Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF PRIVATE VENGEANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EvaNINO. rA. remarkable instance of the lengfh to which the doctrine of private vengeance, sanctioned as it has so often been by French juries, is likely to be carried out in Practice, has just occurred at Briey, in the department of the Aroselle• The facts remind one forcibly of the aetifosse case. In the present instance, the person who set the example of taking the law into his own hands, Was the mayor of the commune. He, however, like Madame de JeIIiOSST, acted by deputy. Instead Of an old and faithful servant, his own son, a cting under his orders, laid in wait to take a fel low - creature's life. The neme of the mayor is 0111 7 indicated by an initial in the Droit, which reports t he case as follows:—" A young man named Basset, alias Paufan, one day met Mdlle. P--, the daughter of the Mayor of Ail, walking in a wood. lie induced her to talk with him, made love to her, and succeeded in obtaining a Promise of another meeting. The interviews, innocent at first, went on till they were guilty. For three whole months the mayor's daughter secretly received Basset in her bedroom at night. 1113 habit was to get over a low Wall which separated the mayor's garden from the street, to use as a ladder the bars of the bliuds of the ground floor windows, and thus to get to the window-sill of the I °ling lady's chamber on the first floor. Neither the mayor nor his family knew anything of these clandestine meetings till two cousins, of the female sex, ferreted oat the affair, and told M. P-- of it. On the 22nd of December last, just as the family was going to bed, P— ordered his daughter to sleep on the ground floor instead of her oven bedroom. In that bedroom he placed her brother, his son—he put into his hand a loaded double-barrelled gun, and told him to shoot a man whom he would probably see getting in at the Window. The young man drew a chair towards the Window, sat down upon it, kept his guts cocked in his hand, and remainediready to execute his father's orders. At a quarter past nine o'clock he saw a man's head through the window. Basset, as usual, was at the top of the first blind, expecting to be let in. The mayor's son rose from his chair, went to the window, opened it, and fired both his barrels at Basset, who fell dead on the spot- The mayor when the deed was done sent for the gendarmerie to tell them of it, and he was lost in Astonishment when they said it was their duty to arrest him on a charge of murder. He had doubtless read M. Berryer's speech at Evreux, and drawn from the - conclusion (which, the premises being admitted, is entirely logical) that because the law excuses homicide upon the person of a man found breaking into a house in the night time, on the ground that he must be )esumed to come with the intention to rob or murder, therefore it is justifiable to lie in wait to kill a particular individual who is known to come secretly indeed, but With the sanction of one of the inmates of the dwelling, and with no felonious intention. The Mayor of Ail thought it a matter of course to avenge his daughter's easy virtue, by assassinating her favoured lover. He and his son are in prison, and must undergo the form of a trial for murder; but if modern doctrines on the veniality of assassination are to prevail, they will be acquitted with 'filing colours. NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM DISTRICT BARBING COMPANY. The Lord Chancellor has Issued an order directing that all part'es c , ncerned in the cs c of the petition for welding ue :hi u bank, just Present: d by Messrs Tucke - , Greville, and Tucker, on behalf of Mr. It ee Boerne, of eforden College. Blackheath, do attend before him on atifiay the 12th of ;anua-y. The petition ateste4 that the bank was Itarteti in :836, and the capital deed at £6',000, in 00,000 rharcs of f l O each, and had offices at Newcastle, and b - anches a. Sunderland, , taletum, Alne ick, Seuth Shields, North Sl:et:lds Berwick, Huxham %. 0 d Morpeth. That petitioner is holder of 25 shares. en which he Paid £2OO, the ful amount thereof. From 1837 to 1857, the directors convered meetings ye ley, and dividends of 6 per cent., and recently of 7 P=r cent , were declared every half year, we h a considerable sum e each octasi,n to the contingent ecccunt. Escorts were Issued by Use directors, but the inforreati n in them was scanty and meagre kite theme' condition of the comp .nv. The directors in the last L'Por tin February, 1 57, state that the business during the preced c Year had fully a• swered their evrectaulons. thlt there was a ; e t' P °fir, after ad expenses of 170,20, giving a dividend of .13 10s licit' the Ittilfe ear eeding June, and thsut they t roposed to o declare a like dividend for the December half-year; key ng a surplus of , 2 3.841. The statement with the report showed, on the debit side, ~`"St the proprietor s ' capital, paid up. amour te I to 1655,491, the 't te Peeit and credit halant es to .t 3, 79,816, and the guarantee fund to t 90 e74 ; and rn the credit side of account Ur! cash bills, notes, ebit belances. and o her scour ties, amounted to 4,152.0`5, and the ulna of the tank pr. miss* at Newcest , e end local bran: hes £21,165. Zeit!" since ihe stoPeago of the hank pe.itioner has eiscover, that `"eittded in the ./4.152,0%5 uepremented as invested on security, was !Jere' :ergs, sum advanced by the :erectors on mortgage of certain eueueral ereperties in which one or more of the ( - erectors w< re Interested Perseeaily, and which fact was wholly cone, fee i from the ollarehtldu ra It row lurther appea re d th a t in August last, when class last half-yeas's divklend was declared, the bank, to the enowledee Of the di esters. wan hepelessl ins ulvent. At a meeting of the 26th of Nevernber lost the shereholders wers for the firs time made %Ware of the alarming position of their affabs; that the assets were in juineient to meet tie dti is snd liabilities ; that not only Was the paid-ue capital of £lO per 'ha e lost, but that the liabilities would ie.:lake a further contribution of £5 per h are, welch was made in the shape of a call, but not re °Nuclei to. Teat the directors advanced considerable sums of Money to one another on inadequate security, and improvieently lovestei it in speculative transactions. The to al loss of the capital W as concealed frtm the k owledge of the sha eholders, and the li °_eertusy tepreserted in a flonriseing state. That the debts and e vAlities of the bank amount to several millions ; that the 'lilies riders are liable ; and that there is no other equitaele method of dealing with the bank and its embarrassments but under the nitille up jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery; it being understood ,at any call made by the directors is invalid, on the ground that n shares have been fully pad up, and th t therefore the directors ale ro power to make a In ther cell. Petite), r, in gni lu.ion, s'"ciers his belief that the committee appoiated to conrer with and essist the d'recans are personal friends, and under the influence of the latter. FATAL BOILER FXPLOSTON AT A COLLIERY, NEAR LEEDS. _About a quarter post sevsn o'clock. on Tu , slar morning, a boiler, att ached to the drawing engi. e at thy Hare'ills, Colliery. near Lends orm r -, f the White Horse serLs of collieries), loded with a loud ZPort, and was att. nded with most disastrous results. The White ,_o araeplis, which ore about two - Iles east o' L els give employment ;•', irge n ,rritp:.r of hands, and are wok dby the Wspirs Garside. las boiler, which is a cylindrical one, and rather old faabioned, and about thirty feet in len,filt, hod slightly exploded on Monday afternoon , and had consfquently been stopped to repairs. It was li ed again wAh water early on Toes ay meriting, so as to enable the ticine to discharge its mornlnz duty o: liftiag the n4z.lit hands out ; I t„he pit. The pine which feeds the boiler with water a a'mest a t i o nlY exposed. and char: es thereiAlf cut of a muddy ditch in th. of the pit hilt. When ngine i s of th 3 water flaws Mote, boiler, but when th • machinery is not active, the pipe does w ".‘ Sttply soy wa'e. At the time statcd, and Just when the boi er " cl ,p arged wAlt. r steam, it exploded with a loud report. A vart I n , of the plates at the bottom, melsuring about tea feet in length by two and a half feet in breadth, was torn from its bedding, 1,, -° an u like a niece oflead, and hne,ed from G re O t cast a y ard still s i " adj p oining field. Bricks and other d brie we t t i ciat a• distance. l'!e first inqu ry was in o t extent and nature of i casoalties. George Haigh, theen:inatnan, wax standing in front re-place when the accident happened, and was so severely ZWde bruistd that he was rem wed immetiately to the Leeds ir, il rin , ry, and his recovery is extremely donbtrul. Th. fd er-up —a lad med CUarl , a Crann—who was mounting the pit hill ct the time, 4 ,8 also dreadfn ly burnt by the failing water and heated bricks, , d 11,5 in the same posit'on as Haigh. Unfirtunately, however. the il, , aalties did ot end here. In irdning tho hes:, of ruhbish ort West of the boiler, the body o another man was discw - ered, half tigLied beneath the superincumbent naas, I tWas imirediately n ed a* that of Mr. Joseph Garside, a young man of about tIY ity, and i"7 of the members cf the firm owning the col'iery, who had just t r a r e l i r s ed on the pit hill. to see that ci e wtrkmen were attending to an d ' duty, when he was so suddenly killed He was much battered t , braised about the roper part ot wasoy, and had bled freely from hea j. It is supposed that he first struck by the boler th! I n', as it was turning in the air after the expl sion. a .d that then 1 1 ., debris buried him as it fell. He was immediately conveyed to . residence, at Burnaantof.s, thereto await the corsaLer's inquest. 