The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The gig; speaking of the prophecies made by Air. Milner Gibson at Ashton-under-Lyne, says :—Could we be quite sure that all human affairs are revolving round Mr. Milner Gibson, it would at least save trouble. But he must excuse our boldness if we think that in almost everything he says there are indications to the contrary. When everything is changing except Mr. Milner Gibson, it is natural to ask whether the movement or the fixity will survive. The author of the political micro cosm before us is so intent on his pretty work, so busy arranging it, and fitting it, and fastening it, and polishing it,' that he overlooks the possibility of other people putting things together their own way, and that to quite as much purpose as he does. The Conservatives have been pursuing tactics of their own in the matter of parliamentary reform, and Mr. Milner Gibson sees nothing in it but a wicked appropriation and a gross inconsistency. Yet he has to admit that they have inflicted upon him ratepaying, small boroughs, and the repres...ntation of minorities, and he has also to lament the indefinite postpon-incnt of the ballot. This last topic he handles with a subtlety not quite in keeping with the severe simplicity of his usual attitude. Indeed, the cause does not prosper in his hands. He instances the favour able working of the ballot irk Australia, where it produces orderly and peaceful elections, instead of the scandalous scenes we sometimes witnegs at home. He then throws in incidentally that the ballot has the additional merit of being a refuge from intimidation. Why, that, of course, is what it's wanted for, if it's wanted at all. But, in the first place, Mr. Milner Gibson admits that almost every body will wish to say how he votes ; then, also, that it is found necessary in Australia to have a secret record for the event of a scrutiny. Then he omits here, what he is obliged to lament in another passage, that household suf frage and the ballot, if the latter has any effect one way or the other, have resulted in the establishment of highly pro tective tariffs in our colonies, so as to check commerce, and thereby immigration. The ballot was never seen in such difficulties as in the speech before us. It must be carefully guarded ; few voters will avail themselves of its shelter. It is introduced under false pretences as a secu rity against disorder ; it does no other good that even Mr. Milner Gibson can see in the colonies ; and the last and best thing he can say for it is, that it is to enable a poor dependent man. a servant, an artisan, or a small trades man, to look his betters boldly in the face, and decline to say which way he means to vote. To give to this argument the weight it evidently wants, Mr. 3filner Gibson makes some shrewd remarks on the inveterate and widespread flunkeyism in the English character. Power, wealth, rank, and position present a phalanx to bully any poor creature out of nis very soul. So stands Mr. Milner Gibson's argu ment. His proposed shield and antidote is to give every such poor creature a dark corner from which to exercise his political rights and powers, without eye ever meeting eye, tongue_ encountering tongue, or even:_two souls coming into mutual recognition. Certainly this comes rather close to the theory that assassination is the natural, just, and proper antidote against tyranny. We are prepared to say of the ballot, as we should say of assassination, that no better means could be devised for creating a nation of cowards. _ _ _ The Herald holds that Mr. Milner Gibson's time has gone by. His opinions now are of little weight compared with what they once were. Our political ci-derantjcuile lzomme. in his latest appearance among his constituents, snakes but a weak attempt to sustain his old character. As a critic of the Government, even some of his favourite resources appear to have deserted him. The airiness has degenerated into languor ; the elegance into feebleness. Indeed, in Mr. Milner Gibson's forced sarcasms on the Reform Bill, there is more of the watery than the airy character. His most successful point, if we may judge by the applause which it called forth from the generous people of Ashton-under-Lyne, was that with reference to the con duct of the Conservative leader : it was contrary to the etiquette of the legal profession for a barrister to take a " retainer " from both sides. If this piece of wit required a retort, we might ask what is the etiquette of the legal profession when a learned gentleman takes a fee from one side ? Is he not held to be under some obligation to pro mote his client's suit? But Mr. Milner Gibson was some six years in office, under a Liberal Ministry, as the avowed friend and partisan of Mr. Bright. He owed his eleva tion simply to his Radical connections. Yet, during his tenure of office, what help did Mr. Milner Gibson give to the promotion of household suffrage, the ballot, and a general redistribution of seats—all of which he now de clares to be points essential to a true Reform scheme ? The Post regards the appeal from Hungary for money as the first result of a Constitutional Government. It only needs a glance at the map of Hungary to see how well the produce of the present loan may be applied. In Northern Hungary there is, as we have noticed, an almost complete absence of railways, whilst in the east existin. lines need to be completed and extended so as to establish communication with the Danubian Principalities and with the Black Sea. With the exception of agr;coltural acct mineral produce, little has heretofore been obtained from Hungary ; but experience has shewn that facilities for sending wares to the proper markets invariably teal to creation and production of new articles of commerce. It is not, however, in the construction of railways alone that the. - ;e eight millions awl a half will be expended. Ilaii gary is perhaps better watered than any country in r. and none is better adapted for the construction of canals. Those hitherto made, and they are neither few nor incon siderable, have been cut to regulate the courses of winding rivers. The most important of these is the Leitha. Another is the canal which connects the Theiss with the Danube. It is seventy miles long, about sixty feet wide, and eight feet deep, and its construction cost upwards of a quarter of a million. All the Hungarian risers, save one, empty themselves into the Danube, and of these, several are navigable. The importance of utilising theset rivets, regulating their course by the construction of short cuts, and connecting them where needful, has long beet recognised. The problem of how to deal with a bankrupt is not, sapw the Daily News, in itself the simplest. A man incurs debts, and then declares he has not wherewithal to pay them. Two processes, then, are obviously called for, The one is to place his whole means in the hands of his creditors, that they may as far as possible pay themselves. The other is to inquire whether he has contracted any debt by means of fraud or recklessness, and, if he has, to to punish him. The first ought to be an easy process, for to realise au estate and divide it among those inerested is no very unusual or complicated matter, and if the parties concerned are only left to themselves, with the help, brE with as little as possible of the control of a court of law, it will prove in general an easy and simple affair. Next will come the question whether on surrendering every thing