The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

a. _._ _______ ed he re ft :d 10 t. w on c'e" ' idr.D 3cl Archdeac° bEcEikiiihil, 25, 1855.] Jol lo '3 :cri tics ' ast pert) • iOit j derr' r sdal o s g f ' t ° ;s ll ' oca 9 4 - to as O i l ,' tjov; res ° lleo l , 31r. feu tio a t ork dr , Xr . J°' o 3 e t4ag• ha r d , a. sheP; to pi e r "White Star" mail ship Earl of Sefton, Captain Noble , tyl s 141 Saturday from this port for Melbourne, with the 1: for Australia, 200 passengers, and a valuable cargo. 13 .4:rns, residing in Rosé-place, was admitted into pia Yid Infirmary on Friday, suffering from the effects of ?and died shortly after admission. 1' CANADA, Captain Lang, sailed hence for Boston, on P - 1 73', with the mails and 86 passengers, among whom hi`Zr George Simpson, Governor of the Hudson Bay 17 11 y. The Canada had also a valuable cargo. I t j ll Poolt, CnsTom-Trouss.—Mr. Joseph Breckles has p r omoted from the office of weigher at Port Glasgow, of weigher of the third class in Liverpool. LANCASHIRE MAGISTRACY.—P. R. Arrowsmith, Esq., „ ( . 4 Zr2r of Bolton), Captain Gray, and Mr. Abraham Brier tln West hill, cotton-manufacturer, have been added to the )ulission of the peace for Lancashire. iTalcx Invirris and George M`Donnell, who had been .1 1 times remanded, on a charge of robbing Thomas Alder lamplighter, in St. Andrew-street, on Friday week, deuce, were on Saturday committed for trial. `,urday, Ann Campbell, a servant who resides in feet, fell down stairs and fractured her right arm. removed to the Southern Hospital. 'MENT has renewed the contract with Messrs. `43., and also with Messrs. Pilkington and Wilson, 'ince of the Post-office mails from this port to M.-Mr. Hickey, of Liverpeol ; Mr. Derham, of rlatteley, of Rochdale ; Mr. Rickwood, of Lan. of Ormskirk ; and Mr. Webb, of Chester, ire now under examination at Warrington for iY DESECRATION ,— On Sunday morning, Wm. poster, while engaged in posting bills in Dale im and received several severe coutu- As parts of his body. He was conveyed to the ;pital. wt steamer Niagara arrived in the Mersey, on Kingstown;Wlth the Clare militia, vhich will immediately 'to the camp at Aldershot. The •eturn in s day or two to Kingstown, with the Anti& rederick Wyer Parker, of the '79th regiment, was at Preston, fined £2 and costs, :and ordered to ge, amounting to £2 3s, Od.„ 'for breaking the by pitching empty soda water'bottles at them. , admitted the offence. tree-court, on Saturday, Mary:and Ann Gorman, daughter, were committed for trial charged with g 'base coin at their lodgings in Bent-street, 'where moulds and otherlmplements, as well as slavions coins, had been found. itrua WINDBOUND WlET.—Despatches were 'Friday night, by direction of the lords of the , the captain superintendent of Plymouth dock _'a steamer out immediately, with provisions and the relief of the windbonnd fleet in the chops of the ',,lre crews of which are reported to be suffering great I. Her Majesty's steamer Hecla left Plymouth on `Morning with thatojett. iturday, at the Policeccourt, John Collins, and fo:ffr rters, engaged by Messrs. Brassey and M`Cormiek, 'narged with ill-using flre horses at work on the incline --ice's Dock. They pluaded they had been obligedlbo ;'sally severe to the •animals owing to the slippery- tate 44 ground in consequence of the bad weather. Mr. Mans ,,srnissed the case in 'Allis instance, observing, 'however, ', l [ :_brought up sgain,lhe should be compelled tOildßiet a tq v , 'RPOOL BANKILIVIATCY COtßT.—Before Mr. .o(rnimis der Stevenson.—ln reelJuhn Bronson.—Friday WaS bhe day ,for the exa mination , of the bankrupt, who wasza draper t ' l ng on business in , the Old Haymarket, and Whose debts OPwards of C2;0430. The bankrupt has withdrawn from itiis supposed he is now in Attotica. At oclock in Th afternoon, he was called on byldr. Ayres, appearing, e 'he was outlawed. it a `is'eo.les, Lie;eieean.—The Lords Comaiisiien&es of Her 1 'rest3''s Treasury he we been pleased to approve Ithe following et'ell classiecationeef the clerks for general business at the of Liverpool, te. take effect from the :oth inigt. : 1 Con- ' tex' r of Accourres, salary 2400 to 2500; a AFet!tant Con . eof Accounts salar y £320 to 2400; -8 principal clerks, ' 0 to ge00; *West-class clerks, salary e 230 to £260; 6 nd-elass clerks ' -salary £l9O to 22t0; 9 third-class clerks, 37 ' £l6O to 111 - 93; 11 fourth-class clerks, , stiary £l3O to 2 0 ;13 fifth-class clerks, salary 21205 to TOO ;15 sixth s clerks,..adkiny i 75 to £lOO---aviil ServieoGazette. KTTEYTTED SUICIDE.—At the •Betry petty sessions, on ttlay, IVilliamiKershaw, a collier, was chargedwith attempt ' to commit- suicideby hanging hiroselfmtth a handker v On •Witinesday night, about eleveivelelock, a police .,"e heard a ettrange noise up the entry new the Boar's end, on going up, he found the prisonertraspended from ~ ` 1 Irani end on the point of death. He was imme k,,ol &eout limn, and life was restored. ilt was stated that eV:4oll e r •Aims sober at the time ; thatihetlead been in the Ori e l of 'Messrs. Roscoe and Lord ; and , was known to the ,ke t ßreliilid ,or two having been afilliatedenpon him in that ' t Vhenniked why he bad attempted to destroy him- Nt ir saidiieltad been having a tittle drink. He had done '4' . no 'had , under the influence of 'jealousy. Mr. Crook, 'il llt i n ati otihe bench, commenteionthe awful position in i td eL llie Tiretener had placed hinteelf,,and dismissed him, "Qg himte pay expenses. Vinyl -0m PROFESSION.—OR Thnrstley a deputation. l :1 1 `lle Provincial Medical and Surgiral Association, con (! Of. Sir 'Charles Hastings, Drs. 'Webster, Wynter, ller,'an'd ilenry, Messrs. Brady, MX. ; Readlam, M.P. ; Plies, Lord-Nunneley, &c.waiitell on Sir George Grey, at 'onle.lbrace, for the purpose of ascertaining the intentions i't?,' , ernraent on the question , ef -medical reform. Mr. kin introf.suced the deputation; :after...Which Sir Charles :Igs, ;MM., laid before Sir George 4 Grey 'their views and 4'on-the-aubject of medical reform , whirik the Provincial 4. Altion ereevell known to entertain. 'Mkt Home Secre -11 the course of the interview, repeatedly gave the de 'n to , understand that the gevernmentlead no intention t oeld not easily be induced to bring in. a bill on the sub 'ettt rrecommended Mr. Headlam to reintroduce his bill, t Otteh improvements as might The required, promising it "l'itease :his individual support, but net :hedging that of t.'lverzireent. Mr. Headlam said he -saw no chance of !le' it, as he should be certainly met with the objection ' the. ealeject was one to be -dealt with o.:e , government. Y,:kettibers o f the deputation were-compelled to retire from C 4 terview without the encouragement' they-sought. il kna 4t cklee NreseNces.—Mestra. MuaprattandtCo. were sum before the magistrates, on Wednesday ; for causing a e, by.ellowing dense volumes .of smoke tto issue from S tenineys. o their chemical weeks in \Vauxhall-road, on i t 'di instant. f Mr. Macdonald •stated that he fiaad examined ''lVeeinises of :Messrs. Muspratt. There tweve altogether '''twenty-farnaces, the smoke from which was carried off il t o:'% , chimneys, which were only -exactly ,sufficient. The A ttnightt ,be greatly alleviated gay -careful stoking. For e ricethe• foreman for Messrs. Illetspratte stated that he olie all he cediel to consume the erndke as. itipassed through SOisasneys, and if any offensive smoke did- escape, it was 1 1.7:ter the.regligence of the stokers . and firemen. Fined kialitr. Abraham l Manx was eummoneil .for causing a _, on theeitl instant, by smoke issuingefrom his oil ee il it ,, , kPenihertonegardens. Fined 40e.---Mr.Joseph Martin, k4eeps a rice,mill in Boundary-street, Wauthnlleroad, was ir t oned for refueiag admittance to inepectoreWignall and V, tactionald,,tcr leak over his preneisee,and :for, causing a \', 4 k . nuisance on .the 6th instant. It was ,proved that e Jig. of, , dense,blaek smoke issued from the chimney for a Verable time. ;.Fined 25 for the etnisnuce. The inagis- P *informed' MrAlartin that be was treading• an very tkerons-grounkirk refusing admittance tee .theeeflicers of Viiiiterdtheeommittee„ but the summons far this offence was " ed wlth a warning- I t.l4alD ' Y ' ellf " ..3 Rr'il./-" , SETTING- HER laktri6E•ol4 - NIEE. k th e Police -court, gears of :age, stated. le . 'n. --- ;; E rida , Mrs. Helen Horswell, about be F riday, widow of a merchant, was 7ged with-settin%fire - 1 -,.. her house (which was insueed),42, t to ll th-street,extet -Park.h t A policeman s t a ted ' that emen ',Nthe patlour of Mrs: idoeswell's house, and found-theedoor I, 4 Lee r oom n early burnt out, the carpet i n fl anae te.and -.some i's of the 'floor nearlyeansumed. Mrs. Horeweil ~toldttite ,seer that shehad gene out,rend left itchier with eeme.artieles V t v,eare eg ap p ar el u pon .it, aud she account e d f or Mee d i saster 144 11 e falling outiof- the grate of a piece of wood which - she t (l AA on thetre before she,went out. The Offieer maid that 1 1 t h e %alit 661*x:ear the. fire, but it was not even ecor c h e d ele flames. The'lindlord.of the house estimated theelamage 4 i °l' ts The.agent of the.C.o' unty Fire Office stated that icy ; ll taiture . belong to Ms.: Horswell had an insurance po .ee'Pori it for 2150,4 n that oirtee,ibut Mrs. Horswell had not tinednY claim as etra'or the damage her furniture had sus en by by Y •• edat £1 16s. the late fire,which was estimated te„,., h ''' Was, that Mrs. Horswell cook' not have had any infer'. N ti t ° defraud the insurance compaty, as she had made 'no tA l2 „Pon the compaohand it was a question whether she 41),` 411 3' set fire to her-house at all. The presiding magistrate k'''e bad no alternative but to remand the prisoner for a tf,-,though he would take bail, if she could find two sureties t, andac, and herselfin 020. The prisener, however, could 'it tw o sureties of 2.lo,each, but one : surety of £2O was , e. which was aecepted. N t ' ll ,,kir FIRE AT BLAC,FAUON. — On Friday morning, be ,,,,,ik., two and three o'clock, a fire was discovered in the e N e .Warehouse of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway r I Y, situate near Darweuestreet, Nova £cotia. The ,lelt h es Were quickly on the spot, and commenced playing on t t e t i, er n ing cotton, &e.; but the flames were so-rapidly car t, 4 .,.P0g the building by a sharp wind, that they rendered i ,- "llttZ ri t e v e almost nugatory the many jets of water4that were lui t , 1 3 7 thrown upon them. Tbece was a considerable ki Aiks of cotton in the warehouse, and that burned: fiercely O to ihe efforts to prevent it. Every means at band were t t ?4,," 0 get away the moveable goods, ; a considerable h 7Ave were told were saved. Mesers. Harrison AUX" k . II A 4 0 .xescuing some of their machinery, and several wag- I 0:I o e goods were run out of the warehouse beyond the 1,4 0 ,, . theelarnes. In about two hours the whole building ' ioll, 3 " n e inass.of fire, and it only began to reduce its vast pro re , s ,,aB the roof by piecemeal fell in. Before the flames l e e f,' L lognished, the whole warehouse, with the exception V,k4 4; Yards at one end, was roofless. There is nothing i l. s e ; l e exception before stated) but bare stone walls now to 04,1 The ,portion of the roof that remains standing , 4 to be so much burned as to render it useless. It is 11`,,;), 4 * - : 1 7, several ,tradesmen in the town (speculators in cot o ,;: be heavy losers, as their cotton was left in the ware tll en,* for their convenience, and was uninsured. The ,det e , s _° doubt he several thousand pounds, in addition to ..k. t , -- Qge (lane to the building. k'i. 4. 