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Wait for the End. A Story. By Mark Lemon. In
Three Volumes. Bradbury and Evans.

sition, being evident in the penmanship of our foremost ment of the English mind and character, but marking also champion of liberty. Different in style, but no less wel- incidentally the process of the formation of the language. Reference to our index for the year 1863 has taught us come, are the two other letters included in this number ; The Rev. G. W. Cox, well known to the public by his that, although we found room last year for a tolerably com- one large, blunt and straightforward, from Robert Burns; pleasant volume of 'Tales of the Gods and Heroes,' pubplete review of the more substantial literature, we have not another small and smooth, yet no less manly, from Mozart, lishes, this week, a companion volume of 'Tales of Thebes even yet recognised sufficiently the current amusement fur- written a few months before his death, showing how his and Argos,' in which the legends of Medusa, Danae, Pernished by the rhymers, novelists, and writers for the maga- great genius was too quickly wearing its poor earthly seus, Andromeda, Theseus, Edipus, Antigone, Ixion, and zines. Let us try to correct that oversight in 1864, by garment to rags, yet how he works on,-"because com- sixteen others are told, and there is prefixed to them a discussing the new novels once a month, and the substance" posing fatigues me less than repose. Besides," he con- philological introduction, showing how their myths are of the periodical literature at least once a quarter. Upon the tinues, "I have no longer anything to fear: I know by traced to an Aryan source, and explained according to the verse of the last twelve months we shall report specially, "my own feelings that the hour approaches and I must latest Indo-European speculations. and when that is done will see whether we cannot keep a shortly breathe my last. This is my funeral dirge. Yet monthly current account of the achievements of our "life has been so sweet, and my career opened before me rhymers. We had meant to report generally also on the "under such fortunate auspices! I have finished before I novelists of 1863, but that design we must give up, and "have enjoyed the fruits of my talent. But we cannot content ourselves with referring back occasionally to one or change our destiny; no one measures his own days; we two of the more notable. "must therefore be resigned."

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We wish Mr Netherclift all success in his scheme for bringing within reach of all, just as they were written, such characteristic letters as these. Each number is to contain six separate autographs, so issued that the whole series, when complete, may be arranged alphabetically or chronologically, according to each buyer's taste.

A pleasant novel, published towards the close of the last year, was Mr Mark Lemon's Wait for the End. It is above all things a Story; carefully contrived, skilfully developed, and to the last page entertaining. To nothing is this first consideration sacrificed. There is not a line of intrusive strain after fine writing, there is no flimsy pretension to artistic profundity, or labour for comic or 'sensational' effect; no kind of display, in short, but the quiet accomplishment of the true purpose of the BOOKS OF THE WEEK. story-teller in sustaining pleased attention to his tale. The plot is so natural in its course that exception has M.A., Q.C., Author of 'Hortensius,' &c., and late Fellow of Trinity BIOGRAPHY.-Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero.' By William Forsyth, been taken to the probability of a main incident that College, Cambridge. In Two Volumes. With Illustrations. (Post would have been taken for granted as a minor touch 8vo, pp. 320, 299.) Murray. of life and nature in any sensation novel, for the day LITERATURE. English Writers. The Writers before Chaucer; with is not yet gone by of straining at gnats and swallowing Henry Morley. (8vo, pp. 804.) Chapman and Hall.-Tales of Thebes an Introductory Sketch of the Four Periods of English Literature. By camels. Two persons in Mr Lemon's story are half- and Argos. "By the Rev. George W. Cox, M.A., late Scholar of Trinity brothers, one of whom, Gilbert Norwold, goes wrong and College. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 307.) Longman and Co. is befriended by the other, Gerald. But Gerald when Character of St Paul. I. Tact and Presence of Mind. II. Tenderness RELIGION. The Hulsean Lectures for 1862. Five Lectures on the arrived at man's estate is passionately reviled by his father and Sympathy. III. Conscientiousness and Integrity. IV. Thanksfor a base crime of his half-brother's; his half-brother giving and Prayer. V. Courage and Perseverance. With a Sermon preached before the University on Ascension Day, 1863. By the Rev. J. standing treacherously by, and the only tangible evidence S. Howson, D.D., Principal of the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool; in the matter being a piece of paper that appears to convict Joint Author of the Life and Epistles of St Paul,' and Author of an the innocent. Mr Mark Lemon upon this makes the high-Essay on Deaconesses.' (8vo, pp. 282.) Longman and Co.-- A Maof Religious Instruction.' By Albert Réville, D.D., Pastor at spirited youth's blood stir with resentment at injustice. If Rotterdam. (8vo, pp. 303.) Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Lyra Dohis father knows no more of him than now to revile him as mestica.' Second Series. Christian Songs and Hymns. Translated a thief, why should he bandy words? If a thief, why not from the German of C. J. P. Spitta and other favourite Hymn Writers, a liar? The only evidence beyond his word is that which by Richard Massie. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 175.) Longman and Co. SCIENCE.The Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects.' seems to tell against him, and his brother would dispute By Thomas Davis. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 160.) Hardwicke. his word. Gerald, therefore, leaves Gilbert to his shame, New Edition. (Post svo, pp. 304.) Smith, Elder, and Co. EDUCATION.-'Household Education.' By Harriet Martineau. A accepts the decree of banishment, casts off his name, and FICTION. The Trials of the Tredgolds. A Novel. By Dutton proudly resolves to found for himself a new name and a Cook, Author of 'Paul Foster's Daughter,' &c. In Three Volumes. new house of untarnished honour. This may not have been (Post svo, pp. 307, 311, 319.) Low, Son, and Marston. The Smuggler Chief.' A Novel. By Gustave Aimard. In Two Volumes. (Post Svo, a wise thing to do, but young men acting in hot blood are pp. 332, 325.) Maxwell and Co. not celebrated for the mature wisdom of their decisions.

A passionate vow, a generous extravagance of action, that subsides into calm wisdom never more surely than when, as in this story, there is the influence, of a sound-hearted woman's love at work upon the after life, such is the common course of nature when the heart of a young man is sharply stung.

PAMPHLETS.- La Question Mexicaine et la Colonisation Française.'

The Hulsean lectures on 'The Character of St Paul,' by Dr Howson of Liverpool, one of the authors of the standard English Life of St Paul,' are published this week in a book that looks like the sort of volume that would have delighted the heart of Dean Colet of old.

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Dr Réville's Manual of Religious Instruction' is in three parts, entitled Religious History, Teachings of Jesus, and Religious Doctrine.' Its theology is, in the English sense, orthodox; but its spirit is that of liberty, accepting free inquiry, progress and change, as the necessities of a true Protestant church, and love to God and man, as the basis of the Christian religion.

The second series of the Lyra Domestica' is divided into two parts: the first contains a translation of the concluding portion of Spitta's Psalter und Harfe, the second of whom Paul Gerhardt is the most prominent. To these consists of translations from favourite German hymn writers, are added a few original hymns and versions of the Psalms. We can say at once of this book that it is executed with good literary taste as well as true religious feeling.

Mr Davies's little book on the Preparation and Mounting of Microscopic Objects' we can also commend at once, for we have looked through it sufficiently to see that it is full, clear, practical, and quite trustworthy. There are half a dozen good little companion books to the use of the microscope, but most beginners learn the manipulation of the instrument from those whose example led them into one of the most delightful ways of original study and unceasing amusement. The great concern of the young microscopist is to excel in the preparation and mounting of objects, an excellence not easy of attainment unless he has lived in the same house with an expert, and minutely watched his proceedings. Even the microscopist who is tolerably expert, if he be not a very old hand at his work, and very familiar with the ways of others, will be glad to glance over the pages of a little book like this. To the beginner it gives just the compact details that he wants.

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are also four volumes of verse.

A new and cheap edition of Miss Martineau's 'HouseVERSE.The Pearl of the Rhone,' and other Poems. By William hold Education' is among the Books of the Week; and a Duthie, Author of 'A Tramp's Wallet.' (Post 8vo, pp. 170.) Hard-certain good is assured by the consequent diffusion of its wicke. Historical Odes and other Poems.' By Richard Watson Dixon, M.A. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 160.) Smith, Elder, and Co.- Effie wholesome lessons. Campbell and other Poems.' By Joseph Truman. (Fcap. 8vo. pp. 54.) Poems. By John Campbell Shairp. (Fcap. 8vo, pp. 211.) Macmillan the Tredgolds,' and a translation from Gustave Aimard of Longman and Co. Kilmahoe.' A Highland Pastoral, with other The novels of this week are Mr Dutton Cook's Trials of and Co. ANNUAL.The London Diocesan Calendar and Clergy List.' 1864. The Smuggler Chief,' by Sir Lascelles Wraxall. There (J. H. and J. Parker.) (Imperial svo, pp. 40.) London: Baillière. Paris: Dentu. Character Among the new pamphlets of this week the reader of the Southern States of America.' Letter to a Friend who had joined should not overlook Dean Stanley's first sermon after his the Southern Independence Association. By F. W. Newman, late Pro-installation at Westminster, a couple of sermons by Dr fessor at University College, London. (8vo, pp. 14.) Manchester: Union and Emancipation Society's Depot, Piccadilly. Horrors of the Trench, and Professor F. W. Newman's Character of the Virginian Slave Trade and of the Slave-Rearing Plantations. By John Southern States,' a hearty denunciation of some of the Hawkins Simpson, Author of Napoleon 111. on England,' &c. (Fcap. wrongs of slavery. o, pp. 64.) A. W. Bennett, Bishopsgate street Without.-A Political Poor Relation.' "Patriæ Infelici Fidelis." (Demy 8vo, pp. 50.) Ridgway, Piccadilly. Address to the Proprietors by the Committee of the pp. 32. Bury: Heap.-'The Salt of the Earth.' God sitting as a Refiner.' Two Sermons preached at Ordinations of the Lord Bishop of Oxford, by Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Kildare, and late Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford. (12mo, pp. 48.) J. H. and J. Parker,-A Reasonable, Holy, and Living Sacrifice.' A Sermon preached by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Dean of Westminster, in Westminster Abbey, on January 10, 1864, being the day following his Installation. (8vo, pp. 26.) J. H. and

It is a high compliment to the truthfulness of colouring in this story of Wait for the End, that such an incident should in its context appear strained beyond the warranty of our experience of life. In fact, the tone of the book is peculiarly suggestive of a ripe and genial experience. It is a story unaffectedly told by a writer who is content simply and unreservedly to give his natural mind free play in the telling. Men's true lives are not a joke to him, and he often speaks with a plain human earnestress in his own simple, genial way. It is only when the reader finds this London and North-Western Railway Shareholders' Association.' (8vo, second edition last week, was one of the most terrific that perhaps ever

or that scene afterwards dwelling like a picture of real life in his memory, and has begun to analyse the source of his satisfaction in a book of which the author, for his own part, laid no ostentatious claim on his applause, that he sees how much ability and worth have here gone to the making of an English story.

