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LOCAL NEWS. I WREXHAM PETTY SESSIONS. J Before H. W. Meredith, Esq., Chairman; Captain I Panton, R.N,, and T. Griffith, Esq. STEALING BAt;;)", IX YORK-STREET. I James Ryan, a militia nan, was brought up charged with stealing 3lbs.of L,icon from the shop of Mr Cox, York-street, Wrexham. Mr. Cox stated that, on Sa- turday night last, about 11 o'clock, the prisoner came into his shop and asked for half-a-pound of cheese. He was rather tipsy at the time, and had it not been for some boxes, he believed, he would have fallen down. Immediately afterwards, he saw the prisoner make a suspicious movement, andin consequence, watched him. There was a pieco of bacon lying on the counter, about 3 lbs in weight, and he threw his pocketthandkerchief, over the bacon, put his cheese upon the top of it, and went out of the shop. He distinctly saw him do this, when he fallowed him into the street, and charged him with the theft. He then examined, and found nothiug at all upon him, neither the bacon, nor could he find the handkerchief. He looked about the street thinking that he kad thrown it down, but after a careful search. he could find nothing of the bacon or cheese. By the Bench: He made use of very obscene language to my wife and myself. There were a number of persons passing bv at the time, both militiamen and others, and ho must have had some person with him to receive it. Knew his face, Rut did not know his name. He after- wards sent for the police, and gave him into custody. —The prisoner, in his defence said, he knew nothing at all of what the prosecutor charged him with. In an- swer to the Bench, he said, he would prefer being tried before them, rather than at Ruthin. Mr. Cox observed, that after he left his shop, he walked steady enough, as if he were sober.-P.C. Richard Morris said, that on taking him into custody, he perceived that he was in liquor, but he walked very well. He used very bad language to him on the way to the lock-up. Sentenced to two weeks imprisonment. Mr. Meredith remarked t,) Mr. Cox that he would have done better, as he saw that a larceny was going to be committed, if lie had tpoken to him at the time and prevented him. STEALING A HANDKERCHIEF. Ryan was then put up in the dock, charged with stealing a handkerchief, the properly of Mr. A. D. Jones, draper, Church-street. P.C. Morris, after being sworn, deposed that when he took the prisoner to the lock-up, he searched him, aud found a black silk hand- kerchief, half-a-pound of bacon, some tobacco, a penny roll, and a black-pudding. He attempted to secret the haudkerchief by putting it on a table. By the Bench The handkerchief dropped on the floor, he could not say whether he meant to secrete it or not.—Mr. A. D. Jones deposed that the prisoner came into his shop about 7 o'clock, on Saturday night, and asked to look at some silk handkerchief's. He himself, was in the Show-room at the time, anl the apprentice waited on him. They could not bargain however, and he was called down. When he came into the shop, he saw the prisoner gõing out at the door, and called him back, but he refused to do so. The handkerchief produced was his-it had his own private mark on it, and was worth 2s. 3d. It is their custom generally to take the private mark off when they sold any article. The prisoner made no defence, but in answer to the Bench said, that he was a native of Wrexham, and had joined the Militia about 5 months ago. Sentenced 21 days at Ruthin for this < ffence. The remaining cases were heard in the Private Room of the Magistrates', who seem particularly anxious not to pander to the prcjutlicies or curiosity of vulgar news- paper readers—or reporters. The following, however, have been communicated to us. The overseei-i of Brymbo applied for the removal of Sarah Price iVoui Brymbo to the Parish of Hope. Order granted. CHARGE (;P STEALING COAL AT RUABOX. Jo3eph Steen u^pjaivd to answer a charge of sell- ina cr coal, on his own account, which really was the property of Sir W. W. Wynn, Steen is a brick- maker to Sir Watkin, and is in the habit of fetching what coals are required at the Kilns, from Plas Kynas- ton Colliery, near Ruabon. He has a horse and cart, and of late he has sild saveral loads of coal to several persons in the neighbourhood—amongst the rest, to Mr Jones, of the Cross Foxes. Mr Wigau appeared as prosecutor, and proved that not more than 3 loads of coal had been used for Sir Watkin since last Novem- ber, and Mr Jones, clerk of the said colliery, proved that he had had at least 20. As he had not made out finv of the bills to the parties to whom he had sold the coal the case was discharged—he having to become answerable for them to Mr. Dickon, the proprietor of the colliery. MARttYIXG XDEn. AGE. I Mr. W. Mercer, appeared to answer a charge pre- ferred by his father-in-law, Mr. J. Davies, of Stone Wall, Burton,, for marrying his daughter by license, she being under age, and also for swearing that she was of acrc. The couple were recently married at Gresford church, the bride being (so we are informed) between 18 and 19 years of age. The licence was obtained of Mr. Wickham, the vicar, when the defendant swore that she was of age. The defendant was required to find two sureties in.EIOO each, and himself in L-200 for his appearance on Monday next. Mr. John Roberts, Inukeeper, Marford, and Mr. Samuels, Red Lion, Chester-street, Wrexham, offered their bail, which was accepted. A charge of embezzlement w as then went into, but as it was remanded until Monday next, we shall re- serve the particulars (which have been furnished to us) until the case has been finally disposed of. THE ROYAL DENBIGH RIFLES.-This regiment was marched on Monday last from Wrexham to Wynnstay, for a day's recreation, preceded by their fine band. The men halted in front of the hall, unstrapped knap- sacks, and enjoyed themselves by skating and sliding on the fish-pond for a couple of hours. The band was placed in the hall, and played some of Herr Brosang's favourite selections. While the officers were partak- ing of a luncheon in the house, the men were also taken care of. The regiment was drawn up in line and the word given, Rear rank take open order," when each man was supplied with a liberal portion of bread and cheese and a pint of ale. CAUTION TO THE PULICF,Char,. Medgett, the consta- ble of the C division, has been sentenced to imprison- ment for nino months, and will be discharged fromjthe police force, for his brutal violence on the occasion of the late Hyde Park disturbances. Mr. Baron Mat tin, in passing sentence, observed,—" The public will now be satisfied that the police would not be permitted to use any unnecessary violence in the execution of their duty, and it was to be hoped that these proceedings would have a salutary effect for the future. The pro- secutor had been most brutally and unjustifiably as- eaultud, and therefore he mast not consider the sentence a severe one." FORGERY OF A LEGACY DUTY RECEIPT.—On Thurs- day, at the Exchange in Chester, before the mayor and borough magistrates, Ellis William Edwards, of Sont- ley, near Wrexham, and lately a solicitor's clerk at Wrexham and Oswestry, was charged with forgery. Mr. Hostage conducted the prosecution, being engaged by the Board of Inland Revenue for that purpose. 