The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-26 00:00:00

EVENIN G, DECEMBER 26 1856

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

',3:'&l aria Dial,tary

MARLBOROUGH•STREE C.

Her Majesty's steam vessel Oberon, 3, Lieut. Jack-
son commanding, arrived at Spithead on Wednesday
evening from the Mediterranean. She made a 10n,.; pas-
sage, having left Malta on Nov. 26, Gibraltar Dec. 15,
and Cape Finisterre on the 21st. She experienced heavy
weather from Gibraltar to Cape Finisterre, where she
put in for shelter from a bard gale on the 19th, and
sailed on the 21st. Her voyage from Malta to the Rock
was extremely boisterous. After leaving Cape Finisterre
she had fine weather. She brought home seven naval
invalids from Malta, eight naval supernumeraries, 17
discharged men from various ships on the Mediterra-
nean station, and one private of the 46th Regiment.
She will now be paid off and refitted.
Her Majesty's screw blockship Pembroke, 60, com-
missioned for coastguard servic,, was taken out of Ports-
mouth harbour to Spithead on W,,ines.lay, and out to
the Nab Light to try her engines, after which she re-
turned to moorings off Gosport.
Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Satellite, 21,
Captain Prevost, sailed from Plymouth on Tuesday for
the Pacific. She conveys Dean Howard to the island
of Madeira, and takes to the Straits of Magellan a quan-
tity of flour for the missionary station there.
The cr.w of the screw steamship Cornwallis, 60, at
Devonport, got up lower yards and topmasts on Wed-
nesday.

BURGLARIES ON CHRISTMAS DAY.—George Stevens, a
well-dressed man, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with being found in the house No. 113, Great
Tichfield-Areet, for the purpose of committing a felony.
Mr. Francis Kellar said that he occupied the above
premises, and that about seven o'clock on the previous
night he bad occasion to go into the yard, when his at-
tention wa,, attracted to a light on the landing of the
staircase. He went and looked through the window,
and saw two men go into the parlour. He calle,l
out " Police," and on the arrival of a constable
the premises were searched and the prisoner was
found behind the door. The other man effected
his escape. When taken into custody the prisoner
said he was no thief ; he merely went into the house
to assist in capturing the thief. Witness added that the
prisoner was one of the two men he saw in the first in-
stance trying the doors, and openin.; the parlour.
Draper, 226 A, proved taking the prisoner into cus-
tody and conveying him to the station-house, where he
was searched, and a number of skeleton keys found upon
him. He subsequently searched prosecutor's premises,
aid on the floor in the parlour found five skeleton keys.
The cupboard doors, had been forced open, and the place
was in great disorder.
_

The Afrjcan mail steamship Niger, Commander
C )rbett, sailed from Plymouth on Wednesday for Sierra
Leone and the We.t Coast of Africa.

Three other charges having been brought against the
prisoner, who is supposed t) be a ticket-of-leave man,
Mr. Bingham remanded him for a week.

ARTILLERY EXPERIMENTS ON WHITLEY SANDS.—CoI.
Wilmot, the chief officer of the gun department at Wool
with, visited this neighbourhood last week for the pur-
pose of inspecting experiments on Whitley Sands with
the rifled gun, which for a considerable time has been
engaging the attention of Mr. W. G. Armstrong, already
so well known in connection with the successful applica-
tion of hydraulic machinery. Two targets 9 feet square,
and a solid block of elm timber 3 feet thick, were fired at
from distances of 1.500 and 2,000 yards, and the results
exhibited the extraordinary accuracy and power of this
gun. After the range had been tested by a few tr►al
shots, the timber block, which was only 5 feet in
breadth, was struck at every succeedi❑g discharge, and
although the weight of the bullets was only 51b., they
always either went entirely through the block, or lodged
within a few inches of the opposite side. The targets
were fired at with shells at the distance of 1,500 yards.
The shells were projected horizontally, like the bullets,
and exploded by impact. Only one shell failed to take
effect upon the targets, which after a few shots were so
perforated as to require repair. At the conclusion they
presented a completely riddled appearance, and the
ground was strewed with chips. At 2,000 yards the fir-
in was equally remarkable, but the failure of daylight
prevented it being continued. We believe that nothing
approaching these results has hitherto been realised in
the practice of gunnery.—Newcastle Chronicle.

THE AUSTEAIIAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. never yet peopled by man, or undergoing the gradual pro-
-ea- me of preparation. Duping the whole of the ascent we
(Prom the Colombo Observer) did not see one native, though a few came down one day
We are indebted to one of the officers for the following and set on the river bank abreast of the anchorage of the
interesting particulars of the voyage of her Meiesty'e ship Torch. Pei nips they avoided us, as dreading a renewal
Torch, in search of the North Australian Exploring Expo- of the crusade kp- up against them by the exploring patty.
dition, between the months of June arid September, 185'. The tides are fear fully rapid up this river, and in the Cam-
It is extremely gratifying to learn that the exploring party bridge Golf, rising to the height of 20 to 25 feet. On the
was safe, notwithstanding the general apprehension that it Torch attempting to leave the river she grounded on a
had fared the melancholy fate of Leichardt, Kennedy, and spot where in 1811 there were three fathoms of water, and
others : at low water her keel was seven feet above low water mark.
" Ever since the colonisation of Australia, great desire though the next tide she floated again This peculiarity
has naturally been evince' for correct information concern- will always render this river impracticable for sailing
ing the interior of the continent ; the whole of which inn- ships, as nothing but a steamer should attempt its ascent.
mouse space being, even at the present time, an unknown The Tom Tough dragged for 28 days over the rocks about
region, abounding in imaginary dangers in which specula- half way up, and had to be hove down and caulked, and
tion has placed all climates and capabilities. Numerous the Torch broke one anchor fluke, and the tides once took
expeditions have been fitted out from time te time with the out laity fathoms of chain before ae could bring up.
laudable view of throwing open these unknown lands, but These circumstances, together with the absence of land
all from a variety of causes have proved failures or partial adapted for agricultural pursuits, and the great heat, corn_
failures, and for all useful purposes the interior of the bine to make the Victoria River worthless for the British
continent remains as much a terra incognita as when Cook colonist, and indeed all who are capable of judging concur
first saw the coast line in 1770 from his ship Endeavour. in the opinion that the whole of North Australia above the
One of the most celebrated and lamented explorers, Dr. latitude of 20 S. will never be made to yield soil capable
Ludwig Leichardt, a German, left Moreton Bay, on the of cultivation. During the time we lay at anchor in the
N. E. coast, in 1843, intending to traverse the whole brervit It Victoria River the thermometer stood at 130 deg. in the
of the continent and strike Swan River on the west coast. sun; and when the soutu-east trades blew, which prevail
He anticipated being away 21 years, and the last time he here during three-fourths of the year, the wind, coming
was heard of was by letter, dated 4th April, 1848, from a over such a vast extent of heated and arid country, was so
sheep station at Mr. M‘Pherson's, beyond Mount Abunee dry and parching as completely to throw all our meteoro.
ance ; he left there in good spirits, and from his precious logical instruments into disorder. The difference between
success in exploring and intimate acquaintance with the the wet and dry thermometer, or, in other words, the
interior and the habits of the native tribes, great results amount of evaporation in the atmosphere, was as 16 deg.
were naturally looked for, and much anxiety was evinced The usual average is about 5 deg.' sometimes it reaches
in Sydney and the colony for news of his arrival at Swan 6'7 deg., but here we had it to such an extent that almost
River. But time went on ;no news came. People began everything in the ship became as dry as a chip. The box-
to suspect ; and the result is, that from the 4th of April to wood of the thermometer warped one-eighth of an inch in
the present time no news or even the faintest trace of him four, 60 as nearly to crack the glass tube, and book backs
has ever reached the civilised world. Whether he per ished curled up. The hot air made the nose and eyes exceed-
by the natives, or from starvation in the great central iugly sore.
desert supposed to exist, is of course matter of conjecture On reaching Coupang we heard that the Tom Tough had
A search was instituted after him, under Mr. Hovendon left for Sourabaya, where we accordingly proceeded and
i there found her lying; she had beau condemned as nnsea-
Hely, which left in 1851, but brought back no news, and
since then rumour has been silent on his fate. Several worthy and was sold; the Messenger of Sydney, a well-
other explorers have shared the same lot, and in July, built schooner, being chartered and despatched in her
1353, Mr. A. C. Gregory and a party of 20 men, with six place to proceed at once to the Albert River and meet Mr.
months' stores of provisions, were despatched from Sydney GI Ei4OrY ou his arrival there, which ere this we hope she
in a small vessel on an exploring expedition by the dire, has done. The Torch Wes sold iu Sourabaya. As all has
tion and at the expense of the home government. They been done that was suggested for the relief of Mr. Gregory,
celled at Moreton Bay for cattle, Ste., inal left there on it now only remains to await with interest the news of the
12th August for the Victoria River, and by a letter from ! fulfilment of his anxiously cherished projects.
Mr. Gregory, dated 24th September, 18 the last news '
received from him, were all well, and intending to com-
mence operations for a journey overland to the heads of
the Albert River at the end of October following Their
small vessel, the Tom Tough, was then to leave the Vic-
tons River and return to the mouths of the Albert River,
and there wait Mr. Gregory's arrival. Since Mr. Gregory's
letter, dated 24th September, no news of him had reached
the Colonial Government, though nine months had elapsed,
and he calculated on being away only four, and fears being
entertained that some accident had happened to his vestal,
the Torch steamer was chartered by Government, and
placed under the command of Lieutenant W. Chitnino,
R.N., a competent and experience officer, who ha I been
despatched from England for the purpose, and who was
ordered to search the mouths of the rivers, and. in case of
need, relieve the party from their difficulties. The Torch
sailed- from Sydney June 19, 1856, calling at Newcastle
for coals, from whence she sailed on the 25th following,
and commenced her voyage to Torres Straits. Lieutenant
Chimmo preferring the inner route, the Torch entered
the Great Barrier Reef at Break Sea Spit. and after a
passage of 24 days reached Booby lelan I, Torres Straits.
We found the much decried inner route to be safe and
practizable for steam or sailing vessels at most seasons
of the year; the water is always smooth, the dangers
prominent, and with care easily guarded eg dust, and
we fully concur in the opinion that it will ultimately be
the route of a line of mail steamers from Singapore to Syd-
ney, which will find its waters a smooth and speedy high-
way. Query, is not the great Barrier Reef a mighty
breakwater formed by the Almighty for the beneficent
purpose of facilitating the navigation of these dangerous
seas ?

DR. LITTIIVGSIOA 'S DIzCOVERIE.I.

Dr. Livingston has traced the river Leeambye down
to the Zambeze ; a wonderful feat, if we consider the
distance and the character of the regions traversed. To
geographers his discovery is one of extraordinary interest,
since it makes known an immense river, sio peculiar in
earth. And whew
themer
character as to be without any parallel on the face of the
to
s
ea doubtabt i,,itth,,hametrahtloli
itso
egir
ms
st
that,eetn extent
ftentertained, discoveries justifyfor
it
proportion of the
waters of the Leeambye reach the sea-coast. This great
river falls like the Abyssinian Nile through a Vetsaltic
cleft which reduces its breenth from 1,000 to 20 yards.
Above these falls, tne great river, or system of rivers,
spreads out perweically into a great sea, and fills hut-
dreds of lateral canals. Below the falls it is a broad but
tranquil stream, of a totally different character.
That the waters of the Leeambye have lass influence
in the Zambeze than the meet of the maritime region
may be inferred from woat we know of the latter river,
which as a channel of communication with the interior
is of little va'ue. No rigeel vessel, great or small,
ever enters the Zimbeze, the mouths of which seem to
be closing rapidly. Tne Luabo, the southernmost mouth
of the Cuama—as the river is called in the lowlands—
was navigable when the Portuguese first appeared on
t coast, hut it has long ceased to be practicable. The
Quilimaee river, or most northern mouth, has closed of
Ise, years to such a degree that for six !months in the
year (from July to February) it is impassable even fur
a canoe. The traveller up the river at that season must
go two days' journey by land to the head of the delta,
before he embarks for Sena. From Sena the
navigation of the river up to Tete is never at-
tempted in the dry season, and the journey by land to
the latter place takes a month in a tipola or a palanquin
along tortuous paths, through an intricate hilly country.
A couple of days' journey above Tete the river is then
easby fordable, and armed parties of natives frequently
march across it. A little higher up we find cataracts
which interrupt the navigation at all seasons, and as-
cending the stream again beyond the falls, we arrive at
Zumbo, an island at the mouth of the Aruangoa, which
in the flourishing days of Tete was the higaest point
ever reached by the Portuguese in light canoes, and for
their going no further ne more probable reason can be
amsigeed than that they could not.
Tne river of the maritime region (the Zambeze) in its
periodic changes, or the rise and fail of its waters, pre-
cedes by three or four months the great river of the inte-
rior. Since these rivers form one stream a week might be
thought to suffice, with a moderate current, to carry its
waters trim Seshake to Tete ; yet it is March and April,
when the Leeambye is lowest, that the Zeinbeze pours
down its enormous floods; and it is in July, when tie
river of Quilimaue ceases to be navigable for a canoe,
that .he Lesetorbye spreads out like a sea over hundreds
of square miles.
To the 'menet ,bility of the river must be added the
political state of the aujecent country. The trade of Tete
with the nomad' s to the south Red west has, in the pre-
cent century, cea-ed totally. Na Portuguese agent or
save dealer dares to moose in those directions. Hard
pres‘ed by the watcidul hostiniy of the natives, Tete has
for some years struggled for its very exi-tense. On the
northern ban K of time river the Portuguese have some ter-
r.tory, occupy estates, and c.r rey on a little trade with the
natives to the north and nor th• west, but from the we,.
tern interior they are and base been for years completely
cut off by the chief elite led Gingamera, whose fame, as
we learn from the marginal notes on Dr. Livingston's
first map, bas pe.etraed to the interior. The Portu-
guese trade which reaches that interior proceeds wholly
from Delagoa Bay. Tee natives of the Bay are easily
distinguished by certain peculiarities of their scanty
covering, and we know on good authority that in that
way they have been recognised in the viilages on the
Leeambye.
Permit me to add, that whine so much had been said,
right or wrong, of Livingston's discoveries, no notice
se-ins to have been taken of that particular in which he
stand unrivalled and alone. He has furni-hed a singu-
lar, I might, perhaps, say a sublime,
example of the
n e has
ascendancy and moral p (4f civilised but He
not merely made remarkable journeys, the has
gone forth, unarmed, without a single European com•
pardon, surrounded by a baad of those whom certain
traveller: (s ich as Captaie, afterwards Sir William Corn.
18 al s
w H. ) would but who, under his
call savages,
words, the far distant
control, proved
,pnr,:pvtebdy uthnerfidwirrneelytesttralicetae,blbeutane
etdivl fel ar
without
ihtdthui
effil .e3t
ufHle2t
ye.
laud of rbe Wisemen (this is the original sense of Wag-
e throughout southern Africa, in one form
nngo, Klein
teeing
prudent ad
nd t withoutessunsel swains and a'
gentle°ve rrir
mgr otter, to white wen), e here they saw the great
oc an, great ships, and houses hardly less wonderful.
Though there caressed and honoured, he did not desert
his humble followers, but led them back triumphantly
to ,heir homes, and then set off again to the eastern

