The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-21 00:00:00

A Strange Scene in the Blackfriars-road.

For many years past in the parish of Christ-
church, Blackfriars-road, a number of houses
standing on the southern side of Stamford-street,
extending from the corner house in Blackfriars-
road nearly up to Broad-wall, have remained
untenanted. This has occasioned considerable
loss to the parish in the shape of rates, and has
much deteriorated the value of the surrounding pro-
perty. These houses, well known to the passengers
between Blackfriars-bridge and the Obelisk, pre-
sent a most forlorn and ruinous appearance, being
entirely destitute of a pane of glass, the window
frames and doors rotten with neglect and dirt, and
the areas choked up with rubbish of all sorts. What
is still more remarkable, most of these houses are
filled with what was once costly and elegant furni-
ture, but now rotten and smothered in dust. It is
about 25 years since the houses were occupied, and
the last tenant was the vestry clerk, who about 18
years since occupied the house at the corner of the
street, a large and spacious one. This property,
together with several houses in the same condition
on Snow-hill, City, belonged 30 years since to a
gentleman named Atkinson, who about that time
went abroad, as it was said, and has not since been
heard of. After some years, and many mysterious
reports, the property was taken possession of by
two maiden sisters of the missing man, residing in
Stamford-street, and of eccentric habits. From some
reason, known only to themselves, they served
notices on the various tenants of the houses to quit,
and as they became empty refused to let them
again, and they have thus fallen into their present
dilapipated state. The two sisters meanwhile
continued to live together in a large dirty looking
house in Stamford-street, and whenever they ap-
peared out of doors presented a most wretched
appearance, but were apparently quite heedless
of the many strange reports circulated through
the neighbourhood. A short time since one of the
sisters died, and about the same time some claimants
for the property made their appearance, stating
themselves to be sons and daughters of the
long missing brother. The surviving sister at once
repudiated the claims, and employed a man to secure
the doors of the houses to prevent any one from
gaining access to them. Things remained in a
state of suspense until yesterday morning, when,
soon after daybreak, about 20 men and women, ap-
parently of the humble classes, several of the women
having children in their arms, made their appear-
ance in front of the house at the corner of Stamford-
street and Blackfriars-road, and at once proceeded
to take possession by breaking open the &or.
Having obtained ingress, they at once barricaded
the doors and windows and made every preparation
for a regular siege. An immense crowd of the neigh-
bours and others assembled to witness the proceed•
inns, and loudly cheered the parties in possession as
they appeared at the windows. They retained pos-
session during the whole of yesterday, and up to a
late hour last night no attempt had been made to
dislodge them. Such an attempt, however, is ex-
pected to be made, and a strong body of police have
been placed on duty to prevent any breach of the
peace. The neighbours appear much pleased at
the prospect of an end being put to a circumstance
which has long been a disgrace to the parish.

FEARFUL CALAMITY AT LOCARNO.—A corre-
spondent writing from the neighbourhood of the
Lago Maggiore gives the following account of a terrible
occurrence which has taken place at Locarno : This town
is one of those pretty little half Italian, half Swiss towns
which line the north-west shores of the Lago Maggiore,
but, not being minutely described in .ffurray, it is c,)mpae
ratively little known to the English tourist, who hurries
past it to the more fashionable Bay?no or Belgirate. As the
steamer floats past the traveller will notice a clean-looking
town, backed by a chain of hills, the most striking point in
the picture being the cupola of a line old cathedral-looking
church. It is of this building that I have to speak. The
church of La Madonna del Sasso, with its dome tower-
ing over the other buildings, its coloured marbles, and its
church
u Sunday,co n
quaint old frescoes by Luini, is the one sight of the little
city.
r hO an.
great
gthreeg9attihonin,
composed, as is usually the st., there was present in that
h
case in this part of Europe, almost entirely of women.
The men lounging about the piazza pointed out to one
another the enormous quantity of snow which had fallen
during the last six days and nights in an almost unbroken
column. The landscape glittered in its white covering, and
even the buildings of the city looked like a scene in some
fantastic play. Suddenly there was a dead, heavy fall .
"Evidently," they said, " another distant avalanche ;" and
then a scream and a murmur of great horror, which spread
through the quiet streets. All rushed to the spot, and found
a scene which the letters I have seen describe as horrible
past all conception. The dome which covered the body of
the church had never been cleared of the constantly-falling
snow, and the immense weight accumulated was too great
for the strength of the worn-out building. The whole doom
gave way and fell on the congregation, then kneeling in
prayer. In that position 53 female corpses were found
after the ruins had been cleared by the intrepid bravery and
the untiring labour of the inhabitant 4 One female, a bride
of 20 years of age, named Bono, was alone extricated alive,
and carried to her home, with "some hopes of recovery,"
says my informant, but she had broken one arm and both
her legs. One old man alone perished among the 53 women
who fell victims in this awful ruin. It seems to me that
there must have been great carelessness somewhere, when,
after nearly a week's incessant fall, the snow was still left
to accumulate on the tottering cupola of a mediaeval church.
Fifty-three women have perished ; but imagine what would
have been the destruction had this catastrophe happened
during one of the great festivals of the Church. There would
not have been 50, but 500 corpses, now recently burir,:i
in
the Campo Santo of that little town.

