The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-25 00:00:00

RAILWAYS AND MINES
(THIS DAY.)

The A venir National of Saturday contains the
following article upon the reorganization of the
French fleet :
It is easier to elan retrenchments than to carry them
out. It will be remembered that when the budget of the
War Department recently underwent a slight reduction,
the Minister of Marine, yielding to the pressure of circum-
stances, ordered the disarmament of a oertain number ofti
the
vessels of our iron-clad fleet. But a despatch, published ,
oar impression of last Wednesday, mentions as • positive
fact the reorganization of that fleet upon a new basis. This
altogether recent decision could not fail to be received with
favour in our three grand navel ports—Toulon. it, and
Cherbourg. The inhalitauts of those ports and
the anthoritiee who superintend the construction
or the arrangements of our squadrons have the
greatest interest in the country disarming u little
se possible. It is not surprising, therefore, that
the Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubst, towards whom the
grievances of the engineers and the officers of our navy
finally converge, have set their heart upon the adoption
are
co
a very different system then that of disarmament, V e
told that that system will perneit the retrenchments recog-
nised as indispensable to be medo without in any way
compromising the maritime power of our country'. If this
were so we should not be the last to applaud ; but we must
be permitted to doubt it if the details published on this
subject by the papers of the south are to be believed. There
are henceforth to be four squadrons instead of two—the
iron-clad squadron of the Channel, assembled at Cher-
bourg; the iron-clad Atlantic squadron, at Brest ;the
iron-clad Mediterranean squadron. at Toulon ; end
a *quadrats of reserve, consisting of for- iron-
plated frigate'. This doubtless does not form a
larger naval force ; but such a division cannot fail to in-
crease Glummer, r" we ire about to show. The Channel
squadron, consisting of the two-decked spur ship of the
line Magenta and the frigates Wroine end Flandre, will
leave Cherbourg next March for Toulon, in order to take
part, as has been mentioned, in the trial of a system
mi
naval tactics contained in a new treaties by Vee-Adrel
Bouet.Willawnez. Those experiments are all very well,
but to effect them a large quantity of coal must be burnt.
If the ships which are about to be soot from the Chennel
to the Mediterranean had been simply kept in the roadstead,
much more considerable savings wouldcertainly have been
effected. The Mediterranean squadron, c c
omprg the to
decked spur vessel Solferino with the frigates Provence and
Savoie, are to receives new sort of artillery consisting of 50•
ich
pounder guns mounted on carriages of an improved kind,wh
step opens a new chapter of expenditure. As to the Atlantic
squadron, it is not yet formed, and there is thus no means
of effecting savings while "pushing forward with the
greatest activity" the fitV”g out of the frigates Magnanime,
Valeurense, and Gauloise. Let there be no mistake as to
the sense of our observatioos. We do nct mean to say
that it was wrong to stop the disarming of the French
iron-cised fleet. The fact is evident that France has
allowed herself to be outstripped by Eegland in matters of
artillery. The French types of armour plating pierced
through with port-holes have been an error for
which the country has paid dearly, and which
will still cost much more money. But the
harm has been done, and mu
st b repaired.
THE The creation of the twelve sq
INDEPENDENCE OF BELGIU uado e n is the can.
sequence of another error which has affected the nautical
M. F. Forcade, in the last number of the Barre qualities of several of the French ideated, and which was
des Deux Mondes, has some'remarks upon the death The
ede
forming apparent o
Eby
athe fourthlaa t voyageiq
roointhweue x ptrie
rmdconreta If fleet.oa
of King Leopold, in which ho condemns the views
of those who are in favour of annexing Belgium to necessary; it is composed of the Cement*, Normandie,
Gloire, said Invincible, which vessels will now be rarely
France. The Belgians have already shown, he out to the open sea, but will serve for the trial of heavy
thinks, by a manifestation commanding general artillery, near the coasts. And since we are speakiog of the
sympathy and respect, tliat it was not merely late cruiee oaf the squutadrrottne of
k neovwelnuttoionst,helet übsl. give eerimne
the personal influence of the late sovereign atheetaii! nightwhiof athreeh-
13thit November last thepulledwite usage
which kept the kingdom intact. "No internal
fleet was on its way from Ajaccio to Toulon with a strong
danger threatens Belgium," he adds, " the breeze from the northeast. The wiediwas favourable, but
two ardent parties who divide it are nut the sea of the Gulf of Genoa is trying, and the result
at variance with regard to the essential con- was a serious damage to some of the iron-cased
ditions of its institutions ; they place national frigates. While the steam despatch beet Caine. built on
independence and public liberty above the interests the
th e
middle old sy st eo
only,
anda a the
d lA :I,:
bi r al
el' sa ship
t th
eSotl fweor i neo.
