The Press.
London, England, 1858-11-20 00:00:00

Rlisteilanenus.

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GENERAL Nrwr., of the French Engineers, wlio has
just published a "Journal of the Operations of the
Siege of Sebastopol," states that during the siege,
which lamthrew
into 331 days, the French artillery
from howitzers, 350,000 shells from mortars, 911
8,000 rockets ; during the war the French infantry
fked 25,000,000 of cartridges
into the town 510,000 round shot, 236,000
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A Courant ItlisztxE occurred at a recent wedding
breakfast in Liverpool. The bride's father handed
to her a note for 1,0001., which the lady very properly
transferred to ber husband. He deposited it in his
waistcoat pocket along with a 51. note, intended for
the officiating clergyman. Before departing for the
wedding tour, the bridegroom handed the clergyman
one of the notes in requite for his services, and gave
the other note to his father for safe keeping. On his
arrival at homy the clergyman (so the story goes)
presented his wife with the note, as he had pre-
viously promised to do, for the purpose of pur-
chasing a new dress ; her astonishment was great,
on unfolding the note, to find the amount was 1,0001.
Of coarse the mistake was immediately repaired.
&RUBIES BROOKE, writing to a friend in Norfolk,
says:...." I am improving, and, they say, shall
recover; but the sands of my life are nearly run out,
and my active businesa, over, so it signifies but little
whether the end be earlier or later by days, months,

or years."
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH is still "in difficulties."
A communication from Valentia says :—Up to the
present the length which has been underrun in order
to substitute the shore end, has, strauge to say, been
found uninjured, though it is not expected that this
will prove the case when the whole twelve miles shall
have been recovered and replaced with the stout
cable. It is of course looked upon as certain that
laying down the shore end must improve the condi-
tion of the whole cable, else, of course, the expense
and labour of submerging it would never be at-
tempted. Even in its present state the signals re-
ceived at Valentia are occasionally as distinct as
those of some overland wires, and should any im-
provement take place when the shore end is added
on, there are many who profess themselves confident
of working through the whole wire for some time to
come at least.

ME FOUNDATION-STONE OF A MONUMENT TO THE
UTE EARL OF ELLESMERE was laid at Worsley on
Wednesday. A great concourse of people were pre-
sent at the ceremony. The octagonal shaft, which
will form the principal feature of the monument, is
to rise to a height of 132 feet, and the site of it is
Wren's Wood, one of the loftiest eminences in the
neighbourhood, and like the church will be seen for
many miles round. The Earl of Ellesmere was pre-
sent, and most of the leading inhabitants of the
neighbourhood. The ceremony commenced with
singing and prayer, after which Mr. Webber, the
architect, presented the trowel to Mr. Fereday
who spread the cement and adjusted the stone with
the usual formalities. Mr. Fereday Smith delivered
an appropriate address on the occasion. An illumi-
nated parchment scroll was placed in a cavity under
the stone, bearing the following inscription :
"Ellesmere Memorial. The first stone of this monu-
ment, erected by subscription, to the memory of the
Right Hon. Francis Egerton, Earl of Ellesmere, was
laid by Fereday Smith, Esq., this 17th day of Novem-
ber, 1858." To this simple record were appended the
names of the committee.

As UNSOLVED MYSTERY IS revived by a local Con-
temporary :—About eight years since the whole
county of Sussex was in a state of ferment at the
supposed murder of Mr. Griffith, of the Rook
Brewery, Brighton. The circumstances under which
this gentleman came to his death were enveloped in
great mystery—a mystery which has not been solved
to this day. It will be recollected that be was re•
turning home from Horsham, and had called at
Henfield in the way of business to receive money
and orders. On the high road at Newtimber, near
the Devil's Dyke, he was found dead, having been
shot through the heart. The horse and gig with
which he was travelling were found at some distance
away, the reins were cut, one step of the gig was
bent, and from the disordered state in which every-
thing was left it was surmised that Mr. Griffith, who
was a powerful man, had been attacked by robbers,
and that a severe struggle had ensued, in which the
unfortunate gentleman had been assassinated. He
was known to have had a considerable quantity of
money on him at the time, and also a watch ; but
when his hotly was discovered both money and
watch were gone. The latter had been attached to
a chain, and portions of this chain were left on the
neck; and the inference was that great violence bad
been used in effecting the separation. This watch
was found on Monday last in the mud of a pond at
Nntknowl, by a man who was " muddling." The
pond is close to the turnpike-road along which Mr.
Griffith passed on the night of the murder, and about
three miles distant from the spot where his oody was
discovered. The watch was a gold one, and the dial-
plate and hands are quite destroyed, but it is iden-
tified by the remaining poi tion of the chain, which
was hanging to it. The discovery of the watch does
not in any way serve to elucidate the mystery which
still enshrouds this singular murder.
A NOVEL REMEDY FOR SEASICKNESS appears in a
book just published by M. Jobard. The author
states that sea-sickness is not occasioned by any
chemical agent, such as a peculiar effluvium emitted
by sea water, the condition of the stimonslooll4