J. Parker.

The two elegant volumes of Mr Forsyth's 'Life of Cicero,' The Autograph Souvenir: a Collection of Autograph illustrated with a few sketches of localities and portraits Letters, Interesting Documents, &c., selected from the from medals, are dedicated to Lord Brougham as a Cicero British Museum, and from other Sources, Public and of our own time, and designed "to exhibit Cicero not only Private. Executed in Fac-simile by Frederick" as an orator and a politician, but as he was in private life George Netherclift, Lithographic Artist. With Letter-surrounded by his family and friends." The biography press Transcriptions, and Occasional Translations, is a labour of love, and while no source of information has &c., by Richard Sims, of the British Museum. been overlooked, it is especially founded on the works of Published in Monthly Numbers. No. I. F. G. Cicero himself, of which, says Mr Forsyth, "I have been, "during a great period of my life, an assiduous student, "attracted to them by the irresistible fascination of their " contents and their style."

Netherclift.

This is the first instalment of as useful and interesting an antiquarian work as we have met with for many a day. Mr Netherclift has undertaken to give lithograph copies,The first of three ample volumes upon 'English Writers,' and the execution of this first part is faultless,-of charac- which describes as a complete work the Writers before teristic letters by famous persons, English and foreign, Chaucer,' is the beginning of "an attempt to tell, with valuable not only to the historical student and the autograph" something of the sustained interest of national biography, collector, who will be thus enabled to detect the hand-"the story of the English mind." An introductory sketch writing of unsigned letters and notes that may come in traces, in 116 pages, the plan of the whole work, and extheir way, but also to every one of the general public who plains generally its division of English literature into the cares to see how the great people of former times have put four periods, of the formation of the language, of Italian pen to paper, and to trace their characters in the style of influence, of French influence, and of English popular intheir writing. The number before us, for instance, gives fluence. The same division has been, in occasional reviews, two long specimens of Queen Elizabeth's bold scrawl, in a more slightly sketched by the same hand in the literary couple of letters addressed to James the Sixth of Scotland, columns of this journal. The book, therefore, is one upon the one offering various arguments for the necessity of which it will not become us to express any critical opinion. putting his mother to death, and the other, written after The main part of the present volume comprehends the period the thing had been done, making violent asseveration of the formation of the language, and endeavours to tell, of her innocency in the matter. These are followed with considerable fulness of detail, the spirit of our literaby a short letter, boldly written, of Gustavus Vasa's, and ture from the beginning to the time of Chaucer. It gives another, bolder still, from Oliver Cromwell to General about 100 pages to the Celtic times and their literature, Fairfax. Strength of character, without doubt, is shown upwards of 200 pages to a history of Anglo-Saxon literature, in all these kingly letters, the greatest strength, and at and 300 pages to the succeeding literature of the Anglothe same time the greatest honesty and kindness of dispo- Norman times, tracing especially the continuous develop

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THE EXPLOSION IN THE MERSEY, as reported by telegram in our took place. The particulars are as follows: On Saturday week the barque Lotty Sleigh, Captain Webber, belonging to Messrs Hatton and Cookson, left the King's dock, and proceeded to her anchorage in the Mersey, opposite the Monks' ferry. The vessel had 940 quarter casks of powder on board, in all about eleven and a half tons, which was stowed away in the after hold of the vessel, immediately beneath the captain's state-room. Shortly after six o'clock yesterday week the steward went into the cabin, and was in the act of filling a lamp from a can of petroleum oil when, by some means at present unexplained, the oil became ignited. The steward dropped both the lamp and the can, and soon the flaming contents were spreading along the cabin, apartment. To arrest its progress was impossible, and shortly aftersetting fire to the curtains and bed-clothes of the captain's sleeping wards the fiery stream poured through the grating of the lazarette, and at once communicated with the cargo in the afterhold. It was immediately seen that no hope of subduing the flames could be entertained, and the Rockferry steamer Wasp, which was passing at the side and took off the crew, who, in the hurry to escape the flames, left time, on being hailed by the crew of the burning vessel, hove alongall their clothes on board. This was about seven o'clock, and in about twenty minutes after the contents of the vessel blew with a report impossible to describe-the shock was so terrible and alarming. was severely felt, and created indescribable terror. The moment the Its effect in every part of Liverpool, and for nearly five miles around, shock took place the earth trembled as if convulsed by an earthquake the most solid blocks of warehouses, offices, and private dwellings were shaken to their base-doors, locked and bolted, were thrown wide open, and thousands of squares of glass, both in Liverpool and the through the greater portion of the streets, were extinguished, rendering Cheshire townships, were smashed, while the entire line of lamps, it difficult to pass from place to place, and jeopardising the safety of those who rushed about to ascertain the cause of the consternation The fear which prevailed was particularly experienced by the poorer ance from some unknown danger, and dragging their helpless children classes, who poured forth from court and alley, screaming for deliverat their heels. The spectacle which the burning vessel presented at the moment of the explosion was one of the grandest, yet most fearful that could have been witnessed. The flames had enwrapped the whole of the lower portion of the vessel, but had not burst forth and ignited black hull belched forth a hideous volume of flames, which illuminated the rigging. Suddenly a deafening sound burst upon the ear, and the the heavens, and cast its lurid light over both sides of the Mersey. The masts and yards were pitched high in the air, and after a few fantastic evolutions fell hissing into the water. The hull was riven in there was nothing to be discerned where only one hour before rode a a thousand pieces, and after the smoke and flame had cleared away noble vessel at anchor. Happily no lives were lost. The vessel, together with the cargo, we understand was insured.

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THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

with sincere satisfaction the determination on the part of the King to and Bavaria, and of the Frankfort Diet, but by one single minister,
maintain the liberty and independence of Denmark in face of the who alone should be entitled to speak in the name of the whole of
demands of foreign Powers for the withdrawal of the November Consti- Germany, to defend her interests, advocate her policy, and stipulate in
tution. The task your Majesty has inherited from your predecessor- favour of her future.
viz., to secure for the Danish kingdom an independent position in the
Debate in the Volksthing.

In replying to an address presented to him by a deputation from the
town of Ralster, his Majesty said:"In the event of a war for the pro-
tection of the independence of Denmark, if all forsake me, I hope for
the support of the Danish people."

Advance of the Austrian and Prussian Troops into
Slesvig.

21.-It is believed here that several German States bordering on the Baltic which did not give their adhesion to the Paris declaration of 1856 on maritime rights will send out privateer steamers. It is asserted that the authorities of Hamburg have already voted the necessary funds.

Military Affairs. From information received in Washington on the 5th inst., it is whole monarchy-will be fraught with difficulties, and may cost bloody believed that the appearance of General Early's force in the Shenan-sacrifices. But they will be willingly borne by the people to preserve COPENHAGEN, Jan. 20.-The first debate on the Address in the doah Valley is intended only to prevent future raids in that region by the inseparable union between Slesvig and the kingdom. We desire Volksthing of the Rigsdag took place to-day. The different parties the Federals, and to protect the railroads to the South. General Kelly that the German and Danish speaking portions of the population of declared that an unconditional adherence to the Constitution of the is amply prepared to prevent any successful raid against the Baltimore Slesvig may enjoy the liberty which we possess. That liberty and the 18th of November is a pledge of the independence of Denmark. and Ohio Railroad. The rebel guerillas continue to annoy General good understanding between the men elected by the people form the The Flyneposten of to-day says: "In the reply of the Government Meade's outposts. On the 4th inst. the provost-marshal at Bealton strongest link between Slesvig and the kingdom, and between the to the Austrian and Prussian ultimatum it should be distinctly deStation was shot by them, and a bearer of despatches was captured country and the King." clared that Denmark will not tolerate the occupation of Slesvig by between Stevensburg and Warrenton Junction. A correspondent of those Powers, but that she would repel by force of arms such an hostile the New York Herald says that stirring news may soon be looked for act as a decided breach of international law." from the army of the Potomac, but that the precise nature of the movement contemplated cannot be divulged. Despatches from Cairo state that General Grierson was in full pursuit of the rebels under Forrest, and had followed them south of Coldwater, Tennessee. Forrest is reported to have received reinforcements from General S. D. Lee from Okolona. The weather was intensely cold, and several negro soldiers had been frozen to death at Island No. 10. The Mississippi at that point is closed, and the Ohio clogged with ice. There is no direct news yet from Knoxville or Chattanooga later than that which repre sented both armies to be settled into winter quarters, with no prospect of immediate activity. Richmond papers write despondingly of the events of the past year. The Examiner of Dec. 31 says that the gloomiest year of the struggle has been concluded, and that neither the hopes of intervention that buoyed up the spirits of the Confederates in 1861, or the victory at Fredericskburg in 1862, cheers them at the conclusion of 1863. It admits that the repulse of Meade at Mine Run, and the battle of Bean's Station, afford but a poor effect to the severe loss inflicted on the South in the "murderous assault on Knoxville." The Examiner concludes as follows: "Unreasoning confidence has been succeeded by depression as unreasoning, and the Yankees are congratulating themselves on the result, which they hawk about as 'the beginning of the end.' We have a heavy score to pay off, and we know it. This may depress us, but our enemies need not be jubilant over our depression, for we are determined to meet them."

Governor Seymour's Message.

