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MULI'DM IN r Alt YD. II Sir Henry Stores left London on Monday mornVng for Southampton, en route for Jamaica. Some agitation is going on in Switzerland with a view to tire revision of the Federal Constitution. The Prince of Wales proceeded from Brussels to Ger- many, and was on Tuesday at Darmstadt. The clergymen in New York and other cities are mak- ing a united effort to suppress Sunday newspapers. According to an official return at Naples the cholera in that city has carried off about 3,000 persons in all. On the nicht of the 1st, Meyerbeer's L Africaine was produced at the Academy of Music, New York, with great eclat. Advices by the overland mail state that three ships had sailed from Australia, with gold valued at £ 835,000^ At Naples, on the 13th, there were 11 cases of cho- lera and two deaths and at Ponticelli, 19 cases and five udths. Jt is said that a series of popular orchestral concerts is contemplated at Vienna, which M. Berliez has been invited to conduct. Four state carriages ordered by the Duke of Augus- tenburg upwards of a year ago are advertised for sale at the Auction Hall in Paris. An old soldier, named Coignet, who was the first to hear the title of Knight of the Legion of Honour, has just died at Auxerre, aged 91. Mensures are now being adopted throughout France for effecting the great five-yearly census of the popula- tion, which will take place in 18GG. According to latest advices from Cronstadt, that noyt is urrounded with ice. Communications withOrauiett- Lj irn are carried on by means of sledges. A letter from Rome states that Monsignore ne M6- rode is still quietly occupying his post at the Vatican Pa lace, and is in habitual intercourse with His Holi- ness. Accounts from Genoa state that Prince Odone, the third on of the King of Italy, is ill at present in that city. Prince De Catignan has gone there to attend to him. The late Captain Gronow has left a widow and four infant children wholly unprovided for. Some friends in Paris are endeavouring to get up a purso in aid of the family. The Earl de Grey left bisresidence in Carlton-gardena on Saturday evening, for his seat, Studley Royal. The < ,untess and Viscount Goderich left town for Studley, early in the day. Earl Russell's first, exercise of ecclesiastical patronage has been to present the Rev. W. H. Fremantle, the Bishop of Loudon s domestic chaplain, to the rectory of St. Mar\'s, Bryanston Square. A letter from Berlin states that the Princess Roya' reused to take part in the festivities at the marriage of the Princess Alexandrine the moment she learnt tho news of the death of her great-uncle King Leopold. The land required to enlarge the National Gallery in the rear has been purchased, including St. Martin Workhouse and Archbishop Tenison's Grammar School The price to be paid to the Parish is £ S6,000. We understand that a grand congress of European W, b^tiinists is soou to be held in London, under the presi- ili-ncv of the veteran De Candolle, and that the Lord Mayor is to give a special dinner upon the occasion. We (Globe) understand that Mr. W. H. Melvill will be appointed the successor to Mr limm, who, it is ex- pected, will before long resign the appointment which he holds as solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue. Mai or Ewart, B.E., late of the Quartermaster Gene- ral's department at the Horse Guards, is to be a mem- ber of the Coinmision which is to proceed to Algeria to inquire into the sanitary condition of the French army. ir:„ TJ™,] T-jiirl ness the Duke of Cambridge returned to^Gloucester House, Park-lane on Monday from at- tending the funeral of tho late King of the Belgians His Royal Highness was attended by Colonel lyrwhitt. The Ter,iPs°says that Stephens the Fenian Head Centre was seen on the Boulevards the other day. It describes him as a well-dressed gentlemanly man of about .10. Another paper says that ho has left his card with Lord Cowley. ( The Shipping Gazette gives a list of 95 Conservative members of the new Parliament who are favourable to parliamentary reform in various shapes, while 194 of the same party are represented as having made no declara- tion on the question. The public subscription statue of the late Earl of Eglinton, just completed l,y Mr. MacDowell, is to be placed within the Stephen's Green enclosure m Dublin, at the north side, nearly opposite to Archbishop 1reach s episcopal residence. The next triennial musical festival fit Norwich is to bo held in Sept. 180K. Mr. Benedict is to be again secured, as conductor if possible. (M cht iuat an effort w.ll be made to induce the Prince and Princess of Wales to hon- our the festival with their presence. The statement made last week by the journals that the Countess De Monfijo bad purchased a large estate m tlia Indie appears to have been premature, for iL is now as- serted that the bargain has not being concluded, and that the Countess has gone back to Spain. The Tiiiics announces that the good offices of England and France have been accepted by the Spanish govern- ment, and unless Chili should prove more implacable than Spain herself, the least justifiable ot modern ware may yet be terminated by friendly mediation. Among the many claims which the late King of the Belgians had upon the affection of the Queen was the fact that His Majesty, during the period that the Queen was a Princess, and not fully provided for by a State allow- ance, allowed the Princess an income of £ 6,000 a year. The Queen, Princess Helena,, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Hohenlohe, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended divine service on Sunday morning, in the Private Chapel, Windsor. The Dean of Westminster preached the ser- mon. DKATH OF A LION TA)rER.-Kews comes from Ame- rica of the death of Van Amburgh, the lion tamer, who expired suddenly at Philadelphia at the close of last month. For complete mastery over his brutes, Van Am- burgh was the most successful, as he was one of the first of bis class. MANUFACTURES IN AUSTRALIA.—The present mail lias brought to England the first piece of Victorian cloth turned out from anew factory at Hamilton, and the Mel- bourne papers state that the perfect plant of a papermill about to be established on the Yarra has arrived in the C°N" fewer than 700 hands are now engaged on the Lord Warden 24. iron-cased skip, in order to get her floated o^'t of "ok as early as possible, as the dock is required for the construction ot the iron ram Hercules, a most powerful vessel, designed by Mr. E. J. Reed, chief con- structor of the navy. The Amarican Government is losing large amounts of nrooerty by fires. Over 4,000 bales of cotton were re- cently'unit at Columbus, Mississippi and by a severe ij firm at New York, on December 2, 1,126 bales conflagia caaos of tobacco, and a large amount of hemp tUid clothing were destroyed. c- r™ rv™ Ins addressed a circular to the county S,r Geo. Grey hns au s aml tbe eorrespond- magistrates in England a H them to make a iu* authorities m Scotland, aire g ective di,- return of the number 01 m e stock iu tricts. The schedule to be filled up specifies > other cattle," "sheep," and "pIgs." The shipments of arms and gunpowder from New York to the Southern States are steadilyincreasing. ihe Jreaterptrt f. »n,lI during shinments to all the Southern States were 138,0/Sib ot powder 688,7B5!b of shot, 14,119,750 percussion caps, 2,018,328 car ridges, aud u,30/ fire-arms. Co! hi el G. Chowman, who has just arrived in the city from Idaho and the scenes of some of the Indian conflicts in the North West, brought with him half a dozen scalps cut from the heads of savages slain by his j' )iaDd. The Colonel is somewhat famous for Indian tights and exploits.