The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WI DNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 186 S.

disastrous than a state of open hostility, and this,
probably, is one of them. The discreditable intrigues
which have been carried on in these countries, and
the indirect collusion of Greece and Russia
in Crete have caused more disquiet to Europe,
and greater misery to the peoples immediately
engaged, than any direct conflict would have brought
about.

If diplomatic interference result in a reasonable
approach to a friendly settlement between the hos-
tile nations, if the schemes and combinations against
the Porte be for the future conducted less offensively
—it is vain to hope that they will be abandoned—and if
the disgraceful proceedings in Crete are finally vetoed,
the Great Powers will have used their diplomacy in
the interests of justice. But if they merely propose
to prevent an immediate collision,without any further
precautions, it is doubtful whether the two opponents
had not better be left to settle their own affairs.
Both are evidently inclined to an appeal to the
sword. Turkey has at length awakened to the fact that
her existence is seriously menaced by her numerous
and troublesome neighbours. The Porte has
much reason for concluding that the chance of
success at the present moment is not likely
to be improved by delay. Russia is not prepared to
aid Greece, whilst Austria is ready to give moral, if
not material support to Turkey. It is this prospect
of assistance from without which gives the situation
such an appearance of gravity. There can hardly be
any doubt that Austria, under the leadership of Baron
BEIM, is pursuing a policy of agitation. According
to intelligence which there is little reason to dispute,
Baron BEUST'S interference in this question has so
far been confined to encouraging Turkey and pro-
voking Greece. Austria's interest is to repress the
growth of Roumania, and this is not likely
to be secured either by weakening the
Ottoman Power or by promoting the re-establish-
ment of the Hellenic Empire. As the offensive
conduct of the Greek Government has con-
tinued for many months past, there is
every reason to conclude that Turkey has
received promises of assistance before venturing
upon such a sudden change of policy. Greece, on
the other hand, is not less anxious to appeal to the
last argument ; the war would be one of conquest,
and is, therefore, so popular that the Government
has been carried away by the general enthusiasm.
The terms of the Porte have been rejected, and
hence the recall of the ambassadors. It looks
very much as if the will of the Great Powers was for
once to be disregarded; and, viewing the matter
either from the Turkish or the Grecian point of view,
it is difficult to imagine how a quarrel of such long
accumulated virulence can be settled otherwise than
by force.

iN action, in which the press is concerned, and
which have special features of interest, was tried on
Monday. In the case of PAW V. ELEY, which came
before Lord ROMILLY, the plaintiff is the alleged
proprietor of a patent for the manufacture of copper
cartridges, and the ,validity of that patent is now
sub judice. Mr. COLLETTE, the solicitor for the
defendants against whom Mr. PAW is proceeding for
breach of patent, wrote three letters in the Volunteer
Service Gazette depreciating the value of Mr. PAW'S
invention. Thereupon that gentleman made a motion
in the Rolls Court to commit Mr. COLLETTE for
contempt of court because he had written on a subject
which was then before the court; and also to commit
Mr. ELEY, the editor of the Gazette, for having
inserted those communications. Lord ROMILLY
granted the motion so far as Mr. COLLETTE was
concerned, giving him the alternative of making an
apology. In Mr. ELEY'S case, his lordship said that
he could not make any order either for committal or
for an apology. At the same time he could not
allow him his costs. He said, further, that " the
firmly-established principle of the courts of equity
was to suffer no one with impunity to publish
any statements relating to, or based upon,
their records which might induce a tribunal to
come to any other conclusion than that derived from
the evidence in a case. The courts of equity would
also stop any publication which might influence the
administration of justice, although such might not be
the intention of the author of that publication." This
is really an extraordinary declaration. If Lord
ROMILLY be right it would have been improper to
say anything about the construction of iron-
dads so long as the action which Mr. FEATHER
brought against the Crown for an infringement of
patent was under consideration. It would, as
the Times has pointed out, prevent all comment
and discussion upon inventions of the utmost
national importance, should they happen to be
matters of litigation. Rival artillerists, rival ship-
builders, might press their claims upon the Govern-
ment, but if they should happen to be litigants as
well as rivals the public press must say nothing
about the merits of competing guns or ships. On
the other hand, if the invention is of small interest,
it is quite possible that the editor may be perfectly
ignorant that there has been any litigation upon it,
and may thus be liable to heavy costs, if to
no worse penalty, for inserting an advertisement
in which the merits of one of the competitor's
inventions is puffed. Manifestly, Lord ROMILLY'S
dictum is opposed to common sense and the public
benefit. It is also utterly opposed in spirit to the
decisions of that most enlightened judge, Sir ALEX-
ANDER COCKBURN, who has done so much to free
the press from unfair restrictions.

