Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-20 00:00:00

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Passengers are in quarantine for 33 hours. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. The Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, Captain Baynton, has arrived with the West India and Pacific mails. Her dates are—Nassau, December 15th ; Grey t(rwu, 17th ; Colon, 24th ; Jamaica, 26th ; Deme rara, 25th ; Trinidad, 25th ; Barbadoes, 27th; Grenada, 26th ; St. Thomas, January 1. She brings 35 passengers, 669,295 dollars in Specie, 894 serons indigo, 155 serons cochineal, four casks coffee, 118 bags cocoa. Prom the latest accounts from the islands, the weather was remarkably fine for the season, and the sugar crops of Barbadoes, Trinidad, and Demerara most promising. The islands had been Unusually healthy. L . Business at Ja m ai c a r ather active, but no par ticular advance reported. Produce quiet, and very attic of any kind brought to market, on account of the bad state of the roads in the interior. By a special Act of the Legislature the following additional duties were imposed from the 22nd of December :—Flour, 2s per barrel additional ' • cod fish, 6d per cwt ditto ; wheat, 3d per bushel ditto. Coffee was rather lower in price, 37s 6d to 38s per 3.001 b being the ruling figure. Freights dull, and nothing offering. 1 Exchanges on London,l per cent. prem. 90 days ; per cent. 60 days ; 11--- per cent. 30 days ; mer chants' bills, par ; commissariat, 2 per cent, prem. L , The R oman E m pe r or had arrived at Trinidad. 11. °D1 - Madras in eighty-two days, with 380 emi rants, including women and children. Only two deaths from sickness during the voyage, and not a single case sent to hospital. One female corn- Mated suicide. The . W:Wrili — American Republics were generally quiet. _ The losses by the late fire at Valparaiso amounted to $3,000,000. The burnt district was soon to be rebuilt. Two more fires had subse quently occurred, tut not much damage was done.. Imports small and exports dull at Valparaiso. Owing to unsatisfactory accounts from Europe of the price of copper, silver mines rather improving. No English man-of-war at Callao on the 12th of December. _ _ Lima healthy, and crops flourishing. Great hopes were entertained of the war between the Ecuatorians and Peruvians being amicably *3ettled. Her Majesty's ship Ganges, Admiral Baynes' flag, was at Vancouver's Island on the 17th Nov. ; also the Satellite and surveying ship Plumper. Latest accounts from San Francisco, California, report a severe earthquake sh oc k. N o lives lost ; trifling damage done. The - small cutter Royal Charlie had arrived at Grenada, 42 days from Southampton. She had a very tempestuous passage. FRANCE AND AUSTRIA We find theiolh;;ingin t;;;;;;adenee from - Vienna, addressed to the Gazette de Cologne : A long Ministerial consultation took place on the 13th,. presided over by the Emperor, at which a deter mination was come to, to send Marshal Count Leinnigen, on a speoial mission to Paris. His depar ure took place yesterday evening, and •a very great importance is attached to it in diplomatic circles, it being g e .nerally thou g ht th a t it w ill g reatly tend to clear up misunderstandings and maintain the peace of Europe. AUSTRIAN TROOPS IN THE PAPAL STATES. We read in a letter from Paris, .17th January Somensf journals as assert that the Pontificial Government "Med to the French Minister at Rome that euonsiderable reinforcements of • Austrian troops would, on its request, occupy the Legations. This report is lily half true. No notification can have been given to the French government of a proceeding which would naturally take place in accordance with recognised rules. The f ac t of the matter is, that in consequence of reduc tions made in the Austrian forces two years ago, it is now necessary to restore th em t o th e i r o riginal strength ; the reinforcements also .have all been concentrated at Bologna. The Duke of Modena is on excellent terms with Anstria. The Duchess of Parma, on the contrary, is inexorable, :and rejects every advance. ade to her from Vienna. She says she can herself answer .for public tranquillity, and .has no necessity for foreign aid. The Duchess is well advised by her Ministers, and her popularity is daily on 'the increase. PRINCE NAP OLE ON- The TURIN, Jan. 18. first interview between Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clotilda took place yesterday afternoon. In the evening the Prince was present at a ball given by the President of .the Council at the pala,ce of the Ministry. SPAIN- The Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived. —oln e of the journals state that the government has sent an agent into England to purchase twenty four steamers of small tonnage for the Philippine Islands. It was said that the government contem plates making various important reforms in the administration of the Isle of enba. The French Peninsular Correspondence asserts that there is no truth in the statement made by some of the journals that the Duke de Montpensier is about to visit Italy. THE COLONY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA_ Mr. Nugent, the late American Resident in British Columbia, has addressed the following circular to the eitizens of the United States in Vancouver's Island and British Columbia : Having received from citizens: of the United States, mining and trading on Fraser's River and in its vicinity, a number of letters complaining of acts . of injustice and oppression at the hands of the eolonial anthorities, and being on the eve of my departure to lay my report before the government at Washington, I take this public method of apprising American citizens sojo urn i ng in Vancouver's Island and British Columbia of the view of our govern ment in regard to their rights and standing:in those colonies. I need scarcely say that the Government of the 'United States txpects of its own citizens abroad a decent conformity with local regulations, obedience to the laws of the countries they visit, and,- a proper show of respect for the authorities by whom those laws are administered. This is exacted of strangers visiting the different States of the Union, who are amenable to punishment for a violation of the laws of those States, or of the United States, as are American citizens for infraction of the laws of such foreign countries as they may enter in pursuit of pleasure or of business. Such of our citizens, therefore, as have taken up their residence in British Columbia and Vancouver's Island are subject, like all other residents, to the laws of the colonies and of Great Britain, and are liable, like all others, to the penalties meted out by those laws to persons properly convicted of their violation. I am aware that an elaborate attempt to impress these facts upon my fellow citizens in these colonies would be superfluous. Their soberiety of deportment, their decent observance of all the properties of life, in the midst of privations and annoyances of no common degree, and their obedience to the law under very trying