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GENERAL NEWS. #■ The Standard has been informed that it is inten- ded ah once to abolish purchase of any rank above that of captain. The officers and crew of the Pysche arrived at Spithead on Saturday, in the Crocodile troop ship; also the 103rd Regiment. Sir Erskin May was sworn in as Second Clerk of Parliament in the place of Sir Denis le Marchant (resigned), at the Lord Chancellor's private house, on Saturday. ELOPEMENT AND CAPTURE IN SCARBBO'. At the Borough Police-court, on Saturday morning, Win. Mollat (or Mollert), post chaise proprietor, and Emma Gosling, married woman, both of Hantley, Staffordshire were brought up on a charge of steal- ing < £ 100 and other property, belonging to Mr. Gosling, husband of the female prisoner. Both prisoners are married. The husband of the female is a respectable tradesman at Hanley. The pair eloped together in the early part of December last, and have been living together since. They came to Scarbro' a few days ago, and were on Saturday apprehended in an eating-house by Detective- Sergeant Brogden. QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY.—Mr. Joseph K. Aston, of Lincoln's-inn, lias received the appointment of treasurer and secretary to Queen Anne's Bounty, vacant by the retirement of the venerable Mr. Christopher Hodgson, after nearly fifty years' tenure of office. Mr. Aston has held an important post under the. Bounty Board for seventy years. It was mainly owing, we are informed, to his exertions that the important Hop Tithe case, Walsh versus Trimmer, was gained in 1867, by which upwards of .£40,000 a year was secured to the Church. This appointment, though in the gift of the Crown, has been conferred, as on previous occasions, by the Prime Minister, in compliance with the recommen- dation of the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty. THE CANADIAN FISHERY QUESTION.—Sir John Rose has been arranging the terms of an agreement on the fishery question at Washington, and returns to England with General Schenck, who left New York on the 1st of February. The instru tions for the new American Minister on the Fishery Question are said to embody a proposal for ceding equal rights to American fishermen to fish in Cana" than waters, to land and cure fish on the soil of the Dominion, and to refit in its ports. This would ab- rogate the contested treaty stipulations on the sub- ject, and at once repeal the Canadian Fishery Laws The United States are to pay a fair equivalent in money for a concession which will remove all cause of irritation between the Dominion and the republic --Anglo A merican Times, WINDSOR CASTLE.—The magnificent suite of state apartments at Windsor Castle, the construc- tion of which was commenced in the reign of King Charles II.. and carried on during the reign of King George IV. and King William IV., has just bern completed by the laying down of handsome oak completed by the laying down of handsome oak floors in the Vandyke Room and the Audience and Presence Chambers. These oaken floors are beauti- fully polished, and add greatly to the magnificenl appearance of the rooms. The Reubens Room, the the Zaccarelli Room, Queen's Closet, Kings's Closel and Council Chamber bad their deal floors removed and replaced by oak previous to the completion of those named above. All the state apartments will be available for the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Louise if wanted for thE occasion. SAD OCCURRENCE.—On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the Hove Town Hall, Brighton, on the body of Mr. Francis Henry Breidenbach, aged 58, the well-known perfumer, of Bond-street, Deceased, who had a residence at 54, Old Sreine, Brighton, had been for some time under medical attendance on account of mental and nervous de- pression. On Friday morning he left his house about eight o'clock, and soon afterwards was seen going towards the head of the Chain Pier. About ten o'clock some fishermen on the King's-road, neai the Grand Hotel, saw an object floating along tc the westward. A boat was launched, and the corpse was eventually landed, when it was identified as that of Mr. Breidenbach. A daughter of the de- ceased said that her father had never shown any suicidal tendencies, and that he had come into hei room just before he left the house on Friday morn- ing. Eventually the jury returned an open verdict of "Found drowned." WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—The win of the Right Hon. Lady Selsey was proved in the London Court under £ 3,000 personalty, and that of the Hon. Charles Thomas Clifford, under a nominal sum. The will of Mr. John Hill Clifton, formerly District Registrar of the Probate Court at Worcester, was proved under £70,000 personalty. The will of Mr. Alfred Smith Evans, of Mariemont, Edgbaston, Warwick, was proved at Birmingham, under £ 250,000 personalty, by Mr. James Milner, of 20, Hyde-park gate south, the acting executor. The will bears date Feb. 5, 1870, and contains bequesls to the following charitable local institutions at Birmingham, all free of duty, viz., to the General Hospital and Queen's Hospital, each, £ 1,000; the Protestant Dissenting Charity School, Graham- street, the Bluecoat Charity School, the General Dispensary, and the Children's Hospital, each, £ 300; and to the Lifeboat Institution, London, £ 500.— Illustrated London News. THE REVISION OF THE BIBLE.—The New Testa- ment Company of Revisers assembled for their nf session on Tuesday last in the Jerusalem Chamber, and as heretofore continued their session during the following three days. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol presided. There was a full attendance of the members, the Archbishop of Dublin appearing amongst them for the first time. Before commencing the usual order of proceedings reference was made by the President, in a brief address, to the recent decease of Dean Alford, and a resolution was put on record expressive of the high esteem felt by the company for the charactei of the late Dean of Canterbury, their admiration of his varied abilities, and their deep sense of the losa sustained by his removal. This resolution was proposed by the Prolocutor (Archdeacon Bicker- steth), seconded by Canon Kennedy, and supported by Dr. Angus, Dr. Eadie, and Mr. Scrivener. The company then proceeded with the revision of tho Gospel of Matthew, and carried forward their work as far as the middle of the sixteenth chapter. The session was closed on Friday evening, and the company adjourned to February 28. THE SANITARY MEASURES OF THE GOVERNMENT. -Sir C. B. Adderlv. M.P., writes as follows to his constituents :—" The work which has now occupied me two years, and during this recess has kept ma much away from the country, namely, the Chair- manship of the Royal Sanitary Commission, seems to be approaching a successful end. The report is forthcoming, which gives a history of our confused and multifarious sanitary laws up to -the present time, and extensive evidence, oral and written, on the important working of local government—tho i most vital essence of our national vigour—in most parts of the country. It elaborates, through datwf11- + argument, a complete consoli-i whiofc °Df Clear statute