The Welshman

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I The Globe states that Mr. Thomas Baring, Member for Huntingdon. will be the new Lord of the Admiralty in the place of Sir Robert Peel. Vidocq, the noted Parisian police-spy and thieftaker, recently died at Paris, in his seventy eighth year. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, states that "Marshal Radetzky, while walking in his room, fell, and broke the upper part of the bone of the left thigh." During seven days that the new reading room at the British Museum was opened to public view, no fewer than 162,489 persons visited it. The enormous quantity of 88,000 bales of cotton was entered at the Liverpool Custom House on Monday last, being equal in value to E I ,250,000 sterling. A mill is being erected at Galashiels, the shell only of which is estimated to cbst E10,000. The firm of Rothechild have engaged to bear 5-6ths ( £ 200,000) of the loss sustained by the frauds of Carpentier on the Northern Railway of France. During his year of office, the Mayor of Appleby, in West- moreland, enjoys an ancient privilege of conferring the freedom of the borough upon two persons. Several boards of guardians in Yorkshire have passed resolutions in opposition to Mr. Adderley's Industrial Schools Bill, which they consider to be bad in principle. The Rev. Dr. Halley, of Manchester has accepted an invitation to become President of the New College, London, as successor to the late Dr. Harris. That favourite of fortune, the King of the Belgians, has been recently visited with a fresh proof of her bounty he has won the principal lot in the Austrian loan, of the value of E30,000 sterling. A gang of pickpockets were arrested on Thursday at the Manchester Exhibition. A letter directed to a person in London, found on one of the prisoners, stated that he thought the Exhibition would be "no go." News from Mexico is to the 18th March. The Arch- bishop of Mexico and several priests had been arrested on a charge of being implicated in a late attempt at insur. rection, and the archbishop sentenced to banishment. Messrs. Coutts, the celebrated London bankers, have announced that they are prepared to allow interest on money deposited with them in large sams for fixed periods, which private banks hitherto have not done. On the advice of one of their own body, who described himself as having had some experience of strikes, the col- liers who turned out at Wharncliffe, on the question of using safety lamps, have returned to their work. Seventeen white mice with pink eyes have been turned out of a wheat stack at Eaglesfield, in Cumberland. Naples is now entirely garrisoned by Swiss troops, the regiments of Neapolitan soldiers having been quartered in towns where they before had been stationed. At the Albion Inn, Halifax, there is a singular specimen of the poultry tribe. On one side it looks like a game cock whilst on the other its plumage is like that of a white chittaprat hen. Reiter, one of the cashiers of the Austrian National Bank, had absconded, leaving a deficit of 360,000 lforins he has been apprehended, but no money was found on him. What he has done with his plunder is at present a mystery. The Lake Erie and Wabash Railway Company have failed to pay interest on their second mortgage bands the company say that this arises from temporary want of cash, another railway not having paid them a large sum for freight. Screw-steamers are to be employed in the whale fishery the aid of steam will enable the vessels to penetrate inlets and small bays frequented by the whales, where a sailing vessel could not readily follow them. The first steam-whaler has just left the Tyne for Davis's Straits. The appearance of the growing crops in France is described as "magnificent. In the South, ravaged by inundations last year, there is a prospect of an abundant yield. The speculators in grain.are in tribulation. On Monday, Miss M'Naghten, eldest daughter of Sir E' C. M'Naghten, Bart., was burnt to death by a spark from a match, which she was striking to see.! a letter, setting fire to her muslin dress. The heart of the Queen of Westphalia, second wife of Jerome Bjnaparte, has been placed in an urn and deposit- ed in the tomb of the First Napoleon—" the heart of a noble woman," who did not desert her husband in his hour of adversity, though entreated to do so by her father the King of Wurtemburg. According to letters from Shanghai the exports from that port for the half-year ending the 31st December 1856, are stated to have amounted to about £ 7,500,00G, and to have been balanced by imports of goods to the extent of about LI,850,000, of opium E2,000,000, and of specie £ 3,650,000. It appears from an analysis prepared by Mr. White, the honorary secretary of Lord John Russell's Committee, that Lord John had no fewer than 1906 plumpers" at the City election: Baron Rothschild had 540, Sir James Duke 442, Mr. Crawford 64, and Mr. Currie 117. A complete cure has been effected at the Royal