The Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1861-01-08 00:00:00

AMERICA. ACTUAL SECESSION OF SOUTH CAROLINA THE UNANIMOUS PASSAGE or THE SECESSION ACT IN THE STATE CONVENTION. THE MANIFESTO OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONVENTION. By the Europa, which arrived in the Mersey yesterday, we have New York papers down to the 25th ult. inclusive. NVe take the following from the New York Herald of that date t—u dediaratibti of causes did Pitt forth as justifying the secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union, as reported by the committee to prepare an address to the Southern States : The State of South Carolina having determined to itatime a separate and etttial iuttions, aeenii it dice aiid the remaining United States the nations of the world, that she should &dare the causes which led to the act. In 1765 . that portion pf the British Empire embracing Great Britain undertook to make laws for the government of the American colonies. A struggle for the right of self government ensiled, which resulted on the 4th of July, 1776, in a declaration by the colonies that they are, and of right ought to be free and independent States, and that as free and indeperidtnt States they hale full power to levy war; conclude peace, Contract alliances, establish commette, and dd stiall Miligs which independent State, have the Melt to do. They further solemnly declared just whenever any form of government becomes de structive of these ends, it is the established right of the people to alter and abolish it and institute a new govern ment. Deeming that the government of Great Britain had become destructive of these ends, they declared the colonies free and absolved from allegiance to the British crown, and the political connection between them and Great Britain was totally dissolved. The committee say the right of a State to govern itself, and the right of the people to abolish a government when it becomes de structive of the ends for which it was instituted were expressed when the colonies separated from the Mother Country, attd beetteib free and independent States. the parties difiending the constitution on the 17th of September, 1787, were the several sovereign States. On May 23, 1788, South Carolina, by a convention of her people, assented to the amended constitution of the United States. The failure of one of the contracting parties to maintain the constitutional obligations, releases the other. Fifteen of the Northern States have de liberately refused for years to fulfil their constitutional obligations. He would refer to those States for a proof of this. When the fourth article of the constitution was adopted, the greater number of the contracting parties held slims. The hostility of the Northern States to the institution of slavery had led them to disregard their constitutional obligations. The laws of the general govetnthent have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Penn sylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and lowa have enacted laws either nullifying the consti tution or to render useless all attempts to execute the acts of Congress. In many of these States fugitives " held to service and to labour" have been claimed, but in none of them has the State government complied with the stipulation on this subject made in the constitu tion. The ends for which this government was instituted have been defeated, and the government itself made destructive by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States assumed the right of deciding on the propriety of our domestic institutions. They denied the rights of property established in fifteen States, and recogiised by the constitution. They have de nounced as sinful the institution of slavery ; have per mitted an open establishment of societies, whose avowal and object are to disturb the peace and prosperity of the citizens of other States ; they have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes, and those who remain have been incited by emissaries, by books and pictures, to servile insurrection. Twenty five years this agitation has been steadily increasing, until they have secured the power of the common government. Observing the forms of the constitution, a sectional party has found within that article, esta blishing an executive department, means of subverting the constitution itself. A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. In the formation of the federal government each State was recogniSed as an equal, the right of property in slaves was recognised by giving all free persons distinct political rights,. by giving them the right to represent and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves, by authorising the importation of slaves for twenty years, and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labour. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common government, because it is declared that a government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free, and that the public mind must rest in the • belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinc tion. This sectional combination for the subversion of the constitution has been aided in the States by elevating to citizenship persons who, by the supreme law of the land, are incapable of becoming citizens, and their votes have been used to inaugurate the new policy hostile to the South and destructive to its peace and safety. On the 4th of March next this party will take possession of the government. It has been announced that the South shall be excluded from the common Territory; that the judicial tribunals will be made sectional; that war must be waged against slavery until it shall cease throughout the United States, The guarantees of the constitution will then no longer exist ; equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government or self-protection, and the federal government will have become their enemy. Sectional interests and animosity will deepen the irritation, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain by the fact that the public opinion of the bi orth has invested the great political error with the sanction of a more erroneous religious belief. We, therefore, the people of South Carolina, by our delegates in Convention assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, have solemnly declared the union heretofore existing between this State and the other States of North America is dissolved, and that the State of South Caro lina has resumed her position among the nations of the world as a free, sovereign, independent State, with full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do; and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance for pro tection on Divine Providence, we mutually pledge each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour. SPREAD OF THE SECESSION FIRE IN THE SOUTH. Cozarustra, Dec. 22, 1860. The news of the secession of South Carolina has created intense excitement and rejoicing in Georgia and Alabama. All the towns have been illuminated, cannon fired and bells rung, amid general excitement. Colum bus, Montgomery, Atlanta, Savannah, Mobile, and Macon, are in a blaze of enthusiasm. The ordinance of secession will be passed in Alabama on the 10th of January. In Georgia the secessionists will have a small majo rity, but all will be forced to join Alabama and South Carolina, We have reliable information from Mississippi, and it is certain that she will secede immediately after the meet ing of the Convention. INTENSE EXCITEMENT AT PITTSBURG. REPORTED REMOVAL OF IMPLEMENTS OF WAR TO THE SOUTH. Prrrsnuxa, PA., Dec. 24, 1860. Intense excitement exists here today, in consequence of ite being made public that United States Quarter master Taliafero was negotiating for the shipment from the Alleghany arsenal, of seventy-eight guns to Newport, near Galveston island, Texas, and forty-six more to Ship Island, near Balize, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, the apparent object being to strip the Alleghany arsenal, and place the guns where the secessionists could get them. Major Symington, of Maryland, in command of the arsenal, declined to give the press any information on the subject. - - EXCITEMENT IN NEW ORLEANS. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 21, 1860. The reception of the news of the secession of South Carolina created an intense excitement to-day. At twelve o'clock three thousand citizens assembled sponta neously in front of the building of the Southern Right s Association, on Cam P-street, to witness the unfolding of the Pelican flag, amidst immense cheers, the People's Band playing the Marseilles Hymn. Tremendous cheers were given for South Carolina and Calhoun. Speeches were made by distinguished citizens. The Pelican flag is a red star in centre, with' a'pelican and young, on a white field. One hundred guns were fired from each of the districts in the city, amid tre mendous enthusiasm for the independent two P's — Palmetto and Pelican. ARRIVAL OF GEORGIA VOLUNTEERS AT CHARLESTON. CHARLESTON, Dec. 24, 1860. A company of eighty men arrived from Savannah yesterday, and tendered their services to the Governor of the State, in the name of the Minute Men, or Sons of the South. - THE PRESIDENT ELECT AND THE SECESSION MOVEMENT. Th e springuel4 Journal has a startling leader on ~.~ ~ _ secession, which, from the peculiar relations of the paper to the President elect has great significance. It says that South Carolina cannot dissolve the Union by the simple passage of resolutions or other passive demonstrations. %Her federal officers may resign, and she may close her courts and post offices, but she cannot getout of this Union until she conquers this govern ment. While this government endures there can be no disunion. The President of the United States, in such an emer gency, has a plain duty to perform. Mr. Buchanan may shirk it, or the emergency may not exist during his administration. If not, then the Union will last through his term of office. If the overt act on the part of South Carolina takes place on or after the Ist of March, 1861, then the duty of executing the laws will devolve upon Mr. Lincoln. The laws of the United States must be executed. The President has no discretionary power on the subject. His duty is emphatiCally pronounced in the constitution. Mr. Lincoln gill perform that duty, DistiniOn by armed force is treason ; and treason must and will a put down: at all haiardS. • The news from Charleston produced great sensation in political circles. Mr. Lincoln, however, received it calmly. SECESSION STATE CONVENTIONS. South Carolina having opened the ball of secession, we reproduce, for the information of our readers, the cotton States, in the order in which they are expected to follow. A secession State Convention will be held-- In Florida, January 3. In Alabama, January 7. In Mississippi, January 7. In Texas (spontaneous), January 8. In Georgia, January 9. In tonisiana, January 23. A special session of the Legislatures each of Virginia and Tennessee, in reference to a State Convention, will meet on the 7th January. The Legislature of North Carolina is now in session, and according to our last reports it was engaged upon measures for arming the State. The times are " big with the fate of nations" in both