The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-15 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEER MOVEMENT.

The members of the London Scottich Regiment
mustered on Saturday evening in great strength in West-
minster Hall, for the purpose of being officially inspected
by their lieutenant-colonel, Lord Elcho, M.P., with a view
of testing the efficiency of the corps after the six drills
which the respective compimies have gone through since
the last general muster in November.
The Metropolitan Rifle Volunteers mustered iu the Work-
men's Institute, Euston- roack on Saturday evening, at
7 o'clock, and at half-past 7, preceded by its excellent
brass and drum and life bands, marched out, proceedrog
along Tottenham-court-road to Charing-cross, and thence
to Westminster Hall, where they were dismissed for 10
minutes to oartake of refreshment. Having again formed
into marching order they crossed over Westminster-bridge
to Westminster-raid, and returned to hind-quarters by way
of Waterloo-bridge. This corps has attained to a great
degree of efficiency and is TOO strong. The cadets attached
to the corps are respectable youths between the ages of 12
and 16, and number very nerrly 1.1)0. Lord Ekho Is the
commandant.

The 19th Middlesex (Working Men's College) Rifle
Volunteers met at their head.quarters, Queen-square,
for the first time since the Christina. holidays, on lessturday,
and, headed by their cadet band, marched to their drill
ground, University College, Gower-street, where, after
going through a variety of evolutions, they formed square
on the leading company, and were addressed by their
commander, Captain Hughes, who said he thought
it now quite time they should elect their field-officers.
After giving a brief account of Colonel Bathurst's
experience in Canada sod in the Crimea, Captain
Hughes proposed him ns a fit and proper person to
be their lieutenant-colonel. It was also proposed that
Captain Hughes should be major, and that Adjutant Reed
(to whose energy the present highly efficient state of the
corps is attributable) should have a captain's commission.
The three names being put to the vote, were carried unani-
mously, amid vociferous cheering.
Through the kind permission of Mr. aye, the 3rd (Sty of
London Rifle Collo, which now has nearly 1,1;00 enrolled
members, muster every Wednesday evening, at a quarter to
8 o'clock. in the Floral Hall, for drill, under Colonel Sir
W. De bathe, Major Richards, and the adjutant.

Tax COROM AT PLYMOUTH. —A collision has
token slam between the magistrates of the borough of Ply-
mouth and the coroner, fir. John Edmonds, in communes°e
of the proceedings connected with the Plymouth murder,
who in consequence tendered his resignation on Saturday
last. When the death was first reported to the coroner be
gave instructions fur the apprehension of Hobert Hacked
by the police, and the latter was then removed from the
barracks to the Town-hall. The magistrates subsequently
took the matter into their own hands, and declined to heed
over the prisoner to the coroner, who haa intimated that in
consequence of what bad taken place he had come to the
resolution to resign his dike.

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War, and attended by nearly OW Wooled proprietors -
the dastriet, was held in the Tires-hall et Ramsey this
afternoon, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
beet means of improving the dwellings of the labouring
classes. Lord PLUM/51'0N presided, and there were also
present the Right Hoe. W. Cowper, M.P., Chief Commis-
of Public Works , the Hon. It. button. M.P., Mr.
W. E. Nightingale, Sir (lane Shee, Mr. !lidera Mayor
of Ramey, the Div. a. L. Berthon, vicar. the Hoe. and
Rev. 0. Hants, Mr. Byre, Mr. Lordan, k.c.
Lord pALKERBTON, who was received with greet enthu-
siasm, in opening the proceedings said :—We are met here,
gentlemen, at the suggestion of our worthy vicar, to take
into consideration the state of the habitations of the poorer
and labouring dames. The badmen of that condition has
been long, especially in this town, the subject of remark.
I don't know, however, that we are worse off in that revert
than many other towns, but it is our duty to look to what
exists her., and endeavour if passible to provide some alle-
viation or remedy for the evil. (Hear, hear.) Some years
ago, when the cholera prevailed generally, a very distin.
guished medical gentleman bappeeiod to bedewing at Brawl-
lands. At my topmast be arms • usedine/ Wiretaps dale
tows, and drew up a report, of which a copy, I think, was
given to the Mayor for the time being, and which is now in
the possession of the authorities of the town. He stated
that there was a great number of habitations which were
not fit for the occupation of human beings ; that they were
destitute of all those accommodations and conveniences re-
quisite for a decent dwelling house ; and that they were
positively unhealthy, owing to the want of ventilation and
the absence of a sufficient number of cubical feet
of apace for each person who lived in them. 1 believe that
that report was acted upon and that a great deal of good
resulted. There was, I think, a committee appointed for
the removal of nuisances who were very actively occupied,
and who by their exertions removed in some degree the
causes of illness which at that time prevailed; but of course
nothing could be done because the functions of that com-
mittee did not include any measures for improving the
habitations of the lower classes. Our worthy vicar, who
devotes his mind most assiduously to the weVare of his
parishioners, and who is not content simply with making
provision for the spiritual welfare, but also directs hie atten-
tion to their temporal advantage, has been exceedingly soli-
citous that if possible ine.ns should be taken to improve
the condition of these bad habitations, of which I trust,
there are not a great many, though I believe there
are still a considerable number. We are met here
to-day, gentlemen, to take this important matter into
serious consideration. I have no particular propose'

