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Contents:

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I. Steven Lawrence, Yeoman. By the Author of "Archie
Lovell."
Chap. XXXIX, Reconciled.
XL. Paris by Lamplight.
XLI. Lady Sarah's Masquerade.
XLII. Lord Petres to the Rescue.
IT. Two Months in the West Indies. By Lady Herbert.
111. The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
By the Author of "Cometh up as a Flower."
IV. French and English Epitaphs, By Frances Power Cobbe.
V. The Little Gordon. (Conclusion.)
VI. Nature and Death. A Poem.
VII. The Squire's Pew. By Annie Thomas
VIII. Sketches from Norway.
IX. A Summer Idyl.
X. A Lost Name. By the Author of "Uncle Silas." Chap
tern GO to 64.
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GUILDHALL, 22d January, 1868. —The
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in the city of London, on yearly tenancies.
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ARREST OF GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.

The Cork police have been more zealous than dis-
creet in their arrest of George Francis Train, and
have probably done just what George Francis wanted
them to do. That gentleman certainly arrived in
Ireland almost with the first report of his Boston
speech, in which he transcended his late efforts in
behalf of the Irish patriots. But everybody knows
that George Francis Train talks like a windmill,
which spreads out its arms and goes on with an in-
cessant " clack," no matter how light the breeze, or
from what quarter. Mr. Train speaks on any sub-
ject his audience suggests, with a surprising fluency
and assurance. Whether it be Woman's Rights
or a financial problem—whether it be empire for
the Irish or slavery for the negro,matters little to Mr.
Train, for he is equal.to the occasion,and therefore as
a lecturer in a country where such oratory is of value,
worth his weight in geld. But nobody attaches im-
portance to Mr.Train's spontaneous outpourings. On
board an English steamer, surrounded with English-
men, he appears to hare declaimed in the same style
as at Boston, probably to the amusement of the offi-
cers and passengers of the Scotia. That sagacious
body, the Cork police,-appear to have discovered a
dangerous conspirator in this American gentleman,
and they have giVen him a publicity which, we
have no doubt, will be highly gratifying. When
he returns he can include himself among those
champions of freedom who have fallen victims to
the English oligarchy, and Mr. Train will know how
to mak9, capital out of the incident. He was libe-
rated on Tuesday, by order of the Irish Govern-
ment, to whom the Cork police referred the matter,
on his denial of any seditious intention, and Lis
promise, that during his residence in the United
Kingdom, he would not countenance Fenianism.
He intends, it is said, to take proceedings against
the Government, laying damages at £lOO,OOO, for
the illegal arrest, and he has already telegraphed
to the President, calling
the attention of the Ameri-
can Government to the subject.
From the fuller accounts that have reached us
of the arrest we are more than ever satisfied that
it was a mistake. He was first confined in the
police barrack, where he lay on the floor. In the
morning he was allowed to breakfast in the Queen's
Hotel, and at ten o'clock he was taken before a
full bench of magistrates. The head-constable
stated the facts of the arrest, and gave a list of the
papers found, among whin were copies of the Irish
Citizen, Irish People, Boston Pilot, and the Fenian
Volunteer, which contained a leader nominating
Mr. Train for the Presidency ; also his speeches to
the Fenian Congress in Philadelphia
in }865, and
before the St. Patrick's Society in London in 1861.
These were readily surrendered, and every facility
given to the police in the examination. Mr. Train
asked whether the police or the magistrates were
the higher, and being informed the magistrates
of course, he said that on Friday night he was
taken before Mr. Tarrant, who, thinking the ar-
rest a mistake, asked him to give his word as a
gentleman not to leave Queenstown without per-
mission ; but, although he complied, he was con-
fined under guard, re-examined, and his pockets
searched. The inspector of police explained that
additional information had been given by Constable
Mahony, and on the pamphlets and papers being
handed to him he had considered it necessary to
continue the arrest. The magistrates made out a
warrant for the detention of Mr. Train in the
gaol at Cork, although Mr. Eastman, the American
Consul, strongly advised the Bench to let Mr.
Train go. The prisoner was marched through the
streets of Queenstown between two constables with
loaded carbines to the Cork station. He desired
to be removed from a third-class to a first-class car-
riage, and on paying the fare, observed, "every man
ought to elevate himself when he Can.', llis restless
energy remained undampted, and be immediately
commenced writing, though the governor inter-
cepted his letters. His talent of mimicry was
exercind on the gaol officials, and he appears to
have proved a fund of fun to all but the myrmidons
of the law. His account of his cell is very good.
I have been in many gaols, he observed, but never
before in a murderer's cell. " It was 9 feet square ;
walls, 2 feet thick ; lock, 1. foot square ; key, 10
inches long, weighs a pound ; straw bed, no pillow ;
no mat on cold stone floor; no candle allowed. Hence,
from 5 p.m to 7 a.m., fourteen hours in dark ; no
clothes since arrested, no knife to clean fingers, no
comb for hair. Nothing left on nayperson but
these few sheets of Monsieur Gayety, prison bread,
stirabout, and milk and water for my diet. Theory
of British law—every one innocent till found
guilty—practice, everybody guilty till found in-
nocent. Of course he had heard nothing from
Adams probably playing poker with Stanley as
Seward used to play whist with Lord Lyons." It
is clear that he neither looked for a long
arrest nor protracted residence in the United
Kingdom, as he desired his friends to address
" Care of Monroe, Paris." The Radicals, he says,
will be glad to see him locked up, and asks
if the suggestion came from Washington. Miss
Anthony's new paper, the Revolution, to which we
have elsewhere alluded, appears to have struck with
force on the imagination of the police. They
wanted no more; that was sufficient, so all were at
once confiscated. " Here I am !" exclaims Mr.
Lain ;
" give yourselvea no trouble, shed no tears.

