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The Loss of the Ship San Miguel, of
Liverpool.

OFFICIAL REPORT.

The following is a report of an inquiry held atPort Ade
laide into the loss of the ship San Miguel, of Liverpool :
" The San Miguel is an iron barque of 535 tons register,
registered at Liverpool, built in 1864 at Woodside, Liver-
pool, owned by Messrs. Bromham and Lewis, of Liver-
pool, and was commanded by Mr. John G. Moore, holding a
Board of Trade certificate of oompetenCy as ordinary master
dated Ist of August, 1859, No. 10,972. The master states
he is of opinion the ship was insured in Liverpool for her
full value, £lO,OOO. She left Liverpool on the 9th Decem-
ber, 1864, with a general cargo for this port, and arrived
here on the 15th March, 1865. After discharging her cargo
she was chartered to proceed to Port Wallaroo, and left
this port on the 6th May, with a cargo consisting of about
80 tons of copper ore, besides hay, timber, bricks, and ma-
chinery. The crew consisted of the master, two mates, and
14 others, inclusive of seamen. The ship drew lift. bin. aft,
and 10ft. Bin. forward. It appears from evidence and the
sailing directions placed before me, that a temporary light-
shiphad been established near the south-western extremity
of the Tinarononf on tho let of Apt=-- This reef. which
stretches across Tipara Bay, a deep indertation of the coast
to the southward of Wallaroo Bay, forms the most import-
ant impediment to the navigation of that part of the coast.
Its character, position, and extent are indicated in the sail-
ing directions attached to this report. Having made a
favourable passage, the S an Miguel arrived in sight of the
lightship at 4 a.m., when it bore N. distant five or six
miles. At this time the San Miguel was making aN. E
corrected compass course, under all plain sail, with the
exception of the foretopgallant-sail and small staysails.
The wind was W., and the ship
going about five knots.
The course was altered to N. } W. Sounding of 13 fathoms
lead appears to have been kept going until the ship struck.
were attained 20 minutes after the light was seen, and the
From an inspection of the chart, the rate of sailing of ship,
and the master's own admisSion, I am of opinion the lead
was considerably overhove, and that, had more care been
exercised in getting soundings, the rapid shoaling of the
water towards the lightship would
have warned Captain
Moore that he was approaching danger. It appears that
although the master was aware a lightship had been very
recently placed on the Tipara Shoal, the harbour-master,
Mr. Quin, having told him so the day before the San Miguel
sailed, in answer to an inquiry
made, no application was
made by Captain Moore at the Marine Board offices for
the sailing directions, which were published by the Marine
Board early in March, and copies of which could be pro-
cured by any ono asking for them. He states he was of
opinion the light was placed on the north-western part of
the shoal, outside the danger. Although it may be ad-
mitted as a general principle that, where practicable, a
light should be placed outside the danger it indicated, it
must be remembered that several causes may justify, and
often necessitate, a departure from this rule. • The Tipara
lightship is one in
question, as the light was placed
on the site selected by Commander Hutchinson, R.N., and
myself, as being the most eligible for the safe mooring of
the vessel, and as a guide for the excellent passage inside
the reef ; indeed, had a site been erected outside the reef,
the present small temporary light-vessel could not have
been moored there with safety, exposed as she would be
to the heavy sea coming up the gulf. Referring back to
the
hazardous
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the position of the ship, it appears she struck on the outer
edge of the rocky patch about 5 a.m. Bth instant, and from
the evidence of the master, first officer, and Mr. Halliburton,
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her on the 11th, when she was full of water. From
the evidence before me, it appears the master very carefully
navigated the ship up to the time of sighting the light. I
would now remark that it is the duty of every master of a ship
proceeding to any strange place to make himself acquainted,
by personal inquiry, of the position, character, and changes
in the lights on the coast. In this instance the master
was aware that a light had been recently established, but
he neglected to provide himself with the official notice,
which he could have obtained on application at the Marine
Board offices, the recognised place for seeking such informa-
tion. It may or may not be the custom in England to
hand those notices to masters of ships on their clearing at
the custom and harbour offices, but it is evident that such
a system cannot obviate the necessity which exists for the
commander of a ship seeking the information himself. In
this port ships frequently clear for ports they do not call
at, and as frequently touch at ports for which they do not
clear. The master is the responsible person, and though
it may be convenient to have sailing directions handed to
him, still nothing can remove from him the responsibility
which he is invested with. In this case Capt. Moore admits
the loss of the fine ship under his command to have been
solely occasioned by his ignorance of the position of the
lightship. Having taken all the circumstances into conside-
ration, I find-1. That the San Miguel was stranded on the
Tipara Reef on the Bth of May in consequence of the master,
Mr. John Grant Moore, having neglected to provide himself
before leaving Port Adelaide with sailing directions indi-
cating the position of the lightship recently established on
the Tipara Reef. 2. That sufficient care was not exercised in
obtaining correct soundings when approaching the light-
pecially as the master of the San Miguel
ship, the more es
was not aware of the position of tho light. 3. That the
certificate of Mr. John Grant Moore, late master of the
should be suspended for six months from the
San Miguel, shou
date of the loss of the ship.
" Enclosed herewith is Captain Moore's certificate of
" B. DOUGLAS,
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Maypety.
enc 26, 1865." Stipendiary Magistrate.

" Marino Board-offico, Port Adelaide,
June 14, 1865.
" B. Douglas, Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate,
Port Adelaide.

" have the honour to inform you that your deci-
sion on tho investigation df the circumstances connected
with the wreck of the San Miguel has been laid before the
board together with a copy of the evidence ; and I am
now instructed to state that the board consider the
sentence very lenient, and that the suspension of the
master's certificate for twelve months would not have
been too severe a punishment.—l have, &c.,
" GEORGE E. DE URDLE, Socretary."