ACCIDENT TO A HOLYHEAD STEAMER.

HOLYHEAD, Dec. 15.
The Holyhead and Dublin steamer Stanley, which
left Dublin at 7 p.m. on Monday, and was due at
Holyhead at 2 a.m. on Tuesday, had not arrived
up to noon to-day. The Hibernia steamship was
sent in search of her, and great apprehension was
felt, as the sea was running high. The Hibernia
scoured the Irish Channel, and found the Stanley
at 4 p.m. 18 miles northward of Holyhead, with
centre wheel broken, and drifting northward.
There were 50 passengers on board, who were in
great excitement. The Stanley was brought to
Holyhead at 7.30 p.m.

THE CLAIMS OF WOMEN.—Miss Faithful will
repeat her eloquent lecture on the claims of women on the
2-2 d at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, and at Southampton,
on Jan. 5, 1869.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The annual benefit of
Mr. James Stride, of the Box-office, is fixed for to-morrow
evening, on which occasion there ought to be a very
crowded house. Mr. Stride is ever at his post, and his
obliging manner has rendered him a great favourite with
the visitors to this theatre, who, on all occasions when in
any difficulty, call for his assistance. The readiness and
good humour with which Mr. Stride attends to the de-
mands of the sterner sex, to say nothing of his politeness
and consideration for the ladies, entitles him to a bumper
benefit, which we trust ho will receive.

EXTENSIVE PLATE ROBBERY.—The Surrey
Standard states that a daring and successful robbery was
effected at the residence of Mrs. Oliver, of Arlington-
villa, a detached house in Old Seaside-road, near Trinity
Church, during the absence of the family at church on
Sunday morning. More than a hundred pieces of plate
and jewellery, valued at between £4OO and £5OO, wore
carried off.

A labourer named I)elafolie, aged twenty-two,
of Souchy-Cauchy (Pas-de-Calais), has just been tried at
Arms, on not loss than fourteen charges of wilfully setting
fire to crops and farm buildings. The value of the pro-
perty thus destroyed amounted to £4,000. The jury re-
turned a verdict of guilty, withont the admission of ex-
tenuating circumstances, and sentence of death was passed
on him.

The next examination of candidates for commis-
sions in the corps of Royal Artillery and Royal En-
gineers for admission to the Royal Military Aca-
demy, IVoolwich, under the regulations dated Horse
Guards, May 1, 1868, will commence on ;4th Jan.
next ; and that of candidates for commissions in
the medical department of the army on the Bth of
February.
DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re-
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
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LATEST INTELL MEN CE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 15, Evening.

To-day the subscription for the shares of the
Baltic Port Company, amounting to 24,010,000
silver roubles, the interest on which is not guaran-
teed by Government, has been opened. Almost the
whole amount has already been taken up.

SICILY.

PALERMO, Dec. 16.

Yesterday afternoon Prince Humbert and the
Princess Marguerita arrived here,and were received
by General Medici and the civil authorities. The
people gave their Royal Highnesses a most cordial
and enthusiastic welcome.

AN UNPUBLISHED LETTER FROM TEE
LATE MR. COBDEN.

The following is a copy of a private letter from Mr.
Cobden, which was published in the Batton Advertiser of
November 28 :

" Midhurst, Jan. 8, 1864.

