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In Campigna ntunerou , houses s eraoked, Inc , ndinif that of ti,o sup-rintendent. ... li/FONT BLANC IS OPEN I'O NlGlii', TJCKNOW and DELHI.—GREAT GLOBE, A.Ar Leicester-square.—DlOß k NIA of LUCKNOW and the SIEGE and CITY of DELHI ; its Streets, Palaces, and Fortifications —at 1,3, and 7 p.m. INDIA, A DIORANI k. of the CITIES of, with Views of Calcutta, Benares, Agra, and the Scenes of the Revolt, at 12 noon and 6 p,m. The RUSSIAN DIORAMA at 3 and 8 o'cloclt. Illustrative Lectures. Admis , ion to the whole building, Is. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1857. • CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, POLYGRAPHIC HALL, King-William-street, Strand. THE ONE lIUNDRED AND FORTY-SF.-rENTII ENTER TAINMENT. . . (N 20,440.) p ; I . l cv: 4‘,3. STAMPED 5) Iu tho Basilicata a'. Polenza tile di asters have been extensive. Numerous buildings Lava b -en thrown down, burying unknow. , nnnil,ers beneath their ruins. A br,:.k-n televiph:c despatch frl.m Bari and Cam. o Bas-o his exc4 , d alarm, as it would anpear to signify tha , :11 the inha , AaAs obe of these plae,:s hive bee de troy-d. ' surd and of no value. The most eminent accoun tant in the world would be laughed at if ho ass.rt-d that two and two made five, yet Liet.ig's theory, though less ridiculous, is equally wrong. But thousands will believe it, without irquiry, n tE , e mere wrength o. his repu!ati ,, n, though that can no more alter natural laws than t i . acconWary's s' ill can change the powe-s of fi2ur-s. Some of our readers, howevur, inas coo•Lnd. th Niel' in this pr rtietriar el .v he wrong, still emin,,n in scianc, th .t, like many scie! tific men, his opinion is itafav,,urahl, to Vie avAlaVity of tilect,•e-niae,neti.,m a, a motive pow,:r i i m-chanics. This is unfortaru.tely true, though the same arguTent naigh. have beitir rirgQo will equal force agaicat i - he irttrodwtion of ~team, f 2a, end of almost all other great modeu. iin- I.• r ogemeas. As we have sail, scientific men are eminently conservative—tliey wish sci,noe to ad vuree, hut only in the path which they themselv,s have chosen. So much, howevoe, for the reasons for and avainst the plan. We do not say Vat as yet an electro-mo+ive power has really heen made available, but much has been done towards attain ing that great end, and we believe that the rest may be achieved. We do not pin our faith on one invention more than any other, and only dwell on Mr. Allan's as being furthest advance' iu the path towards suc cess. By his application of elect ro-magnetism he haa - cOrtainly male it a motive power valuable in mechanics. It only remains for him to obtain his electricity cheaply, though to do this we believe he must resort to other means than those hitherto em ployed—to means which every man of science, in speaking or writing on the subject, has gone round and round about without ever happening on what was really wanted. With the French we are in clined to the belief tkat such a power is attainable, and will ere long, too, be attained. The new born science, though still but little known, is gain ing on us fast, and advancing with giant strides • into the business of every-day life. It is but a few years since Sir Humphry Davy employed a thou sand pair of zinc and copper plates to do the work which would now be better done with 12 of the same agents in a modern battery. What, then, may we not hope and expect from a series of scien tific researches into the as yet undeveloped secrets ] of this marvellous element I—Times. Beyenth week of the JULLIEIs7 BURLESQUE, received nightly With shouts of laughter. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre. Is.; Private Boxes, U. Is Seats can be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Hail. On Thursday and Saturday, a Morning Entertainment, commencing at 3. PUBLICATIO S. A GANG OF SWINDLERS.-CAUTION TO MERCHANTS AND OTHERS. IA PAL AND MIL [TAR Y INTELLIGENCE. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF JOHN HALIFAX. " Now ready, in 1 vol. crown Bvo., 10s. 6d., bound. A WOMAN'S THOUGHTS ABOUT WOMEN. By the Author of " John Halifax, Gentleman." Hurst and Blackett, publishers, 13, Great 3farlbornugh-street. On Thursday Mr. Yardley was engaged for several hours, at the Thames P..lice.court, in the investigation of a charge of fraud. The person accused is Henry Devall, a burly-loof , ing fellow, about 40 years of age, formerly a cabdriver, afterwards a waiter, next a thief, and, lastly, a swindler on a very large scale. He was charged with conspiring with George Bristow, a prisoner for debt in Whitecross-street prison, and others, in ob. taining goods under false pretences from merchants and manufacturers in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Dudley, Wolverhampton, Stourbridge, and other places Mr. Metcalfe, barrister, instructed by Mr. J. Smith, solicitor, of Albion-Square, Stepney, conducted the pro secution ; Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, defended the prisoner. The steamship Australasian, Capt. Sceales, sailed from Plymouth Sound yesterday morning, for Madras. She has in all 23 officers, 465 rank and file, one woman, and three children. The baggage of the 69th Regiment, 25 tons, was embarked at Plymouth, under charge of Li- ut. Gildea, with 30 men, of whom 12 returned to barrack; there not being sufficient accommodation for them on board. The 69 , h went to India via Suez. The Australian isappointeodod Hope.tocal l at T S h t e . ,V(oinson being ci,nt's and at the Cape of G unpropi tious, she will not touch at the Mauritius unless absolutely necessary. Lieut -Col. Kirkland, who had been authorised to embody 1,000 men as the second battalion of the sth Foot, has succeeded in raising upwards of 800 recruits, and it is expected that the battalion will be complete in a short time, volunteers coming in briskly on account of the extra bounty paid on at testation. • PROFESSOR WILJALBA FRIKELL. sT. JAMES'S VIE ATRE.—PIITSICAL and NATURAL MAGIC.—TWO HOURS OF ILLUSIONS.—Saturday Afternoons at 3, and .Every Evening at 8. Stalls, 55.; Tlalcony Stalls, 45.: Boxes, 35.; Pit, 25.; Gallery, ls. ; Private Boxes, two guineas one guinea and a-half, and one guinea. —Places to be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. TIIE 1V P 4' K AT B iTTERod,A. We .are about t 3 ta , a our ;...ad:/,:s La..l i,ao ..hose INTERESTING CHRISTMAS PRESENT. Now ready, in 1 vol., 10s. Gd. bound, j. R. TUPPER'S NEW WORK. -.I _it " RIDEA AND REVERIES OF 'ESOP SMITH." By MARTIN FARQUHAR TOPPER. "Mr. Tupper's new work will do good service to his 1 terary repu tation. It combines with lucidity and acuteness of judgment, fresh ness of fancy and elegance of sentiment." —MorningiPost. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. eiuote l'e7i,ds of our history w.:::11 ::-':" . t . hke '"e'' first pr0p03.,. d to beautify ti)v 1 hr ,, ,nti ~ a - Bat"' '.e i: --t-3 cross , t 7 , 161 a now bri , lg.,, and adorn •t• ba , :ks 7 - ith b. now paik. Of •s:-... tw.:',. schc, , ,uo:., tha - . for file Lrina'..;oii of a pok iB, li_-yowl al doubt, the oHei.t,—in far.t, its cairns iipou our notice p.es up , n ul 7ith th-, f , r..ie ,- , ,f ai)e4:‘,n-. tr' dy cl ic it e .)i' . 