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.iailroad for conveyance to Balaoava. Many of the heavy
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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CCVIII.,
will be published on Saturday next.
CONTENTS.
I. Memoirs of King Joseph.
11. Political Disturbances in China.
The Educational Census.
IV. The Court of Oude.
V. Paragraph Bibles.
VI. The Plurality of Worlds.
YR The Newspaper Press.
VI T. Tennyson's Mirad,,
IX. Transcaucasia.
X. The Fathers of New England. .
XL The Results of the Campaign.
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ROYAL LYCEUM THNATRE; THIS
EVENING, and every evening during the
week, the GRAND ELEUSINIAN SPECTACLE of MAGIC
and MYSTERY, by Professor ANDERSON, the Great
Wizard of the North, in 12 acts, with ever-changing variety
of incidents, continuous surprises, novel and extraordinary
effects.

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Magic and Mystery is an entirely new entertainment, pos-
sessing distinctive characteristics and peculiar phases of
amusement. It is not a monologue, for the audience them-
selves perform their parts with the principal actor, some of
them on the stage and others in front ; it is not an exhibition,
for though everything becomes metamorphosed before the
eyes of the visitors no one can be positive that he sees any
one thing; but it is a comedy really performed by the com-
pany; a melodrama replete with startly positions and unex-
pected denouements; a magnificent spectacle, with 2,000 of
the public every night to appear as auxiliaries ; and an ex-
travaganea, in which all that seems to be is entirely beyond
the bounds of probability.
Professor Anderson returns his thanks to thronged and
fashionable audiences which have nightly filled the Lyceum
Theatre to overflow, and by means of whose generous aid he
has been enabled to announce Magic and Mystery for con-
tinuous repetition. He believes that no professor of hi&art
has at any time or in any place been honoured with an
amount of success so extensive, so decided, and so unusual.
He would attribute that success to three causes; first, that
in his present entertainment he has placed before his visitors
the results of a life sedulously devoted to the attainment of
perfected skill in one peculiar art, and to perfect which he
has travelled the globe in every clime ; secondly, that he has
spared no trouble nor expense to put this entertainment on
the stage in the most elaborate manner, by the employment
of the first mechanician* and artists of the day; and thirdly,
that, while endeavouring to provide amusement for those
oho honour him with their presence, he has not forgotten that
It is possible to afford information also, and that the oppor-
tunity should not be neglected of exposing conjuring where.
ever it has been used for nefarious purposes, or whenever by
resorting to the conjuror's arts, in an illegitimate manner,
the designing have succeeded in making dupes of the
credulous.
The 937 letters on the subject of spirit-rapping, which Pro-
fessor Anderson has received, from the time of opening the
theatre up to the present date, bear witness to the great in-
terest taken on the subject of this singular delusion ; whilst
many of them bear melancholy evidence to the dangers which
attend a belief in the superstitious nonsense of the " Spiri-
tualists." Judging simply by the correspondence which has
resulted, Professor Anderson's expose of spirit-rapping and
his illustration of the so-called table phenomena, have pro-
duced a sensation unequalled by any previous attempt to ex-
pose a mischievous and impudent juggle. It is impossible
for Professor Anderson to reply at length to a tithe of the
communications which reach him on the subject. He regrets
that many of these should come from ladies and gentlemen
who, from their position in society and their well-known in-
tellectual attainments, he would least have expected to have
been converts to a belief so preposterous in itself, and so
easily susceptible of being controverted and disproved. Every
evening, from the Lyceum stage, Mr. Anderson's opinions on
apirit-rapping are expressed, and every evening, within the
Lyceum, how tables can be made to rap is exhibited
and elucidated. It is respectfully requested that this
Public exposition will be accepted generally as Professor
Anderson's only mode of replying at full length to his
multitudinous correspondents. He regrets that the
names of the great and learned of the land should
have been made to figure in the documents emanating
from the spirit-rappers, as for instance the following, ex-
, tracted from the Morning Advertiser of Thursday, Septem-
"leer 20, and taken by that journal from be New York Spiri-
tual Telegraph. It purporta.to emanate from an American
Spirit-rapper, Mr. D. D. Hume :--" Sir David Brewster
frankly confesses that he is sorely puzzled' at what he has
witnessed, and Lord Brougham acknowledges himself to be
therouglily nonplussed. Both of these noted men brought
the whole force of their keen discernment to bear upon the
solution of the phenomena; but the presence of substantial,
actual hands, and the demonstrative strength of the spirits
who thus clothed themselves for the time, and moved mate-
rial objects about the room, proved to be too much of a ques-
tion for them to master." Mr. D. D. Hume, the author of the
above, has recently left England, and the following account of
who, and what he is, occurs in the Family Herald, No; 648:
--4` This young man, who is a Scotchman by birth, and new
n Italy, is a remarkable medium for all' the manifestations
- - Without apparatus. Barnum, who is well-known throughout
the Anglo-Saxon world as a splendid humbug, offered him 2,000
dollars per annum if he would perform at his museum in New
York. Barnum then took it for granted that mediums could
be brought. He was somewhat astonished when his offer was
refused. Hume, on telling the fact in London lately, simply
and honestly remarked, that the money would have been very
acceptable to him, for he was poor, young (under 20), an or-
Phan, and in very bad health : but he would have been afraid
of losing his power as a medium, and he would sooner' lose
his life. The refusal, however, made Barnum thoughtful.