0 tbe garden attached to Blandford Honse, the Q teen's i,, ° °ltty, residence of L. H. B!:nd, EA., M.P., may be seen the open air, a r , sa tree, with seven hie' ms fully ,' l Panded. The name of the tree is, " the Rose Geant de z atailles." It is two years old. There are also . to be sea to the same beautifully la i d out garden, a number of Verbenas, in almost summer bloom.—Leinster Express. SHOCKING INIURDEK AT OVER-DARIVEN,— Oa Sunday evening an unprovoked act of violence was committed by Mam Beswiek upon John Marsden, both of 'l l v€r Darwen, Rear Blackb urn, which resulted i n t h e d eat h of t h e victim in less than 24 hours afterwards. The deceased was a P"verloom weaver at Mr. Welnisley's, aid about 46 years °f age. B esw i c k i s a collier at the S unn y B an k Pi t . B:,th tbe men were neigbbours, living at a place called " the S a' ds," in Red Earth Mount. Fcr some time past an angry feeli ng bad subsisted between thew, owing to a die- Pote respeetteg some poultry. On Sunday evening, Mars den (the deceased) bad occasion to pass Beswick's dwelling as he was preceeding— to his own home, when his iefuriated foe rushed out armed with a poker, and dealt him a blow tPon the bead, %%Web, felled him to the ground senselesr. a'eswiek left his victim in that condition, and quietly walked hack to his own hoe". The deeeased was conveyed hon e , and Mr. Wraith, sir gen n , ca ll e d in to atteed him. The p oor f e ll ow , h owever , was ' in a dying state, and all .9Lrts to restore him were unavaili ng _ 03 Monday even- Og, at half-past five o'clock, he expired, l ea ving behind TM a wife and a large family. On Monday mor ning, after occurrence had been bruited abroad, &mid, was token : 111 0 custody by Police Sergeant a tkinsop, and brought before Mr. Shorrock, magis'rate. Ho appeared much de toted in spirit, and during the brief examination ho fainted. " I le was remanded. This deplorable affair has caused the greatest Sensation is the town and neighbourhood. THE NORTHERN TIMES.-LIVERPOOII, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1857. THE LABOUR MA.RKEr IN AUSTRALIA. Our latest aivices from Victoria, we are happy to say, stated that the plethora of labour was fa it disappea log at Melbourne. A vote of £23,030 had teen takes to Klee temporary employment to mica as might apply. The applicents numbered about 1,100. The employment given was on cuttings and emban .ments connected with the public work. already decided en, so thee the work was not absolutely made for the workman, sad the Government very wisely fixed the rate of w ,ges lower end the hours of working rather longer than under private employers. In the meantime, the gitat influx of people hy sea has fallen off, and at last the departures exceeeed the arrivals. The arrirala this year, up to the 9th of October, amounted to $8 691 people of all egos, the depiirterea during the a me period to 15,116, making the net increase 33,575. A competent authority estimates the storage capacity of the country to tibeerb population as equal to about :36,000 to 40.030 souls par annum—that is, pro; ided they are fit for the colony. Many, however, (continued to come out for wheel) labour there was no demand. All of this class cannot be too strongly catitiened to abandon such a coarse, which can only result In teen and des itation to themselves and vest jury to the colony. Toe Government system of remittances, by which eersons in this colony could procure the immigration of their friends end workpeople into the colony, en condition r f the payment of p irt of the parsaga money, has worked very well, and must niscesearily bear direct relation to the requirements of the colony. A return of its working since the establi -hment of the remittances' regulations on the let of August, 1858, shows teat assisted immigration for the five months from August to December that year had the f _Slowing result : —From England lei 66; statute adults ; amouu pate 46,006 Is. ; from Ireland, 1,916 persons; amount paid, 46,150 183.; fr.en ecetland, 363 e pare .ns ; amount paid, £2,012 Bs. in tee six mouths from January to Jane, 1867, tee num. - .ere wero—from Etiglend, 1,638 persons ; amount paid, 19,452 10,.; from Ireland, 1 8451 ; amount paid, £8.797 16s. Bd. ; from scotl .nd, 545 e ; amount paid, £3,074 10s. 61—Australian and New Zealand Gazette. LYNCH LAW. About two weeks ago the Sacramento Bee stated that an aged man, of Spanish blood, hat been blacked on Puaa Creek, on a charge of having stolen a horse from Mr. Wolfekill, of which charge it was afterwards shown that he was Innocent. The Eco del Pacifico con tains a letter in regard to the circumstances of t' is lynching. We translate as follows:—" While the unfortunate but honest old man was on a visit in Contra Cos•e, some one stole a saddle trom his horse on the Vaca Ranch. in the Puts Valley. When he returned be heard of the theft, and vas told that his saddle was at Note:kill's, and he went to claim it. He recognised the saddle, but Wolfskill began to question him, and told him he must go before a judge. To this the old man consented at once. A party of aboUt 20 erten, irciuding Wolfskill, surrounded him as if he had been a criminal, and started with him. One by one the pa ty i!r ppe I off, until only fear remained. Wolfikill being in command. When th-y arrived at a desert place, Wolfskill and his friends spoke together in a low voice, and, surrourding the old man, so that he should not escape, they left the road leading to the judge's, and started toward a place in the mountain, where there is a thick wood. The old man broke away from his keepers, and attempted to mane. Ile rode 12 and his pursners after him, to Vacaville, where the judge lives. Arrived here. the old man inquired of an Ame:ic tn lady, ' Who is the judge? Where doss he live ?' Whilst he was trying, in mixed En ;lish and Swinish, to make himself understood. his perse cutors came upon him and began to beat him. They tore him by force from the arms .f the merailul woman, who bravely stepped between the old man and a drawn pistol aired at him, and cried out that they should not murder him The, captors ordered the oid man to go with them. tee vital out for the protection of the law. He asked several times, in a load voice, Who is the judge?' Who speak,: Fp milsh ?" Who is a Christian ?' Mons than 41 Americans witna , sed thin scene, and not one raised his voice. Wolfakill and his party d , ore their prisoner to the plate where h had e,caped, ani there he was hanged upon a tree and almost killed. This is not the first outrage that has hap, erred in that vicinity."—New York Tribune. THE BURNING OF THE SARAH SANDS, A letter from Captain J. S Castle, the commander of the Sarah Sands, screw transport eter.rnet, has been received by Messre.Welton, the ehipeaers, of tiracechurch-strut, relative to the partial destruc tion of the ahlp by fire, land the marvellous escape of the troops and crew. the letter repeats the principal facts c,nt;ined in the ewe meat of the occurrence punlishoi yesterday. With regard to the efforts bf the troops and the crew, the captain says :—•• No person can de,cribe the manner in which the men worked to keep the fire back; one party wore below Kevin the butklie,d co 1, seoeral men of which were drag:;ed up sonso:ess, ani fresh volunteers tool their places, bat were soon io the same :Aare.' Tie T,mes, in a leadna crticle, beta's witness to the coolness and seamanship of Captain Castle, during the catastrophe. In a leading article it says : The burning of the Sarah:Saads transport, although an unfortn rate event, is yet such a misfortune as in itself would form somewhat of an epoch in the navel annals of any other nation. It is wail-nigh a singular instance of a fiee at sea actually above deck being ex tinguished. This unaccustomed result appears to have been brought about by the strict preservation of disc plane, and in some measure perhaps, by the mere number of the persons whose services were available at the time the catastrophe occurred. he Sarah Sands Was all iron ship of about 2,000 tons burden, which left Portsmouth for Calcutta in the middle o August. She had on board a portion of the 54th Regiment, upwards cf 300 rank and file, sod her voyage appears to have been prosperous until she had reached a point about 400 miles from the Mauritius. It this paint, on the I Ith of Nov., abon tree o'clock, p.m., it was discovered that the ship was on ftre, or, more properly speasing, the cargo in the after hold, cenlstiog stalely of government stores. male after bale was hauled up but in vain. Noth ing but black smoke issued forth, and all et - Farts to get at the seat of the fire were useless. All sail was taken in, and the ship was