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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1863.

(like the Couronne) would in the same time, from
foul bottom, attain a speed of no more than 8 knots
an hour. This was the reason that the Normandie
was substituted for this expedition instead of th
Couronne, which ship had already had orders to
proceed to Vera Cruz. Toe Gloire and her sister
ships, and also the Couronne, have engines of 900-
horse power, and are armed with 36 rifled 30-poun-
der guns throwing shot of 701 b. weight, but breech-
loading rifled 30-pounders are being substituted.

a good ventilation on account of the many water-
tight bulkheads necessarily used in their construc-
tion. 4. Their great unhealthiness, as proved
already by the few cruises made by the Warrior
and Defence.—Yours truly,
DONALD MCKAY.

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PLYMOUTH, Saturday.

The Royal mail steamship Cambrian, Commander Wm.
Strutt, from the Cape of Good Hope, Dec. 21; St. Helena,
29th; and Ascension, Jan. 2, arrived this morning, and
having discharged Gov, rnment invalids proceeded to South-
ampton. Her cargo includes 48 packages of wine, 854
bales of sheep's wool, 44 bags of copper ore, 51 cases of
aloes, 39 bags of bulbs, 11 bales of silk, 30 bales of grass-
cloth, a variety of other produce, and five packages of re-
mittances, value £550.
The day before the Cambrian left Governor Wodehouso
was employed with the Council in determining the course to
be adopted regarding the construction of new railroads.
The Cape Town and Wellington Railroad was to have been
completed for £500,000 ; the capital was exhausted and
£lOO,OOO borrowed, and the road is opened only as far as
Bennetsville. The Crown agents in England had informed
the Government that bona fide contractors declined to go
to the expense of making preliminary surveys on the mere
chance of obtaining the c totracts. The Government had
struck out the clauses from bills allowing these expenses
and hence the difficulty.

The public expenditure for last year was expected to be
410,000 more than the receipts.
The inland portions of the Eastern Province and South
African Republics continued to suffer from drought. Cattle
were dying by thousands, and provisions were at famine
prices. The prevalent distress had compelled the Zuloos to
be peaceable.
The works of Green. Point Tramway were commenced.
During fine weather the works connected with the break-
water in Table Bay were pushed forward with activity. The
construction of the telegraph from Cape Town to Graham's
Town was to be commenced forthwith.

The ship William, 650 tons, Captain Hutton, foundered
at ooa near rho St. Sohn'. River on the 22d of November,
when on her passage from Singapore for London. Her crew
consisted of 21 persons, of whom two only, boys, named
- Scotland and Henry Glynn, escaped. The boys sepa-
rated on landing, and wandered on the beach for several
days. When found they were nearly famished, having had
only a few shellfish to subsist on.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Argus, 6, Commander L.
J. Moore, from Plymouth and Madeira, arrived in 'imon's
Bay Nov. 14, and sailed Dec. 4 for China. The screw steam
frigate Narcissus, 39, Capt. Joseph G. Pickford, flag of
Rear •Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., left Simon's
Bay Dec. 18 for Loando and the West Coast of Africa. The
screw steam corvette Orestes, 21, Capt. Alan 11. Gardner,
arrivekin Simon's Bay Nov. 13 from Mozambique.
The royal mail steamship Dane, from Plymouth Nov. 6)
arrived in Table B ty Dec. 13. The Queen of the South, 43
days from England, arrived Dec. 11, and left again on the
15th for the East Indies. The Lady Jocelyn, from Calcutta
Oct. 18, arrived in Table Bay, Dec. 18. Her port piston
broke the day after leaving Bombay, and she was compelled
to come on under canvas.

The screw steam storeship Wye, Master Commander V,
Roberts, from the West Coast of Africa, arrived at St,
Helena Dec. 5.

PORTUGAL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday.
__. ___ _.

