The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-20 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1855.

points. The first startling assertion is that
" the Russians did not intend holding the
South Side longer than was necessary to give
them time to remove their hospitals, their
guns, and whatever else they considered indispen-
sable." If this were so they must have devoted a
very useless amount of labour to work very badly
performed. After all the myriads of lives that
had been wantonly sacrificed, and when at length
the golden opportunity for which, according to
this half-breed doctor, they had so long panted,
and the advantages whereof were so apparent to
all parties, that "it was a matter of congratula-
tion even among the common soldiers," they
left behind them many hundreds of their wounded
men, uncared for, and disregarded, to the tender
mercies of their conquerors ! So much for the
hospitals, while the 4,000 pieces of cannon, and
the enormous stores captured, proved beyond the
possibility of doubt, that they had not thought
more of their ordnance and other things that
might have been considered indispensables, than
of their sick and wounded.

The second branch of the subject relates to the
complete command in which the Northern Forts
held the South side of the city, which they could,
teste Davega, crush at any moment. If this be so,
their forbearance is indeed miraculous, and with
the " 300,000 well-disciplined, well-equipped,
well-provisioned, and every way effective troops"
which they have on the road between Odessa and
the Camp, it is only astonishing that they should
so long have refrained front driving the invaders
into the sea, and purifying the soil of Holy
Russia from the pollution of a hostile army.
We shall not condescend to refute the
atrocious and infamous calumny against our gal-
lant soldiers, who, according to the veracious
DAVEGA, were " worsted in every battle, and
only saved from destruction by their French
allies." Alma, Balaklava, Inkerman, confute the
wilful liar in every point, and leave him an ob-
ject of universal contempt.
But, we may ask, What does Attorney-General
CUSRING intend to do with him ? If it be a
crime to try to enlist American citizens, it is also
a grave offence to engage in these Filibus-
tering expeditions. We commend, then,
Dr. DAVEGA to the especial notice of
the American prosecutor, "who can have no
difficulty in the case, inasmuch as the ground is
cleared for him by the confession of the delin-
quent that he had been eleven months receiving
Russian pay, and fighting against an Ally of the
United States. In such case a conviction would
be certain, and it is incumbent on the Attorney-
General for the time being to vindicate the ma-
jesty of the law, and to bring the so-called Dr.
DAVEGA to justice.

Some parties in the United States seem desirous
of pushing the electioneering trick of Mr. CALEB
CusinNa to tho utmost extent by stimulating the
passions of the People against those springing
from the same stock, speaking the same language,
and professing a like devotion to free institutions
with themselves. We do not wonder, for there
are always persons ready and willing to follow in
any beaten track, however dirty—to strive to
rival any mendacity, however flagrant—who
seek to attract notoriety in any shape, however
unenviable.

Among the obligations of a corporate body
entrusted with the management of local works,
and drawing their revenues from local taxation,
is a careful and economical expenditure. This is
so obvious that no arguments appear necessary to
enforce its truth. Au economical expenditure,
however, does not necessarily involve the with-
holding of so much money. It is possible to be
penny wise and pound foolish, and while taking
measures apparently of an economical na-
ture, to risk rendering your disbursements
comparatively useless. And this would
appear to be the case with the Burn-
ley Commissioners, who, it will be seen, by a
paragraph in another column, have decided by a
large majority at a recent meeting, " That no
addition shall be made to the salary of any officer
or servant of the Commissioners unless the office
so proposed to be increased shall first become
vacant by resignation or otherwise !"

