The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

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The force of the '" u ‘ Was so great, that at the shop of Mr. Brooks, High nark-road two enormous squares of glass, valued at from i. 1.2 to £l4 each, were blown out. As might have been ex t2ected from the great wind and violent squalls, several "88ualties have occurred to the shippng outside the port. Ox Sunday week, the members of St. Mary's Bible Class, adale, presented to the Scripture reader of that district a ell handsome Polyglot Bible, which bore the following in _ption :—" Presented to Mr. Thomas Seagar, Scripture ceder in connection with St. Mary's Church, Kirkdale, by the 44 ,,_eulbers of his Bible class, as a token 'of their esteem and ward for him, and expressive of the very kind manner in 'lull they appreciate his invaluable services.—Feb. 3, 1856." f reply to a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury, praying t ° l : a further issue of silver threepences, the mayor of Man x,estets has received a letter stating that the coining of silver, 'aeh was interrupted in October last by a sudden and severe tressure for gold on the part of the Bank of England, has th t elY, been resumed, and will enable the master of the Mint Z,rurnish, in a short time, a sufficient supply of threepences 'uu silver coins of other denominations. IntEKILN-LANE MUTUAL IMPROVEXENT SOCIETY.—The laletnbers and friends of this institution assembled in their ! U eeting-room, 30, Limekiln-lane, on Wednesday, when an Ttereating essay was read by the president of the society, Mr. °B ePh E. Jones, upon " Theatres," Mr. Jones contending ~tilat theatres were beneficial as places of amusement, &c. A m iscussion was held after the essay had been read, when a Paiority of the meeting coincided with the lecturer's views of ue question. u AtrsTELLIA w IMIGRATION. -- The ship Salem, one of Messrs. Levingston, and Walthew's Liverpool line of packets , ''ailed for Melbourne , on Wednesday, with a full cargo and 128 Passengers. The royal mail ship Joseph Tarratt, Captain _, _arum, of Messrs. James Baines and Co.'s Black Bail line, ladled on Friday for Melbourne, with .170 passengers. The Inmodore Perry, Captain - Webb, of the same Hue, went into the river yesterday, to embark, from the Birkenhead depot, shout 300 government emigrants for Sydney. WIIAT NEXT ? AND . WllO NEXT ? — Last night was the anneal election for honorary officers of the Manchester Athe- I t urn. The electionis by ballot; and at least four-fifths' of I le members who voted (and hundreds did so) have votes fol . ''anehester. Mr. Richard Cobden was proposed and seconded a s one of the vice-presidents, and he was black-balled! What I ,!_ehan ge l B u t t wo o r three short years ago, and he would re been elected with acclamations. Such •circumstances as these, rather than packed meetings, got up with all 'the in fP e ;tence of the League to back them, (and those resident in anebester know what that influence is,) 4how in what esti tl,l!%tien the peace-at- any-price party is held in Manchetter.— Nancliester Guardian. T uesday, BATKILUPTCY.—At the I3ankruptetCcurt, on . kliesday, at the dividend meeting in re Thomas Walker, for- In,erlY proprietor of the Claremont Hotel in that town, Mr. dsham, attorney for the assignees, congratulated the cre ditorsro on the fact, that through the instrumentality of the nkruptey Court they would not only receive their debts in ' 4ll , but interest 'likewise. Mr. Commissioner Perry said there ,had been several similar cases in that•court recently. Walker, ,he bankrupt, absconded to America some time ago. It was' t hought he had committed suicide, as the mangled remains of a man, supposed to be Walker, were found, soon after he ab sconded, on one of the local lines of railway. It has since been akertained that he went to America. AOTAL MERSEY YACHT Coon.—The monthly meeting of this club was held at the club-house, on Monday, Commodore -nittledale presiding, supported by Rear-Commodore Grindrod 1 d other officers. The treasurer . submitted the accounts for the past' year, which showed an increase of balance to their !'edit in the hands of the bankers, after, paying the current 1 4 Penditure of the year. Some discussion took place respect l ug the mode of admission on beard of the steamers engaged 10 follow the sailing matches, and a resolution was adopted for the future. The club will commence their veason by dining tOgether at the marine station eat the-April - meeting. A SACIVILEGOITS TlllEF.—Thomas Chambers, a cripple, t i Was brought up at the Police-court, on Friday , on a charge of Fobbing St. Paul's and St Alban's.churehes, in this town. On the -19th October, St. Paul's church - was broken into and 'fobbed, and on the 23rd instant, the same crime was eons-. witted at St. Alban's, Limekiln-lane. The prisoner was shortly. afterwards committed by the Birkenhead magistrates to 4 .nutsford for sacrilege, and, on his release this week, he told one of the Liverpool detectives, who met him in Birkenhead, Where the property stolen from St. Alban's and St. Paul's 'could be found. His statements were found to be correct, and he was detained in custody. After a consultation between • magistrates as to whether the prisoner could be convicted on his own volunteered evidence, lie was committed for trial, several persons identifying him as the vender of articles sworn to as having been stolen from theabove-named churches. TOxTETII-PARK BOARD OF HEA.LT/I.—At the monthly meeting of the board, held on Tuesday, at the Public-offices, 4 exteth-park, Mr. Matthew Gregsou presided ; and there Were also present, Messrs. J. R. -Jeffery, Alpass, Rogers, Lathbury, Siddeley, Lee, and Avison. The business transacted - Presented very few features of public interest, as, from the recent formation of the board, theprocedings are little- else tbateroutine. A memorial was presented from the occupiers and owners of property in Aigburth-vale, pointing out the dangerous condition of the road, and praying the board to take the necessary steps to compel the proper parties to put it into an efficient state of repair. The Chairman said there Was this difficulty about the matter, that while the road was in Toxteth-park, the houses on one side were in Aigburth, and it was a question how far they could interfere. Ultimately the memorial was referred to the Sewerage and Improvement committee. The Clerk (Mr. Rowlands) presented some ac counts for payment, upon which Mr. Jeffery remarked : Really, Mr. Chairman, we are going on in a most irregular manner paying bills upon the simple recommendation of the clerk. We are, without a Finance ,- Committee, like a body Without limbs." The Clerk said it would be very necessary to appoint a Finance Committee, in order that they might 4 .Y the necessary rates. After some further co nversation, Mr. Alpass moved that the Finance Committee consist of Messrs. Jeffery, Avison, Alpass, Siddeley, and the Chairman ex pjficio. This was carried unanimously, and soon after the meeting broke up. GansTori Commissimins.—The monthly meeting took Place at the Aigburth Hotel, on Tuesday, when the chair was occupied by Mr. J. A. Tinne ; and- there were also present Messrs. Chaloner, Lightbody, Pritt, Watts, and Chitson. Some Conversation took - place with reference to the North Stafford shire Railway Bill (which will be extended to this district), and as it was understood that such bill was in progress, the board resolved to act as if it were going on, and be prepared accordingly. The minutes of the Works and Health Com mittee were read, which caused some= desultory conversation relative to the repair of a road near Mrs. Green's premises, in Aigburth-vale. The decision of the board on this subject was heoned, and the minutes were confirmed. The minutes of Finance Committee were also readaind confirmed. A con versation took place with reference to the outstanding debt, amounting to £573, which was considerable,. when it was re solved that parties should be called upon to pay the money for Paving as soon as the work was completed. The. chairman said that no doubt the New Public Heall,h Act would be,pro eeeded with this session ; and as a sub-committee was appointed last year, he suggested that such committee be re-appointed to watch the progress of the bill, and report to the board any thing which might affect the interests of this district. The subject of the new burial-ground at Chikiwall was discussed, When it was deemed necessary to confer: with the overseers and other authorities - of the parish, in order that the parish 'night avail itself of the advantage of thisnlace of sepulture, as the parish burial-ground was already full, and no other contiguous land could be procured. The board resolved to nuke the necessary: suggestions to the .overseers relativez to this subject. This, closed the business of -the day, and the 'board adjourned. THE MANCHESTER CORPORATION AND TZLE LIVERPOOL 'TOW N DuEs.