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      Naval And Military. A, New Order ©A? Val...

      or condition whatsoever , save the merit of conspicuous hraverv shall be held to establish a sufficient claim SThe ^ onour . It is ordained that every warrant officer , petty officer , seaman , or marine , or non-com-Soned officer or soldier , who stall have received SeCrosa , shall , from the date of the act ^ by which the decoction has been gained , be entitled to aspe-1 pension of £ 10 a-year , and each additional bai conferred under rale four on such warrant or petty officers , or non-commissioned officers or men , shall carrvwifch it an additional pension of £ 5 per annum . SbOld STOEY . _ Cap t % Lord Edward RusseD ia appointed to be paid aide-de-camp ^ Captam George Elliott to be aide-de-camp , to her Majesty . — ° aS £ Ll Sib Emiund Ltoss , GLC . B , will return to the command in chief of the Mediterranean and B 1 ^ G roiri ^ S at Po ^ H has commenced forming at the Motherbank Each boat , instead of one gun , as in the last campaign , is armed with two heavy long-range ^ guns and two how - itzers . There are twenty-six at Portsmouth already fitted and in commission . A Baronetcy for Sir John Burgoyne . —Her Majesty has been pleased to confer a baronetcy _ upon Lieutenant-General Sir John Burgoyne , K . C . B ., in consideration of the long and faithful services which , to

      from an early period in the late war aovra * iip ^ of Sebastopol , have connected his name with the principal achievements of the English army . New Promotions in the Army and Navy . — in the Gazette of Tuesday appear the names ofsome twenty or thirty military and naval officers , most oi whom have been promoted for their services either m the Peninsular or in the present war , to the second and third divisions of the Order of the Bath , lhe English public will recognise among them , wjtn satisfaction , Major-General William Fenwiek Williams , the gallant defender of Kara .

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      Obituary. Rear-Admiral Joseph Stipes Die...

      OBITUARY . Rear-Admiral Joseph Stipes died a few days since at his residence at Crewkeme , after a short illness , at the age of seventy years . He had served under Nelson at Trafalgar , being at the time midshipman on board the Tonnant , and was senior lieutenant ot the Bonne Citoyerme , Captain Mounsey , at the capture of the French frigtvte Furieuso , in 1809 . Me naci received the naval medal and two clasps for Ins services afloat . His commissions bore date as iollows : — Lieutenant , March 13 , 1808 ; commander , March 13 , 1810 ; Captain , March .- 21 , 1812 ; and retired rearadmiral , Oct . 1 , 1846 . . The Earl op Listowel has expired at ivlorrison s Hotel , Dublin , in the fifty-sixth year of his age . He was a lord-in waiting to the Queen , a deputy lieutenant and magistrate for the county of Cork , and Vice-Admiral of the province of Munster . tie is succeeded by his eldest son , who distinguished hunself at the battle of the Alma . The Bishop of Carlisle expired a few days ago in his 72 nd year . r , * t ,. Captain Maher , of the Glamorganshire Light Infantry , has been burnt to death in his bedroom . It is supposed that he dropped asleep while undressing , and that the candle fell against the curtains , and set them on fire . A short distance off , lay the dead body of a favourite dog .

      The Romance Of "The Times." [Under This ...

      THE ROMANCE OF " THE TIMES . " [ Under this head , we reproduce from week to week the most remarkable of those mysterious advertisements which appeal- every day at the top of the second column of the Ttms front page . Such materials are worthy of being preserved in some other form . ] N . -NO . Quite out oE place . —T . S . C . B . —Rest quite satis & ed . ihat Avhat you have heard is false . —H . % , GtfRTY—Do not forget the past . lour husband will always truly and faithfully love you . — C . H . A . S . . . . . . ,

      MY dear COUSIN , let me caution you against baa associates : there are some , I perceive , who are endeavouring to make yon one of their own . Yours sincerely , AG-USTA . —Feb . 4 , 1856 . DEAR H . C—Pray CALL or WRITE I have returned home . Affairs are , in a frightful state . — E . J . C , 6 , T—H . —Feb . 7 , 1856 . ah I am indeed pained and shocked , and can ' hardly believe it possible . WRITE all particulars to your broken-hearted father ; also what has become of him , and who are cognisant of it ?

      Shipwrecks. Loss Of The Emigrant Ship Jo...

      SHIPWRECKS . Loss of the Emigrant Ship Josephine Willis . — A collision took place in the Channel off Folkestone on Sunday evening between the Josephine Willis , Captain Canney , one of the London and New Zealand line of packet ships , . and a powerful iron screwsteamer called the Mangerton , bound to the Thames from Limerick . The former vessel had passed the South Foreland , and was proceeding very satisfactorily , when , about half-past seven o ' clock , Sandgate bearing S . S . W ., nine miles distant , a cry was raised by the look-out forward of " Light ahead ! The-Mangerton bore on , struck the Josephine Willis ¦ amidships , and cut her down to the water s edge . The passengers endeavoured to scramble on board * he Mangerton ; but only a few succeeded , and Captain Bouchier , of that vessel , almost immediately backed away from the wreck . Captain . Canney , of the t ~™«« u ;«« Awiitn v . ni < x < TQ < l toi'Hi thV 1 » 1 a Rolf-r » f » asession .

