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Shortly after nine o'clock on Monday morning, a notice, of which the following is a copy, was posted on the door of Messrs. Roskell, Arrowsmith, and Kendall's Bank, Fishergate, Preston "Messrs. Ros- kell, Arrowsmith, and Kendall regret to inform their depositors and others that they are compelled to sus- pend payment. Steps are being taken to protect the interest of all parties.-4th May, 1863." This bank was first opened in 1825, by Messrs. Lawe, Roskell, Arrowsmith, and Company; the "company" being Mr. Joseph Hudson. In 1833 the partnership was dissolved Messrs. Lawe and Hudson established one bank and Messrs. Roskell and Arrowsmith an- other. In consequence of the death, successively, of Mr. Lawe and Mr. Hudson, their bank suspended business in 1857 but all payments upon it were amply met,and a considerable surplus remained for the bone- fit of the family. The heads of the bank of Messrs. Roskell and Arrowsmith, (for the last few years carried on under the firm of Messrs. Roskell, Arrow- smith, and Kendall) are Catholics, and the establish- ment has been mainly patronised by middle-class trading members of that denomination. Its stoppage although productive of serious inconvience to indi- viduals, is not likely to derange the general business of the town as did the suspension of the Preston Bank, or that of Messrs. Pedder a few years before that event. The bank was the main depository of the Catholic charities of Preston. The cause of the failure is attributed to the firm having made large advances to a cotton manufacturer in the neighbourhood of Preston, out of all proportion to either his resources or those of the bank. Other rumours say that more than one cotton manufacturer has contributed to the stoppage. Nothing definite is known as to the lia- bilities of the bank. Some reports put them down at £ 80,000 others state a larger sum. It is impossible to state what the dividend will be. All stated con- cerning it is mere rumour.

DINNER TO MR CHARLES DICKENS IN NEW YORK. 18t,k a dinner in honour of Mr. Charles Dickens was given at Delmonico?s ?n 900^ Press of tae United States. About 200 gentlemen sat down to table. The dining hall was tastefully decorated with the British and Amerii can colours, and the tables were adorned with bouquets and vases of flowers. Mr. Horace Greeley presided, and on his nght was the guest of the even- ln/ b.or"e de-ay was caused in the commencement of the festivities by the sudden illness of Mr. Dick- ens, and it was reported that he would be unable to í attend, but to the great gratj fication of the assemblaga hn™ ? ^1S aPPeTnC6 m Jhe ,recePtion room at 6 30 _o clock and at once entered the dining-room leaning on the arm of the chairman. The cloth hav- ing been removed, Mr. Greeley rose and pronoonH th« r toast of the evening. Mr. Dickens, who on rising to respond was receiv- ed with such loud and long continued cheering that he had to stand for some time awaiting an opportu- nity to speak, spoke partly as follows:—Gentlemen — I cannot do better than take my cue from your dis tmgmshed president, and refer in my first remarks to his remarks in connection with the old, natural association between you and me. When I received an invitation from a private association of working members of the press of New York to dine with them to-day, I accepted that compliment in grateful re- membrance of a calling that was once my own, and in loyal sympathy toward a brotherhood which in <- spirit, I have never quitted. ("Good, good.") To the wholesome training of severe newspaper work when I was a very young man, I constantly refer my first successes; and my sons will hereafter testify of their father that he was always steadily proud of that ladder by which he rose. If it were otherwise, I should have but a poor opinion of their father, which per- haps, upon the whole I yet have not. (Laughter and cheers.) Hence, gentlemen, under any circumstances their company would have been exceptionally inte- resting and gratifying to me. But whereas I sup- posed that, like the fairies' pavilion in the Arabian Nights, it would be but a mere handful, and I find it turn out, like the same elastic pavilion, capable of comprehending a multitude, so much the more proud am I of the honour of being your guest; for you will readily believe that the more widely representative of the press in America my entertainers are, the more I must feel the goodwill and the kindly sentiments toward me of that vast institution. (Applause.) Gen- < tlemen, so much of my voice has lately been heard in the land, and I have, for upwards of four hard winter months, so contended against what I have been sometimes quite admiringly assured was a true Am- erican catarrh —(langhter)-a possession that I have throughout highly appreciated, though I might have preferred to be naturalised by any other outward and visible means—(renewed laughter)--I say, gentlemen, so much of my voice has lately been heard, that I might have been contented with troubling you no further from my present standing-point, were it not i ■? which I henceforth myself, not only here but on suitable occasion, whatsoever and wheresoever, to express my high and grateful sense of my second reception in America, and to bear my honest testimony to the national generosity and magnanimity. (Great applause.) Also I now declare how astounded I have been by the amazing changes that I have seen around me on every side, changes moral, changes physical, changes in the amount of land subdued and cultivated, changes in the rise of vast new cities, changes in the growth of older cities almost out of recognition, changes in the growth of the graces and amenities of life, changes in the press, without whose advancement no advancement can take place anywhere at all. (Applause.) Nor am I, be- lieve me, so arrogant as to suppose that in five and twenty years there have been no changes in me, and that I had nothing to learn and no extreme impres- sions to correct when I was here first. (Applause.) Gentlemen, this brings me to a point on which I have ever since I landed here last November, observed a strict silence, however tempted sometimes to break it, but in reference to which I will, with your good leave, take you into my confidence now. (" Go on, go on.") Even the press, being human, may be sometimes mistaken or misinformed, and I rather think that I have in one or two instances known its information to be not perfectly accurate with re- ference to myself. (Laughter and applause.) In- deed, I have now and again been more surprised by the printed news that I have read of myself than by any other printed news that I have ever read in my present state of existence. (Laughter.) Thus, the vigour and perseverance with which I have for some months past been collecting the materials for, and hammering away at, a new book on America, have much astonished me-(renewed laughter)—seeing that all that time it has been perfectly well-known to my publishers on both sides of the Atlantio that I positively declared that no consideration on earth should induce me to write one. (Laughter.) But what I have intended, what I have resolved upon (and this is the confidence I seek to place in you), is on my return to England, in my own English journal, manfully, promptly, plainly, in my own person, to bear, for the behoof of my countrymen, such testi- mony to the gigantic changes in this country as I have hinted at to-night. (Applause.) Also to record that wherever I have been, in the smaller places equally with the largest, I have been received with an unsurpassable politeness, delicacy, sweet temper, hospitality, and consideration, and unsurpaassable respect for the privacy daily enforced upon me by the nature of my avocation here and the state of my health. (Loud applause.) This testimony, so long as I ,■ live, and so long as my descendants have any legal right in my books, I shall cause to be republished, as an appendix to every copy of those two books of mine in which I have referred to America. (Tumul- tous applause.) And this I will do and cause to bo done, not in mere love and thankfulness, but because I regard it as an act of plain justice and honour. (" Bravo," and cheers.) At the conclusion of Mr. Dickens' speech the band struck up God save the Queen," and the whole company, rising, joined in singing the air.