The screw steamship Tartar,_ Captain W. Tally, from
Lisbon the 20th inst., and Vigo the 21st, arrived in dock
this afternoon, and left for London after landing passengers,
&c., for this port. She brings mails from Lisbon, letter
bags from the British fleet in the Tagus, and 12 packages of
despatches for the Government. The Tartar has 12 chief
cabin passengers, 15 second, and 45 third class, the latter
being seamen of the Portuguese navy on their way to join
a new frigate building in London. On freight she has £2,147
in specie, 970 bags of coffee, 90 casks of wine, 184 boxes of
eggs, 542 chest of oranges, 1,300 frails of figs, 924 bags and
casks of nuts, 57 pipes of oil, 328 packages of general mer-
chandise, and 12 live bullocks. On the coast of Portugal
the Tartar experienced light winds, with heavy rolling sea ;
in the Bay of Biscay and in the Channel sarong winds and
heavy sea.
According to Lisbon letters of the 20th, by the Tartar, the
Loule Cabinet appeared strong in both houses since the
nomination of the recent new batch of peers. Ministerialists
had been elected to the standing committees in the House
of Deputies, but no party or political debate had yet come
on in either House.
The exchanges this packet at three months were—Lon-
don, 54 ; Paris, 529 ; Hamburg, 28k ; Amsterdam, 421;
Genoa, 525 ; 3 per Cent. Stock, 47/ to 471 ; Bank of Por-
tugal shares, 551 to 553; Oporto Bank shares, 256 to 258.
The foreign vessels of war in the Tagus when the Tartar
left were her Majesty'e ships Revenge, Warrior, Defence,
Black Prince, Resistance, and Trinculo, and the American
corvette St, Louis.

DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY BY FIRE.—A dread
ful accident, which has resulted in the death o
Miss Janet Agnes Burchell, daughter of Mr. W. Burchell

solicitor, took place at that gentleman's residence, 42, Upper
Harley-street, on Thursday night last. Intimation of the
death having been forwarded to Dr. Lankester, the coro-
ner for Central Kiddlesex, ho attended at Mr. Burchell's
on Saturday evening, and held an inquest in one of the
apartments there. From the evidence of Lucy Farnes,
housemaid in the establishment, it appeared that she was in
the kitchen on Thursday night about 10 o'clock, when she
heard screams from the direction of Miss Burchell's bedroom
which was on the third floor of the house. She at once ran
upstairs, and, on reaching the second floor, found the young
lady in flames. She and some of the other servants threw
two hearthrugs over Miss Birchell, and the flames were
soon extinguished, but not lefore the deceased had been
dreadfully burnt. Dr. Garrod and Mr. Erichson,the eminent
surgeon, were sent for, but their services were of no avail.
Miss Burchell died at 20 minutes after 5 o'clock on Friday
morning. She told the witness that the accident had oc-
curred from a burning coal which fell from the firegrate and
ignited a muslin dress which she was wearing. She was
about to go to bed and had removed the guard from the fire
in her bedroom. The coroner said it had been stated in some
of the papers that the accident took place at a ball, and while
Miss Burchell was dancing. The witness replied that there
was no truth in the statement. There was no ball at Mr.
Burchell's on Thursday night, and Miss Burchell was alone
and in her bedroom at the time of the unfortunate occur-
rence. Emma Morgan, lady's-maid to Mrs. William
Burchell, jun., stated that she was in her mistress's bed-
room, on the second floor, last Thursday night at a quarter
past ten o'clock. She herd screams from the third floor
g
and ran to the door of Mrs. Burchell's room. On opening
it she found Miss Burchell standing outside in a blaze.
S
called in to see Miss Burchell at about a
q
o'clock on Thursday night. At that time
stated
uh quarter
r gotter past ah e at re t
that
lie was r
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ou and threw it over her. Dr. Garrod
,
some of her clothes were still burning. The injuries from
the fire were general, fate: some of the flesh was much
charred. Miss Burchell reified somewhat from the shock;
but from the first there was no hope of saving her life, and
between 5 and 6 on Friday morning she sank under an affec-
tion of the larynx, caused by her having inhaled the flames
from her burning garments. Dr. Lankester said he did not
think it necessary to take any further evidence. The cause
of death was proved; and Miss Burchell herself had
told one of the witnesses the way in which the
melancholy accident had occurred. There was nothing in
this case to show that the ignition of the unfortunate young
lady's dress was owing to the existence of extended petti-
coats, which was the cacao of so many deaths among our
countrywomen. But there was this in evidence, that the
muslin dress worn by Miss Burchell was in flames when
Emma Morgan found the deceased outside the door of her
mistress's bedroom. I; was greatly to be desired that ladies
should require their laundresses to render muslin dresses
uninflammable by the use of one of those chemical prepara-
tions which would render them so, without injuring their
appearance, and at a cost so trifling that it was scarcely to
be taken into account. A number of letters had been ad-
dressed to him on this subject. On that day he had re-
ceived several; and ore of his correspondents had been
good enough to forwarl him specimens of muslin which
had been rendered incombustible, and of two preparations,
either of which would make it so. One of these was sul-
phate of ammonia and the other tungstato of soda. Both
were soluble, and the 'atter could be purchased at Is, a
pound. A juror asked how much per dress would the use
of one of these preparadens cost. Dr, Garrod said a fraction
of a farthing. They could be dissolved in warm water,
and the dress might be put into the liquid ; or, perhaps, a
more convenient mode cf using them was to mix them with
the starch. Dr. Lankester exhibited several of the speci-
ev
Only
lliy
mens of muslin that had been forwarded to him, showing
by experiment that thee would not blaze when applied to a
lamp, while specimens cf the same material which had not
been subjected to the chemical process blazed like ordinary
paper. He hoped this subject would not be lost sight of. It
twhaesr,
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wasne
i n
interested. ‘s • hieh every
the
as av husband,ening bef
before
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dresses , ora br oo i
two of the young ladiesperforming in the Princess's Theatre
caught fire, and the pool girls were badly injured. He had
just been to the Middlesex Hospital to inquire about them,
and hefound that one wis so much burnt that she was not
likely to recover. Ajmer asked whether these accidents were
on the increase. la
—r. lankester said he regretted to think
that they were. rri,
- ~,o jiry returned a verdict of accidental
death. Mr. Burchell, nn., observed that on behalf of his
afflicted uncle, the father' of the deceased, he had to thank
Dr. Lankester and the gentlemen who bad served on the
jury for the kind and ;onsiderate way in which they had
carried on an investigafion which, under any circumstances,
must be a painful one ina house of mourning. The coroner
and jury expressed•
chell and his famil
and her rneltuachol
their sincere sympathy with Mr. 13ur-
Y. bliss Burchell was 27 years of age,
Y death has deeply afflicted all her rela-
tives.

