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      world * . and'the : idea . of free competition ^ which wais first broachedby " the Minister of Goromercej isbegin- " rung to / find' more favour in . the sight of ( the trading world . The Pesth : Chamber-of Trade has declared itself in favour of free competition in trade , and the Broun Chamber has followed its example . The Marquis de Ceva * the Sardinian Minister , has returned to Vienna after a prolonged absence . GEEECE . Brigandage increases in Greece and in the Greek provinces of European Turkey . " On . the 10 th of December , " says the Times Constantinople correspondent , " a band of brigands , forty-five in number , visited Chalcis at eight p . m ., and entered the Louse of M . Bondouris , 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 the furniture , and carried : off as prisoners the daughter , tiumarried , of twenty , a son of ten , and a son-in-law of tLirty-one years of age . They played cards in the house with a judge , who was passing the evening there , the stake being the setting on firfe of the house ; the judge , named Bogoa , won ; they

      illtreated the mother , and tied her to her armchair , preparatory to scalding her with boiling oil , which ' , however , they g * ve up . The ransom asked for the three is stated to be 240 , 000 drachmas ; The chief brigand is said to have told \ % yk captives that they had nothing to fear , and were lucky in having fallen into the hands of an honourable robber ! "' Another communication from the East of Europe relates ; a case of still ¦ '" greater atrocity :- — " On the 11 th of December , about four in -fche 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 yillage , they then kindled a fire , and threw upon it two women , who had attempted to escape . "

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      OBITUARY . The Makquis of Ailesburt , K . T ., died at his family seat near . Maryborough , Wiltshire , on . Friday week , in his eighty-third year . He was one of the most ultra of old-fashioned Tories , and a staunch Protestant " by law established . " MAEQUis Townsheitd expired a few days since at his villa near Genoa , where he had lived for many years in strict privacy . He is succeeded in the ma ' rquisate by his cousin , Captain John Townshend ' E . N ., St : P . for Tamworth . The Rev . W . Webb , D . D . —The Mastership of Clare HallCambrid

      , ' ge , has become vacant by the death of the Rev . W . \ Vebb , D . D ^ who held it fo r 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 waB elected to a Fellowship . In 1815 , having then accepted the living of Littlington , from the hands of the society , bat being in his year of grace , he was elected to the Mastership on the demise of the Rev . John Tookington , w 3 io had held office for the previous thirty-four years . The Master died at his vicarage at Littlington , Canibridgeehire , on Friday week , after a protra « ted illness , at the ripe age . of oighty-Qne ,

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      THE ROMANCE OF " THE TIMES . " [ Under thi « head , we reproduce from we £ k 1 o week tho moat remarkable of those mysterious ¦ advertisements which appear every day at the top ; of the second column , of the Times front page . Some of the Strangest gUmpsea into the romance of reality that any place presents—oot excluding ' the polico offices * -are to be found in that dusky , hieroglyphical , yet most 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 -wiles of ewtodlfogf-rstiggeationa of strange plots , as yet in the bud—odd questions and ahsweri flashed to and fro between distant friends—the whole seen obscurely through a dim veil which it is out of oar power to raise , and which gives to the fantastical details a-sort of supernatural interest ;—of such ia " the Romance of the y / me * " Materials like these are worthy of being preserved in some other form . ] KEACH . —Yes . Address , as usual , W . H . C . 1 , Xiong-Jane . 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 yon ¦ 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

      New-road . THE ADMIRAL . —Presto . — -Je ne veux pas que vous y aller a , la Porte St . Martin . Vous la trouverez ou je recoia la mienne . Demandez . du Domino Noir , ou de la Blonde . J " ai tout commando " . THE ADMIRAL . —Do not send Presto to the Dominoes ; it will not answer . Send to Porte St . Martin , to the name vou first told ine . Alas ! THE ADMIRAL . —J ' ai oublie" tout-a-fait de 1 ' envoyeiv C ' est absolument ma faute . On est fa * he " . N . W . Lundi . A la Porte St . Martin . J'attendrai la votre . HEBE . — -The Hebe of former years is earnestly entreated to send one line to Q . F . W . -who has not seen her since lie went ' to Palestine . —Moiiey ' s Hotel , January 7 , 1856 . TO VIOLA . —I have returned . Pray let me heaifrom you and soon . You know the address . HOPE . — How can I write 'without knowing your 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 ou

      F . G . ISABELLA . —IfJE . M . will communicate with E . L ., with a description of her child , age , and date of leaving- home , she will be conferring a favour on an caraeBt friend . May it prove the same ! Address E . L ., post-office , 24 , CornbiU . AN anxious WIFE ( or widoiv ) and MOTHER , who has reason to fear that the roan who was found dead in a railway carriage at Lincoln , on the 17 th of August , 1854 , was her husband , respectfully begs the person who forwarded to Lincoln £ 5 for the funeral expenses of the said deceased , to communicate to E . R ., Clovelly , Bjd « ford , Devon , such information as may determine whether the said deceased was or was not her husband .

