Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph.) HOUSE OF LORDS, TUMBAY, AUG. 24. The house met at two o'clock. The Royal Assent was given by commission to a num ber of public and private bills, including the Probate and Letters of Administration (Ireland) Bill, the Militia Pay Bill, the Militia Bill, the Mutiny East India Bill, the Consolidated Fund Appropriation Bill, the Scinde Railway Bill, the Eastern Bengal Railway Bill, the Court of Ses sions (Scotland) Bill, the Probates and Letters of Adminis tration Bill, the Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance Bill, the Jurisdiction in Siam Bill, the Reformatory Schools Bill, the Married Women's Reversionary Interest Bill, the Valuation of Land (Scotland) Bill, the Joint Stock Companies' Bill, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency (Ireland) Bill, the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill, the Lunatics' (Scotland) Bill, the Boundaries of Burghs Extension (Scotland) Bill, the Police (Scotland) Bill, the Smoke Nuis ances (Scotland) Abatement Bill, the Dunbar Harbour Bill, the - Revising Barristers' (Dablin) Bill, the Parochial Schoolmasters' (Scotland) Bill, the Joint Stock Companies' Act (185 G) Amendment Bill, and the Mersey Conservancy (No 2) Bi.l. Lord Panmure la'd on the t dale the Report of the Com mission on the Sale and purchase of Commissions in the Army. The sitting was then suspended. At the resumption of de sitting, it was reported from the Commons that they had agreed to their Lordships' Amendments to the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, The House then adjourned until Friday at half-past 12 HOUSE .OF COMMONS,-TUESDAY. The Speaker took the chair shortly after two o'clock. A message was received from the Lords, acquainting the Commons Chet their lordships had agreed to the amendments to the ditia Bill, and the Sale of Obscene Books, &c., Prevention Bill, and the Burial Acts Amend. mendment Bill, and that their lordships did not insist upon their amendments to the Dulwich College. A petition was presented against the late return for the borough of Beverley. Mr. Crawford enquired of the Attorney-General, whether he had not yet considered the evidence reported by the committee on the Beverley Election Petition, and ordered it to be laid before him by the numerous unanimous resolution of that committee, and whether it was his intention to take any proceedings thereon. The Solicitor-General said the Attorney-General had not yet come to any decision, but the case was now under the consideration of the law Officers of the Crown. Mr. Adderley wished to put a question with reference to the immense collection of troops in British pay at the Cape. He stated that th were now at the Caps (though they were told that the c)lony was in a perfect state of tranquility) 15 regiments including the emb died Garman Legion, or three times the war compliment fixed by Fir George Cath cart. He wished to know whether the German Legion was to remain on full pay, an I how many regiments were to be sent from the Cape to India. Mr. Labouchere stated that the German legion was embodied on its arrival at the Cape, partly because the colony was not then so traLquil, and because it was con sidered desirable to maintain the discipline of the carps. It was fortunate now that there was such a large f..nce, as it would enable Lord Panmure to send large reinfirce ments to the army in India. Sir De Lacy Evans wished to know how it was the house was not before acquainted with the emb3diment of the German legion. Mr. Labouchere replied that the information was not fully complete when it arrived, and he had not thought it necessary to lay it before th 3 house until he received fuller information. Major 8. Wortley naprosazd hie hope that the 45th, '9lst, and 73rd Regiments', which had been at the Cape some time beyond their time of colonial service, should be sent to India. Sir G. Grey said the government ordered the number of men that should leave the colony, and had made no decision as to the particular regiments that were to Mr. Adderley asked how many regiments the Govern. ment of B )mba: had asked for. Mr. Labounbere id bnly two were asked tor, but he hoped that a larger force would be sent. In reply to Sir De Lacy Evans, Mr. Vernon Smith stated that the expediency of making additions to the European regiments in the service of the East India Company had been taken into consideration, and it was not considered desirable to make any such additions. The consideration of the Amendments to the Commons' Amendments to the Divorce and Mat rimonial Causes Bill was moved by Lord Palmerston, and the omission of the Jurisdiction of the Court of Quarter Ses=ions was assented to without opposition. The Lords' amendments striking out the amendment of the Commons' relating to Adultery com mitted in the conjugal residence, was opposed by Mr. Henley and Mr. Spooner, but was retained upon a division by 43 to 11— ma j or ity, 32. The remaining amendments were then agreed to. On the motion of Mr. Hayter, a new writ was ordered to issue for Middlesex in the room of Lord Robert Gros venor, who has accepted the office of Steward of Rempholme. The House adjourned at twenty-five minutes to fours till Friday, when the prorogation will take place. THE RYDAN TAKEN. —A worthy son of ‘• Rule Britan " has just taken glorious revenge on the Russian., and maintained the privileges of Great Britain is a striking manner. He spends his summer in Kissingea, where his better half, who has grown to somewhat gigantic proper tione, drinks the waters, in the hope cf returning to reasonable dimensions, while he himself is said to prefer 'strong Rhine wine to the medicinal liquid. Kissingen is now the rendezvous of I do not know how many Emperors, Rings, Princes, Princesses, and Grand-Duchesses, and the German hotel-keepers are in the highest degree subject to that morbia admiration of crowned heads to which, alas! many of us democratic Americans must plead guilty. Our respectable John 801 l had announced his departure for the 9th., and as the Russian Grand-Dachcss Helen was to arrive on the 11th., the obsequious landlord told • the English traveller that his apartments would be occupied by h er Imperial Highness, The pron.] islander at once changed his mind, and emphatically declared that he would stay his while life in Kissingen rather than give up a single room to a Russian. Ile kept his word ; the Muscovite Princess ha I to go to another hotel, and he is as proud as if he had taken the Redan by himself.—Cor respondent of New Fork Tribune. Tnn LARGEST GIANT IN V IP WORLD.--A few facts are ~ ' ye a in the American papers in regard to the weight and dimensions of Miles Darden, who died in Tennesse, and was said to be the largest man in the world. He was twice married. His children are very large, but probably none of them will ever be more than half the weight of their father. lie was quite active and lively, and laboured until about four years ago, when he becamo so fleshy that he was compelled to stay at tome, or be hauled about in a true-horse waggon. In 1839 he made a contract with a tailor to furnish him with a suit of clothes for 50 dollars, the cloth was to cost 5 dollars. Up4il measurement it took 12 yards of cloth—so the tailor lest 10 dollars and the making. The tailor states that three men, each Weighing over 200 pounds, put the coat on, buttoned it around them, and walked across the square at Lexington. In 1850, it took thirteen and one half yards of flax cloth, yard wide, to make him a coat. It took 16 yards of cambric for a shroud ; 21 yards of black velvet to .cover the sides and lid of his coffin ; 125 feet of pla nk to make his coffin. His coffin was eight feet long ; across the breast 32 inches ; across the head 18 inches; across the foot 14 inches ; its depth 35 inches. He weighed in 1854, 871 pounds. His height was seven feat siz i c'res, His weight when he died, as nearly as can be ascertained, was a fraction over 1,000 pounds. WHAT is COMING to LIVERPOOL on the 31st instant P—Why, TU GIIEA.TE'Sr NOVELTY IN Tt WORLD WHERE IS IT TO BE SEEN? THAT'S TAE QUESTION. THE NORTHERN TINTES.---LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, AUGU ST 26, 1857. COUNTY COURT.—Yr.sTIRDAT. BEFORE I. S. T. GREEN, PM., Who presided in the absence of J. W. PoLLocs, Esq., from indisp7sition. THE ROYAL OAK BURIAL SO PIETY. This ill-omened society, which has so frequently been beton the public of late, In almost every shape, again csuml a large attendance of its members and its seceiera at the County Court, in compliance with the followi❑g official dccument, under the seal of the court. It, the County Court of Lancashire, holden at Liverpool, b twee' GEOZGE HOEY, EDWARD WiLLI AMS, Thom ,s CARROLL, and JoII a HOGG I.N, p 1 intiff ; and JOHN A' FARINE, CHARLES JAMES BEVOM, JOHN HA' COCK STARLET, BENJ .311 N R;R , iRTS, THOMAS IREVITT, Joni' BARRY, WILLIAM MUDGE, JOHN PENNINGTON, JOHN MARSH, JOHN HERON, THOMAS GREENWOOD, and PAUL CULLEN, Committee of Melagement of the Liverpool United Legal F. i .ndly BL.rial Society, defendants. [lssued under the provisions of the Fr lend y Societies Act, 1835, 18 and 19 Viet., C. 63.] JOHN M'FARLONE, CHARLES JAMES BROOM. JOHN BANC9CE STANLEY, BENJAMIN ROBERTS, THOMAS TREVITT, JOHN BARRY, WILLIAM MUDGE, JOHN YENNING TON, JOHN MAR,II, JOHN HERON, TH 19 GREENWOOD, and. PAUL CULLEN, 15, S,otland-place, yon are herehy summoned to appear at a County C ,urt, to be holden at No. 80, Llaie•street, in Liverpool, on Mo DAT, the 13th day of July nest, at the hour of half-past ten o'clock before noon, to answer the above named plaintiffa, at FRANCIS and ALMOND'S, 31, North Joha-street, in a matter, the particafars of which are hereunto annexed. Dated the 29th day of June, 1857. Wthnt STATH sM, egiitrar of the ourt. Summonses for witnesses a d the production of domments may be obtained at the office of the Regi , tra-. Hours of attendance at the office of the Registrar from ten till four, IN SHE COUNTY COURT CF LANCASHIRE HOLDEN AT LIVE.IPOOL. Betxcen _ _ GEORGE 1-10EY, EDWARD WiLLiABES, TOOM AS CAUOLL, and JOHN llooosig (at FRANCDI and ALMJND:S i 31, North John-street, Liver pool), plaintiffs, THE LATE SIR HENRY LAWRENCE, K.O B. Sir Henry Montgomery Lawrence, where death in a sortie beneath the walls of Lacknow was announced in our columns on Satu'day, in toe telegraphic despatch , from India, was a very d stingniahed officer of Irish birth and entractiun, sod one of whose - ) services in India Ireland may well feel proud. He was the eldest sox' of ear John Laird Muir Lawrence, Chief Comesimioner for the Panj sub, being the eldest Son of the late Lieuteaant-Colsnel Alexander William Lawrence, some time governor of Uptror Castle, who dietinseuissaed himself by his gallantry at Seringapateme His mother was a dot tghter of the late Captain Knox, of the county of Donegal. He aas born at Mattura, in Ceylon, in 180 G, and married im 1837 HoCnoria, the youngest daughter of the Rev. Geo. Marshall, of Cardoaagra, Ireland, but was left a widower in 1854. Having re:3614 , 81 his early education at the demurs school at Londonderry, and afterwards at thee Royal Military Co loge, Addiscombe, he entered the military services of the Hon. East India Company, as a cadet in the . Bengal Artels rye in 1821; and soon obtained the reputation of be in g one of the most able, a d energe,ic cf its officers. He served in the Catrul came algre.ainder General eirGeorge Polleck, in 1843, end shortly afterwards rrceived theeank of major. In the same yeaehe became British Resident at Nepaul. He afterwards took part in the campaign on the Sutlej, after which he was ma le a Military Companion of tile Eath, and promoted to the rank of ilentenant-coionel. In 1816 hes was appointed Resident at Lahore, and agent far the Governors General on the north-western frontier. It was for his able service's in the administration of this inportant office that he was made a K.C.B. (evil) in 184&. In the following year he wet appointed by Lord Dalhousie chief commissioner for the redaction and government of the recently annexed province of Puteaab, where he increased the opinion airealy entertained of his administrative talents, to which allusion has frequently been male during the present crib's:el struggle. In 1854 ha obtain -d the rank of fall/colonel, and w s also nominated an honorary aid-de-camp to her Majesty. as a further recognition of his merits. He was the author of Adverzeures of' an Officer in the Service of Runfeet Singh. The firmness and ability which ha had shown at Lneknow, in checking the progress of the recent mutiny, must be fresh in the memory of our roe ler3. We can only add that in Sir Henry Lawrence the Indian service and the country have lost an officer whose head and han 1 they could very ar afford to spare in the present Important crisis. But it is not only as a brave soldier or as an eminent civilian that Sir H. Lewreece will be missed, high as his character steed in both capacities. As a frank, open, honourable, and straightforward man, and as a generous and unselfish friend, his loss will fall as heavily on private society in India as on the publi • service. As an instance of his genero ity, we may mention that for many years, whilst drawing a handsome revenue from his official employments, ha (Masted all that he cola(' spare of his yearly salary to the foundation of an atylum for the o Phan children of European soldiers, which bears his name, and will long stand as a memorial of his good deeds on the hills between Simlah and Umballeh. JOHN M`FARLANE, CHARLES .TAMES BILIOM, JOHN HANCOCIC STAN LEY, BENJAMIN ROBERTS, THOMAS F,EVITT, JOHN BARRY, WIL LIAM MU OCE, JOHN rEVNINOION, JOHN MARSH, JOHN HERON, Themes GREENWOOD, and PAUL CceeEN (at 15, Seotland-place, Liverpool), defendants. This is a case under the Friendly Societies Act, 1855 (18 and 19 Viet., cap. 63), and the followieg are the particulars of the complaint of the asove-named plaintiffs:- 1. That the defendants are the Committee of Meragement of the Liverpool United Legal Friendly Burial Society, the rules whereof have been duiy certified under an Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to Friendly Societies, passed in the 18th and 19th years of the reign of her present M 2. That the plaintiff i are memb ..rs of the said society, and interested in the matters of this action. 8. That the 116th et the said rules provides "That ne new rale shall be made, nor a a , of the rules herein contained, or herea ter to be mate, shall be amended, a tered, or rescinded, uttess wits the consent of a majority cf the members present a', a general meeting of the society speci sly cal el fee that 1 urpose." 4. That the 105th of the said roles provides, " Al . meetings of the members shall be held in soma convenient place in the borough of Liverpool, subject to the rules in that behalf provided." 5. That the 111th of the said rules provides, "Notices of all meet ings shall he conspicuously posted by p'acards through the borough, and sh 11 be inserted in six, at least, of the Liverpool newspapers, commeecing not later titan one week before the day of matting ; and such notices shall (in c .se of species meetings) contain this substance of the proposals to be made thereat." 6. Tnat the said $ iciety consists of from 31,030 to 40,000 members, who are prig. workmg men, their wives, and children; and the adults in benefit and eutited to attend and vote at public meetinee of members nume:r ab nt 15,000. 7. That the defendants as such committee aforesaid, recently cal'ed a special general meeting of members to sppo nt a committee to alter the existing mica of the society, and to pass new ones, although no such colimittes could ba appoieted by virtue of the seid tuba of the society. 