"Dear Sir,—l entirely agree with you as to the conse-
quences to be apprehended from the operations of the
privateers. But I do not see hOw I can interfere now with
any advantage. I stated in the House last session, when
it was difficult to get a hearing on that side, what I feared
would be the consequences of our lax proceedings at
Liverpool, &c. And I took every opportunity of impres-
sing privately on those in power my fear (which seems to
be your own) that the demand for indemnity for captures
would cost us a war or a great humiliation. I don't see
how one or the other is to be avoided. For, bear in mind,
the mischief is done, and the language, the taunting and
insulting language of the Prime Minister in the House
when the subject was brought forward by Mr. Forster
last spring (when I was absent), remains on record, and, I
fear, is not likely to be forgotten. Then, bear in mind that
Lord John Russell has refused in his correspondence with
Mr. Adams to recognise the claim. For me to interfere now
and advise the Government to pay the money would neither
be fair to the public nor myself. It must become the sub-
ject of regular diplomatic negotiation. The fact is—and
the whole fact—that our ruling class and a large section
of the upper middle class (led by the Times and its satel-
lites), have been so rampant in their hostility to the Great
Republic, of whose strength and resources they are dan-
gerously ignorant, that they have jumped instantly to the
conclusion that—to use their unhappy phrase—' the
Republican bubble had burst;' and they commenced to treat
that country as they would Brazil. lam sorry to say that
the altered tone of our diplomatic correspondence in the
Blue. Books shews that the Foreign Office reflected this
altered feeling. Meantime among the masses of the people
the feeling was unchangeably with the North. Lord Russell
said at Blairgowrie the majority were for the North. But
the majority have:no votes. If the whole people had been
represented in the House of Commons, the Prime Minister
would not have spoken as Lord Palmerston spoke, nor
would Mr. Laird have been frantically cheered when he
rose in the House and virtually said ' I did it.' However,
LW I before remarked, the mischief is done, and now it
remains to be seen with what grace the people will allow
themselves to be committed to a war or a humiliation by
the ruling class which has the powers of government in
its hands. But I confess I think the money amount of
the captures the smallest part of the future penalty we
shall have to pay. It is the loss of productive value
inflicted on the whole of the United States mercantile
marine which is the most pregnant, for it shews what half
a dozen swift steamers would do to our ,merchantmen.
And with whatever maritime power we may be at war, we
may be assured that the Americans will pay us in our own
coin, and that it will be impossible for the Government
then to prevent privateers from being fitted out against us.
This I have heard stated by some of the best friends of
England among the Americans. With such a prospect, I
hardly see how we can go to war even with Brazil. I
have marvelled at the shortsightedness of so many of
our shipowners and merchants, who ought, the
moment there was even the hint of privateers being
fitted out in our ports, to have risen en masse against
it, and to have called on the Government to apply for
fresh powers, if they had not sufficient for the pur-
pose. Instead of this, too many of them have, I fear,
chuckled over the destruction of a rival. For English
shipowners and merchants to be found encouraging such a
mode of warfare upon and through foreign commerce, is
on a par with the intelligence which the proprietors of the
Crystal Palace would exhibit if they were to invite a game
of stone•throwing with their neighbours living in stone
and slate houses."

The swindlers who write to parties on the Conti-
nent, professing to have received valuable parcels or docu-
ments from Australia or California, which they will forward
on a remittance being sent to them to cover expenses, are
again actively at work.

Two boards of guardians—Kilkenny and Clonmel
—(says an Irish paper) have been discussing the propriety
of petitioning Parliament to allocate the Irish Church re-
venues to the support of the poor. Kilkenny agreed. Clon-
mel is to consider the matter on a future occasion.

The Sheffield Telegraph says that Mr. Bright's re-
election for Birmingham, on his accepting office, is likely to
be challeigea ; and it is rumoured that Mr. Roebuck will be
brought forward to oppose him. Our correspondent adds
that if Mr. Roebuck should take the field he will receive a
large share of support.

We regret to state that Sir Richard Mayne is con-
fined to his bed with a severe cold, accompanied with
symptoms of an inflammatory nature. We believe we are
correct in stating that this is the first instance of Sir
Richard's being absent on account of illness from his post
at Scotland-yard during the whole 40 years he has reigned
there.