After a cessation of a week the evictions of the pitmen
at Cramlington were resumed on Friday, when the pro-
ceedings proved a decided and gratifying contrast to
those which attended similar operations on Friday week.
It was generally believed among the men on strike them-
selves that the evictions would be begun immediately after
the trial of those taking part iu the riot, and this impres-
sion, together with the statement that the evictions would
be recommenced on that day, created some little excitement
in the place at an early hour. Groups of men and boys as-
sembled in variousquarters, discussing the present position
of affairs between them and their late employers, and keep-
ing an eager look out for the appearance of the special
train with the evictors and military from Newcastle. The
Northumberland county constabulary also mustered in
strong force at their temporary barracks. Each of the men
wore side arms, as on former occasions. The groups of
persons waiting the arrival of the special train passed the
time by playing at pitch and tost while some of the police
engaged in friendly strife at a game of quoits. It was sur-
prising to observe the amount of indifference which pre-
vailed among the pitmen as to whether or not they and
their families should be turnedfrom their dwellings. About
11 o'clock some lads standing on the pit top at the High
Colliery cried out, " Yonder's the soldiers." In an instant
all eyes were turned towards a body of men marching along
the road from West Cramlington towards one of the pits
now lying idle, and it was evident from the steady step that
it was the military. They hadbeen brought to West Cram-
lington by .the special train, where they had alighted. As
they drew nearer the men engaged to remove the furniture
from the houses were seen to be walking in front. Very
few persons were accompanying-the procession. Tho sol-
diers (64th Regiment) were in heavy marching order, there
being 60 privates, 3 sergeants, and 2 corporals, under the
command of Capt. Ryan, Lieut. Brooks, and Ensign Ward.
The bailiffs were about 30 in number, and an equal number
of disreputable looking specimens of humanity it would be ,
difficult to find, comprising as they do " candymen,''
confirmed drunkards (judging from their appearance), some
say one ex-preacher, and men too lazy or incapable to en-
gage in regular occupation of any kind. As they and the
military passed the waggon-way to enter the farm-steading,
they were greeted with ironical cheering. The soldiers piled
arms in the granary, and in a short time the police, about
70 in number, were formed into two lines, and, with the
evictors between the two ranks, the/ marched from the
farm to Terrace-row, the scene of thT serious disturbance
last week. Some of the officials engaged at the collieries
pointed out the houses from which the families were to be
turned out, and four or five bailiffs entering each house,
evictions were resumed in earnest, the men being protected in
their operations by the police, who were drawn up about 10
yards in front of the row. Not many more than a score of
people were present to witness the proceedings, and the
work proceeded rapidly and quietly. The evictors were ge-
nerally very careful of the furniture, although occasionally
the sharp notes of a woman's voice were heard complaining
of the rough-handling bestowedupon some highly treasured
articles. The evicting party and police then proceeded to
Shankhouse Colliery, about half a mile to the oast, and the
evictions were commenced in Shankhouse-lane. Every-
thing was allowed to go on there quietly also. Their steps
were then turned towards the Low Colliery, where a con-
siderable number of people were congregated, but no at-
tempt was made to interrupt the proceedings. There was
a good deal of amusement among the women when the
evictions were going on at the East Wood-row. Some of
them ridiculed the whole affair, and used abusive language
towards the bailiffs and the police, but they kept their
tempers wonderfully well under the peculiar circumstances.
The evictions were then (about 4 o'clock) discontinued
and the party,aftor receiving some cheers from the women:
marched up to the barracks. The body of the men wisely
abstained from going near the scenes of the evictions.
The soldiers remained at the farm the whole day. They
would, of course, have been called out had any disturb-
ance taken place. The doors and the windows of the
houses from which the people were evicted were securely
fastened. On Friday 27 families were turned out, 18 hav-
ing been evicted formerly, making a total up to the pre-
sent time of 45. The bailiffs and soldiers afterwards
returned to Newcastle by special train ; but they were to
return to Cramlington on Saturday, when the evictions
were to be proceeded with. It is but right to state that,
in cases where sickness is in the family, they are not
evicted.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS,

(runt the raustrated London News)

The will of Sir John William Lubbock, Bart.,
F.R.S., D.L., of High Elms, Farnborough ; Lamas,
Norfolk; and Lombard-street, banker, was proved
in the London Court, on the 10th inst., by his son,
Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., the acting executor, power
being reserved to Lady Lubbock, his relict, to prove
hereafter. The personalty was sworn under £120,000.
The will is dated Dec. 3, 1864, and the testator died
on June 30 last, at the age of 62. Sir John has
bequeathed to his wife her jewels and paraphernalia,
also the furnitures,wines, farming stock, horses, and
carriages absolutely ; and leaves her ladyship the use
and enjoyment for her life of his pictures, paintings,
books, and plates, which at her decease will pass to
his eldest son, the present baronet. He disposes of
his share in the banking house (Robarts, Lubbock,
and Co.) as follows :—One moiety to his eldest son,
and the other moiety equally between his sons Henry
and Beaumont, they paying therefrom an annuity
of £6,000 to his relict. To his sons Alfred and Edgar
each a legacy of £lO,OOO. To his son Neville (of the
firm of Cavan, Lubbock, and Co.) and his sons Mon-
tagu and Frederic legacies are bequeathed amount-
ing to about £50,000, under business arrangements,
they also paying to his relict a like annuity of £6,000.
To his daughter Henrietta he leaves a legacy of
£4,000. His two married daughters, Mary and
Diana, he states are both sufficiently prcvided for.
His real and leasehold estates in Norfolk and Kent,
and elsewhere, he leaves to his eldest son. The re-
sidue of his personal estates he bequeaths to his relict.
The will of Nathaniel Soames, Esq., formerly of
Northwood, Ruislip, near Uxbridge, and late of
Warwick-gardens, Kensington, was proved in Lon-
don on the 80th ult. The executors and trustees
appointed are his relict, Rebecca Gainsford Soames;
his brother, the Rev. William AldwinSoames,M.A.,
Prebendary of St. Paul's, Rural Dean and Vicar of
Greenwich ; and his cousin, Daniel Willshen Soames.
To the latter he has left a legacy of £2OO for the
trouble he may have in the execution of the trusts.
The personalty was sworn under £30,000. The
testator executed his will on May 13 last, and died
on Sept. 10, at his residence. He has left the
following charitable bequests :—To the West Lon-
don Hospital, Hammersmith, £2,000 ; the Univer-
sity College Hospital, Gower-street, £4,000 ; and to
the Great Northern Hospital, Caledonian-road, Is-
lington, also £4,000. His freehold property in
Bingsland-road he leaves to his wife absolutely, and
also leaves to her the residue of his real and personal
property for her life. His freehold houses in the
Strand he has devised to his said brother William ;
and upon the decease of his relict, he leaves the re-
sidue of his real and personal estate to the children
of Francis Soames, of Wokingham-park, Berks, in
such manner as his relict may, by will or otherwise,
appoint or direct.
The will of William Day Wills, late of Bristol,
was proved in the Court at Bristol by his relict,
Mrs. Mary Wills, the acting executrix and trustee
—Henry Overton Wills and Frederick Wills, his
brothers, both of Bristol, the other executors and
trustees, having renounced the grant of probate.
The personalty was sworn under £50,000. Mr.
Wills carried on business at Bristol in partnership
with Mr. F. Ricketts and the said Mr. H. F. Wills,
as wholesale tobacconists and snuff manufacturers.
The testator died at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
on the 13th of May last, from an accident. He
had executed his will in 1840. He has by his will
given permission to his trustees to continue his share
and interest in the said co-partnership by way of
loan, if so desired by his surviving partners. He
bequeaths to his wife all his furniture, plate, w. ines,
&c., and a life interest arising from an investment
of his property, which at her
decease
will pass to his
son, William Henry Wills, absolutely ; and to his
son he leaves a legacy of £2,000.