MASSACRE OF A FRENCH BOAT S CREW. (From the China Mail of March 25.) HIOGO, March 11, 1868.-You will be very sorry to learn that a fearful tragedy has just been enacted six miles from Osaka, in the Bay. A boat's crew from the Dupliex was sent to wait for the French Consul and the captain, who were expected overland, but they were stopped by some fellows and told they could not pass: so rather than run any risk they turned back. in the meantime the boat had been waiting for them some two hours, and the men were lounging about on the beach unarmed, when, all of a sudden, some Japanese (about 200 in number,) opened fire on them, shot them down as you would shoot pigeons, killing several, and taking the wounded pri- soners and putting them to death. The French au- thorities recovered eleven bodies, and I attended the funeral of the poor fellows this afternoon. The mid- shipman, who was killed, was the only one who had a revolver, and he fired off all the barrels before he was killed. All the ministers and residents, &c., at- tended the funeral, also officers of the different men- of-war, and the band of the Ocean. The captain of the Dupliex made an oration over the poor fellows' gravea (there being no priest). He was very much excited, and told the Frenchmen to look on the graves of their shipmates and countrymen, who had been foully assassinated, murdered in cold blood, and their deaths must be revenged, or they were all cowards and not Frenchmen. The Minister, Leon Roche, spoke next. He was so cut up that he could hardly speak, and the tears choked him; ih fact, all the sailors present were shedding tears. He told them to have confidence in their officers and minister, and he solemnly swore over the bodies of his murdered countrymen, in the name of France and the Emperor, that they should be bitterly revenged. It was a most sad scene, and even the most thoughtless were much affected. There were several more men severely wounded, and I think two officers, who happened to be near in another boat. The Japanese authorities admit themselves that it was a cold-blooded murder, aud that there was no excuse or provocation for it. They offer to make all amends in their power. All quiet atHiogo. We learnthe^receipt of this news had caused freat ercitement at Nagasaki, where H.I.M. Ship brfait kept up steam with the intention of prevent- ing any Japanese vessels from leaving the harbour. Foreigners, after dark, objected to leaving their houses, and even in the daytime went about armed and in parties. A great number of the unemployed Japanese soldiers were loafing about the place, ap- parently bent on mischief, and a short time since a French officer had to beat a forced retreat for a dis- tance of about four miles, closely followed by armed natives. NAGASAKI, March 17.-The French have seized all Toza's people and ships in Hiogo, and notified Toza that unless the murderers are given up in fourteen days they will hang the whole forty to the yardarms of the ship. From Yokohama papers we learn that the officer of the Prince of Bizen, whose retainers came into collision with the foreigners at Kobe, was executed on the 2nd instant, in the presence of a member of each foreign legation. The un- fortunate man was then allowed to commit harikau first, and he was then decapitated.

The Spanish journals announce that it is the nephew of Marshal Narvaez who succeeds to his title and large fortune. Two pensions for distinguished or meritorious service are rendered vacant by the appointment of Major Generals Longfield and Horn to regimental colonelcies.