" We found that the cave on Booby Island contained a
large store of provisions ; we repaired the post-office, which
was in a very dilapidated condition, ant wi h the south-
east trade-wind blowing pretty strong, made the best of
our way down the Gulf of Carpentaria to the Albert
River. On Bountiful Island we found immense quantities
of turtle, and on Sweer's Island we opened the wall dug by
Captain Stokes in 1841, where we obtained a supply of
fresh water, and on the Ist August anchored within five
miles of the mouth of the Albert River in two fathoms
water ; the immense mud flats preienting a nearer ap-
proach. The next morning Lieutenant Chimmo, with two
boats, commenced ascending the river, and after penetrat-
ing to its source in the Plains of Promise of Stokes, were
disappointed in not finding any traces of the expedition.
On the tongue of land at the fork of the river, fifty miles
from the mouth, we left substantial indications of our
having been there, on the larger trees, and enclosed fall
particulars in a bottle suspended from a branch, and during
the descent of the river several bottles containing similar
notices were affixed to trees, in conspicuous positions. On
the 7th we regained the ship, having been absent six d Lys.
Of the Albert river and the country through which it
flows, it would be but misleading to speak in favourable
terms. Till just upon its source we found no fresh water,
and when 50 miles from the sea the water was at high tide
as salt as at the mouth. A much more appropriate term
would be a malt-water creek than a river, and during its
whole course we could not discover on either bank a single
fresh-water stream running into it. The country a few
yards from the bank is barren and parched up ; and, from
the scarcity of variety in the vegetable productions,
cannot at any time pi esent a very much improved ap-
pearance. The soil bears no evidence of being rich,
and the firm conviction that we all arrived at was that the
country round here would never be of use for the purposes
of colonisation, and in this view Lieut. Chimmo joined.
Independently of its being ill adapted for agricultural un-
dertakings, the climate is, we believe, utterly prejudicial
to the health of Europeans. During three quarters of the
year not a drop of rain falls, and the heat is excessive,
with no wind. The thermometer ranged with us about 1,0
Fah., and during the other three months, while the north-
west monsoon blows, this country seems to be the sport of
gales of wind and deluges of rain, judging from the enor-
mous ravines and gullies which everywhere run down to
the river, choked with immense trees end whole masses of
earth and stone."
One of these ravines gives you an idea of the ravages of
an earthquake or a tornado. Deep as these immense gul-
lies had worn themselves into the earth, they were com-
pletely choked by large trees, yards in girth, and from the
smallness of those on the banks of the river, some of them
must have been transported miles in a torrent of wind and
rain. They were lying tossed and tumbled about in all con-
ceivable positions, mixed with huge boulders of earth, and
es the burning sun had evidently been pouring down upon
them for months, perhaps years, they were as dry as tinder
and as soft as touchwood, and, in their curious positions,
and the havoc which they pictured, contrasted solemnly with
the silence and repose in which they were then lying. Surely
no settlement could be made on the banks of a river where
you were liable to have the very foundations carried from
under you. Of natives we saw but very fow and the coun-
try seemed thinly peopled. Alligators aboun:led, birds were
scarce, herons and curlews being almost the only ones visi-
ble, and in a river never but once before traversed by Eu-
ropeans we did not see sufficient animals to supply a single
fresh mess. On leaving the mouth of the Albert river we
were delayed by light winds, and were several days in reach-
ing Bountiful and Sweer'slelands, on which we left similar
notices to those deposited in the river. Strong winds again
favoured us, and we made a rapid run to the Wessel Islands,
which we reached August 20th. We were now clear of the
Gulf of Carpentaria, and stood away westward. for the
Victoria River. As the centre of the Grlf of Carpentaria
had never before been traversed by a ship, and nothing
whatever being known of it, we looked forward with some
interest in hopes of making some discoveries. Both in as;
cending and descending the gulf we passed down the
middle of it, our tracks crossing in the centre ; but, beyond
obtaining soundings, we could not discover any land
f rom
though a man was constantly on the look-out aloft. From
the nature of the soundings obtained, which,
mud flats which line the shores, increased with
arith-
metical precision to about 40 fathoms in the centre, we
augured that so gradually-deepening a bottom was proof
of no land being in the intermediate space, and such
was the regularity of the soundings over this immense
gulf, that, knowing our position, we could at any time
give a good idea of the depth of water. In the bottom
of the gulf squalls and calms were fr equent. Higher up
the trades blow with regularity. From the pecu.iarity of
weather in the bottom of the gulf a sailing vessel will
always find great difficulty in working up to the Albee t
River, and it was the conviction of all on board, that had
we not been on board a steamer we might have been de-
layed weeks, perhaps months, as the prevailing wind, S.E.,
is right ahead : this will be another difficulty in the way
of settling there, should such a proposal be ever enter-
tained. We reached the mouth of the Victoria River, Cam-
bridge Gulf, on the 26th August, and the Torch steamed
50 miles up the river, to Holdfast Reach, so named by
Stokes, who moored the Beagle here while surveying in
1810. On Entrance Island we found notices left by the
Tom Tough, which for the first time enabled us to learn
something of the expedition of which we were in search.
From these notices it appeared that the schooner had sailed
a short time previous to our arrival for Coupang (Timor,)
for a fresh supply of provisions, and that the party who
had started overland for the Albert River had left in good
health and spirits. All doubt was now at an end, and the
object of our cruise seemed accomplished, but as the no-1
tice stated that letters had been left at the camp fermeeett
to ascend in the boats and obtain them, which
by Gregory at the head of the river, we deemedwieet
weithegureat energy
Tom Tough, we learnt that Mr. Gregory,
excursions
in
the
parccoudrd-
ingly done From these notices and th p at
of the
interior from the camp, 90 miles
and judgment, had already
as far as 21 degrees
river, in one of which he madefrotmwotheexeu mouthi of the
little was learnt from him of existed in his '
south
nature direction.
ef t h
eAlth ocountry,ugh
water and pas- 1,
mind, and a country h
we gleaned that a impressionfaavhoeueraebdlieng.iefreBh
eached. On the 2d June,
turage was said to have es!
to make across the country for the head
1856, he left the camp winthr seven men and forty-five
horses, intending
of the Albert River, where ere this, we trust, he has
arrived in safety, and on communicating with the ship
sent to afford him assistance it was his intention to again
start and
onetry eapneedkeremacohst
hPiogrntlyCoufrthisis oark
skill
i oarnedt oenneßragyv,
This was not at all contempt
ated in the original plee- Bay.
start
every
Yuld he attempt what has hitherto been tried
in lie
abnudt esvh
may not' share the fate of Leichardt or RennTedh y,
in vain, it will be the warmest wish
it had never been visited by the
2... June, and we
with e
ine
abmu pt
August,livew a
i
to receive the honour that will await him.
7ofisietevderyitone
(atbuar
in:go abandoned
which
hn theie
tar
vele
1
natives. Old clothes, shoes, and
about, and the hats standing,
sleeping places just as they had been implementsthe were lying
learnt from the people of the Tom Toughparty and the..._ .e. not
left.
We
afterwards
which would no doubt account
warfare had existed between the that a ,
rude tablesw sarddi
cunatives,
visiting the camp. One of the for theirstiT.l(!lyselo"f his
casualty.
picturesque
than
a shores
tholeor e e o
of f 1
arm from a spear wound ; but ir the only
piaoria River are
bolder
the water's edge, and
in their outline. Abele e of hills come down to
he
thetAlizllliebsilevir hadtas 'b wel
being
glabrtien:;i much m r
ful glimpses were obtained of ystriking scenery; vast ranges ,
of mountains, taking th • rise at the river bank, swep
back into the country,theirrevealing the ant horizon tall ,
sterility of the jaed summits,
s
at every in .the stream beauti- '
ee ien:less and
peaks and cloudy and from the wilt
direction were
evidently
though,
of volcanic origin,
rocks re- .
of rook tossed up in every
both here and at the Albert, we saw no
several old diggers South Australia, and
sembling the gold ranges of ng our crew gave it
amlud be found. Though
as their opinionthat no gold would
hundred miles from the mouth of
we penetrated to one hort distance of its rise, we
the river, and to within a s.
who were
found no fresh water
air of sterility ean—
and though allig,tors wermerous there was tbe same
except in a spring at Gregory's Camp;
e d ugh Ana an absence of animal life,
roug
which makes tams =mere
look like portions of a continent

OC n.
Such as the expedition of Hercules to the western
bounds of Europe, or of Bacchus to India, seemed to the
early Greeks, i.tich must Livingston's journeys appear in
the eyes of the Biltalolo, but far more wonderful and
impressive, not uuly as being more real and distinctly
seen, but also because, being performed without force
or stratagem, they are of a character miraculously ori-
ginal. Toe absolute sway exercised over these rude
tribes, whose confidence is complete;y won by the mis.
sionaries, Dr. Livingston and his father-inp-elarfi,rintehda.
worthy Moffatt, redounds to the credit of themselves,
their country, and their calling. Moffatt's long-con.
tinued labours among the Bachuanas have borne the best
fruit, in a ►treat and goud work completely
From such men statesmen might learn how t, estimate
and deal with uncivilised tribes.—W. DESBOROUGH Coo•
LET.--•Athenceum.

6, ALL TBE SA
AMEENCE A _HUNDRED YEARS
H."

To study the cycles of years is to discover many
curious coiroc.dences. In the matter of the seasons this
study is highly instructive. I. 1857 be as like 1757, 38
the present year has been like 1756, we shalt have a
warm summer and good harve 4. I'be broken weather
of this year, which marred the g ithering of
the crops so
detrimentally, was an exact reetition or the weather a
century before. And not onl pas the weather the same.
Politics nod foreign affairs wereY hut little different. In-
step," of Admiral Na - his failure in the Baltic to
apier an
dispute about, „Ur had Admiral Byng.
g rwtather9
et of duty in
They raised a great Orn'tcr ab9ut his negle
the Mediterranean. He faredy worse than our Charley;
he was tried, and shot. Bat croons
nals who, com -
sentenced t.) death,
, bbers of thi
h the garotting r )
pared %Alt fared worse. A gal-
iey, hardly deserv-d puriishrot vltr,..
ick,
and the assizes
1 iws was kept standing
''
‘ 'Leek' to hang the weavers
were condnued from week to
thew hardware men of Bir-
. of C .vetitry, Non'at n, and
dear bread.
I:Qinghai!), for riouti,.: aboutt
" publishei the year follow-
In Smith's " e'r" 1
I.'
iss' described in words which
ing'', the harvest 1756ofurHall Maxwell's recently issued
hanly var.? from
' . t moo was extremely unfav-
ourable."Ttu. last se
report of 1856 • of grain perished by the rain
ities
Great quta:!ft
whatremained
proved def ct.i%e
and wind, 50d
n"
d substance by its nut duly ripen-
both in quantity an
ink (1756) the magistrates met the public
In B.linburgh
and
prices, at least
t about bakers extortionate
disconteov
t prices
then alleged a s n ow o p p
dis re ortioned to the
price of
wheat,
by the folio of be
be
regulations
Large Bread, to pay in money, for a loaf weighing 6
pounits—l'. finest ;
fl .ur • 90. second fl iur ; 7d. third
flour. Weighing 4 p ands-8 1 finest ; 41. second ;5d
third Weiguing 3 p .
ounds-6d finest ; 41d. second ;
3i third.
Small bread, to weigh as ftlloAs :-11b. 80r.., fine-t ;
111). Uiz. 15,1 r., s• coed ; 21b. 9 z. 2dr., third. The
twopenny loaf to weigh llb , fines- ; llb 4,2, 10 dr.,
second ; llb. 11 oz. 74., thir . Toe penny loaf to
weigh 8,,z., ti.est ; 10.2 5 Ir., second ; 13oz. ildr.,
third. The halfpenny loaf to weigh 4 z, finest; soz.
29.1 r , ,econd ; 6 iz. 13dr , third. •
N.B. The hearts sr- to affix the initial letters of their
nwoes on the top .1 eleh of their loam. s' with letters
th seribm: the quality of the flour, vizi, F. fir finest,
%V. for wheaten or second sort, and H. lot household or
third sort, and figures denoting the weight of the 6,4,
and 3 pound loaves.
The price of wheat
was then —at rate per quarter
—from 46'r. to 50s. In Fet mars, Match, and April,
1757, it rose to 675. The masters of post-uffices through-
out the kirkdoin were called on by the Secretary of
S a'o to C 011( et ,nir
t:nnla.ioa ~,,o transmit it to London
f,r the information of his Majesty as to the probable
am, unt ,f ci rn in their respective towns and distticts.
I Thus agricultural statistics were eyen then held to be of
value.—Caledonian NercurY.

