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London, England, 1858-01-12 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1858.

WONT BLANC IS OPEN TO-NIGHT.

ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.
Mr. and Mrs. GERMAN REED (late Miss P. HORTON)
'will re-appear in Town 25th January, 1858.

CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, Polygraphic Hall.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHTH ENTERTAIN.
MENT.—More Novelties—Revival of the Burlesque Itallien Opera,
received, when first produced, with screams of laughter—New
Songs end New Puns—" Hoop de-doaden Do," nightly.—Evening at
8, end on Satnrday Morning, commencing at 3. Prices—boles,
H. Is.; Stalls, 35.; Area, 21.; Back, is.

PROFESSOR WILJALBA. FRIKELL,
Physician to their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of
Russia.—ST. JAMES'S TFIEATRE.—PHYSICAL and NATURAL
MAGIC, without the aid of any Apparatus.—TWO HOURS OF
ILLUSlONS.—Wednesday and Saturday Afternoons at 3, and
Every Evening at 8. Stalls, 55.; Balcony Stalls, 45.; Boxes, 3s:;
Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is ; Private Boxes, two guineas; one guinea
and a•half, and one gulnea.—Places to be secured at Mr. Mitchell's,
Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street.

A DELAIDE GALLERY, Lowther Arcade,
rs Strand.—Great success of M. Lamotte's Havelock Schottische.
and °rand Fantasia from II Trovatore," an I the New Caledonian
Quadrille by Charles 11411. Principal cornet-a-piston, M. Bou!court.
Open every evening at half-past 8. Dancing commences at 9. The
Argyll Band is to be engaged for private Balls. —R. R. BIGNELL, Ma-
nager.

DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM AND GALLERY
OF SCIENCE, 3, Tiehborne.street, facing the Haymarket
Programme for the Christmas Holidays —Guenal's APP ARETL
UR ANOGRAPHIQUE constantly in motion; LIVING OBJECTS
in the large Gay-Hydrogen Microscope ; Hundreds of new Ana-
tomical Models of a most interesting character. Lectures by Dr.
KAHN, at 3 o'clock, on the Physiol -tgy of Digeation, and at 9, on the
Physiology of Reproduction; and by Dr. SEXTON, at past 1, on
" the Air we Breathe ;" at 4, on the Mysteries of the &Inman H AIR
and BEARD ; and at 9, on the Wonders of Electricity : all the Lec-
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entirely new character, &c. Open (for Gentlemen only) from 12 till
5 and from 7 till 10. Illustrated Hand-book,tSixpence. Programme
Gratis. Dr. Kahn's Nine Lectures and a Programme seat post
free on the receipt of twelve stamps.

INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY,
142, STRAND, LONDON (W.C.),
!lux JANUARY, 1858.
The HALF-YEARLY INTEREST at the rate of 5 per Cent. per
annum on the CAPITAL STOCK of this SOCIETY, to 31st Decem-
ber last, is now in coarse of payment to the Proprietors, on appli-
cation at this Office, between the hours of 11 and 3 o'clock.
EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.

ALBERT AND TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE
AND GUARANTEE COMPANy.!
11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.
Notice is hereby given, that the HALF-YEARLY DIVIDEND
to the 31st ultimo, after the rate of Seven per cent. per annum, win
be in COURSE of PAYMENT to the Shareholders on and after the
11th January instant.

January 7, 1858.

HENRY WILLIAM SMITH,
Actuary and Secretary.

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Fleet-street, London, 4th January, 1858.

Notice is Hereby Given, that a GENERAL MEETING of the
Proprietors of the Law Life Assurance Society, will be held at the
Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on TUESDAY, the 2d day of
February next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, pursuant to the pro-
visions of the Deed of Settlement of the Society, for the purpose of
receiving the Auditors' Annual report of the accounts of the society
up to the 31st Decem7er last; to elect a Trustee in the room of the
late the Honourable Sir Edward Hall Alderson, deceased; and for
general purposes.
_ _ _

By order of the Directors.
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNBS, Actuary.

