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Now Published, A WINTER JOURNEY TO ROME AND BACK, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE OPENING OF THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, AND GLANCES AT MILAN, FLORENCE, NAPLES, POMPEII, AND VENICE. BY WILLIAM EVILL. STANFORD, Charing Cross. Price 4s. 6d " ➢lr. W. Evill has written a lively and agreeable account of `A Winter Journey to Rome.' His descriptions of scenery in the Alps and of the Italian cities are exceedingly graphic, shewing much sympathy with nature, and a refined intelligence, Though the style of the book is somewhat sketchy, it is thoroughly readable, especially in the passages referring to the Council, which have in some degree the value of contemporary history."— Daily Telegraph. - - • - • "Those who have followed the well-known route, and visited the spots described by Mr. Evill, are scarcely likely to add much to their fund of information by reading his lively sketches ; yet we are far from saying that the publication is superfluous. To gain knowledge is not the only object which induces a man or woman to take ap a new volume ; and if Mr. Evil does not add distinctly to our stock, he has the art—a rare one—of placing familiar scenes in a fresh and agreeable light. . . . . The book has the merit of being thoroughly readable."—Pall Mall Gazette. "Having read the book through from cover to cover—of itself an eulogium from any reviewer—we could certainly not spare Mr. Evil's always animated, often graphic, and more than once or twice really eloquent descriptions, any more than we could spare his account of the wonderful pageantry of the . Papal func tions in Rome, and of the marvellous masterpieces in sculpture and painting scattered among the Palaces and Basilicas. . . . As a graphic delineator of the superb scenery and the renowned cities through which he made this winter journey, he has acquitted himself admirably well."—Sun. " The author has evidently a feeling for the beautiful and the picturesque, and describes what he saw in forcible and some times eloquent language. .. . Notwithstanding his well worn subject, Mr. Evil has produced an agreeable little volume, which may not unprofitably detain the reader."—Daily News. " There is no pretension whatever about the book of travels, and though it relates very little of what is new, it tells of nothing that is uninteresting, vapid, or dull. To the truthfulness of its descriptions of places and works of art we can thoroughly testify, and assure our readers that such of them as are meditating an Italian tour could not possibly do better than furnish themselves with a copy."—Bell's Weekly Messenger. " Mr. Evill's visit to Rome was opportunely timed to enable him to witness the great gathering of prelates in attendance at the opening of the (Ecumenical Council ; his journey was accomplished with great rapidity, but his hasty en route sketches are lively and amusing."—Record. " In this pleasant little book we have an abundance of inter esting matter, such as a professed bookmaker might extend into the compass of two goodly volumes ln the very first page we are satisfied with the book, and are engrossed with its contents We recommend the entire little volume as well to readers as to intending tourists in search of continental information."—News of the World. " The ground was all new to Mr. Evil, and, in spite of the season of the year, he saw it under peculiarly favourable cir cumstances. He has an eye quick to see, and a pen that enables him to tell right pleasantly, and not a little vividly, what he has seen. . . . . Mr. Evill was fortunate enough, in company with his friend, Mr. Charles Kent, the poet, to see the pro cession in St. Peter's, on the opening day of ' the Vatican Council. His description of it is very graphic."—Western Morning News. _ _ _ "Italy has been described to the reading world again and again, and, therefore, the charm of Mr. Evill's book is not the charm of novelty, but it has a charm. There is a fresh, Inge nuous manner, that appeals to the reader. The author records his impressions and describes minutely the beauty of the Italian scenery without a thought of the travellers who have gone before. Some passages, descriptive, are really excellent. The exterior and interior of Milan cathedral are put before us in glowinz terms, and the long ceremonies of the opening of the (Ecumenical Council are forcibly described. His description of Venice is excellent. Mr. Evill's word-painting is far above the average of such descriptions. We are sure that readers, after a perusal of this book, will have a vivid impression of the scenery described, and be grateful to Mr. Evill for his pleasant recollec tions."—Lloyd's Weekly News. "Accuracy of description will cause this little book to be read, and probably enjoyed, by those Englishmen and English women whom necessity keeps at home year after year . . . The profits are to be given to a charity, and we heartily wish it every success, and think that many untravelled Englishmen will find something to interest them in Mr. Evill's " Winter Journey to Rome."