t(rpelamt:tdimi
)n,
for which they contend ; a national sorrow which bore addle
t lvesy, with ease, the Conronoe, Gloire, Provence,
draws upon them the eyes of the world unites them and Invincible suffered greatly. The first of those armour,
in an imposing unanimity ; and do not think that
either of them, in order to sustain its dispute, will plated frigates lost all her outside boata, one of which,
striking the desk of the vessel, killed one man and wounded
ever in a fit of cowardly despair surrender the several others. The Gloire gave rise to great un-
country to the foreigner." M. Forcade says that a easiness from the quantities of water she shipped
nation which has nothing to fear from itself in its in rolling. The Provence loot two boats, and the
internal government seems already armed with suf- Invincible, being in serious danger, was obliged to abandon
ficient security ; and he proceeds in the following her post and run to the oust for shelter. Similar incidents
terms to examine the external accidents by which had already occurred last summer. In fine, two years ago,
the existence of Belgium might be threatened : on the occasion of the experiments made in September and
Belgium could only cease to exist in two ways ; either October, 1863, by the French iron-cased ships, the nau-
by herself desiring to blend her &meanies with those of trial defects of those frigates bad been ascertained. A
France or by being carried away amid the mili. committer', presided over by Vim. Admiral Pseud, fol-
tary combinations which would accompany a general die- lowed with much attention the comparative experiments
tedium of the existing European equilibrium. Even the executed at that period between the coast et France
first hypothesis, that of a voluntary annexation, could not and the Canary Ulm. That body did not dissimulate
be realised without political movements which would be the defects observed during the voyage ; but the
felt all over the continent. Let us examine it, however, country was not allowed to read the report of
apart from all European prelimisary or corollary. At the its servants. An article, carefully written, and
first 'lanes it is obvious that in the present internal published shortly after in one of the principal
position of Belgium and France the desire of Belgium to reviews, instead of enlightening the public, only showed
become French is devoid of all probability, and that such a things in • light favourable to the error which had been
desire could not be sustained on our side by demo- committed. Thus, instead of being able at the present ,
exotic and liberal opinion. A reservation must moment to eater on that course of saving so often spoken
here, of course, be made with regard to dynastic of, a necessity exists of studying the subject further aud 1
questions, but those questions apart, it is evident incurring fresh expenses. In fact the absolute want of THE CoNvla Fonwann.--Since the prisoner was
that Belgium could have neither interest nor rocli- control has allowed the Ministry of Marine to go astray , first committed fur trial he has been supplied with noises
nation to exchange her internal political system for Iby following
that of France. What an attractioo try ffer to her, thatloy almost exclusively the views of M. Duper . than 12 quires of foolscap paper, the whole of which he
:led wits
aerlo:te
tLriting; I:::.lorseetbetelirriletwiteth taoept Mr. ilil!,t
de-Lime. The admitted talent of that engineer is not '
calling upon her to renouuce the liberty of the areas, the here brought into question. But to confide to the same bin governor
photgcTripb, on the back of which was
liberty of meeting, the liberty of usociation, the electi_o_Aor person the triple task of constructor, artillery officer, and written the following Memento :—Mercy was my
her "yen' her Provincial and municipal waned", her 1 seaman was an error. In the first of those duties alone guide. Help for the fallen, the poor unfortunate outcasts
system of elected megistrates, all that liberty of .
,M. Dupoyele.leinie is free from reproach. The move- of
EileglehisdOfT. the latest
atrowaiShrOttemsyt "fe. stMTlldanttlala-
discussion and election which Pervade' political meet which has been decided on in the French naval force manic
life in Belgium ! What have we to offer Bel- . thyet° his fellow-men. F.. Wl:Southey. rate Stephen For.
was consequently required, but no one can be oorsusdeu ward." According to the usual practice in the county of
giurn in exchange ? The perfect bureaucratic orgeni- . that the result will be an economy. Kent, the execution will take place oo the third market
m) that Europe envies us, as our absolutist Prudhommes ' day after the trial, which will fall upon the Ilth of
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sa sa
y; the glory and the happiness of having our affairs ad- Januar y-
ministered in silence The conditioce of barter are 1 The next mail packet from Jamaica ; I w.l. be the DARING BURGLAR,/ AND CAPTURE Or THE HIEVES.
not equal; no party could be rouged in Belgium to swept Seine. She is expected to arrive on Friday next. She will —At an early hear on Siturdayimorning last, a dtadriog bar-
them. The clerical party on this point would have views bring Dews from Jamaica up to the lith iost. glary was commit at the dwe liog-house of a w ow, Mn.