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THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN NAPLEB.

NAPLES, JAN. 2,

His Majesty, according to the Qifici al Journal,
instead of 60,000 ducats, has subscribed only 6,000
ducats, to the relief fund for the sufferers by the
earthquake ; the hereditary prince, 1,000 ducats ;
" and the other children of his adored Majesty,"
says the Journal, "1,000 ducats between them."
The "others" are nine in number. "The muni-
ficent heart of her Majesty, in its inexhaustible
piety," has ordered 2,000 ducats to be paid on her
account. Their Majesties came in on Tuesday,
29th, and held a hasty " baciamano," at which
very few were present besides the foreign ministers
and the officers of state.
The scene which the city presented on this the
last occasion on which his Majesty would visit his
capital during the year 1857, was anything but that
which could lead a stranger to regard him as a
father in the midst of his children. From the rail-
way to the palace and thence to the church of S.
Ferdinand the road was crowded with geesdarmes.
The movements of his Majesty were marked by the
same degree of suspicion and uncertainty. Orders
and counter orders were given as to time, and
whilst a steamer had been kept in readiness by com-
mand, the King went directly from the church to
the railway and retired to his fortress by land.
For the sufferers by the earthquake of 1783 the first
Ferdinand. it is said, subscribed 500,000 ducats,
and his court followed the brilliant example. The
present sovereign subscribes the sum already noted,
and'a British merchant and a Neapolitan druggist
subscribe nearly tenfold what is contributed by a
minister of state. The Intendents of Salerno and
of Potenza, who have acted with most laudable
energy in the circumstances, have made frequent
remonstrances to the Government, and the former
has done so in person, but for some days little could
be extorted. And what were the sufferings which
cried aloud for relief I There lay buried beneath
the ruins upwards of 15,000 persons, many of
whom might have been saved had a large body of
troops been sent at the earliest moment ; perhaps
as many lay wounded or dying of hunger and of
grief, without any care to succour them with cloth-
ing or bread ; and in a catastrophe so tremendous
the Official Journal (which is here the Government
speaking) announces that " order had not been dis-
turbed." The idea of order, therefore, in Naples is
the silence of the grave, and the cholera and earth-
quake are the coadjutors of the Government.
The bad odour arising from the putrid bodies is
represented as having been in many places insup-
portable, and the Intendente of Salerno is said
to have advised that things should be left as
they were—the surface of the reins being smoothed
over in the form of one vast burial place. This
was not permitted. And it was only on Christmas-
eve, in many places, that people were sent to bury
the dead. But the work could not be continued.
There was an insufficiency of hands—there were no
instruments for dragging out the bodies, no carts
for transport, no provisions for the workmen.
A condensation of the official reports from the
scene of ruin, gives the names of sixty-one addi-
tional places as having suffered more or less from
the shock. Some had no dead—others their one,
two, 40, and 400. Several thousands in one place
—in others less afflicted, children suffocated, people
drawn out alive after having been buried eight
days. Had prompt assistance been rendered, how
many more might have been saved ! It is sicken-
ing and heartrending to peruse even the cautious
official reports—how much more so those which I
have from private sources ? One place, Tito, was
swallowed up, and no trace left ; and a gentleman
who has just returned from the spot thus
describes it : " The roads were rent with
fissures, which bad been much wider in the
first instance. The poor people were sitting
amongst the ruins weeping, and in great dis-
tress ; for, six days after the disaster, they had

