AMERICA:

CURRENT EVENTS.

FOREIGN.

Nov. 13-14.-Breckinridge recaptures Bull's Gap, Tennessee, defeating General Gillem, capturing 400 prisoners, six cannon, and all

the Federal trains. FRANCE:

Dec. 1.-Tranquillity prevails in all the Algerine provinces, with the exception of Babor. Marshal M'Mahon leaves to-day to be present at the annual meeting of the Marshals of France. ITALY:

Nov. 28.-The report of the Committee of the Senate warmly approves the Franco-Italian Convention, and proposes the adoption of the bill for the transfer of the capital to Florence. The Official Gazette publishes a fresh list of municipalities which have anticipated the payment of the land-tax for 1865. 29.-In the Senate, Signor Pareto proposes that the House should ask the Government to communicate any note it might have received from M. Dronyn de Lhuys since that of the 7th November. General Della Marmora, in reply, states that the Government had communicated all the documents that it believed it could communicate. After a long discussion, the proposition of Signor Pareto is rejected by a large majority. 30.-The discussion on the Franco-Italian Convention was resumed in the Senate to-day. Signori Sclopis and Ricotti opposed the measure, while Prince Moliterno and Signor Durando spoke in favour of it. General Della Marmora, in answer to Signor Ricotti, said that the Venetian question was merely one of vanity so far as Austria was concerned. Germany could not believe that Venice was necessary to her existence. The Minister protested against the supposition of Ricotti that France coveted any portion of Italian territory. VENETIA:

Dec. 1.-An official notification is issued abolishing martial law, in consequence of the dispersion of the armed bands in the district of Friuli. A court-martial will assemble at Udine for the trial of those inculpated in the movement. SPAIN:

terminated.

Nov. 28.-A Ministerial circular is published, ordering that the press laws are to be rigorously enforced now that the elections have 29.-The Epoca says that the Minister of Finance has investigated the resources of the country, and decided that they are equal to bear the charges on the revenue up to the end of the year. Dec. 1.-The Epoca says Spain cannot admit of any mediation between herself and Peru in the present state of the Hispano-Peruvian question. BRAZIL:

Oct. 15.-The Princess Isabella, heiress to the throne, is married at Rio Janeiro to the Comte d' Eu, eldest son of the Duke de Nemours.

HOME.

THE QUEEN AND COURT,

HER MAJESTY held a Council at Windsor Castle on Wednesday, which was attended by Earl Granville, Earl Russell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and Sir G. Grey. Earl Russell presented M. Barreda, Minister of Peru. Mr Henry, Chief Magistrate at Bow street, was presented by Sir G. Grey, and received the honour of knighthood.

a

Mr Birkbeck moved a resolution to the effect that, being convinced Mr Torrens was a fit person to represent the borough of Finsbury in Parliament, they called on their fellow-burgesses to come forward and support him.

houses?

the character of the representatives of this great metropolis, which that of leading the colonies to prepare for governing themselves, instead was in itself a state equal to many in Europe, and should be properly of waiting until they were weary of our rule. He had aided in carrying and adequately represented. Their representatives should be, there- the bill whereby the young States of Australia were constituted upon [A mark () is attached to the Events discussed or more fully stand the duties of a statesman; and as Mr Torrens was a gentleman Governors as a tie between them and the mother country. He fore, men of the very highest possible attainments, who should under- the principle of popular self-rule, reserving only the nomination of narrated in this week's EXAMINER.] of that description, he hoped they would all support him at the ensuing rejoiced to think that those States were greatly prospering in the election. (Cheers.) enjoyment of the liberties we had freely given them; and, if he were Mr Torrens, who, on rising, was received with much applause, com- returned as the representative of Finsbury to a new Parliament, he menced by observing that, according to high authorities, the present should unfalteringly carry out the same policy wherever in our other Parliament could not last much longer in the natural order of things, colonies it might be applicable. A heavy debt of reparation was due and therefore it behoved the electors of all constituencies throughout from us to India. He wished that they might live to see the day when the realm, but more especially those of the important borough of some adequate compensation should be made to the people of that Finsbury, to look about for and select representatives in whose views country for the manner in which we had acquired dominion there. vast community would find fitting and fearless exponents. (Hear, would have to take a leading part in doing something to elevate the and opinions the industry, skill, education, and many interests of a (Hear, hear, and cheers.) In the next Parliament their members bear.) He assumed that all the electors present wished that the next physical condition of those who lived by labour. (Hear, hear.) He Parliament should be different to the present, which he stigmatised as began to agitate this question last July, and he could assure them that passive one; that the next should be less profuse in promises and since he had been promised a very considerable support in endeavouring more apt in discharge of duties and obligations. (Cheers.) Candi- to improve the dwellings of the labouring classes. That had lately dates should be chosen first for their capacity to think for their electors, been done in Lancashire, and he saw no reason to despair of such a and supported for the assiduity and zeal with which they worked. If measure being carried out in that great metropolis. Before the the person elected was unable to think and see what was conducive to clearing took place in Farringdon street, he was informed that the welfare of his constituents, and propose it without being pressed, four persons slept in each room in that locality; and yet now, and the information coming from out of doors, then he was no longer a after what was done, there were six or seven, which was, he representative but a delegate. (Hear, hear.) Lord Stanley had under- need hardly say, a frightful evil, and should be remedied as soon taken to apologize for the do-nothingness of the present House of Com- as possible. (Hear, hear.) In 1851 an act was passed requiring mons, on the ground that, as the public had not importunately that the aldermen and Corporation of the City should build houses for demanded what they would have had done, Parliament was acting up from that time to this, until within the last few months some steps those they thus deprived of their habitations, but nothing was done to its proper function during the last six years by remaining motionless. And not content with this strange theory he pushed it to the were taken to effect this desirable object. (Hear, hear.) When for verge of paradox, and gravely asserted that this negative attitude was purposes of speculation, either by railways or otherwise, a neighbourhood entitled to the praise of a positive one; and that, under such circum- was destroyed, care ought to be taken to provide habitations for those stances, to do nothing was to do the very best thing possible. He (Mr who were so dispossessed. (Hear, hear.) He was not hostile to railways, Torrens) had a great respect for Lord Stanley. He honoured his dili- but in every such case it was not asking too much to make the poor gence in public business; he sympathized with his freedom from party compensation for thus being deprived of their dwellings. (Hear, hear.) prejudice; and above all he admired the candour and the courage with He was in favour of a Court of Criminal Appeal, and against that barwhich he stated his opinions upon every subject that came before him, barous practice and scandal of strangling an unhappy being in the He wished these qualities were less rare. He believed that the political presence of all the vagabonds of this metropolis. (Hear, hear.) He atmosphere would be healthier, and that political life would be less fre- was opposed to a tax on fire insurance, which was distinctly one on quently tainted with the breath of suspicion if men of talent and reflec- thrift and industry. (Hear.) Then, as to the administration of the tion more frequently put off the livery of party and showed themselves in empire, he believed that the middle classes were cheated out of their the proper garb of their own thoughts. (Cheers.) But he could not fair proportion, and he should never be satisfied until he saw that evil agree in Lord Stanley's definition of legislative duty. Legislation had remedied and distinguished members of the middle class taking their indeed two sides; and legislators were of two sorts-active and passive. places in the executive government of the country. (Hear.) He was When Parliament had remained for a long while in the passive state, also opposed to any system of education which should compel the neglecting to deal with the wants arising from an ever-changing, ever working classes to pay for that of the middle class; and, in conclusion, transforming, ever-growing, and ever-decaying condition of society assured them that he was determined not to ask any man to vote for around it, these neglected wants fermented until an ill savour was per- him as a personal favour, or to coax or cajole him in any way whatceived; if unchecked there was effervescence; if they did not find vent ever. (Cheers.) there was bursting and overflow. This had been the case too often in our history. Parliament was in the passive state when Dissenters and Catholics demanded equal liberties. It took no heed of the still small voice of public opinion. It persisted in maintaining exclusive laws after they had ceased to have the only true force of law-public Dr Hogg seconded the motion, and cordially concurred with the approval. It did nothing; or, as Lord Stanley would say, it did the opinions of Mr Torrens with respect to the necessity of providing right thing by refusing to move until demagogism arose and society dwellings for the poorer classes when their houses were thrown down. was convulsed, and the authority of law was defied; and then, when Mr Turner wished to know whether Mr Torrens was in favour of the there was no longer a choice, Parliament yielded religious liberty to appointment of Roman Catholic chaplains by Government in workexultant clamour. Was that what they were to understand by performing the duty of good legislators? (Cheers.) The very same Mr Fisher said he had never seen Mr Torrens before, but after thing happened with regard to electoral reform. The middle classes hearing his speech he should most certainly support him. (Cheers.) were shut out of all effective share in representation. They murmured, Mr Torrens, in answer to the question put to him, replied that there and muttered, and mutely manifested their discontent; and Parliament was no bill that he knew of to enable the Government to appoint or dozed and talked in its sleep idly and incoherently as men talk in their pay Roman Catholic clergymen. The question was one for Boards of dreams about enfranchising the great towns; but they did nothing. Guardians, and, for his own part, no consideration on earth would The middle classes went on growing, and they grew in numbers, induce him to interfere with any man's conscientious belief. He would wealth, and intelligence, until one morning they looked in the glass of not prevent persons convicted of crime, or those in workhouses from each other's sympathies, recognized one another's strength, and said seeing a clergyman of their own persuasion in their hour of need. in a voice that startled old Westminster out of its do-nothing sleep, (Hear.) We will stand it no longer! The Bill of 1832 was carried by that Mr J. S. Hopwood was chairman of a Board of Guardians for many shout. That shout-not the judgment of Parliament, enfranchised years, and was in favour of inmates of workhouses being visited by Finsbury; and they were witnesses of the truth of his words. (Loud their clergymen, because it was only carrying out the principle of cheers.) Lord Stanley knew well that there was another great class liberty of conscience. (Cheers.) He had the honour of only a very with whose claims sooner or later Parliament would have to deal. short acquaintance with Mr Torrens, but after what he had heard from That class were made use of and cheated in 1832. Two and thirty that gentleman he should certainly give him his most cordial support. years had since then come and gone; and all that time the industry and skill of the working community had been growing. Could they stop that growth? Could they stunt its limbs? Could they blind those eyes, or paralyze that tongue, or palsy that deft and dexterous hand? The leaders of both sides in Parliament had again and again admitted that the expansive band of the constitution ought to be loosened wisely and gradually so as to include as fast and as far as possible all who could be fitly associated from time to time with those who now possessed electoral privileges. Nay, a majority in Parliament had THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS IN FRANCE. again and again professed its conviction of the truth of this view. Yet what had been done? Nothing-literally and absolutely nothing; The following correspondence appears in La Presse, edited by M. and then they were told that this breach of promise and dereliction of Emile de Girardin: With the permission of the Duke de Persigny we confessed obligation was the very best thing that Parliament could do. publish a letter from him and our reply to it. (Hear, hear.) Such a theory savoured far more of Jacobinism than of "Chamarande (Seine et Oise), Nov. 2, 1864.-'My dear M. de Conservatism; for it rested upon this suppressed premise, that members Girardin,-I have not restricted myself to read the two grand passages of Parliament were, and ought to be, mere delegates, passively to obey in the remarkable book which you have had the kindness to send me, rude pressure from without-not representatives in the true constitu- but I have read nearly the whole of it, and with deep.interest. The tional sense of the word-men chosen for their ability to think for the parent idea, which you elucidate with so much talent, is worthy of people, and their zeal for the good of the people, and their activity in deep reflection, and I am inclined to think it will finally obtain. But anticipating, or at least in keeping pace with the manifest wants of the it does not suffice to be in the right; public opinion must endorse it. people. With all possible respect for Lord Stanley, he must tell him I fancy, that, like many eminent minds which look too far a head for that this was the policy of being driven step by step by mere force; the present age, you have anticipated public opinion. You say in one not the policy of sagacity in guidance or wisdom in counsel. (Hear, part that since sorcerers are no longer burnt they are no longer hear.) It was a policy which would one day put in hazard every insti- dangerous. This is true; but we do not now believe in Sorcerers, tution which they wished to preserve. (Hear, hear.) It was not for but we believe in the public press. You may endeavour to him to say what was best for the privileged class to which Lord Stanley state that the press has no influence, and there is some truth belonged, and of which he was the champion; but he (Mr Torrens) in that, as regards the discussion of opinions; but many men was there to say for that middle class to which he and those around fear the scandal which the press may reveal, and the conhim belonged, that they repudiated that policy as meagre and unsound, sequences which may emanate from it. Moreover, I could not and that they should regard a perseverance in it with equal distrust and understand passing at once to the position which you propose. dismay. (Loud cheers.) Instead of retrenchment they were still spend- Certainly the day will arrive when the public press in France will be ing 66,000,000l. a-year. Mr Gladstone himself had denounced this as a as free as it is in England, where such freedom hurts no one and is "profligate" expenditure; but he said he was unable to cut it down. beneficial to all; when that day dawns it will inaugurate the end of Now it was their interest and their duty to choose members who should our revolutions and confirm a regular system of Government. But, give Mr Gladstone the strength he wanted to do so. Questions of however boldly I may take up the idea, I do not think that public foreign policy had occupied five-sixths of the time of last session; and opinion is sufficiently prepared to accept a system which would at once all the debating ended in nothing. They had lately heard it said that cause consternation in many interests. It is on this point that I differ the result was a general conviction that we should not again inter- with you; but I candidly own that this question of the press occupies meddle in foreign affairs. He did not think so. He still feared that if my thoughts continually, and I feel very little inclined to support the Parliament continued to be constituted as it now was, the old tendencies present system without great modifications.-I am, &c., PERSIGNY.'" to interfere in the wrong way and on the wrong side would manifest To the above letter M. Emile de Girardin sent the following reply: themselves anew. He was against intervention to gratify courtly pre- "Paris, Nov. 15, 1864.-You write to me: 'That it does not suffice On Tuesday evening last Mr Torrens addressed a numerous and judices, to aggrandize great empires, or to repress popular freedom. to be in the right, but that public opinion must endorse it. I fancy influential meeting of electors at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-(Cheers.) But he confessed he was not prepared to bind his country that, like many eminent minds which see too far ahead, and are too street. Lieut.-Colonel Kennedy in the chair. Among those present absolutely and without condition never to protect the weak or to succour quick for the age, you anticipate public opinion.' Now certainly, if were Professor Birkbeck, Mr Sergeant O'Brien, Mr Robert Fisher, Dr the oppressed. Non-intervention was one thing, but national isolation there is any man in France who has not the right to suspect those who Jabez Hogg, Mr J. Orde Hall, Mr Simmons, Mr Hugh Owen, Dr was another. The former, he thought, was an excellent standing rule of see too far ahead, and too quickly for the present age, men who Bruce, Mr R. Stedall, Mr Alfred Burr, Mr W. Young, Mr C. G. Searle, State; the latter he regarded as an impossible and indefensible policy. anticipate public opinion, allow me to tell you that you so far Mr Hopwood, Mr Chinnery, Mr Sandland, Mr Ward, Mr Edmund (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The true foreign policy of a Government, in anticipated public opinion, then but indifferent, which in 1840 allowed Burke, Capt. Jones, Mr R. Pattison, Mr A. Hayman, Mr G. Wells, Mr his (Mr Torrens's) opinion, was to have national alliances with com- without emotion Prince Louis to be condemned by the Chamber of T. Bolton, Mr R. Moore, Mr Parker, Mr Balderson, Mr Bourne, Mr munities that were free, instead of diplomatic entanglements with Peers. I was present at the trial and heard the sentence. Do not Hanson, Mr Lloyd, Mr Hutchinson, Mr Southcott, Mr W. J. Kelly, despotism. (Hear, hear.) They should act upon the rule, "Be just, speak to me about public opinion. It is not a word to be quoted now, Mr A. L. White, Mr Walker, Mr Burton, Mr C. Young, Mr Taylor, and fear not," and not be deterred from doing what was right because it has no precise definition, or, if it has any, it means a bundle of all Mr Youngman, Mr Dayment, etc. it might turn out to be sometimes expensive. (Cheers.) In colonial sorts of contradictory affirmations-which is equivalent to a negation The Chairman, in explaining the objects of the meeting, alluded to government a new principle had been adopted some years ago, namely, on either side, a negation which leads to the realm of doubt and iguor