—The Examiner. " This little volume, containing, together with careful descrip tions of places and cities, an account of the opening of the (Ecumenical Council, it is worthy of notice, is dedicated, not in irony or without permission, but in friendship and with full authority, by a Protestant to a Roman Catholic. There may be many worse preparations for a visit to the city which still is queenlike, if no longer queen, than a perusal of this unpreten tious, but instructive volume ; and the author's remarks touching that Church, the services and worship of which serve to make up the entire life of modern Rome may grieve, but will not affront, a liberal Roman Catholic, and may command the assent, but will not shock the better feelings, of a Liberal Protestant." — Illustrated London News. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON REFUGES FOR HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE CHILDREN and CHICHESTER TRAINING SHIP.--Upwards of 560 Boys and Girls are now being supported in these Refuges and Ship.; Owing to the benevolent and praiseworthy exertions which have for several months been made to aid the sick and Wounded in the present War, the funds for the support of these Refuges and Ship have decreased considerably. 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Contributions are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by the London and Country bankers, and by the Secre tary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street. Adelphi, London. MIDNIGHT MEETING MOVEMENT. Office, 5, Red Lion-square, W.C., London.—During the last 10 years this Institution has been instrumental in rescuing a vast number of poor girls from a life of degradation and misery. The plan adopted has been to seek the wanderers in the streets of London and gather them together at the midnight hour, when short and faithful addresses have been given. _ . _ During the present year the Meetings have been held nearly every week in some of the most frequented districts of the metropolis. The promoters have abundant evidence that these efforts have been most successful in effecting a great moral change in many fallen ones. To enable them to continue their important work, FUNDS are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by Mr. John Stabb, Hon. Sec., 5, Red Lion-square, W.C., London ; and at the Union Bank of London (Carey-street Branch), W.C. ALEXANDRA ORPHANAGE for INFANTS, Hornsey-rise, near Highgate, N. Children eligible from any part of the Kingdom. Under the immediate patronage of . Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE and PRINCESS of WALES, and the CROWN PRINCESS of PRUSSIA. A MEETING of Governors was held on THURSDAY, November 17, 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, for the ELECTION of TEN INFANTS, Two of whom to be retained until sixteen years of age. ROBERT JONES, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex, in the Chair. At the close of the Ballot the following were declared to be SUCCESSFUL:— ELECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL SIXTEEN 1 XARS OF AGE. 1. Scarlett, Alice Maud.... 635 12. Bloom, Louisa .... . 611 ELECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL NINE YEARS OF AGE. 3. Richards, Henry William 648 I 7. Stevens, Elizabeth 452 4. Leigh, Charles Edward.. 576 8. Mather, Selina Agnes.. 439 5. Eyles, Alfred Henry .... 490 I 9. Bennett, Louisa Mary.. 431 6. Childs, Alice Rebecca .. 458 10. Curtis, Elizabeth Muud 429 A vote of thanks to the Chairman and to the Scrutineers terminated the proceedings. JOSEPH SOUL, Hon. Secretary. 73, Cheapside. URGENT APPEAL.—The Committee very earnestly appeal for Contributions in aid of the BUILDING FUND especially, as well as for the general purposes of the Charity, which has no funded property, but depends wholly upon voluntary support. No salaries are paid but to the household. The Orphange is open to visitors. ZEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).— Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE tOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re moved from the City to the same building. KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary. CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES of tht CHEST, Victoria Park. Special APPEAL for the NEW WING Amount still required, Z 4,000. Number of beds now occupied, 120. Number of beds available with proposed addition, 164. "he Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support. Bankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 64, Lombard-street HENRY SEWELL, lion. Scc. Offices, 24, Finsbury-circus. RICHARD P. SLATER, Sec. THE CENTRAL PRESS. - TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. The liberal arrangements made by the Post Office for the transmission of news have largely increased the demand for telegraphic intelligence. The Proprietor of the CENTRAL PRESS is now supplying upwards of seven hundred news papers and newsrooms, whereas the total number of subscribers supplied by all the telegraph companie4 under the old system did na....x c eed 800. 