The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-11 00:00:00

PartEIGN INTELLIGENCE SPAIN BY a royal decree . published in the Madrid Gazette of the 7th inetant, the resignations of MM. Olozaga an d G onzalez of the post of ambassadors at Paris and London have been accepted. It is said that General Serrano has been. appointed as ambassador to Paris. The Gazette contains no Political news of interest. The National Guard of Aragon has been disarmed. The Madrid journals contain nothing beyond what was given in the letter published yesterday The Duke de .la Victoria, at an audience to take leave of the Queen and King, had been received by their Majesties with their customary kindness. The interview, according to the Epoca, lasted a lon g time, but without anything important taking place at it. The journals still abstain from giving us details of what took place in Saragossa ; but they, publish a proclamation from General Falcon, president of the revolutionary, junta, announcing the dissolution of that body. " The junta," says the general, "was formed under the noble inspiration of liberty, which it believed was menaced. But, after preserving admirable order and preparing actively for the defence of the place if attacked, it learned that the responde , t to its first movement, formed that the O'Donnell' cabinet did to place liberty in danger, but on the contrary to preserve it from its avowed enemies, From that moment it thought it its duty not to prolong a sterile conflict." The proclamation concludes by telling the National Guard that they will not be dissolved, but that " honour and deli cacy" require that they should give up the arms which they have borne against the government of the Queen. nation hail n( and was not rn( _ A private letter says :—Marshal O'Donnell will not accept the title of Grandee of Spain, which the. Queen has offered Min. The Marshal thinks that the Constitution of 1845 is best calculated to pro mote the happiness of the country. The National Guard of Spain, with very few exceptions, is now disarmed, and all Spain is tranquil. The article in the Paris Monitear on the affairs of Spain, has produced a very favourable effect; it is ascribed to an august pen. The Longreo railway is terminated. The plans for the first se c ti on o f. t h e N ort h ern Railway between Madrid •and V a ll a d o lid , w hi ch is 239 kilometres (150 miles) long, have been presented to the government. The estimated expense - is 215 ,764,000 reals. The following is extracted from a letter just received, and dated ENVIRONS OF BARCELINA, Aug. 2.—The struggle is postponed, till better times. We have kept our ground since the retreat of the 22nd ; the numerous patriot bands which left Barcelona being every where , mast ers of the country. In the districts of ~ervera, Balaguer, Lerida, Manresa, Villa Franca, and Igualada, all the villages in which the defenders of liberty appeared received them with acclama !L!Lns, and th e most resolute progessistas joined e band s w h en they moved upon other points. T hey were eager to supply us with rations and Ile: Munition. B u t we a b sta i ne d from v i sit i ng such towns as had garrisons, from a desire no t to compromise the troops by partial en g a gements before it was k nown what had taken place at Saragossa. On the 26th, however, About 10 p m., one of our parties being pressed for provisions, penetrated into Igualada, and after procuring the rations of which it stood in need retired: A patrol composed of soldiers of the line and some forty Moderados, challenged them. \rive Espartero," replied the patriots, who, after an interchange of shots, forced a passage and left the town about 111 p.m. Benito, the polaco, and the advocate Requesens, it is said, were wounded. Only one of ours received a slight wound. This is the Only occasion on which our men have had to draw a trigger. On the 25th we had learned that at 11'Iadrid the resistance in Catalonia was disapproved 'ft: by 'him , and that. ha ur,-.„1,1 yes°fution.. We resolved therefore to keep ou ground, sol e l y f or t h e purpose of pieventing troop in being detached to Aragon, in order to facili• tate the obtainment of any terms upon which the chiefs of the movement 'at Saragossa, reso lute to defend themselves to the last extremity if t hey were refused, might be determined to exact. We have succeeded. The bravest cf the patriots of Saragossa have obtained c Passports and dep ar t to await a more favourable n p or tunity, at a distance from a country which b2wa down at present under the terror of moderation. rent. Prestige of some people has, i n th ese l ast occur unsub es, recei ve d a terrible shock. But principles are dued. Th e m i ssionary labours of the last two years have met with a degree of success which must be incredible to those who have . not recently visited ou r principaliti es . I n the most incon "sidera %fixtur ble villages, wh ere th ere was formerly a e of Carlists and Liberals, the former have -%?w al most entirely disappear e d, an d th e o th ers , %r e wi exception of a fe w comprom i se d polacos, teall advanc e d progressistas. In some districts republi cans are i n a majority—in others the altados pre p on derate. Thi s i s t h e result sion & of the observations I h ave made in various excur- I will not conceal from you that the dis arming of the militia deprives us for some time of the 'hope of renewing the struggle in the great towns with any chance of success. But there are fi rearms in Catalonia which Zapatero will not have it i n his power to shut up in the arsenal. The !trills of our bands were deposited in safe places !Wore we made up our minds to disperse, and we ?Iknow where to find them on the first pronuncia ,ento• " Viva fulano !" "Up , with this man or that is assuredly not a sufficient war cry to carry a way men, and make them swell the ranks of a pronunciamento. We have learned this from sad 'experience. If there is one name more res wePected than another in Spain, it is that which bad adopted for our rallying cry. Well, »of all the auxiliaries who flocked to us from within or from without —on the days of Barcelona, few belonged' to the people, and the working men who at last joined in the fray raised the cry of "Liberty for ever." There is no doubt that we could have made a sanguinary retaliation, and %fade the butcher of Barcelona pay dear for the Judicial murder of the prisoners of Gracia, for in ! very village we passed through we found mode -8408 execrated. by the people. The order - n p re of e y v ed in a ll the bands Ou r mostadmirable. Not one contrast cruel was enemies has bee n mo l es t e d ; th e between our moderation and the savage execution of our friends in Barcelona will produce Wa moral effect on the population. And now, e nitY to w ho survive k now h ow to wait our opportu u i battle avenge our brethren who h ave fallen ,or been a ssass i nate d a f ter the struggle he glv W as over, O'Donnell will not la s t l ong . Wh e th er play •' e • way to his inm a t e d espot i c tendencies, or the farce of a constit u ti ona l government, he Will not be able to keep his ground between the !0 a bsoluti s t s and the democratic liberals. Obliged fall b ack upon the progressistas, whose friends , he has shot down at Madrid and Barcelona, he will fail the moment the state of siege is at an end, and a regular government restored. We receive the sizangest accounts from Madrid. They write to me that the various political ;flub s have resolved to appoint electoral corn- Mittees, with branches in the provinces, to dire c t the municipal, provincial, and general elections. At Madrid, then, it is believed that there will he a Cortes under O'Donnell. Valencia would have pronounced if some men of ultra crliniens had not wished to give the demonstra. , tion a direction which the most exalted p rogres fii st a s disc roved. I pp. arn ae surecl that in addition to Orense, Don Pablo Ornal and other democrats I have spent two days 1.1 , Ewe been arrested. „in Barcelona. Notwithstanding the terrible `-olood letting the party has experienced, no 4306 is discouraged. All our friends confess tpthe errors in revolutionary tactics we have corn ,,itted. We will no t repea t th em hereafter. ...when the banner of the revolution is again rais e d i 211 Cataloni a, we will inscribe on t something different from the name of an individual, and all to enemies of reaction will rise I like one man. .et us weep for the dead ; but, at the same time, a nd ris bethink ourselves how we can avenge them nd ensure the triumph of our sacred cause. t come to any -- -4---- AusTRTA. ~... vo The tiazette of Vi count o f the Vienna publish es th e revenue Austrian empire d ur i ng the first six months of th e present Produced 15,613,171 florins, The direct taxes s, or 4 ,920,769 florins ff=SXVM?