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mit. D. 11. ClIAPA:.±N .1ND THE • Last week :the Zones_pehliellteekeo5nSesharo eenreseuts on the,] uanduct of Mr. 'David Barelay-Cliatanarteinite Davidson. and Gordon. . aids week Mr. Cbarman -Writes toftheATisou have beenedvieed &et tho•arthelei is of so .libellous a charaeter sets justify lUltal proceedings agaitImul'auil 'I feel. that I have no illternative but to itlopt stroll a courtiestferethn prepose of vindiciding my chsracter, -whiehiluts been so•wantreily,eandi 'as I shall-be prepared to prove, so.un- jastlit steadied: . I ehall forthwItteinstruct nay solicitors to torninence emit proceedings,' unless all immediate and satisfactory reteactation be published in vette journal." lid had previously written to say that the article was founded on a misundeifitafiding of the evidence. , Orerend and Gurney did not issue a sin rihie 'Of the fraudulent srarraitte after the 'frand was 'dieeovered. -Ovddld, Gurney, aticl Cis write tb'say that the Warrantaare still in their safe. 'The 27eres sIon-S, fight. . A' fourth letter froni Mr; Cliapinau is directed to show that the evi- dence on which the 7'inlif-tik.44 'Ito; Article was misreported. Wh.ereupon

the Ames says-- ,

" One: InVitation to ...16..Chtipmen wee. to deny .explicitly that he deer- lid Issue to parties for a money consideration IN at rants which he knew to be fictitious: ; or, secondly, 'Abat he ever did after slid' 'knowledge obtained suffer them to remain out as S.:Tirities:.for money winch they had recei'eed.' The first denial has been 'Liven, atei. e-e with-draw any imputation that might have existed in its absenee ; the second has not been given; and that question remains precisely as it was. We hope to receive yet another com- munication from Mr. Chapman, wherein he will successfully show that im- mediately he discovered the clia...acter of these securities he revealed the fact

to the holders of them." •

Joseph Windle Cole has also written to the Times. Ile announces that he' hates controversy at all Limes, but he is unwilling that his silence should be misconstrued into inability to refute any statement impugning his evidence. When the opporttinity, comes, he will answer the gross calumnies in circulation against him. .

Mrs Chapman. has sent a fifth letter to the Times, in which he says- " It was not till some days after the discovery of the fraud that we were informed by Cole's clerk that the speller for Which we had sold and delivered the warrants previously (believing them to be perfectly valid} had not till then been applied for, but that the purchasers were requiring it. Ile further stated that there were only about eighty tons on the wharf, but that they could deliver the remaining 320 tons on our paying 15/. per ton for it. This we declined to do till the warrants were returned to us for the due delivery of the spelter. We then paid the 15/. a ton and recovered the warrants, which remain with us still, and Overend, Gurney, and Co. were thus the only sufferers by the trans- action."

The Times is bound to say that " certain inferences which seemed to arise naturally from the evidence have been disproved. Messrs. Oyer- end and Gurney did not issue the fictitious warrants knowing them to be fictitious • and after they had become aware of the fraud committed upon them by Davidson and Gordon they did not discount for that firm 70,0001., but only 70001." But "this great commercialhouse, having discovered that a firm with which they had relations had been commit- ting frauds to an immense amount, did not denounce those frauds and stop the action of that firm, but allowed it to continue doing business, and sustained it for a season by a discount of 70001."

The Queen has appointed Rear-Admiral A. Milne, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, to be a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ; and Mr. Richard Charles Kirby, Accountant-General of the War Department, to be a Companion of the order.

Mr. Biggs Andrews, Q.C., has been appointed one of the Commission- ers of the Court of Bankruptcy, to act in the country in the room of the late Mr. Montague Baker Berm Mr. George William Saunders, of Rolls Yard, Chancery Lane, London, has been appointed Commissioner of the Birmingham Court of Bankruptcy, in the place of Mr. I3alguy, QC., whose decease we an- nounced on Saturday. The new commissioner was called to the bar in June, 1820, and has for several years filled the office of Secretary to Lord Justice Turner. He will enter upon his duties forthwith.