According to The Echo there is a rumour afloat
that Mr. Gladstone will not be disinclined to recommend
an increase of the Episcopate of the Church of England,
provided it can be effected without any demand upon
the national funds. A proposal would in that case be made
to divide, in the first instance, the diocese of Exeter, the
Bishop of which has consented to surrender all his
patronage in Cornwall, in the event of that county being
erected inio a separate ecclesiastical see. It is said funds
would readily be forthcoming for this see as well as a new
bishopric of St. Albans.

The Earl of Shaftesbury on Tuesday formally
)pened the new schools of St. Andrew, Lambeth.
The schools, which are situate in Roupell-street,
one of the poorest districts in Lambeth, with houses
fur two head masters, three head mistresses, a
reading room for working men, and a soup kitchen
for the poor, have been erected at a cost of £8,500, of which
a small sum remains to be raised. The schools will accom-
modate 1,500 children, and there are already 950 names on
the books. The meeting was preceded by a service in St.
Andrew's Church, the sermon being preached by the Ven.
J. S. Atterton, Archdeacon of Surrey.

The colliers of the Ruabon district, numbering
some thousands, having struck for an advance, the greatest
excitement prevails in the neighbourhood. They have
met in large numbers, and the managers and underground
managers are in the greatest fear. The men attacked the
house of Mr. Evans, the manager of the Now British Iron
Company, and broke all the windows within their reach,
and he himself was obliged to go out of the way. The
underground managers are sending away their wives and
families from the neighbourhood. The colliers, who say they
are determined to stand out, aro going about in large todies
begging, and it is dangerous to refuse them. The managers
met on Monday in consultation with the county magistrates
as to what is the best course to be pursued, but they, like
the men, seem determined to stand out also.

Lord Kinnaird has addressed a letter to a contem-
porary, in which he remarks that no man in his senses
would trust to the barometer alone to ascertain the propor-
tion of gas in a mine at any time, and to discover
when there is any increase to render it explosive, or any
irruption or accumulation in any part of the mine.
Alluding to the Hindley explosion he says that if it cannot
be discovered that the safety lamps of the miners were
in good order, then there cannot .be a shadow of doubt
that the death of these men was caused by the negli-
gence of the managers or owners, and a verdict of
manslaughter should follow. Unless the Legislature en-
forces the adoption of precautions, or juries bring in verdicts
of manslaughter, human lives must continue to be sacrificed
by hundreds to the carlessaess or false economy of the
owners or managers of the mines. •

The Master of the Rolls had before him on Tues-
day the case of Heymann v. the European Central Rail-
way Company, in which the plaintiff sought to have
his shares in this company cancelled, and to be repaid
the money he had paid in respect of those shares, on
the ground that he had been misled by the pro-
spectus of the company. Amongst other things, the plaintiff
complained that the prospectus did not state that the shares
which Colonel Sykes held in the company were given to him
to induce him to become a director, and that the Financial
Corporation were paid £5,000 for floating this company.
Sir R. Palmer, Sir R. Banally, Mr. Southgate, Mr. Jessel,
Mr. Eddis, Mr. J. N. Higgins, and Mr. Martin appeared
in the case. Lord Romilly held that the plaintiff was
not entitled to relief. As to the payment of £5,000 to the
Financial Corporation his lordship said that might be a
question between the two companies, but it was not the
least reason for cancelling the plaintiff's shares. The plain-
tiff's case entirely failed, and his bill must be dismissed.

At the Rotherham petty sessions on Monday the
limy. J. J. Christie, the head master of tho Rotherham Gram-
mar School, was charged with assaulting Arthur Harris, one
cf his pupils, a boy thirteen years of ag,-. It appeared that
the ccmplainant had found a pet jackdaw which had
strayed, and being under the impression that it was a
wounded crow, bad killed it by dashing its head against a
wall, The defendant hearing of this, charged the boy
with cruelty, and thrashed him severely with a cane,
Inflicting such injuries upon his shoulders and arms that
his health had since been impaired. Dr. Shearman, a
local medical gentleman, said that the boy had been
" barbarously treated," and the boy's arm, which was
exhibited in court, showed that he still—five days after
the occurrence—bore marks of a severe castigation. The
defence was that the boy bad be( n guilty of wanton cruelty
towards the jackdaw, and the evidence of Dr. Shearman
was prejudiced, because he was opposed to corporal punish-
ment in public schools. The magistrates (tbe Hon. F. S.
Wortley and gr. H. Otter) diemissed the easy

REMARKABLE SUBSIDENCE OP LAND.

