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NAVAL LOSS.
The return includes but oue day, the 17th ult.,
being the only day in which the fleets wets en-
gaged :
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Her Majesty's ship Briewnsia—Two wounded.
Queen—Killed—John Curtis, tirt-t.class boy. Wounded—Seven
Nonsporeil—Killed—M r. Charles Madden, midshipman-0 eo.
Dicker, A.B.—John Durham. A.B.—John Hewed, A.B.—Thomas
Downs, first-cloves boy--James Shirvell, A.H.—Henry Htunlyn,
salluisker's crew—Thomas Cullen, A.M.—James Carr, A.B.—
Wm. Ball, A.lll.—Swereu Hicks, A.B. Wounded—Fifty-nine.
. .

I'reileitiar—Woun led—Two.
Sampson—Killd—John Mahoney, A.B. Wounded--Two.
Terrible—Killed—Thomas Harriann, ordinary, struck by a shell
before explosion. Wouuded—Fitteeu.
A alne Stuith—Hobert Grey, boatswain's
mate—M'in, Pogeon, A.B.—Jesse Spioer, ordinary. Wounded—
Twentydive.
Retribeition—Wounded—l'wo.
Firebrund—Wounded—Captain W. 11. Stewart and four others.
Sphinx—Killed—eltunes l'ractiy, ordinary.
Winterburn, bontionlier Royal Marines
—Edward Thornton, ordinary. Wounded—Nine.
Celepo—Wounded--One.
Trit on—Wounded--Five.
Albion—Killed—Lieut Chase, shot through the head—Thomas
Bickford, coxswain, barge—Lewis Voiding, captain maintop—
John Stripe, captain's coxswain—John Porker, ordinary—.lulu
Pound, ordiuorydames Lees, ordittery---Jtunes heope, ordi-
nary--John Shropshell, ship's cook's mato—Janws 'rumba,
ordinary. Wounded—Seventy-one.
Belk-rophon— Killed—Edward Porter, ordinary—Wm. Cantrell,
A.B.—John elaringboid, ordinary me.'ond cline—Hohert Johns,
coxswain of launch. Wounded— Fifteen.
.

Rodney—Wounded—Two.
l'cligeance—Wouuded—Two.
Arrtlittaa Killed— Henry Turnbull, A.ll.—Charles Craig,
ordinary—Thomas Bunt, quartermaster—A. P.dwards, bey
Wounded—Fourteen.
Lonaon—liilleti—Henry Penfold, Cantin, ordl.,
nary second class—George Sans, A.B.—Patrick Connor, mil.
nary. Wounded—Eighteen.
ioer—Killed—Edward Palmer, boy. Wounded—Four.
Furious—Wounded—Sta.
TorAL :—Killed, 44; Wounded, 266.

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FRANCE.
In Tuesday's Mowitettr the Minister for Foreign
Affairs published a letter from Count Wslewski,
ambassador of France in London, dated Oct. 27th, in
which his excellency says :—" Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, to whom I have just had the honour of
paying my court at Windsor, has expressed to me, in
vivid language, all the regret she feels at the death
of Marshal St. Arnaud. Her Majesty has requested
me to make known to Madame la klariehale de St.
Arnaud all the share and 'interest she takes in her
legitimate sorrow. 1 take the liberty, Monsieur is
Ministre, to beg of you to convey to Madame is
Marechale de St. Arnaud the message entrusted to
me by her Majesty the Queen of England.—
WALEW SKI."

An extraordinary credit of 125,000 f. has been
opened by imperial decree to defray the expenses of
the couriers established between Constantinople and
Paris by Bucharest and Kronstadt- Another decree
opens a supplementary credit of 200,000 f. to meet
additional expenses in the imperial printing-office.
The directors of the Messageries Imperials have
given notice that in future the packetservice between
Ma►seilles and Constantinople will he shortened by
two days, it being intended to perform the passage
in eleven instead of thirteen.

