The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

PRUSSIA. The Prussian Chamber of Deputies has just adopted, by a majority of 201 to 105, the bill for repealing the old usury laws. A letter states that the Chamber of Nobles will probably reject the bill. The nobles, as landowners, fear that it would cause a rise in the rate of interest, and render the borrowing of money on mort- gage more difficult. The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia arrived at Berlin at five o'clock in the morning of the 14th, and was re- ceived at the railway station by Prince Albert of Prussia. At ten o'clock all the princes of the royal family and the Duke of Saxe Coburg visited his Imperial Highness. The Grand Duke, after dining with the Regent, left at night for Stuttgart, on his way to Nice.

THE WAR WITH SPAIN AND MOROCCO Intelligence from the seat of war in Africa is down to the 13th inst. At the western ports of Barbary trade was carried on regularly, notwithstanding the pending war with Spam. At Mogadore and Mazagan the Moors were very quiet, and manifested no disposition to molest either the vessels that anchor in their ports or the crews and others who frequent the shore. At Tangier a force of about 15,006 men, chiefly mountaineers, were in occupation of the strong positions at the Fondik, determined to dispute the passage of the Spanish army. It was reported that the Spanish army had, on the 6th inst., encamped in force on the Tangier road at a short distance from Tetuan. General Echague, with eight battalions of his corps, had marched from the camp of Seralle and joined O'Donnell's forco outside the city of Tetuan. In the engagement of the 11th the Spanish troops were attacked by the Moors, who were in great numbers and well sheltered by the rocks on the road from Tetuan leading to Tangier. The fight continued for seven hours, when the Spanish remained masters of the positions, which were taken at the point of the bayonet. It was fully believed the Moors were on this occasion com- manded by a new Moorish chief who had never before Deen engug? m wr prmen? war. me loss of the Spaniards is reported to be upwards of 200 men hor:te combat; that of the Moors is believed to be much less, on account of the shelter the rocks afforded them. It was positively asserted amongst the officers at the head-quarters of the Spanish army that the Emperor of Morocco had sent an envoy to Marshal O'Donnell de- declaring that he would prosecute the war to the very last. It was also said that a grand attack was shortly expected to take place. > The Iloja Suelta, of Algesiras, gives the foUowing ac. count of the action of the llth inst On the 10th inst. the inhabitants of one of the small villages in the immediate vicinity of Tetuan petitioned the Commander-in-Chief to afford them protection against the robberies and depredations of certain Kabyles •who were prowling about that neighbourhood. The -who were '?.L. despatched General Eohague at the head of his division to render the assistance required, vnd these troops arrived in time to meet the enemy and repulse him after a slight skirmish, during which the Spaniards had a few wounded and the Moors many killed. Infuriated by this defeat, the Moors prepared to take revenge on the Spaniards on the 11th, by sur- prising the troops during the celebration of mass, nnd accordingly, while this ceremony was taking place at head-quarters, the Moors suddenly attacked two battalion) of Prim's division, stationed in au advanced position to check any att4ek that might be attempted. The Moors presented a force of 15,000 men-the greater part canlry-and it became necessary to bring up the Vat and second divisions, as also the divisions of the reserve, to bear against them. The action lasted for some hours, when, finally, the Moors were repulsed with great loss. Spal mention is made of the Spanish cavalry, which & said to have distinguished itself by cavalrbyr, illiant charges. The commander of the Albuera regiment of cavalry was taken prisoner by the Moors. The loss of the Spaniards in this affair is said to be 57 killed and 203 wounded; among the latter eight officers. The accounts in the Spanish papers published at Tetuan state that General Prim, who with his corps encamped on the most advanced post, left with two battalions and the Catalan volunteers for the purpose of making a reconnaissance. When about two miles from the camp the troops were harassed by the Moors belong- ing to a douar composed of from 70 to 80 huts. General Prim immediately rushed upon the;enemy, and a brisk fire was then kept up for about an hour and a half. The Spaniards took possession of the village, and, as the intabitants refused to surrender their dwellings were burnt down, and the troops continued their re- connaissance without further molestation. The Spaniards lost 14 wounded, and the Moors about 27." The Correspondence Autograft contains the follow- ing "As the Moors will only consent to pecuniary must be continued." the conditions of jeace, the m, ar must I SARDINIA. 'i The official act of the annexation of the ./fcmihaii pro- vinces to Sardinia took place on Sunday at Turin, when Signor Farini handed over to the King, in public =e,. the legal document, containing the returns of the votes by universal suffrage of the people of the .(Emilia; and the King, in receiving it, delivered a speech to the effect that he henceforward would feel proud to call the people of the Æmilia his people. The report that a delay would take place with regard to the annexation of the Romagna has, therefore, not been verified. On the contrary, King Victor Emmanuel took particular care distinctly to add that he accepted the offer made by the people of the Romagna likewise, without, however, failing in his devotedness to the Chief of the Church, to whose sovereignty he was ready tu pay homage, and to whose exchequer he Wa. ready to contribute. The King reserved the assent of his Parliament to the step taken by him, but this did not prevent the decree of annexation being published at once in the Official Gazette. It is expected that the an. nexation of Tuscany will follow in a few days. The city of Turin was enfete on Sunday evening, and so was Florence, where, on that day, the publication of the result of the Tote had been celebrated by a solemn re- ligious ceremony, the Archbishop himself intoning the "Te Deum." i TUSCANY. I A message of the government to the Assembly at Florence, on Tuesday, explains the political situation of the country, the past dangers, and the motives for the popular vote gives a historical outline of the acts of the government, and concludes by saying:—"The government has to convey the public vote to the King, and the assembly to declare its work accomplished." This message was received with applause. The president proposed the dissolution of the Assem- bly, and a vote of thanks to the government for having supported Italian unity. Signori Montanelli and Manquini spoke against the proposal of the President. The former accepts the result of the universal suffrage, but said that the As. sembly must already be looked upon as dead. The latter refused to vote the thanks of the Assembly to the government, who, he said, had not done all it could have done to accomplish the Union. Signor Panatoni energetically defended the government; and the Assem bly almost unanimously, and amid shouts of "Viva il li.