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ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerfs-paile, OPEN daily (ox cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mcndays, 6d.; Children under twelve, 6d. LOIVDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 15, 1868. The immediate recall of Lord Mato—we can an nounce this evening upon the highest authority—is virtually at this moment an accomplished fact. The determination is so startling as to amount almost to a coup d'etat. It is the first act, and is certainly a sweeping and vigorous one, of the new Government. The arrangement, to put it in as few words as pos sible, is simply this—To recall Lord MAYO imme diately I To continue Sir John LAWRENCE in authority as Governor-General of India for another twelvemonth, when on his return home he will receive a peerage as the reward of his six years' Proconsulship ! And then, at the end of this immediately ensuing twelvemonth, to send out as his successor in that high capacity as Governor- General of India, as Viceroy of the Empress of Hin dostan—the Marquis of SALISBURY! Those are the arrangements. That is the programme sketched out with a bold and resolute hand by the newly-installed First Minister of the Crown. Once before, in the re membrance of the present generation, the recall of a Governor-General of India has been witnessed. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH had then, however, been not simply named and sent out as Governor-General to Calcutta, but had exercised for upwards of . .a year his high and responsible authority as the chosen representative not eof the Crown but of the Com pany. Afghanistan had been evacuated after the i successful close of thecamp a i gn . Th e B r iti s h t ro opsbad ! retired, bearing with them the gates of Somnauth. As the last and crowning evidence of the subjugation of the enemy, the formidable fortress of Ghuznee had been destroyed. The Amcers of Scinde, having sub sequently taken up arms sgainst us, hal been routed in two decisive victories by the heroic NAPIER. The province of Scinde ha I not only b2en brought under subjection by the sword of the Victor of Meanee, but had been formally annexed to the A4Atic dominions of England. Lord ELLENnonouct a bud not only, thus, by the Scindian war, signalized his advent to power as Governor-General, but, after the brilliant completion of that campaign by a soldier second only in warlike genius to the Great Duke, had daringly, on his own re sponsibility, invaded the independent Mahratta State of Gwalior with the design of crushing out the inter necine conflict then desolating that country during the minority of DnULEEP SING, then ruling Gwalior under a regency, as Rajah of the Mahrattas. 'THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1868. Hardly, however, had the Mahratta insurgents been signally : defeated by Lord ELLENBOROUGH and his military associate General Sir HARRY (now Field- Marshal the Lord) GouGH—the latter of whom was sung of, not long afterwards, by an enthusiastic brother Irishman as— ". . A cross betwixt A Bull-dog and a Salamander"— when, by a decision of the Board of East India Direc tors, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, the victorious Governor- General of India, was summarily recalled. He was recalled by what the Great Duke of WELLINGTON took occasion at once to designate " a most indis creet use of authority." He was recalled contrary to the expressed wishes of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Govern ment. He was recalled not by the Crown, but by the Company. But, by whatsoever authority, discreetly or indiscreetly, wisely or unwisely—he was recalled. His recall, however, was so repugnant at the time to the QUEEN'S Government, that Lord ELLENBOROUGH, until then simply a Baron, was simultaneously created Viscount SOUTHAN and Earl of ELLENBOROUGH. Sir ROBERT PEEL, then Prime Minister, not only raised him thus at once two degrees in the peerage— he summoned him to a seat in the Cabinet, select ing him to be First Lord of the Admiralty. That was immediately upon his return to England in 1844 disgraced by the Company but crowned with honour by the Crown. Fourteen years afterwards, namely, in 1858, the late Prime Minister, Lord DERBY, still further signalized the national sense of the high merits of Lord ELLENBOROUGH as one of the most illustrious, and, let us add also, as one of the most successful Governor-Generals who had ever been en trusted with the Government of India since the days of WARREN HASTINGS, by installing him again in office as President of the Board of. Control. Never theless, such being the opinions entertained in regard to Lord ELLENBORO UGH'S Governor-Generalship by the Crown and by the Legislature—by three such leading statesmen as Lord DERBY, as Sir ROBERT PEEL, and as the Duke of WELLlNGTON—whatever we may think about the unjustifiable character of his recall by the East India Directors, the latter had, at any rate, their reasons for arriving at that decision, no less undeniably than they had the autho rity,while so thinking, to act upon their determination. Lord ELLENBOROUGH had exercised the power of Governor-General for more than a whole year- 7 for the better part of two years if we remember rightly. He bad had a policy of his own. That policy he had made plain to the whole world by acting upon it. He had made war, as we have seen, upon the Ameers of Scinde. He had made war upon the Mahrattas of G walior. The Company judged him by his acts, and— so judging him—they summoned him abruptly back here to England. There is no sort of analogy, however, between the recall of Lord MAYO, and the recall of Lord ELLEN BOROUGH. The latter instance has simply been here referre I to by ourselves by way of contrast—not by way of comparison. Lord MAYO has only just been named to that post of dignity and of responsibility. By his acts we cannot judge• him. He has not yet arrived even at the seet of what was intended to be the scene of his five