The Belgians were busy on the 14th, in celebrating the sixty-eighth birthday of King Leopold—an annual festival with them. At noon the Duke and Duchess of Brabant and the Count de Flandres attended a Te Deum in the Church of St. Michel and St. Gudule, in presence of the State bodies and the principal officers of the civic guard and of the army. The diplomatic body were all present.

Before he left Berlin the Prince of Wales received the decoratien of the Grand Cross of the Black Eagle.

The Count de Chambord has left Frohsdorff for Venice.

The Countess Lavradio, wife of the Portuguese Ambassador, died on Wed- nesday rather suddenly. She had been recently in apparently good health.

The Count de Paris arrived at Seville on the 17th on a visit to the Duke tie Montpensier. We ea that the undeemetiftoned geotlemett have beers appoifited4 amine the candidates for her Slejests"e'inedical Service in India, 4vléhtill

take pl,*c iii January 18'59: James Paget, Estes ; Geargeellessh,

Esq., ; Joseph Hooker, Esq., M.D..; „El...A, Petkea, it Wail. •

Mr, 1Sf. Donne, of 'Trinity College, Cambridge, -a high first'olassinatt.of -the:Classical Tripes of this ,year, has beert•appointed one of the Assistant Musters ef She Wel lington•College.

We sire 'glad to ',Innen-nee that 'the model for the Ilaveloc,k inemotial -whielrwe nelected fir especial cemeneridation in the reeent (voupetttinftIlit the Suf101k Street Gallery hos beeri chosen for execution hy the Committee. The sculptor is Mr: lielmes.:—/Worniny

The rttireis prints an amusing amount of a visit to a barletris pesmitsite

by Moneeigneue apostolic-Of Cambodia.' " Four •days after our 'arrival the filing of Brittarolonig expressed a wish to see Us.,,talitt e piridlitu -a visit. The only 'present We could give hint was.a bottle or eau :de Cologne, n 'penknife, and it pair ofseissors. These were - doubt less very tralery pre- sents to make to a, king, but he was neverilmlees 'delighted Of possesthug stroll rare objects., anil gate•us a very 'friendly reception. s He sheolt. treiss• ' hand, a rstlutation 'which rather inspired. me with•fear. as his :nailsireie about au Their in length, and et krd at the points. As all bintelothhig oinsiiteilef a loose shirt, and veto was, afraid of the triolrIeai theieigrit, he asked us for a pair ,ol'altielt and stockin 'I also .gave his elejestle4rey waistcoat, which lie riquested•throngh on of' the lital:thninO, Wheireho -EMT. enteeed the •rectertion-roem, 'or indica, -tete the shed which wesensed -tier 'that purpose, every mei theewliiintelf,flut on ground.• f%eissier parts, we hini in the Preach fushion. In older to give us, fetish proof ttf his retteere, ha made us sit down in • a line With him, and declared Strut all he in.ssessed was at one servic: Some 41a.V8 alter; finding that we were not very eager irs soliciting his royal favours, he reproashel ;islet-bur tiBtkwartlnesS, Bent us seine rice ceke."

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John Mitchell has . become, snout tend out partizan of slavraV sineehe emigrated to America; In 'a 'resent number of his'eaper. the Soutiseenieetti- zee,- he gives his views pretty plairily: ." What Southei ,statctilnali• have the pluck toplent hiineelf on the honestlittinan flesh platform ? It Is the true 'dmerereacy,' for it will nbolisli niminpoly. It is the beet IN)3411- ,Nothing*T; for it will citable the Areerioens to rule Atnerica; whiaarthe Engirsh and French do at present" ;• 'end's° forth.. Ile utidertakes te: show what the ivish,ariedoing in. America'earld -tulle how ahnost overy.largeplan- tation in thomarket is bouglm by ern Irishmen,. • lie says, "Not only is there a large number of Irish-/eoer citizens at the South who own slaves, but, most of the Southern planters arid slave-holders; wean proud to KIT, nre Irish by descent." Ile has met wills only ono of his coup tryniere Wil0 is not disposed to revive the African Slave-trades and that singular Paddy's reason is that he holds so many slaves that Ile wants. no more.