è voted the proposal of the President. The Patrie of Tuesday says:—"50,000 men are about to be levied in Tuscany and 25,000 in the Emilian provinces, which will increase the Sardinian army to nearly 300,000 men. It is asserted that Piedmont will contract a loan of 160 millions of francs." SAVOY AND NICE. I Baron Grcffie, president of the Savoyard deputation, had a long interview with the Emperor Napoleon on Saturday. His Majesty asked a great many questions about Savoy. Preparations for taking possession are said to be going forward with the utmost activity. The Minister at War has appointed a commission to settle the mode in which the Savoy and Nice contingents are to be incorporated into the French army, and to enable the inhabitants of the annexed provinces to enjoy the benefits" (sic) of the French system of recruiting. The Avenir of [Nice publishes a scheme for a reor- ganisation of the French departments adjacent to the country of Nice. The city of Nice is to become the capital of a new deparment of the Ver, which will be divided into three arrondissements-those of Nice, Grasse, and Castellane, and will comprise 210,000 in- habitants. The present department of the Var, enlarged by the arrondissement of Digne as a compensation for Grasse, will take the name of Esterel or Verdon. Tho rest of the department of the Upper and Lower Alps (with the exception of the arrondissement of Forcalquier incorporated with Vaucluse) will become 11 the Depart- ment of the Alps," with five arrondissements and 176,000 inhabitants. THE PAPAL STATES. ROME, March 17.—The official Giornule di Roma, speaking of a demonstration which took place yester- day morning, says that the Pope, in proceeding to the Basilica of the Vatican, was met by an immense multi- tude of citizens of all classes united to pray with the common father of the faithful. Letters add that every- thing passed off quietly. The number of persons pre- sent was estimated at 5,000, and included many per- sons of note. No cry or opposition was heard. To-day, however, bills are scattered in the streets, headed "Viva Vittore Emmanuel." A project has been started for a counter manifestation on the 10th, the fete of Garibaldi. General Goyon has read a despatch to the troops, commending their attitude in the maintenance of public order. ROME, Tuesday.—The factions attempted yesterday to disturb the public peace, but government repressed every effort, and maintains perfect tranquility. Rome is now quiet. CENTRAL ITALY. The Opinione of Turin compares the number of votes expressed by Central Italy with the population as f)ows:- No. of inhab. Votes expressed. Tuscany 1,806,910 386,445 Zemilan provinces Parma, Modena, Le. gations 2,127,105 406,791 Totals 3,934,045 793,236 or upwards ol Jv per cent. 01 me population, so mat all those who had a right to vote have exercised it. It adds by way of comparison that theplebiscite for the empire in France comprised 8,475,952 votes out of a population of 35,781,628 inhabitants, or not quite 23 per cent. The Opinione, in its remarks on the late elections, states that no intrigue or fraud was neglected by the hostile parties to render the vote by universal suffrage abortive. Thus, a clique of gentlemen interested in the cause of the faUen princes, and, what is most singular, chiefly composed of foreigners, had a vast number of bulletins printed with the wordsUnion to the con stitutional anarchy," in the hope that, as the majority of the peasantry could not read, or, if they could, did not understand the difference between monarchy and anarchy, a large proportion of votes would be annulled. The Opinione adds that it knows the names of the authors of this ingenious device, but will not publish them because the matter is being judicially investigated by the Tuscan government. The Tuscan Monitort states that a first instalment of one and two franc pieces, with the effigy of King Victor Emmanuel, has been issued lby the mint of Florence, and that a large quantity of decimal copper money coined in England for Tuscany will soon be sent over. A letter from Turin of the 13th, in the Constitutionnel, says The meeting of the Sardianan Parliament will not, it is said, take place until tne ism pn.L. 6 intends, when the expression of the wishes of the wishes of the population of Romagna is made to him in a few days, to deliver a speech, in which he will declare that he postpones his acceptance for the present, adding that negotiations have been opened for the purpose of reconciling those wishes with respect for the rights of the Holy See. Unfortunately these negotiations will not, it is feared, lead to any result. The crisis will, therefore, be only poftponed for a few days. The Bus- sian Envoy at this Court has made some remonstrances to Count Cavour on the subject of popular sovereignty in general, and particularly with regard to Savoy. The departure of Prince de Curignan for Nice has been countermanded, although everything has been prepared for his journey, the object of which was to pay his respects to the Empress of Russia. The difference of opinion which is said to have arisen between the two Courts of St. Petersburgh and Turin, may perhaps be the cause of the journey being suspended. Perhaps also this act of courtesy which his Royal Highness was about t. pay to his Imperial Majesty, was considered as being inopportune, and not very pleasing to France, where it must be well known that the Russians, who reside in great numbers at Nice, have shown themselves as the warmest opponents to annexation to France. The annexation of Central Italy to Piedmont is every- where accepted with the greatest enthusiasm. This great event will be celebrated here by fetes of all kinds. 