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LAW INTELLIGENCE--(This Day.)

(Sittings in Banco.—Before Lord Chief Justice Campbell,
Justices Coleridge, Wightman, and Erle.)

CRIMINAL INFORMATION FOR LIBEL-THE QUEEN ON THE
PROSECUTION OF THE REV. HENRY J. WILKINSON Y.

Mr. Pashley, Q.C., in this case, moved for a rule
calling on the defendant, an attorney, residing near
Bowness, in Westmoreland, to show cause why a crimi-
nal information should not be filed against him for a libel
reflecting on the character of the rev, gentleman in the
discharge of his sacred duties at a funeral. The Rev.
Mr. Wilkinson was curate of Lootan Pagnell, near Don-
caster, and at the time of the publication of the letter in
question was stipendiary curate of Bowness, near We:4-
moreland, and it was with reference to the burial of the
body of a female that had been drowned in lake Win-
dermere, that the libel in question arose, being in the
shape of a letter, published in July last, in the Carlisle
Patriot, bearing the signature of " Viator," in which the
writer charges the rev, gentleman with a total disregard
of his sacred duties at the funeral of the drowned person.
The learned counsel then read the following Setter, con-
taining the libel in question

" Sir,—l read in your last Friday's paper an account
of the drowning of a poor girl named Lucy Warriner, in
the Windermere lake, and of the inquest held on her
body, when the verdict was returned found drowned.
Of course this may be considered as an open verdict
and there is no doubt that the poor girl was the cause
of her own death. But would you believe it, or could
the revolting idea ever enter any person's head to ima-
gine ; but, nevertheless, it is true. When the funeral
took place and the coffin of poor Lucy was brought
alongside the grave, the stipendiary curate refused to
proceed with the service until the position of the coffin
was reversed and the head of the corpse instead of the
feet turned to the east. The parish clerk, who is also
the sexton, had to procure a hack and a spade and alter
the shape of the grave, while the sorrowing and ago-
nising relations of the deceased (who belong to the class
of `statesmen') stood by absorbed in grief and astonish-
ment,and the rev.Puseyite (altered by the editor to 'gentle
man') waited until the hateful' (altered to ' painful')
task was finished to his satisfaction before he would pro-
ceed with the funeral ceremony. I leave your readers
to judge and comment upon the specimen and unchari-
tableness and bigotry.—Your obedient servant,
"July 3, 1855." " VIATOII.

The affidavits stated that the statements contained in
the above letter were untrue and without foundation,
and that what was done on the occasion alluded to was
strictly in accordance with the canons a the Church of
England. It was also sworn that the rev, gentleman
did not perform the service, at this time having au assis-
tant, also that the sexton was absent, and the church-
warden perfcrming his duty for him. The affidavits of
the churchwarden, of that of a byestander, and also that
of the stepfather of the unfortunate girl, stated that the
funeral service was performed without any interruption,
and in the usual manner.
The court granted the rule.

CONDITION 0? THE .1) A Vt7/3 TAN PUN-
CIPAUTTE:S-Al/STUAN Pt";RFIDE

We believe the ~cca,ionerl to the G .17,1,17
lent, by the reports fi,pm :tod C,nstanti,,ople,
a.s to the pr.ct-edlng- of the Austrian array in the Dnnu-
nan Provinces. ba,; rf4c:ntly been wueb aggravated by
the occurrent:, of anticipated events, but evecially
the communication of some extraordinary information
from nonofficial quarters. We believe the facts now in
their possession, ought to leave no doubt on the minds
of Ministers as to the real character in which that per-
fidious, but feeble Power, called an Empire—and for
whose alliance the Western Powers have sacrificed so
much—contrived to introduce an army into those un-
happy provinces.

