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MONDAY, JUNE 24TH.

- LONDON has been the scene of a great fire—the greatest, it is said, since the conflagration of 1666. It broke out at 4.30 on Saturday afternoon in the eight or nine warehouses belonging to Messrs. Seovell, which stretch from Cotton's wharf, on the southern side of the Thames, to Tooley-street. They were used as bonding warehouses, and were filled from floor to roof with immense stores of tea and silk, while the vaults were crammed with oil, tallow, cotton, hops, and grain, the whole of which were totally destroyed. To add to this very serious loss, the western range of Alderman Humphery's ware- houses known as Hay's wharf, four warehouses and a quay com- prising Chamberlain's wharf, and many buildings in Tooley-street, were wholly or partially destroyed. The first alarm was given by the labourers of the wharf, who noticed smoke rising from the hemp stored on the first floor of the wharf, and endeavoured to quench the fire with buckets of water. The smoke, however, drove them back, and the order was given to send for the engines. When the brigade arrived it was found that the fire had extended through iron doors, left open, to other warehouses, and by six o'clock the fire had burst out with awful fury. Meanwhile the vessels in the neighbourhood of the wharf had been hauled into the stream, two powerful floating engines brought off the wharf, and a number of engines brought up on the land side, the whole acting under the command of Mr. Braidwood. The laud engines in Tooley-street were, however, rendered useless for an hour by the inadequate supply of water. The water, moreover, from the first made no impression on the mass of flame, and by half- past seven one warehouse was gutted, and streams of blazing tallow ran down from every outlet into the river. Little explosions occurr- ing at intervals were followed by a terrific shock, which blew down the frontage of the second warehouse, crushing Mr. Braidwood, the respected chief of the Fire Brigade, who, as usual, had assumed the command at the post of danger, beneath the ruins. He was killed instantly, his body having been subsequently found crushed almost to atoms. Explosion after explosion followed, and by ten o'clock the fire had reached its height, and, says the reporter of the Times, in a description of almost unequalled power, "never since the fire of 1666 had such a scene been witnessed. The whole south bank of the river from London-bridge to below the Custom-house seemed one eta- pendous pile of fire, glowing at its core with an intensity that made the bursting of a great artery near the heart. He died suddenly, it painful to look at, and casting a ruddy glare above on everything having entertained a party of friends the previous evening, and retired far and near. There was scarcely a breath of wind, but what little to rest .in his usual vigorous health. He was found dead in the there was came from the river, gently turning the blinding mass of morning by his butler, sitting on a chair with blood oozing from his smoke and flame across Tooley-street to the London-bridge railway mouth. The deceased peer was born at Cupar, the son of the station. On it seemed to come, nearer and nearer, with a crackling miujster of that town, and at ten years of age was entered at St. roar that was terrible, with its millions of burning flakes filling the Andrews, intending himself for the Church. He soon, however, air as if the very atmosphere was on fire, and the great ranks of red discovered that he had mistaken his vocation, and on leaving St. flame flapping about their keen thin points with a dull noise, and Andrews proceeded direct to London, where he entered for the bar, leaping up high over the houses with bounds and spurts like faun- maintaining himself the while as theatrical reporter to the Horning tains of fire. The heat in the station became very great, and the Chronicle. In 1806 he was called to the bar, and commenced practice ground-glass windows at the side could scarcely be touched. Imme- on the Oxford Circuit, on which he continued till raised to the higher diately between the station and the fire was a large timber-yard, with honours of his profession. In 1827 he received his silk gown, and some houses almost jutting into it. If these houses caught, the in 1830 was elected for Stafford. The Reform Ministry made him, in timber-yard and station were certain to follow ; and the flames, thus 1832, Solicitor-General, and Attorney-General two years after, an office spreading in two directions, might travel over all Southwark. Upon which he distinguished by several legal reforms, especially by limit- these houses, therefore, the firemen concentrated all their efforts, and ing the power of arrest for debt, by the defence of the House of from the tops of eminences and piles of timber poured streams of Commons in the case of Hansard v. Stockdale, and by the celebrated water on the walls and roofs. Gradually, however, in spite of all defence of Lord Melbourne in the action for damages brought by checks, the walls began to steam, as if the houses were boiling, and Mr. Norton. During his tenure of the office he was twice pass little ominous curls of smoke wound through the slate roofs. Then over, and the Crown in compensation raised his wife to the Peerage more smoke, and the water hissed and sputtered on the roofs, and a by the title of Baroness Stratheden, and Lord Plunkett, the Irish dull increasing glow shone from all the windows, as if there were Chancellor, was compelled in spite of his unwillingness to resign. lights inside each room, and the panes were filled-in with red glass. Lord Campbell held this office one day, when the Ministry going out, More hoses were turned upon the roofs and walls, but all in vain. he resigned with a claim to pension, which he gave up, and lived for The smoke came thicker from the roofs, the light shone brighter from the next five years in comparative retirement. The retirement took the rows of windows, and as the wind moved in gentle puffs a flicker place in June 1841, and he devoted his enforced leisure to the Lives as of little gas jets came darting up between the slates, and ran of the Chancellors, a work full of spirit and ability, but inaccurate, quivering along like an illumination struggling with a high wind. At carelessly written, and not free from a tinge of malice. In 1846 he last the slates began to crack and crumble down, and the mass of accepted with reluctance the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lan- flames poured out with a dull whirring noise, mounting high into the caster, but in 1860 Lord Denman was coerced, like Lord Plunkett, air. A few minutes of fierce tremendous blazing, during which into retiring, and Lord Campbell became Chief Justice of the Queen's the remaining slates crumbled and dropped noiselessly down, and Bench. It was in this office that he tried Palmer for poisoning his all chance of saving the buildings was abandoned. For a time sporting associate, and secured his conviction by a charge which over- the roofs hold up, but at last, as if melting, they bend slowly, rode many contemptible quibbles, but was perhaps biassed against and disappear in an awful explosion of sparks. At about this the prisoner. He also heard the libel case brought by Dr. time (eleven o'clock) the station seems doomed." A slight bhange in which the failing of his character, the disposition to court popu- in the wind, however, saved it, and blew the flames towards larity, came strongly out. His proceedings all through seemed dic- the river, igniting two small vessels, which were destroyed. At tated by the anti-Catholic prejudice natural to a Scotchman, and twelve o'clock, as warehouse after warehouse caught, " the barrels helped to secure the verdict against Dr. Newman. In 1859 he was of saltpetre and tar with which some were stored exploded, and came raised to the woolsack, and discharged his new duties as he had dis- pouring forth in streams of liquid fire, which floated out upon the charged all others with meritorious efficiency. In private life Lord water in great sheets, and broke up at last into little islands of flame, Campbell was genial, but he secured few friends, and was careless of which went drifting up the river. All the vigilance and activity of adding to their number. He left a fortune of 200,0001., and the re- the Thames Police was necessary to beat and scatter these out as putation of an able, upright, but somewhat self-seeking Scotchman. they floated through the bridge. But all these exertions would have His son succeeds to his title, which is however lost in the older one been in vain to check the devastation which must have been caused of Stratheden.

