Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register

t OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. ) MR BmGHT AT BTRXixoHAM.—The heartiness and vehemence which Mr Bright throws into his speeches are very refreshing, iu this day of simpering unanimity and mincing discourse. Engtish society, private and poHtica), is travehinl- fast towards that condition of decorous ntilttty wh''n the exhibition of !nd!vidtnt character and purpose w;n he considered an impertinent interference with genera) comfort and general hws. It is certainly, therefore, act a disagreeable spectacle to witness the doings, and listen to the talk, of one man who does not call a spade a teaspoon, and who has fresh lively antipathies and predilection' To meet with anybody who has a strong desire and a will of his own at this date is an unusna) circumstance. Abstract ideas of .progress, and semifatalist ideas of science, have so far efteu away the manhood of the vast majority of the weU-to-do ctasses, that the faculty of action has dwindled to a low ebb Indeed, and %ill rfquire, ac- cording to many thiukers, the pressure of urgency in serious events to a;ive It renewed strength and tempfr. To this ceneral decay of character, A!r Bright furnishes a siKuat exception. Though not a wise Man, though not a man of cniture, though labouring under many disquatinea- tions for actur.! statesmanship and oSce. he i)aa a native energy and 6re. a glow of cenviction, albeit irratioua), which !na!{CS him one of the foremost poetical authorities of this interregnum of mediocrity and decime. He is ouc of ttie verv few men left in pui!i<; tite who believes in him- self. and ha" a tnterably clear notion of what he wants to get done. He is, therefore, not unnaturally the object of mnch sympathy and admiration on the part of a commu- nity with whose genera) historical bent. convictions, pur- poMB, and dnties, he is in utter and incarabte discord. la the absence of any recognised and powerful iuterpreters of the trnc nationa) mind, Mr Bright is welcomed for his earnest energy and enthusiasm. But it would be a serious mistake to suppose that his anthortty can ever grow be- vond the point it has reached at present, the respect and ndmimtion due to the man who dnres to think and speak h!s own thoaghts. and sforns to repeat mere conventional cries. The positive political doctrines of Mr Urisht, and the general inotle of his iealing with comptex political q))est,ion"t arn pf)"iuve!y abhorrent to the English temper ami the Enclish tntelkct. And it would be about a9 ia- congru,-)tis to see a bfH wether, however handsome, leading a Hock of !!ons, as Mr Johti Btiftit the presiding head and hand of the EngHs!) {1eople.-Spccllltor. BANQUET To Mn. BR!G)!T.—A public dinner is an English institution—this we know. It is what Lord John Russet! would own in a double sense as a consti. tutional" thing. This portion of British politics Dir. mingham does a!so understand. It has a genius for the trencher. It can use a knife and fork as well as Shef- neld can make them. The effect of a dinner in giving urbanity to poiitieal strife is a discovery of Great Britain alone. Had MachiaveHI lived in England he would have inserted in his great bookonmonarchial polity the sound maxim that a people never conspire wlto dine together. Louis Phillippe had never lost his throne had Guizot suffered Paris to do this. London aldermen are never seditious the root of their loy&fty is turtle. In the days of Chartist troubles, had the Government sent into the Midland Counties barons o< beef and flagons of beer, I the Bull Ring" of Birmingham hxd never been nred. Any Soyer would he a better keeper of popular peace than Sir Richard Mayne. Not that Eng- lish workmen would abandon their principles for mot- ton-chops they would stick to their principles, but they would not stick their opponents. The Chartists never thought of pikes as long as they had any use for their forks. To-night, Birmingham dines over its dif. ferences—Whig. Tory, Reformer, and Republican (as Mr G. F. Muntz, the late Member for Birmingham, avowed hl'"self in the House of Commons to be), gun- maker and Quaker, drank Mr Bright's health in unani- mous champagne, and the teetotj tab'e did the same in harmonious conee and consentaneous lemonade. The very diversity of beverages became elements of oneness, uNity, and homogenity of sentiment. The side gallery of the hall resplendent with ladles, the great gaileties crowded with general spectators, the body of the hall ntled in every part, under the galleries, even, with diners, an elevated platform filled with the guests of the night, and surmounted by a higher tier of singers, corn. pleted the scene. The accessories were admirable the hall was cotd, the dinner ditto, and "so, so." The wine was goo'I, but the banquet was Mr Bright. The table of the chief speaker was adorned by sundry silver vases, very beautiful but obstructive to al) sight of the speak- ers. Mr Hadneld, the member for Shemetd, wit)) ready tact, stepped from the platform and eSected. amid the applause of the meeting, prompt correction of the ocu- lar arrangement. Mr HadSeJd himself afterwards made an energetic speech, touching some points of Mr Bright's services and relation to Birmingham. The teetotallers wera numerous enough to command a table for themselves-a precedent which may ha advantage- ously followed. Mr Bright made a sty and approving allusion to it, in his second speech, when he said it was an opinion of his that rather than dfink healths we should wish them. Mr P. II. Mnntz, who has not taken part in public affairs for years, spoke in the old dashing denant tones ever acceptable to n;rminham. if his advice be a foregone conclusion that dining should end In doing—and a new political confederation be formed which shall make the Birmingham men of '58 as re- nowned as those of'32—we shall have a Reform Bill. Mr Cobden'a name, cited as his letter wa* announced, was received with applause second on!y to that of Mr Bright. Had Mr Cobden been present himself it would have been dimcult to determine who had the preference of esteem. Mr George Dawson returned thanks on the health of the electors bein? drunk Hashing, caustic, and fearless as he always is, his speech broke through many proprieties. He rebuked that public ilunkeyiam which at meetings of National Associations for the Promotion of Social Science passes over the honest, patient servant of the public, but throws up hats and shouts itself hiarie when the hollow-headed fifteenth cousin of Lord Fitz Boozle appears, tie felt this, and said it, and joined thereto many funk words of honour of Mr Bright* s in- vincible courage and incorruptible independence. We must not omit to notice the graceful act of Mr Bazley, the probabty new member of Manchester, in being pre- sent. Deputations by day, soiress by night, dining out In the intervals, appear in nowise to have shaken Mr Bright's strength. His speaking to-night was charac- terised by more equal strength. There was Jess of that tugged strength (necessarily fitful in the speaker's slow- recovered health), but the ievet parts were better sus- tained than on Wednesday evening, and his length in higher parts rose almost to his ancient strength. With- out a note, a pause, or hesitation In hiaelaborate speech in which fact was never wanting, clearness never waned, in which newness of point and felicity of terms every. where abounded, was spoken, in what the Globe truiy describes as the Snest, nnnest. meHowett voice in Europe. It is not his brilliant vindication of himself against the charge of being un-EngHsh—it is not the emphatic and memorabte declaration which should pro- tect him against all future misrepresentation, and be the new stand-point from which critics should speak-nor is it the abiHty of his exposition which falls to us here to notice, but rather those persona! and rhetorical fea- tures which belong to the incidents of the hour. The phrase In which Mr Bright characterised the po!!cv of public expenditure as being substantially a gigantic system of'out-door relief for the aristocracy," brought down the house. It was like one of those great phrases of Mirabeau—Its effect was electric, and will live among the people. The noble features of this oration were that the speaker, despising all artinces of rhetoric, spoke to teach, and appealed alone to those deep Ineradicable and ultimate principles of morality in every man's breast. He said, in his manly way, I do not care for aristo- cratic greatness of military renown-what I care for is the wholesome condition of the people. In every coun- try the nation dwells In the cottage." This is command- ing and original in its simplicity-it is a new order of thought indeed which the people have heard before but from a few noble voices, but have not yet felt in all its (featnes!. There was in Mr Bright's speech every va- riety of etoquenee except imitation. His humour was contagious-his smile is not more fascinating than his scorn is superb. The printed speech, wondfrfut as Its exactness is, is but a copy-the hearing of the speech is the painting. One speaker tears a passion to rags, and the audience are glad when the tatters vanish. Another dashes a sentence at your head like a flail. This is very excellent discipline to submit to-but Mr Bright com- municates to his hearers the rugged strength of his own inteUeet. From the men millinery speakers principles trickle like treacle-in others fervour is warm, but sioppy—their enthusiasm is mere tepid water, into which if once dipped, the soul which goes in hard crust comes out sop. Mr Bright's eloquence is a northern blast tem- pered by the breezes of spring, generating at once vigour and vegetation.