—Missouri Republican. Saunders Newsletter, in its third edition on Satur- day savs -—" It is rumoured that Mr. Marquis, Gover- P(,-r of Richmond Bridewell, has been dismissed, by or- der of the Lord-Lieutenant, thisday." The same paper 8,1 ys that the Lord-Lieutenant has refused to appoint a commission to iuquire into the escape of Stephens. It is said that the grand catalogue of scientific me- mo, which has been undertaken by a committee of the R..yal Society is rapidly progressing. About 213,000 titles are already entered, and of these no less than two thirds are Irom the scientific transactions, journals, and other periodicals contained ia the Society's library.— London Review. Cardinal D'Andrea has written a pastoral letter to the cures and other clergy of Sabino and S ulnae o placed under his spiritual rule, relating to them all that lias happened to him, his illness and his visits to Prince Humbert and Victor Emmanuel, made in the interests of the Church, and the persecutions directed against him of the "so-called religious" journals, which he by no means spares. THE OASTLER MONUMENT.—Mr. J. B. Philip, sculptor, has succeeded in finishing a model which secures a satis factory likeness of the late factory king," and the monument which consists of three colossal figures-the oid thin king in a familiar attitude, and two factory children—will be immediately cast in bronze, and will altimately be erected on a pedestal of granite at Brad- ford. where the short time movement fint began. Armenius Vaint ery, the adventurous traveller in Bok- hara, is now settled in Pesth. lie holds a professorship of the Oriental languages at the university of that tow The Roman Catholic Bishop Murdoch, of Glasgow, Vicar-Apostolic of the western district of Scotland," died on Friday morning, in the thirty-third year of his bishopric. The Glasgow Herald announces the death of Bishop Murdoch, the head of the Roman Catholics of Glasgow, which occurred on Friday morning, at his residence, Great Clyde-street. The Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons has just addressed a pastoral letter to the clergy and faithful of his diocese, inviting them to pray to the Virgin to solicit her inter- cession in favour of the temporal power. A severe attack of cholera is assigned as the reason which prevented M. Guillaume Guizot from opening his course of lectures on Montaigne and the Moralists ofthe sixteenth century on the day originally announced. The French Government has resolved the question raised by the petition presented to the Emperor by the cabdrivers of Paris, on the principles of free trade. The Company of the Petit es Voitures will no longer enjo;' a monopoly, and anybody will be henceforth free to set up L hackney coach. Between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning a fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Richard Lalor, hosier, b7, Piccadilly, and, on the arrival of the fire brigade, the sliop was in flames. These were extinguished in about 30 minutes; but a serious amount of damage was done. The cause of the fire is unknown. The Rev. Archer Gurney, chaplain to the English Church in Paris, says the letters of Dr. Pusey have bee11 published by the Roman Catholics on the continent in a shilling volume and says they see plainly the full con- sequences of Dr. Pusey's declaration, though at home men do not nnderstand them, or are willing tohide them From themselves. The pretty village of Partenkircben, in Bavaria, was a few days ago partially destroyed by a conflagration attri- buted to an incendiary. The fire broke out in the even- ing of the day on which King Louis II., coming from Hohenschwangan to return to Munich, left the place after having slept there. In a few hours about 70 build. ings were reduced to ashes. The rolling stock of the railway companies of the United Kingdom consisted at the end of 1864 of 7,203 locomotives, 1(5.985 passenger carriages, 6,506 other ve- hicles attached to passenger trains, 204,880, waggons for conveyance of live stock, minerals, and general merchan- dise, with 8,036 carriages or waggons of other sorts; being a total of 243,610 engines, carriages, waggons, and vehicles, which, placed buffer to buffer, would probably extend somewhere between COO and 700 miles, or from London into the Scottish Highlands.—Railway News. The Paris correspondent of the Globe writes:- "Iheyoung King of Bavaria has to pay forfeit for recognising Italy by the loss of a rich wife in the person of Maria Theresa, niece of Due De Modena, one of the wealthiest heiresses in Europe. This lady, born in 1P49, not only succeeds to the vast inheritance of the D'Este family, but to its reversionary rights on the duchy, which are vested in her. Her uncle positively refuses his sanc- tion to a match which had been almost concluded early n the present year." The Army and Navy Gazette says The King of the Belgians, was the senior officer of the British army, having been made a Field Marshal in 1816. He had for some years the colonelcy of the 5th Dragoon Guards, a regiment specially named after his first wife, the Prin- cess Charlotte of Wales; but this he resigned, together with all pecuniary advantages connected with his military position. His death will, of course, cause no promotions or changes in the service. The Senior officer of the army now is Sir Edward Blakeney, and he, with Lord Gough ind His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, consti- tute the Field Marshals of the British army." THE COURT.—We understand that on receiving the intelligence of the death of her son-in-law, the King ol the Belgians, who since his marriage with our Princess Charlotte, has been life possessor of Claremont, Queen Mario Amelie wrote to our Queen, placing at Her Majes- ty's disposal that residence, which Queen Marie Amelie has occupied since the revolution of 1848-—The marriage of Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena and Prince Frederick of Sch les wig-Holstein- Sonderburg-A ugusteu- burg, it is expected, will take place in the summer of next year. The permanent residence of their Royal Highnesses will be at Frogmore Lodge, in which great improvements are to be made by the introduction of two extra wings. The residence of this amiable Princess, so near to the Castle, will afford much comfort to the Queen, who has long expressed a wish that at least one of her daughters should always be near her-—Coxvrt Journal. THF, GFNFBAL CONSPIHACY IN JAMAICA.—The two leading journals of Jamaica—the Colouiui Standard and the Morning Journal—both organs of the white commu- nity, make strong remarks upon the virtual confession of a want of substance of evidence made by Governor Eyre. The Colonial Standm'd observes Public Hnx- iety halts before this specimen of reasoning in a circle. His Excellency makes an assertion, and declares that the best, test is the concurrence therein of the two Chambers. We have not the slightest doubt that his Excellency's statement was made in perfect good faith, and that, impressed by the various information he re- fers to, he believed himself justified in representing the state of the country as desperate as he made it out in his address but what can be said for the two Chambers, who, instead of asking first for the data and informa- tion which the resolution given above points to, com- mitted themselves to an endorsation of the Governor's statements ? What fearful responsibility rests on them for having hastily endorsed an account of the condition of the island, which must have the effect of preventing any foreign or British capitalist from lending us one dollar hereafter! The fact is that the Legislature have yielded to that worst of counsellors, fear. They have tremblingly hidden their heads, and refused to touch with their finger the phantom which alarmed them, and which would have vanished had they dared to look it in the face. WILI.s.