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London, England, 1858-02-06

DUBLIN.

THE IRISH VICEROYALTY.—Lord Carlisle was pre-
sent on Thursday evening at the Lord Mayor's
banquet, and in the course of his Excellency's
speech he referred to the question of the abolition of
the viceroyalty in these terms :
It may be allowed to me to observe, especially
after you have drunk my health in so friendly and
encouraging a manner, that a certain degree of
interest, to which the Lorl Mayor has referred,
may at this period attach itself to the office I have
the honour to fill, which I certainly could not claim per-
sonally to myself; bet, as we have seen it announced of
late in several quarters, and with a certain appearance of
gravity, that it has been in the contemplation of the
Government to put an extinguisher at once upon an office
so elevated and upon a person so humble, T can only say
that suoh a project is without my privity, as ou my part it
clearly would be without my sympathy.

The robbery of pictures committed last year at
Lady Sul)lk's will be fresh in the memory of our
readers. In the most mysterious manner the picture
gallery at Charlton was entered one night, and
several rare pictures, valued at many thousands of
pounds sterling, were cut out from their frames and
removed from the gallery. From that day until last
Thursday but one clue was discovered. The thief,
some months after effecting the robbery, pawned one
picture, valued at 4,0001., for a 10/. note. The
picture was soon discovered in the market, but the
thief was not then traced. Last Thursday, in conse-
quence of certain information, two of the detective
force entered the War•office in Pall-mall and pro-
ceeded to examine a room in that department.
Behind an old press they discovered the whole of the
missing pictures. A messenger employed at the
War office, and formerly valet to Lord Andover, was
arrested at the same time.

LORD SHAFTESBURY AND THE SEPOYS.
Ix will be in the recollection of our readers that, at
a public meeting at Wimborne in October last, Lord
Shaftesbury made the following statement
I myself saw the other day a letter, from the highest
lady now in India, describing that, day by day, ladies
were coming into Calcutta, their ears and their noses out
off and their eyes put out ; that children of the tenderest
years have been reserved to be put to death tinier circum•
'Moss of the most exquisite torture, kto.
London, England, 1858-02-06

LEGISLATION ON INDIA.

WHILE the Ministers and their ally, Lord
SHAFTESBURY, are busy recanting their stories
of Indian atrocities, invented to inflame the
nation, and shifting round from one extreme
to the other to suit the popular gale—while
those who had been loudest in praising the
perfections of the Double Government are
now foremost in declaring it to be the cause
of all our mishaps—while the special organs
of the Premier have been changing their notes
as to what is to bo the future of India, as
public opinion seemed to vary from day to

pany, who &is now so earnestly plying for
inquiry, contributed very much to that malt.
Nor has the subsequent course of the Conser-
vative party been inconsistent with the princi-
ples they then upheld. Without offering any
factious opposition to the Government, they
have not hesitated to state their views upon
India in Parliament, as often as occasion for
doing so arose. Nor have their organs been
silent as to the opinions which they professed.
They had thus long since become the recognised
depositaries of that policy in regard to India
which unites Conservatism and Progress in the
highest degree. Conservatism in the shape
of an entire abstention from annexations, re-
sumptions, confiscation of family jaghires or
pensions, or interference with native rights or
creeds in any way; Progress in the
emancipation of land from the fetters that
bind it, the facilitating the establishment of
freeholds, an entire freedom both of thought
and action, and the extension to all of the
benefit of equal laws and competent and inde-
pendent judicial tribunals, which are the ne-
cessary foundation in every country for social
advancement and material wealth. Our object
has not been to make an India for the Eng-
lish, or an India for the natives, but an India
for all. The empire is large enough for every
lace and class, and there is not the slightest
reason, therefore, for their interests to be con-
flicting. On the contrary, the interests of all,
if only rightly understood,
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THE CONTINENTAL REVIEW.