Ortho- paedic Hospital of a patient whose heels were twisted in- wards towards his ancles. At the Sheffield Sessions, on Tuesday last, a gang of nine boys were charged with housebreaking, and five of that number were committed to prison for various periods. It appears that the Manchester Board of Guardians provide education for the children of the poor receiving out-door relief, and also furnish them with food in the school. Since the establishment of the rural, police nearly all drunken persons found in the roads are brought before the West Riding magistrates, and in default of paying the usual fine are placed for six hours in the stocks. General Todleben (says the Military Gazette of Turin) has been consulted by the Piedmontese government about the fortifications of the new arsenal at Spezzla, and is ex- pected to arrive at Turin almost immediately, thence to go and inspect the place. Both the stone masons and the carpenters of Liverpool have struck for an increase of wages, on the grounds that their pay is not equal to what is given in London and Manchester, and that the price of provisions is as high. The Liverpool underwriters have presented 1000 guineas to Mr. Porter, master of the Meteor, for navigating her home from Mobile though leaky, instead of submitting to enormous charges for repairs at Key West. Mr. Porter succeeded in bringing the ship home by providing himself with a powerful steam-pump. A letter from Erzeroum, dated the 28th April, published in the Presse d'Orient, states that "a violent shock of earthquake was felt two days ago in the neighbourhood of Mooch. The oscillations continued at intervals for thirty-six hours. Several villages in the Plain of Bolanek were destroyed, and nearly 180 persons lost their lives." The officials in Hungary have been so urgent in making people spend money in spontaneous rejoicings on the Emperor's visit, that it has been found necessary to hint a rebuke in the Pesth-Bitda Gazette: the Emperor does not require any further expenditure to convince him of the loyalty of his subjects,—he will be hurt" and vexed" at it. » During last year no fewer than 22,427 exemption from serving in the French army were purchased at the price fixed by Government—2800 francs for each conscript. The places of those willing to pay rather than serve seem to be principally filled by soldiers whose time is out re-enlisting, for which^each man receives 1500 francs. At a meeting in Norwich, on Wednesday, to consider the laws of settlement and rating,—the Mayor in the chair,—it was unanimously resolved that every destitute person should be entitled to claim relief wherever his des- titution aries, and that the maintenance of the permanent poor should be defrayed by a general charge on all real- ised and permanent property." During this summer there will be almost a daily steam- packet communication between England and the United States. It is said that Commodore Vanderbilt inteads to, offer to run his steamer Vanderbilt across the Atlantic againt the Persia, and that the: owner of the one that makes the passage quick^tto win the stowsst ship. This would be a race of 3,000 miles for something Hke £ 130,000. A story is told of a feUow of North Carolina, who, hav- ing been put in gaol for marrying thirteen wives, made his escape, and was seen three or four days afterwards by a gentleman who recognised him. The geotleman, to secure the reward for his apprehension, invited him to his house to dinner, and then alily slipped out in pursuit of a constable; but great was his horror on his return to find that the culprit had absconded with his Wife. The Mayor of Manchester has received an autograph letter from Pdnce Albert expressing a high sense of the attention shown to his Reyat Highness during his recent sojeurn at Abrney Hall, and begging the acceptance by Mrs Watts of a valuable bracelet as a memorial of the visit. A constable having been discharged from the Kent police for refusing to shave off his mouBtaehe, brought an action in the County Court for damages against the chief con- stable. The judge said the dismissal-was a very proper one, and that persons who wore moustaches attempted to look either like a Jew clothesmari or a foreigner. The late Joseph Mills, Esq., of Sborocot (Wilts), has left, by willi the following liberal bequests to the poor of the following parishes, to be paid free of legacy duty by his executor, viz. :—Minchinhampton,- £ 2,000; • Cirencester, foOO; South- Cerney, £ 100 Shotneot, E600 Kemble, E 100 Ashton Keynes, 1:100; Somvyford Keynes,, floo. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS an inappreciable remedy for Bile, and Indigestion.