by these floating masses if the remains of the ships burnt earlier in — Mr. Joseph M`Grigor, solicitor, of Melbourne, was charged with the evening had not acted as a kind of breakwater to their move- assaulting Sir Raymond Jervis, in the hall of the Union Club. Mr. ments. The great mass, therefore, of this liquid fire gathered round M`Grigor suspected the plaintiff of intriguing with his wife, and the fragments of the hulls, and kept their charred ribs glowing." A accordingly sought him, and struck him several times with a cane. huge granary lower down the river, next took fire, wall after wall Sir Raymond denied the accusation, but admitted in evidence that came crashing down, the flames caught Hay's wharfs, and by morning he had taken the lady, as an old friend of the family, to lodgings in buildings covering three acres of ground were reduced to heaps of the house in which he himself resided, and given her such things as ruins, while the fire continued to burn furiously in the vaults, which might. be useful to her in her journey to her friends in Australia. were stored with combustible materials, breaking out every now and The counsel for Mr. M`Grigor accordingly refused to withdraw the then in fitful gusts, which threatened an extension of the calamity. imputations, and the Bow-street magistrate, Mr. Corrie, sent the The engines, howeyer, though powerless as so many squirts on the case to the Sessions. central mass of flame, kept the buildings around thoroughly cooled, — Mr.. Simon has reported to the Privy Council some remarkable and gave the fire, as it were, an edge beyond which it could not facts on the maintenance of small-pox. Wherever vaccination is pass.—The central fire continued to burn up to the time of our neglected small-pox revives, and it is very much neglected. In going to press, and there is little doubt the flames will continue to London ten per cent. of the children who attend school are not burst out at intervals through an entire week. The occurrence vaccinated, and in Islington alone four thousand persons are sup- excited an intensity of interest rarely surpassed in the historyof the posed to remain without the protection. In some country districts metropolis. All Saturday night, Sunday, Sunday night and Monday only forty thousand vaccinations were reported to eighty thousand the population thronged in to watch the spectacle, and at one time births; and in some places a fifth of the children were unvaccinated. it was calculated a third of the population of London were within In such places the disease is sure to return shortly as an epidemic, seeing distance of the spot. The bridges were loaded, and the cheers but its ravages are so much less dreadful than formerly that people of the people as a boat escaped, or a boatman performed some daring are getting careless. Vaccination is now compulsory, but the law is feat, added to the excitement of the scene. Shops were kept open not an easy one to apply outside the large towns.

