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      Continental Notes. Tea.Ce Prospects. Thb...

      -world , and the idea of free competition , which was first broached by the Minister of Commerce * -is-begin * niug-. td find more favour in the eight of the trading world ., The Pesth Chamber of Trade has declared itself in favour of free competition in trade , and the Brunn Chamber has followed its example . The Marquis de Ceva , the Sardinian- Minister , has returned to Vienna after a prolonged absence . GBEECE . Brigandage increases in Greece and in the Greek provinces of European Turkey . " On the 10 th of December , " says the Tiiiies Constantinople correspondent , " a band of brigands , forty-five in number , visited Chalcis at eight p . m ., and entered the house of M . Bondoruis , a deputy , situated on the outskirts of the town . The brigands , although the alarm was given , remained for two or three hours in the house , plundered to the extent of 40 , 000 to 60 , 000 drachmas , broke all tlie furniture , and carried off as pris oners the daughter , unmarried , of twenty , a son of ten , and a son-in-law of thirty-one years of age . They played cards in the house with a judge , wio was passing the evening there , the stake being the setting on fire of the house ; the judge , named Bogos ,. won ; they illtreated the mother , and tied her to her armchair , preparatory to scalding her with boiling oil , which , however , they gnve up . The ransom asked for the three is stated to be 240 , 000 drachmas . The chief brigand is said to have told his captives that they had nothing to fear , and were lucky in having fallen into the hands of an honourable robber I " Another

      communication from tbe East of Europe relates a case of still greater atrocity :-- " On the 11 th . of December , about four in the afternoon , a band of fifteen robbers attacked the village of Steersi , belonging to the Demos of Thermopylae . They seized and poured scalding oil over the "bodies of the mayor , of his daughter , and of his daughter-in-law . Having stripped him of all he possessed , and plundered the whole village , they then kindled a fire , and threw upori'it two women , who had attempted to escape . "

      3a The Los A B E R []Sto» 303 > Saturday...

      3 a THE LOS A B E R [] Sto » 303 > Saturday ,

      Obituary. The Marquis Of Aniesbtmy , K.T...

      OBITUARY . The Marquis of AniESBtmY , K . T ., died at his family seat near Marlborough , Wiltshire , on Friday week , in his eighty-tnird year . He was one of the most ultra of old-fashioned Tories , and a staunch Protestant " as by law established . " Marquis Towkshend expired a few days since at his villa near Genoa , where he had lived for many yeais in strict privacy . He is succeeded in . the maxquisate by his cousin , Captain John Townshend . E . N ., 1 JLP . for Tamworth . .

      The Rev . W . Webb , D . D . —The Mastership of Clave Hall , Cambridge , has become vacant by the death of ¦ the Rev . W . " Webb , D . D ., who held it for the lengthened period of forty years ( having been elected in 1815 ) , and , at the time of his decease , was the Senior Master in the University . The rev . gentleman graduated in 1797 , and soon afterwards was elected to a Fellowship . - In 1815 , having then accepted the living of Littlington , from the hands of the society , but being in his year of graeqy he was elected to the Mastership on the demise of ( the Rev . John Tookington , who had held office for the previous thirty-four years . The Master died at his vicarage at Littlington , Cambridgeshire , on Friday week > after a protracted illness , at the ripe age of eighty-one .

      Naval And Military, Sentence Ov " Dea/Ih...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY , Sentence ov " Dea / ih" upon a . Naval Ofpicek . — On the 11 th of December , a court-martial assembled on board the Valorous , in Kazatch Bay , to try Mr . Philip James Dennehy , second master , in charge of the Lynx despatch vessel , Lieutenant Commander C . MD . Aynsley . Captain Buckle was President , ' and the members comprised some of the Ablest captains in the squadron . Mr . Dennehy was charged with disobedience of orders , and with having been absent from his station while the Lynx was under fire of the enemy . Tho oircumstanoes are singular . Mr . Dennehy was second master of the Hannibal , but , under the impression that the Lynx would furnish him with better opportunities for distinguishing himself an < l of thus gaining his promotion , he

      solicited and obtained the appointment . He provod himself a most indefatigable offioer , always up at four o ' clock in the morning , and never leaving tho deck until all the ) duties of the day had been fully performed . Under his care , tho Lynx beoame a pattern of good ord « r ,. and the discipline was unex « optionable . Some years ago he served on tho coast of Africa in Dolphia brigantine , and evinced much commendable gallantry , in tho rather trying actions with the _ notavos . at Lagos . Hia whole character soetnfl to belie the . implication that the comluot fox which ho was arraigned arose from tho want of wliat is commonly called " pluok . ; " yet tho oharge 8 wore declared proven ; , and . ha has beeu nentonced to death I Tlie accusation arose out of circumstances at the reduction cf K nburn . Mr . Dennohy unquestionably was tt » weli- ~ h 0 was temporarily iuoapacttated from doing lua duty , « nd was not on tho dock when hia noi-vicea