His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, among others, has
lately conveyed his views to his former colleagues, in
no mistaken language. We understand that in a
lengthy and important communication, to which he
was prompted by the result of his observation and in-
quiries in the East, his Grace not only expresses the
most grave apprehensions on the subject of the Aus-
trian occupation, but the opinion—which we were not
slow to promulgate from the very first—as to the
honesty of Austria in the military arrangement vo-
lunteered to the Porte. It may appear patriotic in his
Grace, to have thus, under the light of a better expe-
rience, spontaneously acknowledged the evil conse-
quences of the policy to which he hai been a consenting
party. But the Duke of Newcastle must have learnt
,sisclom in his generation, and it may have occurred to
him that a timely confes-ion may partially shelter him
individually from the execration which the sanctioning
of an Austrian occupation of the Danubian Provinces is
destined to stamp the Ministry of which he was a member.
Our readers may not be generally aware that, in the
understa,,cling between the first Napoleon and the Em-
peror Alexander, which followed their famous interview
on the river Niemen, in 1807, it was proposed that Auss
tria should participate in the gigantic territorial spolia-
tion which was then projected. Francis I. was to lend
•his military forces to the accomplishment of the ambi-
tious objects of the two Emperors, and was to receive as
his reward those three provinces of European Turkey
which she long coveted, and which she is still determined
to acquire—the provinces of Bosnia, Servia, and Bul-
garia. Russia, among other territories, required the
Northern Danubian Provinces, the lonian Islands, the
Herzogovine and' Montenegro ; while. Austria wou!
cede Lombardy, Venice, and Illyria to the French
empire.
But, foresight of Napoleon warned him against
giving Russia any ports or naval position in the Medi-
terranean, add this great project for changing the poli
tical and geographical divisions of Europe was abandoned
The Northern Colossus and the German Emperor never
relinquished designs which emanated from the very in-
stincts of a common traditional policy and a constant
political ambition. The present Emperor of Austria,
who, only a few pars ago, was obliged to solicit the
aid of the Northern tyrant to suppress the struggles for
independence of his own suljects, actually cherishes the
same unhallowed ambition with as much ardour and Call-
fidence as his predecessors.
We believe that, before the meeting of Parliament,
the views of Ministers will undergo a complete change
on the subject of the Austrian alliance, and that the
language of Lord Clarendon, if he is really dealing
honestly with the country, will be of a different character
and tone from that of the last two sessions. It will be
strange if Austria is at the same time found faithful to
the alliance and following the policy best calculated to
further the joint designs of Russia and her own ambiti-
ous views. Her pertinacity in opposing the entrance of
an Anglo-French force into the Danubian Provinces,
while, at the same time, the withdrawal of the Russian
garrisons of Ismail, Reid, &c., on the Danube and on
the frontier of Gallicia, leaving many points of territory
unprotected, would justify the strongest suspicion that
Austria is holding the provinces for other purposes than
those of the alliance. It will be well if the consequences
do not result in a war with that Power.—Morning Ad-
vertiser.

WINTER EXII1bI;ION OF.XICTUBE.S.

Cu Saturday-afternoon we had the satisfaction
of attending the Winter Exhibition annwlllv held
at the Gallery, 121, P4ll-inall East, or as they
would have deAcrined it in the Did f'gefie.l times—
" over against" the Cyera Colonnade. An exhibi-
tion this is, as its frequenters very well know, of
the most chequered and diversified character. It
includes, besides oil paintings, water-colour draw-
,isgs an engravings—specimens of sculpture, and
this season, beyond all other attractions, "A com-
plete Set" of Lithographs, Etchings, Line-engrav-
ings, and Mezzotintos "of and by" Sir Edwin
Landseer, the most popular, as he is also in his
own peculiar department one of the most illustrious,
of our Academicians. This solitary division of the
Catalogue extends, of itself, to the extraordinary
number of 278 altogether : very little .short of
three hundred engravings—line, etching, litho-
graph, and mezzotinto —" of or by a single
great-master ! How many old favourites there
are, of course —be sure of that among these
exquisite and varied examples of the genius of our
eminent animal-painter. ''High Life" and "Low
Life" (12 and 13)—the beautiful hound among
tapestry and fragments of old armour, and the vul-
gar cur with its congenial accessories of the clay
pipe and the pewter measure ! " Cat's paw" (130),
with its visible concert of flit !-spit !-miaou !-ing ! ! !
"The Travelled Monkey" (141), with its leathern
little visage wizened up into so many complacent
wrinkles of superiority over the broad mass of his
fellow-apes and co-baboons ! " Napoleon's Eagle"
(150), with the shadow of the hero's face shining
out sadly against the descending sun, typical of so
much glory passed away !
. . . .

"-A Rat A Rat !
Dead fur a Ducat ! Dead."

