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THE GREAT STAMP ROBBERY AT MANCHESTER. RECOVERY OF zes,ooo WOIZTTI OF STAMPS. Since the conviction of the four meu on Tuesday last, at Manchester, for the great stamp robbery at the Hon. Mr. Howard's, the police have been using untiring efforts to ascertain the whereabouts of the residue of the stamps stolen in May last. That the actual thieves had been convicted was undoubted, and that belief has now received the most ample verification by the discovery of about £ 8,000 worth of the stolen stamps in a portman- teau at one of the railway stations in London. All these stamps have been handed over to the authorities at So- merset House, and it is nearly certain that about zC2,000 worth more will be in the hands of the police by the time this report meets the public eye. Charles Leeson, who was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, had been seven times previously convicted, twice flogged, and was liberated about twelve months ago upon ticket- of-leave, after a sentence of seven years' penal servi- tude for the following robbery at Manchester He went into a shop while a man, known as Cockney Charley, waited outside with a bulldog, trained for the purpose. Leeson asked for a £5 note in exchange for five sove- reigns, and when the old man in the shop took the note out of his pocket-book, LeCson snatched it out of his hand, and ran off with it, and when the shopman pur- sued him, Cockney Charley set the bulldog upon him, and the thief, Leeson, got away. The dog was, how- ever, followed, and traced to the lodgings of the men, who were convicted, and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. Thomas Douglas, who is a native of Bristol, and whose rcalname is Hathaway, is a great sporting character, owns two or three racehorses, and has won: some races this year. There is no doubt that he, with the others, was concerned in all the great City burgla- ries, and has always been known as a most dangerous character, especially in Liverpool, where he was located for some time. He is an engineer by trade, his brother, William Douglas, being a locksmith. These two, it will be remembered, were also sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude for the stamp robbery. They were the chiefs of that gang of which lir. Caseley was one, that convict, whose graphic narrative in the Court of Queen's Bench, at the trial of Walker v. Milner, created at the time so much amusement and interest, being merely an outsider, the two men Douglas being really the men who broke open the safe, as spoken to by Mr. Oaseley and it is now well known that Thomas Douglas had and used to wear. one of the most valuable of Mr. Walker's watches. All the men were concerned in the great robbery at Gresham House, and also in the bul- lion robbery at Baum's, in Cheapside. The convict att, whose alias is Charley the Flat, was out on ticket-of-leave at the time of the stamp robbery, being under sentence for a very clever robbery at the West &nd. He took quiet lodgings in a bye street ne.ir Port- land-place, and got on to the roof of the house in the evening, passing along to several of the mansions in that fashionable locality, which he plundered of jewel- lery and other valuable articles, whilst the families were downstairs, but he was ultimately captured by Sergeant Thomas, of Scotland-yard detective force, and sen- tenced to three years' penal servitude. It may also be further interesting to mention that had the four prisoners been acquitted for the stamp robbery on Tuesday last, they would have been taken into custody on a charge of burglary at a Mr. Macfarren's, a jeweller, at Manchester, when property to the value of E 15,000 was cqi-ricil off, some of which has been found in Thomas Douglas's house, and identified. It may be added that all these men have long been suspected of committing numerous burglaries at Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, and elsewhere, but the legal proof has never been attainable. Their practice was to teave the produce of the robberies in boxes or portmanteaus at various rail- way stations until an opportune moment for its easy transmission to the stores of one of the numerous fence establishments in London—such for instance as that of Mr. Moses Moses. The capture of these fti«n has frustrated one of the most gigantic robberies ever known, or perhaps contemplated, as the clearest proof has been obtained that means had been devised and were in actual progress to gain access to the Mint and Bank bullion vaults by tunnelling under them and had the scheme been successfully carried out, the plun- der would have been of such a character as to render identification almost impossible, and conviction, even had the robbers been caught, equally difficult. All these aud, no doubt, other nefarious plans are now put an end to, and, assuredly, society has good reason to be rejoiced thereat.

The King of Rt0„ • penliagen next sprhjf18 cxPected t0 Pa-V a visit t0 Co- NEW CENSUS OF THP 0RRMR T has been presented to £ LO^ON.-A report a census of the City, trom S f'nmon w wZ night population of the Citya J tha th° 113,387; the mercantile and commerri!,? immb^cd engaged in the City daily total dav population residing in the City to and the "number of persons resorting to the Citv .tnJ in sixteen hours, not included m the above, f tomers, clients, and others, to 509,611. The persons frequenting the City daily in twelve hours, from 6 a.m to 6 p.m., were 549,613; in sixteen hours, from 5 a.m. to 9 p m., they were 679,744 and in twenty-four hours they were 728,986. SCICIDR OF A WirE.-Oll Saturday last an inquest Was held at Brentwood, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth j^edwell, wife of a master saddler oi that place. inere differences between the deceased and her hus- band, and some time ago she had left him, but recently Returned. On Friday afternoon he found her hanging, qUite dead, in an outhouse. The Jury found a verdict Of Temporary Insanity. THE COLLIERY DISPUTE IN DERNYSIIIRE. Om Staveley correspondent reports that the unionists are declining and the non-unionsts increasing in number, and enumerates the non-unionists connected with five collieries, giving a total of 670 men who have renounced Unionism. He also states that a special train arrived at Staveley on Monday night bringing miners from Corn- ell, whose arrival will doubtless have its effect on the strike. At Bolsover, out of the 91 who have hitherto Paid into the union, only 16 contributed on Saturday last. As the men give in their adhesion to the new Movement, they have in most cases handed over to the Secretaries the books in which their payments to the allj0n.and benefits received therefrom are recorded; it has been resolved at one of the meetings that hose should all be taken care of and finally burnt in £ hue at that place in Staveley where once stood the is lJfUt villaSe cross- Among the seceders at Bolsover secretary of the union.—Sheffield Telegraph.

ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. tery interesting discoveries have been made for some weeks past, at Norton, East Hiding, where a system of drainage is being effected in the streets of the town, which is built upon an ancient cemetery dating about the Roman period. The town is immediately opposite the great camp (Derventio) at Malton, and is separated from it by the river Derwent only, and had also a small camp of its own, for the defence of the ford. The two places arc also on the site of earlier British settlements, and of both British and Roman occupation traces are found—of the, former only sparsely, comprising a few burials, pottery, and stone implements but of the Roman period vast quantities of broken earthen vessels, some fibula;, coins, querns, and Samian ware, with potters' nVirks, are fqund, along with burials, both cremated and otherwise, and the foundations of buildings and remains of huge fires. The Samian vessels found have the following makers' names impressed (so far as legible) —cup with or, PONTI," and other vessels with O CART," CAVA and "R FE. Of coins those of Vespasian, Posthumius, Tctricus, Victorinus, Constantius, Valentinian, and Helena have been met with, and one coin, a rude imitation of a Roman type, struck after Roman rule, and a forged silver coin (plated), the exergue having Antoninvs Avgvstvs Rector Orbis." The skulls have been sent to the Rev. W. Greenwell, of Durham. The most noticeable disco- veries were made as under :-The section of the drainage was commenced in the slope of Wold-street, which ne- cessitated a considerable depth of cutting, of which quite 7 feet was of cast earth,abounaingwith fragments of Roman vessels of various kinds, and had large remains of fires, deposits of ashes and charcoal quite a foot thick remain- ing. These and the adjoining soil yielded the bones of the ox, sheep, boar, deer, and dog. In this street, among the cast earth, a very fine large quern of one of the metamorpliic rocks was found, the iron spindle yet re- maining. The under stone was of oolite. Near this quern was a very large vessel (in fragments) of a coarse pottery-probably a meal pot. A portion of a fibula of twisted bronze wire, and a bifid bronze implement, the use of which cannot be guessed, were also found, with various small coins and ornate pieces of Samian ware. On putting in the first section in Commercial-street two years ago the Roman road was found, but that has been quite lost now, and the work is through an ancient cemetery. The work here turned to the east, and was taken up Wood-street. This street seems to cross the old cemetery, for, in digging cellars on each side, Roman burials, or burials of that period or there- abouts, are regularly disturbed. Near a very large find of this kind some years back, the skeletons of a young woman of about twenty-five years and a young child were found, laid at full length, with heads to the west, the woman being on the left side slightly. Nothing was found with these burials, and the bones got into the possession of a medical man at Norton, and are consequently lost to examination. The burials were just within the sand and covered with 4ft. of cast earth. Another skeleton was found close by on the same level, but lying north and south this was too decayed to remove. On the Beverley-road two more bodies were met with, having their heads to the north, and both with faces downwards; these, burials were about 4ft. deep and lft. into the sand, and near them there was a bottom of awheel-made vessel, which, how- ever, could not be said to be associated with either body. Only one skull would bear removal this was of a man, the length being 7f, breadth 5f, inches, and height 5i in- ches—therefore of dolicho-cephalic type. The next dis- covery was ma Ie about midway in Mill-street. Here a body was found doubled up in the British fashion, laid on the left side, with the head to the east. This burial was barely 2ft. deep, and just upon the sand, and with the body was deposited a large oval rubber or pounder of stone, having a singular raised band round it. Near it also were pieces of very soft, imperfectly baked pottery. The body was that of a female, but from being so neai the surface the remains of the skull are too imperfect to give measurements; but Mr. Greenwell says the type agrees with the skull above named. The next excava- tion was in the Langton-road, where at a depth of 10ft., coins, parts of two querns, Samian and other pottery, were met with. Near the end of St. Nicholas-s treet, 10ft. deep, a skeleton at full length was found, the head being to the north. With the body were a long stone,rubber or pounder, and a bottle of red ware, of soft pottery. This body was also a woman's, and the skull is 6 long by 5\ broad but, as there is no occipital bone recovered, the first measurement is partly estimated, Near Hungerford house, a fine Roman bottle, globular, with long neck, the prototype oj' the fashionable water bottle of the present day, was found. This has gone to Mr. J. C. Wise's collection. Close by a stone coffin, 2ft. Pin. by 1ft. 3in., and 9in. deep, inner measurement, formed of one block of oolitic freestone, was found placed on two large blocks (nearly as large as the coffin itself) of oolite, but without a lid. The coffin was 8ft. deep and contained nothing but a trace of lime. There was a slight hollowing of the stone for the head, but no body appears to have been interred in the coffin. Close by the head, on the north, however, was a cinerary urn (Roman) with the burnt bones enclosed, and near were nn an titles of Samian, Upchurch, Durobrivian and locally-made pottery, part of a lachrymatory, three stone pounders, and an iron knife, or other implement. The Samian ware was embellished with hunting scenes in relief. These relics arc held by Mr. J. C. Wise, who has got also an iron spear head with bone tip of shnftfrom the ford across the Derwent. A little south of the last burial another body was found, again doubled up in the British way and 8ft. deep. This was a male, and the skull was, in excellent order, the measurements being— length, 7Jin.: breadth, 5|in.; and height. 5fin. This man had been a cripple, very extensive necroses of the joints existing, particularly of the knees. Bottoms of two Samian vessels with potters'names were found near, and numerous foundations of old buildings, many showing signs of great burnings. Not far off the lower jaw of a child (deformed) but no other part of the body, was found. There was one slight trace of de- cayed bone, presumed not human, as the jaw was very sound. How this fragment of a body came there is a puzzle. "Various fragments of tiles, orna- mented with reed impressions in vertical and horizontal lines, and handles of amphora, spouts of vessels in form of human face, and various minor Raman relics were found. Mr. Greenwell has added the skulls to his collection of crania from Ancient Northumbria. He states that after rebuilding they show a dolicho-cephalic index-, bnt not markedly so; have slightly,prognathous jaws foreheads of fair breadth, but rather low parietal bosses rounded off. ridges slight, the teeth greatly ground down and general features soft. The whole resemble each other in the mam, but their type is not British nor Roman, nor, indeed, quite Teu- tonic: though to the Bitter type they approach the nearest. The drainage has to be carried through the small camp defending the ford at Malton, and probably more skulls will be then obtained. Outside the subsidiary camp at Mnlton-nsually known as that of the Roman allies —burials are also being found. Mr. Greenwell will, therefore, obtain further examples of the crania of the district.'

