Monmouthshire Merlin

F SONG. my love has an eye of the softest blue, *et it is not that that won me; LT M little bright drop from her soul was there— | TIS that that has undone me. J "IGHT have passed that lovely cheek, J ^OR, perchance, my soul have left me. M 11BE sensitive blush that came trembling there, *L i FT iny heart it for ever bereft me. I IF bight have forgotten that red, red lip— I fet how from the thought to sever T I t there was a smile from the sunshine wi » I ^ND that smile I'll remember for ever. f ink not 'tis nothing but lifeless clay, |' I The elegant form that haunts me—- »I m the gracefully delicate mind, that move I, IN every Btep, that enchants me. j me not hear the nightingale sing, { .Though I once in its notes delighted HE feeling and mind that comes whispering forth Has left me no music beside it. .\7110 could blame had I loved that face, >^RE my eye could twice explore her ? 'ET IT IS FOR the fairy intelligence there. AND her warm, warm heart, I adore her. -Rev. (J. Wolfl.

Jittralnrt. 5 ^wWj^Srother.rUcK. 4 one embracing some particulars of various ^tes who have officiated in the parish of Little f ddlebrigham, Devon. We extract a portion relating A ithe j[lev. Decimus Green":— I THE Rev. Decimus Green had but ona fault. Ho |F FA obstinate as a pig, as a jackass, as a man with a I JENTIFIE theory: in fact, despite his modesty, no man JI NO did not know him could tell how obstinate Decimus L| fleen WAS. Last summer our town became so fashion- I K, THAT its ordinary accommodations proved insum- FOR ITS throng of visitors. The gentlemen, tnere- ». gave up the use of our half-dozen bathing machines HR<*ly to the ladies, while they themselves migrated j » A neighbouring bay, taking their own towels with and keeping their sixpences in their pockets; 0N8 them, of course, was the Rev. Decimus Green. i iIIg somewhat delicate, and having a good deal of Oor work to do, he had lately possessed himself of a lie, in which he took much pride and pleasure. It » handsome, well-bred mare, but exceedingly selt- LED; and our curate, although a tolerable rider, was quite the man to subdue her. She was somewhat 13er IN the lees, and salt-water had been recommended THEM daily by the equine faculty. You may bring ORSE to water,' says the proverb, 4 but you can t him drinkand you may bring one to the sea- without getting it into the sea. Mr. Green S man been THROWN in pretty deep places mere than once aud had given it as his opinion that he was *ged to be a groom and nottoie a merman, Ihe he said was quite unmanageable in the water; course, ..id sbe w» Bolting of the 1- To prove this, moreover, he determined to nde orse to water,' says the proverb, 'but you can't ? him drink;' and you may bring one to the sea- ch without getting it into the sea. Mr. Green's man been thrown in pretty deep places mcre than once edy. and had given it as his opinion that he was aged to be a groom and nottoie a merman, The le, he said was quite unmanageable in the water; course, said she was nothing of the l. To prove this, moreover, he determined to ride marc in himself. She was to be brought to him FT LE he was bathing, which was not very early in the II ^ING; AND then, whether he stuck on her or not in H sea, it would be but of little consequence. Myself {I several other fuends were present upon the first P »sion, curious to see whether the trial or the curate IP LID come off. TBE animal was led willingly enough J! IHE sands, and suffered her master—who, however, J, to Bwim in and land for that PURPOSE—to mount her LL! "esistinglv but her complaisance extended no further, T W with her fore-feet planted resolutely 0N the beach, » protested with ber hind legs against moving sea- it .do and now rampant upon these hind-legs, she spar- < furiously at the ocean with her remaining two; but I ii Rev. Decimus Green sat her like a centaur, or as if l ad been fastened Mazeppawise with cord or cobbler's At length, putting her head right for the .WAVES ;led out lor THE groom to give her the whip t LU was obeyed by a most tremendous cut with a LIL';ig-thonff. Griselda—that was the docile creature S —gave one terrific bound into the air, turned short 0L»t almost before she touched ground again, and 'w:' with the unfortunate unclothed Decimus upon her, 0L»t almost before she touched ground again, and with the unfortunate unclothed Decimus upon her, Faight back for her stable in the High-street. Ihe J fellow had no time to throw himself off past the RAch where the ladies were sitting and knitting; by J .*8 post-office, where the mail bad just came in, and the TQWD were inquiring for letters; through the little FLLARE, where the market women were bargaining with r & fashionables; by the squire's lawn, where Mrs. R<>adland and the Miss Broadlands were gardening after WE&KFAST; by the National School, just emptying ita ,h„ hi. cover of the ensuing night, for ever. He derived, or seemed to derive, no comfort from my written sugges- tion that the thing was, after aU, not so unusual, or had been done before at least, for a good purpose, by Lady Godiva. he writes, can I look that congregation in the face again. Colburns has an article on the Newspaper Press, in • I, „no(i deal of information is collected. The following will convey some idea of the expense attend- ing the publication of a London daily newspaper The English papers have enormous expenses to bear, the enumeration would be too lengthy for our limits, Ind we will merely allude to the most prominent. And first among the preliminary expenses we have the paper wh:(Th though apparently so trifling, is a very heavy Tax upon the papers. On the Times it amounts to £ 60 a-day, or nearly £ 20,000 a-year. The composition, machinery, and material preparation of a daily paper amount, on an average, to JE200 a-week, or more than £ 1" Amon/the miscellaneous expenses, of which we can form hardly an approximative estimate, are the pro- curing official publications and subscriptions to foreign, colonial, and provincial papers. Mr. Hunt, in his 'Fourth Estate,' calculates the number of journals a daily paper is obliged to receive at one hundred and fifty and this appears a very moderate estimate. Postages and telegraphic despatches amount to a large sum monthly. It is often necessary to employ a messenger to outstrip the post, or to catch it up. In February, 1848 a correspondent of the Times crossed the Channel in an open boat, to carry the news of the revolution in Paris to London. When an important meeting takes place in the country, or some political chief is going te speak, a special train is often used. During Mr. Hud- son's election at Sunderland, a correspondent