Anna Maria Combos, of Tabery. The thieves, it appeared,
just as lofty al the liberal party. To the honour of the Earl Cowley is (we learn from the Observer) to resorted to the old plan of placing a treacle Outer on a pane ,
Belgian Catholic party be it said, it is imbued with , have the vacant Garter. of glam, so as to deaden the sound in breaking. By this '
liberal traditions ; it is free from that taint of I The Hon. Julian Farce, now Secretary at Vienna, means they removed a pane near the (adenine of a window,
clerical absolutism, which we have been unfortunate ; will seemed the Mee. W. Grey as Secretary of Eras., ,i i c and so effected an entrance to a sleeping apartment on
enough to see revived in France with the re-actions of 1851. Parise h ground floor. din.
M Combos and her SitTgat slept to-
gether in the room, and they awoke during the search of the
On this account it is clear that the maim of Belgium with ,
I Mr. George Braelrenbury, tier Majesty's Consul burglars. Little suspecting the presence of such unwelcome
France could only be acceptable and morally pueblo if it visitors, the servant jumped, out of bed, aid the first thing
at Muffle, is appointed to the Consulate at Lisbon.
ard
sou
rm
imposed upon Belgium no sacrifice :oi liberty, and enabled Iler terror may
Mr. Pennell, of the Colonial-office, is appointed thee elligyhimb imagined, but Babe neev'et:thelless had courage to
her to obtain with us what she possesses at home. Under !to
act as private secretary to Kr- Pi:miter, Under-BwwWIT strike alighte,-when the women were alarmed at finding two
such conditions; the union would be welcome to us, for it lof stew. ruffians in the room. Their apprehension was by Do means
would be worth much more than territoried, much more , Sir Hugh Cairns la, we regret to learn, so much allayed either when the fellows demanded money.
than lations for soldiers, much more then coal pits, ' indisposed that his medical advisers have ordered him to threatened that if any noise were made they would cut the
which commercial liberty places within our reach ; it pass the winter is the south of France. throats of both mistress and servant. Mario( ransacked Mrs.
would give us the liberties we are deprived of, the ; THE Q r r..KETT Micaolicoree .
L CLUB. —At the Combee's pocket, and found a pane contaioing •about 12s. or 1
monthly meeting of the above measly, held at their rooms, 13a, they decamped :bat the light procured by the servant
completion of the French Revolution, the crowning of the
32, Seekville-street, Piccadilly, on Friday overdue, Mr. enabled both women to see distinctly the features and tb• ,
edifice, which it appears we do not even yet deserve, Bed P. Le Neve Foster, vice-preddeut, in the chair, Mr. Beckett dress of the burglars. Their dress, too, was somewhat
which is is dupe of being waited for longer than the attic Teed g very interesting and practical paper, on "How to remarkable, one of
•them wearing an old military suit, said
brown smockf rock of a peculiar deperiptioe.
of the new opera. 11, on the other hand, the claim' of arrange and keep a cabinet," after . which ea animated dis- the other a dirty
._ _ _ _ _
the
makes took place. The suggestion made at a previous As coos as the terrified women recovered themselves y
13°Idnia. wirja Fr
did a°. "rich
WI
with
Belgian
libel' ;wetter for the appointment of a Imb-committee to investi- dressed sod gave information to the polies, when Mr. Super.
tims, democratic sad libesel opinion would have no motive gate verse/able fibres was again adverted to. and a oom- intudent Dann and eeveral constse bleisf started to pursuit
for desiring it. If we do not know how to be fro, let 111 mitts* sus appointed "to ermine vegetable fibres, with a of the builarfars.ara In aosthort timo
oath;
Gravely Aced
to
Unmet and endure oar fate, but do not, at eli view of ascertaining immammtiasetnemmti obaracurs
and Stopftd, and they were ultimately captured et the Bell Ina,
events, let us be impelled by the ambition of larahereby one libriiusalyi
rbeirdwiLtingihibitaarza stied a wistaabaum mate.
wham *a.
were
000 u,
mews, a
11.16.6.31846_,___1r1aa."... t9.....ulgliigell,
...thil.....tadePepdathl, __.,g miercepoope which had. been Pomade to his drawings, and quart rats
ale. Mr. SuPseilitewbel Mena tookaattrenefe
°I melt °elm's eeer "" "''''" IP" "" a ''''''''''" v"*""' which emprebended several trowel features. Tereety-three to Minden on the same events& sad as W y
_they
that oar language may be spoken sad liberty pre
served. ontoboyo were okayed. asa okras CADMAN were proposed. were brought before the visgistrete. sr there and committed
Oar reisioe, like the fantastic horse of Victor Hum is to The meet* torogook4 with • oonsermaitme. for trial at the essizes. .