none to un-bury their dead. Two country people
were searching among the debris and found a body :
one threw a stone towards it, saying,
`Perhaps that
is one of your relations.' No,' replied the other,
after an examination. There was nothing to be
found to eat, nor any house to lodge in. One
Trattoria stood at the corner of a street inPolla. I
i asked the owner for food. ' Food there s none,'
was the reply ; 'the moon has just entered the
quarter, and we shall have another earthquake. I
won't go in.' The whole time I was there, there
were continual tremblings of the earth. The only
person who was saved in the prison of Pella was
a gendarme, confined for having murdered his
uncle, and he had been made director of the
excavations." Letters from Brien7a on the 31st
ultimo say that up to the 29th no assistance
had been received ; yet most of the afflicted
places are within 100 miles of Naples. The
latest reports from Sala say that vertical move-
ments of the earth continued, not so severe by
,
day as by night, atid they were preceded by fearful
detonations. On the 28th ult. at 9 p.m,
and on
the 29th, at 6 and 7i p.m., very severe undulatory
shocks were felt, followed by many
others less
strong. In Potenza, in the evening of the 29th,
at 6 o'clock, strong undulatory shocks were felt,
which were followed by others much less intense.
The f Towing details'are published in the Jour-
nal of the 30th ult.:—,.Sasso--Thirty houses fallen,
100 opened, three persons killed, 11 persons dug
out alive. Spinosa—Few houses remain standing,
and those falling. Gallichio—Sixteen dead, very
many wounde 1, Several fractured. Genzano—Part
of a church fallen, two houses injured. Trevigno
—Some houses fallen. Ruote—The belfry tower
and several churches fangs. Vaglio—The church
and many private house.fallen. Baragianoe=A
few houses fallen, others opened. Salvia—Church
and belfry tower- injured. La,tronico—Much da-
mage. Steglianul--Many houses fallen, a woman
taken out and a child contused. Anzi—Much da-
mage, a woman killed. Pietra Pertosa,—Churches
and houses much damaged, enormous masses of
mountain thrown down. Ferrandina-15 houses ut-
terly destroyed, others nearly so, two persona killed,
two children suffocated. Al ano—Much damage,
11 killed. Aliancho—Utterly destroyed, 42 persons
killed. Evaco—llouses damaged, 1 person killed.
Martemuollo—A. mass of ruins. Several thousands
of persons perished, some drawn out alive after
eight days' burial. Marsico—Eutirely destroyed,
400 killed (already known). Castel Saraceno—All
the houses fallen, more than 400 dead. A woman,
an infant, and a girl (aged 14), had been dug out
alive. Saremi-30 dead, houses all levelled with the
ground. Maratea—A great pordon of the buildings
falling. Lauria, Casteltnecio, Rotonda, Viggia-
nello, San Chirico, Rapallo, Calvera San Martino,
Castromore, and Senise seriously damaged. The
same may be said of Matera, Montescaglioso, Po-
marico, Pisticci, Bernalda, Mustalbano, Garagnone,
Corigliono, San Mario, Garaguso, Oliveto, Trica-
rico, Montepiloso, Acerenza, Cancellara, and Chia-
ramonte. Salandra--44 houses fallen, all the others
falling. Near this place fissures have been opened,
and gaseous exhalations have been observed. Only
one person yet taken out of the ruins. Grassano-
-100 houses fallen. All the houses damaged. A
girl of 15 killed. A woman had her leg fractured.
Grottola—Some houses fallen. One person killed.

I embark in such vessels as I may piavide for that pur-
pose.—l am, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient
servant,

"11. PAULDING, Flag-Officer,
Commanding United States Home Squadron.
"To Gen. Wm. Walker, Punta Arenas."
On the 12th 98 men were despatched to Norfolk
in the Saratoga, and Walker and his secretary, Mr.
Tabor, were received on board the Wabash. Wal-
ker then gave Paulding a written pledge to repair
to New York in the first steamer, and to deliver
himself into the hands of the United States' Mar-
shal there, and upon this pledge he was allowed to
go on shore. In fulfilment of his engagement Wal-
ker embarked in the California mail steamer Nor-
thern Light and reached New York on the 27th.
On the following day he surrendered himself to
the New York Marshal, who received him in a
most friendly way, grasped him by the hand,
and exclaimed, "As Captain Rynders, General
Walker, I am most delighted to see yo,i, but as
Marshal you know, General, it is a different thing
altogether." Walker returned the Marshal's com-
pliments, and handed him a letter of which the fol-
lowing is a copy :
" United States' Flagship Wabash, off San Juan
del Norte, Dec. 11, 1857.
" Sir,—This mill be handed to you by Gen. William
Walker, who bas given me his parole of honour that he
will present it to you in person.
" With the naval force of this. squadron I arrested
General Walker on Punta Arenas, on the Bth inst., for
a violation of the neutrality laws of the United States,
he having set on foot in the United States an unlawful
military organization to make war on a people with
whom we are at peace, and was at the time of his arrest
at the head of said organization, in the act of making war
as abova-stated.