a11 tlie Provisions and wJlo/Gry ??, and m every Parish of England the health n^CeP ^e ^tropolis, ave required for Mr Bruce aRS soc well-being of the community. leagues are nowT ?e that he and tw° °f his col- these mater'als- an?! work PreParing a bill from tnese materials, and I hope that, while the better organization of our national defences will be neces- sarily the mam subject of the labours of the ap- proaching session, this great work of domestic re- form may find its quiet opportunity. The idea of the one comprehensive Act will be to render uni- form, general, and active the powers of local govern- ment in every place under the inspection and sti- mulus of a Central Authority." \ywn GmuT)Tr0N,3! AKD TEB BOROUGH OF GREEN- wiclfka °/ tie Llberal party in Green- ter of to take no action in the mat- hi«rsepif1S+l10n ACa'lin" uP°n Mr- Gladstone to at their meS e i^^ced Liberal Association, recommends^ Saturday night, confirmed the Bent to the p"on. "*e executive committee topre- and duly gjo. an address, which was engrossed secretary /jj ^y the chairman (Mr. Hay) and association -eons;^ -J" stated:—"While this wich should have gh honour that Green- BO eminent as the Rio-ht a statesman feel unabated eonfidJL E- Gladstone, and pectfully hope that he would S" tJiey res- Bubmitting to the next Parliament a?Ce °f lieve the glaring 1Qequality between +h and the very poor, by t/rowi^ a WeJfhar.0f tie taxation on those people wfeose en or mm • comes promote a profligate expenditure nrpii rV to the individual and to society. eJudicial feels convinced that unless Bome awbetantTaTme^ eureg of relief which will ameliorate the condrtf™ the poorer classes are promptly brought forward y [he Government, the working classes am iose all interest and sympathy with their Liberal leaders LJlai result will be that power will fall into the hands of a wtrograde TorV p&i'ty, thuspHouvite wide-spread dihgafi«factioi? JUkiesiia-bXe P^ent gr&re polifci-al critta." j Uut of 10,000 officers who are prisoners in Ger- many the number of those who have broken their parole is said to be 104. AMERICAN OFFICERS FOR FRENCH ARMIES.—The Sialidlrd is informed on good authority that Gen. Beauregard has requested a large number of ex- Confederate officers to hold themselves in readiness to come to France for the purpose of serving under him should hostilities recommence. Many of them are now in London, awaiting the order of departure. Baron O'Schlechta, the learned Director of the Imperial Oriental Academy in Vienna, has published a Manuel Terminologique Francais Ottoman." which contains the various diplomatical, juridical, and technicological locutions the Osmanlis have in- troduced in their language in consequence of their constant approximations to western civilisation. The author lived for 12 years at Constantinople, in the capacity of first interpretor of the Austrian Em- bassy, and had thus ample opportunities for collec- ting material from the official papers of the Porte. Beneath the aegis of royalty at Madrid Spanish lÜerature and art are being patronised (if so ugly a phrase be admissible in these days). The King has commissioned the following works: The Arrival at Carthagena" is to be painted by Senor Gisbert:; "The Entrance into Madrid," by Senor Rosales; The Oath in the Cortes," by Senor Casado; and the Official Reception in the Palace," by Senor Palmaroli. Two or three busts are also to be com- missioned to Spanish sculptors. Senor Camilo Ala- bern has been instructed to prepare engravings for the new postage and receipt stamps, which will comprise portraits in profile and full-face of Ama- deo the First. The King is also reported to have signified his desire to subscribe for several copies of the works of the brothers Bequer, about to be published at the cost of the Literary and Artistic Commission of Madrid.—Athenceum. CARDINAL ANTONELLI AND VICTOR EMMANUEL. -Cardinal Antonelli has, according to the Aug.\blU'!{ Gazett, issued a note in reference to the King of Italy's late visit to Rome. His eminence calls at- tention to the fact that the law, approving of the pi biscitum, was passed by the Italian Senate on the 30th, and signed by Victor Emmanuel and his Min- isters a few hours afterwards, during their visit to Rome. This, Cardinal Antonelli says, has the ap- pearance of a <e surprise," and looked "like a wish to bring to a consummation the usurpation which had taken place to the disadvantage of the Holy Father and of the Catholic world, by causing the king to sign the decree authorising them in the very scene of the robbery." The Cardinal then goes on to say that, whether the bad weather, the public sutfeiing from the floods, or the general discontent of the population were the cause, the reception of the King was certainly very lukewarm, and this, al- though every means had been taken to make it as demonstrative as possible. A LIBEL AND AN APOLOGY,—The Court of Exche- quer had before it on Monday morning an action for libel, brought by the Rev. Edward Eedle, vicar of South Bersted, Sussex, against Major-General Boileau, a retired Indian officer, living at Bognor, in the same county. The alleged libel was contained in two letters addressed to the Bishop of Chichester and in a third published in the South Coast Met our y, and having reference to some parochial affairs. The defendant stated, through his counsel, that he now admitted the groundlessness of the accusations he had made against Mr. Eedle, and having given an ample retractation and apology, a verdict was by consent entered for the plaintiff damages Xio los. Mr. Baron Bramwell observed that when a defend- ant found that he had wrongfully defamed another he did no discredit to himself by openly acknowledg- ing it; but on the contrary he did himself dis- credit if he persisted in a charge when he knew it was untrue and in this case the acknowledgment of the mistake should be made as publicly as the charge. SHOCKING DEATH OF A CABMAN.—On Monday an adjourned inquiry into the jause of death of a cabman named Parkes, otherwise Barrott, was held by Dr. Lankester, at the Bank of England Tavern, Paddiugton. Mr. George Lewis, and Mr. Alsop at- tended for Mr. Woolf, and Mr. Wilding for the friends of the deceased. The first witness called was Mrs. Annie Woolf, who stated that she came home with her husband on the night in question, and saw him give the cabman 4s. The man deman- ded 5s, but her husband refused to give him more, and he then became very abusive. He followed them up the steps and forced himself between her husband and herself into the passage. Mr. Woolf gave the cabman his name and address, andordered him out of the house, but he refused to leave unless he received 5s. for his fare. During the altercation Mrs. Woolf went upstairs, and almost immediately heard her husband call out for a light, as the cabman had fallen down. She brought the light at once, her husband took it to the door, and dis- covered that the deceased had fallen down the area. M. John Ring, M.R.C.S., of Cambridge-Gardens, Kilburn, said he was called and found the deceased doubled up in his cab. He was suffering from a fracture of the spinal column. There were no marks on the chest. With reference to the fracture of the breast bone, he did not think it could be done by a blow. It might have occurred in lifting the deceased. There was no swelling or contusion. Alfred John Wall, M.R.C.S., house-surgeon of St. in Mary's Hospital, Paddington, held a different opinion, and thought the breast bone had been broken by the force of a blow given. The jury re- turned a verdict of Death from misadventure." THE POPE.