The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1853.

THE NEW NOVELS.
Now ready at all the;Libraries, in 3 vols.,
H A R R Y MUIR.
By the Author of
" Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland," " Adam
Graeme," &c.
2. THE DEAN'S DAUGHTER; or, THE DAYS WE LIVE
IN. By Mrs. GORE. 3 vols.
3. THE FIRST LIEUTENANT'S STORY. By LADY CATHE-
RINE LONG. 3 vols.
4. CASTLE AVON. By the Author of " Esnelia Wyndham," &c.
3 vols.
5. BROOMHILL ; or, THE COUNTY BEAUTIES. 3 vols.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE FIRST LORD'S LEVEE.—The following officers
attended the levee of Sir James Graham, at Whitehall,
on Saturday :—Rear-Admiral Lysaght. Captains.
E. Ommaney, J. C. D. Hay, F. Liardet, G. G. Mac-
donald, W. R. Mends, C. 0. Hayes, J, J. Stopford, F.
Patten, J. M'Dougall, W: T. Clifford, H. J. Douglas.
Commanders.---T. M. Langtry, E. Dixon, H. A. Kerr,
E. Chappell, M. S. Nolloth, H. Beddoes, J. Stoddert,
G.,Hancock. Lieutenants.—G. Cleveland, C. G. Craw-
ley, B. G. Waterhouse, J. W. Whyte.
Commander Reynell C. Mitchell (1843), whose last
service was in command of the Sappho, 12, in the West
Indies, has been appointed inspecting commander in the
coast guard. _

Also, list ready, in 3 vols.
THE LONGWOODS OF THE ORANGE. By the Author of
"Adelaide Lindsay."
Hurst and 11;ack4tt, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn,
13, Great Marlborough-street.

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LOKDON DIRECTORY for 1853.
For th's edition, now published, the Official, Na well as the Parlia-
mentary and Postal divis'ons, have been entirely recompiled and
corrected to the time of publication.
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Lieutenant M. Smithett (1852) has been appointed
to the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 5.
The Cruiser, 16, screw-sloop, Commander the Hon.
G. H. Douglas ; Basilisk, 6, steam-sloop, Commander
the Hou. F. Egerton ; and Firebrand, 6, steam-frigate,
Captain Hyde Parker, received advanced wages this
day. Basilisk will leave here for Leith to pick up men.
Cruiser, Firebrand, and Leopard, 16, Captain Giffard,
are under sailing orders, on dit for the- Meditetranean,
and in all probability will leave Spithead to-morrow.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Captain Henry
Byam Martin, C. 8., has her topmasts on end, will
complete her rigging and get up steam at the end of this
month. , •

Now ready, Bvo , 12..,
CRIME : its Amount, Causes, and Remedies,
By FREDERIC HILL, Esq., late Inspector of Prisons,
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

Now ready, with Woodcuts, 2 vols , post Bvo, •8s ,
yrY HOME IN TASMANIA,
during a Residence of Nine Years. By Mrs. MEREDITH,
author of "Notes and Sketches of New South Wales."
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

The Agamemnon, 91$Maitland, has nearly completed her fumigation. We
regret to state that fresh cases have broken out amongst
screw, Captain Sir Thomas
the crew berthed in the Camperdown, receiving hulk.
We think it almost a pity that those vireo--are saved
should not be instantly removed to another receiving
hulk. Why subject the healthy to the infection ?
The Pitt, old 72, converted to a coal depot for Spit-
head, has had her strong protective wooden fenders
made fast to her sides, and will soon be available for
such excellent service. She.will contain at least 2,000
tons of coal.

The "moorings" opposite the dockyard building sheds
are to be taken up, and relaid with heavier ground-
tackle. It has been found that, owing to the increased
tonnage of our line-of-battle ships, much heavier moor-
ings are required. We are glad to see this step taken in
time, before mischief occurs owing to any sudden gale
catching them unprepared, and which would be attended
with great expense, and probably loss of life.

