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MULTUM TN PARYO. 1 It is probable that King George of Hanover will soon ePair to England. ^li-. Coward has been appointed organist to the Sacred i&i'monie Society, in place of Mr. Brownsmith. The Paris correspondent of the Times assert^ the stato the Emperor's health continues to cause uneasiness. Captain Sherard Osborn has been nominated a mem- E?1" of the Ordnance Select Committee, vice Captain Key. A request has been forwarded from France to know Droceis of making the chillfd steel for Palliser's pro- stiles. A life of Junius Brutus Booth, father of the assassin, has been published at New York, written by his daughter. The Rev. George Huntington, M.A., has been ap- pointed one of the domestic chaplains of the Earl ot Crawford and Balcarres. The Times, says Lord Cowley has withdrawn his in- nded resignation of the Paris Embassy, and will con- tlnue at his post some months longer. It is now stated that the Queen will leave Balmoral in ?pout a fortnight, instead of extending her stay to the 2nd November, as was a' one ^me intended. One of the oldest women in America is a Mrs. Porch, who lives in the mountains of East Tennessee, and is aged 121 years. Her memory is unimpaired. The Spanish government has taken the first step to- wards the abolition of slavery, in liberating all blacks who may be landed on the territory of the Peninsula. Earl Russell will set out at the end of the present inonth for Italy, and lie will visit Milan, Florence, and eince, but there is no foundation for the statement that lie will visit Rome. Lord Chesham has just presented to the Nuisance Re- ua 1; moval Committee at Chesham a valuable plot of ground to build a cottage hospital," and has supplemented his gift by a donation of £200. A new edition of Dr. Lardner's work on the electric telegraph is announced for publication, revised and re- written by Mr. E. B. Bright, secretary of the British and a Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company. A monumental brass, designed by Mr. Butterfield, is (says the ^nli^bury .Journal) about to be placed in the ^aunel of Hursley Church,to perpetuate the memory ot *he author of the Christian Year." A, It is said that the King of Prussia is so pleased with letters from his army, written by Captain Uoxier, correspondent of the Times, that he proposes to con- Upon the journalists an honorary decoration. R A new daily journal has appeared in Vienna, price one fifth of a penny. This paper is a Government organ, lntended for distribution amongst the people. It is Printed on good paper, aud contains eight pages 4to. BANK OF UPPER CANADA.-The Times says It seems to be probable that the creditors will be paid, but great doubts are entertained as to the fate of the stockholders, who are all liable for twice the amount of their hold- ings. Mr. A. T. Stewart, of New York, enjoys a larger in- come than any of the crowned heads of Europe. The Home Journal says, if he goes on prospering as he has done lately, ten years hence he will be worth more than one hundred millions of dollars. The railway between Calcutta and Bombay is about 1.000 miles long, and is traveised by trains in abou four days. The only through traffic at present consists of mails and cargo. European passengers cannot travel the whole distance on account of the heat. A few nights ago the Pope went to the Pretorian Camp at the Villa Macao for the purpose of seeing the Papal legion manoeuvre and give it his blessing. The officers, one after the other, kissed the Pope's hand and the Pope rising in his throne blessed each company as it passed. In a convocation holden at Oxford on Monday, the Rev. Francis Knyvett Leighton, DD., warden of all Souls College, was nominated by the Chancellor, the Earl of Derby,' to succeed the Rev. John Prideaux Lightfoot, D.D., rector of Exeter College, whose four years of office terminated. From private letters received from Brazil, the Bra- zilians appear to be heartily tired of the war. A battle was to be fought about the nth ultimo, which was ex- pected to be the final one. The conscription was most unpopular, and rebellion was expected if the war con- tinued much longer. We learn from Holland that the rinderpest broke out again on Saturday in the provinces Frieslane and Gron- ingen. On one farm twenty-eight beasts were attacked, of which five died and the remainder were slaughtered. The most stringent measure are being taken to prevent the spread of the disease. John William Woods, a clerk at the bank of Messrs. Barnett, Hoare, and Co., was finally examined on Friday on the charge of stealing a £100 note, which passed into his hands while engaged in his ordinary avocations. No new facts were elicited, and the accused was committed for trial, the Lord Mayor declining to take bail. John Brannon has been conductor on the Sandu-ky and Cincinnati Railroad for 16 years, and during all that time he has never lost a day from his train. He makes the run of the road, 155 miles, every day, or 50,530 miles a year. The number of miles he has run since he went on the road is 808,480, or about 32 times the circumfer- ence of the earth. The Florence official Gazette has announced that the Mont Cenis road is again open, but this applies only to the mails, which are carried on muleback from St. Jean de Maurienne to Lanslebourg. Concerning the Simplo'n route, a letter from Switzerland says that in certain places travellers have to aliglit and walk. The probabi- lities are, however, that it will before long have been made good again. The municipalty of Brussels is now engaged in the preparation of shaded maps, showing by tints of various depths the number of deaths during the recent epidemic in various parts of the town. It is also proposed to ex- tend this to the previous epidemics. The object is to show in a clearer manner than by numerical tables the unhealthy districts and, if possible, to discover and re- move the cause of such unhealthiness. A few days ago the steeple of a Roman Catholic Cath edral at Stockholm fell in while the men were at work Upon it, dreadfully injuring some twenty of the labour- ers- Much sympathy has been shown for the uhfortu- nate men The Lutheran pastor placed his church at the disposal of the Roman Catholics, and on the follow- ing Sunday the Roman Catholic Bishop officiated with- in the walls of the Protestant Church RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN DKNMARK. The new con- stitution of Denmark, granting full liberty of worship, Provides that no one is to be compelled to contribute to the support of a church of which lie disapproves, but that every individual who does not show that he is the member of some religious community in the country must pay towards public education in the personal con- tributions imposed by the law in favour of the national church. MONSTER HONEYCOMB.-As Master Roche, a son of Mr. James Roche, of this town, was engaged in a room of Norwood House, on Tuesday evening, his attention was directed to the floor by a swarm of bees, and upon closer examination he discovered under the timber floor- ing a mass of honey, weighing over 120tb, the fruits of many years' industry of the busy insects.- The proper precautions having been taken, the monster honeycomb was made secure by the fortunate finder.