brought before the wind lengths of hose wore fitted on to the fire engine, and, in fact, every precaution was taken which seemed likely to be productive of any effect. When the first apprehension arising from the tact of the conflagration had subsided another and a still more pressing tear fell open the minds of all. How about the ammunition,—how about the powder in the magazines? In a short while the seldiere un ter Colonel Moff att's directions, succeeded in clearing out the starboard magazine. That store of powder, how ever, which lay in the port magazine could not, seemingly, be reached. The cry was volunteers, and volunteers instantly came forward, who, despite of the smoke and the flames, succeeded in elairiag out the contents of the magazine, save two barrels. There was no help for it, the brunt of the explosion was a thing to b 3 rust Med. Most of the men who had been let dswn were drawn up senseless, so, clearly, nothing more was to be. done in that dire - t ea. Now, there was a heavy gale blowing at the time, at d the flames were pitying about the deck. It became neces sary to lower the boats, and, strange te say, for ones in the cast of a conflagration at sea the boats wee lowered in safety. The women and children were securely stowed away, and then the boats were pulled beyond the reach cf danger, to await the event. Besides th s, rafts were made of spare saara ; two were conslauctel and set afloat, which would have sufficed to save the best portion of the crew and passengers. A third was left across the deck, to be lowered at a moment's notice. It was remarked that " the boats were lowered without the least accident ; the troops were mustered on deck ; there was no rush to the boats, and the men obeyed the word of command with as much order as on parade." About nine o'clock tee flames burst through the upper deck and set fire to the mizen rigging ; had the ship not bees brought to the wind its instant destruction would have been inevitable. At this moment, when the at ention of every one on board was directed to the ship's position, which was such that had she paid off the fire must have instantly en veloped her, a fearful explosion was heard. This was, of course, due to the igniVon of the one or two barrels of powder which boos left in the p 're magazine. The port quarter ‘7.:6 blows cu', and the ship was soon a mats of flames from the main 'Ting to the stern. The sot hers and crew were at this time collecte 1 on the low rd part of the ship, a - d the one thing ich sated hem Lem des n.ction, was that t e after bulkhead whhstood the action of the fl x :tea. All ed'orta were cirected te Leeeing this cool, and to checking the action of tee flames upon the raging. The soldiers caunteered, party by party, for the work, and their efforts were tttez.deti with a c mein SaCCOS3. Thro ph nt the early sight this state of things centinuee, and until two the next m:reing. At that time, when the fire hat been raging for we 11 nigh twesty-fsur hour it began to sho is the first symptom of abatement. The flames were gradually mesterei, and by uaylight next morning the fire was exti ignalied; but what a week was there ! So high had the flames mounted, that some of the yards had been destroyed. 'f he after part of the ship was gutted and burnt out—nothing but a shed r. mained. The first point was to get the women and children in the boats on board again, aed next the boats them selves. This could not thee be done, although the danger of the fire was over. Another danger remained ( quell , appalling, but upon which they had not counted while the flames were in progress. Tho gale still prevailed. The vessel was rolling and pitching, and ship ping seas heavily at the place where the pert quarter had teen blown out. She had 15 feet of water in the hold. The fear was lest the stern should fall out altogether, and so the ship founder. To prevent this ca'astrophe two haw,ers were got in under the ehl e 's bottom , and made taut. Spare sails and blankets were got over the (s e eming at the quarter, and the leak wis partially atopyed. We are now speaking of the pc- iod between 2 e. m. and 2 p. m. on the 12th November last—that is to say, cf the 12 hours' battle with water, as there had boon a 12 hours' battle with fire for the 12 preceding hours. To add to the difficulties of their situation, the water tanks in the hold had got ioose, and as they were dished about, threatened fresh dancer t 3 the ship. About two in the afternoon of the 12th the beats, with the women, children, &e , were picked up. No casualty had happened. The gig only had been swamp ,d, but all the hands were rescue 1. From teo pm. on the 12th November until the evening of the 13th, although the sharpest stress ; f the fight had subsided, the reople en board the Sarah Sands were still struggling for life. Then it iv..s far the first time that the fury of the waves eomewhgt abated; steerage way was got upon the ship, and the stern was secttred. Sail was set, and in tight days the Sarah Sands reached the Mauritius, without the loss of any one on board throughout these trying circum ttaltes. The salvation of the ship was undoubte.ily due to the professional skill and capa:ity of the commander, Captain Castie, and then to the high discipline and courage of the troops on bosa. The eto- y is a counterpart, although a far happier one, to that of the kenhead. TERRIBLE DEATH. A vary di7.tressing accide .t occurred at ono of the coal pits near Hartford, Scotland. on the night of :Saturday last, by which a girl ettn.ed 31 , ,rgaret Nisbet lost her lift. The girl, who wrs shout 16 years' of age. tad gone with some fond for her father, to what is name i the Baltic, a pit near to the Ce snook Water, and where eho found him, siong with the the other men. Todd told the girl thet as it would be a considerable time ere h• would take his supper she need not wait, an 1 he would bring Lyme the entity dishes himself. This was about seven o'clock in the evening. The light was burning at the mouth of Vie shaft in the usual way, and in its usual position. The girl turned to go home, bat to whatever cause the deception wee owing, she seems to have mis pprehendei her position rsi'a ive to :he orifice of the shank, a d steeped into it. A cry wee heard, the rope moved as if struck at intervals—tkore was a heavy sound, and all was quiet. it was the work of a moment. 1113 gin's father sprang to tfais rope, and had he not been preven , ed his or. n life woo d have been lost in a vain endeavour to save that of his daughter. As the position of the girl at tee bottom was unknown, it was judged most prude. t not to put the machinery in mo:iou to rose the caze, but one of the colliers was let down by what is technically called the crab, and he found her lying quite dead. Sire had fallen with her face downward on the bar of tie cage and the weight of her body being nearly eq tally ba'anced, she was literally broken over this her, au I doubled up into the cage. 'I he pit is about 300 feet in depth. NEW ACT ON DULWICH COLLEGE. To-day (Thureclay), the 31 t in'tant, the new scheme or the Ch^rPy Commissioners for the m.magetnent of Dutwin College will take effe,t uitcler an act pa,sed in ong . :sE last. Tee incorporation which has so long foisted is ti be di solved on that day, and the various offices abolshel, and from the dissolution a new stete of things is to aflse. Tee new schema give the name of " Atievn's College of G d's e.ifr at Dulwich." The / rchbishop of Canterbury is to continue visitor. 'I here are nineteen new governors, eight of whom have been elected by the parishes of t. Bet Iph, Bishopsgate ; St. Sadnir, Southwark ; sr. L ,Ice, Middlesex ; and St. Giles, Camber well; and the remaining or "n n-electd " Governors to be appointed by the Court of Chancery, one of whom is to reside at 1' ulwich, and to be caled "The Dulwich Governor." The property is to rest in the governors, and the al owances to e mad, from this day, the 3 lst instant, are as follows :—To the master, 1,0151; to the warder, 8511; to the first and second fellow, cacti 5001; to the third and fourth fellow, 4 :6/ , and to each the p, o: bre hren and sisters, 15,:i/ ea h; the sums are to be paid half-yearly. The scheme provides for school , , the appointment of officers, the relief of poor brethren and sisters, the a poiltment of a, insoeeele, and the nieservati(n and m.nagement of the pop ty. frorision i 3 made for Divine service, and other matters, to make available, through the institution, " A God's Gift " of charity at Lulwich. BRUTAL ASSAULT BY A SOLDIER. At the Mansion-house, on Saturday, :e'en Pinge, a soldier belonging to the Grenadier Guards, quartered in the Tower, and who wore a Crimean medal, was charged with assaulting a porter name I George Gammer, a man of dimintal e a atu• e. The prosecutor deposed that on Thursday night he was walking along Lower Thames-street, when he met the prisoner, who, without a word of previous warning, cletched him round the , -houlders with one arm, while with the hand of the other he struck him a violent blow on the head, and then let him go. Complainant demanded t' - )e reason of such treatment, when several people who had bean following the prloeer said. that was nothing to the way in which the soldier had served several other people, and that he ought to be locked