My friends Beecher, Phillips, Greeley, and Pilton
will be sure that I get my deserts. Let no measures
be taken for my release—my ambition ended long
ago; my destiny, however, may still be moving on."
Mr. Train will now " stump" the country, and de-
liver lectures intending to make it pay him largely,
not because he wants money, oh no ! A man
who owns four-fifths of the city of Omaha," and
is nominated for the President ? No; but he will
make the British pay. "You know," he says,
" what Charles Dickens did in his American
Notes' and ' Martin Chuzzlewit,' yet when he goes
back to my country they kiss his feet and give him
dollars to no end. George Francis Train may have
said hard things of the British in his own country,
but when he comes here what do they do? Clap
him in a murderer's cell." " The British," he adds,
" have played the ' dickens' with me, and I'll play
the dickens' with them." With these sentiments
he intends to make a tour through the country.—
Anglo-American Times.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Yesterday an order was received at Chatham
garrison from the Horse Guards, directing 35 non-
commissioned officers and men of the 109th Bombay
Infantry, and 29 men of the 106th Bombay Light
Infantry, to proceed to India, by the overland route,
to join the service companies of their respective
corps. The officers ordered to proceed with the
detachments are Captain J. A. Nutt, commanding
the depot of the 109th Regiment, and Lieutenant
C. L. Heathcote, 106th Regiment. Lieutenant A.
Fawkes, Ist battalion of the Bth Regiment, has re-
ceived orders to be in readiness to embark for Cal-
cutta on the 30th inst.
The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief has
ordered the following promotions and appointments
at the head-quarters of the Royal Engineer estab-
lishment, Chatham :—Captain Bruce Brine, com-
manding the 28th company of Royal Engineers at
the Curragh Camp, to be Adjutant at the head-
quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment,
Brompton, vice Capt. F. A. Marindin, who has
proceeded on special service with the Abyssinian
expedition ; Capt. C. E. Webber has been ordered
to proceed from Chatham to Ireland to take over
the command of the 28th company of Royal Engi-
neers from Capt. B. Brine ; Lieut. E. P. Washing-
ton has proceeded from Chatham to Weymouth for
the purpose of doing duty with the detachment of
Royal Engineers at that station; and Lieut. W.
James, ordered to Portsmouth for duty with the
Royal Engineers in the South-Western District.
Lieut. R. W. Stewart has joined at head-quarters.
The 56th (West Essex) Regiment, under the
command of Col. Lacy, left Aldershot camp on Sa-
turday en route for Ireland.
A detachment of Royal Marine Artillery, com-
prising Capt. Horsey (in command), Lieuts. Digby
and Moore, and 100 non-commissioned officers and
gunners, sailed from Portsmouth for Ireland yes-
terday morning in the Buzzard, 6, paddle sloop,
Staff Commander James G. H. Thain. The detach-
ment marched into the dockyard and embarked on
board the Buzzard on the previous day from head-
quarters at Eastney.
Her Majesty's 5 gun screw vessel Ranger, Com-
mander William A. Cambier, from the West Coast
of Africa, was yesterday paid out of commission at
Woolwich, and the whole of the continuous service
men left on leave of absence. The complement
consisted of 60 men and boys, all told, some of whom
were paid arrears of back pay, amounting to £7O
and £BO each. They were met at the dockyard
gates by the usual crowd of hangers-on attendant
on such occasions, by whom they are so frequently
defrauded. Seine of the men, however, took the
wholesome advice of their officers, and forwarded
large amounts through the paymaster to their
homes.

