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      or condition whatsoever , save the merit of conspicuous bravery , shall be held to establish a sufficient claim to the honour . It ia ordained that every warrant officer , petty officer , seaman , or marine , or non-commissioned officer or soldier , who stall have received the Cross , shall , from the date of the actjby which the decoration has been gained , be entitled to a special pension of £ 10 a-year , and each additional bar conferred under rule four on such warrant or petty officers , or uon-coniinissioned officers or men , shall carry with it an additional pension of £ 5 per annum . " The Old Stoby . —Captain Lord Edward Russell ia appointed to be paid aide-de-camp , and Captain George Elliott to be aide-de-camp , to her Majesty . — Observer . Admiiial Sib Edmund Lyons , G . C . B ., -will return to the command in chief of the Mediterranean and

      Black Sea fleets in a few days . The Gunboat Flotilla at Portsmouth has commenced forming at the Motherbank . Each boat , instead of one gun , as in the last campaign , is araied with two heavy long-range guns and two howitzers . There are twenty-six at Portsmouth already fitted and in conaniission . A Baronetcy for , Sir John Bctrgoyne . —Her Majesty has been pleased to confer a baronetcy upon Lieufcenant-General Sir John Burgoyne , K . C . B ., in consideration of the long and faithful services which , from an early period in the late war down to the siege of Sebastopbl , 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 of some twenty or thirty military and naval officers , most of whom have been promoted for their services , either in the Peninsular or in the present war , to the second and third divisions of the Order of the Bath . The English public will recognise among them , with satisfaction , Major-General William Fen wick Williams , the gallant defender of Kara .

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      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 Camiey , 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 % l » e Mangerton ; but onlv a few succeeded , and Captain

      Bouchier , that vessel , almost immediately backed away from the wreck . Captain . Canney , of the Josephine Willis , behaved with noble self-possession , and directed the passengers to come aft . The ship then heeled over , with the ends of her yards in water , and shortly afterwards sunk . At midnight , a boat from the wreck containing several of the crew , reached Folkestone , and 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 oifort to save those on board tho wreck , but proceeded to Deal , where ahe anchored , having previously picked up a boat containing several persons . An inquiry has been commenced , bvit is not yet concluded . About seventy persons are missing . Total Loss of Her IMajesty ' s Ship Poxyphemus .

      —A telegraphic despatch from tho English Minister at Copenhagen says : — ' Tho Polyphem . ua was totally lost on the 29 th ult ., south of Hanstholm Light , north-west coast of Jutland . The master and fourteen hands were drowned ; tho Btores , &c , will bo saved . It will bo uBelesa and dangerous to send assistance from the seaward . A part of the cutter's and ship's crews having ; i-eaohed a vessel in the offing makes the ntimber of lost doubtful . A strong current and fog were tho cause of tho acoident . Laud was not seen , though within four hundred yards . " The American Brio Webste ath

      r , Captain He , 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 taoate , and , after forty houra of severe exposure , arrived at Gibraltar with tho loss of their clothing . After abandoning it , tho brig wont down . Wreck ov a French Vessel nkar Bhiouton . — A vessel wns recently discovored about eight miles from shore , between Brighton « nd Rofctingdean , keol uppermost . Tho doad body of a youth was discovered on board . The vessel proved to bo tho Joyeuao , laden with flour . It -was probably upoot in a uquall . Loss ov Ships nhaii Gibraltar . —Several voasols have boon wrcokod near Gibraltar , with loaa of life iu florao of the caRCH .

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      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 Times ' 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 satisfied ihat Avhat you have heard is false . —H . ^ GIRTY . —Do not forget the past . Your husband will always truly and faithfully love you . — C . H . A . S . MY dear COUSIN , let me caution you against bad associates : there are some , I perceive , who are endeavouring to make you one of their own . Yours sincerely , AGUSTA . —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 . A . H . —I am indeed pained and shocked , and can hardly believe it possible . WHITE all particulars to your broken-hearted father ; also what has become of him , and who are cognisant of it ?

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      to Mr . Michie , the popular barrister , and as dramatic ciitic to the Melbourne Herald . " It was not without 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 . But we trust he has not lost all Lis original brightness . " The Late Accident in Fitzroy-i lace , Newroad . —The adjourned investigation into the blowing _

      down of a wall and the crushing of houses in Lutzroyplace , 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 ehould 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 grow into an annoyance ; "but they affcertvai- < 3 s let the

      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 boys 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 ihere 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 by these railroads amounted to 43 , 286 , 143 ^ , of whom 5 , 995 , 1391 were first-class , 15 , 035 , 7684 second-class , 8 , 123 , 096 J " thirdclass , and 14 , 122 ^ 814 " Parliamentary" passengers , besides 9 , 325 season ticketholders . The total receipts from noraes , carriages , luggage , parcels , and maik amounted to £ 450 , 026 , and the total receipts from general mercandise , cattle , and minerals to £ 4 , 436 , 914 , 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 , caniages , 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 nlreland there were 897 miles of road open on the SObh June . On these railroads travelled 3 , 063 , 584 passengers , including 379 , 228 of the firstclass , 1 , 231 , 865 £ of the second-class , 658 , 702 of the third-class , 791 , 663 Parlianientai'ians , and 2 , 125 J season ticketholders . The receipts from horses , carriages , luggage , and mails amounted to £ 45 , 558 , and those

      MISCELLANEOUS . Progress op Instruction n * 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 of this year , Manchester started elementary drawing classes iu no fewer than fourteen parochial schools . Eroh 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 Finchley-road was burnt down on Saturday night , when two children , who were lying on a sofa-bed , were k llod . Their cries attracted attention , but assistance arrived too late .