On WEDNESDAY, the fird of MARCH, will be published,
No. I. of the

CONTINENTAL REVIEW.
This Paper, which will be published Weekly, on Wednesday,
will contain discussions of the more important topics of Conti-
swing Politics, Statistics of the Financial Position and Eco-
nomical Policy of Fore,gn Nations, an ample Summary of News
from all the chief States of Europe, Accounts of the Proceedings
in the Chambers of Cmstitutional Countries, Notices of the
Current Literature of the Continent, and especially of France.
Germany, and Italy; Letters from Correspondents In Paris and
elsewhere, and a great variety of Miscellaneous Information
illustrating the Condition and the Prospects of Continental
Nations.
London, England, 1858-02-06

NEW LOAN FOR INDIA.

Mr. VERNON Swan moved a resolution with the
view of bringing in a bill permitting the East India
Company to raise a loan in the Unitei Kingdom.
The sum that would probably he required was, he
said, computed at eight millions, but to leave a
margin for contingencies he proposed to ask power
to borrow ton millions.

Mr. T. BARING remarked that, according to general
belief, the East India Company, as a political body,
was doomed to early extinction. Before granting the
required power to borrow money, be wished to learn
under what system of executive government it was
to be really raised and expended.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained the
position of the Company with respect to the privi-
lege of raising loans in England. The bill was re-
quired to relieve the directors from disabilities which
the Government of no other colonial dependency of
the country were subje3t to. He saw no objection tp
the bill, either in practice or in principle.

Mr. DISRAELI hoped that the Government, on
better advice, would withdraw for the present the
measure which they were said t be contemplating
for the abolition of the existing system of adminis-
tration in India. At a period of great emergency, so
evident and important a change was, he believed,
extremely inopportune. He complained of the reti-
cence practised by her Majesty's Ministers, who
seemed to consider the House of Commons as the
last to be told of their intentions. It was, be con-
tended, most inconsistent and dangerous to raise
money on the credit of the India Government at a
time when it was altogether uncertain what that Go-
vernment was to be in a few months hence.

Mr. CARDWELL, postponing a fuller discussion of
the question, insisted that no sanction should be
given to any step which might by any possibilityin-
volve the revenue of England in liability for Indian
debts.

After a few remarks from ➢ir. HENLEY,

Mr. B. MANGLES stated that the Company had
already expended three millions in extra military
services in India, in consequence of the Bengal
revolt. The money they were to be authorised to
borrow by the bill was absolutely essential for the
completion of operations now undertaken for the
pacification of the country.
Sir F. BARING was willing to grant all the funds
necessary to provide for existing emergencies in
Hindostan. He objected, however, to give authority
for raising a larger loan than was actually requisite
for the services of the current year.
Colonel SIKES and Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY having
spoken,
Mr. D. SEYMOUR remarked that the deficiency in
the Indian revenue caused by the late occurrences
would approach eight millions sterling. It was, he
maintained, not an extravagant proposition, under
such circumstances, to ask leave to raise ten
millions.
The motion was agreed to, and leave given tO
bring in the bill.
The house adjourned at eight o'clock.
London, England, 1858-02-06

AUSTRIA AND NAPLES.

A Vienna letter states that the Duke of Calabria,
eldest son and heir of the King of Naples, is ex-
pected in that city in a few days on his way to
Munich, to demand the hand of the Princess of
Bavaria, sister of the Empress of Austria.
At Naples the trial of the English engineers has
commenced.

AMERICA.
There is no intelligence of any political importance.
In the House of Representatives on the 18th Mr.
Campbell asked leave to offer a joint resolution
authorising the President to negotiate, through the
Statev Department, fur the acquisition of Canada,
Nova Scotia, and other parts in British North
America, and Cuba and the other islands adjacent
thereto, and annexing them to the United States.
The motion did not meet with approval.

A Aliwnwa or THE IloyAL COMMIsSIONERS of THE
FUND will take plane at eleven cm. on
Jueaday next at the Palace qt Westminster,
London, England, 1858-02-06

OF FIELD MARSHAL

ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON, K.G.
1797-1805.
EDITED BY THE PRESENT DUKE.
JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.