PRICE.... 4d.
STAMPED sd.

spection being paid to the iron-clad frigate Her-
cules, 14, 5,226 tons, 1,200 horse power (nominal),
now rapidly approaching completion, and the turret
iron-clad ship Monarch, 6, 5,100 tons, 1,100-horse
power, about half completed. The Hercules has
the whole of her armour-plating fixed, the date
named for her being floated out of dock being the
Bth of February. Mr. Reed also inspected the
Blanche, 6, 350-horse power, Capt. J. E. Mont-
gomerie, fitting for the Australian station, which
vessel is so far complete that she will be ready to
proceed to sea in the course of the present week.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Jumna left Bom-
bay for Suez on the 24th inst., with troops intended
to be brought from Alexandria to Portsmouth iu the
Crocodile.

Her Majesty's unarmoured screw frigate Bristol,
31, 600 horse power, Capt. Leveson E. 11. Somer-
set, late the flagship on..the West Coast of Africa,
was paid off " all standing" on Saturday, under the
superintendence of Captain the Hon. A. A. Coch-
rane, C. 8., commanding the steam reserve in the
Medway, when the usual period of leave of absence
was granted to the petty officers and continuous
service men of the crew, who will afterwards join
the flagship at either of the naval ports. Tho Bris-
tol will be re-commissioned immediately for, it is
understood, a naval cadet training ship.
The Orontes, 2, screw troopship, Captain Henry
Phelps, was paid out of commission at Portsmouth
on Saturday, under the superintendence of Capt.
F. B. P. Seymour, C. 8., Aide-cle=esar.:p -to the
Queen, Flag Capt. to the Port Aarniral and Naval
Commander-in-Chief, Sir Thomas Pasley. The
Orontes was only commissioned by Capt. Phelps
on the 4th of January last year, and as the gallant
officer has proved himself to be a most energetic
and painstaking officer during his year's command,
it is presumed that the Admiralty intend giving bim
another command on the first available opportu-
nity. The ship is to be fitted with a poop deck
like the Simoom and to receivenew boilers previous
to being again commissioned. Her machinery also
requires a thorough overhaul and repair.
The Serapis, screw troopship, Captain Soady,
sailed from Portsmouth early yesterday morning,
for Queenstown, Ireland, to embark there the
85th Regiment, for conveyance to India. The ship
embarked at Portsmouth, for Alexandria, Cap-
tain A. H. Dawson, Lieutenant Clark, 95 men, 8
women, and 13 children of the 22d Brigade of Royal
Artillery ; Captain Williams, 103 d Infantry ; Lieu-
tenant Core, 86th infantry ; Lieutenant Gardner,
2d battalion 24th Infantry ; Ensigns Knox and
Hope, 2d battalion 12th Infantry ; Surgeon Major
M'Dermott and Mrs. M'Dermott ; Surgeon Beatty,
91st Infantry ; Staff Assistant-Surgeons Turner and
Backer, Assistant-Surgeon Cuffe, 11th Hussars;
Veterinary Surgeon Bray, 20th Hussars ; and Rid-
ingmaster Stavall, R.A.
The screw troopship Himalaya, Capt. Shute B.
Piers, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday morning,
by 9 a.m., for Kingstown, Ireland, with the 56th
Regiment on board, under the command of Colonel
Lacy, comprising 23 officers, 4 officers' wives, ten
children, 659 non-commissioned officers and men,
and 66 soldiers' wives and 60 children.