A portion of the returnd Baltic fleet is to be em-
ployed in c nveying troops from Toulon w the East.
The barracks made in England, and fitted up with
stoveq, for the troops of the camp of Equihem, are
now nearly ready. There are three for each division
—one for the officers, another for the non-commis-
sioned officers, and a third for the men. A theatre is
to be built in each camp; that of Honvault was in-
augurated on the Ist of November, with the opera of
Galatea, a vaudeville (Nfamoneer du Regiment), and
a musical interlude. The rain and storms caused
some damage in the camp, and gave the soldiers much
trouble in digging trenches to carry off the water.
The 55th Regiment set to work and drained the site
on which the two battalions are encamped.

BELGIUM.
King Leopold opened the session of the Belgian
Legislature on Tuesday. In his speech he declared
that Belgium sets more value than ever on its neu•
trality confirmed by the sympathy and confidence of
all powers.

CIEIIMANY.

The Bavarian Minister, Von der Pfordten, bad an
interview with Count Buol at Vienna on the Brd inst.
They were joined subsequently by M. de Bourquency
and Lord Westmoreland. _ _

The Times correspondent writing from Berlin on
the 7th says •.—" There are pleliminary indications of
what the Russian answer to the Prussian note will
be. if Prussia will obtain an undertaking from the
Western powers and Austria that they will not go in
their demands beyond the four points, Russia will be
willing to negotiate on that basis."
The Fremden-Matt of Vienna publishes a !obi.
from St, Petersbuiy, in which it is stated that oti tho
27th Oct. the Czar refused an audience to the Prus-
sian Ambassador.

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At a meeting on the 2nd inst., at Vienna, of the
shareholders of the Bank of Austria, it was announced
that the metallic reserve amounted to 44,661,000
florins. The debt of the state to the Bank is
161,704,000 florins, of which 150,000 florins are for
purpose of withdrawing paper from circulation. The
metallic reserve, as compared with last year, has in-
creased 233,000 florins, and the amount of notes in
circulation has increased 13,181,000 florins.

SWEDEN.
The three Parliamentary Chambers have finally
voted the credit of 2,500,000 dollars demanded by the
King on account of the fund for maintaining the
neutrality of Sweden with respect to the present war.
The Swedish Government has given orders for the
casting of fifty-one light pieces, and fifteen common
7-inch bomb-cannons, with chamber-loading and iron
carriages, as also one hundred projectiles for each.
It has also commanded the casting of forty-one
common 7-inch bomb•cannons, with iron carriages,
together with one hundred projectiles for each. The
whole to be ready by next spring, or sooner if
possible.
A letter from Stockholm of the 20th ult. says
44 The vice-consul of England at Wisby has received
orders from his Government to form in that port a
depot of 10,000 tons of coals for the British navy."

