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      Saspian Sea , has been strengthened by the accession of three thousand men- This fact , says a Berlin journal , appears to furnish us -with another jroof that important movements are likely to take place in Central Asia before long « A document was addressed by tlie Russian Government , at the latter end of October , to all the powers signing the Treaty of Paris . It was accompanied by a circular requesting the reconvocation of tlie Paris Conferences . This memorandum , -which , has just been published , contains an expostf of the steps taken by the Cabinet of St . Petersburg -with regard to the fulfilment of Articles 20 and 21 of the Treaty of the 30 th of March , and presents the various questions in dispute-from . a Russian point of view-. Fifty thousand Russians , commanded by General Bemloff , are ready Qiccordiug to a rathe * improbable despatch from St . Petersburg } to march upon the frontiers of Persia at the first call of tb& Shah . ; . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . '¦ ¦ ¦" ¦ GERMANY . " ¦ ' ' . V The Grand Duke of Baden has granted an amnesty to all persons condemned for participation in the armed revolt of 1848 , except the chiefs of the insurrection , and individuals sentenced to infamous punishments for crimes not * political .

      ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦' •; ¦ . ¦•¦ ¦ . . TURKEY . ' -. - . . . " .. ¦ . - . ¦ . The Divan , according to intelligence from Constantinople ; of the 30 th ult ., has authorized the English fleet to winter at Sinope . The Cabinet of Kedschid Pacha is becoming established- The Sultan has received , at an audience , General 3 > urando , the representative of Sardinia . The conferences opened by the English Embassy with Ferouk-Khan appear likely to detain . . the latter at Constantinople for several months . Aali Pacha is mentioned as the new representative of the Porte at Paris . - ' ¦ ' . . . - ' . : ¦ ¦ ' ; . " &KEECB . ' . '¦¦¦ ¦ : ; ¦"¦" . ' ¦ ¦¦ . " . ; . ¦ The army of occupation Avill filter in Greece . A royal decree has been published , fixing the elections of the municipal councils for the 5 th of next February . . ' . ' ... ; SWITZERLAND .. ' . ' .- ¦ . .- ' \ , ' The Federal Government has communicated a memorial on the Neufchtltel question to the several cabinets of Europe . This document * reviews all the historical bearings of the matter in dispute , and deduces from various antecedents the right of Switzerlandto the territory claimed by Prussia .

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      SHIPWRECKS . The late boisterous weather has again furnished us with ¦ several shipwrecks to record-Great consternation has been felt at Watchet , in Somersetshire , for some days past , in consequence of several pieces of wreck having been washed ashore , showing that a vessel had been wrecked in the Bristol Channel . Some papers thrown up behind the quay proved that this vessel was a schooner of one hundred and fifty-nine tons register , named the Invoice , of Plymouth , and freighted with iron . Mr . Boswell , Customs' officer , communicated with the ship broker at Cardiff , who states in reply that the Invoice wa 9 a fine schooner , with a crew cf nine hands , and sailed from Cardiff on the 21 st of November , with one hundred and thirty tons of bar iron , hound for Genoa . Ifc is feared that all the poor fellows have perished . Parts of boats have also been found .

      quantity of oil overboard , into the sea , which seemed to deaden the surf round tlte ship . The bouts were lowered , and got clear , without touching the ship , which wont down in leas thau live minutes afterwards The crew also took a can of oil with them in each boat , the can containing about three gallons , and used the same with similar results , while ruimiug down to the ship Eugenie , which took them on board . The William Beckett was only partly insured . Intelligence has been , received at Liverpool of the

      wreck of the American ship Adriatic , near Dungarvan . on Monday morning , with three men drowned . The Adriatic sailed from Liverpool foe New York on the 30 th . ult ., with two hiuidred pjissengera , and a crew , including officers , of fifty men . The ship and cargo are reported to h * ve been worth 100 , 000 / . Outhe 7 th inst- ( last Sunday ) , a ship , supposed to be the J . L . Warner , which cleared from New Orleans for Liverpool on the 23 rd of . October ,. was at anchor in distress ofl' Taeinnshiu . Lough , near ^ Vexford . She had cut away her masts , aud was in . great extremity .

      David Mason , mate , and Jarn . ' -Crowtlier , seaman , the only survivors of the brig Messenger of Shields , have arrived at that port from Hartlepool , the vessel having been run down and sunk by the James Hartley steamer , when the master and five of the crew were drowned . The Messenger left Gravesend on Thursday-week * for the Tyne , and while off Senharn , running at . nine knots an hour , the men on the look-out saw a large steamer coming towards them . "With a . view of running under the ship ' s stern , the steamer ported her helm , but , unfortunately , ran into her amidships , aud cut her down to

      the water ' s edge .. The brig began immediately to sink , and the two survivors liad only time to jump into the steamer when' the brig went down bodily , taking . the master , ; . three seamen , and two lads with her . The whole of the frightful occurrence was completed witlii « six minutes of the vessels coming into collision . Tue steamer did not put out a boat to try . to save the drowning men , and the only excuse that can bo made for those on board is , tinit they were worn out -with their exertions in a gale they had encountered , in the Baltic , the master having been four days and four nights on deck . " '*¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ :. ¦ . ¦ ' . ¦ ' ' .. ¦ . ' . ' : ' - ' - ¦ ¦' •¦ \ "

      A great number of wrecks—in some cases attended with loss of life—are reported from various parts ' of the English and French coast .

