came. The train proceeded, and, though speed was slackened, it soon after ran into the goods-train. The jury pronounced the death "accidental;" but added an opinion that "the accident arose from the very defective arrangements of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, more especially with regard to the want of sufficient sidings, the irregularity in the despatch of goods-trains, and the youth and inexperience of the servants employed."

Mr. John Langley, of Burnley, has Lost a Limb by attempting to Descend from a Railway-train, near Burnley, before it had come quite to a stand-he fell, and the carriages passed over his leg.

By an Explosion of Fire-damp in a coal-mine at Bilston, said to have been caused by a boy having dropped a lighted candle, two men and a boy have lost their lives, and seven or eight other colliers have been badly burnt. There were a hundred people in the pit, but nearly all escaped unhurt: there were two shafts communicating with the surface, and they ascended the one most distant from the foul air.

Patrick Battle, a lad of 18, has died in Parkhurst prison from Swallowing Poisonous Pills with intent to get admitted to the infirmary and its comforts. An inquest having been held on his body, the jury gave a verdict that the deceased died by poison administered by his own hands, with the view to gain admission into the infirmary, and not to occasion his own death.

A dreadful Boiler Explosion took place on the Sth inst. at Messrs. Losh, Wilson, and Bell's iron-works, at Walker-on-the-Tyne, which caused death to seven persons; their names are J. Jenkins, J. James, A. Dixon, M. Brodrick, T. Griffith, P. Donnelly, and J. Porter. Two men are also lying hurt at Newcastle infirmary, but several other injured persons, who were conveyed to their homes, are likely to recover. The boiler that exploded was one of two employed to work an engine which was engaged to drive some blast furnaces in the rolling mill upon the works. The engine was in charge of a man named Hall at the time the boiler exploded, and was standing to allow some alterations to be made in some straps. In exploding it lifted the other boiler from its seat, and broke some pipes, which scattered hot water about in every direction, and scalded a number of persons. The boiler was rent asunder, and hurled through the roof of the mill. It came in contact with two large chimneys, which fell, with their furnaces, and buried four of the deceased persons amidst hot bricks and molten metal. It then alighted upon an elevation, and as Dixon was running out of a shed where he had been working, it dropped upon him and crushed him to death. One of the ends fell through the roof of an adjacent alkali works, and took three fingers from the hand of a boy. The other portion, which weighed five hundred weight and a half, fell into a yard amongst some workpeople, but did no harm. Four persons were hurled into the Tyne by the force of the explosion, but sustained only slight injuries, and many of the workpeople had marvellous escapes.

A Singular Accident occurred on the 10th inst. at the London-bridge Railway station. A train of fifteen empty carriages were in the act of being withdrawn from the Brighton platform for transmission to New-cross, when, in consequence of the points on the main line being set for a turn-table siding, the engine took a wrong direction, and notwithstanding both the driver and stoker instantly discovered the error, and endeavoured by every possible means to stay the progress of the train, the engine burst through the boundary wall and fell into the street below, dragging after it the guard's break and one first-class carriage, and completely blocking up the thoroughfare of College-street, Bermondsey. The driver and stoker leaped off just as the engine fell over, and escaped unhurt, and as no passengers were in the street below, no personal casualty occurred.

The Hon. Mrs. Matheson met with her Death on Sunday the 30th ult., under very distressing circumstances. Mrs. Matheson left home at Inverinate early on Sunday morning, in order that she might walk leisurely to church, and saunter along the picturesque coast by the way. She did not appear at church, and not returning to Inverinate, the alarm was given, and search made in the neighbourhood, but without effect. Early next

morning, however, as Dr. Maclean was approaching Inverinate, he observed a bonnet and veil on the water, and further search having been made, the body of the unfortunate lady was found in the sea at the base of a rock, which it is supposed she had climbed to enjoy the fine view of Loch Duich which it affords. The deceased lady was sister to the late Lord Beaumont, was married in 1853 to Mr. Matheson, M.P. for Ardross, and has left two children, the youngest only a few months old.

