The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-29 00:00:00

83 86
170 175

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BRITISH POSSESSIONS.

I -
Closing ,
Shan
100 Atlantic &St Lawrence all 60 ---t2 60
Sk Bom.,Barodatt.Centlno ...
Gu. 5 per cent... ut... 1065 104
20 Do. New ....... 8 1 p
20 Do. E. Shares
405 Buffalo and Lake Huron all 6 65
10 Do. Preference .... all 85 95
Bufralo,Brant,&Godrici
t 00 10,1
6 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1872
tOO Do. do. July 1, 1871 100
100 110. do. Juue 1, 1871 100
st Clcutta.&S.Eastn. (Li 0.; 100 104 106
at Cape Town & Dock Seri' 100 101 103
eoL Eastn. Bengal go. sp. c 100 108 109
stook East Indian, gu.sp. c. 100 107 118
20 Do. do. G Ext l5 4 15p
20 Do. do. H do.
stook Grand Trunk of Canada tuu 20 21 204
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 73 25
100 Do. Co. deferred all 50 51
100 Do. 2d Feet. Bonds.. all 65 67
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 50 63
100 Do. 3d Pref. stock
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 38 42
100 Do. 4th Pref. stoc... all 27 29
100 Do. do. deferred...... all 22 24
stook GtlnchaPentn.gua.sp.o. 100 1084 1095 1081
20 Do. New gua. sp. 0... 12 15 lit
20 Do. January, 1862 .. 8 15 15s,
stook Gt. South.of India (Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 1054 1065
204 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 10 105
205 Do. New
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt, all 92 95
100 Do. 54 p. o. do. '77-8.. all 86 88
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 f
stock Madras guar., sp.c. .. 100 106 107
stock Do. 44 p. o. Extension 100 100 101
stock Do. 44 d 0........ 100 96 100
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2
stock Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Buds. 100
50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 57 59
100 Do. 7p. a !Bong. Bds. alt
$0 NewßruttswlokatCands
Class A and B.
N. itl.C'da spo ist f bds 100 82 84
stock &hide (100 106 107
stock Do. Delhi lOO 116 107
30 Do. do ... rd. Ei 2 ffp
at Do. Punjaub c S all 1054 1065
Do. Do. ........
11'00k Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 000 101 103
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECIJRITIEb.
t,an.tiov. 6 p.C.J a &.111)
1877-81 ......... 100 165 106 1065 51
Do. 6p. c. Feb. & Aug 100 103 105
Do. si p. o. Mar. & Sept. 100 113 115
Do. p. o. Jan.&July. 100 03 84 935
Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 91 93
Cape G.Hope, 6p 0,1873 100 106 108
Do.Ap & Oct 18801 100 109 111
Do. 1891 100 109 111
-
IDo. Jan. A July, 1891.. 100 112 114
:Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112
;Mauritius 6 per cent .. 100 106 108
:Natal Gov. 6 per cent.. 100 1(8 110
N.B.Gov. 6 p.o.J a.&J uly 100 104 106
Do. 6p. o.Ap. A Oct. 100
N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 3.,186s 100 100 102
Do. sp. c.,18e1 to I:C2f 100 101 102
Do. d0.,1888 & upwds leo 1015 1025 1025 2
New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 110 112
Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c.
sterling, 1876. lOO 105 107
Queensland Gov. 6p. o. 100 1:1 113
S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up.. 100 111 113
Vio.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July 100 107 109
Do. lo 6 p.a. AnAcOot.. 100 1094 11051 1091 10 911
BRITISH MINES.
2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 f Id f
ulltlord Amalgamated.. 34 215
Devon G. Con.. (Tavist) 1 560 670
East Bassett (Illogan).. 30 61 60
1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 53. 5d par
East Caradon ..... 1.14.6 27 28
East Carn Brea....
E. WI Busse (Tavistk ) 8,9.0 555
Gam.&StAubyn(Gwen ) 585 8 10
Great South Tolgus l7B 4 45
G. Wheal Vor(ldelston, 40 12 13
Grenville . .. 6.16. t 4 45
Elerc..d's-Foot ...... 8.12 87 39
El in gston D0wn5...... 4.18.0 24 3=
Lady Bertha
Margaret ( Uny Lelant 91 14 16
M ante Valley..
4 Myndy Iron Oro (Lim ) 25 15 1 d
New Seton 195 90 100
—• North Downs 2l 15 11
N.Wh'l Basset (1110 ;an 3.1.0 2, 3
North Wheal Crotty ~ 2.6.9 4/ 55
Par Coneols (St. Blaze), )
20 Providenc,e(Uny Lelnt.) 10.6.7 42 44
South Caradon(StCleer; 14 415 125
8. Cam Brea (Illogan) —
S.Wheal Fran. (Illogan) 18.18.9' 60 65
Stray Park '30.17.6 28 30
6 ramarSilv.& Lead Min 44 4 II
Gin Croft 9 18 19
West Basset (Illogan) l4 94 105
W C' radon (Liskeard) 5 18 20
West Sotto
Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 85 90
Wheal Buller(ltedruth) 8 224 275
Wheal Kitty (1.7.1,c1ant) 2.0.6
WhealLudcott ..... 3.0.8 1 14
Wheal Mary Ann !Men.) 8 114 12
Wheal I.leton 5135 150 160
Wheal Tretawney (Lis ) 7 21 22
Wheal Union 3.17 1 21 21

