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THE SAVE CUSTODY 01.• THE Ptcrunt:s bequeathed
conditionally to the nation by the late Mr. Turner
was the object of a suit heard before Vice-Chancellor
Kindersley, on Monday. Doubts had arisen touching
the validity of the bequest, as also regarding the
consent of the trustees of the National Gallery to
accept it under the prescribed conditions. lending
the settlement of these points the pictures remained
in the old house in queen Anne-street, which is in
so dilapidated a gate that the counsel tOr the Crown
sought to obtain an order for their removal, on the
ground that serious injury might be incurred from
damp and a bad atmosphere before the legal rights
of ownership could be ascertained. The Crown also
offered to place the pictures, ad interim, in safe
keeping in the National Gallery,subjeet to the future
decision of rights between the respective parties :
This removal of the pill ere% wm objected to by the next of
kin, on the ground that the house was mitifiriently good for their
Prenerration ; and they had no desire to allow then. to get into
the possession of the Crown, for, mi ptiasestsion was nine points
of the law, they were afraid the interest* of the next of kin
might he prejudiced.
Vter..Citssi tuna said the real question an Marne sp.
reared to he, whether the boom in Queen Ann ...street was or
was nut a proper place for the custody of the &titres, and an.
cunlingly auggested the appoinunent of some well-iptalilled per-
belle to Ilinlirrt thr buldiui, codreport oil its slab.
After mine discussion it was agreed to not kk kk MAR Mr. Han'.
wick, who would represent the interests of the next of kin, Mir
charles Eastlake, President of the Royal Academy, and Mr.
Stanfield, the artist, to make a report In conformity with this
suggestion of the court.
MARY STUART was charged at Bow-street on Mon-
day with breaking the windows of Viscount Palmerston
in Carlton-gardens. The prisoner, it appears, com-
mitted the offence under aberration of mind, conceiving
herself a descendant of the royal house of Stuart,
and entitled to notice from Government. She was
brought up a few years ago, charged with a similar
attack on Sir James Graham's house, and was then

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sent to Holman. Mr. Hall considered her mad, and
consigned her to the care of the officers of St. Martin's
workhouse.

THE WPM FOR A HOLIDAY induced a lad named
Joseph Cook, employed as a machine-boy at Messrs.
Tallis's printing establishment, to cause serious da-
mage to one of the machines. He had been employed
for several days in working off an edition of some
book, when he was heard to say to a companion,
" We must have a smash, for this is a long number,
and get a holiday." An hour afterwards the machine
they were tending broke down, evidently from wilful
disarrangement. Loss from similar misconduct, it was
stated, had been sustained by the firm during the past
year to the amount of more than 1001. The lad's com-
panion had since been drowned in the Lee, it was
reported, by his own act. After an examination at
the Clerkenwell I'olice Court on Tuesday, Cook was
committed to prison for a month.
AMONG the multitude of cases which the magis-
trates at the various courts have been called upon
to decide under the new cab law during the past
week, the charge brought by Mr. Bigg, fruiterer, of
Covent-garden Market, came again before Mr. Henry
at Bow-street on Tuesday, the cabman being in at-
tendance to answer the summons. The complaint,
it will be remembered, arose first out of the over-
charge of Is. in the fare from Monument-yard, in-
volving afterwards the claim set up of 1!. 14. Md.,
under the "luggage clause;' for the conveyance of
1:10 pineapples. Clark, the driver, now admitted
that this claim was untenable, but complained that
Mr. Bigg had refused to go at once to the court to
settle the dispute, which would have saved time,
trouble, and expense :