(230), with that little wiry rapscallion of a dog
trembling, quivering, bristling with expectancy !
" Alexander and Diogenes" (235)—the canine
cynic and the canine Lord of his Race ! " Peace"
and " War " (237 and 238), those wonder-
ful idealisations of an exquisite and ghastly
contrast—the smoke, and flame, and blood, and
agony of the one picture—the serenity and sweet-
ness, the sunshine and repose of the other, with
the sheep and lambs browsing on the heathery
down, hard by the rusty cannon, with the cobweb
spun across its unused muzzle ! "The Highland
Drovers departinc, for the South " (239), with its
charming groups o°f pastoral life in Caledonia—and
the famous "Return from Hawking" (243), in
which the artist, under the semblance of a glimpse
into the "olden time," has preserved for after times
the forms and features of the various members of
the comely family of the present accomplished Earl
of Ellesmere. "No Place like Home" (251)—
changing a miserable kennel into a sanctuary of
rest oy the mere magic of a sentiment borrowed from
the sweetest of the sweet songs of poor, dead Sir
Henry Bishop ! " Dignity and Impudence"
(266)—such an incongruous pair, the little yelping
puppet of a pup, cheek by jowl with the grand old,
sober mastiff ! " The Stag at Bay "—with its
erected antlers, tearful eyes, and distended nostrils;
•and " Eos " (278), limber and elegant, H.R.H.
the Prince Consort's favourite greyhound. Mingled
with these and other hardly less celebrated engrav-
ings " of and by " the great master—imagine the
interest of etchings such as " Heads of Sheep and
Cattle " (29), etched by Sir E. Landseer when eight
years of age ; " Donkeys" (30), etched by Sir E.
Landseer when nine years of age; "Cow and Calf "
(35), etched by Sir E. Landseer when ten years of
age, and so forth The collection from first to last
is, to say the least of it, wonderfully interesting.
Among the oil pictures ranged along the walls of
the Winter Exhibition are several which will, of
course, be at once recognised. F. Geo call's masterly
" Raising of the Maypole" (342), and James Thos.
Linnell's magical "Evening "(353), the latter with
those delicious ruddy dies of the sunset glowing in
among the countless twigs and innumerable green
leaves of the woody coppice, down in the twilight-
hollow, replete with its mysterious effects
of light-and-shadow. James Sant's " Early
Morn " (370)—" It is the Lark, the Herald
of the Morn," full of beauty, poetry, and fresh-
ness • A. Solomon's " The Sailor Boy's Return"
(371), with its almost audibly-told story of love
and adventure ; Clarkson Stanfield's "Entrance to
the Zuyder Zee " (376), with its wondrous confu-
sion of dancing waves and Dutch-coast scenery ;
Frank Stone's charming illustration to one of
Moore's Melodies (378)—a1l are things to be seen,
not merely heard of, and when seen to be mused over
in admiration. Mrs. S. Anderson, in (301) ".My
Last Sentry-Box," portrays an old red-coated
Chelsea pensioner in the snuggest little garden
smoking-box imaginable—a very nest of greenery !
While T. Jones Barker, in a spirited commemora-
tion of the glorious but deplorable " Charge of the
Light Cavalry" (307), has shown to all comers
that portion of the Great Charge in which its leader,
"the belted Earl of the nineteenth century," the
heroic Cardigan, acted the poetry after wards
written in such congenially impassioned numbers
by Alfred Tennyson, when the Laureate sang :
" Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd all at once in air,
Sabreing the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd :
Plunged in the battery-smoke,
Fiercely the line they broke ;
Strong was the sabre-stroke :
Making an army reel
Shaken and sunaer'd.
Then they rode hick, but not—

Not the six hundred."
Verses so noble and beautiful all of them, except-
ing only in as far as relates to that horrid Cockney
rhyme to " sunder'd" and " wonder'd" of—ugh !
it makes one shudder—" hun-derd 1" A passing
reference at least must be made by us to J. Mor-
gan's ingenious picture, "A Royal Game of Chess
—Scene in the Tuileries" (359), iu which the ima-
ginary antagonists are the Czar and our own
Monarch—the Emperors of France and Austria
being among the number of the lookers-on ! A
select collection of Water Colour Drawings by artists
such as Frederick Tayler and W. Topham, and
Mrs. M. Harrison—the last-mentioned flowerinc,
over with moss roses, lilacs, primroses, and convol-
voluses—with four " Marbles " by Alex. Munro,
complete the catalogue for this season of pictures
of the English School collected together in the an-
nual Winter Exhibition.