—On Wednesday, at a meeting of the Man =chester council, Mr. -Heron, the town-clerk, laid .before the •eouncil the bill for carrying into effect certain provisions of `! The Birkenhead DoekAct, 1855, for providing for the con latruction, completion, and management of the ' Birkenhead docks, and for other purposes," which has been introduced by the corporation of Liverpool into the House of Commons-. The following resolution was ananimously adopted :—That the bill be referred to the special consideration of the com mittee for general purposes, and that such committee be au thorised and instructed to take all such steps on behalf of this council, either by petition against such bill or otherwise, as may appear toe necessary for the due protection of the inter eats of this city." Mr. Alderman Bancroft introduced the Subject of the Liverpool town dues, and said that, although the Government had taken up the question, he thought it Incumbent upon the council and all municipal bodies in the districts surrounding Manchester, having any communication, direct or indirect, with the port of Liverpool, now to exert themselves, in order to secure the speedy passing of the bill 'ntroduced into Parliament by the vice•presideut of the Board of Trade. He moved the following resolution, " which was seconded Eby Mr. William Gibb, and adopted : That this eouncil has heard with much satisfaction the communication uow made, and of the intention of Her Majesty's Government to put an end to the gross injustice -under which the trade and commerce of this district have so long suffered, in being taxed to so enormous an extent for the purpose of defraying the local expenses of the borough of Liverpool. That, under the direction of the committee for general purposes, a petition be prepared and presented to the House of:Oommons in favour of the bill introduced by Her Majesty's Government, and that it be an instruction to such committee to take all such steps as may appear to - he desirable to secure that:such bill shall be speedily passed into a law." • THE ALLEGED POISONING AT MANCRESTEL—On Wed nesday, the adjourned inquest on the body of John Monaghan, Which was exhumed on the 28th ult., was resumed before Mr. Berford, the coroner. Professor Frankland, of Owens College, Manchester, stated that he had examined portions of the stomach of the deceased, and the intestines. He tested them for lead, arsen ic, antimony, mercury, and other mineral Poisons ; but he found no mineral poison in them, with the exception of a trace of zinc. He then examined the liver, and found a trace of lead ; also a trace of copper, but no other Poison. In the kidneys he found a trace of zinc only. The lungs and brain contained no mineral poison. He did not examine the viscera for vegetable poisons, because the length of time which had elapsed since the decease would preclude any satisfactory detection of such poisons. He was satisfied with the results of his examination, and that no further traces of poison could be found on a further examination. prom his analysis be was satisfied that death had not been caused by metallic poison. Mr. T. W. Dyson, surgeon, con curred generally in the evidence of Professor Frankland. He lead satisfied that if death had been produced by acetate of Vad, lead would have been found in l ar g er q uantities in the °(IY- Mr. John Hatton, one of the sur g eons of the Chorlton " Union who attended the deceased during his illness, stated that he never once thought that any one had been tampering with him. The cause of the death of the deceased was that he wa s an old man, breaking up in his constitution, and the softened state of the mucus membrane of the bowels caused diarrhoea and dysentery. The deceased, whilst living, mani fested no symptoms of poisoning by lead, so far as the witness knew those symptoms—not from experience, but as a matter 1 1 3 C medical science. In accordance w ith the wish of Mr. l adlaugh, of London, who appeared in s u pp ort of the charge o,,o l co f re con 1h,,1' THE Rochdale and Staleybridge petitions for the grant of a charter of incorporation to each of those boroughs will be cousidered in the Privy Council to be held on the 6th March. IT is said that the functions of the receiver of Admiralty droits at this port have been transferred to the Customs' department, and the fees are in future to be applied to public purposes. JAMES DAwsoN, a horse-dealer, of Todmorden, after con fessing to the robbery of a man with whom he lodged, for a night, at Blackpool, committed suicide by hanging himself. Dawson himself had been robbed at Preston fair. Ma. AND Mns. MOLYNEUX ' S ANNUAL BALL took place at the Assembly-rooms, Great George-street, on Thnrsday. Messrs. Shand, Cooper, W ag staffe, and Lawrence, the mem bers for Great George ard, and about 160 persons, were present. The room was tastefully decorated. .Ar the half-yearly meeting of the East Lancashire Railway Company, to be held on the 20th instant, the directors will recommend the shareholders to declare a dividend of 31 per cent. per annum for the past half-year, on the ordinary stock of the company, carrying a balance to the credit of the reserved fund. ABOLITION OF DUBS ON SatrrlNG.—At the quarterly meeting of the Newcastle town council, held on Wednesday, a committee consisting of the mayor, Alderman Hodgson, and seven other members of that body were appointed to co-operate with Liverpool and other ports affected, to oppose the passing of Mr. Lowe's bill for the abolition of shipping dues. COLLEGIATE ScnooL of Aar.—Though this school and its branches have been in operation only three-quarters of a year, prizes have been already awarded by government in the fol lowing pupil-teachers :—W. Griffiths, of the North Church of England Schools, Bond-street ; Henry Mercer, of St. Thomas' School, Grafton - street; and John Malcolm, of St. Barnabas' School, Greenland-street. LivEuroot, MARCH ASSIZES.—The court will be opened on Saturday, the 22nd-of March; and the last day for making up issues will be Thursday, the 13th of March. The entry of causesvill close on Monday, the 21th of March. The first list of cantos will include the hundred of Salford, and the second list West Derby hundred or elsewhere. The causes in the second list will not be called-on for trial before Wednesday, the'26lh of March. IONDON AND NOR.TII-WESTERN RAILWAY.—We 'under ,stand that the half-yearly accounts to the 31st Decemiser last haue been made up, and that the balance of net profits will 'enable the directors to declare a dividend at the rate'of 5-1-, per - tent. per annum, and add some £40,000 to the reserve carried -over from last June account. It is also understood that while the receipts have inercased the working expenses have been reduced. - - - PnoroanArtarc SOCEETY.—A gener-almeetingof this society was held on Tuesday The chairman read a-circular, showing the favourable positim in which the society stands. The fol lowing gentlemen‘were appointed members'of the council of the society:—J. Innes, H. Dawson, • Leithsad, W. A. Duckworth, C. IL Chadburn, T. Higgih, J. J. Foard, M Mercer, J. Stevens, E. J. Fitt, and F. :Howard, associate. A paper, by Mr. Foard, on the comparative merits of the daguerreotype ;mid glass processs was 'read: The business was concluded-with a vote of thanks to-Mr. Foard. RAILWAY ItYTEN SION.— On Frldars.%ill, called the Liver pool Extension Bill, for the formation of a railway from Sand- . bach to Moore, Warrington, Stockpott, , and Liverpool, passed the standing orders of Parliament. Also for a railway from Garsthn to Liverpool, and for running powers over carious ; adjoining - railways. It also seeks powers for facilitating the transmission of traffic, affecting the Birkenhead, Ifancashire and Cheshire Junction Railway; Ma,uchester, South Junction. and Altrincham Railway; and 'Warrington and Stockpot EtailwaY Companies. Suchpowers to be conferred on the North Staffordshire Railway Company,- and St. Helen's Canal and Railway Company. 1111 E; DETECTEVE DErIRTMFI4T.—At the borough -sessions, en Tuesday, before Gilbert Henicrson, Esq., the f.eelzirde - .t, John:Hadfield, 25, William 1-16,dEeld, 18, and John Flood;4i3, all described as labonrers,.were - found guilty and-sentenced to two years' imprisonment, for m-tealing a trunk, .contziitiktg money and goods, valued ;at It WO, the property of M. , Louis Sanaa], a French gentleman; recently arrived at disport from Seta America. When information of this robbery was at'the Police-office, the case was placed in the hands orln spector Murphy, Who succeeded not only in apprehending the rblyhers (two of then:tin:Stockport, and the thirdin Manthhes tor), but in recovering - the 7 trunk which had been stolen, and property belongiug M. - San= to the amount of£4oo. Scnoon FOR 'THE ffrp.—A special Ineesng ortbis cor ;rporation was held at the school, Hardman-street, on' Tuesday, for the purpose of.correctingtheappointmentorvice-pre4lents which took place at.n general meeting the previous week. The Rev. Rector Campbell. presided. The treasurer explainod that, according to the act of-parliament, no vice-president - shall be a member of the:common - council ; and, therefore, the appoint ment of Mr. Earle, In - conjunction with Mr:-George Green Hornby, was void. 'To- correct the informality,lt , was pro posed to substitute the - name of Mr. Francis Brown in place of Mr. Earle. This proposition was unanimously - agreed to. The meeting then resolved itself into committeerto 'transact the ordinary business of-the institution. ARCHITECTS:WALL ,AND ARCH2COLOGICAL SOOZETY.—On Wednesday the enerabers.of this sc ckty held their usual meet ing, at the Royal Institution, Col quitt-street. , -Mr. Huggins presided. The following were unanimously elected associate members F: French, of Bolton, and Mr. R. Wells. In the absence of Mr.:T.-C. D. Ba - try, who had an engagement in London, Mr. Eoult read that e -entlernan's. paper, "On the causes of damp in buildings, and the means used to prevent it." Thanks were voted to Mr.. Barry for his Taper. Mr. Verelst apprehended ~t hat the c hief causes .of dampness in houses arose from that curse which was so provelent in this country—the curse of cheapness ; for architectsein too many instances, were not permitted to consider how they could build best, but how they -could build cheapeet. .Afteree few brief observations, the business was c oncluded. THE LICENSED •lirlczriae.LLE as.—The Manchester Defence League Association of Licensed Victuallers have -recently sent Mr. Candelet as agent throng' h Ireland andSeotland, advo cating their cause, and in parti :War urging upon the licensed victuallers of Scotland to petit ion and to exert themselves to gain a repeal of Forbes Macke] izie's Act. Mr. emedelet has also advocated that . a union of the licensed victuallers of the three kingdoms sboold take pl ace, for the purpose of protect ing the interests of the license d victuallers, and in -opposition to the attemptseo strenously m ade against them. 