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Mr. HENRY maid the defendant was hi error on every point.
He was wrong in consenting to take a Mail of pineapples, in the
first place, for cabs were not designed tor any such purpose ;
then he was wrong in seeking to charge for them us luggage.
lin was Wrong in &HUMOUR more than his fare fir the distance ;
and, finally, ho was wrong in supposing that the new
art gave
linn the power to take the hirer to a police court, upon the
question of a disputed fare. By thee new kW, the hirer could
compel the driver to go to the nearest nangistratte; but the act
gave no power to the driver to convey the hirer tee the police
eons* without the consent of the latter. The defendant, there-
fore, was altogether wrong. lie must pay the penalty of 40e., or
be committed for a month.
The defendant preferred the latter alternative, and
was accordingly sent to prison.
THE RIVALRIES between two parties into which the
Methodist body are split have led to disputes and
quarrels, of which one result has been to place John
Sykes and Thomas Mann on trial at the York assizes,
upon the charge of firing a blunderbuss at Hiram
Yeadon, on the 18th of March last. James Oat was
at the same titne indicted for aiding and abetting the
other two prisoners:—
It appearisl that the Methodist body was new divided into
two parties, eonsist ing of the'" Referrers" and tl
%only, Mid Ilist, at the village of Woolen, where the lintiorily
forlllol the ryfilllll party, the disputes had led to tiiuehi bitteniess
and anti proceedings had been token both in law and
eqnity for the possession of the old chapel. The Reformers,
having at last got ponnemni tell tile ringlet, held their lliveting.4
there, while the Conference party held theirs ire it pliice %hick
they eletlnillhlatedd the Chapeldionse. A 141110 time prior to Sun-
day, the Ulth of Mardi, the Reformers 441 that cute that
day a popular preacher named Everett would deliver it discourse.
This 1111111 was particularh obnoxious to the I...Willie**, party;
and, in coulee urndn of his announced visit, some anticipation of
a renewal of the strife was entertained. The 4 'ourerenee !aim,
it wait alleged, then sent for the prisoner Sikes, who is an Al
soldier, and it lilinislerinins Nan taw procured. On the Sunday
night emisidemble exeitet..cnt prevailed, a stone was thrown ail.
the Chapehhouse whitlows, in %bleb the Conference party A 144
1114/411111111011, and Sykes was eommanded by the prisoner dlunm tee
fire. upon which he tired the Id Wilms,' out of the a indow. and
wounded the proseeutor, Who Wan coining Ull a hale fronting the
chapel. The diorite took effeet he the leg. from which live shots
were extracted, std he was in danger of losing him limb. For
the prisoners, wine pleaded guilty, it was submitted that it. was
dusk at the time, that there bad been much pre% ions exeitemeet,
and it was dear that they had no intention of doing any par.
fielder person any mischief. Mr. Justice Eitt.i: 'oddities helot'
often had he wane persona of the extreme peril they ran if they
resorted to the law of firearms in repressing a chi! trematss.
They were liable to be emivietssl of felony if the shooting took
effect, and if thew' ling Was followed by ilentli they were liable
to be Indicted for per; believing, however. that in the present
easel 011`1%1 was MOM 1/1. 111i14441‘44 1111111 11111111.0, he 1410/11111 0144
moderate sentenve. Sykes and Mann were therefore ordered to
he imprisoned for one mantle, and Butt leer a fortnight.
SoRE 01: THE WORKMEN engaged upcti the Syden-
ham Crystal Palace have amused themselves timing
their journeys to and fro on the railway in throwing
stones and various missiles from the carriages. As
the line passes through a very crowded district at
the outset from London, and at. a considerable eleva-
tion, many of these missiles broke windows in the
houses, or, falling into the streets, severely hurt the
passers by. The inhabitants had complained, and
some officers were sent in plain clothes into the
carriages or on the line, by whose evidence the fact
of having thrown various heavy substances from the
railway carriages was established against four or five
of the workmen.—Mr. a Beckett, however, found
much difficulty in adjudicating upon the ease.
Before he could punish the parties it was necessary
to show that the offence haul been committed in some
public street or thoroughfare. This was not the ease
now, and the railway companies haul always insisted
that the police could exercise no authority over their
lines. At the same time. he blamed severely the
managers of the Brighton Railway, who had taken no
Measures to prevent such misconduct. A summons

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was granted against one man, Sullivan, whom a
police constable charged with committing a personal
assault, and the other defendants were dismissed.