—Miss Kpight, of 36, Stanhope-street, Regent's park, being possessed of a very delicate consti- tution, suffered for years from an overflow of bile and bad digestion, palpitation of the heart, difficulty of breathing, with great pain; she had received the first medical advice in (various countries, but obtained no permanent benefit; however, a coarse of Holloway's Pills have been, the means of restoring her to a state of health she never before eo- joyed, and she has continued well for more than four 1,1401' The Galway Vindicator, speaking of the ceremony of taking the black veil lately performed at the Tuam Convent says-" It was an edifying and touching spectacle to ob- serve the appearance of the little children, twelve in number who personated angels in the procession, and all the spec- tators were deeply impressed with the imposing solemnity of the scene." A gold watch was stolen in Halifax in June last year, and it was believed the thief had dropped it into an ash pit, which was searched, but the watch was not found. After- wards the ashpit was emptied, and the contents spread upon a field. The ground had then been turned over, but last week the gold watch was found in the field by two young men, :and, strange ito say, it .was not much in. jured. A few days ago, in Chambre-street, Dublin, a child, three years old, fell into an exposed well in a garden and was drowned. Mr. Kelly, the landlord of the place, and who had refused to fence the well, has been committed for manslaughter, but admitted to bail. There lives on the new line of road leading from Bacup to Rochdale a man named Henry Rothwell, aged 84 his wife is aged 83 They have 14 children, the youngest of whom is 36 years. In the family there are 170 grand- children, all alive. A short time ago the old man was to have gone to church accompanied by the whole of his descendants, but he subsequently declined, thinking it would be too great a show off. In reference to Lord Palmerston's declaration on Friday evening, that it had never yet fallen to his lot to hear of a Christian who became a Jew, the Morning Star calls attention to the fact that in the last number of the Hebrew Observer the conversions from Christianity to Judaism on the continent are declared to be as numerous as those from Judaism to Christianity. Sir William Magnay, an 'alderman and magistrate of London, having,, by the court of appeal in Brussels, been adjudged by default guilty of fraud, and condemned to three years' imprisonment and a fine of 3,000f., some warm dis- cussions have taken place in the corporation as to the pro- priety of desiring him to resign his gown. Sir William protests his innocence, and a committee of inquiry has been appointed. Two men, in loading cinders near the Taunton Railway Station, were uttering fearful oaths and curses, when a pious female passing by implored them to desist, and warned one who was imprecating curses on his own heed, that he would be cursed soon enough without wishing it. Just then one of the horses employed stepped upon the line, and upon his attempting to turn the horse off, a train knocked him down, and instantly killed him, ere the curses were cold in his mouth.-Tauizion Courier. Eight hundred Mormons had arrived in Boston the week before the America sailed, by the ship George Washington from Liverpool. Many of the families were possessed of considerable property. The captain estimated the amount of British gold upon the passengers at £20,000, and said that he knew of more than one person who had £ 1,000 for his own use and that of his family. Several had left rela- tives and friends behind them. One woman had left her husband, that she might go to the land of the saints. Nearly all the men were armed with from one to four revolvers, which they had purchased at the suggestion of the elders. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.—The following pre' ferments and appointments have been recently made Minor Canonry: Rev. J. W. Miller, Exeter College, Ox- ford, to a minor canonry in Chichester Cathedral. Rectory Rev. C. J. Bailey, to the rectory of Tessauran, in the diocese of Meath. Curacies, &c.: Rev. J. C. Cox, to be chaplain to his Excellency the Earl of Cowley Rev. J. Edwards, vicar of Barrow-on-Trent, to be chaplain to the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk; Rev. J. W. Murray, to the curacy of Armagh, Ireland; Rev. J. T. Pigot, vicar of Fremington, to the rural deanery of Barnstaple, Exeter; Rev. J. Price, to the perpetual curacy of Glan Ogwen, Bangor; Rev. J. W. Rhodes, Trinity College, Cambridge, to the head mastership of Royston Grammar School, Yorkshire; Rev. E. Swinden, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to the head mastership of Atherstone Grammar School, Warwickshire; Rev. F. G. C. Spiller, to the perpetual curacy of Crewe, Cheshire; Rev. J. H. Wise, rector of Brendon, to the rural deanery of Sherwell, in the diocese of Exeter. APPOINTMBNT.—The Rev. Wheeler Bush, M.A., head master of the Islington Proprietary School, has been elected Sunday evening lecturer at St. Swithia's London- stone. Mr. Bush gained both the university theological I prize essay, and the Denyer divinity prize dissertation, and was some time since appointed select preacher before the University of Oxford. THE BISHOPRIC OF SIERRA LEONE.