The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-12-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

MB. GEO. STACEY, late secretary to the Church of England
Building Society, has recovered from the ditectott, by action
in the Court of Common Pleas, £125 damages, for dismissal
without just cause.
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A FEW days ago, a man named Drummond, in attempting
to avoid a runaway horse, on the Whin-road, Alloa, stepped
back, and fell with his face on an axe which a boy was carry-
ing on his shoulder. The consequence was, that his nose was
nearly taken off.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.--The Board of Trade, whose
attention to the state of this railway had been called by the
town council of the city of Norwich, have appointed Lieut.-
Colonel Wynne, R.E., to inspect the line between London and
Norwich.
IN the Exchequer Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Wyld, of map-
ping celebrity, brought an action against Mr. Ingram, pro-
prietor of the Illustrated London News, for infringement of
copyright, in copying into that paper some maps of the en-
virons of Sebastopol. It was alleged that various minute de-
tails, and the repetition of its inaccuracies, showed the im-
pression in the journal was copied from Mr. Wyld's map. The
case was ultimately referred, a verdict for the plaintiff being
taken, subject to the reference.

A Rrcn VAGRANT.—At Oswestry, on Friday, a most
miserable-looking man, with a wife and six children; was seek-
ing alms. He complained of dreadful poverty, and of his ina-
bility to get anything to eat, and was kindly afforded shelter
by the gaoler. While he was making himself and his family
all right for his brief sojourn under his host's care, something
struck Williams that it might be worth while searching hiin.
Upon looking closely, a silver watch turned up, Emboldened
by his success, the gaoler searched further, when a gold watch
turned up, besides sundry sovereigns. The tale told by the
vagrant was that he found the silver watch near Liverpool,
and the gold one was picked up by the children near Llanid-
loes. The different police-stations were communicated with,
when from Sewton an owner was found for the gold watch,
which bore the initials of "M. B. P." The man and his
family are now living on their own means until something
more is known about them. His *mane is' Patrick Middle,—
Hertford Journal.
THE ANA.BIAN DESERT.—Cap in William Allen, of the
British 'navy, has published a book advocating the conversion
of the Arabian Desert into an tocean. The author believes
that the great valley, extending from the southern depresion
of the Lebanon range to the 'head of the Gulf of Akaba,'bhe
eastern branch of the head of the Red Sea, has been once an
.ocean. It is, in many places, 1,300 feet below the level of
-the Mediterranean, and in it are situated the Dead *Sea and
the Sea of Tiberias. He 'believes that this ocean, being cut
'off from the Red Sea by the -rise of the land at the southern
extremity, and being 'drily fed by small streams, Vradually
became dried by solar 'evaporation. He proposes 'to Cut a
canal of adequate size from the head of the Girlf of „lkkaba to
the Dead Sea, and another from the Mediterranean, near
Mount Carmel, across 'the plain Esdmelon,to"the fissure in
the mountain range oft Lebanon. By this means`the Mediter-
ranean would rush lin, with a fall of 14300 TeX, fill up the
valley, and strbstitrithun ocean of 2,000 sqtrareniiles in extent
for a barzen,useless desert • thus making the 'navigation to
India as short as the Overland route, spreading fertility over
a now arid country, and opening up the fertile regions of
Palestine to settlement and cultivation.
AN ElccoVanlzicATlon AT Cezawslcz.—On Sunday, we
were witnesses of a ceremony which has net been performed
for ceaturies--,iiv, an excommunication, 'the subject being ,
M. Sonntagiu:lnerchant at Coblentz, 'Win) was divorced front
his tfirat wifeinnd eight years ago was married, by the civil
atriihorities only, to his present one. 'hag summer M. Senn
-
tag wasnonimanded by the clergy 'to -separate from his wife,
and •not obearg their decree, he nits on Sunday exceen
xuanicated. Dean Kramentz, after preaching a sermon
zagainsrthe mil marriage, put 'on -some other sacerdotal gsr-
ments, aid, accompanied by two 'clergymen bearing wax
!tapers, "read, standing in the Middle of the church, the
sentence M excommunication against M. Sonntag and his
lady. 'lfellieu extinguished the:topers, saying that the per-:1
_sons nacre were not worthy to -see the day of the Lord, 'and
thro ik,g-the candlesticks to the ground, breaking them to!
piecesroxilaimed; Let the bolls sound the funeral knell
We immediately heard the sound of bells and the Chants for
the dead. The dean, in ccrneleilion, proclaimed that no ono
whomsoever was to hold relations with the excommunicated,
to itiktte there, &c. This rrdhibition has not had :mu&
effect.,' their house has been --Biled ever since with visitors,l
and -at night they have heist serenaded.—leiern .frown
C Obieottz (Dec. 12).
•A CEARACTERISTIC ANN2MOTE is told of one of theTuiliigh
• stilt:Viers who was the first to foot inside the batteryttkin-
gout. Perceiving a Basilan colonel lying dead upon zthe
gromid, he pluckedoff Iris. leve, and appropriated a •valuatile
,:dianaoull ring which was Ripon his finger. Knowirw,however,
that it would be impossible very long to keep secret theTpos-
L session of so valuable apvire,le showed his Usbaslii,er captiln,
' his -treasure' and requested permission to keep it. Tile
' Unbarai told the man that the was quite right to bring theaniee
- to ;him, and that henceforward it should be transferrtieto The
finger 'of the said Usbashi. The soldier, not satisfied with this
,Errangement, referred the matter to the Bimbaslapor
who-said that both heandthe Usbashi were highly culpable in
daring to retain the ring from their superior offkoer4nnd that
ire woald, therefore, relieve them of the subject of dispute.
From the Bimbashi the soldier went to the Kaintallianta, or
lieuttmant-colonel, who-at once followed the example of his in-
.feriors, and took possession of the ring. The soldierstill per-
severed, however, andywent to the Meer Ali, or colonel, -who
determined that he was the rightful possessor of altering, by
vantue-of his rank, and dismissed the rival claimants from his
presence in the most summary manner. Next day, French
Officer, attached to the-staff of Omar Pasha, observed a private
soldier prowling near thetent of the commander-in-chief. The
story of the ring was:at once retailed by its original possessor
to this gentleman,. who 'laid the matter before his Highness,
and The man had notntly the satisfaction of regaining posses-
sion of his property, but of knowing that those who had at-
I 1 tempted successively to deprive him of it had been severely
remanded for theireonduct.