SEVIP:RAI, IRISH RIOTERS, charged with assaulting
an Italian, named Staurenglii, and resisting the police
in Leather-lane and the adjacent courts near Ilolborn,
on Monday last, were examined before the Clerken-
well magistrates on the following day. Two men,
named Neale and Carroll, were shown to have at-
tacked the Italian, striking at him with stones, and
afterwards taking refuge in a house, which the police
vainly endeavoured for some time to enter, being kept
at bay by a shower of missiles of various descriptions,
including a hatchet, brickbats in abundance, pots and
kettles, and finally scalding water, by which the seve-
ral officers engaged in the capture were most severely

injured:— _ _
Mr. CORRIE asked Mr. Staurenglii if he knew anything of the
prisouers?—He said they were strangers to him, and not a word
was uttered until they struck 1 • , muttering an iutcutiou to do

for him.
Neale'► defence was, he hail been spat upon by an Italian, and,
being drunk, he avenged himself on Mr. stanreugl►i, but in right
or wrong lie could not tell. Ile expressed his sorrow, promising
better behaviour in future.
Carroll merely said : I did nothing. They called no witnesses.
These two defendants were lined 408. for the attack
on Mr. Staurenghi, and a like sum for assaulting the
police, or two months' imprisonment. Seven others,
all Irish, were sentenced to a single tine or one
month's incarceration, for having participated in the
latter offence.

A DIsPUTED FARE, involving the sum of one shil-
ling, and turning on the point whether the distance
from the cemetery at Fulham to Wellington-street,
Strand, was over or under four miles, came before
Mr. Henry, at Bow-street, on Tuesday. As the offi-
cial book of fares bad not yet been issued, the magis-
trate suggested that the ground should be measured,
and called on each party to deposit five shillings for
the costs of that operation, for which of course the
ono in the wrong must pay. The gentleman passen-
ger produced the money, but the cabman, whose
name was Phillips, said that he had not got five shil-
lings in his pocket, it being his first fare that day :
Mr. HENRY : Then, as you cannot pay the rive-shilling deposit,
I shall take Mr. Bond's statement as evidence of the fact, and
convict you of the overcharge, for which you must pay the pe-
nalty of forty shillings, or go to prison tOr a month.
Mr. Bond, who appeared rather startled at the suddenness
and severity of the, evision, said he did not think the matter
would have taken this turn. The cabman WWI very el% II through-
out the triumetion, and ho hoped that the penalty would not be
Mr. Ilrainv refused to listen to this appeal. The object of the
act in enabling passengers to go at once to the pollee court was,
not to dispense with the penalties, but to save the complainants
the trouble of applying tbr a snuauons.
The cabman was committed to gaol in default of
paying the tine, and his horse and cab were sent to
the greenyard. This sentence, it will be seen else-
where, was mentioned in the House of Commons.
and will lead to further investigation. The delay
in preparing the official list, of distances has pro-
duced great inconvenience and interference with the
working of the new act.
SARAH BAKER was tried at Stafford on Wednesday
for the murder of her illegitimate child. The pri-
soner had been ill and in great distress, and it was
shown that generally she hail manifested much affec-
tion for the child, whose father had deserted them.
The child being missed by her neighbours, she re-
plied at first that a strange lady, passing in a carriage,
had taken a fancy to it and carried it. way, but after-
wards confessed that she had thrown it down the
shaft of an old mine. Search being made the body
was found in the place indicated, and the woman
committed by the jury that sat at the consequent in-
quest. Before the coroner she made the following

