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London, England, 1855-07-28

DR. DE JONGH'S

LIGHT BROWN COD LIVER OIL.
Prescribed with entire confidence by the Faculty fur its purity,
and superior, immediate, and regular efficacy.

EXTRACTS FROM MEDICAL TESTIMONIALS :-

ARTHUR H. HASSALL, M.D., F.L.S., M R.C.P., Chief Analyst of
the Sanitary Commission of the Lancet, Author of " Food
and its Adulterations," &c. &e. Re.
" I have more than once, at different times, subjected your
Light Brown 011 to chemical analysis—and this unknown to
yourself—and I have always found it to be free from all Impurity
and rich in the constituents of bile. So great is my confidence
in the article, that I usually prescribe it In preference to any
other, in order to make sure of obtaining the remedy in its
purest and best condition."

The " MEDICAL CIRCULAR," may 10, 1854 :
" We unhesitatingly recommend Dr. de Jongh's Light 'Brown
Coll Liver Oil as the best for medical purposes, and well de-
serving the confidence of the profession.'
Sold ()NIA in bottles, capeulea and labelled with Dr. de Jongte•
Signature, WITHOUT WR/CR MORN ARE GENUINE, by A NSAR,
UARFORD, and CO., 77, STRAND, London, Dr. de Jongh's
sole Consignees; and tit THE COUNTRY by respectable Chemists.
Half-pints (10 ounces), As. 6d. •' Pints (20 ounces), 4s. ad.;
Quetta (40 onuses), As. IMPERIAL MEASURE.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS are without doubt the
very best medicine for INDIGESTION and FLATU-
LENCY.—The teat of years have proved their efficacy in coring
Bile, Flatulency, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Nervousness, and
debilitated Constitutions. The well-known properties of these
• kcellent Pills are too highly appreciated in the present day to
re iuire any encomium here, as they are resorted to by rich and
poor in every nation, and their properties are to invigorate the
body, strengthen the faculties of the mind, and restore the in-
valid to a perfect state of good health. sold by all medicine
vendors throughout the world ; at Professor ILilloway's Fatah-
bahments, 244, Strand, London, and SO, Maiden-lane, New York;
by A. Stamps, Constantinople; A. Oruidioy, Smyrna; and E.
Muir, Malta.
London, England, 1855-07-28

RUSSIA.

An imperial ukase was issued in Warsaw on the
23rd, prohibiting Jews aoquiring landed property, or
settling as agriculturists in the provinces of Tcher-
nigov and Pultowa.

The Administrative Council of Poland is dissolved.
In its stead commissioners fbr the interior and for
clerical and school affairs are to be appointed. They
will be immediately under the Ministry at St. Peters-
burg. During the continuance of the war political
misdemeanants are to be tried by courts niartial.

The Commissariat Department of the St. Peters.
burg War-office has received orders from the Govern-
ment to take the needful steps for renewing the con-
tracts and keeping up the efficiency of the stores of
provisions. The three places named for the delivery
of these stores are St. Petersburg, Moscow, and
Kasen. Amongst the immense quantities of articles
for the equipment of the army, but only for the in-
fantry, the new description of boots forms a promi-
nent part. Of these 100,640 pair are to be delivered
64 St. Petersburg, 157,683 pair at Moscow, and
88,322 pair at Kasan.
On the 17th there were as many as 312 cases of
cholera at St. Petersburg.
The news of the fire at Novgorod is contradicted.
It is to Wladimir, in the Government of Volliynia,
that the statement applies.
London, England, 1855-07-28

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National Debt, and D

(ON RAILWAYS.
Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs.
Maw. & Rttrdm. 91 1 91 i 91
Belgian East. J. 21 id 21 Id If Id
Dutch Rhenish 1 01 d 1 01 d 1 0 d
East Indian 241 51 xi 24i 51x 1 241 bx 1
Gt. Indian Pen 5 ix I
G. W.ofOan.,Sh 211 121 1 122 i
Lyons & Geneva 61 7 p6l 7p 'B* 7 p
Madras
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Paris & Lyons 4B , 148 1 47f 81 47f 81
Paris & Orleans 47 947 9 47 947 9
Paris & Rouen 47 8 47 9 ,47 9 47 9
FOREIGN FUNDS.
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Brazilian 5 1011 1 1001 I 102
Danish 5 103}
Utah. (Ex 12 Guil )21 GI
French 3 ( c
Do. 44 f c
Do. Bank Stock f.
Mexican 3
Peruvian 44
Portuguese 4 I
Nualpn 6
Spa >lh 3
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as they are termed, and other substances of an equally injudicious
character, which cannot be consumed without the Introduction
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Vio rog+

LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1856.

