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3 THE LANCASTER GAZETTE, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1855. Relics of the Czar Peter, at St. Petersburg. The successors of Peter have abundantly honoured his memory til the city he founded, though some commemorations are not a little puerile and barbaric. The most interesting relic is a small wooden house or cabin, which he occupied during the progress of his grand undertaking.

This is preserved in the neighbourhood of the present citadel, encased within a brick wall, to protect it from decay, through exposure to the weather. It consists of 3 small apartments, which severally served for a bed-room, chapel, and receiving room. They are said to be in the same state as wh left by their extraordinary tenant. Here, too, is preserved the first boat he GONE. THE DEATH OF NICHOLAS, THE ESirETlOR OF ErSSIA.

(By Arthur Sea'ily, Esq.) Gone from earth for ever Gone in one short breath Every pulse contracted la the grasp of death. Furled the battle standard) To his dying gaze Earth's creation fading In a spectral haze. Dimmed the eyes and glassy, In despair upturned Cold the hand and nerveless Which repentance spurned. He, the mighty ruler. By the mighty feared He, at whose menaces, All the earth was stirred ne, whose recreant armies Dared to front the world, In one fleeting moment To destruction hurled.

Gone from dreams of battle, onquest, and renown In the pomp of power Helplessly struck down. "Tis an awful instance Ofthe chastening rod. Which o'ertakes the guilty, Who forget their God. Kingdoms rise and flourish, Years still onward roll But no earthly honours Balance one lost soul 3Utcvari Selections. managed, named the Little Grandsire," with the sails he used, the germ of the now imprisoned Russian navy.

An entire suite of rooms in the Academy of Sciences is appropriated to aD odd collection of commemorative articles. Among other objects, there are his tools, numerous enough "to a very respectable carpenter's shop" various models of his own making, specimens of his turning in ivory, his uniform and ordinary wardrobe, the hat he wore at the battle of Pultowa, with a bullet-hole through it, and the skeleton of the horse he rode in the action. It contains, also, the figures of two of his attendants veritably composed of their stuffed flayed skins, which have all the appearance of having been turned. Both are naked to the loins. One of these hideous and disgusting objects is of giant giant stature, a favourite Holsteiner, 7 feet high the other is a Polish dwarf.

Peter himself is represented in wax, large as life, sitting in an old-fashioned leather-bottomed chair, beneath a canopy of crimson velvet, dressed in the suit he wore at the coronation of his consort. The face is a likeness taken from a cast of the original, when dead, and shaded according to the living complexion. Milner's Baltic. The Mystekious Footprints in Devonshire. Professor Owen has killed another sea serpent with his remorseless anatomy.

As most readers have heard, some mysterious" footprints were observed in the recent snow near Exeter, which the superstition of Devonshireinvesfed with an interest more startling than the footprint found by Crusoe on the sand of the seashore. The maiks of an unrecognized foot, a hoof, were visible for forty iniies at least so the story ran at first in a nearly straight line, showing the track of some being, natural or supernatural, over the snow. The thing seemed to have gone through hedges, walls, and hayricks, and across the Exe, without difficulty and the Devonians being from of old Credulous to false prints, the track was soon known as the Devil's walk. What was most alarming in the maiter was, that the eleven foot appeared to have passed forty miles in one night over the 'snow towards the country house of his Lordship of Exeter! Unhappily for the superstitious, too many tongues got talking cn the subject before the snow melted. Other prints were found in other places, not only in Devonshire, but in Somersetshire and Gloucestershire.

The marvel began to interest naturalists as well as preter-naturalists. A cold so severe, it is known, must have driven forth many animal? otherwise rarely seen in search of food, and reputations of many kinds have been hazarded on kangaroos, bears, cats, cranes, otters, and great bustards. Professor Owen gives his voice for the badger. He says, "An esteemed zoolo gical Inend has submitted to me a carefully-exe cuted drawing of one of the more perfect imnres- sions left in the snow at Luscombe. South Devon on or about the 8th of last month.

It was of the hind-foot of a badger. this is almost the only plantigrade quadruped we have in this island, and leaves a footprint larger than would be supposed fiom its size. The badger sleeps a good deal in his winter retreat, but does not hibernate so regularly and completely as the bear does in tue severe climate of Canada. Ihe badger is nocturnal, and comes abroad occasionallv in the lo'n inntnr I .1 I .11 i hunger it is a stealthy prowler, and most active and daring in its quest of food. That one and the same animal should have gone over 100 miles of a most devious and irregular route in one "ucu iiiiiu uiesaeu uj COIU antt nignr, is as improbable as ttiat one badger only should have been awake and hungry out of the number concealed in the 1( 0 miles of rocky and bosky Devonshire, which has been startled by the impressions revealed by the rarelv-snrparl carpet of snow in that beautiful county.

The onus of the proof that one creature made them in one night rests with the assertor, wko ought to have gone over the same ground, with a power of acuteness and unbiassed observation, which seems not to have been exercised by him who iaueu to aisunguisn the truly single from the blended footprints in question. Nothing seems more difficult than to see a thing as it really is, unless it be the right interpretation of observed phenomena." Thus completely, as we think, Her Majesty held a council on Saturday, at which several new members of the government had audience, and were sworn in. Shocking Gunpowder Explosion. The neighbourhood of Llanelly has been thrown into a good deal of excitement owing to a dreadful gunpowder explosion, by which two childern were killed and four more seriously injured. It apnears that a sinker" named Thomas Daniel had I deposited a 56-pound cask of blasting gunpowder on a table in his residence.