—There is some reason to believe that the wish expressed by the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, some years ago, that Africa should have a real black bishop," will be carried out, and that a gentleman of colour" will be appointed to the episcopal supervision of the see in succession to the late lamented Bishop Weeks. It is thought that one of the native missionaries will be elected. EXPORT OF COAL.-According to Messrs. W. and H. Laird's monthly list, the exports of coal from the northern ports during the month of March in the present year was 258,383 tons from the Yorkshire ports, 10,502 tons; from Liverpool, 36,740 from th-e Severn ports, 130,350 from the Seotch ports, 18,953 total, 454,928 being an increase of 78,553 tons over the exports of Mareh, 1856. THE GREAT EXPLOSION AT HOLYHEAD. The great blasting operation at Holyhead Harbour was successfully accomplished on Thursday, when nearly 24,0001bs. of gunpowder were exploded. The Liverpool Daily Post gives the following account of the event :—" About half an hour before the time fixed for the explosion, the gong sounded warning to the workmen engaged in hoisting the blocks or burrowing the mountain, and a speedy retreat was made from the doomed rock. The spectators, amongst whom were Gen. Burgoyne, Col. Sandham, Col. Servante, Capt. Shaw, Capt. Rich, 12 officers of the Royal Engineers and a considerable number of. distinguished savans of the civil and military branches of the Engineering Depart- ment, took up their positions on a hill directly opposite, about 700 yards from the face of the rock, where a breast- work of stone was erected to protect the people, if such protection were necessary. At the time appointed every- body was on the tip-toe of expectation, and anxious and terrified looks were cast upon the solid mass opposite, which seemed so firm that nothing could shake it. The gong again rang out its melancholy notes the stragglers were seen scampering away from the dangerous vicinity the flag on the observatory hill was hoisted, the signal cannon below was Bred and the next moment, as if by a magic touch, the huge mountain upheaved, and gave way, loosening the ponderous mass of 180,000 tons of rock. So accurately had all the preparations been accomplished, and with such precision was the enormous quantity of powder stamped and secured in the body of the rock, that not a single stone was seen flying in the air and, indeed, no sound was heard except that occasioned by the faling of the mass. The occasion appeared to constitute a kind of gala day at Holyhead and crowds lingered about the quarries long after the explosion had taken place. The savans were heard to express their astonishment and grati- fication at the result of the enormons experiment and many of them, with curious eagerness, searched amongst the shattered fragments of stone for portions of the elec. trie wire, as a memento of the day and the event." GIGANTIC FLOATING LANDING-STAGE.—LIVERPOOL, May 22.-The large new floating-stage which is being constructed at the cost of the Liverpool Corporation for the accommodation of sea-going steamers is all but completed. When finished it will be 1,002 feet long, or nearly three times longer than the United States' frigate Niagara, and 82 feet wide; and communication will be obtained with the shore by means of four cast-iron bridges, each of which is 113 feet long, and 13 feet 6 inches wide from side to side. The bridges are constructed with ordinary tubular girders, on the principle of those forming part of the Britannia- bridge. The mode of construction is precisely the same as that which has proved so successful in the landing-stage for the accomodation of passengers by the ferry steamers at the George's Pier. Upon a range of 63 rectangular pontoons, of immense size and strength, are placed five rows of quadrangular hallow-iron girders or kelsons, each 1,000 feet long, which net as supporting ridges and fixing points for the main timbers of the floor or deck, which latter has been constructed by Messrs. Thomas Vernon and Son, iron shipbuilders, on the beach at Tranmere. Three of these sections have been launohed, floated down the river at high tides, moored in their positions, and con- nected the third and last section has been launched, and will be floated to its place to-morrow (Saturday); and this morning one of the bridges forming the means of commu- nication with the pier was floated on a stage prepared for the purpose from the great float at Birkenhead to the new landing-stage, and successfully connected with the stage and the pier. The operation was cleverly performed. Three pontoons had in the first instance been taken into the great float, upon which a high staging was erected. The bridge, which had been brought in pieces from Man- chester, where it had been manufactured by Messrs. Fair- bairn, was put together on the staging, and was this morning, by the aid of steamtugs, floated to its place between the new landing stage and the pier, the staging upon