INDIA. I The Calcutta mail ha.. brought cf?'rpspo!iJence and I papers from Calcutta to the 23rd of September, and from I Hong Kong t) the 12th of September. SUMMARY OF INTELLIGENCE. I CALCUTTA, SEPTEMBER, 23.— t'he fortnight has been t almpst barren of intelligence. The pr?cL?'nation. an- Bouncing the abolition of the Company has n )t yet ap- peared. McantIiM orders have been issued to illuminate all public bui!dmg;<, and, if possible, all towns, and to prepare a grand show of firevrorzs-2n exhibiton in which natives take a peculiar delight. Some nreworks have been sent to Allahabad, aud the illuminations are progressing, but the fireworks fjr Calcutta cannot be ready for weeks. From Oude and Shahabad we have nothing of importance. The rains check al) movements, and both parties appear to await weather a little mure fàv(J1Jrahl o for locomotion. The field force ordered to ctcar Shahabad has not yet collected, and the rebels arc taking advantig(.. of thepa'iaeto fortify themselves inJugdes- pore. According to native report they number 15,000 men hut nattvo Fp!cs make little distinction between camp followers and fihting men. They may amount to that number, as .small parties steal down from Oude to jom them but the reports do not prove the fact. Ac- tive operad ms will scarcely recommence till the 15th of October, the ngtial termination ot the rains. lo Snuthfm Oudt:, aain, the rcbela driven from Sultanpore have concent ratfd them-!t'lvcs on Amethee, a little place known chiefly as the residence "f the Alouivie, who gave so much trouble about throe years ago in On ie. They are estimated at 50,OUO, hut if they number half that strength of fightin men they are stronger than 1 believe them to bp. They are completely hemmed in, having two great rivers to the north and south, Bnga'bcr Crant on the east, and Lucknow, which they dare not approach, on the west. Unless some daring march releases them, they must be Rpceddy destroyed. The official returns of the revenue of Pe"'u have been published They show a revenue for 1857-5S of 40 lacs of rupees (400,000). The cm! expenses amount to only 18 lacs and even if the expense of the entire garrison of the province ia debated to its account, a moat unfair system not a.pp)md to our old territories, the surplus ia still abon five lacs. Con- sidering the depopulation of Fegu during the war, and its scanty population at the best of times, this result is in a high degree honourable to the judgment and energy of Major Phayre, the Commissioner. The trade exhibits a similar increase. The total exports were 63,30,936 rupees, and the total imports 52.98,614. rupees', the total movement of trade being thus above P, 1,000,000 sterling. The principal imports at Rangoon were-Cotton goods, 11,79.000 rupees; woollens. 1,37,000 rupees; coal. 1.30,2.55 rupees; metals, 83,000 rupees; iron, 4S,257 rupees. The trade will. it is believed, in three yenrs ex- ceed that of Madras. and will be, from local circumstan- ces, more important to England. A native will not live as a Bengalce or Madrasae does. He will have comfort- able ctothing, a decent house, and as much furniture as he can buy. He demands aud receives four times the ordinary wages of a Bengalee, and already buys imports to the value of 12s a head a year. The Indian imports, Bombay and Madras Included, amount, without treasure, to less than 2s 6d a head. It is tvorthy the notice of Manchester that if our imports only rose to the Burmese average the trade would be greater than that of all Asia, and that if-which is impossible-it ever rose to the Australian average of 18o6 it would exceed the entire trade of the world. The railway from Allahabad to Cawnpore was opened to the public on the 15th instant. It had been opened for troops and stores for some days previous. The railway will also be open to Adja!, 40 miles beyond Burdwan, in a few days. Thia sectlou, however,, will be of little usotiti the bridge over the Adjai is completed, which will not not be the case for at least another year.