•SVP II . O WW2e.II.ORV.2tBL^VMOWEA more than in the corresponding period of last year; the indirect taxes produced 71,697,597 florins, or an increase of 5,637,994 florins ; in the article. of domains, mines, and the mint, a diminution of 4,336,570 florins ; divers receipts, 4,906,993 florins, or a decrease of 232,522 florins. The total receipts are 129,593,423 florins, or 5,790,518 florins more than in 1855, and 11,046,083 florins more than in 1854 The direct taxes and themonopoly of to bacco and salt have furnished the most important increase of irico:rce. The- diminution in the receipts of domains,. mines,.&e , has been caused by the fact of the government having made over its richest possessions to the national bank, in order to reduce its debt with that establish ment. ITALY The Messagere di Modena publishes two sen tences, by one of which a man, named Biagioni, is condemned to six months' imprisonment for having used irreverent expressions in speaking of the Duke of Modena and his family. By the second sentence, one Marciasi is condemned to twenty years' imprisonment, for murder committed from party spirit. It is announced in the Giornale di Roma that the Pope has appointed Monsignor D. Flavio, arch bishop of Mira, and of the family of the Prince's Chigi, to be an ambassador extraordinary from the Papal Court at the coronation of the Emperor of DENMARK The number of ships that passed the Sound in the month of July was 2,940, which is so far remarkable as it exceeds beyond all comparison the traffic of any single month on record. Amongst the imports into the Baltic were no less than 308 cargoes of coal and 110 of salt, whilst amongst the exports there were 720 vessels laden with deals, sleepers, and other descriptions of timber, 512 cargoes of corn and seeds (mostly bound for England and Holland), and 182 ships with hemp and flax. The rest contained colonial produce, manufactures, and general cargoes. CY COPENHAGEN, August 6.—Eight of our principal houses, including the firms of Messrs Broberg, Holm, Le Maire, Melchior, Suhr, Ryan, and Adler, invite the public to join them in the establishment of a private joint stock bank, with a capital of six millions of dollars Danish currency. The above named eight houses have subscribed, collectively, for half a million. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES The commissioners of the seven powers charged with the re-organisation of the Principalities are now assembling at Bucharest, much in the character of ingenious political architects, who attempt to raise a superstructure before they have laid .a basis. The Austrian and Russian govern ments appear to have hit upon a most happy scheme, directly calculated to nullify the labours of the commissioners', and totally checkmate the Treaty of Paris. Under a guise of the m os t v it a l distrust, they seemed t o have entered into an arrangement marked by the most friendly confi dence. The institution of a liberal government in Moldavia and Wallachia would be directly antago nistic, not only to their most cherished territorial arrogations on the Danube, but to their fanatical crusades against freedom on the confines of their The commissioners, or the five more liberal governments whom the five more liberal commis sioners represent —now challenge the courts of Vienna and St. Petersburg to give effect to their promise of evacuation. The Austrian Government appears to reply that so long as, in direct violation of the Treaty of Paris, the Russians postpone the cession of Southern Bessarabia, they must prolong the occupation of the Principalities. The Western Powers then turn to St. Petersburg; and they there appear m to be that so lon g as , i n di rect v i o l at i on ~e ___. • vi i.u,e ireaty ot Paris, the Austrians postpone the evacuation of the Principalities, they must defer the cession of Bessarabia. There is something ludicrous in this reciprocity of causation ; it reminds one of the resultless siege of Antwerp in 1809, in which the martial ardour of the general was said to have been held in check by the delay of the admiral, and the impatient vehemence of the admiral to have been neutralised by the unaccount able procrastination of the general. The practical result, at any rate, is that the Austrian and Russian commanders, entertaining, no doubt, the most diobolical suspicion of each other, rule in placid tranquility on eithe r sid e o f th e P rut h ; an d . . ihe international commission, like it species of political Mahomet's coffin, is suspended in the air, midway between Bucharest and the clouds of heaven. The blunder thus committed by the negociators at Paris, in failing to fix peremptorily a period beyond which the military occupation should not be maintained, is but the analogue of the original blunder which introduced into the Principalities the forces of Austria. It is obvious, from many concurrent considerations, that an attempt to frame an organi sation for Moldavia and Wallachia during the presence of the Austrian army, and for the ceded territory of Bessarabia during the presence of the Russian, - would be altogether abortive. The com missioners—according, at least, to theory of the Treaty of Peace, do not proceed to the Wallaehian capital with their own preconceived views of govern ment. The Sultan undertakes, by the terms of the 25th Art ) , to convoke a Divan in either Principality, with the most liberal and comprehensive constitu tion, and the commissioners are charged with the formation of a scheme of polity in consonance with the opinions expressed by these Divans. Nothing, therefore, can be more certain than that their popular organisation, which is expressly set forth as the groundwork of the whole policy of the commission, would be totally defeated by the con• tinuance of an Austrian military occupation. While the commissioners sit at Bucharest under military sufferance of the most despotic monarchy in Europe, no will of theirs can stand for law. Those who are acquainted with the policy" pursued by Austria wherever her ptandard is planted, know full well the manner in which she will tamper with the representation which it is sought to obtain through the instrumentality of the Divans. The same observations apply to the occupation of the ceded district of Bessarabia by the Russians, and it is certain that any representation cbtained during the dominance of either army, will only secure the ascendancy of that odious and rapacious oligarchy which the Treaty of Paris had undertaken to depress and destroy. In a com mercial point of view, the Principalities possess this enormous advantage over every other State which trades upon the Danube, that their territory lies immediately at its mouth ; while the acces sion of the . ceded territory to the Moldavian soil will add to that advantage an interest in the sea-board of the Euxine. If it will repay the Austrian empire to transmit her ex ports to the Black Sea through the' thousand gyrations of that interminable river, how much more remunerative will be the commerce of the. Euxine to the two Principalities, with other facili ties at least equal in proportion ? Above all, be it remembered that the results of the war have yet to be determined ; and that their magnitude largely rests in the political future of these States, which must conform to the character of their organisa tion. And if the splendid opportunity which now presents itself be seized, we shall have done much in lands that have bowed beneath a traditionary oppression to promote the cause of progress, and to illustrate the name of England. FRENCH LAW OP LrmrrATiorr.