The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEMNG, DECEMBER 12, 1867.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

BRISTOL AND NORTH SOMERSET.

A special meeting of this company was held onl
Tuesday at Clutton—Mr. G. Tyler in the chair—
for the purpose of considering a scheme of arrange-
ment between the company and their creditors filed
in the Court of Chancery.
The CHAIRMAN read the scheme of arrangement,
which was to the effect that the creditors in respect
of the purchase of lands and for compensation, to
the amount in all of £4,062, should be paid out of
the first moneys raised on mortgage or bond ; that
the next preference payment should be made to
Messrs. B. I'iercy and J. G. Frascr, on account of
£7,595 due for 123 a. 2r. 15p. of land of which they
were tenants, and now belonging to-the company ;
that other creditors of the company, claiming to the
amount in all of £300,000, should receive paid-up
shares to the full amount of their claims. It was
also proposed that the company should have power
to raise on mortgage or bonds £150,000, at rates of
irterest not exceeding 6 per cent..per annum. He
remarked that they had now a bill in Parliament
for the abandonment of a portion of their line ori-
ginally intended to go underneath the Great West-
ern and join the Midland. They had shortened the
line by joining the Groat Western at another point.
He moved the adoption of the scheme of arrange-
ment.

Mr. DA Sox seconded the motion, and said that
it would be impossible for them to finish their line
with £300,000 of debt banging on their necks.
The scheme was agreed to unanimously.
The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the com-
pany was then held ; and Mr. J. W. Miles was
elected director on behalf of the Great Western
Board in the place of Mr. Whetham, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.

That, no doubt, is very wrong, of us; but I think
there is a little excuse. We are in the case of a
dog who has been gnawing a very sweet marrow
bone, and means to hare many a good gnaw
at it in future, and then suddenly finds it
whipped out of his mouth, ,and swallowed whole by
the mastiff over the way. And then we are told to
bear this like Christians! We shall do nothing of
the kind. (Cheers and Is ughter.) Dishing other
people maybe a very nice :pastime, but being dished
one's self would put Jobiosit of patience. Seriously,
however, now that this great question of reform,
which had so long stuck in the mud and blocked
the lane up, has been fairly pulled out of the way,
hope and believe we she 11 get forward into some
of that beneficent social. legislation which men of
all parties long to see cr.reed out. (Cheers.) We
have that fact, of all our• :social facts the most asto-
nishing and appalling, that, despite all our trade,
our huge wealth, our cea,•eless progress, our ever
present prosperity, morn than a million of our
fellow countrymen and countrywomen are
claiming aid as paupers, (Hear, hear.) That is
indeed a fact to make /statesmen pause, and to
force men of all parties to lay aside their strife and
join hand in hand to see .11 hether by any means the
causes of such a portent= 3 flood of misery cannot
be removed. (Cheers.) 'Then there is the cognate
fact that, notwithstanding all our efforts in the cause
of education, such vast =saes of children are still
growing up in ignorance —almost in barbarism.
Here, again, men of all parties may combine their
efforts to extend the blessia gs of a sound and good
education more widely. (E ear, hear.) This is no
party question ; and nothing should I regret or
disapprove more entirely than any attempt of the
leaders of either side to make political capital out of
it. I will not, of course, expatiate on this attrac-
tive topic beyond just adding how sorry I am to
see that some, in the heat ,)f their zeal, want to
dash to pieces the system that has grown up by
degrees during the last thirty 'ears, and which calls
forth voluntary effort, supplemented only by ex-
ternal aid and stimulus, to set in its place a more
despotic, drastic, and seemingly, therefore, more
potent system. (Cheers.) I should say, carry it
out more boldly ; spread it more widely ; modify
and enlarge it where it is found wanting; but here,
as elsewhere, we want reform, not revolution.
(Hear, hear.) Then again, there is another great
question on which men of all parties may well com-
bine, and as to which in fact we look with the most
hope to the Conservative statesman, Lord
Cairns—the question of law reform. It is
discreditable, it is not less than disgraceful,
to the Government and Parliament of the realm,
that our laws should be left in this
tremendous state of higgledy-piggledy confusion.
The government that shall mould this weltering
chaos into order, that shall flash light into this abyss
of darkness, will indeed deserve well of their
country. (Cheers.) I must not detain you further;
but with these, and a host of kindred questions—
questions of social policy, belonging to no party—
rising one behind the other in our view, we may
well rejoice that one great source of hostility, one
great topic of dissension, has been taken away ; and
that Tories, Whigs, and Radicals will be better able
to put shoulder to shoulder, and give a long pull, a
strong pull, and a pull altogether, in making Old
England a still wiser, better, and happier land.
(Loud and protracted applause.)
The proceedings were not concluded till mid-
night. •

The Fenian Outrage at Manchester.