Nov. 25.-The Poor-law Board considering, with regard to the Rev. E. Hillyard, that he neglected to catechise the children in the boys' and girls' "Homes" on the occasion of his visit to those establishments, as prescribed by the general orders of the board, request him to resign his appointment as chaplain of the Norwich Workhouse. 26. A great fire occurs at Dockhead, Bermondsey, which is not extinguished for two days. It is calculated that the loss will amount to nearly 200,000%.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, Lord Wenlock takes the oaths as Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding of Yorkshire, in the room of the Earl of Carlisle resigned.

The vestry of St Martin-in-the-Fields receive notice from the office of Woods and Forests that the Government will require the whole of the workhouse and the site for the purposes of the National Gallery, and invites this body to send in their estimate of its value.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, in the case of Sergeant Glover v. the Duke de Persigny, claiming compensation for services rendered in devoting the (late) Morning Chronicle newspaper to the political purposes of the Emperor of the French, the plaintiff is nonsuited, a juror having been drawn by mutual consent.

28.-At the meeting of the Lancashire Distress Committee, at Manchester, Mr Maclure reports that 1457. 6s. 3d. had been received during the week, and that the balance in the bank was 82,6697. 188 2d. Mr Farnall reads a report showing that for the present the heaviest period of distress had been turned, and that on the 19th inst. there was a decrease of 1,048 persons in receipt of relief in the twenty-seven unions, as compared with the previous week. A man named Croft, alias Smith, is apprehended at Maidenhead on suspicion of being the murderer of Mrs Butler at Sunninghill. He is remanded for a week.

An inquest is held on the body of the man who was found decapitated on the Great Eastern Railway yesterday week. It is ascertained that his name was Archer, formerly a post-office carrier, who had been discharged on account of certified derangement of intellect, the cause, no doubt, of premeditated suicide.

It is announced that the Secretary of State for War has appointed a committee to investigate the present system of storing and moving gunpowder, and to report any improvements of which they may find it susceptible, with a view to the greater safety of the public. 29.-A Cabinet Council is held at the Treasury. 30.-A second Cabinet Council is held at the Treasury. A memorial to the late Sir G. C. Lewis is inaugurated at New Radnor, presided over by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, at which, amongst other distinguished persons, Lord Clarendon and the Bishop of St David's are present.

Dec. 1.-A third Cabinet Council is held at the Treasury.

FINSBURY ELECTION.

Mr Tomey, in the name of the working classes, would, after hearing
his eloquent speech, give Mr Torrens his most cordial support.
Mr J. R. Taylor also supported him as a friend to nationalities.
The motion was then put and carried unanimously.

A committee was then appointed to ensure the return of Mr Torrens; after which, thanks being given to the Chairman, the proceedings terminated.

ance. I subvert your sentence, and I say: 'It does not suffice that orders. The 13th Division, now concentrated at Minden, will remain | which virtually impugns the authority of the version given in Exodus: public opinion should endorse you, you must be in the right. For how there. The 6th Division, the greater part of which has already "These words the Lord spake in all your assembly... with a great long a time did public opinion, that is to say, ignorance, support, arrived upon Prussian soil, will be concentrated near Berlin. Prince voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, though it was wrong, Ptolemy who firmly maintained that it was Frederick Charles will continue Commander-in-Chief in the Duchies and delivered them unto me." If the Lord "added no more" than what perfectly ridiculous to say that the earth revolved? Between an until the exchange of garrisons shall have been completed. It is is given as the Decalogue in Deut. v., and spoken of as "these words," affirmation and a negation there is but one judge, and that judge is not expected that the chief command of both the Prussian and Austrian then we may presume that he did not add the words given in Exodus, public opinion, because it is itself an affirmation and a negation, troops will be intrusted to General Herwarth von Bittenfeld, but this is "For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth," &c. &c. I am affirming what it denies and denying what it affirms; it is the demon- not yet decided. not pretending to call your Grace's attention to these discrepancies for stration of error by fact, of truth by evidence, of the correctness of 27.-Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia summoned the officers of the first time, knowing how many profound scholars have studied and theory elucidated by the success of experience. Open the pages of his Staff, and instructed them to hold themselves in readiness to carry tried to reconcile them. I quote the Bible words simply to justify my history and you will find that sorcerers were still burnt at the stake out, at a moment's notice, the orders for the departure of the Prussian sincere anxiety to be informed, on so grave a subject, by one whose though no one believed in them, but that when they were no longer troops from the Duchies. Prince Arenberg and Count Wallis, of the exalted position in the Church of itself guarantees to a respectful and burnt people ceased to believe in them altogether. When the Govern- Austrian Staff, were present. honest inquirer the best answer that can be given. I may have misment pays no heed to the public press, the public soon follow in the! 28.-The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, in an article on the Slesvig- understood your Grace's meaning, in thinking that the passage I have wake of the Government; it reads the newspapers simply for news and Holstein question, says: "To bring about a solution of the question of quoted from the Charge implies that there is a Decalogue extant of advertisements. This is what has happened in England, in Belgium, the Duchies in an amicable manner appears the more necessary, since which the "exact words" were " dictated" by God Himself. If I am in the United States, in Switzerland. What you fear, you say 'is not to attempt to solve it on purely legal grounds might lead to no result not mistaken, allow me once more to ask which of the two versions of the discussion of opinions, but the fear of Scandal.' If it is the fear of whatever. Claims have been made to both Duchies, and this fact has the Decalogue does your Grace refer to?-My Lord Archbishop, I scandal the whole French press requires reform. The present system established a competition between the right obtained from Denmark have the honour to be Your Grace's most obedient, humble Servant, only imposes restrictions and reserves upon those journals which hold by Prussia and Austria, and that of the claimants. The chief obstacle (Signed)-CHARLES VOYSEY, Incumbent of Healaugh. so high a position that the publication of scandal is interdicted to them to the satisfactory conclusiou of the negotiations is not the existence

The Federal Diet.