RES.

PREFERENCE S
Great Western Orig. 44 per cent. pf., 104 100
Stockton and Darlington, B 6 per cent., 33
Scottish North Eastern 31i per cent. pref. stock. 23

LINES LEASED Al' FIXED RENTALS.
Chester andtllolyhead, 576
London, Tilbury, and Southend, 101}
Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., Ma

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Great Luxembourz, 12
Ban Paulo (lim.), urua. 7 per cent.,
Ditto (all), 21;
South Austrian and
FLOomitbEalrGdisio VmenoetlE.
ans;_ 20i
Cape Cop Um. 61
United Meperxican (11m;,
JOINT-STOCK BANS.
Alliance Bank of Lon and LlyerpoolK (Um), --
Ditto, new, 2le
Anglo Austrian 7 Gi
Imperial
Lo nd Ba (11m.),2n
Imperial Ottoman, 18 on Joint Stock, 37i
London and South African, 26
London and 'Westmlnate 80i
Merchant Bank, lira., I.'
National of Liverpool. limited, 20
Scinde, Puniaub, and Delhi Wm.', 71
DOCKS.
St. Katharine, 701

MISCELLANEOUS.
British Indian Tea. lira., n 3
Ceylon Company, 91
Discount Corporatiou, limited, 64
Egyptian Couiruercial and Trading, Sin., 31
Gen. crc dit and Finance of Lonaon,
Hudson's Bay, 124 lira,, 6g
International Financial Society, lira.79fm
Joint-stock Discount,
Ditto, new, 61
mercantile Credit Association, lira., 101

The Price of Gold:

London is 25.30 per .£1 sterling. On
the short exchange on Lon
the English Mint price of .£3
about 2-1 ti cciniParing these rates with
ld it appe4r that gold is
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mine pin., and
178. N& per ounce for standard go ,
is
and the shortßeerxceehltn,
By advices fromllamburg the price of gold
£1 sterling.
is 13.5 perper mark
is, therefore, about
Standard gold at the English Mirt price
1-10th per cent, dearer in London than in Hamburg.
ond o n tha
ins iln2lPiarp
gdecaorne rin
Londonil
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 163 to 164 per cent., and the premium on
gold is 494 to 491 per cent. At thes rates there is a profit
on the importation of gold from the United States.
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STATISTICS OF THE LANCASHIRE DISTRESS.—
In November, 1862, 448,955 persons were in the cotton
district receiving relief. This year in the same month the
number was only 170,850. It is still equal to two great
armies, but the reduction is 75 per cent,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

Two men, named Huret and Sullivan, were placed at the
bar charged with assaulting a cabman named Howitt, and
police:constable F 118.

The complainant said that on the night in question, as he
was returning home with his horse and cab, he met the two
prisoners and another man not is custody, who stopped
him and desired him to drive to Pall Mall. He told them he
had done work for the night, and that he was going to his
stables. Sullivan and the man not present opening the cab
door, got in, and Hurst jumped on the box. He refused to
drive on, when Hurst commenced knocking him about,
and after receiving some severe blows he called for tho
police, when he (constable 118 F) came up, and an attempt
was made to eject the parties from the cab. Hurst mode a
desperate resistance, struck out right and left, and finally
closed with the constable, and both went on the ground.
Ho (witness) had been confined to his bed for two days
from the injuries he received,

Police constable 118 F sail he heard a disturbance in
Eudell street, and on proceeding in that direction ho came
up with the complainant's cab and found the three men in
possession of the complainant's cab. He seized hold o
Hurst and struggled with him for some time, when he bit
him severely on the hand and knee, He had received so
muoh injury that he had been on the sick list ever since.
Sutlivan was too drunk to take part in the fight. Tho
other man got up and ran away.