years' Government. Scarcely has be taken his departure, when the Minister whoselectedihi m resigns the Premiership, while a new, in every sense a thoroughly new and most originally-constructed Cabinet is inaugurated under the leadership of Mr. GLADSTONE. That First Minister of the Crown has, of course, high Reasons of State for a proceeding so startling and unparalleled as this sudden recall of the Viceroy of India, who was but yesterday, ns we may say, selected by his immediate pre decessor as First Lord of the Treasury. The act has, at the same time, about it a double significance. It is a slight to Lord MAYO, andit is a slight t. Mr. DISRAELI —to the selected and to the seleeter. And, however else it may be regarded, it certainly cannot but be looked upon as a very signal and a very public disgrace, a disgrace lasting, and even, it may be said, historical, inflicted upon Lerd MAYO himself, upon the Governor-General who is thus summarily and peremptorily recalled. The First Minister of the Crown, we doubt not, will be enabled, when the time comes for explanation, to vin dicate the course be has pursued in arriving at this extraordinary determination. But, in the meantime, in our capacity as independent Liberals, we may be permitted, without anticipating in the slightest de gree the terms of that explanation, without derogat ing in the least from the dignity of that solemn responsibility under the consciousness of which the Prime Minister has arrived, we are absolutely certain beforehand, most deliberately and most conscien tiously at this startling determination—we may be permitted, we say, in our capacity as independent Liberals, to express an earnest sympathy with the noble lord upon whose career, upon whose ambition, upon whose heart, this sudden summons of recall will descend as with the crushing blow of a thunder bolt. COMEDY and tragedy are very closely allied. A few days ago the police-court at Kendal was kept in " roars of laughter" by an incident which, to us, reading, instead of hearing it, seems full of pathos. A " quaint-looking old man," JONATHAN HOLDEN, was brought 'before the magistrates charged with being drunk and incapable. The man acknowledged the truth of the charge, and then, amid great laughter, he besought the magistrate to give him " three months." "You'll do me a great kindness," pleaded the man ; and then, when the magistrate doubted if he had power to award so long a term, the poor old drunkard urged his request again. " I want to be locked up, anyhow, for I'm tired of wandering about, living on kicks and curses, and sleeping o' nights on doorsteps and pigsties." Surely a pathetic request; but it only excited in those who heard it " great laughter." The man was not to be laughed down. "I'm vara near starved and hungered to death. They won't ha' me i' the workhouse, they won't ha' me anywhere." Kicks, curses, sleeping with the pigs, starvation, to be spurned from every door, even from the door of the poor's house, may be amusing, but to us they seem to partake rather of tragedy than of comedy. Not so with the people of Kendal ; there was "much laughter," and again "great laughter" when the old man replied to the magis trate's objection, that the law would not allow so long a term, " Oh, never mind the law. You can just make a little one as 'll do for mesel. If you don't, I'll go and do something which 'll make you send me for six months, and then I'll be happier nor I've been for vara many a day." But the magistrate was stern and inflexible. He would not grant this suppliant's request—the prayer which meant for him generous a food ee , ll t , hot r i a g i h p men r t is , on tho f u a g re h , a t nd he w e a e r n m v e h t , e t h o m u g o hn t e y and a comfortable bed, though a hammock. I co re mes get out he but will have week, to return againNvh eu to his he bedfellows the pigs, and to the kicks and curses o f and n d his fellow-men. Ile has given good warning that he will " do something " which will get him " six months." And who will blame him if he fulfils his threat ? Who will hold him guilty if he forces society to take notice of the misery which it now only curses or laughs at ? Six months in gaol is batter than the pigsty and the outside of the poorhouse, and the mirth of fools. THE Mausoleum at Frogmore is progressing. It has already cost more than 2200,000. Probably it will have cost a quarter of a million before it is finished. It is a masterpiece of decorative art. But is it quite the memorial that the PRINCE CONSORT would have choseir ? lie was not a great statesman, and yet he has a monument infinitely grander than the greatest statesman ever had ; he was not a great philosopher, and yet no philosopher in ancient or modern time was ever sepultured in such a last home as this. He was simply a good man, doing his duty in a difficult sphere with conscientiousness and discretion. He loved the country which had adopted him ; he had a philanthropic heart and a cultivated mind. If he had been asked what memorial he wished to have, this mausoleum would have been the last thing that he would have chosen. He would have preferred to found scholarships for the advancement of learning, as Mr. WHITWORTH has done, or to have erected homes for the poor of our large cities to dwell in, as Mr. PEABODY has done. He would have mourned Over such prodigality of expenditure as that which has been levied upon his mausoleum, for he would have said how much better to instruct the ignorant and to house the living than to build this sumptuous house for one to whom all art, all beauty are nought, and for whom a narrow chest affords room enough and to spare. LATEST INTELL LGENOR (Izzurrt's TELEGRA)IS.) SPAIN. MADRID, Dec. 14. General Dulce left last evening for Cadiz, where he will embark the day after to-morrow for Havannah. The Correspondencia says that no orders of the Government were communicated to the Duke Of Montpensier to return to Lisbon. When he arrived at Cordova he there learned that neither reaction ists nor Carlists were concerned in the revolt at Cadiz, and that it was only an outbreak of the ex treme fraction of the Liberal party. The Duke of Montpensier might possibly have been misinformed as to the character of the outbreak, but be had no intention to take any part against the revolution. After having arrived at the conviction that no more blood would be shed, he left for Lisbon. In order to mislead ptiplic opinion, a rumour had been spread at Cadiz, and other points of Andalusia that the Government intended to impose the candida ture of the Duke of Montpensier by means of a ooup d'etat. This rumour is a calumny both against that Go vernment and the Duke of Montpensier. The Dukewill only accept the crown in the event of the Constituent Cortes chosen by the free voice of all liberal parties of the nation should offer him the throne. ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, Dec. 14. The Minister of the Interior has issued a circulaz to the prefects forbidding all subscriptions for the purchase of arms for Greece, and laying stress upon the, necessity of upholding the principle of strict neutrality. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE UNION. (Via Southampton.) NEW YORK, Dec. 3, Noon. The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill repealing all laws forbidding inter marriages between blacks and whites. The report of General Carstairs' victory over the Cheyenne Indians is confirmed. He captured 900 horses and a large quantity of arms and pro visions. General Harvey reports that the Sioux Indians were anxious to go upon . the reservations and re ceive Government protection. General Grant is visiting Boston. He continues to decline all public receptions. Adv ices from Hayti report that the insurgents had destroyed the ague luct which supplies Santiago with water, and that they were besieging Alawzanillo. Great enthusiasm exists between the leading insurgents. OTTAWA, Dec 14. An anti-confederation meeting took place at Halifax last evening, but there was only a small attendance and little enthusiasm. FRANCE. Bo WISE, Dec. 14.—Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cent. End of month -- 3 per Cent. 7l 25 End of month 7l 20 Credit Mobilier 290 End of month 2BB 75 Crodit Foucier 1515! End of month — Bank Shares 3lBO Ital'an Loan — End of month — Mexican Loan Do. Bonds Spanish Threos Home Debt — Deferred . YB. RAILWA' Cash Orleans ...... Northern ............................. Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 635 Western Eastern ............ . 5624 Sardinian tAustrian Lombard North of Spain 6Bl Saragossa Roman POLICE INTELLIGENCE— This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. ROBBING A GENTLEMAN IN LEICESTER-SQUARE. —George Fitzgerald, a rough-looking fellow, was charged with others in stealing a gold watch from the person of a gentleman unknown. Inspector Pay, G division, said that about three o'clock that morning he was in Leicester-square, in front of the Alhambra, there being a large crowd there, in consequence of their having been a bal masque, when he saw the prisoner and some others surround a gentleman, and leave him in a suspicious manner. He went after them, and seized the band of one of them he thought had got something, and while doing so saw the prisoner drop a gold watch. The prisoner stooped and tried to regain it, but he pre vented him, and secured him and took him into custody ; and on telling him that he should charge him with stealing the watch he made no reply. Mr. Tyrwhitt told the Inspector that he con sidered he had managed the matter very well, and remanded the prisoner. THE ROYAL MAUSOLEUM AT WINDSOR -v We have already stated that on Monday morning— being the anniversary of the Prince Consort's death—he) Majesty the Queen and the members of the Royal Famil3 at Windsor and Frogmore the Crown Prince ani Princess of Prussia, Prince and Princess Christian o: Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince and Prin cess Teck—went to the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, when a special service was performed by the Hon. and Very Rev. Gerald Wellesley, Dean of Windsor. Th( choir of St. George's Chapel were present. The servict commenced with a short prayer, followed by a chorale (b 3 Nicholas Decius, 1529): " I shall not in the grave remain, Since Thou death's bonds have sever'd t But hope with Thee to rise again, From fear of death deliver'd. T'll come to Thee where'er Thou art, Live with Thee, from Thee never part; Therefore to die is rapture. And so to Jesus Christ I'll go, My longing arms, extending; So fall asleep in slumber deep, SluMber that knows no ending, Till Jesus Christ, Cod's only Son, Opens the gates of bliss--leads on To Heaven, to life eternal !" Next followed Psalms xxiii., cxii., and cxlvi. An appro. priate Lesson was then read, and then - Handel's Funeral Anthem was sung—" His body is buried in peace, but his name liveth evermore,"—the service ending with a prayer. Her Majesty and the Royal Family placed wreaths of int mortelles upon the sarcophagus containing the remains of the Prince Consort, and returned at once to Windsor Castle. His Serene Highness Prince Teck and her Royal Highness Princess Teck left Windsor for town. The mem bers of the Royal Household and some privileged inhabi tants of Windsor subsequently had an opportunity of in specting the Mausoleum. THAMES. AN EXTENSIVE B URGLART.--T WO well-known thieves, who gave the names of John Brown and Thomas Brown, who are not related, were brought up on remand before Mr. Benson, on a charge of being concerned with others in breaking and enter ing the dwelling-house of Mr. Louis Lavenburg, pawnbroker and jeweller, of Broad-street, Ratcliff, and stealing therefrom watches, gold rings, gold ear-drops, and other property value £3OO. Both prisoners were committed for trial. LANDSLIP.