provocations to its infringement, although they may not have gained for them such liberal treatment as was due to that forbearance and good conduct, have, nevertheless, com manded the respect of the strangers among whom they are cast, and cannot fail to be subjects of pride and gratulation to their , own .Government. Considering the circumstances attending the recent settlement of these colonies, it was scarcely to be expected that a well regulated government could be at once built 31P out of the chaotic elements, suddenly thrown together ul such confusion, Much was to be pardoned to the in experience of an executive, hitherto dealing for the most Part with savages, and possibly unprepared by previous trainin g for the more refined exigencies imposed by Governmental relations with a white population—much 3 f the cause of complaints was, to some extent, excusable, because due to the unlicensed rudeness of the subor dinate officers of the Hudson's Bay Company and the Coloni a l Government who, by re ason of their long isolation from civilised society, and ' their hab itual intercourse with Indians, had unlearned most of the fines trai • ts of humanity, and were scarcely aecounta for a grossness of coiduct that has boom to fhent a second nature ; and, lastly, much was to be be excused in the ignorance and want of tone of courts organised out of such crude and unfit materials as those, the only ones that were at hand on the sudden influx of the strangers. In some instances, no doubt, these courts have fallen short of even the limited expectations jus tified by the peculiar circumstances of their construction, and the strange constituents of which they were com posed. But it is not to be doubted that the British Government will, without unnecessary delay, provide remedies for the evils and abuses arising from this con dition of things—evils and abuses affecting not alone the prosperity of its own subjects, but the rights, of citizens of a foreign and friendly Power. _ _ . The forbearance, in the meantime, of the citizens of the United States, their quiet observance of the laws under any aggressions on their rights of which they may have to complain, will not alone have its reward in the consciousness of having done credit to their country a country whose institutions are • based _ upon that all-pervading love of order and that spirit of obedience to the law which distinguishes its citizens, but it will, moreover, entitle them to the active inter vention of their own Government for the redress of their grievances and for the protection of their rights. That the Government of the . United States, upon proper cause being shown—after recourse shall have been had in vain to the tribunals against acts of oppression or injustice —will so intervene for the redress and protection of its citizens in British Columbia and Vancouver's Island, I dm authorised and instructed to give them the most emphatic assurance. If wrong be done them let them appeal to the courts. It is to be hoped they will obtain justice, but should those tribunals, unfortunately, be too impotent, too ignorant, or too corrupt to administer the law with impartiality and firmness, our citizens may reckon with certainty upon the prompt and efficient interference of their own Govern ment in their behalf. The best guarantee I can furnish them of the certainty of such interposition will be found in the subjoined declaration by the Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of State of the United States, in a recent despatch to our Minister in Nicaragua, enunciating clearly and vigorously the views of our Government in respect to the rights of our citizens visiting foreign countries : "The United. States believe it to be, their duty, and they mean to execute it, to watch over the persons and property of their citizens visiting foreign countries, and to intervene for their protection when such action is justified by existing circumstances and by the law of nations. Wherever their citizens may . go through the habitable globe, when they encounter injustice they may appeal to the government of their country, and the ap peal will be examined into, with a view to such action on their behalf as it may be proper to take. It is impossible to define in advance and with pre cision those cases in which the national. power may be exerted for their relief, or to what extent relief shall be afforded Circumstances as they arise must prescribe the rule of action. In countries where well-defined and established laws are in operation, and where their adminisrration is 'committed to able and independent judges, cases will rarely occur where such intervention will be necessary. Bat these elements of confidence and security are not everywhere found ; and where that is unfortunatesy the case, the United States are called upon to be more vigilant in watching over their citizens, and to interpose efficiently for their pro tection 'when they are subjected to tortuous proceedings by the direct action of the Government, or by its indis position or inability to discharge its duties." _ - It is unnecessary for me -to make any further or more pointed application of this declaration to the cir cumstances of American citizens in these colonies. Their own intelligence and prudence will enable 'them so to guard their conduct that they shall never forfeit that provident and fatherly care and protection which it pro mises, and which the Government of the United States has both the ability and the will to exercise over all its children, in whatever part of the world they may be. .TORN NUGENT, Special Agent of the United States. Victoria, Vancouver's Island, Nov. 13, 1858.- A greatgraudson of Penn, the wealthy founder of Pennsylvania, and the friend of James 11., has just expired, at a very advanced age, in the hospital of the benevolent Colston, at Bristol. ABERDEEN. —At length the trniversity Commission seem about to set to work in earnest. Some weeks ago, the gentlemen who affect to be in the secret, and who certainly miss no opportunity of getting back-stairs influence and back stairs information, gave out that the Aberdeen case was not 'to be taken up for a long time to come—for years perhaps—when the public would have got tired of watching - what was to be done. But, in the meantime, a spoke was put in their own wheel by the stoppage of the money that was on its way to King's College. And so, all of a sudden, we 'find that the Aberdeen case is to be taken up within a fortnight, and before the meeting of Parliament. Letters to this effect have been received by the Town Council, Marischal College, and the Citizens' Committee, with a request that anything further these bodies may have 'to say on the subject . may be forwarded in . print to Edinburgh before -the 25th. Surely the Commission do not contem plate settling the fate of one or the other of our Colleges without visiting the spot and making - themselves thoroughly acquainted with the facts !