all night, and a regular fair was opened in the neighbourhood, but no — A fatal accident occurred on the North Staffordshire line on disorder occurred. The police, from a very early hour, got posses- Friday evening. The train ran off the line, and got down an sion of the roads leading to the scene of destruction, and the people embankment about thirty-six feet deep. The engine buried the were sobered by the visible grandeur of the calamity. The loss of driver John Smith, and John Tamms the stoker, and they were property is estimated at a million and a half, and actually affected scalded to death by the steam. The guard was crushed, and died in the funds, which fell under the expectation of heavy sales by the a few minutes. Evidence has subsequently been given to show that great insurance offices. Some of them are severe losers, but they the line was in a shocking state, the sleepers being rotten for many are strong, and the shares in the heaviest loser of all, the Pficenix yards, and the pegs loose and scattered about. One witness picked office, did not recede. Even the pecuniary loss was, however, for the up five. Of course, under such circumstances, the rails got loose, time forgotten in the almost national regret at the loss of Mr. Braid- and an accident became almost inevitable. wood, whose presence at all great fires, his skill and courage, which — A riot, which might have been serious,has occurred at Monaghan. illustrated a naturally grand character, had made him known to all A. bitter feeling, it appears, for some time existed between the militia classes of the population. We have, unfortunately, no space to de- and the police, owing to frequent arrests of the men for drunkenness. scribe the thousand incidents connected with the occurrence, but we On Tuesday, the 18th inst., the militia, who had attended the con- may remark that as usual no danger could keep back either the fire- secration of a Roman Catholic chapel, hooted the inspector of polce. men or the population. The firemen had repeatedly to be ordered No serious disturbance, however, occurred ; but on Thursday evening back from dangerous places, while the boatmen risked their lives about one hundred militiamen commenced an attack on the police by approaching too near to the flames in order to rescue each other, barracks, broke into the yard, smashed all the windows, and only to see the sight, or to pick up the floating tallow. The latter was desisted when the head constable threatened to fire. So threatening appropriated by the cartload, the populace entertaining the universal was the aspect of the soldiers that it was found necessary to bring in idea that a man has a right to anything which he risks his life to reinforcements of police, with two companies of regular soldiers, save. Most of it, however, was restored to the owners on a ma- and disarm the militia regiment. Seventeen of the men have been gistrate's order, and no disposition was manifested, as sometimes arrested. It is a defect of the English military system that outrages occurs, to steal anything except the floating tallow. of this sort are usually too lightly punished. The disbanding of the — Lord Campbell, Lord-Chancellor, died on Sunday morning from regiment is no real penalty, and the officers always escape. It is pendous pile of fire, glowing at its core with an intensity that made the bursting of a great artery near the heart. He died suddenly, it painful to look at, and casting a ruddy glare above on everything having entertained a party of friends the previous evening, and retired far and near. There was scarcely a breath of wind, but what little to rest .in his usual vigorous health. He was found dead in the there was came from the river, gently turning the blinding mass of morning by his butler, sitting on a chair with blood oozing from his smoke and flame across Tooley-street to the London-bridge railway mouth. The deceased peer was born at Cupar, the son of the station. On it seemed to come, nearer and nearer, with a crackling miujster of that town, and at ten years of age was entered at St. roar that was terrible, with its millions of burning flakes filling the Andrews, intending himself for the Church. He soon, however, air as if the very atmosphere was on fire, and the great ranks of red discovered that he had mistaken his vocation, and on leaving St. flame flapping about their keen thin points with a dull noise, and Andrews proceeded direct to London, where he entered for the bar, leaping up high over the houses with bounds and spurts like faun- maintaining himself the while as theatrical reporter to the Horning tains of fire. The heat in the station became very great, and the Chronicle. In 1806 he was called to the bar, and commenced practice ground-glass windows at the side could scarcely be touched. Imme- on the Oxford Circuit, on which he continued till raised to the higher diately between the station and the fire was a large timber-yard, with honours of his profession. In 1827 he received his silk gown, and some houses almost jutting into it. If these houses caught, the in 1830 was elected for Stafford. The Reform Ministry made him, in timber-yard and station were certain to follow ; and the flames, thus 1832, Solicitor-General, and Attorney-General two years after, an office spreading in two directions, might travel over all Southwark. Upon which he distinguished by several legal reforms, especially by limit- these houses, therefore, the firemen concentrated all their efforts, and ing the power of arrest for debt, by the defence of the House of from the tops of eminences and piles of timber poured streams of Commons in the case of Hansard v. Stockdale, and by the celebrated water on the walls and roofs. Gradually, however, in spite of all defence of Lord Melbourne in the action for damages brought by checks, the walls began to steam, as if the houses were boiling, and Mr. Norton. During his tenure of the office he was twice pass little ominous curls of smoke wound through the slate roofs. Then over, and the Crown in compensation raised his wife to the Peerage more smoke, and the water hissed and sputtered on the roofs, and a by the title of Baroness Stratheden, and Lord Plunkett, the Irish dull increasing glow shone from all the windows, as if there were Chancellor, was compelled in spite of his unwillingness to resign. lights inside each room, and the panes were filled-in with red glass. Lord Campbell held this office one day, when the Ministry going out, More hoses were turned upon the roofs and walls, but all in vain. he resigned with a claim to pension, which he gave up, and lived for The smoke came thicker from the roofs, the light shone brighter from the next five years in comparative retirement. The retirement took the rows of windows, and as the wind moved in gentle puffs a flicker place in June 1841, and he devoted his enforced leisure to the Lives as of little gas jets came darting up between the slates, and ran of the Chancellors, a work full of spirit and ability, but inaccurate, quivering along like an illumination struggling with a high wind. At carelessly written, and not free from a tinge of malice. In 1846 he last the slates began to crack and crumble down, and the mass of accepted with reluctance the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lan- flames poured out with a dull whirring noise, mounting high into the caster, but in 1860 Lord Denman was coerced, like Lord Plunkett, air. A few minutes of fierce tremendous blazing, during which into retiring, and Lord Campbell became Chief Justice of the Queen's the remaining slates crumbled and dropped noiselessly down, and Bench. It was in this office that he tried Palmer for poisoning his all chance of saving the buildings was abandoned. For a time sporting associate, and secured his conviction by a charge which over- the roofs hold up, but at last, as if melting, they bend slowly, rode many contemptible quibbles, but was perhaps biassed against and disappear in an awful explosion of sparks. At about this the prisoner. He also heard the libel case brought by Dr. time (eleven o'clock) the station seems doomed." A slight bhange in which the failing of his character, the disposition to court popu- in the wind, however, saved it, and blew the flames towards larity, came strongly out. His proceedings all through seemed dic- the river, igniting two small vessels, which were destroyed. At tated by the anti-Catholic prejudice natural to a Scotchman, and twelve o'clock, as warehouse after warehouse caught, " the barrels helped to secure the verdict against Dr. Newman. In 1859 he was of saltpetre and tar with which some were stored exploded, and came raised to the woolsack, and discharged his new duties as he had dis- pouring forth in streams of liquid fire, which floated out upon the charged all others with meritorious efficiency. In private life Lord water in great sheets, and broke up at last into little islands of flame, Campbell was genial, but he secured few friends, and was careless of which went drifting up the river. All the vigilance and activity of adding to their number. He left a fortune of 200,0001., and the re- the Thames Police was necessary to beat and scatter these out as putation of an able, upright, but somewhat self-seeking Scotchman. they floated through the bridge. But all these exertions would have His son succeeds to his title, which is however lost in the older one been in vain to check the devastation which must have been caused of Stratheden.