up. Complainant said, as that was the case, he would 'ock him up, upon hearing which the prisoner ran off as well as he cored toward: the Tower, but as ha was not very sober, complainant was able to keep pace with him, and follow , d to the Tower ga o. lihe prisoner, however, instead of going on, turned beck, and dodged his pursuer through some back street, into Thames-street again, without complair ant being able to meat with a policeman. The pri , oner c'osed upon him just before $74 officer came up, and hit him a tremendous blow in his left eye, which. in coirsequ , nee, was frightfully contused and bleolshot. Prisons:: He first insulted me by calling me a lobster. Lord Mayor : l'hat is all nonsense. It is not at all likely that a little man like that weuld d ro to in nit such a powerful man as you are. Pri onor : Oh ! my lord ; people often insult soldiers, and they think they have a right to do it. Lord Mayo:: Oh, I don't believe th.t. No true Briton would insult a British .o:die e Prisoner: Not if they had common sense, but I assure you they °len do so. The prisoner's sergeant, who was in court, said the p-ie mer had belonged to the battalion for tkree and a half you-T, and hid always borne a goad character for sobriety. Prisoner: Yes, I never get drunk, although I was a little in liquor last right. Lore Mayor : Well, it is a most brutal a,sault, and I shell tins you 40,4 If you pay it the prosecutor shall hive h,lf the money, and if not you must go to prison for 21 chys. TEE WA' ERLOO-BRID3E MURDER. A PRETENDED CONFESSION. Daring Sunday, at C,l,liester, soms sensation was carped i the town by a rumour that a soldier at the camp had confasard to having been concerned in mar,"ta ing the man whose mangled remains wow recehly fout)d on one of the piers of Waterloo—bridge. It appears that a deserter from the 66th Regiment, name t Ito ~as Pedlar, was brought back to the camp on Saturday evening, and whilst in the guard-room attempted to commit suicide by strangling himself with his nec-rerchief. He afterwards dropped some hint , about having committed some crime. which he cared more about than desertion ; at last said ho, with two others, murdered a man in London, and after he had been cut u ,'and pat into a carpet i.ag a woman took it away and threw it over Waterloo bridge. Ia reply to the sergeant who had charge of h.m ho aid Ihi man we.. not a foreigne - , but a farmer, and had £6O abo.:r him. He added that he did not commit the murder, but wan in the house at the tone, and hail part of the money. The circtunvancewAsclunnunr.e.ated to the Buronsh police, and tr ,. nperintenclar t Dann had an interview with the prisoner, when he said it was all humbeg, and knew no more about the murder than he had read in the papers. The prisoner wag brought up to—day at the Boronga Bench, when he made a similar retrrc atioo. He is a poor idiotic-looki, g fellow, and by no means likely, Judging f om physical characteristics, to have played a part in so nnblile and sanguinary a transaction. He k t tint he comes from Brist,l, but will not tell whether he has sing friends, or whom ho was employed by in that town. The Mayor (wee is a physician) expressed his belief that the men's mind was ) ermg , al. He also a pe, , scd to wish to each nge military for civil cu - toly, ac by call he wonld rather go to gaol than be sent back to the camp. Ni chance whatever was place i on his statement as to the murder, and he was handed bark to i the mil tary authorities: EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A BIRMINGHAM LADY. A Birmingham lady has recently bean the heroine of a very stranee romance. A few weeks ago a very respectele clergyman of this town visited the metropolis, and took with him his young deaLhter. On their arrival at Euston-square, it is said, the young lady suddenly lost her father, and was alone, unknown, and unknowing, in Loud n streets without a sleeting. She wandered about till she reac' - .ed Oxford-sheet, and among the thous nds that thronged aeeend not one familiar face met her gaze. At last, losing all sdlf centre], the r eor ciri buret into tears, and was weeping hitterly, whena young clerical looking gentleman accosted her, and inquired the cause of her die ress. Her touching tale was soon told ; she Ilse just arr,ved from Birmingham, had lost her father, and was without protector, money, or friends. The clerical gentleman prveued his inquiries, arm eventually advised the :ady to return to Birmingham, and generously giving her a couple of sovereigns and his card, he called a c ab, and erdered the man to drive to Easton squire station. Therelieved and ' the reliever then ventured oe their different jour-lea, the yineg gentleman protesting teat ha would have accem„anied the young lady to Birmingham had not urgent business, demanded his epeedy return to Bristol. The gentleman, on reacl.ing Bristol, made known to his friends the adventure in which he had played so genrrous a part, but became the victim of cruel sneer.; and sarcastic wit, as having been juggled by a " crying girl." Only a few days since, however, the young man was ousebled to laugh as hearty at his friends as trey had laughed at him, foe he `eeraed teat the crying girl's" story was tree, and that having found her father, the latter WAS bountifully grateful to his generous unknown friend, who had, he said, "done his daughter the most disinterested act of kindness he hai ever met with in the course Of a long life " therefore, the laugh was clearly in flavour of the young e•ergyman of Bristol ; end if, as we are informed it h, this story be true, the generous young man will Lug have cause to rejoice at the I willing ear with which he listened to the forlorn glrra Story of " her wher."—Birrningharn P tea, A KIDDERMINSTER ECCENTRIC, A cotemporary publishes the following from a correspondent at Woree ter:— " l'owarclA the close of the last century there lived in Kiddermin ster an eccentric person t.f t. e zime of Orton (not , hit Orton the friend of Doddri 'ge, wile paved some time in the town, bet 'Job Orton,' the landlord of the Bell Inn) During his lifetime lie erected his tomb in the parish churchyard, with this memento moil inscription graven in large cnarac - ers on the upper slab : • Job Orton, a man from Leiceaternhire, And when lie's dent' he must lie untie,. here.' This inscripAon remains unaltered to this day, : nd may be seen on the ri.tht hard of the broad walk on the north side of the spaolons churchyard. lLe c iffla was constrec . cd at the same time, and until it show d be required for ot .- _er and p,-rsonal purposes, was used as a wine bin. lint, to carry b's eccor Welty even to the grave, he left strilt orders that he should be buried in an ere. - ,t po dere ; and ' t kof curse) says that his request was complied with. His reason for his erect p)sti'e in the tomb was that at the last day he might be able to rise from his grave btfore his wife, who was be iod is the usual horizontal manner! Job o , ton appears to have 11,c1 vircahar talent for the cotapo Dion of epi , aphs ; as, in his more pl :yful moments, he w s accustorn,d. to tell h.s better half that if ho cutlived her lie should put the following hues on her tombstone Esther Orton —a b:tter, sour weed ; Gel never loved liar, nor increased her seed.' He seems, however, to have spared her this gratuitous insult. As a further Ulu,: tration of the characters of singular counl3, the folio sing anecdote is told Esther Orton having fre iueutly declared that she should ' never die happy until she had rolled in :kilos,' Job, lake a go d husband, detrinined to secure his wife's happiness. Da,,,ne* soli some land :or a thousand peones, he insisted that t,e, money shou'd be paid wholly in guineas. Taking these home in a bag he locked his wife up in a room. knocked her d,wn, opened his bag of guineas, and raining the gialen wealth upon. • her, rolled his Dame over and over in the coin. And w, Esther,' said Job Orton, ' thee rnay'st (ids as soda as thee. pleased, for thee'st had thy IA ish, and rolled in riches.'" SH.A.RP PRACTICE. In the coarse of the post wank a t-legranWe ram,aze was received by the p Ilice at Newcastle, renturing them to be ready to receive a lady then tOvelling northward, who was charred with plying the art of a card-sharper in the neighbourhood of London. The needs s:ry steps were taken and the lady arrived as expec , ed. She sub mitted with good grace to be taken into custody, and after she had an - eared at the police °lien. she was being escorted beck to the railway station by a police officer with whom she entered famil arly int i aonv:rsation. By this means the man of the law seems to have been put oil his guard and to have taller into the snares of his cunning aptive. She told him that she had been travelling for a considerable time, during which sha had no food, and as she was likely to be further detsi el on her journey,she begged to to alloyed to go in'io a tavern and there havcs some refreslia%nt. This he assented to. ho acompanying her of course. While she drank to her taste, she a•k e I her companion to have at her expense a glass of brandy. rhis ha accepted. She next pr. seated him with a cigar. The result of al these kindnesses was toat Csi, police officer was soon fast asleep in the lady's ounpany. When he awoke he found that his prisoner was gone. And not only gone, bat during his Eileen she had roobed him of a gold watch and £3 of mono;. So dexterous a trick richly merits success, and if he be ag tin taken she must resort to some new expeiteut for effectin; an ea.tape.