MULLER REDIVIVUS.

by that very position which they hold-a position which they hold, or of any difference of opinion on the subject between Prussia and COPY OF THE ARCHBISHOP'S REPLY. pretend to hold. There is no law against publications which live upon Austria, but the protracted stay of the execution troops in the Duchies. Sandon, Nov. 21, 1864. scandalous reports, indiscretions, allusions, anecdotes, squibs, epigrams, So long as the States engaged in the execution decline to evacuate Reverend Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of &c. Were any of the men who were attacked by those journals, Holstein, so long has Prussia determined to enter into no decisive the 15th November.-I am, Rev. Sir, Your faithful and obedient insulted, hooted, turned into ridicule, laughed at, one whit the worse negotiations on the future destinies of the Duchies." Servant,-(Signed)-C. T. CANTUAR. on the 31st of December? If they were clever, are they not clever 29.-Prussia has fixed a period of five days for the evacuation of still? I therefore maintain that I have the right to state on the Holstein and Lauenburg by the Hanoverian and Saxon troops. grounds of experience I am perfectly right, while experience has 30.-The semi-official Provinzial Correspondenz of to-day says:irrevocably condemned all the successive systems which have had the "On the 29th inst. the Prussian Government, in communicating the pretension of preventing or suppressing what they call the excesses of treaty of peace to Saxony and Hanover, demanded of those States the "Ich habe es gethan." Müller's last words on the scaffold. the public press. Any modification in the present laws upon the press immediate recal from Holstein of the Federal Commissioners, and also would be simply a return to the laws of the Restoration of 1815 or of of the troops engaged in the Federal execution in that Duchy. It is The following lying letter from the murderer Müller has been pubthe Monarchy of 1830. Better not touch it than to attempt to modify the intention of Prussia, in conjunction with Austria, to declare to the lished, as a translation of the one he is stated to have written to his it, for to give to the press perfect liberty, minus one fraction, would Diet that the execution is to be regarded as at an end; this declaration parents shortly before his confession and execution: suffice for it to declare that minus that fraction it is not a free press. being justified not only from their participation in the Federal execuNewgate, London, Nov. 1, 1864. When the public press can declare that it is not free, what happens? tion, but also by virtue of their rights acquired by the treaty of peace. Dearest Parents, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Acquaintances,The public, in great majority, side with the press against the Govern- In this matter also the policy of Austria accords with that of Prussia; With trembling hand and sorrowful heart I take up the pen to give ment. If the press was perfectly free-that is to say, not subject to so that it is to be hoped that there will be no necessity for the latter you further particulars of my misfortune, which, in consequence of my any fiscal or penals laws, what would happen? The public, in a great Power alone to enforce her rights." disobedience towards you, dearest parents, has followed me, and has majority, would side with the Government against the press, which it Dec. 1.-The Nord-Deutsche Allgemine Zeitung of to-day says: "We infinitely shortened the days of my life. I now plainly comprehend would then accuse of ignorance, inconsistency, contradiction, exaggera- are informed that Hanover has signified her compliance with the the sentence which stands written in the Bible-that whosoever does tion, and excess. The thesis which I advocate, because I believe that it demand of Prussia to withdraw the Hanoverian troops from Holstein not honour his father and mother will be followed by an early death; is the last argnment of the question which has been so long pending, and Lauenberg. Saxony has not replied to the summons, and the but I only see it now when it is too late. I hope, nevertheless, that is more a governmental question than a liberal one. If the question under Prussian Government, regarding this as a refusal, intends, in conjunc- you who were so dear to me will not discard me if all the world repulse consideration referred to ironclads or rifled guns, experiments would tion with Austria, to make a complaint against that Power at Thursday's me. For hope ushers us into life, floats around the happy boy, be made. I propose to submit the press to the exclusive system of sitting of the Federal Diet. It is probable that the Diet will speedily animates youth with its magic light, and will not be buried with the contempt for attacks, oblivion of articles, and confusion of opinions, pass resolutions calculated to prevent any further conflict. grey-headed man, for if he closes his weary career at the grave, yet at Why not make the trial? Where is the danger? Should experience VIENNA, Dec. 1.-The mediation of Austria having been accepted, the grave he plants hope; and on this account I also hope that you prove my proposal to be erroneous, the present system would be there is no longer any danger of a collision between the Prussian forces will forgive me with all your hearts. I will now briefly tell you how justified; should the result, on the contrary, justify my views, such a in Holstein and Lauenburg and the Federal troops in those Duchies. it happened that I am overtaken by an unexpected death, which, triumph, the elevation of France to the same level as England, Belgium, HANOVER, Nov. 30.-The Official Gazette of to-day says:-"The nevertheless, I do not deserve, but God oftentimes punishes men by the United States, Italy, and Switzerland, would be the consolidation of Governments at present carrying out the Federal execution in Holstein judgments which he does not deserve, and that is now the case with the new dynasty of liberty. Is not this problem worthy the attention and Lanenburg, are now bound to withdraw from that execution, recal me, in order to punisht me for my evil deeds towards you, my dearest of that special man who had studied the press in all its points their troops, and notify the fact to the Federal Diet. There is no parents; for had I listened to you and not proceeded to England this with the most careful attention, and who in 1836 maintained his question of a decision of the Diet on the subject. The Hanoverian misfortune would not have befallen me, but it is now too late, and own opinion in which he was right, against all the other papers, Government, now that the treaty of peace has been communicated to the therefore I will say no more on that subject, but will describe how it that it was not possible for a paper only costing 40f. instead of Diet, will fulfil this duty as quickly as possible, reserving the succes- came about. I was at work with a person called Louis Wild, and 80f. to exist. Believe me, my dear Duke, there is no lasting sion question for special discussion." became acquainted with his sister, Grace Matthews, and things prointermediary system between the impossible suppression of the public ceeded so far that I meditated marrying her. As I was also acquainted press and its systematic impunity combined with its fiscal dewith her brother, John Matthews, it happened that he bought a hat centralization. All that I could grant you to hasten and accomplish FRANKFORT, Nov. 29.-An extraordinary sitting of the Federal for me. Through the purchase of this hat he brought me to my unexsuch a decentralization would be that the French Government, at the Diet took place to-day. The treaty of peace with Denmark was pected death, as I had given up acquaintanceship with his sister. On same time that it abolished the fiscal and penal laws as regards the communicated by the representatives of Austria and Prussia. Saxony July 9, 1864, a man was murdered in a railway carriage. From him press, should renounce the right of forwarding by post any newspapers made a proposition that the Federal Diet should determine whether the a watch, chain, and hat were taken at the same time, and another hat except on the same conditions, reserving to itself the right of forwarding Federal execution in Holstein is to be considered at an end. This was left in the carriage, which hat was similar to the one which John its official journal free of charge; that journal, styled the Moniteur proposal was referred to the committees on the Holstein question. The Matthews had bought for me. A reward of 2,000 thalers was now Universel, and only costing 18f. per annum, which fall to the State, or, report of General Hake, Commander of the Federal forces in Holstein, offered for those who could give information respecting the murder. on the refusal of the proprietors to sell it, calling itself the Bulletin asking for fresh instructions, was then read. Bavaria proposed that I had long previously resolved to go to America, as you yourselves Français with a circulation of at least 300,000, which would be easily the General should be directed not to abandon his present position know; and therefore on Monday, July 11, 1864, I went towards the done. What should such a journal contain, and what should be its without further orders. This was agreed to by a majority of votes, and office to pay my passage to America, and on the way a watch and size? This is what we intend to examine should you adopt this the report was likewise referred to the committees. The views enter- chain were offered me, and I bought them, and as it afterwards posal as a bridge to cross a river from a centralized press to the banks appeared they were the watch and chain belonging to the gentleman of a decentralized and perfectly free press. Believe, my dear Duke, who was murdered in the railway carriage on July 9, 1864. I left in all the confidential and devoted sentiments of which this letter is the London for America on July 14, 1864, and reached New York on best proof. "EMILE DE GIRARDIN." August 24, 1864, and was there arrested because John Matthews had VIENNA, Nov. 29.-The debate on the Address, in reply to the London. I could not now bring forward the man from whom I had accused me of the murder, and consequently I was brought back to speech from the throne, commenced to-day in the Lower House of the bought the watch and chain, and John Matthews swore that the hat Reichsrath. Count Kinsky reviewed unfavourably the state of the which was left in the railway carriage was the hat he had bought for finances, and censured the foreign policy hitherto pursued by the me on October 24, 1863. I was now required to say where I was on Government. Dr Berger said that the principles expressed in the July 9, and also what I did; yet the people said they could not Address showed the wish of the House to be that an alteration should remember, which might easily be the case after so long a time, and on On Saturday last the Times published an official Manifesto of the be made in the policy of the Government. He represented Austria's this account I was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to death; Confederate Government which had been addressed, through its Com- position as isolated, and declared that her only real ally was Germany. but God the Almighty knows that I am innocent, and therefore I shall missioners, to the principal Governments of Western Europe. In this Austria must energetically oppose every separatist endeavour of Prussia. die in peace. I have now said all upon the subject which I can say, document the secession of the South is based directly on the principle The debate on the paragraphs of the Address then commenced, the and I will therefore end my letter, for I have nothing more to say. that "Government to be lawful must be founded on the consent of the first three of which were passed. The Minister of Commerce intro- We must now part from one another for this world, therefore farewell governed," whereas that consent was no longer given by the States in duced a bill for the construction of a Transylvania Railroad. for ever; nevertheless my fervent blessing follows you. I shall see arms against the North. And the following is the reply returned to it The debate on the Address to the throne was resumed in the Lower by Earl Russell. House of the Reichsrath on the 1st, Herr von Schmerling, in a speech you no more in this world, and only in that world where there will be Foreign Office, Nov. 25, 1864.-Gentlemen,-I have had the on the Hungarian question, said that it was only to be solved by calm heart the moment when we shall see one another again in that world. no more separation. Loving you sincerely here, I await with longing honour to receive the copy which you have sent me of the Manifesto preparation. It was the duty of the Government to exercise some in- In this hope I will conclude, but I pray, dearest parents, and brothers issued by the Congress of the so-called Confederate States of America. fluence on the coming elections in Hungary, more especially as the and sisters, that you will not be sorrowful, for I am tranquil and in Her Majesty's Government deeply lament the protracted nature of the opposition were displaying great activity. The moderation now struggle between the Northern and Southern States of the formerly prevailing in public opinion in that country would render possible the without guilt, and it is also said in the Holy Scripture: Fear not they peace, for what can give greater consolation than to be in affliction United Republic of North America. Great Britain has since 1783 convocation of the Hungarian Diet at an early period. The Govern- who can kill the body, fear rather much more they who can destroy remained, with the exception of a short period, connected by friendly ment desires to reconcile Hungary, and to meet any acceptable body and soul, and therefore I shall atone for the sins towards you of relations with both the Northern and the Southern States. Since the proposition which might be made by the Hungarian Diet. It would which I have been guilty, and then the Lord will also graciously commencement of the Civil War, which broke out in 1861, her Majesty's only be possible to effect a modification of the Hungarian Constitution receive me. Time has been left me till the 14th of November, and Government have continued to entertain sentiments of friendship in a constitutional manner. The paragraphs of the draught of the therefore I write you some lines and send them as soon as possible in equally for the North and for the South. Of the causes of the rupture Address, referring to the convocation of the Hungarian Diet, were then order that I may have peace, which I can only receive when you forher Majesty's Government have never presumed to judge; they agreed to, an amendment fixing a period for that convocation having give me from your hearts, and that you will not refuse to me. In the deplore the commencement of this sanguinary struggle, and anxiously been rejected, look forward to the period of its termination. In the meantime they are convinced that they best consult the interests of peace and respect the rights of all parties by observing a strict and impartial neutrality. Such a neutrality her Majesty has faithfully maintained, and will continue to maintain. I request you, Gentlemen, to accept, &c.RUSSELL.

66

AMERICA.

The late Confederate Manifesto.

"J. Slidell, Esq., J. Mason, Esq., and A. Dudley Mann, Esq." The Civil War.

pro

tained by Prussia on every point in regard to the protracted occupation
of Holstein by the troops engaged in the Frderal execution were
stoutly maintained by the representative of that country.

The Austrian Reichsrath.

QUESTION AND ANSWER.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND MOST REVEREND LORD
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

hope that you will not let my request be uncomplied with, I remain, your loving son and brother, FRANZ MÜLLER, who was sold as a slave in London by John Matthews for 2,000 thalers.