The misconduct of a Drunken Engine-driver has caused a fatal accident in the Clyde, on board the steamer Duchess of Argyle. George Dunwood, the engineer, got so intoxicated that, when the steamer left Helensburgh, he could neither back nor set on the engines, and fiercely attacked every one who went into the engine-room to assist in the working of the engines, until he was overpowered, and secured till the vessel reached her destination. On the vessel's return to Glasgow, when approaching the berth to land her passengers, the engines, instead of being stopped, were set on full speed, in consequence of which the vessel ran up a good way under one of the arches of the bridge, nearly carrying away the funnel and paddle-boxes, to the great alarm of the passengers, but much more so of the captain (M'Pherson), who, on seeing the danger, fell down in a fit, and has since expired at Garelochhead.

A Railway Collision occurred on the London and North Western line on the 13th instant, at Heaton Norris, near Stockport, by the mail train from Manchester to London running into a goods train. The mail leaves Manchester at 4.24 in the morning, and is due at Stockport about 4:33. At the Heaton Norris station the driver of a goods train was shunting out of the way, when, either from the danger signal not being displayed or from inattention to it on the part of the driver of the mail train, the collision occurred whilst the mail was proceeding at a high speed. The shock was exceedingly severe, crushing and breaking the carriages and waggons of the two trains considerably, and the passengers of the mail train were thrown from their seats with great violence, and were more or less injured.

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At the Southwark Police Court, on the 16th instant, James Sopp, a switchman and signalman in the employ of the South Eastern Railway Company, was summoned before Mr. A'Beckett, for Neglect of Duty. solicitor to the company stated that the defendant had for some time held the situation of switchman and signalman in the company's service, and was employed at the crossing between the Bricklayers' Arms Station and junction of the line. It was his duty to attend to the gates which opened for the public to cross, place signals for the drivers, and set the points for the trains. On the 3rd inst., it was the prisoner's duty to attend to those points, and on the arrival of a train from Brighton for the Bricklayers' Arms Station, the usual signal was not up for the train to proceed. The driver with proper caution, stopped the train, and got off the engine to see what was the cause of the impediment, when he discovered the defendant asleep in his box. The defendant's solicitor hoped his worship would be lenient, as it was not a passenger train that was impeded, therefore the lives of the public were not endangered. Mr. A'Beckett said that the lives of the engineer and stoker were endangered, and he should inflict a penalty of 51. on defendant, and in default of payment commit him to the House of Correction for three months, with hard labour.

A fatal Accident has happened at Woolwich to two artillery gunners. On the 16th inst., Captain Inglefield's company turned out on Tuesday for target practice with round shot and shell, firing at a target distant 1,500 yards. Eight rounds had been fired from the 56-pounder in turn with four 32-pounders, the 56-pounder firing round shot, the 32's shell. On firing the ninth shot from the 56-pounder the shot had left the gun, and was near the target, when from some unaccountable cause the gun burst into pieces, the whole of the inner end of the gun dropping at least one hundred yards from its original position, the outer end taking an opposite direction, doing considerable damage to the next gun carriage on the same battery. The outer fragments of the gun

cut both legs and part of the lower part of the body of Gunner George Brown the 2nd, and cut the upper part of the head off of Gunner G. Gosling. Brown was alive when taken off the battery, but has since died. Gosling was killed on the spot. Several fragments of the gun, with the entire inner end, passed within arm's reach of Captain Inglefield and Lieutenant G. Maule. Had the sad accident occurred five minutes sooner, from six to eight persons must have been killed, as they had only that moment left the place.