0 It appeared by the statement of the learned advocate, con- firmed by the evidence of three witnesses, that in 1828 a Mr. John Cheetham, farmer, of Marchwiel, died, leaving, besides other properties, X300 to become divi- sible anioiig the testator's three sons on the death of his widow. Mr. Thomas Cheetham, one of the residuary legatees, was the acting executor, and on the death of testator's wi dow, the business relating to the bequest was put into the hands of the prisoner by the executor. An application was received from the Board of Inland Revenue for the JE3 duty upon the legacy, and Mr. Cheetham gave the money to Edwards, instructing him to pay it. Shortly afterwards another letter was re- ceived from the Board, upon which Edwards said that lIe had sent the money by post to the Stamp Office at Chester, and had received soon after a document pur- porting to be a receipt, which he handed over to Mr. Cheetham. It was signed Henry Ilcsketh," the name of the late distributor of stamps for this district, who, however, died in September or October, 1853, and these circumstances occurred in March, 1854. Another letter from Mr. Trevor, from the Inland Revenue Of- fice, to Mr. Painter, the sub-distributor of stamps at Wrexham, to whom the Y,3 duty ought to have been paid, led to a letter being sent by Mr. Painter's clerk to Mr. Thomas Cheetham, and in reply he received the document which had been handed to Mr. Cheetham by the prisoner. It was in the handwriting of the pri- soner, the signature purporting to be that of Henry Heskcth. This paper was forwarded to London, and thence transmitted to Chester, where it was discovered to be a forgery, for the writing was not at all like that of Mr. Ilesketh, who had been dead for six months, the document had never before been presented at the Ches- ter office, nor had the money been received there. The prisoner on being asked if he had anything to say, re- peated the statement he had made about sending the money through the post, and intimated that had he been so disposed, he might have forged or embezzled thousands of pounds, but Thomas Chectham, being his b.othcr-in-law, was the last person he should have thought of doing anything of the kind to. He was them comnitted for trial at the assizes, but the Bench consented to take bail, the prisoner in X200, and two sureties in £100 each, 18 hours' notice to be given.— Chester Chronicle
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C ORRESPONDENCE. We do not lwld ourselves responsible for the letters of any of our Correspondents. This part of our Paper is allotted for the free expression of public opinions generally, and not for the, exclusive views of any par. tieular sector party. MAGISTRATES' CLERKS AND STIPENDARY MAGISTRATES. To the Editor of the Wrexham Ad^rfi.^r Sir, I am glad to perceive that there is a growing inclination on the part of the Executive of this coun- try to simplify the payments of all public officers con- nected with the administration of justice, which ? in my opinion, will prove of much greater efficiency in fur- thering its ends, than the hearing of cases in Private Rooms," for which your local magistrates in Wrexham are becoming so notorious. The cumbrous and ob- jectionable method of paying the county court Judges by fees, has some time ago been abandoned, and the Flintshire magistrates have recently decided to adopt the same plan in reference to the payment of the magis- trates' clerks. I do not know whether this proposi- tion will be viewed with much favour or not, by these gentlemen, but this I do know, that it will be a much more satisfactory arrangement for the county at large, as it will do away with all inducement on their part to encourage or wink at frivolous aud vexatious charges being brought forward. At present, magistrates' clerks fatten on the crime of their country, and I maintain that it is a false position for them to be placed in. Like undertakers and sextons, they necessarily flourish on the sorrows and miseries of their fellow men, which must be repugnant to their feelings as high minded and well educated citizens, and it also subjects them to much suspicion, and certainly to some temptation. The recent decisions of the magistrates in Flint- shire to pay their clerks fixed salaries in lieu of the fees which are obtained from the several courts, I consider a step in the right direction, and one which is not only calculated to work beneficially for the county but to render the office of magistrates' clerk more dignified and independent. Vigilance and effi- ciency are proper standards whereby to remunerate an individual for his services to the public, when the services are of a positive and productive character; but to make a professional man's salary dependent on the number of offences which can be scraped up against the laws of the land, is neither a wise nor a dignified arrangement, and I am glad that the practice is being superseded. What, however, as to the magistrates themselves ? I believe that if any work is to be done well, it is ne- cessary to pay the party well for doing it, and that too irrespective of its character—whether it be to adminis- ter the laws, or to repair a ricketty old chair. The Great unpaid" portion of the Executive of England do not at present stand very high in tho estimation of their intelligent countrymen, as may be gathered from any day's Times or any week's Punch, and to come nearer home, from the columns of your own paper. This perhaps is not much to be wondered at, all things considered, for gentlemen who are made by an act of Parliament irresponsible for their decisions, and who have nothing to lose, collectively or individually, but popular favour, which most of them are in a position to disregard and brave, cannot be supposed to be very particular as to the mere justice of their adjudications, especially if the offence have a direct relation to them- selves, as, for instance, a charge for poaching. Self- preservation has been stated to be the first law of nature," and it is equally certain, though not so gene- rally recognised, that self-interest is the directing prin- ciple of all men, though its development may be very dissimilar in different persons. Country magistrates are by no means an exception to the lule, and so long as I game preserving remains a hobby of theirs—so long as it is their interest, or their supposed interest, to strin- gently carry out the laws made for their especial bene- tit on the subject, it is idle to expect a fair hearing for poachers, or to have impartial decisions, from country magistrates In saying this I do not mean to assert, or insinuate that these gentlemen are more unj ust than any other class of men, but it is because I consider them as men, possessing all the ordinary passions and failings of our nature, that I so judge of them. Besides, the fact is as notorious as tho law itself is absurd and imprudent. Now, there is but one effectual plan in order to obtain unbiassed Justice in the administra- tion of the laws, and that is by paying the administra- tors. The Judges of the land are paid for their ser- vices, and rarely are their decisions found fault wilh. There are already stipendary Magistrates appointed in I several of our large towns, and the experiment has been so successful, so satisfactory, as to render it desirable that the practice be extended to all the towns and rural districts within the United Kingdom. Gentlemen brought up to the law, and who, by a liberal salary, would be rendered proof against all undue iiiflticneezi who, as servants of the public, would be to a certain extent, amenable to its opinion, would, in my opin- ion, be the proper persons to administer the laws in Petty Session" as elsewhere. Were such gentlemen appointed, "Private R>oms" and other exclusive ap- panages of a haughty loc il magistracy, ".ould be un- known,: and you, as an Editor of a local journal, would have to descant on subjects more interesting and to the purpose, than what has recently occupied your pen. Your's &c., liaiigollen, Tan. 15th, 1856. PUBLICOLA. POOR RATES, I To the Editor of the Wrexham Adoerluer. I Sir,—Will you allow me through the modium of your Journal to call the attention of my fellow rate- payers in Wrexham Regis, to the consequences of the present expenditure of our rates. Before 18.52, we paid I-10th of the salaries and common charges of the Union. For the last three years we have paid, owing to the reduction in the expenditure for three years pre- vious to 1852, less than l-24th of the same, Thus, in 1850 we paid £ 195 out of 11,940 expended; then Ruabon paid not quite l-4th, viz., JE482. Now we pay only Y,85 out of X2,044, whilst Ruabon pays £674, our payment having decreased £ 110; whilst theirs has increased X192. Then (or rather in 1849, for I have not their account for 1850 by me) their poor cost them £ 2,936 lis. Last year (although they now pay 1-3rd of the common charges, and then paid l-4th, which is more than equivalent to the increase) it was only £ 3,285, whilst the expenditure of Wrexham Regis, stands thus — HALF YEARS ENDING MICHAELMAS 1850. 