      I and directed the passengers to come aft . The ship then heeled over , with tho ends of her yards in water , and shortly afterwards svink . At midnight , a boat from the wreck containing several of the crew , reached Folkestone , ami efforts were made to save the other passengers , but in vaiu . The captain was drowned . The Mangerton—the bows and stem of which were completely driven in—made no effort to save those on board tho wreck , but proceeded to Deal , where she anchored , having previously picked up a boat con- 1 taining several persons . An inquiry has been commenced , but is not yet concluded . About seventy persons are missing . Total Loss of Her Majesty ' s Ship Polyphemus . —A tolegraphio despatch from tho English Minister at Copenhagen sayB : — " Tho Polyphemus was totally lost on the 29 th ult ., south of Hanstholm Li g ht , north-west coast of Jutland . The master and fourteen hands were drowned ; tho Btores , & c , will bo saved . It will bo useless and dangerous to send

      assistance from the seaward . A part of the cutter s and ship ' s crows having : reached a vessel in the offing makes the ntinnber of lost doubtful . A strong cur- I rent and fog were the cause of the acoident , Laud I was not seen , though within four hundred yards . " The American Brio Webster , Captain Heath , belonging to Buoksporb , United States , on her voyage from Cadiz , laden with salt , ran foul of a piece of timber , and sprung bo sorioua a leak that the crew took to tho looato , and , after forty hours of severe exposure , arrived at Gibraltar with the loss of their nlnf . Viinnr A ft-jw n . V » nnrlrYnir »< r if . fclift V > riir WODt down .

      | WUKOK O 3 T A FRIIKOH VESSEL NKAll BKHJUTON . — A vosael waa recently discovered about eight miles I from shore , between Brighton « nd Rottingdean , keel I uppermost . Tho doad body of a youth was disco-1 vored on board . The vessel proved to bo the I Joyeuflo , laden with flour . It woe probably upoot in I a squall . Loss of Siura mikv . GinRAi-TAK . ^—Several voasols have boon wrcokod near Qibrftltar , with loss of life iu Homo of the cancH .

      Miscellaneous. Progress Op Instruction T...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Progress op Instruction tn Art . —Birkenhead , Basingstoke , Andover , Southampton , Plymouth , Belfast Cork , and Limerick have established , or re-established , schools of art during the past year , making at the present time a total of sixty-three schools throughout the United Kingdom . At the beginning „

      , classes in no fewer than fourteen parochial schools . Er . oli class numbers forty students , and each student pays one penny a-week for the instruction , which is thus wholly self-supporting . Fire , and Loss op Life . —A house near the Fmchley-road was burnt down on Saturday night , when two children , who were lying on a sofa-bed , were kUecl . Their cries attracted attention , but assistance arrived too late . ' Sacrilege . —Three churches m the neighbourhood of Glossop , and one at Newmills , have been entered in I the night and plundered . A man and a woman are in oustody , and committed for trial , on a charge of being concerned . A Hu 8 bani > by Lottery . —A young lady , pretty and well educated , residing in the arrondissement of Pithiviers , has conceived the idea of putting herself up to lottery . There are to be three hundred tickets at 1 OOOf each , and to the fortunate winner she will give herself and the 299 , O 0 Of . by way of dowry . The lady

      haa attached some very prudent conditions to tne purohaso of tickets . Sue will only sell them to persons ] whom she may think will suit her , and in order to ascertain that point , she exacts a half-hour ' s t 6 tea-tote conversation with each applicant . No limit I of ago is imposed , but more than one tioket may be taken by one person . The lottery will be drawn on tho 25 th of November next at the Mairie at Pithiviors . No married men are allowed to take tickets . It is said that ft number of Englishmen have already bo-I come purchasers , and applications are coming in from I r > ll . iiinvfAvfl . — . TtnivnaZ diL Loh'Ct . |

      to Mr . Michie , the popular barrister , and as dramatic ciitic to the Melbourne Herald . " It was not -ft ithout regret that we read this announcement , which dees not speak highly for the prospects of literary ir . en in the southern land . A man of such varied powers might have been expected to make a more "brilliant future for himself in a new colony . Butwe trust he has " not lost all Lis original brightness . " The Late Accident in Fitzeoy-i lace , Nevt-KOAd . The adjourned investigation into the blowing down of a wall and the crushing of houses in Fitzroyplace New-road , by which a woman lost her life , was resumed on Thursday , and terminated in a verdict of " Accidental Death . " It will be recollected that the wall was rendered dangerous by being isolated by a fire and the foreman and several of the jury said they thought that some step should be taken to make it compulsory for the protection of the public that in such a case people residing in the vicinity should be promptly removed , or that dangerous structures should be secured without delay . A Penny Theatre in the Edgware-road . —A Mr . Braidley has brought an action in the Court of Exchequer against a Mr . Kcenig , for ejectment and to regain possession of a house in Grand Junction-terrace , Edgware-road . Messrs Taylor and Houghton had taken a lease of the house , with a special covenant against the premises being applied to the purposes of an exhibition or any other public object which could ¦ ' _ . - * t- > —* 4- -4-V « j-k- «— rt fr'J- m » rtTQ "Vx \ d 1 DT . T . hft iuvi k * —