MURRAY'S RAILWAY READING.
Fcap. Bvo., is.
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM. By the Very
Rev. H. 11. MIL %lAN, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's. Forming the
new volume of " Murray's Railway Reading."
Volumes already published—
Joan of Arc. By Lord Mahon.
Ha'iam's Literary Essays and Characters.
Life of Theodore Hook.
The Emigrant. By Sir F. B. Head.
Lord V'evnere's Discourse on Wellington.
Music and Dress. By a Lady.
Layard's Popular Account of Nineveh.
Bees and Flowers.
Lord Mahon's " Forty-Five."
Essays from "The Times."
Gifford's Deeds of Naval Daring.
The Art of Dining.
Oliphant's Journey to Nepaul.
To be followed by—
Lockhm L's Spanish Ballads.
Life of Lord Bacon. By Lord Campbell.
Beauties of Byron—Poetry and Prose.
John Murray, Albemarle-street;
. to be obtained at all Booksellers and Railway Stations.

MARCH 6.
The Furious, 16, steam-frigate, 'Captain Loring, and
Antelope, 3, steam-vessel, Lieut. Commander West,
were at Gibraltar, on the 26th ult.
The Inflexible, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Barnard,
was at Lisbon, on the Ist inst.
The Avon, channel service steam-tender, Master
Commander Veitch, came into harbour this morning
from Plymouth, with supernumeraries.

4.30 heavy fog has just set in. An hour ago
we caught sight of the Basilisk getting up steam—we
cannot now see two ships' lengths. What little air
there may be comes from the southward.
The Northumberland, American liner, had not left St.
Helen's Roads this morning.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-
road. Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during
the week, " The Thistle,"" Shamrock," "Carillonneur," and" Wind-
sor-castle" Waltzes, the " Champagne Galep," and "Marco Spada,"
"Le Cirque," and " Faridondaine" Quadrilles. Admission, Is.
Doors open at Half-past Eight ; dancing to commence at Nine
o'clock, and to terminate at Half-past Eleven.

PLYMOUTH, IVlAlica 5.
The Magicienne, steam-frigate, Captain Fisher, having
coaled, returned to the Sound to-day.
The Sanspareil, 81, screw, Captain Sydney Dacres,
came into harbour yesterday afternoon, to have the masts
and yards of a 50-gun frigate.
The Avon, steam-tender, sailed for Portsmouth yes-
terday with men belonging to the Prince Regent and
supernumeraries.
The Valorous, 16, steam-frigate, Captain Buckle, has
moved from alongside the Dockyard jetty to the sailing
moorings in Hamoaze, and will go into the Sound on
the 9th inst.

NOTICE.
TO INVENTORS, ARTISTS, AND OTHERS.
THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU-
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EASTER MONDAY, for the purpose of ERECTING spacious NEW
ROOMS for a PHOTO(4RAPHIC SCHOOL, &c.
MODELS of MACHINERY, which will be described to the Visi-
tors, WORKS of ART, &c., will be RECEIVED for EXHIBITION,
free of expense to the Depositors, until the 21st of MARCH.