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      MISCELLANEOUS , An Imperial Christmas-box . — The Emporor Napoleon has sent over to tho Queen a very pretty Christmas gift . It is in the form of a ludy ' * album ; and tho subBtanco of it is an artietio memorial of lioa-Majesty ' s visit to Pux-jb . Tho drawings are in watercolour , by the moBt renowned French masters . " Th « Queon at Boulogne" is by M . Morel Patio , and the departure from that port by M . Mossin . M . Chavot contributes to illustrations to the Royal album , " TU « Ball at Versailles " and " The Imperial Supper . " " The Queon ' a Arrival in Paris" ia drawn by M . Guorrard , M . Eugene Lami illustrates " Tho Arrival at St , Cloud . " A few other drawings arc by artists loss known in England , The caw which contains thuao

      treasures is got up in the niont exquisite style , and with nil tho riohneBs of ornamentation for which French doBign ia renowned . The book , wo believe , wan produced for tho Emporor at a cost of ouo thouaaad guineas .-- A t / ienceum . A CoMMEnoiAt . Cuiubtmas-box . —M > . J . P . Hoywood , of the firm of A . Hey wood , Sona , and Co ., oxtonaivo bankcra , Liverpool , has given tho hundrtoiue Bum of ono thouuawd guineas , to bo divided among tl » u olerka and employee of the « Btabliahraent , oa n timely aid to th « m , as olorks with fixod ealarioB , during thu pressure oauaod by the war ,

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      were ur * request . Some coolness had arisen in the mess , audit is possible that- the evidence of the medical officer had the effect of giving a bad colour to the affair . —United Service Gazette . How Soldiers' Wives are treated . —We { Times ) have received two letters from , the wives of soldiers , whichadd 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

      stilted in tho ordering of complete sets of machinery ib vise in American , armouries , at a cost of about fifty thousand dollars . An American armourer ( Nr . Oramel Clarke )~ has been employed to go to England tio superintend the working of the machinery ; and a contract for 25 , 000 rifles has be-en entered into .

      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 , but 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

      Bays that she is the wife of , a soldier who is fighting for bis country , and that she has three children . Her husband s © nt her £ 2 on the 8 th of November , but she has not yet received the money . She also says that she has received several lettera with three stamps affixed , for < me of which she had to pay Is . 9 d ., because her husband ' s name and number were not on it . She is now in the reoeipt of only 4 s ; a-week for the . . .-support-of herself and three children , and has been compelled to niake away with all heir wearing apparel in consequence of not receiving the money sent to her by her husband . Tiiis correspondent has also written to the authorities , but no notice has been taken of the application .,

      " The Palmebston Pacificators . "—The principal engineering foundries in Liverpool have the whole of their hands occupied in the manufacture of immense projectiles and enormous pieces of ordnance . At the Mersey steel and ir on works , 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 constructing two wroughtriron mortars , capable of throwing a shell of tb . irty-six inches in diameter . At Messrs F-awcett and Preston ' s , they are executing an order for ninety mortars for thirteen-inch sheila , about fifty for sea , and'forty for land service . 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 mo nths ; and during the last ton days they have shipped one tliotisand four hundred tons of shell to Woolwich . This firm are aJso making several dozens of tea and thirteen inch mortars for land and sea service , and two experimental cast-iron mortars to throw eighteen inch shells , which , it is believed , are to be called the " Palmerston Pacificators . '' Mr . John Laird is also building fourteen wooden screw gunboats of two hundred and forty tons and six . ty-b . orse power each .

      NAVAL AND MILITARY , Sektbnoe oi " Death" tipott a Naval Officer .- — On the 11 th of December , a court-martial assembled on board the Valorous , in Kazatch . Bay , to try Mr . Philip James Donnehy , second master , in charge of the > Lynx despatch vessel , Lieutenant Commander C . MC . Aynsley . Captain Ruckle was President , and the members comprised some of the obl-eefc captains in tho squadron . Mr . Dennehy was charged with disobedience of orders , and with haviug been absent from his station while the Lynx was under fire of tho enemy . The circumstances are singular , Mtf . D « nnehy ya-i second master of tlie Hannibal , but , under the impression' that the Lynx would furnish him with bettor opportunities for distinguishing himself and of thus gaining his promotion , he

      solicited and obtained tho appointment . He proved himsolf a moat indefatigable officer , always up at four o ' clock in the morning , and . never leaving tho deck until all tho duties of the day . had been fully perfouruod ; Under his care , the Lynx became a pattern of good order , and the disoipline was unexceptionable . Somo years ago he served on the coast of Africa in the Dolphin brigantine , and evinced much commendable gallantry in tho rather trying actions with thoinativoe at Lagos . His whole character s « ema to belie the implication that the conduct for winch ho waa arraigned arose from tho want of what is commonly called " pluok ; " yet the charges were declared proven , and he has boon sentenced to death I The accusation arose out of circumstances at tho reduction of Kinburn . Mr . Dennehy unqueationably wan unwell—ho was temporarily incapacitated from doing his duty , and was not on the . dock when his eervicoa

      Regimental QUAitTEnMASTEiis A royal warrant was issued at Chatham on Saturday , making certain alterations with respect to the pay , &c , of regimental Quarter masters . All those who have served for an nggregate 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 are to have a retrospective operation as fur bach as the commencement of tho present war .

      Courts Martial in thb China Squaduon . — Several courts-maitial have b « en lately held for the trial of various officers of or belonging to the China squadron . The second-lieutenant of the Pique waa tried on a charge of drunkenness , and wag sentenced to be dismissed Iub ship , and placed at the bottom of the list of lieutenants , Mr . TJiomas Wilson , of tb / o Rattler , was tried for riotous and insubordinate behaviour , and for being drunk ; ho was sentenced to be dismissed her Majesty's service , mulcted of all pay ,

      prize-money , &c , and to bo impriaonod in one of her Majesty's gaols Lieutenant Phippe , of h « r Majosty ' n ship Nankin , was tried on a charge , preferred against him by Captain the Hon . Koitli Stewart , for writing a certain letter , tho tone and spirit of which impliod insubordination and subversion of discipline . He made no defence , but throw himself on tho moroy of the Court , which sentenced him to bo severely reprimanded , and admonished to bo more cautious in future .

      Amehioan Gun Machinery fou this English Government . —About two yours ago , the English Government oont out a coivinaiaaion to America , to inquire into tho method employod there in tho manufacture of small i » rran . 1 'heHO inqumofl have ro

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 12, 1856, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2123/page/10/