'fhere will be a grand representation at the Theatre Royal, at which the king will be present, accompanied by the members of the provisional governments, who will come to Turin for the purpose. At the end of the week his Majesty will, it is said, leave this capital and make a tour in the provinces which have voted for an- nexation. One of the first acts of the government, as soon as the annexation shall have been declared, will be to open a loan of 100 millions, one half of which will be negooiated abroad and the other subscribed for at home." RUSSIA. The following letter has been received from St. Petersburg, dated March 8 I have frequently spoken to you of the abnormal situation of the Russian empire with respect to her finances, the complete stagnation of trade—the general dearness of produce-the complete absence of gold and silver coin, and this situation, far from improving, is becoming worse every day. The dulness of trade is the principal cause of this financial crisis. It is calculated that silver coin to the amount of 175,000,000 roubles was exported between the 1st of January, 1854, and the 1st of January, 1860. The total amount of the gold and silver coin cu6ent at present in Russia does not ex- ceed 220,000,000 roubles. The paper money in circula- lation increased on the 1st January, 1859, to 735,000,000 roubles. The financial condition of the country is be- coming worse, in consequence of the continued stagna- tion in our foreign trade, which has been in a most de- plorable condition during the last three years. There is but one opinion among our effieisl financiers, and that is, that our Government must contract a foreign loan on any terms, but that the amount cannot be less than 400,000,000 roubles. The circulation of such a sum in the interior of the country exclusively can alone facili- tate the operations of the Minister of Finance, and re- lieve him from paying the interest of the national debt in gold. The Government is about to make an appeal to private speculators to work the gold mines disco- vered in the districts lately ceded by the Emperor of China to the Emperor of Russia. The Government will offer advantageous terms, not so much on account of the quantity of gold to be obtained as to encourage emigration to that fertile country, which is now a com- plete desert." AMERICA. The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Captain Leitch, which left Boston on the 7th instant, arrived in the Mersey on Monday evening. In the United States Senate, Mr. Sumner had intro- duced a resolution calling for copies of all correspon- dence relative to maritime law and neutral rights which may have passed between the American and any foreign government since the Congress of Paris. ° The House of Representatives had electedthe Rev. Thos. H. Stockton, of Philadelphia, as their chaplain; and they had passed a bill reducing the mileage of mem. bers of Congress. A resolution was adopted providing for a committee to investigate charges heretofore made against the President of an attempt to bribe certain members of the house. The Senate of Virginia rejected the minority report favouring a southern conference, and agreed to the majority report, which is adverse to such a conference, There is nothing of moment relative to the wreck of the Hungarian. The mails which were saved had arrived at Halifax, but they were in such a condition as to be wholly useless. The goods saved from the steamer and the wreck itself were to be sold at Barring- ton, Nova Scotia, on the 14th inst. From British Columbia we have advices of a new transgression of boundary lines by a detachment of the American army. A squad of men had gone to Langley, and seizing a couple of prisoners, had carried them off into Washington territory. Much excitement on the sub*e Ct existed at Victoria. Sandwich Island advices to 28 state that the Russian fleet la:ateddc: Cronstadt via Valparaiso. INDIA. Mr. Wilson made his financial statement on the 18th of February. The deficit is about nine millions. He proposes a trade license of from 2s. to 20s. yearly; a tax upon incomes of from 240 to 600 at 2 per cent., and above that at 4 per cent., with no exemptions. A large duty upon tobacco. The tariff is to be modified. There will be no loan. The Bengal Hurkaru, of the 8th ult., contains the fol- lowing items of intelligence in addition to other matters that have been before published :— A memorial of the non official members of the Luck. now garrison has been presented to the Governor- General, praying that compensation in full be granted them for the losses they have sustained during the recent mutinies. Considering their heroic conduct on the oc, casion, and the rewards lavished upon native princes and chieftains for their loyalty to Government, we deem the claim of the petitioners just, and it is to be hoped that it will be conceded by the Viceroy." In the Legislative Council an attempt by Mr. Sconce to introduce the Black A ct has proved un.uccess{ul. In consequence of the alleged outrages upon natives by certain indigo planters and Europeans connected with the Bengal Company, the member for Bengal proposed that a Bill of a temporary nature be passed for their suppression, by making British subjects amenable to Mofussil Courts in criminal matters. The'Oude Gazettdstates that tidings have been received at head-quarters of' a feeling of discontent still linger- ing on the minds of the remnant of the late Company's European troops, especially the artillery.' Several of them have been discovered carrying on a correspondence, urging each to claim the bounty. We trust that this information will prove unfounded." CHINA AND JAPAN. We have advices from Hong Kong to January 30, and Shanghai, January 21. In connection with Hong Kong the only matter of importance is a trial which was going on before the Magistrate's Court, and which forcibly illustrate the present unsettled state of our relations with the Chinese empire. A sort of clan fight had been going on for a long time in some villages to the west of Macao, between the Hakkas and Punctis Tam Achoy. One of the latter is a noted resident of Hong Kong, and he took it into his head to charter a steamer flying the British flag, and to engage a number of European sailors, Manilla men, and Portuguese, to attack the Hakkas, under the allega- tion that they were pirates. His party were repulsed and three of the Europeans with a number of the others were killed. He intended to organise a larger expedition, but fortunately the Hong Kong Government got intelli- gence of it, and Tam Achoy, with the captain of the steamer and the men who had engaged in fighting, were arrested and brought to trial for violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act. The intelligence from Japan is of a rather disastrous nature, On the 26th of December a destructive fire took place at Nagasaki, destroying the premises oc- cupied by Messrs. Walsh and Co., Messrs. David, Sassoon, and Co., and Ta-foong (a large Chinese mer- chant), whose losses amount to nearly 40,000 dollars, 100,000 dollars, and 25,000 dollars respectively. The fire originated in an empty Japanese dwelling, and is supposed to be the work of an incendiary, the punish. ment for which is, according to Japanese law, to be burnt alive. The foreigners at that port were or- ganising themselves into a fire brigade. A fire also broke out at Yokuhama on the 3rd of January, destroy ing nearlv all the foreign housas. It only lasted a few minutes, and the cause was unknown. The North China Herald also contains reports of the loss of the Nymph on the 17th of December, Cornelia L. Bevan, and Lady Inglis, in the neighbourhood of Simoda. Captain Price arrived at Kanagawa in a Japanese junk on the 31st of December. A passenger named Carl and three men were drowned, and the mate has died since. The treasure had been saved. The crew of the Lady Inglis had also been saved, but the crew of the Cornelia L. Bevan had not been heard of when the Moneka (which brought the news to Shanghai) left.