statement
have lawn destitute on thew idc world three weeks. When
I made away with my baby I intended to make myself away in
the same pit, but was reventeil doing it by the timlwr across
tho pit. I came ant sit the workhouse three weeks yesterday. I
was in the workhouse four months. i I made application to
the gentlethen to send me to the intirmary, or otherwise let me
leave the baby iu until I got stout, hint they said l must take my
baby out and work forit myself. I was from Thursday morning
xt.llll ll 0 iieloek till between one and two on Saturday, end until
I went to my alines at InloxNirh,and never had anything.
A verdict of Gni/tp was returned, and sentence of
death recorded against the prisoner.
Tile transactions between Mr. Hudson and the
York and North Midland Railway Company have
produced several actions, another of which was
argued during Wednesday and Thursday in the Rolls
Court. Various claims were made by the company
upon their late chairman, on account of interest on
moneys kept in his hands, of overcharge in brokerage,
and especially for a considerable margin of surplus
which he had obtained upon '2.5(X) tons of iron rails,
having contracted in his own name for the rails at
6/. 10s. per ton, and afterwards transferred to the
company at 12/., keeping the differenee for himself.
After a very long hearing, the Master of the Rolls
reserved some points in order to look over the evi-
dence, but decided that Mr. Hudson must repay the
profit derived from the contract for the rails, his
fiduciary character of chairman to the company ren-
dering him incompetent to enter into any contract
with it on his own account.

SATURDAY,

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q4,cettents anti Offences.

