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Dr. Tait, Bishop of London, was "enthroned" in St. Paul's Cathe- dral on Thursday. This ceremony is " simple and unadorned." When Dr. Tait, attired in his episcopal garments, reached the Chapter-house of St. Paul's, he was received by the Dean, the Canons, and other diocesan officials. Thence they proceeded to the Chapter-room' and took their places in order of seniority, Dean Milman presiding. Here Dr. Philli- more, Commissary of St. Paul's, introduced to them "the Right Reverend Father in God, Archibald Campbell, Bishop of London," and begged that he might be enthroned. The Bishop handed to the Registrar the man- date commanding the Dean and Chapter to induct, install, and enthrone "the Very Reverend Archibald Campbell Taft, Doctor of Civil Law, late Dean of the Cathedral Church of Carlisle, to be Bishop and Pastor of the See of London." The mandate having been read, Dr. Milman decreed the instalment of the Bishop, and administered the oath of alle- giance and supremacy, and the oath binding Dr. Tait to defend the rights of the Church. Then the whole clerical body ranged themselves in a pro- cession, and walked to the Cathedral ; where the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs joined the procession at the grand entrance. An anthem was sung while the procession marched up the nave. The Bishop. was con- ducted by the Dean and Archdeacon of London to the communion-table ; and the Bishop kneeling at the rails, the Dean began the following suf- frages, the choir responding.

Dean—"0 Lord, save Thy servant, Archibald Campbell, Bishop of this Diocese."

Answer—" And send him health from Thy holy place." Dean—" 0 Lord, hear my prayer." Answer—" And let our cry come unto Thee." Dean—" The Lord be with thee."

Answer—" And with thy spirit." Dean—" Let as pray. 0 Lord, Almighty God, we beseech Thee to grant to Thy servant, Archibald Campbell, Bishop of this Diocese that by preach- ing and doing those things which be godly, he may both instruct the minds of the clergy and people of this church and diocese with true faith and ex- ample of good life and good works, and finally receive of the most Merciful Pastor the rewards of eternal life, who liveth with Thee and Thy Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen."

The Dean then led the Bishop to his throne ; and having caused him to sit down, he inducted and installed him thus- " I, Henry Hart Milman, Doctor in Divinity, Dean of this Cathedral Church, do by the authority to me committed, induct, install, and en- throne you, the Richt Reverend Father in God, Archibald Campbell, b Divine permission Lord Bishop of London, into the bishopric and episcopal

ffignity of London. The Lord preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth for evermore ; and mayest thou remain injustice and sanctity, and adorn the place to T i

ou delegated by God. God is powerful, and may he increase your grace P

The Bishop was conducted to the episcopal stall by the Dean. A full choral service, and the Hallelujah Chorus were performed; and the new Bishop brought the whole to a close by pronouncing the benediction.

The Haberdashers Company on Saturday elected the successor of Canon Melvill as Golden Lecturer. There were thirty-eight candidates, and forty-three electors. The Reverend Diniel Moore obtained 19 votes, the Reverend C. Molyneux 18 ; leaving six votes for the remaining thirty-six candidates, among whom the favourite was Dr. Croly. Mr. Bickersteth was a candidate until the morning of the election, when he withdrew, having obtained the higher prize of a mitre.

A new Roman Catholic church, in Lamb's Passage, Bunhill Row, was opened on Monday, by Cardinal Wiseman. The church is of brick, and consists at present of a large nave, without aisles or galleries.

At the meeting of the Court of Aldermen on Saturday, the Town-Clerk read a letter from Mr. Stuart Wortley, tendering his resignation as Re- corder. It was moved that the letter be entered on the minutes ; and in answer to the question why the proffered resignation could not be ac- cepted at once, it was explained that great delay and injustice to suitors would be caused if there were no Recorder to do certain formal acts. In spite of this, and against the opinion of nearly the whole Court, Alder- man Sidney persisted in moving as an amendment, that the resignation should be accepted. He only found one supporter, and the original mo- tion was carried.