Numerous wild rumours were afloat about Youghal for
the last twenty-four hours, owing to a wonderful sinking
and displacement of part of a road leading from Youghal
to the seat of the Hon. Moore Smyth, the scene being
situated a little more than a mile from the town, on the
banks of the Blackwater, close by the famous Youghal
Bridge, and exactly on the site of the proposed new bridge, and
below the preceptory of the KnightiTempiars at Rhincrea.
On the evening of the 9th inst. the inhabitants of that
vicinity were much surprised to see the roads crack in
several places, but much greater was their asto-
nishment when, on the next morning, they found
the road had become impassable during the night,
owing to numerous yawning chasms, reaching not alone
across the road, but for many hundred feet on either
side. The road continued to sink and open in such
a fearful way during the whole. day on Thursday, that the
inhabitants living close by became greatly alarmed, think-
ing they were about to be visited by one of those fearful
convulsions of nature lately disturbing our globe. The road
on Friday was perfectly impassable for about 800 ft. ; over
200 ft. towards the centre is sunk within the fields on both
sides very nearly 10ft., and the boundary wall in this
place is thrust over 12ft. out of range. The walling for
nearly the whole length is entirely shattered. The bank
on the hill side seems to have kept its range. The most
remarkable part of the settlement is to be seen on the
strand below the road, where a huge bank of tough clay
and gravel is thrown up to about 9ft. in height along
the whole extent ; this bank is not unlike a honey-
comb, so full of fissures is it. The inhabitants of a neigh-
bouring cottage, fearing every moment their house
would be swallowed up in one of those yawning caverns
(the nearest of which was not fifty feet from their doors),
remained up all Thursday night. It is said the reports
of the bursting road and walls could be heard miles
off in the dead calm of the night. The people of the
place say there were noises heard under the road
during the night, as of boiling water. This might be
accounted for, as the place abounds in springs and drains,
which it is supposed might have been the whole cause of
this strange occurrence. The foundation of the road is
formed of a strong and compact mass of sandy clay and
gravel.—Cork Berald.

FRENCH HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY.