MANCHESTER, Dec. 11.

This morning the two remanded Fenian prisoners,
William Hogan and William Pherson Thompson,
were again brought up before Mr. Fowler, stipen-
diary magistrate, and other city magistrates. The
latter was charged with being concerned in the
murder of Sergeant Brett and the attack on the
prison van, in Hyde-road, on the 18th September,
and the former was charged with being an accessory
before the fact. Mr. Talbot, assistant town clerk,
prosecuted ; Mr. Yeatman, of the Midland Circuit,
defended Hogan, and Mr. J. B. Torr defended
Thompson. The attendance- of the public was not
large, but, as on the Occasion of the trial of Allen
and his c.unrades, the side galleries were kept en-
tirely clear, and only those who won the favour of
the police authorities were admitted. to other parts
of the court.

Mr. Torr asked that the evidence which had been
taken before the court should be read, and that the
witnesses bo be examined should be out of court at
the time.

Mr. Superintendent Maybury said an application
was going to be made for a remand.
Mr. Yeatman—You have a man here without the
slightest evidence against him.
The witnesses on both sides were then ordered
out of court, and Mr. Fowler, after retiring for a
short time, said it would be as well to hear the de-
positions read.
Mr. Fowler, in reply to Mr. Yeatman, said that
Hogan would not be charged with being present at
the attack on the van, but with being an accessory
before the fact, while Thompson was, on the other
hand, not only charged with being present at the
attack on the van, but with taking an active part
in that attack.

The depositions were then read which had been
given on the first examination of Thompson and
the second examination of both the prisoners.

The following witnesses were then called :
William Ellis, foreman of the Manchester, She-
field, and Lincolnshire Railway, said he found a
revolver on the line on Sept. 28. It fell from un-
derneath a waggon when it was being moved down
a siding. lie picked it up and examined it, and
found that its number was 39,383, and the maker's
name was Mortimer, London. In cross-examina-
tion by Mr. Torr, he said that five of the chambers
were loaded, and one of the men firel them off be-
fore he gave it up to the detective.
F. Wilson, a labourer in the employment of Mr.
Bennett, slid that, on Sept. 18, he was in Mr. Ben-
nett's timber yard, and saw some men moving across
an adjoining brickcroft towards the Midland Rail-
way yard. One of them as he ran threw a pistol
into the brook, which the witness picked up and
gave to a detective the Same night.
Robert Poole, inspector of police at Fairfield-
street station, said that, on Sept. 18, he received
the pistol from the last witness. Five chambers
were loaded; he could not say whether the other
two charges bad been fired, as the pistol had been
found in the water.

Emma Halliday's deposition was then read, and
the witness was called. She said that the prisoner
Thompson was the man she saw at the back of the
van in company with Allen. She saw him as soon
as she came out of the van. lie stood beside Allen,
close to the door of the van, on the ground, and
he had a pistol in his hand. She saw him do no-
thing. The woman Armstrong, who had got out
of the van before witness, fell over Brett, which de-
layed witness from getting quickly out. While she
was waiting, Thompson said to her, " Come away
—are you not satisfied with getting away ?" He
afterwards pushed her out of the way, as if to hasten
her away. She then went off to the gaol.
By Mr. Fowler—Thompson had slight whiskers all
round his face and underneath the chin ; but his
general appearance was the same. Witness had
never seen him before the 18th September, nor since,
until Friday last. He was then in company with
the other prisoner in the dock. Witness haul been
taken to Albert-street to identify some prisoners,
but did not see any.