the debtor should be free from every claim. On this we humbly think it is impossible to lay down any fixed rule. Every case has its own peculiarities. It may be right in one to stand out for 20s. in the pound, in another to be content with 6d. But as in separate transactions the liberation of the debtor is dependent on the creditor'4 being satisfied, it is plainly the right course to apply thq same principle to the case of complex transactions, and tr. leave to the partnership of creditors to decide, by majority of such proportions as may be fair, what grace shall be shewn to the debtor, who in strict honesty is liabl' for the last farthing. The Star advocates the cause of the junior barrister wishing to obtain a practice in the county court, but who dare not do so if he cares to appear in the higher courts, on account of the great loss of time. If a young barrister has a case to come on before a superior court, he is com pelled to wait for a considerable time, perhaps for some days, before his turn comes ; but his time is not wasted. He hears the decisions of a picked bench ; he listens to the conflicts of eminent counsel with critical attention. The delay is in itself a training for him. But what will be the case when the business which now brings our young advocate to the superior courts takes him, on the hypo- thesis that he cares to go, to a county court? He has to wait as long Perhaps, or nearly as long, as he would have waited in the higher court ; and he spends his time in the same way in listening. But in the county courts the pleadings are not carried on by leading counsel, but by local attorneys, and the decisions are pronounced by men whose names carry no authority, and towards whom even feel any thi ng but reiNct. an unlearned layman may Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that th junior bar should feel disposed, with some unimportau: exceptions, to say, We will not follow the business that' being now turned aside into these county courts exce pt o: certain conditions. Our contemporary, therefore, con tends that days should be set apart in which counsel old:- should be heard. aft7T which the ink, awl so bnri,:d The Berlin journals give an account of a curious ceremony of the burial of the Police Gazfite in that city. Letters announcing the decease of that journal were sent to a number of persons connected with the''press and their friends. The funeral procession started from the printing office, preceded by a band of , music, to the place of inter ment. Compositors dressed in black paper carried the bolv. A linnioro7ii func.ral oration Was then pronounced, I ryas plun;;A into tab of printer's The village of Carpino, in the Neapolitan pro vince, has been visited by a calamity. The Italia reports that a few nights back enormous masses of earth and stones, loosened by the melting of the snow, became detached from the mountain at the f. of of which the village stands, and came down like an avalanche, corn. pletely burying the parish church, the priest's residence, and two houses adjoining. The inmates, warned of the danger in time, escaped half-clad ; but although no lives were lost, these poor people have been reduced to desti tution. TECH, !ATION deSseir Leone Levi nas just reported to the Com taittee of Council on Education on the state of technical, industrial, and professional instruction in Italy and other countries. This report compares in fullness and suggestive ness of treatment with that of Mr. Samuelson, M.P. Professor Levi shews by statistics that the progress of 401110 other countries has been more rapid than ours, but he is not prepared apparently to admit that the Paris Exhibition was a sufficient index of this progress, He observes : " The United Kingdom has certainly the advantage of a large working population, a population accustomed to work in manufactures, and who give themselves to it, not grudgingly, but heartily, and with love for the work. Here the military system is greatly circumscribed. The :onscription, which in other countries takes the flower if the population away from prodt-ctive pursuits, is here altogether unknown. As a matter of fact, if we take space and population into account, nowhere is harder work gone through, and more work annually pro duced, than in this country. We have no means of T.alculating the value of production in this or any other country ; but the amount of exports gives the value if the produce and manufacture of the country in excess of what is required for the wants of the nation. And what do we find? In 1864, whilst the United Kingdom exported at the rate of £5 Gs. per head of the population, Belgium exported at the rate of £5, and France at the rate of £4 35., the United States at the rate of £1 11s., Italy of £lss., and Russia of Bs. In proportion to area, the United Kingdom exported at the rate of £1,322 per square mile, France at the rate of £754, Italy of £286, the United States of £l7, and Russia in Europe of £l2. " Hitherto the progress of Britain in industry and manu facture has been achieved by a few leading minds ope rating with an army of labourers wonderfully endowed with physical and moral power to overcome the greatest resistance, yet singularly deficient in intellectual power. Incomparably greater would be her progress were science and art more diffused amongst the entire community. What is required, therefore, is, first, a more extended and comprehensive system of primary and secondary instruc tion, well arranged and adapted to the requirements of society ; and, secondly, the diffusion of technical instruc tion, or instruction in those sciences and arts which enter in the different occupations and professions of life, alto gether direct and practical in its teaching, and everywhere associated with the realities of life. " Since, then, a higher and special instruction is required at relation to every industry, an important element in the adaptation of such instruction is the general distribution of the occupations of the people. According to the census I of 1861, the people of the United Kingdom were divided nto six distinct classes, as follows : Per cent. Professional ... ... C:31,085 • Domestic ... ... 16,236,339 .., Commercial ... 828,624 .., Agricultural 3.377,992 Industrial. ... ... 6,189,645 ~ Indefinite 1,130,749 ... 28,394,434 ... 100 "A complete system of technical instruction should pro• vide for the wants of all these branches of occupation, in proportion to the number of persons respectively employed and in relation to the localities where they are respect tively pursued." - - - - To supply this want, Professor Levi makes a series of suggestions of the measures which have been most gene rally approved. The most important arc as follows : " The establishment of an industrial university or a superior technical institute for the direction and promotion of technical, induArial, and professional instruction in the United Kingdom, as well as a normal school for teachers on science on the foundation of the existing Royal School of Mines. " The formation of technical schools, with workshops, collections of tools and instruments, museums, and libra ries, and of agricultural schools with farms and gardens in the principal towns of the kingdom, for diffusing in struction, theoretic and practical, en the sciences and arts proper to the branches of industry special to each locality, with evening classes for apprentices and others daily at work, at moderate fees. There should be schools in rela tion to