A letter from
Ntir'aonne states that 16 empty car-
riages, which were standinor, in the railway station of Len-
cute,
were three days ago WWII over by tlio violence of the
wind,

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIO JOURNALS.

SATURDAY REVIEW.—The pleasure of astonish-
ing somebody appears to be a necessary condition
of Lord Russell's political vitality. At ad times of

the year, and especially during the period of the
Parliamentary recess, he delights to look on the
British public in the light of an old grandmother,
and to exhibit himself in the character of a game-
sOme darling just home from school ; and he is per-
petually making the poor old lady's life a burden
to her by reason of the combined hardihood and
ingenuity of his pranks. Sometimes it is a letter to
a friendly Bishop, lighting up the flame of religious
discord from one end of the island to the other.
Sometimes it is a sudden resignation, secretly con-
ceived and executed for the purpose of tripping up
a body of too-confiding colleagues. Sometimes it
is an alarming announcemeat that we have broken

with a " trusty and loyal ally." During the pre-

sent recess he has been peculiarly successful in the
conception and execution of these startling per-

brmances. There bas been something more than

usually audacious and elfish in his antics ; and he
has nearly frightened his aged relative out of her

wits. He has forestalled the decision of the House

of Commons by proposing to make away with an
important national possession during its proroga-
tion ; and he has picked a gratuitous quarrel with
the native country of our future Queen. These, how-
ever, are minor gambols. The great summersault
which has fairly set the household screaming has
only just been executed. Those who were most fami-
liar with his wonderful capacity for turning head over
heels were not prepared for the supple agility of the
feat which, in the late French despatches, has been
exhibited to the world. How little could the pious

nurse who listened so joyfully to the first lusty
cry of his infant Protestantism twelve years ago,

have foreseen that the author of the Durham
Letter would live to invite the Pope himself to take
up his residence in a palace, i.e, in the character either
of a Sovereign or a Bishop, upon the territory of
England! The dilemma is embarrassing enough. If
it was as a temporal Sovereign that the Pope was
invited to take up his residence in an English palace,
Lord Russell is not only hostile to the conjunction
of temporal and spiritual authority, but he is will-
ing to be the means of perpetuating it under the
protection of the British flag. This hypothesis is
clearly out of the question. It would be impossible
that England, which has suffered more than one