-The will of Thomas Rowley, wholesale tea dealer, of Cannon-street and Norwood Lodge, Surrey, was proved in London under £40,000 personalty, the ex- ecutors being Mrs. Rowley, the relict; Thomas Howse, of St. Paul's Churchyard, woollen draper; and Francis Nash, Horsleydown, wharfinger. To the last two named executors he leaves a legacy of £ 200. To his wife he leaves an immediate legacy of £ 500,an annuity of zC500, and his leasehold residence at Norwood; to his daughter, Mary Selina, he leaves his freehold estates in Biddulpli, Staffordshire, and inBuglawton, Cheshire; also a sum of £ 8,( 00, and a moiety of the residue of his property. The other moiety ho leaves to his daughter, Francis Jane, to whom lie leaves his freehold in the city together with his leasehold residence on the decease of his widow. The plate presented to him by the City Lands Commis- sioners, consisting rJi silver tankard, he leaves to his daughter Mary; and the silver teakettle, by the Wal- brook Ward Cbb, he leaves to his daughter Frances. The household furniture, musical instruments, and other effects, on the decease of his relict, are to be divi- ded between his two daughters. There are legacies to his servants. The inheritor of his estates in the coun- ties of Stafford and Chester is to take and use the sur- name of Rowley.—The will of IV r. Edward Mills, ban- ker, Lombard-street, was proved in London, on the 21st of November, by the executors, George Grenfell Glyn and St. Leger Richard Glyn, and Frederick Nathaniel Micklethwait,barrister-at-law,of the Inner Temple; and Charles Henry Mills, the testator's nephew. The per- sonalty was sworn under £ 250,000.—Illustrated London News. SINGULAR STATEMENT.—At the Mansion-house, after the ordinary business of the court had concluded, a res- pectably dressed man applied to Mr. Oke, the chief clerk, for advice. On Monday last, he said, he accom- panied his wife to the Bank of England to receive cer- tain dividends, amounting to zt250, payable on stock on which they had a joint interest, and the dividends on which had been accumulating for some time. The principal sum had originally belonged to his wife, from whom he had been living apart for the last seven years. As neither of them could touch the dividends without the consent of the otlnr, Ihoy met together on Monday by arrangement, though still living apart, to go to the Bank ot England lor the purpose of receiving them, the wife being accompanied by a female friend, as was understood. At the Bank the £:250 was paid them in gold, and he put the money into two canvas bags, which he had taken for the purpose, at the counter. He was then about tc put, the bags into his pocket, when his wife, apparently feeling anxious for their safety, produced a handker. chief and suggested that they should be tied together in it and she should carry the money. He agreed, and she wrapped up the money and put it into her pocket. On loi vihsr the Bank he invited her to take some refresh- ment and with that view took her to the Three Bucks Tavern in the Old Jewry. As they were about to enter the house she said she wanted to speak to jhe female friend who had accompanied her, and she stayed behind for that purpose. He waited for her in the tavern for some minutes, and as she did not join him lie returned into the street to look for her, but could not find her, nor had lie since then been able to hear anything of her. The worst of it was that she had gono with the whole £ 250. In reply to the Chief Clerk, the applicant stated ihat during the seven years he had lived apart from hia wife he had not contributed towards her maintenance, ami that she had lived with her mother in the interim. He now wanted to know whether he could take any cri. minal proceedings against his wife in the matter. Mr, ()ke was of opinion he could not, unless, indeed, it could be shown that his wife had acted in collusion with any one to make away with the money. Besides, it was just possible that, as the principal on which the dividends had originally belonged to his wife, she might be en- titled to it inequity quite irrespective of him, thoughh« was her husband.—The applicant then left, evidently diasappointed with the answer he had received. lJEATH OF Ma. NICHOLAS WOOD, THE MINING LNGI-- NEER.—The death of Mr. Nicholas Wood, the celebrated colliery engineer, took place in London, on iuesday morning, whither he had gone to consult some physicians on the declining state of his health. The Pall Mall Gazette states that the bread and butter controversy at Christ Ctiurch, Oxford, has requited in an entire change of system, and the various officers of the college will for the future be put on salaries. The office of manciple has, it is stated, merged into the department of the cook, and a fresh place has been created in the form of a. bursar's clerkship. On Saturday last, a. testimonial was presented to Lord Alfred Paget, by a number of his late constituents at Lichfield, which city he represented in Parliament for twenty-eight years before his defeat at the late general election. The testimonial is a handsome epergne, valued at nearly £ 100, and had Keen purchased solely by the ul)scrlutiolis of w, rkiiiu uowards of 400 in number. FENIANISM IN CANADA.—A telegram dated St. John's, New Brunswick, 6th inst., says :—This city has been ex- cited by repoits of a Fenian raid. A meeting of his Excellency and the Attorney General took place at St. Stephens for the purpose, it is supposed, of putting the frontier in a state of defence. Military and other authorities are ready to give their services if required. It is generally thought, liovirem, there is no serious cause for alarm. PRIVATE BILLS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.-Saturday was the last day this year for filing copies of railway and other bills in the House of Lords, and Saturday next is the last day in the Commons. The money or security deposits in the Court of Chancery must be made by the 5th January, and it is anticipated that the Eight per Cent." upon the estimates wdl exceed ten millions, Until the estimates are filed by the 31st instant the amount required cannot be ascertained. REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO OSBORNE.—The Queen with their Royal Highnesses Princess Helena, Louise, Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, left Windsor on Monday for Osborne. Her Majesty, it is understood, will re- side at Osborne for a p> riod of about nine weeks, and it is expected that on the occasion of the Sovereign open- ing Parliament in person on the 1st of February, the Queen will on that day leave Osborne for town, and after the performance of the ceremony return immediately to the Isle of Wight. PATTERNS AND SAMPLES OF MERCHANDISE FOR BEL' GIUM.-Arrangemellts have been concluded under which patterns and samples of merchandise addressed to Bel- gium may be forwarded, on the 1st of January next and thenceforward, by the route of Calais (if specially so di- rected) under the same general regulations as by the di- rect mail via Ostend. Packets of patterns, &c. so ad- dressed will be liable to the following rates of postage, which must be paid in advance by means of postage stamps, viz :—Not exceeding four ounces 4d; above four ounces and not exceeding eight ounces, 8d; no packet exceeding eight ounces in weight can be sent as a pattern ,o Belgium. ADDRESS TO DR. COLENso.-The following is the text of the address to be presented to Dr. Colenso upon his arrival at Natal. My Lor J,—It is with singalar pleasure that we had your return to Natal after an absence of three years, during the period your lordship has been engaged in the arduous task of combating ancient prejudices and loosening the tenacious hold of mediajval traditions. We congratulate you on the success of your sojourn in England and that you haveadded one more name to the illustrious catalogue of those who, without fear and with singleness of heart and honesty of purpose, have maintained the in- alienable right of alL men to exercise their own mental powers, and freely investigate all subjects, whether scien- tific or religious. Let us hope, my lord, that although your return may be threatened by the powers of that darkness you have happily assisted to disperse in the mother country, it will.be the harbinger of a new era in the land of our adoption and that your example both moral and intellectual may impel us onward in the ful- filment of our mission. We have the honour to be your lordship's obedient humble servants. (Here follow 130 signatures and the number is increasing.) The Bishops cf Capetown, Grahamstown, and the Free State had pub- licly pronounced that to join the communion of Dr. Colenso would be to separate from the communion of the Church of England, and recommended that the clergy should elect another bishop, the choice to be approved of by the faithful laity. TRADE MARKS.