Ile inquired into the subject; and now Barnum, one of the
greatest humbugs in the world, and withal a conjuror, is
one of the firmest believers in spiritualism." It is cer-
tainly surprising to find such a paragraph as this in the
editorial article of an established journal, the editor of whom
might be supposed to be sane. Even if Barnum does believe
in spirit-rapping--does spirit-rapping gain or lose by
this accession to its adherents? and, with Barnum's endorse-
inent to it, is this bill, drawn on public credulity, more likely
to be negotiated ? Professor Anderson would believe not ;
but, when he finds that educated clergymen of the Church of
England have the temerity to subscribe their names to so gross
a swindle, when he finds that the incumbent of Wortley (the
Rev. N. J. Godfrey) positively asserts his belief in it, and
writes a book on the subject, he considers it t . be time for
him to state that which he knows of the mechanism by which
it is effected, and the mischief to which it tends. In the
Morning Advertiser of October 3 appears a letter from Sir
David Brewster, relative to that which he saw at Cox's Hotel,
in company with Lord Brougham. He distinctly states that" 'which the Wizard of the North proclaims every night—that
spirit-rapping is nothing more than conjuring applied to bad
Purposes, In the Morning Advertiser of the following day,
however, there is an answer to Sir David's letter from one
Who was present when .he and Lord Brougham had their
dance 'with the spirits, in which the writer says, that " the
table (a large dinner-table, I believe) moved about in the most'
extraordinary manner, and, among other things, a large ac-
cordion was conveyed by an invisible agency to my hand and
then to Lord Brougham's, in which, held by his lordship's
right hand, apart from any person, it played an air through-
out." With such a statement, printed for the edification of
the People of the 19th century, with the facts before us that
the most talented men of the day are permitting themselves
to be deluded by these juggling spirit-mongers—that the
Veatest novelist of the age is now engaged in making it the
subject of a new work, and that a " spiritual convention"
has actually been advertised to be held in St. Martin's-hall,
rrofessor Anderson trusts that his exposures of the spiritual-
i tits of America, as given by him nightly at the Lyceum, will
o received by the people of England as genuine honest at-
temPts to provide an antidote for the bane of the spiritual
Jugglers.
In he course of the last five weeks 100,017 persons have
' visitea the Lyceum Theatre,—a larger number, it is believed,
than hes ever before been assembled within its walls in so
*hod a period. Magic and Mystery is repeated every even.
lug, the programme being continually changed, Grand
, fashionable Day Performance, or Saturday, October 13, at 2
o'clock; the programme being thus arranged
Part 1.—Act 1. The Mesmeric Couch : or, the Clinical
uspabilities of the. Atmosphere : in which the Wizard will do
' by magic that which some suppose to be effected by mesmer-
, and illustrate the possibility of sleeping unsupported in
the air,
Act 2. The Aqua-Avial Paradox ; exemplifying the power
of producing animated nature from fire and water only, and
the possibility of eliciting from the simplest elements the most
complex forms of ornithological existence.
Act 3. Le Livre des Reeueils Choisies : or, Puck's Own
Pocket Book, with Puck himself within it. Typifying the
evening's entertainment in the production of the very vela-
. urinous from a small volume, in the extraction of magnitude
out of ininutenesi, in developing, bulk where no space appears
for'
ifs existence, in discovering odd things in odd places, and
bringing forth unexpected wonders from the most unlikely
place for to be found.
