The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-05 00:00:00

°REIGN INTELLIGENCE -~-- FRANCE (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. beeN_n receiv ° thing new ab , )ut the Sicilian insurrection has 4 , e ed to thy, either in private circles or by government. Th wi th eEmpe.ror yesterday had a long conference ord; the Prince Jerome and Prince Murat. In . " c ipary times a conference between his majesty, his t e 4e ' and his cousin, would seem nothing very 4,,l,nayltable, but as it happened to take place just It".Fr.the receipt of the news of the outbreak in Sicily, r e f s s upposed by people at the palace to have had ~rence to Pri nce M ura t' s pre t ens i ons to the, crown N aples he Assemblle Nationale, in a venomous article, ti.kwynends that if the English government should the „advantage of the S , cilian rising to interere in s'and France should do so too. " If the English," t eL „ 3'3 i , jour amiable cotemporary, " should send a Isla nd —e nt, France ought to send an army into that s stl ardently desired; if the English do not see te.ve . r 3 7 itheir side, and stronger than they, they will l eave it." - - 4, 1 1 . ,e Count (1,-; Wurtemberg, cousin of the King of a. 4 : a 70 berg, wh o i s i n thi s c ity, i s ,l he a r,negociating a ia ge between his daughter and the Prince bri n poi r e - p e° n , the Emperor's cousin. The Wurtemburg n t s ti ba vitig married a Beauharnais, is a connexion le B r .ionaparte family. a . re t , H ad in one of the newspapers th's mor n i ng tlar s ?'l', Of a case before the tribunal of commerce in the well, in which Messrs Fox, Henderson, and Co., 4 s - d ;v t ellkno wn builders of the Crystal Palace appear haiTe'endants It was alleged against them that they 111, .intered into an agreement with M. Cusin and compegendre managers of the Napoleon docks 't • • k id `n for building the docks for 24,000 000 francs, t hat some transactions with respect to part pay ii:Pt of the money in shares took place, of such a thC t ire that they were contrary to law and to corn e rcial regulations, and were highly prejudicial to ihteresth of the shareholders, Messrs. Fox and 3 2 e nderson were therefure called on to restore a; °00 shares they had received, or their value in 14 , eY, 4,000,000 f. (X 160,000), and to consent to eh oc b ng the agreement declared null and void. On ti kt of Messrs, Fox and Henderson it was denied t'ep r 2 t ley had done anything wrong, and it was the'serated that they were the injured parties. They 4 11 ore dem ended that if the agi eement were put I'h e e n(l , to, they should receive 2,000,000 f damages befo ~ rerlbonal took time to examine into all the facts - • th e f giving judgment. From the manner in which ti ot a cts are related it would appear, though it was 44 d 8n admitted, that Fox and Henderson let Cusin twes4 l : 4eg en d re take 14,400 of the 32,000 shares i n tei ve ` l °O as a b r ib e, an d yet th it they allowed them. 4n /e s ,' in order t o b ene fi t th e com p a ny, to be repre- C (lsi as the bona .fide holders of the whole 32,000. klv a i rl t . a nd Legendre, by the way, are in prison to tr , Pan I ng trial on the charge of swindling the dock From Y * tli kt f i n 4 report of th e P re f e ct, of the Seine, it appears h t li tt P. 7 41 185 2 to 1856, 2,524 houses were demolished vnPul r- f l' and that .5 238 were built or enlarged. The 41 94 --° n of Paris increased in five years by 121,000 ,r/Inn icipality of Pat is will, I hear, before tiot t 7 e 'ise the loan of 2,000,0001 sterling which it was Th_utne ago authorized to make ok ia 7 l Pattie this evening denies, no doubt on semi of the'tutbority, that the reports of the abdication A D ' l ing of Denmark are well founded. A le ss i letter of the 29th ult says that the pr esid e e nvoy, envoy, M. de Sydow, had informed the the r e ntof the confederation that in consequence of he eh l%al to wit h the demands of P russia, . comply ery i'preceived orders to leave the town—this looks t eeh h ; tc ? a diplomatic rupture, though . perhaps, Nceally, i t must .not be so considered. O n the passedlt the Federal Council, in a new sitting, th recommendation a resolution that it could not consent to adopt h toem ina t ecoM mendation of the Emperor of the Frencii. th e Neufchatel prisoners at liberty as a pre Th r e c t° , negociations with Prussia. " "car, 4 "ng of Holland, as Grand Duke ofhli.suxem -4W" h as imposed on the duchy, by the 4 11 ri a ti t:b ri e t r 3 r , the modified constitution which 1) of representatives lately agreed to adopt, 4 ee 4 I;_as dissolved the chamber. It remains to be me A n' the people will receive these arbitrar acts. i ndrid despatch says that the Spanish govern , il as made arrangements with M. Mires, thel 00 -s '„ banker, for a. loan of 300,000,000 rea s ° A , OO/ ) i Ap e ~ PARIS, WEDNESDAY ,lt ) Si e ' n uare no further accounts of the insurrection EVENING. gI A 0 1: 4 ,?; to day, and I am assured that up to this ' te e. " the government itself has not received any. s le aYs v,raPhie despatch which came in driven ` - 'ht the employes of the government had been last night I, ll Yti a i,,,awaY from Cephale, but it does not say s - "g f - havingcommenced at itle r , 0 any rising rr ia . ,, ,o. si ety ab m rench Emperor, I hear, feels not a little t h i ll ° s • 0 0t the insurrection, as, ifit spreads, there - ,,'Y i/ 1 r l l ng what consequences it may have, not Of —a AY buteven in Fra nce . ( I, . en Illestic news ofpolitical importance Th e there is in th e dearth to day. —lo a e r s ‘ ," of Baron Roth.schild, of this city, is about r- -' otle of the Miss Rothschilds of London, his t om t t4 Oa o ,`'Wley, our am b assa d or, h as b een giving c/ 4ip er -ouoo ti ng p art i es at. Chantilly, Several of the ih 4 ler hils ai des - de-camp, Baron Rothschild, and hers of distinction have been invited to Cr,great 'quantit of game has been killed 'tot, --W leY has the ren y utation of being a first rate Th 1:14 disc " 8411 of Amsterdam yesterday reduced its rate A 'great l per cent. t n umber n of Germans have recently taken „4t tk residence in Neufchatel. It being feared rN e g u e r xr , object may be to attempt the release of 1)-tenginc4uktel pris?i?ers, h or to take part in a coup e adopted measures of ca t titi' on iu . e a l u t thortti appears es from av accounts received to 1 / 4 11 4 0 11 r if the Prussian minister in Switzerland Yet been recalled he soon will be. THE EASTERN QUESTION 416 h p -11 e. e . - 1 411 S Pay s observes, upon the test of the ,e note note toßeschid Paella of M. do Bouitte -I'o'4ll AT. Thouvenel (the Russian and T . t t e e Ozet e t A mbassadors), as reported by the . rte 3 ;130 Assuming this note to be correct l y i we may perceive in it the germ of t hitioorrient Avhich has been spoken of, and the 41 41 -1341 basis of which were set forth in the last Al' of the Revue Contemporaine. According to I l e P l an the possession of the Isle of Serpent and 0 11 elta i of the Danube would be secured to the j 1 11 1, " .. and it is known that, with regard to the 'art -4 question (that of the Principalities), the `ndbas yielded to the observations made to 1 4 oc "agreed not to limit the liberty of thedivans it I 'and thus to leave them free to express their th tl ielt k % f t l Pon fundamental questions, such as the br ef . the Principalities. There would remain, it o thi r ep only the Bolgrad question; and we do oth e ' l l't that can be solved in any better way than the D itlee ting in Congress of the Plenipotentiaries oWers interested " Ni 4 I t ATIONS OF RUSSIA TO SUPPORT ERSIA AGAINST ENGLAND. 