DI:TItrCTIYE INUNDATION, arising from the luta
long continuance of rain, covered large tracts of
country in various counties during the early days of
the pastweek. Serious damage is reported to have
followed in many quarters, with great loss of hay,
stock, .Cc., and much apprehension for the corn crops
in the low-lying districts. In the valley of the
Thames, the Essex marshes, in Oxfordshire, along
the banks of the Cherwell and Ouse, and iu South
Wales, on the Wye, the consequences have been es-
pecially calamitous. Along the South-Western Rail
way the low lands were covered with immense sheets
of water, with thousands of haycocks floating on the
surface. At Guildford, Chertsey, Woking, and Bat-
tersea the water was several feet deep, and much da--
mage has been done to the crops as well as the hay.
On the Eastern Counties line immense injury has
' been caused to the sheep and lambs. and some of
the crops have been destroyed. In Kent there has
been a destruction of many thousand pounds' worth of
property. The valley of the Cherwell and Isis were
extremely flooded, to the serious injury of the far-
mers occupying the meadows adjoining. Hundreds
of tons of hay have been swept away by the sudden
swelling of the water. In the neighbourhood of Ox-
ford great damage has been done. The country
around Banbury was completely inundated, and nn
immense quantity of hay outlying ready for being
carried has been in the nukjority of eases completely
swept away. At Brackley a great amount of damage
was done by the overflowing of the Ouse. So rapid
was the flow of water that it rose no less than
eighteen inches in about half an hour, sweeping
sheep and hay away in its destructive course. In
Carmarthenshire great damage has been occasioned.
The Vale of Llanddowror, on the western side of the
county, has been completely swept of hay, sheep.
and those articles which could be carried away. At
Llanddowror, where the main road from Carmarthen
to Haverfordwest crosses the bridge, the waters ac-
cumulated until they capped the parapets, when the
structure gave way, thus cutting oat' the communica-
tion. The factories of several manufacturers in Lei-
cester were invaded so that the machinery could not
be set in motion, and some hundreds of hands were
unable to get to work. The gardens on the western
side of the town were literally destroyed, and large
quantities of hay have been carried off from the mea-
dows. At Bristol an extensive landslip occurred, a
large mass at the extremity of Brandon-hill, which
overhangs Jacob's Wells, Bristol, giving way, and
falling on the houses beneath, causing a very consi-
derable destruction of property.
Tip: TOWER OF HEREFORD CHURCH was struck
by lightning during a violent storm last week.
A marriage ceremony was being perfomed at the
time, which had brought rather a large number of
persons into the sacred edifice. 'While they were
still within a vivid flash struck the tower, and,
descending the staircase, entered the church, whence
it passed out by a western window. Little damage
was done to the fabric, but four persons, two women
and two children, were much hurt, one child being
so much burnt by the iluid that it is feared she will
be a cripple for life.
THE INQUEST ON THE OLDHAM COLLIERY Exet,o-
mos, in which twenty miners perished, has termi-
nated in the following verdict:—
" The jury are of opinion the deaths were accidental. They
also strongly recommend the proprietor to make a 'Unmet- in
necortlance with the hountrtions given by the Goveniment
he-
speetor. Further. they consider that strict Injunctions be given
to the underlooker that no collier whatever shall work with his
lamp-top otf, under pain of immediate discharge, until the fur-
mires shall have been erected."
FATAL SHIPWRECKS are reported from several
parts of the Yorkshire and Durham coasts, conse-
quent upon the heavy gale of yesterday week. The
most serious loss, however, is that of the Countess of
Strathmore, one of the fleet of collier-steamers which
have lately been engaged in competing with the
railways for the conveyance of coals to London. She
left Shields on the night of the 13th, but the violence
of the storm during the following day gradually
shook her almost to pieces. Her tires were put out
by the heavy seas which swept on board, her pumps
choked, and in the course of rhursday night she was
bearing up for Hartlepool in a wrecked condition.
A billy-boat front Boston came to her aid, and by
superhuman exertion twelve of her crew were saves,
the captain and two others being drowned. The
steamer sunk in deep water a few minutes after the
rescued men got away.
A CHARGE OF MrlmEn was brought at the Liver-
pool Police Court, on Saturday last, against Captain
J. W. Chapman, of the ship Cleopatra, trading
between that port and the coast of Africa. It
appeared that the Cleopatra sailed from Liverpool
for Bonny River on the 16th of August last, and
afterwards fell in with the near qf Bray, Captain
Harrison. The two captains visited each other
several times, a boy named White being engaged in
rowing the boat of the Cleopatra from ship to ship.
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dark and squally, the boat in which White was
placed was hauled close up to the Cleopatra in a
very dangerous position. It capsized once, but
rjldited again, and White continued in it. This was
to the captain, who refused with an oath to
allow any person to interfere, and the result was that
the boat again capsized and White was drowned.
Shortly after this the crew seized the captain, kept
him in irons in his own cabin, and navigated the
vessel to Barbadoes, where Captain Chapman, by
means of a doctor who boarded the ship, communi-
cated with the authorities, who arrested the en:
tire crew, and all, with the exception of Duncan, the
carpenter, were tried for mutiny, and sentenced to
from one to three years' imprisonment. Duncan,
having returned to England in another ship, brought
this charge of murder against the captain, who was
accordingly arrested at Liverpool. After hearing the
evidence in support of the charge, the magistrate ex-
pressed hia conviction that it was not sufficient to
justify him in committing the prisoner, who was ac-
cordingly discharged.
Foil STARVING HIB WIFE TO DEATH, one Garnett,
a cabinet-maker, was committed on Saturday last by
a coroner's jury on a verdict of manslaughter. The
evidence went to show that the wretch was in the
habit of treating his wife with the almost unheard
of cruelty, leaving her and her children without food
for days together, although in the constant receipt of
30s. and upwards per week. He had been known to
come home and cook a steak for his own dinner, and
sit down and eat the whole of it before his wife and
children, knowing, at the same time, that they had
had no food. The deceased had obtained a medical
order, a short time since, to come into theme work-
house, but, when she got a little better, begg her
discharge, for fear of the neglect and ill-treatment of
her two children by her husband, with whom they
were left. On her going out her treatment was just
the same, and sheer exhaustion, from want of
nourishment, induced her again to seek an asylum
in the workhouse, where she died the day after her