SPAIN.
The preparatory meeting of the new Cortes took
place on the 6th without any new incident. Madrid
was perfectly tranquil. Her Majesty opened the
session in person. The following royal speech was
delivered on that occasion :
Gentlemen,—l come to•day with greater pleasure than
ever to open the Cortes of the nation, which places me in
the midst of the chosen deputies of the people.
If, on the 25th of July, I recognised all the truth which
I have confided without reserve to its nobleness and its
patriotism, it is just that, on this solemn occasion, I
should seize the opportunity to thank it for its admirable
behaviour, as well as all those who have used their efforts
to strengthen the new era of happiness and prosperity which
was then inaugurated for our country.
I have remained faithful to what I promised on that day
before God and the world; I have respected, as I shall
ever continue to respect, the liberty and the rights of the
nation. I have taken all pains and have shown my deter•
mination to develop its resources, and to realise its just
aspirations. In ordaining and decreeing the fundamental
law which hallows those rights and guarantees those in-
terests, you, the esteemed representatives of the country,
with your hands on your hearts and your eyes fixed on
your consciences, will come to close the abyss of strife and
discord ; your resolution'will be a decision worthy of your
nobleness, worthy of being accepted by your constituents,
and worthy of being blessed and applauded by posterity.
Time can never efface the memory of recent events ;
but, if it be true that the heart beats and tears fill the eyes
at the memory of misfortune, let us derive thence an
example and a lesson for that new political life which is
opening before you.
Perhaps we have all been deceived; for the future let all
use every effort to succeed. Such is my full and perfect
confidence that your patriotism and your endeavours will
be as great and as fruitful as the need of our beloved Spain
demands; and, since its destinies have so often asto-
nished Europe, make Europe admire you once more when
it beholds the edifying picture of a Queen who, without
hesitation, has thrown herself into the arms of her people,
and of a people which, while asserting its liberties,
responds to the decisions of its Queen, and shows itself
the bravest, the noblest, and most chivalrous nation in the
world.
The budget, it is stated, will be presented to the
Cortes by her Majesty in person. Amongst the
savings to be effected are the suppression of the
Royal Horse Guards, leaving only the halberdiers as
a guard for the Queen ; the reduction of the Queen's
civil list from 34,000,000 to 28,000,000 reals ; of those
of the King, the Princess of the Asturias, and the
Infante Don Francisco de Paula to 500,000 reals
each, and that of the Duchess de Montpensier to
1,000,000 reals; and, finally, the suppression of the
allowances to the Queen-Mother and the other mem-
bers of the royal family. It is also proposed to re-
duce the budget of the royal household from
47,000,000 to 31,500,000 reals.
M. Olozaga, Minister of Spain at the French
Court, left Paris on Wednesday for Madrid,.by orders
from his Government. It is believed that he will
take an active part in the early sittings of the Con-
stituent Cortes, where his Parliamentary experience
will secure for him a prominent position. He retains
his appointment at Paris.
TURKEY.
Several French and English officers who distin-
guished themselves at Alma will receive the decora-
tion of the Medjidie, and for the soldiers the Sultan
has ordered a medal to be struck, on which the flags
of France, England, and Turkey are to be displayed
together.
Admiral Hamelin's flag ship Ville de Paris and
her Majesty's ship Albion arrived at Constantinople
on the 25th ult. to repair.
The Egyptian troops had arrived from Alexandria.
Omer I'acha is ordered to send a reinforcement of
20,000 to the Crimea. A good deal of intriguing is
said to be going on against the Pea& Intriguing

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against each other is the daily pastime of the great
men in Turkey.

RUSSIA.
A letter from Odessa of Oct. 25, in the Lloyd of
Vienna, says :—" Since the residence of the Grand