—Kelso LECTURE AGAINST DEBT. Sir Willem Don, B irt., the comodian, who was arrestel for debt. at Briato', a few weoks ago, was, a ter a weo.'s incarte. - atton in prison, liberated on hail, having, by the adult 4 et his f Lands, petitioned the Insolvency C itt t, in order to protect himself in future irorn his " duunin,4" creditors. His arrest having excited the sympathy of th 3 pLygoers of Brisiol, they gave him a complmentary benefit at the Th.mi re Royal, In that city, and, during the evening, the eccentric baronet, after exo . es,lng his acknowledgments, gave the following bit e 7 excellent advice to " fast" your g gontlemen :—" Before con cluding, I wish to give a bit of advice to the fast young gentlemen present, and lam sure there era too man. bide e me. (Laughter.) Dear young gentlemen, there is nothing on the face of the earth that is such a demon as Dtbt. It has been my misfortune to be acquainted with h.no all my life. I have been in debt from the age of tairteen. (4k laugh.) Mind, lam not speaking in joke. I mike no beast of it. Be ieve me, it is aye y serious miter. I hope, however, now, that I shat•l soon bid a long adieu to debt for ever. (Cheers.) If yon can't afford to keep a horse, and want to go fast, takes s3coud. class ticket and go 'to l'ath.' (Laughter.) Keep out of debt, The Man who carries reedy money in his hand, whether it is to buy his opera glass or his lag of mutton, or an:ithi ., g else, is the happiest man. Dear young gentlemen, take this long monumental warning before you. (Laughter, and immense applause.) And now let me sum up with the adv•ce and nymorable words of the great Mic,awDer : Income £2l, expenditure E2O Is; total, misery. Income 420, expenditure 419 193 llid; total, happiness. Believe me t I eat serious." AECIIITECTU.kIAL AND A.RCHIXOLOGICAL SOCIETY. WEST DERBY BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The usual fortnightly :meeting of tide Society was held in the Royal inttittition, at halt."-past,, seven o'clock Wet night. Mr. S. Hug,eins presided. The first bustles; on the Het wss a notice riven by Mr. Piston, a motion to the effect that the regular paper of each night sbouid n be postponed under kny circumstance, beyond hal-past eight o'clock. :'.7r Bonit drew attention to the faet Chit the notice was not in accordance with the Mies of the .ociety, which required seen days' notice, by circular.. of any motion ,hich to s it e: er , "'sting regulatdoo. The chat, man deckled in favour of the objection, and it was therefore agreed that the motion should be postponed until the ne't night of meeting. and that regular notice, in accordance with therms', should he given. Toe following donations were rtorion, , ced :—Lithogranlrs of Pe Episcopal Chapel. Wig. n Cemete-y ; Roman Cathidie C - or.-1, Wigan Cemetery; Di,senters' Bpi Cem 'tery ;anti of the Lodge., Wigan Cemetery. from Mr. T. D. Barry, crchheet ; and Vol 3, Nos. 51 and 53. of the Building News. 'lhre ,ociety's prz, for suneeis in the como.titii-m in at et-ling wis awarded to Mr. John Pepper, and presented to that gentleman by tae chairman. A letter w,us received from the Master-builders' I ssoci of n, stating that it was the irrention of thot hody. to invite the members of the n.c`titecturai pro!exsiok to a meeting to be held at the Cl ren,hon rooms oa the 6:h of January, for the purpose of considering'how the strikes of workmen might be ::voided, mad reqtte,ting that the society would cal; att ntion to the fact. A short conversation rook pace 117 - m the subject, ie the eenree of which the Secretary remar-ed that that sot sty should not. while giving publicity to the letter, be usideretoed to Lientify itself eitl - .er with coasters or workmai, . Yesterday at half past eleven o'clock this Board held its usual weekly meeting. Mr. EdwArds in the chair. The other guardians present were Messrs. Roberts, Ledger, TAylor, Lunt Shaw. Pitts, Abraham, Stone, Roscoe Mawdesley, Almond Sago. Birch. Medcalf, and Parr. The following cheques were granted for out-door relief. Mr. Potts, £130; Mr. Olney, £32; Mr-Lythgoe, £23 The nnmlners reported in the Workhouse last week werr , 716 ; admitted since 29; discharged 15 ; Die 1 Nnmb , r this week 729, of whom 430 belonged to Toxteth Perk Union. Num'.;er for `the corresponding w:ek last year 695. The tnutine business having been gone through, Mr. Cleaver asked the Board if thny were ready to con sider the p-npriety of retaining the serrice or The as , istant relieving-officer. Mr. Brslinan. There had been several charges of neglect of duty brought against hint, and last week there was two other serious charges of inattention to duty. After FOlllO conversation on this matter, Mr. Bushman was called in, who stated that it was want of time that obliged him to omit the duties spokea of, a which were some cases of out-door relief that had been unattended to. Snme conversation al , o took place upon the natze and cancel o' dry-rot In timber. The Poor Law Board had not yet ratifi , gl the apnoint ment of Mr. Brahman, atd it was, after some fUrther consideration of this subject, agreed that the clerk should write to the Po )r Law Board, and ask them to suspend their official appointment for a short time. Mr. Cleaver said the next matter that came before the meeting was the Doctor's fee f.nr lunacy cases. . It was then moved, and unanimously aered to by the Board, that the resolution passed on the 14th November, 1853, allowing a fee of 10t. 6i. to be paid to Dr. Nevins in all cases of lunacy, or reputed lunacy, sent to the work house, be rescinded ; and also, that in all cases of reputed lunacy sent to the workhouse for safe custody, under the certificate of any district medical officer, the medical offiler signing such cerificate be respecdolly requested to accompany such lunatics to the magistrates before whom they may be taken for admission to the asylum ; and that the master of the wo►khouse do give the necessary information to such medical officer. Mr. Roberts, in accordance with a notice of motion, moved that the resolution appointing the (Moen' Corn. mittee be rescinded, and that all charges or complaints be brought before the Board. ani that during the investiga tion f such cases the absence of the reporters should be requested. Mr. Roberts s:id, it was no through any 6srespect to the gentlemen cocaposng this commitee that he trade that mction, nor did he know of any complaints that were ever made, in reference to the discharge of their duties, bu% he thought it was more judicious to have all matters brought before the Board. ANONYMOUS CRITTC3. Mr. Pieton begged leave to draw attention to ri subject rhich he stated he approached with reluctance, and almost with pain. One main benefit wilt!' he conceived to be derived from that society was in the feet of the free and open conversations which usnal:y Preceded the more eiaboratepapers read each evening. ale was afraid that in that respect they had seen their best days. He found that they had got among them a " Tniaking Mae." who from time to time published his thoughts on various subjects connected with that society. It misht at first seem a harmless thing that a wtiter should thus crack his jokes and amuse himself at the expense of the sec ety.. But he wanted the " Thinking Man" to th nk a lisle more, and tak3 a few hints, if they were wordy of being taken, which he (Mr. Pi ton) should endeavour to explain He pointed out that the result to the society must be injurious if a gentleman, not satisfied with having an oppor unity of advocating his own op nions and replying to others in that loom, was to have another bit at his antagonists in anoth r way, was to step into the darkness, and from thence to launch his arrows—if he was to tale such an opportunity of pufflag himself and his own statements at the expense of ethers, of making invi lions comparisons between this gentleman and tint, and all under the cloak of an anonymous communtcation. As one effect of such a souse, he dweit upon the fact that a censorship of such a kind must tend to ke le the young• r members of the society from getting up to exereas as opinion at all. The ten dency must be to chill and keep down 70.3 , ex,ression of opkion from young and latent talent and in this rasp ct coald n,,t hut have a prejudicial effect upon tee usefoli.ess of the society. He thought, if the gentleman who wrote in the papers, and who, probab'y, we.; a good-hearted indisidual, although coda nly inclined to ridicule, would serinnly consider the thing in that light, he would are how very undesirable it was that such a course s ould be continued. Mr. Platen read portions of the Liters to which he alluded, and painted out some misrepresentatons of remarks made by hi n at the List meeting, and concluded his remarks amid loud applause. Mr. Hay expresse 1 has coniorri-nce in the remarks of Mr. Plefou, and complained also of misrepresentati n cf his observations upon the same ocos sten. Mr Boult thought the subject a little irrelevant to the business of the society. which he thought would not do well 'o enter Into a cont st with an anonymous writer. He had not the slighiest 'dot who the writer was, but if, as ~ piets ;red to be the case, Mr. Pict n had some conjecture on that point, he would suggest that a private hint to the writer would probably be more efficacious than the discussion of the question there. For himse lf, Mr Boult remarked that if ha had any means of c ommunicatin g w it h the writer, he would suggest that he shou l d ab s ta in from p e r s onal remarks. t C h r o it g ci : : t m e‘. m tr ig em ht , l b y e da v n er g y eso b u n s inefibut wha , . he objected t o , and letters of the writer stinted to, end of " Eye-E , r," was a 'endency to degenerate, as all such writers had, into mere personalities. 