8. '1 hat the defendants afterwards called a special meeting of mem bers, to be held at the Clarendon Rooms, iu Liverpool aforesaid, aahough the piece is capable of holding ab iut 100 persons on .y. 9. That the plaintiffs protested against such meeting and the pro posed alteration of the rules, but the deendants proseeded with the meeting, and submitted dicers new rules and alterations, some whereof ware contrary to law. 10. That the defendants subsequently called another meeting at the same place, and cert in alterations in the exist ng rules, and additions thereto, were passed by tae persons then assembled; but the registrar ham not certifi d the same. 11. The piaietiffs charge that the notices calling the said meetings do not, nor does any one of them contain the substance of the pro pose's to be made at the said meetings within the meaning of the said 111 h rule, and that the place of meeting aforesaid was not a " convenient place" within the meaning of the sail 105E1 rule. 12. That the defendants have wilfully, corraetly, and impr.-perly sought to alter the existing rules of the society, and have expended divers large sums of the society's money in and about the said meet ings, and amendments and. alterations for printing, advertising, deputations to London, and other things, and certain monies are still owing ia respect thereof. The plaMtiff • seek an order of this honourable Court that the e aid meetines may b 3 declared void and of no effect. Tbat the defendants may be restrained by the inju , ction of this honourable Court from procuring the certificate of the Registrar of Friendly Societies in England that the said propo ed alterations and amendments are according to law and from taking any steps or proceedings for procurii g or obtaini .g such certificate, and from putting is force or acting upon the said altera ions and amend ments until the slid Illta rule has been duly complied with in regard thereto. That the defendants be ordered to repay to the trustees, of and for the use of the society, all such monies as have been expended by the defendan s out of the lands of the said society as aforesaid, and for this purpoas, if necessary, that an account thereof may be taken, and that they may be restrained from p ying out of the fonds of the sossety the monies still owing as aforesaid, and that the defendants m iy be also ordered personally to bear their costs of, and incidental to, the present proceedings, and to pay the plaintiffs their costs of and incidental thereto. The plaintiff; also see t such fin ther or other relief as the circum stances of the case may require and this honourable Court may he pleased .o grant. FRANCIS & ALMOND, Plaintiffs' Attoreeys. Liverpool, June 20, 1857. Mr. Brett, instructed by Mr. Roby, appeared for the defendants; and Mr. Almond, of the firm of Fr..ncis and Almond, appeared for the plaintiffs-51r. Seger, b rrister, being instructed on their behalf. Upon the latter gentle - nan appearing in the court some long time after the hour appointed, he said that the case had been formerly heard, and the present judge (Mr. Green) was than on the bench, not as a private spectator, but had taken part in the proceedings. Then it was contended—and succeasfnliy—that the trustees had no toms standi on the court, aud, therefore, they were put out of court; but on the present occasion the compl inants were four members of the society, and, therefore, there could not be the same objeztion ; but the c 133 was precisely the same as before. He then re - erred to the illegality of holding the meeting of the society at the C'arendon rooms, wren certain rules were abrogated, that place not being sufficiently capacious to hold one tithe of the members, and the hour at which it was ,onvened being most iacenvenlent for the members to a' t _nd. Mr. Brett contended that the court had no j arisdl ellen ,aud referred to the plaint, which he said had been amen ed since the last occa sion, but he would say that the County Court had no jurisdiction in the matter. He reviewed the different sections in the complaint and then a'gued thit the County Coart load no jurisdiction in the matter, bat that it must come before the Court of Queen's Bench, and to substantiate that argument he quoted the various sections of the Friendly Societies' Act bearing on the subject. After Mr. Brett load concluded bis argument, The Depaty-Judge said r What you contend is, that the County Court h .s the power of giving directions for acts to be done, but that they have no power for giving an order for any acts of prohi Mr. Brett t Exactly so. Alit. Seger then referred to the legal point raised, contending that Lee County Court hod jurisdiction. The Judge said he could not be expected to decide on that lege' point at once, and would take time to form a judgment on the subject, and give his decision after mature consideration. Mr. Callow, one of the plaintiffs, was then called, and he proved that the Clarendon Rooms was not an adequate place to hold suet' a meting of the members of concha society. Mr. Jenkins, the secretary, was also called, and he depocod that the plaintiffs were members of the society, and that the amended rates had been earned by a majority of the members present. Mr. Brett then addressed the court on behalf of the defendants, and contended that the present woo a most miserable case, end that it hod not been substantiated ; and that the meeting in the Clarendon Rooms was a legal meeting, and was legally convened in accordance with the ruins of the society ; and that the room was quite sufficiently large enough to hold all that attended. His Honour stated that he would give his judgment in the cage on a future day. MILITARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The General Commanding-in. Chief having decided that the whole of the depots belonging to Scotch regiments now attached to the provisional battalion, Chatham, shall be quartered in Scotland, where they will be formed into depot battalions, an order hae been received at Chatham garrison by the Colonel Cornmandant, directing that the companies of the- following Highland depots, the head quarters of which are now in India, are to be held . in immediate readiness to proceed to Aberdeen, viz.:-7 4 Th Highlanders, with Captain W. Ross Bing, Captain C Venables, Lieutenant B. Davies. Lieutenant R. E. Dear; and Ensign F. Parry ;78th Highlanders (Rossshire Buffs); together with Captain F. W. roster, Lieut. A. M`Leod, Lieut. W. W. Young. Lieut. r, S. Fitzsimons, Ensign Ir. Thomson, Ensign R. P. Butler, and Ensign J. N. Gower, of that corps;• 93rd (Sutherlandshire) highlanders, with Captain J. M. Brown, Lieut. G. It Fenwiek, and Lieut. A. 0. Tabuteau. The following &pots are under' orders to proceed to Chatham garrison, for the purpose of being attached to the provisional battalion .—lst battalion Ist Royals, 19th Regiment, and 20th Regiment. The Globe says :—"The despatch. of , troops- to India has lowered our home establishment of infantry of the line to 14 battalions, instead of 40, the proper' proportion for the suited kingdom. The arrival of four regiments from the Mediterranean in the course of a few days will augment th e home-strength to 18 battalions ; but, oa the other hand. it more.thanprobable that a further reduction will take place in consequence of the despatch of more regiments to Ind ia. It is quite obvious that for some time it will be nem ssary to maintain a comiderable thropean force in that country; and whatever force is there must have a rese.rve of corresponding strength at home to' supply casualties. It has therefore been determined to make a considerable addition to the army immediately, which will consist at the- least of 20. new battalions of infantry. Two of them will probably be formally created'by appointment of the additional officers in to-morrow's- gazette, and the remainder will be organised with all despatch. Even with this augmentation there will be no necessity to apply to Parliament for a vote, for, owing to the extent of the Indian reinforcements already despatched; we are now , maintaining two cavalry and 24, infantry - regiments less than those which are provided for in the estimates.' Some' additional grant w:11, however. be asked for the Militia service before-the rising of Parliament.' Major F. B.. Ward's A troop of Royal !horse Artillery, has arrived at Woolwich from rpswich, to' prepare for immediate service in India. The command of the troop was given aver at Chelmsford , to • Captain Whinyates, second in command, in consequence , of a fall from his horse sustained •by Major Ward,'• occasioning severe injuries, which prevented him from proceeding. The troop having halted on Sunday at Romford, arrived on Monday morning at Bla.ckheatb, where they were met by the mounted band of the brigade,.who escorted them to the. garrison. They were then kilned' by Lieutenant- Colonel Maude,. C.8.,(wh0 has recently succeeded to the command:of the brigade),-who preceded. them to their quarters. It was rumoured in Dublin on , Sun lay that the Scots Greys, new forming part of that garrison, had received sudden orders to- hold themselves in ,readiness for embar. REPORT OF Mg COMMON LAW COMMMISSIONERS. This report has been issued in the form of a blue-book , with evidence and appendices, the whole forming a volume of nearly 200 pages of closely printed matter. Tae report itself lies in a nutshell. The commissioners, inverting the order of subjects mentioned in the Royal commission (as was found convenient), first considered the expediency of reducing the number of judger, and, after reviewing tale judicial business at the present time, and the prospect of an increase of that business, they came to the conclusion that to reduce the number of judges at present would cause an arrear even of ordinary business, and certainly render it impossible for the courts to despatch any unexpected influx of an extraordinary nature. They next consider whether any alteration could be made in the present mode of transacting the judicial business in London which would justify theta in recommending a reduc tion in the number of judges. This question is resolved in the negative, as any such arrangement would reduce the number of judges sitting in banal. —a result which the commissioners cannot in any way contemplate. If this decision be sustained, no change in the number of circuits will be s'equired. The practice of one judge remaining - in town during the circuits to di Tose of the chamber business must also, it is thought, be re tained as indispensable. The memorials from certain towns claiming separate assizes ana next discussed, and a report is made in favour of the extension of this privilege to Manchester and Bristol, while the applications from .Leeds, Hull, Birmingham; Kendal, and Wisbech for sepa r ate a sizes are refused. As regards the question of a eeiees generally, the plan of spring and summer assizes, with a special •commission-in the winter, is reported as me st convenient, on the whole, although certain modifi cations are recommended, ee that a commission of assize and nisi prius should be issued in winter for the disposal of civil business in Lancashire and rorkshiro and such other reeseeE• as may require theconeenience ; and that the special commission of gaol delivery should be limited to towns where the number of criminals renders such .increased facilities; of unquestionable importance. ks regards the remodelling of the circuits, it is proposed (if Manchester be separated from Liverpool) te , add to the North and South Ws .les Circuits the adjacent counties of Salop and- - Hereford ,(from the Oxford Circuit). and to aid to the Oxford 01 . cuit * Warwick (from the Midland Circuit), and to annex y .hic to the Midland, dttniniehed by War wick and Northatiepton, the latter town •to be annexed to the Norfolk Cirt uite Two judges. it is suggested, should go to Cardiff and elwansea. The Home and Western Circuits would remaile unchanged. Certain-details in connexion with the Welts h Circuits are likewise discussed at length. The commissh eners- propose no alteration in the four legal terms, leavine • the judges to dispense at their discretion with the term .London.sittings or net. They reco-n mend that one judge,.sitting for all the courts, should attend daily at chambers at s I much earlier hour than at:present, leaving the two other outsitting judges to sit at nisi prius in either of the ct turte e as occasion may require, wi hout leaving for atteedance at chambers. As regards pleadings in vacation, it is recommended that the Ist of October be 'substituted for Vats 2tth of October as the period at which certain suits in lay be proceeded withe and that one or more judges be •empewered to try causes arising in any of the three courts after the Ist of October at such intervals between that tin is and the Mich:mimeos Term as may be deemed necessary. DIEOTZRY -or 'Coon xtr ILLINOIS.—We learn from a gentleman. wht . has knowledge of the feet, that a few days ago e a large be 1 of coal was discovered= in the neighbour hood-of Neoge Station, on the Chicago Branch of the Ill inois_ Central R ailroad. Tee coal, which is said to be of superior goalie y, was found at a depth of thirty-three feet from the surfa4 te. The upper vein is foer feet four inches in thickness, t and is .supposed to extend for many miles. A company is already in progress of formation, and it is expected that a force of one huadredimen will be put to work in the re nine of a few days. The discovery was made while a well was •being dug for the railroed company.— Chioago• Tie Ire, BRFACII 0' I , Pan74llla CASE ExerteoueieTAßlO—The last breach of pr enlist, ease is wager enough. It occurred at Itiehmend, Virginia, as the story goes t—A young man named Lips comb sued another young man named Thomas Linton for breech of promise. Linton, it seems, was of such fernin: me appearanee that his friends easily persuaded Lipscomb that he was a female-in- disguise, and so enamored did he become of;hinton as to-ask and receive a promise •of marriage, which, of course, the latter would not fulfil. Boteott attempting to exp'ain, the fond' lovyert wouldn't believe a word about his being• a man, and fall in the belief that , his inamorata was a woman, and nothing' short, he sued-for breach of promise. The case created no little el eitement in. Richmond. An examination by five exparie aced physicians was ordered by the court, so that . there -should , be no possibility of mistake, and they reported that 'Linton• was. undoubtedly a mats; so Lipscomb lost both his lady lows and his lawsuit. Tile NV:4VMM AND Cit ..PS IN NOMTH LANCI/SHIBIL The tine dry weather which set in on Sunday last came just "in the nick of time." - Another day's rain, and we should heve had an unsoond wheat crop. So far it Is safe ; thietwe can state from the result of inquiry ; and we rejoice that the fins, harvest weather has not once been inteerupted during the present week. There is, how ever, a scarcity of reapaes, and boards of guardians will do welino hurry all aoricaltural recipients of relief into the harvest field, Farmers. should piess forward their reaping operations with vigour. We are glad to know that a. considerable breadth has been cat during the present week. The previous favourable reports of the wheat crop are contltmed now that it is being cut, and where sales are taldrig , place it fetches good prices. The rain has improved both late oats and barley. Turnips and grass lands have benefited largely by the rain. Pota toes day by day are more extensively effected by the rain --Yreefon Guardian, SHICILA.ND.—SIXTEZNIA‘ESLOST.—Our Lerwick COTTES pendent, writing us on Monday, says :—" The other day while the workmen were engaged at their lebeur in the chromate quarry at [last, a slip of the rock preci pita' ed thet to the bottom of the pit, which contaiaed a large quantit: of water, and three of thera,pedshed." Another cores pendent, writing on Saturday, says :—" We are sorry to sa that we are this year unable to.aonounce the close of th cod and ling- fishing without accident. By one of tt vessels just retarned from Foote intelligence has bee received ofette loss of the Coquette. of Raewiek, with a on board. It appears thatin the month ot April she ws driven by a strong currant of the tide on a rock net Westmen s Haven, and driven to pieces. and 'hat all o The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune board, thirteen in number, were drowned." We are ut in a letter dated August Bth writes as follows---The able tagive the total number of lives that have been la British Govornment has very sensibly declined to continue in Shetland. since last autumn, but we believe it exceeds 6 the wrangle over Central American affairs , wisely eon- Never in the history of that interesting group of itlan , eluding that it can play its part towards that disturbed his there ben a season of such sad and overwhelmit region quite as well iadepeadently or the United States as calamity..