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The Telegrams to be used only in one newspaper or news room, and are not to be copied. No order for less than Three Months can be accepted, and prepayment is essential. Orders received on Monday MORNING can commence on the following Thursday ; orders received on Thursday MORNING can commence on the following Monday. Two weeks' notice must be given before the expiration of the current quarter if the service is not to be continued. WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Proprietor. 112, Strand, London. V. 0., December 1, 1870. EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament. For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in Situations of Trust. Chief Office-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. Annual Income, £300,000. Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly £BOO,OOO. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S. The Rev. A. Alston, A.D. I R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P. E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley, Esq. A. R. Bristow, Esq. I Reginald Read, Esq., M.D. This Society are now ISSUING COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES. The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow 1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years. 2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal premium during the ten or twenty years. 3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the sum Assured. HENRY B. PARMINTER, Manager. A SERIOUS BUSMLSS. A considerable amount of surprise has, we are iulounctl, been occasioned at Chatham and the other naval stations, in consequence of instruc ions, re ceived by telegraph from the Admiralty, directing that the whole of the stewarls of the several vessels of war in harbour, as well as th, se belong ing to the Royal Naval Barracks, were to be placed under arrest, and their books and other official documents taken posi•ession of. This extreme measure has, we hear, given rise to a considerable amount of conjecture, as since the per sons concerned have been in custody a number pf officials from the Admiralty have been sent down for the purp se of making private investigations of the books and other official documents in the care of the persons under arrest.—Pail Mall Gazette. COLLISION ON THE NORTII LONDON RAILWA.Y. A serious collision took place yesterday morning on the North London Railway between Camden-town and Barns bury stations. Shortly after the 7.45 passenger train from Chalk Farm left the Camden Town station, a coal train came out of one of the sidings a short distance from the Caledonian-road Bridge. The passenger train, not being able to pull up in time, ran into the coal trucks. Upon the train being brought to a standstill the guard was found lying insensible at the bottom of his van. He appeared to be dead, but on his removal to the Great Northern Hospital it was found that he was still alive. His injuries, however, are so severe that there are no hopes of his recovery. Several other persons re ceived slight injuries from the shock of the collision. The guard's name is Henry Hotter, aged 24 years. He was not the guard of the passenger train, but was going on duty at Bow. The lines were blocked by the accident for some time. TIIE FENIAN PRISONERS. At a special meeting of the Dublin Amnesty Associa tion, held in the rooms of the Mechanics' Institute—Mr. Billy in the chair—the question of making provision for the prisoners about to be released received a length ened consideration, after which the following reso lution was unanimously passed : Proposed by Mr. D. Downey, seconded by Mr. J. Fleming— That the Amnesty Association send an accredited repre sentative of their body to England to visit the various prisons, and inquire individually from each prisoner his personal wishes and wants ; that said representative be instructed to send back a full and complete report cf the specific desires of the prisoners; and that a public meet ing of the association be called for Wednesday evening, the 4th instant, to lay before the Irish people a report of said representative, to hear the audited accounts of the association, and to resolve on what future course of action will be most fitting under the circumstances. On the motion of Mr. T. A. Hickey, seconded by William A. Moroney, it was resoived—That the committee sit from night to night pending the release of the prisoners, and the communications constantly arriving relative to them. —.Freeman's Journal. TIIE LYCEUM THEATRE. Few who witnessed the first Italian Opera Buffa within the Lyceum Theatre on Monday night, will deny that this class of musical performances finds a home there. The acoustic properties of the building, the large orchestra, and the convenient size of the stage are all accessories which 'suit the pourtrayal of operas not meant to be magnificent or elaborate. The opera " L'ltaliana in Algiri," a pretty well known one, is a romantic but brief history of a beautiful flirt, who, finding herself ship wrecked in a country where her lover is a slave resolves to make love to all the authorities who cross her path in her efforts to release that slave. The part last evening was undertaken by Maddle. Yeralli, _an artist•, whose touchingly sweet voice from the beginning to the end o the piece made an impression everywhere. As a first performance the opera, though perhaps a little tame in execution, was a decided success. The orchestra, under