of one of the London papers crossed England twice during fifteen hours to go and hear and report the speech of the Rail- way King. The expense of a special train, when borne by a single paper, amounts to £ 50. These are heavy burdens, and we have yet to add the editorial expenses. At the head of these comes the chief editor, who is re- sponsible for all that is printed, who represents the paper in its relations with politicians and the public, and is alone in immediate connexion with the proprietors, in the event of his not being himself the proprietor. His duties are to arrange daily the composition of the paper, to decide the topics which shall be discussed, and choose the writers to whom they shall bo entrusted, to review the political ai tides, but rarely write himself. The edi- tor's salary varies from ,£1,000 to £ 1,500, according to the importance and resources of the paper. Next comes the sub-editor, who is entrusted with all the details, who reads and guts the provincial papers, revises copy, cor- rects and abridges it if necessary, and classifies it. On some papers this laborious duty is divided between two gentlemen. A special editor has the duty of reading and making extracts from the foreign papers, reading and revising the despatches of the correspondents, and classi- fying them according to their impoitance, while cutting out all that possesses no interest. The salary of a sub- editor varies from £ 500 to JE600 a-year. This is the staff of the paper; but the editor alone knows the writers from whom he procures leaders, and their names are never mentioned in the office or entered in the books. They are paid by the article, and the expenses of this branch cannot be estimated at less than .23,000 a-year. from the assizes and law courts, generally entrusted to barristers, cost about JEoO a-week, except during the va- cations. Then we have the fifteen metropolitan police- courts, at which some of the papers have special reporters, but others content themselves with the reports brought by penny-a-liners. It is seen that the judicial branch of the paper demands the services of a regiment, and many of our fii-st lawers have begun by being law reporters to the papers. The last important personage to be men- tioned is the city editor, who has at least JE400 a-year. Two special correspondents are also attached to the two great markets of Mark-lane and Mincing-lane, and a small outlay is also necessary for the prices of the meat and fruit market. In addition to these we have the theatrical, racing, and artistic reporters, besides the lite- rary department. This formidable list is not yet exhausted, however, for we have not mentioned the correspondents. The Indian mail used to be the heaviest expense to the daily papers, for it cost J610,000 a year A few years back the Times, in addition to an annual salary of £ IQO a. yernr, paid £ 80 a journey to a messenger, who was bound to travel from Marseilles to Calais m seventy-six hours, and thus bring, a few hours in advance of the mail, a fen-line summary of the Indian news. This expense was monthly, and had to be added to those entailed by the regular messenger. The completion of the French railways, and the establishment of the telegraph, will diminish these expenses greatly. Next in importance to the Indian mail is the Paris correspondence, which, witn all the accessory expenses, costs from £ 1,000 to £ 1,200 a year. Formerly, besides the regular correspondent, each paper had a gentleman to send the debates of the French Chambers up to post time; but under the im- perial regime this expense can safely be spared. Per- manent correspondents are stationed at Berlin, Vienna, Naples, Rome, Madrid, and Lisbon. They are sent out direct from England, and their salary varies from £ 150 to JE300 a year. A daily must also obtain correspondents at each of the following places :-IIamburg, Malta, Athens, Constantinople, Bombay, Hong-Kong, Singa- pore, New York, Montreal, and Jamaica. It must also have an agent at Boulogne for the French despatches, at Alexandria for the Indian mail, at Boston and Halifax for the news from the United States and Canada; for after the steamer has leit New York, the latest news is sent on by telegraph to those places where it calls. In snite of this large number of correspondents, whenever a revolution or war breaks out in any country, any re- markable event is going to take place in any city, ex- traordinary fetes or grand reviews arc about to be held, a special correspondent is always sent to the spot. Tastlv in order to have speedy information of the arrival' and departure of ships, the movements of squadrons, the promotion, in the navy, &c., the dailies have a correspondent in each of the twelve or fifteen principal ports of England, and especially at Dover, Southampton, and Liverpool. The total expense of the correspondence cannot be estimated at less than £ 6,000 add to this £10,000 for printing and machinery, and from £ 10 000 to £ 12.000 for the editorial department, and we arrive at the enormous total of £ 30,000, independently of the paper duty and the stamp. With such Bums be- fore us, we need not feel surprised at the small number of daily papers. The necessity for having in hand some JE50 000 before the first number can be printed, the per- spective of seeing the greater portion of this sum ab- sorbed in a few months by the expenses of establishment, the current outlay, the difficulty of collecting the right men to work with and for you—such obstacles are of a nature to deter those who feel inclined to enter on the perilous career of journalism. The existing dailies may be regarded as in the possession of a regular monopoly, which will not be altered until the paper duty is removed. Thus during the present century, only two or three attempts have been made to create new political journals. From 1825 to 1830, a paper established to rival the Times underwent several transformations, and became supcessively the Day, the Kew Times, the Mormng Journal, without acquiring, under any of these titles, fu Inhlic favour or means of existence. About the the puDiu, the ceiel>rated publisher, who was same periofl, m men of the time, believed connected WU" b,e to eclipse all the papers bj-their ♦ i ctahlished at a great expense the Mepre- Mr.Mu; £ yT„gMto lVl g poo A few months, with a loss of nearly £ 10,000. A tew years later, in 1836, some radical iit^ ai Daner under the Public Ledger into a full-sized PollRa\^rPf'fto the title of the Constitutional. They also were g ad to give up the experiment very soon, after it had cost t £ 6 000. Since the first appearance of the Mom g vertiser, in 1793, only one daily paper has succeeded in triumphing over all difficulties and maintaining its ground—and that is the Daily News, which was started 1846 — lQ Household Words.