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MULTITM IN P ARVO. of7hhe6G^atea^ Ec1lntui'gb lias been appointed captain DaltoTi ^ajJP!'8 announce the death of Mr. John The d e',lliJeiJt Irisli antiquary, in his 78th year, the Rer V'S announced of Lady Williams'wife of "-if Lrasmus Williams,chancellor of St. Davids. E^LT^?8 has left, or is about to leave, winter taly, there to pass the remainder of the Amongst other novelties promised during the continu- thanceC. of the Paris Exhibition is a swimming match across the channel. A man has just lost his life in a paraffin candle manufactory at Zaehleesdorf, in Austria, by falling into a vat of boiling oil. The chapel of Slackville College, East Grinstead, has been broken open by thieves, and the altar cross, candlesticks, books, and other articles stolen. Some of the French journals state that Queen Vic- toria will probably go to Germany in the spring, and also visit Paris for a few days to see the Exhibition. A letter in the l imes from a Clyde shipbuilder says that the London shipwrights are paid 40 per cent higher than the Clyde shipwrights, or 7s per day against 5s. The Times states that the address in the House of Lords will be moved by the Earl of Beauchamp, and it will, in all probability, be seconded by Lord Delamere. The Athenaeum says:—" The Pulski collection of antiquities and works of art has been purchased, we understand, by Mr. Meyer, for the museum at Liver- pool." The ship Ulysses has foundered in the Indian Ocean. A portion of the crew and passengers have been brought to Bombay by the ship Braunstone, but one boat is still missing. The population of China was in 1757, 190,348,328; in 1780, 2117,543,434 in 1812, 361,693,190; in 1841, about 413,457.311 and according to the last census it was 414,686,994. A remarkable and perhaps unparalleled coincidence is recorded in the civil registry of Bar-sur-Aube, inFrance. In 186G there were inscribed there 106 births, 106 deaths and 106 marriages. Salar Jung, the Nizami Minister, is sending an expe- dition from Bombay to recover some patrimonial terri- tory at Kadramont, the annexation of which is threat ened by a Bedouin chief. The River Dee conservators have resolved to take proceedings under the Fishing Act, 1861, against the parties polluting the river Alyn by turning the refuse from coal oil works into it. The Wanganui Tim"S, a New Zealand paper, claims for the war with the Maoris the honour of being the longest war on record. With little intermission it bad continued from 1844 to the present day. The Custom House officers of Belgium a few days since seized a man, horse, aud cart, engaged in an inge- nious method of smuggling. On a small horse a largei skin had been artfully adapted, and the interval stutfed WIth tobacco. Edinb their Royal Highnesses the Duke of SerfinpW1-' ^>1^uceas' Louise, and Prince Arthur, and his divine serv^- ^le Prince of Leinington, attended ins. ut^lliT>pingham Church on Sundaymorn- lheRev. George Prothero officiated. panied Irp"al Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.B. accom- and af staff, proceeded on Monday, to Sheerness. at -^°,n hasted his flag, "white at the fore," or Uaip as commander in Chief in China, Her J =>ty ,i ship Cumberland saluting with 15 guns. French papers state that Lieutenant Lecca, of the ouavea, who some time back killed M. Seguin in a duel nas been placed on the retired list. A judicial inquiry has been commenced relative to the duel which recently took place between M. Henri De Rochefort and M. Paul De Cassagnac. The Glowworm says We believe that the vacant Garter, if not conferred upon the Duke of Beaufort, will be bestowed upon either the Marquis of Bath or the Duke of Malborough but it is generally understood that the claims of the tirst-named nobleman will have para- mount weight when Lord Darby gives his decision." A farmyard fire occurred at Malton, on Saturday night. fortunately early on. The fire bells in the churches quickly brought great numbers of persons to the spot. The fire originated in a cowhouse and was purely acci- dental. The beasts were turned out, and the fire (owing to want of water, through the frost) allowed to exhaust itself. It is reported by the authorities of the Louvre that that institution contains 2,000 pictures of which 12 are attributed to Raffaelle, three to Correggio, 18 to Titian, 13 to Paul Veronese, 42 to Rubens, 22 to Vandyck, 17 to Rembrandt, 11 to G. Dow, 11 to Murillo, six to Vales- quez, one to Watteau, four to Poussin, 16 to Claude, and 41 to J. Vernet. The receptions and entertainments at the Tuileries, says the Sport, are numerous. Each Sunday during the season is devoted to the colonel's dinner, as it is termed, the commanders of the different corps quartered in Paris being invited in turn. On Mondays there is a family dinner, which will shortly be followed by soirees in the Pnvate apartments of the Empress. The Army and Yavy Gazette understands that, pend- ing the consideration of the recommendations of Lord Strathnairn's Commission on Army Organisation, all ap- pointments to the civil branches of the army have been suspended, and that candidates for service in the Com- missariat from the line have been informed their appli- cations must stand over for the present. The Executive Committee of the Reform League, and the delegates from trade, friendly, and temperance societies, appointed to confer with the Committee, have agreed upon a scheme for general and district organisa- tion for the reform demonstration of 11th February. The postal division of the metropolis is to be taken, and a person will be appointed as organiser for each district. A deputation from the borough of Sheffield, consist- ing of Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, M.P., Mr. George Hadfield, M.P., the Mayor (Mr. John Webster), Mr. Alderman T Jessop, J.P., Mr..1. Eustace Grubbe, Mr. R. J. Gainsford, and the Town Clerk, had an interview with the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole at the Home Office, on Monday, on the subject of Sheffield being made an assize town. The Royal Irish Academy has been enriched by a very handsome present. The late Mr. Halliday was a well- known oollector of books and pamphlets illustrative of Irish history, and his collection ultimately reached the respectable dimensions of 14,000 separate works. This fine body of work. has been given by his widow to the Royal Irish Academy, of which Mr. Halliday was for many years a prominent member. The Court of Assizes of Corsica, has just tried a man named Peres, 29 vears of age, for having murdered a man, named Pinzuti, as well as the son of the latter, a boy of 13, and afterwards committed a burglary with violence. He first killed the father by stabbing him in seven places with a knife, and shortly afterwards meet- ing the boy in company with some women, he called him aside and stabbed him. He was sentenced to hard abour for life. The researches of M. Dupont in the caverns and qua- ternary deposits along the course of the river Lesse have been attended with considerable success. Fourteen caves in all were discovered; in one of which, the Chaleux Cave, about 30,000 flint instruments have been exhumed, together with a plentiful assemblage of the bones of the reindeer, goat, ox, horse, boar, brown bear, fox, badger, polecat, hare, and water-rat. Most of these animals are supposed to have served as food for man. A BULLET IN THE HEART. — Professor Hamilton has presented to the Pathological Society of New York the heart of a patient aged 44 years. A bullet was im- bedded in the anex of the heart, which had been lodged therefrom a musket wound received when he was 14 VIMM old. Six weeks after the injury he returned to ivi.iV. Tie v. is married in 1815. His. la^t illness was ascribed to cold. The ball was surrounded by a thero- m itous deposit. The heart was dilated, but not hyper- trophied. — Birtish Medical Journal. THE ToyXADo CASE.