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The past three months have witnessed a certain
degree of change in the aspect of political parties
towards the President, especially in relation to his
policy of reconstruction in the South. When Mr.
Lincoln died, there were many who professed to see
in the event an " interposition of Providence ;" for,
as they said, Mr. Lincoln would probably have been
too lenient to the South, while his successor was
exactly the man to use the conquered States with
just and necessary vigour. Although Mr. Johnson
had himself been a slaveholder, he had also been at
constant war with the slaveholding class, had been
bitterly persecuted by them, and owed the death of
one of his children to their hatred and violence. The
lenient and yielding nature of Mr. Lincoln seemed
less adapted to deal successfully with the critical
work of reconstruction than the inflexible, and, as
it was thought, vindictive temperament of Mr.
Johnson. The Democratic party at that time plainly
pointed out the danger of suffering the destinies of
the South to remain in such hands. When the con-
spirators in the assassination plot were executed
there were even vague threats of " impeachment"
to be heard, and any stranger who was so ill in-
formed as to believe in the stability of party opi-
nions in America might have concluded that Mr.
Johnson would soon be opposed by the whole
strength of the Democratic party.
This is now all changed. With admirable courage
the Democratic party refer to their opinions of June
last as " exploded issues," and, throwing away the
useless summer garments, they have attired them-
selves in the new " fall fashions" with as much grace
as the sudden and awkward movement admits of
their showing. Even that section which through-
out were for yielding to the South now offer up
daily sacrifices to the man for whom three months
ago " tyrant" and " despot" were the softest
words they could find. One of the leading men
of the Democratic party, now the candidate for
the office of Attorney-General of this State, has
publicly " nominated" Mr. Johnson for the next
Presidency. This gentleman, like his colleagues,
has forgiven the President even that deed which
they thought disgraced their country—the hanging
of Mrs. Surratt and the other conspirators. Very
naturally, the party which did their best to support
the Government throughout the war cannot recon-
cile themselves to this swift and unlooked-for con-
version of their opponents. Yet it cannot but be
acknowledged that the revolution in the opinions of
the Democratic party may partly be traced to Mr.
Johnson's policy. He is forgiving the South en
masse. He cannot replace the States as States in
their former position, but he can save individuals
from punishment and their property from confisca-
tion ; and this he is doing to an extent which leads
many to fear that he is forgetting to provide proper
safeguards against future troubles in the South, and
also losing sight of certain objects of the war. The
Southern leaders are quick to perceive this new
phase of affairs, and the result is that they are be-
coming less loud and vehement in their professions
of loyalty, and less willing to do " justice to the
negro." It follows that the " Radical" section of
the Republicans are much dissatisfied, and that
their press utters many warnings that the South
will yet succeed in bringing back the old slavery
difficulties upon the country. In fairness, however,
it cannot be said that President Johnson is shifting
his course. From the first he has plainly said, " I
will restore the South first ; after that I will attend
to other things." The success of this plan depends
altogether upon the disposition of the South to act
in good faith. Secession is, of course, all over, as
the Democratic party say, it is an " exploded
lasmo;" hut there aro other issues which are not
yet exploded. The proper protection of the
freedman is one of them. The willingness
of the South to pay its quota of the
national debt is another. Supposing that the South
was determined to carry out the spirit as well
as the letter of Mr. Johnson's policy, it would mat-
ter little how fast " reconstruction" proceeded. But
if he pushes on while they stand still, or try to fall
back, the new Union edifice will not be built on
secure foundations.