to make myself, but there are others heir who I im -sure
will euggirst some means whereby the evil may be alle-
viated. 1 therefore shall be glad, as you I hays no doubt
will be, to bear their opinions as to the best means by
which it may be possible to remove the evil, and provide a
sufficient and adequate remedy. Having stated the object
of the meeting, I leave it now for any person who baa
matured in his own mind the consideration of this im-
portant subject to state what has occurred to him in the
course of his reflections. (Cheers.)
Mr. Cowers, M.P., having been called upon to make
• few remarks said the way had already been trod-
den by many societies one of which is the
Cottage Improvement Society at Hastings—that so-
ciety has now been in operation for three riesai.r
ca ess
and • half. It has • pital of 12,0001., in s
of 1001. each, and has obtained possession of 100 bosses.
It has not built any, but has merely taken existing houses
and improved them. The gross rents they have received
have been about Ilj per cent. on the total outlay, and the
net rental, after paying rates, taxes, and insurance, has
been about 81 per cent. Tkey have paid every year since
they started • dividend of 6 per cent., and have laid by a
reserve fond amounting at the present moment to 200/.
At Rodhill there is another society, which has been in
operation for three years, and, in addition to an accumu-
lating fund, has paid its shareholders • dividend of 5 per
cent. The society at Windsor has also paid a per tentage
upon its operations. In London the society established an
the Stood have directed their attention to the renovation of
old houses rather than to the building of new ones, and they
have realised a net profit of about 4{ per cent. The expe-
rience of these societies shows that it is not, as people fancy,
a hopeless thing to get a fair interest for massy laid out is
this manner. I may describe to you what the London
society has done. At Tyodall's.buddings, near Holboru,
they experieneedgreat difficulty in obtaining possession of the
property. Before it came into their ponession Tyndall's-court
was known as one of the worst nests of fever in the Holborn
district, but such a change was produced by the improve-
meet which the society effected during the last year that
there was not a single GAO of low fever there at all.
Another point that I ought to direct your attention to is
to provide lodging-Louses for eingle men. In ordinary
cases it is found that a man living with a strange
family takes up the room that is wanted fot
others, and he is generally driven to the public.houee.
There is one thing to be avoided in establishing these socie-
ties. (hie must be taken that the staff is not so large as
to swallow up the profit. I think we can fairly establish
the geed week without any great sacrifice, or without em-
barking in it any considerable amount of money. What we
have to consider is not. merely • scheme of pure benevo-
lence and charity, but • proposal which, by an investment
of our money, will give us a fair interest and enable us to
effect • vast amount of good. (Cheers.)
Mr. Dutton, M.P., the Rev. E. L. Berthon, and Mr.
Taylor having addressed the meeting,
The MAYOR moved the appointment of a committee for
the purpose of forming a company (under the Limited Liabi-
lity Act) to carry out the objects of the meeting.
The motion was seconded, and unanimously agreed to.
The proceeding were then brought to it close by a vote of
thanksto Lord almerston for presiding.