      Sacrilege . —Three churches in the neighbourhood of Glossop , and one at Nowmills , have been entered in the night and plundered . A man and a woman are in oustody , and committed for trial , on a charge of being concerned . A Husbani > by Lottery . —A young lady , pretty and well educated , residing in the arrondissement of Pithivjers , has conceived the idea of putting herself up to lottery . There are to be three hundred tickets at l , 000 f . each , nnd to the > fortunate winner she will give herself and the 299 , 000 f . by way of dowry . The lady

      haa attached some very prudent conditions to the purohaso of tickets . Sue will only aell them to persons whom she may think "will suit Tier , and in order to ascertain that point , she exacts a half-hour ' s tdtea-tote conversation with each applicant . No limit of ago is imposed , but more than one tioket may be taken by one person . Tho lottery will be drawn on tho 25 th of November next at the Mnirie nt Pithivi « ra . No married men are nllowed to take tickets . It is said that a number of Englishmen have already bocome pui'ohasors , and applications are coming in from all quarters . —Jotirnal du Loirct .

      Thus Cab Dibputjb . —Tho ooao , submitted to Mr > Arnold , ne to whether a cabman is obliged to cany a child under ten yours of ago , came on again in tho course of tho present weok ; when the magieti-ato , discovering that there waa aolluBion between tho parties , and that tho summons was not bona J ide , dismissed it -with a reproof . Mr . It . H . Horn K . —Wo nud it stated in the Australian correspond on oo of tho Daily Ncwa that "R . H . Homo , tho dramatist , and author of ? Orion , ' la-toly in tho Gold CommiHaiou . is now engaged as ohiof clerk

      from general goods and cattle to £ 150 , 301 ; making a grand total revenue , from all sources of traffic , of £ 445 , 698 . A comparative summary shows that in the whole of the United Kingdom there wei'e , on tho 30 th of last June , 8 , 115 miles of line open for traffic , againBt 7 , 803 miles on the 80 th of June , 1854 ; that 51 , 815 , 149 ^ passengers were conveyed thereon , against 50 , 367 , 404 in 1854 ; that the receipts from , passengers amounted to £ 4 , 125 , 487 ( exclusive of extra fares ) , against £ 4 , 081 , 792 in 1854 ; and that the receipts from goods and cattle amounted to £ 5 , 212 , 865 , 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 half-year of

      1854 . The Ruoelet Poisoning Cash . —Tho second oxnmi nation of tho body of Mr . Pursona Cook has been concluded . Tho examination hnd roforence to the state of tho spinal cord , which was found quite healthy . Mistaken Identity . —A young shopman at Glasgow has been arroBted under suspicion of being a deserter from the 82 nd regiment of foot . A pensioner , named James M'Konzio , swore in tho moBt positive manner that he had Been tho young man in tho uniform of tho regiment ; but it was conclusively proved that ho never was in tho army . M ' Konzio haa been arrested for perjury . .

      ...... . . Hjsalth of London . —949 deaths wore registered in London in tho weok that onded on Saturday , February 2 . In the corresponding week of last year , tho mortality was 1 , 604 . Tho difference ia 655 . The avorage corrected number of deaths , derived f x om the mean mortality for the ton corresponding weoka ic tho preceding ton years , ia 1 , 279 ; and this number compared with this week ' s return , shows a dooj-onso it tho latter of 330 deaths . Tho state of tho public

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      February 9 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER _ -= i ^ JL

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      OBITUARY . Rear-Admiral Joseph Symjgs died a few days since at his residence at Crewkerne , 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 of the Bonne Citoyenne , Captain Mounsey , at the capture of the French fiigiite Furieuso , in 1809 . He had received the naval medal and two clasps for his services afloat . His commissions bore date as follows : — Lieutenant , March 13 , 1808 ; commander , March 13 , 1810 ; Captain , March 21 , 1812 ; and retired rearadmiral , Oct . 1 , 1846 .

      The Earl of Listowel has expired at ijlorrison a 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 . He is succeeded by his eldest son , who distinguished himself at tbe battle of the Alma . The Kishop of Carlisle expired a few days ago in his 72 nd year . Captain Mahjer , of the Glamorganshire Light Infantry , has been burnt to death in hi 3 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 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 9, 1856, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2127/page/9/