-Nenagh Guar. dian. At the Bishopsgate Vestry, held last week, the fol- lowing resolution was carried: That this vestry re- nupsts the churchwardens, in making their presentment ♦ a tl,o ttishou of London, at the forthcoming visitation, + 1,1- Luidship the expression of their feelings !r*°V,Vtfy„ L' f the er*a c:tl,vd by the n une of Athai.a- t uit t ie 0 a considerable number of the mein- BIUS is; an O England, and tenvla to keep fioia the pale of her communion many who would gladly unito on her otherwise catholic bases. AGRA AND MASTKRMAN'S INDIAN BRANCH. — The Times says it is understood that a plan will be promul- gated for the resuscitation of the Indian poition of the Ajrra and Masterinan's Bank, The liquidation has thus far proceeded in a manner to revive the hopes of the shareholders that they may save a considerable porbon of their property, and the scheme now about to be submitted will, it is believed, be such as to command the cordial concurrence both of shareholders and credi- tors. THE COURT ON DEKSIDK. — Her Majesty attended divine service in the parish church on Sunday. Accom- panying the Queen were the Princess Louise, Prince and Princess Christian, and Prince Arthur. In attendance upon Her Majesty were the Marchioness of Ely, lady-in- waiting; General Hood, Hon. Miss Cathcart, General Gray, Misses Gray, Dr. Jenner, &c. The church was not quite filled. Dr. Lee, of Edinburgh, officiated. The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale attended the Catholic ser- vice at the chapel in Braemar.—Scotsman. MANNING THE NAVY.—The naval editor of the Times says :—The supply of seamen has at length reached what appears to be the minimum point, no man being now available for the immediate commission and man- ning of any one ship in either of the great ports of outfit. The Mersey frigate is waiting commission at Ports- mouth, but there are no men for her, and supposing she were to be required to proceed to sea within forty-eight hours' notice, her crew of seamen could not be supplied to her from the usual legitimate sources, even were the wholu of our home norta laid under contribution. The Brothers Davenport are in Holland, but they ap- pear to meet with very little success. A stroet juggler has come forward as a rival, and threatens to reveal their secret. Mr. Thomas Young, an English gentleman, has been appointed to the chair of English Literature in the Queen's College, Belfast, vacant by the death of the late Professor Craik. In a letter declining to attend a reform meeting at Aberdeen, Mr. Bright says:—"I can make no further en- gagements than those I have already made; and these I feel to be a burden which I am not wise in taking upon myself. If I attempted to attend half the meetings to which I am invited, I should utterly break down befo, e thameetinc.of. Paiiiamont," ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM THE SCARBOROUOH GAOl,Considerablo excitement was caused amongst the officers of the gaol at Scarborough, on Monday morn- ing, by the discovery of the escape of a prisoner. The man's name is Edgar; and he was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour for uttering counterfeit com at Scarborough ia July last. He appears to have effected his escape in a comparatively easy manner. In the door of the cell is a small wicket, fastening with a spring lock The prisoner is now known to have had an old broke palette knife secreted in his cell; and with tins lie has forced the spring lock. Putting his arm through the opening, he has easily removed the common screws by Xich the two locks of the doorwerefastenedontue outside. In a similar way, with his broken knife, he had removed the lock of an outer door, which gave him access into a closed yard or shed. The removal of a tew bricks would soon be accomplished, and then availing himself of a long pole which happened to be in the outei yard, he reached the top of the wall, a heap of rnacada„i- bed stones in one corner greatly facilitating the w oA. With a body belt, two pocket-handkerchiefs, and some leather straps, he had made a rope, and, fastening tins to the brick work with his knife, he had lowered himself into the street and got off. The escape happened during the night, and it is supposed Edgar had had the help of another prisoner. EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLIERY MAN- AGER—On Monday, at the Barnsley Police-court, before Mr. F. E. Taylor, John Clarkson Sutcliffe, manager at the North Gawber Colliery, was brought up on remand charged with embezzling certain money belonging to his employers, the late Richard Thorp and Co Mr. W. H Peacock appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Gill, of Wakefield, for the prisoner. The advocate for the pro- secution said that the accountant had not yet completed his labours, and he should, therefore, be under the neces- sity of asking for a further remand. Mr. Gill, on be- half of the prisoner, then asked that his client might be liberated on bail. Mr. Peacock objected to bail on account of the enormity of the defalcations and in re- ply to the magistrate said that up to Friday last the defalcations amounted to £4,200 and odd. The account- ant had got about half-way through the accounts, and that sum might be augmented. The magistrate said that assuming that the defalcations were now nearly £5,000, it was possible that in going through the other half (,f the accounts the sum might be doubled. He should not be disposed to accept less than t:iO,(JOO bail. Mr. Gill said it was a larger amount than had ever been asked for. The magistrate It is perhaps the first time the defalcations have been so large. The prisoner was further remanded to Monday next, bail being fixed at £10,000. The case has excited considerable interest in the town and neighbourhood, owing to the respectable position of the accused. The court was densely crowded by all classes of persons. SELF ACCUSATION OF EMBEZZLING ^1,200.—At the Mansion House, on Monday, Thomas Denham, a middle- aged man, was charged before the Lord Mayor, on his own confession, with stealing < £ 1,200. Elijah Gale, a city police-constable, deposed that about twenty minutes to two o'clock on Monday morning he was on duty at Bis- hops-gate police station, when the prisoner came there and said he wished to give himself up for embezzlement. He said he had been in the service of a provision mer- chant named Hathaway, at St. John's, New Brunswick, as clerk and general manager that he left about r ebru- ary, 1862, and at different times while there embezzled money amounting in all to £ 1,000. He said that about the 7th of June, 1864, he was in the employ of a Mr. Graves in St. John's, as clerk, and then embezzled X200 in one sum- He left the colony and came to England, where lie remained for a few weeks, and then sailed to the Cape of Good Hope, residing for some time at Algoa Bay. There he spent the whole of the money, and then worked his passage back to England in a sailing vessel, arriving in August last, and he had since been living on the money he had so earned, but that being now exhausted, lie was homeless and destitute; he was not able to sleep at nights, and he had resolved to give himself up to justice. He added that he had a wife and four children in St. John a, but that he had not communicated with them since he absconded. The, prisoner, in answer to the bench, said all that the constable had stated was true. The Lord Mayor, being unable in law to detain him under the cir- cumstances, bound the prisoner over to appear again there in a month. THE DOWAGER DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S WILL. Probate of the will of the Most Noble Charlotte 21orenta Duchess Dowager of Northumberland, late of Mount Lebanon, Twickenham, was granted by her Ma- jesty's Court of Probate on the 28th ult., to the Right Hon. Edward James Earl of Powis, of Powis Castle, in Montgomeryshire, and Sir Hugh Williams, Bart., of Bo- delwyddan, Flintshire, the trustees and executors. The personalty was sworn under .f 30,000. Her Grace was the third daughter of the first Earl of Powis and the relict of the late Hugh Percy, KG., third Duke of Northumber- land, who died in 184", without issue. Her Grace was formerly preceptress to Her Majesty, and died at the age of 79, having executed her will March 3, 1863, with two codicils, dated May and February, 1865. The will contains many bequests. To each of her godchildren she leaves a legacy of < £ '500 and to several of her relatives and friends small legacies varying in amount; and to some she leaves a cabinet or table ornament,to be selected by her niece, Lady Williams. ToLadyWilliams she leaves her diamond watch, the chain of diamonds and pearls be- longing to it, and the seals. To the Earl of Powis she bequeaths the Sevres cups taken at Seringapatam. The vase given to Her Grace by the ladies of Ireland (her husband having been Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland) she intended for Algernon the late Duke of Northumberland. Many other specific bequests are given to various par- ties. To her medical friend, Mr. H. G. Day, of Isle- worth, £500; to her agent, Mr. Thomas Williams, X200 to her personal maid, Elizabeth Elphick, X200 to each servant £100 for every ten years they had been in her service (her coachman will bo entitled to £300) to those who have been under ten one year's wages. All legacies to be paid free of duty. The residue of her per- sonal estate to be divided between her niece, Henrietta Charlotte (the wife of her executor, Sir Iluirh Williams, and only daughter of the late Sir Watkin Williams Wynn Bart.), and her nephew, the Hon. George Herbert Wind. sor-Clive, the son of Baroness Windsor and the late Hon. R. H. Clive. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF ASSAULT IN A CHURCH. -At the East Riding monthly sessions held at Norton, on Saturday, the singular case of Sollett v. Rispin was heard before a full bench. Air. James Sollett, the com- plainant, is a farmer at Mennithorpe, and was represen- ted by Mr. Jennings, solicitor, Pickering. Mr. James Hodgson Rispin is another farmer, at the same place, and was defended by Mr. Dale, solicitor, of York. Both are parishioners of Westow, East Riding. Mr. R. W. Wilson, of Malton, solicitor, watched the case for the Rev. Mr. Kitchin, the vicar. It appears that a year or two back Westow Church was partially rebuilt, and en- tirely re-seated, open stalls replacing the old square pews. The seats were understood to be all free, but certain stalls had been appointed by the vicar to the families who had regularly attended the church, and it seems by mistake the same seat had been allotted to both the complainant and the defendant, and had been occupied by them. On Sunday afternoon, the 5th of August last, the parties met at the church, and as both claimed the seat, a collision ensued, and after the service some high words eusued in the church-yard. The plaintiff, Mr. Sollett, it seems, went to church accom- panied by his mother, brother, and two sisters, and oc- cupied tue seat in question, the five quite filling the stall. The plaintiff sat at the entrance.lbont ifve minut.-s before tlie service commenced, Vl.. Rispin and I", In-other came in the former according to plauititi's evi- dence, after being told that the seat was full, seized Mr. Sollett by theciiiii, forcing his nails into the flesh, throw- ing his head back, and threatened at the time to pull complainant's nose olf." He pushed on and squeezed himself down between Mrs. and Miss Sollett, making use of a rude remark to the lady. They sat thus till after service, when an altercation took place in the church- yard, the defendant asserting his right to the pew if there Were "forty people in it." At the time of assault there were plenty of empty seats near. The vicar had endeavoured to get this matter settled by a compromise, but had failed. The complainant's case was supported by three witnesses, who were in the church at the time. The defence was that the pew was allotted to Ris- pin in the first instance, and was afterwards by mistake given to Sollett and that the assault, if committed, was one in the exercise of the right, and that the ques- tion was as to the amount of violence used. Mr. Dale would not address the bench, but called on Mr. Rispin to state his own case. He said there was room in the pew, but that Sollett said, "Thou's not coming in here," and put up his foot and leaned forward to prevent his entrance. Defendant then laid his hand upon him and pushed him back, sufficiently to enter, but denied having injured his chin, or used any offensive expressions. De- fendant's brother and two other witnesses supported hi& evidence—in fact the statements of the two sets of wit- nesses were quite opposed, the' plaintiff's side represent- ing that a disturbance had occurred, and the other that no one out of the pew heard what passed. The bench retired, and afterwards said they had come to the con- clusion that undue violence had been used, and defend- ant was not justified in forcing his way into the seat. They should inflict, however, the smallest fine, viz., 6d. and only. -—— The Senate of the VJTIOCTI s oTrrvBrsicyin ireiana nas, by a majority, accepted the supplemental charter for the affiliation of the Catholic university, but it is asserted that the advocates of the old mixed system will apply for an injunction to restrain the Senate from granting degrees under the new charter. At the Bow-street police-court on Friday, a man named Edward John Braisher was charged with perjury. On the 6th of April last, defendant made a composition with his creditors and in July he was made a bankrupt on his own petition. The affidavits made by the prisoner in these transactions contained statements alleged to he false and fraudulent, by which certain of his creditors had been cheated out of their money. The magistrate committed the accused for trial. A sad case of embezzlement arising out of the prac- tice of betting came before the magistrates at Bow-street, on Friday. The accused, whose name is Heath, was the manager of the Oxford-street branch of an extensive coal business, and was charged with defalcations to a large amount. It then turned out that he had been en- gaged in betting speculations for a long time past, and that he had been systematically falsifying the books ever since last November to conceal his peculations. A CHILD POISONED BY FUNGI.—An inquest was held on Saturday, by the City Coroner, respecting the death of Thomas Duffield Orr, Chestnut street, Waterloo road, aged five years, the son of a commercial traveller. From the evidence of his mother, and grand mother, it appear- ed that the deceased fell sick about midnight on Wed- nesday. He was afterwards seized with convulsions, and between four and five o'clock on the following morn- ing lie died. He had previously been seen with a r.um ber of fungi, and he had stated, though as he afterwards alleged in joke, that he had eaten some of them. His mother had seen him eating a yellow flower and told him that the fungi were poisonous, but the deceased replied that they were mushrooms. A post examina- tion of the body was made by a surgeon, who said he had no doubt the deceased had been poisoned by fungi.-A. verdict in accordance with these facts was returned. MR. BRAND AND THE REFORM AGITATION. — Mr. Brand, M.P., the well-known secretary to the Treasury in the Governments of Lord Palmerstoa and Lord Rus- sell, has declined an invitation to attend the reform banquet in Manchester next month. He says :—" I hold it to be my duty as a Liberal member of Parlia- ment to wait and watch the action of the present Gov- ernment with respect to the reform question. Three courses are open to Government -1. They may decline to deal with the reform question at a'l. 2. They may propose an illusory or pernicious measure. 3. They may propose a measure, if not good, at least capable of being made so. It seems to me that the line to be taken by the Liberal party is clear. If the Government tuke the last and best course, we ought to support the second reading of their bill, and endeavour to improve it in Committee. On the other hand, if the Government take either the first or second course, it will be for Par- liament to pass judgment upon them. KNIOHTET CAPTAINS IN THE MERCHANT SERVICE.