He incautiously left I it there during a short temporary absence from the house, with abortion of the powder which he gaye to another man, and soon afterwards his own children, accompanied by some of the neighbours' children, assembled around it, and one of them, 11 years of age, heated the poker in the fire, and I pushed it into the cask through the cork hole. A dreadful explosion ensued the loft and the roof I of the house were blown clear off, and a good deal of damage was done to the furniture" and walls of the house. The children, six in number, were all more or less injured two of them died shortly after, and but slight hopes are entertained of the recovery of the rest. Extraordinary Attempt at Murder and Suicide. At Nottingham borough police-court, on Tuesday, the following extraordinary case came before the Mayor and magistrate The prisoner, John Alexander Clark, a tin-plate worker, about 54 years old, and his wife' had lived separate for some years, he following the occupation of an itinerant worker at his trade, she residing with her son in a yard in Mount-street, Nottingham.

The prisoner entered the town a few evenings ago, and had an inteview with his son at the Ten Bells public-house. In the course of conversation, the prisoner told las son, with much apparent unconcern, tbat he intended on the following day to murder his mother, as also the man with whom he understood she had formed an acquaintance. He intimated that the weapon with which he meant to commit the deed was in his travelling bundle, and that he had prepared it for the purpose. The youth made his mother acquainted with the threat the same night. On the evening of the following day the prisoner was observed in a very sorrowful mood, sitting in a public-house in the neighbourhood where his wife lived, and, immediately after he had left, shrieks were heard in his wife's house, and she and her husband were seen struggling together.

A large knife, newly sharpened, was in his hand, and he threatened he would use it if he were opposed. A few minutes afterwards, he himself was seen stretched upon the floor, with a wound in his throat, and he was conveyed to the General Hospital, to which place his wife ulso, upon whom he had inflicted several wounds upon the left side of the neck, the left arm, the left hand, and under the left breast, was carried. He was afterwards removed, in a weakly condition, to the police court, and the magistrate committed him to take his trial at the assizes. Miraculous Escape from Foundertno. The Result, East Indiaman, belonging to Mr.

Green, at Blackwall, now lying in the East Inuia Dock! is attracting much notice on account of her re- I cent miraculous escape. She is laden with one of the richest cargoes that have been Bhinnf1 thi season from China, consisting of 47,000 packages and boxes of tea, and a large assortment of China produce, consigned to Messrs. Lowther and brokers. On the ship reaching to within 400 miles of Cape Clear, she encountered a tremendous gale of wind from the south-east, which lasted for nearly 48 hours, with a mountainous sea, in the course of which the ship strained considerably, and, being an American-built ship, her seams opened, letting in the water to the hold to an alarming extent. The moment it wa3 discovered all hands were set to work at tho mim and, although they were kept going day and night, the water increased instead of decreasing, until at length there were no less than 16 feeY.

The after-hatches were then opened, and between 3,000 and 4,000 boxes of tea were thrown overboard, to enable fhe crew to get below, in order to bale the water out with a large cask which had been rigged above. Although this baled out 90 gallons per minute, in addition to that ejected by the pumps, yet the water increased. The officers considered that nothing could save the ship, but that she must inevitably founder; and, as the last resource, had arranged to throw over the cargo from between decks, so as to keep her afloat as long as they could. Luckily, a favorable wind afforded them a speedy run to Spit-head, all on beard working hard for their lives until she gained that anchorage. The moment she was seen from IJprtsmouth, the government despatched two steamers and a number of hands and pumps to her assistance, by which means she was kept afloat and towed round to the Thames.

As may be supposed, a large portion of her cargo of tea, which was under water for uearly a month, was destroyed. Upwards of 10,000 boxes have been landed in the dock in a saturated condition, rendered by the salt water perfect rubbish. So much for patronising foreign ship-builders. It appears that the injury sustained in this case was owing to the Result being of Yankee build, and yet all our modern legislation goes direct to the promotion of foreign ship-building. Ed.

L. Gaz.j Emigration to the United States. Ac cording to a public document laid before Con- 1 gress the other day from the Department of State, there arrived in this country in 1854 the year just closed from foreign parts, 460,474 persons, of which aggregate, in round numbers, 328,000 were landed in New York. Of the whole num- ber, there were 49,000 from the island of Great I Britain, and 101,606 from Ireland giving from the united kingdom a total of 150,000, against 206,000 from Germany. This is a remarkable revolution.

I Down to the last year or two the Irish exodus far exceeded that from Germany and all the Contin- ental States put together. Now, we find the movement from Germany alone more than twice as large as the shipments from Ireland, and a third larger than the aggregate exports of all the British islands combined. On the other hand, our accessions amount to 13,000 for the last year from France, to 13,000 from China the Chinese coming in at San Francisco, and the French mostly at this port, These are curious and sug gestive facts. Tho small emigration from France naturally conveys the idea that the mass of the rrench people are comparatively happv and con tented at home, preferring even their humble resources in France to all the temptations of prospective wealth and political promotion in the United States. This is a very striking proof, not only of a contented population of nearly 40,000,000, but of the popularity of the government of Louis Napoleon, notwithstanding the hazards of con scription for the army.