THE CALAMITY AT WITHIN COLLIERY.
THE FUNERALS.-STATIMIINT OF A SUR-
VIVOR.

On Saturday most of the sufferers were buried.
Nineteen funeral processions fo'lowed each other through
the arrester to the Oefn Cemetery, • great crowd attending.
The contrast to the formality of English funerals was
strikingly shown. Behind the coffin followed the nearest
mourner, widow, or child, end the long link sucoesdlug was
arranged according to the degree of relationship existing.
Thus behind some followed widow, children, brothees,
sisters, and cousins, and all looked mourners
in reality. The tottering widow was in some cases
borne between two friends, and at the grave
grief, loud end passionate, tad its vest, unaffected by
the crowd of lookers on. Bat for restraining hands, many
would have Wien on the wet, cold earth, sad clasped that
which bid a nor and dear one from the sight. It was in
truth a sad and a sorry mese, and as we looked into the
deern:ed houses after the funeral the sorrowful feelings
I were deepened and increased. There in the little
whitewashed cottage, with its lowered blinds and
sanded floor, had hung • few short days MO
the holly and the laurel, and • stalwart man had sat by the
hearth, a child on his base, chatting with the good eas
the bc•icl herself about the hor.e. The ho"y is gone
where hung the holly cypress should hang ;
the gleeful
man full of life and humour is brushed away, and the
smiliog wife is a heart-broken widow and a pauper. 13
widow+, 27 fatherless children, and 39 dependent friends
form the immediate results of this tragedy, but the long
shadow 'seam to lengthen as we examine more closely.
According to cuatom, when one of the sufferers in these
catastrophes had been a resident iv another county, • sepa-
rate inquest is held on his body. In the present cue two
of the sufferers named Price and Thomas lived at the
village of Deft:, a few wiles from Merthyr, and in the dis-
trict of another coroner. On Friday an inq uest vu held
there, at which important and interesting depositions were
made by one who escaped.
This witness is named Sala Thomas. He is a collier,
working in Getbin ell the week with the exception of Satur-
day, when he puts aside the mandril, and takes to the razor
and profession of a barber. He is a young man. sharp and
intelligent, and the substance of his evidence is as follows :
On Wednesday morning, the day of the explosion, he
descended the pit with many others, and saw
Daniel Price Thomas, one of the killed, in the lamp.
room, as they were getting their lamps ready.
Ile worked in the same vein as Thomas, but farther
away. Thomas remarked to them that his old stall, •
disused one called No. 11, was full of gas, o was his
brother Tom's. The gas wee so abundant toot it mane
Out of the stall to the partings, a place where there is a
considerable thoroughfare. They discussed this subject for
a time, the witness remarking that there was enough gee in
the stall to blow the whole pit up, to which deceased assented.
They, however, went into work, hardy, rash, and reckless,
as usual, and witness never saw Thomas alive again. In
about an hoar he felt a ringing noise in his ears. He
started up, and • companion shouted out, "The damp is
off," meaning there had been an explosion. He sashed
away, and met • man who ran too in the same direction ;
but soddenly the man stopped, and, retracing his steps into
the gloom of death they had left, said, " I must go for the
boy" (a lad who worked with him), and he went back and
fell among the list of the dead in his calm, quiet
heroism.itßAhr ainmotth.: ilsce
'hr.,
dtdininTa. minute
brakestil net hadteenpeal underneathnatL ht:etaic ans;elhllta myeho fefocTos ankip:l7dt
iswt t e rai46:::iiine dts
,swurnaupturned
• S• :
Iratwelet,
' fellows from 12 to 14, some withoutmalaignyhTt,dhEdr:alleYreigns'
polfutnhgei °riga way, oalnedntly. terrifiedN bry it
th stood
md
danger.
and witness too, by great exertion, reached the bottom of
the pit and escaped. The last sight that met his eye was a
man blown literally into the sump, the lower end of the
shaft ; stones too were whirled up the shaft, and there the
noise was so loud as to be heard at the Cyfarthfa Railway,
It will be seen by this man's evidence that a great rpm-
I tity of gas was in the pit, and that the fireman or man to
whose duty it bad fallen had neglected to take serious pre-
, cautions. By closing a door for half au hour, said witness,
: enough gas could be collected to be exceedingly dangerous.