1- JttiSKlIaiuous Jforetgn lttms. The Duke of Magenta (Marshal M'Mahon) is ap. pointed to command the Chalons camp, which, accord. ing to some reports, will be augmented to the strength of 100,000 men. Mr. Keitt, brother to the member of Congress for South Carolina, has been murdered by some of his negroes, who almost severed his head from his body. He was at the time confined to his bed by illness. Forty-one French paper-makers have addressed a petition to the Emperor, praying him not to remove the prohibition against the exportation of rags from France. The Vienna police have only recovered 70,008 florins among the assets of Baron Von Eynatten, being but a small fraction of his plunderings. His son got off, via Hamburg, to the far west. THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE -After 17 years, the com- missioners appointed to compile a Dutch and Javanese dictionary have finished the first five letters of the Javanese alphabet-w, so fjo, ro, and ko. The expense at this rate will amount to 816,000 florins (nearly 7,0001.) ILLNESS OF THE SHAH OF PERSIA.-Alarming ac- counts have just been received of the health of his Ma- jesty the Shah of Persia. Grave events may depend upon the issue. Mr. Doria, late charge d'afaires at the eou: t of Teheran, has arrived in London on sick leave. Mr. Doria left Teheran on December the 18th, and was delayed on his journey byillaess, It is stated that the export duty upon rags which the Emperor Napoleon proposes to substitute for the abso- lute prohibition hitherto in force will amount to about 100 per cent. on the price ofcommon rags, and 60 per cent. on the price of the best quality. HONEST, HONEST IAOO !"—The Moniteur, in the re- port of the Parliamentary debate of Thursday night, suppressed the passage of Lord Palmerston's speech in which he expressed a hope that the annexation of Savoy to France might after all not take place. A CONDITIONAL CHEER.—When one of the many de- tachments was parading and cheering in the Piazza Maggiore of Bologna, a lady raised the cry of Evoiea ,?,Wleone lll''adding, "■ bal/a clu 8M galantuomo," the LI ,,ti o, iof which would sound, "provided he behaves like a gentleman." The success of this cheer was im- mense; indeed, so great that it spread all over the town and was repeated hundred-fold. — Letter from Bologna. THE ROYAL CIIARTER.-Owing to the submarine telegraph cable across Bass's Straits being out of repair when the news of the loss of the Royal Charter reached Melbourne, only the simple statement of the catastrophe could be communicated to Hobart Town. The anxiety to know more particulars in that place was intense. One inhabitant there had 11 relatives and intimate friends lost in the ill-fated vessel. A SERVANT OP THE OLD CLASS.—At the town-ship of Hall, in the Tyrol, there lately died a servant who may be considered a type of her class as it existsd in the good old time of yore. A native of Kufstein, she entered the service of a tradesman at Hall in her twelfth year, continued in the same place and in the same family till her ninety-second year, and then died, leaving her savings to the widow of her master. The name of this paragon of fidelity and attachment was Mary Mayon. M;Thefour Archbishops of Florence, Sienna, Lucca, and Pisa are wroth at the restoration of the old Leopol- dine laws in Tuscany, vice ttye late concordat, annulled. In sending forth a protest the Pisa prelate signs himself 1, Primate of the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia"—this looks like a bold territorial invasion of both France and Piedmont respectively, if not respectfully. The first journal ever published in Morocco has just appeared. It is printed at Tetuan, in the Spanish lan- guage, and is distributed gratuitously. It bears the name of the Echo of Tetuan. It gives a favourable ac- count of the mode of living at Tetuan. The Moors, who are naturally generous, give up their rooms and furniture to the Spaniards, treating them as visitors and allies. The town is very animated, and will, it is expected, soon become a place of some importance. One of the performers in the horrid tragedies of the Robespierre period has just met a dismal end at the age of 7. A vagrant and begger for the last?40 years, Lazaretz, better known as Tablitz Le Barbu, sought and got shelter this week at the fireside of a peasant in the hamlet of St. Symphoricn, near Lyons. Left alone, he was struck with epilepsy, and fell headlong into the brasier. He had been factotum to the miscreant Carrier, in executing the famous Noyades at Nantes, when hun- dreds of Bretons were plunged into the Loire in batches and handcuffed. SALE OF ARTICLES OF VERTU IN PARIS.—At a sale of objects of art forming the collection of M. Norzy, an ex-stockbroker, which is now going on, the following prices were given: -Ariptyque in Limoge enamel, 12,000f. two Bacchantes, of Clodin, in terra cotta, 12,600f. (said to have been purchased by the Emperor) a statuette by the same, 8,750f.; a group in Florentine bronze, representing Hercules strangling Antseus, 1,605£.; a group in white marble, representingDaphnis and Chloe, by P. Geyrard, 1,860f. a small female statuette in white marble, style of Roucher, 1,520f. the group of the Laocoon (very small), 2,250f. The Presse says of the pretty notion which forms part of the fable that the Pope was to be guarded by a Neapolitan army of 15,000 (or, as some have said 50,000) .1.?;?-l' The question is whether the Neapolitan go- vernment is at this moment in a position to take care of others." The fact is that both the Roman States and the Two Sicilies would shake off their bad governments and raise the standard of Victor Emmanuel in less than a month if the French armies were to leave Italy. But there is no such luck in store for them. GOOD TESTIMONY TO CHARACTER.