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Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., C. 8., to be vice-admiral of the A BIT OF PARISIAN GOSSIP.
red.
.e.
the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.)
To be Rear-Admiral of the Blue.--Captain Edward (From
Boxer, C.B. (June 23, 1823), vice E. Collier, C. 8., to For the last few days a very extraordinary case
be rear-admiral of the white, vice the Hon. G. A. Crof- of family history has occupied the attention of the
ton, to be rear-admiral of the red.
courts of law in Paris, and been of course the sub-
To be Vice-Admiral on the Reserved Half-pay List.— ject of conversation eierywhere. The story is sim-
Rear-Admiral Charles Gordon, C.B. without increase
of pay, being senior to the officer of his grade promoted ply this :—For the last four years one of the most
on the active list. ± remarkable persons in Paris society has been the
To be Rear-Admiral on the Retired List.—Captain Countess of Solms. She is an exceedingly beautiful
Thomas Ball Clowes (May 16, 1823), without increase person, and, though married in 1849, scarcely ex-
of pay, being senior to the officer of his grade promoted ceeds twenty years of age at the present day. She
on the active list. : is the daughter of Madame Bonaparte Wyse and
By the death and consequent promotion, a flag officer's Sir Thomas Wyse, the English minister at Athens,
good-service pension of 3001. per annum, and a captain's and is consequently granddaughter of Lucien Bo-
good-service pension of 1501. per annum, revert to the naparte, grand niece of the Emperor Napoleon
patronage of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord (the Great), niece of the Prince de Canino, and
William Fitzroy, K.C.8., is now the senior vice-admiral ; cousin of the present Emperor. For some time
Past the conduct of this young lady
Henry Hope, C. 8., is the senior rear-admiral for promo-
p eror.
ha given con-
thestion ; and Captain G. F. Rich, the superintendent of --
hospital and victualling, Plymouth, is the seniori
siderable umbragen high quarters. She has made
captain on the active list. Sir Thomas S. Palley, Bart., herself conspicuous in public places, where she is
moves up to the senior captains' list ;and Captain J. L. usually accompanied by a numerous train of ad-
Massie c omes within the 12s. 6d. half-pay list. ! Pikers,. and she is accused of having,made use of
her high lineage to obtain credit from tradesmen
to an extent not at all warranted by the fortune of
her husband. For a considerable time past it has
been rumoured froni time to time that the irregu-
larities of this lady, and the scandal created by her
1 importunities for money at the Tuileries, had given
so muchoffencethat she has beenthreatened with ex-
pulsion from France ; but althoughthe power of the
Emperor is nearly unlimited in such cases as the ex-
pulsion of political personages, however high their
position, or however eminent their services, when
IR* expulsion is motive, or the convenient plea of
surete publique, there is always some deference to
public opinion, even in the highest places, where
the person to be expelled is a member of the imr
perial family, and moreover a female, who has
nothing to do with politics. This feeling seems to
Ihave influenced the authorities for a considerable
time with respect to the Countess de Solms ; but
at length they seem to have made up their minds
that the lady must be sent out of Paris coute que
coute. On the 19th of the present month the
Minister of Police sent an order to the Countess de
Solms and to her brother, Mr. Thomas Wyse (the
eldest son of Sir T. Wyse), expelling them from the
territory of France as foreigners. The order was
that they should leave Paris in five days, and that
they should forthwith apply to the chef de cabinet
of' the prefect of police for their passports. She re-
ased to obey on the ground that they were French
subjects, and entitled therefore to remain in France,
and the lady contended moreover that, even sup-
posing that she were a foreigner by birth, her hus-
band being, a Frenchman, she was entitled to all the
privileges of a Frenchwoman, and could not be
expelled as a foreigner. Her husband it appears
is absent, and Madame de Solms alleges that she
does not know his address. She accordingly pre-
-1 sented a petition on the 23d inst. to the civil tri-
bunal of the Seine, in which she states that, having
received an order from the Minister of the Police
which expelled her from the French territory as a
foreigner, she prayed that, in the absence of her
husband, the Court .taould grant her authority to
remain in Paris, in order to give her an opportu-
nity, of legally proving (contrary to the assertion of
the Minister of Police) that she was a French-
woman, and that the Minister of Police should
afterwards giye her a declaration to that effect.
The public prosecutor submitted that the expulsion
of the applicant had been ordered as an adminis-
trative measure, and that the tribunal could not
interfere with it. M. Berryer produced Madame
de Solms' certificate of marriage, which proved her
husband to be a Frenchman, and contended that
she could not fall under the operation of a law
which was applicable to foreigners only. - The tri-
bunal decided as follows
" Considering that the Countess of Solms demands to
be authorised to summon the Minister of Police to de-
clare that she has the quality of a Frenchwoman ; con-
sidering that a married woman has no other nationality
but that of her husband, that the Countess of Solms
cannot be declared French but by having it declared and
recognised that her husband is invested with the quality
of a Frenchman ; considering that the demand made by
the Countess de Solms would evidently lead to a judg-
ment on a question of position ; that that question
essentially interests her husband ; and that, on account
of the insufficiency of the documents produced, it is
impossible that the latter should be brought into the
case in his own name, and according to the ordinary
forms ; that it follows that Madame de Solms should
call at the time her husband and the Minister of Police,
and that, not having done so, her mode of proceeding is
irregular ; the tribunal dismisses her petition, and con
demns her to the expenses."
It is evident that the above decision was not on
the merits of the case. But there was an evident
determination to get rid of the lady. On the very
day that the above decision was given the order of
the Minister of Police was carried into effect, and
Mme. de Solms, with her brother, Mr. Wyse, were
carried to the-frontier by agents of the police and
expelled from France.
In these circumstances the case was yesterday
brought once more before the civil tribunal of the
Seine, by M. Berryer. Thus it will be seen that
Mme. de Solmsfhas been unceremoniously sent upon
hertravels in foreign parts, while the French courtsare
settling whether, as a Frenchwoman, she has a
right to remain in France or not. It is not four
years since the marriage of this young lady made a
great noise in Pans. It took place with great
promp at Boulogne-sur-Seine. It was the first
family event that took place after the election of
Louis Napoleon as President of the Republic. It
was attended by all the uncles of the young lady,
the Princes Pierre and Louis Lucien, and by all
the other members of the Bonaparte family, with
the exception of the President himself, who sent
his aides-de-camp to represent him. The lienage
of the bridegroom was trumpetted forth by the
Bonapartist papers as the highest—worthy, in fact,
of the imperial origin of the bride. Though there
can be no more doubt that Madame de Solms is
the granddaughter of Lucien Bonaparte, then that
Louis Napoleon is the grandson of Josephine, the
following are the terms in which the semi-official
Patric, in its number of last night, speaks of the
affair :