'he -c7z following appears in the Warsaw journal, b, \ : l 4ij t e B l ,' °f the 30th ult. : tt k • l'Etr e ,"" -r igland, with much noise and ostentation, to ° ,texl - t it a , l-1 expedition against Persia, Russia— liq'nie ' l °llsly and noiselessly—is getting ready For4l'rt ‘ l3 tile succour of the Shah. The Orem cor N r e(.l. L.Ps d'armee has been considerably rein e '( 1 `vsi iB , commanded by Aide de-Camp General e ty , outposts of this corps extend to if e' t i, F I 0,,,, - "Its of th e country of Turan, upon the 4 0. 1 , - 'et, a o and Jaxartes; and the military flotilla tiler gen e °f Aral placed under the orders of the t is brought by the above mentioned ae 13 1. ;, - ,:e frontiers of India. On another side, .(11,,i ia ttr nly It Y.. reigns upon the Caspian Sea, and in t ° I the - -re„ Caucasus. Transport vessels " and war material on board, pass • AUSTRIA The only local news to be communicated is, that the Brussels paper Le Nord is entirely prohibited in Austria. The Triester Zeitung contains the text of a note which not long since was presented by MAI. Boutenieff and Thouvenel to the Porte. The French and Russian Governments demanded of the Grand Vizier (fiedschid Pasha) positive answers to the following questions : " I. In reference to the regulation of the Bessa rabian frontier : " Does the Porte agree to leave it to the Paris Conference to remove the existing difficulties, or is it willing to settle matters in such a way that it will renounce its pretensions to Bolgrad in favour of Russia, if France and Russia will guarantee to Turkey Proper the definitive possession of the Isle of Serpents and of the delta of the Danube? "2. In reference to the prolonged occupation of the Danubian li ' Princpaties _ _ " Does the Sublime Porte not see that it is in opposition to the words and spirit of Article 31 of the Treaty of Paris? And is not the prolonged accupation of the Principalities by Austrian forces in contradiction to the language employed by Count Buol at the Congress ? _ _ "3. In reference to the presence of the English squadron in the Bosphorus and Black Sea : "Does not the Porte see that the same is in opposition to the Convention of Nay, 15, 1856, according to which a term of six months, reckoning from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the Paris Treaty, was fixed for the withdrawal of all the forces of England, France, and Sardinia from the Turkish territory? And is not the pro longed stay of the British squadron an impediment to the realization of the convention relative to the Straits, which was to have come into force on the 28th October? "4. In reference to the reorganisation of the i)anubian Principalities : " Is the Porte of opinion that the Divans ad hoc are quite at liberty to declare themselves in favour of the territorial and administrative union of the two Principalities, if such should be the wish of the inhabitants of Wallachia and Moldavia? And would the Porte, as the Suzerain Power, make any difficulties if the declaration (of the Divan ad hoc) should be taken into serious consideration ? " THOUYENEL, " BOUTENIEFF." The King of Greece was very well received on his arrival at the Piraeus on the 22nd November. A day or two after his return his Majesty received the congratulations of the diplomatic corps, which were offered by Mr Wyse, the British Ministes, as its doyen or senior According to reliable private advices, the person and manners of Her Majesty the Empress have produced a remarkably favourable impression on the susceptible Venetians. --4.-- PRUSSIA BERLIN, DEc. 2. The House of Notables here, having chosen its President (Prince Hohenlobe) at its first meeting, November 29, has since then elected also its Vice President, in the person of Count Stalberg-Werni gerode ; the choice for second Vice-President fell on Herr von Duesberg. This Chamber may be said to have commenced business yesterday morning, at its second meeting, inasmuch as certain bills were laid before it. The rather singular result of the voting on the election of President and Vice-President is reported to have been a larger number of votes, thrown into the urn, than there were members nresent. Among the many other arrange ments made at the beginning of the session of the two Chambers is one for the facility of mem bers correcting thetr speeches before they can be made public ; thus during this session, the short hand-writers' report of the speeches delivered in the morning sittings will lie out for correction in fair copy during the evening from six till nine o'clock, and the following morning from nine till ten o'clock. In the eye of the law (as regards any ulterior consequences) a member does not use the words he actually litters in the House, but only those which he allows to remain in the report uncorrected or unerased ; in former sessions the copies of the speeches were sent round to each of the speakers within the next few days after the debate, so that the subscribers to the stenographic reports received them about eight or ten days after date. It appears that we shall in future get them in about three to four. . The House of Deputies, at its second sitting yesterday, elected for its President Count Eulen burg, the same as last year, rejecting Count Schwerin by a large majority. Herr von Arnim was elected First Vice President, and Herr Buch teman the Second. In these Prussian Chambers the committees are not nominated specially on occasion of every separate bill that is brought in, or on the motion of any member, but are organised from the very beginning as permanent committees for certain subjects, such as finance, jurisprudence, petitions, &e. The process is this—The President first of all divides the whole body of members arbitrarily into five divisions, and then each of these divisions