which it was resting being sufficiently high to allow one end of the bridge to be shipped on the orosshead on the pier, the pontoons supporting the staging sinking with the tide until tbe o.her end of the bridge was shipped on the crosshead on the landing-stage. The entire operation was performed with the greatest ease and success. Another bridge is completed, and will be brought over with the high tide on Monday. The engineer is Sir William Cubitt, the contractorb for the entire work are Messrs. Cochran, of Dudley, the estimated cost being 1140,000, and the sub- costractors are Messrs. T Vernon and Son, Liverpool, and Messrs. Fairbairn, of Manchester, Messrs. Vernon and Son have completed about two-thirds of the entire work, their contract including the making of the pontoons, placing them, fastening the kelsonsi and the furnishing of the woodwork and the joinery. Messrs. Fairbairn are making the four bridges, and Messrs. Cochran have them- selves manufactured the kelsons, in the construction of which 1,000 tons of iron have been required, the pontoons having also taken 1,000 tons of the same material. The deck is litid down with timber 41 inches in thickness,, over which is a layer of I.-inch timber to give strength and durability to the work. THE COMET.-That a comet of unusual magnitude and splendour may about the present period be expected to visit the regions of space through which the earth moves has long been well known, and its approach, while looked for with great interest by the scientific world, has caused considerable apprehension in many quarters, and in some places where there should be sufficient knowledge of natural phenomena to have prevented such apprehensions being entertained. It has been confidently predicted that the end of all things is at hand, and that on some day in June next-the 13th, we believe-the world, with all that it contains, is to perish. This is by no means the first time that such a prediction has been heard. In 1832 it was calculated that a little before midnight on the 29th of October a comet would cross the plane in which the earth revolves, near the point where our globe itself would be on the morning of the 30th November, and had the comet been delayed a month by any disturbance a collision with all its nebulosity would have taken place. The alarm was then chiefly confined to the Parisians, who seem to be addicted to such fears, and it was in Paris the existing alarm about the now expected comet first prevailed. A similar alarm existed in France in 1773, and one of the philosophers of that country was employed by the Go- vernment to allay the fears of the people. Some weak- minded people died of fright, and some, scarcely less weakminded, purchased places in Paradise at high prices. There is nothing on record to justify the belief that the earth has ever suffered injury from a comet, nothing to lead to the supposition that it is ever likely so to suffer but, on the contrary, there are good reasons for believing that cometary influence has been in some instances bene- ficial. Wine drinkers have not forgetten the "comet wine," some of which may yet be had for a considera- tion this was grown in 1811, when a comet was visible, and when the yield of the earth's productions was more than usually abundant and the quality extraordinary. So it may be again, and that which is now in some quarters regarded with terror is not unlikely, if it should have any influence upon the earth at all, to have one which should be regarded with satisfaction rather than with alarm. Taking advantage of the interest now very generally manifested on the approach of the celebrated celestial stranger, and especially of the fears of the uninformed multitude, some unprincipled publishers have issued mis- chievous pamphlets containing a very small modicum of astronomical truth and a monstrous amount of trash, calculated to increase rather than allay the alarm which has been excited by the prophets of evil. Other publica- tions have been called forth to gratify public curiosity which are of a more reasonable character, but they mostly bear the catch-penny stamp upon them. It is pretty certain that the great majority of comets, and probably all of them, are entirely gaseous—simple collections of vapour. The comet of 1770 passed twice through the system of Jupiter, yet there was not the slightest de- rangement of his moons caused by this intrusion. Should an instance of actual contact occur, there seems no more reason to infer convulsion from the attack of a gaseous body than in the case of a squadron of clouds striking the top of a mountain. In all probability," says Milner, the only effect would be a change of temperature, with some peculiar atmospheric phenomena, yet compatible with a full security to human life and happiness." TRIAL OF A NEW RAILWAY BREAK.