—The correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing from Rome, Jan. 29th, says,—The Holy Father continues to receive assurances of sup- port from his adherents. A few days ago Ccunt Antonelli introduced a deputation with an address from 10,000 inhabitants of Rome, accompanying a present of 2,000 francs in gold. The Rector of the Belgian College has brought him 85,000 francs from Malines, a diocese which has in the course of a year sent to the Vatican the large sum of 224,000 francs. A scurrilous biography of the Holy Father has ap- peared in the 'Oapitale, the Garibaldian organ in Rome. It is divided into two parts, published in consecutive numbers of the journal. The number containing the first part was quickly bought up, but the authorities effected a seizure of the next. Cav- dinel Antonelli has dispatched the biography to all the nuncios of the Holy See, enjoining them to lay it before the Courts where they are accredited as a 7 corroboration of his note on the insufficiency of the Italian guarantees and the designs entertained by the party of action. Whether the Catholic Powers will really afford the Pope any assistance becomes more and more doubtful. Up to this time they have taken no step beyond counselling the King of Italy to defer fixing his residence at Rome till the Holy Father's death-an issue not very cheering to his Holiness. Prussia, I believe, is willing to intervene more effectively, in the hope of conciliating the Catholic States of the Confederation; but she is afraid of driving Italy into an alliance with France. Hence she resorts to finessing with both sides, and the Vatican has lost its faith in Baron Arnim since he has availed himself of the presence of the Prince and Princess to show" by his attention at the Quirinal, that he is at least equally devoted to Italy. I may mention that Cardinal Antonelli has for- warded to Francis II. of Naples an address of ad- herence from forty-five deputies of the Italian Par- liament. THE LATE SIR HENRY DURAND.— An Indian cor- respondent gives full particulars of the accident at Tank, which resulted in the death of Sir Henry Durand. The entrance to the town is by two gate- ways, standing at right angles to each other, but under the same roof. There appears only to have been room enough in the first gateway :for an ele- phant, carrying a howdah to pass. From the first to the second gateway the ground rises, and the arch of the second gateway is considerably lower than that of the first. Owing to the dusk of the evening, Sir Henry Durand, who was riding in the liowdah of the first elephant with the Nawab of Tank, did not see the danger till he was close upon the fatal spot. He then called out to the driver of the animal to try and back out or turn. Eit her there was not time enough to do this, or the ele- phant, becoming excited, refused to obey, and moved on through the gateway. Sir Henry Durand's head came violently in contact with a beam which supported the arch, and hewas thrown to the ground whence he was picked up insensible. From the first there was great fear of his death, as it was per- ceived that the spine had been seriously injured. On the following morning he regained his conscious- ness, and was in full possession of all his faculties till within half an hour of his death. He was able to state briefly his own impression of the accident. The Nawab of Tank experienced a severe contusion on the back of his neck, and had one of his ribs broken. An official inquiry into the circumstances has been held, but the finding hasnotyet been pro- mulgated, It would be premature therefore to dis- cuss the question whether blame attaches to any one in the matter. The general respect entertained for Sir Henry Durand was testified by the number of persons present at a meeting held to itake steps ¡ for raising a memorial in his honour. From every quarter comes the expression of deep regret at the loss of so valued a servant of the Government. THE CABINET.—Another Cabinet Council was lMid on Monday at Mr, Gladstone's official residence 1:1 Do wning-street. Nearly all the Ministers were j uceaent. At the Lambeth Police Court, on Friday, the driver of an Atlas omnibus was fined 20s. for having obstructedatramway car on one of the South London lines. A fire broke out on Sunday afternoon in St. An- 4. drew's Church, Ashley-place, Victoria-street, West- minster. It was caused by the heat from the boiler. Fortunately, the interior of the church was only slightly damaged. The Welsh ironmasters have resolved to give a month's notice of a reduction which will average 10 per cent. The notice was pasted up at nearly all the works in Monmouthshire and South Wales on Saturday, and the reduced scale will come into operation the first week in March. The British Museum has lately secured the In- goldsby "Lay of St. Cuthbert," and others of the famous legends, in the autograph of the Rev. R. H. Barham. Miss Edgeworth's autograph copy of her Helen," as printed in 1834, is also among last year's purchase, as well as Bishop Percy's corres- pondence with Shenstone and Dr. Farmer; and the old printer Berthelette's accounts for printing statutes and other books for the king, &c. THE LATE LORD WALSINGHAM.—The executors of the late Lord Walsingham, who, it will be remembered recently committed suicide, have order- ed the sale of the short-horn cattle and the south- down sheep, reared by his Lordship with much pains and expense, in May and June. The sale will doubtless attract much attention in the agricul- tural world, Lord Walsingham having generally figured successfully at the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. FATAL ICE ACCIDENT AT BARNARDCASTLE.—On Sunday last, whilst two boys, the sons of Mr. Hodgson, corn miller, were crossing the Tees, in order to proceed to the Sunday school, the ice sud- denly gave way and they immediately disappeared. An alarm being given, a large number of people col- lected on the banks of the river, and Mr. Waller, Fieldhouse, who has lately been presented with the honorary medal of the Humane Society, plunged in, having to break the ice in his progress. He rescued one of the boys, seventeen years of age, but the other was lost. Too much praise cannot be be- stowed upon Mr. Waller for the gallant conduct he displayed. A CLERICAL RECEIVER IN BANKRUPTCY.