TESTIMONIAL TO • RAILWAY OFFICIAL. —Tester-
day morning a handsome testimonial, in the shape of a purse
containing the sum of 1711. 15a. lid., was presented to Mr.
Gibbs, chief inspector at the 'Slough Station of the Great
Western Railway, by the passengers using that line, as a
mark of the high estimation in which lie is held by all
Glance, andthecourteey and kindness uniforinlyshown by him
in the discharge of the important duties of his office. The tee.
timouial was subscribed for by Dearly 300 of the passenger.,
among whotu were theflukeof Buccleuch, the Earl of Darn-
ley, the Earl of Dartmouth, Viscount Ebury, Viscount
Powerscourt, Lord Carringtoa, the Earl of Bessborough,
Lord Taunton, his Excellency the Belgian Minister, Lord
Home, Lady Mary Hood, Lady Molyneux, Sir George
Cooper, W. Vaneittart, Esq.. M.P., ice. The presentation
took place in one of the large rooms at the Slough Station,
in the presence of a numerous body of the subscribe a.
GREAT FIRE NEAR TOTTENKLM-COURT-ROAD.
Shortly after 8 o'clock last evening as Sergeant Rogers,
12 F., and Polloe-constable 34 It were proceeding by the
gateway entrance to the premises of Messrs. Romani and
lion, cabinet•ruakers and upholsterers, in a very extensive
way of business in Tottenhametreet, Tottenham•court-
road, they perceived smoke coming from the factory, ammo-
ponied by u very strong smell of burning timber. They
proceeded up the yard, and finding the factory in a blaze,
at once despatched messengers for the engines and the tire.
escapee. The uiesseugers could scarcely have reached the
different stations before the flames abut through the roof,
and illumined the metropolis for mits round, and a report
was that the Queen's Theatre was oa fire, which
brougste.lgotisands of persons to the scene. The engine, sod
escape. were. however, quickly on the spot, and there was
• plentiful supply of water. After Nome considerable time and
peat exertion on the part of the firemen they managed to
cut off all danger to the surrounding houses mid property.
and confine the fire to the factory. The backs of
the houses in Norfolketreet and Tottenham-street

were much burnt and damaged by water, and the
furniture of 'the inmates was mom' by beet), removal.
The employed over 50 men, all of whose tools are de-
stroyed, and are nut insured. There was a very large
amount of fancy and coolly cabinet work just completed,
amongst which was a splendid oak cabinet with a marble
top, in the centre of which was a magnificently executed
/IV;it of a deceased gentleman. It is supposed it was a
relic. The carrier of this piece of work, which has
been in hand for three months, atone eclat over 1011., and the
lowest estimate that could be put upon it for workmanship
when completed would be .pet. A singular thing in cou-
nection with this fire is that a gentleman whose mansion at
Blackhesth was on fire a abort time sito sent his furniture
and cabinets to this factory to be restored and repaired after
the fire, but now they are totally consumed. The fire is
supposed to have originated in the The par•
tinnier' of insurance could not be •
It is with pleasure we notice the increase of cures,
without medicine, by Du Barry's delicious lievalenis Arabic*.
We quote the following :—Cure !so. rield-Marshal Duke
of plooltow, of a gastric Infiammatlon of the stomach. Curs
No. 61,614. Baron tie Polents. Prefect of [Angelus, of many
yetis' horrible sufferings of the nerves and an obstthate csonsU.
pain.. Cure No. *YD. General Baron de Zaluskowskl, of
many fearful disorders of the digestive function.
gue Re. 71. Of dyspepsia. the Right honourable the teed
stew* de index. Cure Be. 42.116. Major of enlarge,
meat of the liver and total prestratMott.of strength.
Avoid pllis and medicines : they invariably aggravate and peepe-
r., Barer' 4 which, at a few pence per
taste diseases. theirannsythee, disappointment, and expense
_may
be eased, and all doctors' and apothecaries' bills avoided. by using
day, laves 60 tine'e
tin cost physic, oil, and other remedies. Certificate, N 0.38,416
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minty, Dr. Witmer, Dr. Shetland, Dr. Campbell. Packed MMus,
with full instructions, 11h., Is. 9d.: 21b , 4s. thi. Ila. ;
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LONDON, ruENDAY, JAN. 15.