Mr. Fowler here explained to Mr. "Corr that the
reason he had asked that question of the witness was
because the prisoner Thompson had objected to
being seen by any one.except when in court. Ile
objected so strenuously that the authorities ulti-
mately gave way.
By Mr. Torr—Witness was staying at Albert-
street station during the trial of the prisoners at the
assizes, and had ever since been under the protec-
tion of the police. She had seen the newspapers
from time to time. Since the trials at the assize
court she had not once been asked about " the other
man," or whether she could identify him. Had re-
cognised four persons as being concerned in the at-
tack on the van—Allen, Redden, Johnson, and
Michael Maguire. The it and laet of those, and

another man, she had spoken to as having pistols.
The third man she had not seen when she made that
statement. She had never described " the other
man" until now, and had never " thought over"
what kind of a man he was, as she was quite posi-
tiva on the point.
By Mr. Fowler—Was mistaken when she said
that she had never been asked any questions about
identifying Thompson until that morning. Mr.
Anderton asked her some questions on Friday last ;
but that was after she had identified the prisoner.
Inspector Kirkland sworn—When Thompson
was in custody I was present when he objected to
being seen by any witnesses who were brought
down to see if they could identify him. He ob-
jected to being seen for that purpose except in the
court or dock. I mentioned it to Mr. Maybury
afterwards. Thompson's objection was listened to,
and that was the reason he was not seen in the usual
manner by Emma Halliday and several others.
Cross-examined by Mr. Torr—A few had seen
him before he objected ; perhaps ten or a dozen. I
cannot speak as to the exact number, but I don't
believe as many as five and twenty saw him. Emma
Halliday may have been staying at the station, but
as I don't belong to that station I can't say. I will
not undertake to swear that five and twenty people
did not see him before he refused to be seen by any
more.

Sergeant Henderson, of the detective force, said
—On Friday last I saw the prisoner in the dock. I
cannot give the reason why Emma Halliday sa w the
prisoners alone. I only have the reason second-
hand.

Charles Thomas, sworn—l was close to the arch
on the 18th of September. Mr. Fowler read over
the deposition in which this witness gave his
account of the attack on the police van. The
witness now said it was true. He further
added —I saw Allen at the back of the van when the
women came out. There was another man there
with him who was helping Allen to break in the
van. I have never seen that person since, and
don't see him now. I have seen the prisoner Thomp-
son before. I saw him on the 18th September. He
is the man whom I saw running from the Hyde-
road Hotel towards the arch. I pointed hint out
at the time to another man, and said, " I wonder
what he is running so fast for." I saw him after-
wards mix amongst the other men after the attack
commenced, but I did not see him do anything par-
ticular. The man at the back of the van with Allen
was very like Gould, of the same " build," and
dressed in dark clothes. That was the state man
that was with Allen at the back of the van when the
women came out. There were other persons around
the van, near the back, within ten yards ; but Allen
and the man I have spoken of were close together,
and were acting together. There was no man nearer
Allen than that man except the women. (Laughter.)
When the women came out I would be about 30
yards from Allen and the man who was with him.
There would be about 20 people between me and
them. I did not see the prisoner Thompson after I
saw him mix with the crowd.

By Mr. Talbot—Thompson is now shaved. When
I saw him he had a beard, moustache, and little
whiskers.

By Mr. Fowler—The moustache way a small one.
Richard Bromley was the man to whom I pointed
prisoner out. He is not here. He is not willing to
come. [A summons was granted to compel his
attendance.]
The prisoners were then remanded.
Naval and Military Intelligence.

11is Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge, Field
Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee yes-
terday afternoon at the Horse Guards. About 120
officers attended.

Colonel E. A. Somerset, C. 8., Deputy Quarter-
master-General on the Staff in Ireland, has resumed
his military duties in Dublin, from attending Par-
liament.

The colonelcy of the 39th (Dorsetshire) Infantry
has become vacant by the death of Gen. Sir Richard
Lluellyn, K.C.8., who entered the army as a cap-
tain with temporary rank in the 52d Regiment, was
present with it at Ferrol, Cadiz, and in the Medi-
terranean in 1800 and 1801, and on the conclusion
of peace was placed on half-pay. On war breaking
out again he obtained a company by purchase in
the 28th Regiment in February, 1805, and served
in the Peninsula and other places, including Water-
loo, where he was severely wounded ; ho was after-
wards made a C. 8., and obtained the brevet rank
of lieutenant-colonel. He was made colonel of the
39th Foot on the 17th of January, 1853, and be-
came general on the 18th of January, 1861.
An order has bees received at the head-quarters
of the first division of the Depot Brigade Royal
Artillery directing a detachment of 50 non-com
missioned officers and gunners to be held in readi-
ness to embark for India.