—A. great landslip occurred on the 22d ult. at Cumberland Mills, near Portland, Maine, on the north side of the Presumpscot River. The land sunk ex tends back from the river nearly half a mile in an oblong shape, including at least 30 acres. It fell from 30ft to 50ft, and the river was dammed up for above a furlong, over flowing the adjacent ground, and making for itself a new channel. The land is light sandy loam upon blue clay, which last had probably been softened by the long-con tinued wet weather until it would net sustain the weight upon it. Largo quantities of flth were left high and dry upon the ground. The rumbling noise and jarring of the earth made the people foar at first that there was an earth quake. The sinking appears to have begun Some distance from the river, the bed of which was pressed upward to the level of the surrounding land. HURDLE RACE.— Yesterday a hurdle race !for £lOO a side, which excited much interest among the officers of the Guards, took place in the Windsor Home-park be tween the Hon. Captain Needham, of the Grenadier Guards, and Captain C. Needham, of the Ist Life Guards. The distance staked out was 200 yards, over 20 flights of hurdles. The race was run with the wind, in the direc tion of the river Thames. The Hon, Captain Needham landed over the first hurdle while his opponent was in the act of rising, gradually drew away, and won easily by two hurdles. Colonel Phillips, Grenadier Guards, acted as referee; Colour-Sergeant Crofts, 2d Battalion Coldstream Guards, was starter, Time, 40 seconds. REQUIREMENTS EXTRAORDINARY. A contemporary thus comments .on an advertisemen which has appeared in a clerical paper:—" North Devon is one of the most delightful portions of the United King dom : the scenery is charming, the soil fertile, the climate mild, and the people have a frank and genial manner, than which nothing can be more pleasing. Still, we do not know a spot on the earth's surface which can pretend to be so self-sufficing as that its people need no intercourse with the rest of mankind. There is one gentleman, however, there, a clergy man, who is of that opinion, judging from the following advertisement in the Ecclesiastical Gazette:—` Wanted, in the spring, a curate in full orders, of moderate views, for a village near Barnstaple, North Devon. As the popula tion is considerable, he will be expected to devote him self entirely to the parish, and to any friendships he may form there ; therefore curates with friends at a distance, to visit and to be visited by, need not apply. Address, S.A.P., Post Office, Barnstaple, North Devon.' No doubt this good clergyman speaks from experience. He has found the limited society of his village sufficient for all his own requirements. Still he must remember that he is the vicar, and that iu the matter of local friendships the new curate will have to take his leavings, and it is rather hard to lay down the strict condition —' No followers allowed.' There may be some curates who would like to live in a little China, safely guarded from intercourse with ' outer barbarians,' but most of the class would like to keep up their old acquaintances. If the conditions laid down in this advertisement are per manent, and any clergyman who takes the curacy is to abandon his friends, we would suggest that the vicar should select and rear and train his curates from the youth of the parish. As `the population is considerable,' there should not be much difficulty in doing this." ABYSSINIA AGAIN. The Royal Geographical Society, under the presidency of Sir Roderick Murchison, bad the pleasure on Monday of bearing the story of Abyssinia told over again by Dr. Blanc, one of the captives. In commencing, the lecturer declared that he desired to correct a false impression, already too prevalent in England. Often on his way down from Magdala, and often since his return to England, be bad heard in the mouth of friends and strangers the short but graphic sentence, "Abyssinia is a wretched country." He would venture to assert, did he not fear to be accused of jesting with mere words, or of debating a foolish pardox, that the Abyssinian expedition never entered Abyssinia at all. The line of march which necessity enforced upon our troops was the lofty irregular mountain chain separating the sandy shores of the Red Sea from the plateaux, plains, and valleys of Abyssinia proper. A barren desolate tract, as different from the lands around as the snow-capped peaks of the Swiss Alps, are the dreary contrast to the rich and fertile reghTs watered by the IEI,I or the Rhone. It was given to the'expedition to see only Abyssinia in its rude, desolate form to admire the noble vista of a glorious Alpine scenery, Ur? unrivalled beauties of a wild savage nature. The Shohos, and the several Galla tribes, though smnewhat unruly, wlre on th it best behaviour from Senaf6 to the Beehelo. Sir William Merewether, the gifted, talented political officer, readily won the confidence of the natives and smoothed all possible difficulties. The high-minded commander-in chief, the people's friend, waged war with none but the arch-traitor Theodore, and was justly beloved and respected by all.; and last, but not least, Maria Theresa Dollas worked marvels. Tigriniaus as well as Gallas rasped eagerly at the prize. An invading army paying its way, instead of plundering alike friends and foes, was an enigma none could solve, but that all gladly accepted ; and although their want of truth, their sensuality, their thieving propensities will ever remain as a by-word in the English army, still on the whole the true character of the Abyssinian in the eyes of those who took a part in the expedition remains for them as hidden as the lands bathed by the Tana Sea, as unfolded as the noble panorama of the rich fertile country eyen a Theodore could not utterly destroy. Dr. Blanc then proceeded to give a graphic description of the country of Abyssinia. The climate of Western Abyssinia is, said he, upon the whole good. In the valley of the lake itself some parts are feverish and unhealthy ; the beat also in the middle of the day is not sufficiently tempered by the cool moun tain breezes ; but some miles from the lake, or a few hun •lred