Mr. Corrie asked Hurst what he had to say to the

charge.
Hurst replied that he was too drunk to know what he
was doing. He did not recollect biting the constable.
Sullivan said he did not recollect anything about the
matter.

Mr. Corrie thought he ought to sand the case to the
sessions, as far as Hurst was concerned. It was a very
savage assault.

Hurst begged hard to have the case summarily disposed
of, and after some consideration,

Mr. Corrie sentenced Hurst to two months' imprison-
ment, and discharged Sullivan.
A cabowner, named Richardson, appeared to a summons
charging him with cruelty to a cab horse.
Rutherford said he saw the driver beating the animal
violently in Great Queen-street, and on looking at the horse
he found it quite incapable of drawing the cab, through old
age and disease.
Mr. Cherr, veterinary surgeon to the police, said he bad
examined the horse, and found it very aged. It had been
diseased long, and was altogether unfit to drag a cab, or go,
under any circumstances, six miles an hour.
The defendant said he must admit it was "touched in
the wind," but that was all.

Mr. Cherry told the magistrate that tha result of gallop-
ing the animal would be to produce an effect similar to that
which would be experienced by a man with a severe asthma
after he had been compellei to run a race.
Mr. Corrie said he should like to have the horse killed.

Tne defendant said he would much rather give it away
to some poor person, as there was some work in it yet.
Ultimately it was arranged that the horse should only do
light work in the defendant's yard, and the summons was
dismissed.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1863.

Charing-cross Railway-bridge.

During the last few days a series of interesting tests
have been made by Captain Tyler, ILE., on the strength of
this great viaduct, previous to the sanction of tha Board of
Trade being given to the opening of the line for public
traffic on the Ist of the new year.
As the works are now quite finished, the Thames bridge,
the largest and most interesting feature of the line, begins
to show itself to great advantage—its magnificent size and
width rendering it an imposing 9bject from the river, while
the open trellis-work of the superstructure, and the ample
waterways the use of cylinder piers afford, give it an ap-
pearance of greater lightness than is usual with bridges of
the purely girder form.

Looking at it only from the river, it is certainly to be
regretted that the brick piers formerly carrying the suspen-
sion bridge have been allowed to remain. But here, as in
most great undertakings, compromises between appear-
ances and economy have taken place, and in this instance
economy was greatly on the side of retaining the brick
piers. Yet, while retaining these below, we do not at all se4
the advantage of the mass of brick and stonework, where-
with they are overtopped above. Mr. Hawkshaw,
whose design the bridge is, would have done better
had he trusted to the purely mechanical and prac-
tical nature of the structure, relieved only by the
colour in which it is now being painted, which, with
the lines of gilt bosses and handsome candelabra surmount-
ing the piers, appear far more suitable decorations than
heavy circular cornices for a bridge dependent for its effect
on its good and simple construction, and not on any recog
raised architectural features.