—At the Central Criminal Court on Monday, John Potter Sergeant, 51, surgeon, and John Sutton, 29, surgeon's assistant, pleaded guilty to an in- dictment charging the former with unlawfully and frau. dulently procuring to be forged the trade mark of Messrs. John Broadwood and Sons, and the latter withaiding and abetting in the offence. This was the first prosecution in the metropolis under the new act of Parliament for the protection of trade marks. Tho prisoners appeared to have had the notion that, if they did not imitate the mark precisely, they might do so with impunity, and accordingly they put, the mark on ivory instead of black or white wood, as was Messrs. Broadwood's custom, but tho Recorder observed that the intention to defraud was just the same. It was stated that the Messrs. Broadwood had entered on the prosecution in order that it might be- come more generally known that it was a criminal of- fence to forge a trade mark. The prisoners had been in cujtody five weeks, and had made every apology possible to Messrs. Broadwood, who consequently had no wish to press the charge.—The Recorder sentenced the pri- soners each to two months' hard labour.—The prisoner Sutton said that he had that very day paid £150 for the expenses of the prosecution, and had been induced to plead guilty, although perfectly innocent of the charge, on the assurance that he would be discharged on his own recognisances. — The Recorder remarked that it was very improper on the part of the prosecution if they had held out any such promise.—The prisoners were then re- moved. A SHIP FIRED INTO ON THE IImmER.-On Tuesday at the Hull Police Court, Mr. T. Floddam, Swedish and Norwegian Consul, at Hull, applied to Mr. Travis, this stipendiary magistrate, under the following circumstan- ces. On the Thursday the Norwegian brig Resolution, Captain Stainsen, arrived in the Humber, and was an. chored at the Victoria Docks. About noon on that day, the Captain and crew heard guns fired on the bank of the Humber, and they were shortly afterwards alarmed at finding that several shots came on board the vessel. They were unable to see from whence they were fired. The shots were fired so fast, and struck the ship with such precision, tint it was highly dangerous to walk about the decks. One shot struck the mainmast, and fell flat- tened on the deck, and on being picked up it proved to be a rifle ball. Shortly after au English steamer passed be- tween the brig and the shore, when the firing ceased. No soonerh id thestoamergot clear thanfiringrecommenced, and two more bullets struck the ship, falling unpleasantly near to the mate and some of the crew, who were at- tending to their duties forward. After a long time the firing ceased altogether, but the captain could not but look upon the whole affair as an insult to his national flag. He therefore had gone to his Consul (the appli- cant) with a view of having an inquiry instituted. Mr. Floddan stated that the captain was peculiarly struck with the fact of the firing having ceased whilst the Eng- lish steamer passed. The Magistrate replied that liedid not look upon the tiring as an insult to the Norwegian flag. It must be remembered that the brig was anchored off the Voluntee) Artillery Battery, where he (the Magis- trate) believed that carbine practice was going on. The 'Volunteers, no doubt, thought the brig out of range, and the firing had ceased when the English steamer passed because she was nearer to the shore. An inquiry should, however, be instituted. THE JAMAICA COMMISSION.—The London correspon- dent of the Manchester Guardian savs: -Great diffi- cuity is found in obtaining the services of competent per- sons to act on the Jamaica Commission. As Chancellor of the colony, the new governor was intended for its presidency. He has, ex officio, the power of administering an oath, though it is more than doubtful whether the exercise of this privilege in a quasi-judicial capacity un- known to the law either of the island or of the empire could be defended 011 constitutional grounds. It was hoped that at least one individual of experience as a law judgemis-ht ha vebeen induced to accept the invidious post as a colleague of the Governor. Sir Lawrence Peel was asked, but declined; and one of the too numerous, be- cause not, half w >rked occupants of the Trish Bench, was Is also invited ineffectually. There is now some talk of en- deavouring to persuade one of our subordinate judicial functionaries to fill the gap and as money is said to be no object, the point we may take for granted will be speedily settled. It will not be perhaps so easy to find any public man of weight and character to occuoy the chair on the other handof the Governor. Mr. Roebuck had the offer, I am told some days ago. What could have induced Mr. Cardwell to imagine that the member for Sheffield woutd regard such a proposal as a complimeut I cannot conceive. He is about the last man in England I imagine uh-i could be expected to quit this home in mid-winter to spend three months in the tropics, doinj extra police magistrate's duty in a secondary or tertiary position of authority. It would, indeed, I think, be very questionH hIe (whether any member of the House of Com- mons ought to take such a position; and I am quite sure that no member of that assembly who stands high in re- putation would be tempted to do so. Lord Durham's mission to Canada in 1837, was a very different affair. Canrnlais a great country, and there had been a real and formidable insurrection there. Lord Durham has been A leading cabinet minister, and as a peer could not de- fend in person his measures as permanent Governor General of the Colony in tue House of Commons. His position was analogous to that of a viceroy of Ireland, whose chief secretary is always a member of the House of Commons. It was natural and proper, therefore, that he should take with him as his political confidents and aides de cimseul men like Mr. C. Buller and Mr. Duu" combe. Sir Henry Storks is a soldier, holding office, sometimes civil and often military, at the pleasure of the Crown, sent out to made inquisition for blood shed, and tV" cannot wonder at the disgust with which men of eminence have hitherto repelled the propose to act as his subalterns in such, business, —- During the past week 49 wrecks have been reported- making a total for the present year of 3,208. A Berlin letter in the Cologne Gazette says: The jewellery from the royal treasury worn by the Princess Alexaudrine on the evening of her wedding-day was worth 1,500,000 tha!ers (5,625,000f.), and is only taken out on grand occasions and with certain formaltios. The crown called the princesses' is only worn on a single oc- casion, that of their wedding. The necklace is composed of diamonds varying in value from 20,0(H) to 80,000 thalers (75,G(JCf. to 300,000f.) each. The central pendant is the famous Rsgent or Pitt diamond, which is regarded as the most valuable of the jewels of the Prussian crown." A fatal accident with firearms happened a few days ago near Loches. M. Octave Luce De Tremont had in- vited some friends to shoot over his estate at Saint-Se- noch, and among them M. Leddet, president of the Tri- bunal of Loches. About one o'clock a red deer r< -so from its lair and darted across a niece of copsewood, when the last-named gentleman, fancying that he saw the animal close at Land, took a hasty aim and fired, lodging the entire charge in the lungs of his host. Death ensued in a few minutes. M. Leddet is so affccted by this unto- ward accident, that much anxiety is felt by his friends as to his final recovery. Z^THE ANGLO-AUS;RIAN TREATY.