EPITOME OF NEWS. Lord Stratrord du RedcMffe will spend the winter in Ro'T'c. The dcnth of Sir W. Reid, latu gcvcrnor of Malta, is nnnounced. .N,lr Jitngrovp, Mnlor, the well known violin player -Hcd vctv suJ'Ien)y at Drury-laae Theatre, on Munday ninM '"st. The PmctSs Loii,-& of Denmark was saMv flellvercd of a prince on Wednesday week, at Cattle Bernstotf, near Cnpf'nhafcn. 'The I'opo has thrown B-!Hsh and Roman sportsmen into (le'plir hy decreeing that there shall be no more&x- I,Untir.,r at Rome. 20.5 b-)t-ouo- lis and 21 countipa, with 179.000 elector, re'urn 330 mcmbera. Eleven boroughs, with 200,000 c!ef'tor'?. return 24 member; Three houses were hnrr:t down irt Tslington, Lon- dori, on Mond-'y last, nnd anftther WM greatly injured, the mmatcs nfune of the houses having a very narrow esctno. A farmer near Drapcrstown, in Ireland, has a hen which, a'ter lyin idle for 15 days, hid., in 15 minutM, five ecro- mr'ac of thfm of full f'ixe and sound. An extensive InndsHp hns taken place near Yarmouth, in the T:-Ile "f Wight. Such a orcumstanco has not taken p!ace for a. number of years!. It iil saifl that gold has Lccn founJ in smaU quantities, upon the Eaglc I'-iver. nf;ar the Desert, about 100 miles from Ottawa city, in Canada. The O'Connor monument cnmmittRe ff Nottingham announce that thcv hive received the free gilt of a site In the church cemetery of that town. 'I he present num!'t-r of shipa of war afloat is 276, with 4.623 nns an<l4<7''i peimen. A teleram from Avi.-tioi announce!! t*.at General SillIes. who had been shot ]'Mcly by hid stfp-brother in a fit of frcnxv. i.< dead. The funeral car of K'.tpolpon I. was embarked at Woolw!ch on Tuesday l:'st, on board the Viraga, for DouioErne. It is stated that Lord Derby has granted a pfns!on of f.50 per annum to Mr Whittle, nuthor of a history of Prcs'on. and other antiquarian works. A monumental bra' fffi:ry to the memory of thn late Dr Monck. Hishof) of G)ouLca!cr, has been pluced in the no'th a!"Ic of WeQtmiti,,ttr Abbey. The 3/<'rM:'My rost un<!frst.tnds it to be the intention of the Co'timand-'r-in-CbIef, and the military fulthontiea to raise earty in the ensuing year an add tional (5th) Lattniif'n to the ri<le ùrjgad. A mMiiago is IIrrangeo. betwfen Mr Edgar Drum- mond, son of Mr and Lady .Kliziibfth Drutumond, and the Hon. T,ouisa Pennington, sister of Lord Muncaater. At the CiuHdhaU police court, on Wednesday, Lemon Oliver, charged with unlawfully nppropriating J&.5.000 entrusted to him t' invest by Miss Dance, was com- mitted for trial. Bail was 6xcd at two sureties in .B5.000 e ch. A Vifnnt letter states that considerable alarm has been caused in the commercial world by the discovery that notes of the Bink of Vienna for 100 florins each hav bepn repro htced, hy means of photography, w<th such exactness that it was very dimeult to detect the false from the true. A few night" ago, in London, a child, twelve month* old. having slipped from the bed where it was sleeping with its parents, got suspended by the neck between the bed and a table, and was quite dead when discovered In that position. Large defalcations of Mr Hallam, one of the collector! of rates for the parnh "f St PancrM, London, were late. ly announced. The rierk of the board, Chartes Hib- ba.rd. has now ahscondt'd, and it is suspected that large auma have been embezzled by him. In the case of the late disturbances at SheerneM between the North Cork Rifles and the inhabitanta, marines, and seamen of the place, the D'tke of CMm- bridge has announced that he colt' t' ft-(-i t'i e,6,iluntic that the militia "cannot he conetdcrcd aa the origintd aggressors." The steamer Vanderbilt arrived at Southampton on Saturday rather leaky, having touched the ground in the Wpser as she was leaving Bremen. She ia appointed to sail for New York on Wednesday next. The Cheltenham magistrates have fined a younr farmer, named Charles Cooke, JM and costs. For kiaaing a girl, named Mary Ann Ayres. on the AIstohc-road. John Scholcs, farmer. Kaott Lanes, near Ashton, ha* been committed for trial, charged with fraudulently ap- propriating to bis own use 18 tons of hay, of which he was bailee. A serious conflagration occurred on Friday morning at the Castle Mills, the premises of Messrs J. J. and W. Wilson, woollen manufacturers!, Kendal. The damage is estimated at .El,200. Lieut-Cotonel Maude, who so gallantly distinguished himself during the Crimean campaign, has been appoint- ed successor to Major Hrownrkg, promoted to be inspec- tor-genera! of the Irish constabulary. A mm named Amff was on Thursday sentenced at the Centra) Criminal Court to two years' imprisonment with hard Ithour. for the abduction of a cirl named Nichol!, 15 years of age. Another "fortune-tcllar," nrmed Anne Lane, hn9 been taken into custody in London, charged with obtain- ing a quantity of wearing appaiet from a servant girt, named HarrK't Vincent. under pretence of ruling the planets and telling her fortune. Mis-' Amy Sedgwick, the popular actress of the Hay- market Theatre, whoa' aerums illness for some time past prevented her appearance on the stage, ha9 recently (saya the Sunday Tiws) bestowed h.r hand on Dr Parkea, her medical attendant. The Dublin correspondent of the Time8 things that Lord Derby's answer, declining to have the Shannon surveyed, ought to be a sumeicut stay to further pro- coGdtngs in the in-digested movement. for establishing an American picket station at Foyne. The medical attendant, upon Mr Watson Taylor, M.P. s'atos, with regard to the accident, that al- though four or five pellets struck that gentleman in the face, he will not be diefigiared thereby. The sight of the injured man will be ultimately restored. On thursday night, a runian attempted to rob the pojtman of Hamb!e, Hampshire. The postman, although much frightened, had the presence of mind to threaten to shoot his assailant, at the same time thrusting hia hand into hn pocket a< it to draw out a pistol, when the would-ha robber quickfy made off. On Saturday evening, EUen Gtimths. living In 5 Court, Fonfenoy-strcct, Lu'erpao), M-as knocked down by a horRf and cart, but fortunately escaped without serious ;ury She was immediately removed to the Sjuthera Hospital. llu a. C. Hal], is about to deliver two lectures On the Authors of the Age" —M:CMjr«'t, he terms them, derived from personal acquaintance and rec 'Hectiona. Mr Hall opens with Hannah More and Lady