POSTSCRIPT.

ROUSE OF LORDS.-FRmAT.

Earl Forazscuz called attention to the refusal of
the Bishop of Exeter to licence the Rev. C. C.
Layard to a curacy in Devonshire, on account of a
disputed point in theology.
Lord BROUGHAM, in moving for returns, protested
against the disgraceful enactment yet remaining on
the statute•book, particularly as regards religious
penalties.
Some bills were forwarded through their respective
stages, and the house adjourned at a quarter to
seven.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY.

At the morning sitting, on the house going into
committee on the Turkish Loan Bill, Mr. GLAnsToNe
said that he bad hoped that the Government would
have done something to conciliate the large minority
which had voted against the bill. He asked for an
planation as to the operation of the terms of the
vention, and said that, under the present arrange-
the public creditors would come upon Eng-
- first instance. Where, then, was the joint
'ALMERSTON hoped that the further discus-
, question would be postponed.
was agreed to, and the house disposed of a
first clause of the Limited Liability Bill.
evening sitting, in answer to Lord

ALMERSTON said that the delay in insti-
order of merit arose from the difficulty
details, but the arrangements were nearly

answer to Mr. V. SCULLY,
IMERSTON said that the subject of em-
royal regiment of Irish on the principle of
Guards had been considered, but it was not
advisable to extend the number of privileged

question that the house at its rising adjourn
onday,
ELcito complained of a statement made by
Seymour in the debate on the Scotch Ordnance
'- the effect that he, ae a landed proprietor,

wmcn nen
explanation
Convention
ments, the
land in the I
guarantee?
Lord Pk
sion of the
This was
part of the
At the
Er.cso'
Lord PA
tuting the
of settling •
concluded.
In answe
Lord PA.
bodying a I
the Guard
thought ad
regiments.
To the q
until Mond
LoLordrsdeErnL,
Survey, to
London, England, 1855-07-28

THE PRESS.

SCOTTISH EQUITABLE (MUTUAL)
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament
THE TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
of this SOCIETY was held at Edinburgh, on Tuesday, May 1,
1855. The Report by the Directors, among other information,
contained the following particulars:—
During the year closed on Ist March last-
-628 Pohcies have been issued.
The Sums Asssured thereby amount to 284,5701.;
And the Annual Premiums thereon to 9,0411.
The position of the Society at Ist March was as follows:
Existing Assurances
Annual Revenue
Accumulated Fund.
This Corporation has been in existence Twenty-four Years.
It proceeds on the principle of Mutual Contribution, the Surplus
of Profit being wholly divisible among the members.
The total additions to Polities made at and preceding March
1, 1843, amounted to
fux. HUNDRED AND SIX THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND
PITPY•YIVE POUNDS.
The amount paid to the Representatives of Deceased Meng•
hers is upwards of
SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.
Copies of the report, and all other information, may be had on
application at the Head Office, or Agencies.
Agent in London--W. COOK, 126,
VIEW 07 THE PROGRESS AND POS)

Amount
Assured.

Biahupegate•etreet Within.
lITION OF THE SOCIETY.

Annual lAocumulatad
Revenue. Fund.

At Ist March,

1837 £740,462
1343 1,707,716
1849 3,067,376
1855 4,392.733

826,993 I 156,115
64,000 827,155
114,108 06,555
162,224 910,645

ROBERT CHRISTIE, Manager.
WILLIAM FINLAY, Secretary.
Head Office-26, ST. ANDREW-SQUARE, EDINBURGH.