by these floating masses if the remains of the ships burnt earlier in — Mr. Joseph M`Grigor, solicitor, of Melbourne, was charged with the evening had not acted as a kind of breakwater to their move- assaulting Sir Raymond Jervis, in the hall of the Union Club. Mr. ments. The great mass, therefore, of this liquid fire gathered round M`Grigor suspected the plaintiff of intriguing with his wife, and the fragments of the hulls, and kept their charred ribs glowing." A accordingly sought him, and struck him several times with a cane. huge granary lower down the river, next took fire, wall after wall Sir Raymond denied the accusation, but admitted in evidence that came crashing down, the flames caught Hay's wharfs, and by morning he had taken the lady, as an old friend of the family, to lodgings in buildings covering three acres of ground were reduced to heaps of the house in which he himself resided, and given her such things as ruins, while the fire continued to burn furiously in the vaults, which might. be useful to her in her journey to her friends in Australia. were stored with combustible materials, breaking out every now and The counsel for Mr. M`Grigor accordingly refused to withdraw the then in fitful gusts, which threatened an extension of the calamity. imputations, and the Bow-street magistrate, Mr. Corrie, sent the The engines, howeyer, though powerless as so many squirts on the case to the Sessions. central mass of flame, kept the buildings around thoroughly cooled, — Mr.. Simon has reported to the Privy Council some remarkable and gave the fire, as it were, an edge beyond which it could not facts on the maintenance of small-pox. Wherever vaccination is pass.—The central fire continued to burn up to the time of our neglected small-pox revives, and it is very much neglected. In going to press, and there is little doubt the flames will continue to London ten per cent. of the children who attend school are not burst out at intervals through an entire week. The occurrence vaccinated, and in Islington alone four thousand persons are sup- excited an intensity of interest rarely surpassed in the historyof the posed to remain without the protection. In some country districts metropolis. All Saturday night, Sunday, Sunday night and Monday only forty thousand vaccinations were reported to eighty thousand the population thronged in to watch the spectacle, and at one time births; and in some places a fifth of the children were unvaccinated. it was calculated a third of the population of London were within In such places the disease is sure to return shortly as an epidemic, seeing distance of the spot. The bridges were loaded, and the cheers but its ravages are so much less dreadful than formerly that people of the people as a boat escaped, or a boatman performed some daring are getting careless. Vaccination is now compulsory, but the law is feat, added to the excitement of the scene. Shops were kept open not an easy one to apply outside the large towns. the non-commissioned officers who are first to blame. If they did their duty, and the first soldier who forcibly interrupted them were transported for life, rioting would speedily be at an end.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25TH.