Mr. Thwaites and a deputation from the Metropolitan Board of Works waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday, to propose a loan of 4,000,0001. Mr. Thwaites represented the Board as unable to proceed with the work of Metropolitan improvement without assistance. The loan he asked for he proposed should be advanced in quarterly in- stalments at the rate of 1,000,0001. per annum. As security, he offered the-rates which the Board is empowered to raise. The value of rateable property in the Metropolis is 11,150,0001. ; it is increasing annually; and a rate of 3ad. would be sufficient to pay the interest and principal in fifty years. Sir George Lewis closely questioned Mr. Thwaites as to the nature of the security. The Chancellor told him that the Govern- ment would consider the question, and when Parliament meets would communicate the result to the Board. The Government must have Parliamentary authority for contracting a loan.

Some of the Southwark folks object to the new street designed for them by the Metropolitan Board of Works, because it is " circuitous " and not direct. They desire a straight street from the Borough Road to the Waterloo Railway Station ; and a number of them held a public meeting on Wednesday, at a tavern in Gravel Lane, and appointed a deputation to wait on Sir Benjamin Hall and state their views.

The Royal Society held its annual meeting, at Somerset House, on Monday. Lord Wrottesley, the President, delivered the customary ad- dress; in the course of which he advocated a renewed search for the re- mains of the Franklin expedition. The risk would be small, because the exploration would be confined to a fixed and limited locality, instead of extending through an untrodden. region. Lord Wrottesley vindicated himself from the objection that the expedition would endanger life.

" You will not suspect me, I am sure, of being indifferent to the fate of brave men ; but the fact is, it is well nigh impossible to add to our stock of physical knowledge without some risk to life. The astronomer in his ob- servatory, exposed night after night to the open air at a freezing tempera- ture—the chemist in his laboratory, among poisonous and explosive sub- stances—the surgeon who -handles the rlissecting-Imife—all, equally with the adventurous traveller, expose their lives to peril. We know what was the opinion of the great Athenian moralist and martyr on this question, from that fine passage in which the dangers of military and civil life are sobeau- tifully contrasted. I should have acted strangely, indeed;' says he, if, having stood firmly in the post assigned to me by my general at Amphipolis, Potidma, and Dehum, and braved every danger, I had turned coward and feared to die when God ordered me to be a philosopher and instruct man- kind.' "

The Copley medal was awarded to Professor H. Milne Edwards, for his researches in comparative anatomy and zoology ; the Rumford medal to Professor Louis Pasteur, of Lille, for his discovery of the nature of race- mic acid and its relations to polarized light, and for the researches to which he was led by that discovery.; a Royal medal to Sir John Rich- ardson, for his contributions to natural history and physical geography ; a Royal medal to Professor W. Thomson, of Glasgow, for his various physical researches relating to electricity, to the motive power of heat, ttc.

An interesting action for damages in a case of breach of promise of mar- riage was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday. The plaintiff was Miss Susannah Crippen ; the defendant Mr. Frank Farebrother, a son of Alderman Farebrother. The parties were engaged in 1852, the lady being seventeen and the gentleman being twenty-six years of age. The parents of each consented to the match. All went on smoothly until April last, when Mr. Farebrother suddenly ceased correspondence with the lady. She wrote to ask him if he would send word whether he intended to write anymore, or whether it was his wish " to break the correspondence off altogether." ' He replied that he thought all correspondence had better cease, " conformably " to the lady's letter. He sent back, by a carman, the presents she had made him and her letters ; but the presents were not to be delivered unless those he had made to her were surrendered, of which he sent a list ; and the letters were to be exchanged for Mr. Farebrother's letters to his Susan. This gave great shock to the lady ; from which she has not yet recovered, being now confined to her bedroom. The defendant did not deny that he had promised marriage to Mies Crippen, but-pleaded that she had released him from the cont

dract. The Jury thought otherwise, and awarded the plaintiff 4001.

amages.

The action for damages brought by the Earl of Lucan against the Daily Nora was tried before the Court of Exchequer and a Special Jury on Wed- nesday. The court was crowded with an audience that showed great in- terest in the case. Sir Frederick Thesiger and Mr. Lush were counsel for She Plaintiff; Mr. Edwin James, Mr. H. Hill, and Mr. Field, for the de- fendants. As only seven special jurymen answered to their names, the coun- sel for the plaintiff prayed a tales, and common jurymen were called to wake up the complement. The defendants pleaded ' Not guilty," and that the article complained of was a fair comment on the acts of a public man. The pleadings were opened by Mr. Lush, but the brunt of the speaking fell upon Sir Frederick Thesiger.

Sir Frederick, in addressing the Jury, described the high position occu- pied by his client—that of a public man, all of whose acts can be ascertained,. and contrasted it with that of his concealed opponent, who may have been actuated by malicious motives. By calling a portion of the press to account in a oourt of justice, Lord Lucan was aware of the danger he incurred ; but, satisfied that there is no taint -or spot on his character, he determined to brave that danger and appeal for reparation of the injury he had sus- tained. The libel was contained in an article on the Report of the Board of Officers who sat at Chelsea Hospital to review certain of the Crimean report of Sir John 31'Neill and Colonel Tullooh. The animus of the article appeared to be directed against Lord Raglan, and the writer endeavoured to trace the mismanagement in the Cri- mea to him. In the course of it several other persons connected with the Army —Lord Lucan, Lord Cardigan, Colonel Gordon, Sir Richard Airey, Mr. Filder—were more or less subjected to comment. Sir Frederick did not read the whole of the article, but only that part relating to the Earl of Lu- can ; which, he insinuated, had little connexion with the rest, and had been introduced " to gratify the spleen and malice of some secret enemy of Lord Lucan."] The particular passage selected for prosecution was as follows.

" This is what we see in the early history of the Crimean campaign. Seeing if„, we will not accept the sacrifice of lesser victims. Ill as we think of Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan, we feel convinced that had they been under the orders of a. competent Commander-in-chief--of one who would have known and treated them as soldiers only—even they would not have disgraced and discredited the name and fame of England, or would have been obliged to resign. Insolent, disorderly as they are—much inclined as they are to abuse their positions—relying, as they do, for support on a bad system of favouritism in high quarters—they are both brave men ; they have both some military spirit and aspirations ; and, used as instru- ments by a firm, vigorous, competent commander, whose firm will they respected and feared, something might have been made oi them. Not being so commanded, all their natural and acquired vices and defects had full play, and have introduced into the military history of their country an episode of the most discreditable de- scription ; which is not to be shuffled out of because the Board of General Officers happens to have hit on the true cause why supplies could not be conveyed from Ba- laklava to the front. No, the Lucan-Cardigan scandal still remains undiminished in real gravity, at once a warning and an instruction to the Duke of Cambridge as to the heavy responsibility he has assumed at the Horse Guards. His first, his impe- rative duty, will be to throw himself upon the young and energetic officers of the Army; to seek out and elevate to places of trust true ability and zeal ; to introduce into the service a deeper sense of responsibility, a more earnest sense of duty, than the truculent insubordination of the two whitewashed Peers, and the frivolous tone of the report upon which we have been commenting, prove to prevail among the senior members of the profession."

The libel was published on the 26th July ; it was shown to Lord Lucan at his club ; he consulted his solicitor ; and, after considerable delay—a de- lay explained by Sir Frederick—the solicitor, on the 6th September, de- mended the insertion of a full apology in the Daily News. The conductors of that journal replied, regretting that Lord Lucan should have been ag- grieved, and offering "to insert any letter which his Lordship might send on the subject." Lord Lucan declined to do this, or topoint out the alle- gations complained of as libellous, or to state the terms of an apology ; and the upshot was the present action.

The entire article having been read, the Earl of Lucan was called to the witness-boxt and examined by his own counsel. He simply stated, that he was the plaintiff; that he commanded her Majesty's cavalry in the East ; that he arrived in Turkey in April 1854, and embarked on his return from the Crimea in February 1855 ; and that he first saw the libel at the United Service Club on the day of publication. Here the examination of the plain- tiff as his own witness ceased ; and Mr. Edwin James, for the defendants, began a close and rigorous cross-examination. It opened characteristically.

Mr. James—" You were called upon to resign your command ?"—" I was re- called."

" Just attend, if you please—Were you not called upon to resign your command by her Majesty's Government ?"—" I certainly did not resign." " You were recalled from your command ?"—" Yes."

" Why were you called upon to resign ?"—'"The reasons given in the corre- spondence, I think, were, that in consequence of a letter that I found it necessary to direct to my Lord Raglan, in consequence of his report of the action of Bala- klava, that it was of Importance that the best feeling should subsist between the officers commanding the Cavalry and the Commander-in-chief, her Majesty's Go- vernment had decided upon recalling me."