hemispheres. THE GREAT INDIAN TRUST FUND BOND DEFALCATION, IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS. ARREST OF WILLIAM H. RUSSELL, OF THE OVERLAND EXPRESS . COMPANY. RUMOURED EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT IN THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. `WASHINGTON, Dec. 24, 1860. The excitement consequent upon the present state of affairs in the nation is entirely absorbed by an astound ing report of a robbery of Indian trust fund bonds in the Interior Department, committed during Secretary Thompson's recent mission to North Carolina. The securities yielded an annual income of two, hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and were ordi narily deposited in ,the. vaults of the Treasury for safe keeping, but were probably temporarily transferred to the Interior Depaitnient for the purpose of detaching the coupons for the collection o f th e J anuary i n t eres t t o meet the next alumni Indian payment. It appears from the facts in connection with these frauds, that about five months ago William 11. Russell, of the firm of Majors, Russell, and Waddell, held about a million of dollars of the official acceptances of, the Secretary of War. These acceptances had been given conditionally, in accordance with the usual course of business, for transportation of such supplies of the army under contract with the government. Mr. Russell, not finding himself able to negotiate these acceptances and being greatly embarrased pecuniarily, and ascertaining from Godard Bailey, with whom he was intimately acquainted, that the latter had control of over three millions of Indian trust funds invested in bonds of different States, arranged with him to let him have about half a million dollars—these bonds to be hypo thecated in New York—and, as security for which, he gave Bailey the acceptances of the War Department, which Bailey placed in the safe where ,the bonds were kept. Recently these bonds have greatly depreciated, and the bankers in New York who made advances on them, therefore called for additional security. Bailey, in order to save the bonds, delivered over $300,000 worth of them additional—in all $870,000. On the 18th inst. he addressed a letter to the Secre tary of the Interior frankly imparting these facts, and requesting an investigation. This letter be gave to a Senator, to he delivered to the Secretary on his return from North Carolina, which request was complied with. The investigation yesterday proved the truth of these statements. Luter, Lea and Co. compose the banking firm through which the negotiation was transacted. Nothing either in the papers or in the investigation shows that any parties except those immediately con cerned in this business, as above stated, are in the slightest manner concerned in the transactions. As high government officials are connected with 'the matter, the details of the transactions concerning the acceptances are kept back, and probably will not be thoroughly known until developed by the House Special Committee appointed to-day to investigate the matter, at the request of Secretary Thompson, who asked Mr. Speaker Pennington, as a special favour, to make the committee as strongly republican as possible to avoid the possibility of the charge that his (Mr. Thompson's) party friends upon the committee controlled their actions to shield him. He seems desirous of the most thorough and open investigation into the whole matter. Those who profess to know the facts in the case say that Mr. Russell, who has been largely engaged in transporting United States stores across the Plains to Utah and beyond, finding himself financially embarrassed more than a year ago, obtained the consent of the Secretary of War to draw upon his depart ment to the amount of one hundred thousand dolla;i4. The Secretary accepted the draft. Some time afterwards he made a similar request for the same amount, assuring the Secretary, the latter's friends say, that the first draft was taken care'Of. To accommodate Russell the Secre tary accepted the second. This mode .of operating, it is said, was repeated six or seven times. The friends of the secretary, in explaining this, assert that the Secretary of War had no idea that Russell was accumulating the drafts, but supposed he was only renewing them, and that the Secretary of War's obligation did not amount at any time to over one hundred thousand dollars. At 'last, finding out the fact, it is said that a certain banker in this city went to Bailey, who bad charge of the 'lndian bonds, and told him that 'his (Bailey's) uncle, the Secretary of War, would be ruined if he did not save him, and informed him that he bad the power to do so, by allowing him to use the State stocks held in trust for the Indians to save him against the acceptances given to Russell. ' Bailey was bailed to-night in three thousand dollars Mr. Fant, of the firm of Fant, Rittenhouse and C 0.,. bankers, and Mr. Gait, of the firm of M. W. Galt and Brothers, jewellers, were his surety. Bailey is among people this evening at large and apparently as happy as usual. Russell was presumed by Secretary Thompson to be worth over .two millions of dollars. Russell will be brought to testify before the Com mittee. The Secretary of War will be subpoenaed to appear before the Committee, but whether he will consent or not does not appear. There are others here, and sonic who have suddenly disappea re d, w h ose t es tim o ny will be valuable in the investigation. FURTHER DEFALCATIONS. It has been discovered within a few days, that two millions of dollars are missing from the United States Treasury that is not accounted for on the books. The clerks have been.busy ever since the discovery searching the books to ascertain whether an actual robbery has . been committed to the above-named amount or not The matter is not yet known to the public, but the officers of the government are in the secret, and very much exercised, fearing the report may prove true right upon the excitement consequent upon the robbery in the Interior Department. Many members of Congress are suspicious that a general grab flame is going on in the various depart ments of the government, in view of the prospective dis solution of the Urtion ; and the belief is strengthened greatly by the events of a day or two, and it is seriously contemplated to institute a thorough investigation into the affairs of each bureau of each of the Departments. Congress could not be engaged in a better work, for there is no doubt that the suspicion of members referred to is justly grounded. Russell will be requested to resign the Presidency of California Pony Express Company, but the company will continue its efficient businas with a new head. Bailey, it is said, has been living at the rate of two hundred dollars per month, with a salary of sixteen hundred per annum. The rumours of the resignation of Secretary Floyd are unfounded. THE LATEST REPORTS. 'WASHINGTON, Dec. 24, 11 p.m. Bailey has this evening been released from the District Gaol upon bail amounting to only three thousand dollars. The excuse for this small sum is that Bailey has turned State's evidence, and is, there fore, only held as a witness. Russell bat telegraphed that he will be h ere i n th e morning, and his friends are actively engaged in pro curing him counsel. Eminent counsellors in Baltimore have been telegraphed to come here immediately and efforts are making to secure the services of Mr. Carlisle, of this city. Russell's friends declare that he will show a good record ; while at the same time they do not hesitate to entertain fears that Bailey's course in turning State's evidence may be for the purpose of screening parties, and swearing against Russell, Majors, and others, who are known to have been engaged with them in disposing of the stocks, which, it is said, arc now deposited in. the Bank of the Republic, in New Yoik. ARREST OF WILLIAM 11. RUSSELL. William H. Russell, a contractor to carry supplies to the.army in Utah, was arrested yesterday, by United States' Marshal Rynders, on a charge of being one of the parties charged with the hypothecation of the Indian Trust rand bonds, He was ordered to be immediately transmitted to Washington. LANDING OF NEGROES —CAPTURE OF SEVEN HUNDRED. HAVANNAII, Dec. 16, 1860. The Captain-General of Cuba notified the Consul- General of the United States yesterday that some seven hundred bozzie negroes bad been captured near Sancti Spiritus, who had been landed on the south coast of the island a few days previous from an American schooner No other particulars given. We have also private advices that a large cargo was delivered, near the same spot, from an American vessel, and that they were safely disposed of without police observation. COTTON. (Troy: IV. T. Wright g. Co.'s Circular.) NEW ORK, Dec. 24, 1860 , There is no abatement in the political excitement ; indeed, .the action of the State of South Carolina in creases the difficulty, and if her example is followed by other States, the derangements of business for some months may result in serious evils at home and abroad. The advices from Liverpool as to cotton, and from London as to money, as far as we yet know, say to 13th December, are so directly contrary of what was expected and predicted, that a much more cheerful view of the future has gradually crept into the cotton market, while the large import of specie present and prospective has caused more ease in the money market, rendered the negotiations of exchahge less diffi ;cult, and encourages the hope of a higher rate on London at no distant date. We have also a rapid falling off in receipts of cotton at the South by mail as well as by telegraph. The crop views are decidedly below 4,000,000 bales. ; The chances of planters holding back a con siderable portion of their crop is freely canvassed. The quantity likely to be exported to foreign countries is also a matter of importance, awl enters somewhat into the calculation of shippers. These combined influences, which had acted favourabiy on prices and: extent of business at the date of our last circular, have produced a more marked effect during the past week; the transac tions have been to a greater extent, prices have advanced, and taking price, freight, and exchange, we are not only above the parity of the last quotations from Liverpool, but higher than at any previous time this season. In this city we have had a good demand for cotton on the spot, and every parcel offered at market rates has found a pro:npt purchaser.. The sales, which amount to 8,000 bales, have been for Liverpool, Havre, the conti nent of Europe,. and our own consumption. Prices have further advanced ie.' per lb., and close firmly at the annexed quotations. The clearances for the week have bees as follows :—To Liverpool, 7,345; Havre, 1,416 ; Rotterdam, 950 ; Bremen, 311 ; Glasgow, 290 ; Antwerp, 272; Oporto, 50; Gibraltar, 34 ; total, 10,668 bales. Note:—We are satisfied that the stock on hand in this port has been very greatly over-estimated of late by the New York Shipping List and ourselves. From enquiries, we believe, the unsold stock of cotton in store does not exceed 25,000 bales. . , By telegraph the following has been received : New Orleans, Dec. 22.