-—A curi- ous application was made to Mr. Registrar Roche at the Bankruptcy court on Monday under a liquid- ation petition filed by Elijah May, of Nichmond I Gardens, Shepherd's Bush, builder. It was pro- posed that the Rev. Henry Marchmont, described as a clerk in holy order, of the Lime, Stanmore, should be appointed receiver with a view to the property, which was in danger of being sold under an execution. His Honour remarked that the office of a receiver was rather a novel one for a clergyman i to undertake—in fact, he thought it was quite in- consistent with his other duties. The rev. gentle- man explained that he had left the Church some years, and had engaged in building operations. He was willing to be described as a builder. The papers were accordingly amended, and Mr. March- mont was then appointed receiver. EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF AMMUNITION NEAR CHESTER. An extensive seizure of ammunition supposed to have been intended for exportation to France, has been made by the county constabulary. It seems that in June last year a licence was grant- ed to Messrs. Sharp and Co., of London, Mr. Timothy Gittins acting as their local agent, for the storage of gunpowder at the village of Great. Stanney. In- formation reached the police lately, however, which led them to believe that the magazine at this village was being used for the manufacture of ammunition and, accordingly, a search warrant having been ob- tained, Detective-inspector Burgess and other offi- cers went to the place on Tuesday last and took possession of 10,000 cartridges and a large quantity of materials for the making of the same. The cart- ridges have plain conical bullets, and are for breech- loaders. The manufacturers are to be proceeded against, but what the nature of the information to be laid against them will be we cannot at present say.— Chester Chronicle. FURTHER MUNIFICENT GIFTS BY MR, HUMPHREY NICHOLS.—Mr. Humphrey Nichols, who is one of the vice-presidents of the Salford and Pendleton Royal Hospital and Dispensary, has presented to that charity the princely donation of £ 7,000. The treasurer received a note trom Mr. Nichols, appoint- ing an interview at that gentleman's office in Hop- wood Avenue, on Friday morning, when he presented the above-named sum for the support of the charity. This is not the first time that Mr. Nichols has come forward in support of the Salford Hospital. About eighteen months ago he presented several chief rents, amounting altogether to upwards of £ 90 per annum, which he conveyed to the trustees to &ug- ment the permanent income of the institution. These several gifts, in addition to some smaller donations in former years, make in the whole at least £ 10,000. Mr. Nichols has also given to the Rector of Warrington £ 7,500 for the Clergy, Widows, and Orphans' Fund of the Manchester and Chester I Diocese, making X10,000 given by him to this fund within a few years. CONVICTION FOR BRIBERY AT SCHOOL BOARD ELECTIONS.-On Monday, at the North Shields Police Court, before a fullbench-of magistrates, lVIr. Ralph Turnbull, a member of the borough of Tyne- mouth School Board, was summoned for having, on the 10th January, at Cullercoats, in connexion with School Board elections, been guilty of corrupt practices, contrary to the Elementary Education Act. It was stated that the defendant, while a can- didatefor the School Board, had visited Cullercoats held a meeting of the burgesses in furtherance of his candidature, and treated those present to glasses of spirits, with the object, it was alleged, of influ- encing the votes in his favour, and of "making him popular. Witnesses were called, and Mr. Meyneil Bannister addressed the Court for the defence. The magistrates retired, and after an hour's absence- they returned into court, when the Mayor said they were unanimously of opinion that the case had been proved, and they fined Mr. Turn: ,ull 5s. and co,tql or in default seven days imprisonment.—Applica- tion was made for a case for the superior courts, which will be granted. The result of this convic- tion is that Mr. Turnbull will be disfranchised for six years at any municipal or parliamentary elec- tion. ALARMING RAILWAY COLLISION. — On Sunday afternoon, abeut three o'clock, an alarming collision took place near Preston, on the London and Norih- Western Railway. There was a long goods train standing on the down line on the high embankment at Preston Penwortham, and at the rear of it was a Lancashire and Yorkshire engine. A train of empty cattle waggons from Liverpool drawn by two engines, suddenly appeared at the head of the Penwortham embankment, whei'e there is a sharo curve. The signals were turned against the train, but the lines being slippery owing-to the rain which was falling, and the road being on:a strong gradient, the engines cou!d not be stopped before reaching the train which was standing upon the embankment ahead, and as the Lancashire and Yorkshire engine could not push them forward a violent collision ensued. The last named engine was thrown off tiie rails and turned upan its side, amd a van was pitched upon it; its front was broken in and two of the tender wheels were knocked off. The first of the engines bringing up the south train was also turned off the metals and seriously smashed in front. Two wheels were seat upon it, and the end of the tender was broken in. Both lines were blocked up for some time, and the north road was stopped for ;about seven hours, the south traffic durino- the whole of that time having to be worked past the scene of the accident upon the opposite line. ACTION AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY FOR USING DEFECTIVE ENGINES.—On Monday in the Court of Common Pleas, before Lord Chief Justice Bovill and a special jury, the case of Musgrave t,, the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, which has been at hearing several days, was concluded. It was an action brought by Mr. Musgrave, an extensive landed proprietor in York- shire and Lincolnshire, against the company named, for the recovery of damages for the destruction by fire of a considerable quantity of pasturage, grass, corn, and hay stacks, belonging- to the plaintiff, near Winkleby Station, on the defendants' line. The accident, it was alleged, had arisen from sparks of live or burning coal being emitted from one of the defendants' railway locomotive engine chim- neys, and it was further contended that the acci- dent was attributable to the faulty and defective construction of their engines, which were not pro- vided with a contrivance of a grating between the furnace and the chimney, or on the top of the chimney, to prevent the draught caused by a jet of steam casting out particles of ignited coal or half-burnt cinders from the furnace. It was alleged by the plaintiff and several scientific witnesses whom his counsel (Sir J. B. Karslake, Q.C.) called, that if the same system of construction adopted on the American, and some Continental, and many of our home lines, had been made use of, such accidents would be prevented. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with leave to Mr. Field, Q.C., for the defendants, to move for a new trial An unusually heavy rainfall was experienced at Gibraltar on the night of the 24th ult., the pluvio- meter registering nearly If inches, and the storm, while it lasted, was very severe. Several disasters were, reported. Mr. Robert Wells, town clerk of Hull, died on Monday. Two pontoons are about to be constructed, at a cost of J23,400, for the purpose of removing sunken wrecks and other obstructions from the Mersey. NOVEL MODE OF STEALING JEWELLERY.