But it is as an engineering work chiefly that the bridge is
best worth notice, and presents some very curious features,
one of these being the enormous strength concentrated both
in the cylinder piers and in the girders in the smallest com-
pass. To understand this it is necessary to call to mind
that in the usual practice of building brick or stone founda-
tions the weight of the superstructure is spread over a very
large surface, whereas with these cylinder piers it is all
brought within two areas of not more than 141 t diem. each.
To make up for this difference in extent, the depth to which
the cylinder foundations are carried is far greater than the
brick piers—for while the latter are made to rest on the top
of the clay, the cylinders go 201 t. into the clay, being sunk
on an average 40ft. below low water, thus obtaining for the
column of brickwork built inside them afterwards a founda-
tion as solid as rock itself, and one not likely to be disturbed
by any changes which may occur in the bed of the river by
the scour, which may be expected from the formation of the
Thames Embankment, the scour being a source of evil
which has hitherto proved fatal to the foundations of nearly
all our metropolitan bridges. Again, with the superstruc-
ture, it is usual to have one main girder to half a line of
way, or at lust one girder to each line, and to brace them
together overhead as well as below, to form of the whole a
kind of skeleton tube. But in this case it was necessary
that there should not be any obstruction between the lines
of way, as points and crossings are required on very many
parts of the bridge; therefore only two girders could be used
to do what eight, or at least four, have hitherto been em
ployed to effect. Two girders here carry four lines of way,
and as this causes them to be 50ft. apart, overhead bracing
becomes also impracticable, so that they had to be con-
structed of sufficient lateral stiffness to depend on themselves
alone, and of sufficient strength to carry the public foot-
paths outside, as well as the four lines of way within ;
hence it happens that although the span is moderate, 154
feet, yet the quantity of metal required in each of these
girders amounts to 200 tons, and the skilful way it has been
massed together to afford the requisite strength, and yet
give little indication of it in its light and almost elegant•
appearance, is certainly unsurpassed,
The result of the tests applied has proved most satisfac-
tory. When loaded from end to end on each of the four
lines of way with engines and trucks purposely filled with
stone and iron, so as to weigh four tons per foot, the greatest
amount of deflection in any girder was not more than three-
quarters of an inch, and in the cross-girders less than a
quarter of an inch, and the amount of vibration during the
running off and on was all but imperceptible.
To this satisfactory result the quality of the workman-
ship has tended in a large degree, the contractors, Messrs.
Cochrane and Co., for this and all the other badges on the
line, having aided Mr. Hawkshaw materially in this design
of using two girders only to support such enormous strains
by at once abandoning the roue' and unskilful way of con-
structing girders with plates punched and sheared by hand,
and substituting in its stead machinery designed for the
purpose of drilling and planning the plates in the most
accurate manner. It is not too much to state that the ac-
curate and finished character of the work in this bridge has
since caused almost a revolution in the construction of
wrought iron beams of magnitude.
Great praise is also due to the contractors for the skilful
manner in which the actual work of erecting the bridge has
been carried out, and not a single fatal accident having oc •
curred during its progress. All the other bridges on the
line have been tested by the Government inspector with
similar severity and with the same satisfactory results as to
proof of strength. All the questions, in fact, connected
with the working of the line have been settled, and we be-
lieve it will open for public traffic on New Year's-day.

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE VEUVE CLIQUOT,
as described in Shaw's " Wine, the Vine, and the
Cellar."—A few miles on the Paris side of Epernay may be
seen a chateau, above fix. doorway of which is carved