1851. 1854. 1855. Increase £ s. d. 4! s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d In-doormain- teiiance 41 14 36 H 8 105 13 7 136 8 2 99 13 6 Out door re- lief 7o 18 7 51 16 C 106 19 2 125 11 11 73 15 5 Lunatics 16 43 38 11 0 38 11 0 Extras 6 15 0 5 3 9 6 16 6 (i 12 4 1 9 -1 124 14 11 93 14 11 235 13 (j 307 3 5 213 9 3 If we had still to pay I-10th of the common charges instead of l-24th, there would also have been the fol- lowing additional increase, and last half-year the cost of the Regis poor was again only jE6 8s. 8d. short of 1-10th of the whole Union, instead of l-24tli, as it v as in the three years previous to 1852, it would be as follows:— 1-10,11 of com-2 s. d. iC s. cl. je s. d. -E s. d. X s. d mon charges 195 17 4 174 13 6 203 0 0 250 8 0 75 14 6 I used to be frequently charged with keeping too many paupers in the workhouse. Here is the com- parison between 1850 and '56 :-Last half-year pau- pers days in the house 5,820; in 1850-2,816 in- crease—3,004. I remain, yours faithfully, CHARLES POYSER. Summer-hill, Jan. 16, 1856.
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HOLLO WAY'S PILLS all excellent Remedy for the cure of Bile and Sick Headache.—The extraordinary cures effectEd by these wonderful Pills are truly astonishing, and which 'have been the means of bringing them into the highest repute in all clases of society in every part of the civilized world. They may be taken at all times with perfect safety by persons suffering form bile, in- digestion, deranged stomach, disordered liver, or any other internal complaint. The :properties they possess strengthen the system, renovate the debilitated, and add vigour to the constitution. As a family medi- cine they arc unequalled. DEATH OF THE HON. MRS. G. YILLIECS.—We re- gret to announce the death of the lIon, Mrs. George Yillicrs, who expired on Saturday night at the Grove, the seat of her son, the Earl of Clarendon, near Wat- ford, after a few days' illness. Early in the week the venerable lady complained of slight indisposition, and on Thursday night was assailed with serious symptoms, aud since then continued to sink rapidly until her dis- solution on Saturday night. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Right lIon. and Sir George C. and Lady Theresa Lewis, and the other members of her fa- mily were with their parent at her death. The de- ceased was the only daughter of John, first Lord Bor- ingdon, and his second wife, the lIon. Theresa Robin- son, second daughter of Thomas, first Lord Grantham, and was born on the 22nd of September, 1775, so that she was in the 81st year of her age. She married the Hon. George Yillicrs on the 17th of April, 1798, and by him, who died in March, 1827, she had a numerous family, of whom survive the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, M.P., Maria The- resa, married to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the IIon. and Rev. H. Montagu Villiers.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO POISON…
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO POISON A WIFE. I Thomas Robson, alias William Wilson, was brought bf th 'v before the magistrates sitting in the Manors Police Court on Monday, at Newcasile-on-Tyne, on remand, charged with attempting to poison his wife Elizabeth, I and her fellow-servant on the 1st of December last. Mr. J. G. Stoker watched the case for the prisoner. The facts, as stated by Mr. Dunne, the superinten- dent of police, and as elicited in evidence, appeared to bo particularly atrocious. The prisoner was mar- ried to his wife on the 21st of June, 1854:, at Lamber- ton-toll-bar. The marriage was what is called a Bor- der wedding," and the prisoner and his wife had lived together at Bedside Colliery nine months after their wedding; they then came to Newcastle, and a few weeks after they came to reside in this town the pri- soner had enlisted into the army. His wife had pur- chased his discharge at that time, but three weeks af- ter he had joined the Coldstream Guards. She then went to live with Mr. Foster, of St Thomas's-terrace but five months after that he deserted from his regi- ment, and came down into the North again. He had gone to work at Marley-hill, and afterwards had re- moved to Acomb, near Hexham. His wife and he had corresponded together during the whole of this time, and he appeared affectionate and kind to her. He, however, had never given her any money, and she had gone to Acomb to see him. He never denied that he was her husband, and on the 1st of December he had gone to see her at Mr. Foster's. His wife and fellow- servant, Frances Dobson, sat with him in the kitchen three hours, and he appeared kind and affectionate to his wife. His wife saw him to the door, and as the were parting he pulled a lemonade bottle out of his pocket, and said that it contained whisky. He told his wife that he had brought it .from Scotland for her, that she had to take half of it when going to bed, and give the other to her fellow-servant, and that it would do them good. She looked at the bottle, and said that the whisky appeared white. He replied that he had put milk into the bottle lest the whisky should intoxicate her, and, shaking the bottle up, he pretended to put the liquid to his lips and drink some of it. He then parted with his wife, and arranged to meet her at his sister's at Cox-lodge next day (Sunday) —an appoint- ment he dil not keep. On returning to the kitchen, Mrs. Robson showed the bottle to her fellow servant and took a mouthful of its contents. It tasted in her mouth like alum-water, and shortly after swollowing it she became violently cramped in her stomach. Her fellow-servant also drank a small quantity. She short- ly after became sick, and felt other unpleasant symp- toms both women were ill all night, and next morn- ing they found a quantity of sediment in the bottom of the bottle. This sediment they had drained off, and Mrs. Robson had afterwards thrown it into the sink, but she had put the liquid back into the bottle. In consequence of what had transpired coming to the knowledge of Mr Foster's family, the bottle and the remainder of the spiiit were taken to Mr. Dunne, the superintendent of police, who submitted it to Dr Rich- ardson for analyzation and upon the result of that an- alyzation being made known to the police, Robson was apprehended on a charge ot attempting to poison his wife. It appears that there were five ounces of liquid left in the bottle, and that upon submitting the liquid to a chymical test Dr Richardson discovered it to be impregnated with sugar of lead, a poison in the propor- tion of 20 grains of sugar of lead, to each ounce of li- quid. Twenty grains of sugar of lead are sufficient to poison one person, so that after the sediment had been drained off there had been sufficient poison left in the bottle to kill five persons. When apprehended at Acomb, the prisoner had denied that he was a married man, that his name was Robson, or that he had been at Newcastle on the 1st of December. Mr. Dunne, after the above evidence was taken, asked the magistrates to again remand the case for a few days v c 1.1 as he had received information that the prisoner had offered marriage to a young woman named Temperley, and had just been on the point of being married to her, when she heard that he was a married man and refused to have anything further to do with him Mr. Dunne o 1 1.1 b 1.1 said that no doubt at the next sitting he would be able to produce this young woman.