Act 4, Magical Locomotion ; or, Transition without Trou-
ble. In which will be comprised—the Adventures of a Wed-
ding Ring, the Peregrinations of a Bank Note, the Transfor-
-snation—black into white, and the Discovery
of every Article
In the position which would seem the most inappropriate.
Act 5. L'Ecrin de Verro; or, the Casket ofermsus. Into
Which, though made entirely of glass perfectly transparent,
And suspended so as to be visible to the eyes of all present,
the Wizard will cause the money of his visitors to transport
itself, and rain into the casket, though its lid be closed,
locked, and the key in the possession of the audience.
Act' 6. Clairvoyance Extraordinary ; or, the Transparency
Opacity.
Act. 7. A New Bottle of Bacchus ; or, the Novel Wine
Bud Spirit Store. An improvement upon the " inexhaustible
bottle," inasmuch as the Wizard's bottle will not only be in-
tzbaustible, but will change its contents, ad infinitum, at the
Word
3:) 8
of - command, producing soda-water, butter-milk,
sour salts, Port, Sherry, brandy, gin, rum, whisky,
Ileyeau, or any other wine or spirit required; and finally
Ilroving to be filled with pocket handkerchiefs perfectly dry,
Bled occupying the whole space when tightly packed.
tPAct 8. Half an Hour with the Spirits ; or, an Expose of
rit-r
of appingnvisible. Introducing the spirit-rapping table and
calk the is.
11,Act. 9. Grand Mystic Amalgam, in which the property of
t2'Wizard's patrons will undergo some strange metamor-
ses, and, amongst others, their handkerchiefs become
Ls'Ansforrned into the flags of victory—the banners of Eng-
-14 Prance, Turkey, and Sardinia.
Act. 10, The Enchanted Chair of Comus, in which he who
oatsti,_ himself will be under the magic spell, and appear to
ti'e audience under circumstances least expected, in a pool-
as peculiar as perplexing,
Nucleuset. 11. The Mystery of the Charmed Chest ; or, the
4,, of the Night's Wonders. To comprehend which the
oiTtheence will have the goodness to observe, in an earlier part
evening, the chest suspended (like Mahommed's coffin)
11 will
into which all things will travel, and out of which
Nvill produced.
Itojt',.?t• 12. The Homological Evaporation ; or, the Shortest
11470 to the Antipodes. Illustrating the easiest mode of
Of thug Ourselves of a troublesome friend, and the advantages
4417 newly-discovered Ilia-terrestrial passage from the west.
b 0 the eastern hemisphere.
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EUROPEAN TV' HEAP AVERAORS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE KIN.
SIB,—In the present critical state of thelcorn markets
of Europe, which seriously affects the current of gold
flowing both from Australia and California, it may, per-
haps, be considered-interesting toshow the relative an-
nual average prices of wheat during the Wit twenty-six
years in the principal countries of Europe.
The free trade in wheat which. now exists in this
country (for the trifling duty of is. per quarter will
scarcely interfere) must tend to -male,' England the
nses of trspo
uni-
versal mart for all corn .exporting countries. It has,
however, been observed that as tortes any other coun-
try has a deficient supply, themittittit price here must
be influenced' by the demand thereby created, and it will
rise to.tbe level of the price in such country, less the ex-
rt and profit. This difficulty is counter-
balanced toes
great Nctentby the constant supply under
free trade, whiC.4.pffevents the recurrence of famine
prices, except when bad harvests are very general.
It is not very long ago since capitalists were trembling
under the apprehension that the new and great supply
of gold would rapidly increase prices and lower the rate
of interest, and even our financiers endeavoured to meet
the popular opinion by creating a Two-au:Wm-Half per
Cent. Stock. It will. be found that such great changes
can only take place slowly. A very trifling/annual ad-
dition made to the money. value of any commodity will
in a century assume a gigantic amount. We have seen
this take place in the century following the discovery
and the introduction of the precious metals from Ame-
rica. Vast as the amount of gold may be which is now
annually poured into the world's treasury, still the effect
produced is only a percentage on the gross existing
amount ; but of what that amount may be we have only
a very vague idea. I believe that I might very safely
predict that gold will continue for many years to main-
tain its value, and that' the power of absorbing it from
the commercial market will go on till a gold circulation
will exist far more universally than at present, without
anticipating the possible event of a diminishedsupply.