LORD CAMPBELL ,ON lIIIIE LIABILITY OP RAILWAY CONE-
PASIES.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, an
action was brought' by . the widow of a gentleman named
Meagher, to recover compensation in damages from the Eastern
Counties Railway Company for the death of that gentleman
by at accident on the • defendants' railway. A verdict, was
taken by consent for the plaintiff; with £1,900 damages, it
being arranged that '94Qtlis of that sum should' be appor-
tioned to the widow..of- the deceased, and 5-19ths to each. of
his two children. Lord Campbell said the Eastern Counties
Railway Company had,e.cted very handsomely in yielding at
once and making compensation. He wished that all railway
companies were equallyeenscious of their liability; but he
understood they,made it-,aground of complaint that the set
of Parliament obliged them to become insurers without pre-
miuin. .allovi, that was an complete misrepresentation of ,the
act of parliament, for companies were not sued as insurers,
but as wrong-doers, and as ,having been guilty of negligence
nhich .caused 'death. Theravere not liable unless the party
killed, if :he had survived,wcaild have had an action fee:neg-
ligence. iln ' former times, :when a coach was upset, there
were great rejoicings when, all the passengers were killed, for
min that ,ease, ono action.•conidthe maintained for negligence;
whereas, tif any one survivedi he was entitled to maintain an
action tnrecover damages for the injury which he had 'suf-
fered by the accident, The object of this act of Parliament
was, when a party was killed .iy negligence, to give the re-
presentatives ,ef• the deceased .a remedy for the wrong. The
representation which had been made of the act was wildly
unfounded:; for not only railwayaeampanies, but all persons,
were liable to,make compensatienozo that where a person was
killed by negligence there ,night .be a remedy against the
wrong-deer.
THE FIENQIIVA,R-BORSH.—Mhe Moniteur publishes .a
long article °lithe steps taken by the French government, at
the suggestion of Abe }Emperor, for i'maproving the breed of
horses for thearmyi by means of introducing more freely Arab
blood among theslierses of the Frenclaregiments. The Barb,
or horse of north Africa, is said to be superior to the
Asiatic horse. To the . qualities which (constitute the war-
- horse—vigour truited -to docility, impetuosity to gentleness,
and power of supportiag fatigue and privation—the African
horse is superior tto :its 'Asiatic brother. Although
;perhaps less elegantitefortn, it is more robust and vigorous ;
end the war in the Crimea , has shown .0411 its value, by its
having been subjected to-the , roughest trials in a climate so
,very different from thatiin -which it was bred. The horses of
'the African Chassenas 'have stood every hardship, while the
ethers have suffered most severely, and they-;rive
justified to
the letter what the Arab -says of the coarser which is the
limilla of his-tent :—" Lie cawstand fatigue of .e,very kind, and
.4%ll4oapport hunger anal thiest:" The African 'horse is truly
.the4escendaut of the nOblei:Mitinal:Of which .Job, nearly
4,000 vears ago, said, " ire saith among the trumpets, ' Ha,
•hx;'lhe smelleth, the battle afar .off, the thunder of the
,captains and the shouting?' In•Oetdber, 1851, Lient.-Colonel
Vallot was placed at the heed :of -it mission, charged to visit
all the•markets where horses areoffered for sale ; to go with
the officers of the Arab bureunamong the tribes iitlia more
particularly devote their attention to •the breeding of ;horses,
and anioqg whom the original breedavas kept up in its great-
est purity, to avail themselves of every opportunity of pun-
chasing such stallions and mares as were best suited for the
formation .of breeding establishments, ;and for keeping ,up
thosealreadyerganized. In 18.51., the ,number of etalliens
possessed by the State in Africa was .88 -; in 1.€55, the number
was 111. 'The lumber of mares at the ;French depSts and
stations devoted to purposes of breeding, in (L4l, was 3,209:;
in 1855, theyhad encreased to 14,066.
Tug Pox..a .4,143) I'BE TROOPER.—The Coaeneier des Alpes
relates the following atory, the authenticity of which it gua-
rantees :—" A few ,months ago a soldier of the army of the
East, writing to &comrade of the French army at iXoene, drew
a sad picture of the privations and fatigues which the former
had to endure, of the clangers to which they were exposed, and
of the ravages which disease and the Russian balls were making
in their ranks. He vonelutted his letter by recommending his
friend without delay to tarry to the Pope himself the price of
a mass for the preservation of the French army, and request
him to perform it. Faithful to the recommendation of boa
friend, the soldier at Rome meat the next morning to the
Vatican, and requested the first attendant he met to eon.
duet him to His holiness. `Hut, my brave fellow,' said
the guard, `have you obtained the previous authority for
an audience?' All that is very well,' replied the sol-
dier, for great lords, but with a simple trooper no such
ceremony is necessary.' The guard would not trespass on
the usual regulations ; but the soldier, on his side, was so
little disposed to give way, ~that it was found necessary to
conduct' him to the prelate on duty that day. There
similar observations were made to the applicant, but all in
vain; and at length the prelate, despairing of,overcoming the
importunity of his visitor, went and mentioned the matter to
the Pope. As may be supposed, the curl ty of Pine IL wasl
excited by the application, and the etiquet of the Vatican
was set aside, the soldier being ushered in 0 e the presence of
his Holiness. On coming near, the soldidy stood upright as
a post, and, then giving the militarrahlute by raising his
hand to his forehead,, addressed the Pope-es follows, just as if
he was speaking to the lieutenant of his company :—`3fon
Pape, here is a letter from a comrade in the Crimea which
concerns you ; please to read it, and tell me what answer I
am to send.' At the same time he with one hand held out
the letter, and with the other some pieces of money. The
Pope took the letter, and, after reading it, returned it to the
soldier, saying, `fly friend, my mass of to-morrow is appro-
priated to a particular purpOOP ; but the day after, without :
that
French army.
fail, I will say one with pleasure for i',.','t
I, ho.. make one condition, and that is that
nrepare to receive the Holy Communion. As to,'
yourself ant:, yt;;; attend
°".ar keep the money to drink to the health
the payment you °la..: e " That is sufficient, Mon
of your brave brothers in -"m?' prepare myself with
,4
Pape,' replied the soldier, 'I will: lir° and,
the chaplain of the regiment, and the ... ay after, to-morrow, at
the appointed hour, I will be at my pos. He thenleft his again
H,
saluted a la militaire, and, turning right about,
ness, charmed with his militgy nenchalance. (srl the day i
appointed the soldier was present at the mac; of the Soeereign
Pontiff, and bad the happiness of FPceiving the communion 1
from his hands.