A soldier of the Foreign Legion has Lost his Life at Portsmouth under very lamentable circumstances. A number of the men attempted to force their way out of barracks, contrary to order; the sentries were directed to resist them; and two presented their bayonets. In the excitement and confusion, Joseph Goltswaltz, a Frenchman, ran upon the bayonet of Nusbaum, a German; and almost instantaneous death ensued. An unfortunate feeling has been created between the French and German soldiers by the misadventure. Nusbaum is in custody. An inquest was held on the body, when it was clearly proved that the soldier on guard only performed his duty; and that the deceased himself, in his furious excitement, ran upon the bayonet presented against him. The verdict therefore was "Justifiable homicide."

Two persons were accidentally Killed near Harrogate on the evening of the 18th inst.--William Rhodes and Benjamin Burrows, the former a farmer from Staigburn, and the latter a woodsman from Farnley, near Ottley, were returning in a spring-cart from Knaresborough sheep fair. Between Harrogate and Beckwithshaw, Rhodes had occasion to get out of the cart. In doing so he fell astride the shaft, which set the horse kicking and plunging. He was thrown off, and hit in the face by the infuriated animal. The horse's shoe struck the ball of the eye, destroyed it, produced a pressure on the brain, and caused instantaneous death. Burrows, who is an old man upwards of seventy years of age, in the meantime was endeavouring to get out of the cart, and while doing so the horse ran backward into the deep ditch, which upset the cart and the old man, and the horse fell upon him. He had to remain under the animal a length of time before assistance could be obtained to release him, and when taken up was found to be quite dead. Two boys were in the under part of the cart, but escaped with little injury.

A destructive Fire took place at Monkwearmouth, on the morning of the 20th, at the Patent Ropery belonging to Mr. Hay. It is supposed that the accident was caused by a boy who lighted a lucifer match near some hemp. No lives were lost, some of the workmen having saved themselves with difficulty by leaping from the windows. But the whole of the valuable machinery is destroyed, and a large quantity of rope and hemp. Altogether the damage is estimated at about 10,0007.

A great Fire took place at Rochdale, which destroyed two large cotton-mills belonging to Messrs. Jennings. The loss of property is estimated at 25,000l.; and several hundred workpeople are thrown out of employment at an inclement season, and at a time of great depression in the trade.

On Wednesday night, the 24th_inst., a serious Railway Accident happened on the Croydon and Mitcham line, near Beddington. The line was only opened two days before, and consists of only a single line of rails. The engine of a passenger train ran off the rails, dragging the tender and passenger carriage after it. One of the carriages was smashed to pieces, the driver was killed on the spot, and several persons were hurt, but not dangerously. The driver is said to have been a very steady and experienced man.

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL

PROGRESS.

THE friends of the Reformatory Schools have had several meetings, on the occasion of the visit to this country of M. Demetz, the founder of the celebrated Institution at Mettray.

On the 3rd inst. there was a meeting in Birmingham in aid of the Warwickshire Institution. Among the

distinguished persons present were Sir Eardley Wilmot, in the chair; Lord Calthorpe, Lord Leigh, Lord Lyttelton, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Monckton Milnes, the Birmingham and Warwickshire Members, the Rev. Sydney Turner, the Rev. Angell James, and the Archdeacon of Coventry. In acknowledgment of his health, proposed by Lord Lyttelton, M. Demetz spoke in French to this effect:-I scarcely know how to thank you for the interest you express in the colony of Mettray, and the good-will you have shown to its director. have readily accepted the invitation with which you have honoured me, in the hope of both learning and imparting something that may be useful, so that our two countries may profit by our common labour. That free trade, about which some still doubt in reference to commercial interests, can find nothing but approvers when it concerns the interchange of thoughts and views which may be useful to society and to mankind. In the fair domain of benevolence we are but one people. The customhouse and the frontier are unknown. Linked as we already are in policy, let us unite ourselves together by the still more lasting bonds of charity; and what sweeter application of that virtue can there be than the helping of the young? It matters not to what class they belong; if they have shown perverted dispositions, there is the more reason to assist them. To despair of the young is to despair of mankind. Let us despair of none. If under many circumstances we have not fully succeeded in our efforts, it is perhaps because we have not done all that was needed to insure success. prove to the sceptic, by our zeal, that when the improvement of man is in question, to be willing is to be able, if we only will with a deeply devoted heart, and that he will not shrink from any sacrifice where the training of the child is concerned. No sacrifice can be more painful. The least offering may do something to eradicate a vice or to awaken a virtue. It is the saying of a great statesman, that 'on the good training of the young depends the prosperity of the state.' May all success attend the work you have here in hand, and extend it more and more widely; and may the good providence of God grant long life and happiness to the devoted and earnest men who have given it their powerful sanction and generous support.'