Now any one in the least acquainted with
human nature must perceive at once the miserable
folly of this procedure, which by no possibility
can be of any advantage whatever to the rate-
payers. If the Commissioners possess common
sense they should be aware that by withdrawing
hope from intelligent exertion you brutalise it,
or cause it to seek another field for its manifests-
' tion, and that without intelligent officers no cor-
porate body entrusted with important duties can
properly discharge there. Yet by passing this
motion the Commissioners have, in effect, said to
their ill-paid servants—Be as attentive to your
duties as you may—be perpetually on the
watch if you please to embrace opportu-
nities for vsefulness—save the public by your
suggestions what you may you must not
look for an increase of salary. We, in our pri-
vate capacity, are encouraged to exert ourselves
to the utmost in our several avocations by the
prospect of a corresponding reward ; but we expect
you to display a sublimer virtue, and expend your
energies in our service, without any prospect at
all beyond the continuance of your present pit-
tance." Anything more monstrous than this can-
not well be conceived. It may, however, be re-
plied, that the regulation does not exclude the
prospect of an increase of salary. In terms we
admit it does not ; but those who know the petty
arts to which local cliques have recourse know
well what will be the result. Under it the best
servant of the Commissioners, seeking an increase
of salary, will, however long and valuable
may have been his services, incur the utmost risk
of losing his situation, and there will be great
danger of the ratepayers of Burnley being ill-
served. There are, however, other considerations
which render the regulation peculiarly unwise
and impolitic. All public bodies occupy a posi-
tion and possess an influence which entail on them
as a special obligation the task of setting a good
example. The Commissioners, of all others,
should have taken care to have displayed an
equitable feeling towards their servants, were it
only because of the evil results that must follow
a contrary course ; and this obligation should, of
all times, have been respected at the present,
when the relations between capital and labour
are in so critical a state. Who knows what per-
nicious influence their examplemafyorhaavney eceodnn
pri-
vate employers, only too anxious
mode of escape from their difficulties?
mlisn
tsiiosneorts
to be wondered at that one of the Commissioners
should have parted company with the rest, in-
dignant at their procedure ; for, unless theyspeedily retrace their steps, there is not a man, of
sense and good feeling who would do otherwise.

The most recent example of the class is a cer-
tain Doctor DAVEGA, who has, or professes to have,
been engaged in the Russian service at Sebastopol,
in the capacity of surgeon of the medical staff,
which he left at the rather critical period when
the Russians had, according to this veracious
authority, acquired the great advantage (!)—risum
teneatis amici—of abandoning the south side of
the beleaguered city to its assailants. It was rather
a suspicious time for the valiant Doctor to desert
the banner under which he had voluntarily en-
rolled himself, or to find " urgent private affairs"
to call him back to his trans-Atlantic domicile.
We shall do our American brethren the justice to
say that they seldom permit such matters to in-
terfere with a fixed resolution, or impede duties
in which they had deliberately engaged. With
them there are " nutlet vestigia retrorsum," so long
as there is the slightest prospect of ultimate I
success. The case must be hopeless indeed when
they would withdraw from the cause which they
had undertaken. It is, therefore, scarcely pro-
bable that the soi-disant Doctor DAVEGA is a
genuine American. His name indicates that he
has not by the father's side, at all events, any of
the true Anglo-Saxon blood. He seems to be
rather one of those mongrel half-breeds that are
regarded with such unmitigated contempt through-
out the entire Union, and whose qualities of
slightly honesty and veracity are so very
de-
veloped.
Doctor DAVEGA. seems to have " out-Cott.
philo-Muscovite, and to have
maned" the original
left the original professors, FERDINAND MENDEZ
PINTO and the renowned Baron MUNCHAUSEN,
and even his prototype, Doctor LEMUEL GULLI-
7-Eit) in the background. They dealt in matters
physically impossible, but which could only be
contradicted by an appeal to the laws of nature—
but the more courageous DAVEGA speaks of mat-
ters in which his enormous falsehoods can be con-
troverted by thousands and tens of thousands of
living witnesses,
all of whom are prepared to
utter an indignant denial of such flagrant per-
version, or rather infamous disregard of the real
facts.

