The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-08 00:00:00

Vrairinclal.

COLONEL WYNNE'S REPORT upon the state of
the Eastern Counties Railway between Norwich,
Yarmouth, and Lowestoft has this week been pub-
lished. That branch of the line appears to be in the
most insecure condition. The timbers of the bridges
and the piles of the viaducts are reported as being
generally in a dangerous state of decay, the perma-
nent ways imminently insecure from deficiency of
ballast and rotten sleepers, and anything short of a
thorough and complete repair strongly objected to ;
for the progress of decay is so rapid, says the report,
that by the time any temporary xepairs on the five
hundred miles of railway were completed it would be
time to commence and go over them again. The
Board of Trade have communicated the report to the
directors.

THE MARCHIONESS OF LONDONDERRY entertained
on Saturday last, at Chilton-moor, four thousand of
the colliers employed on her ladyship's property near
Durham.

THE QUESTION OF OPENING THE MANCHESTER
BOTANICAL-GARDENS on Sundays, was tried at the
annual meeting last week. A poll was held, and
resulted in 36 votes against the motion, to 293 in
favour of the same. The question was tried last
year and lost, though by a greater majurity, about a
hundred more members this year having voted in
favour of opening the gardens.
A MUSEUM, entitled the Queen's College Museum,
is about to be formed at Birmingham. Promises of
support from all quarters have been given, and it is
hoped that a museum worthy of the midland coun-
ties will be founded.

A HANDSOME MARBLE TABLET has just teen
erected at St. James's, Taunton, to the memory o
the late Colonel Yea, commanding the 7:h Fusiliers
and who was killed at the head of the assaulting
column in the attack on the Redan on the 18th June,
1855. The tablet, erected by his sister, bears an
appropriate inscription. _ _ .

- -AN ACCIDENT occurred at the Woodhouse Junction
of the Manchester and Stafford Railway, on Saturday,
through an empty passenger-train running into a
luggage-train. Several carriages were smashed, much
damage done, and one man, Thomas Wilson, a plate-
layer, run over and seriously injured.
ADMIRAL Sul. THOMAS PASLEY, on his return home
last week from the Black Sea, met with an enthusi-
astic reception at Windermere from the inhabitants.
The peasants of mere and fell took the horFes from
the gallant admirals carriage, and dragged him in
triumph to his house. A triumphal arch had been
erected, and flags waved for some distance down the
road. The gallant admiral expressed his hearty
thanks for the kind reception, and entertained his
warmhearted friends at an hotel for the evening.
THE DIVERS employed on the Josephine Willis are
gradually clearing away the wreck. Much personal
property has been rescued this week, and it is hoped
that the greater part of the cargo may be saved.
ONE OF THE COLLIERS in the pits at Dowlais, Gla-
morgan, on Friday week, on coming out of the pit,
accidently put out hts light. The poor fellow groped
about, lost his way, and ultimately got into a deserted
part of the pit, where he lay for seven days undis-
covered, in spite of the most vigorous search. When
found he was at the point of death from starvation,
but is now slowly recovering.
Mn. SHIRLEY BROOKS, in the course of his speech
at Boston on Monday, made the following reference
to his brother, the late Mr. David Brooks :

Yon will all remember that, some twenty-two months
ago, one of the noblest armies ever despatched from Eng-
land went forth to the strife in the Crimea. A few months
la_er, and 12,500 of those gallant soldiers were lying

corpses—victims, not to the sward of the enemy, but mar
tyrs to an atrocious system of maladministration—mart3rs
to the grossest and wickedest folly that ever was permitted
to deal with the lives of men. (Cheers.) Forgive me if
I speak more warmly and earnestly than our brief acquain-
tance might seem to warrant. I have good right to raise
my voice against the system. It robbed me of a young
brother. When the excitement of approaching war began
to be felt, be, a bold and energetic young man, was in.
spired with a resolution to join the army, and without
waiting for advice or assistance, he volunteered into the
Rile Brigade, from which he resisted all attempts to re-
move him, and sailed with his comrades for the East. He
shared in the glories of the Alma, where be did a soldier's
duty, but shortly afterwards he was seized with the epide-
mic of the climate. Had the most ordinary common sense
arrangements been made for the sick soldiery, he would
in all human probability have survived to serve his country,
to witness the brilliant madness of Balaklava, to share in
the undying glories of the soldiers battle--Inkermann.
But the accursed system of mismanagement was then in
full play—there was as yet no Miss Nightingale to shame
our authorities into sense and humanity—and my lin ther's
young life, like the lives of thousands of your brothers'
lives, was cast away : he sleeps by the great hospital of
Scutari. Against that abominable system the British
press bas, to its everlasting honour, made unceasing war.
ON SUNDAY last, the 2nd inst., the house of the
Rev. P. Fosbrooke, Lockington, near Derby, watt
broken into while all the family were at church. All
the communion plate, and some belonging to the
rev. gentleman, was CATTiltcl of: