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Arronnanwrs.—The Queen has appointed the Honourable Peter Camp- bell Scarlett, C.B., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Florence, to be her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil.

The Commissioners in Lunacy, with the approbation of the Lord Chan- cellor, have appointed John Forster, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister- at-law, to be their Secretary, on the resignation of R. W. S. Lutwidge, Esq., appointed a Commissioner.

The Sultan has raised his Minister Plenipotentiary in England, M. Mu- surus, to the higher rank of Ambassador Extraordinary.

Russian TRADE.—The report of the Hull Chamber of Commerce on the trade of 1855 contains a section on the trade in Russian productions still carried on with that port. Flax, hemp, and tallow, being able to bear the heavy charges of land-transport through Prussia, have been supplied in quantifies fully adequate to the consumption of the Hull dis- trict; but linseed has been inadequately supplied; while imports of iron, hides, wool, tar, and deals, have not been able to bear the charges for land-transport, and, we are left to infer, have not been supplied. Fin- nish tar has also been received via Sweden. On the other hand, consi- derable exports of colonial and other produce have by land been sent to Russia.

DeLwicit COLLEGE.—The Charitable Trusts Commissioners have issued a new scheme for the administration of Alleyne's charity, known as Dulwich College. The first object of the scheme is to preserve the rights of the present members intact : the Master is to receive his, 10151. a year, the Warden 8551., the two first Fellows 5501., the two second 4661. ; the twelve poor brethren and sisters 1501. each : but the property is annually increasing, and it is proposed to apply it, as far as possible, to the following purposes. Instead of twelve poor persons re- ceiving each about 1601. a year, there shall be double that number, with homes provided for them, and receiving a weekly allowance not exceed- Tun Amer in run EAST.—The total strength of the British land forces in the vicinity of Sebastopol, at the present moment, is as nearly as possible 53,000 men of all ranks and arms of the service. At Kertch there is a battalion numbering about 700, and on the Bosphorus thirteen regiments of cavalry, whose aggregate strength is rather over 4000; making a total, exclusive of 2400 in hospital at Scutari and lienkioi, of, in round numbers, 58,000 purely English forces. Between this time and the first week in March nearly the whole of the troops now com- posing the reserve at Malta will probably be forwarded to the Crimea ; their place being supplied by reinforcements from home, of which some- thing like 4000 will embark in the course of the next week or two. About ten infantry regiments from home, Malta, and Gibraltar, will in all likelihood be sent up to tho Black Sea about the same time ; thus adding more than 15,000 men to the English army now in the field, and bring- ing its numbers up to about 73,000, in all. The Turkish Contingent, the head-quarters of which is now at Kerteh, may be considered as amounting to 20,000. Portions of the British Swiss and British German Legions are already at Scutari ; one or tut more regiments are on their way ; and the total number of these corps in two months may be safely anticipated as 7000 men. The British Italian Legion appears likely to be most successful, but it is not probable that sufficient progress will have been made in its organization to allow of its taking the field early in the campaign. Summing up the figures just stated, the whole of the British forces will probably be found to amount to 100,000 men, of whom 85,000 will be effective combatants. Some important arrangements as to the re- distribution of the forces will be made on the arrival out of Sir Colin Campbell, who now holds the local rank of General. All officers on leave must be present with their regiments on the 1st of March ; and within a very few days of that date the public may expect to see an army ready to take the field wherever it may be ordered, which, in point of numbers, arrangement, and condition, we shall be justified in regarding with confidence and pride.—Globe, Jan. 4.

'LORD LIMAN.—We perceive with satisfaction that the Earl of Lucan, in a letter to the Times newspaper, announces his intention to adopt a sensible course.

" The gross misrepresentations and groundless charges made against me," he says, " have decided me upon having a statement drawn up under my own eye, giving a history of the English cavalry in the East, and its opera- tions during the time that I had the honour of commanding it. With this publication, supported as it will be by documentary evidence, I shall fear- lessly leave my conduct and character for the judgment of the public."

ing 20s., besides sixteen out-pensioners with a weekly allowance exceeding 108. ; but while thus preserving the eleemosynary character of the God's Gift," as the founder intended that his charity should be called, it is intended in an especial manner to develop the educationill department, so as to render it worthy of the name of College, by which it is more generally known.' Yor this purpose, two schools are to be established—an upper or classical, and a lower or English one—each provided with head-masters and under-masters, valuable exhibitions and other prizes. Beyond their salaries' the masters are to receive certain fees in proportion to the number of scholars, and there are to be day- scholars, boarders, and partial boarders. A goodly .number of the boarders are to be "on the foundation," but provision is to be made for the reception of many more at the bare cost of their living and books. The upper school is to be endowed with several exhibitions of 1001., tenable for four rears; the lower with twelve exhibitions not exceeding 30/. ;. and it will be in the power of the governors to allot prizes and gratuities. of not more than 40/. to other successful foundation-scholtus.

Coursions AT SEA.—Under the Admiralty regulations, ships sailing or at anchor between sunrise and sunset are compelled to show a bright light in order to warn off any approaching vessels, and thus prevent. col- lisions. The master mariners trading in the Tyne have sent in a me- morial to the Admiralty, stating that from their :experience the bright light has not answered the proposed object, and praying for the adoption of other measures. Thus they assert that the bright light renders the hull, outline, and rigging of the vessel, invisible, and renders it impos- sible to calculate whether the light is a cables length or a mile distant, whether the ship is at anchor or under way,.or what course she is steer- ing. The bright: light also interferes with the -Trinity lights. They therefore pray for an inquiry, and suggest that the bright light be discon- tinued, and that coloured signal-lights should be used instead ; a scheme for which they describe. They also suggest that fog-signals should be by sounds indicating the position and direction of the ships.

THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAELWAY QTJAHREL.—Mr. Edward Ball has written to the Times warning the public and the shareholders not to be led away by Mr. Waddington's reply, and casting doubts upon some of his statements in defence. Thus, Mr. Waddington says that by an increase of capital of1,2i3,0.00/. he has increased the revenue by 450,000/., or 371. per cent. Mr. Ball says .that the whole capital of the Eastern Counties Company is 18,748,018/. ; the total revenue 1,234,0181. "Your annual revenue alone is 371 per cent upon your. outlay," says Mr. Waddington : to which Mr. Ball replies—" Not one word of distinction between the various outlays for different. purposes at different times. The obvious import of the sentence to any reader is that the total revenue upon the total outlay is 371 per cent." Mr. Simpson, one of the Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, has thought it nto publish a reply to Mr. Wadding- ton, on the ground that Mr. Weaddington specially pointed out the share- holders and directors of the Eait Anglian line as animated by hostile motives, and giving vindictive evidence before. the Committee of Investi- gation. In very quiet language, Mr. Simpson protests against this style of aspersion. He shows that in the East Anglian he had brought about the union with the Eastern Counties which rescued that company from the rivalry of the Great Northern. In return, however, the managing Company [the Eastern Counties] sacrificed the general interests to local interests. The coal-traffic is an illustration. From Lynn to Denham is a distance of twenty-seven miles ; from Lowestoft to Dereham, for- ty-five miles : the managing Directors have fixed the same rate of 2s. 10d. : Lynn is in the East Anglian district ; Lowestoft is specially favoured by Mr. Waddington. "The Wells and Fakenham agreement, against which my protest was early put upon the books of the Company, is a case in point. The distance from Wells to Norwich is 42 miles ; from 'Wells to Fakenham, 81. A. ton of coals, therefore, would have to run, between the two points, over 33} miles of the Norfolk, and over 8} miles of the Wells and Fakenham; and yet, will it be believed, the net receipt, after deducting an equal sum for termi- nals, by the Norfolk for the 331 miles run over, would be fld., while for the 81 miles on the Wells and Fakenham it would be ls. 5d. Speculation is at a loss to supply an adequate motive for such an agreement as this. The gain to the Wells and Fakenham is beyond all doubt. The loss, and consequent increase in the working expenses to the Eastern Counties Railway, is equally certain."

" Issinn SEBASTOPOL."—The following is a translation of a letter written in May last by one of the Russian Sisters of Mercy ministering at Sebastopol. It vividly pictures the gradual increase of hospital hor- rors.

" Only a few days have passed since I last wrote to you, and now I could again fill at least twenty pages with the events of the one single night be- tween Tuesday and Wednesday. Oh, how much I should have to tell you but how or with what words ! My God, what a horror is war! What un- natural cruelty it is ! In the night between Monday and Tuesday our men were ordered to dig fresh trenches and throw up batteries, with a strong force to protect the workmen. We were all night prepared for attack, but it passed off quietly, and the whole of Tuesday was calm and still. In the evemn.g all was again expectation. Every preparation was made. Several rows of mattresses were laid on the. ground ; small tables were arranged with lights and writing-materials upon them. The attendants were placing heaps of lint, bandages, dressings, short stearine candles, and medicines, `upon a table. In one corner stood a large samoar (a lamp-kettle), and near it two small tables, with small teapots and cups. On the other side was a table covered with brandy, wine, lemonade, tumblers, and. wine-glasses. The room is nearly dark, "and a peculiar stillness reigns around, as in the air before a thunderstorm. Fifteen sur- geons, and more, are seated round Pirogoff in the room for operations,. or are walking up and down in pairs. The officer and the smoritel (superin- tendent), who have to see that everything is in readiness, are busily moving about, or are fetching in more medical help and attendance. As you stand at the door or look out through the lofty windows at both sides of the room, you see a bright quiet night, for the moon is shining, and the stars are twinkling, without a cloud. Between nine and ten o'clock there is a flash like that of lightning at the windows, and suddenly it roars till every pane of glass rattles. By degrees, flash follows flash, more frequent and rapid ; you can no longer distinguish the shots from each other. The fifth and sixth bastions are lit up with fire, but the enemy's bombs do not reach

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the city. We sit and listen, ever in the same sort of twilight, and about an hour passes over. Then comes a litter, another, and another—it has begun. The candles are lit ; folks run hurriedly backwards and forwards, and the large room is soon filled with. men.- The floor is covered with the wounded—everywhere, where they can sit, they who hare crawled in do sit. How they shriek ! what a din! Hell is let loose around us! You cannot hear the thunder of the guns for this wailing and groaning. That one screams, but not in words. This one cries—' Save me, brethren ; save me !' Another sees the brandy on the table, and entreats me—' Be a kind mother to me and give me a dram.' In all directions voices are heard moaningly entreating the surgeons, who are probing the wounds—' Good lay lord, do not rack me. myself, walk with great difficulty between the rows of stretchers, and cry out—' Come here, my man, and tale him to Gustsezinsld's house'—that is, where the hopelessly wounded are carried— 'take this man to the Nicholaieff battery ; place that man upon this bed.' New they bring in officers too. The room is crowded densely with the wounded, but operations are not to be thought of at this moment. God give us but time to bind up the wounds of all ! we Sisters are all busily engaged. They are bringing in an officer; his face is deluged with blood ; I wash it off—meanwhile he takes laboriously out of his snap-purse some money for the soldiers who brought him to drink his health. I have seen many do the same thing. I kneel on the floor to light the doctor—the wounded man has been shot in the breast—to see if the ball had gone right through. I place my hand under his back, and feel for the wound. You may minx' how he lies weltering in his gore. But enough. You would shudder if I were to describe to you all the tortures and agonies I witnessed that night. Dawn comes at last, and the firing ceases. We have a little gar- den. Picture it to your mind—well, there are wounded lying there also. I took brandy with me, and ran down to it, while the sun was rising most gloriously over the bay, amid the twittering of the birds, in the shade of acacias full of white blossoms. I found thirty, or thereabouts' all grievously wounded, most of them already at the point of death_ My Maker and my Lord ! what a contrast to this sweet spring morning !

" At seven o'clock the operations recommence. Although it was not my day to be on duty, I got up about six o'clock, and at seven announced myself ready for duty. Everything was in order They are bringing me my dinner. All is quiet. Thank God, this day, then, is a quiet one. The door is opened, and one stretcher after the other is borne along. What's the meaning of this ? How is this ? When were you wounded, poor men ? ' We have lain out yonder ever since that night.' There is a truce at this moment. Only think of this horror !"

Purim° HEALTH.—The total number of deaths registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1486. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-'54, the average number was 1190 ; which, if raised in a certain proportion for comparison with last week's deaths which occurred in an increased population, becomes 1309. The result obtained is an excess in the rate of mortality now prevailing, as compared with the average rate for the last week of the year. Before the cold weather, which was recently experienced, set in, the weekly deaths were about 1100; last week the deaths registered exceeded that number by nearly 400. This increase is to be re- ferred, impart, to the operation of natural causes in producing or aggra- vating diseases, and thereby increasing the rate of mortality, and partly to a cause which is periodical and incidental to the registration. At the end of the quarter, there is an influx into the register-books of Coroners' cases, which, if they had been registered when they occurred, would have been spread more equally over the last and previous weeks.—Official Report of the Registrar-General.

LORD AILRSBURY.—The Marquis of Ailesbury died yesterday morning, at Tottenham Park, near Marlborough. His health had been failing for some time. Lord Ailesbury was born in 1773. With the exception of Lord Aber- deen, he was the senior Knight of the Order of the Thistle ; an honour he received in 1819, followed shortly by a step in the Peerage from Earl to Marquis of Ailesbury. The title descends to George Frederick William, Earl Bruce who in 1839 took his seat in the House of Peers as Baron Bruce of Tottenham.

LORD CAITHNESS.—The Earl of Caithness died at Edinburgh on Monday sennight, in the sixty-fifth year of his age. Lord Caithness married, in 1813, Francis Harriet, youngest daughter and co-heir of the Very Reverend William Leigh, Dean of Hereford ; by whom he had issue, James Lord Berriedale, who succeeds to the title and estates, and Alexander Eric George, an officer in the Army. At the time of his death, the late Earl was Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Caithness.

ADMIRAL CURRY.--Admiral Richard Curry, C.B. of the " Reserved " list of flag-officers, died on Thursday week at the advanced age of eighty-four years. He obtained his commission as Lieutenant as far back as the spring of 1794. He commanded the Fury bomb-vessel in the expedition to the Helder and at the surrender of the Dutch squadron in 1799. The gallant Admiral also assisted at the destruction of two frigates at Medinblik, and subsequently took an active part in the expedition to Egypt in 1801, and was frequently officially noticed for his services on that occasion. He had received the silver naval medal and one clasp, and for his naval services was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath.

MR. THOMAS Cunrrr.—Mr. Thomas Cubitt, the great builder, died on the 20th December, at his house, Denbies, near Dorking. The following details of his remarkable career have been supplied by the Builder news- paper. Mr. Cubitt was born in 1788, at Buxton in Norfolk. "At the death of his father, when he was in his nineteenth year, he was working as a jour- neyman at the business of a carpenter. He shortly afterwards, with a view to improve his circumstances, took one voyage to India and back as captain's joiner. On his return to London, then about twenty-one years of age, with the savings he hadreit by he commenced a small business in the metropolis as a carpenter. After about six years, appearances of success manifesting themselves, he took a tract of ground from Lord Calthorpe in Gray's Inn Road, upon which he erected large workshops and carried on a very consi- derable -business. This establishment was afterwards relinquished to his brother, now Mr. Alderman Cubitt, who had been for many years associated with him. One of his earlier works while in the Gray's Inn Road was the London Institution, Meorfields ; where he met and overcame great difficul- ties. About the year 1824, he entered into engagements with the Duke of Bedford and Lord Southampton for tracts of ground, on which Tavistock Square and Gordon Square, with Woburn Place, and other streets around, now stand. Towards the close of the same year and the beginning of 1825 he engaged with the late Marquis of Westminster and Mr. Lowndes to cover large portions of the Five Fields and grounds adjacent. Of this engage- ment, Belgrave Square, Lowndes Square, Chesham Place, and other ranges of houses, are the results. He subsequently engaged to cover the vast open district lying_between Eaton Square and the Thames, now known as South Belgravia. lie has also carried out similar extensive operations in Clapham, Kemp Town, 'Brighton, and other places He established a work- man's library ; schoolroom for workmen's children ; and by an arrangement to supply generally to his workmen soup and cocoa at the smallest rate at i

which these could be produced, assisted in establishing a habit of temper- ance, and superseding, to a great extent, the dram-drinking which previ- ously existed among them. He has two brothers surviving—Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P. for Andover, and Mr. Lewis Cubitt, the architect of the Great Northern Railway Terminus. Sir William Cubitt, the eminent engineer, though a native of the same county, is not related. It may be worthy of remark, that the large engagements as to Belgrave Square, begun in 1825,

have been completed in the present year, and Mr. Cubitt'a own dwelling- house, on his estate at Denbai:, in which he died, is only just finished, as the future residence of his family."

According to the Glasgow Daily Mail, the youthful Marquis of Lothian is ere long to be married to the Lady Susan Ramsay, elder daughter of the Marquis of Dalhousie. The Marquis of Lothian has estates valued at 40,0001. a year. In November he was at Lahore, with the Honourable Mr. Egerton, having accomplished the "grand tour" of Ladak and Cashmere.

While Sir George Grey was hunting with the Old Berkshire Hounds, last week, his horse fell, and threw his nder with such force that one of the bones of Sir George's right arm, just above the wrist, was broken. He was conveyed to Lord Radnor's, Colesiill Park ; where the broken bone was set. Sir George was able to attend at the Home Office on Wednesday.

The Pope has been making four new Cardinals;—the Archbishop of Mu- nich, the Bishop of Repellensin, Father Gande, a Dominican Friar, and the Archbishop of Vienna. On the last creation, the Ruses correspondent re- marks, that "the Archbishop was the godfather of the Concordat, and the very least his Holiness could do for him was to give him a new hat ! "

Frenchmen are in favour at Stockholm. The King of Sweden has con- ferred the order of the Seraphim on Count Walewski, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.

A committee formed at Asti to obtain subscriptions for a monument to Alfieri have announced that they have collected the requisite amount, and they have invited sculptors to send in models.

John Insom, a noted sculptor of Florence, died on the 19th ultimo, at a very advanced age.

The marriage of Mademoiselle Cruvelli with Baron Vigier, son of Count Vigier, ex-Peer of France, has been posted up at the Mairie of the first arrondissement, Paris.

Mr. E. T. Smith, lessee of Drury Lane, is in a state of contumacy to- wards his Sovereign. Queen Victoria does not visit old Drury under the reign of Smith ,• and the Royal box is untenanted. The lessee has his re- venge. The other day, Mr. Charles Kean announced to the stage-manager of Drury Lane, that her Majesty would require the attendance of Mr. Charles Mathews, and other members of the Drury Lane company, to per- form at Windsor Castle, on the 10th January, and requested the said ma- nager to make his arrangements accordingly. Mr. Roxby, the manager, applied to Mr. Smith for permission ; and Mr. Smith, who holds the power to do so, declined to allow Mr. Mathews and the other actors to perform at Windsor Castle.

An Order in Council, published in Tuesday's Gazette, rescinds the order of the 20th September which prohibited the exportation of chlorate of potass to any place in Europe North of Dunkirk or in the Mediterranean Sea East of Malta ; and so much of the order of the 1st of November 1855 as prohibited the export of chlorate of potass to all foreign countries.

Count Walewski, on Saturday, signed a telegraphic convention with M.

Masud, Director-General of the Belgian Telegraphs; Mathe, Di- rector-General of those of Spain ; Chevalier Bonnell, of those of Sardinia, and Dr. Brunner, of those of Switzerland. By this arrangement, a uniform tariff has been established, much lower than that which previously existed for the transmission of despatches between France and the above-named countries.

The Municipal Council of Turin has appointed a committee to consider the expediency of organizing a Universal Exhibition at Turin. If the re- port of the committee be favourable, a Crystal Palace is to be erected, com- prising in its centre the Palazzo del Valentino.

In the first eleven months of 1855, the receipts from customs in the king- dom of Sardinia were 2,477,177 francs above those of 1854—an increase of more than 6 per cent.

Australia is recovering her prosperity. During the first eight months of 1855, the receipts of gold at Melbourne by escort exceeded those of 1854, and almost equalled those of 1853 ; the shipments in 1855 were greater than in either of the two proceeding years—the total was 1,671,879 ounces. The opening of the Sydney and Paramatta Railway, on the 26th September, was celebrated with great spirit. The Governor, Sir William Denison, travelled to Paramatta and was present at a banquet there. The public manifested very great interest in the affair : there was a general holiday, and 4851. was taken for railway-tickets. It is expected that this season Victoria will grow about half the food re- quired by her population ; a great advance in production.

On the other hand, the known liabilities of insolvents in Victoria from the 1st January to the 31st August amounted to 403,1681. ; and another 100,0001. ought probably to be added to this to show the whole amount of failures.