—There are hus- bands who can do justice to the qualities of their wives under any circumstances. A Belgian journal furnishes an example. A woman was lately accused of poisoning, and was on the point of being condemned, when she entreated that her husband should be called to speak to character. The request was granted, and the husband testified, with superb frankness, that the best proof of the innocence of his wife was still being alive. I am persuaded," he said, that if my wife had the slightest inclination for poisoning, she would have begun with me, for she has detested me most cordially for the last ten years." This evidence threw the jury into a roar of laughter, and produced the acquittal of the woman. FANCIES OF SCIIAMTL.—The Saint Petersburg Gazette publishes a number of details relative to Schamyl; and among others are the following :_11 He frankly avows his sympathies. lie is very fond of music, and when he visits Kalonga he always requests to have the piano played to him. When M. Rounvoskii had an organ purchased for him, he evinced the greatest delight. A sleight of hand exhibition, at which the conjuror trans- formed a piece of money wrapped in a handkerchief and held in the hand of his ex-treasurer Khadjio, so amused him, that the remembrance of the trick, as he afterwards declared, disturbed his thoughts even when at prayers. Schamyl, however, who saw the conjuror afterwards performing a trick with a box which he (Schamyl) de- tected to have a double bottom, declared that if he had seen the man at Vedene, he should have hanged him. A small crab-fish, which the Imam saw for the first time at Kalonga, excited his aversion. He at first took it to his hand, and examined it attentively; but when the fish siezed him by the finger with one of his claws, Schamyl threw it on the ground. On observing the way in which it crawled backward, he was quite indig- nant, and giving it a kick, told Khadjio to put it out of the room, I I never saw so disagreeable an animal,' he said, I and if ever I had to represent the deviljit should be under that form." THE PORTER AND HIS UMBRELLA.—An old concierge, of the name of Bruet, appeared the other day before the Paris Tribunal of Correctional Police to complain of a young man named Ruot, for having robbed him, I inherited," he said, some years back from an aunt a large red cotton umbrella, with a black handle. One rainy day, eighteen months ago, when I was carrying it, I met a friend who took me into a public-house to treat me to a glass of wine, and there my umbrella dis- appeared I searched for it everywhere, even beneath the blouse of my friend, where it might have got by mistake, but in spite of my inquiries in all directions I could hear nothing of it. At length, on the 18th of last month, I met this young man swaggering along the Rue St. Honor6 with my umbrella in his hand"How do you know it was yours?" asked the President. "By colours, the handle, the whalebone, the shape,—every- thing 1 The umbrella has not its like in the world, and I could recognise it a mile off among ten thousand!" One umbrella very much resembles another," said the President, and considering the time that has elapsed since you lost yours, it is probable that you are mis- taken!" II Mistaken about my umbrella! Impossible 1" II The young man says that he bought it three months ago, and as we have ascertained that he is of good cha- racter, we are disposed to believe him." Here the old concierge broke out into violent abuse of the young man, but the tribunal put an end to the scene by dismissing the complaint as unfounded. FEABPOL MtJRDER NEAR COBLEHTZ.—A frightful murder has just been committed in the little town of Ehrenbrietstein, at the foot of the celebrated fortress. The victim was a well-to-do tavern-keeper, named Meder, who was conspicuous at the Coblentz Carnival of Shrove Tuesday. On the Thursday night following he was brutally murdered while asleep in his bed, with his wife and child, the occupants of another bed in the same apartment. His head was literally smashed to pieces with the repeated blows of an axe found lying at the foot of the bed. About three o'clock, some hours after the commission of the deed, a servant, who slept in a room above, was attracted by the cries of his mis- tress, who was found tied hand and foot behind the door of the room. She declared that about 11 o'clock two men suddenlv entered the apartment, and at once proceeded to their bloody business- one striking her sleeping husband a succession of blows, the lut of which must have been instantly fatal, his companion at the same time threatening her with a similar fate if she made the slightest noise or resistance. She was then gagged and bound. The men then proceeded to rob a secretaire in the adjoining apartment of nearly 200 thalers, and then decamped. For a time no guess could be made as to who were the murderers. At length suspicion fell upon those nearer home. At a respectable school in Coblentz was a teacher named Keller, a well- educated man, of prepossessing manners and person, but of loose morals. It was whispered he carried on a licentious intercourse with the wife of Meder, a young and attractive woman. On the day preceding t' ie murder, but after the termination of the Carnival, he hired a beard and blouse. The former he returned on the following day, but the blouse has not been forth- coming, and the account he gives of it is highly unsatis- factory j but suspicion is not confined to him. His paramour, the wife of the murdered man, is deeply im- plicated, and it is suggested she herself assisted to rifle the secretaire, and then submitted to be bound, in order te give an appearance of her being rather a victim than an accomplice in the deed. However, Keller is in prison, and the woman under strict surveillance. The prisoner will be tried in July at Neuwied.

