Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-01-20 00:00:00

FRANCE AND AUSTRIA

We find theiolh;;ingin t;;;;;;adenee from
-Vienna, addressed to the Gazette de Cologne :
A long Ministerial consultation took place on the
13th,. presided over by the Emperor, at which a deter-
mination was come to, to send Marshal Count
Leinnigen, on a speoial mission to Paris. His depar-
ure took place yesterday evening, and •a very great
importance is attached to it in diplomatic circles, it being
ge.nerally thought that it will greatly tend to clear up
misunderstandings and maintain the peace of Europe.

AUSTRIAN TROOPS IN THE PAPAL STATES.
We read in a letter from Paris, .17th January
Somensf journals as assert that the Pontificial Government
"Med to the French Minister at Rome that
euonsiderable reinforcements of • Austrian troops would,
on its request, occupy the Legations. This report is
lily half true. No notification can have been given
to the French government of a proceeding which would
naturally take place in accordance with recognised rules.
The fact of the matter is, that in consequence of reduc-
tions made in the Austrian forces two years ago, it is now
necessary to restore them to their original strength ;
the reinforcements also .have all been concentrated at
Bologna.
The Duke of Modena is on excellent terms with Anstria.
The Duchess of Parma, on the contrary, is inexorable,
:and rejects every advance. ade to her from Vienna. She
says she can herself answer .for public tranquillity, and
.has no necessity for foreign aid. The Duchess is well
advised by her Ministers, and her popularity is daily on
'the increase.

PRINCE NAP OLE ON-
The TURIN, Jan. 18.
first interview between Prince Napoleon
and the Princess Clotilda took place yesterday
afternoon. In the evening the Prince was present
at a ball given by the President of .the Council at
the pala,ce of the Ministry.

SPAIN-
The Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived.
—olne of the journals state that the government
has sent an agent into England to purchase twenty-
four steamers of small tonnage for the Philippine
Islands. It was said that the government contem-
plates making various important reforms in the
administration of the Isle of enba. The French
Peninsular Correspondence asserts that there is no
truth in the statement made by some of the journals
that the Duke de Montpensier is about to visit Italy.

THE COLONY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA_
Mr. Nugent, the late American Resident in
British Columbia, has addressed the following
circular to the eitizens of the United States in
Vancouver's Island and British Columbia :
Having received from citizens: of the United States,
mining and trading on Fraser's River and in its vicinity,
a number of letters complaining of acts. of injustice and
oppression at the hands of the eolonial anthorities, and
being on the eve of my departure to lay my report before
the government at Washington, I take this public method
of apprising American citizens sojourning in Vancouver's
Island and British Columbia of the view of our govern-
ment in regard to their rights and standing:in those colonies.
I need scarcely say that the Government of the
'United States txpects of its own citizens abroad a decent
conformity with local regulations, obedience to the laws
of the countries they visit, and,- a proper show of respect
for the authorities by whom those laws are administered.
This is exacted of strangers visiting the different States
of the Union, who are amenable to punishment for a
violation of the laws of those States, or of the United
States, as are American citizens for infraction of the
laws of such foreign countries as they may enter in
pursuit of pleasure or of business. Such of our citizens,
therefore, as have taken up their residence in British
Columbia and Vancouver's Island are subject, like all
other residents, to the laws of the colonies and of Great
Britain, and are liable, like all others, to the penalties
meted out by those laws to persons properly convicted
of their violation.

I am aware that an elaborate attempt to impress these
facts upon my fellow citizens in these colonies would be
superfluous. Their soberiety of deportment, their decent
observance of all the properties of life, in the midst of
privations and annoyances of no common degree, and
their obedience to the law under very trying provocations
to its infringement, although they may not have gained
for them such liberal treatment as was due to that
forbearance and good conduct, have, nevertheless, com-
manded the respect of the strangers among whom they
are cast, and cannot fail to be subjects of pride and
gratulation to their, own .Government.