—Last week's number of this I periodical contained a paper in which capital desenp- tions of one or two Indian celebrities occur. The writer presents the following narrative of a VISIT TO NENA SAHIB. Here sat the Maharajah on a Turkey carpet, and reclining slightly on a hugh bolster. In front of him were his hookah, a sword, and several nosegays. His highness rose, came forward, took my hand, led me to the carpet, and begged of me to be seated on a cane-bottomed arm chair, which had evidently been placed ready for my especial ease and occupation A hookah is called for by the Rajah, and then at least a dozen voices repeat the order-" Hookah lao sahib ke waste" (bring a hookah for the sahib.) Presently the hookah is brought in. It is rather a grand affair, but old, and has evidently belonged to some European of extravagant habits. While I am pulling away at the hookah, the musahibs, or favourites of the Rajah, flatter me in very audible whispers. "How well he smokes." "What a fine forehead he has!" And his eyes! how they sparkle!" "No wonder, he is so clever!" He will be Governor- General some day," khuda-kurin!" (God will have it so) Native Rajah (in a loud voice), Moonshee Moonshee (who is close at hand.)—" Maharaj, Protector of the Poor." Native Rajah.—•' Bring the petition that 1 have laid before the Governor-General." The Moonshee produces the petition, and at the instance of the Rajah reads, or rather sings it aloud. The Rajah listens with pleasure to its recital of his own wrongs, and I affect to be astounded that so much injustice can possibly exist. During my rambles in India I have been the guest of some scores of Rajahs, great and small; and I never knew one who had not a grievance. He had either been wronged by the Government, or by some judge whose decision had been against him. In the matter of the Government it was a sheer love of oppression that led to the evil of which he complained; in the matter of the judge, that functionary had been bribed by the other party, It was with great difficulty that I kept my eyes open while the petition — a very long one-was read aloud. Shortly after it was finished I craved permission to retire, and was conducted by a bearer to the sleeping-room. The Maharajah invited me to accompany him to Cawn- pore. I acquiesced, and the carriage was ordered. The carriage was English built-a very handsome landau- and the horses were English harness; but the harness It was country-made, of the very commonest kind, and worn out; for one of the traces was a piece of rope. The coachman was filthy in his dress, and the whip that he carried in his hand was an old broken buggy whip which some European gentleman must have thrown away. On the box, on either side of the coachman, sat a warlike retainer, armed with a sword and a dagger. In the rumble were two other retainers, armed in the like manner. Besides the Rajah and myself there were three others (natives and relatives of the Rajah) in the vehicle. On the road the Rajah talked incessantly, and among other things that he told me was this-in reference to the praises that I bestowed on his equipage Not long ago I had a carriage and horses very superior to these. They cost me 20,000 rupees; but I had to burn the carriage and kill the horses." Why so ?" The child of a certain sahib in Cawnpore was very sick, and the sahib and the memsahib were bringing the child to Eithoor for a change of air. I sent my big carriage for them. On the road the child died; and, of course, as a dead body had been in the carriage, and as the horses had drawn that dead body in that carriage, I could never use them again." The reader must under stand that a native of any rank considers it a disgrace to sell property." But could you not have given the horses to some friend—a Christian or a Mussulman?" No; had I done so, it might have come to the know. ledge of the sahib, and his feelings would have been hurt at having occasioned me such a loss." Such was the Maharajah commonly known as Nena Sahib. He '.a fool. J:lo was from a bigot in matters of religion; and, although he was compelled to be so very particular about the destruc- tion of his carriage and horses, I am quite satisfied that he drank brandy, and that he smoked hemp in the chillum of his kookah." The New Quarterly .Review.-The November part of this excellent Review is in no respect inferior to the numbers which have hitherto appeared. Its politi- cal articles are well written, although we cannot always agree with the sentiments contained in them, and the reviews of books are invariably jast and ta- lented. We extract the following picture of LIFE IN AUSTRALIA. Take any day of Australian life. You come home after a hard, dusty day's work, and you long for a quiet evening with your wife and children, such as you could get once in dear old England. When you sit down to dinner, which your wife has had to cook, and your chil- dren to prepare for, you see the partner of your domestic joys with a face (from flea and mosquito bites) like a pottle of prize strawberries at Chiswick, a pleasant object to contemplate of an evening. During your dinner you are tormented by flies and bitten by fleas; your very slice of roast mutton on your plate, before you have time to dispose of it, is blown by the yellow bottle full of live maggots-you push your plate away sick and disgusted -you pour out and drink half your pale ale, and ÏP. a moment your glass is crammed by ten thousand de- bauched flies, who die in drunken happiness. You call in your children; they come, looking squalid, pale, and jaded—no rosy cheeks here; you help your wife to put away the things, and then sit down with fleas, flies, and mosquitoes, a mottle-faced wife, irritable children, and your own pleasant reflections. You may have made a very fortunate speculation that day; but it takes a vast amount of money to compensate you for so much domes. tic misery. When you retire to bed it will be only to a second torture of fleas and other vermin, and you will pass a restless, feverish, sleepless night; your children will cry and call for mamma half the night long, and you will get up to another day of speculation, gain or loss, a jaded wife, tired children, and thorough disuoir- fort. Hence it is not just of those people who write books for the purpose of inducing emigration to Austra- lia to give an estimate only of the milk and honey the country offers. We believe a great quantity of the house milk to be sour, and most of its honey nought but gall and bitterness.