THE Moscow journals announce the arrival at that capital
of the Persian Envoy-Extraordinary, Seifoul•Moulk-Mini•
Pindj-Abbas-Kouli-Khan.
AT the Thames Police•court, London, on Tuesday, a lad,
aged ten years, was sent to the House of Correction for one
month, for having worked a private still.
THE London and Westminster Bank has sustained a loss of
about £3,000 through the defalcation of one of their clerks,
who has been about 20 years in the service of the company.
SIR M. R. SHAW STEWART, M.P., has, with the view of
affording his tenantry healthful recreation during the winter
months, constructed a curling pond on Lunderston-hill, at a
height of 300 feet above the sea level.
AN official communication from Canada has reached the
directors of the Great Western Railway of Canada, to the
effect that the line between Hamilton and Toronto was opened
for traffic on the 3rd instant with great success, the trains
having kept time and been well filled.
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Teas superintendent of the South Shields police force has
been interrupted in a systematic appropriation of the borough
funds -to his own purposes.- Twenty-six cases have been
proved, in which he has received fines and fees from drunk
and disorderly persons, and neglected to transfer the same to
his Corporation account. He was committed for trial.

A LETTER from Par° Sound states that the American brig
Robert Patten has been seized by the Swedish authorities at
Stockholm, and found to have bales of cotton filled with re-
volvers on board. There are said to be three other vessels
similarly laden. at Copenhagen, waiting for the departure of
the English squadron.

