The Sun. — London, England, 1857-01-06 00:00:00

birb SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE SAMARITAN INSTITUTION. GUILDHALL - THIS DAY. To-day being fixed for the further investigation of the charges against Mr. Surr Edward Pack Barber, the secretary to this institution, the defendant appeared before Sir R. W. Carden and Alderman Humphrey, at Guildhall. There were four separate charges of obtain ing under false pretences one barrel of porter of Messrs. Manners and Wells, one sack of flour of Messrs. Pons ford and Co., of the City Flour Mills ; one barrel of porter of Messrs. Hoare and Co., and one barrel of biscuits of Messrs. Huntley and Palmer, of Reading, with intent to defraud those firms. Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Buchanan, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Joyce appeared for the defence. It will be recollected that the proceedings of the last examination terminated with a speech from Mr. Joyce, on the part of the defence, in which he said he should be able to show that the case against Mr. Barber was one of the most flimsy character. To-day the learned gen tleman commenced the investigation by detailing the nature of the evidenc'e he intended to call. The first witness called was Mr. Charles Horsley, of Staple-inn, who said—l am attorney for Mr. Barber. I have known him for about two years. lam a sub scriber to this institution. After the place had been opened I became a subscriber. I have visited the in stitution. The arrangements were quite to my satis faction. In consequence of some difficulty in getting evidence in this case, I visited the institution on the 28th Dec. last, yesterday week. Mr. Barber, his wife, and brother, were present. I went with them on to the platform in the middle of the dining hall. The place was then filled with destitute poor old women. Mr. Barber asked if any persons were there who bad received the Christmas dinner and beer of 1855. He desired those who were there (if any) to stand up. A number rose simultaneously. Mr. Barber spoke to several of them, and my attention was called by him to the girls Ayres and Daly, who were sitting close to my left hand. Upon something which had passed, and which I did not know, I was asked by Mr. Barber to speak to them. Daly was sitting next to Ayres. Ayres said she bad-had her dinner and beer on a Christmas-day, 1855. D a ly sa id t h e same, an d , she added, it was given to them out of yellow mugs. I then desired them to wait till all the women had left the inmti tution who had not received beer. They did so. Subse quently I spoke to several other females up stairs. Mr. Sleigh, who was absent when the case commenced. at this point entered the Court, and the evidence that had been taken was read over. Mr. Sleigh otj.!cted to that part of Mr. Horsley's evidence respecting two wo men being received. Sir R. Carden said that a serious charge had been made by witnesses on a former occasion, and this evidence was to contradict that statement. Mr. Martin read the words of the statute. Mr. Sleigh still objected to the reception of the evi dence. Sir R. Carden said a licence ought to be given in this case, as a very serious charge had been made. His ob ject was to have a full and impartial inquiry. Mr. Joyce maintained that he bad a right to offer the p evidence. At length it was agreed that the evidence should be read. At the termination of the reading of the evidence, Mr. Horsley proceeded as follows :—Mr. Barber went upstairs with me. In consequence of certain reasons I determined not to make any further examination then, but I went again to the institution yesterday at three o'clock, and on being told that the girl Ayres was there I saw her. She said— Mr. Sleigh objected to this mode of proceeding. Here is a statement about to be made in contradiction to what she bad stated when she was examined for the prosecu tion. The girl had been abducted by the Barber party. Mr. Martin said if the staterent related to the matter in issue the statement could be read. It was flaally arranged that Ayres's statement should be described by the witness 3. Mr. Horsley said it stated she wad in Farringdon-market on Monday, the to.h inA., after she had slept at Playhouse-yard. She there met, two girls named Gunn and Bailey, They asked if they would go to Mrs. Barber and beg her pardon for having taken the false eatli about the half-crown and pair of baot4. She said she would as she was led into it by a man named " floppie" Pettit. It was mere!y through the induce ment of Pettit and Daly that she had swore that slie had offered to her half-a-crown and a pair of boots, She said Elie❑ Daly said she had had beer, but fho meant to swear she had not. That Pettir, aud Bailey both said to her it was better to have hall-a-crown a day every time they went up for Mr. Potter, than to give evidence fer Mr. Barber. The statement concluded with the assertion that it was in consequence of the persuasion of these two partie3 that she had told Mr. Potter what she had done. Mr. Sleigh (to Mr. Horsley)—Have you teen Ellen Daly. Mr. Horsley—No. Mr. Sleigh here made an application t 3 the magistrate to order au of tleer ut the court to see if Ayres w:►a in the vicinity of the court, and that she did not leave with out permission. The girl was brought in, and ordered not to leave without leave. Mr. Sleigh (to Mr. Horsley) —You are a member of the finance committee ? Mr. Tiorsley—Yes. Mr. Sleigh— What was Mr. Barber ? Mr. Horsley —He wag the director under the com mittee of managers. He way not the manager of the society. It was his duty t.) take charge of the stores so far as they were under his control, but the flour and biscuits were under the control of the matron. Such articles were always taken to the matron's room and locked up. Mr. Sleigh —Was the duties of Mr. Barber laid down in any book ? Mr. Horsley—l believe so. I was never present at any meeting at which he was re-elected or re-appointed, .1 do not know anything of his original appointment. Mr. Sleigh—Have you the book of the institution in Court Mr. Joyce—The book is here. You can see it, but it is not intended to put it in evidence. Mr. Sleigh took the book, and was about to show it to his client, when it was objected to his seeing it. Mr. Joyce—l do not object to your seeing it, but I object to its being examined by your client. Mr. Sleigh returned the book, and said he did not wonder that the books were objected to be examined. The learned counsel was about to examine the witness relative to the action for slander which was pending, when Mr. Young objected, and Mr. Horsley said, with great emphasis, " I decline to answer anything which is not strictly evidence." Mr. Sleigh—Oh, tbat comes well from a member of the finance committee of this philanthropic institution. (Laughter.) The witness wag further examined at great length upon the way in which the examination of the girls alluded to was taken down, but nothing material was elicited. Sir R. Carden—Was there any regular financial re port made to the committee ? Mr. Horsley—None has been issued this year. Sir R. Carden—Have you ever seen a financial report ? Mr. Horsley —I have seen one in manuscript, but I never saw one printed. I have only been connected with the institution for about a year. Sir R. Carden—Do you know whether Mr. Barber has received his yearly salary ? Mr. Horsley—Nu. Sir R. Carden—As one of the Finance Committee, yoavught to know. Mr. Horsley—l believe the institution is deeply in debt to Mr. Barber. The witness then stood down. Mr. Sleigh said the girl to which Mr. Joyce had alluded to, viz , Daly, was now in court, and he proposed that the worthy alderman should re-eeamine the girl, without either himself or Mr. Joyce interforieg, but it was ar ranged that this course should be adopted at a future stage of the proceedings. Mary Ann Gunn was next called. She said—l have no home. I slept in Gray's-inn-lane Union last night. I knew the Samaritan Inetitution before 1855, and I have received relief from it up to the present time. I remember being at the institution on Christmas-day, 1855. I got in at half-past 1. I had beer, potatoes — Sir R. Carden —You did not begin with the beer, did you ? (Laughter.) Witness —N o ; I had meat, pudding, and bread. All present had the same. I did not dine there this year. On the 29th of last month I was there, and I heard Mr. Barber tell those' wha were present at the dinner of 1855 to stand up. TWo gentlemen were with him. Mr. Horsley, Mr. Barber's brother, and Mrs. Barber were the persons. About ten persons stood