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charged with embezzlement, or f,
cases they have had ample means
selves with respectability and comfort, and when
they are asked what induced them to commit the
offence, they generally say, " their opportunities
made it so easy." The causes which made them avail
themselves of those opportunities have been expen-
sive habits beyond their station, betting, or immo-
rality ; and the last seems to be the most fruitful
cause of all, not only with the younger men, but
also with married men. For all first offenders such
as those there is hope, particularly when they have
friends or relations willing to aid them. The reve-
rend Ordinary concludes by assuring the magis-
trates of the city of London that he shall continue
to spare no effort to improve the moral and religi-
ous condition of those who conic under his charge.

PRICE 4d.,
STAMPED 5d.:

Corn. T. P. Murray, left yesterday for Tunis ; and
the frigate Arethusa, 35, Capt. Macdonald, leaves
to-day for Corfu.
The following appointments have been made at
.the Admiralty :—Lieut. Walter W. Poynder, to the
Wivern ; T. Leethem, master, additional, to the
Donegal ; J. W. Ashton, master, additional, to the
Irresistible ; J. E. Chapple, master, to the Fisgard,
for service in the Prince Consort ; the Rev. E. Pem-
berton, chaplain and naval instructor, to the Bristol,
complement incomplete ; the Rev. N. Jackson,
chaplain and naval instructor, to the Gladiator, vice
Pemberton ; F. Hallett, first-class assist.-engineer,
to the Medus, vice Pugh ; R. Widdecombe, W. P.
Ward, J. G. Bain, T. Barker, IL J. Wilson, T.
Cross, and J. Phillips, promoted to be engineers in
her Majesty's fleet ; J. Miller (a) and A. Smart,
promoted to be acting engineers in her Majesty's
fleet ; and J. Shorn, promoted to be first-class
assist.-engineer in her Majesty's fleet.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS•

(Front the Illustrated London News)

The will of the Hon. Thomas Robert Baron Dims-
dale, of Camfield-place, near Hatfield, Herts, was
proved in London on the 22d Dec. ; the executors
appointed being Lucinda Baroness Dimsdale, the
relict; Major-General Henry Mackinnon, the son-
in-law ; and Mr. George Manning, the brother-in-
law. The personalty was sworn under £12,000.
The will is dated Aug. 27, 1861, and a codicil May
5, 1865. His lordship was the eldest son of the
previous Baron Dimsdale, and was authorised to
assume in England his Russian title of nobility, to
which he succeeded in 1825. He held the office of
deputy-lieutenant for Herts, and had been high
sheriff for that county, and was a magistrate for
Herts and Essex, and for the liberty of St.
Albans. He married in 1819, and died on the 21st
of November last at the age of 69. His will is
dated Aug., 1861, and a codicil, May, 1865. Ho
bequeaths to his wife, the baroness, all his property,
real and personal (the Camfield estate is entailed
upon his four daughters, under deed of re-settle-
ment.) His real estates are situate in the counties of
Huts and Devon. Certain funded property, under
marriage settlement, and also under the will of Lady
Ximenes, and other reversionary interest, to which
his late son, Henry Dimsdale, was entitled, had been
transferred to him, which he has bequeathed to his
daughter, Finetta Esther Tarleton. He has recom-
mended, though he does not make it obligatory, that
his wife the baroness, should she dispose of the pro-
perty by will, should do so in the manner he has di-
rected in his will, had she not survived him. The
will of Mr. Fonblanque, Chief Commissioner in the
Court of Bankruptcy, formerly residing at St.
John's-wood, and late of Brighton, was proved in
London on the 28th ult., and the personalty sworn
under £7,000. The executors appointed are Mr.
Albany Fonblanque, the son ; Mr. Edward William
Cox, his son-in-law ; and Mr. Thomas L'Estrange
Ewen, of the Inner Temple, barrister. The will is
dated Aug. 5, 1865, and the testator died on Nov.
3, at the age of 78. Re leaves to his son John an
annuity and the portion of his books which he may
select ; the rest of his books and the remainder of
his property, real and personal, he leaves between
his son Albany and his daughter, Rosa Cox, and
their children. The will of Mr. Joseph Tussaud,
of 58, Baker-street, Portman-square, was proved
in London under £40,000 personalty. The execu-
tors and trustees are Henry Jonathan Riches, soli-
citor, King's Bench-walk, and William David
Kenny, Doctor of Philosophy. The will bears date
July 8, 1865, and he died Aug. 15, at the age of 68.
The daugher is the principal legatee. There are a
few complimentary legacies to the executors and
some relatives and friends, and he directs that his
daughter should distribute the sum of £2OO in such
a manner as she thinks proper amongst the em-
ploy 6 in the exhibition in sums not exceeding £lO
to each person ; and, as concerns the exhibition of
waxwork, the same is to be carried on and con-
ducted under the terms and covenants of a deed of
partnership entered into, in 1864, between himself,
his brother Francis, his daughter Louisa E. Kenny,
and Joseph Tussaud. He directs that out of his
real and personal estate a sum of £7,000 shall be
reserved for his two grandchildren, Charles and
Anne Abud, the issue of his deceased daughter
Mary. The residue of his real and personal estate
he leaves in trust for his said daughter, Louisa
Elizabeth Kenny, the wife of the said Dr. W. D.
Kenny.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH EASTERN.

The adjourned special meeting of this company
was held on Saturday at the Bridge-house Hotel,
London-bridge, to receive the result of the poll de-
manded by Mr. Bell, at the special meeting on
Thursday in reference to a resolution passed by a
show of hands in favour of promoting certain bills
in Parliament and of the policy of the Board ; the
Hon. J. Byng in the chair.