A raw day; ago, the Whitehaven harrriers, belonging to
T. Ainsworth, - Esq., of the -Flosh,-near -Egremont, were in
pursuit ,of a hare, near Calder Abbey,. when, in passing
the brink of a large and deep quarry, six of the best and
swiftest dogs fell headlong to the bottom of it. Some of the
animals were killed by the fall, and others were so seriously
iej*red that a period was put to their existence.
THE Cumberland Pacluel states that the wife of a farmer
'residing at Frizington-hall had eozasion, on Satxtrday, to go
ituto an outbuilding where a thrashing machine was at work.
She incautiously stepped too near the machine; and a portion
catching her dress, she was instantly drawn in among the
machinery. She did not 'survive many hears, the injuries
which she sustained before she could be extricated being very
severe.
THE LONDON* LIM PKIIIS Exurntittons.—The French
newspapers publish a cottvarison between the principal results
of the London Exhibition of 1851, and that of Paris of the
present, year, 'which is not without literest. The prinoipta
feature in it is, that whilst the former'was open only 165 days,
and the latter 198, the number of Visitors to the former was
6,039,195, and to the latter only 4,533,464 ; and that tile
receipts 'ut London were 12,625M9f., and at Paris 'enly
2,941,668 f.
RUM OE tilt OPORTO VaiTAGE.—According it 4 the
Conentercio, a respectable Oporto paper, all the wort antici-
pations Of the vintage of the Alto Douro this year 'will be
realised. A•litit is given of 45.zultivators, possessing:6B vine-
yarels,•and their produce for 1855 is compared withlhat of the
average of tbrmer years. The result is 386 pipes against 5156
pipes. Taking this as a guide for estimating the whole pro-
deotion, it% presumed th*t it will not this year,exceed 71- per
omit. of the average' quantlty.

PFtW 'days ago, a boy named Irving, a ptp-il in the. Cen
tral London District ,school Establishmedt for Pauper
Children, picked up a per containing a ;quantity of powder,
in theithool-yard. IT° showed the powdeeto a school-fellow
namell itan6al, 14 years of age, 'who immediately
took a portion of it itto his mouth and trwallowed it. He
.iliedqn two hours afterwards, the powder proving to be cor-
osive sublimate, which it is believed Mad been thrown into
'the school-yard from an adjoining public :Toad.
likrnrso- a triarhefore Mr. Justice Mines, at Durham, a
i/uryman, ori the dadge making some observations on the legal
bearing of the case to one of the counsel, addressed his lord-
411p, amid roars of laughter, and said, " I quite agree with
year lordship!' Again, on the judge stopping a case, the
•.4uryman informed his lordship that lre was of opinion it fought'
to have been stopped half an hourtkago. As the judge was
*umming up, he was for the third time addressed by tbejury-
unan, who said, " You may go on all night, but yen can't
change my,epinion."
EXTRAMDINARY TlMlLL.—Madamoiselle Dupuis, A young
actress at the Vaudeville Theatre,ftris, lately appeared before
the tributal of Correctional Pollee; to complain of the editor of
the Theatre, for having, in w:orilticism, compared her to ra
Nurettherg doll." What i particularly annoyed ,Madlle.
Dupuis was, that she never appeared at all in the part which
the editor of the ire somstmercifully "oat ' The
7tribunedecided that such a stYleef criticism was neat allowable,
• and, 'as it appeared to lavekibeest dictated by !arsenal ani-
mosity, it condemned Jellabert tbo pay 500 fr. inennd 2,000 fr.
damages, alFio to insert the •tett.st the judgment inais paper,
and to pay t'ae expenses .of inserting it in three other papers of
Paris, to be chosen by thocomea.inant.
GAZETIE /3 AT Max.ra..-4.tietter from 11falta-says:—" Msdta
was never so attractive ttevisitses as at present. On Wednes-
day,?the new prima henna, _Madame Leonti,. is, to have' her
benefit, and already heavy ;premiums are offeredera the prices
of the tickets. It is thought it will, if possible,exceed her
delnit, and then officers in ,uniform were glad he go in the
gallery ; .!ertainly, never since the English had Malta was so
fullahou: se seen. On Friday, the officers of the Third Division
-gave a large bate the ;Mt& ef Malta ; 700 tiehetslave already
been issi Led. Oranges are a failure this year. Green Teas
have just come in. The price of provisions ,4E 'very high,
• although we are so •Close, 4to Africa,•where poultryand meat is
to be had, for almost nothing:" -
vermin IN urn VitP24I,!•STATES.—The Piemestie gives:an
.aveount c ,f the state of the prisons in. the papal dotninions.
It says :- —" In 1850, there were imprisoned 1121,436 persons ;
iin 1851, 11,279; 1'1(1852,111,767 in 1853, • 1204 ; in 1854,
13,006." Showing an :augmentation •of '2,67o,—nearly one-
'fourth, b a five years. The-same journal states that on the 31st
of last 1 ,ugust, there were '683 persons imprisoned in Fort