3 . % 1 i l e 'll f,' f3 reie t rel ic sa C toe mouth :r°'-".b‘.il of a : ilciiv.es °int- d Nft ~o rso, and to wi!li a gift ;writ we pr,stv,)e it w ou id b e • quaky uugr,cious ti ins; , ect its .fiat .s, or in_ ADELAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade, Strand. —Great success of 1,1. Lamotte's Havelock Schottische. and Grand Fantasia from " I 1 Trovatore," an. the C-dedonian Quadrille by Charles Hill. Principal cornet-a-piston, M. Boulez , rt. Open every evening at half-past 8. Dancing commences at 9. The Lrgyll Band is to be engaged for private Balls. R. R. Pit:mm.l g Ma nager.. DR. KAHN'S MUSEIJM ANL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, 3, Tichborne -street, facing the Haymarket. '.Chia Institution presents entirely new fiatnres and offers unpre cedented attr.ctions. Its object will be .o combine Natural with EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE, and to show the connectiim be tween the functions of the Human Body and the great Forces of the Universe. Amongst the numerous novelties now added, may be named the lame Oxyhydrogen Microscope. GUENAL'S AP PAREIL URANOGRAPHIQITE (now first introduced). The latest improvements in Electric and other Apparatus (iacIading•RPHM KORFF'S WORLD-RENOWNED COIL), Illustrations of Micro scopic Anatomy, Dissolving Views of Physiological Phenomena, upon a principle never before attempted, &c. Lectures are delivered daily oa the various branches of Science, and their application to the Human Frame, the Laws of Life, and the Preservation of Health, by Dr. Kahn and Dr. Sexton. The Institution is illuminated outside with DU BOSQUE'S MAGNIFICENT ELECTRIC LIGHT. Open (for Gentlemen only) from 12 till 5, and from 7 till 10 o'clock. Admission to the whole Building, One Shilling. Illustrated Cata logues, Sixpence. Programmes and Lectures gratis on application, or by post free for six stamps. 1858 —LETTS'S LARGE PRINT SHEET • ALMANAUK. price 6 pence, for aged or near sighted persons, also LETTS'S DIARIES in above 100 varieties, from fi pence to 14 shillings each. Cellar Books, Game Books, Stable Books, etc. Sold by all Booksellers. Catalogues gratis. _ _ . It may be necessary to state that on Wednesday an application was made to Mr. Selfe, one of the magistrates of this court, by Mr. Joseph Smith, for a warrant to apprehend Geo. Bristow, one of the gang of swindlers, now in custody of the Sheriff of Middlesex, on a charge of obtaining a set of new harness, value 121., from Mr. T. Orme, harness n.aker, 7, Sing's-place, Commercial road. The harness was obtained by a false representa tion, and Mr. Salle immediately granted the warrant, on which it is intended to found an application to a judge for a writ of habeas corpus. The application will be made this day. Bristow had petitioned the Insolvent Debtors' Court fcr relief, and when he appeared before Mr. Com missioner Phillips that learned gentleman said the insol vent ought to be sent to Newgate, tali that he should remand him to the prison from whence he came until he could produce Devall, by whom it was pretended the whole of the insolvent's goods and fixtures in the Crown Coffee-house, Duke-street, London-bridge, had been seized under a bill of sale. The capture of Devall, who was missing from his usual haunts for several weeks, was cleverly effected by Sheridan, a police-constable, in Little Albany-street, Regent's-park, where the prisoner had been cohabiting with the wife of a burglar under the assumed name of Jones. Devall was always con sidered by the metropolitan police as the most clever but dangerous thief at the west end of London, where he practised his vocation, and several experi ence d officers are firmly convinced that he stole the Royal nursery plate and other property, on its way from Buckingham Palace to the Great Western Railway, but they could never trace the property, and although many detective officers were constantly on the prisoner's track, they could not bring the offence home to him. It appeared that a few months s i n ce Devall and Bris- Letts, eon, & Co., stationers and mapsellers, 8 Royal Exchange. H.M. steamer Sharpshooter has gone out of har bour to Spithead, preparatory to sailing for the coast of Africa. Published on - the first of every month, price 3s. 6d. x COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE and N %VAL and MILITARY JOURNAL., This popular periodical, which has now been established more than a quarter of a century, embraces subjects of gush. tatter-the variety anti powerful Interebt 5S mast render it scarcely less acceptable to readers in general than to the members of those professions for whose use it is more particularly intended. Independently ea suc cession of Original Papers on innumerable interesting subjects, Per s^nal Narratives, Historical Incidents, Correspondence, etc., each number comprises Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Officers of all branches of service, Reviews of New Publications. either imme diately relating to the Army or Navy, or involving subjects °futility or interest to the members of either, full Reports of Trials by Court. Martial, Distribution of the Army and Navy, Genet*/ 1 Orders, Cir_ cu. ars, Promotions, Appointments, Births, Marriages, ObiLuary, etc., with all the N val and Military Intelligencaof the month. Burst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street. OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA, also CIVILIANS, can effect ASSURANCES on their LIVES with the COLONIAL LIFel ASSURANCE COMPANY on the usuar. 'TERMS, the Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE TOUR BATES at this time. Premiums can be paid to the Company's Agents at Calcutta, Ma dras, or Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East. The Directors also advance Loans on good security for temporary Periods. The Colonial have Agencies in every British Colony, where Pre- I nIUDZI are received, and claims settled. WILL. TIIO. THO M SON, Actuary. SAMUEL R. FEIIGUSS)N, Resident Secretary In London. Those who may desire to commence taking " The Hnited Service Magazine" with the new year, are requested to send their orders immediately to their booksellers. LONDON ..... ................. SI, Lombard-street (E.C.) EDINBURGH (Head-office) .... 5, George-street. DUBLIN GLASGOW• ...... ........ ..... is, St. Vincent-street. ESTABLISHED 1841 AI EDICAL, INVALID, AND GENERAL LIFE OFFICE, 25, Pall-mall, London. - - - • Empowered by special Act of Parliament. Ey the Annual Report of 1853, it aopeared that the number of l'olicies then in force was 3,434, insuring 1,337,5001., and yielding an Income of 55,207/. - - - - - -- • A the Sl;teenth Annual Meeting, he 1857, t it was shownfthat on the 30th Jane ld laston the 26th November The number of Policies in force was The amount insured was .... 2,917,5981. 13s. 10d. The-annual Income was.. • ------- Two Bonuses have been declared (in 1848 and 1853), adding nearly I per cent, per annum on the average to sums assured, and by which • Policy of 1,0001. issued in 1842 on a healthy life is now increased to 1,2601. Profits divided every five years—next division in 1858. The Society, since its establishment, has paid claims on 781 Policies, assuring 312,884/. Assurances are effected at home or abroad on healthy lives, at as Moderate rates as the most recent data will allow, Indian Assurances at very moderate rates, and great facilities then to assurers. Invalid lives assured on scientifically constructed tables. Policies issued free of Stamp duty, and every charge but the Pre *dm. _ . Active working Agents wanted for vacant places. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposals, and every other inforriallen, a►ay be obtained of the Secretary at the Chief Office, or on applica tion to any of the Society's Agents in the country. C. DOUGLAS SINGER, Secretary. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION, (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL. Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor. George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir John William Lubbock, Bart.. Deputy-Governor. Dia=Toss., Charles John Manning, Esq. Hon. John T. Leslie Melville. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart. Alexander P. Prevost, Esq. Abraham George Roberts, Esq Charles Robinson. Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. MEDICAL RiFEßßE—Samuel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. 111 ,_enry B ainbrid S. P. e Esq. cdrnond C a l vert, Esq. John Garrett Cattley, Esq. Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. _Charles Farquharson, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pr - !lima falling due at Chri.ttras will expire on 9th January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor poration ou advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation 11 1 profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly !Per cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 45 per cent. upon the Premiums paid. , Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by those persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The future division of Profit will take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding 15,0001. may be insured on one life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal Participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Socie ties—with the guarantee of a large invc-sted Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a Century and a-half. Royal Exchange, London. JOHN A. HIGH IM, Actuary and Secretary. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSUR 4.NC E SOCIETY, 142, Strand, London. Zb2 POwered by Act of Parliament. for LIFE ASSURANCE, SUR VIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. ntancioas. „„. EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES , M.D Chairman. Kenworthy Browne, Esq. Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Samuel King-Church, Esq. John Moss, Esq. John Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., John Symes, Esq. F.R.S. Joseph Thompson, Esq. SECRETARY TO THE BOARD. Alexander, Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Bloßdel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford Yang• MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab , F R.S., 37,4onduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., kc. ASSISTANT ACTIIARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. feasrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford-row. The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in " 44 % 1860. _ _ Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : poli c y Bonus in Perm anent a ddition Bonus in Re uction 01 taken A . ,. Sum Cash. Annual Pre• out i n "" Assured. to Su n Assured. mium. 181. .£ s. ( 1 . X B . l• --- 55 3,000 867 17 7 42 .1 4 5 6 3 8 1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 I 32 0 4 1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 o'l6 6 0 11848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 S 10 15 2 851 55 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 67 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the Inter national Life Assurance Society : The Society Was established in ISI. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assared every eve Years. Its subscribed capital is five hundred thousand po unds. Its investments, at the date of the last annual rep ort, amounted to one hundred and seventy-one thousand pounds. Its annual income is ninety thousand pounds. The number of policies now in force exceed six thousand. About one thousand new policies are added every year. Since its commencement the Society has paid in claims upwards of three hundred and twenty thousand pounds. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chair - plan, 142, Strand. 142, Strand, London, W.C. EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman. Ir)U BARRY'S CELEBRATED INFANTS' FOOD, for DELIC ATE INFANTS, CHILDREN, and IN VALIDS. Supersedes the expense and dangers of wet-nursing, is more easily digested, and imparts more healthful nourishment than lit ilk ; acidity, cramps, bowel complaints, flatulency, cough, restless ness, scrofhla, eruptions, are avoided by it, and perfect regularity of the system and sound sleep insured. Many respectable families who have reared and saved delicate Infants by this Food can be referred to, and a copy of their Testimoaials may be had free on for warding a stamped and addressed envelope to Barry Da Barry and Co., 17, Regeut-street, London Prices: —ln Canisters, ts. ; 25.; and 121 b. at 21s. The large Canister will be forwarded free of carriage on receipt of Post Office Order. ON PHYSICAL DESQI7ALIFIGATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. l'ew and improved Edition, enlarged to 195 pages, illustrated by 100 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel, just published, price, free by post, is., ri, HE SILE NT FRIEND: A Medical Work 61 on the physical exhaustion an d dec a y effects of solitary indulgence, infec tion, or o th e e in fr jrrlL ft s o e m o ntshe the certain disquallfica quences from the use of Mercury ; with observations on he obliga elVarsviek-11a.1"6e,'Leaden- lions of marriage, and directions for obvi a ting Ans. 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Its action is purely detersive, and its beneficial influence on the system is undeniable. Price I Is. and 335. per bottle, also a saving Of Its. PERRY'S PETRIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS constitute an effec teal remedy in either sex fur all cases of gonorrhoea, glect, stricture , and diseases of the urinary organs. Price 2 s. 9 d. , 4 s. 6 d ,anill s: Der box. Sold by Daniel Church, 7R, Oricechurch-street, City ; Bartlett 1 10oper, 43, King William-street (four doors from London Bridge) ; C.• F. Watts, 17, Strand ; W. Sutton and Co., 10. Bow-churchyard; W. Edwards, 67, 6t. Paul's -churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford- Street; 11 annay and Dietrichsen, 63, Oxford-street ; Butler and }larding, 4, Chetwide ; Prout and Ilarsant, 229, Strand ; and all Medicine vendors throughout the United Kiagdom. Now publishing, price two shillings, bound in cloth, FEIST'S RACING RECORD. Edited by ALBERT FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. +ln addition to other useful information, it will contain a complete Record of the Racing and steeplechase Season in England, Ireland, and Scotland trom the Ist of January up to the day of publication, Dersy Lots for 1855, and Nominations for all the Principal Races for next year ; forming one of the most copious works of reference ever published. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood's Rents, 1101 born, London. THE RHINE AND GERMANY.—The it Shortest and Cheapest Route, via Rotterdam, to the Rhine and Germany, is by THE I►UTCH RHENISH RAILWAY. Through Trains, in conjunction with those of the Cologne-Minden Company, start three times a day. Fifty pounds of Luggage allowed free for each passenger. Further particulars forwarded, post free, on application to the Company's London Agent, Mr. Jour; C. Jemmy, 61, Gracechurch treet. DRESS AND FROCK COATS of Superfine Black Cloth, V. 15s Od. to Three Guineas. Black Dress Trowsers, 11. ss. Od. A choice Selection in Dress Walstcoatings. Excellenc t with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, Fashionable railer, 57, Lombard-street. CONTRACT FOR SUET. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling, Somerset House, 23d December, 1857. THE Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain And Ireland do Hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY the 4th January next, at half-past One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford the undermentioned article, viz.:— SUET In Fifteen equal weekly deliveries, the first of such deliveries to be made by the 16th January, 1858. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Suet. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Ten ders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part hereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or 6f net contracting for any. No tender will be received unless made on the printed form pro vided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application at the said Office, or to Commander Bevis, conducting the Packet Service at Liverpool, or to the Collector of Customs at Bristol. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is called, may be eeen at the said office, aid at Liverpool and Bristol. No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should att end at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communic , ited to him and his proposed sureties in writing. 