MULTUM IN PARVO. The Paris journals mention the death of the es- teemed musical critic, Gasperini, a scholar, poet, and Musician. An American paper says that Nashville fishermen have seen a sea-serpent. They fired at him and he disappeared. There are two firms at Geneva engaged in the tt'a.mifaeture of musical birds, and producing fciore than 100 a year. We understand the Queen has appointed the Ttev. t>r. Archibald Watson, of Dundee, to be one ol tter Majesty's Chaplains for Scotland. A few days since during the targe*P/^r *waalhot French Soldiery at Yincennes a spectator was shot in the groin and died on the following y- ■till holds the episcopal supervision, on the 2nd of July. Captain Samuel Standidge Walton, of Hun, died on Sunday, in the 74th year of his age. For forty- five years the deceased held a commission as captain 3 in the East York Militia. Orders were on Tuesday sent to Dublin for the re- lease of 14 of the prIsoners arrested under the Lord Lieutenant's warrant. This will reduce the number of prisoners of thia class to eight. The Western Morning News states that the Rev. B. Speke, whose disappearance excited so much inte- rest a short time ago, has now resumed his parochial duties at Dowlish Wake, near Illminster. Napoleon III. has presented a copy of the imperial edition of his Life of Caesar to the Lyceum Library of 1 ew Orleans, in return for the photographs of that city sent to him by the municipal authorities. A return shows that the quantity of proof spirits distilled in the United Kingdom and Ireland during the year ending the 31st December last was 23,323,613 gallons. The duty paid amounted to £11,382,594. The Pall.Ifall Gazette says:—Our ownRoman corres- pondent writes :—" The Holy Father has received from Vienna an assurance that the Emperor of Austria will not sustain the new laws voted by the Chambers." Juarez, the President of Mexico, celebrated his birthday on the 24th of March, at Chapultepec, a su- burb of the city of Mexico, under the shadow of a P'rl)ve of cvpress trees, the favourite sleeping-place Of Montezuma. In a letter, dated "Dublin Gaol, April 4," and ad- dressed to the XPW York World, George Francis Train D'VA' <C'ToV|T1 Mitchell is no more. Bury him with v.r^3r M'Gee." This is very curious. Mr. M'Gee was KlUed on the 7th April. A Wor^9 ar^ 8en* ^or exhibition to the Roya cademy amounted this year to the unprecedented Umber of 3,011. The pictures amounted to 2,683; Jle number placed on the walls is 896; the pictures ccepted and not hung number 180. The Italian Minister at Paris, in pursuance of J^ers from Victor Emmanuel, has invested Rossini "^th the Grand Cordon of the new Order of the Crown Italy. Verdi and Mercadante have been made commanders of the order.-Musical Standard. Captain Horatio Ross has addressed a letter to the piemen of Scotland, intimating that he proposes having a competition at Irvine on the 2nd of June, for admis sion into the Scottish Eight who are to take Part in the international match for the Elcho Shield ct "Intelligence from Rome," says the ItoJie of aples, announces that Cardinal Andrea will soon return this city for the recovery of his health, considerably 1mpaired since he has been in the Roman capital. His Holiness this time accords permission to the pre- late to come and breathe his native air. Trinity College, Cambridge, has given a scholar- ship for natural science, which was awarded last week to Mr. J. Pryor, of Trinity College. The exami- nation, conducted by Professor Humphry and Live- was open to all undergraduates of Oxford and Cambridge. There were fifteen candidates. Respecting a statement which recently appeared in its columns concerning the ammunition for the Snider rifle, the Army and Navy Gazette finds that the result of an investigation, which was instituted in consequence of certain failures at Aldershot, has been to establish the fact that the present ammuniy tion is thoroughly efficient. Fromthe American A then mum, aNew York journal, 'devoted to the progressive and aesthetic sciences," learn that Professor Agassiz has been writing to the public papers to protest against his name beinrr looted as one of the weather-prophets. "Meteorology." says the great naturalist, is not yet sufficiently advanced to justify such attempts." THE "PEEL" STATUE.—The bronze statue of the late Sir Robert Peel, which has recently been re- moved from the original site chosen, is now placed S*1 a granite pedestal at the public entrance to the pauses of Parliament, opposite Parliament-street and ^reat George-street. This statue was uncovered on onday morning withont any ceremony. » The summons against Mr. Eyre, late Governor of aQiaica, which was held adjourned at Bow-street to r^aifc the result of an application to the Court of j Bench for a mandamus, was on Monday adjourned to the 15th inst., as the rule nisi j, avitig been granted, it was necessary to await the esQlt of the arguments in the higher court. The Marquis Pepoli is shortly about to give in Carriage his daughter Letitia to Count Galli de Forli, ^sphew of Pope Pius IX., and brought up by hiB holiness. It seems that the future husband will do .tie honour to his venerable preceptor, for he is ai be favourable to the unity of Italy, and de- | °ted to the constitutional throne of Victor Emma- nuel. Lord Forbes died on Friday last, at Richmond. He was born May 29th, 1798, and married January 31st, 1825, Horatia, seventh daughter of Sir John Gregory Shaw, by whom, who survives her husband, he leaves issue five sons and a daughter. The ancient family honours now devolve upon his eldest son, the Hon. Horace Courtenay, Master of Forbes, born in Febru- ary, 1829. The report that Messrs. Strahan and Co., had parted with their valuable property, Good Words," to Messrs. Virtue and Co., is emphatically contra- dicted. The report appeared first in the London letter of the Leeds Mercury, and the circulation of it has given considerable annoyance to both the eminent publishing firms whose names were mentioned in connection with it. The death of an old female miser of Paris is re- corded. She lived in the Rue de la Ferronnerie, and was well known in the quarter, as she went out every morning and evening to the market, where she dispensed 20 centimes for a pittance of brokenvictuals. After her decease a sum of 37,810 francs in bank notes and gold was found concealed in the wretched bed On which she slept. A letter from Rome says-Lady Herbert has reco- vered from the severe attack of Roman fever which for some weeks so prostrated her that on Easter Sun- day her life was despaired of. Although still very weak her ladyship is now up and convalescent. The illness is attributed to Lady Herbert's too assiduous attendance at the bedside of a friend who succumbed to the same malady. By a return it appears that the total number of electors in Parliamentary boroughs, cities and towns Ireland in 1867 was 32,54/. The Government Re- form Bill will increase that number by 9,759. The Population in I'Cl of those boroughs, cities, and tOwns was 767,467. The population in H61 of the Irish counties was o,001,099, and the total number of electors in 1&67 was 176,093. The legal profession has sustained a great loss by the death of Mr. Thomas Edward Chitty, a name well known in connection with pleadings and what is known as chamber practice. Mr. Chitty was born in 18L6, and was educated at Oriel College, where he tuok his B.A. degree in 1850, when he took a third class in classics. By his death the clerkship of assize of the Western Circuit becomes vacant. The Giornale di Napoli says In spite of the af- firmation of some of the Roman journals the most perfect tranquillity prevails on the Pontifical fron- tier, in this direction as well as