In consequence of the publication of the above letter, Mr Sheriff Dakin has felt it to be his duty to make known a letter written in answer to that communication by the father of the convict. It should Healaugh Parsonage, Tadcaster, Nov. 15, 1864. My Lord Archbishop,-On the 42nd page of your Grace's Primary 1st of November, a fortnight before his execution, was placed in the be explained that the letter of the convict, which was written on the Charge, there is one short passage upon which I beg very respectfully hands of Mr Sheriff Dakin on that day to be forwarded to its destinato ask one question. The passage referred to I now quote, taking the tion. The Sheriff forwarded it without delay, and the reply, having The accounts of the military operations continue to be of a very liberty of emphasizing those words to which I would draw especial been received at Newgate on the 12th of November, the day but one vague character. The following are all that have been received:- attention: "all we would maintain the title NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The report that the Federals have evacuated tion is the universal authority of every portion of it, as written under the before the execution, was immediately handed to the condemned man. Atlanta, after having destroyed the public buildings and manufactories, Divine supervision, securing the writers from error and falsehood: the After the execution it passed into the hands of the sheriffs as the is revived, supported by the assertion of the Southern journals that the exact words being in some cases dictated, as was the case with the delivery proper custodians of such a document, and a literal translation of it is abandonment of the city occurred on the 12th inst. There is no of the Decalogue." I must respectfully ask your Grace, which of the two Son,We received your letter on the 6th of November, but, alas! how now published with their sanction and at their request: "Unhappy authentic intelligence of Sherman's subsequent movements. General versions of the Decalogue is here referred to as having been written in Early is reported to have retired to Strasburg. Sheridan is still at the "exact words "dictated" by God? Nearly every one is aware deeply have you fallen. You ask us to forgive you; we do forgive you are that the version given in Deut. v. differs materially from the version you, and if you are guilty, may God forgive you also. If y given in Exodus xx., viz.-in the wording of the Fourth Commandment. innocent, may God lighten your last hours. I must conclude, for my And what renders the discrepancy the more remarkable and irrecon- thoughts fail me. God be with you. Amen.-YOUR UNHAPPY cileable is, that the words, "For in six days the Lord made heaven and FATHER. Langen Dembach, Nov. 9." earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; The extreme brevity of the letter in comparison with the length of wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it," given in that of the son to which it was a reply, and its general tone, produced BERLIN, Nov. 26. The semi-official Nord- Deutsche Allgemeine Zei-Exodus xx. 11, are altogether omitted from the version given in Deut. an impression on the minds of the Sheriffs and the authorities at Newfung states that the Prussian troops which have not yet been withdrawn v., where we find not only an entirely different reason assigned for God's gate at the time that the convict had failed to convince his father of his from the Duchies have been directed not to quit them until further command, but also a very solemn note at the end of the Decalogue, innocence.

Winchester.

CRIMINAL ANNALS.