up. He said to ins " Did yo u h ave b eer ?" Ayrei and Daly said they had had: beer. I did not hear an thing more, y as I nad to leave th e room. On the 31st of last month I slept again at Playhouse -yard. I saw Ayres and Daly there. On Friday, the 2d Jan., I saw them again at Playhouse-yard. Th a t was the day they bad given their evidence. I asked Ayres how Mr. Bar ber bad gotten on. She said the evidence was such as it would floor 'em. Daly said Mr. Potter had taken her to his house, and had given her food, and would continue to do so until the case was settled, and that would pay her better than going for Mr. Barber. I THE SUN, LONDON, said to them, " And could you take a false oath that you did not partake of the beer '?" and Daly said, " Never mind that." That was all that passed. Ayres said, how ever, that she wanted two shillings to take a furnished room, to prevent her knocking about, and the half crown she should get from Mr. Potter would just do. They then asked me to go up on Mr. Potter's behalf, and I said, no ; if I could not go for Mr. Barber, I would not go against him. Mr. Joice—Did either of them say what evidence had floored Mr. Barber. Witness—No ; they said that the magistrate said they should not want the half-a-crown if their state ment was correct. I saw Mr. Potter at the institution on the Wednesday before coming to the Court. On Monday, the sth, I saw Ayres in Farringdot, market. I asked her where her mate (Daly) was ? She said she was in St. Luke's Workhouse ; that they had both been taken there by the police on Saturday even ing. I asked her how sh e cou ld t a k e a f a l se oa th, an d sh said she had been completely led into it by Daly and a man known by the name of " Hoppie," his real name is Pettit. She said Pettit and Daly came to her to the market, and said half-a-crown would be better in her pocket than sitting in the market, and that she had better go up for Mr. Potter, and Pettit said he would take her to the house if she would go. I asked her if she would con fess she had taken the false oath, and she said "Yes." I asked her if she would go to the insti tution and say so, she said she was afraid, and would run away, as Daly intended to do, from the workhouse. She cried, and said she was very sorry for what she had done. I asked her if she knew the nature of an oath, and she said she was ignorant of it. I went to the institution with Ayres, and a girl named Bailey went us. I had not had any communication with Mr. Barber. When we got to the institution, I saw Mrs. Barber, and Ayres said she was sorry she had spoken false, and Mr. Barber said she had better wait and see a gentleman in the afternoon. We went away and returned when the soup was ready. After we had had the soup, Ayres spoke to Mr. Horsley, but I don't know what she said. 1 have not seen Hoppie since the last examination. Cross-examined—My husband is still alive. He is not able to work. I have been in custody for breaking win dows in Northumberland Alley, and have been sent to prison. It was through destitution. Bread was the relief we got. They would not give us .bread so we broke the windows. I got six weeks' imprison ment for breaking the glass. That's three years ago. I have been in prison more than once—about three times. I have never done twenty-one days. I never had bread and water diet in any prison. I went in with the first lot to the Christmas dinner in 1855. There were a great many persons present. All the persons that sat at the table I did had the beer. I had rather better than half a pint. The beer stood on the table in little mugs. It was all ready poured out. Some were yellow, and some blue and white. The mugs would not contain a pint, but more than half a pint. I did not see any policemen inside when I went out. They did not came in while we were eating our dinner. Upon my oath there were no policemen in the room while we were eating our dinner. The beer was not brought in after they sat down to dinner. The moment we went is and were seated the policemen went out. One of the tables was within two or three f. of the door. I did not sit at that one. The yellow mugs were on all the tables, as far as I could see. I did not dine last Christmas ;my mother did—l in 1854. I don't recollect seeing either of the girls Ayres or Dsly at the dinner in 1355. Bailey and Ayres were not en the same side of the platform that I was when the people were told to stand up. Nobody took down the names of the persons standing up. There were about 50 people present when they were ordered to stand. I do not know what was said to those ten persons because I did not stop till the last. I did not see anything of Ayres or Daley any more that day. The conversation I had with the two girls was principally with Ayres, but Daly must have heard it. On Wed nesday when Ayres asked me if I had partaken of my dinner and beer, I said " yes," and She then said I had better go up fer Mr. Barber, as they were going up. They said they had seen Mr. Barber about it on the Monday. They said Mr. Barber was going to give them half-a-crown and a pair of boots. On the Friday night Ayres was sitting by the side of Daly when I spoke to her, but there was plenty of other people at Playhouse-yard that night. They could not hear the conversation because of the noise. I have not asked any of the women who were sitting on the saine bench that I was on that evening to come up and g;ve evidence in favour of Mr. Barber. Nobody was in the room of the institution when Mr. Horseley was taking down the evidence. Mr. Barber was present a short time, hut he did not remain the whole of the time. lam positive that when I asked Daly how it was that she could take a false oath, she said "never mind that." Ra•examined by Mr. Joyce—My examination was taken by Mr. Horsley once before I took Ayres to the institution and once since. Up to the time of Ayres telling me that she had taken a false oath I bad not seen Mr. Barber, and it wasfrom what Ayres toll me tiat I went to Mr. Barber and told him what I could prove. The persons belonging to the institution on the Christmas-day of 1855 kept order inside, and the police outside the building. The people were let out by the servant of the institution. There was no trouble to get out—the difficulty was to get in. Mr. Sleigh—NlThat ara Coe names in which you have teen c3nv:cted Witness—Cooper was one of them, and Smith was anther of the names generally taken. (Laughter.) Mr. Sleigh—Where did you last lodge with your bus• band ? Witness—ln Ormond-,arc'. Sir R. Carden—Was there cm the occasion of the dinner on CLristmas-day, 1555, a mug to each plate ? Witnese—Yes. Tee am destitute, and have no home. I am 19 years ofage. On Saturday and Sunday las , , I was at the Refuge in Playhouse -yard. I saw the wit- Less Ayres at the Refuge on Sunday. Gn the Monday morning, I saw her in Farringdon-market. It was then raining- Lard. I was with Gunn when she spoke to Ayres.. I don't recollect what Gunn said, but I beard Apes say, "She had baen completely led into it" by the men Petit and Bailey. Ayre.4 said she was sitting in Farringd,n-niarket on Thursday morning, when Petit came to her and asked her to noire to Mr. Potter he told her a half-crown was better in her pocket than sitting- in a - market. She said she then went to Mr. Potter's house, where she received her dinner and tea. This conversation occurred yesterday. She said Harry Petit told her to say ts , re had and no beer, and to go on Mr. Potter's dde, as she would get more than she would on Mr. Barber',, The further hearing of the case was again adjourned. THE BOMBARDMENT OF CANTON, (From the London Gazette of this evening.) Return of Officers, Seamen, Royal Marines, and Roya - Artillery, engaged in the capture of a portion of the City of Canton, on the 29th October, 1855. Her Majesty's Ship Calcutta.—W. K. Hall, C. 8., cap tain ; W. R. Rolland, commander; H. H. Beamish, lieu tenant ; F. J. Campbell, lieutenant ; Robert Boyle, capt. R.M. - ' R. P. Henry, Ist lieuten an t, R. 3.T. ; W. W. All nutt, 2d lieutenant, R.M. ; W. R. Kennedy, midshipman ; S. Osborne, midshipman ; C. H. Eden, midshipman ; A. B. C. Booth, midshipman ; H. H. A'Court, midshipman ; E. W. Yearn, master's assistant ; F. T. Floldsworth, naval cadet ; 97 seamrn; 104 rearines.