'f the writers would confine them elve s to legitimat s criticisms of facts and cpiubns. they might d) a great deal of goon, lfrb.ePelaeut h r e e hefe:aPcrioeamiiil'sQludacihtnhewad that his i inslss own cc •onnt, but bec ause o f th e ‘ject in alludiog to the subj ec t was tendencyno would have to injure the society. The subject was then elloned to drop. The paper for the event .:g was eat tied, "A shower of Tarthian Arrows discharged against the error of the great cemnetition," by Mr. W. H. Leeds. The paper, nhich was aced by Mr. Iluziens admi iist red some severe hits to the recent system adopted in the competition for price clielena of the Geyer. mcnt Ofilzes ha Lontkri. Some conversatim arose on the subject, and the thanks of the society were awarded to the wrier. This concluded the business of ths evening. Mr. Ledger Feconcled the resolution. Ile thought that the Ofa,!ers' Committ , e were pleasing nobody, and he also thought that the Board ettild do all the coarnillee was able to do. No harm could ba done, if all the letters we'e read before the B-)ard, if the reporters were to withdraw. Mr. Taylor said, he would move that the reporters be allowed there on all occasions. This would make the guardians more cautious in what :hey said. Mr. Taylor's motion was met widt cries of " No, no " After a len,:ythened eilcucsion of this sul t ject, in which four cr fire gintleman could he heard aneak'ng at a time, Mr. Roberts' moion was put to the Board, and carried. This concluded the business. THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND MULCTED IN £2.ooo.—We understand that an action of damages f r defamation was recently raised in the C urt of Session by the Rev. Mr. Me,elte•ller, of the established church of Clyne, against his Grace the Duke of Sutherland, the damages claimed being £2,000,. and that a decree for that sum has 'been obtained, his Grace having failed to enter appearance. The ground of the action is said to Ise founded on a letter written by one 'of the Duke's agents containing defamatory state• men's tag arding Mr. Mackeller.—Northern rnsign HALIFAX CORPORATL , N.—At a sp• c'al general meeting of the cannel!, on Moudey evening, it was ordered that the corporate sel of the borough he affixed to a petition to the house of commons for a bill to cnafi.m the gift of the People's Park, by F. Crossley, Esq., M.P., and to authorise the corporation to maintain and regulate it, as well es to provide public baths therein ; and to give power fur making a cemetery. extending the gasworks ant water works, and effecting further improvements in the horoueh. Molt r the authority greeted th m by the act of 1853, the town council have &vasty borrowed £72,400 ; and it is now proeosed to ibtain power for borrowing £152,500 mers,—Ze,ooo neon the waterworks, £63 000 upon the gasworks, £7,500 for baths and wash-houses, £lO,OOO for a town hall, and £25,000 for sewerage. Stems-Beam —The annual returns made by the savings -banks in the eat les counties exhibit generally satisfac'ory results, and show either that the benefits of such ies'itutiona are more apprecietel by those for whom they were intended, or that the eon Ili to oF the workine classes has enabled them to gradually extend their di:Resits In the Cambridge Mints 503 new 2c:taunts hive hens opened during the year cuing Nov. 20, and o nly 341 have been withdrawn. In the Sleaford Bask the depo received have been £9,418 66 101, while the sums paid to dip eitors, including in'ereit, have a - n .0 tied to £8,41 1 14s 31. At Boston there has been an increase of 1,082 depositors during the last ten years, and of £6 209 2s 1 d in the amount deposited. At Lotith durinc the past year 299 new depositors hare onenel ace aunts, £11,116 18s 11d has bsen deposited, an't .£9,817 51 31 withdrawn. A RtcHMOND DINNER Test E HUNDRED YEARS Acct.— We find, in the Lansdowne Manuscriets, that about Christ mas, 1509. certain officials of the court of King Henry VIII. dined together at the village of Snene ('tow called Rich mond). and that at th cod of the entertainment me host of the Star and Garter, with many seletiaions, handed to them the following bill S—For brede, 121; ale, 3a. 4d. ; %Type, 101 ; two leynes motor', S.i ; m iribenes, 6d ; poet dred beef, 51; two (moons. 2s ; two gee'e, 141; five convey, 151 ; one legee moton, 5 b %night, 4d ; s'ae plovers, 18d ; six pegiens, 50 ; two dozea larke , , 12 I ; salt and sauce, 6cl; bWer and eggs, 101 ; wardens and quysces, 121; herbes, / 1; spices, 2:s 4 1 ; floure, 41; whisht cunpes and cruses, 61; which, summed up, gives exactly £1 sterling as the total expenses of this alderrnanic feast. Many• a party, gentle and <imele, has since that time dined at the " Star and Garter," but none ever go so many substantial things for their twenty shillings as the subjects of young King Hairy The Statesman DxATif (F w Marilee —On Monday afternoon last Mr. William Peync, coroner for the city of London, held an invest ta t Bethlem Hospital on Mr. Hugh Pollard Wil loughby, aged 56. The unfortunate gentleman was connected with the family of SrH. P. Willoughby, and became an inmate in the ebove heisnital under these singular circumstances. In the year 1854, in the course of a trial at the Old Bailey, the &ceased psrsistsd in inter rupting Mr. Giffsril, who was addressing the Court, and he was ordered into custody, but ultimately liberated. The deceased Afterwards attempted to shoat the same learnbd gentleman (ilr. Giffird), for which he was tried and acquitted on the ground of insanity. Mr. Willoughby was aceereingly removed to Bethlem Hosoita', where he has remained up to the time of his death. The unfortunate gentleman has received the utmost attention while in c mfinement, but notwithstanding his health gave way, and he grade illy sink, and died some few days back, The jury returned a verdict of Natural death." A NZw ITEM IN THE SCHoOLNIA.STEIt's BlLL.—There ie a rise iu the tone of society on the subject of religion ; people talk more about it. and, we have no chubt, think more about it, and feel m're about it, and many people who do not think very much about it for them selves think a great deal about it for their children. Well, then, religion and earnestness and conscientious ness being in fashion, there rises up this new and iraproved class of schoolmasters, who partly reflect and partly meet the wants of the dm Thay start an improved plan, give a moral tone" to education, and invite parents to commit their chillies into their hands upon the ground of the tender, anxious, and zealous care which wi'l be bestowed upon their morals end religion. They are earnest. sincere men, we have no doubt, and they take atl the more lively interest in education on account of. An adjourned meeting was held on Tuesday morning in the its growing alliarce with religion; at the same time, in messroono of the officers of the Royal Artillery, Woolwich, at tho request of the Commandant of the Garrison, and was attended by what may be called their mercantile capacity, simply as officerslieaaijios,,-Geeheneiorati,tglnisvenignaglitaotrnia Major-General S'r W. F. Williams, colonel Brawn, R.M., Colonel men conducting a seeculation, they are keenly alive to the Brockman, East Kent Militia, Colonel Bowles, Oxford Militia, Major importance which the society attaches to this qu ilisy in iteheols, and they charge for it according to its degree of the chair, by stainer that he had req rt n Bh : e s l ascedimportance in the minis of parents rather than according ts e he ß an o vn y a al orn.on Mi itary Train, and upwards of 109 to the actual addition of trouble and attention which it to discuss the advantages to he derived from the establishment of will imnose • them. We mean no reflection, hat this I d en tl object ß ioronf attendance thed duty nW meeting6ilwt order r le o h m a military institute, now in prozress, for the benefit and recreation . opm of the private soldier, end which he hoped to sae liberally carried out IS the plain state of the case. There has been an immense end support e d by the contributions of every officer in the garrison. talk abort the religious tone of schools of late years, and The General, after point nz out the numerous advent ages which such this has been the concomitant of it. With the male of an institution would confer on the whole military community, sea he . was most a xious for its inauguration, as he had it t. __nesse the piety the scale of price has also hugely advanced ; the benefits of dollar , establishments in other garrison to w n,. public has thought a particular improvement of first rate Colonel Brown. exprsesad himself highly in favour of