TRIALS OF FIRE ENGINES IN FRANCE.

A trial of twenty-three fire-engines, in the Paris Uni-
♦ersal Exhibition, took plane on the banks of the Seine,
between the Pont d'..A.lina and the Pont de l'Ecole Mili-
mire, in the presence of his Imperial Highness Prince
Napoleon, accompanied by the Secretary of the Impe-
rial Commission. These trials were, if possible, worse
managed than those of the English Exhibition of 1351,
the absurd and ineffectual attempt to systematise the ex-
periments on that occasion being entirely omitted in
Paris.

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Little account was taken, in the French experi-
ments, of the various elements upon which superiority
must necessarily depend, Even the distance to which
the water was projected was only ascertained by stepping,
no accurate measurements being taken. The exposed
and shelving bank of the river was but ill adapted for
the trial, and a maliciously high wind blowing at the
time sadly marred the fair proportions of the perform-
ance, the best engines being necessarily the greatest
sufferers. The engines were worked by a party of Sapeur
Pompiers, who exerted themselves in a very creditable
manner.

The first engine tried, and, as the result proved, the
first also in merit, was a London Brigade Fire Engine,
named " The Emperor," on the patent principle, manu-
factured and exhibited by Mr. Merryweather, of Long-
acre, London. This engine had two 7-inch pumps, with.
metal valves in separate valve chambers and spherica
air-vessel, the suction pipe being 3 inches, and theev,it
de-
livery 21 inches in diameter. Worked
threw a three-fourth inch jet upwards of 12bOyf2ee6gta, mvaondunitis.
elegant appearance and general performancerconstruction,
versa! satisfaction. An engine of
" The Prince Albert," in the Hydes-park
13-16th inch jet upwards of 137 fe;ttia, engine. In
attained by any, except the large u 1
engines been
fact, in no trial have Mr. Merry
weather'e
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handsomely
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found the
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trial took place ;
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to that of its 1•
shipv
A prettyfire-engine, named The Admiral, by Mr.
Merryweather, could not be tried, in
, consequence of the
bratreb-piPO
having been lost. A farmer's fire-engine,
by Mr. Baddeley, of London, was tried, and its perform-
limuch satisfactionAeing far beyond what could
i
'ce gave
have been expected from such a portable and easily-
worked machine. Mr. Lemoine, of Canada, was also an ,
exhibitor at Paris, and his engine worked well ; but, like
that of Mr. Perry, required too many men to work it.
M. Letestu, of Paris, exhibited several excellent en-
gines, but none of any great power. Considerable
efforts were made to establish a superiority on behalf of
31. Letestu's engines, and the Moniteur went so far as
to assert that the French engines beat the Canadian
and English ; " whereas," says the Times' correspondent,
" the fact is that its performance was the worst of the
three." The fire-engines of M. Letestu attracted much
l
notice in the Exhibition of 1851, and a prize medal
was awarded him, but the performances were t of equal
to those of the few English ei:gines that were thenl tried.een
The perforated plate valve of M. Letestu has lately been
introduced, with much advantage, into
.th 4
(used in
steam fire-engines. M. Fland's fire-engines
Paris) gave much satisfaction ; but the ea'l suction-
pipe, with its right-angled sharp turnings,swis very ob-
jectionable. Several German engine
their performances were very mediocre. re tried, but
- :,,

-.T..1.,
LiTriThAI7I7REL

Law and Practice of Limited Liability. By E.

• Cox, barrister-at-law. John C.lOckford.
To al! parties desirous of becoming acquainted
with the law aul practice of limited liability this
work nr-ty he recommended as a useful manual.
Justly cunsid ring that without the Joint-Stock
Companies Registration A-zt the Limited Liability
Act is useless and unintelligible, the author has put
the two acts together, and prefaced them with Er
short practical treatise on the law and practice of
Joint-stock companies, in which the proceedings to
be taken for the purpose of forming and conduct-
ing a joint-stock company, together with many
.useful suggestions of a practical nature, are given
in such a manner as to be intelligible to the public
as well as the profession. Though apparently un-
friendly to the principle of limited liability the
author has not the Jess succeeded in giving .a po-
pular exposition of its application by recent enact-
ment.