SCROPEIS VOLCANOS OF CENTRAL FRANCE.
Next Week, New Edition, revised and enlarged, with large Coloured Maps, and many Illustrations, medium fivo.,

THE GEOLOGY AND EXTINCT VOLCANOS

CENTRAL FRANCE.
By G. POULETT S CROPE, M.P.
" None of the publications, whether of French or English writers, which have yet appeared can be considered to
afford that general view or detailed description of the very remarkable series of geological facts presented by this
country which they undoubtedly merit, o• which any visitor desirous of examining its phenomena would wish to have in
his hand as a gt.ide. I have therefore been led to suppose that a new edition of my Memoir, with such emendations
and additions as time and the further observations, whether of myself or others, might suggest, would be acceptable at
the present time."—Extract front Aulhor's Preface.
JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.
London, England, 1858-02-06

MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL.

Lord PALItIERSTON moved an address congratu-
lating her Majesty on the auspicious marriage of the
Princess Royal with Prince Frederick William of
Prussia.

Mr. DISRAELI, in seconding the motion, said that
he was sure the house had never agreed to any
address with more complete cordiality than on the
present occasion. The marriage of the Princess
Royal was a proof of the domestic principle which
pervades the whole of this nation. The Princess
might expect not only the splendour of a throne, but
the happiness of a hearth. The time would come
when the people would be not less proud of the
Queen of Prussia than they now were of the Queen
of England.
The motion was then agreed to unanimously, and
on the further motion of Lord PALMERSTON, it was
resolved that the house should assemble at two
o'clock this day (Saturday), afternoon, for the pur-
pose of proceeding to the Queen with the address.

THE ORSINI PLOT.
Mr. ROEBUCK, having moved the adjournment of
the house, referred to the events and proceedings
that bad resulted from the late attempt at assassina-
tion in Paris. Emphatically declaring that the Eng-
lish people detested all such criminal enterprises,
he remarked that the present ruler of France was,
least of all men, entitled to complain of the right of
asylum afforded in England to refugees of every
class and from every country. He deprecated any
alteration, such as had been so diligently Teem-
mended, in the Alien Law, and inquired whether any
London, England, 1858-02-06

jortign 6 orresponbentt.

Paws, Feb. 4.
THE four great French questions—the Public Safety
Bill, the nomination of a Regent, the French refugees,
and the attitude taken by certain militaty officers—
appear to be much discussed in the London journals.
It may not be inopportune to give you the
opinions on these subjects of many enlightened
Frenchmen, men who are not the decided partisans
of the Emperor, who have refused to take office, but
who at the same time would defend him, should the
Imperial Throne be in danger. As to the Public
Safety Bill, the opinion is, that England has no
right to interfere with the internal regulations of
another country, and that the principle of non-inter-
vention, so strongly manifested by all political
parties in England, ought not to be departed from.
Our English laws are made to suit the habits, customs.,
and necessities of Englishmen—the laws in France
are equally adapted to the wants of Frenchmen ; it is
therefore violating the fundamental principle of non-
intervention for either Frenchmen or Englishmen
to attack such laws, and particularly in language
tending to create disaffection amongst the people.
A personal friend of the Orleans family said to me
this morning :—" I do not approve these foreign
attacks on the French Government. I am a lover
of fair play ; and Englishmen, when they find fault
with the laws now before the Legislative Assembly
for preserving order in France, should remember that
they have been forced to enact laws for Ireland of a
most stringent nature, and which laws, I believe,
are still in force, though seldom put into execution."
That there is great good sense in this remark must
be acknowledged by every reasonable man, and I
can add, from my own personal observation, that the
great majority of the French nation is so tired of
speculative legislation, that, without examining too
deeply the laws for the maintenance of public safety,
they approve of them as being the surest guarantee
for securing the permanent tranquillity of the nation.
As for the decree establishing a Regency, I need
only state that the measure has met with general
approbation, and the persons appointed to form the
Council are, in the opinion of the public, an ex-
cellent guarantee for the continuation of the Napo-
leon dynasty.

The refugee question, it is generally believed, has
not been fairly discussed in England, and intentions
have been attributed to the Emperor which he never
contemplated. The Emperor requires from England
that sovereigns should have the same protection
from the laws as is given to the lowest individuals.
London, England, 1858-02-06

ANCIENT AND MODERN POTTERY.