—Mr. Lamie Murray, an English gentleman, obtained in London, in March 1839, a loan of £l,OOO sterling from D r. Elliotson, ' and gave him a bill for it. Subsequently Mr. M urray took up bin residence in Paris, and he paid some portions of the amount, together with interest on the whole snm up to Pl4B, since which time he has paid nothing. On the Bth of June, 1855, a French gentleman named 7osseaume notified to Mr. Murray that the bill had been formally transferred to him by Dr. Elliotson, and he obtained from one of the courts authorisa tion to make a provisional seizure of Mr. Murray's furni ture as a security for the payment. Mr. Murray took proceedings t o h ave the seizure set aside, and the tribunal, that as th e after hea ring what he and Josseaume had to say, decided England, rlebt owi ng by Murray had been contracted in and to an f business, Englishm an , an d as t h e bill i n ques ti on had not been en dorsed to J osseaume i n t h e regular course but transferred to hint long after it had become he cou y ld befor e a not, ac cording to F renc h l aw, procee d aga i nst French court, and that, consequently, , zure of the furniture was voia. M. Josseaume appealed to the imperial Court against this decision, but it was confirmed. Mr. Mur'a NoRTHERN a TIMES —LIVER-poor ~:. _ MONDAY. at the latest, for I feel my time is short. I cannot sufficiently thank you for your kindness to me whilst you were at this placr. I cannot reward you, but my God and Father will reward you. Dear sir, whilst I was meditating on the goodness of Gcd, and thinking of my past sins and wickedness, all at a moment a thought Sashed across my mind that there was a reprieve for me ;- and what do you think that reprieve was ? Well, bless God, it was this " Thy sins, which were many, are all forgiven you.' It was no delusion, for it was so impre's'sed on my mind that I could not help but, make the remark, and tell my fellow-prisoners and the officer that was there. Dear sir, Ido not intend to stop there, but f intend to " press forward to the mark for my high calling which is of God, by Christ Jesus." Dear sir, do not for get to pray for me, that I may not be " weary in well doing, so that, in due time, I may reap, if I faint not." And may the God of all grace bless you and yours, is the fervent prayer, of yours respectfully, WILLIAM DOVE P.S.—I shall anxiously wait an answer. It was impracticable for Mr. Wright to, come to York immediately; but he got back to the unhappy man at the earliest possible moment. As a further proof of the tone of Dove's mind, we may give the following letter, which he put into Mr. Wright's hand on his entering the con demned cell on Friday morning : York Castle, Condemned Cell, August 8, 1859. Respected Sir,—My time is short—my days are num bered, and soon I shall hale to appear before the judgment seat of Christ ; but I trust my judge is my advocate and friend, and that I shall meet his smiles,,, and be welcomed to mansions in the sky. I sari truly say— I, the chief of sinners am, But Jesus died for me. Oh ! the consolation derived from this passage. I am saved through fire and by death; ordinary means God had used, but they failed. He has, therefore, used extraor dinary means, and blessed be his holy name. I believe it is in answer to the prayers of my dear mother, and that I shall have reason to bless and praise him through all eternity, that he checked me in my mad career, and adopted this plan to save .me. Oh my dear sir, accept the thanks of a dying man for the kindness I have expe rienced at your hands. May that God, who is your Father and my Father, bless you both in this life and that which is to come, and may we meet in Heaven, is the prayer of respected sir, yours affectionately, WIL - L - lAlf DOTE, In illustration of the distress of mind felt by the convict, we give the following sentence, which he appears to have recollected as having been addressed to him years ago by a doar friend, and which he has committed to paper:— " William, if you are determined to go to Hell, you shall wade through teas of tears, and over mountains of prayers." The words in italic are underlined in Dove's own manu script. The convict on Friday repeated a confession of his guilt, and of the justice of the sentence of the law, in the presence of Mr. Noble. Dove avowed the fact freely that he administered the poison to his wife, and that he knew at the time that what he was administering was poison ! He then added, " I execrate and abhor myself, in dust and ashes, for the crime I have committed; and I am astonished only that any one could take an interest in, and be so kind to, so dreadful an offender as I have been!" In the course of Friday the condemned man was visited by H. S. Thompson, Esq. (the high sheriff), the Rev. J. Hartley, Mr. Wright, Mr. Barrett, and Mr. Murfin, city missionary. The latter took his leave of Dove in the afternoon. When the high sheriff had his interview with the wretched man, he enquired of him if he had any request to make ? Dove replied, " I hope you will not allow any cast to be taken of my head ;" and the high sheriff assured him that his wish should be complied with. We believe the relatives and friends of the poor criminal have been exceedingly anxious upon this point, and; they have also begged that his clothes may not be disposed of, as is too frequently the case, for the purposes of public exhibition, to satisfy a morbid and most depre cable curiosity. This request has also been complied with, Mr. Noble having given a positive undertaking that Dove's clothes shall not pass into the hands of strangers either for the above or any other purpose. SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES These assizes commenced at Liverpool on Saturday, when the commission was opened in St. George's Hall, by Mr. Justice Willes. About six o'clock, his lordship, accompanied by the high sheriff of the county, N. Phillips, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Croser, his chaplain, and the Mayor of Liverpool, with the usual staff of javelin men, arrived at St. George's Hall, when Mr. Shut tleworth, the clerk of the assizes, read the proclamation, after which the court was adjourned until two o'clock this day. On, Sunday his lordship, the High sheriff of the county, the Mayor of Liverpool, and several members of the corporation, attended divine service at St. George's Church. The sermon was preached by the chaplain to the sheriff, the Rev. Mr. Croser. The business of the assizes will commence at eleven o'clock this day in the Crown Court, and in that of the Nisi Prius, at two o'clock. We understand that Baron Bramwell arrived last evening. BIRKENHEAD POLICE COURT.-SATETRDAy VIOLENT ASSAULT UPON A WlFE.