—A private letter from Vienna states that the preliminary treaty was signed on Saturday, the arrangement being for a maximum duty of 25 per cent, ad valorem, to be reduced to 20 per cent in 1870, Austria reserving liberty to make a further liberal reduction when the definitive treaty is completed in March next, if the concessions she seeks on corn and wine are yielded by our Government. A gentleman, well informed upon the subject, writes to the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce:— I have every reason to believe that if the present duty of is. per quarter on corn be given up, far greater advantages to our country will be obtained from Austria." A COURT CHIMNEY SWEEP.—The King of Prussia has just filled up the post of Court chimney sweep, and has given an audience to the new dignitary. G-jlijnani is surprised that chimney sweeping is one of the Stata charges in Prussia but our only wonder is that it is not conferred on a noble. The grand hereditary chimney sweeper, with brush rampant, and face blacked proper, would be just the title and office for one of those Prus-iaa nobles who manifest such supreme contempt for the people, and such a regard for Courts. Besides, the work i would necessitate the ascent of the back stairs, a privi- lege which is universally valued,-Pall Mall Gazette. FORGERY ON A CITY BANK.—A discovery has ju-t been made of a forgery to the amount of £ 800 and up- wards upon the City Bank, in Threadneedle street, and the offence is said to have been committed in a mo. t artful manner. One Robert Buxton, who is alleged to have been implicated in it, if not the sole person con- cerned, ha< absconded, and is now supposed to be on his voyage to the United States. The matter has been placed in the hands of an eminent solicitor in the City of grrat practice in criminal law, and also in those of Colonel Frascr, the City Commissioner of Police, with what re- sult remains to be seen. In the meantime it is rumoured that an experienced City detective police officer is already on the track of the fugitive.—Times. GREAT FIRE IN PARIS.—The large factory of Cail and C i., on the Quai Billy, was ent irely destroyed by fire ou Friday night. The Minister of the Interior, the Prefect of the Seine, the Prefect of Police, Marshal Canrobert, and several general officers were present on the scene of the ca tastrophe on Saturday morning. The whole of the Chaillot quarter was in a state of great anxiety, for it war feared that 2000 men and women who inhabit it would be suddenly thrown out of work. M. Cail, how- ever, assured the Minister of Interior that he would ra- ther lose bis whole fortune than discharge a single work- man. He has ordered tents and sheds to be erected im- mediately, under which work was to be resumed on Mon- day. Tue loss to the proprietors, amounting to very many millions of francs, is understood to be covered by insurances in nine companies. A FEW FACTS ABOUT BRITISH RAILWAYS.—Few even of the well-informed are perhaps prepared for the broad fact that, with three more sessions of Parliament such as that of the current year 1885, the authorised capital of the railways of Great Britian will equal in amount the funded debt of the empire. It may perhaps be some- thing new even to the select few who look at blue-books to learn that already the number of miles of railway in opHatiou in these small islands extends further than half the circuit of the earth. Our miles of railway are now upwards of thirteen thousand. and the entire cir- cumference of the earth is twenty-five thousand. Again the number of miles run by trains in Great Britian and Ireland in the year 1864 alone was more by thirty five millions of miles than the distance from tho sun to the earth, and 289 times the distance from the earth to the moon. Still further, the gross revenue of our railways in the United Kingdom is at this moment equal to more than half the revenue of the ''British Government, and, at the present rate of progress, will be as large as the en- tire revenue of the Government in another ten years.- Malley Market Review. DEATH OF AI.KXANDEK BIXIO.—The Paris correspon- dent of the Globe writes on Sunday: There died here yesterday a rather eminent man both socially and politi- cally. Alexander llixio (brother of the active Italian patriot) always passed for a French citizen, though born Dn the riviera of Genoa, the town of Chiavari, in 1808, forming part of Department des Apennines under the empire. He studied in Paris, and held a medical di- ploma. He founded, in 1831, the leading French periodi- cal La Rern-e des Deux Mondes, and, in 1837, Le Journal de I'Agriculture (equivalent to your Farmers' Gazette), of which he was editor to the last. In 1848 the Pro. visional Government sent him on a special miss ion to Turin, and Besancon returned him its member to the Constituent Assembly. During the formidable days of June in Paris streets he got a musket ball in the chest, while pacifying the populace on the barricades. On his recovery he was made Vice-President of the National Assembly. President Louis Napoleon confided to him the Ministry of Agriculture and Trade, but on the 2nd of December he was on his way to the national printing office with the decree of deposition against Louis Napo- leon, when hearing that the Assembly had been forcibly dispersed, he declared himself a prisoner, but was re- leased shortly after. He held the directorship of many leading financial undertakings. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.—At Little Falls, New York a man named Walradt, recently murdered his wife and daughter—the latter twelve years of age-and then com- mitted suicide. Walradt's house having apparently been deserted for several days, a neighbour entered the place by one of the windows. Upon entering the sleeping apartment of the family, several drops of blood were seen upon the floor. Descending by the back stairs to the dining-room, a dreadful spectacle was presented to I'n view. Behind the stove, and directly against the stair- way door, lay the dead body of the girl Josephine, a long gash from ear to ear showing where her lifeblood oozed away. Beyond, and in the middle of the room, lay the mother, with similar wounds upon her neck. In another apartment lay the dead body of Walradt. A gun was fastened to one oftlie standards of a bench, with a string leading from the trigger grasped tightly in his hand. The fearful wounds in the head, where the leaJ had passed through the temple, tearing out and scattering the brain, bore their own evidence of the manner of his death. No cause other than that of temporary insanity can be assigned for this fearful deed. Walradt had al- ways borne an honest character in the community in which he lived, was known as a kind and loving husband, an affectionate father, and a good citizen. From the evidence before the Jury it would seem that he had had some difficulty concerning a farm lie had purchased, and this had tended to produce melancholy, but it was not regarded as anything serious by his family or friends. AN AFFAIR WITH BRIGANDS.