admission.
A FIRE broke out on Wednesday morning on the
premises of Messrs. Cartell and Brown, wholesale
confectioners, Princes-street, Soho. Notwithstanding
the efforts of the firemen, the flames communicated
to the houses of Mr. Lane, baker. Mr. Fitch, brick-
layer, Mr. Farrel, Rupert-street, Mr. John Beadon.
and Mr. John Hodges, licensed victualler, anti were
not extinguished before very great destruction of
property had taken place.
A FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION happened last week
at some ironworks near Bilston, in Staffordshire.
The engine was standing still at the time, and a
number of men were grouped round the fire, when
suddenly the boiler exploded, killing two men on the
spot, and severely scalding thirteen or fourteen
others, one of whom died in a few hours. Some
heavy masses of metal were hurled a distance of 2(X

yards.
AN INHUHAN OUTRAGE was committed on Sunday
week at Barnet on a poor woman named Rebecca
Brysdon by a party of four Irish tramps. She had
travelled a long distance, and took shelter in a barn,
where the miscreants entered afterwards and ill-
treated her so brutally that she died on Wednes-
day last. A Government reward of 1001. was offered
for their apprehension, and two of the number were
captured, and, after examination before the local
magistrates, remanded to prison. It is expected that
the others will be apprehended before long.
Two CHILDREN WERE MURDERED NY THEIR MOTHER
in Birmingham yesterday week. They were twins,
and about two years old. On that morning the
neighbours were surprised by the unusual silence
in the house which they inhabited, and some of them,
entering, found both the children dead in bed, evi-
dently from the effects of laudanum. The mother
had gone off, but was followed, and, though she had
herself swallowed some of the poison, remedies were
applied, and she recovered. She is now in custody.
A SUICIDE was committed on Monday night at
Kensington, near Lord Holland's Park, by a man
named Abraham Giles, who shot himself with a
holster pistol. The deceased, who was in the employ
of a Mr. Stranham' had been paying his addresses to
a servant girl, and it appeared that during the last
month some misunderstanding had occurred between
them. On Monday night he paid her a visit, and
upon leaving placed his hat upon the railings in
front of the house, and in a most deliberate manner
blew out his brains.
A CONFLAGRATION occurred on Saturday afternoon
in a narrow street running between Sloane-street and
the Brampton-road. The flames broke out in a
timber-yard, where an immense stock of mahogany,
deals, &c., was totally consumed, and extended to
several adjoining habitations, six of which were more
or less damaged before the fire could be extinguished.
The resulting loss is estimated at many thousand

pounds.
THE CORPSE Or A MAN respectably dressed was
thrown up last week on the beach at Walton Bay,
near Weston-super-Mare. It was identified as the
body of a Mr. Joseph smith, a retired furniture•

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dealer of London. There were marks of violence on
the head and face of the deceased, who had bean
staying at Clevedon for the benefit of his health, and
the breast-pocket of his coat, in which he carried his
pocket-book, was turned inside out, and the pocket-
book was missing. Deceased bad recently sold a
policy of insurance on his life for 1,000/. for the sum
of W 4., and he had received on account a cheque
for 210/. a short time before he left his lodgings. Au
inquest was held on Wednesday, but adjourned, that
a post-mortem examination might be made.

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Accounts have been received in Dublin stating
that the Royal visit, which had been delayed by the
illness of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, is to
take place about the close of the next month.
The reports of the crops are still very favourable,
showing that the heavy rain has caused no material
injury, even to wheat. With respect to the potato
crop, the provincial journals, with scarcely an excep-
tion, contain the most satisfactory accounts.
The United Service Gazette says :
" In consequence of its not being possible to bring together
with convenience a sufficient number of regiment* to form
another division to succeed the one now being encamped at
Chobhatu•connuon, it is probable that troupe will be concem
Crated in Ireland, and the eurragh of Kildare has been mentioned
as the place likely to be selected for the third encampment for
this year."
The jury empannelled to try the alleged mur-
derers of Mr. liateson were discharged yesterday
week. They had been occupied during six days in
hearing or considering the evidence, and had been
locked up since the preceding Wednesday evening.
The foreman stated to the last that there was no
prospect whatever of their agreeing on a verdict, and
the judge discharged them, believing that human
nature could not endure much longer the confine-
ment and deprivation without serious jeopardy to
health.
The expected trial of twenty. live men at the Ennis-
killen Assizes, on a charge of conspiring to shoot an
agent, resulted in the liberation of all the prisoners
on their own recoguisances, the approver on whose

ormation they were charged having absconded.