Ina few dayel intend to make up the weekly aver-
age prices of grain in England and Wales for the year
ending Michaelmas-day last, as the result may be useful
to the landowner and the farmer in fixing corn rents,
which I hope soon to see more generally adopted.—
I am, &c.,

ber, which Prince Mentschikoff alleged to be the inciting
cause of the atrocities committed by the Russian soldiers
on the allied wounded during. the early part of the siege
and certainly, from the present aspect and condition of
the edifice, the Muscovite indignation was not without
cause. I had first seen the church from the parapet- of
the Quarantine batteried within the town, and from
that point its pretty altar-dome and steeple, partly hidden
by the biow of the intervening hill, and shaded, too, by
the mulberry and other trees in which it layembossomed,
Wrack me at once as being the most picturesque sight I
had anywhere met with in the neighbourhood of Sebas.
topol. Instead of dispelling this
;impression, a nearer
inspection only served to confirm it.
The church stands nearly in the centre of an enclosed
graveyard of some 15 or 20 acres in extent, and which
occupies nearly two.thirds of the valley within which
the little temple is situated. Tombs, graves, and en-
eloied family vaults cluster round it as thickly as they
elan be ; and over each is some sculptured slab or other
monumental covering, bearing inscriptions in Russian to
the memory of the buried ones beneath. Black wooden
crosses-of a triangular shape also rise, out of the tops of
more than three-fourths of the entire' graves within the
cemetery ; those which have them not being surmounted
by green or white marble ones instead. Broken pillars,
vases, sarcophagi, and all the other usual forms of se-
pulchral monument, are thickly scattered over the place,
and serve, with the interclustering trees, to complete
the prettiest picture of graveyard scenery I have seen
anywhere in the East. But even this beautiful and
donsecrated spot has not escaped the destruction
whiCh the siege and i;:s operations have brought_upaa-
7614s7tlasg, ,in ; .and - around the captured town.
Crosses, tombstones, and monumental sculptures lie
around on all hands, overthro*n and shattered by
shot and shell, which in this instance, however, must
have come from friendly guns. During the earlier ope-
rations of the siege this valley lay in front of th French
batteries, and received whatever shot and shell from the
town fell short of the French works, whilst la,tterly it
caught those which were aimed at, but passed over, the
advanced batteries which our allies had thrown ep be-
tween it and the defending re,loubts. Thus, in either
case, its present battered condition is attributable to
Russian guns. The church itself is a small rectangular
builiiing of about 40 feet by 15, and over its northern
(altar) end rises a small well-proportioned dome, painted
green on the outside, like all the Resso.Greek churches,
and surmounted by a large gilt ball and cross. At the
oppoeile extremity is the entrance porch, supported by a
simple row of white columns, which are carried round
each of the two adjacent corners of the building for about
ten feet. Through the centre of this rises a square bell-
tower, from which again springs a graceful needle-like
Ispite painted a bright green, like the dome behind, and,
like it too, terminating in a golden ball and cross. Each
of the aide walls, I may add, is pierced with four win-
dows and an entrance door in the centre, and the whole
is roofed in with sheet lead or iron, painted of the same
sacred colour as the cupola and spire. So much for the
exterior of the bui!ding. Its interior, I need hardly
remark, has long been rifled and stripped of everything
which French rapacity could covet, or French violence
remove. Even of the very flooring planks some have
been torn up and carried away, whilst every altar fitting,
or other piece of fixed or moveable furniture, has shared
the same fate. The very doors have been wrenched off
their hinges, and born away by the plundering Zouaves,
Chasseurs, or other drilled Vandals of the Armee
d'Orient, in whom the instinct of pillage had extinguished
every spark of reverence for the temples of a faith which
differs but little from their own. The walls are covered
with frescoes of saints, angels, and other the usual subjects
of ecclesiastical decoration, over and between which are
scrawled in chalk the names of French visitors, and other
inscriptions as destitute of the intended wit as of com-
mon decency. On the wall of the large semi-circular
recess which formed the altar is a very fine fresco paint-
ing of the Crucifixion ; but even it had not escaped
the desecration with which the mitred members of, the
canon had been defaced, names and jeu d'esprits being in
like manner traced all over its really well painted sur-
face. Above this, where the wall curves towards' the
roof, a group, representing a throned Jehovah, sur-
rounded by crowned apostles and martyrs, has been
more fortunate ; but it owes its escape, lam confident,
rather to its elevation than to any respectful consider-
ation on the part of those who have defaced and dese-
crated al within reach below. Even while I was in the
building a couple of red-breeched Goths were tugging
away at a solitary window-frame, which had pro-
bably not been thought worth the trouble of deporta.