Dukes at Kischenetl; a daily communication is estab-
lished between that town and Sebastopol, by way of
Odessa. The departure of Russian reinforcements
for the Crimea is continued without interruption.
This day a convoy of 2,000 carts has left with a bri-
gade of infantry."
The Hamburg correspondent of the Independanee
Beige writes as follows on the 3rd inst..—" Letters
from St. Petersburg of the 28th of October give
additional confirmation to the statement that warlike
preparations on a vast scale are being made over the
whole surface of the Russian empire. In the great
centres of action thousands of workmen are conti-
nually occupied in manufacturing military equip-
ments. It is, therefore, generally considered that
the war has only just begun, and must continue for a
long time. At this very moment the military estab-
lishment at Petrasowodsk is, by order of the Russian
Government, casting a considerable number of guns
of a ' long range.' These are constructed upon the
very latest principles, and will be finished as soon
as possible, in order to be of use for the new ex-
terior fortifications of the port of Cronstadt. The
movement in the various arsenals of this warlike
establishment is very active. Numerous workmen
divided into separate gangs are constantly employed
in the repairs and proper arrangement of the forti-
fications."
The Invalide Russe and Journal de St. Petersbourg
are publishing angry and abusive articles, designed
to inflame the apathetic population. In one of the
most recent of these it is said, "It is insanity to
think of breaking Russia's power ; utterly vain to
oppose her future progress. Her material and moral
force is undervalued, as France and England will
find to their astonishment. The present war is a
' war of principles ,' and an obstinate one to boot ;
and those are greatly in error who consider this to be
an idle menace."
The Invalide Russe, of the 26th ult., contains the
following proclamation of the Emperor to the army
at Sebastopol :
His Majesty the Emperor having received the report of
the Aide-de-Camp General Prince Menschikoff, testifying
to the resolute courage, the exemplary firmness, and laud-
able abnegation which the army and navy forming the
garrison of Sebastopol displayed during the bombardment
of the town by the Anglo-French on the 17th and 18th, ex-
presses his sincere gratitude to the said forces, from the
general down to the simple soldier, for the great warlike
exploits by which they have completely justified the con-
fidence of his Majesty. The Emperor takes pleasure in
believing that they will not cease to distinguish themselves
by their bravery, and by all the qualities which distinguish
the veritable children of Russia.
UNITED STATES.
The Baltic steamer has brought New York dates
to the 28th ult.
The Government of the United States at Washing-
ton and the Cabinet of Santa Anna have laid the
basis of a new treaty, which is at the present moment
in process of negotiation. This treaty will be entirely
of a commercial nature.
Preparations are being made to render the St.
Lawrence navigable for heavy vessels both ways,
from Lake Ontario to the Gulf.
The Oregon Times, of Sept. 22, gives details of a
horrid massacre of white men, women, and children,
attacked on their way, which lay near an encamp-
ment of Snake Indians.
Jose Antonio Santos Castaneda, who betrayed
Lopez, the filibuster, was playing at billiards in one
of the most public places in Havannah on the even-
ing of Oct. 12, three hundred persons being present,
when he was shot in the back of the head by some
person unknown, and killed on the spot. All
attempts to discover the perpetrator of the deed have
hitherto been fruitless. An official funeral was given
to the murdered man, which led to some serious dis-
turbances in Havannah.
CANADA.
The second reading of the Clergy Reserves Bill
was carried on the 25th ult. by a majority of ninety-
three to fifteen.
Sir Cusack Roney, the Hon. Francis Hincks, the
Hon. John Ross, Sir Allan M'Nab, and Mr. Logan,
geological survey or to the province, have been nomi-
nated a commission to secure a proper representation
of the products of Canada at the Paris Exhibition,
and it is stated that the Canadian Legislature will
vote 10,0001. for the purpose.