importance, and it has been charged for proportionately. forming an institution whi.id would offer a second home for the We do notchar ge anybody with making a gain of god. leisure honrs of the soldier and free from the contamln,a ion and allurements of the public-house and coffee-slop. It cannot be denied lilies, not the truth is that our new improved school (continued Colonel Brown) th t the domestic accommodation of a masters, earnest men, sincere men, devoted men as they married soldier's quarters, usually on a mast limited scale. is often- are, cannot wholly overcome the commercial instinct times most uninviting. In such cases an estab ishment like the one which tells a man to charge for his article as much at now under their consideration, if properly established, would he fraught with marvellous advantages, and would offer a second home others are willing to pay him. They know the public at a most insignificant expenditure. The Rev. G. It. Gleig, M.A , thinks a great deal of religion, and they make the public Chaplin-general to the army, enumerated in.tances of the mural old 6, hancsom i el for it. iwhether it y Trifle s trade, advantages which, he had observed in Dover, and other places, whi re . "4" these establishments have been created, in order to provide for the is Scheolmaster's trade or any other. It is a simple fact relaxation end amwsement of the soldier's leisure hours, and raid tl',at these " earnest me*" have made twice as tench money Blare could not bs two opinions on the benefit which a similar home by education as any of their predecessors did. They are would confer on Woolwich on the well-di-posed of every age, but more particularly on the moral and social well-being of t e Tow ., large .yi 'n pocket by every rise of the religious pulse of the soldier Colonel Gardner and other officers an sentlectlY addrer, a ,u nation, and as our schools grow more and more virtuous the meeting, when a show of hands was requestrd by those, who the schoolmasters' bills are becoming so tremendous that, were in favour of the institutton; and who were willing to coratribate weback •fdo not take care we shall have to fall upon our towards its establishment and support, and a show of s . ,„ d , for 1 the contrary object, num bers exhibited a majority le s f avour o f old festooned lax scholasticism again from sheer inability the Institution, to pay for the advantage. of piety.— Times. CONVICTIONS UNDER THE SMOKE ACT. At the Southwark Police court, on Tuesday Sir John Rennie and Sons, the extensive engineers and Government contractors, were summoned by sir Oettree Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department, under the Smoke t , nig:ince Act, for not having their furnaces so constructed as to consume the smoke. Mr. Bodkin tetended en beealf of the Crown. Mr. Sand son, civil engineer, of Maiden-lane, Covent-garden, raid that he was ordered by Govern ment to inspect the premises of sir John Rennie and Son., in Holland-street, Blackfriars-road, and On the 31st of October he visited the place, and found eleht forges at work without hoods, or anythin to carry off the smoke. The place was filled aim .at to suffeeetiete, and the ,moire was forcing its way through the roof. There wero also four furnaces in action without anything to consume t o smoke. Coal and coke was used there They comnennicatei with a high shaft. The manager of the firm stated that they were workieg ei g ht and day in manufaAnring gun boats for the Indian n vy, and they did all they could to comply with the law by burning coke. Mr. Combo told him, that because they were making money by manuf ic turing gan boats, they could not he allowed to break the law and poison the reiehboarheod The ffleniants must pay a fine of £5 and costs. Mr. Norris, the proprietor of saw mills in Barron's place, Waterloo-rood, was next charged with a similar offence. Mr. Combo fined him k 5 and coots, reccenmendine him to make the requisite alteratioesimmediate;y, or he would be summoned again, aud'each time he would hove to pay doable the former pens ties Me - ars and Co , owners of sow mills in Mermaid court, Borough, were charged with the same off- nce. Mr. Combs said this was a c'ear case, and as there a e eared to be no difficulty in complying with the Act of Pardament, .he should also fine him £5 and C 3 ts. Messrs. Efumphrey and Son, patent candle makers, of Suffolk grave, Southwark, yrere also summoned for not censumie s their own smoke. Mr. Sandithn was about to prove the case, when one of the dstentiants plea 'ed guilty, and h indei the £5, and £2 coats, to the clerk, info , ming his Worship that they had complied with the Act of Parliament. ADDITIONAL FOItOES FOR INDIA, deeldel on sending' out an troops wh , are no w tin d er adTdihtejoantailthfozreiteietaialtntdhae,Wexacrinoffisivcee orvkeg orders or en their pa , s Re 'o that couniry, initructions have been forwarded to the conemnding office - s of the various depots attached ('loyal Welsh to the Indian establishment, direc tin g them to hold in read ness troops from their several depots t o t he number of 1,0.0 non-com m s siened officers and men, with thti proper proportion of (. 1 112crs, the O whole of whom will enark at Gravesend to ly in the ensuin g mont h , tonnage having begin takan up for them by the Hon. East Indi a Company. The following are the d e p ots wh i ch are ordered to furnish n' that number of officers and troops for the regiments, the servi ce 19th, 29th,2 20th, d 2:r 3 d sih , 37th, 42nd companies of which are now statio ned in the Bengal Presidenc y . vi z. , s F t am h( i f ee u r s s) ile , er 2 s 4 ), h B , th 27 ( t t h he ( K En aig ni : ak ` (Highlanders), 52nd (, h.ht Infantry). 53 rd , 65th Rifts', Ist, 2nd, cud 3rd battalLnas, Cist, 70th, 75th. 78 th (Hi g hl inders), 81st. 821 d, 84 h 87th (Royal Irish Fnitileers). 88th (Con , ' a u g ht R .n g ers), 89 th , 9 0 t 1 .; ( Light Infantry), 93rd (Highlanders ), 94th, 98th, .nd the Rifle Bri ga d e . ill l e o n :h ij, In addition to the aiove troops, 503 non-c)mm;ssioned officers and man mill embark early in Jan - ivy for the pup° e of joining the head quarters of Close regiments attzched to au: Bombay and Madras e•tablishmcnts, together wits the 48th Regiment and the 92nd FT ighlande a, which regiments are to proceed to India from Gibraltar, where they will be relieved by the 22nd and the 25.11 (Kin g ' s Own Borderers). BUSINESS RIVALS. A monomlar lady, named Margaret Boyle, appeared to a summons charging hor witti assaulting one James Stotes. Both parties are proprietors ofloaomotive cutlery establishmeivs, generally known by the name of " Cheap John's''—but we will allow Mr. Stokes to tell his own tale, which he did wiih considerable volubilty. After a somewhat lengthy exordium as to his p rofession and connecti on with an important trading firm in Sheffield , he s a id that th e defentr.nt's husband had been iu his employ for ab out el,ven mouths, ba t some time ago he discharged him, when h i immediatel y set up a light concern of his ontn, and stared in opposition to him ; buy insica I of conducting himself in a fair tradesmen-lilts manner, he actually took his round and did so general} , a few drys before ha (com• plainant) had an opportnnity of doing so. But he happened to find out that Boyle was travelling wiihout a license, so be thought it wouldbe quite fair for him to in Um against him. He d d so, and ever since be had teen subjected to the greatest annoyance from t a defendadt end he? husbani. lie came i i t o Wale of abo ut four o'clock on Tuesday aftern 'on, where he fou nd that Coyle and his travelling man had pr , ended him. as soon ac he made his appear"n7e the defendant rh iuted. " "fhat's the informer." It was necessary f or him to place his van very close to the opposition " concern," and then the row began. The defendant, wit) was in the crowd, ran to her van, seized a tea pot of hot water, and deliberately threw it all over him ; and then rer language was tu-h that huntire ifs of people congregated, aid one pushed him ono way and sno her pushed him anoth.r, the defendalt's husband shooting all the time, " Give it him Meg," till at List he was obliged to take refuge in a public house, ant have a quart of ae to settle his nerves Witnesses ware called who proved the assault with the tat pot and others testified to the base lang ease used by the co oplanant's son towards the defendant. The bench fined Mr,. Boyle 51 for the assent, and 5s for her bad lartznage; and th • am of the cmaplainant was also fined 53 fur his bad language.—Birmingit VA Press. THE NEW MILITARY INSTITUTE. THE INDIAN MUTINY }ELIEF FUND. TO TR FDITORS Sir,—l sh.ll feel ob!iged by your insovion of the following wry interesting lettor,whioh I have just received from Agra: The public will, at the „sam".... time r be glad to learn that --q,lO 000. the exact amount of relief requested by the A ,. .T had bsen t o t e d f or :hem by this committee before the date cf their application ; so that a fow days after their letter was despatched the funds for which they had api plied must have been at their dispes.o,--4 em, ( .;igneq) TIIO3TAS Q FINMS, President.- 27, t_ta.mor;-3trt et, (E.C.) TO THE FR , BTDVNT OF TUE FUND' FOE THE RELIEF` OT 'llHe SUFFERBRS BY THE murixy IN INDIA, LONDON, Fort Agra, Nov. 20. 