6, Mater Fibre," the mater being a lady of ;;;id-w—tdeTe;;,
exceedingly rich, but still living in a small house at Reims,
as she did many a year ago; and although above 80 years
old, it is said there is not a cuve'e made without her opinion,
nor a transaction of importance without consulting her.
Others may have, and have, quite as good wine as hers ;
for they have the same opportunities which she enjoys of
buying grapes or wine from growers ; while the preparation
if her liqueur is no mystery, and the fermentation roust
everywhere go on in its natural course. The desire of her
house is not to make its wine better one year than another,
but to keep it as close as possible to its known standard pecu-
liarity year after year. if all seasons were alike, this would be
comparatively easy, but some are so bad that not a single
grape will be admitted into cellars of repute ; and as two,
three, and more such years often succeed each other, her
and every other house are compelled to keep up stock in
the best way they can. The only plan of accomplishing
this is by searching throughout the district for the best wine
that can be found in the cellars of growers or merchants, and
preparing them for their brand. Large firms such as hers,
and a few more, will make several cuveee of 53,000 and
100,000 dozens, after a good vintage. Shortly after that of
1861, I saw in her cellar casks that reminded me of the
quays of the London Docks ; and as these had to be pre-
pared, with much liqueur, for the shipments to Russia, &c.,
and less for the portion for England, it may be imagined
what a serious undertaking it is, and how much experience
and discrimination are required, to amalgamate these vari-
ous qualities into a homogeneous whole. But it is just to
add that, in stating that she has no monopoly of the best
grapes, nor of the knowledge of fermenting or converting
them into wine, hers is the only house where no other kind
but the best procurable quality is kept ; and therefore, any
one buying a bottle with her true brand on the cork, may
feel confident that it is the finest she can offer. She presses
her grapes less than other growers, disposing of the sur-
plus ; while most houses retain theirs for further pressure,
and then sell according to the result; probably branding
with their own known brand that which proves good, and
with a " fancy " brand that which is inferior.
THE MISSING SHIPS. —Five weeks have now
elapsed, and there has been no intelligence of the
missing laden colliers which sailed from the Tyne and ad-
jacent north country ports in the last week in November for
London, and it is reduced to a certainty, it is feared, that
they have perished with their crews. The names of the
Tyne vessels that have, it is almost certain, foundered are
the Esther, the Brodricks, and the Lady Mary, of North
Shields; and the Ann and Elizabeth, the Spray, and the
James, of South Shields. Another vessel, named the
Adorna, which left the Texel before the gale of the 3d Dec,
for the Tyne, has not since been heard of. If the Aborna
does not turn up, very close upon 60 seamen will have
perished with those ships. As far as can be ascertained,
either eight or nine laden colliers belonging to adjacent
ports have been missing the same time as the Tyne ships, eo
that at the lowest computation it is feared 120 north corm-
try seamen and sailor lads have perished by their vessels
foundering at sea with them. This sad calamity is being
realised in all its bitterness by the bereaved families in the
northern seaports, for, down .to about Christmas, they had
hoped against hope that those ships had been driven towards
the Dutch or Norway coast, and might Ulm up again.
Among the vessels included in the number mentioned above
are the Gehe and the Cletelendl belonging to Whitby. That
the George, belonging to that port, atter being abandoned,
he seaport
been
er has
et
npsufferedpicked
upa
n severely
taken by
l the
ntougotatlee: A vessel named
burg, As already
reported, several crews of water-logged and disabled ships
suffered fearfully by exposure during the terriflo gales of
the first week in December. The George is reported to
have lost four of her crew, including the mate and his son,
by exhaustion, before a frienaly ship came to their assist-
ance. It would appear that most of the vessels missing.
and of which there is little doubt nothing more will be
heard, had put into the Humber through adverse winds,
and that on Wednesday, the 2d of December, the wind
having got round to the N.W., blowitig fresh, they
had put oat of that roadstead with every prottiett of
a quick passage to London. But during that night dr
Thursday morning the wind chopped round to the ti.W.
again, and came on to blow a hurricane. It will be remem- •
hered that the force of Thursday's gale was most severe in
the midland counties, and it would catch these ships in
Boston Deeps, the very- worst place for laden colliers to en-
ceunter such a storm, and there is every reason to believe
that most of the vessels missing perished there or on the
edge of the Dogger Bank, It is to be feared many of the
families of the men that are supposed to be lost aro in a
destitute condition, some of the widows being left with large
families.

BRlTisll MUSEMC—The national collections will
be closed to the public from Friday, the Ist, until Thurs-
day, the 7th of January, 1861, inclusive, to afford the at-
teniants their usual Christmas holidays.
Horniman's Tea is choice and strong, moderate
in price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have
secured for this Tea a general prefrrenca, It is sold in
packets by 2,280 Agents,

The Late Earl of Charlemont.

The Freeman contains the following interesting
reminiscences of the above noble earl, whose death
we announced yesterday : . . .

Another link connecting us with the past has been broken.
The venerable Earl of Charlemont, who inherited the name
as well as the virtues of his great father, died on Saturday,
at the advanced age of 90. Francis, the second earl, was
born Jan. 6, 1774, so that on Jan. 4th next he would have
completed hie 90th year. Born at a time of great political
fermentation, and when Irish society reflected more beauty,
brilliancy, and wit than any society in Europe, he loved to
detail the events which made an impression on his boyhood.
Gifted with a retentive memory, he recalled ecenes and
characters which at the present day appear to be cast back
into the dim traditions of history, 'When only In his
fifth year he well remembered tho rising of the Irish
Volunteers. Like the Prince Imperial, who is now the
hope of France, the Irish nation regarded the eldest son of
the Earl of Charlemont. Some of our readers may have
aeon an old engraving of a review of • the volunteers in
College-green, commanded by the Duke of Leinster and
the Earl of Charlemont. The young viscount was present,
riding at his father's side. He r, collected distinctly all the
illustrous names of Irish history from 'B2. At there-unions
which took place at Leinster House and Charlemont House,
at that period the centres of all the intellect, beauty, and
fashion of the metropolis, his lordship mixed with the cha-
racters of that memorable epoch. With Grattan he was of
course perfectly familiar. Flood he less distinctly remembered,
but he still retained sufficient to give us a more perfect idea
of that remarkable man than history has transmitted to us.
His lordship was accustomed to say that his father ad-
mired Flood more than any of the men of that day, so
fertile in great statesmen and orators. That the Earl of
Charlemont and Henry Flood entertained a mutual respect
for each other appears from the published correspondence,
which exhibits the highly cultivated tastes and refined in-
tellectual intercourse that subsisted between those eminent
men. He told anecdotes of Grattan, Avonmore, Bowes