WHILL the pub& interest in the fated Am era-
sos is still unabated, the opinion amongst lawyers
in his favour strengthens daily. It is curious on
looking beck at the debates upon the Ashburton
Treaty to find that objections most frivolous
were deemed of the highest importance, whilst
the effect of the 10th Article, which concerns
the extradition of fugitive criminals, was left in
comparative obscurity. It is true, indeed, that
some anxiety was manifested in both Houses of
Parliament as to whether the treaty might not be
used for the purpose of demanding back fugitive
slaves. But the assurances made by the ministers
of the day on this subject were deemed so satisfac-
tory as to silence all opposition. Thus Lord A nit-
Drug, who was Foreign Secretary when the Treaty
was made, in discussing the forms of the Act
of Parliament by which the 10th Article
was carried into effect, distinctly noticed
the supposition that a fugitive slave might
be given up under the treaty, but declared it to
be a most unfounded notion. For, he added,
not only was a fugitive slave guilty of no crime in
endeavouring to escape from a state of bondage,
but ho was entitled to the sympathy and encou-
ragement of all those who were animated by
Christian feelings. He then went on to suppose a
slave stealing his master's horse in order to escape,
in which case the Foreign Secretary declared that
the stipulations of the treaty would not be appli-
cable. Again, Sir Rosser Put, then Prime
Munster, alluding to the same subject, admitted
that great care must be taken lest in the applica-
tion of the principle—the reciprocal delivery of
heinous criminals—there should be any interfe-
rence with the rights of those who became free
men by stepping on our soiL And even
Lord PA IA zanox, in his elaborate attack
upon the Ashburton Treaty, characterised
the objections to the extradition article of
the treaty as unsound, and said that to
restore fugitive slaves under its provisions would
be an evasion of its clear intent and obvious
meaning. Nor is it unimportant to reosl the fact
that both Lord AZZADZIOI and Sir Roams? Pm
declared that the 11th Article--which provides
that the 10th Article shall continue in force until
one or other party shall signify its wish to termi-
nate it, and no longer—was expressly added for
the purpose of preventing any difficulties concern-
ing
the cases of fugitive slaves. Besides which,
Lord A 111111DEIN said that, according to the treaty,
the Governors in any of our colonies would be
able to refer any doubtful case to the Home
Government, who would take the advice of the
English law officers before rendering up any
alleged fugitive. Lastly, it is remarkable that the
Act of Parliament by which the 10th Article was
carried into effect passed the House of Commons
without discussion, so satisfied was everybody that
the case of fugitive slaves was amply provided
for.

As has been observed more than once, the claim
of the United States to have ANDEINON restored
rests entirely upon the words of the Ashburton
Treaty. The terms of that treaty must be con-
sidered like any other contract, and in construing
it the circumstances and the legal principles ac-
knowledged by the parties to the contract must be
considered. It is certainly true that in a court
of justice the interpretation put upon the words of
an agreement by one of the parties concerned
would not be admissible evidence to show the
meaning of the words in question. Nevertheless
the views expressed by the leading members of the
English Goverrunent who negotiated the treaty are
of the utmost importance in a national point of
view. Their speeches conclusively prove that
whatever words may have been used in the 10th
Article, and whatever interpretation lawyers may
put upon these words, there was every intention
to exclude the case of a fugitive slave from the
treaty.

The term murder in the treaty was used in its
ordinary acceptation of one man maliciously kill-
ing another—each being free agents. But the
stipulation never was intended to apply to a clam
of beings like slaves who have no rights, and are
still capable of committing wrongs. Nor can any
foreign minister of this country be called upon to
admit that the Ashburton Treaty has bound us
to consider that an act of deliberate murder which
is but an act of self-defence.