Thus, so far as evidence yet goes, Gethin cost measures
are so gaseous that an hour's neglect by an official, and a
momentary rashness of a collier, will at any time conduce
to one of these appalling tragedies.
The inquest will be held before G. Overton, Esq., at
Merthyr, on the 3rd of January. Mr. Wales, the govern-
nient inspector, is understood to report favourably the
condition of the colliery, and fortunately he is in a poeition
to give material evidence, having reached the pit a few
hours after the occurrence.
Five thousand pounds are wanted to meet the ere, but we
do not hear of a subscription, though at this festive season
some thought should be given to these poor creature'
the victims less of circumstances or of fate than of that
great demand for coal which in this prosperous age is that
incessantly made, and is obeyed even at risks fearful as
three of Cochin. The world demands coal, and the collier,
if he won'd earn his bread, must comply.

cent.
About 20,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from
the Bank on Saturday for 000
Alexandria. The 498,1.
by the Great Britain, from Melbourne, reached
London on Saturday morning.
It may be useful to repeat that business will be
resumed as usual in the Stock Exchange to-mor-
row. The half-monthly settlement in shares and
foreign stocks will commence on Wednesday and
end on Friday.
We are requested to state that "the Committee
of Spanish American Bondholders intend publishing
a statement of their proceedings from the first
formation of the committee." This announcement
doubtless has reference to the vote of want of
confidence passed on this committee by the holders
of Venezuelan Bonds in public meeting on
I Friday last.
The Imperial Ottoman Bank have declared an
interim dividend of 10s. per share on the old shares
of the Bank, payable on the Ist of January.
The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 2nd instant, were
31,8321. sterling, being 6,3661. more than in the
corresponding week of last year.
A dividend payablee rate of 6 per cent. per annum is
announced ad py on the stock of the Commer-
cial Bank of Canada ou the 2nd of January.
The Master of the Rolls has appointed Mr.
Samuel Lovelock provisional official liquidators
the Neath and Pelenna Colliery Company (mited).
Calcutta advice' refer to the amalgamation of the
1" London Indo-EgyPtian Bank "—a concern not
known in the London market with the "National
Bank," in consequence of which the shares in the
latter had risen to 14 to 15 rupees prem.
The Calcutta Price Curreuf, published by the
Chamber of Commerce, mentions, with regard to
the rice crop, that "the apprehensions ofith-
a
general famine are somewhat abated, as, notw
standing the continuance of the drought,
nd the pro-
duction of various districts is reported good,
will, in in time, compensate for the deficiencies in
others."
Travers' Circular refers in the following terms to
the apparently irresistible attraction which the field
for investment presented in America exercises upon
the savings of Europe. This is a matter which
has hitherto attracted far less attention than it
deserves. Tirades against America, her people
and her policy, are easy, and the European
public have had a surfeit of them, especially
during the last three years, yet the fact remains
strongly marked that there is a constant flow of
capital from Europe under the influence of the na-
tural law, which proclaims that it shall seek those
regions where it will yield the largest return. Even
at the most doubtful moment of the civil war there
was scarcely an interruption to the steady invest-
ments in American securities by German and
Dutch capitalists, who have been fully rewarded for
their sagacity by the readiness with which the ge-
neral public, including that of our own country,
have taken from them, at an immense advance in
price, the securities purchased by them during the
time of depreciation. The absorption of American
stocks throughout Europe has been more extensive
during the last few weeks than was ever before
known :
On every side the evidence is strong that the profits of
'Rude and agriculture in Europe have this year been more
extensive than on any former occasion. As far as England
is concerned, our shipping and export statistics show the
largest bovines' ever yet attained, and there is no reason to
suppose that the increase in the quantity of transactions
has been consequent upon the pushiog of sales at a sacrifice.
Oa the contrary,
bee margin of gain is believed in most
instances to have en unusually good, and, aa regsrds the
produce markets, some proof on that point is furnished by
the fact that the general rise in prices had its origin here
when stocks were heavy. and not in the producing coun-
tries. Yet in the midst of this prosperity money affairs
ire doubtful, not only in London but in all the Coati-
flouted cities, sod the various 'descriptions of public
securities exhibit symptoms of greater general de-
pression than have been witnessed at any previous
period during the past seventeen years. If we had made
DO extraordinary profits throughout the twelve months, but
had merely maintained a fair balance in the commercial in.
terchanges of the world, we might have expected to be in
a position DO worse than that of a year ago ; but inasmuch
as there is a general depreciation iu the values of invest-
ments, the question suggest' itself, how can Europe have
got rid not only of her enormous profits, but of part of her
previous wealth so an to place herself in • less favourable
situation? The transmission of funds to America is ob-
viously the main solution. Germany and Russia this year
have beaten America from our grain market', yet in
Germany and Russia money is upreordeotelly scene.