DISTRESS AMONG THE SHIPWRIGI ITS .-There is a question which is beginning to assume a serious aspcct, and that is the lamentable condition of our shipwrights. Dr. Miller, the vicar of Greenwich, gives a yery heart- rending description of their sufferings in his town. The number out of employment amounts to 16,000. The artisans' homes, it appears, arc being emptied and, the pawnbrokers' shops becoming filled, and this on the very eve of winter. Dr. Miller having to encounter a great deal of this distress is naturally desirous of relieving it, and lie therefore appeals to the public for assistance. Dr.-Miller asserts that some of the causes of the present distress are beyond the control ofthe siifftters, and it is the reforc hoped that his appeal will be met with a prompt aud liberal response. KING LEOPOLD'S WILL. The Nord quotes the follow- ing curious paragraph from the Coiti-i-icr (It, CoJiÛntrce: —" The Empress Charlotte, whether she remain at Miramar to await the Emperor Maximilian, as some assert, or whether she return to Mexico, will not visit Brussels. The day after the departure of the Empress from Paris for Miramar, MM. Jules Van Praet and Conway, two of the testamentary executors of the late kin°-, left Brussels for Miramar, to confer with her Majesty on the subject of the deceased monarch's will. By law the executors have a year and a week from the date of the death to perform their office. It was to ob- tain the approval of the Empress to the steps already taken that these gentlemen visited Miramar. Up to the present the work of the executors has been slow and em- barrassed. Their mission appears likely to be as long and difficult as that of M. Dupin, the executor of Louis i bihppe. The difficulty is principally in the precautions required to prevent the publicity of the will, which is lepoited to contain, besides general dispositions and numerous special legacies, some political considerations OF cry grave import. wl.e k?xes of the Emperor Maximilian's IT ?tbp LIT Vcra Cruz- The Mexicans allege that the departing Emperor is taking away with him P Pamtings and other relics." THE RIGHT OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS TO RING BELLS.-I he igh, of cnurches and chapels to ring bells is now indirectly occupying the attention of one of our judicial courts Apropos of this, the following is a dictum of tliG late .Lord Chief Justicc Jaryis, as laid down by him at a trial at the Croydon Assizes, in 1841: —" With regard to the right of using bells at all. By the common law, churches of every denomination had a full right to use bells, and it was a vulgar error to suppose that there was any distinction at the present time in this respect. At the same time, those bells might undoubtedly be made use of in such a manner at to create a nuisance, and in that case a Protestant Church and a Roman Catholic one were equally liable."

UOUNT DE MONTALEMBERT ON ] ENGLAND. j The third volume, just issued, of the Count de Mon- I talembert's "History or the. Monks of the West," opens with the following sketch of the English nation:— J There exists in HH rn Europe, at seven leagues j distance from France, within sight of our nortuen I coasts, a people whose empire is more vast than was, that of Alexander or the Ctesars, who are at once th< freest and the mightiest, the richest and most manful, th< most undaunted and the most orderly that the world has known. No study is more instructive than tht character of this people none present so original an I aspect, or stronger contrast. Liberal and intolerant pious and inhuman, loving order and security as much as movement and renown, they feel a superstitious re- fpect for the letter of the law, and practise the most unbounded personal independence. Conversant, as none others are, with all the arts of peace, and yet ullconquerable in war, of which they sometimes are even passionately fond; too often strangers to enthusiasm, but incapable of faint-hearted- ness, they know not what it is to be discouraged or en- ervated. At one time they count all by the measure ol their gains or caprices; at another, they get heated fol a disinterested idea or a passion. As fickle as any other race in their affections and their judgment, they always know where to stop, and they are gifted at once with a perseverance which nothing turns aside. Eager for con- quest and discoveries, they wander or rush to the utmost boundaries of the earth, and they return more attached than ever to their home, and more resolute in upholding its dignity and perpetuating its ancient stability. Im- placable haters of constraint, they are yet voluntary slaies to tradition and to discipline freely accepted, or to pic- judices handed down to them through generations. No i-eople have been oftener conquered, but none have so absorbed and transformed their conquerors. None have persecuted Catholicism with more unrelenting and san- guinary hatred; even at this day none appear more hes- tiie to the Church, of which yet none have more need; none have been more wanting to it; none have left in its bosom a more irreparable void but none have lavished on our proscribed bishops, priests, and vmonks a more generous hospitality. Inaccessible to modern convulsions, that island has been an inviolable asylum for our exiled fathers and our princes, not less than foi our most violent enemies. Neither the selfishness of these islanders, nor their indifference, too often cynical, towards the sufferings and the servitude of others, should make us forget that in their country, more than, any other, man belongs to himself and governs himself. It is there that the nobleness of our nature dcvelopes itself in all its splendour, and there attains its highest perfec- tion. It is there that the noble passion of independence, combined with the genius of association, and the con- stant practice of self-control, have given birth to thtsc prodigies of energy, of indomitable vigour, of stub- born heroism, which have triumphed over seas and climates, over time and distance, over nature and tyranny, and have excited the envy of all peoples and the haughty enthusiasm of the English.— Loving Liberty for her own sake, and loving nothing without her, they owe little to their Kings, who were nothing but through them and for tnein. On then alone rest the formidable responsibility of their history. After undergoing as much, and more than any other nation the horrors of political and religious despotism in the 16th and 17th centuries, they were the first and the only people who threw it off onie and for ever. Reinstated in their ancient rights, their proud and brave nature has ever since kept them from delivering over to any one their rights, their destiny, their iu- terests, or their free will. They themselves know what to resolve and what to do; governing, rais- ing up, inspiring their great men,, instead of being seduced, led astray, or made the matter of tvaflic by them. That English race has. inherited the pride, as it has interned the grandeur of the people whose rivals and whose heirs they arc, of the Roman people—not the vile Romans enslaved by Augustus, but the sterling Romans of the Republic. But that race, like the Romans to their tributaries, has been fierce and rapacious in Ireland, and has inflicted, even,down to re- cent times, the servitude and degradation which it repu- diates with. horror for itself. Like ancient Rome often hated, and too often deserving of hatred, it will always excite, even among its most favourable judges, more of admiration than of love. But, more fortunate than Rome, that race is, after a thousand years and more, still full of youth and youthful vigour. Progress, gradual, imper- ceptible, but never interrupted, has created for it an in- exhaustible store of force and life. Its sap overflowed yesterday, and it will overflow to-morrow. More fortu- nate than Rome, and despite a thousand inconsistencies, a thousand excesses, a thousand foul blots, the English race is of all modern races and of all Christian Commu- nities the race which has best preserved the three funda- mental bases of every society worthy pf spirit of family, and the spirit of religion. How has this nation, in which pagan pride still survives and triumphs, and which has yet remained even in error the most religious of all the nations of Europe, how came it to be Chris- tian P How, and by what hands, have these imperish- able roots been implanted ? The .quc&tioji.is surely the most important of all those which history makes men- tion of, and its interest is the more important when we consider that on the conversion of England depended, and still depends, the conversion of many million souls. English Christianity was the source of the Christianity of Germany. From the depths of Germany the mis- sionaries formed by the Anglo-Saxons carried the faith into Scandinavia, and among the Sclaves and day after day, at the present moment, either by the fruitful ex- pansion of Irish orthodoxy, or by the stubborn impulse of Protestant propagandism, Christian societies are created, speaking English and living English life, throughout the whole of North America, in both the Indies, in vast Australia, among the islands of, the Pacific. Over nearly half the world Christianity has flowed, or will flow, from the source which first gushed out from the soil of Britain. To that question we are enabled to reply with rigorous exactness. No people on earth have received the Christian faith more directly from the Roman Church, and more exclusively through the agency of the monks, than the English."

REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF COINS.—Last-woek, on lowering the floor of II house at Aberriethy, there was found, fully a foot below the surface, a jar containing about 400 coiiis, most of them of the reign of Queen Mary of Scotland. Those of her reign have a Saint Andrew's Cross on the centre, with a rose on each side, with the inscription "Oppidum Edinburgh. On the reverse'side there is a thistle supporting the crown, with the letters M.R." on the side of the thistle and the in- scription" Maria, D. E. R. Scotorum." There is one with a very handsome bust of Mary, displaying the usual characteristic type of features. These are all chidlyof silver. There are several dated 1559-1561., with mottoes such as Vincit Veritas and there area considerable number with the monogram of "F.M. having the anus of France and Scotland combined, with the fleur-de-lis and thistle on each side of the shield. After they have all been examined other kinds may be detected, but the greater number are of the kind first mentioned. The jar was of coarse earthenware, and was covered on the month with a square- piece of tile about five inches on the side. About 100 years ago a a large quantity of coin was found in the same ground. The Patent Cork Carpet of Messrs. Tustin's, 86 Leadenhali-street, in use at the Kensington Museum., sustained the opinion we have before given of it. The British Museum, Bank of England, Crystal Palace, and hotels and stations are now using it: for such places, its durability and freedom from dust make it verv suitable, while its beauty and softness to the treai make it equally so to the hall, lobby, or office. STRANGE to say, England is not only losing her old political pre-eminence in Europe, but her commercial pre-cminence also. Mr. H. Creed, an ironmaster, who is honorary secretary to the Associated Ironmasters of South Staffordshire, and Mr. W. Williams are noW. in Belgium, endeavouring to obtain by personal investiga- tion some information upon the causes of the state of things which they describe in the following terms •.—" In cotton we were dependent on another nation for the raw material; in the case of iron every description of raw material required in its aid of manufacture is the pro- duce of our own soil. It is under our feet. And yet with all this advantage, with the additional advantage, too, as we are told, of possessing the best and most ad- vanced skilled workmen in the world, Belgium and France have thrust us out of foreign markets to all ex- tent which the public will hardly credit, and of which the trade itself is scarcely aware. A like state of things obtains in Spain. There, again, England is thrust aside, defeated by Belgium and by France. We cannot com- pete with their producers either in price or in con- tinuousness and certainly of supply. How is it that our position in so great an industry is slipping from under us ?" POPULATION OF PARIS.—Since 1861 the population of Paris has increased from 1,696,141 inhabitants to 1.825,274, or, with the arrondissements of St. Denis and Sceaux, from 1,953,660 to 2,150,946. ECCLESIASTICAL PROPERTY IN ITALY.—The taking possession, on the part of the Royal domain, of all ec- clesiastical property to convert it into State rente com- menced the other day in Bologna. Some young en- gineers of incontestable zeal and activity have been charged with the operation. On this subject we learn from Loreto that at the moment when on inventory was about to be taken of the possessions of that holy esta- blishment, amounting to more than £ 200,000, a number of fanatical and bigoted peasants, excited by the priests and monks, sought to make a demonstration and per- haps even to prevent the agents from doing their duty; but means were found to bring them to their senses.