weaving, dyeing, and mechanics in places such as Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, and Belfast ; mining schools in Truro, Newcastle, and Glasgow ; navigation schools in ! London, Liverpool, and Greenwich ; agricultural schools in Bedford and Warwick ; schools of metallurgy in Bir mingham, Sheffield, &c. " The extension of the factory laws to agricultural .abour, in order that children so employed may have three clear days a week for their education. " The greater use of museums and galleries for the education of the masses, open in the evening for the thousands who could not visit them during the day. " The increase of the educational glue of such rcus‘r.uus by the appointment of professors to deliver public lectures on the sciences thereby illustrated. " The diminution of the evil of a profusion of patents, Dy giving to inventors the option of taking out a p,tent, or accepting a parliamentary grant for a proportioned to the estimated valve) of the hill , / ,vem::ut on the recommendation of a committee of experts acting under the Patent Law Commissioners, and greatxr reci procity on the part of foreign countries with regard to the cirly publication of specifications of patents in full." 1118. TRAiN'S LECTURE•' AT CORI:. The Cone correspondent of the Daily News, writing on Wednesday evening, has the following :—" Mr. Train seems to have been emlphlened by the impunity which at tended his first lecture. His second harangue was much more inflammatory than the first, and that delivered to night was more mischievous and exciting than any of its predecessors. Ia his first lecture, which he avowed to be an experiment, Mr. Train limited himself to abuse of the officials who had arrested him at Queenstown, and vague denunciations of England, with some allusions to Fenian and to United States politics calculated to awaken national pas sions. Last night he trenched upon more dangerous ground. the bulk of the lecture consisted cf abuse of England and Englishmen, which was, of course, most grateful to the unwashed mob composing the majority of the audience. With this, however, Mr. Train interwove remarks which directly appealed to the passions of the disaffected. He spoke again of his arrest ; of the terror with which his ap pearance seemed to have inspired the Government officials ; and then asked, `lf they are so much afraid of one Ame rican citizen, in God's name what will they do when we let loose forty millions upon them ?' The response to this question was a ringing and prolonged cheer. The cherished hope of the disaffected lies in a war between England and the United States, and Mr, Train's hint at Ireland's opportunity' was rap turously greeted. Again, Mr. Train alluded to the imprisonment of the Irish-American citizens in this country, and denounced the American Cabinet for leaving them at the mercy of England. The English, be said, had sent an expedition to Abyssinia, to rescue her Fenians ; but America was too small, too weak a nation to protect her citizens. The contrast artfully suggested between the power of England and the United States—another idea in which the disaffected find consolation—was appreciated by the audience, and loud and prolonged cheers assured the speaker that his n.e ning was under stood. The sensation of the evening was produced by Mr. Train's proposal that the United States should, purchase Ireland from the British Govermikent. The Washington Cabinet, he said, had already paid a million sterling for a volcano, and on the part of the United States Government he offered one hundred and fifty million dollars in gold for Ireland. Here again the cheers of the audience shewed their perfect sympathy with the proposal. These are but a few examples of the inflam matory matter of the lecture. The idea inculcated throughout was that the United States was friendly to Ireland and hostile to England ; that hitherto the United States had been tolerant of England, from which she bad received a series of injuries and insults, but that this toleration could not always continue, and then-. (The cheers of the mob suggested forcibly their hopes of the future course of events.) It is difficult to exaggerate the mischief these harangues is doing here. The persons to whom they are addressed are chiefly seen and lads of the lower classes, those who form the backbone of Fenianism, who greedily receive every statement, no matter how absurd, as to the decadence of England ' • enter tain the wildest hopes of succour from the United States, and cherish the most exaggerated notions of the power of the American Republic. To these people Mr. Train pre sents himself as an Amercan politician in the confidence of the American cabinet, and his undisguised assurances of American sympathy for Ireland are more calculated to keep alive disaffection than all the writings of the rrishman, or all the speeches of Mr. John Martin. " Mr. Train's lecture to-night was to have had reference o the English national debt, the impending great war in :grope, and the fall of Napoleon. These topics, however, ,ccupled but a small share of his attention. He began by :cading the despatch he had forwarded to the President of the United States on the occasion of his arrest. In this document the President is reproached for not having insisted with sufficient determination upon the Alahairra claims, and is admonished to require England to pay those claims or take the risk of war. Allusion is also afa,le to the Fenian rain in Canada, which Mr. Train says was badly managed. These two r.ints were loudly cheered by the audience. Mr. Train next referred to the Manchester executions, which he described as a blunder. 'Then he talked of the Enf;lish Forians,' who had obtained by fraud and violence all the present possessions of Great Britain. After this Mr. Train went on to describe the advantages which would result to the United States from a war with England, which would reconcile parties, and promote the growth of native manu factures ; next, Mr. Train bestowed his attention on Continental politics. He described Russia and America as friendly to each other and hostile to England. France was also hostile to Eng land; and to France, he hinted, in some doggrel verses , Ireland was to look for her future ruler. After a wildtalk, which very few of his audience were able to follow, Mr. Train went on to discuss the pros pects of the great war, which he was treating of as I close this despatch." THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1868. the 2d Royals are to be held in readiness to embark Church electing and consecrating her own bishop without the intervention of a Minister of State. It seems to ns that the Natal case is exactly parallel with that of Canada, and that the proposed conse cration can hardly involve any of those appalling consequences anticipated by the Bishop of London. We apprehend that the Crown is quite capable of taking care of its own rights in this matter, and judging from the policy of the Colonial-office under the two last Administrations, it will be chiefly anxious to leave the Colonial Church perfectly free, and to avoid such embarrassments as those with which, thanks to the blundering of Attorney- General Bethell, it was saddled in the case of the /N atal bishopric. At the same time we entirely agree with the Bishop of London that Bishop Gray is bound to exercise all possible care that every step he takes is consistent with legality. We have no doubt that he has done this, and that he will proceed to c3nsecrate a new bishop for the Church in Natal with the assurance that he has ample warrant for doing so."