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Barry Du Be Co., rry pur and Co., 77, regent-Areet, London; F ortnum, on and veyors to her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Gracechurch , street ; 330,430, and 451, Strand ; 4, Cheap Side ; 149, Ilishopsgate street ; and 150 and 158 Oxford-street . tow hired Union- wharf, Narrow-street, Ratcliff, for no other purpose than swindling on a large scale, and Bristow's son, who was in custody a few weeks since and discharged, was engaged as clerk. There was another clerk, called Joe, whose real name is not known, about the age of 28 years, of great business talent, good and lively address, and an excellent letter-writer. Ile was always on the premises in Ratcliff, and was the means of communicating and corresponding between the swind lers and their victims. The gang had no sooner ob tained possession of Union-wharf than they gave large orders for goods to merchants and manufacturers. Devall was represented by Joe to be a respectable mer chant and shipowner, and a large shipper of goods to Australia. The firm commenced by giving an order for 9001. worth of water-closets, which they represented were to be exported to Sydney, and this order wou'd have been executed but for the activity of Sheridan, the constable employed in the case, who stopped the geode on their way to the wharf atter 50/. worth of water closets had been delivered at the wharf, and sold for much less than the cost price. Mr. Robert Moseley, of Fetter-lane, Fleet -street, agent to Mr. W. Simpson, a Birmingham manufacturer, supplied Devall and Co. with fenders to the amount of 541, on a representation that they were to be shipped for Sydney in the prisoner's own ship. The olerk Joe referred Mr. Moseley to the house of Messrs. M'Kinnell and Co., late Alfred Gibson and Co., and how that firm was imposed upon did not appear in the investigation. Mr. Small, of Lawrence Pountney-hill, agent to Messrs. Paul, Moore, and Co., of Birmingham, supplied wire to the prisoner's order, and it was forwarded to the wharf. Mr. Nurthen, of No. 14, Vauxhall-walk, stone potter, and Mr. Michael Brown, of No. 1, Park-place, East-street, Walwortb, were favoured with orders from the gang, the tormer for hard goods, and the latter for a horse worth 271. Brown is a poor man, and the manner in which he was swindled bj the gang excited much sympathy. Joe always represeni,ed that his principal (Devall) was on his eastern and north-eastern journey, when any of the gen• tlemen defrauded called at the wharf, and a letter was once written in London and despatched to Sudbury, in Suffolk, where it was posted, to givA colour to the re presentation that Devall was on his commercial travels. The letter was read, and handed to Mr. Yardley. It was to the following effect, and addressed to Messrs. Paul, Moore, and Co., Birmingham : "Sudbury, Oct. 23, 1857. " Gen tlemen,—Your immediate attention to the annexed order will oblige. I have not Mr. Small's address with me, and, with a view to time, have forwarded order direct to you, of which I have by this post advised my clerk. I will remit your cheque, or pay Mr. Small, if he will be good enough to call upon me on my return, for your little account to Michaelmas.—l am, gentlemen, yours respect• fully, "HENRY DEVALL, of Union-wharf, Narrow-street, London." The above letter was written by Joe, and it had the desired effect—a second parcel of brass and iron ware was sent to the wharf and immediately sold at 2i per cent, below the invoiced price. It happened that 200 tons of railway iron bad been left on the wharf by a former occupier. The gang turned this to good account, and Joe always represented that the iron was to be shipped to Australia in Devall's own ship, which he was freighting. James Richard Taylor said be was in the employ of the prisoner for three weeks at Union-wharf, and gave an account of the modus operandi of the gang. He was hired by Devall and Bristow to sell goods for them. He remembered crates of fenders, water-closets, bricks, wire, and other goods coming to the wharf, and he sold some of them by the prisoner's orders for less than the price they were to give for them. Devall never went out of town upon an eastern or north-eastern journey ; but he was in the practice of coming to the wharf every morn ing looking about, consulting with Bristow, and then making a journey to the nearest public-house, where he spent the day. He had often told the prisoner and Bristow that he could sell the goods with which they were supplied at a profit, but both Devall and Bristow said the things must be sold at once for half price or any price, as they must get a capital. The goods were removed from the wharf as fast as they came in carts. Mr. Lewis, jun.—To be shipped ? Mr. Metcalfe—Perhaps Mr. Lewis will oblige me with the name of the ship. In cross-examination, Taylor said he had been tried and acquitted on a charge of embezzlement. His em ployer owed him some money, and he paid himself out of moneys he received from customers, Bristow kept a coffee-shop in Duke-street, London-bridge, and Devall acted as waiter there. Bristow paid for the carriage of bricks from S.:ourbridge. Mr. Yardley —Had the prisoner a ship of his own ? Witness—No, sir, be had not. Mr. Metcalfe—He did not, sir. Joseph Grant, a police-constable, No. 104 M, said -- I knew Bristow as keeping the Crown Coffee-shop, near London-bridge, on the Surrey side, and I have seen Devall acting there as waiter, with a white apron. John Dapter, 346 A, said—l have known the pri soner 7or 8 years. I knew him to be a cabdriver, and in consequence of strong suspicion that he had been concerned in two burglaries he lost his license. I was not able to catch him, or I should have arrested him for the burglaries. A policeman named Neale raid—l always considered the prisoner to be the most dangerous thief in Lon Jon. I bare seen him repeatedly in Oxford-street and Re gent-street with thieves and returned convicts. He was detected in attempting to commit a burglary in War wick-street, Golden-square. William Parsonage, police-constable, 73 0, said— The prisoner Devall has been the associate of the worst of thieves for four or five years. Devall—l will get an honest living, but you won't let me do it. Mr. Lewis, jun.—Will you bold your tongue! Witness—l took him into custody for attempting to commit a burglary, and he was committed from the Marlborough -street Police-court as a rogue and a vagabond for six weeks, and kept to hard labour. I know him up to 12 months ago to be a thief, and the associate of the worst of characters. Mr. Metcalfe--That is all the evidence I can offer to-day. I intend to introduce others of the gang be fore you another time. Mr. Yardley—There is quite enough to justify a remand. Mr. Lewis, jun —Will you take bail / Mr. Yardley—Yes, I will take bail, the prisoner in 2001. and two sureties of 1001. each. I must have good bail. Mr. Joseph Smitb—And notice of bail to be given ? Mr. Yardley—Certainly. I hope the details of this case will make manufacturers, agents, and merchants more cautious in future. The prisoner, who could not find bail, was sent away to the prison van. CHATHAM, DEC. 25.—The large tidal basin at this dockyard being nearly completed, the Lords of the Ad miralty have employed Messrs. Rigby, the contractors, in lengthening No. 3 old dock, which is to be extended inwards nearly 100 feet. For several months past some hundreds of men have been employed in making the necessary excavations, which are carried to a depth of nearly 50 feet, in order to form the concrete bottom of the basin. During the progress of the works the water has frequently broken in, to prevent which two powerful ' steam engines have been erected, which are kept pump ing day and night, discharging four tons of water per minute. The pumps were at work last night, when one of them became useless, and the consequence was that the works were soon flooded, the water rising at the rate of 6 tons per minute. During the whole o. to-day the workmen have been engaged in repairing the engines and pumps, which, it is hoped, will be put into working order to-night. H. M. t.amer Geyser sailed for Devonport, to be paid off into ordinary, on Thursday. At an early hour yesterday morning an accident occurred in Chatham Dockyard which is likely to cause some delay in the execution of the large works now being carried on at ttkat establishrnent for the enlargement of the old diEcks and the t r o struction of the new tidal basins. During Thurs day night