—Aberdeen Herald. _ . A NEW MIRACLE. —The Presse relates the following-: " At Trie, in the Hautes Pyrenees, a young girl of 14, named Francine Baque, attracted considerable public attention towards the end of December last,. by announc ing that the Holy Virgin and Jesus Christ had appeared to her, as also certain members of her family who had died in their infancy. Crowds of visitors arrived at Trie from all parts of the district, and the commissary of police, suspecting an imposture, also proceeded .to the residence of Francine Baque, in order to witness the ap parition of a departed sister of the latter, which was announced for the evening of the 29th ult. On entering the house he found from 15 to 20 people assembled in a room, with feverish impatience depicted on their features. Francine was reclining on a bed, and dressed completely in white. Her features were contracted, and her eyes were fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to the wall. At the end of a quarter of an hour, she rose, and blew out the lights. Five minutes later she ordered the candles to be relighted, and then announced that her sister Marceline had appeared to her, and had presented her with a picture of the virgin, which she fotthwith exhibited to the persons present. The latter withdrew crying, A miracle ! ' The commissary of police remained incredulous, in spite of the tangible proof furnished by the favoured maiden. After a severe cross-examination, he, moreover, ascertained that the picture had been purchased at a grocer's shop for the sum of tea centimes. The Presse thus sarcastically con cludes its notice of the transaction :—" Is it not sad that the progress of incredulity should have checked in its birth a miracle which had started with such capital chances ? But for the indiscreet zeal of that unbelieving commissary, the miracle would have answered; and 20,000,000 gold medals might have been struck off and sold with ease. Truly 'the fate of miracles hangs on a slender thread." ANGLO-FRENCH MARRIAGES.—The Civil Tribunal has just had to pronounce on the validity of a marriage. con tracted by a Frenchman in England. A retired hair dresser, named Normandin, who is possessed of some property, sent his son in 1856 to London to be apprenticed to a watchmaker. The young man of an evening used to frequent a dancing academy, and there he made the acquaintance of a young woman who called herself Madame Looper, but who afterwards turned out to be unmarried, and the daughter of a Belgian consul, deceased, named Van Nyvel. Nor mandin conceived a passion for her, and on the 22nd June, 1857, they were married in the church of St. Thomas, at Woolwich. He did not ask his parents' consent, and did not even announce the marriage to them until May, 1858. On inquiry the parents found that the young woman was not a desirable match for their son, inasmuch as, though daughter of a consul and well educated, she lived apart from her mother, and had led an irregular life. They, in consequence, brought the young man from London, and applied to the tribunal to declare the marriage null and void, because their-son had not asked their consent, as he was bound to do by French law, because he had net published it in France as required, and because he had been married in the name of Normand, whereas his real name was Normandin. The counsel for Mademoiselle Van Nyvel admitted that the marriage, for the first two reasons, was by the French law void; but, he said, that she was perfectly respectable, her father having, from 1832, to 1839 been Belgian Consul in the Isle of Wight, and having subsequently realised a good fortune, which, hawever, he lost by the Revolution of 1848. He said also that she had three sisters married in England, and that when young Normandin saw her at the dancing school she was accompanied by one of these sisters, Mrs. Kreagh by name, and by Mrs. Kreagh's children ; lastly, that the marriage had taken place with the consent Of Mr. and Mrs. Kreagh, and in their presence. From these circumstances the learned gentleman concluded that the marriage could not be considered clandestine, and that Mademoiselle Nyvel had every reason to believe it valid. As therefore she had been wronged, she thought herself entitled to claim 50,000 f. damages. The tribunal decided that, for want of the consent of the parents and of the publicity required by French law, the marriage was void, and it forbade Mademoiselle Nyvel henceforth to call herself by the name of Normandin. As to the claim for damages, after examining a mass of correspondence put in, the tribunal declared that, as there was reason to believe that she knew the marriage to be irregular, she could not receive any. . THE NORTHERN. TIMES, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1859 LIFE IN LONDON. AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE, When, a few days since, we felt it our duty to give expression to our strong opinion respecting the inadequate payment of the young women who dance in the ballets at our theatres, and the unjust obloquy to which they were frequently exposed— opinions which, in all their strength, we endorse this day—we took the apparently pitiable story of Jane Newell as a case in point of the struggles of virtuous poverty against temptation. We, and all the world, were bound to believe the deliberate and plausible statement made by the mother, of the missing girl in an open police court. The girl's mysterious disappearance, her mother's dis tress, were patent ; and the publication of her tale of sorrow was sufficient not only to elicit expres sions of sympathy from the Press, but to loosen the purse-strings of those anonymous philan thropists, the donors to our poor-boxes, who, to their honour, seem to be in ambush for mis fortune, and to dog the footsteps of misery to' relieve it. The story, we repeat, bore every evidence of truth The girl—too young and too weak to fight the battle of life—might have been decoyed away to shame, or might, despair ing, have sought to assuage her woes in the bitter waters of Death. • She was advertised for, and a reward offered for her recovery unavailingly ; and, on the face of probability, the next intelli gence of Jane Newell might have been that she was living' a life of magnificence and misery, realising Mr. Holman Hunt's picture of the " Awakened Conscience ; " or that she was lying livid and dank, drowned and dead, on the trestles of a parish charnel-house, with no better epitaph than the placard pasted on the walls of the police station, with the ghastly heading, " Dead body found." As it turns out, Miss Jane Newell has made her re-appearance in the flesh safe, and, according to her own statement, sound ; and with a most extra ordinary narrative of her adventures to boot. The account . given by the prophet Mahomet of his visit to the seventh heaven, the history volun teered by Mr. Darby O'Rourke of his transactions with the eagle that flew away with him, the story of Rip Van Winkle's century-long game at nine pins with the spectral Dutchman, or the relation, so circumstantial, so plausible, till it was proved to be an impudent fiction, given by Miss Elizabeth Canning, of her captivity under the duress of Mary Squires—all these marvellous