—Anglo-America 1/ limes. BRIGADE. be built ; and in the south or D district there are • eight stations in operation, with five now being built and six not yet begun. These make a total of 43 fire stations now ready for any call, five sta tions building, and 12 to be built; that is to say, by the close of the present year there will be 60 fire-engine stations in the north and south of London, instead of the 17 that were maintained under the old Fire Brigade system. Each of these four districts, as we have said, forms a dis tinct group by itself, each station in the group being under the charge of an engineer, and each central station in a group being under the charge of a foreman of the district. All the sub-stations of the groups are connected by telegraph with their foreman's station, and all the four foremen's sta tions are in the same way connected with Captain Shaw's headquarters in Watling -street. Thus, the first call or alarm of fire is transmitted through all sub-stations to the foreman of the district, and by the foreman to Captain Shaw at Watling-street, where everything in the nature of fire and fire alarms—which latter, of course, are ten times more numerous—is known almost as soon as it occurs. The foreman of the district takes it upo n hi mse lf t o order whatever may b e fitting to meet the imme diate necessity, but after that all pressing directions are given through the telegraph by Captain Shaw till he himself arrives upon the scene, and this is, as a rule, within a few minutes after the first alarm has been given. In the fire at her Majesty's Thea tre, Captain Shaw and the portion of the brigade under his immediate- command were in the Hay market within eight minutes of the time the first alarm was telegraphed to Watling-street. At all principal fire stations, whether they are those of groups or sub-stations, three engines are always kept in readiness day and night —a steam fire-engine, a large powerful engine worked by hand, and a small engine drawn by hand, to be pulled out and set to work at once in case of fire in the immediate vicinity of the station. The steam fire-engines are, of course, of great power, and equal to three of the most powerful hand-worked engines. They are about three times as expensive to build, but last about three times as long, and, of course, are not nearly so costly to work. A .few pounds of coal, in fact, triple the amount of ser vice done by the paid labour of 30 men. It used to require from 12 to 15 minutes to get up steam in the boilers of these engines, but by a very simple arrangement this source of delay is quite obvi ated now. The fires are all ready laid in the furnaces, though not lighted, but a gas jet from a flexible tube is kept playing upon the boiler from the firebox, and the water inside it is always kept at such a point as to give a pressure of a few pounds of steam. After this, to get up full power by lighting the furnaces is only a matter of from two to three minutes, just the time allowed for the engine to be horsed, manned, and ready to start from the first instant of receiving the alarm. Steam fire-engines are, of course, as much superior to hand-worked engines as rifles are to the old Brown Bess. Yet hand-worked engines can never be altogether abandoned, and for these reasons : a band-worked engine with its firemen weighs about a ton, and two horses can and often do travel with it to fires at the rate of 12 or 14 miles an hour ; a land steam-engine, without its firemen, weighs over three tons, and neither two, nor three, nor four horses can drag this load at any great pace for long. The hand-worked engines, therefore, are instantly despatched as the a vant-courriers of those worked, by steam, for the use of which in the early outbreaks of fire there is rarely a sufficient supply of water. in the matter of sta tions the Fire Brigade is at present but ill supplied, men, horses, and, in some cases, even engines, having to be distributed up and down dif ferent parts of the same street, an arrangement which must of necessity cause extra delay in bring ing them all together at the first alarm. This evil, however, is not just now of great weight, for as fast as proper sites can be obtained well-built barrack fire-stations, with rooms for the men, stabling for the horses, and houses for the enginess, are being erected. Some of these new stations, such as those at 'Westminster, Camberwell, and Peckham, are really model buildings. Others, as in the city, where private houses have been adapted, are far from offering such facilities as the force ought properly to have. The whole personne l of the Fire Brigade is divided a into seven classes. First come the foremen of dis tricts, who receive 10s. day, with lod g i ng , li g h t, fire, and uniform. Next come the engineers, who iu charge of sub-stations get 6s. a day, and, like all the rest, whe ther high or low in rank, have the same perqui s ites as to lodging, li g ht s , fi re , and clothes. T he sub-engineers in char g e of the Gd., o f the second cl ass 4 5., of the third class 3 s. G d., and the fourth or p robationar y class 3s. All me n steamrsfit class fire-engines 4nsg.ines get ss. a day, the fire men o f th e injured, whether by accident or whilemake a ikte. r eceive full pay till fit These conditions are in the of the labour-mark t present state e very liberal, on tha d t uty hours' duty into 24, or pay is given a great deal is expected in return. The fireman's regular dtois but er ae a st t eu, the rn s t a duty must be 12 hours a day, and any emergency of fire may me time if good seamen, and even more. Strange as it may seem, f ro served m yawroehu i n incaghl 1, m en , nearly all havewar. The reasons for this choice, the risks to which they thahobwleeovfearl,lmtuhechfitroeo men are chosen they are called, and a sufficiently long interesting and too lengthy subjects to be disposed article. In another we shall endeavour to explain are ee exposed, sedOf tthheosflerfiesretse how the men are drilled, and of what kind are of in a few words at the close of the fires which they attend and how they attend them. for Aden A War Department Circular was yesterday re ceived by CoL Campbell, superintending the Royal Gun Factories at Woolwich, announcing the deci sion of the' Secretary of State, and acceding to his request to be permitted to utilise some of the old cast-iron guns of small calibre, to be converted by the puddling process into bars and eoi's for the manufacture of the new Fraser guns recently adopted for the service. The results of the annual rifle practice place the Royal Marine Artillery again at the head of the list of all the regiments under the Crown, the figure of merit for the year 1867 being 157.88, made up of the first period, 46.62 ; volley, 23.52 ; first-class shots, 87.74 ; and no 'third- class shots. But what they have reason to pride themselves on more particularly is the very high percentage of marksmen, which amounts to 37, being probably 20 per cent. higher than other regiments, with the ex ception, perhaps, of one or two. Such a result says much for the training of this distinguished corps, for it must be remembered they no longer get skilled and seasoned men from the Marine Infantry as of yore, but are recruited from civil life precisely the same as the Line. g A naval court-martial, by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, assembled on board