'The society have also sent Mr. Candelet to London e where he now is; and he has been one of a deputati on which has had-an interview with Lord Panmure on the opi nessive mature of the billeting system to the ~publicans, the result of which hac been that Lord Panmure has promised • to send -a-commission down to Liverpool, with nviereof inqu firing into the matter., and eas ing the burdens of the , publica] es. Inonearrumn.--William L( lather, a 'labourer. was charged at the Poliee , courte on Friday , with the following impudent robbery. Mrs. Hannah Fazal terly, the keeper of a public house in Bevington-hill, said that the prisoner-came to her house a few evenings-ago, and as lied for-some ale andpermission to warm himself. His wishes w 'ere complied with, and he re mained in a room by himself fo r upwards of an hoar. When the landlady was not -looking, he slipped out and returned with a clock-face and works, ask ing her to advance-something on them. She refused e saying she was not .a pawnbroker, on which the prisoner left her. lihe shortly afterwards disco vered that the prisonerhad tak, n the face and works of her own clock, and attuallyihad the impudence to offer them to her for sale. Information was given to the= police -who found that the stolen propertyhad heel' pledged at the shop of Mr. Stewart, a broker in; Brownlow-hill, to whom the prisoner accounted for their battered appearance by sayingthe bailiffs had been in hishouse. , He was committed for trial. ROYAL IxSTITI3TIOS.—The annual meeting ofethe pro prietors of the Royal :Lestitution was held on Friday. The chair was occupied by thepresident, Dr. Dickenson, Who read the report, which detailed the proceedings of the past year. From the statement -of -the accounts, read by Mr. Alfred North, it appeared that :the receipts last year amounted to £1,034 lls. 5d., the expenses to £587 lls. and;the pur chase of a dock bond toll3oo, leaving a balance in the hands of the bankers of £97 2,5.101 The various routine.-resolu tions were mewed and. seconded by Dr. Raffles, Mr. Elias Arnaud, Mr. Harmood Banner, Mr. James Aildn, Mr. Watson, and Mr. William; Rathbone, the latter. gentleman re marking that he was exceedingly glad to find the institntion in so prosperous a condition, and that it still existed in its in tegrity, free from the control.and interference of the Town Council. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman, -vieetpresident, and the election of the foam ing committee-men :—Messrs. James Aikin, Alfred North, Hugh Hornby, J. Bramley-Hoore, M.P., J. A. Tinne, Raffles, and Wm. Rathbone. ACCIDENT ON THE Rever..— , On Tuesday, Mr. Augustus Jackson, Catherine-terrace, Seaeombe, of the house of Heine and Co., shipbrokers, came to Liverpool previous to proceeding down the Mersey. He got his boat in tow of the Tower, one of the Duke's steamers, to proceed to New Brighton, .and bad just passed the Prinee's-wall, when he saw a broker's boat with canvas up, a little in advance. Suddenly the boat dis appeared. Mr. Jackson immediately caused his men to cast off, and proceeded in the .direction where the boat went down. On arriving at the place he found three men supporting them selves on spars, in the water, all of ,whom seemed distressed, and one nearly in a state of exhaustion. This man he first rescued, and found him to be water-clerk to Messrs. Bahr, Behrend, and Co., to which house the swamped boat belonged, and in whose service the other two MOH were also as boatmen. The boat was going with the tide, stern uppermost, and, on inquiry, it appeared that in endeavouring tp get on to some flats, proceeding outwards, in tow of a -steamer, Messrs. Bahr and Behrend's boat was struck by one of the flats, and her bow stove in, which was the cause of her going down. The rescuing -boat immediately put to shore, bringing the men thus preserved, and all the spars that could be picked up. Hisronee SoCIETY.—The third meeting of the Archmlogi- Cal section of this society was held in the Grand Jury-room, St. George's-hall, on Thursday, Dr. Thom in the chair. — Several donations were announced by the secretary. Mr. Denson exhibited a tobacco-box, of tortoise-shell, handsomely mounted with silver, and bearing the crest and initials of its original owner, as a specimen of the description of box com monly carried by gentlemen about the middle of the last cen tury. Mr. Grazebrook exhibited a prospectus of the " Roll of Cloyne," 13th and 14th century, to be published in fae-simile, with illustrations by Richard Caulfield, Esq., of Cork. Mr. Jacob exhibited a book of prayers, in Greek, for the use of the Modern Greek Church, procured at the church of Balaklava ; History and Description of the City of Jerusalem, and of the Holy Places, folio, Venice, 1728, taken from the bishop's house at Balaklava ; a Russian square medallion, used as a religious charm, to be worn on the person—subject, the Virgin and Child. It was found at Inkermann. Mr. G. R. Berry ex- 1 hibited Antiquarian Gleanings in the North of England, drawn and sketched by W. B. Scott. Dr. Thom exhibited a large Declaration, concerning the late tumult in Scotland, from the first original, by the King : London, 1639. Recenil d'Anti quilts. Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Greeques et Romaines : Paris, 1752. A volume, containing nine Liverpool pamphlets, of great local interest. Dr. Hume exhibited, on the part of the Misses Cort, of Kirkby-in-Walton, four beautiful ivory ear rings. The subjects of them were described as being St. Dominic, the Scourging of Christ, Hercules and Omphale, and St. Sebastian. Mr. H. A. Bright exhibited a curious and ancient Sclavonic prayer-book, taken at Kertch. A small green stone, or bead perforated, and with a white spiral snake curling round it. The Welsh call these stones " Glam Neidr," or snake-stones. They were worn by the different orders of bards, each having its appropriate colour. The blue belonged to the presiding bards, the white to the Druids, the green to the ovates, and the three colours blended to the disciples. The notion of their rare virtues was universal in all places where the bardic religion was taught. An autograph of the Empress Maria Theresa, written shortly before her death. The paper of the evening was—" A history of the Botelier '"‘' ^" 1 r'"j Tr * * "*".- t^r." :Trll,n F. Mnreb. Town- Pitt LIVERPOOL STANDARD. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. Tsl3 total value of the mineral produce of Spain, in 1854, was equivalent to £2,400,000 ; mines gave employment to 80,000 or 90,000 people. A CRADLE in the shape of a vessel, and forming a chef c ceuvre of different arts, surpassing in beauty and taste the celebrated one of the King of Rome, will be presented by the city of Paris to the child of the Emperor and Empress of the French. THE Conslitutionnel states that a veterinary surgeon has been demonstrating among the Cuirassiers of the Imperial Guard, that he can cure glauders and farcy. Seven horses, given to him as they were about to be slaughtered, have been treated with complete success. AT the half-yearly meeting of the London and County Bank, on Thursday, a dividend of five l per cent dividend . for the hals year and and a bonus of five per cent. (equa to a of per cent. on the year), both free from income-tax, were de clared upon the paid-up capital of the bank. AT Exeter, last week, a boy, named Frederick Paw, was summoned by the Rev. F. Turner for using abusive language to his children, one of whom is an invalid, while walking in the street with his servant. The bench fined the defendant ss. and expenses, or, in default, three days' imprisonment. THE forests and mountains of the Eiffel, in the province of Treves, in Prussia, have for some time past been infested by a band of brigands, who have even stripped poor foot-passengers of their clothes, and some of these have sn consequence been frozen to death. The authorities have just sent detachments of cavalry' nd infantry to hunt out the robbers. EA.Rvr on Monday, last week, some burglars effected an entrance into Thurnscoe-hall, near Barnsley, the residence of the Rev. Thomas Wood Simpson, rector of Thurnscoe, and stole four silver dish covers, four silver decanter stands, sugar icings, two hams, two flitches of bacon, and other articles, Worth between £2O and ao. AT a recent meeting of the subscribers to the Leicester Hospital, a gentleman moved that the use of wines and liquors in the hospital be henceforth prohibited, c,onteuding that they were unnecessary and prejudicial. The medical officers, how ever, being of a decidedly contrary opinion, the motion was negatived almost unanimously. THE Scientific American says that several instances are lately recorded: where persons who were in the habit of read ing much in railway carriages had become nearly blind. It appears the jolting motion causes the eye to strain in catching the separate letteri, and makes their" effect on the retina very injurious. THERE were 800 more women than men committed in Aber deen, during the past year—a melancholy fact, as regards the fair sex, unparalleled in any other place in the kingdom. The principal•cause of this fearful state of matters is alleged to be the enrolling of the militia, and the increase of drunkenness and vice - consequent thereon, ram motives of competition with the'Gvat Northern, the NorthLWestern Railway Company are now taking passengers from Euston station to Peterborough;' distance of 110 miles, for Bs. first-class, and 2s. second=Class ; •and to Doncaster, by two fast trains daily, for 6s. and 3s.;being at the rate of one 'fifth 'of a penny per mile. , 13ZESTON CHURCH, one of the oldest in the parish of Leeds, was severely damaged by fire on Monday last. The disaster • ,- is attributed to over-beating of 'the flues. The organ was tdtally consumed, and a large part of the roof destroyed. Parts 'of the communion furniture areasserted by high authority to kave been in use from the time of Richard I.