that of Tuscany. There is no symptom of agitation, and no trace of Garibaldian enlistment or assemblage. A letter, which we have received from a person in a position to be well informed, leaves no doubt on the subject." The Marquis Townshend, says the Hertford Mercu y has rebuilt the nave of East Raynham Church, Nor- folk, at the cost of £ 4,000. The re-opening of the church has just been suitably celebrated on the Rayn- ham estate of the marquis, who went down specially from London on the occasion with the marchioness. The tenantry on the estate were entertained by the noble marquis at an elegant luncheon and 300 school children and aged people were entertained at tea. By the bill with which Mr. Peace, Mr. Akroyd, and Mr. Liddell propose to amend the Vagrant Act, every person playing or betting in any street, road, high- way, or other open or public place, at or with any table or instrument of gaming, or any coin, token, or other article used as an instrument or means of gam- ing, at any game or pretended game of chance, shall be deemed a rogue and vagabond, and as such may be convicted and punished under the Vagrant Act." „ requested to contradict the assertion copied tbis ;ournal a short time ago, that M. Gounod furnished a new opera. M. Gounod is at present hard at work on his Francesco da Rimini'' though suffering severely from acute rheumatism. The Orchestra. The Mem Gazette, published at Darmstadt, an- nounces that Prince Louis of Hesse has gone to Berlin on a political mission. The same paper adds —but its statement is not believed—that the.Prince s mission is to negociate the entrance of the Grand Duchy in the North Confederation. MR. CHARLES DICKENS.—Mr. Charles Dickens, who arrived in Liverpool on Friday evening, in com- pany with Mr. George Dolby, left Liverpool on Sat- urday morning for London. Mr. Dickens looked re- markably well, and we believe that his late American tour has not only recruited his health, but added con- siderably to his finances.-Star. It is said that His Imperial Highness Prince Napo- leon lately wrote a letter to his cousin, pointing out the enthusiasm with which the Crown Prince of Prussia had been received at Turin, and adding how much French influence had declined in Italy since the unfortunate declaration of M. Rouher in the Chambers, when, representing his Sovereign, the Minister declared that Italy was never to possess Rome. As a natural sequence to the honours which have been, and will be, conferred on the military portion of the Abyssinian expedition, we hear that Captain Leopold Heath, C.B., has been advanced a step in the Order of the Bath, and that Captain Edye, of her Majesty's ship Satellite, will be created a Companion of the same order. Some of the junior officers will also, as a matter of course, be promoted.-Army and Navy Gazette. A man, named James Tweedie, is in custody at Edinburgh charged with the manslaughter of a young man, named James Kerr. The latter was taking shelter with several ladies beneath the portico of the Bedford Hotel, when the prisoner came up and in some way insulted the ladies. An altercation ensued, and Tweedie knocked Kerr down his head alighted on the curbstone, and he sustained such injury that he died on the following afternoon. BARRETT'S ALIBI.—The Glasgow Herald publishes certain statements which, it says, will prove, if the word of upright men can prove anything, that the evidence of the shoemaker M'Nulty, one of the prin- cipal witnesses in support of the Glasgow alibi of the Fenian Barrett, was altogether false. The result of its own reporter's inquiries establishes beyond ques- tion the falsity of M'Nulty's circumstantial story re- garding the row with Barrett, the repairing of the boots, and the reading of the newspaper. It proves, in short, that Michael M'Nulty's testimony is worse than worthless, and being the keystone of the Glas- gow alibi, the public will be at no loss to estimata the remaining rubbish at its full value. DEATH OF LTRD CALTHORPE.—We regret to an- nounce the death of Lord Calthorpe on Saturday last. The late Right Hon. Frederick Gough-Calchorpe, Baron Calthorpe in the peerage of Great Britain, and also a baronet, was third son of Henry, first baron, by his wife Frances, second daughter of General Ben- jamin Carpenter. He was born in June, 17C0. The late peer married on the 12th of August, 1823, Lady Charlotte Sophia Somerset, eldest daughter of Henry sixth Duke of Beaufort, by which estimable lady, who died in the autumn of 1865, he leaves three sons and six daughters. The late lord succeeded to the family honours on the death of his brother George, third Lord Calthorpe. He is now succeeded in the title and estates by his eldest son, the Hon. Frederick H. W. Calthorpe, member for East Worcestershire. Ho was born on the 24th of July, 1826, and has repre- sented the Eastern Division of Worcestershire in the House of Commons since February, 1859. The late Lord Calthorpe was formerly—namely, from 1826 to 1830—in the House of Commons, as representative of the disfranchised borough of Bramber, and was De- puty-Lieutenant of Staffordshire, of which county he was High Sheriff in 1848. CONVICT ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE COLONIES.— Our convict establishments abroad are situated at Gibraltar, New South Wales, Tasmania, and Wes- tern Australia. The Imperial establishment at Gib- raltar provides accommodation for 300 convicts, at a total cost of £14,435, £7,240 of which is spent in su- perintendence, £ 890 in religious instruction, £ 845 in medical treatment, £ 3,700 in victualling convicts and officers, £556 in escort and conveyance of officers and convicts, R428 in fuel and light, and the rest in miscellaneous expenses. The colonial establishment at New South Wales provides for the lodgment of 95 convicts, most of which are invalids or lunatics, at a total cost of £2,741. Tasmania accommodated 863 convicts, 279 of whom are chargeable to colonial funds, and the total cost of maintenance, salaries, wages, allowances, &c., amounts to £36,554, from which, however, the estimated produce of a farm, amounting to £?,080, is deducted. The colony of Western Australia now has in keeping 1,450 convicts the cost of salaries, wages, and allowances, amount to and £ 9,054 are required for clothing1 and bedding, £ 22,474for military establishments, £ 13,003 m aid of the colonial magistracy, police, and gaols, and £1,30<>. for pay of and gratuities to convicts. Military prisoners are maintained in New Zealand at a cost of £ 173 and a summary of the above sta- tistics shows that our convict establishments in the colonies keep in durance a total of 2,708 persons at a cost of £ 152,881. It should be remarked that re- payments are made, amounting to JE11,763, which will in future be carried to the credit of the Exchequer. FENTANISM Dr NEW ZEALAND.