chooses the three men it contains best acquainted with the subject the committee will have to inquire into. The total number thus choosen for each committee is 15, of whom three are set aside by election among themselves, as chairman, deputy chairman, and secretary. The Prussian Correspondence contains a violent article against what it calls the disgraceful attitude assumed by certain English journals on the subject of the question of Neufchatel. It declares that it relies on the English government declining all solidarity in the sentiments put forth by these journals. In yesterday's sitting Count d'Eulenberg was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies by 175 votes out of 265 votes ; Count de Schwerin had 88 votes. M. d'Arnim was elected Vice president, and M. Buchtemann second Vice president. The Chamber of Peers has elected Count de Stolberg Wernigerode and M. Duesberg Vice presidents. incessantly between Astrahan and the port of that the terms offered by M. Mires have been ac- Bakou, situated in the province of Schirvan, cepted by the Government, and the contract, signed bordering on the Caspian Sea, belonging to Russia, and at the frontier of Persia. The new Lieutenant-General of the Caucasian pro - 1 vinces, Prince Bariatynski, has received fuller powers than his predecessors. He has lately inspected, on its way to its destination, the flotilla by both parties, has been published in the Gazette of the Caspian Sea, which has been considerably increased, and partly left at its disposal. This flotilla can easily take troops on board either of the corps of Orembourg or the army of the Caucasus, and take them to the relief of Persia, disembarking either at Astrabad or upon the neighbouring coast of Teheran. The corps which forms part of the army of the Caucasus, cantoned at Schirvan and Erivan, and commanded by Gen. Khruleff, who distinguished himself in the Eastern war, can also succour Persia by land as well as by sea. Meanwhile the Russian government neglect nothing in replacing the war materiel consumed during the late war, and continues to refill the exhausted magazines THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, Dec. 2 The Danish, Reichstag, will re-assemble for the transaction of public affair on the 4th instant, but an address from the throne is not expected to take pl ace. Prince William of Glucksburg, the third brother of Prince Christian of Denmark, and who is a General of the Austrian Army, is at present on a visit at Copenhagen, and was permitted yesterday, say the public journals (28th ult.), to pay a visit t o the King at Freidrichsborg. It is also currently rumoured that a reconciliation between His Majesty and high personages related to him, and who at present reside abroad, will speedily ensue, a circumstance that is very much desired by a party of great influence in the Danish capital. The rumour, which was currently reported some time ago, that General Oxholm, the Danish Minister at the Court of London, had renewed his request to be relieved from that post, is again VIENNA, Nov. 30. I current. A deputation, consisting of members of the nobi lity, landed proprietors, and farmers from the Duchy of Lauenburg, at the head of which is the Count von Kielmansegge, arrived on the 27th inst. at Copenhagen, and had the honour of an interview with the King at his palace of Freiderichsborg (at which place his Majesty still resides, notwithstand the severity of the weather) for the purpose of presenting a petition, the object of which is said to be to request the King to suspend any further sale of domain property in that duchy for the present. - The deputation was well received by his Majesty and the Land Marshal has been fortunate enough to have had, since his visit, several private audiences of the King, which have borne the character of confidential conversations on the sub ject of the affair in question. Besides this, two Councils of State have been held with respect to the negotiations now pending upon this affair, at which the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of M. von Scheele (at the present time in Altona), were present. The weather has been extremely boisterous of late in the Sound and along the coast of Jutland, and at Elsinore several ships have been stranded in the violent gales which have been experienced from the south south east, close to the castle of Kronsberg. _ _ _ From the Island of Bornholm the reports of the effects of the same gales have also been very dis tressing, and several losses are said to have been the result. The intelligence from many parts of Jutland is replete with casualities of shipwrecks and other severe losses among the shipping of various nations. The weather continues to vary between G and 8 degrees of frost with us, and much snow has fallen. The navigation of the Elbe has, however, up to the present time, not been interrupted for the passage of sailing vessels, but such will not be the case in a couple of days more should the frost continue. Already there is much floating ice on the river, and one night's hard frost will be enough to prevent any more shins passing up or down without great risk. The Hamburg steamship Borussia, Captain Ehiers, left this day for New York, with a full cargo of valuable goods and about 272 passengers. The Hammonia, another of the same company's steamers, that left on the 2nd, arrived, according to accounts received here yesterday, at New York on the 15th ult., after a quick passage of 13 days and 14 hours. DENMARK COPENHAGEN, DEC. 3 The King has granted a complete amnesty. Nine. teen Danish officers who took service in Schleswig Holstien in 1848 have been recalled. THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA IN ITALY VENICE, DEC. 2 The Emperor has issued an amnesty. Seventy political offenders have received a free pardon. The sequestration ou the property of political fugitives is entirely removed. THE NORTHERN TIMES.---LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. SPAIN The only subject of interest in the Madrid journals of the 29th ult., received iu due course this morning, is the decree, already mentioned by telegraph, relative to the proposition made by M. Mires respecting the loan of 300,000,000 of reals to the Spanish Government. That capitalist pro poses that the amount . should b e p a id i n five i ns t a lments, the first m. ten days from the conclu. sion of the arrangement, the remainder at intervals of two months each. In return he is to receiv e stock at the price of 11 per cent, with three p er cent deducted for commission from the nominal capital. The conditions to be put up to auction on the 17th inst. A telegraphic despatch, dated Madrid, Ist inst., and received in Paris on the 3rd inst., announces FEMALE DIPLOMACY. VIENNA, Nov. 26.