—that is, from 'what is technically called " time'ammemorial." BENSiMIN Score, blanket manufacturer, of '&risheatou, near Leeds, came up at ' the 'heeds District Court of Bank ruptcy, last week, before Mr.'•Commissioner Aryton, on: his adjourned last examination. In the course of the interroga tories his Honour said to the bankrupt, " You have already perjured yourself twentyor 'thirty times. Do you want "to spend the rest of your life in York Castle ?" At the' end of the inquiry the bankrupts committed for perjury, and his last examination adjourned, without protection and eine die. ON Wednesday,after the Recorder of London had sentenced a prisoner to six . years' , nenal servitude, the rascal exclaimed, "Do you call this a fair trial ?" and, drawing from his 'pocket a piece of coal about the size of a large apple, threw 'it with great force and precision -at the head of the Recorder. For tunately, he had observed the movement of theprisoner, and, by quickly moving his hossl upon one side, escaped a blow that would have done him ra serious injury, for the missile struck the wall close by the eke of his lordship's face, andbroke into pieces. A FEILL•LE GOVERRV.ENT CLERE.—ltims remained for the Civll Service of this •ceantry to receive aniongits regular ser- Vants , ene , Of• the fair sem. The Master of the Roliehas led the way in this novel experiment of introducing female labour to a service generallyaccepted only by the other Mx. Sir John kas, we understandy actually appointed a female-clerk to the State Paper-office! wit is rather remarkable, that while rules are established excluding male clerks above a:certain age from entering 'the public , service, the new ladrolerkis a married lady with four children.— Spectator- Co:1101 , mm Titer. Mr. Archibald, an extmsive landed proprietor 'of Nova Scotia, having discovered a valuable iron mineen one of hisz*states in that 'country, has conceived the idea of,appropriatiug its proceeds to the purpeses of the War Department. -A- 64pounder gun has been cast from a sample of the metal, and this he has conve,yedto England. The gun has gone throughathorough processof trial at the proof-but, at Woalwich, end steed some good tests well. Mr. Archibald has laid a propoial before the commanding officer of the Royal Gun-factory Department to enable him to work his mine under a :contract to-supply the British Government clone. SERIOUS alarm • was created in Cambridge, ou Satardey evening,,by the occurrence of afire in the hallbaf Caius College, which has only rcamtly been completed at a great expense from' tha.ssigns of Mr. Salvin, and the , interior of which is one , of. the most highly-finished specimens of-modern decorated work: in the kingdom. The hall is situate immediately over the kitchen, and the chimney of the kitchen, which runs up behind the wainscotting of the luill,'had, it appears, caught 'fire, and thedteat had.also ignited the wainscotting and floor of the ball. On the alarni being given the Tice-Chancellor was among the earliest - arrivals; the students and' townsmen worked heartily,•and in a short time the mischief was stopped. • :Dr. Guest; the master of the college, then mounting a table, pub. liely , thanked thesecpresent for their aid. "Of course, theor namental work of the hall, so lately executed, and the kitchen, are' damaged by the :floods of water poured in—the hail, :al so , by the,,partial , destruction of the floor. 31n. ,HENILY=JGEN DIsTIN, one of thefaxe-horn-bloviing family, recently engaged an ustrian - named Tischendorf as foreman at his• horn manufactory inCranbourne-street,London, for. even years, agreeing to pay hima•cern per centage on the •work done. :The agreement was voidable by notice and payment-of 250. The master, however, found his trade sopros porous, that his foreman made 4t360rf,7 • a week; and thinking this toomuch, , endeasoured to get.him to enter into another agreement, whereby he was to be paid;. a week, and a smaller per centage. The foreman refused to accede to: his proposal r and, being. a foreigner, lie-neglected his work on the following day, and•srent away to consult the Austrian ambas sadoroeno toldlimhe had better•consult a oolicitor. Here turned to his work at four o'clock the same day, but was ethen told that , he had broken his contract by- absenting himself without leave, and discharged. A jury in the Court of Queen's Bench, last week, gave him a verdict against Mr. Distill dor X5O, asrthe sum , by which the agreement was voidable. A 7BDIAL :TO AIMED TICE LAW of TAtTNERSHIP.—"TiIe following is the bill brought in by Mr. Lowee—Whereas it is expedient to amend the law relating to -partnership : Be pit therefore-enacted-by-the Queen's most excellent Majesty, Iv and with the advice- and consent of the lords spiritual, and temporal and Commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the-authority of the same, as follows The advanee of eapital or: moneytehe used in any trade or undertaking, not beingthe trade of a banker, upon a contract with the per son carrying on such trade or undertaking;: that the person making -such advance shall receive a share, of the profits or shall bear sell:tare ofthe loss of the trade or undertaking, shall not, of itself, render the person making such advance liable to third parties as a partner in such trade or .undertaking. No ceeetractior the rememeration of a servant or agent of; any persox engaged in,any trade or undertaking by. a share of the profits of such trade oreen d er taking shall e of itself,eender math servant or agent responsible as a partner therein. Z. In the construction of -this act fee word " person" -shall include-a partnership, firm, a jointestock company, and a corporation. , THE CALBROXIA.N RAILWAY Comreere.—A meeting ee the shareholdersen this company was held on Wednesday, at the Clarendon-rooms, for the purpose of conaidering the posi tion of the company in reference to the Edinburgh and Glas- , gow Company, and the .steps which should be taken to bring about a pacific policy, and Put a final stop to the existing com petition, which is injurious to both companies. MreGillow was called to the chair, and explained the present position of affairs between the -two companies, and concluded with a reso lution that a committee be appointed to address a circular to the shareholders, soliciting theireeupport to the following reso lution, to be proposed at the next half-yearly meeting : " That a committee of gentlemen in whose judgment and ,principles the shareholders may have confidence, be appointed to examine into the present position and management -of ;the censpany, and through h oseintervention an attempt may be male to conclude a fair and mutually beneficial joint-working agreement with the Edinburgh and. Glasgow Company, similar to that lately entered into between the Scottish Central and Edialeargh, Perth, and Dundee Companies ; and, in effecting this, it, hould also be aimed at that the best understanding should be maintained with the last-named companies' The resolution was secon ded b y Xr. Joynson, and adopted; after which the meeting separated. REVIRES OF MIRRIAGES, %ETES, Jai'D DEATHS.--The quarterlyxeturn of the registrar-general states, in the quarter that ended on September 30, 1855, therewere celebrated in England 37,151 marriages, being 999 fewer than in the Cor responding ,quarter of the previous year, and slightly under the average .of the ten preceding a nd corresponding quarters. In the quarter ending December 31, there were registered 148,853 birtheebeing an excess over the same quarter in 1854 of 2,394 ; and the deaths were 97,119, being 0.167 under the average of the season. In the whole year 1865, the number of children born in England was 635,123, or 208,881 in excess of the deaths (426,262) ; the number of marriages was 57,132 ; and the total number of emigrants from the United Kingdom was 166,253, exclusive of 10,664 foreigners. The deaths in 1856 were nearly 12,000 fewer than in 1854; the rate of mor tality was 2.269 per cent„ or nearly 23 in every 1,090 inha bitants. This improvement in the public health was general ; but in Lancashire and Cheshire the improvement was less extensive than in other counties; and in Liverpool and West Derby there was absolutely an increased rate of mortality, the deaths having been 3,487, or 273 more than in the last quarter of 1853. In Manchester and Salford, on the other hand, the deaths were 2,306, or 374 less than in 1853. THE LATE BURGLARY AT PORTSEA.—The thieves who effected an entrance into the Portsea premises of Messrs. E. and E. Emanuel, of Portsea, on the 16th of December, when they escaped with at least worth of jewellery, have been captured by Mr. Leggatt, the superintendent of the Portsmouth police, with the agency of Mr. Wootton, the post master of Mount-street, Lameth. Their names are James May and William Henry May, bricklayers, and Henry Phillips, labourer. As the principals admitted their guilt, it is unne cessary to detail the evidence, which was very conclusive, notwithstanding. The prisoner William Henry May told Superintendent Leggett how the robbery was effected, and how they waited in the bottle store in the back street, by which an entry had been made into the premises robbed, until half-past five o'clock in the morning, because they knew the police went off duty at five. The whole of the house breaking implements (a complete and modern "establish ment") were left behind, and a bunch of picklocks was found in the box of May, together with nearly the whole of the jew ellery, &c., stolen. 