The following officers have been examined before
a board of field officers at Chatham garrison as to
their fitness for promotion to captains of companies :
—Lieut. Sydney Long Jacob, Lieut. Chas. F. C.
Beresford, Lieut. Napoleon Arnott, and Lieut. C.
Moore Watson, Royal Engineers ; Lieut. Arthur
Fitzroy Hart, 31st Regiment ; and Lieut. Edmund
L. H. Kyle, 45th Regiment.

A letter received by our Chatham correspondent
announces the arrival at Valparaiso of her Ma-
jesty's screw corvette Cameleon, 17, 200 horse
power, Commander W. H. Annesley, from her
cruise in the Pacific—all well. The Topaze, 31,
600 horse power, flagship of Commodore R. A.
Powell, C. 8., second in command of the Pacific
squadron, had arrived at Callao, from the north-
ward. The screw sloop Reindeer, 7,200. horse
power, Commander E. Nares, was at anchor off the
Pacific Steam Navigation Company's depot at
Tubosa, Panama. The company's steamer Turiena
had not brought any news respecting the squadron
from the northward.

The armour-plated wooden frigate Royal Oak,
35 guns, 800 horse power, Capt. the Hon. G. D.
Keane, will be paid out of her present commission
at Portsmouth to-morrow. She will be placed in
dock on the following day and prepared at once for
re• commission, but only, it is presumed, for Coast-
guard or home port service.
The Royal paddle yacht Osborne, Commander J.
D'Arcy, under survey in the steam basin at Ports-
mouth dockyard, hm been found so defective in
many of her timbers that orders are expected from
the Admiralty to pay her out of commission in
order that she may be thoroughly opened up, and,
if advisable, repaired.
The Beacon, 2, twin screw gunboat, 464 tons,
120 horse power, is being urged forward with all
possible despatch, so as to be ready for commission
by the end of this month.

he screw line-of-battle ship Trafalgar, 72 guns,
2,900 tons, 500 horse power, Capt. E. K. Barnard,
recently re commissioned at Sheerness, after being
thoroughly refitted for Coastguard service, was
taken on the final trial of her machinery on Tues-
day last. The trial was considered most satisfac-
tory, and the vessel will leave Sheerness in the
course of a few days for a station on the coast of
Ireland.

The Pylades, 21, screw steam corvette, 1,278
tons, 350 horse power, was commissioned at Sheer-
ness a few days ago for service in the Pacific by
Capt. Cecil W. Buckley, V.C. The following
officers have joined the ship : Capt. Cecil W.
Buckley, V.C. ; Lieuts. W. Neilson, 11. G. Andre,
W. H. Lewin, and S. A. R. Hamilton ; Navigating
Lieut. Jesse Dixon, Surg. Richard Etntace, and
Paymaster Charles D. Lindsay. The Pylades was
taken for a preliminary run for the trial of her en-
gines yesterday, when the result was considered
most favourable. The vessel will not leave Sheerness
before next month.

The iron screw steam troopship Himalaya, 2,
Capt. Shute B Piers, having been thoroughly
repaired and refitted at Devonport, was removed on
Monday from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, and
is ready to leave for Portsmouth, but will probably
be detained over Friday, in consequence of a court-
martial to be held that day on Lieut. A. Williams,
of the Indus, on a charge of drunkenness.
The iron armour plated sbip Black Prince, 41,
will probably be placed in dock at Keyham steam
yard this week.

The Lords of the Admiralty have awarded a year's
pay to the mother of Samuel Jones, of her Majesty's

ship Megmra, for saving the life of C. Crisp, stoker
of the Dromedary.

The Prussian iron frigate Prins Frederick Carl,
from Toulon, which put into Plymouth, dismasted,
some time since, has been removed to moorings
higher up Hamoaze, to give place to ships belonging
to the Channel fleet, which will winter at Devon-
port. It is believed that the Prince Consort and
the Achilles are two of those named for Devonport.

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIDIES.

Sir,—The following extracts from a letter, re-
ceived by the last mail, on the experiences of an
officer serving with the advanced force of the Expe-
dition to Abyssinia may interest some of your
readers.—Yours obediently,
Dec. 10. W. 11. SYKES.

" The Fiel I Force, Abyssinia, Udoda (Adoda
of Dr. Peterman's Map ?), Nov. 6.

"It is so hot here that writing is out of the
question altogether between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.,
between which hours the thermometer generally
stands about 103 deg., so we usually go down to
the pass and sit on the rocks until it gets cool.