fragments of personal history are not more curious or less incredible than Miss Jane Newell's account of herself during her sojourn in the sequestered regions of Pimlico. It must be premised that Mr. Norton, of the Lambeth P - A.)lice Court, received on Monday a let ter from one James Brown, a fireman, at Tier Majesty's Theatre,. stating tat Miss Newell lion called at that establishment and taken away her pradtiSing dress," .stating to him that she had been married three weeks, and was residing at No. —, St. James's-square. At a later period of the day, the sagacious magistrate in 'question was honoured by a visit from -" the pet of the ballet" and her mamma ; and the former plunging at once into median res, obliged the astonished ears of Mr. Norton, the clerk, the usher, the auditors, and the reporter, with the following.strange tale : _ _ her own sex, was in the habit of receiving the visits of "gentlemen"—of course for strictly moral purposes—to whom she gave audience in her drawing-room. Miss Newell was not introduced to these ". gentlemen," having a " very nice apart,. meat" of her own down stairs. After a while, her benefactress, over-brimming with her desire to promote universal brotherhood and sisterhood, pro posed that Miss Newell should also receive visits from persons of the opposite sex ; to quote the girl's own words, " She told me that I was to see gentle- Men, and that by so doing I could do better for my mother than being at home." -She had then been in the house ten days. She told the tempter that " she could not consent to see gentlemen on any account ;" but she did n ot at once and indig nantly quit that which, if there is a particle of truth in her story, must be a den of infamy kept by an abandoned harridan, who should be carted like Mother Cole. She remained from the Friday, when the disgraceful proposition was made, to the Sunday evening, stating in extenuation of her stay, , that she could not leave without Mrs. s permission. (Was she handcuffed ? Was she tied to the bedpost ?) She only left the house once during her sojourn, in company with Mrs. Ellis, to purchase a bonnet at Brompton, and she remained in the house where. it was proposed she should see gentlemen, occupy ing herself principally in " crochet work." She states to Mr. Norton, that on the Thursday, the day aftei she left home, she wrott a letter to her mother, which was 'given to the servant to post, but which never reached its destination. On Saturday last she obtained her Duenna's leave to go to Her Majesty's Theatre to fetch her " prac tising dress," and there the fireman Brown told her that there had been a long account about her in,the papers, handing her one. Miss Newell did not deem it advisable to inform Mr. James Brown of the existence or the good deeds of the Philanthropist of Pimlico. It occurred to her, on the contrary, to concoct an ingenious little romance, and to state that she had been married full three weeks gone and past, and was residing in St. James's-square. Whereabouts in that aristocratic locality could Miss Newell's bridegroom have resided ? Next door to the Bishop of London's, or to Lord Derby, to the Duke of Norfolk, or to the Army and Navy Club ? On Sunday evening Miss Newell bade adieu to Mrs. Ellis, and on Monday morning she made her curtsey to the Hon. G. C. Norton at Lambeth, and favoured him with a narrative on which we have no desire to throw any unnecessary discredit, but which has a curious family likeness to the story alluded to by Captain Tobias Shandy, as being about a cock and a bull. Let it go forth, however, that Jane Newell has declared before the magistrate, " and in the presence of God," that nothing of an improper character took place between her and the " gen tlemen ." who visited Mrs. Ellis's house. So she has sworn, and no one has a right of course to im pugn her oath, or to cast a slur on her reputation. But we cannot help recording our conviction that Miss Jane Newell has acted •like a very naughty little girl. To pick up acquaintances prerniscously on bridges, and adjourn to taverns for the purpose of drinking sherry. To take cabs to Pimlico, when one is •bound to Soho square ! 'To remain of one's own free will under the roof of a perfect stranger, after proposi tions have been made to her of whose nature it is idle to plead ignorance, and which would have disgusted and revolted any right-minded girl ! Then to go about London telling fibs about a moonshine marriage'!—Oh, Miss Newell, Miss Newell! you are really a most undeserving object of sympathy ; and Mr. Norton has, we think, done quite right in withholding the contributions sent for :the relief of your family till a searching investigation has been made of the whole case. As for Mrs. Ellis : if the statements made respect ing that lady's establishment be proved, there is a statute, •we believe, bearing on the conduct of persons procuring young females for purposes of —well, .ultra-benevolenc—which may, perhaps, affect her. As for Miss Jane Newell, the heroine of this " domestic drama," we recommend her mamma to follow the advice of Sir Mungo Malagrowther in re Margaret Ramsay, counselling a little confinement, a little bread and water, and a moderate, but wholesome, application of the rod, ere she evinces a desire to undertake similar expeditions to Soho-square.—Daily Telegraph. It appears, according to Miss Newell's showing, that on the evening of Wednesday week she left her mother's house with a letter, to deliver to a lady in Soho-square, when, in passing over Westmi nster-bridge, with whom should she meet but Miss Emily Hobbs ? Now, Miss Hobbs was wont herself to belong to the Drury-lane ballet, and Jane Newell had enjoyed the advantage of her acquaintance some twelve months since. What should Miss Hobbs be doing but about to visit a "lady friend" of hers ; and whateould have been more pressing than her invitation to Miss Newell 'to participate in her visit to the lady friend? She was good enough to promise to ac company her afterwards to Soho-square, than which nothing could be more nice or comfortable. She was sympathetic, too, Miss Hobbs, condoling with her companion on not having an engage ment, and stating that she herself had one at Plymouth, but that she should not go. She went instead to the Red Lion public-house in Parliament-street, where she 'treated the disconsolate ballet girl to a glass of sherry wine, doubtless to keep up her spirits. Questioned 'by Mr. Norton on the subject, Miss Newell strongly asseverated that, though pressed to take another glass of sherry, she confined herself to the singular number ; but we cannot help thinking the question to have 'been somewhat irrelevant..lt surely could no more matter how many glasses of sherry Miss Newell took than whether an erratic servant maid has one love-child or several. Straight from this roaring parliamentary " Lion" then hied the Misses Hobbs and Newell ; but that letter to the lady in Soho-square, who is not improbably the celebrated Mrs. Harris, was not to be delivered yet. By all appearances, it remains to this hour, lying perdu in the limbo of an amateur Dead Letter Office. Scorning the dingy purlens of cl-decant Soho, the frolicsome maidens chartered a hackney-cab—was it a Hansom, we wonder,?