Now ready, with Coloured Plates, 200 Woodcuts, and an
Index, 2 voh. medium svo., 425.,
HISTORY OF ANCIENT POTTERY :
Eeyptian, As.yrian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman.
By SAMUEL BIRCH, F.S A.
Also, uniform with the above,
HISTORY of MEDIIEVAL and MODERN
POTTERY. By JOSEPH MARRYAT. Second Edition,
with Coloured Plates and 240 Woodcuts, medium Svo.,
31s. Bd.

GOSSIP.]

" The s•cood edition of ' Mr. Marryat's History of Porcelain
and Pottery,' has fallen like a bomb among both the buyers and
Whits of ' modern antiquities' In Florence. One great Hebrew
allilionairs, as renowned for his collection of crockery as for his
cvanatand of cash, has at once countermanded all orders for
further purchases of majolica. Curiosity dealers who, a couple
of months ago, were asking lOU for a cracked plate, are now
willing to take a hundred pence. In so thoroughly exposing.
In his olassi:al work, the manufacture of spurious majolica
loog carried on here, Mr. Marrys t has performed • signal service
to the admirers of fictile art."—The Morning Post Correspondent.
December, I t,57.
London, England, 1858-02-06

at the donser;itives, as if theijitere
its more special representatives ; ate' in
point of organisation and defined" litift-
ciples the accusation might certainly be just.
But if we desire to see those less favourable
qualities which are said to be inherent in the
system in full operation, we must turn to the
conduct, not of its friends, but of its enemies.
The sleepless acrimony and disingenuous
detraction with which the Liberals have for
years sought to blacken every man who bore
the name of Conservative stand in curious
contrast to their professed repudiation of
party. None have benefited so much as the
Liberals by the weapons they professed to
abhor ; none have suffered so much as the
Conservatives from the system they have con-
scientiously upheld.
But there are signs of a change in public
opinion. As one by one Conservative pre-
dictions have been roalised.—as one by one
Conservative statesmen have appropriated
the leading social questions of the day—as
one by one the boasted qualifications of
their opponents have appeared in their true
light, and blunder after blunder astonished
and incensed the public—there has gra-
dually grown up a feeling that the delusion
has lasted long enough, and that it is not
worth while to imperil the prosperity of
the empire for the sake of keeping in such
Liberals as Lord PALMERSTON, or excluding
such Conservatives as Lord DERBY.
The tone of the public press in relation to
last Thursday night is highly significant. It
cannot he concealed that the old faith in their
idol is vanishing. Nor was the concurrent
applause which followed the speech of Lord
DERBY in the House of Lords a less gratifying
indication that the Conservative party is ac•
(Luning the confidence of the Legislature. It
was, indeed, impossible to listen to the search-
lug exposure of mismanagement contained in
London, England, 1858-02-06

PANMURE'S "BEST."

IT is a very comfortable thing to be an opti-
mist, or perhaps we should more fitly say a
passimist—to believe that whatever is done,
is, after all, done about as well as human
infirmity permits of. There is always some-
body to find fault, it may be argued. There is
always somebody who is interested in showing
that somebody else is an impostor, and that he
. could have done his work better. Not only is
this a very comfortable, easy doctrine, befitting
a people too busy over their private interests
to give much time to their public ones, but it
is an exceeding plausible one too. We are all
fallible mortals. It is easy to be wise after the
event. Who knows if the grumbler would have
dongbetter than the person grumbled at if placed
in the same situation? 'maize' F'it. We cannot tell.
What folly, then, to upbraid Governments
with mismanagement or Ministers with inca-
pacity. This is a kind of argument to which,
we candidly admit, there is no immediate
reply All that any one who questions its
validity can do is to point to the collective
sense of mankind. They certainly act as if it
was not true, whatever they may think. If
John cleans the shoes badly, they try James ;
if Molly burns the leg of mutton, they try
Polly. They do not trouble themselves much
about abstract theories of equality ; they
simply look to facts, and in the light which
these shed upon their troubles try to discover
some conclusion.

