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The Peninsular and Oriental Company's stesxa..
ship Euxine, Captain Woodyates, bringing these
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mails, in charge of Lieut. Gardner, KIN., Admiralty
agent, amived at Southampton on Saturday morn-
ing. She left Lisbon at 9 5 a.m. on the 27th ult.,
Oporto at 9 6 a.m. on the 28th, and Vigo at
10 50 a.m. on the 29th. Outwards the Euxine
encountered heavy south-westerly winds with
much head sea as far as Vigo, and thence to Lisbon
fine weather; homewards fine to Vigo, and thence
a south-westerly gale and westerly winds.
The Euxine has brought £4,505 in specie, pre-
cious stones value £5O, and a cargo comprising
2,289 chests and 28 boxes of oranges, 265 boxes of
grapes, 200 bags of nuts, and 77 packages of general
merchandise.
Both out and home the Eaxine was put in quaran-
tine atVigo, in consequence of thestea ms hip La Plata,
arrived at Southampton, having had eases of yellow
fever on board.
Her Majesty's despatch boat Beagle sailed from
Lisbon for China Nov. 26.
News from Lisbon by this packet. which is to the
27th ult., refers principally to the dissolution of the
late Chamber of Deputies, already reported by tele-
giaph. Our correspondent writes :
" The Ministers being fully aware they had little
chance of getting through the session without being
placed in a minority upon more than one question,
though they had come to an understanding that
railways should no longer be the field for party po-
litics, availed themselves of the first opportunity of
settling the question of dissolution of the Deputies
or the Cabinet. Under the circumstances this ap-
pears to have been the most advisable course for
the interests of the country. A new electoral law
had just passed the House of Peers establishing
small electoral circles for one member, instead of
the large circles which returned 2,3, or 4 deputies
to the house now dissolved ; and this new law, being
a tacit confession that a new election was necessary,
it was further confirmed by the fact that neither
thuresent or its predecessors, who were in
power when feted, rould command a good
working mapts....;:_tlfonee it wevid haVe been a
great waste of time to reserve the dissolution for a
later period. No opposition was made to the replies
to the King's speech by deputies or peers, but upon
the discussion of Salamanca's railway contract in
committee a question was raised by the Opposition
respecting the new revenue resources necessary to
meet the subvention. The Ministers desired to delay
all explanations until the budget should be brought
forward, as had been the case last session ; and, re-
presenting the Opposition as factious, they succeeded
in obtaining the King's decree of dissolution, after
a protracted discussion by the Council of 'State.
The new law will probably diminish Government
influence in many electoral circles, and it is not yet
possible to give a safe opinion as to the new house
summoned to meet on 26th January ; though I
think' it is likely to be better than the last, and may
give a good working majority, which is absolutely
necessary, unless Parliamentary legislation is to-be-
come a perfect nullity in this country."
Lisbon exchanges for this packet are quoted as
follows :—For three months on London, 53?- ; Paris,
535 ; Amsterdam, 42 ; Hamburg, 47+ ; Genoa, 530;
Bank of Portugal Shares, 10 to 10:17 per cent. prem.;
Oporto Bank Shares, 261 to 27! per cent. prem.

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PRICE 4D. STAMPED , SD.

DEATH OP TEE PRINCESS ANNA
EAPLEHA,

The family of Prince Czartoryski,The Polish emi-
gration, and, indeed, the whole of Poland, has suf-
fered a painful loss by the death of the Pincess
Anna Sapieha, mother-in-law of Prince Adam
Czartolyski. • This noble lady breathed her last in
Paris on the 26th of November last, in the 86th year
of her age. Enfeebled by age and illness, she par-
took the Holy Communion, and awaited with calm
resignation the approach of death, seeming only to
linger in this world a little longer that she might
press once more the hand of her illustrious son-in=
law, to whom she had during half a century looked
up with a kind of religious reverence. Prince
Czartoryski had been absent from Paris for some
considerable time, but returned on the 25th, and on
the ensuing day, at 4 o'clock in the morning, the
Princess slept away without a sign of suffering.
The deceased, who belonged to the most illustrious
families of Poland, was born in 1772. Her father,
Count Andrew Zamoyiski, Grand Chancellor of the
Crown of Poland, enjoyed the reputation of being
the most noble and upright character of the reign
of Stanislas Augustus. After the violent seizure
of the persons of the senators of Poland by the Rus-
sian troops iu 1767, he resigned the seals and with-
drew into private life,whence`he was, however, sub-
seqaently again called forth by the voice of his
country, which intrusted to him the digest of a code
of laws. The wife of the Chancellor, the mother o