Daly, Forbes, Gardiner, together with a long catalogue of
other celebrities, when his memory was more active than it
had been in the decline of his life. He also had a distinct
though less clear, recollection of other figures who played
no unimportant part in the literary and political history
of England. He remembered when a boy having been
introduced by his father at several meetings of the
famous Literary Club. Burke he knew and remembered
well. A short time before his death the earl and
his son visited him at Beaconsfield, and he remem-
bered well one of the first questions Burke asked his father
was what he thought about the progTess of events in France.
The education of Viscount Caulfield was conducted under
the immediate eye of his accomplished father, until, in
his 16th or 17th year, he entered college, where he dis-
tinguished himself in classics. On the dissolution of
Parliament in '97 he was elected for the county of Ar-
magh, and, we need not say, voted heart and soul against
the union. His venerable father did not live to see the
measure carried, having died in 1799, when his son suc-
ceeded to the title and estates. Lord Charlemont, not
without some reluctance, took his seat in the English
House of Lords, to which, however, he was soon recon-
ciled. Thoroughly liberal, loving Ireland and her
people, whenever he spoke in the upper house he advo-
cated the religious and civil rights of his country. He was
a good speaker, and always impressed by his clear, good
sense. In the struggle between the Irish Liberals and
Tories, before and after emancipation, he was always at the
service of the Liberal party. He took an active part in the
Moore testimonial, which was one of the last of his public
acts. He gave up Charlemont House to the committee, and
at the public meeting over which he presided he spoke with
feeling and grace of the national poet with whom ho was
long and intimately acquainted. His last appearance in
public was at the opening of the Irish Exhibition of 1853,
when he appeared as the senior of the Knights of St.
Patrick, his father having been one of the first creations of
the order. He was a man of great and varied acquire-
ments. Modest and unobtrusive, he never developed the
eminent qualities which distinguished him, except in
the circle of his private friends, whose hearts he won by
the gentleness of his manner and the brilliancy of his con-
versation, which, it was said, much resembled his father's.
In one respect he differed widely from his father. Equally
national, he was more liberal. His father's opposition to
emancipation he never approved, while he illustrated, in his
while life, the highest respect for the religious and civil
liberties of his Catholic coutarymen. Though he liked
England well, as he was accustomed to say, he loved
Ireland better,' and proved it by an almost unvarying
residence for over sixty years. He said he drew his
income from Ireland, and it should be spent in Ireland.
Whenever he visited England, for Parliamantary or other
purposes, where he was received with open arms by the
chiefs of the Whig party, he always longed to be back at
Marino, or the family seat in Tyrone. Marino, however,
was his favourite. There he exclusively resided for the
last seven years, and there he died. Some three or four
years ago the venerable nobleman might be seen moving
backwards and forwards to Dublin in his Whig uniform_
a bright blue coat, with a splendid high collar garnished
with velvet, and the buff waistcoat. We need not say
when recognised all classes treated him with the pro-
fondest respect. Agriculture was one of his favourite pur-
suits, and he perfectly understood its principles and prac-
lice. His lordship married Miss Birmingham, daughter of
the direct descendant of the lords of Athenry. Ile had one
.m.)n, who 31.1 hi hla wiuurny. ale is ru.jt,lll the tine
and estates by his nephew, the Hon. Colonel Caulfeild, lord
lieutenant of Armagh. His remains will bo buried on
Thursday next in Armagh cathedral, where his father Was
buried. The Irish people will regret the death of a good
Irishman in Francis, second Earl of Charlement,

'• Son of the man
Who led the van
Of the Irish Volunteers,'"