31 duplicates were Also found in the box for articles pledged in London. All the prisoners have been corn fmc:7,o. The directors of the South-Western Railway met on Thurs day, and came to the resolution, in conformity with the late decision of the shareholders, to abandon their bill for the coast ine, and pursue that for the central line. The Rev. Dr. Vaughan, rector of St. Matthew's, Brixton, having been acquitted of two out of the three indictments against him for tampering with the register, the prosecutor withdrew the third. Mr. Justice Wightman, in ordering the defendant to be discharged, said that he thought that the prosecutor had acted entirely under a misapprehension. ON Saturday, an inquest was held at Walworth, on the body of Frank Withers Rider, aged six weeks, the son of Mr. Thomas George Rider, a commercial clerk, residing at No. 12, Onslow-terrace, Lorrimore-road, who was murdered by his mother, Emily Rider, by drowning in a pan of water, on Thursday last. Evidence having been led, the jury returned a verdict of " wilful murder" against Emily Rider. According I to one of the witnesses, the unhappy lady is insane. THE FATAL COLLISION OPP FOLESTONE.—The inquiry which was opened on Friday, at Deal, on the bodies of four of the passengers of the ship Josephine Willis, which was run down, on Sunday night week, by the screw steamer Manger ton, was resumed on Saturday morning. After a most pro tracted investigation, the coroner being assisted by Captain Cannon, R.N., (late of H.M.S. Centaur,) the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Richard Bourchier, the captain of the Mangerton, who, on the warrant being issued, was found to have left the town. Loss OF THE STORE-SHIP SUPERB.—A wreck occurred in the Black Sea, with serious loss of life, during the fearful gale of the 16th of December—the store-ship Superb, of Dept ford, 380 tons, with stores for the army in the Crimea. The Superb was off the coast, at Macao. Bay, when the storm came on. She broke away from her anchors, and was dashed on some sunken rocks, and, although the cries and screams of the helpless crew could be distinctly heard, the continuance of the gale prevented any boat living in such a surf. The ship broke up, and every person on board, to the number of twenty, were drowned. LARGE PURCHASE OP -SHIPS FOR, FRANCE.-011 Saturday the purchase was made, 'of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, of the Jason, Indiana, Golden Fleece, Calcutta, Argo, Queen of the South, Hydases and Lady Joce/yn,— amounting, we hear, to nearly £500,000. We believe this to be the largest purchase of shipping ever made in one line, and it has been effected by Mr. Graham (of the firm of Maitland, Cuthbert, and Co., of Paris), Mr. Brett (of the firm of Cunard, Brett, and Austen, of London), and M. Beraud Villars (mana ger of the French Clipper Company). PRECARIOUS SALVAGE.—The schooner Endeavour, of Yar mouth, reports that about eleven a.m. on Wednesday, she 'saw apparently the mastheads of a vessel about four miles to the southward of Inchkeith, and, on approaching, found them to belong to a sunken schooner. The mastheads were painted black, the name of the unfortunate vessel and the fate of her Urew have not yet transpired; but it is added, that to the forem'asead clung a Cockenzie fisherman, whom his comrades had left at daylight to claim the wreck for salvage. The tide was rapidly gaining on him, and our 'wrecker was only too glad to escape from his highly perilous position in the Endea vour—the love of salvage thoroughly washed out of him.— Giaogow Mail. GAROTTE RODIIERIES.— , Anothet of these cowardly and dangerous robberies, which are becoming so general about 'the metropolis was committed on Mr. Thomes Bond, many years collecting clerk in the utablisb.ment of Child and Co., 44eicester-square, who had been spending the evening on Wednesday, with a friend at Camden-town, and returning home, at about midnight, down Tottenham-court-road, and having crossed Oxford-street, into Crown. street, Soho, was proceeding for the Haymarket, , when he was suddenly seized round the neck -by a man secreted in a corner in the street, and so tightly throttled that he was quite unable to make - a noise or offer resistance, while two more ruffians rushed upon him, and, hating snapped his watch-guard in two, robbed him of his watch and 235. in silver from -his trousers pocket. There was no further personal violence or injury, bat Mr. Bond was rendered insensible and left prostrate on the pave ment. MITEDLS 'DT A CONVICT.—On Friday a convict, named Jones, No.-34246, stabbed Mr. Charles William Hope, assistant surgeon on board the Stirling Castle convict invalid hulk, in Portsmouth Harbour. The wound was inflicted in the neck by tornetharp instrument, not discovered yet,-and seems to hare divided the jugular vein, causing death in a few minutes. Tivc prisoner seems to have become desperate en the deceased refusing to certify the necessity for his remaining in the lower deck, which is a sort - of invalid ward, and wreaked his yen valve 'on him in the gallery of the chapel, after leaving . the surgery when he had been examined. From language which he used afterwards to Mr. Williams, the chief warder, it would seenihe intended to. murder him also, as he said, " If I could gett you I'd serve-you the same, you --'villain !" A co roner's inquest on the body was adjourned. TEIEGRAPIE 'TO AUSTRALIA. — The Genoa Corriere Mer eagtiie of the sth instant has the following :-=" The Mediter ranean Electric-Telegraph Company, which is at this moment I oteupied in laying down the necessary wires to unite the Wand of Sardinia"v'ith La Calle, on the coast of Africa, intends to establish a eosnplete telegraphic communication between -'urope and Melbourne, in Southern Australia. After opening voonclary lines between La Calle, Bona, Bugia, Algiers, and Oran, the company proposes to run the principal lines by Tunis, Tripoli, -Alexandria, Cairo, Suez, Jerusalem, Damascus, Bagdad, Buseoiuh, along the northern coast of the Sea of -Oman, Hyderabad, and Bombay, where the line is to separate into two branches. The northern branch-Will proceed directly to Agra, whence a wire will be directed: towards Lahore and Peshawur, and 'thus reach within a short distance of Cabul and Cashmere. From Agra the telegraph wire will pass through Benarer and unite at Calcutta , with the southern branch, which, starting from Bombay; will,pass through Ban galore and Madras. From Calcutta the line will follow the north-east coast of the Gulf of Bengal, the peninsula of Malacca, the Sauda islands; and thence cross over to the north of Australia, and, extending along the eastern coast of that continent, , communicate with its nunieroas settlements, until it ultimatelyreaches Port Adelaide. Thecntire length of the line is estimated at 20,000 kilometres." DEATH C.R-2. MISER WITH £5,000 <MAUS PERSON.—AR inquest was held on Saturday, at Westminster, London, on the body of Frederick Hoffman, aged 41. The deceased, who was well known in the neighbourhood for' his penurious habits, was engaged-as a waiter and to take thehats of the company at a party:given by M. Rothschild, a diamond merchant, of Argyllestreeteon Friday. He arrived about eight o'clock, and performed the duties of his office, and at supper time ate very greedily. About three o'clock on Saturday morning he was seized with a: kind of fit in the supper-room, and although medical assistance was immediately procured, he died in a few minutes. On the body being searched, the first thing which presented itself was some portions of poultry which he had secreted during supper in his pockets, and £36 in gold and 21s. in silver, aßank of England note for 2100, a deposit book of the Royal British Bank for £1,225, a deposit receipt of the London and Westminster Bank for £5OO, a bill of exchange for £l5 155., another for £25, a bank deposit receipt for £l5O, three parcels of pearls, three of rubies, three of diamonds, one of rough diamondseone of emeralds r and one of ; garnets. Forty one sovemigns -were subsequently found in the fob of the deceased's trousers. Mr. Chappel, surgeon,•said he had opened the body e end,itehis opinion, death had resulted from serous apoplexy. M. Rothschild raid deceased.; had the precious stones from various parties to sell on eommissien. The money he knew nethingabout. He was supposed to be so poor a man that, sometime since, a subscription. was raised to send him into the country for the benefit eaf his health. A verdict of natural-death-from serous apoplexy was returned. CAE:INET Peoverres.—Lord Palmenston winks, night and day—portentous fact. Whether it is becauseuf the state of his elderly nwves, orlecause of the state of affair's, it is certain that Henry Temple, Viscount Palmerston, is perpetually winking. He winks at Mr. Speaker, he vviuks.cst the Opposi tion,-he winks at' below the gangway, lie winks .at the clock, he is always winkipg-ewhen he has an atelienceehe necessarily winks at the Queen. The amount of knowingness that he thus impresses public 'life with is tremendouseand club ru mours begin to be awful. How will the country-endure the some-months uncertainty about Peace, while-the Premier chronically Winks .at the Legislature, tins throwing fresh feelings of 'doubt into the confusion? Barleigh,'s nod was something, in its way, as a state intimation ; but , Burleigh's nod was a trifle to ,what Palmerston's wink is. *bout the ordinary Premier, you, cangenerally guess with some approxi mate certainty. Pitt, at Bellamy's, always orderedeepartieu lar bin when he was going to suggest a new tax. Lewd Liver pool used to go and walk about Covent Garden Flower .Market, after leaving A , Cabinet Council, and the fruiterers ,could tell by his manner, in examining the bouquets, whether Iffuskisson had been very obstinate, or Canning too malieious. .Feel's fawn-coloured waistcoat had its signifieance, like the :Navarre white plume ; it always meant mischief, and then his sidle was twice as topions as ever. Lord John gets his;hair cat when he is going to talkabout Sydney on the scaffold, and Hampden in the usual place. When Mr. Disraeli contemplates