Loss or THE D UNBA&.—it is with deep regret that we have to record the total loss of the magnificent clipper ship Dunbar, Captain James Green, which left Gravesend on the 24th of May, and Plymouth on the 30th of that month for Sydney. Only one seaman out of a total of 140 persons on board is reported as having escaped. The Dunbar was one of the fine fleet of Mr. Duncan Dunbar, of Limehouse; engaged in the Australian trade, carrying first-class cabin passengers and a very limited number of second-class. The following is a list of the passengers, among whom were many old colonists returning home:- Chief Cabin—Mr. and Mrs. A. Meyer and six children, Miss J. Wake, Mr. and Mrs. K. Waller and six children, Miss S. Fothergill, Miss E. King, Mr. C. Troughton, Mr. and Mrs. Mylne, Misses A. and E. Mylne, Mr.A. D. James, Mr. F. Tindal, Mr. C. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs. Cuhnac, Mrs. Egan, sen., and daughter, Mr. Simmons, Mr. M'Quoid, Mr. and Mrs. Peek, Mr. Downey, Misses Hunt (2), Mr. Levein, Miss Logan, and two Masters Logan, and Mr. Cuthbert. Intermediate.—Mrs. Debell, Mrs. J. Berry, Miss Graham, Messrs. W. Byron, J. lIoll, Wiesmer, E. Hill, W. Beach, Mr. and Mrs. Clark and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Saint, Mrs. Brown and child, Mrs. Annan and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Healing and three chi!dren, and Mr. and Mrs. Strange. An incident occurred aftfr the wreck, such as always ex- cites the enthusiasm of English people. It was reported that there were several persons upon the rocks, it was impossible to approach them by sea. An adventurous Icelander, Antoine Wollier, an apprentice to a jeweller in Sydney, offered to descend. He was lowered by a rope from thatjdreadful height, and continued more than half an hour in --his search. Nothing was discovered, and Wollier was drawn up in safety, amid the shouts of the crowd. The Mayor of Sydney, at the suggestion of Captain Loring, of her Majesty's ship Iris, opened a sub- scription on the spot, and presented him with JElO, as an acknowledgment of his intrepidity. In answer to the congratulations of the M iyor he said, he did not go down for money, but for the feelings of his heart." A considerable sum has been added by tbe merchants to this subscription. A large quantity of goods, broken and scattered, were cast upon the shore. Some were articles of dress. There was also a piece of crochet- work with the needle and reel of cotton attached, a number of children's toys, and a small hat with a feather in it, recognised as having been worn by a child on board the Dunbar in the tropics. There were also found frag- ments of dress, marked with the names of the owners I

GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. THE BANK PANIC AT GLASGOW.—One gentleman, during the heat of the excitement, went into the Union Bank and presented a check for £ 500. The teller asked him if he wished gold. Gold replied he "No, give me notes, and let the fools who are frightened get the gold." Another gentleman rushed into the same bank, in a great state of excitement, with a check for £ 1,400. On being asked if he wished gold, he replied, Yes." Well," said the teller, there is £ 1,000 in that bag, and J6400 in this one." The gentleman was so flurried by the readiness with which his demand was granted that he lifted up the bag with the J400 only and walked off, leaving the £1,000 on the counter. The teller, on discovering the bag, laid it aside for the time. Later in the day, the gentleman returned to the bank in great distress, stating he had lost the bag with the j61,000, and could not tell whether he had dropped it in the crowd, or left it behind him on leaving the btnk. Ob, you left it on the counter," said the teller, quietly and if you will call to-morrow you will get your £ 1,000."—Glasgow Bulletin. TROOPS IN INDIA.—The whole of the Queen's forces in India up to the 29th ult., according to official returns, amounted to 33,660. In the Bengal Presidency there were-Cavalry (6th Carbineers and 9th Lancers), 1317 infantry (including among others, the 3rd, 82nd, and 93rd Regiments), 23,450; artillery, 67; and engineers (23rd company), 126; total, 24,960. The troops ordered to and on passage to the presidency consist of-Cavalry, 2,159 infantry, 12,616; artillery, 2,711 and engineers, 252; total, 17,738. In the Madras Presidency-Cavalry (12th Lancers), 304 infantry (43rd and74th), 2,122. On pas- sage or under orders-Infantry (44th and 66th), 1,605; and artillery (under orders), 300. In the Bombay Presi- dency there were-Cavalry (12th Lancers and 14th Light Dragoons), 1,012; infantry, 5,200; and artillery, 62 total, 6,274. On passage—Cavalry, 1,677 infantry (including the 94th), 6,021; artillery, 712; and en- gineers (overland), 246. It will be seen from the above that, up to the 29th ult., 28,300 was the total of the troops on passage to the East Indies; the grand total of the Queen's forces in India and en toute being 61,960. The East India Company's European troops in India amount to 18,260 of all arms. THE GREAT EASTERN PROFANELY NAMED.—CAUSE OF THE ACCIDENT.—The ceremony of naming is to be per- formed. A young lady steps forward to represent the Company, flings the bottle of wine against the ship's side, and calls it, to the astonishment of all, the Leviathan. No hint or suggestion of the new name had reached the public. It was a decision in the dark-revealed at the last moment-a most singular choice indeed, and for such a vessel, we conceive, not a little tinged with profane- ness. Leviathan, with all deep theologians, is a Scrip- tural synonym for the devil, and constantly used in that sense in our best divines. Among students of poetry it is associated with Milton's description of Satan, being the figure used in his darkly-sublime picture of the Prince of Hell. In modern literature it is well known as the title of that treatise of Hobbes which enthrones a doctrine of brute force on the ruins of all true morality. This is the name, neatly the worst possible, except Satan or Beelzebub, which the directors substitute at the last moment, by some some strange freak of folly, for the name in constant use for years. Five or ten minutes afterwards, by some unaccountable mistake of the work- men in slackening a chain they were told to tighten, the iabour of thousands for months is made fruitless for at least a month to come. The great Leviathan no sooner received its most inauspicious, repulsive name, than Pro- vidence puts a hook in its nose, and forbids it proceed any further on its way. Now we would humbly counsel the directors, since the launch is cancelled for another month, to regard the ugly and ill-omened name they have devised as cancelled along with it, and to try whe- ther they will under a *Uftl «vtmtJijTe ver temicisoenoM of British i fufuuux and Satanic wickedness.