EXETER HALL.—HAYDN'S ORATORIO. The
" Creation," which was announced to commence at half-
past seven,will begin at eight instead. The principal singers
engaged are Madame Pazepa, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr.
Bentley. The band and chorus 700. Conductor, Mr. a.
W. Martin.
SMUGGLING BY MEANS OF CRINOLINE.---Two
German women who were going out in the New
York steamer from Southampton on Wednesday were de-
tected in endeavouring to smuggle 22Ibs. of cigars into that
town from the steamer which lay in the dock, and which
had just come from Bremen. The cigars were in the ordi-
nary boxes, each containing 11b. weight. Eacb of the women
had 11 boxes strung round her person inside her dress, and
fastened to her crinoline. Although the women walked
very carefully, the boxes rattled one against the other, and
a custom-house officer, hearing a strange noise as the women
passed him, suspected that it had a contraband origin. The
women had got outside the dock gate before they were de-
tected.
MISTAKEN FOR AN AMBASSADOR,—A corres-
pondent, writing from Paris, says :—" I hope it may
never fall to the lot of any of your readers to be mistaken for
an ambassador, as happened to a friend of mine yesterday.
He arrived at an hotel which, to injure no vested interests,
I will call L'Hotel Enorme, and, being half asleep, asked
for a bedroom. It was six a,m., and he went to bed and
to sleep. When he awoke he found himself lying in state
in a crimson satin bed, the room lighted up by many
bougies, and quite a vista of looking-glass reflected and
re-reflected his astonished face. He rose ; and found
baths prepared in a dressing room, fitted up lise a lady's
boudoir, and, finally, breakfast arranged on a small table in
the midst of a vast saloon, bright with mirrors and splendid
with gold and crimson. Alarmed, he rang the bell, Waiter,
where am I?" Hotel Enorme, votre excellence au pre-
mier.' And the price ?' asked my friend. Oh, a baga-
telle, as son excellence will see by the tariffe.' He looked
and found it was 200 francs. ' Why put me here ?" I
thought monsieur was an ambassador. We always put
them au premier.' Ambassador I why ?" Because mon
deur wore a black coat.' "

FRIGHTFUL DEATH AT THE PLYMOUTH RAIL-
WAY STATION.—A shocking accident occurred at about
four o'clock on Saturday afternoon at the Plymouth goods
station of the South Devon Railway, by which a driver in
the employ of Messrs. Pickford and Co., carriers, was
crushed to death. The deceaeed (William Wakeham), with
two other men, also in the employ of Messrs. Pickford,
were employed in loading a track with ten tierces of sugar,
which they had brought from the British and Irish Sugar
Refinery. The tierces were brought on two trollies—
five teirces on each—stowed the lengthways of the
trollies. The railway truck was standing in the outward
I goods station, and the trolly Wakeham was driving had
been unladen. The other trolly was standing just inside the
gate separating the outward from the inward goods station.
The deceased was driving out his trolly to make room for
the other to come alongside the truck, and as he passed, the
fore part of his trolly came in contact with the end of one
of the hindermost tierces. His horses immediately on this
feeling the collision, sprang forward, and in so doing
knocked Wakeham down. Deceased fell on his back, and
two of the iron bars at the end of the laden trolly having
been taken out in preparation for unloading,
that was struck, weighing about 11 cwt., turned round.
the fierce
and rolled off, falling a height of about three feet six
part of
inches. It fell on the deceased's chest and rolled over his
head, causing instant death, the whole of th.eruusppe.r.
The
the poor fellow's body being frightfully
aGyounilegd
widow,
deceaeed:was 32 years of age,
but ho children. and leaves
ewer
DISCOVERY OF RELICS.—
NEWOTEAD ABBEY.—
Theo h avej net been digcob Novered soy interesting
ttsm (theeat of the late
relics near to Nowstead Abenyd,
by labourers employed in
Lord Byron). Ti. :v were found
kw°
the park. The relics con-
.
representing warrioruoifththuot
making a new carriage
silt of a portion of a stain.%d i,t the chain mail
time of Henry 111., aS exhibi
period ;an ancient freesttrne probably part of an
ambulatury ; a great quantity of winnow tracing of the
14th century, and some small jamb shafts of the 13th
century. A portion of the specimens have bees preserved.
PUNISHED FOR LIVING TOO LONG.—A pauper in
the Uckfield Union, named Wm. Novies, aged 82, was
charged before themagistrates with refusing to work.
thr The
poor old man, who had lived 12 years beyond the ee
score years and ten allotted to
man,said he
w
ng bad
to work, but their worships thought diners
tented him to 21 days' hard labour.—.Brigon .Excititi or.