—Receipts for the week, 57,000 bales (net); same week last rear, 102,400 bales. Sales for the week, 63,000. Middling, 101 c per lb. Export for the week—To Great Britain, 41,000 bales ; to France, 15 1 090. Stock on hand, 326,000 bales. Freight to Liverpool, 9-16 d per lb. P.M.—Sales to-day, 9,500 bales ; prices easier, but quotations unchanged. Ex change on London, 100 to 101 per cent, and.with Bills Lading, 96 per cent. Mobile; Dec. 22 —Receipts for the week, 17,200 baleS ; same week last year, 46,000. Salute for the week, 33,000. Middling, 10c per lb. Stock on band, 138,009 bales: Exchange en London, 100 to 1001 per cent. Freight to Liverpool, 19-32 d to d per lb.— P.M. : Market firm. Sales to-day, 5,000 bales ; Mid dling, 10d to lOid. The following is a statement of the movement in cotton since the Ist September last, as compared with the previous four years : 1860. 1859. 1858. 1857. 1856. fide. a' Porti... 1518,000 1,944,000 1633,000 949,000 1338,000 Ex. to G. 8.... 605,000 731,000 478,000 301,000 282,000 ~ France 156,000 178,000 228,000 102,000 127,000 „ other F. P. 89,000 82,000 113,000 77,000 87,000 Total Exports... 850,000 9 0 1,000 819,000 480,000 496,000 Stock on hand... 608,000 884,000 708,000 477,000 650,00 Of which, during the past week, included in the above : Elec. at;Porta ... 119,000 180,000 140,000 11 7,000 134,000 Ex to G. B. „ France „ other F. P 13,000 5,000 28,000 17,000 22,000 Total Exports Summary.—Receipts : Decrease at the ports compared kvith last year, 426,000 bales. Exports : Decrease to Great Britain, 126,000 bales; decrease to France, 22,000 bales ' • increase to other foreign ports, 7,000 bales. Total decrease in exports, 141,000 bales. Freight: To Liverpool engagements have been made for Cotton at 6-16 d to id per ih., and to Havre, lc. Exchanges : On LJnclon 1041 to XlO5 per cent., and on Paris 5.371 to 5.421. LIST OF PASSENGERS, From Boston : Robert Farley, jun., Rev. Justin Perkins, Mr. L. A. Bigeton, Captain G. P. Tinkin, Mr. N. Perilli, Mrs. Hunt, Messrs. F. Hunt, James Brown, E. F. Prentis, James Meekin, Thomas Porter, Mrs. Maria Hall, Professor and Mrs. H. L. Eustis, Captain Daniel Knight, Mr. J. ilienrich, and Mr. Dixon. From Halifax : Major B3yd, Mr. C. S. Silver, two Misses Fraser, Messrs. James Pope, P. Crerar, Mrs. and Miss Raynes, Miss Cresp, Messrs. L. P. W. Debrisay, J. Travis, D. Ritchie, R. R. Ball, S. Samuel, two privates 63rd regiment, one woman, two children, and Mr. Robert Walker. LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY. (Before Mr. RAFFLES.) DISORDERLY PAUPERS. Two young women, named Elizabeth Jones and Mar garet Woods, inmates of the Workhouse, were charged for having assaulted two other inmates, named Ellen Caddock and Ellen Lawler. The complainants were acting as nurses in the house, and the prisoners conceived acme dislike for them, and took several occasions to strike them. On Saturday the prisoner Jones found some fault with'Cadilock, and there being a basin of hot gruel on the table, she took it up and threw it in her face, scalding her about the chest severely. The other prisoner joined her, and struck Lawler with a poker. It appeared that the prisoner. Jones had been six months in jail for, au assault on a person in the Work house, and had only just come out of prison ; but. Woods was not known to the police, and it was stated that she had been led on by the other prisoner. His - Worship sent Jones to prison for three months, and Woods for 21 days. DANGEROUS ASSAULT. Au old woman, named Mary Travis, charged a young fellow, named Thomas Muldwon, under the following circumstances. She stated that on Sunday evening the prisoner came to her house, and without any provocation seized her by the arm and tHrew her down stairs, dislocating her arm. Surgeon Evans said the injury was very severe, and taking into account the age of the woman, and the nature of the injury, be did not think sbe would ever fully recover : at least some three months must elapse before she could do anything with her arm. The daughter of Complainant was 'examined and proved the assault. The prisoner said, in reply to his worship, thst it was all spite because he would not marry the old woman's daughter. He admitted having taken the old woman by the arm, but said she got the injury by a fall down stairs. The priSoner was remanded for the present. THREATENING TO KILL. A desperate looking fellow named Michael Owens, described as a "north end black balder," which being put into English means a fellow who would rob when he got an opportunity, and would not have much objec tion to go something farther, was charged for having attempted to kill Mr. Francis Donnelly, a clerk in the shippinG, office of Mr. John Decosta, Waterloo-road. Police-officer 564 said—l took this man into custody on Saturday evening in Waterloo-road, for threatening to stab Mr. Donnelly. He bad a knife in his hand and was running with it, swearing he would have the bowels out of Mr. Donnelly. The officer gave a very bad general account of the prisoner's conduct, and said lie was going about all day annoying the neighbourhood. Mr. Raffles : Was he drunk ? Not very, he knew well what he was doing. Mr. Donnelly said, on Saturday this man came into Mr. Decosta's office, and asked was the ship Manhattan full? One of the men in the office said not, and he went down to the end of the counter to ship and sign articles. I was then speaking to Mr. Decosta at the time, and when he saw me he cried out, Is that you, you —?" He used very foul language. I went round the counter and put him into the street. lie came back again, and used most outrageous and threatening language. He was put out again, and soon after I heard he was coming again with a knife in his 'hand. He carne running with this knife (a very for midable looking weapon like a long dagger) swearing he would run it through me. When he was coming on, this man here tripped him up and lie fell, and then this man (another) took the knife out of his hand whilst he was down. He was not drunk at the time. The two men referred to were called, and proved the statement made by Mr. Donnelly. The latter, in reply to Mr. Raffles, said—l did not strike him at all ; I pushed him into the street in the first instance when lie used the bad language. Mr. Raffles (to prisoner)—What have you .got to say r Prisoner—Oh, a poor sailor has no chance amongst them at all when he gets drunk. They kicked me about like a dog in the street. Mr. Raffles—You may call yourself very fortunate that y ou are no t stand ing' there on a charge of wilful murder. You appear to be a desperate fellow, and the least punishment I can inflict is, to fine you the full penalty of £5 for the assault, or two months' imprisonment in default of pay ment. The prisoner was committed. THE POOR BOX. His worship acknowledged the receipt of £1 is. from Thomas Mills, Esq., and £1 ls. from James Lister, .Esq., for the poor box. (Before Mr. J. B. LLOYD.) ABUSING MR. ROBERTSON GLADSTONE. Mr. Stonehouse, the governor of St. John's-market, summoned James Murray, fishmonger, of Rose-street, for being drunk and disorderly on the 3rd instant, and for having used abusive language to Mt. Robertson Gladstone. It appeared that on Thursday last the defendant was drunk and disorderly in the market, and used very abusive language to Mr. Gladstone. The latter gentleman said he did not wish to press for penalty on his own behalf; he came forward on public grounds, as it was very improper to have drunken persons in the market to the annoyance of the public. The case was fully proved, and the defendant was fined ss. and costs. THE FREEZING OF WATER-PIPES.—The mischief does not arise so muc h f rom t h e f reez i ng o f th e t ap an d pipes immediately ix connect i on w i t h t h e c i s t erns — as by the application of heat this part might be thawed, but owing to the pip es w hi c h pass f rom t h e ma i n t o the houses being laid t oo c l ose to the surf a ce, the frost in a few hours stops the water supplv. When houses are being built the expense of placing the pipes at a sufficient depth b3low the surface would be but trifling, and -the water supply would be more sure.—Builder. THE DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1861 CHARGE AGAINST THE MATE OF A SHIP FOR STEALING WHEAT. Simon Bean, the chief officer of the American ship Highlander, was brought before Mr. Raffles .yesterday, at the Police-court, at the close of the molting sitting, charged by Mr. Edward Taylor with having stolen 16 sacks of wheat from that ship. Mr. Temple, instt ncted by Mr. Harvy, was for the prosecution. Mr. Black defended the prisoner, who was in custody of detective officers Scott and Graham. It appeared that the ship was discharging cargo, and amongst other things there was a quantity of wheat, and it was alleged that the prisoner sold 15 bags of the grain for £9, and that it was worth Lld. That he had no right to sell the property, and from various statements made by the prisoner he was taken into custody. Amongst the wit nesses called the following evidence was given : Mr. Patterson, the master porters' man on the quay was examined, and stated that all the grain in the ship should have been landed., About Bof the bags out of the 15 are good wheat, the rest is sweepings. The prisoner should not have taken it. He said to witness there was mote sweepings than he thought. In reply to Mr. Bluck the witness said the prisoner came and told me that there was more sweepings than he thought:; he had not parted with any of it then, and he told me he had sold some, but did not know what sort it was. The wheat belonged to five different consignees. I have known cases where the mates have been allowed the sweepings. The consignees would not take notice of it unless it were of value. Some other witnesses were produced, and amongst them the person who bought the "stuff" from the prisoner, for £9, but he purchased it as sweepings collected amongst the dun nage ; he paid him £6 15s. in cash. In reply to Mr. Bluck the witness said the prisoner, when he found out what sort of " stuff " it was, refused to give it, saying he did not know what sort it was, and offered back the money. Mr. Black : Then there is an end to the case. I have his captain here to give him a high character. The prisoner was then discharged. THE WATER COMMITTEE. Yesterday, at • the weekly meeting of this committce, held in the Town Hall, Mr. Farnworth presided, and the other members present were Messrs. Vernon, Crel lin, Beloe, Jeffery, Earle, Wm. Johnson, Woodruff, Wagstaff, Rae, and Estill. THE ENGINEER'S REPORT. The Engineer (Mr. Duncan) reported that the reser voirs, with the exception of a few places, were frozen, so also were the filter beds and clear water tanks. The, ice around the byewashes was kept broken, as well as at all points where water would enter the re3ervoiis when the thaw should set in. The goits and byewashes had been cleared from the ice and drifted snow, so that with ordinary care a flood could do no material damage. Men had been appointed to the different positions, to prevent obstructions to the flow of water, and the reser voirs were in a condition to receive a large quantity, without any being permitted to run over the weirs. The depth of water in the several reservoirs, under their top water lines were as per table : _ Jan:s. Dec. 29. Fall. ft. in. ft. in. . ft. in. Roddlesworth 6 3 ... 