Considering the circumstances attending the recent
settlement of these colonies, it was scarcely to be expected
that a well regulated government could be at once built
31P out of the chaotic elements, suddenly thrown together
ul such confusion, Much was to be pardoned to the in-
experience of an executive, hitherto dealing for the most
Part with savages, and possibly unprepared by previous
training for the more refined exigencies imposed by
Governmental relations with a white population—much
3f the cause of complaints was, to some extent, excusable,
because due to the unlicensed rudeness of the subor-
dinate officers of the Hudson's Bay Company and the
Colonial Government who, by reason of their long
isolation from civilised society, and ' their habitual
intercourse with Indians, had unlearned most of the
fines trai •
ts of humanity, and were scarcely aecounta-
for a grossness of coiduct that has boom

to fhent a second nature ; and, lastly, much was to be
be excused in the ignorance and want of tone of courts
organised out of such crude and unfit materials as those,
the only ones that were at hand on the sudden influx of the
strangers. In some instances, no doubt, these courts
have fallen short of even the limited expectations jus-
tified by the peculiar circumstances of their construction,
and the strange constituents of which they were com-
posed. But it is not to be doubted that the British
Government will, without unnecessary delay, provide
remedies for the evils and abuses arising from this con-
dition of things—evils and abuses affecting not alone the
prosperity of its own subjects, but the rights, of citizens
of a foreign and friendly Power. _ _ .

The forbearance, in the meantime, of the citizens of
the United States, their quiet observance of the laws
under any aggressions on their rights of which they may
have to complain, will not alone have its reward in the
consciousness of having done credit to their country
a country whose institutions are • based _ upon that
all-pervading love of order and that spirit of obedience
to the law which distinguishes its citizens, but it
will, moreover, entitle them to the active inter-
vention of their own Government for the redress of
their grievances and for the protection of their rights.
That the Government of the. United States, upon proper
cause being shown—after recourse shall have been had in
vain to the tribunals against acts of oppression or injustice
—will so intervene for the redress and protection of its
citizens in British Columbia and Vancouver's Island, I dm
authorised and instructed to give them the most emphatic
assurance. If wrong be done them let them appeal to the
courts. It is to be hoped they will obtain justice, but should
those tribunals, unfortunately, be too impotent, too ignorant,
or too corrupt to administer the law with impartiality and
firmness, our citizens may reckon with certainty upon the
prompt and efficient interference of their own Govern-
ment in their behalf. The best guarantee I can furnish
them of the certainty of such interposition will be found
in the subjoined declaration by the Hon. Lewis Cass,
Secretary of State of the United States, in a recent
despatch to our Minister in Nicaragua, enunciating
clearly and vigorously the views of our Government
in respect to the rights of our citizens visiting foreign
countries :

"The United. States believe it to be, their duty, and
they mean to execute it, to watch over the persons and
property of their citizens visiting foreign countries, and
to intervene for their protection when such action is
justified by existing circumstances and by the law of
nations. Wherever their citizens may. go through the
habitable globe, when they encounter injustice they may
appeal to the government of their country, and the ap-
peal will be examined into, with a view to such action
on their behalf as it may be proper to take.
It is impossible to define in advance and with pre-
cision those cases in which the national. power
may be exerted for their relief, or to what extent
relief shall be afforded Circumstances as they-
arise must prescribe the rule of action. In countries
where well-defined and established laws are in operation,
and where their adminisrration is 'committed to able and
independent judges, cases will rarely occur where such
intervention will be necessary. Bat these elements of
confidence and security are not everywhere found ; and
where that is unfortunatesy the case, the United States
are called upon to be more vigilant in watching over
their citizens, and to interpose efficiently for their pro-
tection 'when they are subjected to tortuous proceedings
by the direct action of the Government, or by its indis-
position or inability to discharge its duties." _

- It is unnecessary for me -to make any further or
more pointed application of this declaration to the cir-
cumstances of American citizens in these colonies. Their
own intelligence and prudence will enable 'them so to
guard their conduct that they shall never forfeit that
provident and fatherly care and protection which it pro-
mises, and which the Government of the United States
has both the ability and the will to exercise over all its
children, in whatever part of the world they may be.
.TORN NUGENT, Special Agent of the United States.
Victoria, Vancouver's Island, Nov. 13, 1858.-