friendly sovereign to escape to the asylum of her
shores in secrecy and disguise, and to subsist there
upon private bounty, should assign the British fleet
as convoy, and a palace maintained by British taxes
as a residence, to the one Sovereign with whom she
has never been on the terms of ordinary diplomatic
courtesy, and whose existing temporal prerogatives
our Government is striving to overthrow. It cannot
be that we shall show to the hostile Sovereign of
Rome a favour which 15 years ago we refused to
the allied Sovereign of France. Why is he to be
preferred to the petty princes of Tuscany, Parma,
and Modena, whom we have suffered to fly from
their dominions with no sug4estion of a passage in
a British man-of-war, or of a hospitable reception
in a Maltese palace ? It is in some greater eharac-
ter than that of the petty ruler of a strip of land on
the western slope of the Apennines, that all this un-
wonted courtesy has been showered upon him. But
the other horn of the dilemma meets us with diffi-
culties scarcely less embarrassing. There is no
doubt that it is to the Pope, in his ecclesiastical
capacity as spiritual head of one half of Christen-
dom, that the hospitality of the English Govern-
ment has been offered. But is it really possible that
the author of the Durham Letter was also the author
of this pressing invitation ? Is it possible that the
ardent Protestant whose indignation burned with so
intense and yet pure a flame because a few obscure
bishops were sent to look after their Roman Catholic
flocks in England, should now ba inviting the Bishop
of Bishops, who claims jurisdiction over the whole
world, to take up his abode, surrounded by all the am-
bitious pageantry of his office, in a palace on British
ground. It a pity the Pope did not take advantage
of the offer. It would have been edifying to the
Protestant world to study the variety of anomalous
consequences which would have arisen under the
auspices of the great Protestant leader of 1851. The
Pope would not, of course, retire to Malta unat-
tended, nor would he be inactive during his stay.
Whatever might become of his temporal govern-
ment, his spiritual attributes would still remain to
him. The spiritual allegiance of the whole Catholic
world would still be rendered to him, and its govern-
ment would still be in his hands. All the adminis-
trative machinery through which that government
is ordinarily exercised would follow him to Malta.
The Court of Cardinals, and the Roman Chancery,
and the Holy Inquisition, and the Propaganda, and
all the countless establishments by which the mis-
sionary work in heathen and heretical countries is
carried on, would, of course, follow their great
Head into the second captivity of the Papacy.
LONDON REVIEW--Sheridan, at the close of
whose speech the house adjourned in order to have
time to recover their dispassionate powers of judg-
ment, was counted out on the question of the Abo-
lition of Slavery. Burke, with his fancy and enthu-
siasm, was more than once coughed down. Fox, who
delighted his hearers with his argument, is said on
m Any occasions to have wearied them by its iteration.
Pitt, Fox, and Burke agreed to give the palm of an-
cient and modern eloquence to the speech of Sheridan
just mentioned; and yet some doubts as to the jus-
tice of the verdict cannot but suggest themselves,
when we hear a speech of Lord Radnor, a few years
later, spoken of by both Windham and Canning as
the best they had ever heard. Either the degene-
racy of orators had taken place very rapidly, or such
judgments must be taken with a little reservation.
Lord Brougham, only 30 years ago, besought the
peers, "on betided knees," not to reject the Reform
Bill. Traces of the prominent personal element are
to be found in every great speech of the time. It
takes sometimes the form of attacks against oppo-
nents to which Parliament is now a stranger ;
sometimes that of such painful scenes as the quarrel
between Fox and Burke ; but it is most common in
the form of what may almost be called egotism.
Pitt once told the House of Commons of the remi-
niscences of his childhood. Fox declared, at the:be-
ginning of one of his best speeches—that on the
Westminster election—that he did not expect to
meet with bare justice in the house. The words
created some disturbance; Fox dwelt. on them, re-
peated them, and overawed his enemies, as the story
goes, when he had pronounced them four times over.
How irresistibly the ego breaks out in Grattan's
celebrated invective in the Irish Parliament against
Flood, by no means a contemptible foe ! The speaker
begins by supposing an imaginary character, whom
he invests with all the faults of his opponent, and
in whom he traces his history. His evident inten-
tion is to keep up the transparent mask to the end
of the speech, and then annihilate his rival by a
' word—much in the same way as Brougham, forty
years later, directed a memorable attack on Can-
ning. But in the middle of the speech the orator
can restrain himself no longer; the direct hostility
which inspires the assault is too powerful to allow
the flimsy pretext of an imaginary character, and
Grattan bursts into one of those fiery onsets which
no man ever led with such effect. • " The merchant
may say to you—the constitutionalist may say to
you—the American may say to you—and I, I now
say,•and say to your beard, sir—you are not an
honest man I" The artificial character of most of
the great speeches on record is another feature
which cannot but be remarked. Nearly all exhibit
a designed, often a complicated, arrangement of the
matter. There is no reason to think that speeches
were prepared with more labour than at present;
some doubtless wore committed to memory then as
now, some depended on the inspiration of the mo-
ment. Cicero himself cannot have elaborated his
speeches with more care than Lord Macaulay. The
impression which the speeches of the latter on the
Reform Bill left on the minds of the audience was,
that the speaker was an extraordinary clever man,
who did not seem to care much about the debate,
provided that his sentences turned out right. He
quotes in his speeches from his history, and in his
history from his speeches. But in arrangement of
the matter, Macaulay no more resembles Pitt than a
simple equation resembles a problem in the Lunar
Theorem. The only modern debater who has taken
pains in this respect is Mr. Gladstone ; and it is for