one of the pumps became useless, the consequence of which was that the water began flowing into the works at the rate of six tuns per minute, flooding the excavations and doing a great deal of mischief. Yesterday a number, of men were busily engaged repairing the temporary engines, and hopes were entertained of the pumps being set to work last night, in order that excavations might be cleared, so as to enable the men to resume work on Monday morning. The Racoon, 21, screw steamer, Captain J. A. Paynter, fitting for sea at Chatham, has taken a considerable quantity of her sea storei on board, and is being rigged in order to be made ready for sailing with all despatch. The Cuckoo, 3, steamer, which has been paid offont of commission at Chatham, is moored alongside the Resolute, Arctic discovery ship, waiting to be taken into dock for the purpose of having the injuries caused by the late accident made good. THE MILITIA. The West Norfolk Militia left Norwich on Wed nesday afternoon for the North of England. The regiment, which is upwards of 600 strong, is divi ded into three parties, Lieutenant-Colonel Cus tance proceeding with three companies to Chester; Major Bedingfeld, with three other companies, to with two com pLai n v e r s pool to s ; t o a e n k d p Capt. or t T N h e a rs h ehaadm uarters will be at Chester, and the depot of the regiment will remain at Norwich. _ . The Dutchman and Adonis steamers, which ar rived at Portsmouth on Thursday morning for the embarkation of the Ist Surrey Militia (who ar rived by rail from Richmond, (Surrey), will con vey that regiment to Waterford on Tuesday next. ELEOTRO-MAGNETISM AS A MOTIVE POWER. In a recent article on the subject of Mr. Bagg's process for applying steam to quicken the move ments of the electric telegraph we alluded to the researches which weregoing forward into the value of electro-magnetism as a motive power. We have space now to refer to this important subject at a length more in accordance with its merits, and to notice the gradual steps making towards a disco very, the immense value and utility of which, in spite of the progress already made by steam, will when attained equal in importance our first know ledge of that great power. It is almost superfluous to enumerate the many important advantages which an electro-motive power has over steam. There is perfect safety from all danger from fire or explo sion. There is no expenditure of materials when the engine is not in action, and its power can be applied at a-moment's notice.- —lt is always ready for action without previous consumption of ma terials in getting up steam, and in marine en gines there would be no waste in freightage as for carrying coal. These are the most important of the advantages it offers, but many others will occur to any who reflect for a moment on the pecu liar nature of the two forces employed. With such high rewards in view plans to convert the power of electro-magnetism into a motive force have always been among the most cherished schemes of electri cians. The Russian and American Governments have spent large sums in endeavouring to solve this problem ; France still holds out a great reward to those who can produce an electro-motive engi▪ ne which shall only consum e 19 ounces of zinc per horse power per hour, a n d i n th a t em pire the idea that these moderate conditions will be fully attained is firmly believed. In this country no official en couragement has ever been offered to such attempts and latterly the notion h as b een muc h f ro wned upon by scientific men, who on all such questions are ge nerally the most conservative and impracticable portion of the public. The groun d s u pon which their opposition has lately been based are—first, the undoubted failure o f t h e var i ous attempts hitherto made ; sec on dl y, a comparison of cost between the working o f th e b est kind of electro motive engine and a s t eam eneine ; an d, lastly, a hasty, but most erroneous `opinion of Liehig's , which utterly condem ne d the i d ea of an electro motive engine altogether, thoughon grounds which men of equal eminence in science, though less in fashion, have not hesitated to declare as " perfectly absurd." It is needle ss t o refer t o the attempts of the scientific men wh o h ave soug ht to utilise the power obtainable from e l ectro-m a gn etism. Ail the principal electricians h ave dab bl e d in it more or less from Oersted down war d ; an d every fresh at tempthas led to fresh im provemen t s and discoveri▪ es. The first important inv en ti on o f the kind was exhi bited by a Mr. Davenport, in America, in 1837, and was followed in 1838 by another electro-m tgnetic engine, by a Capt. Taylor. I n the same year Jacobi produced a vessel upon the N eva worked by electro magnets. It was 28 f ee t long, 7t-broad, and, with 14 persons on board, was wor k e d against the stream at the rate of four miles an hour. In 1842 Mr. Davidson built an engine adapted for use on a rail way, and tried it on the Edinburgh and Glasgow line. This engine with magnets and battery weighed five tons, but in consequence of the very faulty arrangement of the magne ts there was a great loss of power. The ut mo st speed attained by it was only four miles per h our , and the attempt was therefore condemned as a total and irredeem able failure, people quite forgetting in their eager ness to blame that the first steam locomotive tried in England on a level plain wade only five miles an hour, and that ten years later Stephenson had so little improved the machinery that with eight carriages and 30 tons' weight he scarcely attain• ed four miles an hour on a dead level. This inven tion of Davidson's, therefore, was given up, and attention was soon afterwards occupied by the engine of Professor Page, in America, which was one of the best of them all, and which was in turn followed be the improvements of Hjorth and of the Messrs. Harrison. The latter gentlemen, indeed, claim to have fulfilled all conditions, and rather more than all which it was even hoped or expected electricity would be able to fulfil ; but, as they have not to our knowledge entered into details, it is impossible to say how far their assertions can be borne out. Nevertheless, with all these attemps, and with others by Dal Negro, M'Gauley, and Wheatstone, not one of the electro-magnetic engines could be regarded as a great success in the path of discovery towards the new powe r , i n f a ct, a ll the plans when tried pract ically were found to be at variance either with the laws of electricity or of mechanics, and the two main points for solution in the employment of electricity—its application and its economy_wereboth more or less overlooked. Nearly itsoff m long all these machines, then (except those of Page and Hjorth), were made either with oscill a ti ng or rotary direct action engines ; in the f ormer t h e electric currenftorwce had asalwa latter the magnets successively br oug ht i n t o action aximum, before the mag netic and in the were necessarily placed at such diff eren t distances reachedy always cut that it was impossible to produce an equal motion by means of them. In the rotary eng ines, also, it was of course found that in a system of mag nets constructed to produce a giv en power , when set in revolution, an immense reduction of their original force immediately took place, so that their combined action in practice fell infinitely short of their estimated force. And not only did each magnet sustain an actual diminution of power, amounting to at least one half, bat the power thus lost was converted into a current of electricity, acting in opposition to the primary current by which the magnetism was induced. This loss of force was great, and appeared unavoidable until the improvements of Page and Hjorth ; but even the machines of those gentlemen lost so much power, and were worked at such a cost, that all further attempts have gradually been looked upon by scientific men almost as waste of time and ingenuity. In a paper read before the Society of Arts in 1850 the improbability of any result bring ()gained from electro-ma„enek iQm which could