—and made for the more aristocratic quartier of semi-Belgravia. It was in Somerset-terrace, St. George's-road, Pimlico, that Miss Hobbs's lady friend resided, and thither they drove. A conference on the pew system was held on Tuesday, in Manchester, but it does not appear to have had any definite results. A proposal for bringing a bill into Parliament, securing existing rights, but designed "to check the pew system," was made, but fell through. In the Bankruptcy Court, London, on Tuesday, Mr. Blunt, formerly a member of an old and influential legal firm in the City, obtained a second-class certificate. His failure was partly ascribed to the embarrassments of the old firm, who had.embarked in huge building speculations. k On Saturday the Huddersfield magistrates inflicted a penalty of 20s, and costs 16s, 36s in all, on the landlord of the Butchers' Arms, in Castlegate, for permitting gambling in his house. The game played was called the three-card trick,, by which one of the witnesses in the case had been duped out of £2 12s 6d. Amon CRAMPTON. -An address was .delivered by Judge Crampton to the grand juries of the County and City of Dublin, that may, perhaps, be looked upon as his retiring speech. It concluded with a hope that a bill would shortly be ,passed, by which towns and dis tricts should at any rate be allowed to exclude alcohol, if' they were desirous of doing so. " Slavery," the learned judge said, "had been abolished, within the British dominions after a long struggle, and at the ex pense of twenty millions of money. And in like manner, some of those wbo now hear me, may live to see the day when the permissive bill shall become a statute, and slavery to the despotism of strong drink shall be abolished by law." We have heard of the philanthropy of John Howard, " guaging misery, and taking the mea sure of sorrow, plodding, a lifetime through prisons and lazarets, and dying at last in the cause of beneficence at Cherson. Ralph Allen, of Bath, was a good man ; so was John Kyle, the " Man of Ross," so was M. Edme Champion, the " petit Manteau bleu" of Paris. But for genuine philanthrophy, for unexampled beneficence, for inexhaustible benevolence, commend us to Mrs. Ellis, who [we are still quoting Miss Newell] is Miss Hobb's lady friend. This Dorcas, this Lady Bountiful, this most eleemosynary Mrs. Ellis, is to be heard of in Somerset-terrace. She lives there, in fact ; and we only withhold the number of her charitable dwelling-house through fear of giving vent to the epistolary eaeoethes of half the begging-letter writers in London. Mrs. Ellis's establishment is modestly—oh so " modestly" —yet handsomely conducted. She has a tender pledge of affection, a little boy, has Mrs. Ellis,even as had Mrs. Bardell in " Pickwick ;" her roof affords shelter to a Miss Stanley, who follows the picturesque and convenient calling of a dressmaker; she has two female servants and a footman. Yes ; a footman. All is vanitas vani tatum ; and Mrs. Ellis is not exempt from human failing. There seems a tender, almost conventual, tranquillity pervading the retreat of Mrs. Ellis, and mingled with her active benevolence, that reminds us equally of the Reverend Mother Abbess Heloisa at the Paracelete, and of "good Mrs." Brown" in London. A WOMAN KILLED BY 888 HUSBAND, AT WOLTER NAmPTorr.=At the borough police-court, on Tuesday, William Thompson, a cabinet lock-maker, in Brickiln street, Wolverhampton, was ;charged with culpable homicide. It seems that his wife is of dissipated habits, and that on the latter part of Sunday last, and all the following night, she had been pursuing a course of reck less drinking—her husband seeking her in vain among the low haunts to which she was in the habit of re sorting. On Monday morning the wretched woman returned home of herown accord, and several unpleasant scenes occurred between them. Between one and two o'clock, while their son and daughter were present, another quarrel took place, in the course of which Mrs. Thompson, as was positively sworn by one of the witnesses, received a blow from her husband. She sank on a chair in a state of insensibility, and died almost immediately afterwards. LIEBIG ON SEWERAGE.—This distinguished chemist writes am firmly of opinion that if - England wishes to remain an agricultural country, she must use as manure the nightsoil, and similar residues produced in large cities. This necessity would be increased in the event of 'a war with America, when the supplies of guano would cease. The price of corn depends upon that of guano, and it is most unnatural that, in a country like England, the production of corn and meat should be so dependant on the supplies of foreign manure. The heads of even the most enlightened agriculturists have been turned by a theory propounded Mr. Lawe—viz., that nitrogen or ammonia are the most necessary ingredients in manure, and that consequently solid excrements are valueless, the urine alone being of use. These views ex pose utter ignorance, and prove that in England leading agriculturists do not pay sufficient attention to the fun damental principles of chemistry. Excellent Mrs. Ellis received Miss Newell with open arms. After Miss Hobbs had had some con versation with her, unheard by her companion—but it was, doubtless, about Doctor Watts or the Bri tish Orphan Asylum—she would not hear of her going home ; that home in future, she told her, was to be her house ; and when Miss Newell men tioned the subject of her mother, the bounteous Ellis stated that she "might do much better for her mother by stopping where she was." She was to be Mrs. Ellis's " companion ;" she was to be treated with the greatest kindness ; and so Miss Newell, adjourning the question of her mamma and the letter-expecting lady in Soho-square, concluded to stop with the philanthropist of Somerset-terrace, whose portraiture would be incomplete were we to omit to state that " her husband, who was a gentleman, is gone to Australia." . As for Miss THE GUNROAFS AND THE SLIP-WAY AT HASLER.— Among those we visited was one, in the second tier of ten, which was in excellent order, and which our informant assured us could (notwithstanding the fact that neither masts, coals, ammunition, nor guns were on board), be made ready for active service in about eight hours --- a most satisfactory assurance, and one which was much increased by the intimation that several others were in a simi larly forward condition. Punch, in an article on the subject ("Ago at the gunboats") some seven months since, compared the hauling of them up in their present berths to the hanging up of our armour out of reach. This comparison of our witty contemporary will be considerably modified by alterations which are now nearly completed. An improvement has been made on the first formation of the incline, by which a very objectionable and unsafe "jump" will be dispensed with; a considerable depth of mud at the lake-end of it has been cleared away, forming a kind of basin, into or from which double the number of boats can be launched or hauled up in the - same period of time as before, and with the same steam appliances only as those which have been in use from the first.