this reason, probably, that so curious a resemblance
will be found between all his budget speeches, con-
sidered simply as rhetorical exercises. This is not
the only respect in which Mr. Gladstone bears some

Likeness to the" heaven-born minister." Unlike him

in manner, he is like him in clear roundness of enun-
ciation, and like him in persnasivess of tone. Such
parallels are often interesting to trace, even when
perfect exactness is unattainable. Thus, in his modes
of thought and choice of words, Mr. Disraeli ap-
proaches more nearly than any modern speaker to
Canning, though he, again, is very different
from him in manner ; and as far as regards vigour,

readiness, and beautiful clearness of style, Lord
Derby is the nearest copy of Fos which we can pro-
duce. Burke has no close parallel among us nvw,

nor has Grattan; unless we can conceive Mr. Roe-
back in his best moments, to bring back in some

faint degree, the !' drawling but fiery" sentences of
the great Irishman. It need hardly be added that
he in no degree resembles him in the exquisite music
of cadence, in which Grattan stands among all ora-

tors supreme.
EXAMINER—Ia the " Wreck Ashore," when
Magog the beadle is prostrate on the stage in:help-
less drunkenness, his friend urges him to get up,
upon which Magog hiccups out, " It is all very easy
to say get up, but the question is, how do you do
it ?" And in this will be Sambo's question upon
the President's exhortation to him to rise and take
his liberty. The problem is made the more per-
plexing by the injunction to abstain from
violence. So in the French illustration of
barren gifts, the father makes his little son a pre-
sent of a drum, saying, " Go and amuse yourself
with your toy, but only mind to make no noise."
But there is an important qualification to the in-
junction against violence, and it is the permission
to resort to it in self-defence, a case that must arise
whenever the slave, in assertion of his freedom, re-
fuses obedience to his master's command, and is
threatened with punishment for his rebellion. And
here we come to the object of the Proclamation, an
object, however, which does not seem a jJt promoted
by it. For if slavery be the bitter condition we believe
it to be, the slave with power to break his bonds will
not wait for a permission. If he feels his wrong
he will seize his rights, when he has the force to do
so, without leave or licence. He did so in St. Do-
mingo in a way that horrified the world. But in
St. Domingo the black population immensely out-
numbered the white. In the southern States the
case is reversed, and the white population almost as
three to one to the black, and superior even more
by the habit of domination than physical force.
What, then, does the Proclamation for the slave ?
It gives him no assistance, no sanction for seizing
his liberty, for he wants no sanction if he believes
himself as a human being entitled to his own body.
To borrow a French metaphor, it forces an open
door. Where there are the disposition and power
to rebel they would have their course without the
President's instigation ; and where those things are
not the Proclamation will not create them. No
slave will feel himself a jot the better for the Pre-
sident's Proclamation of his freedom, which to him
is a practical lie. " Thank you for nothing" will be
his sentiment; but, on the other hand, how bitter
must be the feeling of the blacks in the loyal States
whose bondage is rivetted expressly to reward their
taskmasters. These are the people to whom lessons
against resort to violence should be addressed, for
they must need them, unless their patience and
endurance exceed those of the fabled Uncle
Tom. The philanthropic Mr. Sumner's view of
the purpose of the Proclamation is doubt-
less the true one —" to light a fire in
the rear." So some years ago, in Ireland, rapacious
savages would put a woman on the red-hot grate to
extort the secret of her hiding-place for valuables.
And though the Proclamation may not serve to in-
stigate an insurrection, for which the blacks are not
strong enough, it may serve here and there to incite
to domestic treachery and occasional rape, robbery,
and murder, which will shake the security of the
Confederates, oblige them to look at home, and dis-
pose them to distrust of their negroes, and propor-
tionate severity in the treatment of the suspected.
Whatever there may be bad in the feelings and dis-
positions of masters and slaves will be rendered
worse by that malignant document. It will fall far
short of its aim, but not without much revolting
mischief.