France thus continues strong, while Great Britain is wasting away. But the most striking feature of these figures from the State department is the overwhelming and in creasing strengta ot tne uermanic and the marked decline in the Irish immigration. Why is this We presume that the dangers of a continental wax, the pressure of taxation, the temptations of political and religious libertv. and our rich lands in the West, to say nothing of the temptations of lager bier" saloons in our large cities, are bringing over this mighty influx of the Teutonic and Saxon tribes to our shores. The great decrease from Ireland, on the other hand, is partly due to the fact that old Erin has been exhausted of her heavv surplus bv emigration and famine heretofore that there is more work and more bread for the remainder at home and that there is a hope, though vague and indefinite, that something may turn up" for Irish independence one of these days.

Perhaps, also, the uprising of the Know-nothings on this side may have operated, to some extent, as a check upon the Catholics in Ireland. At all events, the Irish exodus is rapidly subsiding, while that from Germany is rapidiy swelling irom month to month. Should the Russian war continue a-year longer our reinforcements from Germany will probably be equal to 300,000 or 400,000 souls. Assuming that it will be 300,000, and that each German emigrant, including cuh and baggage, is equal to the addition of 200 dols. to the active capital of the country, our German reinforcements of this year will be equivalent to an addition of 60,000,000 dols.

to our national wealth and prosperity. What say the Know-nothings 1New York Herald. his is very well as a xanK.ee nourish, but reference to another part of our oaoer will reveal tne iact ot the German emigrants, instead of being each man of 200 dollars substance, are just so many paupers, it not criminals. L. Some of the soldiers quartered in the Preston barracks created a series of disturbances during last week, occasioning great excirement and alarm in the town but decisive measures have been taken by the military authorities for preventing a repetition of any such proceedings.

Snowstorm in the North. The north of Scotland was visited by a fresh snowstorm on Friday night, which was so heavy on Saturday that the trains on most of the railways were greatly impeded. The snow wa3 accompanied with a strong wind from the south east, and heavy wreaths of drifted snow were blocking up most of the low-lying roads. Singular Petition. Among the petitions presented to parliament this session, is one frani a Mrs.

Anne Elizabeth Astrop, of Hull, "for the restoration of her husband." Mrs. Astrop, states that in 1316 she was domestic servant to the Rev. H. Astrop, a Romi-h priest at Beverley that on his promising to marry the petitioner in 185.1 he was incarcerated in a lunatic asylum, at the instance of other priests, and detained there three and a halt weeks that the petitioner was sdbsequently married to Mr. Astrop, and retired with him to Louth, in Lincolnshire, where her husband, having already thrown oft the sacerdotal robe, set up as a grocer and provision dealer; that in April, 1854, Mr.

Astrop disappeared, it being the petitioner's belief that he was removed from this country while in a state of intoxication, and that he is now immured, against his will, in some monastery abroad, at the instigation of the Romish priesthood. Fortunate Diggers. Messrs. Thomas Day, Edmund Cock, William Cock, William Krwood, Abraham Bryant, all of Batters ea, in tho county of Surrey; James Lyons, of Liverpool Hugh M'Donald and Hugh M'Philmey, of Glasgow, are now exhibiting at the Gamekeeper's Hotel, Market-square, the immense nugget weighing lately obtained at Ballaret, and numerous other nuggets obtained at the same time and out of the same hole. At sight the nugget wGiiid not seem to be so valuable as it really is, but the immense weight proves that the interior must be nearly solid gold.

When found, the sold in it was not perceived, and it was supposed to be a mere boulder of quartz, but on being lifted in order to be thrown on one side, the presence of a large quantity of gold was detected. The total amount of gold obtained out of the claim after deducting that sold for expenses was about 0,700 in value. After the shepherding ceased the party were 35 days in working out the claim. The depth was from the foot of the windlass 150 feet. During part of the time, besides the original party of eight, they had six labourers engaged, and though they paid the highest current wages, they could not get men to work with them more than four days at a time, so severe was the work.

The party, being industrious men, they were enabled, while shepherding, to earn money by day and night work to pay for the epenscs of the hole until they got gold. The men themselves, in spite of all the alleged hardships of the digger's life at Ballarat, are not the lest interesting part of the exhibition, being in fine robust health. The party on an average have been two years at Ballarat up to this lime they may be ranked as unlucky, for they had spent more than four times the amount of tne gold they had obtained they had not run into debt with storekeepers, and yet had always been able to keep open chances on the best paying lines. How have they succeeded? by honesty, sobriety (not teetotalism), and unflagging perseverance. When they had no money, half worked as day labourers, split slabs, or took half-shares, while their mates shepherded the holes to be kept, and this splendid success was the reward of their mutual good faith.

Mel bourne Age. Death of Daniel Grant, Esq. We have to record the decease of this respected gentleman, for more than sixty years past connected with the cotton manufacture of this district, in the firm of William Grant and Brothers, spinners and calico printers. Mr. Grant died about noon, on Monday, at his residence, Springside, near Bury.

For some months past he had been much indisposed, and the system was evidently breaking. In the Christmas holidays a severe attack of illness prevented him quitting the house for about a month. Since his partial recovery from it, he has given occasional attendance at his place of business in Manchester; but evidently he had lost strength, and his health seemed precarious. On Friday last he was at business tor the last time. The deceased and his late brother William were extensively known for their kindly dispositions and munificent charities, which Dickens has attempted to delineate in his not unsuccessful sketch of Cheeryble Brothers," a portraiture drawn from the lives of William and Daniel Grant.