4 16 1 5 Rake An glezark 3 1 ... 2 5 0 Rivington 1 11 ... 1 5 0 6 Prescot No. 1 Prescot No. 2 The snow which had fallen since his last report was represented by 0.21 inch rain fall. On the pipe line there was nothing out of the ordinary course to report. In town the frozen pipes were numerous, and a large additional number of men were employed in supplying the inhabitants by stand pipes, as well as in rectifying, as far as possible, the freezing up of plugs and hydrants. To assist in this latter duty, drafts from the fire police had been furnished by the head-constable. The quan tity of water received from Rivington during the week ending sth of January was 71,664,763, and that pumped from the wells 3C,435,819, the proportion of Rivington to well water being 71 to 30. THE FROST ,&ND THE WATER SUPPLY. Mr. JEFFERY said it was stated last week that they had consumed ninety-nine million gallons of water in the week preceding. He had somewhat doubted that, because so many houses now were without water in con sequence of the frost, when the deputy-engineer said it arose from many pipes having burst ; and he was to report what pipes bad burst. Mr. DUNCAN said that it had been prepared. The deputy-engineer had stated a part of the reason for the larger consumption of water, but not the whole. Many parties to prevent their pipes freezing allow the taps to run. The CHAIRMAN .observed that all parties doing that were li.,ble to a penalty. Mr. CRELLIN-Will the engineer say that a million gallons per week are wasted in that manner. Mr. DuNcxx—Yes, a million a day. You must recollect that we have 86,000 tenants. Mr. JEFFERY, before proceeding to other business, called attention to a return which showed that twenty pipes running from two to four inches in diameter, had burst last week. He should like to ask what depth these were below the surface of the ground ? The ENGINEER replied, about two feet. Mr. JEFFERY —And does the frost penetrate suffici ently strong at that depth to burst the pipes ? The ENGINEER did not presume that the frost had got so far down yet, but the ground was very hard. They were iron pipes. Mr. CRELLIN—Did you say the frost had burst them ? The ENGINEER—NO ' : but we always have a greater number in frosty weather than at any other time. He believed the cooling of the temperature of the water had something to do with it. Mr. JEFFERY—But it is a serious thing to have 20 pipes, of two, three, and four inches, broken in one week. Surely there must be some cause assigned. The ENGINEER said the fractures might exist before, but they were found out M Chore readily in frost. Most of those which had burst were, he believed, old pipes : all the new ones laid down were tested in Glasgow. Mr. JEFFERY—What would be . the expense to the committee of the breaking of those 20 pipes ? The ENGINEER said on the average about 15s. each, or about £l5 in all. Mr. JEFFERY—Then is it not material that you ;hould find out to your own satisfaction the cause of heir bursting The subje'c't then dropped. This was the whole of le public business. ANOTHER MURDER BY A SOLDIER. On Saturday evening. Robert Hacked, private in a detachment of the 61st Regiment, stationed in Millbay barracks, deliberately shot his sergeant, Henry Jones, through the body, killing him on the spot. It appeared that at noon, instead of eating his dinner, Hacked gave it to an old Irish per Toner named Purcell, who was in the habit of selling blacking and other smallwares to the soldiers, and who encouraged him to expect some Delhi prize money. Hacked is servant to Lieutenant Hamilton, and went to that officer's quarters in the afternoon to attend to his duties. On returning to the barrack rooms he heard that the fact of his having given away his dinner had been made the subject of a joke, among others by deceased, with whom he had had a quarrel a week previously. He was called from one room to the other to receive orders, but instead of obeying he raised his right foot on a form, and having levelled his rifle, drew the trigger with his left hand and fired through the doorway which leads from one room to the other, at Sergeant Jones. The ball passed through his back and struck a bedstead in front. At the moment of the discharge Colour-Sergeant Allen was standing by the side of deceased, and asked him if the orders from head-quarters were correct. Jones replied, "I think so," and dropped on the floor immediately. He then made an effort to get on his feet, rolled round in agony two or three times, and was dead in less than five minutes. Sergeant Allen went into the next room and seized Hacked, who said " Take me ; one man will do." Before firing he said " Stand clear." There were many men in the two rooms, and one of them, Corporal Graham, made an ineffectual effort to get round a table and throw up the barrel of the rifle. Jones is above 33 years old; he commenced a soldier's life at Chatham in 1851 in his present regiment, and in December last, after the termination of three years' service as an effec tive corporal, was made a lance sergeant. His entire service of 10 years would have been completed in about a month, and he had just entered for 11 years additional, to complete the term of 21 years. He was one of the quietest and best-conducted men in the regiment ; some say he was a native of Dover, others that he was born in Germany and brought up in London, where he in tended to have gone shortly on furlough. Hacked was born in Queen's County, Ireland. He belonged to the 96th Regiment until 1855, when he joined the 61st at Hyderabad, in the Punjab. Latterly he has been often in a state of intoxication, and was in that condi tion on Saturday evening, when lodged in the Plymouth prison, where lie stated that "the bullet was not intended for Sergeant Jones." He is above thirty-six years of age, of middle stature, strong angular frame, sanguine complexion, black hair, and of rather a ferocious appear ance. It is stated that while Purcell was dining Jones told him he would " spin up any yarn to get a good dinner," on which Hacked asked, " Who said that ? " and Jones answered, " I did ; what of that? " Hacked retorted angrily, " I thank you for running down a townee ; ' if it was not for fifty lashes I'd strike you." When he left the room for his rifle he took off his coat and put on a shell jacket, and on being asked by a com rade why ho did so, replied, " I will go into the guard room (the cell) before night." His rifle was kept in Lieutenant Hamilton's quarters, where it is supposed he loaded it. The non-commissioned officers of the 61st regimeut complain of the regulation which permits a private to have constantly at command twenty rounds of hall-cartridge. It is the practice in the Royal Marine Battalion to issue to each sentry only when he goes on duty ten rounds of ball-cartridge, which are returned on the completion of his guard. The headquarters of the 61st is stationed in Plymouth Citadel, under command of Major Randolph, in the absence of Colonel Raney. The detachment at Millbay Barracks comprises four companies, under Major Gordon. Giuglini is at present singing at the d'Angennes Theatre, Turin, with his wonted success. A LETTER ON LOVE BY TEE IRON DUKE.—It will be seen by the fulness of detail, beyond his wont, in dis cussing matters, how much importance the Iron Duke attached to the tender subject of the following letter : " Quinta de S. Joac, June 27, 1811.—I have had the honour of receiving your —'s letter of the 3rd instant, and it is impossible not to feel for the unhappi ness of the young lady, which you have so well described; but it is not so easy as you imagine to apply the remedy. It appears to me that I should be guilty of a breach of discretion if I were to send for the fortu nate object of this young lady's affections, and to apprise him of the pressing necessity for his early return to Eng land; the application for permission to go ought to come from himself; and, at all events, the offer ought not to be made by me, and particularly not founded on the secret of this interesting young lady. But this fortunate major now commands his battalion, and I am very apprehen sive that he could not with propriety quit it at present, even though the life of this female should depend upon it ; and therefore I think he will not ask fur leave. We read occasionally of desperate cases of this descrip tion, but I cannot say that I have ever yet known of a young lady dying of lore. They contrive, in some manner, to live, and look tolerably well, notwithstand ing their despair and the continued absence of their lover ; and some even have been known to recover so far as to be inclined to take another lover if the absence of the first has lasted too long. I don't suppose that your protegee can ever recover so far, but I do hope she will survive the continued necessary absence of the major, and enjoy with him hereafter many happy days. —I have, &c., WELLINGTON." THE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DO'VER RAILWAY. Sirrniohottnxt, lath e 7. The - inquiry into the cause of the serious accident which occurred on the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, near this station, yesterday, took place at the Railway Hotel this morning, before Mr. Thomas Hills, one of the coroneii ter the county, and a highly respect able jury. The jury, having been sworn, prikeedecl to view the body, which lay in a room in the same hotel, *lade itjpd been removed immediately after the occurrence. The deceased appeared to have been shockingly mutilated, the body presenting a dreadful appearance. The following account of the accident was then given : —Mr. William Pole, 3, Great George-street, Westminster, Professor of Civil Engineering at Univer sity College, and Lecturer at the Royal Engitieer Establishment, Chatham; an being examined said he had had great experience in all kinds of ironwork, and had been employed professionally in many infinities of that nature. On the previous day he was a passenger by the express train to which the accident occurred. The order in which the carriages were was first a guard's van, third-class carriage, two first-class carriages, in one of which witness was seated, two second-class carriages, a third-class carriage, and a break-van in the rear. The train was behind its title on approaching Sitting bourne, and was running towards the station at a rapid rate—he should say at nearly 40 miles an hour. Wit ness heard a sharp knock, and directly afterwards saw some ballast flying on the off side of the train, which satisfied him there was something wrong. No whistle was sounded, nor was the speed of the train sensibly decreased for some time. At length the train was brought to a standstill with an unusual grinding noise. Witness got out and assisted some of the passengers out, and then found that the carriage in front of the. one in which he had been seated was off the line, and a third class carriage before it was lying on its off side. One of the passengers got out of the top of the third-class carriage, and informed witness that there was one of the passengers injured inside. In front of the third class carriage was the break-van, still erect, but off the rails. The tire of the right leading wheel was off, and the frame of the wheel damaged. Witness walked back the line some distance