—The Florence corres- pondent of the Times gives the following account of a fight with brigands quite close to Florence:—" The lieu- tenant commanding the pest of carbineers at Pontas- sieve, who had long been on the trace of a band com- manded bv two famous malefactors, named Martino and Peri, received information about a week ago that an attack was ni ditated on a rich farm at Pieve Vecchia, about three miles from Florence. Accordingly, on the evening of the lith inst., he went to the farm with 18 car- bineers, and made his arrangements to capture the as- sailants—arrangements which, as the sequel showed, might have been better planned. The occupant of the farm, unwilling to run the risk of the expected fight, took himself off, with his family. The lieutenant, selecting two Tuscans from the carbineers under his command, made them disguise themselves as peasants, and sit down at table as if they were farm servants. Towards eleven o'clock notice was given of the approach of the banditti, nine in number, and presently they entered the house by means of false keys. It was expected that they would order the two disguised carbineers, whom they found at supper, to show them where money was kept, but they either rec igaised them or had made up their minds to murder all tue inmates of the farm, for they fired two pistols at them, killing one upon the spot, but missing the other. Thereupon, through two doors, the other car- bineers rushed into the large hall in which this scente passed, and a fight ensued, in which one of the brigands was killed and two were slightly wounded and captured. The six others were allowed to escape, a result which. hardly justifies the praise lavished by some of the Florence papers upon the conduct of the expedition. Besides the carbineer who wras killed two were wounded. Of the brigands who got away, several are believed to be wounded. The struggle in the hall seems to have been desperate, for the doorposts are hacked with sword cuts and much blood, and even pieces of flesh, are said to have remained on the ground, as well as several knives pistols and daggers abandoned by the robbers in their flight. TiJe circumstances of the affair are very dram- atic. The superior number of the carbineers ought one would think, if combined with a. judicious plan of action to have ensured the destruction or capture of the whole band. Amoug other things which they left behind them was a large bunch of false keys, opening all the doors in the farmhouse, and the manufacturer of which the car. binders are said to have discovered." Two more regiments in New Zealand are under orders for home, and we may expect the 57th and 1st Battalion of the 12th to follow the 40th, 53d, 65th, 68th, and 70th already, we believe, on their way to England.—Army and Navy Gazette. THE COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL.—The coroner's in- quiry into the death of the persons who were drowne4 in the collision between the Samphire and an American vessel in the channel was terminated on Saturday. The bodies upon which the inquiry has been held were identi- fied as Miss Meta Baines, the daughter of the Vicar of Falding, Kent, and Mademoiselle Georgiana Kcenig, a crerman governess to Miss Baines; the body of the gen- tleman being supposed to be that of M. Duclercq, a merchant, of Graveliness. The age of Miss Baines waa twenty years, and that of her governess about twenty- three years. Miss Baines had lately been staying a< Sandgate.-The jury found a verdict of "Accidental death." EXTRAORDINARY BURGLARY.-An extraordinary charge of burglary was preferred at the Westminster Police- court on Friday against a young man named Swyer. On Tuesday a Mrs. Barrington, Walton Villas, Bromp- ton, went to a theatre, taking with her the housemaid. The cook was left in charge of the house, but she, too, went out, and in her absence the front door was opened, and a large quantity of jewels belonging to Mrs. Bar- rington, and wearing apparel belonging to Lord Seaford, were stolen from the house. Suspicion fell upon a young man named Pettis, who lodged in a house near, and at which the cook had called when she went out. On the following Thursday he was accused of the offence. He admitted his guilt, and made a statement implica- ting Swyer. Pettis then went into the washhouse and committed suicide by cutting his throat. Swyer waa arrested the same day. He is remanded for further examination. SUICIDE THROUGH REMORSE.—On Saturday morning, M r. Richards, Deputy Coroner, held an inquiry at the Duke of Gloucester Tavern, Sebright-street, Bethnal- green, relative to the suicide of Thomas Farmer, aged 49 years.—Hannah Farmer, of 41, Sebright-street, said that the deceased was a weiver, and he was earning £1 per week. He had a very fine voice, and he used to go out amongst his friends to sing, and was frequently in the habit of getting intoxicated. He used to reproach himself bitterly for his misconduct, as it unfitted him for work. On Tuesday last he came up into the weav- ing-room, and he contrived to slip a rope off the loom without being perceived. He then went down stairs, and witness almost directly afterwards found him hang- ing to his bedstead by the rope. He was immediately cut down, and Dr. Rolph, police surgeon, was sent for, but he proved to be dead. Witness had seen the deceased a week previously examining the rail of the bedstead, and she remarked to his daughter, He is looking for a place to hang himself," but his daughter said that it was a, groundless alarm, audit was best to say nothing. Dr. 'a'st James Rolph, M.R.C.S., said that the deceased had so arranged the knots on the rope under his ear that death must have been nearly instantaneous.—The Coroner hav- ing summed up, the jury return a verdict of Suicide while in a state of unsound mind." A MURDERED CHILD SENT BY RAILWAY.—An inquiry into a case of supposed child murder was held on Friday evening, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, by Mr. Payne, coroner. It appeared from the evidence that on the 21st of November, a young woman, well dressed, brought a. small deal box into the shop of Mr. Headmeads, baker and carrier's agent, in Lisson grove, and left it to be for- warded to Mr. Dubin, Priory road, Penzance, Corn- wall. With care." Messrs. Sutton, the carriers, of 35, Aldersgate street, forwarded it in the usual manner by the West Cornwall Railway to its destination. The young woman had not paid the carriage, and the box was sent back marked, Refused by the consignee, 2s 6d to pay." On the Wednesday, the box was opened at Al- dersgate street, and it was found to contain the body of a female child wrapped up in calico. Mr. F. A. Simpson, surgeon, said that the child was a fully developed female infant. It bad been born about a month ago, but ad- vanced decomposition prevented him from ascertaining the cause of death, or even whether it had been born alive. The police, it appeared, were unable to trace any person concerned in the transaction. The jury returned an open verdict, That owing to the decomposed state of the body of the child, they were unable to say the cause of death;" and they recommended that the police should take measures to try and discover the persons who were guilty. MURDEROUS ATTACK UPON A GAMEKEEPER.— At th« Preston Police Court, on Saturday, Robert Lister, a beerhouse keeper in the town, was charged with commit- ting a most ferocious assault upon John Ormrod, a gamekeeper, at Whittiugham, a few miles from Preston. From the evidence for the prosecution it appeared that on the evening of the 6th inst. Ormrod saw Lister with a gu n in a wood at Whittingham. On the latter observing Ormrod he went out of the wood, and was there joined by another man, who had a gun. Ormrod followed them, and in a short time they came close together, ahedge divid- ing them. Lister poked at Ormrod with his gun through the hedge, and afterwards both men got over to Ormrod, took the stocks off their guns, and holding up the barrels in their hands, threatened to knock his brains out. They threw Ormrod to tliegraund, whilst one of them held him down, the other struck him on the head and body with the barrel of his gun, and he was maltreated in this way until nearly insensible. Eventually one of them said He'll do now," and they left him. Ormrod fell down twice whilst attempting to get home, and at last he was found by a neighbouring man, and conveyed to where he lived. In reply to the bench, Ormrod said he was cer- tain that Lister was one of the men.