Joseph Wagner, convicted of enlisting men for the
British Foreign Legion to servo in the Crimea, was sen-
tenced on the let inst. by Judge Ingersoll, of the
United States' District Court, to two years' imprison-
ment and to pay a fine of $lOO.
DEATH OF SIR W. PILKINGTON.—The Staffordshire
Advertiser records the death of Sir William Pilkington,
Bart. This youthful baronet had been for a short time
somewhat indisposed, but he only experienced serious
illness, two or three days previous to his decease.
SWITZERLAND.--The following are the names of the
successful candidates at the recent elections in Geneva :
MM. James Fazy, Touste, Fontanel, Duchosal, Piquet,
Bonnet, and Braitmayes. There were 10,353 voters, of
whom, 6,194 voted for M. Fazy. The coalesced conger•
vatives and socialists obtained only from 4,300 to 4,500
votes.
EN Am.—A royal decree was published on the
13DthatMCRopenhagen, distinguishing the affairs which
will be recognised as peculiarly appertaining to the go-
vernment of Schleswig, and announcing a revision of
the constitution of that duchy, with a view to bring it
into harmony with the new constitution for the whole
monarchy.
PRllSSlA.—Notwithstanding "the pressure put upon
the electors of Berlin by the Kiug in his letter to the
Communal Council of the capital, the liberals returned
three out of the five members chosen in the complemen-
tary elections on the 15th hag,

STEAM-SHIP PACIFIC•

it is impossible to follow this " multifarious
liar" through his numerous variations from truth.
The statement that appeared in the New York,
Herald, of the 25th ult., and which will be found
in another part of this day's impression, must
speak for itself, and our readers will easily detect
the gross and palpable mendacity. We may,
owever, briefly. allude to :onae few of the •aliont,

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY RVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1855.

SOUTHWARK ELECTION—(This Day.)