Mr. James—" Repeat that."

Lord Lucan—" What I stated was, that the reasons given were that I had writ- ten a letter to Lord Raglan in reference to the report he made after the action of Balaklava ; that as it was most desirable that there should be no difference of the most trifling description whatever between the Commander of the Cavalry and the Commander-in-chief, her Majesty's Government had decided on recalling me." "Why, was it not, in fact, for insubordination 1 "—" Is that a question " " Yes, it is."—" Certainly not." " Was it not in consequence of a letter addressed by you to Lord Raglan, but afterwards withdrawn 1 "—" No."

" Were you required to withdraw it ? "—" No."

" Never ?"—' Never."

" But, in consequence of addressing that note to Lord Raglan, you were called upon to resign your command ?"—" The Government gave as their reasons for de- priving me of my command, that they thought that in consequence of that letter there might exist differences between the officer commanding the Cavalry and the Commander-in-chief, and therefore they decided upon recalling me."

Having obtained from the witness the admission that he had brought the whole subject before the House of Lords, and that it was matter of public discussion, Mr. James proceeded to put questions respecting the differences between Lord Lucan and Lord Cardigan.

" Had you differences with Lord Cardigan upon your arrival there ?"—(A pause.) I never had any personal difference during the whole time I was there." Any ,perlional difference : but was there any angry correspondence with you con- stantly ? '—" All my correspondence is in that book," (pointing to a book which Mr. James held in his hand.) " Was there any frequent correspondence of an angry nature between you and Lord Cardigan ?' —" I can recollect nothing of an angry. correspondence at all." " Were you not on bad terms—I mean at the beginning "—" On the contrary, on perfectly good terms."

" Was he not finding fault with you, and you with him, constantly 1"—" During the time that we were at Scutari there was no difference of opinion at all."

" When did it begin ?"—" I do not recollect. Not till we were embarked on board the Simla. Wait one moment. There may have been, but I do not recollect."

"Did not he complain to you of the manner in which you exercised your com- mand over him ?"—" Never."

" Did he complain to Lord Raglan ?"—" Yes." " In that letter ? In that letter."

" Was not that letter directed and dated from the bivouac at Alma the day after the action? "

The question was objected to ; but the Chief Baron ruled, that " when the party to the cause himself is in the witness-box, you have a right to get from him any fact that is within his knowledge, or that he believes to be true." Mr. James then resumed his questions.

" Did you not complain to Lord Raglan that you bad been separated as much as possible from the division, while Lord Cardigan had been intrusted with the com- mand of almost the whole of the cavalry ?"— But that is no complaint against Lord Cardigan. That was at Varna. It is true that I thought there was a chance of my not embarking with the first part of the army that was to land in the Crimea ; and in that letter to Lord Raglan I did state that I thought I had been improperly kept at Varna, while the major part of the cavalry had been detached under Lord Cardigan to Devna." Did this kind of correspondence, these complaints and jealousies, go on down to the date at which you were called upon to resign ?"—" No." " When did they stop? "—" I am not aware of any complaints or jealousies. I do not know of what you are speaking." Mr. James—" Of this letter of August 1854 ?" Witness—" Well, what do you wish to know ?" " How long did this sort of correspondence go on ? "—" I do not understand what you mean."

"How many letters did you write to Lord Raglan complaining of Lord Cardi- gan "—" Not one."

Very well, none excepting that ?"—" Stop one moment, you take me up so quick. What is the question ?" " Did you write any other letter of a similar kind to Lord Raglan referring to Lord Cardigan? "—" I do not recollect one." " Did you not complain to Lord Raglan that you could not act in the command with Lord Cardigan under you, for he had repudiated your authority ?"—" That is in the letter you have referred to." " Did you not complain to Lord Raglan that you could not act with a brigadier officer like Lord Cardigan, who began by repudiating your authority ?"—" Yes. " When did Lord Cardigan begin repudiating your authority ?"—" Within a week of his arrival at Devna."

" Was it a subject of remark in the army generally that you did not command the division; that the command was not left to you ?"— I so stated it in my letter."

" But was it the fact ? "—" I believed it to be so at the moment when I wrote the letter."