—WorthereteE gn with its sulky and reluctant co - orera tion. The beat in- TUE WILT, Or & ma...- ' ANCHI formation to which Ithave accessleads me to believe that , I;STMR Max IN 152 0.—1 n tl name of GA, amen.. In the year of our Lard 152 the recent conferences: between General Cass and Lord Napier bad no reference whatever to the defunct treaty. the let day of feagust. I, Thomas Bryche [? Bird or to any other breech of this eonaplicated business. The vrbole of mind and , sick in body, make my tes amend this manner. let,. I bequeath nso soul to Almigh'y G policy of the Britian. Government is the perfect am: l eo and to his blessed mother St. Mary, and my body to ' escence In the progress of events; what they- desire to d,) is to do nothing,. in which they ha ve for • the l as t five buried in the college church of Manchester; and in t years been so• eminently successful. Their last act of ,name of my mortuary my best horse or cow. I•em, intervention: was the firing into the Prome.theas five years, he celeath to ear lady's service led. ; to the church woe ago, The really, important and tangible point in dispute , e t . 41 ; to the mending of the lane on this side' was the possession or control ot Greytcwn. That place Chat el-of .he-Frith, 12d. I will that my daugh was seiz d by, the British in 1848 and held by them in the Alison have her mother's girdle. I will that the t name of the calico shirt called the Xing of Mosquito. • Jacks or coats than go, the • one to one house, aed • With that practical good sense which distinguishes the British character, they gave up Greytown when they -found other to. the other house. It is my will that my a that they could not hold it without larger of war with and Edmund, my so h have the house that I dwell' the United States. They proposed in the Dallas and And, also, as for the take, that I hold of Mr. Rai Clarendon treaty a joint protectorate over the pert and Prestwich, it is my will tint my wife and her chills river of San Juan, but that was rejected by the senate; have it unto the time that they come to age, and tl and now, since the expulsion of the pirate Walker, the Mr. Ralph to put [iota] it which child he thinks in nations of Central America are left to fight out their able to do service for is.. I ordain end snake my e causeless and ceaseless quarrels unrestrained by foreign en t ers m y wife and my son John, to see that this authority. This is an it - levy to the commerce and last will shall be (lane, as they shall answer before 0 proaperity of the world, but much more detrimental to I snake my overseers. Mr. Ralph Pre twich, and Geo the United States than to any other natlon. By informal B h rye e, ge ntlemen ;• Robert Brydocke, John Smyth, s `and common. consent the Clay ton and Bulwer treaty is abrogated. Great Britain is on good terms with all the Sir James erene, priest.-- rancaslsire and Cheshire Wi States of the disrupted confederacy, and is in l'o/' 33 of Cheetkart.: aociety. particular cultivating the most friendly relations TUN ifILEGIXATIC WOKAN.—The phlegmatic womat with Honduras mid San Salvador. Honduras a perfect contrast to her excitable sitter. She is genet has rejected the treaty retroceding to her eerie, fat, fair, and immovably go)d tempered ; she does diction the neaten Islands, and that group remains comprehend what nerves. mean ; wonders at the set y movements,and lively tunes ()tethers, bit she smiles in possession of the British c rown. There is scarcely erjoys their vivacity in her dim way, which she yet n any doubt of the existence of a sec ret treat y , by which Honduras cedes these islands to Great Brita in in return has a wish to emulate. The phlegmatic woman is n for the capital and protection furnished in aid of the model wife either, for she is too indol e n t to look after railroad from the Atlantic to the Golf o f Fonseca. and ways of her household • things take with the ulterior object of preventing the establishment. • , their ewe verse, of slavery in them, under the auspices of the United not often a denirahle one, though she views all mis States. In this way the Central American question, too coolly; and we verily believe would leek guietly 1 tough for diplomacy, is left to settle itself ;in truth may the "•wreck of matter and the crash of toads," be said toleave settled itself. The foray of murderers and vitled she hied a rosy corner troll whicit to view the robbers, called filibusters, has destroyed the influence of roar. the United States for an indefinite time, and postponed what eh is e L e e , t w n-iders well enough, in ot other people w annexation until the settlement of the slavery question C o n s ider t te n t c w a tj u t s a e h they among ourselves. Lord Napier has acted as era i quite the reverse. She pre era prosy boeks k i e e immobility monotony, mediator in our difficulty with New Granada., and has advised General Herren to settle up as not br eak into l t ajoed. promptly as possible. Great Britain has claims upon. faculties ate 0 ' If Sir Charles Grandison went da would b b St like ' ro a y hull to that Government,which her Minister may be now attempt.. ~ a n in one i h n e te , r ir i e n a ila i l: ins to settle on the same terms which he recommends to setae reason puce , given by an old lady. She enj thiw,table in our y : she e t eving the work real a old to her, leenute she could Gens. Cass and Herren. It is certainly a most sitegolar spectacle that a more hearty entente cordiale than has a nice nap, leaving Sir Charles an I Miss Byron in ever before existed between Britain and America shout . d cedar parlour, and when she woke up be sure to find. have been brought about by General Cass, who has spent in tte same place. Tee childrtn of the phlegmatic wt forty years of an elongated public career in prortriun.ling are generally a wild unkesup. horde, who with more war to be inevitable. With due respect I say it, Ihneyism city than their maternal ancestor, break away from he is favourable:to peace. Had Gen. Cass been eturenoned ble control. Too indolent to hold the reins of govern directly from that stump into which he stucht his sword witi a firm hand, she suffers them to do pretty met to the Cabinet, he would have felt it his hoe aeon duty to they please, trusting to Providence to bring them ou declare inevitable war against our natural enemy within Of . yz the husband of this seecimen of feminalhy, as litth a twelvemonth; but at seventy-five his t b'ellicosity droops . be said as possible. Findingno comfort at home, 1 its crest, and seeks ing'orious repose oeneath the siren lullaby ot peace ! I feel authorised t o ann ounce to an ewes the habit of frequenting restaurants, clubs, &o. already much abused public that v o is not to be bored a suspicious odour of strong waters is not unfreqn with any more despatches on, the Central American exhaled from his br l eathe—Chapters on Women. question. iatarina Fan Tassel. kation for India. The Royal Horse ArtilleryC troop, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Strange. C:W, will arrive at' Liverpool on the 7th of September: from Woolwich, and' embark for Dublin, and on landing: march to Newbridge Barrack, there to be attached to:the Cavalry Brigade— viz , al and 13th Light Dragoons. The Grenadier Guards, 2cl Battalion, Royal Barracks, Dublin, under the command of Colonel :Hamilton, will embark at the North Wall on the 2d of September . for Liverpool, and proceed to London, The Pembroke, 60 guns, screw. steamship (Coastguard service. Leith), Captain John Fraser, arrived at the Great Nora at 6,30 p m• on Friday, and saluted the , fiag of the Commander-in-Chief.. She steamed into harbour on Saturday, and remains waiting Admiralty orders-for her future destination. Her Majesty's screw steam, frigate, 36, Curacoa, Gapt. Forbes, late from , the Mediterranean, has arrived at Woolwich from Portsmouth. She brings 42 cases, con. taining a number of ancient mosaics and other antiquities, excavated by the Rev. Nathan Davis, near Tunis, and, supposed by him to be a portion of the ruius of Carthage.. The weight of the whole is about ten or twelve tons. The- Curacoa, then commanded:by. the Hon. F. Hastings, died good service at Sebastopol and , Kinaburn, and having been, three years and four months in commission, is expected to be paid off at Woolwich by Captain Forbes. The following appointments have been made at , the Admiralty :—O.' S.