The second annual dinner of the subscribers and friends
of the French Hospital and Dispensary, Lisle-street,
Leicester•square, was held on Tuesday evening in the
Hanover-square Rooms, when about 400 gentlemen sat
down to dinner. The chair was taken by Alderman Sir Ben-
jamin Phillips, and among the noblemen and gentlemen
present were his Royal Highness the Comte de Paris,
his Royal Highness the Due de Chartres, his Royal High-
ness the Duc d'Alencon, his Royal Highness the Duc de
Penthievre, his Excellency the Hon. Reverdy Johnson,
Minister for the United States, and his Excellency the Hadji
Mohsin Khan, Minister from the Shah of Persia.
This institution was opened on the Ist of December,
1867, for the relief of distressed foreigners of all nations
•seeking medical relief, and amalgamated with the French
Dispensary founded in 1861. It consists of four wards,
two for men and two for women, of a consulting room,
and of a dispensary. It is attended by the leading French
medical men of the metropolis, and by Sisters of Charity.
Since the date of its opening, a twelvemonth ago, it has
afforded relief to 150 in-patients, and 3,716 out-patients.
The CHAIRMAN proposed "The Diplomatic Body,"
coupling with the toast the name of the Hon. Reverdy
Johnson, Minister of the United States.
The toast having been enthusiastically honoured,
Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON, who was received with tre-
mendous cheering, said that the charity which they were
met to benefit was not merely confined to England,
nut was universal, and it had shewn its usefulness by
relieving nearly 4,000 persons during the past year. Who
could tell what the sufferings of these poor creatures
would have been but for the work done by this charity ?
Charity was of no creed and of no country, but
where there were gay and joyful hearts there was
charity. Great men were charitable, and he must allude
"o one of France's greatest men, her great jurist, who had
just passed from earth. He need scarcely name Pierre
Antoine Berryer—a man who combined the eloquence and
learning of Cicero and the fervour of Demosthenes with
the purity and earnestness of Cato. With regard to his own
country, it had incurred—at the period when it com-
menced a struggle which was now admitted even by Eng-
lishmen to have been a just struggle for independence—a
debt of gratitude to France which would never be for-
gotten by Americans. More recently, when America was
engaged in a sanguinary struggle, two of the sons of
France, illustrious by birth, and yet more illustrious by
their actions—he would not say any snore on that point, for
they were present—rushed to the aid of the States and
joined the standard which at last— thank God !—proved
triumphant. Their names were held in the highest pos-
sible esteem in the United States of America. They
had dared danger in the field, and had passed through
the fight unscathed. It might be that their lives were
spared for another purpose. They were all now present
at an act of charity, and he would ask, how could they
raise their arms against each other There had been some-
thing said as to a difficulty existing in the settlement of
the difference between England and the United States.
On that question he might say that the notion of an insu-
perable difficulty was purely a delusion. Though both
himself and Lord Stanley had been in tete-a-tete converse,
and had not been too reticent of what had passed in their
discussions, he might say that they had not told every-
thing, and Englishmen were not yet so clever as his own
countrymen at guessing and did not know the true condi-
tions of the question. He might say—and he hoped no
one would try to lower the prices of English Coniols or
American Five-twenties—that in his relations with Lord
Stanley and with the successor of Lord Stanley, who
seemed to be animated with the same spirit, there had
never been anything that gave reason to suspect
the most remote possibility that the friendship
between the two countries was not fixed upon a firm basis.
Whatever doubts might have been entertained in former
times, there need be none now. America had proved that
she could produce good soldiers, and England also knew
well enough that no nation in the world could excel her-
self in that respect. His own mission to England had
been one of peace. He bore in mind the text, " Blessed
are the peacemakers," and he esteemed that the man who
descended to posterity as a peacemaker would descend
surrounded by a halo greater and more enduring than
that of the great warrior. To make and preserve peace
was the duty of Christian rulers. The American
Government had set an example of peacemaking,
and he could only say that from the moment of his
landing upon the English shores he had determined to do
all that he could do to maintain a friendly feeling between
England and the United States. He had done this
without losing in any way his self-respect, the dignity
of his official station, or compromising the honour of his
Country.

At the conclusion of Mr. Johnson's speech, Mrs. Howard
Paul sang. "The Star•spangled Banner," which was
deservedly applauded.

Lord Derby is said to have " greatly regained his
strength" after his late severe attack of gout.

Mr. S. G. Osborne has been appointed private
secretary to the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, Secretary of
State; and Mr. F. G. Faithfull private secretary to Lord
Northbrook, Under Secretary of State for War.

NEW MIDDLE-CLASS SCHOOLS.—On Tuesday was
laid the foundation-stone of the London Middle-class
Schools, which are to be erected in Cowper-street, City-
toad. There is to be a central school in Finsbury, to
occupy an acre of ground, and to accommodate 1,000 boys.
A sum of £50,000 towards the building has been subscribed
by the merchants, bankers, and Corporation of London,
and the payment of a guinea per quarter for each scholar
will render the school self-supporting.
The deaths in London last week were less than
in that previous by 166, the numbers in the last six weeks
having been respectively 1,387, 1,506, 1,507, .1,561, 1,672,
and 1,486. The improvement was chiefly under the
headings of phthisis and bronchitis, there being 62 fewer
deaths caused by the former, and 76 caused by the latter.
The annual rates of mortality in fourteen of the principal
places, per 1,000 of the population, were as follows :
Dublin, 18 ; Bristol, 21; Birmingham and Sheffield, 22 ;
Hull, 23 ; London, 25 ; Salford, 27 ; Liverpool and Edin-
burgh, 28 ; Newcastle-cn-Tyne, 31 ; Bradford and Glasgow,
32 ; Manchester, 33 ; and Leeds, 35.