the deceased Princess Sapieha, was a daughter of
Prince Joseph Czartoryski, of the Korzec branch.
The great economy practised by this lady in all the
details orherprivate life formed a striking contest to
the luxury then universally pieVadent in Warsaw ;
but when Kosciuszko raised aloft the standard of
insurrection, this parsimonious but also truly
patriotic woman opened her rich treasury, and
silently poured its contents into the national exche-
quer, the people being then in arms against their
oppressors. Sueh were the family traditions amid
which Princess Anna Sapieha's character was
formed. She inherited from her father true patriot-
ism and the virile virtue of the citizen, and from her
mother the love of order and the art of making a
noble use of her fortune.

In 1794 the Princess married, at Zamosc, Prince

Alexander Sapieha, who was born at Strasburg,
where, driven by the misfortunes of Poland, his
father had sought refuge. In consequence of the
hope of the assistance of France having been held
out to his country, Prince Sapieha entered the ser-
vice of Napoleon 1., but his life was terminated
prematurely in 1812. Two children—the Princess
Anna, afterwards married to Prince Adam Czar-
toryski, and Prince Leon Sapieha—were the issue
of this marriage. At the death of her husband the
Princess, though still comparatively young, and ac-
customed to lire in the great world of Paris and
Warsaw, did not for a moment hesitate between the
serious and sacred duties of a mother and the frivo-
lous pleasures of the world, but devoted hercelf ex-
.

elusively to the education of her children and to the
administration of her fortune, which had suffered
considerably in consequence of the disasters which
had befallen her country. The duties to which she
devoted herself with unflagging constancy fortified
her soul and endowed her with rare sagacity in
the management of affairs, without in any way
quenching that enthusiasm of the heart which ena-
bled her, when circumstances required it, to rise
above the minute calculations of prudence. Dur-
ing the campaign in Prussia she was seen in Paris
kneeling at the feet of Kosciusko, imploring him
to join the army of Napoleon I.
After the disasters of Poland in 1831 Princess
Sapieha remained in the country, and by her'efforts

7HE GREAT EASTERN.

During the past week some very exaggerated
rumours have been in circulation respecting the
great ship, which have produced something like a
panic among the holders of the shares in the com-
pany. In order to afford complete information re-
specting the actual condition of the ship, and the
financial position of the company, an extraordinary
meeting of the shareholders will be called by the
directors on the 15th inst. In the meantime those
who are interested in the undertaking will be gra-
tified to hear that, in the opinien of the board, no
sufficient cause exists for the late extraordinary
depreNgion which has taken place in the value of
the pr erty. Our readers will remember that
some weeks since we stated that three, gentlemen
of high standing in their profession, viz., Messrs.
Hawkshaw, Fowler, and Maclean were employed
in taking evidence and making the necessary ex-
amination, with the view of making an award
upon all questions in dispute between the company
and the contractors. The total amount at issue
between these parties is comparatively small,
and whatever deficiencies may be proved to
exist on the part of the work performed by
the contractors, will have to be made good by
those who had undertaken the contract, and will
not, so far as these deficienCies are concerned, involve
any great outlay or expense on the part of the com-
pany. The three gentlemen above named made
their report after the examination of the ship while
lying at Holyhead, and when the directors had de-
cided upon sailing the vessel immediately for Ame-
rica. They stated that in the then condition of the
ship it wouctr-rorte-isafe -to undertake •u-trans:
lantic voyage, and that the directors would b; -e"
guilty of manslaughter if any accident should occur'
on the voyage. In deference to this opinion, the
board rescinded the resolution previously taken and
the ship was sent round to Southampton, encoun-
tering, before she arrived there, the terrible gale at
Holyhead and the rough passage on the way 'to the
port where she now lies. This voyage was performed
at greater speed and with more success than upon
any of the previous trips, and her performance is
relied upon as showing that the ship in reality is
not in so completely an unseaworthy state as has
been supposed. In a more recent number a state-
ment was given of the alterations which would be
required in order to adapt the ship more completely
for the work for which she was constructed. No
alterations of importance beyond those then speci-
fied have been required, either by the Board of
Trade or by the surveyors appointed by the com-
pany, but to carry out these, some additional funds
will be needed beyond the present capital, and
which will be raised either by preference shares, or
upon mortgage, to be explained at the meeting et
the 15th. It is stated that an offer has been made
by Mr. Lever for the purchase of the ship, of the
most liberal character. The terms are said to be
£O,OOO down to form a working capital to com-
plete the ship, to charter her for 12 months, pay the
shareholders five per cent. in advance, and to have
the option of purchasing the ship for £330,000,
being the amount of the capital of the present
company. If this offer is a bona fide one, it is dif-
ficult to understand how the ship can be in so
wretched a condition as to warrant the present de-
preciation in the shares. The chairman of the
board has stated that he will, at the meeting
of the 15th, demand the appointment of a com-
mittee of shareholders for the purpose of institut-
ing a thorough investigation into the affairs of the
company from its formation, and to throw some
light on the circumstances which have tended so
greatly to depress the property.—Observer.