THE Emancipation of Brussels states :—" Mr
James Wilson, a member of the English Government•
has passed through Belgium, on his way to Paris, to
concert measures with the French Ministers to pre-
vent the transit of Russian produce through Prussia.
This important fact, which we think we may guarantee
appears to prove that the entente between Prussia
and the allies on the Eastern question is far from
establishedi"

SATURDAY,

tiotut nab lastion.

Thursday last, being the birthday of the Prince of
Waies, was celebrated at Windsor and in London in
the usual manner. In the morning the troops form-
ing the garrison of Windsor paraded in tae Home-
park, her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert
and the Prim. of Wales, looking on from the East.
terrace. The military parade closed with a feu de-
joie. On Saturday last the Queen and Prince
Consort came by railway to London, and paid a visit
to the Duchess of Gloucester.
_ _

The christening of the infant daughter of Lieute-
nant• Colonel the Hon. Alexander and Mrs. Gordon
took place in the private chapel of the castle on
Tuesday, her Majesty and his ltoyai Highness Prince
Albert standing as sponsors. The Dean of Windsor
performed the ceremony.
Baron de Hochschild had an audience of her Ma-
jesty on Monday evening, to deliver his;, credentials
as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary from the Court of Sweden.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday (Friday) at
the Foreign-office.
A messenger arrived at the Foreign-office, Downing-
street, on Sunday afternoon, from Calais, with
despatches for the Earl of Clarendon and also for the
Admiralty and the Ordnance Department.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has acknowledged
the receipt of six Mexican Bonds, each for WM, " in
further payment of a debt long due to the nation."
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will leave
town on Monday next for Paris, whence they will
proceed to St. Cloud, on a visit of a few days to the
Emperor and Empress of the French.
The Baron de Geer, who for a long period has filled
the office of Secretary of the Swedish Legation at the
Court of St. James's, is about to leave London for
the Hague, having been appointed, provisionally,
Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of the Netherlands.
The baron will be succeeded as Secretary of Legation
in this country by Baron de Wrede, whose arrival
from Sweden is shortly expected.
Baron Brunow, who has been residing at Darm-
stadt, has been suddenly recalled to St. Petersburg.

THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET.
Os Thursday last, being Lord Mayor's Day, Mr.
Moon was inaugurated into office for the ensuing
year with all, or nearly all, the traditional pomp and
pageantry which have so long been lavished upon
the great civic anniversary ceremonial. During the
day there were the customary street processions and
water " promenades." His lordship was presented to
the judges in Westminster-hall, and, on receiving the
usual compliments upon his accession, invited the
learned occupants of the bench to partake of his hos-
pitalities in the evening. On returning the pro-
cession was joined, as usual, by the carriages of many
of her Majesty's present Ministers, who themselves
appeared in due time, when the performances of the
day reached their acme, and the company mustered
1,000 strong at the banquet in the Guildhall. After
dinner the speechmaking ran its prescribed course,
controversial politics being, as usual, tabooed, and
nothing said by any one on any side which was not
perfectly complimentary to everybody—except,
haps, to the Emperor of Russia.
Viscount HARDINGE replied to the toast of the
" United Armies and Navies of France, Turkey, and
England." He appealed to the company to approve
his statement that the "army had not degenerated;'
declared that the French troops bad shown the valour
and bravery for which they had always been distin-
guished ; and that Lord Raglan possessed great
military qualities. He rejoiced to add that the best
feeling subsisted between the English and French
armies, founded upon mutual respect. Lord Har-
dinge afterwards acknowledged the services per-
formed by the English and French sailors. Of the
third copartner, in the toast of the Turkish army
and navy, his lordship is not reported to have said
anything.
Count WstwEsKr responded in French to the
health of the Foreign Ministers. He hoped that the
Lord Mayor's year of office would end under more
auspicious circumstances, as regarded the peace of
the world, than it began, and proceeded to remark
upon le grand fait qui domine notre epoque, the
union of the two peoples which march at the head of
civilisation, the French and English. Alma and
Bomarsund, he said, were but preludes of what this
alliance could and would accomplish.
A legal toast having been drunk and acknowledged
by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Mayor proposed
the health of the Prime Minister, remarking that
"to administer the affairs of the country ut this
moment was no trilling task. They had to keep the
trade of the country going, and at the same tame to
provide the necessary means for that difficult, but
just and holy, war, which they were bound to
carry on."
The Earl of ABERDEEN, who was cheered as he
rose, thanked the assembly for their cordial receptue

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of the toast, and the Lord Mayor for proposing it.
He proceeded:—
There are various topics to which I might, without im-
propriety, advert on the present occasion. But 1 wish to
do so in a few words, and only upon that subject by which
the minds of all men at this moment are entirely en-
grossed. On this day last year, when I had the honour of
1).-ing present in this hall, and addressing those who were
then assembled, we still continued to enjoy a state of peace.
It is true that the prospect was then threatening, but as
war was not imminent, and, as the policy of her Majesty's
Government was a policy of peace, I declared that no
efforts would be wanting on their part to endeavour to pro-
serve peace. I know that it was the opinion of man) that
these efforts were too long protracted, and that we ought
much earlier to have had recourse to the arbitrament of
the sword. So far is that from being my opinion, that, in
spite of the justice of the war, in spite of its disinterested
objects, I am perfectly persuaded that it never could have
received that universal support it has met with in this
country, and the sympathy of Europe, had it not been
clearly seen and fully admitted that every effort was em-
ployed to avert the horrors of war. (Cheers.) I think it
nut improbable that many of those who are most eager for
war you may perhaps find easily discouraged by those vicissi-
tudes to which a state of warfare is proverbially liable ;
but I trust you will never find anything of that sort on the
part of her Majesty's Ministers. ( Hear, hear.) We are
determined, under all circumstances, to persevere, and to
endeavour to perform our duty in such a manner as we
think our Sovereign and our country have a right to ex-
pect from us—(applause)—keeping steadily in view the
great objects of the war, and looking to the permanent
interests of this country. Acting, too, in strict concert
with our great ally, I cannot entertain a doubt that we shall
be enabled to bring this contest to a happy termination.
(Loud cheers.
Lord John Russell, who afterwards spoke, cheered
the hearts of his civic hosts by assuring them that
there hail been an inquiry into the state of the cor-
poration of the City of London, and the result had
been that the corporation had been strengthened by
it. That inquiry had proved that, so far as the ancient
spirit of those institutions was concerned, they were
to be maintained and preserved inviolate.
Lord Palmerston was present, and made a speech
characterised by his wonted gallantry in proposing
the health of the Lady Mayoress. Various personal
and corporate toasts followed, and the guests left the
banquet-room about eleven o'clock, many of them
protracting their enjoyment by repairing to the ball-
room, where dancing was kept up to a late hour.