Morgan, and concludes with Theodore Hook and Tom ifood. It is stated that the Irish privy council have resolved to place (rweedore and the surrounding district under the provision of the Peace Pfeaerv-ttion A< t. An addi- tion J potiee force will be stationed there, ttnd the coat of its maintenance tevied upon the inhabitants. There are 600 men and bf)vs "n strike in the Adwa!ton. and Drighlingttn district, Yorkshire, and the coitiery proprietors of ten pita have consented to give ont'-hatf the advance sought, namely 10 per cent. Soma of the men are willing, if the union will only permit. On Monday, a youth, named Smith, living in the neighbourhood of Whitchavoa, wishing to possess him- self of a branch f'f haws, took a gun for the purpose of pulling it down, when a twig catching the trigger, the weapon exploded and killed him on the soot. In London, John Culpeck, a youth of 20 years, who had only been married two mouths, in a fit ot jeatouay stabbed his wife in the neck an.i then cut his own throat. It was alleged that the wife had left the pri- soner to live with another man, who waa the father of a family by a woman with whom he had for years coht* bited. A letter from M:icon (in Galignant) mentions that the esfate of MIHy, b<onglng t'< M. de Ltmartinc, has been sold to a landed proprietor at Bordeaux for 675,000f. The surveyora and appraisers of Macon ha't valued it at 7'50,000f. The estate is large and the vino- yards are extensive, but the house is amall and incon- venient. On the 17th ult, the Christophe Co!nmb arrived at CivitaVccchia, with 700 men of the 20th battalion of Chasseurs. The battalion made it-< appearance in Rome two days afterwards, and the men fraternised in the most joyous manner with their comrades of the fine al* ready in garrison. Oa Saturday evening last, the Eagle steamer, on her afternoon trip from Glasgow to Rothesay, whitat oppo- site Dogany Point, r.tn down a fisliintr boat contaiumg two men. Thomas Robert&on. belonging to Rothesay, was drowned. The other m-m was picked Up by tht) steamer. The deaths in London last week were 1133, and they exhibit an increase on those of th previous week. In the ten years 1848-57 thu average number of doathti in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1030 which boinsr corrected for the increase of population Wi!' become 1122. At the Halifax birough court, on Tuesday, the caao against Benjamin Wild, the young man charged with embezzling a large sum of money, the property of Mcsr:s Crosstey, his employers, broke down under a technics objection raised by the prisoner's solicitor. and W'- was therefore tliamtssed. There has recently been several incendiary nrea in the north of Ireland. Last week two stacks of ctts at Corgary, near Dromaniine, were burned to the groin<L The barn and potato house of Hamilton Gtover, of Ballycloughan, were also set on nre, and wjre both destroyed. The Earl of Minto has erected an ornamental fort)et on the summit of Minto cra-s, and the eminence wd be surmounted by two pieces of cannon, to be nrud on joyoaa occaaiona. The view commanded tro'!i the spot is the ilneat in Toviotdale, and, through the kindness of Lord Minto, is within the reach of all order. ly people. ly The extensive sugar rchncry of Messrs. James F' I f vaLC' altne and Co., at Glebe, has been disposed of priF-'te- ly for tl2,000, to Messrs LMblan M'K.rdy and David Steele, of Crreenock, and Mr J.'hn Davie, of GlugolW. There are now in operation in (jrcenock 13 sugar r(i- uneriea, the smaUest of which is capabte of turning < 40 tons per week. 8. In the Court of Queen's Bench Mf Justice Hil!, BPI pointed judge in pidce of Mr Justice swoin in on Wednesday last. When Mr Justice 1 ?' had sub?chbed the oath, Lord Campbell said the co?? was happy to Rnd that the fcrm of abjuring the r? tender and hia descendants would no longer be uøed.. Mr Cbaa. Mills, who became entitled, by hia apP< mentontheNew Indian Council, to an nnugil salarf of j61,200, has declined to accept more than the L50 per annum which he haa received for 20 yellrl as an East India director, transferring the balance 01 *<}' a-year, to the credit of the Indian revenue,

AN UNFORTUNATE LEGACY.—At the London Bankruptcy Court, on Saturday, before Mr..Commissioner Face, Mr. R. A. Farmer. a chemist of Mount-street, Lambeth, ap- plied for his certinca.te. Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, captained that the bankrupt's position waa caused by his having had the misfortune to be bequeathed a legacy. A "friend"—not a relative-left him by will two shares in the Royal British Bank. The will was disputed by the testator's relations, and Yice-ChanceHur StUl(,'decidtd that they were entitled to the shares. The bankrupt ap. pealed to the Lord Justices, who decided that they were his. The bank shortly afterwards failed, aod the calls upon the two valuable shares brought the bankrupt here. He had been served with copies of Bo teas than 20 writs on their account. A stronger illustration of the doctrine that a man does not always know what ia for hiagoodcoutd not be well imagined.—His Honour: He may take a urst-class certiSeate. ExTRAonDiNARY DzATH FROM ScALDiNG.—On Mon- day the following extraordinary death from scalding was reported to the Liverpool borough coroner. On Satur- day William Muagrove. a lad fifteen ye&ra of age, and an apprentice to Mr Catter, a wheelwright in Myrtle- street, South, was engaged in cooling wheel tirea in a trough of water, when by some means he was caught by the spoke of a wheel and precipitated into the trough. Tho water in the trough having been much used that day was very hot, and the poor Jad was so severely sca)d- ed that, though removed immediately to the Royal In- Brmarv, be died on Sunday. On Thursday evening a bullet was shot from a gun or pistol into the houae of Mr Turner, cabinet maker, ChesterCeId. It apparently came from the opposite side of the street, smashed the window, passed through. a :z.inch deal board, and felt a short distance from where Mrs Turner was standing, for whom it is supposed to have been intended. At the Centra! Criminal Court, on Friday, G. E. Del], letter sorter, and Wm. Francis Eander, letter carrier, who had pleaded guilty to stealing letters containing money, were sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Dell, who had 20s per week, assigned the insumciency Of hia wages as the cause of his crime.