—The Herald says that her Majesty's Government have protested against the deci- sion arrived at in the case of the Tornado, on account of the irregularity and informality of the proceedings in the Spanish Prize Court. There can be no doubt that the evidence against the Tornado is calculated to arouse the gravest suspicions as to her ultimate destina- tion. and it is only too clear that if the ship be legally condemned as a Chilian ship of war, her crew may be regarded and treated as prisoners of war. SKATING MATCH IN THE FEXS.—A very interesting skating contest took place on Monday, on a branch of the Ouse, called the Ten Mile, and attracted from Cam- bridge, Ely, King's Lynn, and all oarts of the Fens an assemblage of no fewer than 8,000 persons, the major- ity of whom ventured on the ire, beneath which was at least 20 feet of water, but so strong was the ice that DO person was immersed. The championship of the Fens was wrested from Wilney, after having been held by representatives of that place for several years past. The Nelson Exarnivfr, in reporting the execution of Burgess, Levey, and Kelly, three Thug-like murderers in New Zealand, savs: It has been a matter of dis- pute amongst medical authorities whether death in such cases is caused by strangulation or by dislocation of the spinal column. The necks of the thiee malefactors were therefore dissected by Drs. Williams and Cusack, and it was satisfactorily proved that death has resulted in each case from strangulation, the spinal column being found to be perfect in each instance; thus setting this much- vexed question at rest." -» i ne rrlnce and Princess Louis of fiesse arrived at Berlin, on Sunday night, and were received at the rail- way station by the Crown Princess of Prussia. On Mon. day they paid a visit to Queen Augusta. The impression having been created in Ireland that Lord Naas is desirous of inducing the Government to assist in the improvement of Irish harbours, meetings are being held to press the claims of several ports on his attention. The people of Waterford desire help for the removal of a bar at the entrance of that harbour, and those of Cork are agitating for the building of a pier at Queenstown to -facilitate the transport of troops and the transatlantic mail service." THE HULL STEAMER JUNO.—Later accounts state that the screw steamer Juno, belonging to Messrs. T. Wilson, Sons, and Co., of Hull, which was stranded a few weeks ago on Hela, near Dantzic, and which it was ex- pected would be got off, cannot be boarded in consequence of the great sea. Moreover she is broken in two before the boilers, the forepart of the deck is up, the broadside out not much above water, and the after-part is very lit- tle better. There is no chance whatever of getting the engines out. Mr. Charles Rieu, professor of Persian in University College, and one of the soundest Oriental scholars of the day, has been promoted to the post of Keeper of the Oriental Manuscripts in the British Museum. The Trustees have also promoted Mr. R. H. Major, whose name is so well known as an authority on all matters connected with geography and the history of navigation, to be keeper of the maps and charts which are contained in that establishment, and which form an extensive col- lection of very great importance. SINGULAR AcciDBNT.—At the Clapham-road station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Extension, a stair- case is lighted by a window at the foot of a shaft below the platform, and at the top of the shaft is glazed with thick glass, level with the platform. On the arrival of a train on Sunday evening a passenger upon getting out stepped upon this glass and fell through to the bottom of the shaft, a depth of 17 feet. His sudden disappear- ance caused quite a consternation. Therailway porters rushed to the staircase window and got him out. The broken glass had not only torn his clothes, but had in- flicted two very severe gashes on his right leg, between the knee and the foot. He was promptly conveyed to the house of a medical man, who bound up the wounds, expressing the hope that there was no glass in them, and hinting at the possibility of erysipelas being in- duced. The sufferer was Mr. Young, of Dalston-terrace, Kingsland, and he was enabled to return home, although suffering from shock of the fall as well as from injuries. Not knowing the depth of the pit he put out his hands, and bruised them against the brick walls. THE ACTIONS AGAINST EX-GOVERNOR EYRE. — An application was made on Saturday, to Mr. Baron Bramwell, at the judges'chambers, in Chancery-lane, by Mr. Rose, solicitor for ex-Governor Eyre, in respect of the indictments to be preferred against him for his con- duct in Jamacia, the nature of his application being that all further proceedings in the actions brought by Mr. Philips and Dr. Bruce, of Jamaica, to recover damages for false imprisonment, flogging, and other injuries sus- tained by them at the hands of Governor Eyre during the late rebellion, might be stayed until the plaintiffs had given Mr. Eyre security for his costs. The ground of the application was that the plaintiffs were resident beyond the jurisdiction of the court, and could not, therefore, be taken in execution for Mr. Eyre's costs in case lie should be successful in the actions that were pending against him. Mr. Birnie, from the office of i Messrs. Shaen and Roscoe, of Bedford-row, opposed the application on behalf of the plaintiffs. After hearing both sides, Mr. Baron Bramwell decided that the appli- cation was both premature and irregular, and ordered it to be adjourned sine die. A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE.—Some few months since a I prepossessing young lady called at the office to insert an advertisement in the Western Daihj Press. There hap- J pened to be a gentleman, a clerk in a large wholesale establishment—waiting at the counter, and he was struck with the appearance of the lady. After she had left lie contrived to see the advertisement which she had left, and which concluded with the words, Address M. Q., Daily Press-office." It appears that he went home and wrote a most respectful letter to M. Q," in which he apologised for the liberty taken, and begged the favour of an introduction, pleading as his excuse that lie should like to know more of the lady. He gave his real name and address, and referred her to the arm with whom he was engaged for a guarantee of his respectability. The young lady replied to this letter in her real name, de- clining to comply with the request, but the love-stricken Romeo was not thus to be daunted. He wrote again, and ultimately obtained the desired introduction. So favourably did he press his suit that an engagement fol- lowed, and we have permission to record the pleasing fact that the parties were married last week. THE CANDIOTE REFUGEES.—On Saturday, a meet- ing of the Committee which has been formed in the City of London for raising a fund for the relief of the un- fortunate people, upwards of 12,500 in number, it is said, and mostly women, children, and aged men, who have fled from Candia in consequence of the insurrection to the mainland of Greece and some of the adjacent is- lands, was held at Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, Lord John Hay occupying the chair. The committee is chiefly composed of merchants and bankers in the city, commisserating the distressed condition of the refugees, and they are in constant communication with an Anglo-Greek Committeee at Athens, formed for the same humane purpose, at the head of whom is General Sir Richard Church. The sum subscribed in the City up to Saturday was £7,050, and of that £;5,100 has been remitted at intervals to the Relief Committee at Athens in three instalments of ;e2,()(M,:ei.500, and £1,600, the last named sum having been remitted on Thursday last, to be expended by them in providing food and other necessaries for the refugee- at "rate not exceeding £500 weekly; and this is calculated to last until the 6th of March. EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE OF A BURGLAR IN SUN- DERLAND.