—A correspondent of the Times, writing from Wellington, March 7th, dwells on the spread of Fenianism. Many educated Irishmen are heard to express their sympathy for the men executed at Manchester, and to speak in no measured terms their opinions of the oppression to which they say they deem their country to be still subjected. For sometime past it has been known that Fenian societies, having more or less of organisa- tion, existed in almost every town in New Zealand, and that from some of them contributions have been frequently forwarded to the societies at home. The gold diggings on the west coast of the Middle Island were the most prominent centres, as what was done there was done openly, while elsewhere it was alwaya covertly. The fact that such and such an amount had been collected at Hokitika and sent to Ireland has from time to time been chronicled by the press; and a newspaper called the Hokitika Celt has weekly en- deavoured to foster the feeling that it is the duty of Irishmen everywhere to maintain a spirit of undying hatred towards England by every means in their power. At Charleston, upon the same coast, a mock funeral was got up a month since, but it was so small every one smiled at the apparent failure when they read the single paragraph recording it. At Hokitika a similar demonstration was to take place on a large and grand scale. On the 28th of February a meeting was held in the Roman Catholic chapel there, under the chairmanship of the Rev. Mr. M Donogh, the re- sident priest, at which were passed resolutions ex- pressive of sympathy and condolence with the fate of the three Manchester Fenians, and favouring a demonstration in honour of those men. The com- mittee have laboured at their work with enthusiasm, and a funeral procession was advertised to be held on Sunday the 8th of March. Scarves, sashes, and other paraphernalia are supplied to all who cannot other- wise get them, and the Town Council had been re- quested to grant a special portion of the cemetery for depositing the coffins. DR. LIVINGSTONE.—The Indian papers to hand by the Bombay mail contain Dr. Livingstone's letters and despatches. These have, however, already been published here. The Bombay Times gives the follow- ing account ofthem_: "The letters now to hand are dated early in 1867, having been consigned to the Banian powder merchant, bearing the soubriquet of 'Bundonky' or 'lluiidoriky,' the term for 'a gun.' This man, though he is one subserving the slave trade, which it is Dr. Livingstone's life purpose to dry up at its sources, has fully justified the confidence he had previously inspired in the doctor and if, as he stated, his long delay can be accounted for, the said Bundonky' deserves generous recompense. It being January last when those letters arrived at Zan- zibar, there are yet nine or ten months of Living- stone's wanderings yet to be accounted for. There is, however, the testimony of the Mussulman ivory- trader, who was at Ujiji on the northern end of Lake ianganyila in October last, when he heard that an Englishman had arrived there. This item of evidence, taken in conjunction with former hints of similar value, added to the consideration of the de- sertion of his followers and the loss of his baggage animals, sufficiently accounts for the doctor being YJ8 Jogger than he intended in arriving at i'1" u i *ew circumstances known from tole- rably substantial ground for hopefulness concerning him. i he link that is needed is some letter from the last named place to which supplies were sent for Livingstone by Dr. Seward, then acting political agent at Zanzibar, and which the traveller had fully arranged to aim for, as is proved by the passage in his letter quoted elsewhere :-When we get to fan- ganyika Lake we hope for news, and to find a second supply of goods. I shall write to you from thence.' Now, why has not the doctor written? or why, if he did write, has not the Mussulman ivory trader brought his letters, lhese questions may be met on various suppositions that are quite consistent with the probability that Dr. Livingstone obtained the supplies intended for him, and that he set off again on his northward journey refreshed and comforted, and still accompanied with his brave Nassick boys! The motives for the ill-conduct of the sepoys have yet to be explained; but as to Moussa and the Johan- aa men, the exposure of the lying device to coyer tfheir cowardice is already complete."

FLUGGING IN iNlii vVGATnl G-AUL. Newgate, more than any other prison in London, impresses on the beholder, whether without or with- in its walls, a notion of security. Externally there is a large expanse of wall without any opening save the debtors' door, now a mass of iron, and that onE. narily used, closed at night by a huge barred gatj in- toriorly are vaulted passages, iron gai.es and and locks in abundance. Viewed fromthe street, the prison is obscured by the lofty boundary wall, for that which is visible is not the true wall of the prison, but one se- parated from it by a considerable interval, which may be used as an airing ground. Internally, the male portion of the gaol consists of two parts-one on the system of association, there being halls in which a number of prisoners were confined in company, and the new, which is built on the separate system. The former is but rarely used-never except when an ac- cumulation of prisoners previous to a general gaol delivery renders the separate cells inadequate for their reception. In fact, the only inmate ordinarily contained in this portion of the building is that instru- ment which many are accustomed to bless in the same breath with the name of Baron Bramwell-we mean the whipping block. This terror of garotting evil- doers consist of a sort of box, opening in front like a cupboard, and having a strong upright post rising from its centre behind. When the door is opened two ridges are observed, one on a level with the top of the box, the other a short way from its floor and in either of these two semicircular cuts are made, which, corresponding with two others in similar pro- jections from the posterior part of the box, consti- tute, when the door is closed, two holes correspond- ing in size with the thighs and ankles of the victim, which they hold so tightly that but little motion is possible. The upright post already alluded to rises to the level of a man's chest, and there terminates in a cross-piece, having in its upper surface sockets similar to those already alluded to, in which the hands may be tightly held by fastening down a correspond- ing bar, and thus the culprit is secured. The holes in the traverse bars are of two sizes, for boys and men, and—with what one might call a refinement of cruel- ty-are padded, lest the prisoner should injure his wrist. When necessary, Calcraft applies the lash. To the subject of punishment by flogging we shall again have to return but whilst on the subject we may reflect upon what we consider a dangerous drawback from the recognised efficiency of the punishment. We are no advocates for the restoration of an in- stitution like whipping at the cart's tail-a mode of punishment calculated only to brutalise a barbarian people but, on the other hand, we question the ad- visability of keeping the infliction of such punish- ments secluded from the eyes of all save the prison warders, as is now the custom in Newgate. We would not even recommend that all in the prison should be witnesses of a flogging, for it often happens t hat innocent men who have been well and gently nur- tured are within the prison walls, but there is also invariably a large proportion of well-known gaol birds, the very scum of the London streets. To these the sight of a flogging would act even more power- fully as a deterrent than a month in prison would for wherever the system, however imperfectly, hai been introduced, it has been found to produce good results. To this pseudo-phlianthropists might reply, that the objections urged against public executions might be brought to bear with equal force on such spectacles-that the witnesses would be hardened, not softened, by such a scene but the circumstances of these prisoners must be borne in mind. They are professional criminals, to be kept from the com- mission of crime by every means in our power. They witness this punishment in silence no jeering re- marks break in to diminish the efficacy of the spec- tacle and when they retire to their solitary cells they have time to reflect on the causes which have led to the man's position and their consequences, for the sentence should be read aloud in the hearing of all.—Medical Times and Gazette.