Mr. Daniel Giant was also an admirer and patron of the fine arts. His collections of paintings at his house in Mosley-street and also at Springside, are extensive and valuable. Manchester paper. An Abyssinian Swindler.

During the last fortnight, several Lincoln tradesmen, innkeepers, and others, have been duped by a very ingenious swindler. His name is Said Enouy, he is an Abyssinian by birth, and supposed to be one of the sons of the late King of Gondar. He was brought to this country by the late Edwin Smith, Esq. of Roundhay, near Leeds, after of Acomb Hall, near York. By Mr.

Smith and his amiable lady, who had no children, he was treated with every possible kindness, as much so, in fact, as if he had been their own child. For some years their almost unparalleled kiudness towards him has been returned by the basest ingratitude, and Said Enouy, after a career of extravagant profligacy, has become a most artful and impudent swindler. Shortly after his arrival in Lincoln, his first dupe was a gentlemen who was his tutor when a youth. To him he represented himself as married to a niece of the late John that he was now visiting with Charles Fardeil, Esq. who was staying with a friend in the Minster Yard and that his income was 5,000 a year, He asked this gentlemen to accompany him to the Lincoln Bank, as he had ordered his banker at York to forward bis remittances thither.

His remittances, however, had not arrived, at which he appeared much disappointed, and then obtained a trifling loan," as he called it, for which he gave his IOC, until his cheques could be honoured at the bank. The truth soon came out. Said Enouv is not married. The woman he re presented as the niece of the late John Fardeil, risq. and whom ne called his wire, was married to another man, July 18, 1852, in York her husband is still living.

His profligate habits have exhausted his funds and the patience sf all his friends but one, who has refused to see him again, but, as an act of charity, allows him 20s. a week. Beyond this weekly allowance, this Abyssinian Jeremy Diddler has no means of supporting his present extravagant habits, except by duping the credulous. Lincolnshire Times. State of Trade.

The accounts of the state of trade in the manufacturing districts during the past week show a slight improvement, except at Birmingham, although that neighbourhood, for the principal part of last year, was less unfavourably affected than other places. Several failures have now occurred there, and, as they have been of a disastrous character, analogous to those which took place some time back at Liverpool, they have caused an extent of distrust probably beyond anything warranted by the actual state of affairs. Messrs. Fletcher, Rose, and a firm largely engaged in the iron trade, are stated to have stopped with liabilities for 60,000, and assets valued to yield only 6s. 8d.

in the pound while in another instance, that of Mr. Thomas Spencer, the prospect of the creditors appears to be only 2s. in the pound upon debts amounting to 90,000. A Birmingham Chamber of Commerce has just been established, but happily, it is said, not with the view to enforce the peculiar currency doctrines of that town. At Manchester the business of the week shows some activity, but the degree of animation observable at the commencement was not maintained to the close.

The Nottingham report describes a feeling of greater confidence, with increased transactions in the hosiery branches, chiefly from the home demand. At the same time, the accounts from the United States are less discouraging. In the woollen districts, also, the home demand consequent upon the favourable state of agricultural operations has produced a good effect. At Bristol the Chamber of Commerce have memorialized parliament on the transit trade in Russian produce via Memel. urging the adoption of strong measures to prohibit or counteract it, Times, General fcntclligcncc Last week Sir Stafford Northccte was returned for Dudley without opposition.

Mr. Buck, Conservative, is returned for Barnstaple, without opposition. The Sheffield Examiner mentions that a workman named Bretnall, who was employed at the ardsend Steel Works, was passing between two sets of rollers a few days ago. when a fellow workman, who had just drawn a piece of steel out of the rollers, was in the act of throwing it over his head for it to be put through the rollers on the other side, one end of the hot steel struck Bretnall on the left arm, and inflicted a fearful wound, from the effects of which he has since died. We regret to announce the death of Lord Ravensworth, who expired at Ravensworth Castle on Wednesday, in the 81st year of his age.

He is succeeded by his eldest son, Mr. Henry Thomas Liddell, M.P. for Liverpool, born in 1797, whose eldest son is Mr. Henry George Liddell, M.P, for South Northumberland. There were thus three generations of the family represented in parliament at the same time.

The death of Lord Ravensworth causes a vacancy for Liverpool. The Fast Day. A numerous meeting was held in Liverpool on Friday, to protest against days of humiliation and fast by command. Mr. Robertson Gladstone presided, and the meeting was addressed by Mr.

W. Rathbone, Rev. Mr. Graham, Mr. White, Mr.

Johnson, Mr. Shiel, and other gentlemen. The chief points in the resolutions were, the opposition to dictation in religious matters, and the inexpediency of fast days, which deprived the poor of the profits of one working day. A memorial, which was an embodiment of the resolutions, was agreed to, and is to be forwarded to Lord Palmerston. Scene in a Church at Liverpool.

On Sunday an extraordinary and much-to-be-deplored scene took place at St. Matthew's Church, Scotland Road, Liverpool. For some time differences have existed between the Rev. Dr. Hilcct, the owner of the church, and the Rev.

Mr. Cooke, the incumbent, and the congregation took part with Mr. Cooke. Dr. Hilcot purposed to conduct the worship of the day, having previously advertised to do so.