The fact apparently is that, whatever may be the
profit' the German people make, they are inade-
quate to cover the sums they send across the Atlantic.
In Holland the tendency is the same, end as, under
ordinary circumstances, Germany and Idolised have been
soccuitonied to invest their savings Stick various securities
current in London and Paris, our Exchange and the
Pathl Bourse feel the absence of this support, and ere also
oppressed by the return of many stocks which the Dutch
and Germans sell in order to invert the proceeds at New
York. It appears, according to the lan accounts from
Frankfort, that the priers of United States bondst
i that the
n that
city was 2 per cent. higher then in America, ap
flood was therefore certain to be kept op ; but enormous em
Ste the pUTCheate of Federal bonds, they are probably
almost equalled by the sums sent out for private
.enter-
prises. Should thie extreme cona vfidery heavy debt ence minima in
as
n the
funds of a country burdened with
extremely heavy an
taxation, and should Europe capitalists
display as much readiness to promoting new uodertakinga,
it would seem futile to expect during 11,66 any permanent
relaxation of our rate of discount, or any recovery in the
value of home European neuritis'.
The amount of government bills on India for
which tenders will be received on the 3rd January
will be rupees 35,00,000 (350,0001.)
Messrs. Neill Brothers and Co., writing from
New Orleans on the 30th November, announce that
they have just completed a "personal investiga-
, tion of the cotton States," the Atlantic States
having been examined by one member ofe firm,
Middle sod Western Tennessee, North Alabama
and North and Central Mississippi by anotber, and
Arkansas, Louisiana, Red River, and Texas by a
a third. From this interesting circular we take
the following passages :
We will now proceed, as briefly as possible. to recapitu-
late our conclusions as to the quantity of cotton remaining
in the mutiny at the end of the war, end the crop
of the
present year. • • • • The followieg is a resumi :
Delivered Estimate
Old. sew. Total. Till date. Interior.

No business is going forward today in railway
or mining securities.

Yesterday morning, the Bishop of London held
• general ordinatios in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. n•
sermon was preached by the Rev. Daniel Moore, WA.,
cumbeut of Camden Church, Camberwell, who selected fee
hie text the 2nd chapter of the Secoadcrstle of Paul to
Timothy, verve 15, "Study to show th approved unto
\ Clod, • workman that needeth eat to &abused, rightly
dbidist_the Word of truth." i
On Friday last the Rev. Robert Woolmer Cory,
clerk, U. A., was instituted to the rectory of Bluudestow
with Flixtoo, in Suffolk, on the presentatioe of &eel&
Morse, Foq., the Rev. Fusels None; clerk, sad
fey.Frederck lime, Esq. On the same day the Rev. Charles
John Stewird, de*, la. A., was instituted to the rectory of
Steward,ten, in artfolk, on the preeentatios of Charles
St of Lowestoft, in Suffolk, Esq. Oa the mane day
the Rev. John Usher Campbell, clerk, 8.A., was iostitutod
tr the rectos, of South Pickenham, in Norfolk, on the pro-
eentatioe of Edward Archer Applewhaite, of South Picker-
ham 11•11, in Norfolk, FAq.
WisrbuNsTzw. CuArn. —A seeond hamar in aid
of the funds for raboikthig Westroierter Chapel will be
held in the schoolrooms adjoining the chapel, JUMP&
street, Buckingham-gate, on Wednesday, Thursday, asd
Friday next. It is expected that there will be several
Christrvis trees at the liemar, end it is suggested that this
will be
favourable opportanity foe purchasing Christine'

Presents.
WILLIAM ROEDELL, Ex-M.P., THEGOOD CONVICT.
—lt is well known to the b
onierto
of the convict este.
blishment of Portland, and to dwell is the lower
part of Dorset, that • great deal of what is technically
called "trafficking thaw
the prisoners." which means cost-
micating between convicts and their relatives, is carried
ononclandestoy through the instrumentality of the warders
and other persons. It in very seldom, however, that these
offeoders against the prieon regulations are detected. A
conviction for this offence was obtained last Saturday before
Mr. H. Willianie. at Dorchester, through the resist =CO of
the ex-ht.P. William Hof who has thereby earned •
new claim to the title of "an excellent prioress," which
the governor lately gave bim. It appears that e. few days
age a warder, named William James Turner, eho has bees
employed at the establishment for upwards of seven yew's,
sent a letter by one of the convicts to Hoops% intimatiug
that his (Roupell's) relatives had been imposed on by some
one who bad applied for mosey on his behalf, but that be
(Turner) would nerve him faithfully, and suggesting that
Romped should write for 104, which, be remarked, would
usable him to get comforts which the prison authorities did
not allow, and direct it to be sent to him by post-office order
made payable to " William Haig" at Weimmith. With this
note a sheet of paper was enclosed. Roupell, however, on
receiving it, wee annoyed to learn that his relatives had been
imposed on by people pretending to apply for money for hire.