tion by previous pillagers. Outside, too, amongst
the tombs, I saw another pair employed in tearing
down some iron railing which had enclosed a small
family burying plot, and a few minutes later one of
the scoundrels came to me offering fol. sale neatly de-
signed wire stand, which had supported a broken vase
in the centre of the enclosure. Verily, with the best
possible disposition to admire and praise our allies, I am
sometimes compelled to yield for a moment to a very
different class of feelings, and believe that, with all our
roughness of manner, our civilisation is in some respects
a century ahead of theirs. War has horrors enough, in all
conscience, without any enhancement of its terrible
fruits, from the indulgence of a vandalic rapacity and love
of ruin. I finally left this desolated but still picturesque
spot by a breach in the enclosing wall made by cannon
shot or shell, and returned to our own lines over the net.
work of ditches and earthworks which formed the
trenches of the French left attack.
The three' days which have passed since the departure
of the last mail have been almost utterly unproductive
of anything in the shape of local news—the rumour of a
movement towards Eupatoria remaining in statu quo,
unrealised or undisproved. The weather, in the mean-
time, has been unusually fine, and suitable for any ope-
rations that could be undertaken. On the whole, the gene-
ral opinion is setting in in favour of the belief that the
old game of delay and hesitation' is to be played again,
and that, excepting whatever resultless " demonstration"
the small French force lately despatched to Eupatoria may make, the main body of the allied armies will do
nothing more till spring. In the first gush of our recent
triumph everybody believed in and talked of some rapid
movement which would put the top stone on the fabric
of the past campaign's success ; but as days and weeks
wear by without any sign of this occurring, we are be-
ginning to prepare for a long wintry interval of apathetic
idleness and ennui. The French, to be sure, continue
their partial shelling of the north side, to which the
enemy replies with shot or shot ; but this can conduce
little to the advancement of the grand end in view—that
of driving them from their new and sufficiently strong
position.

CHARLES M. WILLICH,
Actuary University Life Assurance Society.
25, Suffolk-street, Pall-mall, Oct. 5.

ANNUAL AVERAGE PRICE OF WHEAT PER IMPERIAL QUAR.
TAR IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, BELGIUM, AND PRUSSIA,
1828-1853.

r per
Average price Imperial Quarter in
i For the Year.
1
a. • d. a. d. a. d. a 1828 6O 5 51 1 45 9 30 11
1829
1830 ...... 61 3 51 11 47 2 34 0
1831
. 1831
1•33
1834
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839 7O 8 51 4 65 4 40 2
1840
1841 . . ......
P. 42
1843
1844 ......... 51 3 45 10 41 2 30 7
1845 ......... 50 10 45 10 46 10 34 8
1846 ......... 54 8 55 9 56 3 46 3
1847 ......... G 9 9 67 4 72 2 59 0
1843 ........ 50 G 38 7 41 7 33 6
1849
1859
1851
1852 ....
1853 ..... 53 3 53 94 58 3 45 9
26 .., 1,415 11 1,184 61 1,202 5 906 54
Averageof
26 years... I
54 10 45 64 46 3 31 104
1854

* Taking the hectolitre at 2.9 to the imperial quarter, and
25 francs to the pound sterling.
t Taking the scheffel at 5h to the imperial quarter, and
200 silver groschen to the pound sterling.

THE AMERICAN HARVEST.

- - -
A correspondent of the New York Daily TimcB, after
noting that the different estimates of the wheat crop of
1855, range from 120,000,000 to 185,000,000 bushels,
continues :—" The next question of interest is, what will
be our surplus ? Not a question for ready solution, be-
cause that surplus is as elastic as indiarubber. It de-
pends entirely on circumstances, If Europe wants
wheat or flour from us, and is obliged to pay, as lately,
high prices, it is difficult to limit our surplus. Unless
her harvests fail to an extraordinary degree, we have
enough to supply all her wants. Paradoxical as it ap-
pears, the more she wants the more we have o spare,
and the less she wants the less we shall have for export.
The surplus will in that case be used freely at home, and
beyond that use, what is not required for seed will be
stored away for the next season's sale for home or foreign
consumption. If, on the other hand, high prices rule,
fess wheat will be used at home. Indian corn, potatoes,
&c., will take its place extensively, and the shipments
of wheat and flour to Europe of this year's crop surpass
for quantity all precedent. The following table shows
our annual produce of wheat since 18539, together with
the exports :
UNITED STATES CROP AND EXPORTS OP WHEAT FOE A
SERIES OF TEARS,
Y Crop. Exports.