—At the Manchester City Police court, on Tuesday, a young man, named William Joyce, was charged with steal- ing the half of a gold albert chain from the shop window of Messrs. J. Marsh and Co., 225, Deansgate. It was alleged that the prisoner, by means of a wire, or other similar instrument, had pulled the chain through the hole in the window frame by which the shutters are bolted. The chain caught by the bar and was broken in the attempt to pull it out.—The Magistrate committed the prisoner for trial. FATAL GUN ACCIDENT.—On Sunday morning, a gun accident occurred at Callis wood, near Hebden Bridge, causing the death of a young man, named Thomas Sutcliffe, of Winters. Deceased, with two. or three compaions, was out with a gun and dog They met with another dog, and the two com- menced fighting. Sutcliffe had the gun, a double- barrelled one, in is pocket, in two pieces. In stoop- ing down to part the dogs, the barrels fell to the ground, and one of them exploded, the contents lodging in his side. Deceased expired in an hour after the accident. EXTENSIVE SILK ROBBERY IN NOTTINGHAM.—At the Nottingham Town Police Court, on Tuesday morning. Thomas Hayles was brought up on re- mand charged with having stolen a large quantity of silk from the warehouse of Mr. Tidmas, lace manufacturer, Nottingham; and James Smith was was charged with having received the same know- ing it to have been stolen. The prisoner Hayles, at the time the robbery took place, was employed by prosecutor to watch over his factory, and to see that everything was safe. Large quantities of silk, however, have of late been missed from the ware- house, and from certain information suspicion fell upon Hayles, the watchman. Accordingly a detec- tive was set on the watch, and one night last week he apprehended the prisoner Hayles with a basket in his hand, which he searched, and found that it con- tained about 70 large spools of silk. The next day the officer went to the house of the prisoner Smiih, and found upwards of 300 spools of silk concealed in the bedroom, all of which were identified by pro- secutor. Both prisoners were committed to the assizes. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF BURNING.-On Tues- day, an inquest was held at Bury, before Mr. Edge, coroner, touching the death of Richard Simist-er, eight years of aje, who was so burned on Friday that he died on Saturday afternoon. Deceased's mother stated that the boy was burned in her ab- sence. She left him in the house with nothing but his shirt on, and shortly after he was seen to run out in flames. He had told her that a neighbour's child, between two and three years Hd, came into the house, went up stairs, where he struck some matches, and then shouted out that he had "frizzled the hair" of the deceased's youngest brother, 2i years old, who had been left in bed, and whose hair was afterwards found to be singed. The little delinquent afterwards came down stairs and struck a match, and while deceased was sitting in a chair, leaning back with his eyes shut, applied the match to his shirt, and thus caused the fatal injuries.- The Coroner, at the request of the Jury, who re- turned a verdict of accidental death, reprimanded the mother of the deceased for her want of care, this being the second child in the same family that has been burned to death. DELIBERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER. — At the Dumbarton Police Court, on Monday, a young man, named Thomas M'Donough, a painter or labourer, was charged with attempting to murder, or seriously wound, Stephen Martin, a labourer, by shooting him in the back of the head. M'Donough was re- mitted to the county authorities. It appears that on Sunday night Martin, who lodged in the same house as M'Donough, in Close 171, High street, was, shortly after seven o'clock, sitting with his back close to an unscreened window reading, when a shot was heard fired in a garden behind, and Martin at once gave the alarm that he was wounded at the back of the head. Along with others in the house and the close, Martin was able to rush out and see who had fired the shot, and amongst those thus engaged M'Donough took an active part. Information was at once given to the police, and their suspicions falling on M'Donough he was taken into custody. On his being searched two pellets were found in one of his boots, similar to two which were subsequently extracted from the wounded man's neck; and foot- marks in the garden, in the direction from which the shot came, correspond exactly with the boots worn by M'Donough when apprehended. SETTING A COALPIT ON FIRE.-On Monday, be- fore the County Magistrates at Leigh, a young mlll named Joseph Roome, of Atherton, employed at the colliery of Mr. William Ramsden, Tyldesley, was charged with setting fire to the Seven-foot Mine on the 30th ult. It appeared from the state- ment of the proprietor that on the morning of the day named, the prisoner, who was a taker off at the bottom of the down brow in the Seven foot Mine, collected a quantity of chips, and made a fire in a small place where he usually sat to eat his meat. The wood burned a day and night without the knowledge of any other person, with the ex- ception of two boys who were with the prisoner, and whom he threatened to kill if they told anybody about the fire. Prisoner endeavoured to put out the fire, but finding that he could not succeed he covered it with rubbish. In the night the rubbish ignited and set fire to the coal. On the following morning when the foreman went to examine the place previous to the colliers going to work, he could not get down in consequence of the smoke. Every attempt to reach the fire failed, and the mine had to be made up, and it was impossible to say when it could be opened. The prisoner said he made the fire to warm his breakfast can.—He was committed to prison for two months. A BURGLAR .CAPTURED BY A DOG. — At the Middlesex sessions, on Tuesday, George Pearce, 2G, an upholsterer, was charged under the Habitual Criminal's Act with being found by night having in his possession, without lawful excuse, certain im- plements of housebreaking-to wit, a crowbar, commonly called a jemmy," and a knife, with in- tent to commit a felony.-A police constable said about two o'clock in the morning of the 3.3th ult. he was on duty in Camden Road, and heard cries of "Help," "Murder. "Thieves," coming from the rear of 250, Camden Road. The constable ran round some mews, but the wall was to high. He then rang up the coachman, and on proceeding to .the garden found the prisoner struggling with a large dog. The prisoner was crying out that he would give himself up. He gave up a iemmy" with which he had attempted to break into the house When searched at the police station, a knife used to push back catches of windows, a piece of cord, ,and a box of silent matches were found on him.