      crow into Eui anTiijycLiiutj j uuv m-cj » «« . w « - « . « place to Mr . Kcenig , with permission to open an exhibition ; and he appears to have turned it into a sort of penny theatre of the lowest kind . The audience was usually composed of disreputable boy s and . girls who , while waiting for admission , would block up the pavement , and pass away the time by filthy conversation , to the great inconvenience and disgust of the passengers . A "verdict was given for Mr . Braidley , the plaintiff ; and Mr . Baron Bramwell granted speedy execution . , . Railway Statistics . —In England and Wales diere were 6 . 166 miles of railway open for traffic on the

      30 th June last , against 6 , 112 in 1854 . The total number of passengers conveyed b y these railroads amounted to 43 , 286 , 143 ^ , of whom . 5 , 995 , 1391 . were first-class , 15 , 035 , 7684 second-class , 8 , 123 , 096 ^ thirdclass , and 14 , 122 * 814 « Parliamentary" passengers , besides 9 , 325 season ticketholders . The total receipts from horses , carriages , luggage , parcels , and mails amounted to £ 450 , 026 , and the ^ tal reeeapta from general mercandise , cattle , and minerals to £ 4 , 4 « Jo , y ± 4 , making a grand total receipt from all sources of traffic of £ 8 450 , 394 . In Scotland there were 1 , 051 miles of line open on the 30 th of June , 1855 . On these lines 5 , 465 , 422 passengers were conveyed , —namely , 667 443 ^ first-classers , 833 , 529 ^ secoud-classers , 719 200 third-classers , and 3 , 243 , 289 Parliamentarians . Of season ticketholders there were 1 , 940 . The receipts from horses , carriages , luggage , & c , amounted to £ 46 , 859 , and the receipts from general merchandise to £ 625 , 649 . The grand total receipts from all sources amounted to £ 997 , 856 . 1 nlrelandtherewere 8 & 7 miles oi traveueo

      road open on the 30 bh June . On theae railroads . 3 , 063 , 584 passengers , including 3 W 28 of tfc e foafcclass , 1 , 231 , 8654 of the second-class , 658 , / 02 of the third-class , 791 , 663 Parliamentarians , and 2 , 1255 season ticketholders . The receipts from horses , carriages , lueaag-e , and mails amounted to £ 45 , 558 , and tnose frlmjeneral goods and cattle to £ 150 , 301 ; n ^ kmg a grand total revenue , from all sources of traffic , ot £ 445 , 698 . A comparative summary shows that in i the whole of the United Kingdom there were , on tno 30 th of last June , 8 , 115 mUes of line open for traftic , againBt 7 , 803 miles on the 80 th of June , 1854 ; that 51 , 815 , 149 * 1 passengers were conveyed thereon , against 50 367 , 404 in 1 S 54 ; that the receipts from passengers amounted to £ 4 , 125 , 487 ( exclusive of extra fares ) , against £ 4 , 081 , 792 in 1854 ; and that the > reoeipte from Roods and cattle amounted to £ 5 , 212 , 800 , against £ 4 , 826 , 825 in 1854 . The grand total revenue of all railroads for tho half-year was £ 9 894 , 049 , against £ 9 , 424 , ( 503 in the corresponding lialf-year ol

      The Ruqblst Poisoning CASH . -Tho secondI oxaini sseaessa "Sxaken Identity .-A young shopman at 'Glasgow S has been arrested under suspicion of being a deseifcei from the 82 nd regiment of foot . A pensioner , named James M'Kemaio , swore in tho most positive manner She had seen tho young man in tho uniform oTtho regiment ; butitwaB oweluriv ^ P ^^*^' ™^ ivonzio

      was in tho nrcny . M ««» " «« " . »» wm Pe HSra of London—949 deaths wore registered in London in tho week that ended on Saturday , February 2 . In the corresponding week of last year , tho mortality w , vs 1 , 604 . The difference ia 655 . Tho avorage corrected number of deaths , derived from the mean mortality for the ton corresponding weeks in . the preceding ton years , is 1 , 279 ; and this nunabor , oom pared with this -week ' s return , shows a deoroauo in tho latter of 330 deaths . TUo state of tho publio

      Tins Cab Dibputb . —Tho oaao , submitted to Mr , Arnold , ns to whether a cabman is obliged to carry a child under ten yoars of ago , camo on again in tho course of tho present weok ; when the magistrate , discovering that there was collusion between tho parties , and that tho summons waa not bona jute , dismissed it with a reproof . , Mb . 11 . H . Hobnk . — -Wo flud it stated in the Australian correspondence of tho Daily NewawnA , K . « . Homo , tho dramatist , and author of ' Orion , la-teJy in tho Gold Comininsion , is now engaged aa ohiot clertt

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 9, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09021856/page/9/