—Hugh Smith, a tailor, was brought up on a charge of having violently assualted his wife, Hannah Smith, and with having attempted to cut her throat. She stated that on Thursday night she and her husband were at Coates' public-house, where they had some ale and a few words about money matters. He was the, worse for drink, and said he would be d—d if he would not cat ber throat. The landlady sent for a policeman, who advised him to go home. When he got home he swore very much, and took up a knife, and rushed upon her as she was sitting upon the bed, saying, '• I will cut your throat," and seized hei by the breast, and put - the knife to her throat, but her hands, which he cut very severely, prevented the throat being touched. This evidence was corroborated by other witnesses, and the prisoner was com mitted to take his trial at the Knutsford sessions, which will be held this day. ROBBERY.—Margaret Roberts, the girl charged with stealing £69 from the person of Christopher Heslop, was again brought up, when some further evidence was adduced, and she was committed to take her trial. £6O of the money has been recovered by Inspector Gunning. EXECUTION OF DOVE The culprit, being a Wesleyan, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was administered to him on Friday night, after which he engaged almost continuously in prayer until one o'clock on Saturday morning, when he laid down and had apparently sound and tranquil sle e p f or a b ou t an hour and a half. Besides the prison officials, the Rev. J. Hartley, Wesleyan Minister, York, and Mr. Wright, of Manchester, the prison philanthropist, sat up with the unhappy man during Friday night—the former till four o'clock on Saturday morning, when Mr. Wright took up the further administration of spiritual consolation to the criminal, who appeared quite resigned to his fate, thoroughly conscious that he must die penitent, and exceedingly prayerful. The workmen usually engaged for the purpose commenced the operation of erecting the gallows soon after daybreak, and at a quarter to six 1 o'clock the culprit was removed from the condemned cell to a room in close contiguity to the scene of his last sufferings upon earth. He was accompanied by Mr. Noble, the governor of the castle, and Mr. Wright, and walked across the castle yard with a firm and ready step. He was calm and collected, and his general demeanour much resembled what was noticed of him during his four days' trial. Soon after Dove had quitted the condemned cell, which looks into the plot of ground where murderers executed at York Castle are interred, the gravedigger arrived, and at once proceeded to execute his office. As early as seven o'clock on Saturday morning a group of from 50 to 100 people had taken up a position on the iron railing at St. George's-field, and immediately in front of the drop, where they remained for five hours, to witness the execution. As the morning advanced the crowd con tinued to augment, and by about half-past eleven it had become very dense. At this time the weather, which had been previously fine, though rather cloudy and threaten. ing, changed for rain, which came down heavily during the execution and the remainder of the day. The rain did not at all stop the influx of spectators, some hundreds of whom had provided themselves with umbrellas, which, when opened out, presented a very striking and singular appearance. At twenty minutes .to twelve o'clock, the under-sheriff, W. Gray, Esq., arrived at the castle, and made the usual demand for the body of the condemned man for execution. At this time there could not be less than from 15,000 to 20,000 people assembled in front of the gallows. The hich road, which runs close by, and a large portion of St. George's-field (a large open piece of corporation land) were crowded with spectators, and on the New Walk, and even on the opposite side of the River Ouse, there were some hundreds of persons con gregated together to witness the exit from this world of this desperate murderer. The Rev. T. Sutton (the chaplain of the prison), the Rev. J. Hartley, and Mr. Wright, were with the convict some time before the hour of noon. At a few minutes before twelve o'clock, the hour of execu tion at York, Dove was removed from the room in which he had passed the forenoon to another room nearer the drop, where he was pinioned. He appeared composed while this operation was being proceeded with—not the slightest quiver or motion of the body was perceptible. Mr. Barret, his solicitor, was with him up to this time, and Dove, while being pinioned, held him by the hand. At this juncture Mr. Barret availed himself of an oppor tunity of asking Dove if there was anything in the state.. meat he had made on. Thursday which he wished to alter or correct ? Dove replied with great earnestness and expression of sincerity,—" Not a word ; it is strictly true." Dove subsequently turned to Mr. Barret•and said,—" Mr. Barret, tell my poor mother I die happy." These were the last words he uttered; except in prayer. In a minute or two afterwards the castle clock tolled forth the fatal hour, and the usual procession was formed, and proceeded through the grand jury room, and thence along a dreary looking passage leading to the door through which the wretched criminal makes his exit on to the drop. In addition to the halberdiers, the executioner, and other officials, the Under-sheriff, the Rev. J. Hartley, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Noble, appeared on the scaffold with the culprit. As the procession moved forward from the "press-room," the Rev. J. Hartley read portions of the burial service of the Church of England, which he followed up with an extemporaneous prayer, in which Dove joined with apparent devotion and earnestness. The convict having been placed under the fatal beam, from which the rope dangled in the air close by him, the executioner (an insolvent debtor, now in confinement in York Castle, but whose name, occupation;and residence have been studiously and positively withheld to the very last), proceeded to perform his office. He first adjusted the rope 'around - the neck of the convict—an operation which he went through with the coolest nicety we ever witnessed. Having done this, he next covered Dove's face with a white cap, and";then fastened his legs with a cord. These operations appeared to occupy. more time than usual, but the executioner went through his work with a precision of skill that would have been creditable to a Calcraft, or some such more experienced hand. He was, in the strictest sense of the expression, "slow, but sure." Having assured himself of no. mistake, he passed quickly to the steps, the bolt .was drawn, and the drop fell, and in a moment the wretched criminal ceased to exist. He suffered slightly, death being almost instantaneous. Be fore Dove was finally handed over to the executioner he shook hands with 'the reverend - ministers and others around him, and bade them farevvell.. On the whole, the crowd maintained very orderly and - decorous conduct throughout the painful scene. The body of the convict remained suspended for an hour, when it was cut down and placed in a shell for interment in ' the eveninkwithin the precincts of the prison, in accordance with the terms of the sentence of the law passed upon the criminal THE CONFESSION, When Mr. Barret entered the condemned cell on Thurs _ day, Dove placed a letter in his hands, which was dated York Castle, August 6. It commenced by expressing the culprit's gratis ode to Mr. Barret for the very great exer tions he had made, and for the ability he had displayed in his behalf. The letter then went on to state that he (Dove) had administered poison to his wife, and that it never would have been done but for the bad man Harrison (the - wizard), of the South Market, Leeds. Subsequently, Dove made a statement to Mr. Barret, of considerable length, but which, at present, will not be published. We understand, however, that Dove admits that the poison he used was strychnia, and he detailed the circumstances under which the fatal dose was given on the Saturday even ing. Mrs. Whitham, it will be remembered,.stated in her evidence at the trial that, on the Saturday