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AN IRISH PATRIOT'S PROPHECY.—An ultra-liberal and Roman Catholic journal, nauseated with the squab- bles, political and religious, which have rendered the name of an Irish popular representative a byword of merriment, if no worse, finds consolation in raking up an old threat of Grattan. uttered at the period of the Union. "Well," said the indignant patriot, "Ireland will have her revenge she will send into be British Senate, and into the bosom of her councils, 105 of the biggest rascals that any age or country has ever pro- duced." Horrified at this fancy sketch, the journalist i piously ejaculates Thank Go-i, it has not come to this; for there arc many of the Irish members an ho- nour t) their native land; but the policy acted on of late by those dubbing themsel ves our leaders would very s Ion have verified the prediction of our immortal countryman THE" GREAT STEAMER PERSIA.—This steamer, the largest in the world, belonging to the Cuuard line, ar- rived in the Mersey on Thursday morning from the Clyde, having performed the voyage from the Cloch Lighthouse to the Bell buoy, a distance of 203 miles, in the short space of 10 and 43 min. She thus sustain- ed an average speed of 19 miles an hour during the whole voyage. She is a paddle ship, and is worked by engines of 1,000 horse power. She starts on her first voyage across the Atlantic on Saturday, the 26lii instant. THE POLISH LF.GIOX.—General Zanioyski has just addressed to his countrymen and his old companions in arms, in the form of a report to Prince Czartoryski, a circular, in which lie informs them that he is charged by the British Government, with the assent of Fraucc and of Turkey, to organize a division composed of Poles, bearing the name of the Polish Division of Cossacks of the Sultan," and destined to receive into its ranks Polish prisoners of war or others who may quit the Russian army. This division will at first be composed of a brigade of infantry of two regiments, of a battalion of foot chasseurs, and of two regiments of cavalry. A first regiment of cavalry has already been formed, and is now at Yarna, and the formation of the first regiment of infantry is now far advanced at Scu- tari. General Zamoyski, having to appoint a conside- rable number of officers of all ranks, requests his old comrades to send in their applications, with documents proving their ranks, to a commission which has been formed by Prince Czartoryski for examining them. These applications must be addressed to the agency of the Polish division of the cossacks, 3, Rue Bretonvil- liers Paris, before the 28th instant, as the appoint- ments are to be made on the 1st of Februtry.-Galiy- nanVs Messenger. THE BEACON FIRE ON MALVERN IIILL-q.-This fire was lighted on Thursday night, in conformity with the previous announcement in The Times, but as an ex- periment was not so successful as had been hoped for. The materials of the fire consisted of the following combustibles :—450 faggots, 5 cords of wood, 12 tar barrels, 2 barrels of tar, 2 tons of coals, 3 or 4 loads of hoppoles, 2 loads of furze or gorse, 1 barrel of naphtha, and 12 poplar trees,. These were with great difficult y conveyed to the summit of the Worcestershire Boa- con," the highest point of the Malvern ridge (1,441 ft. above the sea level), and artistically built upon and in- to a pile about 30 feet in height, the poplar trees being sunk in the ground outside, and bound together with iron hooping. Shortly before 6 o'clock in the evening the committee and a largo body of people met at the foot of the hill, and having formed into procession, walked up the hill with lighted torches, forming a curious spectacle until, reaching near the top, the lights were blown out by the wind. At the time the fire was lighted it is calculated that 1,500 people were I assembled on the top of the lull, which was partially covered with snow, and the cold intense. Blue and red lights were burnt, followed by the discharge of 50 rockets, calculated to ascend 3,000 yards. Tho fire was lighted precisely at 7 o'clock (Greenwich time). It did not, however, give out so large a flame as had been anticipated, and the high wind which blew on the top of the hill (though it was calm in the valleys) pre- vented it ascending high into the air. By 9 o'clock the fire began to subside, but it was still burning at mid- night. From accounts received from various points of observation it appears the fire was seen at many dis- tant elevated spots, while at others nearer it was not observed, or, only very indistinctly At Worcester (eight miles distant) the rockets were observed, but only a slight glimmering of the are was noticed. Thousands of people had congregated on the elevated -B Li 'o spots round the city. At Burdon-liill, in Leicester- shire, the fire was distinctly seen with the naked eye; and along the Cotswold range of hills, through the eastern edge of Worcestershire, and through the centre of Glo: eslershire, it appears to have been visible. At Dudley a liirht, supposed to be the Malvern light, was seen. On Bredon-hill, near Tewkesbury, it was ob served and an answering beacon-iire light, as, also was the case on the following hills and outliers of the Cots- wold rang-c ;-Clawü ,hill, near Cheltenham Birdlip- hill, between Gloccster and Cirencester; Robins-wood- hill, near Gloccster Churehdown, near Glocestcr and SDowdon, in Wales. The rockets were ob- served at Tewkesbury, but a fog arising, the bonfire was not visible. A party assembled on the look- out" at Athelstanc-liill, near Hereford; but returned to Hereford without gaining a sight of the fire, and, anathematizing the committee. Look-outs near Ross, o v, 1 '1' S Herefoidshire, the Wrckin, Salop, and Taunton, Som- crset, failed in detecting the light.