" Did you know that on the day after the Alma, the 21st September, Lord Cardi- gan complained from the bivouac at Alma that he could not act under your com- mand? ' —" That is the letter which I, as I have said, from a sense of duty, for- warded in a letter of my own to the Commander-in-chief."

"Did you not in the letter accompanying that letter of Lord Cardigan, which you forwarded to the Commander-in-chief, accuse Lord Cardigan of highly improper conduct ?"—" That refers to those parts of his letter in which Lord Cardigan re- ports direct to the Commander-in-chief without recognizing his Divisional General." " Did you not state that Lord Cardigan's conduct had been improper? "—" I ex- plained why the order of which Lord Cardigan complained had been given." " Did you not state that Lord Cardigan's conduct under your command had been highly improper? "—" I stated that the order of which Lord Cardigan complained-- but I am speaking from recollection of what passed two years ago, and many things have occurred since which might make one's memory defective—I stated, I believe, that in reference to that part of Lord Cardigan's complaint, my order was sent in consequence of what Lord Cardigan had done the day before." " Did you state that Lord Cardigan's conthict had been highly improper? "—" I will not, in answer to a question from any counsel, speak positively to words after an interval of two years." "I repeat the question : Did you state in your letter to Lord Raglan, that Lord Cardigan's conduct under your command was highly improper? "—" I will say no more on the subject: the letter is there in the book, and you can see." Mr. James—" But you have said, you know, that you know it all by heart." Lord Lucan—" Well, I think I do."

Mr. James—" Then I put the question to you, did you make that complaint to Lord Raglan ?"—" There is the book, and of course the letter will explain itself." " Did not Lord Cardigan complain of your unceasing interference ?"—" I think in that letter lie complains that I interfered too much." Did he not complain of your unceasing interference? "—" Really I cannot re- collect. You have Lord Cardigan's letter. That he did complain there is no doubt, for that is the whole burden of his letter."

"Yes, of your unceasing interference ?"—" Really I cannot recollect the precise words. The learned counsel brings particular words which he selects from parts of a sentence in a letter he has before him, and asks me to speak to them—really I cannot do it."

" But this is a series of acts. I ask, did not Lord Cardigan complain of your unceasing interference ?"—" I have said that he complained of my interference." " Did you not complain that he had written an insubordinate letter ?"—" That is the letter you have been referring to." "You complained in the letter which accompanied Lord Cardigan's that his letter was insubordinate to you ?"—" I don't think I did. I merely sent the letter, leaving Lord Raglan to form his own opinion."

" Do you know General Estcourt ?"—" Yes." " Did you not complain to him of Lord Cardigan ?"—" That was when we arrived at Devna, when Lord Cardigan, being detached from my command, refused to re- port to any but the Commander-in-chief. Upon the matter being brought before Lord Raglan, he said Lord Cardigan was wrong, and that it was his duty to report to his General of Division."

" Did you complain to General Estcourt that Lord Cardigan had written an in- subordinate letter ?"—" It was not in the nature of a complaint. I cannot really recollect the exact phraseology which I used ; but the letters are in the book, and will speak for themselves."

Mr. James recurred at the close of the cross-examination to the question why. Lord Lucan was called upon to resign, but he did not obtain answers more explicit than those quoted above.

No other witness was called. Sir Frederick Thesiger in summing up for theplaintiff, laid great stress upon the "unfair and unjust " mode of pro- ceeding adopted by the defendants. They had offered no evidence in justi- fication of the libel; they only endeavoured to extract from the plaintiff himself certain matters which might give a colour of fairness, to the plea that the article was fair comment.

Mr. James replied in a triumphant tone ; pointing out that his friend Sir Frederick, feeling the weakness of Lord Lucan's position, had endeavoured to divert the jury's attention from the substantial point of the case. He vindicated the plea that the article was a fair comment, penned without malice.

The Chief Baron summed up with quiet impartiality. He began by ex- plaining the state of the law of libel as affecting newspapers. By a late act of Parliament, it was provided that newspapers might plead that articles charged as libellous were inserted without actual malice. The law does not now presume malice on the part of a newspaper. The Jury would have to say whether the publication reflected on Lord Lucan ; whether the publica- tian had a malicious motive ; and whether it was a fair comment on the premises. If they thought it was a fair and bona. fide comment, then it could hardly be considered to be malicious, and the defendants would be en- titled to a verdict on that plea. If they thought it was not a fair comment, but an exaggerated, distorted, and outrageous view of the matter, then they would have to say whether it was malicious. It appeared that the act of Parliament meant to make a large and broad distinction between a case wherein a publication, not justified as a fair comment, was still without malice.