— Captain Anderson, of the Great Eastern, will not be the Erst knight who has held a command in the merchant service. Previous to Maximilian going to Mexico, a large fleet of steam ships was employed in transporting troops from France and Austria to Vera Cruz, and amongst the steamers were several Liverpool ships. One of these, named the Peruvian, has sailed from Liverpool this week, for Boston and Philadelphia, under the com- mand of Sir Joseph Glover. This is the first merchant vessel we believe that ever sailed from Liverpool, whose commander bore the honour of knighthood. It was the Peruvian that carried from Trieste a portion of the troops forming the Emperor Maximilian's body guard, and so pleased was the Emperor with Captain Glover's services that, on the transport service being dissolved, he knighted him, and also conferred upon him the addi- tional honour of the Order of Leopold. Sir Jos. Glovei and Sir James Anderson are at present the only twc merchant knight-captains in the service. WINDSOR CASTLE.—The removal of the grand stair- case has been completed, portions of which will be used in the construction of the new staircase, the steps not being in the least worn. The foundations of the in- tended new approach to the State Apartments have been laid, and blocks of stone upwards of five tons weight have been brought to the North Terrace, which resembles that of a stonemason's yard from the number of me- chanics at work there but the works cannot be com- pleted for several months to come. During the time of this important alteration the public are admitted, in going over these rooms, shown on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, by another entrance, and con- ducted through the rooms by a new route, and through the King's Drawing-room or Rubens' Room, the walls of which are adorned by some fine paintings of this great- master, and also through the Throne-room, in which are some of the best paintings by Sir Benjamin West. Thest). two rooms, looking into the North Terrace, have until now been closed to the public ever since the Emperor and Empress of the French paid a visit to the Queen at Windsor, when these apartments were attached to the suite of rooms appropriated to their Alajesties. Co art Journal. THE EXPORT IN THR COAL TRADE.—The exports of coal from the United Kingdom appear to be making very great progress this year. Thus, in August, the exports amounted to 1,077,309 tons, as compared with 917,741 tons in August, 186;), and 905,977 tons in August, 1864. In these totals the exports to France figured for 168,369 tons, 137,167 tons, rind 115,593 tons respectively. In the eight months ending August 31 this year, the aggregate quantity of coal exported from the United Kingdom was 6,690,349 tons, as compared with 6,095,51 f> tons in the corresponding period of 18R5, and 5,804,033 tions in the corresponding period of 1868. The ex- ports to France in the first eight months of this year were 1,242,493 tons as compared with 1,065,869 tons in the corresponding period of löG;), and 940,785 tons in the corresponding period of 1864. The exports of coal have increased this year to Russia, Swe- den, Denmark, the Ilanse Towns, Spain, Italy, Brazil, and British India; but they have decreased to Prussia, Holland, and the United States. The value of the coal exported from the United Kingdom in August was £542,238, as compared with £431,769 in August, 1865, and £425,2--9 in August, 1864. For the eight months ending August 31 this year, the total value of the coal exported was £3,39;655, as compared with £2,900,420 in 1865, and £2,720,666 in 1864 (corresponding periods.) -Mining Journal. THE LAST OF THE RKPUBLICAN BLACKBIRDS.—The Paris Sport has the following The last of the re- publican blackbirds of Mondaye (Calvados) has just been shot by an advocate of Bayeux. Those bird;" long cele- brated throughout tho arrondissement, were certainly better known than the persons who have killed them. The remarkable facility with which blackbirds le:irn and retain airs of music is matter of notoriety. In 1848 an ingenious patriot attempted to turn that instinct to ac- count to republicanise the whole wooded grounds of the neighbourhood. He brought up by hand two of the birds in question, taught them for three or four months the Marseillaise, and when he thought their education sufficiently advanced for them to impart < heir talent to the others, he gave them their liberty. The rest of the winged tribe took a fancy to the music of Rouget de l'lisle, and for many years nothing but the Marseillaise was to be heard, At a later period France changed her tune, and the majority of the songsters who had not modified their repertory fell before the shot of the rural guards. One alone escaped the pursuit (,f the authori- ties, and claiming a right of asylum, it took refuge in the gardens of the abbey of Mondaye, where the good monks often listened to its song with a smile. The un- fortunate bird at length one day ventur( d beyond its limits, and paid for its temerity with its life. Time had singularly changed the colour of its black and lustrous plumage. Physically, as well as morally, it had become a merle blanc." THE STOPPAGE OF THE ASIATIC BANKING CORPORA- TteN.—The city article of the London Da ly News says :— Telegrams received in London announce the stoppage at Bombay on the 28th ult. of the Asiatic Ban! ing Corpora- tion. This undertaking, which was established in 1864, has agencies and'bvanehes at Bombay, Calcutt a, Madras, Kandy, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Melhn,une, in addition II) ahead office in London, and it.S liabilities aix-<-N I> >CI I 1 about JC3,500,00< ;><> reliable o.iuia.e el" r..r„, d at pre- sent with regard to the probable lesnit ut the iin.Ut) ttion, but a hope is, expire, sed that the en ditors will be paid in full without any further call being made upon the share- holders, who are about 700 in number, and are liable for double the amount of their shares under the terms of the Royal charter granted to the company. One of the chief shareholders is Mr. Premchund Roychund, who recently failed at Bombay, with liabilities to the amount of two or three millions sterling, and who has been closely con- nected with the bank from its formation. The authori- sed capital is £ "2,000,000, in shares of X20 each of which £ 750,000 is paid up, viz., .f500,000 on the 25,000 original shares, and £250,000 on the 25,000 shares. The new shares, which are now unsaleable, have latterly been quoted on the Stock Exchange list at £ 1 to £ 3 with I £ 10 paid. A distribution has been made to the' pro- prietors at the rate of twenty per cent, per annum, but at the last annual meeting a very unfavourable report was presented, the losses being stated at .C140,000. On the establishment at Bombay of the Back Bay Reclamation Company, of which Mr. Premchund Roychund was the chief promoter, 500 shares in that scheme wei e offered to the government, but refused by them. These shares were subsequently sold by auction, and realised in the mania the almost incredible sum of one million sterling profit, which was lent to the Asiatic Banking Corpora- tion by the Reclamation Company, to be repaid in July next. The position of the Bank has been weak for months past, owing to a constant run upon its resources at Bombay, promoted by the suspension of Mr. Prem- chund Roychund. From the connection of this indivi- dual with nearly all the share speculations in Bombay, it is feared that the bank has also been involved in them to a serious extent. The concern has been managed by a London board, assisted by a local committee at Bom- bay, Maior General Harry Rivers, R.E., formerly consult I ing engineer to the Government of Bombay, has beet appointed agent in India to the Groat Indian Peninsula Railway Company, at a talary, it is said, of £3,000 pei annum. —Globe. Lieut.-Colonel Lloyd Lindsay, M.P., has accepted the post of commandant of the English volunteers about to visit Felgium. The Erglish railway.- it sue return tickets, at reduced fates, as far as Dover, wlieie the volunteers become the guests of the Belgian authorities, and will be franked by them to Brussels, and returned free to Dover when the visit is ended. COMMITTAL OF A MAN UPON A CHAROE OF STAB- BiNG.