I have lost no opportunity of gathering really
trustworthy information of the state of affairs and
of public opinion in the South, and in some re-
spects it is better to be at a point at which all such
information converges than in detached parts of the
South itself. Such of my authorities as are public I
will quote ; others which are private I must ask you
to believe have been sifted with care. In the first
place, I am assured that the people of the South are
more hopeful and buoyant now than at any time
since the close of the war. They feel confident
that they will obtain good terms from the President,
and they have had ample evidence by this time that
the 25,000 dollar exception clause in the amnesty
proclamation means anything but confiscation. The
strongest fact of all, and one that causes great sur-
prise to every English traveller who goes southward
is the well-to-do appearance of the bulk of the
people who were formerly rich. They map not be
wealthy now, but they have means enough to come
here to New York and pay off all their debts con-
tracted before the Ni ar. They are at this moment
the best customers which the large wholesale houses
of New York have. Never have the imports into the
country been larger than of late, and a very large
proportion of them go South. When speaking to a
gentleman from Georgia recently on this subject, he
said, " You cannot account for our being so well off,
but the reason is that throughout the war many of
us hoarded. During thelast two years of it few of us
believed in its ultimate [suceess, and consequently
we took care of ourselves. Of course, the loss of
our slaves is so much loss of money, and I know
some men who are nearly ruined. But you would
be surprised if you knew how many of us took pre-
cautions to prevent everything going down in the
wreck." The merchants here are certainly surprised
at the way money is pouring in from the South, no
less than at the careless, indifferent tone in which
Southerners speak of their defeat. They look upon
it precisely as they would look upon a defeat in a
political election. They have had a great fight, and
they have been well whipped, and there is an end of
it. This is the way they talk in the " colossal Po-
land" as some across the water call the South. It
seems quite incredible, according to English ideas,
that the facts should be so; but the habits and train-
ing of the American people would lead them to re-
gard a struggle of this kind in the light I have re-
presented---that is, as if it were a mere defeat at
the polling booths—better than other nations.
The South, however, will not yield more than it
can help. Secession and slavery are gone, but they
are still disposed to hold with a firm grasp the prin-
ciple that every man may do as he likes with his
own nigger. In this-spirit Alabama refuses to allow
him to give evidence in a court of justice. Out of the
four States which have now held their conventions,
not one has agreed to do more for the black race
than assent to what they could not prevent—the
abolition of slavery. There are three States which
yet have to complete the preliminaries of reconstruc-
tion—Georgia, Florida, and Texas. The election for
delegates in Georgia is now going on peaceably and
satisfactorily, In South Carolina the civil authority
is rapidly taking the place of the military. In Charles-
ton the mayor and council have resumed their func-
tions, and the state militia is being fast organised. The
people are resolved to resist negro suffrage, and one of
the candidates for the next Congress, Gen. AV Gowan,
has warned them in a public address that it behoves
them to " secure a prudent, faithful, and patriotic re-
presentative in Congress." He insists that " the
State, as soon as reconstructed, shall have entire con-
trol of the whole subject of her domestic affairs. The
State, and the State alone, must be left to decide to
whom she will give the right of suffrage or other
political rights." Once restored the State will un-

" We have heard of cases where this semblance of desti-
tution was instrumental in protecting many a worthy
family in convenient means of subsistence. We have heard
of other cases where this prudent assumption of indigence
has enabled those who assumed it to retain wealth enough
to defy the pressure of arbitrary power. In the first throes
of disaster and its attendant distresses the apprehensions of
the South begot an extreme caution in this respect. In the
first flush of triumph the exactions and orders of the Fede-
ral military district authorities gave confirmation to the
caution and justified the discretion. It is no reprehensible
deception which seeks to retain what is rightfully one's own
from the grasp of a despoiler, who seeks to seize it on un-
justifiable pretences. The Government has at length put
unexpected
salutary checks on its civil and military agents, and the
many in the South who hoarded up something for the
stormy days are no longer afraid to bring the treasure forth.
We
are not, then,
s quantitiesurisedtonhmekarinogf silver lverandgold in
most
appearance in
Southern cities. Even bullion, to no inconsiderable amount,
is daily coming to light in the hands of its legitimate and
reassured o .vners. Plate and articles of vertu, which, by the
contrivances we have suggested, escaped the rapacity of
those dressed in a little brief authority, are constantly pass-
ing into the market, converted into commodities for the
revivification of trade. The changed condition of military
rule is thus, and for the reasons indicated, already bearing
promising fruit, and the poverty of the South is gradually
showing itself to be comparative, not positive."
This is Southern testimony, let it be remembered.
So many theories about this war are gradually fall-
ing to the ground that the only two facts we can be
quite sure of to-day are that the loss of life in the
war was immense, and that the finances of the
country are in a condition which gives uneasiness to
well informed persons. On the other hand, the bulk
of the people, not being well informed on financial
subjects, the second of these two facts causes no
alarm ; and thus the country passes from four years
of war into peace literally as if nothing had happened
beyond what I hear many speak of as " a little
family quarrel."
At such a time as this the indiscretion of a single
officer may provoke great mischief, and Major-Gen.
R. Woods appears to be anxious to make the expe-
riment how much fresh ill feeling it is possible to
create in Alabama. The bishop of that State issued
a pastoral to his clergy, dated June 20, 1865, enjoin-
ing them not to use the prayer for the President
and civil authorities while the State remained under
military rule, for, as the bishop wrote, " the prayer
is altogether inappropriate and inapplicable to the
present condition of things, when no civil authority
exists in the exercise of its functions." General
Woods took exactly three months to think over this
little outpouring of ecclesiastical wrath, and then
issued an order, dated the. 20th of September last,
suspending the bishop and all the Protestant Epis-
copal clergy of Alabama from the exercise of their
functions, forbidding them to perform Divine service
or to preach, ;and closing all their places of worship.
If the GovernmentiVas about to begin a religious
crusade in this spirit we might despair of seeing
good feeling between North and South restored ;
but it cannot but be annoyed at the senseless offi-
ciousness of a very foolish man, who deserves to be
instantly removed. Whether Gen. Thomas, the
Commander of the Tennessee military district, or
Gen. Woods first hit upon this method of bringing
the clergy to subjection, or whether it required both
their " minds" to produce their brutum fulnzen is
of little consequence ;' but it is of consequence
that the responsible person should be taught a
lesson which will prevent him repeating his folly.
The bishop's order may not have been a wise one,
but if every silly man who happened to be a general
had the authority to command an entire diocess to
say certain prayers and leave others unsaid, the re-
lation of the Church to the State would soon cease
to be so friendly as it has been in the past. The irri-
tation caused by this order in the North is extreme;
a more unjustifiable and lawless act was never com-
mitted during the whole war, and it is utterly with-
out excuse now in a time of profound peace. The
President's policy would have broken down long ago
if all those appointed to carry it out had been of
General Thomas's or General Wood's capacity.
Senator Wilson, a leading member of the Repub-
lican party, addressed a public meeting last evening
at Yonkers, in this State, and declared himself in
favour of nominating Mr. Johnson for re-election.
Thus, the bidding for the President becomes more
animated every day. Mr. Wilson also said he was
willing to assent to the following proposals with
regard to negro suffrage : _ _ .

" That coloured soldiers who had fought for the country
should have the right of suffrage; that all coloured men
who could read and write should exercise the right to vote;
that all coloured men who owned property on which they
paid taxes, and all coloured men who were members of a
church should have the suffrage extended to them."