In accordance with an order issued by Col. J. L.
A. Simmons, C. 8., superintendent of the Royal
Engineer establishment, Chatham, a full-dress
parade of the whole of the officers, non-commissioned
officers, and sappers, together with the members of
the staff at head-quarters, was held at Brompton
barracks on the occasion of the promulgation to the
corps of a special regimental memorandum from
Field-Marshal Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.G., late
the Inspector-General of Royal Engineers, having
reference to his retirement from active service in
connection with the corps of Royal Engineers.
The whole of the officers and men, numbering little
short of 1,000 of all ranks, having been drawn up
in square in the centre of the parade ground, ad-
joining the Crimean Memorial Arch, Col. Simmons,
addressing the battalion, alluded to the distinguished
honour which had been conferred by her Majesty
on the Royal Engineers in having raised Sir John
Burgoyne to the rank of Field-Marshal, the occasion
being the first of an officer of the corps being raised
to that high rank with the exception of the Duke of
Cambridge, Colonel of the regiment. Col. Sim-
mons then alluded to the distinguished and length-
ened services of Field-Marshal Sir John Burgoyne.
At the close of the address of Col. Simmons, the
following " memorandum," issued to the corps of
Royal Engineers by Sir John Burgoyne, was read
by Brigade-Major It. Harrison :

The screw steam-corvette Pylades, 17, Captaiu
Cecil W. Buckley, from Sheerness, which arrived
in Plymouth Sound on Friday, leaves for the
West Coast of Africa as soon as the weather
moderates.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. Robert E. Stopford to the
Simoom ; Lieut. Edward Hicks to the Defence;
Stephen 11. Thompson, midshipman, to the Royalist;
Dr. Jno. Alexander Macdonald, assist.-surg., to the
Medusa; Fraunceis M. Steele, assist.-paymaster,
to the Warrior ; Risleton S. Jones, clerk, to the
Serapis ; Daniel Anderson, first-class assist-engi-
neer, additional, to the OetzvriN ar:l olur
Lering, nominated a naval cadet.

WHOLESALE DESTRUCTION OF LIVE STOCK.—
On the occasion of two butchers being summoned on Thurs-
day to the Woolwich police court for having infringed the
cattle regulations, it transpired that a wholesale slaughter
of calves is going on in the metropolis which cannot fai 1
to have a most injurious effect on the live stock of the
country. It was stated that no calves under a certain
weight are allowed to be sold in the Metropolitan cattle
and meat markets, and that no calves whatever aro
allowed to be removed beyond the boundary of the juris-
diction of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The dairy-
men and farmers within these limits having, as a general
rule, no room or facilities for rearing the calves, and not
being allowed to remove them to more commodious farms
in the country, besides finding it more profitable to sell
their milk than to feed their calves with it, are killing
and burying them as soon as born, whilst the metropolitan
butchers have to go to Reading, Romford, Dartford, Ice.,
for their supply of veal, the present cattle regulations
allowing calves to be brought into the metropolis, but not
to be taken out. Mr. Parsons named ono dairy farmer, who,
having 150 cows, thus destroys and buries ten calves
weekly, being at the rate of upwards of 500 a year ; and
another who destroys as many as J 4 weekly, being above
700 a year. The sitting magistrate, Mr. Maude, said that
such a wholesale destruction of calves revealed the exis-
tence of a most deplorable state of things, and ho hoped
the attention of the Privy Council would be drawn to the
matter.