feet above its level, even the plateau of Tchalga, the high plains of Achefar and Agau, with all their many ad vantages, cannot in that respect claim any superiority— all are alike cool, pleasant, and healthy. Western Abyssinia is within the range of the tropical rains, there much earlier, longer, and more important than in Eastern and Northern Abyssinia. The whole, be it valleys, plains, or plateaus, if watered by countless streams ; the soil, the detritus os volcanic rocks, is so rich, of such fertility, and enjoying as it does so many climateric advantages, we could not be 'surprised if three harvests were usually reaped in a year. Western Abyssinia, well might we exclaim, is indeed a land of milk and honey, a land blessed by God, but cursed by man. At the close of the paper Dr. Blanc, at the request of the president, gave a few particulars of his capture, but most of the facts stated have been already published. The rno9t difficult surgical operation.—To take the cheek from a young man and the jaw from an old woman. The Duke of Edinburgh, instead of being in India at the latter end of February next, as at first proposed, will not visit that Empire until the end of October next year, and he will leave there about the end of January following. LORD PALMERSTON.—Sir Henry Bulwer, it is said, is about to write the life of Lord Palmerston ; a task for which he is peculiarly well qualified by his tried literary ability, his great political experience, and his special mastery of so congenial a subject. The composition of the new Ministry (writes the London correspondent of the Dirniingham Post) "is not en tirely satisfactory to the advanced Liberals. Mr. Forster eer tainly expected a seat in the Cabinet. Mr. Villiers was deter mined not to go back to the Poor Law Board, and did not anticipate that Mr. Bruce would be put over his head. Mr. Stansfold's friends know him to be a man of stronger in 'ellectual fibre than Mr. Childers, who might possibly have vecepted the Chancellorship of India from the Tories with out much loss to the Liberal party or benefit to India, and Mr. Gladstone, it was understood, was well disposed to infuse due share of new and decidedly Liberal blood into his Cabinet. But Brooks's Club— that old rendezvous of C. J. Fox, Burke, and the Whigs of four reigns—took the alarm, and told the Premier that if he formed his administration in this spirit there would be a split in the Liberal party." DISCOVERY OF SUBTERRANEAN GALLERIES AT LIVERPOOL.— It is well known that a good many genera tions ago the then Earl of Derby obtained leave from his sovereign to build and fortify a castle at Liverpool. On more occasions than one, well-executed subterranean mean) of communication between the castle and different points 01 the river beach have keen discovered ; none of these, how ever, surpass:n.7 in interest and distinctness one which haf oeen brought to light within the last day it two in the area of the Exchange Buildings. Here a deep excavation h being made for the cellars. In the course of this excava tion, which is all through rock, a well-marked gallery law been opened up. It is cut in the solid rolc, is fully six feet in height by three feet in width, and its crown if about six feet below the surface of the natural ground. It runs almost directly north from the site of the castle, from which the Exchange is distant about 200 yards or more. It has been very carefully excavated, the tool-marks of the excavators being very distinctly left in the rock. In a few d .ys every trace of this portion of the galleries will be oblate: ated, as the rock is to be removed to a further dePthkelow their base, THE GALE. The gales nave: done great destruction within the last few days. Tales of shipwreck reach us from every hand. The one which has attracted the largest amount of atten tion is the Hibernia disaster. Only two boats at first reached land, and it was feared that the third had perished. But it has now reached the South of Ireland. Mr. Davis, the second officer, gives a graphic description of the adventures. "When we left the Hibernia we had in our boat two barrels of biscuit, three casks of water, and several tins of pre served meat. Two hours after leaving the ship we found the boat was so full that we deemed it necessary to throw one of the barrels of biscuit overboard to make room for the passengers. The boat was a life boat twenty-two feet long, with six or seven feet beam. One woman had two children of three and five years respectively, and another an infant of six months old. Our boat was leaking badly when we started, and it required two men constantly baling to keep her afloat. Soon after leaving the Hibernia, we fell astern of the other boats, being only able to pull two oars, owing to our crowded condition. When the first mate's boat was capsized, we attempted to get round to assist them, but, being nearly swamped in doing so, were obliged to attend to our own safety. During that day we pulled before the wind, but at night 'we lay to by means of a floating anchor, and endeavoured to make the boat as trim as possible. We tried to make the women as comfortable as we could by spreading tarpaulin over the forward part of the boat. Nobody asked to get anything to eat the first day, all being too anxious to think of eating. On the following (Thursday) morning we got a higsail set on the boat, and made the best of our way for the Irish coast, before a south-westerly breeze. The following night (Friday) an old man, who had shewn symptoms of derangement, jumped overboard, saying he was going to bed. On the third day the breeze fell very light, and we had to take to the oars. Next morning one of the passengers, supposed to be Francis Rogers, suddenly threw himself overboard. A woman, supposed to be his sister, pleaded hard that some of should throw her into the sea after him, but we endeavoured to soothe her, and suc ceeded. He had quarrelled with us because we nailed the compass to the thwarts. Up to this time provi sions had been given out