It will be remembered that M. Brentana was on a special
mission to Berlin, in order to fix the values of Austrian
and Prussian money, in connection with the states of
the Zollverein. That eminent financier has brought
his mission to a close, and reports that the fixed value of
the thalers and florins of the Convention are as follow :
Oce florin' 30 kreutzeri, Austrian money ; and one
florin, 45 kr. of the Zollverein, are equal in intrinsic
value to a Prussian thaler.
The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rot-
terdam produce-markets state that business had been
active at a general improvement in prices. The prin-
cipal operations had been in sugar and rice, but tea,
coffee, and indigo had also been favourably influenced
by purchases.
RPRESENTATION OF TAIINTON.—A vacancy in the re-
presentation of Taunton will take place in consequence
of the appointment of Mr. Labouchere to the office of
Colonial Secretary. At the last election the right hon.
gentleman came in at the head of the poll, having ob-
tained 430 votes, Mr. Arthur Mills, 361, and Sir Thos.
Colebrooke, 358. On Mr. Mills being unseated on pe-
tition, two candidates presented themselves, Sir J. W,
Ramaden being returned by 372 votes against Mr.
Henry Badcock, who received 367.
FRAUD ON A RAILWAY COMPANY.—Mary Morris, of
3, Steine-street, Brighton, was charged at the Borough
Bench on Saturday, before A. Bigge, Esq. (stipendiary),
T. Warner and F. A. Argles, Esqs., and Lieut.-Colonel
Fawcett, with a breach of the railway company's bye-
laws, in attempting to ride in a third-class carriage with-
out having first paid the fare. A practice is known to
prevail in Brighton of purchasing the tickets of London
excursionists on their arrival in Brighton and re-selling
them to other parties, and the defendant was proved to
have possessed herself of a ticket in this way, and seated
herself in the return excursion train, whence she was re-
moved. Mr. Runnacles, on her behalf, urged that inas-
much as the bye-laws were printed on paper and then
stuck on board, the requirements of the act, that they
must be "painted on boards," had not been complied
with, and therefore that the information must be dis-
missed. Mr. Faithfull, on behalf of the company, con-
tended that the act did not intend to specify the mate-
rial of the publication—whether water-paint or oil-paint,
but simply that the bye-laws should be made known by
some colours which delineated the words. But, setting
this aside altogether, he pointed out a clause in the act
which specified that in support of an information for an
infringement of the bye-laws it should be sufficient evi-
dence of the due making publication if a copy under the
seal of the company, purporting to be a copy of the bye-
laws, should be produced ; and this had been done. The
magistrates concurred, and fined the defendant 21. and
costs, or a week's imprisonment.
ANOVEL OBJECTION.—John Jenkins, a sturdy Welsh-
man, was summoned before the magistrates at Chelten-
ham last week for non-payment of the burial-board rate,
and, on being asked why he did not pay the rate, replied
that he thought it extremely hard that he should pay for
burial ground whilst he was alive. (Roars of laughter.)
He thought it was quite time to pay when he was dead.
(Continued laughter.) It was intimated to defendant
that it was only payment "in advance," and he was
ordered to pay with costs.
EXTENSIVE FIRE.—A little past eight o'clock on Sa-
turday morning, fire broke out in the extensive soap and
oil works of Messrs. George Hutchison and Co., Port-
Dundas. The premises are about 300 feet in length, by
35 in breadth. With the exception of the soap-boiling
house, the whole range, within an hour from the com-
mencement, was destroyed. The loss, property and
stock included, is little short of 15,0001. Through the
exertions of the workmen in the employment of Mr. T.
D. Doddrell, that gentleman's fine mansion-house, which
is situated on Craigball-road opposite the premises de-
stroyed, was saved. The great heat burnt the windows,
and the fire having communicated with the blinds and
muslin curtains, part of the furniture was destroyed. The
fire originated in the soap pressing-room—cause un-
known.—North, British Daily Mail.
THE STRIKE LT MANOHESTER.—From 300 to 400 of
the operatives on strike at Manchester assembled yester-
day and walked in procession through the streets. They
were orderly and peaceable throughout. Their numbers
have been increased by the strike of about 75 persons at
Fothergill's mill, and the number out of employment at
Messrs. Birley and Co.'s has been increased from 300,
which was the number on Saturday, to about 800.
About 330 operatives additional to the number pre-
viously announced have been thrown out of work at the
other mills where strikes occurred last week.
SIR R. PIEL.—On Monday evening, Sir R. Peel,
Bart., delivered a lecture at the Public Hall, Leaming-
ton. The lecture was entitled, "An Evening with the
Poets ; with recitals of beautiful and powerful passages;
or a Trip through Europe to the Seat of War ; with a
pocket edition of Shakspere and the Poets." In the
course of his address, when describing a continental
journey undertaken by the poet Moore, the hon. baronet
said that Moore, like most young people, was determined
to see as much as he could, and he travelled with a com-
panion whose reputation had since risen to an amazing
height—whose travels bad not always been as fortunate
as when he accompanied Tom Moore—he referred to
Lord J. Russell. Lord John had, as they knew, subse-
quently risen to great eminence, and had recently made
a most unfortunate journey to Vienna to discuss four
points. The first, second, and fourth points were con-
ceded, and the first half of the third ; but he upset the
last half of the third, and then came back and upset him-
self.—Birmingham, Journal.
'KNIGHT EATING-HOUSE FOR PRINTERS.—At the City
Council proceedings on Monday, a petition was pre.
sented and referred to the Public Works Committee,
from Mr. Charles Jones, and about three hundred prin-