AMERICA. (PER THE AFRICA.) THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, NEW YORK, Dec. 4. President Johnson, in his Message to Congress, says It is a matter of regret that no considerable advance has been made towards an adjustment of the differences between the United States and Great Britain arising out of the depreciations upon our natio11a:1 commerce and other trespasses committed during our civil war by British subjects, in violation of international Jaw and treaty obligations. The delay, however, may be believed to have resulted in no small degree from the domestic situation of Great pritain. Whatever might be the wishes of the two Governments, it is manifest that good- will and friendship between the two countries cannot be established until a reciprocity in the practice of good faith and neutrality shall be restored between the re- spective nations." Relative to the Fenian invasion of Canada, he says that,— "Citizens were warned against taking part in or aiding such unlawful proceedings, and the proper offi- cers were directed to take all necessary measures for the enforcement of the laws. The expedition failed, but it has not been without its painful consequences. Some of our citizens who, it was alleged, were engaged in the expedition were captured, and have been brought to trial as for a capital offence in the province of Canada. Believing that the severity of civil punishment for misguided persons who have engaged in revolutionary attempts, which have disastrously failed, is unsound and unwise, such representations have been made to the British Government in behalf of the convicted persons as, being sustained by an enlightened and humane judg- ment, will, it is hoped, induce in their cases an exercise of clemency and a judicious amnesty to all who were engaged in the movement. Counsel has been employed by the Government to defend the citizens of the United States on trial for capital offences in Canada, and a dis- continuance of the prosecutions instituted in the courts of the United States against those who took part in the expedition has been directed. I have regarded the expedition as not only political in its nature, but also as, in a great measure, foreign from the United States in its causes, character, and ob- jects. The attempt was understood to be made in sym- pathy with an insurgent party in Ireland, and, by striking a British province on this continent, designed to aid in obtaining redress for political grievances which it was assumed the people of Ireland had suffered at the hands of the British Government during a period of several centuries. The persons ingaged in it were chiefly natives of -that country, some of whom had, while others had not, become citizens of the United States. Com- plaints of misgovernment in Ireland continually engage the attention of the British nation, and so great an agi- tation is now prevailing in Ireland that the British Go- vernment have deemed it necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus in that country. These circumstances must necessarily modify the opinion which we might otherwise have; entertained in regard to an expedition expressly prohibited by our neutrality laws. So long as those laws remain upon our statute book they should be faithfully executed." With regard to Mexico; he says that repeated as- surances have been made that the evacuation of Mexico by the French expeditionary forces will take place next spring, and that the French Government would then as- sume the attitude of non-intervention in Mexico as is held by the Government of the United States. It is believed that with the evacuation of Mexico no subject for serious differences between France and the United States would remain. He adds "Being deeply interested in the cause of liberty and humanity, it seemed an obvious duty on our part to exercise whatever influence we possessed for the resto- ration and permanent establishment in that country of a domestic and republican form of Government. All setpements of American claims for indemnity against France for acts committed by that power in the exercise of a belligerent power against Mexico have been de- ferred until a mutual adjustment shall be agreed upon by the two countries." Speaking of his. reconstruction policy, the President says Upon this question,'so vitally affecting the restora- tion of the Union and the permanency of our present form1 of government, my convictions heretofore ex- pressed have undergone no change, but, on the contrary, their correctness has been confirmed by reflection and time. If the admission of loyal members to seats in the respective houses of Congress was wise and expedient a year ago, it is no less wise and expedient now. I know of no measure more imperatively demanded by every consideration of national interest, sound policy, and equal justice than the admission of loyal members from the now unrepresented States. This would con- summate the work of restoration, and exert a most salu- tary influence in there-establishment of peace, harmony, and fraternal feeling. It would tend greatly to renew the; confidence of the American people in the vigour and stability of their institutions." The President, in conclusion, says:— Our Government is now undergoing its most trying ordeal, and my earnest prayer is that the peril may be successfully and finally passed without impairing its original strength and symmetry. The interests of the nation arc best to be promoted by the revival of fraternal relations, the complete obliteration of our past differ- ences, and the rcinauguration of all the pursuits of peace." The report of the Secretary of the Treasury announces that the receipts for the three quarters ending June, 1866, exceeded the estimates of the last report by 89,000,000 dols. The expenditure fell short of the csti- mates by 200,000,000 dols. From August, 1865, to October, 1866, the debt bad been decreased by 206,000,000 dols., but it was not expectcd or desir- able that the same rate of reduction should con- tinue. The revenue, after reducing the taxes and the tariff would be sufficient to reduce the principal at the rate of 4,000,000 dols. to 5,000,000 dols. per month. The report adds that, with proper economy, the generation which created can also pay the debt. The Secretary of the Treasuiy recommends Congress to adopt the following measures, and thereby, enable the Government' to resume specie payments in two years— to compel the National banks to redeem their notes in co n Atlantic cities, or in,a single city to curtail the currency to the amount required by a healthful and legitimate trade a careful revision of the tariff; the removal of taxation from raw material; the issuing of Five per Cent. Twenty Bonds payable in England and Germany, in sufficient amount to absorb the six per Cent. Bonds now held in Europe and meet the ^demand there for per- maiient investment; lastly, the rehabilitation of the Southern States. The reports estimates the surplus for the three quar- ters, ending next June at 79,000,000 dollars, and the surplus for the year ending June, 1866, at 85,000,000 dollars.

AMERICAN NEGRO SOLDIERS.—It appears that the War Department have ascertained that there have been 1^9,624 coloured men enlisted in the United States' service. Of these 20,236 have been discharged, princi- pally on account of physical disability; 31,866 died while in the service; 14,887 deserted 1,514 have been killed in action, and 1,344 were reported after engage- ments as missing.—New York Times. WORKING CLASS STATISTICS.—With regard to the pecuniary stake in the country which the working classes possess, their annual income from wages amounts to upwards of £ 418,000,000—their sick and benefit socie- ties to. the amount of six millions—their trade and bene- volent societies to X2,500,000-their co-operative so- cieties and business transactions to S12,000,000-tlieir building societies, with invested savings, to £ 13,000,000, and their little earnings placed in the post office and other savings banks to £ 6,000,000.—From a Circular by Tff. S. Northhouse, Parliamentary Agent. TRIAL OF ALLEGED FENIANS FOR POSSESSION OF GOVERNMENT Aitiis.-At, the Liverpool Assizes, before Mr. Justice Smith, Michael O'Brien, 27, a carpenter; Charles Campbell, 26, shoemaker; William Carey, 22, clerk and Patrick Keeley, 28, labourer were indicted for having, on the 21st of September, feloniously re- ceived and kept 49 rifles, the property of the Govern- ment. It appeared that the rifles had been issued to some of the. volunteer corps—viz., 28th and 46th Middlesex, and also of the 23rd Surrey, and had been traced to the prisoners. It was proved that the prisoners had been seen moving the cases in a cart, and on their apprehension one of them said he would have taken the cases to Glasgow if he had had an opportunity, and would not have come to Liverpool. A great deal of evidence was adduced, but his lordship was of opinion that the evidence did not bear out the allegations of the indictment, and the jury, after retiring for twenty minutes, returned a verdict of Not Guilty in each case. SUICIDE OF A PRINTER IN FLEET-STRKET.—An inquest was held at the Coach and Horses, Whitefriars-street, Temple, on the body of Joseph Banks, 59, who had been employed on the Daily News and Express newspapers. It appeared that some time ago deceased lost his son, since which time he had been in very low spirits. Three months ago he tried to commit suicide by jumping off a steamer near Greenwich, and was sent to Maid- stone Gaol for a week, in order that the surgeon and chaplain might pay attention to him. On Saturday morning he came home from his work, took his break- fast, and went to bed. Some after his wife, who had been out shopping went to his bed-room, but being unable to get in the door was broken open, and deceased was found hanging by a piece of thin rope from a nail at the side of the bed. He was quite dead. Several witnesses proved that deceased did not appear to be quite sane, and a verdict of Temporary Insanity was returned.