—On Saturday last, at the Police-court, Derby, William M'Donald, a young man, was brought up on remand, charged with stabbing a nuMican named Hora- tio Mosley. Prosecutor was unable to attend until now. At the time lie stabbed the prosecutor so many times in the face, and when assistance came, he said to a girl named Gibbs, "D you, Poll Cibbs; you have spoilt my fun I meant to have murdered tlie old I have done it, and I'll go quietly to the police office, but let us shake hands." Again, on the way to the police- stationp prisoner solemnly declared to the policeman who had him in custody, that he intended to have mur- dered Mr. Moseley, and his niece (Barbara Walker), if the latter had not run out for assistance. Prisoner had nothing to say to the magistrates, and was committed for trial. THE EARL OF BESSBOROUGH ON AGRICULTURE IN IRELAND.-At the dinner of the Iverk Farming Society, held at Piltown, the Earl of Bessborough presided, and delivered a long speech, in which lie gave the tenant farmers some good advice. He noticed a curious fact— namely that the cattle on some of the mountain districts always excelled the cattle of the lowland districts. He recommended that tillage should be kept up by the far- mer-, on account of the employment it gives the people. The difficulties caused by the climate might be met by care, energy, and forethought. He was anxious that improvement should take place in the social position of the farmers. He wanted to see their houses better fur- nished and better kept. He wanted to see the men more respectable in appearance, and their wives and daughters very clean and nicely dressed. Headmited the farmer's wife more when she wore a nice cloak over her head than with a tawdry bonnet and a silk gown. He wished farmers spent more on themselves and their homes, instead of putting up large fortunes for their daughters. He was glad that his tenants held their farms on such terms as to be able to uo this, and he Was proud that they had such confidence in him that they were not af, aid to let him know that. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—From the annual report of this institution it appears that from Midsum- mer-day, 1865, to Midsummer-day, l1-66, the income of the college amounted to < £ 10,993 7s. 7d., derived prin- cipally from the fees paid by the students for dirilomas, which produced the sum of £ 8,542. 3s. The disburse- ments had amounted to X 12,64 t Is. 4d., of which sum £ '3,610 5s. 6d. was paid in fe.-s to council and examiners. Salaries and wages are nut down at < £ '3,101. 14s. 10d., and pensions, at £ '498 12s. The government and paro- chial authorities have received for stamps, tuxes, and rates, £ 1,130. >-s. Id. In prizes and lectures the council has distributed nearly £200; and in the present and succeeding year, for prizes alone, a sum of £193. 10s. will be offered for competition to the members of the college. The expenditure shows an excess of < £ ^1 647.13s- 9d. over the receipts. Du.ing the pa>t year the court of examiners has held 54 meetings, and ex- amined 20 gentlemen for the fellowships, 'rejecting only one. For the "primary," or anatomical and physio- logical examination, 497 candidates wei-a examined and 136 referred back to their studie. for three months and during the same period 410 candidates were exa" ined for their pass," or surgical and pathological know- ledge, and 64 more were rejected for six months. The midwifery board had held four meetii^s, when 43 can- didates were examined and seven were rejected. For the dental diploma only two candid ites were examined, both of whom passed. Flom an analysis of the list it appears that there are at the present time 1,314 f«i!ows, viz., 324 by examination, 245 honorary, and 745 by election. The members of the college are about 14,721. THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO GKIMSH*W, THB JOCKEY.— The inquest on the body of Grimshaw was held on Thurs- day, at the Globe Inn Paper Mills, near Cambridge, before Mr. Frederick Barlow, coroner for the county of Cambridge. After the usual formalities, the first wit- ness called was Mr. Charles Streten, the deputy chief constable for Cambridgeshire, who deposed 1 have seen the remains of the deceased. They are those of Henry Grimshaw. He was a jockey, and resided at KentforcR House, Suffolk. I should think lie was in the 27th year of his age. I have examined the spot where jgrojipnt occurred, but there is nothing I can relate DeyonxEfKe is a ditch on the right hand side of the road leading to Newmarket, and there is an impression of a wheel going into that ditch there. About five yards further on the wheel would appear to have gone into and out of the ditch again. That would be about 300 yards from the turnpike, on the Newmarket side. The surface of the ground was much disturbed t here, and at the side of the road the grass was much beaten down. The gatekeeper pointed out the spot to we as that where he found the deceased. I know Grimshaw was near-sighted. Apparently there was no vehicle com- ing in the opposite direction. It was very dark in the early part of last night. It would appear to have been about a quarter to one when the accident took place.— Matthias Turton, tollgate-keeper, said I keep the Paper Mills gate. This morning, about twenty minutes to one, I saw deceased pass through the gate. He was riding in a dog-cart drawn by one horse. The deceased was in the cart whipping the horse, and the groom was on foot. The servant appeared to me to be trying to persuade deceased to let him get in and drive. I heard the se, vant say, Let me get in," and deceased, who was then whipping the horse, said, No, you —— I shall not let you drive it is my own horse and gig, and I shall please myself. There were lamps to the dog-carl.. I watched it go for about 50 or 60 yards. I cannot ay whether the groom got in or no. All of a sudden thtllaiJip" disappeared, and I heard a crash. I waited a shoit t ime and all was quite still, and then I ran up. I found the dog-cart topsy- turvy in the ditch wheel upwards, I mean. The groom was lying about two yards off insensible. He was on his back in the ditch. The horse was on its back in the ditch, quite still. I eat-, hed about, and at last found something lying under the back of the dog-cart. It was the deceased. I tried to extricate him, but finding it was no use I went be. k for a hgnt. As I was turning from the deceased I met Mr. Rowley. He was coming as I went for the light. vv hen I jrotthe light I went back. Mr. Rowley waited for me, and I held his horse. All was still then. A man named Leeland came up, and at last deceased was got out, but lie appeared quite dead. Leeland took hold of the cart wheels and raised them. The horse was stiilin the same position in the ditch when I went back as when T started to fetch the light.—Mr. Smith Rowley deposed,—1 live at Histon. Yesterday I had been at Horningsea, and was on my return home. I passed through the side gate about a quarter to one. The woman at the gate said something to me, and in consequence I went up the Newmarket- road. The last witness met me and went on for a light. When 1 got up to tlie spot of the accident, I yaw a dog- oart half in the ditch and half out. 1 heard no struggling or moaning. After a minute or two Leeland came up. We cut the traces, thinking the deceased was under the horse. The horse lay quiet. We pulled the wheel off the body. I crept under the cart, pulled two or three rugs on one side, and saw the deceased. He was lying full length, except his left leg, which was doubled up. I moved the leg so that I could pull him back. I lifted him up and laid him on the bank, and then untied his neckerchief and several wrappers he had on. He showed. no signs of life. His arm moved, but it was not a life movement. I found the groom sitting in the ditch, about four feet from the dogcart. He had apparently fallen from the oart. I lifted him up and put him on the bank and finally, we brought the deceased and thegro imtothis house.—Richard Nicholson, groom to tne deceased, who appeared with his arm in a sling, said, -I was groom to the deceased. I came by his order to meet him by the Midland train at nine o'clock. I brought hi.