HUNTING IN ROME. —On Monday the Roman
hounds met at Prince Borghese's picturesque old castellated
farmhouse called Torre Nuova, six miles from Rome, on
the road to Palestrina. It was the first day of really good
sport this season. Out of compliment to Prince Borghese,
as owner of the estate, the master of the bounds, Prince
Bandini-Giustiniani, transferred his authority for the
clay to the Prince of Sulmona, Prince Borghese's son, who,
although a younger hand, was perhaps more successful in
his direction of the day's operations, as several capital
runs were obtained, and three foxes killed. The field was
very brilliant, a number of Roman and British beauties
being in the saddle. Among the former was the Princess
of Sulmona, nie Apponyi. Lord and Lady Lindsay were
out, and their daughters were riding, as were the Misses
Taratt. Miss Evelyn Wilbraham, sister of the Princess
of Teano, was among the foremost of those fair eques-
trians, and her good riding was rewarded with a brush.
Most of the young Roman nobles were out, and the
British element in the field was strengthened by the pre-
Bence of Captain W. Moore, who has the experience of
several seasons' fozhwatinklA and is a
capital risler,

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dee. 15.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, drove
in the grounds this morning.
Princess Louise went out, attended by Lady
Augusta Stanley.
Prince Arthur left the Castle for Woolwich.

THE RECENT GALES.-LIFEBOAT

SERVICES.

LOOE, CORNWALL, Dee. 14.
This afternoon, during a gale from the S.lir
(states R. Thomas, Esq.) a vessel was seen in die'
tress off Looe Island. The lifeboat Oxfordshire?
belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, Was
promptly launched through a heavy surf to her
assistance, and succeeded in bringing her and the
crew safely into harbour. The vessel was the
schooner " Mail," bound from Rouen to Giaogoiff
with a cargo of grain. She had left Plymouth on
Sunday, and had made the Lizard Light when ehe
encountered a tremendous gale, and shipped several
heavy seas, which shifted the cargo. The master+
who was a stranger to this coast, then tried to rllO
to the land, and would have beached his ship if pes,
sible had he not fortunately rounded Looe Island
and come in where he did. The vessel is not much
damaged. The prompt assistance rendered by the
lifeboat, there is no doubt, saved the schooner from
certain destruction, and probably the lives of the
crew also.

MARGATE, Dec. 12•

In continuation of his former report, E. Isaac'
son, Esq., now gives the details of the service
rendered yesterday by the lifeboat Quiver, of the
Lifeboat Society. It appears that the lifeboat was
launched in a strong wind from S.S.W. and heavy
rain in reply to signals from the light ship in the
Princes Channel ; she proceeded across the Margate,
and Tongue sands and up the Channel, and fotlo,
the Dandy " La Jeune Fanny" on the Gridler Sand
in a heavy sea. With much difficulty the boat WSS
taken alongside and her assistance requested by the
master. Some of the lifeboat's crew were then Pot
on board, a press of canvass was got on the vesse;
and she was forced over the bank, the tide rising at
the time, and brought into Margate Harbour'
From the position in which she lay she must 01
have been broken up and the crew been drown'
had not the lifeboat gone to her aid. She lit4s
constantly under water, and the sea repeatedly In':
ing a complete breach over her and the lifeboat'
and the service of the boat was attended with Wile
danger to her and the crew. The Ramsgate Life;
boat Bradford and the steam-tug Aid were we
taken out to the assistance of the same vessel, but
their services were not required.
HAUXLEY, NORT/161BERLASM
December 14. ing
The Lifeboat, Algernon and Eleanor, belong
to the Lifeboat Society, and stationed at this 1)15 el'e
went out at midnight, yesterday, during a gto
from E.S.E., and in a very heavy sea, in reply:b
signals from the brig Gloriana, of Ambles, wblive,
had struck on the Rin Busk Rock. When,
ever, the boat reached the vessel, the crew declined
to leave, and she, therefore, returned to shore
Ultimately a steamer succeeded in towing the hria
into harbour.