The CIL&IRMAN announced that there were in
favour of the directors' resolution and in support of
the policy of the Board 76 proprietors present at the
meeting, holding £477,930 ordinary stock represent-
ing 4,227 votes; and 904 proxies, represent-
ing £2,031,900 ordinary stock and 24,764 votes,
making together 980 proprietors, holding £2,509,830
ordinary stock and 28,991 votes. For Mr. Bell's
amendment and against the policy of the directors
there were 36 persons present at the meeting, repre-
senting £40,670 ordinary stock and 675 yotes ; and
733 proxies representing £858,220 ordinary stock
and 14,309 votes, making together 769 persons, re-
presenting £898,890 ordinary stock, and 14,984,
showing a majority in favour of the policy of the
directors of 211 proprietors present in person and
by proxy, representing £1,610,940 ordinary stock
and 14,007 votes.

The gross traffic receipts on this company's lines
for the four weeks ending December 16 amounted to
£78,798, from which was deducted £2,862 for col-
lecting and delivering goods, &c., leaving £75,936.
To this was added £2,707 for rents and sundries,
and £3,345 for steampacket service, making the
total receipts £81,989. From this was deducted the
expenditure—Xs4,79o—including rates, tolls, taxes,
Government duty, and expenses of steampacket ser-
vice, leaving a net sum of £27,199. The total
receipts for the 19 weeks and five days ending
December 16 amounted to £548,688 and the expen-
diture to £275,852, leaving a net sum of £272,836.

Our Trade with America.

-11.

The following letters have appeared and show the fal-
lacy of the statements in the Times' City articles that we
are granting unlimited credit to American merchants :

" Jan. 10.

" Sir,—l think thorn has been a very important fact ig-
nored both in your City Article of the Bth inst. and in the
leading articla of yesterday in regard to our trade with
America, which requires correction ; and believing as I do
that it has been only an oversight on your part, as no
doubt you have only ono desire to represent everything
fairly to the public, I take the liberty of calling your atten-
tion thereto.

" You have entirely omitted the imports of cotton into
Liverpool for the last few months of 1865, which have
amounted to 106,149 bales (since the Gth of October to the
31st of December), which, taken at the pica of 20d. per
lb. (which is considerably below the average), shows a
total sterling value received from America of £7,682,502
to the credit of the American trade.

"Hoping you will insert this in your first impression,
I tun your obedient servant,
"w. M. C."

" London, Jan. 10.

Sir,—False commercial views which lead to alarm are
like a false alarm of fire in a crowded theatre, only of far
wider injury, and I trust to your sense of what is duo to
the commercial public, which attaches so much weight to
all that falls from your pen, to insert the following re-
marks :
"I find the value of enumerated exports from :Great
Britain to the United States in 1864 and 1865 for the 11
months of each year to be £13,300,000, and £11,900,000 re-
spectively, showing an increase of £1,600,000 in 1865 over
1864; and it must be remembered that the last few months
of 1864 were months of unusual commercial depression, and
restriction of business, so that the increase cannot be eon-
siderod as indicating any unhealthy expansion of trade in
this direction. It is quite true that we have received less
corn, flour, petroleum, and gold and silver by about
£6,500,000 in the ten months of 1865 than we did in the
corresponding ten months of 1864, but it will be found that
the imports of raw cotton from the United States for the
12 months of 1865 are 462,000 bales, against 970,000 bales
in 1864, and that this item would balance the account if it
does not leave us debtors, the respective values being
£15,000,000 and £8,000,000. This does not appear in the
Board of Trade tables, which have, .1 apprehend, misled
you ; but it is well known to all merchants and brokers, if
not bankers.

" We have no means of obtaining the cotton so much
needed but by increasing our exports, and if we are to get
100,000 bales a month of American cotton, which is worth
at least £3O a bale, or £3,000,000 per month, we must needs
export largely, and we have in addition to pay for the
corn, flour, petroleum, &c., that we may require to import.
" A calm consideration of this view of the trade will,
hope, have the effect of modifying your opinions.
" I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" VERrris."

M. Bouley, one of the commissioners sent by the
French Government to investigate the subject of the
cattle plague in this country, read a paper last week
before the Academy of Medicine, in which he said that,
owing to a want of powerful and concentrated action on
the part of the Administration, the English graziers,
yielding to no other dictates but those of their own pri-
vate interests, had, immediately on being made aware of
the danger with which they were threatened, sent their
cattle to the markets, in order to get rid of them at once.
The consequence was a most rapid propagation of this
cattle typhus, and a mortality of not less than 64,000
head of cattle—an official statement which he considers
below the truth. "England," added M. Bouley, "has
come to this pass because she has no confidence in the
veterinary art; nor is this want of confidence quite
unreasonable ; for, with tho exception of a few dis-
tinguished men, veterinary science may be said not to
exist among our neighbours, owing to the fact that it is
completely left to private enterprise." In Holland our
author states that the loss was still more considerable,
the action of the Government being powerless there as
in England. In Belgium, on the contrary, where Govern-
ment had both tho will and the power to interpose, the loss
had only amounted to 600 head of cattle. But it w.
its was in
France, especially, the prompt, active, and energetic inter-
vention of Government had been remarkable for happy
results. While the rinderpest had cost England a sum of
not less than 600 millions of francs, the loss of France is
limited to 43 head of cattle, valuti from 16,000 to 18,000
francs, thanks to the wise preventive measures adopted by
the Administration, agreeably to the advice of men of
science, and thanks to the strict execution of those mea-
sures.