lflibano. whom-it illiSidestunder the following,heads :—" Con-
demned by the Sacra !Consulta; 21; condemned by the ordi-
nary tribunals, 3371 ‘tortilemned by the military tribunals,
1111; .con tdemned by the diccesan tribunals; 7 ;, awaiting judg-
ment, 2 ; in transit; 1; retained as a measure of precaution,
i 124," L ! these figures areonly tolerably correct (and the diffi-
,cstlty of. t,scertainitag withistrict precision such statistics mast
be well u nderstood)., wbata sad picture do they present of the
alemoraltz ation of a country containing less than. 8,000,000 in-
,habitants,. and governed by the Romish Church!
pip m] :SE Cuusasinzs.-7-During the recent, audience to

lßritish of rents at Burmalrlty the king, the Kinpand Queen
sat on the throne smoking. The King is pronounced to be
• decidedly a handsome man,. and with an agreeable expression
of face, I) is Queen decidedly plain : she is five years younger
tthan the I ring, who is forty-two years of age. 'An•-extraordi-
.nary phent )menu was sentiby the 'King, for the inspection of
.thettnbass y, in the shape °La woman covered.withdlair. The
hair on her face is from four to eight incheslong,and of a fine
-silky textm Inside the ear it grows fully eight inches long,
~antlis of a whitish brown,celonr. Notwithstandin the un-
natural appearance imparted by the hair on the face, the 7
. .

,woman's cOuntenance is prominced pleasing.fiber arms
sho-corried a. child fourteen rnouths. old, coveredvith down of
a fliaxen colour; she had another child with ken oficrdinary
appearance, and the father is aßarnaan of ordinary ayndarance.
.:113111E.A.TE ANSELIi ParIESQ.KULD.—The Secs an Mercury
econtains the following from Iflrankfort :—" The foriane of
Barontle Rothschild, who recently , died, has been Aitlued at
• forty to fifty millions of /wins. sum of. 14200000 florins
is.destinod to continue the alms ..which the deceased as in
the habit of distributing 'every wiz*, as well as for 'the distri-
ibution.of !wood to the poor in Winter. The fund for giving a
dower ,to Aewish maidens receivert,ooo. florins ; tbe,fund for
,the sick,as well as the Jeultill hospital,. 10,00011orins,each.
'irhe:Jewiah-school, 50,000 florins. .-*tims of 3,000 florins are
;bestowed vr: several Christi= ,estatiishments. Tire,ulerks
hvho have been more than twenty /ears in the Arm •;resolve
42,000torine,the others 1,000; the juniors from 300 t 05600
iletting. Mans legacies are left to servants."—By the ';death
of-51. de Rothschild it appears that ;his :godson, .sir AnthwaY
Rothschild, .of (London, will receive epoopo, and also ,n
,equal.sharestrith the other neplburs.amiadeces of the renithke
,of the estate .of the deceased.

84 041 N ACCVEN T.—M. Godard, ;junior, the seronattt
had a wiraeulousoscape on the 10th of Maaember, at Crefeict,
in Rhenan Prussia. He ascended is ,a balloon filled according
to the Mentgolfiensystem, and placed himself on a " trapezr
or hangisag board attnhed to a parachute .fastened to his bal-
loon.. had already. attained a considerable height, and was
in the act of perforimeg his perilous gymnastic feats above
the heads of .several -thousand spectators, when an• explosive
report, ;like that of a rt.eld-gun, was heard,,the balloon was
seen to ,collapse, and to descend with terrible .veloeity. It had
burst. M. %Godard retained his presence of mind, and was
enabled to detach the cords of the parachute. Thiseomewhat
broke the .velocity of the descent, and he landed,..or rather
fell, in a.n open field, withoit other damage than scale severe
bruises occasioned by the hard frozen ground. A suLseription
was immediately made for his benefit, which produced about
twenty-five pounds.
A BALTIC CAWA.IGN.—The Siecle anticipates .a •future
campaign in the Baltic provincee,and after having enumerated
the forces possessed by 'tussle in -these regions, which it,values
'at 200,000 men, thus marshals the armies which the allies, in
conjunction with Sweden and ;Denmark, could dispose of if
necessary :—" Admitting that Sweden was to furnish 70,900
men, and Denmark 30.,000, the Western Powers would have
,to furnish 100,000 men, se 70,000 French and 30,000 English.
France could even increase her,contingent if the military or-
ganisation of our neighbour were not 'to permit them to com-
plete theirs, for our country possesses ,a military strength
reeky formidable. Thus is constituted -the French army :
Infantry of the line, 328 battalions.; light infantry (rifles);
30 ditto; artillery, 248 companies; siege train, 20 ditto ; en-
gineers,, .54 ditto ; sappers, 11 ditto—.cavalry,, 373 squadrons ;
gendarmes and firemen of Paris, 119 squadronsor companies:
veterans of all arms, 17 companies. It is not,a4nestion here
of an improwised force.__ At the advent of the government of
the 2d December, the army was composed of :327 battalions
of infantry, 1313 squadrons of cavalry, and .240,companies of
artillery. It has thus only been augmented by 30 battalions
of infantry and,6o squadrons of cavalry. Without any offence
we may say that this great army has been organised under
the constitutional r‘gime, and had found in Algeria the tra-
ditions of victory. like to hear the roar of cannon in
Algeria; said Louis Philippe, Europe does not hear it.' Eu-
rope has since heard this African cannon, and friends and
enemies know that it fires well. A great expedition to the
Baltic is therefore not impossible. England will pay her alli-
ance in vessels, and our soldiers will find at Cronstadt another
Malakhoff."