LORD ELGIN IN JAPAN. A correspondent of the 2Y?MM writes from Shanghai an account of Lord Elgin's arrival at Jeddo in Japan. The squadron," he saya. passed the sacred limits beyond which no foreigner had ever passed, and to the astonishment of the Japanese and Russian ships, did not communicate with the shore. The arrival of the British squadron, in waters which the Japanse had se- dulously represented as being too shallow to admit of the approach of large ships, nlled them with dismiy and astonishment. Boats followed each other with omeiats of ascending degrees of mnk, to beg them to return to Kanagawa; and, nnally, urgent representations were made to the ambassador on the subject. Firstly, the anchorage was said to be dangerous; then the diitieuitv of getting supplies wns represented. The delivery of the yacht at Jeddo was, however, indispensable; and no sooner was this settled than the Japanese, in their usual way, became perfectly reconciled to the arrangement, sent off supplies with great wHIiagness, and began to prepare a residence on shore for Lord Elgin and his staff. It appeared that Count i utiatine had been delayed for ten days negotiating on the subject at Kanagawa, and only succeeded in taking up his residence at Jeddo on the same day that we cast anchor before the town. He had made the journey overland from Eauagawa, a dig. tance of 18 miles. On the arrival at Jeddo the Japanese oSiciaIs sent off to superintend the anchorage, aud re- turned In one of the gunboats, with thirteen ships' boats in tow, amid the thunder of salutes, the playing of a band, and the flutter of nags. They stopped within seven feet of the batteries, and the procession of boats was formed; the four paddlebox boats, each with a 2't-ponnder howitzer in her bows, enclosing between them the ambassador's barge, the remainder of the ships' boata, with captains and omcers all in full dress, leading the way. The band strnck up God save the Queen,' as Lord Elgin ascended the ateps of the omcial landing- ptace, near the centre of the city, and was received and pjt into his chair by sundry two-sworded peraonagca, the reat of the mission, together with some onicers of the squadron, following on horseback. A dense crowd was collected. During Lord Erin's stty, nearly all the omcera of the squadron were enabled to pay him a visit. In front of the temple where he resided, the aristocratic quarter of the city, was a street which continued for tea miles, as closely packed with housea and as densely crowded with people as it is from Hyde Park Corner to Mile End. At the back of it stretched a wide and some- what dreary aristocratic quarter, containing the residen- ces of three hundred and sixty hereditary princes, eaA a petty sovereign in his own right; many of them with half a dozen town houses, and some of them abte to ac- commodate in these same mansions 10,000 retainers. The area of the city is equal to, if not larger than that of London, and contains two miilions and a half of in- habi'ants. The castle alone is computed to be capable of containing 40,000. For ten miles around there were extraordinary evidences of civilisation. The people are clean and moat amiable, there are no beggars, and the climate, fertitity, and beauty of the country appear to be unequalled. We have to discover what the exports of Japan may be, beyond camphor, wax, and copper but from a consideration of the natural tendencies and go- ahead disposition of the people, there can be little doubt that a market will at some future day exist in these is- lands for the produce and manufactures of the West, of aumcient magnitude and importance to secure for them a higher place on the list of Great Britain's customers."

A MAN CARRIED AWAY BY A KiTE —A young man named Power, residing at Castlecomer, went a few even- ings ago to ny what he terms a Spanish kite, of very large dimensions. Having adjusted the cord and tail, it rapidly ascend ed with a brisk breeze until it had taken the full length of the cord, which became entangled round Power's htmd. The wind increasing, he was drawn a distance of nearly half a mile in the greatest agony, the cord cutting into the bone. The Rev. Mr. Penrose, the Protestant curate of the parish, seein" the man running and shoudng,- at one tintc raised o§ the ground for a distance of some perches, and again running along at full speed, perceived that he v&s dragged by the kite, and followed him as fast as he could; but being unable to come up with him, he shouted at the top of his voice to Let go; there was a man killed in a thun- derstorm by the lightniug of a kite." When Power heard these words, he shouted with redoubled vigour, but he could not extricate himself, until, after the dis. tance mentioned, he was stopped by a high stone wall, the top of which, being coped, cut the cord and set at liberty the kite and its owner, who was almost lifeless with fatigue and fright.-Kilkenny Journal. DREADFUL MuROERiN ChARF,—A letter dated Kilkee Friday evening, and published in the Clare f)'<*cm<!M, says: A shocking murder has been perpetrated at this locality.. Charles Ctancy, son of Constantine CLancy, of Tullehar, about four miles from Kilkee, was shot dead last night within a few yards of his owu house. His brother and cousin were In the houae, and on hearing the firearms ran out, and saw deceased ataggering to- wards them crying out I am murdered I am undone He died on being brought into the house. Read-con- stable Maguiro, of Eilkee, was there soon after. and ex- tracted several large slugs from the wound. This bloody deed has caused .great sensation in the neighbourhood. Various causes are assigned for it; but nothing is yet known with certainty. Some say it was about land, and others say it was in reference to a brother's marriage portion. Strong suspicion rests upon some members of his family. The deceased bore a goad character. SHOCKING ASSASSINATION BY A PIAT T.-The.Pe6at,, contains the following letter from Rome, dated the 23rd: We have a most painful incident to record. The day before yesterday a priest was brought into the prisons of the holy Omee, guilty of assassination, accompanied with circumstances which excite special horror and dis. gust. The crime was committed in the little village of S"m GiuiianeHo, five or six miles from Velletri. The following is the version most accredited, and which, un- fortunately, appears to be too true. A small sum of money had been stolen from the cure of the p)ace. He denounced a man of the country, but In default of evidence the accused was released. Furious at be- ing at once frustrated of his vengeance and tabbed of his money, the priest resolved to procure for himaetf the revelations which he wanted; to do this he en. ticed into a lonety grotto the son of the man whom he suspected, a youth 15 or 16 years of nge. Having bound him by aurprlse be commenced applying a sort of torture, by piercing him slightly with a knife. The boy remained nrm, either knowing nothing or not wishing to say anything. The sight of the blood fur- ther excited the miserable priest, and ultimately the boy succumbed under 32 wounds. When the budy was discovered It became the duty of this very pnest to inter it. Those who assisted at the ceremony thought they observed in him a strange emotion at the moment of pronouncing the absolution over the comn. The next day the brigadier of the Carbineers having exiled upon him for the certificate of the registry of the death he seemed yet more troubled. The suspicions already excited were increased, and he was arrested."

DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE SHIP "EASTERN CITY." The Jetaila of the total doatruefion t)v Src Of the Eastern City, or.e of tilC Blank Ball line of Ans- tr:Uian passenger ?hip?, will he read with considerable intcrcat. Mr. J. Fowler, a cabin passenger on bow< hfn furnÙlnrd the following narrative of the contlqgra. tlon W e sailed from Liverpool for Melbourne on the 10th of July, having on board upwards of 1GOO tons of general eirgo, 180 passengers, and 47 o&oc's and cre'< in al!, 227. Notwithstanding a Inng ccntin'ianco of contrary and bafHing winds, wo mada a verv sticccgqfill passage to the Equator, which we passed on the llth of August. THE SHIP OX FIRE. I On the 23rd an alarm of fire wa raised. and smo;e vt-as seen isstiing f.-om the fo. v-as seen issoing from the forehatch. Captain Johnstinf, the chief onicer, and several of the crew and passenger- endeavoured to reach the sc'it of the nre, whic'i was supposed to be in the foreho'd, among the carsro but in a fc'.v minutea the smoke became so dense and audocat. ing that we were driven up the hatchway. The passen- gers and crew were ordered on deck. and we then be- lieved they had aH obeyed the order but It was after- ward? discovered that one of the steerage passengers, named Peter M'Loan, belonging to the Isle of 9vize, was missing and he is supposed to have suffocated in bis berth. The furehntch vas then dosed, with the excep- tion of holes of about two fef't square, one on each side of the batch, through which passengers and crew pro- fcedpd to pour vast quantities of water from the engine pump, and by drawing over the side from the sea. For some time the smoke did not appear to increasf, and we conudcntty expected to he able to extinguish the nre. but after half an hour it was evident we were making no progress, and it was apparent our only charee vras to smother it. I''<¡r this purpose the hatch was covered with blanks, shawl. plaids, and everything we could !av hand:i on, an.! the forecastle and forward parts with old saHs. Mcaim-hiLp, the captain had haulei up the coursca, and put the ship hcfore the wind, and had got the boats provmoned, and ready to lower at a moments notice. 1 he women and children, about sixty In number, were removed to the poop. where the captain had p!aucd numbers of old sails, carpets, &c., and did everything he could to make them as comfortaMe as possible under surh ternMe circumstances. All that lonit and dread. fut night h.'th p3s,;engeri! and crew continued to work ZD Wtt)i«tlt. intermission, pouring t.ms of water down the hatchcs and forepart; holes were also cut into the deck, and engine-putnp3 and buckets went to work, pouring down water into the ho!d, the captain cheering us all the while, and never having the deck for a moment. I could but admire his calm courage, surrounded as he was on the poop with so many weeping women and children, whom he never ceased to comfort by the as. surance that they would soon be all safe in the boats. The majority ot the pass'engeM were for a long time ignorant of the full extent of their real danger; but the more intelligent of us knew that we were more than 600 miles from the nearest land, that our boats could carry no more than half of us, and that the sea was so high that 'no boat could be launched in safety, or if got clear cou'd not live, deeply laden as it must necessary be. Our only chance was of being picked up, but we were now far out of the route of all vessels, and we felt that our destruction was simply a question uf hours. Still we worked without aincai'ng; but towards morn- ingJit became evident ere long our efforts would be in vain, for, the smoke now finding its way into the nrst and second cabins, it became apparent that the fire was working its way among the cargo In the after-hold. The doors, windows, &c., of the second cabin were caulked up, and the seams of the bulkhead and doors of some of the attte-rooms in the 6rst cabin pasted over with news- papers. The morning of the 24th broke upon us bright beautiful; but still the ssa ran high. We scudded be- f )re the wind, and stilt we worked hard with the energy of despair—for now all felt that there was but little hope for us. About noon the foreyard came down by the run, but without injuring anyone. Many of the passengers and crew were now faHing out from the en. gine and pumps, completely knocked up with the heat. smoke, and incessant work. During our short spelts of breathing time how eagerly we scanned the ocean' Sev- eral times I caught myself looking and fancying that I saw a sail, but it was only the sun lighting up the white creat of a wave. I ALL HOPE GONE. There was evidently no hope for u?, and many of us became quite resigned to our terrible fate. About noon the smoke and heat had become so great that we were driven from the top-gallant forecastle, on which we had continued to pour water, and, indeed, were unable to remain forward of the foremast; the docks also became very hot, and we expected every moment to see the flames burst through the bows. We were also in some dre.id of the foremast giving way, which would have precipitate! our fate, as in its tali it must have torn up part of the deck, through which the flames would then have burst upon us. The captain, purser, and my. self pitched over botties containing papers detailing our position and gloomy prospects; and I, having been wounded in the thighs by a fail during the night, and feeling the little chance I would have in a scramble for the boats, had bid good byo to friends and to all the world. The captain, chief oiEcer, purser, doctor, Mr. Warner, the other chief c:tbin passengers, and myself went into tha saloon at 2 p.m. to eat something, for we were ull hecomim: famt. We were eating what we be- lieved to be our last meaL but we were all calm, and even cheerful, Capt. Johnatone asking to be excused for the manner in which he was breaking up the preserved salmon, which with a few biscuits were to form our din- ner and I for appearing at dinner In such a guise, being literaHy covered hamia and face with tar. A SAIL IN SIGHT. At about 2 30 p.m., and when about, ti say good- bye," in csse of not meeting acain before the Gna, catastrophe, we were startled with the cry of "a sail.' I do not know how we all tumbled on deck, hut we were there in an instant. How I looked to windward, and how faint and ill I felt when I at nrst failed to perceive anything but the ocean and a few black clouds just at the edge of tho hotizon how we at last saw the sail, just like a distant gull-she was coming down upon us—ctosc by the edge of the sun's rays on the sea how we all cheered, and wept, and prayed, and laughed, and cluaped each other's hands, and cheered again; how great rough fellows hugged each other and wept like children how men, who had pwobably never prayed be- fore, muttered sincere thanksgiving, and how those who had preserved the greatest indifference when death seemed so near were now completely overcome, I can- not describe. I shook hands with at least a hundred —many of them roub illiterate men, but who had worked with high courage in the hour of danger, and who were now as sincere in their feelings of thankful. ness as the best of us. In less than half an hour from the time we first sighted her, the vessel, which proved to be the Merchantman, of and from London, with troops for Calcutta, parsed close under our stern. How we cheered her, and she returned our cheer as only British soldiers and sailors can cheer. THE RESCUE. Our captain hailed througMds trumpet We are on nre, will you stand by us ?" to which Captain Brown returned a hearty Ay, ay; and send my boats to as- sist you." Soon two of the Merchantman's boats and three of our own were launched. We nrst embarked the women and children, and by 8pm. we were all safely on board the Merchantman, our captain being the last to leave. On-bnard the Merchantman Capt Brown had provided everything that he could devise for re- Heving our wants and conducing to our comfort; and well was he seconded by Captain Lawson, commanding the troops. They had prepared hot tea and biscuit for four hundred. The women and children were accom- modatpd., iii ihe ouddy- and omoers' rooms, and the orew and passengers mustered and told off to mess with* the soldiers and sailors without the slightest confusion. Th e Merchantman stood by the burning ship during the night, an3*at about 2 a.m. the flames burst forth over the topgallant forecastle; soon after the foremast went, and soon after she was a mass of names. We conid &ee her sti)! burning until ahont 5 a.m, when, the Merchant- man having stood for Table Bay, the distance became too great for us to distinguish other than a dark cloud resting against the dim horizon, which was the last we saw of our ship. We in the nrst cabin saved a portion of our luggage, but the whole of the other passengers and the majority of the crew lost everythins'. But we were all truly thankful for our preservation from a ter- rible and inevitable death; and we all ibel that the finger of Providence was in ir, for had the Merchantman not been obliged to put into Rio dc Janeiro, in con- sequence of the illness of her medical officer then in charge of the troops, she could not have been ao far out of her course, and In a position to rescue us, I cannot speak too highly of Captain Johnstone's con- duct, and I am sure every one who was on board the un- fortunate Eastern City will agree with me. As the fire oiiginated in the fbrehold, with which there was no communication from the forecastle and foresteeragc, and as the fbrehatch had been battened down for four days, it must have been caused by spon- taneous combustion, or the friction ofbad!y stowed pack. age- during the previous day, when the ship rolled so heavity on the high sea. I cannot close my communication without bearing testimony to the calm behaviour of the female passengers. After the nrst half-hour they never complained. The ship, cargo, and property belonging to the passengers cannot have been worth less than JE90,000 to JE100,000.