in moderate quantities, and each person had a daily allowance of a pint of water. We had now to shorten the allowance. Up to the Monday no one had seriously complained of the discomforts, and all were in tolerable spirits. The sea men did all in their power to inspire hope ; and the quar termaster, Blair, spun yarns to keep their spirits up. On the Wednesday the second engineer sang the 100th realm, and many joined with him. On Friday morning we had sailed 450 miles. The tarpaulin sail had given way half a dozen times, and was as often mended, and on the whole the boat had gone very well. This day the infant died. Our situation had become miserable in the extreme. There was nothing to cover the women, as we had used everything for sails. Cramp had seized all of us more or less, and our legs and hands were greatly swelled, and consequently very painful. The fresh water was so scarce that less than a pint had to serve four persons for a day, and provisions were equally scanty. Some of us were raving and violently mad. A woman died as the evening closed in, but the fact was not noticed at the time, and the body was still in the boat when about eleven o'clock a heavy wave struck the boat, and those on board, in their drowsy con dition, falling suddenly in a mass, to the lee side, she went over, and all were left struggling in the water. The boat floated upwards, and Reilly managed to struggle up and seat himself on the keel. He assisted Blair to get up, which the latter did with some difficulty, as a drowning passenger had laid hold of his leg. Reilly then assisted me, and I had also to shake myself clear of some one clinging to my foot. No others got hold of the boat, though several were heard for a time shouting or swearing as they swam about in the darkness. About twelve o'clock a heavy sea struck the boat, and the three of us, who were sitting astride of the keel, were again immersed in the water. Blair was the first to recover his position, and, by his assistance, I and the other man wrought up on the boat. The sail was floating alongside, and we got hold of the ropes attached to the mast, and, watching for a favourable opportunity, managed, by pulling upon the ropes, to get the boat righted. She was, of course, full of water, and we baled her at first with flat pieces of wood, and afterwards with two tin cans which we found attached to the thwarts. At length, by hard labour, we got her clear. By the Sunday evening we were beginning to get down-hearted. We saw a sail—the first we had seen—but she did not observe us, and darkness shortly afterwards closing in, we had no light with which to attract attention. We were downcast at this, but about six o'clock we were suddenly cheered by seeing a light to the eastward, which turned out to be from Tory Island Lighthouse. We made for the light, though it was blow ing strongly from the south-west, with a heavy sea run ning. After some further vicissitudes we ran along the shore for some distance till we saw a likely place in Mulroy Bay, on the west side of Fannet • Point. Having a favourable breeze, we made a race for the shore, and ran the boat up with such force that the receding wave left her stern dry upon the beach. We were able to crawl out of the boat, but it was only then that we began to know how weak we were. Presently we found ourselves in the midst of a crowd cf country people, who had been attracted by the unwonted appearance of our boat as she came up the bay. After coining ashore we found our limbs swollen to such an extent that it was utterly impos sible to move." The Western Morning News gives a good account of the wreck of the Gossamer :—" Midway between the Bill of Portland and the Lizard, a hundred miles or more from either, a promontory which mariners have good cause to dread juts far out into the English Channel. This pro montory has three principal heads—Start Point, Prawle Point, and Bolt Head. It is on the centre of theseheadlands, Prawle Point, and one mile east of the lighthouse, that the disaster occurred. The Gossamer, a China tea clipper ship, of 735 tons register, was built in 1864, by Mr. Stevens, of Glasgow. She was owned by Messrs. Potter and Brown, of Liverpool, and was despatched from London last week as one of Messrs. Holder Brothers and Company's line for Adelaide, Australia, with a general cargo. She left the Downs on Wednesday, in charge of Grant, a London pilot, her master being Mr. Thompson and her surgeon Mr. Dale. She had but one passenger on board. Mr. Dale was to call at Plymouth to embark other passengers under the agency of Messrs. Wilcocks and Weekes, and among them were the Rev. Mr. Jeffries, family, and servants, and Miss King. On Thursday, during a strong S.W. breeze and a heavy sea, the Gossamer was working her way down Channel in the pilot's charge. The captain, who had been but three weeks married, was with his wife below, unsuspicious of danger. The mate was with the pilot on deck, and about noon called Grant's attention to the fact that they were, in his judgment, standing too close in shore to the Start, but the pilot declared they were all right, and continued on the starboard tack. Shortly afterwards the slip got very close under the land, and the pilot gave the order to tack. The flood tide, however, was sweeping round the point, and its strength the pilot had miscalculated. On attempting to tack the ship missed stays ; there was not final) to make a further tack, and in a minute or two the captain, attracted by the shouts, rushed on deck, exclaimiug, 'For heaven's sake where are we ?' his ship being driven by a S.S.W. wind and tide on to the breakers. These occurrences had been watched by the coastguard, who saw the imminent danger of the ship long before the pilot had done so, and who, under the orders of their chief officer, Mr. Pengelly, had got out the rocket apparatus, and conveyed it to the point nearest to the wreck. The crew were so terrified by their position, in momentary danger of being washed over, and unable to see the preparations