CULTIVATION OF THE SUGAR CANE IN FRANCE.-A SUC-

Icessful attempt to cultivate the sugar cane has been made in
the department of the Vancluse. In June last, aM. Tellee,
residing in the village of Caumont, having procured some of
the reeds of that plant from a friend in the colonies, sowed
them on his estate; and notwithstanding the advanced period
of the season, by the month of October last they had attained
a sufficient degree of maturity to be cut down and subjected
to the operation for extracting the juice. One hundred canes
of a medium size were crushed by means of an oil-mill, and
afterwards pressed, when they yielded 50 litres of saccharine
juice. One important point remains yet to be ascertained,
and that is, whether the canes produced from cuttings will
succeed as well as from seed, as it is well known Lhat those
raised by the latter process Jose a great deal of their sdncha-
rine quality in a few years. The sugar canes grown at Can,
ynont attained a height of about 19 feet. The cultivation of
the cane does not require more attention than that of corn.
After the ground has been well ploughed, furrows are drawn
and the cii.tiriFs are planted at equal distances, and covered
lightly with earth, anu !."
hen with the leaves of the old canes,
reserved for that pui-ose. Ag soon as they begin to shoot
above the ground. the
fklyrolvii rti•p filled up with the earth and
the plant is left to itself, tailing care it; keep the ground clear
of weeds. The climate of Provence is perfeetl; identical with
that of New Orleans, where the sugar cane is enitiVPted with
great saccess,—Wignani's Messenger.

M. THWAITES has been elected chairman of the Metro-
politan Board of Works.
THE inspectors of the estate of Messrs. De Lisle, Janvrin,
and Co., at a meeting on Thursday, determined to declare a
third dividend, payable on the 2nd of February. It will be
2s. in the pound, making, with the former two dividends, 10s.

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in the pound.
PERVERSION TO Rows.—The Rev. W. Wheeler, for many
years vicar of Old and New Shoreham, in the county of Sus-
sex, has within a day or two left the Church of England and
embraced the doctrines and become a member of the Church
of Rome.

A. TELEGRAPHIC DIEssAGE has been received from Bremen,
announcing the arrival of the United States mail steamship
Washington in the Weser, having landed her mails, passen-
gers, &c. In consequence of the rapid accumulation of ice in
that river the Washington has been compelled to put back to
Southampton.
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NATIONAL GALLERY.—The late Samuel Rogers has be-
queathed to the nation three well-known pictures from his
collection—the Titian " Noli me Tangere ; " the Giorgione, a
" Small Picture of a Knight in Armour ; " and the Guido,
"Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns." The remainder of
the collection will, it is presumed, be sold in the course of the
ensuing spring.
THE SOUTHAMPTON MURDER.—At the Winchester Assizes
on Thursday, Abraham Baker was convicted of the murder of
Naomi Baker, at Southampton, on the 14th of October. The
circumstances attending the murder will be fresh in the re-
collection of our readers. Baker was sentenced to death, and
the judge intimated that no commutation of the sentence
could be expected.
THE FRAUDS OF DAVIDSON AND GORDON.—At the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, on Thursday, Daniel Mitchel Davidson
and Cosmo William Gordon, who had been acquitted on the
previous day upon an indictment for embezzlement, were
placed at the bar upon another indictment charging them with
having, within three months of their bankruptcy, obtained
from certain creditors goods by fraudulent means and pre-
tences, with intent to defraud, and not to use in the way of
business. The trial lasted the whole of Thursday, and was
resumed on Friday, when the jury found both prisoners guilty.
The Judge then sentenced them to two years' hard labour.