mountains of that island do, indeed, offer a
most promising field for English enter-
prise. " There is mountain land enough
in Jamaica now lying waste," says Mr. BOURNE,
to give cotton to the extent of a million
bales annually." Such an auxilliary is not to be
despised, and the sooner the experiment is made the
better, in order to confirm or dispel the hopes raised
upon it. We shall need all our resources to set our
mills at work again and restore the social wellbeing
of our factory hands, and what resources are so
trustworthy and available as those to be found in
our own colonies. It may yet be the fate of the
American struggle to restore our West Indian pos-
sessions to their former prosperity, and to render the
hated " Britishera" in some measure indepenLient
of an important branch of American commerce.

American vanity has at length received the un-
kindest out of all—a cut from France—more indeed
than a home thrust, such a one, we should
think, a cut,
as will leave its scar, at least for the life of
the EMPEROR. The great Republic of the United
States—so termed now by courtesy and the conven-
tionalism of diplomacy—is plainly told that, with
the best wishes for its prosperity, it is not wished
that it should be Dictator of the whole North of
America, and eventually of the Antilles themselves.
The Republic is told moreover that monarchy in
Mexico, although not to be established by force,
would be for the interest of France ; and, as if
limitation of territory and monarchy were not
a dose unpleasant enough to be prescribed in one
paper, it is added that another "race" ought to be
restored to its prestige on the other side the Atlan-
tic ! In fact the notable old doctrine of "North
America for the Yankees" is calmly whiffed away by
the old ally of the United States. By that power,
but for whose aid the United States would never have
existed, would never at least have dissevered them-
selves from the old country by their ragged run-
away militia—that power now coolly tells them
that, very useful in their way, they would not be
useful as universal masters.

We refer, cf course, to the French EMPEROR'S
letter to Gen. FOR', which many of our readers
would notice yesterday in The Sun. It is dated July 3,
though it has but just been communicated to Europe
and America. Evidently written to be published,
its language is smooth, plausible, conciliatory
throughout ; but, for the same reason, it is not pub-
lished till its writer is pretty sure of being able to
give effect to the projects he so quietly shadows
forth. What those objects are Louis NAPOLEON
probably has no wish that any of us should doubt ;
as little that France should doubt them. In the
speech to the Legislative Chamber and the
Senate, the EMPEROR could hardly be said