- Cameron, Thomas H. Iloyse, and Henry Fairfax, Mates, to the Diadem ; Henry Si Mande ville, Mate, to the Vulcan ;;Richard Sheepshanks, . Mid— shipman, to the Ganges ; Edward Heath, surgeon, to the Diadem; John S. Adams, Assistant-surgeon, to. the Diadem ; Francis Greene,, Acting Assistant-surgeon, to the Diadem; Thomas .M.Gahan, Assistant surgeon to the Victory: and James TL . Bignell,: Assistaut.7,ayma.ster, to the Southampton. The freightship Herculean, laden with , ammunition. Etc. ' from Woolwich, is ready for sea , and wa s ordered to sail yesterday (Thesday).thr Hongkong. The freightship Georgia., in the London ,Doeks, is em barking shell, shot, and ammunition from. Woolwich for New Brunswick, and is to sail during the .week. The freight-ship Marlborough has shipped seventy-two barrels of atnmunition. and three field , batteries of ar tillery from-- Woolwich for Bengal, and has sailed for Gravesend. Mr. Macdonald, Muster-attettlant of Woolwich Dock. yard, assisted by his troop of seamen-niggers, who have been employed night and day during the last month in lifting and dragging the Defeis ce hulls from the bed of the river oft Woolwich Arsenal, succeeded on Saturday in carrying her, on the spring tide, lashed between a couple of frigates, over the verge of the low water mark, where she will be overhauled by the shipwrights, sa as to decide her future destiny. She no .v lies entirely dry forward, with a depth of four feet aft, andpresents the appearance of being:unfit. for father service. CENTRAL AMERICAN AFFAIRS. MUTINY IN INDIA. MEETING roR THE RELIEF OF Tag SUFFERERS' Yesterday afternoon a public meeting was held in the Egyptian Hall, at the Mention House, for the purpose of devising means f o r Orating immediate relief to those who are new suffering from th e present calamities in India. 'I he Right Hon. the Lord Mayor occupied the chair. The late hour at which the meeting was held prevents us from giving a fall report of the proc'e tinge, On the platform we observed :—Lord Denman, Admiral Sir Etephen Luahington, Sir Moses Monteflore, Alderman Rose. Col. Henderson, Captain Lynch, Rev. Canon Chapneys, Hon. Mr. Justice Halliburton, Captaia Fish bourne, Colonel Holland, Mr. G. Hitch:tonic, General Tulloch, C.B together with many gentlemen of wealth and influence. The meeting commenced with a prayer from the Lord Mayor's Chaplain. The Lord Mayer stated in appropriate terms, the objects of the meeting, and the circamstances under which it had been convened. Many painful interesting particulars were detailed, and it was reailved to form a committee for carrying out the benevolent purposes in view. ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY. A serious accident occurr:d on Monde: afternoon, near the Bei. gate station on this line of railway, by which several persons were more or lees inj 'red, and the traffic on the np line .impeded for a considerable period. The ace dent arose fro n the Brighton 1.30 p.m fast train thinning into some goods wag tons which were in th e act of being shunted just below the Relate sta`i on to allow the passenger train to pass. The signals were set, to warn the driver of the np train not to proceed, and his conduct in driving against them was considered by the otci 13 so repr,hensinle that he was taken into custody immediately after the coll:sion. There were a great many passengers in the t. ain, and among them several persons of distinct .° n. The venerable Duchess of Inverness and the B shop of Oxford we e is one carriage. The duchess, we r gret to he r, was much shaken. The bishop fortunately escaped unhurt. The guard of the train is in custody. ROYAL SURREY GARDENS. Yesterday aft:rnoon a nrtmerons meeting of the shareholders in the Surrey Gardens Cmapa ,y was convened in the Pavilion of the garden, for the purpose of receiving a report from the directors on the state of the company's aff tirs. The proceedings, which were expected to be vary exciting anct prot acted, commenced at a late hour. FATAL SEWER ACCIDENT-THREE LIVES LOST. A shocking accident took place yes'erday morning about nine o'clock, in the Whitechapel-road, London, facing the entrance of the late Pavillion Theatre. For so ne weeks past a large number of labourers have been engaged in connecting an old sewer which ran in front of the house on the North side of the road with the main sewer in the centre of the road. This is done by running twelve-inch pipes from one se aer to the other. One had been partly driven in from a s'reet drain welt, and a man named John Fitzp :trick was completing it at a depth of some eighteen feet from the surface of the road. An outlet had been obtained into the main sewer, and all the piping had been laid, with the exception of the piece which was to connect t with the old sewer. It appears that as each pipe is set it is n-cessary to place a board ever the bore, so that the dirt shout I not get into it as the labourers fill in the working. Fttzpatrick was in the act of removing the beard, so as to fit in the last portion of pipe, when a rush of foul air from the ma'n sewer came in full power upon him, and the unfortunate man fell forward. Another labourer named G. Frank.s, who had con siderable experienee in the constmc ion of sewe•s, apparently unconscious of what hal really happened to his fellow-workman, descenle I the excav&tiou, lend. on resehing the bottom, fell sense'ess. 'rhe cries of some boys brought other labourers to the scans, and three more unfortunate fellows, and Irishm en, hastened down to the bottom of th 3 sewer, and were quickly overcome by the poisonous air, and the five poor creatures were to be seen lying on the top of each other. In a minute or so the foreman of the works arrive I, and the workmen wre warne I not to g o down. Hooks were then pro cured, and the unhappy fellow] were bro tglit do to the surface Three of the men were found to be quite dead,. the other two wore insensible. Two of the suffsrers were married, aad have left fam lies. Their bodies p resented a very discoloured appearance Irma the effects of the poisonous air. EXPLOSION OF THE BOILER OF A STEAM THRASHING MACHINE. LOSS OF THREE LIVES. Information has just reached us of a horrible ace dent in Ruchford Hundred—the explosion of the boiler of a steam thrashing machine at Prittlewell, the loss of thraa lives, and probably of a fourth, and the destruction of a cansiderable amount of property. It appears that one of the steam machines of the Meows. Eddingtoe, of Springfield . was employed to thrash the corn just harvested in a field belmgin g to Mr. George Weal, between Prittlewell and R tchf :rd, but occupied by Mr. Goarge Hart; on Monday morni tg, after tho mon engaged in the work bad returned from their breakfasts the machine was set in motion, and while they were busily employed round It, the boiler of the engine b _snit with a terriele explosion, spreading death and destruction around, the heavy ironwork being shattered to hag meets, and two p'eces weighing 5 cwt. of the huge wheels, being carries through a hedge to the distance of 103 