Mr.. BARON MARTIN, in reply to a letter by Dr. Jackson.
(complaining of the closing expression of the judge, in his
(charge to the jury on Mr. Wooler's trial, "that there was
another person whom he would be inclined to find guilty
rather than the prisoner," asserts that "he never made use
of any such expression, or anything tantamount to it ;" that
the substance of what he meant to say, and he believes he did
say, was, that having endeavoured in his own mind to arrive
at some conclusion on the subject," it appeared to him there
was no proof against any one,, and that if he were to indulge
in mere surmise and fancy, not the prisoner, but some other
person would first occur to his mind."
A CURIOUS METEOR.—A very curious phenomenon was
observed at Gateshead, about 6h. 15m. on Wednesday morning.
A very bright pillar of blue light appeared to stand up from
the horizon to an altitude of about 30 degrees. At that point
it assumed a very bright appearance, resembling the bursting
of a huge rocket. A stream of sparks and haze ascended to a
height of about 10 degrees more. The light continued visible
for about two seconds, illuminating the whole neighbourhood,
and was unaccompanied by any noise. The lower parts then
disappeared, leaving the haze in the form of a bright oblong
cloud,.which gradually diminished in brilliancy for nearly ten
minutes, when it had entirely disappeared. Its position was
nearly due sotith.
SUPPOM ACCIDENT.—Some anxiety has been created at
Chatham in consequence of the absence of three young engi-
neer officers, who, accompanied by the brother of one of them,
went from Gillingham down the Medway on Saturday week
in pursuit of wild-fowl, and have not since been heard of. It
iis feared that they have been drowned from the upsetting of
!their boat, which, it appears, was ill calculated to encounter a
stiff breeze. Every exertion has been made by the authorities,
'but 'no tidings of the young gentlemen, boat, or oars have
ibeen obtained. A hope is entertained, however, that, having
!gone a greater distance from their starting point than they
(expected, they have got on board some vessel bound to another
port, and that in a day or .two some information respecting
them will be obtained. .

THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.—With reference to certain
statemaits which have appeared in several of our contempo-
raries relative to a supposed breach in the ranks of the Con-
,servative party in North Essex, we have the highest authority
for giving a most emphatic contradiction to any such sinister
reports. The Conservatives of North Essex are thoroughly
Ilmited upon all essential points. The differences which exist
are trifling and insignificant, and have their origin in the ma-
levolent attempt of a local journal to avenge itself upon a cause
-which some years since abjured its equivocal advocacy. We
lame the best grounds for believing that, whenever a dissolu-
tion shall occur, the Whig-Radical party will find the True
Blue electors ready to meet them with two candidates, whose
',•principles and whose character entitle them to the support
,:aind confidence of a Conservative constituency.— The Press.
A MAN FROZEN TO DEATH AT SEA.-011 Saturday week,
the schooner London, of and from Boston, left the Roads,
laden with wheat, for Port Dundas, Glasgow. Shortly after
ske had stood out to sea she encountered heavy gales, and
stout two o'clock on Sunday morning it was discovered that
she had about two-and-a-half feet of water in her hold, while
she appeared to be sinking, and was drifting towards the shore.
ian this the crew, consisting of the master and two men, put
to sea in the boat, but finding they could not reach the shore
with safety, they put out to sea. It appears that the boat
had drifted about till Wednesday, when it was picked up by
the brig Temperance Star, of Ipswich. By that time the
master had died from the effects of the cold, and his compa-
siiens, who were more dead than alive, were taken on board
the brig.

4.‘CnKsars ix rnr HOUSE or Coxmows.—Several new
rmeatbers will take their seats on the opening of parliament
month, and some writs will be moved for as soon as the
home assembles. Mr. James Rust will take the oaths and his
seat for Huntingdonshire, in the room of Viscount Mandeville,
alol7 Duke of Manchester ; the Earl of Gifford succeeds Lord
,'Seyneour at Totnes, the noble lord having become Duke of
:Somerset ; Captain Joliffe will take his seat for Wells, in the
,roomof Mr. Tudway, deceased; Sir Charles Napier succeeds to
the 'representation of Southwark, vacant by the death of Sir
l ham Molesworth ; Mr. Bond will take his seat for Ar-
'magi), in the room of Mr. R. S. Moore, deceased; Mr. M'Evoy
succeeds to Mr. Frederick Lucas, deceased, in the representa-

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ttion of the county of Meath. On the meeting of parliament,
.-new writs will be moved for Taunton, in the room of Mr. La-
`,lbotithere, who has become Secretary of State for the Colonies ;
for Leeds, in the room of the Right Hon. Matthew T. Baines,
InowsChancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; for New Ross, in
theloom of Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy retired; for Rochester,
in Ithe. roam of the Hon. Francis J. Villiers, who has accepted
dike ,Chiltern Hundreds ; and for Yarmouth in the room of
Tdr.,C.- E. Rumbold, who has intimated his intention of with-
ofttawieg from parliamentary life.