—Two new car- riages have been introduced on the Lancashire and York- shire Railway. They measure 33 feet in length, each containing seven compartments their total weight is only 16 tons; they accommodate 144 passengers. To these carriages, which have just been made at the works at Miles Platting, Mr. Charles Fay, the superin- tendent of the carriage department, has attached a break of his own invention, for which he obtained a patent a few days since. The characteristics of the break are simplicity, durability, and cheapness, and its operation was tested in the run to and from Stalybridge. On the return journey a fog signal was placed at the level point upon the line between Stalybridge and Ashton. The instant that the report was heard the break was put on, the steam shut off, and the break of the engine applied. The engine, which was rnnning at the speed of 30 miles an hour, with a pressure of steam of lOOlbs. to the square inch, pulled up in 110 yards, and in the space of 16 seconds. A second trial was made on a descending gradient of 1 in 37, near Miles Platting, when the engine was going at the rate of 40 miles an hour. In addition to the means for stopping the train employed in the former experiment, the engine was on this occasion reversed, and came to a stand in 76 yards, and in 12 seconds. The engine-driver remarked, it must be a very sharp curve where we cannot see a hundred yards before us;" and he expressed the opinion that the break was powerful enough to stop the train in from 400 to 500 yards, even when the steam is on at its full power.-Mining Journal. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM. On Wednesday the 29th anniversary festival of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum was held at the Highbury Barn Tavern. M. T. Bass, Esq., M.P., was in the chair. He was supported by Sir J. Duke, M.P., Mr. Austin, M.P., R. Hanbury, Esq M.P., Edwin James, Esq., Q.C the great majority of the officers of the numerous charities for which the licensed victuallers are so honourably distinguished, and some 500 of the trade. It should be stated that this asylum was instituted in the year 1828, for the purpose of affording an asylum for the aged, infirm, and decayed members of the trade, where they may find refuge and be enabled to pass the evening of their days in humble but respectable retire- ment. There are at present in the asylum no fewer than 142 inmates, who receive the advantage of comfortable dwellings, a pecuniary allowance, medicine, medical advice, and fuel, while no less than 336 have been admitted since the foundation of the institution. The chairman and other gentlemen very energetically advocated the interests of the institution, which was very liberally responded to It was stated that in the past year the subscriptions to the asylum exceeded E2,000. A 'sum of E247 was received from the annual ball. The list of subscriptions as announ- ced was headed by the chairman, M. T. Bass, Esq., and his flrm, with 300 guineas; a private friend of the firm, 150 guineas and the sum contributed through the agency of that firm amounted to E758. A very liberal sub- scription, which amounted to between EI,500 and £ 2,000, was the result of a very successful anniversary of the charity. CONSCIENCE MAKING COWARDS. A workman re- cently purchased, in a small provincial town of Germany, ten pounds of powdered sugar, but on examining it he found that the grocer had mixed with it at least a pound of lime. On the following day he advertised in the public prints Should the grocer who sold me a pound of lime along with nine pounds of sugar not bring to me the Pound he cheated me of, I shall forthwith publish his name." The next day he received nine pounds of sugar from different grocers who had similar actions on their conscience, and feared publicity. INCIDENTS IN INDIA.—A curious little incident has just occurred illustrating the strange medley of races we are called on to govern. There are some hundreds of Stntal prisoners in our gaols. they are condemned for the rebel- lion, but they are otherwise not a bad race, and in gaol they pine for freedom and die like sheep. The mortality in the Bhaugulpore gaol last year was upwards of 40 per cent. The lieut.-governor was accordingly advised to let them loose, binding them to work in the great swamp pro- vince around Calcutta, called the Sunderbunds. They were asked for their parole of honour not to fly, and after two day's hesitation gave it. A few days ago it was announced that all had fled. Next day, however, they all came walked gravely up to the Allipore gaol, and demanded ad- mittance. Not a man had fled. They said the cholera was so bad in the Sunderbunds-quite true- that they could not stay, and so, in obedience to their promise, they had come back to gaol. They will probably be put. to other work, but their conduct has excited strong sympathy. There'is not another race in Iadia who, under the circum- stances, would have kept their word. They could have gone home just as easily as to gaol, and all India could not have caught them again. This is the race which has been given to the missionaries.