yards. When the smoke and steam cleared away, a horrible scene presented itself. Three cf the men employed had been killed upo❑ the spot, their bodies being fearful) , mangled by the exploder'. A fourth hal been blown to a considerable distance, and when taken up it was tonnd that his back was broken, and he was otherwise so dread- Lilly injured as to leave not the slight st probability of his recovery. A man named Tait, the son of a tinker, at Rock ford, was one of the persons killed; but we hove not been a'so to ascertain the namos of the other sufferers, one of whom had only bean taken on to the work In the morning, so that he had been emyloyed only a few hours when he met his de stli. There were five men engaged about the engine at the time, but one es •aped without serious i jury. Of con se, the thrashing-machine itself saffared ; and to add to the fearful nature ot' the scene, the corn stack, which was fie process of thrashing caught fire, and was wholly coasu.ned . ESSfS lice. id. THE NEW AUSTRALASIAN STEAMSHIP. This ma zniflcent bon steamer, built by Messrs. J. and G. Chomp. son Clyde Bank, for the European and Australian C o mpa ay , left tit_ Broomielaw on Friday, for sonthamp'on, whence she will soon make her maiden passenger trip. She was lan ched on tee 10th of June last. The Australasian is of 2,800 tons bailders's measnremeat, and is 300 feet over all, 42 feet beam, and will be propelled by means of a three-bladed screw by two directing acting erten es of 700 horse power. She has six tubular bolers, which ern ,vered with felt, and then with lead, by which heat is retained and fuel economised. These ar, fled by 30 furnaces, There are two 9) inch cylinders, with a3l feet stroke. These are also covered with felt, overlaid with teakwood, which imparts t, t e ponderous machinery an ape trance qaite ornamental. The pop, instead of being fitte I up as a dining saloon, as i 3 generally the case with the Atlantic steamship', is hero a qo opri clad , to 60 sleeping cabins, which w.ll be exce !dingle wry. Tune of course, will be favourite be, the in a tropical voyage. The saloon is consequently placed below upon the main-deck. It need only be said of it that it is a se Reims and mast hareisome hall, with a spree of eight feet between fiber and eeilinr, and capable of accommodating 180 first class passengers comfortably at dingier. On each side and forward erend a long line of comfortably cabin:, Here being in all Bleeping accommodation for '2OO fi rs t-class pa:sensers and for 6,, TAKE :‘1 ionic;AN. — lt is s del t hat the water in this lalie is as hi:4,h as it hia been known siace 1838, at which time second class, along, also, with a very pretty saloon f,r the the rice was so great as to kill trees over one hundred years latter class in the forward part of the ship. At night the cabins are fully lighted, but, as in other first class modern steamers, of age. The level is new only fourteen his fact does away n inches less than the light itself is beyond the reach of the passenger, who thus thee, being about what it was in 1853. cannot either thoughtlessly or sinfully barns himself or endanger pith the theory of the period ical rise and fall, or what is knows as the " seven " n years theory." the ship ty means of fire. There are seven bith - room s, both for l. bachelor writes in the plunge and shower, 21 water-closets, &c. In fart, there are the IVeekl I\l ARM Magazine—" Now for it, my y oun g man ; realise " LIFP"—A. cynical elements of comfort visible in every dire_tor, for even the iooeing- glass on the wall turns on a hall and socket , by which it can be easily the ilea of a happy wedded ex istence.. Begin to form bought in juxtaposition with the passenger's face, whatever may be your wife's mind. It r oad to her, and she will interrupt you the lay or heel of the ship. We need sca'cely say that everythine. in the middle of the fine st and most p athetic passages to ;give a trifling direction to a servant. Talk to her, and in which the ingenuity of man can do has been done for the attaaroaont the milst of y - .tir highest flight; and loftiest senti of safety in navigation. The Australasian is divided by strong iron bulkheads into six or seven watertight compar.mants. She has a yr e will laugh in your facf, and ask you how powerful steam whistle over the holler, which can be m i n i t e 9 an sh t e alk smell nensseise ; far she i s y our wife now. While were courting her she would listen to y our worked by means of a lanyard from the bows under posing y' f u'ir whole li , s, and affect intense admiration. such circumstances at may call for it—such as a in Argue with her—but tha t I defy you to do." fog, apprehended collision, or epproaching the land. The 1 Colonel \V. Williams, of New °cleans, commenced on captain has a telegraph upon the bridge, by which he can in- the 20th ult. to eat one thousand eggs in one thousand stantaneonsly regulate the opera' iens of the engineer. Slit carries hours, on a w;rger of ono thousand dollars between seven large boats—four of them li-beat3 and three cet+er;• and four of the numblr are fitte 1 up with Clifford's patoot lowering ►a ' i aratu and tde sixteen co lal cap hoursa cif y b w y ji a l the elf cacy of which will he tested during tit' first outwar7l tr i3 e. All' hims,lf and G. W. Hutchinson. The lonel is confident is fireproof, cud no portion of the woodwork comes nearer the eel'. ee than four feat, while around the boilers water hose are sn:pen :,.:d of i ( ee ',-k,'"ente'ster'aianni.iller:h.as F Pr rr e t ta y a -o re n d e d b a i y s s th h e eat op ti e l r e atioa. We have a not colonel hollow at egg which may in a moment he rpp ied to the coiling of any part oil tit; Wo will bet on his devouring the thousand eggs machinery which gets overheated. It's into :dad that the A u,tral , isi ‘ I ‘7• ;i'cliat'igrereddetgs ctP'analt.plcetaen shall sail from Southampton on the 12. h of Seetamb r for Ile a stria VI . Zl . l . the time named, and net think he has done any thing 'emrth bragging of cither.—Poraand paper. in the first instance, as a short trial trip, and neon her return she Tine 740(011 OF CHEMBDURG's PinDLI.ES3 TO Tail QUEEN will be pet up. , n Vise Wag and imp.,rtaut station tot.tave.en Suez and —T i e fol'ewi g is a copy of the speech addressed by the Au trails, Map' . of Cherbourg to Queen Victoria :—" Madam and ' us sovereign,—The city of Cherbuir' which THE ARCHDUKE MAxcMlLl,aer,—A traveller who has just i letl•Vi.vg,2:.:'llu;:l3ll/)onotirltlolailacti.rr)Ainister,is happy to see ' to-day come loan Venice, informs Ine that Cu . : Arcitdake Ferdi- hope r a moment conceived last year. nand Maximilian, t..nd the Archduchess Charlotte, were r A e r a lin t lYted to ' the remarkable favour of being presented to extremely well received on the 16th lust. It attracted , N "nr lvitaj .. , ,y, I dare hope your Majesty will deign to per general notice thattlaere were no tnilieer , " hed 'es " formed - nit me to lay at your I\l jesty B ' feet the respretful homage from theluading place to the p a l a ce. asis ) usual on such sera- i of . my fellow . citizens. The I t s . ll August Will be inscribed sions. The fact is, that the governor-general of Lombardy is t 11 their memories as a precious and memorable day. wull liked, and would be extremely popular, if it were not 1 Queen Victoria is the first British Sovereign who has generally kuovin that he is one of the principal protectota 'ed Cherbourg since Normandy ceased to belong to of the Ultramontanists. Oa the 14,h in-A., the noblle Great Britain. The last English monarch whom Cher- Alessandra Mareello took the oaths as pjdestz or Burgos , i boors received within its walls was Henry V., in the year master of Venice. 