I HUNGARIAN BUSTARD HUNTING. ) Durili- my stay in Dezna, I paid several Tisits to Mr. S. de B., a gentleman whose acquaintance I had the | pleasure of making shortly after my arrival in Hungary, I find who is an excellent and passionate sportsman. He lives at Vilagos, a large village on the borders of the great plains, which extend right away to Pesth. On his property are some good marshes, where snipe, ducks, and geese are to b2 found early in the year. But though I shot over them, in his company, on more than one occasion, and though he preserves strictly, we were un- fortunate in the weather, and had never any sport to speak of. That magnificent bird the large bustard (Otis tnrda) is also frequently to be met with on the plains belonging to the De B. family; and it was with the view of hunting this splendid game that I paid him a visit, according to invitation, in the month of July. 1865. I may here rewark that, towards the middle of July, the wheat in this part of the country is almost all cut, but the oats are still standing; and in this last crop the bustards build their nests; and are to be found there at this season with their young ones, which are about half grown, and as large as pheasants. I need not say that it is only by favour of the proprietor that a sports- man can enter the oats, which suffer considerably from the tramping of men and dogs. Later, in the month of August, when the oats are cut, the bustards are often to be found in the maize, which may be shct over without doing any material damage to the proprietor. At daybreak De B. and I started off in a light car- riage oil a voyage of discovery over the puszta (Hungarian for plains "). We soon found a bustard, sitting on a very bare stubble about 200 yards from the road. A narrow belt of oats lay behind our quarry, in the midst of which we hoped to approach him. I got out oil the side farthest from the bustard, and without stopping the- carriage' (had we halted the bird would instantly have taken alarm), and managed to creep into the oats without being observed. I had not, however, made two steps in the oats before the bustard took flight, having probably heard my tread. Some distance farther on we descried nine of these splendid birds, among which was a very fine cock bird, in a patch of ground planted with tobacco. The road was skirted on either side by'high maize, and the maize again adjoined the tobacco. De B.'s keeper and I easily made our way into the Indian corn without attracting the attention of the game, and took up our positions at different points. De B. drove slowly oil till he had passed the bustards by about 200 yards, when he suddenly wheeled the car- riage into the tobacco, and trotted the horses sharply towards the game. I could see them suddenly stretch- ing their necks up in alarm, and then they slowly rose, five of them coming towards me, while the other four flew towards the point where the keeper was posted. I remained sitting, and concealed by the maize, till they were nearly over my head, when I rose and fired both barrels—one loaded with large shot and the other with slugs—at the finest bird, which was the old cock I had previously observed. He certainly was not more than ten or fifteen yards distant; but, though several feathers flew from his brftist, he did not swerve from his course, and continued his heavy but undeviating flight, without apparently suffering the least inconvenience from the double shot. till lie was lost to my view in the vast extent of plain. The keeper had also had a shot, and had hit his bird, but without bringing him to the ground. Having been pretty considerably chaffed by Do B. for not killing my bustard at so short a distance, we proccetled farther. After a longish interval we spied a single bustard stalking along the edge of a patch of maize, into which he disappeared on our slackening our pace. This was too favourable an op- portunity to be lost, and both De B. and myself descended from the carriage and entered the Indian corn in pursuit. Wc advanced some distance in the maize without seeing anything of him, and then stopped to consult as to the line we should take, De B. being of opinion that he was more to our right, while I fancied we had passed him. While we were discussing the question, the bustard rose from almost under our noses, where it must have been lying as close as a quail. Four barrels saluted his de- parture, De B.'s with two charges of slugs, and mine with two charges of large shot and this' time the bird was evidently hard hit, as it lowered its flight at once, and settled behind a corn stack in a sfubble not more than three "hundred yards distant. I-Iérewe made sure of circumventing our bird but" no, it was off again before we could get a shot, though we had succeeded in getting in a direct L'ne behind the stack, and were, consequently, perfectly Jiiddcn from view. This time its flight was shorter, and it once more settled near a corn stack. On reaching the stack we found that the bird had been running, and on carefully reconnoitring the ground, discovered the bustard sitting about fifty paces off. We now resolved to run in, taking the chance of a long shot if the bustard rose at once. When about thirty yards distant it rose, but with difficulty, and a charge of -slugs from De B 's gun broke its wing, and it fell heavily the plucky bird was, however, on his legs in an instant, and I had a longish chase at a good pace before I succeeded in capturing it. It proved to be a female, weighing about 131b. English. It had been hit in two places on our first discharge, the large shot from my gun having penetrated between the thigh and the wing, while De B.'s had sent a slug right through her back but, notwithstanding, the bird had flown at least 500 paces from the spot where we first found her, and, had not her wing been broken, might have been lost to us altogether. The most common, and perhaps the most successful mmde of hunting bustards, is as follows :— The sportsman, cpuipping himself in the linen summer costume of a Hungarian peasant, conceals himself in a cart of hay, drawn by oxen, which is driven slowly round the spot where the bustards are feeding. At each round the diameter of the circle is decreased, and you may thus approach to within eighty yards, or even less, of the game; as the bustards, being accustomed to the constant passing and repassing of these peasant wagons, evince no alarm at the sigh of them.