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DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. HENRY GOULBURX, M.P. We deeply regret to announce tho demise of the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, M.P. for the University of Cambridge. The right hon. gentleman expired at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning at Beech worth house, near Dorking, after a very short illness, to t!.W grief of the members of his family, and the regret of :t largo circle of friends. Deceased was eldest son ;)t the late Mr. Manbee Goulburn and the Hon. Susan Ciiotwynd, daughter of Viscount Chetwynd. He was born in 17o4, so that he was in his 72d year. lie was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as M.A. in 180S, having a year previous been returned to the House of Commons for the borough of Horsham. In 1811, just after his entering on official life, he mar- ried the Hon. Jane Montagu, third daughter of Mat- thew, fourth Lord Rokeby, and sister of the gallant I' peer now in the army in the Crimea. The right hon. gentleman was made Under-Secretary of State for the I Home Department in February, 1810, under the Duke of Portland's Ministry, and during the Administration. of his Grace's successor, the unfortunate Air. Spencer Perceval. At the general election in 1312 ho was elected for St. Germains, and represented that now dis- franchised borough up to 1818, having in 1812 been appointed by Lord Liverpool Under Secretary of State for the Colonies—an office which he had held up to 1821. In 1818 ho was returned to the House of Com- mons for West Looe, and sat for Armagh from 1S26 to 1831. Mr. Goulburn accepted the office of Chief Sec- retary for Ireland in December, 1821, and was then made a Privy, Councillor. He filled that office under the several Administrations of the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount Goderich, the Right Hon. George Canning, and the Duke of Wellington, when, in March, 1828, the illustrious Duke selected him to fill the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and he thus became a member of the Cabinet. He continued at the head of the financial department of the State as Chancellor of the Exchequer until the Duke of Wellington retired in January, 1830, to make way for Earl Grey. At the general election in 1831 the members of the University of Cambridge were discontented with the Earl of Bur- lington (then Lord Cavendish) and Yiscount Palmer- ston, on acconnt of their advocacy of the Reform Bill. Mr. Goulburn, who unsuccessfully contested the Uni- versity in 1826, and the Right Hon. William Yates Peel were started in opposition, and after a severe con- test unseated the former members. Since that time the right hon. gentleman had continued to represent that University in Parliament, not, it is true, without occasional opposition, particularly at a recent election, when the veteran statesman was opposed by Lord Field- ing. On the formation of Sir Robert Peel's firsi "Min- istry in December, 1834, Mr. Goulburn was appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department, which he held till the Administration broke up in April fol- lowing. When Sir Robert Peel was again called upon, in September, 1841, to take office, he selected .J.lr, Goulburn for his Chancellor of the Exchequer. lIe did not, like many of his former colleagues in office, join the Earl of Aberdeen's Government, although he invariably gave the Ministry his independent support. Since he retired with the late Sir Robert Peel, in the summer of 1846, the right hon. gentleman has taken no very active pjrjt in politics. The late Sir Robert Peel appointed him one of his executors (Viscount Hal" diii-c being the otner), and a guardian to his children until they, attained their majority.-Ti.,im.
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ROBBERY AXD OUT.OAGE AT SHEFFIELD.—One of tho most serious ourages, accompanied by robbery, which has occurred in Sheffield for some time past was per- petrated on Friday evening last upon a brewer's tra- veller, named George Silk, residing at 28, Edgerton- Street. Silk went on business to the Franklin Hotel, Washington road, and left there about 10 o'clock in the evening for Sanderson's freer-house, in Younge-street, where, on going to the Frauklin Hotel, he had left a young friend at his house, For the sake of saving a few yards in the distance he turned down a narrow dark thoroughfare known as -Club-gardens-walk. Ho met the watchman near the top,, and shortly afterwards passed three men who were loitering along the path. Direetlyafrcr passing the men he received a blow on the head] from behind, which feU him senseless on the ground. While in this state he was robbed of £ 50. in goll, at:1 some few articles of trifling value. Not con- tent with laying the man senseless on the ground and depriving him of his money, the robbers injured him considerably about the neck by throttling him, and in- flicting two severe stabs, apparently with a penknife— one about two inches bjlow the shoul&lorblade, and the other on the l side of the abdomen.. Silk recovered 'his comciousujss in a short time, and A-itli great diffi- culty reached Sanderson's beerhourse, which is but from 3)0 to 400 yards from the place where he was knocked down. On entering the beerhouse he sank exhausted into a chair, and was convey eoJ- home in a cab. Mr. James Gregory, surgeon, was ii-ilmodiately sent for. The wounds, though deep, were found, not to kayo penetrated any vital part. The man, however, is in a very dangerous state. The watchman who had first met Silk saw nothing of the robbers, and they es- caped without attracting the attention of any one in the neighbourhood, though there is a beerhouse within a few yards of the place where the outrage was com- mitted. SHOCKING AFFAIR. — NORWICH, Jan. 12. -iNIr. Edwin Webster Corsbie, a young man respectably c'on- nected and a clerk in the office of Messrs. Winter and Son, solicitors of this city, met his death yesterday morning under very painful circumstances The da*- ceased entered the office of his employers at abiut half- past 9 o'clock, and his brother, Mr Samuel Webster Corsbie, asked him how he was, as he had been suffer- ing from erysipelas. He replied that he was better, and went to the fire to warm his hands, Tho elder I brother went on writing, a id instantly afterwards was I alarmed by the report of a pistol. Turning round, he saw that the young man had fallen down and that lie was horribly mutilated about the mouth. Mr J. G. Johnson, the mayor of the city, was sent for, and came I as soon as possible, but he was unable to render any surgical assistance to the unfortunate young Illan, who had died immediately. Mr. Wilde, coroner for Nor- wich, held an inquest on the bo ly of the deceased in the coarse of the unming, and it appeared from the evidence that on Sunday evening he borrowed a pistol from a young man named Jarvis, with whom he was on friendly terms, and that a day or two since he told him that he had got some powder for it. A lad em- I ployed by Messrs Winter as crrandboy stated that on I Thursday the deceased showed him the pistol, loaded nearly to the muzzle, and. putting it to his mouth, said j that would be the way to blow out his brains. As it ap- peared, however, that the deceased hadnot exhibited any unusual depression of spirits, except in reference to the erysipelas from which he had been suffering, the jury returned a verdict to the effect that he shot himself, but whether designedly or accidentally there was no evidence to show. The dreadful occurrence has pro- duced a considerable sensation in the city. I THE QUEEN'S PRESENT TO MISS NIGHTINGALE.