—On Suuda v night last week the house of Miss Wake, a single lady, llvii.g in Eden-street, was attemp- ted to be broken into, the police, anticipating a re- newal on the following Sunday night, concealed them- selves on the premises before the inmates went to chapel, at six o'clock. The thieves ]i 'd watched them out, for about a quarter of an bou, f: erwaids there were a number of violent pulls at ti.e door bell, and, no re- sponse following, the parties .• eh- attempted to pick the lock, but were unsuccessful. They next broke a pane of glass in the front parlour window, and unfast- ened the latch, but, disturbed by some one passing the end of the street, they ceased for a short time. Again they returned, and, with a violent blow from an iron rail, broke open the inside window shutter. Detective- inspector Elliot was concealed under a table in the front parlour, while two other officers were in the rear. Im- mediately after the shutters were forced open, a man jumped through the window, while a second stood out- side to give the alarm and receive the plunder. The burglar was proceeding towards a sideboard when he saw the inspector under the table by the faint light of a fire; the latter jumped out of his concealment, seized the intruder while he called for arsistance, a struggle followed, and the fellow was captured, but his companion made clear off before the rest of the police could get out- side. The captured man is a tin-plate worker named John Massiter, about twenty-four years of age. He was brought before the magistrates on Monday, and re- manded. THE DEBTS OF THE YOUNG DUKE OF HAMILTON. —Scotchmen (says the Glasgow Herald) can hardly re- gard the misfortune which has befallen the ducal house of Hamilton with any other feeling save that of regret. There might have been no higher, no more honoured and respected name on the roll of the British peerage t the present day than that of the two great historic families now joined in this princely dukedom. The opportunities of serving their country, and of doing incalculable good, are born with the heirs of the house, but some unhappy twist in their nature seems of late years to drive them devious from all that is truly great and noble in the career of noble men. The last inheritor of the name and titles was a man of excellent ability, of cultivated taste, of kindly dis- position, and fitted by nature to have taken a lead- ing part in public affairs; hut he lived and died simply > asavotaiy of pleasure, and seekirg it and enjoying it in other countries than his own. He wa-j more of a Frenchman than a Scot. The present duke, who is little more than a boy, seems to have inherited a double share of his father's prodigality. He entered upon his estate less than twelve months ago, and though he found it burdened with debts he began to squander it still further upon the turf and otherwise in the most reckless manner possible. Matters, it appears, have come to a crisis and no wonder, if all is true that is reported of this harumscarutn son of illustrious ancestors. It certainly was melancholy to hear of the noble youth being mixed up in lodging-house rows, and strange to see the name he bears posted up conspicuously in b'ack lists for several dishonoured bills. The shades of Dou- glas and of Hamilton must have shuddered at such an unworthy blot cast upon their honour The you g duke owes debts to an enormous amount, and he no»/ walks abroad, the pensioner of his creditors, in the leading strings of Mr. Pad wick, the friend and patron of unlucky noblemen. His grace figured in the Court of Session on 1 uesday last, as petitioner for the recall of letters of inhibition and arrestment at the instance of ^'iaivy Stewart, a creditor, whose claim amounts to 4,0,000, though it is but just to state that the debt was contracted above nine years ago by the late duke. Wa should be sorry to bear too hard upon a young nobleman who finds, himself, at the age of 21, in a manner the master of the world, and who may, therefore, be excused somewhat for the follies to which he is tempted by the highly artificial and prodigal society into which he is thrown. But it is sad to see a great house, that has stood foremost in Scotland for 300 years, come to this miserable pass-overwhelmed as it is, with debt, and left a prey for a time to the hungry creditor, not a few of whom have ministered to the folly and extravagance of its representatives- I It is reported that the Elysee Napoleon, in the Rue Faubourg St. Honore, Paris, will be placed at the ser- vice of the Prince of Wales during the ensuing season. Sir James Gibson, the director-general of the army medical department, has gone for two months to Cannes for the benefit of his health. There is little doubt that, at the expiration of his term of office in March, Sir James Gibson will withdraw. THE STRIKE ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN. At the Police Court, Liverpool, on Saturday, John Sea- combe was brought before Mr. Raffles, stipendiary mag- istrate, charged with having intimidated a fellow work- man, named James Flanagan. The men are both ship carpenters, and members of a trade society. Both men were employed on board of the Great Eastern, and both "turned out" when the strike of carpenters, &c. em- ployed on board took place. Each had received money from theSociety. On Thursday last week the complainant encountered the defendant on one of the ferry boats. The latter abused him for having returned to his work on the board of the Great Eastern, and threatened to throw him into the river. This was the coinplainaiat"s statement; but as it was not corroborated, the Magistrate declined to convict, and the prisoner was accordingly discharged. — Mr. Raffles said, had there been a clear case, he would have inflicted the heaviest punishment in his power. SHOCKING DEATHS FROM EXPOSURE.—On Saturday, an inquest was held upon the body of John Jones, who on Thursday night was found lying in the snow on the highway between Wellington and Coalbrookdale, in Shropshire. A witness stated that about eight o'clock on Thursday night, he was walking along the road,when his attention was attracted by a black object lying in the snow, and on getting nearer he found the deceased in a state of insensibility. He was removed as quickly as possible, and a doctor sent for; but he was then in a hopeless state of collapse, and died at midnight. Two days earlier, an inquest was held upon the body of a young man, named Jervis, who was found frozen to death in the same locality. At eight o'clock on the night of his death, Jervis, taking with him his banjo, started to walk to Oakengates, from an adjacent village. At nine o'clock, he was met by aman,to whom he remarked that it was "very cold;" and at four o'clock on the after- noon of the next day he was discovered lying dead in the snow near a disused cabin situated close to the turn- pike road. The poor fellow's legs rested on the banjo, which partly guarded them from immediate contact with the snow. HULL SMACKS IN THE STORM.-On Saturday the fishing smack Francis Scott arrived at Hull in tow of the smack Pride. The Francis Scott was abandoned on the Dogger Bank early on Thursday morning, and her crew was brought home in the Ingomar. The captain of the Francis Scott fully expected that his vessel would founder within a short time of her being abandoned, and it was under this impression that lie and the crew left her to go on board the Ingomar. The pumps had been worked for many hours on Wednesday night and Thurs- day morning, but the water in the hold continued to rise. Soon after the Ingomar left the Dogger the Pride came up and boarded the deserted smack. The pumps were again set to work and this time successfully. 1 he ves sel was pumped dry, and to the surprise of all concerned in the trade was brought safely into port on Saturday. The smack Bonny Craft also arrived at Hull on Satur day in tow of the Rising Sun. She had been severely handled by the storm while on the Silver Pitts u.Inng ground. The larger portion of her bulwarks, the nole of her mainsail, her companion hatchway and almost everything movable was swept away.