ters, praying for permission t ) keep open a restaurant
at night for the use of those whose occupation obliges
them to continue hard at work for many hours after
their neighbours are in bed. Such an establishment
would lie a great boon to compositors, readers, and re-
porters, who are often compelled, in order that the
" latest intelligence " may be placed upon the table of
the public, to be about long after midnight.—Melbourne
Aye.
ALARMING FIRE.—CARDIFF, Nov.l9.—Between eight
and nine o'clock on Sunday night, when the officers of
the Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry were in the mess-
room, an alarm of fire was given by the mess waiter.
The officers immediately proceeded to examine the pre-
mises, and discovered the fire to have originated in the
kitchen, the walls of which bad been so excessively hot,
owing to three large fires kept constantly burning for
cooking purposes, that the joisting in the walls became
ignited, and but for the timely alarm and prompt exer-
tions of the officers and men the entire establishment
mast have fallen a prey to the devouring element. As
it is the fire was confined to one room immediately over
the kitchen, occupied by the house and kitchen maids,
whose dresses, &c., were d estroyed. On the alarm
being given the bugles sounded the "turn-out." In a
few minutes the entire regiment was on the spot, and
rendered every assistance, conveying water i buckets
from the canal to the fire-engine with great rapidity, and
kept up the supply while necessary. In the meantime
a pump in the back kitchen afforded an ample
Fupp.y,
and by a continual pouring of bucknA of water on the
floor and wall the fire was kept under until the engine
began to play. Fortunately the damage and loss has
been inconsiderable, and confined to the servants. Se-
veral of the inhabitants exerted themselves to the ut-
most. The officers present were the General, Major
Goldfinch, Captains Tyler and Abbott, Lieut. Kenneth
Keller, Ensign Shortis, and Messrs. O'Grady and
Thomas.
BREAD MEETINGS ON SUNDAY.—Three open-air meet-
ings were held on Sunday in South Staffordshire and
the neighbourhood of Birmingham upon the subject of
the high price of bread. Two of these meetings were in
the morning ; one at Spon-lane, Staffordshire, and the
other at Deritend-pool, near Birmingham. At the
former 10,000 people were present, and it was resolved
to send a deputation to the Queen to represent the al-
leged grievances of the people in the matter of dear
bread. At Deritend-pool about 1,000 persons were
present, and several speeches were made by operatives.
The afternoon meeting took place at Hockley Pool, near
Birmingham, and was attended by 1,200 persons. Here
the proceedings were mixed up with the People's Charter
and the writings of Mr. Urquhart. A Mr. G. White
read a memorial to the Queen which had been agreed to
in the morning at the Spon-lane meeting. It was to
the effect that the people of South Staffordshire were
suffering great pri•,..ions i n consequence of the high
price of food ; and prayed her Majesty to issue an
order prohibiting the exportation of grain, and to esta-
blish public granaries, and check undue speculation in
corn. Mr. White stated that he had written to her
Majesty's private secretary, asking when it would be
convenient to receive the deputation, and that he had
received an answer to the effect that memorials to the
Queen should be presented through the Secretary of
State for the Home Department. The speaker pro-
ceeded to say that the memorial had been the result o!
a solemn vote from a respectable meeting at Spon-lane,
and that if the Queen would not accept it from the
people, they would depute two members of Parliament
to present it, and that it should not be sent to Sir
George Grey to burn in the fire. He
pre then asked if the
sented to the
meeting wished the memorial to be
Rueen and not to Sir G. Grey, and nearly all the per-
sons present held up both hands. In conclusion, the
speaker proposed a resolution which he sad had been
adopted at the Spon-lane meeting, declaring that " a
full and free representation of the people was the only
remedy for their grievances." This proposition, how-
ever, was not seconded. It was announced that another
similar meeting is to be held next Sunday. A Mr.
Hawkins said he had that morning addressed a meeting
which was held at Kidderminster, and was attended by
5,000 persons. The inhabitants of that town were now
wide-awake and intended next week to hold a torchlight
meeting. He recommended the imitation of their ex-
ample. The meeting then quietly dispersed.
"ALICE GREY."—From the time of her committal to
the county gaol at Stafford until Saturday this extraor-
dinary woman has been attended by one or two female
turnkeys ; but on that day it was considered, as well by
the surgeon as the visiting justices, that she was in a fit
state of mind to be left alone, and towards evening she
was accordingly locked up in her cell alone. She was
occasionally watched, and for some time appeared quite
composed, and began to undress for bed. In a few mi-
nutes, however, a noise was heard against her cell door.
When it was opened it was found that she bad fallen
against it, apparently in a partial state of suffocation,
produced by the smoke of straw which was burning in
the cell. It was then found that the prisoner had un-
sewed the pillow-case and taken out the straw, which
she had set fire to by means of the gaslight in the cell.
On being questioned as to her intention, she stated that
she meant to place the bed upon the burning straw, and
lying upon the bed, to burn herself to death. Whether'
she was partially stupified with smoke, and fell against
the door, or whether, being alarmed at the position in
which she had placed herself, she endeavoured to obtain
assistance by making a noise, it is difficult to determine.
Upon, that point a difference of opinion exists at the
gaol, as well R 3 with regard. also to the woman's sanity.
Happily for her she sustained no injury from this very
rash act, which might well lioTe coot her her life.