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BERLIN, Jan. 16.-The semi-official Nord-Deutsche Zeitung of
FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Jan. 20.-Of the 17,000,000 thalers
this evening says:-"During the last few days great activity has been voted by the Federal Diet upon the 15th ult., to meet the costs of
shown by the military authorities in Berlin in consequence of the reso- Federal execution, 5,000,000 have been already expended. Another
lution passed by the Federal Diet on the 14th inst. The plan of mili- instalment of 4,000,000 thalers is upon the point of being paid.
tary operations has been determined, with the assistance of Austrian
CHRISTIANIA, Jan. 21.-A Royal proclamation has been issued con-
officers. The Austrians will, it is said, avail themselves of the Lower vening an extraordinary Session of the Norwegian Storthing for the
Silesian Railway, and avoid passing through Saxony. The declaration 14th March.
of Saxony at the sitting of the Federal Diet of the 14th inst. will ALTONA, Jan. 21.-The Federal Commissioners have issued a
hardly prevent the entry of Austrian and Prussian troops into Slesvig circular to the Holstein and Lauenburg police authorities, which says:
as soon as the short delay has expired which is allowed by the ultima-"The attempts made in several places for the organization of Defence
tum addressed to Denmark by the two great German Powers."
Societies oblige us to call the attention of the authorities to the

20.-The Neue Preussische Kreuz Zeitung of this evening illegality of such steps, by which complications must necessarily be
says: "News has been received here from Copenhagen to the entailed upon the country as upon individual communes. The police
effect that the Danish Government had refused to comply with the anthorities must repress all such attempts with the utmost energy, and
summons of the two great German Powers." Respecting this alleged immediately report their proceedings."
refusal the Times of yesterday says: "We are informed that the reply VIENNA, Jan. 21.-The official ministerial explanation in the con-
of the Danish Government to the ultimatum of Austria and Prussia ference of the Finance Committee of the policy pursued by the great
was not, as generally stated, an absolute refusal, but was to the effect German Powers relative to Slesvig appears to have been so far satis-
that a longer time than forty-eight hours was necessary for the con- factory that the conflict apprehended between the Government and the
sideration of such an important question." The Prussian and Austrian Lower House is not to be expected. A strong intermediate party
troops will now march without further delay into Slesvig, in order to having been formed, the credit demanded by the Government is not
compel Denmark to fulfil her engagements. Field-Marshal von Wrangel likely to be refused.
will proceed with his staff at the end of this week to Holstein, and
thence to Slesvig.
21.-A Royal order, dated the 18th inst., directs Prince Frederick
Henry Albert to join the Staff of Field-Marshal Wrangel,
The Ministers of Prussia and Austria are detained in Copenhagen
by the stoppage of steam navigation.

halting.

The documents laid by Count Rechberg before the Finance Committee of the Lower House included the protocols of the Federal Diet, the instructions of the Diet to the Federal Commissioners in Holstein, and an authentic copy of the stipulations of the Treaties of 1851 and 1852. Count Rechberg further stated that the co-operation of Austria with Prussia was based upon formal State treaties, and in the SlesvigHolstein question specially upon a military convention.

Chamber to-morrow.

The annual Message of Governor Seymour discusses at length some of the national measures. The Enrolment Act is denounced as "injurious to the civil, industrial, and military interests of the country." The Governor shows, by an array of figures and statistics, that the number of volunteers from New York State during the past year was over 56,000, while the number of conscripts delivered was only 2,557. "The attempt to fill our armies by drafting," says the Governor, "has BRESLAU, Jan. 17.-A conference of railway directors was held been abortive. While it gave no useful result, it disturbed the public here yesterday, at which the plans for running special trains to DRESDEN, Jan. 21.-The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies mind, carried anxiety into the workshops, the fields, and the homes of convey the Austrian troops were arranged. Prussian and Austrian on the Slesvig-Holstein question has made fresh propositions, to the our citizens. The draft not only fails to fill our armies, but it produces officers have arrived here to superintend the operations. The transit effect that the Government of Saxony should energetically defend the discontent in the service, it is opposed to the genius of our political of the Austrians through Prussia will begin on the 20th, and last for dignity and authority of the Federal Diet against all measures undersystem; it alienates our people from the Government, and is injurious several days. taken in opposition to the resolutions of that body, and should interfere to the industrial pursuits of the country." The July riots in New HANOVER, Jan. 17.-Despite the refusal of Hanover to agree at the Diet for the purpose of obtaining the recognition of Duke York are thoroughly discussed, and it is claimed that the city and to the latest proposal of the great Powers, it has taken no share in the Frederick of Augustenburg. In case, however, it should not be possible State authorities put down the rioters with but little assistance from the protest against them. Prussia will, therefore, experience no difficulty to obtain an immediate vote of the Diet on the succession question, national forces. The right claimed by the President to do acts beyond in conveying its troops-in fact, the preparations are all made to for- the Saxon Government should demand the admission of a representathe legislative power of Congress, by virtue of his position as Com-ward the men the day after to-morrow from Minden to Harburg by tive of the Duke of Augustenburg to the Diet, and in common with mander in-Chief of the army, is deprecated by Governor Seymour as forty-two extra trains. According to the Courier about 32,000 men other loyal States of the Confederacy cause an immediate increase of unnecessary, and likely to overthrow the cherished principles of the will be thus dispatched. The troops are to travel straight through the Federal troops in Holstein; finally, that Slesvig should be occupied Government. The war should be maintained to restore States to their Hanover to Harburg, across the Elbe, and so on to Holstein without by loyal Federal troops. These propositions will be discussed by the former position, not to obliterate them, and a generous spirit in this hour of national triumph is recommended. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Jan. 19.-At an extra sitting of The latest advices are of the 9th inst. There is no important news the Federal Diet to-day the representatives of Austria and Prussia gave The Aspect of Slesvig. from General Meade's army. A detachment of Confederate cavalry explanations of a tranquillising character, and stated that it was not The correspondent of the Daily News at Slesvig writes on the 14th drove in the Federal pickets at Flint Hill, near Fairfax Court-house, the intention of those Powers either to interfere with the Federal as follows:-The Fiord, or arm of the Baltic that penetrates the counon the night of the 5th inst., but retreated after exchanging a few troops or the Federal Commissioners. They merely wished to obtain try up to this city, and known as the Schlei, presents at this moment a shots with the skirmishers sent out to meet them. Despatches from the sanction of the Diet to march through the Duchy of Holstein. most animated appearance, as in several places thousands of persons Cumberland, Maryland, state that the Confederates in West Virginia These communications were referred to the committee on the affairs of are busily occupied in sawing through the ice and heaping up the are very active. The garrison at Petersburg was surrounded on the Slesvig-Holstein. blocks lifted out of the water, by which an open channel of some thirty 8th by the Confederates, who have driven the Federals out of Burling- VIENNA, Jan. 19-The Emperor addressed the officers and men of feet wide is obtained. The sawing is chiefly done by the soldiers, and ton. Cumberland, Maryland, is threatened with immediate attack by the Execution troops, intended for Slesvig, at the review yesterday. the ice taken out by civilians, the local fishermen, who receive for their Fitzhugh Lee and Rosser. The passenger trains on the Baltimore and His Majesty said:"I have assembled you for a farewell greeting. day's labour two rigsdalers and four maiks (about 5s. 6d. sterling) each, Ohio Railroad have been stopped, and great excitement prevails. The Keep on good terms with your Prussian brethren in arms. I know which is not only good pay, but fully indemnifies them for not being Confederates are reported to be moving in three columns. They cap- that you will do your duty as if you were at home, and should it come able to pursue their usual avocation of fishing. They therefore cheertured a train of thirty-six waggons on the 8th. General Imboden has to blows, will show your courage." fully lend their assistance to complete the work, and there is not a parbeen attacked at Winchester and driven back. A heavy snow-storm 21.-The Austrian troops destined for service in Slesvig commenced ticle of truth in the reports circulated by certain German newspapers prevailed. Coles' Maryland cavalry encountered a large force of Con- their march yesterday. of the fishermen having refused to work. Notwithstanding the severity federates near Rectortown, Virginia, recently, and lost fifty-seven out HAMBURG, Jan. 20.- One brigade of Danish infantry was transferred of the winter, the health of the army is much more satisfactory than of seventy-five men. A despatch, dated Cumberland Gap, January 6, to-day from Slesvig to Flensburg, to which place the military chests of announces that an overwhelming force of Confederates, estimated at two brigades have been sent. All battalions composed of Slesvigers 4,000, under General Sam Jones, made a descent upon the Federal and Holsteiners will be distributed amongst the Danish regiments in troops, numbering about 300, at Jonesboro', Virginia. The Federals, such a manner that every fifth man will be a German. The first Pruswho were guarding a region which was the main reliance for forage sian troops are expected to arrive here to-day. The troops intended to for the Union troops in that department, made a desperate resistance, pass on will remain here for the night. The Austrians quartered in but finally surrendered, after losing sixty men in killed and wounded. this city are to leave for Slesvig. The wind is in the south-west, with Latest advices from Chattanooga disclose no important events in that two degs. above freezing point. region. The weather had been very severe, and several soldiers had been frozen to death at Bridgeport. Many of the troops were re-enlisting for the war. The Confederate lines were thirty-five miles from Chattanooga. General Joe Johnson was reported to be making every exertion for increasing the number and efficiency of his troops. The Confederates are making great efforts to complete the railroad from Greensboro' to Danville, Virginia, in order that they may have by spring a double means of communication between Richmond and the Gulf States. There is nothing definite from Knoxville or Longstreet's army. Latest accounts represent Longstreet's position to be "stubborn and strong," as he had open communication with Virginia and North Carolina, and was believed to be receiving reinforcements.

KIEL, Jan. 21.-The Saxon battalion stationed here has suddenly
received marching orders. It will leave to-day for Nordtorf, and
advance to morrow to Hohenwestedt, in the north-west of Holstein,
where the Saxon brigade will be concentrated. The Austrian troops
are expected to arrive here to-morrow.
After the departure of the Saxon battalion the fire brigade of the
Turners occupied all the military posts of this town.

might have been expected, and the number on the sick list has never exceeded four per cent. They chiefly suffer from catarrhs and colds brought on from the intensity of this inclement weather. Great attention has been paid to their being well supplied with warm clothing, and they are daily accustomed to winter marching and other military manœuvres. Those detachments quartered near the Eyder and the canal are no doubt subject to hard duty, as they have to keep a watchful eye, and furnish the men detailed for pickets, vedettes, and outposts. But they are relieved at stated periods by other troops. In spite of the frost, the Trene, the Osterby, the Rheider, and other rivers, are scarcely passable for foot passengers, much less for bodies of troops, as the constancy the ice from attaining any great degree of thickness. The provisionof the springs issuing from the warm swampy bogs prevents effectively ing of the army has been duly cared for, and the service organised and executed with great regularity. There are four fixed divisional magazines of food, two here and two at Flensburg, besides which are nine

Earl Russell's Despatch to the Federal Diet.