1420, ruder circumstances very diffrent from the preeent. THE LATE SIR HENRY BARNARD. Lientenant-General Sir Henry William Barnsri, K.C.8., who :e death from dy erktery be'ore the walls of Delhi is repor.el in the telegraphic despatch from the Fast, which appeared in our columns on Saturday, was a son of the lat- Rev. William. Barnard, L.L.8., of Water Stratford, Sucks, by the daughter of M ,ore Dineey, Esq., of Church Town, count/ Waterford. He wis born at Westbury, Oxfordshi e, in 1799, and received his early education at Westminster School, and at the Royal Military College at Sandharat. He entered the army in 1814 as ensign in a foot regiment, and served for many years in the Grenadier Guards. In 1815 he was a t , ched to the staff of his uncle, the late Sir Andrew Barnard, while he held the post of commenthmt o: Paris; and from 1819 to 1820 wasaid-de-catnp to the general in command of the no, thein district. He was for some time aid-de-camp to Sir John (afterwards Lord) Keane during ;his com mand in the West Indies. From 1847 to 185'24 he held the post of assistant ac'jwant general in the northern district, and from 1552 to 1834 commanded the South Wales district. In the latter year he was sent out to the Crimea as maj n•-general commanding one of the br:gades. He su'oseqiently became chief of the staff in the Crimea, under General Simp3on, up to the date of the appointment of General Windham, and commanded a brigade as lieutenant-general for a short time before the close of the late war. He came out, however, after the groat Crimean battles had been fought, and was not personally engaged in either of the assaults on the Russian lines. in 1855 he was mete a E.C. 8., and appointed , auceess'vely to the com, mend of the troops at Corfu, and of a division at Shorneliff and Dover and finally was placed as major-general on the s'atT of the Bengal a-my in Novemb r last, when he proceeded to India. Ho succeeded to the command of the troops before Delhi in Juno last, on the sudden death of General Anson, whom he lies follawe I to the grave after an interval of only about four weeks' duration. Hp marri,cl in 182 3 a daughter of the late Brig tiller James C. Craufurd. CRINOLINE COMPASSION. We would regard the following narrative as utterly incredible, but that it comes to uslrom a correspondent in whom we have perfect reliince. Oar friend has designated the parties he censures " lad'es ;." would that their humanity bad been such as to have enabled us to call them in addition, women!' Our only rs;ret is that their names could not be forwarded ; hai they been given we should not have scatpled to print them, every one :—As a last but unavailing resource, a young lady, described by all who saw her as surpassingly beautiful, was removed from Edinburgh to Moffat to prolong a life fast hastening to its end. The change produced no beneficial effect, and the interesting sufferer must retarn to die at home. Her father and mother, with hearts full of affection, tenderly conveyed their frail charge to the Beattock station on Monday last, the 17thinat , to await the train for Edinburgh. The sufferer was carefully placed on a mattress on the platform. The train arrives, but, no empty seat in the first-class carriages is there. Look at the anxious beseeching countenance of the poor invalid, as she watched the progress of father and mother, from carriage to carriage, all full of ladies. ".Would any of these kindly vacate her seat for this dying girl, and in exchange take one in the Gia=gow section only to Carstairs station, where they mtht return to an Edinburgh one? To them the trouble would be little, but for the poor girl; the change at Carstairs might be her death ?" No. The cold shoulder—the colder heart—were turned to each application, and Ve•poor dying sufferer was placed in a G 'snow, carriage, to undergo the•painfnl change on arriving at_ the junction. But no ; the kind station master at Beattock telegraphed that the lady should , not be disturbed—that the Glaseow , carriage should proceed with her to her home. Alas! such kindness was unneeded. Before arriving at tlarseecond stage at Abington the soul had fled—the lovely. being was, It la hoped. removed to a more sympathising world_ She was dead. In, the heart of Africa, far removed from what is caliedcivilised secietr, women—poor negro, women—were found to cerainisserate the , white man's loneliness, as. he sat faint and helpless, under a tree, and chanted as they grouad.the corn a few simple words expressive of their kindly hospitable feelings. I shall never think of this act of these nude, untutored children of Africa, without recalling to mind the gorgeous dames in. cr noline at the Beattock station, who, with cold, callous hearts. looked disdainfully on a dying ! sister, and would give her no help. Haman nature turns with scorn, and conbampz from beings so selfish.—Whigeharosa Heretic,. A new system has been proposed by Mr. Carbia of Cuba, for propelling vessels by means of windmills on the decks of ships, from which the motion is to be communicated , to side wheels, similar to those of steamships. MIN ARMY AND THE Tapope FOR INDIAh—The despatch, of troops to India has lowered our home establishment of infantry of the line to fourteen battalions instead of , forty, the proper proportion for the United Kingdom.. The arrival of four regiments from the Mediterranean in the course of a few days will augment the home strength to eighteen battalions,,but on the other hand , it is. more than probable that a farther reduction will take place, ia con sequence of the despatch of more regiments to India. It is quite obvious that for some time it will benecessary to maintain a considerable European force in that country, and whatever, force is there must have a reserve of corres ponding strength at home to supply casualties. It has therefore been determined to make a considerable addition to the army iraril.diately„ which will consist at least of twenty' 'new battalions of infantry. Two of them wIL probably be formally created by appointment of the addi tional officers in to-morrow's Gazette and the remainder will be organized with, all despatch. Even with this augmentation there will be no necessity to apply to. parliament for a vote ; for, owing to the extent of the Indian reinforcements already despatched, we are now mintaining two nevelt) , and 24 infantry regiments less than those which are provided for in the estimates. Some additional grant will, however, be asked for the militia service before the rising of parliament. —Globe. ROMANCE.—There is a bit of romance, sad enough in its charac•er, connected with this announcement, which the pa ties will forgive us for relating :—Six young Scotch• men of this city, worthy men all, who had left their plighted faith and lassies behind them, when they sought contentment and fortune on our shores, , unitd for the purpose of sending for those to whom their troth was pledged. They were to, and did, come out together. Far mutual 'protection and society they took passage in the same vassel. The perilous ocean voyage was made ' without accident, and the party—a merry and happy party—arrived safely at Quebec, where they took passage on board of the Montreal. Our eeaders know and have lamented the fate that overtook that ill-fated steamer and her hundreds of passengers. When she burned, of the six trusting and generous girls, Miss Pettigrew was the only one saved. • Her five c onpanions found either fiery or watery graves. Miss P. was rescued, she knows not how or by whom. Taken up for e.rowned, the struggle between life and death was long and doubtful, but at last decided in favour of the former. The kind-hearted at Montreal learned her history, and admired her modest wortb. By them, for she had lost everything but herself, her imme diate necessities were supplied, and in a few days, with their blessings and prayers, she continued 'her journey hither. A few of the five young men, who, besides the now happy huabavd, had precious freight on that steamer, attended the 'wedding yesterday. How sad that festive gathering was--how the shadow who who h the feaful past dimmed the brightnese, of the present, , tat had n felt the deatroyeni, touch can tell ?—Chicago Tribune. ea t ' tllO I g er° li P t ° eilej t°l „ tits i 14 4 D~ f ' ,r;B!' 11 0V "j Or bo:d e 91 0 s 10 tiVelf:4 or ed, ead i c i e v . , ( ,a