- dog-cart. He had been to Northampton. eleft Cambridge a little after twelve o'clock. Tho last hour I heard strike was twelve. The horse was not restive at start jo. The deceased drove. The horse bore off to the left at the side bar, and I got out to lead him on the right ruad as the horse did not answer the rein. I had only broken the horse to harness some two months ago. I knew my master's sight was defective, and 1 then asked him to let me drive. He said he would not, and lashed the horse. He lashed him a little with a light whip. I got in again. The horse was not going faster when I got in. I don't recollect anything then until I was thrown out. In answer to Mr. J. N. Yorke, of Newmarket, solicitor, (who ap- peared for Mrs. Grimshaw), the witness said,—Deceased was driving a thorough-bred horse called Titmouse." Master always would drive when he was with me. I have driven the horse for about eight weeks.—Mr. Geo. Bor- wick Mead, physician, of Newmarket, said —I was the medical attendant of the deceased. He was very near- sighted. He was afflicted with conical cornea. In sign- ing his name lie would have to put his eyes close to the paper, and sign as it were, with his head on one side, there was a disposition for that affliction to increase. I never noticed any disposition towards fits.-Dr. Robert Ranson, of Jesus-lane, Cambridge, said,—I was called up about one o'clock. Messrs. Rowley and Bass rang me "P> and Mr. Rowley drove me up with the constable Bass. When I reached the spot I found the deceased a few yards from the dog-cart on the side of the road. He was warm but was quite dead. The cauge of death, in all probability, was concussion of the braiXt. There were no bones broken. Effusion of the brain might have taken place, though it could not be discovered by exterior ex- amination. Death doubtless resulted from one or other of the causes I -have stated.—The Coroner summed up strongly in favour of a verdict of "Accidental Death," and the jury without hesitation found a verdict to that € ect. It was stated that the deceased hadbeetien- gaged to ride Gladiateur io •aoeoa Sunday A PROMPT JUDGMENT.—A Swede, named Rosencrist. was arrested at Chicago, and charged with theft. On being accused he stoutly denied the theft; but, finding no credence was given to the denial, he suddenly grew more passionate, and, lifting up his hands towards hea- ven, exclaimed that be hoped his tongue would rot in his mouth, his head drop from his shoulders, and God strike him dead on the spot" if he was guilty. No sooner had these words escaped his lips than he suddenly began to reel and stagger, and before any support could be givea lie fell to the nooE—deH.d. THE ROBBERY OF GOVERNMENT ARMS BY FENIANS.— At the Liverpool Police-court, on Saturday, four men, named M. O'Brien, Charles Campbell, William Carey, and Patrick Keeley, were brought up on remand, on a charge of stealing arms belonging to the government. Campbell and Carey, who had been imprisoned for Feni- auisin, in Mountjoy prison, Dublin, were, with the other prisoners, arrested in Liverpool about a fortnight ago, in possession of several oases filled with rifles and other military material. Suspicions being aroused that the rifles had been stolen from the tower and other places, inquiries were made throughout the kingdom, and it then transpired that a quantity of arms were missing from volunteer depots. On Saturday, Sergeant Coe, musketry instruclor to the 25th Middlesex Rifle Volun- teers, John Kane, drill instructor to the 46th Middlesex Rifl-9 Volunteers, and Sergeant Taylor, musketry in- structor to the Surrey Rifles (head quarters at Rother- hithe), identified several rifles found in the possession of the prisoners^ which had been stolen from their depots by missing" members, and produced their books to identify the marks and numbers.-The prisoners were ultimately remanded. VERDICT OF NEGLIGENCE AGAINST A RAILWAY COM- PANY.—An inquest was held on Friday evening, at Etruria, Staffordshire, before Mr. Wm. Bedford, deputy- coroner, on the body of Jane Bailey, aged 51, who had been killed on the previous afternoon near that village, on the North Staffordshire Railway, between Burslem and Newcastle. The crossing is used very much by pe- destrians. On Thursday, deceased was seen to pass through the wicket and down the embankment to the line which she had just crossed, when a passenger train from Burslem, which was five minutes late, caught her and killed her on the soot. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death," with this addition, This jury are of opinion that considering the highly dangerous character of the level crossing at which the said Jane Bailey was killed, and considering further that repre- sentations have been made on the subject to the North Staffordshire Railway Company, and that a fatal acci- dent had already happened at a similar crossing in the immediate locality, which has since been altered, the said North Staffordshire Railway Company have been guilty of negligence in not having already taken some means to secure the:safety of the public." The husband of deceased stating that he was without means to inter the body, Mr. Johnson, one of the railway officials, vol- unteered on behalf of the company to provide a coffin. MANSLAUGHTER AT SCARBOROUGH.—On Friday eve- ning, after two sittings of four hours each, a jury, under the direction of Mr. Robert Collinson, deputy coroner, returned a verdict of manslaughter against William i Goodall, labourer. The circumstances leading to this finding are these :-011 Saturday night, the 22nd ult., Goodall and another young man, named Warton, quar- relied, and they decided to fight. They went to a bye- road near the town, followed by thirty or forty men and lads. After they had had about half-a-dozen rounds, Superintendent Pattison came up, and endeavoured to apprehend them. He succeeded in capturing Warton, whom he caused to be locked up till the following Mon- day morning. On the Sunday morning, a man named Brady was put into the cell with Warton, who, five minutes afterwards, called out to be placed apart from Brady, who was drunk and disorderly. This was im- mediately done. On Monday, Goodall and Warton were brought before the magistrates, and were each fined 7s. 6d., for committing a breach of the peace. The two then went to their work as cab drivers. On Tuesday, the 25th, Walton fell ill, and rapidly becoming worse, he died on the following Sunday. A post-mortem exa- mination of the body was made by Dr. Jackson, who I found the injuries sustained by the deceased to be such as would be received in a fight such as took place between Warton and Goodall. Both men were under the in- fluence of drink. Goodall will take his trial at the next ensuing gaol delivery, at York Castle. A SCOTCHMAN FROM HOME.-At the Liverpool police Iva court on Friday, two men named Joseph Marley and Henry Lloyd were placed in the dock charged with steal- ing a silver verge watch, the property of Robert Bowman, a baker. The prosecutor, who said he was a Scotchman, met the prisoners in Lime-street, on Saturday afternoon, when Marley asked him if he could tell him where he could eell 61bs, of tobacco. He said, I can't tell you; I in a stranger in town." The prisoners asked him to have a glass of ale, and they went together to Williams's beerhouse in Bolton'street. Marley paid for the ale. Lloyd then asked the prosecutor the time. Prosecutor took out his Watch which was worth £3, when Marley took hold of it, saying that it was a very nice one," and wished to know if he (prosecutor) would take a gold chain worth £6 for it. The chain, he said, belonged to a man who had died at sea. The prosecutor declined to exchange his watch, when Lloyd said, Yon had better take it, you can get £ 6 for it, and we will give you a gold ring in the bargain. Prosecutor took the ring and chain to look at therm, when Marley, who had the watch in his pos- session shoved him out of the house. He had since ascertained that the chain and ring were only brass. Mr. Raffles asked the prosecutor if he thought he had got a bargain. Prosecutor said he never thought any- thing about it. He met the prisoners in Bolton-street on the previous evening, and gave them into custody. In answer to the charge, they said they exchanged a brass ring and chain for the watch, but this the prosecutor denied. The prisoners were remanded in order to give an opportunity for the watch being found. FALSE CHARGES AGAINST SERVANT GIRLS.