Ws English expose ourselves to the just deri-
sion of foreigners by an affected prudery in the

choice of public entertainment. We were borri-
tied and indignant at an advertisement • year or
two mom at a " real Spanish bullfight " at a Cart=
in Loiereter.winare, and were infinitely relieved to
find that the real Spanish bullfight WM a• impu-
dent hymbug, in the shape of a very tame horse, in
th.• coffume of an impossible bull, feebly tormented
by a few absurdly disguised grooms of the Ring.
tin the other band, it is notorious to all
tht, world that English 'misty was stirred
from top to bottom only last spring by the
grand international conflict between a couple of
professional bruiser*, who pounded each other's II
chests und face• into jellies and piecrust, and
endre bi a cunfasiAl attempt at strailehng wivas

the ropes. For nearly ten days a hundred native
Homan and PINDAJI3 hymned the praises of the
Champion ; and it was pretty generally agreed is
the best society that the moral effects of an en-
counter in which all the indestructible character-
istics of the Anglo-Saxon nature had been brought
out before an attentive Universe, must act like a
"revival " upon the great nun of musculin-
religion. Unhappily, the gentlemen of the Prin-
ting, intoxicated it may be by success, threw away
this immense prestige soon after by some myste-
rious transactions connected with the distribution

of the Grand Cordon of the Order, and by a dis-
graceful riot on the occasion of the next great
"mill." Within a month the British public
was heartily ashamed of its enthusiasm, and no
longer disposed to condemn an imperfect sympathy
for prize fights as the mark of " milksops." We
know not whether we incur the charge of a mawkish
effeminacy of taste if we denounce as barba-
rous and brutalizing, worthy only of a wild or a
worn-out people, the indulgence in spectacles and
entertainments of which the public attraction con-
sists, not in skill, or grace, or even in the display
of temper and nerve, but in the reckless and wan-
ton risk of human life. It is no exaggeration to
say that every one who goes to • theatre to
see a performer " play " with lions or tigers is
quite as " eccentric " as the individual who spent
his life in expecting to 000 VAN AMBI:10'11 head
eaten off. It is an eccentricity in which the two
extremes of savage races and races exhausted meet
—the Court of Dahomey and the Coliseum.
It is an " eccentricity " that belongs to the deca-
dence of a people which, like a palsied sensualist,
flies to unnatural stimulants for a sensation. The
sacredness of human life is a popular phrase
among professional philanthropists as often as a
murderer is going to be hanged. And, though a
popular phrase, it expresses • truth which we
should do well to remember on behalf of many poor
fellows who have not committed murder, but who
risk their lives for the public amusement. We
are proud of having been the first to legislate
against cruelty to animals ; yet we encourage and
applaud a mountebank who, for • pittance,
habitually dallies with the meet horrible of
deaths on a public stage. Life itself is
so difficult a business in our crowded communities
that the mere risk of life becomes a trade. A
BLONDIN, walking • tight-rope on stilts over
Niagara, and pausing halfway to cook an omelette,
is • fabled Hzarutzli to thousands of aspiring
acrobats and tumblers. " Macy o:ow," the hero of
that " terrific conflict with a tigress " at Liverpool
which was reported in our paper yesterday, is •
legitimate successor of VAN AY Beau. The public
appetite for "terrific struggles" of this sort—so
pleasant to contemplate from a seat in a dress-
circle—is a disease which grows by what it feeds
on. It is not enough that a VAN Amami puts'
his head into the lion's mouth ; a Mamma°
may feel it his duty to put as much of his body
as he can spare down the tiger's jaws ; or
• Mr. Can( KITT may consider it • capital
notion to allow himself to be carried about in
the lion's mouth, and shaken like a rat, in order
to make the ladies faint and to draw the town to
the theatre. It is only when • catastrophe occurs
behind the scenes, and • lion, quite irregularly,
kills and worries a poor stableman, and is found
sitting over him "like a dog over a bone," but
with no spectators to applaud him, that the public
begins to feel what it has lost. The horrible affair
at Astley's Theatre gives the public a taste of some-
thing far more tragic than any Lion Tamer's
exploits. The picture of poor "Jerrie" in the
lion's mouth should be as severe a warning
to the grown up public as the picture
of the bad boy in • similar situation,
which we all remember to have shuddered over
in our early days. For it is the public taste, we
insist, that is in the last resort responsible for a
catastrophe which, according to the evidence pro-
duced at the Inquest yesterday, appears to have
occurred in spite of all the usual precautions for
the safe custody of lions engaged in dramatic per-
formances. We say " the usual precautions," be-
cause we entirely concur with the opinion of the
jury, that the cage in which the lions were confined
cannot have been of sufficient strength for the safe
keeping of such animals. We are far from feeling
surprise or regret that the jury should have ab-
solved Mr. Caoceser (" the Lion Tamer ") or the
proprietors of the animals from any criminal neglect.
But we consider it a public duty to express
astonishment and disgust at the fact—(which the II
jury seem to have passed over)—that on the
evening of the day on which the poor stable-
man was torn to death, the lion, which had
only been prevented from making a meal
I •
of this poor servant of the theatre, took part in
the usual performance—no doubt with an added
interest and klat. We cannot be persuaded to
attribute this inconceivable indecency to want of
feeling ; we willingly ascribe it to want of thought.
But on this account it is all the more important
that the conductors of public opinion should pro-
tent with the utmost severity against • recklessness
which these barbarous exhibitions are only too
likely to encourage behind and before the curtain.
Arid, after all, what is the secret of the courage of
thee, renowned lion tamers? The feeders at the
Zoological Gardens are quite as brave ; only
as it is not their business to bully the
animals, they are not armed with heavy
iron whips. The " Lion tamers" secure the affection
of the beasts by feeding them, and their obedience
by never being without the means of knocking
them down. A lion hunter is a very different
character from this, as the fine old Nubian in the
Regent's-perk, who died of the frost last week,
could have testified.