MOST CRUEL AND EXCESSIVH PUNISHMENT.—We
understand that the boatswain's mate of the Vulture, 6,
steam-frigate, who was tried by court-martial for con-
tempt of Lieut. Mansel's orders and for knocking down
the, sentry, and sentenced to the outrageously heavy
punishment—first, of being disrated from the rank of
first-class petty officer ; second, of receiving three dozen
lashes ; third, of twelve months' imprisonment ; -and,
fourth, of losing all pay and time, and to be dismissed the
service with disgrace—this man, who committed this act
of contempt and -violence in a mad fit of drunkenness,
had served honourably and faithfully for more than 17
years, without a blot or reflection on his character, and
had " very good" certificates from some of the best men
in the navy. It is a disgrace to civilisation and to com-
mon humanity, that a body of officers are empowered by
naval law to inflict so heavy a punishment for compa-
ratively so small an offence. Would that a Mrs.
Beecher Stowe could come forward in this country, and
hold up to the shame and scorn of the world the out-
rageous enormities of British naval law in the same
forcible and truthful language as the distinguished lady
has treated the villanies of the slave law in America.—
Morning Herald.

It is now reported that Rear-Admiral Corry resigns
the command of the Channel fleet to Rear-Admiral
Berkeley, C.B. ; and that Rear-Admiral Corry succeeds
Rear-Admiral Harvey, as superintendent of Malta Dock-
yard. Captain Charles Eden, late private secretary to
the Admiralty, it is said, will be flag-captain to Admiral
Berkeley.—Plymoua Mail.

PROMOTIONS TO THE RESERVED LISTS.—WO have
entered upon the month of March without having had
the pleasure of chronicling the promotion of fire lieuten-
ants and five commanders to the reserved commanders
and captains' lists. Those promotions were due last
month, but like the Royal mails, we suppose we must
not look for their arrival until they have been over-due
three or four weeks.—United Service Gazette.

It is with much satisfaction we notice the recent pro-
motion of Lieutenant George Henry Rice, R.N., son of
our worthy member, E. R. Rice, Esq., to the rank of
commander, and we ardently wish the pleasure was un-
alloyed, but we understand he is now lying dangerously
ill at his father's mansion at Dane Court, with very faint
hopes of his recovery. The advancement of this gallant
young officer to his present rank, is the well-merited re-
ward of his bravery and skill in successfully leading two
storming parties during the advance of the British forces
up the Irawaddy. On the last occasion he received a
severe wound, and was subsequently attacked by a dis-
ease incidental to the malignant climate of Burroah. He
has returned home as the only chance of recruiting his
shattered constitution ; and we earnestly hope he may
yet be restored to health, and his life spared to his coun-
try and his friends for many future years.—Dover
Chronicle.

PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.

On Thursday a meeting of the general committee of
the National Institution for the Preservation of Life
from Shipwreck, was held at the offices, John-street,
Adelphi. The chair was occupied by the Duke of Nor-
thumberland, K.G. We also observed present—Col.
Blanshard, R.E., C. 8., Captain Davies, R.N., Admiral
Sir T. Herbert, M.P., Captain W.ll. Hall, R.N., Cap-
tain Halsted, R.N., Mr. Edward Hurry, Captain Ingle-
field, R.N., Captain Jerningham, R.N., Capt. M'Hardy,
R.N., Mr. W. S. Marshall, Captain Ommanney, R.N.,
Major Palmer, Mr. Jam+ s Peake, Captain Perrott, Mr.
J. D. Powles, Captain Washingfon, R.N., and Captain
Ward, R,N.