" We commence our day at 4.30 getting up
and riding out in different parties shooting. The
jungle was full of game when we first arrived, and
we had our mess table well supplied with, all kinds,
but now they are getting shy, and we have great
difficulty in stocking the larder. We, however,
manage to do it.

" This is a most peculiar country. There seem
to be but very few inhabitants. We are now in
the lower country, which is very poor indeed. You
may ride for miles, and perhaps not see any one,
and when you do they are poor wretches, half-
starved•looking creatures, and both men and women
have a strong resemblance to the monkey tribe.
The men go about in the custom of our first
parents, and the women with a skin tied round
their loins ; they have nothing on their heads at all,
except woolly hair, which some shave all off, except
a tuft over the forehead ; the ladies do the same,
but some shave between the tuft and the back
hair. They are a very excitable race: A good
many come to see us, and they think nothing of going
up to a Sepoy when eating and helping themselves
unasked. Money is of no use here for small pur-
chases. If we want milk we give rice in exchange,
but in buying stock, such as goats, mules, &c,
dollars are taken. There is little or no cultivation.
I have ridden a good deal about the neighbourhood
and been long distances, but have only once seen a
patch of ground over which a plough had passed.
" Our locality is certainly very pretty, high kills
all around us, and we cannot get out any way with-
out going through a pass. The soil is sand and
large stones, very nasty ground for horses. There
are not any roads of any kind, but simply foot
tracks. The jungle is thick, and composed of raubel
(Mimosa Arabica) trees, and the thorns touch us up
occasionally.
"We are obliged to go about armed and in
parties, as the Joho race attack and murder un-
armed men, so our pistols are always loaded.
" I fancy you will hear more in England of what
is to be done than we who are on the spot. Little
or nothing is ready, and 1 fancy Sir Robert Napier
will be awfully disgusted when he sees the small
preparations, and will be sorry he sent us off in such
a hurry, for we are doing nothing. Much has to be
done, and I fear we shall ,remain here at least
another month or six weeks.

" We have got a very nice mess, and sit down
at ten every night.
"We are rather up a tree' about carriage. It
seems the men did not understand the order, and
have brought with them about 200 lb. of kit each
man, instead of 401 b., and we shall have to leave a
good number of pots and pans behind when we ad-
vance. It is said a regiment of cavalry and one of
infantry will be left in the low country to defend the
passes. Our horses do not get on at all. NVhether
their constitutions are bad, and are therefore unable
to stand the reaction after being shut up for three
weeks on board ship, or whether the grass they get
is bad, I can't say ; but we have lost sixteen since we
landed.

" I am writing in a superior officer's tent, with a
double fly, at 4 a.m., and the thermometer is at 97
deg. In my own little row tie it is upwards of 100
deg. I was awoke by my dog barking. Luckily
I had got a light, as -, who shares my tent, was
sick. Getting out of bed I heard a hissing noise,
and, rousing my friend and looking about, we soon
found a snake under my bed.
" On return from shooting this morning I found
one of the largest scorpions I had ever seen snugly
ensconced in a pair of slippers ; the beasts are begin-
ning to find comfortable places for themselves in
our tents.

" I have had only two Pcona papers and one let-
ter from home since my arrival in this country.
" The transports have returned to India for the
rest of the troops.
" We know not what we are, io do, but there
are difficulties about carriage, and provisions for men
and horses must be sent, soy here is no chance of
our moving before the middle of December. How-
ever, Colonel Merewether is expected to-morrow or
next day, and we may learn something.
" Writing this letter has been an undertaking,
from the heat, but I am very well and as jolly as
circumstances will permit."

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

From the Angle-American Times.)

Mr. Ten Brocck, who introduced American horses
on the English turf, has ,old his stud in England, and re-
turned to New York in the Scotia. Wilkes' Spirit re-
marks :—" It should be a matter of gratification to his
countrymen that, while he proved the excellence of the
American race horse with Umpire, as the best two-year-
old in the world, and by winning the Cesarewitch with
Prioress, he so conducted all of his operations on the Eng-
lish turf as to be entirely above suspicion or reproach.
Wo hope soon to learn that he has commenced the forma-
tion of a stable here."