—News have been received of a most successful expedition on the frontier. The Bozdars, a tribe of Beloochees occupying the hills near Peshawur, have been giving trouble. A force of 1500 men was sent against them. In three days it entered their fastness, threaded a pass deemed impregnable, ascended the first range of the Suleimans, stormed all the hill stockades, and reduced a tribe some 15,000 strong to absolute submission. The loss in killed and wounded on our side was about 60.-Calcutta Correspondent of the Times. I It is to be hoped that a disagreeable chapter in the military history of India closes with the disbanding of the Nineteenth Bengal Regiment at Barrackpore. The danger appears to have been by no means exaggerated in the earlier accounts. The regiment did not confess its fault, but kept up its mutinous communications with other regi- ments and it is calculated that a body of some 5000 men at Barrackpore were prepared to resist authority in press- ing their grievance, whatever it may have been. The vacillation of the officer previously in command had, no doubt, encouraged the men to hope for some further con- cession on the part of the authorities but none was made. The regiment was drawn up with an overpowering force of artillery, cavalry, and European regiments, around. The men asked leave to petition it was refused. They were ordered to hy down their arms; and they did so, not without emotion. The mutinous spirit had not been entirely suppressed in another regiment, the Thirty- fourth, a drunken Sepoy had attempted to murder an officer; and when the assassin was hanged, it was thought necessary to keep down the mutinous spirit of his fellow soldiers by executing sentence under the protection of shotted guns and European regiments. A further dis- banding is anticipated though there seems to be no doubt that the great mass of the Native soldiers are faithful, and that the example is likely to have a wholesome effect. The Earl of Orford, in reply to an application made to him by the Secretary of the Norwich Bible Society, to take the chair at their meeting, writes as follows :—" Sir—I am surprised and annoyed at the contents of your letter—sur- prised because my well-known character should have ex- empted me from such an application, and annoyed, because it obliges me to have this communication with you. I have long been addicted to the gaming table-I have lately taken to the turf-I fear I frequently blaspheme-I never distri- buted religious tracts. All this was known to you and your society, notwithstanding which you think me a fit person for your president. God forgive your hypocrisy. I would rather live in the land of sinners than with such saints-I am, Sir, &c., (signed) ORFORD." Dublin Freeman's Journal. MALT.—The total quantity of malt used in the year end- ed the 30th of September, 1856, amounted to 4,243,201 quarters for the whole of the kingdom, against 3,8 13,931 quarters in the year 1855-56- Of this quantity of malt 3,143,713 quarters were used by brewers and victuallers, and 399,488 quarters by retail brewers. i CHESTER RAILWAY STATION.—On the Cup Day the enormous number of 36,500 passengers pass through this station, via the Great Western, the North Western, and Birkenhead lines, without, owing to the able supervision of Mr. Mills and his coadjutors, a single accident or unusual ) delay, and although there are 100 trains daily passing the ) station. VORACITY OF A COD.-As a fishing boat belonging to Barra was lately putting out to sea the men picked up a dead lamb, and having skinned it threw the skin into the sea They then proceeded, with a smart breeze right aft, out into the Atlantic, till they lost sight of land. Having at length reached the fishing place they dropt their lines. The first fish taken up was a large cod, whose belly was distended to such an extraording size as to excite the curiosity of the crew. They cut open the fish, and to their astonishment found in it the self-same skin, wool and all entire, which they had thrown overboard in the morning after leaving the shore.-Inverness Courier. CAUTION TO ATTORNEYS. In the courts last week, actions have been brought against two different lawyers by parties who had engaged them for negligently conducting their cases, and heavy damages in each case given against them. Lord Campbell stated emphatically that when the defendant's liability was admitted, and the only matter to be decided was one of mere account, it was the duty of an attorney to proceed under the third section of the New Common Law Procedure Act, 1854. Instead of this, the defendants had chosen to bring their actions in the older and more expensive form. RAILWAY SIGNAL DETECTOR.—Mr. Fenton, of Low Moor Ironworks, has invented an apparatus for proving, in the event of an accident occurring, whether the warning signal was or was not set at the time of the train passing. When the ordinary semaphore marks danger an arm is thrown out, which must be struck by the buffer of any engine attempting to pass,—Mining Journal. LIGHTING RAILWAY CARRIAGES WITH GAS.