—For the defence, it was said that Lister was in Preston at the time it was stated the assault was committed upon Ormrod. Two witnesses were called, who swore that they saw Lister at home, or in the street where his house is situa. ted, at the time in question.—The bench committed Lister to the sessions for trial, but admitted him to bail. ATTEMPT TO ROB A GENTLEMAN IN LONDON. — At Bow street, London, on Friday, Joseph Wood, and Rich. ard Albert, were brought up for final examination on a charge of being found in'a room at Mr. Bunyard's private hotel, Norfolk street, Strand, supposed for the purpose of committing a felony. The prisoners, who are both foreigners, and are known to the police, drove up in a cab to Mr. Bunyard's house at about five o'clock in the after- noon, being about the time that passengers generally arrived from the city of Paris. They said that they had come from thence, and that they had been to a neigh- bouring hotel, where Wood's father was known, but the house being full, they had been recommended to Mr. Bunyard. They took a bedroom, and went to bed very early. At about seven o'clock the next morning, Mr. Parker, a Rotlierham gentleman, residing in the house, found the prisoner Albert in his bed-room, crawling about on his hands and knees, and fumbling with his (Mr. Parker's) clothes, which were hanging on the foot- rail of the bed. Mr. Parker roused the house, and amongst the persons who entered the roomupon hearing the alarm, was Wood, who declared that his friend had only made a mistake, being in search of the closet, Albert was given into custody, and at once taken to the station-house. Wood expressed a desire to accom- pany him, and went as far as Vinegar yard, where he turned aside and then hurried away. A couple of hours later he went back to Mr. Bunyard's, and ordered break- fast. Sergeant Monckton, the detective officer stationed at the Charing cross Railway Station, was sent for (as he understands German, and prisoner could not or would not speak English). Monckton asked him why he did not follow his friend to the station-house. He answered that he wanted to go to the Post Office to post some let- ters. He was then taken in custody. He stated that lie had only known Albert for one dny. They met at Paris. Albert, however, stated that they had known each other for years. Inquiries were made, and it waa found that neither Wood nor his father was known at the hotel from wnich he said he had been recommended. Albert was committed for three months, and Wood was discharged. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DUBLIN.-One of the most fear- fully destruct,ve tires that ever occurred in this city broke out on Thursday morning, at five minutes at. ter five o'clock, in the extensive premises of Messrs. O'Farrell and Co., 145, 146, 147, 148, and 149, North Kiug street, chandlers, tobacconists, and general merch- ants. A police-constable observed smoke issuing from one of the front windows, and gave the alarm. As it was known that thirteen young men belonging to the establishment slept in the upper rooms, the greatest fears were entertained for their safety, and not without jnsc cause, as the flames were spreading, with the greatest rapidity, to immense quantities of tallow, soap, candies, paraffin oil and c "za oit, turpentine, resin, and also other highly inflammable m.tters, threatening to cut off escape from the upper sections o. the concern, which it would be seen at a glance were consigned to inevitable destruction witn the great bulk of all they contained. The policeman had great difficulty in making himself heard, and the inmates were hard pressed to escape with their lives, and had to jump, half dressed, through windows, or get, as best they couid, into the street, leaving their ciothes and any valuables they possessed behind them. The young men aad scarcely left the stores when the flames from below cut off all com- munication witn the top part of the premises, and it was a tornflic sight to observe the fury with which thev roared through the masses of combustible matter by which they were ted-grease and tallow, paraffin and other oils. The fire was got under by eight o'clock, but stIll the engines had to continue their work up to an ad- vanced hour in the day. One of the brigade men, named Fitzgerald, while engaged in cutting offa connec- tion that would cause the extension of the fire, was so severely injured oy a portion of a wall falling on him that be was to Richmond I-Iospital, where he lies in a precarious stfit The loss sustained by this great fire is esiimated at £ 35,000, and principally consists of tobacco, eoap, caudles, taliow, oils of various kinds, resin, turpen- tine, &c., machinery, and.miscelhineous property.—Free- man's Journal. COLLISION ON THE SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—A colli- sion took place at the Plymouth railway station on Satur- day evening, by which several persons received severe shocks, and some were badly cut and bruised. A pas- senger train had just arrived from Launceston, and was brought up at the ticket platform, where the porters were engaged in taking the tickets, when a Cornish train, going out of the station, ran into a pilot engine and train crossing the main line. The Cornish train suffered no damage, but the pilot engine was injured, and one of its trucks crushed, while a van disengaged from it ran into the Tavistock train, which was driven against its own engine with great force, and the passen- gers were thrown together and against the carriages. FATAL ATTEMPT TO CATCH A MOUSE.—Dr. W. Hard- wicke, the deputy-coroner for Central Middlesex, held an 4nquest on Saturday, at Potter's-bar, on the body of William Cole, a farmer's son, who died from tetanus, resulting from a wound received while chasing a mouse, It appeared that the deceased was in the barn, where was a chaff-cutting machine worked by a horse. He saw a rr ouse, and endeavoured to catch it, but the fright- ened little animal ran between the cog-wheels of the machine, and as deceased endeavoured to take it his hand was taken between the cogs of the wheel and his fingers crushed. One of the fingers was amputated im- mediately. He went on very well for ten days, but com- plained of a pain in his back, and ultimately found a difficulty in swallowing. On Sunday last, the 14th day after the accident, he died, owing to lockjaw having set in, arising from the injury to the nerves of the hand. Verdict, Accidental death." THE STAPLEHURST ACCIDENT.—EXTRAORDINARY DAMA- GEs.-At the Liverpool Assize Court on Monday, the case Hampson v. the South Eastern Railway Company, came on for hearing. The claim arose out of the late railway accident at Staplehurst, on the defendants' line of railway. The plaintiff was the widow of Adam Hamp- son, veterinary surgeon, and part owner of a cotton mill at Bolton aud the action was brought on behalf of her- self and her two children. The defendants admitted the negligence of their servants, but left the ques ion of damages to the jury. The total income of the decea,ed was about £ 3000 a-year, but her familv were only now in receipt of about jE200 a-year. His Lordship thought that if railway companies were to be held liable for such contingencies as these, they had better shut up business at once. Mr. Temple, Q.C., on the other hand, thought that if persons were to be deprived of their sources of income by such gross negligence as had been exhibited in this case, they had better retire from business at once.—The jury returned a verdict for d67000 £4000 for the widow, and jBlaOO for each of the children.—An ac- tion against the same company was also tried on Mon- day in the Court of Exchequer. The plaintiff was Mr. Hunt, manager of a Huddersfield cotton mill, and he sought to recover for injuries sustained by the Staple- hurst accident.