the flagship Fisgard, in the river at Wool .and commenced proceedings at 10 a.m. on Wednesklay, under the presidency of Commodore William Edmonstone, C. 8., for the trial of Pay. master Thomas Goodman (sth of December, 1862) belonging to her Majesty's 4-gun screw sloop Shearwater, in basin at Woolwich, Commander Thomas E. Smith, to be paid out of commission. The Court consisted of Commander Smith, prosecutor ; Commander Jackson, Fisgard ; Com mander Loftus F. Jones, Royalist ; Lieutenant Bridger, Royalist ; and Lieut. Stanhope G. Price, commanding the iron paddle vessel Lizard, on night duty guarding the powder magazine at Erith. Mr. F. J. Lory, paymaster and secretary to the Commo dore Superintendent of the yard, acted as officiating Judge-Advocate ou behalf of the Board of Admi ralty, and the accused was defended by Mr. Spar row, solicitor. The charges were as follow :—Habits of intemperance, carelessness in keeping and ren dering his accounts, and a deficit in the amount of cash intrusted to his charge (said to be nearly £ 7 00). The Court arrived at a unanimous decision, and, taking into consideration his numerous cer tificates of good character, thought that the justice of the case would be met by the accused be ing dismissed her Majesty's service, the defalcations to be made good by his trustees. The screw gun vessel Landrail, 5 guns, Comman der Horatio L. A. L.. Maitland, arrived at Spit head yesterday from the West Coast of Africa. Her dates are Ascension, December 13 ; Sierra Leon, 24th ; and St. Vincent, January 3. Off Cape Finisterre she experienced a very heavy gale from the N.W., and thick fogs in the Channel, but with these exceptions she has had a very favourable voyage home. She is ordered to Sheerness to be paid off, after having been three years in com mission. The yacht Black Eagle, Staff-Commander Whillie, left Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and crossed the Solent, with the Duke of Marlborough (Lord-President), the Earl of Bradford (Lord Chamberlain), Lord John J. R. Manners, Mr. S. C. Cave, M.P., who proceeded to Osborne, where a Privy Council was held, returning again in the afternoon. Professor 'Wheatstone accompanied the Cabinet Ministers. The following appointment has been made in ,the Royal Naval Reserve :—John Weeks to be hono rary Lieutenant. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Navigating-Lieut. Charles Love, additional, to the Fisgard ; Navigating Sub.- Lieut. George A Broad to the Supply ; and Hon. Patrick Maurice Hely Hutchinson nominated a naval cadet. THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S LETTER, The Bishop of London published a letter ad dressed by him to the Metropolitan of the South African Church, protesting against the announced consecration of the Rev. Dr. Macrorie as Bishop of the see now filled by Dr. Colenso. It was contended that the highest courts of the realm had pronounced that see to be legally held by the present bishop, and although Dr. Gray maintains, that from the ecclesiastical point of view, the present incumbent has been deposed, yet this is contested by the Bishop of London, who therefore thinks such a con secration would be opposed both to the secular and ecclesiastical tribunals. The Pall Mall Gazette writes one of the sneering and scornful articles in which it delights on this episcopal dispute. It contends that different people mean different things by the word bishop, and the arguments " pro" and " con" do not affirm and deny the same, but very different propositions :—" Dr. Gray does not deny what his opponents assert ; on the contrary, he would admit its truth. He, however, means by a bishop something quite different from that which they mean. A bishop, in his eyes, is a person who by the performance of an invisible miracle called consecration has obtained the power of working ano ther invisible miracle called ordination, which enables the persons ordained to work in their turn other invisible miracles, especially in the adminis tration of the sacrament. It is this power of work ing invisible miracles which is the specific differentia of a bishop in the eyes of many people ; and when they say that a man has ceased to be a bishop, or has been deposed from his bishopric, they mean that by appropriate means he has been deprived of the power of working these miracles. According to this view Dr. Colenso is a mere sham. He may be called bishop, he may be enabled by the law courts to preach in certain pulpits and to prevent other people from doing so, he may draw his salary, but his mi raculous power has gone from him. lle is a mere dead stick, incapable of transmitting to others what he no longer possesses himself. The powers of a bishop are as personal as his appearance or his cha racter. The law can no more give them or take • them away than an Act of Parliament could make Dr. Colenso ten years younger or six inches sho rter than he actually is. As to the words "of Natal" in the expression Bishop of Natal, what is meant is, that thaumaturgists of the class in question have a set of rules amongst themselves by which each man is forbidden to exercise his miraculous powers except in a certaia district under pain of being in certain cases deprived of them altogether." At first it was proposed to perform the ceremony at St. Helena ; it was then changed to Scotland, but this was abandoned in deference to a vigorous protest from some of the most attached members of the Episcopal Church. It was not stated where Dr. Gray intended to consecrate the new Bishop, but it was announced to take place on :Saturday last. The Bishop of London affirms the Royal mandate to be legally required before a Bishop can be conse crated in England. The production of the mandate is demanded in the course of the Consecration Service, while the Bishop elect declares his belief that he is called to his office, not only according to the law of the Church, but to that of the realm. Against this the Standard maintains that the law of 26th George 111., cap. 84 , all uded to by Dr : Tait, applies only to consecrations to English dioceses or to dioceses legally constituted by the Crown in our colonies. 6 , Otherwise the Crown has no rights in the matter. This is the case in all colonies which possess a local representative Go vernment. The Crown cannot assign dioceses or territorial jurisdiction, and therefore declines either to issue its mandate or grant its letters patent. The consecration of Archdeacon Bethune as Bishop of Niagara is a case in point. The Metropolitan of the Church in Canada applied to the Crown for its licence, to enable him to proceed to the consecra tion, bit the Duke of Newcastle, the then Colonial Secretary, replied, that in consequence of the Westbury judgment it appeared that the Crown had no right to issue its lic ence ; that it would be contrary to its dignity to assume a power which it did not possess, and that t he bishops were quite competent to proceed to consecrate without it. Bishop Bethune is, astounding as it may seem to Dr. Tait, a living example of the possibility of the NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The proceedings and finding of the general court martial which assembled at Chatham garrison on the presidency of Colonel R. 80y1e,C.8. , f or the trial of Patri ck Daley and Jame s Molloy, two p rivates in the 2d Battalion of the I st Royals, on t he char g e of having made use of Fenian language in the public streets passed on the priso ners were pu bli c l y pro mulgated 