After an absence of about twenty minutes, the Jury returned with a ver- dict for the defendants. The result was hailed by expressions of congratu- lation from several persons in the body of the court.

The Court of Common Pleas has fixed the first day of next term—that some time in January—for delivering judgment in the ease of Swynfen versus Swynfen. The Court was occupied two days this week in hearing arguments in support of the rule moved for last week. The balance of the later statements respecting the compromise effected at the Stafford Assizes, and now sought to be enforced, went to exonerate Sir Frederick Thesiger from the undue assumption of authority imputed. It seems pretty clear that he acted at the suggestion of the defendant's attorney, who had great fear that the cause would go against his client. The Court will have to determine whether there has 'been an undue assumption of authority, or whether the compromise is legal.

The creditors of the Royal British Bank held an "indignation" meeting in Freemasons' Hall, on Tuesday, to express their anger at Mr. Harding' the official manager, for still contesting the decision of Vice-Chancellor Km_ dersley, from motives of self-interest, as they allege, and against the inter- ests of all connected with the bank. Much exasperation was evidently felt towards that gentleman, and once a cry of " Lynch him ! " was heard. On Tuesday an attempt was made to initiate proceedings in the Court of Bankruptcy for the appointment of a receiver, with a view to stop actions against individual shareholders. But Commissioner Holroyd declined to take any steps till the Lords Justices have decided on the appeal. [It ap- pears that a creditor, Mr. Morisse, obtained an execution in the Court of Common Pleas against a shareholder for debt and costs, 214/. ; which the shareholder paid. In such a state of things, the shareholders were left with- out protection by any court.]

The appeal to the Lords Justices against the, decision of the Vice-Chancel- lor in favour of a winding-up under Bankruptcy instead of Chancery came on for hearing on Wednesday ; and counsel have since been engaged in end- less arguments pro and con : Sir Fitzroy Kelly occupied four hours in his speech for the appellant ; he urged that the creditors could only get paid by means of the Winding-up Act.

The ease of the ancient books stolen from the library of Lady Olivia Spar- row was disposed of by the Marlborough Street Magistrate on Tuesday. Mr. Kortright was entirely absolved from all guilt—he had merely ac- companied his cousin, Beresford Augustus Christmas, when he went to sell the books, and he knew nothing of the robbery. As to Christmas, he is a young man highly connected ; he was shortly to be married to a lady of property ; he took the books while on a visit to Lady Olivia Sparrow. He pleaded guilty to the theft; and Mr. Beadon, moved by the entreaties of all parties, consented to treat the case summarily, the prisoner having already incurred severe punishment by his loss of character and position. °The sen- tence was imprisonment with hard labour for six months.

Redpath and Kent were reexamined at the Clerkenwell Police Office on Wednesday. Redpath did not seem so well in health as on former occasions —he looked flushed and feverish. A number of witnesses were called to show how Redpath had sold the 5000/. of stock which he had fraudulently placed on the books of the Company by adding figures to the real amounts of his purchases. Evidence was also given explaining how he had " cooked" the dividend accounts at a particular time to prevent a discovery of his frauds. The prisoners were remanded till Friday.

William Snell, the Great Northern Railway clerk, has been committed by the Clerkenwell Magistrate on two more charges—stealing checks and em- bezzling the money.

By direction of the assignees of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Bates, Messrs. Plews and Wall last week offered to public auction, at the Mart, a number of policies of assurance on the lives of Sir John Dean Paul, Mr. Bates, and others. In the course of the sale, the auctioneer stated, in answer to some remarks, that the bankrupts were then at the Model Prison, Pentonville; and he fiad been informed some time since, on what he believed to be un- doubted authority, that they would not be sent out of the country, but would, no doubt, soon get a ticket-of-leave, for he believed they deserve it. Eleven policies of assurance were sold for 83621. The sale was well at- tended, and for some of the lots considerable competition took place.