—Hampshirs Telefraph, • Hobbs, apparently delighted with the clovery pas tures into which her young friend was inducted, she went away, saying that she would call again ; but she did'nt ; and, like John Bunyan's Pilgrim, they " saw her no more." Believing in the bound lessness of Mrs. Ellis's benevolence, and her eagerness to do good, one might almost fancy that she gave a commission, in tracts and hymn-books, to those who supplied her yearning fold with nin lambs. So, we have heard, do recruiting sergeants give a liberal allowance to "bringers. NOW ? Mrs. opfi g her goodness to rs. Ellis, not COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-YESTERDAY THE QUEEN v. CHARLES FREDERICK LEES-HABEAS CORPUS. The defendant, Charles Frederick Lees, master of the ship Senator, was brought up in custody of Mr. Weatherhead, governor of Newgate, under an habeas corpus directed some time since to the Sheriff of St. Helena, where he had been convicted of a felony. The prisoner .having been called upon, was placed at the bar by the side of his learned counsel to assign error with reference to his conviction on the charge of shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Mr. Flood (prisoners counsel) then assigned errors in form, Mr. Welsby said, he appeared on behalf of the Attorney- General, but he had no objection to take to the motion. Lord Campbell : Let errors be assigned. Mr. Flood then asked to be allowed to .move formally to the return of the habeas corpus, and to reserve his motion on it till the prisoner came up again, when the two could be called on at the same time. The court granted the application. Mr. Flood then moved that the prisoner should be admitted to bail. Lord Campbell: Do you oppose the motion, Mr. Welsby ? Mr. Welsby : I have noinstructions to oppose, and must leave the matter in your lordship's hands. I would only remind the court that the prisoner was convicted of shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm. Lord Camp bell: It is a serious charge, but we think he may be admitted to bail. Mr. Flood : The prisoner has served upwards of two years out of his three years' sentence. Lord Campbell: Can he find sureties. Mr. Flood : He can if your lordship will permit bail to be entered into at Liverpool He was in the employ of a most respectable firm at that place. Lord Campbell : Let him' be admitted to bail in £l,OOO Ur two surities in £5OO each, or four in £250 each. On the application of Mr. Flood the prisoner was sent back to the Queen's Prison instead of Newgate till the bail be completed. The fortunate winner of the two great prizes in the Credit Bank lottery at Vienna, has given about £l,OOO to different charitable institutions. Mdlle. Espinasse, a nun, known in religion as Sister Margaret Mary, has just died at her convent in Toulouse. She was the sister of the late Minister of the Interior in France. THE ANDOVER MURDER.—Emma Banks, who is now awaiting her trial in the county prison, charged with being a participator in the murder of Mr. Parsons, was delivered of a male child on Sunday last. THE IRISH SECRET SOCIETIES.—A Belfast telegram says :—The fifteen prisoners in custody in Belfast, on the charge of being connected with an illegal society, have been discharged, on security, to appear at the next assizes. Bail was given, themselves in £ lOO , and two securities in £5O each. Dr. Evans Reeves and Edward Protheroe, who were last week arrested in London, on a charge of fraud and conspiracy, for obtaining a diploma under a false name from the College of Physicians of Dublin, were, on Tues day, at tie College-street Poliee-office, Dublin, committed for trial upon that charge. A ArtINIFICENT ENDOWMENT. —The Rev. Dr. Wall, vice-provost of Dnblin University, has given towards the formation of five scholarships, of £2O per annum each, for the encouragement of schemetic learning, and for promoting the inquiry already instituted into the original state of the text of the Hebrew Bible, the sum of £2,000. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. --The directors of this company have decided upon recommending the payment of a dividend for the half year, ending the 31st of December last, of £3 lOs per cent. on the consolidated stock of the company, making the total dividend for the year 1858 amount to six per cent. THE REV. H. G. GUINNESS. —Dr. Montgomery, the leader ,of the Arian Presbyterians of Ulster, having attacked the preaching of Mr. Spurgeon and Mr. Guin ness, the Rev. Dr. Cooke, Presbyterian, has delivered and published a lecture in defence of gospel truth, as preached by these popular young Independent and 31 a_ptist ministers. THE LATEST SWINDLE .—lt appears that some swind ler has been fleecing people in the country of many hundreds of pounds under cover of the name of Mr. Alderman Mechi, by pretending to be collecting for a testimonial for that gentleman, and thus obtaining from them a guinea 'each. The -alderman has issued a notifica tion that .the whole is a fraud. Father Ventura, the preacher at the Tuileries, has published a book called " Un Essai sur le Pouvoir," which makes some sensation in diplomatic circles. He pro poses the settlement of the' Italian question by buying Austria out of Lombardy' with a very large sum of - money, and ' then constituting an Italian confederation, 'of which the Pope would be the president. One of :the most crowded meetings ever held in 'Chathamlook place in that borough on Monday evening - in favour of a measure of reform. The meeting was held in the Lecture-hall, which was filled to overflowing, and hundreds were obliged to leave the doors unable to obtain adniission. It was calculated that 1,200 persons were present. The meeting was held under the auspices of the reform party at•Chatham. HOUSES FOR THE WORKING CLASSES.—WO mentioned some time -ago that more than one benevolent individual had been contemplating the erection of a set of improved houses for the working classes. There is no reason to think that they have abandoned the idea ; but, in the meantime, the movement has been taken up on a broader basis by a proposal to start a public company for carrying out the object in view.—Aberdeen Herald. NATIVE INDIAN ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN. —SORIS weeks since, in publishing the accounts of the promulgation of her Majesty's proclamation in India, we noticed the fact of separate Hindoo and Mussulman meetings having been held, .and addresses voted in reply. One of these addresses we at that time quoted from an Indian news paper ; and we now find them all in the London Gazette of last evening. The spirit is universally loyal, and the form so little different in any instance, th a t we d o no t consider it necessary to give our readers what would amount to no more than a mere repetition.