Let us

On the 6th there was a numerous meeting at Bristol, on the invitation of Mr. Commissioner Hill, to hear from M. Demetz an exposition of the principles on which the establishment at Mettray has been founded, and is at present conducted. M. Demetz, having been introduced to the meeting by Mr. Hill, said:"My attention was drawn to the subject of reforming young offenders by the numbers of children brought before me in the performance of my duty as judge at Paris. Many of these were no higher than my desk, and, as there were at that time no establishments for the reformation of juveniles only, I was obliged to consign all to prisons, where they were associated with grownup criminals, most of them the most hardened of their class, where, moreover, the treatment for children was the same as for adults, and which, consequently, I knew to be utterly unfit for them. M. de Courteilles and myself commenced the institution of Mettray in July, 1839, by assembling twenty-three youths of respectable parentage, whom for six months we occupied ourselves in training for teachers. We thus began the Ecole Preparatoire, or school for officials, which I believe to be the most important feature of the institutution, so important, indeed, that if that were to be given up Mettray itself must cease to exist. January, 1840, we admitted twelve young criminals, and very gradually increased the number. Mettray has first for its basis religion, without which it is impossible for such an institution to succeed; secondly, the family principle for a bond; and thirdly, military discipline for a means of inculcating order. The military discipline adopted at Mettray is this-the lads wear a uniform, and they march to and from their work, their lessons, and their meals with the precision of soldiers, and to the sound of a trumpet and drum. But, as the sound of the trumpet and the drum lead men to perform acts of heroism, and surmount the greatest difficulties, may it not reasonably be employed with the same object at a reformatory school, where, in resisting temptation

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and conquering vicious habits, true heroism is displayed, and a marvellous power of overcoming difficulties must be called forth? A striking proof of the hold the system had obtained over the minds of the boys was given at the time of the revolution of 1848. France was then from one end of the country to the other in a state of anarchy, and all the Government schools were in rebellion. At Mettray, without walls, without coercion, there was not a sign of insubordination; not a single child attempted to run away. It was in allusion to the absence of walls M. le Baron de la Crosse, Secretaire du Sénat, observed, 'Here is a wonderful prison, where there is no key, but the clef des champs! If your children remain captive it is proved you have discovered the key of their hearts.' During the revolution a band of workmen came to Mettray with flags flying and trumpets sounding, and, meeting the youths returning tired from field-labour, their pickaxes on their shoulders, thus addressed them :My boys, be not such fools as to work any longer. Bread is plentiful; it is ready for you without labour.' The chef who was conducting the lads, and who behaved with the greatest calmness and tact, immediately cried, 'Halt! form in line.' The lads, being accustomed to march like soldiers, immediately formed. The chef then stepped forward and said to the men, My friends, you have learned to labour; you have a right to rest; but leave these lads; let them learn now, and when their turn comes they may rest as you do.' The men gave way, the youths marched home, and Mettray was saved-saved, as I believe, by our habit of military discipline. Had those lads been walking homewards without rule like a flock of sheep, the men would have got among them, carried away one or two, and the rest would have followed; but, drawn up in line, they met the attack in one body, and thus it was repelled. M. Demetz proceeded to give other interesting details of the system pursued in Mettray, and concluded his address amid general applause.