to intimate more than that the honour
of France had been insulted in Mexico, and must
therefore be retrieved. But France, and Europe
too might ask why should France place herself in
the position in which her flag could be dishonoured ?
The letter to General FOREY, containing full in-
structions for his conduct, furnishes the answer.
France was to give a Government to Mexico—a
Government which could discharge the pecuniary
claims of French subjects, that, however, would be
but a" shopkeeper's" motive for action—the Grand
Monarch of a grand nation had much higher objects
in view, objects much more for the honour and the
glory of France—he was aiming to create a nation
across the Atlantic which should, like Italy we
presume, owe a lasting debt of gratitude to France,
which should look to her for support, and thus give
France a weighty moral influence, if not one more
than moral, in the New World.
How were these ends to be attained ? First, a
suitable proolamation, in accordance with a draft
furnished him, was to be addressed by the General
to the inhabitants. Next he was to win all the
willing to be won, by affability, to avoid quarrel-
ling with any party, to gain the ministers of
religion, and, if possible, at the same time not to
alienate those who had purchased church property,
to put arms in the hands of those who were willing
to fight for the French and Mexico, carefully to
avoid wounding national pride, and to tolerate no
military indiscipline in regard to the inhabitants :
in the EMPEROR'S own language " To receive with
the greatest kindness all the Mexicans who shall
present themselves. Not to espouse the quarrel
of any party ; to declare that everything is
provisional, so long as the Mexican nation
shall not have expressed its opinion ; to show
great deference to religion, but at the same time,
to tranquillise the holders of national property. To
feed, pay, and arm, according to your means, the
Mexican auxiliary troops, and make them play
principal parts in the combats. To maintain
among your troops as well as among the auxiliaries
the most severe discipline ; to vigorously repress
any act or word insulting to the Mexicans, for the
pride of the character must not be forgotten, and
it is important for the success of the enterprise to
conciliate the good feelings of the people."
When he had reached Mexico, for that was the
terminus of General FOREY'S journey, the semi-
civil, semi-military process was to begin. " The
principal persons of all political shades who shall
have embraced our cause should come to an under-
standing with you. to organise a Provisional Go-
vernment. The Government will submit to the
Mexican people the question of the political regime
which is to be definitively established. An assembly
will be afterwards elected according to the Mexican
laws. You will aid the new Government to intro-
duce into the administration, and particularly
into the finances, that regularity of which
France offers the best model. For that purpose
men will be sent to second its new organisation."
In all this, it is explicitly mentioned that the
object to be attained is, not to "impose on the
Mexicans a form of government"—t hey are merely
to be " assisted" to establish a government accord-
ing to their own wishes. This is to be done, no
doubt, in the approved modern fashion, Nice and
Savoy serving the general for ready illustra-
tions. How can the Mexicans but choose and act
freely under the eye of the armies of the great
patroness of nations, which longs to re-establish
" order," and to get rid of the liberty to be factious,
and of a good deal of other liberty at the same time
also. What regime is most conducive to order, and
to harmonious co-operation with otherence
pw
theowers, can-
at,if aret ot
he
ld
not be
~ bediot fubotlelodwa as a matter
by a European
of
;
Mexicana prefer a monarchy, it is for the interest
course,h
of France to support them in that path."
We need not add what it is expected their pre-
ference will be, when French armies, and another
Power—one which all statesmen have found very
influential in reconciling needy but turbulent
patriots with one another, and their proper leader
guwieithimthpearNtlieaxl,icagnenleeraoduesr,s.
wise In
—a arweecrod-,opuenradteirn
guidance of France, Mexico is to come forth a king-
dom or an empire, which is not to go begging, like
poor Greece, but to choose by an imperal conge
d'elire, a prince all ready for them.
But the EMPEROR condescends to anticipate an
objection—one which thoughtless politicians and
sour-faced taxpayers might offer in France, and
which might occur to many in America, and in the
other countries of Europe, too. " Fhere will not be
wanting people who will ask you why we expend