He ascended the reading-desk, but had proceeded no further than Dearly beloved," when the congregation simultaneously rose, and, with the exception of some dozen, walked out of church in a body Liverpool Albion. Explosion of Gunpowder Mills in Kent. About nine o'clock on Saturday morning, two explosions occurred in two gunpowder mills, which adjoined each other, on the premises of Messrs. Pigou and Wilks, at Dartford. The disaster has, fortunately, not been attended with loss of life, but a man named Millar, who was employed in the works, has been seriously burnt, and is considered in danger, and another workman has been injured, by a portion of the machinery striking him on the back.

The damage to the firm has been very serious, and the concussion caused by the explosion was so great that all the houses in the town of Dartford were shaken. The origin of the calamity is not known. Times. I he Docks. The town council of Liverpool will in all probability be called upon to-day to ratify the negotiations which have been i concluded by the finance committee for the pur- chase of the Birkenhead Docks.

It is announced that the principal owners of the property, Baron Goldsmid and Sir Joseph Bailey, have at length consented to accept 13s. in the pound, payable, with interest at the rate of four per in from three to six years. The purchase money altogether will amount to 1,300,000, of which sum me value ot the preference shares, i ic. oe paiu aown on completion ot the purchas i These are the broad terms of the compact- i Ihnimh if n-rt nn A .1. 1 1 1 mmb uuuciowuu uiai UftB JJirKClineaa owners will not part with their property until the payment of the outstanding claims" of which they cannot at present give a list is guaranteed by the Liverpool authorities.

There will doubtless be some haggling on this point. Manchester paper. i TIE.S Railway. On Saturday morning a luggage i train left Cambridge between two and thrpe aial. wttUKUKRUE UN I HE H.ASTERN IJOUK- o'clock for London, laden with meat, for the 1 metropolitan markets and everything seemed to ue quite safe on the several carriages until the 1 train, reached the goods depot in Brick-lane, i Spitalfields, when one of the guards named John Hill, aged 38, was missing from his usual posi 11011 near tne tender, the engine-driver and stoker, when the train had stopped, went down i the line in search of the deceased, whom they discovered lying across the rails fearfullv mmi- lated, the upper portion of his head being cut off 1 8eon 01 uetnnai.green-road, promptly attended; but that gentleman was of opinion that the de- ceased must nave been killed instantaneously by I passing uver mm.

i i z-iy meuiuuB iuwaya aggravates unronic com- I plaints and it is therefore with peculiar pleasure we notice the beneficial effects of Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. We quote a few out many thousand cases of cures by this delicious food From the Dowager Countess of Castle stuart. Cure, 52,612. Rosstrevor, County of L'own, iveeemoer, io. ine (Joun- No 71.

of dyspepsia, from the Bight Hon Lord Stuart de Decies, I have derived considerable benefit from Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food and consider it due to yourselves and the public to authorise the publication of these lines: Stuart de Decies." From the Venerable Archdeacon of Ross. No. 32,286. Three years excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Du Barry's health restoring food, Alexander Stuart Archdeacon of Ross, Skibereen." More ample details than our space permits will be found in Messrs. Du Barry's advertisement.

Forfarshire Election. On Saturday Lord Duncan was re-elected for Forfarshire, and on the occasion the noble lord (who is an ultra liberal) thus denounced the attempt made to run down the aristocracy As an Englishman he demanded fair play, and then he would ask, were thev to reject a man who aspired to any honourable and useful position in public life, or who might be chosen to fill a part for which his talent and experience fitted him, just because he hap- Eened to belong to the aristocracy? Why should not have a fair chance on equal terms with others Why not be preferred, if his qualifications entitled him to be so? (Cheers.) He did not like these attacks. They were discreditable in a country where the people claimed to be free. For his own part he had felt it his duty to stand up for the landed aristocracy of the country, and would stand up for it when he saw it unjustly assailed but he would stand up also for the commercial classes of the kingdom, and had done so, for they all knew that when an attack was made on the linen manufacturers he defended them against it, and had the honour to be chosen as a member of the Dundee Chamber of Commerce, in grateful acknowledgement of that service. (Cheers.) He was strongly against this system of dealing with men as if they belonged to this class and the other.

He detested the too common practice of saying, Tbat man belongs to the aristoracy, and that man to the democracy: that man to the landed interest, and the other man to the commercial or manufacturing interest this man belongs to the upper classes, and that man to the lower classes the truth being that in this country all the classes were so harmoniously blended that it was difficult to say where the one class began and the other ended. (Cheers.) But he must have done. He had said more than he intended to say, but not more than the importance of the subject required. Again he thanked them for their unanimity and confidence, and would never cease to seek after their local welfare and the public good. (Cheers.) We learn that of 6,000 of the Russian Guard stationed at Tykotschin, in Poland, eight hundred died of typhus in three weeks! notion prevails in Vienna that the Emperor Nicholas was shot in the abdomen three days before his death.

Lord Dundonald. This gallant admiral has petiti oned the House of Commons for a commission of enquiry into his secret plans, by the application of which, he maintains, he can destroy both Se has tape! and without risking loss of life on the part of the assailants. A private telegraphic despatch from Trieste announces the death in that place of the Count de Molina, better known as Don Carlos, father of the present Pretender to the Crown of Spain, the Count de Montemo'in. Since his abdication in favour of his son, Don Carlos lived in reat retirement. He wa3 aged 67.