en able it to compete with steam as a motive paver, was carried nem con. Very recently at a diecuss.on at the Institution of Civil Engineers it was even more unequivocally condemned, and declared that the power exhibited by electro-magne' though very great extended through so small a space as to he practic illy useless, and that a powerful nrigeet might be compared to a steam engine with an enor mous pi ;toe, hut with an excecdiegly sh r stroke —unquestienaqy a bad arrangement. Now, doub'loss, from the points of view at which the inventions were . regarded, these decisions wer, right. It is a certain fact that electro-inagne:isni never will supersede steam, and no electrician in his senses could really have entertained such an idea. Much as steam has done it has never yet been able to supersede the water-wheel, wherever water power is obtainable. But, although steam must and will always be employed, electricity can find place as a motive power in many kinds of work where steam is now out of the question. The other objections have Leen, first, the cost of the power, and, second, the shortness of the space' through which the power is exerted, pr in other words, the want of adequate stroke or motion in the force. The power of electricity, when applied in the .foratorelectro-magnet iswonderfully gr.( a `. from com paratively small means, but its dynathic power de creases so rapidly through intervening space, being " inversely as some unascertained power of the dis tance much greater than the square," that the range of the maximum effect, or valuable portion of the motive force with a consequent minimum of con sumption extends to so small a distance as to be of no real value in mechanics. The great problem to stave has been to contrive such an arrangement of parts as to convert this maximum of the motive force through a range, although unavailable in itself, into stroke, or to give it such an extent of motion as to make it of practical value as a motive power. Mr. Allan's electro-motive engine has achieved many of these desiderata. He has utilised all his power— has obtained length of stroke. By this invention the maximum portion only of dynamic force is ap plied, and by the mechanical arrangement of parts successively and continuously brought into action in a direct form, in accordance with the laws of electro-dynamics. Thus applied thole is no loss of primary force, and any amount of power and any length of stroke can be obtained. In fact, both mechanical and electrical conditions are very simply and beautifully complied with, and to this alone is the success of the invention due. The machine may be simply described as consisting of four galleries, each of which contains four groups of four electro magnets which are alternately opposite in their polarities, and which therefore by induction natu rallyreact upon and augment their collective power. ' Through these magnets pass rods connected by con necting rods and cranks to the shaft of the engine. Each of these rods has a disc or keeper suspended on shoulders above each group of magnets. The keepers are made with a hole in the centre, so as to slide easily upon the rod, and not impede the mo tion of the latter when it is receiving as impulse from a magnet applied to any of the other keepers or discs. The same kind of action is produced on each rod, so that as one completes its portion of the stroke the next one is commencing in the follow ing manner :—At the commencement of the mo tion the upper :keeper is placed so near the first set of magnets that when a current of electricity is applied to them they draw violently the keeper to them, and thus move the rod longitudinally through the space which separated them. The next keeper is by this means brought within the same distance from its magnet, and the current of elec tricity is at the same instant cut off from the for mer and applied to these, which thereupon draw their keeper to them, and so drag the rod through an additional space or distance equal to the first. The other magnets and their keepers beneath re spectively act in a similar manner in regular suc cession, and thus complete the stroke of the rod, when the next row takes itup,j and so on, until the four rods have worked irithe same manner, and given the utmost both of power and length of stroke to the machine. Though the machines have as yet been only fixed vertically, yet it can easily be seen that the arrangement of the parts allow it to be readily adapted to all ordinary purposes, whe ther vertical or horizontal. Thus, as far as the first conditions of power and length of stroke are concerned, the machine appears to have achieved great ends. One has lately been sub mitted to the Emperor Napoleon and the directory of the Conservatoire as illustrating the first prin ciples of the machine which, it is hoped, is to carry off the French national prize of 2,0001. offered to any who can solve the question of the practical utility of electricity as a motive power. The suc cess of the competitor there is to be attested by the cheapness with which he can produce his power. According to the average price of coals in Paris one horse steam power per hour can be obtained for 8 centimes. The average price of zinc is 80 centimes per kilogramme, and the French conditions for gaining the prize are that the machine shall work one horse-power on an expenditure of not more than half a kilogramme of zinc, or at 40 centimes the hour. This would make the cost of the electro motive power in Paris five times greater than that of steam, but the many advantages which in other respects it possesses over the latter would more than counterbalance this disadvantage. According to this rate Mr. Allan's machines in England, where coal is cheaper, would work at a cost ten times greater than the present average price of steam ; yet many of our first machinists and manufactu rers say that the invention of electro-motive en gines at as much as 18 times the cost for steam power will pay largely. Mr. Allan professes himself perfectly confident that he can produce a machine not only within the working price we have just mentioned, but even within the French conditions. He maintains that it is an error to consider the cost of electro-motive power as being relatively less " profitable" than steam, and that the error has arisen from the misapplication of the electro-mag netic force, not from the necessary consumption of the electric materials, which consumption is in versely as the dynamical ratios of the forgo. He considers that the materials, on the other hand, from their chemical admixtu,e in the battery, although of no practical avail for the further pro duction of the electric fluid, become when produced on a large scale of considerable market value, and when sold realise a large percentage of their original cost. But as the cost of the power is thus taken as the standard of success, the expenditure in fairness must be regarded from various points of vi .w. Thus, then, we must not f o rget that in Madrid and Lisbon the cost of coal for steam power is twice as dear as at Paris ; that in na , st parts of South America, in India, and China, and throuehout the East generally, the cost of coal is twice as much as that again, so that in those coun tries where an easily managed raoti ve power is most wanted, elec ricity may yet compete with steam on an equal or even advantageous footing with regard to cost. But a great reduction in the cost of the power may be effected by not using zinc at all, since iron when used on a large scale as an element in batteries may be regarded as almost equally effi cacious with zinc. But the cost of the power must be at present a subordinate question—at least other and more important questions must be decided ere the coat can be ascertained. For instance, Mr. Allan finds that there must be a certain relation between the electric current and the diameter and length of the magnet, though what these conditions are it is difficult to say at present. With only a slight modification of the relation of the wire to his magnet, he suddenly found that be lost four-fifths of his