" As Marshal of.the southern district of New York,
I consign him to your 'Custody.
" I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
" H. PAULDING,
" Flag-officer, Commanding United States' Home
Squadron.
" To Isaiah Ryndera, E.q., United States' Marshal
of the SJuthern District of New York."

After reading this epistle the Marshal invited
Walker and his counsel to an inner apartment,
where it is to b 3 presumed the matter was fully
cussed. The Captain, having no official intimation
as to the course he should pursue, renewed the
parolo leave, and informed the General that he sup•
posed the best thing for him to do under the cir-
cumstances was to proceed at once to Washington
and present himself to the Secretary of State.
According to the Washington correspondent of
the Nett) York Times, Commodore Paulding's
energetic proceedings did not meet with the ap-
proval of the Government, bis instructions being
inten-led only to prevent Walker landing. A copy
of the following—the form sent to the District At-
torneys and Marshals—►was transmitted to him :

" Sir,—From information received at this department,
there i-i reason to believe that lawless persons are now
engaged within the limits of the United S atee in setting
on foot and preparing the means for military expeditions
to be carried on against the territories of Mexico,
Nicaragua, and Costa Rica—republics with which the
United States are at peace--in violation of the sixth
section of the Act of Congress approved on the 20th of
April, 1818. And under the eighth section of the said
Act it is made lawful for the President, or such persons
as he shall empower, 'to employ the land and naval
forces of the United States, and the militia thereof, for
the purpose of preventing the carrying on of any such
expedition or enterprise from the territories or jurisdic-
tion of the United States.' I am therefore directed by
the President to call your attention to the subject, and
to urge you to use all due diligence, and to avail your-
self of all legitimate means at your command, to enforce
these and all other provisions of the said Act of tie 20th
of April, 1818, against those who may be found to be
engaged in setting on foot or preparing military expedi
tines against the territories of Mexico, Costa Rica, and
Nicaragua, so manifestly prejudicial to the national
character, and so injerious to the na•ional interest. And
you are also hereby instructed promptly to communicate
to this department the earliest informatioa you may
receive relative to such expeditions.—l am, Sir, your
most obedient servant,

" Lzwis CAss."

Additional instructions were afterwards sent to
Paulding, but had not reached him. The corre-
spondent says :
"The Administration is very emphatic in repudiating
the action of Commodore Paulding, and denouncing it
as a violation of the sovereignty of Nicaragua ,and of
the American constitution. Our power over the Filibug-
tent, it is held, ceased the moment they bad entered
upon the jurisdiction of a foreign Power. There is no
doubt that Commodore Paulding will be at once ordered
home for trial. Walker's friends express the conviction
that Commodore Paulding acted under secret instruc-
tions. In proof of this they cite the fact that it has been
repeatedly predicted that England and the United States
would pursue him upon Nicaraguan soil. I learn also
that a week ago the British Minister, in conversation
with a gentleman, suggested as a supposititious case pre-
cisely what has happened through Paulding's act, at the
same time agreeing that it would be a violation of in-
ternational law, but saying that Nicaragua would not
complain. Nevertheless, the Administration positively
denounces Paulding's course, denying that it was even
anticipated "

the following telegram received at Boston
from Washington may be depended upon, the sur-
mises of the correspondent quoted above were not
devoid of truth :

" General Walker arrived this evening, accompanied
by Marshal Rynders, T. F. Meagher, and Malcolm
Campbell. He was received with cheers by a large
concourse of people as he entered his quart-rs at Brown's
Hotel. Walker and Rynders called at the State Depart.
went this evening. Gen. Case said that the Executive
Department of the Government did not recogn,se
Walker as a prisoner, and that it was only through the
action of the judiciary that he could be lawfully held to
answer any charge against him. Marshal Rynders then
informed Walker that he had no authority to detain him
further, and both withdrew."