CONVICT LABOUR.—An American paper states
that in Windham county, Connecticut, the keeper of the
gaol goes from house to house with a gang of prisoners
(the refractory trammelled with a ball and chain), and
jobs of wood sawing for the people are attended to.
STILL GOOD.--The ore in the incline of the El
Dorado South still continues of about the same quality as
a week ago—assays ranging from $lOO to about $3,600
per ton. A depth of 16 feet has now been sunk in this
body of rich ore. The incline will be continued until
water is reached, when levels will be run and preparations
made for mining upon an extensive plan in a thoroughly
systematic manner. In the absence of a custom mill at
this place the ore taken from the vein in the progress
of sinking will be sent to Austin for reduction,
as it will pay a handsome profit above the cost
of transportation, &c. It is estimated that the ore
already out will not a sum sufficient to reimburse the
owners for all expenditures made upon the mine to the
present time. The El Dorado South is quite likely to
furnish one of those rare and felicitous anomalies—a silver
mine paying the entire cost of development, and for the
erection of hoisting and reduction works, without the aid
of outside capital, and entirely from the proceeds derived
from incipient working. For a long time but very few,
aside from the owners, considered the claim of much value;
but they never doubted nor faltered in their labours, and
to their pluck and perseverance are the community in-
debted for the results from which vast benefits to the sec-
tion must accrue. We are rejoiced at their munificent re-
ward. A shipment of five and a half tons of ore will be
made to-day, aggregating upwards of 13 tons forwarded
since the strike.—Silver Bend Reporter of Dec. 21.
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war in which this country has ever been engaged, the
corps was then held in such little consideration that
it was without a single sapper, had no recognised
field equipment, and during prolonged campaigns
with armies in the field possessed only a few indivi-
dual officers to carry on arduous sieges, intrench
camps of magnitude, and perform all the varied and
important duties of the Engineer service. Nor were
the duties in garrison or military stations better pro-
vided for, although the effects were of less import-
ance. Those days are happily at an end, and the
corps now possesses a fine body of well-trained en-
gineer soldiers, fully instructed in every field duty,
and is thoroughly competent to undertake any of
the active services of war. As regards its ordinary
peace duties it has given proof of its efficiency in
the control and management of the great works of
defence, considered to be so necessary, at home and
abroad, and of which the design and execution are
acknowledged to be at least equal to those of a simi-
lar character in any other country. An additional
proof of the estimation in which the corps is held
may be noted in the large proportion of its officers
and men selected for extraneous positions of an
arduous and responsible character under other
branches of the Government. Much of the im-
proved condition of the Engineer service may be
attributed to the spirit and exertions of its indivi-
dual officers; but it is due, in a still greater degree,
to the increased value which the progress of science
has given to the special branches of the army, and
to the higher appreciation with which the profes-
sion is regarded by the military authorities and
country at large. After an association extending
over 70 years, and comprising many periods of
difficulties and hardships, Sir John Burgoyne takes
leave of his comrades of all ranks with the strongest
sentiments of esteem and regard, and with the
fullest confidence in their future prosperity and
distinction."
IS hen the memorandum bad been read, Colonel
Simmons called for, and led off, three cheers for
Field-Marshal Sir John F. Burgoyne, which were
vociferously and heartily respondedrsand
men were then
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parade ground. The officers
marched off to their quarters.
Mr. E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy,
paid his first official visit since his recovery from
the injuries he sustained by the railway accident
in France to Chatham Dockyard on Saturday last,
and was engaged for some time with the officials
of the establishment iu the inspection of the vessels
of war building and fitting, lengthened Yisit4 of in..

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We are told that the prisoner Burke, having be-en in;
formed of what was said about him in connection with
this explosion, writes to his solicitors on the matter as
follows :—" I have been informed that one of the warders
of the House of Detention, in his evidence, stated that I
stopped and moved out of the ring while at exercise, and
pretended to take a stone out of my shoe. I have fre-
quently stepped out of the ring during the three weeks I
was confined there, nearly every day—for I suffered from
a corn between the toes, and still suffer from it, though in
a less degree, and while at the House of De,
tention I burnt it with some lunar caustic given
me by the doctor for the purpose. This the warders
know as well as I ; but it is only fact, and not sensational
enough perhaps to suit their purpose. What that is, of
course, anybody can see—to endeavour strongly to
establish some sort of an understanding between myself
and the authors of the deplorable occurrences alluded to."
In general and emphatic terms he denies all prior know-
ledge of the catastrophe. With reference to his experi-
ence of the explosion itself, he also says :—" Forty seconds
before it took place I was in a cell in that end of the prison
being identified. I had barely left the cell and had got
back into my own one, which was on the other end of the
building, when the explosion took place. I was at City
Point when two vessels loaded with gunpowder blew up ;
I was three hundred yards from them. That was truly
terrific, but after the body of the explosion was gone
there was virtually an end of it. Here it was different,
for after the explosion came the falling of timber and the
shrieks of the prisoners—all blent in one wild painful
confusion. I was nearly suffocated in my cell
by smoke and dust that rushed up through the venti-
lator. When the confusion subsided somewhat, and
the position could be realised, I asked one of the
warders what it was. He made me no answer. In a few
minutes after he had passed I looked out of my cell
grating, and I saw a warder, armed with rifle and revolver,
standing sentry on my cell. I then thought that whatever
it was, or how caused, the governor of the prison believed
it must be in some way connected with me. Else how can
I explain the unusual proceeding of putting an armed
man as, zuntry, k. r towrisotter who• new violated the
slightest order, or in any way stepped aside from the
discipline of the prison? Then I received the first faint
glimpses of light. I recollected the manner I was
changed from cell to cell during the day, especially
after anybody had seen me—' lawyer,' identifyer,' or
friend. The guarded conduct in every case exercised
in relation to me ; the whisperings of the warders
and the governor and deputy-governor ; the look-out
kept by the governor and a warder on the central tower,
which, at the time I noticed it, I did not think any
way strange ; all these things rushed on my mind, and
associating them with the explosion, and the man fully
armed as sentry on my cell, I could not help thinking on
the subject, in which I was apparently considered by the
governor as some way connected. When I saw the deputy-
governor I spoke to him, and asked him what did it all
mean. He answered me, ' You ask no silly questions ;
you know very well what it means.' A few hours after
the lamentable occurrence I was visited by one of the
visiting justices. At this time there were several police
and a body of troops in the prison. I did not sleep during
the night, my own thoughts, aided by the constant calling
all right' of the warder, kept me awake during the whole
night. In the morning, as I was going out to the van,
one of the warders said to me as I was passing him,
D—n you, I have a mind to blow out your brains.'
So that, taking everything into consideration, I feel that
this occurrence has undeservedly reflected upon me."—
Daily News.