—1 he two fisher- men belonging to the Obsequious, of Hull, who ie sup- posed to have been drowned at sea, have arrived safely in London. They went out in a boat from their vessel to put a man on board a Dutch galliot, and, as they never returned to the Obsequious, they were supposed to have been drowned. It seems they were picked up by a passing vessel bound for London. STRANGE DEATH OF A CONVICT.-On Friday, an inquest was held at the Millbank Penitentiary, respect- ing the death of of a convict named William Frederick Mason, alias Thomas Jaryis, aged forty-four. The de- ceased had been guilty of many crimes, and was noted for having, whilst undergoing punishment, staDDed both a prison official and a scripture reader. In August, 1865 he was sent from Horsemonger-lane to Millbank, under a five years' term of penal servitude. He suffered from paralysis of the legs, and he had to walk on crutches. Shortly after his admittance to Millbank he was sent from the ordinary wards to the infirmary, and remained there till his death- The officials looked upon him as rather designing, and ever ready to make a pietence of pain or of illness, in order to obtain increased indulgence. In October last he complained of a pain, and to re- lieve it the doctor prescribed an ointment, which was rubbed upon his skin by a nurse. Whether he really suffered the pain he described may be doubted, but it appears certain that he scraped the ointment from the skin with his finger nails, and hoarded it in some secret place. On Tuesday morning he was found dead in his cell. Portions of the ointment were found on his bed, which it was evident he had swallowed, and afterwards vomited. On a post-mortem examination a piece of paper, in which it is alleged the deceased had wrapped the ointment, was found in his stomach. He was sup- posed to have taken the ointment for the purpose of giving a show of illness, but not with the intention of killing himself. The following verdict was returned "We find that deceased died from the effects of a poi- sonous ointment, taken by himself for the purpose of producing illness, but not with a suicidal intent. STARVING A CHILD TO DEATH.—At Gainsborough, on Friday, Alfred and Sarah Blon, man and wife, the former 20 and the latter 22 years of age, were brought before the Magistrates charged with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Glover, three years of age, the illegitimate child of the female prisoner. The court was crowded, and the greatest excitement prevailed. The first witness was Police Superintendent Wynne, who deposed to the female prisoner coming to him by the relieving officer's directions to tell him of the death of her child. She said it ha.d been ailing, and on Sunday had a fall down stairs but she did not think it had broken its neck. It lived till Monday morning. No doctor had seen it. An in- quest was subsequently held, and an open verdict was then returned. No medical evidence was taken at the inquest. Witness subsequently gave instructions for a post-mortem examination, which was performed by Dr. Duigan, and on the result being made known, he then caused both the prisoners to be apprehended on the charge of causing the death of the child by starva- tion neglect, and ill-treatment. Dr. Duigan detailed the result of the post m ortem. The child was full grown, exceedingly wasted, and attenuated. There were bruises on the head and face, and two gaping wounds on each side the hip, one gaping to the extent of IMn. and both 3in. long and going through the skin and muscular fibre down to the bone. They might be caused by cords tied round the body. There were dry excoriations over the knee and dry sores all over the body. On opening the head he found blood spots, extravasations below the scalp the result of severe external violence. The brain was healthy. None of the wounds were of themselves sufficient to cause death. The lungs and heart were healthy. The stomach lie found completely empty. The intestines were also quite empty, and very much contracted from inanition. There was no trace of any kind of food. Witness could not undertake to say how long the child had been without food. The average weight of a child three years of age, was about three stone. This child did not weigh more than one of six or eight months. His conclusion, from the examination, was, that the child's death was caused by want of food and inattention, accelerated probably by the injuries to the head.—Elizabeth Booth, who had nursed the female prisoner through a fever, five months ago, deposed to seeing the child during the three weeks she was there systematically ill-treated. She had seen the male pri- soner knuck the child down with his fist, and would not let her pick it up. When lie came home from work, he used to thrash it with a stick, from no apparent cause, and would never allow it to come to the same table as himself.- Witness had also seen him lift the child up by the hair of the head and shoot its knuckles with hidingers till it could hardly stand. The mother encouraged him to strike it. She used to call down stairs, "Hit it, hit it. Witness'told the husband if he did not desistfrom ill- treatment she should tell tut- police. He ceased flogging, but adopted other mu<f punishment. She told the polite. Witue: fu:th»r •[< po.-scd to taking the body ot the child on the previ^u., day to tlie churchyard, and putting it in a hole. It had not been christened, and no service was performed over it. Elizabeth Green who lives opposite to the accused, deposed to the child being habitually ill-treated. She had seen the husband put it up the chimney, a fire being in the grate at the time, and otherwise ill-use it. She had seen the mother also thrash it unmercifully with a stick. Had heard her say that she would break its neck, and also wished that it was dead. She and other neighbours used to feed the child, because they saw that it was pined. The husband forbade them to give it any more, and he kept it in the house The child ate ravenously when food was given to it.- Mary Cuckson deposed to seeing the child bruised about the face as if from kicks, and, upon speaking to the mother about the treatment the child received, she said it was her husband that ill-treated it, not her. She further told witness she did not know what to do with the child-her mother would not take it, and her has- band would not pay for its being put out. If she could get rid of it, she said, her husband would behave better to her —Sergeant Wright deposed to the dreadful state he found the child in soon after death. He weighed the body, and found it to weigh only 13ilbs.-(Sensa- tion.)-After the post mortem examination, he appre- hended the prisoners. He was present at the inquest, and heard the male prisoner admit that the child had been tied in a chair with cords, in a room without a fire, from six till bedtime frequently during the recent severe weather, the plea being that it was dirty.-The inquiry extended over several hours, and at its conclusion both prisoners were committed to Lincoln assizes on the charge of wilful murder.-The] were conveyed to Lin- coln on Saturday., :>.«j -w-i e.»J » Mr. E. U. Kernson, Bart, M.P. has retired from tho deputy chairmanship of the Great Eastern Railway Company. The Glowworm learns from Calcutta. that the Hon. Mr. Maine has introduced into the Governor General's Council a bill to legalise horse-racing in India. TERRIBLE WEATHER IN THE ATLANTIC.—for many years there has never been such a delay in the arrival of theAmerican mail steamers as there has been this week. Accounts from the west of Ireland speak of very severe weather. Round about Tuskar and Cape Clear there are reported to be an immense fleet of homeward-bound ships, unable to make the slightest fore-headway, and just holding on in u tacks." The overdue teanierCity of Washington reached the Shannon on Monday evening, short of coal, and as soon as the channel pilot could reach her from Queenstown, and had her bunkers filled, she would leave for Liverpool. The City of Washington had on board 150 passengers—all well and over 80,000 dols. in specie. The vessel experienced heavy easterly gales for 21 days, but sustained no damage. THE SUNDAY DRINK TRAFFIC.