KENT MUTUAL LIFE AND FIRE
ASSURANCE SOC lET LES.
Chief Offices—QUEEN-STREET PLACE, NEW CANNON.
STREET, London.
BRANCH OFFICES:
High.street, Rochester I New-street, Birmingham
Market-terrace, Manley Bond-street, Wolverhampton.
N.B. Both these Societies are constituted upon the pure and
tried system of Mutuality; accumulating all their Funds fur the
benefit of the Policy-holders ; dividing, triennially, their whole
Profits among them, and large returns have been lately made;
conferring upon them the Control and Management of the
Societies ; and all Policies are Indisputable.

LIFE.
TRUSTEES.

Alexander Bramwell Bremner, Esq., Billiter•equare, and West

• - •
hall, Mortlake
Sir James Duke, Bart, M.P. and Alderman, Portland-place
Wm. Squire Plane, Esq., Gravesend
The great success of this Society since its institution will be
seen in the following statement of BONUSES added and of
BUSINESS done in four years of actual operations :
London, England, 1855-07-28

rantg pact au Ciag ]uttilignut.

FRIDAY EVENING.
Tux Consol Market continues to be quiet and dull,
presenting no materials for comment. The fluctua-
tions of prices during the past week have been few
and limited in range, speculative transactions in
home Stocks being almost in abeyance. Some
reports that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would
find it necessary to ask for additional ways and
means in order to supply the demand occasioned by
heavy supplemental estimates led to a partial decline
in the quotations yesterday. The continued in-
constancy of the weather, occurring at so critical a
period before the harvest, has also contributed to the
depreciation. On the other hand, the advices from
Australia furnish favorable indications respecting
the continuous supply of gold, of which it must be
mentioned the Red Jacket brought a consignment to
the value of 550,0001., being a larger cargo than was
• ever before conveyed in a single bottom, with intelli-
gence that 140,0001. more bad been shipped in the
new Great Britain, and 100,000 ounces, worth
400,0001., was in the course of shipment in the
George Marshall, which was expected to sail some ten
days after the departure of the Red Jacket.
The Bank of London have annrninced that they
intend to commence business on the 22nd of August,
both at the Hall of Cc/ll:mere. and No. 450, West
Strand. Their terms are to be similar to those of
the Union Bank.
The daily variations in the prices of Stock since
Saturday will be found below. This afternoon
Consols have been dealt in at 901, 901, and 91;
Reduced at 911, 911 ; New Three per Cents., 921,
921 ; Bank Stock, 214, '215 ; India Bonds, 31s. 345.
prem ; Exchequer Bills,l9s. 225. prem.; Exchequer
Bonds, 101.

SHARES.

The Share Market -18—imuum----:-. at©, and prioes are

SATURDAY,

barely supported. The traffic returns of the leading
lines this week are scarcely so good as usual, and,
with the exception of some few, the comparison with
the corresponding week last year shows a decline in
the receipts.
A special meeting of the Crystal Palace Company
is called for the 9th of August, and to authorise the
conversion of the share capital into stock, and to
ratify an agreement with the West end and Crystal
Palace Railway Company.
London, England, 1855-07-28

FOREIGN.

The new French Loan ha attracted much atten-
tion during the week. The lists opened in London
by Rothschild, Baring, and Devaux, have closed
with a considerable amount of subscriptions, but
there are doubts whether any portion of the loan will
be allotted out of France itself. The subscriptions
in Paris alone are believed to exceed in a twofold
proportion the whole sum required. Singular
enough, however, there are already rumours current
that a fresh loan will be issued in December next.
At present the Scrip has been ("doted at 11 to 2
premium, but this price must be considered merely
nominal.
Turkish Bonds have been dealt in largely, and at
a considerable advance. This afternoon the quota-
tions were 801, showing a slight decline on the pre-
vious rates, but this was chiefly occasioned by sales
effected with a view to realise profits. Peruvian
Four-and-a. Half per Cents. are also much looked
after, and have risen rapidly. Russian Fives have
improved one per cent. since Wednesday, and still
maintain the advance.

BRITISH FUNDS.— Closing Prices.
OFFICIAL QUOTATION.
Mond. Tuesd. Wed. Thurs.