was the first witness called. He said: I live now at 23 Golden

hood as to fact. But as to this assertion about the heiress, how can I

inspector saw her on Friday last. I did not hear her say then that 3,100%, and before it became due the defendant called to have it put she thought she should die. The Rev. Mr Reuben, a City missionary, into two. The defendant did not say that he had told his father that THE EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER KÖHL was resumed before said: I reside at 49 Barbican, and am a Baptist minister. I visited he owed 1,500l. for jewellery, and that was the reason why he wanted the magistrates at Ilford, on Saturday. Beside the repetition and con- the deceased frequently in the hospital, and saw her on Friday evening. the bill for 1,500l. to show his father. He had no recollection of it. firmation of facts already deposed to little evidence was given. The For nine days past she was apparently satisfied she could not recover. He said his father would come and take up the bill for 1,500l. Mr most important statement made during the examination was that by She said that she was prepared to die, and that she was happy. Emanuel went to the defendant's father, I have not seen the bills Mary Jane Cooper, of 22 Francis street, Plaistow, wife of G. Cooper, On Friday night I asked her whether the magistrate had been to see given on renewal. (Some bills were produced). I believe those are a labourer. She said: "I know the prisoner Charles, and I remember her, and she said that he had not, but that the police had been. She the bills. The amount is increased 601. for interest, but defendant had seeing him on the afternoon of Monday, the 7th, on the Thames bank, was quite sensible. I asked her what she had told them, and she said also bought an emerald ring in the meantime, the ring was bought for f about three minutes' walk from the reed bed of Plaistow marshes. It she had told the officer what she had told me before. Sergeant White, the wedding also. It is usual to give three rings in the upper circles was half-past three o'clock. He was jumping across the ditch which recalled, said: I was the officer who saw the deceased on Friday even-in cases of matrimony,-a ruby, emerald, and a diamond. I believe divides the reed bed from the bank. He passed us down by the side ing, the 25th inst. I asked her how she was, and she said she believed the defendant gave one bill for the whole for 3,5001. I did not tell the of the bank. My sister was with me. He did not speak to us, nor that she was dying. I asked her to tell me how the accident took defendant, but I believed he had been having bills out. Defendant asked we to him. He went across the fields towards the Graving Dock. place. She said, "I was in the employ of Mr Withers, at 2 Beech me if I could tell him where he could borrow some money. I cannot say That was not his way towards Hoy street." Mr Wood, on the part of lane. On the 31st of October I was in the parlour when he was lying when that was, as he used to come in occasionally. It did not concern the prisoner, asked: "How near were you to the prisoner?" She on the sofa. He jumped up and caught hold of me and sat on the me. I said, "Don't go to money lenders; an insurance office is the best answered: "I was about twenty yards from him. He did not speak to chair and pulled me on his knee and kissed me. I screamed out. He thing." I will not swear that I did not mention the name of Davis. us, and we did not speak to him." To Mr Giffard, for the prosecution, said, 'Don't cry, and don't be a fool.' I said, 'I will scream.' He Messrs Lawrence, Plews, and Boyer are the solicitors for the proseshe said: "I had known the prisoner for some six or eight months. let go of me then. I then said, 'See, I am on fire.' He did not try to cution. I know Mr Davis, of Clifford-street. I don't know that he is I knew him when he worked at the butcher's. The prisoner, who put out the fire. I ran into the yard to throw water over me. I ran an attorney. I don't know that he is a money-lender. I will swear said he had nothing to say was fully committed for trial at the Central into the street, and I became unconscious." I reduced that statement I told the defendant to go to an insurance office, but I have no recolCriminal Court. to writing and deceased signed it in presence of witnesses. Samuel lection of sending him to Mr Davis. I have not sent young men to AT SYSTow, about four miles from Leicester, on Friday night (the Withers said that he was on the sofa and saw the deceased standing Mr Davis to borrow money. To the best of my recollection I sent the 25th ult.), a horrible double murder was committed by a wheelwright with her back close to the bars-her crinoline was, in fact, on fire. defendant to an insurance-office. I have never taken goods round to named Timothy Baum, aged twenty-eight. About eleven o'clock on She was not aware she was on fire, and he wished to put it out. She persons, volunteering to let them have them. I never take them until Friday night the murderer's mother-in-law, Mrs Jane Shelton, who became quite excited and tried to get away. He endeavoured to keep they are sent for. I have not left goods with servants to show their lived with her daughter, was asleep in a room adjoining that in which her in the room, but she broke from him and rushed into the yard, mistresses without being sent for. I took an assortment of goods, conthe prisoner and his wife and child were sleeping, when she was dis- where he followed her and threw a pail of water over her. He after-sisting of jewellery, to the defendant, and I sold him 3,000l. worth. If turbed by the cries of the child. On getting up and going towards the wards put a rug over her, and it was burnt. He did his best to put out he thought proper to give the lady 2,000l. more than his note stated, prisoner's bedroom she met the prisoner coming out of his room with a the fire. The Coroner: You have heard the statement the girl made that was nothing to me. We had done a little business before with knife in his hand. She saw blood both on the knife and his shirt. She to the officer when in danger of death. Do you wish to say anything him. We knew his family, and we knew that his father lived in sked him the cause of it, but he made no reply, and attempted to cut further on that point? Withers said in reply: "I am not guilty; I Brook street.-Mr Emanuel was then examined, and he stated that he 'his throat, but Mrs Shelton struck the knife from his hand. He then did nothing but try to put out the fire. My character has never been certainly should not have parted with his goods had not defendant ushed downstairs, but he returned in a few minutes with the knife-box impugned before." The Coroner said that he understood it to be so stated that he was going to marry a rich heiress.-Mr Morris, Carlton in his hand, and was feeling as if in search of the carving-knife. until this occurrence. The Coroner said that if the jury believed that Chambers. Regent street: I know the defendant. I saw him on the With great presence of mind she also dashed the knife-box out of his in a struggle resulting from an attempt on the part of Samuel Withers 5th of February at my then office in Sackville street. I gave him a hand, seized him, and dragged him into a bedroom, where she pushed to take liberties with the deceased she was set on fire, and so lost her cheque for 1,7007., the defendant owing me 1,300l. at the time. This im into a chair, and cried out "Murder!" This brought to her life, Withers should be held responsible for her death; but if they made the whole debt 3,000l. I took a memorandum and security of Assistance two men who were near. Mrs Shelton then went into the believed Withers's statement, that the occurrence was accidental, they jewels. I made a list of articles in the casket. (Agreement here put bedroom and found her daughter lying in bed with its throat cut, quite should say so by their verdict. The jury returned a verdict of "Man- in and read. It was to the effect that he (the defendant), in conlead, and her child lying at her side, also with its throat cut. Police slaughter" against Samuel Withers for feloniously killing and slaying sideration of a cheque of 1,7007. and his two bills for 650%. each, agreed onstable Miles entered the house and arrested the prisoner on a charge Mary Deacon. The Coroner then issued his warrant for the committal to secure the amount, 3,000l., by the deposit of jewels, and in default of murdering his wife and child. In the meantime, Mr J. C. Robinson, of Withers to Newgate, but said he would take substantial bail for the of payment Mr Morris was authorized and empowered to sell the jewels urgeon, of Syston, was sent for, and on his arrival he pronounced the brute's appearance. and convert the amount to the repayment of the 3,000%.") The whole infant to be still alive, but it only lingered till about three o'clock, when t expired. As the prisoner had been depressed and for some time past to be involved in mystery, great doubts being entertained whether young 2,2001. was the value in the trade. I offered them to Mr AttenboTHE DENOUMENT OF THE LATE SWISS POISONING CASE appears calfe: For which a charge of 4,000l. was made.-Mr Morris: The of the jewels in the casket were stated to be worth 2,2001.-Mr Metunder Mr Robinson's treatment, the latter did not consider him in a Dr Demme and Malle. Flora Trumpy have really committed suicide. Jondition to be removed that night. He was, therefore, kept under the The Gazette des Tribunaux has received on the subject the following rough, as I am no judge of these things.-Mr Giffard: That is my arveillance of the police, and conveyed to Leicester on Saturday - Mr Metcalfe, for the defence, denied that a misrepresentation of norning. An examination before the magistrates has shown that the letter, dated Berne, Nov. 24: "Despatches from the prefects of Lau- case.sanne and Vevey, as well as from other points on the Lake of Geneva, existing facts had taken place.-Mr Tyrwhitt: The case stands on prisoner is insane. state that the bodies have not been found. The announcement of the this foundation. Did he or did he not state anything which in AN INQUEST was held on Tuesday, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, suicide made by the Demme family is, therefore, only based on the another court would be held to be a pre-existing fact? All the contouching the death of Mary Deacon, aged nineteen, a work girl, residing with her mother, a widow, at No. 3 Middle-street, Cloth farewell letters written by the doctor and Mdlle. Flora, and, from the victions which I can put my finger upon contain what is a clear falsehaste in which they have been published, the truth of the story is more fair, and at the time of her death learning waiscont-making with Mr than ever doubted; it is looked upon as a made-up tale, intended to say it is not so with the evidence before me? The fact is, the parties Samuel Withers, at No. 2 Beech lane, Barbican. W. Rowe, a lad, mask the departure of Dr Demme, and facilitate his establishment in only thought about payment. If the father would not pay some one lane. I did live in Whitecross street, immediately at the back some other country under an assumed name-perhaps even his accepta defendant going into the Bankruptcy Court, and they wrote to put on else would they did not care who.-Mr Metcalfe: They feared the of No. 2 Beech lane. of the post of surgeon-in-chief to the Mexican army, On the last day of October I was in my which is said to have been offered him." Dr Demme, senior, writes the screw somewhere.-Mr Tyrwhitt: I entertain strong doubts on the room, between five and six o'clock, when I heard a scream. It was a woman's voice, clear and shrill. I opened the window, and got on to the Bund, of Berne: "In reply to rumours circulating among the matter, but this is not the court for the solution of those doubts. If the roof of No. 4 Whitecross street, and then I crossed the leads until public and in the press, relative to the announcement made by me of the bankruptcy had not intervened these proceedings would never the death of Dr Hermann Demme and Flora Trümpy, I declare on have been heard of. Bills having been given for the amount due to I got into such a position that I could look into the yard and passage my honour and conscience that I made that announcement with a the complainant, that very much alters the complexion of the case so of No. 2 Beech lane. I saw a woman in the act of putting a tub bleeding heart, and only after the most minute inquiries, and with the far as the moral aspect is concerned. It is certain that the comdown on the stones. Her clothes were on fire then. I saw a man just full conviction of the truth of the fatal news. Now, if it should turn plainant, who was content to take bills, looked to the civil remedy as inside the passage, and he said to the person on fire, "Hold your row, out that the suicide was a fiction, resorted to in order to conceal a flight, the means of getting his money. I must send the case before a jury you fool." The woman answered, "I shall not, you brute," and she called out, "Fire! Murder!" She tried to fly past the man into the was the first to be deceived by it, and I should agree with public certainly. The defendant was committed on bail in two sureties of passage. He caught her round the waist and said, "You shall not opinion in condemning such an infamous action. It is to be hoped that 3007. each.-The second charge, of obtaining goods from Mr Hancock, go." She tried desperately to get away from him, and at last she time will lead to the discovery of the truth.-DR DEMME, senior." was adjourned till next week. succeeded in breaking from him. I saw no more till I went round to Berne, on the 1st inst., Dr Dem me and Mademoiselle Flora Trümpy According to an official report received by the Federal Council of being rolled in the street by men and women who were covering her poisoned themselves at Nervi, near Genoa. with sacks. A boy was throwing water over her. A cab was fetched, A FATAL CATASTROPHE OCCUbred at GlasGOW on Wednesday and she was carried to St Bartholomew's Hospital. I had never seen night, involving the loss of fourteen lives, and placing several other either the man or woman before. I have seen the man since, at the persons for the time in serious jeopardy The ferry boats, which belong to police-court, and identify him as a person now present giving the 66 THE QUESTION OF TRAVELLERS."-In the case of Fisher v. the Clyde trustees, ply between the opposite sides of the harbour, and name of Samuel Withers. Cross-examined by Mr Withers: I did not Howard, which came before the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday, the ferryman. About six o'clock on the night in question, one of the boats are capacious vessels, licensed to carry twenty-four persons besides the see you trying to put out the fire, and flinging a pail of water over question, "Who is a traveller at a railway refreshment room?" was left the north for the south quay, having on board, as far as can be the girl. I take my oath that you said, "Hold your noise, you fool." argued." Julia Strait, wife of a cook, said: At the time this occurence took Station at ten minutes before one in the afternoon for Croydon, nine being working men, who had just finished the labours of the day, and On Sunday, the 18th of September, a train left Victoria ascertained, twenty-one passengers and one ferryman, most of them place I was crossing Beech lane. I heard a faint cry, "Oh help me, miles distant, calling at several stations. The public are admitted to availed themselves of the ferry as affording a shorter route to their help me." I heard a door bang, and turning round I saw a woman the station, and the office was opened for tickets at half-past twelve. homes-homes which many of the poor fellows were destined never to rush out in a body of flames from the house No 2. A man ran up the At twenty minutes to one the refreshment rooms were opened by the see more. The river, in consequence of the recent rains, was running street with a mat in his hand, and he threw the woman down to put appellant Fisher, and twenty-five persons then entered the rooms and in heavy flood, and the tide was about one-third ebb. A minute or out the flames. After I had torn the clothes from her waist were served with unfermented liquors. They had all taken tickets and I lifted her head up. She gave a faint sigh and said, "I am proceeded afterwards by the train. The appellant was convicted of an had passed the place on her way up to her berth. The captain of this two before the boat put out from the quay the steamer Inverary Castle better now. He has done it, he has done it. me, and tried to take liberties with me; I will lock him up." Arnold, who reserved the question for the Judges. The Justices that time he was going dead slow. As he subsequently heard no cries That man kissed infringment of the Act, at the Westminster Police court, by Mr vessel states that he noticed the boat at the ferry steps, and that at I did not then know what man she meant, but I looked up and Crompton, Mellor, and Shee gave judgment for the appellant, and set it would appear that he must have been some distance ahead before the saw a man in his shirt sleeves standing at the door of No. 2. He the conviction aside. Mr Justice Crompton expressed the feeling of boat started. But, be this as it may, whether from the disturbance of looked on at the poor girl burning, and never offered her any help. the Court, when he said-"In the ordinary and common understanding the water occasioned by the steamer, or from whatever other cause, That (pointing to Samuel Withers) is the same man; I am sure he is of mankind and in common sense these persons were clearly travel the boat had only proceeded a few yards from the stairs when she was the same. The girl pointed towards the door where he was leaning lers, and so within the exception in the Act." Judgment for the overtaken by a heavy wave, which dashed over her gunwale, leaving and said, "That man did it." No one else was at the doorway at the appellant. time. She turned over on her left side to point to him. He answered not a word. He could and must have heard her. He went indoors as Coldstream Guards, was charged at the Marlborough-street police and many of them made a sudden movement to one side of the boat. ARTHUR BOOTLE WILBRAHAM, an Ensign and Lieutenant in the hor half filled with water, and at the same time causing her to roll violently. The passengers were thrown into the utmost consternation, we were getting the girl into the cab, and as we were going past it in court on Wednesday, with having obtained jewellery of the value of the cab saw the door being closed. W. Tanzy, city police, said: 1 3,100%, from Mr Emanuel, jeweller of Bond street, and jewellery of the Presently another.wave came over the gunwale, which, owing to the was in the back-yard of No & Beech lane, where I live, on the evening value of 1,100%, from Mr' Hancock, jeweller of Bruton street, by false irregular movement of the passengers, was probably lower than it might in question. I heard a girl scream "Fire !" and "Murder!" When and fraudulent pretences, Mr Giffard for the prosecution," said the otherwise have been, and the boat heeled over to the port side bond I got into Beech lane I saw the girl standing near No. 2 in flames. I history of the case was this. On the 4th of February of this year Mr turned bottom upwards. Several of the passengers, on seeing the boat heard her say, "That man did it. I will have him locked up." She Emanuel received a note from the defendant requesting that diamond beginning to sink, jumped into the water and struck out for the north raised her arms, and I thought she pointed to No 3. I ascertained that bracelets, earrings, &c., to the value of about 2,000%, might be sent to of them being, no doubt, carried under her, and thus placed in the the house was No 2, and I knocked at the door. Some minutes elapsed him for inspection at the officers' guard room at the Horse Guards. shore. The others were submerged when the boat rolled over, several before the door was opened. Mrs Withers came, and I asked where One of Mr Emanuel's assistants, named Streeter, was sent with jewel- but turned right over and floated bottom upwards down the stream, her husband was. She said that he was inside, and I went in and lery corresponding in quality and amount to that ordered by the with several persons clinging to hier keel and gunwale. The cries of most unfavourable circumstances for escape. The boat did not sink, found him lying down, drunk. He had no coat on. I asked him to defendant. The defendant made a statement to Streeter during that the unfortunate people at once attracted attention on shore, and on come into the front room, and there I told him it was stated that he interview, which was that he was engaged to be married to a rich board of the vessels lying at the adjoining berths. The ferryman in was the cause of the girl being burnt. He said that he was lying on heiress, that the articles of jewellery were for her, and that he was the sofa and he saw her stand with her back to the fire, and she set going down by the three o'clock train the next day for the purpose of charge of the other boat plying on the station at once put out, but by herself in a blaze. He caught hold of her to put the fire out, but she presenting the jewellery to her. The defendant obtained goods to the floated out of sight, and none of the unhappy passengers could be sen rushed from him out into the yard. He followed her and threw water extent of 3,150%, and on the same day or within a very short time in the water. Another boat was lowered, which, finding no one in the the time he got to the scene of the disaster, the swamped boat had over her, but she ran out into the street. Mrs Withers, who was also after, the defendant executed an agreement with Mr Morris, making

the street. The door of No. 2 was then closed. The deceased was

tion

LAW AND POLICE.

Carden, as the woman could not attend. There was a rug under the defendant, and supplied him with the jewellery, which he stated was

CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.

Four of the

were able to be taken to their homes. About 200 yards below the

very drunk, said that she was in the little room at the time. I went the bill of parcels of Mr Emanuel the schedule of the agreement for water, seems to have followed the swamped boat, and assisted in rescutaken hospital, and in consequence of what the girl said Withers was money advanced to him on the goods. Since the original transactioning the unfortunate fellows who were clinging to it. taken into custody. He was remanded subsequently for the attendance the defendant had been made a bankrupt. Mr Streeter, manager to passengers succeeded in reaching the shore, and under medical treatof the prosecutrix. Afterwards he was discharged by Alderman | Mr Emanuel, then gave evidence, stating that he waited upon the ment were so far restored in the course of an hour or two that they I deceased when she lay on the ground. I believe that came from the for a lady he was about to be married to. Mr Metcalfe, for the defend-scene of the catastrophe another of the river ferrymen fell in with the house-how I do not know. Sergeant White, 59 City police, said: ant, cross-examined this witness who replied: If we did not think the boat, and found three men holding on by her keel, and one beneath On the 3rd of November I was informed about this case. I was sent transaction quite correct we should not let a young gentleman have immersed in the water convulsively clutching the gunwale. The three here to hear the girl's statement, and I reported to Alderman Finnis goods unless he was going to be married. Mr Emanuel said, "I men who got on the keel were taken ashore little the worse, but the what she stated. I do not know why Alderman Finnis did not take would rather not serve you if you are not going to be married." A fourth, a man about fifty years of age, died in the course of the evening. her depositions. The house surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital bill was drawn for the amount, and three months after the defendant The remaining fourteen persons were drowned, and up to a late hour

on Wednesday night their bodies had not been recovered.

said: The deceased was taken there on the 31st of October, dreadfully renewed the bill. I was present when the defendant renewed it, a day burnt. She appeared to go on favourably for some two or three weeks. or two before it came to maturity. There has been more than one reThree days before she died I sent a report to the magistrate, as she newal. On the first renewal two bills were given, one for 1,500%, and was then sinking, and an inspector of police came, but no magistrate. the other for 1,6504. The defendant said his father was going to pay Canadian legislature, which will be the first to deliberate on this scheme, She made a statement to me just after she was brought in. The the 1,500% bill as a p THE CONFEDERATION OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. The present to the young lady, The first bill was for is to meet on the 18th of January next,

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Saturday Evening.