—During the last few days some excitement prevailed in our diplomatic circles from the discovery of a scandalous breach of confidence which forms a pendant to the celebrated case of stealing the despatches at Potsdam. In this case, however, the delinquent is a lady of great personal attractions, in whose saloons the highest of the aristocracy of this city meet frequently, as she receives almost every evening. The dupe of the lady is Prince , who has only lately been appointed by his Sovereign as ambassador to the Court of Vienna, It appears, that shortly before his appointment, the Prince had made the ac quaintance of a French lady, who was so charmed with his talents and conversation, that she removed also to Vienna, and being well in troduced, set up a sort of political saloon, in which the questions more especially affecting the country represented by the Prince were discussed. During the late ministerial crisis at , the Prince, of course, received numerous despatches informing him of all that was going on at home, for his own private use, and to regulate his condut towards the other diplomatists. It so happened that a few days ago the Prince discovered, from what fell from the ambassador in a diplomatic confer. ence, that he was acquainted with certain circum stances, which he could only have known through his own despatches, and his suspicions being ex cited he followed up the clue and traced it to the above named French lady, Madame de —. The end of the story is, that this lady has sold off her furniture and broken up her establishment, having received a gentle hint from the police that the climate of Vienna was not suited for her. It has, however, created some surprise that the Embassy that profited so largely by the lady's abuse of confidence, has taken no step to prevent her banishment, or in any other way to afford her protection. THE PERSIAN GOVERNMENT AND THE BRITISH EXPEDITION. The following article, alluding to the expedition from India to the Persian Gulf, has been published in a supplement of the Teheran Gazette : " Reports are current here that an English ship of war had arrived on the 13th of September, in the Persian Gulf, after a passage of nine days from Bombay. It i 9 also said that as many as twenty other sailing and steam vessels will shortly leave the latter place for the same destination, and that each would have on board 300 or 400 soldiers. We cannot give a decided opinion as to the truth or falsity of this news. 'We aro completly ignorant whether such a vessel or such vessels have or have not arrived, but, we believe that, seeing the perfect friendship which unites the two powers, such a state of things could not take place. We are sure that the Ministers of his Majesty the Shah too highly appreciate the ancient friendship of Persia with England, and the good dispositions of the British Government to maintain the conventions in vigour, to admit that the latter would be dis posed to break, without motive, existing treaties with Persia. The Persian Government places great confidence in the kindness, the perspicacity, and the perfect equity of the English Cabinet. It even the vessels were to enter the Persian Gulf, as the rumour states, the Cabinet of Teheran would not consider that fact as an act of hostility, but would demand from the British Government its intentions, in order to be well assured of the true cause of the event. So long as it will be possible the Persian Go vernment will not assume the initiative, and will abstain from any attitude contrary to the old and valuable intimacy which for many years has existed between the two powers. We have, however, heard from the people of the country that as soon as it shall be really proved that Great Britain, from the suggestions of agitators, and impelled by malevolent parsons, had broken her treaties of friendship with Persia, and committed an act contrary to the har mony which has exis•ed for so many years between them, in that case the Persian nation, professing Islamism, and distinguished for its zeal, wonld be obliged, to its great regret, to firmly oppose the proceedings of the British government. Putting its confidence in God alone, it would be compelled to protect the dignity of the kingdom, and to defend its honour, its reputation, and its true religion." _-.,6.- THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY It was rumoured in Paris on Tuesday afternoon that the movement in Sicily had been put down, but there does not appear to be any official confir mation of the fact. General Zola, who commands at Palermo, sent a Swiss regiment by sea to the place where the outbreak occurred, and it was to take the place of that corps that troops were des patched from Naples The opinion in official quarters is that the revolt, which is said to have occurred in more places than one, will be easily put down, if it has not been before this. It is not as yet clearly ascertained which of the political parties began to raise the cry. nor what has been the cry itself. There are several parties. We have first the S paratiss, who were numerous and influential a few years ago; their object was less of a general than of a local kind; they were for the separation from Naples, and the abs flute independence of Sicily. It is believed, however, that a change has taken place, and that a more Italian spirit has penetrated the population. Another p Arty, by no means con temptible in number, or the influence of its members, was for maintaini n g th e un i on o f th e T wo Si c ili es and the Bourbon dynasty with or without th e abdi , cation of the King in favour of his son ; but on the indispensable condition of re establishing the consti, tution of 1848. A third and smaller section was for the union of Sicily with Piedmont, under the sovereignty of King Victor Emanuel. This plan found favour at Turin, and was supported by a cer lain part of the press; but it was not popular among the Sicilians, who did not wish the island to become a dependency of the crown of Sardinia. There is not in Sicily any o:e who puts forward a claim in favour of Murat, on the contrary, his cause is in the greatest discredit. HISTORIC SOCIE IT OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE. A special general meeting of this society was held last night, in the grand jury room of St. George's Hall. The Vice President, Mr. .1. T. Danson, occupied the chair. The first business was the adoption of a form of testimonial to Dr. Thom, on the occasion of his retirement from the office of Vice President of the society. Mr. Mayer, the treasurer, proposed that a diploma