Traci.
90 1
.BO 1
91* 1
4 146
w 214

—.---
11 per Cent. Consols 9l 91 01 91 140 1
Ditto for Account
8 per Cents Reduced
3 per Cents
Long Annuities
Bonk Stock, 7 per Cent 914 911 5 914 II 914 5
Omnium P -1 - RP
le.xoh. Bills, 2d. per diem 19 23 94 11 4
India Bonds, (1,0000. 33 33 0 54 $1

24
84 1

NGLAND.
Ttb and Bth Victoria, cap. 82
Ly, the 21st day of July, 1855.
RTIIIENT.
Jovernment Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 2,984,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 15,980,810
Silver Bullion ....

BANK OF £:
As Account, pursuant to the Act
for the week ending on Saturda
ISSOIi Men.
Koteslusued i29,9d0,810

123,980,810 I
stxcitmo DI
11,C14,553,00C

£29,980,810

Reel _

Public Deposits• 2,178.033
Other Deposits 16,004,199
;even Day ot other
Bills

Government Seen-

rities (including
Dead Weight An.) £13,071,078
Other Securities .. 12,708.108

...... ........._
Notes 9,207,949

Gold & Silver Coin
London, England, 1855-07-28

AUSTRALIA.

Advices from Melbourne to the 2nd of May, several
days later than previously received, have arrived by
the Red Jacket. Gold was quoted at Melbourne from
21. 16s. Od. to 21. 17s. 9d. per market report. The
demand exceeded the supply. The Melbourne Age
opposes very strongly the proposed export duty on
gold, as an act of injustice to the miner and as a tax
imposed on labour. The land system still continues
to excite a great deal of ill feeling against the
Government.

In the Ballarat and other mining districts improved
machinery has been introduced, and old claims are
being worked over again with profit. In the Gravel
Pit Mines there are rumours of sOlbs. to 801bs. per
24 hours, being nuggetted from individual claims.
The amount of gold brought down by the escort by
no means represents the yield of geld. From Ballarat
district it was in one week 30,000 ounces. In one
lead one party washed upwards of 100 ounces in a
bucket of stuff.

The papers notice the production of a vineyard,
the property of Mr. Belperrund, which this season
produced 12 tons of grapes, and 5,000 gallons of
colonial or white wine, which is extremely pleasant,
and, without containing the heat of sherry, is some-
thing of the lemon Savour, and of a light character.
The foundation of a new theatre was laid in Lons-
dall-street, Melbourne, by Mr. G. V. Brooke, on the
10th of April. It is the property of Mr. Coppin.

ClitadOUNl, so severely visited only three years ago
by a wasting inundation, has again fallen a prey to a
most severe calamity. A fire broke out soon after
three o'clock on the morning of the 20th inst., and
completely laid in ruins the half of the village. The
Hotel la Couronne was entirely burnt down, and the
Hotel de Londres et d'Augleterre very much injured.
Moss of the houses destroyed by the fire belong to
the poorer inhabitants. No lives have been lost, but
many accidents have happened and much property
is destroyed. The hotel L'Union was rendered unin•
habitable through the water that was poured upon it.
A subscription was immediately opened on behalf of
sufferers, under the management of the English chap-
lain, the Rev. E.G. Ferryman, and Dr. Malan.

THE FRENCH MINISTER OY WAR has sent the sum
of 50,000 f. to the Bavarian Ambassador at St. Peters-
burg, to provide for the wants of the French prisoners
in Russia.
London, England, 1855-07-28

BU SIN E SS.

May, 1654....
May, 185 S ....

Total ....I

Number of

Policies
issued.

FIRE,
TRUSTEES.

Isaac Belsey, Esq., Rochester
William Squire Plane, Esq., Gravesend
John Saddington, Esq., Gravesend.
Upwards of 11,000 Policies have been issued. Policies issued
for small sums and short periods. Guarantee Fund, 1100,000.
Policies may be effected daily; and Prospectuses, Annual
Reports, Proposal Forms, and all other information, will be
supplied upon application at the Chief Offices, the Branches, or
at any of the numerous Agencies throughout the United King.
dom and Foreign Countries, personally or by letter.
GEORGE CUMMING, Manager.
Agents Wanted in some vacant Localities.

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and vapourtaing), with all the improvements, under their Quad-
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Moorgate-street, City. Circulars free by post.

ULDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA.-
This celebrated compound, universally esteemed for its in.
vigorating powers in restoring the Hair, has received additional
and distinguished patronage from the important features it
possesses in not soiling the most delicate bonnet. For promoting
the growth of Whiskers and Moustachios It has long been held
in estimation by Gentlemen, and renders the toilet incomplete
without it. It also prevents the Hair falling off or turning grey;
cleanses it from dandriff; causes it to curl; and in cases of
baldness is peculiarly active.—Price 3s. Od., 65., and 11a. Whole-
sale and retail.-Id, Wellington-street North, Strand.
London, England, 1855-07-28

SPAIN.

M. Gonzales left Madrid on the 20th inst. for
London to assume his duties as ambassador. The
Government has received a part of the money arising
from a recent negotiation entered into at Paris.
The insurrection in Barcelona has been quieted,
and the workmen have returned to their employ-
ments.

The affair of the Black Warrior with the Govern-
ment of the United States has at last been settled.
The amount to be paid by Spain by way of indem-
nity, for which 300,000 dollars was asked at first, has
been reduced to 40,000 dollars, which the Spanish
Government has agreed to pay in order to put an end
to the question.
Cholera is making great ravages in Spain. At
Granada, from the 27th ult. to the 14th inst., not
fewer than 1,017 persons had died of it ; and on the
15th eighty-four more also died, but that number was
less than on previous days. At 13urgcs it was
making great havoc. The Government has ordered
public prayers to be offered up in all the
churches for a cessation of the tribulations which
afflict Spain.
The Government is about to abolish several foreign
egations, from motives of economy.
London, England, 1855-09-29

THE PRESS.

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.

Wz have been informed by a correspondent, who, for obvious
reasons, requests that his name may be concealed, that the following
correspondence has passed between the members of the Administrative
Reform Association and the Colonial Secretary, in reference to the
recent appointment of Mr. Victor Holton to the Chief-Secretaryship
cf the islaud of Malta.

929

A letter from Mr. John Morley, on tho part of the Administrative
Reform Association, intimating strong doubts that tho appointment
of Mr. Holton was not an illustration of the principle, " the right
" man iu the right place."

To the Chairman of the Association for Administrative Reform :
Colonial-office, Sept. 23, 1855.
Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your com-
munication of the 22nd inst., and, iu reply, to assure you that the
appointment of Mr. Victor Holton, of which you complain as milita•
Wig against the great abstract principle which is your watchword, is,
essentially considered, the most brilliant example recently afforded of
its immediate concrete application. A little consideration will render
this clear. But first let me, in humble imitation of the "clearest and
most consecutive thinker" of ancient or modern times, elucidate
in a few words the fundamental grounds of my position. By " right "
and " wrong" I understand, in common with the philosopher of
Malmesbury, names applied to acts in virtue of their consistence with
or opposition to the governing power in a State, or any portion of it;
by " place " I mean what is usually meant, and which need not bo
more particularly defined ; by " man " I understand any human
individual of my own acquaintance ; thus the phrase .` the right man
in the right place " will be thus interpreted, " any human individual of
my own acquaintance in any place into which I may choose to put
him ;" and assuming that it is " right" to put "the right man in the
right place " (which I am prepared to admit without controversy,
though I confess I see many reasons against it), it is easy to conclude
that " it is right to put any person of my acquaintance into any place
I please ;" and it was on this principle, thus identified with your own,
that I made the appointment referrei to.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your faithful servant,
WILLIAM MOLESWORTIL
London, England, 1855-09-29

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"PRESS" OFFICE,

Friday Evening, September 28.
THE details which have been received this
week of the part taken by the British army
in the great day of the Bth of September are
of a nature to excite painful feelings in the
public mind. We do not allude to the
mere fact of the repulse, as it is doubtful
whether our troops could, under any cir-
cumstances, have overcome the obstacles
opposed to them ; but it does not appear
that the attack was made with the fore-
thought, precision, strength, and spirit best
calculated to give the men confidence in
their command and to inspire them with
hopes of success. The attacking column
was feeble ; it was chiefly composed of
young soldiers whose only experience of
warfare had been gained in the trenches ;
and it was not adequately supported. In-
stances there were of brilliant courage and
the most generous devotion, but the
general conduct of the day did not sustain
the lustre of British arms.
Colonel WINDHAM is a hero, and we
know that we express the sentiments of the
entire Sebastopol army in saying that no
reward which it is in the power of the
Crown to bestow will be thought too high
for his distinguished merit.
As the town of Sebastopol has now
fallen, it is probable that General SIMPSON
will no longer think himself compelled to
retain his command. He has suffered
severely in health, and may not unnaturally
desire to be relieved from his arduous
duties before new operations are under-
taken. It is reported that General CODRING-
TON will return home.