-Record. A SECOND WATERLOO-BRIDGE BUTCHERY. — The Moniteur du Loirat gives the following details of the dis- covery of a human body at the railway station at Choisy- Ie-Roy: Tile cask containing the body was found about two months back standing among packages which had come by a goods train from Paris, but was not in- serted in the way-bill. As it was, however, directed to a person at Choisy, it was on the following day sent by one of the porters, as directed, but it was brought back again by him, in consequence of no such name being known in the place, and it was then stored away in the warehouse. There it lay for several weeks, and as no one came to claim it, the station-master, having his suspicions aroused, perhaps by the accounts which he had read in the papers about the Waterloo-bridge tragedy, resolved to open the cask, and ascertain its contents. After knocking in one of the heads, an envelope of oil- cloth was seen, and on this being removed, the next thing which came to view was a quantity of hay. Into this he plunged his hand, but withdrew it again in horror, from its coming in contact with something like flesh, and of deathlike coldness. On the hay being re- moved, the half-putt ified body of a female was discovered. The after-examination testified to a dreadful atrocity in the commission of the crime. The head had been cut off, and was wanting. The legs had been bent up towards the sides so as to make the body fit into the cask and, in order to shorten them, the feet had been also removed. In order to lessen the emanations which would naturally proceed from the body, the entrails had been taken out through two orifices, one on either side of the abdomen, and in order, as it were to reduce the size, the hands were forced into the orifices on either side, as if into pockets. As the station is close to the river, it is supposed the cask must have been brought in the night and placed where it was found, so that a supposition might be entertained that the crime had been committed at Paris. The fact of no emanations proceeding from the cask is explained by the manner in which the body was enveloped in a thick lay of hay, and afterwards covered over with the oil.cloth. FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—Twelve men have been suffocated in the Staveley Colliery, Derbyshire. The col- liery is known as the Hollingwood Pit, and is the largest at these extensive works, employing about 300 men, and the coal raised is about 300 tons daily. There are about 600 safety lamps in use at the colliery. The men left the pit on Saturday afternoon about four o'clock, the usual time, when everything appeared to be safe, the furnace man being the only person left in the colliery. The duties of the furnace man commenced at six o'clock, and terminated at six on Sunday morning. While he was in the pit he thought he smelt a strong smell of smoke, but took no notice until another man came to re- lieve him. At seven o'clock the furnace man was called away by a workman connected with the colliery. At four o'clock the same morning, a son of Fowkes, a horse- keeper, was down the pit, and he noticed some smoke issuing from the lamp-room or cabin in the pit bottom. He communicated what he had seen to some other per- sons, who conveyed the information to Mr.Danl. Cooper, the resident principal underground steward. Mr. Cooper then selected twelve of the most experienced men to ac- company him into the pit to put out the fire. They each took a bucket and descended the shaft, when instructions were given by Mr. Cooper to Charles Vardy, a deputy, to open some air doors. The consequence of this was that the ventilation of the pit was stopped. Every possible exertion was subsequently made to stop the progress of the fire. On Monday morning Mr. Woodhouse, mining engineer, arrived at the colliery, when Mr. Jeffcock, Mr. Hedley, and Mr. Buxton went down the pit, and found the air circulating through the proper course. Another dam was put in about 900 yards down the incline. Mr. Woodhouse and Mr. Hedley then went to the bottom of the incline, close to the seat of the fire, and, finding it dangerous to proceed further down, they retraced their steps, and between the bottom of the incline and the last dam which had been put in, the following bodies were found: Daniel Cooper, resident head under-viewer, married, but no children; Alexander Cooper, colliery viewer, brother to the last-named, who was on a visit to his brother Alexander Scott, manager of the ventilation of the pit, married, left a widow and two daughters; Thomas Scott, son of the last-named deceased; Joel Walters, deputy, left widow and eight grown up persons George Wagstaff, collier, left widow, but no family W. Chapman, collier, left widow and eight children Thos. Truman, lamp bearer, married, but no family. The fol- lowing persons are still in the pit, and no doubt is enter tained about their lives having been lostJoseph Corns' married, but no children Richard Fowkes, horsekeeper • I Richard Fowkes, son of the last-named Tho Scott, collier, unmarried; William Truman rl widow and seven children. The bodies were *"1?d }u the portion of men escaping from suffocatipo, and the distance from the first to the last di«<»*rod was 200 yards, A coroner's inquest haa box ¡old. MURDER AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—A most cold- blooded and heartrending murder was committed on Fri- day evening, about 6 o'clock, at Ashover-hlll, about five miles from the town of Chesterfield. The place where the murder was