— The coachman said the prisoner was terribly alarmed, and was crying at the top of his voice. The prisoner was convicted, and a sergeant of police proved that the prisoner had been several times convicted, and had suffered four year's de- tention in a reformatory. The Assistant Judge sen- tenced him to seven yeare penal servitude and seven years' surveillance. SERIOUS ASSAULT WITH THE KNIFE,—At the Leeds Town Hall, on Tuesdays John O'Neil, ag«d sixty, was charged with having stabbed a neigh- bour named Anthony McAndrew, with a knife on Monday night. The prosecutor said the prisoner and himseli had hitherto lived on friendly terms at Albion terrace, Hunslet, and the assault appears to have been unprovoked, but it is suspected the pri- soner was somewhat affected with drink. About nine o'clock the prisoner was heard shouting in a meaningless manner, Which way does the bull run, and the prosecutor, who was taking his supper going to the door and inquiring what was astir, the prisoner made use of very offensive language. A few minutes afterwards Mrs. McAndrew went into the yard for some water. The prisoner came to- wards her, threateningly with a knife and a hammer, and she ran away, but was followed by the prisoner, and just as she had reached her own doorstep, he inflicted two slight wounds with his knife, one on- the palm of the left hand, and the other on the elbow. The woman screamed out and her husband came to her assistance, but he had scarcely reached the door when the prisoner dealt him a blow at least an inch deep on the right arm. The prosecu- tor cried out that he was stabbed, and the prisoner ran away, but was immediately followed by McAndrew, who, when about to be attacked a second time, threw himself upon him, and with the assistance ef a labourer named Ryan, succeeded in disarming him. O'Neil, it appears, then proceeded to the Hunslet Police Station, and lodged a com- plaint against McAndrew, but was recommended to get a warrant, and shortly after he had gone McAndrew entered the office, and his statement, supported as it was by his wound, led to the appre- hension of the prisoner, The defence was that pro- secutor's wife had done something which greatly provoked the prisoner. The case was sent for trial at the sessions. "Violante," a tragedy in five acts, by Hermann Lmgg, has just been published at Stuttgart. This new work is worthy of its author's reputation, and the plot is full of interesting situations. The scene of the story is laid in Italy. I Small-pox is raging in Manitola and British I Columbia. M. Henrich Wichern, a bookseller in Hamburg, and a son of the celebrated Dr. Wichern, who found- ed the Rauhe Haus in Hamburg, has been serving in the German army, first as a private, and then as a colour-sergeant, and has published two very inter- esting sections of his journal—1, from Hamburg to Toul; 2, from Toul to before Paris—describing his work in marching, making requisitions, sleeping for eight nights on wet straw, &c. The writer's regiment has since been on very active service with the Duke of Mecklenburg on the Loire; and if he lives out the campaign, the third section of his journal will tell the rest of his adventures. DIAMOND STEALING AT THE CAPE.-Diamond stealing goes on apace. Three men were captured here, and are now in limbo. The charge pre- ferred against them is that they have appro- priated" a most splendid and valuable gem, of which they were entitled to but a very small share. We hear of these cases now every day, and it has become necessary to be especially careful, in the formation of parties, as to the characters of the men employed; and vigilant supervision is most essen- tial. From the quantity of diamonds I now see offered for sale, it is clear to my mind there is no falling off in the finds. I myself saw 20 diamonds sold and for one of them £ 500 was refused; the owner wanted £ 1000."—CapeUmn Standard and Mail. ARREST OF A NOTORIOUS BRIGAND.—The Naples correspondent of the Times writes: "In a recent letter I spoke of the arrest of several brigands, and now have to report that of another, who for some time has been the scourge of the Calabrias. Turchio gave himself up a short time since to the troops who were in pursuit of him, hoping thus to gain some mitigation of his punishment, but soon after escaped. He was then accused of 37 murders, though only 22 years of age. Assisted by the country people, he managed to elude pursuit, but being hunted down and surrounded, he was taken about a fortnight since. He is now only 25 years of age, is small in stature and very pale, but has the strength and agility of an athlete. Cosenza is thus delivered from a long-continued danger." THE Loss OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.—The case of Inman and Others v. Jenkins came before the Court of Common Pleas on Monday. The plaintiffs were the owners of the unfortunate City of Boston steamer. Whilst her fate was still uncertain, the defendant sent a letter to the Tim s, in which he said that the steamer, on leaving Halifax, was deep- ly laden with wheat in bags, being 18in. or 20in. deeper than the insurance allows, and had only a two-fan screw. Plaintiffs sued for damages upon the ground that this statement was a libel upon them, and at the trial before Mr. Justice Lush, at Liverpool, the Jury found for the plaintiffs—dama- ges, £250. Subsequently a rule was obtained to enter a nonsuit upon 1 he ground that the alleged I libel contained no imputation upon the plaintiffs personally, the only imputations made being upon their agent who managed their affairs at Halifax. Cause was shown against this rule being made abso- lute. Mr. Justice Willes thought the statement was a libel upon the plaintiffs'firm in reference to their way of carrying on business, and was calculated to bring them into disgrace as merchants. It was imputed that, either wilfully or by negligence, that had been done which could hardly be called less than criminal -prima facie this would apply to the owners of the vessel, and those who read it would at once feel that the plaintiffs were under a necessity of excus- ing themselves. It was said that the plaintiffs were not actually resident upon the spot, but had an agent there that they were personally exempt from the libel, and were only stung through the acts of their agent at Halifax and that, therefore, the matter should be withdrawn from the jury. The jury, however, might fairly infer that it tended to injure the plaintiffs. He thought that there was evidence upon which the jury could properly come to the conclusion that it was a libel upon the plain- tiffs, and, as at present advised, he entirely con- curred in their conclusion.-Rule discharged. GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICES. — Dungarven, Ireland, Feb. 3. The brigantine Margaret, of Lan- caster (says Mr. John Hunt), bound from Liverpool for Bristol, with a cargo of coals, which went on Dungarvan Bar, a few days since, and whose crew were saved by the Christopher Ludlow lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, was boarded on Tuesday by the master and crew, and 15 other men who were engaged to throw the cargo overboard to lighten the ship in the hope that she might then be got off the bar..The wind, however, increased, and a heavy sea got up, and the position of those on board became very perilous and, thereupon, sig- nals were made for the aid of the lifeboat. That boat at once went out and proceeded alongside, when the coxswain proposed to take ten men off the wreck at first, but all were so apprehensive of the vessel's breaking up that the whole of the men, 20 in num- ber, crowded into the boat, the master being the last to leave his ship. The lifeboat, which is but a small one, 30ft. long by 6Ht. wide, then had 29 men on board, including her own crew, but all were safely landed. On the way to the vessel a heavy sea broke into the lifeboat, but the water was speedily self ejected through the patent valves with which most of the Lifeboat Society's boats are fitted. -Ramsay, Isle of Man, Monday. About 11 o'clock on Saturday night, during a gale from the S.E., a schooner entered Ramsay bar! our, and reported that another vessel was in distress off the Point of Ayr (states the Rev. George Paton). The Ramsay lifeboat Two Sisters, which belongs to the Lifeboat Society, was immediately launched, and found the schooner William, of Liverpool, leaking and in a dangerous position. Some of the crew of the life- boat were placed on board, and an effort was made to reach Peel, but without effect. Fortunatelv, however, the wind changed, and Ramsay harbour was safely reached about ten o'clock last Sunday night, after 23 hours' service, all hands being saved. RE-VACCINATION.