The North British Review.

Pursues its way as steadily, and with as much
practical purpose as can reasonably be desired. It is
quite possible that you may meet occasionally with
articles of greater brilliancy in some of its con:tern-
' poraries, but you repair to it with the certainty of
finding subjects of interest ably handled, and a
number of them chosen with a more than usuaNy
direct application to the necessities of the times,
The opinions advanced may not, it is true, in some
instances, meet with your approbation, nor the
conclusions drawn your assent, but it would be
difficult to withhold your admiration of the flesh.
and-blood earnestness perceptible throughout its
pages, an earnestness you would desire to meet
with more frequently elsewhere. In the present
number the subject of education engrosses a large
share of consideration, and is treated with a direct
application to the necessities of the times. In the
opening article, which, with numerous and striking
faults of style, is evidently the production of one
essentially qualified for his task, the need and pos-
sibility of a special education for manufacturers,
in order to the improvement of manufactures, are
forcibly pointed out. Owen's College, Manchester,
suggests to him a nucleus for the establishment of
the sort of institution required, viz., one where in-
struction in both abstract and applied science may
be carried on, and that without interference
with the studies now pursued there. " The
Paris Exhibition and the Patent Law "
attests the appropriateness of the preceding
article and the judgment of its writer.
With irresistible logic the painful truth is enforced
that unless we advance at a more rapid rate in me-
chanical art than we are doing we will be beaten
out of the market by foreigners, and especially
Frenchmen, who are rivalling us in branches of
manufacture in which our superiority had long
been incontestible, at the same time surpassing us
in others of a nice character, and all owing to a
better education. Even Mr. Mechi is forced to
confess that French cutlery is now equal to ours.
A third article on the subject of education deals
with " Home Reformation and Christian Union,"
on the whole in a fair and enlightened spirit.
" France under the House of Orleans" .is the least
satisfactory paper of the number ; its attempt to
show that the Citizen King eschewed governing by
corrupt means being to our thinking by ruo means
so successful as its strokes at the statesmen of that
day. The speculation of the writer respecting the
present ruler of France we will only advert to to
remark that if the Emperor relies on his own judg-
ment and instincts, and resists the Circean spells of
Gcrinan flattery and wile, his " star " is not likely
to fail him till his work is accomplished. " Books
from Ireland," and "Government by Parties or by
Statesmen," suggest many important reflections,
and contain a number of valuable remarks on our
past and existing political condition. " Samuel
Butler;" and " Fielding and Thackeray " are bonne
bouches for the literary palate, the former present-
ing us with some interesting information of a
biographical nature respecting the author of " Hu-
dibras" and his career, and the second doing pretty
much the same for the author of " Amelia," as well
as successfully vindicating Thackerayfrom the charge
so urgently-preferred against him of representing men
and women as worse than they are : "Let the reader
take a glance," says the writer, "first over the
score or so of portraits in the Newcomes,' and then
over a score or so of his own acquaintance—in-
cluding, of course, himself,'and let him candidly say
whether, the numbers pre-supposed being equal, he
knows as many worthy people as Mr. Pendennis,
in his editorial capacity, pretends to depict. Of
course we are assuming, though this is, perhaps,
unfair, that our reader knows his own friends and
himself as intimately as he is allowed to become
acq sainted with that most respectable family,' the
Newcomes, and those who are associated with it.
This, however, being premised, we certainly should
judge him happy if, among his peculiar score, he
can find matches for the great-minded gentleman,
Colonel Newcome ; the high and sweet lady, the
Countess of Florae ; the (considering the disadvan-
tages of her bringing up) remarkably right-minded
Miss Ethel ; the frank and honourable boy Clive ;
the honest and independent, and withal amiable,
Miss Honeyman ; the immaculate matron, Mrs.
Laura ; the unpretentious wife-and-home loving
member of Parliament, her husband • the meek
man of genius, J. J., not to speak Of others of
less significant, or a more mixed quality, as F.
Bayham, Sherrick, George Barnes, Lady Walham,
De Florae, Lord Kew, Miss Cann, and half-a-
dozen others, who are right at heart,' as the
cant and very questionable phrase goes. Against
this galaxy of excellence, what have we of the ut-
terly abominable to put in the scale ! Only Barnes,
Newsome, Mrs. Mackenzie, Mrs. Hobson New-
come, and Lady Kew, all of whom, except the last,
let it be allowed (tor it is true), are extremely com-
mon characters, though we have not, commonly,
the means of becoming so thoroughly and philoso-
phically acquainted with them as in these instances.
Why do we go on calling ourselves miserable sin-
ners' on Sundays, if we are to abuse Mr. Thackeray
on week-days for making out many of us to be
somewhat less than saints The plain fact is, that
Mr. Thackeray is decried for exactly that quality
which constitutes his originality, namely, his faith-
fulness to some important point or points of truth
hitherto denied or disregarded. We are all, nomi-
nally, orthodox on the point of human imperfection
in the abstract, but now that Mr. Thackeray insists
on proving in detail that there is really some sub-
stantial verity in the charge, he meets with a moss
heretical roar of di-approbation. He is the
Athanasius of the doctrine of human peccability."
The writer is not far from the truth when he re-
marks that "we are all disciples of that school of
the new science of moral anatomy of which Mr.
Thackeray is the master ;" and " it is emphatically
true of him, as of all other great writers, that I.'.e
is
only sustaining the age in the direction which
is
spontaneously taking." The number e
with an earnest exposition andenforcemnent:bonjfe'c'tThoef
Significance of the Struggle," the
gurablicd mind the
the writer being to impress on the
all-important truth that "the Crimea
no circumstances and on no conditions, p must,be
restored
under
provinces must
to Russia, and her Transcaucasian
be wrested from her.'