—A town's meeting was held at Manchester, on Monday, in connection with a movement for stopping the sale of intoxicating drinks on Sunday." Neither of the Parliamentary re- presentatives of the city was present, but Mr. Bazley expressed by lettter his readiness to assist in dimin- ishing the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sundayand Mr. James, after stating the interest he takes in all schemes having for their object the suppression of drunkenness, suggested to the promoters of the move- ment that the most prudent course would be to petition for a permissive Sunday closing bill. The meeting re- solved unanimously to petition Parliament to extend the provisions of the law which prevent the opening of public-houses and beer-houses during certain hours of Sunday to the whole of the 24 hours in that day. ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A LUNATIC. — Two warders of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum, named John Stoneman and George Lee, have been charged at the Castle of Exeter with severely beating and otherwise ill-treating an inmate of the Asylum, named Frederick Lockyer. Dr. Sanders stated that Lockyer was now lying in a very dangerous condition in the hospital of the asylum. Three of his ribs were broken, and he was hurt in the head and near one eye, all the injuries arising from violence used towards him. His recovery is very doubtful. The depositions of the injured man and other witnesses led to the apprehension of the pri- soners, who were now remanded for a week. The magis- trates required bail to the amount of 2251), which WelS not forthcoming, and the prisoners were consequently locked up. THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—The following are the re- gulations under which Her Majesty's Government will grant compensation to those persons who suffered by the cattle plague prior to the passing of the Act of last session: — That the amounts to be awarded for cattle slaughtered shall be according to the same rate as is provided by 29 Vict., c. 2, s. 12 and 15, with regard to animals slaughtered under such Act, having previously deducted all compensation received from local rate, in- snranee, sale of carcases, and other sources. 2. That all animals slaughtered by order of inspector shall be deemed to have been diseased at the time of such slaugh- ter, unless proof to the contrary be furnished. 3. '.('hat the amounts to be awarded for compensation calculated upon these returns, in accordance with the above re- gulations, shall be forwarded to the clerk of each local authority who has furnished such returns, or to some responsible officer appointed by him. 4. That no ap- plications shall be received from any district except through the clerk to the local authority. 5. That the metropolis' shall for the present be excluded from the list of tlioue districts receiving such compensation." FAREWELL DINNER TO MR. GLADSTONE.—A Florence letter states that a farewell dinner has been given in that city to Mr. Gladstone by forty deputies. The chair, with Baron Poerio in it, was supported by Mr. Gladstone on the right, and by Count Casati, the Presi- dent of the Senate, on the left. The central post, on the other side of the table was occupied by Signor Rat- tazzi, flanked by Mr.Cardwell and the senator Leopardi. Signor Mari, the Speaker of the Italian Commons, sat on the left of Mr. Gladstone. The deputies and sena- tors who gave this banquet belong all to the Liberal party. Gen. Bixio was the most advanced the others were of the colour of Minghetti, Guerrieri, Alfieri, Spa- ventar, Serristori, and others whose names are less known abroad, and hence may be omitted. Poerio gave the toast of the evening, and Mr. Gladstone ackuow- ledged it in a brindisi to Italy, in Italian, which the right honourable gentleman pronounced to perfection. Several other toasts were given, and the whole affiir was a great success. The dinner and party at thjj British Legation on Saturday last, also in honour ai Mr. Gladstone, was entirely a diplomatic entertain" ment. His Majesty, too, had a long interview with the ex-Chancellor of the British Exchequer. Mr. Gladstone expects to be in England before the end of the month. THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE COLLIERY EXPLO- SION. -The Talke Belief Committee met on Tuesday, at Kidegrove Mr. Child inthe chair. A number of new subscriptions were announced, making the total actually received by the Committee jE6,698 6s. lid. After excen- tional cases of relief had been decided upon, there was some discussion onthesubject of orphanages. The Com- mittee decided to issue an appeal for further aid, as the contributions are not yet adequate to meet the necessities of the case. The Committee have given 7s. a week to those miners who, though escaping with life, have been seriously injured by the accident. There are*bout 13 of them and in all cases medical certificates have been required before giving this assistance. The Committee have paid the nurses and other persons who laid out the dead aud attended upon the surviving sufferers. ri here have also been a variety of expenses incident to the ac- cident. The allowances which the Committee have made, and hope to be able to continue, are 5g. to each widow or destitute parent, and 2s. to each child. They propose also to pay for the education of the children, who will be required to attend school. The list of per- sons chargeable is estimated as follows 37 widows, 81 children, 1 father and 7 mothers who were supported by deceased sons, 11 orphans, 8 old people who were parti- ally supported by deceased sons, 13 men burned,23 fami- lies of men injured the total number of persons looking to the Committee for support being 180. As the greater part of the children are very young, and will in all pro- bability continue for a lengthened period chargeable upon the funds, it is evident that a large sum will be required. THE WORKING CLASSES AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. -On Monday afternoon and evening a conference of persons connected with various Christian churches, and a large number of the representative workmen of Lon- don, was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, for the purpose of discussing the reasons why so large a proportion of the skilled artisans refrain from atten- dance at the recognised places of public worship, either belonging to the Established Church or to Nonconform- ists. Among others present were Mr. Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. 1 Hughes, M.P., the Rev. Canon Miller, Rev. R. Maguire, the Rev. Henry Solly, Rev. Mr. KillicV, Rev. Newman Hall, Rev. ^r- Maurice, Rev. Mr. Neville, Mr, J. M. Ludson, Mr. J. M'Gregor, Mr. George Potter, and a large number of workmen of various opinions, who had all been invited by ticket. Altogether about 300 persons were present. The Rev. E. Miall occupied the chair, and the Rev. Mr. White and Mr. C. Miall acted as secretaries. After an introductory address from the chair, in which all present were invited to express their feelings and opinions without reserve, the discussion was opened at three o'clock, each speaker being allowed ten minutes, and concluded at ten p.m., half-an-hour having been allowed for refreshment. About 20 work- ing men spoke, and the main reason assigned by them for the alienation of the working classes from the re- ligious institutions of the country was the general want of sympathy on the part of the clergy with the efforts of the workirig men fo improve their social and political condition. The conference was brought to a close with- out any formal resolution being passed, but the chair- man said, on the part of those who had called the con- ference, that they were much pleaded with its results and the explanations which had taken place. THE prosecutrix OF EX-GOV^RNUK EYKE.