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1863

A readiness of resource is one of the prominent
features of the Anglo-Saxon character. When
trouble or misfortune comes, be it deserved or un-
deserved, limited or extended in its effects, sugges-
tions, schemes, and projects to mitigate the evil
are seldom long wanting. So in the case of the
great distress that we are now suffering from in the
North, the danger and imminence of the case were no
sooner felt than provided for by an organised system
of national charity. But it was not enough to relieve
the effects so long as the cause remained untouched,
and accordingly the question of the growth and
cultivation of cotton is daily engaging more of
public attention. At a meeting f the Statistical
Society last evening there ve,:s a very full attendance
to hear Professor LEONE LEVI read a discourse on
the cotton trade aid manufacture, The learned
profeisor naturally confined himself to the history
of cotton in this country, which he traced from the
days when it was mainly imported, and the
chief use found for the material which now
affects the commerce of a world was the making
of candlewicks. It is curious to compare
the development of our cotton and woollen manu-
factures. Professor LETI tells us that the founda-
tion of the British woollen trade was laid as far
back as 1328 by the Flemings, who settled in
Manchester; yet that as late as the accession of
GEORGE 111, no fabric consisting entirely of cotton
was made. We have all heard of those wonderful
inventions and striking improvements by which
HARGREAVES, ARKWRIGHT, and CROMPTON revolu-
tionised our commerce and elevated the despised or
neglected fabric into the first of our manufactures. The
statistics given by Professor LEVI bring plainly
before us the extent of those facts, with whose out-
line we are already familiar. At the breaking out
of the American 'War there were, he observes,
6,300 factories in the United Kingdom, of which
nearly the half were for cotton. "Of 36,500,000
spindles, 30,000,000 were for cotton: Of 490,000
power looms, 399,000 were for cotton. Of 779,000
persons employed in factories, 450,000 Were employed
in cotton factories ; and of £130,000,000, which
constituted the total value of goods manufactured in
in the United Kingdom, nearly £50,000,000 was the
value of the cottonlmanufacture." The complete
dependence which we have hitherto placed on one
country for our supply of the raw material, has, as
the lecturer remarked, long afforded grounds for
anxiety. He agrees with Mr. LAING in his opi-
nion that, in any case, it will be some time before
America can again supply us to the
His views of our prospects
were, however, far from gloomy. He alluded to the
advance in Indian production which might be hoped
for from the introduction of railways and the adap-
tation of our machinery to the working of Indian
eltt,,n, and referred to the favourable specimens
which our colonies have furnished, and the oppor-
tunities possessed by some foreign countries, which
they were now seeking to turn to advantage. Italy,
which 50 years ago supplied nearly all the cotton
consumed in the chief markets of Europe, has set
to work. Egypt and Turkey both promise well
while in South and Central America there is wide
scope for action. With regard to our own colonies
sanguine expectations are being formed of the success
of the cotton cultivation in Jamaica, whose fertile
mountains offer, it is said, unusual facilities for the
growth of tree-cotton. It is stated in an interest-
ing letter on this subject, which we publish in
another part of our impression, that Mr. KENDAL,
an American farmer, who has been experimenting
on its cultivation, describes a tree of this kind
growing in the valley of Chipura as a perfect speci-
" Its foliage had long been shed, but
men.
the pods remained, having fully burst and turned
their spotless buds in almost perfect roses,
which covered the entire structure with a dense
mass of spotless glossy cotton. I had never seen
anything even approaching in perftction to that
solitary tree." In conjecturing the weight of the
yield of the tree in question, Mr. KENDAL goes on
to say that ho would not be willing to fall below
100 lb. as the amount of clean lint afforded by the
cone, having a diameter of 12 feet at the base, and
measuring a trifle over 18 feet from base to apex.
If, as the writer of this letter states, excellent cot•
ton from perennial shrubs has been picked 2,500
feet above the level of the sea in Jamaica, the

same extent.

men •and money to found a regular Uovernmunt in LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
Mexico." The answer is ready. "In the present
state of the civilisation of the world,—the prospe-
rity of America is not a matter of indifference to
Europe, for it is that country which feeds our ma-
nufactories and giN es an impulse to our commerce."
Even the prosperity of the United States is an ob-
ject of interest to Europe, as the present state
of its cotton manufactures show. But there is
more in it than this—it is just here that the value
of an independent power of the Latin Race should
regain " all its strength and prestige," should gua-
rantee the Gulf of Mexico, and the French and
Spanish West India colonies, against the dreams of
Yankee Empire, and establish for France " a friendly
influence in the centre of America." Such are the
magnificent and generous plans of the EMPEROR.
Had they been those of England, we know the
shower of abuse which would have followed from
the great Republic; how France will be treated
remains to be seen. Bitterly indeed must the pre-
sence of the Spaniards in Hayti, and the French in
Mexico be felt by the Northerns. Even the South
will not like the pre-occupation of a country it had
destined to slavery ; but like it or dislike it, we are
not to expect that the EMPEROR has published this
letter to be laughed at.

SPAIN.

MADRID, JAN. 20, Evening.

Admiral Bustillos has consented to accept the
Ministry of Marine, but will not yet enter upon his
functions, remaining on leave of absence on account
of ill health.

All the Liberal members of the Opposition, but
only a section of the Conservatives, have resolved
to support the Ministry.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, JAN. 20.

The Norddeutsche Zeitung of to-day says :
" e learn from the best sources that all pros-
pect of an understanding between Prussia and
Austria on the Customs' question has been most
positively renounced by the President of the Prus-
sian Ministry, The President has even declared
he would give notice of tha intention of Prussia
to quit the Zollverein, in order to remove the
vague engagement relative to Austria into which
the Zollverein entered by the treaties of 19th Feb.
and 4th April, 1853."