      were in request . Some coolness had arisen xa the mess , and it is possible that the evidence of the medical ofBcer had the effect of giving a bad colour to the affair . —United Service Gazette . How Soudiers' Wives are treated . —We ( ZVwiea ) have received two letters from the wives of soldiers , which add to the many proofs already given of Neglect in official departments . The writer of one of these letters states that three weeks ago she received a letter from her husband , who belongs to the Turkish Contingent , stating that he had sent her £ 9 , which would be paid to her on application at a house in Pall-mall on mentioning her name and address . She has been

      there three times , and has received a letter since , but the only answer she can get is , that there must be remittances coming , as there are so many inquiries , and as soon as they get the money it will be paid . It appears ( adds our correspondent ) that a list of names must be obtained from the Paymaster , and then a letter is sent to the address of the person to whom it is to be paid . This is a new arrangement , but before it was made money was always received without difficulty . Our correspondent concludes by saying that she has written to the Secretary at War , btit all is of no use , and she can get no satisfaction . Thf other letter complains in still more striking terms oe official neglect in the payment of money . The writer

      says that she is the wife of a soldier who is fighting for his country , and that she has three children . Her husband sent her £ 2 on -the 8 th of November , but she has not yet received -the money . She also says that she has l-eceived several letters with three stamps affixed , for one of which she had to pay la . 9 d ., because her husband ' s name and number were not on it . She is now in the receipt of only 4 s . a- \ veek for the support of herself and three children , and has been compelled to make away with all her wearing apparel in consequence of not receiving the money sent to her by her husband . This correspondent has also written to the authorities , but no notice has been taken of the application . f

      < The Palmekston Pacificatoes . "— -The principal engineering foundries in Liverpool have the whole of their hands occupied in the manufacture of immense projectiles and enormous 1 pieces of ordnance . At the Mersey steel and iron vv-orks , in addition to the monster wrought-iron gun ,, to weigh-twenty-four tons , and to throw a ball of three-hundred pounds , upwards of five miles , they are cons tructing two ' wrought-iron mortars , capable of throwing a shell of thirty-six inches in diameter . At Messrs Fawcett and Preston ' s , they are executing an order for ninety mortars for thirteeri-inch shells , about fifty for sea and . forty for land service . 0 At the Vauxhall Foundry

      immense quantities of eight , ten , and thirteen inch shells have been constructed for some time , upwards of seven thousand tons of which have been made during the past six months ; and during the last ten days they have shipped one thousand : four hundred tons of shell to Woolwich . This firm are also making several dozens of ten and thirteen inch mortars for land and sea service , and two experimental cast-iron mortars to throw eighteen inch shells , which , it is believed , aro to be called the " Palmersfcou Pacificators . " Mr . John Laird is also building fourteen wooden screw gunboats of two hundred and forty tons and sixty-horse power each .

      Regimental , Quartermasters , —A royal warrant was issued at Chatham on Saturday , making certain alterations with respect to the pay , & c , of regimental Quartermasters . All those who have served for an aggregate period of thirty years , of which at least ten years shall have been as Quartermaster , shall have a claim to retire with the honorary rank of Captain , upon tho half pay of ten shillings a-day , provided such retirement be recommended by the Secretary of State for War . These regulations aro to have a retrospective operation ns fur back as tho commoucomeut of the present war .

      Courts Mahtjal in thr China Squadno * r . — Several courts-mnrtial have been lately held for the trial of various officers of or belonging to tho . China squadron . The second-lioutenant of tho Piquo was tried on a charge of drunkenness , and was sentenced to be dismissed his ship , and placed at tho bottom of tho list of lieutenants . Mr . Thomas Wilson , of tho Rattler , was tried for riotous and insubordinate behaviour , and for being drunk : he was sentenced to

      be dismissed hey Majesty'h sorvioo , mulcted of all pay , prize-money , Sec , and to be imprisoned in ono of her Majesty's gaols Lieutenant Phippo , of hor Mnjesty'ft ship Nankin , wn « tried on a charge , preferred against him by Captain tho Hon , Keith Stowart , for writing a certain letter , tho tone and spirit of which implied insubordination and subversion of discipline . Ho made no defence , but tlirow him & olf on the mercy of the Court , which sentenced him to bo severely reprimanded , and admonished to bo more oautiouB in future .

      Ameiuoan Gun Macihineky tor thm Encimwu Government , —About two yearn ago , the Englinh Government sent out a- commission to America , to inquire into tho method employed there in tho manufacture of Biwall anno . Thoao inquiries liavo ro

      suited in the ordering of complete sets of machinery in use -in American armouries , at a cost of about fifty thousand dollars . An American armourer ( Nr . Oratnel Clarke ) has be « n employed to go to England to superintend the working of the machinery ; and a contract for 25 , 000 riflea has been entered into .