On the 9th M. Demetz visited the Reformatory School at Redhill. He was received by the Rev. Sydney Turner and a large party; and the boys, who had made the place gay with flowers, were assembled in the schoolroom. Here eleven boys who have passed through their period of probation in the school, and will in a few days emigrate to the Colonies, advanced and read a simple address of welcome and thanks; to which M. Demetz listened and replied with great earnestness and emotion. "Some of us," said the boys, "have brothers in the army of England, who are now with the sons of France fighting the battle of freedom for the world. Will you say to our comrades at Mettray, that we hope both they and we will always be found side by side fighting against the world's greatest enemies fraud, and falsehood, and wrong." These, it must be observed, were not mere words of course; the boys at Redhill subscribed to the Widows' and Orphans' Fund on the occasion of the recent thanksgiving for the successes before Sebastopol very nearly 57 out of their own personal savings. They did the same on a similar occasion last year. M. Demetz expressed himself highly gratified with his visit. He left a subscription for the society, constituting himself a Governor. He solicited release for any boys under punishment; but, happily, there were none; and in lieu he asked that they might have a holiday at an early day, and gave them eighty francs for a treat on the occasion.

The Berks Reformatory School, established at Shinfield, is now ready for the reception of juvenile offenders. A meeting to further this and the extension of similar institutions was held at Reading on the 9th instant.

A Reformatory Institution has been formed in Yorkshire. At the first public meeting lately held at York, the Earl of Zetland in the Chair,-a report was adopted recommending immediate action, and proposing a plan. The object of the society is to establish a single school-farm. The Earl of Carlisle has offered a site of forty-three acres near to Castle Howard on reasonable terms, and that offer the society has determined to accept. They also agreed upon the rules for the regulation of the society's affairs, and appointed a committee to conduct them.

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at South Creake in Norfolk, derived peculiar importance from the address delivered by the President, the Earl of Leicester. His principal topic was the means of Improving the Condition of the Rural Population. "We are met together," he observed, "for the purpose of rewarding and encouraging the agricultural labourer. This association can do a great deal; but a great deal rests with the owner of the cottage in which the labourer resides, and next with the occupier of the land on which he is employed. First, as to the owner of the cottage. I have the misfortune-at least the misfortune as far as I am concerned-to be a very considerable owner of cottage property. I have endeavoured, as far as I can, to improve the cottage of the labourer; and in doing so I trust I have both physically and morally improved his condition. In the the first place, I have endeavoured in building my cottages to provide such accommodation as will allow a human being to live in the way in which a man should live. In the next place, I have endeavoured to build those cottages at as little possible loss to myself as I can. To expect a profit from cottage property without screwing the tenant, is impossible. By not allowing lodgers to be taken in, by enforcing a few other simple rules which it is necessary to make with the labouring classes, and by having my tenants in nearly every case directly under me as their landlord, I firmly believe that I have improved their condition both physically and morally. Now, gentlemen, as to the master who employs the labourer. When I, as an owner of cottage property, have done as much as I possibly can to improve the condition of the labourer, much still rests with the master who employs him. I believe, gentlemen, a good master makes a good man. I believe, if a little more attention is paid in looking after the labourers we employ, we may make them, in many cases, much more efficient, and give them a much greater interest in the soil on which they work and the prosperity of the master who employs them. I believe that when we take labourers from another farm, by making a few inquiries into their characters at the place which they have left-by paying. the same kind attention that we pay to our domestic servants-by taking, in short, an interest in them which we have hitherto not displayed-we might induce among labourers a regard for character which at present does not exist sufficiently in our district." Referring to the recent tea-festival at Banham, given by Lord Albemarle, and that happy innovation on the practice of giving largess to the labourers, he said