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DROGHEDA, IRELAND, Dee. it
A barque of about 300 tons burthen, fll`l3'l
Danish colours, came ashore this morning I°3°ll
a mile to the southward of the bar ,0
, and is likelY v
become a wreck. The lifeboat, The Old George
Irlam, of Liverpool, of the National Institution'
went out to her, but on arriving alongside, sP
found the vessel abandoned.
:DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN, Dec. ,
D. D. Lewin, Esq., reports that the.schoolo:
Three Janes, of Preston, bound from there to til°
port with a cargo of coals, while making for °e
harbour last night in an easterly gale, was drives
behind the pier ; the anchors were let go, but tr
ship laboured heavily, and she and the crew were irtif
imminent danger on account of the terrific Oho
rolling in. Notwithstanding the danger, 313/
possession of a fine new lifeboat, the harbour 0~,3
men immediately put out in one of their boats 3114
rescued and brought ashore the master and croviluis
six men. Had they remained content with t,„r.
brave service all would have been well, but 111-I''e
tunately five boatmen, with the view to salyggoci
put off again with the captain of the schooner,:3ej,
while attempting to reach her the boat caPs'z,vio
and all the poor fellows loSt their lives. Mr• lie.not
adds that the intelligence of the sad affair W3B the
brought to him until quite half an hour after to.
accident to the boat had happened, and uuf°rer
nately it was then, of course, too late for the s,OOl
vices of the Manchester and Salford Sunday Soho
lifeboat to be brought into requisition. Suehhot
the great roar of the surf that they did not
the rockets explode, or know that anything for
usual had happened. As soon as he received
et)ilp
mation of the sad affair the lifeboat was sr- 00
taken to the top of the harbour in jog
she might be needed, the people gLlese-
a very willing and helping hand to get her bad
Just Just previous to her arrival other salvors tio
managed to get on board the vessel, and withor
assistance of the rock brigade and the maul dr
dreds of spectators, who by this time had Otto
gated on the pier, she was successfully brought ate
port, and is but little damaged. It is unfortleif
that the lifeboat had not been sent for immediatiot
after the vessel drove behind the pier, as ill

case not a life would have been sacrificed.

MILITARY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

,
General Sir Robert Dacres, K.C.8., 1?-61'1,1e
merly Commandant of the garrison at Wocncle:
and now Colonel-Commandant of the 4th Brig-iata
Royal Artillery, is appointed to succeed the ,0,
Field Marshal General Sir Hugh Dalrymple nlef
G.C.8., as Colonel-Commandant of the Al3l*

Royal Horse Artillery.
The examination of candidates for commissino
the corps of Royal Engineers for admission t° re,
Royal Military College, Sandhurst, under the GB,
gulations dated Horse Guards, September bf I.on,
will commence at Chelsea Hospital this 113°r°re•
before Major-General W. C. E. Napier, Vicee,-;,01
sident, and the members of the Council of Ow
Education.
;of-

Orders were yesterday received at the °.(iir'of
Engineer establishment, Chatham, from the
..nor
Department, directing a detachment of noil'ob
miEsioned officers and men, selected from the dePot
companies at head-quarters, to proceed to °eto
for the purpose of augmenting the Royal
serving at that station. f C°l'
Yesterday a regimental board, consisting 49ar
C. W. Adair, Royal Marine Light Infantri
sident), Major R. Freer, 27th Regiment, and „a
W. E. Warraud, Royal Engineers, asserab:'oo
Chatham for the examination of officers at

garrison eligible for promotion. tllO
A grand fancy dress ball will be given-1100'
Commandant of Woolwich garrison, Majer-noo°
E. C. Warde, C. 8., R.A., in the recreation-1.-ot+
at the Royal Artillery Barracks, on FridaY
the 18th inst. The rooms are being tasteful.iti be
corated for the occasion, and everything
done to give eclat to the entertainment.
The following appointments was made Yesteo the
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Charles J. Hive?, la
Fly ; Navigating Sub-Lieut. Francis T. Ile 00
the Jackal ; Frederick L. Langdale, InielBb,iP,piti"
to the Cossack ; 11. Gribbell, assist.-F,
master in charge, to the Jackal; Thomas L' 13C1'
ford, assist.-surgeon, to the Jackal ; henry atld
Terry, assist.-clerk, to the Jackal; and Cb fir°
Salmon, engineer, to the Victory, for the
Queen. the
llier's,
THE NEW LAW OFFICERS.—Sir - • Co ,•ei-
Attorney-General, and Sir J. D. Coleridge, the SVolloir
General, were yesterday sworn in before the
cellor at the House of Lords.