      _ The brig Emma ., Captain White , thirty days from Liverpool , with a cargo of salt , has been lost about midnight at Seal Cove , a small opening three miles N " . of Flat Rock , and ten miles from St . John ' s , Newfoundland . A heavy swell setting into the bight , the ship became unmanageable , and finally went on shore . The cook , an Italian , was drowned while endeavouring to save the rest ; but his appears to have been the only life lost . The new American ship Clarendon , Captain Noycs , seven hundred and fifty tons register , bound with a cargo of timber from , Miratnichi to Liverpool , for Messrs . Miller , Honghton , and Co ., went on shore at Redness Point , about half a mile north of Whitchaven , last Saturday evening , and became a total wreck . She struck

      upon the rocks , atom on , and in a few minutes broke hi two in the middle . The lifeboat was at once got out , and , after about two and a half hours' hard labour , twelve of the cr « w were got out and safely landed , but the captain and eight others refused to leave the vessel , - which , as the wind was not blo-vring directly on shore , no thought - would hold together till the tide left her . In this he was not disappointed , and about midnight the water had so far receded as to enable the captain and the remainder of the * hands to land , without any worse mishap than a few alight bruiaea .

      "IheEagMaa stoamer , Willtan * Beckett , has foundered bout t-vro hundred and fifty miles W . by S . of tha Bcwwv Captain Holdridge , the master , and crew of tho ri ! X ! iT"V ! ' Goole ^ t Saturday , having been fox-SSftw ^! * 1 by 4 h * Coxiavtl ' Captain Holdridga ST ^ V ? " ° ° ?» e me to ° k l > l « co on- the 12 th of ] £ t month , and in getting out tho ship ' s boats they oxpexienced much difficulty iu ™^^!^ thom beia / daBlca %£ ^? I * ft ^ tiaM * * inning violently . The boats were at . le <» gth ( M&i 0 r 8 ot . ^ b / pOurin « y a

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Sir Charles Napier Again !— The Cronstadt grievance is once more dragged forward by Sir Cbarlos Napier , who publishes in the daily papers some letters of his addressed to Lord -Pahncrston on the subject of Sir Robert Peel ' s allusions , nt some recent meetings , to the conduct of the Admiral while in the Baltic ; a letter from himself to the Grand Duke Constantine , and the reply of that Prince . From the correspondence with the Premier it appears that Lord Palmerston approves of Sir Charles [ Napier ' s discretion in not attacking Croustadt , but that he thinks that his discussions with the Board of Admiralty , both in and out of Parliament , have been of a nature to give his best fri « nds great cause for regret . Sir Charles , on the strength of Lord l ' almerston ' s favourable construction of bis conduct in the Baltic , argues that the Premier could not have been " the very chiefest authority " hinted at by Sir liobert Peel as confirming his ( Sir Robert ' s ) opinion that Cronstadt might have been " crumbled to tbc dust" if the English Admiral had " done his duty . " 1 'liat authority , continues Sir Charles , could , not havo been the Queen either . He therefore thinks "tho country has a right to know "

      MiaauiG . Vessels—Two Goveramen * steam-ves ^ T have been ordered to proceed to Archangel in Z ^ TZ five merchant ships belonging to the port of Dunif which have beeu missing for two aionths . Thev ™ ' on their homeward-bound voyage . re Exvlosios at . SKA ..--Tha . Mecklenburg bric M ^ Brockdmanu , Captain C . U . Yoss , . -with a cargo iflS from Cawliff , bound to Barcelona , when off Cirl ^ Vincent , on the 16 th of September , exp erienced » violent explosion from the gas generated in the £ , iH which blew off the hatches and all around them sWthe vessel so tremendously that the crew weniiTWi * take to their boats . The mate was lighting a £ 5 , 5 match in-tho cabin \ vbeh the - casualtv took place V [ result was , that the mate received some atsvere burns of which .-he afterwards died , and another of the seaW ,, was also much hurt . - ae * wen

      Iilk MiLitaky at Malta . —Two English sentries at Malta have been stabbed by natives . One of ( hem U dead , and the other , at the dute of the last despatches Huge-red hopelessly . The sissassin is in custody . Some soldiera of the Royal Artillery have attacked thep « Uce and severely injured several . ' Infantry Keoimusts . —A circular meinoraudiim has been issued fixing the establishment-of re ^ iinunts of infuntry , exclusive of those in India and depot battalions With the eight service companies there will be 1 lieutenazit-colonel , 2 majors , 8 captaius ,.. 1 . 0 . lieutenants' 6 ensigns , C . -stafi y 47 sergeants , including seVioolma ster 21 drummers or buglers , 32 corporals , and 7 G 8 privat e * ' and with the depot , 4 captains , 4 lieutenants , 4 ensigns 20 sergeauts , 'including a schoolmaster , 4 drummers or buglers , 16 corporals , and 184 privates- ; total , 1 QQ 0 . The 1 . 2 th and tidth Kegiments will follow this rule .