A bTRANGE OCCURKENCE.—An extraordinary af- fair is reported from Bridgewater. A few mornings ago a farmer named Pollard, and a fish hawker, named Driscoll, were found lying on the road fast in each other's clutches, the former dead and the latter in- sensible. Driscoll on becoming conscious, alleged that lie knew nothing of the plight he was in beyond a recollection that some one had struck him with a whip or stick and that he and the other had then fought. The deceased had both eyes dreadfully black- ened, a cut on the back of tho head, and various other injuries. It appears that about midnight he drove from Bridgewater with a horse and trap, which, at a very early hour in the morning, arrived at Canning- ton without a driver, the step of the vehicle being broken off. Driscoll, it also appears, was coming from the opposite direction to Bridgewater pushing R small handcart, which was found on the road, having also sus tained some damage.—Driscoll was taken into custody-

FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT DOVER. On Friday morning, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Walsh, the station master at the Dover Priory station of the Lo idon, Chatham, and Dover Railway, was delibe- rately murdered by Alfred Wells, a young man aged nineteen years, a porter in the employment of the company. It appears that Mr. Walsh had called the porter into his office to reprove him for having on the previous evening practiced shooting with a pistol near the station, and told him that unless he return- ed in ten minutes and told him why he had so an- noyed and alarmed the people in the neighbourhood he would be suspended. Wells retired from the station-master's office, told a fellow porter what had occurred, and asked for a drink of water. Having procured this, he disappeared for a few minutes. About ten minutes subsequently, while Mr. Walsh was in his office talking to Mr. Cox, the station- master at the Dover Pier station, Wells came to the door and fired either a gun or a pistol at Mr. Walsh. The bullet struck the unfortunate man on the bridge of the nose, passed through, the head, and struck the wall beyond, killing Mr. Walsh instantaneouslv. Mr. Cox's back was to the door at time, and the "bullet grazed the back of his neck before it struck Mr. Walsh. Having effected his purpose, the murderer ran away and he was arrested a quarter of an hour afterwards in a carriage near the station. He had then a loaded gun in his possession. He has con- ducted himself with marked insolence since his ar- rest, and has not expressed the slightest sorrow for what he has done. The deceased, who was well connected, and much superior to the position he held, was generally respected. He was a very quiet, inoffensive man, aged about fifty, and leaves a wife and family. S TRAGEDY NEAR DURHAM

The village of Sherburn, near Durham, was on Friday night the scene of a terrible tragedy. An officer of the county constabulary, named David Pa- ton was brought before his superior officer on the previous day, and some evidence was given against him by another constable, named Joshua Cruiksnanks which led to his resignation. The two met at Sher- burn the following day, when Paton asked the other to wait a short time near his house, as he had a message for Pittington, where Oruikstianks was sta- tioned. Paton entered the house, procured a revol- ver and coming out, fired at but missed his compan- ion. Cruikshauks tried to escape, but Paton followed him up, and fired two more shots. Cruikshanks re- ceived them in his head, ul e zpired. a] most imme- dialelv. sooner had Pa^on despatched his victim than he capped his pistol, and, applying it below his own left ear, discharged its contents into his head, almost blowing his skull 0"1'. In his case death re- sulted in the course of an hour or two. The following particulars were elicited at the in- quest. On the previous afternoon the deceased men h d been in Durham on business of an unpleasant character. Paton, it appeared, had been reported to the chief constable for some alleged irregutnrities of conduct, the witness against him being Cruickshank. The charge was dismissed, but before the men quirted the presence of the chief constable, Cruickshank volunteered a statement to the effect that Paton had been discharged from a police force in Roxburgh- shire. Paton admitted this to be true, and the cLi3f- constable cancelled his appointment, with an order that he should send in his clothes on the following day. About five o'clock on Friday morning Cruick- shank left Durham in company of Police-constabie Mackay to go to Pittington, where ho resided. On their way, Paton came up from Durham, a adjoined them. TT)ey proceeded together, and Paton and Cruickshank said nothing to show that they were not on the very best of terms. Cruickshank, on pro- posing to go home by an old coal line branching from the turnpike on which they were travelling, was desired by Paton to proceed with him to S ier- burn as he bad information to give him. Criiick- shank consented and, on arriving at Sherburn, Pa on went into his house, and Cruicksuank stood waiting his return with "the information" in front of the public-house, about a hundred yards distant from Paton's dwelling. In a moment the latter was seen to emerge from his own doorway, having something concealed behind his back. He walked across the sireet to where Cruickshank was standing, a id, when about half-way, presented a six-barrel revolver, which was fully charged and capped. Seeing this, Cruickshank ran into the public-house, just in time to escape the effects of the first discharge. Paton, however, followed him into the inn, and fired two other barrels at him, and Cruickshank fell lifeless. Patoll walked to the front of t'le public-house, and in the most cool manner, and without uttering a word, placed the barrel of the revolver behind his left ear and fired the contents into his head. He was removed home, and died in the course of two hours, never having breathed a word. The quickn^.is with which the deed was effected prevented the successful inter- ference of the bystanders. One of the witnesses called was Jessie Paton, widow of deceased, who stated tnat for some time past her husband had be3n much de- pressed in his mind, that at times he would laugh and cry immoderately, that he had carried razors about with him; that he had lately taken to writing sermons, and that if the persecutions to which he alleged he had been subjected continued he would commit suicide. His language, his demeanour, and his acts had been such as to lead her to suppose that he would do himself violence. Mrs. Paton also staged that her deceased husband received an injury to his head from the kick of a horse when serving as a sol- dier m India. Paton has been about two years in the force, and was greatly respected as an able, courte- ous, and an intelligent officer. He had previously served in the Haddingtonshire (Scotland) force. His revolver he brought with him from India, where he served several years. He was very respectably con- nected. Cruickshank was a Scotchman, and he was formerly a private in the Edinburgh police force. ratopandCruickshank each leave a widowand family. 1 he jury found a verdict of "Wilful murder" against raton, who they found had also taken his own life, but there was not sufficient evidence to show the state of his mind at the time.