a remarkable oration, lie leaves word at the refreshment.stall in the members' vestibule to have Selters water and.sherry brandy mixed by eleven o'clock, p.m., and ready to be brought in by that attentive son of a-DukeeTeord Henry Lennox. But guesses about Lord Palmerston, are.over. A First Minister, - who is always winking, bewilders the oldest member past any conjecture. When St. Vitus is in the Cabinet, the Lord Pre sident, only, knows what may happen. However, the English ought to be glad that the aged Lords they select to govern them take to the natural relief of this excess of activity. It is better than paralysis. The lively wink is preferable to the , fixed stars. —Correspondent of the Dublin Nation. ELECTIONS: SCENE AT CAM_BRIDGE. - Mr. M. T. Baines lass been re-elected for Leeds; Mr. Labouchere, for Taunton. Mr. George Ridley has been elected for Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Mr. Warren, far Midhurst ; Lord Ilaynham, for Tamworth ; Mr. Adam Black, for Edinburgh; and Mr. Martin, for Ro chester. On -Saturday the election for Cambridge concluded by the retirement of Mr. Denman from the contest, when the polling stood, -Walpole, 886; Denman, 419:; majority, 467. On Friday there was a riot among the Cambridge under graduates, in consequence of their being refused admittance to the Senate-house. They hooted the Vice-Chancellor, and marched up and down Trinity-street in dense masses, hooting, hallowing, screeching, and whistling, under the expectation that they should have the satisfaction of " escorting the Vice- Chancellor to the Senate-house." About half-past seven they were in great force at the entrance opposite St. Mary's-passage, where they tore down an awning that had been erected during the day, and many of them forced their way into the enclosure. The hour appointed for polling was half-past seven, but no Vice-Chancellor made his appearance ; and it was not until eight o'clock that some men, who had been watching Trinity gates, came tearing along, urging their comrades to whistle, whistle." And then (says the Cambridge Chronicle) arose a terrible yell from hundreds of voices surronnding the entrance opposite St. ;Mary's-passage, at which the Vice- Chancellor was expected to go in ; they were, however, dis appointed of their prey, for admittance was gained quickly and quietly at the principal gate, on Senate-house -bill. On enter ing the schools, the Vice-Chancellor was greeted with sounds both complimentary and the reverse by a dense crowd of Masters of Arts. Whilst the polling was going on, a body of under -graduates made an entrance into the old Court of King's, and smashed the windows of the schools ; whereupon a cry arose from the Masters of Arts to the effect that the under graduates should not have been slant out. Before the Vice- Chancellor quitted the schools, he requested the protection of the gentlemen present on his way home, and a body of them responded, and formed themselves into a guard around him. No sooner was the procession observed under the Library than an unearthly cry arose, and when the Vice-Chancellor emerged from the gate on Senate-house-hill he was beset by an infuri ated mob, and it was with the utmost difficulty that he gained Trinity College unharmed, notwithstanding the persevering assistance of large numbers of members of the Senate. The Independent says that some of the young men were captur e d, and will, no doubt, be made to suffer for this fresh breach of University discipline." A DEALER who attends Bury (Suffolk) market was recently weighed, when it was found that he exceeded the weight of a family of nine persons, namely, the e e and seven children, by seven pounds. Ix excavating for coal at the Rock' Colliery, Nippet-lane, Burmantofts, near Leeds, the proprietors have recently dis covered a very valuable seam of iron ore, which is said to be a continuation of the Low Moor seam. THE WOOL CROP or VICTORIA. —The export of wool from the several ports of Victoria in the year ended 10th October last was 22,932,2911b5., showing an increase of 333,603 lbs. over the previous year's shipments. The increase in the wool ex ported is fully 00 per cent. since 1851, and with the diffusion of population, and the facilities now offered for transit to Adelaide by the Murray River, the imports of Australian wool may be expected largely to increase, even upon the present production. AN ALMOST EXTINCT CLAN.—The Stirling Journal thus mourns over the impending fate of the Stewarts of Glenfin glass :—" At the back of Benledi there is a beautiful vale called Glenfinglass, anciently a deer forest belonging to the Kings of Scotland, and has for many generations been inha bited by a people of the name of Stewart, all linked together by intermarriages. But, alas !we fear that the present gener ation is, in all likelihood, to be the last of a race who are to enjoy the milk and honey of that delightful vale. They are now reduced to six families ' • and, strange to say, there has not been a marriage or birth for upwards of thirty years amongst them, with the exception of one solitary case, and that one too romantic to record." OMNIBUS STATISTICS. —According to the report of the Me tropolitan Anglo-French Company, it appears that the week's earnings of 182 omnibuses, stated at £3,503 Bs., gives (omit ting fractions) £lB 10s. as the sum earned by each. This, as the expenses of working every omnibus are £l5 (including duties, wages, horse-keep, and wear and tear), leaves a profit, weekly, of £3 10s. on each omnibus, nearly doable the amount of the original calculation. This result leads to some singular statistical facts. At an average fare of 4d. each, the £3503 Bs. gives 42,060 passengers as carried by the 182 omnibuses. These f igu res multiplied by 52 show the year's passengers to be 210,440 ; but as 182 is less than one fourth of the 810 omnibuses running in London, the yearly number of 'passengers conveyed in the metropolis would be one million. REPORTS ON 'Sun.—The Governor-General has recently taken a remarkable step in advance. He has addressed a circular to the five governments and the commissioners of in dependent provinces, requiring them to prepare an annual report on the territories under their administration... Each of these reports is to resemble a president's message, to contain the history of the presidency or province for the year. It will detail the improvements in legislation, police, education, public works, and all other departments, after the fashion of the report which Lord Elgin, some months since, presented for Canada. These reports are to be immediately published in India, and forwarded to England. They will form, in the course of years, a complete index to the history of British India. Meanwhile they will show the government at home how we are getting on, enable them to estimate the Indian rate of progress,. and, above all, permit them to decide on the results of the different systems in force. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—A return has just been issued of the number and nature of the accidents which have occurred on all the railways open for traffic in England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland respectively, from the Ist of July to the 31st of December, 1855. From this return it appears that seven persons were killed, and 204 injured from causes beyond their own control. In the corresponding half of 1854, the numbers were 9 killed and 259 injured. Eleven persons were killed and 15 injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution, as against 15 killed and 12 injured, 1854. There were passengers making a total of 18 killed and 219 injured, as against 24 killed and 271 injured in 1854. Ten servants of companies or contractors were killed, and 20 injured, from causes beyond their own control, as against 20 killed and 37 injured in 1854; while 32 were killed and 35 injured, owing to their own misconduct or want of caution, as against 37 killed and 11 injured in 1854. Twenty persons were killed and 4 injured through crossing at level crossings; there were 3 suicides and 2 persons killed and 1 injured from miscellaneous causes. The grand totals were—for England and Wales, 116 killed and 224 injured ; for Scotland, 8 killed and 56 injured ; for Ireland, 10 killed and 6 injured; making together 133 killed and 286 injured, as against 123 killed and 334 injured in 1854. The length of railway opened on the 31st December, 1855, was 6,218 miles in England and Wales, 1,087 in Scot land, and 988 in Ireland, making together 8,293 miles, as against 8,054 for the corresponding half of 1854. GREEK PIRATES.—The following is an extract of a letter from Captain Shields, of the transport brig Radius, of Sun derland, from Constantinople, arrived at Malta, and dated January 28 I think it proper to tell you of a circumstance which occurred on our passage from Constantinople ; you may give it publicity, to show the necessity of ships having fire arms in this quarter. Luckily for us, we had some muskets and ammunition, which we had got while lying at Kamiesch. On the 4th of January, at daybreak, in the Archipelago, a Greek brig, which had passed us on the opposite tack before daybreak, had tacked, and was not far from us when day broke. It was a drizzling, rainy morning, calm and smooth. Our ship had lost steerage-way, when it. was observed the brig had put her boat out, and was coming on board of us. I was in bed, and the carpenter came running down to tell me. I jumped up, and told him to call all hands quickly, and to send them to me to take each a musket and bayonet. I loaded them in the cabin, as it was raining, and told him and the mate to load their guns, and fire one off to let them know that we would resist, and that we have fire-arms. They could plainly see from their brig every man as he came out of the cabin with them. By this time the boat was only a few yards off; the carpenter fired a shot close to the boat, which seemed to confound them. They gave over rowing, and a man on board called to them in the boat, and they pulled round and went back, hoisting up their boat, and a light northerly breeze having sprung up, the brig made all sail and went away from us; he even set studding-sail and rigged royal yards, which were down before, and went right out of sight of us in a few hours. There was nothing in sight but our two selves. There is no doubt that he would have plundered us, if not murdered us, had we not been armed. He would see our number as daylight came, Our transport number might be some cause of him giving us up as he did."