Fear. Bushels. Bushels.
1840
1841
1812 ......... '..... 102,317,240
1843
1844
1845
1816
1847
1848
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
"It is obvious by this table that the quantity of wheat
exported from the United States is entirely independent
of the amount of the existing crop. Thus the exports of 1848 and 1854 are in quantity double those of 1847 and
1849, although the product of the first-named years did
not exceed those of the last two. The exports of 1840
and 1846 also doubled those of 1843 and 1845, although
their crop was not as abundant by 15 per cent. The
exports of 1852 and 1353, on a crop of less than 239,000,000
bushels for both years, were more than 37,500,000
bushels, while the exports of 1842 and 1844, on a crop
of nearly 200,000,000 bushels, hardly reached 15 mil-
lions. In all those years it was the foreign demand sti-
mulating high prices here which enhanced the export, as
it was the absence of that cause which diminished the
but
tr chiefly
in exports of others. If the foreign demand did not enlarge.
the export of 1855, it was not because the wheat crop'
had failed to any great extent, but because the drought
of 1854 had-so cut short the supply of corn, potatoes,,
&c., as to compel a larger use of wheat than would other-
wise have taken place.
in ‘thOeufarcptleonftyth,
variety and abundance of substitutes for wheat to which
we can and do resort, when the motive of wheat at high
prices induces us to do so. Abundant as is our crop of
wheat, it is but one item, and not the largest. Among
400,000,000 bushels ; other grain of less importance, not
e this
large yea
ur,rup consists
o whneao
tt mitaisenlf7
I repeat it, there is hardly any limit to our
others, our oat crop of 1855 cannot be less than
short of 100,000,000. But all this is nothing to the
yield of corn, which is almost as safe as if it were already
in the granary, and cannot be put down at less than
surplusple, OrOc Cle,
nOtOo.
fO,
woohoeabtu
beyond
h e bushels.
the
emear may
crop
exceeditself,
afiguresthe de-
mand
would prefer to
abroad should carry off 100,000,000 bushels, or
even more, which is almost four times as much as we
have ever exported in one year, there would be enough
left to feed Cincinnati consumers of flour, of those who
or other substitutes, and other points at corresponding
Pay 7 dole. per barrel to using corn meal
rates."

DEATH BY DROWNING OF THE HON. MRS. MATHESON.
—We regret to announce the death of the Hon. Mrs.
Matheson, wife of our burgh member, Mr. Matheson,
of Ardross, under very painful and distressing circum-
stances. It appears that Mrs. Matheson left the house
at Inverinate, on Mr. Matheson's property of Lochalsh
(where the family was residing), early on Sunday morn-
ing last, in order that she might walk leisurely to church,
and saunter along the picturesque coast by the way.
She did not appear at church, and not returning to Inve-
rinate, the alarm was given, and search made in the
neighbourhood, but without effect. Early next morning,
however, as Dr. Maclean wasapproaching Inverinate, he
observed a bonnet and veil on the water, and further
search having been made, the body of the unfortunate
lady was found in the sea at the base of a rock, which
it is supposed she had climbed to enjoy the fine view of
Loch Duich which it affords. Mr. Matheson was at
Ardross, but intimation having been conveyed to him,
he posted through Inverness on Monday, on his way to
Inverinate. The melancholy event has occasioned the
deepest sympathy and regret over the whole north. The
deceased lady was sister to the late Lord Beaumont,
was married in 1853 to Mr. Matheson, and has two
children, the youngest only a few
months
ness Courier.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF GAS IN THE OLD KENT-ROAD.
—On Saturday evening, at a few minutes before eight
o'clock, the immediate vicinity of Barron's-place, Old
Kent-road, was greatly alarmed, in consequence of a
fearful exploron of gas taking place in the premises be-
longing to Mr. Hof as
pork butcher, carrying on
business at No. 5, in the above thoroughfare. It com-
menced is the back parlour, from the gas escaping, and
coming in contact with a light it became ignited, and
exploded with a noise resembling the discharge of severa
fire-arms, demolishing the windows and breaking the,
doors, as well as setting fire to the room. Several of
the inmates were terribly shaken, but fortunately no one
was seriously injured. The engines of the London
Brigade quickly attended, but the fire was not extin
guished until considerable damage was done. The pre
mises and their contents were insured in the
,Count
Fire Office,