—Total, 11 officers, 97 seamen, 104 marines. Gratin total, 215. Her Majesty's ship Sybille—The Honourable C. G. J. B. Elliot, commodore 2d class, commanding the forces ;_E. F. Dent, lieutenant ; Henry Sw a l e , l e t lieutenant, R. M., slightly wounded; A. T. Brooke, midshipman; H. T. Pike, midshipman ; 53 seamen ; 1 marine. —Total, 5 offi cers, 53 seamen, 1 marine. Grand total, 59. Her Majesty's ship Winchester--J. H. Bushnell, lieu tenant, in charge of held piece, highly active and zealous ; P. W. Fellow, acting lieutenant; P. F. James, acting second master ; P. C. Penrose, captain, R.M., com manding detachment ; C. W. Burton, first lieute nant, R.M., acting adjutant; 43 seamen, 39 Uri fines, 34th company, John Lyne, acting lance corporal, mentioned for gallant conduct in bringing off killed and wounded men.—Total, 5 officers, 43 seamen, 39 marines. Grand total, 87. Her Majesty's ship Nankin—The Hon. K. Stewart, cap tain ' • R. Carter, lieutenant ; W. W. How e ll, ma t e ; A . Rattray, M.D., assistant-surgeon, transporting wounded ; V. Scholefield, mid s hip man ; 68 seamen • 3 marines.— Total, 5 officers, t 8 seamen , 3 marines. Grand total, 70. Her Majesty's sloop Bittern--W. T. Bate, commander ; C. G. Johnston, master ; George Gordon, surgeon, volun teer ; 4 seamen ; 11 marines, —Total, 3 officers, 4 seamen, 11 marines. Grand total, 18. Her Majesty's steam-ship Encounter—Robert Gibson, lieutenant; J. S. Twysden, lieutenant, in charge of field piece, highly active and zealous ; 22 seamen.—Total, 2 officers, 22 seamen. Grand total, 24. Her Majesty's steam-ship Sampson—Marines 10. rTotal, 10 marines. Her Majesty's steam-sloop Barracouta—T. D. A. For tescue, commander ; W. K. Bush, lieutenant ; ,J. H. Tully, acting 2d master ; J. M. I ronson, ass i stant-surgeon, a ctively employed in carrying the wounded from the shore to the Dutch Folly • 50 seamen ; 14 marines. —Total, 4, o ffi c ers, 50 seamen, 14 marines. Grand total, 68. H. M. sloop Comus—Marines 17—Total, 17 marines. Royal Artillery from Hong Kong —Guy Rotton, cap tain ; i the remainder of the p ar t y o f R oyal Artil lery re s mf e in i ll ; at the Folly to serve the guns in covering the storming party.—Total, 1 officer, , 5 men. G ran d tota l , 6 . SUMMARY Calcutta-14 officerff, 19 seamen, 104 marines. Total, 215. Sybille-5 officers, 53 seamen, 1 marine. Tot a l, 5 9 . Assistant-S urgeon O r r, of the 59th Regiment, landed with the forces as a volunteer. Winchester-5 officers, 43 seamen, 39 marines. Total, 87. Nankin-5 officers, 68 seamen, 3 marines. Total, 76. Bittern-3 officers, 4 seamen, 11 marines. Total, 18. Encounter-2 officers, 22 seamen. Total, 24. Sampson-10 marines. Total, 10. Barracouta-4 officers, 50 seamen, 14 marines. Total, 68. Comus-17 marines. Total 17. Royal Artillery-1 officer, 5 men. Total, 6. Grand Total-39 officers, 337 seamen, 199 marines, 5 artillerymen. Total, 580. Fronl this number must be taken the boats' crews, about 180, leaving the number who were actually at the breach about 400. KILLED. Henry West, marine, Bittern, slug wound in heaa. James Lulham, marine, Bittern, slug wound in head. WOUNDED. Henry Swale, Ist lieutenant, R.M., Sybille, wound of neck from slug, very slightly. John Baskyfield, marine, Calcutta, slug wound, left hip, severely. . . Richard Hore, marine, Calcutta, contused wound, left shoulder, from a spent ball, slightly. George Atkins, marine, Calcutta, slug wound, left arm and left breast, severely. William Straw, marine, Calcutta, slug wound, left breast, severely. Simon Jessop, marino, Calcutta, slug wound, right cheek, slightly. James Nicolson, marine, Winchester, slug wound, left leg and both gluteal regions, dangerously. Patrick Byrnes, marine, Winchester, contused wound of sternum from a spent ball, slighily. James Love, marine, Comus, penetrating slug wound of abdomen, mortally (since dead). Reuben Bargery, fifer, R.M., Comus, wound of face, Roland Bradstock, marine, Encounter, contused wound, right shoulder, from a spent ball, slightly. 14th November—All the wounded are doing well. M. SEYMOUR, Rear-Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening. REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt that there was no surplus of actual re venue over the actual expenditure of the United. Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year ended the 30th September, 1856. The Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that no sum will be applied by them on account of the Sinking Fund under the provi sions of the Act, 10 Geo. IV., cap. 57, between the Ist day of January, 1857, and the 31st day of March, 1837. A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller-General. National Debt Office, sth Jan., 1857. WAR DEPARTMENT, JAN. 6. 6th Regiment of Dragoons—Lieut. Henry Timson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Puxley, who retires ; Captain Richard Henry Currie, from half-pay 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Timson, placed upon ha!f-pay. Grenadier Guards—Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hynde King, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain and Lieut.- Colonel, vice Brevet-Colonel S. Brownrigg, C. 8., who ex changes. 6th: Regiment of Foot, Ensign Edwin Fell Haig to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ross, promoted by purchase to an Unattached Company; George Alexander Shegog, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Haig. 24th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Richard Wolseley, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Clarke, appointed to the Staff. 27th Foot—Captain Herman Stapylton to be Major, without purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Col. Durnford, de ceased ; Lieut. John David Downing to be Captain, with out purchase, vice Stapylton ; Ensign Robert Lloyd to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Downing; Gentleman Cadet Laurence William Desborough, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vise Lloyd. 311 Foot—Lieutenant James Dugald Thomson to be Adjutant, vice Rudman, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 41st Foot—Major Henry W. Meredith, from half-pay, Unattached, to be Major, vice R. 0. F. Steward, who ex changes. _ _ 43d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon John Duffin from [he Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Croker, resigned. 44th Foot—Lieutenant George Lilly Mellish has been permitted to resign his commission. 74th Foot—John Henry Tuke, Esq., Paymaster of De tachments on the Coast of Africa, to be Paymaster, vice Dunbar, deceased. 77th Foot—Lieut. and Adjutant W. S. Le Feuvre has been permitted to resign his commission. Slst Foot—Ensign Frederick Schlotel to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Frank Brown, who retires. 17th Foot—Lieut. Colmer Lynch to be Adjutant, vice Gibson, who resigns the Adjutancy only. 2d Weet India Regiment—Henry Albert Pratt, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Henry John Barker, whose appointment on the Ist August, 1851, has been cancelled. Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Joseph Albert Denton, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hervey, promoted. HOSPITAL STAFF. Acting Assistant-Surgeon Jean Valleton D e B o i ss i ere t o be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces. Acting Assistant-Surgeon Claudius Edward Le Febure, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Reid, resigned. Assistant Surgeon Frederick Clarke, from the 24th Foot, to be Assistant surgeon, vice Wolseley, appointed to the 24th Foot. Assistant Staff Surgeon Charles Benjamin Mosse has been permitted to resign his Commission. UNATTACHED. - Lieutenant Albert Ernest Ross, from the sth Foot, to be Captain, by purchase. BREVET. Major-General Sir James Frederick Love, K C. 8., to have the temporary rank of Lieutenant• General while in the command of a Division of the army in Great Britain. Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Going, retired full-pay, Ist Foot, to be Colonel in the Army, the rank being honorary only. MEMORANDUM.—Captain Hugh Fergasson Kennedy, upon half pay Unattached, has been permitted to retire from tke Service by the sale of his Commission, he being about to become a Settler in Canada. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 3. Corps of Royal Marines—First Lieutenant and Quarter• master Henry Way Mawbey to be Captain, vice liam deceased ; Second Lieutenant Hugh Law Rose to be First Lieutenant, vice Mawbey promoted. COMMISSION SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. Royal Perthshire Rita Militia—Alexander Geddes, Gent., to be Quartermaster. Worcestershire Regiment of Militia—Bodham Castle, Esq., to be Lieutenant, vice Sanderson, resigned. BANKRUPTS. 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Petersburg 37% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Siatlrld .........., .... 