An extraordinary libel case, " Birch v. Gray," was
:ommenced on Monday in the Record Court of the
county Kildare. The plaintiff' was the proprietor of
the late World newspaper, and he sued for damages
from the proprietor of the Freeman's Journal for the
publication of articles calculated to injure him in the
estimation of his countrymen. The alleged libels re-
lated to the actions tried some two years suice, one
in which Birch was plaintiff and the Irish Viceroy
virtual defendant ; in the other a lady was plaintiff,
and Birch received a sentence of twelve months' im-
prisonment. The trial lasted until Wednesday,
when a verdict was returned for Dr. Gray ou all the
counts.

INDUSTRIAL Extuarrioss.—This novel species of
man's undertaking and daring extends so rapidly as
nearly to become a separate chapter of journalist".
The Exhibition of Moscow has been viewed by the
Minister of Finance, Peter Feodor Brok. .Especial
ly
important, at the present moment, are the arms pro-
duced by the factories of Siestroietzk and lschewsk.
To what perfection the manufacture of arms has pro-
gressed iu Russia may be gathered from the fact that
every musket of infantry and cavalry, the carabine:-;
of the Cossacks, and the rifles, are made in the
whole empire according to one uniform and matte
matically true pattern, so much so, that any
component part at any of the numerous arm-manu-
factories will exactly fit any other part made at any
other place of the vast empire—a perfection not
achieved, we think, in any other country of Europe.
—The King of Bavaria has just sanctioned the hold-
ing of an exhibition of the products of industry of
the Zollverein at Munich in the summer of Isst.
Whether the exhibition will be placed in the new
Schrannen-halle, or whether an especial building is
to be erected, is yet undecided.
In a work published on the Russian nobility it is stated
thatthc family of Jackovletr, in consequence• of its large
establishment for ke old-washing, possesses the most colossal
fortune of the Continent, it being estimated at nearly 100
millions of roubles. Nest come the I temidotfs, who have
on their estates a large mass of malachite, every pod (40
lbs.) of which is worth Mtn roubles. Afterwards come the
families of Galitzin, Worenzi df, Bobrinsky, Baschkoff,
Paskiewitch, Uwarotl, Potemkin, Panin, Laaaretf, ESt.c. A
great number of old princely families are so fallen that they
have lost both their title and their rank. A M. de Rischett,
for instance, still wears the princely arms and the ermine
mantle, but without enjoying the corresponding title. In
a village near Womnep reside some peasants who have still
some serfs. They cultivate their fields like other peasants,
although they descend from princely blood. They are only
distinguished from the others by a red cap, which they
alone have a right to wear from ancient usage. There are,
moreover, a certain number of descendants of old sovereign
bundles, such as the scions of the Czars of Georgia, the
Begradites ( Bragation) and the princes of Giro., the di-
rect scions of Dechingis-Khan. A descendant of Mahomet
resides at Tiflis. The family of Cantaktizeue derives its
origin from the old Emperors.of Byzantium.