the care of Mr. Weist Hill, was unusually large and well trained. The chief singers on the stage were perfectly at ease, though the theatre could not but have been new to them in every respect, and the very brilliant audience in the house were comfortably seated and secured against cold draughts by all possible strategems. The dresses were costly and the scenery sufficiently attractive. Mr. Healey, the acting manager, we must say deserves a word of praise for the success of all of the arrangements which were not distinctly the work of the actors themselves. There is no doubt that the series of operas will meet with patronage not only from the general Lyceum public, but from a new public of foreigners who were on the first night represented in the building in abundance. The Rev. Dr. Duvall, who is in the Wisconsin State Prison for murdering his wife, has requested that he be appointed chaplain of the institution. The Duke of Mecklenburg is now at Versailles. He has met with no very good reception at headquarters, on account of his not having given as satisfactory an account of the Army of the Loire as he was expected to do. A. meeting was held at the Dublin Mansion-house on Saturday, when an influential committee was ap pointed for the purpose of raising money and otherwise obtaining aid for the distressed peasantry of France. THE REPRESENTATION OF WEST NORFOLK. — Sir William Ffolkes, Bart., of Millington, near Lynn, is spoken of as a probable candidate for West Norfolk in the Liberal interest, and W. A. F. Amhurst, Esq., of Dillington Hall, Brandon, in the Conservative interest. Sir W. Ffolkes is at present travelling in India. THE TRUCK COMMISSION AT BIRMINGHAM. — On resuming the proceedings yesterday, the Commis sioners took the evidence of working men. Benjamin ' Perkins, of Darlaston, did some work for the Darlaston Company, and was told that if he did not patronise the Company's shops he would get no advances. Joseph Gul liver, miner, left the ' employ in 1869, because his advances were stopped for not frequenting the " tommy " shop. Alichael Finny, miner, said he sometimes dealt at the shop, and had been threatened that if he did not his advances would be stopped. The Provisions sold there were good, but they were dearer than at other establishments. Witness could get " strap " for drink at the public houses and pay at the reckoning.— Benjamin Houghton, miner, had his advance stopped for not dealing at the company's shop. Witness had worked at the Axle Company, Wednesbury, and at the reckoning did what he liked with his money, but was expected to spend his advances at the shop. Elizabeth Houghton, wife of the witness, said her advances had been stopped because of not dealing at the shop. On one occasion she had no provisions, and her husband was working 12 hours a day without food. Witness did not believe the husbands would drink more if paid weekly. A PARSEE PEABODY. —The l imes of India, while incidentally mentioning that the public subscrip tions of Bombay to the Fund for the Relief of the Wounded in the present war amounted to 30,275r5., in cluding over 9,000r5. collected by the German Consul, but exclusive of the French collections, draws attention to the very large sums of money contributed to chari table purposes during the last two years by Mr. Cowasjee Jehangir Readymoney, C. 5.1., who, besides, remitted. £l,OOO net to the' London Fund in September last. In dependently of minor benefactions, amounting to several thousands of pounds, and of a donation of £20,000 to the Financial Association of India and China, Mr. Cowasjee, within the space of a few years, subscribed the following sums .—Surat Hospital, 72,000r5. ; Ophthalmic Hospital (entire cost), 1,12,000r5. ; Elphinstone College Building, 200,000r5. ; Poona Engineering College, 50,000r5. ; Portuguese College Tower, 5,000r5. • Kupper wunj Clock Tower, 2,000r5. ' • St. Thomas's 'Cathedral Fountain, 13,700r5. ; Regent's Park Fountain, 13,500r5. ; Bombay Street Drinking Fountains, 22,000r5. ; Pillar in Colaba Church (as Cabul massacre memorial), 7,500 rs. ; Lunatic Asylum, Hyderabad, Scinde, 50,000r5. ; -Univer sity Hall, 100,000 rs. ; Victoria Museum, 2,500r5. TILE LATE LORD DE BLAQUIERE.—The opening of the year' has been marked by the death an ß l a r r i o al u i 1 nobleman of some distinction. John de Blaquiere, _ de Blaquiere of Ardkill, County Londonderry, in peerage of Ireland, died on Mon da y in London. e 2 n _ 59 37 born in July, 1812, and was therefore hi year succeeding to e the peerage hisfatheras and fo b r a r o severalnety onyears t h d e iu e at the s a W f teesrt his c s e , s b s iuotuhteoretired peerage.fro m the H p e r o w f e a s s s i t o w n i e three a r y r j e e a d r but leaves no family, and the Irish honours therefore iaa d a e lu v ei o re l r v oe e i upon his brother, commander an dr of the R the e H tahreetire late m oWilliam ya l Nvya Barnard T d h e Blaquiere, a f peer was a distinguished military officer, and r a o n m d aat cadet e et Cape. a e d r e s n e descended India,f served with honour in Flanders, Inaohbeleplie'rßeniTlVflitenrielyfawneolysettled in Engl Ind on the revo cation of the edict of Nantes. One of his sons was ap pointed Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1772, and afterwards became Privy Councillor of Ireland, Knight of the Bath, and Great Alnager of that kingdom. He was elevated to - tips Irish peerage in 1800. The late peer was his grandson. LAW AND POLICE. ROBBERY AT AN ARTIST'S COLOURMAN'S.