—.According to custom the Middlesex grand jury attended onTuesday morning to be sworn in, in case any bills might, be pre- ferred before them. it is ery rarely they have any business to discharge, and when they have, it is mostly confined to indictments for the abatement of nuisances. They are sworn in before the senior puisne judge, and his charge is usually of a mere formal character, but it wa.s on Tuesday varied by an allusion to the probable prosecution of ex-Governor Eyre. After the jury were called over, and before they were sworn in, Mr. Justice Blackburn said that as it was possible, though he did not anticipate it, that a bill might be preferred before them against ex-Governor Eyre, if any of them had subscribed to the fund for the prosecution or for the de- fence they had better not serve. One of the gentlemen called said that lie believed his firm had subscribed to the defence fund, but he knew nothing of it personally. Mr. Justice Blackburn said, then in that case he had better not serve. The gentleman having retired and another taken his place, the jury were then sworn. Mr, •Justice Blackburn, in charging them, repeated that he did not anticipate that an indictment against ex-Go- vernor Eyre would be brought before them this term, but that it was very possible one would be preferred be- fore a future grand jury. There would be no doubt very difficult and important questions involved in such a case, and therefore he hoped that the learned judge who would be called upon to charge the grand jury, in such an event as the prosecution of ex-Governor Eyre, would be previously made acquainted with it, because it would be necessary for the learned judge to be in a position to clearly point out to the grand jury the law on the subject. Should, however, the indictment come unex- pectedly before them, they had bett er adjourn for a day or two, communicate with him, and he would be pre- pared and hippy to give them the necessary information »od assistance.—The grand jurj thea retired. — EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY AT HULL.— On Saturday night a robbery was effected at the shop of Mr. Ext-kiel Schwartzeby, jeweller, Walker-street, Hull. The house was entered during the proprietor's absence. It is supposed that entry was effected by means of skele- ton keys, as there are no indications of violencer having been used. The articles stolenconsist of 35 lever watches, seven gold watches, a number of gold alberts, plated goods, &c. The robbery was promptly reported to the pelice, who on Monday apprehended a man, named Israel Lever.—He was brought up at the Police Court on Tues- day, and was remanded. In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, a rule waa applied for, calling upon two justices of Stafford- shire and Mr. Baker, inspector of mines, to show cause why they should not state a case for the decision of this Court. Mr. Harrison had been fined for infringing the rules of the Mining Act, and the Justices refused to state a case on the ground that his points were frivo- lous. The rules and regulations impose a fine for using an engine without a break in raising and lowering men, whereby two men were killed. The defendant's objec- tions were that the shaft in question was not the shaft leading to the mine, but for pumping out water by the machine which lowered the men, and that they were engaged for clearing the pumping apparatus, and not for mining purposes. The rules did not, therefore, ap- ply. A rule was granted. RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.—An important arrange- ment has beenconcluded between the London, Brighton and South Coast and the South-Eastern Railway Com- panies, by which, subject to an annual payment to be made by the Brighton to the South-Eastern, the Brigh- ton is to have equal rights and powers with the South- Eastern over the line of the South-Eastern, between their boundary near Bopeep station and Hastings. The line and stations between the boundary and Hastings are to be managed by a joint committee consisting of two members from each board, with a standing arbitrator to settle differences. The amount of the annual payment to be made by the Brighton to the South-Eastern is to be mutually agreed on or settled by reference to Mr. T. E. Harrison, C.E., engineer-in-chief to the North-East- ern Railway Company, who is to act generally as stand- ing arbitrator. A joint station is to be erected at Hast- ings. These arrangements will require the sanction of Parliament before they are definitively carried out, but the two companies will concur in an application to Par- liament on the subject. SINGULAR STATEMENT.—A strange application WAG made to the Magistrate, at Marylebone, on Tuesday. A young woman, dressed in black, said I want to ask your ad vice. Two months after the end o? August la*t, I kept company with a man with a view to marriage. One day. as we were out together, he said he had a great secret to tell me. I was extremely anxious to know, and, after my askings, he said, he had murdered a man. I was surprised and horrified, and told him I could not think of keeping up our acquaintance. The next time I saw him he said his secret was not so bad as he had stated. It was, lie said, his second wife who was dead, and he had married her whilst his first wife was alive. I again told him it was useless to think of keeping up our acquaintance. He became very excited and alarmed. Since then lie has followed me about, and threatens me if I will not consent to become his wife. He said tho demon' was in him, and lie would not see me the wife of another man. He said sooner than that lie would shoot me. He throws things into where I am at work, a.nd I really am afraid of him."—Mr. D'Eyncourt gran- ted her a summons for threatening language. A NOVEL APPLICATION.—Iu the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday last, Mr. Quain moved, in the case of Denison v. Harding and others, for a rule enabling the plaintiff to proceed against one of the defendants as if personal service had been made upon him. The defen- dant, Crocker, is a lunatic in a private lunatic asylum, and hitherto the plaintiff had been hindered from serv- ing him with the process of the Court. The keeper would not allow access to the lunatic. The wife had been served with the writ, and requested to serve it on her husband, but she declined. There had been no in- quiry de lunatico, and the committee had been ap- pointed to manage the lunatic's affairs, and consequently the plaintiff was entirely set at defiance. Mr. Owen, the keeper, did not state that the serving of the writ on the lunatic would have any possible injury on him, but de- clined on the ground that he would not permit anyone in his establishment to be served with process. If his application could not be entertained in that form, he was to apply for a writ of habeas co'qyus.—The Lord Chief Justice The keeper does not suggest that serv- ing the lunatic would be injurious to him P-Mr. Quain No.