It is remarkable how some journals, which
pride themselves on taking the common•
sense view of affairs, have the courage to
ignore this popular mode of proceeding.
In treating of the conduct of our present
Government, they rigidly deny the possibility
of amendment in human trar.sactions. Here
again, then, we can simply grapple with facts.
Is the explanation wrung from Government
relative to our supply of soldiers veracious in
point of fact? Let us ascertain that, and we
shall then have got all which the practical
Englishman, poor fallible mortal, requires to
justify his proceeding to action.
Lord PANMIIRE tells us that we are sending
out as many soldiers as are wanted, that
they are of just as good a quality as were sent
to WELLINOTON in the Peninsula, and that
everything is being d►►ne that can be done to
supply our troops in India with horses. Now,
we will join issue with him upon these three
points, merely premising that there is indirect
falsehood as well as direct, and that in practi-
cal affairs its consequences are just as mis-
chievous.

However, in the first instance, we meet the
Noble Lord with a fiat denial. Fifteen hun-
dred men a week it the number demanded by
our Indian army. Eight hundred a week is
the rate at which recruits come in.

Again. It is ♦ery easy to say that the men
we send out to Sir COLIN CAMPBELL are just as
good as those we sent out to Lord WELLING-
TON. The literal fact, indeed, we should be
inclined to question ; for the sources from
which our armies were recruited in those days
furnished us with men of stalwart frames,
though it might be of indifferent morals. But
be that as it may, what is the reason why the
London, England, 1858-02-06

HER M UES CI S DRAWING-ROOM.

HER Majesty the Queen held a Drawing-room on
Saturday afternoon at St. James's Palace for the
purpose of receiving congratulations on the happy
event of the royal nuptials. The Queen and the
Prince Consort entered the Throne room shortly
before three p.m., accompanied by the Prince and
Princess Frederick William of Pru-sia, the Duchess
of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, the Duke of
Cambridge, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, Prince Edward
of Saxe-Weimar, the Prince of Leiningen, Prince
Victor of Hohenlohe, and the Maharajah Dhuleep
Singh. No presentations took place on this occasion,
and the Court was the most brilliant for many years.
The diplomatic circle was largely represented, and
the general circle very numerously attended. Her
Majesty had a dinner party in the evening, and
afterwards an evening party, at which the leading
members of the aristocracy were present.

PRESEN rs TO THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES
THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS FREDERICK
WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA.

A DEPUTATION from the Corporation of Birmingham
and from the manufacturers of that borough waited
upon their Royal Highnesses at Buckingham Palace
on Saturday last, to present an address from the
corporation and a gift of certain specimens of the
manufactures of that town. The deputation con-
sisted of the Mayor (Mr. Johu Ratcliffe), Mr.
Alderman Hodgson (ex mayor), Mr. Alderman
Palmer, and the Town Clerk. 'the manufacturers
were represented by Messrs. Middlemore, Aston,
Hinks, Onions, Toaks, Stenton, Simons, Messenger,
Collis, Jeffery, Briggs, Goode, and Harris. The
deputations were accompanied by Mr. Spooner, M.P.,
Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Charles Ratcliffe, and the
Rev. Isaac Spooner. Their It iyal Highnesses re-
ceived the deputation most graciously. The articles
presented consisted of fine specimens of manufac-
tures in bronze, silver, gold, papier mache, steel
pens, saddlery, precious stones, &c., the productions
of twenty-five manufacturers, and valued at 2,000/.
The Mayor, who originated the gift, at the same time
presented to their Royal Highnesses a richly
illuminated catalogue of the articles. The presents
included, among other articles, a group of statuettes
in bronze of her Majesty and the Prince of Wales,
and a pair of large and handsome candelabra of the
game metal, mounted with elegantly engraved
glasses, contributed by Mr. Samuel Messenger. A
necklet chain and pendant locket, formed of a
radiated and violet-tinted carbuncle, with a brilliant
in the centre, and a suite of similar carbuncle shirt
and collar studs and sleeve links, by Messrs. Thomas
and John Bragg ; and a bridle, of the most exquisite
workmanship, from a design admired by the Prince
Consort on his visit to Birmingham in 1819 ; together
with a lady's enamelled driving whip with a beauti-
fully carved ivory handle; and a lady's riding whip,
elegantlymounted in gold, by Mr. John Birtles. A
eo l letit lo ri of Birmingham manufaotureg without
it buttons " would have been csaentially incomplete,
London, England, 1858-11-06

THE PRICE OF PROVISIONS.