being made on shore for their rescue, that several of them jumped overboard to swim ashore. Most of these perished in the attempt ; had they remained on board, they would probably have been saved. The captain and his young wife were on deck in an agony of distress ; throwing off most of his clothes, he was about to make the attempt to swim with her to shore, when one of the crew, a powerful black man, and a noted swimmer, begged to be allowed to take the lady—she was the only lady' on board---on his back. The captain, however, thinking probably that the additional warmth of his affection would compensate for the want of power in his arm, declined, and the gallant negro, believing that the vessel would probably be shivered into fragments, plunged into t' e sea, and swam ashore with ease. A moment after a tremendous sea tore the wife from her husband's grasp, and washed her over ; the captain instantly jumped after her, but the back tow of the wave swept him and his wife seawards, and they were both drowned within a few yards of each other. Meanwhile the rocket apparetus was got to workby the coastguard, and so effectually, that all those remaining on beard were saved before the vessel broke up. Mr. Popple stone, the recipient of the Albert medal, was exceedingly active in this good work. The vessel has since been totally destroyed. She carried thirty as a crew. Of these se vent<en only have been saved. There is, therefore, a loss of thirteen lives." THE REFORM LEAGUE.—Mr. Joseph Gueciall. has resigned his place on the executive council of the Reform League. In a letter addressed to Mr. Beaks, and read at the last meeting of the council, Mr. Guedalla espe cially urges those who will in future direct the policy of the League to adopt a tone not more of firmness than of moderation and conciliation, and so strengthen the bands of Mr. Gladstone's Administration. Mr. Beales referred in high terms to Mr. Guedalla's past conduct ; and a resolu tion conveying to him the cordial thanks of the council for his able and disinterested service, was unanimously Ooptgclt Tran t adv. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 14. To-day being the anniversary of the death of the lamented Prince Consort, the Queen, accompanied by the Royal Family, went to the. mausoleum at Frogmore (which is now completed) this morning, where her Majesty remained for some time. 7HE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. (THIS DAY.) The sixteenth annual meeting of the shareholders took place this day at the offices, in Norfolk-street, Strand -• Viscount Rauelagh in the chair. Mr. GRUNEISEN (the secretary) havidg read the adver tisement convening the meeting, the annual report of the Executive Committee was read as follows : Iu compliauca with the certified rules, the Executiv e Committee have the pleasing duty of submitting their general statement to the shareholders of the funds an d effects of the Conservative Benefit Building gether with an account of the money received and 0- pended, duly vouched by the Auditors, since the publica tion of last year's balance-sheet. Society, to" The subjoined returns give the total cash receipts for the respective quarters of. 1867-8 to the close of the &lan" cial year on the 30th of September last:— Qrs. ending Shares in Shares Total ReceiptS. -- progress. Complete. Shares. Dec. 25,1867 6109 8 179 789 £54,268, March 25, 1863 39i 175 570 50,948 13 7, June 24, 1863 1.22 83 905 49,697 6 .., Sept. 30, 1868 413 89 507 33,428 10 . ..—............... 2,245 526 2,771 188,342 19 6 Totals to Ml chaclmas, 1867. . 22,386 5,397 27,783 1,100,60 0 7 9 Grand totals to Michaelmas, 136 24,631 5,923 30,551 1,288,946 7 3 The total withd society(lBs2) The total sale of uwals sinc to Michael; land for 33 the formation of the alas, 1868, are... £328,984 19 6 the same period is ... 583,650 15 1 The reserve fund to Michaelmas, 1868, is... 15,089 13 2 The last share number issued to Septembor 30, 1868, Wa g No. 30,554. As regards the general business of the past year the Executive Committee can refer with great satisfaction to . the annexed tabular statement, showing the increase 111 various sources of income : NATUnE OF ACCOUNT. 1867. 18C8. 1NC'53.1.86 ------- - 1.. £ s. d. £ s. d. Subscriptions Deposits Advances for Build-t 5 11,991 4 4 41,674 9 4 23,680 Adv g ances to Allottees 48,161 0 2 45,917' 6 4 6,76 6 6 Repayments of Ad- in 5 vances for Build- 9,687 2 6 3',122 13 2 21,:3 5 "" ing, &c. Repayments of Ad-1. 5 32.411 8 9 39,790 18 2 7,37 9 - vances forAllotteesno 9 / Interest on Advances 6,438 4 8 7,247 13 11 8-- 1,0 Sale of Land 2 8 41,993 0 9 48,625 15 7 6,6 1 Totals 207,870 8 1 289,194 17 4 81,82 4 _ .. ....... 9 8 The four auditors appointed at the quarterly meeting the 6th of October last, namely, Mr. Clemow and Mr. 0 08 1 elected by the shareholders , and Mr. Thomas Russel het Mr. Newnham Winstanley, nominated by the Board , W' on the 29th of October and subsequent days and ver ified the vouchers, books, andsecurities, and signed the ba lace " sheet. After leaving the reserve fund at £15,089 13s. 2d ; (of which sum, the office premises and furniture acc eun. stand at £3,089 13s. 2d.), the executive committee a re ,W abled to provide for the interest of 5 per cent. per sil ; num on shares (completed or paid a year in adviar and for the interest of four per cent. per annum in ' Ac3- posit department. The committee are also enabled r° add to the accounts of members holding uncompleted irt; vested shares, not in arrear (in respect of which no int eres ; has been paid), a bonus equival en t to six per cent. Pe" annum ; and on shares paid a year in advance and 11 P wards, a bonus of one per cent. will be added to the D r counts in the pass-book. As regards the additional lute; rest of one per cent., to which the holders of comP lete f shares will be entitled by the present declaration 0 bonus, the amount will be included in the half-YO rli ci Lady-day interest warrants, issued and payable on ° ha after the Ist of May next. Thus, every payment On tot shares on the Register at the present annual meeting, e°r being in arrear, will realise six per cent. per annum f o s, the financial year ending the 30th of September, 186 a Tho rate of interest on shares (completed) will shares in progress (paid a year in advance) remain for the present at five per cent. per annuilli. The half-yearl7 warrants up to Lady-day and k1ic13 36 ' . : mass will be is3uol at the customary periods, namely, the Ist of May and the Ist of November. The rate of inter es for the Deposit Department, that is, for investors wil°, ll ,l not members of the society, will remain unchanged e four per cant. per annum, payable half-yearly, at the 55.