Mr. Lewis, the secretary, having read the minutes of
the previous meeting,

Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., was unanimously
elected chairman of the society, in the room of the late
Mr. Thomas Wilson, of Jeffreys-square, who had occu-
pied that office for nearly 30 years, and had been one of
the founders of this noble institution.

The Duke of Northumberland afterwards formally
handed over to the society the several life-boats he had
recently placed on the coast of Northumberland—an act
of great liberality on the part of his grace in the cause
of humanity, and which the meeting suitably acknow-
ledged.

The committee then proceeded to vote the gold medal-
lion of the society, and a small gold boat appended
thereto, to Mr. George Palmer, of Nazing Park, in ad-
miration of the invaluable services the life-boats on his
plan, built by this institution during the last 25 years,
had rendered to the cause of humanity, the lives of some
hundreds of shipwrecked persons having been saved b y
them on various parts of the coasts of the United Ki ng-
dom during that period.
. . . .

The silver medal of the institution was voted to Mr.
John Coßisen, master of the William and Mary, of
Stonehaven, in consideration of his gallant conduct on
the occasion of the wreck of the schooner Christiana,
near that place in November last.
The silver medal was also presented to Richard Sin-
nott, coast-guard ceief boatman, of Mullaghmore station;
and four sovereigns to his crew of four men, in consi-
deration of their noble and humane services to a portion
of the crew of the Dutch galliot, Ida Gizena. The
wreck having been observed about 13 miles distant, the
gallant men launched their boat and proceeded through
a heavy surf to the scene of the disaster, and arrived
just in time to rescue seven poor fellows from an inevi-
table death, the master and one man having perished
before succour arrived. Having got the poor fellows
into their boat, each coast guardsman stripped himself
of almost everything to cover them, and they brought
them on shore after a heavy pull of nearly 30 miles,
having the satisfaction that they had saved seven of
their fellow-creatures, who must have perished in a few
hours but for their gallant exertions.
The thanks of the committee, on vellum, were pre-
sented to Mr. P. O'Sullivan, of Berahaven, and 3/. to a
boat's crew, for their praiseworthy services to the crew
of the Lady of the Lake, of Bideford, wrecked near that
place during a heavy gale on 10th January last. The
wreck having sunk the crew succeeded in reaching an
isolated rock, which was most difficult of approach with
a boat. After repeated attempts for nearly seven hours
to rescue the crew a boat at • last succeeded in taking
them off the rock, and bringing them safely on shore.
A reward of 10s. was granted to a coast guardsman,
of Greenway station, Sussex, for rushing into the surf
to rescue the master of the wreck Mary and Sarah, of
Southampton, on the 20th of January.
A reward of 51. was granted to the crews of the
smacks Emperor and Traveller, for their valuable as-
sistance to the crew of the barque William and Mary, of
London, on the 27th of December, when she was wrecked
during the memorable hurricane of that day, on the
Goodwin Sands. The crew had been clinging to the
rigging for nearly 24 hours, when they were rescued
from their perilous position. . _

The medal of the institution was voted to Mr. Wm.
Parker, and his brother Mr. John Parker, master and
mate of the schooner Pearl, of Exeter, who seeing a
flag of distress lying off Flamborough lead, from the
brigantine Maria, of Exeter, during the late hurricane,
immediately lowered their boat and proceeded to the
rescue of the poor fellows, which they happily accom-
plished. Captain Parker would not entrust his boat to
his crew for fear his humane purpose might be thwarted.
A grant of 54/. having been sanctioned to be paid for
repairing the Filey life-boat, the meeting separated. It
was reported that during the past year about 1,100
wrecks had taken place on the coasts of the United
Kingdom, with the fearful loss of nearly 900 lives. It
was, however, satisfactory to find that, through the in-
strumentality of the life-boats of the institution and
other means, upwards of 700 lives of shipwrecked per-
sons had been saved during the same period, and for
rescuing whom it had granted rewards. We regretted
to observe that, on account of the very limited income
of the society, a portion of its already small funded
capital was directed to be sold.