. .
T lIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER
s 26, 1 856, ,
lien see set to work, .an-cl praying the while ma-de of d;ed
.0•••■••••••••■•••••••••••••.Miasuft...........linft. ----'
, , -
111................................ m.,
....." -
all and Co
Salop Bank, Shrewebury- Burton, Lloyd,
NOTES OF A TOUR FROM MOSCO WTO, no easy matter. The Emperor had gone to Tula . MARITIME LAW. , over some other people. On these grounds jot deem's! BANK RETURNS.
1 and Co.
THE CRIMEA AND ODESSA. the day before, and was expected back the day . „.______ ' your dissent from the proposition of the committees, Lila ',
your adhesie ,to these of Mr. Marcy. The committee * c, S arbor mgh Old Bank, Scarboeough -Wood- that never did the husband touch that mat that it didn't
after that on which we intended to start ; and, to ' (From the Sheffield Free Press )
--""nleseeseeee 23,358 clean his temper with his shoes, and he sat down by his
( From Special Correspondent of the Times'. ) make a long story short, it was 6 o'clock on the The Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee, at th.eir
or the amount i
o auy transaction can affect the laws by ' Victoria, cap. 32, of the Ayerage Amount of Bank Shrewsbary Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Phoebe as mild as the lamb whose wool he bad trod
The Russians complain that the books of travels evening of the second day after we intended to . .
start ' weekly meeting on the 23d inst adopted the following Issue in England and
. decl.are their inahility to comprehend how the dimensions An Account, ptireeinnt to the Act seventh and eighth !
Ludlow Beak, Shrewebury- Rocke, Ey-
38 upon. This gentleness may make miraculous door-mats !
' " M•• e L
rep yto Mr. Cobdet's third letter on antim aw :
t Wales in Circulation during the Week ending Satan.- ons and Co 0553 sl
which have been written concerning the vast em- before four very miserable, lame, limp, little ponies ' I laws against physical force can be accused of seeking q _ , . SALLY .-St. Sally, from her child bood, was known
" Council Hall, Sheffield, Dec. 23d, 1856._ which it is governed; how thosewhoseek to maintain the Notes of the several Banks of
day, the 13th day of December, 1856 :- Sittingbourne and MP ton Bank, Sittingbune. for her innermost love of truth. It was said of her that
pire they inhabit abound with misrepresentation he hu e ta-
I were sent to our hotel to be fastened to t g .
" Sir, Th Sh ffi ld F • Aff ' C •tt h Average -Vallance and Co.
and. falsehoods, and are deeply imbued with preju- rantasse, which we were gravely assure y
d the would ' - e e e oreign airs orami ee aye
;to express their regret that in sending for publication institue physical force for the laws ; how those who are
endeavouring to arrest the aggressions of Great Britain
PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Southampton Town and County Bank, South- see it. Now once when other women denied, or strove
dice, ignorance, and conceit. In order to prevent against a variety of foreign nations should be accused of
whirl away at the rate of 10 or 12 versts an hour. A : your reply to their letter to the Manchester Chamber of 10,960 ampton Maddison and Pearce
such charges being preferred against the notes made 1 verst, be it understood, is about the same measure Commerce you did not also send the letter to which it wishing to assert her supremacy over some other people. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co.
t__,.
~
nn.,
by me during an excursion of nearly three months' lof distance as the French kilometre-and may be was a reply. With reference to your declining further Still more are they at a loss to concetve how these in- Ashford Batik, Asheord-Jemmitt and Ponurapea lonao_o Southwell Bank Sor-thwell-Wedde and Co•• 18,0" Whereupon, next birthday, st sailytt husband, at a
duration in the southern part of Russia I beo discussion until the meeting of Parliament, the com- become the basis of the conduct A lsham Bank Ayleham-G. and T. Co
comprehensible charges. . y t z pem 'cl H h•
Southampton an amps ire Bank, Southamp- feast of all - •
their friends, gave her a necklace of six-and-
-oat practically considered as two-tnirds of an English
ton-Atherley, Fell, and Co.
once to state that I do not pretend more than to let de lace one
mile. Leaving the courier, the va p ( matte have to observe that you yourself raised the dis• .
• of a public man in striving to put down, not only the Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury- .D. Hunt 31,567
Stone Bank, Stone-W. Moore 340 until the beads mounted fourscore and one. And the
record what I saw, and that whatever is advanced Antonio Bellini, au honest Italiau who had come cussion of the subject by your letter to the Manchester 1 sof England, but her means of defence ; and, inde- Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade
Stafford Old Bank, Stattord-Stevenson and beads seemed to act as a charm, for St. Sally, wearing
on hearsay was reported to me by persons of re- to Moscow as a wild beast proprietor, and had been Chamber of Commerce. Even in this very lettr to the pae; d ei3 tly of tits, of dePrivin the nation of all action Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogge, and Co ....... 31,393
to gits own action ; its own Barnsta IBnk B ta 1 Marshall and Co. 9,062
p e a , arns pe- Co 11,376 the sum of her age about ber neck, age never appeared -
spectability and character, on whom the responsi- the obstinate wa i hich committee not only do you decline discussion after a
rendered bankrupt by . . yn w . . ) . . . . Iwsa d 't n existence. This rule, applied to aggre" Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke-
a n is ow a Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton. in her face. Sad], in the olden time, was the reward of
bility of these statements must depend ; that Ido anted in •
his lions and tigers per dying)-and the . . .
opening it, but you discuss whilst so declining. The an ot all care in reference
Seymour, Lamb, and Co.
ons 31,98$
not venture to offer any philosophic reflections lu
English courier to pack up ?lir gg g, we ,
a e sallied , subject is one to discuss between man and man, g . .
not with reference to any conclusions of Parliament.
e ate securities, must come next to apply to individual
securities, and the Bill of Rights, Magna Charta, and Bedford Bank, Bedford-a--T. Barnard and S Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury St. LILY.-St. Lily was the wife of a poor man, who
on the habits, institutions, or social condition out to the Hotel de Labardie to dinner. and gave
You refer the committee to your letter to the Trial by Jury, he found no less objectionable to Bewdley Bank, Bewdley - Nichols, Baker, _ _
10,169 23,801 tried to support his family, and the children were many,
Taunton Bank, Taunton-H. and at. Baacock $5,206 ley writing books. But in those days it was not as easy
of the people, or propound any theories con- to call for
orders to the driver us as soon as the
the Bradford Committee. The Sheffield Committee modern progress and incommeneurate with its interests. and Co
cerning the government and administration of the leted
operation was comp •It ahould be premised have had no communications on the subject, either On this point the committee beg to refer you to the Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill and Rundle 9,509 tir a man to fiud a publisher as to say his Pateraotter. •
-Beck, Downward, and Co.
country, but that simply writing what I believe that we had laid in a stock of provisions for the with the Bradford or the Newcastle Coratnittees, but leading article in the Manchester Guardian of Saturday Bank, Bicester-11. M. and G. Tubb ...... „.. 13,944 Thornbeiry Bank, Thornbury-Rolph and Co 8,919 Maiiy were the books that were written by the husband
Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton - of St. Lily, but to every book St. Lily gave at least two
true on the evidence of my own eye sight or hear- ds had counselled us to do-tea, the k htbth th ber Ik h
y now t a o ose o ies, ie t emselves, '
last which they have read with pleasure and gratifi- Birmingham Bank, Birmingham- -Attwoods,
22,979 Dunsford and Co. ... 9,847 babes. However, blithe as the cricket was tho spirit
ing, I leave to others the task of drawing such road, as our frien
the great Russian 'rade mecum, which is certainly have been studying the subject ; tbat they are moved Spooner, and Co
, Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton- that ruled about the hearth of St. Lily. And how she
conclusions and deductions as they please. The more refreshing and delicious in Russia than any- by no personal or party considerations, and that a "The Spectator of the 13th inst, also corrects a very Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir
cation.
mingham-J. L. Moilliet and Sons
an es am
9,31° shire-Thrapston, Yorke and Eland
friends whom I have left behind me in Russia must where else-white bread, suoar, sherry, ham, saus- subject like the one under discussion requires both grave - efror iuto which yfon have falleh. The edithr 0
Tr' Bank dCh h Bank, Tring-But- t
b 'ale, and turned his goose-pen to the quill of a dove •
be well aware that I set out from Moscow without ages, cheese, sardines, potted game, all foreign study and impartiality. The committee adopt the , ,
sive :- Mr. Cobien con muds two things essential
71,010 cher and Son
any disposition to regard their countrymen and in- except the bread, and in that Moscow can , staeertent of the Newcastle Committee which the tht t b'h 1 d h ' f rfit dCo
distinct. The rig o seam ,tat e to t e wee. o Boston Bank, Boston-Ga an
y 1812. was the right to search United States men-of-war Boston Bank, Boston-H. and T. Gee and Co. 14,792 Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-Percival and and as fragrant as her soul. And when folks wondered
s the clearest and most su • ' unct
stitutions with an unfavourable eye, and they must challenge the bakers of any city, not excepting 13.1
souf thnein'caase that the have seen. Teti
e: n c t
lee no "east i o
int
iu order to discover and take British subjects ; not the
Y Blandford Ba,nk, Blandford- ak and Co.
Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. and J. L Co 7,626 how St. Lily managed so lightly with fortune's trouble.,
...... 7,410 Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring- she always answered that she never heeded them, for--
not be offended if my impressions are recorded as Vienna, in the world. And here, before leaving .„
h h ytf le 13. • y a tra m .
you here .vit t e repor ot e irmingham Conference, ht t s rch merchantmen for goods. The latter was
rig. o ea Seaiey
they were formed, and are expressed with sincerity Moscow most probably for ever, let me, in an-
of July, 1855, on the Right of Search, and beg of ou
y the right waived in 1854.' Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Miles, and C 0... 31,778 wood and Poole Bank, Poole-G. W. Led- That troubles were like babies, and only grew the bigger ,
and candour. These impressions may be erroneous, ticipation of the more general remarks I shall to deal with the facts and arguments in the letter, "and "la otwithstanding all the committee have herein Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnort
h and gard and Sons 10,353 by nursing.
but, at all events, they are honest, and I must own hereafter have occasion to make, and of the de- the report, by pointing out any statements or conclu- stated, in the present extinction of all public men and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boy-
-17,344
. Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and ST. BURL-A very good man was St. Becky's hue'
that had I gone no further than Moscow I should scription of the great establishments connected with sions that are erroneous." the fear that has possessed them of hearing their own cott, and Co. - Co 15,902 band, but with his heart a little too much in his bottle.
have had a very different notion of the condition of charity and philanthropy in which that strange LETTER OP THE NEWCASTLE COMMITTEE. voice or seeing their own handwriting, the committee Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par-
-23,464 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, Port wine-red port wine was his delight, and his con-
-12,711 mtant cry was " bee's-wing." Now, as he sat WI in
Russian society from that which I now entertaiia after city abounds, give some data as to the prices, such "' 7, Suuderland-street, Ne emastle-on-Tyne, are bound to thank you for even such an opportuuity as rott, and Co.
d and Co
Wallingford lea. . Wallingford-Hedges, his arbour a wasp dropped into his glass, and the waeP
a short tour "off the rail." The grand spectacles of as we found them, at least, during the Coronation. i " ' Dee. 3, 1856. you have afforded ot discussing the question of whether Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, an
the coronation, the glare of the ballroom, the glitter The impossibility of travelling uninterruptedly, "' To the President of the Manchester Chamber of England is to sink or not, and they give you the credit Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- a Wells, and (••• ...
of monster reviews, and all the civilised pomp of Commerce
the annoyances of the passport system in its most ' . • of this, that you are the only politician in England who Oakes, Bevan, and Co. - crowded, and with much ado the man was saved. Now,
22,483 St. Becky nursed her husband tenderly to health, and
Moscow-its French and German shops, its gay rigid form, and the exaggerated statements respect- •
" ' Sir -The letter which Mr. Cobden has addressed -subsequently to the Paris Conferences-would venture Banbnry Bank, Banbury - Gillet, Tawney, , K. Greenway and C .
to write a letter upon maritime lase 36,e1t Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox, upbraided bine not, but she said these words and that' '
•gg to y. u respecting the recent ' Declaration in regard to and Co.
equipages, and orderly streets, dazzled and pea- ing the difficulties of obtaining accommodati
"The committee beg to cenelude by repeating their Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 29,757 Brothers, and Co 3,212 reformed him :-" My dear, take wine, and 'bless your
Maritime Law claims attent. I f o h •
r m t e po.sa 1
plexed the judgment, The Russian post-house, which were industriously circulated prevented any
tion and talents of ite authoriT not
on
y re nest with reference to the letter of the Newcastle Bath City Bank, Bath'. -.G. Moger and Sox .•• ---- West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract heart With it, but wine in moderation ; else never forge,
ut also from the gravity q
the serf villages, the roads, the soldier on the great influx of foreigners to these fetes. It was
of the subject he has broueht d •
un er your notice. Comnintee and the report of the Birmingham Conference Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Bank, Wakefield-- Leathern, Tew, and Co 44,657 teat the bee's-wing of to-day becomes the wasp's-siting ei .
33 242 • to morrow.
march, the post-cart, the country town, the hotel imagined that the circulation of those stories would on the Right of Searcb.-Your obedient servant, Buzzard-Bassett, Grant, and Co ............. .. , Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap-
-1 " We, therefore, as citizens of England, offer no 13,366 - ••
-
-these presented another and a very different justify the shopkeepers and lodging-house pro- ; apology for addressing you in consideration of such an " ISAAC human; Chairman. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and , man, and Co .
aspect of Russian life and manners. prietors in the exorbitant charges they have made important public question. "Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P. Lloyds
18,089 - Oountry Markets.
One of the objects I had in view in making the on those who fell within their grasp. A rouble, or "'The silence of Mr. Cobden for so long a time, in -- - Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H.
11 161 •
ehester-Bulpett and Co
Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester . . - • ,
journey was to judge, a far as the tittle and means 3s. 20., scarcely goes as far as a shilling in the reference to the perilous position of this country in case THE CAREER OF A NOTORIOUS A. and W. M. Harris and Co. .................. ~
Co 61 224
gg -- DERBY SMITHFIRLD.-Dxo. 23.
Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and ..•. , Wickham and Co •
of observation at mY dislaosal would enable sae, of d.earest parts of London. For example, the hire of of war, under the operation of the late international de. CONVICT. Brighton Union Bank, Bnghton
" -Hall, West, Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, There was but a small supply of beasts, sheep, pigs, Ina
.
the condition of the country and of the effects of an ordinary brougham, with a pair of sorry horses, claratioo, appears inexplicable, when we consider the 19,080 14,668 calves to-day ; buyers were few, and but little business ,
..--..tee....- and Borrer
yin
the late war upoa the mass of the population • for the month is from 65/. to 701., and the driver very 1, gical and able manner in which he has skown the • transacted,
S h t b i f account •
We gave in The un a s or time ago a r e Bkßligton-
Burlington and Diaffield an , ur n Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank,
another was to follow the route of the main bod ' expects to be paid besides. The common drosky- injurious effects it is certain to bring upon the nation. 11,385 36,218 The following were the quotations t-Beef, 6d to Ilad t'•
y of a desperate convict named George Woodcock, who Harding, Smith, and Co Wirksworth Arkwright and Co mutton, 601 to 7d ; lamb, -d to Od ; veal, 7d tc 31 peg
of the Russian reinforcements as they approached drivers ask a rouble and a half an hour and a ; "' We entirely agree with Mr. Cobden, that conga
was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at the recent Bury
St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech-
lb. • pigs iOs6d to lOs 941 per score ; rough fat, 5s 6u ta es
the Crimea ; and a third was to get home as s cl.
pee ily rouble for the shortest drive. The price of' a bed- fth
i quences o e most serious nature must be apprehended
by ue unless we esca e from the int •
=neat danger of f • f Dartmoor Pri-
n winter assizes or escaping Form
Devo • • ..I. Worlledge
2 853
Gurneys and Co 56 360 , ,
' per 14.1 b. ; hides, 4id to 5d per lb ; calf•skius, 44d to 60
as possible by ane w route, which also afforded oppor- room and sitting-room for the reonth has been e ' P
such a departure from our ancient maritime usaee • but It rs that, although so young-being o v
eon. appea °1- C" • ' Bk C b •cl M tlock & Co. 16,046
ambnage an , am n ge- or Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe- P. and
6,589 per lb.
tunities of becoming acquainted, superficially indeed about 551., and the most grubby and dingy boar.l- • • • - ' 25 Years of age-he boasts that he has been in almost CaMbrid dCb 'd lit Bank, Cam-
ge an am n ges ire W. Hancock -------
we differ with him respecting the course to be taken to - 47,811 EDINBURGH GRAIN.-Dan 24.
but still to some extent accurately, with the h • 1
p ysica a
insahouses charged 10 roubles, or about 1/. 15s. a avoid tne results of •
the declaration he so ably exposes. ,
every gaol in the country. and that he has committed
brid M F t
ge- essrs. os ers Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-Good-
-10,615
aspects and social state of a vast tract which few day for bed, dinner, and breakfast, without wine We therefore venture to submit to f -
you a ew reasons ' every crime short of murder," He has been convicted
Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and ricke and Holyoake Supplies still large. Wheat ready sale. Other gni"
under various aliases-Sigianund,
.Colbeck, Johnson, 30,300
stranaers have occasion to traverse, and still fewer or beer. For Washing shirts 12 roubles a dozen which we hope will induce you to pause before you use Co Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Leven- heavy. Prices generally tending downwards. - ,_ QA
thinkit worth while to describe. In addition to was asked at the outset, and the price was with ' your great influence,' as he ur d d -- b Thompson, and Massey. In the sp
ge you to o, in este - . ring of 1853 he corn-
Qtrmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris der, and Co 5,132 • Wheat, on the top, 18s down, and on the average s' '-
witted a burglary at Bedford, and was sentenced to li 21,513
Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old dpwn. Barley, ls 6d down on the top, and 8d dog
these motives for undertakina -s •t d - difficulty reduced to about ls. each. The price of lishing the practice proposed by the American Govern.
„, A i prove , a long and Sons
e3t. While in gaol he behaved with
mou ths' ith prison m , Chertse Bk,Ch rt L Coste and Son, 2,330
Bank, aVeircester-Berwick, Lechmere, and on the average. Oats on the top 2s Od up-on d
and not very agreeable journey, au inducement a pair of white kid gloves is fis• 6d• er 6s. There ment of exempting from capture private property upon y an . e sey- a
62,881 average, Os 3d up. Beans on the top 48 Od down, "
great violence, and made several attacas upon the gover-
Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round & Green 16,955
Co
presented itself the force of which moved me power- was a fish soup, very excellent indeed, and of pe- the oeean. on the average, 6s 7d down.
nor, Mr. Roberts. He was threatened with corporal punish. Bank and Witham and Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley,
fully, and which lam sure would exercise equal culiar flavour and richness, served up at the Rus- "' 1. The proposal to make war a duel of Govern- on im, an in te o -
t but this had no effect up h. d • hf 1 Colchester and Essex ,
igh, Suffolk, Bank, Turner, and Co 7,272 AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER.
influence with any one who had lived so lono with sian restaurant at which we dined, which cost 25 ments is, we think, likely to detach the operations of mge_c.n, Essex Bank and Hadle
i J l he smashed the furniture of his cell ' 33,618 Wheat La 2 9 8-12th.
Governments from the interest of the people, and to '''' ' Colchester-Mils Bawtree and Co Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Forster