A greatgraudson of Penn, the wealthy founder of
Pennsylvania, and the friend of James 11., has just
expired, at a very advanced age, in the hospital of the
benevolent Colston, at Bristol.
ABERDEEN. —At length the trniversity Commission
seem about to set to work in earnest. Some weeks ago,
the gentlemen who affect to be in the secret, and who
certainly miss no opportunity of getting back-stairs
influence and back stairs information, gave out that the
Aberdeen case was not 'to be taken up for a long time to
come—for years perhaps—when the public would have
got tired of watching -what was to be done. But, in the
meantime, a spoke was put in their own wheel by the
stoppage of the money that was on its way to King's
College. And so, all of a sudden, we 'find that the
Aberdeen case is to be taken up within a fortnight, and
before the meeting of Parliament. Letters to this effect
have been received by the Town Council, Marischal
College, and the Citizens' Committee, with a request
that anything further these bodies may have 'to say on
the subject. may be forwarded in
.print to Edinburgh
before -the 25th. Surely the Commission do not contem-
plate settling the fate of one or the other of our Colleges
without visiting the spot and making -themselves
thoroughly acquainted with the facts !—Aberdeen
Herald. _ .

A NEW MIRACLE. —The Presse relates the following-:
" At Trie, in the Hautes Pyrenees, a young girl of 14,
named Francine Baque, attracted considerable public
attention towards the end of December last,. by announc-
ing that the Holy Virgin and Jesus Christ had appeared
to her, as also certain members of her family who had
died in their infancy. Crowds of visitors arrived at Trie
from all parts of the district, and the commissary of
police, suspecting an imposture, also proceeded .to the
residence of Francine Baque, in order to witness the ap-
parition of a departed sister of the latter, which was
announced for the evening of the 29th ult. On entering
the house he found from 15 to 20 people assembled in a
room, with feverish impatience depicted on their features.
Francine was reclining on a bed, and dressed completely
in white. Her features were contracted, and her eyes
were fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to the wall.
At the end of a quarter of an hour, she rose, and blew
out the lights. Five minutes later she ordered the
candles to be relighted, and then announced that her
sister Marceline had appeared to her, and had presented
her with a picture of the virgin, which she fotthwith
exhibited to the persons present. The latter withdrew
crying, A miracle ! ' The commissary of police
remained incredulous, in spite of the tangible proof
furnished by the favoured maiden. After a severe
cross-examination, he, moreover, ascertained that
the picture had been purchased at a grocer's shop for the
sum of tea centimes. The Presse thus sarcastically con-
cludes its notice of the transaction :—" Is it not sad that
the progress of incredulity should have checked in its
birth a miracle which had started with such capital
chances ? But for the indiscreet zeal of that unbelieving
commissary, the miracle would have answered; and
20,000,000 gold medals might have been struck off and
sold with ease. Truly 'the fate of miracles hangs on a
slender thread."
ANGLO-FRENCH MARRIAGES.—The Civil Tribunal has
just had to pronounce on the validity of a marriage. con-
tracted by a Frenchman in England. A retired hair-
dresser, named Normandin, who is possessed of some
property, sent his son in 1856 to London to be
apprenticed to a watchmaker. The young man of an
evening used to frequent a dancing academy, and there
he made the acquaintance of a young woman who
called herself Madame Looper, but who afterwards
turned out to be unmarried, and the daughter of a
Belgian consul, deceased, named Van Nyvel. Nor-
mandin conceived a passion for her, and on the 22nd
June, 1857, they were married in the church of St.
Thomas, at Woolwich. He did not ask his parents'
consent, and did not even announce the marriage
to them until May, 1858. On inquiry the parents
found that the young woman was not a desirable match
for their son, inasmuch as, though daughter of a consul
and well educated, she lived apart from her mother, and
had led an irregular life. They, in consequence,
brought the young man from London, and applied to the
tribunal to declare the marriage null and void, because
their-son had not asked their consent, as he was bound
to do by French law, because he had net published it in
France as required, and because he had been married
in the name of Normand, whereas his real name was
Normandin. The counsel for Mademoiselle Van Nyvel
admitted that the marriage, for the first two reasons,
was by the French law void; but, he said, that she
was perfectly respectable, her father having, from 1832,
to 1839 been Belgian Consul in the Isle of Wight, and
having subsequently realised a good fortune, which,
hawever, he lost by the Revolution of 1848. He said
also that she had three sisters married in England, and
that when young Normandin saw her at the dancing
school she was accompanied by one of these sisters, Mrs.
Kreagh by name, and by Mrs. Kreagh's children ; lastly,
that the marriage had taken place with the consent Of
Mr. and Mrs. Kreagh, and in their presence. From these
circumstances the learned gentleman concluded that the
marriage could not be considered clandestine, and that
Mademoiselle Nyvel had every reason to believe it valid.
As therefore she had been wronged, she thought herself
entitled to claim 50,000 f. damages. The tribunal decided
that, for want of the consent of the parents and of the
publicity required by French law, the marriage was void,
and it forbade Mademoiselle Nyvel henceforth to call
herself by the name of Normandin. As to the claim for
damages, after examining a mass of correspondence put
in, the tribunal declared that, as there was reason to
believe that she knew the marriage to be irregular, she
could not receive any. .