—Evening Star. INTERPRETERS POE JAPAN. —The government have not been slow in taking measures to turn to advantage the treaty concluded by Lord Elgin with the hitherto -secluded empire of Japan. A corps of officials is being assembled, and will soon sail for that distant region. Among the corps are several young men who go out especially to learn the Japanese language, and studying the manners and customs of the people, so as to act as interpreters, and be otherwise useful to British subjects settling in or trading with that country. Whether by design or accident, we know not, but it is certain that one of the interpreters has been brought from the heart of the Highlands, where the Gaelic language is spoken in its purity.—Glasgow Herald. A letter from Vancouver's Island says : —" I have visited a great many places, great and small, but this is the first place I remember to have found without a member of the long robe. Is the privation a blessing or an evil ? Law yers are often considered great evils, and I am ready to admit that the charge is sometimes well-founded ; but I fear the old saying is true, that they are necessary evils.' Their want in Victoria is supplied by the courtesy of the Chief Justice allowing parties, litigants, to have advisers, who are permitted great latitude in his court by their taking powers of attorney from their clients to appear for them. The duty has hitherto been performed by two American citizens, lawyers from San Francisco, who I hope are having what is commonly called in the classical language of the place they come from quite a fine time of it' " SUDDEN DEATH OF A SECRETARY AT A BOARD MEET lNO.—Considerable excitement was created amongst the members of the Whittington Life Assurance Society, who were attending a board meeting on Monday afternoon, at the offices in Moorgate-street. Mr. Charles Brown, the secretary, was in attendance during the meeting ; but about four o'clock he was observed to fall from his chair suddenly, as if in a fit. Several of the members imme diately went to his assistance, amongst whom were Dr. Pavey, of Guy's Hospital, and Mr. Critchett, surgeon, who both paid every attention to him. Dr. Pavey tried to bleed him, but without effect, as life was extinct. The deceased had previously appeared perfectly well, and had only occasionally complained of headache. He was very much respected. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Monday a very melan choly occurrence took place off the coast near Pevensey (a small town on the Brighton and South Coast. Railway, a dozen miles from Hastings), in consequence of the up setting- of a boat, which resulted in the death of four men by drowning. From the particulars gleaned it appears that the coastguard boat, containing .. five men, Dennis Perrin, chief boatman ; Hutchings, commission boatman ; and William Cook, William Brickell, and Michael Russell, boatmen, had been off t o the coastguard tender Active, and on their return the boat was swamped. The chief officer in command of the station, Lieutenant Mansell, having witnessed the fearful accident, observed that one man (R ussell) was floating, supposed by an oar, and although the weather was extremely cold, and the sea very rough, from a south west gale, which has been blowing on this coast for some days, he courageously stripped and en t ered the water. By his gallant exertions he succeeded in rescuing this man with very great difficulty, both being completely exhausted, as may well be imagined, on coming on shore. The other four men, as before stated, met a watery grave. One of the bodies has since been washed ashore. Perrin, the chief boatman, has left a large family ; Cook has also five children under 14 years of age, the youngest being only eight weeks old. Brickell had only entered the service at the end _ of October. The sad event has created a very melancholy interest. Information was immediately forwarded to the coroner, and an inquest will be shortly held. THE MURDER AT QUEENBOROUGH. The murderer Prentis has not yet completed the 20th year of his age, and his victim was under 16. He was formerly at work as a labourer on the Sheerness and Sittingbourne Railway, then employed by Mr. Josiah Hall, of Queenborough, and has lately been in the employ of Mr. Moxon, contractor for the batteries at Sheerness. He has been resident at Queenborough about three years, is of short stature, sallow complexion, and stiffly built ; he has a very fair character at Queenborough, for his steadiness and general conduct, with the exception. of being somewhat morose in disposition and reserved in character. When taken before the magistrates at Queenborough, on Wednesday last, it was with some difficulty that he was able to walk up the stairs of the court, and not without being supported. He was then. ' placed on a chair in front of the bench. He hung his head down during the whole of the proceedings, without even raising his eyes or uttering a word. He shook violently, sobbed audibly, and appeared to feel his position. most acutely. The father of Emma Coppings, the mur dered girl, is an agricultural labourer, residing in Queen borough. He bears an irreproachable character, and has a large family. On Monday night his daughter called at his house on the way to the Ship Inn for her master's supper beer. She stayed on l y a few minutes, and left about half-past eight - o'clock. At nine she was taken home a corpse. We understand that the prisoner has scarcely spoken to any of the prison officials or constabu lary since his capture. He has taken but- the smallest por tion of food, and has ever since his arrest been apparently suffering the most intense agony of mind and prostration of body. Indeed, it was found requisite to administer repeated doses of brandy and water to him on Wednesday and Thurs day, in order to enable him to undergo the investigation rendered necessary by his crime.. The unfortunate de ceased was buried at Queenborough, on Sunday afternoon last, the Rev, Mr. Bingham, M A., incumbent, officiating. The affecting service was attended by a crowd of not less than 2,000 persons, who thronged to the Burial b .-round from Sheerness and other parts of the neighbourhood. — South, Eastern Gazette. _ _ The Sheerness Guardian says :—" We have v , reeved the particulars of the interview between the Rev. R. Bingham and the prisoner; they are, however, of such a private nature as to preclude publication. We may, notwithstanding, state, that when the reverend gentleman entered the room, the unfortunate criminal held out his hand to him, and burst into tears. A long conversation then ensued, in which the prisoner manifested every dis position to be communicative, and would doubtlessly have made a ' clean breast' of the whole affair had he been pressed to do so. -Mr. Bingham contented himself with directing the prisoner's mind to the state of his built, by suitably exhorting him, and by engaging with him in devotional exercise. The prisoner was deeply affected, and there is little doubt but that he will make a fall confession of the crime, and plead guilty to the charge. It is said (we believe on the prisoner's own statement) that he has neither father nor mother alive; that the only relation he has is a sister, and that she resides at a great distance, but he refuses at present to say whole." RIGID ECONOMY.