4 Z°N.—ln the Court of Chancery, on Thursday, the q 5 3 4 ,1 .!torsfield v. Ashton'' came before the Lord Chancel tlit:4:tiellule lords justices. The question is the true con -o,l', Of t e,.'f the will of Joseph Horsfield, a cotton manufac kqere„ '"Yde, near Stockport, who died in the possession of k I 0 4 , 4 worth more than 2200,000. The will, it is said, t tlNre• °r oPosition of the village schoolmaster ' who received t l )lll 4 , 9P ) for his work, and extending, as it does, to many Lehtik, Puzzled many counsel and several judges, and t „e_ le o :LelY be sent for elucidation, or rather settlement, iterh o " s e of Lords. The point at issue now is, whether A ke, pto . e f , ll d s Lit g Y 2 of the estimated value of £10,000,. goes to the ithi l ' e e 1, 1 1'3:_ utter or to the heir-at-law. The Vice-Chancel pp,, ce richi o s t was of opinion that it goes to the daughter. lop of the argument on Thursday, their lord tl4 1 4 441 th e k't ,e a r„ will was one of very difficult construction, and ill `hey'e I n some parts so irreconcilable with other parts e.., a,.. .eust take it'oe rstiee ,-.• . time to examine its provisions. The et t , t. , ol . th _ naught Bruce felt at a loss to understand the 4 !40 1 / 1 ed j Parties not going to the House of Lords, till he te,,z e e ,,,_ete amount of the property. That amount suffi 'llledta't.ui!ledeforproceed lawyers availing themselves of the "mg of ing. judgment reserved. of St. cpu, 4 _ lool•r0000°t 4 IZE D.Ax ''" The sabiec ti fi, aAi , big _., T g a " died A this t0,"„.,14 4,10,k1cA, agent aeo- N I "41 Y with " MIA , S' ' !rs are -, i Ali, Sir Geo docklao t vans . The ~,o promoted 0014 3Tary.,, ..,u l ' tbit. ' big in XsL , ' ,I. 4of weigh l SCaidea,b/,! it i ,1,, Lisc '.! e3 pireg ' tf: o ltr Oft 11114" est hill Chu lingllo' . ~, SiOn of ti for the Pat' 'ts t latex own, Irehuid: ki.al tim Ll' be arrived s',. o i l a las.rei The cause °I viol enc e, Phe ,duced by er :i se ir was tiveutr I:(ilf.strt.irday r vva s remove s been ig5l2A ,k,‘ER,,i weekly w- `,es at: mnigi oatrgr Ohe 4 Co., tish C 4 en ti , • uelt, eett °am eye, LiverPo°l3 4tX Viye. k at, eedin'o"- --.orsie ~, psi s t iff ___, 1 the re,, ;'),..,-ur. yi 'nited St''-,..4 'it,L3VM 'llateli PI, , fj ' 5 , lire I °COW° r tOt C ' ll ' %,,13 bi ll xorkraesaell; t, f:ll3rd po lac bililail t413,,,a' from lckio.l3e• ttheZarioul vial a sell; ,1ck,..„ Hosp Ter3st ''..- '‘Nil;ranspon Brorre1;1; i(4,ta from I iggios' 1.,4 ; 'warded i r. tfr'SrVata. ' will re 05 ctroat ghar n mi " te 'l. 50 ilit axFre i be eV''' . urd ay, a; es. Isira' ; edamage t Jobs .-, ,4 , lamps . :enbe0,,,,""0 4 fendant I ast fec"iio ti i the pot , ' perties.ao kker and ye f the r ° , 1)e• ,x,tl:„actlirin.eal eenie, ,„,, k ..d.road- -1 frota yak ktll,tity of f ' 3 igiit fOt4 /El, I dere& t.e. ~i,,,,rcied 0V . is O'9 +iilrait,,,, °II ' !,,, , t o 4 3 to iliot, ‘'er senda rsdal i l 3te ',411 f or the r 4 D'%lifr°etzer,_tilact Ztlzitoins'll4 cur t, 311d3,°1%. -5, 1 a-Morn ' et-r 04 - rsd ' ay Dietni ,tt taBrthirda , , A , v , - „ e IsSreelii,sl,o s , liricharnge .. d , i , ridO, b at o tiot;ksaiee's I lave o t 0 ly ground , Afsmrcind, GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. THERE are 10,000 English militia in Ireland, and before the Ist January 5,000 Irish militia will be in England. CANADA produces such a supply of isinglass as may com pensate for the loss of the Russian imports. SEVERITY OF THE WEATHER.—So intense was the weather on Tuesday night, that the works of the great clock at St. Paul's were frozen. The clock is consequently stopped. THE Duke of Argyll has decided to send out immediate in structions to the officers of the army post-office in the East, to open money-order offices, for the transmission of money to the UnitedKingdom,at Constantinople, Scutari, the head-quarters of the army, and at Balaklava. A WOMAN has been fined ss. at Leeds, for a novel descrip tion of theft. She was in the habit of going from cart to cart in the market, " sampling" potatoe and apples, and contrived to make away with an apple and a potato from each lot she visited, so that on completing her morning's round she had a very heavy basketful of fruit and vegetables. A HORRIBLE MURDER has been committed at Dresden. An old sergeant in the army, named Jauckus, killed his wife and two children, aged nine and two and a-half years, by stabbing them with a poignard knife. Drunkenness and jealousy are said to have been the cause of the act. The murderer, after committing the crime, went to bed and slept soundly till the morning, when he was arrested. THE CURRAGH ENCAMPMENT.—Lord Seaton, the Com mander of the Forces in Ireland, has arrived in Dublin, from 'the camp at the Curragh, the severity of the weather having forced his lordship to 'discontinue his field days until the en suing spring, when - A is his intention to open the season by a conrse of practice in artillery and Minie rifles. THE REV. Divm Buovic MOORE, minister of St. Matthew's, St. George's-in-the-East, London, having petitioned the Insol vent Court under the Protection Act, .it appeared at the hear ing of the case last week, that the insolvent's income, which was now about £BOO a year, had been as low as £6O, .on which he had had to support a wife and seven children, 'of 'whom two daughters are still living. Mr. Commissioner Phillips said he deeply felt for the underpaid working clergy, laying an emphasison'the word " working." Protection was granted. THE OiIrECHA. ISLANDS.— ACCOAEAS `from 'the Chincha Islands 'announce that Pisco had been 'made'aperrt of entry. This Will 4ftect a considerable saving of time—say one month —in theNvoTage of vessels loading guano. There is now no necessity for them to proceed to Uallao for Ecenige and for clearingVapers.—Shipping Garete. Titt "CAsz or Da. VsuornlaiT.---:The 'indictment against the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, which Stood for trial at the Central 'Criminal Court, on Thursday, 'has - been removed by certiorari into'the Court of Queen's Bench, application being made toa ,judge at chambers for that purpose on' behalf of Dr. Vaughan, 'When an order was made for the writ'to issue. THE shock of earthquake which was lately felt in the Pyre qiees produced a strange effect'inthe commune of Generest, at 'the southern extremity . of a small 'valey, about four miles `from Montregeau. This valley 'was crossed by a 'rivulet 'which was abundant enough to 'troik two flour mills.erected in the village. A very-short timenEer the shock therivulet ceased to flow, and the bed of it has since remainedvarfectly d ry. GR/SI AND JEN - NV L11413.-rhe two greatest lyrical artistes in the world are' at this . moment residing ivithin three doors of each other 'End at the Bedford notel, and Grisi in a mansion'olose to • her, 'where the latterliill remain till after her confinement, .the%accouchement or" La Diva" being daily expedted. Mario *.Teturned to Brighton from Paris on Saturday last, and isz ill here.—Brig7iton Gazette. AN INFontfulflLTE ReNK.—The North of 'England Joint Stock Bank which stopped payment in Newcastle in the early part of 1.147,:and the alkirs of which ha - re since been in course of settlement Under the Windingzup Act, has now nearly reached file end of that process. The Master of the Rolls, on Monday,. ordered aiurther return 'Of £5 per share, in addition to three several , calls of £3O, gig, and £l5, to be paid by such 'of thecontribttories as have , n6t entered into saw compromise. TIM LAVE lin.-- 2 111r:Wahley, the.cmner, stated, arca inquest held last week, that his belief, and that of a mauler of his profesSion, was, that the Emperor'Xicholas committed suicide. ."Tis deatl . rvas put down tolpgralysis of the lungs and broncliiitis, which, -according to theaqmptoms desciiibed, was known %Ivo& medteal men to havekeen impossible. The official •doeument; , deseitbing the Emperor's death, atated`that at the la et he took ileswe of his family with a 'firm voice—a proceeding physically impossible if ho wa s suffering from the disease .gteted in the•tertificate of &db.." PON= AIYrorSTMENTs AS A. NE WARD or METerm.—At the meeting of the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institution last week, prodded over .. .by the Dean , ctf 'Hereford, the olairman read a letter from 'Mr. John Wood,. Chairman of the Inland BevermeCommisbion, authorising . 64 Dean to offer,:as a prize to ibe conipeted Turin the Huddersteld Mechanics' Institution, a situation 'in ithelinland revenue, which the chairman will hold himself readyto provide yearly..—Manchester Guardian BaßlDElß ( Catmauss' Rarzway.--LThe ceremeny , d cutting the tfire sod. of This railway was fly performed at Ilexham, ori Tuesday. 'The line commences at about a mile'from Hex nriiereit Will join the Newcastle and Carlisle:Railway ; it , crosses theriver, and taking the valley of North 'Tyne by Walk, 'Bedesmouth, Hareshaw Ironworks ' Bellingham, arid Palstone, terthingtes in a valcialle mineral distsict s ,ctilled the Plashetts. Ear COMPANY.