According to accounts from Rome it would seem that the Irish titulars at that piacs are in favor of suppressing priestly interference in hish politics, and Dr. Wiseman's violent poiitics are not in favor, nevertheless Lucas, the cardinal's popih-quaker protegee, has been received with distinguished favor by the Pope. Savings' Hanks. A return moved tor by Mr. Ricardo, M.t, shows that the gros total amount ot stock sold since the 1st day of July, 1854, on account of the savings-hanks, wa3 1 53, 5 it, including Consolidated Three per 55,502 Reduced Three per and 218,722 New Three per Cents.

During the present year, the month cf January there wire Eild out Consols, and 75il80 New Three per and iu the month of February 334, Consols. cape of a Convict fuom tiih Wakefield House of CoRRrcnoN. On Saturday week, a prisoner confined on a sentence of til'teen vcars, for burglary, effected his escape from the Wakefield House of Correction, by making a hole through the wall of his cell, immediately over the air flue, into the yard, over the outer wall of which he made his way by means or a rope, with a hook attached. His name is George a hair dresser by trade, from Bromsrrove, in Worcestershire, lie ha3 not as et been re-taken. Halifax Guardian.

Sik Henry Bishop. We learn with rcat regret that this accomplished composer, for many years almostthe only representative ofan English "school ot music, and perhaps one ot the most voluminous writers of his generation, in opera, glee, Sec. is confined to a sick bed, and reduced by neglect and penury to astute which it is painful to contemplate. We may add that in Manchester, where Henry has many admirers, Mr. Dime, of the Square, and Mr.

i. Cottam, secretary to the Gentlemen's Glee Club, will receive any cott-tiibutions, which will be doubly valuable, if promptly made. Manchester Gu dian. Otii Own." At a banquet given to General Vivian by the East India Directors, the toast of the Army and Navy was drunk, when Sir C. Pas-ley, a veteran otneer, returned thanks and said, No dubt great hardships had been endured by our gallant troops, yet the campaigns iu the Peninsula had been equally attended with severe suffering, and there could be no doubt that if the army of Sir John Moore and the Duke of Wellington had been followed by the special corics-pondent' of the leading newspaper of the day his graphic descriptions' would have reduced England at this moment to the position of a mere province of France." How the Poor may be Relieved.

The soup-kitchen at Exeter has just been closed, after having been open 43 days During that time 2,000 quarts of sjup were delivered daily, making a total of 355 hogsheads, and there were also distributed 29,900 21b. loaves. The soup was sold at a Id. a quart to the poor, but benevolent persons were also allowed to purchase two penny tickets, for which the recipients received, in addition to the soup, a 21b. loaf.

The amount received in pennies was 4u4 5s. wbile upwards of 22,000 tickets were sold. The committee commenced with a balanco in hand of 107, and during the whole period only spent 250 of that sum beyond the amount which was received for the soup, the actual cost of the kitchen being 7iJ4. There were four large boilers in use, and soup was made day and night. The largest, containing 1.50 gallons, was filled with the following ingredients Four bushels of peas, 521b.

of meat, 271b. of oatmeal, 20lb. of onions, 9lb. of salt, and 13 ounces of pepper. There were two deliveries daily on week-days and one on Sundays.

The relief thus afforded to the poor was immense, and the system has been since adopted in other large towns. Stati3tcs or Pauper Labour. The guardians of the Newton Abbot Union in Devonshire have tried the experiment of renting land for the employment of the youthful and adult paupers. The balance-sheet for the last year has just been published, and from the following statement it will be seen that the guardians have derived a considerable profit. The quantity of land under cultivation was six acres, on which were grown of potatoes, 13 ditto of wheat, 13 ditto af barley, 28 cwt of cabbages, 10 ditto of swedes, ditto of parsnips, 6 toii3 of mangold-wurzell, 840ibs.

of onions, of leeks, and 8 cwt. of brocoli. The total number of hours of field labour done by boys was 14,218 and by adults, 12.980J. The number of boys at work five days in each week, and on an average hours daily, was 13. Of the vegetables grown, 44 Is.

1. worth were consumed by the inmates up to Christmas last, and 22 13s. lOd. was realized for those which were sold. The vegetables, in store at Christmas were valued at 37 os.

8d. making a total of 104 0s. 7d. The rent of land, lates, cost of seeds, tools, amounted to 70 10s. 5d, Tea pigs were also kept, the profit on which was 24 lis.

5d. Thus the total amount realised in profit from the labour of the inmates during the year was 58 Is. 7jd. Desperate Conflict with a Thief. On Friday evening last, about eight o'clock, a private watchman of some property near the Queen's Park, Harpurhey, named Michael M'Dermock, hearing a strange knocking at one of the swings in the park, informed Police-constable James Walker, and they went into the park together.

At the swing from which the noise proceeded, they found a man named Thoma3 Grimes. Oni seeing them, he dropped something and ran away they pursued, and he turned round upon them, and fought them with a piece of iron. He knocked tho officer down, and struck at him several times whilst he was upon the ground, cutting and bruising him on the head and body. M'Derraock was also wounded and it was a full half-hour before they secured the man and got from him the dangerous weapon. He had in his possession four brass steps, and nine iron and brass steps were found near to the swing where he was first seen, ha having forcibly removed them they were the property of the Mayor and Corporation, and were valued at 20s.

M'Der-mock and Walker appeared against him on Saturday, at the City Police Court, with handkerchiefs tied round their heads. The prisoner, a rough-looking fellow in the dress of a laborer, was committed to the sessions for the felony. Manchester Guardian. Serious Assault. Trade Tyranny.