This is the last liberal speech which has yet been
made on the part Of the Conservative section of the
Republican party.
The news from England whic;.: we received this
morning of the rise in American securities is held
to be an evidence of the improved feeling on your
side towards this country, and it gives grat satis-
faction, The Times' articles upon the Shenandoah
and the policy of President Johnson, reprinted in
some of to-day's papers, increase this satisfaction,
and the popular prejudice against England, on ac-
count of the part she was supposed to have taken
during the late war, will soon disappear beforo these
tokens of friendly feeling.
The Fenians are much disconcerted at the seizure
of their arms and treasure in England and Ireland,
atsiminddeerlareydevibtgheogarthggeivheaEnrndtghlfeisorohrmggaoonrveiesramntimoonnzitt.s
hdasleto:tihtsbyelooiwn-
ts.

[ADVERTISEMENT, —That the fearful annual mortality of
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earrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines,
which,it n
apparently relieving the patient, have in
al tendency than that of increasing debility,
and with it the danger of life, 'we were simply to study how
to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure bloods
reality
upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame
thoughoother
depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's Inva-
lids' and Infants' Food, the Revalenta Ari.blca, and its
thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as mull
easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, t‘nd for
children it is the best substitute for human iullk. Dr.
Routh, physician to, the S,,maritan Hospital for Women and
Children—the best authority on ouch matters —in his admir-
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is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con-
airing both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of
potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle which
is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there-
fore, that under its influence many children affected with
atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt i'y,
have completely recovered. I have given it wi liil he greatest
advantage in such cases; and so far as I may judge from my
own experience, practice fully carries out what theory,
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408.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;
also Phillips, tea dealers, S, King William-street ; likewi e
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54, Upper Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96,
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Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St.
John's.wcod, London; and all respectable grocers and she-
' mists.—Beware of spurious imitations.

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LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 23, 1865.

FUNERAL OF LORD PALMERSTON.

As announced by ourselves exclusively on
Thursday evening, in The Sun, the homage of a
Public Funeral in Westminster Abbey is about to
be accorded to the venerable remains of Lord PAL-
MERSTON. After commenting upon his career and
character in our leading columns that evening,
Thursday, the 19th instant, we went on to remark
And it is this Great Man, this Famous Eng-
lishman, this Patrician-Gentleman, this fore-
most Statesman amongst his Contemporaries, who
has but just now passed from amongst us, and to
whose dead body the Nation will have to accord suit-
able sepulchral honours, under the roof beams, we
presume, of Westminster Abbey. He had secured
all the honours he could reasonably have aspired
to in life. We must bestow upon him that
last and crowning honour, now that he is dead."
And further, by way of conclusion, we observed
as follows :—" The least we can do, now that he
has gone, the least we can do as a last evidence
of our appreciation for one so venerable in years,
so lofty in character, and so illustrious in position,
is—that we should inter his dead body with all appro-
priate funereal magnificence among the kindred great
ones who already lie buried there in the old Abbey at
Westminster."

That what we thus early indicated as alone suit-
able in regard to the scene and manner of Lord
PALMERSTON'S Funeral Obsequies, is now, after all,
really and truly going to be done in reference to
his sepulture, will be matter, we believe, of very
general satisfaction. A strictly private interment
of the late Prime Minister would have been almost
painfully unsuitable under the circumstances.
'That momentary design, it is now gratifying to
learn, has been, at the eleventh hour, abandoned,
and on Wednesday next, the day after to-morrow,
the remains of the Great Premier will be deposited,
with all appropriate solemnity, in the only fitting
Resting-Place for a great man, so universally popular
among all classes of his fellow-countrymen as
HENRY JOHN TEMPLE, the third and last Viscount
PALMERSTON.

Few sciences have made more rapid progress of
late years than the science of meteorology ; never-
theless, there is, perhaps, none in which we have
more to learn. Our savants may foretell storms or
trace the course of hurricanes, they may measure
the density of a fog, or estimate with marvellous
accuracy the amount of the annual rainfall, but
there still remains a great deal that as yet they can-
not do. They find it impossible to measure those
intangible atmospheric forces which carry on their
invisible course, the seeds of disease and
death from one country to another. They
are unable to tell us in what consists that
malific agency, which with so little apparent
cause produces suddenly and simultaneously in very
opposite conditions of life the same apparently un-
controßable effects. The summer which has just
passed has been brilliant and beautiful, warm, and so
lengthened that second crops have, in some instances,
appeared. Yet there has evidently been some
unkind agency at work, most formidable to animal
life, while the dovAstating march of the cholera
seems to indicate that it has been likewise
unfavourable to human life and health. At
the opening of the year there were
rumours of new and formidable diseases
n Russia, and even in Germany. Considerable

apprehension was felt, and the matter was thought
serious enough for direct official inquiry. When the
alarm had a little subsided it soon became manifest
that a well-known enemy was advancing westward,
and although happily we have as yet been spared
the visitation, it has been so busy in other parts of
Europe that we have good grounds for uneasiness
on our own account as well as of anxiety on our
neighbours. An outbreak of yellow fever, limited
indeed in its area and brief in its duration, likewise
made itself felt in a part of the kingdom,
while all over the county in the south, in the north,
in Edinburgh as in London, in Lancashire as in
Norfolk, a fatal and most contagious disorder has
been decimating our herds. As is usually the case on
the outbreak of a new and virulent pestilence, there
have been active discussions respecting the origin of
the disorder. Some have a.ttributedit to importation,
some to the ill-treatment of cattle, and some to
atmospheric agencies. Whichever theory be the
true one, there must certainly be some condition of
the atmosphere which is especially favourable to its
development, otherwise we should not find it intrud-
ing itself into the carefully-guarded retreat of the
Zoological Gardens, or ravaging Holland, or last
not least, breaking out far away on the Neilgherries!
Yet the latest Indian news brings us this curious
and unwelcome piece of intelligence. It is only to
be hoped that the disease may spread less widely
and prove less destructive in that part of the world
than our own. Possibly among the recondite know-
ledge of the Hindoos there may be some tradi-
tionary mode of treating it which may prove
more effectual than the resources of European
science and skill have yet done. The great
problem of the day is not how the cattle
disease originated, but how it is to be cured, and
in waiting to solve this the case of the cattle
owners is certainly a very hard one. Their pro-
perty is taken away from them at a single stroke.
Fatal as the disease has shown itself
to be, the owners may naturally believe they
have a chance of saving some of their animals,
but very often they are forced to have them
slaughtered without making the experiment. Lord
WINCIIELSEA. has addressed a letter to a contem-
porary on this subject, in which he argues, very
justly, that Government is bound to offer some
compensation to the owners of the stricken
property. He illustrates his case by supposing an
instance of a large manufactory employing hundreds
of men developing some pestilence, and the owners
consequently receiving an order to destroy their
buildings and burn their machinery. Were no
ideemnity offered in such a case, he says, what an
outcry would follow. Yet the proposition of the
cattle owners is precisely parallel. We cannot
but hope that this injustice will be remedied, since
£lOO,OOO would have very little effect on our annual
disbursements, but might to thousands of tradesmen
constitute the whole difference between competence
and ruin.