a British ariny as I had, and who had pas:ed so roubles, or about four guineas for three persons and Viet:tied to take the life of any one who approached ' ' d C
, make war an anomaly, and that to hold private property . Cornish Bank, Truro-Tvveedy an o and Sons
6 983 Barley
many months of mingled joy and sorrows in the and the same description of soup is sometimes made bun. The governor, however, with the assistance of the
exempt while national property may e es roye wi
bd t d •Il Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little & Woodcock ~
,n, Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-R.
society of friends whose voices are silent for ever. so extravagantly that it cogs 5/. or 6t. a head ! ' officers, overpowered him, and he was then placed under •B k Mnf d dCo l9,"' and W. F. Fryer 10,685 Oats l4 2 3-12 the.
cause wars to become frequent and protracted by limit- City an , Exeter- i or an ' Beans -12the.
I wished to revisit our cemeteries and the scattered The common price of champagne is 15s. a bottle, ing tbeir consequences. restraint. He afterwards kicked at the governor, and Craven Bank, Settle--Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth
69,267 --
monuments and resting-places of our noble dead, and the quantity the Russian officers consume is " '2. Tnat nu distinction of property, be it private or serious injury would have been the result had he not Co and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurneys,
to see with my own eyes that the Rutsians had very great. In fact, the luxuries of life, which are national, ought to be observed in case of war ; - and that fortunately missed his aim. On one occasion he closed Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co ---- Birbeck, and Co 46,948 BOSTON-Dao. 24.
heat the
er t •
kept their promise, and to ascertain the present here regarded almost as necessaries, are of enor- to spare the one and destroy the other is absurd, imply- the door immediately on the governor entering the cell, Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great We have again to report a limited supply of , ues
adr quell -
greater part much out of condition. Goo Y. it, to
state of Sebastopol. The prospect of beholding the mous cost. The whole price of food was raised very ing a national responsibility distinct from that of citi- with the intention, as he afterwards etated, of stabbing mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Yarmouth-Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart,, and s &Men
plateau on which I had lived for nearly two years little, so that these excesses must be regarded as zenship. The sparing of enemies' pr. perty on land hat km, " washing his hands in his blood," and then destroy- Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Banks _ . Co
9,11 i 13,149 in request at last week's rates, but other kind _
et___atr,
quit, at ls to 2s decline. Beans a dull sale, and ls Liu"
45 818
himself. Frustrated in his diabolical design, he York Bank, York- Swann, Clough, and Co t f Barley, oats and peas as noted last week. ,
___,
with very lit .le interruption, and which was the extortions for the most part, aad as the involuntary been always conditional on the submission of the district °lig Chepstow-Promage Snead, and Co c
10,495
exhibited alternate signs of repentance and fury; and on Derby Bank, Derby-*. and S. Evans & o. Price. r-it'lleat, red, 488 Od to 59s Oct; new, ---"m'M ,a.
scene of so many events, to be remembered for contributions which all strangers and travellers are attached, but sparing it upon the high seas must be con - • 35 684 - to aut
ever by all who in the smallest degree participated required to pay to the maintenance of trade and ditional on the submission of the nation. being released from restraint he attempted to strangle Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and C 0... , white, 57s od to 61s Od, extra, 645. Barley, 38s Od go
earls, -
himself. Being detected in this attempt by one of the D b Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak JOINT-STOCK BANKS. ifkl. Oats les to 265. Peas, 36 to 413 Od B
in them ;of going over the old ground once more, commerce when they go to see sights beyond their "' 3. That, as war is either the most solemn of all . . . er y 25 369
duties or the most wanton of all crim • " warders, he endeavoured to dash out his brains by Bank Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co .. , 8,378 Od to 498 Od per qr.
of mounting from Balaklava to the front, tracing own country. But what is this roar of distant thun- es, involving in Bank of Westmorland, Kendal
k k' le' h d • th fl S • 1 t h '
noc ing is ea against e oor. o vio en was is Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke 8,950 -
either' case the •
sacrifice of human lile to carry it on 8,899 Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley NEWARK-Dec. 24.
the lines of the trenches now fast crumbling away, der ? Ob, the " ekipadge'' (the Russians are obliged upon an • • • ' e dtth t f . k h dh d d foot
y novel principle of humanity is incom atible con uc a or ma wee s e was secure ,an an s and Co Bankin Com an Bradford
10,285 Bradford g py, 48,865 ening
and peering about the city of the dead and its to borrow many words from foreign languages to with the te,ecution f •d • 1 • P• to his bed. In the month of August he was placed in Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and C 0... Wheat, white 60s to 688 red 58s to 648,
• barley, tne- ,
2ett,
o a ju icia sentence, which is the Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver-
sunken navies, exercised over me a fascination express those things with which civilisation has only excuse for a just war. a lunatic asylum, arid here Woodcock assumed a quiet Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster 8 707 41s to 4i s, gn
' aiding 308 to'4os; oats, 24st. 34s to 375, 44,
70,703 hampton
which, if not strange, is certainly indescribable ; made them acquainted)-the " ekipadge" is at the "' 4. That, as just wars are undertaken to avern and even pious demeanour, which threw the keepers
__Cooke and Co Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven 26,550
and the chance of doing tbis might, in. all proba- door ! My two friends and myself got inside ; consequences more injurious than war itself, to limit' off their guard, and on the 6th Oct. following he effected Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton
680 Bradford Commercial Banking Company, to 16s; tares, 418 to 508 per qr.
.
_
bility, never come again. Walter and our English courier got into a huge their effects, or make them lees terrible, would pro: his escape. He was not at large long fur in the next on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse &Co 80, ..
3 290 Bradford 19,404 LOUTEI-Dno. 24. . ,
And so I decided that I should proceed home by dicky, or rumble, ia front ; poor Bellini made Portionably weaken the sense of justice of the nation, month he was committed to Derby gaol on a charge of levonport Bank. Devonport-Hodge and Co , _
Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union ere 114)i
Q 7 There was very little done to-day, as farmers w
the Crimea and Odessa, for we had reason to believe us a warm speech in Italian ; the driver cracked which should make war the last extremity of demand- theft, and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment and Dorchester Old Benk and Dorsetshire Bank,
45,745 Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent 52,5°' disposed to lower the prices. . rites
very confidently that we could find steamers plying his whip, and we-were immediately sent with ini, reparation and enf trcing redress. .10 years' penal servitude. While in Derby gaol the Dorchester-R. and H. Williams
Chesterfield wed North Derbyshire Banking Wheat, red 52s to 565, white --s; barley 42s te gss, o
between the ports of the former province and the our heads into each other's stomachs with a '5. That, although commerce in the first instance governor, Mr. Sims, having ascertained that Woodcock East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Fos-
-94,369 Company, Chesterfield 10,035 23s to 265; beans 42s to 456 per qr.
would apparently be less obstructed by the adoption of was a nototious character, made sundry inquiries re-
latter city, from which three or four routes to Eno . lunge so violent and so sharp that we really ter and Co
d C 47 952 Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- .
he ro osal of the American ecting him and found out that he had been in
P P Government, yet as com- BP. ' . . East 'Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower an B k
0 , , .
land lay open to the choice of the visitor. The " we" should have been justified in thinking:the carriage t ington 33,560
merce depends upon the ros erity of aco t d prison no less than five times in Wakefield for d Bisho 's Stortford an
un ry, an aa t . g . „ . . Essex Bank an p
42 641 Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, SEABO.RNE MAILS.
is a pleasant reality, and not a newspaper phrase, for had blown up. But it was nothing ; our tarantasse the coat of war must fallP P
upon all clatses of the commu- 'emus onences , was Sentenced tO a month s mien d C
Chelmsford-Sparrow, Round, an o ...... ,
-23,515 Coventry
.
I was fortunate enough to find that my two com- was merely under way, and this was the first roll nity by an increase of taxation it would ultimately suffer sonment at Aylesbury sessions for stealing shoes, in Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co .....______
ntail
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,961
day, the -
panions during the coronation mouth at Moscow over the stones. Before we could utter an exclama- in a greater degree than we're the ancient Maritime 1847 ; three months for some offence, iu the name Fa.kenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk [When the date for making im a mail falls on a San
_,,e India
were willing and anxious to accompany me and to tion we were pitched violently back with our heads Laws in operation. .of Massey, at Durham, in 1848 ; a month's imprison- beck, and Co --- County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
make the same journey-the one inspired by a de- rap against the hard cushions, while the noise, the "' 6. That in permitting enemies' property to go free ment at Leicester atsizes for stealing boots, in 1849, F•d B k and Bank of Wantage, Far-
arnng on an mail, via Southampton, which, on such occasion% is Mau' '
7,835 Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, evening previous.]
sire to revisit the Crimea, the other actuated by creaking, the rattling of glass, the screaming of at sea, England parts with her only means of forcing an in the name of Johnson ; d • 1850
12 months at Retfor ,in ,
ringdon-Barnes, Medley, and Co
Carlisle
tor housebreaking ; and nine months at Northampton
Bank, Farnham - Messrs Knight ... 11,182
the natural wish of a young Englishman to behold tortured timber, rose high above our cries of die- enemy's feet to action, as the experience of the war Farnham Cr l C't d • • 18,925 . non
aeeizee, in 1851, in the name of Thompson, for stealing 5 629 ar is e iy an District Bank, Carlisle
-,....----...'"........"'
the ground which the brilliant valour and the suf tress. Any one who has ever been buffetina a ale concluded by the peace of 1856 disanctly shows. Far Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co. ,
Dudley and West Bro • '
mwich Banking Company,
ferings of his countr h d hd t • cl. • h d • h°dg 1
ymen ave consecrate to ea o win in a s ort sea, au in a a ort el er y •
it:was only by her strict blockade of the enemy's ports, boots at Daventry. Besides this, Mr. Sims says he has
reason to believe he has been in mauy more prisons in Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and ay whit
4 551 Duclley ............................... s ................ 36,391 Made up at Whence By what when tgatg,
the end of all time. As it would not be possible steamer, will be able to form some notion of the and the contequent injury to his finance, that those L d Stl d d F Th d fW d
on on, co an ,an ranee. e con uct o oo - Keen - Vessel. expected eve-
naval eneaoements were brou ht about in whi het Guildford Bank Guildford-Messrs. Haydon.. -- Post Office. patched.
....---"-
to procure permission from the police authorities motion of our tarantasse over the ill-paved streets a I n a • g ' c •C cock while in Derby gaol was most violent and outrageous; ' Hardy and C 0... 28,718 Derby ................................................ 18,920
------
roego ten preyed sactorious when hostile fleets, for the Graaentham Bank, Grantham-
Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com- -----____ -- ----
of Moscow for such an expedition, undertaken, as of Moscow and across the huge blocks of stone of he struck a fellow-prisoner, and attempted the life of an mith Hilder, Theas
lief of their trade, gave battle to her blockading force. I tings Old Bank, Hastings-S , Lisbon lth,l7th, &I South- Madrid Dec. 26
it was, for pleaeure, and not business connected the chausge. The lights in the shops danced like , "' 7. That as the military stren th of Great Britain is officer with a piece of wood which he broke off from the and Co
with the service of the State, I applied to our Mi- wildfire before our eyes ; and as tlse camphine lamps not equal to that ot the other f g E P
great uropean o were seatboard of an iron bedstead in his cell. He was in the Hereford . Cit d C t•B nk H f d
et an oun ya , ere or - East of England Bank, Norwich 24,804 Gibraltir .. 1 month. - in" ,
nister, Lord Wodehouse, to move the officers of which illuminate the streets shone in through the any future war would therefore be confined, should Mr. dark cell of Northampton gael for misconduct 72 days, Matthews and Co.
4th and
. Government to assist me, and his lorelship,twith hie ports of our driving land-ship the features of each Cobden's wishes be carried out, into an exchange of WAS once floggel ,and several times put in irons for Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 17;205 Mena ••• • • .
EgyA .. •• • • 4th & 20th south- l m,,„ 20th or Ripoi
usual kindness and courteey, at once complied with seemed to the other hideously distorted, now pulled broadsides between English ships and
..land fortresses, the safety of' the officers. Ile boasted to the chaplain Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co.
my request, and begged M. Tolstoy, adjoint of the out to an unnatural length, and in an instant flat- which the great war with Ru'-sia has shown to be wholly that he had committed every crime short of murder. On Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting- Hull Banking Company, Hull 27,452 India .• •••• month. moUtn
.
Minister of Foreion Affairs, to give me permission tened, and then extended to twice their breadth. ineffective. England would have left to her neither wee occasion he made a daring attempt to escape from don-Rust and Veaseys
; via Ceylon) ,
4.. Blee*
to proceed into the Crimea_ M. Tolstoy, to whom No one had the moral courage to sa it. Each was
Y military nor naval means of obtaining reparation or re- Preston gaol by ascending the chimney, but was dis- Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com- China - Colombo Jan. .
covered. He refused to come down again, but altered 5,143 pany, Halifax - 40,630 Penang .... i fil the at n
mp o iod
I was personally known, promised to do what was waiting for the other to pronounce the fatal word, dress, and would be limited either to the expensive, die Co.
his determination when some fire wae kindled and the Helston Banking Company, Helston - Co um- Dec__.
swot
asked of him, and in a few days after the fi ' I. bt•t • blf h t 1 f h h •
rst app a u i is my ete t a i any 0t e party ad said honourable, and dangerous resort of hiring mercenaries, Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin - ia
-1 733 Anstralia(v 7
j M Jan. 12 .• j ampton Wan
smoke eatended the chimney. Being sent to Dartmoor 31,116 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
" the Cape)• •
cation forwarded to the Hon. Julian Fane, Bic a" I reall ' d • „ 'or of purchasing peace bv submitting te wrong. Sh 1 d C
arp es, an o.
~.. y can t stan this ;we must stop ! the it t he made his escape while doing some out-door work. Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Cape of Good
Secretary of our Embassy, an " fils " •
o ce which expedition would have been at an end, to the great „ These considerations have induced as to address ou Hereford Ross and Archenfield Bank, and aslang
Knaresborough 27,107 Hope .. •• • • Dart' W.S. Jan. 25 E
Y He was apprehended at York, and was sent to the ' d Archenfield Bank. Hereford- mauritius •• E Jan•s•• •• mouth undeay
he addre h ' • f M Cbd ' ' •
ssed. to the Governor of the Crimea joy at that time of the whole societ6. It was at 6.30 with hirn, that " the •
t e subject o r. o en s letter for wh le we aeree Ross an
20,042 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge... 3,103 _e
' 1 a D o unt gol wit. h • th tle f II th
ev nco ya , ic is e reoep ac or a e te Ylon •• • •
practical effect of the alterations Morga,n and Co ,
in our behalf, and of which we were bearers. It p.m., in the dark of a cold, wet, and blowing night, made in the maritime laws at the Paris Coaferencee, if escaped convicts of Dartmoor ; for no matter in what r •h B k I wich-Bacon and Co.
pswic an , ps 20,896 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 53,489 India
was a formidable looking missive, directed to the that the tarantasse weighed and stood for Tula, we go no further, would be in case of war with a naval part of the country they are apprehended, instead of Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Leeds Bankina Company, Leeds 21,746 aisbon.••• ••1
" General Major Jokoffsky, Civil Governor of the driving through the streets of Moscow like a two- power to transfer the carryiog trade, even of our own being taken back to Dartmoor, they are conveyed to the Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Leicestershirelanking Company, Leicester 74,222 reeZ.e.i.y. I I South-
Tamar Jan. 12 Tin.
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 47,290 '
Brazil ... •• • M -fen. 9•• ••i =son
Crimea," and was about a foot square, with a tre- decker rushing through the Downs for her moorings ports to neutral bottoms," we do not perceive the bowl- county gaol, and, after undergoing a punishment, they Bank and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich-
imenosAyres .
, 62,536 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
mendous seal full of distorted eagles wed cyrillic in a winter breeze. For nearly half an hour the cial effects he supposes we would derive from the change are.sent back to finish the period of penal seryitude to Alexander-4 and Co. - •
letters, which is possibly familiar as being the seal noise, the clatter, the pitching was most annoying he recommends, and that as by the maritime law the which they had been previously sentenced.
' Kentish Bank, Maidstane-Mercer, Randall, Company, Leamington Priors
13,545 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow A 1 lands ..... .
9,3 e e West Indies • ,
mem of England has been established and m • •
aintained, and Co. (except Ba-
d the Russian Foreign-office to a good many of and sickening, forsolong were wein working through P' . - - ,
we ought not to adopt the partial of which he says "it Kington and Radnorslure Bank, Kington- 33,534 vane. and
out statesmen. Armed with this, we proceeded to the enormous city, which revealed itself to us for i . .. . RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. 25,191 ing Company, Nottingham Honduras)• 2d and 17th et and
s impossiole to foresee all the cousequences ot such a Davies and Co. - Magda- Imhof
the passport•office, a large barracky-looking build- the last time shining with rain, and at last died out d Nottin hamshire Banking Vertezut•la .. M of the row°
revolution in the rules of war, but rather aevert to the ~ , Knighton Bank, Knighton-Davies and Co__ - Nottingham an . g 27,.......
6°4 Grey Town.- month. stmpton lena the ° -
ing, full of clerks, all as busy in describina the eyes, in a dina glow which lighted up the heavens far and . ven d• d t f tirREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.,--Traffie return for ine K - Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Company, Nottingham NewGranada month. .
erate ju ginen s o our Admiralty Courts," for al naresborough
20,693 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
Chili ......
noses, and chins of their fellow-men as 'Audubon wide. Then we got off the pavement, and the though we cannot comprehend the " imperious necessity ;seek ending Dec. 14, 1856 226,235 2 0
Knaresborough-Harrison and Co
-street .
orresponffing week last year 25,074 19 3 ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgat 9 448 Peru ...... i
ever was over a rara avis or Cuvier on new motion was easier ; the perch began to play a little, which caused us to waive our belligerent rights during , Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson 422, cautornia ••
bone. In a few days our passports would he ready and we settled down more readily into our the late war, we are solemnly convinced that whether _ _ CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.-Traffic return ior 40,365 London
Melksham
.. 16th of .... .•
the week ending Dec. 21 1856 24,458 0 0 and Co.
North Wilts Banking Company, lAi Jan. 17 . / South-
the ..
Kettering Bank, Kettering-J. C. Gotch and rthampton 79,218 a assau ... • ampton • '
for Simpheropol, the civil head-clerk told us, and places. Out of the windows:we could see nothing; we adopt the American proposal or submit to the re- tto
rresponding w k 1 '
ee ast year 4,356 0 0 8,600 Northamptonshire Union Bank, No month.
he kept his word. The passports which had been all was dark. The rocking and shaking had set us cent " declaration," ill either case ruin will be brought Sons North- .
Northamptonshire Banking Compaaty, Mexico .... &Oa°
- • Lane End-C 21,771 H„„,
.... 51 Jan. 2....}. South- Dfagda- Jan. I
given at the St. Petersburo Chancellerie of the all into a hazy unpleasant sleep, which was broken upon the country. Increase in 1856 ... 2102 0 0 Lane - End Staffordshire Bank,
Minister Dolgorouki were ' tacit from us, and iu by a sudden cessation of sound or motion. We had "' I have the honour to remain, sir, on behalf of the g
..ANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWA.Y.-Traffic re- Harvey and Son 5,335 ampton