A TRANCE.—A sensation has been caused at Nuneaton Warwickshire, in consequence of a young woman of that place having come to life after her apparent daath. Pre- parations were made for laying her out, the bell tol- led, and the shutters were closed, but in a few hours after her supposed death she became warm, and ulti- mately convalescent. She states that during the time she wag in the .trance she could distinctly hear the con. versation of those near her. LivEN.ooL MuxictpAi. ELEcrioNs.-The annual election of members for the Liverpool Town Council took place yesterday, and never perhaps did a munici. pal election excite so little interest. There were only contest m 6ve out of the sixteen wards, and in eachJf ?e contested warda Liberals were returned ?y ?f majorities. In one_of the wards both of the candidates were Liberals. In Castle-.traet ward, where a torvw? elec?d by stratagem for the nrst time three ?S ??? "'?'?? ?' "?? greatest ?e?SG ?ea? ?? selection; being ignominy ly dt'eated. ?? varioua orders of Druids' Friendly Societies relved ut a meeting held in Huddersneld ?o.? mate. On the votes being taken, nve deleeates t-?. denting eight lodge., voted for an 'adjounS ?nd ?S legates representing 452 lodges, fur the amalgan?ion The amalgamation was thus carried by a majesty ofS? votes. be???? ? ?? ? ?? 0? ? berth for Australia is 59.

AGRICULTURE, i __ULTURE.I REVIEW OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN Co!:X I'HADE Dultl"G THE PAST WEEK. (Fron the !Jfark Lane E..cprc.)-Thc S9asonab)e fdl of r:iiii on Thursday has been very aervieeahia to t!:u progress ot field labours, but after t!iC lon drought more is still vanicJ fer gene- rnl purposes. Wjma.t SQwing has cotnnieneed iu efirnest, and the most approved v -rietie3 h:tvo been procured at ea-3, rates. Under the preseTH systci'n Br.ti'.h f;trmers can onl? hom preeedcnce and gdOJ pr,,P;ts b-v thtj supo- riorityof the produce and tHiage. 'i;'o wheat trade, which secnied recoveri,.i(, 'mm its pro.tration, has not improved, the country n)nrkets reporting ijrmcr rates bain rather overborne by those noting a decline, whi!e the state of foreign a¡fvic. haa not been calculated to give anv stimulus to the home trade. Business in corn thrtmghout Europe has been very dull, though with lit- tle variation in prices since our 1-ist. the gpccuia'ive spirit not bJing yet resumed France is slightly lower; but the batance ot a year's trale in tuat country oniy shows about 700,000 quarters in favour of experts. This occurring on ttie atmost unprecedented crop of 18-,57, iL'avcs it donbtfu!, after the avertge crop 6f 1SJ8, whe- ther there will be any sutplm export, the resumption of free imports strengthening the idea. The uncertainty, however, of imperial t oticy acts as an incubus on the corn trade In Pra;x;f, !.nd through, the unsteadim'Sj oi that government all ca.leuiations are frustr.tted llGrc. New York shows some iurther deciine, but the high price of fine ilnur there—viz, for extrd Genneaseeq'ial to 42a 6d per sack English—speaks but !n.:le for the abundanae of fine wheat, and the lower quatities seem more fit for turtung into pork than sending on direct to this country.

THE REV. W. SMITH.—e h&ve he.trd. upon what we cjnsider to be voy good authority, says the Buatol Times," that thij unhappy man, whose thai and con- vtetioti fnr the httack on Leach created so much scnsa- t!)n at the GIcoibeatcr spring lI.siz()s. dn;d o)i Wedncsda.y last, at i,ew,s, to wlnuti place he was removed, Oti his way to Bermuda, where it was intended be ahuu)d spend the term of his servitude. It will be remembered that at the titna of his conviction he wa.a pronounced by his medical attendant to be in a precarioili amte of health, and showing symptoms of pulmoauy disease; but the reuresem.atiuns <*< hia triHndd werj Set aside by the &U. thorities. So ends this sad wretched story of imprmJence, pcMrion, sin, and suffering in the unhappy career to which death is the iaat chapter. Mrs. Snm.h and the chitdren ani provided tor by the fi-if-Tidi of her husband. NEARLY 70 PEKSOXS PuISOXED AT DuADFORD.—One of the most awful occurrences ever knowu m Yo.k- shiro, or in the country, from the Ignorant use of poison, took place in Bradford, on SatLrday, the results of which are being still hourly extended. About a fortnight ago Mr Net', a wholesale confectioner, residing m C}tone- a'.reet. Minor Row, pur.'basfd what he then understood to be 121b. of what is technically termed daft," or "daS," a material brought from Derbyshire, and it ap- psars, used as an adultorativu in the composition of mint lozenges, and the party from whom this was purchased was a Mr. iiodgaon, a druggist at Shiploy, near Urad- f"rù. MrIIodgson, however, was at the time in bed indisposed; and when his assistant, a young man named Wildam Coddard, 19 years of age, applied to him for in- structions. he directed him to take tue daft" from a certain cask. Fur anytbin that was then known, the druggist now aays the proper material waj given, and subsequently the material was, with other ingredients, manufactured into large lozenges by Mr Neil, the a hole amounting to 40lb. which had been delivered to a retail dealer, named Hardaker, who resides at North Wing, Wapping', and has a stall in the Green Market, where he sold these and other sweetmeats on Saturday after- noon and evening last. Many persona purchased a por- tion of these lozenges, and not only partook of them, themselves, but distributed them among their children, after which all who had thus consumed them fell sick and on Sunday morning information was given at the police that two had died. The chief constable Mr Le. veratt, at that time did not know of the lozenges, and did not suspect that children had been poisoned, buL when other deaths were reported in the course of the evening, he caused instant inquiries to be made, and on Lamina that all who had partaken of the lozenges had been seized with iUnej?, the parties who had sold them were soon found out, and detectives Burmston and Shuttleworth placed on the alert, and the former sent to Shipley, to interrogate the druggist, Mr Hodgson. and institute other inquiries. The latter gentleman could not deny that he had sotd—through his assistant, Goddard- the daft." to Mr Neil, and Goddard for security was taken into custody. In the meantime report upon re- port of other deaths and increasing sickness was given at the police-omce, and surgeons wcfe everywhere in request, some of whom at first felt inclined to think that the illness was cholera, but soon it was ascertained, especially by Air J N Terry, surgeon, who