THE BEER OF VIENNA. On festive evenings the tables of the Volksgarten are always dotted with giant glasses of that excellent beer which, like Bohemian pheasants, Hungarian Tokay, and bryrian iron, is an article that cannot be matched out of Austria. The empire has about 3,200 breweries, and the product of the mash-tuns, besides comforting mil- tions of thirsty souls, helps the country's'revenues with the duty levied on it as an article of primary consump- tion arid if the flavour of the bottle liquid could be brought ii]) to that of the draught, Austrian competition would surely endanger the prospects of Bnrton-npon- Trent. It appears, indeed, that in Paris and elsewhere the so-called Leitmeritzcr begins to be a dangerous rival to pale ale. The biggest Austrian brewery, viz. that of Dreber, at Klein-Sellwechat, near Vienna, cannot, however, compare in importance with one of our great English establishments. Barclay and Perkins brew at last 14.000,000 gallons a year, and employ 1,800 hands, while Dreher may brew 5,000,000, and employs 800 bands. The total amount of beer annually made in Austria is 172,000,000 gallons, or less than one-third of the British yield, and hardly 15 per cent, more than that of little Bavaria. On this showing should be terrible topers, but a comparatively, large quantity,of their product travels abroad. The Austrian malt liquor is not, except in the cities, a common drink for the humbler classes for wine, even out of grape countries, is a cheaper beverage. Tastes can neither be disputed nor described, and so those whose ill-luck has prevented them drinking Vienna beer, must be satisfied to hear that it is less bitter, less capiteux, and more ethereal in flavour- than- Bass and. Allsopp, weaker in alcohol, and more neutral in. taste than other German beers—above all, that, when poured into a glass fresh from a cask just brought up from a ice-cellar, it glows like fluid amber, and is crowned with a delicate beading of bubbles, which are true. tiubbles of the air, and not like the soapy foam of Scotch ale, bubbles of the earth. To sip from a glass of: Lager' puffing wfeatlics from a cigarette of choice Latakia while you gaze vaguely up to a sky flaming with the gold and crimson of a Danubian sunset, and catch the rhythm of waltzes and mazurkas—this is the perfection of ignorant and mechanical bliss.

PROPOSED AGRICULTURAL HALL FOR BRIGHTON.— On Thursday a meeting was held at the Town-hall when plans and specifications were submitted for building an hotel with a large hall attached on the site where the County Show was held last week—the field belonging to Mr. Tuppen at the bottom of Church-street. The hall is proposed to seat from 5,000 to 6,000 persons, and a stock and corn market is proposed to be held in con- nexion therewith. The estimated cost is £ 17,000. All were agreed-as to the desirability of the scheme, and after receiving all necessary information the meeting was adjourned in order to enable the projectors to confer with the corn dealers using the present market. The scheme, if carried out, will be on the joint-stock prin- ciple.-Brighton Guardian. EpPING FOREST.—It is worth notice, especially by those who love green trees and fresh air, that Mr. Beresford Hope mentioned in his opening address to the Royal Institute of British Architects that the remnant of Epping Forest is to pass into the category of Public Parks, by being transferred from the office of Woods and Forests, which regards the financial value of its trusts only, to that of Public Works, which deals with them for general recreation and the decorative improve- ment of the ground. Nature has done so much for Epping Forest, that we hope therewill benoattemptto do much in the way of decorative improvement," which too often restricts free range and prevents enjoyment. But whatever is to be done should be done promptly, for every month the forest is more and more encroached upon, newly-built houses mar the sylvian character, aud the fences multiply which bar out the public.

r LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE. There was rather more firmness in the trade for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday, but there was not much activity apparent. In some instances prices rose Is per qr. The barley trade ruled heavy, at drooping cur- rencies; but, oats, beans, and peas were steady in price. Flour steadly supported late rates. On the Continent the corn trade generally is steady, at full prices. At New York prices continue to give way, and there is rather more business doing; for export. The supply of English wheat on sale to-day was very moderate. The trade ruled firm; and prices were Is per qr. higher than on Monday last. The market was moderately supplied with foreign wheat. All descriptions were fairly held, and the quotations ad- vanced Is per qr. Floating cargoes of grain were in request, on higher tsrms. B-irley—the supply of which on Rale was moderate- sold slowly, at the late decline in prices. Malt was dull, at the late fall in its value. Oats were in good supply. The trade ruled quiet, without liiaterial change in prices. Beans and peas met a slow sale, on former terms. The flour trade was firm at fully late rates. Linseed and rapeseed were very inactive, on former terms. The demand for cakes ruled steady, at the late advance in prices. CURRENT PRICES. PerQr. I WffltAT. S. fi. PEAS: S. S. Essex, Kent, red, 1865 54 65 GreT 38 49 DITTO, 1866 58 63 MAPLE 40 43 DITTO, WHITE, 1865 56 70 WHITE 41 45 DITTO, 1S66 50 66 BOILERS 41 45 FOREIGN, RED 54 64 FOREIGN, WHITE 40 44 DITTO, WHITE 59 72 RYK 32 34 BARNEY. OATS. ENGLISH, MALTING 38 50 ENGLISH FEED 24 81 BARNEY. OATS. English, MALTING 38 50 English Feed 24 31 CHEVALIER 50 55 „ POTATO 28 36 DistiUing 39 44 Scotch Feed 24 31 FOREIGN 30 52 „ POTATO 80 38 MALT. IRISH BLACK 21 25 PFTLE 72 78 white 22 32 CHEVALIER 78 80 FOREIGN FEED 24 31 BROWN 58 63 FLOBS. BEANS. PER SAOK. TIOKS 42 45 TOWN-MADE 54 57 HHITOT 45 50 Country Marks 44 51 SMALL 48 52 Norfolk and Suffolk 44 46 Egyptian 42 43 BREAD. The prices in the Metropolis are. for Wheaten Bread, per 4lb loaf. 9d to 9|d Household,Bread. ndto8d METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The number of beasts is rather large, yet for the time of year it is small, and the demand is good. Prices for all kinds have advanced. The supply of sheep continues small, but quite equal to the demand. Late quotations are well maintained, but we e-mnotnote any advance. Calves are not selling quite so dear. Per 81ba. to sink the offal. a. d. s. d. (L c d. Inferior beasts.. 