— George Cox, a carpenter, in the employ of Mr. Frederick NVillia,m Rowney (trading as Messrs. Rowney and Co.), artist colourman, in Rathbone-place, was charged before Mr. Mansfield, at the Marlborough-street Police-court, with stealing a case of mathematical instruments, the property of his employer. Mr. J. A. Als-1? appeared for the pri soner. From the evidence of Mr. Frederick Rowney, foreman to his father, it appeared that the prisoner was stopped on his leaving the warehouse by the manager, and a case of mathematical instruments found in his posses sion. The prisoner said he was sorry for what he had done; that he did not know what had induced him to do it ; and asked to be leniently dealt with. On the prisoner's lodgings being searched a few more small drawing instru ments were found. In reply to Mr. Mansfield the pro secutor said the prisoner had been six months in his father's employ, and received 30s. a-week wages. bar. Alsop addressed the magistrate on the prisoner's behalf, asking that he might be leniently dealt with in the hope that the present case might be a warning to him, and urging that the loss of character would be a great punish ment to him. Mr. Mansfield committed the prisoner for 21 days', with hard labour. ADROITROBBEIIY.—A few days ago a robbery of a rather serious nature was effected at Messrs. Hunt and Roskell's, the well-known jewellers, in New Bond-street—the thief up to the present moment having eluded detection. It appears that a foreigner entered the shop, and asked to be shewn some earrings. His requst was complied with, some of a costly nature being placed before him. After he left a pair of the value of £3OO were missed, there being every reason to believe that he must have taken advantage of the assistant's having momentarily turned his back to purloin them. A reward of £5O has been offered for the recovery of the property. SERIOUS ASSAULT THROUGH AN ACCIDENT. —George Lancaster, a coachman, of 82, Baker-street, Portman square, wrs brought up at the Westminster Police-court, charged on a summons with assaulting William Constable Mr. W. D. Smyth, of Rochester-row, defended. Com plainant said on Tuesday week he was in Eccleston-street between Chester and Eaton-square, and saw the de fendant on a break, and a clog belonging to witness on the box seat. He had lost the dog some day's before. He called to the defendant to stop, and jumped up behind the break, but his hat was knocked off by some one in the break, and he had to get down and recover it, but called to the dog which jumped over the back of the break and came to him, The defendant got down off the break, ran after him and the dog, seized him violently and threw him against the railings, cutting his fore head badly, and recovering the dog, which he took into the break, and drove away. He had been unable to follow his occupation, and had been under the care of the doctor since. The defence was that the assault was accidental, and two witnesses were called to prove it. Mr. Woolrych suggested a " compromise," or he should fine the defendant smartly. The parties adjourned to the gaolers' room and ultimately the complainant was com pensated by the payment of £3 for the expenses incurred. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A STOKER. —John Shannon, furnaceman at Talk•o'-th'-hill Colliery, Staffordshire, was brought up at the Kidsgrove Petty Sessions, on a serious charge of neglect of duty. It appeared from the evidence that Shannon had left his furnace and gone drinking ; and that in consequence the supply of fresh air required for the ventilation of the pit was so much reduced that had any of the three or four hundred persons in the workings been using a defective lamp there would in all probability have been a repetition of the great disaster which occurred a few years ago at the same colliery. The magistrate appears to have taken a very lenient view of the offence, as he only imposed a fine of forty shillings.—Manchester Examiner. EXTRAORDINARY HOTEL ROBBERY.-At the Manchester City Police-court, a fashionably-dressed man, who gave the name of Charles Collingwood, was charged with a robbery of a somewhat unusual character. It seems that a gentleman named Wilmot Holt, waterproof manufac turer, residing at Sale, had been staying at the Clarence Hotel, Manchester, for several days last week, and on Friday he went to bed, having £5O in notes in a case which he placed in his coat pocket. The coat he put in a portmanteau. He rose early on Saturday morning, and after breakfast returned to his room, and on looking in the case he missed his notes. He at once told the people in the hotel of the robbery, and communication was immediately made with the police. Dectective Gill was sent to the hotel ; and, according to his evidence, he for some reason suspected the prisoner. Ac cordingly he stationed himself at the door of the bedroom occupied by the prisoner, and when the latter, a little after eight o'clock, was leaving