— Sir John Villiers Shelley, Bart., Member for Westminster, was brought before Mr. Corrie, the setting magistrate at Marlborough- street, charged with indecently exposing his person. Sir John Shelley lives in St. James'-street, and the prosecutor is a Mr. Stafford, who lets lodgings in the opposite house. Mrs. Stafford deposed that on the 19th lust. she was looking out of her window, watching the ladies pass to the Drawing.room, when she saw Sir John Shelley, dressed in drawers and a white dressing-gown, come to the open drawing-room window and expose his person. The action could be seen from the street. Miss Griffiths, a cousin of Mrs. Stafford, confirmed this evi- dence, adding that though Sir J. Shelley " had drawers on, his legs were bare," and that he repeated his conduct frequently between two and four.—On the following day, Maria Hurley, nurse to Mrs. Train, deposed that she saw Sir J. Shelley repeatedly perform the act com- plained of, as did Ellen Smith, house-maid to Mrs. Stafford, who added that she had seen the accused do it months before. On Sir John Shelley's side, it was contended that the case was trumped up to punish him for having opposed Mr. Train. J. Muttick, a boy in his service, deposed that he had repeatedly gone into the room at the time specified, and seen him always in dressing-gown and plaid trousers. The window could not have been opened as there was a table in front. This testimony as to the dress was confirmed by another servant, and Mrs. E. Gibson, who also saw Sir John Shelley, saw nothing particular in his appearance. Sir W. Stirling, who passed the house at 2 o'clock, and saluted Sir J. Shelley, saw nothing particular in his conduct. Mr. Corrie here stopped the case, remark- ing that it was incredible any man should have acted in such a manner in a street full of soldiers, police and people. "In justice to the witnesses he must say that their evidence was given very properly, but that it was all an illusion, Sir John left the court unstained in character." The decision gave great satisfaction in court, and out- side the witnesses for the prosecution were hooted by the spectators. The affair is nevertheless unsatisfactorily explained. Either the witnesses did see what they said they saw, or they did not. If they did how can Sir J. Shelley be unstained in character, if they did not how can their evidence be pronounced very proper ? All who heard the case and saw the witnesses, like the magistrate, seem to have believed the charge unfounded, but in that case what was the character of the evidence for the prosecution? It is possible that some of the witnesses may have been deceived by an accidental ex- posure, but one at all events testified to acts extending over a long period. Sir John Shelley in justice to himself ought not to suffer the affair to rest.