In our last, in a paragraph bearing this heading, we gave the details of a violent assault committed by a bricklayer, named George Fishpool, on a man named Michael Cooney, a collector for a journeyman joiners' and bricklayers' society. Fishpool was working for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, in the neighbourhood of Red Bank and Cooney went to him there to demand payment of a fine which Fishpool had incurred some time ago by working for some one contrary to the rules of the society. According to Fishpool's statement Cooney had threatened either to get Fishpool discharged or the men working along with him turned out of the society, if the fine was not paid; and then Fishpool knocked down Cooney with a spade. He struck him on the bead, cutting through his hat, and then struck him on the lip, knocking some of his teeth out. Fishpool was charged wita the assault at the City Police Court, on Monday last.

Cooney denied that he uttered any threat. and that anything unpleasant passed between him and Fishpool. On the prisoner's behalf, it was submitted that the circumstances were palliation of the offence, he being irritated at the thought of being deprived of bis bread, simply because he had accepted work some time ag from an employer repudiated by the society. The prisoner was committed for trial at too session. Manchester Guardian.

vanisn es tne ue vii waiK in tne diocese of Exeter 1 ano- various parts ot tne body being shockingly from the reorcds of superstition vanishes at injured. The poor fellow was carried by the ser-the touch of science, as the sea serpent faded vants of the company to the Fighting Cocks even from the imagination of the most credulous. 1 publichouse in John-street, adjoining the Shore-Athenaeum. I ditch terminus, where Mr. Vandenburg, the sur- Tnz Aland Islands.

In the year 1S(9, a corps of Russian cavalry, infantry, "and artillery, 3 strong, marched from Abo to Aland, over the ice, and took possession cf tlie islands an incident which many of the older inhabitants will remember. Since that period, officers of the pan i son have proceeded in sledges ail the way St. Petersburg, encamping at night, and lighting bivouac fires villi safety. Milner's Baltic. The Czati Ivan IV.

Ivan is said to have been the first who assumed the title of Czar, and acquired the surname of "Terrible," fiom his violent and sai guinaiy deeds. After the death of his first wife, who exercised a beneficial control over him, he gave vent to the ferocity of his nature, without restraint. Town after town was deluged with blood, and laid in ashes. Neither age nor sex was spared. The crimes of the tyrant are unsurpassed, and scarcely to be rivalled in universal history.

At iast, in a fit of rage, he murdered his son, and became a remorseful, despairing wretch, equally indifferent to war and power, the objects of his past concern, surviving his victim only a few months. He sat in silence on the ground. The old and haughty Czar Lonely, though princes girt him round, And leaders of the war. He had cast his jewelled sabre, That many a field had won. To the earth, beside his youthful dead, His fair and tirst-born son.

Ivan, though a barbarian, could appreciate the civilization of Western Europe, and took special interest in the English, particularly in the queen. ISot content with wives, he sought the hand of Elizabeth, and, failing that, wished to marry one of her kinswomen. The matrimonial advances of the "terrible" Muscovite were not encouraged but he received a favorable answer to an application for an asylum in England, in the event of a revolution driving him from his dominions and, in compliance with another request, Mr. Robert Jacobs was sent to attend him as physician. Milner's Baltic.

The Fins. They are quite distinct from the Sclavonic and Tuetonic races in physiognomy, language, cnaracier, ana manners. A short stature, sallow complexion and flat face, with tawny hair, scanty beard, and small lustreless eyes, are Finnic personal characteristics. More hardy than the Muscovites, they are hence less warmly clad. The peasantry wear a surtout of coarse woollen manufacture, made without regard to shape, and tied round the waist with a band, long pantaloons of the same material bound about the instep, a fur cap, and socks skins.

Their houses are constructed of wood, black with smoke in the interior owing to being chimney-less, and generally painted red on the outside, with small out-houses for rudely prepared vapour baths. A number of stones being heated till thev become red hot, water is thrown upon them, when the bathers expose themselves naked to the thick clouds of steam, at the same time vigorously rubbing the skin with birch twigs. They will then suddenly exchange a boiling for a freezing temperature, by going out uncovered into the open air, and rolling in the snow. This practice is Tery general and tends to give hardihood to the frame. Milner's Baltic.

The Crimea its Soil, It is, I fancy, not generally known how almost impregnable a position Eupatoria furnishes to a power commanding the sea, and able by that means to throw supplies and reinforcements at pleasure into the place. Beyond the immediate neighbourhood, which is sandy ajid impregnated with salt, the steppe surrounds it on every side with abarrier more valuable for defence than a wall of granite. Any army sitting down to invest Eupatoria would not only have to dig wells through a horizontal startum of limestone of great thickness, but likewise to bring all its supplies and materiel of war through a region of wide extent, equally destitute of the first necessary of life good water. Some idea of the effect of this hindrance may be formed from the circumstance tbat the Russian army under Marshal Munich, in the first invasion of the Crimea, nearly perished from this cause in its march from Perekop to Eupatoria, in spite of the greatest precautions. They only found three streams of fresh water on the whole march (which occupied them 11 days), and the sufferings of the wretched soldiers were aggravated by the sight of many brooks, all of which were the mere overflow of salt pools.