&iotlan&. Mr. and Mrs. Kean appeared at the Theatre Royal, Dundee, on Wednesday night, in Hamlet. EARTHauAKK.-About eight o'clock on Tuesday morning a slight shock ofearthquakewMfeltiA the valley of Upper Strathem. The tremor of the earth was slight, but, as usual, the shock was accom- panied with a loud, rumbling noise, resembling that of distant thunder, and came from the south-west- and proceeded to the north-east. The sky was dark and lowering at the time of the earthquake, and many Of the inhabitants imagined thenoise was thunder.-Scols- osan. MYSTERIOUS DEATH.-On Friday morning a young man, named William Biggar, was found dead in bed in his lodging at 22, Crown street, Glasgow. Deceased resided in a house kept by two sisters named Calder, dressmakers, and they state that Biggar had gone to bed in good health on the previous night, and that they slept in an adjoining room. Dr. Rankine was called in, and on examining the body found upon it several marks of violence, but in the meantime the cause of death has not been ascertained. The case has been reported to the fiscal, and no doubt a thorough in- vestigation will be made to remove the mystery that now hangs over it. It was rumoured that the deceased was shortly to be married to one of the sisters with whom he lived.-North British Daily Mail. THE CASE OF THE BISHOP OF BRECHIN.-A Synod of the Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church was held at Edinburgh, to give judgment in the case of the Bishop of Brechin. The episcopal judges present were, the Bishop of Edinburgh, primus, and the Bishops of Moray, St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Glasgow. The Bishop of Brechin was accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Keble and other gentlemen. The" presentment" or charge against the Bishop of Brechin was his having taught in a primary charge delivered to his clergy in in August, 1857, 1st, that the sacrifice of the Eucharist is incidental with the sacrifice of the Cross; 2nd, that adoration is due to Christ, as in or under the conse- crated elements of blood and wine; and 3rd, that there is a reception of Christ by the wicked; and by said teaching'he was charged with depraving the articles of ?,e was charged with depr a; 6e, and other for- religion, the Scotch communion-office, and other tor. inularies of the church. The bishops gave their opinions at great length, and concluded as follows: We shall best discharge our duty in this painful case by limiting our sentence to a declaration of censure and admonition; and we do now soemnly admonish, and in all brotherly love entreat, the Bishop of Brechin to be more careful i:rVhfu so that no fresh occasion may be given for trouble and offence, such as has arisen from the delivery and publication of the primary charge to his clergy complained of in the pre- sentment.

ittlanb. Mr. James B. Stephens, a well-known and re- spected professor of music iu Cork, has died within the last week. Mr. Stephens was over 50 years organist of the cathedral of St. Finbars, in that city. He was much regarded and esteemed by a numerous body of friends and pupils. The on dit is that a cheque has been given by some. body to pay the expenses of the Cork contest, Lady Campden having declared that if it was not done she would sell her jewels and pay them herself. The Pope has supplied Dr. Cullen with a receipt for the third sum of one thousand pounds sent to him from Ireland. He says in a letter to his legate:—" It is our wish that you should return, in our name, and in the warmest terms, our sincere thanks to your faithful clergy and people for the third sum of a thousand pounds which they have offered to me through you. You may rest assured that our attachment to you, your clerg3,, and people is of the warmest kind, and, as a most certain pledge thereof, we grant you, venerable brother, and the flock committed to your care, our apostolic benediction, from our inmost heart, and with our best wishes for your true happiness. HONOUR TO SIR t¿e r¡'tte:One of the largest meetings of the members of the Royal Dublin Society that has been held for many years, took place on Thursday week in the theatre of that institution, to do honour to Captain Sir Leopold M'Clintock. The Lord Lieutenant was in attendance, and all the leading men in Dublin assembled to testify their respect for the heroic Irishman. A suitable address was presented'to the gallant discoverer, and nothing could well be more flattering than his reception by the crowded meeting. Amono those present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord GouCYh, the Marquis of Kildare, the Lord Justice of Appeal, the Dean of St Patrick's, Ulster King-at- Arms, Professor Haughton, &c. AN EXPRESS TRAIN CAPSIZED.—On Friday morning an accident, resulting from the negligence of James Hamill, a pointsmen on the Belfast Junction Railway, occurred to the 8.30 a.m. or express train from Belfast, at the Goragh ballast pit, Hamill had in the morning reversed the switches" so as to allow the goods train to pass down, and when leaving for his breakfast had negligently omitted to re-adjust the" points," and the consequence was that the express train was turned off the rails. The carriages were capsized, and con- siderable damage done to the company's property, but none of the passengers sustained any personal injury. The accident delayed the express for about a qaurter of an hour. Hamill was brought up at the police office on the charge of having neglected to attend to his duty, and remanded until next Friday.LYewry Telegraph. ST. PATRICK'S DAY AT THE CASTLE.—The customary popular proceedings in connection with St. Patrick's Day, took place on Saturday afternoon. The scene at thisjunctnre was exceedingly animated and inspiriting, despite the gloomy weather which prevailed; and the assemblage, moved by the occasion, indulged their feel. ings in repeated bursts of cheering, which reached their climax when his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant came out on the balcony, attended by several members of the household. The accessory proceedings then commenced, by the cavalry bands playing" God save the Queen," by the cavalry bands playi1n1 atricks' Day, an d then which was followed by "Patricks' Day," and then there was an enthusiastic cheering for the Viceroy, who lifted) his hat repeatedly in acknowledgment of the complimcnt, and, in doingo so, elicited, if possible, still louder applause. The bands played a succession of national and popular airs, and a number of warm. hearted individuals performed a series of grotesque dances before the balcony, in view of, and apparently for the special amusement of, his Excellency and party, who seemed to enjoy the fun caused by this proceeding, equally with all others who were privileged to witness it.—Freeman's Journal. WRETCHED END OF A "FAST" YOUNG MAN.—A couple of years ago we chronicled with pleasure the appointment of a young Enniskillener, the son of highly respectable and much esteemed parents, to an en. signcy in one of her Majesty's regiments; falling into "fast" life, ere alear, we think not more, had elapsed, he was cashiered. He was then sent to a foreign country, where it was thought a professional acquaint- ance of his father would be able to procure him em- ployment; his stay abroad was very brief. Having returned to England his first act was to enlist as a gun- ner in the Royal Artillery. In vain were applications made at the Horse Guards to purchase his discharge. At the instance of a mother's unceasing solicitude for the welfare of her prodigal son, a few weeks ago he ob. tained a furlongh, and proceeded to visit a brother holding a commission in a militia regiment, when probably stung by remorse, upon contrasting his own degraded position with the respectable one in which his younger brother moved, he broke from the latter on Thursday last, when his leave was nearly expired, jumped over a parapet wall into the sea at Liverpool, and has been lost to sight for ever, as his remains can- not be recovered. The mental agony of the unfortunate youth's unhappy parents can be better fancied than de. scribed-Fermanagh Mail.