lihrPLßLemsGaovE AND STOURBBIDGE BANKs.—A, final
dividerld upon this estate, estimated at 3d. in the pound, was
daelaredryesterday in the Birmingham Court of Bankruptcy.
Debts-to the amount of between £3,000 and £4,000 were
pelaved,during the day. This dividend, with 6d. in the pound
alineadyipaid, makes 9d. received by the creditors of the Broms-
grow .establiethment. Messrs. Philip and Frances Rufford
were the .enly partners. In the matter of the Stourbridge
Bank, of,whieh Messrs. P. Rufford, F. Rufford, and C. J.
Wragge'constitated the firm, a final dividend meeting is fixed
for the 6.8th,0f September next, when the estate is expected to
realize :a 'further dividend of 7d. or Bd. in the pound. Two
dividends ofllsi6d. and sd. each have already been declared,
making •total.of 2s. 7d. in the pound. The separate estate
of Mr. rialliptilufford has already been realized and divided.
The Etrst'avidand was 55., and the second ls. 3d., making a
total of tes.l3d. ahe separate estate of Mr. Wragge, which
proved to teby. far the most productive to the creditors, has
also been kiwitled. Where were three dividends—the first of
Sc., a second of-55:., and a final of 25., making a total of
lss. 3d. in ,the ,pound. A final dividend meeting of the
separate estate of Mr.. Francis Rufford is fixed for the 23rd of
January. 'lllbree',dividends of is., id., and 4d. each in the
pound„ and the -Anal are likely to produce as much as will
a fotal •fatoin the separate estate of the late member for
Worcester of 3c. !19.d..iii the pound. The estates have been

realized with peat cliZcolty, in consequence of the unsaleable
nature of the property, and the numerous questions of legal
nicety and importance which arose, not only between the
estates themselves, but ~with other parties. It is a fortunate
.circumstance that no action or suit has arisen out of these
%%various complicatioms.eit4herin Chancery or at common law.
Ismall as the divides ds are; theyavould have been much smaller
lott for a prudent avoidance otllitigation.

ANOTHER P0160511,111G CAse.—An inquest was held at
Devonport, touching •the ,fleath of Louisa Mitchell alias
Loal\s' a Hallett, living as the .wife of Mr. John Hallett, drug-
gist, of James-street, but .cotataonly known as Dr. Hallett.
The <ideceased had lived with Dr. ifallett upwards of seven
yews; As his wife, and, from the evidence of several witnesses,
• they had lived in a state of disennafcrt, and quarrelled fre-
clPently. The deceased had been ill several months. About
two mouths since, Mr. James Bennett, surgeon, had been
calledinfto attend her professionally. 'He now deposed that,
on the j.,,nd November, he was requested rto visit Mrs. Hallett
by a tenons, who represented Mrs. Hallett as being danger-
ously ill. ife saw the deceased In bed. he appeared insen-
berconntenance was very ranch flushed, her breathing
verylond, mid foam was issuing from her moat), the pupils of
her eyes were ,contracted, and the pulse slow and labouring.
lie immediately bled her, but she continued jusensible. He
then.considered.deceased to be suffering from great congestion
of the head. lie intimated to Dr. Hallett tliat the recovery
of his wife,was .doubtful. The doctor replied -that she was
offering from apoplexy, and refused to have.a second medical
opiniou. Witness subsequently again urged the propriety of
further advice, Ibut Jr.l Hallett again refused, stating that he
had suffieient .confidence in him (witness). Witness ;visited
deceased several times Auring the day. On one of theseocca-
sions Dr. Hallett said, ." I like to look on dead people—poor
devils. I always call them poor devils, for they are." Witness
attended deceased three daris, and she appeared to get better,
On the third day, when be called at the house, deceased was
down stairs. Dr. Hallett said, in witness's presence, " f
had a good mind to give her A good hiding this morning, for
she took too long dressing." Deceased made no reply, and
appeared afraid to speak. Dr. Hallett spoke in a very decided
tone, as if he meant it. On witness's first visit, it was his
impression that the deceased had taken narcotic medicine.
Witness did not visit deceased after the third day, but on
Friday last he was requested by Dr. Hallett's son to call. The
son represented that Mrs. Hallett was dead when he left the
house to call witness. Witness called, and Dr. Hallett then
stated that the deceased was alive when the son left. Witness
examined the body externally, but there were no marks of
violence. He proceeded to make an examination, in company
with Mr. Laity and Mr. Little. There were marks of ulcers
on both legs, and the remains of an ulcer on the left knee ;
pupils of the eyes rather dilated, arms very flexible. In
making an examination of the contents of the chest, he dis-
covered a quantity of bloody serum in the cavity of the pleura;
the heart was of the natural size, healthy but rather flabby,
liver much enlarged and diseased, and the external surface of
the intestines was very florid. On turning the body round, a
quantity of fluid escaped from the mouth and nose, which was
preserved with the contents of the stomach ; the brain itself
was healthy. On the stomach being opened, the natural sur-
face presented a dark spot about the size of a halfcrown, and
a quantity of fluid of an oily nature. In witness's opinion the
&Teased died from congestion of the lungs, not arising from
natural. causes. The jury here pressed the witness to give an
opinion vhether poison had been administered; and he replied
that it was his opinion something of a deleterious nature had
been administered, but he was unable to say what it was. On
this the inquest ;vas adjourned to Monday, the 31st inst., to
give time to have the contents of the stomach analysed. Dr.
Hallett was in attendance during the early part of the pro-
ceedings, but behaved in such a way that the coroner was
obliged to order him out of court,