—Shipping Gazette. FIRES AT HALF-PRICE.—Clean out your grate; cover the bottom with a sheet of paper , cut or folded t o fit; place your coals in the grate to the level of the top bar, keeping the larger ones to the front to prevent wa ste. Light your fire on the top, and allow it to burn downwards undisturbed. An ordinary fire, prepared and lighted in this way, will, according to the form and size of the grate, burn six, eight, or ten hours without any renewal of coal, burning brighter and warmer •than if lighted from below, as fires are ordinarily made. The coal should be tolerably equal in size, something like Macadam stone; place the large to the front, the small to the back. The writer and his friends have made their fires as described for some weeks, and can vouch for the "saving of coal," the cheer fulness and warmth, and freedom from smoke. Some grates may present more difficulties than others, and servants object to the innovation. It is "beggarly," it is "mean," &c. My servants, now that they have learnt to make such fires, approve the plan, as " the grates are not so dirty or so difficult to clean as formerly." Think of -saving half the coal and most of the smoke from the 300,000 house fires in the metropolis.— Builder. THE NOTORIOUS HIGHWAYMAN GAREETT.—lnformation of an interesting character has been received by the city police in connection with the above desperate criminal. It will be recollected that Garrett was apprehended in Oxford-street, by Jarvis, Webb, and Scott, three of the city detectives, on a charge of being concerned in the great bank robbery at Vic toria. When captured, he had revolvers and a dagger upon him, and, after undergoing several examinations, he was sent from Newgate to Liverpool, heavily ironed, and removed from the latter place to Melbourne in the Exodus, a cell lined with iron having ,been fitted up on the main deck for his safe cus tody. An approver, named Quin, who had been concerned with Garrett and two others in crimes of the deepest dye, re ceived a conditional pardon upon his undertaking to remain at New Zealand until Garrett's trial came on. Quin's other asso ciates were executed, and Quin has violated the terms upon which his pardon was obtained, having left New Zealand, and is now supposed to be in London. The consequence has been that Garrett has been nine times remanded by the district court of Melbourne, as it has not been considered safe to pro ceed to trial in Quin's absence. Another charge, however, of highway robbery, has been preferred against Garrett., by Mr. Frizzle, chief .constable of Belfast, and Mr. Foster, inspector of police at Ballarat, who have identified Garrett, by scars on his left hand and face, as one of the daring robbers who plun dered the Belfast mail iu June, 1850, and was committed for trial, but effected ,his escape from the vessel iu which he was being conveyed to Melbourne. He then gave the name of Codrington Jessington ; and it new appears he was convicted of a robbery at Bendigo three years ago. Garrett now stands committed for the Belfast mail robbery, and has been re manded for the Victoria Bank robbery. The detectives have attached the booty recovered to the extent of £964, the reward to which they are entitled. MORALITY OP THE FRENCH PRESS.—The Paris correspon dent of the Manchester Guardian says :—I cannot refrain from letting your readers into the secrets of a little affair that has just passed here in Paris, and may serve to show what the tone of morality is amongst some of those journalists who liave left their own so-called "Bohemia" to attach themselvat 'to the governmental press. One of the most marked of these -individuals is the musical critic Fiorentino, an Italian by birth. When the Moniteur was founded, and M. Fould assumed the overseership of it, a feuilletonist was wanted to write on music, Fiorentino was their man; but Fiorentino was : engaged at the Constitutionnel, and could not be had. He himself suggested the possibility of writing under another name, bat there was the new law just made, forbidding any one to.criticise another, in no matter what shape or form, un less he signed his criticism with his own name. Bah !" said , M. Feuld, what does that matter ?we don't make laws to shackle ourselves by them—Fiorentino will sign de Rovray, and write the musical feuillitons of time Moniteur." So said and so done.; awl" de Rovray" and Fiorentino have gone on feeding Moniteur and Constitutional for the last two or three years. The thing, has transpired here and there, but Fiorentino has , for reasons you will so on understand ; ke p t the matter as secret as he could. Some time since Fiorentino, in his own name and person, obtained from Madame Tedesco, the singer of the Grand Opera, a yearly pension for praising her upon all occasions. A short while back, how ever, he proposed to her to interest in her favour M. de Rovray, his colleague of the Moniteur. "I never saw him," said Madame Tedesco, "J don't know him." "I know him," answered her interlocutor; " he never stirs out save to the theatres. He is very modest; he will never pay you even a visit ; but I could be your intermediary, and you would be then sure of the Moniteur." Madame Tedesco agreed, and half the sum paid to Fiorentino was to be paid to M. de Rovray—" because," said the lady, " he is not so important as you are, and therefore I only give him half what I give to you." This went on, and Fiorentino enjoyed two pensions ; but, unluckily, the other day some friend enlightened Madame Tedesco, who found out how grossly she bad been cheated. Thereupon she began by declaring to Fiorentino that she would publish the whole. Au application was made to M. Fould to dismiss M. de Ro vra y f rom the Moniteur; but he laughed, and said he should do no such thing. So the affair has been made up, and Madame Tedesco pays only one pension at present ; but if M. de Rovray should take it into his head to attack her, she will soon again pay two! This man was decorated by the Emperor a month ago ; and when the news of it was known, th o se among the other journalists , such as Theophile Gautier, Jules Janin, &c., who happened to have the legion d'honneur also, took the ribbon from their button-hole in the lobby of the Grand Opera at the moment Fiorentino walked in, and thrust it into their pockets, saying, loud enough to be heard, that it was now a disgrace to be " decori." This is no fault of Louis Napoleon's that he should decorate such men ; but it is an unpardonable fault in such a - man as M. Fould,that present individuals of this stamp on the list Of those who are to receive the cross. 3 AT the Court of Queen's ,Bench, on Monday, Mr. Reuben, Plant, iron and coal merchant, obtained £ 5OO as compensation i for injury received by a collision on the Oxford, Worcester; and Wolverhampton Railway. ,TIIE railway calls falling due in the present month amount to C 26,783. The total calls for the first two months of 1856 amount to £1,451,154, against £4,031,907 in the corresponding period of last year, when the calls were chiefly for foreign lines. A DEMAND has been presented to the Congregation of Rites at Rome, for the beatification of Queen Maria Christina of Naples, daughter of King Victor Emanuel I. of Sardinia, and first wife of the reigning King of Naples. Her Majesty died in 1836. Tnu Spanish papers state that the inundations at Seville are so great that the governor has been rowed through the streets in a boat, in order to convey assistance to the inhabit ants. Iu the Triana, quarter, the water was entering OA houses through the balconies. Two brothers, named Samuel and John Dyson, have been committed for perjury, at Barnsley. It is believed that in order to obtain a reward of £5O; they swore that they saw a man named Joseph Marsh leave a stack-yard at the time an incendiary fire was discovered. STEEL PEN MINUFACTEIREES.