The election of a member of Parliament for the
borough of Southwark to fill the vacancy in the repre-
sentation caused by the lamented death of Sir W.
Moleswortb, Bart., took place this morning at the
Town Hall, Borough. In consequence of the retire.
ment of Mr. Scovell, the proceedings were devoid of
much of the interest which would otherwise have at-
tached to them.

The morning was cold, wet, and uncomfortable, a
drizzling rain falling the whole of the day, which pro-
bably accounted for the small number of persons
assembled in front of the Town•hall.

At 12 o'clock the doors of the hall (a small building,
not capable of containing more than from 200 to 250
persons) were opened, and the confined area was speedily
densely filled by the admirers and supporters of the
gallant admiral, whose appearance was ♦ociferously
hailed, and again and again renewed, and familiarly re-
cognised by shouts of " Elilloa, Charley !" and the like
expressions.

Mr. H. D. Pritchard, the High Bailiff, presided, and
among those present were Messrs. C. Legg, J. Brithen,
C. Sharpe, J. Harris, J. Howard, W. Newman, and
Drs. Evans and Roberts.
The writ having been read,

The HIGH BAILIFF, in addressing the electors, said
the present proceedings were impressed with deep and
melancholy interest in consequence of the decease of Sir
Vim. Molesworth, their late representative, a gentleman
of no ordinary stamp, and who, during the time he was
in Parliament, was no idle member, but one who was
always at his post, advocating measures for the benefit
of his fellow-creatures. After tracing the political and
literary career of the deceased gentleman, in the
course of which he paid a high tribute to his great
honesty of principles and literary talents, and lament-
ing the premature decease of that gentleman, called on
the electors to propose a candidate to fill the present
vacancy.

Mr. LEGG said it was the duty of a constituency to
select the most fit and proper person to represent
them in Parliament. He regretted having again,
under such melancholy circumstances, so soon to appear
before them to promise a gentleman for that office.
As the vacancy bad to be filled up he knew no one
more fitting to represent them than Sir Charles Napier.
(Cheers.) There were times when they should not, i❑
conducting a great war, have " namby-pamby " fighting,
but attack our enemies as vigorously as they would
and did us. Sir Charles was not anxious to enter the
house merely to confront Sir James Graham, but to de
his duty to his country, in watching the actions of the
government, in seeing that they properly conducted the war
in which we were now engaged. Mr. Scovell had wisely
withdrawn from the present contest, finding the electors
of the borough were unpurchaseable, and consequently
that his money could not return him. (Cheers and dis-
approbation.) He concluded by nominating Sir Chas.
Napier as a fit and proper person to represent them in
Parliament. (Cheering and much confusion from the
crowded state of the hall.)
Dr. EVANS seconded the nomination.

The HIGH BAILIFF inquired if any other gentleman
hal a candidate to propose, but was met with cries of
"No, no," and cheers.

Mr. VICKERS then addressed the electors in support
of the gallant admiral, contending this was emphati-
cally the time when the country wanted such a man in
the House of Commons as Sir Charles Napier, and that
he was deserving of the highest honours his fellow-calm-
trymen could confer upon him.
No other candidate having been forthcoming,
The HIGH BAILIFF declared the unanimous election
of Sir Charles Napier amidst enthusia-tic cheering.
Sir CHARLES NAPIER, on coming forward, was again
received with a round of hearty cheers. He said there
was one part of the writ which the High Bailiff had read
to which he was afraid they had paid no attention. They
were desired to send a man to Parliament who was a
"discreet man," but he was afraid they had made a bad
choice in that respect in electing him as their representa-
tive, because he had hitherto been considered by many
as an indiscreet man. (Laughter.) He would, however,
endeavour to mend his ways for the future, and show
those who bad chosen him that he was a discreet man, if
not the right man. (Cheers and laughter.) With re-
ference to his operations in the Baltic, he did all within
the reach of possibilities, and his sailors had done as
' much as it was competent for seamen to do. If he bad
been so inconsiderate as to have decided on attacking
Sweaborg, there was not a man in the fleet who would
not have given three cheers and gone with him under the
walls of that fortress. (Cheers.) War had not been