—The quarterly meeting of this tontpanytwas held in Leadenbal-street, on Wednesday, when s. ail:lotion for an alteration in the manner of electing the di rectarsmas-megatived. A resslution was proposed that the Court , of ',Directors be abolished, and the respceSibirety trans ferred to the'Orownl; but an .amendment, "that the abolition woUild'be , prrltluctive of most injurious consequeneeS7 was car ftied,and the consequently thrown out. - The war- Tants.fortlui half-yearly dividend are to be delivered on the 7tll.3anuary. Szenunyart - tsTicE.-i-On Thursday night a garotte robbery isms , committed in the parish of St. ThouniTs-jzzr::: _. _ zeter. In - formationwas at once given to the police authorities : they 'saspocted two ticket-of-leave men, who were known to be in the neighbourhood ; traced them and apprehended them ; on Friday morning they were examined and committed by the co cutytmagistrates ;: and within twenty-four hours after the perpetration•ef 'the robberymere found guilty, and sentenced by Mr. Baron; Parke, at the winter assize then being held, to twenty years' transporta;tito, and an accornaziliee to twelve mouths' imprisonment. Ow'WenutneDAY 600 artisans, handicrafteuxen, and navvies, very carefully selected , for the duties which they will have to discharge, ensbarked , with their officers on board the Jura steam transport, and proceeded ou Thursday direct to the Cri mea. They:form at portion of Sir Joseph Puttee Army Works Cops, and haves been organised by him as a special body .always available .for the work of the commissariat, hi therto werytexpensively and ineffectively performed,by Croats and other`labourers hired in the East. Tux lisrra DIME : s IEANCHEISTER'S Wim- , AThe late Duke .of :Manchester's will, dated March, 3, 185 - 6jbas been proved , by executors; the present duke, and Mr: Ormsby, a Dublin 'barrister. His-personalty in the protince,cf Can terbury is ,swain under: ;000, exclusive of his charges, to the amount,of,X3s,ooo, on the estate of the late duchess in Ireland. His .grace' has 'left £lO,OOO to his young ductless, now the .dowager, exclusive of her jointure of £2,000 . .near. He has left 01!4,000 to eath .of her infant children, and the whole of his .residuary personalty, estimated at upwards of £70,000, to the :present dike, on whom are also settladqthe English and ffrish estates, : producing a rental of suore'tian £20,000 aqear. FATAL EMRIOSION ?AT ..A.IBLAST FoRNACE.—A dreb. - dfal explosion , occurred. on 'Monday, last week, at the blast-fur naces of Messrs. .H. and A. Heickman, Bilston. furnaces were in , full operationig.nd in one of them were ova five tons of fused material * when, without the slightest pre vious warning, - the rect-hot, contents of the furnace ~ were ejected about the place to- a, distance of some thirty yards, with a report as of r. small cannon. The engineer, William, Sulton, was standing with founothers within a few feet.,of the furnace when the ,molten,stream escaped. Directly that, the fiery shower poured upon =them their clothes were: i n n; flames. Sultefath.ewthimself inictattank of water, and, though badly injured, survives. The others became insensitsle, and died soon afterwards. MYSTERIOUS CABE QB 'POISO.NtMo.—In the vin age of Billesdon, near Leicester, a,whole famEy, of the name of part ridge, consisting of graudmother, father, and two children, were poisoned by the pudding Ipart*en of at last Sunday's .dinner. The puddivg , was made by the old lady, who at dinner :asked a bailiff, who was ibs possession, to partake of some, \which he did. Shortly after dinner the whole family were -taken ill, and the old woman died in the .eourse of the after noon. It is feared that a aifrtle 'boy, of , fiveyears old will also :lose his life : hopes are entertained that the others will re cover. Arsenic was found -in the pudding which had been left, And a canister of arsenic was also found :at the house of •the,old woman. A4solvo recent wills and charitablebequests mentioned as 'having been proved are —Thomas ,HankeY, Esq., banker, £144000; John Phillips, Esq., St. George's-place, Knights bridge, £O,OOO ; John Duncan, M.D., £25,000; John Bowan, VI.D„ £l4lOOO ; the Rev. James JOhn Hornby, M.A., Rural Dean and Rector of Winwick, £25;000:; Thomas ,Copeland, Esq., F.RfS., of Cavendish-square and Clapham, ,ZlBO,OOO Persons4Yoand has bequeathed £5,000 to the Asylum ,for Poor Orphans of ;the Clergy, St. John's-wood, and 45,000 10 the Society for the Belief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men in London. Mrs. Elizabeth Boyton, of Dover, has be queathed £l,OOO to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, imolai) for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, £2OO to the Dover Hospital and Dispensary, and £2,000, one moiety to be invested for the purpose of allowing from El to £5 a-year for each of the inmates ,of .the almshouses in Dover, and the othor moiety for the annual distribution of coals to ,uld sailors and widows of sailors, inha bitants of Dover. , FOUR CHILDREN STA.RVED TO DEATH.—CII Tuesday, the parochial authorities of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, London, were informed of the deaths of four children of Jane Hiller, a widow, residing at No. 20, George-street, Hopetown, Bethnal green. The wretched place where the family lived was badly ventilated and ill-drained, to which source the illness of the children has been traced and fatally illustrated. Amelia, aged four years, died on the Bth inst.; and Frederick, aged eighteen months, expired on the following morning. The poor woman, finding that her means were so small, and that others of her family were dying, kept the dead bodies covered over in the corner of the room, to wait the decease of another child, which took place on Friday morning. A fourth child expired on Monday morning last. The appearance of the deceased was most wretched, their bodies being literally a heap of bones ; but whether their condition has really arisen from mesentric disease or starvation is at present a question for the medical gentlemen 010 Will give evidence at the coroner's inquest.— Globe. THE QUORN HUNT.—By the death of Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., the large and well-known hunting establishment at Quern, Leicestershire, has been broken up, and the fine stud of horses, picked packs of howls, &c., have been brought to the hammer. The sale, which toe!: place at Quorn on Thurs. day and Friday week, was attended by 60Me tw o c thousand persons, including a n umerous propor ti on of noUle.men and gentlemen, masters of hounds, huntsmen, dealers, &e. bidding for the horses was extremely spirited. Somerby, whose reputation for jumping made him eagerly looked for, fetched 360 guineas, the purchaser being Mr. Murray, of Man chester, and it was understood that he was to go into Cheshire. The total sum realised for the 32 horses, sold on the first day, was 5,812 guineas; 13 made an average of 294 guineas. On Friday, six horses, that had been used in cub-hunting, fetched 460 guineas ; three hacks, 242 guineas ; three ponies, 100 guineas ; and the rest of the horses, &c., £393. The saddles and clothing brought 216 guineas, and the hound-van 16 guineas. The hounds, which were sold on the first day, in 14 lots of five couples each, produced 1,806 guineas. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MB. GEO. STACEY, late secretary to the Church of England Building Society, has recovered from the ditectott, by action in the Court of Common Pleas, £125 damages, for dismissal without just cause. - A FEW days ago, a man named Drummond, in attempting to avoid a runaway horse, on the Whin-road, Alloa, stepped back, and fell with his face on an axe which a boy was carry ing on his shoulder. The consequence was, that his nose was nearly taken off. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.--The Board of Trade, whose attention to the state of this railway had been called by the town council of the city of Norwich, have appointed Lieut.- Colonel Wynne, R.E., to inspect the line between London and Norwich. IN the Exchequer Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Wyld, of map ping celebrity, brought an action against Mr. Ingram, pro prietor of the Illustrated London News, for infringement of copyright, in copying into that paper some maps of the en virons of Sebastopol. It was alleged that various minute de tails, and the repetition of its inaccuracies, showed the im pression in the journal was copied from Mr. Wyld's map. The case was ultimately referred, a verdict for the plaintiff being taken, subject to the reference. A Rrcn VAGRANT.—At Oswestry, on Friday, a most miserable-looking man, with a wife and six children; was seek ing alms. He complained of dreadful poverty, and of his ina bility to get anything to eat, and was kindly afforded shelter by the gaoler. While he was making himself and his family all right for his brief sojourn under his host's care, something struck Williams that it might be worth while searching hiin. Upon looking closely, a silver watch turned up, Emboldened by his success, the gaoler searched further, when a gold watch turned up, besides sundry sovereigns. The tale told by the vagrant was that he found the silver watch near Liverpool, and the gold one was picked up by the children near Llanid loes. The different police-stations were communicated with, when from Sewton an owner was found for the gold watch, which bore the initials of "M. B. P." The man and his family are now living on their own means until something more is known about them. His *mane is' Patrick Middle,— Hertford Journal. THE ANA.BIAN DESERT.