—The Lord Chief Justice: Then, should not your application be for an attachment against the keeper foi contempt of this Court, in not permitting its process to be seITed P-Mr. Justice Blackburn said it appeared ta him that the keeper's objection to allow anyone to be served with process was a contempt of this Court. The serving of a writ might not affect a lunatic's health, but bringing him up on an habeas might. —A rule for an attachment against the keeper was then granted. CHURCH AND CHAPEL ROBBGRS CAUGHT AT LAST. The past twelve months have been marked by a series of depredations in the churches and chapels in the Han- ley district, from which few have escaped. One after another these places of worship have been broken into, and all the valuable property stolen, though, fortunate- ly, the booty has been confined chiefly to gowns, sur- plices, communion cloths, towels, window blinds, and articles of a similar kind in no case the robbers suc- ceeded in alighting upon plate, which was no doubt the main object of their sacrilegious visits. From time to time the cry has been raised, Where are the police P" and until within the last day or two it seemed as if the police were powerless to prevent, and unable to discover the authors of these perpetually-recurring nocturnal ex- ploits. To all appearance, Mr. Supt. Baker has, at last found the track of the thieves, and has already secured some, if not the whole of them. On Monday, Thomas Malkin, Ann Malkin, his wife, William Malkin, his son and Mary Ann Malkin, his daughter, were placed in the dock at Hanley Police-Court, and charged with being con- cerned in the robberies. A great pile of gowns, surplices, communion cloths, window blinds, and other articles, most of them cut up, and having their ornamental por- tions removed for easy sale, were brought into the court. Mr. Baker did not state how or where he discovered the goods, but it appears that a good deal of the booty had been disposed of, in its mutilated state, to neighbours and acquaintances of the prisoners. A little girl, seven or eight years of age, a daughter of the elder prisoner, was brought into Court in custody, but as it was neces- sary that she should be instructed as to the nature of the oath she was not not examined, but sent to the Work- house, and directed to be put under the care of the chao- lain. The only evidence offered was to the discovery of the goods and the arrest of the prisoners, and a remand was asked for a week, in order to obtain further evidence. The elder femaleprisoner protested the perfect innocence of herself and companions; and the daughter, a girl, said she never saw the things before Sunday, and was surpri- sed when she did see them. Mr. Baker said the younger daughter had been a medium of disposing of the goods, having taken them,and cut them in pieces,for sale,under the direction of her parents The prisoners were re- manded for a week. The elder male prisoner is a re- turned convict. THE RELATION OF ATTORNEY AND CLIENT.-In the Court of Exchequer, on Tuesday, the Lord Chief Baron, with Barons Channell and Pigott, sitting in banco, had before them the case of Butler v. Knight. This was an action by a young lady, whose parents reside at Tam- worth, against a solicitor in that town, to recover dam- ages for negligence in compromising an action, and was tried at Stafford before Mr. Justice Keating, when the Jury found a verdict in the favour of the plaintiff. A rule was subsequently obtained to set aside the verdict and also to enter a nonsuit, or for a new trial, and it now came on for full argument. Mr. J. J. Powell, (>.('. and Mr. G. Brown showed cause against the rule, and Mr. Huddlestone, Q.C., and Mr. Macnamara were in support of it. It appeared that the plaintiffbrought an action for breach of promise of marriage against a surgeon named Rough, at Bingley, in Yorkshire, and recovered a verdict ofjESOO. Afterwards,Mr. Knight, the defendant in this action, who was her attorney, accepted jElOO from Rough's brother in settlement of the action, the latter representing that if the plaintiff proceeded to extremities, the defendant Rough would have to go through the Bankruptcy Court. He had actually filed a petition, but it had been subsequently withdrawn. 'I he plaintiff then brought an action against Mr. Knight, on the ground that the compromise was not only without her authority, but against her positive instructions, and the Jury as above stated, found a verdict for her, with jE300 damages, which were to be reduced to £511, pro- vided she could still enforce the judgment which she had obtained in her first action against Rough. On the part of the defendant, it was then contended that his autho- rity to act for the plaintiff ceased when he obtained judgment against Rough, and that the relation of at- torney and client then ceased between them, and that consequently the compromise had no effect, and the plaintiffs judgment for the £ 300 might still be enforced against Rough.—The Lord Chief Baron said it could not be doubted that the defendant believed that, in com- promising the action in the way he had done, lie was faithfully performing his duty of doing the best he could for his client's interest, whether ho was right or not in the estimate he formed of Rough's solvency or responsibility. The court thought that the relation of attorney and client existed between the plaintiff and Knight after the judgment in Butler r. Rough, and that if the plaintiff had sought to enforce that judgment, Rough might have successfully set up the compromise. They also thought that Knight had exceeded his autho- rity, but looking at the position and circumstances of Rough, they considered that the damages were exces- sive, and they would discharge the rule if the plaintiff consented to their being reduced to j5150, otherwise there would be a rule absolute for a new trial. — Mr. Powell said he would consult his client on the question of damages- ? The case ot Robert ororaon nope oonnswne nas often before Mr. Commissioner Goulbourn as a prison adjudi- cation. The bankrupt, who is a gentleman well known upon the turf, attributes his difficulties to the refusal of his father to make him further pecuniary advances. Against debts and liabilities to the amount of j632,787, the bankrupt returns property in the hands of creditors, £ 3,500 there are no available assets. Of the unsecured debts, a sum of JE3,600 would appear to be due to credi- tors residing in France, where the bankrnpt was upon one occasion in confinement for debt. No opposition was raised by any creditor, and the bankrupt received hia order of discharge. REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE WEST INDIES.—Rein- forcements left Liverpool for Bermuda on Saturday. The troops consisted of a detachment of 31 non-commis- sioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers, under command of Lieutenant H. W. R. Coetlogan, of the 1st battalion of the 1st Regiment. The troops left Liver- pool in the Cunard mail steamer Africa, which lands them at Halifax, whence they will proceed to Bermuda for engineering service on that station. On the 16th February next a further detachment of four officers, 100 men, 13 women, and 26 children, belonging to the 1st Royal Engineers, will leave Halifax for service in Ber- muda. The medical officer in charge of the troops which left Liverpool on Saturday was Assistant Surgeon Brodie. THE COLD.—We should be overlooking afaot of great medical and social interest if we omitted to note the se- verity of the cold and its effects on life. During the se- vere frost of the first few days of the year it was apparent that, despite the tendency in comfortable and healthy people to regard cold at this time as the right thing, the community generally were feeling that there was an en- emy to life in the air, or to speak more accurately, per- haps, the fatal absence of a friend—a certain amount of heat. Even the young and the strong saw the first sign of the frost yielding with a feeling of thankfulness. Those who have appointments involving the seeing of large numbers of the sick poor doubtless got the most vivid impression of the weak resistance that humanity in the condition of poverty can offer to such cold as that of the 3rd and 4tli of January. The pale, cold, pinched stony look of out-patients of dispensaries and hospitals, and the but little better look of those who are confined to such beds as they have in fireless rooms, made hos- pital and dispensary duties at once more urgent and a great deal more painful than usual. How terrible the delusion is that when the weather is like this it ia beneficial. It is dangerous to the brain, and lets paralysed patients in for second attacks. It is still more deadly to the chest, and he is a healthy man who does not feel touched by it in some part of the respiratory apparatus. It drives the poor into their overcrowded houses in in- creased numbers, and so favours fever and other epi- demic diseases. And, in a word, apart from its more specific effects, it is generally, and through the whole body, devitalising. It takes the life out of the body, and reduces it by so much to the condition of surround- ing things. The Registrar General shows us that we have in frost a cause of death in severity more like plague than anything else. Cold can run a sharp race with cholera. In one week it has raised the number of deaths by 445 in London alone. Last week, 1,891 deaths were registered. In Glasgow, the mortality in last week was at the rate of 73 per 1,000 Can nothing more be done to enable medical men who have to see the sick poor in this season, to relieve them more efficiently and more directly, than by present arrangements is possible ? It would be a most reliable and efficient charitable in- vestment, to form a fund to be used by medical men, who are in the very best position for seeing where a blan- ket, could be most completely utilised.