of life membership be presented to the Rev. Dr. Thom. The Rev. D:. Hume seconded the motion, and in doing so took occasion to pay a high tribute to the ability and attention with which Dr. Thom had dis charged the important duties of the office which he had held for several years. He added that Dr. Thom had been a member of the council from the commencement of the society. In both of these capacities, as well as in attending to the ordinary duties of membership, he bad displayed the most exemplary diligence and attention. He (Dr. Hume) bad, therefore, peculiar satisfaction in seconding the propo sition, being satisfied that such a testimonial would be as gratifying to Dr. Thom as it was appropriate. He should also propose that if the state of Dr. Thom's health were such as would enable him to attead on the occasion, the diploma should be presented at the general meeting to be held next week. The Chairman expressed his entire concurrence in the appropriate and suitable character of the proposed tes timonial. The mode in which Dr. Thom had discharged the duties of his office entitled him to the warm thanks of the society. For himself he could sincerely say he hoped he should be able to follow in the path, and profit by the labour, of so good an exemplar. He bad very great pleasure in supporting the motion. - Several other members having paid a tribute to the services of Dr. Thom, and expressed their concurrence in the proposalF, the motion was carried by acclamation. ARCHXOLOGICAL SECTION The special business having been thus concluded, the meeting then resolved itself into the ordinary archaeological section. The minutes of the last meeting were read. Four gentlemen were proposed as new members, and the following were ba'lotted for and duly elected :—Sir J. P. Kay Shuttleworth, Bart. Gawthorpe hall, B urn l ey; J o h n An9dell, Esq.. St. Helens ;• Thomas Broughton, E q ., Uls'er Railway, Belfast - Wi l liam G. Crory, E s q., 7, Upper Duke street; John O'Donnell, M.D., 34, Rodney street; Walter Wren Driffield, Esq , York Buildings, Sweeting street ; Robert Evans, E:q., Elder Grove, Rock Ferry ; Rev. Philip Frost ; J. B. Haines, the Parsonage, lloylake ; Edward Horrell, E q , Church street. The fo l lowing donatilns were announced : From Lord Londesborougb, Miscellanea Graphica, No, IX. From the author, Chap. Roach Smith, F.S.A., Col. lectanea Antigua, vol. 11., parts 1 and 2. From the author, Alfred John Duncan, Fpq., Archaeological Mine and New History of Kent, parts XXII, XXIII, and XXIV. From the author, Jas. Booth, L.L D., F.R.S., How to Learn and what to Learn. From the editor, The Scottish Field, edited for the Cheatham S oc i e t y , by John Robson, M.D., 1856. From the the society, Report presented to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society at its 16th general meeting, May 6,1856; also, Communications made to the Society, No. 6. Dr. Hume exhibited a very fine specimen of " the leathern Bottel" supposed to be of the beginning of the sixteenth century, and read some verses on the subject from the songs common in Yorkshire and Somersetslaire. Dr. Hume also exhibited some coins of the time of Vespa sian, and others of the Roman emperors. Dr. Hume then proceeded to read the paper of the even ing, which was written by Thomas T. Wilkinson, Esq., and was entitled " The Battle of Brimanburb, and the probable locality of the conflict." The writer contended that the locality of this battle between Athelstane and the Danes and Scots was not, as generally received, in Northumber land, but at Burnley, in Lancashire. A conversation which took place on this paper concluded the business of the evening. GOIN G Auss.D !—At a meeting of the Morayshire Erten sion Railway, at Rothes, on Tuesday, a professional gentle man, who addressed the meeting, stated—" If you give is money we won't atop at Craigellaohie, or yet at Grantown but send the railway everywhere, and further." Query— Where to?—Elgin Courant. DEFALCATIONS OF A POOR-RATE COLLECTOR AT HUD DERSFIELD.--A special meeting of the Board of Guardians of the Huddersfield Union, was held at their offices, Albion street, on Monday last, for the purpose of taking into consideration the course to be pursued with reference to the balance certified by the auditor to be due from Mr. Jonathan Frost, assistant overseer and collector of poor rates for the township of Lockwood. The chairman read the statement of balances, which the auditor certified to be due from the overseers. On the 25th March, 1854, the balance doe was £l5B 16s. 1,1 d., but was reduced on the 28th March, 1855, to £3B sa, Si. Since that period, how ever, a regular increase had taken place, which was certified on the 29th September last, to be £154 93. 11d., and at the present time, it amounted to £166 18s. 2d. Out of this, however, the salary due to Mr. Frost, the collector, had to be deducted,which would reduce the amount to a little below the sum due in September. Mr. North, one of the overseers, stated that he had signed the accounts as a matter of form, expecting them to be all right. A resolution was passed leaving the auditor to adopt what steps he thought proper to recover from Mr. Frost, the collector, the money he had thus abstracted. BRUTAL CASE OP WIFE BEATING.—A most serious charge of cruelty to a wife was heard on Tuesday at the Hare wood's End Petty Sessions, Herefordshire, before an unusually full bench of magistrates. John Robinson, a farmer living in that district, was charged with committing a series of the most aggravated assaults on his wife on the Bth of October, having forced his fingers brutally into her ear till the blood flowed, and committed other acts of inhuman violence, at length seizing the poker and only being pre. ventel taking her lif e b y t h e t i me l y i nterpos i t i on of the servants in the house. The prisoner had absconded from the neighbourhood soon after the occurrence, but was apprehended in the Alpha-road, London, a few days since by Superintendent l3lossett, the indefatigable bead officer of the Rcss police. The investigation occupied several hours. The evidence disclosed the most brutal conduct on the pa rt o f the accused, who habitually primed himself with drink, on purpose to ga i n courage for the inhuman task of beating his wife, and the bench unanimously decided on committing him for six months, with bard labour, to Hereford County Gaol, being the utmost penalty allowed by the law. The accused has highly respectable connections, was farming a large estate, and his committal caused quite a sensation in a crowded court I WALLASEY LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH The usual monthly meeting of the members of this board was held last evening, at the Public-offices, Egre mont. The commissioners present were —Messrs. Neville, Penny. W. R. Colborne, Littledale, E. W. Colborne, Ball, Caine, Hughes, Wilson, Singlehurst, Chambers, and the Rev. Mr. Roberts. The chairman of the board, Mr. Pooley presided. The Law Clerk read the minutes of the last meeting, and also that of an extraordinary meeting, held on the 19th ult.. THE WORKS AND HEALTH COMMITTEE The proceedings of this committee were read and confirmed. The only subject of importance was the acceptance of the tender of Mr. Lea, for the construc tion of the sewer in the district. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE. The proceedings of this committee were also con firmed, from which it appeared that the board were recommended, in future, to collect the rates on an entirely new system, which the chairman said would be very advantageous to the board—as much as 36 per cent. over the old system. In answer to a question relative to the non-collection of the rates from some of the poorer persons, The Chairman said the blame was as much attributable to the finance committee as it was to the collector, Mr. Ber, as his duty ceased on his reporting the defaulters to that committee. Mr. W. R. Colborne then moved that the committee be instructed to take more stringent measures, by the issuing of summonses or warrants, for the enforcing the payment of the arrear of rates. Mr. Neville seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Mr. W. R. Colborne also moved that the same com mittee be instructed to take the necessary steps for the collection of the money expended in the making and repairing the roads on the north and south side of the ferry, amounting to £3,000. This was also seconded, and unanimously adopted. THE RATES. In accordance with a resolution passed at the last meeting, a general district rate of Is 9d, and a special district rate of 33, for the district of &acorn!), and a similar vote of 414 for the New Brighton district. THE NEW POLICE ACT. The board gave their assent to a memorial from the magistrates assembled in special sessions, for having the New Police Act applied to that district. THE BIRKENHEAD DOCKS A report of the proceedings of the special committee appointed to co-operate with the Birkenhead Commis sioners, in regard to the Birkenhead Docks and approaches to the Landing Stage, was then placed before the board. The Law Clerk said, at a meeting of the committee i had been agreed to adopt a report on the above subject agreeing to the draft of the bill before Parliament, and at a meeting on the Ist of December, it was agreed that the report be received, and laid before the general board. [This document was a very voluminous one, contain ing all the resolutions, correspondence, suggestions, and reports which had taken place (since the question was first mooted) between the Birkenhead Commissioners the Dock Committee, the Town Council, the Birken head Dock Trustees, and the Great Western Railway, all of which have, at the various meetings of the several boards, been read, and published in this journal from time to time] Mr. Neville hoped that the clerk was not going to read that report. Mr. Caine did not see the use of it, as it had all appeared in the public papers. Mr. Penny said, on any other subject he should not have thought of inflicting on the board the hearing read of such a lengthy document, but feeling that a vote of censure was about being passed on two of the members of that committee, he thought it necessary that the board should be first informed of what that committee had done. The Chairman : Mr. Penny, has anticipated a vote of censure on some parties—perhaps, by reading the whole report his anticipations may be be frustrated. Mr. Penny: It is necessary that the whole should be read, in order to see what the committee have already Mr. Caine : Cannot the clerk give the heads of the report, &c. The Clerk did not see how such could be done. Mr. Penny : Nothing will show what the committee has done, except the reading of the entire report. Mr. Caine : Why, everybody knows what it is. It has been published in the papers. Mr. Singlehurst expressed a hope that, it would all be read, as he did not know the contents ; and he could not vote on a subject without he knew about it. --- Mr. Neville It has been published times and often. Besides it is not the report of our committee. Mr. Penny : It is the report of the committee ; and, in justice to that committee, I must request that that report be read. The Chairman : Let us have the sense of the board on the point. _ After some further conversation, the board divided, when, Tho Chairman said : The result is, that the document must be read, and I hope you will all pay particular attantion to its contents. Mr. Neville : Well, I shall not waste my time by hearing it. The - Chairman; Indeed, indeed, I do hope you will stop. Mr. Neville : No. [That gentleman then retired from the room, and was immediately followed by Mr. Caine, whom the Chairman pressed to stop, but that gentleman replied, " Perhaps I may call in by-and-bye, when it is all over."] The Clerk then commenced reading of the report, and was soon questioned by Mr. W. R. Colborne on a certain portion, but the chairman said, as the reading of the document must of necessity occupy a considerable time, and asin all probability an adjournment would be necessary, he could not allow any interruption, but should advise Mr. Colborne to take notes on those parts upon which he might require any further information. The Clerk then pursued his task of reading the report, several commissioners expressing their disapp►oval of having their time occupied, one gentleman observing, " that he would rather wait an hour then, than come to a special meeting, and be delayed two hours longer." In reference to this subject, it would appear that au extraordinary meeting of the board had been held on the 19th of the last month, when the following subjects were discussed : 1. The right of the board to be represented in the permanent committee of management of the Birkenhead docks. 2. The obligation of the Corporation of Liver pool to construct a proper road along the " North reserve." 3. The preservation of the right of the board to a public wharf or quay on North reserve. 4. The obligation of the corporation to construct a sufficient culvert or drain for carrying off the sewage from lands on north side of Wallasey Pool and east side of North reserve. .5. The obligation of the corporation to deepen the pool, and convey foreshore and certain rights to frontagers. 