52,490 North and South Wales , .
Bank Liverpool
Madeira .... ampton lens ,
' 6 COI°.
their place we received documents quito illegible pulled up at Berliova, our first stage, 17 versts Newcastle Committee for the Investigation of Diplo- turn for the week ending Dec. 21, 1856 222,434 13 a Leeds Bank, Leeds-Beckett and Co.
Pares's Leicestershire Banking CompanY,
52,447 Tenni& .. lE jun. 23 ..}. Ply- Gambia Jail. -
to the general, in which "Alexandra Nicolaevitch, from Moscow. It was 8.15 p.m. The chaussee macy, your obedient servant, Corresponding week last year
37,511 Leicester ...
..................................... - 2 101 W.C.°fAfri"
S ddleworth. , British North mouth
" ' GEORGE STOEABT, Secretary." EDINBUR4II, PERTH, AND DUNDEE AND SCOTTISH CBN- Brown and Co
Gosondar and Emperator of All the Russias, in had been so far very good, and the pace respectable. Saddlot.vorth Banking Company, a America E E Liver- ja Dec. 20
"In our letter to Bradford you assert certain dispo- 'nu', RAILWAYS.-Traflic return for the week endi Leicester Bank Leicester-Pagets and Kirby, 30,012
Sheffield Banking Compa,ny, Sheffield ............ 35,027
unit (ISt - I very Fri.} l As ,
ng , e , ates poo
the form of a ukase;" ordered all his subjects to The posthouse, a staring white building with a sitio y • d t th Dec 21 18-o
ns of the United States, privately conveye o e • , tee 25,186 5 7 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and C 0.... 26,148
fd S lel and Boston Banking Com- United States lan. S d eelan°6
take care of a gentleman with a stout figure, double-headed eagle emblaeoned over the door, Foreign Office in Eletana, as the grounds on which the Corresponding week last year ' 5,168 4 0 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Greene ---- Stem or , pa mg,
Stamford . 52,096 British North / E ane an } Liver-
mate Atlantic Jan. I -
middling nose, eyes, mouth, Ssc., and to let him and a large post with much unintelligible informa- British Governm„t a„ aated , ha • other letter CORK AND BANDON
•.‘ i st, in an RAILWAL-Traffio return for week Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison, and Co. 89,668 leanYg . . g
Stuckey s Banking uompanY, Bristol Somerset- America •• Tuesdays. pool
go and 'aid him in going to Simplieropol. For tion engraved thereon respecting places and dis- to the same body, you assert the unfathomable nature smiling Dec. 20, 1856 2260 10 10 Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Liam-
shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang. United States
South- wash- Dec. 2 .
6 Argif°
ding week last ear 219 11 9 dilo Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and C 0... 23,688 .
.............................. 348,205 British North M Dec. 31 ..} a
each of these the charge was abont the same as tames in black setter as the most ancient type at of diplomacy, and the iunpossibility of knowing either Correspon y mpton ington Amur
port ............. .. .. ....... America • .
• Banking Company, Shiffnall 44,485 Liver- :4 Arne- Jan, 7 segos
that for our own Foreign-office Passport-or a little the side of the entrance, invited us to enter, and the motives or acts of the Government. You now as- LONDON GENERAL 05INIBUs CompANY.-Traffie ro. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle-
-7 199 Shropshire Canada .... I E lan. 27 ..
less. So far we were all right, but the next thing in distant apartments we heard Walter battling sume to have established the fact, and you leave it. turns for the week ending Dec, 20, 1856......210,23Z kJ. 8 ton and Cradock ' Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com- I pool rican •
to be done was to find out some means of locomos with the Spirit of Evil, or the postmaster, as we The committee call upon you to make known the _________ , _ Lymington Bank, Lymington-St. Barbe and
3,206 PanY, Stourbridge 56,800 .
M-Mornlng. E-Evening• .
ton. There was a diligence going south to Khar- crossed the threshold. The post for four horses grounds of your statement, by which alone its value GAROTTING BY A TICKET-OP-LEA.V.II MAN. -On Co. . . ._. a n Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,
Lynn Rems and Lmcolnshire Bank, Lyn ~,....--•,------•-----•-...._,.
37,040 Sheffield ......................
koff, but all the places were engaged in this for had been paid to Tula, a distance of 180 versts. It can be judged. They have to express their wonder Christmas-eve a daring garette robbery was attempted -
Re • " d C
ma-Gurneys an o. Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking 'dent haPP g
that, with such knowlechee in your aossessi'm, near Sheffield by two scoundrels, one of whom has a .• -- • HORRIBLE DEATH. -A horrible sem
n, 0030
many days, and, judoing from the company we saw was not very great-21 roubles silver, and 5 roubles dNrf lk Bank, Lynn Regis-
vou did not. in voar place inParliament call for the pro. • tof leave and was captured on t spot. Benjamin
• etynn ttegis an o o 13,535 Company, Sheffield 51,216 near Gloucester on Tuesday last. A young gna
__..e come
starting in it, and the outward appearance of the and 46 copecks for turnpikes, for there are said to - • - • ' •t . tcke
_et . . he
Jarvis and Co Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, went with sow dote°
duction of such secret communications from the Urn ad
s Buckinghsta s. yring, a scissor-grinder, living in Orchard hurst James Stephens, a bricklayer, _
_ea _
vehicle itself, we were ?rather pleased than other- be turnpikes in Russia, ou to Orel. Passing through Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brockle
13
States, which, if true rendered futile and unavailing IR street was going home between 11 and 12 o'clock and ,903 Richmond
wise at •
finding that it would be impossible to get a long and cheerless room, in which a high-smelling it, immediat„flaa 'the bloodshed oc • d ' th ' dup an archway leadin •
casione oy e just as he turne gto his house he
' and Co.
• gtree--Nunn and Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Bankin g adjoining the Severn, and in the evening th 7 tviide of
places. It was necessary, therefore, to buy a car- and dingy-looking party of natives were waiting, hostilities witk Russia ; which, in their ultimate copse' w, s seized by the neck by a Akan who was following Manningtree Bank, Mannm
2,237 Company, Wolverhampton by the g _
34 579 t . the Boatman's Pleasure, a public-honea . stephen"
riage of some kind, and all our Rus-iian friends we entered a smaller room, warmed by a stove and quences, went to supersede the laws of the realm ; and him in the usual manner of garotters. A second man Co.
hB nk Marlborough and Wilts Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake- ' the river, and played at car& for some drink. 0 the
Marlboroug a e field d Went t t
said, "By alllmeans purchase a tarantasse-don't provided with two chairs, and a most uncompro- which at the moment constituted a case of coercion of imm'ediately went np and commenced rifling his pockets. M lborough Old Bank, Marl-
- ••• 13,452 lost and afterwards took his loaded gun, an _
oat_
b tit!
Old Bank,
get a spring carriage, for if anything happens to it mising leather-covered sofa and a card-table, by England by a power with which she was not even tt, St ring struggled and punched at the men with all his ar
k nd Hungerford Bank, Whitehaven Joint-Stock Ba kin C ' d witb a dreadful e This
borough Old Ban a n g ompany, door of the house, an swore bt.
on the road. you will never get it repaired, whereas wa.y of furniture, and in this we remained worship_ war, and the knowledge of whioh, with the exception of miYght, and succeeded in turnieg round and closing with rford Bank, Marlborough-Tan- Whitehaven hreugh him that nig.
es. de
26,945 " the contents should go t
and Hunge
any country smith can mend a tarantasse." And ping the goddess Tchai till the horses were put to, yourself, was concealed from the Bri 1, ;
tis- nat•on. the man who had seized him by the throat. Being an --- Warwick and Leamington Ba le. C ted two or three tine .
_L_': A
d C
ner an o n ing ompany, dreadful expression he repea
t a brickataags B'7,
SO to buy a tarantasse we sallied forth, and visited and we rushed forth into the darkness once more. " After all, admitting all this to be ' imperious neces• ' adept at wrestling, he thretv the fellow down, end called
Me "onethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Williams and Warwick
29 422 afttrwards went and leant ageing
on the grountt
the quarter oflong- bearded coach manufacturers, Fur the somovar h - h h
,or ot water urn, te c arge was sity,' the legitimate consequence of such necessity would out for assistance. His house was within a distance of r(1)n ..... .............................................. 7,638 West of England and South Wales Dist ' ' stood with the etock of the gun resting t
an I an-
net towards his throe , a .
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whom we discovered to be quite as advanced about 10d. To the yainschik, or driver h f
, t e ee have bee*, net the waiver of the Right of Search, but 20 yards, and his wife, hearing the cry, ran out and
Miners' Bank, Truro-Willyams and Co 17,647 Bank, Bristol
75,655 and the muzzle pointing .
diseharge the Pin
in their ideas as to the cost of their :work, was 30 co k hit' f li. h •fl•
pec s, or a s i ing, or w ic tri ing the waiver of the war with Russia. "zed the man with wbom her husband was struggling
" The committee are struck with the discre ' sel
d The other robber swore at the woman, B
pancy In On the groun . M nmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial
n a Ab Bailey and Co
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nd one °
ed his uncle a
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with his foot. While sO engag t , ._,Ol eatne ,
and as to hard bargains, as if they had lived consideration he f
per ormed a humiliating series of d censiderable violence to rescue his companion, uth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre- dersfield an ng ompany, Hu& ho had toll 'wen DI
ds vaYing'
your manner of dealing compel ed
with this subject as t end use Monmo 31,515 his companions w .
h d'to shake han •
in Long-acre all their lives. A taeantasse to genuflexions. As the horses were announced Wal- ff th. l b t • h
re he could eec is re ease a num er o neig • Bank Chepstow Bank Chepstow Old Whitchurch and Elles Ble out big ao of the
with others. On the repeal of the Corn Laws, you Made but befo . Con , 1 . and Stephens held d the contents b •
mere an ing Company, shpuld sen ad Step en
look at is a decent commodious quiet soet of family ter came forth, looking flushed and red in the face l 0h d t t le• h
the discussion in Parliament depend upon previous bours and persons passing a ong re ar -s ree ,w ic Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Whitchurch 5,343 however, that he
One of the men a .
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the country, and the committee cane° is a very usy on, Monmou - romage, nea ,an o , ..,9 oreester City and C t B le C gun throagh his body.
oun y an ing om- nd both got o
ff
and the charge
body, which is placed amidships, so to speak, ia telling an awful "mber of lies on our account ; faillt° remark tha‘ the results which must have been ,he styrings. One of the robbers ran off as fast as they Newark Bank, Newark-Godfrey and Riddell 26,552 pany, Worcester 5,355 struggled tor the gun, a
icion the gun went o , d
ed
h •aw, an pass
balanced between the fore and hind wheels at some but, •we forgave him in the most generous manner, anticipated from your letter to the Manchester Charnher approached, leaving his companion-the one who had Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and York Union Bankin C 66,435 while in that s_
P° 'e head just uncle! t it)
g ompany, York ll cl. ctions•
distance from them, owing to the length of these as they had not been told to us, and so we set of Commerce have not come to pass. In that letter emu seized Styring by the throat-to his fate. The captured Newark Bank, Slea,ford-Handley, Peacock, York City and County Bankin C 88 988 tered Stephens • his brat, •in a ire .
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( From Special Correspondent of the Times'.)
The Russians complain that the books of travels
which have been written concerning the vast em-
pire they inhabit abound with misrepresentation
and. falsehoods, and are deeply imbued with preju-
dice, ignorance, and conceit. In order to prevent
such charges being preferred against the notes made
by me during an excursion of nearly three months'
duration in the southern part of Russia I beg at
once to state that I do not pretend more than to
record what I saw, and that whatever is advanced
on hearsay was reported to me by persons of re-
spectability and character, on whom the responsi-
bility of these statements must depend ; that I do
not venture to offer any philosophic reflections
on the habits, institutions, or social condition
of the people, or propound any theories con-
cerning the government and administration of the
country, but that simply writing what I believe
true on the evidence of my own eye sight or hear-
ing, I leave to others the task of drawing such
conclusions and deductions as they please. The
friends whom I have left behind me in Russia must
be well aware that I set out from Moscow without
any disposition to regard their countrymen and in-
stitutions with an unfavourable eye, and they must
not be offended if my impressions are recorded as
they were formed, and are expressed with sincerity
and candour. These impressions may be erroneous,
but, at all events, they are honest, and I must own
that had I gone no further than Moscow I should
have had a very different notion of the condition of
Russian society from that which I now entertain after
a short tour "off the rail." The grand spectacles of
the coronation, the glare of the ballroom, the glitter
of monster reviews, and all the civilised pomp of
Moscow—its French and German shops, its gay
equipages, and orderly streets, dazzled and per-
plexed the judgment. The -Russian post-house,
the serf villages, the roads, the soldier on the
march, the post-cart, the country town, the hotel
—these presented another and a very different
aspect of Russian life and manners.
One of the objects I had in view in making the
journey was to judge, a far as the time and means
of observation at my disposal would enable me, of
the condition of the country and of the effects of
the late war upon the mass of the population ;
another was to follow the route of the main body
of the Russian reinforcements as they approached
the Crimea ; and a third was to get home as speedily
as possible by a ne w route, which also afforded oppor-
tunities of becoming acquainted, superficially indeed
but still to some extent accurately, with the physical
aspects and social state of a vast tract which few
strangers have occasion to traverse, and still fewer
think it worth while to describe. In addition to
these motives for undertaking, as it proved, a long
and not very agreeable journey, au inducement
presented itself the force of which moved me power-
fully, and which I am sure would exercise equal
influence with any one who had lived so long with
a British army as I had, and who had passed so
many months of mingled joy and sorrows in the
society of friends whose voices are silent for ever.
I wished to revisit our cemeteries and the scattered
monuments and resting-places of our noble dead,
to see with my own eyes that the Russians had
kept their promise, and to ascertain the present
state of Sebastopol. The prospect of beholding the
plateau on which I had lived for nearly two years
with very lit le interruption, and which was the
scene of so many events, to be remembered for
ever by all who in the smallest degree participated
in them ; of going over the old ground once more,
of mounting from Balaklava to the front, tracing
the lines of the trenches now fast crumbling away,
and peering about the city of the dead and its
sunken navies, exercised over me a fascination
which, if not strange, is certainly indescribable ;
and the chance of doing this might, in all proba-
bility, never come again.
And so I decided that I should proceed home by
the Crimea and Odessa, for we had reason to believe
very confidently that we could find steamers plying
between the ports of the former province and the
latter city, from which three or four routes to Eng
land lay open to the choice of the visitor. The " we"
is a pleasant reality, and not a newspaper phrase, for
I was fortunate enough to find that my two com-
panions during the coronation mouth at Moscow
were willing and anxious to accompany me and to
make the same journey—the one inspired by a de-
sire to revisit the Crimea, the other actuated by
the natural wish of a young Englishman to behold
the ground which the brilliant valour and the suf
ferings of his countrymen have consecrated to
the end of all time. As it would not be possible
to procure permission from the police authorities
of Moscow for such an expedition, undertaken, as
it was, for pleasure, and not business connected
with the service of the State, I applied to our Mi-
nister, Lord Wodehouse, to move the officers of
Goverament to assist me, and his lordship, with his
usual kindness and courtesy, at once complied with
my request, and begged M. Tolstoy, adjoiut of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to give me permission
to proceed into th Crimea_ Tolstoy, to whom
I was personally known, promised to do what was
asked of him, and in a few days after the first appli-
cation forwarded to the Hon. Julian Fane,
Secretary of our Embassy, an " office " which
he addressed to the Governor of the Crimea
in our behalf, and of which we were bearers. It
was a formidable looking missive, directed to the
"General Major Jokoffsky, Civil Governor of the
Crimea," and was about a foot square, with a tre-
mendous seal full of distorted eagles and cyrillic
letters, which is possibly familiar as being the seal
of the Russian Foreign-office to a good many of
our statesmen. Armed with this, we proceeded to
the passport-office, a large barracky-looking build-
ing, full of clerks, all as busy in describing the eyes,
noses, and chins of their fellow-men as Audubon
ever was over a rara avis or Cuvier on new
bone. In a few days our passports would be ready
for Simpheropol, the civil head-clerk told us, and
he kept his word. The passports which had been
given at the St. Petersburg Chancellerie of the
Minister Dolgorouki were taken from us, and iu
their place we received documents quite illegible
to the general, in which "Alexandra Nicolaevitch,
Gosondar and Emperator of All the Russias, in
the form of a ukase;" ordered all his subjects to
take care of a gentleman with a stout figure,
middling nose, eyes, mouth, tire., and to let him
go and aid him in going to Simpeeropol. For
each of these the charge was about the same as
that for our own Foreign-office passport—or a little
less. So far we were all right, but the next things
to be done was to find out some means of locomo-
tion. There was a diligence going south to Khar-
koff, but all the places were engaged in this for
many days, and, judging from the company we saw
starting in it, and the outward appearance of the
vehicle itself, we were !rather pleased than other-
wise at finding that it would be impossible to get
places. It was necessary, therefore, to buy a car-
riage of some kind, and all our Russian friends
said, " By all]meane purchase a tarantasse—don't
get a spring carriage, for if anything happens to it
on the road you will never get it repaired, whereas
any country smith can mend a tarantasse." And
so to buy a tarantasse we sallied forth, and visited
the quarter of.longebearded coach manufacturers,
-whom we discovered to be quite as advanced
in their ideas as to the cost of their work,
and as to hard bargains, as if they had lived 1
in Long-acre all their lives. A tattantasse to
look at is a decent commodious quiet sosteg family
eoach, secured on three long perches, so that the
body, which is placed amidships, so to speak, is
balanced between the fore and hind wheels at sonic
distance froria them, owing to the length of these
perches. I say to look at, hut to travel in! Ah,
when the time comes that horror will be revealed.
They are of all shapes, however—like gigs, cahrii •
lets, sociables, broughams, watch boxes, SOUR tu-
reens, all alike springless, and in that absence of
springs possessing the occult virtues which recom-
mend them to Russian travellers. The Moscow
Longeecre is a long line of wooden coach sheds of
one storey in height, about half a mile from the
Kremlin, fronting a branch of the M ,sk'tu river. I;
is unusually infested with saints and pigeons. Of
the former there is always one in each shed, and s
is no wonder that he is generally black and w. inkled
from assisting at so much cheating and 1 oguerst as
is constantly being practised before his very eyes by
his votaries. We were asked invariably about a
third more than the proper price, except in one in-
stauce,where the long-bearded proprietordernancled
for a tarantasse as much as oue would give for a
good secondhand carriage in London. The agonies
of bargaining were insupportable to us, hut what I
must they have been to our kind freed who tran-
slated French into Russian and Russian into French
for one long hour! And all to no purpose. The
longobarbi thought we must give in, and we were
determined not to he done, and the contest ended'
several days afterwards in our purchasing a taren-
tasse with room for three inside, two outside, and a
dfiver; in a remote part of the city, to which we had I
penetrated in search of less extortionate coach-menu-
fee turers, for 501., including alterations and repairs.
The next thing
was to get an interpreter and servant, I
and in this matter another excellent friend, M. de
Mouche I off, assisted us by; obtaining from the P. so.
a
Blaster-General post-offi .e co crier, who was pep*
larly believed to speak German and to be versed in
other language'''. Our good Walter, however, on
presenting himself to us, was found to be rather
weak in Teutonic, and to be quite ignorant of any
other language but his vernacular. The sight of
his uniform, however (a Smart green frock, with
black facings and braid on the shoulders), was cal-
culated te produce a great effect on the postmasters,
and
so we iooked on him as a great acquisition, and
set him to work at once to get honest. But this was