— The design of the jewel is admirable, and the effect no less brilliant than chaste. It is characteristic and oil- blematical, being formed of a St. George's Cross in ruby-red enamel on a white field, representing Eng- land. This is encircled bv a black band, typifying the office of Charity, on which is enscribed a golden legend, Ii Blessed are the merciful," of course, in a;la- sion to the merit of Miss Florence Nightingale, tho re* c ipient. The Royal donor is expressed by the letters V.R. surmounted by the Crown in diamonds, ini- pressed upon the centre of the St George's Cross, from w hich also rays of gold emanating upon the field of enamel are supposed to represent the glory of Eng- land. Wide-spreading branches of palm, in bright green enamel, tipped with gold, form a framework for the shield, their stems at the bottom being banded with a riband of bluj enamel (the colour of the riband for the Crimean medal), on which, in golden letters, is in- scribed Crimea." At the top of the shield, between the palm branches, and connecting the whole, three brilliant stars of diamonds illustrate the idea of the light of Heaven shed upon the labours of Mercy, Peace, and Charity, in connexion with the glory of the nation. On the back of this Royal jewel is an inscription on a gold- en tablet, written by her Majesty, which stamps upon it a value inappreciable, as recording it to be a gift and testimonial in memory of services rendered to her brave arm y by Miss Nightingale. The jewe l is about three army )Y LulSS .I.lgiltl!1ga e. ne JCWl.' IS t!uout t ¡,"t:ü inches in depth by two-and-a-half in width. It is to be worn, not as a brooch or ornament, but rather as a badge of the Order, the most precious from the man- ner of its receiver—the most iliustr:?oui in honour tlut I has yet issued frjm the fountain of all honours —the Crown of England. We believe the credit of the tlO- sign is due to the illustrious consort of her Majesty, and we understand that it was manufactured by Messrs Garrard, the Crown jewellers.—Moniiag Post. A FACTORY MANAGER SHOT AT BY A WORKMAN. -On Tuesday, Robert Anderson, e in ployed as a spin- ning-master in Cogan's-mill, Govan-stivet, Hutcheson- town, was for s)me nglcc of duty. it is stated, dismis- scd by the manager, Mr Ebenezer M'Kinlay, who I lives at 8, Govan-street, was proceeding through the cl?c leading to his residence, when Andct's?), who waa tL,,vaitiii0 his J)igtljl '.L' him,  the contcnta of which lodged in hi" U(ck. The shot very nearly proved fatal. Several parties being near, 'I Anderson had scarcely quitted the close when he was seized and taken into custody. Ghsjov: JDaibj Mail.
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r I f IRELAND. THF, LAXD XILVOLL'TTOX IN THE WEST, One of the Gaiway papers, the Western (,ra,v a giowiag picture of the beneficial results effected by the labours of the Encumbered Estates Commission, and maintains that no part of Ireland has been so sig- ¡ nally benefitted by its operations as the long-neglected province of Connallght In these remote parts d the kingdon, where the old proprietary had become so I ernbarressed by the results of tho famine and other causes, a new race of landlords has become inaugurated, and in many instances the old inheritors have been re- lieved. It is but just to observe that on well-managed properties the operations of the court were not required, though old proprietors, in a few instances, sold and purchased again in order to obtain a better title. We could instance several important estates in this neigh- I bourhood which from superior management weathered tho storm of famine a.nd pestilence, and on which the ¡ tenantry are now amongst the most prosperous in the kingdom, Among these we may enumerate the estates of the Earl of Clancarty, Lord Clonbrock, Mr. Denis, II. Kelly, Lord Dunsaudle, the Marquis of Clanrieardo, Mr. Dudley Pcrsse, &c. The former of these land- lords has been steadily adding to his property, as por- ¡ tions of other estates were offered for sale. It is gra- tifying to find that of the purchasers of property in the Encumbered Estates Court, a majority arc Irishmen, some of them merchants, and many of them former tenants on the property sold." Referring to a recent communication upon this sub- ject, the Star observes :—" We do not quite agree with The jf?K? as regards English and Scottish proprietors; some of thom arc conducting their properties with great skill and advantage. Some of the purchasers are Uistcr men, and from them we anticipate great im- provement. Statesmen and political economists have oiten attempted, in contrasting Ulster with Counaught, to solve the question of the prosperity of the one aud the destitution of the other. Yarious were the con- jectures, hut the deductions were in every case futile, so far as regarded the founding on them of practical measures. The grand secret was still left undiscovered —the absence of the middle classes, which in the North forms the bone and sinew of the land; the middle class j of farmers is wanting in the western province. This is attributable in a great measure to the destruction of the linen trade which once flourished here, as well as to the facilities for the sale of cattle, which has tended to make the West, comparitively speaking, a grazing country. On the whole, however, we have reason for congratulation at the results of the Encumbered Estates Court. While the number of proprietors has been in- creased, most of the oil ones have been permanently settled, though on smaller domains. Habits of indus- try and frugality have been introduced by new settlers. For the last quarter of a century there has not been so little distress upon the country, and symptoms of im- provement are everywhere observable. Emigration has been stayed, and we have seen some of the returned emigrants who a few years ago left the country from want of employment and starvation, but who are now possessed of capital to a certain extent, and anxious to invest in the old country. With the various railway and fishery projects at present on foot, we have reason to hope that a new era has dawned on Cannaught."
