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The Trade and Navigation Accounts for the month and year ended 81st December have been published this week. Our exports last year exceeded by upwards of eighteen millions those of 1864, and were twenty millions more than those of 1856. These wore the totals of the declared values—in 1854, 97,184,7261.; in 1855, 95,688,0851.; in 1856, 115,890,867/. For the month the comparison exhibited a different ratio —in December 1864 our exports were only 7,344,4731.; in 1856, 8,815,442/.' in 1856, 10,045,226/. The increased export was spread over most articles; a few showed a decrease, and some a very large increase—thrown silk an enormous augmentation. Of imports there was a falling-off in 1856, as compared with 1865, with respect to living animals for food, and in coffee, guano, tanned hides, oil, and quicksilver. Those articles which showed the most notable increase were .grain, cotton, flax, currants, (a very large augmentation,) hemp, provisions, rice, raw silk, sugar, tallow, tea, timber, tobacco, wino, and wool : both sugar and wine' however, showed a falling-off as compared with the imports of 1854. On the whole the imports presented an appearance hardly less favourable than the exports.

Mr. Sergeant Channel has been appointed to succeed the late Sir James Alderson as Baron of the Court of Exchequer. He was called to the bar in 1827, and became sergeant in 1840. He has of late frequently acted as substitute for Judges unable to attend their circuit duties.

It turns out that the Independence Beige published in 1855 letters stating that a treaty had been signed by France and Austria guaranteeing to the latter her Italian possessions ; and not only that, one of tho letters mentioned that the date of the treaty was 22d December 1854 thus, Mr. Disraeli's "news" was when revealed two years old. Six days after the announcement was made by the inde'pendance, in 1855, it was summarily contradicted.

The famous story of the Times entitled "Railways and Revolvers in Georgia" is now settled definitively by a formal process. Mr. Cuylcr, the President of the "Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia," has forwarded to the Timm, "in an authentic shape, the several depositions of the conductor, the two engincmen, and three -firemen, who performed this now celebrated trip, and also tho deposition of the Government mail-agent, who was present during the whole of it, all distinctly denying the narrative of Mr. Arrowsmith." These depositions are certified by Mr. Molyneux, the British Consul for Georgia, to have been duly and legally taken. The train is traced throughout its journey ; it is shown that there was no irregularity, difficulty, disturbance, or accident of any kind, during the trip. Gasper J. Fulton, the conductor, deposes, "that he has read the narrative of Mr. J. Arrowsmith, under the head of Railways and Revolvers in Georgia,' and that the said narrative is wholly false. This deponent served as conductor on the Central Railroad, both on freight and passenger trains, many years, and on the Augusta and Savannah road for a year, and never heard of any such actings and doings as Mr. Arrowsmith has related."

[Since the above statement appeared, Mr. Arrowsmith has found, from his diary, that his journey on the railway from Macon to Augusta took place not on the 28th but on the 29th August; so that the depositions, he asks us to believe, go for nothing : "Were I as free," he says, "to meet the judgment-day as I am in this matter, it would be well with me."] The deaths registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday were 1264; and exhibit a decrease on those of the preceding week, when they were 1368. In the ten years 1847-'56, the average number of deaths in weeks corresponding with last week was 1135. But as the deaths in the present return occurred in an increased population, it is necessary for comparison that the average should be raised in proportion to the increase, in which case it will become 1249. The rate of mortality last week was therefore very near the average rate in the second week of February. The deaths of six persons (ill women, and four of them widows) occurred at ages ranging from ninety to ninety-seven years. The three greatest ages recorded are ninety-four, ninety-six, and ninety-seven years. Four of these old women died in workhouses.— Report of the Registrar-General.

The obituary of this week records the death of a nobleman who takes an historical position higher than the average of his order—Francis, Earl of Ellesmere. Born in 1800, he dies at the comparatively premature age of fifty-seven. His father was the first Duke of Sutherland, his grandmother the daughter of the first Duke of Bridgewater. First known as Lord Francis Leveson Gower, and afterwards as Lord Francis Egerton, the late Peer was educated at Eton, and he graduated at Chrietchurcb, Oxford, in 1821. In 1822 he entered Parliament, as Member for Bletehingley; and supported Mr. Canning. At that time, however, be was better known as a lover and follower of literature than as a politician; and some years afterwards he published a translation of "Faust" and of the songs of the German poets. In 1828 he became a Privy Councillor, and Chief Secretary for Ireland during the Viceroyalty of the late Mar quis of Anglesey. For a short period in 1830 he was Secretary sit War. At this time he represented the county of Sutherland ; but in 1834, when he had succeeded to the estates of the third Duke of Bridgewater, he was elected for the Southern Division of Lancashire ,—a constituency he continued to represent until 1846, when Sir Robert Peel being Premier, he was raised to the Peerage as Earl of Ellesmere. [The title was first held by Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper in the reign of Elizabeth, and Lord High Chancellor of England in the reign of James I.] In politics, the late Earl was always a Liberal Conservative ; a supporter of Free-trade twenty years before it became the policy of the country ; one of the warmest friends of the University of London ; and an active advocate for the endowment of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland. He died on Wednesday last, at Bridgewater House, surrounded by the principal members of his family. He is succeeded by his son, George Granville Francis, hitherto known as Lord Bracliley.