The great gold-robbery again came before the Lord Mayor on Tuesday. It was stated, that though Tester, the third man accused by Agar, was not yet arrested, he would be in custody and produced in the court by next week : therefore no more evidence affecting him was taken for the present. A number of witnesses were called to strengthen the statements of Agar by showing where he and Pierce had lived, and where they had met Burgess. The important testimony was that of Mr. J. C. Rees, the solicitor to the Railway Company. He described the researches he had made at the house occupied by Agar at Shepherd's Bush. On examining the back room, in which Agar said the stolen gold had been made into smaller ingots, he found full proof that Agar had stated the truth on that point. The chimney was free from soot—charcoal makes none—perfectly white,. and completely calcined. On taking out the stove, three fire-bricks and an iron band were found con- cealed behind it. The boards in front of the fireplace had been burnt, as if from molten metal running on them. He had the boards taken up, and under them he found a quantity of small particles of gold—about two ounces of small pieces, varying in size from a pin's head to a pea. At Pierce's house, he discovered a hole recently filled up with ashes in the pantry—there was no gold in it. The dust had evidently been only placed in the hole in the clay within a few weeks—fresh leaves, a lobster's claw, and other things in the dust, denoted this. It appeared from the cross-examination of Mr. Rees, that he had formerly questioned Burgess the guard about the robbery : Burgess always denied any connexion with it. Mr. Lewis tried to extract from Mr. Rees that he had held out some promise of forgiveness to Burgess if he disclosed anything about the robbery ; but Mr. Rees denied having ever hinted anything of the kind. The inquiry was again adjourned for a week. Jacob Israel, a Jew, has been committed by the Worship Street Magistrate for a very bad offence—criminally assaulting an idiot girl, the daughter of Mr. Cohen, a fruit-salesman, in whose house he had been brought up. The first intimation which the parents had of their child's shame was the dis- covery that she was about to become a mother. At present, the crime of the accused assumes a most atrocious aspect.

Mr. Ferguson, chief clerk to the Mendicity Society, has called the atten" tion of the Lambeth Magistrate to a new " dodge " of G. F. Roper, the fel- low who some time since got upwards of 2001. for an imaginary " blind sempstress." Roper has now got a real blind woman with whom to extract money from the charitable. The benevolent should-beware of the .trick: if the benevolent always had an average amount of common sense, the precious circular issued by Roper, and read by the Magistrate, would enable them to see that a trick is played.

Some London sharpers have met their match. One picked up in the street Mr. Ferrier, a Customhouse-clerk at Dundee ; took him to public- houses - was joined a confederate ; and began to put into operation the old plan olgiving the dupe money to be distributed in charity ; the recipient to go out with one rogue to buy stamps, while the other takes care of the money of both. The Scotchman refused to leave his money ; one sharper got away quickly ; Mr. Ferrier stuck by the other, and gave him into cue. tody. The Marlborough Street Magistrate remanded him.

Henry Philip Arthy has been remanded by the Marlborough Street Ma- gistrate on a charge of defrauding tradesmen. By representing himself as Lord John Hay," or the " Honourable H. P. Astley," he induced people to part with their goods in exchange for worthless checks.

The foreign passenger-ship Adele was one hundred and thirteen days in coming from Sydney to London; but the master, Ubbelohde, a German, had laid in provisions for only eighty days : the consequence was, that the passengers were on the verge of starvation when the ship arrived in the English Channel. Two of them summoned the master before the Thames police Magistrate for infringing the Passengers Act; and Mr. Selfe decided that he should pay 251. and 51. costs.

Last week, Mrs. Davison applied to the Thames Police Magistrate for help : she had lost her husband and one son had no money to bury them, I

and was left destitute with six children. In the course of a few days, "more than enough" of contributions for the particular cuss were received by the Magistrate—upwards of 501. Mr. Selfe thought this a striking proof, among many, that the rich have sympathy for the distresses of the poor.

South Lambeth Chapel, not far from the Vauxhall station of the South- Western Railway, was destroyed by fire on Sunday afternoon. The acci- dent was caused by the hot-air pipes having set fire to the floor-boards : it was discovered a little before five o'clock : numerous engines were quickly on the spot, but the chapel was soon a mass of ruins. It was insured.