THE AUSTRIAN REICHSRATH. VIENNA, Dec. 2.-In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Reichsrath the debate on the Address to the throne was resumed. Count Mensdorff-Pouilly said that the principal policy of Austria was to avoid a great and an apparently inevitable war. It was her task to direct her efforts towards the solution of the German question in thorough earnestness, and in a manner which should be both compatible with her rights, and also, if possible, with the preservation of her connection with Prussia, so necessary to the interests of Germany and peace. The programme of the Cabinet was tranquillity and conciliation, but firmness. No one could demand that Austria should adopt the initiative in bringing about a better understanding with Italy, by whom the mere existence of Austria was regarded as an aggression. Austria was willing to preserve peace, but at the same time was determined to resist her enemies, and she reckoned on the entire support both of the House and of the population. The Minister of War stated that Austria would willingly disarm, but the step must be initiated by other Powers. Dr Brinz asked what course the Government intended to pursue in the settlement of the succession question in the Duchies. Herr Kuranda declared himself opposed to the Prussian alliance. Dr Mühlfeld said that he considered it to be the mission of Austria to strengthen the German Diet, whereas, on the contrary, that body had been weakened by her. Count Mensdorff said that the present position of the negotiations did not admit of more precise information being given. Austria had not taken part in the Danish war from mere love of military glory. The paragraph of the Address relating to foreign policy was then adopted as originally drawn up.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Dec. 2.-The France announces the death of Mr Dayton, the American Minister at the Court of the Tuileries. The Patrie says that an improvement which took place in the health of M. Mocquard does not continue. His condition causes great anxiety. 3.-The arguments, on the appeal of the thirteen deputies accused of holding illegal meetings, bave terminated. Judgment will be delivered on Wednesday next.

SOUTH AMERICA.

By the mail which arrived this morning at Southampton, we learn that Buenos Ayres continued to progress under the able administration of General Mitre. Gold had been discovered in large quantities in San Juan, at the foot of the Cordillera Mountains. Over 500 ounces were obtained in nuggets in one day by two miners. Hostile measures had been taken by the Brazilian anthorities to enforce their claims on the Government of the Banda Oriental. The blockade of Montevideo by a Brazilian squadron has been declared, and a division of the Brazilian army has crossed the frontier, and advanced in the Oriental territory as far as Ceiro Largo. Flores had appeared before Montevideo with 3,000 men, but retired without attempting to take the city. The United States' Minister at Rio Janerio, General Webb, has disavowed the proceedings of the Wachusetts in the port of Babia, and has promised on the part of his Government that full satisfaction should be given to the Brazilian authorities. This promise was held worthy of little credit. The prorogation of the Bankruptcy Courts for sixty days expired on the 9th ult., and many failures were expected, which will have to be subjected to the tedious and costly process of the Court.

letter which appeared in the Times of to-day, professing to be written | woods-"one against one-chance for chance-God alone being
by an Eton Boy was sent, but not written by one. It was written by witness of the fight.' Not long after his arrival at Bona he heard of
his father, and by his desire sent to you through his son. I feel it due the terrible lion of the Archiona, which had committed unheard-of
to the character of the place to disclaim the letter as emanating from devastations among villagers and troops alike. Said Gérard magnani-
the boys themselves. I am &c., E. BALSTON.-Eton, Nov. 21." mously, "If it pleases God, I, who am not an Arab, will kill the lion,
Now, Sir, what assistance can a liberal commission on education expect and he shall not devour you any more." His heart, he tells us,
from such a spirit as this letter embodies? That "the character of the bounded for joy at the coming fight.. "Soon this all-powerful lord, the
place" has always been to extol play and depreciate work was the terror of the country, will bite the dust under the ball of a dog of a
general complaint brought against Eton some time ago, and even her Christian." The villagers were incredulous, and intimated to Jules
defenders could scarcely deny that such was the tendency of the boys. that, if he killed the lion, they would kiss his feet and become his slaves;
But that the head master of the school should publicly put himself meanwhile they would mind their own business. Of the twenty-five
forward to "disclaim" a modest attempt to obtain for talent and dili- lions which have fallen victims to Gérard's rifle we are told appalling
gence as honourable mention as thews and sinews are wont to receive stories of "El Haib," the lame one, alias Bon-Acherin-Radiel, the
in the daily press, even Paterfamilias could scarely have expected.—I murderer of twenty men; the lion of Krou Nega, the lion of Mejez
am, &c.,
Amar, the lion of Zérazer, the lioness of El Hanout, &c. He was
Nov. 25.
AN OLD ETONIAN. called by the Arabs "The Terrible Frank." The Duc d'Aumale had
given him a brace of pistols, and on his return to France in 1847, he
had an interview with the Duchess of Orleans and the youthful Count
de Paris, who, unsolicited, left the room for five minutes, and returning
said artlessly, "These villain beasts will finish you one day. A good
hunter must be a good soldier. You must be preserved to the army.
Accept these pistols to preserve you." In 1855 Gérard returned once
more to France with the rank of sub-lieutenant and received the
decoration of the Legion of Honour. He had within the last year or
two left France on another expedition into Africa, and he has unfortu-
nately perished in the course of it by a sad accident.

Obituary.

LORD ELIOT, eldest son of the Earl of St Germans, died on Saturday morning at Port Eliot, the family seat in Cornwall, aged thirty-seven. He was formerly in the 1st Life Guards, but for some years had been a great invalid. By his death his next brother, the Hon. W. G. Cornwallis Eliot, in the diplomatic service, becomes heir apparent to the family honours.

LADY ALVANLEY died on Saturday, at Thorpe Perrow Hall, Yorkshire, the seat of Mr and Lady Augusta H. Milbank, where her ladyship had been staying since the early part of October. She was the fifth daughter of the first Duke of Cleveland, and was in her sixtyfourth year. It is a remarkable fact that her two brothers, the second and third Dukes of Cleveland, have died within less than twelve months.

GENERAL WYNYARD, C.B., Colonel of the 58th Regiment of Foot, died on the 24th ult. He served with the army in Sicily from 1808 to March, 1810, when he was severely wounded at the attack on Santa Maura, he was also present and on the staff with the force that occupied Ischia and Procida.

MR JAMES SKENE, of Rubislaw, Aberdeenshire, died at Frewon ball, Oxford, on Sunday last, in his ninetieth year. He was one of the earliest and most intimate friends of Sir Walter Scott, whose acquaintance he made about 1796, after his return from Saxony, whither he had gone to study German. The fourth canto of 'Marmion' is dedicated to Mr Skene, and makes touching reference to the death of Sir William Forbes, Mr Skene's father-in-law, as happening immediately after the birth of Mr Skene's first child, thus mingling sorrow with rejoicing. Mr Skene long held the office of Secretary to the Board of Trustees for Manufactures in Scotland.

MR DAVID ROBERTS, the Royal Academician, was seized with an apoplectic attack yesterday week while walking in Berners street, and, after being perfectly insensible for a brief period after his removal to his own house, expired about seven o'clock in the evening. This distinguished artist was born in Edinburgh in 1796. In his native city he was apprenticed to a house painter, but his genius and industry soon raised him above this calling, and he became favourably known to his fellow-townsmen as a scene-painter. He came to London, and was first employed as scene-painter at the Surrey theatre, until he obtained an engagement at Drury Lane, where he worked for some years with increasing popularity, in conjunction with Mr Clarkson Stanfield, his fellow academician. Roberts's first celebrated picture was the "Departure of the Israelites from Egypt," which appeared nearly forty years ago, and then followed, for four years running, the "Landscape Annual," with something like five-and-thirty drawings to each volume. His "Spain" appeared in 1835, consisting of twenty-six plates, imitations of his drawings made on the spot, with the tints just then invented. The next year he published his first architectural painting, the large upright "interior" of Seville cathedral; and about the same time an "exterior," the Giralda tower of Seville. The splendid work in four volumes folio, "The Holy Land," is that by which Mr Roberts will be most widely known. He had been travelling for some time in the Holy Land, Egypt, and Nubia, and between 1838 and 1840 he published these magnificent works. In 1838 he was elected A.R.A., and, after producing many admirable interiors of churches in Italy and Belgium, was elected R.A. in 1841. There is no necessity to enumerate Mr Roberts's pictures in succession. Several of his pictures are in the Vernon and Sheepshanks collections at South Kensington. One of his best works, however, has a curious history. It was the property of Mr Hall-Standish, of Eshe hall, Durham, who, piqued at being refused a baronetcy by Lord Melbourne, left all his splendid collection to King Louis Philippe, and this picture was one of the gems of the Louvre. The Emperor Napoleon III. restored this collection to the Orleans family, as being the King's private property, and this picture returned to England and was sold at Christie's to an English gentleman. Among THE DEATHS IN LONDON last week were less by 65 than in the recent pictures of his may be noted "Sta. Maria della Salute," at Venice, week before, but amounted to 1,677, which is 159 above the average which appeared in 1860. Last year he was chiefly occupied on views for the last ten years. The most fatal disease in the list was, as in the of London on the Thames, eight or nine in number, painted for Mr C. previous week, bronchitis, which was recorded in 226 cases, the corLucas, the contractor, and this year two works of his figured on the rected average being 197, while pneumonia was returned in 161 cases, walls of the Royal Academy, the "Chapel in the Church at Dixmude, against an average of 125. The deaths from phthisis (consumption) West Flanders," and the "Mausoleum of Augustus (the Castle of St were 178, which is just equal to the average; those from heart disease Angelo), from the gardens of the Villa Barberini at Rome"--the most were 85, the average being 63. Six nonagenarians died in the week, remarkable monument on the Campus Martius. In his earlier days in the oldest of whom was aged 96 years. Of 53 fatal cases of measles, SHANGHAI, Oct. 25.-Advices from Japan state that trade is London Mr Roberts lived at 18 Mount street, Lambeth, and every six occurred in Kensington-town sub-district, seven in that of Christflourishing at Yeddo. The Daimios have agreed (telegraphed evening he, his countryman "Jock Wilson," the landscape painter, and church, Maryleboue. There were 90 of scarlatina, eight of which cogalla ") to reside there. Prince Nagato is said to decline (tele- one or two more rising artists, met at a public-house just over West- were in the Pancras district, four in the City-road sub-district, nine in graphed "tirne") payment of the indemnity. A strong feeling pre-minster bridge. From Mount street he removed to 24 Mornington the Greenwich district, in which there were also 11 deaths from typhus. vails against him, and his palace has been levelled to the ground. place, and frequented a well-known tavern, the Sol's Arms, where the In the Pancras district 150 deaths were registered in the week; the habitués still remember him. When he became A.R.A. he joined the corrected average is 105. In Shoreditch there were 90 against 72; Garrick club, and for very many years he has been the acknowledged in Newington 68 against 43; in Lambeth 92 against 82. A man, chief of the smoking room, coming punctually at eight and leaving unknown, aged about 55 years, was found dead on a dunghill in Shadpunctually at eleven. His last residence was 7 Fitzroy street, Fitzroy well, from "exposure and destitution." square. He was a pleasant and genial companion, emphatically a "clubbable" man. Many stories are told of his liberality to his less fortunate brethren of the easel, and he was to the last, we believe, president of the Artists' General Benevolent Fund. Personally, Mr Roberts looked the image of a country farmer; in fact, it is known that he sat, or rather stood, to Sir Edwin Landseer for the model of the farmer in the "Dialogue at Waterloo." Mr Roberts married early in life. His wife, a person of singular beauty, though of humble birth, was the model of Mary Queen of Scots in Sir William Allan's famous picture of that unfortunate Queen landing at Leith. He leaves only one daughter, who married Mr E. Bicknell, the great collector, whose pictures were sold at Christie's last year, shortly after his death. JULES GERARD, the famous lion-killer, has been drowned in attempting to cross the river Jong, in Africa. He was born of poor parents at Pignan, Var, June 14, 1817, so that he was in his fortyeighth year. Gérard was fond of sport from his youth; at ten he chased cats and monkeys, at sixteen he carried a rifle and was a bit of pugilist. He was a volunteer for the Algerian campaign in 1841, and commenced the life of adventures which has been terminated iu so untimely a manner. He describes, in his well-known work 'Le Tueur de Lions' (1857-8), how it came to pass that a poor dwarf of a creature like him ventured to declare war against the giant of the

JAPAN.