In any country enjoying the protection of a
paternal government, in France or Bavaria for
example, such an accident as this at Astley's
would have been prevented by the moat stringent
police regulations, or, if it had occurred, most
severely vizited upon the theatre. Administrative
law-making is happily not the English preventive,
an the remedy for dangers and catastrophes for
which the public itself is to blame. It is the
gamed duty, then, of those who assist in the direc-
tion of public opinion to exercise in all such cases
the severest censorship. A Ratty who teaches
ne to subdue the noblest of animals to man's use
by kindness is a public benefactor. Of " Lion
Tamers," the hest that can be said is that they are
worthy of any theatre that exhibits, and of any
public that applauds them.

THE XIMORIAL TO LORD PALIERRSTON.

The letter to Lord Palmerston on the reduction
of the National Expenditure, which we published
on Friday, has already received the signatures of
between fifty and sixty members of parliament,
and many additions are confidently expected. The
gentlemen who promoted that letter have written
to us exprea.d.ng their surprise at ita publication,
as it was intended to be a private communication,
and not for the public eye. It is duo to them to
state this. At the same time, the difficulty of
treating as private a document which fifty or sixty
members of the House of Common, have signed is
self-apparent

rbe court,

WINDSOR CASTLE, JAN. la.
The Queen, with Princess Helena, walked in the
grounds of the Cutle this morning.
The Priors Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales
and Priam Alfred, went out shooting, attended by Lord
Carney; Colonel Ponsonby, and Major Teesdale.
The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty and took
luncheon.

Lord de Tabley and Major Teesdale have left the CLvtle.

Despatches were received at the Colonishoffice yesterday
from the Governors of Canada, the Bahamas, the Mauritius,
Watt Coast al Africa, sad Gibraltar, and from the Lord
High Cosansaner of the lonian Islands. Despatches
wen seat to the Governors of Canada sod Newfouedhod.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry
arrived in Groevesorequare a few days since from visiting
the Duke sad Doeb red Marlborough, at Blenheim Palace.

Viscount Grey de Wilton left town yesterday to
ions her ladyship, who is passing the season at Melton Mow-
bray.

Lady William Russell hm returned to town from
visstiog Viscount and Vimounteas Palmerston, at Broad-
lands.

The mortal remains of the late Hon. Edmond
Pery, son of the Earl of Limerick, were brought from
Germany to London yesterday morning. They will be con-
veyed to-day to Ireland, for interment in the Pery chapel
in Limerick Cathedral.

Mr. K 8. Holton!, M.P., and Mrs. Holford
have lei town es a visit to Lord sad Lady Herbert of Lea,
at Wilton House, near Salisbury._

According to the Epwa, Sir J. Crampton, the
new English minister, in expected at Madrid about tbo end
of February.

The Time+, announces that the project of convert-
lag the Tipperary Militia into s brigade of the Royal
Artillery has been definitively abandoned.