because he did not want anythog from them, sad be showed
the letter to the governor of the prism, by whose direction
be then wrote a letter to his sister, asking her to send 10!. as
Turner suggested, and he forwarded it to the warder by the
' convict who gave him the first note. Turner wrote on the
flysheet of Roupeirs letter reccmimeoding that Miss Itoupell
, should send the 10/. Mmn two 51. notes. The governor also
' communicated with ll Roupell, and the result was that
she sent a post-offiee order for W. to Turner, made payable
se he wished. This he received oo Saturday, Deoember 16.
and on the following Monday he sent his wife to get it
coated. She told the clerk her Ave, name was Willie a
Haig. Lod that he eould not write, so she put her mark as
signature to the order. Superintendent Underwood, of the
county coostabulary, we communicated with, end he went
to Portland Prison, where Terrier was on duty. The goers-
' nor discharged him for trafficking with prisoners, and the
' ouperintendent took him into custody. On Saturday Mr.
' Symonds, for the prosecutioo, applied for • remand that the
examination might take place at the convict establisbniest.
because Roapell and other convicts were so:eay
was wit.
news when the prisoner desired to plead guilt y,
sad
i therefore, sentenced to six months' bard labour. It is
II understood that when he comes out of pr
ainstison
him. other charges
I of a similar nature will be preened ag
THE CRYSTAL PALACE thou LEVEL Lisr...—The
arched subway leading from the high level station of
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway in.o the centre
transept was opened on Saturday. It was much admired
1 by the numerous visitors attracted to the Palace on the
co the of the Christmas amusements The arch-
way, which is of a very ornamental character, consists of
grained arches of coloured brick, built with a view to both
arehitectural and chromatic effect. The supports consist
of fifteen octagonal columns placed in such a manner as to
form four purges, each ten feet in width. The length of
the &reborn! is 100 feet. From the key of each arch there
is suspended en ornamental gas jet in the form of a star.
adding very much to the generel effect. The pavement,
slabs of coloured stone of various shapes, presents a very
pleasing appearance toe he eye. The only arches at all
similar in construction are the groined arches In the eseßs
and cellars underneath the MOMS of Parliament, and that
similarity only consists in the termination tter orches being
of a uoiforni colour. At the of the archway.
and up an easy flight of steps, the railway company have
atrctd an ante wiog, which enters the Palace on the
.eftl of the grand orchestra. The architects are Messrs.
Banks and Barry, and the resident engineer, Mr. Shelfoeds
who is in part the designer. The company seem to have
spared no expense to make this connecting link of the Cry-
stal Palace in keeping with the two edifices which it adjoins.

ABOLITION OF A CRIMINAL PRISON. —On Monday
neat an act of parliament will Moe into font* to diem.
lions &separate court of quarter seisms and •• gepsrete
gaol in the borough of Falmouth. The recordership is
abolished, as aim the office of coroner. The prisoners in
FAmouth prime are to be removed to the oounty prison of
Cornwall. and Falmouth gaol may be aged by the jussold.
tices
as • .• lockup house," and when not required may be
The Reoorder of Falmouth (Kr. E. Wan Coal is
ntment to receive
his salary for life, or until be acceptppoi
equal value ; and the council of the borough may grant
compensation or allowance to say perms deprived of say
salary or emolument by the act.
THE FENIAN PRISONER& —Shortly after four
o'clock ma Saturday morning the Fenian prim:erg convicted
at the special commission at Dublin and in Cork were re.
moved from the Mountjoy Penitentiary to be conveyed to
Dartmoor Penitentiary The primmer, were informed
on the previous night that they would basses to an English
prison, sad at half-pest four o'clock in the morning Imby,
O'Leary, O'Doooren (Roma), Moore, Haltigan. l'Agas
O'Leary. Lynch, Daggs°, Charles Underwood O'Connell,
and O'Doeovan WWII removed to owe of the prison vans.
which was in waiting to receive them, in charge of the
holes police. As soon as the prisoners bad taken their
places they were driven off at &rapid pace for Kingstown by
the Rock-road. On arriving at the Carlisle Pier they were
put ou board the mail steamer in charge of a body of polio%
in whose custody they would remain until heeded ov. r to
the governor of Dartmoor Penitentiary.—Preeman's
Journal.