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.

MELBOURNE, Oct. 26.-The Argus says: "The first instalment of convicts whose time has expired has been re-shipped to England." Advices from New Zealand announce that Mr Fox's Ministry have tendened their resignation, but the Governor has declined to accept it. Two hundred Maori prisoners have escaped, and are now fomenting rebellion. A native rising is threatened in Tauranga.

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. MALTA, Dec. 1.-The Syria leaves for Marseilles at midnight. Ceylon left at three p.m. for Southampton.

The

LIBERALITY OF ETON SCHOOLMASTERS.-An old Etonian writes as follows: In the Times of Monday week appeared a letter, signed "Etonensis," in which it was observed that if there was a complaint of boys working little, there was also less encouragement to work than to play-for while the boys who make a score at Lord's are "immortalized" in newspaper paragraphs, those who win prizes for study are ignored. The writer added that he had lately carried off one of the Prince Consort's Foreign Language prizes, gave the names of boys who had done the same, and said that they would prefer honourable mention in the papers to the prize they had received-viz. 10%. to buy books with. The head master thought it incumbent upon him to notice this letter and his communication is so short that I may transcribe it: "Sir,-The

a

TEETH and PAINLESS DENTISTRY.

Messrs LEWIN MOSELY & SONS, 30 Berners street, Oxford street, and 448 Strand (opposite Charing-cross Railway Station), Established 1820, offer to the public a

leas Den flot supplying Artificial Teeth on a system of Pain

Dentistry. These Teeth are more natural, comfortable, and durable than any other, and are supplied at prices com. pletely defying competition. Consultation free. Teeth, from 58. Sets, 5, 7, 10, and 15 Guineas, warranted. For the efficacy, utility, and success of this system, vide 'Lancet.' No connection with any one of the same

name.

DEBILITY; its Causes and Cure.
See Extra Double Number of Health,' post free for six
Stamps, from Health Office, 6 Racquet court, Fleet street,
London; and all Booksellers.

Go

OUT and RHEUMATISM. - The
excruciating pain of Gout or Rheumatism is quickly
RELIEVED and CURED in a few days by that celebrated
Medicine, BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS

They require no restraint of diet or confinement during
their use, and are certain to prevent the disease attacking
any vital part.-Sold at 1s. 1}d. and 2s, 9d. per box, by
medicine vendors.

WO or THREE of PARR'S LIFE

Ing which so often oppresses both mind and body.-May be

had of any Chemist.

CURE of ASTHMATIC COUGH, at

the AGE of EIGHTY-FIVE, by Dr LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS.-August 24th, 1863.-William Taylor, The Cape, Smethwick, Birmingham, aged eigty-five, says he for many years suffered from a husky, asthmatical cough. To get rest at night was almost out of the question, although he tried many things; but for the last four years, since be commenced taking the Wafers, he can insure a good night's rest, but if perchance he has none on going to bed, he lies "barking and coughing" all night long; he therefore says they are the best medicine ever offered to the

BIRTHS.-On the 22nd ult., Lady Abinger, of a daughter-On the 20th ult., at Yealmpton, the wife of Major Frampton, of a son-On the 25th ult., at No. 7 Hyde-park gardens, the Hon. Mrs W. Byron, of a daughter-On the 23rd ult., at Oakfield, near Worcester, Mrs A. H. Cocks, of a son-On the 23rd ult., at Uske, the wife of Hume Nicholl, Esq., of a son.

MARRIAGES.-On the 29th ult., G. H. Lea, Esq., to Mary Inglis, eldest daughter of E. Futvoye, Esq.-On the 19th ult., Lieut.-Colonel Harper, to Charlotte, daughter of F. Josse, Esq.-On the 24th ult., Lieut.-Colonel Nicholson, to Mary, second daughter of the Right Hon. Sir J. Romilly-On the 24th ult., the Rev. R. H. Borradaile, to Leila, daughter of Major Carnegie, C.B.-On the 24th ult., W. Shawe-Taylor, Esq., to Elizabeth, daughter of Dudley Persse, Esq.

DEATHS.-On the 22nd ult., at Torquay, Mrs Ellicombe, aged 86-On the 23rd ult., at 2 Little Stanhope street, Mrs Steward, 97-On the 25th ult., at Exeter, the Rev. C. Porter, D.D., 86-On the 18th ult., in her 96th year, Mrs Gibbon, of Staunton, Gloucestershire-On the 21st ult., at Bideford, J. Roby, Esq., 80-On the 22nd ult., at Hatcham, Mr T. M. Phillips, 81-On the 23rd ult, at St Leonard's-on-Sea, the Hon. Mrs Bowys, 82-On the 24th ult., at Hornsey, J. Crawshaw, Esq., 82On the 25th ult., at 8 Blandford square, Mrs Oliver, 83-On the 26th ult., at Peckham, Mr K. Wallis, 88.

MERSEY DOCK ESTATE.-LOANS OF MONEY.
HE MERSEY DOCKS and HARBOUR
BOARD hereby give NOTICE that they are willing
to Receive LOANS of MONEY on the security of their
Bonds, at Five Pounds per Centum, per Annum, Interest,
for Three Years; or at Four Pounds Fifteen Shillings per
Centum per Annum for longer periods, not exceeding Seven
Years, at the option of the Lenders.

Interest warrants, for the whole term, payable half-
yearly, at the Bankers of the Board in Liverpool, or in
London, will be issued with each Bund.

Communications to be addressed to George J. Jefferson,
Esq., Treasurer, Dock Office, Liverpool,

By order of the Board,

JOHN HARRISON, Secretary.
Dock Office, Liverpool, Nov. 24, 1864.

FOR RHEUMATISM, Fevers, coughs, cOLDS, &c.

IN all the various forms of these complaints,

from which numbers suffer so severely, particularly during the winter months, a more salutary remedy cannot be resorted to, or one that has effected more extraordinary cures, than the Genuine BATEMAN'S PICTORAL DROPS, which may be purchased at the Original Warehouse, No. 10 Bowchurch yard, Cheapside, and at most respectable Medicine Vendors, either in town or country. Like many other valu able medicines, however, it is very much counterfeited, which renders it the more necessary for purchasers to be particular in inquiring for "DICEY'S BATEMAN'S DROP," which have the words "DICEY and Co." in the Stamp, and are the only genuine sort. In bottles, price 1s. itd. and 20. 9d. each.

prevent flatulency, cleanse the liver, purify the system, strengthen the stomach, increase the appetite, invigorate the nerves, promote health, and renew the lease of life. The daily sale of these invaluable Pills in all parts of the globe is perfectly astonishing. They are eagerly purchased by millions of persons who have heard of their extraordinary virtues, and are desirous to give them a composed of rare balsams, "unmixed with baser matter." None need fear that there is any mineral or other noxious substance in them. Printed directions for their use accompany every box.

be performed longer than Saturday, Dec. 17, in conse-Worcester; Messrs CROSSE and BLACKWELL; Messrs
quence of the preparations necessary for the production of the Barclay and Sons, London, &c. &c.; and by Grocers and
Grand Christmas Pantomime on Monday, Dec. 26th, for the Oilmen universally.
scenical illustration of which the personal service of that
distinguished artist, Mr William Beverley, will be exclusively
devoted to this Theatre.

On MONDAY and during the week will be performed, Shakespeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. Principal Characters by Mr Phelps, Messrs Creswick, H. Marston, R. Roxby, G. Belmore, A. Rayner, Edmund Phelps, Fitzjames, H. Sinclair, Bartleman, G. F. Neville, J. Neville, Warde, G. Spencer, Arthur Matthieson, Marler, &c.; Miss Helen Faucit, Miss Atkinson, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, Miss Emma Heywood, &c. Locke's Celebrated Music. Numerous and efficient Chorus and increased Orchestra. The New Characteristic Scenery by Mr William Beverley.

Preceded each evening by the New and Original Farce, Prinentitled, A YOUNG LAD FROM THE COUNTRY.

cipal Characters by Messrs G. Belmore, G. F. Neville, Fitzjames, G. Spencer; Misses Helen Howard, R. Leclercq, &c. Doors open at Half-past Six. Commence at a Quarter to Seven, and terminate at a Quarter-past Eleven.

Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily.

On MONDAY, Dec. 19th, and Tuesday, Dec. 20th, in consequence of the numerous applications, Shakespeare's Play of CYMBELINE, being the last nights of performance previous to the Christmas Holydays.

ROYAL

CAUTION.-COCKS'S CELEBRATED READING
SAUCE,

For Fish, Game, Steaks, Soups, Gravies, Hot and Cold Meats,
and unrivalled for general use, is sold by all respectable
Dealers in Sauces. It is manufactured only by the Executors
of the Sole Proprietor, CHARLES COCKS, & DUKE STREET,
READING, the Original Sauce Warehouse.
All others are Spurious Imitations.

FENDERS, STOVES FIREhe above are I COMPANY, No. 1 Old Broad street, London, E.C.

of

requested, before finally deciding, to visit WILLIAM S.
BURTON'S SHOW-ROOMS. They contain such an assort-
ment of FENDERS, STOVES, RANGES, CHIMNEY-
PIECES, FIRE-IRONS, and GENERAL IRONMON-
GERY, as cannot be approached elsewhere, either for
variety, novelty, beauty of design, exquisiteness of workman-
ship. Bright stoves, with ormolu ornaments, £3 15s. to £33
10s.; bronzed fenders, with standards, 7s. to £5 12s.; steel
fenders, £3 3s. to £11; ditto, with rich ormolu ornaments,
from £3 3s. to £18; chimney-pieces, from £1 88. to £100
fire-irons, from 28. 3d. the set to £4 4s. The BURTON
and all other PATENT STOVES, with radiating hearth-
plates.

Instituted 1820.

The distinguishing feature of this Company is perfect
security,
The amount insured from the commencement exceeds
£70,250,000.

The amount of policies issued £7,200,000.
The amount of claims paid, including bonus, £2,080,000.
The proprietors' capital is £750,000.

The fund accumulated from premiums exceeds ten years of the premium income, and 34 per cent. on the insurances in force.

DIRECTORS.
EDWARD HENRY CHAPMAN, Esq., Chairman.
varied assortment of TABLE CUTLERY in the world, Thomas George Barclay, Esq. | Samuel Hibbert, Esq.
all warranted, is on sale at WILLIAM S. BURTON'S, at James C. C. Bell, Esq.
prices that are remunerative only because of the largeness of
Charles Cave, Esq.
the sales.
George Henry Cutler, Esq.
Henry Davidson, Esq.

CUTLERY, WARRANTELERY the most, MARTIN TUCKER SMITH, Esq., M.P.,
Deputy Chairman.

Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq.
Charles Marryat, Esq.
James Gordon Murdoch, Esq.
Fredk. Pattison, Esq.

G. J. Graystone Reid, Esq.
William R. Robinson, Esq.

AUDITORS.