49 Portugal Gold Coin .. 00 0 Cadiz 494( Melt= Dollars .... 0 0 0 Barcelona New Dollars .• ..•• 0 0 0 Sevillo— .......... —= Sliver in bars 00 0 THE LATE GALES. Since Thursday evening The coast has been visited by a succession of gales, ranging from the SW to the NE. They gradually increased in violence, and on Saturday night and Sunday they caused serious damage. Already have a largo number of losses been communicated by Lloyd's agents. Between Flamborough Head and the mouth of the Tyne between 30 and 40 wrecks are reported to have oc curred, in several instances the vessel going down with all hands. At Whitby throughout Saturday night and Sunday a heavy gale raged from the ENE. Five coast ing vessels were driven ashore—the Abeona, Captain Ellis, of London ; the Mary Anne, of Teignmouth ; the William Pitt, of Hartlepool; the brig Medora, of Whitby; and the schooner Port Glasgow. A few miles to the southward of this port, in Robin Hood Bay, three vessels liav2 been cast ashore, the whole of the crew of one of them having perished. Off Runswick Bay, a little higher up to the northward, a schooner is reported to have foun dered. At the neighbouricg port of Scarborough similar weather was experienced with melancholy results. Dur ing the gale of Sunday there were driven ashore the Thompson, from London, near the west pier ; crew, after some difficulty, rescued by the lifeboat; the Northumber land ; the Happy Return, of Scarborough—crew saved ; the Earns, of Shields, crew preserved ; and the Wilsons, for London, from the Tyne, which went on the Rams dale Scar rocks—the crew, with the exception of Stanley Merl, an apprentice, drowned, was taken off by the lifeboat. At Hartlepool and in its vicinity the gale was from the eastward, with falls of snow and hail. A tremendous sea broke upon the beach. On Sunday morning, be tween 10 and 11, a schooner, name unknown, with part of her masts carried away, was observed to go down in the bay, some short distance from the shore, with all on board. A similar calamity is reported to have hap. pened to two other schooners and a brig in the bay. On the Norfolk coast the gale has been very destruc tive to shipping. Among those carried on the beach at Yarmouth were the Happy Family, of Whitstable; the schooner Janet, of Yarmouth ; the Agenoria, of Hart lepool ; the Eao of Shields ' • the Lark, of Seaham ; the Fairy, of Yarmouth ; the Thos. Gawland and the Cur lew, of Sunderland ; the Thomas and Elizabeth, of Sea ham ; and several others. Happily, the whole of the crews were enabled to save themselves. The accounts from the more western portion of the English Channel speak of very boisterous weather. The screw steamer Dunaskin, Captain M'Farlane , of Troon, with a crew rof 11 men,. beside the master, bound to Bristol from Lisbon, was totally lost on the night of Thursday, near Penzance. The crew of the brig, with the exception of an appren tice named Wm. Cox, the son of an old Greenwich pen. sioner, were rescued by the other South Shields life bcat ; and, by a strange coincidence, the coxswain of the life-boat, Joseph Smith, happened to be the father-in-law of the master of the brig. The brig was the Sarah Ellen of London, Captain Revely. Before reaching the bar a heavy sea had broken aboard the vessel, and capsized her. Her master and crew, with the exception Gf the boy, who was carried away by the waves, and drowned, got on to her broadside. The mate was washed away, but managed to lay hold of a bowline, and saved himself. By the mainmast giving way the slip righted, and the poor fellows escaped. 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After some time they got tired of this, and took to smoking and spitting on the floor instead, all but a militiaoffieer, who came over and minutely , inspected our clothes, brushes, soap-dish, and tra velling bags. Of course the first thing after break fast that one would wish to see in visiting Tula was the Government manufactory. There is, it appearF, some controversy respecting the quality of the arms made at Tula. So far as my poor opinion goes, it is decidedly inferior to that of the arms of any other country with which lam acquainted. The heavy cavalry sabres are the only decent specimen of Russian manufactures I ever saw, and they are principally made in Siberia. If any one wishes to see what a Russian musket is like, he has only to visit any of our public exhibitions and to judge for himself. He will find the stocks ill-made, old fashioned, the woodwork very badly executed, the locks indifferent, and as for the barrel, which may be the best part of the piece, ho will find that it will bend very readily from a smart blow (that is, if the proprietors can allow him to make the expe rimentuna in corpore), and that, however good the iron may be, it possesses nothing of the durability of our hardened barrels, which are yet soft enough for the proper resistance of the charge. After the Alma our men destroyed thousands of stands of arms by taking up the Russian firelock by the muzzle and striking the stock against the ground. Generally the wood at once broke, the lock flew out, and the barrel curved round as though it were lead. The stocks were found to be of a white wood varnished black, and to be very small at the shoul der plate, so that the recoil must be rather sharp at the shoulder. (From Special Correspondent of the Times. ) At half-past 11 o'clock at night Tula seemed the last place in the world to suggest comparisons of either Sheffield or Birmingham. It was as silent and as lifeless as a village on the steppe, and almost as dark. As our carriage rumbled, creaked, and jolted through the long, broad, straight streets, the faint and infrequent lamps by the kerbstones only revealed the white walls of the long lines of two storied stucco houses, some mouldering and splatchy with decaying window-frames and ricketty doors, others rejoicing in the hollow glories of a new coat of plaster, and displaying new rampant lions and griffins and eagles in plaster on their portals, which the action of a few winters will reduce into the most unintelligible, terse, and fragmentary chaos. Not a soul was visible except the usual watchmen rous ing out of his box as the tarantasse came near, and shouldering his halberd and uttering strange chal lenges, with a poor affectation of vigilance as we passed. No glare in the sky, reflected from active centre of life and heat below, spoke of skill and industry still working, watchful and energetic ; no long tongues of flame from slender-necked chim neys licked the heavens into a fiery glow ; no dull, heavy thud or ponderous anvil pulse warned us that the heart of labour was beating strong, full, and honest in that wide expanse of human habita tions ; in fact, anything so unlike Sheffield as as Tula could not be imagined. We had a long gingling drive through any number of versts of muddy streets, and then a sudden halt at a huge and prison-looking building, at which our courier dismounted from his cold perch, and from which emerged a hairy-hooded mujik waiter, the staple of whose conversation was th e eternal "Niet, niet" (No !no !). Indeed if it be true that the first notion of a Frenchman on gaining possession, temporary or in permanence, of the smallest patch of terra firma, is to stick up a board with " C'est defendu de," something or other upon it, there is a sort of moral link between him and the Ruski, whose ruling principle is contained in the word "Niet" (pronounced Kneeate) which serves him everywhereforthe obstruction olliberty, progress, travelling, civilisation, and comfort. Here it succeeded for a short time. We were told there was a "Holshoi Gortinnitza" further on, and we resumed our track through the mud pro found till the tarantasse arrived at a narrow lane —the first we had seen for some months—which absolutely refused to receive the work of the Mos cow Long-acre within its aperture. The driver per sisted for some time in his efforts to force a taran tasse some six feet wide into a space only five feet wide, but suddenly it seemed to strike him as a difficult thing to do so early in the morning, and he pulled his horses up short at the opposite side of the street. The result of a desperate consultation in German was that we should drive back to the inn we had left, for coachee did not know where the big hotel (or the Holshoi Gortinnitza) was situated. and we could see no one to ask. Indeed we just recollected that one piece of advice given to us by a Russian was never to ask any questions if we wanted to see anything or do anything, for