6. The necessity of speedy completion of dock works. And whether any of the objects specified above ought to be abandoned by the board, and whether the board ought not to petition parliament to introduce such clauses into any bill of the next session, relating to the Birkenhead docks, as will secure the attainment of such of the above objects as are not abandoned, but cannot be got except by the authority of parliament. The result of that meeting was, that the board agreed to give their support, and act - in conjunction with the Birkenhead Commissioners, in reference to the bill then before parliament, with reference to the above subject, and in consequence of the resolution then adopted, the Chairman gave notice that he should move the following resolution :—" That Messrs. Chambers, Caine, William Coulborn, Odell, Ball, and himself, be a committee to consider and conduct, under the control of the board, all proceedings that nyty arise out of the resolution agreed to at the extraordinary meeting of the board, and all other parliamentary business of the board for the sessions of 1857." The business had not concluded when our reporter left. It is suggested that some enterprising photographer publish a set of impressions from Raphael's cartoons at Hampton Court. The Emigration commissioners have advertised for vessels to carry emigrants to Sydney and Melbourne, to be ready for passengers between the 28th and 31st January, as may be hereafter determined. DEFAULTER.-A young man, about 19 years of age, named James Allison, was on Tuesday brought up for examination at the Central Police Court, Glasgow, as to having, at different periods within the last 12 months, em bezzled several sums of money, amounting to about £2OO, belonging to his employers, Messrs. James M'Night and Co., merchants and commission agents, Queen-street• He was remitted to the sheriff. • THE LAND TRANSPORT CORPS.—A body of the Land Transport Corps met on Wednesday at the War Department, by appointment, to lay their case before the Adjutant General and Captain Yokes, the latter gentleman being requested to attend by order of the Commande r -i n -Chi ef. After stating the terms of their engagement, the men received a promise from tha Adjutant General that their support statements of t w he o u p l e d ti b ti e cu l l a d re before d tthoe his Commander uo y al h i t i g n l ie n e h s i: f b i y n Sir George Wetherall on Monday last, and that he Would do all in his power to bring the dispute to a close. --- I THE TALBOT DIVORCE CASE, tta s t been w eh We select the following as the last of h un d re d s of letters w hi c h we h ave rece i ve d upon t h e same subject. n e r i f m e c p t u g truth, nin g our views, an d we may add that though we have found Though our c o r res p on d enc e upon the . melancholy case ha l s: ve vo n l o um t h i a n d ou a s s , in w g e le ca c n om sa in y a , h t i o p many able a ux i l i aries in the press, we have not seen in any newspaper of th e U n i te d Ki ng d om a single article contesting th ese views. We, therefore, may, t a with safety to the interests of justice, decline the further prosecution of the subject, at least for the present. The honour of the unhappy victim of conspiracy and persecu tion has been thus fully reestablished, and it will gratify our readers to know that an ample provision for her future maintenance —the whole indeed of her own large fortune--has been secured to her, in spite of a pertinacious opposition for several weeks. This act of justice is to be ascribed to the upright and high-minded gentlemen to whom the subject was referred by the House of Lords, What more then can be done ? The lady's honour re-established, the comfort of her future life secured as far as possible, and the only remaining object of her desire, the society of her adored child, necessarily withheld from her by the overthrow of her reason, which has never recovered the con sequence of brain fever into which she was thrown by the events of the 19th of May, 1853, and weeks of persecution suffared on a fever-bed. We have done our part by the individual, and we think we have contributed to, if possible, a more extensive, and certainly more durable good, by demonstrating the utter inadequacy of the ecclesiastical courts, and of the House of Lords to render justice in matrimonial and divorce cases. Where life or woman's honour, dearer than life, is concerned, there is no security but in a trial by jury ; fur such a trial we have fought, and such a trial is promised, so that we do not ungracefully lay down our arms. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDS Sir,-' ich more fully than he 3 done, bat I sus from which a stranger to the parties is free. If Mrs. ralbct has been unhappy in he her marriage, and in her relatives, by the ties of blood, she has, at least, been most fortunate in the connection which her sister formed for her, by marrying into the family of the Pagets, of Leicester shire. Mr. retitle Paget. her brother-in law, and Mr. John Paget, his brother, have thrown themselves heart and soul into her defence. Nothing has been left undone which could be accomplished by the most lavish expenditure of time and money; and, I may add, of talent also. Nor have their sacrifices been in vain. By a merciful dispensation of Providence the unhappy lady is sheltered fiom the conscious ness of her wrongs. Mentally dead, it is only her memory whie t h he is y hsuasvceepstuilscleeeeodfeid in injury, an ing fromtha t, with your powerful aid, " JURIST." _ __----. Were we at liberty to give the name of the able, learned, and venerable writer of the foregoing, we know that it is a name which would command universal respect.—Londe Standard. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY SPANISH DANCERS. The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Saturday tried four members of the company of the Spanish dancers, who for some time past have been giving performances at the Theatre de La Porte St. Martin, for robbery. The accused were M. P. Mariano, 30 years of age, formerly a notary in Spain, but now director of the company in question; Perres, one of the dancers who is novr in fight, and who was tried by default; Mad'lle. Pilar Ferret, alias Peregrina Morales, 22 year s o f age , d anseuse; and Mad Ile. R. Ferrer, 20 years of age, also a danseuse, her sister. The elder female prisoner is remarkably pretty ; the younger is somewhat less so. When the prisoners were placed at the bar, :the President addressing, Moxo, said—" You are accused of numerous rob beries in jewellers' shops in complicity with Pilar Ferrer." Moxo answered, " I have certainly been to I t h R never e stole atla • buteau to purchase a watch c h a i n , b ut not f i nding one Of withl went that