TUE NEW LINE OF THE METROPOLITAN

RAILWAY.

On Saturday afternoon the principal officials of the
Metropolitan Railway, including Mr. Myles Fenton, the
general manager, Mr. Johnson, one of the engineers,
Mr. Burnett, resident engineer, Messrs. Armstrong,
Saxby, &c., made an inspection of the new or widened
line between King's-cross and Farringdon-street stations
previous to the opening of the line. The works upon the
new line, consisting principally of covered way and
tunnel, are of a highly interesting character, much skill
and ingenuity having been exercised by the engineers,
chief of whom is Mr. J. Fowler, in the construction of the
railway, the contract for which was executed by Mr.
Kelk. The proceedings commenced with an examination
of the works at King's-cross station, where a communica-
tion is being made, by means of a tunnel, with the Midland
Railway. The Metropolitan Company are constructing
the tunnel to the Midland terminus at St. Pancras. Its
level is considerably below the station, so the Midland
Compl;lly min carry the line beneath its terminus, and
form a junction with its main line at Camden Town. All
traffic to and from the Midland will therefore pass on to
or from the Metropolitan line at King's-cross. For this
accommodation the Midland,Companyis to pay to the Me-
tropolitan £14,000 a year. The communication between
the King's-cross station of the Metropolitan line and the
Great Northern Railway terminus has also been improved
and perfected. At King's-cross the new or widened line
commences on the east of the station. A capacious plat-
form, 300 feet in length, with means of exit to the Penton.
ville-road, has been constructed on the north side of the line.
The platform is provided with signal-box and telegraphic
instruments by Spagnoletti, for communicating with the
different railways. From the side of the station next
Pentonville-road two lines of mixed gauge, with steel
rails, have been laid right away along the auxiliary line to
Farringdon-street, thus giving the Metropolitan Railway
four lines of rail between King's-cross and the above sta-
tion. Tha covered way of arched brickwork begins soon
after leaving King's-cross, and runs side by side with the
old line. The line is about 28 feet 6 inches wide, the
height of the covered way and tunnelling varying from 16
feet 6 inches to 19 feet. It passes beneath Britannia.
street, Charlotte-street, Swinton-street, Acton-street, and
Frederick-street, and is parellel with the Bagnigge-wells-
road. About 300 yards from the King's-cross box there is
one of Saxby's distance signals in the middle of the road-
way in the tunnel, and near Granville-square there is a
wide opening for another signal-box. The most peculiar
feature of the new line is that at no point is daylight lost
sight of—a fact which, together with the shafts of the roof
of the tunnel and covered way, will do much towards pro.
viding excellent ventilation. It is at the Clerkenwell end
of the auxiliary line that the greatest difficulties had to
be surmounted. The mouth of the new tunnel is much
deeper than the old one, the rails of the widened way
lying fifteen feet lower than the other. The new line had,
therefore, to be carried beneath the old one, in order
that the trains might enter the yard at Farringdon-street ;
and this was safely managed by under pinning the old
route, and completing the work without stopping the
enormous traffic for a single day. From the mouth of
the new tunnel to the Farringdon-street station there is,
of course, a great rise, the incline being about 1 in 40 to
the part of the station used by the Great Northern trains.
By the bridge near Clerkenwell Sessions-house there is
an engine which pumps the surface water from the lino
into the drains above. The Great Western Railway
Company are to have the space occupied by the original
Farringdon-street terminus for a goods depot. The new
line
arr ingdon- s
abouttreet is£2 aobo7oo
o,ta
mile from
in length,Kig o
nitconstructioncross
toF
havingcost
irrespective of what has been laid out in the purchase
of such property as was required for the passage of the
railway.