CORN EXcHANOE SWIOSPINGIL—It may 'sound.
eomewbat paradoxical, but it is nevertheless strictly true,
that one of the meet striking evideoctes of the amount of
business transacted on the LondonOore Exchange is to be
WO
when the operations of the day are
transactions are
actively prommdiog, the visitor mast be struck with • habit
indulged in by every regular frequenter—that of dipping
the band lightly into the nearest sample-bag, tasiieg o
n. or
to
two of the grains taken out, sad allowing the vest to
the ground. This very itinceent amusement materially
assists In producing a result which, under the circumstances,
can scarcely be regarded as surprising. The door becomes
thickly strewn with every enlarger psis, oats generally
predornitiatiog, owing to th quantitT contained in
the sample•tegs sent to market. While the place is crowded
with people the full extent of the deposit so far ace
pparous
ent
that you appear to be treading! upon same
ourincon hut to
gru
compound resembling underdone peatemothß,
thoroughly estimate its amount you must mie it whim every.
one has left.
•Let us have a peep, therefore, at the market
now that Minimise is over. The place is in Rissole possession
of the officials, and they am vigorously sweeping the strews
grain into heaps. Very pretty little heaps they are, too ;
and yonder sacks, twelve to footless in Dumber, will soon
he filled with them. A few minutes mon, end the work is
ae
done—the necks are filled. And sow, in the Innocence
your heart, you pedlar, imagine (Dot being se familiar with
grain as le pin
no
Batt that these sacks el commarket
sweepings are of no earthly use, sod that the only object at
removing them is to throw them isle the dnethole+
Oho
childlike simplicity sod 'pomace t Those asks will each.
emnumad a respectable price st the corn-chaedler's ; and if
they Irel• tell times more numerous
then. they
von wield oely
done
arm
eagerly be matched up. And 'bat mk, is
with them What is dose with them? De von keep (to
paraphrase Mr. Therley's advertbremeet do assuredly k
chickens, ducks, pigs, or erib.borses! If vend ,
there we
so seed to ask that gelation. Why these sweep.
lags not el
find • reedy wale, as food fee the animate
ahovonamed, bat there is such • wide densarid L
ucor thins
that they are actually nmanfaatered (1 ksow of memo
1 appropriate ward) is order to oast that demand ! Yes I
it la eves so. Coca Market sweepings ere eie regular ea
article of comnseres as pickling view or split peas, and can
• be obtained to aay extent jest as reedily.--Lovulon Society.

North and South
Maelita OO,OlO 60,000 110,000 00,000 64,000
GeOrgilailoTlol 500,800 31,000 330.000 9,,000 231,000
Mobile
New Orleans• •
Term .. ...
Memphis, 1464i1-
41ile.,NeWY0 k
and all North
not already
counted . 170,000 150.000
320,000
04 whichreeeived
at New York..
Estimated at
other points' . •

11C,000)
114,010
5p0.600)

--, -- ---
1,650.000 400,000 2,050,00 1,090,000 960,000
Our estimate of the total of old and new is, therefore,
2,000,000 to 2,100,000 bales. The receipts prior to Ist
September. have for some weeks bees currently stated at
X 9,000 haler, ioclusive of 33,000 bales captured cotton, re-
ceived from Savannah before the sod of the war. We do 1
tiot thick this item should be counted, but excluding it,
we Sod that the actual receipts before the lit of September,
amounted to 415,958 • and ia this we do not looted. what
amid at present rely 'be an estimate, the receipts prior to
Ist September at St. Lo Oiscieesti, Baltimore, Phila. 1
delplua, Bootee, ter. A good deal of the old cotton im of .
course, in very bad coedit-ion, but we do sot estimate the .
quantity totally with to spin at more than 100,000 balm I
although eousiderably more thou this may have to be sold
as damaged. In the meantime, the whole will be Donated
as cotton and show is the statistics. The rivers are now
all low. There were some indioatioes of a ries lately, but
it came to nothing, and thus the deliveries are now lighter
than has been expected, sad rill extend over a loafer time.
December, however. rarely pews without a rime of water
in the southern trtbuterise, and there is, therefore, still
1

• Oa& akek at DE-• (15.900`„ Nashville 5.000 , receipts at
et. Lank. se.- nnast, ti
and deli. es to rpinorrs at
BeNmcco. 1111101101‘ Dorton, and throughout the Wes