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SECOND EDITION.

sATURDAY EVEXING.
LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
(From our ottu Correspondents.)
Authentic news respecting the state of the negotia-
tions in St. Petersburg has at length reached us.
Three projects were submitted to the Emperor
Nicholas, two of which were already known. The
first, prepared by Baron Bourqueney, French Am-
bassador at Vicuna, suggested a Turkish note and
Russian counter•note. the second, by General Cu
telbajac, proposed a simple note embodying the de-
mands of Russia and the concessions of the Porte.
The third, proposed by Sir Hamilton Seymour,
would consist in the sending to St. Petersburg of a
solemn embassy bearing a hate-scheritt continuing
all privileges possessed of old by, or receutly conceded
to, the Christians. The first project was judged the
must admissible by the Czar, who, without accepting
it officially, gave it a favourable reception. The pro.
jest was sent to Coustantiuople, and the answer of
the Sultan is speedily expected.
The Russian fleet of the Baltic, consisting of
thirty-seven sail, lett Cronstadt on tho lath tor a
cruise in the Gulf of Finland.
A republican conspiracy was discovered on July lf)
at lunspruck k Tyrol ). Numerous arrests took place,
among which were those of the eons of two high
Austr►an functionaries.
The insurrectionary tribes of Bekrassowza and
Lippowa have uttempted to surprise the tom-tress of
lshmail. The Russians succeeded in repelling the
attack.
The King and Queen of Bavaria made au excur-
sion to Hamburg un July •4t►.
The poor remnants of the shells plot are yet im-
prisoned at Berlin. Preparations fur their trial are
still going on, but it seems doubtful ehether the
charge of high treason can be substantiated against
them.
On the Paris Bourse, yesterday, it was reported
that the Emperor Nicholas had accepted the Austrian
mediation. Th, funds, which were dull at opening,
rallied in consequence of the rumour, and the Mousse
closed with a general rise.
lice news received in Vienna, on the 11th, front
St. Petersburg was altogether pacific. Tito Czar, it
wits believed, had accepted time proposals of France
for the settlement' of his dispute with Turkey. His
Ambassielor, M. de Meyentiortf, presented, on the
previous day, to the Emperor Francis Joseph, a letter
twin his master continuing the most pacitie as-
surances. The Czar waits for a communication from
Constantinople, where the Ambassadors of the
powers have probably prevailed upon the Sultan to
agree to an arrangement which is equally acceptable
to Russia. The greatest confidence in the main.
tenance of peace prevailed, and the final settlement
of the dispute was expected by the end of August.

'fur Dublin Evening Poet states, on the authority
of its L, /ntion correspondent, that the Queen is nearly
convalescent, and that the Royal visit to Ireland will
take place immediately alter the prorogation of Par-
liament.
THE 'HIM BANKS and other joint-stock compa-
nies had, up to yesterday, received no official intima-
tion respecting the payment of the income tax, and
dividends as they become due are paid in the usual
manner, without deduction of plutitlage. The pay-
ment of the dividend of the Milling Company of
Ireland, at the rate of fifteen per cent., commenced
on Thursday, the proprietors receiving the full
amount. The case is, however, didetent with respect
to the tiovernment securities. The Bank of Ireland,
in paying the dividends on Consuls, have deducted
one half year's instalment for income tax, thus an-
tieipating the amount that will become due ou the
10th of october, as the tax is payable iu lIIIVWDee.
Tim Nolan AND SOUTH WEsTEHN JUNCTION RAM;
WAY, am short line running from Willesden to hew,
which has hitherto only been worked for goods traffic,
is to be opened for passenger traffic on the Ist of
August next, in connection with the Duck Junction
and Blackwell Railways.
FORTY PiliLie ACT's ol• Putt.i.otr.Nor have been
passed during the present session, which began in
November, and at Christmas atkionrned to February.
About 11$) more public acts are likely to be passed
before the prorogation, which is expected to take
place on the 25th of August.

HUNAN BRAINS by THE W Eli:HT.—Since the
weight of the brains of Daniel Webster has been as-
certained and published, it has become a custom in
America to follow the example with almost every man
of any consequence. Th.• brains of the late Amos
Lawrence were found two ounces heavier than those
of Webster.
A letter from Constantinople states that the Earl of
Carlisle, a few days after him arrival at Constantinople, loft
that city for broussa.