tloaday, shop p t i n the sort I wanted I order e d one o f t h e price of 400 f to be made, but .1 did not take anythi ng . I afterwards wanted a v n a y ri t o b u in s g from shops them. another for Regina, to whom lam to be married, but as I did not want to give the same price for it I went to another shop." "In all the shops to which you went chains were missed after you left. In one on the Boulevard Poissonniere two chains were missed; in another, in the Rue Rambuteau, one chain ; in a third, in the Rue Michel le Comte, nine ; and some of these chains were afterwards found in your pos.. session. How do you explain that ?'' " I can give no explanation. If any robberies have been committed I did not take part in them. My position and that of my family are such as to free me from all suspicion 1" " How is that, though engaged to be married to Regina, went to all the shops with Pilar ?" " I wanted to surprise Regina, and besides she is eaciente six months, and Cannot walk much." "You lived with Regina as her husband, and Pilar, though married, lived with Perres ?" " I thought that Pilar was married to Perres." " What 1 you did not know that she is the wife of a Spanish officer 0 " "No.. As to Regina, my connection with her menced at the Italian Opera at Madrid, and we came to France together because her parents wished to take her from me 1" " You deny that you had anything to do with the robberies ?" " Yes, I deny it. I took nothing, and did not know that anything had been taken." Toe president then interrogated Pilar Ferrer:-.. " You are aware that you are accused of having stolen articles of jewellery from shops ?" " I went into shops to look at jewellery, but never took anything—l am incapable of that." " How do you explain that some of the articles said to have been stolen were found in your possession ?" " I touched nothing—l affirm it !" " Answer my question. Some of the stolen articles were deposited by your sister in the hands of a third person, and as she did not go to the jeweller's shops, she could not have taken them ?'' " My sister could not have deposited the objects in a house in which we had no friends,' "As to you, Regina. said the president, addressing the third prisoner, " It is alleged that on the 21st October you begged Mile. Balotta a danseuse, to take care of two parcels for you. She con sented, and on her return from the theatre she had the curiosity to examine them; she found about fifteen watch chains, two watches, three mantelets. some ornamental fringes, and other articles. Where did you get all these things ?" "I knew Mlle. Balotta at Brussels, and we quarrelled, so that if the parcels had been made, I should not have taken them to her." " You deny having been to her residence ?" " Yes sir." " Moxo and your sisters were arrested, and it was after that that you took the parcels to Balotta ?" " When my sister was arrested I was not at home, and knew nothing of her arrest." " You borrowed 5f from Mlle. Balotta to pay for your cab ?" "I did not go to her house, and consequently could not have borrowed 5f from her." " You even returned at midnight for the parcels ?" "I left our residence at eleven o'clock with Perres to enquire of the commissary of police after my sister, but went nowhere else." " Mlle. Balta says that you l e ft th ree chains, and told her that they we ot re for her and her sister ?" " I could not dispose of things which I had not." M. Audouin, Boulevard Poissonniere, M. Reux, Rue Rambuteau, M. Bubuisson, Rue Michel le Comte, and T. Renard, of the same street, jewellers, then severally deposed that Moxo and Pilar had gone to their shops on pretext of making purchases, and that after their departure they had missed various chains and other articles. Dubuisson, who was robbed of some chains, said that, on perceiving the robbery, he had followed the couple and had given them into custody. " Yes," said Pilar, " and you caused us to be searched, but found nothing on us ! Mlle. Balotta being absent, her mother was called, and she swore positively to the deposit by Regina in her daughter's hands of three parcels con. taining watch chains and other objects, also that Regina had with Perres called for the parcels late at night, and that she had given her two daughters watch chains and left a third lying on the floor. Madame Balotta added that her daughter and herself having fears, from something that Perres had said, that the chains were not honestly come by, had deposited them with the com missary of police. The concierge of the house in which the prisoners had lived, said that Perres, after the arrest of Pilar and Moxo had gone away, saying that he would drown himself in the canal, and bad not since returned. The hour being now late, the tribunal adjourned the further hearing of the case for a week. The French law treats the appropriation by the finder of things found in the streets as robbery ; and within the last three weeks the Paris papers have recorded two condemna— tions for appropriating articles found. AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS IN FNGLAND.--It has been said that the past is gone, the present is passing while we speak, and that the coming future is our only real posses sion. Let us, however, not fcrget that it is from the quarter deck of the present, guided by the changeless star, w c o a u r r d s et to the a epoch p d o s c i t i h w r o h u e g n h the this movement 0 pathless vemen t o m c e a a n b o e f 8 tithe,up pps or the magnetic power of the past, that we steer our have e ea r v e o c u e r iv in e g d t i o ts an fi t r i s c t ip i a ni te p t u h l e s :'.utuTrehrroeusuglhtyspresentaes vigorous progress of agriculture let us cast our eyes back edlton from the da3s of the e:rly patriarchs the earth ad slum bered on in almost uniform sterility the one hand, or rank luxuriance on the other, undisturbed, with but few countlessof the exceptions, by that labour of man applied to its cultivation, which formed the primeval condition of its fertile develop ment, until the patriotic times of Francis Duke of . Bed ford, Mr. C Bed- Coke, of Norfolk, the Duke of Portland, Sir John Sinclair, Lord Hawes, Lord Somerville, Mr. Arthur Young, an d a host of - other ardent lovers of agricult ure , and firm friends to the welfare of their country. It may be ask e d h ow it is that agriculture, during the last half or should have m a d e so signal a three q uarters of a cen tury, development and progre-s, after lying alrusst dormant during the far extent of all antecedent time of the world's history? The great cau se of this signal result may, perhaps, be ascribed to the ass oc i at i on of farmers among tbemselves.—Smiths' Almanack for 1857.