afternoon after giving a - dose of medicine to Mrs. Dove, she placed some water in the wineglass and left it. Dove stated that he afterwards entered the room and dropped some strychnine into this water. During the day he was drinking ale and porter, and became quite " muddled." At eight o'clock in the evening he returned home, and on being asked to give his wife her medicine he did so, pouring it into the glass containing the water and strychnia. He then handed the glass to his wife, who drank , the fatal dose. Dove then again left the house, but shortly afterwards he learnt from Wood, the constable, that his wife was in great agony, upon which, says he, the fact flashed across my mind that I had placed strychnia in the glass, and that she might be suffering from the effects of poison. He instantly ran for the doctors, but on his return he found his wife dead. Dove, to relieve himself from odium, has intimated that he was led to the murder of his wife by the manner in which the Wizard was constantly speaking to him of her.' When Harrison and Dove first became acquainted, Dove applied to Harrison to place a spell on his wife, in order that they might live more happily together. The Wizard proposed to apply the spell, but it did not succeed. Dove consequently became impatient, and the murder followed. LETTERS OF THE MURDERER There had been numerous applications fqr the office, among which were two or three ourious specimens of orthograpy. One of them was as follows "To the High Shereff York Castle York City Dear Sir Seeing in The Paper you advertise for a Hangman i Will Engage With you My age is 22 years Height sft 8 inches Weight 13st 6lbs Agent to the Ensurance Company London It is From several Friends In Leeds that i Hang the Convict Laying at York Castle Mr Dove answer Will oblidge." A second application was from a returned convict who asked for the appointment on the ground that he "wanted to earn an honest living." .4. third applicant vas a person who asked for the office three years ago and received it ; but the night before the execution, when he was sent for, he was not prepared to fulfil his engagement, intimating that his friends had dissuaded him from performing such an office. His application in the present instance was consequently rejected, though we are told he gave assurances that he had now fully made up his mind to discharge the duty, if appointed. Since his application was refused this person has written a letter contra dicting a rumour that he had been appointed to execute the convict, and informing the party to whom he addressed his communication that "the man who had got it must go on with his work I " The account which Mr." Wright gives of the convict is very interesting, and, in a certain sense, satisfactory. Mr. Wright had been indefatigable in his attendance on Dove, and, in conjunction with his other spiritual advisers, succeeded in making a most favourable impres sion on him. Dove may now be said to have died in a truly penitent state. He regretted his crime, not merely on account of the consequences in which it has involved him, but because of the actual guilt of his conduct. He freely opened his mind, and confessed to Mr. Wright that he poisoned his wife; but he did not stat e th e motive which actuated him to the horrible deed. In being asked whether he was induced to kill his wife because he wanted to marry Mrs, Whitham, he declared solemnly that he was not actuated by any such motive. It appears clear that Dove was led to poison his wife by hearing of the murder of Cook, by Palmer, with strychnine ; but it seems to have been impossible to discoveer the reason why p D r o e v v e io w us is ly hed to to co g o p lc t ,sde rido a f th h , h his wife, which reason m us t, existed in his mind. Dove fully understood on Friday that he was to die next day, and he wa s res i gne d t o hi s f a t e . H e ex p r essed his sense of the justice of his sentence, and stated that he felt he deserved to die. He also said he had no feeling of resent ment against the judge who tried him, the jury who found him guilty, or the witnesses who gave evidence against him. All Dove's feelings had now become centred on his own awful condition. He' spent the whole of his time during the day i n p rayer, i n conversation on relig i ous subjects, or in apparently devout meditation. Mr. Wright left Dove last Friday (Friday week), and returned to Manchester. On Tuesday morning, Mr, Wright received the following letter IYorkleastle, Condemned Cell, Aug. 4, 1856. Mr. Wright—Dear sir, I take this opportunity of writ ing to you. You told me that at any time that I wrote to you, and requested you to come, you would. Dear sir, I shall:be very glad to see you on Wednesday or Thursday NEW PUBLIC HOUSES At the special session on Friday, before Mr. Holme and Mr. Turner, Mr. Simon, barrister, applied, on behalf of a numerous body of residents at Edge-hill, to cancel or suspend a " renewable license," granted at the June special sessions, to a Mrs. Cobham, to remove her license from the Bear's Paw to a house "in Paddington," the real object being to use it for a private house in Irvine-street, next the church gates. The learned counsel stated that the house in. Irvine-street was owned by Mr. Rigby, the gin dealer; and that an application at the general licensing day, last year, was opposed, and dismissed on the merits. However, Mr. , Rigby was 'determined not to be foiled, and, by another course, outwitted the inhabitants, and at the June sessions, unknown to them, got a " renewable license" to the widow where th e h ouse really wa Cobham, as upon a destructi on o f a licensed house to—not a houselrvine Irvine-street, Paddington," t r eet' gton," but to " a The magistrates, as well as th e i nhabitants, were, by that ruse, misled, and were asto n i s h e d at a later period to find the house undergoing transm ogr i f i cation into a dram shop; Enquiry was made, and no not i ces were found to have been posted up, or, if they were, th ey were instantly removed by " that mischievous boy," w h o i s always so conveniently at ddin into • whi c h i t had s, back wall. hand for that purpose. He now submitted that the license had been obtained by a trick and fraud, and ought to be recalled or suspended. There was a memorial by the incumbent of the church and the leading residents there, against the license, and complaining of the fraud, and many of them in attendance to express their opinion on it. Mr. Godfrey, solicitor, also opposed it, and said that there were twenty-four houses within four hundred yards of the house in question. Mr. Bremner, for the appli cant, said that there was no locus standi for this application. Mr. Holme said that when the license was granted, the bench were unaware of the circumstances, or it,never would have been "granted. The facts were concealed from the bench t who, had no idea• but that it was for a house lower down in Paddington. He would not characterise it as he thought it deserved, but could only advise the applicants to appear at the next licensing day. Mr. Turner concurred, and, in strong langnage, denounced the course pursued to obtain the license, and declared his belief that if the bench had been aware of the circumstances no license would have been granted. The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., has left London on a short continental tour. THE SWORD PRESENTATION TO THE EARL OF CARDIGAN. —The committee of gentlemen appointed by the suscribers to the magnificent sword to be presented to the Earl of Cardigan, have been sitting in the council chamber of the Leeds ?ourthouse during the week, to make arrangements for giving a banquet to the noble earl in the Music-hall, Leeds, on the occasion of the formal presentation (on behalf of his Yorkshire tenantry) of the magnificent sword commemorative of his gallant conduct at Balaklava. E. Denison, E sq. , Al. p ,, will preside at the banquet, which is expected to take place on the 30th instant.