SELLING AND HAWKING GOODS ON SUNDAY.-A bill to emend the laws relating to the selling and hawking of goods on Sunday within the metropolitan police district and City of London and liberties thereof, brought into the House of Lords by Lord Chelmsford, has been printed. It inflicts penalties for selling, offering, and exposing goods for sale, and for delivering meat, fish, and poultry; and gives power to police constables to seize goods hawked or exposed for ssle in certain cases. Servants are saved from the operation of the Act. The provisions of the Act are not to apply to the selling, offering, or exposing for sale of any medicine, drug, or other article for medici- nal purposes; uor to the selling, offering, or exposing for eale, without public cry, of any meat, fish, or poultry be- fore the hour of nine o'clock in the morning; nor to the selling, offering, or exposing for sale, or hawking or cry- ing any milk or cream, before the hour of ten o'clook in the morning, or after the hour of one o'clock in the after- noon; nor to the selling, offering, or exposing for sale, without public cry, of any fruit or pastry, or of any be- verage which may by law be ordinarily sold without lieence, before the hour of ten o'clock in the morning and after the hoar of one o'clock in the afternoon; nor to the selling, offering, or exposing for sale, without public cry, of any periodical publication before he hour of ten o'clock in the morning and after the hour of one o'clock in the afternoon; nor to the exercise of the ordinary and lawful business of a cook-shop, coffeehouse, or ealinghouse keeper before the hour of ten o'clock in the morning or after one o'clock in the afternoon; nor to the exercise of the ordinary and lawful bisiness of a baker, licensed vic- tualler, or keeper of any inn, tavern, hotel, public house, or other house licensed for the sale of beer or of excisable liquors.

I FURTHER CHINA CORRESPONDENCE. Further correspondence with Mr. Bruce, consisting of some half dozen papers, was issued on Monday. On December 5th Mr. Bruce writes from Shanghae to Lord J. Russell:— I have the honourto acknowledge the receipt of your lordship's despatch of the 29th September, and to ex- press my grateful sense of your lordship's kindness in conveying to me the expression of the continued confi- dence of her Majesty's Government. I feel assured that the ultimate decision on the course I have pursued will be pronounced on a deliberate con- sideration of all the circumstances of the case; and I have only to ask that, if the result be to diminish that confidence, I may be recalled: for no one can act with the boldness required in this distant region unless he feels that he has comprehended aright the broad features of the policy her Majesty's Government wishes to be carried out. Emefgencies are of constant occurrence, and must be met without hesitation or delay. It may be very difficult to justify in England the course adopted, but I have no doubt that it met with the approbation of those Chinese who are enlightened enough to know that the true policy of China is to con- ciliate, by a seasonable surrender of her prej udices, that foreign element which she can no longer hope to repel by force, and that they regret at heart our want of suc- cess. Had the execution of the treaty been confided to those hostile to its very principles, the records of our past intercourse are open to show that the contest would have only been deferred to later, and probably a more inconvenient period. It is not unimportant to observe that the foreign re- presentatives with whom I was acting agreed to the im- portance I attached to ascending the river to Tien-tsin underourown flags; and that they were willing, in order to attain that object without an' act of war, to take advantage of the absence of any prohibition to use this, the high road to Pekin, in accordance with former precedents. I do not enter into the question of treaty right. I was not going up under the new treaty, as it is not in operation, and under the old treaty I had no right to go to Pekin at all. Considering that last year we were at Tien-tsin, that the right to proceed to Pekin and see the Emperor on performance of the foreign ceremonial was then recognised, though, in order to avoid what might appear a humiliation of the Emperor, its exercise was, at his own request, deferred, and that every subse- quent step on our part had been in the path cf concilia- tion, the Governments of England and France had a right to expect from their Ministers an honourable and I friendly reception. I am convinced that the closing of the river in our faces was an unequivocal indication to the contrary, and that it would have been a capital mis. take to have submitted to this exclusion. The other letters refer to a request sent by Mr. Bruce to Governor Ho, at Swatow, that as American vessels, under the treaty with that nation, were charged dues at the rate of only four mace the ton, British vessels should be placed on the same footing, in accordance with the supplementary treaty of 1843. He returns a polite answer, and procures the Emperor's assent to the re- duction claimed, which accordingly takes effect. At the date of the last despatch Mr. Bruce, who had re- ceived his own instructions, was waiting till instructions should be received by M. Bourboulon, the French pleni- potentiary, so that they might forward their demands on the Imperial Government to Pekin simultaneously. In one of his letters Mr. Bruce says, "We learn of con- tinuous preparations in the north to resist, and that the Peiho is strongly fortified."