John Harvey Astell, Esq.,
M.P.

IVORY HANDLES.

Table Dessert
Knives. Knives.
Per Per
Dozen Dozen.

Carvers
Per
Pair.

George Field, Esq.

George Hibbert, Esq.

N

...

Ditto with Silver Ferules...
Ditto, Carved Handles, Silver

...

Ferules
Nickel Electro-Silver Handles,
any Pattern
Silver Handles, of any Pattern

40

Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr HORACE WIGAN.
On Monday and during the week, will be performed THE
GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME. Messrs Andrews, Edgar;
Misses Harland and Sheridan. After which, THE HIDDEN
Messrs G. Vincent, Coghlan, and H. Neville;
HAND.
Misses L. Moore, L. Foote, Farren, Bowering, Kate Terry, &c.
To conclude with MY WIFE'S BONNET. "Messrs R. Soutar,
D. Evans; Misses Farren and Melvin.

The Box Office open daily from ten till Ave.
Commence at Seven.

ROYAL Manager, Mr Benjamin Webster.

EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA!

Those celebrated Artistes, Mr and Mrs Charles Mathews, are re-engaged.

On MONDAY, and during the week, a New Musical
Drama, by Lennox Horne, entitled THE BARONET
Mr
ABROAD AND THE RUSTIC PRIMA DONNA.
Frank Matthews. Miss Constance Roden. At a quarter to
Eight a New and Original Comedy-Drama, in Three Acts,
by J. Palgrave Simpson, entitled SYBILLA; or, STEP BY
STEP. Mr and Mrs Charles Mathews. To conclude with
Mr J. Maddison Morton's New Comedy-Farce of WOOD-
COCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr Charles Mathews; Mrs Frank
Matthews.

GREAT ATTRACTION EOR THE VISITORS TO THE
CATTLE SHOW.
FOURTEENTH WEEK.

ST

JAMES'S HALL,

REGENT STREET and PICCADILLY. Triumphant Success and Crowded Houses every Night at Eight (no performance on Wednesday, 7th December, the Hall having been given up for the Ball in aid of the Funds of the Royal Dramatic College) to witness the Great Rope Tying Mystery and Cabinet Experiments, or so-called Spiritual Manifestations, as performed by the Brothers Davenport. Professor ANDERSON'S WORLD OF MAGIC, and the MARVELS OF SECOND SIGHT, by Miss Anderson, To terminate by Mi-s Lizzie Anderson's and Mr Sutton's Wonderful Illustrations of Rope-Tying, Coat-Flying, Handeuffing, and Cabinet Mystifying. The most scrutinous defying.

Open every Evening at Seven, and Saturday Afternoon at Two. Grand Juvenile Distribution.

Stalls, 38.; Balcony, 2s.; Area, 1s.

street, London, N.E.

THE SKELETON AT THE BANQUET
OR INDIGESTION

can be exorcised by the Essential Spirit of Mellissus, the
best tonic, the best restorative, the most refreshing cordial.
To be had of Wholesale Patent Medicine Vendors, aud all
2s. 9d. each.

Places may be secured at the Hall, and principal Libraries. respectable Chemists throughout the Country, in Bottles at

DINNEFORD'S

PURE FLUID MAGNESIA has been, during twenty-five years, emphatically sanctioned by the Medical Profession, and universally accepted by the Public, as the best Remedy for ACIDITY of the STOMACH, HEARTBURN, HEADACHE, GOUT, and INDIGESTION, and as a mild Aperient for delicate constitutions, more especially for Ladies and Children. When combined with the ACIDULATED LEMON SYRUP, it forms an agreeable Effervescing Draught, in which its Aperient qualities are much increased. During Hot Seasons and in Hot Climates the REGULAR use of this simple and elegant remedy has been found highly beneficial. It is prepared (in a state of perfect purity and of uniform strength) by DINNEFORD and Co., 172 New Bond street, London; and sold by all respectable Chemists throughout the World.

NO MORE MEDICINE. PERFECT DIGESTION, STRONG NERVES, SOUND LUNGS and LIVER, REFRESHING SLEEP, functional regularity and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled, are restored by

Full directions for use on wrappers enclosing the bottles.

SAUSAGE AND MINCING MACHINE.
The "Guinea" Universal Machine of BURGESS and
KEY'S. Best, simplest, and cleanest invented.-Sold by
Ironmongers throughout the kingdom; also by the manu-
facturers, 95 Newgate street, E.C.

Ask for BURGESS and KEY'S.

VERLAND ROUTE.-Communication
VEEAM to INDIA, AUSTRALIA, &c., via EGYPT.
The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA:
TION COMPANY BOOK PASSENGERS and RECEIVE
CARGO and PARCELS at their LONDON OFFICE, for
GIBRALTAR, MALTA, EGYPT, ADEN, CEYLON, MADRAS,
CALCUTTA, THE STRAITS, and CHINA, by their Steamers
leaving Southampton on the 4th and 20th of every month.
For GIBRALTAR, MALTA, EGYPT, ADEN, and BOMBAY,
by those of the 12th and 27th of each month; and for
and SYDNEY, by the Steamers leaving Southampton on the
MAURITIUS, KING GEORGE'S SOUND, MELBOURNE,
20th of every month.

For further particulars apply at the Company's Offices, 122
Leadenhall street, E.C., London; or Oriental place, South-

DU BARRY'S HEALTH-RESTORING ampton

We

LONDON, E. C.

Each article is of guaranteed quality, and some are objects of
pure Vertu, the productions of the first manufactures of
Paris, from whom William S. Burton imports them direct.
Clocks, from
7s. 6d. to 251. Os. Od.
Candelabra, from
13s. fid. to 16. 10s. Od. per pair
Bronzes, from
18s. Od. to 161, 16s. Od.
Lamps, moderateur, from...
Pure Colza Oil

............

6s. Od. to 91. Os. Od.
4s. Od. per gallon.

Paul Butler, Esq.

James Scott, Esq.

SAMUEL INGALL, Actuary.

FINAL NOTICE.

TORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE
FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.

Close of the Books for 1864.

Life Policies with Profits effected during this year will receive One Year's additional Bonus, in comparison with later Entrants.

NINETY PER CENT. of the whole Profits is divided among the Participating Policy-holders. Invested Funds

Annual Revenue

£2,233,927 17 7 Half-a-Million.

WILLIAMING IRONMONGER, by appointment
VILLIAM S. BURTON, GENERAL HERCULES FIRE and LIFE

COMPANY (Limited), 94 Cannon

to H.R.H. the PRINCE of WALES, sends a CATALOGUE street, E.C. THE OLDEST NON-TARIFF FIRE OFFICE.
gratis, and post paid. It contains upwards of 600 Illustra-Fire Insurance on every description of Property. The duty
tions of his illimited Stock of Sterling Silver and Electro- payable on stock in trade, &c. &c., has been REDUCED
Plate, Nickel Silver, and Britannia Metal Goods, Dish ONE-HALF.
Covers, Hot-water Dishes, Stoves, Fenders, Marble Chimney- Special advantages in the Life Department. See prospectus.
pieces, Kitchen Ranges, Lamps, Gaseliers, Tea Trays, Urns,
and Kettles, Clocks, Table Cutlery, Baths, Toilet Ware,
SAMUEL J. SHRUBB, Manager and Secretary.
Turnery, Iron and Brass Bedsteads, Bedding, Bedroom
Sept. 23, 1864.
Cabinet Furniture, &c., with Lists of Prices, and Plans of the
Twenty large Show-Rooms, at 39 Oxford street, W.; 1, la, 2,
3, and 4 Newman street; 4, 5, and 6 Perry's place; and
1 Newman yard, London.

Cruet Frames, 18s. 6d. to 70s.; Tea and Coffee Services,
70s. to 200s.; Corner Dishes, £6 15s. the Set of Four; Cake
Baskets, 25s. to 50s.; and every Article for the Table, as in
Silver.

OLD GOODS RE-SILVERED, EQUAL TO NEW.
RICHARD and JOHN SLACK beg to call attention to their
superior method of ELECTRO SILVERING, by which
process goods, however old, can be re-silvered equal to new.
-Estimates given for re-plating.

SLACK'S TABLE CUTLERY.
IVORY TABLE KNIVES, best quality, warranted not to
come loose in the handles, and to balance.

No. 7 Royal Exchange, London, Nov. 30, 1864.
The COURT of DIRECTORS of the London Assurance
Corporation DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That the AN-
NUAL GENERAL COURT, appointed by the Charter, will
be held at their Offices in the Royal Exchange on WEDNES
DAY, the 21st day of December next, at one o'clock in the
afternoon.
JOHN LAURENCE, Secretary.

CHA

ORMOLU

GRATIS, or sent post free, containing upwards of 350
HANDELIERS in BRONZE and
Engravings, and Prices of Fenders, Fire-irons, Furnishing Candelabra, Moderator Lamps, in Bronze,
Ormolu, China
for DINING-ROOM and LIBRARY.
Ironmongery, Slack's Nickel and Electro-Plated Wares, and Glass.
Table Cutlery, &c. No person should furnish without one.
Statuettes in Parian, Vases and other Orná-
ments, in a Show Room erected expressly for these articles.
OSLER, 45 Oxford street, W.

RICHARD and JOHN SLÁCK,

Fronmongers to Her Majesty,

336 Strand, opposite Somerset House.

REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, as proved by 60,000 annual cures, which had resisted all medicine. quote a few: Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, FIRE IN GRESHAM STREET, of RUSSIA, and Paris, of a fearful liver complaint, wasting away, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, low spirits, and the most intolerable nervous MESSRS THOMAS TAPLING and CO., Carpet Wareagitation, which prevented even her sitting down for hours housemen, &c., will, UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE, carry on together, and which for seven years had resisted the careful their Business in the Premises, all Communicating, at 44A treatment of the best French and English medical men. Gresham street and 74 Aldermanbury, opposite those of Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Messrs Bradbury, Greatorex, and Beall. Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,842. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Joly."-Cure No. 46,270. Mr James Roberts, of Framley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial Strand. deafness-Cure No. 47.121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits,

Gold Lever Watches

from .
Gold Half Chronom-
eters winding with
or without a Key
Gold Hunting, Case
from -

extra

examined

35

Gold Geneva Watches
and
guaranteed from - 7 to 20

SilverLever Watches
from -
Silver Half Chrono-
meter
Silver Half Chrono-
meter in Hunting
Case -

5 to 15

Wall Lights, and Mantel-piece Lustres, for Gas and
Candles, Table Glass, &c.
Glass Dinner Services for 12 persons, from £7 15s.
do.
Glass Dessert do.
do. from £3
All Articles marked in plain figures.
Ornamental Glass, English and Foreign, suitable for
Presents.

Mess, Export, and Furnishing Orders promptly executed.
LONDON-SHOW ROOMS, 45 OXFORD STREET, W.
BIRMINGHAM-MANUFACTORY AND SHOW ROOMS,
BROAD STREET.-Established 1807.

To

PERSONS FURNISHING.

The most extensive, varied, and elegant Collection of 25 Cabinet Furniture, Upholstery Goods, superior wellSeasoned Bedding, Fashionable Bedsteads, beautiful Brus sels Carpets, and every House Furnishing requisite, is always 26 on View in the immense Show Rooms of Messrs DRUCE and CO., from which a Selection may be made at once to 35 completely Furnish any class of House in good taste, combined with economy. Persons, before deciding elsewhere, should visit this Establishment (the largest in London) and, - 6 to 25 as every article is marked in plain figures, they can make their own calculations and avoid the annoyance of delusive estimates and delay.

ters, from

Gold Chains quality

16 and 18 Carats
fine from