THE NORTHERN. TIMES, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1859

LIFE IN LONDON.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE,

When, a few days since, we felt it our duty to
give expression to our strong opinion respecting
the inadequate payment of the young women who
dance in the ballets at our theatres, and the unjust
obloquy to which they were frequently exposed—
opinions which, in all their strength, we endorse
this day—we took the apparently pitiable story of
Jane Newell as a case in point of the struggles
of virtuous poverty against temptation. We, and
all the world, were bound to believe the deliberate
and plausible statement made by the mother, of
the missing girl in an open police court. The
girl's mysterious disappearance, her mother's dis-
tress, were patent ; and the publication of her tale
of sorrow was sufficient not only to elicit expres-
sions of sympathy from the Press, but to loosen
the purse-strings of those anonymous philan-
thropists, the donors to our poor-boxes, who,
to their honour, seem to be in ambush for mis-
fortune, and to dog the footsteps of misery to'
relieve it. The story, we repeat, bore every
evidence of truth The girl—too young and too
weak to fight the battle of life—might have
been decoyed away to shame, or might, despair-
ing, have sought to assuage her woes in the
bitter waters of Death. • She was advertised for,
and a reward offered for her recovery unavailingly ;
and, on the face of probability, the next intelli-
gence of Jane Newell might have been that she
was living' a life of magnificence and misery,
realising Mr. Holman Hunt's picture of the
" Awakened Conscience ;" or that she was lying
livid and dank, drowned and dead, on the trestles
of a parish charnel-house, with no better epitaph
than the placard pasted on the walls of the police-
station, with the ghastly heading, " Dead body
found."

As it turns out, Miss Jane Newell has made her
re-appearance in the flesh safe, and, according to
her own statement, sound ; and with a most extra-
ordinary narrative of her adventures to boot. The
account. given by the prophet Mahomet of his
visit to the seventh heaven, the history volun-
teered by Mr. Darby O'Rourke of his transactions
with the eagle that flew away with him, the
story of Rip Van Winkle's century-long game
at nine pins with the spectral Dutchman, or the
relation, so circumstantial, so plausible, till it was
proved to be an impudent fiction, given by Miss
Elizabeth Canning, of her captivity under the
duress of Mary Squires—all these marvellous
fragments of personal history are not more
curious or less incredible than Miss Jane
Newell's account of herself during her
sojourn in the sequestered regions of Pimlico.
It must be premised that Mr. Norton, of the
Lambeth P-A.)lice Court, received on Monday a let-
ter from one James Brown, a fireman, at Tier
Majesty's Theatre,. stating tat Miss Newell lion
called at that establishment and taken away her
pradtiSing dress," .stating to him that she had
been married three weeks, and was residing at
No. —, St. James's-square. At a later period of
the day, the sagacious magistrate in 'question was
honoured by a visit from -" the pet of the ballet"
and her mamma ; and the former plunging at
once into median res, obliged the astonished ears
of Mr. Norton, the clerk, the usher, the auditors,
and the reporter, with the following.strange
tale : _ _