A SHIP'S CREW POISONED. About a fortnight ago, the Prussian brig Henrich Gustav, of Wolgast, C. H. Bchrndt, master, arrived at Ramsay, Isle of Man, from Buenos Ayres, with a cargo of bones and animal charcoal. The voyage had been protracted by a continuance of exceedingly bad weather. Ramsay harbour has for some time past been utterly neg- lected if not totally abandoned by the commissioners. The HenriehGnstav, in hauling up to Mr. Gibson's wharf, got across one of the banks, and as she had no support ia her centre, sand banks being fore and aft with the river under her centre, she strained, fell off, an-1 became a total wreck. During the high spring tides the watr Bowed. over her deck, and it became necessary to remove all her stores on shore, where the captain and crew, consisting of eight individuals, were also berthed. On Friday night it became known that the captain's son, a fine promising young man, had just died of lockjaw, attended by cramp and violent pain in the stomach, and that the other portion of the crew were in a very dangerous state, notwithstand- ing the utmost exertions of the medical men in attend- ance and before morning three of them had died. On Saturday morning a coroner's inquest wis held on the bodies of Cjrl Grahl, aged 24 Carl Kennies, aged 28 and Carl Behrndt (the captain's son), aged 17. The jury was summoned by Mr. T. Looney, coroner of Glfff, and sworn and presided over by W. W. Christian, Esq coroner-general of the Isle of Man. F. Tcllett, Esq., high bailiff of Ramsay; Wm. Callister, Esq., chairman of the justices, and a number of medical gentlemen attended ) The captain deposed that about two years ago he pur- chased the brig, in connection with the other owners, at Hamburg, and that the can of poison now produced was then on board as part of the stores. He arrived at Ramsay about twelve or fourteen days ago, sold bis cargo, and had afterwards got his vessel wrecked. The can produced was taken ashore along with an earthenware jar which con- tained arrowroot and other articles. The arrowroot in the jar bad got exhausted, and the cook and men, be- lieving that the article in the can was arrowroot, supplied out of it what they were short for cooking supper. It was mixed with molasses, and spiced with a little cinnamon. After tbj men were taken ill he tasted a little off the point of his finger, and he yet felt the effects of it in his breast. He was engaged elsewhere at the time, and thus he did not eat any of it, but his son took more than the others. Augustas Bulow, mate of the brig, said that on going to get his supper he was to:d by one of the men to taste it first, as he bad felt a burning sensation in his throat after taking a few spoonfuls. He on!y took about one spoonful. The captain's son took half a soup-plateful. He assisted the men up stairs after they were taken ill. Medical men were soon in attendance. He was himself very ill with pain in the stomach, &c. He was mate from February last, when the former mate was put ashore at Ramsgate. That mate had told the captain's son that there was some arrowroot in a tin on board. The tin was not kept with the provisions; it was in the port-hole, but after the vessel was wrecked it was put with the provisions, as they be. lieved it to be arrowroot. It had been lying on board for the last two years with the lid loose, and without any label. W. Steikmann—Had .been cook only when ashore after the wreck of the vessel. He had prepared the supper 011 the previous evening, and had also partaken of it himself. (This witness was too weak to stand, and was handed a chair. He appeared to be suffering severely, and the medical gentleman said that he was yet in danger). He was the first that was taken ill, but had not taken so much as the others. The captain's son htd brought the tin containing the ingredient to him, as he had not enough to make the supper; he added four tablespooufuls of the stuff in the tin box or can to what arrowroot he bad in the j when boiled he mixed it up with the molasses, and dded a little cinnamon. The tin box or can was here examined and contained about Hlbs. of arsenic, having evidently at first contained about 28lbs. The do. ponent had only tasted as it was cooking to ascertain if it was properly done. Mr. R. E. Craine, surgeon, had seen the men when iU and the remedies applied, which were for arsenical poison- ing. He believed that their deaths arcse from taking arsenic into the'r stomachs. The death of the captain's son was the most rapid he had heard of, as only 20 minutes transpired between sitting down to his supper and his death. The jory at once gave in their verdict in accordance with the evidence, that Carl Grahl, Carl Kennies, and Carl Behrndt died from taking poison into their stomachs, which had been used in mistake for arrow- root, and no person had wilfully been accessory to their death.

CASUALTIES AT SBA,-A very flivourable ooutrast with the present severe losses among shipping will be found recorded in a little return of "Transport Services during 1854, 1855, and 1856," not before published, by which it appears that 666,136 men, women, and obildren were conveyed in her Majesty's ships of war, hired transports, and freight ships, without the loss of a single life, and that in conveying 80,062 horses and mulss the loss did not amount to 2 per cent. This return also shows that the Transport Board- Captaiu Craigie, R.N., Major Robertson, and Mr, Drew, of the mercantile marine, ap- pointed by Sir James Graham for this service-not only protected the lives of those entrusted to them, but by care and energy effected a saving of JEI,089,540 per annum, of which 9697,720 arose from a decrease of shipping em- ployed, and ?482,820 by gradual reduction of freightage. It Mem. that whereas at the end of 1854 and early in 1855 large steamers were engaged at from 50s. to 5?., and sailing "eesels at 20s. to 32s. per ton monthly, ia January, 1856; the rate paid for large steamers W03 oaty ?n? ? ?4\ 0! small, 30s. to 328. 61./ and sailing vessels 15s. to 18s. per month. A saving of between ?60,000 and ?70,000 per month was also effected by a provisional arrangement with the owners of certain large transports the services of which were not immediately required.