WESTON'S FEAT.—As Weston's feat (feet) are
bringing hint into more notice than his head ever will, we
give space to a brief mention of his movements up to date
He reached Utica at half-past two p.m. on the 9th, and
there dined. A large crowd received him, headed by
Mayor Wilson. (There's a Mayor for you! A true lover
of sport, and a shining example to the Mayor of Newburg.)
Weston was in Schenectady on the 7th, and there met
with an enthusiastic reception. On the 11th he reached
Syracuse, and found his way to a hotel through a crowd
of people. Ho was then in fine spirits, and announced that
he was then eighteen hours ahead of time. On the 14th
the pedestrian phenomenon reached Buffalo, and was re-
ceived by an immense throng of citizens. 30 policemen
headed the procession, and the lovers of pedestrianism
escorted the pilgrim into their beloved city. The pilgrim
ate a hearty supper, and announced his perfect faith in
his ability to accomplish his task. Ile has evidently not
yet entered upon the dark realms of the Giant Despair.
We have no doubt, however, that our pilgrim will escape
from the Giant's toils, and finally enter through the gates
of pearl to the beautiful city (Chicago ! ! ! Illinois), right
side up with care." In the issue of Nov. 23, Wilkes's
Spirit remarks—" In his effort to walk to Chicago, Weston
has probably reached Toledo, Ohio, on the shore of Lake
Erie. When ha reached Cleveland he had walked the
hundred miles in 24 hours. As he neared Cleveland his
feet and legs wore much swollen, and his progress was
toilsome and slow. Nevertheless, the veracious tele-
graphic reports continue to assert that ho is in capital con-
dition, and the best of spirits. A s he was, when last heard
of, making for Toledo, we presume that his projected
course is thence round the feet of Lake Michigan to
Chicago. It is pretty well understood that there is no
money laid upon this walk of Weston's. As for the other
pedestrians, who have started out in in imitation of him,
it appears that Carlin, who undertook to walk a hundred
miles at Troy, bo!ted and hid himself before ho had walked
fifty. The modest genius who pretended to start on a
pedestrian excursion from New York to San Francisco has
laid up in Jersey, we believe, to wait for the melting
of next winter's snows. Why don't somebody announce
that ho is about to walk from here to the Sandwich•
Islands ? We think he would find fools to run after
him with fife and drum, and plenty of purchasers
for photographs. The second great pedestrian feat now
being attempted is that of walking from New York to San'
Francisco in one hundred and fifty days. By way of the
Central Pacific Railroad the distance is precisely three
thousand and three hundred miles between the two points,
so that an average of twenty-two miles per day will have
to be made. Mr. Seth Wilber Payne, the pedestrian, is
well known to the public as an author. Ho walked over
pretty much all of Europe some years ago, and upon his
return wrote a book of all he saw, heard, and did. The
object of the present trip is precisely the same as was h's
European tour, and his limiting himself to a certain length
of time i ae doubtlef3e Camel purely from a desixe to per-

form a feat of distinction. He will take copious notes 0.0
his way, which will be published in book-form after Ws
return from San Francisco.— Wilkes's Spirit.
Secretary Wells is slowly recovering from his late
severe illness.

Lord and Lady Amberley ate at Hartford, Con•
necticut, and guests of Professor and Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe.

Major Lawrence Hopkins, of Williamstown,
Massachusetts, has been appointed superintendent of the
Housatonic Railroad. .

The Hon. John Rose has been appointed Cana'
than Finance Minister.
The annual three days' session of the State Board
of Agriculture will occur at Concord, December 10, 11, 40a
12. The programme will be as follows: -First day, °Feu"
ing address by E. W. Bull, of Concord, discussion 0°
cattle husbandry, lecture by President Clark of the Site
Agricultural College; second day, discussions on fruit s°
ploughing, lecture by Professor Agassiz ; third day, dis-
cussions on manures and drainage and a social gathering.
J. G. Fernald, tutor in Bates college and A
graduate of Bowdoiu in 1856, died, Tuesday, 12th NeVeln-
ber, of typhoid fever. _