These facts will perhaps give some insight into the cause of the immense loss reported to have been sustained by the last reinforcement which entered Sebastopol. If an attempt was really made to convey a large body of troops over the snow from the north of the peninsula, and if any deteLtion occurred from a sudden thaw, the unhappy victims of Imperial ambition will hare found themselves exposed to destruction from a more terrible enemy than frost and cold. When the steppe is covered by the luxuriant grass of the spring the task of crossing it in force is of course an easier one, as the baggage animals find their provender on the spot, and, being entirely grass-fed, thescarcity of water is, as far as they are concerned, much less felt. But this favourable period is comparatively short. The heat of the sun ripens the herbage very rapidly; early in June it begins to scorch up, and becomes in July and August highly inflammable from its dryness.

So remarkable is it in this respect, that it was a cause of great anxiety to Munich lest his camp should be destroyed by the firing of the steppe and every wheeled carriage was furnished with a large besom, for the purpose of instantly extinguishing the first sparks that might be seen. As a means of defence against an invading army, it is scarcely necessary to point out how effective such a conflagration must be. When Munich, the year after the expedition to the Crimea, laid siege to Ochsakofi, the Turks burnt the steppe for three leagues around the town and this circumstance of itself would have compelled Munich to abandon his hope of taking it, had not one of his shells accidentally exploded a large powder magazine, causing such destruction that the governor surrendered in a panic. In the plain of the Crimea a westerly breeze generally prevails through the months of May and June and, if necessity required it, nothing would be easier, after securing as much hay us could be brought within the defence of the lines, than to take advantage of the dominant wind, and interpose a barrier of temporary barrenness between Eupatoria and any besieger. I say temporary, because it is the general practice to burn the surface in the month of August, such a proceeding being considered advantageous to the growth of the young grass and, if a besieging army is to come by land from the continent in sufficient strength to attack a force of 40,000 men in 'Eupatoria, there will be plenty of time to get in the hay before its arrival.

Correspondent of the Time. ihe OTEAMBOAT. Well, says 1, "as 1 was savin', Captain, give me a craft like this, that spreads its wings like a bird, and looks as if it v. ts uuru, noi. maue, a wnoie-sau oreeze, and a -l 'e im seaman every men oi Him iixe you on tne decs, who looks you in the face, in a way as if he'd live to say, only bragging ain't genteel, ain't she a clipper now, and ain't I the man to handle her? JNow this ain't the case in a steamer.

Thev ain't vessel, thev are more like floating factories; you see the steam ma- cmnes ana tne enormous nres, and the clouds of smoke, but you don visit the rooms where the I tess ot- astiestuart teels induced, in the interest looms are, that's all. They plough through the of suffering humanity, to state that Du Barry's sea dead and heavy, like a subsoiler with its i excellent Arabica Food has cured her, after all eight-horse team; there is no life in 'em; they mediefnes had failed, of indigestion, bile, great can't dance on the waters as if they rejoiced in nervousness and irritability of many years stand-their course, but divide the waves as a rock does i lng This food deserves the confidence of all in a river; they seem to move more in defiance sufferers and may be considered a real blessing, of the sea, than as if they were in an element of I Enquiries will be cheerfully Cure their own. Thev puff and blow like boasters braggin' that they extract from the ocean the means to make it help to subdue itself. It is a war of the elements, fire and water contendin' for victory. They are black, dingy, forbiddin' looking sea monsters.

It is no wonder the superstitious Spaniard, when he first saw one, said A vessel that goes against the tide, and against the wind, and without sails, goes against or that the simple negro thought it was a sea devil. They are very well for carrying freight, because thev are beasts of burden, but not for car rying travellers, unless they are mere birds of passage like our Yankee tourists, who want to have it to say I was thar. I hate them. The decks are dirty; your skin and clothes are dirty; and your lungs become foul smoke pervades everything and now and then the condensation gives you a shower of sooty water by way of variety, that scalds your face, and dyes your coat into a sort of pepper-and-salt colour. You miss the sailors, too.

There are none on board you miss the nice, light, tight-built, lathy, wiry, active neat jolly crew. In their place you have nasty, dirty, horrid stokers; some hoisting hot cinders, and throwing them overboard, (not with the merry countenances of niggers, or the cheerful sway-away-my-boys expression of the Jack Tar, but with sour, cameronean-lookin faces, that seem as if they were dreadfully disappointed they were not persecuted any longer had no churches and altars to desecrate, and no bishops to anint with the oil of hill-side maledictions as of old) while others are emerging from the fiery furnaces beneath for fresh air, and wipe a hot, dirty face with a still dirtier Bhirt sleeve, and in return for the nauseous exudation, lay on a fresh coat of blacking tall, gaunt wretches, who pant for breath as they snuff the fresh breeze, like porpoises, and then dive again into the lower regions. They are neither seamen nor landsmen, good whips, nor decent shots their hair is not woolly enough for niggers, and their faces are too black for white men. They ain't amphibious animals, like marines and otters. They are Salamanders.

But that's a long word, and now they call them stokers for shortness." Sam Slick's Nature and Human Nature. John Bunyan, while in Bedford gaol, was called upon by a Quaker, desirous of making a convert of him. Friend John, I have come to thee with a message from the Lord, and after having searched for thee in all the prisons in England, I am glad that I have found thee out at last." "If the Lord had sent you," returned Bunyan, "you need not have taken to much pains to find me ont, for the Lord knows where I have been twelve years.".