power. Now, here is a problem the solution of which must have a vital influence on the electro magnetic power, and, therefore, in its cost of pro duction. Yet, these disturbing influences, whatever they are, were not even known to exist until now ; and every day the general laws which govern the science of electro-magnetism are becoming more and more fully developed. In a very able and a very impartial paper which was read by Mr. Hunt before the Institution of Civil Engineers many ob jec:ions, all more or less sound, were urged against the availability of electricity as a motive force. We are certain, however, that that gentleman was ig norant of the principle upon which the machine of Mr. Allan is constructed, for a knowledge of it must have altered the conclusion to which he was then almost naturally led. Many who do not take the trouble to judge for themselves are content to base their disbelief in the adaptability of electricity as a motive force on the doctrine of Liebig, that zinc cannot give out more power than the coal required to smelt it. Of course, the reputation of Liebig is supposed to be sufficient to secure implicit credence forphis statement—that the scientific world, in fact, must hear and obey. But in science nothing can be taken for granted, and until Liebig can show that such relation exists between electricity and heat as to make the mecba nical power of one the measure of the mechanical power of the other his doctrine will continue to be regarded by those who think for themselves RS 0- THE EARTHQUAKES AT NAPLES. The following letter, dated Naples, December 19, says :—" On Wednesday evening I was sitting in a saloon in our residence here on the Chiata moue, situate on the immediate shore of the Bay, when ono of our servants rushed into the room to ask what was the matter, supposing that we had knocked violently at the door of the room. Imme diately the windows and doo.s began to rattle in the strangest manner. Imagining that it might proceed from one of those sudden coups de vent so frequent in this climate, I opened the windows and walked out on the balcony. The atmosphere was still, the most profound calm prevailed, not a cloud could be seen. It was a splendid starlight night. I returned into the saloon, and in a few seconds felt the floor alternately sinking an 1 rising and affected like that of the cabin of a vessel which rolls and pitches. In the next room, where two young ladies had just gone to bed, I heard that they found it difficult to keep in the bed. The maid who attended them said the walls were fulling. I looked at a large bronze chandelier suspended from the centre of the ceiling of the saloon, and, to my astonishment, saw it swinging exactly like a lamp suspended in the cabin of a vessel in a storm. The character of the phenomena was no longer doubt ful. I looked at my , watch. The hour was a quarter-past ten exactly. As the most exact means of estimating the undulation, I observed the movement of the large chandelier. This is a large bronze lustre, weighing 4001 b. or 5001 h. The dis tance from its point ofsuspension to the lowest point of its axis is &out 10 feet. Its motion at first seemed to he that of a pendulum, the arc of vibra tion of the' lowest point being about two feet, but this immediately changed to the motion of a cnuical pendulum ; the lowest point of the axis described a circle, or rather an ellipse the major axis of which was about two feet. It appears, therefore ; that thet phenonymon began with a tremulous movenaet.t of the foundation of the house, manifested by the rattling of the doors and windows, and that this, after a short interval, was succeeded by two undu . lations, propagated, as it would seem, by the coni oil swing of the lustre, in two different directions. All that I have here taken so many lines to de scribe took place within two, or at the most three minutes. Of course, the lustre once thrown into a state of oscillation continued to swing for a much more considerable time. Such being what I witnessed personally, I ascer tained afterwards that similar phenomena were pre- sented in other apartments of the hotel. The swing ing of the lustres was even greater, but this arose no doubt from the circumstance of their being smaller and their line of suspension shorter. The bells of the hotel were all set a-ringing. The pendu lum of a large house clock standing in the hall rat tled against the clock-case. A gentleman lying asleep upon a sofa on the ground-floor was flung off upon the floor. A man-servant of ours occupied a neighbouring apartment with his wife and two children. The bed of one of the children was overturned, and a lamp standing on the table was thrown on the floor. The population generally soon after the shock went out into the squares, places, and other open spaces. The wealthier classes ordered out their carriages, in which they passed the chief part of the night in driving on the Chiaja roa I, which runs along the borders of the bay wide enough to keep clear of falling houses. The people who filled the squaresand other open spaces lighted fires and passed the night around them. Many families had chairs and benches brought from their apartments into the Piazza Reale, the Largo de Castello, the Santa Lucia, and other like places, where they sat during the night awaiting a recur rence of the shocks. In some houses the thin partitions which divide room from room and the ceilings were cracked ; some damage is also said to have been done to the British Hospital. On the night succeeding the phenomenon(Thurs day) the population, imagining that a repetition of the shocks might be expected about the same hour, crowded again into the squares and open spaces, where they passed part of the night. At the Royal Observatory on the Capo di Monte two astronomical clocks, the pendulums of which vibrate ill the plane of the prime vertical (that is, east and west), were stopped. Other clocks in the Observatory, however, continued to go regularly. The employes of the Observatory estimated the con tinuance of the first shock to be 5, and that cf the cons n : dared n .th to t n h o e r e Theyc ion o s second c the o d n 2 n s d s o e i c a o t n s ; to They le from ro perceived two otherslight shocks at 3 and 5 o'clock in the morning of Thursday. Whether the state of the atino4p l iere has any con nexion-with or dependence up , in this class of phe nomena is not certainly known. Herethe weather for six weeks back has been like that of June in London. The rain has fallen, and the sunshine has been almost uninterrupted. The sirocco has alter nated with the yenta di terra, the one corr -,spond ing to our warm south-west wind, and the other to our cold north-east. Vesuvius has been very active, throwing up constantly showers of incandescent matter which at night presents from time to time the appearance of what is called the " bouquet" in artificial fireworks. A slight eruption of lava took place last weik ; and it has been observed that the activity of the volcano was considerable abated for two days before the shock. It is unfortunate that here we are without the benefits of the agency of journalism in such cases, and have mainly to depend on the information which is obtained by reports from mouth to mouth. There is an official journal, but that gives only such information as the Government chooses to disclose, and the fear of excitement aming an' ignorant, fanatical, and priest-ridden population determines the Government as a general rule to supply as little intelligence of what takes place as possible. Such as it is, however, I wait the publi cation of the official journal, which I am told will make known to-day so much of what has passed in Calabria as the Government will allow to be pub lished. Before I despatch this letter to the post I howev r er, has News,bc, e e a e , where cracked k veehae r walls ed r, ; town e shall therefore be able to tell you more. P. S. As I expected, a few part i c ulars of the disasters in Calabria are given in the official j o urnal. The visitation is undoubtedly far more grave than is admitted. It appears that the te l eg r aphic wire has;been