" A decision of the Minister of Police ordered the
expulsion :from the French territory of Mme. Solms,
calling herself the Countess de Solms, and of Mr. Wyse,
both foreigners. These two persons assumed, without
any right, the name of Bonaparte, and far from respect-
ing the illttstrious name which they usurped, they on
the contrary made use of it ,to indulge in scandalous
disorders, and to abuse more easily the credulity of per-
sons who came near to them. Mme. Solms, in order to
oppose this measure, appealed to her quality of French
woman, and brought the case before the Tribunal of the
Seine, which declared the plea invalid. The decision of
the Minister of Police has been carried into execution,
and Mme. Soims and Mr. Wyse have quitted France."
It is rumoured to-day that Mr. Wyse, Madame
de Soim's brother has, as a British subject, applied
to Lord Cowley for protection, and that his Excel-
lency has made representations on the subject to
the French government. I am, however, not able
to say to what extent the report is correct.

RAILWAY TRAVELLING IN THE GRAMPIANS.—The
Aberdeen Railway crosses the Grampian chain of moun-
tains by a deep cutting through the granite of its eastern
limb. During the present storm the trains have been
greatly impeded in their progress northwards from the
village of Laurencekirk, about 30 miles south of the
granite city, and as many as six engines, with trains,
were snowed up there in one day last week ; but the
storm of Friday appears to have been the most formi-
dable, and one of the morning trains had a narrow escape
from destruction. The train left Aberdeen at 8.15,
instead of 6.6 a.m., with two engines and four carriages,
the last carrying her Majesty's mail. When the train
entered the cutting about two miles from Aberdeen one
of the lines was completely snowed up, and the icicles
firmed by the freezing of the snow water as it ran down
the angles of the rocks were hanging in great hdrned
masses, some, of them measuring from 10 to 15 feet in
length, and tapering to a point. The cutting on the
flat surfaces was also frozen over, and the traveller, when
passing through, could not but feel as if he were in
chasm of the Alps. When the engines had plougheda
their way into the open country about Stonehiaven the
line was found to be pretty clear, but scarcelythnaorodutghhelyy
got out of ,the glens about Dunnotter when the inow-
nn e
shaedretpot
drift. on the high lands
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along, holding tenaciously every foot of ground thus
deep valley, which
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haste bweaenteremofbaßenkrvedie
engines ploughed their wag of the cutting from which
the embankment is formed, allu at once they found them-
selves at liberty, and, increasing their speed, the mail
gunanartdo
jump,
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line.carri agile bee
and was suddenly thrown off the
the accident, put on his brain, George Wyllie, observing
drivers, who fortunatelyreak and called to the engin;
engines as the carriage
bridge,was about to dash on "slopped,
Here the !-, was but not until the vaail train passengers
guard, with the other
embankment for
had been draggedalong of t
a distance of 150 the top
the half of that
yards, the wheels for
f the incline.
distance being within a foot of the edge °f
R seems well
For such accidents the working °f thsitopped than they
prepared, for no sooner was the trai:lanks, and wedges, I
got out their archimedian screw' off again as coolly as
and in less than half-an-hour were
if nothing had haPPeuel

A NIGRO SERMON.—The discourse from which the
annexed passage is taken was actually preached in the
town of Zanesville, Ohio, some years ago :—" My dear
frens and bredren," said the preacher, "do soul of de
brack man is dear to the Lord as de soul ob de white
man. Now you all see Judge Harper, a sittin dah
leanin' on his gold-headed cane ; you all know the judge,
niggers, and bery fine man he is, too. Well, now, I'se
gwine to make a little comparishment. Supposin' de
judge some fine mornin' put his basket on his arm, and
goes to market to buy a piece ob meat. He soon finds I
a nice fat piece ob mutton, and trots off wid it. Do I
you s'pose de judge would stop to 'quire wedder dat '
mutton was ob a white sheep or a black sheep ? No,
nuffin ob de kind ; if de mutton was nice and fat, it
would be all de same to de judge. He would not stop
to ax wedder de sheep had white wool or brack wool.
Well, jest so it it, my frens, wid our Hebenly Marster.
He does not stop to ax wedder a soul 'longs to a white
man or a brack man ; wedder his head is kivvered wid
a
straight har, or kivvered wid wool. De question he
re will
ax will be, 'ls die a good soul ?' an' if so, de Mter
will say, Enter into de joy ob our Lord, an' set down
on de same bench wid de wh man
feet' quality,'" nc
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