-At the Westminster Police court, London, on Friday, Charlotte Langrish. a respectable looking young woman, presented herself under the following circumstances -About a month ago she was charged with stealing some trifling articles from the house of her mistress, Mrs. Ann Denys of Pavilion house, Sloane street, who described herself as having a private income. Mr. Selfe, after investigating lng the matter, set the accused at liberty upon her entering into her own recognizanses to appear again. Mr. Lewis, of Great Marlborough street, solicitor for the prosecu- trix, now said that when his client gave the prisoner in charge she thought herself fully justified in that course. The case had been adjourned to see if any further evid- ence could be procured, and as it was now felt that there was nothing to justify the magistrate in committing the prisoner for trial, he begged on the part of his client to withdraw the prosecution.—Mr. Smyth, solicitor for the prisoner, said lie had five or six persons now present against the whole of whom Mr. Lewis's client had made similar charges. It was her habit to accuse her servants of felony. A witness was also in court to prove that she had sold the accused one of the articles she was charged with stealing. This respectable young woman had been locked up for hours upon a perfectly groundless charge, and Mrs. Denys might depend upon it that she would have to answer for the false imprisonment in a superior court.—Mr. Selfe observed that when the case was first before him lie believed the accused to be perfectly innoc- ent, and made a note to that eSect.—Mr. Symth Then she leaves this court without the slightest imputation upon her character—Mr. Selfe: There is no evidence whatever against her. A BRACE OF SWINDLERS AT SUNDKXLAND.—The Sun- derland magistrates' court was, on Friday, filled princi- pally with lodging-house keepers-most of them widows — who had been victims of a swindler, who has been having lodgings under the pretence that he was a ship's captain or chief mate, and after obtaining a few days' food and lodging,decamping without paying,and carrying off articles of apparel. He seems to have had a special fancy for shawls, three charges of stealing these articles being preferred by as many different lodging-house keepers. The prisoner had assumed a great variety of names, first as "Capt. Taylor," "Capt. Davis," &c. &c. and appears to belong to Dartmouth. His mode of pro- cedure appears to have been to go to a lodging-house, hire lodgings at a higher rate than the parties asked, and to be exceedingly profuse in hia orders and promises: then >n a few days he invariably decamped. Several most heartless cases in which he had victimised poor widows were proved, and there were not less than a score of these brought to the knowledge of the police. He was also very patronising to the tradesmen. To one he sravn an order for about £ 54 worth of groceries, to another an Older for j £ 40 w-orth of tlie same goods of a draper he ordered £ 1 or £ 8 worth of draperies; but in none of these cases did he succeed in getting credit. Before he went to Sunderland he had carried on the same ne two hard labour for stealing a waistcoat from a shop to which he had the hardihood to return and give an extensive order, when he was recognised bv the o^e chTrge ofWTrTg tlie.waiste°at he had stolen. To wLan l l f °f stealing a shawl he pleaded guilty, but against .0un^ th-U there were so many other charges fW nff decl]ned to plead to any more. For the twf!nC6u Was sen^ t0 gEto1 f°r six months, and for mi rs he was sent for trial at the ensuing sessions.— Case °l swin £ hng is that of a well-dressed young woman, about 26 years of age, who has been making a raid on the benevolent, under pretence that she was the daughter of a Southern States planter, whose estates had been confiscated during the civil war, and who had made her escape to this country with her brother. To those ministers of Scotch churches ahe represented her brother as studying with Dr. MLeod, of Edinburgh, and Dr. Guthrie, of Edinburgh, and that she was herself an artist, and had views of Canada to dispose of. Some of the reverend gentlemen supplied her wants, only to discover that they had been imposed upon. She gave the name of Miss Filmore, and appears to have visited Durham previously, where tihe had been successful in imposing on several medical gentlemen. Her stay in Sunderland has been cut short by the exposure of her imposture, and ghe is supposed to have journeyed southwards* — •^iNiiGHjKNING A ^UD°E.—An unwonted interference with the decorum and dignity of the High Couit oc- curred the other day. A case had just been decided, and Mr. Roberts, the presiding judge, was engaged in some other business, when he was startled by seeing a lighted torch held over his head by some one in the court. On inquiry he found it was the losing party in the suit just decided, who said great injustice had been done to him, and he was now holding a torch to enlighten the court and enable them to administer justice. Mr. Roberts directed he should be fined 50 rupees for con- flv°Urt- v^6!man Pr?«*ded to state his opinion still further, when he was fined 100 rupees. He was taken into custody, and released on the fine beino- n»;,1 —Delhi Gazette. THE EcLirsE OF THE SUN. Dr. G. F. Burder, of Clifton, thus describes the eclipse on Monday :—About 4.25 p.m., by Greenwich time, a slight flattening ap- peared on the sun's western margin, at a point a little above the level of the sun's centre. Almost immedia- tely the flattening became visibly a segment of a circle, and as the segment gradually enlarged it inclined to- wards the upper edge of the sun. The commencement was observed with a telescope of low power. As the eclipse advanced it became a conspicuous object to the u1na?fi^sted eye, and as the sun approached the horizon the haze became sufficiently dense to permit of thepheno- menon being observed even without the protection of smoked or coloured glass. At this stage the appearance of the sun s disc was very striking, and must have ar- rested the attention of many persons who were previously unaware that an eclipse was in progress. About 5.22 p.m. the sun disappeared below the visible horizon, the eclipse reaching its greatest phase (something less than half the sun s diameter) just about the same time. The eclipse was also observed with the naked eye at Glasgow. .THE^ROYAL VISIT TO DUN ROBIN. — Shooting, fishing, drives,.and picnics have formed the leading amusements of the royal and other distinguished visitors at the Castle for the past three days. The weather being all the time very fine, the parties could not fail to enjoy themselves and that they have been doing so is evi- dent from the fact that* their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales are to extend their visit over the greater part of this week. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, accompanied by the Earl and Countess Grosvenor and Hon. Lady Bagot arrived at Dunrobin Castle on Saturday afternoon from Slack Lodge. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prin- cess of Wales, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edin- burgh, their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Suther- land, and a large and distinguished party of visitors at the Castle, attended divine service in the parish church of Golspie on Sunday. The Rev. J. M. Joass, of Eddle- ston, the presentee to the vacant charge of Golspie, of- ficiated.