The Reverend Dr. William Rowe Lyall, Dean of Canterbury, who for some months has suffered from paralysis, died on Tuesday morning. , Dr. Iyall was appointed Dean in 1845. He had been Archdeacon of Maidstone, Canon of Canterbury, and private chaplain to the late Dr. Howley when Bishop of London.

The Abbe Chatel, founder of the French Evangelical Church, died on Friday, at Paris, in the sixty-second year of his age. In the last years of his life he was reduced to the necessity of earning a subsistence by giving lessons to young children.

The Speaker's first Parliamentary dinner took place on Saturday, when he entertained the Ministers occupying seats in the Lower House, As Lord Palmerston was one of the Speaker's guests, Lady Palmerston presided as his representative at a dinner in Piccadilly, and held a reception afterwards.

It is expected that the Emperor Alexander will set out from St. Petersburg about the beginning of .April to visit his mother at Nice : it is reported that, either in going or returning, he will make a call on the Emperor Napoleon.

Early in the week, the Earl of Harewood seemed to be going on favourably, and his ultimate recovery was expected ; but on Thursday he had a relapse, and on Friday he was stated to be "in a very precarious state."

The Emperor of Austria has ordered a monument to the memory of Leonardo da Vinci to be erected at Milan.

Dr. Wichern, founder of the Roues Hans at Hamburg—prototype of our Ragged Schools—has received an appointment in Prussia, for effecting a reform of prison discipline.

It is now announced that the living of Cripplegate has been conferred on the Reverend Philip Parker Gilbert, Rector of St. Augustin and St. Faith, Friday Street.

The enormous traffic on the London and North-Western Railway is compelling the laying down of more rails. Two additional lines are in proms of construction between Camden station and Willesden; and the Directors proposed in their report, that from ])letehley to Willesden a third line of rails, to be used for up goods-traffic, should be laid down, at an estimated expense of 360,000/.

Messrs. John Crossley and Sons, the eminent carpet-manufacturers at Dean Clough, near Halifax, at a recent soirée of the Halifax Mechanics' Institution subscribed 15001. towards the fund for defraying the debt on the new hall, amounting to 3000/. Mr. John Crossley has within the last few weeks undertaken the erection of a new college at Ilnlifax, at a cost of 20,0001. A munificent public park, adorned with shrubbery, terraces, asphalted walks, fountains, and sculpture from Italy, to be opened in August next, is the gift of Mr. Frank Crossley to the town of Halifax.

The Dublin Evening Mail tells a story of Government economy.. During the war, military stores had to be conveyed from the Tower of London to Queenstown ; they were sent via Liverpool and Dublin, by waggon, by rail, and by steamer, with several transshipments; the cost of carriage was 81. 108. per ton : at that very time a steamer departed weekly from London Bridge to Queenstown, which charged only 30s. per ton for the conveyance of goods!

According to the United Service Gazette, it is becoming difficult to get subaltern officers for the Horse Guards and the Life Guards ; the expense of living in the style usual with officers of those regiments being from 500/. to 1000/. a year more than the pay of a cornet.

The Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna intends to punish those who dance during Lent—if the police can catch them in the act. This they generally failed to do last year : when they entered the house of festivity, the wicked dancers were found demurely listening to " serious " music performed by the pianist.

The Roman Inquisition has condemned Catherine Fanelli, a young woman, to twelve years' imprisonment, for falsely pretending to be a saint, and for insisting that she had "revelations, visions, and apparitions," "marks of the peculiar grace of God." Her ,pretended revelations were accompanied by -" immoral and false maxims.' No one is to consider her in the light of a saint.

A statue of the Virgin which is to be erected at Rome in commemoration of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception is finished. During the casting of the statue, the priests chanted the litany to the Holy 'Virgin, and the workmen gave the responses. "Thanks to these excellent arrangements," says the Ultramontane rolkafreund, "the east was perfect."

Flour continues to fall in price at Paris. In the first week in September 100 kilogrammes cost 69f. 82c., but in the first week of the present month the price had fallen to 47f. 33e. There is said to be a sufficient stock of wheat in France to supply all demands till next harvest.

The direst distress prevails in Finland—in many parts the population are perishing of hunger and cold. The Imperial Family, the merchants of St. Petersburg, and others, have subscribed money for the relief of the sufferers, and food is sold at low prices from the military magazines in the distressed province.

The Imperial ukase granting a concession to Russian and foreign bankers to make railways has appeared at St. Petersburg. The fortunate concessionnukes are to have the privilege (?) of providing forty-five millions sterling within ten years to furnish Russia with iron roads. The only new feature in the scheme is a branch to Konigsberg, to place the Russian lines in connexion with those of the rest of Europe.

The following extract of a private letter was posted on Monday at Lloyd's. "Cairo, Feb. 5, 1857.—We have had a very narrow escape last night. A conspiracy had been planned to destroy. the treasure-train,-by taking up the rails near the city, and the confusion of a dreadful accident, to plunder the trunks of the specie, amounting to 400,0001., brought by the Pem steamship. It was discovered in time, and about 130 of the ringleaders had been apprehended."