— The Lords Justices ordered this day that Messrs. Day and Co. must deliver up all Kossuth notes in their possession and the plates from which they were struck to Messrs. Freslifield, to be burned within fourteen days, and made the injunction against printing more of such notes perpetual.

— The master builders, at a meeting held on the 25th instant, unani- mously resolved to adopt the system of payment by the hour. The

masons, on their side, have proposed to the masters to refer the question to the Council of Architects, if both sides will agree to be bound by the decision. They offer, besides, to afford all the informa- tion necessary to enable the council to arrive at a decision. — The inquest on the body of Edward Norton, private in the Fusilier Guards, who died of sunstroke on the march from Kingston to Guild- ford, terminated in a verdict of "Died from natural causes." The men, it will be remembered, were marched eighteen miles in full uniform, and with accoutrements weighing forty-eight pounds, under a blazing sun. The march was as "bad as an Indian march." A little water poured sharply over the man's head when lie first felt giddy would in five minutes have restored him to the possession of all his strength.

— The Council of the Royal Horticultural Society have requested the amateur bands of the police force to play in the garden, South Kensington, on the 29th instant. The performers are all amateurs, .and have only such time for practising as they can spare from their regular hours of duty.

— A. suicide has occurred at. Diss which reveals a new feature in our ticket-of-leave system. A man named Sheldrake, a ticket-of-leave man in the employ of Mr. Ringer, a Quaker of that place, attempted to take liberties with a girl named Susan Garrod, which she resisted. Irritated either by this or by the recollection of a former quarrel with the same girl, Sheldrake went out, took his master's gun, and fired at her head. The girl was only wounded, but Sheldrake thought she was dead, and hid himself in a ditch. Next day he was discovered, but as the constables rushed forward to arrest him, he raised the gun to his mouth and blew out his brains. At the inquest the father deposed that Mr. Ringer gave his son only 6s. a week, on which to support himself, his wife, and two children. Obviously Mr. Ringer availed himself of the fact of the man's conviction to keep his wages down to starvation point, one of the reasons among many which impel this class to enter again on a course of crime.

— On the 25th instant the Duke of Athol laid the first stone of a national monument to William Wallace. It is to consist of a Scottish baronial tower, erected on the highest point of the Abbey Craig, about two miles from Stirling, and is to be at least two hundred feet high and twenty-six feet square. The tower is to be filled with halls *tended to contain local antiquities, and surmounted by a coronal t or *perks). open crown, fifty feet high? and built of pure white

sandstone. The cost of the building will be 70001., of which 55001. have been collected. The idea seems an original one, and is prefer- able in all respects to the obelisks, statues and other memorials Englishmen are accustomed to erect. There must, however, be some mistake as to the price, unless the masons work for love of Wallace.

The Gazelle contains an order from her Majesty creating a new order of knighthood :

" The Queen being desirous of affording to the princes, chiefs, and people of the Indian empire a public and signal testimony of her regard, by the institution of an order of knighthood, whereby her resolution to take upon herself the govern- ment of the territories in India may be commemorated, and by which her Majesty may be enabled to reward conspicuous merit and loyalty, has been graciously pleased, by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to institute, erect, constitute, and create an order of knighthood, to be known by, and have for ever hereafter, the name, style, and designation of The Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.'