The task of finding a successor for
General SrupsoN will be difficult. The
names of General MARKHAM and General
EYRE are both mentioned : each has a high
reputation, and either appointment would
be popular.
The statement purporting to come from
St. Petersburg that the Allies had landed
20,000 men at Eupatoria, and that the
Russian infantry had retired before this
force, is entirely destitute of foundation.
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TtlE PRESS.

the Malakoff and Little Redan, and to provide the necessary
reserves. The French were reinforced by five thousand
Sardinians, who marched up from the Tschernaya last
night. It was arranged that the Frenchwere to attack the
Malakoff at noon. At 10.30 the second division and the
light division moved down to the trenches, and were
placed in the advanced parallels as quietly and unosten-
tatioualy as possible. About the same hour General Simp-
son and staff moved down to the second parallel of the
Green-hill Battery. Sir Harry Jones, too ill to move hand
or foot, nevertheless insisted (U being carried down to
witness the assault, and was borne to the parallel on a
litter, in which he remained till all was over. It was, as
have said, a bitter cold day, and estranger would have been
astonished at the aspect of the British generals as they
viewed the assault. The commander•in•chief, General
Simpson, sat in the trench, with his nose and eyes just
facing the cold and dust, and his cloak drawn up over his
head to protect him against both. General Jones wore a
red nightcap, and reclined on his litter, and Sir Richard
Airey, had a white docket handkerchief tied over his cap
and ears, which detracted somewhat from a martial and
belligerent aspect. The Duke of Newcastle was stationed
at Cathcart's-hill in the early part of the day, and after-
wards moved off to the right to the Picket-house look-out
over the Woronzoff road.—Tintes Cot.
London, England, 1855-09-29

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London, England, 1855-09-29

THE PRESS.

Minister of War, Prince Iscbitelli, who bad opposed
the arbitrary proceedings of that functionary. The
utmost severity is still exercised by the police against
the inhabitants of Naples: the colour of a dregs, the
cut of a beard, or even the arrangement of the fur-
niture iu a house, are considered capable of being
used as revolutionary emblems, and are punished
according to the interpretation of the police.
A telegraphic despatch from Naples informs us
that the difference between our Government and the
Neapolitan Court is not yet settled.
London, England, 1855-09-29

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terrified and tried to escape from the room, but the pri-
soner intercepted them, and made a blow at her cousin,
which knocked her down on the landing. He then
at'.acked her sister, and knocked her down with such Tio-
lence that she became almost senseless, and while witness
was trying to pass him he struck her down by a blow in the
face, which bruised one of her eyes severely.
Mary Fieldwick and Ellen Knowles, sister and cousin of
the first complainant, both of whom exhibited indications
of the ill-usage they had sustained front the prisoner, cor-
roborated her evidence in its chief particulars, and added
that they were still suffering from the treatment to which
they had been subjected.
The prisoner declared that he had been drinking to
such an extent that he had not the slightest recollection
of anything that had occurred, and appealed to the first
three witnesses as to his general character. They did not
think lie would have so acted if he had not been intoxi-
cated ; but
Mr. Hammill sentenced him to three months' hard
labour in the House of Correction for hi, attacks upon
the female complainants, and in addition to pay a penalty
of 40s„ or another month's impriasnmeut in default, for
his assault upon the fourth witness.
The penalty was not paid, and the prisoner was there-
fore committed for the whole four months.