her own sex, was in the habit of receiving the
visits of "gentlemen"—of course for strictly moral
purposes—to whom she gave audience in her
drawing-room. Miss Newell was not introduced
to these ". gentlemen," having a " very nice apart,.
meat" of her own down stairs. After a while,
her benefactress, over-brimming with her desire to
promote universal brotherhood and sisterhood, pro-
posed that Miss Newell should also receive visits
from persons of the opposite sex ; to quote the girl's
own words, " She told me that I was to see gentle-
Men, and that by so doing I could do better for
my mother than being at home." -She had then
been in the house ten days. She told the tempter
that " she could not consent to see gentlemen on
any account ;" but she did not at once and indig-
nantly quit that which, if there is a particle of
truth in her story, must be a den of infamy kept
by an abandoned harridan, who should be carted
like Mother Cole. She remained from the Friday,
when the disgraceful proposition was made, to
the Sunday evening, stating in extenuation of her
stay,, that she could not leave without Mrs.
s permission. (Was she handcuffed ? Was
she tied to the bedpost ?) She only left the
house once during her sojourn, in company
with Mrs. Ellis, to purchase a bonnet at
Brompton, and she remained in the house where.
it was proposed she should see gentlemen, occupy-
ing herself principally in " crochet work." She
states to Mr. Norton, that on the Thursday, the
day aftei she left home, she wrott a letter to her
mother, which was 'given to the servant to post,
but which never reached its destination. On
Saturday last she obtained her Duenna's leave to
go to Her Majesty's Theatre to fetch her " prac-
tising dress," and there the fireman Brown told
her that there had been a long account about
her in,the papers, handing her one. Miss Newell
did not deem it advisable to inform Mr. James
Brown of the existence or the good deeds of the
Philanthropist of Pimlico. It occurred to her, on
the contrary, to concoct an ingenious little romance,
and to state that she had been married full three
weeks gone and past, and was residing in St.
James's-square. Whereabouts in that aristocratic
locality could Miss Newell's bridegroom have
resided ? Next door to the Bishop of London's,
or to Lord Derby, to the Duke of Norfolk, or to
the Army and Navy Club ? On Sunday evening
Miss Newell bade adieu to Mrs. Ellis, and on
Monday morning she made her curtsey to the
Hon. G. C. Norton at Lambeth, and favoured him
with a narrative on which we have no desire to
throw any unnecessary discredit, but which has a
curious family likeness to the story alluded to by
Captain Tobias Shandy, as being about a cock and
a bull.

Let it go forth, however, that Jane Newell
has declared before the magistrate, " and in the
presence of God," that nothing of an improper
character took place between her and the " gen-
tlemen ." who visited Mrs. Ellis's house. So she
has sworn, and no one has a right of course to im-
pugn her oath, or to cast a slur on her reputation.
But we cannot help recording our conviction
that Miss Jane Newell has acted •like a very
naughty little girl. To pick up acquaintances
prerniscously on bridges, and adjourn to taverns
for the purpose of drinking sherry. To take
cabs to Pimlico, when one is •bound to Soho-
square ! 'To remain of one's own free will under
the roof of a perfect stranger, after proposi-
tions have been made to her of whose nature it is
idle to plead ignorance, and which would have
disgusted and revolted any right-minded girl !
Then to go about London telling fibs about a
moonshine marriage'!—Oh, Miss Newell, Miss
Newell! you are really a most undeserving object
of sympathy ; and Mr. Norton has, we think,
done quite right in withholding the contributions
sent for :the relief of your family till a searching
investigation has been made of the whole case. As
for Mrs. Ellis : if the statements made respect-
ing that lady's establishment be proved, there is a
statute, •we believe, bearing on the conduct of
persons procuring young females for purposes of
—well, .ultra-benevolenc—which may, perhaps,
affect her. As for Miss Jane Newell, the heroine
of this " domestic drama," we recommend her
mamma to follow the advice of Sir Mungo
Malagrowther in re Margaret Ramsay, counselling
a little confinement, a little bread and water, and
a moderate, but wholesome, application of the rod,
ere she evinces a desire to undertake similar
expeditions to Soho-square.—Daily Telegraph.