Important Resolution of the Wurtemberg Chambers. moveable brigade magazines that follow the motions of their respecSTUTTGARD, Jan. 20.-The Chamber of Deputies to-day unani- tive brigades. The most perfect arrangements are made for cooking, mously adopted the following resolution, signed by Herr Probst and and a large field butchery has been organised, in which sixty oxen and some other members :-"Considering that, according to their latest 100 pigs are killed every day for distribution to the troops. Waggons declaration, relative to the Slesvig-Holstein question, the great Ger- are also in abundance, ready to carry the provisions to the different man Powers appear to decline to submit to the decisions passed by a corps, even in the most distant cantonments. GERMANY AND DENMARK. majority of the Federal Diet, the States forming the majority must on their side be prepared to give effect to the claims of Germany on the Summons on the Part of Austria and Prussia. Duchies, in accordance with the resolutions passed. Since also the The representatives of Austria and Prussia at Copenhagen presented expected decision of the succession question will be followed by war The following is a translation of Earl Russell's despatch to the on the 16th a summons to the Danish Government, to abrogate imme. between Denmark and the German Confederation, and that to defend Federal Diet of the 31st of December, 1863, published in the German diately the Constitution of November, and intimating that, in the event the rights of Germany, and, under the circumstances, to carry out the papers :-"Foreign Office, London, Dec. 31, 1863.-The events which of a refusal to comply with their demand, they would at once quit the resolutions of the Diet, demands all the powers of those States, and that have taken place since the death of King Frederick VII. have produced capital, and that their respective Governments would forthwith proceed therefore immediate steps of a military nature must be taken, the a lively impression upon the Government of the Queen. At first to take further measures to obtain the fulfilment of their wishes. The undersigned move that the Upper House do present the following appearances wore a favourable aspect. The successor of Frederick VII. limit of time fixed by the Ministers was the 18th. urgent request to the Royal Government. 1. That the army of Wur- had been recognized in both Schleswig and Holstein, as well as in The Dagbladet of Monday says of this demand, which it terms an temberg be at once placed on a war footing, andļa certain number of Denmark proper. A few professors and judges declined to take the "ultimatum," that it is self-evident no idea can be entertained of com- troops be placed at the immediate disposition of the Confederation, to oath of allegiance, but, on the whole, tranquillity and obedience were pliance with it, and adds:-"What will happen then depends upon preserve the rights of the Duchies. 2. That the loyal German States generally observed. Recognition by France, Great Britain, Russia, eventualities in Europe and Germany. We may observe that, in case should be urgently requested by the Confederation to adopt the same and Sweden followed this internal assent. In Germany a very different of war, the German armies will require from three to four weeks to measures. 3. To request that the territories of those States, and more spirit reigned. Some of the States and their rulers who had acceded collect the necessary strength. By that time the Danish army will be especially their railways, should not be made use of for the transport of to the Treaty of London of 1852 have been the first to uphold the prelarger than ever, and the fortified works be able to hold in check an troops which have not been called out by the Diet." tensions of the Duke of Augustenburg. Austria and Prussia have enemy nearly twice as strong." Baden and the Congress. adopted a more moderate course, for they have not altogether rejected STOCKHOLM, Jan. 21.-The threatened occupation of Slesvig has the title of Christian IX. to the throne. They made the recognition given a great impulse to the movement in favour of Denmark through- FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, Jan. 20.-It is stated that Herr von of his right dependent on the accomplishment of the engagements out Sweden and Norway. Rogenbach, Minister for Foreign Affairs in Baden, has addressed a entered into by his predecessor in 1851 and 1852. The Government of Addresses have been voted, committees are being formed for col-circular to the minor States of Germany, the grand duchies, duchies, the Queen cannot admit either of these views. It cannot recognize any lecting subscriptions, volunteers are enlisted, and military armaments principalities, free towns, &c. In this diplomatic document Herr von claims of the Duke of Augustenburg which may be at variance with are continued with increased activity in both countries. Rogenbach, anticipating the realisation of the Emperor Napoleon's the obligations entered into by her Majesty in consequence of the project of assembling a congress or conference upon general European Treaty of London of 1852. The Government of the Queen considersaffairs, adduces various reasons to show that in case Germany should that Denmark should remain faithful to engagements already conbe present at this great meeting, she should not be represented by the tracted, but cannot admit that the right of Christian IX. to the crown plenipotentiaries of Prussia, Austria, Hanover Saxony, Wurtemberg, is at all dependent on the fulfilment of those engagements. While,

Proceedings of the Danish Rigsdag.

The draft of the address was read on Monday in the Rigsdag (the special assembly for the kingdom). It says:-"The House has seen

CURRENT EVENTS.

infant Prince is all that can be desired. On Monday week her Majesty planted an oak in the grounds of Frogmore House to commemorate the birth of the young Prince; and, before leaving Windsor, her Majesty expressed her high appreciation of Dr Brown's

[A mark (*) is attached to the Events discussed or more fully nar- skill and attention, and was graciously pleased to present him with a rated in this week's EXAMINER.]

DENMARK:

FOREIGN.

Danish Government abrogation of the Constitution of November
Jan. 16. The representatives of Austria and Prussia demand of the
within two days.*

very valuable garnet ring set with diamonds, in acknowledgment of his services in connection with the event.

therefore, her Majesty's Government most readily recognized the suc-
cession of Christian IX., it insisted, in conjunction with France and
Russia, on the fulfilment of all the obligations of his crown in con-
nexion with Germany. Nor can her Majesty's Government doubt the
inclination of the King to fulfil these obligations. By birth a German
prince, there can be no question of his desire to treat his German and
Danish subjects with equal favour. Whatever ground of complaint the
partisanship of the Danish officials of the late King may have afforded,
it is thought that these causes of dissatisfaction will in all probability
be set aside in consequence of the equal treatment and impartial pro-
ceedings of the new sovereign. Unfortunately, two hindrances oppose
accomplishment of the views of the friends of peace. The first is the
Constitution of Denmark-Schleswig, accepted last November by the
Rigsraad at Copenhagen; the second is the attitude of Germany. The
new Constitution of Denmark seems to her Majesty's Government to tend Slesvig.*
to an incorporation of Schleswig, and, as such, to be opposed to the obli-AMERICA:
gations of the Danish Crown. In fact, the defence of the Danish Minister Jan. 1.-Four negroes call at the Executive mansion, Washington,
on this point is far from satisfactory; but the observations of M. Hall, in and are presented to Mr Lincoln. This is the first occurrence of the
reference to the other point-viz., the present attitude of Germany, are kind in American history.
very important. His arguments may be stated nearly as follows:-Den- 5.-Mr Lincoln, in a Message to Congress, recommends that the
mark has withdrawn the Royal patent of last March for Holstein. She resolution prohibiting the payment of bounties to volunteers after
has peacefully submitted to Federal execution, although she did not this day, recently adopted, be reconsidered, and the time extended
believe it based on Federal right. The retractation of the Constitution to the 1st prox.
recently introduced for Denmark and Schleswig is now demanded. But
what security is offered to her that this will be the last concession that
will be demanded? A new Constitution for Schleswig and a common
Constitution for the monarchy are already put forward as reasons out
of which new claims and further demands are to be deduced in future.
When, lastly, may Denmark hope for a stop to these incessant require-
ments? If her independence is to be preserved, it would be better
that she should now offer resistance than allow herself to be weakened

on the subject of the murderer Townley.*
Jan. 15.-The Derby magistrates reply to the letter of Sir G. Grey,

18.-Denmark does not comply with this demand.
21.-The Prussian and Austrian troops begin their march upon Regt., for gallant conduct in New Zealand.

by continual but useless concessions. Although in the opinion of her Majesty's Government M. Hall takes up an erroneous position, it yet finds much general truth in the arguments he puts forth. Denmark has a right to know the limits of the claims of Germany, and to be placed in a position to bring this long and fatiguing dispute to a conclusion. Even although Denmark may have withdrawn from her obligations for eleven years, and even although Germany may have annoyed Denmark with unfounded and impossible claims for that period, it is now time that an end be put to the conflict. The Powers who signed the Treaty of London, together with the German Confederation, are those first bound to establish the arrangements and terms of ultimate agreement. The Government of the Queen, therefore, demands in the interests of peace:-1. That a Conference of the Powers which signed the Treaty of London, in conjunction with a representative of the German Confederation, shall meet in Paris or London to settle the differences between Germany and Denmark. 2. That the status quo

shall be maintained until this Conference shall have finished its labours.

Her Majesty's Government believes itself justified in making these demands for the sake of the peace of Europe. It has no other interest in respect to Denmark than that which belongs to one of the old and independent monarchies of Europe. But it has an interest in the maintenance of European peace. It calls, therefore, in the most pressing manner upon the Sovereigns and their Cabinets to take into consideration how difficult it would be to settle the differences if they had once been subjected to the bloody arbitrament of war. Who can foresee what extent such a war might acquire, what passions it might arouse, what districts might be desolated by its ravages? It is of itself a matter of comparatively slight importance whether a Prince of the House of Glücksburg or a Prince of the House of Augustenburg rules in Holstein or in Schleswig. The freedom and privileges of the subject can be equally secured under either of the two princes. But it is of great importance that the faith of treaties should be upheld, that right and possession should be respected, and that the flames of war should not be spread over Europe through questions which quiet and timely exercise of justice and reason might conduct to a peaceful solution. You are requested to leave a copy of this despatch with the President of the Federal Diet.-I am, &c. RUSSELL.”

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Both branches of the New York Legislature are organized. The reading of Governor Seymour's Message in the Senate is the only business transacted. In the Assembly T. G. Alvord is elected Speaker on the first ballot.

6.-In accordance with Mr Lincoln's recommendation, the House of Representatives adopt a resolution extending the time for the payment of bounties to volunteers until Feb. 1.