At this period whan the discussion of sanitary
measures occupies the attention of the well-informed
to so great an extent, it is lamentable to reflect upon
the sad cases of grievous neglect which here and
there are a scandal to the good senses and good
taste of the community. The shocking condition
of Bethnal-Green has for a long time been the
theme of much comment, and, perhaps, some san-
guine persons had indulged in the hope that by this
time things had got better, that the careless were
more cautious, and the ignorant better informed.
Such hope will, however, be grievously disappointed
by the perusal of the report of an inquest
held on Thursday last at the Nelson Tavern,
Hackney-road, on the body of a little girl
eleven years of age. The occurrences that then
took place are enough to surprise any one not accus-
tomed to the insolence of parish officials and the
shameful neglect of landlords. The details that
were mentioned by the witnesses were of so start-
ling a character, thatthey certainly rea ige the adage
of truth being stranger than fiction. It seems diffi-
cult to believe that human beings should be expected
to pay any money at all for living in the places here
described, for the house in which the poor little girl
met her untimely end was not in a fit state for cri-
minals, if half of what was said of it be true. It
appears that some time ago JOANNA BUTLER fell
and broke a rib, but Dr. CHAMBERS said that if
she had been properly treated she might
have recovered, but that the removal of
her family to Nelson-place was very inju-
rious, and no one will wonder that he should
have made this remark when they learn the reasons
for it. He stated that the " effluvium from the
premises affected his throat for hours after he visited
the court," and that there were " foul emanations
and effluvium from the houses, the dust heaps, &c."
The houses consist only of two rooms, and for these
a charge is made of five shillings a week. In fact,
so pestilential is the atmosphere of the place that
Dr. CHAMBERS believes that a case of "smallpox
which he is treating in one of these houses has come
from poison in the houses, as it is not like an ordi-
nary case." Then followed other witnesses, all
corroborating the statement of the medical man,
and telling the sad tale of wrong and neglect.
HARRIET BUTLER, the mother of the deceased,
stated that the child got much worse after she was
removed to Nelson-place. " The house was a step
lower than the ground back and front, there was no
dust-bin or cover to the water-butt, the yard was
covered with stagnant water, and they had to place
the wash-house door down to walk dryshod over
it." It certainly appears that five shillings a week
was exorbitant to pay for such accommodation, and
that, taking all things into consideration, those who
valued their health or the lives of their children
would rather pay double that sum to be outside
such premises.

FRANCES BLOXAM stated that she had often com-
plained to her landlord of the dust being thrown
out and left in the middle of the court, " dead
cats, &c., being thrown on it," and he replied,
" You should put it in your yard, I will get any
one three months who puts the dust in front." It
. would certainly be an anomalous proceeding for a
landlord to get three months for a lodger who put
the dust in front when there was no dust-bin on
the premises. It was mentioned that the dust
heaps were but seldom removed, because the dust
contractors generally avoided narrow streets and
courts in low neighbourhoods, as they were not
likely in such quarters to receive the twopence
beer-money for their trouble ; and the consequence
of such neglect is that heaps of refuse are left for
weeks at a time, which " decompose" and greatly
injure the health of the inhabitants. Dr. GREEN-
WOOD, whose assistant had attended the child,
certified that he was well qualified to do so, but
when he went there he found the child lying on the
boards, as the landlord had seized all the things for
rent, but on condition of the family removing he
returned the bed. Under these circumstances it
was therefore impossible for the medical attendant
to do otherwise than consent to the removal of the
child, but he advised her being taken to the hospital.
The inhuman course pursued by many of the land-
lords in these wretched habitations cannot be too
severely censured. To take the bed from under a
sick child who had met with an accident is a piece
of barbarous cruelty unpardonable in any man who
dwells
in a civilised country. No wonder some
of the
jury remarked
that the state of the