It appears, according to Miss Newell's showing,
that on the evening of Wednesday week she left
her mother's house with a letter, to deliver to
a lady in Soho-square, when, in passing over
Westmi
nster-bridge, with whom should she meet
but Miss Emily Hobbs ? Now, Miss Hobbs was
wont herself to belong to the Drury-lane ballet,
and Jane Newell had enjoyed the advantage of
her acquaintance some twelve months since.
What should Miss Hobbs be doing but about to
visit a "lady friend" of hers ; and whateould have
been more pressing than her invitation to Miss
Newell 'to participate in her visit to the lady
friend? She was good enough to promise to ac-
company her afterwards to Soho-square, than
which nothing could be more nice or comfortable.
She was sympathetic, too, Miss Hobbs, condoling
with her companion on not having an engage-
ment, and stating that she herself had one
at Plymouth, but that she should not go. She
went instead to the Red Lion public-house
in Parliament-street, where she 'treated the
disconsolate ballet girl to a glass of sherry wine,
doubtless to keep up her spirits. Questioned 'by
Mr. Norton on the subject, Miss Newell strongly
asseverated that, though pressed to take another
glass of sherry, she confined herself to the singular
number ; but we cannot help thinking the question
to have 'been somewhat irrelevant..lt surely could
no more matter how many glasses of sherry Miss
Newell took than whether an erratic servant maid
has one love-child or several. Straight from this
roaring parliamentary " Lion" then hied the Misses
Hobbs and Newell ; but that letter to the lady in
Soho-square, who is not improbably the celebrated
Mrs. Harris, was not to be delivered yet. By all
appearances, it remains to this hour, lying perdu
in the limbo of an amateur Dead Letter Office.
Scorning the dingy purlens of cl-decant Soho, the
frolicsome maidens chartered a hackney-cab—was
it a Hansom, we wonder,?—and made for the more
aristocratic quartier of semi-Belgravia. It was in
Somerset-terrace, St. George's-road, Pimlico, that
Miss Hobbs's lady friend resided, and thither they
drove.

A conference on the pew system was held on Tuesday,
in Manchester, but it does not appear to have had any
definite results. A proposal for bringing a bill into
Parliament, securing existing rights, but designed "to
check the pew system," was made, but fell through.
In the Bankruptcy Court, London, on Tuesday, Mr.
Blunt, formerly a member of an old and influential legal
firm in the City, obtained a second-class certificate. His
failure was partly ascribed to the embarrassments of the
old firm, who had.embarked in huge building speculations.
k On Saturday the Huddersfield magistrates inflicted a
penalty of 20s, and costs 16s, 36s in all, on the landlord
of the Butchers' Arms, in Castlegate, for permitting
gambling in his house. The game played was called
the three-card trick,, by which one of the witnesses in
the case had been duped out of £2 12s 6d.
Amon CRAMPTON. -An address was .delivered by
Judge Crampton to the grand juries of the County and
City of Dublin, that may, perhaps, be looked upon as
his retiring speech. It concluded with a hope that a
bill would shortly be ,passed, by which towns and dis-
tricts should at any rate be allowed to exclude alcohol,
if' they were desirous of doing so. " Slavery," the
learned judge said, "had been abolished, within the
British dominions after a long struggle, and at the ex-
pense of twenty millions of money. And in like manner,
some of those wbo now hear me, may live to see the day
when the permissive bill shall become a statute, and
slavery to the despotism of strong drink shall be abolished
by law."

We have heard of the philanthropy of John
Howard, " guaging misery, and taking the mea-
sure of sorrow, plodding, a lifetime through prisons
and lazarets, and dying at last in the cause of
beneficence at Cherson. Ralph Allen, of Bath,
was a good man ; so was John Kyle, the " Man
of Ross," so was M. Edme Champion, the
" petit Manteau bleu" of Paris. But for genuine
philanthrophy, for unexampled beneficence, for
inexhaustible benevolence, commend us to Mrs.
Ellis, who [we are still quoting Miss Newell] is
Miss Hobb's lady friend. This Dorcas, this Lady
Bountiful, this most eleemosynary Mrs. Ellis, is to
be heard of in Somerset-terrace. She lives there,
in fact ; and we only withhold the number of her
charitable dwelling-house through fear of giving
vent to the epistolary eaeoethes of half the
begging-letter writers in London. Mrs. Ellis's
establishment is modestly—oh so " modestly"
—yet handsomely conducted. She has a tender
pledge of affection, a little boy, has Mrs.
Ellis,even as had Mrs. Bardell in " Pickwick ;"
her roof affords shelter to a Miss Stanley,
who follows the picturesque and convenient calling
of a dressmaker; she has two female servants and
a footman. Yes ; a footman. All is vanitas vani-
tatum ; and Mrs. Ellis is not exempt from human
failing. There seems a tender, almost conventual,
tranquillity pervading the retreat of Mrs. Ellis,
and mingled with her active benevolence, that
reminds us equally of the Reverend Mother Abbess
Heloisa at the Paracelete, and of "good Mrs."
Brown" in London.