An eiaerry iaay who has just died at Tmverton, Taunton, has left f30 to her servants to maintain and care for a favourite cat. The captain of a Hull fishing smack has been fined £10, for committing a breach of the Customs Act in neglecting to give up £2 worth of wrecked stores. A monument to the memory of Luther, at Wo-ms, is to be inaugurated on Thursday, the 25t,h June. The fetus will last three days—the 24th, 25th and 26th. Mr. T. Salt has offered -01,000 towards the erection of a new mechanics institute at Bradford, and Mr. H. W. Ripley has offered R500 on condition that an in- dustrial museum be connected with it. FAILURE N* THE POTTERIES.—Mr. Joseph Knight, earthenware manufacturer, Longton; has snddenly suspended payment. His liabilities are £7,000, and the dividend is expected to be but very small. A coroner's jury, at St. Helen's on Saturday, re- turned a verdict of wilful murder against the man Filllngham, who is in custody for killing his para- mour, Philis Hayes, under circumstances of painful brutality. The head of the Berlin police is now in Paris, having arrived there, it is understood, to study the working of the police system in that capital. The Prussian functionary has already had several interviews with M. Pietri. TITE BOTTNDABY BnVL.—A meeting of the Liberal members of t!>e House of Commons representing the boroughs and counties which are affoe'ed by tlia Boundary Bill was hold at Devonshire House on Friday.^ i iie feeling of the meet.;ng," says tue Ex- press, was strongiy in favour of oppus ng many of the propositions of that bill, and a committee was appointed to determine what portions of it should be opposed. Much dissatisfaction was expressed at many of the proposed boundaries for boroughs. The suburbs proposed to be annexed are generally averse to annexation from the fear that such an annexation will lead to an extension of the municipal boundaries, and to their having to pay the higher rates of the boroughs. The committee appointed includes Mr. Bright,Mr.Gladstone, and theMarquis of Hartington. THE THAMES EAIBAKKME^T.—1The first section of the embankment of the Thames was on Saturday poened to the public in a quiot unpretentious manner. Sir John Thwaites, the chairman; Mr. Pollard, the chief clerk Mr. Bazalgette, the engineer; and a num- ber of members of the Board of Works, assembled at Lambeth Bridge, and proceeded on to the footpath of the embankment, and walked along it and up the handsome flight of steps connecting the embankment with the footpath of Westmister Bridge. Two or threj flags were hoisted, and a considerable crowd of spec- tators assembled on the bridge to witness the proces- sion. Arrived at the upper landing of the steps, Sir John Thwaites, the chairman of the Board of Works, said As a chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, I have much pleasure in declaring this sec- tion of the Thames Embankment to be open. The members of the board of works cheered,and the spec- tators on the bridge took up the cheering the tem- porary boarding on the bridge was removed, and those who before were spectators rushed down the steps, and, giving a hearty cheer for the board of works, took possession of the Thames Embankment. The walk along the river bank was evidently much oil- joyed,and it will certainly be a most welcome acquisi- tion to the promenades of the metropolis,

MURDER NhAR NEWCASTLE. A shocking murder was committed on Saturday night at WillingtoCl Quay, on ttle north bank of the l'yue. In that village lived two Irish labourers, named James Lavery aud James Lynch. The former had a taste for gardening, and rented a small oblong plot of ground about 100 yards from his house. Three or four months ago he had occasion to summon be- fore the magistrale Edward Barrett, a neighbour, for damage done to his crops by the latter's fowls. A considerable amount of ill-feeling had resulted from these proceedings, and on Lavery passing through the village on Saturday evening Mrs. Barrett upbraided him with his conduct in foul language. Soon after- wards Lynch, who was a lodger with the Barretts, joined Mrs. Barrett, and snatching a gun which Lavery carried, he dealt him a blow with the muzzle end which knocked him instantly to the ground, and caused such a fracture of the skull that the brains protruded. While Lavery lay on the ground, appa- rently dying, Lynch flourished the gun above his head by way of a boast, and several women who had wit- nessed the onslaught shouted Hurrah." Lynch con- cluded his triumph by beating the gun upon the ground until it was broken to atoms. He then rush- ed home, whence he shortly afterwards departed, and he has not since been seen. It is believed that he in- tended to go to Liverpool and there embark. Lavery's injuries terminated fatally a few hours later. S OF A BANK AT PRESTON.