(Front the Sheffield Free Press )
The Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee, at their
weekly meeting, on the 23d inst., adopted the fellowing
reply to Mr. Cobden's third letter on Maritime Law :
"Council Hall, Sheffield, Dec. 23d, 1856.
" Sir,—The Sheffield Foreign Affairs Committee have
to express their regret that in Bending for publication
your reply to their letter to the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce you did not also send the letter to which it
was a reply. With reference to your declining further
dissuasion until the meeting of Parliament, the com-
mittee have to observe that you yourself raised the dis-
cussion of the subject by your letter to the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce. Even in this very letter to the
committee, not only do you decline discussion after
opening it, but you discuss whilst so declining. The
subject is one to discuss between man and man,
not with reference to any conclusions of Parliament.
You refer the committee to your letter to
the Bradford Committee. The Sheffield Committee
have had no communications on the subject, either
with the Bradford or the Newcastle Committees, but
they know that both those bodies, like themselves,
have been studying the subject ; tbat they are moved
by no personal or party considerations, and that a
subject like the one under discussion requires both
study and impartiality. The committee adopt the
statement of the Newcastle Committee, which they
subjoin, as the clearest and most suceinct enunciation
of the case that they have seen. They also transmit
you here .vith the report of the Birmingham Conference,
of July, 1855, on the Right of Search, and beg of you
to deal with the facts and arguments in the letter, and
the report, by pointing out any statements or conclu-
sions that are erroneous."
LETTER OY THE NEWCASTLE COMMITTEE.
"' 7, Suuderland-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
" Dec. 3, 1856.
" To the President of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce,
" Sir,—The letter which Mr. Cobden has addressed
to y. u respecting the recent Declaration in regard to
Maritime Law claims attention, not only from the posi-
tion and talents of its author, but also from the gravity
of the subject he has brought under your notice.
" We, therefore, as citizens of England, offer no
apology for addressing you in consideration of such an
important public question.
"'The silence of Mr. Cobden for so long a time, in
reference to the perilous position of this country in case
of war, under the operation of the late international de-
claration, appears inexplicable, when we consider the
very 1, gical and able manner in which he has shown the
injurious effects it is certain to bring upon the nation.
" We entirely agree with Mr. Cobden, that comes
quences of the most serious nature must be apprehended
by us, unless we escape from the imminent danger of
such a departure from our ancient maritime usage • but
we differ with him respecting the course to be taken to
avoid toe results of the declaration he so ably exposes.
We therefore venture to submit to you a few reasons
which we hope will induce you to pause before you use
your great influence,' as he urged you to do, in estab-
lishing the practice proposed by the American Govern.
ment of exempting from capture private property upon
the ocean.
" 1. The proposal to make war a duel of Govern-
ments is, we think, likely to detach the operations of
Governments from the interest of the people, and to
make war an anomaly, and that to hold private property
exempt while national property may be destroyed, will
cause wars to become frequent and protracted by limit-
ing their consequences.
" '2. That no distinction of property, be it private or
national, ought to be observed in case of war ; and that
to spare the one and destroy the other is absurd, imply-
ing a national responsibility distinct from that of citi-
zenship. The sparing of enemies' pr perty on land has
been always conditional on the submission of the district
attached, but sparing it upon the high seas must be con
ditional on the submission of the nation.
" 3. That, as war is either the most solemn of all
duties, or the most wanton of all crimes, involving in
either case the sacrifice of human life, to carry it on
upon any novel principle of humanity is incompatible
with the e,ecution of a judicial sentence, which is the
only excuse for a just war.
" 4. That, as just wars are undertaken to avert
consequences more injurious than war itself, to limit'
their effects, or make them lees terrible, would pro.'
portionably weaken the sense of justice of the nation,
which should make war the last extremity of demand-
ing reparation and enf,rcing redress.
" 5. That, although commerce in the first instance
would apparently be less obstructed by the adoption of
the proposal of the American Government, yet as com-
merce depends upon the prosperity of a country, and as
the coat of war must fall upon all classes of the commu-
nity by an increase of taxation, it would ultimately suffer
in a greater degree than were the ancient Maritime
Laws in operation.
" 6. That in permitting enemies' property to go free
at sea, England parts with her only means of forcing an
enemy's fleet to action, as the experience of the war
concluded by the peace of 1856 distinctly shows. Fer
it.„was only by her strict blockade of the enemy's ports,
and the consequent injury to his finance, that those
naval engagements were brought about, in which site
so often proved victorious when hostile fleets, for the
relief of their trade, gave battle to her blockading force.
"' 7. That as the military strength of Great Britain it,
not equal to that of the other treat European Powers
any future war would therefore be confined, should Mr.
Cobden's wishes be carried out, into an exchange of
broadsides between English ships and land fortresses,
which the great war with Russia has shown to be wholly
ineffective. England would have left to her neither
military nor naval means of obtaining reparation or re-
dress, and would be limited either to the expensive, die
honourable, and dangerous resort of hiring mercenaries,
or of purchasing peace by submitting to wrong.
"'These considerations have indueedets to address you
on the subject of Mr. Cobden's letter, for while we agree
with him, that " the practical effect of the alterations
made in the maritime laws at the Paris Conferences, if
we go no further, would be in case of war with a naval
power to transfer the carrying trade, even of our own
ports to neutral bottoms," we do not perceive the benefi-
cial effects he supposes we would derive from the change
he recommends, and that as by the maritime law the
power of England has been established and maintained,
we ought not to adopt the prrpssal of which he says "it
is impossible to foresee all the consequences of such a
revolution in the rules of war, but rather.revert to the
I • venerated judgments of our Admiralty Courts," for al
though we cannot comprehend the " imperious necessity
which caused us to waive our belligerent rights during
the late war, we are solemnly convinced that whether
we adopt the American proposal or submit to the re-
cent " declaration," in either case ruin will be brought
upon the country.
"' I have the honour to remain, sir, on behalf of the
Newcastle Committee for the Investigation of Diplo-
macy, your obedient servant,
" GEORGE STOEABT, Secretary."
"In your letter to Bradford you assert certain dispo-
sitions of the United States, privately conveyed to the
Foreign Office in England, as the grounds on which the
British Government has acted ; hilst, in another letter
to the same body, you assert the unfathomable nature
of diplomacy, and the impossibility of knowing either
the motives or acts of the Government. You now as-
sume to have established the fact, and yon leave it.
The committee call upon you to make known the _
grounds of your statement, by which alone its value GAROTTING BY A TICKET-OF-LEAVA MAN. —On
can be judged. They have to express their wonder Christmas-eve a daring prate robbery was attempted
that, with such knowledge in your possession, near Sheffield by two scoundrels, one of whom has a
you did not, in your place in Parliament, call for the pro ticket of leave, and was captured on the spot. Benjamin
duction of such secret communications from the United Buckingham String, a scissor-grinder, living in Orchard
States, which, if true, rendered futile and unavailing in street, was
going home between 11 and 12 o'clock, and
turned up an archway leading to his house he
its immediate effect the bloodshed occasioned by the justtt e
a , s
he
hostilities witk Russia ; which, in their ultimate COEISe•
ev,s seized by the neck by a Akan who was following
gam:ices, went to supersede the laws of the realm ; and him, in the usual manner of garotters. A second man
e
which at the moment constituted a case of coercion of
immediately went np and commenced rifling his pockets.
England by a power with which she was not even a-,
Styring struggled and punched at the men with all his
war, and the knowledge of which, with the exception of might, and succeeded in turning round and closing with
yourself, was concealed from the British nation. the man who had seized him by the throat. Being an
"After all, admitting all this to be imperious necese
adept at wrestling, he threw the fellow down, and called
sity,' the legitimate consequence of such necessity would out for assistance. His house was within a distance of
have been, not the waiver of the Right of Search, but 20 yards, and his wife, hearing the cry, ran out and
the waiver of the war with Russia. seised the man with whom her husband was struggling
"The committee are struck with the discrepancy in
on the ground. The other robber swore at the woman,
your manner of dealing with this subject as compared end used considerable violence to rescue his companion,
with others. On the repeal of the Corn Laws, you made
but before he could effect his release a number of neigh-
the discussion in Parliament depend upon previous hours and persons passing along Orchard-street, which
discussion in the country, and the committee earshot is a very busy thoroughfare, flocked to the assistance of
fallen:, remark that, the results which must have been the Styrings. One of the robbers ran off as fast as they
anticipated from your letter to the Manchester Chamber approached, leaving his companion—the one who bad
of Commerce have not some to pass. In that letter you seized Styring by the throat—to his fate. The captured
urged the adoption of measures with the view of affect- man struggled violently, and severely " punched
ing the decision of Parliament. You therein stated that several of his captors, who, however, stuck manfully
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY FRAUDS. the mercantile and manufacturing interests of the to him until the arrival of a policeman. On being
--Rod- country were deeply involved' in the matter, and you
taken to the police-station the robber was recognised as
ps h, Kent, and fl,.)gaon, were on Wednesday fully com• called on the mercantile world to allow its voice to be a ticket-of-leave man, named John Sylvester. The
witted for trial by Mr. Tyrwhitt. Bail was accepted for heard on the question by Government and Parliament.' fellow, though only 29 years of age, has been twice
the last named person. The committee cannot therefore understand your subset- sentenced to be transported. The first time was shoat
HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND MIIRDER.—A cold-blooded quent view respecting the unanimity of Parliament upon tea years ago, when he was transported for a term of
murder, peril, trated only for the purpose of gratifying the subject. On the other hand, they cannot understand seven years, but was released, and returned to Sheffield,
the cupidity of the murderer, was committed on the how you could have so far doubted of the unanimity after the lapse of five years. Four years ago he was
highway near Wiveliscombe, Somerset, about 12 miles of Parliament as to have appl g
lied to to the Chamber of ain sentenced to be transported for 10 years for a till
from Taunton, about 10 o'clock on Tuesday night last. Commerce, seeing that the House of Commons has so robbery, but returned to Sheffield with a ticket of leave
The murder was first discovered about 11 o'clock, by a far exhibited perfect unanimity in performing any task a
six months ago, since which time he has had to abscond
man called Hayes, who, while walking home on the read that the Premier required of them. le consequence of robbing his sister, and only a very
between Langley and Ferri, observed a horse and cart "The second paragraph of your letter to the commit- short time ago reappeared in the town.
in the road without an attendant ;on nearer approach tee proceeds upon an assumption very perplexing to esteveansesonme—One of the most valuable discoveries for
he saw the feet of a person hanging over the front of the them. They ca,nnut fi,nd, and do not recollect it to the benefit of mankind is shown by the numerous extra,ordi-
ear:, and further examination resulted in finding the body have been stated an where that the words of Nelson nary cures without medicine of indigestion
o (Idivyspeoposmia),laflianttus:
of Thomas Aplin, a young man 22 years of age, employed respecting England spending her last shilling and her leney, constipation, nervous, bilious, a
Arabia F d
as agricultural labourer by Mr. Corner, of Kings- last ship, applied to anything else save the exercise of cough, asthma, consumption, ,nd debility,
eerffectedpby Du
brotnpton, Nettlecombe, the owner of the vehicle. He the Right of Search, at that time contested by Russia,
ft:11 hl t e rkable t—Cure N 0.41,617.
The ownigarenott e eas r
Barry delius health restoring Revaenta oo .
was quite dead, his throat having been cut so as to nearly and made by her the basis of the second armed neutra-
sever the head
from the body. A carpet-bag was found in lity. If any one has done so—which the committee
able
for
was
to inform you that the person for whom your Revalenta
Wuchester, Dec. 3, 1847. Gentlemen,—l am happy to be
the cart undisturbed, but deceased's pockets had been doubt—it cannot be the committees herein named, was procured has derived very great benefit from its use;
torned out and his money tarried away. It was soon as- they have made themselves too well acquainted with the distressing symptoms of dropsy, dyspepsia, and constipation
certained that deceased had that day been at Wivelt, object to beliable to sac's misprision of facts and confusion of long standing have been removed, and a feeling of restored
combe Christmas market, where he got change for a. of terms. It is very true that a maritime supremacy did health induced. Having witnessed the beneficial effects in
51. vote, and showed his money before an acquaintance I result to England from the exercise of the Right of the above-mentioned case, I can with confidence recommend
named Thy Nation, at the White Hart, where do: Search, but rtnaAt depended on no exclusive pretension set it, and shall have much pleasure in doing so whenever ann96oph-
ceased drank freely and treated Nation and others with up It depended on the possession of a relatively portunity offers, No. James Slaorland, late Seussrgeoenens,
tipta.
liquor. Aplin, the deceased, left to go home about 9 greater nave=
, from nehichu I have suffered
o'clock, when he was very tipsy, and Nation went away conttst with others whom she might meat at sea. Eng.
;great misery, and which no myede could remove or relieve,
poweae which has given her the victory in ;Lion !,en'itoectg.—estCiourne
anal:eol;il'i't2s ears'
which
rvo s ,
with him. Their ‘say home was the same for nearly a , land has never contested this faculty to any State; on
have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in a very
mile, but before they bad travelled so far the horse's ' the contrary, she has asserted it for all. It ,was not i
short time. W. R. Reeves, 181, Fluet-street, London."
head was turned in another direction, where it was originally put forward by ; its origin is too ancient , Supported by testimonials from the celebrated Professors of
found as above stated. The young man Nation, who to be found in any written law ; but the form in which I Chemistry Dr. Andrew Urn; Dr. Stiorland ; Dr. Harvey ;
lodged with his father, a small farmer, at Upton, was it has been incur Pra',:ed into the laws of England is I Dr. Campbell; Dr. Gattiker ; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Ingram:
taken into custody about 7 o'clock on Wednesday m adopted from the first French codes. It is with a cer• I Lord Stuart de Denies; the Dowager Countess of Castle-
ing, as he was proceeding home on foot, and his clothes taro compunction and shame that the committee refer to stuart;Major-Gen. Thomas King, and many other respectable
' persons, whose health has been restored. by it, afterall other
were bloody ; he had in his Fockete a clasp knife stained facts so notorious, and propositions so evident, as it
d. Suitably packed for all climates,
with blood, four sovereigns, and some coppers; and foot; impossible they should be unknown to a politician of •
mrh fsnlolfinscust ecth'adn . Inf•e
canisters, lib., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d.;
prints near the spot where the cart was found corres- your high standing. The committee are under the nwibs"
ponded with his boots, On being charged with the mur- necessity of d 'task being not to argue with et ." ' •'
s'
P lb and 121bs. carnage free,
enng so, their em 225.; lens. 335. The 10 8.
der he exclaimed, "Yon don't me en it ?" and the you, but to reply to your letter. Hs • lru2lbsio 232 • super-refined, lib., 6s. ; 2115., lie, ;
on rect.APt of post-office order. Barry du Bar*, and Co., 77,
charge being repeated he made no reply. The same " The last paragraph of your letter assumes that laws ! Regent-end, London • Fortnum, Mason, and Co., Purveyors
afternoon the prisoner was privately examined before must be altered because of the world's progress, and also t,O her liWeetY, Piccadilly; also at 60, Gracechurchsstreet ;
the magistrates, and committed to the county gaol at that laws mustibe established to take the place of phy- i 33a and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapside ; 68. ; 49eBishops.
Taunton, to await 'a further examination on Wednes- . ?deal force. You further assume it to be the object of gate-street; 8;5, Charing-cross; 54, Upper Baker-street; ee
day next. the committees to assert a supremacy for Great Britain. f and 150„ OXforti-etreet-