—At a recent trial, in Paris, between a steel . pen dealer of that city and Messrs. links and Wells, the manufacturers, of Birmingham, it was stated that in the whole world there are but 14 manufactories of steel pens, and that nine of them are at Birmingham, four at Bo logne-sur-mer, and one at Paris. IT is considered a singular incident in the history of what Mr. Disraeli would term literary statesmanship," that on the same day—the 19th of January—Mr. Macaulay announced he had taken leave of political life, and Mr. Samuel Warren, claiming the suffrages of the electors of Midhurst, stated his , intention to commence his political existence. IN the year 1851 (says a Russian journal) S6l, works in the Russian language were printed in Russia:and 451 written in foreign languages; 2,940 contributions, treating of science and literature, appeared in the Russian journals. Of printing offices there are 45 in St. Petersburg, 16 at Moscow, and 24 in the other cities of Russia. THE ASSASSINATION OF Mn. WAUGH. — At the Central Criminal Court, London, on Thursday, Charles Westron was tried for the assassination of Mr. Waugh, the solicitor, of Bedford-row. The jury returned a verdict pronouncing the pri soner " guilty of wilful murder," but recommended him to mercy, on account of predisposition to insanity. Sentence of death was recorded. IN 1827, the steamer America was "snagged" in the Missis sippi, and sunk in deep water ; in the course of years an island formed over the wreck, and for eight years crops of Indian corn were raised upon it ; now the changeful Father of Waters has attacked the isle, swept away the soil, and exposed the America's hull, from which it is expected a cargo of lead will be recovered. A PERSON, calling himself Arthur Tchermacher, Baron Arthur, of Waldemarde, captain in her Majesty's service and in the Prussian navy, general of cavalry in the Prussian army, and Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle, was hooted out of Southampton last week. He had been had up before the magistrates for victimising some hotel-keepers. He carries medals about with him to justify his pretensions to the rank he assumes. RAILWAY AcTs. — A return has been issued of the railway acts passed in 1855, the length of each line, the proposed capital stock, the number of shares authorised to be created, and the sums authorised to be raised on loan. The acts, which are 73 in number, may be classed as follows :—Acts authorising incorporation of companies, 23 ; extension of time and amendment of acts, 6; deviations, extensions, &c., for which no new capital is required, 9; branches, &c., for which new capital is required,l3 ; reduction of capital, 3 ; additional capital for works previously authorised, 9 ; lease, 2 ; deben tures, stocks, &c., 7 ; steam-boats, 1. The increase of mileage occasioned by the above acts is 44 miles 10 chains; the in crease of capital and loans, £5,253,675 13s. id. PARISIAN JEWELLEILY.—An amusing incident took place last week at a ball given by an exalted personage in the Fau bourg St. Germain. The crowd which encumbered the salons was such, and the jostling so great, that bracelets, diamond necklaces, &c., were torn from the arms of their fair wearers. Many disappeared for ever; but a goodly number was found on the floor after the guests bad takn their departure. Such was the quantity of jewels collected that son excellence felt a curiosity to ascertain the sum they represented. He there fore sent for a jeweller, who carefully examined the gems. " What do you value all these at ?" said the master of the house. "Monseigneur," replied the jeweller, "the aggregate value is-60 franks !" The truth of this anecdote is vouched for. - - FORBES MACKENZIE'S ACT.—The Glasgow Herald con tains a lengthened report of a meeting which took place in that city, of delegates from the principal towns in Scotland and England, to report upon the operation of Forbes Mac kenzie's Act. Mr. A. S. Anderson presided. Reports having been given in from the delegates, showing the oppressive and demoralising effects of the act in the districts where it was enforced, after a long discussion, it was resolved to petition parliament for its total repeal. After the conference the members of the association, and the delegates from London, Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, and various towns in Scotland, dined together in the Trades'-hall. SMUGGLING AT HAMBURG. — A letter from Hamburg gives an account of the mission of Dr. Rucker, who, it is said, was sent to London by the three Hanseatic cities to assure the English government of the falsehood of the allegations that war materiel was being transported thence to Russia. Lord Clarendon, says the account, received the doctor " in a manner so little diplomatic, that a parallel is vainly sought in history," while Lord Palmerston cried out in the midst of the explanations, " Why, you Hamburghers are nothing but a set of smugglers !" All this, together with sundry threaten ings, has grievously wounded the feelings of the citizens of Hamburg. - - - - SPORTING INTELLIG THE CHASE. The CIIESIIIRE HOUNDS will meet on MA.Ton MARTIN, late of the oth N. 1., after having served the government and the country well and faithfully for about thirty years, as a military officer, has come forward to enlist, more decidedly and more exclusively than ever, in the ranks of the faithful followers of the Saviour, as a labourer in the missionary field. Instead of retiring, like most men, at the end of his long term of service, to enjoy his pension and his private fortune amidst the ease and comforts of his native land, he has engaged himself as a regular lay missionary assistant in the Church Missionary Society's service, and has been placed in the van of our missionary force at the frontier sta tion, Peshawur.—Oriental Christian Spectator. A LOTTERY SCHEME.—The Journal du Loiret relates the following scheme resorted to by a young damsel :—A young lady, pretty and well educated, residing in the arrondissement of Pithiviers, has conceived the idea of putting herself up to lottery. There are to be 300 tickets, at I,ooof. each, and to the fortunate winner she will give herself and the 209,000 f. by way of dowry. The lady has attached some very prudent conditions to the purchase of tickets. She will only sell them to persons whom she may think will suit her ; and in order to ascertain that point, she exacts a half hour's tete-a-tete conversation with each applicant. There is no limit of age imposed, but more than one ticket may be taken by one person. The lottery will be drawn on the 25th of November next, at the mairie at Pithiviers. No married men are allowed to take tickets. It is said that a number of Englishmen have already become purchasers, and applications are coming in from all quarters. Two CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATIL—The Lincolnshire Times contains the particulars of the death of two children who were last week burned to death in a most shocking man• ner at Ulceby. Thomas Jobson, aged seven years, and his sister Elizabeth, aged four years, with their cousin Robert Jobsou, aged two years, went out to play together in a vacant pigsty, not fifteen yards from the house of the two elder children. The little girl had taken some congreve matches from a high shelf in her mother's cupboard, She lighted a match, and the straw and furze of which the pigsty was built were quickly in a blaze. Thomas ran away, crying to his sister and cousin to come out of the sty ; but although in a few minutes they were extricated from the flames, there was hardly a trace of human features to be discerned. TIIENORTIL—Advices from Hamburg, of the 6th, state that the sudden change from mild to very severe cold frosty wea ther has had the effect of causing a temporary stoppage of the navigation, which will, however, in all probability, soon be opened again, inasmuch as there had been another equally sudden change from frost to snow and heavy rain, leaving the streets ankle deep in mud and dirt, with the barometer indi cating two degrees of heat. Precisely this same changeable weather has been experienced in the North, as we learn from the Russian ports in the Baltic and Gulfs of Finland, Bothnia, and Riga. In the harbours of the Baltic—in Mecklenburg and Lubeck especially—there is much stir in the shipping, and all kinds of produce are being sent away thence to Russian ports in great haste. THE RECENT CHARGE OF PASSING FORGED CHECRB.— The Cambridge Chronicle contains the following particulars respecting George Patman, who was charged a few days ago, in the Guildhall Police-court, London, with passing forged checks to a large amount :—Patman came to Cambridge about twelve months ago. He took lodgings at the house of a lady in New square, and, conducting himself with great propriety, was in. course of time introduced to several respectable families. He had previously, we should observe, made the acquaintance of some ladies connected with one of these families at Berkbale stead, in Hertfortshire, where he was residing. He was very regular in his habits, a constant attendant at church, and pro fessed to entertain serious religious convictions. He entered Clare College last October, having previously, we understand, been reading with a member of the University. In College, as elsewhere, his outward demeanour was irreproachable. He paid his addresses to one of the ladies he had met in Hertford shire, and prosecuted his suit with such success that in De cember last he was united to her. This event did not take place without the father of the lady having made due inquiries as to Patman's standing in society and means; and he was so convinced, from the representations made to him, that Pat man was possessed of a moderate competency, that he cheer. fully gave his consent to the union. One of these represeuts tions was that an uncle had placed £4 5 000 in the hinds, the' interest of which was to be his, and documents were produced in proof of this statement. These, it now turns out, were forged. Everything went on harmoniously till Friday, the 25th ult., five short weeks after his marriage, when intern.. gence was received in this town that Patman, who was in London, transacting some business for his father-in-law, had been arrested on a charge of forgery. The news was so astounding that at first it was not credited; but it unfor tunately turned out to be too true. 'We leave it to the imagin ation of our readers to picture the state of distress which such intelligence produced in the family with which he had become connected. There is, apparently, some mystery in the case, no adequate motives for his conduct having been discovered. Wednesday, Feb. 13 Winch= Half Thursday, 14.. Shipbrooke Bridge Saturday, Feb. 16 Beeston Castle Each day at Half•past Ten o'clock. ANOTIIER CURB Or COUGH AND HOARSENESS BY DB. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS.--" Parliament-street. sir,— had been troubled with a cough and hoarseness for nearly two years, without relief, when I was induced to try Locock's Wafers, the effects of which were soon visible, for one large box (2s. 9d.) has quite cured me. I have since recommended them to several of my friends, and they have also experienced the greatest relief from them. J. WILLIAMS." 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