—Leeds Mercury. PRINCE ALBER T AN AUSTRALIAN PROPRIETOR.—It iS stated that Prince Albert has bought an enormous tract of land in Australia, which, in about twenty years, will return about 1,000 times as much as all the Saxes, Coburg and Gotha, principle in a ll this in Germany, put together. No, there is a whether or not it is t w rue that the Marquis of 'Westminster advances portions of the purchase money. When 'William the Fourth, fo: himself and successors, ma le the bargain with Parliament that he should have so much a year in consideration of his giving up all th e crown lands, it was distinctly intended the Sovereigns should for ever cease to be land holders. But here the Crown is recommencing its functions as estated proprietor. The Queen bought Osborne the Prince bought B a l moral, and has bought a province in Australia, and will go on buying for the sake of the little royaltieS, THE LATE REGENT'S PARK AFFAIR (BEFORE MR. JUSTICE CROWDER.) . THE QUEEN v. THOMAS GEORGE GOSLING, ESQ.—In this case, the facts of which have been so recently before the public, in the report of the procee4ingi before Mr. Bropgh, ton, at the Marylebone police court, an application was made to the learned judge for a writ of certiorari3O remova the depositions and subsequent Troceedings from the Middle sex session to the central criminal court. The affidavit in support of the application seth ftrth tharthe defendant, T, George Gosling, had been giveranto cuSto4;in'tlie Regent's- park, by one John Mitchell, a licensed drover, upon a charge of enticing divers females of ten to expose their naked-persons to his - sight, when he gave his correct name and address, and he was suffered to depart, and no further proceedings were had until he was summoned before Mr. Broughton at the Marylebone police court, on the 23rd of July, who, after hearing the witnesses, held the defen dant to bail to ar.swer the charge at the sessions. An indictment fer misdemeanour having been preferred, it was urged that as the offence charged was an offence at' common law, depending upon nice shades and distinctions in the evidence in support thereof, and that nice and intricate points of law of more than usual difficulty and importance might arise on the trial of the said indictment, which would render it important that the same should be tried before one of the learned judges of the superior courts. It being usual to send cases of that description to the central criminal, court, where some of these judges preside— as no doubt had the worthy magistrate been asked would have been done—the removal of the proceedings by certiorari was asked. The learned judge ordered the writ to issue forthwith, the bail to enter into fresh recngnisances in that court. Duri day Mr. Thomas George Gosling, the defendant, toot, with his bail, Mr. Gosling and Mr. Bo2tb, attended biefore the judge, and entered into their recognisances, the de- , - fend - antin £4,000, and the bail in £2,060 eac h, t o give the required notices of trial and appearance at the Central Criminal Court on the removal of the proc from the Central !cesslry. by t clerkenwell Sessions, that being Criminal Court Act. It is, however, understood that an application will still be made to remove the indictment into the Court of Queen's Bench, to afford the opportunity of a trial by a special jury. The heat of the weather during the last month had a material influence on the receipts of the theatres and other places of public amusement in Paris The amount received shows a decrease of 371,9451. as compared with the month of June, and of 714,228 f. as compared with May. The Sisters of Charity have purchased a large property at Baktcbe Pasha, on the Bosphorus, for the purpose of establishing an hospital for the aged of bosh sexes. The Ottoman Government has rendered them every facility in the conclusion of the affair, and has promised to give them every protection and assistance they may require. HALF -YEARLY MEETING OP THE ULSTER RAILWAY.— The shareholders were not content with the dividend pro posed by the directors, but carried a resolution increasing it to 255, instead of £1 per share, as proposed. The retir ing directors were re-elected with the exception of Mr. Scott and Mr. Winder; and Mr. Bell was reappointed auditor. THE BALTIC MEDAL. —We understand the medal for Baltic services will not be ready for distribution for nearly three months. No definite arrangement has yet been made as to clasps ; bat we cannot conceive it possible that such an unmeaning thing as a Baltic medal without them will ever be decided upon. In order to give value to the medal, it is essential that clasps for Bomarsunfl, Sweaborg, or boat service, should be added to it.—United Service Gazette. WrroteseLe DESTRUCTION OF. Doos..—At the Borough Court of Bolton, on Thursday, about twenty persons were summoned for allowing their dogs to be at large in the streets, unmuzzled, after the notice from the mayor. Several of the parties were fined 5s and costs, and the remainder were required to destroy the animals. After the sitting of the court thirty-six dogs were brought to the police court and destroyed, in addition to those for which the persons were summoned. Telegraphic accounts from Constantinople to-day report that the government had announced their plan for the establishment of a State bank. The capital (says The Times city article) is to be 43,000,000, and the bank is to have the privilege of issuing lams to a like amount. .It is to undertake, however, to negotiate a 5 per cent. loan for £5,000,000 at 90, to be applied to take up inconvertible paper and debased currency, the interest on which, to gether with 1 per cent. for a sinking fund, into be provided for by the revenues and tributes of the Danubian Princi palities. The concession for the bank is to be granted to those among the competitors who will offer to take the whole or the largest portions of the loan ; but as at the present value of Turkish bonds in the London markets that transaction would involve a loss of about 4 per cent., and it is also alleged that further large sums are likely to be required to clear off the elpenses of the war, there seems little probability of any respectable capitalists being willing to entertain the project. MANSLAUGHTER WITH A SCYTHE.—On Monday, an in quest was held by Mr. Dinsdale, at Smeaton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on a farm labourer named Cockfield. It appeared that Cockfield and a party of mowers, who bad been working for Mi. Fisbbourne, of Smeaton, were drink. ing on Saturday - night at a public house, and after leaving it they were met by three other mowers, of whom Thomas Bowes was one. Cockfield and Bowes quarrelled about mowing. and Bovrea struck Cockfield with his scythe, and the second blow inflicted a terrible wound on Cockfield's knee, of which he died. Thomas 'Pease and Wm. Maise deposed that the men had taken three pints-of ale each. After inflicting the wound, Bdwes was running away, but was seized by the other mowers, He was sober. George (4alilee deposed that there had been an angry feeling between the two men ; that Bowes used to jeer Cockfield for keeping a lodging-house, and called "filthy." Margaret Towler said she heard some one call out" kill him, kill him out," but she did not know who it was. Mr. Gibbs; - surgeon, said the wound was five inches long, and passed through the principal artery vein and nerve. The wound caused death in a few minutes. A verdict of man slaughter was returned, and Bowes was cenemitted far trial at the next York assizes, BRUTAL CASE oF. WIFE KILLING AT Pun ow NEAR BRISTOL. --An A inquest was held o n F r id ay, at the village of