A person who described herself as a "lady of retir- ing habits," advertised her child for sale, the other day in London. SWEARING rr OF THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EX- CHEQUER.—In the Court of Exchequer on Monday, the Right Hon. George Ward Hunt, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, took the usual oath prescribed for the holder of his office before the ordinary business of the court was commenced, and signed the roll. The Right Hon. Gentleman, who wore the full state robes of the Chancellor, afterwards took his seat as head of the court, ar.d asked Mr. Thesiger, the "tubman," if he had anything to move. Mr. Thesiger moved that the fact of the Right Hon. Gentleman having taken the oath should be recorded, and that the Chan- cellor ordered should be done. The oath was admin- istered by Mr. Walton, the Queen's Remembrancer. A CLERGYMAN WITH Two CHURCHES.—Sir Robt. Phillimore gave judgment in the Court of Arches, on Saturday, in the case of the Bishop of Winchester v. the Rev. Lewis Bugg. The question was whether the defendant, having two churches in one benefice, could select the one in which he would perform Di- vine service, and close the other. He was incumbent of Ecchinswell, with Sydmonton, near Southampton. From one he received £60, and from the other £50 8s. 6d. He could not pay a curate, and for 12 months had only performed full services at Ecchinswell. There had been a misunderstanding between him and Mr. Kingsmill, the owner of the tithes of B700 a year, and the bishop, he said, had 900 acres of land in the parish, and there ought to be a sufficient en- dowment. The Dean of Arches went over the facts, and held that the defendant was bound to perform sorvices at both churches, as requested by the bishop. He admonished him as to his conduct, and condemned him in all the costs. GREY STRIFE CASTTE, CUMBERT AND, BURNED DOWN.—On Monday morning, Grey Stoke Castle, the seat of the Howards, Cumberland, was completely destroyed by fire. Grey Stoke, which is a noble castle in the Roman style of architecture, was rebnilt be- tween the years 1839 and 1846, and is a splendid man- sion, the seat of Henry Howard, Esq. The fre was discovered by Mrs. Howard, who about half past one o'clock observed a smell of burning. A message was dispatched to Penrith, fivp. miles distant, for fire en- gines, and they arrived within a hour and a half. By this time, however, the whole of the building was ia flames, and all hopes of saving the principal portions of the castle had vanished. The whole of the south wing of the castle was completely destroyed, inclu- ding the picture gallery, which contained a valuable collection. The portraits of the Dukes and Duchesses of Norfolk, which were treasured as valuable relics, were all destroyed, inclusive of a life-size oil paint- ing of "Jockey of Norfolk." A large number of large paintings of the Earls of Suffolk were also destroyed, and a portrait of Lord William Howard, better known as "Bilted Will," was also burned. Arare likeness, and one worth £ 2,000, of Mary Queen of Scots was, luckily, saved. The library was burned greatly, and many valuable works wasted. In short, all the valu- able portions of the castle were demolished. The fami- Iv were all at the castle except one son now atHarrow. How the fire originated cannot be discovered, the burning having first started in a room above the en- trance hall. The building is partially insured. LIJRD FTTZHARDINGE'S DEBT?.—In the Court of Common Pleas on Saturday, Lord Chief Justice Bovill and Mr. Justice BylcR, sitting in banco, had before them an application in the case of the Protector En- dowment Loan and Annuity Company v. Lord Fitz- hardinge. Mr. Archibald by way of an appeal from a decision of Mr. Baron Martin at chambers, moved for a rule calling upon the defendant to show cause why interrogatories should not be exhibited to him. The action was upon a bond to recover from the defend- ant £ 4,212, money lent to Colonel Hugh Bailey; and the bond had been executed by the defendant as surety for the Colonel. Ten months after the date of the bond, Lord Fitzhardinge exected a deed of arrange- ment with his creditors, and this deed was pleaded in answer to the action. To the deed plaintiffs replied that creditors were induced to execute it by misrepre- sentation, and also by concealment of facts by the de- fendant that without reckoning these persons there were not sufficient number of assents and that many of the debts were in respect of gaming and wagering upon horseraces. The composition proposed to be paid was 7s. 6d. in the pound. An epitome of the defendant's circumstances had been published, and it stated Lord Fitzhardinge's debts, secured and un- secured, amounted to upwards of f 600,000 and as to the expectations of the defendant, who was then Co'onel Berkeley, and it was stated that he had a reversionary interest, expectant upon the death of h's father, in estates, the gross rental of which was £06,000 a year, and the net rental about £ 44,000. These estates were referred to generally, and it was suggested by the plaintiffs there were other estates which were not included in the statement, and it was proposed to interrogate Lord Fitzhardinge as to this matter. It was proposed to interrogate him as to a large amount of debts which were said to be gaming and wagering debts. After the defendant executed his deed, Colonel Bailey also made an arrangement with his creditors, and Lord Fitzhardinge appeared in the statement as a creditor of the Colonel for £ 100,000. This did not appear in the epitome of Lord Fitzhar- dinge, and it was proposed to interrogate him as to it. The learned counsel stated that at the chambers Mr. Baron Martin said that Colonel Bailey had ruined Lord Fitzhardinge, and that money enough had been had from him, and he summarily dismissed the ap- plication.—Mr. Justice Ryles asked whether the pro- posed interrogatories did not go directly or indirectly to criminate Lord Fitzhardinge it looked. very like a suggestion of conspiracy with other persons. Mr. Archibald said that he should be very sorry to put it in that way.—The Lord Chief Justice suggested that the proper place to test the validity of the deed was the Court of Bankruptcy.—Mr. Archibald submitted that in this action the plaiutiffs were entitled to call for strict proof of the deed.—The Lord Chief Justice, after looking at the interrogatories, said that there was a good deal of doubt in reference to some of them, and the learned counsel had better just look through them and strike out such of them as he should think that this observation applied to. A rule nisi would be granted, but he must, ou showing cause, come prepared with authorities to saoport the view which he took.