partook of one of the lozenges, that it was full of arsenic, and that loz. of them was suiEcient to cause the death of 12 persona. What antidotes could then be applied n'ore In all such eases, where known in time, administered and the deaths of many persons averted At the same tima Mr Leveratt ordered the night police, who were going on duty at 9 o'clock, to give warning to all per- sons, in every street in their various beats, who might hovo purchased any of the poisonous sweets to give them to the police, or deliver them up at the police- station. Thirty-six pounds of them were also found on the premnca of thort:tjil dealer, Hardaker Mr Lever- att also took the judicious precaution of sending two bellmen through all the streets of the town, from 11 tilt 5 o'clock, warning the Inhabitants of the extent of the evil, so far as known, and thus aroused thousands frnm their sleep. Mr Pawson. printer, was also aroused at midnight, in order to print a placard drawn up by the chief constable, cautioning the public, who might still possess such. lozenges, against using them, and pointing out their already futal etfccts. These were soon upon the walls, and distributed in the country, and through all the out-townsbips, and were seen early in the morn- ing. Thus every possible ptecaution to check the pro- gress of the poison-plague was put in operation, but the calamity, nevertheless, is awful, and already the deaths of thirteen have been reported in the borough, at Lr¡w Moor, at Tyersal), at IIeaton Sykc. and ono at East Arda- ley; whilst nearly nfty in the borough and out.-town- ships. and the surrounding districts are still severely, and several more, it is feare' fatally, saffoi-in- from the enccts of the poison. Of these, no fewer than nine are at Low Moor, and as mquy aa seven ia Fagley Line. Other cases of death and sickness are being almost hourly reported. SUICIDE or A MAN IN A WELL.—The vicinity of Cor scy Close Gardens, Nottingham, was thrown in a state ut great excitement 00 Thursday evening by the intelligence that a sick man, who lived in a sort of summer-house in one of the garden? close by the road, had mysteriously disap- peared outof his bed during the absence of hn wtfd for a few minutes, and could nowhere be fouftd. The unfor- tunate man was named John Robert Richardson, a lace- maker, about 27 years of age, and had only been married three weeka. For seven or eight days previously he had been ni of fever, and confined to tns ueu, bemg medically attended by Mr. Bonroe. About seven o'cioek, on Thurs- day evening', his wife left him atone in the home. She was scareeiy more than live minutes absent, but when she re- turned the bed was empty. It teemed that in his <!e)irinm the unhappy man nang himself down a well, in which his dead body was shortly fonnd. TUB LATB DUCHESS O? Q.UEENSDEKRY.—When iu Scotland, the Duchess always dressed herself In the garb of a peasant girt. This she seems to have done in order to ridicule and put out of countenance the atate)y dretsee and demeanour of the Scottish gentlewomen who visited her. One evening some country ladies paid her a visit, dressed in their best brocades. She proposed a watk, and they were, of course, under the disagreeable necessitf of trooping off in all the sptendor of full dress, to the utter iliseomfiture of their starehed-np trits and nonnces. Her Grace, at last pretended to be tired, sat down upon the dirtiest danghiU she could nnd, at the end of a farm- house, aud iuvited the poor draggled n'ie lades to seat themselves around her. They stood so n.uch in awe of her, that they durst. not. refuse. Sue had the oxquisi e satM. faction of spoiling all their silka. Let womankind con- ceive (as only womankind can) the rage &ud spite that must have possessed their bosoms, and the battery of femde tongues that must have opened upon her grace, so soon as they were free from the restraint of her pre. sence.—CoMf< Circular. MR SpPRGEOf AND HIS NEW TABERNACLE.—Thia popular preacher is so far recovered from his svere in- disposition that it is expected he will resume his minus. terial labours at the Surrey Music Halt on Sunday next. He is rapidly gaining strength, and may be pronounced nearly convalescent. Messrs. Oiney and Winger, the treasurers of the fund for the erection of a large taber- nacle for Mr. Spurs:eon, after having paid X5,400 for a piece of ground opposite the Elephant and Castle, South. warb. have between .63,000 and ;&4,000 left at the bnnkeM. To complete the building they want some thousands of pounds more than they have in band and to remind their friends, they have erected a large board on the site. soliciting donation?. Many promises have been made by Mr. Spurgeon's friends to contribute large' ly when the work is commenced. Now that arranse meats have been made to speedily begin the undertaking it is earnestly hoped that the expectations of the com- mitttee may be realised. Mr. Cook has undertaken to act as hon. secretary, and to receive, at New Park. street Chapel, any suma that may be forwarded for the purpose. EXf'LOSMN OF THE 1301LER OP A STEAMER, AND Loss OP LUE.-While the stumer Weaue, which has been emptoyed for sometime between the Canal end the basin MdtheSamphier Roada, where the Limerick and Iondon Steamship Company's vessets anchor.wat in the act of tow- !ng a schooner from the Samphier up the Channel, a little before mght fall, the boiler of. the steamer exploded, and the Hrcman whose name was Hannagan, a Limerick m<n, was btown away, or, it may be, is .till tacked up i.the eng.ne roon), as the vessel suck about three teet, and shortly after went down entirely. The captain's son wao btown into the water with some others of the crew, but ptcked up by the schooner's people, several of whom were severe!y injured by the splinters of the Weazle. She was only after returning from Limerick, where she had been repaired, and was the property of shareholders in this town in connection with the Limerick Company, whose vessels by their connection with this p<rt for the last year have done a very good business. She cost £1,000, and was bought on the Clyde a short time since, and I am etad to find she it insurBd;—J)at7y -Express. At the Farnham petty sessions, on Friday, 'William Bacon, aMilor,.of .Bagshot, was.-sentenced to three months' imprisonment for cruel treatment of a horse It was proved that he had dtiven the animal till it fell from sheer exhaustion, and, after having kicked and cudgelled it in the moat savage manner, lelt it to die on the roadside. The Admiralty have appointed Capt. G. W. Preedy to the Lia'ey, commiaaion