A WOMAN KILLED BY 888 HUSBAND, AT WOLTER-
NAmPTorr.=At the borough police-court, on Tuesday,
William Thompson, a cabinet lock-maker, in Brickiln-
street, Wolverhampton, was ;charged with culpable
homicide. It seems that his wife is of dissipated habits,
and that on the latter part of Sunday last, and all the
following night, she had been pursuing a course of reck-
less drinking—her husband seeking her in vain among
the low haunts to which she was in the habit of re-
sorting. On Monday morning the wretched woman
returned home of herown accord, and several unpleasant
scenes occurred between them. Between one and two
o'clock, while their son and daughter were present,
another quarrel took place, in the course of which Mrs.
Thompson, as was positively sworn by one of the
witnesses, received a blow from her husband. She sank
on a chair in a state of insensibility, and died almost
immediately afterwards.
LIEBIG ON SEWERAGE.—This distinguished chemist
writes am firmly of opinion that if -England wishes
to remain an agricultural country, she must use as
manure the nightsoil, and similar residues produced in
large cities. This necessity would be increased in the
event of 'a war with America, when the supplies of guano
would cease. The price of corn depends upon that of
guano, and it is most unnatural that, in a country like
England, the production of corn and meat should be so
dependant on the supplies of foreign manure. The heads
of even the most enlightened agriculturists have been
turned by a theory propounded Mr. Lawe—viz., that
nitrogen or ammonia are the most necessary ingredients
in manure, and that consequently solid excrements are
valueless, the urine alone being of use. These views ex-
pose utter ignorance, and prove that in England leading
agriculturists do not pay sufficient attention to the fun-
damental principles of chemistry.

Excellent Mrs. Ellis received Miss Newell with
open arms. After Miss Hobbs had had some con-
versation with her, unheard by her companion—but
it was, doubtless, about Doctor Watts or the Bri-
tish Orphan Asylum—she would not hear of her
going home ; that home in future, she told her,
was to be her house ; and when Miss Newell men-
tioned the subject of her mother, the bounteous
Ellis stated that she "might do much better for
her mother by stopping where she was." She was
to be Mrs. Ellis's " companion ;" she was to be
treated with the greatest kindness ; and so Miss
Newell, adjourning the question of her mamma and
the letter-expecting lady in Soho-square, concluded
to stop with the philanthropist of Somerset-terrace,
whose portraiture would be incomplete were
we to omit to state that " her husband, who was
a gentleman, is gone to Australia.". As for Miss

THE GUNROAFS AND THE SLIP-WAY AT HASLER.—
Among those we visited was one, in the second tier of
ten, which was in excellent order, and which our
informant assured us could (notwithstanding the
fact that neither masts, coals, ammunition, nor
guns were on board), be made ready for active
service in about eight hours --- a most satisfactory
assurance, and one which was much increased by
the intimation that several others were in a simi-
larly forward condition. Punch, in an article on
the subject ("Ago at the gunboats") some seven months
since, compared the hauling of them up in their
present berths to the hanging up of our armour out of
reach. This comparison of our witty contemporary
will be considerably modified by alterations which are
now nearly completed. An improvement has been
made on the first formation of the incline, by which
a very objectionable and unsafe "jump" will be
dispensed with; a considerable depth of mud at the
lake-end of it has been cleared away, forming a kind of
basin, into or from which double the number of boats can
be launched or hauled up in the - same period of time as
before, and with the same steam appliances only as those
which have been in use from the first.—Hampshirs
Telefraph,
•

Hobbs, apparently delighted with the clovery pas-
tures into which her young friend was inducted,
she went away, saying that she would call again ;
but she did'nt ; and, like John Bunyan's Pilgrim,
they " saw her no more." Believing in the bound-
lessness of Mrs. Ellis's benevolence, and her
eagerness to do good, one might almost fancy that
she gave a commission, in tracts and hymn-books,
to those who supplied her yearning fold with
nin
lambs. So, we have heard, do recruiting sergeants
give a liberal allowance to "bringers.
NOW? Mrs. opfi g her goodness to
rs. Ellis, not