Captain David Hinkley of Livermore died, Satur*
day morning, November 9, aged 102 years. He voted for
Washington for first President, and remembered Benedict
Arnold's expedition up the Kennebec river in 1775.
A brother of Donald M'Kay, the well-knoWn
shipbuilder of East Boston, was drowned during the recent
hurricane at St. Thomas.
Colonel Alfred Clark Hills died in Chicag°
the 17th Nov. Ho was a writer for the Chicago Tribtini.
Formerly he had practised law in New York, 10110 e
once local editor of the Evening Post of that city.
Fitz-Greene Halleck, the well-known American
poet, died at Guildford, Connecticut, on November 19,
the 73d year of his age. At 18 he entered the office eh
Jacob Busher as clerk, and later into that of John Jece"
Astor. He never wrote for his living, and his works are
therefore few. The first of his acknowledged poor° SP:
peered in the New York Evening Post in 1818. “Mail
Bozzaris" was written in 1825, and " Crokes' Papers" 412,
" Fanny" were yublished soon after. Thirty-two Piece,
comprise his collection, the latest edition of which ifs"
issued in 1852. After a long and faithful service with fir.
John Jacob Astor he retired on a small annuity, afteriverdS
increased by William B. Astor to a SUM sufficient for the
poet's requirements.
A terrible accident occurred to a passenger tri%
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railway, in
on the 21st Nov. A collision took place at LocklandW"
a " goods train," by which the stoves in the passenger core,
were thrown down, the fire scattered, and the carrier
burnt, with five passengers, three of whom were sig.°,
On the Erie Railway, through a collision, some waggen
carrying petroleum took fire, and 21 cars and one locentf,
tive were consumed. This was on the 17th, and on the
18th another train carrying petroleum was destroyed 9,
the Brooton and Buffalo Railway from a similar cacen'ii
that day also the steamer Onward caught fire on the a
bama river, and eleven lives were lost. Other scecnill
state that 700 bales were burnt, but no lives were lost.
The number of churches and membership of the
d
religious denominations throughout the Union is given t.
follows in a report prepared by an American clergn
for the information of the Evangelical body, both shre:a
and at home : -The Roman Catholics, 3,880 churches, 14
4,000,000 of the population ; Methodists, 10,460 chorchea
and 2,000,000 members; Baptists, 17,220 churches, end
1,690,000 members; Presbyterians, 5,000 churches, lia°,l
700,000 members ; Lutherans, 2,900 churches, iree„
323,800 members ; Congregationalists, 2,780 clotrew3"-th
and 267,400 members ; Protestant EpiscoPto
2,300 churches, and 161,200 communicants ; Ge'7.s;
Reformed, 1,160 churches, and 110,000 nierilbe,ile
Dutch Reformed, 440 churches and 60,000 members.
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Presbyterians, Lutherans, and German and Dutch rO,
formed Churehes are forming a United Church, which l'ijo;
if consummated, give them in the aggregate 9,500 churctet
and 1,193,800 members. Besides these, the "Unit
Brethren" have 3,000 societies ; the Moravians,
communicants; the Unitarians, 300 churches; the `l4O,
versalists number 600,000 of the population, and the

ciety of Friends or Quakers has 94,000 members.
The Great Republic, from Hong Kong and IrC7k°,4o
hams, arrived at San Francisco on the 19th ult., four_ab.cl6'
overdue, and the Montana sailed the same day for l'enf,
with $864,000 in treasure, of which $671,000 are for g°
York. Sth
Two heavy failures were reported on the -
November at Philadelphia, the one a dry goods cote°•
sion-house, with liabilities for $BOO,OOO, and the °thet
machinist, for $300,000, with little assets. O,
The British barque General Canfield, of linomb
arrived iu New York, Nov. 19, from Coconada Island, 11,-4
the officers and crew of the U.S. steamer Sacramento,
there Tune 17.
The gale of last Sunday will be felt even ire
Sand wich Islands. The ship Lydia Williams, from (1,
pool to San Francisco, was driven ashore on Salt a
near Holyln ad, and became a total wreck. The 1-1°1)2'4.0
lifeboat saved her crew and passengers, twenty-si'tbe
number, but could not save forty magnificent sheep °f the
celebrated Rambouillet breed which the Emperor °f_n.3,
French was sending as a present to the King of the S'
wich Islands.
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In Kansas, 40 counties give the following resl,
on the three propositions to amend the constitutie,o
For negro suffrage, 7,591, against, 16,114; for fen:itir
suffrage, 6,670, against, 16,362; for disfranchising an.
loyalists, 11,390, against, 10,368. Eighty-three rePreA
Wive districts in the State elect 22 Democrats, ed
remainder Republicans and Independents. The ciil°oo
men of the State aro very indignant at the RePub"-
for their failure to carry equal suffrage, and Pr°,,l:rtll.
State convention to ask Congress to give them -- •
yte-
State refuses. But Congress has not the pow(' o 0
nesota has polled a majority against equal suffrage °3OlO/01,
1,200 to 2,000, though the Republicans are sac°
carrying the State tickets by over 4,000.