23d a ult.,nd seditious under the general parade o f t h e w h o l e of the troops yest er d ay. Th e par ti cu lar o on f ; ohmu re Chatham, sentences rge h ar a gct sthstehed at m Court oa andn having been f ormally approve d , th e , w were for having in High-street,hich the ac cuse d were arra i gne d be- a Brompton, Chatham, on the evening of the 13th ult. shouted out, "-"he Q ueen m ay -, and the Colonel may - 1 I'm an Irishman to t he back bone, and I'll swi ng th e same as Larkin and Allen swung before. If there is any Irishman here, let him fall to the rear," and other language of a corre sponding charact er . Th e pr i sone r Daley was like wise charged w ith striking Corpora l Clarke of the Royal Engineers, who was in charge of the escort that conveyed the prisoners to the guard-room. The Court fo un d b oth the pr i so ners guilty, and sentenced Daley t o b e b ran d e d with the:letters "B. C.," to be disch arge d f rom h er Majesty's service with ignominy, an d to un d er go five years' penal servitude ; the p r i soner M o ll o y was also sentenced to be dismissed f rom the army w ith ignominy, to be branded w ith th e l etters " 8.C.," and to be im prisoned and kept at hard labour for two years. After the order of the Court had been read the prisoners had p or ti ons o f t h e ir uniform stripped from them, when they were marched to the bar rack-gates, the band pl a ying the "Rogue's March," and handed over t o an escor t for conveyance to prison. _ . . Orders we re yes t er d ay rece i v ed at Chatham gar rison directing the following detachments to be held ' in readiness for embarkation for India, to join the service companies of their respective regiments : Four officers and 82 non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist b a tt a li on o f the Ist (King' s Ro y al ) Regiment ; three officers and 15 2 me n of all ranks of the 2d batt a li on o f th e I s t Hopis ; three officers and 54 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 82d (Prince of Wales' Volunteer) Regiment ; one officer and 34 men of the 106th Bombay Light Infantry ; and one officer and 20 men of the 109th Bombay Infantry ; giving a total of 12 officers and 342 men of all ranks. A detachment of four offi cers and 111 me n of all ran ks of the Ist battalion of THE LON. One of the greatest improvements which the Metropolitan Board of Works have ever effected, not even excepting their Main Drainage and Thames Embankment schemes, has been the consolidation and reorganisation, under Captain Shaw, of the whole system of the Fire Brigade into one homo geneous municipal institution. Something has still to be done in increasing the strength of the force, and more in providing it with such facilities for work as consist in the erection of properly built and commodious fire-stations. These, however, are only questions of comparatively minor importance, as to which, especially in the matter of the fire-stations, improvements are being effected every month. In all that relates to system and perfect organisation the present Fire Brigade is complete. It is the model of all other Fire Brigades throughout the kingdom, and in comparison with the former Fire Brigade it bears about the same relation as locomotives do to stage coaches, or express trains to omnibuses. Everything has been altered, everything remodellel, everything improved, and now, for the first time in the history of L'ndon, its Fire Brigade system and its mechanical appliances, in the way of steam and hand engines, are equal to coping with any conflagration that may arise. It is not meant, of course, by this that any fire which breaks out can be extinguished. That, unfortunately, in many cases would be physically impossible. But they can be held in check, and almost to a certainty con fined to the buildings in which they originate. The old Fire Brigade was never in a condition to effect this result. It had neither the men nor the means, The engines were old-fashioned—the staff was small. It was by no means compulsory on them to attend any fire in which the particular insurance offices which owned the engines were not concerned, and in some cases, if their efforts had not - been supple mented by the exertions of many private engines, they could have effected nothing at all. In short, the old Fire Brigade, as a protection against one of the most terrible calamities which can befall a neighbourhood, was almost worthless ; and it was only by the untiring energy and vigilance of Mr. Braidwood that it was enabled to effect what it did. Of course, an occasion at last came which disclosed the insufficiency of the Brigade and its means to cope with a vast fire. It was the great fire at Tooley-street, where Mr. Braidwood lost his life, where the engines were seen to be all but power less, and where, fortunately, th e fire in a great measure burnt out of itself. The tremendous loss sustained on this occasion by the insurance compa nies, the inadequacy of the means of saving us from the recurrence of such disasters, and the death of Mr. Braidwood, with the necessity for appointing a new chief, all led to a thorough reorganisation of the Fire Brigade system. It was placed under the control of the Board of Works. The insurance com panies now give £lO,OOO a year towards its main tenance, the Treasury £lO,OOO more, and a metro politan rate of a half-penny i n the pound raises an additional sum of £30,000, making £50,090 in all. There can be no question that this sum will have to be increased to complete the efficiency of the force, and perhaps the best guarantee for the usefulness of such an additional outlay is to be found in the great results which have already been effected with the sum now at the disposal of the Board, and in trusted by them to Captain Shaw. The difference between the old Fire Brigade system and that of Captain Shaw may be summed up thus : —Under the old system there were 17 fire stations, guard ing an area of about 10 square miles, out of the 700 which comprise the Metropolitan District. There arc now 43 stations in an area of about 110 square miles, but so distributed as to guard an area of more than 400 square miles. There were for merly only 36 fire-engines, either worked by steam or hand—there are now 95, and the addi tions have all been of the most powerful engines which can be made. There were only two floating steam fire-engines, with not a very high rate of steaming; there are now virtually four, and the two new ones, which will be completed in a few on w iel e llait e ohg k sae s i , will be able to steam their 14 k nots an hour and each throw nearly 24 tons of water a min ute. These to Nn theyoa gigantictcr a e n m e eithernd o cuosi throw umengines column, enough their o r d a r w e a s t o te a t r hr r or a ow n un g g e h d as a village, or they can supply with an enormous wager pres sure no less than 32 fire hose of the common size. These engines may in fact be looked on as being in themselves complete fire brigades, Thus, h 3 u 2 s under c hand-wo rked Captain ta i n erminessShaw's w of thes syste e i a n c , h th is e equal to capacity. for num ber of engines has been trebled, the number of fire stations trebled, and the area they guard increased fi orfold. It be regretted, however, that the increase in the to y number of men has by no means kept pace with the immense increase of their duties. Thus, under the old regime there were 219 men; now there are only 314—an increase of only 95—an increase which becomes very small when