      who the authority really is . The letter of tho Grand Duke Constantino runs thus : —" St . Petersburg , 13 th ( 25 th ) Nov ., 180 G ,- —My dear Admiral , —In answer to your letter of the 29 th of October , I willingly affirm that you have quite exactly reported tho conversation I had with you concerning Cronstadt . With regard to Sir R . Peel ' s statement , I consider it necessary to say that I spoke "with him but once , viz ., at his official presentation in Moscow ; and that not a word concerning Cronstadt—not even tho name itself—was mentioned by either of us . —Yours affectionately , Combtanxusk , "

      The New Rocket Factohy at Vvoolwicu . — Ihe buildings , twenty-four in number , a contract for the erection of which was entered into two months ago by Mr . Smith , builder , of Pimlico , are now completed , upon the marshes immediately below tho Royal Arsenal at Woolwich . They are intended to constitute tho new rocket factory , and , by way of precaution , are isolated from each other . The Candia . —Tho heavy portion of tho India and China mailfl , due at Southampton on the 5 th imU , by

      the Candia , did not arrive till Monday , the 8 th , and were then brought through France , by tlxo Admiralty agent of the CanUia , Lieutenant Tickell , U . N " . The delay arose from some injury to tho vessel caused by a succession of hard gales from tho north-west , which , two days after leaving Malta , obliged thom to put into tho Bay of Tunis , where a Tunisian war-steamer was lunt to convey the mails and pnuBCngera to Marseilles . The Candia is being repaired at Tunis . During tho gales , a seaman was washed off tlie bowsprit , and drowaod , ' and Another man was much injured at tho holm .

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      A ¦ YQEKSiiinE TEAGEDY . A D © vi 3 L . E : ] VIuRDEit—the persons slain bei ng a man and his wife ,, both old—has been ' committed at Bolton-upoii-Deanie , a secluded village in Yorkshire , about a mile and a . half from the Wath station of the -N ' brth Midland liail \ vay . The particulars of the tragedy , as communicated to the daily papers from the spot , are very singular . Mr . Luke -White , the murdered man , was much esteemed , not only in Bolton , but in tlie neighbouring villages , where he was well known . Ho was ike village druggist , grocer , and post master , and also entrusted -with the transaction of all the parochial business , includiug that of overseer ,- vestry clerk , &c ; and , like most village druggists , he was to a great extent the village surgeon .

      His parochial trusts were not even confined to Bolton , but embraced several of the neighbouring villages , where he "was held in great repute for his general knowledge , but more especially for his accurate acquaintance -with all matters relating to parish business , lie was likewise looked upon by the villagers as an extremely pious person , and he was an occasional preacher , lie belonged to tlio Calvhiistic" sect , and held its doctrines somewhat extremely . The temperance movement also found aa advocate in him . He was well to do in the world , being the owner of the house , ho occupied , with several cottage houses adjacent , and about-eight acres , of land . But , though hia duties were multifarious ,, he performed them without assistance , and lived alone with his agei

      partner . It was the custom , of the couple to sit up till midnight , the wife reading the Bible , ami the husband making notes of liis sermons , writing out his parish documents , or reading . On the afternoon of Thursday week , a meeting of the principal ratepayers of the village was held at his house , for the purpose of petitioning , under the new police regulations coming into-operation next mouth , that the village , which for some years past has had the advantage of a paid resident constable , may still enjoy tho saina protection . This meeting broke up about live o ' clock , and neighbours and customers visited the house and shop up to about hulf-pagt eight o ' clock in the evening ') when everything was satisfactory . It had been mainly through Mr . White ' s iullueuce that tho village had

      maintained a parish constable . Between nine and ten on the uioniiii £ of Friday week , tho wifo of a labourer named Luke Downing , went to the shop to niako a purchase . She found tho door closed and the window shutters up , but wad not at all surprised at the circumstance , m it was the habit of tho couple to open at rather a late hour in tho morning . S « o triud tho door , and , finding that it was only latched , opened it so as to riug the bell ; hut , receiving no answer , she rang tho bell a second lime . Feeling surprised at hearing nothing of either of the in * barked t

      mates , or of a littlo dog which generally on no ringing of tho bell , she pushed open an iinier door , recently put up for the sake of wnrmtli , and looked into tho shop . Sho perceived Homo wet on the lloor , wlneJi , howovor , she did not recognize as blood ; hut ahu retreated in undefined terror , and , seeing a hawkar , named llarve }' , crossing the road from an adjacent house-, called out w him to como in . Harvey ran into the shop , and returned , saying that he had found tho dead body of a »««* w ? " tering iu blood . A Mr . Day , who lives on tho opposiw side of the road , was then callod in , and found Lho bouy

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      OUR CIYILIZATrON .

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      SU ¦ 82 THB XEADEB . [ No . 351 , ATTODjtv

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 1182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2171/page/6/