We hear that it is the intention of government to
level thefortificatious forming the northern and eastern boun-
dary of Portsmouth garrison, from the Quay-gate to the
eastern bastion adjoining Fore-house Barracks, near the King
William-gate. These fortifications, for defensive purposes,
have long been pronounced to be entirely useless, and their
removal will provide increased barrack accommodation, and
it is said will also effect a local improvement, by permitting
of a more direct communication between Portsmouth and
Bonthees.

It is reported that the terms proposed by the
London and North Western and Great Northern Companies
jointly to the Manchester, Sheffield, and Liecoleshire Com-
pany are as follows : A guarantee of la per cent. per an-
num, increasing a per cent. per annum up to 3} per cent. in
perpetuity, and the privilege of exchanging every 1001.
absilekl Stock into to!. (or 70/.1 London end North-
Wade= stock. Three Sheffield directors have been ap-
pointed to confer and negotiate with directors similarly
appointed by the other boards. The resignation of the
Marquis of Chandos of the chairmanship of the London and
North Western Company occurred, it is said, in consequence
of his opposition to the guventee.

Mr. Ralph Farnham, the last survivor of the
own who took part in the battle of Bunker Hill, in 1716,
died, on the 26th of December, at his son's residence, in
Ardou (Mare), at the age of upwards of 104 year. He was
la Boston when the Prince of Wales was there, sad
saw his royal highness, and had some conversation with
the Duke of Newcastle. Ho wrote some autographs the
day before he died in a very good hand. " I suspect," rys
• Boston correspondent, " that him recent tour hastened his
wad, far not only did it cause a charge in his modes of life,
bat he was disappointed in its results, as he received neither
so mach money nor so much notice as ho was told would
fall to his lot."

Much interest is excited in Paris by the report
that M. Jules Fevre, the distinguished orator and advocate,
intends to speak on an early day, in his place in the Legis•
lative Corps, on the tripotageo, the jobbing at the Bourse,
the pots de rive, and douceurs of various kinds and for
various objects, which for some time past have been the
fertile theme of scandal to the public, and which, from the
alleged connexion of well-known characters with same of
these transactions, have brought even the government into
souse diacredit. The grant of large salaries and of splendid
midmost to the speaking ministers—the ministers pork.
rain, u they are called—will also be treated by M. Fevre.
Paris to-day (says a letter of Sunday) might be
St. Petersburg, so intensely cold is the wind, which now
and Ursa beings us of showers of hard, fronts snow. During
the kat week crowd, have flocked to the Bois de
Boulogne—foot psaisengers by thousands, carriages by
hundreds ; all the fashionable world of Paris, including
the Emperor and Empress, have visited the artificial waters
of our perks, the Emperor occasionally skating. It is the
fashion here for asters to drive before them an iron chair
or sledge, in which reposer a lady in solemn grandeur,
richly muffled up, according to the Russian fashion. These
swiftly propelled freights of fashion's favourites,
of diverse colours, produce a pleasing, living, and
very animated contrast to the cold, silent, wintry white-
s'sss of the waters, now skirted by skeleton trees which
stand only in strong relief from the dead leaden sky, and
look as if they were hung with lace. The Seine threatens to
be frozen over ere long; already the ice on either aide ap-
proaches visibly every day."
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In Belgium a subscription hail been opened for
the relief of the sufferers from inundations in Holland. The
Dutch consul.general at Antwerp, in a letter to the Bel-
gian journal., state* that assistance is greatly needed,
inasmuch as thousands of unfortunate creatures In
different provinces have had their houses swept away
or invaded by the waters, and are now wandering cm the
dykes without a roof to shelter them, and suffering dread-
fully from cold and hunger. The Dutch journals are filled
with report. of the ravages caused by inundations.
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General de Gerlach, aide-de-camp of the late
Kiss et Prussia, and one of his Majesty's most intimate
friends, has quickly followed his sovereign to the grave. He
eansbt a violent cold at the royal funeral, which brought
ea erysjpehui in the bead, and he died at Potsdam in the
evening of the 10th. He was 71 years of age.
The Grand Duke of To/loony has left Berlin for
Dreeleo

The Dresden Journal ammo' ita readers with •
story of the concessioa by Italy to England of s Sicilian
poet, Syracuse. The arrangements, it age, have been
made at Turin by Sir Jame, Hudson !