—The Lancet. WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The will of the Right Hon. William, Earl of Craven, of Combe Abbey, Warwick- shire Ashdown and Hampstead-park, Berks and of Charles-street, Berkeley-square, was proved in London on the 4th instant, by the Right Hon. James Walter, Earl of Verulam, and the Hon. Robert Grimston, the joint executors. The personalty was sworn to be under £ 180,000. His Lordship died August 25th, 1866, at Scarborough, at the age of 57, having executed his will in 1865, and a codicil April 25, 1866. His Lordship ap- points his wife, Countess Craven, guardian of his chil- dren, who are in their nfinority; and bequeaths to her Ladyship all the furniture, horses, carriages,and the plate which was his late mother's, and leaves her Ladyship a legacy of £6,000 and also an annuity of £ 1,100. To his daughter, Lady Emily Georgina Craven, he leaves a legacy of £10,000, and an annuity of JE600 (his sisters,his Lordship states, being already well provided for). To his son, the Hon. Osbert William Craven, 240,000 under settlement. To Cecil Brook Boothby, Esq., he leaves an annuity of JE200. The residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves to his son, the present Earl of Craven, absolutely.—The will of William Fisher-Hobbs, Esq., formerly of Marks Hall, Essex, and late of Boxted lodge, in the same county, was proved in London, 01-1 the 5th ult., by John Thomas Lay Hallum, Esq., ofWoiw mingford, Essex, and Henry Trethewy, Esq., of Silsoe, I Beds., the executors and trustees. The personalty was IBworn under £18,000. Amongst the bequests are the fol- lowing :— £ 100 to Henry Hall Dare, Esq., secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society; j6100 to T. B. Gibbs, Esq., secretary of the Smithfield Club; to Roilleu de la Trehonnais, of Bickley Park, Kent, any portion of his agricultural library he may choose to select; to the Royal A gricultural Benevolent Institution, of which he was chairman, £500; to the Colchester Hospital and the Essex Idiot Asylum, Colchester, d6100 each. The resi- due of his property, real and personal, he leaves to his cousin, William Hobs, of Sellinge, Kent.-The late Miss Sarah Browne, of Highbury, has left the following bequests To the British and Foreign Bible and the Church Missionary Societies, each jEoOO, the Religious Tract, the Colonial Church and School, and the Church Pastoral Aid Societies, and the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, each £ 200; the Society for £ > assisting Poor Pious Clergymen, £100; the Prayer Book and Homily Society, the Society for Teaching Deaf and Dumb, London Orphan Asylum (Clapton), Orphan Asy- lum, (Wanstea.d), Church of the United Brethren among the Heathen, London Missionary Society, Female Pen- itentiary (Pentonville), and the Idiot Asylum, Redhill, each the sum of £ 50.—Illustrated London News. A MONSTER TELESCOPE.-In the ensuing spring there will be ready for trial one of the moFAt important telescopes which have been the offspring of the scienti- fie and constructive skill of this country. The legisla- ture of Victoria having voted the sum of j65,000 for the £ ir construction of a large reflecting telescope, to be erected l £ at Melbourne, for the purpose of effecting a thorough survey of the nebulas and multiple stars of the southern -l- hemisphere, the President and Council of the Royal So- ciety (whose advice and co-operation had been reques- ted) selected Mr. Grubb, of Dublin, the eminent opti- cian, to construct this important instrument. This gen- tleman, we need not remind our readers, is as well known for his various contributions to the optical department of scientific literature as for the photographic lenses manufactured by him, and with which his name is asso- ciated and photographers will naturally feel a certain degree of pride when one who has been so long connec- ted with the branch of photography is selected for carry- ing out such a prominent work as the one we are about to 1 u describe. We have said that the telescope is a reflect- ing one. The impossibility of obtaining discs of glass of the requisite purity has rendered it imperative to employ catoprics instead of dioptrics—reflecting rather than refraction-when a telescope of large size is to be constructed. The famous telescope of Lord Rosse is one of this description. An image is formed in the focus of the mirror, and is examined by suitable eyepieces, a number of these being supplied of different degrees of magnifying power to suit the requirements of the ob- server. There are several kinds of reflecting telescopes all on a broad principle here indicated, but constructed in a variety of ways so as to secure the greatest possible « advantage. The Gregorian telescope receives the re- 1> fleeted image of the object under examination upon a 7f small concave speculum placed in the tube of the instru- :u ment and in the axis of the large speculum, in the centre of which there is a hole through which the reflected image is examined by the eyepiece. In the Newtonian telescope the image is received upon a small plane mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees, and a little distance within the focus, by which means the image is bent at a right angle to the axis of the instrument and is ex- amined by an eyepiece through an aperture in the side of the telescope. The form which has been selected by Mr. Grubb and the savants appointed to aid him by their suggestions (the Earl of Rosse, Dr. Robinson, and Mr. Warren De La Rue) is known among cognoscenti r as the Cassegrainian tclescope. It only differs from the ;f Gregorian form in apparently a very slight degree, but to an extent which confers on it some striking advan- 1 tages over the latter. In the Gregorian the reflected image is received upon a small concave speculum; in the Cassegrainian the surface of the small mirror is convex. By this apparently slight diff<?rence is secured greater shortness by more uian twice the length of the focus of the small speculum, more light, and a better defined t image in consequence of the small convex speculum cor- 1 recting the aberration necessarily present in thelarge con- t cave mirror. The tube of the telescope under notice is of the enormous diameter of4ift. and of proportional length. The diameter of the speculum is but six inches less than that of the tube, or four feet, being four and a half inches in thickness, and weighing about twenty-seven cwt. i We learn from the address of Lieut. General Sabine, t the president of the Royal Society, delivered at the an- niversary meeting of that body, that although the first speculum which was cast was so nearly perfect as would have made it not many years ago almost inestimable, Mr. Grubb, in consequence of two small blemishes upon ita surface, which could have been ground out in time, *• broke it up without any hesitation. The second casting amply rewarded him, for it turned out to be faultless. A duplicate speculum has since been successfully cast. The grinding was performed by a polishing machine and steam engine constructed for and belonging to the telescope, and which will accompany it to Melbourne. The weight of the telescope when completed will be about ten tons, and it will be moved by clockwork. We need scarcely add that it is mounted egaatorialll.- British Journal of Photography.