—The following memorandum has been issued from the Medical Department of the Privy Council:—" By vaccination in infancy, i? thoroughly well performed and successful, most people are completely ensured for their whole life- time against an attack of small pox j and in the pro- portionately few eases where the protection is less complete, small pox, if it be caught, will, in conse- quence of the vaccination, generally be eo mild a disease as not to threaten death or disfigurement. If, however, the vaccination in early life have been but imperfectly performed, or have from any other cause been but imperfectly successful, the protection against small pox is much less satisfactory; neither lasting so long, nor while it lasts being nearly so complete, as the protection which first rate vaccina- tion gives. Hitherto, unfortunately, there has always been a large quantity of imperfect vaccination, and in consequence the population always contains very many persons who, though nominally vaccinated and believing themselves to be protected against small- pox, are really liable to infection, and may in some cases contract as severe forms of small-pox as if they had never been vaccinated. Partly because of the existence of this large number of imperfectly vacci- nated persons, and partly because also even the best infantile vaccination sometime in process of time loaes more or less of its effect, it is advisible that all persons who have been vaccinated in infancy should, as they approach adult life, undergo re-vaccination' Generally speaking, the best time of life for re- vaccination is about the time when erowth is com- p etmg its ell, say from fifteen to eighteen years of age; and persons of that period of life ouo-ht not to delay their re-vaccination till times when there shall be special alarm of small-pox. In pro- portion, however, as there is prevalence of small-pox in any neighbourhood, or as individuals are from circumstances likely to meet chances of infection, the age of 15 need not be waited for especially not by young persons whose marks to previous vaccina- tion are unsatisfactory. In circumstances of special danger, every one past childhood, on whom re- vaccination has not before been successfully per- formed, ought without delay to be re-vaccinated. lon' Re-vaccination, once properly and successfully performed, does not appear ever to require re- petition. The nurses and other servants of the Small-pox Hospital, when they enter the ser- vice are invariably submitted to vaccination which in their case generally is re-vaccination, and is never afterwards repeated j and soperfect is the pro- tection, that though the nurses live in the closest and most constant attendance on small-pox patients and though also the other servants are in various ways exposed to special chances of infection, the re- sident surgeon of the hospital, during his 34 years of office there, has never known small-|>ox effect any one of these nurses or servants. Legal provisions for re-vaccination are made in the 8th section of the Vaccination Act, 1867, and in section 4 of the regu- lations which the Lords of the Council under fu- U6d in ^ir order of February c e £ these provisions re-vaccination Ms r^PofivA1^16 • i-a^. Public vaccinators at their • aeeinatinglstations; and, so far as is not nt with the more imperative claims for pumaiy vaccination, any person who ought to be re-vaccinated may, on applying to the public station of the district in which he resides, obtain re-vaccina- tion at the public expense." Rewards for distinguished service have been granted to Major General Lord H. H. M. Percy, V.C.; and Colonels R. C. H. Taylor, C.B., assistant adjutant general of the London district, and E.A. SamerseL-C.B. unattached. DEATH OF LADY WILMOT-HORTON.-Lady Wil- mot-Horton died at Catton Hall on Saturday last. Her Ladyship was the daughter and co-heiress with the (late) Hon. Mrs. Carleton, of Eusebius Horton, of Catton, Derbyshire, and Davenport Hall, Cheshire. She was the relict of the Right Hon. Sir R. Wilmot, under secretary of state and governor of Ceylon, &c. The deceased lady was in her 83rd year. A FLYING MACHINE.—A newly-invented "flying machine" was tried, it appears, at San Francisco on the 16th of January. Everything was got in order, and the propeller arranged to cause elevation, at 12 15 o'clock. The fire for raising steam was then kindled, and in one minute and a quarter steam was opened. At 12.47 the machine was cut loose, and the propellers started. The report states that she then rose most gracefully in the air, amid the cheers of the crowd who had gathered to witness the ascen- sion. The machine was guided by cords attached to both ends of the balloon, and in the hands of persons on the ground. She ascended about fifty feet, and sailed along about a block, when she was pulled down to have her boiler replenished. Again she rose, this time to a height of about 200 feet. All the machinery (C worked to the perfect satisfac- tion of the inventor." The machine is named America." DOCKYARD EMIGRANTS TO CANADA.—A short Admiralty return, purporting to have been presented to Parliament last August, but only now issued, shows that the emigrants taken out in Her Majesty's ship Tamar, which arrived at Quebec on the 16th of June, held a meeting before landing and passed a, votes of thanks to the Officers and crew for their kind treatment received while on board, adding am especial expression of deep gratitude to the surgeon and his staff. The Canadian Government emigra- tion agent at Quebec says of these emigrants, They were a very fine lot." The captain of Her Majesty's ship Crocodile, which arrived at Quebec on the 24th. of June with a very large party, reports that he was well satisfied with tb'eir general good conduct on board; there was no drunkenness nor riotous con- duct, and at least 99 per cent behaved themselves in an exemplary manner. The Quebec agents reports that the Dominion Government granted them all free transport inland, and that the inland agents state that all have found employment. IMPROVED MORALE OF SAILORS.-At the annual meeting of the Liverpool Sailors' Home, held on Wednesday, the committee reported that during the year 7,596 sea-faring men had boarded in the Home, 2,160 of these being old friends," who re- gularly return to the institution on the expiration of their voyages. 