publow, Somersetshire, on the body of a middle aged woman, who had been killed in a fit of drunken jealousy by her husband. The deceased, who worked at the farm of a Mr, Wait, had been invited to take part in a merry making at that house. The husband, it would appear, offered some objection to her going; notwithstanding which, however, she went and took a share in the enjoy, went. On her return home at night, she went by the way of the King's Arms Inn, Publow, iutedding to take home a pint of beer to her husband. At that place the husband, who had been drinking somewhat freely, met her and began to speak harshly to her, telling her to "go with Daniel Flook and his cronies." From this allusion, it is supposed that he was jealous of Flook. Further words ,passed, and he struck her when in the parch of the house one or two heavy blows. They then went into a room, and he again struck her on the, head, and she fell, striking hor head against one of the tables. She was taken up insensible, and her head was washed with vinegar, but she died. On the prisoner being told of her death, he said to thC woman who told him, " say two wor d s to me, and I'll serve th ee th e same." The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against the hus band, James Ford ; but it is understood that the magis trates purpose preferring an indictment against him for the graver offence of wilful murder. LAW AS TO POLICEMEN TAXING. ]?ER4ONS IN CHARG E . —At Bow-street, on F r id ay, Mr. Robert Holland, Museum street, charged Thomas Platt, 311 A division, with &breach of duty. He said that on the 29th ult, at nine o'clock at night, his shopman was interrupted in closing the shutters by a man who leaned against them. The man used abusive language, and refused to go away. A policeman was sent for, but he declined to t a k e th e man i n charge, and the man laughed, and said, "I have lived seven years in St. Giles's, and I think that will lick you," The man was the worse for liquor, bat not so much so as to justify a charge of being drunk and incapable. The defendant said that when told to take the man in charge he replied that he could not take him on such a charge, but that he would tell the man to go away, and he would take him if he refused. He (the defendant) had not heard any bad lan guage. Ile had been in the force for ten years, and this was the first complaint against him.—Mr. Henry said that the law does not allow a constable to take a man in charge for using bad language, unless he (the constable) heard it used. He had replied rightly that he would speak to the man, and would take him in charge if he repeated his mis conduct. It would be most mischievous if a constable had the power to take people into custody on such charges, for if so, people in low nighbourhoods would be continually giving each other in charge.—The complainant admitted that the magistrate's view was right, and acknowledged himself mistaken. The charge was dismissed. SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OF SEAMEN.—Mr. john May, second mate, and several of the crew of the ship Kenilworth, from Bombay and the Mauritius, now lying in the London docks, appeared b e f ore Mr. Corrie, at the police office, to sustain claims for wages against Captain Frederick Bristow, the master of the ship. The ship came into dock thirteen days ago, and in consequence of the master refusing to keep his appointments, sonic of the seamen, to whom sums varying from £l2 to £3O each were due, were reduced to the deepest distress. The excuse for not paying the seamens' wages was that the ship was mortgaged, and there - was a dispute between the owners and the mortgagees. The man said th ey had navig case so a• ted the ship, laden with a most valuable car , to this har p d o , he rt, at an once d th issued summonses for the attend ance of the master and mate of the ship, but they had not attended. The magistrate Elaid the Payment of the wages had nothing to do with the dispute between the owner and mortgagees. It having been proved that the master signed the seamen's accounts, the captain was ordered te pay Mr. May 419 16s, and £2 12s 6d costs, and the amounts d ue to the othe r men, with co to, anti in default, within twenty four hours, he Should issue distress warrants against the . goods and c h attels, &c , on board the ship. The magis trate also o r d ered that each seaman sho u ld be paid thirteen (14 , 1 ' pay as costs. If the whole were not settled, the costs would be doubled, -. sue .-., Nii;ftwoiritimalk.amxwmgotwitil MANSLAUGHTER AT PRESTON - On Friday, at the Lancaster Assizes, berore Mr. Justice Willes, Richard Dngdale, an old man, 65 years of age, was charged with the - thauslauibter of his wife, Mary Dugdale, at Preston. Mr. A, Cross prosecuted, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. John Cross. The evidence showed that the prisoner and his wife, up to the time in question, had lived - upon the most amicable and peaceable terms, and there appeared to be no failing, except. that when one got something to drink the other must drink too. On the 22nd May, they had been off drinking together, and had been at home for soma time when, about half-past six o'clock, a lad named R. Burscon, hearing quarrelling, went to thee window of the prisoner's house, and saw him take up a pair of tongs by the mouth end and hit his wife on her head with the knob. She fell to the floor immediately on being struck. The boy who witnessed it went home and told his grandmother,. , and shortly after some neighbours came in, lifted her up, and carried her to-bed ; but she never spoke, and sbetl:the foll ow i ng morning, air. Bernard Halden, surgVor4 assisted by Mr. J o h n Rigby, afterwards made " postmortern " examination, and the appearances then fougd, were such as would be likely to be made with a blow froth a poker, there being a livid 'ring with the - centre untouched, The appearances could not have been procitteed by a fall down s t a i rs , as the fall m us t have been directly perpendicular to cause them, they being exactly ou the crown of the head, Thejudge summed up in the most careful and impartial map'ner, and the jury, after a careful consideration, re turped a verdict of " Guilty." 1-1 s Lordship, in passing Sentence, said be ba , l been convicted of the manslaughter of his wife, by striking her on the head with a pair of brings. When he looked at the depositions it appeared to amount to murder. He had consulted his brother judge.as to whether he could save him from the extreme punishment .for manslaughter, but found. it r , P. ;-- sible to do so, for he had struck a woman v deadly weapon, and the sentence war ported for the term of his natural life We read in the New York 7'intea of the 25th ult. : " Mrs. H. Beecher' Stowe sails on Wednesday next for Europe. She will bring out her book, On the Influence of Slavery upon the White Population,' during her absence, both in England and in the United States." There stands on the old market-place of Madgeburg the statue of Emperor Otto the Great, almost 1,000 years old, beside which are the statues of his two wives. Remarkable for their great antiquity, and as thev have withstood even the destruction of the city in 1631, they are undergoing a thorough renovation. JUDICIAL PLEASANTRY.