perpetrated is not far distant from the residence of the Rev. J. Nodder, whose premises were burglariously entered some months ago. The victim ot the diabolical act is a farmer named James Simpson, who has occupied a farm at Ashover, under Mr. John Tomlin- son, and which is about 25 acres in extent. It was his usual practice to attend the market at Alfreton, which is held on a Friday, to dispose of eggs, butter, and other farm produce. On Friday morning last, about 20 minutes past 10 o'clock, he left his home at Ashover to go to Al- freton, about eight miles from Ashover, and on this occa sion he was to have been accompanied by a farm labourer named George Paraell, who is in the service of Mr. Tom- linson; but, as Parnell was busy winnowing, he did no go, and Mr. Simpson proceeded to Alfreton alone, with a basket containing about 121b. of butter, and 2s. 6d. in silver, which his wife gave him before he started. He was also to have sold two fat pigs. It is believed he left Alfreton shortly after 3 o'clock; and he proceeded along the turnpike road to Higham, passed Ford-house, by Hanley and Deerleap-school, and it is not known at present whether he was accompanied by any person on the road. Beyond this school he passed the wood be- longing to Mr. W. Milnes, which is about 100 yards in extent, to Ashover-hill, which is about half a mile from his ovn home. At this point the road is a lonely one, the only houses near being that occupied by Mr. Hopkin- son, and another, in which Mr. Bassett resides. At this part of the road Simpson was attacked (it is supposed by some person from the wood), and shot behind the left ear with a pistol or gun. The shot must have been fired close to his head, as the powder had burnt his whiskers and blackened his flesh on the left side of the face and neck. The report of firearms was heard, but it excited no alarm, and the murderer would have ten minutes to escape, it being that time after the report had been heard before any person approached the spot. The first person to find the deceased was Mr. Fletcher, of Alton colliery, who was returning from home to go to his works, when on passing along the road leading from Northedge to Ashover he heard some heavy groans, which increased as he drew near the spot. Soon afterwards a farm labourer named Joseph Marriott came up, and Mr. Fletcher sent him to the house of Mr. Bassett for a light, which was brought by Mr. Bassett. They found the deceased laid on his side, wiih his head in a cart rut, and they turned him aver, when Marriott said, It's Simpson." The man was bleeding profusely from the head. They pro- cured a board, and carried him to his home, and Mr. Skidmore, surgeon, of Ashover, was called in, but pro- nounced life to be hopeless. An effort was made to induce the dying man to speak, but he was insensible, and died about 8 o'clock without uttering a word. The surgeon was of opinion that small shot had been fired as well as a ball. The wadding was found near the place where the deceased lay, and a great quantity of blood was on the grouud. There were no marks of any strug- gle, and the deceased's clothes were not torn. His watch and portemonnaie were stolen, but some articles of gro- cery which he had purchased were found in his basket unmolested. It is supposed that the murderer mistook the deceased for Mr. Fletcher, who was on his way to his colliery to pay his men, and was supposed to have a gool snm of money in his possession. ATTEMPTED MURDER. — A most murderous assault was committed in Torquay on Wednesday evening. The name of the unfortunate victim is Jane Stone, a young woman about 20 years of age, who had for the last three months been in the service of Mrs. Wills, of Warley- cottage, Tor and the circumstances connected with the deed, as far as they are yet known, are these. She was for eight months in the service of Mr. Philip Michelmore, wine and spirit merchant, Union-street, and left in a Latata jw^gmmy «hn»t thiw muMfci »i»n, aliartljr after which tinie she appears to have been engaged by Mrs. Wills. A respectable young man, 21 years of age, named Jonathan Roose, nephew and assistant to Mr. Michelmore, she alleges to be the father of her forth- coming child and she further states that he had been in the habit of supplying her with medicine with the view of procuring abortion. At eight o'clock in the evening she met him by appointment in a garden at the back of her mistress's house, and had some conversation relative to the approaching birth, an event which she anticipated within another month. The young man, she states, professed his inability to do anything for her; and then, without altercation, put his hand on hor mouth, threw her to the ground, and commenced a most murderous attack, the naturo of which is presumed from the subse- quent discovery of a large stoue of a wedge-like form, weighing between 41 b. and 51b., and clotted with hair and blood. Mrs. Wills (who is a widow lady), alarmed at a strange noise in the back garden, desired a neighbour to ascertain the otuse; and then the poor young woman was found weltering in a large pool of blood. The sight was intensely horrifying; her face and head, literally pounded, had swollen to hideous dimensions, rendering identification from her features altogether out of the question; the skull was fractured, the jaw broken in, the nose smashed, and the temples battered in. She was conveyed on a stretcher to the Torbay Infirmary, and the medical staff, deeming her chances of recovery hope- less, sent for the magistrates. Mr. Edward Vivian and Mr. H. Phillpotts were soon in attendance, and pro. ceeded, with the assistance of Mr. F. R. Carter, soli- citor, to elicit the djing declaration of the poor sufferer, from which is derived the principal portion of the above information. She distinctly averred that Jonathan Roose had inflicted the injuries upon her and the police at once apprehended him at his uncle's residence, brought him into the girl's presence, and at the conclu- sion of her deposition removed him to the stationhouse, the young woman being committed to the care of the medical men, who were most assiduous in their atten- tions., The following morning, the magistrates attended at the Town-hall, and learning that tho poor girl was still sensible, determined to endeavour to obtain a more complete deposition. Tho re-examination took place before Mr. H. C. M. Phillips, Mr. E. Vivian, and Mr. H. Phillpotts, and in the presence of Roose; after which they returned to the Town-hall to complete the evidence, the only essential portion of which, so far as it affected the prisoner, was the correspondence of one of his shoes with a footprint in the garden, Throughout the exami- nation, which occupied several hours, the court was most densely crowded. The prisoner, who maintained a re- spectful composure, and was professionally assisted by Mr. Francis, solicitor, of Exeter, was fully committed to the assizes for trial on the charge of an assault with intent to commit murder. The condition of the sufferer is at present hopeless. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER ON WESTMINSTER- BRIDGE.—On Sunday morning no little sensation was created in the neighbourhood of Lambeth and Westmin- ster in conseqence of a report that a foreign gentleman had been waylaid on Westminster-bridge, twice stabbed in the lower part of his stomach, and afterwards robbed of between J618 and J619, and that he was lying in the Westminster Hospital without hopes of recovery. Upon the reporter making inquiries, it was ascertained that be- tween the hours of four and five o'clock, Police-sergeant Budd, of the L division, while on duty on the Belvidere- road, Lambeth, noticed a Frenchman staggering along the road with his hands pressed upon his stomach, and apparently in the act of falling. The officer thinking he was inebriated ran to his assistance, when the man pointed to his stomach, and the sergeant saw that his clothes were punctured in two places, and that blood was copiously flowing from each hole. He at once took the wounded man to a surgeon's, and afterwards to the Westminster Hospital, when it was found that he had two stabs of over half an inch in depth on the lower part of the stomach, and upon inquiries being made as to how they were inflicted, he stated that as he was pas* along Trafalgar-square, he was accosted bv a whom he paid no attention, but that the ntit^^erson continued to follow him until he got tlie bridge, when ths fellow gave him t»^^nt blows on the stomach which took his away, and then robbed him of between At first he was not aware that he had u<^«8bbed> but uPon walking away feU exhausted ^otlc^. the blood flowing from the punctu^T^ £ verythmg has been done for the hemorrhage has been stopped by the J^wteers of the hospital, and there seems every ■ recovery. Mr. Superintendent Walker and !Lj(pant Saunders of the detective force have been ac- tively engaged in inquiring into the case, and from the fact of a knife being found in the man's pocket, the point fitting the holes in the dress, and his prevaricating in his statements as to the manner in which he was stabbed, these officers are of opinion that he stabbed himself with the knife found in his possession. The Government has granted a pension of j630 a-year to the mother of the late Mr. Hugh Miller. Lord I'almerston has, it is said, on the recommeudation of Miss Burdett Coutts, granted a superannuation allow ance of £ 40 per annum to Edward Capern, the postman- poet, of Bideford, North Devon. A HBAvr GROUSE.—A grouse was shot on the 26th ■_» ult. on the moors between Goit-bridge and Buxtcn by Mr. Daniel Sutton, of Kettleshulme, of the extraa'rdi- nary weight of 30 £ oz. ANGLING.-A few days since a small party, headed by two expert anglers of Castle Hedingham, visited the rivulets of the Colne in that neighbourhood, and after delightful day's fishing, had the pleasure of sending home the undermentioned fish :-Twelve pike, 481bs.; thirty- four perch, 51 lbs. seventy-two roach, 1031bs. Many of the pike weighed 7|lbs., and the perch and roach. were unusually large. The unusual success of the day' sport is attributed to the recent floods. THE 93RD HIGHLANDERS AND THE MosairiTos.—-A friend in Calcutta writes A detachment of the 93rd Highlanders, lately arrived, marched into the Fort yes-, terday in their kilts; but I fear the national costume must be discarded, from the utter impossibility of the men obeying their officers when ordered to stand at ease. -they will be so tormented by the mosquitos." A SAD accident is related in the Madrid papers. The. notable inhabitants of Oiaveaga assembled in the evening of the 1st inst., according to their custom, in a sort of club-house, to play at billiards and read the newspapers. All at once a frightful explosion took place, and the whole house, and all the people in it were blown up. Twelve persons were injured or burned more or Jess severely^ and » four were killed. It turned out that a quantity of gun- powder had been left in a room, and that one of the. i visitors had thrown on it the remains of a lighted eigttr. An Italian was arrested on the 5th instant, in the f«y*r of the Italian Opera, Paris, for wilfully damaging the bust of the Emperor, which is placed there. He uaed. < very strong language, and said that Salvini (the trage* I dian) had a better right to such an honour, as he was a much better actor." It appears certain that thelKf j lian, who is described as a prince, is of deranged iotelv lect. He was at once taken into custody. THE EXETER HALL SERVICES.