carried on in the Baltic this year as it ought to have
been, which was owing, not to the gallant Admiral in
command of the fleet, but to the Government or the
heads of the Admiralty. If they had supplied the gal-
hint Admiral out there with the proper means of de-
stroying the place and he had been successful, on his
return no doubt he would have been pitchforked into
the House of Lords. (Cheers and laughter.) He de-
precated the number of officers allowed to leave thb
Crimea on the plea of urgent business,; and said he was
an advocate for carrying on the war vigorously, which
was t,i3
..cheapest way of doing it, instead of that "pud.
cluing" way in which it had been for some time con-
ducted. (Cheers.) Sweaborg last year might have
been taken with 100 gun-boats ; but he doubted much
if they would be able to accomplish; it next year with
double that number if they did it all. (Hear, bear.)
The gallant Admiral then referred to our present mode
of recruiting the army, which he condemned as being
conducted on a bad principle, and entered at some length
into the various points connected with his political creed,
which have been already repeatedly published, and are
well known to the electors and the country. With re-
gard to the last election, when Sir W. Molesworth ap-
peared before them for re-election, on his accepting the
Colonies, he had no desire to turn him out of the repre-
sentation, but confessed he had then a " sneaking wish
to become at some future period one of their representa-
tives, but not:at the expense of that gentleman, whom he
highly respected for his honesty of principles and talents.
He thought the appointment of Mr. Labouchere to th•
Colonies very satisfactory to the country. Reverting
again to the war, Sir Charles said he considered one of
the conditions of peace with Russia should be that she
paid the expenses of the war. (Cheers.) The gallant
admiral again thanked them for their kindness in elect-
ing him, and informed them that if at any time they
should be displeased with his conduct in Parliament
he would, on being informed of it, resign his seat. (Loud
cheers.)
Thanks were then given to the High Bailiff, who
having acknowledged the compliment, the proceedings
terminated.
Three cheers were given for the Queen and the Liberal
press, and three groans for Lord John Russell. Three
hearty cheers were given for our gallant Allies.

THE HON. AND REY. BAPTIST NOEL.—A morning
contemporary mentions that the Hon. and Rev . Baptist
Noel is seriously ill of a fever. We are glad to find that
the report is exaggerated. Mr. Noel was on Saturday
taken with a severe cold, accompanied by feverish symp-
toms, which confi❑ed him to his bed yesterday. Be-
yond thi., his illness is not alarming.

GLASGOW, Nov. 17.—Cotton—We have had a very
quiet market this week for cotton. The sales have not
been large, and prices close about the same as this day
week. In goods and yarns little is doing, but prices
are firm.
EXTENSIVE BURGLARY AT THE WEST-END.—Another
of those peculiar and mysterious robberies, which of late
have been so frequent in the metropolis, has taken place
on the extensive premises of Mr. Benjamin Boulters,
known as the Marquis of Granby Tavern, at the corner
of Bedfordbury, St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
The misunderstanding between Government and the
Royal Society is at an end. We have much satisfaction
in stating that the Government has ordered the sum of
1,0001. to be placed at the disposal of the Royal Society
this year. for scientific purposes.
THE FRENCH CORN MARKET.—In the Paris corn mar-
ket the supply both of wheat and flour was abundant
during the past week. The consequence has been that
the advance in price was checked, and prices became a
trifle lower. The quotation for the first four marks was
107 f. 50e. at most, and occasionally a shade lower.
Wheat has also been offered with a decline of about lf.
the hectolitre and a half. In the markets round Paris
the quotations have been generally lower ; and in the
north of France sellers have been obliged to abate their
pretensions. During the week Marseilles has received
above 100,000 hectolitres of wheat from Spain, Algeria,
and the East, and in consequence prices have ruled lower
in the south.—Galignan.
HALIFAX, Friday Evening. The current week is
marked by a very decided firmness in the long wool
trade, and the tenacity with which staplers are induced
to hold to price, rather tends to curtail the opera-
tions of buyers ; still the aggregate amount of busi-
ness is fair, though individual sales are not to be
calle I extensive. The expectation of a little advance
in price is somewhat checked by the occurrence of
a more sombre feature in monetary matters. In the
short wool business there is no improvement manifest,
and prices of noils and broke, if anything, are rather in
favour of the buyer. The yarn trade exhibits a partial
activity—that is, certain descriptions are comparatively
brisk, whilst others are so inactive as to lead to further
stoppage of machinery. The piece market is without
any indications of improvement.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending Nov. 11, 1855 £5,138 6 5
Corresponding week last year 4,665 9 4

Inaease in 1855 14 £472 17 1

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