servants passed the test ex cept a table attendant named Munnoo Khan. He w4s pronounced the thief accordingly, and urged to confess. He refused, and was tied up to a tree, where, when ho had received a few blows with a cane, he began to abuse his master. Jackson—l take the statements in his own defence—very much irritated, himself gave the man 10 blows, when the cane sprit, and he sent for switches, which were cut from'a neighbouring date-tree. He confesses that, with intervals of a few minutes, the man was flogged for three-quarters of an hour. The man re ceived at least 50 blows, when Jackson ordered the flogging to cease, and went into his house. Work men were repairing it, and their noise, he says, prevented him from being aware that the flogging was continued by one of his servants in his ab sence. Some neighbours saw the occurrence, and sent for Major Nicene, the Deputy Commissioner, on whose arrival Munnoo Khan was released and sent to the hospital, where he died in 10 days. After much doubt as to how Jackson and one of his servants should be tried, he was brought before a court-martial, which sat at Moultan from the 12th to the 23d of December. Colonel Boyle, of her Majesty's 89th, presided ; Mr. Scoble, a Bombay barrister, assisted the accused, and a military offi cer in civil employment prosecuted. Jackson was tried on a charge of murder, under the Penal Code. His fate hinges on the medical evidence. In nis defence he expresses deep contrition, declaring that he meant to do no more than to give the man a " sound thrashing" and turn him out of his service. The majority of the medical witnesses prove that the man was diseased from smoking a drug known as " churns" and from bronchitis at the time he was flogged. Otherwise he was a healthy, muscular fellow, whom flogging with date switches for three-quarters of an hour at intervals would not have fatally affected. Others, again, considered the bronchitis the direct result of the flogging. I doubt if a court - mart ial is a fit tribunal to try such a case as this, or to decide so difficult a question on conflicting medicaldeivaidneonteoe.nlyThe case because has excited great interest happily,e of he the accused is the near relia7itilvbneuot Governor. General's Council, f b a e c m a u e s m e b , it is without a precedent in India. It is a mistake, made an d prop ag ated by new -comers or casual v isitors to India, to suppose that Anglo-Indians are i n the hab it of beating or abusin g the nati ves . Those who are guilty of this are young men on their first arrival, who are ignorant of the language, hot blooded, and irritated by the climate. They soon discover their mistake, for no servant as' ill remain with a master who is harsh or unjust to him, while the natives are not slow to have recourse to the equal laws and courts for protection. Equally mistaken is the supposition that English gentlemen in India are in the habit of calling the natives " niggers." In all my experience I have never heard the expression, either in the interior or in the Presidency towns, from the mouth of any one who had bLen six months in the country. Mutual respect and goodwill are essential between master and servant in India as well as elsewhere, and an ordinary amount of careful housekeeping will check the pilfering tendencies of the latter till they are no worse than those of Enalish servants at least. New-comers, moreover, generally engage one of that disreputable class of meni als, who, turned out of all respeotable employment, and not un• a ig al 57s is per ald Red j to vial We' SOl 54 1 Out,. 13. io. oger DaYl ), the dace, rge% nder, ) late )ugho 12, the [ling' ) f 17, aged ptain gar 311#19 Ifordt [Oll OO 3wic l , wife E ~6. No. ' ty owl