—Cap in William Allen, of the British 'navy, has published a book advocating the conversion of the Arabian Desert into an tocean. The author believes that the great valley, extending from the southern depresion of the Lebanon range to the 'head of the Gulf of Akaba,'bhe eastern branch of the head of the Red Sea, has been once an .ocean. It is, in many places, 1,300 feet below the level of - the Mediterranean, and in it are situated the Dead *Sea and the Sea of Tiberias. He 'believes that this ocean, being cut 'off from the Red Sea by the - rise of the land at the southern extremity, and being 'drily fed by small streams, Vradually became dried by solar 'evaporation. He proposes 'to Cut a canal of adequate size from the head of the Girlf of „lkkaba to the Dead Sea, and another from the Mediterranean, near Mount Carmel, across 'the plain Esdmelon,to"the fissure in the mountain range oft Lebanon. By this means`the Mediter ranean would rush lin, with a fall of 14300 TeX, fill up the valley, and strbstitrithun ocean of 2,000 sqtrareniiles in extent for a barzen,useless desert • thus making the 'navigation to India as short as the Overland route, spreading fertility over a now arid country, and opening up the fertile regions of Palestine to settlement and cultivation. AN ElccoVanlzicATlon AT Cezawslcz.—On Sunday, we were witnesses of a ceremony which has net been performed for ceaturies-- , iiv, an excommunication, 'the subject being , M. Sonntagiu:lnerchant at Coblentz, 'Win) was divorced front his tfirat wifeinnd eight years ago was married, by the civil atriihorities only, to his present one. 'hag summer M. Senn - tag wasnonimanded by the clergy 'to -separate from his wife, and •not obearg their decree, he nits on Sunday exceen xuanicated. Dean Kramentz, after preaching a sermon zagainsrthe mil marriage, put 'on -some other sacerdotal gsr ments, aid, accompanied by two 'clergymen bearing wax !tapers, "read, standing in the Middle of the church, the sentence M excommunication against M. Sonntag and his lady. 'lfellieu extinguished the:topers, saying that the per-:1 _sons nacre were not worthy to -see the day of the Lord, 'and thro ik, g - the candlesticks to the ground, breaking them to! piecesroxilaimed; Let the bolls sound the funeral knell We immediately heard the sound of bells and the Chants for the dead. The dean, in ccrneleilion, proclaimed that no ono whomsoever was to hold relations with the excommunicated, to itiktte there, &c. This rrdhibition has not had :mu& effect.,' their house has been --Biled ever since with visitors,l and -at night they have heist serenaded.— leiern .frown C Obieottz (Dec. 12). •A CEARACTERISTIC ANN2MOTE is told of one of theTuiliigh • stilt:Viers who was the first to foot inside the batteryttkin gout. Perceiving a Basilan colonel lying dead upon zthe gromid, he pluckedoff Iris. leve, and appropriated a •valuatile , :dianaoull ring which was Ripon his finger. Knowirw,however, that it would be impossible very long to keep secret theTpos- L session of so valuable apvire,le showed his Usbaslii,er captiln, ' his - treasure ' and requested permission to keep it. Tile ' Unbarai told the man that the was quite right to bring theaniee - to ;him, and that henceforward it should be transferrtieto The finger 'of the said Usbashi. The soldier, not satisfied with this ,Errangement, referred the matter to the Bimbaslapor who-said that both heandthe Usbashi were highly culpable in daring to retain the ring from their superior offkoer4nnd that ire woald, therefore, relieve them of the subject of dispute. From the Bimbashi the soldier went to the Kaintallianta, or lieuttmant-colonel, who-at once followed the example of his in .feriors, and took possession of the ring. The soldierstill per severed, however, andywent to the Meer Ali, or colonel, -who determined that he was the rightful possessor of altering, by vantue-of his rank, and dismissed the rival claimants from his presence in the most summary manner. Next day, French Officer, attached to the-staff of Omar Pasha, observed a private soldier prowling near thetent of the commander-in-chief. The story of the ring was:at once retailed by its original possessor to this gentleman,. who 'laid the matter before his Highness, and The man had notntly the satisfaction of regaining posses sion of his property, but of knowing that those who had at- I 1 tempted successively to deprive him of it had been severely remanded for theireonduct. LORD CAMPBELL , ON lIIIIE LIABILITY OP RAILWAY CONE PASIES.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, an action was brought' by . the widow of a gentleman named Meagher, to recover compensation in damages from the Eastern Counties Railway Company for the death of that gentleman by at accident on the • defendants' railway. A verdict , was taken by consent for the plaintiff; with £1,900 damages, it being arranged that '94Qtlis of that sum should' be appor tioned to the widow..of- the deceased, and 5-19ths to each. of his two children. Lord Campbell said the Eastern Counties Railway Company had,e.cted very handsomely in yielding at once and making compensation. He wished that all railway companies were equallyeenscious of their liability; but he understood they,made it-,aground of complaint that the set of Parliament obliged them to become insurers without pre miuin. .allovi, that was an complete misrepresentation of , the act of parliament, for companies were not sued as insurers, but as wrong-doers, and as ,having been guilty of negligence nhich .caused 'death. Theravere not liable unless the party killed, if :he had survived,wcaild have had an action fee:neg ligence. iln ' former times, :when a coach was upset, there were great rejoicings when, all the passengers were killed, for min that , ease, ono action.•conidthe maintained for negligence; whereas, tif any one survivedi he was entitled to maintain an action tnrecover damages for the injury which he had 'suf fered by the accident, The object of this act of Parliament was, when a party was killed .iy negligence, to give the re presentatives ,ef• the deceased .a remedy for the wrong. The representation which had been made of the act was wildly unfounded:; for not only railwayaeampanies, but all persons, were liable to,make compensatienozo that where a person was killed by negligence there ,night .be a remedy against the wrong-deer. THE FIENQIIVA,R-BORSH.—Mhe Moniteur publishes .a long article °lithe steps taken by the French government, at the suggestion of Abe }Emperor, for i'maproving the breed of horses for thearmyi by means of introducing more freely Arab blood among theslierses of the Frenclaregiments. The Barb, or horse of north Africa, is said to be superior to the Asiatic horse. To the . qualities which (constitute the war - horse—vigour truited -to docility, impetuosity to gentleness, and power of supportiag fatigue and privation—the African horse is superior tto : its 'Asiatic brother. Although ;perhaps less elegantitefortn, it is more robust and vigorous ; end the war in the Crimea , has shown .0411 its value, by its having been subjected to-the , roughest trials in a climate so ,very different from thatiin -which it was bred. The horses of 'the African Chassenas 'have stood every hardship, while the ethers have suffered most severely , and they-;rive justified to the letter what the Arab -says of the coarser which is the limilla of his-tent :—" Lie cawstand fatigue of .e , very kind, and .4%ll4oapport hunger anal thiest:" The African 'horse is truly .the4escendaut of the nOblei:Mitinal:Of which .Job, nearly 4,000 vears ago, said, " ire saith among the trumpets, ' Ha, •hx;'lhe smelleth, the battle afar .off, the thunder of the ,captains and the shouting?' In•Oetdber, 1851, Lient.-Colonel Vallot was placed at the heed :of -it mission, charged to visit all the•markets where horses areoffered for sale ; to go with the officers of the Arab bureunamong the tribes iitlia more particularly devote their attention to •the breeding of ;horses, and anioqg whom the original breedavas kept up in its great est purity, to avail themselves of every opportunity of pun chasing such stallions and mares as were best suited for the formation .of breeding establishments, ;and for keeping ,up thosealreadyerganized. In 18.51., the ,number of etalliens possessed by the State in Africa was .88 -; in 1.€55, the number was 111. 'The lumber of mares at the ;French depSts and stations devoted to purposes of breeding, in (L4l, was 3,209:; in 1855, theyhad encreased to 14,066. Tug Pox..a .4 , 143) I'BE TROOPER.—The Coaeneier des Alpes relates the following atory, the authenticity of which it gua rantees :—" A few ,months ago a soldier of the army of the East, writing to &comrade of the French army at iXoene, drew a sad picture of the privations and fatigues which the former had to endure, of the clangers to which they were exposed, and of the ravages which disease and the Russian balls were making in their ranks. He vonelutted his letter by recommending his friend without delay to tarry to the Pope himself the price o f a mass for the preservation of the French army, and request him to perform it. Faithful to the recommendation of boa friend, the soldier at Rome meat the next morning to th e Vatican, and requested the first attendant he met to eon. duet him to His holiness. `Hut, my brave fellow,' said the guard, `have you obtained the previous authority f or an audience?' All that is very well,' replied the sol dier, for great lords, but with a simple trooper no such ceremony is necessary.' The guard would not trespass on the usual regulations ; but the soldier, on his side, was so little disposed to give way, ~that it was found necessary t o conduct' him to the prelate on duty that day. There similar observations were made to the applicant, but all in vain; and at length the prelate, despairing of,overcoming th e importunity of his visitor, went and mentioned the matter to the Pope. As may be supposed, the curl ty of Pine IL wasl excited by the application, and the etiquet of the Vatican was set aside, the soldier being ushered in 0 e the presence of his Holiness. On coming near, the soldidy stood upright as a post, and, then giving the militarrahlute by raising hi s hand to his forehead,, addressed the Pope-es follows, just as if he was speaking to the lieutenant of his company :—`3fon Pape, here is a letter from a comrade in the Crimea which concerns you ; please to read it, and tell me what answer I am to send.' At the same time he with one hand held out the letter, and with the other some pieces of money. The Pope took the letter, and, after reading it, returned it to the soldier, saying, `fly friend, my mass of to-morrow is appro priated to a particular purpOOP ; but the day after, without : that French army. fail, I