360 shipwrecked men had been received and reshipped or sent home. The com- mittee dwelt with pleasure upon the fact that sea- men were becoming more temperate; that the habi- tual drunkenness which characterised them in for- mer years was diminishing; that they consumed as a consequence more solid and wholesome food; and that the demand for newspapers and periodicals was increasing. The sailor community, however, was daily becoming a more mixed class; the foreign element being largely on the increase, and firemen stokers, and landsmen mingling still more with the old "Jack Tar" class. During the year the amount received at the Home from sailors when paid off was £ 30,351, and in addition to the sum of • £ -,179 had been forwarded by consuls and others who take an interest in the welfare of the sailors abroad. The Board of Trade Savings Bank (con- ducted in the same building) had, during the year, received considerable sums which had been forward- ed to ether ports, free of cost, or had been retained, to be drawn by the depositors at will. The boarders had expressed their thankfulness for the protection afforded by the river police, and their desire for an extension of the system to the pier heads. IMPORTANT TO BEERSELLERS.—Judgment has just been delivered by Sheriff Galbraith, of Glasgow, in a case of considerable importance raised by Messrs. Bass and Co., against a Glasgow aleseller. The Sheriff, in remarking on the case, said the two questions raised were :—1st, Whether the defendant wrongfully used Bass's labels on inferior beer; and 2nd, to what extent that wrong was committed. The defendant does not dispute that the labels were so used, but he does not admit to what extent. That the beer bottled by him, and sold as Bass's, was greatly inferior to Bass's, is distinctly proved by one of the witnesses, and is, indeed, substantially admitted by the defendant himself, for he will not say what beer it was, and leaves it on his deposition to be inferred that at the best it was Scotch beer. Then as to the quantity wrongfully sold as Bass's beer, it was not to be expected that the plaintiffs could determine that; but it appears from the evidence that it was freely got on being asked for at each of the defendant's four shops in September last; and it appears also, from the invoices produced by the defendant himself, that while, up till 31st May, 1870, he had regularly purchased Bass's beer he has since that date purchased none. But the worst feature in the case is this-after the complaint was made, the defendant says be took no pains to inquire to what extent the wrong had been done. He did not inquire by whom it had been done, nor whose beer had been sold as plaintiffs'. It is im- possible to estimate accurately the injury done to the plaintiffs. It may be little and it maybe great; but looking to the whole circumstances, especially to the defendant s conduct, when his wrong-doinc was found out, the damages awarded are extremely moderate. The Sheriff's judgment was as follows:— Having heard parties' procurators Finds that the plaintiffs of this action ask decree against the defen- dant, James Cook, for the sum of £100 as damages sustained by them in consequence of the defendant having regularly, for several months prior to Sept., 1870, used the plaintiffs' (Bass and Co.'s) labels, upon bottles of beer sold by him, the beer in said bottles not being the plaintiffs' beer, but beer of a very inferior quality. Finds that on the merits the defendant admits that Bass's labels were by mistake put upon beer other than the plain; iffs', and that this occurred through the carelessness of defend- ant's servants in his absence for a considerable period Finds, in fact, that the averments of the plaintiffs are proved, and that the defendant either knew of the wrongful u-e of Bass's labels or was culpably negligent in permitting them to be so used in the conduct of his business Therefore, finds the defendant liable in damages modifies the same to the amount of £ 50, and finds the defendant also liable in expenses. ATTEMPTED MURDER THROUGH JEALOUSY.—At Greenwich, on Monday, Margaret O'Brien, aged 35, described as a dressmaker, or Deptford, was charged on suspicion of having thrown upon the face and person of Michael Gi ant, a quantity of oil of vitrol, and seriously injured him. The injured man being in Guy's Hospital, and it being stated. by the house surgeon thar it was very doubtful if he would not lose the sight of both eyes, and that there was a probability of the injuries proving fatal, Mr. Maude proceeded to the hospital to take the man's depositions. From hii statement it ap- peared that he had at different times during the past two years kept company with the prisoner, but that they had parted, and the banns of mar- riage had been published between himself and a young woman named Julia Donovan. In conse- quence of this there had been f-equerd quarrels on £ e?ar,\?f the Pnsoncr whenever they met and Bhe had threatened "to do" for him, either by shooting or stabbing him, before his marriage with Donovan. On Saturday nigut he had been to Peckham with Donovan, and returned with her to Deptford and left her with his landlady while he went out again. On returning, and when within two doors of his lodging, a woman, who Ni-as woariny a veil, but whom he knew to be the prisoner, met him and threw something in his face. He was at once blinded and rendered insensible, but his moans oard by his landledy and the young woman to whom he was about to be fnarned, and he was taken othe hospital.—Detective Osb rue said that on + ^n. y^in consequence of information obtained from the injured man in hospital, he went to the prisoner at ner lodgings, and on asking her when she last saw Michael Grant, she hesitated for some time, and then said she had not seen him since the previ- ous Saturday week.—Julia Donovan, the young woman alluded to, confirmed the principal part of Grant's statement, and said that on Saturday week the prisoner came to her and asked if she was the young woman who was about to be married to Grant. Witness told the prisoner she was the young woman, when the prisoner replied, "If I had a brace of pistols I would blow his brains out," and she told witness he should never marry her. The prisoner, who had fainted on being taken to the bedside of Grant, de- nied that she was the person who had thrown the liquid over him or that she ha.d threatened" to do" for him. She admitted going and seeing the young woman Julia Donovan to acquaint her with the manner in which she had been deceived by him dur- lng their two years acquaintance, and remarking to her that she felt if she had a pistol she could shoot him. She also admitted that she told Donovan There s many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," alluding to a paragraph she had read in the news- paper of a young man who was found dead in his M°n»f preceding his intended marriage. Mr. Maude remanded the prisoner to Maidstone eaol for a week. 7- coW Mai^flIily s"dden death of Edouardo Zame- co s at Madrid on the 14th ult. is a loss to modern PW c^ £ nor Zaniacois constantly exhibited at the is Salon of Beaux-Arts. He was a pupil of M, Jtteiseomer; obtained a medal in 1867. -4