broke between Eboli and Sala both in the li n alrs e be o ep f oei rltsoee prison countryaw f t irvi seed r enlot. from killed.aa v n e b thea rr aAI eatkAet indicated. ts t ae Sala, half the houses are reduced to rui • n% In Padula, another town in that district, more than 100 houses have been thrown down, with an unkucwn number o f persons buried under them. In La Polla, anot h er town of that neighbourhood, the disastera hate been !Afire h .w lefeg it has been coining d w,i to es. To say tie truth, the inves igatiou rnisht involve an amount of antiquarian research which we st ould lack the skill to pursue, and certainly our readers the patience to follow. We will therefore go direct to the point, and show how once upon a time, on the Surrey side of the Thames, facing Chelsea, there existed, I k ees the najiasApf Batter sea fields, a dreary west ' t l l3o4 . ;44llfrater. It was above all other spots that crouched along the river's margin the moat wretched and unfinished-looking, compared with which the very Isle of Dogs it-elf seemed popelous and cheerful. It was one large expanse of dust-heaps, ditches, cabbage-gardens, ponds, piles of weeds, oyster-shells, and filthy re fuse, offensive to both sight and smell. Here and there, in the centre of the ooze, existed crazy tene ments, where bargemen caroused or pigeon -matches were hot, end where the accomplished backers of some minor luminary of the ring always retired with their battered hero after his contest in the ad joining marshes. Day by day and year by year this natural and artificial dilapidation of the place progressed more and more steadily. The literature congenial to the spot was posted on the trunk of stunted trees in " Found Drowned" bills, or pla cards offering rewards for the discovery of robbe ries; its only inhabitants were lonesome slouching individuals, whose presence at once accounted for that of the last-named affiches. Gradually and by slow degrees, like fungi creeping over some un wholesome spot, wretched develings as noisome and unwholesome as the fields themselves began to overspread their surface. Cottages, it was found, paid better than ditches, and mieerable sties wore built and let to struggling families who could find no homes so cheap elsewhere. It became the sanc tuary and abiding-place for all occup Ltions teo foul and pestilential to be attempted nearer the metro polis. As the whole place lay below Trinity high water mark, drainage was out of the qu , sion, and the "fields" soon attained a gloomy notoriety for an amount of death and sickness out of all proper tion to its - populetion. These facts together with the degraded condition of the inhabitant-, the Sun day evening faire, wh;ch outraged every sense of decency, the poisonous trades carried on iu all di rections, soon pointed out the fields as the future moral and physical plague spot of the me . ropolia Under these unfavourable auspices it attracted the notice of several influential gentlemen, who, as the only mode of dealing wish the rapidly-extending evils of the locality, prt.posed a plan for the con version of the entire fields into a south park. Tho plan wee submitted to the Metropolitan Improve ment Commissioners, who forthwith warmly re.om mended it to the consideration and support of the Government. The Government ace irdingly took the matter up, and this was the first great danger which the infant scheme had to struggle against. Considering that the park is only just finished, these events, as we have intimated, took place at a rather remote period of our history. When Govern ment adopted the plan the whole thing stuck fast for a long time. Ftrst, the Government appre hended difficulties, and could not spare the money ; next, they were in actual difficulties, and could not think of money ; and, lastly, the Government were getting out of difficulties and wanted tire money mo e than ever. At all events, for long, long years the money did not come, If the oaks and elms of the park were only planted when. the Government first suppor,ed the idea, what a shade they would now afford, and what a contrast they would now present to the delicate vegetables that are struggling for existence on the banks of new made earth at Chelsea! The Government wanted to purchase in all 320 acres of lard, which was scattered among a numerous proprietary iu quanti ties varying from three or four acres to half aperch or even a few cubic yards. Impartial surveyors wero called in, who valued this 320 acres at 187,4331. But some of the broad principles of free trade had evidently penetrated as far as the remote regions of Battersea, since the owners of the land modestly claimed no less a sum for it than 532,6241. - though after considerable haggling they consented to take 232,687/., or just 300,000/. less than they declared was its fair value. Of the32oacres thus purchased 200 have been enclosed and planted for the park, 110 set out for houses, villas, and wharfs, and 26 acres in public roads. In 1854 the work of forming the park commenced. Perhaps, instead of forming, we might with mere propriety have used the word building, for nearly three-fourths of the park is of made earth. More than 500,000 cartloads of earth were required to brin g the average level of the park a b ove t h a t o f high water mark. In some places the made earth is more than 12 feet thick. Nearly 700,000 cubic yards of eat th have been used in all, for 1 000 cubic yards were daily landed at the works for 'upwards of two years. The greater part of this earth was obtained from the new cock making at the London Docks, the remainder from all corners of the me tropolis. The whole of this area of 200 acres has been laid out with fair taste and. skill, and planted with a fine collection of trees, shrubs, and ever greens of all kinds. There is au unusually fineiselec tion of thorns, rhododendrons, azaleas, aud ever green oaks, w;th a quantity of hardy American plants with very long names, but marvellously like all other trees notwithstanding. Iu 10 years hence the park should be a fine and umbrageous enclosure —and in 20 years it ought to bear comparison with any of the ornamental grounds round London. The total cost from first to last has been 315,0001.—viz , 232,0001. in purchasing the land, 61,300/. in laying it out, makin g the roads, Aso., and 33,0001. in contiugen des.lthas been calcu lated by the benevolent promoters of the scheme that during the summer months the park will be largely visited by persons who will avail themselves of the easy means of communication afforded by the river steamboats. This ' however, is not only mere than problematical, but as faros can be judged unlikely. Peoplewill not pay to visit and walk about a new park at. present inferior in every respect to the parks which are almost at their doors iu the metro polis. The originator sof the idea oar t rest content with havin transformed a place which was fast be cowing a hot-bed of vice and disease into a source of health and recreation. If not a dozen persons ever visited the park, this great result would still remain the same. It was supposed that the rents derived from the 110 acres of building land which surround the Park would provide for the repay ment df the money advanced for its purchase. This chance, however, has been diminished to an almost nominal amount by a toll being levied on passen gers over the new bridge, which is the only route by which the park can be approached from the Mid dlesex side of the river. Could anything be more shortsighted or injurious than such an arrangement, which is certain to render both bridge and park in solvent speculations to the country within a twelve month 1 NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL—The accounts of this festival will exhibit a surplus of 430/.,'but it is recom mended that a portion of this surplus should be applied to the payment of debts on account of the meeting of 1854, when there was a deficiency of 1031. MUTINY IN THE MERSEY.—LIVEIIPOOL, Friday.—Last night a mutiny broke out amongst the seamen on board the emigrant ship J. J. 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