LAW Trans.—lt has been long ago ascertained
that crimes vary with the seasons, not only in num-
ber, but in character. Thus there is a greater
amount of crime in the winter quarters and a greater
number of apprehensions in the summer quarters;
the absence of light tempts to offences by the faci-
lity for escape. But we learn that, although 1 in
134 of the whole population is a known criminal,
in only a trifle more than half the crimes committed
is the criminal caught. In each of the winter quar-
ters the proportion of crimes to detection were 52
per cent,; in the summer quarters 56 and 53 per
cent. respectively. This, too, is only the propor-
tion of apprehensions to crimes; the convictions are
fewer still, as will be seen hereafter. It must be
borne in mind that the crimes now under conside-
ration are only those graver ones that are indict-
able ; all that large class disposed of summarily by
magistrates are excluded, and will be the subj ects
of separate review in a future article. Now turn
we to the localities of crime. The murders in 1861
were 106, being 7 more than in 1860. Of these 10
were in the metropolitan police district; in Lanca-
shire, 11; in Staffordshire, 9; in Gloucestershire, 7 ;
in Devon, Warwickshire, and the West Riding of
Yorkshire, 5 each; in Somerset and Southampton,
4 each ; in Cheshire, Durham, Kent, and Lincoln,
3 each ; in Cambridgeshire, Northumberland, Suf-
folk, Surrey, and Westmoreland, 2 each ; 15 coun-
ties had but one; there were 9 in the whole of
Wales; and 14 counties were free from the crime.
For these 106 murders 128 persons were appre-
hended, and 90 committed for trial. The conceal.
ment of births were 151, of which 97 were reported
by the county police, 34 by the borough police, 20
in the metropolis. The number for the preceding
year had been 147, the number in the metropolis
having been precisely the same as in 1861. Bur-
glary is increasing. In 1860 the police reported
2,221 cases, in 1861 they numbered 2,791; of these
48 per cent. were in the counties and 51 per cent.
in the boroughs.

The number of vessels which entered the port of
Monaco during the year 1862 was 918, and that of the
visitors to the town during the same period 16,092.
The Salut Public of Lyons, in speaking of the
approaching arrival of Mme. la Marechale Canro-
bert in that city, states that the Hotel Varissan, in which
the Marshal resides, is considerably out of repair. "It has,
however," observes that journal, " a fine garden and noble
trees. The famous Blanchet painted the ceilings, particu-
larly that of the dining room, on which was the following
motto, 'Ni regret du passe, ni pour de I'avenir I' After the
death of the last of the Varissans, which took place some
years before the Revolution, the hotel was appropriated suc-
cessively to various public services ; it was inhabited by the
Prefects of the Rhone up to the period when the offices and
the apartments of the Prefecture were removed to the Cloitre
des Jacobins. In 1822 the city purchased the building and
I appropriated it to the residence of the general commanding
the military division. On that occasion internal changes
and repairs were commenced, which have been continued
dowli to the present time. Nothing now remains of the
paintings of Blanchet, which were sold by auction, Mme.
Canrobert will have a deal to do to impart elegant life to
that terrace of the Rue de Bourbon, on which the Count do
Castellane was accustomed to walk up and down alone, with
all the regularity of a sentinel on duty. Varissan, the ori-
ginal proprietor of the hotel, was grandson of a notary, who
acted for the Chapter of Lyons, who at the period of the
occupation of the city by the Baron des Adrets in 1562,
concealed in a well in the Rue de Bceuf the titles and some
relics of the Primatial Church. The Chapter, among other
marks of its gratitude, conceded to the Varissans the privi-
lege of having the great bell of St. Jean tolled at the death
of any member of his family. By a coincidence worthy of
remark, the succes.;ive occupants of the hotel of the Rite
Boissat have generally enjoyed a similar right in virtue of
their high functions.• The great hell, which rang out tor
the last Varissans, was also tolled for Marshal de Castellano.
[A rvEnTISEMENT.] —H olloway 's Ointment and Pills.--
Paralysis, deep-seaLd rheumatism, and stiff contracted
joints may always be cured by these medicines, if they
have a fair trial. But such diseases are not cured in a
single day. The patient must have a little perseverance
and determination, and then with these powerful medicines
he cannot fail to conquer his disease, however obstinate it
may be. The Ointment should be briskly rubbed into the
parts affected, after they have been :Omented with luke-
warm water. The Pills, by their action on the blood, and
the humours of the body, are an admirable auxiliary to the
Ointment, and improve and invigorate the whole system.
Directions for the use of these medicines accompany each
pot and box,