I believe that the giving of largess has a most injurious effect upon our labourers; in many cases I think it is the first introduction to the beer-shop. In saying this, I don't wish for a moment to lessen the number of holidays and indulgences which our labouring classes possess; for they are few enough now, and I should be rather inclined to increase than to diminish them. It may be said that this custom of largess is an old custom; but if the custom, though old, is a bad one, there is no reason why we should not abandon it. Our forefathers lived on acorns and mast; but that is no reason why we should return to that food. If an old custom is a bad one, let us get rid of it. I believe that the plan carried out at Banham by Lord Albemarle and the clergy and gentry of that district would prove of inestimable benefit to the county if it were adopted throughout Norfolk. One of the great evils we have to contend against is the vice of drunkenness. As an employer, I find I can deal with men, let their vices be what they will, if they are not given to drunkenness. With the drunkard I can do nothing. On the Friday, when he is paid, he goes to his beer-shop, and he won't appear again till Tuesday; and then he will come back in such a state that it is useless to employ him." He hoped the society would endeavour to eradicate that great evil of the county-drunkenness; and in aid thereof, he would give all that he had been accustomed to give in the way of largess, and double the sum, in furtherance of that object. Touching on the question of education, he proposed the establishment of a library for the poor, and schools for adults. "The great difficulty we have to contend with is this: it is all very well to talk about schools and education, but we hold out such inducements to boys six or seven years old,

that in a large family it would be very unnatural if fathers kept their sons at school when they can earn three or four shillings a week. Boys in this district of Norfolk can get certain employment when they are seven or eight years old; they are removed from school at about that age; and I think the most desirable plan would be to endeavour, if possible, to teach those boys in adult schools, when they are old enough to see for themselves that it is desirable to learn."

An Agricultural Society has been Established in Tipperary. It consists of 120 members, and its president is the Earl of Derby. Its first anniversary was held on the 20th ult.; and Lord Stanley, in the absence of his father, presided. In proposing success to the society, Lord Stanley remarked that it was the first time he had addressed a meeting on that side of the Channel. Fifteen years ago there was a Farming Society in Tipperary, a small association, in which the same persons gained the prizes every year. But in the hard times, the times of trouble, that society died a natural death; and this new one, arising at the beginning of a new æra for Ireland, was founded on a broader foundation, and comprehended alike the wealthy and the poorer classes. He enlarged on the benefits conferred upon districts and agricultural science by these societies, and pointed out to the amusement of the audience a few of the grosser defects of farming in Ireland-abounding weeds, wasted manure, small farms. It was a calumny to say, as some had said, that the peasantry of Ireland were naturally idle: he did not believe that; he repelled that calumny. Who was it that made the railway? who was it that dug the canals? who was it that did all the hard work that was done in all the great towns in England? who that cleared the new lands in America and removed the forests? who did all these things? in nine cases out of ten he was prepared to answer it was the Irish peasant. Who had improved every country in the world but his own? If he went back to causes for this state of things, no doubt he could find them; but in stating them he should say something that would not be agreeable to all or practically useful at the present moment. He believed that much of the misery they had to deplore was caused not by one class but by all classes, and that all were equally in fault. He would say, let bygones be bygones. He believed that a new æra had opened for Ireland, and that they would now consult their own duties by taking immediate advantage of its advent. Let them only use half the energy in the good work which they had wasted in feuds and in factions, in political and sectarian dissensions,-let them do this, and they would go far (to make Ireland what God and Nature intended her to be, and what man had hitherto prevented her from becoming-the garden of Europe and of the world. In acknowledging the "health of the Earl of Derby," Lord Stanley apologised for his absence, both then and permanently; and drew down "tremendous cheers" by closing a brief speech with the declaration that he could not forget the maxim which should be written in letters of gold over the door of every landlord, especially every Irish landlord-"Property has its duties as well as its rights."