Last Monday there was a very interesting experi-
ment made with the apparatus designed by Professor
HUGHES. The United Kingdom Electric Telegraph
Company is desirous of adopting this design that
has been successfully tried in America and in some
parts of Europe. The account given of the meeting
which assembled to watch the proceedings is very
entertaining. The Mayor of Birmingham initiated
the inquiries by the following words :—" His Wor-
ship the Mayor of BißmirtetHAmlanticipates the plea-
sure of a conversation, by the HUGHES' Printing
Telegraph, with the Lord Mayor of LONDON." To
this was returned the following suitable reply :
" The Lord Mayor of LONDON presents his compli-
ments, by the Printing Telegraph, to the Mayor of
BIRMINGHAM, and joins in his congratulations upon
electricity being seized upon and put in print. The
universalisation of the electric telegraph will be
promoted the more familiar it becomes, and the
more it approaches in the methods of its communi-
cation to simple existing types, the Printing Tele-
graph certainly appears a complete step in this
direction." After these formal civilities had been
interchanged, some smart questions and sharp re-
joinders were next employed to test the merits of
this novel scheme. On some well-known tidings
being sent as news, one person indignantly ex-
claimed, "It is reported here that Queen ANNE is
dead;" to which the Birmingham informant
answered, "And here that the Federals are in New
York." Several other trials were made, and the
result proved highly satisfactory to those engaged.
The arrangements of Professor HUGHES'S ap-
paratus appear very simple. There is a row of
black and white keys, similar to an organ or a
pianoforte, only of considerably smaller cJrapass,
which are the means employed to execute the
design. The printing is done by a wheel, on the
edge of which is engraved the alphabet and nume-
rals. The electric current is employed to release a
small rod, which brings the strip of paper momen-
tarily into contact with the wheel, and thus
receives the impress of the letter next to it. The
manipulator effects this process by touching
the key on the board which answers to the name
of the letter. The principle upon which the appa-
ratus is based is that of a synchronous movement
of clockwork trains driven by weights, the regula-
tion being effected by vibrating rods. The follow-
ing account is most interesting to study :—" The
electrical waves are transmitted by a revolving
arm, carrying the seg►ment of a circle as a contact-
maker, and the arm revolves at the same speed in
each apparatus as the type-wheel; when a key
is pressed a metal plate in connection
with the battery is forced upwards and meets

The Norddeutsche Zeitung adds:—
"It is not impossible that this decided refusal of
Prussia to come to an understanding with Austria
was the principal reason why the projected meet-
ing of the Prussian aad Austrian Ministers did not
take place."

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 20.

The Commission appointed by the Government
to propose reforms in the system of taxation, has
recommended a reduction of the duties on the im-
portation of refined sugar during four years, the
reduction to be effected at the rate of half a roubTe
yearly until the duties upon the importation of
refined sugar by land and sea stand at the uniform
rate of three roubles per pood.

E GYP T.
CAIRO, JAN. 19.

The obsequies of his Royal Highness Said Pacba,
the late Viceroy of Egypt, were celebrated yester-
day.

A great concourse was present at the ceremony.
Ismail Pacha has taken possession of the Citadel,
and received the authorities. Public opinion is
very favourable to the new Viceroy. All the
foreign Consuls, and the Turkish authorities, have
arrived here from Alexandria. They were im-
naLdiately received by Ismail Pacha.

THE MAILS.
Up to the hour of going to press the usual con•
tinental mails had not reached us.

FR ANCE•

PARIS, JAN. 21.

The Monzteur of this morning says in its bulletin
" Independently of the subscriptions opened for
the workmen of the Seine Inferieure, the Emperor
has sent to the Prefects the sum of 100,000 f., to be
distributed among the different manufacturing
towns."

The .11 oniteur also says :
" The news that the French had entered Puebla
does not bear a character of incontestible authenti-
city ; but as coming from a source little favourable
to the French, it is scarcely probable that it should
be unfounded."

MALTA.