will say one with pleasure for i',.','t I, ho.. make one condition, and that is that nrepare to receive the Holy Communion. As to,' yourself ant:, y t ;;; attend °".ar keep the money to drink to the health the payment you °la..: e " That is sufficient, Mon of your brave brothers in -" m ?' prepare myself with ,4 Pape,' replied the soldier, 'I wil l : lir° and, the chaplain of the regiment, and the ... ay after , to-morrow, at the appointed hour, I will be at my pos. He thenleft his again H, saluted a la militaire, and, turning right about, ness, charmed with his militgy nenchalance. (srl the day i appointed the soldier was present at the mac; of the Soeereign Pontiff, and bad th e happiness of FPceiving the communion 1 from his hands. THE Moscow journals announce the arrival at that capital of the Persian Envoy-Extraordinary, Seifoul•Moulk-Mini• Pindj-Abbas-Kouli-Khan. AT the Thames Police•court, London, on Tuesday, a lad, aged ten years, was sent to the House of Correction for one month, for having worked a private still. THE London and Westminster Bank has sustained a loss of about £3,000 through the defalcation of one of their clerks, who has been about 20 years in the service of the company. SIR M. R. SHAW STEWART, M.P., has, with the view of affording his tenantry healthful recreation during the winter months, constructed a curling pond on Lunderston-hill, at a height of 300 feet above the sea level. AN official communication from Canada has reached the directors of the Great Western Railway of Canada, to the effect that the line between Hamilton and Toronto was opened for traffic on the 3rd instant with great success, the trains having kept time and been well filled. - Teas superintendent of the South Shields police force has been interrupted in a systematic appropriation of the borough funds - to his own purposes.- Twenty-six cases have been proved, in which he has received fines and fees from drunk and disorderly persons, and neglected to transfer the same to his Corporation account. He was committed for trial. A LETTER from Par° Sound states that the American brig Robert Patten has been seized by the Swedish authorities at Stockholm, and found to have bales of cotton filled with re volvers on board. There are said to be three other vessels similarly laden. at Copenhagen, waiting for the departure of the English squadron. A raw day; ago, the Whitehaven harrriers, belonging to T. Ainsworth, - Esq., of the -Flosh,-near -Egremont, were in pursuit , of a hare, near Calder Abbey,. when, in passing the brink of a large and deep quarry, s ix of the best and swiftest dogs fell headlong to the bottom of it. Some of the animals were killed by the fall, and others were so seriously iej*red that a period was put to their existence. THE Cumberland Pacluel states that the wife of a farmer 'residing at Frizington-hall had eozasion, on Satxtrday, to go ituto an outbuilding where a thrashing machine was at work. She incautiously stepped too near the machine ; and a portion catching her dress, she was instantly drawn in among the machinery. She did not 'survive many hears, the injuries which she sustained before she could be extricated being very severe. THE LONDON* LIM PKIIIS Exurntittons.—The French newspapers publish a cottvarison between the principal results of the L o ndon Exhibition of 1851, and that of Paris of the present, year, 'which is not without literest. The prinoipta feature in it is, that whilst the former'was open only 165 days, and the latter 198, the number of Visitors to the former was 6,039,195, and to the latter only 4,533,464 ; and that tile receipts 'ut London were 12,625M9f., and at Paris 'enly 2,941,668 f. RUM OE tilt OPORTO VaiTAGE.—According it 4 the Conentercio, a respectable Oporto paper, all the wort antici pations Of the vintage of the Alto Douro this year 'will be realised. A•litit is given of 45.zultivators, possessing:6B vine yarels,•and their produce for 1855 is compared withlhat of the average of tbrmer years. The result is 386 pipes against 5156 pipes. Taking this as a guide for estimating the whole pro deotion, it% presumed th*t it will not this year , exceed 71- per omit. of the average' quantlty. PFtW 'days ago, a boy named Irving, a ptp - il in the. Cen tral London District , s chool Establishmedt for Pauper Children, picked up a per containing a ;quantity of powder, in theithool-yard. IT° showed the powdeeto a school-fellow namell itan6al, 14 years of age, 'who immediately took a portion of it itto his mouth and trwallowed it. He . iliedqn two hours afterwards, the powder proving to be cor osive sublimate, which it is believed Mad been thrown into 'the school-yard from an adjoining public :Toad. likrnrso- a triarhefore Mr. Justice Mines, at Durham, a i/uryman, ori the dadge making some observations on the legal bearing of the case to one of the counsel, addressed his lord 411p, amid roars of laughter, and said, " I quite agree with year lordship!' Again, on the judge stopping a case, the •.4uryman informed his lordship that lre was of opinion it fought' to have been stopped half an hourtkago. As the judge was *umming up, he was for the third time addressed by tbejury unan, who said, " You may go on all night, but yen can't change my , epinion." EXTRAMDINARY TlMlLL.—Madamoiselle Dupuis, A young actress at the Vaudeville Theatre,ftris, lately appeared before the tributal of Correctional Pollee; to complain of the editor of the Theatre, for having, in w:orilticism, compared her to ra Nurettherg doll." What i particularly annoyed , Madlle. Dupuis was, that she never appeared at all in the part which the editor of the ire somstmercifully "oat ' The 7tribunedecided that such a stYleef criticism was neat allowable, • and, 'as it appeared to lavekibeest dictated by !arsenal ani mosity, it condemned Jellabert tbo pay 500 fr. inennd 2,000 fr. damages, alFio to insert the •tett.st the judgment inais paper, and to pay t'ae expenses .of inserting it in three other papers of Paris, to be chosen by thocomea.inant. GAZETIE /3 AT Max.ra..-4.tietter from 11falta-says:—" Msdta was never so attractive ttevisitses as at present. On Wednes day,?the new prima henna, _Madame Leonti,. is , to have' her benefit, and already heavy ;premiums are offeredera the prices of the tickets. It is thought it will, if possible,exceed her delnit, and then officers in , uniform were glad he go in the gallery ; .!ertainly, never since the English had Malta was so fullahou: se seen. On Friday, the officers of the Third Division -gave a large bate the ;Mt& ef Malta ; 700 tiehetslave already been issi Led. Oranges are a failure this year. Green Teas have just come in. The price of provisions , 4E 'very high, • although we are so •Close , 4to Africa,•where poultryand meat is to be had, for almost nothing:" - vermin IN urn VitP24I,!•STATES.—The Piemestie gives:an .aveount c ,f the state of the prisons in. the papal dotninions. It says :- —" In 1850, there were imprisoned 1121,436 persons ; iin 1851, 11,279; 1'1(1852,111,767 in 1853, • 1204 ; in 1854, 13,006." Showing an :augmentation •of '2,67o,—nearly one 'fourth, b a five years. The-same journal states that on the 31st of last 1 ,ugust, there were '683 persons imprisoned in Fort lflibano. whom - it illiSidestunder the following,heads :—" Con demned by the Sacra !Consulta; 21; condemned by the ordi nary tribunals, 3371 ‘tortilemned by the military tribunals, 1111; .con tdemned by the diccesan tribunals; 7 ;, awaiting judg ment, 2 ; in transit; 1; retained as a measure of precaution, i 124," L ! these figures areonly tolerably correct (and the diffi ,cstlty of . t,scertainitag withistrict precision such statistics mast be well u nderstood)., wbata sad picture do they present of the alemoraltz ation of a country containing less than . 8,000,000 in ,habitants,. and governed by the Romish Church! pip m] :SE Cuusasinzs.- 7 -During the recent, audience to lßritish of rents at Burmalrlty the king, the Kinpand Queen sat on the throne smoking. The King is pronounced to be • decidedly a handsome man,. and with an agreeable expression of face, I) is Queen decidedly plain : she is five years younger tthan the I ring, who is forty-two years of age. 'An•-extraordi .nary phent )menu was sentiby the 'King, for the inspection of .thettnbass y, in the shape °La woman covered.withdlair. The hair on her face is from four to eight incheslong,and of a fine -silky textm Inside the ear it grows fully eight inches long, ~ a ntlis of a whitish brown , celonr. Notwithstandin the un natural appearance imparted by the hair on the face, the 7 . . , woman's cOuntenance is prominced pleasing.fiber arms sho-corried a. child fourteen rnouths. old, coveredvith down of a fliaxen colour; she had another child with ken oficrdinary appearance, and the father is aßarnaan of ordinary ayndarance. .:113111E.A.TE ANSELIi ParIESQ.KULD. — The Secs an Mercury econtains the following from Iflrankfort :—" The foriane of Barontle Rothschild, who recently , died, has been Aitlued at • forty to fifty millions of /wins. sum of. 14200000 florins is . destinod to continue the alms ..which the deceased as in the habit of distributing 'every wiz*, as well as for 'the distri ibution.of !wood to the poor in Winter. The fund for giving a dower ,to Aewish maidens receivert,ooo . florins ; tbe , fund for , the sick,as well as the Jeultill hospital,. 10,00011orins,each. 'irhe:Jewiah-school, 50,000 florins. . - *tims of 3,000 florins are ;bestowed vr: several Christi= , estatiishments. Tire,ulerks hvho have been more than twenty /ears in the Arm •;resolve 42,000torine,the others 1,000; the juniors from 300 t 05600 iletting. Mans legacies are left to servants."—By the ';death of - 51. de Rothschild it appears that ;his : godson, .sir AnthwaY Rothschild, .of (London, will receive epoopo, and also ,n , equal.sharestrith the other neplburs.amiadeces of the renithke , of the estate .of the deceased. 84 041 N ACCVEN T.