—Scotsman. THR CHOLERA. The Registrar General issued his last daily return of the births and deaths in the London districts, on Monday. This intimation that the cholera is no longer so important as to demand attention to the daily registration of the number of victims will be wel- come to all. On Saturday, there were 38 deaths from cholera, and 10 from diarrhoea. To the last the central and the east districts have retained their unenviable notoriety as standing highest in the cholera lists. On Monday, a fatal case of cholera occurred at Hazel Grove near Stockport. The decrease in the mortality at Liver- pool from cholera has at last become happily so decided that Mr. Satchell, the chairman of the Cholera Preven- tion Committee, was on Tuesday enabled to inform the select vestry that admissions to the cholera sheds would now be discontinued, as there was ample room in the workhouse for the effective treatment of the cases daily reported. As a necessary consequence of this most gratifying state of things, Mr. Satchell also stated that the Committee had given notice to at least one half of their house visitors and medical staff that their services could now be dispensed with. DESTRUCTION OF BRITISH VESSELS IN THE BAHAMAS. —Advices just received in Liverpool from the Bahamas contain intelligence of several disasters to British ves- sels. On the 4th of August, the English barque Trent, bound from Port-au-Prince to Queenstown for orders with a cargo of logwood, went ashore on the Molasses Kefcf, Inagua, and became a total wreck. It was ex- pected that some portion of the cargo would be saved. The John Goodyear, Captain Bromage, bound from London for Sisal and Campeachy, with a valuable gene- ral cargo, bad been reported a total wreck on Brown Water Rock Bar, the Bahamas. The cargo, which was al- most all recovered, had been taken to Nassau, where most of it was sold as slightly damaged and the re- mainder had been forwarded to Sisal and Campeachy, in the British brig Atlantic. On the 28th, the Prince of Wales, bound from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Havana, went ashore on the Rouge Cay Bank, where, after re- maining some time, she was observed by H.M. steamer Nimble, and towed off. As her damages were only of a slight nature, she proceeded on her vovage to Havana. The schooner Mary Ann, also from Halifax to Jamaica, with a general cargo, had become a total wreck on Mar- ignano. Part of th. cargo was saved and taken to In- agua. The Edith, also from Halifax to Jamaica, had been completely wrecked on Crooked Island, north of Bird Rock. The crews of the above vessels are all safe. SHOCKING ACCIDENT ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY. A very serious accident occurred on Sunday evening, the 7th inst., on the Leicester and Hitchin line of the Mid- land Railway Company. There were two engines, one of them disabled on one side, which had been shuntin* some cattle-trucks at Kibworth station, which is ten miles from Leicester. The disabled engine had been in front, and the driver with the other engine had to push it along. The driver of the second engine wished to go first, so as to draw the disabled engine, and for this pur- pose the two break-vans and the disabled engine wera shunted into the siding, which is above the platform, to allow the other engine to go in front. After this was done the driver of the first engine started off at a great pace, and the speed was considerable when he passed the platform, where the fireman of the disabled engine and the two guards were then standing. As the engines were passing the platform the fireman attempted to get on his engine, but missed his footing and fell between the wheels and the platform, but in front of one of the wheels, and was pushed in this state for about 50 yards. Both thighs near to his body were smashed almost to mince meat. His head came in contact with the abut- ments of the bridge near the platform, and for the whols of that distance his head and body were knocked against the ends of the sleepers. The poor fellow presented a. most frightful spectacle when taken up. He was put in- to one of the breaks and taken at once to Leicester In- firmary but little hope is entertained of his recovery The guards did not make any attempt to get into their breaks as the train passed the platform. COUNT BISMARCK AND HIS FRENCH SUPPORTERS — Some weeks ago, M. de Larochejaquelin, senator, as- serted in print th at several Paris journals had been bribed in hard money by Count Bismarck to support the Prus- sian cause. The Siecle denounced this as a calumny Senator Larechejaquelin, called at the Siecle office, and had a conversation with one of the redacteurs, which re- sulted in a note in the Siecle the next day, stating that in consequence of" documents" which M. Larochejaqu- elin, had produced, the Steele retracted the word ^'cal umny. Ever since several papers, and among them the Ave^rZahona have been calling for the documents which satisfied the Siecle, and the allusion to which makes the Siecle a co-hbeller with M. De Larochejaqu- elin, of the French press. For many days the Siecle kept silence, but at length it says that it held M. De Larochejaquelin, as having acted in good faith, incon- sequence of articles published in the Finance, by M. Crampon, and a fragment of a pamphlet by M. Villaume. M. Crampon now treats as a ridiculous affectation of ig- Vierlt +V.°f T if 18 notor'OUs—the assumption of the Siecle that it knows no other justification for M. Do Larochejacquelin's charge than his own and M.Villaume's writings. M Crampon asserts that the fact of certain *1jnC^h j°urnalists of influence having taken Prussian gold, although for fear of the libel laws the details can- not be printed in France, is perfectly well known, and is talked of daily on the Boulevards, in the arcades, in the theatre saloons, in the cafes, on the Bourse, and in the newspaper offices. And the worst of it is, he says, as a sign of the times, that nobody speaks with indig- nation of the corrupt journalists, but rather with envy. FOURTEEN PRISONERS BURNT TO DEATH. — The Toulon journals contain an account of a terrible catas- trophe by fire which has just taken place on Levant Island, one of a group lying at a distance of about ten miles from that port. On the 3rd the authorities at Toulon received information that a revolt had broken out in a penitentiary establishment for youn? eiSminal* established on the island. The weather at sea beiwz" tempestuous, the sending of assistance had to be post- poned until, he following morning, but in the meantime a fearful occurrence had taken place. About 40 young convicts who bad recently arrived in the colony had bro- ken out into insurrection under the pretext that the, were insufficiently fed. The warders were unable to re- press the not, and the lads uniting in a body burst into the storehouse, knocked in the heads of casks of brandy, tore open the cases of sugar and provisions, and then abandoned themselves to a complete orgie. A carboy of petroleum standing near the door of the storehouse was however broken in the confusion the liquid by some un- explained means took fire, and the flames spread to the casks of brandy, oil, and other inflammable articles and stretching across the entrance, cut off the retreat of 14 of the lads. They rushed to the windows, but thesa were seared by strong iron bars. The flames gradually advanced, lessening the space in which the unfortunate rioters were confined, and in a short time the screams and imprecations which had until then been heard amid the confusion became entirely silent, and there was only left the dead bodies. One of the warders, while endea- vouring from the outside to force away the iron bars at the windows, either fell or was thrown into a deep pit, and had his thigh broke. When the vessel arrived with aid from Toulon the premises were still burning, but with the fire engine from the vessel the flames were got under. Older was immediately restored, and an inquiry respect- ing the fatal catastrophe hag boon cotiuiu6B6cd»