Commodore Paulding, in his report to the Secre-
tary 'of the Navy, says --•
" Flagship Wabash, off Aspinall, Dec. 15, 1857.
" Sir,—My letter of the 12th inst. informed the De-
partment that I had broken up the camp of Gen. Walker
at Punta Arenas, disarmed his lawless followers, and
sent them to Norfolk in the Saratoga. The general came
here with me, and will take passage in one of the
steamers for New York, where he will present himself
to the marshal of that district.
" The Department being in possession of all the facts
in relation to Gen. Walker's escape with his followers
from the United States, the letters of Capt. Chatard and
Gen. Walker to me, after he landed at Punta Arenas,
will, I presume, be fully comprehended. I could not re-
gard Gen. Walker and his followers in any other light
than as outlaws who hid escaped from the vigilance of
the officers of the Government, and left our shores for
the purpose of rapine and murder, and I saw no other
way to vindicate the law and redeem the honour of our
country than by disarming and sending them home. In
doing so I am sensible of the responsibility I have in-
curred, and confidently look to the Government for my
justification. Regarded in its true light the case appears
to me a clear one, and the points few and strong.
" Walker came to Punta Arenas from the United
States, having, in violation of law, set on foot a military
organisation to make war upon a people with whom we
are at peace. He landed there with armed men and mu-
nitions of war in defiance of the guard of a ship-.)f--war
placed there to prevent his landing. With nothing to
show that he acted by authority, he formed a camp,
hniated the Nicaraguan flag, called it the bead-quarters
of the army of Nicaragua, and signed himself the com-
mander-in-chief. With this pretension he claimed the
right of a lawful government over all persons and things
within sight of hie flag. Without right or authority he
landed 50 men at the month of the River Colorado, seized
the port of Castillo on the San Juan river, captured
steamers and goods of merchants in transit to the interior;
killed men and made prisoners of the peaceful inha-
bitants, sending to the harbour of San Juan del Norte
some 30 or 40 men, women, and children on the steamer
Morgan.

" In doing these things without the show of authority
they were guilty rapine and murder, and must be regarded
as outlaws and pirates. They can have no claim to be
regarded in any other light. Humanity as well ea law,
justice, and national honour demanded the dispersion of
these la wlews men. The remnant of the miserable beings
who surrendered at Rivas were conveyed in this ship

last summer to New York, and their sufferings are yet
fresh in the memory of all on board.
" Besides the sufferings that must necessarily be In-
flicted upon an innocent and unoffending people, these
lawless followers of General Walker, misgaided and
deceived into a course of crime, would doubtless have
perished in Central America, or their mutilated and
festered bodies would have been brought back to their
friends at the expense of their country.
" For the above reasons, which appeared to my mind
quite sufficlent, I have disarmed and sent to the United
States General W. Walker and his outlawed and pirati-
cal followers for trial, or whatever action the Government
in its wisdom may think proper to pursue.
aenxace men,
of this
" Captain Ommanney, of Herßritannic Majesty's Ship
Brunswick, offered to co-operate with me in removing
the party from Point Arenas, but as they were my
ilie o liffioce thrse
countrymen, I deemed it proper to decline the partici-
pation of a foreign flag."
In another letter, dated Dec. 18, Commodore
Paulding give' the particulars of the landing of the
marines and seamen at Punta Arenas under cir-
cumstancesof
nd fine grneebateardiniffigcuolftY
he says, he is indebted, in the performance
s
I most unpleasant service, for the exemption
all casualty or accident. There Was no from
o
and no loss of any kind sustained. No one injured,
officer was ever supported by b commanding
a body of officers and