—M. Godard, ;junior, the seronattt had a wiraeulousoscape on the 10th of Maaember, at Crefeict, in Rhenan Prussia. He ascended is ,a balloon filled according to the Mentgolfiensystem, and placed himself on a " trapezr or hangisag board attnhed to a parachute .fastened to his bal loon.. had already . attained a consider a ble height, and was in the act of perforimeg his perilous gymnastic feats above the heads of .several -thousand spectators, when an• explosive report, ;like that of a rt.eld-gun, was heard, , the balloon was seen to ,collapse, and to descend with terrible .veloeity. It had burst. M. %Godard retained his presence of mind, and was enabled to detach the cords of the parachute. Thiseomewhat broke the .velocity of the descent, and he landed,..or rather fell, in a.n open field, withoit other damage than scale severe bruises occasioned by the hard frozen ground. A suLseription was immediately made for his benefit, which produced about twenty-five pounds. A BALTIC CAWA.IGN.—The Siecle anticipates .a •future campaign in the Baltic provincee,and after having enumerated the forces possessed by 'tussle in -these regions, which it,values 'at 200,000 men, thus marshals the armies which the allies, in conjunction with Sweden and ;Denmark, could dispose of if necessary :—" Admitting that Sweden was to furnish 70,900 men, and Denmark 30.,000, the Western Powers would have ,to furnish 100,000 men, se 70,000 French and 30,000 English. France could even increase her,contingent if the military or ganisation of our neighbour were not 'to permit them to com plete theirs, for our country possesses ,a military strength reeky formidable. Thus is constituted -the French army : Infantry of the line, 328 battalions.; light infantry (rifles); 30 ditto; artillery, 248 companies; siege train, 20 ditto ; en gineers,, .54 ditto ; sappers, 11 ditto—.cavalry,, 373 squadrons ; gendarmes and firemen of Paris, 119 squadronsor companies: veterans of all arms, 17 companies. It is not,a4nestion here of an improwised force. _ _ At the advent of the government of the 2d December, the army was composed of :327 battalions of infantry, 1313 squadrons of cavalry, and .240,companies of artillery. It has thus only been augmented by 30 battalions of infantry and,6o squadrons of cavalry. Without any offence we may say that this great army has been organised under the constitutional r‘gime, and had found in Algeria the tra ditions of victory. like to hear the roar of cannon in Algeria; said Louis Philippe, Europe does not hear it.' Eu rope has since heard this African cannon, and friends and enemies know that it fires well. A great expedition to the Baltic is therefore not impossible. England will pay her alli ance in vessels, and our soldiers will find at Cronstadt another Malakhoff." CULTIVATION OF THE SUGAR CANE IN FRANCE.-A SUC- Icessful attempt to cultivate the sugar cane has been made in the department of the Vancluse. In June last, aM. Tellee, residing in the village of Caumont, having procured some of the reeds of that plant from a friend in the colonies, sowed them on his estate; and notwithstanding the advanced period of the season, by the month of October last they had attained a sufficient degree of maturity to be cut down and subjected to the operation for extracting the juice. One hundred canes of a medium size were crushed by means of an oil-mill, and afterwards pressed, when they yielded 50 litres of saccharine juice. One important point remains yet to be ascertained, and that is, whether the canes produced from cuttings will succeed as well as from seed, as it is well known Lhat those raised by the latter process Jose a great deal of their sdncha rine quality in a few years. The sugar canes grown at Can , ynont attained a height of about 19 feet. The cultivation of the cane does not require more attention than that of corn. After the ground has been well ploughed, furrows are drawn and the cii.tiriFs are planted at equal distances, and covered lightly with earth, anu !." hen with the leaves of the old canes, reserved for that pui - ose. Ag so on as the y be g in to shoot above the ground. the fk l y rol vii rt i•p filled up with the earth and the plant is left to itself, tailing care it; keep the ground clear of weeds. The climate of Provence is perfeetl; identical with that of New Orleans, where the sugar cane is enitiVPted with great saccess,—Wignani's Messenger. M. THWAITES has been elected chairman of the Metro politan Board of Works. THE inspectors of the estate of Messrs. De Lisle, Janvrin, and Co., at a meeting on Thursday, determined to declare a third dividend, payable on the 2nd of February. It will be 2s. in the pound, making, with the former two dividends, 10s. - - in the pound. PERVERSION TO Rows.—The Rev. W. Wheeler, for many years vicar of Old and New Shoreham, in the county of Sus sex, has within a day or two left the Church of England and embraced the doctrines and become a member of the Church of Rome. A. TELEGRAPHIC DIEssAGE has been received from Bremen, announcing the arrival of the United States mail steamship Washington in the Weser, having landed her mails, passen gers, &c. In consequence of the rapid accumulation of ice in that river the Washington has been compelled to put back to Southampton. - - - - NATIONAL GALLERY.—The late Samuel Rogers has be queathed to the nation three well-known pictures from his collection—the Titian " Noli me Tangere ; " the Giorgione, a " Small Picture of a Knight in Armour ; " and the Guido, "Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns." The remainder of the collection will, it is presumed, be sold in the course of the ensuing spring. THE SOUTHAMPTON MURDER.—At the Winchester Assizes on Thursday, Abraham Baker was convicted of the murder of Naomi Baker, at Southampton, on the 14th of October. The circumstances attending the murder will be fresh in the re collection of our readers. Baker was sentenced to death, and the judge intimated that no commutation of the sentence could be expected. THE FRAUDS OF DAVIDSON AND GORDON.—At the Cen tral Criminal Court, on Thursday, Daniel Mitchel Davidson and Cosmo William Gordon, who had been acquitted on the previous day upon an indictment for embezzlement, were placed at the bar upon another indictment charging them with having, within three months of their bankruptcy, obtained from certain creditors goods by fraudulent means and pre tences, with intent to defraud, and not to use in the way of business. The trial lasted the whole of Thursday, and was resumed on Friday, when the jury found both prisoners guilty. The Judge then sentenced them to two years' hard labour. Mr.. BARON MARTIN, in reply to a letter by Dr. Jackson. (complaining of the closing expression of the judge, in his (charge to the jury on Mr. Wooler's trial, "that there was another person whom he would be inclined to find guilty rather than the prisoner," asserts that "he never made use of any such expression, or anything tantamount to it ;" that the substance of what he meant to say, and he believes he did say, was, that having endeavoured in his own mind to arrive at some conclusion on the subject," it appeared to him there was no proof against any one,, and that if he were to indulge in mere surmise and fancy, not the prisoner, but some other person would first occur to his mind." A CURIOUS METEOR.—A very curious phenomenon was observed at Gateshead, about 6h. 15m. on Wednesday morning. A very bright pillar of blue light appeared to stand up from the horizon to an altitude of about 30 degrees. At that point it assumed a very bright appearance, resembling the bursting of a huge rocket. A stream of sparks and haze ascended to a height of about 10 degrees more. The light continued visible for about two seconds, illuminating the whole neighbourhood, and was unaccompanied by any noise. The lower parts then disappeared, leaving the haze in the form of a bright oblong cloud,.which gradually diminished in brilliancy for nearly ten minutes, when it had entirely disappeared. Its position was nearly due sotith. SUPPOM ACCIDENT. — Some anxiety has been created at Chatham in consequence of the absence of three young engi neer officers, who, accompanied by the brother of one of them, went from Gillingham down the Medway on Saturday week in pursuit of wild-fowl, and have not since been heard of. It iis feared that they have been drowned from the upsetting of !their boat, which, it appears, was ill calculated to encounter a stiff breeze. Every exertion has been made by the authorities, 'but 'no tidings of the young gentlemen, boat, or oars have ibeen obtained. A hope is entertained, however, that, having !gone a greater distance from their starting point than they (expected, they have got on board some vessel bound to another port, and that in a day or .two some information respecting them will be obtained. . THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.—With reference to certain statemaits which have appeared in several of our contempo raries relative to a supposed breach in the ranks of the Con ,servative party in North Essex, we have the highest authority for giving a most emphatic contradiction to any such sinister reports. The Conservatives of North Essex are thoroughly Ilmited upon all essential points. The differences which exist are trifling and insignificant, and have their origin in the ma levolent attempt of a local journal to avenge itself upon a cause -which some years since abjured its equivocal advocacy. We lame the best grounds for believing that, whenever a dissolu tion shall occur, the Whig-Radical party will find the True Blue electors ready to meet them with two candidates, whose ',•principles and whose character entitle them to the support ,:aind confidence of a Conservative constituency.— The Press. A MAN FROZEN TO DEATH AT SEA.-011 Saturday week, the schooner London, of and from Boston, left the Roads, laden with wheat, for Port Dundas, Glasgow. Shortly after ske had stood out to sea she encountered heavy gales, and stout two o'clock on Sunday morning it was discovered that she had about two-and-a-half feet of water in her hold, while she appeared to be sinking, and was drifting towards the shore. ian this the crew, consisting of the master and two men, put to sea in the boat, but finding they could not reach the shore with safety, they put out to sea. It appears that the boat had drifted about till Wednesday, when it was picked up by the brig Temperance Star, of Ipswich. By that time the master had died from the effects of the cold, and his compa siiens, who were more dead than alive, were taken on board the brig. 4.