nd Evans._-
.
The Ferns of Great
Britazn, an
,c 1 Ireland.produ c t
iy,
Thomas Moore, F.L.S. Bradbury
The eighth part of this splendid
which, as our readers may remember, is edited by
the moss learned of our living botanists, Mr. Lind-
this instalment process designated
ipy, and illustrated by a new
Bradbury. The
Nature Printing, by Mr. Henry
Ferns presented in
beautiful specimens of a b‘
trea dilatata Glandulosa " uient are the " Las-
Chanterioe," and the 1 the
wc:ln:tisot lout "Lastrea dilatata, dumeto-
rum,"faithfully rendered. aljutaisfturletaridbeilarataotsat
scale,asA work of this sort, on such
aart, contribute to the progress of
gestive is the promote the study of botany, so sug-
trated therein ' graceful and delicate tracery, illus-
trated with so much fidelity and skill.

The Iland Place Book of the United Kingdom.

Blackie and Son.

The value of this abstract from the Census of
1851. will be apparent when it is stated that within
the compass of an exceedingly small pocket volume
(you may put it in your waistcoat pocket) ivlllo,°„°
found references of daily use to uwards of 15,t
localities in Great Britain and Ireland.. Thesec the
em-
brace the population of all the pa.rishesof
Eng.
United Kingdom, the area of the paris
land and Ireland (the area of Scotlantdohivweisaass ntootwrne:
turned), the population of
ships, villages, and hamlets on: f
tbodtoOths eooiffr
tvinhabitantsathhaeer'ckoUnitede ut.sna taniredes
upwards, and the days on which
held, together with tbe
and the smaller inhabited an
Kingdom. In addition to this mass of useful. infor,
mation, which is presented in the most immediately
available form, tabular abstracts of the educational
and ecclesiastical statistics of the country are given,
which statistics, of course, contribute to the utility
of this happily-conceived and well-digested work.

A return issued yesterday shows that the number
of resident students at the University of Cambridge is
1,844, being 52 fewer than at this time last year.
AUSTRALIA.—GoId arrivals from Australia continue
to be anxiously looked for from day to day, the Ballarat,
which made the passage in 69 days, and the advices .by
which were received more than a fortnight back, having
brought intelligence of several vessels being about tobsee:
alrubNt immediately after her departure. Alnorigfl
were the Oliver Laing and the Surprise, whietb,__i
sailed at their appointed time, have been oua. 103 day '
day'.
the White Star out 77 days, and the lient