      The Romance Of "The Times." (Ttnder This...

      THE ROMANCE OF " THE TIMES . " ( TTnder this Iiead , we reproduce from week to -week the most remarkable of those mysterious advertisements which appear every day at the top of tho second column of the Times front page . Some of theBtrangest glimpgea into the- romance of reality that any platec presents—not excluding the police offices—are to be found 3 n that dusky , hieroglyphical , yet moat humanly . interesting , corner of the great diurnal . Tragedies , comedies , farces—love , wretchedness , despair—the

      outpourings of broken hearts , and the supplications of parents to their runaway children—the last struggles of desperate poverty , and the slow viles of swindling—suggestions © 1 strange plots , as yet in the Trad—odd questions and answers flashed to and fro between distant friends—the whole seen obscurely through a dim veil which it is out of our power to raise , and which gives to tho fantastical details a sort of supernatural interest ;—of such is " the Romance of the Times . " Materials like these are worthy of being preserved in some other form . ]

      KEACH . —Yes . Address , as usual , W . H . C . 1 , Long-lane . I mean the metaphors . WHERE ARE YOU ? I shall be glad to know . Address E . B ., 65 , King William-street , City . W . H . —I cannot any longer bear our . constant separation ; it worries me sadly , and makes me miserable . Only consider the "time that has passed . I have much to confide to you which concerns the happiness of both most deeply . Ever yours . DO pray COMMUNICATE in secret with your still affectionate wife . Tell me where to find you . Address to me , Dolly , post-office , Osnaburgh-street 2 i " ew-road . THE ADMIRAL . —Presto . —Je ae veux paa que vou .

      THE ADMIRAL . —Do not send Presto to the Dominoes ; it- 'will not answer . Send to Porte St . Martin , to the name you first told me . Alas ! THE ADMIRAL . —J ' aioublie" tout-a-faitdel ' envoyei-C ' est absolument ma faute . On est fache . N . AY . Lundi . A la Porte St . Maa-tin . J ' attendrai la votre . HEBE . —The Hebe of furmer years is earnestly untreated to send one line to G . F .-W . who has not seen her since he went to Palestine . —MorleyV Hotel , January 7 , 1856 . TO VIOLA . — -I have returned . Pray let me heai from you and soon . You know the address . HOPE . — How can I write without knowing youi address .

      SARAH De F . AMELIA . —For heaven ' s sake , return , or write at once -to your broken-hearted parents , who will receive you kindly , and have some pity on

      F . G . ISABELLA . —If E . M . will communicate with E . L ., with a description of her cliild , ago , and date ol leaving home , she ¦ will be conferring a favour on an earnest friend . May it prove the same 1 Addres * E . L ., post-office , 24 , Cornhill . AN anxious WIFE ( or widow ) and MOTHER , who has reason to fear that the man who was found dead in a railway carriage at Lincoln , on the 17 th oJ August , 1854 , was her hueband , respectfully bo ^ s tho person who forwarded to Lincoln ^ 5 for the funeral expenses of the said deceased , to communicate to E , R ., Clovelly , Bideford , Devon , such information as may determine whether tho said deceased was or waH not her husband .

      Miscellaneous. An Impjciuai. Christmas-B...

      MISCELLANEOUS . An Impjciuai . Christmas-box . — Tho Emperor Napoleon has sent over to the Queen a very protty Christmaa gift . It da in the form of a lady ' H album ; und tho BubHtanco of it is an artistic memorial of hoi Majesty's visit to Paris . Tho drawings nro in watercolour , by tho moBt renowned French musters . " Tho Queen at Boulogne " ia by Mi . Morel Fntio , and thv departure from that port by M . Mozin . M . Chavot contributes to illustrations % o tho Royal olbum , " The Ball at Versailles " and " Tlie Imporial Supper . " " The Quoon's Arrival iu Puns" is drawn by M . Guerrard , M . Eugene Lami illustraton " Tho Arrival at St . Cloud . " A few otln « r drawiiige aro by artiatB loan known in England . The chbo which contains thono treasures ia got up iu tho moBt ojcquinito stylo , niul with all tho riohnotjs of ornamontutiuu for whicli EYonoh design ih renowned . The book , we believe , won produced for tlie Emporor at « coat of ono thouwmd guineaa . — A thcnwuirv .

      A CoMMEnoiAfc Christmas-box . —Mr , J . P . Hoy wood , of the firm of A . Hoywood , Sona , and Co ., extensive bankers , Liverpool , lian givontho handMonu * aum of onethousandguineas , to bo diviclod among the olorka and c ? nployen of the establishment , «» u timoly aid to them , an olorka with fljcod ( salaries , during tlu " proHBUre caused by tho war .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 12, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12011856/page/10/