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GUNBOATS AND MORTAR-VESSELS AT LIVERPOOL.— The following are the names of the 24 wooden gunboats which are being built at the yards of Mr. J. Laird, Birkenhead and Liverpool :—Ten gunboats of 233 tons each.—Beacon, Brave, Blazes. Bullfinch, Red- breast, Rainbow, Rocket, Rose, and Raven. Four gunboats of 211 tons each—Blossom, Gadfly, Gnat. and Garland. Mr. Laird is alio building 16 iron mor- tar-vessels on the same pla.: as the one built at his Liverpool yard, and successfully tested at Portsmou'.h a few days ago. During the past year Mr Laird has launched about 20 vessels of an aggregate tonnage of up- wards of QO OOIJ tons, including her Majesty's troop- ships Resolute and Assistance, 1,900 tons each two ships of 1,800 tons each, four of 1,700 tons each, three of 1,200, and of 1,000 tons. Messrs. W. and C. Miller, Liverpool, shipbuilders, arc con-structing four wooden gunboats for the Admiralty; of a similar class to those building by Mr. Laird. BONA FIDE STAlt¡A'l'iO.-In the storm of the night of Tuesday, the 18th ult., at about 10 o'clock, the schooncr .Ellen, of Wisbeach, was cast ashore at the entrance of the Tay. At the moment she struck a poor boy was washed away and perished, and after a time the master, the mate, aud two hands succeeded in gain- ing the inhospitable shore, and made for the lights on the railway. Unfortunatlely, it was past 11 o'cock before they were able to claim admittance at the door of an inn, where they were refused shelter, and on ap plication at other houses of so-called entertainment these unprofitable customers were "not heard." In fact, in Carilouse the law is so rigorously observed that it was three hours before these poor fellows, half- drowned, perishing strangers received that shelter they thought they had a right to expect in a Christian land. At last, it appears, they fell into the hands of one who considered them to be both bona fide travellers and bona ::Jc fellow-creaturesand, regardless of the law, took them in and made them as comfortable as his circumstances would allow—Xorth British Daily Mail. THE SEARCH FOR Sir, JOHN FatN-KLT-T lie Hudson's Bay Arctic expedition, in seach of Franklin, has returned, after reaching the place where Franklin's crews were reported to have perished. Dr 11 ic's re- port was fully confirmed. They met Esquimaux in that vicinity who had seen the whites, and gave much val- uable inf .rmaiion. On the island were discovered the ■' remains of a boat, which had been partially destroyed by the nati ves for the sake of the wood and the metal j fastenings, although sufficient was left to identify it as belonging to the Franklin expedition, one fragment of wood (now as well as some other small relics in the possession of the Hudson's Bay Company at Lachine), having the name of "Terror" branded on it, while a.'iother has the name of Mr. Stanley (surgeon of the -L,'rebus' ) cut upon it, this later being a part of a snc w shoe, evidently of English manufacture, being made; of oak, a species of wood no man accustomed to use saow-shoes would ever select for the jmrpose. No papers or book: and no human remains were found. The Esquimaux were. very friendly, and freely dis- played all their treasures obtained from the boat or found near it, and these consisted principally of the oars, used by them as tent poles, the boat kettles, the empty preserved meat-cases, &c., but no papers, and the natives stated, with every evidence of sincerity, I that none had ever been seeu or found; everything portable had been secured and brought back. It would be us dtss to recount them all, but we may mention bar i iron, rope with the Government maik upon it, oars I bran led with the broad arrow, pieces of burning (re- mains of a íhg), a letter holder, a step of a mask, fe., all clearly European, and all Government supplies. & ATTACK BY JACKALS.—1 ho toflowing extraordinary instances of what jackals will do when pushed by hun- ger, we have received from a party whom we can rely upon for the truth :—" While in the refreshment-room at Ilaneegunge on the 10th inst. along with five or six friends, at about 9 o'clock in the evening, a jackal came and laid hold of one of our party's legs, passing under the table, and walked out of the room as if ac- customed to it. At about 10 o'clock the same night one of Mr Rose's bearers was laid hold of but fortuna- tely escaped with his blanket split in two. At about 3 o'clock in the morning a Coolie employed on the rail was laid hold of by his cloth while asleep; finding some- thing pulling, lie awoke, having just time to save his cloth, when a jackal seized him by the eyebrow and there huug. The Coolie, endeavouring to shake him off to no purpose, caught him by the throat, and thus held him until the brute was cut through with a sword by a chowkcedar. The wound on the eye was frightful, he was sent up to the surgeon at the camp, where our I frlcIlll went also, and had two pieces cut out of his leg the si?G of rupees. Thus you will see that the re- I sidents have more to fear than the Sauthals."—India I Paper. CRIME IN WEST YORKSHIRE.—Offences of a grave character appear to be rife in tho West Riding of York- shire. Acc; iuuts of several daring and violent robberies in or near the towns of Sheffield, Barnsley, and Leeds, have recently appeared in the column" of the Times, and the local journals of the West Riding contain many cth. r accounts of serious robberies that have been -i?- tempted or completed in other parts of the Riding. On Saturday night, about half-past 11 o'clock, as Mr. R. Poppleton, butcher, lluddersfield, was returning from liud lersfield market to his home, at Kiiuer Bank, Mold Green, he was seized, within eight or ten yards of his own door, by some men and robbed of above Xio in cash, notes, and bills. One of the men held him by the throat and nearly st: angled him, while the others rifled his pockets, lie was at last thrown upon the ground, and the back of his head was laid open. Four men ha ve been apprehended. The Uaddnrsfidd Chron- icle records three other very daring attempts at rob- I (" '1 h' t I bery. On Friday night, about six o'clock, as Mr. J. Hirst, of the Greave, Melth:;m, near lluddersfield, was returning trorn his works to his residence at the Greave, he fell over a rope which was stretched across the road about a foot above the ground. Immediately lie was attacked by four ruffians, who endeavoured to obtain possession of a cashbox which it was his custom to carry Oil a Friday night. Mr. Hirst mauaged to gain his feet, and fortunately succeeded in escaping from his assailants without the loss of his property. Two other daring stoppages occurred on the highway in the dis- trict ot Mcllham. In one case the person attacked was thrown into a pond of water, and had a narrow escape of being drowned.