50n..... ... . ................ ..
Mirs
Monmouthshire
Bank, Aberga venny—Bailey and Co
Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre-
Bai rrZgricrrcuWltuirliaYlam ansd aCnodmCmoercial
Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank,
cnoen'Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old
Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co
Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell
Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and
Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock,
and Co
Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock
Newmarkit Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham-
mond, and Co
Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk
Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons
Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur-
andßainrkd
beck
Nottingham Nottinghamshire Bank, Not-
tingham, Hart, Fellows, and C 0...........
Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co.
Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Ramie
neYg
and Co.
New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co
Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith
and Co.
Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os
Oxfordwe o
st ry—i d
Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Croxonafn do
rC o— .....
s.
0.
n.
Parsons,
and Co.
Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton-
bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton-
bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton-
bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching
Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W
Clinch and Co.
Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank
and Beverly Bank, Hull—Pease and Co
Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co
Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter-
borough—D. Yorke and Co.
Pembrokeshire Bank, Hayerfordwr 3t—J. and
W. Walters
Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co
Reading Bank, Reading--Stephens, Blandy,
and Co.
Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co.
Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds,
and Co.
Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches-
ter—Day and Nicholson
lloyston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons
Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son
Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Pomfret, & Co
Rosi Old Bank, Hersdfordshire, Ross
Allaway and Maedougal
Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf-
fron Walden—Otbsons and Co