—During the trial of a cause before Mr. Baron Alderson, at the Stafford Assizes, Mr. Huddlestone was obliged to leave the court in consequence of his nose bleeding, on which the learned Baron faceti ously remarked that this was the first instance he knew of a learned counsel shedding his blood in a cause. (Much laughter.) TAUT VALE RAILWAY. —At a meeting. of the directors of this railway, held on Friday, it was resolved to recommend the shareholders, at the approaching annual meeting, to divide 4 per cent for the half-year, or 8 per cent per annum. After payment of this dividend, and paying also the usual amount to the depreciation fund, there will be a very amplet. alance An extranrdinary circumstance has occurred in a villag'e not far from King's Lynu, Norfolk. A clergyman, who had been missed for three weeks, was found a few days since in a field of corn in a dreadful condition ; he was just alive, but Ries and insects had actually eaten his akin. It is supposed. that the unfortunate gentleman who is insane, had p asse d t h e three weeks in the geld, and that he had derived a scanty subsistance from the soarcely ripe ears of corn. • JUDGMENTS DEFAULT IN THE COUNTY COURTS.—In the New county Courts Ac', which will come into force on the ht of October, an alteration of considerable importance will take effect in actions, wherein judgment' is suffered by default. It is enacted by the 29th section, that in any action in a County Court for a debt exceeding ..20 the plaintiff may require a defendant to give notice of his intention to defend, otherwise judgment to be called up without proof of the demand. TEE SCOTS GREYS AT COVENTRY. —The Ovventry Herald contains an account of a public dinner given on Wed. nesday last, by the inhabitants of Coventry, to the Scots Greys. The officers and men of the 10th Hussars, now quartered in the barracks, and the pensioners of the district, were also amoag the guests. Tee company at dinner numberd about .1.50, of whom 300 were pr i vates, 3.0 othcers, and 120 civilians. The ch a i r was occup i ed by the Mayor, THE BISHOP OF DURHAM'S EPISCOPAL RESIDENCE..— Whoever may be Bishop of Durham, he will not, in all probability, be long the occupant of Auckland Castle, it being understood that the Ecclesiastical. Commissioners have determined to apply that stately palace, with its extensive park and lands, to purposes that will augment the funds for the creation and enlargement of benefice's elsewhere, in which case a suitable epi.copal residence for our dioebsan will have to be provided in or near the city of Durham. The park at Auckland is believed to be full of valuable minerals.—Sunderland Herald. Ronnenv ON ROYAL DOMAINS.—On Thursday evening, at a quarter past nine o'clock, Matthew Ray, butler, while walking in the Home Park, Windsor, was met by two men at a place not 200 Ards from the residence of three nark keepers. He was knocked down by one of the villains, and whilst he lay on the ground partially stunned, his pockets were rifled of six sovereigns, a purse, and some silver. Immedlatel money they made offthey g o t , o f possession the tow which is nea r t o one of theards Charier Tull's Lock, keeper's res, Had Ray su ffi ciently recovered to have given the lidence alarm the robbers would have b een captured, as the only way' of escaping was by crossing the Thames. SINGULAR DEATH.—On Monday, a telegraphic mes sage was received in Barnsley, to the effect that Mr. Henry Cordeaux, a young man of great promises, aged 23 years, son of Mr. John Cordeaux, linen manufa.cturer, Barnsley, who was out on his journey at Biddesford. Devonshire, had left his inn on Sunday morning for a walk on the sands, and that one of his boats had been found embedded in the sand, but his person could not be found ; there was no doubt that he had been fast in the sand when the tide came in and swept him into the sea. Mr. Calvert, clerk to Mr. Cordeaux, was at once despatched to the place. On Tuesday morning another telegraphic message was received, stating, his body had been washed on shore and recovered. Deceased was a young man universally respected and esteemed wherever he went. His loss is much lamented in Barnsley. ACCIDENT B 1 M acritisenx.—Another dreadful accident from machinery has occurred at Holton Beckering. W. Bratton, a steady young man, owner of one of Clayton Co.'s steam engines, was thrashing, and got upon the top of the engine to scrape off the R heat that :had alighted there. By some mischance his foot slipped, and his right foot got entangled in the machinery at the drum, The accident was one of the most fearful and excruciating character, and at the same time one of the most astonish. ing. There was a space not more than an inch and a half broad for the foot to go into, yet the strong nailed boot and foot were drawn in; the boot was torn to pieces, and the foot crushed horribly. The sufferer screamed out, awl slowly the leg was drawn down, the bone crushed and the flesh torn up to beyond the knee and halfway up the thigh.. The strap was thrown eft and the engine stopped. The unhappy man, suffering torments indeste-• bable. begged to be extricated, but no one the part of the machinery to Pieces which t was neces, sary to remove to get 'him out. Mr. Baker, surgeon, of Wragby, was sent for, and he arrived 'three-quart e r s of an hour a ft er the accident, and aided in getting the limb removed from the dreadful vice. Very little blood was lost, but the shock was so fearfully intense that the injured man did not survive more than two hours. THE Aus•rniaNt NAVY. —The Pays says :—Austria is at present making very serious efforts to increase her navy. The first line.of- battle ship (90 guns) which she ever thought of possessing was put on the stocks at Pola a few days back, under the name of the Emperor, and is to have a screw propellor, with an 800 horse power. Two other ships of the line of the same dimensions are likewise to be immediately commenced, and according to orders sent from Vienna, are to be urged on as rapidly as possible. Independently of these first-rate vessel; twq screw frigates, the Adria and the Danube, are being ter minated in the yards of Illoggio, as well as a screw corvette at Venice, which has received the name ofthenVa Vice-Ad., mini) mind Dandolo, in honour of the ad m i ra l of that died lately. At the same time the armament of a screw despatch-boat, the Prince Eugene of Savoy, is so nearly of completed that she will be ready for s ea i n the beginning August. To complete these measures, Austria is about to found two maritime arsenals, one at Fiume, and the other at Lussin. Since the war in the East, all the nations of Europe perceive clearly that a naval force is indispensable to enable them to p reserve their rank and power in the world. LEFATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. —,A Melancholy occurrence took place on Friday at the Neachell Colliery, Ball Plea) a short distance prom Willenhall. At six o'clock in the morning s even men, in c l u di ng Henry Hodgkiss ! the butty, ' and two lad s, d escended a stone pit belonging to Messrs, Sparrow, Five of the men and the two boys pro.. ceoded at once into the workings, and two of the men, France and Hayward, remained at the bottom. France soon perceived the presence of foul air, and called to Hodgkiss, the "batty," to withdraw the other Men and the boys from the headway. The men at the bottom gave the parsecs on the bank., the alarm by shouting to Hodgkiss soon after reac . hed the bottm, dragging the boys, one by each hand . then ,e Who le party, with the exception of the " buttY, erl became insensible. In the meantime the men on the bank lowered a skip, and the ins ens ible men and boys w ere placed in it to be taken up. When the skip was about eight or nine yards from the ground, one of the insensible men, William Burns, fell from it. On reaching the bank the others were taken out, and the usual means to restore animation were applied, we are happy to state, with perfect success. The skip was again lowered for the purpose of finding Burns, but tw en t y minutes elapsed, in consequence of the stifling gas, ere the men could r eac h the bottom. The body of the unfortun ate man was found dead, with a fearful wound ni the left, side of the head. He had been ailing for some time past., and the gas probably had a greater effect upon him than, the other men. c0u 1 : 3 ,, take