" And to ordain, direct, and appoint that the said order shall consist of the Sovereign, a grand master, and twenty-five knights, together with such extra and honorary knights as her Majesty, her heirs, and successors shall from time to time appoint.

"And to ordain, direct, and appoint that her Majesty, her heirs, and succes- sors, kings and queens regnant of the said United Kingdom, shall be sovereigns of the said most exalted Order.

" And that the Viceroy and Governor-General of India for the time being shall be grand master of the said order, and that he shall, in virtue thereof, be the first and principal knight of the order. "And that the said most exalted Order shall be governed by statutes and ordinances, to be from time to time made and ordained by her Majesty, her heirs, and successors, sovereigns of the said Order. " And to ordain and direct that it shall be competent for the Sovereign of the said Order to confer the dignity of knight of the order upon such native princes and chiefs of India as shall have entitled themselves to her Majesty's favour, and upon such of her Majesty's British subjects as have, by important and loyal services rendered by them to the Indian empire, merited her Majesty's favour.

"The Queen has been further pleased to ordain, constitute, and appoint the Right Hon. Charles John, Earl Canning, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Hon. °arable Order of the Bath, and her Majesty's Viceroy and Governor-General of India, to be the first Grand Master of the said Most Exalted Order of the Star of India; and to nominate and appoint his Highness Nisam-ool-Molk, Nnwab Triyinat All Khan, Nizam of Hydrabad ; General the Viscount Gough, K.P., G.C.B., some time Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces in the East Indies; his Highness Jyajee Rao Sindbia, Maharaja of Gwalior ; the Lord Harris, sometime Governor of the Presidency of Madras ; his Highness Maharaja Daleep Singh; General the Lord Clyde, G.C.B., lately Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces in the East Indies ; his Highness Runbeer Singh, Maharajah of Cashmere; Sir George Russell Clerk, K.C.B , Governor of the Presidency of Bombay; his Highness

Tookoojee Rao Holkar, Maharajah of Indore; his Highness Maharaja Khunde Rao, Guicowar of Baroda ; the Right Hon. Sir John Laird Mair Lawrence, Bart., G.C.B., lately Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab ; his Highness Nurendur Single Maharajah of Putiala ; Lieutenant-General Sir James Ontram Batt, G.C.B., lately member of the council of the Governor General of India; her Highness Nnwab Sekunder, Begun of Bhopal; General Sir Hugh Henry Rose, G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces in the East Indies ; and his Highness Yoosuf All Khan, Nnwab of Rampore—to be Knights of the said Most Exalted Order of the Star of India.

" The Queen, in order to mark the high sense and esteem in which her Majesty holds the said Order, and to give an additional proof of her affectionate regard for his Royal Highness the Prince Consort and his Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, has been pleased to nominate and appoint their royal highnesses to be Extra Knights of the said Most Exalted Order of the Star of India."

"INDIA OFFICE, JUNE, 25.

THURSDAY, JUNE 27TH.

— The police are inclined to believe that they have captured one of the perpetrators of the Kingswood murder. He is a German named Franz, from Konigstein, and he has admitted that he went with his companion, a German bone-turner, named Krohn„ to beg of Made- moiselle Tietjens. He has been identified by several persons as one of the strangers who were noticed in Kingswood on the day of the murder. His companion, who calls himself Macdonald, and speaks good English, has absconded, frightened apparently by the report of the evidence taken at the inquest. He was last seen at the Com- mercial Lodging-house, Whitechapel. — Lord Chief Justice Cockburn has givenjudgment in the Wake- field bribery case. The defendant, Mr. J. B. Charlesworth, it will be remembered, was tried at the York Assizes for bribery, when a witness, Mr. Fernandez, refused the questions put to him, was fined 5001. and committed for contempt. The case was stopped by his conduct, and the judge, instead of allowing the defendant to be acquitted, discharged the jury. Defendant now contended that the judge had exceeded his powers. The Chief Justice, however, with three other judges, held that he had not, and that Mr. Charlesworth was liable to be retried, he having been neither acquitted nor con- victed. He might, however, have an equitable claim to a pardon.

— Two men, William France and William Turfey, have been brought before the Southwark police magistrate on a charge of ma- nufacturing base coin. The case was very clearly proved, but it seems that France has been in the habit of attending Mint prosecu- tions at the Old Bailey, in order, as he said, " to pick up new wrinkles." He was, with his confederate, committed for trial.