succeeded in saving some remnants of the colossal

fortune of Prince es' artoryski ; and having joined
his family in 1836, she brAght with her an
accession to their pecuniary means, but never

ceased to preach order and economy, without, how-

ever, closing her heart against the wants of her
countrymen or of her country. In Paris she be-
came, indeed, as it were, the cashier of all the
charitable and useful institutions connected with

the Polish emigration, and whenever a public or a
private want was felt Princess Sapieha was sure to,
be applied to. Despising luxury and pomp, loving
all that was good and beautiful, always at work,
always surrounded by accounts, by lists, and by peti-
tions, she knew how to refuse, and she delighted in

granting, favours ; and she continues even beyond
the tomb her public benefactions, having bequeathed
a large sum to her children to be employed solely
for public purposes. The serious and extensive
studies to which she devoted herself during the
whole of her life had greatly enriched her mind,
and she conversed on all the subjects with ease and
fluency, and surprised her auditors by the solidity
of judgment which in her was combined with groat
vivacity and imagination.

Such- was the noble woman whom Poland has
just lost. May the ladies of Poland, and more espe-
cially those belonging to her own class, learn to
despise what she despised, and to love what she
loved ! C. S.

THE GREAT BELL OF WESTMINSTER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.

Sir,—Having this day heard Big Ben for the first
time since it was reported that he had been mortally
wounded, I beg to state that—cracked or not
cracked—his voice is neither worse nor better than
it was on and after the first day the clock struck
upon him to indicate the hours. In other words,
the bell merely emits the same imperfect sound as
before, being remarkable for metallic harshness and
continuity of tone. Now, although I think this
bell was designed and cast too thick at the sound
bow—hence the monster hammer required—even to
produce a rich and mellow tone, even assuming
no deep crack to exist, yet as the bell is suspended
in a manner so objectionable that it has not fair
play, the authorities may be advised to try the fol-
lowing experiment :—Release the bell from its pre-
sent unhappy position, of which it has never ceased
to complain ' • then fix it to a block of wood called a
stock, which must be freely suspended from a beam
so as to be able to swing in some degree. If the
alleged fracture ,be not dangerous Big Ben the
Second will then give out such a sound as may
agreeably surprise his audience.
Permit me to add that when a large bell is
cracked deeply at the sound bow it is idle to talk of
applying the " drill a, hole and whip-saw remedy."
This has been tried over and over again in the case
of church bells, though not at present in that of
Big Ben, and the result has uniformly been most
unsatisfactory to a musical ear. —I am, — &c.,
December 3. THOMAS WALESBY.

SUDDEN DEATH FROM INTEMPERANCE.—On
Wednesday evening, a woman, the wife of a cattle drover,
who had been in attendance at the cattle fair in Newcastle,
was found lying dead in a passage at the Head of the Side.
From information which has been given to the police, it ap-
pears that the deceased had been drinking for the last three
months, having been scarcely sober during the whole of
that time. On Wednesday afternoon she was in a public-
house at the Head of the Side, very intoxicated, dancing to
the music of a violin. A short time afterwards she went
out, and was never more seen alive. We understand she
is a native of Carlisle.—Newcastle Cht snide.
ATTORNEYS AND 13niErs.—A singular scene
occurred at the West Riding intermediate Session, held at
Bradford on Thursday. The friends of a man named John
Burke, who was charged with biting off the ear of James
Gelday, applied to Mr. Thomas Beaumont, accountant, to
draw out a brief for Burk's defence at the sessions. Beau..
mont did so, at the haute time receiving, as it is stated, a
for his trouble. At the trial he handed the brief over to a
barrister, with the customary fee of a guinea, but during the
examination it transpired that Beaumont was not an attor-
ney, and the chairman of the sessions instantly ordered him
to 'be taken into custody. He will in all probability be tried
at the present session for fraudulently tteting as an attorney.