The Press.
London, England, 1858-03-06 00:00:00

Vrobintial.

THE HEAVY NORTII•E AST GALE AND SNOWSTORM
which swept across the country between Sunday and
Wednesday last caused considerable delay both in
the land and sea traffic. The Channel mails wcre
delayed many hours on Tuesday and Wednesday,
while the different lines of railway were more or less
blocke.i up with snow, and all traffic for several
hours brought to a stand. On the Eastern Counties
Railway the engine of the six p.m. up-train got off
the rails near Buckenham and ran into some trucks.
Two men were seriously injured by the accident.
The weather moderated on Wednesday night. A
large fleet of homeward-bound ships are reported to
be in the chops of the Channel.

A NEW SCREW STEAMER of 1,100 tons,with engines
of 3W-horse power, and 'built fur the Russian Go-
vernment, was launched by Mr. Laird at Birkenticati
on Tuesday.

A FRENCH MERCHANT VESSEL WRS wrecked on the
Goodwin Sands ou Sunday evening. The crew
saved themselves in the ship's boats and got into
Dover in safety. .

Dn. LIVINGSTONE leaves Liverpool this day, in the
screw steamship Pearl, for the east coact of Africa.
GENERAL &GENDER HUSHMUT BAIiALOOR, brother
of the King of Onde, died on Tuesday last, at ten
minutes after ten o'clock p.m., after a short but
severe illness.

GILDERSOME PARSONAGE, Yorkshire, held by the
Rev. A. G. Kinsman, was entered by six burglars on
the morning of the 13th ult., the house robbed, and
the inmates, though not subjected to, threw ened with
personal violence. Two men have since been
arrested, identified, and committed for trial.
AN ANNULAR ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, visible in
London, and of far greater magnitude than any
eclipse which has occurred for 100 years, will take
place on the 15th inst., at one p.m. The eclipse, on
the authority of Mr. Hind, will be best observed at
Swindon and Blisworth.
Sr. PAUL'S CHURCH, Herne-bill, Dulwich, was
burned down last Saturday from the overheating of
the flues.

MR. RAREY'S HORSE TAMING SYSTEM
IN FRANCE.
THE commission nominated by the Emperor Napo-
leon, consisting of General Fleury, Mr. Mackenzie
Grieves, and other gentlemen acquainted with the
nature of the horse, to examine into Mr. Rarey's
mode of proceeding has terminated its investigations.
In order to put the system to a vigorous test, it
caused to be purchased at Caen a four•year-old horse
by Tipple Cider, noted for its violence, and for kick-
ing furiously whenever an attempt was made to put
a crupper on it. In the space of four days this
horse was as docile with the saddle and in harness
as could be desired, and be allowed a whip to be
cracked about his head and a drum to be beaten on
his back without any manifestations of fear. We
are informed that the results of the various experi-
ments, and especially of the one in question, are
considered by the commission perfectly satisfactory,
and that, in consequence, their report to the Emperor
will be very favourable to Mr. Rarey. A new expe-
riment was made on Tuesday at Tattersall's on a
stallion belonging to the Haras du Cluny, the pro-
perty of Government, and which was so untameable,
so vicious, so furious, in fact., that a resolution had
been adopted to kill it. The animal was lent for the
purpose by M. de Baylen, chef de la division des •
Haras in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce,
and as many as three hundred members of the
Jockey and other clubs assembled to see what Mr.
Rarey could do with him. In company with this
horse, which arrived with a cavez on and muzzled, and
led by two men, Mr. Rarey fastened himself up in a
stall, and in an hour after be came out mounted on
its back. Although the horse had always previously
bitten the legs of every one who mounted him, he
was then perfectly quiet ; and though the very sight
cf a whip was accustomed to put i: in a fury, it
received a correction as quietly as the best broken-
in horse would have done. The members of the
Jockey Club were astonished at what they witnessed,
and broke out into loud acclamations of admiration;
after which they gathered round Mr. Rare), to com-
pliment him. M. de Baylen, for his part, warmly
expressed his surprise and pleasure, and at his
request Mr. Mackenzie Grieves gave the spectators
an account of the character of the horse. Mr. Rarey
then requested to be allowed to keep the horse for
three days, promising at the conclusion of that time
to give him up as quiet as any lady's horse, and his
application was granted.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord Chelmsford, whose
elevation to the peerage has been formally announced ,
s the youngest but only surviving son of the late
Charles Thesiger, Esq., some time collector of cus-
toms in the island of St. Vincent, and nephew of
Sir Frederick Thesiger, a distinguished naval officer,
who was aide-de-camp to Lord Nelson at the battle
of Copenhagen. His lordship was born in London
in 1794, so that he is now in the silty-fourth year of
his age. His lordship entered the royal navy at an
early age, as midshipman of the Cambrian frigate,
and saw active service in that vessel at Copenhagen
in IRO7. We believe that the destruction of his
father's property at Mount Souffrier, in St. incent's,
by a volcanic eruption of that mountain, coupied
with the death of his father and his elder brothers,
induced him to resolve on retrieving the fortunes of
his family by entering himself as a student for the
bar. After the usual course of study in the cham-
bers of a senior, he was called to the bar at Gray's-
inn in Michaelmas Term, 1818, and went the Home
Circuit, of which be was for many years the acknow.
ledged leader; and it is in grateful memory of his
successful career upon that circuit that his lordship
has chosen to take the title by which he will be
hereafter known in the peerage, from one of the
county towns which witnessed his early triumphs as
an advocate. His subsequent parliamentary career,
as M.P. successively for the boroughs of Woodstock,
Abingdon, and Stamford, and as Solicitor and
Attorney General under Sir Robert Peel and Lord
Derby, is too well known to need recording here.
Like his eminent predecessors, Lords Lyndhurst,
St. Leonards, and Brougham, and the late Lards
Cottenham and Erskine, Sir Frederic Thesiger has
been promoted directly per saltum from his position
at the bar to the English woolsack, without having
ever held a seat on the judicial bench.