1857. Sir,—Having been appoi2ted by the cimmiisilner of the North-Western Pro inces agents for the subscriptions which have been or may be pl=ead at the disposal of this government fir the r:-lief of sufferers by the late mutinies. we beg to make dir ct application to you for a portion of the fends now being raised by the' liberality of oar countrymen at home. and to request that if it meets with your approval, a gum of money may be placed at our' disposal to enable us to relieve the wants of those whose circumstances cannot be considered by the 'relief com mittees at Celcuta alai Bombay. It will readily occur to you that, situated as we are the very centre of the districts whic' , h. y e been the scenes of so much violmce and suffering, the call , . for assistance are numerous and pressing. By the liberality of the relief committees at Kurrachee and B)mbay, who have sent us £3O) and £2 1 25 respectively, we have been enabled to afford some help to the most necessitous, but thlse sums will only enable us to relieve a very small portion of the distress around us. In Agra it may he truly said that the entire Christian population is not only houssless, but that the majority of it has not the most essential article of furniture or cloth ing. At present we are living in the cellars and viults in the fort brit, as soon as tranquillity is restored, it will be necessary for all except the garrison to move out of it. and we fear that, unless we can succeed in raising fund* sufficient to help those who have lit la or no means of their own, a large number of people will be unable to get over before the hot weather commeaces. The circumstances of the survivors at the other stations in these provinces are As bad, and in many instances mare deplorable than of the residents here. . In addition to those who are suffering from the loss of their property, there is a number of widows and children. many rf them entirely destitute, fur w.lom provision wilt have to be made. We propose applying to the Calcutta Rellef Committee for £2,000, and the Bombay committee for £6OO, in; addition to the remittances they have already sent. and we now ask you to assist Us to the extent of £lO,OOO, and we hope that with these sums we ma► he able to afford material assistance to those in need of it. We take this opportunity of exo.7essing our entire concurrence in the rubs laid d )wn by •the India Distress Committee at the meeting of 2G , h Sep'eral3er and our full. intention of acting up to their spirit as far as it is possible. With the concurrence cf the fluanc;al commissioner of the North Western Province,., we beg in cmclution, that any slams you may be pleased to rend us may be forwarded to the Bink of Bengtil in Calcutta, to be placed to the credit of the government of Agra, and the necessary steps to get the money up here will ba taken by the government;—We have the honour t) be, &e., (Signed). W. IL Low, Civil service; Joint Magi•trate of Agra ; E. H. LiNGDOr{ Curator to G3vernment, North- West Provinces; R. MISID , t, Captin, Major of Brigade, Gwalior Contirgent ; ARNOLD W. MaTruEws, Agent Agra Bank Corporation. THE AUSTRIAN SCVNTIFIC VOYAGE ROUND VIE WORLD. —According to the last accounts from the Cape of Good Hope the /Vest ian frigate N whin is performing a vny - ,ge round the wort;, left Table Bay en the lath November ; for Singapore. Durieg the stay of th Novara at the Cape, the members of the scient'fic m'ssion on board made several excursions in the neighbeurhoo 1, and collected a number of im;.o taut specimens connected with the natural, miueralogiesl. and botanic .1 history of the Country. True Sonen Weans COLLI'ZRY S_TaTICIC —The strike or the colliers in the Aberdare district .of the South Wales colliery c ,unary, is now more general than ever. Tee partial return to work, on the part of some of the colliers, has been followed by the exercise of the moat violent threats by the disaffected part of the men, and a relapse, se that at the present moment there is very little being done in the district. Some colliers have been introduced at Mess-e. Poweli's and other pi's. but they have been ietimidated and threatened by the resident men Small bodies of men, calling themselves "committees," sit daily itt the retired distric t s, ana take open themselves the direction of the strike, and suit is the state of ignorance and fear of the power of these men, that they have the general body of colliers in the whole country completely under their control. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A DRUNKARD—At the West— mins:er p doe court, Landon, on Teesdav, William Richards ,n, a shoemaker, was chare-d with bei ig drunk, and conducting himself in the following reprehensible manner :—Frederick Weaver, porter at tt. Bernabas Chu-ch, Pimlico, said that last evening the prisoner came to the entrance of the sacred edifice. and made a most disgraceful disturbance. At ab tut eight o'clock witness had occasion to leave the doer of_ the church for two or three minutes, and on his return found the defendant there intox'cated, declaring be would have satisfactinn, and imputing to witness that he had robbed hint He used the most violent lanenage, and threatened to give witness two inches of cold steel, and witness, becoming alarmed, sent for a policeman. Farther evidence proved that a mob of above a hundred and fifty had collected round the church door, and that the defendant had not only abused men as they entered the church, but had used: groesly disgusting language towards ladies when leaving. The defendant, in answer to the charge, said be was therooghly ashamed of h'inselF. The magistrate, after lecturing him on the disgusting character of his condect, sentenced him to pay a fine of 20 ~ or go to prison for fourteen days; he was further required to enter into re— tognisinces for his future good behaviour. Orontes AT Naw YORK.—There is no place in the world where there are such fine °esters as in this city—fine in flavour, and of a size unparalleled in the sister -heds of Whitstable, Ostend, or the Reacher de Caucale. Nor has the gift of oysters been bestowed upon' an ungrateful people. If one may judge from appearances, the delicacy is highly relished and esteemed by all classes, from the railli msire in the Fifth Avenue to the boy in the Bowery and the Getman and Irish emierants in their own peculiar quarters of the city, which (sole' die en passant) seem to nennopolise all the filth to be found in Mtubattan. In , walking up Broadway by day or by night—but mere especially by night—the stranger cannot hut be struck by the great number of " Oyster Saloons," " Oyster and Coffee Saloons," and "Oyster and Lager Beer Saloons '''' that solicit him at every turn to stop and taste. Tsese saloons —many of them very handsomely fitted up —are, like the drinking saloons in Germany, situated in vaults or cellars, with steps from the street ; but, unlike their German models, they often form them in underground stories of stately commercial palaces of granite, brown store, iron, and white marble. In these palaces, es ih the hotels, oysters are to be had at all hours, either from the shell, as they are commonly eaten in England, or conked in twenty—or, for all I knew to the contrary, in forty or a hundred—cifferent ways. Oysters picked, stewed, baked, roasted, fried, and scolloped; oysters made into soups, patties, and puddings ; oysters with condiments. and without condiments ; oysters for breakfast, dinner, and supper; oysters without stint or limit—fresh as the fresh air, and almost as abundant—are daily offered to the. palates of the Manhattanese, and appreciated with all the grcitatie which such a bounty of nature ought to inspire. The shore of Long IslanO, fronting the Long Island Sound, for 115 miles, is one long succession of oyster beds. Snnbwards, along the coast of New Jersey. and torthwards and eastwards to Rhode Island and Massa— chusetts, the same delicacies abound, and foster a large end very lucrative commerce. Ili City Island, adjoining Long Island Sound, the whole population, consisting of 400 persons, is employed in the cultivation of oysters. The City Islanders era represented as a very honest, peculiar, ant primitive community, who intermarry entirely amongst themselves, and drive a very floariabing business. The oyster which they rear is a particular favourite. Other esteemed varieties come from Shrewsbury, Cow Bay, Oyster Bay, Rock Bay, Soille Rack, Virginia Bay, and Spuyten Duyvel. This last-mentioned place is in the East River, near the Long Island Sound, sal derives its name from the original Dutch settlers .of New Amsterdam, in the days ef Knickerbocker. It is related of an English earl, not long ago a visitor to the States, that his great delight was to wander up and down Broadway at night, and visit all the principal oyster saloons in succession, regaling himself upon fried oysters at one place, upon stewed oysters at ano'her, upon, roosted oysters at a third. and winding up the evening with a dish of oysters al' Anglaise. As nearly all the theatres are in Broadway, the Broadway 'oyster saloons command at night a traffic even larger than by day. " Fruges consumers nal", may designate elsewhere, bat here the quotation is out of place, and man is born to consume " oysters."—Letter frOM Ur, Mackay in the Illustrated Lando. News, _~.._..~