It is computed that South Australia has now no less than 120,000 acres of land under wheat cultivation.

The Allied cause has just been deprived of the services of a fair young Amazon who longed to do battle against the Moscov. The daughter of the Oberhoff-hiarsehall of Baden, sixteen years old, managed to get clear of her father's house, and to arrive, per railway, at Kehl, in man's attire and smoking a cigar. Here she was arrested in her further progress, and con- veyed ignominiously back to the seat of parental authority. The Reverend Mr. Pusey, of Langley, attempted to separate the sexes in his church ; but the parishioners rebelled, and continued to be a " mixed congregation."

An interesting race was run last week at Cairo between an English mare and an Arab horse belonging to lIaleem Pasha; when the former thoroughly beat the latter. The length of the race was eight miles, the time occupied

by the mare minutes, over a rough, gravelly, and sandy road. The same race has been offered for the last two years against all England, for 10,000 sovereigns, with the same horse, and not accepted. The Egyptian Princes are now convinced that their Arabs can be beaten by English horses. The late Viceroy, Abbas Pasha, had offered to stake any amount up to 150,0001. on his own horses against any others that might be brought to run.—Letter from Alexandria. Sergeant Brodie, late of the First Royal Dragoons, whose prevention of a duel between two officers of the Canterbury Cavalry depot some months ago will be remembered, has had his pension increased from la. to ls. 3d. a day, in consideration of his long services as sergeant.

A surmise has been made by a correspondent of the tows with respect to the death of Mrs. Wooler, which deserves notice. It is well known as a common practice in Germany, Hungary, and the Tyrol, for persons to take arsenic in minute quantities as a tonic and stimulant. It mvigorates the frame and chest ; it also imparts a brilliant bloom to the complexion and a general appearance of youthfulness. The too frequent practice of giving arsenic to horses in this country is also well known. It is, moreover, a won-

derful fact with regard to the taking of arsenic, that if it be discontinued the constitution breaks up with precisely the same symptoms which are produced by arsenical poisoning, and the sufferer dies a miserable death from want of the arsenic, with every appearance of being the victim of poison. Mrs. Wooler, it is suggested, may have been in the habit of taking small quantities of arsenic in the shape of Fowler's solution, a bottle of which was in the house at the period of her illness ; she may have determined to leave off the habit, unaware of the consequences of so doing, or when ill from seine other cause she may have been compelled to desist.; the result being, that she would appear to have been poisoned by its administration.

I have this day received communications from Constantinople, which say that the unfortunate Lady Ellenborough, whose romantic adventures are too familiar to the public, was lately assassinated in Arabia, by (says my in- formant) "le harem d'un Cheik Arabe." I am only able to add, that the deed is supposed to have been committed at the suggestion of some women who were jealous of her Ladyship.—Paris Correspondent of the Horning

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Count Rossi, a young Milanese nobleman, hired two boatmen at Leghorn to take him on a short trip out to sea ; a strong wind arose, and prevented return ; after three days both boatmen died from hunger and fatigue ; Count Rossi threw their bodies overboard ; sail, holm, and oars had been carried away by the waves, and the young man was obliged to allow the boat to drift whither she would, with difficulty baling out the water with his hat. At length the boat ran on a spit called La Calombrone, and Count Rossi waded to land ; there he was found half-dead by some customhouse-officers.

The Faith iron steamer, which had been purchased by the Turkish Go- vernment, foundered off Beechy Head on the 23d ultimo. She was built in water-tight compartments ; a great leak occurred in the foremost compart- ment, and the vessel went down by the head ; with one exception—a fire- man who did not come on deck in time—the crew, thirty in number, got off in boats ; they were picked up by a passing ship, and taken to Lowestoft. The Waverley, from Amoy to Lima, with 450 coolies on board, put into Manilla, with the master dead and disease among the Chinese. The pas- sengers were insubordinate ; the mate and crew forced them below, and battened down the hatches ; fifteen hours after, 251 coolies were found dead from suffocation !

There were two shocks of earthquake at Melbourne early on the morning of the 17th September, sufficiently violent to arouse nearly every one from bed.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of admissions for six days ending Friday 4th January 1856, including season-ticket-holders, 7686.