— A woman, named Jane Palethorpe, residing at 15, Northampton- street, near the Old St. Pancras-road,: has poisoned her three chil- dren and attempted to kill herself. She is a slopworker, unable to earn more than five shillings a week, on which to support herself and three children, all under six. Unable to endure the misery in which she lived, she purchased some laudanum, and administered it to herself and the three babes. Fortunately, the laudanum sold to the poor is usually of about one-third its nominal strength, and the dose was insufficient. Only the youngest child died, but the mother has, of course, been placed in custody. She seems to have been scarcely sane when she committed the act, her mind having been depressed by news received on the morning of the murder that her husband had gone to /tined% with another woman, FRIDAY, JUNE 28T11. - Mr. Cobden addressed his constituents at Rochdale on Wed- nesday night, and his speech was reported by magnetic telegraph. He avowed his firm confidence in the French treaty, and then di- verged to general politics. " He repudiated the idea that France was contemplating an attack upon England, and they ought to pause before they believed the assertions of not over-wise admirals on that subject. He was glad to say that Rochdale was the only town in England that in public meeting assembled had refused to establish a volunteer corps. He was in France at the time, and he believed from what he there saw that the people of Rochdale were quite right. He had been led to form this opinion from what he personally knew of the feeling of France towards England. (Applause.) He firmly believed that when the volunteer rage was going on in Eng- land as now, the French nation never contemplated invading this country. As to the naval armament of the two nations, lie made an estimate that spring, and including the ten years preceding 1858 this country had, despite all the outcry of the people of England as to the navy of France, spent half as much more than that country did. There had always been a sort of tacit understanding between the two countries that England should have a navy about double that of France. The fact was, that while England had spent on her navy half as much again as France, she had had an advantage over that country of 20 per cent. She could build her engines at 30 per cent. less, while her coals and stores each cost her 20 per cent. less. What was the reason of all this expenditure, then ? Why it was through the invasion panic and the admirable mismanagement of the Admiralty. His friend Lord C. Paget, when speaking is Parliament in the spring of 1859 on the mismanagement of the Admiralty (Lord C. Paget being then out of office, they must remember), stated that he had gone very carefully through the expenditure of the Admiralty during the pre- ceding ten years, and he had discovered that 5,000,0001. sterling had been spent in that period on ships of war which were unaccounted for. Now neither he nor Lord C. Paget meant to say that the Admiralty had absolutely pocketed the money - they were too honest to do such a thing as that - but that they were un- able to keep clear accounts, and had spent that sum in making things which were positively useless. The idea which had been palmed off upon the public, that the French were building ves- sels to invade this country, was ridiculous, and he ventured, upon his conscience, to assert that no greater delusion than that had been palmed upon a people since the days of Titus Oates. Mr. Cobden then alluded to the mismanagement of the Board of Public Works, and quoted a speech delivered by Mr. Gladstone on the management of the British Museum, in support of his denounce- ment of the management of that board. During the time he was negotiating the treaty with France, the Rifle movement in this country was being carried on with the greatest vigour. The speeches de- livered at some of those meetings were of the most irritating kind. At one of them a Somersetshire farmer, on being asked, supposing the French were to invade England what he would charge them for his corn, replied it would only be bought by them at the price of their blood. He did not believe-and lie had as good an op- portunity of judging as any man-that the French nation ever con- templated invading this country. If he had ever believed it-if he had seen that France was creating a navy equal to ours-he should have been a traitor to his Queen and country if he had not denounced it with all his might. Before France should have a navy equal to ours, without reasons for having such, which she had not now, lie would vote one hundred millions sterling for the defence of our country. After giving the statistics of the men and boys in each navy, and other facts connected therewith, the hon. gentleman went on to speak of what lie called the most lamentable, the most deplorable civil strife which was now going on in America. He hoped our Go- vernment would not interfere, and he deprecated our having sent three thousand troops to Canada, since there was no prospect of an attack being made upon it by Americans, and since the act might engender ill-feeling in the breasts of the Americans towards us.

- The leading electors of Wolverhampton have agreed to nominate Mr. Weguelin to the seat left vacant by the elevation of Sir R. Bethell to the peerage.