50,857
20,280

19,85!

50,096

95,42'

10,70
3,30'

17,880
8,414

30,765

12,552

30,230

8,76'

10,8

47,075
10,650

12,763
29,010

ington
Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company,
Coventry
Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry
County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel-
tenham
Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company,
Carlisle
Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle
Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company,
Dudley _ 36,391
Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company,
Derby
Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com-
pany, Darlington
East of England Bank, Norwich 24,804
Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 149,336
Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 17,205
Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,432
Hull Banking Company, Hull 27,452
Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,922
Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com-
pany, Halifax
Helston Banking Company, Helston
Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford
Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company,
Knaresborough 27,107
Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,103
Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 53,489
Leeds Bankinc, Company, Leeds 21,746
Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 74,222
Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 47,290
Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking
Company, Leamington Priors 9,475
Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,341
Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank-
ing Company, Nottingham 33,534
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking
27,807
Company, Nottingham
National Provincial Bank of England, Birming-
ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street,
422,448
London 4l 598
North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham
Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton- 79,218
Northamptonshire Banking Company, North-
21,771
ampton 58,218
North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool
Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company,
Saddlcworth Banking
Leicester ............
Company, Sa
..................
d..d.ie..w01.t...h: 522;410417
35,027
Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield, ..... ,
Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking C -
re Bank, Lang.
Somerset-
shire Bank, and Somersetshi
p0rt................................. ...i.. ... . . ..
Shropshire Banking Company, Sla ff aI
Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com-
pany,StupcakneyysSsßiaoamfunrkobirnridgdgCeompany, Bristol
Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company,
Sheffield
Wakefield Swaledale
Barnsley Wensleydale
Union Banking
B an Company,Bank,
iv ake-
Wolverhampton
Joint-Stock Banking Company,
w hcC
Warwicki
ootnme h pp Wolverhamptonaaavnneayynn,,
Sheffield
an .
d. .
Rotherham.s.
h. .
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ffi.
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Sheffield
ld.
d. . . . . .
Joint. .
Staffordshire.
s„
t.
0.. Stock
k. . . .
Banking. . .
Banking. .
1v RichmondfieWhsetldoitfehavd Leamington Banking Company,
Englanden and South Wales District
WWiltsarawn
Westßa
WorcesterW hNV hi+. eitchu r
nßkiidekDorset Banking Company, Salisbury 73,750
diEngrisUtonlion Banking Company, 29,422
Hud-
dersfieldhurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
75,655
City and County Banking Com-
pany, Worcester 5,355
York Union Banking Company, York 66,435
York City and County Banking Company, 88,988
Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 115,157
J. MICHAEL, Acting Registrar of Bank Returns.
Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Dec. 20.

A CALENDAR OF FIRESIDE SAINTS.

(From Punch's Almanac.)

28,529
6,230

3,751

anions
me s
Stephens,HORRIBLES
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ed
bricklayer,
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ahyoerrri horrible
went
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wcwi
adi
mte:ptys
obrpaPcisoolvell
James
Gloucester on Tuesday last. A young man's°3'
adjoining the Severn, and in the evening they rellir 4
t . the Boatman's Pleasure, a public-house by the skis ".,
the river, and played at card.' for some drink. Stephen"
lost, and afterwards took his loaded gun, and went to th!
door of the house, and swore witb a dreadful oath thf!;
" the contents should go thrJugh him that night• Tab°
dreadful expression be repeated two or three tinges. I
afterwards went and leant against a bricks took, to,
stood with the stock of the gun resting on the grow
and the muzzle pointing towards his throat, 50.1 ar
p ared to be endeavouring to discharge the piece
with his foot. While so engaged, his uncle and one
his companions who had foil 'wed him same up/
and Stephens held out his hand'to choke hands, saying,
howe►er, that he should send the contents of the
gun through his body. One of the mon and Stepheno
out at the skull, scattering his brairall directions.
fle was said to be a well-behaved young mArl
entered
while gil
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sd
thatt feopr
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positionu bne,
sat;
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ham Chronicle.
--------------------------

ST. BETSY.--St. Betsy was wedded to a knight who
sailed with Raleigh and brought home tobacco, and the
knight smoked. But he thought that St. Betsy, like
other fine ladies of the Court, would fain that he should
smoke out of doors, nor taint with 'bacoo smoke the
tapestry. Whereupon the knight would seek his garden,
his orchard, and in any weather smoke sub Jove. Now,
it chanced as the knight smoked St. Betsy came to him
and said, "My Lord, pray ye, c one into the house ;"
and the knight went with St. Betsy, who took him into
a newly-cedared room and said, " I pray, my Lord,
henceforth smoke here, for is it not a shame that you,
who are the foundation and prop of your house, should
have no place to put your head into and smoke ?" And
St. Betsy led him to a chair, and with her own fingers
filled him a pipe ; and from that time the knight sat in
the cedar Chamber and smoked his weed.
ST. PHILLIS.—St. Phillis was a virgin of noble paren-
tage, but withal as simple as any shepherdess of curds-
and-cream. She married a wealthy lord, and had much
pin money. But when other ladies wore diamonds and
pearls, St. Phillis only wore a red and white rose in her
hair. Yet her pin money bought the beat of jewellery
in
happyed eyes of the poor about her. St. Phillis
was . She lived until fourscore, and still car-
ther e
ward
ried the red awl white rose in her face, and left their
fragrance in her memory.
ST. NORAH.—St. Norah was a poor girl, and came to
England to service. S weet-tempered and gentle, she
seemed to love everything she spoke to ; and she prayed
to St. Patrick that be would give her a good gift that
would make her not proud but useful ; and St. Patrick
out of his own head taught St. Norah how to boil a
potato. A. sad thing, and to be lamented that the secret
has come down to so few.
ST. PHCEIR.—St. Pbcebe was married early to a wilful
but withal a good-hearted husband. He was a mereiant,
and would corns home sour and sullen from 'Change-
Whereupon, after much pondering, St. Iliaebe in her pa-
-1

7,242
13,414
7,780
13,740

4,050

30,44$