Xatv anh Volitt.

SEVERAL CASES UNDER THE BETTING ACT have
come before the metropolitan magistrates during the
week. On Tuesday it seems that a foray was made
by the police at the Rising Sun public-house, in
Long acre, when no fewer than 114 persons, sporting
characters and others, were captured at one swoop.
Superintendent Pearce, armed with a warrant,walked
into the house and coolly told the whole of the par-
ties present to "consider themselves in custody."
When brought up at Bow-street, when the police-
office had to be cleared of the public for their accom-
modation, the defendants were charged as follows by
their captor
Superintendent Pearce stated that he held a warrant, signed by
the commissioners of police, authorising him to p prehend a
number of persons assembled in the Rising Suna, 65, Long-
acre, fur betting put poses. Between oue and two o'clock he pro-
ceeded with his men to the house, outside of which there was a
crowd of persons, including a man named Robert Ryan, who was
the checktaker of the establishment, and whom he apprehended
for obstructing the way. Witness then proceeded to the first-
floor front room, in which be heard a voice say " 5 to 1" on some
horse. On entering the room he found ten or twelve persons
seated round a table, on which there were several betting-books
and a quantity of papers. Witness called out, " Ima an officer,
and you must consider yourselves in custody." There were seventy
persona in the room. Some of the papers were caught up and
tlirowit into the tire before he could get them. Witness sent the
ddfendants to the police station, where they were searched, a
number of papers, betting-books, &c., being found in their pos-
session, together with very large sums of money, chiefly in bank-
notes, which were not taken from them.
Inspector Mitchell deposed to having gone at the same time
into the back-parlour of the bottle, where he found twenty-one
persons similarly occupied. He found a book of handicaps and
several sporting papers on the table, besides a portkdlo, con-
taining other sporting documents, lists, Be. He had seen most of
the defendants betting, paying, rind receiving money at the house
almost daily, and he once heard Mr Morbey, the landlord, say," 1
have sold upwards et two hundred tickets, and should have sold
good many more if it had not been for the superintendent."
The inquiry was adjourned, and the defendants set
at liberty, after entering into their own recognisances
to appear again on Tuesday next.—At Marlborough-
street, on the same day, informations were heard,
laid by Russell, the informer, against certain alleged
nroprietora of gambling-houses at the West•end. The
,enalties recoverable under the act were 2001., of
which Russell would be entitled to one-third. The
first case investigated was that of Charles Pitcher,
charged with keeping a room in No. 20, Albemarle-
street, for gambling purposes. After the production
of some testimony, it was elicited that the hense in
question had been closed for some months, and that
Russell could bring forward no evidence touching
transactions within the last six months, as required
by the act. The information was accordingly dis-
missed, and Russell ordered to pay 5/. on account of
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attended his information against Charles Liley, '
keeper of a house in St. James's-street. Two cigar-
shop keepers, one in Windmill-street, Haymarket,
and the other in High-street, Newington, have been
charged with allowing or encouraging betting on
horse races. Their offences were proved, but the
defendants were allowed to escape with mitigated
penalties on promising to discontinue the illegal
practices.
A POINT OF MUCH INTEREST was tried on Monday
at the Bail Court. Mr. Sweetenhain, a surgeon and
apothecary at Islington, was attending the family of
a Mr. Reed, and, being called in late one night, or-
dered some powder for Mr. Reed and a lotion for his
baby. Being far from home, he got the medicines
made up at a neighbouring chemist, to whom he
gave proper instructions. The chemist, however, so
misdirected the packet which he sent in that the
powder was administered to the baby. It contained
opium, and the child died next day. The parents
subsequently brought an action against Mr. Sweeten-
ham for damages, which was argued in the trial under
the plea that, although he did not commit the, mistake
himself, yet the chemist on this occasion appeared
in the character of an agent, for whose actions and
blunders he was liable. To make out this plea it
was shown that the defendant paid the chemist for
the medicines according to custom, intending to
charge the plaintiffs an advanced price in his bill.
The jury adopted the supposition of agency, and re-
turned a verdict carrying damages to the amount of
funeral expenses and mourning for the dead child
against Mr. Sweetenham.
ALFRED MUNDY, landlord of a public-house near
Printing-house-square, was charged before the City
Police Committee with serving beer at illegal hours.
It was shown that he had sent out liquor at midnight
on Sunday week. In defence, it was pleaded that he
served only the Times establishment at that hour.
There were 'Mt persons, printers, steam-engine men,
and others, employed the whole night through on the
paper, and it was a matter of necessity that they
should not be left without refreshment. At the po-
lice courts in Westminster, it was also urged, the ma-
gistrates admitted a similar excuse in behalf of the
Sunday papers, and no penalties were inflicted for
liquors served to their employes. The sitting alder-
man, however, found that the act said nothing of
necessity. The prohibition was absolute, and the
defendant was accordingly fined ss. and costs.
AN ACTION brought by the Rev. Dr. Tidman,
Secretary of the London Missionary Society, against
the Rev. Robert Ainslie, a minister amongst the
Independents, has been heard at great length before
Dr. Whately, Q.C. as arbitrator. Dr. Tidman com-
plained that Mr. Ainslie bad libelled him in a defence
he had made of a Rev. Ebenezer Davies, amissionary
of Dr. Tidman's society, and who had been dismissed
in consequence of some indecent letters which he had
written being found, as well as other alleged grievous
acts of immorality. The case, after occupying
several days, came to a termination on Wednesday.
Edwin Stacey and J. Horley, two of the clerks in the
London Missionary Society, proved that Mr. Davies
used to address letters to his wife at the Mission-
house. On one occasion she left one of these
letters behind her. These gentlemen read it, and, as
they found it to be of a very filthy description, they
thought it their duty to make a copy of it. Stacey
kept this letter for some years, and having heard
from a Mr. Prout that there were some strange ru-
mours about Mr. Davies, from Berbice, where that
gentleman had acted as a missionary, he told Mr.
Prout that he had a copy of a letter in his possession
which Mr. Davies had written to his wife in 1845,
"of a very bad character indeed." In cross-exami-
nation by Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., • Stacey said, that
soon after he had found the letter, he showed it to
Mrs. Davies, who read it, and seemed pleased with it.
The witness was confronted with Mrs. Davies, but
reiterated his statement. At this stage of the pro
ceedings, and after some further revelations which
were far from tending to clear Mr. Davies from the
aspersions thrown upon his character, Mr. Edwin
James, who appeared for the defence, said he had
consulted with his client, and the result was, that
Mr. Ainslie, in consequence of the evidence which
had now been brought forward, had been ranch
shaken with regard to some of the important points
of the case. Mr. Ainslie had taken up Mr. Davies's
defence at great personal sacrifices both of money
and friendship. He had thereby occasioned the
rupture of intimacies of many years' duration with
gentlemen with whom he had been upon the most
cordial terms previous to his coming forth in defence
of Mr. Davis whom he then believed to have been deeply
wronged. But Mr. Ainslie bad now authorised him
to tender an apology to the Rev. Dr. Tidman, who
had been accused of forgery, perjury, and conspiracy,
and to all the other gentlemen who bad been, he
now saw, wrongfully accused in connexion with this
case. Mr. Ainslie would now retire from the contest
which he had undertaken from sincere and generous
motives, to vindicate as be then thought, an innocent
and injured man; taking care at the same time to
indemnify the parties against all the expenses which
had been incurred.