-The plaintiff obtained a verdict, da- mages, £ 550. THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC PRELATES AND THE CA. BINET MINISTERS.—The Nation newspaper, which seems fully informed on the movements of the Roman Catholic Prelates, gives an account of the interview which the Roman Catholic Archbishops had lately in London with Sir George Grey, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Bruce. The Prelates did not, that journal says, refer to the questions of a charter and endowment for the Catho- lic University, but propounded their views onthe occasion as to the foundations of the whole structure of state edu- cation in Ireland. These views had reference to the primary system of national education in Ireland, which they wish absolutely to overturn, in favour of the deno- minational principle; to the model schools, which they describe as miniature "infidel colleges, and whose 1'6<' venues, £40,000 per annum, they desire to see appropri- ated to other uses; and to Trinity College, Dublin, which they would restore to Protestants exclusively, des- troying its character as a mixed college on liberal prin- ciples, and taking away the portion of its revenues which might be deemed not required for the education of "a small (the Protestant) fraction of the people," devoting them to what is characterised as a less exclu- sive and more comprehensive system-that, namely, of which the Catholic University on the one hand, and tho Protestant University, entailed in its resources, on the other, would be the type. It is not stated that the Go- vernment lent an ear to these large propositions. THE ALLEGED ASSAULT ON DR. HUNTER.—At the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, Frederick Jones and Samuel Merrick were indicted for assaulting Dr. Robert Hunter, with intent to do him grevious bodily harm. Dr. Hunter was a physician, residing in Upper Seymour street, and in September last Mrs.Merrick, the wife of a tobacconist in Upper Baker street, entered inta an arrangement with him to attend her. At the close of the first month Mr. Merrick called on Dr. Hunter for the purpose of arranging for extra fees, and went away apparently very much dissatisfied. On Thursday, Nov. 2nd, the two prisoners called at Dr. Hunter's house, and administered to him a severe and brutal chastise- ment with a thick stick which was now produced. They were taken to the police-court and committed for trial, but on the following Saturday a warrant was applied for against Dr. Hunter for an alleged rape upon Mrs. Mer- rick. The reason why the trial for the assault had not taken place earlier was on account of an arrangement made that it should be postponed until the more serious charge against Dr. Hunter had been disposed of. Wit. nesses were called to prove the assault, one of whom said that on his remarking at the time that the prisoners were rendering themselves liable to a criminal indict- ment, Jones replied, You don't suppose that I came here not knowing the consequences; I came with the in. tention of giving him a licking." In the defence it was urged that the assault was committed under a strong feeling of excitement, the defendants being firmly con- vinced that Dr. Hunter had committed a gross assault upon Mrs. Merrick. The jury found both the prisoners guilty. Sentence was deferred. A NOTTINGHAM MANUFACTURER HORSEWHIPPED BY A LADY.-At the Nottingham Police Court, on Monday, Mrs. Charlotte Burton, a widow, was charged with as- saulting Mr. George Bayliss Yates, a lace manufacturer. -Complainant stated that he had known Mrs. Burton 18 years, and was in partnership with her three years. A short time ago they dissolved partnership, but were on friendly terms up to Friday last. On that day he waa going along St. Mary's Gate, when he met Mrs. Burton, and put out his hand to shake hands with her. On his doing so she pulled a whip from under her cloak and struck him across the face, calling him a villain." She struck him a second time with the whip, and he then took it from her. She then flew at his face, and tried to scratch his eyes out, which she would have done had she not had gloves on. She gave him a black eye.—In cross-examination, the witness said the defendant was formerly in his employ. She had subsequently left him and went into a warehouse in Storey-street, but she returned to him in about a fortnight, and afterwards he took her into partnership. Within the last six weeks he promised to make Mrs. Burton his wife. He had driven her out in his carriage. He advised her to give up her warehouse and call in her goods, in order that they might be married. He also told her that she might come into his warehouse until he was ready to be married. He promised to marry her in the spring. He did not say that was difficult. He told her he could not marry until he had sold the furniture at his house in the Park. He did say that if he married her and re- mained in the Park he should be "black-balled." She then replied, Don't come to my warehouse or house until you are ready to marry me." He did not hit Mrs. Burton with his umbrella. He ran away from her.- Re-examined .—Up to Friday last he fully intended to make the defendant his wife. He got away as quickly as he could, but she was close to him with her hands to his face.—In defence, it was urged that the assault was only a trivial one, and that there was justification arising from the complainant having broken his promise to marry the defendant.—The Bench looked upon it as a serious assault, and said Mr. Yates did the only thing a man could do in running away.—The defendant was fined 40s. and costs. ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A YOUNG LADY BY HER BROTHER, NEAR STAFFORD.-At the Stafford ussizes, on Monday, before Mr. Justice Keating, George Tavernor, a young man apparently about 21 years old, wa- in. dicted for shooting his sister, Ellen Tavernor. at B s- wick, on the 15th of September, with intent to murder her. The indictment also charged him with indent to do grievous bodily harm, and with unlawfully w pud. ing.-The Hon. Granville Ryder conducted the prose- cution, and Mr. Motteram defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence that on the afternoon of the day named in the indictment prisoner came home in a state of intoxication and quarreiied with his mother who fled from the house in terror, so violent was the prisoner in his demeanour-towards her. The prison r upon finding that his mother bad left the house, t, ok from the cupboard a loaded double-barrelled gun, and followed in pursuit of her, notwithstanding the remon. strances of several persons who met him and whom he threatened to shoot if th.y attempted to stop him At this time the prisoner's sister. Miss Ellen Tavernor" was out walking in the lanes in the neighbourhood of their residence, in company with a gentleman named Laybourne, when they observed the prisoner in a field adjoining the lane in which they w,-re. Mr. Laybourne first addressed the prisoner, who told him to etard back or he would shoot him. Miss Tavernor then asked the prisoner to let her pass, but he refused to do so and placing the gun to Ins shoulder threatened to shoot her also. Miss 'lavernor then, at the urgent request of Mr. Laybourne, turned to go away, when the prlsoner fired. wounding Ins sister, who tell to the ground. He imme- diateiy fired again, the second shot also taking effect in Aliss Tavernor's back and legs, inflicting such serious injuries that she had to be carried home, where she re- mained under medical attendance a considerable time I tie prisoner was soon afterwards apprehended, whence expressed his sorrow at what he had done, and wished to had been his mother instead of his sister. Mr. Mo >■ teram having addressed the jury on behalf of the pri- soner, the learned judge summed up, and the jury re- turned a verdict of guilty of unlawfully wounding.—-Tha prisoner was sentenced to nine months imnrisonmsnfc*