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J—li Wi»i -=- ■i.uw ■■ i. EPITOME OF jSMJWS. FORK ION, COLONIAL, AND DOMESTIC. .«. Mr. Bramwell, Q C., 1 as been appointed Baron of the Exchequer, in the place 01 Hir Jamen l'arkc. The new Spanish Constitution will be promulgated immediately on the recovery of General O'Donneli. The deaths in London last week were 1,100, or about 139 below^the average of the last ten years. The French Emperor is making strenuous efforts to improve the breed of war-horses. Lord Eglinton was on Tuesday afternoon robbed of twenty £ -5 notes as he was leaving the National Bank of Edinburgh. Tho Duke of Sutherland and the Duke of Clcvoi > have each subscribed £100, and the Earl of Dartmuutu E25 to the Nightingale Fund. A movement has been commenced in London, to obtain tho daily opening of the British Museum to the public. The total strength of the army in Ireland, including all arms, is 32,340 men, of which 237G are stationeu in the Dublin district. The King of Xaples, in his late .interviews with M. Brennier, the French Ambassador, refused to withdraw his prohibition upon the export of gr.iin. The French exporters have overdone the: supply of merchandise to Kamiescii—goo do are selling there at less than cost price. According to the Kouvelliste de Rouen, the village of Epagne, two miles and a half from Abbeville, has been partly destroyed by fire. The Chclicnham Observer, a recently established cheap periodical,published at three-haltpence, closed its careor on Wednesday last. There is now living at Dyrham and Hinton a widow named Anne Bell, in the 99 th year of her age, who actually takes in washing, and does it herself. According to a statement published by tho Prussian MonUcnr, the census taken last month shows the pres. ent population of Prussia to be 17,178,091 souls. The Senatus Academicus of the Edinburgh Univer- sity, have voted to Dr. Alison the sum of £ 230 a-year as a retiring allowance from funds at their disposal. i Serious disturbances have broken out at Mecca and in different parts of Arabia, in cousequencc of the Porte having prohibited the sale of slaves. j ..The quay of Jolicttc at Marseilles, so long occupied by successive supplies of implements and munitions of war on their way to the East, is now encumbered with enormous quantities of shells arriving from the j seat of war. | The French naval authorities of Cherbourg have been ordered to arm three screw liners and three sail- ing frigates, which are to be ready for the opening of the campaign in tho Baltic in April. j Dr. Lushington stated in the Admiralty Court on I Wednesday, that forty years ago, he was counsel in a cause relating to the very ship which brought William III. to this country. For each of her recent performances at Liverpool, Jenny Lind received ifve hundred pounds. The com? mittec of the Philarmonic Society, after paying all ex- penses, will clear about ?1,500. Dr. Scoresby is going out to Australia, with an ex- press view to make experiments relative to the variation of the compass in iron ships in the southern hemisphere. I A boy born last week, the son of Mr. G. Johnson of Elizabeth street, Cnedham, has four great graujf?tbera —the whole number, of course, that he could have- now living. An American paper records a fact for the benefit of sausage caters A dog, which had lost the whole of her inteicstuig family, was seen trying to poke a piece of crape through the handle of the door of one of the sausage shops in this city. A Royal proclamation just published at Copenhagen decrees that the King's marriage with the Counts Danner shall ever remain morganatic, and be so in. scribed in the state calendar. 1 A small detachment of the Foreign Legion, with one officer, chiefly Poles, have been ordered to Tilbury Fort, for duty at that station. Their number is shoitlv to be augmented. One hundred and twenty men of the 2nd Royal Cheshire Militia volunteered their services to the lino on Satuiday last. The lllujurity of the men have been selected for the 2nd Dragoon Guards (the Queen's Bays.) Mr. I otcr Benson Maxwell, of the English common law bar, has been appointed to the vacant rccordership of Penang. The salary is, we believe, €2,000 a-year Mr. Maxwell was called to the bar in IS 11, and was a member of the Home Circuit An important political movement ill tho iiiit!or of education has just occurred at Turin. The Municipal Council have decided to dispense with the services of priestly teachers in the communal schools of the capital. Preparations at the Royal Palaco at Turin have latelv led to the belief among trie Turinese that the Kin" is 1 b 0 certainly about to contract a marriage. It is re i in Turin that such a step will be the result u. the King's visit to England. A medal struck in the French Mint commemorates the celebrated loan of 750,000,000f. Franco is repre- sented as receiving the tribute of Agriculture, Com- merce, and the Arts, over which soars the Genius of War. Prince GortschaK >ff, at Vienna, is said to lose his habitual coolness when speaking of Austria. Cos insurables," he is reported to have uttered the other day, "to whom a few years Since we gave back a kingdom, are now ready to assist in taking from us a province. Prince Bodiseo lately passed through Berlin, for St. Petorsburgh, bearing important despatches from the American Government. Russia, it is well known, has entered into heavy contracts in America for the de- livery of stuarn machinery and general war.maierials. The old-established Conservative Club of Cork has latterly been so badly supported that it is found necos- sary to throw its doors open to members of political parties indiscriminately. The auditors of the county of Durham, in present- ing the accounts, a few days since, mentioned that the late prosecution in the late Burdon poisoning case had cost the county no less than £ 512. The benefit recently given to the bereaved family of the lamented Mdlle. Julie in the St. James's Tht.-atre' Plymouth, realised more than £ 200. The sympathy excited in this young lady's fate has been universal. The Northamptonshire Agricultural Bouk Club has just been dissolved—another instance of the utter stag- nation into which, we regret to say, many farmers' clubs have latterly declined. A letter from St. Petersburg!! says that the Emperor Alexander feels the necessitj- of calming the reli"iou3 excitement of the people, in order that the passions of the masses may not be pushed to an extreme, A fresh departure of pilgrims for Jerusalem and the Holy Land will take place at Marseilles towards the end of February. About the same period another car- avan, formed in Germany, will sail from Trieste for tho same destination. Alice Grey whose violence for some time afterwards she was takjn into custody is well known, has now, we understand, become one of the quietest prisoners in Stafford goal, and is a constant attendant ou the chapel services. We regret to learn that Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, K.C.B., late second in command of the Baltic fleet, has completely lost the sight of the eye which was injured by the exnlosion of' qii machine in the Gulf of ilinialld? ILst -u;n;. '.V.. Aiehdeacon D?ui?n haa issued a circular, in which Areli,,Iuiicoil 1)Lill;so?i l?ias isstiecl a ei reti t ..ii- in wliie l i he states tnat tne renewal of the pi-OCUcdi;?S ag iU:it him, anting out of his Loldiil,e aiill ?5 tho d0etrm vi real presence," compels him to make an appeal for assistance, to ct?bic him to in??et the neces- sary expenses of the defence. \Ve have reason to believe tnat a contract has been entered iuto with Government by Messrs. Napi.-r, of Glasgow, for the construction of the first of the great gun batteries. It is intended to be of 3lulij tons, and it is to be delivered on the Thames on the loth of April next, under a penalty of -tl,OU-,) lior diem.-Glof)e. The Emperor of the French, at the first Court ball at the Tuileiics, on Tuesday night, paid marked hon- our to the Crimean generals present. His Majesty gave his arm to General Bosquet—win is or was a stern Republican —and walked up and down the room with him for same time. It is said that the Emperor plainly intim ited iiij desire to have the gallant gene- ral by his side in the probable campaign of'oti. The Emperor Alexander, when at Nicolaieff, is said to have desired a r'tcnch oiilcer, takoo prisoner, to bo brought inio Lis presence, When pieseiued, the Czar, according to the officer's account, conversed with him, and asked him many questions ielating to the w: r, at the same time avoiding, however, all embarrass ng u. J.to; .4 J. j, 0" subjects. On dismissing him, tho Emperor shook him by the hana, and said, 1 give you ? hand wbell IIN- tilo !,all(, z?ll,t n i! v.o, ti I li?l-,it l Ni.l.i- d i will Jun! f hope, L?' a Uaeudiy <i?-