‘CnKsars ix rnr HOUSE or Coxmows.—Several new rmeatbers will take their seats on the opening of parliament month, and some writs will be moved for as soon as the home assembles. Mr. James Rust will take the oaths and his seat for Huntingdonshire, in the room of Viscount Mandeville, alol7 Duke of Manchester ; the Earl of Gifford succeeds Lord , 'Seyneour at Totnes, the noble lord having become Duke of :Somerset ; Captain Joliffe will take his seat for Wells, in the , roomof Mr. Tudway, deceased; Sir Charles Napier succeeds to the 'representation of Southwark, vacant by the death of Sir l ham Molesworth ; Mr. Bond will take his seat for Ar 'magi), in the room of Mr. R. S. Moore, deceased; Mr. M'Evoy succeeds to Mr. Frederick Lucas, deceased, in the representa- , ttion of the county of Meath. On the meeting of parliament, .-new writs will be moved for Taunton, in the room of Mr. La `,lbotithere, who has become Secretary of State for the Colonies ; for Leeds, in the room of the Right Hon. Matthew T. Baines, InowsChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; for New Ross, in theloom of Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy retired; for Rochester, in Ithe. roam of the Hon. Francis J. Villiers, who has accepted dike , Chiltern Hundreds ; and for Yarmouth in the room of Tdr. , C.- E. Rumbold, who has intimated his intention of with ofttawieg from parliamentary life. lihrPLßLemsGaovE AND STOURBBIDGE BANKs.—A, final dividerld upon this estate, estimated at 3d. in the pound, was daelared r yesterday in the Birmingham Court of Bankruptcy. Debts-to the amount of between £3,000 and £4,000 were pelaved,during the day. This dividend, with 6d. in the pound alineadyipaid, makes 9d. received by the creditors of the Broms grow .establiethment. Messrs. Philip and Frances Rufford were the .enly partners. In the matter of the Stourbridge Bank, of,whieh Messrs. P. Rufford, F. Rufford, and C. J. Wragge'constitated the firm, a final dividend meeting is fixed for the 6.8th,0f September next, when the estate is expected to realize :a 'further dividend of 7d. or Bd. in the pound. Two dividends ofllsi6d. and sd. each have already been declared, making •total.of 2s. 7d. in the pound. The separate estate of Mr. rialliptilufford has already been realized and divided. The Etrst'avidand was 55., and the second ls. 3d., making a total of tes.l3d. ahe separate estate of Mr. Wragge, which proved to teby. far the most productive to the creditors, has also been kiwitled. Where were three dividends—the first of Sc., a second of - 55:., and a final of 25., making a total of lss. 3d. in , the ,pound. A final dividend meeting of the separate estate of Mr.. Francis Rufford is fixed for the 23rd of January. 'lllbree' , dividends of is., id., and 4d. each in the pound„ and the -Anal are likely to produce as much as will a fotal •fatoin the separate estate of the late member for Worcester of 3c. !19 . d..iii the pound. The estates have been realized with peat cliZcolty, in consequence of the unsaleable nature of the property, and the numerous questions of legal nicety and importance which arose, not only between the estates themselves, but ~with other parties. It is a fortunate .circumstance that no action or suit has arisen out of these %%various complicatioms.eit4herin Chancery or at common law. Ismall as the divides ds are; theyavould have been much smaller lott for a prudent avoidance otllitigation. ANOTHER P0160511,111G CAse.—An inquest was held at Devonport, touching •the ,fleath of Louisa Mitchell alias Loal\s' a Hallett, living as the .wife of Mr. John Hallett, drug gist, of James-street, but .cotataonly known as Dr. Hallett. The <ideceased had lived with Dr. ifallett upwards of seven yews; As his wife, and, from the evidence of several witnesses, • they had lived in a state of disennafcrt, and quarrelled fre clPently. The deceased had been ill several months. About two mouths since, Mr. James Bennett, surgeon, had been calledinfto attend her professionally. 'He now deposed that, on the j. , ,nd November, he was requested rto visit Mrs. Hallett by a tenons, who represented Mrs. Hallett as being danger ously ill. ife saw the deceased In bed. he appeared insen berconntenance was very ranch flushed, her breathing verylond, mid foam was issuing from her moat), the pupils of her eyes were ,contracted, and the pulse slow and labouring. lie immediately bled her, but she continued jusensible. He then.considered.deceased to be suffering from great congestion of the head. lie intimated to Dr. Hallett tliat the recovery of his wife,was .doubtful. The doctor replied -that she was offering from apoplexy, and refused to have.a second medical opiniou. Witness subsequently again urged the propriety of further advice, Ibut Jr.l Hallett again refused, stating that he had suffieient .confidence in him (witness). Witness ; visited deceased several times Auring the day. On one of theseocca sions Dr. Hallett said, ." I like to look on dead people—poor devils. I always call them poor devils, for they are." Witness attended deceased three daris, and she appeared to get better, On the third day, when be called at the house, deceased was down stairs. Dr. Hallett said, in witness's presence, " f had a good mind to give her A good hiding this morning, for she took too long dressing." Deceased made no reply, and appeared afraid to speak. Dr. Hallett spoke in a very decided tone, as if he meant it. On witness's first visit, it was his impression that the deceased had taken narcotic medicine. Witness did not visit deceased after the third day, but on Friday last he was requested by Dr. Hallett's son to call. The son represented that Mrs. Hallett was dead when he left the house to call witness. Witness called, and Dr. Hallett then stated that the deceased was alive when the son left. Witness examined the body externally, but there were no marks of violence. He proceeded to make an examination, in company with Mr. Laity and Mr. Little. There were marks of ulcers on both legs, and the remains of an ulcer on the left knee ; pupils of the eyes rather dilated, arms very flexible. In making an examination of the contents of the chest, he dis covered a quantity of bloody serum in the cavity of the pleura; the heart was of the natural size, healthy but rather flabby, liver much enlarged and diseased, and the external surface of the intestines was very florid. On turning the body round, a quantity of fluid escaped from the mouth and nose, which was preserved with the contents of the stomach ; the brain itself was healthy. On the stomach being opened, the natural sur face presented a dark spot about the size of a halfcrown, and a quantity of fluid of an oily nature. In witness's opinion the &Teased died from congestion of the lungs, not arising from natural. causes. The jury here pressed the witness to give an opinion vhether poison had been administered; and he replied that it was his opinion something of a deleterious nature had been administered, but he was unable to say what it was. On this the inquest ;vas adjourned to Monday, the 31st inst., to give time to have the contents of the stomach analysed. Dr. Hallett was in attendance during the early part of the pro ceedings, but behaved in such a way that the coroner was obliged to order him out of court, FOREIGN POST REGULATIONS. —Postmasters making up mails for foreign partS are directed to treat as unpaid letters all those upon which an insufficient amount of postage may have been paid in postage stamps. In the case of letters in sufficiently paid in money, they are directed to surcharge the deficiency upon the postmaster at whose office the letters may have been posted, and treat them as paid, and transmit them as such to foreign destination. • - REPRESENTATION OF LINCOLN. — There seems to be every probability that there will be a strong contest for the borough of Lincoln, which has become vacant by the death of Colonel Sibthorp. Sir Montague Cholmeley, Bart., who unsuccessfully contested the Northern Division of the county at the last general election, is spoken of as a candidate. The seat will be contested by Majorf Gervase T. W. Sibthorp, son of the late colonel, and Mr. Chas. Seely, a wealthy merchant of Lincoln. MR. RUSSELL and Mr. Angell, of the Post-office, dined with General Codrington on Thursday. Owing to some strictures made by Mr. Russell in the Timea ou drunkenness in the army, and his advising the withdrawal of the soldiers' field allowance granted by her Majesty, his house was attacked by the red-coats the other night, and serious consequences might have ensued but for the prompt arrival of the picket.—Crimean . . correspondent of the Morning Herald. CURIOUS CHRISTMAS CUSTOM. - At Dewsbury, a bell is tolled on Christmas-eve, as at a funeral, or in the manner of a passing bell ; and any one asking whose bell it was would be told it was the Devil's knell. The moral of this is, that the Devil died when Christ was born. The custom was discon tinued for many years, but was revived by the vicar in 1828. Among the sweet bells of Dewsbury is the famous " Black Tom of Tothill," which is said to have been an expiatory gift for a murder.—Bridgewater Times. - - IT is, it seems, the fashion at Antwerp to have the tomb of Rubens periodically opened. The last opening took place a short time back, in presence of a "select party." The interior of the tomb is said to have presented a frightful spectacle — nothing was seen but fragments of coffins and mouldering bones. Thirteen persons, besides Rubens, were buried in the same vault, and the exact spot in which he was deposited is not precisely known ; but four coffins are slightly elevated on iron rails, and it is supposed that three of them were occupied by the great painter and his two wives.—Literary Gazette. THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE SYSTEM.