—A novel experiment has been tried by Mr. Knapton, of the Albion Fonndry, York, which threatens to revolutionise the system of lighting railway carriages. Some six years ago Mr. Knapton took out a patent for an invention called a dry gasometer," and this contrivance he has now fixed to the bottom of a railway carriage. The gasometer can be filled by means of a flexible tube from any of the station mains. The gas is introduced into the compart- ments of the carriage by the ordinary piping, and can be turned on and off at pleasure. The Great Northern Railway Company have given directions to Mr. Knapton to fit up a carriage in this manner, and should the plan he adopted a great saving will be effected and a brilliant light secured.Northern Daily Express. WESTERTON v. LIDDELL.-The suit instituted by Mr. Westerton, of Hyde Park Corner, to ascertain whether the use of altars, crosses, candles, &c., was lawful in the Church of England having been decided in the negative, Mr. Westerton's friends have opened a subscription list to aid them in paying off EI,500, the balance of the expen- ses now due. Conceiving the importance of the suit to have assumed a national character, they earnestly request that subscriptions may be paid into the account of the Hon. and Rev. F. Baring, Mr. Westerton, and others, at Messrs. Ransom's, 1, Pall Mall East, or to Mr. Westerton, 20, St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner. FAILURE OP TIIE MAINE LAW IN AMERICA. Mr. Joseph Barker, who was for so many years advocated temperance and the Maine Law, and who emigrated to America seven years ago, and who is so well-known as a sincere friend to all moral and social reform, has addressed a letter to Mr. S. Watson, of the bank in Leeds, on the subject of the Maine Law. Mr. Barker, who may be judged to be a complete authority on this subject, says in his communication, which is dated March 30, 1857 The Maine Liiv is a failure in America, and nothing but moral persuasion will make a people sober, good, and happy either here or in any other country." — Manchester Examiner. DEATH OF MR. ROBERT BURNS. — We have to an nounce the demise of Mr. Robert Burns, which melancholy event occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, the 14th inst., at his residence here. Mr. Burns was born at Mauchline in September, 1786, so that he had nearly completed his 71st year. In several respects in point of intellect the deceased was no ordinary man, but yet he was nhipflv rernarkahlp thmnotinnt Ufa u.:) U¡:;lU:n \.tlOÇ' clue-at.. of Robert Burns, the national poet of Scotland. Burns died in 1^96, and his eldest boy was nearly ten years of age at the time of that premature decease. Mr. Barns was an accomplished scholar. Endowed with a prodigious menaory and great powers of application, he had amassed a vast quantity of knowledge on a great range of subjects. His enthusiasm in the acquisition of information continued to almost his last days, and for some years he had been almost passionately attached to the study of the language of the Gael. In music he was a proficient student, posses- sing both a theoretical and practical knowledge of the art. A portion of the father's poetic mantle had fallen upon the son, and in his earlier years he composed verses of consi- derable intrinsic merit. LIFE IN KANSAS.—The Leavenworth Times announces the election of a Free-State Mayor in the following style: —" Leavenworth city to the whole world, greeting Bring out the big gun Glorious victory! The people trium- phant Great moral demonstration! Free-State Mayor elected by an overwhelming majority! Free speech! free press and free soil for Kansas! Let the American Eagle scream The citadel rescued from the invaders! Prices of real estate bound skyward. The enemies of the people calling for the rocks and mountains to fall upon them. The day begins to dawn Great demand for holes to hide heads in. The emissaries of the Evil One routed Nigger drivers bivouacked 'National democracy' biting the dust, and bogus squatter sovereignty sitting in sack- cloth and ashes. Free Kansas for free men Let the hearts of the people rejoice Hallelujah The Lord reigneth and the Devil's a fool. The disturbances in the south of China have occasioned prices of Tea at the remote northern port of Shaaghai to rule higher, but Homiman & Co., Tea Importers, London, forewarned, have secured such quantities as enables them to give Consumers the full benefit oj the reduced duty. It is superfluous to descant on the excellence of these PURE TEAS, the fact being well know in every Toion in the Kingdom, and as the supply is obtainable only in sealed packets from Authorized Agents, the desideratum of thei, being always equal is effectually secured to the consumerr as they are found to combine the greatest economy with paramount excellence and purity. The REDUCED PRICES and List of AGENTS for THIS DISTRICT follow Homiman's Pure Tea advertisement in this day's paper.