The police continues its visits in Jewish families, in order to ascertain . whether any Christian domestics tire kept by them. These visits often take place at very unseasonable hours. When some time two a Jew' re- marked to the intruders that it was ratherinconvenient to be disturbed by them, the ruffians fell upon him and beat him so severely that he was con- fined to his bed for three weeks. The Jews of Rome groan under the heavy yoke weighing upon them, and many of them anxiously look for the means to escape from a bondage as bitter as that of their ancestors hi Egypt. The Mortara family has received a definite answer to its memorial, that "bap- tism once administered cannot be revoked." Nor were the parents any longer permitted to sec their child, on the plea that when they tame it was sick. This will au:comet for their having quitted the Papal States.—Jetoish Chronicle.

A letter from Vie-rums states that the reinforcements which the Austrian Government has sent to Lombardy amount to about 8000 men.

A letter from Lombardy, in the Opinions- of Turin, states that M. Rossi, Professor of Veterinary Surgery at Pavia, was stabbed in the streets on the 16th, and died the next morning of the wound. It is not yet known whe- ther this crime be attributable to political motives or not. According to the Milan Ga:ette, the name 5f the assassin is Emilio Briettio.

The Eta Presente, a journal published at Venice, has received a warning for habitually opposing the views of the government, either openly or by covert allusions.

Count Montalembert's much spoken of pamphlet, has lately been sold at Paris with the title printed reversed, " Edni'L Rus Tabild Nu, par Ed Treb- melatnom." Masses of the pamphlet were disposed of before the police got aware of the trick.

The Courtier des Alpes says—" It is a fact worthy of remark, that the four principal employments of the republic of Geneva, the protestant Rome, as it is called, arc at present occupied by Roman catholics : namely that of chief of the executive power, which has just been filled by M. Fontanel; President of the Grand Council, M. Vuy ; President of the Municipal Ad- ministration, M. Campeiro; and President of the high Court of Justice, M. Chaumontel.

It seems probable that ninny houses in London and the country will give their servants and workpeople an extra Christmas holiday—Monday, the 27th.

The report of the Registrar-General shows that 1442 persons died last week. According to the corrected average the number should be 1305. The excess of mortality was, therefore, 137. Still on the whole there has been a decline in the rate.

The railway between Alexandria and Suez is now complete, and open. The batch of homeward travellers from India and Australia who landed at South- ampton on Tuesday, were the first to experience its benefits.

It is feared that the Sappho, 12, Commander Fairfax Moresby, which sailed from the Cape of Good Hope in January last for Australia, has foundered at sea. Nothing has been heard of her, and no trace of her found by the Cordelia, 11, sent especially to search for her.

As an instance of the effects of the late stormy weather we may mention the case of a vessel that passed through the Caledonian Canal. The Betsey, of Peterhead, from Oporto for London, with fruits and wine, lost the Eng- lish Channel during the storm. The first' port made by the master WBB Queenstown; on leaving Queenstown; intending to make for the English Channel again, he was driven as far north as the Sound of Islay ! He then determined to take the route of our canal, passing from the west to the east sea.—Inverness Courier.

The treatment of sailors suffering from small-pox cm board one of the ships of the Channel fleet, has attracted some notice. The United Service Gazette tells the story. "A case of small-pox made its appearance on board one of the ships of the Channel squadron sonic time ago. As the disease de- clared itself before the squadron left Bantry, the men might have been landed and sent to sick-quarters at Berehaven. This was not done. The ship left for Queenstown, but instead of making the best of her way thither 4se.g..}R: Oct espital —fhb Opp " tied leisurelt•under e pa ht s landed‘laitfe days on board the 4driiVaint Mittlandedo'die.. Other CAWS ,uentiy lirde_Vileic appearance, but were liept'fiaySatt,boardi; The ship

het' been 'Al ihigatek et.; Wive an v lirectations beett taken to prevent lhcareak1ot thiMIteadlitl Scourge.," • ,.

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