The prices of wheat fell progressively from 725. 3d.
a quarter in the months of July, August, and Sep-
tember, 1856, to 595. Ild. in 1857, and to 445. 7d.
on an average in the corresponding three months
of the present year. The decrease of price was thus
thirty-eight per cent. The price of beef by the car-
case at Leadenhall and Newgate markets fell in the
two years from 51d. to 51d. a pound ; mutton from
W. to 51d. a pound, or eight per cent. in price.
Potatoes (York Regents) were sold at 78s. a ton at
the waterside market, Southwark, or twenty-six per
cent. less than the prices of the same season in the
previous year. In this year 30 lbs. were sold for a
shilling ;in the last year 21 lbs. only. The price of
potatoes is now the same as the price was in 1856.
The weather during the three months presented some
peculiarities; at Greenwich the temperature of the
air in July was below, in August slightly above
i1..'.. deg.), in September 4.0 deg. above the average
of eighty seven years. The humidity was below, the
barometric pressure above, the average. The rain-
fall was 5.4 inches in the three months, or nearly
two inches below the average. The rain-fall was not
too scanty in the north ; in lat. 52-53 deg. it was 7.1
inches, in lat. 53-54 deg. it was 8.4 inches. In the
Isle of Wight, Devon, and Cornwall, from 7 to 8
inches of rain fell.
London, England, 1858-11-06

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Vrebintial.

THE BOARD OF CUSTOMS has issued the following
notice in reference to Southampton, which is of
considerable importance to passengers landing at that
port :—" A clerk is in attendance in the baggage
warehouse to receive Customs' duties on articles sub-
ject theret), brought by passengers with their hag-
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intervention of an agent."
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE WORCESTERSHIRE
TESTIMONIAL TO San JOHN PAKINGTON, limited in
amount to 21.25., already exceed the sum of 500/.
THE AFFAIRS OF THE LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANE
came before the Court of Queen's Bench on Thurs.
day, on the application of the Attorney-General for a
rule to show cause why the verdict in the important
case of " Scott and another v. Dixon," should not be
set aside. The action was brought by the plaintiffs,
who became the joint purchasers of only ten shares
of 101. each in the Liverpool Borough Bank, which
afterwards stopped paymect. The plaintiffs charged
the defendant, who was a director of the bank, with
having fraudulently and deceitfully, and with intent
to persuade and induce the plaintiffs to become
purchasers of those shares, represented to them that
the bank was in a flourishing and solvent condition,
and that its capital was untouched. The trial resulted
in a verdict in favour of the plaintiffs. The Attorney-
General contended that there had been no evidence
to support the charge, and that no representation at
all had been made by the defendant to the plaintiff..
The court granted a rule nisi.
London, England, 1858-11-06

STATE OF TN PUBLIC REALM

98,260 deaths were registered in 92 days ; and
the mortality was at the rate of 1,994 per cent.
annually, or 146 below the average. The average
rate of the season exceeded 21; the actual rate of the
last quarter was less than 20 in 1,000. During the
last summer the annual rate of mortality in the
Population of the country, of villages, and of small
towns, was at the rate of 17 in 1,000, the average
Tate Wog 18; and in the SUDO time the town popu-
lation died off at the annual rate of 24 in 1,000, the
average rate being 26. The deaths in the 92 days
amounted to 98,260. If the mortality bad been at
the standard rate deduced from 63 of the lotst un-
healthy districts, the deaths would have amounted
W 73,088.; consequently, the deaths in excess of the
etymparatively healthy average, or the unnatural
1181414 amounted to 4S ,172, or which 10,1113 IlaP-
P°4Bd the large towns, sod 11,026 ie the email towns
4114
London, England, 1858-11-06

Aittrogalitan.