COLONIAL BISHOPRICS. —A dispute has arisen
between the Duke of Buckingham and the committee who
have the management of the Colonial Bishoprics Fund.
It appears that the latter nominated Archdeacon Harris
to the bishopric of Gibraltar, and signified the same to the
noble duke. The Secretary for the Colonies resented this
interference with 'his patronage, and refuses to acknow-
ledge the right of this irresponsible body to appoint cler-
gymen to colonial bishoprics. At present the matter is in
abeyance.— Court Circular.

COMPENSATION FOR INATRIES ON RAILWAYS.—
In the County Sheriff's Court, at York, an action was
brought by Mr. Jonathan Crowther, wool and waste
dealer, of Elland, against the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company, for injuries sustained in the Bowling
Tunnel accident, in March last year. It was proved
that Mr. Crowther had been severely hurt in various
ways, and that among other injuries he had received
was impaired eyesight. The company was not indis-
posed to give compensation, and only asked that the
amount should be decided. The jury fixed the damages
at £l,lOO.

NATIONAL EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND.—A public
meeting has been held in Glasgow on the subject of
national education—the Lord Provost in the chair—at
which resolutions were adopted declaring that united and
general action is now called for on the part of all friends
of education ; that the existing means of instruction in
Scotland are inadequate to supply the wants of the com-
munity ; that any system of national education must be
defective which does not enforce the attendanci 0.( children
at school ; and that any new system should secure the
same kind of instruction, religious and secular, as had
hitherto been given in the parish schools of Scotland, " it
being expressly provided that any religious teaching shall
be given at a distinct hour, and that any child may be
withheld from such teaching to which his or her parents
may object." The meeting also approved of local rating
and local management, with a central board in Scotland;
and appointed a committee to petition Parliament, and
take other steps for carry iii out the principles affirmed
the resolutions

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QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Jan. 27, HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. John
Clayton.
After which will be produced" (17th Time in London) Mr. H.
I. Byron's New and Original Domestic Drama, in Three Acts,
entitled DEARER THAN LIFE. Michael Garner, Mr. J. L.
Toole.
To conclude with (sth Time) the New and Original Operatic
Extravaganza, by Mr. W. S. Gilbert, called LA VIVANDIERE;
or, TRUE TO THE CORPS. The Scenery by Messrs. W. and
T. Grieve, Johnson, and Assistants. Messrs. J. L. Toole, L.
Brough, and Sanger; Misses P. Markham, F. Addison, Jordan,
Montgomery, Heath, Sylvia, R. Everard, and H. Hodson.
Doors typen n.t Half-past Six, commence at Seven. Acting
Manager, M. W. IL Liston.
Box-office open daily from Ten till Four.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
Tills EVENING, at 7, OLD SALT: Messrs. Emery, James,
and Belford; slesdames N. Moore and Gwynne.
After which will he produced a Grand Christmas Operatic
Orleutal Extravaganza "THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD." Messrs.
Thorne, James, Turner, Murray; Mesdames A. Swanborough,
Johnstone, Harland, Bolt. Newton, &c.
To conclude with OUR DOMESTICS.

HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL.
So!e Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry.

THIS EVENING-, at Seven, TIIE FLYING SCUD. Messrs.
Atkins, Price, Garden, Arthur, Westland, Wilmott; Mesdames
Henrade, Goodall, Lennox, and C. Saunders.

After which, the Grand Comic Pantomime of VALENTINE
AND ORSON; or, Harlequin the Big Bear and the Little Fairy.
31esdames Saunders, Goodall, White; Messrs. Garden, Odell,
Arthur; Mdlle. Montero, Miss Ellis, Lupino, Green, and the
Groat Little Rowella.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
New Management.
Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, HEN AND CHICKENS: Messrs. Ashley,
Stephenson, and G. Vincent; Mesdames L. Moore and Stirling.
After which, USED UP: Messrs. R. Sontar,Vincent, Vaughan,
and C. Mathews ; Miss E. Farren.
To be followed by IF I HAD A THOUSAND A YEAR.
To conclude with BETTY MARTIN : Mr. Geo. Vincent and
Miss E. Farren,

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