Judge Barbour, of the Superior Court of New York, decides that, as there is no evidence that the corporation or any of its officers aided or abetted in the July riots, the city is not liable for damages for the destruction of property. Notification has consequently been made not to pay any more claims.

General Butler returns to his department, clothed with full
discretionary powers to treat with the Confederate Government for the
exchange of prisoners.

7.-In the House of Representatives Mr Arnold, of Illinois, urges
Mr Lincoln for the next Presidency, on the ground that his reappoint-
ment would insure emancipation throughout the Union.
FRANCE:

Jan. 19.-At the Epinal supplementary elections M. Buffet, the
Opposition candidate, is elected by a majority of over 3,000 votes.
M. Bourcier Villiers had above 3,000 votes.

Italy are exchanged.*
The ratifications of the Treaty of Commerce between France and

Official advices from Vera Cruz announce that the French have
entered and dismantled the port of Champoton, on Campeachy Bay.
the Mexican expedition, and asserting that a very small portion of the
20. In reply to the pamphlet denying the advantageous results of
people had declared in favour of the French, the Moniteur quotes the
statement of the Times that seven-eighths of the population had
recognised the regency, and says: "We regret that when it is neces-
sary to render justice to our foreign policy we must seek the truth in
foreign and not in French journals."*

It is proposed to erect a statue to Bernard Palissy, the famous
"Worker in Earth," at Saintes (Charente-Inférieure), his birthplace.
ITALY:

Jan. 16.-The Central Committee of the National Italian Society
unanimously vote an address to the Emperor Napoleon, protesting
against the intended attempt upon his Majesty's life.*
18.-In the Chamber of Deputies the Keeper of the Seals presents a
Bill for the supression of religious corporations and the abolition of
tithes.
The Diritto publishes an address from Garibaldi, announcing the
formation of a committee to promote Italian union. He invites the
Italians to rally round this centre and to recognize its authority. The
Diritto is seized, and the case will be brought before the Courts.*

intention of asking information of the Government relative to the
19. In the Chamber of Deputies Signor Crispi announces his
conspirators lately arrested in Paris, and declares that none of them
took part in the Marsala expedition.*

The Pope receives a deputation of 300 Catholics from different
countries, presenting an address of fidelity and devotion to the
His
Holy See, and protesting against usurpations and sacrileges.
Holiness replies that he desired to leave the patrimony of the Church
intact to his successors. He would consequently not enter into any
arrangement or treaty contrary to that end. He places his confidence
not in the strength of arms, but in a protecting Providence, and

Jan. 18.-The Committee on the Address in the Corps Législatif
proposed to-day the following modification in the draught of the
Address: For the words,-"We should regret our satisfactory relations
with Russia becoming less friendly," to substitute the words,-"We
hope that the spirit of conciliation which animates the two Sovereigns
will succeed in removing all that can create any obstacle to the satis
factory relations between the two Powers." The debate upon com-
mercial reform was continued in the Corps Législatif. Speeches were
made by MM. Pagezy, Ancel, Forcade, La Roquette, David, Des-justice.
champs, and the Duke de Morny. The amendment brought forward 21.-A circular is addressed by the Minister of the Interior to the
by the Opposition was finally rejected by 182 against 50 votes. Prefects of the Italian provinces. Having reminded them of the
Paragraph 2 of the Address was then adopted.
means adopted by the party of action in 1862 to mislead the people as
19.-Paragraph 3 of the Address was adopted to-day in the Corps to the intentions of the Government, and to create agitation, which
Législatif. In the debate upon Paragraph 4 MM. Darimon and Jules led to the affair of Aspromonte, the Minister says: "There is ground
Simon made speeches explaining the amendment brought forward by for apprehension that the same artifices are again being resorted to.
the Opposition relative to freedom of public meeting and the modifica- The Ministry is, however, determined to unmask all these intrigues.
tion of the law upon coalitions of working men. The Duke de Morny Possessing the confidence of the King and the Parliament, the
opposed the amendment, which was supported by M. Emile Ollivier. Ministry will permit nobody to encroach upon its authority, and is
M. Parieu also spoke against it, and enumerated the governmental resolved to anticipate and frustrate all such attempts." In conclusion,
measures in favour of the working classes. The amendment was the Minister requests the Prefects to exercise a vigilant supervision.
finally rejected by 195 against 54 votes.

BELGIUM:

SPAIN:

20. The debate on the Address was continued. Sixteen members Jan. 20.-The King summons to a conference M. Deschamps, one
of the Left and the Marquis of Andelarre brought forward an amend- of the members of the Right. It is rumoured that M. Deschamps
ment proposing that the general councils should nominate their demands the dissolution of the Chamber.
own presidents and secretaries; that the mayors and municipal coun-
cillors should be elected by their fellow-citizens, and finally that the
Jan. 18.-The Ministry is constituted as follows: President of the
municipal committees existing in Paris and Lyons be suppressed. The
Marquis of Andelarre and M. Pelletan delivered speeches explaining Council and Minister of State, Senor Lorenzo Arrazola; Minister of
the amendment. M. Oquin spoke against the first paragraphs of the Justice. Senor Alvarez; Minister of Finance, Senor Trupita; Minister
amendment, which were almost unanimously rejected, seventeen of the Interior, Senor Benavides; Minister of War, General Lersundi;
members only voting in their favour. That portion of the amendment Minister of the Colonies, Senor Castro; Minister of Public Works,
relative to the nomination of municipal councils by election, and the Senor Moyano. The Cabinet is not considered likely to remain long
necessity of electing a mayor from the municipal council, was rejected as at present formed.
by 182 against 62 votes. M. Jules Favre spoke upon the necessity of
abolishing the law limiting the rate of interest, and asked for a
modification, in a liberal sense, of the regulations affecting brokerage.
M. Rouher replied on behalf of the Government. Paragraph 4 of the
Address was then adopted.

19.-The President of the Council declares in the Cortes that the
Government belongs to the doctrinal and historic party in Spain. He
expresses a wish for moderation between the Constitutional parties and
for the free exercise of the Royal prerogative.
PORTUGAL:

Jan. 11.-The Minister of Justice of Portugal lays before the
Chamber of Deputies a bill decreeing the abolition of the punish-
ment of death, which punishment the Government propose to maintain
only for military crimes, in the event of war with a foreign Power.

organization of the proviucial and district representations of Russia,
Jan. 21.-The Official Journal publishes an Imperial ukase for the
with the exception of the Western and Baltic provinces, Archangel,

Jan. 21.-In to-day's sitting M. Picard attacked the law of public safety and the decree of the 8th of December, 1851, which, he said, violated individual liberty and the principle of separating administrative from judicial powers, and created arbitrary political offences from which it was impossible to exculpate oneself. M. Picard cited instances RUSSIA: in support of his views. M. Rouland justified the law in question, and showed that it was dictated not only by necessity and sound judgment, but also by justice and respect for every liberty. He concluded by declaring that the law would be maintained. As regards the transitory regulations expiring in February, 1865, M. Rouland said the Government hoped but could give no promise not to be obliged to ask for their prolongation. M. Jules Favre defended the cause of right and law, for which he said there could be no substitute, and the violation of which weakened and depreciated all power. The amendment was rejected by 203 against 35 votes. The discussion of the amendment concerning the liberty of the press was then commenced by M. Jules Simon, who made a speech explaining and criticising the law of February, 1852, after which the House adjourned until to-morrow. The President announced that he had received the Budget for 1865.

Astracan, and Bessarabia.
CHINA:

Dec. 5.-Major Gordon captures Soochow.

HOME.

THE QUEEN AND COURT.
HER MAJESTY and part of the Royal family remain at Osborne.
The Princess of Wales was so far recovered on Tuesday that no more
bulletins were issued. The health of her Royal Highness and the

16.-The Victoria Cross is conferred on Colour-Sergeant (now Ensign) E. M'Kenna, and Lance-Corporal J. Ryan, both of the 65th 18.-The Rev. F. Jeune is appointed Dean of Lincoln. Walter Stephenson, who was found guilty last session of unlawfully and maliciously injuring one of Turner's most valuable pictures in the National Gallery, is sentenced at the Middlesex Sessions to imprisonAt the weekly meeting of the Lancashire Distress Committee Mr Maclure reports that 1,7777. 8s. 9d. was received during the week, and that the balance in the bank was 210,9497. 165. Mr Farnall states that on the 9th inst. there was an increase in the number of persons receiving parochial relief in twenty-seven unions in the cotton manufacturing districts, as compared with the number so relieved in the previous week, of 5,138. Mr Coningham, one of the members for Brighton, announces his intention of retiring at the opening of the approaching parliamentary 20.-The Globe says that Mr J. Vaughan, of the Oxford circuit, is appointed police magistrate at Bow street in succession to Mr Corrie. in a long and interesting speech on public affairs. Mr Milner Gibson addresses his constituents at Ashton-under-Lyne

ment with hard labour for six months.

session.

Chichester Cathedral vacant by the death of the late Sir G. Shiffner.
21. The Rev. Stair Douglas is appointed to the Canonry in
The Globe says that, in all probability, the Address in the House of
Commons, in reply to the Speech from the Throne, will be moved by
Lord R. Grosvenor, member for Flintshire, and seconded by Mr
Goschen, member for the city.

Circuit, Mr Justice Shee, will be given on the 28th inst. to him by his

It is announced that a dinner to the late leader of the Home

brethren, in honour of his elevation to the bench. The chair on the occasion will be taken by Mr Montagu Chambers, Q.C.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION. KONIGSBERG, Jan. 16-Advices received here from Wilna state that the Polish noble Titus Dalewski, found guilty by court-martial of having belonged to the revolutionary organization in Lithuania, was executed on the 11th inst.

CRACOW, Jan. 18.-A circular of the National Government, dated the 4th inst., announces the dismissal of General Mieroslawski from his post as General Organizer of the Revolutionary Forces. He is said, nevertheless, to be actively engaged at Liège in services for the national cause. The insurgent leader Kruk is reported to have retreated with a few followers into Galicia, his detachment having been dispersed.

21.-The Chwila of to-day describes the insurgent winter quarters, which are partly in villages and partly in fortified barracks. The same paper states that the severity of the winter greatly impedes the operations of the Russsian troops.

THORN, Jan. 18.-News from Warsaw to the 17th inst. announces that forty-eight citizens have been induced by the Commissioners of Police to proceed to the Governor of the city to request him to intercede with the Emperor for his Majesty's acceptance of an address expressing the loyalty of the citizens of Warsaw. They were very kindly received.