with the guard, and noticed marks of the wheels off the line till be came to Bob bing-bridge. A little beyond that, on examining the rails carefully, he saw marks which led him to believe it was the spot where the carriage bad first gone off the line. Near Bobbing-bridge he found five broken pieces of the tire of the wheel, which formed the entire tire. Witness carefully examined them, and made notes. There were unmistakable signs that the wheels had been off the line from Bobbing-bridge. A little eastward from the signal-post he observed the debris of the third-class carriage, and about twenty paces far ther he observed a pair of wheels, apparently not dam aged. There was also another pair of the third-class carriage, quite sound, a little distance farther. There was no doubt whatever that the accident was occasioned by the breaking of the tire of the wheel near the bridge, and all that followed was a matter of course. It was possible the jolt in the gap he had measured might have affected the carriages dragging. The broken tire appa rently consisted of two qualities of metal, the inner part not being of good quality, but very crystallised, hav ing large crystals, and unequal in its texture. That was the part of the wheel on which the safety of the whole would depend when the outer part, which is assumed to be steel, had worn down. The wheel was broken into five pieces, one of the fractures being through a bolt hole, presenting signs that the fracture was an old one. He' had no fault to find with the quality of the outer portion of the wheel. Witness continued to state that another defect in the construction of the wheel was the insuffi ciency of the tire fastenings, in consequence of the bolt being rivetted very slightly instead of being properly fastened with a nut, which defect caused the tire to give way instantly. In the opinion of witness, sufficient caution had not been used in descending a gradient 'of this character, which was almost the maximum allowed,, The Coroner then addressed the jury, who returnd a verdict of Accidental death," and at the same time appended to the verdict a recommendation that the com pany should adopt some method of enabling the engine driver to communicate with the guard in the last carriage of the line. ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY. Another accident of a far more alarming character than that which occurred on this railway at Sitting bourne on Friday, took place near the very same spot as the former accident, at a late hour on Saturday night, whereby, we regret to state, two lives were sacri ficed, and such severe injuries received by Pattison, the driver of the engine attached to the train, that he is not expected to survive, though up to a late hour on Sunday he was still living. The part of the line at which the accident occurred was between Sittingbourne and Teynham, near the latter station, at which the train had nearly arrived when the calamity occurred. The train, which was a mixed one, was made up of eight carriages, besides the engine and tender—nariely, six passenger carriages and two break vans for the guards, one being placed next the tender and the other at the rear. The train, which is the last from London, left Victoria-station at its proper time, 7.45 p.m„ and proceeded at its usual speed towards Canterbury, keeping correct time at all the stations. The engine, which was named the Eclipse, was driven by an experienced driver named Pattison, who had been in the employ of the company some time. On this occasion there were two firemen on the engine, one of them, James Ogden, who was unfortunately killed, being on his way to Faversham (where he formerly resided) to fetch his wife. Every thing proceeded satisfactorily until the engine had arrived at a short distance from the Teynham station, at which it is timed to stop at 10.1, when, as the train was proceeding over a level crossing, and when it was run ning at a speed of 18 or 20 miles an hour, the engine suddenly gave a bound, and jumped aside off the rails, dragging with it the tender as well as the whole of the carriages, with the exception of the last. Although the train was not going at a very rapid rate at the time, the driver preparing to run into the station, the effects of the accident were of the most appallipg, and at the same time astonishing character. The engine itself, a very large and powerful one, was turned completely round, and is described as having turned a regular somersault before it stopped, when the tender was thrown some distance before it. The guard's break van, and the whole of the passenger carriages behind were huddled together in one incongruous mass, the carriages themselves being smashed to splinters and scarcely a distinguishable portion left whole. For tunately, owing to the lateness of the hour, there were comparatively few passengers, or the consequences might have been of a still more frightful character. On those of the passengers who were not hurt being rescued from the fragments and ruins of the broken engines and carriages by those who had reached the spot, search was made for those who were believed to be killed, when the unfortunate engine-driver was discovered near his engine fearfully mutilated and injured, though still living. He was promptly removed to the Teynham Station, but his injuries, which are of the most dreadful character, pre clude all possibility of bis recovery. The fireman of the engine, James Plaistowe, a young man, appears to have been killed on the instant of the engine turning over, as when discovered. he appeared to have been dead some time. James Ogden, the other fireman, who had nothing to do with the train, but who was riding on the engine from choice, was also found dead. Both their bodies were removed to the Teynham Station. Scarcely any of the passengers in the train escaped without receiving some kind of injuries, although the surprise appear to be, from the perfect wreck of all the carriages, that any of the occupants escaped with their lives. A clergyman, a passenger in the train, who was on his way to Teynham, but whose name our re porter was unable to obtain, was rather severely injured and had received some extensive wounds about the head and body. A sailor in the train, who was on his way to Canterbury, was discovered lying under the heap of ruins of the carriages apparently dead. After a work of great labour the broken portions of the carriages were removed, and he was rescued, covered with blood. To the surprise of every one, however, he declared be was unhurt, although it was found he could not stand. After some time he, as well as the whole of the other sufferers, were removed and conveyed to the station, where all the medical assistance that was at hand was obtained. The cause of the accident seems altogether inex plicable, the line at the spot being in excellent order, and not the least apparent defect in any of the rails. It is, however, probable that the late intense frosts might have so contracted the metals as to leave a considerable space between the points where the rails join each other. On the arrival of the wheel of the engine at a larger gap than usual it is possible it might have given a jump, and the engine, not alighting on the metals again, was thus thrown off the line. This, however, will doubtless he thoroughly investigated at the coroner's inquisition which will be held on the bodies of the deceased. The line at the spot is a level, but ju-t at the spot where the accident occurred there is a level crossing used by the public. Immediately on learning of the accident, Mr. Fin nigan. the manager, proceeded from Chatham to Teyn ham by special train, taking with him a numerous party of labourers. These were employed the whole of Satur day in clearing the line—a work of no small difficulty. One line of rails was sufficiently clear on Sunday to enable the traffic to be continued; and the other, it was fully expected, would be quite clear the same night. THE EXTRAORDINARY AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY. HEREFORD, Jan. 6. The inquest upon the bodies of the unfortunate young ladies who, as we stated in a telegram yesterday, came to their deaths by drowning while travelling on the above line of railway, was opened this afternoon, before Mr. Peter Warburton, coroner. An envelope in the pocket of the eldest lady led to the discovery that she is a Miss Lowe, of Curzon Park, Chester, and was going on a visit to Bristol. The other was named Mary Jones, from Breinton, in this county, a respectable young girl, who had been upon a Christmas visit in the neighbour hood of Leominster. In the absence of the friends of Miss Lowe, who, however, had telegraphed their inten tion of being present at the inquiry, the coroner's jury simply viewed the body, and adjourned the investigation to eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning. The extraordinary character of the accident, and the truly marvellous manner in which so many lives were saved from the fate that awaited the two unfortunate women before-mentioned, may well claim a portion of our space. The train which left Shrewsbury at 12.40, and which should have arrived at Hereford at 2.40, is known as the express, and on this occasion contained an unusually large number of passengers for this period of the year. The line, from traversing a country that is frequently inundated by the River Lugg, runs along an embankment nearly the whole of the distance from Leominster to Hereford (upwards of twelve miles), and to facilitate the drainage of the land a deep dike, generally filled with water from the low level of the ground, runs along either side and parallel with the line. About midway between Leominster and Hereford there is a tunnel, three-quarters of a mile long, known as Dinmore tunnel, through which the gradient is one of the steepest on the line. The run from Dinmore to Moreton, along the whole extent of which the embank ment and flanking dikes exist, is generally accomplished at full speed. Between these two points also the Lugg (which from the late thaw has covered the land on either side for miles with several feet of water, until the whole country seenled one vast frozen lake) has to be crossed twice. Shortly after crossing the first bridge, Which is froM twenty to thirty feet above the rite!, the passengers in the carriage next to the tender noticed Fieculiar s'ensatio'n and observed something fiy off, and one of them, a Von'ng man' named White, thrust his head thfong,h the Nindot,-.; sereamed . to' the engine driver to stop the train but it, doe's not appear that this was heard by him.: At till's tune Miss Lowe and the young girl Mary ,1017C,1 were sitting nearly together, the former reading, a book. aril oppo'si'te to them a sergeant of Marines, named Wilcof, vt?th a recruit. Wilcox early noticed that the carriage wax gang without its regular complement of wheels, and expressed his fears that all would not be well with them, when a loud rep'n't Was heard, and a portion of the axle forced its way thfongh, the bed of the carriage. At the moment he instinctife;;.) Pilled his lees to the opposite seat, close to the dress of 6e - 6 1 0'0i-full:de Miss Lowe, who dropped her book, convulsively' eletetred by the cloak, and the next minute the carriagei MI till' toppled off the embankment on their sides into the' dike, the momentum of the train bringing the last van dpon the top of the others; though, from the coupling chain of the tender giving way, the engine did not leave the line. The water being from five to six feet deep broke the fall of the', carriages, and probably prevented that fearful crash Whieli midst hate reenited had they been thrown to the earth silfho'dt interpbaing force, and which probably would have fes'filteci lit many deaths by the violence of the shock, SO to' relate. however, another fate awaited them. 