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A SHOCKING MURDER has been discovered near
Clanmorris, in Mayo. The mutilated remains of a
young man, named James Prendergast, were found
floating on a pool near the place. The head had
been severed, as well as both legs, and the arms tied
down with a strip of calico. Deceased had been
missed for a fortnight, and was supposed to hero
gone to America. No clue has been found to the
perpetrators of the crime.
ANOTHER MURDER has been committed within the
last few days, the victim being the wife of a silk-
weaver living near Holstead, in Essex, and the
murderer her husband. The pair had lived unhappily
for some time, owing to jealousy on the part of the
man, and on Saturday last he is supposed to have cut
her throat while asleep. The murderer has been
committed.
THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER was preceded, as usual,
by an explosion of fireworks. The accident took
place on Monday, on the premises of Mr. Watson, a
firework-maker, in St. George's-in-the-East. A large
quantity of powder composition and fireworks were
in the house at the time, and it is supposed that some
of the combustible matter became ignited from the
snuff of a candle used by one of his daughters, who
was engaged in filling the cases. The explosion was
most violent, setting the house on fire, and resulting
in a lamentable loss of life. Three of Mr. Watson's
children were killed instantaneously, and his wife
and another child died afterwards from the injuries
received. Mr. Watson himself was absent at the
moment, but was much burnt in endeavotuing to
rescue his children. The subsequent conflagration
was subdued in about two hours, but not until the
house had become a wreck. At, the inquest held on
the bodies a verdict of " Manslaughter" was returned
against Mr. Watson, who was taken into custody ac-
cordingly.
A MAN named Towler, whose conduct had been
eccentric for some time previously, was seen one
morning last week standing before the entrance of a
large forge-furnace, at Farnley, near Leeds. Ile hid
thrown off his clothes, and before the bystanders
could interfere plunged head foremost into the fiery
abyss, which contained at the time more than fifty
tons of Molten iron and glowing coke. Nothing of
coarse was seen of him afterwwards, but a few cal-
cined fragments were subsequently withdrawn from
the furnace, which were assumed to be the remains
of the unfortunate man, and as such formed the
subject of an inquest, when a verdict of " Temporary
'nsanity" was returned.

Ohituarg.
Accounts from the Crimea announoe the death of
Coeonze the Hon. Fesscia Gm-siva/0m Hoop, coin-
mending the 3rd battalion of the Grenadier eisatde.
His father, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Wheeler
Hood, was killed on the heights of Aire, in the suit
of France, in 1814, and be himself has met dee&
in an equally noble manner at the head of his
battalion before Sebastopol. He is the great grand-
son of the first Lord Hood of naval renown, who was
elevated to the peerage in 1782, for his celebrated
victory over the French fleets under the Count de
Grasse, in the West Indies. Colonel Hood was
brdther to the third viscount, who succeeded his
grandfather; he bed been twenty-seven years in
the Grenadier Guards, and was married in 1842 to
his cousin, the daughter of Sir Gramm Hamond,
Bart.
ADMIRAL Bowes, who died on the 28th ult., en-
tered the navy in 1799. As midshipman he was
present at the battle of Copenhagen in the Edgar,
74, which ship led the attack. In the Juno, 32, he
was attached to Lord Nelson's fleet in the Mediter-
ranean, where he remained until after the battle of
Trate!gat. In 1807 he was employed in the Poly-
phemus, with the rank of lieutenant, and thence
transferred to the Nereus, 80, returning home in the
latter ship with the remains of Lord Collingwood in
1810. In 1812, in the Northumberland, 74, he
assisted in the destruction, off L'Orient, of the two
French forty-gun frigates, L'Arienne and L'Andro-
maque, of 450 men each, and of an eighteen-gun brig
with 150 men, though defended by the galling
batteries of the fortress. In 1813 he was employed
off the Texel, in the /ndus, 74 and subsequently in
the blockade of the French 2dediterranean coast up
to the peace of Paris. Since the close of the last
war the deceased served in various ships on different
stations. He attained the rank of poet-esptain in
1825, and that of rear-admiral in January,lBs4.
The death of the COUHTLIIR or STRATHMORE took
place yesterday week, at Florence. Her ladyship
was the eldest daughter of Viscount Barrington by
the daughter of Lord Havensworth, and was married
to the Earl of Strathmore about four yeses ago-
. She wee but twenty-eight peers 0( eget and UMW 110
issue.