BERLIN, Jan. 21.-According to advices received here from Poland, a fresh convoy of 500 persons, sentenced to transportation to Siberia, left Warsaw yesterday. Four insurgents, including a German named Lüdke, were hanged at Wlorlawek on the 4th inst.

a severe engagement with the insurgents under Eitmanowicz, which WARSAW, Jan. 21.-The Official Dziennik publishes an account of took place on the 6th inst. near Zelechow, in the government of Lablin. The same journal continues to publish addresses of devotion to the Czar.

THE TOWNLEY CASE.-At a meeting of the visiting justices and magistrates of Derbyshire, held at the County Gaol, Derby, on the 15th, the correspondence which had taken place with the Home Secretary was considered, and a reply to the last communication from the Home Office adopted. This reply, dated Jan. 15, has been published. The magistrates do not discuss the point whether the Home Secretary was bound by the certificate he received, no matter how obtained, to remove Townley to a lunatic asylum, but dwell upon the minor points in the case. Regarding the inquiry by the Commis. sioners of Lunacy, they reiterate the opinion that it ought to have been a public one. As to the mode by which the certificate was obtained, they say: "The respite was received at the gaol at Derby before the second certificate of the 29th December, by two county justices and two medical men, had been sent from Derby. The first certificate, of the 27th of December (Sunday), we believe to have been invalid on the face of it for two reasons. Because it was made and dated on Sunday, and no such judicial act (as distinguished from a ministerial act) can legally be executed on a Sunday, and also because the borough justices had not any jurisdiction or authority to act in the county gaol On the application of Townley's solicitor the visiting justices consented to a preliminary inquiry into the state of Townley's mind, for the further and more formal investigation; not of sending a certificate to purpose only of ascertaining whether there was sufficient ground for supersede or supply the place of that investigation. In a letter from Dr Goode, one of the medical men who signed the certificate published in the local papers of to-day, the doctor states that some magistrates were applied to (by whom?) to make the necessary inquiry,' as a preliminary to obtain Government commissioners. And yet they obtained; that is, after the inquiry by the Government commissioners. make that inquiry after the sole professed object of it had been Again, the doctor writes thus: No reasons were appended to it (the certificate), because it was decided to leave to persons more conversant the task of collecting and comparing the evidence for the Secretary of State. This shows decisively that Dr Goode and his coadjutors did not intend to sign a document which would be obligatory upon the Secretary of State; and the magistrates submit to you that this certificate, being expressed terms directly opposed to the publicly declared intention of those who signed it, ought not to have an effect contrary to such intention. Although it may be, in form, in accordance transfers the power of life and death from the Crown to two justices with the provisions of the statute, yet the fact of so important a document, which arrests the course of justice, and substantially and two medical men put in motion by the prisoner's solicitor, who accompanied them to the gaol, but was not present during the examination, calls for an inquiry into the origin and progress of so unusual and remarkable a proceeding; and the magistrates again urge upon you the necessity of such an inquiry." The magistrates do not think the case of the poor man Clarke a precedent, because in that case the certificate was not obtained at the instance of the poor man's friends, as in Townley's case. On the contrary the steps were taken at the instance of the judge, who noticed the prisoner's wild and eccentric demeanour at the trial. The remainder of the "reply" is chiefly quotation from the report of the Commissioners of Lunacy.

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THE REPORT OF THE BANK OF LONDON states the available balance to be 35,5304. A dividend is recommended at the rate of 10 per cent., together with a bonus at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum (14. 55.) per share, and 12,000/. is to be added to the reserved fund, which will thus be raised to 112,000%, leaving 1,030l. to be carried

forward.

At a meeting of the Oil Wells Company of Canada on Tuesday, Sir H.
Leeke, M.P., presiding, it was unanimously determined that the com-
pany should be dissolved in accordance with the recommendation of
the board, and that the thanks of the proprietors should be given to
the directors for their prudent conduct and consequent entire preven-

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THE BANK OF ENGLAND RATE OF DISCOUNT, which was loweretion of loss.-The directors of the Brighton Railway have decided upon from 3 to 7 per cent. on the 24th ult., was again raised on Wednes recommending the payment of a dividend of 2 per cent. for the halfday to 8 per cent. AT THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF THE LONDON AND WEST year, leaving a balance of about 10,6007. to be carried forward to the MINSTER BANK on Wednesday, Mr Alderman Salomons, M.P., in the current half-year.-At the late meeting of the Ocean Marine Insurance Foreign chair, the report stated the net profit to be 147,8167., making, with a Company the directors decided on recommending to the proprietors at previous balance of 27,7591., an available total of 175,5757. A divi- their approaching meeting on the 1st February the payment of a bonus dend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum was declared with a bonus of 10s. per share, in addition to 5s. per share on the paid-up capital. of 12 per cent.; 6,7301. was added to the reserved fund, thus raised The North Eastern Railway traffic return shows this week an increase of 3,4571. over last year; the Lancashire and Yorkshire an increase of to 275,953/.; and a balance of 18,8441. was carried forward. AT THE HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF THE NATIONAL DISCOUNT of 4,0431.; the Midland an increase of 2,2967.; and the Manchester, SHARES COMPANY on Wednesday, Mr F. W. Russell in the chair, the dividend Sheffield, and Lincolnshire an increase of 8861.-Mr J. Thornton, late recommended at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum was agreed to, secretary to government, North Western Provinces of India, and Mr G. and the proposal to increase the capital by 1,000,000%. by an issue of Worms, of the firm of Messrs G. and A. Worms, have joined the board of the Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi Bank Corporation (Limited).— new shares at 51. premium was also confirmed. A prospectus has been advertised in connexion with the South-Eastern and Charing-cross Railway Companies of an extensive hotel, analogous Stock to that now in course of erection at Charing-cross, in Cannon street, to be called the City Terminus Hotel Company. The capital is to be 140,0007., in shares of 10%, and the chairman and manager of the South-Eastern line are upon the board.-The half-yearly report of the THE LAND SECURITIES COMPANY is announced, under the auspices Imperial Bank, which was submitted on Monday stated the available of the International Finance Society, a sufficient guarantee for its balance to be 9,6137., of which 5,000l. was recommended to be approcomplete respectability. The Duke of Marlborough is president, and priated to a dividend at the rate of 57. per cent. per annum, and 3,000l. the International directors will act as a finance committee. The to a reserve, leaving 1,6137. to be carried forward.-The directors of basis of the project is, in one word, the extension to this country of the South African Mortgage and Investment Company have resolved on the Credit Foncier system, which is now in successful operation in issuing the second half of the nominal capital of the company by 10,000 Stock most of the countries on the Continent. The company, whose special shares of 501. each, at a premium of 17. per share, to existing shareprovince it will be to make investments on landed estate, will act as holders. This company has now been in existence upwards of one agents between the moneyed public and the borrower, raising money year, and has already secured a very large and rapidly extending loan and trust business in the Cape Colony. The company has already Stock on debentures at one rate, and lending it at another. THE LONDON, ITALIAN, AND ADRIATIC STEAM NAVIGATION COM- declared an interim dividend of 5 per cent.-The prospectus of the PANY (Limited) is announced. The objects are the establishment of London Chemical Company (Limited) is announced, with a proposed a line of screw steamers between London and the ports of Genoa, capital of 40,0007., in 2,000 shares of 201. each, more than half of which Leghorn, Naples, Messina, and Palermo, "to sail with undeviating are already subscribed.-In correction of a prevalent misconstruction regularity at intervals of not less than ten days," and of lines suited of the prospectus of the Australian and Eastern Navigation Company, to the requirements of the trade between London, Greek, Adriatic, it is stated that the Black Ball and other lines have not disposed of and other ports in the Mediterranean. With a view to the immediate any of their sailing vessels, but have simply agreed to sell their three commencement of business, the directors have provisionally entered steamers at a valuation, and that the "amalgamation " of the firms in into an arrangement with the directors of an existing line to take Liverpool is only an arrangement to act as joint agents in loading the over their four new steamers, viz., the Alexandra, Clotilda, Italia, and vessels of the company.-At the meeting on Monday of the Bank Venetia. It is pointed out that the company will thus obtain a of Hindustan, China, and Japan the directors were authorised to Valuable connexion in the Italian trade, by which the shareholders increase the capital from 1,000,000l. to 2,000,0001. sterling, by the will enter immediately into a profitable business, the price to be agreed issue of 10,000 new shares of 1001. each at 2 prem., 8,000 of which upon by arbitration, and to be accepted in shares of the company. are to be allotted proportionately to the existing shareholders, and the The enormous increase which has latterly taken place in the Mediterra- residue at the same premium to any persons that the directors think nean trade is cited as affording full explanation of the formation of fit.-The Hammersmith branch of the Metropolitan and Provincial Bank has been opened, under the management of Mr J. H. Lewisthis project. The capital is 500,000%., in 10,000 shares of 501, each. We are requested to state that the subscription list of the Plym River This company, THE IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA is announced. which is being organised through the agency of Mr R. Montgomery Slab and Slate Company will be closed on the 25th inst. to London Martin, is to be incorporated with limited liability under the Act of applicants, and on the 23rd to those from the country.—The Merchant August 7, 1862, and "under a concession from the Imperial Govern- Banking Company of London (Limited) announce that they have made ment at Pekin." The proposed capital (subject to increase) is arrangements to carry on business in California, through the agency 1,000,000%., in 20,000 shares of 501. cach, to be issued in two series of of Messrs Falkner, Bell, and Co., of San Francisco. The receipts of equal amount. Branch banks, with boards of local directors com- the Great Western Railway of Canada for the week ending the 1st posed of British and Chinese merchants, are to be formed at Hong January were 10,3394. sterling, being 3227. less than in the correspondKong, Canton, Shanghai, Foochoo, Tien-tsin, and at such other cities ing week of last year.-Viscount Bury, M.P., and Sir R. I. Murchison, as may from time to time be deemed advisable. The branches are to K.C.B., have joined the board of the English and Foreign Library be under the control of the London Board, aided by the supervision Company (Limited.)-A general meeting of the Pneumatic Despatch of an inspector, as is the case with the Indian and colonial banks. Company (Limited) is called for the 28th inst.-A call of 21. is to be It is farther mentioned that "the authorisation of the Government at paid on the shares in the Mercantile Credit Association by the 16th Pekin has been solicited, by which the specie notes of the Imperial Feb.—A call of 21. is to be paid on the shares of the Richmond-hill Bank of China will be receivable in payment of custom duties and at Hotel Company (Limited) by the 18th Feb.-Creditors of the Adelphi The legal rate of interest in Hotel Company (Limited) are required to send the particulars of their the tax offices throughout the empire." China is stated to be 3 per cent. per month. The names of the claims to Mr W. Turquand, the official liquidator, by the 2nd 32. 10 of February, the 16th of February having been appointed by the members of the London board are not yet published. THE ROSSA GRANDE GOLD MINING COMPANY (Limited), a new Master of the Rolls for adjudicating upon them.-Another suit The Rossa Grande estate, in the Court of Admiralty has been commenced against The Brazilian undertaking, is announced. Captain Paton, the commander, has caused the which it is proposed to purchase and work, is situated in the province Great Eastern. of Minas Geraes, near the mine of the St John del Rey Company. vessel to be arrested for the sum of 2,000l. There are now two arrests It is several miles in extent. A report from Captain Treloar, late in force against the great ship, one at the snit of the owners of the late chief engineer to the St John del Rey Company, speaks in very ship Jane for 6,000l., and the other by Captain Paton for 2,000l.-At favourable terms with regard to the capabilities of the mines. The a meeting of the directors of the London and Provincial Marine Insufee simple of the estate, together with the mills, buildings, and ma-rance Company on Wednesday it was resolved to recommend at the chinery, is to be purchased for 15,0007. in cash, and an equal amount general meeting a dividend for the half-year ending on the 31st of in shares. No part of the purchase-money is to be paid until the December last at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum.-The half-yearly company is put into legal possession of the property. It is estimated report of the Scottish Australian Investment Company, to be presented that the outlay requisite for the purchase of the property, and to bring on the 29th inst., states the net profit to have been 16,0507., showing the mines into profitable work, will be covered by one half of the an increase of 1,5231. on that of the corresponding six months of 1862. capital, which is fixed at 100,000l., in 100,000 shares of 17. each, of A dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum is recommended, which the first issue is to consist of 50,000 shares. The direction is leaving 2611. to be carried to the reserved fund, which will then amount to 7,3431.-The London and North-Western Railway traffic respectable. THE PNEUMATIC DESPATCH COMPANY (Limited) have issued their return shows this week an increase of 8,9331. over last year; the Great! report. The following are the most important passages in it: Western, an increase of 3,8957; the Great Eastern, an increase of "When the directors last met the proprietors, they anticipated being 1,4177.; and the Great Northern, an increase of 4,8051.-A call of 51. enabled to report that the works between Euston station and the is to be paid on the shares of the Midland Banking Company by the City were approaching completion. In this expectation they have 16th Feb., and a call of 27. (making 27. 10s. paid) on the 251. share of been disappointed. It was intended to carry the tubes through the the London, Buenos Ayres, and River Plate Bank, by the 10th of Feb. Bedford estate, and as the Parliamentary powers of the company were, in the opinion of counsel, amply sufficient for this purpose, the board decided on adopting that route. A combined opposition on the part of some of the Duke of Bedford's influential tenants led to considerable delay in negociations, and ultimately threatened to METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.-The importainvolve the company in a protracted litigation. Under these circumstances the directors carefully reconsidered their position, and came tions of live cattle and sheep, &c., into the port of London from the to the conclusion that it was not prudent to incur the great loss of Continent during the past week have been moderate. The Customtime which must have arisen in defending and maintaining the com- house official return gives an entry of 1,917 oxen, 254 calves, 3,451 sheep, pany's rights, and they accordingly directed their engineers to pro- 47 pigs, and 19 horses, together making a total of 5,688 head, against 1,976 ceed by another route. The difficulties and delays appear now to head at the same period last year, 3,044 in 1862, 405 in 1861, 2,949 in 1860, have been nearly all overcome. An eligible site for the central 398 in 1859, and 1,660 in 1858. station has been acquired in Holborn, and on very reasonable terms. The directors regret that so long a period has been occupied in bringing the project into practical use. They are sanguine in the belief that the full measure of advance as stated by the engineers may be relied on, and the efficient and economical working of the Prices per Stone. tube to the district Post-office in Eversholt street increases their confidence in the success of the undertaking so soon as they shall have been enabled to bring it into operation on a scale commensurate Beef 3 8 to 5 2 Beasts with the duty to be performed."