THE BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH
COMPANY transmitted from Birmingham on the
occasion of Mr. Bright's address to his constituents,
and a similar quantity on the following Friday night,
twenty columns of close newspaper print. We are
informed that such a quantity of news in so short a
space was never transmitted from a single telegraph
station in this or any other country.
PAROCHIAL MATTERS appear to be in a very un-
pleasant state in the parish of St. Pancras. A few
weeks ago several collectors were dismissed for mai-
versation of funds, and now the vestry clerk has been
dismissed for keeping back certain rents which he
had received.

THE VESTRYMEN, in accordance with the resolu•
tions passed at the recent metropolitan meeting in
reference to the Confessional, one of which provided
that a copy of the resolutions should be sent to each
vestry, with a request that they would adopt a retition
on the same subject, are already in motion. A. meet.
ing is to be held in the vestry-ball, Paddington, and
at St. George's, Hanover square, on Thursday next,
to adopt a petition. The borough of Marylebone has
fixed this morning for the same purpose; and at St.
James's, Westminster, at the ordinary vestry on
Thursday, the matter was considered, and after a
brief discussion a petition, moved by Mr. Beal, and
seconded by Mr. Chinnock, was agreed to by an
overwhelming majority. The vesniea of Chelsea,
Kensington, and Lambeth, meet during next week on
the same subject.

A DENSE Foo enveloped the whole of London and
its neighbourhood for many hours on Monday morn-
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with a bright and thick hoar frost. As the morning
advanced the fog became so thick as to renter
caution necessary on the part of drivers of vehieles
through the streets of the metropolis; and on the
river above bridge it was found necessary to suspend
the running of the numerous steamboats. In the
City and at the West end, the Bank of England, the
various banking houses, public companies and build-
ings, as also the principal tradesmen, were oompellad
to keep the gas constantly burning during the
morning. It is understood no iecidegte occurred,
London, England, 1858-11-06

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The following was the position of the Society at tat March.
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Amount of Existing Assurances
Annual Revenue 1h2.717
Accumulated Fund 1,099,400
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London, England, 1858-11-06

TURKEY.

OUTRAGE ON A FRENCHMAN.
_ A letter from Constantinople, in the Gazette du
gitti, details the particuleri of an outrage committed
a French gentleman at Buyukdere by some
larki, while he was quietly seated near a fountain.
.che police stood coolly by and made no effort to aid
"IM: and after his assailants had left him they
London, England, 1858-11-06

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AN EXCITING MATCH at partridge shooting came
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upon General Hall's estate, et Weston Colville, on
Saturday last. The terms were that Capt. Corrance
should stake 751. to Captain Alexander's 501., to kill
the greatest number of partridges in walking turnip-
fields, from 10 o'clock till 4. it WAS agreed that they
should walk 50 yards apart, the one not to kill the
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ranee killed 67 in first-rate style ; Captain Alexander
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tenants, &c., were 620 partridges, 81 bares, and 3
rabbits, making a total of 5,082 head, which, in con-
sequence of the unusual abundance of game, is
scarcely missed.
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Obituarl

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR Wirrux REID, K.C.8., died
on Sunday evening last at his residence, Gloucester.
terrace, Hyde-park. The deceased general was the
eldest son of the Rev. James Reid, minister of the
parish of Kinglassie. Fifeshire, where Sir William
was born in 1791. He was married in 1818 to the
youngest daughter of John Holland, Esq., of
Clapham. He was educated at Musselbnrgb, and
subsequently W the military academy at Woolwich.
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served under the Duke of Wellington to the end of the
Peninsular war, and was made colonel of the Engi-
neers in 1854, and major-general in 1856. From
February, 1839, to October, 1846, he was governor
of Bermuda; from October, 1846, to August, 1848,
he was governor of the Windward Islands, and was
appointed governor of Malta in 1851. He is the
author of two valuable works on the law of storms.
He was chairman of the executive committee for
managing the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851,
and was made H.C.B. in acknowledgment of his
services on that and previous occasions.
Mits. HOPE SCOTT expired at Edinburgh on
Tuesday last. She was the granddaughter of Sir
Walter Scott and the daughter of Mr. John Gibson
Lockhart. Like nearly all the descendants of the
great Scotch novelist and poet, she has been cut off
in the prime of life. She was married isfew years
since to Mr. Hope Scott, the eminent barrister, who
Wok the latter antnswo on bid sanding to the
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