'the infensely cold weather caused all the windows, except that through which the young man White thrust his head, to be closed, and hen& the passengers were huddled together in closely-confined prisons, which immediately became filled with water, and in the course of the ter rible panic that ensued the strongest and most active got uppermost, and the 'weak and more terror-stricken to the bottom. The intense anguish of the moment no pen can describe. The guard's van, Containing two persons, Brown and Child, both of whom were severely injured by the accident, seems to have fallen into fell- deep water, in fact over their heads, where they must both have been suffocated but for the timely assistance of the engine -driver and stoker, who rushed to the rescue, and with hammers broke open the windows and sides of the vans, to liberate, if possible, those imprisoned within. The marine Wilcox, a tall powerful fellow ' and William Watkins, a member of the Plintshire Militia staff, stationed at Mold, behaved most gallantly, each saving several lives, though both thoroughly immersed in the water, and with their clothes frozen on their backs. Watkins got out a lady, her nurse, and child, who must have perished but for his timely-applied courage. 'Wilcox, after rescuing several, assisted an old man out of one of the carriages, lifting him up cold and stiff by the coat collar.' He then assisted a woman to a cottage at a crossing at some distance from the scene of the accident, the only site uncovered by water, except the line, over some extent. He returned, and observed the clothes of Miss Lowe floating in the water, and endeavoured to catch her up, but the cold had overcome his strength and he failed. Soon after a farmer arrived with an agricul tural implement called a pike, used in haymaking, and by their united assistance she was got up and conveyed to the cottage, but there was unfortunately an absence of the proper restoratives necessary in such a case, and, indeed, of means of applying them, the cold had so benumbed every one. But who ever dreamt of being drowned upon a railway, and in such a place ? The young girl Jones having been carried to the cottage, her head was placed towards the fire, and the starved militiaman and a comrade endeavoured, as best they could, by chafing her hands, to restore animation. During, this operation she was observed to breathe once, and then her head fell hack and she was a corpse. Miss Lowe is supposed to have been quite dead when she was recovered from the water. On the arrival of the train at the Hereford station, messengers were despatched into all parts of the city for medical aid, and the Mayor of Hereford, Mr. Thomas Cam, Dr. Bull, Mr. Charles Ungen, Mr. Henry Vevers, Mr. J. C. Lane, Mr. T. Turner, and, in fact, almost the whole of the medical talent of the city, hastened to the spot, but Miss Lowe and Mary Jones had been dead some time, and their attention was directed to the alleviation of the sufferings of the survivors. Cordials were procured and administered freely, and everything done that humanity could suggest. The passengers were conveyed to the Green Dragon and Kerry Arms Hotels, in this city, where several remain, some of them much shaken and unable to leave their bedrooms. Others preferred being sent on to their places of destination as soon as changes of dress could be procured for them. Mr. Herbert, an extensive farmer from Grosmont, remains at the Kerry Arms in a bad state. A Mr. Daw, a retired farmer, a neighbour to the former, and 79 years of age, saved his life by means of a walking stick,' the hook of which he brought to bear upon a piece of timber, and thus kept his head above the sur face of the water until assistance could be rendered him. Among the passengers was a Miss Powell, who was unable to proceed, and a gentleman named Rule and family, going to Camborne, in Cornwall; Three children of one family in the train were nearly frozen to death. The accident furnishes an instance of the extreme peril attending rail Way travelling during such a frost as we are now experiencing. MUSICAL, DRAMATIC, LITERARY, AND ARTISTIC NEWS AND' GOSSIP. The first part of a new tale by Mrs. IT: B. Stowe is about to appear in Casselrs Family Paper. A translation of Catullus by Mr. Theodore DifaVin is promised by Messrs. Parker. L. GaHatt, the Belgian painter, is at Caprera at this moment busy with a portrait of Garibaldi. • At the Italian Opera in Berlin the leading artistes are said to be natives of every country save Italy. Messrs. Routledge are preparing for immediate pub lication " The Life of the Earl of Dundonald," by Joseph Allen. - Mr. William Beale has secured the services of Mille. Jetty Treffz, Mdlle. Marchisio, and Madame Alboni, for the ensuing London musical season. The new opera by MNI. Scribe and Auber, desig nated at present by the provisional title of " Alexis," is in rehearsal. Mr. Robert Ilardwicke announces a new edition of Sir John Bowring's translation of Chamisso's "Peter Schlemihl," with George Cruiksbauk's plates. Gluck's " -Amide," we understand from Paris, is about to be produced at the Theatre Lyrique for Madame Viardot in the course of the spring. Hereabmpel, a rising German violinist, has, by the liberality of an amateur friend, succeeded to Spohr's violin. Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, are about to publish the Duke of Buckingham's " Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of William IV. and Victoria." A " first folio " of Shakspere is said to have been dis covered in Germany, and purchased by a London book seller. Mr. Owen Meredith's new volume of Servian min strelsy, " Serbski Pesme, or National Songs of Serria," will be published in the course of the month by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. Messrs. Black of Edinburgh, announce that they have in preparation an unpublished work from the pen of the late Hugh Miller, entitled " The Headship of Christ and the Rights of the Christian People." There is a report that another new shilling magazine is about to be started by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, and placed under the editorial guidance of Miss Mulock. Lord Clyde has consented to sit for his bust, in marble, to Mr. Ewing, a Glasgow artist, which is to be executed at the expense of Mr. Dalglish, M.P. for presentation to the Glasgow Corporation Galleries. M. Victor Masse, the composer of "La Reine Topaze" and the " Marriage of Georgette," has just completed the score of a new opera, in three acts, "La Bohea; mienne," for the• Opera Comiquc, Paris. M. Felicien David's grand five-act opera, "Hercu laneum," is shortly to be produced at PariQ, with Madame Tedesco in the role created by Madame Borglii- Mamo. Among other opera rumours, says the At/ter/mum, it is said that. Mr. Smith intends to produce un Ballo in Iffaschera, Signor Verdi's last opera, at Her Majesty's Theatre; and that Mdlle Tietjens and Signor Giuglini may possibly sing at the Covent Garden Opera. Judas IlfaccabeuS will be performed on Friday next, the 11th instant, by the Sacred Harmonic Society, at Exeter Hall. Mr. Sims Reeves, Madame Weiss, Miss Banks, Madame Laura Baxter, Mr. M. Smith, and Mr. Thomas, principal vocalists. The Saturday Review contradicts the report "of a split in the proprietary of the Saturday Review and the approaching foundation of a rival journal under the conduct of" a gentleman " who has managed the Saturday from its commencement," and who " takes with him several of the leading contributors." The Critic mentions that in consequence of the death of the late Mr. J. W. Parker, jun., the eminent pub lishing firm of which he was an active member has received an acquisition in the person of Mr. Bourn, long prominently connected with. The style of the firm will henceforth be "Parker, Son, and Bourn." The business carried on in Stationers' Hall Court by Messrs. Richard. Griffin and Co., will in future be carried on under the • designation of " Messrs. Griffin, Bohn, and Co." Messrs. Longman have some important works in•pre paration. Among them are " Popular Education of France," with notes on that of Holland and Belgium ; a Report to the Royal Commission of Popular Educa tion, with additions and introduction, by Matthew Arnold, Foreign Commissioner to the Commission ; "Lectures on the History of. England," by 'William Longman; "The Life and Travels of St. Paul"—a description' of the countries, towns, and islands, men tioned in the journeys of St. Paul, by W. M`Leod, F.R.G.S. The great task of editing, and printing the materials • of English History—undertaken by Sir John Romilly— goes on famously. At the end of the year we count no less than twenty separate works, twenty-five volatiles,. and all original—aiding thousands of new details to our knowledge of the historical life of our ancestors. The new year promises to be not less rich than the past. Among numerous hooks which are in the press, and which ought to be in our hands before next Christmas, is a "Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts relating to the Early History of Great Britain," edited by T. Duffus Hardy. George Ormrod, Esq., D.C.L.F.R.S. of Tyldesley, Lancashire, and Sedbury Park, Gloucestershire, the able historian of Cheshire, has recently identified the precise position of a Roman military position, on the right bank of the estuary of the Severn, where Roman remains have lately been discovered in great abundance. The site lies between a tumulus, which has been a fire beacon, and the Sedbury cliffs. Mr. Ormrod has also shown the probable identity of the Gloucestershire chapelry of St. Briavel's (which he proves to have been recognised as, "Lidncia Purva" in the . 