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MISCELLANEOUS.-The Landed Securities Society has been well Veal received, and the applications for shares are very large.-At the meet- Pork 3 ing of the City Bank on Tuesday, Mr P. Bell in the chair, a dividend was declared at the usual rate of 6 per cent., with a bonus of 17. 10s. per share, together equal to the rate of 12 per cent. per annum, and 9,3801. was carried forward. The reserve fund, increased by the recent issue of new shares, now stands at 130,000. The deposits held by the bank amount to 3,525,9757.-At the half-yearly meeting of the London and South-Western Bank on Tuesday, Mr Johns in the chair, the available balance was stated at 1,910, which was agreed to be carried forward. Barley, English The deposits of the bank amount to 152,6187.-At the half-yearly Oats, English meeting of the St Katharine Dock Company on Tuesday the net Scotch... Irish earnings for the past year were stated at 70,7977., showing a satisfacForeign tory increase. A dividend of 13 per cent., or at the rate of 34 per cent. per annum, was declared for the six months, and the "rest" stands at 63,4337. All the requisite measures for the amalgamation with the Victoria and London Docks were stated to be in progress.

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THE DUKE OF ATHOLE, K.T., died on Saturday at Blair Castle, Perthshire. From the protracted illness of the Duke, and the nature of his disease-cancer in the throat-his friends have for some months past been prepared for this event. The late Duke was formerly in the 2nd Dragoon Guards, from which he retired in 1840. On the death of his father, in 1837, he took his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Glenlyon, and succeeded to the dukedom on the demise of his uncle John, fifth Duke of Athole, in September, 1846. He had held for many years, since the resignation of the late Lord F. Fitzclarence, the office of Grand Master of the Freemasons in Scotland. As Lord Glenlyon he participated as one of the knights at the memorable Eglinton Tournament in August, 1839.

THE DUKE OF CLEVELAND, K.G., died at Raby Castle on Monday. He had been seriously ill for some days, and was found dead in his chair. He was born in London in 1788, and was married in 1809 to the daughter of the fourth Earl Poulett. his father in 1842. As Earl of Darlington he sat for the county of Durham from 1812 to 1818. From 1818 to 1826 he was member for Tregony; from 1826 to 1830 he sat for Totnes. In 1830 he was elected for Saltash, and the same year changed to South Salop, which he represented until he became Duke of Cleveland. His brother, Lord William John Frederick Poulett, succeeds to the title.

She died in 1859. The Duke succeeded to the title on the death of

LORD ARTHUR LENNOX, son of the late Duke of Richmond, died on the 15th, at his residence, Ovington square, Brompton, aged fiftyThe early part of his life was passed in the army, and in 1842 he received the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and after he left the service he held several posts under Government. He sat for Chichester for

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some years.

MISS GILBERT, the celebrated equestrian, died about a fortnight

since. Some years ago she had a very severe accident in the park; but although she gradually recovered from its effects, she was never quite the same again. She was among the very best of Mr Rarey's pupils; and her portrait, representing her by the side of a horse which she had just put down, formed the subject of a pleasant picture by Sir Edwin Landseer in the Royal Academy some four or five years ago.

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projectiles. His conduct on that day was rewarded by his promotion of age, when she gave her hand to Mr Penn, builder of Edinburgh,
to the rank of a full admiral. On the death of M. Ducos he was whom she has survived eighteen years. Dating her birth from the
appointed Minister of Marine, which office he held from 1855 to 1860, reign of George II., she was personally cognizant of many events which
when he retired to the honourable post of Grand Chancellor of the are known to those of the present day only as matters of history. She
Legion of Honour. He leaves a son, who is a captain in the navy, saw the ships of the notorious John Paul Jones retire from the Forth
and at this moment second in command of the Bretagne. His daughter in 1779, and was present at Kirkcaldy when Mr Shirra offered up his
was married only a few weeks before his death. The wedding had prayer for tempestuous winds to defeat the object of that pirate's
been fixed for January 5th, but the admiral, feeling his end approaching, mission. She witnessed the burning of the Roman Catholic Bishop's
advanced the time in order that he might be present at the nuptials. dwelling house, and other buildings in Edinburgh, by the populace
He was buried in the Invalides on Thursday.
ADMIRAL RICHARD SAUMAREZ died on the 16th at Clifton, aged up from among the ruins. When a girl she walked once or twice from
in 1780; and for a time she kept as relics some trifles which she picked
seventy-two. He was a midshipman on board the Spartan at the reduc- Glasgow to Paisley to hear the famous George Whitfield; and she
tion of the Castles of Pesaro and Cesenatico. He also took part in the afterwards made the acquaintance in Edinburgh of the still more
action with a Neapolitan flotilla in the Bay of Naples. As lieutenant famous John Wesley. Throughout the whole of her long life she
of the Bacchante he was engaged in the sieges of Trieste and Cattaro. never had a professional visit from a doctor, having stoutly refused to
MR GEORGE BURGES, late of Trinity College, Cambridge, the well- accept of medical attendance to the last. She was able to walk in her
known Greek critic, died on the 11th inst., aged seventy-eight, at Rams- garden till the approach of the present winter, when her health began
gate, where he had been residing for the last few years. Mr Burges to give way. Her mental faculties, which were naturally good and
was born in Bengal, and was educated at the Charterhouse under Dr had been well cultivated, remained unimpaired till the end, except
Raine, previously to his going to Cambridge, where he greatly distin- that during the last few weeks her mind occasionally wandered a
guished himself in classics, and, we believe, as an undergraduate, little.
edited the Troades.' Mr Burges was one of the principal writers in THE DEATHS IN LONDON LAST WEEK were 2,427, an excess above
Valpy's Classical Journal,' and, during the period of its existence, he the estimated amount of 877. "These persons" says the Registrar-
crossed many a critical lance with the late Bishop of London, and in General's return, were killed almost suddenly by the cold wave of
variably to the disadvantage of the latter. Mr Burges published an the atmosphere." In comparing the present results with those of the
edition of the Eumenides' in 1821, followed by one of the 'Supplices' previous week, a great increase is apparent in diseases of the respiratory
in 1822, in which he sought out of the remaining fragments of each to organs. Fatal cases of pneumonia rose from 91 to 156; of phthisis (or
supply a perfect Greek play. Mr Burges was on terms of intimacy consumption), from 194 to 235; of bronchitis, from 326 to 543. Of
with most of the great classical scholars of England and the Continent, the 2,427 persons who died, 818 were under 20 years of age, 800 were
and his correspondence, which will probably be given to the world, 20 and under 60 years, and 809 were 60 years and upwards. Taking
cannot fail to be interesting to men of letters.
the numbers living at the respective ages into account, it appears that,
ments and warm clothing are required at this season by the aged, who
while persons at all ages have suffered, the severity of the weather has
been particularly fatal to persons in advanced life. Well heated apart-
find it difficult to support life when the temperature falls below the
freezing point. Three hundred and ninety-nine deaths occurred last
week from zymotic diseases, including 90 from scarlatina, 78 from
typhus, 73 from whooping-cough, 32 from measles, and 18 from small-
pox. A tanner aged 60 years, was found dead on the 2nd of January
from intemperance, cold, and exposure; he lived in a room without
furniture, at 1 Drummond road, Bermondsey. A shoemaker, aged
60 years, died in a cab on the 6th of January from exhaustion from
exposure to cold. A boot-closer, aged 25 years, died at 2 Queen
street, Southwark, from spasm of the heart, accelerated by want of
nourishment and by cold. Twelve nonagenarians died during the
week, of whom the oldest was a widow, who attained the age of 97