it is recollected that 87 men are every night occupied by the new duties of attendance on fire-escapes ; that 43 men, that is one man each, must always be left in charge of the stations ; and that at least 5 per cent. of the force is liable to be unfit for duty from injuries or cold, or absent on leave ; so that, making these deductions, little more than 160 men are left for day and night duty over an area of nearly 110 square miles. It frequently happens that nearly 25 per cent. of the whole number of men employed are on duty 24 hours at a stretch—that is to say, that a man who escape through the night, from B ha p s .m ch . a t r o ge B o a f an are- . fi , comes back and takes his turn of duty on watch at a fire station from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. again. If a railway accident were to occur with loss of life and property, and it was proved at the inquest that the pointsman or signalman was subject to 24 hours' duty, the r a il wa y would most assuredly be heavily find in the way of damages. In the case of the Fire Brigade, where loss of life and destruction ofproperty occur, the public fine themselves heavily, either through or n pap for what is in fact their own sor individuals, more mu remissness and false econ om y. Th ere is no ce the status to which Captain Shaw has raised the profession—for such, in truth, ma y b e sa id to be Fire Brigade—the exercise of which requires more unceasing vigilance, personal daring, coolness, and bodily vigour. Yet it is not possible that a man who at the end of 24 hours' duty may be sum moned to a fire can bring with him these essential qualities, and the result is, and always must be, greater loss than the saving effected by keeping the establishment short-banded, At least a hundred additional firemen are required to do fairly the duties the present force is now expected to dis charge. The men could not be more efficient than they arc now, but their present efficiency is purchased at a high price —that of the lives of those who break down in the service from sheer over-work. In Paris, which is not much more than half the size of London, and where the houses are all of stone, and therefore more or less fireproof, there is an established Fire Brigade of 1,600 men. In London, with twice the area to guard, and with ten times the amount of commercial property to watch over in docks and warehouses, there are about, as we have said, 160 firemen available for great emergencies—that is to say, men who have not been on duty 12 hours before coming on the scene of fire. Is it, then, to be wondered at that the disas trous fires which annually afflict London are almost unknown in Continental cities ? At the same time it must be distinctly understood that London, with its present means, is better provided against fire than any other city, and it only requires a small extension of force to make it, so to speak, almost fireproof. For the purposes of the Metropolitan Fire Bri gade all London and its chief suburbs are divided into four districts, known by the letters A, B, (1, and 1), whieli make four distinct groups, each governed by one chief officer, or foreman of the district. The A group includes all the west end of the town, and has 14 stations in operation, two in course of construction, and ono not yet begun, making 17 in all. The B district takes in all the west central parts of London, from Islington and Charing-cross to Watling-street, the head-quarters. Here there are eight large stations in operation, and four to be built-12 in all. In the Cor East dis trict there are 13 stations in operation and one to WORK OF WE PRIVATEERS. As the subject of the Alabama claims is again exciting so much attention, we give a list, extracted from the _lron Age, of the depredations committed by her and other privateers : BY THE ALABAMA. Names of Vessels. Whore from. Date of Capture. Alert, bark Altamaha, brig Amanda, bark Manila Oct. 6, 1863 Amazonian, bark A. F. Schmidt, ship Ariel, steamer New York Avon, ship B'n de Castine, brig Benj. Tucker, ship New Bedford ... Sept. 14, „ B. Thayer, ship Brilliant, ship New York Charles Hill, ship Chastelain, brig Guadaloupe Jan. 27, „ Conrad, bark Contest, ship Corsair, sch Provincetown... Sept. 13, 1862 Crenshaw, sch Now York Dorcas Prince, ship Dunkirk, brig Now York E. Dunbar, bark New Bedford ... Sept. 18, 1862 E. Farnham, ship Emma Jane, ship Express, ship Golden Eagle, ship Howland's Isl'd. Feb. 21, „ Golden Rule, bark New York Jan. 26, „ Harlt Spalding, bark New York Hatteras, gunboat Galveston Jan. 13, „ Henrietta, bark Baltimore ... - Highlander, ship Singapore Dec. 26, „ Jabez Snow, ship .. . New York Jno. A. Park, ship New York Justina, bark Kate Cory, brig Westport Apl. 15, „ Kingfisher, sch Lafayette, ship Lafayette, bark Lamplighter, bark New York Loretta, bark Now York Levi Starbuck, ship Louisa Hatch, ship Cardiff - 1863 Manchester, ship Martha Wenzel], bark ... Akyab Martaban, ship - Maulmain Dec. 24, „ Morning Star, ship Nora, ship Nye, bark New Bedford ... April 24, „ Ocean Rover:bark Mattapoisett ... Sept. 8, 1862 Ocmulgee, ship Olive, Jane, bark Oneida, ship Palmetto, sch ..... New York Parker Cook, bark Boston Punjaub, ship Calcutta Rockingham, ship Sea Bride, bark Sea Lark, ship S. Gildersleeve, ship Sunderland Sonora, ship Starlight, sch Fayal _ Talisman, ship T. C. Slates, ship Tonawanda, ship Tycoon, bark Union Jack, bark Virginia, bark New Bedford ... Sept. 17, „ Washington, ship Callao Wave Crest, bark Weather Gauge, sch Proviucetown ... Sept. 4, „ Winged Racer, ship Manila BY THE SHENANDOAH. Abigail, bark Adelaide, bark Alina, bark Newport, Eng... Oct. -, 1861 Brunswick, bark New Bedford ... Juno -, 1865 Catharine, bark Charter Oak, sch. Congress 2d, bark Now Bedford ... June 28, 1865 Covington, bark Warren, 11. I. ... Juno 28, „ Delphine, bark D. Godfrey, bark Edward, bark New Bedford ... Dec. 4, „ Edward Cary, bark Euphrates, ship Favorite, bark Fairhaven Gen. Pike, bark New Bedford ... June 22; „ Gen. Williams, ship New London ... June 25, „ Gypsey, bark Now Bedford ... June 26, „ Harvest, bark Honolulu .. April 1, „ Hector, ship New Bedford ... April 1, „ Hillman, ship New Bedford ... June 27, „ Isabella, bark New Bedford ... June 27, „ I. Howland, ship James Maury, bark New Bedford ... June 28, 1866 Jiren Swift, bark Sate Prince, ship ..... Lizzie M. Stacy, sch Martha 2d, bark ............ Now Bedford Milo, ship ..................... New Bedford Nassau, ship New Bedford ... June 28, „ Nile, bark New London ... Juno 22, „ Nimrod, bark Pearl, bark Sopha Thornton, ship Susan Abigail, bark Susan, brig Waverley, b ar k W. Thompson, ship Win. C. Fye, bark San Francisco... June 26, „ BY THE FLORIDA. Aldebaran, schooner New York Anglo-Saxon, ship Liverpool Aug. 21, „ Arabella, brig B. F. Iloxie, ship Clarence, brig Bahia Commonwealth, ship New York April 17, „ Corris Ann, brig.... ....... Philadelphia David Lapsloy, bark Sombrero — Electric Spark, sch. Estella, brig Manzauilla F. B. Cutting, ship Geo. Latimer, sch. Baltimore May 18, Gen. Berry, bark Golconda, bark Greenland, bark Philadelphia ... July 9,1864 liar% Stephens, bark Portland J. Jacob Bell, ship Foocho w Feb. 12, 1863 Kate Stewart, sch. Philadelphia Lapwing, bark Boston Mar. 27, „ Mary Alvina, brig M. A. Schinler, sch. Marg. Y. Davis, sch. M. J. Colcord, bark Mondamin, bark Rio Janeiro Sept. —, 1864 Red Gauntlet, ship Buena Vista May 26, 1863 Rienzi, schooner Provincetown ... July 7, 1863 South Rights, ship Rangoon Southern Cross Star of Peace, ship Calcutta Sunrise, ship Tacony, bark Port Royal Varnum H. Hill, schonr. Provincetown Wm. B. Nash, brig ...... New York Wm. C. Clark, brig ...... Machias, Me. Windward, brig Zealand, bark ............... New Orleans BY MB SUMTER, Abbie Bradford, sch Albert Adams, brig Cuba July 5, ~ Alverado, bark ............... Cape Town June —, ,) Arcade,"schr .................. Portland Benj. Dunning, brig 7, B. F. Martin, brig California, bark Cuba, brig ..................... New York D. Trowbridge, 5ch....... New York Eben Dodge, bark New Bedford ... Dec. 8, „ Glen, bark - — 7 ~ Golden Rocket, ship Havana July 13, „ Henry Nott, sch Key West Aug. ...._, Jos. Maxwell, bark ...... Philadelphia Joseph Parks, brig Pernambuco Dec, 23' il J. S. Harris, ship Louisa Kilham . Cie nfu g os J uly 6, ,7 Machias, brig — July 4 , 1862 Naiad, brig — July 6 , 1861 N. Chase, schooner New York Neapolitan, bark Messina Feb. —, 1862 Ocean Eagle Santa Clara, brig Porto Rico Sebasticock, ship Vigilant, ship.. Now York Dec. 3, " West wind, bark New York July 6, W. S. Robbins, bark,,,,,, itxroya BY THE TALLAHASSEE. Names of Vessels. Where from. Date of Capture . Adriatic, ship London Aug. 12, 1863 A. Richards, brig Arcole, ship _ _ . .. Atlantic, schr Addison, Me ... „ Bay State, bark Alexandria, Va. Aug. 11„, Billow, brig Calais, Me Aug. 10, „ Carrie Estells, brig Castine, ship Coral Wreath, brig — Aug. 11, „ Etta Caroline, schooner — Aug. 10, „ Flora Reed, schooner Aug. 15, „ Glenavon, bark Good Speed, schooner ... Boston Howard, bark — Aug. 15, „ Jas. Littlefield, ship J. H. Howen, schooner ... Gloucester L. Dcpont, schooner Wilmington, Del Aug. 13, „ Magnolia, sch — Aug. 15, „ Mercy Howe, sch. N. American, scb. P. C. Alexander, bark Now York ....... Aug. 16, „ Pearl, sch. Rasselas, sch. Roan ,brig S. A. Boyce, soh Boston Sarah Louisa, soh. — Spokane, sch. Calais, Me Ang. 12, „ BY THE TACONY. Ada, schooner Gloucester Arabella, brig Archer, schooner Byzantium, ship Loudon Elizabeth Ann, schr Gloucester Florence, schooner Gloucester Goodspeed, bark Londonderry ... June 21, „ Isaac Webb, ship L. A. Macomer, schooner, Noank Marengo, schooner Gloucester Ripple, schooner Gloucester Rufus Choate, schooner... Gloucester Shattemuc, ship ... Liverpool June 24, „ Umpire, brig Wanderer, schooner Gloucester BY THE CLARENCE. A. H. Partridge, schooner Gloucester C. Cushing, cutter Portland Whistling Wind, bark ... Philadelphia Juno 6, „ BY THE SALLIE. Betsey Ames, brig Cuba Oct. —, 1861 Grenada, brig Nuevitas BY THE GEORGIA. Bold Hunter, ship City of Bath, ship Constitution, ship Crown Point, ship New York, ....... May 15, „ Dictator, ship Liverpool April 25, „ Geo. Griswold, ship Cardiff June 18, „ Good Hope, bark Boston .. June 22, „ John Watt, ship Maulmain Oct. „ J. W. Seaver, bark Prince of Wales, schoonr Callao BY THE JEFF. DATIS. D. C. Pierce, bark Remedios June —, 1861. Ella, schooner Tampico Enchantress, schooner ... Boston J. Crawfcrd, ship John Welsh, brig Rowens, bark Laguayra June „ S. J. Waring W. 31'Gilvery, brig BY THE WINSLOW. Herbert, schooner Itasca, brig Nuevitas Mary Alice, schooner Porto Rico Priscilla, schooner Curacoa Transit, schooner BY THE CHICKAMAUGA. Albion Lincoln, bark Portland Emma L. Hall, bark Cardenas Mark L. Potter, bark Bangor Oct. 30, 1864 Shooting Star, sch New York BY TUB OLUSTEE. A. J. Bird, sch Rockland Nov. 3, 1864 Empress Teresa, bark Rio Janeiro Nov. 1, 1864 .E. F. Lewis, sch Portland T. D. Wagner, brig BY THE RETRIBUTION. Emily Fisher, brig St. Jago Hanover, sch .. Boston Jan. 31, 1863 J. P. Ellicott, brig Boston Jan. 10, 1863 fly THE ST. NICHOLAS. Mary Pierce, sch - Boston Margaret, soh June 29, 1862 Monticello, brig BY THE CALHOUN. John Adams, sch Mermaid, sch Panama, brig BY THE NASHTILLE. Harvey Bircb, ship R. Gilfillan, sch Philadelphia ... Feb. 26, 1862 BY THE BOSTON. Lenox, bark New York ... June 12, 1863 Texana, bark New York ... June 12, 1863 BY THE SAVANNAH. Joseph, brig Cardenas ... June 15, 1861 BY THE LAPWING. Kate Dyer, ship , Callao ... Juue 17, 1863 BY THE ECHO. M. E. Thompson, brig Mary Goodsell, sch July 9, 1862 July 9, 1862 BY THE NEW YORK. G. V. Bokor, sch BY THE CONRAD. Santee, ship BY THE TUSCARORA. Living Age, ship MISCELLANEOUS. A. B. Thompson, ship... Savannah May 19, 1861 Alleghanian, ship Baltimore Oct. 21, 1862 Alliance, sch . Philadelphia Sept. —, '1863 Boston, tug Chesapeake, steamer New York Dec. 7, 1863 Golden Rod, sch. Hannah Balch, brig Cardenas Harriet Lane, gunboat... Galveston Jan. 11, 1863 James L. Gerity Matamoras J. R. Watson, sch New York Lydia Francis, brig — June 15, 1862 Pearl, sch. Protector, sch. Sea Bird, sch Philadelphia — 1863 Sea Witch, sell Baracoa — 1861 Union, sch Baltimore Dec. 5, 1862 [ADTERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills.—lt is difficult to detormine which is the more trying to health, intense cold or excessive heat, though everybody knows that sudden transitions from the one to the other teem with disease, which may in most instances be staved off by an early re sort to these purifying, regulating, and strengthening pills. This well-known and highly-esteemed medicine affords a. safe and easy remedy for almost every constitutional wrong which climates, changes, or dietetic errors can en gender, and effectually removes any weakness self-indul gent habits may have induced. In all conditions of the system bordering on disease, indicated by apathy, listless ness, and restlessness, Holloway's pills will prove espe cially serviceable in begetting a vivacity appreciated by both sound and sick. LADYRRTISRMENT.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggravate chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health -restoring Revalento. Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 awes its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfec, digestion, strong nerves, soul lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functio ns regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few oat of 68,000 cures'—" The Pope's health resto red by Du Barry's Food. 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JOURDAIN—On the 29th inst., at The Elms, Plethora Leicestershire, the wife of W. E. Jourdain, Esq., of a son. Marriages. Cox—WrixtAms—On the 21st inst., at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Twickenham, Price Wynne Cox, Bo c i" youngest son of the late Lt.-Col. C. Cox, Christchur ch, Hants, formerly of the 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers, t° Mary, only surviving daughter of D. Williams, gam' Walpole Lodge, Twickenham. RYLAND—BIDDLz—On the 28th inst., at Haddenham, Isl e of Ely, Mr. Joseph E. Ryland, of Mildma,y-park, 1,011 don, to Emily, daughter of John Biddle, Esq. Deaths. LTUNTER—On the 29th inst., at 26, Carlton Villas, Mai vale, W., Archibald Hunter, and of 10, Cannon-street' E.G., London. LEVERIDGE—On the 27th inst., at Clarendon Villa; So uth Norwood, Samuel J. Leveridge, Esq., aged 65. MANGLES—On the 29th inst., at Glower, Windsor, Capta.itt Wm. H. Mangles, of the Ist R.E. Middlesex 3111itT; late Captain of the 50th (Queen's Own) Regiment, 010, son of the late Robert Mangles, Esq., of S urniegda Berkshire, aged 37. POWELL—On the 30th inst., at 8, Beaufort-bui laug6 I Strand, George Powell, Esq., aged 81. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDOW.O.2' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tau Sox Office,pf Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Co'un' BluicUeaox.—Friday, January 31, 1868.