—The Belfast local constables have got new cuffs to their great coats, now three years in use, and rather ragged from tear and wear. We fear our local authorities are extravagant in this respect as com pared with our Irish friends. DIOCESAN TRAINING SenooL.—We are informed that the managers of the Diocesan Training School, Man chester, have elected the Rev. Joshua Jones, M.A., of Lin coln College, Oxford, to the office of Vice-Principal of the above institution. Mr. Jones was some time cnrate of Holy Trinity, Hulme. _ _ _ _ , PRIZE POEM. —The Kilmarnock Burns Club having offered a five pound gold medal for a prize poem in honour of Robert Burns, fourteen competitors have sent in their MMS. We understnnd the Rev. Mr. Buchanan, editor of the Ayr Observer, has, at the request of the committee, undertaken the onerous task of judge. GIFT TO THE NIECES OF BURNS.—The subscription for this philanthropic object has been opened at Ayr, and already, we understand, a very handsome sum has been collected. There cannot be the slightest doubt but that the object of the gentlemen who originated the movement will be most successfully responded to by the admirers of the poet. _ _ An Irish bankrupt was refused a certificate by the judge, last week, because he kept six horses and three servants to look after them. One of the late Glasgow bankrupts indignantly repelled the allegation that he kept more than a dozen servants, when he had only nine. Of course he got a. certificate from his tender-hearted creditors. BURNT TO DEATH.—On Saturday morning a fatal accident occurred to James Albert, aged eight years, son of Mr. James Broadbent, manufactnrer, Bedford-terrace, Halifax. The boy was playing with some companions in a warehouse belonging to Mr. Thompson, waste dealer, situate in Carrier-street. They were standing warming themselves, when deceased's pinafore caught fire, and before help came he was shockingly burnt. fie was conveyed to the infirmary, where he died early in the afternoon. It is amusing to find that, after all, both French and English journals were in error respecting one of the most remarkable visitors said to have been at Compoigne. Lady Palmerston was not there ; on the contrary, she did not conceal her regret at the proceeding, and positively refused to go. When asked, the other day, why she had not accompanied her lord, she replied, " That it was all very well for a yonng man like Palmerston, but, for her part, she was growing old, and did not like, at this sea son of the year, going into comfortless chateaus, or ex posing herself to drafts.--London Correspondence of the New York Times, A few months back public attention was called to a peculiar circumstance connected with the fate of Strahan and Paul, the bankers. Upon their conviction they received the sentence of fourteen years' penal servitude. An act passed last session, however, reduced the penalty in all future cases to three years' imprisonment. When it was found last mouth that on the expiration of three years no mitigation was announced to Strahan and Paul, a memorial was prepared on their behalf, signed by the most eminent London houses, and presented to Mr. Secre tary Walpole. It has received, however, no attention. The writer of the city article in the Times says that the position of Strahan and Paul is " analogous to that which would be witnessed in the case of an offender upon whom a sentence of death might be carried out, although in the interval between the conviction and execution capital punishment had been repealed. It is the same as if we were now to apprehend an escaped forger whose crime was effected thirty years ago, and were to hang him in accordance with the statutes of that period." A GAMEKEEPER SHOT BY A POACHER IN AYRSHIE.E.-.- On Sabbath morning, about three o'clock, three keepers, in the service of the Marquis of Ailsa, encountered two poachers, one named Withers, and the other supposed to be a man named Ross, belonging to Maybole, on the farm of Park, between Kirk-Oswald and Turnberry. The keepers were some distance from each other, and one of them, named Jones, who was in advance, came first on t n a few with out provocation, levelled their guns and fired, the one at the poachers. He had a dog on the string, and was advancing yard s, i t nh the latter der deliberately, toseizethe poa a e n ly , is alleged, lV4e nv6h the d 0„, ,,, and the other at Jones. Each shot took fatal effect Jones was shot through the h ear t. ; When he received the deadly discharge, he leapad up, exclaiming " Oh," and then fell lifeless. Another of th e keepers, named Nicholson, coming up, seized With ers,-who said, "I'm no caring; I only shot the dog, but Ross shot the man." Pursuit after Ross was instantly given, and two policemen went to watch his house. As daylight approached, the watch was given up, and the watchers, th b e ee Sncene ofthine on entering ROSS'S house, found him in bed. Il e d en i ed all knowledge of the affair. One of his boot s was taken and memeasuredat the spot, and it is said t o h ave cor fraetsaplonila ff e r d ay wi thwtihteherfosotamnadrks Ross lefthave a t Ayr gaol.—Scotsman. lodged A CIJANCI FOR BARNUM.— A passenger from Humbolt, says the Trinity Journal, r e l a t es that when Captain Messec recently destroyed an Indian raneheria, one of his men—Hank Smith—entered a d eserted hut, but came out a great deal f aster than he went in, with each particular hair on end, and declaring that there was a ghost within ! The jests of the others in-. duced the man to go back, but again he returned, more precipitately, and swore that there was a moving skeleton in the lodge. Afterwards an Opening was made in the hut, and a living skeleton was discovered crouching under a basket —an animated anatomy of skin and nes, five feet six inches. high, which weighed but sixteen pounds ! The thing is declared to be a complete embodiment of death, without a particle of flesh discoverable either on the limbs or face, and that it was small enough at the waist of it to be spanned by a man's hand, yet capable of walking and intelligent action. The prisoners employ the skeleton man in mixing bread, in which his long bony claws exhibit considerable dexterity. So far as the credulity of our informant goes—and we have no he declares that he has seen the living skeleton, which reason to question his veracity—the foregoing is no hp_ , a .e x . , - ich has ocap torsr m e e ot its will shortly be sent to the settlements as the g i nu s s e ‘eisiiq the siege life ' fr u. physiological believe thatthe phenomenon attenuated creatureof the is the ge. Sort of enemy which ghastly tabernacle. If that be h . some unknown disease (a peculiar a e t l r lti o oe p g h r e y a ) slowly wasted the flesh withput th e e : l'ilessac has to fight, we implore a ~ it ger cannot be and come home ; for even "Texas expected to encounter " Death and ell . " Francisca Herald. ,u - e t ';(i s h e ? ) rn e - „i