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Co., and one of the most eminent merchants of the city of London, MR FREDERICK HUTH, the founder of the house of F. Huth and died on the 15th inst., aged eighty-seven. MRS SARAH LEE, an inhabitant of Alton, who was born at Lasham, in Hampshire, on the 3rd of May, 1759, and was consequently in the 105th year of her age, died from the effects of the late severe weather. Up to the period of her death Mrs Lee retained possession of her mental faculties, and had suffered but little from illness of any kind. She was SIR J. R. GRANT, C.B., K.HI., died at Basford, near Nottingham, accustomed to do her own shopping, and when walking out never last week, aged ninety-one. He served as a medical officer of the required the aid of a stick. Her sight was remarkably good, so that army throughout the whole of the war, and was chief of that depart-she was able to dispense with the use of spectacles, and it was only a ment at Waterloo. He was one of the few who served in the first and short time before her death that her powers of vision began to diminish. last campaigns of the war-namely, that of 1793 and that of 1815. On her attaining the age of 100 years a supper was given in celebraADMIRAL HAMELIN, died in Paris on Saturday, aged sixty-eight. tion of the event, and this custom has been continued on each sucHe was the nephew of Admiral Hamelin, a sailor who saw much ceeding birthday. The family to which Mrs Lee belonged appears to service under the first empire. At the age of eleven years, his uncle be remarkable for longevity, her grandmother having reached the placed him as a midshipman on board the Venus, and while yet a boy of 102, her brother 96; and a nephew is now living at Andover who he saw a great deal of fighting. In 1812 he took part in the expedi- appears likely to rival his deceased aunt, being 94 years of age, and of tion to the Scheldt. His promotion was rapid, notwithstanding the vigorous habit. peace which followed the battle of Waterloo. In 1828 he became a captain, and in 1842 a rear-admiral. The Crimean war found him maritime prefect of Toulon, and he was then selected for the command of the Black Sea fleet. The memorable landing of the French troops previous to the battle of the Alma was effected under his direction. During the attack on Sebastopol forts of October 17th, a shell struck the quarter-deck of the Ville de Paris, and killed Lieut. Sommelier by Admiral Hamelin's side. He himself was knocked down by the shock. He rose and continued to command his vessel amidst a storm of Russian

NEW

JEW THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr B. WEBSTER. Eighteenth week of the great Tragedienne, Miss Bateman, in the highly successful Drama of LEAH.

On Monday, and during the week, THE MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr J. L. Toole. At Eight, LEAH. Miss Bate-aan; supported by Messrs A. Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, Stephenson, Eburne, and Miss H. Simms. To conclude with a Fairy Extravaganza by H. J. Byron, Esq., LADY BELLE BELLE; or, FORTUNEO AND HIS SEVEN MAGIC MEN. Mr J. Clarke (from the Strand), Messrs R. Phillips, Stephenson, Eburne, Romer, and C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar, Miss K. Kelly, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Louise Laidlaw, Miss Seaman, and Miss Willard.

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MRS PENN died at her residence at Innerleithen, in her 107th year, on the 14th inst. She was born at Port Glasgow on the 31st of December, 1757, but when quite young she accompanied her family to Edinburgh, where she resided about sixty years, staying first with her father, Mr M'George, a baker, who presided as master of St Stephen's Lodge of Freemasons, Edinburgh, on the occasion of Burns being installed as its poet-laureate. She afterwards opened a shop for ladies' wares in the Royal Exchange, which she kept for a number of years. She declined all offers of marriage till she was upwards of sixty years

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TISS BATEMAN.-LEA H.-The Tragic Artiste, Miss Bateman, on her first appearance in the character of LEAH, in the new five-act Drama of that title, having been nightlyrepeated,and even exceeded,during the last seventeen weeks amidst the applause and tears of crowded audiences, and the profound impression created upon all who have witnessed the touching impersonation by Miss Bateman of the heart-broken Jewish maiden, being confirmed by the unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire press, the Manager of the NEW ADELPHI THEATRE has the honour to announce that Miss Bateman will appear in the New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENING, till further notice; and, in order to meet as far as possible the increasing demand for stalls, has added two more rows to those previously existing.

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE.
Managers, Messrs EDMUND FALCONER and F. B.
CHATTERTON.
Morning Performance of the Pantomime every Wednesday,
at Two o'clock.

On Monday and following nights, the Now Serio-Comic Drama, by Edmund Falconer, entitled NIGHT AND MORN. Principal characters by Mr Phelps, Messrs Ryder, Raynor, Fitzjames, &c.; Misses R. Leclercq, Atkinson, and Heath. After which the GREAT DRURY LANE ANNUAL, in the form of a GRAND COMIC CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, entitled SINDBAD THE SAILOR, the Great Rock of the Diamond Valley, and the seven, Wonders of the World. The extensive and magnificent Scenery by Mr William Beverley. Characters in the opening by Messrs Neville, Fitzjames, Tom Matthews, and Master Fercy Roselle. Misses E. Weston Coventry, Rose Leclercq, Cicely Nott, and Miss Lizzie Wilmore. Harlequinade→→ Clowns, Harry Boleno and C. Lauri. Pantaloons, Messrs W. A. Barnes and J. Morris. Harlequins, Messrs J. Cormack and S. Saville. Columbines, Madame Boleno and the Misses Gunnis. Prices as usual. Box-office open from ten till five daily.

ROYAL ST JAMES'S THEATRE.

Under the Management of Mr BENJAMIN WEBSTER.
Great Attraction.
Second Week of Mr and Mrs Charles Mathews.
Mr J. L. Toole as Mrs Brown, Mr Phelps, Mr Fechter, and
Lady Audley every evening.-1863; or THE SENSATIONS
OF THE PAST SEASON, until further notice.-Among the
artists who will appear here are Mr Benjamin Webster, Mr
J. L. Toole, Mr Paul Bedford, and Mr Charles Mathews. Mrs
Stirling, Mrs Frank Matthews, Miss Cottrell, Miss Went-
worth, Miss Fanny Josephs, and Mrs Charles Mathews.

On MONDAY and during the Week, at Seven, THE
ADVENTURES of a LOVE LETTER; COOL AS A
CUCUMBER; and 1863; or THE SENSATIONS OF THE
PAST SEASON.

On SATURDAY NEXT, Jan. 30, will be produced an entirely New Comedy, by Leicester Buckingham, Esq. entitled THE SILVER LINING, in which Mr and Mrs Charles Mathews, Mrs Stirling, Mrs Frank Matthews, &c., will perform.

CHRISTY'S

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ROWLANDS KALYDOR, for improving the skin and
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CONSTIPATION, DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS
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of a daughter-On the 16th, at 27 Princes gardens, Mrs St Leger Glyn,
of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.-On the 11th, J. Connolly, Esq., to Anne, daughter of
the late Commander H. Jellicoe.

Susannah, the beloved wife of William Langford, late Miss Maberly, of
Reading, aged 85-On the 16th, Mrs Cramp. of St Peter's, Isle of
Thanet, 98-On the 17th, at 10 Inverness road, Mrs Bower, 85-On the
17th, at Newcross, Capt. Townsend, R.N., 82-On the 17th, at Bow, H.
Godwin, Esq., 91-On the 18th, at Bath, Mrs Deacon, 83.

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COMPANY.

The Directors entertain APPLICATIONS for ALLOTMENTS of GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY DEBENTURE STOCK, which has been created under the powers of the Company's Act of 1853, for the purpose of paying off and extinguishing the mortgage debt of the Company.

The Stock has a fixed and perpetual yearly dividend or interest, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum; and such dividend or interest is the first charge upon the tolls and

undertaking, and lands, tenements, and hereditaments of the Company, and has priority of payment over all other dividends on any other stock or shares, whether Ordinary, Preference, or Guaranteed.

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HENRY OAKLEY, Secretary.
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November, 1863.

TO IRONMASTERS

RAILWAY.

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The Directors are prepared to receive TENDERS for the

SUPPLY of 2,000 Tons of Cast-iron. CHAIRS, 136 Tons of

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MINSTRELS. ST JAMES'S HALL.-Owing to the success which has attended their recent performances in the above Hall, the Proprietor begs to announce that they will appear, for a limited number of nights, in the Minor St James's Hall, which has been elegantly decorated and furnished. Perform-ampton on the 20th of every month. ance every night at 8, Wednesday and Saturday at three. Stall chairs, 88.; area, 2s.: gallery, 1s. Proprietor W. Burton; Secretary, II. Boufauti.

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