12th century) with the "Ledenei" of the Saxon hundred, and the "Ledenei," named in the Domesday Survey as the pro perty a William .Fitz Baberon. it had been previouily supposed, and, indeed, asserted, by local historians, that St. Briavel's was altogether oznittei in Domesday. W e are informed, on the authority of a private letter from a scientific gentleman connected with this place, that Sir Charles Lyell is re-writing his famous work on the principles of geology i n so f ar as it relates to super ficial deposits. The new edition, to he published shortly, will contain a complete resume of all the facts connected with the discovery of instruments of human manufac ture and human remains in these depoits, and a full discussion of the startling theory which these discovelics have led many geologists to adopt—viz., that man and mammoths lived contemporaneously before the forma tion of these drift deposits. Sir Charles, we are in formed, has in his possession a human skull of a very Darwinian look, which was dug up along with some of .these curious celts, concerning - which he is to read a ,paper at the Geological Society which will contain some ,!interesting revelations,—John 0' Groat Journal. PUBLICATIONS. ENTERTAINING THINGS : A Magazine of Thoughtful and Intellectual Amusement. London : Arthur Hall terid Co., Paternoster•row. This is the title of a new magazine, of which the January number is just published. The serial opens With a neatly-written domestic tale, entitled " Weather bbund," by Tom E. SoUthie. After this comes a face tiously-written sketch, entitled "'Tom Wilks in search of an object." Then follow various sketches, of which the most noticeable are "Holy Week in Mexico" and an " Hist*lin' Narrative of Italy, Past and Present."' The latter is very well written, and, to say the least of it, extremely creditable to the unostentatious publication in which it appears. The frAlowing anecdote of the late King of Sardinia is quoted' from a number of interesting "gossipings," with which the article abounds : : Charles Albert was, unfortunately, of an actedingly ' strperstiiieus tarrr of mind, and the priests by whores he was stettoninied did all in their power to foster the ten dency, that he might be a docile instrument in their hands. Then, as eftt. they found their account in sup pressing all freedom of thought and investigation. The following will serve as a specimen of the plans adopted to play upon his credulity :—The Minister of War was engaged in conversation with the Xing., when several loud knocks were heard behind the tapestry, The Minister observed the King turn pale, and remarked to his Majesty, "It is nothing, sire; most likely if is some workmen engaged near at hand.' "Yon alt not religions," replied the King, with troubled voice and manner. A few minutes afterwards the noise was heard again, and the King trembled and left the astonished minister to. kneel before a crucifix placed in the adjoining apartment. Those whose interest it was had persuaded him that Queen Glotilda, wife of Charles Emmanuel IV., who died in the odour of sanctity at Naples, returned to the palace from time to time. This and other trickery of a similar nature was proved ►to be the work of the priests, carried out by the aid of a lackey who possessed ventriloquial powers, and a sub orned waiting woman. The magazine is illustrated with a number of small but well executed woodcuts, and is altogether so creditably got up, that we cannot help recommending our readers to expend twopence in the purchase of the first number. THE WHAT NOT; OR LADIES' HANDY BOOK AND MONTHLY MAGAZINE. London : Kert and Co., Paternoster-row. The January number of this publication sustains the reputation of its predecessors, and promises well for those which are to follow. Besides several tales, we are treated in this number to an amusing charade on the Blunderbuss. The magazine concludes with an article on Fashions, which will no doubt be read with interest by the class . of lady readers among whom the magazine circulates. This publication is also embellished with engravings which are equally as good as those in the serial above noticed. BOY KILLED AT TORQUAY NY TICE FALL OF A ROCK. —On Thursday last a most promising youth of about fourteen years of age, son of the Rev. D. Pitcairn, met with an untimely death at Torquay. It appears that the young gentleman was strolling on the beach, when suddenly a mass of rock, loosened, no doubt, by the action of the recent frost, fell and crushed him at once. The men on the coast-guard station, who witnessed the accident' were immediately on the spot to render assistance, but life was extinct. The remains of the unfortunate youth were conveyed to the residence of his afflicted parents, and await a coroner/ inquest. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT THROUGH AN EXPLOVON OF GUNPOWDER. Mr. Wallace, railway contractor, of Bridgnorth, was engaged on Friday night in placing a quantity of gunpowder in a hole in a pigstye, for the purpose of destroying some rats that were in the habit of helping themselves to the pig's fond, he at the same time holding the powder flask In one hand, and a light in the other, when a spark ignited the-powder in the flask, and it exploded. Both Mr. Wallace's hands were fearfully lacerated—one of his thumbs only hanging by a piece of skin ; his cheek was cut open from the eye to the jaw, and his face otherwise much injured. He remains at present in a precarious condition. DARING HIGHWAY ATTACK.—Late on Saturday evening last, a farmer named Patrick Cooney, residing near Grange, Knocklofty, was returning from Castle grace Mills, after disposing of his corn, he delayed at the village to take a little refreshment, and was told be cautious in passing along the road to Ardfinnan. as some suspicious looking characters had passed down the road before him. Cooney was driving his dray, and just as he got down to the hollow, where Freney, the robber, once held sway, distant a mile from Castlegrace at the Ardfinnan side, he observed three men at the road side, and he tightened the reins and -kept a close watch on them. One of the fellows rushed over, seizes the horse by the bridle, but the animal plunging forward knocked him down, and Cooney quickening his pace, dashed off. He had not gone far when, from behind, another of the gang fired a pistol at him, but he escaped unhurt. Information was given to the constabulary, and depo sitions taken before the Earl of Donoughmore, CHRISTMAS DAY IN ROME.—We read in a letter from Rome, dated Christmas Day :—"This morning in the basilica of St. Peter's the usual high mass was cele brated, the Pope officiating. The ceremony acquired unusual interest from the belief which many entertain that this is the last Christmas Day that will thus be celebrated in St. Peter's by a sovereign pontiff. Mass over, the Pope was carried out of the church in his portable throne, according to custom, precded by the cardinals, bishops, and all his court, his triple crown on his head, before him the two great fans of ostrich feathers, set with the eyes of peacocks' feathers, symbo lical of the vigilance required of his holiness., and also of the supposed fact that the eyes of all men are fixed upon him. Hardly ever more than at the present moment did the symbol indicate the truth, especially as regard the vigilance necessary in his present most diffi cult position. For the first time on an occasion of this kind, the Papal Zouaves (Franco-Belgians) were on duty among the troops forming the double line through which the Pope was carried. TEE LIFE OF A CRAB.--The crustaceans also--the crabs and lobsters, the shrimps and prawns and cray-fish —are met with either exclusively in the neighbourhood of land or in some of those great masses of seaweed that float in open water in the mid-Atlantic. Crustaceans are very curious animals. Commencing life with a head preposterously large in proportion to its size, the young crab emerges from the egg with a long forked tail but no body, and occupies its time in turning head over heels till it casts its first covering and alters its proportions. The true and recognisable crab does not, however, even then appear : this singular form being at last elaborated after a series of changes and transforma tions which can only be likened to those of a pantomime. Of the crabs, some occupy their own mansions, which they leave periodically as their substance increases and requires larger accommodation : while others, not con structing houses for themselves. occupy shells which they seize for the occasion, and which would seem suitable enough if one may judge from the tenacity with which the tenant retains possession.—" Dickens's All the Year Round." BIG Was-Es.—When the great ocean is disturbed, it forms surface waves, which are sometimes of great magnitude. In a gale, such waves have been more than once measured, and it is found that their extreme height from the top to the deepest depression of large storm waves, has been nearly fifty feet, their length being from four to *six hundred yards, and their rate of motion through the water about half a mile a minute. Such waves, breaking over an obstacle of any kind, or ming ling strangely with the clouded atmosphere raging above, are the wildest, grandest, and most terrible phenomena of nature. When they approach land, they break up into much smaller bodies of water, but these are often lifted by shoals and obstructed by rocks till they are thrown up in masses of many tons to a height of more than a hundred feet. The tidal wave is another phenomenon of water .motion of a somewhat different kind, producing an alternate rise and fall of the water over all parts of the ocean every twelve hours. In addition to the true waves there are also many definite streams or currents of water conveying large portions of the sea from one latitude to another, modifying the tem perature of the adjacent land, and producing a mixture of the waters at the surface or at some depth which cannot but be extremely conducive to the general benefit of all living beings. Storm tides, or those waves which occasionally rush without any pause along narrow and confined seas or up funnel-shaped inlets, have occasionally proved disastrous to a fearful extent. Thus it is re corded that upwards of one hundred thousand persons perished in the year 1232, and again in 1242, in this way, numerous complete villages and towns being washed away by a wave advancing from the North Sea over the low-lands of Holland. Between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick the ordinary spring tide often rises to a height of a hundred feet, sweeping away the cattle feeding on the shore.—Diekens's "All the Year Round." LATEST FASIIIONS.—Among the dresses made during the past week mar be mentioned one of black moire antique, and intended for the carriage. It has a front trimming, consisting of three bands of black velvet, di minishing gradually in width from the edge of the skirt to the waist. The bands are edged on each side with a trimming of jet worked in a lace pattern. The middle band is carried from the waist up the front of the cor sage, and the two others pass up the corsage t o th e _shoulders and form hretelles. The upper part of the sleeves is composed of two puffs, one above the other, -reaching to the elbow ; at the lower part, the sleeves fit closely to the arm. A small epaulette of moire, t r i mme d with velvet and jet, surmounts the puffs. With this dress will be worn a black velvet cloak, and a bonnet of black velvet trimmed with roses and lace. Several of the newest evening dresses are very pretty, and merit a description. A hall dress of pink tarletane has three skirts, each edged with a hem and a tuck of equal width. The upper skirt is open on one side, and one of the corners formed by the opening is slightly raised up and fixed by a how of ribbon. The corsage is in folds; and the sleeves in three puffs. In the centre of the corsage, and on each shoulder, there is ' a bow of ribbon. A white muslin dress, with the corsage high, and the sleeves long and close at the wrists, has been made for dinner costume. The skirt is trimmed with one deep flounce with a heading. A ceinture and bretelles of black velvet, embroidered with gold, complete the dress. The coiffure consists of tufts of violets, black velvet, and gold. Novelties in coiffures are now frequently appearing. One of the prettiest nets we have seen is formed of gold twist and blue silk, interlaced together. Ahead-dress composed of plaits of violet velvet is trimmed with flowers intermingled with foliage in gold. Several of the new coiffures are composed of ribbon. Evening caps consist of blonde, lace, ribbon, flowers, &C. One of the newest is made of a combination of black tulle, blonde, and black lace. It is trimmed with red flowers, and bows of black velvet. Another cap, with a round, limp crown, is trimmed in front with quillings of blonde. A cordon of flowers and foliage crosses the top, and drciops towards the shoulder on one side: At the back there is a baw with ends of ribbon. Strings of blonde. Sonic of the new opera cloaks con . s c i o : In t o p f as w o h i o te f , c v a h s i l t i m e, e p re in , k b , e a a n u d tift b i . lue silk, a i d r e e r m ed a . dd O ed th a e n rs d They are almost invariably trimmed with quilted. swansdown.--Larig's Newspaper. GRFAT MALVERN.--br. Stummes having just left Dr. Wilson's livilronntbie Fstablisbment, where he has been resident sici n sine 1846, is continuing the hydropathic practice at his private residence, Abbey Walla, Malvern, until his new establishment is completed. His patients have the privilege of using the public douches and other baths newly erected by bt. Gully. LATEST NEWS. (BY BRITISH AND IBISIL :MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) FRANCE. • A letter from Toulon in the Gazette eu Midi says that orders have been given to put upon the stocks three new iron-cased ships ow the media of La Gloire. THE FRENCH FUNDS. PARIS, Jan. 7, 3.5 parr. The Bourse has been dull. Rentes elate at 67f. 20e., or SOc. lower than on Saturday. ENGLAND AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jan. 7. The semi-official Donau Zeitung of to-day publishes a letter from London, the writer of which speaking from reliable information ex preses his conviction that England will no , longer propose to Austria the sale of Venetia. PRUSSTA. THE FUTURE POLICY OF PRUSSIA. The funeral of the late King of Prussia was to take place yesterday. Political manifestations are deferred till after the obsequies. Another month is expected to show important changes in the foreign policy of Prussia. ARRIVAL OF LORD LOFTUS AND LARD BLOOMFIELD AT BERLIN. Lord Loftus and Lord Bloomfield have arrived at-Berlin. Lord Bloomfield proceeds to Vienna at the end of January. THE SWISS MINISTER IN PARIS AND PEACE PROSPECTS. BERNE, Jan. 7• Dr. Kern, the Swiss Minister in Paris, in his last report to the Federal Council, announces that the prevailing qpinion in official quarters is that peace will be nfaintained ; and states that Sar dinia is endeavouring to arrest the plans of the Garibaldians, and hopes to succeed in her efforts. THE GAETA ARMISTICE. PARIS, Jan. 7. The Patrie says, negotiations have been opened at Gaeta for the conclusion of an armistice on a new basis. MARSEILLES, Jan. 7. The Pedoubtable arrived yesterday at Toulon from Gaeta. On Friday last howitzer shells were thrown into Gaeta by the Sardinians. SAXONY. THE SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN QUESTION. DRESDEN, Jan. 7. In to-day's sitting of the Chamber, the motives of the proposed proposition of M. Braun, formerly Minister, and M. Georgi, in favour of Schleswig Holstein were explained by M. Braun. M. Von Buist, the Minister, applauded the attitude of Prussia, whose overtures have everywhere met with approval and assent, and said there is no doubt that the leadership of Prussia will be sup ported on all sides at the approaching discussion of the question by the Federal Diet. All the Federal Governments are ready to act in accord with Prussia, and even, if necessary, to take the field. In consequence of this declaration the Chamber declared it useless to proceed to a dis cussion of the proposal of MM. Braun and Georgi. MAIL NEWS. SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 7. The Hamburg American Company's steamer Teutonia sailed this morning for New York with upwards of 300 passengers, and taking from England £70,000 in specie. The West India Mail Company's steamer Trent is just preparing to leave the docks to meet the Shannon, which vessel was spoken yesterday, at 5 o'clock, about thirty miles off Scilly, by the New York. THE BANK OF ENGLAND.—ANOTHER RISE IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT. LONDON, Jan. 7. The Bank has to-day raised the rate of dis count to 7 per cent. The following appeared in our later editions of -esterday :..._. INDIA. COMMERCIAL. CALCUTTA, Dec. B.—lmport market very firm. 71b. shirtings are worth 4r. 10a. to 4r. 12a. BOMBAY, Dec. 12.—The freight market has been quiet, at £2 10s. to S 2 12s. 6d. for cotton to Liverpool, and £2 2s. 6d. for seeds. Two vessels have been char tered for Hull at £2 17s. 6d. For China, in conse quence of unfavourable adviees regarding cotton, the rates have lately been almost nominal, at 15r. per candy. Import market dull ; export market very lively, at higher prices. Cotton advancing in conse quence of advices from England. The Paris correspondent of the Post telegraphs that the French fleet is now really about to quit Gaeta. sportin3 3utriligtlxrt. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. Quotations. Trainers. 7 to 1 offered Oates 12 to 1 offered Manning 15 to 1 taken t. Taylor THE DERBY. Quotations. Trainers, Dundee Big Ben ••• l4 to 1 taken and offered...... Jeffries Kettledrum 2O to 1 taken and offered...... Oates Dictator Nautilus Kildonan 4O to 1 offered Kellow Rouge Dragon Yorkminster The Drake lOOO to 15 taken freely ............. . Scott King of Kent 1000 to 15 taken Stevens Bombardier 1000 to 15 taken Westlake Deucalion 3OOO to so taken ..................... W. Day Struggler 1000 to 10 taken ..................... Channel 25 to 1 against the fillies. lit?ttledrum Nautilus Orcrtm HUNTING FIXTURES. The WYNNSTAT PACK will meet on 'Wednesday. January 9, at ........................................Bangor ,Thursday, January 10, at ~ ................................ ~ .... .... Celts Saturday, January 12, at .......................... - ................5e1attyu Master, Sir W. W. Wpm D a rt., M.P. ; Huntsman, J . : Walker, at half-past ten. Wednesday. day HOUNDS meet on Wrenbury Stades Thursday, January 10, at .................. ... ............ Cholmondeiey Saturday, January 12, at ............................................. Astle Each day at half-past ten, JanuaryT h ec Each E9s, 1 ,adit BOROUGH SESSIONS. — At these sessions, yesterday, in the Crownecourt, St. George's-ball, before th e R ecor d er , Gilbert Henderson, Esq., the following prisoners, whose names did not appear on the calendar, received sentence : with —James Robinson , p leaded no t guilty, and was sen tneinnceed tonine eal calendar mean ours: Margaret Holleran, guilty, bur calendar months lfr th months; hard lab our isde- Anne Rile guilty, y, mouths with hard labour; Ellen Sewell, not guilty, /six calendar months' hard labour • , 'Thomas M'Cann, not guilty, nine calendar months' hard labour ; Matthew Mcßride (out on bail), not guilty, six weeks' hard labour ; James Gerrard, not guilty, eight calendar months' hard labour. INQUEST AT BIRKENHEAD.—An inquest was held yesterday, at the Bird-in-Hand, Birkenhead, before Mr. Churton, the coroner of the district, on the body of s ma n named James Bylan, 55 y ears o f age, residing with his daughter in a but in a coal-yard at the corner of Cleveland-street. The deceased had been ill since Tuesday week, and on Friday enorning he was found dead in his bed. The d a u g ht er , w ho is - 15 or 16 years of age, was the only person in the hut when he died.—Verdict, " Died by the visitation of God!' STEALING 'Coning.—Yesterday, at Birkenhead (before Messrs. W. Jackson, Derbyshire, and Case), Richard Jones, a porter, was brought up on a charge of stealing a quantity of copper, valued et tl4. It appeared that the prisoner was in the employ of Messrs. Henry R o g ers and Co., merch an t s , of Liverpool. One day last week he was sent Over to the docks at Birkenhead for a quan tity of copper. On the way to the ferry be offered one cask of the material, weighing about 3 cwt., to a marine" store dealer, who, instead of receiving it into hie store?, gave information to the police who apprehended the prisoner. —He was sent for trial, FREEMASONRY.—It is rumoured that his Royaf Highness the Prince of Wales will be initiated this year in freemasonry. Owing to the death of the Marquis of Dalhousie, the titles of the deceased nobleman (except the marquisate) are now borne by Lord Panmure, Deputy Grand Master cf England.— , Doeer Chronick. THE IRON SCREW STEAMSHIP QOP" The sails of this ship, stranded at Plymouth, are unbent, and all her top hamper is going into vessels alongside. The Admiralty have phteed at the service of the owners the old gunbrigs Pilot and Rover, for which mooliogs , are provided. Any Government bulks necessary for tbe reception of the electric cable are also to be supplied. THE MANCHESTER VOLUNTEERS. ---Th e Manchester regiments of volunteers have continued to pay good attention to their drill notwithstanding the severity of the weather, and the numerical strength of the farce fs gradually increasing.' The Ist regiment numbers 1,000, the 2n4 800, the 3rd 800, and the 4th Manchester (or 78th Lancashire) 550. The last is a new regiment, got up by Captain Samuels, on a new principle, with the uniform and appointments of the 60th, and the Scottish Company of Manchester, having the uniform of the 42nd Highlanders, have joined them. The regiment contains a larger proportion of working men than the others, officered by gen tl em en who are strict in enforcing dis cipline, and the force already has a very smart and soldierly appearance. It is under the command of Captain Geddes, who has been made adjutant. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH WILTS.—On Saturday a candidate for the representation of South Wilts, in the room of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, appeared in the person of Mr. Thomas Fraser Grove, of Fern house, Wilts. Mr. Grove is a magistrate for the county and a deputy-lieutenant. In his address Mr. Grove says :—" Although I do not sympathise with the ultra- Tory party, I . am, nevertheless, far removed from the so-called Manchester school, whose doctrines I consider both delusive and danelrous. lam prepared to give a general and independent support to Lord Palmerston's Government, believing as I do that it represents views of the majority of the thinking the deserved well of the country." public, and has ACCIDENT TO LORD RAGLAN.—We regret to state that Lord Raglan met with a serious accid en t ouTbars day last, by whi c h h e brokebetween his A arm. isedr s His Lordship was field Cone,th e seat of Earl Bea uc h amp ( w h ere he was visiting), ginjl's' Worcester, and, on arrivin g a t a hill w h ere the ice a snow were thick, he alighted svith her ladyship and downg: who accompanied him, and proceeded to Walk h t 1 1 1 e e hill. His Lordship was leading the horse. w that he slipped and fell with such violence on big side • / edily as possth e broke his arm. He was conveye d as ePe b 11115 set, and back to Madreafield Court, where the if n he is going on favourably.