we should be sure to be stopped or refused,but that if one acted in Russia as if he had the right on his side, every one would suppose he had, and no man would presume to stop him. Through deep pools of mud and lifeless streets we worked our way, and pulled up once more at the entrance to the hotel, from the first-floo r windows of which there was a feeble gleam of lights. As we walked up the stone staircase, greasy and covered with mud, there was The Captain (M'Kinnon) of this vessel has pub. a feeble attempt to arrest us by some man who lished the following account of the loss of his ship lived in a hole at the basement, but we paid no at- on the American coast : tention to him, and succeeded in groping our way "We sailed from Liverpool on Thursday, Nov. into the eating saloon, from which the light pro- 13, with a stiff breeze from the north-east. We ex ceeded, guided th ereto by a, clink of glasses, and a Perieaced r er y heavy weath er th e en ti re passage. strong odour of t o b acco . It was a l ong room, fur- Had not more th an t wo or t h ree good observations. nished with a t a bl e i n t h e cen t re, 2 or 3 small side On the 19th inst., i n l ong. 7 2 20, lat. 39 20, dead tables, and two straight-backed stiff leather sofas. reckoning, we were hailed by the bark Eagle, of The table was covere d w ith a c l o th f ou l f rom t h e Boston. She inqui re d w h ere we were bound. We s stains and exu v i as o f many mea l s ; th e fl oor was spoke them, and th e y sa id t h ey were from Nazaite New York, being out of ev er ythi ng. I found we strewed with papi ros ( c i gare tt e ) en d s , an d was so (France), 90 d a y s ou t, an d were trying to make dirty that it was i m p oss ibl e t o ascerta i n w h e th er it was wood or stone. At th e s id es o f th e t a bl e were were 20 mile s t o th e eastwar d and 20 miles to the seated some half-dozen pe r s o n s —t wo o f th em o ffi- northward of his rec k on i ng . Af ter passing the bark cers, eating their su pp er , smo ki ng l ust il y, an d a t it occurred to me th a t I h a d d one wrong. I hove the end of the r oom a sma ll f am il y party were en - my mizentop sa il b ac k , an d as k ed him if I could be gaged a t t ea , th e prom i nen t mem b er of wh i ch, a of any assistance. H e answered that he wanted baby in full cry, maintained its position with un- water; he also stated that they had lost their boat. flagging spirit — as we f o und o ut after war d s — t ill I told him I h a d b oats, and I immediately got a an early hour in the morning. The first ca re o f boat ready and w en t w i t h prov i s i ons to the bark. the long-boot e d wa it er was to tell us we could not There was a high wind from the north-east at the sleep there ; his second was to signify that we time. On returning to my vessel I altered my reek could get nothing to eat. However, with that oning so that it compared with that of the bark. courtesy whiich is, I am bound to say, unfailing My first mate asked me if I was not steering too among educated Russians, one of the officers came high. I told him I thought not, and it proved that - I was right a ft erwar d s . F rom th i s time until within to our help, and, addressing us in F renc h t o ascer 15 minutes of the ti me we s t ruc k we had been run his words, and o u rse l ves t o ge t a supper, which tarn our wants, soon caused th e T c h eve l e k to eat nine north- wes t b y nort h. O n Friday night, the was hot and welcome—even although it cons i s t e d 19th inst., we were saili ng on i n thi s course when I noticed several vessel s ' li g ht s . Th e weat h er was of cabbage soup an d t oug h pi g . I n th e m id s t o f it our courier cam e i n t o i n f orm us th a t th e t aran - thick and blowing hard. I th oug ht we were a b out 130 miles from land. Soon aft erwar d s we no ti ce d a Ws° had various strains w hi c h wou ld requ i re l caulking, and divers inj cri es d eman di ng i mme di a t e light, which proved to be the li g h t h ouse at Barne repair. Soon after midnight the company was re- gat. It came upon us all at once, and we thought nforced by the arrival of a party who had just it a vessel's light. The mate and myself thought arrived in post carts from Kharhoff, and who t might be a pilotboat. We were without a pilot, seemed jaded and dirty, and soon proved that they and I let her lull two points, steering north were hungry. One of them, an e ld er l y man, after west-by-north. I the n sen t a man a l oft, and he a long scrutiny, addressed us in English, and be gan stated that it looked like laud ahead. I cried out, filled ou the other tack. Then I found that I au interrogatory conversation in a style not un- ' Hard on the wheel.' The ship came about and common in lt assia an,d, To Are N y 0 0 ., u , g , o , i T ng o South ?" " Yes." was right in the breakers. I told the mate not to say anything, but to keep quiet, and I thought she , , ‘ N ` A o . h ” , a? , d Ab a , re th y e o n u , sco " w Y ? e " s," would go off. The mate then called all hands, and returning K harkff' you are going to Odessa ?" and so on till it was we braced the after yards, so as to fall off shore our tur to ask questions, and we found out gradually. I steered the head yards as long as I that he wa s an Englishman long settled in could without making sternway, so as not to pay off t t h o en m ?: Russia ; so long, indeed, that he had forgot- too fast. I kept up my after sails and set the tea his country, but without acquiring any spanker. I thought then she would go off, but as love for that which be had adopted, although soon as she filled away she fell broadside on. She he had a great notion of her power and of struck very easy on her larboord side, but after her future destiny. Still he had been so twitted wards we experienCed some hard knocks. Her stern by his Muscovite friends about the failure of our was then gradually driven shorewards to the posi assaults on the Redan that he was very anxious to tion in which she now lies. It was about 20 minutes know the cause of our want of success, for, said before 12 o'clock on Friday night when she struck. he, " though I know the *Russian is brave, and As soon as it was known great excitement among will fight till he is shot or bayonetted, I think an the passengers took place. The mate, however, Englishman with fair play, and, above all, with , kept them quiet. I kept all the aftersail on the ship such good arms as he has, will always be more than to see if the tido would not make and let her haul a match for him." Again, there was a little out- ofl; but it was then about high water, and the burst of nationality when ho asked " Why did you attempt failed. We then clewed up the sails, but make peace so soon ? Another year, and Russia could not get the men to go aloft to furl them. would have been driven to the last extremity, for The crew and passengers felt very much alarmed, she would have had no clothing nor arms for her and it was very difficult to keep them quiet. In soldiers ; her trained men were being fast used up, this condition we remained until Saturday morn and the pressure for men and beasts of burden was ing. The passengers behaved very well, but the beginning- to be insupportable just as you made crew were very noisy. They refused to do anything. peace." He told us he had been twice in the Saturday morning we cleared away the boat, and Crimea during the war ; at one time just after the in endeavouring to get down the starboard quarter battle of Balaklava, and he was " shock e d , * w h en boat we stove her. We had five boats on board. I he saw English dragoon helmets ha w k e d as troph i es sen t men t o b a l e h er out, b ut they could not keep about the towns of Southern Russia, and heard the her free. We then took the larboard quarter boat enemy's account of our charge. These dragoon and coiled some line into her, in order to get a line helmets must have belonged to the heavy cavalry- to the beach. The second mate (Cline) got into her men who were dismounted by the fire of the Res- and attempted to get her ashore. We had a line sian artillery early in the morning, and who throw fast to her from the deck, but the undertow was them away as the cavalry retired out of range. He running very strong and prevented his landing. described the approaches to the Crimea as pre- We then hauled him back again. He afterwards seating scenes beyond conception or description, started again, and succeeded in getting ashore. He and, jud g i ng f ro m ou r su b sequen t exper i ence, ho ha d i n the b oat 14 persons, five or six of whom had