—The Rev. Mr. Edouart, the incumbent of St. Michael's parish, Strand, has addressed a letter to the Bishop of London, with a view to vindicate his prohibition of the Sunday services at Exeter Hall. The rev. gentleman declares that in protesting against public preaching" within his pariah by "strange clergymen," and in "an unconseceated building," he is only upholding the parochial system and the discipline of the church. The Record, commenting on the prohibition, says-" For ourselves, while fully acknowledging that the administration of the sacrament* by a clergyman within a district not entrusted to hit V charge would make him liable to Ecclesiastical censures. we do not believe that there is the slightest ground for-. extending such a prohibition to the preaching of the Gos", pel, either in the open-air or within an unconsecrated place, as is now claimed by Mr. Edouart. Of this gen- tleman we know nothing beyond the fact that he minis- ters in a church, the free seats of which contained on Sunday evening last just twenty-seven occupants. That such a man might feel annoyed and aggrieved at the RUo.f, cess with which others have carried on within Exeter Hall the services which fail so signally to draw a con- gregation to the Church of St. Michael's, is none the less 5 natural, because, weighed in the scales of the sanctuary, it is profoundly deplorable. Such a feeling, however natural, would be ungenerous, unwise, unpatriotic, and unchristian. We cannot suppose that the objection will be ultimately sustained. If the authority of the canons on which,, we presume, the present prohibition to be based, should prove to be conclusive, some legal remedy, we conceive, will be found and adopted. But meanwhile the great work stands still, and a cause of offence an<l rebuke has been furnished against the church." f "T cr",w of tl,a AnD* Margarotta, of Leith, arrived at Hartlepool in a small boat on Wed- nesday morning, in a most exhausted condition, having lost their vessel on the previous evening under the fol- lowing circumstances :-The master reported that the vessel left Ljith for Bordeaux with a cargo of coal and wine on the 6th inst. All went on well until Tuesday evening, when the cabin boy went below for some article. and found to his surprise that the cabin floor was covered with water, and some articles were floating about. He immediately gave the alarm, and the pumps were set to work, the crew labouring with a hearty good will to get the water under. The vessel at that time was about eight miles off Hartlepool, the lighthouse bearing N.W. aqd her head standing to the land. The wind was fresh, and a stiff breeze was blowing from the S.E. The crew made the most strenuous exertions to overcome the water, but their efforts were unavailing. The night turned out very dark, and a light was hung out for assistance, but none came. Finding that the leak was gaining upon them, and there was no chance of making Hartlepool as the tide was on the ebb, the crew took to the only boat on board, a small one. They were unable to bring away any of their clothing, and only the logbook was saved. On getting about 300 yards from the vessel she gave a heavy lurch and fell over on the port side. With a strong tide and the darkness against them they made their way to Hartlepool, wearied by their six hours' rowing, ren- dered all the more arduous from the smallness of the boat, which there was great danger of pulling under the heavy seas. The poor cabinboy was kept bailing the boatduriBg the whole of the six hours, the sea coming into the boat continually. The crew were promptly attended to by the agent of the ShipwreckedMariners' Society and sent home. AN INCIDENT AT M. JULLIEN'S CONCERTS. On Thurs- day evening last, M. Jullien produced a new grand marob called the Indian Fantasia and General Havelock's Triumphant March." After the performance of this composition, the audience demanded the national anthem when M. Jullien came forward and said:—"Ladies and gentlemen,—As we are honoured this evening by the presence of Lady Havelock, the wife of the distinguished General—that British lion who has so nobly hunted down the Bengal tiger-I am sure you will all be as delighted as I am to know that she is among us." Then, pointing to a box on the first tier, he said, There is Lady Havelock!" This-announcement was received with such tremendous cheering that Lady Havelock, who had been quietly listening to the music, in little expectation of such an incident, rose from her seat, and, coming forward to the front of the box with her two daughters, gracefully saluted the audience. The acclamations that followed were again interrupted by M. Jullien, who spoke ia a loud voice, and evidently as excited as if he had been an Englishman born. Now, ladies and gentlemen," he, said, "you shall join with me in three British cheers. 11 will give the word, and you shall all respond, I ensemble. He did give the word, and his Hip, hip, hip, hurrah," thrice reiterated, was thrice echoed by such a hurrah" from the united voices of the whole assembly as made the walls, "reverberate again." Rarely has a scene of greater enthusiasm been witnessed. Lady Hatelock remained until the end of the performance, and the great majority of the crowd kept her company. When the last piece-a galop called the Lion and liger-was finished, the audience dispersed slowly, and the scene of ovation"^ was changed from the theatre to the open street crowd almost blocked up the thoroughfare • Havelock was recognized entering her cheer-; ing was renewed with the same M was at first elicited by M. JullienV"58, A GHOST IN SOUTHWA r several days past a '• considerable deal of has been cause<*in the neighbourhood of j>8treet> Dockhead, in conse- i quence of it h-ie^™'Ported» BDd actually believed by ■: manv thatfl^the housea was haunted by a veritable Rhost jr**b0VLse in question was inhabited by a; man named Baker and his wifo and daughter. r the man was out in the daytime at his work, sin- gular noises were heard in all parts of the house, and breaking of crockery, glass, &c., which were thrown about in all directions by some invisible hand. Mr. Hancock, a gentleman connected with the District Visit- ing Society, inquired into the circumstances, and soon found out that the ghost was no other than the daughter a young girl about 12 years of age. A communication was made with the Rev. Mr. Martin, the rector of Christchurch, and it was ascertained that she was a very b&d girl, exceedingly idle and dirty, and fond of wander- ing the streets to get into bad company. To prevent her from following her bad inclinations she was confined to the house, when she broke her father's crockery and fur- niture in such a mysterious way as to cause the repoit being spread that the house was haunted. The father, by the advice of other persons, gave her into custody, and she was brought before Mr. Combe, at the Southwbrk Police Court, charged with committing the wilful damage to her father's goods.-She was committed to prison for a fortnight. {1-vil I