VALETTA, JAN. 15.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Megisra, Com-
mander S. H. Henderson, arrived here on the 11th
inst., at 10 p.m., from Woolwich (18 days), and Gib-
raltar (four). The AlegEora left Gibraltar on the
morning of the 7th inst., having been detained there
by heavy weather. She passed the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Delta on the after-
noon of the 9th. After discharging naval stores
for this place, she proceeds on to Corfu this
morning, taking with her two officers, one
lady, one child, 27 non-commissioned officers
and men, three women, and 14 children of
different regiments. The Megoara is to visit the
several islands, to relieve the detachments of troops
stationed there.

the contact-maker as it revolves, scrapes along its
sisrface, the current passing the while, and is then
thrown back by the contact-maker, and brought to
its normal position of rest by a constant spring.
The letters are printed while the type-wheel is in
revolution, and the type-wheel is driven by friction,
which allows of its being moved backwards or for-
wards by mechanical means. Each apparatus re-
gisters the signals sent by it, and all letters are
produced at the distant end by a single wave of
electricity."

Her Majesty's ship Mars, Captain J. N. Strange,
17 days from Malta, arrived at Gibraltar on the
2d inst., and after replenishing coal left for England
on the 3d inst. Her Majesty's ship London, Cap-
tain Chads, arrived there on the morning of the
4th, also 17 days from Malta, and left for Eng-
land on the following Wednesday. Her Majesty's
screw ram Defence, 18, Captain Phillimore, six
days from Madeira, arrived at the same time as
the London, having come in from the Channel
squadron for bread and provisions, to convey to
Lisbon, where her Majesty's ships Revenge (bear-
ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Smart), Bl,ck Prince,
and Resistance were expected to arrive on or about
the 4th inst. ; the Firebrand, 6, Commander Piers,
and the Piocris, gunboat, remaining at Gibraltar.
The noted steamer Sumter was at anchor, appa-
rently ready for sea, with sails bent, and closely
watched by two American men-of-war, although
she is said to have been purchased by an English
company. It is understood that the British
Government have refused to grant her protection
on the high seas.
g paddlewheel steamer
mander G. Wilkinson
(Mteehmdeipnron;:iryal)e,isetruYitseunrasnunertd7°oniran Tuesday evening from
Salonica, where she has bee' engaged during
the summer months, surveying the Gulf and its
neighbourhood, and has got through a good deal
of difficult and intricate work. It will, however,
take some time to complete the survey. She left
Atherada, near Salonica, on the 27th ult.,for Malta,
calling at Reins, the ancient port of Pergamos, to
ship a colossal torso, discovered there by Captain
Spratt, some two or three years ago, which is to
be sent home for the British Museum. She spoke
the Foxhound, 4, Commander the Hon. A. C.
Hobart, on the lOtii instant, off the Island of
Bellopoulo, who reported " her Majesty's ship
Queen at Nauplia, on the 9th inst., all well,'' and,
on the same day, sighted a Russian line of-battle
ship steering towards Athens. A report that some
Greek pirates had been captured by the French gun-
boat Mouttte is unfounded. It is believed that the
piratical boat has been hauled up in the Gulf of Bagh.
cheh, in the vicinity of Smyrna, and that the crew
had dispersed, finding it impossible to carry on
their nefarious practi2es, owing to the vigilance of
the English, French, Austrian, and Turkish cruisers,
which had been sent iu pursu.t of them—not before,
however, they had plundered three or four Turkish
vessels, the master of one of which is said to have
been murdered.

The Pi:aebe, 33, Capt. T. Fortescue, left Malta
harbour on the morning of the 13th inst., for ra-
cube. It is reported her orders are to anchor there
for a short time, and then to cruse in the Malta
Channel, reporting herself daily by signal to the
Commander-in-Chief. She is expected to return
into port on the 23d inst.

THE SERVICES AT WESTMINSTER ABDET.—In
consequence of the thorough cleansing which the
various portions of this ancient edifice are at present un-
dergoing, the week .day services will, to the end of the pre-
sent month, 113 held in Hen'y the Seventh's Chapel, and
on Sunday next, the 26th inst., the service will be entirely
suspended.

DISPATCH OF THE INDIA, CHINA, AND AUS.
TRALIAN MAILS --SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 20.—The
Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ripon,
Captain Christian, sailed hence to-day at 3 p.m , with the
mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden,
Ceylon, Mauritius, India (except Bombay), China, Aus-
tralia, and New Zealand, together with 160 passengers.
The Ripon took out freight 347 boxes specie, £135,813,and
a full cargo of general merchandise.