good reason for what he said. Our friend was were passengers. After lie got on shore he found apparently a cavalry contractor, or something of he could not return, and then, with the assistance the sort, for he was very " horsey" in his talk, of the wreckers, who had come down at daybreak, and described the condition of the poor quadrupeds he hauled the line ashore. Finding that the boat iu moving terms. " The nobles and serfs were could not come off again, the first mate, Stowell, alike distressed and miserable ; the prices of food took the other larboard boat ashore, and succeeded were rising every day, and as for the hosses, it was in landing with 16 of the passengers and crew. The really dreadful." The roads had become like the first mate then made several attempts to return, bottoms of half-drained canals, and the whole coun- but found it was impossible. By this time those try was cut up for miles by the passage of carts and remaining on the ship were very much alarmed. I beasts of burden in search of firm ground, and better next cleared away the starboard boat forward, and tracks to and from the Crimea. According to him took 18 in her and went ashore. These were all the Perekop route was the most frequented, as the thst could be landed on Saturday. There were country near Tchongar became so deep after a few quite a number of women in each of these boats. months' traffic, or a few days of bad weather, After the last boat landed it became very rough, that it was impossible to use it. Onry couriers, and the hawse r , w hi c h was run as h ore, parte d. I Government messengers, an d li g h t carts traversed then told the wreckers on the beach that if they it till the country dried up, or was hardened by the would furnish me with men I would go off to the frost or the sun. It was his opinion that there was ship. They said it was impossible, and I was a considerable difference made in the treatment of somewhat of their opinion. But I felt it would the French and English prisoners in favour of the give some encouragement to the frightened passen former, and that it was in consequence of ord ers gers. I would at that time have as lief die as live. from head quarters, and done with a pu r p ose , an d I finally go t a p i c k e d crew o f my men and th e this assertion was corroborated by reports which 1 wreckers, and started. I succeeded very well till heard afterwards at Odessa. All this, and much I got to the outer breakers, and then I had to go more, was doled out to us in broken words, and back. By this time it began to grow dark, and we with many glances at his companions and at the hauled the boats up for the night. When the se rest of the people in the room, and the poor man cond mate landed the wreckers told him that there would have been horribly frightened had he known Was a life car four miles off, and a party went after he was talking to your special correspondent, but . it. The car came while I was on the beach. The he had no cause to fear, for I could give him a undertow was so strong that we could do no more most satisfactory certificate of attachment to the that night. We then went about four miles to the Russian Government, although he did not like 1 stationhouse and procured a lifeboat, and brought their habits of procrastination in the matter of ' it down on a waggon so as to have it ready in the roubles or the smallness of their pay in public ' , morning. We remained at the stationhouse a ll departments. I might have learnt much more ' night. On Sunday morning the first mate tried to from him, but that the horses of his vehicle were at i get off to the ship. On the first attempt the boat the door, and he had to continue his journey to capsized and he was very near breaking_ his leg. Moscow. The res t of the company retired to bed, On the secon d attempt h e succeeded. Then the with the exception of the baby and its immediate ! wreckers and myself went off in the surfboat and fancily circle, and we were left to shake down on the ! succeeded in running a line to th e s hi p. We then rigid sofas with h ard and slippery leather covers, ' got the life car in readiness and commenced send which were much more severe than the floor, but ' ing the passengers ashore. W e got all the passen the latter was i mposs i ble on account of thedirt, , gers and part of the baggage off that day. The and so, with bones sore all over from bumping in day before I got provisions from the vessel for those the tarantasse for two days over a rough causeway, ; ashore. On Saturday night, while shore, on the we stretched ourselves on our coats, propped our , crew had planned a mutiny, vsbic i Ithey endea heads on writing desks or boots, and were soon voured to carry out on Sunday while we were sound asleep —so sound indeed that, as we heard lauding the passengers. Mo s t of my crew were next day, three Russian office*, who arrived about men I picked up in Liver pool, and rather 'hard & in the morning, complained to the waiter that they cases.' They were altogether a lawless set during could not eat their breakfast, we snored so l o ud ! the whole voyage. On Sunday some of them at- This may account for the fact that, as we rubbed tempted to plunder the passengers, but were pre our eyes, and looked out from our sofas on vented. They then undertook to pick a quarrel The Russian bayonets are better than the fire locks, though they are rather to :> soft, and will bend with a good thrust against a hard substance. And yet they are proud of their supposed prowess with the bayonet, and say—" We know our arms are not equal to yours, but we depend on our bayonets." It certainly was Suvaroff's favourite weapon (his name in Russian is spelt "Cybapoba I"), and he taught his regiments to use it himself. Any of our officers who were at Alma or Inkerman can recollect how easily the Russian firelocks were broken and how bad many of them were. Their rifles, made by J. P. Malherbe, of Liege, were ex cellent, but the muskets, which bore the Tula mark, and had been originally flint, but were changed to detonators, were far inferior to the French, English, Turkish, or German percussion musket. The Government has no doubt learnt this, and it is intended at once to reorganise the manufactories at Tula, and, as I heard, to place an American at the head of the:. In that, at all events, the Russians will have imitated our example. Calonel Colt left Moscow a few days before we did to in spect the Tula works, with the view, ,I believe, of introducing his machinery for pistol-making, but Ido not know with what result. However, a re volver exactly on his principle was shown to us, the price of which was somewhat less than 41., and the manager of the magazine said that they had made several thousands of them during the war for the use of the army. LOSS OF THE PACKET-SHIP NEW YO K. with the steward about some liquor. They at last got to fighting, when the mate and my se lf inter fered. One of hem, who goes by the niann , of Jack, then drew a knife on toe, :he ; same time, D— you, I would cut your throat i n a I minute 1' I stepped towards him, saying, ' Don't do that.' He then went to the side of the boat and got two belaying pins, and threw them at me, but neither of them hit me. Ho then advanced on me with his knife. 1 had two little pocket pistols with me, and had had them loaded for some length of time. I drew ono of these out, and took as good an aim at him, I must confess, as I ever did at a fowl. I snapped the same, but it did not explode. He then ran to the main deck, but the others began to rather around me. I then broke after Dublin J ,ck with my other pistol. I went a few steps and then turned back. As I was returning I met one of the crew with a saucepan in his hand, which he held as if ho had something in it until he got up to me, when he exclaimed You d—d long-legged --,' and hit me across the head with the same. He repeated the blow, which hit me just over the eye. The saucepan having broke on the first blow there were several sharp points on it, which, on the second blow, cut me very badly. The other part of the crew wore close behind him, and all rushed upon me, beating me with belaying-pins, and stamping. upon me. I fell across a spar, and I had the pre sence of mind to pull my coat over my head to shelter me from the blows. A fe;:ow named Wil son, who was formerly on the pilot boat Mary *Taylor, struck me a very severe blow on the back of my head with a belaying pin, from which I fell down and felt confused, as if my head had been suddenly placed under the surf. The first mate, Stowell, seeing that they