neighbourhood of Nelson's-place was so bad
that it was necessary to take some steps
concerning it, for it was very dangerous to the
health of all who resided there. Upon the delivery
of these very pertinent observations there ensued a
scene almost unparalleled for effrontery and indiffer-
ence on the part of Mr. CHRISTIE, Inspector of
Nuisances for Bethnal-green. He began by stating
that he served " no notice" on the landlord of the
houses just referred to, and, will it be believed, he
added, there was no occasion for him to do so, for
there was no complaint made. A juror truly stated
that it was a startling admission that these poor
neighbourhoods were not to be visited or inspected
except when complaints were made, and that such
a system might satisfy the vestry, but would not
content the public. Henceforth this enlightened in-
spector of nuisances replied he hadnothing to do with
the public. "I do not care whether the public are
satisfied or not. Ido my duty according to my
instructions. You should go and do it yourself."
It is really too much to submit to that such iatol-
lerable impertinence should be permitted in a witness
before a court of inquiry. The conduct of Mr.
CHRISTIE was about as unseemly as it could be, and
the reproofs of the jury only seemed to make him
worse. In fact, he became quite outrageous.
When the assistant inspector appeared to give evi-
dence, he contradicted him in the most barefaced
manner, and when Mr. BURROWS stated that
such an entry was in the book in his own
handwriting, Mr. CHRISTIE exclaimed, " I don't
believe it ; it is not in your handwriting."
A juror very properly remarked at this juncture,
" Mr. CHRISTIE, ycu are not here now as relieving
officer among paupers ; your manner is most in-
sulting." It is indeed very unbecoming that such
conduct should take place when an important inves-
tigation is taking place, and the whole tenour of
Mr.. CHRISTIE'S course shows him to be utterly
unfit for his place, and it will be a great act of
neglect to their duties and an insult to the public if
he be not immediately dismissed by the proper
authorities. But the matter should not be suffered
to rest in their hands, and if they choose to
tolerate the offender, surely the Home Secretary
will think it proper to interfere. If such a style of
conduct be suffpred to pass unchecked, it will be
holding out an encouragement to other inspectors
to slight their work and insult those who call them
to account. It was in Bethnal-green that a reliev-
ing-officer once told a jury, who passed a verdict
that contained a censure upon his treatment of a
pauper, " that their verdict would not do him a
halfpenny-worth of harm." An improvement will
never take place in this locality unless some more
vigorous measures are adopted, and it is high
time that something be done speedily, or the
condition of the poor will be frightful during the
winter. What with hard relieving officers, incom-
petent inspectors of nuisances, and scheming land-
lords, it would seem that the condition of Bethnal-
green is about as bad as it can be. The death of this
unfortunate child has once again brought before the
public the sad state of this part of the metropolis, and
the honour and interests of the community alike call
for some searching investigation to be made, and
some striking changes to be introduced. It is of
no use for juries to return verdicts if no atten-
tion is paid to them. And how often have
such protests been made against the system
pursued in Bethnal-green ? The time has arrived
when action should succeed to words, remedies be
substituted for complaints, and a vigorous change
for the better afford some chance of life and health
to those now pining in sickness, and sinking into
premature graves in consequence of the foul air
they breathe, and the noxious condition of the
houses they dwell in.

• It does not appear to be more than a very brief
period since, with all due pomp and pride. of cir-
cumstance, the Wakefield Exhibition opened its
doors to the eager and admiring multitude. Yet so
rapid is the succession of events that divert the pub-
lic attention that forty days have elapsed during
the interval between its inauguration and its close.
The experience of those six weeks has been, as far
as the exhibition itself was concerned, pre-eminently
satisfactory. It is not very often that so encourag-
ing a verdict can be given as to the results of any
large undertaking as that given by the secretary in
making his final report. "The whole course of the
exhibition," he said, "had been one of unqualified
prosperity and complete success." So far from the
interest of the public diminishing with time, it ap-
peared steadily to increase, for the weekly attend-
ance became gradually larger and larger. The
average daily attendance was between four and
five thousand, the total number of admissions hav-
ing been 185,723. The exhibition was not of that
showy and superficial character which might at its
opening attract crowds for the fashion or the
amusement of the hour. It contained works of art
and skill which elevated the mind and enthralled
the interest of the spectator, and bade him return
again and again to worship at the shrine of beauty
and of invention. Despite the social and finan-
cial auccess of the undertaking there hung over
the closing ceremony the gloom cast by the national
loss of the week, and by none of those present could
it have been more deeply and painfully felt than by
the kindly and accomplished nobleman who has so
cordially befriended the movement from its outset.
Yet though Lord HOUGHTON confessed his inability
to enter so cheerfully as he would otherwise have
done into the spirit of the occasion, his closing
address showed his usual facility in dealing with
questions of art and education. An exhibition of
this kind is, he justly observed, an educational ad-
vantage to the people. Who, he asked, could mea-
sure its influence or benefits ? Who could tell the
germ of art which may have entered the mind of
some peasant student in looking for the first time at
the fine paintings in this very Wakefield Exhibition,
or the dim notion of invention which might pass
through the mind of the intelligent mechanician
examining the models exhibited in its rooms. But,
in addition to this aspect of the advantages of throw-
ing open such opportunities to genius and talent in
the lower ranks, we must remember the more certain
and extensive, if less conspicuous, result produced
upon the minds of the many who have no claim to
either inventive or artistic pre-eminence. The
gradual refinement and cultivation of the taste
of the many is not less vital to the progress and
social welfare of a nation than the development of
the gifts and faculties of the few, and it is not one
of the least significant or gratifying signs of the
times that so wide a range of persons should he able
to find pleasure in these artistic exhibitions. Art,
as Mr. LEATHAM truly said, may minister to virtue
as well as to vice, and the pleasure felt in an inno-
cent and elevating recreation of this kind is of itself
beneficial to those classes who are too apt to derive
their gratification exclusively from material sources.
Mr. LEATHAM quoted appropriately enough the
familiar thought of KEATS—" A thing of beauty
is a joy for ever," and expressed his be-
lief that many of the visitors to Wakefield
who had snatched a brief holiday to spend in its
Exhibition would carry away with them bright
and enduring memories. Mr. LEATHAM made a
very sensible suggestion as to the disposal of the
surplus funds in the hands of the Committee, and
we hope his hint will be taken, He proposed that

they should be devoted to the establishment of a
School of Design in Wakefield ; a scheme which
would be very advantageous to the town and itg
various branches of industry, from the improvement
it would be likely to effect in the designs of the
textile fabrics and of the china manufacture. Such
a practical result would tend to keep alive the
pleasant memory of an Exhibition which has been
during its existence an unqualified success, and
would help to train the taste and talent of the rising
generation, so that Art and Industry, instead of
being, as too often believed, opposing forces, may
assume their more natural and beautiful position
as kindred and congenial benefactors of humanity.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ABYSSINIAN PRISONERS.
ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 14.

The Commercio publishes a letter from Jedda,
dated the 27th ult., of which the following is the
substance :
" Information has been received from Massowah
stating that Mr. Cameron the English Consul, has
not yet obtained his freedom ; he even suffers much.
In two years his hair has turned from black to per-
fect white. his legs are swollen, and he is alto-
gether in a very bad way.
" It is said that King Theodorus has written to
Mr. Rassam to come and take Cameron away, his
Majesty's object being to imprison Rassam also, as
Rassam is believed to have formed improper rela-
tions with certain enemies of the Emperor."

ITALY.

FLORENCE, OCT. 23.

The election of deputies to the Italian Parliament
has commenced. Most of the colleges are battling
for the different candidates. A large number of
electors are taking part in the elections, but order
has nowhere been disturbed.