THE DISCHARGED NURSE FROM THE CRIMEA, Jane
Gibson by name, and who has been several times
remanded at the Southwark Police-court, charged
with having in her possession a vast amount of linen
and other property, stolen from the hospital stores at
Scutari and Kullalee, was brought up for final
examination on Wednesday, when Mr. Seeker said it
would be useless to pursue a criminal charge against
her here, as the offence was committed abroad,
though there was not the least doubt that she had
come by the property dishonestly. It was fortunate
for her that the whole transaction had taken place
beyond the English law. She was then ordered to
be discharged.
London, England, 1855-09-29

APPEARANCE OF SEBASTOPOL.

The ruins of Sebastopol attested the heroic forti-
tude with which it bad been defended :

About noon on the 9th, armed with a pass, cour•
teously given me by General Simpson, I crossed the
line, and proceeded down to the scene of the preceding
day's carnage By the time I reached the fatal opening
in front of our fifth parallel, however, the dead had
been gathered off the ground—the officers having been
taken to the camp, and the men thrown into the deep and
broad ditch of the Hedan. And there was a sight harrow-
ing enough to affect nerves of iron and a heart of stone ;
piled up, tow upon row, lay the bodies of the brave fellows
whose blood had gained our triumph, nearly filling the
huge dike—a ghastly and mangled multitude. As I passed
over this bridge of corpses into the interior of the Medan,
a fatigue party was already beginning to shovel in the
parapet upon the bodies, many of whom thus found a
grave on the spot where they fell. The enemy had carried
off nearly all their dead and wounded, which accounted for
the fewness of the former found inside the redoubt.
Terrible were the traces of our fire which here met the
eye : to say nothing of dismounted guns, shattered plat-
forms, and broken carriages, nearly every square yard of
the place was torn up by round shot and exploded shell.
How any human beings could have existed in such a pan-
demonium of explosive horrors it puzzled every one who
looked on the spot to conceive.—D. News Cur.

The unusual strength and solidity of the Russian
works is attested by all observers :

My first entry into the interior, on the morning after its
abandonment, was made by a bridge of broken &seines and
gabions, laid hastily over the dead bodies that had just
been gathered into the ditch for burial, which has since
been done by levelling over them a portion of the parapet
above. The ghastly piles nearly filled the vast trench to a
level with the outer surface, and the thin covering of earth
which now conceals them from view barely falls below the
summit of the low bank in front. What first struck one
in passing up the cut made by our sappers through the
broad parapet, was the unusual solidity and strength of thii
last—averaging thirty or thirty-five feet along its entire
front. On such a solid mass of gabions, faacines, sand-
bags, and earth, I need hardly say that artillery of even the
heaviest calibre could have no sensible effez,t sixty-eigh
London, England, 1855-09-29

*ands intb. Man

RAILWAY PASSENGERS should be careful of dozing
while on their journey. A gentleman, travelling
from Glasgow to Paisley, was robbed of 10/. while i❑
a first-class carriage. He recollects leaning back
and losing his consciousness, and while in that state
it is supposed that chloroform was administered to
him by three well-dressed young men who were his
fellow passengers, so as to enable them to search his
person. He remained unconscious till he reached
Greenock, and so had the mortification of being
taken out of his way as well as of losing his money..
AIRTHRIE CASTLE, the seat of Lord Abercrombie,
was entered by burglars in the early part of the
week, and robbed of a considerable quantity of plate,
jewellery, and other valuable articles of vertu. The
thieves have as yet succeeded in escaping every
effort of the police, but the vigilance and skill of the
authorities will doubtless soon hit off the right
track. The value of the articles stolen is said to
amount to several thousand pounds.
ACCIDENT TO MR. LIDDELL, M.P.—On Wednes-
day night last as Mr. Liddell's coachman was driving
along the road near the Cramlington Colliery, in the
north, the carriage fell over into a hole, and the
horses dragged the carriage with great force down
the unprotected embankment of the road, which was
undergoing repairs. The coachman was thrown
nto the adjoining field, and two ladies and Mr.
Liddell were buried beneath the carriage. Fortu-
nately, the coachman was able to hold down the
heads of the horses until Me. Liddell and the tw
ladies were extricated—one of the latter was very
severely hurt. The carriage was completely broken,
and the horses much injured.
CHANCE -MEDLEY—a curious verdiot,as it seems tons,
to be given by a coroner's jury—has been returned in
the case of an inquest held at Liverpool, on the body
of a newly-born infant named Price. The doctor
ordered it a dose of castor-oil. There was a bottle
in the house, and a girl was told to bring it from a
certain shelf. She brought the first bottle she saw,
which proved to be vitriol, the nurse poured a tea-
spoonful down the throat of the unfortunate baby,
who died in great agony from the effects. The ver-
dict of " Chance-medley " returned by the jury was,
in the coroner's opinion, nearly equal to manslaugh-
ter—though we know of no legal scale of equivalent
to justify his remark—and would be understood, be
said, to convey a censure upon the nurse for not
using more care on the occasion.