were determined me, ran in, and throwing himself upon me to save me from their blows, exclaimed, You have killed the captain, now kill me.' He sheltered my head with his hands, but the crew, who had pistols, placed them at every point where they could get a crack at me, snapping them several times, but for tunately none of them went off. The mate then jumped up, drawing his knife, saying, at the same time, ' I will put this in the first man who strikes the captain.' At this most of the crew drew knives, exclaiming, ' Ha, ha ! we have all got knives.' The mate then caught me up and dragged me down into the cabin. The men followed, exclaiming, 'Let him fall down the stairs,' also throwing belaying pins at me, several of which broke quite a number of the windows. Everybody exclaimed, Oh ' the captain is dead.' I did not then think I should ever get over it. Ido not now think I shall. The mutineers then ran into the cabin armed with be laying pins, pistols, knives, and other dangerous weapons each, driving the passengers above, break ing open their chests and trunks with hammers and hatchets, and carrying off everything of value they could lay their hands upon. Some of the passen gers came and took care of me the best way they could. The mutineers then went after the mate to murder him, but one of them, known as Phila delphia Jim,' cried out, No, no ' • you shall not touch the mat e .' Th ey th en took one of the ship boats and went ashore with their plunder. Dur ing Sunday night they got fighting among them selves, and most of them turned on Philadelphia Jim' for interfering on behalf of the mate, and pounded him to such an extent that he died that night. There was no one died of hunger, as stated in the papers. On Monday they all put off into the interior, and have not been seen since. The passengers, I understand, have all been sent up in waggons to Squan. I have not been at the ship s i nce my accident. I feel bound to say that all the wreckers have behaved like gentlemen. Captains Brown and Faulkenburg, who were there with their vessel, offered to render every aid in their power. Captain Brown offered to divide hia provisions with the passengers, but they had quite a supply, which they took from the ship. There were 301 passengers. Among them were some 30 women and about b 50 children, and about 10 or 15 infants. I think they were all comfortable when they left Squan." Mr. Newbrook, a cabin passenger, in his descrip tion of the wreck, says " The captain and the first mate of the ship cer tainly deserve the praise of every one. Better seamen we never saw, and the men with nobler hearts we never came in contact with. The cap tain, in order to quell the fears of those on board, remarked that they ' should all be saved if he had to carry them on his back to the shore.' Ho stood with a cocked pistol in his hands and threatened to shoot down the first man who dis)beyed his orders. One person did so several times ; the cap tain kept his word find shot at him three times. He was in a very low state when we left the beach, but hopes were entertained of his finally recover-, ing from his wounds. The result of the captain's action was that his orders were strictly obeyed, and, aided by his first mate, they saved the lives of upwards of 200 souls, whom they safely con veyed to shore." steps had been taken for the apprehension of the mutineers, one of whom is reported to have been frozen to death. THE ATLANTId TELEGRAPH. The stupendous project of connecting the Old World with the New by an electric cable laid upon the bed of the. Atlantic Ocean begins to assume the appearance of success. The necessary amount of capital, 350,0001., has been subscribed in shares of 1,0001. each. Twenty per cent, of the subscription has already been paid in ; the English Government has guaranteed to the stock an annual interest of 4 per cent., and invitations have been issued to the manufacturers of telegraphic wires to submit esti mates for constructing the cable, according to a pattern, 'with s ecur ity th a t it shall be completed and ready for shipment on the 31st of May, 1857. Two steamers, each having one-half of the cable on board, will meet on mid-ocean, and, joining the electric band, will move—the one toward the east ern and the other towards the western continent, running off the cable into the sea behind them, until they touch the opposite shores of Ireland and Newfoundland. It is expected that this work will be finished by the Ist day of July next. The route of the cable will be between the parallels of 48 deg. and 52 deg. of North latitude, along a remarkabl e steppe, which has been discovered by soundings at the bottom of the sea, between Cape Race in New foundland and Cape Clear in Ireland, and which is already known as the telegraphic plateau. The great-circle distance between these two opposing shores is 1,640 miles, and the greatest depth of the sea along this route is, according to the recent soundings made by Lieut. Berryman in the United States' steamer Arctic, not more than 2,070 fathoms —about 12,420 feet. This depth is reached at a point nearly equidistant from either shore. The bottom of the ocean, along which the electric wire is to be stretched, is generally a fine calcareous earth, free from all abrading materials, and resting for ever in pe r f ec t repose, beyond' the reach of those winds and angry currents that vex the waters 2,000 fathoms above. Now and then an iceberg, drifting along the surface of the sea, drops its melting masses down into these sunless depths ; and brave old ships, vanquished by the storm, sink and settle slowly into this fleecy bed, which gradually rounds over their forms, as the snow rounds over the perishing traveller. The elec tric cable, once buried in this silent sepulchre, will remain'free from every disturbing influence, and the whole difficulty in stretching it across the At lantic Ocean will consist in getting it down to these far depths, not in retaining it safely there. It is impossible to comprehend the far-reaching results of this wonderful adventure. It is the marriage of the two hemispheres of the globe, but whether the marriage is to be for the better or for the worse who shall say ? The gulf of waters by which na ture has separated hostile continents is bridged by the electric chain of thought ; and people of di verse languages and uncongenial habit s are made immediate neighbours. But too much familiarity with our antipodes may beget a dangerous con tempt, and it is possible that we shall be led to entertain less friendly feelings for our far-fetched neighbourd than we have now, while the ocean separates us from them. Still it will always bo a pleasant thought that we are able to annihilate distance, and make Time, who flies so fast, a dull laggard. That imaginary period which, in our jokes, we have styled " less than no time" will be come an actual fact. The looker-on in Venice may send a message over the Atlantic wire which will be read in New Orleans four hours before it leaves London on its way westward. The daily T imes will tell its readers at their breakfast tables what is happening this very morning at Paris, Berlin, or St. Pete rs b urg. We shall wait no longer with anxious expectation the arrival of the European mails. The steamers will bring no news, and the occupation of our foreign correspondents will be gone. The Adriatic and the Persia may then compete for the longest passage across the Atlan tic ; and voyagers will loaf leisurely over the sea, having no concern but their own personal com fort. But from this pleasing picture we must turn to another—its opposite ; for there is one ma- portant element in the organisation of this Atlantic telegraph which is worth noting, as it tends to de stroy much of its rospective value to the United States. The company, though it was originated by our own citizen, will be exclusively under English control. 262 shares, representing 262,0001. of its capital, are owned in England, while only 88 shares, 88,0001., are own e d i n th e U n i ted representing States. The landings of, the cable will be in Eng lish territory. The eastern end willland at Valentia, a harbour in the south-western extremity of Ireland, about 40 miles directly west of Cork, and the wes tern end will land at St. John's, in Newfoundland. This fact may be of little consequence in the " piping times of peace," but in times of war i becomes a matter of great moment. In the hands of Great Britain the ele2trie cable would then boa powerful antat - fonis , , i 4 Nx4:;,!Li j in ) , :i,:i1.)10 for US iLol:rj. I: I,S ; (1.)0, , at.:COUII4 of this advantage that the English Government has been induced to grant to the company an an nuity of 14,0001., and to place at its disposal such naval service as may be needed in sounding and laying down the cable. And it is for this very rea son that our own Government should hesitateabout granting to the company a similar charity, which will be asked for byand by. The Atlantic telegraph, when completed, will be the wonder of the age. But it can never be extensively available to the United States unless the western end of the cable shall be landed on our own shores.