—The grand jury, sitting at Winchester, have presented a memorial to Baron Parke, "earnestly urging on the Government the pressing necessity of abstaining for the present from issuing any further tickets of leave to convicts, except in cases where the most satisfactory proofs of reformation are given, and of taking the earliest op portunity of submitting to Parliament some comprehensive plan for enforcing the punishment of offenders sentenced to transportation or penal servitude, either by the establishment of a new penal colony, or by adult reformatory establishments within the United Kingdom." THE Italian journals have frequently described , in terms of enthusiasm, the performances of a blind Sardinian shep herd, named Picco, on an instrument they call the tibia-pas toral—to wit, a half-penny whistle of the rudest and most primitive construction, with only three holes, and its length not exceeding that of a finger; yet upon this barbarous instru ment he has performed at the San Carlos and La Scala, and the Neapolitan and other papers affirm that the blind musician draws sounds as dulcet as those of the sweetest flute, and that his execution upon it is still more marvellcns. The poor Italian ministrel has arrived in Paris to perform at the Italian Opera. THE LATE SAMUEL RoGzas.—We have, within the last dozen years, heard Mr. Rogers describe how he had seen Marie-Antoinette dance, and illustrate the same by himself walking a minuet. There is also an anecdote of his having left an early poem at Dr. Johnson's door only a day or two before the doctor's death. Till an accident confined him to his chair, Mr. Rogers continued to be an attendant at the opera, the Antient Concerts, and, when these died out, at the Exeter-hall oratorios. Till a very late period he might be seen at midnight feebly hurrying home from these on foot — no matter what the weather—thinly dressed, and as resentful of the slightest offer of attendance as was " the Duke " when he was scarcely able to mount his horse. This passion for pleasure did not forsake him till a very late period. Only a few years since, a street accident, caused by this imprudent manner of wandering home alone, sentenced him to a chair for the rest of his days.—Athenceum. THE CANADA LAND COMPANY.—A meeting of this com pany was held on Thursday, Charles Franks, Esq., in the chair. The statement of the operations from the Ist of Janu ary to the 23rd ult., showed, (that the sales of land comprise 3,302 acres of Crown reserves at 275. 9d. per acre, and 1,413 of the Huron tract at 275. 6d. The leases included 19,11 G acres at 41s. 11d. of Crown reserves, and 4,740 acres at 61s. ld, of the Huron tract. The land leased converted into freeholds was 13,203 acres, at 16s. ld., and 53,001 at 15s. 3d. per acre. The receipts during the above period were £129,659 2s. 4d. currency, against £164,614 in 1854, showing a falling off of £34,955 17s. id. The funds in hand were—balances at bank ers, £4,513 ; loans at interest, and interest thereon, £58,800 ; and short bills, £11,100; making a total of £74,413. As re gards the liabilities, they are very small, viz., £7,500, of which £3,269 was for debentures unpaid, and interest thereon. The report, which recommended a division of the assets, to the ex tent of £7 a share, payable in January next, was then agreed. to. A resolution was adopted for the introduction of a bill into Parliament for enabling the directors to divide the assets half-yearly. A vote of thanks was passed to the chairman and directors, and the meeting adjourned. POSITION or PRUSSIA.—The Berlin correspondent of the Times writes :—" Prussia is just now at the head of Germany, as regards giving the tone of political feeling ; neutrality towards without and reaction towards within are the order of the day ; the advantages of neutrality are exemplified, says this party of the Kreuz Zeitung, by the sacrifices and losses of the belligerent Powers, the necessity of reaction is felt in the conseionsness of the danger and disgrace of the revolution just put down. England and France are the incarnation and radiating point of revolution, and all that trouble the repose of the world. England and France are the belligerent Powers, and are suffering for it in their fearful sacrifices of men and money. Ergo, down with revolution and everythin- movement. Avaunt England and France, that would dragif2ussia into sharing their sufferings. These are the sentiments of the Kreuz Zeitung men, and which are every day spreading further and further like a leaven through the various strata of society, and to this end the course taken by our diplomacy and by our press has contri buted very largely." THE prospectus has been issued of the General London Omnibus Company, established in Paris under the French law as a soeiW en commandite. The capital is to be £1,000,000, in shares of 100 f. or £4 each, but the first issue• is to be limited to £BOO,OOO. The gerants are Macnamara, Carteret, Willing, and Co., and'the London managers are to' be Messrs. Wilson, Barber, Hartley, and Trevett. The Collt• pany state that complete regularity of service is to be estab lished; that tine-tables are to be published monthly and traffic returns weekly ; that indicators are to be used, as in Paris ; and the contracts have been entered into for the pur chase of the greater number of the 810 omnibuses now work ing in London. In their financial representations they men tion that each omnibus, under the present imperfect system, gives an average profit of £lOO a-year, which, on 810 omni buses, would yield £Bl,OOO, and consequently a return of ten per cent. In Paris, however, the result of amalgation was an increase of Bs. per day in the profit of each-. omnibus ; and, assuming an increase of ss. in London, the annual profit would be raised to £150,000. The dividend now paying by the Paris company is stated to be at the rate of 15 per cent. THE AUSTRIAN CONCORDAT.—THE PROTESTANTS OF THR EMPIRE.—The new laws relative to the future position of the Protestants in Austria are now before the Council of the Empire, and they will probably be less unsatisfactory than the world is inclined to believe. People here profess not to care for public opinion, but you may be assured that the storm of indignation to which the concordat has given rise in Germany and other countries has made them feel extremely uncomfort able. Indeed, there is proof positive that such is tile case ! The draft of the new marriage act or law, which has been made by the Archbishop of Vienna, will, instead of being at once ac cepted, be referred to the crown lawyers. The following ex tracts from the pastoral letter of the Archbishop of Milan will suffice to show that the Italian prelate is already inclined tO go beyond the concordat :—" The concordat not only gives the bishops the right to prohibit bad books, under the menace of ecclesiastical punishments (?) but also to prohibit their being read by the faithful. The co-operation of the state to prevent their promulgation is promised. All law matters re lating to the matrimonial tie belong to the church alone (?) By the concordat, the immaculate bride of Christ (the Roman Catholic Church) has acquired freedom, power, and glory, throughout the vast empire. Cast down is every barrier which had been an impediment to her ' giant steps,' broken is every fetter which impeded her action. The church has the right to oppose all kinds of error and temptation, as well on the stage as in the press. The concordat is a work which gives a brilliant example of religious feeling on the one side, of moderation on the other, and of the perfect prudence and wisdom of both parties.— Times' Vienna correspondent. EASTERN COUNTIES' RAILWAY.—Mr. Waddington has issued a reply to the report of the Committee of Investigation. He sums up his view of the ques ti on i n t h e following sen tence :—" How comes it that I have encountered the hostility revealed in the report of the Committee of Investigation ? It is, I repeat, because you have, in your complicated direction, an influence which, if permitted to prevail, must permanently injure your property. You have three directors less interested in increasing your traffic than in forcing it into other chan nels. You have there men who will profit much more largely by making you pay a toll than by participating in your divi dend. Look at the whole tenor and character of the report, concocted principally upon their evidence, and under their influence. What are the points specially assailed ? Loiestoft harbour; the coal traffic which has been developed; the steam-packet traffic which we have endeavoured to create on' the ports of the east coast; the East Suffolk line, which, how ever undesirable for us, would undoubtedly assist that coast; the Hackney-wick branches, which form so import an t a con necting link between our Flit= system and the North and South-Western lines of railway; our advances for the pur poses of the Norfolk and East Union lines, and the additions to capital for working those and other railways. A moment's reflection will show you that this apparently scattered hos tility has but one aim and one object. That aim is to sup plant our eastern system by a northern system—to substitute the East Anglian for the Norfolk line—to make Lynn the thief port of your system, and thereby to subject your ear nings to a toll which will go, without benefit to you, into the pockets of the East Anglian shareholders, and which will enable them to depreciate your stock and raise the value of their own when the time for compulsory fusion arrives in 1861. TO MESSRS. COBDEN AND BRIGHT WHERE, where is the big loaf, Messrs. Cobden and Bright, Which you promised to all, when Free Trade came to light P Where, where is it Cobden ? where, where is it Bright ? In vain do we ask you from morning till night ! The bellows of Anti-protection you blew, And sounded the horn of the "L eagn P' bitter crew ! Down,_ down with Protection, and up with Free Trade; Let the big loaf on every one's 'table be laid. False prophets you've been, and that with a vengeance, And every one sees it from Ber. , Ti , ey to Penzance t fi e g r h b t i in tin g c ? A An s d if y th o s u t kLi t ow nil it fo l k el s l, a b t u t t h s e a ir y loa t v i e s s t f ki as e Then if with our army we'd done as you wished, John Bull would have been most assuredly dished ; You'ld have left us no troops worth talking about, And navy in readiness for a " turu out." But hurrah for Old England, tho' peace we delight hi, We'll keep up our army all ready for fighting ; So that if with proud boasters we " come to the scratch," They'll find, to their cost, we are more than their match. December 1855. A. B.