3 8to3 10 I PrimeSouthDown Second quality.. 4 Oto4 8; Sheep .6 OtoB 2 Prime large oxen 4 lOtoo 2 Large calves. 4 8to5 4 Prime Scots, &C.5 4to5 R ( Prime small do. 5 6to5 10 | Inftrior sheep ..3 10to4 21 Lnrge bogs .3 6:0! 0 Second quality.. 4 4t< 5 0 Nt. small porkers 4 2to4 6 Coarse wld.sh«ep5 2too 10 Lambs — Suckling calves, 20s to 23s; and quarter-old store pigs, 278 to 30s each. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. The supplies of meat on sale here to-day were moderate. Prime beef mutton, and veal were in fair request, and rather dearer; otherwise the trade was heavy, on lower terms. Perk especially was dull in the extreme. Rather a large quantity of foreign meat, imported via Harwich, was on offer, in a sea-washed state. Some of the carcases of mutton sold as low as 2a. 8d. per Slbs. Per 81bs. by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior beef.. 3 2 to 3 6 In. Mutton.. 34 to 4 0 Middling ditto 3 8 to 4 0 Middling ditto 4 2 to 4 4 Prime large do 4 2 to 4 4 Prime ditto.. 4 4 to 4 6 Prime sm. do. 4 6 to 4 8 Y eal 4 4to5 4 Large Pork 3 6 to 4 2 Small pork ..4 4 to 4 6 PROVISION MARKETS. Butter: The demand for Irish continues inactive; foreign, all kinds, a slow sale at irregular prices. Nor- mandys are 2s. to 4s. deader; Jersey, 21. to 4s. lower- Dutch closed at 120.i. to 122s. Bacon opened flatly, and best brands declined to 58s. f.o.b., but at the close there was more firmness, no sellers under 60s. f.o.b. Hams and b\rd cor.tin.ue dull. Cheese (American) in fair request, at 5Ss. to 68s. PRICES OF BTJTTEK, CHEESE, HAMS, &C. BUTTER, per cwt. s. s. CHEESE, per cwt. s. s. Friesland 112 to 116 Cheshire 72 to 84 Jersey 94 110 D blQ. Gloucester..74 78 DORSET 128 132 1 CHEDDAR 76 84 CARLOW — — AMERICAN 66 74 WATERFORD — — HAMS YORK .90 98 CORK — CUMBERLAND .90 98 C,"rk. Cumberland .90 98 LIMERICK ■— — IRISH — S-LIGO. — — BACON.— FRESH, PER DOZ., 13S OD TO WILTSHIRE 64 68 17s 0d. Irish, green .56 60 BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS POTATO MARKETS. Coastwise as well as by rail the lIupplies of potatoes have been large. On the whole a fair amount of business has been concluded, at our quotations. The transactions have been cbiffly confined to fine parcels. Last wepk's import consisted of six ba?s from Antwerp. 50 sqcks 124 tons Caen, 1.00S sacks 592 tons Dunkiik, 52 tons Guilds, 2 bags 2 baskets Rotterdam, 45 tons St. Brieux, 60 hags Ostend, and 10 barrels from Hamburg. Rocks 80s to 100s per ton. Parents 100s to 135s „ Flukes 110s to 150s „ HOP MARKET. Our market cont.inuts without any material change, and the inquiry is good for ain.ost every class of hops at prices which maintain last week's quotations; the stock of the new growth on fund being now comparatively small, will dou-btWs cause higher values before Ion?, should the present, demand continue. The Bavarian and Bohemian markets are very firm at a further advance ef 10s. to 12s. snd the supply on hand is very small. New York ad- vices report the market as very firm, at improving values. .Mid and East Kent. 168s, 190s, 231s. Weald of Kent 150s, 16:5s, 180s. Farnham and Country 170s, 190s, 226s. Sussex 150s, 160s, 168s. FOREIGX HOPS.—The imports of foreign hops into London last week consisted of 296 bales from Antwerp, 209 from Calais, 172 from Ostend, 60 from Bremen, 22 from Hamburg, 143 Dunkirk, 2 from Konigsburg, and 4 bales from Montreal. HAY AND STRAW MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—A moderate demand. CUMBERLAND.—Trade steady. WHITECHAPEL.—A fair inquiry. SMITHFIELD. CUMBERLAND. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay 65. to 803 65s to 8s 65s to 80s Clover 90stolloa 90s folios GOs to 115m Straw 36s to 44s 3Ssto 45s 36s to 44s At per load of 36 trusses. WOOL MARKET. We have again to report considerable inactivity in the demand for nearly all kinds of English wool. The supply on offer is by no means extensive, yet both home and foreign buyers operate with extreme caution at late rates. ThfJ result of the colonial wool sales, thus far, is by nc means satisfactory. Current prices of English wool (per lb.) :— FLEECES.—South Down hoggets Is 7M to Is 8Jd Half-bred do 18 gill t.o Is lOj-d Kentneeces.In 8.1 to Is 9d ( South Down,ewesand wethers Is 7dtola 8d Leicester do Is 7d to Is 9d SORTs:-Clotbing Is 6d to Is 10id Combing Is 6id to 28 Od TALLOW MARKET. The market is steady. Town tallow is quoted 43a 3d, net cash; Petersburg Y.C. On the spot, 44s January to March, 44s to 44 3d; March 48 9d. COAL MARKET. Davison's West Hartley, 18s— llastinsrs Hartley, 18s— Holywell Mam, 17s—Lambert's West Hartley, 17s 9d — West Hartley, lSs-Byron, 20,.3-braddylls Hetton, 21s— Cassop. 21 s-Kelloe,, 20s 6d—Thornley, 20s 6d.

In consequence of the Reduction of Duty, Horniman's Teas are now supplied by the Agents EIGHTPEN-CE per lb. cbe-u>cr. Every Gennine Packet iF signed "Horniman and Co., London." The new Roman Catholic weekly paper is to be called the Westminster Gazette. THE LEGALITY OF RITUALISM.—Four eminent counsel, including Lord Justice Cairns, the IPte Attorney-Gene- ral, and Mr. Mcllish, were consulted some six months ago, on behalf of several archbishops and bishops as to the legality of certain vestments, of incense, altar-lights and some other disputed points of ecclesiastical ritual. Of all these the four eminent counsel pronounced a sweeping condemnation. The English Church Union, who were disinclined to accept the conclusions thus ob- tained, have proceeded to arm themselves with the opinions of nine eminent counsel, including the present Chief Baron and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Queen's Advocate, Mr. Coleridge, and Mr. W. M. James. The nine counsel, with remarkable unanimity, rcject that construction of the rubric which was adopted by the four counsel, and agree in holding that the use of the vestments mentioned iu the First Prayer-book of Edward VI. is now lawful. As to altar-lights, wafer- bread, the mixed chalice, and the use of anthems, hymns, or introits before and after the communion service, they are not agreed; Sir W. Bovill and Mr. Coleridge hold- ing all these things unlawful, the rest allowing some, and differing among themselves as to others. Hymns during the communion service and incense are dis- allowed by all. Sir F. Kelly answers the first question only, being one upon which he had expressed his opinion in consultation before he was raised to the Bench.