The Press.
London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

ber of deaths already known is more than 100. At
Pella the number of victims is most considerable;
the brigade of Gendarmes has greatly suffered. At
Auletta, Petrosa, and Caggianu, several persons were
killed, and several houses knocked down. Several
houses were also destroyed at Salerno—amongst
them are two churches, the hotel of the prefet, and
the barracks. The shocks wore felt at Naples,
but (lid no injury. The inhabitants were, however,
so alarmed that they tied from, the city en masse.
The exact number of persons killed is not yet
known.

Paris is filling fast, and great preparations are
making for New Year's-day. The objects manufac-
tured are, as usual, most costly and very elegant.
The marriage of the hereditary Prince of the Two
Sicilies with a Princess of the house of Bavaria
will take place in the month of August, 1858, at
Naples.
It is now ascertained that the deficiency in the ac-
counts of 111. de Campana, director of the Govern-
ment pawn establishment (Mont de Pike) at Rome,
is nearly 100,0001. sterling.

It is worth noticing the progress making in Russia
in popular instruction. There are now six universi-
ties—at Moscow, Dospol, Karkhov, Kazan, St. Peters-
burg, and Kiev. The number of students in the
Univetsity of Moscow was, in 1855, I,2o3—the other
five had 2,571 students. In 1855 there were attached
to the different schools throughout the kingdom
2,087 professors of both sexes. In the course of the
same year the Department of Public Instruction
caused to be printed 600,000 volumes of school-
books, and had 114,000 of them distributed gratis.
The number of foreign works imported into Russia
in 1835 was 300,000 volumes; in 1855 it had in-
creased to 1,191,745 volumes. Ths increase of
Russian literature is equally great. In 1835 708
works were published ; and in 1855 1,148, of which
only 91 were translations.

It is probable that travelling on the Rhine will
now be cheaper than it formerly was, a new steam
company having been formed to navigate that river.
The boats will shortly commence running.

THE BOARD w Thum; returns for November have
just been issued, and under the circumstances give
exactly the results that might have been looked for.
Compared with the corresponding month of last
year, the declared value of our exportations, not-
withstanding the pressure for money, which must
have caused shipments to be made to every quarter
where the slightest chance of an immediate market
still remained, shows a falling off of 1,986,2601.
This diminution has affected every branch of busi-
ness, but the most prominent instances are in
cotton, linen, silk, and woollen manufactures. The
total of our exports for the first eleven months of
the year has been 115,007,1961., showing an increase
of 9,101,5651., or about eight per cent. Compared
with the corresponding eleven months of 1855 the
increase is 28,159,9161., or rather more than thirty.
two per cent. With regard to the imports therehas
been a proportionate falling off in the general con-
sumption.

THE EFFECTS OF CONTINUED DISTRESS exhibited
themselves at Middlesborough on Saturday in a
decided outbreak. The men in the employ of Messrs.
Bolckow and Vaughan, joined by several labourers
out of work, after arming themselves with bludgeons,
assembled that morning in the marketplace, loudly
demanding bread. They then prozeeded to a pro-
vision•shop, at which Messrs. Bolckow aad Vaughan's
men had been accustomed to expend their wages,
but, after threatening the proprietor, marched towards
the police-station, on their way to which they were
met by a strong body of police, who cleared the
streets. Later in the day the mayor addressed a
considerable number of them, promising that any
necessary relief should be afforded. In the evening
a detachment of the 4th Dragoons arrived from
York, and order has since been preserved. In
general, the conduct of the unemployed has been
marked by quiet and order. Meetings of sympathy
have been held in several of the manufacturing
district:, and although, with the exception of the
Middlesborough riots, no breach of the peace has
been committed, yet there is no doubt that, as want
increases, discontent extends. 'The colliers in North
Staffordshire, especially those working on Lord
Granville's property, have assumed a menacing at-
titude, and, encouraged by those in the southern
districts, the proposed reduction of wages has led to
apprehension of a general outbreak. The men at
Willenball and Bilston are extremely ill-disposed,
have not returned to work since last Saturday, and
it is feared that a combined movement of some sort
is now organising throughout the whole of Stafford-
shire. A meeting of colliers with their masters was
held at Wolverhampton on Monday. Both parties
appeared to face each other in an amicable spirit.
The state of trade is, however, so bad throughout the
iron district that it is not unlikely wages may be still
further reduced, and the result of such a step would,
in all probability, be a general strike throughout the
country.