the room, the detective accosted him, and told him that Mr. Holt had missed £5O in bank notes. The prisoner declared that he knew nothing about it, and demanded to know why the detective interfered with him. He said his name was Charles Collingwood, that he was a traveller for a plated jewellery establishment, and resided at 54, Athol-street, Scotland-road, Liverpool. In answer to a question he said that he had no notes at all in his possession. He was, however, taken to the police-station While there lie was seen to move his hand cautiously to his coat-pocket. The officer at once seized the hand, which was closed. The prisoner declined to open it, but the officer compelled him by forcing the thumb back, and in it were found a £2O note, a £lO note, and two £lO notes cut in two. This evidence having been given, the prisoner was remanded till Thursday. He said that somebody must have placed the notes in his possession. " I give you permission to smoke on guard," Frederick said once to a sentinel on night duty, seeking to tempt him. " I am the King." " The King—God bless him !"—replied the soldier, " may go hang. What would my Captain say ?" AGED CLERGYMEN. — The deaths were announced yesterday of three aged clergymen—the Rev. Henry Augustus Holden, M.A., at the age of 86 ; the Rev. Densley Harding, at the age of 80 ; and the Rev. William Everest Stevens, at the age of 66. Mr. Holden has not for a long time held any ecclesiastical preferment. Mr. Harding was vicar of Barton, near Cambridge. THE COLONIAL 0 FFIC E.—A. contemporary an nounces that the Colonial Office is reducing its staff of clerks, notwithstanding that the affairs of the West Coast of Africa, Cape Colony, Natal, Queensland, and Deme rara will all be probably debated next session. The colony of Natal has appointed a deputation to represent its grievances to the mother country. REFORM IN THE ARMY.—Captain R. Oldfield, R.A., has laid before his brother officers a scheme of " Organisation and Retirements," on the ground that there is a widespread feeling that before long these matters in reference to the Royal Artillery will have to be taken up by those in power. He proposes that the whole of the artilleries shall be amalgamated. He has worked out his plans in detail, and given two alternative schemes. THE IRISH POOR.—The amount of property re turned to the relief of the poor in Ireland during the year ending 29th September last was £13,183,304, being £29,805 more than in the preceding year. The number of per sons who received poor relief during the year ending 29th September last was 285,530, against 285,398 in the pre ceding twelve months. Of these, 229,600 were relieved indoor, being fully 6,000 less than in the preceding year. SERIOUS FROSTS. —We bay() just seen a letter from one of our octogenarian agriculturists, whom the present season has put in mind of his younger days. " After an interval of fifty-six years," he says, "we ap fymvss,lmliaosTicnigw fourteeni mm ter, such k a s as a l t remember y iy have youthful : 1 1 a a stretch. I have seen three such winters-1796, 1801, and 1814. In all of these winters the sufferings of the poor were terrible. —Chamber of Agriculture Journal. THE CONVICT CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT. A few days since we announced that the sentence of death passed upon this young woman at the late assize for the murder of her illegitimate child had been respited. On Friday a communication was received by the gaol authorities from the Home Office commuting her sentence to ten years' penal servitude. It will be remembered that at the trial some extremely painful circumstances were disclosed which, it is said, have influenced the Govern ment in awarding this unusually lenient punishment. LENIENCE TO SOLDIERS.—Major-G eneral Brown rigg, C. 8., commanding at Chatham, has issued an order that, as mum experimental measure, soldiers if sober when returning or brought to barracks after tattoo are not to be confined in the guardroom all night, but are to be sent to their quarters, and their offence to be reported in the morning. After a month's trial of this plan commanding officers are to report their opinions of its working to the major-general. By the exhibition of a lenient disposition towards the soldiers the gallant general has won the regard of the military here and at other stations. RAILWAY COILLISION.—An alarming collision oc curred at the Doncaster Station of the Great Northern Railway, on Sunday morning. The tender of an engine, employed in shunting, had not been drawn clear of the main line, when the mail train came up, and dashed into it. Fortunately the speed of the mail train had been reduced, and the passengers escaped with a shaking. The driver and stoker of the shunting engine were seriously injured, and the two guards of the mail train were also hurt. - Several carriages were damaged, and two hours elapsed before the mail could leave the station. N°. 24,510. LONDON, WED N ESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1871. S T. LEGER'S NE W SONGS THE FRENCH SOLDIER'S FAREWELL, AND SONS OF THE BRAVE, AWAKE TO GLORY ! Are Published this Day. THE MUSIC COMPOSED BY DESMOND RYAN AND TOM BROWNE. DUNCAN, DAWSON, AND CO., REGENT-STREET.. ONE PENNY.