At the recent anniversary meeting of the West Buckland Agricultural Society, Lord Ebrington presided in the absence of his father. In the course of his address he remarked, that although the children of the smaller farmers are making progress, yet, compared with the children of labourers who have the advantage of free institutions established by private benevolence and largely endowed by the State, they are losing ground. This was the preface to an offer of 251. for three years to any farmer's son who should pass the best examination in English history, geography, and practical mathematics.

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

THE Queen, Prince Albert, and Royal Family, have returned to Windsor Castle. They left Balmoral on Tuesday morning, the 16th inst.; rested for the night at Holyrood; and arrived at Windsor next evening.

On the 24th inst. the Queen received an address from

the Corporation of the City of London, congratulating her Majesty on the glorious successes of the British army and fleets, in conjunction with her Majesty's allies. The address was presented by a deputation, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and principal members and officers of the Corporation. They were received at Windsor by her Majesty, seated on the throne, with Prince Albert on her left, and attended by the great officers of state and the members of the royal household. The Queen returned a most gracious answer; and the Lord Mayor, Alderman Wire, and Deputy Dakin (the mover and seconder of the address), had the honour of kissing hands.

The Queen has conferred the Regius Professorship of Greek, vacant by the death of the late Dean of Christchurch, on the Reverend Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Baliol College.

A meeting has been held at Rochdale for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to Mr. Sharman Crawford, the late member for that borough.

The people of Oldham have held a public meeting, convened by the Mayor, and adopted a memorial to the Queen, praying her Majesty "to grant an unconditional pardon to John Frost, Zephaniah Williams, and William Jones, but more especially to John Frost, as that unfortunate gentleman has expressed a strong desire to return to his native country before he dies, being now upwards of seventy years of age."

The Friendly Societies of Manchester gave a tea-party at the Victoria Hotel on the 27th ult., for the purpose of presenting an address to Mr. Bright, and of voting thanks to Mr. Gibson and Mr. Sotheron for their exertions in defeating Lord Palmerston's Friendly Societies Bill of 1854, and in passing the bill of 1855.

The Earl of Clancarty, a Protestant nobleman, has granted a site for a Roman Catholic presbytery-house at Ballinasloe.

Prince Frederick William of Prussia left Balmoral on the 1st inst.; the Queen and Prince Albert escorting him to Castleton of Braemar. Before he departed, however, he had been joined by one of his Aides-decamp, Baron de Moltke, who remained as a guest of the Queen for three days.

Captain and Brevet-Major the Honourable Leicester Curzon, of the Rifle Brigade, the bearer of the despatch announcing the successes achieved by the army under the command of General Simpson and the capture of Sebastopol, has been promoted to the rank of LieutenantColonel in the Army.

Sergeant Brodie, who interfered to prevent a duel, or mock duel, arising out of the practical jokes, among military officers at Canterbury, is no longer in active service: he has been superannuated, with a low rate of pension. His appointments in the regiment were lucrative, and it is considered that he has been punished for daring to interfere with the freaks of officers. A testimonial expressive of the public feeling has been set on foot, and the Earl of Shaftesbury has subscribed 51 towards it.

Major-General Markham has arrived in England. He has returned home in ill-health, arising principally from a change of climate from India to the Crimea, and from a hurried journey through India, Egypt, and Turkey. His legs are so swollen that he can hardly walk. Although not 50 years of age, he looks almost 70. His face is very thin, and he is literally black with exposure to the sun. He wears an immense beard, which is quite grey.

A numerous meeting of the County Magistrates of Norfolk have resolved to congratulate Major-General Windham on his escape from the perils of the attack on the Redan, and to present him with a handsome sword, in testimony of their sense of his exemplary courage, constancy, and self-devotion.

General Sir George Brown has gone on a continental tour, accompanied by Lady Brown. The gallant general purposes to pass the winter at Nice.

Dr. Southwood Smith has resumed his professional practice. "For more than a quarter of a century," says the Daily News," of zealous service and profes sional sacrifice, Dr. Southwood Smith has at length been rewarded with the privilege of beginning the world again. The end of his unfailing success in pro