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER ON SNOW-KlLL.—George
Mulley was yesterday re-examined at the Guildhall
Police court, charged with attempting the murder of
Ellen Mulley, on the morning of the 21st inst. A
police.officer said he had been to the hospital that
morning, and found that, although the woman was
better, she was not yet in a fit condition to appear in
court. Under these circumstances Alderman Hum-
phrey remanded the prisoner until this day week, at
the same time giving instructions that, in the event
of the woman getting worse, he should be informed
of the fact, in order that he might go to the hospital
to take her deposition.
London, England, 1855-09-29

THE FRENCH ASSAULT OF THE MALAKOFF.

At 10.4.5 General Pelissier and his staff went up to the
French Observatory on the right. The French trenches
were crowded with men as close as they could pack. A
few minutes before twelve o'clock the French, like a swarm
of bees, issued forth from their trenches close to the doomed
Malakoff, swarmed up its face, and were through the em-
brasures in the twinkling of an eye. They crossed the
seven metres of ground which separated them from the
enemy at a few bounds—they drifted as lightly and quickly
as autumn leaves before the wind, battalion after battalion,
into the embrasures, and in a minute or two after the head
of their column issued from the ditch the tricolour was
floating over the Korniloff Bastion. The musketry was
very feeble at first—indeed, our allies took the Russians
quite by surprise, and very few of the latter were in the
Malakoff; but they soon recovered themselves, and from
twelve o'clock till past seven iu the evening the French had
to meet and defeat the repeated attempts of the enemy to
regain the work.—Th.

The French never, even when under the eye of
their great emperor, fought better than when holding
the Malakoff against the repeated and desperate as-
saults of the Russians. This paragraph is from
a correspondent of the Daily News :
During the evening the Russians made three desperate
assaults on the Malakoff, entered it each time, and they
and the French fought in a style rarely witnessed in
modern warfare. It was regular butchery ; they bayonetted
one another, dashed out one another's brains with the butt-
ends of the muskets, bit, scratched, and rolled over on the
ground, like so many bulldogs, hallooed against one another
in an arena ; the dead bodies lay heaped and piled in the
most extraordinary manner possible—" Turcos " (Algerian
infantry in the French service), Zouaves, Russians, in one
confused mass. The French at last brought field-artillery
into the place, and then Gortschakoff seems to have under-
stood that it was all over.
London, England, 1855-09-29

PREPARATIONS FOB THE ATTACK.

Saturday, Sept. 8.
A biting wind right from the north side of Sebastopol
blew intolerable clouds of harsh dust into our faces. The
sun was obscured ; the sky was of a leaden wintry grey.
Early in the morning a strong force of cavalry, under the
command of Colonel Hodge, was moved up to the front
and formed a chain of sentries in front of Cathcart's-hill
and all along our lines. No person was allowed to pass
this line, unless he was a staff officer or was provided with
a pass. At 11.30 the Highland Brigade, under Brigadier
Cameron, marched up from Karuara and took up its posi-
tion in reserve at the right attack, and the Guards, also in
reserve, were posted on the same side of the Woronzoff
road. The first brigade of the fourth division served the
trenches of the left attack the night before, and remained
in them. The second brigade of the fourth division was
in reserve. The Guards, who served the trenches of the
left attack, and only marched out that warning, were turned
out again after arriving at their camp. The third divi-
sion, massed on the hillside before their camp, were also
in reserve, in readiness to move dov n by the left attack
in case their services were require& General Pelissier
during the night collected about thirty thousand men in
and about the Idamelon, to form the storming columns for
London, England, 1855-09-29

THE PRESS.

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