MILAN, OCT. 23.

Yesterday the Prince and Princess Napoleon
arrived here incognito, and were present at the
theatre last evening.

TURIN, OCT. 23.

A despatch received to-day announces that the
King and Queen of Portugal will arrive here on the
26th inst.

INDIA. -
BOMBAY, SEPT. 30.
Nothing is known yet as to the proceedings in
Bhootan when the cold weather sets in.

Colonel Campbell has been removed from the
service for mismanagement of the defence of De-
wangire, in Bhootan, but has been allowed a major's

pension.

Armudsen, a notorious rebel of 1857, has been
found guilty at Cawnpore, and sentenced to impri-
sonment for life.
Vardy, the pilot of the Coolie ship Eagle Speed,
which was wrecked at the mouth of the Mutlah, has
been dismissed the service.
The cattle disease is reported to have broken out
on the Neilgherries.
A collision has occurred between the people and
the police in suppressing hook-swinging at Poore
in Kuttack.
The Exhibition at Nagpore is to be opened on the
24th December.

A pension has been granted to the family of the
ex-King of Delhi.

The new organization of the Bombay police com-
mences in October.

The reports regarding the crops are everywhere
very favourable.
The rainfall in Bombay up to this date is 75

inches.

The cotton and piece goods markets are active,
and prices are advancing.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 20.

The Delta and Tanjore, with the above mails,
left here at noon, to-day, for Marseilles and South-

ampton respectively.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Oct. 21.—Two o'Clock.—Although
business is now done at lower quotations than were
obtained at the opening, an improvement has taken
place on yesterday's closing rates. Threes, for the
Account, have advanced 10c., and are quoted 67f.
93c. Italian Fivca aro at G 54. SL 50. Croditliwbilier
Shares are doing at 882 f. 50c., with a rise of 7f. 50c.
Comptoir d'Escompte Shares have attained I,ooof.
North of Spain are unvaried ; the discounting of
these shares has much fallen off—only 375 are an-
nounced for to-day. Paris Gas Shares are doing
between 1,695 f. to 1,700 f Three o'Clock.—The
market became buoyant towards the end, and the
closing prices show a further advance. The last
quotations are as follows
41 per Cents 96 20

Lo. end month

Ditto Threes —
Roman
Mexican Loan 4B 25
Do. Bonds 2lB 75
Russian —
Austrian
Spanish Threes 43
Home Debt —
Deferred

3 per Cents.
Do. end month 67 97}
Credit Mobilier

Do. end month 888 75
Bank Shares 3700
Credit Fonder 1330

Italian Loan 65 40

Do. end month 65 40

RAIL'

Orleans .

'ATP-

Northern .

Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western

Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

Cash. Acct.
8181
1095
_. ~. 858 75
... 565

- 535 -
- 230 -
- 402 50
- 435 -

- 215 -
268 75

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... 190 -

MADAME LIND-GOLDSCHMIDT, we are grieved to
learn, is obliged to pass the winter in the south of Europe
for the benefit of her health.

HERR JOACHIM'S RETURN TO ENGLAND is ad-
journed till January, when he will resume his place as
first violin at the Popular Concerts.
THE EDITOR OF Good Words, Dr. Norman
Macleod, who is paying a visit to the Queen at Balmoral,
preached in the parish church of Crathie on Sunday week.
END OF THE LONG VACATION. To-morrow
the " long vacation" at common law will terminate, and in
Chancery on the 28th instant.
AN OPERETTA IN Two ACTS, by MM. Oxenford
and Meyer Lutz, is to be produced this evening at the
Royalty. _ _ _

A NEW ORGAN has been built in Dundee, which,
it is said, is the largest in Scotland.

REPORTED DISCOVERY OF A NEW PLANET.—The
Boston (U.S.) Daily Advertiser, of the 10th instant,
says :—" The following despatch was received here yes-
terday:—' Observatory, Ann. Abor, Michigan, October 9,
11 o'clock p.m.—Mr. J. C. Watson Mates that ho discovered
a new planet at about half-past ten o'clock this evening.
It shines like a star of the ninth and one-half magnitude,
and is situated in the right ascension, fourteen degrees and
Jolty-five minutes, and in declination six degrees north.'
A RUNAWAY MATCH FOILED.—In the course of
Thursday, Captain Jenkins, of the county police,
Dumbarton, was communicated to by a solicitor in 'Man-
chester, to the effect that a young lady, 21 years of age,
belonging to that city had, a few days ago, privately left
there in company of a young man, and bad gone to Dum-
barton, where, in the course of a day or two, they were to
get married ; and, it was further stated, that (although un-
known to the lady) her heartless swain was a married man,
whose principal aim was evidently the possession of money,
the lady having just become heir to considerable property
in the city of Manchester. Sergeant M'Donald proceeded,
in the course of the afternoon, to institute inquiry, and on
entering the lady and gentleman's lodgings, he was told
they were not in, but were expected in the course of an
hour or so. "The officer left, and in about an hour returned
again, but behold the birds were flown, and were nowhere
to be seen, the gallant Cockney having prevailed upon his
young, helpless, and homeless prize to fled once again. By
this timo it was 7 o'clock, and the night dark, when Messrs.
Jenkins and M'Donald set out in search of the fugitives,
who wore discovered at Bowling Railway Station in the
act of purchasing tickets for Glasgow, but were taken back
by Mr. Jenkins to Dumbarton, where the young lady was
informed of her dangerous game, that of getting married to
another wife's husband. Her surprise and doubtless dis- 1
appointment can be better imagined than described, and the
ghastly and frustrated looks of her companion were Clearly
evinced on being recognised and exposed, but who never-
theless declared he was a free man. It appears the lady is
an orphan, and had only been acquainted for about three
weeks with the man, when ho prevailed upon her to accom-
pany him to Scotland to get privately married, leaving his
own wife behind in another part of England. But, fortu-
nately, his plans, although cunningly devised, have on
this occasion been intercepted. The young lady left Dum-
barton accompanied by Sergeant M'Donald, who saw her
on the London train bound for Manchester, when she ap-
peared truly grateful in escaping the coils of her three
Weeks' 19Yer.—Glasgow ,Everting Citizen.