—. New York rinses. Country Markets. CHELNISF6 lit D-JA N. 2. Wheats, of which the supp last week's prices; best bari Ali else without alteration therein. ly was limited, were firm a Leys fully is per qr. dearer. in value, with a slow trad Wheat, white, old, per s. qr. 37 new 40 red, old 35 new 35 Barley 31 Chevalier 36 Grinding 3l Malt 72 Chov - alier 74 8. 8. per qr. 24 30 Partridge 41 43 White 39 46 Boiling 4O 47 Dun 37 39 Deana, Tiek 36 40 Harrow tickB 40 48 Alazagan ..... 35 37 Ditto, new 35 38 Oats, Peas, COLCHESTER- JAN. 3. The supply of wheat to-day was moderate; the moist weather the latter pa:l of the week has affected the condi tion, and such was a slow sale, whilst good samples were taken freely at last week's prices. Barley again Is dearer, making 3s per qr. on the average of the past fortnight. Beans and hog peas maintain last week's rates. White peas 2s cheaper. Prices to-day were as follow :—Wbeat, white, 62s to 745; red, Hs to 665; barley, 41s to 52s ; oats, 23s to 28s ; beans, Mazagan, 36s to 33s ; middle and small, 38s to 425; peas, white, 40s to 45s ; grey, 40s to 445. Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c., received in the port of London, from the following ports, from Dec. 25 to Jan. 3, both inclusive. 17s 1 ti. -a cr; 1 - 4 .;,... ,1 X 0 ~- A 260( '? 210', 90 ( 30 505( I 148. 20 890 396 ? 100120 i 50 20 - - 39 29 VA 200 Colchester Harwich Leigh Mahlon KIRKCALDY—JAN. 3. To-day we bad large supplies of wheat and oats, but small of barley. The demand good, and sales readily made at fully last week's rates. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. I Beans. First Second 56s Od I 403 Od I 248 Od Os Od Third 3os Od I 303 01 21s tld I Os Od Oatmeal, —s to —s per bag of 2801 b. :ET.-JAN. 5. the close of the market. Wallsond, &u. s d Rraddyll lB 0 Loverson 17 0 /I etton l9 3 Eden Main lB 0 Lambtou lB 9 Russell's Hetton 18 0' ', South Hotton 19 0 Stewart's . 19 3 T ees l9 3 Thomas's Merthyr 22 0 South Hartlepool lB 0 Derwentwater Hartley .15 6 2 I Sold 6O COAL MAR Priooa of Coal per ton at 6. a. Bebside's Hartley 15 6 Davison's West Hartley 16 Htl'pool West Hartley 15 Hastings' Hartley l5 6 Long,ridge's Wst Hartley 15 6 Bates's West Hartley ..,15 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 15 9 raufield Moor l4 9 Tanfield Moor Baas 14 ti Walker Primrose l4 0 Wallsend, &e. Riddell l7 0 %lips at market... 7' SEABORNE MAILS. [When the date for makin.4 up a falls on a Sunday, the mall remains open until the day following ; except in the case of the India mail, via Southampton, which, on such occasions, is made up the evening previous.] Made up at W hence By what the des. When By whai Post Office. patched. Vessel ' ex p ected yeasele - .m... 0.. 7th,l7th, & , it, a 27th of the „l i p ' t " o ", l `' b m ra ana. Jan. 14 Madrid month. 4th & 20th I 4th and South- 20th 4 of the Ripon. month. 1 ampton Pera tho ot month. i 4th of i South- ...• •• .. Ja n . 4.. 'Ripon J the aalpton mouth. el ran. 12 .. j South- pton C i o 3 i a u n in- fan. _ biontra. :!.: relict , j 4 Feb. 5.... Hart- .... . . . . ' Jan. 25 England t i -) 1 Jan. 9.... aSmoupthon , Tamar Jan. 12 Trig ; 1 J ; - 1 $ $ Ist and 2d o a f n tl d i l a 7th 16th of , ampton Orinoco the La Pia South month. I J month. Jan. 17 .. / South- i ampton 16th of Orinoco the La riabi month. Feb. 2.. • • j South ampton '•••• • • • Jan. 1 lAtrato Tan. 23 ..} " Y . mo ith Gambia Jan. 6 CandaC4 , E very F ri. } Liver. ' p ool Persia Jan. .....*•' Tan. 6 and alternate Liver ,, Atlantic Jan, Baltio " Tuesdays. } P Jan. 14 .. South amptonArage.. ........ ....... Tan. 27 .. 1 Liver- Anglo- Jan. 7 AngW j pool Saxon 6a s0 4 .... __ Lisbon Spain Gibraltar Gibraltar 1 Malta ...• Egypt Ceylon India Mauritius I (via Ceylon)) China Penang Singapore Australia(via the Cape) Cape of Good Hope Mauritius E Ceylon India Lisbon 1 Madeira CapedeVerds I Brazil liuenosAyres Falkland Is lands West Indiesi i(except Ha vana and Honduras). Venezuela Grey Town New Granada Chili Peru California • Honduras • . Nassau Mexico .... Havana • • .. Madeira .. .. Tenerife .. W.C.of Africa British North America .. United States United States British North America .. United States British North America Canada ....} 3 1—Morning. E—Evening. • The Oude Railway Company has issued some expll: natory st a t emen t s w i t h reference to a company which has advertised itself at the Oude Central Railway, in t . manner to lead the p u bli c t o i n f er that it. is an origins pr. ject, of which the Ouda Company has unfairly 00 3 trived to get the start. It appears that, while the Oude Company made application to the India-house as early s. May last, and obtained registration or. the 4th of Julf last, the Oude Central merely followed it in both is' stances. The Oude Company also point out that the assumption by its imitator of the title of the Oude Cen' tral is a contravention of the important clause of the Joint-Stock Companies Act which prohibits any comply/ from registering " under a name identical with that 1 4 which a subsisting company is already registered, or 90 nearly resembling the sante as to be calculated to de' ceive."—Times [ADVERTISEMENT ]—Holloway's Pill s s h ou ld b e ta ke! t for the Cure of Dropsy.—Pemales at a certain period or life become liable to this complaint, which fire t maks° its appearance by the swelling of the feet, legs, and hands, and thus making strong inroads on the eonstitty tion ; numbers of dropsical patients, even when their cases were pronounced hopeless, have been cured by talc' the ing H test o llof oway's pill s ; and this medicine having stood ' years as a certain remedy for this malady, 1 10 one so afflicted should avoid giving it a trial.--Sold bf • all medicine vendors throughout the world ;at Professor, 1 Hollow a y' s E stablishments. 244, Strand, London, an d at 80, M ai d en -l ane, N ew York ; by A. Stampa, Con' Maltastantinople ; E. Guidicy, Smyrna ; an d E . Muir, BIRTHS. Of A SON. On the 4th inst., at Brompton llall, lirompton, the w ife of Joseph Joel, Esq. On the 4th inst., at Manor-place, Paddingtonweeen the wife of W. Naylor, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 21 inst., at West-park, Mortlake, Mrs. Jobs Doulton. On the 4th inst., at tho Royal Militat7 Academy, Woolwich-common, the wife of tiugustua Blaquiere Tal bot, Esq. MARRIED. s ti On the 3d inst., at St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Thos. Poole Collier, Esq., F.R.C.S., of Worship-street, Finsbury, to Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of Lawrence Beeten Harris, Esq., of Mile -end-green. On the 3d inst., at Trinity Church, Waltham-cross, 3.• Crawter, E sq., ot Turner's-bill, Cheshunt, to Jane Mary, the eldest daughter of John Sharpe, Esq., of Waltham' cross. DIED. On the sth inst., at Montagu -squat e, Lieutenant-Colonel Close, late of the 4th Madras Native Cavalry, aged 71. On the 4th inst., at Freston Lodge, near Ipswich, Edw. Beaumont Venn, Esq., Deputy-Lieut. f or th e county o f Suffolk, aged 76. On the 4th inst., at Southa mpton -buildings, Chancery' lane, Mr. John Phillips, aged 63. On the 3d inst., a t Diss Rectory, Norfolk, the Rev, W Manning, 46 years rector of Diss, aged 86. On the 3d inst., at 9, W estbourne-park-crescent, Har row-road, John Dobson, Esq., agod 76. On the 3d inst., at 47, Munster -street, Regent's-park, Mr. John Witney, sen., aged 78, On the 3d inst., Mr. Samuel Solomon, of 63, Poland' street, Oxford-street, aged CO. On the 2d inst., Mr. R. R. Williams, of 28, Basinghall' street, aged 64. On the Ist inst., at Castle Archdall, co. Fermanagh, Colonel Archdall, brother of the late G enera l Archaltlir M.P., an d uncle of Mervyn .Archdall, Esq., 31. p., county Fermanagh, aged 89. LONDON: Printed and Publiqhed by MIIRDO YOUIst.S • of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Otfico, 11 . 0. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the S'avoy, in the ;low' tl of hliddlesex, Tues lay, January 6, U 57. 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