- i period as the interest warrants on shares. The otdieeira quarterly meetings were duly held on the 7th of Ap ril, 7th of July, and the 6th of October. The following o le ; hers of the executive committee retire by rotation , /if Gall, ; .v, The HOB. and Rev. W. Talbot, H. W. Currie, Esle Newcomen, Esq., J. Goodson, Esq., and IL 13 °" 11 , 3 . Esq., and being eligible, offer themselves for re-electioot The Executive Committee have to regret the retir ellie 4 yes from the Board of the Earl of Shrewsbury (so wall tin t a member of the Executive Committee as theY ise ° - 03 , Ingestre). His lordship since his accession to the e arl : i being unable to attend the weekly meetings, rcsig neu „se office, but preserving his interest in the society re estates member of the general committee. The following eiev.tso have been allottgd since the last annual report : -1 • 14 10- London, Finchley, 2d portion 26th March, 1868. 2 ",,01 with, Suffolk (East), 2d portion 26th March. 3 . S'inc;ith Estate, Isle of Wight, 2d portion 26th March. 4 . London, Clapham Junction, East Surrey, No. 1, 29th AP ) ,, 5. South London, Clapham Junction, East Surrey, ." tion 24th June. 6. Holloway (Upper), Middlesex, 2361 7. Reigate, Red Hill, Surrey (East), 13th AuP st ' se pt. Northampton (Kingsthorpe), Northamptonshire, Ba At the annual meeting last December the me mbers ms s' -sent passed a resolution fully "approving of the f o i , r t he tion of a Land Company (Limited), to co-3perata Wit'!" Conservatie Laud Society, thereby inaugurating 5 ito a system of Combined action, whereby the operations il l g o may be considerably extended, and thus prove Int itu oc i beneficial." The executive committee therefor e iseli er circular to the shareholders, accompanied with the, the posed prospectus to be issued by the directors e`f United Land Company (Limited), enclosing for ms t hat plication for shares, thereby carrying out the pleci e „, be the members of the society should in the first instal:nue offered the shares of the new company. Such Wag the readiness displayed by the shareholders to invest '-ajor new company that the latter was duly incorporated ucioso the Companies' Acts of 1862 and 1 4 167, and since the bet, of the society's financial year, on the 30th of SeP te ! the the land business has been exclusively carried on 100, United Land Company (Limited). The Executiv e jai' mittee have to congratulate the shareholders o n the I'ol tional element of security which this co-operat ion 14 afford. As the parent society increased Ye arli p,ec t prosperity by extending its purchases of 01 . into various counties, the applications for builditigt tb vances on these properties became so numerous t iu ; o t9' o loan business itself sufficed to employ much of the 81/e'oete finances. It became evident that, to carry on Ot ten The land transactions, a fixed capital was necessalP combined principle of action whereby the comp boil 0110 bo tlk in the land, and the society developes the estates bl u 0 6 1 ing advances, is now working successfully. M a °lets Building Society, under the certified rules, the ro la makes advances on freehold, leasehold, and other aPP itis cs+' security, and at the same time will supply its. 0 1 14 te; pital to the United Land Company (Limite d) yatia quirsd. Owing to the combination'avith the Unit e in s 4 Company (Limited) the board has much pleasc r : rot eg e nouncing that from the 30 th September the qua er sei fees have been reduced to one shilling per shar e Poes o num, as a contribution towards the working esP e t be e t ' the society. The Conservative Land Society b as „ or' tributes of a savings bank and investment institute ° - 13 00 large scale, as well as a building advance associsti°o' 0 0e profits being dependent chiefly on the differenc e d t h e the interest paid to shareholders and depositors,,S,lloit't interest charged to borrowers. The Executive 'roof' tee congratulate their fellow shareholders on ti ' shed °4 position and future prospects of the society, estabiLi v tiV the institution is on thoroughly sound coranie rci6 t ie 0 1 : ciples, and they trust, by eco nom i c al and energ ' e 4 nagement, to insure the conti nuan ce of the suc ce b s ;pre ll has attended the Conser va ti ve L a nd Society fo r t— ons 16 years. (Signed) RANELAGH, Cbarillall• Ee ° ' (Countersigned) CHARLES LEWIS GRo-EISZ' Offices of the Conservative Land Society, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C., London, Dec. 16, IE6B. THE WESTERN FISHERIES.—The catches c 'l io ri" OW kinds of fish on the Devon and Cornish Coast, Dog; the past week have again been large. Ab tl'to 0 /3 ' ad°dili‘ion t o hi ; l as heads of pilchards were secured,' good loads of herrings , and thereis-reinfair takes of ~` l s ; ot t t a plaice, and sprats. A:large portion of the fish vr tl " London. Tb ° TH TI N TRADE.--TRHRO, blondal.'' y,' „,,,,, scP smelters have to-day followed up their last -,-'—foiet b advance in the standards of tin ore and place o ' d ot b ' ti y announcing a further rise of 2 5., making the P I O t° tons thus :—Ores, common, 97 s to 98s; fine, 1 . 0 loi o til / s. ; metal, common, 1 0 7 s; refine d, 111 - S h3r i e : l t f° , l mines have been in great request during the "":, co/ days, and the present advance will be sure to noi l— . siderably increased activity to the market. ' i k t ei isi.